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tumorous Jrpnrtmrnt. Putting the Curb On. The passengers in an accommodation train which was winding its waythrough New Hampshire were interested and amused by an elderly couple who sat in the middle of the car. They talked as If there were no one else in the car; therefore, having heard most of their private plans, no one was surprised to have the old man take the assembled company fully into his confidence. At one station he rose and addressed the passengers in general. "Can anybody change a five-dollar bill for two twos and a one, or five ones?" he ^inquired . "I can," said a brisk woman, and the transfer was quicaiy maue. "Now, could anybody change this one-dollar bill for four quarters or tens and fives?" asked the old man. "I can give you two fifties," said a man from the rear seat, "unless somebody else can do better." It appeared that nobody could, or, at least nobody offered; so as the train started the old man lurched down the car to the possessor of the two 50cents pieces. "Thank ye," he said, as he took the money. "I'm obliged, though I'd have liked the quarters best. You see, Marthy has set her mind to stop off at Nashuy while I go on up to my brother's with the eggs and truck. And though she don't plan nor mean to be a spendthrifty woman, when she's let loose amongst a lot of stores, she'll run through 50 cents In an hour easy, and I kind of have to put a curb on her." ?Youth's Companion. How Lincoln Won the Horse Trade.?Lincoln was a lawyer practising: in the Illinois circuits at the time. He and a judge once joked each other about horse trades. The upshot of the matter was that the two agreed to meet at a designated hour the next day to make a trade. The horses up to the hour of the trade were to be unseen. There was to be no withdrawing from the agreement under forfeiture of $25. A few friends had heard the bet made and passed the word around. As a result, quite a crowd was on hand to witness the exchange. The judge came up first, leading about the worst-looking animal he had been able to find. Where he had "discovered" it no one ever knew. He had not heen at the aDDOinted place but a few minutes when Lincoln came up, carrying a wooden saw-horse on his shoulders. The crowd which had gathered was hilarious at the sight. This was greatly augmented when Lincoln sat down on his saw-horse, critically surveyed the judge's imitation, and exclaimed: "Well, Judge, I must say, this is the first time in my life I ever got the worst of a horse trade."?National Magazine. Paid In His Own Coin.?"I've got nothing else, and you'll have to take it," said the consequential man in the tramcar. "But we ain't supposed *o change half-sovereigns," said the conductor. "Can't help that," said the passenger; "you'll have to find change, that's all. I'm not going to get off." A man in the corner with a big black bag beckoned to the conductor; there was a whispered confab, and a smiling conductor returned to the wealthy passenger. "A gentleman has offered to give you change," he said. "Ha, ha! So you had to climb down and find change, after all, my fine fellow, eh! Well, here's the half-sovereign." It was five minutes before he got his change. When the conductor brought it, it was in a double handful. "There you are, sir," he said. And dumping down one hundred and nineteen pence and a penny ticket upon the contankerous one, he left him to gasp out his expostulations. The man with the black bag was an automatic gas-meter collector.?TitBits. He Had Heard It.?The boat was coming into New York harbor and the persons who lived in this city were pointing out to people from the skyline, says the New York Sun. Finally an Englishman who hid come up from Cuba on his way home after a long roundabout trip from Spain joined a couple of New Yorkers. "See that building?" said one to him, pointing out the very tallest in the profile of the lower city. "Yes," replied the Englishman. "1 see it. I know what you're going to say. You're going to tell me its the tallest in the world and you're also going to give the number of the stories and the number of feet it is from the ground to the top. Well, don't." '"** ? ? a. o?? A mnrlnQna " wny i1ui; asnru titer muvkivm*tw, "Because, dear fellows," he replied, "in the last twenty minutes just fifteen other New Yorkers on this steamei have already described to me every specification of that building. I'm getting ready to tell some strangers about it in a minute myself. The Americans grinned and they let him alone. The Archbishop on the Box.?It was a former archbishop of York?Dr Thomson?who appeared once in the role of coachman. He had attended an evening party, and on leaving the house, discovered that his coachman was drunk. There appeared nothing for it but to drive home himself, and the archbishop, after placing the smiling but unconscious coachman inside the carriage, mounted the box and tooh the reins. The monotony of the homeward journey was broken by a wheel of the carriage corning into violent collision with a stone just outside the entrance to Bishopsthorpe. The lodge keeper, unable to recognize the approaching figure in the darkness, called out cheerily: "Hallo, Bill, drunl* again!?and blowed if you ain't got the old cock's hat on!" "It's the old cock himself," gravely responded his Grace.?Argonaut. Willing to End the company.?a Chicago man who once permitted himself to be persuaded to back a theatrical company was seated in his office one day when he received a telegram from the manager of the show. The troupe was somewhere in Missouri and the telegram read thus: "Train wrecked this morning and al scenery and baggage destroyed. Nc member of company Injured. Whal shall I do?" The answer sent back by the Chicagc man was as follows: "Try another wreck and have the company ride in the baggage car."