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Ittmotw department. Anything to Please.?She saile into the telegraph office and rapped o the counter. The clerk rememberee as he came forward to meet her, tht she had been there about 10 minute before. He wondered what.she wan ed this time. "Oh," she said, "let me have th telegram I wrote ju9t now. I forge something very important. I wahte to underscore the words 'perfectl lovely' in acknowledging the receif of that bracelet. Will it cost anj thing extra?" "No, ma'am," said the clerk as h handed her the message. The young lady drew two heav lines beneath the words, and said : "It's awfully good of you to let m do that. It will please Charley ver much." "Don't mention it," said the clerl "If you would like it, I will drop v few drops of violet extract on th telegram at the same time." "Oh ! thank you, sir. You don know how much I would appreciate i I'm going to send all my telegram through this office, you are so oblij ing." ? - Jil :i- ..L_ ? AUU tue bLUlie sue gave UIIU nvui have done anyone good, with the po: sible exception of Charley.?Baltimoi Herald. 9 % + % No Longer Binding.?"He tol me he'd die for me," said the weepin woman who bad come to consult th lawyer about getting a legal sepan tion with plenty of alimony. "When was that?" he asked. "Before he married me," she ar swered. "Too late," commented the lawyei "you can hardly hold him to tb promise now. It's outlawed by th statute of limitations." Thereupon she was so indignant t this reflection upon her age that sh went home and got her husband t come down and thrash the lawyei Trnly women are uncertain creature at best, and yet Well, the lawyer put in a bill fc effecting a reconciliation, so, perhapi he didn't get the worst of it after all.Chicago Post. Life Still a Horrible Grind."It ought to be easy to make a livin here," the visitor from the froze north remarked. ' "Why, so?" asked the resident < the tropics." "Because you have nothing to d but reach out and pull off your banar as and your bread fruit." "lli nn I" MininoH t.hft nthflr t.nrr ing languidly in his hammock. "Some times we have to climb the trees t get them. I tell you life here is n picnic 1"?Chicago Tribune. An Explanation.?"What did yo mean?" asked the indignant callei "by saying in your paper this mornin that 'Bingman ought not to listen t the foul fiends who are trying to pei suade him to run for county judge' I call that carrying political prejudic entirely too far." "You are the 239th man," replie the editor of The Daily Bread, liftip his haggard face to view, "to whom have explained that 'foul fiends' was typographical error. I wrote it 'foe friends.' "?Chicago News. An Artist With Sense.?"Wha on earth are you doing with that pie ture ?" asked the artist's friend, comin into the studio. "Why," replied the artist, with quiet smile, "I am rubbing a piece c raw meat over this rabbit in the fore ground. Mrs. De Soddle will be her this afterne>on, and when she sees he pet dog smell of the rabbit, she'll bu it."?New York Weekly. The Longest Sentence.?School mistress?How many of my pupil can remember the longest sentenc they ever heard ? Billy?Please, mum, I can. School-mistress?What! Is ther Woll William vnn OR' XJUiJ UUC ( ff V*?J ff MUMtMj J W? tell the rest of the pupils the longes sentence you ever read. Billy?Imprisonment for life !?Til Bits. In Court.?Lawyer?So your nam is Sampson ? Witness?Yes, sir. Lawyer?Now, remember, you ar on your oath. Do you seriously thin you could break your namesake' record ? Witness?I don't know, sir ; but I' like to try when you have finishe with the jawbone.?Brooklyn Life. Closed the Bargain.?A shoi keeper wrote to one of his customer as follows: "I am able to offer you cloth lik enclosed sample at half a crown yard. In case I do not hear from yoi I shall conclude that you wish to pa only two shillings a yard. In orde to lose no time, I accept the last-met tioned price."?Tit-Bits. Not He !?"My friend," said th sanctimonious clergyman, "are yo not ashamed to make your livin playing poker ?" "Huh ! you and I are very muci alike," replied the unregenerate mar "When we hold a good hand we d not care to accept a can unless mere 1 a raise with it."