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tumorous Departmrnt. 0. K. Letter Writing. Having summoned the new and very winsome stenographer, Horatio Bingleworth, who was a director in more than a dozen great commercial institutions, said: "My wife has gone to Florida for six weeks and I have promised to write to her every day. I haven't time to dictate a letter to her now, but you can write one. I suppose, without that. Just fix it up and bring it to me for signature." Twenty minutes later tne loveiy stenographer returned to the private office and placed a sheet of paper before the great magnate. Picking it up, he read: "My Darling?It gives me pleasure to turn aside from the exacting demands of business and give up all my thoughts to you. I am glad to say, dearest, that I am feeling quite well, but oh, it Is very lonely here without you. I cannot tell you how I miss the sound of your sweet voice, and how I long to look into your lovely eyes?to gaze upon your beautiful countenance. The day seems terribly long since you have gone. I don't know' how I shall be able to live through the six awful weeks that must elapse before you are to return to my eager arms. You must make up your mind now, sweetheart, to come back to me the moment your time is up. I cannot permit you to remain away an hour longer than the period which we agreed upon when you started. I am hungering for a glimpse nf vou. mv love. I think of nothing but you.. Waking or dreaming, I"?I "Say," Mr. Bingleworth suddenly exclaimed, dropping the letter and turning toward the lovely stenograph- I er, "what kind of a chump do you I think I am, anyhow? Is that the way! you'd think I'd write to my wife if 11 had to do It myself?" "I?I don't know," the beautiful I stenographer answered. "You didn't I < tell me what to say, and I wrote It as I I thought I'd like to have you write I If?If the letter was intended for me." I "Hm!?well, in that case, you I might tell them to move your desk I in here beside mine. I shall have so I much dictating to do that It will be necessary to have you very near me. I And write another letter. Don't I ' spread it on so thick, or she'll get I suspicious and hurry back."?Chicago! Record-Herald. His Kiok. "You don't remember I reckon, I said the sour-faced man, putting his! arms on the showcase, "that I bought I a clock of you twenty-flve years ago?"! "I certainly do not," answered the! elderly jeweler, "but I'll take yourl word for it if you say you did." "Well, I did. It was twenty-five years ago last Monday." "Remember what you paid for it ?" I "Yes; I paid you $10." "Ever had to get it repaired?" "No." "It's a pretty good clock, then, Isn't I it?" ' "Oh. yes; the clock is all right. But! I've found out something about it I that you didn't ten me. "So?" "Yes. When I bought It I asked you how often I'd have to wind it. You said once a week." "Well?" "Well, I've Just found out that It will go eight days without winding." "Certainly; most clocks are eightday clocks. That's to allow for your forgetting to wind It sometimes." "I never forget to wind it, sir. Regularly every Monday morning for twenty-five years I've wound that clock. That makes fifty-two times a year. If I had known It would go eight days I would have wound it orr the eighth day, and I would have had to wind it only forty-six times a year. It takes me about two minutes to wind it up. I've wasted twelve minutes every year on the thing. See! in twenty-five years I've put in 300 minutes, or five hours, the half of a man's working day, standing on a chair and winding up that blamed old clock when it didn't need winding." "Wen. SitlU U1C muyvuv. J "what do you want me to do about it?" "Nothing, sir. I only wanted you to know it. That's all. When you sell an eight-day clock to a man you ought to tell him it's an eight-day clock. Good-day, sir!" Straightening himself up and pulling his hat brim down in front, he turned on his heel and stalked out of the store with the air of a man with a grouch who had freed his mind.? Chicago Tribune. H? Soon Fixed That.?Governor Hadley told the other day how he happened to select Henry Andrae for penitentiary warden. "One day Henry and I were out sleigh riding, an old negro driving. We passed the penitentiary and the mansion provided for the warden. I asked Henry if he ever had thought of being warden. He said he didn't know that he had." " 'Well, do you think you could fill the bill?" I asked. " "Yes," Henry replied, 'I could.' " 'But,' I said, 'there is one vital odJection to your appointment.' "Henry looked somewhat puzzled and not a little disappointed. I pointed over to the warden's mansion. "'You're not married, Henry!' I reminded him. "'Ho! Is that the objection?* he asked. "Just then the old darkey drove over a rough place and the sleigh turned over. We were dumped out in the deep snow. I got up sputtering snow, but Henry disregarded the accident altogether. He looked me in the eye and said: 'I'll fix that right away, governor." "And Andrae did fix it, for the ceremony took place the other day." The Line He Was On.?Two telephone girls were talking over the wire. Both were discussing what they should wear. In the midst of this important conversation a masculine voice interrupted, asking humbly for a number. One of the girls became indignant and scornfully asked: "What line do you think you are on, anyhow?" "Well." said the man, "I am not sure, but judging from what I have heard, I should say I was on a clothesline,"? San Francisco Call. Homicidal Desperation?"So you are afraid to discharge your cook?" "Yes. We'll have to adopt heroic measures." "What will you do?" "Move into the country and put a gasoline stove in the kitchen."