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lumoraus department. A L?Mon In Cooking. That anybody can cook is a popular masculine view of one of the most difficult and interesting i the arts. The following Is a dialogue which took place in a city flat when the wife was sick and the husband a voluntary chef. It was the breakfast hour. The voice aoim/t "iv? vou bearin I ruill iue luivucu aonvu, ??? ? to count the three minutes from the time you put the eggs in, or from the time the water begins to boil?" The voice from the bedroom replied, "Do you wha?Why, you don't put the eggs in till the water begins to boil, dear." "You don't? Well, I did." "Is the water nearly boiling?" "Nearly boiling! Why, I Just put it on!" "And isn't it very hot?" "Of course it isn't!" came the indignant reply from the kitchen. ?.A *411 "Well then, Just take tne eggs um ?.? It starts boiling." Silence for a few momenta "What shall I take 'em out with?" "There's a big Iron spoon hanging over the sink." "Oh! Where shall I put them?" "Why, on the kitchen table, dear." "But they keep rolling off If I don't hold 'em." "Then put them on a saucer." "Which one shall I take?" "Don't take?Oh, never mind; take any of them." Silence for ten minutes. Then: "Charles, is the water boiling?" "It If n't even lukewarm yet." "Not lukewarm! Why, you didn't fill It with cold water?" "Of course. Why not?" "Charles, dear, I'm sorry to make you so much trouble," came from the bedroom, "but It will never boll that way. Just pour it out and put In only a little from the hot water faucet." "All right," came the reply from the kitchen. "Now I've done It Shall I put the eggs In?" "No, wait tUl It bolls." suence. "There, it's boiling now. Shall I put 'em In?" Silence for some time. Then, from the bedroom, "Aren't the three minutes up yet?" "Gracious! I forgot to look at my watch when I put 'em in. I guess it must be time, though. What do you take 'em out with?" "The big spoon," said the voice from the bedroom, patiently. Silence. "Say," came the voice from the kitchen, "how?what made 'em all come out of the shells? There Isn't anything In the shells at all, and the water?why, the water's all poached." "Oh, dear," said the voice from the bedroom, "you must have cracked them when you dropped them In?" "Why didn't you say so? I couldn't put my hands clear down Into the boiling water with 'em, could I?" "Of course not. Never mind." Silence. "Well, what do I do now?" "Oh, just turn out the gas and let it go at that" "But what are you going to eat? Don't you want me to boil you some more?" The voice from the bedroom answered eagerly, "No, no! Please, don't! I'll just have some crackers and milk, please. That will do. Bring me the bottle of milk out of the lower part of the refrigerator, and a bowl and a spoon and a cracker Jar from the sideboard. No, I'll open the milk bottle. Thank you. Now go back to your newspaper, dear. Sister May will clear up when she comes." "How long does the doctor say you'll have to stay in bed?" came the voice from behind the newspaper. "He doesn't say." "I hope It won't be long." "I hope so, too."?Chicago News. Juliet Got the Light. At a smal seaport town a star ac tress of the third magnitude appeared as Juliet. "I cannot do justice to myself," she said to the manager, "If I do not have a limelight thrown on me when I appear at the balcony." "We ain't got no limelight, miss, but I think we could get you a ship's blue light," replied the obliging manager, and to this the lady agreed. The lad who went to the shop to buy the blue light brought back a signal rocket, which was given to him by mistake. The prompter took the rocket in good faith. Romeo?He jests at scars who never felt a wound. (Juliet appears. Prompter lights a match.) "But, soft! What light through yonder windows breaks?" (This was the match lighting the fuse.) "Arise, fair sun!" The sun, or rather, the rocket, did rise with a terrific hiss. Juliet was knocked off the balcony, the fly borders were set on fire, and the theatewas filled with a sulphurous smoke, while the audience, which was fortunately a small one, made a stampede to the doors. Since then "Romeo and Julet" has nia-ova hoon innkp/i unon In that town as a dramatic work that could not be witnessed without personal danger.? London Express. The Meek Men Retorts.?"Fountain pens," snapped the nagging wife, "remind me of some husbands." "What Is the resemblance?" ventured the meek little man. "Expensive, can't be depended upon, won't work, and half the time they are broke." "That's pretty rough, Martha, but you couldn't