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tumorous Department. Can You $o|vo It??With his rent six weeks in arrears Scribbler sat trembling lest the landlady hear the beating of his heart and call for a reckoning. Presently there reached his ears the sound of fierce words, as oi two striving together in deadly argument. Scribbler became aware that Mr. and Mrs. Slumpkins were engaged in unraveling one of their domestic tangles. At length there came a light tap on the door. Scribbler looked toward the window as a possible avenue of escape. However, before he could make up his mind to try the rain spout route the door opened cautiously, and Slumpkin's bald head appeared first, then the rest of him crept slowly in. In a whisper he advised Scribbler * ~ C?l?,r?r?l/ina Inanmiiph not .to j>civ\ ano. oiuiupiviiiOf >uwu?wv? as she was not the head of the house. Scribbler acquiesced and Slumpkins disappeared. A little later another rap on the door, this time more insistent, caused Scribbler to look up. It was Mrs. Slumpkins. "Say, don't you pay my old man any money, Mr. Scribbler. He won't do nothing but drink it up. This morning I had to let him know who runs this house. We ain't speaking to each other now." Again Scribbler acquiesced. That was six months ago. They haven't spoken to each other yet; and Scribbler goes on his way rejoicing. Puzzle question: What will be the first question they ask when they start speaking again??Satire. Whan Harmon Was a Boy.?Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio, though a fearless speaker on occasion. Is equally noted for his pregnant silences. When he was a small boy in an Ohio village, his chief playmate was another small boy named Bill. Among the legitimate objects of boyish foray the pair at one time gave their attention to a supply of fruit which Judson's mother had stored in a cherished recess. When Mrs. Harmon finally discovered that the fruit was diminishing she promptly attributed the loss with a mother's partiality to her son's playmate, whose roguish traits were glaringly apparent to her Bill, at his next visit, received her vigorous denunciation without affirmation or denial, though not without glances of indignant inquiry at Judson, who stood silently by, with a simulation of surprise and regret As soon as the boys had escaped to the yard, Bill, In righteous wrath at the supposed treason of his pal, burst out: "Look here, Jud! Were you ornery enough to lay the blame o' that stealin' onto me?" "Course not?" Jud replied. "What do . you take me for?" "Well, It looked mighty like you had. when you stood there all the time asavin' nothln'." "Yes, Bill," admitted Judson, with a cautious glance toward the house. "But as long as there's any fruit left, let 'em suspect you. If they're all the time watchin* the outside I can be usefuller on the inside. See?"?Judge. Quayls's Time for Retiring.?Dr. W. A. Quayle, bishop of the Methodist church and a popular lecturer, in the early days of his ministry' went back to preach one Sunday to a former congregation in Kansas, and was entertained by one of his old parishioners. After the evening services the family gathered round the hearth and exchanged reminiscences with their guest apparently without any thought of retiring. Eleven o'clock came and twelve o'clock. The conversation lagged and all showed unmistakable signs of weariness. Dr. Quayle yawned politely and rubbed his drooping eyelids. His host moved restlessly in his chair. His hostess eyed the timepiece with growing alarm. The very air was drowsy, but no one seemed able to end the awkward situation. Finally as the clock chimed 1.30 o'clock his hostess asked deprecatingly, but with a note of desperation in her voice: "Brother Quayle, when do you go to bed?" "When I get a chance," replied Dr. Quayle meekly.?Kansas City Star. Our Unknown World.?Despite the marvelous advance of exploration in various parts of the globe, an estimate as submitted by a member of the Royal Geographical society in London shows that no less than 20,000,000 square miles of the earth's surface remain unexplored. The largest unexplored area is said to be that In Africa?6,500,000 miles; but even North America contains 1,500,000 square miles of virgin territory. It is surprising to learn that there are three times as much land awaiting the foot of the pioneer in North America as in South America.?Winnipeg Post. Counsel for the Defense.?At a little gathering of distinguished men of letters at the Cosmos Club recently, Representative Slayden of San Antonio, Texas, was called on to give a short talk. He was wnolly unprepared and said so, of course, as most public speakers do. "Gentlemen," began the Texas congressman. "I hardly know where to begin, and if I knew wnai 1 inienueu iu saj much i rmncu this room I certainly have forgotten it now. I " "Oh, give us something in defence of art," whispered a friend near by. "All right," said Slayden. "What's the indictment?"?Puck. Cock Fighting in England.?Cock fighting: was a London pastime in 1190 and very fashionable from the reign of Edward III. almost to the present time. Henry VIII. added a cockpit to Whitehall palace, where James I. went to see the sport twice a week. Besides is royal cockpit there was formerly a cockpit in Drury lane. There was the cor'-pit at the Phoenix theatre and in Jewin street, Cripplegate, Tufton street and in Shoe lane. The famous Westminister cockpit was in Park street. Another Hero.?A coon was mightily affected by brooding over the details of the Titanic wreck and took to the solace which first sprang from the mulberry. His grief stifled, he gave way to his medicine and fell asleep with his head in a horse trough. Presently a copper came along and poked him. "Never mind me," murmured the coon, "save the women."