?Troy Times. A Youthful Conclusion.?"Di< you hear what Whimpton's little bo; said when they showed him th twins?" "No. What was it?" "He said: 'There! mamma's beei gettin' bargains again.?The St. Loui Globe-Democrat. Returned With Interest.?"S you want my daughter do you ?" spok the stern father. "I like your nerve young man !" "I am glad you do. I like you Minerva, sir," responded the arden youth, unabashed.?Chicago Tribune He Knew.?Visitor?I suppose yo know where the bad little boys go? Johnny (who had been told to sta at home)? Yes, I do. They go in swimmin' and have a rousin' gooi time.?Philadelphia Press. Wayside gatherings. d $&* What is the best drawing lesson ? n Drawing a salary. < '> I?" Steel rails average 180 tons to i the mile; iron 145. ? I?" The best reputations are usually owned by poor men. We learn something from every. thing, even from failure. j (j One should play, read or labor j y with earnestness, and then rest. >t f?* A man never gets so poor that , r- he can't borrow trouble without security ( e I?" Few men get their life labor accomplished without some sore hearty aches. tGT The fruit crop of Georgia was e one-third ruined by rains of last y week. ' < The more promise there is in c* von. the more vou will disappoint 1 your friends. US' The general opinion seems to be ,t that economy should begin at someL body else's home. IS t&F Sewing-circles are sometimes , j. gatherings where dresses are sewed and characters ripped, d tGT Last year Kansas exported 3,- j 3- 700,000 dozen eggs, as compared with , e 151,000 dozen in 1895. It is estimated that the total j wheat yield of Oklahoma will be 30,- j d 000,000 bushels this year. 1 S I&* It is more natural for a man to i e lie in bed and wish he was rich, than ] l" it is to get up and earn a dollar. I &" Mexico is now the only country < in the world of any commercial stand- < '* ing which remains on a silver basis. 1 r Some men address people in the 1 g way a farmer calls his pigs to corn, e and then wonder that they are not i popular. it W&T Dimes are little opportunities? e the man who rejects them waiting for , a the big opportunity of a dollar, never r becomes rich. 1 * 1 >8 The number of people who die j inside of the city limits of London | >r every year would fill a cemetery of j 3, twenty-three acres. - jgg- There is one .thing about the ( devil that ought to frighten you in | thinking of him?he never fails to col- < - lect what is due him. g The mite mentioned in the gosD pel in connection with the widow's J contribution to the treasury, was a >f a Greek copper coin weighing 18 ' grains. 0 W&F "Spoudulix," as a slang name . for money, had its origin in the Greek ! word spondulor, a shell; shells of that species being once used as money, ' both in Greece and Egypt. 1 0 I?* the Japanese press urges active , measures against China, with-or with- . out the consent of the powers, and , Japanese naval and military officers r are busy with preparations, g tf&T A man in Washington county, \ 0 Pennsylvania, has a bantam rooster j .. that is so familiar with a cat that it f >> can get on the feline's back and crow , 2*1 * *L 4. 4^1.! U e wimuui uie cat kaaiug aujr uuutcui it. ( A little girl who bud been bad- < d ly bitten by mosquitoes the night be- i g fore, seeing a lightning bug, ran to her < I mother, exclaiming "There's a mos- i a quito now with-a lantern looking after ] >1 me!" One towboat on the Mississippi, in a good stage of water, can take from i it St. Louis to New Orleans a tow car- j - rying 10,000 tons of grain, a quantity ' g that would require 50 trains of 10 cars ( each. 1 a tS* The Washington Grand Lodge ] ?f of Masons, in session in Tacoma, has < s- voted not to admit liquor dealers to ' e membership in the order, and di- s r rects present members who are in that 1 y business to withdraw. J f6T The transport Burnside, which left New York for San Juan de Puer- j I- to Rico, carried $1,000,000 in Ameri- 1 s can gold, silver, and paper money, * e which is to be put into circulation in Puerto Rico as rapidly as it can be ex- 1 changed for the old Spanish money. 1 e VST A story has been printed in LonD don to the effect that in January four Oriental maidens arrived at York house and announced themselves as a present to the Duke of York from an eastern potentate. They were dis- 1 . missed diplomatically. I?~ The Kreuz Zeitung, at Berlin, < says: "There is a good chance that e the Boers will maintain themselves in j k Lydenburg and the Zoutpans district, ^ ?s where they will establish a new strong- , hold, leaving the English Rand. Guer- ( d rilla warfare may be kept up without ( j diminution." ttiT Belgium has been visited by , huge swarms of large winged insects, ( variously described as dragon flies and a locusts. In Brussels people in the street had to cover their faces, and e many fled indoors at the sight of the a invading swarms. In several squares, t , the story goes, there was a veritable j y fight for possession between the insects j ,r and the human inhabitants, i. f?" In buying out his associates in | the Southern Pacific, Collis P. Hunt- { ington becomes sole and individual j e owner, manager and controller of a , u vast transportation system, embracing s g 7600 miles of railroad, ferries, termi- ' nals, river and ocean lines extending h from Portland, Ore., through Califor, nia, to New Orleans, and representing j o $350,000,000 of securities and nearly | s $60,000,000 of annual gross earnings. j f?