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^tumorous Department. Poetry and Mathematics.?It is often the case that great mathematical minds are incapable of appreciating poetry. There "was once a mathematical tutor in one of our great universities who was in the habit of boasting that be neither knew nor cared to know anything about poets or poetry, and considered it all "a lot of unpractical rot." A certain brother tutor was very anxious to convert him to the admiration of fine poetry, and by way of accomplishing this gave him the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" to read. The mathematician took it up aod beg?n to read aloud, thus: "Half a league, half a league, half a league," then he baDged the book dowD, exclaiming, impatiently, "Well, if the fool meant a league and a half, why on earth didn't he 9ay so?" How Old Is He??It became necessary, in order to render a boy witness competent, to prove that he had reached the age of 10 years, aDd his mother, an Irish woman, was called for that purpose. "How old is your son John ?" quoth the lawyer. "Indade, sir, I dunno, but I think he's not tin yit," was the reply. "Did you make no record of his birth ?" "The prast did, in the ould country, where he was born." "How long after your marriage was that ?" "About a year; may be lias." "When were you married ?" "Dade, sir, I dunno." "Did you not bring a certificate of your marriage with you from the old country ?" "Hey, sir ? And what should I nade wid a certificate whin I bad the ould znon himself along wid me?" No further questions were asked. A Little Too Smart.?An Irishman's idea of what constitutes a successful stratagem is sometimes most amusing. "And how is your wife after the weddin' an all ?" inquired Mr. Murphy 1 of his friend, Mr. Doolan, whose daughter had been married two days before. I "She's well enough, exceptin' that she's grievin' over a pair of illigant new kid gloves that got lost on her that evenin'," responded Mr. Doolan. "She's feelin' bad about thim, but I've advertised in the paper, and I think she'll get them back befoor long. They cost Mrs. Doolan $2.45." "Ain't you afraid whoiver got thim will be slow to answer the advertisement?" inquired Mr. Murphy. "It's mesilf that knew how to fix that," returned Mr. Doolan. "I advertised thim illigant gloves as 'an owld cotton pair, burrstin' away at the seams, and worth nobody's keepin'!' " fc&~ An oldish couple, who bad come in by the Erie road, were crossing on a Pavonia ferryboat recently, when the wife asked her husband about the time of day. It was about two o'clock by the right time, but he looked at ' his big silver watch, and replied that it was three. "But they said we'd get nhnut two." she protested. "Train might be late." "It wasn't quite two by the clock in the depot." He took out his bull's eye again for another look, held it up to his ear to see if it was going, and then suddenly exclaimed : "Oh, pshaw ! I'm an hour ahead. I've had her set for the hired man to get up by, and forgot to turn 'er back." VST Old Sam Kalleton was doubtless one of the most ard> nt legislators known to the history of Arkansas. Every bill introduced by a well dressed man he looked upon with suspicion, and never failed to suggest an amendment. One morning, after a night's carousal, he entered the legislative hall just as the chaplain was asking Divine aid. The old man took a chew of tobacco and listened attentively until the chaplain closed his petition with an effective recitation of the Lord's prayer. "Mr. Speaker," said the old man, arising, "I move to strike out the words 'daily bread' and insert 'as much bread as may be necessary for twenty days.' We have already done enough for the flood sufferers." Effectively Told.?Servant?0, Miss, that Mr. Borem do be eomin' here again. There's no use tellin' hiui y'r not at home, fur he'll just push past me an' say he'll wait till yez do come back. Miss Beauti?Tbsn, for mercy's sake tell him plainly that I'm engaged. Do it in such a way that he'll conclude to leave. Servant?Yes, mum. Mr. Borem fa miuute later)?Is Miss Beauti at home? Servant?Yes, sor, but she do be ingaged ; an' the felly she's engaged to do be waitin' in the pailer fur yez wid a club.?New York Weekly. W3T Citizen?What do you want now ? My wife gave you a pie and one of my old vests just now. Aren't you satisfied yet? Tramp? Sst! Speak low ! I don't want the lady to hear it, but I've brought back a $10 bill I found in the vest. Here it is. "You are an honest man. Why didn't you keep the money?" '"Well, you see, after I'd tackled the pie I got to tbinkin' it all over, an' my conscience hurt me. You'll have to eat them pies