?Chicago P?jst. ijftisceUanfous gtadinfl. WITH NEIGHBORINQ EXCHANGES Note* and Comments About Matters of Local Interest. Gastonia Gazette, July 23: A serious and what may yet prove a fatal cutting: affair occurred Saturday night about 11 o'clock near the Modenamill park when B. W. Parker, an operative at the Clara mill, cut Elijah Bridges severely about the waist and upper part of the abdomen, using a pocket knife as a weapon. Bridges would, in all probability, .have met Instant death, had not the slashes of Parker's knife taken effect partly In his ribs The wounded man was taken at once to the City Hospital where his wounds were dressed by Drs. Garrison and Jenkins. Parker was taken Into custody by Chief of Police Carroll and Policeman Hord and is held under a $200 bond pending trial at the approaching term of Gaston county superior court on a charge of assault with intent to kill. According to late reDorts Bridges is resting well and the chances are that he will recover and be out In a short time. It appears that both men were drinking' some While engaged in building the copper circuit from Gastonia to Charlotte, Mr. Julius LJneberger, of the Piedmont Telephone & Telegraph Co's. construction force, was yesterday severely shocked when the copper wire he was handling swagged and came In contact with the Interurban's trolley wire while they were engaged In crossing the trolley wires near Mount Holly. At the time was at the top of a forty-foot pole, engaged in tightening the wires. He was instantly knocked to the ground when the 1,500 volts carried by the trolley struck him. The accident occurred about 1.30 o'clock in the afternoon. Though considerably bruised and sore from the shock Mr. Lineberger was able to return to Gastonia late in the afternoon. Gaffney Ledger, July 23: Some little trouble has arisen over the matter of the traction engines sent to Gaffney by the manufacturers tor a test on the Cherokee county roads. Two companies, the Pioneer Manufacturing company and the International Harvester company, sent machines here for the purpose of testing them out in an effort to sell to the county. No contract was entered into and it was not agreed that the county should purchase. The first engine sent here by the International people proved to be too light for the work required in Cherokee and two additional engines were sent to compete with the Pioneer product The three engines arrived in Gaffney in due time and were put out on different parts of the county roads. All three of them did very fair work and one engine was especially pleasing to the officials but it was decided that just at this time, the idea of purchasing the machinery for the county was not feasible, owing to the fact that the county owns so many mules and so much road working machinery. The companies were notified of the decision and the International company thereupon rose up in their might and stated they proposed seeing to it that the county did take and Ray for the machine. They claimed that an agreement had been entered into and that the machine was here, that they had fulfilled their part of the agreement and that Cherokee county must come across. When told that there was "nothing doing" the company served notice that suit would be entered at once. In all probability action will be brought against the county or county ? 1 a ~ * ?.tll Ka commissioners anu an euun win made to force Cherokee to take and pay for the engine. However, the suit can amount to nothing. ONCE FAMOUS GAMBLER. George Wingfield, Nevada's New Senator, Has Had a Remarkable Career. That very dignified, somewhat sleepy and altogether respectable body, the senate of the United States, has a new member who will add much to its picturesqueness. He Is George Wingfield, gambler and "gun man," who has been appointed senator' from Nevada by Governor Oddie to fill out the unexpired term of the late senator Nixon. The other senator from Nevada is F. G. Newlands, of Reno, who Is a graduate of Tale. Wingfield is the leading gambler of the west. He is the oner of the Tonopah Club, where the biggest of all the Nevada tigers has its lair. The "tiger" attains its largest growth in Nevada just at present. Wingfield is the pale, iron-nerved type of man that once used to be common on the Mississippi river steamboats and in the dealer's chair of western faro banks, but which now is fast disappearing. Though his reputation as a "gun man" extends to the furthest frontiers, he is said never to seek a quarrel. When one is thrust upon him, however, none ever has been quicker on the trigger than he. With the legal weapons used in the games of high finance he is reputed to be equally swift and sure. He is 36 years old, and his fortune is estimated at all the way from J12.000.000 to three times that amount. It is no especial wonder that Wingfield was appointed to succeed Nixon. He and Nixon were partners for years in various enterprises, and each amassed much wealth. Together they practically controlled the politics of Nevada. Up to not long ago gambling was a recognized and perfectly legal business or industry in Nevada. It was protected by law. It no longer is legalized, but it goes on Just as of old. Out in Nevada it is not considered anything against a man to gamble or even to own a gambling house or to conduct one. Senator Wingfield is interested in mining also and in a number of other things that bring him in considerable wealth. The Tonopah Club is said to yield him an annual income of some $200,000. How much he derives from his other enterprises is not known. No one hazards a guess at the amount, and Wingfleld, one of the most secretive of men, never has given a hint. The rise of George Wingfield from an impecunious cowboy gambler to the senate of the United States is remarkable in its swiftness. There are various versions as to how lie got his start. The most widely accepted story and one which. Wingfield never has denied, is that he blew into Tonopah in 1901 with $150, which he had borrowed from Nixon, the man he succeds in the senate. In fact, from that day until the time of Nixon's death, recently, the careers of the two men ran along the same channel. Wingfield