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tumorous Jfpartmrnt. Way of Virginian*.?Gen. John M. Wilson, formerly superintendent at West Point, and beloved equally by soldier and civilian, while having a warm spot in his heart for old Virginia. finds keen delight in twitting her sons upon their crowning weakness, says the Washington Times. Halting Senator Swanson the other day. with a merry twinkle in his merry eye, he spoke thus: "Senator, I dreamed last night that I had gone to heaven, and while St. Peter, or maybe It was Gabriel, was taking me around, showing me the pearly battlements and the golden streets of the new Jerusalem, I saw several stout angels busily engaged in lashing a new arrival to a lamp post. This party made vigorous protest, biting. kicking and scratching In a manner that seemed totally foreign to the sublime peace of the heavenly city. " 'Who is that gentleman and wny Is he acting so unruly?' I asked my guide. " 'Oh, that's a fellow who came up from Richmond last night,' responded Gabriel, with a glance of irritation at the newcomer. 'He's kicking because they won't let him go back to Virginia."" Answer Was Correct.?Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis, was charged with speeding in his automobile not long ago. The trial was held before a country justice of the peace, and was considered a comedy occasion, says the Washington Herald. "Now," asked the prosecutor of one witness, a policeman. "If the magneto on an auto were not In harmony with the differential and the transmission and clutch Interfered, what would be the effect on the speed of the car In case all six cylinders were attached to the spark plug?" Shank's counsel, Joseph W. Kealing, objected to the question on the ground that It was too technical. They argued back and forth about whether the witness should answer. * "I can answer It In my own way," volunteered the witness. "Oh, very well, then; If you can answer, go ahead," agreed Kealing. And this was the answer: "I do not know." Clothes and the Man.?It is doubtful If "Uncle Joe" Cannon ever owned a silk hat. Nobody around Washington remembers seeing him wear one. Next to his cigar, nothing is quite so familiar to his friends as the type of black | oft hat which he has made famous. It recalls an amusing Incident that occurred in the old Arlington hotel a few years ago. Mr. Cannon strolled Into the place one evening with his secretary, L. White Busbey. Now it happened that Busbey was always a good deal heavier on dress than his chief. This particular night he was Immaculate. A man in the lobby was showing a visitor the sights. "There's Uncle Joe Cannon," he aid, nudging the stranger. "You don't tell me," exclaimed the visitor, looking at Busbey. "Who is that old slouch with him!"?Kansas City Star. Way Abov* Her.?It was during the rush hour last Saturday night A man and a girl got on an Euclid avenue car at the public square and succeeded In getlng a whole scat. Then the car filled up, and the standee opposite that seat couldn't help hearing part of the conversation which was low, but impassioned. The young man appeared to be pleading for something; the girl was evidently demurring. "Please!" he whispered, but she shook her head. At 40th street he was still begging, and then she grew firm?nay, haughty. "No," she said. "I cannot. I might, Harold, but your station is too far above my own!" He tool; that for false humility, but the event proved that she spoke the truth, for she got off at 55th street, while he went on to 105th.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Humor in Prison.?Sheriff Harburger tells a story which he picked up on a recent trip to Sing Sing prison. A prisoner newly committed to the prison was given a position in the lock-step line behind an inmate who had been there for some time. The following conversation was overheard: Said the older inmate to the new I recruit: "How long did they give you, partner?" "Oh, I got a raw deal," replied the newly arrived one. "I'm in for ten years." "Why, you've got nothing to kick about," said the former. "Just tip me off when you get out. I want you to do an errand for me."?New York journal. No Such Luck.?A certain man stayed out much later at night than his wife liked and as he would never tell her where he had been she got their little boy to ask him. One morning at breakfast the youngster said, "Dad, where were you last night?" "Well, if you must know, I was sitting with a sick friend." "Oh! Did your sick friend die?" "What an absurd question! Of course he didn't die." "Oh, but did you hold your sick friend's hand?" ' "No," answered the father, "how foolish you are! Of course I didn't!" And then he added, with a faraway look in his eyes, "I wish to heaven I had. He held four aces."