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JjU'raorotw department. The Reason for It?Herbert Putnam. librarian of congress, smiled the other evening when the conversation turned to henpecked husbands, relates the Washington Star. He said that the reference to poor old father reminded him of a certain incident. Some time ago a man from the city spent a few days in a country town and while there a real estate dealer tried to interest him in suburban scenery. Returning to his hotel that night the city man saw the agent in the lobby. "Look here, old fellow," remarked the city man, "I thought you told me that you didn't have malaria down in this section?" "That's just what I told you," was the prompt declaration of the agent, "and 1 told you right." "Maybe you did," doubtfully returned the city man, "but just the same I saw a man down the road a few min utes ago with chills ana rever. i "Oh, I see now," smiled the real estate man, with a look of enlighten- I ment. "That was Smith. He was shuddering and shaking to think what i his wife would say to him when she got home." ? i His View of a Socialist.?My Idea of a Socialist is illustrated by the following story, says William C. Hudson, in the Brooklyn Eagle. Mike met Pat in the street one day. Said Mike; "I hear, Pat, that you have turned Socialist" "I have that," replied Pat. "What is socialism?" asked Mike. "It is owning everything in common and dividing with each other," replied Pat "If you had two horses, would you give me one?" asked Mike. "I would." "If you had two cows would you give me one?" "I would that" "If you had two goats would you give me one?" "No, I would not" said Pat, "for 1 nave xwo goaio. Error of Hit Ways.?"A good New Year resolution for a middle-aged married man?" said George Ade at a dinner in Chicago. "Well, the best resolution a middle-aged married man could make, according to my view would be for him to swear off tellin. his wife and children about the girls he used to kiss in his younger days. "I'd say to the middle-aged man of this type: "Suppose, friend, your wife fell into a reminiscent, Jovial mood some evening after supper and started to tell about the boys who used to kiss her by the wood stove in the dim parlor wouldn't the dove of peace flap her wings and light out p. d. q. just?" Must Know.?The talk was about a member of congress who has taken an active part in furthering the currency legislation, says the Cleveland Leader. "Has he any special knowledge of the currency?" asked the western man. The Boston man looked at him with the indignation with which perhaps his ancestor of the same name received the information that the British parliament had passed the stamp act. "Has he any special knowledge of it?" he repeated with a rising inflection that made the questioner wish he were back in Kansas City minding his own business. "Why sir, he is a Harvard man!" Weighing the Anchor.?Two small boys looked on with amazement as a rtttsourg ordnance officer threw some defective scales in the river. "What's he doing that for?" asked the smaller one. "I guess some vessel is going to weigh its anchor," confided his companion.?Buffalo Express. Biting on Germs.?Some one told a certain young woman, says the Orleans Progress-Examiner, that the family physician had said that there were thousands of germs in ice-cream. "And all the time," ran her comment, "I thought they were Just strawberry seeds." Ho Wasn't 8ure.?"Won't you be very happy when your sentence is over?" cheerfully asked a woman of a convict in prison. "I dunno, Ma'am, I dunno," gloomily answered the man. "You don't know?" asked the woman, amazed. "Why not?" "I'm in for life."?Exchange. How It Was Accounted For.?"How does it happen," said the teacher to the new pupil, "that your name is Allen and your mother's name is Brown?" "Well," explained the small boy, after a moment's thought, "you see, she married again and I didn't." 8ecret Society.?'We're making more headway than ever," she said: "We have a secret society, Ned." "And what," he inquired, "may its purpose be?" She replied, "Oh, we meet and tell secrets, you see." ?Lippincott's Magazine A Protracted Service.?They must have long church services in a certain western town where a paper announced of a certain church: "The regular services will commence next Sunday at 3 p. m., and continue until further notice."?Exchange. Deceived.?"And what grounds have you for divorce?" '.'He deceived me." "In what manner?" "He asked me to be the mistress of a dear little home, and it turned out to be a cheap little rent house."?Houston Post. Why Did She Think So??"No." said the mistress of the boarding HOU51*, wr uaiuiui avvuiiiiiivuobc j vu? I am sorry to say. We only take single gentlemen." "Goodness!" said Mr. Borden: "what makes you think I'm twins?" First Lawyer?I was looking over my boy's geometry lesson last night. I was quite interested in that proposition, that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. Second Lawyer?That isn't very complicated. It Pays to Advertiso.?"Does advertising pay? I lost a five-dollar bill on the street." "Well?" "I advertised and so far I have received three five-dollar bills."