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aumowus f rpartmnft. Hi? Unappreciated Courtesy.?"Will you take my seat?" he asked. She was clinging to a strap and she was almost beautiful, according to the Chicago Record-Herald. "Thank you," she replied. He got up rather reluctantly, and she sat down. Then he clutched the strap directly above her head and stood in front of her, bumping his knees against hers. "I am very glad to be able to give you a chance to ride in comfort," he said. "It is so good of you," she answered. 'There seems to be a few men who are willing to stand for tne sake of the ladies," he continued. "Yes," she assented. "I always am glad to offer my seat to a lady who appreciates my courte sy. "I am sure the ladles must always do that" "No, I am sorry to say that they don't They generally say thank you; but that is easily said." He looked down as If he expected a further assurance of her gratitude. She returned his gaze for a moment, and then coldly asked: "Well, did you expect me to kiss your An Obliging Clerk.?She came into the telegraph office and rapped on the i counter. The clerk remembered that she had been there about ten minutes before as he came forward to meet < her. He wondered what she wanted | this time. i "Oh," she said, "let me have that ] telegram I wrote just now. I forgot : something very important. I wanted to underscore "perfectly lovely* In ac knowledglng the receipt of that brace- < let. Will it cost anything extra r "No, ma'am," said the accommodat- ] ing clerk, as he handed her the message. j The young woman drew two heavy ( lines beneath the words and said: "It's , awfully good of you to let me do that. , It will please Arthur ever so much." , "Don't mention it," said the clerk. ( "If you would like it I will put a few , drops of violet extract on the telegram at the same rates." , "Oh, thank you, sir! You don't know , how much I would appreciate it. I'm , going to send all my telegrams through this office. You are so obliging." ( And the smile she gave him would < have done anyone good, with the pos- , sible exception of Arthur.?The Pathfinder. , ' 1 i Not a Point of Table Etiquette.? j They were watching the Giants and ( the Athletics in one of the world's ( series games?the baseball fan and ] the girl who was being initiated into j the intricacies of the game, says 3 Neale's Magazine. "What beautiful animals they are!" she suddenly cried, with a bust of enthusiasm. "Animals? Animals?" repeated her escort "Why, I'd rather be one of those baseball heroes than the greatest violin virtu8oso that ever lived." "How can you say so? Why, they seem hardly human. Of course, they're all right out there on the diamond; but fancy living with such creatures, sitting in the same room with them, dining with them! Look at that catcher there, crouching like a beautiful tiger ready to spring, then just imagine what his table manners must be." "Well, was the fan's loyal comment, "he seems to stand up to the plate all right" Speed Record Broken.?Two Irishmen employed on a man-o'-war, finding things a bit slow one morning, decided to liven them up a little. So Dennis, instructed by Mike, placed himsalf astride one of the big guns and held a deck-pail over the muzzle, relates the Pathfinder. "Now, said Dennis, "1ft 'er go!" 1 Whereupon Mike touched her off 1 and she went, sure enough?likewise 1 Dennis and the pail. When the officer 1 In charge came running up, he said. < "Michael, what has become of your s friend?" 1 "Oh, said Mike, "he Just went after * a pall of water." i "I see, but when is he coming back?" i "Well," answered Mike, "I'm sure I 1 can't tell exactly, but if he comes back 1 as quick as he wint, he'll be back ylsterday!" i , m 1 Tommy's father had been giving j him lessons in politeness, but hardly f dared hoDe that the seeds of his teach- i ing bad taken root. One day, hearing noise coming from the nursery, he investigated and found Tommy pounding his little brother. "I'm surprised. Tommy," said his father, sternly, "that you should hurt your little brother. Don't you know that it is cowardly to strike one who is smaller than yourself?" "Yes," replied the culprit, meekly, "but when you spanked me yesterday I was too polite to mention it"?Ladies' Home Journal. Couldn't Fool Him.?Young Albert was a very practical youth, and everything that he learned at school he endeavored to apply in his daily life and work. The lad had recently become very friendly with a little boy who had lately moved in that vicinity, and one afternoon his mother asked him if his little playmate was an only child. Whereupon Albert looked very wise ? and triumphant. j "He's got just one sister," he said. "He tried to catch me when he told , me he had two half-sisters, but I guess I know enough about fractions for that." < - - . A Cheerful Giver.?There had been a missionary sermon and collection at a certain church, and a little girl who