? Chicago Record-Herald. pisccUanrous grading. CONTROLLING A CHILD. Parents Should Seek Cause of Fretting?Protect the Health. Unless one is a doting parent, the mother of a bad child Is not deceived about it. Susie is a terror. The worried and mortified mother knows it, but cannot help it. Instead of fretting or scolding, let the mother go cause-seeking. If Susie whines incessantly, find the reason. It may be lack of health or lack of discipline. Each is curable, though the latter takes courage. Health is the chief factor in good behavior. It strains many a grownup temper to keep sweet when dyspeptic. Keep children well and they generally cease to be bad. Cultivate health. Don't talk it. Let health be a word taboo in your family circle. Two mites, neither over 6, were overheard in excited conversation: "My mother says I cannot go to kin * 11 T * ?v? f aa nartrniia " aerKarteii uus urn, m. u> vw .VW| said the younger child. "You needn't be so proud," was the reply of her friend. "My mamma says I'm too nervous to be whipped, so I can be bad whenever I want to, and that's lots nicer than not going to kindergarten." The mothers of the children never saw the pathos, but thought the conversation "smart." They failed to realize the misery for themselves, and the children in giving such an excuse on which to shift misdoings. Never let children know there are broken-down nerves. Give a child proper food, air and exercise, see that its dress is hygienic and its habits reg ular, but do not harp on health as the reason for this sensible regime. A manner of living that should seem normal to the child becomes irksome if accompanied by wearisome commands?"It is time for you to go bed; you will be too worn out for school tomorrow. "That candy will ruin your digestion." "Get out of that draft; you know they give you cold!" No wonder Willie develops an aptitude for school sicknesses and Margaretta becomes an unmitigated crank, afraid of fresh air. Almost better is it to follow the example of one mother who never, if possible, talked health to her child. Her small son, who could not eat strawberries without a bad cramp, had an inordinate love of strawberry shortcake. The decision was left to the child's Judgment. When the shortcake appeared he would eat of it heartily and immediately afterward would voluntarily fill the hot-water bottle and retire to bed to await the inevitable bad pain, wnicn was Durne nuuuui a siucui. That boy is now a man and one of unusual self-control. He does not eat his cake and whine over results, as is the way with most of us. He weighs his actions carefully, then grits his teeth and takes the consequences. But sensible theories on health? which does not mean making it a thorn in the flesh to your children or raising a family of germ-dreading cranks?do not turn that bad child into a paragon. The healthiest child who has never been controlled will not be pleasant to live with. Nothing grows on one like having one's own way. The tiniest infant knows the value of a yell. Whose fault is it but the mother's, that such knowledge comes? Why should she complain that it accumulates interest as the years go on? It is with hard-fought battles that a child is taught to obey after it is 3 years old. It can be done, but it means heartache and bitterness on both sides. The time to begin training is at four days or four months, bringing common sense to bear. Common sense is not punishing for temper when a pin is pricking or disciplining a stubborn disposition in your baby when the food it eats is undigested, and your inherited dread of colds is sweltering the poor infant in flannels on a broiling day. Get control of your children, but get it in the right way. Do not make foolish rules, which you would not keep yourself unless you were whacked into it, and, having laid them down feel it weak to change them. Do not have more rules than are necessary. Avoid issues. Above all. remember that the bad child never became a good one through nagging, reviling and overseverity. Gentleness and firmness on the part of the parents and good digestion in the child make for family peace.?Philadelphia Ledger. AS TO PARENTAL TITLES. From Popper and Mommer to Mother i and Father. "I was brought up," said Mr. Fatherly, according to the New York Sun, ' "to say mother and father. As far as 1 I can recollect I never said mamma or papa, and what