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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
LAND FOR SALE.
L. X. Armstrong Plantation to Be Sold
For Partition

L. K. Armstrong Plantation to Be Sole
For Partition.
|nN MONDAY, Sales day for Oc'
~ TOBER, between the legal hour:
Of sale, we will offer at public auc'
ton, before the Court House door al
Yorkville, all that tract Of land stu
ated in Bethel township,
CONTAINING 2S1 AND 4-5 ACRES
and known as the L. K. ARM
STRONG HOME PLACE, now be-
Stanton, deceased, and coming to u.
as the legal heirs of the said Mrs. e
L. Stanton.
The plantation is one OF the bes'
in Bethel township, within two miles
of Bethel church and within -four
miles Of Glover. The improvements
include a first-class two-story eigh'
room house, two good barns and hVe
good tenant houses.
The adjoining land owners are j
B. Ford, Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Stan
ton, S. ]. Clinton, Miss Emma Ford
and others. The Wright's Ferry and
Glover road skirts the property or
the south.
Terms of Sale-One half CASH
and the remainder on credit Of one
and two years, with per cent inter.
est from day of sale, to be secured
by the purchasers bond, and a mort
gage Of the premises sold, with leave
to the, purchaser to pay all cash
purchaser to pay for all papers.
j. B. MILLER,
MRS. NJ E. CAMPBELL,
]. M. MILLER,
Legal Heirs.
Sent 7 (. At.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

VALUABLE PLANTATION
Containing 600 Acres, for Sale by Dr..
Fl. AndraI Bratton and VIM. 3. Nc

Containing 600 Acres, for Sale by Dr.
Fl. AndraI Bratton and VIM. 3. Nc.
Cav.
VIZ e will sell at either private ol
w public sale, that superb planta'
county, South Carolina, six miles
northeast Of Yorlxville and about
four miles outheast of Glover
known as the GILES c. Or
MAND plantation, containing SIX
HUNDRED (600) ACRES. more OF
less for ONE-FOURTH CASH, re-
mainder on a credit of one, two and
three years, secured by purchasers
note and a mortgage of the prem
ises. Purchaser so desiring will have
the privilege Of paying all cash. The
plantation has an excellent dwelling
house, containing large square
rooms, in the centre Of a beautiful
oak grove, surrounded by orchards OF
consist of a brick smoke house,
wells of fine water, excellent barn
and stable, fine crib, Clubhouse, and
tenant houses, all with brick CHM
neys.
We will subdivide the plantation
into a number Of tracts to suit the
purchaser or purchasers. Plats can
be seen in office of VIM. B. McCaw
Esq, Yorkville, S. C. If not sold by
private sale, before the FIRST MON
DAY IN NOVEMBER, 1906, the
subdivisions Of said plantation will
be sold at public auction In front OF
the Court House door at Yorkville,
South Carolina, on said date. For
further information apply to
WIN. B. McCAW,
Mol Law Range, Yorkville, S. c.
Sept. IA. II.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
GOOD ROADS FACTS.
What They Would Save For the South
The Cost of Hauling Cotton.

WI nat UCJ NN0d'd SoNS W wv ~S~~''
The Cost of Hauling Cotton.
In an address by John Craft Of
Mobile 1t was stated that the cost to
the farmers of the south is so cents
bale of cotton for an average haul Of
eight miles.
If there were good roads the cost
would be reduced to 10 cents bale.
Estimating crop at a million bales,
this would mean a saving Of $4,000
annually.
It costs under present road condi-
tions 25 cents to haul a ton of fertili-
ger a mile. With good roads, the cost
would be cents ton.
II have studied for some years the
problem of working convicts on our
public roads," said Mr.. Craft, and
they have proved to be the most eco
nomical road builders to be had. The
convict has long passed the expert
mental stage for road making.
Judge Fave of Georgia, who has
had twenty years experience in work.
ing convicts on our public roads, says:
"They are the best and cheapest road
builders. While working convicts not
a single overt act was committed or
single child, woman or man molested.
or 81 worth of property deprecated
on"
Mecklenburg county, N. c., has the
finest macadamized roads. and 1t is be-
ing done with convict labor. 1t costs
an average of 25 cents a day to guard,
feed and care for convict labor when
1t is managed on business principles.
AS for the convict himself, statistics
show that 80 per cent of those who are
worked in the open air, properly fed
and guarded, return to their families
and cease to be a charge or menace
to the state, while Of those who are
kept in prison or are worked in mines,
saw mills, or similar places, S5 per
cent become hardened criminals.
Nor do think it right to put the
honest wage earners in competition
with the convict labor, or the manu-
featuring industry in competition with
the one that hires cheap convict labor.
Indiana has more than 1900 miles
of good gravel roads. / remember
when Indiana was considered one Of
the illiterate states in the Union. To-
day she is prosperous and her people
are no longer ignorant, but the state
is dotted with the finest schools and
colleges.
Massachusetts spends more money
than any other state on her public
roads. New York has just voted to is
sue $50,000,O00 for her roads, to be
spent in the next ten years. New Jer-
sey has fine roads, which have been
of great benefit, and are the best in
vestment the state has. Missouri Is
agitating a bond issue of $4,000, 900
for her public roads. The Province Of
Ontario, Canada has $4,000 miles Of
good roads, and from that phenomenal
| improvement have been the results of
prosperity to it's farmers."-New York
Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
LAND FOR SALE


