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^tumorous department. BULLS AND BLUNDEKS. The Irish have achieved a great celebrity in the matter of bulls and blunders. By the uninitiated these are terms which are constantly confounded ; but when they are looked into, it will be seen there is the greatest difference between them. Blundering arises from stupidity, and the sti pid are a race who are fouud all over the world; but the bull?a peculiarity that belongs exclusively to Ireland?is always connoted with thoucht. and originates in the imaginative power of its people. It is not at all a dull absurdity which o one can comprehend?it is always comprehensible even when it is most confused. It proceeds not from want, but the superabundance of ideas, which crowd on each other so fast in an Irishman's pericanium that they get jammed together, so to speak, in the doorway of his speech, and only tumble out in their ordinary disorder. Confusion may, indeed, be called a notional characteristic. It pervades all Irish history. If the stream of the latter in early days has its gleams of bright tranquility, sorely troubled does it become as it descends the steps of time, till, as it flows on in the latter ages, it encounters obstructions, political and religious, which give it turmoil and perplexity that we cannot survey without deploring. As with tbeaffaiis of unhappy Ireland, so has it ever been with the peasantry. Public and social disorders have communicated a jar to the brains of Pat; and, if he can be accused now and then of being a little erratic in his sayings and doings, he can at least console himself by pointing to a long historical authority. He may say: "Arrah ! now, why wouldn't I be confused ? Wasn't all of us confused, and frnm the airliest times, and isn't a man to be consistent? Would you have him turn bis coat when scarcely a rag of it is left him ?" A good example of a bull may be cited in the case of two Irishmen who, fancying that they knew each other, crossed the street to shake hands. On discovering their error, "I beg your pardon !" cried the one. "Oh, don't mention it," said the other. "It's a mutual mistake ; you see I thought it was you, and you thought it was me, and, after all, it was neither of us !" A good pendant to this is told of two friends who met, and referred to the illness of a third : "Poor Michael Hogan ! Faith, I'm afraid he's going to die." "And why would he die?" "Oh, he's got so thin ! You're thin enough, and I'm thin ; but by my sow], Michael Hogan is thinner than both of us put together!" A bull is sometime produced by the false use of a word, as in the case of an Irish watchman giving evidence at a police office: "What is this man's offence ?" "He was disorderly, your worship, in the strates, last night." "And did you give him warning before you took him into custody ?" "I did, your worship; I said to him, 'Disparse !'" Again, a bull may be occasioned by a confusion of identities, as when it was said of an ugly man that he was fcnnrianmp when an infant, but he was unluckily changed at nurse; or as it was shown in the fervor of a girl who, desiring her lover's miniature, and he fearing it might lead to discovery: "Oh, it needn't," she exclaimed ; "I'll tell the painter not to make it like you!" And again, a bull may be owing to a limited amount of knowledge, as in the case of an old woman going to the chandler's for a farthing candle, and being told it was raised to a half-penny on account of the Russian war: "Bad luck to them !" she exclaimed ; "and do they fight by candle light?" ' Apart, however, from all these, the ordinary sayings of the Irish have an imaginative quality which is just as characteristic, and not at all confusing. As, for instance, when they say of a man who is irretrievably ruined: "Saltpetre wouldn't save him, and that is a strong pickle or when they would advise another to avoid arrest: "Be off while your shoes are good or, as they delicately say of an elderly lady whose number of years they forbear to mention,' 'A kitten of her age wouldn't play with a cork." And apart from all these, again, is the genuine humor of the Irish, which has nothing of the bull in it whatever, but, on the contrary, the clearest notions, and very often the shrewdest sense. We will only cite a couple of instances, which will not be