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tumorous department. He Apologized.?"Many funny things happen ou the big sound steamers which never find their way into print," said a traveling man, in a hotel lobby on upper Broadway. "The last trip I made down to Boston was characterized by one of the funniest things that I ever ran across. There was aboard a New England spinster, one of the most sour faced, rasping-voiced, disagreeable old females that I have ever seen. She was always giving trouble, aud kept the poor luggage stewaru vuusiauuj m her beck and call. At last the man lost his temper, and told her to go the devil. "The lady, in a high state of indignation, reported the man to the captain. That gentlemen told the steward he must find out the lady and apologize to her. "The steward consented to do so. At luncheon he appeared, and accosted the first lady at the table thus: " 'Were you the lady I told to go to the devil ?' "'No,' said this lady, and several others, all equally surprised aud amused. "At last, by a seried of separate interrogations, he discovered the right lady. She responded, with an indignantly virtuous air: "'Yes, I am the lady.' " 'Ah, then," said the steward, 'the captain told me to tell yo.u that you needn't go.' " VST Five-year old Dorothy goes to Sunday school, and always learns the golden text. Sometimes her mother is astonished at her application of these bits of scripture. She was allowed to go to one of the neighbors to play one afternoon, and looked very sweet in her fresh dainty gown. It was only a little while, however, before she ran home, besmeared with mud from tip to toe. "Oh, Dorothy!" mamma exclaimed, in a discouraged tone, "what shall I do with you ?" "I'm sorry ; I didn't mean, to mamma." "But just look at your clothes, child ! What am I going to do with you?" "Well," responded Dorothy, remembering her text for the previous Sunday, "Man looketh on the outward appearauce, but the Lord looketh on the heart." Looked Safer.?The following incident occurred some years ago, when stage traveling in the White Mountain region was more common than now. Oue very dark and cloudy night, one of the well-known Jehus was driving his stage, both lamps brilliautly lighted, and hearing the galloping of an approaching horseman, pulled up his team to let him pass. In another minute there was a tremendous collision with his leaders, and quickly getting down from bis box, he found the rider, an Irishman, had ridden squarely in between the leaders and all three horses were floundering in the mud. After a good deal of work the animals were at last disentangled, and then the following dialogue took place : Driver?How in the thunder came you in there? Didn't you see my lights? Pat?Faith I did ; an' thought I'd go atween 'em. Bobbie's Prayer.?Tbe mioister of a prominent church, who was about to leave home for a few days, was bidding good-bye to his family. When he came to Bobbie, he took the little fellow in his arms and said : "Well, Bobbie, I want you to be a good boy aud take care of mamma." "Bobbie promised, aud the father departed, leaving him with a very large appreciation of his weighty responsibility. When night came and he was called to say his prayers, the young guardiau expressed himself as follows: "Ob Lord, please protect papa, and Brother Dick, and Sister Alice, and Aunt Mary, and all the little Jones boys and Bobbie. But you needn't trouble about mamma for I'm going to look after her myself." He Kept His Word.?"My dear," said a young and fashionable New York lady to her plain old-fashioned hushand, "I hope you are not going to talk at dinner before all the company about how you went barefooted when a boy. Uverylime we nave company you sbock the people by talking about your bare feet when you were a boy." "My dear, I'll not mention my bare feet." He kept his promise. He did not say a word about his bare feet, but he talked long and eloquently about having beeu obliged to walk backward out of cburcb on oue occasion, owing to the dilapidated condition of his unmentionables consequent on bisindigeut condition. ? ? ? He Gave Himself Away?She never knew he was only a waiter, for he had