was born, some say, In Arkansas, others Oregon and still others New Mexico. Until Senator Wingfield's official biography is printed in the Blue Book of Congress no one will be able to say what state is entitled to the honor. As a youngster he became a cow puncher and later landed at Golconda, a mining camp near Winnemucca, Nev. There he became acquainted with Nixon, who, until his election as senator in 1904, was president of a bank at Winnemucca. a way station on the Southern Pacific. Nixon was also the "state agent" for that railway. At Golconda and at Winnemucca Wingfield bet on the Cards In the faro banks consistently and carefully, but with varying fortunes, for then, as now and as always, a square game is merely a tradition. He did a little cow punching and a little mining, but mostly he was a gambling house hanger-on. Poker, faro and keno had equal charms for Wlngfleld. Finally he went flat broke and got the historic $159 stake from Nixon. Wlngfleld had heard that the game at Tonopafh was "easy" and decided to go thithejp and test it Wlngfleld found* Tonopah "easier" than he expected. He had a great run of luck and pyramided and parlayed his winnings until they reached several thousands of dollars. Then, after he had repaid his $150 Nixon loan, he determined to quit bucking faro from the player's side of the table, so he started the Tonopah Club. He had a partner In this, but It was not long until Wingfleld's share as principal owner in the enterprise was valued at more than $1,000,000. Up to 1906 Wlngfleld was not regarded as being anything more than a "boss" gambler. He attended strictly to his business at the Tonopah Club and made money hand over fist. There was plenty of money in circulation. The mines In that now famous district were yielding up their treasures at the rate of more than $1,000,000 a month. Coldfleld had a population of 15,000. The town's bank deposits totaled $15,000,000. Real estate oh the main street was held at $1,000 a front foot. Every one had money. There were plenty of saloons and gambling houses. Not many years before men had died of thirst in the desert which was there. Wlngfleld was making big money at Tonopah, but he saw in Goldfleld a chance to make more. What gave him the idea was another lucky stroke of fortune. One night a Mr. Elliott, who had "cleaned up" in Bullfrog and who had o nortnor In a mlnp.nrnmnt ing firm at Goldfleld, was in the Tonopah Club. Elliott was a plunger, and that night he dropped (20,000 at Wingfield's place. When asked to settle he tendered a check for (5,000 and a certificate for 100,000 shares of Goldfleld Laguna Mining company stock, which was then selling at fifteen cents. This was accepted. Wingfleld began to take an interest in mining stocks from that time forth. In a short time Laguna was selling freely at (2 a share. Incidentally, every one who worked at the Tonopah Club got to making money in mining shares. Wingfleld was the Andrew Carnegie of Nevada. All his "young' men" prospered. One of his faro dealers promoted Goldfleld Daisy, which ballooned up to a (6 share on a capitalization of 1,500,000 shares. At the market price In those days the mine was worth (9,000,000, but It never earned a dollar for its stockholders. That sort of thing made Wingfleld keener than ever. He and Nixon drew closer together. They made some profitable deals in mining properties and then they formed a pool and acquired ownership of control of the merged (36,000,000 Goldfleld Consolidated, which was their corporate creation. After that Wingfleld's connection with the Tonopah Club did not take much of his time. He was In the thick of things at Goldfleld, and was reputed to be the power behind the market in mining stocks. Once Nixon had been the bigger man; now Wingfleld was regarded as the chief, and,Nixon only a circumstance in the partnership. Wingfleld belonged to the Goldfleld Stock Exchange and was an active and conspicuous member. Even out on the curb, where there was buying and selling far into the night, he always was In the thick of the fray. What he said?and he said little?was telegraphed to the mining stock markets of the east as authoritative opinion. The leading citizens of the place used to congregate at the Montezuma Club, and there Wingfleld would remark cautiously that such and such a stock would sell at (20 before it would sell at (10. The New York curb market would have the news by the time it opened, and the Goldfleld Stock exchange would have a lot of fresh buying orders from the public by the time it began business next morning, always at higher prices. Those were golden days. Wingfleld Just had turned his thirtieth year then. He is described by one who knew him well as being of meager frame. His face showed an extreme pallor that might have come from 111 health, years of hardship or careless habits. This was all the more striking because nearly every one in Goldfleld or Reno or Tonopah or anywhere else in Nevada is deeply sunburned. Only the dealers and lookouts in the gambling houses are untanned, even by the suns of other years. Wingfleld's gaze never was steady. It continually shifted to and fro, perhaps a matter of habit. A man who deals or works as lookout in a gambling house has to keep a swiftly shifting eye on every part of the board. Wingfleld was cold of manner and taciturn of disposition. He was noted for his secretiveness. He was rated as a cool, calculating, selfish, sure-thing man?a gambler who had turned man of affairs. He was infinitely patient In waiting for things to come his way, at the same time accelerating them as quietly and safely as he could. But, master of the mining stock market and boss gambler that he was, he found his sole relaxation at playing stud poker. In this, the stiffest ' of all games to play, he was a consistent winner. He was famed all over Nevada for the half-cunning expression he was wont to assume, which deceived his opponents into believing he was bluffing when he wasn't. Many