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tumorous department
Their Pains Useless.?"You knew
we had a French maid and German
butler'.'"
"Yes."
"Well, we've been worried over
them ever since the war broke out.
We took the greatest pains to set
them an example of neutrality. We
were afraid all the time that it would
be impossible to keep them from flying
at each other. Of course, we were
careful not to discuss the war before
them. In short, we've been taking a
whole lot of trouble for months to help
them keep the peace. I can't begin to
tell you how careful we were. And
what do you suppose happened yesterday?"
"Why, a pitched battle?"
"Nothing of the sort. It seems the
two were engaged long before the war
broke out, and yesterday they were
married."
He Knew the Answer.?In a country
school the teacher was trying to make
the lesson as interesting as possible
to her class of little ones.
"Now, children," she said, "you have
named all the domestic animals but
one. Who can tell us what that one
is?"
There was no reply.
"What!" exclaimed the teacher;
"does no one know? What animal
has bristly hair, is dirty all the time
and loves getting into the mud?"
A small boy raised a timid hand.
"Well, Allen," said the teacher, "tell
us what it is."
"Please, ma'am," said the little boy
reflectively, "it's me."
A Good Job.?A certain cottage and
its old mistress had Improved so
greatly in comfort and appearance
that a visitor shrewdly surmised that
the son of the house, a lazy, ne'er-do
well, had turned over a new leai. ne
inquired about it
"Yes, sir, my son's in work now,"
said the smiling old mother. "All he
has to do is to go twice a day to the
circus and put his head in the lion's
mouth. The rest of his time 'e 'as to
himself."?Buffalo News.
An Appropriate Name.?Aunt 'Liza's
former mistress was talking to her
. one morning, when suddenly she discovered
a little pickaninny standing
shyly behind his mother's skirts. "Js
this your little boy, Aunt 'Liza?" she
asked.
"Yes, Miss, dat's Prescription."
"Goodness, what a funny name.
Auntie, for a child! How in the world
did you happen to call him that?"
"Ah simply calls him dat becuz Ah
has sech hawd wuk gettin' him filled."
"Standing by" the Butcher.?"How
is it," inquired a young bride of an
older married friend, "that you always
manage to have such delicious beef?"
"It's very simple," said the older
woman, "I first select a good, honest
butcher, and then I stand by him."
"You mean that you give him all
of your trade?"
"No; I mean that I stand by him
while he is cutting the meat."
As Ha Told It.?A marine was testifying
about the explosion of a gun on
a war vessel?an explosion v/hich had
sent him to the hospital lor some
months.
"Please give your version of the explosion,"
he was asked.
"Well," he said, "I was standing
beside the gun, there was an awful
racket, and the doctor said: 'Sit up
and take this.'"
It Worked*?The conductor was
about to give the motorman the high
sign.
"Wait!" cried a shrill feminine
voice; "wait till I get my clothes on!"
Everyone in the car was suddenly
afflicted with the rubber habit.
Wht t they saw was an obese woman
trying to lift a basket of laundry
to the rear platform.
Then the car rolled on.
They Had Cut Him Down.?One
day, in the lively old time of cowboy
activities, a timid tenderfoot at Bitter
Creek asked tremblingly if that bad
man, Bill Buster, was hanging around
there yet.
"No,'* replied the native who was
asked. "But he was here last week."
"Are you sure?" said the tenderfoot.
"Positive. I had hold of the rope."
?Browning's Magazine.
Feed for the Cow*?An old Scotch
woman had been promised a new bonnet,
and before making the purchase
the donor called and inquired: "Would
you rather have a felt or a straw bonnet,
Mrs. McDonald?"
mo'om " qqM tho nnv aH
lady thoughtfully, "I think I'll take a
strao one. When I'm done wi* it, it'll
maybe be a mouthful to the coo."
Not For Him.?"What kind of meat
have you this morning?" asked the
husband of the butcher.
"The best steak we have ever had,
sir," replied the butcher. "Here you
are, sir; as smooth as velvet and as
tender as a woman's heart."
The husband looked up and said:
"I'll take sausage."
A Different Question.?"Yes," said
the colonel, pompously, "I am quite
confident that the war will be over by
October."
"What year?" asked Bildad.
"Ah," said the colonel, "that is
another question."?Judge.
The Rough Path of the Autoist.?
"Doesn't it give you a terrible feeling
when you run over a man?" they asked
him.
"Well, if he's a large man,'' replied
the automobilist, "it does give me a
pretty rough jolt."
An Idyl.?"He is my ideal and I'm
his idol," said the girl.
"And your love affair?"
"Is an idyl."