the less welcome if they happen to have been heard before: A gentleman seeing an Irishman staggering home from a fair, observed to him: "Ah, Darby, I'm afraid you'll find the road you're going is rather a longer one than you think." "Sure, your honor," he replied, "it's not the length of the road I care about; its the breadth of it is destroyin' me." And again, in the bog of Aughrim, in the last century, plenty of gun-barrels used to be found as a memento of its great battle, and there was a blacksmith who dug them up, in order to make use of their material. On one occasion one of them explodee in his furnace, when he exclai ned : "Bad luck to your love of murther ! isn't the battle of Aughrim out of you yet?" t&T "If I was to stand on my head," said young Softleight, "I suppose the blood would all rush to my head, wouldn't it ?" "Of course it would," replied Miss Cutting. "Then," continued the young man, "why doesn't it rush to my feet when I stand upon them ?" "Really, I don't know," she replied, with a peculiar smile, "unless it is because your feet are not empty." ?hc $tonj idler. ; WAYS~OF RATTLESNAKEST ] Common Errors Regarding Their < Fighting Abilities. New York Sun. f "Nobody was ever bitten by a rat- ] tlesnake, and nobody ever will be," 1 said a man wbo bas studied them. And the reason is the best that could . possibly be. A rattlesnake can't bite. \ It isn't likely that any creature that i lives and is provided with teeth and i jaws has less power of biting. The ' snake's jaws are not hinged. They f aank nthor Kit on aIoS. 1 arc attauucu ias cavu wuv> wj tic cartilage. Thus the snake has no i leverage whatever in closing one jaw ? against the other, and if it attempted t to inflict injury by biting, it couldn't 1 so much as pierce the skin. The fangs t of a rattlesnake are driven into the t flesh by a stroke not a bite, as is well shown by the fact that punctures are 1 made only by the armament of the 1 upper jaw. The lower jaw has noth- 1 ing to do with the act. A man strik- & ing a boat hook into a log is an exact t representation of the manner in which i the rattlesnake bites. So when any i one tells you about some one else being s bitten by a rattlesnake, bet him it isn't < so. You'll win. It is an impossibility t for a rattlesnake to bite. t "But, although the rattlesnake can't bite, if you're fooling around in a b country where he is spending the sum- i mer, you want to keep your eye peel- r ed. And there is one particular thing you don't want to forget. It is a com- c mon and widespread fallacy that a t rattlesnake is entirely harmless so long i as he is uncoiled. I believed that s once, and found out by a startling per- f sonal experience that it wasn't so. It t is true that when a rattlesnake is t stretched at full length, with the muscles extended to the utmost, he could r not strike an inch forward, but from i that position he can strike backward bis full length, and with lightning-like c velocity. One day I dropped a big ^ stone on the head of a big rattler that t lay in this position, crushing the head, I the stone lying partly on the head, t After gazing for sometime at the quiv- i ering reptile, so suddenly taken from c life, I stooped down to remove his 1 rattles. I had no sooner touched his e tail than bis mutilated head flew back, f and almost grazing ray cneeK, siruca t the sleeve of my coat just below the t shoulder, where both fangs were bur- d ied, pulling out of the jaw and re- t maining in the sleeve as the snake fell a back to the ground. They had not I missed my cheek more than a hair's a breadth. With precaution I have made that test of a rattlesnake's ca- s pacity of striking in that way many n times since then, and the snake always v struck. The instinct is so strong in c tbis reptile that I have known a rat- s tier, two hours after its head was p severed from its body, to strike back v fiercely with its bleeding stump the n instant its tail was touched. n "There is at least one case on rec- b ord where this belief that a rattle- t snake couldn't strike until it was in I coil resulted fatally. . The man was ii working in bis garden, when he dis- k covered a rattlesnake lying with only c its rattles and two or three inches of v its tail projecting from under the bot- t torn rail of the fence on the side next h to him, the rest of