compare a fountain pen with some women." "I guess not." "No; a fountain pen will dry up and some wives won't." And then he made for the suburban trolley and made a bee line for town. ?Chicago News. IVI l8Unaer8X0oa^? VYOlll we nam, said the man In the frock coat, "is a safe and sane Fourth." "You bet we do," agreed the man with the wispy whiskers. "We should put a stop to the unseemly noises that shatter the very air upon that day. I say to you, sir, that on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the greatest, grandest, most glorious governmental structure that ever has"? "Yep," interrupts the other man, "we ought to choke 'em off. I'm good an' tired of listening to those flapdoodle, spread-eagle speeches myself." And the man in the frock coat passed on with an air of the haughtiest kind of hauteur.?Chicago Post. THE STORY OF CLEMSON. [Continued from First Page]. I er type than the denominational colleges, was sufficient and declared that there was no need for another state college. They had attacked the south Carolina university after the overthrow of the carpetbag government in '76, clamoring against free tuition, but "nnhio to Drevent its being re organized and reopened. They felt that as the proposed agricultural college was Intended mainly to teach poor boys along practical lines, It would prevent many students from attending denominational colleges and thus destroy them. The "ring" having a large, number of the hold-over senators, the victory for the acceptance of the Clemson bequest by the general assembly was a difficult thing to achieve, and the deciding vote for the bill, which had passed the house, yeas 67, nays 48, was cast in the senate In behalf of the acceptance of the Clemson bequest by Lieut. Gov. Mauldin, It is well to state here that after the bequest was accepted by the legislature, Gov. Richardson withheld his approval by what is known as a "pocket veto," thus preventing any action looking to work on the proposed new college for two years. The seven life trustees had met at Pendleton shortly after Mr. Clemson's death, had organized, signified their acceptance of the trust in legal form, and set about getting the estate into such shape as to take the necessary action to carry out Mr. Clemson's purpose with or with?" afofo a IH The progress of the struggle for mastery between the two contending ideas of education was watched with deep concern by all parties Interested in public affairs in the state, and it became evident that the choice of Gov. Richardson's successor would cause a bitter flght. It has been the purpose and work of the "ring" to excite distrust of the reformers and to cause timid people to be very much alarmed over what was proclaimed as the impending effort to "split the Democratic party," though the friends of the agricultural college always stood by the Democratic party organization in every county, and when beaten, as they were in '86 and '88, they had moved to make the nominations unanimous and smilingly informed their antagonists that they would try again. The movement for the college had by this time broadened into many lines of reform in state affairs, and the agitation which had acted as a tonic, coupled with the organization of the alliance, had taught the farmers their strength, as well as rights and the means of accomplishing their purposes. The Third Battle. It is not my purpose nor is It necessary to enter into any details concerning the hot and bitter political fight in South Carolina in 1890. The agricultural college was one of the burning issues in that campaign and the 1 r\t tho npnnlo with the Sl&UO,! UlUiW^ii v* %..V transfer of all the funds donated by the United States government to Clemson college, the abolition of the agricultural department, and the donation of the privilege tax to Clemson for agricultural and technical education are all of too recent occurrence to need recapitulation here. The great work which the college has done Is not denied by any one; and Its future usefulness is sure In spite of the opposition of Its old enemies who seek to undermine and Injure It, while pretending to be Its friends. I would not have written this story to be published at this time, leaving it to see the light after I am dead, but the active agitation now going on in the state has caused me to feel that It is my duty to recall some facts which the younger generation are unacquainted with. They will Interest all our people. The legal status of Clemson college Is well defined and understood by every intelligent lawyer in the state. The agitation for the change In