"And your fiance?"
"He's idle, according to Dana."
Oh, Now, That's Different.?Ella?
How did you like Jack, dear?
Stella?Oh. he's a perfect bear.
Ella?Growled all the time, I suppose?
Stella?Er, no honey?wanted to
hug all the time.
Her Classification.?A little girl,
when asked by her teacher to distinguish
between the human and the
animal families, replied:
"A'brute is an imperfect beast; man
is a perfect beast."
A Definition.?"Dad, what is meant
by carrying coals to Newcastle?"
"It's a figure of speech, my boy.
Like trying to tell something to a
graduating class that they don't
know."?Pittsburgh Post.
ijftiscrllanrous $radiufi.
MELTING BRITISH GOLD
Beautifully Minted Sovereign* Converted
into Rough Bars.
A crew of grimy-faced workmen in
the United States assay office near the
corner of Wall and Broad streets will
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nmsn some nine lumsui uic moa vt
converting more than 2,000,000 shiny
gold sovereigns, each beautifully
minted, Into rough bricks, smudged
with charcoal soot.
The bricks will stand on wooden
trucks until they have cooled off to
the handling stage, when they will be
trundled across the room and put into
Uncle Sam's vaults. Washington in
a few d -s will direct that some bricks
be s ?d to Philadelphia. The
mint i, lat city will put them back
into the melting pots, add a little
more alloy, and turn them into shiny
coins again, at a considerable expense.
But this time they will become United
States coins.
The new coins, as likely as not,
will come back to New York, this time
to stop in the sub-treasury, which is
next door to the assay office. When
war is over and Europe has begun to
regain the ascendency in overseas
trade that she lost with the first
month of hostilities, the time will
come when gold must go to London or
to Paris to restore the balance of
credits again. Thereupon, Lazard
Freres, or Goldman, Sachs, or perhaps
J. P. Morgan & Co., will deposit several
millions in gold certificates at the
sub-treasury, withdraw the gold
coins and ship them in little oaken
kegs to the other side. There they
may be kept intact in the Bank of
England, or, if there is need of more
gold for coinage than is coming from
South Africa, they will be thrown into
the furnaces to be turned back into
bricks. It is a waste that no one excuses,
but which efTorts to avoid have
not overcome.
There have been three shipments of
gold of a very unusual character made
from London to New York in the last
few weeka Kacn or inese consisieu
of approximately $20,000,000, and was
made on a fast British cruiser. The
secrecy that is thrown around everything
that the British authorities do
has clouded the operation with mystery,
but it is rumored that arrangements
were made to send $100,000,000
in gold here to pay for part of the war
supplies, which would indicate that
two more shipments of the same size
may be expected.
The first two consignments were
made in United States coins, $20 gold
pieces, which were packed $9,300 to a
bag, three bags to a box. The law
provides that only United States currency
shall be accepted at the subtreasury,
so the motor trucks bearing
the treasure were kept idle while a
sample box was unloaded and carried
into the building to be examined.
When it was found that the contents
were gold eagles the shipment was
admitted. The third shipment, which
reached Wall street last "Wednesday
morning, was made up to the extent
of $7,850,000 in United States coins
and $11,615,000 in sovereigns. The
sovereigns were taken into the assay
office.
Gold is nearly always In transit
among the leading nations. The waste
and expense connected with the pro
cess of melting- coins into bars, and
minting the bullion again is so considerable
that American bankers
made an attempt a few years ago to
put an end to the destruction. They
took the matter up with the treasury
department and procured the passage
of an act in 1911, permitting the subtreasuries
to hold foreign gold coins
at their bullion value, giving the importers
a credit for the amount, less
a deduction for light-weight coins,
dirt and other foreign matter contained
in them. It was proposed to
hold these gold pieces until an export
movement was undertaken again
when they could be sent back to the
country from which they had issued.
The law and rulings under it issued
by Secretary McVeagh were exactly
what the importing bankers had desired,
but these regulations became
worthless almost before the printed
coins were available. The reason was
that the bankers who brought in $10,000,000
or so in sovereigns or louis
found themselves charged with what
they considered excessive depreciation.
When they were told that the
full bullion value, reckoned on the
arbitrary basis of used gold coin,
had been credited to them, they insisted
on having the actual bullion value.
The foreign currency, accordingly
had to go through the assay office after
all, and the privileges of the new
act were not accepted.
Similarly, much of the United .States
coin that goes to Europe never returns
in the same form, but the fact that
the Bank of England and the government
are not synonymous enables that
institution to use its discretion in the
matter of gold consigned to it, and of
late it has held some of the American
coin for re-export. The fact that the
last shipment contained less than half
American currency is taken to indicate
that there is no more United States
coin in the bank so that it appears
that a considerable amount of the
money exported in the summer of
1914 will not come back in its familiar
form.