basely told her that he was a gentleman of independent means. One hot day they were sitting in Central Park. He felt very drowsy ; she felt very loving. "John," she whispered, "do you love me?" "Eh? What?" opening his eyes; "love you? Of course, I do, darling !" and again his eyes closed. "How much ?" she asked, and he dreamily said : "Roas' beef, fifteen ; coffee, five; pie, five ; twentyfive cents, please." His head dropped, and he begau to snore, while she stole away muttering, "Ugh! a common ?t>~, ? vraiici, ud x uu autx. Not- Easily Dissuaded.?Little Jonny?Mamma, won't you get me a double-ripper sled? Mamma?I knew a little boy who had a sled of that kind, and the first time he used it he crushed three of his fingers so that they had to be taken off. How would you like that? Little Johnny (anxious for sled)? Well, I think it would be sort o' convenient not to have so many finger nails to clean. International jCrssons. THESUKDAY SCHOOL. , i LESSON II, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 9. Text of the LenNon, John xll, 1-11. ^ Memory Vernci, 1-3?Golden Text, Mark xlv, S?Coininentnry Prepared 1 hv the Rev. D. 2)1. StenniH. [Copyright. 1S99, by D. M. Stearns.] 1. ' Then Jesus, six days beforo the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus ( was which had been dead, whom Ho raised from tho dead." The sisters hod been ^ caused to forget their misery and to re- , member it as waters that pass away. Their sorrow had been turned into joy s (Job xi, 16; John xvi, 20). Resurrection I will heal every sorrow for the believer and c bring us body and soul to be forever with , the Lord (I Thess. Iv, 16, 17), and we t shall then see in that sense nil present afflictions are light and but for a moment, ^ and how they have all been working out for us a far more exceeding and eternal [ weight of glory (II Cor. iv, 17, 18). All ' the Bible records of the sorrows of the C saints have been written for our instruc- t tion that we through patience and comfort \ of the Scriptures might havo hopo (Rom. t xv, 4). ' t 2. "There they made Him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of 1 them that sat at the table with Him." Wo 1 J -s x r nave no recoru 01 a Mugm uuvtuuw num Lazarus after he returned from the joys of s the spirit world to live again on this earth, f Perhaps his testimony would be the same f as that of Paul, that it was impossible for him to utter what he heard (II Cor. xii, 4). His life was now that of ono really risen from the dead, and it bore fruit to the glory of God, as we shall see, even though there is no record of any testimony from him. Martha is still serving as in Luke x, 40, but she is no longer cumbered. It is our privilego to servo rcstfully. 3. "Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair, and the house was filled with tho odor of the ointment." Thus she truly worshiped Him; she poured upon Him that which had cost her a great deal; she gavo unto Him that which naturally she would have used upon herself. One has said that in the three we have a full Christian life?in Lazarus a risen life, in Mary true worship, in Martha service without being cumbered. We must not confound this anointing with that in the houseof Simon the Pharisee (Luke vii, 37, 38), as the incidents and the people were altogether different. That was by a woman whose namo we know not. We have no right to suppose that she was Mary of I Magdala. In our worship may wo have the 6pirit of Mary of Bethany and of Da- g vid, who said that he would not offer to e the Lord that which cost him nothing (II c Sam. xxiv, 24). ( 4,5. "Why was not this ointment sold ^ for three hundred pence and given to tho poor?" Thus said Judas Iseariot, but the N other disciples also had indignation and r cuiit "To whnt. nnmnsfi is this waste?" t (Math, xxvi, 8.) When we with the whole heart worship Him and give Him our best, wo may expect that some will find fault. They always have and always will. Men may misjudge thy aim, think they havo cause for blame, say thou art wrong. Hold on thy quiet wuy. Heed not what men may say; Christ is the judge, not they Fear not; bo strong., A sincere desire to please Him will always find