fine, natural, wholesome, homely words, teeming with strength and love and affection, fath; er and mother are. "Then in the course of lime I grew * 3 ?un ' up anu gui max l ieu uuu imu eitndren and our children started in calling us not father and mother, but ; mamma and papa, pronounced in the . most natural and easy way, with the ! accent on the first syllable, mommer i and poper. ! "I don't know just how our chili dren, whose parents In their child; hood had always said father and I mother, came thus to say mamma and . papa, but we are not objecting; they j may have been taught so by their ; nurse or they may have absorbed it . from people, young and old, of the I neighborhood. "Then as the children grew older . and came to exercise their own intelt ligence they came to pronounce these . words correctly, mamma and papa, with the accent on the last syllable; ; and they were very careful and pre; cise about this under all ordinary circumstances, but when they got excit ed and didn't stop to think they went back to mommer and popper, which I am free to say I liked much better. Mamma and papa with the accent on 1 the last syllable always seem poor and artificial words to me. "And then another interesting thing ? happened. As our children grew old 1 er?guided by the same acuteness that ! had prompted them to get mamma ' and papa correctly, but now with a broadened intelligence?they discover' ed and adopted as parental titles the ' words mother and father. I am not t so sure but what at first they did this because they considered it to be the ' really correct fashion, better form; but mother and father came finally to i appeal to them perfectly, and ever " since they have used them unaffectedly and naturally, with pa and ma oc caslonally as affectionate diminutives. "But now here is a curious thing. Our children are pretty well grown up now, young men and young women our boys and girls are now and suppose that one of the girls, say, should be affrlghtened in her sleep by some terrible dream, so that she calls aloud for help. And then whom do you suppose she calls for? Why, instinctively she calls for her mother, as all children do, but in what manner do you suppose the affrlghtened dreaming girl, calling for help, calls to her mother? Does she shout 'Mother!' or 'Mamma!' with the accent on the last syllable? In truth she says neither, but what she now says is: " 'Mommer! Mommer! Mommer!' "You see? The early habit persists, and I suppose we shall have to wait for another generation, until our grandchildren come, for children in whose minds the lovely word, by constant use from infancy up, will once more have become so firmly fixed that they will say 'Mother!' instinctively and always, even in their dreams." 'TWAS HANNA'S DREAM. Plan Included Inter-oceanic Canal and Merchant Marine. "It was the late Senator Hanna's fondest dream that this country should build an interoceanlc canal and establish a merchant marine through a ship subsidy," remarked Bishop B. F. Broderlck of New York, to a Washington Post reporter. "We are in the midst of the former work, and I believe had Senator Hanna lived we should have a subsidy. It would have made no difference to Senator Hanna what sort of a canal was built, or whether it was located in Nicaragua or Panama. "The senator was one of the most expert shipping men in public life, which is somewhat strange, as he came from an Inland city. He advocated a ship subsidy because he believed it the only way to build up our foreign commerce to the place it should occupy in the world's business. The commercial success of a nation depends upon four things?plenty of raw material, labor, management and transportation. We have the raw material, of course; no country is so rich in natural resources. "The supply of labor can be regulated by a modification of the immigration laws so that the requirements of admission shall not be based on education entirely, but on trade relations between countries from which emigrants come. Our skill in management has been proved by the position we occupy in the world's affairs. The one thing we lack is transportation?intercontinental transportation. Our domestic transportation facilities have been and are being constantly improved, but one great feature of domestic transportation that demands improvement is that of highways. "Until the coming of the automobile not much attention was paid to this for more than half a century, but with the advent of the motor cars the improvement of the highways has begun, and I have no doubt that within a few years motor cars will be used extensively for the transportation of freight for short distances. There seems to be a more rational sentiment developing toward the railroads, and the movement for the improvement of our inland waterways is taking shape that promises results. But our ocean transportation has made no improvement, and will not until we grant a ship subsidy." RtU rvitrx in inc. ouu i n. Curious Customs and Industries of the Louisiana Indians. The blowgun is still popular for hunting birds among the Koasati Indians of Louisiana, says the Southern