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^tumorous department. The Point of View. "Uncle Ransom," said the planter, as relates a writer In Everybody's, "you rode my best horse twenty miles to that festival Saturday night; you kept him out all day Sunday and nearly killed him Sunday night. How many times have I told you to let my horses rest on Sunday?" "Yes, suh, Marse Robert, da't so, but?" "How many times have I told you If you didn't quit that, you and I couldn't get along together on this place?" "Dat sho* is the trufe, Marse Robert. You D'intedly tole me dat?but you knows a nigger, he jes' nacherly forgits." "Every negro on this place believes that he can do exactly as he pleases." "Dar now, bless Gawd, you sho* spoke a parable: dese young niggers is gittin' mighty trifUn'." "It has come to this, Ransom: Reveille is not big enough for you and me. Tomorrow morning we part: you go your way and I go mine." The old negro looked sorely troubled and bewildered. He glanced over his shoulder at the rippling lake, the open cotton, the perfectly level fields. Ransom had been born on Reveille and had never known any other home. His heart went out In supreme pity for the man who had to leave it "Well, Marse Robert, ef we Jes* can't Kit along together?ef we's Jes* boun' ter sep'rate, would you mind tellin' me whar'bouts you 'spects ter go?" The Mystery of It-?In Washington the recent death of George W. Harvey, known since Lincoln's day for the rare food of his famous "oyster house," has recalled the following anecdote of his life: "On one occasion Mr. Harvey visited New York, and his praises were sung by some of the prominent men who were hiB friends. A dispute ensued as to the merits of certain dishes, and a contest was arranged between Mr. Harvey and several famous New York chefs. The competition centred upon the mixing of a salad dressing. The jolly fat judges watched the preparation carefully and observed that Mr. Harvey as a finishing touch took from his pocket a tiny vial, carefully uncorked it, poured a few drops into the finishing and set it before the arbiters. They tasted each dressing in turn. smacked their lips and puckered their brows. Then they declared that all the dressings were very fine, the most delectable that they had ever put to palate, but that about Mr. Harvey's dressing there was 'an?ah?indefinable something' which caused them to award it the prize. "'George, what was it you put in that dressing?" asked one of Mr. Harvey's friends later. " 'Only water,' he replied. 'I knew a little mystery would get 'em.'"?Chicago Post Did Twain Insinuate??"This natural born aptitude for surgery," said Mark Twain at a dinner of the New York Post Graduate Medical school, "reminds me of a kangaroo that I saw on my last Australian lecture tour. "I was riding inland on the box seat of a stage coach beside a very talkative driver. The country was level and highly timbered. Now and then, ungainly and big against the skyline, a kangaroo bounded In and out among the tres. "They're mighty cute, then kangs," said the driver. "Cute as Christians some on 'em. Hank Shuter, what owns the section behind this here creek, he's got a trained kangaroo that meets the coach every week and gets his letters for him. The pouch, you see, comes In right handy." "We turned a bend of the road, and a fine, large kangaroo, disturbed In his feeding, looked up at us with an innoaaa + nil. vein, 4UCOUVIIIU5, aii. "'Nothing' fer you today, old man!' shouted the driver. "And the kangaroo, as If that was what he had been waiting for, bounded into a clump of trees and was soon lost to view. " 'That's him,' said the driver. "I nodded indifferently." The Trick That Failed.?At the last session of congress, says the Washington Post, there was a very close division on an important measure that was pending. A western member was fighting the bill with all the vigor at his command and his siipppss dpnpndpd absolutely on his presence at his post. A clever member of the opposition devised a scheme whereby the troublesome man could be lured away. Accordingly, on the morning of the day the vote was to be taken a telegram was sent to the hotel of the fighting member. It read, "Come home. Your wife is dangerously 111." The congressman glanced at It, read It carefully two or three times, and then started toward the capitol. The perpetrator of the scheme asked the congressman what the telegram contained. He showed It to him. "What!" gasped the Inquirer, "and In the face of that you are going to the capitol?" "I am," was the cool response. "But don't you feel worried about your wife?" "Not in the least," was the reply. "Why?" asked the other. Dcuause, repueu ine iisniuiB member, "I have no wife." The Deserter.?"Do you desire to have It understood." asked the Judge, addressing the lady who wanted the divorce, "that your husband deserted you?" "Yes, sir." "Please tell the court as concisely as you can how he deserted you." "Two months after we had completed our wedding trip he scolded me because he thought I was extravagant in the matter of getting clothes, and I went home to my people." "Yes. Proceed." "Well, I waited and waited and waited for him to come and beg me t<> i turn to him, and he never did."