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itumminis ilc part went. "So It I*."?A lowly colored man who had ambitions to own a watch, but could not read time from one, purchased a dollar watch recently, attached it to a strap and hung it from his coat lapel, putting the watch in the top pocket of his coat. Sauntering down Lombard street, relates the Philadelphia Ledger, he met another colored man who likewise aspired to own a watch, but could not tell time either. The following conversation ensued: "What you-all got there, Bill?" asked the colored man who met the owner of the watch. "(Jot a watch," said Bill. "Can you tell the time?" asked the friend. "Of cose ah can!" he replied. "What time is it, then?" asked the friend. "Find out you-self," said Bill. He pulled out his watch and showed it face up to his friend, who looked at it, stared a moment and then replied: ir is so it is." and he walked away. He had at least made his friend believe he, too, could tell time. Reversing the Code.?"What do you mean by writing me that my Jimmie can't pass into the next grade?" stormed an irate female, bursting into the principal's room. "An" after him doin' such grand work all the year." "Why, Mrs. Flaherty," replied the teacher, "you must know better than that. Ive sent you his report curds every month and you know that his marks have been nearly all 'D's.'" "Indade they have, and yit you say he can't pass. I don't understand it, mum." "I am afraid you don't understand our system of marking. D means deficient, you know." "Sure, 1 don't know phat that may be mum, but Jimmie told me all about the letters. Sure 'D' is dandy, 'C is corking, 'B' is bum, an* 'A' is awful?an' he's got 'Cs' an' 'Ds' ivery month.?Ex. Not to bo Fooled.?Proudly young Tomkins displayed the sights of London to his uncle, fresh from the verdant country. They visited St. Paul's and the Embankment and the National Gallery and all the places they could get in free and, tina'lly, as an especial treat, they visited a music hall, where a trombone solo was in progress when they entered, says Answers. With rapt attention the old man watched the instrumentalist's facial contortions. At the close the audience applauded thunderously, but the old man sat mute. "Well," said young Tomkins, didn't you like it?" "Verra good, verra good, no doubt,'' nodded the old man, "but we country folk canna be taken in so easy as all that; I knew all the time he wasn't to eurnllnu'in' of it!" A Military Offense.?During the annual maneuvers of the British Territorials a private was riding one day in a train with his uniform coat unbuttoned. This caused a sergeant to say: "Button up that coat! Haven't you any sense of military decency at all?" But here a gentleman on the left interfered, saying to the sergeant: "How dare you give commands with a cigar in your mouth? I am Major Fitzhugh Calbrain.'' At this point an elderly gentleman with a white mustache leaned over and murmured in the major's ear: "Colonel Brewster Fairfax is sorry to remind you, sir, that to scold a sergeant in the presence of a private, is a military offense hard to overlook." Done by Deputy.?At a marriage service performed in a little country church when the minister said in solemn tones, "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc?" Instead of the woman answering for herself, a gruff man's voice answered, 1 Willi The minister looked up. very much perplexed, and paused. He repeated the sentence, and again the same gruff voice answered, "I will!" Again the minister looked up when a man seated at the end of the tirst row said, 'She's deef, parson, an' I'm answerin' for her!' Already Provided.?Mrs. Naggs has a reputation for meanness. One day, while ordering some meat to be delivered later on, she ordered two cents' worth of cat's meat for puss. She lived a considerable distance from the shop, and just as the messenger was leaving with the order Mrs. Naggs' maid appeared, and in a state of breathlessness exclaimed, "Has missis' meat gone yet?" "Just going," replied the assistant. "Oh, thank goodness I am in time!" she exclaimed. "You must not send the cat's meat; the cat has just caught a bird." The New Peril.?H. O. Wells, the novelist, one day told a good story of a deaf old fisherman who was out in a rowing boat one day when a motorboat near him sprang a leak and immediately sank. Its occupants shouted, but the old man sat puffing his pipe, and paid no attention. Finally they managed to swim to his boat and clambered aboard. One of them yelled indignantly at him: "Confound you! Why didn't you lend a hand? Didn't you see we were sinking?" "Dor' bless yer," he gasped in reply, "I saw yer right enough, but I thought you was one of them submarines." Not at the Front.?A professor of a university, who is very popular among the students, was entertaining a group of them at his residence one night. Taking down a magnificent sword that hung over the fire-place, he brandished it about, exclaiming: "Never will I forget the day 1 drew this blade for the first time!" "Where did you draw it, sir?" an awe-struck freshman asked. "At a ralfle," said the professor.? Philadelphia Ledger. Well Balanced.?"I don't quite see the point of that remark of yours," said Mr. Skinner, the grocer, as he tied up the package