Workman. This weapon consists of a tube, usually of cane, about six feet long, rubbed smooth on the inside with an implement made for the purpose, and carefully straightened with the aid of fire. Slender, pointed darts about eight inches long are used as ammunition, each one wrapped neatly along a third of its length with thistle down or cotton to make it fit the inside of the tube. The hunter places a dart in the tube, which he raises to his lips and aims at his game; then a quick puff of the breath drives the little dart flying with sufficient force to impale and kill a small bird or squirrel. I discovered a curious industry among the Koasati?the weaving of Spanish moss into fabrics. During my sojourn with the southern tribes I had heard that their ancestors once made blankets of moss, but this was the first time I had even seen the process or its products. The moss, which may be seen festooning the trees all through the south, is cured and then spun with a simple contrivance. The moss yarn is strung on a frame and woven into blankets. In former years the Indians wove large moss blankets for bedding and rugs; but at the present day saddle blankets only are made. Among the most interesting things found among this tribe were two of the old hand-made pottery vessels, now very rare among Eastern Indians, a drum made of a cypress "knee," some very fine beaded shoulder sashes, a collection of baskets representing many weaves and forms, and some silver headbands, brooches and other ornaments laboriously pounded out of coins by the Indian silversmiths. NOBODY SLIGHTED. President Cleveland Regarded as Precious the Rights of an Indian. During Mr. Cleveland's first admintration there eame before him the application for a pardon of an Indian who had killed another in a drunken brawl. The case appeared to be perfectly straight and a clear one and the department of justice had recommended that the law take its course. The story is told in the language of the pardon clerk, who is quoted by George F. Parker in McClure's Magazine. "The record was an elaborate one, even as we had prepared it, but it was still insufficient to satisfy the president and his scruples. There was none too much time to act, so he delayed the execution and called for the full shorthand report of the trial. He instructed us to procure further letters from the judges, the district attorney and the jurors. When they were submitted he went over all these with the most elaborate and painstaking care, and finally disposed of the case in a memoiandum of a few words, granting a commutation. "When he had come to a decision i in this case he said to me: 'Boteler, I could not have slept nights if this man 1 had been hanged because of a declination or failure on my part to look i into his case. He is only a poor In. dian, but I cannot forget that he has nobody else in the world to look after him and to see that his rights are fully preserved." IMMIGRANTS AS FARMERS. How the Italians Have Become Prosperous Land Owenrs. The Italian as a farmer. He Is thought of as a day laborer, a fruit vender, a member of a section gang, a "Black Hander," but not often as an agriculturist, says the Boston Herald. Eut nevertheless any individual or group interested In developing the farming districts of the United States would do well to study the Italian contadinl as a valuable contribution to the farming industry. Such investigation need not involve a Journey to Italy, as there are numbers of Italian truck and fruit farms scattered all through New England and In close proximity to New York city, south and west. These farms prove beyond any question that as an extensive cultivator of the soil the Italian cannot be beaten. Near South Glastonbury, Conn., are about seventy farms owned by Italians. The first pioneer of this interesting colony was John Carlno, who came to South Glastonbury sixteen years ago to cut ties for the New Haven and Hartford railroad. At the end of two years he had saved enough to purchase a small farm and send for his family. Every member of the family toiled early and late until the place yielded enough income to enable him to buy more land, and now, fourteen years from the date of his first purchase, Mr Corlnn nwns 1.500 ftcrea. all. with the exception of a small wooded portion, under the highest cultivation. There are peach orchards, apples, plums and pears. Grapes are grown In quantity and also a variety of small fruits and vegetables. This year, if nothing unforeseen occurs, he expects to market 20,000 bushels of peaches. His two eldest children are attending school in Hartford, and no doubt will go to college later. Some twelve years ago J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury, the largest peach grower in New England, decided to employe an Italian, one Luigi Piro, on his place. The neighbors shuddered and prophesied a tragic end for the entire Hale family. Today, this same Luigi Piro is partner with Mr. Hale in one of the most remarkable orchards in America. As time passed Mr. Hale grew more and more to confide in Piro's judgment, so that when ue advised converting a 