The English ship our gold coin back
as so many ounces. They pay no attention
to the count, and to bring each
bag up to the required weight they
chop gold eagles into many small
triangular bits, enough of which are
included in each bag to make up the
required weight. The sub-treasury
here, on the other hand, reckons by
county, or tale, and it credits the importer
only with the whole coins. The
chips are turned over to the assay
office, which melts them up and reports
back the additional credit to be
given. In the case of recent shipments
the value of these remnants has
run up to several thousand dollars.
The latest shipment of gold, with its
$11,615,000 in sovereigns, made a total
of nearly 2,550,000 sovereigns in the
assay office, for an additional $750,000
in English coin came from other sources.
The importers were anxious to
get the benefit of the amount to their
credit as soon as possible and as fast
as the boxes were received the coin
was put upon the scales and turned
The furnace room of the assay office
has no special refinements to distinguish
it from the casting room of
an ordinary foundry, and the matterof-fact
way in which gold is left lying
about shows that it has no glamor for
the men working in it. The British
sovereigns are heaped into wooden
troughs, which are wheeled up to be
within reach of the furnace men. The
men wear heavy woolen shirts and asbestos
gloves, but they have no protection
for the face, and the heat from the
furnaces is so intense that they approach
the pots only for an instant at
a time.
The gold is melted In rough crucibles,
each of about three gallons capacity.
These crucibles rest on a
grate surrounded by Jets from which
crude oil is sprayed, making a red hot
dame that beats around the coneshaped
shell. A workman scoops out
a few pounds of the gold coins one
honrt in front of his face, and dumps
them into the flaming retort. When the
mass is a golden liquid another man
dips a long handled ladle into the
crucible and pours the flaming metal
into molds which look not unlike extra
large muffin tins. These molds are
greased with lard, which makes them
also burst into flame as the molten
metal runs out
The result of the melting that has
been going on in this fashion for ten
hours a day since the receipt of the
last shipment is a stack of dirty
bricks, each about the proportions of
a building brick, but smaller and
weighing between twenty-flve and
thirty pounds. There is about $7,000
worth of gold in each brick.
Ordinarily, the gold that is melted
has to be refined before it is available
for the government's coinage purposes,
but the English coins, fortunately for
the assay office force, are richer in
gold than the American. They are
916 fine, as compared with 900 grains
in our coins, and to make them suitable
for use at the mint it is only necessary
to increase the amount of alloy
a process much simpler than refining.
The bricks are weighed before going
to vaults, and the weight returned by
each furnace man must come within a
very slight fraction of the weight of
the coins given to him. A small loss
in the alloy is caused by the intense
heat, and is allowed for.?New York
Times, September 17.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.
The British government is reported
to have placed orders with Canadian
manufacturers for $65,000,000 worth of
field artillery and howitzers.
It is rumored in Washington that
Secretary of Commerce Redfleld will
be asked to resign his position because
he is talking too much and talking
without facts.
Rueler Rolland. sole survivor of
those who took part in the battle of
Sidi Brohim in 1845, in the French war
of subjugation in Algeria, died Friday
in France, aged 95 years.
Dr. F. I. Cohen, a Phiadelphia physician,
has been indicted by a Federal
grand jury in that 'city on 83 cases,
charging conspiracy to violate the
Harrison anti-narcotic drug law.
A negro automobile washer, sat in
the front seat of a car as it plunged
down an elevator shaft from the
eighth floor of a building in New
York, Friday. He was not seriously
hurt.
Franklin Burton, ex-mayor of Ansonia,
Conn., was arrested last week,
charged with embezzling $136,000
from the Savings bank of that city
on bogus notes during the past fifteen
years.
Newman Erp, a wealthy financier
and railroad magnate of New York,
on last Friday night took two bichloride
of mercury tablets by mistake. His
condition is desperate, but his physicians
are hopeful of his recovery.
An imperial ukase by the czar of
Russia, issued Friday, called to the
colors the reserve of the territorial
army. If the age limit is fixed at 35
years, the call will bring out an addition
of 8,000,000 fighting men.
The city comptroller of New York,
has recommended to the board of education
that it lengthen the school day
by one hour and the year by four
weeks, on the ground that such a
change would give a year in the elementary
school course.
The state department at Washington
has received information to the
effect that there were eighteen
bombs found on the Fabre liner Sant'
Anna, from New York to Marseilles,
which recently caught fire at sea,
caused by a bomb explosion. The
ship safely reached the Azores with its
764 passengers.