?London Opinion. Natural Suanieion.?Thp kindlv old man stopped to watch a wee tot who was diligently searching the sidewalk for something and at the same time sobbing loudly. "What have you lost, little girl?" he finally ventured. "Boo, hoo!" came the reply between sniffles. "I've lost my nickel." Touched by the child's grief, the old man extracted a 5-cent piece from his pocket, pressed into the little tot's palm and said: "There, there, little girl, here's your nickel. Now, stop crying." To his surprise, the child flashed on him a look of bitter contempt. "Why. you wicked old man," she said, stamping her tiny foot, "you had my nickel all the time!"?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Their Steps.?"Look here, now Harold." said a father to his little son, who was naughty, "if you don't say your prayers you won't go to heaven. "I don't want to go to heaven," sobbed the boy; "I want to go with you and mother."?New Orleans TimesDemocrat. gutters from the Schools. tondnclrd by Mlas Leila A. Rnaaell. Rock Hill. S. C.. March 4. 1913. Dear Boys and Girls: The County Teachers' association at its meeting last Saturday decided to observe County School Day on April 12, at Winthrop college. The programme has not been arranged as yet. but there are some things you can do to get ready for it. In the first place try to get every boy and girl in your school and all your fathers and mothers to come. It would be fine if in the procession formed on the campus, each sefhool carried a banner with the name of the school on it. Remind your teacher to make out the average attendance for your school when this month is up and see what per cent this is of the enrollment When she has done this she must send it to Mr. Carroll, and the school having the highest per centsge will be given a banner on County School Day. Would you not like to see your school win this banner? If you have read six books during the year I want your teacher to send me your name ind the names of the books you have read. On County School Day we want to read the names of the boys and girls who have done this much reading. In thinking over the interesting historical events connected with York county about which you children might write very entertainingly, I have wondered why some of the Guthrlesvflle or McConnellsvlUe pupils did not write of Huck's defect The Cotton Belt j children ought to be interested in tell- { ing of the origin of the name of the ' road near their school. I believe it is the Adair's Ferry road. Could not some of you children in Fort Mill j township tell us why Fort Mill is so named? The Forest Hill high school j stands Just where Billy Hill's iron ' works were during the Revolutionary war. The boys and girls of this school ; might find out some very interesting things about tlrs old gentleman and his industry. Any of these suggested ] topics would be of interest to the a children of all the schools. Yours very sincerely, Leila A. Russell. I Rock Hill, S. C., Feb. 27. 1913. Dear Miss Russell: We are having a good time playing 1 "Hide and Seek," and "Goosie Gan- 1 der." We have made bags of cord, a book- < case, maicn-scraitncrs, rugs, uu calendars. 1 I hope you had a good time in Columbia seeing the corn, wheat, oats, cows and apples. The play the college girls gave was fine and they had a pretty good crowd of people. They made $18 and something over. Our teacher has read to us about "Washington" and the "Tortoise and the Rabbit." Your friend, John Edgar Fewell. Ebeneser School?18 years old. Rock Hill, S. C.. Feb. 27th, 1913. Dear Miss Russell: I will write and tell you what we have been doing up here. The smaller girls have been making doll hats out of raffla, and they were very pretty. The larger ones have been making some hand-bags out of cord. They are pretty too. The little boys have been making coffee-mats out of raffla to set a coffee pot on. We have some pretty flowers blooming in the house. We have some Wandering Jew. and some bulbs, both In large glasses, and they are so pretty. The third grade has some sweetpeas planted in a big box. They put them in water first and let them sprout. Then they planted them In rich earth. The college girls gave a play out here on the fifteenth of this month. It was pretty good. I wish you could have been here to see It. Come back to see us sometime again soon. Your friend, Alberta Garrison. Ebenezer School?Sixth Grade. Rock Hill. S. C., Feb. 27, 1913. Dear Miss Russell: We have been reading the story In our books, "How the Oak Tree Became King." Our Wandering Jew Is growing fine. Wylie and Charlie are learning their one, two, three's now, and the other little boys are learning the words. We appreciate the pictures you gave us Christmas. We have nineteen scholars today. We were gtad when St. Valentine's day came but there were not many here. We have started to making Easter cards now. We have planted some sweet peas In a box, and we have some bulbs In the house blooming. We have our bear house yet We have started a new story now. Your friend, Florence Garrison, Ebenezer School?Third Grade. Seeing Into 8pace.?With his fortyfoot reflector Sir William Herschel ' perceived stars whose light, he