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tumorous Department. Thing* That Never Were. "Bill." said the shade of Gessler, sternly, "why did you start that apple yarn ?" "Well," replied William Tell, defiantly, "it didn't do you any harm, and I was trying to boost myself to an engagement with the Wild West show." "Now. Bill." Gessler resumed. "I never did like a liar. You know the last apple in the kingdom had been made Into cider, and you were pretty full on it at the time." "I don't care," replied Tell; "you were a tyrant, all right, and If I had existed and had had a son and you had made me shoot an apple off his head, you'd 've got yours fast enough." "Gentlemen, gentlemen," protested a benigant shade, "no rowing if you please. What's the use? Didn't they spring the rawest sort of a cherrytree story on me?" "Now George," said Gessler. "while | we're straightening out history we might as well fix that incident. Did you- cut down the cherry tree"*" "There was no cherry tree. It was a plum tree. All I did was to shake it, establishing a precedent. But here comes a lady." "Just call me Betsy." said the arrival. "Betsy Ross, Philadelphia. You used to be there," she added, addressing herself to Washington. "Say, wouldn't it jar you? They're saying down there I never made that flag." "But did you?" "Did I? Look at the way the site of my factory has boomed real estate." An ancient shade drew near and insisted upon being heard. "Men and poets." he began, "call me Winkelried. Reputed to have gathered a lot of Austrian spears into my bosom, you know. Nothing in it. See that scar on my back? That's the scar of the only spear that touched me, and I wasn't trying to gather it, not on your life." "Aren't you ashamed of having made so much pretense?" "Pretense, nothing." retorted Arnold. "I didn't make it. And if the singers of literature wanted to make it I couldn't prevent." "My reputation," chimed in another. "rests on the credit I got for ringing the Liberty bell. Never rung it either. The bell was out of order the day liberty was born, and liberty has been out of order ever since. I was at Anglesea fishing, anyhow." "Still," said Washington, "you will admit that there was a bell?" "Oh. certainly. And it's cracked, but not so badly as the historians." "It seems to me." said Gessler "that we're a lot of fakes." "Oh." replied Washington, "never mind. Look at that Denver convention." "And the Independence League." added Tell. "Don't forget them Colonial Dames," added Betsy, her lip curling. Acquirements and Loss. There was once a Jester who was tired of his job. so he resolved to go to his August Master, who was his Master during the other months of the also and beg to be released, so that he could seek Fresh Fields and Pastures New. When the King and his Courtiers saw him approaching they began to titter, but the Jester went straight to the Throne and sank upon one knee. "Sire," he said, "for many years I have capered and grimaced to amuse you, and now I fain would rest." i "He fain would rest!" repeated the Monarch, his sides shaking with mirth. 'Sire, I have a family in far-away j Jrovence"? "Ho, ho!" laughed the King. "Ha, ha!" echoed the Courtiers. "He, he!" giggled the courtleresses. "And I beg of your Majesty permission"? "Isn't he. the funniest thing?" said the king. 'To let me go and see them," finished the Jester. The king was wiping his eyes, which were full of tears of merriment. "Take him away, somebody," he said, "or I shall die of laughing. He grows fun nler every day." Attendants surrounded the Jester and forced him kindly but firmly from the Royal Presence. \nd he is still the King's Jester. Moral: It is sometimes harder to lose a reputation than to acquire one.? Lippincott's. Ax Extemporaneous Epitaph.? Lady Headfort. during her American tour, said in New York that she approved of international marriages. "They correct us." she explained. "Our Englishmen work too little, your American men work too much, and the international marriage tends to bring about a happy mean. "Your men do work too much, you know," said Lady Headfort. "I have an English friend who attended the funeral of one of your hardest workers, a multi-millionaire. "My friend's wife said rather bitterly to him at the funeral: " 'How you have missed your opportunities, my love! Place yourself beside Mr. Ritch there. You are both of the same age. You both began life together. Yet you are a poor man, while he died a multi-millionaire.' "'Yes,' said the Kngnsn nusoanu. 'There Ritch lies, dead of nervous prostration, without one single penny in his pocket, and here I stand, hale and hearty, with a wallet in my coat containing quite a hundred dollars.