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tumorous Department. A Tragedy of Whiskers. Simeon Ford said the other day, apropos of whiskers: "J have shaved oft my whiskers and it makes me 'ook younger. People now eye me more appreciatively than they used to do. I, unlike poor Tom Angus, have gained by this facial change. "Tom Angus was an architect of Tombstone. When they expected Mrs. Langtry in Tombstone, Tom was appointed to decorate the railway station and the streets. He did so, and he made a good job of it. and after the mayor had congratulated him, he said: " 'Well, Mr. Mayor, since you like my work, Introduce me to Mrs. Langtry at the banquet, will you?' " "Sure I will,' said me mayor; uui you must knock that spinach off your chin first. Mrs. Langtry is a lady and she could never stand for a rusty alfalfa field like yours.' " But,' stammered Tom, 'but, Mr. Mayor, the king'? " 'Cut down the alfalfa crop,' the mayor interrupted, 'and I'll introduce you. Vice versa,' he added very decidedly. "So Tom removed his rich whiskers, and that night among the banqueters his white, nude chin was a conspicuous object. "But the mayor didn't introduce him to the beautiful Mrs. Langtry after all. Between every course and all through the speeches Tom kept winking and nodding to his honor, but it was to no purpose. He didn't get introduced. "And the next day, after Mrs. Langtry was gone, the mayor, when Tom reproached him, gave a loud laugh. " 'Was that you, 'he roared, 'nodding and winking all last night? By Jove, I didn't recognize you, Tom, without your whiskers!'"?Philadelphia Record. Thwarting the Devil.?At the banquet of Pittsburg Lodge No. 11, B. P. O. E., on Thursday night, R. W. Irwin, past exalted ruler of Washington (Pa.) lodge, told a story in illustration of the necessity for charity (meaning brotherly love) among even some ministers of the Gospel. He said that two pastors or rival denominations were discussing the merits of their different methods of preaching. Brother A always wrote his sermons and read from his manuscript. Brother B boasted that he always preached extemporaneously. Each insisted that his method was the better. Finally Brother B said: "Don't you know that when you write your sermons the devil looks over your shoulder, reads what you write and then goes among the congregation and puts thoughts in their minds that counteract your doctrines? When you read the sermons the devil already has an * J 1 ?V? inrln Af VAIir swers irameu in uic uuuus vi hearers. The consequence is the seed falls on stony ground. Now, "when I get up in the pulpit to speak not even the devil himself knows what I am going to say."?Pittsburg ChronicleTelegraph. A Gold Mine.?Sir Thomas Lipton has a keen sense of humor, and tells a good story about a Scotchman who went to a horse race for the first time in his life. I ought to say that he told it to a company of guests on the Shamrock III. one evening when he was lamenting the long odds against his ever winning the America's cup because of the hard rules imposed. "Well," said Sir Thomas, "this Scotchman was a feeble-minded old man, and his conpanions who took him to the race meeting presently persuaded him to stake a sixpence in the third race on a 40 to 1 shot. "By some amazing miracle this outsider won. "When the bookmaker gave old San ay a go aen sovereign anu mo aiApc?iv.c, the winner could not believe his eyes. " 'Do you mean to tell me,' he said, 'that I get all this for my saxpence?' " 'You do, said the bookmaker. "'Ma conscience!" muttered Sandy. "Tell me, mon, how long has this thing been going on?'"?Tit-Bits. There Was a Reason.?When a negro was arrested the other day for wandering around the streets, he wore one of those invincible smiles. When he was taken before Magistrate Briggs he was still smiling. "What's your name?" asked the magistrate. "Ah don't know, sah," smiled the negro. "Where do you live?" "Ah don't know, sah." "Where do you work?" "At the Tern Hotel, sah." The magistrate thought that perhaps there was some truth in the negro's place of employment, so he thought he would see if the negro knew any of the students in the college near this particular hoteL "Do you know any of the students at Tern college?" "No, sah," answered the negro, his smile bigger than ever. "Ah nebber goes in de bar!"