?Chicago Record-Herald. The Net Result.?A Smith county school boy persisted in saying "have went," to the great distress of his teacher. To break him of such un grammatical usage Kept mm in alter school and told him to write "have gone" 500 times. The boy went to his task industriously and worked steadily for some time. Finally the teacher was called from the room by another teacher, and when she returned she found the youthful grammar student absent. On his desk were a number of tablet sheets covered with "have gones," and the following note: "I am through, and have went home."?Kansas City Journal. piscrltancous grading. SELLING THE SHORT STORY. The Young Author's Chances In the Magazines. There are today in this country nearly fifty magazines that are willing to pay good prices for good stories. Among them they use about 250 stories a month and buy probably fifty more, which they will never use. Of these 200 or 300 stories marketed every month, about one in fifty is firstclass and about one in ten is secondclass. The others are purchased and printed because the editor must have something to fill in the spaces between * A ? * *L? tfl6 iroru CUVer tiiiu mc auvcmocuicuio. The editors of the better class of magazines are continually howling for stories. If they get a good story from a writer, they follow him up with requests for more. If they see a good story or two in another magazine they write to the author and ask if they cannot have something from him. They are on the watch all the time for any one who has the gift of narrative. These are the facts of the case, well known to every one in the publishing business. On the other side are the theories beloved of budding authors who feel the germs of genius within them. srrievanees aeainst editors. The first The authors of unpublished manuscripts seem to have two standard is that editors will accept any old thing if the writer has a name. The second is that editors will never tell an unknown author why they refuse his story. The antagonism between the aspiring author and the unsympathetic publisher undoubtedly exists. What is the real cause of it and whose fault is it? With a view to getting at the truth of the matter the writer undertook to get upon speaking terms with the editors of fifteen of the leading magazines published in America today, and also to rvw>ntloo 1 ?vnPrl men t fit hifl UJAIkC JUlUt piavbivui OaKv>****vm*w v. uwn so aa to test the truth of the charges continually made against the well known editor by the unknown author. The result of these interviews seems to prove pretty conclusively that if the unknown author cannot get his story published it is entirely his own fault and that the faults which lead to his discomfiture can be grouped under three heads. To begin with the most common fault of all, the manuscript may be all right, the situations well described and the dialogue clever, but?no story. in me ncxi gruup ut uuuicg <u? those manuscripts in which the story is there, but is not properly arranged or told. This is a fault which puts a manuscript just in the balance. Whether the editor thinks enough of it to bother further with it is largely a matter of the humor of the moment. It is very much like the hesitation of a person in buying something that is not quite what he wants, but which could be made to do by spending a little time and trouble on its alteration. The third class of failures is stories which are all right, but are not suited to the magazine to which they are sent. This is the cause of nine-tenths of the (ttlJUreS Ul IIICAjJCi icntcu auiuvi One of the most extraordinary delusions of the novice in authorship is that his manuscript is not even read. One often hears of pages gummed together as the test, and so on. The reply to this charge is that it Is not always necessary to separate the yolk of an egg from the shell to find out that It is rotten. If writers only knew the eagerness with which the publisher's reader scans every story that comes into the office from a new source they would quickly get over the idea that