?Pittsburg Post. TILLMAN AND BLEASE (Continued from First Page), I can prevent it. As to the further statement, "and the building of the new institution out a State Park," I appointed Col. Elbert H. Aull, Hon. O. Lk Johnson and Hon. James M. Payne, and reappointed Drs. Babcock anu Robert Wilson on that commission. I know that these men are absolutely opposed to the sale of this property, and are today begging and pleading with you, the general assembly of south Carolina, to provide the money to tinish this work, and I have alreauy transmitted to you gentlemen an invitation from them, urging you to visit State Park, in order that you may see tor yourselves the needs in connection with this development. The letter then goes on to state: "An effort will be made to smirch Dr. Babcock and his lady assistant, Dr. Saunders, as these men must have some excuse, you know, and are not at all scrupulous." I herewith quote in full resolutions adopted by the board of regents on the 16th day of January?this very month?1914: "Whereas, Mr. O. L. Saunders has presented a petition asking for a reopening of the investigation of charges against Dr. Saunders for interfering with other members of the medical staff of this institution; and, "Whereas, this matter has been thoroughly investigated at a previous meeting, as resolution this day adopted shows; and, "Whereas, there were no charges from any source before this board, or under investigation by this board, as to the moral character of the said Dr. Saunders, or as to her ability to perform the duties of the office which she is holding; "Be it resolved, That this board is of the opinion that it is for the best interests of said institution, and for the best interests of this lady, that this entire matier be closed, and that the same be dismissed. "Resolved, further, That this board puts itself upon record as stating that no charge whatever from any source has been made to them, by them or through them, as to the moral character or personal standing of Dr. Saunders. "Resolved, further, That the petltltion of Mr. Saunders Is respectfully declined, and that so far as this board s concerned, the entire matter stands at an end." tlemen are "not at all scrupulous," I presume that Drs. Babcock and Wilson. and Messrs. Payne, Aull and Johnson, and the board of regents? Dr. Julius H. Taylor, Hon. James A. Summersett, Hon. John D. Blvens, Dr. W. L. Settlemeyer and Dr. T. R. Carothers?are willing for their personal and public careers to have the light thrown upon them. The letter says: "I am writing this letter to you to beg that you will bend all your energies and lend all your influence to help Dr. Babcock in this crisis." What "this crisis" is, of which he speaks, I know not. Now, gentlemen, here is this letter containing these serious charges that these men are attempting to manipulate the sale of this property, and as to their being unscrupulous, written and sealed under the seal of an envelope of the United States senate, by a United States senator, marked In writing, "personal," and when the letter is opened it is round to oe marked "personal" again. I cf 11 the letter to your attention, and t state the facts to you here, merely for the purpose of showing you that I have done my part to keep this property from being sold, and that the gentlemen whom this man has seen fit to term as my "underlings and satellites" are not doing what they are charged in this letter with doing. I realize that there is no action which you can take in the matter, so far as .he writer of the letter is concerned, and that the only thing which this message to you can possibly accomplish is publicly to expose this "personal" attack upon these gentlemen's characters?an attack which might have been used against them without their ever knowing of it. had not this muchly-marked "personal" come into my possession?in order that they may have the right to come before you and demand a full and free investigation, In order that they may show to the world that this "personal" attack is uncalled for and unwarrant I If further proof be needed to show the erroneousness of this United States senator's letter, I cite you to the fact that I attended a meeting of the sinking fund commission last year, at the request of Drs. Babcock and Robert Wilson and Col. Elbert H. Aull, and that I asked Attorney General Peeples to go with me, which he did. At that meeting these gentlemen asked for a loan of $22,600 to carry on certain work at State Park, saying that the work would have to stop unless the money could be secured. It was my friend, Attorney General Peeples, who rendered the opinion that the sinking fund commission could make the loan, and it was I who made the motion that the sinking fund commission lend the money, and the minutes of the commission will show the following resolution offered by me at the meeting on August 15, which was adopted: "Resolved, That $22,500 be loaned to the state hospital commission from the cumulative sinking fund for the payment and redemption of South Carolina brown 4 1-2 per cent bonds, and that the said loan be made by issuing cumulative sinking fund warrant to Dr. J. W. Babcock, chairman, and E. H. Aull, secretary of the state hospital commission, to be used for the purposes set forth in the foregoing estimate signed by the said E. H. Aull, secretary of the state hospital commission, and for no other." This certainly proves that I was in ~ wl*V? fV?A u'Arlr of Ittvur VI 5UI115 Vll mm IIIV nvjft MV State Park, and that my friends were in favor of going on with the work at tSate Park. Tou gentlemen failed to make appropriation to carry on the work, and certainly none will accuse the majority of the senate or the rnaojrity of the house of beim "underlings" or "satellites" of Gov. Blease. On the contrary, it is the great boast of the newspapers and others that the majorities in both houses are bitterly opposed to Gov. Blease. And, further, if you will look today on the calendar of the house you will see a bill there, among th? first bills on the calendar?probably the very first?urging the sale of the asylum property, this bill being fathered by Messrs. Kibler, Belser and Robinson. Surely none will accuse them, or either of them, of being "underlings" or "satellites" of Blease, for they boast of the fact that they were elected as anti-Bleasites and that they are political enemies of the governor, and even when they meet him personally their animosity is so great they hardly speak. So, once again, you find that it is not