as long as you live. I won't. Besides my sympathy I haint got noth ing to give you but the $10, unless you want the vest back !" IST "I'll teach you how to tear your pants !" said an irate parent swinging a strap; "I'll teach you." "Don't bit me pa; I know how already. Just look at 'em !" Wayside ?atherinys. t&" "Stick to me closely," said the envelope to the stamp. "By gum, I will!" replied the stamp. V8T By a judicial decision in a New York court, tobacco is held to be an article of necessity rather than a luxury. ti&T In California the railroads co-operate with the people by carrying road material at actual cost of transportation. S8T In the Rocky Mountain ranges there are about 2,000,000 wild horses which anybody can have for the catchine. Pair A young woman of Hillsboro, N. H., finished a piece of funcy work, in which, by actual count, there were 316,935 stitches. 8?" "Jones is a sly dog," remarked Aiken. "He always has something up bis sleeve." "Has, eh ; what is it?" "The seam." I@T When a man is sure i hat bis friends never talk about him behind his back, it is sure that all his friends are dead, says the Sumerville Journal. P&T One hundred years ago a man was arrested in London for wearing a tall silk hat, the first article of headgear of that kind ever seen in the world. PS" A Boston antiquarian has in bis posession a bottle of the tea which, ou the night of December 16, 1773, was emptied from the British vessel by the Boston Tea Party. PS" The man who cau't afford a new dress for his wife and books for the boys and girls, often has no difficulty in finding money for tobacco and whisky. PS" The secretary of war is to have a special flag to be displayed wherever he is present in his official capacity. It is a blood red flag with eagles and things on it. P&- A man will die for want of air in five minutes, for waDtof sleep in 10 days, for want of water in a week, and for want of food at varying periods, dependent on circumstances. V&T A Kansas young man has caused the arrest of a girl on the charge that she "did suddenly, forcefully and in^ tentionally hug him, thereby causing him great confusion and mental anguish." t&T The average man takes five and a half pounds of food and drink each day, amounting to one ton of solid and liquid nourishment annually. In 70 years he eats and drinks 1,000 times his own weight. VST "William," said the teacher, "can you tell me anything about the shape of the earth ?" "Only what my father found out in the newspaper." "What is that?" "He says it's in mighty bad shape just at present." tiST "There is no occasion for you to envy me," said the prosperous person ; ????? f*?aiiKloo oe vaii " "T X uavc oa uuauj m vu u?vu wu j vu( _ allow you do, mister," admitted Dismal Dawson ; "but the difficulty with me is that I aiu't got nothing else." 8?* At Coggins' mill, near Sisson, Cal., the loggers cut a tree a short time ago which was estimated to be just 404 years of age. It was 8 feet in diameter aud produced 15,000 feet of lumber. t&T An exchange tells of the pitiful case of two young men, one of whom "has married a girl who can cook, and thinks she can play the piano," while the other "has married a girl who can play the piano, and thinks she can cook. t8T An Oregonian has devised an open-top thimble containing a small sponge, to be placed on the finger and used as a moistener in sealing envelopes. Once moistened the sponge may be used on many envelopes. I?* In India there are 100,000 boys and 627,000 girls under the age of 14 who are legally married, while 8,600 boys and 24,000 girls who have not attained the 4ge of 4 are under marriage bonds as arranged by their parents. (6?* Ail animals, domestic ones included, become restless before a storm. Cats and dogs scratch and move about, while their fur looks less bright and glossy than usual. It is always a sure sign of rain when horses and cattle scratch their necks, and sniff the air. tffir The six wealthiest women in the world are said to be Senora Isidora Cousino, $200,000,000; Hetty Green, $50,000,000; Baroness Burdett-Couts, $20,000,000; Mme. Barrios, $15,000,000; Miss Mary Garrett, $10,000,000; ?ff? cinnnnonn ITU'S. ?T UlCOIVOj f AVjUVUJVVVI 8&F The state of Maine gives official employment to a photographer who devotes his time to securing enticiug views of the sporting regions of the state and distributing them broadcast throughout the rest of the Union as advertisements. "Step right in, ladies and gentlemen !" cried the showman. "Step right in, and see the educated pig add and subtract!" "Pshaw !" interrupted Farmer Backlots. "My old hog at home has got way over to square root." tSST The Cuban tobacco yield the past year