?Philadelphia Times. An Acute Sense of Taste.?William and Lawrence were in the habit of saving a part of their dessert from the evening dinner for consumption the next morning, and in accordance with mis custom nvo small waives uau urru placed in the cracker Jar for them. William being the first up on the following morning and being hungry, went to the Jar. He found only one cake, and a large piece had been bitten out of that. Full of wrath, he went upstairs and roused his brother. "Say!" he demanded. "I want to know who took that big bite out of my cake!" "I did," sleepily answered Lawrence. "What'd you do that for?" "Well, when I tasted it I found It was your cake and so I ate the other one."?Youth's Companion. Glad to See Him.?A Hoston father the past summer sent his boy Reginald and his three sisters to visit a relative in Maine. Though it was understood the visit was to consume three weeks, their stay lengthened to two months. "Well," asked the father, upon the return of his offspring, "was your Uncle William glad to see you?" "Was he?" reiterated the boy, as though surprised by the query. "Why, dad. he asked me why we didn't bring you. mother, the cook, the maid and the dog!"?Harper's Magazine. Mixad.? Little Johnny attended church and heard a spirited political sermon. At dinner the same day after one of his unusual quiet spells ho exclaimed. "Pa, what are we, anyway; Republicans or Presbyterians?" iHistritanrous grading. OFFICERS WHO MEANT BUSINESS ,ni yo When They Went After Outlaws They mc yo Got Them. bu There was no task calling for more t'u courage and grit, says a writer in the New York Herald, than to go after ^y and get a "bad man" in the early co' Kansas days. The sheriffs of those ua days were chosen for their ability to an make the law respected. In fact, the ^rc whole tenor of frontier civilization was the dignifying of the law. That is the i philosophy of progress. 'on Most of these sheriffs were quiet men, who went about their duties in to* an earnest and silent way; who de- wo termined upon a line of action and pro- ^U! ceeded without hesitation to carry it out. 1 There was no fuss or feathers, no press or agent work. It was simply business, ter nuinifiv fnithfnllv and bravely. And the best of these stories are wa usually hidden away. The principal ^ actors in them won't tell the stories. They are just as silent about those ey( things after the occurrence as before. ^ A Marlon county old timer told a th fine story of how Samuel T. Howe, er now chairman of the state tax commls- a"' sion, while sheriff of Marion county, tn went after and got a "bad man" and at brought him home. He had to go into c?l the Ozark fastnesses of Missouri, but * he got him. Mr. Howe is a very quiet, studious ^a( man who works hard all week on the problems of the tax commission, one of sa' the state's most important offices, and finds his recreation and pleasure in ' books of philosophy and history. Many men "skim" those subjects, but Samuel w" Howe has broken through the several cul stratas of that study and has become a student Instead of a mere reader. And you who have tried it know there Is a difference. Ep Told To "Get Him." This incident occurred back in 1874, ^ Just at the close of Howe's first term glv as sheriff of Marion county. There bul was a charge of horse stealing against to a man named Wilson Dodson, and for Dodson was at large. sor "Get him," said the court. ma Mr. Howe quietly got busy and cor found that Dodson had gone DacK to uy his home In the Missouri Ozarks. Gov- W1 ernor Osborne obtained a requisition to from Governor Woodson of Missouri, iso for Dodson. Howe had been elected poi for a second term, but had not yet filed tloi his bond. The county commissioners ma told him to look after the bond when the he got back. clei Howe went to Jefferson City to get ant a warrant from the governor's office cia for his man, who was in Wright coun- ble ty. He got off the train at Marshfield noi and the deputy sheriff of Webster of . county drove him to Wright county. It Foi was a long drive of twenty-five miles of over into the Ozark mountains. At of Hartville, in Wright county, Howe kin hunted up the sheriff and told him his anc mission. ne\ "You will probably find Dodson at 1 his grandfather's, a mile and a half