?Houston Post. Miscellaneous Reading. LIEUTENANT 8HACKLETON. A Personal Sketch of the Man Who Nearly Found a Pole. Nearly two years have passed since Lieutenant Shackleton set sail from the Ee.st India docks with his little "M- vimrrv/i onH a mllflnt band of csiiijj me mitiivu iw.? v. 0~... comrades bent upon the most daring enterprise yet attempted by explorer, the attainment of the South Pole by a desperate rush across the ice of the gloomy Antarctic continent. And recently he comes back to London with the glory of a great achievement fresh upon him. If he has not planted the British flag at the South Pole he has really conquered it. He has looked upon it from afar, and but for the accident which deprived his party of a pony at a most critical moment he would have reached it. The explorer comes of an old Yorkshire family which settled in Ireland nearly two centuries ago and intermarried with Irish families until it has become practically Irish in blood. Among his ancestors have been men of some note. His great-great-grandfather, Abraham Shackleton, founded the boarding school at Ballytore at which Edmund Burke was a pupil, and one of Abraham Shackleton's sons, the poet Richard Shackleton, was a lifelong friend of the great Whig orator. In 1886 he was sent to Dulwich College, but there he did not distinguish himself by his application. "He never rose high in the school or applied himself to his books," said his form master, "but his merits were always recognized as being out of all relation to his place in form. He left too young, for I think he was not 16, to distinguish himself in athletics." Prom the same authority we learn that he was a boy of energy and character?prelude to a life of action?and a "lively and very pleasant fellow." On leaving Dulwich, about 1889, to gratify his roving disposition he went to sea, entering the merchant service and circumnavigating the world four times. Dur'ng the South African war he took part in the transport of British troops by sea to Cape Town, but his real chance of distinction came when in 1901 he was chosen as third lieutenant in the Antarctic expedition which sailed south In that year under Capt. Scott. His determination and physique led to his selection by Capt. Scott as one of the three who with himself were to make the prolonged and difficult sledge Journey south toward the Pole. On this occasion they reached a point some hundreds of miles further south than had been attained by any previous explorer. Lieut. Shackleton, despite his iron frame, suffered greatly on this expedition. He was attacked by snow blindness, which caused him excruciating pain, and for some days his health grave way completely. Apparently at the very extremity of death, he had to be placed on a sledge and dragged by his companions. The party ran short of food and a curious story is recounted by him of how night after night they were haunted by visions of delicious food in their dreams. One nightmare incessantly beset him. He thought that he was continually chased by enormous slabs of pastry. On his return home in 1904 he was appointed secretary to the Scottish Geographical Society in Edinburgh. He had always had a fondness for journalism, having for some weeks been editor of the South Polar Times, the little paper published for the delectation of Cb.pt. Scott's expedition, and he wrote occasionally for the press on his return to England. In 1906 he resignea iud sevreiar;siii)< auu wntested Dundee In the Unionist interest. "It is," he said, "a fight for another poll," punning on the Pole the conquest of which he has always had at heart. He was not fated to succeed, and there was a huge majority against him. He married in April, 1904, Miss E. M. Dorman, and has two children?a boy just 4 years old, who declares that he "is going to be a hero like daddy," and a little daughter 2 years old. In appearance Lieut. Shackleton is a man above middle height, not 40 years of age, and young looking for his age. His eyes are steel blue, with a peculiar look of determination, and the lines of his face suggest will, personality and power of leadership. Any one seeing him for the first time would say, "Here is a resolute man." One of his hobbies is a love of the poets, and his taste is fine, as he knows by heart all the greatest of Meredith's, Wordsworth's, Tennyson's and Browning's poems. He is not above owning that he too has paid his tribute to Parnassus, though as a minor poet he has not yet appeared in print. In 1907, after overcoming every kind of difficulty, he organized his famous expedition to the Antarctic, which was to make so much history. The Nimrod was bought?a little whaler of ancient date but stout in hull?and admirably equipped. The experience acquired in the Scott expedition was turned to excellent account. Lieut. Khnokletnn took much lighter elothinc than has been usual with Polar explorers in the past, as he had found furs to be a distinct mistake, and the king, when he inspected the Nimrod on her departure, was so surprised at the thinness of the clothing that he asked whether it would really be warm enough for the fearful cold of the South Pole. Other departures from precedent by which Lieut. Shackleton showed bis resources were the substitution of Manchurian ponies for dogs and the specially designed motor car, the first ever landed on the southern continent. This was not an unqualified success, I though it was most useful for laying depots and conveying stores. In July, 1907, the Nimrod left the East India docks. "I have made my will," said Lieut. Shackleton, as the little vessel crept out of the Thames amid tears and cheers, "but don't imagine that such a course betrays the slightest foreboding on my part." Nor was his confidence misplaced. As we all know, not a single life was lost in his expedition, thus making what is j really a new record in an exploration of such magnitude and danger. At Cowes the Nimrod was inspected by the king and queen and the queen handed the intrepid sailor a silk Hag which he was