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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

On VIsITING.-To ask q friend to
"come sometime" and make you a
visit is equivalent to no invitation all
all, says a writer in Harper's Bazar.
1t is simply a polite facon de parler,
and means little. This sounds like a
sweeping statement; but it is none the
less true. If you really desire to see
your friend in your home, you will
follow the foregoing speech by the re-
quest that she will state some date
when she will find it convenient to
make you visit, or you will yourself
set a time when you will be at leisure
to see her. As rule, "any time"
means no time. Too many well.mean-
ing persons do not understand the i'm
portance of this matter of invitations.
When you name the time at which
you wish your friend to visit you, also
mention the length of the stay you ex-
pect her to make; or, if you wish to
have her as long as she can possibly
remain in your home, invite her to
spend at least a fortnight, and as much
longer as she finds practicable.
When the time set by you and your
guest as the duration of her stay with
you has expired, do not burden her
with pleading that she will stay
longer. Make her appreciate that it
would give you great pleasure to have
her change her plans, but when you
see that she has already made her ar
rangements and feels that she should
not stay, do not urge her further. 10
speed the parting guest is as much a
part of gracious hospitality as to wei
come her.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
Humorous Department.
ABSOLOM AND THE CRAB.


While stationed at Yorktown in the
spring of 1862, Absolom SNOWFALL saw
the soldiers eating crabs and apparent
ly enjoying them. He went to his
master and said, "Look 'ere, Mars
Charlie, what's de name of desc 'ere
nasty looking things de white folks is
eatin ?"
"They are crabs" said the colonel,
"and they are fine eating"
"Oh, g'way fom 'ere Mars Charlie.
Dey amt nothing but great big craw-
fishes"
"Oh, no, Absolom, they are consid-
cred a great delicacy, and if you would
eat one you would like it very much. "
"No, sirree," said Absolom. "Dey's
welcome to 'em for my part.
In a week or two he was induced by
one of the men to taste one. On doing
so Absolom expressed great surprise
that they were so good, and he ate a
half dozen. Going up to his master in
a shamefaced sort of way he said:
"Mar's Charlie, what do you think ?
done eat one err dem old things"
"What things" said the colonel.
"One 'er dem ole crabs"
"How did you like it?"
"Well, sub, eff you believe me twas
de bes' thing I ever put in NAH mouf."
~ have been telling you so all the
time, you fool, but you wouldn't be-
lieve me-"
"Look ERE, Mars Charlie, dey tell
me dat if you'll tie chicken leg on to
a string an drap it down in de watah
dat dem ole things will bite at it, an et
you ken spare me fer hour or so l
think I'll go down to de York river an
ketch some fer we all's supper"
call right" said the colonel. $50
ahead and don't let those things bite
YOU"
"No, sub, dey amt agwine to bite
me, kase I'm gwine to keep NAH eyes
on he mouf, you bet ~
He had been on the beach but few
minutes when he was heard yelling,
"Oh, Lordy; oh, Lordy!" as if in
great pain. The colonel called to him,
saying:
"What are you making all that noise
about, Absolom ?"
"De thing is done bit me, suh."
"Didn't 1 tell you they'd bite you,
sir ?"
"Ya-as, sub. I know you did, but
he didn't bite like thought he was
gwine to bite me. drap the chicken
leg down into the watah, an fo' it had
bin dere minute de old thing clamp
ed it. Den step back from de watah
on de sand. He jumped off an started
to run back in de watah, sor'er back
wards like, al ez he done so l slapped
nah foot on him an pinned him to de
groun. Den l famine him close to see
whar he mouf was. Jes' as soon ez see
he moufI picked him up by the back
and helt him in NAH hans. He laid
dere an wiggled three or fo' times, l
watchin his mouf all de time. De fust
thing l knowed, fo' Gawd, de ole
thing retched round an bit me wild
every foot he had."-Polk Miller in
Washington Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

pd~ There are about 1000 persons
living in foreign countries who receive
checks from Washington quarterly in
payment of pensions. There are 1000
in Canada, who receive $345,00O a
year; 600 in Germany receiving $685.
900 a year, and $50 in Great Britain
whose checks aggregate S126,9so a
year. One man in the FIJI Islands
draws S24 every three months, and
four times a year checks are sent to
men who are living in Africa.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