out in i in the country." said ?the sheriff of cotJ Wright county. "If not there, you will "G< locate him at his father's, about four a > miles out. Dodson is a bad man and spl you had better take a posse with you." spe Eight Men In Posse. soli So eight men were gathered up into the a posse and they started for the wh grandfather's house. But their man vei was not there, and they went on out 'o11 to the father's farm. When about a 'on quarter of a mile from the house they 0111 hitched their horses and crept up to ast the place and surrounded it, four men tt" at the back and four at the front. wa Howe knocked on the door. "Who's there?" asked Dodson's father. ^ He was told and also that the posse wanted Wilson Dodson to be taken *lt'8 back to Marion county, Kan., on the *>01 charge of horse stealing. rea "Get out of the way, dad," shouted fac Wilson Dodson. "Duck for cover. m'r They won't take me alive." * A big blacksmith was in the posse, Al and as soon as he heard the reply he *'ni smashed his shoulder against th<* door. By repeating that kind of a louge he knocked the door off its lock and one hinge and it broke about half way open. P(* Instantly a bunch of shots came out ^ of the house. Wilson Dodson had in- *? ! trenched himself behind a trundle bed, ^er close to the back door. He was armed col) with two revolvers and two rifles, all fully loaded. Cl One member of the posse staggered and retreated, the blood streaming fiCt from his face. The other three at the ^at front of the house started for the door, not pouring in their bullets. Taken From the Rear. ^ From the rear of the house came a qut crash, as the other four members smashed down the back door with a small log, transformed into a battering ram. The door toppled over on Wilson Dodson and smashed him J 1 against the trundle bed. ^ By that time Howe and the two men pu with him were inside the house and had thrown themselves upon the outlaw. ? * Fai He had emptied both revolvers and ^ was Just getting his ritles into action. On Dodson's father and sisters were screaming and yelling from their hiding places. The old man was on his j a knees praying. The outlaw was tied 3 and taken out of the house. Lip The posse went out to look for the , wounded man. He had a bullet under Th< his eye and was seriously wounded. The posse hurried the prisoner and j J wounded man back to Hartville. Howe sat up all night with the man who was Injured. O" At daybreak the sheriff came to . Howe and said: "Better get your man j , out of here at once. The farmers aro comin in. They have heard about the ' member of the posse being shot and * ^ they may lynch Dodson." On Howe was offered an escort for his twenty-nve nine trip in weosuT county. where he would take the train, but j s declined. Seated in a spring wagon. > with a deputy sheriff and a driver, he I 11 took his prisoner back. Howe and ^ Dodson were on the rear seat. Hodson's right leg was shackled to Howe's I left, and their arms were fastened to- * ^ gether in the same way. Rescue Party Seen. In Howe noticed that the prisoner, the driver and the deputy sheriff kept scanning the woods closely along the route. The road was lined with forests of _ ' blackjack and young oak. and they were evidently looking for ambush or a lynching party. The driver glanced back frequently, ' and suddenly asked, "Who are those jn men coming behind us?" Howe and prisoner turned about and 1 saw half a dozen men on horseback. The driver did not know him. "Who are they?" Howe asked of the prisoner, watching him closely. ' "Well," said the prisoner, "that front white horse looks like my grandfather's rse, ami maybe my father is riding n." Howe studied the prisoner for a few nutes, and then said quietly: "Now u motion those fellows baek. If they ike any attempt to take and free u we are both going to be killed, t you are going to die first." Howe ickly took out his revolver. The prisoner then had a turn to stuHowe. He scrutinized the Marion jnty sheriffs face, then turned half ,y around and, lifting his manacled ti motioned backward toward the nip. Obeyed the Sign. \nd they fell back. They kept a ig distance behind, but reappeared rulariy. Finally they were lost alrether. Howe decided that they uld turn up ahead, possibly, and amsh the party. But he said nothing. iVhen the