has been 75,000 bales, instead of 500,000 bales, the yield the year before. The sugar crop has been reduced to one-fourth its former size, and will be smaller the coming year. ti&F A Kentucky man has named his children as follows: The oldest, Daniel Prophesier Yancaster Bustersquire Hobbob Bush; the secoud, Charles William Henry Harrison Dalton Houston Austin Bush; and the youngest, John Cornelius Edward Vanderbilt Bush. SSy Sacred concerts, as they are termed, are given at the Chinese theatre in Boston, on Sunday evening, and a placard bearing this carefully worded announcement is posted at the door: "This being of a religious nature, no Americans will be admitted ; only Chinamen and their families." ?he ??onj ?cllcr. TRAGEDY OF ROWM'sllI Grewsome Story of a Kentucky Murder and Its Consequences. Correspondence of The Globe-Democrat. Lawrenceburg, Ky., March 11.? Several miles southwest of here, near Bardstowu, at the junction of the Springfield and Loretto turnpikes, is a grewsome spot, given a wide berth by the superstitious, as the ghosts that are alleged to yet lurk there recall vividly a revolting crime of the long ago, ii-Ki/.li halt i?o narullpl nnlv in lhl> luiW famous Pearl Bryan murder, that Jackson and Walling were hung for. It is a steep hill, probably a quarter of a mile in length by 50 yards in width, kjiown as "Pottershop Hill." Com posed chiefly of yellow clay, it is a dreary and desolate looking place. The hill is hounded on the north and east by pikes above mentioned, and on the west by Rowan's creek, a goodsized stream, which, in the early days of the century, furnished power for a fulling mill owned by Judge John Rowan, in ante-bellum days a United States senator, and noted as a lawyer and statesman. At the top of the hill, and extending far to the southward, is a dense growth of cedars. In the early days of the present century there stood at the foot of the Pottershop Hill a large weatherboarded log house, which was occupied by Walter Hays and family. Hays opern kKt/ilromit K ok/tn onrl u Q t ko nlil ?icu a uiov,ivoiii,iu """) ? state road ran in a few yards of the place, be did a lucrative business. Years afterwards the old house was purchased by one Joseph Price and converted into a pottershop, for which purpose it was used until the outbreak of 'the civil war, when it was torn dowu to prevent the federal authoiities from using it as a smallpox hospital for soldiers as they had planned to do. The stone foundation and a few moldering logs are all that remain of the old building. After the house fell into Price's possession, grewsome stories became curreut among the Negro laborers and the whites in the neighborhood of a headless woman who would nightly emerge from the cedar thicket at the top of the hill and carefully make her way along the cliffs that bordered the creek to the corner of the old pottershop, where she would, after pausing a moment, disappear entirely from view. Price's Negro laborers were nearly frightened to death by the uncanny appari tion, and it was with difficulty that be compelled them to work in the shop after night. These Negroes knew of the horrible murder that had been committed there, and it required but little imagination to make a ghost stalk abroad at midnight's hour. The story of the crime was well known to the generation that has all but passed away, and in this way it has been handed down to this period. Nancv Havs. the onlv daughter of Walter Hays, was a beautiful girl; slender and graceful, with a delicate wild-rose complexion and violet eyes. As was natural, she had many suitors for her hand, but the favored one was Amos Molloy, the foreman of Judge Rowan's mill. Noah Matheney, also employed in the mill, was deeply in love with Nancy, but his attentions were obnoxious to her, and she had on more than one occasion given him so to understand. One day Nancy Hays came to the mill and engaged in a long conversation with young Molloy, the favored one, during which a little lover's quarrel arose. He was seen to gesture angrily, and several bystanders heard him say to the girl : "Very well, then ; you will be sorry for this. Mark well what I say." Thus they parted. This was in the morning. At dusk that evening a number of people saw Amos and Nancy together, walking toward the strip of forest that bordered the creek near the mill. At 10 o'clock that night an old farmer living a short distance in the country dashed into Bardstowu with the horrible intelligence that a young girl had been murdered on the clifls near Rowan's mill. An excited crowd surged to the place indicated, and, near the edge of a high cliff, overlooking the stream of water, the dead body of