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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
Note the Conditions.

TWO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS at 81
each, will be considered the equivalent Of one
yearly subscriber at sl.75 and so counted.
subscription paid for two or more years In ad-
vance at sl.75, will be counted as one name for
each year so paid.
Clubmakers will be held personally respon-
them. After a clubmaker has returned and
paid for any name, he can, at anytime there
after, discontinue the sending Of the paper to
the person for whom he has paid, and trans
fer the uneXpired time to any other person,
provided the person to whom the transfer is
desired was not O subscriber at the time the
No name will be counted in competition for
o premium until the subscription price has
been paid nor will any premium be delivered
| until q satisfactory settlement has been made
Persons who commence making clubs will
not be permitted to transfer their club to an
other clubmaker's list after the names have
been entered on our books.
It Is not necessary that the names on club
should all be at the same postomce. Names
may be taken at any number Of places.
Clubmakers are requested to send in names
as rapidly as they secure them after Novem-
Ali subscriptions must be forwarded to us at
the expense Of those sending them.
We will be responsible for the safe transmits
sion of money only when sent by DRAFT, regis
tered letter or money order drawn on the
In sending names, write plainly, and give
pOstoffice, county and state.
All subscriptions will be discontinued ut the
expiration Of the time paid for.
4 separate list will be kept for each club
maker who will be credited with each name
sent, SO that the number sent by any one per-
son may be ascertained at @ moments notice.
In case Of q tie for either premium, two
weeks will be allowed in which to 'untie"
The time in which names may be returned
under our propositions will commence now,
1st day Of November, 1896, and expire at
O'Clock, p. m, on Wednesday, the 10th day
of March, 1897.
Everybody. Go to Work Now!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.

Trains Nos. 8 and 10 are first class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
90 and 81 carry passengers and also run
daily except Sunday. There is good con-
nection at Chester with the G. G. & N.
and the c. G. & A., also L & G. R. r.. at
Gastonia with the A. & G. A. L.; at Lin
colnton with c. c.; and at Hickory and
Newton with W. N. G.
L. T. NICHOLS, Supt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
ESTABLISHED 1901.
s. M. & L. GEO. GRIST,
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY,

WE represent number of the strong
w est and most reliable fire insurance
companies in the United States, with ag-
gregate assets of over 81, 2,555, 600, among
which is the ETNA, of Hartford, Conn,
established in 1919; the PENNSYLVANIA
IA, of Philadelphia, established in 1926 |;
the DELAWARE, of Philadelphia, es-
tablished in 1885, and the CONTINEN-
tai INSURANCE COMPANY OF
NEW YORK. Insure your houses against
damage by fire, lightning and cyclones.
Your business solicited and our prompt
and most careful attention guaranteed.
Thanking you most cordially for past
favors, we are yours truly,
S. M. & L. GEO. GRIST,
Resident Agents.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
FULL PREMIUM LIST.

But this is not all. In addition to the pre-
miums offered for the LARGEST AND SEC
OND LARGEST CLUBS, and the largest club
of NEW SUBSCRIBERS, we also offer other
valuable premiums for a given number CT sub
scribers. This, 1t will be seen, ensures that the
clubmaker who starts out for one Of the larger
clubs and falls short, will not fall to De paid
for his time and trouble. Here is the list in
full, followed by the conditions below:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
For 30 and Less Than 60

SUBSCRIBERS, we will give the clubmaker
his choice Of the following, each valued at SIS:
WALTHAM WATCH, in open face silver
case; set Of halt dozen ROGERS BROS.
KNIVES and FORKS az PIECES) MOI AU-
TOHARP, BANJO, MANDOLIN, GUITAR,
or LOW ARM SINGER SEWING MACHINE.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
And to Each Old Subscriber,

THE YoRKvILLE ENoUIRER-TWICE-A-
WEEK-filled with bright, fresh news from
the COUNTY, STATE, NATION AND
WORLD, interesting stories, instructive mis-
cellaneous matters and humorous selections,
held up to its present high standard, and will
continue prompt, explicit, reliable, and, in
short the best
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
For 80 and Less Than 40

choice Of the following, each
valued at $40: NEW YORK STANDARD
7-JEWELED WATCH In dust proof case lax
GOLD FILLED WATCH CHAIN, HALE
DOZEN TEASPOONS, HALFDOZEN TABLE
SPOONS and BUTTER KNIFE Q3 pieces) !;
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
$500 LA BELLE" ORGAN