party got within five miles so of Hartville he saw about a quarof a mile ahead of them the party lch had previously been behind, iting ahead. The prisoner was watching Howe, t the latter never made a move. His ;s were glued on the party ahead. The friends of the prisoner watched oncoming wagon. But the prisonsat still, and the paity moved on ?ad and disappeared again before >y got to Hartville. Howe immedl>ly put his prisoner in the Webster inty Jail. ^s he was coming away from the Jail heard that a writ of habeas corpus 3 been sued out. But I've got twenty-four hours," d the sheriff of Webster county, "in ich to serve it." iowe took the hint, and in twentyir hours he was well into Oklahoma Lh his nrisoner, going out by the cirtous route to St. Louis. ANONYMOJS VOICES. igrammatic Sayings Worth Remembering. tn anonymous voice will at all times e a national trait in a sentence. Who t a Spartan mother would have said her boy, on giving him his shield the battle, "Return with it, my i, or upon it! Or who but a Ron father would have met his lad's nplaint of the shortness of his sword the advice to "add a step to it?" len the Judges whom Cromwell sent Scotland were thanked (with a maln) as "a wheen kinless loons," a fair nt of difference between the two nans was struck out, the Scot always) king more of hip kith and kin than Englishman?a fine trait if kept) ar of injustice and corruption. At )ther time a grade or phase of so1 life will be hit off. The intractaness of the sons of kings was anmced once for all by the old lady Inverness who had been during "the rty-five" the unwilling hostess first Prince Charlie and then of the duke Cumberland: "I have had two gs' bairns living wi' me in my time, 1, to tell you the truth, I wish I may rer hae anither." 'he voice of "old nobility," is heard the assured conclusion of the French irt lady of pre-Revolutionary days, )d will think twice before damning voman of my quality;" just as the endid freemasonry of the poor iaks In the reply of the Prussian dier upbraided for helping to get in crops of a French peasant upon om he was quartered, "War is all y well for the swells, but we poor k must help one another;" or as g dwelling in "lone poverty's dolion drear" stands confessed in the onished utterance of the poor womwho on her first view of the sea s "glad to find something at last .t there was plenty of." "he best side of Quakerism is shown the shrewd Quakeress who, after iring Southey relate how he studied rtuguese grammar while shaving, d Spanish for an hour before breakt, then wrote or studied until din', and filled his day with this, | t and the other, quietly asked, id, friend, when dost thee find le to think'.'" while us iauuy e is declared in the saying the lady who, hearing Jerusalem iken of, exclaimed: "Jerusalem! usalem! It has not yet been revealto me that there is such a place!" Vordsworth's servant, when asked show a visitor tne poet's study, gave master in a word by saying she lid show where he kept his books, his study was out of doors, lange kings with us, and we will it you again!" shouted an Irish of r to his English antagonists at the tie of the Boyne, and in so saying only uttered the heart's wish of oldier for a brave and skillful coinnder, but also stated in briefest form difference between the martial ilities of James II. and William of inge.?London Spectator. TRUTH. im truth that thunders from the deep )f eternal days that are, lsing through the universe with sweep dore majestic than a star, ring like a nameless thing of might rhrough a fiery heaven sublime, ward with the echoing footsteps light )f undeviating time! m great, and there is none beside; dine is eminent domain; is of me have never scoffed nor lied. Jght of me shall never wane, augh I sink to depths of murk and gloom [n the squalid haunts of men, hall make the arid midnight bloom Vith my dawn, and rise again. re my name was Christ, and I became Sold to lift the nations higher: ivas stricken through with thorn and shame: arose from ruin's pyre, ny names of God and men I bear: fhey shall pass, but L endure, my swift and strenuous way T fare: am strong; my wings are sure. hall bind the nation to my task, sever one shall say me nay. lave but to look and voiceless ask. len behold me and obey. things merge into my magnet will? >\'i! ami