my friends who are attempting to sell this property. In fact, gentlemen, it does seem to me that some people, before they make such charges, certainly ought to have common sense enough to look up the record. Verbal conversations mow Ko m ionnr?otniorl Hut writton messages from the governor to the legislature, and written resolutions kept by the governor's enemies certainly ought to record the truth. In this connection I desire to quote you in full message No. 51, of 1913, which went to the senate as a veto message, and came from the senate to the house, where the veto was sustained: Message No. 51. Gentlemen of the Senate: I return to you herewith without my signature. Act. No. 198 (S. 409, H. 636) "to provide for the transfer to the State Hospital for the Insane to the state park property, and for the disposition of the present plant and lands of said hospital." In the first place, gentlemen, I am absolutely and unqualifiedly opposed to the sale of this property at this time. There is a crowd of people who have for years been fighting and scrambling to get their hands on this property, and I do not propose to let them get it through my hands, or with my consent, for I do not propose to be a party to any such transaction. Your attention has been called to this matter on the floor of the senate and on the lioor of the house, but it seems that somebody has suihcient power 10 get well under way the movement for the sacrince of this property of the state at this time.^ Another reason, gemlemen for my declining to sign the measure is the fact that this property is worth a million and a half or two million dollars. vVhy snouid you place its value at a million dol'.ars wnen you know it is worth more? In audition, gentlemen, the people of South Carolina in the last election refused to vote bonds for the State Park investment, and to go ahead witn it at this ume would be to nullify the action of the people. You have no right to thwart that election 1 and to attempt to force the matter upon the people of this state. It has been argued that the people did not thorougniy understand the proposition because It was not sufficiently explained to them. Then pass another amendment as to bonds and submit it to the people again next year, and get a set of men to run for otilce who are not afraid of what they have done, and who will not simply go around abusing one man, but who will take up the issues and discuss them like men, and face these issues betore the people. Another and very important reason for my veto is this: Both your houses know, and every member of your general assembly knows that there are members of the sinking fund commission today who do not speak to each other. You know there is intense and bitter political strife in that commission, and yet, knowing of that enmity, knowing that they are now struggling in a law suit in the supreme court on the refunding of your state bonds, you are willing to place in their hands 11,500,000 or $2,uOu.OOO worih of property, and bring another lawsuit, another struggle and another scramble. Some members of your sinking fund commission do not even attend its meetings. Did you know that, and was it your purpose to place the sale of this property in the hands of three or four members of that commission, depriving the others of the right to have anything to say in the matter, and yet bind them by acts of the three or four? If you did not know this, you certainly must not read your newspapers, or even your reports and messages, for it certainly has been drummed into your ears that the sinking fund commission has strife in its. ranks that is serious and can hardly be ended, for I asked you to help me end it but you did not. And why you should pass a bill of this, kind, and place the disposal of this property in the hands of this commission, knowing of the ill-feeling and knowing: of the strife, is beyond m> comprehension. There is another very dangerous provision in the bill. Section 3383, volume 1, code of laws of 1912, provides: "The lot upon which the hospital stands, containing four acres, etc., is vested in the board of regents of sait) hospital and their successors in office, for the uses and purposes of the hospital," Now in order foi the sinking fund commission to give title to this property, this section has to be repealed. If it is repealed, this property evidently is taken out of the hands of the regents. And then who is to control this property and to perform the other duties now imposed upon the regents, pending this sale? You will see that you are attempting by this act to authorize one commission to sell land which is already vested in another, and it seems to me that if the title is to be given to thb property it should be made by and the sale conducted by this board of regents, in whom the title now vests. I am satisfied that a close study of this section of the code and a close study of your act will show that there is an inconsistency that is irreconcilible, and which certainly will giv sufficient foundation for raising a doubt which will Justify securing a decision of the court in reference to the title before any purchaser will accept a deed from any other than the regents. I am fully satisfied, of course, that the regents cannot make a sale of this property except by order of vhe general assembly. I shall certainly fight the disposal of the property at this time and in this manner. Even if you should pass this measure over my veto, I would, if necessary, go into court and ask for an injunction, through the attorney general's office, holding up this sale. I shall do everything in my power that is fair and honorable to keep this valuable property from being sacrificed, and I warn you now that whatever may be the cost or expense, or the result, the responsibility will rest upon the shoulders of those who force this bill