of sugar. "What remark was that?" asked the customer. "You just remarked that some men had an offhand way of doing things, and you wished I was one." "Yes; I wished to remind you that your hand was on the sugar when you weighed it." Not Behindhand.?The judge looked at the prisoner keenly for a few moments and then said: "It strikes me forcibly I have seen your face before." "That's where I always wear it." replied the prisoner sullenly. Then the court laughed, and it took some time to restore order." A TALK WITH MR. EDISON Great Scientist Gives World of His Wisdom. THINKS POVERTY CAN BE ELIMINATED It is His Belief that in the Course of Time Men Will Eat Less, Sleep Less and Work in Double Shifts?He Thinks That There Should be No Stimulants. bald Edison to me, writes Edward Marshall of the Philadelphia PublicLedger: "Humanity will have to live in double shifts, by and by, because the world will be so crowded; and it will have to sleep less. "I y sleeping less it will enormously increase its productive power, for sleep is an absurdity, a bad habit. "It will have to eat less because the world's population will be so great that its productiveness will not keep pace with a per capita consumption as Kre.it as that of the presjent time. "By eating less it will enormously increase its efficiency and happiness and will do away with poverty." These statements by the great inventor were drawn out in the course of a long talk occasioned by the 35th anniversary of his invention of the electric lighting system which occurs this month. Edison expects more rapid progress in the future than the past has ever known. I asked him to tell me something of his estimate of what his invention of the electric lamp really has accomplished. "It seems to have been the starting point of the whole era of electrical development," he answered. "You see," he went on, slowly, "as soon as the light was proved to be a practical thing it was plain that it was of paramount importance. It was clear that it must speedily and completely be developed. I estimate that 3 per cent of the work of developing our present electric lighting system was devoted to the perfection of the lamp, and that 97 per cent was devoted to the perfection of the system which makes the lamp available for practical usefulness. "The problems involved in the distribution of electricity for lighting purposes throughout large communities and its sale to the consumer, by meter measurement. involved an enormous amount of study and hard labor. To make each light independ trill Ul ,111 uiun uama >100 m task. "About the only help I had in the development of the electric light lay in the fact that the scientific world was all against me, and recited Ohm's law to prove the case. "It was an interesting situation. I turned the Ohm's law around and did what was regarded as the opposite of that which it provided for, and found that it applied to the reversed situation perfectly. But I wasn't satisfied with this success. I wanted to furnish power as well as light as soon as the wires were spread through the streets. "Presently we put up the world's first electric railway into operation at Menio Park, and 1 was sure that the idea was practical. Its development needed money, though, and capital was hesitant. Indeed. I was assured by the greatest financial figures in Wall street that this scheme of operating railroads by electricity was the craziest idea that ever had been advanced by any one assuming to be sane. "I had carefully gathered all the figures of the cost of horse cars and their operation and was sure that the substitution of electric power for horse power would result in an enor mo US saving. indeed, i Knew, anu my knowledge was exact. I knew electric traction was the coming thing, and a very big thing. But it fooled me. Had Underestimated It. "It was bigger than I thought it was. I had made a better guess than Wall street had, but my guess had been far from adequately prophetic. It was so big that it amazed me. It increased traffic startingly. As a matter of fact, electric traction has increased street car traffic, I estimate, 5(10 per cent. "The first electric cars revealed a facility of operation and a rapidity of movement which no one but myself seemed to have expected. "Their multiplication of traffic was enormous, their effect upon street railway receipts was very great. Then the men in Wall street, who had declared them to be a crazy dream, began to speculate in electric traction stock. They have been at it ever since. Electricity Expands Day. "I don't believe the electric light has ever stirred much sentiment in me. I had so much trouble and worry in connection with the perfection and introduction of the lights that T never have had time for sentiment about them. "I believe they have expanded what we may describe as 'day,' and that has increased the possibilities of effective human effort. 