nowcr, sireum ami sione. m absolute to spare and kill. To accurse or to condone. my hands I hold the shafts of fate. de the worlds approve and dread, the suns and stars my word await; U1 the seas by me are fed. t an atom of the infinite tides from me or may escape ulding by my slow hut sovereign might nto its predestined shape. my plan all things have equal place? Sven the firefly and the star, ithers; nothing little is or base, Nothing mean, a-near or far. >rk of mine shall make the grass leaf brute, tnd the brute the man shall be. il the man the god in later fruit? knd the gods abide in me. ?Robert Love. SIGNS LOST A GOLD MINE. t One Prospector Who No Longer Be- a lives In Them. r n Whenever anyone tells me he believes In signs It's ofT; I'll quit him S on the spot, and so will you when I tell you the deal that I got from a r partner that I used to have, says a ? writer In the Butto Miner. It was about the year 1802 that my partner Charlie and I went out prospecting. We proceeded along the main divide of the Rockies with a ^ "ouple of pack horses and a good ^ supply of grub and tools. The first sign that Charlie pointed out to me was the new moon. The lower point of it was slightly tilted, and Charlie said that it was a dry mnnn Hp sjilrl thp nolnt is iin sr? that you could hand a powder horn 8 on It. Now, if the point was down, so that you could pour water out of it, then it would be a wet moon, and we would have wet weather. Well, ^ we did have dry weather for two days, and then we had rain for about two weeks. It finally cleared, and then Charlie got another sign. It was just about bedtime one night when we heard an owl hoot. "Do you know what that is a sign of?" asked Charlie. "Of course, I do," said I, "it'.? a ( sign that there's an owl around.'' c "Well," he said, "I see you don't ^ know anything about signs. That is a sure sign that we will have dry ... R weather. u "Sure," I replied, "didn't we have dry weather ever since we had the ( dry moon, except for the last two ' . ... h weeks? "Oh, well, the point of the moon j ,wasn't up very well that time, but ^ the owl hooting is a sure sign of dry weather," was my . partner's rejoinder. ^ wen, we Kepi prospecting. some- p times we had dry weather and sometimes It rained. The owl didn't seem to have much of a line on the weath- t er, but Charlie would see signs of u good or bad weather and signs of w good and bad luck almost every day. d One day we were fishing in a small i< lake, and we had more trout than we f< could eat, but it was hard to stop when they were biting good. A wind b took Charlie's hat sailing out on the lake, and he started to throw rocks y at it. I told him to get a pole, but w he said that he was throwing the ci rocks just the other side of it so that Ii the waves would work It into shore, a He kept throwing until at last he p threw a rock right into the hat, and y it went out of sight. That is the it last we saw of the hat. To lose your fl hat meant a year of bad luck, said b Charlie, who stated further that he tl had a mind to quit right there and go back to Butte. a I told him that we had better pack tl up tomorrow and go over to another tl range or mountains inai we couia see from where we were. "All right," n he said, "but I wouldn't prospect around here for anything." So we pulled the next day. We 1 went down the mountain, and in I crossing the valley we came on to a ranch. It was just at the mouth of . a gulch. The rancher had just come home from the timber with a load of poles and was unhitching his team when we arrived. He told us to turn jj our horses into the pasture and stay ^ all night. That looked good to us, n as we were getting pretty tired of bacon and beans, so we unpacked our n horses and turned them out in the e pasture, and then we lelped the k rancher to unload the poles. Then n n we sat down and had a talk with the j, rancher, who told us that his name was Foster and that he and his old woman had come out from Missouri F tho year before. ** "Well, he said, I'll go and see If t] Lize has got supper ready." We k started to make camp, but Foster n told us that we could make our bed J,1 in the house, as they had an empty (] room. d When we came to the house Mrs. E rosier asiieu i^name wnere nis nai p was. He told her how he had lost It. ti "I'll give you one;" she said, and she 1 went into another room and returned K with a hat which she gave to Charlie. Charlie was tickled with the new hat, and he had almost forgotten the fall ci into the lake. IS After supper Mrs. Foster told us S that the hat had belonged to her brother-in-law, and that he had drop- ti ped dead with it on about two years . before. Charlie removed the hat at once and gave it a suspicious look. "Oh," said Mrs. Foster, "the hat is all right. He didn't have any disease; he died of heart failure." But Charlie never put the hat on again; he always carried it in his hand after that. Foster asked us if we would show him how to pan for gold, and his wife tnlrl 11? thnt hncl n flrpnm night before that there was gold on the ranch, and that she believed in dreams. Charlie asked Foster if he knew anything about signs. "Well, no I don't," he said. "But 1 have got a brother In St. Louis that is a sign painter." "Oh, no," said Mrs. Foster, "he means if you believe in signs. "I do," she said "and I tell you that dreams ain't for nothing. I dreamed once that I fell off the porch back in Missouri, and the next day I fell off just as I dreamed it, and I believe that we have got gold on the ranch and that we will find it tomorrow," "Well," said Foster, "I go a whole lot 011 what she says, and if you boys will show me how to pan. tomorrow we'll see if there is any gold here, I always thought there was from the time that we came here, but I didn't know how to find out." Charlie got the gold pan and show* ed it to them. Mrs. Foster wondered how much gold it would hold, and it was easy to see that they didn't know mueh about gold. I guess that they expected to get it full. The next morning we got up to a good ham and egg breakfast. Mrs. Foster told us that she hail dreamed about gold again so that she was sure that we would find lots of it: so after breakfast we went to the creek and panned several pans of gravel. Then Foster tried it. We had to give him the idea of getting the gold to the bottom of the pan, but there was no gold. Mrs. Foster looked disappointed. Hut 1 told her that the gold was always on or near bedrock. Well, said Foster, if you will wait I will try to dig to bedrock, so we went up the creek further to where we thought that we could strike bedrock easier. Charlie put his hat on a bowlder that Foster commenced to dig. As Foster dug we would try a pan of dirt. At hist we got a few colors of gold. Then Foster tried it. and he got a few colors: then he went after his wife, and she came on a run. "Didn't I tell you that I dreamed F hat there was gold, and my dreams ilways come true," shouted the wonan. Poster and his wife were glad, rhey started to tell us that they were joing to get some of their relatives iut from Missouri and work the whole anch. Thtiy had the gold fever good ,nd strong. "Now," said Mrs. Foster, that we have struck it, come to the louse, because dinner is nearly eady." She started on ahead, and 'harlie commenced looking for his lat, and when he found it. it was lattened out like a pancake. Mrs. Foster had sat on it. Well, we had a good chicken dinler, and Foster wanted us to stay I intil the next day so, that he could I earn more about placer mining. Af- I er dinner I told him that there was T IUHa cr^l/1 in Atrom. m llnVi K?1 f I . Hint" 6UIU ill iiiiioi cicij rsuil.ll, uui V hat he would have to do more work L o And out if it was rich enough to I rork. L We climbed the other range and P ound some good ledges, and after a I ew days we struck a good ledge that 1 ooked like gold rock. We pounded L ip some of the ore and panned It and P re got a pretty good prospect. So L :e commenced to sink a shaft on it. I )nce in a while we would pound up L ome of the ore, and it kept getting P letter all thp time. We had a good I hing and wo knew it. Rut Charlie I :ot up against it again real hard. I Ve were sitting around the campflre me evening talking about starting L tunnel. Charlie had hung his hat P p on a limb of a tree under which L ,-e were sitting, and while we were I alklng a little puff of wind blew the L iat squarely on Charlie's head. He P umped up, tore the hat off and threw k. t into the fire. He was as pale as a I heet. "That settles it." he declared. "I m going to Butte tomorrow. I /on't do