acceptance in His sight, even though the effort may bo poor. 6. "This he said not that he aired for the poor, but l>ecause ho was a thief and had the bag and bore what was put therein." This is most remarkable?that though Jesus knew that Judas was an evil one and a thief (chapter vi, 70), yet He suffered him to be their treasurer and put up with him so long. What long suffering patience, not human, but divino! And then to think that at the last He could allow Judas to kiss Him! It is too much for us! How could He suffer it? Ho has in all things left us an example that we should follow His steps, who when He was reviled reviled not again; when He suffered He threatened not (I Pet. ii, 2123). When wo have to do with wicked people, let us consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest wc Imj weary (Ileb. xii, 3). 7. "Then said Jesus. Let her nlono; against the day of My burying hath she kept this." He also said, "She hath wrought a good work upon Me; she did it for My burial" (Math, xxvi, 10, 12). "She hath done what she could; she is come aforehand to anoint My body to the burying" (Mark xiv, 8). The women who bought spices after He died and came to the ? sepulcher on the morning of tho third day 1 to anoint His dead body did not find a f dead body to anoint, but found a risen g -.i mu?.. jurist XO greet xuciu. x nej iiiuiiiiiAim j love, but not faith. Many manifested the fnith which workcth by love. 8. "For the poor always ye have with 1 you, but Me yo have not always." Mark > says that He added in connection with the r poor, "And whensoever yo will ye may 1 do them good" (Mark xiv, 7). The law g said, "The poor shall never cease out of ( the land" (Dent, xvi, 11), and concerning Israel in her timo of suffering for her sins the Lord said, "I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, ^ and they shall trust in the name of the c Lord" (Zeph. iii, 12). Such are spoken of e in Jus. ii, 5, as "the poor of this world, p rich in fuith-txnd heirs of the kingdom | which IIo hath promised to them that love Him." What an honor to 1x3 permitted to . do anything personally for our Lord, and He said that what Mary did would bo * spoken of in all the world for a memorial t of her (Mark xiv, 5)). c 9. "They came not for Jesus' sake ^ only." This is written of the Jews who came to see Lazarus,who in Jesus had raised from the dead. Does not the expression , describe many who attend public worship and possibly some who preach and teach t anil siinr (ip work in works that are irootl? t Let us always apply it first to ourselves? Am I doing everything for Jesus' sake only? 10. "But tho chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus xdso to death." Tho rich man in Luke xvi who finds himself in a place of torment is heard saying that if only one from tho dead will go to his brothers who are still on tho earth they will believe, but ho is told that if they will not hear Moses and tho prophets neither will they believe though one roso from tho dead. 11. "Because that by reason of him many of the Jews ent n,way and believed on Jesus." If people could seo in Christians tho reality of a Christlike life, whilo many would be provoked to hate such a life, yet there might bo many more believing on Him. There are four gospels in the Biblo whieh are not much rend, but there is a fifth gosjjel which is being constantly read, and that is the gospel according to you. i BACK FROM CUBA, Sergeant Deal Now Knows How to Appreciate America. interesting Incilents of a NotaKe Trip. low the Custom Officers Were Hoodwinked?Fumigation of Baggage?Merry Men on the Train?Now Cmnlortamy Settled In Camp. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. On Board Special Train, Be.ween Waycross and Augusta, Ga., Vlarch 25, 1899.?Back in the states, ipeeding swiftly through a civilized and on a civilized train, with "God's :ouutry" before our eyes, and the nagic word "home" ringing in our :ars. Away from the horrible sights and oul odors of Cuba. From a devasta ed country and a degenerate people; )ack to the land of our birth, where we :an drop the "sign manual" and converse in grand old English ; where we vill be treated with less civility, but nore honesty ; and where a happy, joutented people are living bountifully ipon the results of their industry? lpon the inexhaustable wealth of their sountry. Away from the scenes of itarvation, cruelty and oppression; rom the land of strong, numerous ortifications and fine public works, >uilt by a cruel, remorseless eerviude of worse than slavery back to America, our country, where an iuelligent people are faithfully workng out, and living out, the new ievelopment of the wise principles Kif Kq fathflPfl Thiy UIU UUVTU *JJ vuw mvuviwi _ ?. _ s something of what the men are hinking as we are rushing across Georgia tonight. It was on the morning of the 21st, hut there came a fleeting rumor that he continual efforts of Colonel Jones o get the regiment away from Cuba, >efore any serious sickness should oc:ur, had been successful. That afterioou we received an advice to get eady to move at once, and before light came the orders that the reginent would leave immediately in four letachments; the first, composed of lorapanies A and B, leaving the next lay, on the steamer Olivette, which )lics between Havana and Tampa. That night we packed, bag and bagcage and boxes. Plenty of boxes till:<1 with cigars, photographs and variiiis souvenirs and relics of our stay in }uba. The next morning, after piling ligh ten big four-mule army wagons vith our baggage, we started on the line mile march to and through Havaia to the wharf, where a tug took us >ut to the Olivette, which was lying >ut in the harbor. A few hours later and we were passng Morro Castle on the homeward lassage. Although we traveled in the teerage, a la Uucle Sam, our return, iompared to the trip over, was a very leligbtful pleasure cruise. The Olivette is one of the best and fastest loate in southern waters, and cuts the vaves with a scarcely perceptible roll. Very few of the men got sick on the rip over, and with them it was more lie effects of the vile cognac than seaickness. Their principal concern durug the entire passage was in regard o the quarantine and the custom louse officers. As to whether or not he disinfection process would ruin heir cigars, photographs, sandal wood, ans, etc., and as to whether, on ao:ouut of their being soldiers, the cusom house officers would allow their :igars to pass without the regular luty. The ship's crew aud passeujers were continually questioned ; but is some assured them favorably and ithers to the contrary, they were as nuch at sea as ever. I bad about a u ? ?#.? ?> ai> Kaqp/1 mucolf utifl ca uuu^auu UU uuu t ?4 Uijovii} . v vhen we got to Tampa I went to the :hief revenue officer and told him rankly that I had a number of cigars n ray baggage and desired to know f I would be allowed to pass them, ind if not bow much the duty would >e. "Whatdid they cost you a 100?" ie asked. "Well, about $1.50," I anwered, rating them very low. "Then," ie said, "they will cost $3.50 a 100 ariff, 35 cents on the dollar for interlel revenue and something else adralorem." Then I said, "I must buy ny cigars three times again," and as ie cruelly answered "yes," I turned md went down in the hold determined hat I should do no such a thing. We had arrived the night before at Cey West, where our baggage was to lave been quarantined ; but as the [uarantine laws had not yet gone into fleet, the officers managed to get it lassed through. And had we been an tour earlier in reaching Tampa, it vould have gotten through all right, or a telegram from the secretary of var, received after we arrived, orderid that it should all, excepting the irdnance and commissary supplies, be lisinfected. Now, when I left the revenue officer ind went down into the hold, the men tad begun to unload the ordnance and lommissary goods, putting tne rest 01 he baggage to one side. I was fully letermiued that my box should go hrough with the ordnance; but I vished it to appear, if caught, as if hrough mistake ; uot caring to lay nyself liable to an indictment for muggling or to a serious report from he military authorities, for I had minted on the box in big letters "ordjance," and then cancelled it by drawng a thin line through, and put "Deal" n small letters in an unconspicuous