1 rather like to think of that. "Everything which decreases the sum total of man's sleep increases th>. sum total of man's capabilities. There really is no reason why men should go to bed at all. and the man of the future will spend far less time in bed than the man of the present does, just as the man of the present spends far less time in bed than the man of the past did. "As.a matter of fact a very simple bit of arithmetical figuring will show that by and by humanity will have to live in double shifts, so that there may be room upon the earth for all the people." "Eut war still helps to keep the population down." I commented. "The day of life in double shifts will come in spite of war. Medical science will save more lives this year than war will take, no matter how terrifically murderous that war may lie. "In the old days man went up and down with the sun. A million years from now he won't go to bed at all He illy, sleep is an absurdity, a bad habit. We can't suddenly throw off tlie thralldoin of the habit, but we shall throw it off. "Humanity can adjust itself to almost any circumstances. Not so very long ago we Imnl a good deal of trouble here in the factory while we were trying to perfect the disk record for our phonographs. Eight of us then started upon the work with very definite intentions of wasting just as little time as possible. For five weeks we put ill from 14ii to lf?0 hours a week each at the job. < ne hundred and fifty hours a week means more than 21 hours a day? and we all sained weight. "The man who sleeps too much suffers from it in many ways and gains nothing from it. The average man who sleeps seven or eight or nine hours daily is continually oppressed by lassitude. Never Had a Dream. "I have* never overslept, and 1 have never had a dream, good or bad, so far as I know, in my life. "Nothing in the world is more dangerous to the efficiency of human- i ity than too much sleep, except, per haps, stimulation. The elimination or all stimulant would be a fine thing for the race. The temperance movement's advance ought to be a subject for general congratulation. Presently we shall he cutting out tobacco. tea a'?d coffee, and we all shall be better for it. "Suppose a crusade which would educate the people might be started which would keep the 110,000.000 people of the United States out of bed one hour each night. "That would add 36.r> hours a year to each individual's life, or much more than a month of working days of ten hours each. To the 90.000.000 it would give about 3,500,000 hours every year. "I can think of no way in which a vast addition to the wealth of the world could be made so certainly as by this method, but this nation and the world will be slow in its adoption. Kut there is a vast economic gain which humanity may make ? llliuui Kit- llt-||> UI UHJ NCI> Iinvii tion. "Another and even greater one might be accomplished if the world would stop is overeating. I consume five ounces to a meal, three times a day, including the water in the food. 1 drink lots of water. "The man engaged at hard physical labor, whose work makes the engine of his body require more fuel than mine does, could get on perfectly well Nvith eight or ten ounces to a meal, although he might find the achievment of the habit difficult. "< >n the average, men. would get on better if they reduced their food consumption by two-thirds. They do the work of three horsepower engins and consume the fuel which should operate 50 horsepower engines. Would Erase Poverty. "If the world would cease its overeating. it thereby would do away with poverty. Stop and think this matter out. We now are consuming as food 600.000 bushels of wheat to accomplish a result which would be accomplished better by the con sumption of 200,000 bushels oi wneai. "This is wasteful in more ways than one and, by making the supply short, makes it expensive and decreases the power of each acre of land to support human life. "In the second place, it increases the death?and illness?rate of those who overeat. Putrefaction of foodstuffs in the lower intestines is the cause of most diseases. "Humanity will never reach its ultimate development until it cuts down sleep and food. I consider this the most important conclusion which I have come to during my years of hard and cosnstant effort." At this I finally asked Mr. Edison just what he felt willing to say about the European war. "Vol much" he answered. "This war had to come. The tower of armament had reached its apex, a point at which it had to stop. It reached it and stopped. When it stopped the war came. "< >f course, it is a world disaster, but if it results in general disarmament it will he an evil of which great good will emerge. "It will take the world a long time to recover from the evils of the war, hut the whole disaster would he far more than offset by the advantages of a general disarmament. "After the war an era of general and rapid advance will begin. Instead of turning toward military development the world's mental energies will he devoted to invention, engineering and productive labor. "I firmly believe that in a few years after the end of the war we shall see the greatest constructive era that the world has ever known." In the opinion of naval men. if the problem of an inexhaustible air supply for submarines can he solved .is easily as Mr. Edison says, there remains only the problem of fuel to eive it new type submarine the same traveling radius as the present dreadnought type of battleships. Correct!?"Say, pa," inquired young Sulvester Snodgrass, "what's a test case?" "A test case, my son," replied the senior Snodgrass, "is a case brought into court to decide whether there's