* "? Washington Star. Striking a.n Average.?The children were not allowed in the kitchen, hut nobody had ever forbidden their sniffing outside the door to catch the delicious odors which could be obtained by a close application of a small nose to a crack. "Why. Kthel," said Mrs. Harwo >d. who discovered them in the entry outside the kitchen door one Sunday morning, "why are you twitching Tommy and slapping him?" "Cause he isn't playing fair, mother." said Kthel. "He's had five smells and " I've only had four, and it's my turn." "I am. too. playing fair." asserted Tommy his utterance smothered as he again applied his nose to the crack. "I've got an awful cold and I can't smell half as much as she can!" David's Heavenly Attribite.? Four-year-old Joe is very fond of Bible stories and evidently follows the example of his best-loved hero as to meditation "in the night watches." He wakened his mother one night, after midnight, with the question: "Mamma, where is David now?" "In heaven. I guess. Joe." "Will I go to heaven when I die?" "I hope so, Joe." "Mamma," the little voice was veryeager now. "do you s'pose when 1 get there David will Just let me hold his slingshot a little while?"?Delineator. ittisrrllaiuous grading. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES. News and Comment Gleaned From Within and About the County. LANCASTER. News, July 15: A tenant house on Mr. J. W. Knight's plantation in the Creek section was destroyed by fire last Friday morning about 8 o'clock. The occupant Frances Starnes. lost all of her household effects. The building was a new one, having but recently been completed. There was no insurance. The fire, it is thought, was of accidental origin, occurring while all hands were in the field at work, and was probably started from fire left in the fire place Mrs. Mattie Adams, wife of Mr. James T. Adams, died Monday night at her home four miles north of Lancaster, at the Draffin place. She has been in falling health for several months, but the immediate cause of death was an attack of gastritis. She was a most estimable lady, of kind and gentle nature. and was greatly beloved by all who knew her. She was a consistent member of the A. R. P. church. Mrs. Adams was a daughter of the late James W. Adams and was about 37 years of age.... A bold robbery was committed at Vanwyck last Thursday night, the store of Messrs. Massey & Hyatt being broken into and a number of articles stolen. The express office is in the store and it was also robbed, the thief or thieves taking three 2-gallon Jugs of liquor. A considerable quantity of the stolen goods was found Friday under the Metho- ' dist church by the pastor, the Rev. C. P. Carter, the articles thus found consisting1 of two jugs or wnisicy, two large sides of bacon, five or six can- ' vased hams, lot canned goods, boxes of cigars and cattle powders. As the church is about 300 yards from the J store, it is probable that more than one party was engaged In the robbery. Sheriff Hunter spent Friday and Friday night at Vanwyek, investigating the affair. He and others watched the church under which the goods were concealed all Friday night, but no one appeared to attempt to remove the things. While no arrests have yet been made, every effort is being made to identify the guilty parties. CHESTER. Lantern, July 14: Mrs. C. S. Harry of Grover, X. C., came down from Yorkville yesterday afternoon to spend a few days with her sister. Mrs. W. H. Lowrance. Her niece, little Miss Helen Hughes, of York county, accompanied her to spend three weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Lowrance Mr. R. A. Dobson. superintendent of the Gaffney public schools, was in town yesterday. He speaks in fond remembrance of the time he spent teaching at Lowryville, in this county. and of the kind people of that place Mis Ora Lemmond. of Rock Hill, who has been nursing her sister. Mrs. P. G. McCorkle, left yesterday afternoon for Kershaw to nurse another patient. Miss Margaret Lemmond, another sister, came over from Lancaster yesterday afternoon to be with Mrs. McCorkle Mr. J. J. Clinton, of Bethesda township, in York county, spent Saturday and Saturday night in the city with relatives. He came down to meet Mrs. Clinton, who was to return Saturday evening from a visit to relatives in Xewberry There was a meeting of the stockholders of the Chester county Farmers' Warehouse Co. in the office of Douglas & Wise Saturday morning for the purpose of effecting " ? fa r>t \V S Mall ant ail Ul ^am^avivii, vapc. **. ?.?. ed as chairman, and Mr. J. M. Wise acted as secretary. The election of directors resulted as follows: T. J. Cunningham, L. T. Grant. H. H. Shannon, J. G. L. White, J. Foster Carter, G. W. Byers, John Frazer, T. C. Strong and J. W. Ferguson Candidate Cole Blease is trying to capture the votes of the populace by talk about the extravagance of the Ansel administration. It rests upon him to show what Gov. Ansel had to do with the expenditures and what he himself could do to hold in check a legislature so recklessly extravagant as the last one Mr. Mason Blair. of Sharon, who has been working in Wylie & Co's. store a week, expects to leave tomorrow for his home. He will be accompanied by Mr. Killough White, who will spend two weeks visiting relatives and friends in York county and at Piedmont Springs. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, July 14: Miss Kathleen Boyce left yesterday for King's Creek, S. C.. where she will spend a week or more visiting the family of Mr. W. M. Faulkner Misses Rose Marie Lindsay and Lutie Jenkins, of Yorkville, S. C., were in town a short while yesterday en route home from Asheville where they attended the Young People's Missionary society meeting last week Geo. H. Goebel, national organizer of the Socialist party, lectured Saturday evening in the city park. There was a good number present. The audience was attentive throughout and the lecture was more pleasing because of its freedom from bitterness and personalities On next Sabbath morning at 11 a. m. July 19. a meeting will be begun in a 'large tent in the park just in front of the Modena mill in the east end of the town of Gasto nia. Rev. William Black and his trained singer will have the meeting in charge and we are prepared to say that Brother Black is one of the best preachers and evangelists in the state and we hope every one who can will make it convenient to avail himself of the advantages afforded by this proposed meeting. All of our ministers and the good people of the sister denominations of the town are cordially invited to take part in these meetings. THE WEST POINT CHAIN. It Was Nearly a Mile In Length and Weighed Almost 200 Tons. From an Ironmaker's point of view the greatest achievement during the Revolutionary period was the making of the great West Point chain. This massive chain, which has probably never had an equal since the first hammer struck upon first anvil, was stretched across the Hudson river at West Point to prevent the British fleet from making a second attack upon Kingston and Albany. It was nearly a mile in length and weighed almost 200 tons, many single links being as heavy as an ordinary sized man. To complete it in six weeks sixty men hammered day and night at seven forges, and the cost of it was placed at $400,000. "The great chain is buoyed up." writes Dr. Tacher. "by very large logs, pointed at the ends to lessen their opposition to the force of the current. The logs are placed at short distances from each other, the chain carried over them and made fast to each by staples. There are also a number of anchors dropped at proper distances, with cables made fast to the chain, to give it greater stability." No British ship can pass this iron barrier. With its aid West Point became the strongest military post in America?so strong that treachery was tried where force of arms had failed. When Benedict Arnold was plotting the surrender of West Point he wrote Andre and said. "I have ordered that a link be removed from the great chain and taken to the smith for repair." The chain, however, remained in place till the end of the war, and links of it are still to be seen in the museums of Albany. West Point, Newburg and New York?Exchange. THE HUNT FOR JEFFS. Uncle Sam's Attempt to Rescue Missing American Sailor. The United States gunboat Yankton. tender to the Atlantic battleship fleet, was sent from Callao to the Galapagos islands to search for a missing American sailor, one Fred Jeffs. The information furnished was of the most meager description, only that Jeffs was a member of the crew of the Norwegian bark Alexandra, wrecked in the Galapagos May. 1907. that he separated from his companions on Indefatigable island and that when they were rescued In October of the same year at a place called Puerto Aguado, given as in latitude 46 minutes south, longitude 90 degrees 20 minutes 30 seconds west, Jeffs was not with them. He had therefore been nearly a year on Indefatigable Island if alive. The distance to the Galapagos was covered in four days, and Hood is land, the most southern of the group, sighted at noon on March 3. says a special correspondent of the New York Herald on board the Yankton, writing from Acapulco, Mexico. Previous to sighting land great quantities of sea life, for which the vicinity of these islands is noted, and numerous birds testified to its nearness. In order if possible to gain information about the wreck, Chatham island, where there is a settlement, was first visited. Anchoring in Wreck bay. a messenger on horseback was found waiting on the beach with the compliments of the local authority, the "administrator," and a polite inquiry if any assistance could be furnished. The inhabitants of this island number about 350, all dependents of a single estate and mostly engaged in the cultivation of sugar, cotton and tobacco. The estate lies in the hills and valleys on the southern slope of the island in the only place where water is obtainable. Water is the need of all this group of islands, and the lack of it is the keynote of their barren wastes and cactus covered slopes. The shores of all consist of black volcanic rocks and cliffs, with here and there in a sheltered spot a sandy beach. The islands, rising In most cases to 3,000 or 4,000 feet, have their slopes covered with a giant growth of cactus mingling with a thorn, which made progress back from the shore impossible without cutting a way. Two guides sent by the administrator arrived on board the Yankton at daylight, and the course was shaped for Indefatigable Island, thirty-five miles distant. The story of the wreck as told by the guides was interesting. Their information was from a part of the crew which had landed on Chatham island