through, if it is forced 1 through. I beg you not to make the issue, for it will cause turmoil and trouble, and will cost taxpayers of South Carolina?I cannot say what sum of money, but certainly a considerable sum?in lawyers' fees and lawsuits before it is completed. Whatever the cost, I shall make the fight in their interests. Such a thing as this might have been forced down the throat of some governors, but it is not going down mine, gentlemen, and you had Just as well know It right now. If any of you had been kind enough to have advised with me, or consulted me in regard to the matter, what I am now stating to you would not have been kept hid from you. The bill has not been presented to me, and I am giving you my reasons fully and frankly. Put it in the hands of the sinking fund commission! Gentlemen, it is ridiculous. If you did not want it sold you ought to have said so, for this is certainly a most astute dodge. I hope you will not pass the bill and bring about any further unpleasantness among some of your state officials, for we have had enough. But the most serious objection, as I have stated, is the sacrifice of the people's interests. There is another serious objection to the bill. You have a provision here, which, in my opinion, is clearly in violation of the constitution of your state. Section 7 of the act pro- ! vides: "Each member of said sinking fund commission shall receive, as compensation for his services, 'the sum of $5 per day and all necessary traveling expenses." etc. Now gentle men, your governor cannot accept that; your comptroller general cannot accept it;' your attorney general cannot accept It; your state treasurer can not accept it. It is clearly unconstitutional, and upon that ground alone ( I am satisfied a suit could be won, . asking for an injunction against the . operation of this measure. But I do ; not want the turmoil and strife, gentlemen, and I ask you to save me, to ( save yourselves, and to save the state , from it. I would respectfully advise, and earnestly urge, that this matter be j left open until the next session of the , general assembly, for a lawsuit would probably hold matter in statu quo until that time anyway. I am pleading, gentlemen, for the < interests of the people of South Carolina in this valuable property. i Cole L. Blease, Governor. Columbia, S. C.. Feb. 27, 1913. I When this message was read in the house of representatives, the Journal records that "Messrs. Kibler, Belser, ' Liles and Greer spoke in favor of the passage of the bill." over my veto. Neither one of these gentlemen is an 1 "underling" or "satellite" or even a ' political or personal friend of Gov. Blease. "Messrs. Irby and Moore spoke against the bill," which was to sustain my veto, and prevent the sale Ul IUC piUJJVl IJ. iJV'LlI gCllliCmen are good and true personal and political friends of the governor. Now. here is the conclusive proof that my enemies were voting to sell the property, while my friends, along with me, were trying to keep it from being sold. Yet thl3 letter charges that Gov. Blease's friends want to manipulate the sale of this property. Very respectfully. Cole L. Blease, Governor. Something to Boaat About.?"If I were inclined to brag, it would not be about anything that I had done." "No?" "I could brag very loudly, too. if it were my disposition, but it would not be about things I am going to do some day." "Then what would It be about?" "For one thing I could boast for some time on the fact that I have never worn a velvet necktie or a plush fedora."?Detroit Free Press. t piscellaneous ^fading. JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS Interesting Personality of New Comptroller of the Currency. The senate on Monday confirmed the nomination of John Skelton Williams to be comptroller of the currency, despite the opposition of certain Wall Street interests. The following article giving an idea of who Mr. Williams is and some of the inwardness of the situation, was printed in the Washington Times of last Sunday: It is one of the most curious circumstances of latter day politics that John Skelton Williams, who for years has fought the big powers of Wall street, is now opposed because it is alleged that he is an ally of the Ryan and Morgan and other interests. Nothing could be farther from the fruth than fhla Ignorant of Facts. The opposition to Williams, indeed, has been predicated almost entirely on ignorance of the facts. He had been a railroad president and a banker of importance; therefore when he was named for assistant secretary of the treasury, captious critics of the administration jumped to the conclusion that he represented the connection between Wilson and Wall street. In truth Wall street liked Williams rather less thr.n anybody that could have been brought into the government; and the reasons why it disliked him make up one of the romances of big business, and of the upbuilding the new south, in the last generation. There will be a hot fight against confirmation of Mr. Williams for comptroller. That he will be confirmed is not doubted by those who know the facts about his career. They say that just as soon as the truth is understood, there will be an end of opposition from men who are sincere In the wish to thwart Wall street domination. Ryun Interest Hostile. The National City bank Is named as one of the Interests especially hos.lle to Mr. Williams; but the Ryan .nterests are supposed to be no more .'rlendly. The antagonism grows out of the long series of tights between Williams on one side and the New fork financiers on the other, for con.rol of the Seaboard Air Line railway. Mr. Williams was Just about the last provincial financier in the country strong and able enough to keep control of the big railroad away from vVall street. That was the head and ..ront of his offending. After Wall street firm