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Department. Claimed That She Wae Justifiable. Little Helen is the goddess at whose shrine all the members of a certain family in Orange worship. Helen is ordinarily a very good little girl; she is not an angel by any means, for she has her fiery outbursts of temper like any other normal little girl, but her worst fault seems to be a tendency toward romancing, and her baby mind conjures up the most weird and fanciful occurrences, which she will relate to her parents with great earnestness. Strenuous efforts are being made to break her of the habit. Her mother is a little inexperienced, and so has great faith in the efficacy of prayer in training a child. The consequence is that When Helen tells a fib she is told to ask her Heavenly Father for forgiveness. The other day she came stumbling up the stairs as fast as her diminutive legs would carry her. Without pausing for breath at the top She rushed into her mother's room. "Oh, mamma," she gasped, "there's an awful big lion right out there on the front walk." "Why, Helen, how can you?" exclaimed her mother mildly. "Yes, but he is there," reiterated the little girl with great earnestness. "Now, my little girl," said the mother, very impressively, "you know very well there is no lion there, and now I want you to go into the sewing room, all by yourself, and ask Goa 10 iorgivei you for this story." Helen looked soberly at her mother! and then walked into the next room. I There was silence for a few minutes! and then she came back, her face! beaming. Her mother, taking it fori the radiance of true repentance, clasp- I ed her to her bosom and told her that! whenever she felt tempted to tell any! of those naughty fibs she could always I stop them by going off by herself and I praying. | "Now you see you are so happy be- I cause God has forgiven you," conclud- I ed the mother. I The child looked a little doubtful at! that and said: "Well, I went away and I asked God I to forgive me and He said it was nol matter whatever because when he I came to take a look he almost thought I it was a lion, himself." The little girl's father is of the opin- I ion that the application of a hand, not I too hard, but on the right spot, is, af- I ter all, the most effectual cure.?New! York Times. His Blackstonian Circumlocution. | "I received this afternoon," said the! bright-eyed common-sense girl, the! while a blush of maidenly coyness! tinted her peach-hued cheeks, a writ- I ten proposal of marriage from Horace! J. Pokalong, the rising young attor-1 ney, and " J "Huh, that petrified dub!" jealously! ejaculated the young drygoqds dealer,! * - * 1 Ha stir WflllMi of I wno ntus uecu ucuie*>*? ? his timidity and excessive adoration. "He says," proceeded the maiden, gently ignoring the interruption, and reading aloud from the interesting document, "I have carefully and comprehensively analyzed my feelings toward you, and the result is substantially as follows, to-wit: I respect, admire, adore and love you, and hereby give, grant, and convey to you my heart and all my interest, right and title in and to the same, together with all my possessions and emoluments, either won, inherited or in any other manner acquired, gained, anticipated or expected, with full and complete t power to use, expend, utilize, give away, bestow or otherwise make use of the same, anything here-to-fore stated. exDressed. implied or under stood, in or by my previous condition, standing, walk, attitude or actions, to the contrary notwithstanding; and I furthermore?" "I?I?!" fairly shouted the listener, springing to his feet, and extending his arms. Mi98 Brisk?Maud? I love you! Will you marry me?" "Yes, I will," promptly answered the lass, as she contentedly snuggled up in his encircling embrace. "And Til reply to the ponderous appeal of that pedantic procrastinator with the one expressive slangism, 'Nit!' I am yours, Clarence."?June Smart Set Lunchroom Strategy.?He walked into one of the gilded palaces of indigestion and, taking a seat at the table, wearily ran his eye up and down the bill of fare. Comparing the figures after the names "with the amount of money, he had in his pocket, he thought for awhile and then asked for a steak. It was brought to him, and the gazed at it with sadness on his face. Then he tried to cut It. He might as well have tried to cut through a granite wall with a dull eraser, but still he tried and still he failed. Then he called the boy with the white coat. "Say," said the man with the hunger and the tough steak, "I can't cut this meat." The boy was silent for a moment, and then he picked up the knife and .... looked at the edge. "One minute, sir," he said, and then he sped to the region of the cook. He came back in a moment, but he did not bring another steak. He simply handed the man with the hunger a knife and remarked: "This knife is sharper." This is a great age we are living in. But Yet a Woman.?"John," she said, as they strolled through the brilliantly lighted rooms of the Casino, Monte Carlo isn't at all as I had imagined it. Every one of these people we see gambling seem so nice and res pectable! Now, dear, do you think it would be very wicked if I bet just once?" "Of course, not, love; and, even if you lose it won't cripple us financially. Here's a louis. Play that, and see what luck you have. You know, if one bets on one's age, they say one is apt to win." There was a moment of deep thought. Then, with a smile of gladness, the tiny piece of gold is placed on figure 24. The wheel spins, and the discontented little piece of marble, after dancing all about, finally drops with a click into?28. "There!" cries the excited John, "if you had been honest you would have won."