~ A young man who was hunting j recently in the Alleghanies, near Red i 3 Oak Knob, Va., shot a large bald ea- i y gle. The bird measured 7 feet two { e inches across the wings. The hunter | found one of the eagle's claws held ] firmly in a powerful steel trap, to ? which was attached a steel chain 5 feet i s long. Trap and chain had marks of < vicious blows from the eagle's beak, showing how he had vainly endeavoro ed to free himself from them. ( e ggyrhe Kentucky is to join tne iNortn s ') Atlantic squadron soon, and then i under Rear Admiral Farquhar will be 1 r assembled one of the most powerful 1 t aggregations of warships the Stars and 1 > Stripes has floated over?Kentucky, < Kearsage, Indiana, Massachusetts, u Texas, and New York, carrying sixteen 13-inch, two 12 inch, thirty 8 inch, i y ten G-iuch, twenty-eight 5-incb and < a twelve 4-inch guns, besides 100 6- j d pounders and a full complement of i maxims, gatlings, etc. 1 jjarrn and Jiwsiik Lay Two Hundred Eggs.?How can we produce hens that will lay 200 eggs per annum ? By scientific breed- s ing, as for a good butter cow or a cow milker, as for a good trotter or high jumping horse. Experiments have ( been made to increase the number of rows of corn on the cob with success. J The same method is applicable to poultry breeding. We will start with * a hen that lays 120 eggs. Some of her 1 chicks will lay 150 per year. From these we will pick out layers, and so ' on until 200 or better are the result. At the same time, it is just as essen- J: tial to breed out of males from prolific layers as it is the females ; in fact, it is s more so. If we look after the breed- J !? -f ^a????Uo An 1 ?t mo will iritrn lug U1 L1IC iCUiaiuo uuij nv ** ? duce on the male side blood which is ' lacking in proficiency, and thus check . every attempt in progress. It is just 1 as essential that the male should be j from the hen which lays 175 eggs and from a male that was bred from a hen c that laid 150 eggs as it is that the hen ! should he from one that laid 175 and j whose mother laid 150 eggs. Cider Vinegar.?It is not general- j ly known, even among farmers, that { the apple crop can be converted into vinegar, and made ready for market in less than 30 days. The usual plan ^ is to let time do the work, requiring j from six months to one year. There is j a much quicker, and far more certain j plan, and one by which the surplus fruit of any kind, can be made into j. June vinegar, in a very short time ensibling the farmer to supply bis cus- j tomers with June vinegar, at profitable rates. The vinegar factory will contist of your old cider vinegar barrel with from 10 to 15 gallons of cider or fruit vinegar. Set the barrel or tub of ci- j ier, on a level with the top of the , vinegar barrel, and permit the cider to ^ drip into the old vinegar, at the rate of a pint per hour, which is three gal- t Ions per day. This small addition will be converted, by the old vinegar, into ^ good merchantable vinegar. Arrange for overflow of the factory barrel, in any way to suit yourself?or when nearly full, draw off three gallons per . lay- , , , t Buying a Horse.?If you want to ^ buy a horse, take no man's word for it. c ifour eye is your market. Don't buy * a horse in harness. Unhitch him and ( ;ake everything off but the baiter and c lead him around. If he has any fail- 8 ng you can see it. Let him go away c ay himself, and if he walks right into ' anything you know he is blind. No * natter how clear and bright his eyes ( are, he can't see any more than a bat. ? Back him, too. Some horses show 1 ^heir weakness or tricks iu that way * when they don't in any other. But be ^ as smart as you can, you'll get stuck. 