and from the captain of the island schooner, who had heard the wrecked captain's story at Guayaquil. The bark was becalmed near Albemarle island and swept by the strong current found in these islands ashore under a cliff, where she soon went to pieces. The crew escaped in two boats, one with ten men, the other with the captain and seven men. During the night the boats became separated, the boat with the ten men reaching Hood island, and then, seeing Chatham island in the distance, they reached for it, found it inhabited and told their story. The administrator forwarded them by the island's schooner to Guayaquil with a letter to the consul. The captain's boat, of which Jeffs was a member, reached uninhabited Indefatigable island, where it was smashed on a reef while making a landing. This second disaster securely locked the party on Indefatigable island, as there is no kind of wood to make a boat on the island. The party, finding only a few springs of brackish water near the beach, began a search for a better camping place and. abandoning their first camp, movt-d to a place called by the natives Puerto Aguado, but not marked in any way on the chart. It was at this time that the separation from Jeffs took place. According to the message received from the consul at Guayaquil, the captain of the wrecked bark said Jeffs preferred to loaf. and. though they tried to persuade him to go with them, he refused, saying that the chances of rescue were as good one place as another and he was going to stay where he was. The story as heard from the guides was that he was ill and could not follow, and the others left him. The guides themselves were pictur esque characters, and one especially deserves more than passing mention. Old and tall and gaunt, with a straggling gray beard and snappish eyes, he was a type not often seen. Unable to read or write, he showed great intelligence and caught the meaning of the ideas expressed before half the words were spoken. He cheerfully acknowledged that his acquaintance with Indefatigable island was due to a murder committed at some previous time, for which the administrator. who appears to be an absolute monarch, had marooned him on Indefatigable island for three years during which time he had lived there alone. The Yankton approached the land on the eastern side and dropped a whaleboat, which conveyed ashore Chief Boatswain Grone and three men. They made their landing through a break in the reef on a smooth sandy beach, and the ship, after firing two shots from one of her three inch guns to attract Jeffs, if he were in that neighborhood, turned to the south to find Puerto Aguado, the point at which the captain and his boat's crew had made their camp. The party ashore was left to notify Jeffs if he appeared in answer to the signal guns and to search the coast if he did not show up. In the short in terval that the boat was ashore a number of turtles were chased on the beach, but proved too much for their pursuers. Try as the men might to turn one. it would tear itself away and get to the water, and none was caught until a bright lad found that by rapping them on the shell with a boat stretcher, which momentarily stunned them, they could be turned on their backs before they recovered. Before this one or two men had almost been carried to sea by trying to hang to their turtle after it had reached the water. The ship hove off to Puerto Aguado and a whaleboat ran in to a snug boat harbor, and there stood the remains of a camp evidently occupied by a number of men for many months. The kitchen was marked by a stone fireplace, with the charred remains of a fire, a number of pegs arranged for cooking uttensils and the bones of turtles hanging up, the flesh dried on them. A rusty rifle was picked up on one side. Hung over some bushes were old, rough clothes, probably hung out to dry when the cry of "Sail ho!" had brought joy to the despairing castaways after their five months' Imprisonment. The object found of deepest interest to the search party was a rusty razor with a black handle, on which was scratched "Jeffs," the name of the missing man whose fate is such a mystery. The reason for the camp at this place was found in a pool of fairly good water, one of the few on the coast of the island, as asserted by the guides. As the afternoon was now wearing away it became necessary to hunt an anchorage for the night, and, standing to the west side of the island, the anchor was let go in Conway bay, an open roadstead. Here the searchlight was played about the mountain and swung from side to side to attract the castaway's eye. At every half hour a rocket swished its way into the air from the bridge. The searchlight was seen by the party on the other side of the Island twenty miles away, so that its beam must have been fairly visible all over the island. At daylight a boat went in to the beach in case the man had come down, but there was no sign. One more point remained to be visited before returning to our search party, and this was the latitude and longitude given in the consul's message as the place where Jeffs remained behind. The guides said there was no water