seemed perplexed and meditative, says Tit-Bits. When she reached home she asked her mother whether the natives of Africa, of whom they had heard, wore any clothes. "No," replied the mother, "they don't." "Then," retorted the observant young lady, "what was the use of the button that father gave to the collection?" The Irish Way.?Two Irishmen were out for a row one day when their boat in some mysterious fashion capsized. One of them swam to shore, and after taking a "breather," was seen to start d back again toward the other man, who * was wrestling with the waves. * "Oi had to save mesself foist," re- v plied Pat, "and now, begorra, O'm go- 11 ing back to save Moike." v djttiscfUanfouji grading. FIRST OF THE FARMERS A Swiss Showing Americans How to Cultivate Land Properly. The land-poor farmer is a wellknown institution in the middle west He is frequent in all new countries, and it is impossible to convince him of the error of his way. He continues to hunger and thirst for more land, until at last he has to be content with six feet of it There is some reason in his ambition when he gets his land cheap, in the certainty that its value will rapidly increase; but when a man continues to buy land at a high price, merely to own it, and to be able to say that he owns everything between him and the horizon, his wisdom may be questioned. Thousands of American farmers who might be comfortable and happy, with money in the bank and tobacco in the old tobacco box, are eternally striving and straining to make the next payment on the west eight or the south quarter section, and to pay oft mortgages which are as threatening as funnel-shaped clouds. These farmers, in everything but land, are as poor as Job's distinguished turkey. They conduct their agricultural operations on a large and expensive scale. They cover so much ground that they can't do it properly and they haven't time to attend to fertilizing or soil analysis, or trifles of that kind. They cultivate their corn with four-horse cultivators, and get fifteen bushels an acre where they should get thirty; they wear out their land raising wheat, and the wheat goes to pa> for more land or to lift mortgages. In the country of big farmers a man who has to be satisfied with eighty acres is looked upon with pity, and he usually dies young of a broken heart. Arnold Martin came to this country from Switzerland to show the folly of this system. He was unconscious of the mission at the time. He had no idea that he was destined to be a yoice crying in the wilderness. He came in the steerage, and his highest ambition was to get a job on an American farm and draw the princely wages of which he had heard in his native Alpine village. It is eighteen rears since Arnold first beheld Liberty in her great act of enlightening, :he world, and Ellis Island resounded to the clang of his wooden ehoon. He was so poor that he had to work his way to the west, and when he eached Pawnee county, Nebraska, he ooked around him and beheld a fair ind fertile country, and decided to ;ravel no further. He secured a portfolio as third assistant to a 'armer of the vicinity, and for three rears he labored diligently, and made i reputation as a first-class farm land. He was a quiet young man with little talent as an elocutionist, jut he had good eyes and an excelent memory, and as he tolled he observed, and filed away facts for future eference. After three years of arduous toll le had saved $272, and then he deeded to embark in business for himself. He bought a tract of twenty teres near Pawnee City, paying $12.50 m acre for it. People who took an nterest In the young man declared :hat no punishment could be too severe for the man who sold him that :ract, for it was notoriously the vorst piece of land in the county. It vas rocky and rough, and the soil had 10 substance to it, and even the rat:le-snakes sidestepped it. Kindlearted folk called upon the mlsguid;d youth to express their sympathy ind mingle their tears with his, but, n his fatuous forgiving w-ay, he ; seemed perfectly satisfied with his mrgain, and the neighbors heard him modeling by the hour as he toiled on lis barren acres. Much water has run under the iridge since Arnold Martin made this ,'enture, and now his little farm is relebrated all over Nebraska, and its 'ame is spreading to the far corners >f the country. The agriculturists who imiled or wept when they heard of Arnold's foolish break now repair to lis home to receive instruction and idmonition from him. For he makes nore money from his 20 acres than he average farmer can hope to make 1 'rom 640 acres. Recently he took a lot of his prod- 1 lets to a dry farming congress at rulsa, Okla., and won prizes aggregating $1,167. He was the hero of 1 hat assemblage, and people crowded iround him all day long to ask him low the thunder he did it, and Arlold explained patiently and goodlaturedly. He makes no mystery of lis success. He is