1 A. horse may look ever so nice and go ^ i great pace and yet bave fits, mere ? Isn't a man who could tell it until ^ something happens. Or, he may have * t weak back. Give him the whip and c dAT he goes for a mile or two, then all * )f a sudden he stops in the road. Af- * :er a rest he starts again ; but soon r stops for good, and nothing but a der- ? rick can start him.?Southern Stock J Farm. J Good Chow Chow.?Slice green tomatoes, sprinkle with salt and let stand over night, then drain and chop. Take 4 quarts chopped tomatoes, 3 c quarts cabbage, 2 quarts onions, 8 arge peppers, half-cup horseradish, 3 pints good cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, teaspoon each ground nutmeg, cloves and allspice, and half cup ? sugar. If one has celery, from one- F fourth to one-third of the onions may k 3e omitted and celery used instead. * rhis chow cbow requires no cooking, " ind never fails to keep if the vinegar ? s good. It should be kept in glass or Jiarthen jars and be always covered ? tvith the vinegar. If one has no vege- r table cutter, the onions, horseradish ? ind celery may be put through a meat ? jutter or sausage grinder and thus * save much tedious chopping. t Chapped Hands and Soap. ? ? Chapped hands are often the effect of asing too much soap. The acids of :.he soap destroy the oil glands and sells of the skin. The way to cure shapped hands is to use less soap, and ? always use a little powdered borax in ^ ihe water. Tepid water is better for ^ ;he hands than too hot or cold water. Warm borax water used for cleaning Lhe hands, and a nightly rubbing with ? sucumber or almond cream, will cure ' ihe worst case of chapped hands, and prevent them from getting in that condition again. Irish Potatoes and Bots.?So far J is known the juice of Irish potatoes a s better calculated to cause the bot 0 .0 let go the lining of the stomach Q han any remedy that can, with safety, Q De given the horse. The juice does lot kill the bot3, but causes them to ^ Decome numb. Hence they curl up ind let go, and the horse is relieved Tom his bots. Six to twelve tubers ivill furnish enough juice, when j( scraped, to relieve the worst case.?D. q r. Stephenson. a t A Rose That Thrives In a Cem- r etery.?The best white rose for ceme- c ;ery planting is Madame Plantier. It p s a variety of somewhat slender p growth, and on this account is some- a jmes termed a half-climber. But it s "equires no trellis, being much more e graceful when allowed to traiu itself ihan when given a support of any v jind. It throws up a great number of e 5talks. on which ereat Quantities of ? uilk-white double flowers are borne in ^ clusters during June and July. t s To Make Fish Bite.?To one ounce c )f asafeotida add ten drops of oil of s sassafras and enough alcohol to make j| t into a thin paste. A small quanti- t ,y of the above spread upon the bait u will produce the desired results. At v east, so say old fishermen who use it o constantly on trot lines. f< Simple Cure For Sweeny.?Get t i piece of poke root the size of a silver v juarter, slit the skin at the shrunken a >art, slip the root in and let it stay 12 g lours; then take it out, give your b lorse a few days rest and he is cured. n Miscellaneous Reading. [ ? I IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. f Inmmaryofthe News That Is Heine Pub- r llshed by Exchanges. CHESTER?The Lantern, June 29 : a )ther towns throughout the etate are e >rganizing or have already organized a laseball teams. Baseball within the g >roper limits is a fine sport, and why e lot Chester organize a team ? These 0 ong summer evenings it will be some- ^ hiog in which the boys can expend j heir surplus energy. What has be;ome of Chester's baseball enthusiasts? ^ rennis is already played on a small c icale. Why not Chester organize a n :lub and play some of the adjoining q owns and cities. Mrs. A. A. Munn t lied last night, leaving five children, a 1tr- L- * ' t-'/v we Dave nut ueeu auie i>u u?uui>v ^ formation ; but have beard that blood a )oisoning was the cause of death. The ^ uneral services will be at the A. R. P. ^ ihurch at 4 o'clock this afternoon, and ^ vill be conducted by the Rev. J. S. \loiFatt, on account of the sickness of t he Rev. H. C. Buchholz, pastor of the f leceased. Burial will be in Evergreen a semetery.-'-^vJVlr. John M. Love, son )f Senator Love, of McConnellsville, j( net with what came very near being a j lerious accident Wednesday evening. j U'ter making bis returns as census ^ (numerator, he started home. The One c Vlile branch, which crosses the Sandy j iiver road, had been very much swolen by the heavy rains. Mr. Love at- t empted to cross, when Negro, mule, )uggy and himself were driven down itream by the strong current. Mr. liove and the Negro mauaged to get a >ut; but the mule and buggy were g rery much damaged. His census por- ^ ifolio was found the next morning in ^ uch a damaged condition as to neceslitate a new enumeration, on which | dr. Love started yesterday morning. t v/Dr. W. S. Gregg, whose sickness ve nrentioned Tuesday, died yesterday ib^ut 7 o'clock. Brigbt's disease was he cause of death. He had had two ? ?r three severe attacks before. His >rother, M. J. Gregg, Esq., of Blr