For the largest club Of NEW SUBSCRIBERS
we will give one WILCOX & WHITE OR
GAN, known as "La Belle" and worth S5.o;
This Is the same instrument that Is being sold
by Mr.. GEO. T. SCHoRB, and which is giving
chased It, 1t has five octaves, two complete
sets OF reeds and octave couplers, and nine
stops. The case is Of black walnut, ornament
ed with bevel plate mirror, and in tone, work
manship and durability, the instrument is
equal TO any reed organ ever sold on this mar
ket. With the organ will go handsome
stool, for which there will be no charge.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
For 6 and Less Than 10

SUBSCRIBERS, an extra quality THREE
BLADED POCKET KNIFE, GENUINE
FRENCH BRIAR PIPE or CHILD'S SILL
YER PLATED TABLE SET. Good values at
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
$1,000 BUGGY.

To the clubmaker who returns the largest
number Of names, will be awarded the BEST
BUGGY manufactured by the CARoLINA BUG
The Buggy may be taken out of stock or
manufactured to order at the option Of the
successful Clubmaker,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
For 20 and Less Than 80

SUBSCRIBERS, we will give NO. M AU-
TOHARP, valued at $50; or THE ENQU1R-
Err and any monthly magazine or weekly
newspaper published in the United States, for
onp wear
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
$4,000 WAGON.

To the clubmaker who returns the second
largest number of names will be awarded q
WHITE HICKORY TWO HORSE WAGON,
valued at $50. The wagon Is the equal IN
every respect Of any other to be bought Mt the
price named.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
For 8 and Less Than 6

SUBSCRIBERS, "Siren" pattern BUTTER
with name and address on the handle.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24
For 10 and Less Than 20

SUBSCRIBERS, a CONCAYE WARRANT.
ED RAZOR, SILVER PLATED GRAVY LA.
DIE, or ON extra quality FOUR BLADED
POCKET KNIFE, with name and address
on the handle. Any Of the articles mentioned
would be bargain at 81.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-24

strive. Every days effort makes the
struggle easier.
Bas' Hasty conclusions are the mark
of fool; wise man doubts; fool
RACES and is confident; the novice
says: II am sure that it is so;" the
better learned answers: "Peradven-
ture it may be so; but I pray thee in
quire." 1t is little learning, and but
a little, which makes men conclude
hastily. Experience and humanity
teach modesty and fear.
e9 On metal rails, in the most favor
able condition and smooth from use, a
horse can draw one and two-thirds as
much as on the best asphalt pavement
three and one-third times as much as
on good belgian blocks; five times as
much as on ordinary belgian cobble-
stones; Is times as much as on ordi-
nary cobblestones 20 times as much
as on an earth road, and 40 times as
much as on sand.
nag" NJ. Girard, chief of the Paris
municipal laboratory, has conducted
investigations with the object of max
ing it safe to drink water of question
able quality, and finds that acids soon
kill microbes. Citric acid is the most
powerful for the purpose one gramme
as much as is contained in half an
averaged sized lemon-will destroy all
the microbes in quart of water. If,
therefore, there is any reason to sus-
pect the purity of drinking water dur
ing hot weather, all danger may be
avoided by mixing lemon juice with
the water.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22
They Rushed the Game.

Raley it was nothin to me and none
of my business, but told Bley he would
better rush the game all he could. When
two people-one a man and the other
woman-have both been married one
time already, and then take up fool
notion TO go and come and try the fatal
step oncst more, you peper can tell how
student and surprisin it will be.
Bright and early next mornin Blev
come by our house driyin his big high
headed, dapple gray horse to spankin
new buggy and splittin the big road
wide open as he went. He was all
dressed out in his Sunday best, with his
whiskers dyed black as night, and bless
the heavens if you couldn't stand on
the front porch and smell the bear
grease and cinnamon drops in his hair
as he driv by-whistlin soft and low
and headed straight for the Wilder
Stinsons.
mind you row, Rufe, ! never have
put myself out on the bargain counter
to git married." said Blev to me the
other night, "but | reckon | mought let
some good woman horpsnoggle me into
a game like that if nothin else would
meet the general circumference of the
calamity. | wouldn't even make out to
YOU like life wouldn't be worth the
Twin to me without the Wilder Stinson
for my wife. But yet when it comes to
courtin and carryin on with the female
generation | amt no slouch, and it wont
take me more than a week TO put old
man Ran through cold sweat and give
him palpitation of the heart. He can
have the widder and more than well
come, but he can't take her and still
hold the papers to that GO acres of
swamp land. This vain and heetin
world is full of trials and troubles and
tribulations, and sickness and sorrow
and sufferin anyhow, Rufe, and old man
Rams time has come"
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22
DOG AND TELEPHONE.
TriXy's Latest Accomplishment Has
n Serious Drawback.