A SICK CoNGREsSMAN.-The other
evening the little daughter of con,
gresham was paying a visit at a
neighbours, and the respective mothers
were talking of physical ailments and
their remedies. After while little
girl saw an opportunity to make a
remark.
"My papa" she said, "always drinks
whisky when he is sick"
Then she stopped for a minute, her
eyes softened and saddened, and she
continued slowly:
"And poor papa is sick nearly all
the time" ."-Washington Critic.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

e9 The following is vouched for by
a minister's wife, and, therefore, must
be so if it isn't so: A clergyman Wis.,
iting a woman in a severe illness,
asked "Do you derive much comfort
from the instruction of the Bible p
"Oh, yes, indeed" was the repl y
"What particular passage do you rely
upon at present ?" asked the minister
"Grin and bear it," replied the suffer
er. The clergyman departed to look
up a concordance.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
A Conflict
of Evidence

Now running in The Enquir-
er, only six chapters Of
which have been printed.
See your nearest club-lnaker
and subscribe for the paper,
and read this most intensely
interesting story.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

aH- 1t is not what we earn, but what
we save, that makes us rich; it is not
what we eat but what we digest,
that makes lis strong; it is not what
we read, but what we remember, that
makes us learned it is not what we
intend, but what we do, that makes
us useful it is not few faint wishes,
but a lifelong struggle, that makes us
valiant.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
TERMS OF THE CONTEST.

The clubmaker who returns and pays for
the largest number OF subscribers-NEW AND
OLD-will be entitled to the choice of the three
above described premiums. The clubmak ker
who returns and pays for the largest number
of NEW NAMES, will be entitled to second
choice. The clubmaker who returns the Sec
Ond largest number of names-new and old
will be entitled to the third choice. In other
words, the first choice goes TO the largest club
the second choice to the largest number of
new subscribers; and the third choice to the
second largest club of old and new subscribers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
ESTABLISHED 1891.
L. GEO. GRIST,
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY,
YOrkYille. S. c..

THE increase of my Fire Insurance
i business this October over October
of 1895, is even $1,000. The reason is plain.
I have had seven years, training in the
business and 1 represent five of the lead
ing American fire insurance companies.
NV rates are as low as any standard in
surance, and the motto of every COM
pany I represent is-"Just, Prompt, Ger
tain and Liberal" And, right here, de-
sire to extend my heartfelt thanks for this
increase of business, as well as all busi-
ness given me in the past, and am pre-
pared to assure all who entrust their fire
risk to me, to give it my most careful and
painstaking attention. The insurance
companies paid out for fire losses last year
S9O.2I2.97I. See that your property is
protected. can fix you right.
L. GEO. GRIS,r, Resident Agent.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
For 6 and Less Than 10
For 4 and Less Than 6
And to Each Old Subscriber.
To Each New Subscriber.

The same as above except that II the paper
is COMMENCED NOW, IT WILL BE SENT
UNTIL JANUARY i, 1880, without any
charge for that portion OF the time between
now and January l, 1897. 1t is understood,
however, that II the subscriber fails to pay
the clubmaker the subscription price, he will
be due him for all papers that he may have
received.
names were not on OUR BOOKS ON OCTO-
BER LIST, 1897. except we will not count as
new subscribers, cases where the subscription
may have been changed from the name OF one
member of q family to another. This Is in
tended emphatically to mean new additions
TO our substitution list.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
THREE BIG PREMIUMS.

The three leading premiums are CARO-.
LIMA BUGGY, q ROCK HILL BUGGY. and
q MONARCH BICYCLE, for lady or gentle
man. The "Rock Hill Buggy is to be o
quarter leather top and the Carolina" an
open buggy. Both vehicles are to be of the
very best grades manufactured by the respect
i've wel-known establishments. The Bicycle
is to be of the highest grade manufacturer by
the Monarch Cycle Company, and the Mon
arch wheel, rs every wheelman knows, Is
without n SuDeriOr.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
OTHER PREMIUMS.