making a fortune in a piece of land American farmers considered too poor for a hog pas:ure, and he says he thinks he might lave done better had he purchased :en acres instead of 20. He believes hat 20 acres make almost too large . # 4 ~ 4 ~ I t lax in lur unv man iu anciiu iu; "The United States department of igriculture has sent some of its exjerts to Pawnee county to study Arlold Martin and his hip-pocket farm, ind one of those experts, after conemplating the owner's curves for a few days, said: 'This man is the irst of American farmers.' Then he vent back to Washington and prejared a special bulletin treating of Martin and his methods. Martin has never suffered from land lunger. At Tulsa he said to a group )f farmers: "A farm of 320 acres is i misfortune, and one of 640 acres is i downright calamity."?Walt Mason n Collier's. You Can't Keep Your Thoughts Secret. In the January Woman's Home Companion, Ralph Waldo Trine vrites a remarkable article entitled, 'Actualizing One's Ideals," an interring article extract from which folows: "It was that able writer of the 1 nind's processes, James Allen, who said: 'Men imagine that thought can >e kept secret, but it cannot; it rap- ' dly crystallzes into habit, and habit lolidifies into circumstances. . . . ' Han is a growth by law, and not a :reation by artifice, and cause and efect is as absolute and undeviating in he hidden realm of thought as in the vorld of visible and material things.' tmd again he says: 'A man is literaly what he thinks, his character being he complete sum of all his thoughts.' "As within, so without?always and nevltably. A thoroughly scientific oundation, we will find as we go leeply enough, underlies the statenent: As a man thinketh in his leart so is he. There is nothing by ^ay of habit, character, even achievenent that can get into a man's or a roman's life except through the ave- t nue of his or her mental life. Search as carefully and as critically as we will, we will find no exceptions to this rule. "It was that great seer, Emanuel Swedenbog, who delved so deeply into the -tws of Correspondence, who wrote: 'Every volition and thought of man is inscribed on his brain. Thus a man writes his life in his physique, and thus the angels discover his autobiography in his structure.' " HOME OF THE YAQUIS Country of Mexican Indians of Primitive Character. The Yaquis, now reported as having joined the Mexican Constitutionalists, have been reputed for generations the best savage fighters south of the Rio Grande. For the better part of four centuries they have resisted Spanish-American civilization, though they have had a sort of native civilization that enabled them all the better to baffle the Mexican authorities. The last serious uprising " i- 1 AAA of the Yaquis occurreu in ?3w, nucu they nearly destroyed a force of Mexican troops, and the Mexicans took terrible revenge by slaying many of the Yaquis, men, women and children, and carrying off nearly 260 of them into virtual slavery In Yuctan. Some authorities say that the Yaquis numbered 40.000 in the middle of the eighteenth century, and less than 15,000 at the close of the nineteenth, a shrinkage due to almost continual wars. There has been, however, a good deal of guess work as to these Indians, and until comparatively recent times, although official maps of Mexico pretended to plat the Yaquis territory, much of it had never been surveyed. It would take a pretty spry census enumerator to count and classify the Yaquis of the wild mountains. The chief historic home of the Yaquis is the central mountain region of Sonora, through which the Yaquis river flows into the Gulf of California. There is a loose employment of the term Yaquis, however, and it is applied by some persons to almost any of the shy, wild Indians living in western Mexico. The Pima and the Opata Indians joined with the Yaquis in at least one war, that of 1832, when a Yaqui chief conceived the notion of forming the Sonoran tribes into an Indian state. There had been a formidable rising of the Yaquis, seven years before, as there was a little more than 20 years later. Between ware the Yaquis on the edge of clviliza tion maintain trade relations with the Mexicans and some of them are employed in various occupations even in the cities. A Yaqui, however, is essentially a man of the wild, a shy creature, shunning the stranger, and resenting the intrusion of the white. The Yaquis raise some crops and make crude pottery and excellent woven articles, but they have no more than Walt Whitman, the passion for "owning things." They also hate superfluous clothing. When Mexico passed a law requiring all men to wear trousers, the Yaquis resented it as an outrage. After that law was passed it was no uncommon thing to see a Yaqui clad in nature's garb, and little else, approaching a city with his trousers in a neat bundle on his head, and his wares brought for sale perched on top. Near the entrance