400-acre plot, which had always been considered by Americans "too difficult" to grow anything on, into a combination peach and apple orchard, Mr. Hale decided to take the plunge. If vArtnlrn/1 n n-AA/1 rlno 1 r\f hlaatinff tn XL ic\{uu?u a gvvu uvai vk m>uwv*i>q vw dispose of rocks and stumps, but that accomplished, the soil was absolutely virgin and ideal for .fruit growing. Between the apple trees are planted peaches. The space allows for a twenty-year growth of the peach trees, when they will have finished bearing for market purposes. By the time the apples will have matured so as to require more room the peaches will be removed. After the product of this orchard has reimbursed Mr. Hale for his outlay with ten per cent interest, he will deed one-half of it, or 200 acres, to Piro. He prophesies that this will be accomplished in less than ten years, and that he and Plro will then each own an orchard worth $50,000 over and above all cost. The natives around South Glastonbury speak well of the Italians, who, In tho hocinnlncr had in make their way against a wall of Yankee prejudice. They are anxious to give their children educational advantages. At Matson Hill, South Glastonbury, stands a little white school house, which will serve as an illustration. In Connecticut the country schools are assessed by the taxpayers of each district, so that the apportionment for school tax is voted by the men who pay it. In a New England farming district such as this the results in former years were obvious. The schoolhouse was little better than a ruin. The roof leaked, the windows were broken, and it needed paint. Year after year a meeting was called to consider its restoration, but any such proposition was regularly voted down. Gradually, however, the Italian land owners gained strength and the moment they controlled the majority vote they demanded a new school house. Many of them contributed lumber from their farms and more gave their services toward its construction. There are now thirty-two school children who attend this school, thirty Of them Italians. A young American girl is teacher. She enjoys teaching the little Italians, and the parents cannot do enough to express their appreciation for the efforts she is putting into her work. In winter the men turn out and shovel a path for her through the woods, cutting oft a detour of about two miles she would otherwise have to walk. And now for the "bogy man," the treacherous Italian of tradition, concealing a stilleto in one pocket and a bomb in the other, ready to do you with one or both on the slightest provocation. Like the "little darkey in bed," when you turn down the blanket, "I reckon him not dar." There are bad Italians, as there are bad men of every other nationality, but in no greater proportion. The gentry of black hand notoriety confine their attentions almost entirely to fellow countrymen. They are not looking for jobs on farms and seek ever the city and the crowds. The Italians are gregarious. They prefer to live in little villages, as they do in Italy, while they cultivate outlying plots. The lonely farmhouse has no attraction for the Italian men or women. Their houses need only to be of the most primitive construction to begin with. They will be sure to improve them as time goes on. uttoco run inc. a-mmt. When Failure to Use It May Make a Doctor Liable. The question of the duty of a physician or a surgeon in regard to an Xray examination of a supposed fracture or dislocation is discussed in the Medical Review of Reviews by a prominent New York expert in such matters; radiologist is his professional designation. He quotes a foreign authority on the difficulty of making a correct diagnosis of injuries, especially when in the neighborhood of a joint. "Not infrequently an injury is diagnosed as a fracture and the part is placed in a plaster splint. Later a radiograph demonstrates the absence of fracture, but the presence of a dislocation which was not suspected and which had been made permanent by failure of reduction, immobilization, etc. "There are, in fact, many cases where it is impossible to make an ear lv diagnosis on account of the pain I and swelling, and very often the In- v jury, even after the swelling had sub- w sided, Is of such nature as to mislead a the best surgeons. In these cases It f is very easy to establish a correct n diagnosis by means of the X-ray. v "The physician need not, of course, t make the X-ray examination himself, a but to be on the safe-side he should v advise the patient or the patient's t: family to consult a radiographer, for ii jgsagaVlUK The most higl mM wonderful po DOING THEIR DUTY c Scores of Yorkville Readers Are Learn? j ing the Duty of the Kidneys. 2 To filter the blood Is the kidneys' t duty. t When they fail to do this the kid- E neys are sick. a Backache and many kidney ills follow; Urinary trouble, diabetes. Doan's Kidney Pills cure them all. t W. A. McCorkle, living at 240 E. \ Blacfc St., Rock Hill, S. C., says "I used ( Doan's Kidney Pills with the most sat- I isfactory results. I had been troubled ! with severe pains In the small of my ] back for several weeks, and suffered 1 intensely. At times sharp shooting j twinges would dart through the kidney j regions, and In the morning I always suffered more severely. 