within miles of this vicinity, and no one could live there. The spot was marked by a high mass of rock off-shore called Nameless island, and the Yankton lay between this and the main island while the fruitless search was made. No remains of a camp, no water, no anchorage, no traces of anything that could bear on the loss of the ship or any of its men were found. Returning to the place at which a landing had first been made, the party who had spent the night and day were picked up. They had found footprints on the volcanic crust clearly depicted, showing that a man had lived In the vicinity at some past time. The footprints led to a brackish pool of water almost hidden under some dense brush, and here the remains of a fire were found. No other trace of the missing man was found. The party separated and walked miles up and down the beach as far as time permitted both days they were ashore. Had Jeffs been alive and been anywhere on this side of the island he would have heard the guns of the ship or the shots of the search party. It is therefore fairly safe to conclude that Jeffs died from illness and hardship alone on this most desolate of lalanrlc The hardships of the party who survived could be appreciated from seeing their wretched camp and realizing that their only food was turtle and fish, for even the cocoanut palm, found nearly everywhere in the tropics. fails to find enougli substance on Indefatigable to grow. A turtle steak is an excellent article the first time it is eaten. About the fourth time it palls, and to contiue dally to live on It would outdo the thirty days of quail so often cited. At night the shore of the island swarmed with mosquitoes, so that sleep for the party ashore was impossible. and they sat to leeward of a bonfire to relieve the assaults of the little pests. On some shallow ponds back from the beach teal, plover and curlew swarmed at sundown, and to a party having a shotgun and plenty of ammunition these would have made a welcome relief, but it is not probable that Jeffs had firearms of any sort and probably had but very little ammunition. They are undoubtedly certain valleys back in the mountain where there is water and many edible fruits and plants grow. Also there are about these places wild cattle and goats, but to get them would mean clearing a path through an almost impenetrable barrier of cactus and thorn which to be appreciated must be seen. Water to last while the path was cleared would have to be carried; huge fissures in the ground would be met with which would block a trail except in certain spots, and the men who undertook to do it would have to give up the chances of rescue which would come by living on the shore. Besides, a man ignorant of the interior would not know if there were any places where Hfe could be sustained while attempting to penetrate to it. A'together the trip, while not realizing its object, was of the greatest interest, and the glimpses taken of these extraordinary and interesting islands will be remembered by all on board. LIVED AFTER HANGING. Men and Women Who Survived the Ordeal of the Scaffold. * ? ?" V? 1? 1., otnn?aa f ?aoi, ant to _ Ill II UIIICI auic 11iDiaucco kjl icouotnatlon after hanging are recorded. Henry III. granted a pardon to a woman named Inetta de Balsham, who was [suspended from 9 o'clock on a Monday to sunrise of Thursday and afterj ward "came to." Dr. Plot tells of a Swiss who was hanged up thirteen j times without effect on account of the peculiar condition of his windpipe, it having been converted into "bone by disease. Annie Green, a servant girl, was hanged at Oxford in 1650 and recovered fourteen hours afterward under a doctor's treatment. Mrs. Cope, who was hanged at the same place eight years later, also recovered. On Sept. 2, 1724 Margaret Dickson was hanged at Edinburgh and recovered while being carried to the grave. She lived for many years afterward and was universally known as "Half Hanged Maggie Dickson." A housebreaker named Smith was u<, in 1 7Af, A IlclIIftt'U tU I.> until 111 x luu. tvpiiv* V came when he had been suspended a quarter of an hour. He was cut down, bled and revived. William Duell, hanged in London In 1740, revived and was transported. A man hanged in Cork in 1765 was taken in hand by a physician who brought him round in six hours, and we are told the fellow had the nerve to attend a theatrical performance the same evening. Richard Johnson, hanged at Shrewsbury, Oct. 3. 