the snake being on r the other side. The man, being una- p ble to give the snake a blow that d would kill it while it was in that posi- i! tion, thought he would seize its rattles k and pull it quickly into full view and ii kill it with bis hoe. He crept up and b seized the rattles, but had no sooner I touched them than the rattlesnake s doubled back over the rail and sank r its fangs in the hand that held its tail, b The man killed the snake and hurried d to the house, where he died in a short 1 time. il "But the typical position of the rat- a tlesnake when intent on deadly assault v is the coil. This is not always a sym- b metrical spiral but the body is massed s in more or less regular folds, literally t an animate set soring. -From this po- g sition the rattler can spring from one- s half to two-thirds of his length. Be- b fore the stroke the mouth is opened b wide, the fangs falling down from their * sockets in the upper jaw and standing I firmly in their position. The head is c thrust forward, the half coils below it \ being straightened out to lengthen the t neck and to give power to the strike. \ There is no preliminary motion. The stab is made with abrupt swiftness that defies escape of the victim. There is but one strike. The snake passes back iuto its coil agaiu with the same 1 swiftness that it threw itself out. As s the fangs enter the flesh the venom is < injected. If the thing struck at is be- i yond the rattler's reach, the snake has t the power of squirting its venom in ] jets, which it can do for a distance of s four feet or more. Dr. Weir Mitchell t had a narrow escape once. An im- 1 mense diamond-back rattler he had in t his collection threw a teaspoonful of its venom in the doctor's face from a < distance of four feet. It struck him on c , the forehead. If it had fallen an inch < lower it would have entered his eyes, i certainly blinding him and perhaps t killing him. i "Sometimes a rattlesnake loses its i fangs in the flesh of the object it f strikes, but that does only temporary < damage to the deadly armory. There are plenty of incipient fangs lying in i the jaw, only waiting for a chance like 1 that to come forward and be in line 1 for business. They grow very fast, i and in the course of two or three days < a rattlesnake that has lost its fangs is 1 re-fitted with a bran-new pair. That 1 is a good thing to remember, for it is t the popular belief that a rattler is < made harmless by extracting its venom < fangs. The only way to render one of { these reptiles harmless, besides killing it, is to apply red hot iron to the cavi- 1 ties left by the fangs. This will destroy i ill the vitality of these dangerous parts ind new fangs will not come in. "The rattlesnake never pursues his prey ; he waits. He will not go out of bis way to attack anything. He will invariably keep on his course if not ;ornered or teased. You in ay step tvitbin four inches of a rattlesnake and tvill not be disturbed by it if you keep right on your way. If you stop, the make at once will take it for a chalenge and hit you only too quick. It s said, as if by authority, that the ntrlpsnalcA never sounds his rattle jntil he has coiled. If that is so, rattlesnakes I have seen must have beeD freaks, for they haye rattled when lyDg at full length and even when raovng, as well as in their coils. The -attler, when traveling, will cross lakes ind streams, and he swims with bis lead and his rattles well above the vater. The force with which a rattlemake can strike is such that I once /eased one into striking at a piece of lelting at least a quarter of an inch hick, and he sent his fangs clear hrough it. "I don't know whether rattlesnakes lave the power of scent or not, but rom what I have heard, and especialy from what I have seen, it would teem to me that they not only have hat power, but have it in a most renarkable degree. One summer in lorthern Pennsylvania I killed a fine tpecimen of a rattler, and carried it >n a stick for two miles to the place vhere I was stopping. A native of hat locality on seeing the snake, said : " 'That's a she rattler and you folks iround here want to watch out. Her nate will be along looking for her tonorrow or next day, sure!' "I skinned the snake and took the tarcass to the hog pen and gave it to be hogs and thought no more about t. Next morning I heard a