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McCLAIN. fc ...SPEC Bargains In NOTICE OUR $20.00 Suit of Clothes 1 f 1.00 Linen Shirt .50 Necktie 1.00 Scarf Pin .10 Collar .15 Pair of Hose \y( 122.75 Total J We are Offering Our $15.00, $12.50, $10.00 Combinations, Same ai Special Deals on All ( A FEW OF OUR ] On Our Best $1.00 Shirts, 90 Cts.; 50 Ct Neckties, 45 Cts.; 25 C Boy's $1 Knee Pants a Cts.; 50c Pants at 45 C DRESS GOODS?All $1.00 Grade at 65 Cts. a yard; a yard, and so on. The above prices will give Goods Bargains to be had year 1909 for CASH. YORKVILLE BANK, t W. Brown Wylie, John E. Carroll, President Sec. & Treas. YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS YORKVILLE, S. C. 1 A Neat Iron Fence Around your lot in the cemetery will give It a well-kept appearance, and at the same time protect your graves from trespassing cattle, dogs and other animals. We handle a standard line of CEMETERY FENCING and the Cost Is Not So Much As You Might Think. All kinds of MARBLE and GRANITE HEADSTONES. MONUMENTS. COPING, SLABS, POSTS, Etc., furnished on short notice. You are respectfully Invited to vis- | It our yard, and make your selection, or drop us a card and we will call with a nice line of latest designs. YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS. SEND YOUR ORDERS FOR . ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING TO THE ENQUIRERBEST WORK AND THE F FAIREST PRICES. 1 rhlle a haematoma, swelling and pain /ere formerly accepted by the courts s an excuse for the nonrecognltlon of racture, etc., such Is not the case iow. Physicians who neglect to adise the employment of the X-ray In hese cases, expose themselves to an ctlon for damages, In which they /111 be accused of neglect to exercise he 'reasonable care and skill' which 9 required by law." kL>fl IN^PoWDEf^I Jy refined and healthful I fders. Its constant use I y /-UllCIiUlU liuua^liwivj| ?er the world, attest its H pularity and usefulness. |i TAX RETURNS FOB 1909. )ffice of tha County Auditor of York County, South Carolina. Yorkvllle, S. C., Dec. 1. 1908. \ S required by statute my dookb [j. will be opened at my office in forkville on FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 909, and kept open until FEBRUARY :0, 1909, (or the purpose of listing for axatlon all TAXABLE PROPERTY leld in York County on January 1, 1909. Returns made on proper blanks, and iworn to before an officer qualified to idminister an oath and forwarded to ne by registered mall before February 10, 1909, will be accepted. All taxpayers are particularly reluested to Inform themselves as to the lumber of their respective school disricts, and where they have property n more than one school district, they vlll please make separate returns inllcating the location of each piece of iroperty. The school districts in which here are special levies are as follows: Mo. 23 in Bethel; Nos. 29 and 33 in 3ethesda; Nos. 9, 20 and 40 in Bread itlver; Nos. 9 and 20 in Bullock's Creek; Mo. 12 in Catawba; Nos. 7 and 12 in Sbenezer; Nos. 26, 28 and 39 in Fort dill; Nos. 11, 20, 33 and 36 in York. All males between the ages of tweny-one and sixty years, except Confederate soldiers over the age of fifty rears, are liable to a poll tax of $1, ind all persons so liable are especially -equested to give the numbers of their -espectlve school districts in making heir returns. It will be a matter of much accomnodation to me if as many taxpayers is possible will meet me at the reseectlve appointments, mentioned above io as to avoid the rush at Yorkvllle luring the closing days. Mv office in Yorkvllle will be open svery week day from January 1, to February 20, Inclusive, and returns nay be made there at any time. JOHN J. HUNTER, County Auditor. Yorkville, S. C., Dec. 1, 1908. 9(1 t 4t AT THE BRATTON FARM. WE are offering thoroughbred Guernsey Heifers at from 810 up md we have also a number of Berkihlre Gilts with thoroughbred Pigs ;hat we will sell. Will deliver pure, dean milk at 10 cents a quart. Cream, rntter and fresh eggs on orders. J. MEEK BURNS, Manager. W 8end the Enquirer your orders for Commercial Printing if you want the test work. ; i A L ... Clothing ! . WINDOWS or $19.50 IN CASH YOU WILL GET THE $22.75 orth of Goods Mentioned Here. $20.00, $18.50, $16.50 and $8.00 Suits In s Above. We Have Jut Clothing. 