enough in it to justify lawyers in working up more cases of the same kind." CORPORAL O'BRIEN Corporal O'Brien Is one of the men who took pnrt in the memorable charge of the Ninth British lancers under Captain Grenfell at Mons. He was wounded and sent home, and is shown here appealing to the men of Great Britain to enlist. His two brothers were killed within a hundred yards of him. itlioffllamoua iUaduifl. WORLDS HIDDEN TREASURES Untold Millions Driven to Earth for Safe Keeping. European authorities ligured that when the Balkan war began, and there was dread among the common people of Europe that a general war might result, nearly $350,000,000 in gold was hoarded in three countries in sums ranging from a gold piece or two up to tens of thousands of dollars. Austria Hungary was credited with hiding away $150,000,000, Germany $65,000,000 and France $130,000,000, says the New York Sun. This was money which had been traced into those countries just before the Balkan hostilities began and after war started. In addition to this vast sum there was an unguessable quantity of gold already buried in the I ground. Russia is believed to have tens of thousands of hoarders of money. It is | utterly impossible to guess at the amount of gold which the people of [ Russia have put into the ground or into the cellars of their homes. The sign of wealth would mean the coming of the tax collector, and among the men who look poor are owners of countless weight in gold. I Vast sums of gold and silver coin have gone into Russia, which seldom lets go of it. The great imperial war chest has behind it if the signs mean anything, other sums in little war chests j ?gold which the government might draw out if it offered lands for sale, or bonds the people would trust or opportunities in commerce heretofore denied them. England has its hidden hoards, no ono knows how large or how many, but there is concealed in England nothing like the amount that is hidden in continental Europe, where foreign armies have only to cross a surveyed bounOUTPOSTS OF THE BELGIANS Belgian patrol on duty, the laBt between the Belgian and German lines. The names on the signpogt have been obliterated to confuse the invaders. dary line or a little creek to raid their enemies. Turkey, whose people have been terrorized, for ages, has more lost hoards than the world will ever know about, because there the hoarding has gone on for ages, during which armies have swung up and down the denuded lands, tearing down cities and destroying everythig that could give comfort or sustenance to an enemy. Spain has millions of dollars in gold, silver, pearls and gems buried and lost in a thousand ancient castles, monasteries and other public buildings. In the heyday of her glory Spain imported countless millions of gold and silver from the Americas and faithless officials made away with great sums in bullion, hiding it away?and many of them never recovered it. India is the bottomless pit of the world's gold. In one year India imported $300,000,000, and there has never been a time apparently when India was not importing gold, silver and precious jewels. In the temples of Idia there are said to be $1,800,000,000 in precious metal and precious stones. India has more fine pearls than all the rest of the world put together. They have even gold cannons there?cannons that weigh 280 pounds each. The tourist sees some of this gold; if a visitor should attend a function given by one of the princes of India he would see jewels whose value he could not estimate. Afghan, Mogul, Tartar, raiding through India, found millions upon millions, but the troops did not tind it all. In the ground, in places where none could find or would search, is the vast wealth which the natives of India bury, and keep buried. The ameer of Bokhara, a Russian vassel in Central Asia, is said to have been accumulating a hoard amounting to $8,000,000 a year, and this is kept in a great vault where Russia might possibly find a resource in case of need. In Egypt and along the north shore of Africa, the Barbary coast people have their hoards estimated by the millions. The lost treasure of the Incas is estimated at $600,000,000 in gold. No one is able to guess the amount of gold that has been looted in the history of the world by raiding armies. When the wars of old were waged billions of treasure changed hands from the vanquished to the victors. The treasure was commonly the public funds. Men known to have wealth were held for ransom, enslaved, tortured, cut to pieces bit by bit in the effort to compel the revelation of hiding places. In the ruins of Carthage is a vault that holds the treasure of the vandal Oenseriv which was not found when Carthage finally fell. The buried treasure of Carcassonne, in southern France was put away when tlie Huns and Slavs ranged over Kurope trying to exterminate the Latins. Alaric, the doth, looted Home and cached his treasure in Carcassonne, tradition says, in a deep cave, and killed the men who helped him stow it away, and it has never been found. This treasure was part of it from Solomon's temple. Titus having raided Jerusalem and made away with the treasure that Solomon had gathered up, and which was part of the loot that King David had captured in his great wars of conquest and defense. There