of the town, the good man would don his IIUUSCO aau naviu5 uiv place, transacted his business, and started back to his wilds, would pause outside of the police zone to remove the encumbering garments, so that he could make the better speed homeward. An adventurous American, now soberly employed in a highly respectable business on Long Island, when traveling some years ago across Mexico to the Gulf of California, encountered a fellow traveler, who persuaded him to make a detour into the Yaqul country. The stranger professed to believe that there were mines in the Yaqui territory worth prosecuting there. That has long been a belief and Sonora is rich in silver. There is also a persistent popular notion that the wild recesses of the Yaqui hide an old Mexican city in an excellent state cf preservation. The two travelers in this instance, soon got into the edge of the Yaqui country and found that the inhabitants made no resistance to their advance, but fled before them. , Women and children could be seen ( fading into the thicket as the Strang ers approached. Thatched huts were . found with the embers still warm on i the earth, but not a human being was in sight. The huts were absolutely : bare of food, and without other furniture than a few rude untensils and i here and there a woven mat. i Being well mounted, the travelers took a rough mountain trail and followed it for some hours. The narrator i of the story says that he saw no sign of Yaquis except that as they advanc- : ed they encountered from time to time at critical places in the trail, obstacles recently thrown up to ar- ! rest their progress. Sometimes two or three trees were felled across the trail, sometimes rocks or earth were thrown down from above to block the way. At one point where they halted his companion knelt behind a rock, took careful aim down the trail, and fired. They rode back a short dis- 1 tance and found a dead Yaqui with a a bullet hole in his forehead. The man had been dogging their footsteps for two or three hours, with intent, 1 his slayer explained, either to kill them or to catch them unawares and carry off one or both of their horses. To be left without a mount in that country was pretty nearly equivalent to a sentence of death. The tenderfoot was a bit uncomfortable by this time, but he helped toss the dead Yaqui over a precipice 1 and consented to ride on up the trail. They saw no Indians in their path, and at last a huge mass of rock an earth effectually blocked the trail. To remove the obstruction would have required hours of labor; to ride around it was impossible, since above ; rose the rough steep and below l?aped the precipice. The end of the expedition had come, and the two J turned back to reach the highway and go on with their journey to the gulf. [ They were unhindered in the return ^ journey, and they saw no Yaquis. If the death of him that had dogged their 3teps was known, no attempt was made , to avenge it. The huts were empty is before, though here and there i dark face peeped out at them a Tioment from the thicket. They final- j y reached the highway unacquainted , ivith the well-known secrets of the iTaquis. ' li-tT A new electric machine irons 1 sheets as fast as five girls can feed 6 hem to the rollers. PROSPECTING FOR RADIUM Most Precious Substjgrae Known Difficult to Find. On the side of canyons among the most inaccessible mountains of Colorado prospectors are perilously picking their way, clinging with axes and ropes to the steep cliffs, carefully sampling the earth and rock wherever certain stones show upon the almost perpendicular slopes. It is not gold they are seeking, but that far more precious mineral?radium. For the richest radium-bearing region yet discovered is there in the Paradox Valley, extending from Hydraulic on the north to the Mclntyre district on the south. The announcements by Dr. Robert Abbe, of New York and Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore, that certain fr?rmn r?f ranwr win he cured hv radi um applications, the establishment of a National Radium Institute for tie cure of cancer, the ever-increasing demand from Europe for the ores Item which this most precious substance is extracted, all coming within a lew months, have given a real boom to the mining of radium ores, a boom that would undoubtedly be greater thiji it is were it not for tie fact that very few prospectors would know radium ore if they saw it and fewer still would know what to do with it If they had it Radium mining and reduction is something of a gamble, anyway. For radium-producing ore exists only in pockets in the rock, and it is impossible for any one to estimate how much radium there may be in a "prospector's hole." Again, the healing value of radium is still uncertain. We have the assurance of a tew of the greatest experts in the world that they have cured many cases of cancer with it? that is, they have eradicated all traces of the