w. 3. WILSON, ROCK HILL, s. c.
7 WILL sell the below described
l. farms, payable nefourth cash, bal
ance in l, 2 and years, with annual
interest from date Of sale.
Frank Brown Place.-293 Acres on
Yorkville and Landsford road, % miles
from Rock HILL 10-horse farm now In
cultivation, rs acres first-class bottom
land, we'll ditched and not subject TO
oyerflow-six settlements including
new 4-room superintendent mouse ana
outbuildings. oo
Hutchison Place No. 1.-About 80
Acres on Nations Ford road, miles
from Rock Hill, 3-horse farm, well tim
bered and watered-2 settlements.
Hutchison Place No. 2.-About gu
Acres, on Southern railway, miles
north of Rock Hill, 1-horse farm, well
timbered and watered-one settlement.
Barnett PIace-151 Acres on India
Hook road, A miles from Rock Hill, 4,
horse farm, we'll timbered and watered
. settlements.
McElwee PIace.-217 Acres on Tay-
lor's creek, miles from Rock Hill, z
horse farm-2 settlements.
EnIoe Place.-13S Acres on Fishing
creek. near Bethesda Graded school, 81
miles from Rock Hill, 4-horse farm-3
settlements.
Kirkpatrick PIace.-373 Acres, on
Chester road miles from McConnells-
Vile. well timbered and watered, and
fine pasture lands. Houses and open
land for 6-horse farm. Will divide this
place. w. q. WlLSoN.
Sept. II u.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
Aumura,ls department.

A LEG WORTH MORE THAN A MAN
Jesse James, the noted outlaws son,
is at the age of thirty, one Of the most
talented and respected lawyers OF
Kansas City.
In a claim case that he recently won,
Mr.. James told an amusing story.
There was a woman" he said,
whose husband was killed in rail-
way accident. The railroad. to avoid
suit, gave her $4,000 damages.
"The sum satisfied the woman; but
a month or two afterward, taking up
newspaper, she read about man who
had lost his leg In the same accident
and, behold! this man was given by
the company damages to the amount
OF $500. ........
att made the woman mad. She has
tened at once To the office Of the rail-
ways claim adjuster. She said bitter
ly:
"How is this? Here you give man
$1,000 for the loss of his leg, while you
only gave me $4,000 for the loss of my
husband.
"The claim adjuster smiled amiably,
and said In a soothing voice:
Madam, the reason is quite plain.
The $500 won't provide the poor man
with a new leg. whereas, with your
$4,000, you can easily get new hus-
band, and perhaps a better one.'"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

BEYOND HIM.-A Columbia scientist
was praising the other day the astro-
nomical and literary work Of Percival
Lowell, says the New York Globe.
"One day just before an eclipse OF
the sum-" said the scientist, "Mr. Low
ell told his darky. George, that IL he
would watch the chickens the follow
ing morning about IL o'clock he would
see them all go to roost.
Hi, hi laughed George. Hi, hi;
good joke"
when on the following morning the
sun darkened and the chickens went to
their roosts, George was amazed and
horrifed. He found Mr. Lowell as soon
as he could and said:
How long, sab, did you know bout
these chickens%
"'Oh, a long time
"Did you know it last year this
timer
"'Yes; more than a year ago.
We'll, dat beats ALL said the as
founded darky, eyeing Mr.. Lowell with
awe. Dem chickens wuzn't Matched
a year ago."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