Nancy Hays was found, dreadfully hacked and bruised, and her bead severed from her shoulders. A terrible hush fell upon the crowd as they gazed upon the spectucle. The silence was broken by Noah Matheney (Molloy's rival), who stepped to the side of the dead girl, and lifted a bloody haudkerchief from the ground. "Perhaps this may give us a clew," he said ; aud holding the linen where the light of the moonjcould fall upon it he scanned it closely for some name or initial. Suddenly bis face brightened, and holding the handkerchief high in the air he exclaimed : "I find in one comer of this handkerchief?which is a gentleman's?two letters, 'A. M.' " Then pausing and glancing around, he added, with great significance : "Where is Amos Molly ?" "Yes; where is Amos Molloy ?" the crowd repeated, and every eye searched every face; but they found not what they sought. Molloy was not there. Then some remembered his augry words to Nancy Hays that morning; others of seeing them afterward together, going in the direction of the woods. A shout of rage rent the air, and loud were the curses heaped upon the absent man. While this scene was being enacted a blood-stained and apparently halfstunned man staggered into the open porch of a farm house a mile away and, rousing the inmates, asked to be allowed to rest. This was Amos Molloy, and here he was found a short time afterward by a body of angry men. He was taken to where the gory coprse of Nancy Hays was lying. Throwing himself upon the body he raved like a man bereft of his mind. It was with difficulty that lit* was torn away ami dragged under th? branches of a huge oak tree. Here a rope was tiirowii over an outstretching limb, and a noose adjusted to the man's neck. He was then giveu a few [ minutes in which to explain his terrible conduct. In the shadow of death and without a tremor io his voice, the loomed man told his story. He said that he and Nancy were engaged to he married ; that they had quarreled because she hud wished to attend a dance in a neighboring county against his will; that they had made it up a short time afterward ; that he meant nothing by the threat. In the evening they walked toward the wood ; when near a bluff on the roadside a masked milr. leaped from the bushes and assaulted Naucy, hacking her with uu ax. Id endeavoring to defend her he was himself struck several times, and then hurled from the bluff. He was rendered uucouscious by the blows and the fall, und must have lain lor some time. In a half unconscious state he had wandered to the farm bouse where he was found. Of course no one believed his story., and williDg hands seized the rope, and Molioy was hung until life was extinct. This was the first lynching that ever oc curred iu Nelson. Years passed away. Noah Mathe ney went to the west, and was never heard from. Walter Hays, the heartbroken father, moved to the "Yellow Banks,'' uow Owensboro, Ky., where he died, and the remainder of his fumily was scattered far and wide. One stormy night in the spring of 1830, a horseman galloped up to the minister's door and bade him hurry to the office of Dr. Harrison ; a man had been thrown from his horse, and laydying there, and bad requested the presence of a preacher. What happened afterward is taken almost veru_.:_ r .1? ,.1,1 ?i??. UCI 11LU II UIIJ I/IIC UIII uci^juiau ouiaij "I found the man stretched upon a mattress on the floor of the doctor's office. The physician was bending over him, and upon my entrance informed him that -the minister had arrived. I knelt by the man's side and took his clammy hand in mine. His face was bruised and mangled in'a dreadful manner. There was nothing about hitn that I recognized. He was an entire stranger to me. 'My man,' I said, 'what can I do for you ?' 'I am dying,' he said, 'and I want to make a confession to you. Do you think that will help me any in the other world ?' I made him an appropriate answer and urged him to talk. He then narrated what is put down here, speaking rapidly for one in his condition : " 'Years ago there yvas a murder? an awful murder?committed out yonder on the cliffs by Rowan's mill. The victim was Nancy Hays. She had had two lovers?Amos Molloy and Noah Matheney. She loved Molloy, but did not even like Matheney. He knew it, for she had told him so a few days before ber death, when he had asked her to marry him. He was jealous of Mollov and longed for revenge. His time came much sooner than he expected. Molloy and Nancy quarrelled at the mill one morning. That evening they went walking together. Matheney masked himself and followed them. They were a good distance ahead of him, and darkness was fast coining on. Secreting himself in some bushes