their stories were returned unread. Many of the writers of established reputation are written out, and the magazine editor Is tireless in his quest for new ideas, a fresh style, an unexploited field. All he asks Is that the new story shall fit into the style of architecture on which his magazine is built. The one absolutely hopeless case Is the writer who has no story to tell but who can fill up fifteen pages of typewriting with a mixture of dialogue and Incident that leads nowhere. Several of the editors interviewed spoke feelingly of the time and trouble wasted in wading through this sort of authorship. "This sort of writer," remarked a reader for one of the best known magazines, "reminds me of a young fellow who applied for a job in a carpenter's shop and brought a perfectly smooth piece of board as a sample of what he could do. The caroenter asked him what It was for or what it fitted and found that it did not fit anything but was simply a beautifully smooth piece of work, planed and sandpapered, top, bottom and sides. "The carpenter told the young fellow to take it back home again and bring it to him next day with a mortise and tenon joint in it, or an O. G. panel on one side?anything to show what the work on it was for." "Some people do not seem to understand," remarked another reader, "that the short story should be restricted to a single incident. If it is a story of adventure there must be only one adventure. If it is a love affair it must be only one episode In the courtship. If It Is a character sketch It must deal with one trait of character only. "There is no more common mistake made by would-be magazine writers than to imagine that a short story is a condensed novel. A short story should be like a flashlight picture of a single stone being laid in a wall. The novel is a description of the whole building from cellar to roof." The rapidity with which a reader can judge a story is the result of long practice. While it is true that an expert can scan a story without reading more than a third of the words in it. he will never miss the story if the story is there. It may be badly told, but if it is a really good story the editor will rescue it every time. He will enter into negotiations with the author to fix it up or will buy it as it is and fix it up to suit himself. Every magazine has men employed for that purpose. Not one in ten of the smooth reading stories that one finds in the magazines is printed as it was written. Unless they are the work of a trained writer who knows all the tricks of the trade they have been chopped and changed around in order to lick them into presentable shape. Unnecessary introductions have been cut off the beginning, anti-climaxes cut off the end, superfluous adjectives taken out of the middle and descriptions of scenery removed entire. To the writer was shown one short story printed in McClure's, which was a first attempt on the part of its author. It had been changed four times, forty-eight superfluous words had been cut out by twos and threes at a time c and six explanatory and argumentative t letters had been exchanged between au- t thor and publisher before the final proof n was passed. v All this trouble over a 3,000 word n story submitted by mall by an unknown s author, who had never written any thing before, and by a magazine that tl receives several hundred manuscripts h a month and can command the best v writers! a Why? Because the story was there, h and S. S. McClure knew it the moment n he saw it and he rose to the bait like a u pike. The author was one of his finds, o "What is the particular element that v you imply as so desirable when you s speak of the story in a manuscript?" the writer asked Mr. McClure. a "It must be human and there must h be some motive In it," he answered lm- g mediately. "It may be cleverly written; w but so are advertisements. Adventure b and incident may be there, but if there h is nothing human in it no laughter will si ever shake the reader's hand, no tear t< will ever fall upon the page." t< Many readers who were interviewed h expressed the same opinion in various ways, insisting that it was this want of t< the human touch that caused the rejec- o tion of 90 per cent of the stories sub- ii mitted to magazines. s< "A story must act on the reader's u feelings as well as on his mind," re- a marked one. "It must quicken his im- Ii pulses somehow. If it is a story of ad- tl venture it should be able to carry you nlnnsr with it. lust as the audience used h to hold on to the backs of the seats in tl front of them when John B. Gough de- b scribed the stagecoach tearing down fl hill close to the edge of the