?Walter Burbank in June Smart Set. ptettUatuou* p*?fling. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Looal Interest. CHE8TER Lantern, May 26: Married at Cornwell, May 24, by Magistrate W. T. Castles, Mr. Wm. Rogers and Mrs. Kate Ferrell, both of Eureka Cotton mills, of Chester Emmett Rodman, son of Mr. Sydney Rodman, of Rodman, met with a serious accident last Sunday while playing with a dynamite * cartridge which exploded, blowing oil his left hand and two Angers of his right hand It is very cheering to the friends of Mr. P. L. Hardin to learn that the specialists in Baltimore found that he has no organic or permanent disorder. He returned home Saturday greatly improved and feeling like himself The Lee Light infantry will be inspected June 6th and the Hazelwood Rifles on June 6th, by Gen. Frost and Col. Morris. LANCASTER. Ledger, May 27: Mr. A. B. Ferguson went over to Catawba yesterday and brought back a sample of cotton from his farm near there Just to show "the boys" what his manager, Mr. J. H. Ferguson, is doing over there. The stalks brought over* average about seven inches high with from Ave to seven leaves on each stalk, and Mr. Ferguson says that they are a fair sample of the crop of 150 acres which he has in cotton Mr. R. S. Harper and family moved to Sumter yesterday. Mr. Harper has been engaged in the lumber business there for several months and the moving of his family indicates that his business is thriving. We regret to lose them from our community Mr. H. H. Horton, of Heath Springs has been appointed a member of the county board of control This community was shocked last Friday about noon on the receipt of a phone message from Monroe that Mr. A. L. Funderburk, familiarly known here as "Tinny," had been kicked by a mule and that his injuries would prove fatal. His cousins, Messrs. B. Y., and T. E. Funderburk left at once for Monroe, reaching there about. sundown to And that he had died an hour or so before their arrival... .Miss Sarah Massey, daughter of Mr. John Massey, had the index Anger of her right hand so badly mashed in the machinery at the cotton mill last Saturday that it had to be amputated by Dr. Poovey... .Lee Brown, colored, a tenant on the Adams-Draffln place, exhibited at this office yesterday a cockles burr stalk about four inches high which contained twenty-six fully developed burrs?something very unusual for this time of year. He found it growing in a manure pile. GA8TON Gastonia Gazette, May 26: At Belmont last night the engine of No. 35 was detached to capture some loose 1 freight cars reported two miles this side of Belmont. The engineer, Andy Orr, expected to find the care standing still, but instead they were rushing down grade toward him. The cars and engine were wrecked, and the engineer seriously hurt. It Is reported that he Is fatally injured. One leg has been amputated, and it is not known wheth- 8 er the other can be saved or not. The track is not expected to be clear be- 8 fore noon today A big barn be- 8 longing to Mr. John J. Lewis Jn South 4 Point township, was destroyed by Are 4 about dark Saturday night It was c set on Are by lightning in a severe 8 thunderstorm which prevailed generally over the county about that hour. c Mr. Lewis now lives at Mr. John Gul- 4 lick's place, but the barn was at his 1 own home place where his son, George, 4 now lives. It was a large barn, well hnJlt ?nrt flllpd with rnnehneflH. Mr. C George Lewis was lying near a window c and saw the barn set on Are, but was 8 so shocked by the bolt of lightning that it was some moments before he could move. He did pull himself together, however, and got the stock out, but the fodder and harness were lost in the fire. The dwelling also caught from the burning barn, but the timely arrival and hard work of the neighbors extinguished it. There was no Insurance and the loss falls heavily upon a* good and worthy citizen. Mr. Lewis's insurance in another company had expired and he was only waiting for the new policies of the Gaston County Farmers' Mutual to be ready c for insurance In the woods near 8 Crowders Mountain Cotton mills, an old colored man named Norris Page, was found dead Thursday afternoon. Coroner W. M. Adams was summon- t ed and found the body swollen and de- j caying. When last seen he was near that spot Monday morning. There were no evidences of foul play and no Inquest was held. The deceased had evidently fallen dead from heart dis- ^ ease At the home of her mother, Mrs. M. D. Stroup, near the Avon* Friday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock, Mrs. Mary Kate McClymont died after a lingering illness of several months 8 with consumption About 6.10 yes- r terday morning before the machinery ? of the Gastonia Manufacturing Com- ^ pany's Oil mill was fairly in opera- 8 tion, Will McKee, a card hand, aged 1 about 30 years, met an almost instant and a terrible death on one of the card machines. There was no eye wit- c ness to the terrible tragedy and con- c sequently It cannot be definitely known * just how the accident came about. 