dace. Pretty soon the men came to ny box, and being up to such tricks, vere about to throw it to one side, vhen I said to one of them, "for God's ;ake send that box through. I've got ?80 worth of cigars in it." The box vas immediately thrown on the trucks ind hurried away. That night the rest of the baggage vas to be sent down to the quarantine station, and with a detail of 20 men? m 10 from each company?to rush it Tl through. My captain ordered me to send 10 of my best men in charge of a at non commissioned officer; but I was th very anxious to see the disinfecting ur process and so went along myself. After a hasty supper of hardtack and ra canned beef, we commenced loading of the baggage on the steamer that was fo to take it down. There was an im- ri1 mense amount of it, mostly heavy boxes; but the men went at it at a run, th working like niggers at a oorn-shuek- on ing, and soon had it aboard ; but the m ship did not leave. One of the custom house officers, ho who seemed very anxious that the de- H tail should not go with the baggage, ro came to us and said that the ship an would leave it there that night and fei bring it bark on its regular run the al next night; that it was entirely un- pr necessary for us to go, as they had er men to handle it; that we would have re to spend that night and the next day sii on an uninhabited island without food yc or shelter, etc.; but we told him that be we had been sent to rusb the baggage through and that we would be held hi responsible if we did not get it back in ca time for the special train, already de- ar layed one day, to leave the next morn- 'Q ing. so we prepared to remain with it. The captain of the ship then came ac to me and said that if I did not have 'n written orders from some grand mogul, 00 chief high muck-a-mnck, he positively refused to take a single man. I told him we were sorry to differ with him ; but we had orders to remain with the u baggage and would certainly do so. Things were getting pretty squally, so I sent one of the men for Colonel ^ . Thompson; but before he returned. ' plump little Dr. Aldree. of the board ? of health, came tripping down the ^ gangway with his three assistants, and ^ with his genial "Boys, the ship is ours! Take charge and let's have a good finAA II MMAM.iUiMM S, Ik A fV A(1 M (1 ^ nine, rvcivniinn i>uaup(rut vuv. , thenceforth we were honored gueRts. c Very soon the ship started on the au 40-mile run at a clippiner pace, making >e it in ahont two hnurs-and-a-half. Soon after starting, the genial little doctor came to me and said that he. had a little treat, for the hovp. and if I would arrange a table and call them v' together, he would hring it out. When . everything had been arranged, he P came smilinelv forth with two quart hottles of "Old Oscar Pepper." in .w which the men drank to his health a with a hearty good will. Then a Spnor P1 Garcia, a cigar manufacturer, hrought- "I out. a box of his choicest, cigars, and the u men smoked to Senor Garcia. Cuba and * the ciear trade, and then the captain, who. though gruff, turned out. to he an A No. 1 good fellow, set. us a bountiful VI spread to which the men, who had had only a hasty lunch for supper, did ample justice. And then aeain, just be- " fore starting on the return trip, the a little doctor, who was not going back with us, brought out two more quart * bottles of "Old Oscar Pepper," which . the men quickly disposed of. a| When we arrived at. the quarantine station, the gangway, which was about ' 15 feet long and 6 feet wide, was 1 quickly fixed; but as the dock was Ct much higher than the deck of the ves- P1 pel?it was at an angle of fully 45 degrees? made the unloading very " difficult; hut we had picked men. able ' and willine. and thev soon surmounted . all difficulties. Taking one of the t heavy trunks or boxes upon their w shoulder, they would make a dash tip 'H the gancwav. and gencrallv iuat reach ?' the dock hefnre their impetus cave out; hut. sometimes came sliding hack r1. to a chorus of hearty laughter. " * The knapsacks, hiankets and valises ' were packed in an air-tight room, the p door tightly closed and the aldehyde gas turned on until it was thick and ?.r dense