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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of York

In the Court of Common Pleas.
Sarah NJ. Johnson, Mary Jane Boyd and
Martha Kate Thomasson, Plaintiffs,
against Springs & Burwell, and E. B.
Springs, Surviving Partner of the
Firm Of Springs & Burwell; Mrs. B.
E. Starnes, Edward Starnes, Joseph
Starnes, Margaret Starnes, Beulah
Starnes, Thomas Dewey Starnes,
Widow and Children of B. e. Starnes,
Deceased; all Children and Heirs-at
Law Of Elizabeth Starnes Stokes, De-
ceased; a Daughter of B. E. Starnes,
Deceased, (name unknown), and all
other Children, Grandchildren and
Heirs at-Law Of B. E. Ctarnes, De-
ceased, (names unknown), and all
Children and Heirs-at-Law Of Thom-
as Humphreys, the Husband Of Gym
thia Alice Starnes Humphreys,
(names unknown), and all Children
and Heirs at-Law Of Cynthia Alice
Starnes Humphreys, (names un-
known), efendants.-Summons for
Relief-(Complaint not ServedD.
To the Defendants above named:
" OU are hereby summoned and re-
Il quired to answer the Complaint in
this action, which has this day been
filed in the office of the Clerk Of Court
Of Common Pleas for York county.
South Carolina, and to serve copy OF
your Answer to the said Complaint on
the subscribers at their office, Wilson
Building, Yorkville, S. c., within twen-
ty days after the service hereof upon
you, exclusive Of the day Of such SER
vice, and If you fail to answer the COM
plant in the time aforesaid, the plain
tiffs in this action will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in the
Complaint.
FINLEY & JENNINGS,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Yorkville, S. c., February 10, 1908.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

S1 A popular young fellow who is
widely known in athletic circles tells
this story:
II was in the office Of a friend OF
mine the other morning, when rather
seedy looking young chap came in' nod
ding to him in a jaunty way, said:
BILLY, old man. l want to borrow
a dollar"
.H-m-m-m.' replied Billy. slowly;
well if / remember rightly | loaned
you a dollar last week.
so you did said the visitor, but
I'm dead strapped and must have dol
lar now
Billy pondered a moment and re-
piled: Well. you're no good; I'm con-
vinced of that, and so I'll not lend you
dollar. but I'll give you one; how'll
that do?"
First rate responded the shame
less striker. and then after a moment
or so the cash was not forthcoming
he added: We'll where's the dollar you
are going to give me?'
oh replied Billy, smiling!y. I'll
give you the dollar YOU borrowed last
week."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
CONSUMPTION AND FRESH AIR.
DR.. Joseph Walsh Corrects Popular
FaIIacies Before Plastic Club.

"Altitude has nothing to do with
either the growth or the cure OF tu-
berculoss," said DR.. Joseph Walsh,
of the Philips Institute, in an address
before the Plastic club yesterday.
MANY persons go to White Haven
with the idea that it is the climate
that is curing them," he said, land,
failing to enter the Sanitarium, live
in the farmhouses near it, believing
that they are doing the next best
thing. 1t is not the air of White Ha-
ven which cures. 1t is the discipline.
Those who go to the farmhouses might
as we'll stay in their homes. At the
sanitarium the diet consists of one
solid meal each day, six raw eggs and
as much milk as can be consumed.
The patient is forced to absorb an un
usual quantity of food. The part the
air plays in this is to furnish the
oxygen for the combustion of this
food and the consequent building up
of the body through its assimilation
of that food.
Many persons have an idea that
this air must be cold air. 1t is not
so, but it must be air from which the
oxygen has not been taken. l do not
know that there would be any reason
why the consumptive should not
breathe heated air if it were pure.
No one should ever sleep in the same
bed or in the same room with another
where it is possible to do otherwise.
NO one should breathe the air Of
a room which has been heated by a
gas stove or by a coal oil heater, for
the reason that both Of these throw
upon the atmosphere the products OF
combustion to be taken into the lungs.
NO house should ever be swept
without a previous mOistening of the
floor. because this dry sweeping may
throw the germs of tuberculosis into
the air. A cold has no closer relation
to consumption than has any other
disease which may lessen the body's
power of resistance"
Doctor Walsh gave some interest
ing figures showing that the death
rate from tuberculosis was one-fourth
less in 1892 than 1t was in 1861. He
said that the autopsy table showed
that so per cent of the adults Of this
country suffered from tuberculosis
at some time in their lives, and that
of these IS per cent recovered
Philadelphia Ledger.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