1 McKee was working at one of the card f machines in the south end of the mill. A It is supposed that the unfortunate * man stooped to pick up a stick, which he used in shifting the belt from the main pulley to the fly pulley on the c machine and which was lying on the A floor against the base of the machine. * In bending over his head became en- * tangled in the belt, which was run- c ning at full speed, and was hurled vio- 1 lently against the stand or bearings to which the pulleys are attached. Whether he became dizzy and fell j against the belt or leaned too near and was drawn In, it is impossible to | say. Mr. J. S. McKeever, a card grinder, was standing several feet away at c another machine and turned as quickly as possible but reached the spot only in time to see the victim's head, torn and bleeding, held in a vice-like ^ grip between the pulley and the main j body of the machine. The belt and i / pulleys were removed as quickly as possible and It was seen at once that le was practically beyond human aid. [>rs. R. C. Bunting, R. M. Reld and H. F\ Glenn were summoned at once but VIcKee died within twenty or thirty ninutes without having recovered consciousness. Although his head was )adly mutilated, his skull being slighty fractured above the left eye, the physicians say that death resulted from :he shock. THE TRICK8 OF CHINATOWN. Sights to Be Seen By Country Visitors at $5 a Head. By far the most interesting part *of tfew York city in the eyes of visitors 'rom out of town, is Chinatown, which s invaded by thousands of sightseers ?very year. Ninety per cent, of them ?o at night and are bent on seeing the Ireadful things which Chinamen and heir Caucasian associates are popuarly supposed to do. As a result of ;his curiosity, a custom of working off 'rauds on the visitors has grown up in Chinatown, and it has proved to be a lighly profitable business all around. Almost everything that visitors to Chinatown see nowadays is more or ess fraudulent. Whether the visitors :ome by night or by day, the greater mrt of the entertainment provided by heir guides is fraudulent, although hey never know it and go away satisled that they have seen the real thing. The Chinamen who live in China:own are not fools, neither ai$ the white women who associate with them lor the white men who pick up a livng in more or less questionable ways n the quarter. None of the Chinanen, and certainly very few of the vomen, could be induced to make pubic display of their private lives for noney, but they are not at all averse 0 arranging little exhibitions for the edification of visitors, who pay well, hinking they are seeing the real thing. There are fully, a score of men of he 'Chuck" Connors type who call hemselves Chinatown guides. They lave lived in the quarter for years, enow every man and woman in it, enow the gambling dens, the joss louses, the opium joints; in fact, are 1 part of the quarter and well qualified o show people about. The minute a visiting party strikes Chinatown it is taken in tow by one >f these guides. Sometimes the guide r.eets the party by appointment, for nany of them have connections with lotel clerks uptown who tout for hem, but oftener the party wanders ibout until a guide picks it up and nakes a bargain to show it Chinaown. Of course, the party wants to see tpium smoking, a game of fantan in iperation, the quarters of white wonen who live with Chinamen, and all he other things that are part of the luarter. The guide leads them up dark tlleyways through winding hallways vhere they cannot see their hands be'ore their faces, and finally into little >ox-like rooms where white women tnd Chinamen smoke what is supposed 0 be opium for their amusement. All :onversation is carried on in whispers, 1 good deal is said about the police and >ther dangers of the expedition, and he visitors are worked up to a proper itate of excitement. What the Chinamen and women imoke is not opium at all. Generally i small piece of wax is cooked over he lamp and inserted over the pinlole of the pipe bowl. A convenient :igarette in the end of the pipe's broad item supplies the smoke. A few puffs and the smoker rolls >ver in what appears to be deep slum>er. The guide leads the shivering >arty out, and warns all hands to keep he matter very quiet. Next he finds a Chinese gambling len in full operation. Fantan, Chinese