on the inside. The cots were stacked in a lone swineing carrier which was run into the hie. round hoiler, about- 9 feet high and 30 feet P long. A current of steam was then et turned on until they were dampened, ' and then the temperature of the hoiW raised to 250 decrees Fahrenheit?38 'V degrees above the boiling point of water. The leather straps around the * cots were ruined, as would have been ' any buttons, woolen goods, etc., that m had been suhjected to the high ternperature. The trunks were set on end ' in a long line end the boxes neatly stacked, so that, each could be readily w gotten at. Several of the men were 1,1 then given braces and bits, and set to .** work boring small holes into the bottoms of the trunks and toward the .1 lower edge of the boxes. The doctor's 1S assistauts followed with their little t0 chemical engines, and inserting a tube w in the holes, turned ou the stifling 0 aldehyde gas until it began to escape P8 through the cracks of the boxes and Pf trunks. at The stuff was thoroughly fumigated. w The most thorough disinfection, one of a the assistants told me, that had ever been done at Tampa. The baggage was then quickly reloaded, and we ja gave three lusty cheers for the genial ^ little doctor as the boat started on the w futufn trin A fpw nf the men stretch ed out cots and lay down while the co rest gathered together in warm little "set-back" games, which continued until we arrived at Tampa, just after daylight, being up all night. After a little delay for breakfast, the fo two companies turned to with a will t0 and all the baggage was loaded on the re cars, and the traiu was about to pull out, when the chief revenue ollicer who e? had been nosing about in a car, ran nl amuck a big demijohn of the strong, ro sour Cuban molasses, and I suppose, taking it for smuggled rum, gruflly or- ~ dered Colonel Thompson to unload the baggage. This he firmly refused to do, telling him he bad tried to get some satisfaction from him the night before as to what be intended to do, and had spent an hour that morning looking for him. The men began to crowd around in a very excited manner, when the revenue officer, loosing his nerve, I suppose, muttered something about a telephone message and hastily went up stairs. Coming back in a few a inutes, he civilly informed Colonel boropson that he might go ahead. So our cigars got through all right, id I didn't pay that $60 duty on em, and I am oue of the many who e happy over it tonight. We have been speeding along at a ttliug pace all day, across the length Florida and almost across Georgia, r we must be near the Savannah yer. It is now about 10 o'clock, and alough I am feeling tired and worn it, sleep is out of the question, for the en are in high spirits ami it is utterly (possible to escape their good humor, tislerous laughter and rough jokes, ard-tack?no mean substitute for cks?are flying indiscriminately about id occasionally caicuiug suluc jjuui i llow full in the face, causing a gener-| outburst of hoarse laughter and apoval. The car just now is in a genal tumult. Some one buck in tbe ar has screwed up his courage to ig out "Wake up snakes and a git >ur pisen ; I've got 17 rattles and a itton, and I'm out for business," and out a dozen are dutifully pounding m into submission with haversacks, nteeus and knapsacks, while the rest e singing, yelliug, pranking and guyg each other unmercifully. Truly it is a happy home-coming, id although we have bad a big time Cuba, we are none the less glad to me. Augustus Deal. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. tnmary of the New* That Is Being Published by Exchanges. CHESTER ? The Lantern, March :: The directors of the Patterson brary association met at the resimce of Dr. G. B. White Thursday ening. Committees were appointed consider different classes of literare and suggest books. The board ill meet again next Thursday eveng to bear reports. When a list of ?oks has been agreed upon it will be bmitted to'jobbers for bids, and the is I will be accepted, and the books dered. It is probable that the libra will be in operation very soon. t a meeting of Jno. R. Culp Camp >us of Veterans, last night, officers ere