had comfortably organized itself Into control of the Southern, the Louisville & Nashville, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Illinois Central; after, in short, the community of interest was all but completed? then this Richmond banker Injected himself into the situation. Born in Richmond three months after Appomattox, Williams is of the finest old Virginia cavalier stock. He went early into his father's banking house, and before he was of age was publishing a manual of southern investment data that became widely known. When he was 28 years old, but already a careful student of southern fiscal affairs, he was sent down into the black belt country to look after some interests in organizing a little road that was in frouble. Had Pat Plan. New York veterans at the business had a pet plan; Williams worked out another; and this boy financier made such a fight that he forced adoption of his plan. The Alabama & Georgia railway was organized out of the wreck, and with abou': 300 miles of very bad road. The youthful Williams, having beaten all the veterans, was invited to be president of the road; and witn some reluctance accepted. At 29 he ...... rt/ +W/V lit v* us iiistuiicii us picaiucui ul mc miile company. He bought and extended, and shortly had 450 miles of road, and annual earnings raised from $400,000 to $1,200,000. The road was doing well. Out of this grew the Seaboard. About 950 miles were included in the old patchwork of broken-down lines called the original Seaboard Air Line. Williams wanted it, to connect with his Alabama and Georgia. Through his banking houses at Richmond and Baltimore, and with the assistance of some personal friends In the north, he succeeded In getting control of the Seaboard, buying the stock from the former president, Hoffman. Further, he secured the Florida Peninsular lines, further south, and planned to connect them up, and make what is now the Seaboard. Ryan Was Unforgiving. Here came in Thomas F. Ryan and the New York elements. Ryan claimed that he had a deal with the Hoffman group, and that he was to have got the road. Williams beat him to it, and Ryan, left with a big minority interest, was unforgiving. That began the fight. Samuel Spencer, then president of the Southern system, was as much milted as was Ryan. Spencer saw his Florida lines taken from under him; he didn't even know how the Southern was to get its traffic into Florida; , and he esteemed it most inconsiderate for this provincial banker to interfere with well organized plans of 1 the big Wall street figures. The rest of Wall street felt the same way. Williams planned first to bring the Seaboard into Richmond, and did; but that was only a beginning. At i that time the Washington-Richmond j line was controlled by the Pennsyl- . vania and the Atlantic Coast Line. Williams, unable to get the privilege of using the line north of Richmond, i went to the Virginia legislature and , asked a charter to parallel the Coast Line. There was a long and bitter ' Right over this; the most bitter, because, while Williams was fighting a t monopoly, it happened that the state | cf Virginia held a financial interest in the old road, and to permit it to ' be paralleled might kill the state's 1 Eoose that was laying golden eggs. Cassatt Sent for Him. < While the fight was on. President Casatt. of the Pennsylvania, sent for . Williams, and proposed to drop it, and let the Seaboard have a contract to come into Washington. i "Not now," replied Williams. "I'm j going to get this charter first, then , I'll talk to you." And he did. That much assured, he went back 1 to Cassatt. "Now," he said in effect, "break up your monopoly; let the ] Baltimore & Ohio into the privileges of that conflicting line, and the rest of them; build it into a first: class 1 mart and nut it in control of a hold- i Ing company Jointly owned, in equal , parts, by the six systems that want . to use it; then we can get together." It was not a pleasant dose, but the 1 terms had to be accepted, lest the < country banker, suddenly grown into , the biggest independent railroad fac- . tor in the country, should carry out 1 his threat to build a new parallel line 1 into Washington. So the Washington-Southern company was formed, to hold the Richmond-Washington line for the six big roads that now use it, the Seaboard ' being one of them. I Under Williams the Seaboard pros- , pered and extended, but all the time Ryan was fighting it at every turn. ' Litigations and stock market manipu- I Eation were forced persistently. Some times one crowd was on top and in ( control. Sometimes the other. At length, following the troubles of 1907, 1 when the Ryan group was in control, i the property got into financial straits. ) it was forced to a receivership, and in their extremity the opposition came to Williams and in effect permitted him ( to take control. His brother, A. Lan- 1 caster Williams, .was made, at his dictation, one of the receivers; the road was given an excellent administration unuer the receivership, and at the end of eighteen months was ready to be handed back to its stockholders. With the reorganization, John Skelton Williams came back to the top again; he went on the board, and on the executive committee, and there he remained until, displeased with some methods of the executives, which he was unable to defeat, he retired and directed that he could no longer serve on the board. Throughout this contest, beginning in 1898, and continuing down to date, Williams and Ryan have been at sword's points. They have sometimes fought to a draw, sometimes they have compromised; always they have been in the business of saying and publishing various things aDout each other. It is one of the ironies of public life, that at the end of more than a decade of such warfare, Williams could now be branded as the friend, litigations