to plant in her honor at the furthest point south that he reached. Proceeding by Cape Colony and New Zealand to the Antarctic, the Shackleton expedition effected a landing at Cape Royd in early 1908 and at once began its work of exploration. After a long record of work during 1908, on October 29, of that year the preparations for the rush to the Pole were completed. A party consisting of Lieut. Shackleton. Lieut. Adams, Mr. Eric Marshall and Mr. Wild left the base of operations with four ponies. Depots had been previously laid for : considerable distance to the south <* as to give supplies for the return jour ney. Each man in that Polar climate where the bitter blizzards blew almos continuously, had to do his dailj march, dragging heavy loads, on 21 ounces of food. What this means cai be understood from the comment o Mr. Bernacchi, another well knowi Antarctic explorer, who tells us tha the proper allowance is ao uuhot The temperature fell to 70 degrees o frost, and the rarlfled air tried thi daring explorers to the utmost. On January 9, 1909, they made thel last day's march to the south. At lat Itude 88 degrees 23 minutes, only nine ty-seven geographical miles from th< South Pole, the nearest point to eithe Pole that man had attained, thej halted. The air was comparatively clear as they gazed upon the mysterl ous region round the Pole. "No moun tains were visible," telegraphed Lieut Shackleton. "We saw now a plali stretching to the south, at an altltud< of over 10,000 feet." Reluctantly they retraced thei: steps, and the blizzards now blowini behind them helped them back. Bu so closely had they cut the margin o safety that again and again food rai out Just as the depots which theyha< left on their advance were reached.? London Ma;l. THE GLUTTONOUS GOAT. Ability to Eat Many Things Make Him Dear to Uncle Sam's Rangers. ml._ ?.n * koo novsr h(i?n a KOCia 1UC guai * U*o uvfv. ? favorite. In days gone by It was pre sented with the assorted sins of th< community and assisted to hit the lonj trail. More recently tin cans hav< been its titbits and the joke columi Its hall of fame. At last, however, It Is being takei seriously. On the western natlona forests the goat has been set to eat ing wide swaths through tracklea thickets, which munched off paths an to act as roads and flre breaks. Far ther east the capacity of the goat to ea is being utilized for the clearing o brush land. In each case, says th< World recently, the despised creatun is doing better work In its line thai can man with all his ingenuity. A goat will eat with the sole ldet of consuming quantity and with ai indifference that is absolute as to wha manner of thing it devours. From clo ver to sagebrush and from parsnips t< tree tops it is all one with the goat. Armed with this capacity to eat i hock of 3,000 goats may be huddlec together and led through a chaparra thicket such as skirt the forests. Thi men in charge hold back the flock at it ad 'ances that it may have time t< make its task complete. Its erran appetite wanders from dry leaves 01 the ground to the rank weeds growinj In moist places and the dense branchei of the chaparral. As the abundance is exhausted th< sweep is made cleaner. The leavei and the larger limbs of the chaparra are attacked. The goat stands on it hind legs and reaches for its food, i gets astride the branches and rldei them down, eating as it goes. Finally it falls on the bark of th< larger bushes and eats their bodiei bare. There is ,io vestige of life lef in its track. The firebreak is as cleai as a ballroom floor. The usefulness of the goat as a CO' laborer with man by no means stopi here. . There are millions of acres o mnu in n<any 01 me Hutics mai an overrun with brush. The tendency ii always to revert to that conditioi even after the clearing is once made. Rank weeds, sunflowers, cocklebur and such have spoiled for cultivatioi millions of a;res elsewhere. Th< chaparral is smothering out all othei vegetation in such sections as wes Texas, where originally prairies urn wound themselves for hundreds o miles and were kept clean by oft re> curring prairie flres. For all such the goat is found to b< the savior. These lands would re quire from $12 to $20 to clear wen men to do the work. The goat wil do it for nothing. In fact it will per form the task and in che meantim< yield an abundant fleece, produce pah atable goat "venison' and furnish i grade of milk that entirely outranki that of the cow. The goat is today actually harness ed to the task of eating up oak brusl fields in Iowa, broom sedge wastes i: Virginia, cocklebur patche *n Louis iana, sunflowers in Kansas, sagebrusl in Nevada, lantana in Hawaii, chapar ral and an unlimited miscellany every where. It is the Angora goat, the aristocra of all the tribe, that is doing the work This because of the existence of grea herds maintained for their wool befori the new duties were laid down, ant because there are more profitable by products in these than in other varle ties. These great herds are in the west nai*Hniitarlv In Van' \favinA Thpv nri becoming migratory under the call o their new usefulness. As they g< about seeking what they may devou: they will continue to give up the fleeo that makes such dress goods as mo hair, such commercially valuable ma terlal as the plush that covers thi seats in all railway trains and sucl quaintly amusing articles as the wigi with which the members of the thea trical profession are wont to maki sport.?New York Sun. 