concluded, had occupied 2,000,000 years in j reaching the earth says the Chicago Tribune. His belief that he had seen further ] into space than any other human bs 1 lng before him Is now pronounced a i just one by that noted astronomer, Dr i T. J. J. See. The visual power of 1 Herschel'B telescope is somewhat surpassed by modern Instruments, and much additional power is given to the I modern instrument by the use of photography. But on the other hand we i now have to take account of the ex- t tinction of light by cosmical dust in space. i Neglecting thlu, Herschel slightly ' over-estimated the distance to which i his telescope could penetrate. With 1 our greatest modern instruments and ! the use of photography, it Is certain, I Doctor See tells us, that we can observe stars at a distance of over 2,000,- l 000 light years. It Is very probable ' that we can penetrate to a depth of 1 about 5,000,000 light years. A modern i silver-on-glass relector of twelve feet < aperture would give about six times as ' much light as the sixty-inch reflector ] at Pasadena gives. < With this gain of two magnitudes In i light power It might be possible to penetrate into space at least twice the i present distance, or of a depth from i which the light takes 10,000,000 yearr < to reach the earth. The depth to which 1 we can penetrate is simply a question of telescopic power, which can be vastly but not indefinitely Increased. At the present time a twelve-foot reflector is possible. Sailors' Odd Customs.?The sailors' broad collars were devised so that the jowder or tar on the wearers' queues should not come off on the blouses. In those days, says the Dundee Advertiser, every sailor wore his hair in a queue, and eithei had the queue powdered or held tog? ther by tar. This was not good for the blouse or jacket underneath. So detachable broad collars were added. Sailors stopped wearing queues a century ago. BU' tney sun wear me wide collar. When Lord Nelson died the British navy went Into mourning for him. Sailors put broad, black ribbons on their caps and black ribbons on their blouses. And the ribbons remain to this day, not only on the uniforms of British sailors, but on those of other navies as well. The broad bell-shaped ends of sailors' trousers legs were thus shaped so that the wearer might more easily turn his trousers up above his knees when he had to swab the decks. Deck swabbing was a hateful and supposedly degrading task. Hence the sailors called their enemies "swabs" as a term of contempt. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE. (Continued from page one.) and write is shut off from the world What can such a farmer get from the experimental work at Clemson college or from eighteen millions of dollari voted by congress for the agriculture department? The timea have changed, senator, and you, aa a leader, arc preaching a doctrine outsped by twe centuries. The senator misquotes us when he says we hold that "Intellect necessarily makes a good citiaen." He a|sc appears to differentiate between intellect and literacy. Many a painful fool is literate, and many a knave has intellect If Peter "was a single 'gnorant fisherman" as Mr. McLaurli. says his development under Instruction li a splendid tribute to education. Yes, senator, "the development ol a civilisation depends upon the moral and spiritual more than the intellectual material," as you say, but teach ers of the "moral and spiritual" ten us they find It very difficult to reach the Illiterate, and you are devoting your energies to the very material warehouse proposition. The latter half of the senator's article Is, In violation of the conditions, not an argument, but a speech in which he declaims from the Imagined viewpoint of the ignorant citizen when his impious fellows would make known the difference between B and Bullfoot. Mr. McLaurin tells us he Is against force! he is following the civilization inaugurated at the birth of Christ. Mr. McLaurln appears to have overlooked the forcible expulsion of the money changers from the temple. He also queerly confuses policies of "government" with "force," and forgets that In most of the Christian countries of Europe and in all the advanced countries, education Is enforced. The same is true of the advanced states of this Union. Compulsion Is everywhere except in the south, and everywhere that there has long been compulsory education the average wealth of the farmer and his average production is greater than where there Is no compu dory education. And why Introduce Jesus Christ into any sort of argument, when his life on earth was given to teaching and he commissioned his disciples to go Forth and teach! Did he believe in ignorance or enlightenment? Will Mr. McLaurln tell us why the state of- South Carolina should force us and him and hundreds of other individuals and all the corporations to oay the constitutional three mill school lax and any special tax that may be iroted for schools, when neither we nor they send