In addition to the competitive premiums
mentioned above, we also offer various other
premiums for clubs containing specified num-
bers of names, and propose to deliver the pre-
miums whenever the numbers specified are
returned and paid for. Upon securing one
premium-a watch or sewing machine. say
the clubmaker will be ut liberty to try for the
same thing again, or for anything else on the
list, and if In the aggregate, by the 9TH DAY
OF MARCH, 1898, he shall have succeeded In
returning and paying for the largest number
of NEW NAMES, he will be entitled to the
SECOND CHOICE Of the three leading pre-
miums mentioned above, just the same as II
he had not previously taken other premiums.
Now. then, read the list
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

B9- A man must be excessively stu
pid, as well as uncharitable, who be-
lieves there is no virtue but on his own
side.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

aaF 1t is with narrow-souled people
as with narrow-necked bottles the
less they have in them, the more noise
they make in pouring it out.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

gD 1t is more from carele ssness
about the truth than from intentional
lying, that there is so much falsehood
in the world.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
GRINDING AND GINNING.

OUR MILLS are now in constant op-
~ Grafton. turning out the BEST OF
FLOUR and giving perfect satisfaction.
Our MUNGER SYSTEM now works
perfectly, and gives quality of lint that
is not to he beaten.
YORKVILLE ROLLER MILLS.
PELHAM MORROW, Manager.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
SFIADOWED

The girl who stands on the
bridge was charged with muir
dering her uncle. The man in
the background is a detective.
He thought she did. The evil
dence pointed strongly toward
her lover. To save him she
confessed. But she didn't do
the shooting. This is only one
of a thousand thrilling Incl.
dents in
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
FINLEY 4 BRICE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,

YOrkville, s. G..
A LII business entrusted to us will be
n given prompt attention.
OFFICE IN THE BUILDING AT
THE REAR OF II. G. STRAUSS'S
STORE.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
For 60 Subscribers,

following premiums, each valued at s25: A
FOUR DRAWER ENQUIRER" SEWING
MACHINE, together with oil attachments
a "HOUSEKEEPER'S" SET OF KNIVES,
FORKS AND SPOONS, made by Rogers q
"WALTHAM" WATCH in coin silver, dust
proof case q NO. AUTOHARP. a BANJO,
EJTJTAR MANDOLIN or VIOLIN,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
lHI0 RIVER AND CHARLESTON R. B.

THINE TABLE of the Ohio River and
l. Charleston Railway company, to take
effect Monday, October 18th. at $50 a. m.
STANDARD EASTERN TIME.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
For 10 and Less Than 20

one year.
For 10 and Less Than 20
q CONCAVE WARRANT
ED RAZOR, SILVER PLATED GRAVY La
DIE, or an extra quality FOUR BLADED
POCKET KNIFE, with name and address on
the handle. Any OF the articles mentioned
would he Il bargain at 81.
For 6 and Less Than 10
SUBSCRIBERS, q .CLIMAX" WATCH, war
ranted for one year; an extra quality THREE
BLADED POCKET KNIFE, or CHILDS
SILVER PLATED TABLE SET. Good val.
ues at Sl.5O.
For 4 and Less Than 6
SUBSCRIBERS, O YANKEE" WATCH,
warranted for one year; "Siren" pattern BUT
TER KNIFE, or TWO-BLADED POCKET
KNIFE. with name and address on handle.
And to Each Old Subscriber,
THE YoRKvILLE ENoUIRER-TWICE-A-
WEEK-flled with bright, fresh news from
THE COUNTY, STATE, NATION AND
WORLD, interesting stories, instructive mis-
cellaneous matters, and humorous selections,
explanatory editorials, etc. The paper will be
held up to It's present high standard, and will
continue prompt, explicit, reliable, and, in
short. the best.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
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, or HALF
DOZEN TEASPOONS, HALF DOZEN Ia
and BUTTER KNIFE Q3 PlE-
CES).
Address,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
For 40 and Less Than 60

SUBSCRIBERS, we will give the clubmakel
his choice of the following, each valued at Sl5
case: set of half dozen ROGERS BROS
KNIVES and FORKS az PIECESl: NO: =:
AUTOHARP, BANJO, MANDOLIN, GuI
TAR, or LOW ARM SINGER SEWING
MACHINE.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10
7 AND KEEP AT 1T.
Fl To-, On ond T ooo Tb on On

we will give a NO. 2H AU-
valued at 81. or THE ENQUIR-
Err and any monthly magazine or weekly
one year.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-10

CONNECTIONS.
No. 80 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at
Catawha junction.
Nos. "a and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. IL and II have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, Kings Creek
and London, trains stop only on signal.
S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIP, Superintendent.
SAML HUNT, General Manager.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19
RISING PRICES.
How Increasing Quantity of Stand
ard Money Would BE Beneficial.