The proposed new treaty between
the United States and Haiti was
signed by the president of Haiti on
Thursday, and is expected to be ratified
by the Haitien senate. The treaty
provides: First. The establishment
of a Haitien receivership of customs
under American control. Second.
The establishment of a native constabulary
force under command of
American officers. Third. The establishment
of American control over the
finances of Haiti, to the extent necessary
to prevent speculation and safeguard
the interest of the Haitien
people. Fourth. The term of the treaty
la tnr 1ft vcars and at the end of that
period it may be extended at the request
of either signatory.
NATURAL COTTON COLORS
Mr. Brabham's Experiments Excite
Interest Abroad.
That South Carolinian who announces
he has produced cotton of
warm tan, yellow green, light brown,
olive green and bronze colors, and is
sanguine he will produce black cotton
in the near future, has solved the dyestuff
problem in part at least, if his
statement is true. Luther Burbank
thinks it doubtful that black cotton
can be produced this generation, if
ever.
Still, it is possible South Carolina
has a Burbank or possibly even a
greater than Burbank. Americans, at
least, will wish him success in his efforts
to produce natural cotton colors.
Nature's alchemy certainly is capable
of producing more beautiful tints and
colors than any German or Swiss
chemist in his factory, but so far the
open sesame to the secrets of her color
schemes has not been found. And
nature's colors are "fast," they do not
run. and her mordants do their work
with a perfection no laboratory can
achieve.
But nature's laboratory secrets are
carefully guarded. She fashions her
colors in accordance with laws which
the greatest chemists only happen
upon occasionally, as in the discover)'
of the coal tar colors. The best the
chemists could do, even in that case,
was by the painful process of the
synthetic production of alizarine from
its constituent elements.
To pet nature herself to perform this
work would be one of the greatest
triumphs of science in modern times.
In fact, it is so great that it will require
abundant demonstration and
confirmation before the world and cotton
growers especially, can be convinced
that the South Carolinian's reported
discovery is genuine.?New
York Sun.
HARDING ON COTTON
Discussion of Responsibility Devolving
on Southern Banks.
This week when W. P. G. Harding,
a member of the Federal reserve
board, speaks at Raleigh he will have
something iiteresting to say about
cotton. Belrg a southern banker, Mr.
Harding knows much about the handU
Inor t\f nnttnn
"Not Bince the days of the Civil
war," said J:-r. Harding, discussing the
situation in .he south, "has cotton occupied
so prominent a place in international
affairs as at present. By virtue
of its use in the manufacture of
explosives its possession has become a
necessity to the nations at war. Great
Britain and her Allies, having practical
control of ocean transportation,
announced, some months ago, their
purpose of preventing shipments of
cotton reaching Germany and Austria,
either directly or through neutral
countries. The orders-in-council
which became effective last February,
have aroused a great deal of protest
in this country, the position being taken
that no belligerent had the right to interfere
with the shipment of non-contraband
goods from a neutral country
to another neutral country. While
these orders-in-council have been the
source of much irritation, it is claimed
that they have not been effective in
accomplishing their object, and the
marked increase in exports of cotton
from this country to Holland and
Sweden, as well as to Italy, up to the
time that she also became involved in
the war, would indicate that Germany
has been receiving practically her
usual amount of cotton through neutral
countries.''
Mr. Harding will talk of the conditions
abroad as they affect cotton,
and other important American crops,
at Raleigh. He is very optimistic.
Great Opportunity.
"The bankers and merchants of the
south," Mr. Harding says, "have at
this time a great opportunity as well
as a great responsibility. They are
in close and intimate contact with the
products throughout the cotton belt,
and are in the best position to advise
and assist them in taking the steps
necessary to protect their interests
which are also the Interests of the
whole south. For the second time
within recent years we have seen a
large crop sell for far less money
In the aggregate than a moderate crop
brought .the preceding year. They
have an opportunity of conserving the
values of the south's greatest single
asset?its cotton crop?and upon the
bankers and merchants of the south
rests the responsibility of the wealth
or woe of a great agricultural section
during the next 12 months and perhaps
for years.
"Leading financiers of the country,
in commenting upon present conditions,
which are due in part to the
European war, freely express the fear
that the sudden prosperity that has
developed in some sections and along
certain lines of industry, will be followed
by a period of wild speculation
and inflation.
Reserves Large.