ingham, Ala., arrived yesterday t ivening. Another brother, Dr. E. L. t Jregg, of Rusk, Texas, is on the way. j t will not be determined until the lat- a er arrives whether the remains will >e buried here or taken back to his v >ld home in East Tennessee. Dr. >regg was a familiar figure about ^ Chester. He was pursuing the study >f medicine when the war broke out, . ind we believe his course was never :ompleted. After the war closed, the r Jnion sentiment was so strong and utter in bis neighborhood that he was (j breed to leave there for safety. He ^ Irifted over into North Carolina, was n Charlotte for some years, and in ^ 872 came to Chester in the employ of Q 1. B. Meacham & Co., in the shoe bus- v ness. Later he and Mr. J. D. Means lecame proprietors of this business md conducted it with marked success. ^ 5ince they sold out their business, he tas been taking care of the investment f if his money. Starting with nothing, . ie accumulated a fortune of perhaps >50,000. Dr. Gregg was never maried ; but he leaves in his adopted home j; i host of friends. Besides the two 1 irotbers already named, he leaves a fl irother and three sisters in Tennessee. ? ie was probably about 62 years old. CURIOSITY AMONG NATIONS. i Ihlna the Only Survivnlg Type of Ancient ? Civilization. iy James A. Hall. B The "Boxer"- movements in China c rings into renewed and startling t irominence the most unique and inter- ii sting among the nations of the world, li )f all the great communities mankind a tas built up the Chinese Empire stands t .lone?a rare curiosity in human ex- n Btence. And the tenacity exhibited v iy this relic of the remotest age in its v esistance to the disintegrating in- t luence of modern civilization forms an n bsorbing study for the student of b listory and ethinology. t It seems a strange contradiction of e tuman experience that this picturesque lation, with an unbroken history ex- ti ending back beyond the days of Ninveh and Ur of the Chaldeans, should k " ,1"'0 nolnloin ifa indiviHllfllitv u l/iiio uaj uiaiuvmu ivw ,ud the peculiar character ofitspeo- v >le, unchanged even in slight degree c if contact with the life and thought ?y the rest of the world. No other 4< lation has existed so long and felt so h lightly the effects of the events which b ;o to make us history, and no charac- '] er is so hopelessly fixed and conserva- b ive as that of the Chinaman. n The Mongolian race was the first to A .ttain any degree of civilization. The Idest sculptures in the world, whether c inearthed on the banks of the Tigris a r the Nile, show the smooth, full face n nd the oblique eyes of the Chinaman I f today. With a quicker and more s< omprehensive intellect than any of the n ther tribes of savage man, the Mon- v, olian soon mastered the arts useful to n iim and organized an equitable gov- $ rnment. ji More than twenty-five hundred t< ears before the Christian era China a 3 said to have reached its golden age. a Commerce and agriculture flourished t< nd schools of philosophy were main- w ained under the care of such wise ulers as Hwangti and Yao. Great ri anals were constructed and other v ublic improvements carried out. The h eople were peaceable and industrious it nd China, at this remote period, preented all the features of an enlighten- ii d and progressive community. n But the civilization of the Chinese ran childish and superficial. That in- g vitable quality called race character h annot be thrust aside or overcome by t< ny manner of teaching, whether by n he wreck of empires or the humble U olicitations of the missionary. The Chinese development encountered a ir trange arrest in what may be called t< la childhood stage, and their language a ouay is but a conglomeration 01 priaary sounds. No other people in the 1c /orld speak a language so crude ; no p ther government is so primitive in arm and paraphernalia. o Other and stronger peoples pushed M he precocious Mongolian out of the s( alleys of the Nile and the Euphrates s< nd built up great kingdoms and more E plendid civilizations, but only their a rokeu arches and crumbling pyxaaids remain to tell of their existence. c< n China, fenced off from the rest of tell he world by mountain and desert, the fro Mongolian character reached its full pri ruition, and the Chinese of today in ma heir speech, their government, their cle eligion and their social customs rep- isls esent the Babylonians, the Medes ? md the Egyptians. It seems incredible that a nation unbracing many millions of inhabitants md covering a vast area of the world's urface, should have stretched out its xistence through forty-five centuries f war and turmoil and