MARY SAID NOTHING Justice
Brewer Of the United States supreme
court is said to be the author of this
story: a witness testified in certain
case that a person named Mary was
present when a particular conversation
took place. and the question was asked,
What did Mary say" This was OBJ
jected to, and after some discussion the
judge ruled out the question. An eX-
ceptiOn to this decision was immediate
~ taken. and on appeal the higher court
reversed the verdict and ordered new
trial on the ground that the question
should have been answered. At the
second trial the same inquiry was pro-
pounded and elected the Information
that Mary said nothing"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
NOTICE.

To the absent defendants Gall Of the
parties defendant in the above entitled
action):
Take notice that the Complaint in
this action has this day been filed in
the office Of the Clerk Of Court Of Com
mon Pleas for York county, South Car
olina, and you are required to answer
the same within twenty days after the
service Of this summons upon you, ex-
elusive Of the day Of such service, and
If you fail to answer the Complaint
within the time aforesaid, plaintiffs
will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the Complaint.
FINLEY & JENNINGS,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
1926 + ct
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO
Their Unceasing Work Keeps Us
Strong and Healthy.

All the blood in the body passes
through the kidneys once every three
minutes. The kidneys filter the blood
They work night and day. When
healthy they remove about 500 grains
of impure matter daily, when un-
healthy some part of this impure mat
ter is left in the blood. This brings
on many diseases and symptoms-pain
in the back, headache, nervousness, hot
dry skin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, dis
orders Of the eyesight and hearing, diz-
ziness. irregular heart debility, drow-
siness. drOpsy, deposits in the urine,
etc. But if you keep the filters right
you will have no trouble with your kid
neys.
James Higgins, living on w. Main
ST., Yorkville, S. c., says: For sew
eral years / suffered from nervous
spells and was hardly ever free from
a dull aching across the small part of
my back. There was a soreness across
my kidney regions and the least eX-
citement caused me to become very
weak. The kidney secretions were
thick and cloudy and l felt miserable
l finally procured Doan's Kidney Pills
at Dale & Stubblefield's drug store. and
used them according to directions
They cured me and | have since felt
better and stronger in every way"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
A Telling Endorsement
Kansas City, NO.. April 6, 1907.
j. j. G r I E r
ROCK is Il n ID $ Y 5 II E VI
Hotels and COmmisSaries
New York Life Building

II. Kelly, Special
of n. j.,
c. Building, City.
NIr. Kelly
Yours of date at hand directing attention to the Of
o
carrying several policies in the written by the same agent
this connection wish that ago bought
policies the limit e
viz:
policies all Is Payment Life Plan
a
AS are
to other But at that
the York legislative
a standard the
convinced that this had record be ad
And after consider
(ncludng
the comparative superior
concluded that good enough for the
i'm
~ sverytr truly ]
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

freight the air with their perfume and
lean weepingly over the waters, that
crystal stream leaping down the great
GRANTEES and Fastening from the ma
jestic presence Of the mighty peak
above, whilst in the deep pool below,
where the weary waters rest but a
single moment, lies the inanimate
body of his dear friend and preceptor
apparently listening to the mighty re-
uuiem of the cataract! Truly, Man
knoweth not his time, and the sons
of men are entrapped in the evil,
when it cometh suddenly upon
them
DR.. Mitchell met his death June
81, 1857, and was buried in Asheville
the 10th of July following. About a
year later on the 10th of June, 1858,
his body was reinterred upon the top
of Mt. Mitchell, the height of which
he was engaged in measuring at. the
time his tragic fate overlook him.
Fifty-one years later it were ap-
propriate that the old mountaineer,
who was the friend and guide and
who brought about the discovery of
his body, should likewise be buried
in honor on the top Of the mountain
he knew so we'll and so greatly rever-
ed for the memory that was bound up
in it of the great scientist who came
among the mountains and their peo-
pie as friend and guide-to learn and
to teach.-Raleigh News and Observer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
PLEASE PAY UP.