children to the public schools? What benefit are we to derive from those taxes we pay, and for which we receive no-direct return? rhe only just ground is the assumption that our return will Anally come through the education of the masses, ind thereby the general betterment of moral and material conditions in the state. That being true is not the state morally bound to insist that the people take advantage of the schools which the state forces us to support? When Mr. McLaurln will show us :hat children will attend the schools we will consider his plan for raising t million dollars, although not of that ?lasa he refers to as "rich." Our information is that schools first supported with .great generosity, have been lermitted to run down because the shildren could not be got to attend iVe think Mr. Dabbs, president of the farmers' Union, cafn give Mr. McLau in needed information on that point The interest of the editor of the itate in compulsory education was iwakened in 1898-99, when as an oficer in a South Carolina regiment in he Spanish-American war it was >rought home to him that many young nen could not sign their names. He vltnessed the "marks" of nine white nen out of 80 in one company. Ten nore in that company could not write 10 their writing could be read. An enlsted negro in the same command itepped forward among those men and vrote his name on the rolls clearly and ;asily. The officer was shamed for his ellow South Carolinians?shamed that South Carolina had not better cared 'or her poor sons. He then enlisted in heir cause and will continue to the Mid. \Tr aunln aIaoa. KU lalfar "?r<+V? iU? . iUVAMUilll V1UOVO llto IVWVCi W*VA* his thought to the young men and vomen of my state:" "Be noble, and he nobleness that lies in others ileeping, but not dead, will rise in najesty to meet thy own." A beautiul sentiment to present to the graduing class of a college, but we are ipeaklng now of a first service neceslary to humanity if that humanity is o comprehend or appreciate nobility or to pay tribute to the nobleness of :he dead. We are not talking now for :he fat and sleek who can enjoy the delicacies of sentiment and poetry, but 'or the famine-stricken, those with tiollow eyes and pinched bellies to tvhom the barest necessities for development of Intellectual life have been denied. KILLED BULL WITH HIS HAND8 Big Irishman Gave Mexicans Chance t* li a n\k/ i a r\. :a n iv ocq nuw nm?nw?ni VTOUIQ UO II? In the "nineties" everybody on the Mexican Central knew Mike Moran. He was a gigantic young Irish-American, standing about six foot three In his stockings, and proportioned like a hercules. He had worked his way up from coal-passer to fireman, from fireman to freight engine-driver, and from freight to passenger. Promotion was rapid twenty years ago on the Mexican Central. Mike's grand coup, that made his name known from El Paso to Oaxaca, was made when, as a "cub" enginedriver, he was In charge of a graveltrain during the construction of the Sullivan road, now known as the Mexican National. It happened at Acambovo, which was then the end of the line. The town was "wide open," as they say, with gambling, drinking and bull fighting as the standard amusements of the rollicking crowd of well-paid adventurers who were rapidly pushing the road to completion with the vim and energy that characterize the American workingman wherever he may be found. The usual Sunday afternoon bull fight found Mike, or "Don Miguel," as the admiring peons of his gravel train called him, with a load of vino under his belt, which he carried with ease and dignity, as became his stature and position, although there was enough of It to have put three smaller men asleep cr crazy drunk. The first bull came Into the ring and, after passing through the usual tests cf pica, capa and banderllla, was deftly killed by the chief bull fighter, or matador, with one thrust through the tieart. It was all done In the most approved ityle of the art, but Mike, who had >nce worked In a slaughter house In Kansas City, viewed the whole proceedngs with contempt and disdain. "That ain't no way to kill a bull!" ho jrowled. "Let me get In that ring, and I'll show 'em how we do it In Kansas 21ty." No sooner thought of than done. He forced his way Into the lnclosure which n every bull ring serves as a sort of rreenroom for the performers, and, ivalking up to the picador, who was ilready mounted and ready to go Into he ring, calmly pulled him from the laddie, regardless of the Indignant proests and threats of the man and his ellow performers. Then, dressing hlmlelf In the picador's costume, which he ducked from Its rightful owner very nuch as one picks a chicken, Mike eaped Into the saddle and, lance In land, rode out Into the ring, where his rain crew of Mexican shovel experts ecognlzed him by his great bulk and received him with storms of applause. The legitimate and duly accredited bull fighters looked on In a state of semi- A stupefaction from the greenroom door. The