lominoes and games with the long ifrtn nf norrihnnrd rnvpr<?d with Chi lese characters, are being played, ["he table Is covered with money, the tanker hauls his coins from the cenre of the table with his sharp pointed itick, and the players sucjc away at heir gurgling water pipes. A carefuly arranged protest Is made when the isltors enter, but the guide arranges natters and the play Is resumed. This is just as complete a fake as he opium smoking. The supposed ramblers are just play acting for the teneflt of the visitors, but they do It rery well, and the visitors, especially he women, for there are women In all if these parties, go away properly iwed. Visits to joss houses, restaurants and illeged dens are made, fake fights ocur, dramatic scenes are enacted and >y the time the trip Is over the vistors have seen about all they can tand. For a long time there was a Chinaown woman who used to commit suicide every night for the benefit of vistors. She was a good-looking girl md had a room at the top of a Doyrs streets tenement. For a long time the fake opium imoking took place in her room. A omantic and touching tale of this firl's downfall used to be told confilentlally to the visitors by the guides, io that she was an object of special nterest. At a certain stage of the exhibition each night she would startle the visiters by tossing her pipe aside, crying >ut, "I am tired of all this!" and then aking a hasty swallow from a bottle abelled "carbolic acid." She would all groaning to the floor and the guide vould hustle the visitors away so that hey wouldn't be arrested as witnesses. The fake suicide was a howling suc:ess and a great money-maker for the voman who did it. The wardmen rom the Elizabeth street station put he performances under the ban, however, and the guides had to cut it out *1 l i ?t IJL men rcpciiunc. The programme as described is gone hrough with as many as a dozen imes some nights and the strange hing is that visitors never seem to leteet the imposition. They swallow t all with perfect confidence and pay is much as $5 a head sometimes for he evening's entertainment.?New fork Sun. 'Jtsr If a man wants to get a line on lis popularity as a speaker let him lire a hall and charge fifty cents ad- ' nission. THE CONGAREE MADSTONE. I A Stone That Beoame Famous Throughout the South Now In Now York. Among the ignorant and superstitious there is a firm belief in the efficacy of that strange substance known as the madstone. It is in( general regarded as is the philosopher's stone, but, whereas no specimen of the latter is known to exist or to have ex isted, there are at the present moment at least four specimens of the former. Curiously enough, two of the four specimens were found In South Carolina. One of them Is now In the British museum; the other has, within the past few days, been brought to New York, and is in the posesslon of I. E. Orchard, of the Musical Courier. The madstone is from two and a half to three inches In circumference, and nearly an inch thick. In shape It Is oval. Its surface is smooth. It resembles beeswax In appearance. Being porous It is necessarily light. Its present guardian, who has Arm faith in its properties, gives the following particulars, which he says can be corroborated: "The 'Congaree' Is the most famous madstone in the world. It has an interesting history. It was taken from the stomach of a deer, which was killed in Congaree swamp, about twenty miles from Columbia, S. C. This was in the year 1805. Soon after it was discovered the stone was lent by its owner to a geological museum at the South Carolina college, where it remained several years. In the early spring of 1808 a maddog invaded the college campus, and bit four students. There was not the slightest doubt that the dog naa tne raDies. One of the young men who were bitten was the son of the president of the college. Some one suggested the madstone be tested and It was at once brought from the cabinet In which It had lain useless for three years. One of the professors offered to treat the bitten students with the stone, with whose mysterious powers few were then familiar. Some doubters were disposed to ridicule the curative powers of the stone, and declared that a belief In Its ability to prevent or cure hydrophobia was nothing less than superstition. Nevertheless, three of the young men who had been bitten by the rabid dog consented to have the stone applied to their wounds. It was first placed upon the wound of a student whose cheek had been torn by the beast's teeth. It adhered thereto at once, and oluhg tenaciously for an hour and forty rrilnutes, when it suddenly dropped ofT. It was therefore placed in a vessel containing milk and water, and it less than a minute, the fluid turned green, being Impregnated with the poison which the stone had sucked from the wound. The stone was washed off and again placed upon the same wound, and, as before, adhered, but not quite so tenaciously. In the course of half an hour it dropped off again, was again cleaned, and again applied