"The banking reserves of this country
are now very large, being considerably
more than $1,000,000,000 in excess
of legal requirements. The gold
holdings of the United States, over
$2,000,000,000, are larger than those of
any other two countries combined. Our
trade balances are piling up at an unprecedented
rate and will probablv
amount to $1,000,000,000 during the last
six months of 1915. Rates for the
best commercial paper are very low,
4 per cent or less, and the southern
banks, should they be able to collect
within the next 60 days, the amounts
which they have out directly or indirectly
on cotton, will be at an absolute
loss to find a safe and profitable investment
for their funds.
"What better security, therefore,
could a southern bank ask than the
obligation of a merchant or farmer
which he has been carrying on a crop
not yet in existence?what better or
more liquid investment, I say, could a
southern banker find than to carry this
same obligation along for a few months
if necessary, secured by the actual
cotton, properly warehoused and inon/1
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general action on the part of southern
banks would greatly facilitate the
orderly and natural marketing of the
crop and would, in a great degree,
relieve what is called 'distress cotton,'
by which term forced sales of
cotton, regardless of market conditions,
have come to be known.
Why Is it Contraband?
"We should consider the object of
the British government in issuing its
orders-in-council and in its recent declaration
placing cotton on the contraband
list." Mr. Harding asserted.
"Why is that government engaged
in the most gigantic war of all history
with perhaps its very existence
at stake, so anxious to prevent cotton
from reaching the territory of its enemies?
Some have said that it is for
commercial reasons, that the government
is actuated by a desire to depress
the value of cotton in order that British
spinners may obtain their stocks at
a low cost. This theory does not stand
in the cold light of reason.
"Modern science within recent years
has caused cotton to become the basis
of the explosives which are absolutely
necessary in modern warfare. Cotton
is usea in me manuraciure or smoKeless
powder and in the production of
the high explosives used by heavy artillery
and by the great guns on the
mammoth battleships of the navies of
the present day. The statement has
been made that every time a battleship
of the class of the Queen Elizabeth
goes into action that 12 bales of cotton
are consumed. It is impossible to
form an estimate of the amount of
cotton that is used In the manufacture
of explosives. Belligerent nations
guard this secret closely.
Concessions by Bankers.
"The welfare of the south depends
upon the cotton crop being marketed
at fairly remunerative prices. The
prosperity or the reverse of the southern
farmer means strength or weakness
to the merchants and the hankers
of the south and vitally affects
trade and industry throughout this
entire country. It is within the power
of the men of the south regardless of
any untoward conditions that may exist.
to protect the greatest asset of
of that section if they will only make
Intelligent and courageous use of their
opportunity.
"Let southern bankers wherever
possible, make liberal concessions m
their usual rates on commodity loans.
High interest rates means forced sales.
Present conditions fully justify low
rates and southern bankers should be
willing1 to forego temporary profits for
the sake of security and solidity in
the future. I am sure that the Federal
reserve banks may be depended
upon under their power of re-discount,
to co-operate to the fullest extent
with the banks in taking care of the
cotton crop, and this assurance Is, ol
course, not confined to cotton loans,
but extends to other staple commodities."
COTTON LOAN RATE8
Northern Banks Not Likely to Figure
So Largely as Usual in Making
Loans 8outh?The Treasury Aid.
Northern banks are not likely to
figure so largely as usual In making
the customary loans to southern
banks for marketing the cotton crop.
The southern banks have been repeatedly
proclaimed as capable of
handling cotton without much if any
outside aid. Although this is not generally
the case, the readiness of the
Federal treasury to add 130,000,000
of its funds to the supply, as Mr. McAdoo
announced recently, leaves the
Interest rate situation in an easier position
than in previous years.
Incidental to the proffer of treasury
aid, the secretary stipulated that
the member banks should limit their
loans to customers upcn cotton to 6
per cer.t, and some of the Texas banks
are now announcing this fact.
There appears, however, to be some
criticism of this stand taken by the
secretary of the treasury, and the
Federal reserve board. Many contend
that they are transcending their
powers in thus attempting to regulate
private business. On this phase of
the cotton financing situation. The
Dallas News says:
"No authority is lodged anywhere
to prescribe a rate of interest to be
charged by the individual banks. It
does not lie in the secretary of the
treasury, nor does it lie in the Federal
Reserve Board, as many seem to
think. The Federal Reserve Board
can fix the rate of rediscount to be
charged by the Federal Reserve
Banks, but It has no such authority
over the member banks. At present
the rediscount rate of the Federal
Reserve Bank on ninety-day cotton
paper Is 4 1-2 per cent At that price
member banks can get money from
the Federal Reserve Bank on the security
of cotton paper. That money
they can offer to farmers at any price
their pleasure dictates.