WHEN THE Boy KING SLEPT.-A not
ed tailor was praising the tact of G..
B. Winter, the London tailor, who,
though he came over to America to
remodel the armys uniforms, still
manages to keep the native tailors
pleased.
Winter is a fine designer" said the
tailor 'and who but he, in the face OF
the outcry that went up against him,
could have done his work here If there
had been no outcry, and at the same
time have fiattered the nation till ii
purred?
Winter Is tactful and cool. He Of
fends no one, and it is impossible to
offend him. He reminds me of the tu-
tor of King Alfonso of Spain.
when Alfonso was eight or nine
years old he would often fall asleep in
the midst of his tutors lectures and
readings. The tutor would then say ir
a low voice:
Your highness is indulging in 6
little private meditation. 1 will sus-
pend my remarks for the nonce.'"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
TO PURIFY WATER.
The Use of Ozone For Purposes of
Sterilization.

The Use of Ozone For Purposes of
Sterilization.
Various experiments are being made
in Europe for purer water supply for
cities, one of the most prominent be-
ing de Frise's system of employing
ozone for the sterilization of water
at Saint-Maur, near Paris.
The main facts Of this process are
contained in a report addressed by
DR.. Miguel, chief of the micrograph-
ical service of the Mont Souris OBJ
servatory, to the sixth commission of
the Paris municipal council. Exper-
iments were undertaken with water
filtered through sand at various
speeds in order to test the extent to
which the bacteria present were des-
troyed by exposure to air containing
very slight admixtures of ozone.
From SO up to 100 cubic meters of
filtered water were dealt with per
hour, and each set Of tests lasted five
hours The filtered water in very
many cases contained germs Of the
bacillus coli, but after the water had
been subjected to the de Frise pro-
cess these bacteria were invariably
destroyed.
These experiments confirm the re-
suits obtained in a previous set OF
trials carried on during the first
three months of 1905. Doctor MIGUEL
reports that the process has been
found capable of eliminating a large
proportion of the bacteria present In
water of various descriptions and OF
permanently destroying with certain
ty the germs of bacillus coli, which
possess greater resisting power than
the Eberth bacillus and the cholera
spirillum.
The cost of this treatment is stated
in dealing with large volumes, to be
about II centimes per cubic meter
say ID cents per 1000 gallons.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

COULDN'T BE So OLD.-Alphonse
Mucha, the French artist whose post
ers of grateful American women are
no less popular in America than in
Paris, is making a tour of the United
States.
What pleases me in America" M.
Mucha said the other day, "is the intel
ligence of the people. The American
public is far ahead of the English. On
my way over here stopped few days
in London, and in the British museum
one afternoon l overheard a remark
that showed we'll how benighted the
English public is. Two men were look
ing at some old Egyptian coins.
Them there. said the first man.
must be 800 or 400 years DID, eh. Bill?
They're 300 years DID, the second
man returned.
"'Ah, Bill What do We take me for?
said the first man. Why, we're only
in 1904 now"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
THE SERPENT'S VENOM.
Mohammedan Legend of the Origin of
the Tobacco Plant.


The prophet was taking a stroll in
the country when he saw a serpent,
stiff with cold, lying on the ground.
He passionately took il up and warm
ed ii in his bosom. When the SER
pent had recovered 1t said:
Divine prophet, listen. l am now
going to bite thee"
why, pray?" inquired Mohammed.
Because thy race persecutes mine
and tries to stamp it out"
But does not thy race, too, make
perpetual war against mine?" was
the prophets rejoinder. How canst
thou, besides, be so ungrateful and
so soon forget that l saved thy life"
There is no such thing as graf
itude upon this earth," replied the
serpent, land if 1 were now to spare
thee either thou or another of thy
race would kill me. BY Allah, l shall
bite thee"
IF thou hast sworn by Allah, I
will not cause thee to break thy vow,"
said the prophet, holding his hand
to the serpent's mouth. The serpent
bit him, but he sucked the wound
with his lips and spat the venom on
the ground. And on that very spot
there sprang up a plant which COM
bines within itself the venom of the
serpent and the compassion of the
prophet. Men call this plant by the
name of tobacco..-Conte Arabe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
MARVELLOUS MAGIC OF INDIA.
How a Fakir Fastened Dozen British
Officers Firmly to Their Chairs:


Officers Firmly to Their Chairs:
Feats of Hindu magic have taxed
the logic Of science. Many wonderful
stories have been told, but none more
wonderful than those related in the
Sunday Magazine by James Welton
Gray, who quotes the experiences of
the late Capt. John Gladwin Jebb of
the English army.
Captain Jebb said that, with a doZ-
en- fellow officers, he was once sitting
at mess in India in room twenty-five
feet long and fifteen feet wide, lighted
by a row of twenty gas jets along the
cornice. A fakir appeared soliciting
aims. The officers promised the fakir
liberal contributions if he would give
them a novel exhibition of magic.
He lifted his left arm and pointed
his finger at gas jet in the corner
of the cornice; after moment it went
out. He pointed at the next one, and
il was eXtinguished also: and at the
next and the next. In this way he had
soon made the circuit of the room,
and there now remained only one gas
jet alight By that time, as you may
suppose, we had become a good deal
interested. The man stopped to rub
his left arm lightly with his right hand
for few moments; then he pointed at
the final gas jet, and out 1t went, leav-
ing us in total darkness.
do the sahibs wish the lights re-
stOred?" asked the voice of the fakir
out Of the darkness. We intimated that
we did, and Immediately the light
which had been last eXtinguished ap-
peared again, and by it's illumination
we saw the fellow in the same atti-
tudc as before, except that this time
it was with his right finger instead OF
with his left that he was pointing. TIC
make a short story of 1t. he relighted
every burner in reverse order until the
whole twenty were going again.
Nov are the sahibs satisfied?" he
asked.
They were, of course, astOunded, but
they feigned indifference, in the hope
of seeing further wonders.
He seemed little annoyed, but af-
ter standing with his hands folded ir
front of him and his head bent on his
breast for a minute, he looked up, and
his eyes met those of every man in the
room, one after the other. He ther
said, in slow measured tones, INC
sahib may leave his chair" and turn
ed round and walked out of the room.
We laughed and supposed that he
had given us up as too SkeptiCal fol
| his purposes. We resumed our con-
versation, and in ten minutes had for
gotten all about him. Then one Of us
General Gatacre-though he wasn't q
general then-said that he must be
getting back to his quarters, and start
ed to rise from his chair, but after
seeming to struggle for a moment he
settled back, and his face turned red
What the deuce is the matter?" he
exclaimed Il can't get up!"
Some of us laughed; but l remem-
bered the last words of the fakir, and
made an effort to stand. 1 could not
stir from my seat. Lieutenant Chol-
mondeley, on my left, saw my predic-
ament, and tried to get up himself He
was pinned to his place, just as Cat
acre and 1 were.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

MUST CERTAINLY BE DEAD.-McGin-
mis- was a man of somewhat hasty
temper. A long siege of sickness had
made him exceedingly irritable, and
taking care of and waiting on him had
proved a great trial to Mrs. Meg. un-
der which she had borne up with COM
mendable patience and fortitude, new
ar complaining, no matter in what
form her husbands crankiness mani
tested itself, according to Harper's
Weekly.
One day, when the doctor called as
usual, he cheerfully remarked:
"Wen, Mrs. McGinnis, how is our
patient getting along this morning.
"Sure, doctor. ye're too late" she
moaned, disconsolately. ITS after be-
in dead he is, I'm thinkin'."
why, it can't be possible your hus-
band has dropped off like that" ex-
claimed the doctor, in tones Of sur
prise. "He was worth a dozen dead
men when l saw him last. You GER
tainIy must have made a mistake, Mrs.
McGinnis Are you positive that he is
really dead?"
"Well. DOCTOR" said Mrs. Meg, chok-
ing back her sobs "if the poor mon
isn't dead he has all the symptoms of
1t. whit into the room just now, an
he didn't find fault mr. t'row anything
at me-"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