'Xif The clock had struck 12 and th< sleepless one counted the strokes am turned on his pillow wearily. As thi last echo died away came the soun< of a voice far down the street?thi voice of some late homegoer, forgetfu that a sleeping world lay about him absorbed only with the joy of his owi thnncrhtj nnnnncnlniw nprhfln? that hi sang at all. Nearer he came; cleai rich, young, vibrant with life rose th< voice; quick, firm steps, forming i rhythmical accompaniment. What th< song was the listener did not know; hi could not distinguish the words, an< the tune, melodious and piercing sweet was strange to him. Perhaps it wa: a sentimental ballad, inspired by i sweetheart to whom the singer jus said farewell: perhaps it was a son* of action, of hope, of anticipation, ex pressive of youth's dreams. The lis tener was not musically gifted am could not interpret. He only knew tha the song, now joyous and high, drop nofl to a minor, nathetic strain and ii its refrain rose again to a lilt of tri umph. He knew, too, that suddenly in some way that he understood not a door was opened that had long beei closed. Old dreams came back, aspir ations of youth, never, alas, filled faces, half forgotten, that had onci made a part of life, came out of thi dark and smiled at him in the old-tirm way; visions once cherished of th< future he had never found swept be fore him as a panorama of a life no his own, yet, as he knew, really of hi; own life outgrown.?Indianapolis Star i PEANUTS. j - The Despised Nut Yields a $12,000,000 Crop. i, The possibilities of the peanut as a t wealth producer seem not to have f been realized until lately. And even } now, notwithstanding an immense in1 crease in the acreage devoted to the f crop, they are being incompletely i utilized so that the department of t agriculture is about to issue a special i. bulletin calling attention to the f chances for making money by raising I b the "goober." ' A very striking feature of the docr ument in question is the showing it - makes of the many new uses to - which peanuts are being put nowab days. They form an important lnr gredient in the vegetarian "meats" 7 which are much more widely consumer ed than most people imagine. Some - of these "meats," by the way, are - made to imitate breaded lamb chops - with sticks of macaroni for bones, i Peanuts are employed largely in the e confectionery trade and enter into the composition of many fancy cakes, r such as macaroons, as substitute for I almonds. Peanut butter (likewise t much affected by the vegetarians) is f manufactured by the ton, and put up i in neat packages is greatly esteemed 1 for automobile lunches. Now that the pesurerous dojj weevil Is ruining the cotton over such wide areas in the south many planters are turning their attention to peanuts as a money crop. Although $12,i 000,000 worth of "goobers" were raised in this country last year the 1 supply is still not nearly equal to the . demand?a condition sufficiently prove ed by the fact that we are Importing f great quantities of peanut oil from B Europe. This, too, although there ! are tens of thousands of acres af waste '.ards in the southern states which are only waiting to be tickled j with a hoe In proper manner In or. der to yield enough peanuts to fur3 nish all the oil we want plus a llberg al supply for export. America gave to mankind the tot bacco plant, the potato and Indian f corn. It seems also, according to botg anists, to have contributed the peae nut, whicii appears to have come i orlginaly from the tropics of the new world. It was introduced into our i own country in early colonial days, i but did not become of commercial t importance until about 1870. Prom . that time on utilization of the nut ) gradually Increased, but during the last ten years it has risen by leaps and i bounds. j Most persons think of peanuts as ] they appear on fruit stands or in the > little wagon of peripatetic venders, j but as a matter of fact they are disj posed of in a great variety of ways t and for many other purposes. i The blanching process is applied j only to the finest grades of peanuts, 3 which after being shelled arr eoasted. It is next requisite to deprive the kerg nels of their thin brown skins, after 3 which the halves are broken apart, 1 the tiny germs are removed by a ma3 chine specially1 constructed for the t purpose, and the peas are put up in 3 attractive packages for market. Peanut meal, made from such blanched s peas, finely ground, is particularly es3 teemed for the manufacture of alt mond macaroons and other small i cakes. With a little experience and the . aid of a small meat grinder anybody 9 can make gpod peanut butter for f home use. As for peanut candy, a 9 very desirable kind can be made by 9 simply boiling shelled peanuts with a i thick syrup consisting of two pounds of granulated sugar and one large 9 cupful of water, together with a teai spoonful of lemon Juice. When the ? syrup begins to boll add two pounds r of unroasted peanuts and cook slowly t until the peas are tender and the syr up sufficiently hard to break when f cold. The cooking process should . continue for about an hour, when the mixture may be poured out on but3 tered platters to cool. The cultivation of peanuts was un3 til recently confined almost wholly to 1 areas In Virginia, Tennessee, the Car olinas and Georgia, but during the ? last ten years has spread throughout the south Atlantic states, and even as " far west as California. Properly i speaking, the fruit Is a pea rather 9 than a nut. The plant, however, has the peculiarity of ripening Its fruit or nut beneath the surface of the soil. When the small yellow blossom fades l and falls the stem that supported it j elongates and thrusts the sharp pointed ovary downward Into the ground, where the pod develops, i Potato digging machines are usu. ally employed nowadays for loosening the peanut vines from the soil when the pods are ripe. Then the vines are placed in small stacks, heaped up t about a central stake to cure. As a rule the picking of the pods Is done .' by women and children, who get about 10 cents a bushel for their s work. An expert picker can handle 1 from eight to twelve bushels a day. Machines, however, are now coming Into use for the purpose. From the