bull was a good one and appear- ' ed to be suffering from a distinct *}{j grievance as he rushed Into the ring cai like a roaring Hon. tar Mike's huge bulk on the starveling, ^ni weak-kneed mustang was the most prominent object that met his eyes, an* and without a moment's loss of time Ho he charged. In an Instant the sharp point of the on' , | garocha (lance) was in his shoulder, I an; and Mike gracefully and easily?thanks co* ' to his wonderful strength?held the rer ' bull off, although his mount had a nar, row escape from a falL of ? "Viva Don Miguel, Nuestro maquln- ?jd r Ista!" howled the gravel train gang In 8e| [ chorus. "Bully for you, - Jumbo!" of. shouted Tom Foley, a fellow Irish- to no American, above the din. [ "Stick him again, Molke. Stick him anc ; again!" came In rich, sonorous accents mu I from Paddy Cafferty, the boss of the fra steam shovel outfit, while the rest of the crowd gave vent to yells of Inar- gra tlculate enthusiasm. frit Dlscomfitted by the sharp reception lt.' he had met .with, the bull retired a few wr( yards "and there stood pawing and eqi tossing his head, half frightened by the wr< pandemonium on all sides of him. 8"e Mike, gracefully raising both hat and ' i lance In salute, acknowledged tne ap- ciai plause that was being showered upon wh 1 him. JS! Quick as a flash the bull saw his one ' chance, rushed In under his guard, and cor threw horse and rider over his back, the horse, In falling, pinning Mike to and the ground by his left leg. she Fortunately Mike was unhurt, al- ,n^' though the poor horse was finished. As p^t i the bull retired slightly with lowered head, preparatory to another charge, Mike extricated himself with a mighty pull from beneath his fallen charger and stood up. There was no time either to run or dodge. The bull had the right of way, and was coming I "with the throttle wide open," as Mike described It afterward. A head-on collision, or something very like It, was bound to happen in less than a second. But Mike was equal to the occasion. As the bull's horns came within reach of his long arms, he grasped a horn in each hand and with a light nlng-llke twist, impossible to describe and requiring Herculean strength and great skill to accomplish, threw the animal to the ground with a broken neck! Amidst round after round of wild applause, while money, cigars, silk handkerchiefs, and even sombreros were thrown into the ring by the enthusiastic devotees of bull-lighting, Mike placed his foot on the head of the fallen monarch of the range an& laying one hand on his breast and raising the other aloft In graceful imitation of the Spanish bull-flghters' custom, turned inquiringly toward the judge's stand. The judge nodded graciously, and a moment after the crier announced that the dead bull was the property of "Don Miguel," for his p prowess in having performed an unheard-of feat in bull-lighting.?Wide World Magazine. SECRETS WORTH MILLIONS Chemical Formulas That Have Baffled ?? Scientists for Centuries. It was announced a few weeks ago that a distinguished chemist of the Imperial Technical school of Moscow had solved the problem of making artificial rubber, and that he could sell the new product at about Is 4d a pound. Tet, in spite of this widely disseminated piece of news, the price of rubber remains pretty much the same, says Tit Bits. The reason may be found by examining the patent office records. During the past ten or twelve years nearly 300 patents for artificial rubber have been taken out _ Substitutes have been made from ~ petroleum, from coal tar, turpentine, peat, from nitrated linseed oil and by I treating cereals with phyalln. The latter invention made a considerable sensation so long ago as 1906; yet, judging by the constantly increasing demand fo rthe natural product, it has had little effect upon the real rubber market. The chemist working in his laboratory, can take any substance and analyze It?that 1b, break it up into its original constituents and tell you what they are, and how much of each element the substance in question Is composed of. But when it comes to building up ; the original substance out of its prime constituents there he is at sea. By dint of long and patient experiments, or perhaps by pure chance, he may succeed in reproducing some few natural products, but that is as far as he can go. Indigo dye took many years to syntheize. A German chemist accom- ? plished it at last, but the curious discovery was made that, if blended with A the natural product made from the indigo plant, the color produced was both more durable and brighter than Bp that made by either dye alone. So Ha artificial indigo has not yet ruined the Hi indigo planter. Artificial camphor has also been produced. It Is now made from pine- F tree turpentine. But the chemist has mac not yet succeeded in synthesizing gutta t|,er percha. This commodity grows year- ^ ly more rare. Enormous quantities are required for making golf balls and or ^ for the covering of submarine