was the accumulation of ten centuries of profit in the temple of Solomon. The loot of ancient Rome, the loot of Constantinople, of Calcutta, Itombay, Pekin, with the treasure ships captured at sea, paid the price of capture. There were raids on the treasure towns of Spanish America which made the pirates wealthy. But the capture of bullion and the exaction of ransom failed to compensate the victors from about the time of the Napoleonic wars. Wars of conquest followed wars seeking loot. Nevertheless, the modern wars are accompanied by opportunities of loot which are hardly paralleled in ancient history. Thus the defeat of France resulted in the payment to Germany of J 1,000,000,000 after the war ot 1870?a tribute payment hardly rivaled in ancient days. If France and Russia should conquer, Germany will doubtless be compelled to stagger under such an exaction of tribute as no ancient Caesar ever dreamed. If the hoards of Europe could be tapped?if the ancient treasures of European cities should be tapped by invading armies?the possibilities of loot in jewels and precious metals are beyond compute. But all the loot possible would not compensate for the hundreds of thousands of ounces of gold which must be paid each day for army sustenance and equipment. In olden times wars paid for themselves, reckoning from the viewpoint of the victors. Wars were then for loot. The ships of the conquerors returned from across the seas with treasure?they even went to u/nr loaded with treasure for emergen cies, as witness the Spanish Armada, whose gold is still the dream of fortune seekers. MILITARY ANNIHILATIONS The Phrase that is Misleading to the Lay Reader. Many of the phrases in the dispatches from the war in Europe are misleading to the reader who is ignorant of the technical meaning of military terms. That is the case with the words "annihilated" and "destroyed." The breathless reader learns with horror that "an entire division was destroyed while attempting to storm the forts at A," or that "a regiment of cavalry, while reconnoitering on the lllank of the enemy, was annihilated." He imagines a terrible scene of slaughter in which all, or virtually all, the soldiers are left dead on the field. The truth, however, is quite different. By no means was every soldier or every trooper killed; the division or regiment was destroyed or annihilated as an organization or effective fighting unit. In time of war, men fight, not as in dividuals, but as parts or a rignung unit. That unit may be a regiment, a division, or an army corps. In order to be of any real use, those organizations must be maintained. When the organization is broken up, the individual soldiers who compose it, no matter how brave they may be personally, degenerate into a mob; and, as mob or mere disorganized collection of men, they are unable to attack the enemy, and usually unable to make any defense against attack. So, when the organization is thus broken, it is said to be annihilated or destroyed, although perhaps only a small part of the soldiers have actually been killed or wounded. Indeed, it is rare that a lighting unit survives the loss of more than ten per cent of its men. That is because the mortality of officers is always higher than that among the privates, and when nearly half of its officers are killed or wounded. the organization generally goes to pieces. In such a case, the men go to the rear as individuals, or in such order as they can maintain. There they must remain until the organization is recruited, re-officered and re-organized; until that is done they are useless for war. In the Boer war, General Buller, with an army of some forty thousand men, attacked the Boers at the Tugela river. He was defeated, and lost about thirty-five hundred men, killed and wounded?less than one-tenth of his whole army. Yet his army was said to be destroyed?as, in fact, it was. After the defeat, it had lost all organization, and virtually degenerated into a mob. It had to retreat to Estcourt, about twenty miles in the rear, where it would be safe from Boer attacks; and there it lay for several months, unable to make a single move, until it was recruited, re-officered, re-inforced, and, most of all, re-organized. THE STRANGEST FISH Sun Fish, Weighing Half a Ton Is an Ocean Acrobat. One of the strangest junipers it has been my good fortune to watch and catch is the sunfish or mola, in all probability the strangest fish in the sea as it appears to be all head. This is so seemingly true that in a specimen three feet long the vertebrae is but an inch and a half long. Some of the fish weigh over one thousand pounds. I have had some weird experiences with this fish. In 1875 I was fishing at the mouth of the St. John River, Florida, for channel bass, tarpon and big sharks when a monster sunfish came sailing in, and like a ship, grounded on the bar opi>osite Pilottown. I went out to watch its capture. It was said to weigh 2,200 pounds, and looked it. It was 11 feet high. The next one I saw was off the Isles of Shoals, in 1877. I had been trying to take a tuna with a rod off Boon island, and on the way, in the dory, we nearly ran into a sunfish. I hooked onto it with a gaff and brought it in. Later at Santa Cotalina I found a very large one. I ran alongside, seized its tin