fields the peanuts go to the "factory." where they are cleaned and separated Into grades. In ad' dition, the best ones are treated to a polishing process which renders their f appearance more attractive. A modj ern peanut factory Is a building of r four or five stories, supplied with power, lighted with electricity and & provided with elevators and bins for - handling and storing .the uncleaned . nuts. a When the peanuts are received at the factory they are first weighed and 1 then elevated to the top floor of the s building. During the cleaning and . grading process they descend by gravitation through fans and grad8 ers (to classify them according to size,) are agitated in the polishing drums together with a small quantity of marble dust to whiten and polish e them, and finally are passed on slow3 ly moving belts between lines of women. who pick out and remove all refuse and empty pods. 3 The peanut vine or straw from s which the nuts have been removed is j of considerable value for the feeding of live stock. The ash from the shells l? used in the factory as fuel is valuable i as a fertilizer, containing as much as e 3 per cent of phosphoric acid, 9 per. cent of potash and 6 per cent of lime. ' The thin brown envelopes of the peas B have a feeding value almost equal to a that of wheat bran. It is an lnterestB ing fact, by the way, that the famous Smithfield hams and bacon come from hogs that are partially fed on 3 peanuts, the practice being to turn the animals into the peanut fields af? ter the crop has been gathered, allowing them to glean the pods that 1 were lost in harvesting, t The peanut plant, like the bean I and the garden pea. has the power of collecting nitrogen from the atmosphere and storing it in little nodules " upon its roots. For this reason it is I one of the most desirable of soil rel novating and soil improving plants. It is necessary, however, with a view to this end that the main portion of i the root shall be left in the ground. - If this be done the nitrogen accumu , la ted in a season by the means de' scribed will have a fertilizing value of *3 or $4 an acre, i Peanuts give an average yield of 34 - bushels to the acre, but It is believed ; by government experts that the oute put can be increased to SO or even 60 e hushels by selecting superior seed e from season to season. There are ree cords of yields of 160 bushels of small - nodded peanuts to the acre, with two t tons of forage, which latter alone s will pay the cost of production.? \ Washington Post. r~~ h I Do You j | Know I | j Requires 4 i 1 t in | to 6 Years | to build Stioff or 8haw piano, A from the time we place the lum- A T V ber in our lumber yards until f P the piano is finished/ We air- y ., 2 dry all our lumber and that is j-. 7 one reason why our pianos are A . k so thoroughly good. J h. J The Lumber j i P In about two-thirds of the pla- J 9 nos made Is In virgin forests X less than twelve months before A W they are finished ready to sell. V P They are made out of kiln dried y 7 lumber and this is the principal' % N 7 reason they will not stand and X s L are so unsatisfactory after a V p few years. One piano In a life- a ta V time is enough and If that _ 7 piano is a 8TIEFF It will. f WRITE TODAY * ICHAS. M. STIEFF\1 Manufacturer of the p Stieff and Shaw, the Pianos J | J with the Sweet Tone 1 a SOUTHERN WAREROOM. ? hl k 5 w. Trade St. X n ! CHARLOTTE N. C. x 01 ? C. H. WILMOTH, J * Manager. $ pI V Mention this paper. ? ( QUARTERLY D1SBUREM From Official Publication In Rock Hill He Claims paid by the County Commissioners beginning April, 1909, and ending Ju No. 419 Jno. F. Gordon, Supt., salary self and 420 J. L. Duncan, magistrate, salary 1st 421 R. H. Sherer, constable, salary 1st q 422 J. B. Deal, lumber 423 W. A. McKlnney, lumber 424 W. E. Ferguson, tobacco for paupers 425 W. R. Conrad, magistrate, salary 1st 426 R. L. A. Smith, magistrate, salary lsi 427 J. T. Conrad, constable, salary 1st qi 428 S. R. McAUlley, for bridge 429 W. J. P. Wylle, lumber 430 R. E. Montgomery, work for chalngs 431 R. E. Montgomery, work for county 432 Herndon & Gordon, supplies to chal 433 J. J. Keller & Co., county home, 60 roads and bridges, 31.37; jail, 334.30 434 R. C. Jackson, beef for chalngang gu 435 W. T. Wallace, furnishing material i in court house water closet 436 Yorkville Hardware Co., supplies co gang, 36.80; roads and bridges, 338J 437 Piedmont Tel. and Tel. Co., phone county home, March, 34; extra mess 438 S. B. Beamguard, building bridge, 3: 439 Shannon & Hope, supplies paupers 440 R. L. deLoach, magistrate, salary . 441 S. N. Johnson, constable, salary ... 442 D. D. Wilklns. arresting prisoner . 443 L. R. Williams, P. J., one warrant Judge fees, }25; stamps, $1 444 L. W. Louthian, salary as night watt as coroner, March, $20.83; stationery, 446 T. B. Glenn, magistrate, salary 1st qi 446 J. W. Gardner, constable, salary, Is prisoner, $7.16 447 A. J. Qulnn, magistrate, salary 1st qi 448 R. L. Whisonant, constable, salary, $< 449 W. L. Law, Co. Engr., salary and e: 460 John Ross, sanitary dues 451 J. A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis., salary 1st qt 452 A. S. Barron, teams 453 L. H. Castles, chaingang supplies .... 454 Jno. F. Lindsay, chaingang supplies 456 J. T. Crawford, services on township 457 J. J. Hunter, auditor, salary, $44.44 458 W. W. Jenkins, supplies to Confederi 459 E. P. Castles, services on Co. Bd. of 460 Miss Hazel Grist, services, March .. 