the condition has no good reason for its eTistPnep and the friends of the col lege will see to it that neither old or new enemies do It any injury. B. R. Tillman. U. S. Senate, Washington. June 18. Mother. "All that I am or hope to be," said Lincoln, after he had become president, "I owe to my angel mother." "My mother was the making of me," said Thomas Edison, recently. "She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt that I had some one to live for; some one I must not disappoint." "All that I have ever accomplished in life," declared Dwlght L. Moody, the great evangelist, "I owe to my mother." "To the man who has had a mother all women are sacred for her sake," said Jean Paul Richter. The testimony of great men in acknowledgment of the boundless debt they owe to their mothers would make record stretching from the dawn of history to today. Few men, Indeed, become great who do not owe their greatness to a mother's love and inspiration. Uaw wo hoar npfinlp in PVerv walk of life say, "I never could have done this thing but for my mother. She believed in me, encouraged me, when others saw nothing in me." "A kiss from my mother made me a painter," said Benjamin West. A distinguished man of today says: "I never could have reached my present position had I not known that my mother expected me to reach it. From a child she made me feel that this was the position she expected me to fill; and her faith spurred me on and gave me the power to attain it." It Is a strange fact that our mothers, the molders of the world, should get so little credit and should be so seldom mentioned among the world's achievers. The world sees only the successful son; the mother is but a round in the ladder upon which he has climbed. Her name or face is never seen in the papers; only her son is lauded and held up to our admiration. Yet it was that sweet, pathetic figure in the background that made his success possible.?Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine. Behind the Bars.?The intoxicated individual who, after bumping Into the same tree thirteen times, bemoaned the fact that he was lost in an impen etrable forest is no greater disgrace to modern civilization than the hero of this story. A citizen of Seattle, when he had looked upon the wine when he was no longer sure what color it was, in the course of his journey home encountered a tree protected by an iron treeguard. Grasping the bars, he cautiously felt his way around it twice. "Curse it." he moaned, sinking to the ground in despair. "Locked in!" 44 THE COMING HARVEST. Great Interest In the Year's Wheal Crop. "Wheat harvest has begun in Texas," is a message that reaches the central grain markets every year In th? last week of May or about the first ol June. The announcement came recently, and it is of more significant this year than usual, because of th< exhaustion of old wheat supplies an> the extraordinarily high prices prevailing in most of the winter wheal area. Texas is not an important whea state. It raised 20,000,000 bushels ir 1903 and 10,000,000 bushels in 1908 This year its crop is not expected tc be over 6,000,000 bushels, owing to s prolonged drought that has been exthprp Rut the beginning ol harvest In Texas means that the milh of that state will be able to supplj their demands from their home croi at least for a time, and it is the forerunner of the gradual spread of th< harvest over the entire 45,000,000 acret of wheat now growing in the Unite<2 ' States. Within three weeks the earliest wheat of Oklahoma will be ready tc | cut. In the latter part of June the soft wheat of southern Missouri and southern Kansas and Kentucky and Tennessee will begin to fall before the machines. About July 1 the great Kansas crop, constituting nearly e fifth of the entire winter wheat production of the United States, will b< ready to garner. A little latir th( clatter of the binders and headers will be heard in Nebraska, and in August the spring wheat of the Dakotas anc Minnesota will be ripe. Never since the grain trade has beer organized as at present has this country come so near to exhausting ltf supply of wheat as this year. In Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio farmers granaries are swept clean and manj mills have not enough wheat to keef them going until new grain is available. Except in Chicago, Mlnneapolii and Duiutn, mere is nine wuwi a any market centre. The occasional cai I of good soft wheat that reaches Kansas City and St. Louis sells at ovei $1.50 a bushel, nearly double a norma price for wheat. Because of this exhaustion of ol( wheat