tried to imitate him in this respect, but failed. There was only one Wingfleld. Like Napoleon, he was unique. As the years went on Wingfleld and Nixon tightened their hold on the mines and the banks of Nevada. Nixon was below middle height, rather inclined to stoutness, but very dapper. His steel-gray eyes were absolutely without expression, but he was a kindly, companionable man compared to Wingfleld. Wingfleld gathered a newspaper or so into his net. Usually he had to take them on foreclosure proceedings, for he was a patron of literature when it came to lending money to a Nevada newspaper, although he was inexorable about claiming what was due him when the term of the loan expired. In those days, about six years ago, when everything and everyone was riding on the top wave of prosperity, the Democrats were victorious in the state election. Sparks was elected governor, and Denver S. Dickerson, the candidate of the labor unions, lieutenant governor. Some time before that Dickerson had been confined in the "bull pen" at Cripple Creek, when the government had intervened to quell the labor riots there. Not long after that a labor war threatened Goldfield. A few of the "wise ones" saw it coming, and sold out their holdings at top prices. They made millions. They rather liked the idea of a labor war, so they could buy back their stocks at bankrupt sale prices. It was then that Wingfleld practically broke the back of the labor revolution that threatened Nevada. It was then also he proved that he was a man of the coldest daring. Goldfleld was in the power of the miners' federation and the "high grad ers naa me situation, tney uiuukiu, by the throat and were dictating: their own terms. Even the newsboys on the streets were forbidden to sell papers that said anything against the miners. Every form of industry was flocking to the side of the miners. The whole country was terrorized by them. At this juncture Wingfield let it be known that unless the miners "shut up" and crawled into their holes he not only would shut down all the mines in Goldfield and Tonopah and Bull Frog and the other big camps, but when he had starved the miners back to work they would have to resume at reduced wages. The miners were aroused to a fighting pitch by his pronouncements. Then, when everything was at the point of its greatest tension, Wingfield sauntered up and down the main street of Goldfield. He let it be know that he was armed to the teeth and that he dared any miner to "get him." He showed himself ostentatiously, contemptuously. He told the newsboys to sell what they pleased; that he would kill the first man who raised a finger against them or any one else who was his friend. Wingfield was the coolest man in camp. Pale-faced, anemic, ill-looking, this one man defied the whole miners' federation, and not one man dared even look askance at him. Wingfield's reputation as a "gun man" seems to have been well deserved. It is reported that he "went bad" when he was fifteen. Wnether the tales about his personal encounters and the many notches on his gun are true or not, two things are indisputable. One is that in every gambling house he ever has had anything to do with the most perfect order has been maintained. They have been much less noisy than the United States senate. The other is the contemptuous courage that he showed at Goldfleld in those days of the labor war. The Tonopah Club is a rather handsome and imposing gambling house even for the far west, where such things flourish. In elegance, of course, it could not be compared to Canfleld's or some of the other noted places that New York has known, but in size and quality of its play even New York has nothing on it. The usual Nevada gambling house is a very business-like place. In Reno the principal games are on the street along which the railroad track runs. They are on the ground floor. The rooms are about twenty feet wide and perhaps 100 feet deep. The floor Is bare and covered with dust. The places run night and day, and the men employed there work three shifts of eight hours each. Every house has an automatic piano, and one place has a set of painted studies in the nude, which local legends say cost $30,000. Those are the only aesthetic appeals in any of the gambling houses. There are no chairs except for the faro and stud poker players. One house has a racing board and another a keno game. Crap and twenty-one also are played. Everything is as quiet as a grocery store on a Saturday night, and much busier. IfcJS* lACff U AO t_a IQ VA/lfiU OlYIILinu rtn? mw ?? iw> Boy Who Was Strappsd to Board Enjoys Outing Liks Othsr Children. "Smiling Joe" Marion, the boy who won his nickname because of his perpetual smile during four years of pain and suffering while he was strapped to a board in Sea Breeze hospital, Coney Island, gradually recovering from tuberculosis of the bones of his back, was the happiest child in Manhattan last night. Hundreds of thousands of people are familiar with the picture of "Smiling Joe," strapped to his board. Hard-hearted business men who have perpetual grouches have the photograph that is sent out by the hospital that cured him tacked over their desks for its moral effect. Mothers of naughty boys have It on the walls of the nurseries to point to when little Willie scowls. But few persons know that. "Smiling Joe" is living In a tenement home at No. 102 James street, in the dense lower East Side, with his parents, brothers and sisters; that he is cured but still wears a brace across his narrow shoulders, and that his perennial smile is the brightest thing in a poor congested section. Though his father, James Marion, Is a hard working man, money is scarce in the Marion home, and as Joe put it yesterday, "I dunno how pop is going to get the money together to send me to college so's I can grow up to be a police." In the long years after the boy fell from a swing and injured his back and he remained at Sea Breeze strapped to his board, he saw Coney