and bent it over the rail while the boatman cut a hole in the tin and passed a rope through it. n iiiic >\ r wcic uuiug itua me iiiwiioter nearly wrecked the launch and towed us toward shore; when we finally got it in tow our launch could not move when the fish felt like swimming the other way. It took two launches to tow this sunfish which must have weighed over 1,000 pounds, into Avalon Bay, where I had an excellent opportunity to watch and study it. after which I released it uninjured. < >ff Santa Caratlina or San Clemente in summer thousands of the young of this fish are seen from a foot to three feet in length. They swim in small schools; are very social swimming about the boats, engaged in a continual game ()f leaping. Sometimes wherever you look you see a leaping suntish. At times they leap very clumsily, but generally come down with a resounding crash. To see dozens ot these "big heads" in the air, coming down in a continual patter is fascinating. The big barracuda and the kingtish of Florida are jumpers of high degree. The former is a wild and splendid jumper after it is hooked, while the latter makes magnificent leaps after the bait before it is hooked; so it is in the class with the tuna. 1 should not care to go on record with a mere guess as to the length of its jumps, but they are supreme in vivacity, length and exhilaration among the wild tinny tribes of the sea. That there should lie so great a dif ference in the mere leaps of same fish seems impossible to the layman: but your keen observing angler notices all the niceties of the jump and is quick to see it. Several years ago I was fishing just outside of Aransas Pass, Texas, for channel bass, which we took with shrimp bait in extraordinary holes in the lagoon when the gafftopsail catfish would allow it. This was an extraordinary locality for jumping fishes. Apparently everything leaped, and at the slightest suggestion. If I splashed the water with an oar a score of mullets would go into the air, and over what appeared to be a variety of tule there was a constant flash of scales in the hot August sun. Suddenly the pompanoes began to leap and I was afforded a remarkable opportunity to watch their methods. The pompano is a little fish, but very broad. An ordinary leap covered 10 or 15 feet. But the peculiar feature was that thi little fish, about the size of the palm of your hand, did not jump high, yet covered incredible distances. After watching several I believe I solved the mystery. In leaping the pompano did not go up; it dashed out of the water at an angle, and when at an elevation of four or five feet I distinctly saw it turn on its side, and so, like an aeroplane, with its broad surface to the air it slid away in a long and graceful parabola. i saw inis rt*pfaifuiy, its tut? usm were jumping by our boat every few minutes, and one or two fell into the boat. A friend told me that in beating up a narrow river in Florida he alarmed a school of these delicious, delightful little fishes and they came out of the water in swarms, bombarding him, hitting the sail and falling into the boat. At Aransas, in the pass, I hooked a shark which jumped so exactly like a tarpoon that I was more than once deceived by them. In Catalina Harbor, California, there is a striped shark which leaps when hooked and gives a very good imitation of a gamefish.? New York Press. THE FIRST CUP OF TEA Pretty Legend of How Tea Was Originally Used as a Drink. The Chinese claim to be the first users of tea as a drink, and how it originated is told in a pretty little legend that dates from 2,000 years before the coming of Christ, says Tit Bits. A daughter of a then reigning sovereign fell in love with a young nobleman whose humble birth excluded him from marrying her. They managed to exchange glances, and he occasionally gathered a few blossoms and had them conveyed to her. One day in the palace garden the lovers met, and the young ?an endeavored to give her a few flowers; but so keen was the watchfulness of her attendants that all she could grasp was a little twig with green leaves. On reaching her room she put the twig in water, and towards evening she drank the water in which the twig had been kept. So agreeable was the taste that she even ate the leaves and stalks. Every day afterwards she had }iii nr?h pq of thn ton t ran hroncrht to hpr which she treated in the same way. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, the ladies of the court tried the experiment, and with such pleasing results that the custom spread throughout the kingdom?and the great Chinese tea industry became one of the greatest businesses in the world. York Lunch Room THE YORK LUNCH ROOM IS NOW OPEN FOR THE FALL AND WINTER, and ready to serve Meals and Special Orders at all hours. When you are hungry, come and see us and let us feed you. You will find us in ine buil.uii\u, on me corner of Madison and North Congress St. Charges very reasonable. EGGS WANTED We want all the FRESH EGGS we can get and will pay the Highest Market Price in Cash. Bring us your Fresh Eggs. It. D. DOKSETT, Proprietor. Phone 1 11). j REAL ESTATE LOOK! Now Isn't This a Nice Selection? The J. K. Hope Place: 70 acres, near Tirzah, on Rock Hill and Clay Hill and Yorkville and Fort Mill roads. 