Thomas Reynolds, of Reynoldsville,
Pa, is the owner of trick dog, recently
received from Australia, whose latest
accomplishment is his knowledge of the
telephone. On several occasions when
away from the house Mr.. Reynolds
would call up his residence and have the
dog brought to the phone and the re-
ceiver held to his ear, when he would
talk in such soothing language as TO
fill the canine with great delight. The
animal would recognize his masters
voice and make all sorts of demonstra-
tons of Joy. Mr.. Reynolds went on
trip TO PunXsutawney, and while there
talked over the phone to his friends at
home. lie also permitted the dog to
listen. From this the dog must have
gotten the idea that there were only two
phones in existence, one at his home
and the other at the Hotel Waverly in
Punxsutawney, as the circumstance
which followed will prove. Mr.. Rey-
holds went to Punxsutawney and called
up the dog as usual. The animal
barked and whined and made great
ado, all of which could be distinctly
heard over the wires. About an hour
later, and just as Mr.. Reynolds was
ready TO start on his return trip home,
what was his surprise TO see his dog
come bounding into the hotel. He had
run the entire distance from Reynolds
vile to Punxsutawney, IA miles, in
about three-quarters Of an hour. And
now Mr.. Reynolds is in dilemma, as the
dog seems to be firmly impressed with
the idea that there are but two tele-
phones in the country, the one at home
and the other in PunXsutawney; he
will not dare talk to the dog from any
other point, because if he does the ami
NAL will start Immediately for the Ho-
tel Waverly to find his master-Orange
Judd Farmer.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22
Down to a Finish.

Then about the next news we got
Bley Scroggins and the Wilder Stinson
had worked up a scandalous bad love
scupe and pitched out fyin around and
courtin and goin on to beat six bits.
They flew so high and went SO fast, and
kept company together so regiar and
constant till it was the talk Of the coun-
try for miles and miles around. 1t was
Blev Scroggins and the Wilder Stinson,
or the Wilder Stinson and Bley Scrog-
gins everywhere you went.
And yet still old man Ran Phillips
would pole off down there two or three
times every week to pay his double
breasted regards to the widder-which
if she didn't happen 10 be out ridin up
and down the big road with Blew Scrcg-
gins, she want even bridlewise to old
man Ran. She toted her head so high
and pulled on the bits so heavy till
finally at last the old man returned back
home and took sick and went to bed.
One day | rid around bY the phillips
place to find out if there was anything
| could do for old man Ran, and who do
YOU reckon was there-who but Blev
Scroggins? When | started home Biev
followed me out to the front gate loolin
like as if he had sonethin particlar in
his mouth to say.
"The hand ofthe affliction is Resin on
the old man mighty heavy right now,
Rufe, but he will recover in the due full
ness of time" says Blew with that same
slow wink and soft whistle.
Now you can't prove anything by me
us to how it all come to pass. But on the
third day after that old man Ran was
up and about-spry and actious and
happy as any youngster in the country.
And when Blew Scroggins rid by that
night on his return back home, whistlin
soft and low, he had the deeds and
titlements" to that co acres Of swamp
handmade out in his own full and
proper nume-put away in his inside
breast pocket.
Now in conclusion you mought maybe
love TO know what ever went with old
man Ran and the wilder. Bless your
sweet life, my honey dear, they got
married, they did. With Blew out of the
game it was easy as fallin off of n wet
log for old man Ran TO open the pot
and take what was left. No doubts they
have been happy henceforwards from
that day-old man Ran and his seeont
wife-and may they linger yet through
many years to come in the land Of their
fathers.
But in the mainline human nature IS
human still, and Blew Scroggns and
that GO acres of swamp land amt gone
nowheres.
RUFUS SANDERS.
There are from four 20 six grains
II ..........- l..-,.v { ~ 4f-a rua
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22
REsCUING GAME IN THE ALPS.
How the Mountnineers shovel Deer
from beneath AvaIanches