1696 obtained a promise from an undersnerm to piace mm ini the coffin without changing his | clothes. After hanging half an hour he still showed signs of life, and on examination it was found that he had wrapped cords about his body connected with hooks at the neck which prevented the rope from doing its work. The apparatus was removed and the man hanged effectually. It may be offered in explanation of the cases mentioned that there was no drop used at executions in those days, the culprit usually suffering asphyxia without the cerebral column being broken.?London Tit-Bits. THE PROPHET. The Capturer of Mecca and the Author of the Koran. As to whether Mohammed was an Impostor, as many historians maintain, or a man firmly convinced of his divine mission will be an open question for many a long day to come. There is certainly much in his life which tends to show that personal ambition more than religious zeal was his guiding star. But however that may be his life was a particularly eventful one and full of interest. Born at Mecca In 570?or 571?his father, Cassim, v;as one of the great men of the tribe of Koreish, who for generations had the guardianship of the sacred temple. At the age of 6, however, Mohammed's narents both died and the future DroDh et was tended by different relatives, in particular an uncle, a travelling merchant, who took the youth many Journeys through Asia Minor. During one of these commercial expeditions the caravan was attacked by marauders and Mohammed acquired a reputation. which never left htm, for extreme courage. At the age of 25, in accordance with his uncle's instructions, he married a rich widow?Kadijah?which placed him in a position of independence. About ten years later be appears to have indulged in the first of his many ambitious dreams. He was very wealthy, he stood high in the estimation of his countrymen. Thus he was led to believe that he might rightly claim the sovereignty of his native city. During his many journeys Mohammed had seen how bitterly hostile were the various Christian sects. The idea therefore seems to have struck him that one of the surest ways of gaining: his ambition was to start a new religion. But it was only an idea, so far. It was not until five years later that he came out and boldly proclaimed himself the apostle of God, a title which he stated was conferred upon him by the Angel Gabriel. Often during these five years he used to retire to a cave and spend ids days in meditation, fasting and prayer. His wife was his first proselyte: later on other members of his family became converts to his creed. Outside the circle of his immediate relatives, however, his faith made but slow progress. But Mohammed was not the man to be deterred in his course by such trifles. In his forty-fourth year he publicly declared himself to the people of Mecca as a prophet sent by God to save them from their iniquities. At first he was treated with derision and contempt. They called him a liar, a sorcer, a teller of fables. Still he persevered in his design, and as his party increased the alarm was raised, his ambitious designs were discovered and plots were laid to take his life. This led to his flight from Mecca to Medina, commonly known as the Hejira, from which date, July 16, 622, the Mohammedan years are reckoned. Several of his converts followed him, persecution did the rest for his creed. From henceforth he assumed regal and priestly dignities, he preached weekly in the great mosque, and became the principal magistrate of the city. Mohammed's authority and religious zeal gained for him the subservience of all Ka mnef nAwnrftil frlhoa \ r? tVlO la rtH bo that he sent messengers to the surrounding sovereigns commanding them to accept the divine religion of which he was the apostle. Soon after his followers came into conflict, for the first time, with the troops of the Emperor Heracllus. The result of the battle was very doubtful, both forces suffering considerably. Wishing however. to avoid another engagement for I he time being, at any rate, Mohammed marched his army, now swelled to 10,000 men, against Mecca, which he captured, preserving the lives of all those who embraced his religion. Henceforth the order went forth that none but true believers were to be permitted Inside the city. From Mecca he scoured the surrounding country, conquering wherever he went, until the terror of his arms resulted In the complete submission of all the Arabian tribes. Mohammed commanded a force of 30,000 fighting men and declared war against the Emperor Heraclius. Discovering, however, that the Imperialists had no designs upon Arabia he no doubt considered that discretion was the better part of valor. Anyhow, he retired with his army to Medina and Instead of fighting wrote new chapters of the Koran. Mohammed was now ruler of the whole of Arabia, though many of his subjects had still refused to forsake Christianity. These, however, he left in peace in return for a handsome tribute. His days were now drawing to a close. Collecting all his wives, of whom he had fifteen at least, and 114,000 pilgrims, he set out for Mecca to worship at the holy shrine. This was the last public act of his life. Two months after he was seized with fever and a violent headache, which he attributed to poison. After sixteen days of suffering he died in the arms of his favorite wife, Ayesha, at the age of 63.?London Globe. DUSTLESS ROADWAYS. Conditions That Follow Substitution of Oil For Water. "We are now experiencing the luxury of absolutely dustless roadways." A bulletin issued last July by the Kansas City park board makes the above statement, says the World Today. A year ago during the summer months, the board had its whole force of sprinkling wagons going every day in an attempt to keep down the dust which made the enjoyment of the park drives impossible at times. In a few hours the hot summer sun dried the roads, and every passing motor car 1 - 1,1 ~? 