precipice tl with a drunken driver on the box. w "The habitual magazine reader re- tl members a story that has made him tl feel long after he has forgotten those . that made him think." ft Frank Munsey classifies stories slm- si ply by their commercial value and puts p pathos first, love second, adventure st third and humor last. tl "And one can invent love plots and it adventures," he says, "and some men Ir uaimui pui pen iu papci nuuuui uvms wi humorous; but the pathetic story is al- N ways from (he heart, and if it is gen- si ulne It always reaches the heart of the w reader. Those are the stories that are p hard to find." h One of the most common errors of e1 the novice in authorship is sending his gi manuscripts to the wrong place. The further he Is from the right place in cj his selection the longer he will probably a have to wait for its return. This de- E lay and the repetition of refusals is one g of the most disheartening things the tc budding author has to contend with, ft but it is entirely his own fault. He hi may imagine that all the editors have conspired against him, whereas there is nothing against him but his own lack of Judgment. R If a man had a patent churn to sell and went hawking It among the housewives on the West Side you would w laugh at him and tell him to take It to jc the country and sell It to the farmers' wives. If he replied that the country was just the same as the city, all houses and people, you would laugh still loud- 8| er at his folly. Yet the author who w sends the manuscripts to the wrong place is Just as misguided. w The first thing that a new writer U] usually does is to send his story off to w his favorite magazine or to the magazlne that he hears most highly spoken Q) of. All amateur actors want to play a) Hamlet from the start. The high class, K well known magazines, like Harper's kmiA /\ V? ??/\n rr V* mnro tro ah V* o r* na * c IU " ciuc iiuuugu iiiwtc noon t>m?? ^ any others. 8t "A story was submitted to me pri- c< vately by a friend of mine," said one reader. "The author was a young lady a who did not know that I was employed w on a magazine. She thought it was ^ the greatest thing that ever happened, that story of hers. Most authors think that about their first attempts. "She was in doubt whether to send it to Harper's or the Century, as she did not want to offend either of them w giving the other the refusal of it. After reading it over I advised her to try it on the Waverly Magazine first and a not to expect any pay for it "She has not spoken to me since, but C( f tpnrnptl from n frl??nd nf hprs that <*hfi sent It from one magazine to another * for nearly two years, having to copy It again once or twice when it got shab- { by. The funny part of it was that she finally sent it to the Waverly and they T used it." There is a young woman in Brooklyn Cl who has just brought out a book that w promises to be a success. She has a 11 classified list of magazines, beginning ai with those that she would like best to n' publish her stories and ending with tr those that are better than the waste w basket. c< She has twenty-five magazines on R this list, and every short story she h writes is sent to each in turn and upon w its rejection-to the next magazine in tl lino If the mnnnsnrlnt ntlckn nnv- tr where on the trip, well and good. If It si Is rejected by the whole twenty-five, gl into the waste basket It goes. c< While this scheme may Impress some P persons as clever, it is really a confes- A sion of bad judgment. It Is like of- p ferlng to sell carpenters' tools to twen- b ty-flve different trades, when only two or three trades use them, although all n trades use tools. w Every one who hopes to be success- w ful as a magazine writer should buy p and read at least one or two numbers ol during the year of every magazine pub- B ... __ .... ti usneu, or 01 iweniy or iiuny ui mc -leaders. The sort of stories and artlcles they contain should be carefully c< studied. tl Unless his story is of exceptional merit, which of course every author amagines It is, there are never more D than four or five magazines that would rr even consider it. When magazines buy ~ stories from authors with big names they do it for the purpose of advertising the fact that the big man is writing ol for that magazine, and they usually si care very little for what he writes. fi It is the same in all matters of business. When Albln, the first man to ride tl a bicycle on one wheel, was engaged by 11 Barnum he wanted to show the public fi what he could do on a wheel, but the tl manager told him he could have only e; three minutes. n "We don't care a cent for your act," f? the