Deer and such large game suffer
greatly in the Alps from the avalanches.
When everything which they are ac-
customed to seek for nourishment is
covered several feet in snow hunger
adds its pangs to those of cold. Some
Samaritans of the forest are in the habit
of scattering food about in more shell
tered places. This, however, cannot be
of great service, and thousands of deer
perish annually from hunger. In the
Alps the avalanche is the third danger
which confronts the wild game, espe-
cially in the springtime. A very little
thing, as a stone, n SNOWFALL, the fall
ing branch of tree, may precipitate
them. In an instant a mass of snow and
ice weighing tons starts down from the
heights with overwhelming force.
Usually a sure instinct keeps deer out
of their path, but they are not infre-
ouently surprised. Often through the
peculiar rotary motion at the sides OF
the snowslide, and the consequent
churning up of materials, the game is
landed at the foot Of the mountain, in
ouch a position that a rescue is posi-
ble. This is well known to the forest
ers. After an avalanche they hasten to
the rescue. II is necessary TO accomplish
the work in great haste. Wherever
there is a visible trace of game the
snow is eagerly shoyeled away, and
very often an imprisoned deer is
brought to light. Very often the ami
mails arc half dead, and rude surgical
rid must be given 20 broken legs.-Chi-
caRo Inter Ocean,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22

ana married nef at dfetna IIeea. lnroo
years later he abandoned her and she
drowned herself from grief, Soon after
this he married another woman, with
whom he had been living previous to his
first wife's death. He was the intimate
friend of Lord Byron tud Leigh Hunt,
and they witnessed the cremation of his
body and deposited the, ashes near the
grave of Keats, in the Protestant GEM
etery at Rome.
No, | cannot tell anybody how to raise
bility. l have known preachers to un-
dertake the task and fail, and the con-
gregation smiled inwardly at the
preachers failure to raise his own in
an exemplary and orthodox way.
! said something about the laws of
heredity coming in as factor in the
rearing of children. | knew two good
men in Rome before the war, who had a
like number of boys growing up, and
these two families were close neighbors
and their boys mingled together and
went to the same day school and Sun
etHOOl tlllh NliuiS oiC oNt vi
these boys was good, manly, indus
trious and comfort and an honor to
their parents. The other set was bad,
mischievous and untruthful. In fact.
they were several times caught steal
ing or with stolen goods in their possess
sion. And yet the parents in both fam
lilies were always exemplary in their
conduct and conversation. | asked DR..
Miller how he accounted for that.
"Hereditary," said he. Zone set of
these boys have bred after their grand
father, who was very bad man. |
knew him well, and he was terror TO
the community. These grandsoas
have started out on his line. Bad blood
in horses will some times skip genera
ton and then crop out. just so it is
with human blood Can it not be
eradicated ?" said |. "Oh, yes" he re-
piled. These boys should have had
more restraint in infancy and youth.
1t takes more for that sort. The whip
pings they are getting now come too
late, and | fear will not reform them.
But most any disposition to vice can be
reformed if begun in time. 1t is the
same in animal and vegetable crea-
tions. You can cut off kittens tail
from one litter to another until they
will ultimately be born without tails.
You can dwarf a peach tree or enlarge a
tomato
Now, while hare my settled convic-
tions on these things, do not wish any
body to suspect that there has been any
brutality at our house. Some of our
boys received corporal punishment at
rare intervals. Others had none-not
stroke. except a spank or two from
their mother. Like most parents, we
thought that other peoples children
needed more than ours. But even the
punishment they did get they have not
forgotten and still talk of it as big
thing.
Now, as to the girls, of course they
should not suffer corporal punishment
in the schools. In the first place, they
do not need it. Secondly, if they did,
there is no natural and suitable place
to receive it, and if there was, it cam
not be found with propriety.-Bill Arp,
in Atlanta Constitution.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22
THE SONlYEsT" ONE.
Blew Scrogglns the Snoothest
Gard in the Pack.
"Out for stuff" and in the Game to
Wilma Handsome Young Widow
and Sixty Acres Was the
Stakes.