1909 BARGAINS Merchandise s. Shirts, 45 Cts.; 50 Cts. Its. Neckties, 22 1-2 Cts.; t 90 Cts,; 75c Pants at 65 ts., and so on. Grades at 90 Cts.; 75 Cts. 50 Cts. Goods at 45 Cts. ! you an idea of the Dry at this store during the k MERCANTILE CO. tr We Pay YOU to SAVE. IKY II The only real hard thing about a Bank account is the STARTING. When once started It's like a snow ball. Roll It gently and it gets larger and larger almost without your noticing it. Start an account in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Once you get into the habit of depositing a certain sum each week or month, you'll see the advantage. BANK OF HICKORY GROVE 9V* Colored Card Board and Blotting >aper in larga sheets can be had at fhe Enquirer office. MAKE A CLUE FOR THE Eighteen Capii Valued a AN UNLIMITED SMALLER Rubber Tired, Quarter L Buggy For La Quarter Leather Top, Steel For Second La Forty and Thirty Dollar Sewing Mi Largest Clubs That Do Not Get THE YORKVTLLE ENQUIRER 1 FAMILY NEWSPAPER IN SOUTH CA paper, and there Is not & paper In thli pletely or more Impartially in this respe< and moral welfare of Its readers, and in heat In their educational. Dolltlcal and SO absolutely by its publishers, who hold 1 subscribers as a whole on a basis of the T pels. As the best recommendation of tin righteousness of its controlling motives it years of earnest endeavor, and the prea THOUSAND PAID SUBSCRIBERS. The premiums offered by the publ LARGEST CLUBS returned in the premi elude Two Carolina Grade Rock Hill Boj Machines. THE FIRST P The prize for the LARGEST CLU Leather Top Rock Hill Buggy, equipped i tall at $05. THE SECOND The prize for the SECOND LARG will be a Quarter Leather Top Carolina Tires, and valued at $70. FIRST TOWN8HI To the Clubmaker returning a large siding in the same township we will give Machine, which Retails at $40. The Mac ball bearing. It is equipped with ribbon ] which the manufacturers claim is the bei tion with a Sewing Machine. It Is guari lifetime. SECOND TOWNS! To the Clubmaker returning the SE< maker In the township in which he reside Five Drawer, Drop Head Sewing Machin with quarter-sawed lid, finished in dark g( price Is $S0, and the Machine is guaranti It Is our purpose to give the Bugg LARGEST and SECOND LARGEST CLIJ Largest Clubs are returned from the san Machine premium for that township. In ent townships, then the Clubmaker In e Second Largest Club, will receive One of The Buggies we are offering are ol by the ROCK HILL BUGGY COMPANY, description, and the Retail Price of oi of the other is $70.00. These Buggies ca Georgia State Fair, and it is conceded by where that there is not a better Buggy t< price. There are hundreds of these Bug are giving general satisfaction. They ms moth factory of the company In Rock ? dealers In this section, Messrs. Carroll 1 Sons, of Fort Hill; S. J. Kimball & Sons The Sewing Machines are as good as CLUBMAI ALL PERSONS who desire to do t or elsewhere, are cordially invited to act to participate In the competition for the to get the largest clubs In their respectl work in other premiums, commensurate performed or In cash, as they may pref< that the Largest Club of the entire cont dent of the county, he will receive a $95 WHAT A C nr,v?~ a# o Clnirla fStiliflpHnHnn 11 A IIO J/uvc V4 u. uii?0?v m?? ?r ? Clubs the price Is $1 for six months, or two or more names returned by the same or NEW?that is, people who are now ta not been taking It since the 15th day ol two or more at a time, with or without the Clubmaker. OTHER PR] Besides the Buggy and Sewing Ma full and complete reward to the Clubmal est clubs In the county and the respective PREMIUMS for all smaller Clubs, includ FOR FOUR NAMES.?A Stylograph Bladed Pocket Knife with name and ad /lew Novels that retail for $1.00. FOR FIVE NAMES.?A year's sul Magazines: McClure's, Munsey, Argosy, Post, or any other Dollar Magazine, or el Ste"m Winding Watch, a gold pointed Foi Knife. FOR SIX NAMES.?An "Eclipse" S el 16, 22-calibre Rifle, a year's subscrip String Zithern or any one of the new po] FOR EIGHT NAMES.?An Ingersc ing Air Rifle?works like a WinchesterRapid Writer Fountain Pen?plain case; Banjo. FOR TEN NAMES?One year's sub 2 Hamilton 22-Cal. Rifle?model 11; any one year, or a Gold Mounted Fountain Pi FOR TWENTY NAMES.?Crack-S Hunting Coat, a No. 1 Ejector Single-I any one of the $4 Magazines for one ye FOR THIRTY NAMES.?Either of merless Shot Gun, a fine Toilet or Washi 22-Cal. Rifle. FOR FORTY NAMES.?A fine Mai Standard Open Face Watch, a W. Rich Shot Gun. ANYTHING DESIRED.?We will ar desired by a Clubmaker for a given nun flfflftA TERMS AND C< THE CONTEST BEGINS NOW and MARCH 20, at 6 o'clock p. m., sharp. Each Clubmaker will be held Indlvh the amount due on all names returned bj stop a subscription before the close of tl do so by paying the amount due at the tl scription has been paid in full, It cannc however, may, If he sees proper, transfe scription to another subscriber, provided to be made was not a subscriber at the tli our books. No name will be counted in comp< scription price has been paid, nor will Clubmaker has either paid or made satlt on the Club. In cases of contention by two or n name, preference will be given to the on? where both pay, we shall not attempt to < the name for one year for each such pay After a name has been entered on mltted. This Is positive and emphatic, make such transfers, they must concede seem necessary to protect the fairness of returns names must pay for them. Clubr names already regularly returned by ot if there is evidence of an understandlni not for the protection of the publishers; of the competition. Any and all Clubmakers will have tl They Can. It Is not necessary that all the The fact that a name was returned on