supplies, the coming of harves is watched for with unusual interes this year, and there will be more competition for the first cars of new whea that come to market than ever before The production of wheat In the Unit' ed States last year was 664,000,001 bushels, including 437,000,000 bushel* of winter wheat and 226,000,000 bushels of spring wheat. The requirement* for bread and seed are about 550,000, 000 bushels. Owing to the dry weathei last fall a deficiency of 2,500,000 acre) in the area, and damage this spring ii Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas by drj weather, the winter wheat crop is no expected to exceed 390,000,000 busheli this year, or 48,000,000 bushels lesi than last year. If there should b< even a moderate deficiency in tlx spring wheat crop, the country wouk come nearer to being on short rationi than ever before in recent years. Bu fortunately the conditions are favorable for a much larger spring wliea crop than last year, and the probablli| ties are that the United States wll have at least a moderate supply o: wheat in excess of home needs. At the present time, owing to tlx scarcity of old wheat, prices are higher in the United States than in Liver pool?a condition that has existed onlj two or three times in a generation oi more. The wheat crop In Kansas and Nebraska is about ten days to two week* behind a normal growth for this season of the year, a fact which has caused some excitable speculators to doub Aether miioh wheat will be avallabh to fill July contracts. But experlencei wheat raisers say that normal whea In June will bring on the harvest a' about the usual time. Stocks of wheat In Europe are expected to be reduced to small proportions before a new crop la raised. Tin world's production of wheat for tw< years has been below the world's requirements. The deficiency has beer made up out of the surplus from preceding crops. Last year the world's crop was 3,172,000,000 bushels; two years ago, 3,142,000,000 bushels. Ir 1906 3.432,000,000 bushels were ralsec and In 1905 the crop was 3,330,000,001 bushels. There will be little surplus to carry over this year anywhere, s< that millers, grain dealers and speculators are watching with acute Interest the growth of the crops In al parts of the world. Europe, like th< United States, has had a late spring and In Germany there Is an unpromising outlook for fall-sowing grain The Argentine crop was less than lasi year's, but those of India and Australia were larger. In most other Important wheat countries the prospect Is fair to good. Nearly every schoolboy knows tha1 a wheat harvest Is In progress somej where in the world every month in th< year, but 80 per cent of the total production Is In the northern hemisphere with harvest corresponding approximately to the season In the Unltec States. Here Is the world's wheal harvest calendar: December and January, Argentina and Australia; February and March, East India and Upper Egypt; April, Lower Egypt, Ash Minor, India and Mexico; May, Northern Africa, China, Japan and Texas June and July, all the chief wlntei wheat areas of the United States ant Europe; August, the chief spring whea areas of North America and Eu rope; September and October, Scot land, Sweden and Norway; Novem ber, Peru and South Africa.?Kansa City Times. A Fine Point.?It all depended upoi whether or not the word In a contraci was "on" or "or." The final lettei could be taken for either an "n" 01 "r," which Is very common in ordinal'} penmanship. The case was a claim made by G. W Akers before the council committi-i or claims yesterday afternoon for the re funding of $58, which he had paid foi sidewalk pavement. Mr. Akers exhl bited the petition for the widening o; Forest avenue, east of the boulevard and where his name appeared was th< following sentence: "If I have no expense for sewer 01 (or on) street." City Attorney Hill said he bellevet the little word was "on," and if 1 was, there was nothing about side, walk pavement mentioned. Mr Akers snld the little word wa! "or," and If this was the case, h< would not have to pay for sidewalk pavement as that Included expense "on" the street. The committee appeared to sld< with Mr. Aker, after carefully inspecIng the little word, and the city attorney said he felt forced to admit that the word could be either "or" or "on." The committee took no final action, t but It Is believed that Mr. Akers will be refunded the $58.?Florida TimesUnion. TUNNEL UNDER THE ALAMO. ) ' If Famous Defenders Had Known ; They Could Have Escaped. > If the defenders of the Alamo had j known that the holy fathers