"By alloting $30,000,000 on the 6
no* /???!t condition stiDUlated. 6 per
FVi .
cent might become the prevailing rate
of Interest on cotton loans. In doing
this, however, he would be putting
the treasury in competition with the
Federal Reserve Banks as a means of
stimulating competition among the
member banks. There would be little
demand for the 4 1-2 per cent money
of the Federal Reserve banks so long
as there is any free government money
to be obtained."?Wall Street Journal.
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PLANTS
IF PLANTED NOW WILL
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CHRISTMAS AND THE ENTIRE
WINTER.
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Wagons Are the Best
Built by a Southern factory
for Southern Farmers.
We Sell Owensboro Wagons?
iir_ i?_
YYC nave yum sue auu uui
Prices are Just Right.
Need a New One? Just see Us
Before You buy.
DISC AND DRAG HARROWS?
You will probably need one of these
implements In preparing your seed
beds for your fall sowings of grain
and grasses. See Us before buying.
R. E. HEATH COMPANY
J. H. SAYE, J. L. RAINEY,
President. Vice Prest.
First National Bank
SHARON. - - - 8. C.
MAKE THIS BANK YOURS?
We invite EVERY MAN, WOMAN
and CHILD within reach of
SHARON to make THIS BANK YOUR
BANK. We want YOUR BUSINESS
?we want it on a basis of MUTUAL
HELPFULNESS. You help us and
we help you. Deposit your funds in
this Bank and pay your bills with
Checks against your deposits. This Is
the practice of the best business men
and women everywhere?it is the only
correct way to do business. Paying
with Checks is a constant guard to
you against wastefulness and extravagance.
You'll always think twice before
you write a check to pay for an
article that ycu do not really need?
the Bank Way Will Save You Money.
Open an Account with US TODAY.
We will I/oan Money at 6 Per Cent
On Cotton Warehouse Receipts.
J. S. HARTNESS, Cashier.
LUMBER?
NEED ANY?
Rough or Dressed
Lumber Products, etc.
We will serve you better
and at lower prices.
See us for Shingles, Lime
J
uement, faints, etc. j
Builders' Hardware
I/ocks, Door and Blind Hinges,
Nails, Screws, Blind Fasteners,
Door Catches, Sash Lifts and
Locks, Transom Bars and Lifts,
Pivot Hinges, Swinging Door Sets,
Store Door and Front Door Sets,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
JNO. R. LOGAN
The AGENT of
ANOTHER Company
But Who Carries Insurance On His
Own Life In the Mutual Benefit,
Says:?
"If the average business man wore in
position to personally observe the
extraordinary liberality of the Mutual
Benefit in the treatment of its
f>ollcyholders, the claims It pays
which no other company would
pay), and the privileges it confers
(which no other company ever conferred),
I repeat, if the average business
man had personal knowledge
of these facts, you could sell all the
insurance you wanted without a
sales force.''
While the agent above quoted states
an exact truth, It is also true that the
"average business man," as well as all
other kinds, leap before they look and
buys life insuranco from the agent
who first presents the matter to them
or for personal reasons rather than
taking the trouble to occ whether or
not all companies vxc "about the 1
same." I am prepared to prove 841 me
companies doing business In this section
are "about the same," except the
Mutual Benefit, and that it is in a class
by itself. Look Before You Leap.
SAM M. GRIST, Special Agent.
Bagging and Ties
Of course you'll be needing BAGGING
and TIES soon to wrap your
cotton crop in. Come to Us. Let Us
supply your need. You'll find our
prices Just right
COTTON BASKETS?
Everybody knows that we sell COTTON
BASKETS?make a specialty of
them. Let Us supply your needs.
FLOUR?
The next time you need a sack of
FLOUR, suppose you try a sack of
our FLOUR. We have the BEST sold |
on this market. That's what users of
our Flour say about it We believe
you'll say the same thing after giving
our FLOUR a trial. Try it TODAY.
CARROLL BROS.
Fountain Pens
IF YOU use a Fountain Pen and
want a New one?Buy a WATERMAN
IDEAL.
IF YOU haven't a Fountain Pen
and want a good one?Buy a WATERMAN
IDEAL
IF YOU are hard to suit in a Foun
tain Pen, give me a cnance ana i
can Fit your hand with a WATERMAN
IDEAL.
IF YOU want a Fountain Pen that
is always on the Job?buy a WATERMAN
IDEAL.
IF YOU would like to see a good
line of Fountain Pens?let me give
you a splendid opportunity by exhibiting
my stock of WATERMAN
IDEAL PENS?They're BEST.
IT WILL give me pleasure to show
you my line of WATERMAN
IDEAL FOUNTAIN PENS.