Island dimly through the windows of the hospital. Other children who went about the resort brought back reports that kept Joe smiling more than ever, but sometimes late at night the nurses found him asleep with his face wet with tears. Then he was cured and came home?still without seeing Coney. The other day James A. Nelson, president of the Luna Amusement company, heard for the first time of Joe's consuming desire to see the island with his own eyes, and the financial difficulties In the way. Yesterday morning an automobile halted at the foot of the dark stairway of No. 102 James street and one of Luna's attaches went up. There was a whispered conversation with Joe's mother, bare armed about her housework. Her face brightened. "Joe." she said, "do you want to go to Coney Island?" The boy was minding his little brother George, but at the mention of Coney, where the hospital is, he went suddenly pale and one small hand went up to the brace under his blue shirt. "No," he said, smiling bravely but fearfully, 'I am all right. I don't need to?" "But the man means the real Coney, the chute-the-chutes and Luna?" said his mother. Joe bounded up with a whoop. So did small George. In three minutes Joe was scrubbing his face at the sink and climbing into his clean clothes, while George, who was too small to go, stood by tearfully. Joe hustled to the bureau and dug out a cherished five cent piece and darted down the stairs to return with an Ice cream cone for George. The bribe was accepted and George went out to play. "That was my last five cents," said Joe soberly as he and his sister Tessle, 13,'followed the ambassador of Mr. Nelson down the stairs and climbed, big eyed, into the auto. Joe is now ten years old, but small. All Cherry Hill stood around enviously as the big gray machine snorted and tore up toward the bridge, Tessie with one arm around Joe's waist and leaning back on the cushions like a little lady. It was their first auto ride. The smile had broadened fully an inch when the machine went in under the gate at Luna, but a moment after, when he had been welcomed by the crowd and found himself walking up the promenade with Tessie on one side and "Aunt Cynthia," who takes off the country woman In a sunbonnet and blue gingham, on the other? a look of motherly pity in her merry face for once?and the full brass band bringing up the rear and playing "Marching Through Georgia," the awe of It all got the better of him. He hugged close to Tessle and a look of determined dignity took the place of his smile. "Who'd 'a thought It?" A real band and me at the head of it" he confided to Sam Goldstein, Luna's pigmy policeman, who toddled at his side beating time with his club. Joe's eyes were round as saucers before he had got past the Grand Canyon, the Dragon's Gorge and the Old Mill. Once round the boardwalk and the band left him and he was free to go where he would with all Luna's people waiting on him and showing him the sights. He was th$ object of all eyes. Mr. Nelson himself took him to ride in the Witching Waves boat and Aunt Cynthia, serious for once, started a collection for Joe among the park employes and guests that swiftly mounted. "Gee, It was great!" said Joe confidentially to a World reporter. "They was a man hypnotized a girl and laid her across a broom he stood up In the air. I see boys and girls sliding down a chute a mile a minute and wearing out their pants?the boys' pants I mean. I rode on a boat under the Old Mill and a mule in the coal mines most down to China and saw real hobgoblins and I see more fun in an hour than all the rest of my life together. It's good to have a cured back and be out among live folks like they is at Coney." Everywhere he went the booth keepers gave him presents of candy, ice cream and pictures. There was an elephant ride and an armful of presents and then as he tasted the last joys and the auto came up Aunt Cynthia came along with the money she had collected, changed into bills and felt in his pants pockets to see if there was a hole. There wasn't and she put the money in and pinned it there with a safety pin and kissed him good-bye. Joe felt the pocket repeatedly on the way home and whispered to Tessle: "More'n 'nough to pay the rent, I bet."?New York World. H0TTE8T PLACE IN COUNTRY In Yuma Thsy Can't Keep Track of The Mercury on a Warm Day. Down in Yuma, on the border bebetween the new state of Arizona and the older one of Calif jrnia, they revel in the distinction of possessing the hottest place under the Stars and Stripes. When the rest of the republic has been gripped by winter, thermometers in Yuma register 100 degrees. Just how high they go in the summer no man has yet vouchsafed. That Yuma Is inhabited by human salamanders, goes without saying, people who like such heat would come there from choice, and would not try to get away after they do get there. There are several things at Yuma that excite the attention of a stranger. It seems Just the sort of place you pictured It before you came. Most Interesting are the Indians. Here alone, of all places under the flag, Uncle Sam allows polygamy, and the Yuma buck Is permitted to maintain as many wives as he can induce to live with him in the wigwam. The prison at Yuma Is different from any prison west of Gibraltar, and the only counterpart of the village Jail, which Is a sort of stepping stone to the prison, is In the heart of Turkey. The people of Yuma are otherwise so typically Mexican that one wonders almost If one's under the rule of the Stars and Stripes. To get to Yuma you leave Tucson, Ariz., at 8:40 at night. At 6:15 in the morning you are at Yuma. On the map the Journey seems nothing, but In the west distances are startling In their magnitude. The hotel is what Dickens might have described as a depot restaurant, built over the station Itself, and with Its porches looking down Into the turbid Colorado River. There Is a bridge with the Indian woman trundling past constantly. A boat landing Is near by, while on the opposite bank Is the Government Indian School. Everywhere there are the young Indians. The gay garments and the blankets they wear are genuine, and not put on simply to attract the tourist. As a matter of fact, the Yumas hate the whites, and while they sell trinkets to them at the station, too few sightseers visit the town to win them over to affability. The bucks, who squat along the changing river banks in their straw hats and Jeans, idle the year round, are, In fact, positively discourteous to the stranger. After one has left one's belongings at the hotel and started to explore, Yuma is found to be Interesting for what It lacks In modernity. There is practically but one long street. This Is lined with low one and two story cottages, built of frame, and nl?vt/\o4 nrlthnuf ovnonl Inn UUUOIUg, aitltuok nuuvuv VAW|/?1V?