who con. structed the old adobe fort had also I dug a secret tunnel several miles long < t they might have saved their lives and , the celebrated massacre would have no place in history. Such a tunnel ex , Ists. but, strange to say, It has never L been explored, declares the Chicago . Inter-Ocean. f The mysterious excavation leads in , two directions from beneath the an- i r cient Alamo building. It is known , that one branch of the tunnel runs . south for at least two and one-half i . miles to the old Conception mission, , and that another branch extends north I from the Alamo to the ruins of the an- \ tlquated stone blockhouse which t stands in what is now San Pedro Park. , It ia about two miles from this block house to the Alamo. The early historic accounts of the . string of ancient missions which are , situated along the San Antonio river I make no reference to the system of < t tunnels, which was evidently con- i . structed about the time the buildings s wefe erected. It Is evident that the s existence of these tunnels was not t I known to the early settlers. I t When the American garrison of the I Alamo was surrounded by the Mexi- < ' can troops it knew of no way of es, caplng the death that surely awaited i . it. So well did the Franciscan fath. ers. who built and inhabited these . missions, keep the secret of the exlat. ence of the tunnels that this knowl- i edge did not even come to the early T Mexican settlers of San Antonio. It , was not until about twenty years ago . that the discovery was made that a , tunnel led from tlje Alamo to the Oont ception mission. It was quite by acr cldent that the underground passage . was found. r Louis Teborah was digging a well I at his home on South Presa street, when the picks of the workmen struck I a hard substance that proved to be t adobe plaster, such as the Franciscan t fathers taught the Indians of this sec. tlon to make In the early days. A few t strokes of the pick made an opening In this concrete wall and a cavern was . exposed to view. Mr. Teborah and the ) laborers who were digging the well 3 descended into the opening and found . that it was not a cave, as they sup3 posed, but a tunnel, with a width of . about five feet and a height of seven r feet. The concrete layer of two or 3 three Inches in thickness formed the j walls and arched roof, while the floor f or bottom of the passageway was of t dirt. 3 The tynnel was explored by Mr. 3 Teborah and others for a distance of i several hundred yards In both dlrec5 tions. Further progress was blocked j by cavlngs which had occurred, filling 3 the passage with dirt and debris, t One end of the explored tunnel . crossed under the San Antonio river, t In order to get a safe distance below the bed of that stream the tunnel was j lowered several feet at the crossing I point, flights of stone steps connecting the two levels. It is thought that the 3 tunnel runs in almost a direct line between the blockhouse on the north to the Conception mission on the south . by way of the Alamo, and If this 1 is correct the river crosses above it no r fewer than a dozen times. The opening into the tunnel in the Alamo is situated in one of the cells of 3 the monks. Centuries of disuse have caused It to fill with debris and no effort has ever been made to clean it out and conduct an exploration, so far ' as known. The same condition is true of the entrance beneath the blockhouse and at Conception mission. Since the discovery was made by Mr. Teborah several years ago the tunnel has been encountered at 'other points on its course. While excavating for i the outfall sewer that leads south of ' the city the tunnel was broken Into and considerable difficulty was expe1 rienced In building the brick sewer across it. It not infrequently happens 3 that the tunnel is struck while exca1 vating for the foundations for houses. 1 It is considered ramarkable that no 1 systematic exploration of this ancient ' relic of the Franciscan fathers ever 3 has been attempted. It Is believed by 3 many people that the tunnel does not stop at the Conception mission, but that it extends all the way to the San ' Francisco de la Espada mission, siti uated nine miles south of San Antonio, ' connecting en route the San Jose and the San Juan missions. All these an cient structures are built close to the 1 San Antonio river and are surrounded by little villages of Mexicans. These mission buildings were erect3 ed nearly two centuries ago, and it is supposed that the tunnel which proba' bly connects all of them was con" structed about the same time. The i blockhouse in