462 Clem F. Gordon, Supt., salary 1st qi Salisbury on account of roads and ji for freight, $18.76 463 Mrs. W. A. Aycock, supplies chaingt 464 J. M. Lindsay, potatoes for chaingai 465 H. A. D. Neely, Treas., salary, Marc) 466 T. E. McMackln, Supt., incidental ex 467 H. A. D. Neely, Treas., commissions or est on York township bonds 468 H. A. D. Neely, Treas., commissions < on Catawba township bonds. $70; c( in Ebenezer township for Interest on 469 J. L. Sanders, special constable, sals for March 470 J. L. Sanders, special constable, exper 471 T. L. Carothers, medical attention to 472 Hugh G. Brown. S. Y. Co., salary, Ml count, March, $126 473 J. A. Tate, C. C. C. Pis., recording di company to York county 474 T. D. Faulkner & Co., coffin for pai 475 Carroll Bros., supplies to county ho 476 Jackson Bros., supplies to paupers 477 T. E. McMackln, salary, March .... 478 Jackson Bros., supplies to paupers . 479 W. J. Kimball, teams, $3.50; cash p $3.30 480 Dr. Roddey Miller, professional servl 481 W. B. Meacham, office rent and wood 482 J. M. Ferguson, supplies to chainga 483 T. M. Campbell, supplies to paupers 484 D. P. Lesslie Co., for bridges 485 J. F. Wlngate, constable, salary 1st q 486 R. L. Ferguson, lumber and nails . 487 Jno. J. Colthorp, services as constabl 488 Carroll Bros., supplies to chaingang . 489 W. J. Neely, one mule 490 T. E. McMackin, Incidental expenses 491 Neely Bros. & Smith, supplies to chi 492 J. C. Blair, et al., services of self ant equalization boards 493 E. W. Sturgis, horse hire for roads . 494 T. C. Beckham, magistrate, salary 1 495 Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., bala clerk's office 496 Dr. W. G. Stevens, examining lunatii 4 97 John W. McElhaney. magistrate, sala 498 B. W. Miller, professional services .. 499 G. L. Mobley, Supt., Lancaster Co.. Y Bridge across Sugar creek 500 J. H. Duncan, hauling lumber and r 501 G. L. Suggs, lumber for road and b 502 McFadden & Erwln, for chaingang 503 J. Q. Wray, supplies county home .. 504 H. B. McGuirt, building bridge 505 S. H. Love, supplies to paupers 506 T. S. Kirkpatrick, M. D., examining h 507 Rock Hill Hardware Co., road suppl 508 Robt Ashley, contingent 509 W. W. Fennel, M. D., examining two 610 J. D. Smith, lumber for bridges .. 511 The Thomson Company, supplies to i 512 R. T. Fewell & Co.. coal for county i 5lS Louis Roth, supplies to paupers two 514 York Supply Co., supplies to chain 515 Yorkville Grocery Company, supplie 516 J. B. Ford, et al., services rendered . 517 W. R. Carroll, supplies chaingang . 518 Geo. H. O'Leary, chaingang. $42.55; 519 Yorkville B. & Mer. Co.. Jail, $8.75: o per, $2.50_ ....... 520 Yorkvllle B. & Mer. un? supplies m p 521 J. R. Gettys, et al., services renderet 522 T. L. Johnston, et al? services on to\ 523 J. W. Quinn, et al., services on towns 524 Y. B. & Mer. Co., supplies county ho 525 John M. Thomasson, et al., services o 526 W. B. Moore, et al.. services on town 527 A. A. Barron, et al., services on tow 528 S. H. Epps, Si*., et al., services on toi 529 R. R. McCorkle, et al.. services on to' 530 W. W. Bigger, salary as magistrate , 531 A. C. Bigger, salary as constable ... 532 J. B. Stephenson, salary and extra lal 533 J. C. Hudson, 1J days work 534 A. S. Barron, hay 536 Dave Miller, nursing smallpox patien 537 W. M. Kennedy, Agt.. supplies coui home, $4.95 538 R. B. Bigger, supplies to chaingang MAY. 539 L. R. Williams, P. J? 3 warrants for 540 W. V. Jackson, supplies chaingang . 541 Henry Neely. removing painted signs 542 L.. W. Louthian, night watchman, sal April, $20.85 IATURE TELLS YOU I 5' 6' 61 i Many a Yorkville Reader Knowa 61 51 Too Well. 61 51 51 When the kidneys are sick, Nature tells you aJl about It. The urine Is nature's calendar. 51 Infrequent or too frequent action; 61 Any urinary trouble tells of kidney o' 8. Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney 5i Is. 61 Yorkvllle people testify to this. 6i 5 R. J. Mackorell, formerly of Main t., Yorkvllle, S. C., says: "For over a ;ar I suffered from attacks of back- , :he and pains through my kidneys. ? he kidney secretions were unnatural ? id I at last decided to try a reliable j? Idney remedy. Since I began using 2 oan's Kidney Pills I have been feel- ? ig a great deal better. The pains ive disappeared and I have been , ee from that dull feeling. I do not j? ?sltate to recommend Doan's Kidney ? Ills as a reliable remedy." ? 5 6 5 i > For sale by all dealers. Price 50 j> ;nts. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, & ew York, sole agents for the United tates. o Remember the name?DOAN'S?and 5 ike no other. . ? 5 SLENN .& ALLISON. ? 5 5 flowers, Rakes, * 6 Jl a rViitiArTT VJIMVAAAAAV* J % ? O 6 We are headquarters for McCOR- ? ICK MOWERS and RAKES, and we 6 ive a full supply on hand. We sell the INTERNATIONAL ? ASOLINE ENGINE and guarantee 6 to give perfect satisfaction. 6 But if you are In. the market for a team Engine, Saw Mill, Cotton Gin ? r Cotton Press, you had better see us ? ir prices. Our Buggy and Wagon line la com- 6 ete, and will be glad to quote you rices. 6 jrLENN & ALLISON. 6# ? 6 IENTS OF YORK CO. 6 6 raid of July 10. i for York County during the quarter 6 ne 30th,1909. Amount 5 i guards, March 3 151 36 fi quarter 43 75 e uarter .. 43 75 R 129 52 ? 220 95 I 3 00 2 : quarter 43 75 t quarter 50 00 . larter 43 75 R 6 27 I 29 25 ? ing 9 70 g home 4 50 Ingang 20 97 . cents; court house, 61.06 ; pest house, $133.45.... 170 77 6 ards 2 20 g and putting cement floor 9 00 g unty home $9.95; chain66 65 41 J rent sheriff's office and age, 60 cents .......... 4 60 fi 20; hardware, $10.73.... 30 73 R 19 60 g 60 34 g 60 34 g ; 3 36 6 for lunatic, $5; Probate 31 00 g :hman, March, $2; salary 10 cents 22 93 g tarter 50 00 g t quarter, $50; arresting 57 16 g jarter 43 75 ft 13.75; dieting acct., 90c.. 44 65 g cpense acct., March 305 41 . 6 00 2 "irfor 7K A ft . - " K 5 50 ? 90 5 3 25 I board of equalization... 19 20 5 ; stamps, $2.36 46 80 2 ate soldiers 7 50 Education and mileage.. . 4 80 ft 12 50 ! uarter, $250; expenses to ails, $6.60; cash paid out 274 26 X ing 3 06 I ig 2 00 * tl 44 44 penses of office .......... 7 40 !j i taxes collected for inter 115 00 I on collections for interest >mmlsslons on collections township bonds, $15.... 