cables. S< A fortune awaits a clever man who y can make artificial gutta percha at a ? ?rv ...k InW. tirl 11 nllnuf U 1LC VY Will ailVVT U WU UUlltf VWV with the Juice of the Dlchopls gutta. Cork is another substance of every day use which seems to defy the inventor. The only substitute for cork is paper treated with paraffin wax. n But such a cork could not be used for a bottle of wine. So far nothing has been artificially made to compete with v the bark of the cork oak. >vj At Delhi, the new capital of India, Ml/'' stands an ancient iron monument, which though exposed to all weathers, "jjjj never rusts or decays. Yet it has no ^ protective covering. Here is a secret which would be simply Invaluable to the world, which has been discovered Vm by some Indian artificer of old time iV**? and most unfortunately been lost. At a recent meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, Mr. Cushman said that |juk we could face the future with complacency If we could rediscover the se- ajfl cret. To shipowners alone it would E1H mean a yearly saving of millions. Rust; Is the great enemy of the steel ship,! and she has constantly to go into dock E8jj to have her hull coated with anti-cor- Kj rosive solution. jg&j The mortar made by the ancients defies our laboratory workers of to- _ day. Many ancient dyes are more'l durable than any modern ones, and I of these, too, we have lost the secret, I as well as of the wonderful and prac- I rally everlasting ink which was used by the monks of old. i*-1 GENERAL LEE ON DUTY. to duty, let me, in conclusion, of this hasty letter, Inform you that nearly a I hundred years ago there was a day of Characteristic Letter Written to remarkable gloom and darkness?still His 8on in 1852. known as the dark day, a day when I rhe death of General G. W. C. Lee, the light of the sun was slowly extinest son of General R. E. Lee, chron- guished, as if in an eclipse. The legid in the Sun of February 19, re- islature of Connecticut was in session, led to mind a private letter of the and as its members saw the unexpected nous general written to this son, and unaccountable darkness coming der date of April 6, 1852, when on they shared in the general awe and j Btls Lee was a cadet at the United terror. It was supposed by many that I .tea military academy at West Point the last day, the day of Judgment, had ! 1 which was found at Arlington come. Some one, in the consternation use during the civil war. The let- of the hour, moved an adjournment.; throughout is characterized by con- Then there arose an old Puritan leg"<?? and ninritv. and Islator. Davenport, of Stamford, and this account should find a place In said that if the last day had come he Y anthology as a masterpiece of desired to be found at his place doing rect English and a model of pa- his duty, and therefore moved that ital character-building advice: candles be brought in so that house "Arlington House, April 5, 1852. could proceed with its duty. My Dear Son?I am Just in the act "There was quietness in that man's leaving home for New Mexico. My soul, the quietness of heavenly wisreglment has been ordered to that dom and inflexible willingness to prestant region and I must hasten to ent duty, that they are properly taken care "Duty, then, is the subllmest word I have but little to add in reply in our language. Do your duty in all your letters of March 26, 27 and things like the old Puritan. Tou canTour letters breathe a true spirit not do more. You should never wish frankness. They have given myself to do less. Never let me and your 1 your mother great pleasure. You mother wear one gray hair for any st study to be frank with the world; lack of duty on your part Your afnkness is the child of honesty and fectlonate father R. E. Lee. i irage. Say what you mean to do G. W. Curtis Lee." every occasion, and take it for How simple, true and honest R. E. nted you mean to do right. If a Lee appears in this letter, what a no>nd asks a favor, you should grant ble and conscientious character stands if it is reasonable; if not, tell him revealed in the tenderness of .his deinly why you cannot. You will voted paternal solicitude and the >ng him and wrong yourself by grandeur of his terse maxims.?New ilvocatlon of any kind. Never do a York Sun. jng thing to make a friend or keep , m , >; the man who requires you to do trm ~ ' , Is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. The Village Grocer What are you I Deal kindly, but firmly with your ^Th^ftovILI'm trvinr tn koon twn foi i ssmates. You will find it the policy Io? p ich wears best. Above all, do not ? wt, *v, F ,00,. ?tw? mhot vn.1 or* nnt it - ?he v,lla?e Grocer?Who are the _ wv"w*M % ? ?ww. fpiiows ' r i have any fault to find with any Th Boy_BiU Perklns and me.