manager told him. "All we want ei is to show the public that we have got 01 what we advertise.' fi The secret of the success of any tl magazine lies in its individuality. Peo- m pie come to recognize it as different ni from the others and they do not feel w that any other magazine will take its m place. tf What makes this individuality? The y< editor's power of selection, his ability to pick out the stories and articles that sr carry out his conception of what a w magazine should be. If any old story m would do for any old magazine, as some ai writers seem to imagine, what would ol become of this distinctive trait? g< Unless a writer who sends a story to I> a magazine has studied this peculiar cl touch that gives the magazine its le haracter and has written something hat fits in with it he is simply wasting ime and postage stamps. He may have rade a beautiful churn, but the woman rho lives in Central Park West does tot think it fits into her ideas of what hould be in her household. One great cry of the novice in au- i horship is that the editor will not tell im what is the matter with his story .'hen it is rejected. This is only half truth. The editor would gladly tell im, but he knows the author would ? ot believe it. The editor of the Popu- : lar Magazine told the writer that he i nee made the mistake of telling a new rrlter what was the matter with his tory". 1 The man seemed very modest and nxlous to learn, and the editor told im the exact facts. Instead of being rateful for this expert criticism, which >as valuable, the author of the story ecame abusive and told the editor that e had never printed such a good lory in the Popular, which was a rot ;n magazine anyhow, and much more j the same effect. Such authors are opeless, because they will never learn. John Thompson, editor of Pearson's, )ld the writer that one had to be more autious about mentioning the defects 1 an author's stories to the author himelf than one would be about remarking pon the defects in a woman's personal ppearance if she asked you about it. n fact he thought the author would be tie more vindictive of the two. At the same time he had found, when e was sure that he was talking to tie right sort of man, who would not e misunderstood, that he could put his nger on the weak spot in a story, and tiat more than once he had been rerarded by the author going home to tiink it over and bringing him Just tie kind of story he wanted. .John S. Phillips of the American iagazine tries authors out with hints, uch as that the story would be imroved if it began at such a place In teaa 01 wnere me aumor Degins 11. 11 le author watches the blue pencil cut s way across the page without flinchig, and sees his beautiful adjectives rossed out without serious objections Ir. Phillips knows that the man will tand the gaff and be a sucess as a rlter; but when a man fights for a hrase and Insists on a description that as nothing to do with the story, howler fine It may be In Itself he Is never r>lng to do. These editors all agree upon the one irdlnal point, the writer must have story to tell and It must be human, dltors care little or nothing about rammar or style; they have experts > fix that up. What they are looking ? >r Is the story that Is not from the | pad but from the heart. m , I SISTERS OF BACCHUS. 1 i omans Punished Drinking Women | With Death. I For many centuries the Romans i ere water drinkers, the favorable >catlon of a bountiful snrine nnw ist rediscovered, having determined le location of the great city itself, fine was used on important occaons or as a medicine, and women ere not expected to drink it. The seling in Rome was much toward omen wine-bibbers as it has been ntll recently in Europe regarding omen who smoke. At the time of le Christian era the women drank r?ly sweet wine, and many are the necdotes of punishment under the oman law that made the family mncll arbiter of life or death of the oman who drank and of her who ole her husband's keys to the wine sllar. In a vaunting way the Romans for long time decried the use of fine lnes. Cato boasted of having pariken of the same wine as his oarslen, "But then," said the speaker, 2ato was a queer fellow, who pleas1 himself by ridiculing luxury." It as unworthy of a Roman to admire ' iolce wine. The Greeks were the ine producers, as are the French >day. The finer wines were served t feasts in single portions, even at reat dinners. This was the earlier )nditlon. As Rome spread about" the world te vine was distributed throughout aly, and the greater the conquest of >re!gn territory the stronger the ome industry of wine producing, here Is evidently a relationship beveen