cancer and this, after several vmra hnn nnt rMnnpflrpfl 'Rut' nhv sicians and surgeons have learned by bitter experience to be skeptical about all reported cures of cancer, for cancer has a devilish way of lying dormant for years and then suddenly reappearing, sometimes in the original spot, sometimes in another. Therefore there are many physicians who say one cm never call a case of cancer cured until the patient shall have died after ma:iy years, and of some other disease. The medical profession at large is still skeptical of these cures, and It is less than six months since the Medical Record administered to it a severe reprooi? for deliberately closing i.ts eyes to the cures announced by I)r. Abbe, Sir Frederick Treves and I)r. Kelly. This skepticism is quite comprehensible when it is considered that, in the words of Charles L. Parsons, of the United States bureau of mines.' "only three or four American surgeons have, so far as the bureau of mines is informed, been able to use it in quantities sufficient for the drawing of decisive conclusions." Again quoting Mr. Parsons "It is doubtful if there is at the present time in the hands of the medical profession in America more than a single grain of this element." As it takes several hundred milligrams to have any effect on cancer, it is not to be wondered at that surgeons who have experimented with the minute quantities they were able to obtain should have been disappointed In the results. The price of radium is prohibitive, except for very rich surgeons or for generously endowned institutions. This price is about $120 per milligram of radium metal. But radium metal does not exist in a pure state. It is on the market in the forms of radium ChloririA and pa H i 11 m hrnmldp whioh fl.re bought and sold on the basis of the metallic radium they contain. The present price is equivalent, approximately, to $91,000 a grain of radium chloride and $70,000 a grain of radium bromide. The newly discovered radium fields In Colorado are the richest known, but the highest estimate of the total quantity of radium in them all places it at only 900 grains. The highest estimate the experts of the bureau of mines have placed upon it is only about 180 grains, and this includes material of too low grade to be marketable. Most of the American radium is extracted from an ore called carrotte, which contains uranium oxide. As a r\ f i k a nrrno t rlnmo ri.1 Fii?AnAO n icouu ui liic cat ucuiauu juui v^cau buyers are now eager to get ore that contains as low as 1 per cent uranium oxide. The first radium was produced from pitchblende, the principal mines of which are at Joachimsthal, Austria. There are pitchblende mines also in Gilpin county, Colorado, and there were recently bought by Alfred I. du Pont, of Delaware. But the carnotite is by far the most important, and this ore is found in Insignificant quantities outside the United Ste.tes. The Denver office of the United States bureau of mines has received so many inquiries about these ores that it has drawn up a bulletin which Is sent in reply to all inquiries. This bulletin is as follows: "Radium is found with uranium minerals only. Wherever uranium exists, radium is also found in the mineral; and where there is no uranium, radium has never been found. Uranium and therefore radium are found in this country in carnotite and its associated minerals, and in pitchblende. "Carnotite is a lemon-yellow mineral, usually found in pockets of sandstone deposits. The mineral may be in the form of light yellow specks disseminated through the sandstone, or as yellow incrustations in the cracks of the sandstone; or may be more or less massive, associated with blue, black or brown vanadium ores. "Pitchblende is a hard, blue-black ore that looks something like magnetite, but is heavier. It is found in pockets and veins in igeneous rocks. This mineral is not nearly as widely distributed as carnotite. Occasionally It is found associated with an orange mineral called gummite. "The best way to test these ores is to wrap in the dark, a photographic plate in two thicknesses of black paper. On the paper lay a key and then, just above the key, suspend two or three ounces of the ore, and place the v/hole in a light-tight box. Pressure of the ore on the key and plate should be avoided. After three or four days develop the plate in the ordinary way; and if the ore is appreciably radio-active, an image of the key will be found an the plate. "The United States bureau of mines. ( Mo. 502 Foster Building, Denver, Colo, j s/ill be glad to receive any samples of i ares giving promise of containing ra- i lium and associated rare minerals, as , adicated by the test above described. ; I'hough it cannot undertake to make < ahemical analysis or assays of such | ninerals for private parties, it will l ndicate the advisability of further ; xamination." 