On THEIR WAY.-During a news
paper mems convention, says Har-
per's Weekly, a number of journalists
were one afternoon talking of the
tricks of the faithless types" when
"Marse" Henry Watterson said:
while I've heard of a great many
funny typographical breaks in my time,
about the oldest and most humorous
transposition of the types that ever
came within my observation was that
in a New York paper some years ago.
That sheet used to print its shipping
news on the same page with the obit-
uaries. Imagine the glee with which
it's readers found the captions ex-
changed one morning, whereby a long
list of respectable names were set
forth under the marine head, Passed
Through He'll Gate Yesterday"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.

m HREE lots on W. Madison st,
i one seven room house and three
small houses.
Three houses and lots on E. Madi-
son street.
Fourteen acres Of good land just
outside incorporate limits with two
houses; for sale or rent.
]. w. DoBsoN.
Sept. IA. tt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
COTTON INSURANCE.

TAM prepared to write Insurance
on Cotton stored either in open
yard or in outbuildings on farms.
Farmers can arrange to borrow
money On my insurance policies on
cotton held on their farms the same
as IL the cotton were stored In a
warehouse in town. Rate 81 per cent.
Write or call at my office for rates OF
insurance and other information.
]. r. LINDSAY.
Oct. 3. TT. u.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28
ROSES MARKET.

wv E pay highest market price ir
w Cash for HIDES.
We want to buy at all times first
class Beef Cattle and will pay the tor
of the market for real good cattle.
We have at all times the Choicest
Beef, which we keep thoroughly cool
in our refrigerator.
WALTER ROSE.
Aug. 3 3m.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

STICKING TO THE PoINr.-Mother-
Have you kept your baby brother nice
and quiet while I've been gone, Tom
my?
Tommy-Yes, mommer.
Mother-Has he cried any at all.
Tommy-He hasn't made a sound
mommer, not the whole time.
Mother-What did you give him to
amuse himself with?
Tommy-The mucilage bottle, and
he's been like a mouse since the first
suck.-Baltimore American.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-28

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The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-08

many of the names so selected were
there suggested, designated and rec
commended by the said Dawley.
The Court heard the testimony Of
several witnesses relative to the man.
ner Of selecting the trial jurors for
the county for the year in question,
and then made his finding and deliv-
cred his decision on the motion as
follows:
From the testimony produced here
on the hearing of the challenge, the
Court finds that all Of the persons
whose names were put on the jury list
were selected by the Board OF Coun-
" commissioners; that none of them
we're selected by Mr.. Dawley as al
legged in the challenge and also and
that it is not true tuat selections were
not made from Old jury lists, although
i jury list had been used by the
Commissioners for the purpose OF
finding cut the names, it would have
been perfectly proper. The book
used was book showing jury service
and it was proper Tor the commits
sioners TO consult that book l do
no. Gnd that-although Mr.. Dawley
in certain cases said that certain
49, "CC.d BE good jurymen; l DO
Is, sd that il any case the Com
-. On rs failed to exercise their
~ judgment in making up the list.
re has been no injury shown to
t.2 defendants. For these reasons
there has been NC material departure
rom the forms prescribed by the stat
&c. The challenge is disallowed.'
We nave carefully reviewed the
ran script OF the evidence in the rec
o:d upon the motion, and think the
same fully supports the findings and
conclusions OF the trial court.
Nj. Dawley was the clerk of the
e IT, as we'll as ,-e clerk of the
cad Of County Commissioners. He
n2d kept a record Of jury service
WEicn covered 8 period Of nearly ten
years. Although he could not legally
select nor properly urge The selection
oi any juror, We see no objection ID
The Board OF -oun-y commissioners
@l;ing advantage Of information in
me possession Of their clerk. SO long
- they exercise their own Judgment
= conformity with the statute, and
2. We think. The evidence shows
hey old in ms case. Ii any CT the
len v..om Mr.. Daw'ey said would
s.o." GOOD jurors were put on the
-U"eraI st cf two hundred and fifty
.,.e 5or he wear by the commission
.-. before o. after he had 50 stated
.as Rot -hnwn that any Ct them
E-o. 1G5HI.g HE .Wciy9 Who tried The
...,... ..3Irte lr wore on +Hp D9nal
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-08

j. X. Firth, Jr and wife, are among
the Hotel Arlington guests, arriving
this morning rom San Francisco.
Fight articles for the Gans-Herman
bout New Years day are on their way
to Tonopah.