the two facts. As the policy of jlture increased luxury spread, and ith it the use of wine. The old me aversion was dissipated and city nd country would grow again the ext year, but an army cuts and burns ees and vineyards, and Spartacus as a species of phylloxera that the juniry peopie learned 10 urinK. :ome not only slaked its thirst but 1 ad veritable fountains of wine. The 1 ars had two results; they carried | le soldiers into wine growing coun- I ies and they brought to Italy the < tilled viniculturists of the best re- | Ions. Just as there have been re- | intly in California vine dressers from iedmont and Sicily, so in those days i 2gean farmers found employment in " anting in Italy the vine of their ome islands. Wine was most important in the olitical relations between Rome and s provinces. Rome taught them ar, building, language and to drink ine. Gaul prohibited its Importaon. As China fears opium and ranee absinthe, so the ancient col^anro/1 tVio nf ivinp ut this feeling disappeared when ley were annexed and began to be ssimilated. And as the colonies inreased the prosperity of the mother juntry did likewise, and largely irough the vine, whose products >und In every new province an addional field. Love of wine followed le army, and the more Germany, almatla and Pannonia drank the lore filled were the coffers at home. -Boston Transcript. The Queen of All.?Honor the dear Id mother. Time has scattered the iowky flakes on her brow, plowed deep arrows on her cheeks, but is she not veet and beautiful now? The lips are lln and shrunken; but those are the p? which have kissed many a hot tear i?m the childish cheeks, and they are le sweetest lips in all the world. The ye is dim, yet it glows with the soft idiance of holy love which can never ide. Ah, yes, she is a dear old mothr. The sands of life are nearly run ut, but feeble as she is, she will go irther and reach down lower for you ian any other upon earth. You can ot walk into a midnight where she can ot see you; you can not enter a prison nose uurs Will Keep ncr uui, JUU L'tni ever mount a scaffold too high for her ? reach, that she may kiss and bless 111 In evidence of her deathless love. ,'hen the world shall despise and forike you, when it leaves you by the ayslde to die unnoticed, the dear old lother will gather you in her feeble ms and carry you home and tell you ' all your virtues until you almost for>t that your soul is disfigured by vices, rive her tenderly and cheer her deinlng years with holy devotion.?Sected. Occupant In the Rear.?"Is there a young lady by the name of Evans living In this house?" inquired the strange woman of the timid appearing man at the front door, says Judge's Library. "Yes," returned he, with a suddenly respectful and serious demeanor. "She occupies the rear of this house, so you'd best step round to* the rear door and knock gently, ma'am." "I did; but no one answered." "Ah, then, didn't you notice a sign on the door In the shape of a neat placard?" asked the man, In tones of awe and admiration. "Yes. The placard said 'out.'" "Then she's out. That's her sign, ma'am." /Tlsa\ / Fabrics an ^ t- ? ^ .a m Dy removing tne u M water and strong soap ? anything better and e rubbing is unnecessary, helpful cleansing powder f Lava \ "It Softens (Lavadura makes it easy to v without shrinking and colored goo dishwater and your hands won't g dishes will be cleaned sweet and bri Lavadura is fine, too, for bath shampoo. Destroys perspiration c and dandruff. Delightfully refresh LAVADURA CHEMICA | In All | j the World j of Piano j L X ou win never nnu a piauu i just like the artistic Stieff. g ft There is an individuality A P about the Stieff piano all its I { own. J ft That beautiful singing, ft J sonorous tone, wondrous vol- ? B ume and perfect action, place 2 ft it in a sphere above all com- ft I parison. Z Why should any one buy San Inferior piano when they ft can buy the artistic Stieff or ? B Shaw Piano direct from its f ft maker? The price is within ft I reach of the most economical Z J buyer while the grade is beX yond competition. p Don't take chances of buy I ing a cheap or medium grade ? A piano. Write Stieff. ^ [ Chas. M. Stieff l I Manufacturer of the II L Artistic Stieff Shaw and C Stieff Selfplayer Pianos { SOUTHERN WAREROOM. I ? 