>, tell him. not others, of what you p A ' 1 I nplain; there la no more dangerous * leriment than that of undertaking * " 1 I be one thing before a man's face jty Better a man who falls than one I another behind his back. We who never tries, luld live, act and say nothing to the jry of any one. It Is not only best a matter of principle, but it la the <tr Great Britain's textile mills em* :h of peace and honor. In regard ploy more than 1,000,000 persons. I ABSOLUTELY PURE The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar o Makes delicious home-baked foods \ o! maximum quality at minimum cost Makes home baking ; pleasant and profitable I . '/ ' v 1 I P 1 - ' ' ' rHE PERSIAN SUN GOD NEW ' f* c MAZDA ARRIVALS ? WE HAVE HIS t T A MPC FRESH MACKEREL CANNED CORN HIGH EFFICIENCY, BUT CANNED PEAS CHEAP CANNED BEANS LET OUR MAN TALK OVER CANNED BLACKBERRIES a vottr y CANNED BEEF ti LIGHT CANNED QREAN BEANS u UATION .WITH YOU. HE WILL CANNED HOMINY t] rE YOU TROUBLE AND MONEY. CANNED PEACHES ? CANNED APPLES Jj City Electric Plant J. M. BRIAN COMPANY. J I a ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 3 ax ? n a ar ax I SUbAK-Zb Lb. Sack-Now fl.Zb s This Is the Franklin Standard Granulated?Known Everywhere aa b the BEST?25 Pound Sack?-Special $1.25 { RICE?Good Quality?20 Pounds for $1.00 j We also have RED RUST-PROOF OATS and will be pleased to : furnish you with what you need. Our price Is Right BEFORE YOU PLANT YOUR GARDEN? Come and see us for GARDEN AND FLOWER SEED. We sell the Seed of the World-Famous D. M. FERRY SEED COMPANY, whose Seeds have been known for their reliability, for many years in this locality. They are the BEST. 1 SEED IRI8II POTATOES? I Put your Seed Potatoes In the gTound at the earliest possible \ time. See us for the Seed. We have both the RED BLISS and i the IRISH COBBLER. We also have plenty of nice ONION SETS. Plant plenty of them. You can't have too many. * LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES b On FLOUR, COFFEE. SNOWDRIFT, SNOWHITE, MOLAS- a SES, and othen Heavy Groceries. We make the Right Prices. r 9W Special Prices on Purina, Mill Feed, Chick Feed, Etc. J. M. STROUP { THE EVERYTHING STORE imMKl 1 III It] HllH JI J! * SB S5??3flHK9S ror years there has been an insistent demand for us to make ready mixed fertilizers- S jj armers wanted formulas that suited their soils and crops. They, wanted them I le out of the best materials such as they would buy if they were mixing them nselves. "hey wanted them ready mixed in perfect conditioa ready to be spread broadcast j ?ut into the drill o this year we are offering a few brands of ready mixed fertilizers. '? are making them of the best materials that the fertilizer industry knows^ k e arc mixing them to suit the soils and crops of the south, to be available ; _ throughout the growth of the plant, and to supply the foods needed for the development of both stiilk and fruit Here are a few of our leading brands. You will find that they |are m'xed just as you would have mixed them if you did the work yourself. Morcoe Guano 8-4-4 Darlington Guano 8-3-3 WmS Knickerbocker Standard 9-2-2 r,." Coe-Mortimer's M. H. G. 9-2-3 Write us for prices and full information about J xtx.*::.'. */ vv.K.O.'?.&&5l nnr miv?H <mnA. ^ ^ C?., C. C. McALILEYrCH^^^:, S. C. ? Local Representative CALL OR WRITE ME BEFORE YOU BUY 1 Ernest Joye Used Etiwan Fertilizers 207 BUSHELS ON ONE ACRE First Prize in South Carolina Corn Contest Mr. JOYE WRITES TO ETIWAN FERTILIZER CO.: "We used your Fertilizers exclusively and the Potash and 8-3-3 used under corn were your goods, and my manual in hands of Government Bureau so states. (Signed) "ERNEST M. JOYE." ETIWAN FERTILIZERS HAVE GROWN THE FOLLOWING PRIZE CROPS: first Prize for Best Acre of Corn in South Carolina in - - - 1909 1 irst Prize for Best Acre of Corn in Georgetown County, S. C. in 1909 first Prize for Best Acre of Com in Georgetown Covnty, S. C. in 19x0 first Prize for Largest Ear of Corn in Georgetown Co., S. C. in 1910 000 bushels on Ten Acres in Williamsburg County, S. C. in - 19x0 first Prize for Best Acre of Corn in South Carolina in - - - - 19x3 Insist on ETIWAN for Your Crop For Sale By W. R. CARROLL, Yorkville, S. C. ETIWAN FERTILIZER CO. CHARLESTON, S. C. EASILY DECIDED. I"'"*1""" D. E. Flnlejr J. A. Marion "his Question Should Bo Answered FiDl?y dfc MftXiOt) Easily bv Yorkville People. imnnunm , .nr ajl juan Which li wiser to have confidence Q ^ u Yorkvffle. 8. a a the oplniona of your fellow-citisens, ? ^ * f people you know, or depend on tatements made by utter strangers LI T. r> . fjr* Jt>L AC K. eeldlng' in far-away place*? read the ollowing: fturgeon Dentist o r u?bn?u ^hniMr.1. Office second floor of the New'Mcfahi St ^frkviHe S C^vs "For Ne l bu,win?- At Clover Tuesday and "unt?LVS^7 tai atSiM Jk' F"d" ?' che and the secretions from my kideys were unnatural. I decided to try Geo. W. S. Hart Joe. ft. Hart , kidney remedy and getting a suply of Doan's Kidney Pills at the HART & HART rork Drug Store, I began using them have since felt mucfi better and my ATTORNEYS AT LAW alns and aches have disappeared enIrely." Yorkville ft. C. No. 1, Law Range. 'Phone (Office) IS, For sale by all dealers. Price, SO JOHN R. HART ents. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo. -oU onn?i fnr the United ATTORNEY AT LAW tates. r_w o-naRemember the name?Doan's?and ike no other. Y0RKVILL1# ?. C. J. 8. BBICE, BUYING A BUGGY attorney at law Tou don't buy a vehicle for a day or Office Oppoeite Court House. week, but for a year or perhaps for u k ,, , ears. Then, It'la up to you. to get Pl141 he best possible VALUE for your neM of whatever nature. loney. We sell Buggies, and we be- i rz ss "s Th* he prices we offer them. The TY80N wPr?e"t ubecrlbers to The Enquirer c JONES Buggy has been sold on this wl desire 1? renew, or prospecUve larket for years, and Is favorably subscribe who would like to have the nown to buggy buyers and users. It WW u?tll January 1, 1IM. at the ? built of good material, thoroughly P"ce of a year a subscription, should rell finished and capable of sustain- see one following clubmakera: ig long service. If you expect to buy Floyd Allison Yorkvllle Buggy, see us before you buy. J. K. Allison Hickory Grove JULES? r- Alexander Smyrna No. 2. If you have visited our stables you w^A^Barrett11*011 rul>^ :now that we have Mules that are aa R rUh!2 5T ood as have been brought to this V* ?' larket, and you also know that our ?' v* w!Sl ?m i'"'"" gjssfiSS1'w ?fft" Mr* ? L. ::..No i1ih??on e made. Before you buy that Mule j H ni.h.m ome and talk the matter over with ua. clauje ?urna "['.WW No'.'2.' SrJjSa SMOAK-BROWN CO. J. W. Bankhead 7. .7. . N?! .LowryvU e Miss Lottie Barnes ....No. 3 Yorkvllle James Blggera King's ML DI717ADT? DfTVIKTP Robert Lee Brandon ....No. 2 Clover BEFORE BUYING Miss Lena Caldwell King's Creek B. R. Carroll York Cotton Mil! HULES OR H0RSESI?3&^s^?S AM UCBb X lUIAVlUQ W. M. Clark No. 1 Torkvllla COME TO SEE US. We have a ? A. Carroll No. 7 Torkvllle first Class lot of Stock and as we B."j. Currence7.7.7. No. 8 Toricvflle ought to sell we are going to sell and Miss Addle Caveny ...No. 1 Rock Hill re here to make prices that WILL Frank Dagnall Hickory Grove NTEREST THE BOYER. J; V.^N^oSjS We can satisfy nearly every buyer ft.'. ^ _Dor*ott_. Torkvllle f n size and quality and sell you anl- Enloe Closer nals that are In perfect shape. 2 e?5ufon ? Torkv.Ue Horace T. Foster Hickory Grovj Don't buy until you see what we N. S. Ford No. 4 Clover iave to offer end hear cur prices. It S. A. Faris No. 1, Clover rill pay you to come to Clover to see 8. S,.Farls No. 6, Rock Hill :s before you buy. W. B. Flanagan ..... Bowling Green Mrs. M. A. Gaston r\ a mm No. 1 Bullock's Creek Uuinn & mciltll J- D> 000(1 Sharon . fulfill W iriium Lewis Good No. 1 Torkvllle \ Mrs. R. H. Gwln No. 2 Sharon CLOVER, S. C. T. J. Hopper No. 6 Torkvllle R. T. Howe Rock Hill Miss Mary Jackson Newport William Jones Torkvllle J. C. Johnson No. 1, Clover. I A V1 V 1^ Wm Mrs. C. L Kennedy Sharon j NTEREST Louise Ulley No. 1, Filbert . ... . Stanhope Love No. 1 Filbert There are more kinds of interest ^ ^ Lave No. 7 Torkvllle than the kind you pay for money Mlckle ....... Sharon Webb Moore No. 3 Torkville when you borrow from a bank. Roy M&Ioney No. 2 Sharon Thare I. . PERSONAL INTER. Ml". .^.MCCOnBf.McConn,u?Ute EST, the kind that the officers of Frledhelm Mccirter ..No. 6 Torkville THIS BANK feel In lta cuatomera J; w.^McFarland 77..No. 3 Tork^Ue ?an interest which prompts us Miss Bessie McCarter ....No. 1 Clover . ? ... Grover McFarland Clover ' to do whatever we possibly ?an w H Moere Rock Hill to encourage and to aid those Miss Marie Moore ....No. 3 Torkville Miss Grizzle Mulllnax who give us their patronage. No. 1 King's Creek W. A. Nichols Smyrna * f t II* I McCain Nichols Torkville tank of Hickory Grove Jeptha Smith No. 4 Torkville Hirkorv Grove s f] E. L. Pressly No. 3 Chester nitAory wruve, o. Vj. ^ No 4 aover Mrs. Belle Plezlco No. 1 Sharon W. T. Smarr Bullock's Creek Miss Sarah Russell No. 1 Sharon J*| - 7*ssV J. P. A. Smith No. 1 Torkville I hnt I lit IP J K 8cogglns Rock Hill I flUt MJ(life J. R. Shilllnglaw No. 7 Torkville j Mary A. Sherer No. 1, Sharon I t 17 J- p- SI fiord Clover V vfW fit I Ofirc L- Suggi No. 8 Torkville "if I |/f J l/ltf O Grler Sherer No. 1 Sharon Lester Watson ..No. 1 Hickory Grove W. W. Wyatt Smyrna She'll soon be having her hair Miss Lizzie Woods No. 3 Clover Jeff D. Whltesides Hickory Grove * Ooae Up." and, too. she will be Out- r. w. Whltesides Smyrna owing her Childish Ways?and you b rw8\^lte?.U.^???. 7.7." 7. . .Albert .ven t had her PICTURE taken elnee Wu mWailaee'.'.V.^'lSSt ie was In Long Dressea Tou don't DeLoaoh Whltesides Filbert cactly want to keep her as she is? PLEASE PAY UP it You Want to Keep the Memory. 1 CANNOT possibly get round to all L the subscribers to THE ENQUIR __ . _ ER on my club before the close of the 1IC U IODIC CTIinill ?onte8t- 1 respectfully request all who Mr nflKKI.l .1 I 1111111 have not already done so to please pay ||L 11 ilIIII1U UlULPIU the subscription price at once, either to me or at The Enquirer office. HELBY YORKVILLE 14tf A. W. McFARLAND. i