| saloons and shops, In addition to the homes of the householders. There Is a fair public school building and a Catholic church. The latter is interesting for its Indian communicants, who come there as did the red men to the mlssionsMn the pre-Mexican days In California. At the time of day that you are out Yuma is still half in its slumbers. Aside from a flight of crows on the main highway, the quiet of dawn reigns supreme. You can walk over the entire place in an hour, and you do so while you may, unobserved. There are lemons growing in one garden, the first you encounter. Today it is cold, until the sun has risen, but then, and in summer, Yuma is, next to Death Valley, the hottest place in the world so you may look for tropical foliage. You wonder at the foolish custom of the milkmen of Yuma, who knock at each door until told by the tenants to leave the milk outside, a custom whose origin lies shrouded in mystery. Two women, seemingly intoxicated, attract your attention. They are following a man, expostulating as only Mexicans can. It is to the jail that the women are directing their footsteps. One is weeping, the other seems angry. Both begin pleading with the Jailer. Last night the husband of the weeping woman came home furiously drunk and began using the knife upon her. So the police were called and now he is here. She, however, had no Idea it was so vile a place, and now she has come to beg his release. Finally lB^-% When a Ney Comes in e Heat and E at the Wind What would it mean to y< heat and dirt banished from yc this summer?to be free from t range, free from ashes and soc New Pfer/fcctii II I Oil Cook-stov With the New Perfection Oven, the N Stove is the most complete cooking device i It is just as quick and handy, too, for washii STANDARD < (Incorporated NEWARK, N. J. ??? The environs of the town attract. In the rainy season, when the narlngs are in vain, and she and her friend depart. row, dark-brown, shrunken Colorado rages beneath the great iron bridge of the railway, steamers run to the gulf and up river. Then one may take one of the most interesting trips in the west. Over the bridge lies the Indian reservation, and on its borders is an interesting primitive corral for the horses. Of course, no roof to the shed is needed, for it practically never rains in Yuma, and the stages themselves consist of three open wagonettes, the covers of which have long since been lost. You get a new idea of Indian control in the southwest as you step past the corral. There is a sign forbidding whites to proceed, unless they have legitimate business with the Indians, and stating a heavy penalty for trading with the redskins. Furthermore, it is forbidden to enter the reservation without a permit. The whole arrangement seems well-nigh despotic. The Yumas live in a sort of forbidden land. Squaws, with the gray-colored blankets, pass out. Old men, with their hair down their backs in innumerable braids, saunter in or stop to watch the stages being harnessed, and perhaps to lend an indolent hand to hitching the four horses. The homes of these Indians are picturesque, if nothing else. One finds almost everywhere the primitive adobes in little groups, or else miles from the nearest neighbor. Some are on the open desert, where the summer sun beats in fury, others are hidden away in the tall, narrow-weed prairie. Basically each hut is square, while from the front there extends a roof of dry bruah and mud to a pole at either corner. Under this hut the gayly clad redskins squat. Dogs are everywhere, noiseless as their owners. Children likewise are numerous, and their quiet demeanor makes them even most conspicious, strange as that may seem. Two Indian boys will occaslonallly gallop past on a horse, otherwise the reservation seems to repose in perpetual quiet. Maybe it's the heat that drives folk to silence; it's like the lethargy of a mid-summer noon hour. At any rate, It saps all the strength from you and you've neither energy nor desire to stir when among the redskins at Yuma.?Philadelphia Record. Died Cheering the Kaiser.?The bravery displayed by the musicians on the Titanic and the similar exhibition on the English ship Birkenhead recalls also the patriotic conduct of the band on board the German gunboat litis, which went to the bottom of the Chinese sea on August 25, 1896. The scene was at that time described by one of the few survivors of the disaster, which claimed 119 of the litis' crew. He said that the men stood at parade, the band played "Hell Dlr Im Siegerkrenz" with all the precision and force of which they were capable anfi swinging their caps, the officers and men went down cheering the kaiser. The Cigarette Habit The Alcohol Habit The Tobacco Habit The Gossip Habit ARE ALL BAD HABITS. It appears that every man must have a habit. Why not have a GOOD HABIT? Get the Banking Habit. It only takes a dollar to start a bank account with us. The Bank of Glover, OZjOVXR. IB.C.. MEDICAL COLLEGE I OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON. 9. C. MEDICINE AND PHARMACT. i Session opens Oct. 1st, 1812, ends June 2d, 1811. Unsui passed clinical advantages offered by