elected for the year. Mr. A. M. iken was elected commandant in ace of J. H. Marion, Esq., who deiued re-election. The other officers ere re-elected. Colonel Arm>trong st Tuesday night, said it was approbate that the "Rebel rally" should be jened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Moftt, as all the old soldiers during the ar were "seeeders." Captain Geo. Gill, of Riehburg, died yesterday oruing about 3o'clock. Funeral serces were to be held today at 11 a. m., id the remains to be buried at Richlrg. He has been in bad health for me time. We learn that he was lout 72 years old. CHEROKEE?The Gaf&ey ledger, arch 28 : Captain J. ?. Bell was in orkville a few days ago ou professionbusiness. The first lot of forty, ' the cottages now being built by aker & Lemaster for the Galfuey anufacturing company, are nearing impletion. We learn that the commy will build 30 more this summer. Colonel Sam Jefl'eries has turned ;er his trained blood hounds to. SberThomas for the use of the couoty. he.se dogs were raised by Colonel 'fferies from fine stock and he says ill do iheir work right when an op-' >rtunity offers. John L. Alexlder, a young merchant of this city, is been appointed beer dispenser in alibiey by the county board of control, r. Alexander has not yet secured a iuse for the privilege ; but thinks he ill open on Limestone street. ev. F. C. Hickson has taken tempor y charge of the Mount Paran Bapit church in Cherokee township. Mr. icksou is one of the ablest preachers the state, and the Mouut Paran peoe will be fortunate if his previous igagement will allow him time to rve tln-m as a regular supply. 'e learn that the S. C. & G., people e succeeding well in securing the irht of way, both iu the city and uiuty, for their line of road froui io tn Qt.uriunhiii-ir The lzentle X ,VJ ? f O hi getting the rights of wayarecour mis, and gentlemanly and are doing eir work just like the business men iat they are. Theirpartof the work ill lie on time. A careless drayan run his dray over a little datighr of Mr. Hugh Wilkius, Friday eveng, and she was seriously hurt. No Hies were broken, however, and she now getting on all right. The police ok the offender before the mayor ho gave him $10 or 30 days on the laingang for his carelessness. He lid the $10. A terrific hail storm issed over the city Sunday night lout 11 o'clock. Some of the stones ere as large as partridge egg9, and in few iustances broke window glasses, 'e have heard of no other dam;e. The wheat and oats were not r enough advanced to be permanenthurt, and owing to the continued et weather, few other plants were tove the ground. The hail was acmpanied by a heavy shower of rain id followed Monday by a cold damp iy, which again stops farm work. LANCASTER?The Ledger, March 1: Two new enterprises are assured r Lancaster?a roller mill and a cotn seed oil mill. They will both be ady for operation by the coming fall. The yarn mill was damaged to an :tent of $15,000 by wiud last Sunday ght at Pineville, N. C. The entire of was blown off and the water from e 10,000 gallon tank in the tower Roya t Absolutely b Makes the food more deli ROYAL BAXrWO powoe poured through the sprinkler pipes. On Saturday last, Paul, the 3*-yearold son of Mr. C. L. McMauus, who * lives near Gill Creek church, was painfully burned about the face and bead and but for the timely arrival of his older sister and a colored woman who were attracted by bis screams, the little fellow would doubtless have beeu burned to death. Paul and auother of Mr. , McManus's buys were piling rocks uear the house when the older boy set fire to an old straw field. The wind blew the fire toward little Paul, his dress and underclothiug catching and burning up to his waist before the fire could be extinguished. But for the * fact that the child wore a heavy flannel undergarment next to his body, his body would also have been badly burn ed; but tbe flannel uudergarment was only singed. It wa9 a narrow escape for the little fellow. Kershaw Era: The poles for Kershaw's telephone lines have arrived and have been unloaded at the Richland street crossing. ^ Miss Emily Cauthen, daughter of Postmaster Martin Cauthen, is now one of the