loud cream from one of the women of the amily, and she came running into the touse declaring that she had seen a >ig rattlesnake on the front stoop. " 'First time,' she said, 'that a live attlesnake has been around, the house n 25 years.' "I hurried on, but could see nothing >f the snake. It occurred to me then vhat the native had said about the nate of the dead snake following her. walked toward the bog pen and here I discovered a rattlesnake mov ng to and fro on toe grounn id tront ?f the sty, and acting as if it were ookiDg for a place to get in. I watchid the manoeuvres of the snake for a ew minutes and then killed it, aDd he native at once declared that it was be mate of the one I had killed the lay before. The front stoop where bis snake had just made its appearnee at the house, was the first place had stopped with the dead snake ,nd gone from there to the hog pen. "I perhaps, in spite of the eircumtantial evidence against it, would iever have believed that this snake yas anything else but one that had ome casually to the premises, if a imilar incident hadn't occurred a couile of days later. A man, who was working in haying on the place lived 4 ailes distant and went home Saturday light to spend Sunday. On bis way ack Sunday afternoon he killed a ratlesnake in the road and brought it in. t happened to be a female, and warnng was given that a lookout better be ept for her mate. As a matter of uriosity I took the dead snake from ^here it had been laid in the road near he house and took it to an old vacant iouse in the field half a mile down the oad from the place where I was stopling. I left the snake there, aDd next lay went back to the old house to see f any snake would follow it there, :eepiDg watch along the road. Along a the middle of the forenoon I saw a ig snake coming down the road and got into a clump of bushes. The nake came into the field. Ic was a attler, and it made straight for the iouse. I followed it. It went in at loor. The dead snake lay on the floor. ?be live one wenv up to it and around t several times, and then lay still, s if thinking the matter over. I matched the snake for teD mimites and ie never moved. Then I stepped inide the door. Like a flash the snake hrew himself into a coil and faced me, ;laring fiercely, and making his rattles ing. I didn't like his looks and shot lim with my revolver. I no longer lad any doubt that the snake of the veek before was the mate to the one had killed, and was satisfied that this me was the mate of the hired man's dctim. But how had they followed he trails of their dead wives? That's vhat has always puzzled me. A DISINFECTED SHAVE. There was a time, as every student cnows, when the barber was a profestional man. The modern surgeon is mly his lineal descendant; but unfortulately in the race for worldly honors he surgeon has left him far behind, iypnotic eloquence does not always iway society, and the barber remains i mechanic. In Paris, he has even )ecome a ward of the police and an ippendage to the Hygienic council. By way of guarding against the diseases liable to be spread by the exer;ise of his trade, that council has re;ently ordained that the barber's metal mplements shall be plunged, directly ifter use, into boiling, soapy water, ind that they shall be kept, when not n use, in a receptacle heated to a jerm-destroying temperature, or in )ne containing a sterilizing solution. Before and after use, his brushes nust be dipped in boiling water. 'Blowers" (pulverisateurs a sec) must ie substituted for his powder-pufFs, ?nd metal combs must take the place )f his ivory, bone or celluloid combs. Finally, the barber must wash his lands before passing from one cusomer to the next; and after he has jut any one's hair he must scrupul>usly sand the floor, preparatory to gathering and burniug the hair. Happily, though the new rule may ceep the barber dancing between the vashbowl and the stove, it fails to hamper one important tool of bis trade. The barber's tongue is not to be boiled, washed, beated, disinfected or sanded. Therefore he is using it to argue that, if the authorities direct his doings, they should also look after the butcher and baker and candlestick-maker?every honest tradesman who is liable to endanger the public while serving the public, and who does not add to the charm of the service the beauty of