another tap on the prosiect." "You're bughouse," says I. "No.V rcvplied he. "Didn't you see hat coyote cross the trail ahead of s this morning when we went to ;ork? That was a bad one, but that ead man's hat falling on my head s a sign of the damned. No more or me." I couldn't work it alone, so we oth went back to Butte*. We hadn't recorded the prospect et, and I made up my mind that I *ould go out the next year and loate it myself, but I drifted over to daho that winter and I stayed there couple of years. I still had the rospect in mind, 'and about three ears after I went out there to take : up and found a hoist and about fty men working. They were also ullding a mill down the hill from ~ oe mine. "II Charlie is married now and has got 1 couple of kids. He's working at he Speck now and I am working at le Saint. Signs! Nothing doing, no. never: ot for me. y . . . 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KELLER & CO i lawls Plumbing: Co. ? ~ F Y Y dlllCU At once two or three Plumbing Jobs ^ >r people who want High Grade, San- c ary Plumbing and Prompt Service. p We advertised a couple of weeks ago >r two or three jobs and we got them rid hav? completed the work and ev- ybody is happy. We are now ready for two or three ^ s lore jobs. Let us know when you are il ii ?ady. s RAWLS PLUMBING COMPANY. le Great Ar 40 OR BY EMERSO is the big, glowinj voman who shape hor, have made the maps of the v, le silken trail, won by a woman's this heroine?palpably feminine, i her adorable person and her stra: ?ndid ideals of democracy, until a' :ation of fire and force, of fascinati : scenes at Washington, in 54-40 1 world's diplomacy as the contendir of her satin slipper depends the fc ler ardent fancy. Washington, and again in the mid: he is the center of an absorbing ir lame are always the eager figures t large on the pages of our historynch an American, knowing how tc ?icrht ,s 'hc ringing' lglll swinging, onion. A great story, greater ble. It lays the mind captive ir and passion. By Emerson Mississippi Bubble." Pi c s more i . i I s rtilizer Hi y i ialyses Q; D * mixing of n tain analy- n < no special M; he value R I ies tn the H 1 which the n )btained. . H edient i n ri is selected II supplying M i sprouting W The plant n d at one W ved at an- n nty-five n :e goes with n &T | oc r> H ritu _ iers throughout U ith. Guano Co. U i j [, VA. N WALL PAPERS c We would be pleased to have every e lousekeeper in Yorkville call and see c iur line of Wall Paper and Border 3 1 Samples. We can furnish Wall Pa- T iers from one of the best manufactur- * rs in the United States and you will Ind our sample line up to the highest * mtch of perfectior. Let us show you. ^ See us for Indoor Paints, Oils, Varilshes, Kalsomine, Brushes, Glass and j 'utty. :LOOR COVERINGS. j We are now showing an elegant line >f Grass Rugs and Art Squares In the . lowest patterns, In popular sizes at 1 iopular prices. These Art Squares are e deal lloor coverings for spring and f ummer use. a If it Is anything in Furniture and House Furnishings that you want, ^ ome and ^see our lines and get our irices before you buy. YORK FURNITURE CO. i MONEY TO LEND a 3N improved farms in York County, s repayable in five easy, annual in- t tallments. Interest: Seven per cent c r loan Is $1,000 or over; eight per cent fc f under $1,000. No broker's commisions. C. E. SPENCER, $ Attorney at Law. $ 63 f.t tf. nerican Nov rmu . i i UIJ 1 N HOUGH y, glorious, passio: ;d the destiny of A. rorld. Hear, then, in 54-40 OR FIG wiles and a woman's daring, all real and human, a woman bad nge, audacious history, a woman gi t her hour of triumph she can gain ng subtlety, of secret resources an* OR FIGHT, this beautiful womai lg powers struggle for the control - - J-l ite ot Texas, treaties are raaac i st of machinations at Montreal, ar iterest. of men?men who loved her and ?and one man whom she loved. I ) fight and how to love. Watch for the Opening Chapters of . . . . Ui SOON TO APPI THE ENQ NOTICE )f Stockholders' Meeting of York Cotton Mills. A MEETING of the stockholders of ' ti the York Cotton Mills will be held it the Company's Office, at Yorkville, 5. C., on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20TH, L910, at 3 o'clock p. in., for the pur>o?e of considering and determining he advisability of