A LII subscribers to THE ENQUI-
n RER on my club are earnestly re-
quested to pay up at once. Payment
may be made to me, my brother, Mr.. R.
F.. Mcfarland or at The Enquirer Of
flee. Where checks or money orders
are sent direct to The Enquirer office,
the senders will please make same pay
able to L. NJ CRISIS Sons. Prompt at
tention to this request will be greatly
by me. Respectfully,
A. w. MCFARLAND.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
APPLICATION FOR
FINAL DISCHARGE.

TAVING made a final settlement
III with the Probate Court for York
county as administrator of the estate of
r.. B. BRAKEFIELD, deceased, this
is to notify all concerned that on MON
DAY, MARCH 23, 1908, at IL o'clock a.
m., l will make application to Hon. L..
R. Williams. judge of said court. for a
discharge from all further liability in
with said estate.
w. S. WILKERSON, Admr.
IS st
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

GETTING AROUND THE QUEsTIoN.-A
Chicago physician said the other day
of the late Dr. Nicholas Sem, the, cele-
brated surgeon:
Il studied under DR.. Sem when he
was professor Of surgery at Rush Med
ical college. l remember how one day
he asked me a question that l did not
know, and in order to hide my ignor-
ance | gave an ambiguous answer.
''Dr. Sem smiled.
He said reminded him of IL school
boy who, taking a written examination
in history, came to the question:
(which was the greater general,
Caesar or Hannibal?
The boy answered as follows:
"'If we consider who Caesar and
Hannibal were, and ask ourselves
which of them was the greater, we
must unhesitatingly answer in the af-
firmative.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

t. DO you believe To him that hath
shall be given?'"
Certainly. People who hang up silk
stockings at Christmas always get
more than people who don't"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-a
take no other.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
A BOOK
WORTH A
DOLLAR
Southern Gardeners Practical Manual
by Newman.

IT HERE are lots of people who know
l. something about gardening, but
those who have not made a lifelong,
scientific study of the subject are con-
stantly running upon problems that
they know nothing about. Newman's
Southern Gardeners Practical Manual
is a book Of ready reference that gives
accurate and comprehensive informa-
tion practically about almost everything
relating to gardening. People who have
bought this work and used 1t find that
it has paid for itself many times over.
It is to be had at THE ENQUIRER
OFFICE at $1.00 per copy or by mail,
post paid for $1.10.
L.. M. GRISTS SONS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

aF Wanted.-Your orders for all
kinds Of printed matter. Best work
at fairest prices.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
Legal Blanks
and Forms

TO BE FOUND AT
THE ENQUIRER OFFICE.
The following Blanks in approved
forms, on good paper stock, may be
had at The Enquirer Office:
Chattel Mortgage
Lien and Mortgage on Crop
Promisory Note
Mortgage of Real Estate
Title to Real Estate
Subpoena Writs
Subpoena Tickets.
Prices on any Of the above in quan-
ity upon application.
l.. NJ. CRISIS SONS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

II 1t costs over 81, 900 to fire a
single shot from one of the largest
guns used in the French army.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

policies today liberal
privileges than when Mr. Grer decided that
faVOraby with him
of the $4,000 insurance desired, in it,
NJ. Special
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
A POSTAL CARD

For the cost Of one, you can save me
Il great deal of travel. OFTEN pass
within 4 very short distance of a mans
home. who wants insurance with us,
and I have not been informed of the
fact. Please drop me a Postal or Phone
me where you live. and what you want,
and | will get there. Don't Forget
nIease ID. T.. BONEY.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
CLOTHES CLEANING.