his voice. The Lubrication Test.?Very few of the millions of people who carry watches realize to what a wonderful extent lubrication is developed and what an extraordinary number of turns the balance wheel makes with one oiling. A Chestnut street watchmaker, whose knowledge of these wonderful I t* 1 2 2- 1 | pieces ui mechanism is uui eivecucu by aoy man in this city, has made up an interesting table of comparisons to show the perfection of lubrication in a watch. A watch will run on one oiling from a year to a year and a half. Every minute the balance wheel turns on its axis 450 times and 27,000 times in an hour. Accepting a year as the time the ordinary watch will run with one oiling, he finds that if the driver of a locomotive was as well oiled as a balance wheel of a watch it ought to run 60 miles an hour day and night for 648 days, or well on to two years, with one oiling. In that time it would traverse a distance equal to nearly 40 times the circumference of the earth. In view of the fact that in reality few locomotives will run one day with one oiling, he maintains that the watchmaker has developed bis art to a far greater degree than the locomotive builder has yet been able to reach. Popular Education.?Mrs. Henrietta Russell, who writes so sensibly on education, says that some of the current notions in regard to it are strikingly like those of Aunt Charlotte, an old Negro woman of Alabama. Whenever a subject was under discussion in the family, Charlotte would be sure to state ber own superior method of proceeding in such matters, and no doubt ever assailed her that possibly she might not be right. On one occasion her mistress was talking about sending some of the children to school, and Charlotte, as usual, put in her oar. ' Law, missis," said she, "what mek you pay money for to sen' de chile to school ? I got one smart boy named Jonas, but I 1'arns him myse'f." "But, Aunt^ Charlotte," said the lady, "how cat) you teacn your cmin when you don't kuow one letter from another ?" "How I teach him ? I jis mek him tek de book an' set down on de flo', an' den I say, 'Jonas, you tek yo' eye fum dat boo,k much less leggo him, an'I skins you aliue!"' PfM I S.0V4I w POWDER Absolutely Pure A Lovely Woman's Desperate Deed The lovely woman is the heroine in A. W. Marchmont's thrilling story Lola Crawshay The first chapter of this most exciting romance was commenced in The Enquirer of last Saturday and to those who read it, we promise a rare treat from a literary standpoint, as every chapter depicts intensely interesting situations. A good love story is hard to obtain nowadays. LOLA CRAYSHAY is not only a good love story but a strong detective tale as well. Be sure to read it ; you can't afford to miss it. Read our premium list to club-makers, and get up a for The Enquirer, and have your friends read this great story. YORKVILLI FOR HERE IS THE 0PP0RTUNI1 OF CHARACTE TO GET UP CLUBS FOI Pleasant V and Cerl IN UNUSUALLY YA1 Two High Grade Buggies a Leaders and Every ' COMMENCE TODAY BETWEEN this date and the MIDDLE OF MARCH, it is usual for the people of this section to select their reading matter for the following year. Being one of the cleanest, most enterprising and reliable newspapers in the state, it is natural, therefore, tnat THE YORKVILI.E ENQUIRER should also be one of the most popular. Ninety per cent, of the families in the county desire it as a regular visitor to their homes, and all those who can afford it, may reasonably be looked upon as probable subscribers. One of the most serious drawbacks, probably, is the inconvenience of writing letters, sending money and attending to the matter of subscribing at the proper time. It is this fact that makes it especially desirable for us, Just at this time, to secure the services of a large number of intelligent and energetic assistants, and to make it worth their while to give the matter their attention, we are making the liberal offers which we will presently explain. The price of a single subscription one year is TWO DOLLAltS. This is to the individual who does not give his name to a clubmaker ; but sends it direct to this office. In clubs, however, the price is only ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS. That Is the price which the subscriber pays the clubmaker, and the price which, under nil circumstances, he is expected to pay us. Now to our propositions : THREE BIG PREMIUMS. The three leading premiums are a CAROLINA BUGGY, a ROCK HILL BUGGY, and a MONARCH BICYCLE, for lady or gentleman. The "Rock Hill Buggy" is to be a quarter leather top. and the "Carolina" an open buggy. Both vehicles are to be of the very best grades manufactured by the respective well-known establishments. The Bicycle is to be of the highest grade manufactured by the Monarch Cycle Company, and the Monarch wheel, as every wheelman knows, is without a superior. 