When in the fullness of time-and
through the gracious plenty of His
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22
RenIHouse on wheels.

Mr.. C. A. Lasley, of Port Angelus,
Wash, passed through Greensburg,
Ind, travelling overland in house on
wheels. The vehicle is built of Wash
ington cedar, weighs 2,10o pounds, is
six feet high, the same number in width
and ~ feet long. The house" has two
doors and three windows, is furnished
with folding bed and table, chairs and
camp stove, and is q comparatively COM
Portable place to live. Mr.. and Mrs.
Lasley, four children and three canary
birds occupy the house" in which
they have Travelled from Port Angelus.
They are travelling under contract with
a museum in New York city, whittier
they are now bound, and where the
"house" will be placed on exhibition.
When here they had been on the road
for three years and II days, and had
Travelled 5,270 miles.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22

the light of day in this lost and ruint
world.
In my day and generation l have
scraped up passin acquaintance with
great squads and droves of people,
which at the same time | don't claim
to know but mighty few. But if don't
know Blew Scroggins-if | don't know
him as perfect and familiar as a school
boy knows his old blue-back spelleT-
then by gracious | don't know Twin
mortal man on the broad bosom of the
discovered earth.
Many and many's the time l have
heard Blew make his brags about how
he could "come into the game with
marry pair and take the pile and in
regards to that he is the onlyest man
fave ever saw that could handle the
documents to that extent.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22

There are from four 90 six grains
CT aqueous humor IN the eye.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22

less time than three wee&s-with tina
deeds and titlemeRts made out
bomb-proof in my own full and proper
name-then human nature amt human
any more, the ways of this wicked world
are past findin out, and Blev Seroggins
has never yet shielded his colts teeth.
whats on the wind? Old man Ran
is poor, lone widower-with nobody
TO comfort and console him in his few
remainin days on earth-nobody to darn
his socks and patch his clothes, and no.
body to fling the sunshine acrost his path
as he hobbies on down the hill, as il
were. Old man Ran wants to git mar
ried. He wants to marry so bad till he
don't know anything for certain. You
could take bundle of calico and little
bunch of red ribbon and make a ravin
idiot out of that old man before sunrise
in the mornin.
Nov the Wilder Stinson-Nan Weuv-
er as she use to be-she would love
tremendous we'll to give her own sweet
self away, for better or for worse, to
some man person. Old man Ran has
already fell heels over appetite in love
with the er-and-well-th wild
der she Amt gone nowheres. So there
you are, Rufe-two souls with but one
mainest hope, two hearts that ache as
one-and the country is now seriously
threatened with music and dancin and
another weddin match.
"But if Blew Scroggins Amt all sorts
of fool at encst, old man Ran Phillips
never will marry himself off with the
Wilder Stinson-never in the round dis
covered world, Rufe-till all the deeds
and titlements to that 60 acres of swamp
land are signed, sealed and landed safe
in the old family chest at home.'
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22
scren nj One RIrth.

Or. Dietrich Borfuth, Of Dopat, Ger
many, reports the occurrence near
there Of seven children at one birth.
Only one case Of the kind Is reported,
which tool, place about the year isoe
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22

wisdom and mercy
the good Lord
raked up the neces-
sary materials to
make the most
smoothest card in
the whole pack
there amt any
doubts in my mind
but what bout
tn at time Blev
Gnroruips fret. saw
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-12-17
Death Of James King.

James King, who was taken from here
to Grand Forks on the 5th inst, to be
operated on for a gin-shot wound he
had received in the arm. died at St:
Luke's hospital in that city last Saturday
mornin The body was brought to thiS
city Sunday, and the funeral services
took place at the Congregational church
Monday afternoon. the remains being
followed to the cemetery by one of the
largest professions ever witnessed il,
this city. Mr.. King was forty years OF
age, man Of exemplary!and inGustrioug
habits, a mem bel, of the board OF, trustees
of the town of Williston, and highly es-
teemed by all who knew him, and he
upt&mely death is keenly felt by the en-
tire community He leaves wife AM;
four children to mourn his sad ard ea:ly
death. -1.-