the new Koper Hospital, one of the largest and best equipped hospitals in the South. Extensive outdoor and Dispensary Service under control of the Faculty. Nine appointments each year for graduates In medicine for Hospital and Dispensary services. Medical and Pharmaceutical Laboratories recently enlarged and fully equipped. Department of Physiology and Embryology In affiliation with the Charleston Museum. Practical work for medical and pharmaceutical students a special feature. For Catalogue, Address ROBERT WILSON. JR., M. D.. Oar. Queen and Franklin Sts., Charleston, 8. C. W9~ Typewriter Ribbon*?At The Enquirer Office. All kinds. sw v Perfection Lt the Door )irt Fly Out |0W This Stove L\J ?f saves Time Ml to have saves Labor >u to have u saves Fuel .ur kitchen xtsaVes-YOU he blazing Made with 1.2 and 3 b??. . '\ era, with long, enameled, lufII a quoiae-bluechimoevi- Hand omclr fioiahed throughout _The 2- and 3-bun*rHo*** J|\ can be had with or without a cabinet top, which if ?tted with drop ihe'ves, tow el racks, ate. rA All dealers carry the New V Perfection Stove. Free Cook, Book with every atove. Cooklew Perfection Book alan given to anyone on the market fending 5 cent, to cover mail in a crtl. lg and ironing. DIL COMPANY In New Jersey) ' BALTIMORE. MD. If You Are Particular About the Furniture that goes Into your home, we want you to come and see the new lines of House Furnishings that we are now showing. Within the past few days we have received large shipments of IRON BED8? Which everywhere are rapidly pushing the wooden bedsteads off the map. The Iron Beds are neater and are more easily taken care of. We have an elegant line of Iron and Metal Beds In the newest styles and would be pleased to show you what a good bed you can buy for just a little money. 8IDE BOARDS? Among our new arrivals is a new assortment of Side Boards. Every home needs a Side Board and If you want the best In style and quality for your money, we have it Come and let us show you. EXTEN8ION TABLES? No dining room Is quite complete unless it has an Extension Table. We are showing a new line of these?a variety of styles and at pleasing prices. Come and let us show you how a little money will buy an elegant Extension Table If you buy It here. YORK FURNITURE CO. Do Yon Suffer? With Kidney, Bladder and Liver Troubles? If so, blame only yourself. NYAI/8 STONE ROOT CO. will certainly relieve all Inflammatory, Irritated and weakened conditions of the kidneys and bladder; will purify the blood and aid greatly in Rheumatism, Scrofula and Skin Diseases. Try a 60c or $1.00 bottle, and praise Nyal's Stone Root Co., wherever you go, as Mr. R. L. Williams of Route No. 6, does Nyal's Dyspepsia Tablets. Ask him about Nyal Remedies. Shieder Drag Store THE NYAL STORE. WATERMAN "IDEAL" FOUNTAIN PENS If you would like to see the most elaborate display of FOUNTAIN PENS ever made In Yorkvllla call and let me show you the Waterman line. If you would spend your money for a Fountain Pen, spend It for a WATERMAN "IDEAL" PEN I have them at all prices, $Z50 and Up. In all sizes and can just exactly "fit" your hand. T. W. SPECK. The Jeweler. This is The Place TO BUY YOUR GROCERIE8. See us for FLOUR, MEAL, CORN and OATS, and all kinds of COW and HORSE FEED. See us for MEAT, LARD, and tha best quality of HAMS. See us for SUGAR, COFFEE TEAS and EXTRACTS. See us for IRISH POTATOES. CABBAGE. Etc. We are selling for CASH. Tours for business, Yorkvllle Banking I Mercantile Co. INTEREST There are more kinds of Interest than the kind you pay for money when you borrow from a bank. There Is a PERSONAL INTEREST, the kind that the officers of THIS BANK feel In Its customers ?an Interest which prompts us to do whatever we possibly san to encourage and to aid those who give us their patronage. Bank of Hickory Grove Hickory Grove, S. C. FOR SALE . SEED Cotton Elevator. Secondhand, but almost as good as new. J. W. RODDEY, Roddeys. 59 t.f . St* professional (fanls. D. E. Finley J. A. Marion Finley & Marion ATTORNEYS AT LAW Opposite Court House Yorkvllle, S. O. J.HARRY FOSTER ATTORNEY AT LAW, ' Yorkvllle, 8outh Carolina. V Office In McNeel Building. Dr. B. G. BLACK 8urgeon Dentist. Office second floor of the New McNeel building. At Clover Tuesday and Friday of each week. Geo. W. S. Hart. Jos. E- Hart HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkvills - - - - 8. C. No. 1. Law Range. 'Phone (Office) 68, % JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Rang#. YORKVILLE, 8. C. J. 8. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. WHY NOT POLLOCK? FOR SALE 130 Aorta?6 mtlea west of the city of Rock HUL Joining farms of A. E. Willis, John Mcllw&ine and W. L. Plexico. This is one of the beat producing farms per acre in Ebenezer township; good pasture, hog wire; 3 horse farm open; dwelling has 5 rooms; good tenant house with 3 rooms. Property of Johnson Cameron. For prices apply to J. C. Wilborn, Torkvlile, S. C. 116 Acres?'The Holmes Place; Joining Holbrooke Good, Ed Thomas and others; a nice new cottage, 6 rooms, good barn; also a nice 6 room house and store room, barn, etc. Located at cross roads. Good land at the low pries # of *4,200. 177 Acres?Property of Marion B. Love, three miles from Sharon station and six miles from Yorkville; 20 acres in cultivation, balance in timber. Some of the finest oak timber in York county on this place. Prioe *17X0 per * acre. 951-2 Acres?Joins J. B. Scott. Ed S&ndlfer and depot grounds at Philadelphia; 75 acres In cultivation; 1 dwelling house, 4 rooms; 2 tenant houses. Property of J. P. Barnes. A great bargain. v 165 Acres?In Bbenezer township; 1 mile of Newport, 1 mile of Tlrsah church. A nice 2-story, 7-room dwelling; several good tenant houses. High state of cultivation. Wilson Huey. 101 2-3 Acres?Joining McGill store at Bethany, fronting King's Mountain ^ road; 1 dwelling, 6 rooms; barn, cot- w ton house and crib; property of Charlie Douglass. This is a cheap bargain and can be bought at once. 331-2 Acres?On King's Mountain road, one mile from Bethany High School; land lies level; 17 acres In cultivation, balance in timber. A part of the Douglass tract. 