1 So far as is known at present only ] one American concern has actually put American-produced radium on the market. Several have mined the ores and shipped them to Europe for reduction, but very recently the Standard Chemical company has entered the market with radium produced in Its works at Canonaburg, Penn. It costs a Colorado miner about $70 a ton to get his ore from the Paradox Valley to the principal market, which is at Hamburg, Germany, A 2 per cent ore will sell there for about $95 a ton. This represents only about one sixth of the value of the radium contained In the ore, so the miner scarcely gets his due share of the profits. The methods by which the milligram or so of radium is concentrated from the tons of ore through which it is spread are a secret. There are probably several different methods, each manufacturer having his own. But the general principle is well known. It is not a smelting process, such as is used in extracting gold or copper or iron, but is purely chemical. The radium raust be dissolved and then chrystalized in the form of a salt ?either radium chloride or radium bromide. Mme. Curie, with her discovery of plonium, i>aved the way and laid down the gereril rules. The ore is crushed and placed in large vats, into which a solution of carbonate of soda is poured. Heat brings the whole to a boiling point, after which it is filtered. More carbonate of soda solution is added for the purpose of washing out most of the sulphates. The liquid that results contains several alkaline earths, Including radium content of the original ore. This is now treated with pure hydrochloric acid. This dissolves these earths. The radium has now to be precipitated from the rest of the mass. This may be done either bv addine sulphuric acid. which forma a combination with the radium in the form of radium sulphate and has to be changed back into a carbonate by the addition of more carbonate of soda, or the solution may be saturated with hydrogen chloride, which precipitates only the radium and the barium chlorides, leaving the chlorides of lead, iron, calcium, etc., still in solution. These radium and barium chlorides are practically pure I and ready to be separated and crystalized. It is a complex process, difficult for any one but an expert chemist to understand. But it is to be simplified and all the mystery that still hangs about it is to be removed. Charles L?. Parsons, chief of the division of mineral technology, United States bureau of mines, in an address before the American Mining congress last October (from which most of the facts contained in this article are derived). announced a co-operative agreement between the bureau of mines and the newly formed National Radium Institute, by which the former obtains the opportunity to study scientifically the mining and concentration of these o&rnotite ores with a view to increased efficiency and the prevention of waste. The institute, which was founded by Dr. Kelly and Dr. James A. Douglas, of New York, each of whom subscribed (150,000 for it, has acquired twenty-seven mining claims in the Paradox Valley region and has already produced 100 tons of high-grade ore. A plant is to be erected in Colorado, and the Denver office of the bureau of mines has devised entirely new methods of extracting the radium. Mr. Parsons said that within a year the mill would be at work on a large scale, and would produce uranium and vanadluc as by-products. It will end the secrecy that still marks the work, as all the processes will be described in detail to the public. Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore, is a director of the National Radium Institute. He has in his personal possession more than 650 milligrams of radium and 100 milligrams of mesothorium, the effects of which upon cancer seem to be similar to those of raaiurn. ne win uireci. me use ui uicsc elements at a free clinic in Baltimore, and Dr. James A. Douglas and Dr. Robert Abbe will do the same in New York. The discovery, recently described in these pages, that the emanation, or gas, given off by radium is equally effective as the element itself, and that this emanation can be stored in lead plates and in water, seems to presage the no distant day when radium treatment shall be within reach of every patient of every physician instead of being as it is today, the exclusive privilege of those who are rich enough to pay for it and those who are so poor that they become entitled to treatment for nothing. ? Colonel du Pont has stated that his radium mines are to be devoted to public use. Dr. Douglas says that the radium product for the Kadium Institute will be its own property, to do with as it likes; it will not give it away; it will, however, sell none, but use it for curing cancer and such other diseases as may be found amenable to its rays. A radium bank, under the management of the United States department of health, has been suggested. The idea would be to establish a government monopoly; a storehouse from ] which radium could be sent as a loan 1 to any physician in the country who j needed it for the treatment of a case; ( a hospital to which any one could go ] and receive treatment at the hands of 1 officially employed experts. A bill has been introduced in congress withdrawing all radium-bearing ore lands from public entry. It is said that representatives of the foreign companies that are already producing . radium are trying to acquire some of these lands, and fear has been ex- J pressed lest the supply get into the hands of foreigners. The result of this i would be a continuance of the high I price. Dr. Douglas says that twenty grams of radium would be sufficient to sup- , ply all of the United States east of j Chicago with enough for the treat- ' mpnt nf all eases and for the produc- ' tion of emanations that could be stored in water or on steel points for use internally. 1 He is confident that radium ore will be found in other parts of America? ( already the discovery of what, is be- ^ lieved to be a deposit has been reported from near Mauch Chunk, Penn. The projectors of the National Radium Institute expect to make a profit t from the uranium and vanadium that are a by-product of the radium mining. They have made a contract with I the United States government by the terms of which the first seven grains i ot radium extracted from the first " 300,000 tons of ore belong to them and whatever additional may bo extracted is to be the property of the United States. This contract is for three pears. The project was undertaken at ^ :he request of the government to Dr. S SCelly, and they will allot 15 per cent of the product to the Crucible Steel company In payment for concessions j of ores. 1 I tzr Some one has figured out that i we spend more for beer than for bread 1 In this country. tsr Henry Paxton, aged 4, of London, ] England, recently voyaged alone to I New York. i m BAM PAW M. m Absolut* ROYAL?the m of all the baldr the world?cell great leavening purity. It maki biscuit, bread, e Insures you agi all forms of ad gowltbthelow The Place To MAKING HARDWARE Ol PUTS US IN THE POSH THE PEOPLE WHO HAV] BUYING IN LARGE QUAN' GET ADVANTAGE OF TH ENABLES US TO SERVE 1 ITY AND PRICES. FOR II GALVANIZED II COMPOSITION I THERE ARE SEVERAL GF I ROOFING?WE SELL THI THERE ARE SEVERAL ( TION?WE SELL THE BE LOTS?WE GIVE YOU LO\ Yorkville Ha AliVVVWVWI ^ The Light tc ^ Children should never light?it strains the ey ^ may be permanent. 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C flic Mrs. Berry Cottage?On West I Jefferson Street is a nice proposi- A/ tion. I am going to sell It, too. Want it? P riie W. L. Wallace Residence?On California Street, will suit you. See ei me. )r poss'bly, you wouia nice a nice 101 ? on which to build. I have it 11 die Walter Rose Plaoo?Of 87 acres, lr one mile from town on the Char- N lotte road, Is an interesting proposition. Call and see me. al Uso see me about a nice farm on the Sutton Spring road. The price is a] right and the quality of the soil is p] good. a, ^ots of other attractive property on ti my list. 3eo. W. Williams ~ REAL ESTATE BROKER. ^ 15 GREAT OFFER ti< Return ten subscribers to The En- n' uirer and get a 31 piece Dinner Set. ee prospectus. th L. M. GRIST'S SONS. *sr Dutch engineers have been engaged to supervise Peruvian harbor Improvements. tar More than one-third of Australia's residents live in four cities, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane. 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C. riMORE 2H?^l'sWc*" LIVERY IF YOU want Livery Turnouts or pleasure or for business driving, ire are prepared to serve you prompter and furnish first class teams on hort notice and at reasonable prices. TRANSFER WE MAKe a specialty of transerring passengers and baggage to nd from all trains. Phone us your esires and we will do the rest GRAYING WE ALSO give prompt attention o Light and Heavy Hauling of all [inds and give prompt service. See s at James Bro's. Sales Stables. ( Ve also do PLOWING for the public. M. E. PLEXICO & SON SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ENQUIRER * IBERAL PREMIUMS FOR CLUBMAKERS WHO RETURN NAMES. NOW IS THE TIME for Subscribrs to THE ENQUIRER to Renew leir Subscriptions and for prospective lew Subscribers to get the benefit of lub Rates. The price in clubs Is 1.75 for a Year, or $1.00 for Six lonths. * We are offering Nine Competitive remiums, with an aggregate value of 126, to be given to the nine Clubmak rs making tne Nine largest ciuds. Besides these Nine Competitive Pretiums we are offering an attractive j st of smaller premiums, but includ- i lg good values for Clubs of from Two c ames On Up. ^ Each Clubmaker gets full value for f II the work that he or she may do. 8 For full instructions to Clubmakers 8 nd specific details as to the various 8 remium offers, see the more extended 1 Jvertlsement being published from me to time, or write for information. Two names paid for constitute a Club tid entitle the Clubmaker to a prelum. New Subscribers whose names are ;nt in pievious to January 1, 1914, are ititled to the paper until January 1, 115 for the price of a year's subscri;>on. After January 1. 