San Pedro Park was built at a later date, and it is consid ered likely that the branch tunnel " which leads to it was built some time ' tfter the passageway to the missions ^ was finished. There Is much speculation as to the ' original objects of the system of tun" nels. It is considered likely that In1 dlan labor was used to dig the tunnel, " and if this Is true it could not have been kept a secret from the tribesmen. r It is considered probable that the real ' object of this tunnel connecting 1 some, if not all, of the missions along ' the San Antonio river was to afford " the monks an opportunity of visiting " each other without the knowledge of ' the Spanish military and civil authorities, who made their headquarters in San Antonio. 1 If this theory is correct the monks 1 did not lead the strict life, of a recluse p that has heretofore been generally supp posed. Instead of being alone in their ' cells they were probably off on a visit to some of their brothers at one of the other missions without the outside 1 world being any wiser. An exploration and rehabilitation of p this ancient system of tunnels might lead to many interesting discoveries, r it Is claimed. In the Imaginative inlnds of some people the treasure room of i the Franciscan monks is situated at some point on the line of the underp giitund passageway, and perhaps it may still contain a store of great ' wealth. The Mexican Inhabitants of t At-- I ti it? lilt? Illlit? village nnuaicu aujauriu iu " the missions have a superstitious dread of the mysterious tunnel. None * of them could be Induced to enter the i dark and grewsome passageway. [ 9 , itiT For heartburn try one-half tea> spoonful of salt In a little water. I NATI0N8 THAT DIED. Most of Them Went to Their Doom Fighting, ae Did Rom* Most countries which have died have gone down lighting. The Roman empire perished like that The empire of the west became so weak at last that it could make no stand against its enemies. Rome was sacked by the barbarians and eventually became not the capital of a vast empire, but the city of the popes, over which the pontiffs reigned as kings. Finally the city was taken without a real light by the soldiers of the king of Italy. The empire of the east had its capital at Constantinople. For centuries it was the greatest power in the world. But it became honey-combed with vice and enervated with pride and luxury; also it grew old and weak. Then the Turks made a ugerisn spring on Constantinople and took It by storm. The last of the Greek emperors died sword In hand, and his descendants are living In England today In very humble situations. Egypt, once so powerful and famous under the pharaohs, was conquered by Rome and was afterward swamped by the Moslems. The great moguls used to reign In India. In the days of Queen Elizabeth the mogul, or emperor of Delhi, as he was sometimes called, was so powerful that he thought it a vast condescension on his part to receive an embassy from the maiden queen. But as time went on the great rajahs, or tributary kings, rebelled against the moguls. India was rent asunder by the wars between rival rajahs. This gave the Europeans a chance. Prance at first held the upper hand and nearly conquered the land. But then England drove France back and Reized the empire of the great moguls for herself. The heir of the moguls still enjoys a pension given by the British government. Poland used to occupy a big place on the map of Europe. At one time it was much larger and stronger than Russia. But Poland perished through her own faults and follies. The mass of the common people were slaves In all but name; hence the nobles and the people never stood together In times of danger or disaster. Poland is a big country, but It was divided against itself, and Russia, Prussia and Austria combined were more powerful. They all three Joined hands, and each took a large share of Poland In 1772. In 1793 the trio of robbers made a second swoop. Only the ghost of Poland was left. Another year saw the end of the tragedy. The last remnants of Poland were swallowed up by Russia, Prussia and Austria. The fate of the republic of Venice is one of the most dramatic In all history. Its doges ranked as the equals of the proudest kings. Its alliance was coveted by the greatest powers. All real power rested In the hands of the dreaded council of ten and the secret three. The latter was a trio of living mysteries and were known by name to practically no one In Venice. So the government of Venice was a terror to Its own people and the outside world. Then Napoleon came upon the scene, and "the Lion of St. Mark licked the dust."