conquest. Lssyria, Persia, Egypt, Greece and tome, in turn, arose, extended its einlire and sank into the grave of nations, ut all of this shifting of power and hanging of the face of the world had o effect whatever on the destiny of Jhina. Only during the present cen ury can it be said that European in- C luence has penetrated eyen slightly mo he outer crust of this curious relic Ulc - . D!r. mong the nations. During the past C1" ew years the invasion of Europeans ma. ias reached a point which might well 2L^ ring alarm to the conservative Chi- for iese. The restless current of the eac he world's progress has reached the hea oundations of this ancient structure ricl ,nd it must be tumbled down. B?J What the Chinese Empire must do ? ? clear to every observer of our times, ndeed, if it were allowed to retain its ndividuality for another century or I wo it would be the strangest thing | onnected with all its strange history, ts doom is sealed. Every one recogtizes that it is an encumbrance upon he earth and a block to. human pro- < ;ress, yet one cannot look upon the lestruction of this ancient empire A vithout emotions much akin to those ap iwakened by the overthrow of some piendid monument or the pulling no lown of a stately and magnificent ruin. ?.0] The blast of the locomotive whistle in Ma he valleys of the Whang Ho sounds ER ike the crash of the steel drills into iSy he walls of the pyramids or the tern- *l_\ ties of Luxor. toe The Chinaman was a scholar and ^ ibilosopher long before the savage stj Caucasian had learned to clothe him- mo] elf in a bearskin or had exchanged his ave den for the bark but; but now ^ he Caucasian has come to the walls of he Mongol Castle, walls gray with age ong before tbe Caucasian was born, j ,nd means to pull tbem down. This hungry Caucasian goes everywhere on God's green earth. He never ests, he is never weary. He carries a one hand a peddler's pack, in the ther a bayonet. When he finds a loor locked against him he goes away nd returns again with a battering am. Diplomacy, negotiation, bribery an{j r force may be employed ; but ihe ^ loor must open. China cau no more ma, lope to maintian its isolation in the ^ aodern world than could the sturdy otj,j Cherokee keep his village on the banks f the Oostanaula. The concentrated weight of an enlightened and aggres- ^ ive age lies against the antiquated wall and the mighty pressure cannot S >e withstood. It is the pressure of team, of electricity, and that most ] esistless of all missiles, a superior inellect. The contest between decaying China ?' TTnrnnn nnH America is >UU VITIlllivu ike a struggle between some ponderous and helpless antediluvian monster md a steel clad giant armed with lectricity and dynamite. THE CONGRESSIONAL BATH. t Is a Wonderful Convenience as a Means of Evading Bores. "If cleanliness is next to godliless," said a man who had been at the lational capital for three months in E he interest of a contraption which he 3 sure will save the government mil- Wjt ions annually, "then the average sen- in ( ,tor and congressman must be more dir! han the common lot. I keep a little aemorandum, a diary I reckon you to pould call it, of the lawmakers on put phom I have called in three months o talk of this affair of mine. As a ftru] natter of curiosity I write in the little F ook the result of every call. In aJ?^ hree-fourths of the calls I have this ntry: " 'Senator was in his bath,' Someimes to vary the monotony, I write, Senator was taking his tub.' I didn't now but what I might go to England nmft dav. and that sort of an entry ^ould admit me to parlimeatary cir- ?p les. I"Then I find an entry like this: ?L Called on Congressman Blank. Said ~ e had engagement to take a Turkish ath and couldn't stop.' Or this: .. Pound Congressman at a Turkish I*1' ath. He admitted me and listened to le while he was being rubbed down, shl isked me to have one with him.' "Here is one which I wrote as a bes uriosity: 'Met senator in corridor nd got an opportunity of presenting ly case. He listened uutil I thought had him landed. Told him the 3heme would save the government a lillion a year. He wanted to know 'hy I didn't spring it. Told him I had 0 spring board, that it would take 500 to get the board. Said be was ist starting for a bath and asked me A ) see him later. Saw him later about dozen times. On his way to take A bath every time I saw him. Tried q1 ) see him several times and found he TH 'as taking a bath.' STC "Here is another entry : 'Called at ssidence of Congressman Dash. Serant said he was at his bath. Asked ow long he would be. Servant said . depended on my business.' "The more important my business, ^ 1 this case, the more the congressman eeded cleansing. ? "This is a jot in pencil: 'Saw Conressman from Arkansas. Told im my scheme. Said he hadn't time ) talk then because he was going to ry 'ash himself.' He has not been here >ng. Ai "There are baths and baths in Wash- Cutl igton. One night I pushed the but)n in my room, and to the Negro who ^ nswered I said, 'I want a bath.' V " 'Yes, sah,' he said as be bowed M >w. 