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 clubmaker who returns and pays for the largest number of NEW NAMES, will be entitled to second choice. The clubmaker who returns the second largest number of names?new and oldwill 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 j new subscribers; and the third choice to the second largest club of old and new subscribers. OTHER PREMIUMS. In addition to the competitive premiums | mentioned above, we also offer various other premiums for clubs containing specified numbers of names, and propose to deliver the premiums whenever the numbers specified are returned and paid for. Upon securing one | premium?a watch or sewing machine, say? the clubmaker will be at 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, 189b, he shall have succeeded in returning and paying for the largest number of NEW NAMES, he will be entitled to the I SECOND CHOICE of the three leading premiums mentioned above, Just the same as If he had not previously taken other premiums. Now, then, read the list: For 60 Subscribers, We will give the clubmaker his choice of the following premiums, each valued at 825: A FOUR DRAWER "ENQUIRER" SEWING MACHINE, together with all attachments; a "HOUSEKEEPER'S" SET OF KNIVES, FORKS AND SPOONS, made by Rogers; a "WALTHAM" WATCH in coin silver, dustproof case : a NO. 6 AUTOHARP. a BANJO, V.v-r^rr. . r, V? ? WrirtT TXT VTnT TV UUli An, lUAllUUl't^t Ul i JUUU.. For 40 and Less Than 60 SUBSCRIBERS, we will give the clubmaker his choice of the following, each valued at 815: WALTHAM WATCH, In open face silver case; set of half dozen ROGERS BROS'. KNIVES and FORKS (12 PIECES): NO. 4 AUTOHARP, BANJO, MANDOLIN. GUITAR, or LOW ARM SINGER SEWING MACHINE. ' For 30 and Less Than 40 SUBSCRIBERS, choice of the following, each valued at 810; NEW YORK STANDARD 7-JEWELED WATCH in dust-proof case; 14K GOLD FILLED WATCH CHAIN, or HALF DOZEN TEASPOONS. HALF DOZEN TABLESPOONS and BUTTER KNIFE (13 PIECES). Address, L. M. GRIST October 23, 1897. WHEN YOU WANT TO have your PHOTOGRAPH taken you should not fail to come and see me. I have been in the "picture taking" business for a great many years, and ain confident that I know my business. It has always been my desire to please my customers. I am prepared to take Photographs in the latest styles and at reasonable prices. HAVE YOU ANY Photographs that you would like to have enlarged ? If you have, come and see me about it. I can do the work. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW Where my Photograph Gallery is, ask anyone in town and they can tell you. DURING THE WINTER, You will find my Gallery warm and pleasant. Come and see me whenever you need photographs. Respectfully J. R. SCHORB. FINLEY & BRICE, ATTORNEYS A.T LAW, Yorkville, S. C. ALL business entrusted to us will be given prompt attention. OFFICE IN THE BUILDING AT THE REAR OF H. C. STRAUSS'S STORE. ENQUIRER. 1898. rY FOR PEOPLE R, ENERGY AND CAPACITT IA POPULAR PAPER. Vork, Good tain Pay jUABLE premiums. ind a Monarch Bicycle the Worker a Winner. i AND KEEP AT IT. For 20 and Less Than 30 SUBSCRIBERS, we will give a NO. 2% AUTOHARP, valued at $7.50; or THE ENQUIRER and any monthly magazine or weekly newspaper published In the united States, for one year. For 10 and Less Than 20 SUBSCRIBERS, a CONCAVE WARRANTED RAZOR, SILVER PLATED GRAVY LADLE, or an extra quality FOUR BLADED POCKET KNIFE, with name and address on the handle. Any of the articles mentioned would be a bargain at $2. For 6 and Less Than 10 SUBSCRIBERS, a "CLIMAX" WATCH, warranted for one year; an extra quality THREE BLADED POCKET KNIFE, or CHILD'S SILVER PLATED TABLE SET. Good values at 81.50. For 4 and Less Than 6 SUBSCRIBERS, a -'YANKEE" WATCH, I warranted for one year: "Siren" pattern BUTTER KNIFE, or TWO-BLADED POCKET