1 ~ aafflA I |t*l I riuuurs tu line: iuin uu.-ti i\j atmc on the foliage along the drive. Now a motor car passing at the highest speed over any portion of the extensive ^ Specia W. G. REI Rock Hi HHnan boulevard system leaves no dust trail In Its wake. The oil has not only proved much more effective than water, but Is a third cheaper, and preserves the roadways as well. One of the serious problems here, as in other cities, has been the preservation of the drives from the wear of the motorcar wheels. The oiled boulevard is also protected from erosion. Formerly every rainstorm left ragged gullies, which took several days to repair. The eye of the most Inexperienced could see that something was needed to bind the macadam, to preserve a smooth surface without dust and prevent washouts at the same time. The net savings in the use of oil for the year was $5,535.88 or 34 per cent. 9 The Blues You get them without any apparent I reason?nothing bad has happened and I still you feel that the world is your I enemy. An Inactive Liver I causes eonstination and hilinnsness These not only cause the blues but are the real beginning of most sickness. by putting the liver in a healthy, active condition cures and prevents all troubles arising from disordered stomach, bowels ana liver. Tike in NR ublet to-night ind you'll feel better in the morning. Bcoer thin pills for liver ills. Get a 25c. Box For Sale By THE STAR DRUG STORE, Yorkville, S. C. Fruit iars ruit Jars See the YORKVILLE HARDWARE CO., for Fruit Jars?Quart and Half Gallon sizes. We also have Fruit Jars Caps, and Rubbers?two qualities?5c and 10c Dozen. See us for Jelly Tumblers?we can please you in prices. SUMMER NECESSITIES. Every home should have an Ice Cream Freezer, and a Refrigerator or Ice Box. We have these In all sizes at attractive prices. Come and see us about them. Yorkville Hardware Co. W See us for your Hardware Wants. Organized, Developed and Conducted Along Conservative and Progressive Business Methods, The , BANK OF CLOVER A Prosperous Bank in a Prosperous Neighborhood, invites your patronage. We have found that we can make a satisfactory profit without taking any "long chances." If you are not a customer of ours, this is an invitation to you to become one. BANK OF CLOVER CLOVER. 8. C. IT IS SERIOUS Some Yorkville People Fail to Realize the Seriousness. The constant aching of a bad back, The weariness, the tired feeling, The pains and aches of kidney ills Are serious?If neglected. Dangerous urinary troubles follow. H. W. Fudge, living at 158 W. Main C? * Ulll CJ P OQ VQ "fiAVATC) I ou, rvutn. u. v?i ow/oi ?v?v? years ago, I was attacked with severe spells of backache, the pains across the small of my back being very sharp and acute. On several occasions I could hardly get around and was In a miserable condition. I heard about Doan's Kidney Pills, procured a box and used them in accordance with the directions. They helped me from the first, banished the pain In a short time, and for the past two years I have had but little trouble with my kidneys. I gave a statement recommending Doan's Kidney Pills in 1903 and at the present time, I am glad to confirm what I then said." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. We-pPAY YOU o i o aave. SMALL SUMS saved soon grow large?and earn interest all the time. Protect yourself and little ones by opening an account in our "SAVINGS DEPARTMENT." "Have money in the Bank." Start with a dollar or so, add to it weekly or monthly, and you will feel more independent at once. Siep in and let us tell you of our Savings Department. BANK OF HICKORY GROVE _____???. MMER FURNITURE. e your home comfortable by usorch Rockers, Porch Benches, Swings, Porch Shades, Lawn s, Hammocks, Swinging Chairs, Stools, Etc. have a complete line of Summer ilties and our prices are right. D & SON, ill, S. C. 4* j STRAUSS-SM ??? *%* Until Further No 4? 4? Discounts Kan ! 10to50F ^ ON ALL C 4 J OUR STOCK MUST WE WANT TO MAKE ROOM 4* TER STOCK, WHICH WILL SOOI ??? NEED THE ROOM THAT OUR SU MOVE THESE GOODS THE PRIC ^ DEPARTMENTS, RANGING FROM 4* AS IS WELL KNOWN, OUR PRICE WITH THE DISCOUNTS NOW BEU . IT IS ALMOST A GAME OF GIV FOR NEW GOODS. IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING IN DRESS GOODS, N ^ HATS, LACE CURTAINS, UMBREL T* ETC., NOW?TODAY?IS THE TI 4* LOOK OVER OUR BARGAIN OFI 4* DUCED 10 TO 50 PER CENT ON A 4? Canton Flannel This is something entirely new ^ are made of a heavy weight canton I _ outdoor workers and mechanics wh 4* from blisters, sunburn, etc. 4* THE CANTON FLANNEL GLOVE efr WORK GLOVES IN THE FC Ljpj 1. The Canton Glove is warm In r?" glove in summer that can be used t 4* 2. It is soft and pliable, and too! 4? easily without removing the glove fi ? 3. Getting wet from perspiratioi 4* glove. 