?Pearson's Weekly. Th? Foiler Foiled.?Recently one young man bet another that he could not break an egg placed on the floor of their room by hitting It with a barrel. The second young man promtly took the bet. . ' Thereupon the first young man carefully placed an egg In a corner of the room, Just where the walls made a right angle, so that It was Impossible for the other to hit the egg with an ordinary barrel. Then the first young man proceeded to gloat. But the other suddenly produced a revolver and broke the egg by tapping It smartly with the barrel of the weapon. Then he demanded the money. There was quite a dispute naturally. Finally the two agreed to submit the question to the editor of a sporting paper. In due time the answer came. The sporting authority decided that the second young man was me winner 01 the bet, since the other had not specified in any way what kind of barrel should be used for the destruction of the e^T. ?New York Times. | Do You j | Know | What | \ Constitutes I | a Fine j Piano ? |__j a Unless you are sure you a I thoroughly understand pia- I no mechanism, tone qual 1 ity, action, etc., you had V V Z better place yourself In our ^ L hands and get the best. ? f Not for the profit on BOO A pianos would we sell you A P an Inferior Instrument. " jj WRITE TODAY jj " r ? ? | Chas. M. Stieff j 0 Manufacturer of the P ? Stieff and Shaw, the Pianos ? J with the Sweet Tone S J SOUTHERN WAREROOM. I | 5 W. Trade St. ( ! CHARLOTTE N. C. ! C C. H. WILMOTH, C ? Manager. ? 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FOR IT I ? We believe that York county Is In a more prosperous condition J than at any time In Its history. Farm lands are becoming more 3 A and more valuable and, while the necessary articles used on the. 9 X farm are more expensive, at the same time the products of the L" farm are likewise more valuable and more marketable. A A few years ago, IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE for the I? FARMER TO GET MONEY ADVANCED TO HIM ON THE V V PROSPECTS OF HIS CROP * X THE NATIONAL UNION BANK COMMENCED TO f V ADVERTISE FOR THE FARMERS' BUSINESS, i y A OFFERING TO LET THEM HAVE MONEY TO # J CULTIVATE THEIR FARMS, CHARGING THEM ) j ONLY SIX PER CENT Ihterest . J A THE NATIONAL UNION BANK HAS SUPPLIED C MORE MONEY TO FARMERS THIS YEAR THAN I ; IT HAS EVER DONE BEFORE L r The only requirement in order to obtain money from us, is that V you can make good papers and will do your business with this y A Bank. ? ? IF YOU ARE NOT NOW DOING BUSINESS WITH i ITS. YOU SHOULD COMMENCE TODAY. 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"The Carpet D " uagger A NOVEL -BYOpie Read and Frank Pixley Will Be The Enquirer's Next Serial Story, Which Will Be Published By Special Permission of Mr. Read's Publishers. "The Carpet-Bagger" is one of Mr. Read's Best Stories and Is the Equal In Interest to "The Jucklins," Published In The Enquirer a Few Months Ago. Watch for the Opening Chapters of "The Carpet-Bagger." They Will Appear Soon. ..UNIVERSITY.. op ^ SOUTH CAROLINA 8CHOLAR8HIP EXAMINATION. The university op south ^ CAROLINA offer* Scholarships In the Department of Education to one young man from each county. Each Scholarship is worth $100 in money and $18 matriculation or "term" free. Examination will be held at County seat Friday, July 2. Examination for admission to the University will be held at the same time. Write for information to 8. C. MITCHELL, President, Columbia, S. C. 47 t St SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE 4 Examinations Clemson Agricultural College. At the County Court House on Friday, July 2nd, at 9 a. nru, the Scholarship and Entrance Examinations to Clemson Agricultural College will be 9 held under the direction of the County Board of Education. Applicants must be at least 16 years of age and must be prepared to enter the Freshman Class. There are no Scholarships in the Preparatory Class. This class is only open to a limited number of boys who cannot reach high schools and who are living in sections of the state where school facilities are poor. Scholarships are worth $100.00 and Free Tuition. The next session of Clemson Agricultural College will begin Sept 8. 1909. Apply to the County Superintendent of Education after June 20th for needed information concerning the Scholarship Examinations. For catalogs, further Information and cards upon which to make application for entrance to the College, address P. H. MELL, President, Clemson College, S. 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