5 W. Trade St. ? ? CHARLOTTE N. C. J f! C. H. WILMOTH. ! * r ? Manager. . C : Mention this paper. THE_ nARK mm m CORNER EVERYBODY WHO IS A BODY WHO WANTS T< EITHER READ OR THE" THE "DARK CORN! As descriptive of the conditio CORNER" is all right; but as des tended to accomplish and the acti name Is a misnomer. "The Sean of the CJ ropers," would be a more too long. But don't gather the Idea tha lecture that you are asked to reat of thrilling interest from cover to or woman has ever read it yet \ far out of proportion to the cost? W. S. GORDON, WW Those Who Are Unable to Friends. "Do you know when she will return?" "No; we never know that, ma'am. In fact, she comes and goes whenever she takes the notion, and wants none to Interfere with her doings or habits in any way, shape or manner, ma'am." "She's rather a mysterious and independent sort of person, I take It." "Well, rather. You see, ma'am, she's our cook!' MTYou can help a lot sometimes by not giving advice. After all there isn't a great deal of difference betwen will power and won't power. M *I es DclicatT^^X d Delicate Hands A ljurious influences of hard 1 is. Makes any water cleanse 1 asier, so that wear-and-tear 1 The most harmless, most V ever known? n dura J the Water" raah woolen goods toft like new 1 ds without fading. Uae it in the I et so red and rough?and all the I ght with half the work. and Ask for it at At c~7;irLcKs;u" 1 ling. Packages. "j L CO, * While It Is a Fact That some life insurance companies have carried out every guarantee written or printed in their policies and still made handsome, and often very large profits besides, it Is a fact also that in all honestly and economically managed mutual companies, those profits, or more correctly speaking, savings, have gone to those composing the company, viz: the policy holders, while in stock companies a large proportion of the savings have been and are going to the stock holders, and at the same time the control of the company is absolutely in the hands of the stockholders. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company is the most conspicuous example of the ideal mutual company In business, and the one aim and purpose of the management for 64 years has been to see that each and every member got a squaro deal. No company guarantees as much as does the Mutual Benefit and no company in the past has carried out its contracts at a lower cost. We have no reasonably accurate means of judging the future except by the past SAM M. GRIST, Special Agent CHEWING TOBACCO If you use CHEWING TOBACCO it is worth your while to see me and get my prices before buying?especially if you buy by the Box. I have variety enough to suit almost any taste, and my CASH PRICES are sure to tell your pocketbook that this is the place to buv Chewine Tobacco. I have the following brands: Maple Sugar, Apple Sun Cured, Monarch, Red Meat, Schnapps, Brown's Mule, R. & W., Ogburn's Natural Leaf, Ell, Rock and Rye, and Day's Work Navy. PURINA FEEDS. Feed your Chickens on Purina Feed for the most eggs and most vigorous fowls. We have Coarse Feed for the grown chickens, and Fine Feed for the biddies. If every horse owner would give Purina Horse Feed a fair trial they would feed it exclusively, as it con^ tains every element necessary to the upkeep of a horse. Any horse will soon look better If fed on this feed. Farmers' Wholesale Grocery, J. M. FERGUSON, Prop. W9~ Send the Enquirer your orders for Commercial Printing if you want ths best work. MONET TO LEND. ON Improved farms in YorK couniy. Repayable in Ave easy annual Installments. Interest eight per cent. No broker's commissions. C. E. SPENCER. | Attorney at Law. 99 f.t 6m THE DARK CORNER. 8 THE DARK CORNER. M THE DARK CORNER. 9 THE DARK CORNER. M THE DARK CORNER. THE DARK CORNER. |8 THE DARK CORNER. ?! i\ a r?tr nnovi?ii HH i riTj ^ TIIE DARK CORNER. 2 THE DARK CORNER. i TIIE DARK CORNER. } THE DARK CORNER. j THE DARK CORNER. * THE DARK CORNER. THE DARK CORNER. TIIE DARK CORNER. t THE DARK CORNER. ; LNYBODY AND EVERY- . > HE SOMEBODY, HAS * IT ARE (JOINO TO READ j JR." ! ns It describes, the name "DARK ' crlptlve of the purpose It was Inml results that It is attaining, the ?hlight of Truth on the Pathway comprehensive name were it not ; it it is a (lull sermon or a curtain j 1. Far from it. The book is full cover. It's a love story. No man vithout deriving benefit that was -ONLY SI.