7 AM prepared to clean gentlemen's
l. clothes and ladies' skirts in a thor
oughly satisfactory manner at rea-
sonable prices. Work may. be sent di-
rect to my home or left at w. E. Fer
guson's store.
Mrs. r. B. McCLAIN.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

,3zg Every inch Of the human skin
contains 3 500 perspiration pores.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20
REAL ESTATE
Lots on Main Street and On the Out
skirts.

am offering the most desirable Main
street building lots in Yorkville.
Five of them fronting Main street,
five more adjoining them in the rear
Lots on the street 25 feet front and 165
feet deep. Lots in rear same size.
Prices and terms on application.
Also about forty low priced lots In
Westerleigh. Best values in real estate
to be had in York county.
Also a splendid little farm Of thirty
five acres just without the corporate
limits. Handsome site for cottage or
bungalo. This is a bargain.
LAURA E. PARISH.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-20

Mr.. w. H. Kelly, Special Agent,
Mutual Benefit Life ms Co. of \. j.,
Room c, Building, City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

DO you think you could lie quiet
until l try to find some water?" he
gasped anxiously.
She nodded a childlike acquiescence.
and her eyelids fell. 1t was only that
her eyes smarted dreadfully from the
salt water, but the sailor was sure that
this was a premonition of lapse to
unconsciousness.
Please try not to faint again." he
said. Don't you think / had better
Loosen these things? You can breathe
more easily"
A ghost of a smile fickered on her
lips Mono" she murmured. My
eyes hurt me-that is all Is there
aLy-water?"
lie laid her tenderly on the sand and
rose to his feet. His first glance was
toward the sea. He saw something
which made him blink with astonish-
ment a heavy sea was still running
ever the barrier reef which enclosed a
small lagoon. The contrast between
the free commOtion outside and the
comparatively smooth surface of the
protected pool was very marked. At
low tide the lagoon was almost COM
pleted isolated. Indeed. he imagined
that only a fierce gale blowing from
The northwest would enable the waves
to leap the reef, save where a strip of
broken water, surging far into the
small natural harbor, betrayed the pO-
stion of the tiny entrance.
Yet at this very point a fine cocoa
nut palm reared its stately column high
in air, and its long tremulous fronds
were now swinging wildly before the
gale From where he stood il APP
peared to be growing in the midst of
the sea, for huge breakers completely
hid the coral embankment. This SEN
tinel of the land had a weirdly i'm
pressive effect. It was the only fixed
object in the waste of foam-capped
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

Il am so cold, and tired" murmured
Iris. rs there any water? My throat
hurts me-"
He pressed back the tangled hair
from her forehead as he might soothe
a child
TRY to lie still for a very few min
utes,' he said. You have not long to
suffer. l viii return Immediately"
His own throat and palate were on
fire owing to the brine, but he first
hurried back to the edge of the lagoon.
There were fourteen bodies in all, three
women and eleven men, four of the
latter being Lascars. The women were
saloon passengers whom he did not
know One of the men was abe sur
geon, another the first officer third
Sir John Tozer The rest were passen-
gers and members of the crew. They
were all dead; some had been peace
fully drowned, others were fearfUlly
mangled by the rocks. Two of the Las
cars. bearing signs of dreadful injuries.
were lying on a cluster of low rocks
overhanging the water. The remain
der rested on the sand.
The sailor exhibited no visible emo
ton whilst he conducted his sad scru-
tiny. When he was assured that this
silent company was beyond mortal help
ne at once strobe away toward the
nearest belt of trees. He could not tell
how long the search for water might be
protracted, and there was pressing
need for it.
When he reached the first clump of
brushwOOd he uttered a delightful eX-
clamatiOn. There, growing in prodigal
lExuriance, was the beneficent pitcher
plant, whose large curied-up leaf
shaped like a teacup, not only holds a
lasting quantity of rain water, but
mikes Herewith its own palatable and
natural juices.
With his knife he severed two of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