and stock marget manipuwiil without question be laid before congress in all detail, and when they are fully understood the confirmation of Mr. Williams will be forthcoming. A suggestion of the amiable relations that existed between Williams and Ryan, and also of the style of ex pression they were wont to employ when exchanging compliment* during the years of their long warfare, is suggested by a characteristic interview of Mr. Williams. It was apropos of Ryan's purchase of control of the Equitable Life Insurance society. Williams wasn't pleased, and when the New York World asked him what he thought, Mr. Williams passed out these liitle testimonials of his affection and esteem for Ryan: "As a policyholder of several years' standing in the Equitable, I cannot regard Mr. Ryan's connection with it except with serious apprehension. "I have known Mr. Ryan six years, and in that time have been associated with him in enterprises in which we were mutually interested and opposed to him in struggles for the control of properties. Sometimes I have won and sometimes he has, and we have had drawn battles and compromises. In these differing relations I found him an endless puzzle. Difficult to Understand Man. "I had been so fortunate in my business connections that it was difficult for me to understand that a man could be capable of violating pledges and promises, deliberately and solemnly given, and afterward of looking me ralvnlv In thA fnoA onH AYnrAaafnc friendship and apparently not at all ashamed or embarrassed?not even angered when bluntly told my opinion of his conduct. I "Mr. Ryan has the tendencies which, if his lines had been cast In a humble and contracted sphere, probably would have made him a kleptomaniac. His strongest impulse is to acquire money and his one robust passion is to keep it. He views ethics and morals cynically. He knows what they are, respects them in a general way, realizes their occasional value, but never allows them to hamper, impede or embarrass him. "As I have said, it was long before 1 came to realize all this clearly. Mr. Ryan is very smooth and plausible. He has no scruples that I can discover, but his methods are never violent. He has a clear mind and a long one and the gift of infinite patience. He never breaks his way into a situation. He buys in or insinuates himself, softly and by degrees, or goes a long way around and approaches from ambush in the rear. He can await his opportunites, and when they arrive recognize them in a flash. "He has developed the voting trus; to a science. It harmonizes with beautiful exactness with his methods anu habits. It concentrates power in hi uMiuo, auu IUUAU pvrwvi auu IUUIC money. It enables him to work in secret and to reach out and take, so th | those who are deDrived, while feeling; their loss, cannot quite see who has obtained or how. I imagine that he has a certain Mephistophelian humor, and really is amused by the bewilderment of the victim. I think he enjoys especially his occasional opportunities to use really good, straight, sound men in the execution of his purposes and to make them his unconscious accomplices and assistants." GRIT THAT WOULD NOT DOWN Fighting With the Hilt After the Blade Was Broken. The American Magazine has been offering prizes for the best letters entitled "What I Am Most Thankful For," and in the November number publishes the three prize winning contributions. The following letter won ilrst prize: "Of all the blessings which I can count as belonging to me this year ana ior wmcn 1 am most mamcrui, 1 am most thankful that I have not lost my grit. "Eleven years of time and strength and everything we had have gone into the making of our 160-acre homestead here in North Dakota; and yet, today, if we sold everything we possessed we could just about pay our debts. "A long series of erop failures from drought and hall, and a much and well-advised venture of buying a traction which then did not work, and was eventually (but too late for our good) replaced by the company with a new one, have eaten up all we have been able to make. "It has been most discouraging, and the past year has been one of exceeding and unceasing worry and work of mind and body for both my husband and myself. "Through it all I have been most thankful that I was able to keep my courage and help my husband keep nis, as ne Dore me worst 01 tne Burden, being: the provider and the one who had to meet and stave off creditors. "Now, when we are practically assured of time (which is what we most need) to retrieve ourselves, we can Btop and take stock. "Against these adversities we can say that for eleven years we have lived decently, not lacking either food or clothing which was necessary. "We have been bringing up three children in good and healthy conditions, and we have enough simple pleasures to keep us well and happy In spite of our troubles. "We have had sickness and accidents, but none were fataf. "When things were at their worst, ill I had grit enough for was to say that we were young enough and strong enough to start in over again md make a success yet; because I will not doubt our ultimately succeed Ing. "I would keep saying to myself, 'We might be much worse off.' 