assistants at the postoffice. J. C. Hilton, of Westville, narrowly escaped death the past week. He bad shut off the steam at bis saw mill, and was sharpening the saw without removing tbe belting from tbe wheel which drives tbe saw. There was a leak which permitted the steam to enter the steam chest and it gather- e* ed there in sufficient quanity to start tbe saw moving. Mr. Hilton was thrown against thu shafting and sustained some very painful injuries. He certainly had a very narrow and fortunate escape from death. "MONEY TO BURN!" .TTTHEN you want FIRE INSURVV ANCE see'me. L. GEO. GRIST, ATTENTION! VETERANS. THE regular meeting of MICAH JENKINS CAMP, U. C. V., will be held in the court house at Yorkville, at 12 o'clock M., ON SALESDAY. Business of importance in relation to the Charleston reunion will receive attention. A full attendance of members is earnestly requested. ??jq J AS. F. HART, Commander. March 29 was 2t SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA ' RAILROAD CO. TIME TABLE NO. 10. In Effect 12.01 a. m., Sunday, Jan. 1,1899. ?WEST? ?EAST? 1st Class Dally. 1st Class Dally. Leaves, a.m., 7 00 Charleston, 8 17 arrives, p.m. " a.m., 6 20 Augusta, 10 45 arrives, p.m. " a.m., 9 20 Columbia, 5 20 arrives, p.m. " a.m., 1010 Klngsville, 4 28arrives, p.m. NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION. WEST. EAST. 81 7r> 77 MiAqiTflW? 78 74 82 2d c 2d c 1st c OltlllUJiOi i6t c 2d c 2d e a. m. a. m. a. m. Leave. Arrive, p. m. p. m. p. sc. 8 20 11 40 Oamden 3 00 4 30 8 .50 12 00 De Kalb 2 40 4 00 9 05 12 12 "Westvllle...- 2 28 3 40 10 10 12 40 Kershaw 2 15 3 15 10 30 12 55 Heath Springs. 1 45 .2 10 10 40 1 00 -Pleasant Hill- 1 40 2 00 11 5o 1 20 ....Lancaster.... 1 20 1 20 ? 12 15 1 35 .... Riverside 1 05 12 15 1 50 1 50 .Catawba J'c'n. 12 50 }1 20 3 10 2 15 ....Rock Hill.... 12 25 9 50 3 50 2 35 Tlrzah 12 05 8 15 4 40 2 48 Yorkvllle?. U 52 7 50 5 10 3 03 Sharon 11 37 7 15 5 30 3 18 Hickory Grove 11 22 fl 50 5 45 3 30 Smyrna 11 10 6 30 7 40 0 20 3 35 ... Blacksburg... 10 45 6 00 7 25 8 00 4 10 Earls 10 30 7 00 8 10 4 15 .Patterson Sp'g. 10 25 6 45 9 00 4 25 Shelby 10 15 0 30 ? 9 35 4 45 .... Lattimore.... 9 55 5 10 9 48 4 52 ...Mooresboro... 9 48 4 52 10 10 5 02 Henrietta 9 38 4 25 10 35 5 19 ....Forest City.... 9 21 4 00 11 00 5 34 Rutherfordton. 8 00 3 30 11 45 5 59 .Thermal City.. 8 41 2 50 12 10 0 14 ....Glenwood 8 24 2 25 12 35 0 30 Marlon 8 10 2 00 P. M. P. M. P. M. A. M. A. M. P. II. GAFFNEY IJRAXCH. WEST. EAST. _ I ? I I 0 4 I Oil Iff) iff) O* Of# M'x'd M'x'd STATIONS. M'x'd M'x'd ^ p.m. a.m. Leafe. Arrire. a.m. p.m. 4 10 3 30 ...... Blacksburg 7 30 6 30 4 3-1 5 30 ... Cherokee Falls.... 7 05 6 05 5 00 6 a) Gafl'ney 6 40 5 40 p. m. a. m. a. m. p. m. ' Train No. 77. going west, makes daylight connection at Lancaster with the L. & C. R. R.; at Rock Hill with the Southern R. R.. going north; at Blacksburg with the Southern. Train No. 78, going east, mukes connection at Marlon, N. C.. with the Southern R. R.; at Blacksburg with the Southern, and at Lancaster with the L. & C. R. R. Trnin No. 81, going east, makes connection at Shelby, N. C., with the S. A. L. R. R., going east. All local freight trains will carry passengers If provided with tickets. L. A. EMERSON, S. B. LUMPKIN, Traffic Manager. Dlv. Pass. Agent. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, York County. By W. H. McCorkle. Esquire, Probate , Judge of York County. WHEREAS W. BROWN WYLIE, C. C. C. Pis., has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all and ? singular, the goods and chattels, rights ana credits of Mrs. JANE M. MENDENH ALL, late of the county aforesaid, deceased : These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me* at our next Probate Court for the said county, to be holden at York Court House, on the 22nd day of APRIL, 1899, at 10 o'clock a. m., to, shew cause, if any, why the said administration should not be granted on derelict estate. Given under my Hand and Seal, this 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and in the 123d year of American Independence. W. H. McCORKLE, Probate Judge of York county March 11 s 6t L Baking Powder [IRE cious and wholesome B CO., NEWVORK.