by the roadside, he waited for them to return. When they did so, Matheney assaulted Nancy with an ax, hacking her to death. Molloy, taken by surprise, could do nothing, and he was hurled from the cliff.' "Here the dying man paused and gasped for breath. The storm without still raged; the rain beat violently against the windowpanes; the wind would roar around the house in fitful gusts and die away among the distant hills, with a moan that was almost human, and more than one shudder convulsed my frame as I listened to the dying man's dread recital. Finally, he continued : " 'It was easy for Matheney to steal back in time to take an active part in the search for the murderer. Molloy was at once suspected, and through Matheney's maneuvering he was arrested and hanged. After this Matheney went to the west; and after years of torturing remorse, something compelled him to return to his native town. Minister, do you believe the dead are ever allowed to return to this world ? No ! Well, I do.' "Another pause, and then?'In returning to this town Matheney's road led hira by the place where the murder had been committed. He willingly would have avoided it, but he could not. The same incentive that caused bim to return berealso Compelled bim to pass that fatal spot. Tonight when the storm was at its height he was on that spot. Oh, how it did rain. How the thunder crashed, and how the wind roared ! It would have been dark, too, but for the incessant dashing of lightning! Matheney's heart was frozen with terror. Suddenly his horse stopped?right on that bloody spot?with a snort of terror, and stood trembling in every limb, and from out the bushes?the same bushes from whence Matheuey had stepped with bis murderous ax years before?came Amos Molloy. Yes. Amos Molloy, for the lightning trembled and played about him, and he was as plainly visible as he was that night when be was dragged under the tree to die the death of a felon. How white and determined his face looked, as be stretched forth a shadowy hand and grasped the bridle on Matheney's horse and led him to the very edge of the cliff'. Matheney was paralyzed i with terror and could make no re- 1 sistance. The lightning still blazed, | and the phantom, turning back a white, revengeful face, led the horse i with his rider over the bluff and they were dashed far down into the darkness below.' Again the dying man j paused and lay almost motionless. Suddenly?'Minister,' and he almost shrieked. 'I am Noah Matheney and I killed Nancy Hays! See ! See ! There she is now !" Raising himself hull wuv up, he cried again in piteous voice, 'God have mercy on me, and fell back upon the oratress dead." A half-mile south of the old pottershop is a shelving cliff, which rises to a considerable height above Rowan's creek. The surroundings are bare and drear, the locality presenting a very forbidding appearance. This cliff is the place where Nancy Hays met her bloody and untimely end, and from whence Noah Metheney was led to his death by the shadowy hands of Amos Molloy. The cliff is known as "Murderer's Rock." On the north side of the Springfield turnpike, on the farm of P. H. Bowman, is a giunt oak tree, which is pointed out as the one upon which Amos Molloy was handed for a crime lie did not commit. The tree and the immediate locality are regarded as being cursed from the fact that the old oak was blasted by lightning years ago, and that within the memory of the oldest citizen no verdure has since grown within a radius of 30 feet of the tree. Iu addition to this, two men met untimely deaths within its shadow. Oue, a young man, accidentally killed himself while squirrel hunting; the other, a man of mature years, was throwu from bis horse aud his neck broken. This tree is only a short distance from and nearly opposite the site of the old pottershop. Some distance further up the Springfield turnpike, on the farm of J. F. Wood, is an old, neglected burying ground, within whose precincts are two sunken and. grass grown graves, sjde by side. They are marked by limestone rocks, bearing the initials, "A. M." and "N. H." These graves are reputed to he the last resting places of the ill-starred lovers, Amos Molloy and Nancy Hays. 3111VER All CHAflUSTOI O. TIME TABLE oftheOhio River and Charleston Railway company, to take effect Monday, January 4th, at 8.00 a. ra. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. GOING SOUTH No. 12. | Leave Marlon - 1 80 pm Leave Rutherfordton 8 05 pm Leave Forest City - 8 85 pm Leave Henrietta 4 00 pm Leave Mooresboro 4 15 pm Leave Shelby ... 5 30 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 5 45 pm Leave Earls 5 56 pm Arrive at Blacksburg 6 10 pm ' No. 82. | No. 84. Dally Dally Except Except . Snnday. Snnday. Leave Blacksburg 8 80 am 8 40 am Leave Smyrna. 