'Congressional, senatorial or jes' W. lain ?' w "I asked the difference as a matter A| f curioity, and the fellow replied : M Yell, sah, ef it's congressional, dab's M )me folks yo' is williu' to see. Ef it's w matorial, yo' don't see nobody ut all. ? If it's plain, nobody want to see yo1, ? d tba yo' is.' m "If the country wants to know why ingress lasts so long as it does, I can 1. In the language of a member m Texas : 'Cut down the approation for soap, and pump the Potoc dry. You won't have so much anliness ; but you'll have more legition-' "?New York Sun. ur pniMM I UIUUI1 >ld Running Sores, Mucous Patches ir uth or throat, Copper-Colored Spots, :ers, Painful Swellings, Bone Pains, iples, Boils, Scrofula, Catarrh, Rhcutism and every form of Blood Poison, ckly cured forever b.v taking Botanic >od Balm (B.B.B.). Thoroughly tested 30 years. Druggists. $1. Directions with h bottle. Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B.) Js every sore, makes the blood pure and It. Cures when all else fails. Mid 5 cents to pay postage on Free Trial ttle. BLOOD BALM CO , Atlanta, Ga. Founded 1842. . 5m "Sing their own praise." nd In buying one, you do not have to select lano to suit your purse. STIEFF PIANOS wer every requirement demanded by the stexactlng pianist or singer. STIEFF PIAS embody everything known In the art of NE PRODUCTION and RESP0N8IVESS IN ACTION. I am not an AGENT, or nutacturer's agent; but MANUFACTUR, pure and simple. What we SAVE YOU PRICE AND GIVE YOU IN QUALITY our gain. Call and see our beautiful stock hfeonly Manufacturer's Wareroom In North krnth Carolina. For catalogue, etc., write 5. H. Wllmoth, Manager, Chas. M. StlefTs tory Branch Wareroom, No. 213 North on Street, Charlotte, N. C. CHAS. M. EFF, PIANO MANUFACTURER, Baltlre, Maryland. Fine tuning and repairing. WE ARE PREPARED TO DO Commercial -.Printing Of Every Description. re have the material on hand for Bookwork . letter, Note and Billheads. Posters and Igers. Business and Visiting Cards, Checks [ Wedding Invitations. Well, we have the terial Tor any ordinary Printing that may fleslred, and will secure material on very rt notice, for any kind of Job Printing sr than ordinary. WE GUANANTEE Isfaction in every Instance and you will get ityle, Quality, Neatness, Prompt Service ahd the Best Grade of Work. ill and see us and let us All your wants. THE ENQUIRER. ? How $ ? About / | I Your [ I t Watch # ioes it keep the correct time? Or do i have to set it every twenty-four irs? Do you know what is the matter hit? Bring it to me and let me put it :orrect-time-keeping order. It may be iy and need cleaning. It may have a broken. It may have a screw loose, t may only need regulating. Bring it me and no matter what ails it, I can it in first-class condition. Mv charges very moderate and the work will be le promptly. I also repair Jewelry 1 Clocks. or anything in my line see me. I can I do meet all competition. See my line Spectacles and Eyeglasses. I can suit 'one with Glasses or Frames. THOS. W. SPECK, Jeweler and Optician. To Gret a Good 'HOTOGRAPH me to my Gallery on West berty street. Come, rain or ne, ana you win receive me ; ;t attention. I Very Respectfully, J. R. SCHORB, ^Yorkville, S. C. ] FINLEY & BHICE, , lTTORNEYS AT LAW, Yorkville, S. C. LL busineas entrusted to us will be < . given prompt attention. i FFICE IN THE BUILDING AT E REAR OF H. C. STRAUSS'S )RE. GEO. IV. S. HART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Yorkville, S. C. FFICE: NO. 2 LAW RANGE. PHONE 58. 1 PHOTOGRAPHY. j OR PHOTOS?in any style and of the best finish?please trail at my Galon Cleveland avenue. S. W. WATSON, Yorkville, S. C. nica Salve and Wltcli Hazel for Piles, i, Etc. YORK DKUG STOKE. / That's the way ? ,>ecauM l^e P1"^1 s cheap Biiffgr off / at only a dollar oi / it that way ? Iftl Im our Agent or write direct R SOLD BY OLEIVIS CABDLISA & NORTBWESTKEB RAILWAY COMPANY. Schedule Effective April 1st, 1900. North Bound. Passenger. Mixed. Mixed. no. 10. no. no. no. 62. r^avf! ft m nm 7 .VI nm LvYorkvllle 9 15 am 9 52 am LvGastonla 10 13 am 12 35 pm LvLincolnton...ll 03 am 2 15 pm . LvNewton 11 52 am 3 32 pm LvHickory 12 15 pm 5 50 pm 9 00am ArrlveLenolr.... 