5-room dwelling; large barn; 2 tenant houses and other buildings; 2 wells? one at house and other at barn. Adjoins T. M. Oates, F. E. Smith and Mrs. Glenn. This is something nice. See ME QUICK. The E. T. Carson Place: 185 acres; 8-room dwelling; 3-room tenant house; large barn; crib, etc. Plenty of wood. Adjoins W. R. Carroll and others. Now is your time to see me. Two Tract*?Une 63 acres and the other 60 acres?about 6 miles from Yorkvilie on McConnellsville-Chester road. First tract has 4-room dwelling; barn, crib and cotton house. Other tract has one tenant house. Each tract watered by spring and branch. Plenty of timber. Good, strong land, and the price is right. Better see me. Town Property: My offerings here are very attractive. Can suit you either in a dwelling or a beautiful lot in almost any part of Town on which to erect one. Let me show you. Geo. W. Williams REAL ESTATE BROKER. 30 Years'' 30 YEARS THE STANDARD j Come Here and Sc I Come and compare the "OwensborO I any other make. Hitch your team to il farm, the road, in the woods?anywhen | Yorkville Ba MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE S CHARLES'] DEPARTMENT OF MEDI Owned and Contro 86TH SESSION OPENS OCTOBE1 Fine New Building ready for vantageously located opposite Roi Hospitals in the South, where abu Hospital contains 218 beds. Practical work for Senior Stu a Special Feature. Large and w Schools. Department of Physiolof ton Museum. Nine full time tea Six graduated appointments each : For Catalogue, address: OSCAR W. SCHLEETER, I APPLER SEED OATS I HAVE 600 bushels of fine quality at 75 Cents per Bushel. Address No. 3, Clover. JAMES M. BARNETT. tf f 79 Indigestion and Nervousness are overcome by Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy, which purifies the blood and tones up the system. Mrs. Mary Amanda Nash, Lumberton, N. C., was a severe sufferer from acute indigestion. which brought on extreme nervousness, suffering daily with catarrhal headache. Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy relieved all these ills and dhe endorses it as the best medicine in the world. GIVE NATURE A CHANCE Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy purifies the blood and permits nature to repair the damage of the ills brought on by impure blood?Indigestion, rheumatism, scrofula, eczema. Get the blood right and most ills are cured. Your druggist should have Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy. If he hasn't, send us his name and one dollar'for a large bottle. REMEDY SALES CORPORATION, Cliarlotte, N. C. Mrs. Joe Person's Wash should | I ho uaofl in nnnnontinn with the i I Remedy for the cure of sores and the relief of inflamed and congested surfaces. It is especially valj uable for women, and should al| ways be used for ulcerations. _ FOR SALE The beautiful home and farm of J. Barney Barron, In Tirzah, 8-room cottage; 120 acres land. Price $40.00 per acre, for quick sale. A most desirable home at R. R. station. Can't be excelled. I am selling many farms and now is the time to buy. Recently sold the Alexander farm, Frank Glenn farm and others. 136 Acres?The Wells Place, the property of R. N. Plaxco, a very fine farm. High state of cultivation. I have had many inquiries about the County Home Lands?First Tract: 90 acres, on Rock Hill road; also 137 acres join J. L. Moss. I must sell this land At Once. . If You want it, see Me at Once?It is a good money maker. County Home Farm?90 Acres, Joining T. L. Carroll, $25.00 Acre. 140 Acres?Joining R. R. Love, J. L. Moss and others. Magnificent bottom land in this tract. See me. Cottage Home?Of W. C. Miller, on Charlotte road, near Ancona Mill. 300 Acres?Property of D. A. Whisonant, joins J. W. Quinn and others Pries $16.00 40 Acres?Property of John Barnett, Joining farm of J. R. Connolly and Wm. Harrison Est lands. 100 Acres?Known as the Dorster place, about 1 1-2 miles from Philadelphia church and school. If sold during February, I will take the small sum of $20.00 an acre for it. 409 Acres?Near Lowryville, $25.00 per acre. I desire to say to my friends that I have property that I can cut up in .mail tracts and sell on long terms. The Quinn estate land?On King's Mt. road, adjoining Frank Riddle's Nell place and others, am willing to cut this into smaller farms to suit the purchaser. The residence of the late Dr. J. B. AlllflAn fninincr fhn nnnr PronhvtftHfl n 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 Quinn Wallace, et al. on Kine-'s 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 Massey I 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 incdr- ( porate limits of Yorkville. Read my list of Farms and send me some of- j fers. Two Good House**?On King's ( Mountain Street. J. C. WILBORN 1 I 1 Unseen, Unknown : Future.... ! Many years ago the late Charles A. 1 Dana wrote a letter to a little girl I who asked if there was a Santa Claus. ' Here are some extracts from it: , ''Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa < Claus: he exists us certainly as love, generosity and devotion exist. * * The most real things in Uie world are those i things that neither men nor Children see. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise Inside, but there is a wall covering the unseen w?rld which not the strongest man nor the united strength ot all the strongest men can tear aiuirt. Only faith, faney, poetry, love, ron i a nee, can push aside the curtain and view tlie glory beyond. Is it real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus? lie lives and lives forever." "There is a wall covering the unseen," there is a wall covering the future, and those beautiful sentiments, "love, generosity and devotion," demand that provision be made for that unknown future. No better provis- | ion can be made than by means of a | life insurance policy in the Staunch ' Old Mutual Itcncfit. I SA.M M. OH 1ST. Special Agent. Sag. Repu Stands 1 honesl every user, for every | 1? "OwensborO" Wj " part by part with I If you don't find that il : and try it out on the lighter, rides easier, cs s?any way you like. | satisfactory wagon fo nking & Mercanti iTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA rox, s. c. I CINE AND PHARMACY lle<l by tbe State. I 1, 1914, CLOSES JUNE 3, 1915 occupancy October 1st, 1914. Adper Hospital, one of the largest ndant clinical material is offered. dents in Medicine and Pharmacy j ell-equipped Laboratory in both w ?y in affiliation with the Charleschers in Laboratory Branches, rear in medicine. Registrar, Charleston, S. C. ? Corns Quit, Pains Stop, With "Gets-It" Quit Plasters, Salves and What-XotH. After using "GETS-IT" once you * will never again have occasion for M nol/lnrr "UThot non T Hn tA cot ? !/) nf _ my corns?" "GETS-IT" Is the first sure, certain corn-ender ever known. Why "Sjrffr ^ If you have tried other things by the score and will now try "GETS-IT," you will realize this glorious fact. You probably are tired sticking on tape that won't stay stuck, plasters that shift themselves right onto your corn, contraptions that make a bundle of your toe and press right down on the corn. Put two drops of "GETS-IT" on that corn in two sec- ~WM onds. The corn is then doomed as sure as night follows day. The corn shrivels. There's no pain, no fuss. If you think this sounds too good to be true try it tonight on any corn, callus, wart or bunion. ^ "GETS-IT" is sold by druggists everywhere, 25c a bottle, or sent direct by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. Your orders for Commercial Stationery will receive prompt attention at The Enquirer office. Let us have your orders you want the Best. professional (IJards. Geo. W. S. Hart Jos. E. Hart HART & HART * ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkvilla S. C. Witherspoon Big., Second Floor, Front. 'Phone (Office) No. 53. y D. E. Finley J. A. Marion FINLEY I MARION ATTORNEYS AT LAW Opposite Court House Yorkville, 8. C. Dr. B. G. BLACK SURGEON DENTI8T. Office second floor of the New McNeel Building. .Absent from office on Monday of each week until further no- * tice. ^ n VIA nT" JUHIN n. nnn i ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Range YORKVILLE, S. C. * TAX NOTICE?1014 Office of the County Treasurer of York County. a Ynrkville, S. C., Sept. 14. 1914. NOTICE is hereby given that the TAX BOOKS for York county will be opened on THURSDAY, the 15TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1914, and remain pen until the 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1914, for the collection of STATE, COUNTY, SCHOOL AND LOCAL TAXES, for the fiscal year 1914, without penalty; after which day ONE PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made in the month of JANUARY, 1915, and TWO PER % CENT penalty for all payments made In the month of FEBRUARY, 1915, and SEVEN PER CENT penalty will be added to all payments made from the 1ST DAY OF MARCH to the 15TH DAY OF MARCH. 1915, and after this late all unpaid taxes will go into ex- a ecutions and all unpaid Single Polls * svill be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution In accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers. I will attend the following places on the lays named: At Yorkville, Thursday, October 15. At Smyrna, Thursday, October 22d. At Hickory Grove, Friday and Sat jrday, Octooer zaa ana z?n. At Sharon, Monday, October 26th. At McConnellsvllle, Tuesday, Octoser 27th. At Tirzah, Wednesday, October 28th. At Clover, Thursday and Friday, Oc:ober 29th and 30th. At Yorkville from Saturday, October !lst, to Tuesday, November 3d. At Coates's Tavern, from 8 o'clock a. ^ n., Wednesday, November 4th, to 8 /clock p. m. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, November 8th and 7th. At Rock Hill, from Monday, Novemjer 9th, to Saturday, November 14th. And at Yorkville from Monday, November 16th, until Thursday, the 31st lay of December, 1913, after which date he penalties will attach as stated ibove. Note.?The Tax Books are made up >y Townships, and parties writing ibout taxes will always expedite mat- ^ ers if they will mention the Town- * ihip or Townships in which their >roperty or properties are located. HARRY E. NEIL, Treasurer of York County. itation Back of SB1 arm Wagon j v it takes a mighty good I lold up for 30 years and I j ularity and sales every year. That's H 5 "OwenaborO." Just because the 1- j > Wagon Works have persisted in H t wagon for "perfect satisfaction" to H purpose, year in and year out. M agon for Yourself ! t is better built in every way, runs |;j irries more weight and is a more I.'h r your money, bring it back, 1 le Company 1