T. W. SPECK, Jeweler
LIFE
IT CAN BE A SUCCESS OR A FAILURE.
WHICH WILL IT BE WITH
YOU? 11 111111
Look at the men who are successful
in the eyes of the world. Ninety-nine
out of every hundred started & Bank
Account when they were young?and
tuck to iL
And now, look at the failures. Very
few of them have a Bank account now.
Not speaking of when they were young.
Perhaps you think you have not
enough money to start an account.
Haven't you a dollar? That's all it takes
at THIS BANK.
Just try it for a year or six months.
If you do not wish to continue it you '
have lost nothing by the trial. I
Which Will It Be?Success or Failure?
IT'8 UP TO YOU.
Bank of Hickory Grove
HICKORY GROVE. S. C.
REAL ESTATE
LOOK! Now Isn't This a Nice Selection?
The J. K. Hope Place: 70 acres,
near Tlrzah, on Bock 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 Tracts?One 63 acres and the
1 other 60 acres?about 6 miles from
Yorkville on McConnellsvllIe-Chester
> T7W . H TI7.il 1 _
runu. x' not nati uao -*-* wm
in,g; 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.
DIRECTORY OF
YORK COUNTY
A DIRECTORY of the White Men
of York county of voting age, together
with the postofflce address and occupation
of each, may be had at the
Bank of Clover, the Bank of Hickory
Grove, the First National Bank of Sharon,
the People's National Bank of
Rock Hill, or from The Enquirer Office
at 25 cents a copy. This directory
contains more than 4.000 names, and is
of especial service and value for commercial
purposes. Published by
L. M. GRISTS SONS.
W" Send The Enquirer your orders
for high grade Commercial Stationery,
Booklets, Law Cases, etc. I
TO SUCCEEDTHE
GREATEST BUSINESS
TODAY ARE THE RESULT '
The hpcinnlne of the moat of then
everlastingly at it produced SUCC1
One of the stronge3t points in
CHECKING ACCOUNT PLAN. 1"
can reach its best results without
One of the strongest points ir
CHECKING ACCOUNT PLAN. J
can reach its best remits without i
COUNT with a GOOD BANK
MAKE OUR BANK YOUR I
ON US.
FIRST NATK
YORK.
It. C. ALLEIN, Cashier.
"You Had Better Be
ENAMELED WARE I
No kitchen ever has too many of
the right kind of ENAMELED COOKING
UTENSILS?that's the kind we
sell?the RIGHT KIND?the LASTING
KIND. We have practically every
kind of cooking utonsll in the best
grade of ENAMELED WARE. Let
us show you what we have.
cr*n *to rv\r?
OEiTi to rviv
BAKERIZED COFFEE,
HAMS and BREAKFAST BACON,
TINWARE OF ALL KINDS,
BEST FANCY GROCERIES.
FARM HARDWARE.
And anything else you may need
in our lines.
SHERER & QUINN
/.A Wonder
A Customer of ours on
Railway, reports that for Nint
Coffee. Out of the hundreds
sent out in that long time, he
three of these cans.
No wonder We can afford
Brand of Coffee.
Your Money Back If You1
derstanding that You are to U
ordinary coffee.
LUZIANN
Save the Coupons out c
them with beautiful gifts.
Dorsett's Cafe
AND LUNCH COUNTER 18 NOW
OPEN AND READY TO SERVE
ALL KINDS OF GOOD THING8
TO EAT AT ALL HOURS
We wish to announce that we have
secured the services of Mr. Gaines
MahafTey. a restaurant man formerly
with the famous "Gem Restaurant" in
Charlotte, who will have charge of
our CAFE and LUNCH COUNTER.
We can serve anything that is good
to eat
ROYAL PRESSING CLUB.
We Invite you to Join our PRESSING
CLUB. Five Suits Cleaned and
Pressed Each Month for $1.00. When
you want your Clothes Cleaned and
Pressed RIGHT, send them to the
ROYAL PRESSING CLUB.
R. D. DORSETT, Prop.
THE CITY MARKET
Offers the Best Beef to be had, In all
the choicest cuts.
Offers Finest Cured Hams, raw or
aw hw lha iwnn/1 nr
UU11CU, VVUV1C VI I// tllV |/vuuu v*
slice.
Has Fresh Fish every Saturday.
Buys HIDES at the market price.
Wants all the good, Fresh Eggs It
can get, and all the Butter It can
handle.
Will take all the good, fat Cattle It
can get
PHONE 74.