KNIFE, with name and address on handle. And to Each Old Subscriber, The Yokkvili.e Enquirer?TWICE-aWEEK?Wiled with bright, fresh news from THE COUNTY, STATE, NATION AND I WORLD, interesting stories, instructive mis- * cellaneouH mutters, and humorous selections, explanatory editorials, etc. The paper will be held up to its present high standard, and will continue prompt, explicit, reliable, and, in short, the best. To Each New Subscriber. The same as above except that if the paper is COMMENCED NOW, IT WILL BE SENT UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1899, without any charge for that portion of the time between now and January 1, 1897. It is understood, however, that if the subscriber foils to pay the clubmaker the subscription price, he will be due him for all papers that he may liave received. By new subscribers, we mean those whose names were not on OUR BOOKS ON OCTOBER 1st, 1897. except we will not count as new subscribers, cases where the subscription may have been changed from the name of one member of a family to another. This is Intended emphatically to mean new additions to our subscription list. Note the Conditions. TWO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS at $1 each, will be considered the equivalent of one yearly subscriber at 81.75 and so counted. A subscription paid for two or more years in advance at 81.75, will be counted as one name for each year so paid. Clubmakers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by them. After a clubmaker has returned and paid for any name, he can. at anytime thereafter, discontinue the sending of the paper to the person for whom he has paid, and transfer ? the unexpired time to any other person, provided the person to whom the transfer is desired was not a subscriber at the time the original name was entered on our books. No name will be counted in competition for a premium until the subscription price has been paid; nor will any premium be delivered until a satisfactory settlement has been made for all names returned by the clubmaker. i Persons who commence making clubs will * I not be permitted to transfer their club to an- | other cnibmaker'a list after the names have been entered on our books. It is not necessary that the names on a club should all be at the same postofflce. Names may be taken at any number of places. j Clubmakers are requested to send in names " j oa mntrfiv oh t.hev secure them after October I 23 18$T. " kll subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmis- 4 sion of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkvllle postofflce. In sending names, write plainly, and give postofflce, county and state. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid lor. A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each name sent, so that the number sent by any one person may be ascertained at a moment s notice. , In case of a 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. 23d day of October, 189", and expire at 4 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the 9th day of March, 1898. ? & SONS, Yorkville, S. C. Mil SlTBffESTEilr. G. W. P. HARPER, President. CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. GOING NORTH. | No !<> I No W. Leav e Chester I 2^2ami on^om Leave Lowrysvllie |6 48 am fl0oam j Leave McConnellsville 658am,939am ' Leave Guthriesville .... 7 0t> a m j Leave Yorkvllle Leave Clover 7 53 a. m | 11 33 am Leave Gastonla - ???ami i Leave Llncolnton j?am 7 p Leave Newton ! 19 92 a m ! 1??^ Leave Hickory 10 50 am 0 15 pm Arrive Lenoir 1 11 5a am 8 00 pm GOING SOOTH. | NO. 9. I No 61. Leave Lenoir 3 10 pm 0 00am Leave Hickory - 19 p m Leave Newton 5 19 p m ,9 99 a Leave Llncolnton 5 56 p m 10 30 a m Leave Gastonla 6 57 pm A 99 5 m Leave Clover .... 7 ? pm 2 06. pm .Leave xorKvuie I o n ? i? Leave Guthriesvllle ... | 8 34 pm | 3 40 pm Leave McConnellsvillej 8 43 pm 3 55 pm Leave Lowrysvllle i 9 05 pm j 4 25 pm Arrive Chester I 9 30pm I 5 10 pm Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 60 and 61 carry passengers and also run daily except Sunday. There is good connection at Chester with the G. C. <S N. and the C. C. & A., also L & C. R. R.; at Gastonia with the A. C. A. L.: at Lincolnton with C. C.: and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. G. F. HARPER, Acting G. P. A., Lenoir N. C. J