<)0 A COPY. $3 - - Yorkville, S. C. I Buy Should Borrow From Their m DUT TO THE This Institution Commenc 1898, and It Has Steadily Combined Capital and Su Magnificent Sum of Mort DRED THOUSAND DC bined Deposits More Th THOUSAND DOLLAR The above figures are somethi as Officers, Are Proud of The We have given to Our c when they wanted to borrowGet Anywhere Else, and paid 1 on all Savings Accounts and Quarterly. Ours Was the First Bank tise to Lend Money at SIX P used in cultivating their crops. We Were the First Bank i Compound Interest on Saving! We were not compelled tc but we believed that we owei PUBLIC for its liberal patron Patt T-T^lr-* Vau in n r J f f W VOli AAVA|/ A VU III U II Only Do Business With Us. 1 customer of Our Bank and e which We Are Able to Offer \ WW Don't Wait Until Tor TODAY! THE NATIONAL WW ABSOLUTE ROCK HILL - - S< 9 W. J. RODDEY, President. Q? Capital & Surplus $ 80,000.00 ] Deposits over $250,000.00 BE A STEADY 1 SAVER 1 And you cannot fall to reach the goal of financial independence. The LOAN & 8AVINGS BANK will 1 help you in every legitimate way?ex- ( tending you every courtesy, whether j your account be large or small. J Now is an opportune time to place your business on a systematic basis and your account with the right Bank. ? the loan and savings hank \ s i 9" The other man judges you by | your printed matter? Does your Stationery represent your business fairly? t The enquirer Job Printing will please you. checkbook pass book r rvH/H/ USE OP OUR BUROLAR-PROOF SAFE FREE. BENEFIT UF uun FREE. ( y Sometimes, no doubt, you wonder at j your neighbor's prosperity He Has a Bank Accounti Shall be pleased to add your name to our growing line of customers. The Bank of Glover, j CLOVER, 0. O. IT We Pay YOU to SAVE. t There Is a Time 1 In the lives of most men and ^ women, when it would be very convenient to have a little money Jj laid away which they could call " their own. Many times even a Jj small amount would relieve em- ? barrassment or actual needs. Our y Savings Department is at your Jj disposal for the accumulation of " small amounts as well as large, and the small amounts deposited soon yield the large. Start an account with a dollar or so and be prepared?have money In the Bank. BANK OF HICKORY GROVE J 0 a JW Colored Card Board and Blotting r Paper in large sheeta can be had at g The Enquirer office. i TYPEWRH I SUPPLII | STA t ? RIBBONS, CARBOr I FOLD PAPER, ERS, PAPER FA j Everything in R MBHi I ^ We are carrying In stock CO 0 Buns uor ainereni macninco/ /i ! WRITER PAPERS of various kind; the same as desired. In different size In any quantity. iWe also handle TYPEWRIT! desired In NEW OR REBUILT MA? { L. M. GRIS' Y-~ I ' PUBLIC I 1 :ed Business September, Grown Until Now Its D irplus Has Reached the H ! Than THREE HUN- I )LLARS, and Its Com- I an NINE HUNDRED H s ing fo be proud of, and We, m. customers Cheaper Money? ?Than They Were Able to them Four Per Cent Interest ^ Compounded the Interest in South Carolina to adverER CENT to farmers, to be in this section of the State to i Accounts Quarterly. i t*itlra ttia iKnvp rnnrPQQintl. I it AS A DUTY TO THE age. tumber of ways if You Will We Want YOU to become a njoy the many advantages fou. norrow?Open an Account ^ UNION BANK 1 LY SAFEU J 3UTH CAROLINA | IRA B. DUNLAP, Cashier. B ? il LODGE EMBLEM 4 CARDS THE JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT OP THE ENQUIRER OFFICE IS PREPARED TO FURNISH )N SHORT NOTICE EMBLEM ADDRESS CARDS FOR ALL LODGES VND SOCIETIES. f The Cards are of good quality of itock and the design or emblem of he order Is embossed in appropriate :olors and gold. The Price for 100 Hards, including Printing of Name ind Names and Numbers of Lodges, 4) s $1.50. Mail Orders will receive irompt attention. We can furnish Emblem Cards for he following Fraternal Orders: Blue Lodge, F. and A. M. Royal Arch Masons. F. A A. M. and R. A M. combined. _ Knights Templar. I Shrine and Snrine combinations. K. T., R. A. M., and F. A A. M. /w# ?k? Wn^LI ff vuuurou ui nvTM? Order Railway Conductors. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Firemen and Trainmen. Jr. O. U. A. M. 1 If you are a member of a Secret )rder you should have Cards giving 'our name and the lodges to which rou belong. Cards are especially deirable when traveling, and make rood souvenirs of good times. Address L M. GRIST'S SONS JOB PRINTING DEPT. YORKVILLE ? ? ? 8. C. Rourlfl Plum hinc rin LliU Yf IU JL iUIIIIVlUg ^/v? BEE US NOW ' [17 E have an adequate force of T Competent Workmen to do 'LUMBINO or other work in our Ine. We can give you all the lnforlatlon that can be desired about ANITARY PLUMBING, and show A ou styles and prices of the LATEST. 9 JEST and MOST APPROVED FIXTJRES. COME FOR US or SEND FOR US. RAWL6 PLUMBING COMPANY. CLOTHES CLEANING. [ AM prepared to clean rentlemen'a L clothes and ladles' skirts in a thorDjthly satisfactory manner, at reaonable prices. Work may be sent dlect to my home or left at W. E. Feruson's store. Mrs. R. B. McCLAIN. _ # "TD 3 . 11/XV y ES AND J ' TIONERY | "PER, MANI- 1 * iNUSCRIPT COV- i STENERS. Reliable Goods, j LUMBIA TYPEWRITER RIB- 5 lND CARBONS, and TYPE s and weights, and can furnish 2 is, PRINTED OR UNPRINTED ^ ^ ERS, and can furnish anything A CHINES on short notice. * FS SONS. j ?