How Increasing Quantity of stand
ard Money Would BE Beneficial.
Rising prices, which follow an in
crease in the quantity of standard
money, are beneficial because they give
the primary producers a surplus after
their fixed charges have been paid.
This surplus at once goes into trade.
The farmer or miner, as the case may
be, buys more clothing, carpets his
floors, buys new furniture, pictures,
books, muscical and other instruments,
machinery of all kinds and many odds
and ends which formerly he was COM
PEELED to deny himself and family. This
stimulates manufactures, gives work to
wage-earners, increases commerce and
transportation. The wage-earners OBJ
tain steady employment and better
wages, and in turn have more money to
spend. That fact then increases con-
sumption of products, which in turn
increases production and transporta-
ton until all have employment and
prosperity prevails. Our present con-
dition is due to the fact that on ac-
count of falling prices the manufac-
turers and merchants have lost their
best customers. Everyone dependent
upon his labor or his products, and not
upon money-lending, should remember
that an increasing volume of money
promotes industry and diminishes the
weight of obligations which press upon
the producing classes, whether EN-.
pIoyed or unemployed. OF course such
increase in the volume of money in
jures those living upon the fruits OF
past labor, in that it prevents them
from exacting more in return from the
debtor than what they loaned him. Un.
just legislation has made our dollar the
ally of Shylock, and the alder and abet-
tor of trusts and combines, the friend
of the idle rich who live on interest and
the oppressor of the poor.-Buffal'
Times,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19
SILVER SPRAY,

Silver will have its inninggs.
They say waiting game is a win.
ming game. Wait and work for the final
triumph of bimetallism.
Thanks to the goldites, who succeed
ed in postponing our return to bime-
tallic basis, for the good crops" and
the gold discoveries in the Klondyke
section.
Remarks about "cheap dollars" and
''half-dollar pieces would lead one to
suppose that some people had not yet
gotten as far as the financial primer.
Oh, the beauties of single gold stand
ard contraction! The average price of
100 common articles, natural and man
ufactured products, was lower by over
two per cent. for the three months
ending July L, 1897, than for any like
period in the last six years-six years
of strikes and lock-outs and unexam-
pied suffering and hardship among the
toiling masses.
The pecuniary theory of education
is topic that is now receiving fair
share of discussion in the light of the,
recent resignation of that brave cham
pion of bimetallism and free speech,
President Andrews, of Brown univer-
sity. NOW the question before the
trustees of Brown university" the New
York Post lucidly remarks, twas not
whether President Andrews views on
the silver question were right, not
whether they were in harmony with
those of the trustees themselves, but
whether the institution, under his pres
idency, could secure the pecuniAry sup
port which is requisite to enable it to
prosecute with success the grand work
on which it has entered" How this
raises the standard of our universities
in the world of thought. The fact is,
Brown university has accorded lbs
president just about the same indie
pendence the laborers in one of Mr..
Hanna's mines has. He is perfectly
free to take his choice between agree
ing with his employers or losing his
job. When a Brown professor ap-
proaches new problem in economics,
he is under no compulsion to reach
certain conclusion. It is merely under
stood that his salary will continue if
he adopts one theory and viii stop If
he adheres to another.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19
PRICE PLAYS SOME PART.
Abundance OF Agricultural Products
Alone VIII Not Bring Prosperity.