68 A ores?More or less, joining C. M. Inman, Norman Black and others One mile from the incorporate limits of Torkvllla. About 26 acres clear, balance in timber. One l-room house, good barn, etc. , 159 Acres?1 dwelling, 5 rooms; 70 macres in cultivation; 60 acres in timber; 2 1-2 miles of Smyrna; 1 tenant house, new, with 4 rooms; good barn, crib, lumber and buggy house. Property of H. M. Bradley. Price, $3,000.00. 100 Acres?Joining Mrs Mattle Nichols, T. J. Nichols and othera The w property of L. R. Williams Price, $21.00 an Acre. 210 Acres?2i miles of Sharon; 1 dwelling house, 2 tenant houses good barn; half mile of Sutton Springs school. Splendid Farm. A Nice Cottage Home?In the town of Smyrna; 6 rooms, situated near the Graded school building. One of the best cottages in town. Price, $050. 300 Acres?Tom Gwln home, three miles of Sharon; 2 tenant houses; a large brick residence, worth twothirds of the whole price of the farm, for $3,800. 319 Aoree?Joins R. B. Hartness, M. B. Love and others. 1 House, 1-story, 6 rooms; 6 tenant houses, all well fln- w lshed; 1 6-room, 4 2-room; good barn, double crib; hydraulic ram running water to house; 2 good pastures; lie acres under cultivation; 160 In timber. Price upen application. Property of John T. Feemster. 20 Acres?At Filbert One-story house, 4 rooms; one-half red and other sandy. Prioe, $1,00(100. 11 Acres Joins L. Ferguson. Frank Smith, J. W. Dobson. 1 house, 1-story, 4 rooms. Price, $1,300.00. 220"Acres?Near King's Mountain Battleground; 1 bouse, 1-story, seven roosts, New; 26 acres under cultlva- k tlon, balance in timber; I miles from King's Creek. Good new barn, dressed InmhAr' 1 tenant hnnaaa X rnnma aanh Price, $15.75 per Acre. 200 Aoree?FVontlng public road, 1story 4-room house; 4 bone farm open; 75 acre* In timber; 2 miles from Rod- dey. Price, $3000 per Acre. Residence of J. J. Smith, deceased. In Clover, on Kind's Mountain street; 3 stories, 7 rooms; wood bouse; barn, cow stable; rood garden; well for stock near barn. 75 Acres?Level land, 2$ miles from Sharon; 4 house; 40 acres In cultivation. Prioe, $20.00 per Aere. Walter O. Hayes. 4 57 Aores?2 miles of Hickory drove; on pibllc highway; fronting Bouthern railway. Price, $20.00 an Acre. 153 Acres Joins T. W. Jackson, L. T. Wood and others; 1 2-story l-room house; 1 tenant house, 4 rooms; < miles of Newport. Pripc, $21X0 Aere. A beautiful lot and residence of Mrs. A Ada IS. Faulconer. On Bast Liberty street, 100 feet front, about 400 feet deep; Joins Rev. EL B. Gillespie and Hon. d. W. 8. Hart. Prise en Application. 369 Acres In Bamberg Co.?Joining lands of D. O. Hunter and B. P. Smoakj 126 acres in cultivation, balance In timber; at one of the finest schools In ?. the county; 1-4 mile of church. Much of the land in this neighborhood produced 1 bale of cotton to the acre. Any one wishing a fine bargain will do well to Investigate it. 102 Acres, Fairfield Co.?Joining lands of R. 8. Dunbar, 4 miles of Wood* ward station. On Little river; 46 acres y in cultivation. Prise, $350.00. Do you want Bargains in Meere Cf? N. C-1 See me and talk it ever. J. C. WILBORN. Geo. W. Knex J. L. Stacy, President See. and Mgr. CLOVER REAL ESTATE GO, CLOVER. S. C. V 1. One 6-room House end Lot, situ*' ted In Clover on R.R. St.; rood well end barn; large lot; flne situation. See ue for priee. 2. Large Lot on King's Mountain St, 171 feet front. 310 feet deep; 5 good 4 tenant houses, one 4-rooms; two 3' rooms, end two 2-rooms; paying 9 per cent on 12,000. A good Investment. 4. Five beautifully located Lots, neei High School. See us quick for these. They will not last long. Two soldi they ere gains fast, as we expeeted. See them quisle if you ex* poet to buy. They will not be any oheaper. 5. 44 Acres?1 mile Clover; 7-room house, barn, well, etc. $4240 per Aore. 7. 96 Acres?8 miles Clover; plenty of timber; 10 acres flne sure crop bottom land; flne pasture; new, 3-room house. t. 3 Lets on Bethel road, for quick sale; 300 feet deep; nice location. 9. 6 Room House?80 ft. front; located on one of the beet residence streets In Yorkvllle. A bargain. Now, or ndVer, Is your chance. See us for price. 10. 30| Acres?4 miles west of York* viUe; large orchard of young fruit trees beginning to bear; 6 acres bottom land; Joins Elmore Stephenson. $1740 w per Acre. Good terms on this. 11. 100 Acres?Lying 1$ miles noith of Battleground; 100,000 feet of saw timber. If you need timber now Is the time to buy. Lumber Is going up; owner will cut In July If not sold. Tim* ^ bar worth price asked. See us for s price. 12. 6 Lots, nicely located, on New Brooklyn street. Good terme on these. 13. Six Lots, fronting on Falres St.; also 11-3 Acres flne pasture, Immediately In rear*of lota Will sell as a whole or cut to suit your taste. Prop* erty of Ralph N. Adams. 11 Ana 1IC Vi _r\ T/\lK/\r4 Tnwlna 1A AT. V/MW AW M. 1VII/VI v assess**?, wv saw Eagle Gin. one Pin Centennial Cotton Press, and one 3?-tnch Com Mill, and Belt, in good condition. A -a# Bargain. $400.00. ^ 15. One complete Brick Mill Outfit? Engine, Brick Mill, Trucks, Racks, Sugar Cloth and Fixtures for 10,000 per day capacity?At a Bargain, and on good terms. 16. Two 100-acre tracts of land In a Moore, county, N. C.; Joins J. E. Jackson. For quick sale, $9.00 per acre. Come to Clover and buy property and help a live town grow. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. J. L. Stacy, 8ee. and Manager. BRATTON FARM. Phone No. 132. Two fine bred Bull Calves for sale at reasonable figures?Right blood to head a herd; also two full bred Guernseys and several Grade Cows. We want more customers for Cream gi and Milk. Stove Wood, split and sawed to length, delivered on short notice. J. MEEK BURN8, Manager. NOTICE MY House and Lot on Wright av- % enue for sale. For terms apply to C. E. Spencer, Esq., Torkvllle, S. C. wtf IDA D* LOACH.