1 10 pm 7 50 pm 11 25am * * > South Bound. Passenger. Mixed. Mixed. NO. 0. NO. 61. NO. 63. LeaveLenoir..... 4 30 pm *5 30 am 1 30 pm LvHlckory a 5 35 pm 8 30 am 4 25 pm LvNewton 0 05 pm 9 18 am LvLincolnton.... 7 00 pm 11 10 am LvGastonla* 8 15 pm 1 12 pm LvYorkvllle 9 21 pm 3 20 pm ArriveChester...lO 31 pm 5 15 pm *20 minutes for supper at Gastonia. No. 10, north bound, connects at Chester with Southern Ry., Seaboard Air Line, Lancaster and Chester Ry. from all points south ; at Yorkville with Shutb Carolina * and Georgia Ex. Ry.; at Gastonia with Southern Ry.; at Lincolnton with Seaboard Air Line; at Newton and Hickory with Southern Ry. No. 9, south bound, makes close connection at all junction points. L. T. NICHOLS, General Manager, Chester, South Carolina. E. F. REID, Auditor, Chester, South Carolina. SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA ' EXTENSION RAILROAD CO. TIME TABLE NO. 4. In Effect 12.01 a. m., Sunday, Dec. 24,1899. BETWEEN CAMDEN AND BLACKSBUR6. WEST. EA8T. 35. 33. EASTERN 82. 84. 2nd 1st TIME. i?t 2nd Class. Class. Class. Class. ? Daily Dally Except Daily. Dally. Except STATIONS. ^ P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. 8 20 12 50 Camden....... 12 25 6 30 8 .50 1 15 DeKalb 12 02 4 60 9 20 1 27 ....Westvllle.... II 50 4 30 10 50 1 40 ....Kershaw 11 35 4 iO 11 20 2 10 Heath 8prlngs. 11 20 3 15 11 35 2 16 ..Pleasant Hill. 11 16 3 00 12 30 2 35 ....Lancaster.... 10 65 2 35 1-00 2 50 ....Riverside..... 10 40 1 00 ' 5 1 20 3 00 ....Wpringdell.... 10 30 12 40 2 ;so 3 io catawba J'c'n. iu 20 iz ai 2 50 3 20 Leslie 10 10 11 00 3 10 3 40 ....Rock Hill... 10 00 8 40 4 10 3 55 ...-Newport,-... 9 35 8 20 4 45 4 02 Tlreata 9 30 8 00 5 80 4 20 ?Yorkville.... 9 15 7 30 0 00 4 35 Bharon 9 00 0 50 0 25 4 50 Hickory Grove 8 45 6 20 0 35 5 00 Smyrna 8 35 0 00 7 00 5 20 ...Blacksburg... 8 15 6 30 P. M. P.M. A.M. A.M. \ BETWEEN BLACKSBURG, S. C., AND MARION, N. C. WEST EAST. 11. 33. EASTERN 32. vj 12. 2nd 1st TIME. 1st 2nd * Class. Class. Class. Class. Daily Daily Daily Dally Except Except Except Except Sunday Sund'y STATIONS. teund'y 8und'y A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M. 8 10 5 30 ...Blacksburg... 7 48 0 40 8 30 5 45 Earls.**.... 7 32 0 20 8 40 5 50 Patterson Bpr'g 7 25 0 12 9 20 0 00 .Shelby 7 15 0 00 * 10 00 0 20 ....Latttmore 0 55 4 50 10 10 0 28 ...Mooresboro.. 0 48 4 40 10 25 0 38 Henrietta.... 0 38 4 20 10 50 0 55 -..Forest City... 8 20 3 50 11 15 7 10 RutberfordtoD 0 06 3 25 11 35 7 22 Millwood... 5 53 8 06 11 45 7 35 .Golden Valley 6 40 2 50 12 05 7 40 .Thermal City. 5 37 2 45 12 25 7 58 ... Glenwood.... 5 17 2 20 12 50 8 15 Marion 5 00 2 00 P. M. P. M. A. M. I P. M. GAFFNEY BRANCH. s WEST. EAST. First Class. EASTERN First Class. 15. | 13. . TIME. 14. | 16. Dally Except Daily Except Sunday. Sunday. -;.rTT^r STATIONS. 1 00 0 00 ...Blacksburg.- 7 50 3 00 1 20 0 20 Cherokee Falls 7 30 2 40 1 40 0 40 Gaflhey....- 7 10 2 20 P. M. A. M. A. M. P. M. Trains Nos. 32 and 33 connect at Blacksburg with trains on the Gaffney Division. Train No. 32 connects at Camden with the Charleston Division of the Southern Railway for all points South. Train No. 33 leaving Camden at 12.40 p. m., going West, makes connection at Lan- \ caster, S. C., with the L. &. C. R. R., at ~ V - -1! f4L iL- CI A T uatawua juncuou who me o. a. ju., going North ; at Rock Hill with the Southern Railway going North. Train No. 11 connects at Blacksburg with the Southern Railway from the South. At Marion, N. C., with the Southern Railway going West. SAMUEL HUNT, President, A. TRIPP, Superintendent, 3. B. LUMPKIN, Gen. P. and P. A*t. ^ $hr fJorkviUc inquirer. Published Wednesday and Saturday PUBLISHERS : L. M. GRIST, W. D. GRIST, ?. E. GRIST. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, 2 OO One copy for two years, 3 50 For six months, 1 OO For three months, 50 Two copies for one year, 3 50 Ten copies one year, 17 50 And an extra copy for aclub often. ADVERTISEMENTS ' Inserted at One Dollar per square for the * first insertion, and Fifty Cents per square for each subsequent insertion. A square consists of the space occupied by ten lines of this size type. Contracts for advertising space for three, six, or twelve months will be made on reasonable terms. The contracts must in all cases be confined to the regular business of the firm or individual contracting, and the manuscript must be in the office by Monday at noon when intended for Wednesday's issue, and on Wednesday when intended for Saturday's issue. !P^H?rPUSHlt(l >me dealers do! Push cheap goods M ts are large. Why let a man push a ft on you when you can get the best 0? r so more ? Do you ever think about j? OCK HILLroSK HIUS'CI r & ALLISON.^ - A