waves. Not a vestige of the Sirdar re-
manned seaward, but the sand was lit
tered with wreckage, and-mournful
spectacle.-a considerable number of
inanimate human forms lay ihuddled up
amidst the relies of the steamer.
This discovery stirred him to action.
He turned to survey the land on which
he was stranded with his helpless COM
paniOn. To his great relief he discov-
cred that it was lofty and tree-clad.
He knew that the ship could not have
drifted to Borneo. which still lay far
to the south. This must be one of the
hundreds of islands which stud the
China sea and provide resorts for Hal
nan fishermen. Probably it was inhab-
tied, though he thought it strange that
none of the islanders had put in an ap-
pearance. In any event, water and
food, Of some sort, were assured.
But before setting out upon his quest
two things demanded attention The
girl must be removed from her present
position. 1t would be too horrible to
permit her first conscious gaze to rest
upon those crumpled objects on the
beach. Common humanity demanded,
too, that he should hastily examine
each of the bodies in case life was not
wholly extinct
So ne bent over the girl, noting with
sudden wonder that, weak as she was,
she had managed to refasten part of
her bodice.
You must permit me to carry you a
little further inland" he explaintd,
gently.
Without another word he lifted her in
his arms, marveling somewhat at the
strength which came of necessity, and
bore her some little distance, until a
sturdy rock, jutting out of the sand,
offered shelter from the wind and pro-
lection from the sea and it's revela-
tons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

leaves, swearing emphatically the while
on account of his damaged finger. and
FASTENED to Iris with the precious
beverage. She heard him and man
aged to raise herself on an elbow.
The poor girls eyes glistened at the
prospect of relief. Without a word of
question or surprise she swallowed the
contents of both leaves.
Then she found utterance. How odd
it tastes, What is it?'' she inquired.
But the eagerness with which she
quenohed her thirst renewed his own
momentarily forgotten torture. His
tongue seemed to swell He was abso-
lutely unable to reply.
The water revived Iris like a magic
draught. Her quick intuition told her
what had happened.
You have had none yourself" she
cried. Go at once and get some. And
please bring me some more"
He required no second bidding. After
hastily gulping down the contents of
several leaves he returned with a fur
Their supply. Iris was now sitting up.
The sun had burst royalty through the
clouds, and her chilled limbs were
gaining some degree of warmth and
elasticity.
What is it?' she repeated after an
other delicious draught.
The leaf of the pitcher-plant. Ma
ture is not always cruel. In an I'M
usually generous mood she devised this
method Of storing water"
Miss Deane reached out her hand for
more, Her troubled brain refused to
wonder at such a reply from an ordi-
nary seaman. The sailor deliberately
spilled the contents of a remaining leaf
on the sand.
No, madam" he said, with an odd
mixture of Difference and firmness. No
more at present. l must first procure
you some food"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

She looked up at him in momentary
silence.
THE ship is lost?" she said, after a
pause.
Yes, madam
<"And we are the only people saved?"
'I fear So
lis this a desert island?"
Il think not, madam. 1t may. by
chance, be temporarily uninhabited,
but fishermen from China come to all
these places to collect tortoise shell and
beche-de-mer. / have seen no other
living beings except ourselves; never
theless, the islanders may live on the
south side
Another pause. Amidst the thrilling
sensations of the moment Iris found
herself idly specializing as to the mean
ing of beche-de-mer, and why this
common sailor pronounced French so
we'll. Her thoughts reverted to the
steamer
1T surely cannot be possible that the
Sirdar has gone to pieces-a magnifi-
cent vessel of her size and strength ?''
He answered quietly: 1T is too true.
madam. l suppose you hardly knew
she struck, it happened so suddenly.
Afterward, fortunately for you, you
were unconscious"
How do you know" she inquired
quickly. A flood of vivid recollection
was pouring in upon her.
"I-er-well, I happened to be near
you, madam, when the ship broke UP,
and we-er-drifted ashore together"
She rose and faced him. 81 Temem-
Der now" she cried Historically. You
caught me as l was thrown into the
corridor. We fell into the sea when the
vessel turned over. You have saved
my life. Were it not for you l could
not possibly nave. escaped"
She gazed ct him more earnestly, see