4. Can be washed when soiled. jft. f?. Wears longer than the cheap We are selling these Gloves at 4* PAIR and if you will buy one pair e?o? them. Come in and see them and di ^ SALE, which BEGINS TODAY. + '.The STRAUSS i (Yi i ARE d. \ \ P FOR THE FIN X THAT WILL COME TO Y< I READY CASH?MONEY S 7 SEIZE THEM. Putting money away SAFI verslty. No one should be witl A But, more than that, can ; An Account with a Strong, Abs NATIONAL UNION BANK O] # your credit wonderfully and pi | For Your Oi P Save part of your income # savings in this strong bank?O A Institutions in the State. P If you want to be prepare # or would like help on the roa A start an account with us in oui where your money will earn i pounded Quarterly?working A while you rest. ? The National J (ABSOLUTELY $ ROCK HILL, So C ! CHICORA C J GKEENVIL1 A OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY T ' SYNOD OF SOUTJ 4 A HIGH GRADE COLLEGE FOR V a A f Graduate Courses in the Arts and Sc A Gymnastics and Business. \ Large and Able Faculty Beautif 4 ings Modern Conveniences? ? Located in Piedtnont Sectior # EXPENSES FOR THE i A.?Tuition, Board, Room and Fees * B.?All included in proposition (A) < t A ?* am ITwnMUloInn M an ur UApivowvu ............ \ Wf The Next Session Opens Septei f For Catalogue and In ^ 3. C. BY-RD, D. E UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. . Wide range of choice in Scientific, JL Literary, Graduate and Professional ou Courses, leading to degree of? *o Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, re Licentiate of Instruction, Bachelor of ^ Laws, Master of Arts, Civil Engineer and Electrical Engineer. Well equipped Laboratories; Library ? of over 40,000 volumes. a Expenses moderate?many students make their own expenses. 0 Next Session (104th) begins Septem- L. ber 23, 1908. _ m' For announcement, write to The ? President, Columbia, 8. C. 51 ft 10_ g WtT Good Printing? See The Enquirer. Ei STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of York. IN THE PROBATC COURT. By L. R. Williams, Esquire, Probate Judge of York County. WHEREAS Mrs. SALLIE B. MENDENHALL, has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all ... and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of E. B. MENDENHALL, late of the county aforesaid deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me at our next Si; Probate Court for the said county, to Oi be holden at York Court House on the Oi 25TH DAY OF JULY, 1908, to shew Oi cause, if any, why the said Adminis- T; tration should not be granted. T? Given under my Hand and Seal, this Ai 8th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight and in the 133d year jn of American Independence. th L. R. WILLIAMS. " 55 f 2t* J1 TRAINED NURSE, Pf THAT nursed in Cancer Hospital, fo Richmond, Va., 12 years, will tell be sufferers with Cancer or chronic Sores, co how to be cured. Grasp it now. $500 ed to sufferers who give treatment satis- or factory trial and fail to cure. m; Mrs. DORA GLADDEN. M 39-f-3m. Grover. N. C. Ti ? no 99" It pays to use the Best Quality of su Stationery the other fellow judges I you by the quality of your printed re matter. 10 * o|?^ 4* ^ ^ ^ ^ 'jjl E [ITH :-: CO. ! itice Offers ?$? ffiiitf From ^ 'erCent ? iOODS. ?f ' BE REDUCED. J FOR OUR FALL AND WIN< BEGIN TO ARRIVE. WE & MMER GOODS OCCUPY. TO ES ARE REDUCED IN ALL V TEX TO FIFTY PER CEXT. ??> !S ARE ALWAYS LOW. BUT sG OFFERED ON ALL LINES ^ IXG AWAY TO MAKE ROOM THE SLIGHTEST NEED FOR ^ UTIUiNJS, Jsrnjn?o, ^buxni^vi, .LAS, GENT'S FURNISHINGS. V ME TO ACT. COME AND ??* !*ERINGS? PRICES ARE RE- ^ LL LINES. *r Work Gloves. * in this vicinity. These Gloves flannel and are intended for all o want to protect their hands ^ S IS SUPERIOR TO OTHER )LLOWING PARTICULARS: ?|? winter and the lightest, coolest ^ 0 work in. 1 or instrument ca*- be handled T om the hand. n or rain does not injure the ^ ??? leather Glove. fa 10 CENTS AND 15 CENTS A of them you will always wear V on't forget our BIG DISCOUNT fa. -SMITH CO.' + OU I \ eauy * ANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES }U? GOOD CREDIT OR AVED?IS NEEDED TO I SLY la insurance against adlout this protection. 9 you doubt for a minute that olutely Safe Bank, like THE 9 F ROCK HILL, S. C., helps 3 repares you for y pportunity? j regularly and deposit your K ne of the Greatest Financial ! sd for business opportunities d to financial Independence, r SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, 4 Per Cent Interest, Com- y while you work, and also Union Bank A ST SAFE) >uth Carolina. j COLLEGE, J 4 L.E, 8. C. a J HE PRESBYTERIES OF THE 1 I CAROLINA f yOMEN 9 CHRISTIAN HOME SCHOOL \ ilences, Music, Art, Expression, f ul Grounds Elegant Build* f ?Healthful Climate 9 i and In City of 25,000 a ENTIRE YEAR: f i... $183.00 A ind Tuition in Music, $203 to $213 J nber 17th \ formation Address f President. j T CLOTHES CLEANING. AM prepared to clean gentlemen's "loihes and ladles' skirts in a thorighly satisfactory manner, at readable prices. Work may be sent diet to rny home or left at W. E. Ferison's store. Mrs. R. B. McCLAIN. 34. t 6t 0~ It pays to use the Best Quality of ationery the other fellow judge* u by the quality of your printed tter. thf \lorkrillc (Bnquim. ntered at the Postofflce as Second Class Mall Matter. * Published Tuesday and Friday PUBL18I1EK8 i . D. GHIST, O E. GRIST, A. M. GRIST. 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