a that Clubmaker a right to return it this : All subscriptions must be forwardec lng them, and we will be responsible for when it is sent by Draft, Registered Lettei In sending names, Always give corre office address, and if possible say wheth the paper. Careful observance of this \ trouble and confusion. In the case of a tie for either the Premiums'TWO WEEKS will be allowed After the close of the contest on S the price of a year's subscription will be L. M. Grists Sor I YORKYILI I ENQUIRER 1 ?r \al Premiums t $725 NUMBER OF PRIZES. eather Top, Rock Hill rgest Club. Tired, Rock Hill Buggy rgest Club. ichines for Largest and Second Buggies in Each Township. S THE MOST THOROUGHGOING ROLINA. It Is primarily a County i state that fills Its field more comst. It seeks to promote the material defending and developing all that is clal life. It is owned and controlled 11 * 111 Afiln fr* thoir ?v neinwjivtJB n?twiiaiuic w ....... ? en Commandment* and the four Gos5 integrity of lta conduct, and of the point* back to a record of fifty-three lent support of MORE THAN TWO lshers of THE ENQUIRER for the um getting campaign of 1108-09, ingles and Sixteen High Grade Sewing REMTUM, B of the contest will be a Quarter with Rubber Tires and rained at RePREMIUM, EST CLUB returned in the contest Grade Rock Hill Boggy, with Steel P PREMIUM. r club than any other Clubmaker reOne Five Drawer High Arm Sewing ihlne ha* drop head, hand lift, and is pattern stand and ball bearing device it that ha* ever been used In connecmteed for Ten Tears and will last a HP PREMIUM. 30ND LARGEST CLUB of any Clubs, we will give a No. S6 "New Model" te. The furniture is of selected oak, >lden oak with high polish. The retail ?ed for Ten Yean, ies to the Clubmakers returning the rBS. If both the Largest and Second le township, there will be no Sewing _ i case the Buggies go to TWO differtach of those townships making the the Forty Dollar Sewing Machines, t the Standard Carolina Grade made They are of the quarter leather top ae la $95.00, while the Recall Price rrled off all the premiums at the last disinterested dealers and users every3 be had In the United States for the gles running In this section and they iy be seen on exhibition at the mam[111, or In the warerooms of different Broa, of Yorkvllle; W. F. Harris A i, Rock Hill. are to be had at the prices quoted. LEB8. io, whether they live In York county as Clubmakers. All will be entitled i Buggies, and those who are unable ve Townships, will be paid for their in value with the value of the work sr. Should It develop at the wlndup est has been returned by a non-reslRnbher Tired Ton Buacy. LUB IS 9 $2 a year, or $1 for six months. In $1.75 for a year. A Club consists of Clubmaker. The names may be OLD king THE ENQUIRER, or who have ' last July?and may be sent in one, the cash, to suit the convenience of E5HXJMS chine premiums, which are to go as cers making and paying for the largtownships, we are offering SPECIAL ing from four names up. lie Fountain Pen; a handsome Threedress on handle; or one of the late iscrlption to either of the following Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening ther of the following: A "Champion" untaln Pen or a Four-Bladed Pocket winilln? Watch Hamilton Mod ition to the Christian Herald, a 22pular $1.60 Novels. 11 "Triumph" Watch, Daisy Repeat-a fine Razor or a Pocket Knife, a or a Hopf Model Violin or an 8-lnch scrlption to THE ENQUIRER, a No. r one ef the $1.76 or $2 publications en, a good Banjo, Guitar or Violin, hot Stevens Rifle, a 10-oz. Canvas tarrel Breech-Loading Shot Gun, or ar. the following: A Single-Barrel Hamitand Set, or a Hopkins & Allen, Jr., idolin, Guitar or Banjo, a New York lards Double-Barrel Breech-Loading range to furnish any special article iber of names on application at this 3NDITTONS. will come to a close on SATURDAY, lually responsible for the payment of f him or her. Where It Is desired to tie Club contest, the Clubmaker may Ime of such stoppage. Wbere a sub>t be discontinued. The Clubmaker, r the unfulfilled portion of the subthe person to whom the transfer Is me the original name was entered on :tltion for a premium until the subnMmlnm Ha HaUvafaH until the (factory settlement for all the names lore Clubmakers over the right to a s who pays for the name FIRST; but leclde the matter except by crediting ment. our books, no transfer will be perand where Clubmakers attempt to our right to take such steps as may this provision. The Clubmaker who nakers who try to return and pay for hers will be called down, especially ! between the Clubmakers. This is but as a guarantee of the fairness be right to Get Subscribers Wherever ) names shall go to the same address, certain club last year does not give year. 1 to us at the expense of those sendthe safe transmission of money only r, Express or Postofflce Money Order, et name or initials, and present poster the subscribers are NOW taking vill be the means of avoiding much Buggy or Township Sewing Machine for the working off of the tie. ATURDAY, MARCH 20, at p. m., 92.00, unless New Clubs are formed. ffs, Publishers ?G, S. C.