85 00 ary and expense account 91 80 lses in making arrest.... 4 90 chaingang 58 00 arch, $112.60; dieting ac 239 10 eed from Catawba Power 1 25 aper 4 00 me 13 75 6 00 66 66 5 00 aid hands to work roads 6 80 tees 5 00 furnished county auditor 3 00 ng 26 48 3 00 , 7 00 luarter 125 00 18 31 e 1st quarter 56 25 70 22 250 00 of office 3 56 alngang 8 89 1 others on township and 18 20 36 65 1st quarter 125 00 nee due on account for 17 60 I 5 00 iry 1st quarter 1909 66 26 11 50 ork county's part Barber 32 50 epairlng bridge 5 00 ridges 45 58 13 15 46 24 26 00 36 00 anatic 5 00 les 121 85 I 1 vu lunatics 10 00 7 24 chaingang 36 50 ?ngineer's office 90 months 5 00 gang 13 85 s to paupers 12 50 24 00 55 17 county home, $26.15.... 68 70 ounty home, $17.82; pau 29 07 auper 2 50 1 21 30 vnshlp board 28 50 hip board 18 60 me 103 55 n township board 16 60 ship board 21 00 nship board 14 30 .vnship board 27 60 ivnship board 17 60 29 17 29 17 bor, March 71 47 3 75 4 20 t 21 00 nty offices $5.05; county 10 00 1 20 lunatics, $15; stamps $1 16 00 4 30 on bridges 6 00 ary, $2; coroner's salary, 22 85 13 J. C. Hudson, chalngang supplies - 1 76 15 H. A. Quinn, lumber, nails and labor 16 F. H. Moore, for chalngang 2 00 17 Jno. F. Gordon, Supt., salary self and guards, April 16? 00 18 W. T. Toungblood, for chalngang . ' II R. E. Montgomery, for chalngang 27 25 A 50 J. B. Stephenson, salary and extra labor for April 14 II . ^ 51 E. S. Watson, for county home IB 00 52 C. F. Gordon, Supvr., freight on plows, $12.15, cash for stamps $2 14 16 53 J. J. Hunter, auditor, salary, $44.44; stamps, 53 cents ...... 44 17 54 Miss Hazel Grist, services for April, $12.50; stamps $1.60... 14 00 56 W. L. Law, county engineer, salary April 1SS M - ^a 56 R. L. Scogglns, salary as constable 1st quarter 50 00 ^ 57 J. L. Sanders, special constable, salary and expense account for April 94 66 58 T. E. McMackin, Supt. of Education, salary Apr! 1,^1909 16 66 3 9 w lj. wdimuc, uuuuing lence uruunu tuuuiy f?v, lumuvi, $2.75; conveying lunatic to asylum, 12.00 14 76 81 Hugh O. Brown, sheriff, salary April, $112.50; dieting account $89.70 202 20 82 S. H. McManus, supplies to paupers 11 00 83 T. B. Qoforth, supplies to chalngang 2 05 84 Hazel Mobley, 2 hogs for chalngang 14 00 85 T. L. Johnston, one hog and two pigs for chalngang 13 89 66 J. F. Bailey, repairing stove flue at stockade 25 43 67 H. A. D. Neely, Trees., court expenses, April term 10 00 68 Withers Adickes Co., supplies to paupers, $8; court house $2.. 10 00 69 Jno. F. Gordon, Supt.. salary, self and guards. May, $160; clothes for convict, $6 166 00 71 L. R. Williams, P. J., warrants for lunatics, $20; stamps $3.60 83 50 _ 70 T. E. McMackin, Supt., salary, May 66 66 * 72 E. A. Dickson, expenses of conveying lunatic to asylum 10 25 73 H. A. D. Neely estate, salary as treasurer, April, 1909 - 44 44 74 John I. Barron, M. D., professional services 86 00 75 Piedmont Tel. & Tel. Co., phone rent sheriffs office, $2; county home, $2; extra messages, $1.80 6 80 76 W. W. Castles, supplies to paupers 40 50 77 W. W. Castles, supplies to paupers 88 00 1 78 T. L. Lumpkin, wood furnished to chalngang 3 00 79 R. E. Montgomery, work for county home 7 65 80 City Market, Rock H.ll, meat for chalngang guards - 18 66 81 Rock Hill Supply Co., supplies chalngang 64 40 82 Hope Wallace, ditching at county home 16 78 84 Rock Hill Supply Co., supplies to ch&ingang 74 01 85 The Torkvllle Hardware Co., supplies county home, $5.20; roads, $5; Jail, ?5 cents 11 06 86 J. E. Jackson, expenses of conveying lunatic to asylum 9 68 87 S. H. McManus, supplies to paupers - 2 50 88 L Q. Grist, supplies to paupers 15 00 89 The London Prlntery, supplies county commissioners office .. 92 08 90 Rawls Plumbing Co., court house sewerage 75 07 91 J. C. Hudson, work for chaingang 6 26 92 The London Prlntery, supplies to county commissioner's office 80 68 93 The Catawba Real Estate Co., office rent for county engineer, March and April 0 60 94 J. D. Blanks, supplies chaingang .*. 28 10 95 V. B. McFadden. meat for chaingang guards 10 06 96 J. L. Sanders, special constable, salary and expense account for May 100 90 97 J. S. Wllkereon & Co., supplies to paupers, $57.05; Whiteside Bros., $3; J. N. McDlll, $12.60 78 16 98 J. B. Stephenson, salary and extra.labor. May 90 84 99 W. J. Miller, supplies chaingang 6 IS 00 G. W. Sherer, supplies to paupers 2 60 01 The London Prlntery, supplies to county engineer 6 90 ? 02 B. R. T. Bowen, damage to horse. In full settlement by way of f compromise ?... 76 00 03 J. M. Ferguson, supplies to county home ....*. 49 70 05 W. L. Brown, oil for chaingang .... 76 06 W. L. Law, Co. engineer, salary and expense account for May 1909 222 91 07 The Record, public printing 10 25 08 Lad J. Lumpkin, salary 100 00 |l 10 W. B. Wilson, Jr., county attorney, salary 60 00 11 R. H. Jennings, state treasurer, Insurance on Jail, $70; court house, $30; 9 pauper houses, $10.30 110 20 12 J. B. Stephenson, Llzxie Meek for nursing at county home, $8; Ed Dillingham, S1.25 9 26 13 Hugh G. Brown, S. T. C., salary, May, $112.50; dieting account $34.50 147 00 14 Hazel Grist, salary May, $iz.bu; extra wont in commissioner s office, $1 - 12 so IB W. A. Aycock, salary - 75 0# ^ 16 The Star Drug Store, supplies to paupers, $10.10; county home, 3 $4.40; jail, $4.75; contingent, $2.95 SS SO 17 J. J. Keller & Co., supplies roads, $4.20; county home, $$.$$; jail, $81.28; contingent, $40.95 . .^ - 79 70 18 G. W. Sherer, supplies to paupers $ 00 19 W. B. Stroup A Bro., supplies to paupers 7 r < 20 R. T. Fewell & Co., road supplies .. 65 12 . 21 Jchn Ross, sanitary dues 1" 'to 22 H. O. Jones, supplies to paupers . ' *: 110 23 McFadden A Erwln. chalngang supplies 1$ 70 24 W. V. Jackson, supplies to chalngang 11 90 . 25 W. B. Stroup, supplies to paupers 9 00 26 John R. Hart Atty., professional services 7 60 27 McGlll Bros., supplies to paupers - ^ 29 Tork Furniture Co., coffin for pauper 1,1 30 Rawls Plumbing Co., Installing sewerage at court house .... 