8 50 am 9 05 am Leave Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am Leave Yorkvllle 9 85 am 10 20 am Leave TIrzah..-. 9 47 am 10 45 am a CI am lA Unm UCavOilonr[A/lb a ui ?IU IV vy Hiu Leave Rock Hill 11 00 am 12 5o pro Leave Leslies 11 13 am 1 15 ppa Leave Catawba Junction.. 11 30 am 1 50 pro Leave Lancaster 12 05 pm 8 55 pro Leave Kershaw 12 45 pm 5 80 pm Arrive at Camden 1 80 pm 6 50 pm QQiKG~yoRTH. I NoT~38~| No. 35. Dally Daily Except Except Bnnday. Sunday. Leave Camden 2 30 pm 8 30 am Leave Kershaw 3 15 pm 10 45 am Leave Lancaster 3 55 pm 12 05 pm Leave Catawba Junction 4 80 pm 1 50 pm Leave Leslies 4 38 pm 2 00 pm Leave Rock Hill 4 54 pm 4 00 pm Leave Newport 5 09 pm 4 20 pm Leave Tirzah 5 15 pm 4 40 pm Leave Yorkville 5 80 pm 5 40 pm Leave Sharon 5 45 pm| 6 05 pm Leave Hickory Grove.... 6 00 pmi 6 30 pm Leave Smyrna 6 10 pm 6 40 pm Arrive at Blacksburg 6 30 pm; 7 10 pm No. 11. | Leave Klacksburg 8 00 am leave Earls 8 20 am Leave Patterson Springs 8 30 am Leave Shelby 9 10 am Leave Moo res bo ro 9 50 am Leave Henrietta 10 00 am Leave Forest City 10 20 am Leave Rutherfordton 10 60 am! Arrive at Marlon 12 20 pm CONNECTIONS. No. 32 has connection with Southern Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at Catawba Junction. Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers. Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion with Southern Railway. At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek and London, trains stop only on signal. S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. SAM'L HUNT. General Manager. CABOLIKA & IBBTHWESTEBIi RT G. W. F. HARPER, Pres. Schedules in Effect from and After February 7,1896. CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. GOING WORTH. | NO 10. | NO BO. Leai e Chester 6 10 ami 8 30am Leave Lowrysville 6 36 am j 9 05 am Leave McConnellsvllle (?)am 9 39am Leave Guthrlesvllle .... 7 02 ami 9 56am Leave Yorkvllle | 7 22amll0 50aro Leave Clover ; 7 52 a m 11 33 am 1 Leave Gastonla 8 27am; 150pm Leave Llncolnton ! 8 45 a m 3 16 pm Leave Newton 10 23 am 4 45 pm Leave Hickory 11 10 am 6 15 pm , Arrive Lenoir 12 17 pm 8 00 pm GOING 8QPTH. | No. 9. | No 61. Leave Lenoir 8 30pm, 6 30 am Leave Hickory 4 34pm! 8 10 a ro j Leave Newton 5 14 p m 9 10 am Leave Llncolnton 6 00 pm 10 40 am Leave Gastonla 6 57 p m 1 00 p m Leave Clover 737pm 2 02pm Leave Yorkvllle 806pm 3 10 pm Leave Guthrlesvllle ... 8 29pm 3 40pm 1 Leave McConnellsvllle 8 38 pm 3 55 pm Leave Lowrysville 9 00pm 4 25pm Arrive Chester 9 32 p m 5 10 p m ; Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and . run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 50 and 61 carry passengers and also run daily except Sunday. There is good connection at Chester with the G. C. & N. and the C. C. & A., also L & C. R. R.; at . Gastonia with the A. <ft C. A. L.; at Lin- colnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. Parties desiring tickets to all points North, East, South and West, will find it i much to their advantage to call at or cor- < respond with the General Office of the ; Carolina and North-Western Railway at Lenoir, N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt. 1 S. T. PENDER, G. F. and P. A., Lenoir, N. C. A $1,000 WORD. ' Two Papers at the Price of One and a Chance at $1,000, Additional. The Third Missing Word Contest of * The Atlanta Weekly Constitution, In Which $1,000 Will Be Distributed to Successful Contestants on the 1st of May. The Atlanta Weekly Constitution has inaugurated its third oonsecutive "missing word" contest, which began on the 1st of March and close on the 1st of May? sixty days. It publishes the cashier's receipt for the special deposit account of $1,000 to be paid to the person, or persons, who, in subscribing to The Weekly Constitution, names correctly the missing jvord in the following sentence: ? ? ... -. ? ?ne tvtgnc or ? is me very essence of the constitution." The sentence is taken from a historical publication, and the sentiment to wtiich it gives expression is that of an eminent writer. Bv special arrangement with The Weekly "Constitution, that great paper and The Enquirer can be obtained for one , Sear at almost the price of one paper. # Tot only that: but under our arrangement with The Weekly Constitution every person who takes advantage of this clubbing proposition, subscribing for both papers, will be entitled to a guess at the missing word. All clubbing subscriptions should be sent to The Enquirer with each subscriber's guess at the missing word plainly written. The guess and the name and address