'We might not have enough to eat or to wear or , i good home,' or, most of all, we might have lost hope, under our mountain of debt, as many do, and lapsed into a listless, ambitionless life with noth'ng ahead for ourselves or! children; so I am most thankful that' aur grit has carried us through and has given us doggedness and perseverance enough to carry us through whatever more may come." New Daily in Anderson.?We wish to whisper a word to several thousand friends?Confidentially, don't try to start a morning daily paper on the 13th af the month.?Anderson Daily Intelligencer. Take it from one who has been through it twice, there is no day of the month that is the right one to start a lewspaper. If it has to be done, the right thing to do is to go off and hide jntil it is over, and let some one else lo the launching act.?Anderson Daily Vf ail. YORKVILLEPROOF Should Convince Every Yorkville Reader. The frank statements of a neighbor, toTHncr tho morlfo of n romoHvr Bids you pause and believe. The same endorsement By somo stranger far away Commands no belief at all. Here's a Yorkviile case. A Yorkviile citizen testifies. Read and be convinced. W. H. Herndon, merchant, Main St., Yorkviile, S. C., says: "I was subject to attacks of backache and I was also troubled by irregular passages of the kidney secretions. Doan's Kidney Pil!s, which I grot at the York Drug Store, restored me to good health." Mr. Herndon is only one of many Yorkviile people who have gratefully endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your back aches?if your kidneys bother you, don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?ask distinctly for Doan's Kidney Pills, the same that Mr. Herndon had?the remedy backed by home testimony. 50c all stores. Foster-Mllburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. "When Your Back is Lame?Remember the Name." GREAT OFFER Return ten subscriber# to The Enquirer and get a 31 piece Dinner Set. See prospectus. | The Midi ^ Still the best substiti light of the Rayo La J penetrating, yet neve ^ Rayb 5 The Rayo is the best ? results ot years ot si ^ nickel-plated brass? SSS Easy to clean and re> without removing The best lamp you i price will surprise yo (JL STANDARD O \Vb Washington, D. C. (New J >W| Richmond, Va. BALT1I . 1913 1914 Many thanks to my friends of York county for their trade during 1913, and will appreciate all they can do for me durine 1914. I hope all will continue In good health and be prosperous during 1914. Sincerely yours, W. H. HERNDON j ..GET REA i) IN TWO OR THREE WEEK A WILL BEGIN WITH A RUSH AN V LATE TO WASTE TIME HUNTIN ER THE MANY THINGS YOU W1 A THE FARM THIS SPRING. TA X SEE WHAT YOU NEED?THER E LET US SUGGEST A FEW OF TP ? PLOW STOCKS. PLOW R J PLOW HANDLES. HEEL X CLEVISES. HORSE AND M v pads, bridles. back hames and hame str J axes, handles, poult j for the early gardener2 yes, we have new crc Shoes, rakes, shovel all the other essen' dening. see us for 1 have it. j or. imi. s: Come To My Store And you will find everything you want to eat. My stock Is large and complete. I SELL? "King Komas," Louisiana Syrup, Georgia Cane Syrup. Also Syrup made by \V. S. VVilkerson of Hickory Grove. /. W. JOHNSON THE COFFEE AND TEA STORE. SPECIALS FOh SHC Sixteen Cases of Ladies' SHOES Ji Guaranteed to give satisfactic One lot of Men's Guaranteed Sol weight?For this Week Only HA One lot of Ladies'. Misses' and C express, in all colors, Red, B Week Only? One lot of Little Boys' HATS, bea store in the country for 98 C< DRESS GOODS SCOTLAND GINGHAMSCALICO, Standard Prints, 8 and 1 Dress GINGHAMS, 11 and 12 ce PERCALES, 36 inches wide, assor RIVERSIDE PLAIDS, 10 and 12 1 Yorkville Ba McNEEL BLOCK ? |?| THE CITY MARKET WE BUY EGGS What's the use running all over town to sell Eggs, when we pay you the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE IN CASH, first shot out of the box? We want all the Butter we can handle, and when a first-class article Is handed to us we generally buy. We are selling the BEST BEEF to be had on this market, and about as good as the best that Is to be had In any other market in this State. We get a Fresh shipment of OYSTERS every other day, and we sell our Oysters only while they are Fresh. Cured Hams and Boiled Hams, Wholesale and Retail, and the Best Breakfast Bacon to be had in like quantities. c.nr<K.?ni?wnoie or ouueu, auu mo Best to be had. We are here to give service. C. F. SIIERER, Proprietor. DON'TSend out of town for a TINNER to do your Roofing. Guttering and Sheet Metal Work, as I am on the Job at all times. All work Cash. G. W. KUNZ. GREAT OFFER Return ten subscribers to The Enquirer and get a 31 piece Dinner Set See prospectus. L. M. GRIST'S SONS. if//yyyy/n vy light Sun ? ite for daylight?the 2 mp. Soft, clear and m ir hurts the eyes. ^ Lamps V : oil lamp made?the fi tudy. Made of solid, / durable and simple. fl viek?can be lighted f chimney or shade. J can buy, and its low *A u. r iealers J IL COMPANY ? ersey) Charlotte, N. C. MORE Charleston, W. Va. Charleston, S. C. Appreciation We appreciate the confidence reposed in this Bank by our customers during the past year. We desire to show our appreciation by giving you the best service possible at all times. We wish you a prosperous 1914, and hope to merit a continuance of your patronage. We shall be pleased to I serve you. Bank of Hickory Grove HICKORY GROVE, S. C. ] __________________ 1 dt"now7] a mil? nrnov nm tup paru ^ 1 D WHEN IT BEGINS IT IS TOO 3 G UP AND GETTING TOGETH- V [LL NEED IN YOUR WORK ON KE STOCK RIGHT NOW AND 3 J COME TO US AND GET IT. A ; [E THINGS YOU MAY NEED: Z 1 IOULDS, PLOW BEAMS, , SCREWS AND BOLTS, J [ULE COLLARS, COLLAR < BANDS. PLOW LINES, V INGS, TRACE CHAINS. f RY FENCE WIRE, ETC. A )P GARDEN SEEDS, AND k S, PITCHFORKS, AND I TILS FOR EARLY GAR- f WHAT YOU NEED. WE J riROTJIF \ ??^^???? I Pay For Ashes If YOU have any kind of property that is burnable, good business Judgment demands that it be KEPT IN- I SURED. It may never burn, but it ( is a fact that NOT LESS than $350,- ( 000,000 worth of properly of various kinds went up in smoke during 1913, which was about an average year, and it is calculated that at .east that much will be reduced to ashes during 1914. I represent TIME-TRIED and FIREit is calculated that at least that much are amply able to carry every dollar's : worth of property in York county. YOUR property may burn this year. < Don't you think you can ill-afford to carry the risk when for a comparatively insignificant sum you can place the burden on other shoulders? Paying for ashes is one of my specialties. SAM M. GRIST. ^ ! THIS W >ES List In; one lot from 2 l-2s to 8s; * >n?This Week Only? 98 CTS. lid Leather SHOES, in medium - $1.49 . TS J Jhildren's HATS Just received by lack, Blue and Brown?For this 49 CTS. Up uties for the price; sold in every ? ;nts. Our Price 49 CTS. ^ AND NOTIONS 3 CTS. Yd. 0 cent goods? 