1914, New Anjal Subscribers will receive the paper * r a year from the date of entering elr names. L. M. GRIST'S SONS, Publisher, j EVERY STREET IN YORKVILLE Has Its Share of ths Proof That Kidney Sufferers 8?ek. Backache? Kidneys weak? 1 Distressed with urinary ila? Want a reliable kidney remedy? Don't have to look far. Use what Yorkville people recommend. Every street in Yorkville has its cases. Here's one Yorkville man's experience. n Let R. J. Mackorell, wholesale grocer. E. Liberty St, tell it He says: "For about a year I had attacks of backache and the secretions from my kidneys were unnatural. I decided to try a kidney remedy and gut a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills at the York Drug Store. Since I took them, I have felt much better and the pains and aches seem to have left. I don't hesitate to say that 1 Doan's Kidney Pills are a most reliable kidney medicine." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. Mackorell had. Foster-Mllburn ? Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. AUCTION SALES. NOTICE OF IALE NOTICE is hereby given that, by authority of an order directed to me ly H. E. DePaas, Esq., Referee in ^ Bankruptcy, I will sell before the Court House Door, Yorkvllle, 8. C., on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND. 1114, M at 12 o'clock, noon, at public auction, V the following described property, belonging to the bankrupt estate of R M E. Davison, to wit: M 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-8EVEN (47) ACRES, more or less, and having the following metes and bounds, towit: Beginning at a post oak stump on Qulnn's road and running with the 4 said road to a walnut, thence 8. 25 W. 10 to a post oak, thence S. 80 W. 8.30 to a post oak; thence S. 46 W. 8.60 to a post oak; thence S. 36 W. 4.10 to a gum; thence N. 4 E. 30 to the beginning corner. For a more particular description see deed of O. C. Leech to E. H. Davidson, recorded in Book D-4, pages <68-676, also will of E. U. Davidson, Book B, page 16. Probate Office York County, and deed from Rebecca Davison to H. E. Davison, Deed Book "36," page 365. 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 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 Vir>B>M ai?? -t * ? ~ *Mi?B d wvuiiuuu ou cOif <UUU ? UWW" V lings, property of Qutnn Wallace, et al, on Kinoes Mountain Street. This property will be sold quickly and if you want it, see me. 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 Maasey homestead. 800 Acres?The R. M. Anderson m 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 m list of Farms and send me some offers. S41 Acres?Known as the John A. Black-Henry Massey residence. AdJoining 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. win lane vou.uu i*er 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 $6L50 J. C. WILBORN. IF IT IS BROKEN I can put It in good repair and then you will get some benefit from Its use. A Watch or a Clock that la out of repair, is just about as useless as things can get to be. Suppose you bring them to me and let me put them in running order. Doing just that kind of work is my business and I Guarantee to give you Satisfactory work. I also do? JEWELRY REPAIRING? Of all kinds, and If you have any Jewelry that is broken, you might M bring that along, too. If It is broken you can't use it. If it is repaired then you have the satisfaction that comes with use. My charges are always reason au 16. See me for everything in Solid and Plated Silver Ware. T. W. SPECK. The Jeweler. Professional Card!. J Geo. W. 8. Hart Jos. E. Hart HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW t Yorkville .... 8. C. Witherspoon Big., Second Floor, Front. 'Phone (Office) No. 58. 0. E. Finley J. A. Marion FINI FY ? MARION iiikb w mniiiwii ATTORNEYS AT LAW Opposite Court House Yorkvills, 8. C. ^ Dr. B. G. BLACK. Surgeon Dentist. Office second floor of the New Mc\'eel Building. At Clover Tuesday and Friday of each week. JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Range YORKVILLE, S. C. Rebuilt Typewriters If you need a Typewriter, or want t Typewriter, for the use of yourself n your business, or for the instruction >f your boys and girls at home, you vill be wise in buying a Rebuilt M? hine. These Rebuilt Machines, so far is looks, work and appearances go, ire practically as Good as New and it Rebuilt Prices, you save from $40 ^ ipward. Here are a few prices: No. 4 Underwood* $40 to $$0 No. 2 Oliver* 333 No. 3 Oliver* $38 No. 5 Oliver* $43 No. 6 Remington $30 No. 10 Remington* $45 No. 2 L. C. Smith* $39 ? No. 5 Royal* $45 No. 2 Smith Premier $35 No. 10 Smith Premier* $55 Visible Writers. L. M. GRISTS 80N8, Yorkvllle, S. C.