200 00 31 John. S. Sandifer, work In treasurer's office 2 82 M. B. Massey A Son, supplies to paupers 38 00 33 E. P. Castles, services on board of education 4 S" 34 J. J. Hunter, auditor, salary, $44.44; stamps, 76 cents ^ iy 35 Carroll Bros., supplies to Co. home, $45.64; chalngang, $24.62 to 26 36 Walker, Evans A Cogswell Co., supplies county officers vj o > 37 J. G. Barnwell, Supt, lights for court house, Mch. and Apr.. 10 86 ^ 38 Mills A Toung, supplies to chalngang ' i " 39 Greenwood Handkerchief Co., supplies chalngang 56 60 40 J. M. Plexico, supplies to paupers 13 00 41 Victor Cotton Oil Co., county home supplies 13 0? 42 W. L. Hill, for bridges n 10 46 43 Fort Mill Times, public printing .' ' oo 44 Good Roads Machinery Co.. supplies chalngang 306 $0 46 J. E. Oates, wood for chalngang . 27 00 x ^ 47 W. G. Reld A Son, supplies chalngang 44 60 48 A. S. Barron, team 1 49 Cureton A Cureton, work for chalngang 3 80 60 L. W. Louthlan, salary as coroner, May, $20.83, salary as night watchman, $2; stationery, 36 cents If It 62 R. T. Fewell & Co., coal for county engineer's office 90 63 I. J. Campbell, examining lunatic .. 6 00 66 Clem F. Cordon, supervisor, cash paid out for Incidentals .... 8 17 * 66 J. W. Scogglns, repairing bridge .. 10 00 * 67 Manufacturer's Publishing Co., advertising 6 00 68 Mills & Toung, supplies to paupers 0 60 69 H. S. Diehl, work for chalngang 49 70 60 Syleecau Mfg. Co., work for chalngang 28 29 62 Yorkvllle B. & M. Co., supplies to county home 88 99 63 J. J. Keller A Co.. services rendered chalngang 33 86 V 64 Yorkvllle B. & Mer. Co., chalngang supplies 18 86 ^ 66 Yorkvllle B. & Mer. Co., jail supplies 49 96 66 S. H. McManus, supplies to paupers 8 00 67 Heath A Bailey, chalngang 4 76 68 J. F. Carroll, lumber for county home * il 69 Stewart Bros., chalngang supplies 7 60 70 Louis Roth, furnishing meals to jury, $20; supplies to paupers $2.60 * I 22 60 71 Rock Hill Herald, public printing 20 60 72 Jos. F. Wallace, services rendered .. 26 00 73 B. N. Moore, coal for court house 4 96 76 Tom Hill, dieting for county home 60 08 77 J. M. Russell, hay for chalngang 222 10 78 C. F. Gordon, Supvr., cash paid out for freight on part of rock crusher 79 96 79 J. Q. Wray, supplies to county home 14 26 80 Tom Hill, burying Love Robinson, negro who was hanged.... 1 60 81 John Ross, sanitary dues 2 00 j 82 Spencers & Dunlap, professional services 20 00 | 83 B. W. Creed, wakes screens 2 00 84 The Smith-Fewell Co., supplies chalngang 618 99 FORT MILL TOWNSHIP. 1 J. J. Bailes, lumber 16 76 2 S. H. Epps, two days work as overseer, $4; one day hauling $2; team, 60 cents 6 60 V 3 C. P. Blankenship, 5 days In getting up list of road hands, SIR: two davs buvlntr lumber and lnsDectlng roads and bridges, >7.50 ... .7. 7... .. .. 22 60 4 Mills & Toung, repairs 1 60 5 Edgar Jones, lumber for bridge 6 20 6 S. P. Wilson, labor and hauling on roads 20 85 ^ KING'S 3IOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP. 1 J. M. Pursley, one day as township supervisor 3 00 2 J. Meek Pursley, township supervisor, five days' work in getting up road hands ... 16 00 YORK TOWNSHIP. 2 J. E. Burns, repairing road 3 60 ^ 3 R. E. Guinn, repairing Sutton Springs road 7 00 * 4 J. D. Clark, work on public roads - 19 10 5 T. Cleve Dunlab. repairing bridge on Chester road 1 00 6 H. R. Merrltt, teams, and hands to v. ork road 28 60 7 W. S. Peters, 5 days work on road 12 37 8 A. L. Black, 6 days service, and cash paid hands 21 50 9 J. E. Burns, work on road * 8 50 BROAD RIVER TOWNSHIP. 1 W. S. Wilkerson, services as township supervisor ...? 13 60 2 J. Mason McGlll, lumber, work and nails for roads and bridges 6 92 3 J. J. J. Robinson, lumber, work and nails for bridges 4 60 4 J. T. Ramsey, repairing bridge on Shelby road, >2; delivering road machine, 50 cents 2 50 5 Hazel Grist, making list of persons liable for poll tax 3 50 EBENEZER TOWNSHIP. 1 J. E. Farls, repairing bridge ... 6 25 2 R. H. Gardner, repairing bridge 5 00 3 J. E. Faris, repairing bridge ... 7 66 4 R. H. Gardner, repairing bridge 5 00 ^ 5 J. E. Faris, work on roads 3 50 6 Robt. Jameson, repairing bridge over Allison creek 2 00 7 W. J. Neely, hauling stone - 8 75 BETHESDA TOWN8HIP. 1 W. J. P. Wylle, lumber for public road ... 3 76 2 W. J. Neely, teams furnished to haul rock 8 75 3 J. C. Hudson, work on public bridges - 8 75 T 4 J. F. Lindsay, lumber for McConnellsville and Philadelphia road 5 00 5 Tom Thomasson, work on bridge > *. 1 50 6 Hazel Grist, making poll list - 3 60 7 J. C. Hudson, work on bridge 4 75 COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE FIND. 1 J. L. Brandon, lumber 118 35 2 R. H. Hawkins, lumber 80 00 3 H. B. McGulrt, building bridge 200 00 J 4 T. Cleve Dunlap, lumber 36 64 * 5 F. S. Love, lumber and expense of unloading and stacking same 225 04 CATAWBA TOWNSHIP. 1 W. J. Neely, hauling lumber for bridge 5 50 2 J. C. Hudson, work on bridge 3 50 3 Plexico Bros., lumber 49 20 j 4 R. P. Sullivan, building bridge 12 60 5 J. F. Shlllinglaw, fixing bridge ... 1 00 6 Cal. Workman, fixing bridge - 15 00 7 W. J. Neely, wagon for 1-2 day 1 75 8 J. A. Williford, gravel 14 00 bethel township. 1 J. M. Craig, lumber .. 6 44 2 R. J. Davis, lumber IS 14 . 3 R. J. Davis, lumber ... 18 36 4 Hazel Grist, making poll list S 50 bullock's creek township. 1 W. T. Smarr, services as township supervisor 18 00 2 M. W. Hafner, work and lumber *.? 18 90 3 W. E. Sman, labor on public roads . 2 95 ^ 4 G. B. Berry, lumber for road .. 11 20 5 S. V. Aycock, hauling rock and work on road 3 00 6 M. W. Hafner, work, lumber and nails 16 70 7 John M. Feemster, work on pubic road 5 10 8 W. T. Smarr, 3 days work on public road jjO q w?7pl Grist, making poll list . 3 60 9 Hazei ur CLEM F. GORDON, Superviaor. ' % Hazel Grist, Clerk of Board.