Alone VIII Not BRING EEOspeEAtss
Our ability to maintain the gold
standard without resorting to the
Cleveland makeshift of borrowing gold
hinges on the prospect of bountiful har-
vests at home and short crops abroad.
IF these prospects are fulfilled there
will be great demand for our agricul-
tural products, as there was last year.
the merchandise balance viii be kept
greatly in our favor, and thus the neces-
sity of shipping gold obviated and the
danger of depleted gold reserve avert
ed for the time being. If we cannot find
ready market for our surplus agri-
cultural products and get at least as
good prices as we got last year we will
be brought face to face with crisis.
The mere fact of having bountiful
crops is not enough in itself to avert
a crisis in our monetary affairs. We
must be able to get prices sufficiently
high to enable us to build up great
favorable trade balance with which to
pay our foreign charges incurred on
other accounts than the purchase of
commodities charges that are largely
fixed and we cannot avoid. And such
favorable trade balance we cannot hope
to build up with prices any lower than
we got last year, for there is limit to
our ability to export and the debt-pay-
ing power of exports falls alarmingly
with falling prices.
We are promised return of prosper
ity, but prosperity is for us a question
of prices for farm products. We have
promise of good crops, but as the New
York Herald remarks with a rare dash
of wisdom: "While small crops imply
insufficient employment for labor and
restricted tonnage for the railways it
is evident that an abundance of agricul-
tural products alone will not bring
prosperity unless they can be sold at
fair prices"
And is there prospect of getting fair
prices? Not if we cause gold to con-
tinue to appreciate.-Americ
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19
EFFECT OF HIGHER PRICES.
Truth About the Operation of the New
Tariff.


A pound of fact is worth a ton of
:heory in estimating the effects of the
new tariff law. The World is giving the
facts as to the advance in prices which
some days ago it said would be the one
certain result of the Dingley bill.
The grocers have already advanced
the price of sugar six-tenths of a cent
a pound, merely as a preliminary in
crease. The consumers of the country
will pay to the treasury at least $25, 000,-
600 and probably $30,00o,000 more for
their sugar under the new law than
they did under the one which it dis
placed. The exactions of the sugar
trust will add millions more to the cost
as pure robbery.
The testimony of merchants shows
that there has already been an advance
of from ten to twenty-five per cent. on
all wooden goods" It will cost more to
keep warm next winter. Hides have
advanced by reason of the new tax, and
an increase in the cost of boots and
shoes, from 30 to so cents pair, is ex-
rected. An advance of prices all along
the line is inevitable. AS an offset to
this one of the merchants asks: ''But
isn't the consumer better off if he gets
more money!"
There is much virtue in an if. Will
the consumer get more money? This
uIso will be a question of fact rather
than of theory. The consumers will
know-the politicians and the protected
class need make no mistake about thati
They knew in 1890 and 1892. 1T was
the shopping women who did it," said
Speaker Reed, in explaining the repub-
lican overthrow in those years. In GER
tain lines of production it is not I'M
likely that wages will advance some
what as the result of reviving industry.
But there is small probability that the
increase in wages will equal the in
crease in the cost of living. For the
large class of salaried persons there is
even less prospect of compromising
advance in pay.
AS the proof of a pudding is in the
eating, so the proof of law is in it's
working. The World intends to present
an accurate and impartial record of the
operation of the new tariff.-N. Y.
World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19
PRESS COMMENTS.

Republican editors are discussing
the Future Price of Gold" Is 1t pos
sible that the stable standard" can
f1uctuate Chicago Dispatch.
The announcement that foreign
nations are preparing to resent the re-
cent tariff act is not strange. The art
of self-defense is by no means obsolete.
IN. Y. Journal.
MIR. Dingley is too modest to say
anything about it, but he can't be
blamed for noting that ever since the
tariff bill became law the crops in
this country have been simply booming.
Chicago Record Und.).
Expenditures still exceed the re-
ceipts by good figure. Perhaps Pres
ident Mckinley had better call congress
in extra session to pass tariff to raise
revenue, private interests having had
their innings.--Indianapolis News.
We are going to get more money
for our wheat, corn and cotton than
ever before. The question OF the Ding
ley bill is how much of this money
the producers will be obliged 70 hand
over to Dingley bin trusts who are am
buscading the high road to prosperity.
IN. Y. World.
Let the republican papers be gem
erous in regard to these large payments
Of mortgage indebtuess in the west, Of
which so much Is said. and tender apol-
ogies to the last administration and the
Wilson tariff. Although only just dis
covered, the payments could not all
have been paid since the introduction Of
the Dingiey bill.-Des 1Ioines leader