5 CTS. Yd. nt goods? 8 CTS. Yd. ted colors, 12 1-2 cent goods? 8 1-3 CTS. Yd. 1-2 cent goods?5 and 8 CTS. Yd. irgain House |? YORKVILLE, S. C. AUCTION SALES. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE is hereby given that, by authority of an order directed to me by H. E. DePass, Esq., Referee in Bankruptcy, I will sell before the Court House Door, Yorkville, S. C., on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND, 1914, at 12 o'clock, noon, at public auction, the following described property, be- ? longing to the bankrupt estate of H. 1 E. Davison, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being situate in County of York, State of South Carolina, on the water of Bullock's Creek, known as a part of the Hill estate lands, containing FORTY-SEVEN ' (47) ACRES, more or less, and having the following metes and bounds, towlt: Beginning at a post oak stump on Quinn's road and running with the said road to a walnut, thence S. 35 W. 10 to a post oak, thence S. 60 W. 8.30 to a post oak; thence S. 46 W. 8.60 to a post oak; thence S. 35 W. 4.10 to a gum; thence N. 4 E. 30 to the begin ning corner. For a more particular description see deed of O. C. Leech to ? E. H. Davidson, recorded In Book D-4, pages 668-676, also will of E. U. Davidson, Book B, page 15, Probate Office York County, and deed from Rebecca Davison to H. E. Davison, Deed Book "36," page 355. Terms of Sale?CASH. Title will be ? made by me as Trustee of the said H. E. Davison in bankruptcy. Jan. 9th, 1914. R. A. DOBSON, Trustee in Bankruptcy for Estate of H. E. Davison, Bankrupt 3 f 4t REAL ESTATE a ow that the fall season has opened up, and money is going to be more m plentiful, can't we do some business M together? Call In and let's talk the matter over, anyway. Vm T hnvfl jmM th* H T Willie m? residence. Tou remember I told you to "hurry." But, say, I have numbers of other attractive bargains. The Mrs. Berry .Cottage?On West Jeffers <n Street is a nice proposition. I am going to sell it, too. Want it? The W. L. Wallace Residence?On California Street, will suit you. See A me. Or possibly, you would like a nice lot on which to build. I have it The Walter Rose Place?Of 87 acres, one mile from town on the Charlotte road, Is an Interesting proposition. Call and see me. ? Mso see me about a nice farm on the Sutton Spring road. The price is right and the quality of the soil is good. Lots of other attractive property on my list. Geo. W. Williams REAL ESTATE BROKER. DON'T FORGET , We Clean and Repair Sewing Machine*. We sell Sewing Machine Needles of all kinds, and also attachments. We Re-Tire Go-Carts with Rubber Tires. Let us do your work now. The cost is small. ^ We make Picture Frames of all kinds and in all sizes, to order and the cost is very small. Let us do yours. Phone us. A few bargains in Second Hand Bicycles. See them. We sell the Best Range?The Irene ?on the market, for the money. We have sold scores of them and they please every buyer. Ask to see the IRENE. We sell everything in Furniture and House Furnishings and can please you in Quality, Style and Price. Let us Show You, We wilt be pleased. CARROLL FURNITURE CO * FOR SALE The residence of the late Dr. J. B. Allison, joining the new Presbyterian Manse. Can be cut into two beautiful building lots. The property of Dr. Mack White on King's Mountain Street, also 2 dwellings, property of Qulnn Wallace, et al, l a?i IT inir'a UA?niain Thle V/H A4II- (9 WVUII14UU Wbl UV7V. J>Ui? J?VJTcrty will be sold quickly and if you want it, see ma I have for sale three of the Finest Farms in York county, and they are very cheap at the price; to wit: The John Black?Henry Massey ^ homestead. ^ 600 Acres?The R. M. Anderson Farm. 410 Acres?Of the S. M. Jones-Ware Farm, about 4 miles from Rock Hill. Also 18 acres, and a nice cottage, beautifully located within the Incorporate limits of Yorkville. Read my list of Farms and send me some offers. 341 Acres?Known as the John A. Black-Henry Massey residence. Ad- mjoining R. M. Anderson ad others; has a beautiful 8 room residence; good bottom land; fine farm. Will divide this Into small tracts, and If bought as a whole for quick sale, will take $30.00 Per Acre. Two Good Houses?On King's Mountain Street. 249 Acres?Joins Frank Riddle and D. M. Hall; 2 good houses, 2 barns; near King's Mt. Chapel. < Price 951M J. C. WILBORN. Always On The Job Tes, I am always on the Job of keeping our Grocery Stock Fresh and Complete with the best of everything that Is seasonable and fit to eat? but it must be FIT or you will not Ind It here. Almost daily I am receiving some- g thing new?something seasonable? something that will tempt your appetite. Among our latest arrivals are? CALIFORNIA PRUNES . EVAPORATED PEACHES MARASCHINO CHERRIES PINEAPPLES IN CANS POTATO CHIPS And then there are lots of other things that are here that will help >ut wonderfully if you will have them >n your table. PHONE NO 34. ^ W. E.FERGUSON Jjrojffssional (Cards. = A 3eo. W. 8. Hart Jos. E. Hart JtlAKT & HAKT ATTORNEYS AT LAW YerkvilU S. C. Afitherspoon Big., Second Floor, Front 'Phone (Office) No. 58. 3. E. Finley J. A. Marion FINLEY I MARION ATTORNEYS AT LAW )pposite Court House Yorkville, S. C. Or. B. G. BLACK. Surgeon Dentist. Office second floor of the New Mc- ^ Jeel Building. At Clover Tuesday and ^ Friday of each week. JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Range YORKVILLE. t. C. "Typewriter Ribbons?All kindest The Enquirer Office.