C. F. SHERER, Proprietor.
FALSE EG
It is an old saying
man," and quite true is t
give quicker attention ar
well dressed man than y
careless of his clothes?ei
stranger. Wouldn't Y01
ed Stationery, Booklets, e
liable merchant, a banker
but YOU know that YO
notice the difference in th<
that passes through your
cpiup is written nn a nnoi
a cheap looking printed h
possibly?put it down in
on a par with his stationei
that way. Well, if this
OTHER FELLOW thin
tionery is of the cheap, s
the same kind of opinio!
form of HIM.
What kind of station*
kind that leaves a bad tasi
attention by its very app
please? The better kind c
more because it gets mor<
either kind. If YOU wai
mand attention use the BI
COST. Use the kind th;
quirer Office. We insist
As Good As Your Money
isfied with the cheap, sho
course we do not expect 1
DO WANT YOUR ORE
in Quality at a FAIR PR
A rubber stamp will
others are satisfied with s
printing office?but the ft
facturer who wants to ere
other Merchant, Banker
with nothing but the BES
L. M. GRIS
JOB PRI
Tssssn ,
ENTERPRISES EXISTING f
OF PERSEVEHKM'E
.1 was a modest one; but keeping
3SS.
i these business growths was the
fo business, be it ever so smalt, *
?K? a# a oupoiriMn if.
iiic a j diviii v? ? vii wv/ im**? v?
i these business ijrcwths whs the
Jo business, be it ever so small,
the ;<ystem of u CHECKING AC1ANK
and do Your CHECKING
>NAL BANK
8. O.
O. E. WILKIN8, President.
Safe Than Sorry"
? 4
SMOAK-BROWN CO.
HORSES. MULES. VEHICLES.
======== f
Tyson & Jones
BUGGIES ARE BETTER?
We sell the TYSON & JONES Buggies
on this market and believe It to
be the BEST on this market Hundreds
of them have been sold on this
market during the past fifteen years
or more and they have given universal
satisfaction to the buyers and the
users. If you contemplate buying a
buggy this fall see us before you buy. ."P
SMOAK-BROWN COMPANY *
ful Record.*.
the main line of the Southern
i Years he has sold Luzianne
and hundreds of cans he has
paid back the money on just
to Guarantee this Celebrated
Want It, with the distinct unse
Only Half as Much as the
If IS BLEND?D
* JUST RIGHT
>f Luzianne cans, and redeem
=
JroJtMlonal Cards.
DR. WM. M. KENNEDY
? DENTAL SURGEON ?
Office On Second Floor of the "Wjrlie
Building?Opposite Postoffice.
Telephone?Office, 99; Residence ltf.
JAMES B. SHIRLEY
DENTAL 8URGEON
First National Bank Building
YORKVILLE, 8. C.
V Office Houra: S.tO A. M., to l.tO
P. M. t f ly
Choice MeatsWhen
you want a CHOICE dTEAK
for Breakfast, or an extra Fine ROAST
for your dinner, Phone Old George?
He %vill please you every time.
For Dinner?We have Cabbage, potatoes
and Turnips, White Beans and
Butter Beans, and all kinds of Canned
Goods.
When You want Good COFFEE, Just
come to SHERER'S?I have It. ^
Don't Forget to Pay YOUR Beef Bill.
I Owe Men in the country and They
Want Their Money.
Why can't we all be Honest? ^
We can't help being poor.
You pay Me, and I'll pay Them; w
Then We can get some more.
OLD GEORGE
THE BOTCHER.
V Send The Enquirer your orders
for high grade Commercial Stationery,
Booklets, Law Cases, etc.
mm
?? *
that "Clothes don't make the
his saying?but YOU would
id more consideration to the
ou would to the man who is gi
specially if the wearer were a
J? Yes. Well, Good Printtc.,
do not make a good, reor
other safe business man?
U?unconsciously possibly?
; quality of the printed matter
hands. If a letter YOU rer
quality of paper and carries
leading YOU?unconsciously
your mind that the writer is
y and YOU think of him just ,
be true then what does the
k of YOU when YOUR stahoddy
looking kind? Forms
i of YOU that YOU would
?ry do YOU use? Is it the
te or the kind that commands
>earance?its Quality, if you ^
osts a little more?it's worth
:?but a red stamp will carry
it YOUR stationery to comiST?it
will pay YOU for its
it YOU will get at The Enon
all Our work being "Just
Will Buy." If YOU are satddy
kind of printing, then of
? * r
:o get your orders?out w o
>ER if YOU want the BEST
ICE
I satisfy some people, while
inything that comes out of a
'erchant, Banker or Manuate
a good impression on the
or Manufacturer is satisfied
T?That's Our Kind.
T'S SONS,
NTERS