amending the charer of said Company, by increasing its Capital Stock from One Hundred and *ifty Thousand Dollars to Three Hunlred Thousand Dollars; and further to letertnine what proportion of said inTease shall be issued in Preferred Stock, and the conditions and prefer nces or rue same, as snown oy resoutions hereto attached, adopted by the 3oard of Directors on March 15th, 1910. J. G. WARDLAW, President. Yorkvllle, S. C., March 15th, 1910. RESOLUTIONS: 1. Resolved, That an increase of the Capital Stock of the York Cotton Mills, 9 is herein declared, is determined upon, ind the President of this Company is lereby directe'd to call a meeting of the stockholders of this Company, to be leld at the Company's Office, at York,'ille, S. C., on the 20th day of April, 1910, at 3 o'clock p. m., for the purpose >f authorizing the proper application * ;o the Secretary of State for such imendments to the Charter of this Company as may be necessary to intense tbe Capital Stock by an addlional issue of 1,500 shares of the par ,-alue of $150,000, so that after such ncrease the Capital Stock shall be 3,000 snares of the par value of $300,000. j 2. Resolved, That it Is hereby rec- M >mmended to the Stockholders at said neeting to provide that the Capital Stock when so increased shall be divided into two classes as follows: Pre'erred Stock to the amount of One hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, md Common Stock to the amount of ~>ne Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dolars. The Preferred Stock to have prefer?nce over the Common Stock both as :o assets In case of final liquidation and is to cumulative dividends out of the let earnings to the extent of seven per :ent per annum. The Common Stock shall not receive my dividend In excess of seven per :ent per annum during the life of the Preferred Stock. The date for the payments of the ilvidends to be the first day of Janua- 1 y and July of every year. No mortgage can be placed upon the property during the life of the Preferred Stock. The Preferred Stock shall be entitled :o be voted at all Meetings of the Corporation and shall have all of the prlvleges of the Common Stock, except as 1 herein provided. 3. Resolved, That the York Cotton Hills is to ha%'e the option of retiring he Preferred Stock on July 1st, [915, by paying the holders in cash it par, together with any unpaid divilends. Any Stock not so retired by July 1st, 1920, shall be converted Into first nortgage six per cent Gold Bonds tpon the Company's property until mid. ? 4. Resolved, That the present itockholders shall be entitled to pur;hase the Preferred Stock at par, and hat failing to do so on or before June 1st, 1910, the President of this Com>any is authorized to place all of the emalnlng stock on the market, and o dispose of the same at not less ' han par. 5. Resolved, That from the pro:eeds of such sales of stock the present outstanding Bonds shall be retlrd, and new machinery purohased. 6. Resolved, That the President ause a notice of the Stockholders' Jeeting and of its purpose to be pubIshed once a week, for five weeks, in "he Yorkvllle Enquirer, beginning iot later than March 15th, 1910. 21 t 6t -ADITAI S50.GOO.OO J iURPLUS $35,000.00 MODERN FACILITIES During a business experience, exending over many years, this BANK las gradually Improved Its facilities, intil it affords at the present time (very convenience and safeguard or the transaction of Banking Busl- 4 less. You are cordially Invited to open ~ l Checking Account at this Bank. PHKMIAN AMI) SAVINGS BANK YORKVILLE, 8. C. W" Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. AT THE BRATTON FARM. 117 E are offering thoroughbred VV Guernsey Heifers at from $10 up ,nd we have also a number of Berkhire Gilts with thoroughbred Pigs hat we will sell. Will deliver pure, lean milk at 10 cents a quart. Cream, >utter and fresh eggs on orders. ( Pure Berkshire Pigs at from $3 to 5 each. Pure Buff Orpington eggs at 1 a setting of 16. J. MEEK BURNS. Manager. i el I rr | * nate i imerica. HT, how our own wide and good at once, conrowing under pure love an empire for America. ^ d immense designs, i touches and controls of this continent. On ay her nod at a dance, id yet again at the far staked all for her love, le is every inch a man, 1-40 OR FIGHT, :ar in UIRER.