of each subscriber will be forwarded by us to The Constitution. * The Constitution's first "missing word contest" closed on the 1st of January, and but one person, Mr. M. L. Brittain, a hardworking school teacher, guessed the missing word, receiving therefor a check for 91.000. Its second contest closed on the 1st of March, and The Weekly Constitution of Mouday, March 8tb, will contain the announcement of the awards in which 91.000 in cash is to be distributed ( among the successful guessers in that contest. The readers of The Enquirer who subscribe jointly to it and to The Weekly Constitution have free access into the third contest, just opened; and it may be J that some of them will get the 91.000 to be distributed on the 1st of May. The only condition of the contest is that every guesser must be a subscriber ; and taking advantage of The Constintion's offer we present this opportunity to all who wish to subscribe to both papers. Every person should have bis county paper and one great general newspaper; and The vveeKiy ^onsiuuuon, wnn a circniauon of 156,000, occupies the unique distinction of being the the greatest American weekly newspaper. DaT THE ENQUIRER and The Constitution will be furnished one year for $2.50. - aJ A Snare And Delusion* IF you have taken out a life insurance policy in an Old Line high price "level premium" company with the idea that you would at sometime in the future, while you yet drew the breath of life, re- ' j ceive substantial cash returns or "big dividends," we are here to tell you that you will be disappointed. Your policy will prove a snare and a delusion. It is all right for protection for your wife and children, as they will receive the face of the policy in case of your death, as they would also in a company that charges you half as much. A life insurance policy is a fraud as an investment for a living man, and is the greatest blessing of which we or anybody else has any knowledge as a means of protecting the widow and orphans, after the breadwinner has been removed by death. If You Will Lay Aside A Your Prejudice AND COME to us with a desire to learn why it is not to your interest to carry high priced insurance, and how we can furnish you just as safe insurance for at least 40 per cent, a year less than the other costs, we are sure we can show you fa ttaii? ootSafaAtinn thaf tVio \(TT'PI T A T. W\? JUII1 oavici(t?bi\ru wuuv vuv 4'* v & w RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION of New York does business on a plan that is absolutely safe, and will protect your loved ones even better tnan they now are, at even a greater cost to to you. Of course if you are too prejudiced to investigate and imagine that the t high price you are now paying makes 1 your insurance better or safer, or better than it would be at less cost, we can't do anything for you ; but will be forced to let you go on until time, the crucial tester, convinces you, against your will, that you have been deceived. t If You Have No Insurance, And think you should have, we would be > pleased to explain the Mutual Reserve System to you. The Mutual Reserve is the largest and strongest natural premium company in the world, and the fourth largest of ANY KIND. It has paid about $550,000 to the widows and orphans of deceased policy-holders in South Carlina alone, during the past twelve years, and if all the insurance now carried in old line companies in the state was in the Mutual Reserve, not less than $400,000, which now annually goes into the coffers of the former, would ne left in the state to help relieve the bard times about which we hear so much. SAM M. <fc L. GEO. GRIST, General Agents, Yorkville, S. C. TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE. THE undersigned offers for sale, the HOUSE AND LOT in Yorkville, known as the "Meek House," occupied by Mr. O. E. Grist and situated opposite the O. R. <ft C. R. R., depot. The house contains six large rooms and a basement. The house is in good repair, and contiguous to water-works fire-plugs. On the premises is a well of excellent freestone water. Also, a cottage on Madison street. It contains four rooms. The house is in good repair and on the premises is a well of good freestone water. L. M. GRIST. January 20 6 tf MONEY TO LEND. PARTIES desiring to borrow money can be accommodated by applying to the undersigned at his office, No. 5 Law Range, Yorkville, S. C. W. W. LEWIS, Attorney. February 27 17 s 3m THETWICE-A-WEEK ENQUIRER FURNISHES up-to-date news, fresn and crisp every Wednesday and Saturday. See your nearest clubmaker. ?hc UotktiiUr (Inquirer. Published Wednesday and Saturday. 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