to the wound. This time it refused to adhere, having extracted every particle of Ufe poison. It dropped off the first slme because it was congested. "The young man who first submitted to the treatment was saved, as were the two others who followed his example. The fourth student, who had been bitten In the hand, made light of the matter, and refused to have the madstone applied to his wound. A week later he died of hydrophobia, after, it need scarce be said, having suffered frightful agonies. "The stone at once became famous throughout the south, and many ruwBnatMir articles were DUblished about It in Columbia and elsewhere. Its owner, who had lent it to the museum, realizing Its great value, again took charge of It, and applied it gratuitously to all who were in need 01' it in the vicinity. In every Instance it proved efficacious. When he died, in 1820, he bequeathed it to his son, who a few years later sold it to a Charleston physician. For many years the stone remained in Charleston, and was used, not only oi\ persons who had been bitten by maddogs, but also on 1 those who were suffering from snake bites, and always with uniformly successful results. It afterward came Into the possession of a resident of Atlanta, who treated a score or more persons who had been bitten by maddogs and snakes. On one occasion two young 1 men who had been bitten by a mad- 1 dog In New Orleans went all the way to Atlanta for. treatment, their expenses being borne by a newspaper of 1 the Cresent City. Notwithstanding the fact that three days had elapsed between the time they were bitten and J the time the stone was applied to the : wounds, a perfect cure was effected. ?'T? to, fViot tmm 1S0K when 1 XV to COllllIUlVU LllLVV the stone was discovered, to 1899, when it was last used, upward of 145 persons have been successfully treated."-* New York Commercial Advertiser. ; More Than the Five Senses.? Many of our scientists, until quite recently, have been reluctant to admit > that a number of the lower animals i possibly possess other senses than ours. So much new and undeniably affirmatory evidence Is, however, now 1 being offered on this point, that there can be no longer any substantial rea- 1 son for doubting that the five senses man imperfectly exercises are by no 1 means all that are possible to sentient 1 creatures. One such sense not possessed by 1 human beings, but to a greater or less degree almost universally present in 1 mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and in- ' sects, is what perhaps may be called 1 the sense of localization. It enables 1 its possessor, apparently by its sole ' use, to find a desirea spot. xi is evidently closely connected with an In- ! stlnctive perfect memory of distance ' and direction. That the homing pig- 1 eon exercises It to some extent, though undoubtedly aided by the landmarks it ( recognizes, is indisputable, that the 1 honey bee has it in its fulness and per- ' fection cannot, after the careful ex- ' periments of Albrecht Bethe in Ger- ' many, be doubted. ' Examples in insects that possess an 1 X-ray sense, not only among Euro- 1 ptan but our own hymenoptera, can be multiplied indefinitely. Only one or two of the senses peculiar to the low- i er animals are here noticed. Dubbock suggests that "there may be fifty of them."?Scientific American. THE FLAG IN BATTLE. When or Where It Was First Borne History Records Not. Where in the whole world is another thing meaningless In itself that has signified so much or served so greatly in the dramas of national life as the flag? asks the London Globe. One tradition says the Saracens first carried an orthodox standard into bat lie ana mus gave me iaea, as mey gave so many others, to the crusaders. But obviously the flag is far older than this, and it is interesting to note its development from the first inanimate object borne aloft on a staff so as to be generally visible down to the complicated blazonry of a royal banner in our own ages. The Egyptians thus carried before their hosts the figure of a sacred animal on a spear, and the Assyrians, as their carvings tells us, inspired the hopes and centered the attentions of their soldiers the same way. The royal standard of the Persians for many years was a blacksmith's apron; hence the Persian "sun." The lion was an obvious afterthought. The Turks used a horse's tail, the rank of a pasha being known by the number of tails he carried, and probably this suggested the much bifurcated pennon of early western chivalry familiar to every one who has studied the Baveux tapestry or early illuminated missals. In the middle ages, devoted to display and military arrogance, the flag stood in relationship to the great captain's array as his personal armor stood to himself; it Insured recognition in the melee and supplied a rallying point for the fighters such as nothing else could have done. This IaJ 4 a. a4I/..?a44a a# fln/ya T?r Vi IrtVt Q n_ 1CU LU a. II enqueue Ul 11050 nmvil portioned shape and size to every rank of the peerage, from the royal standard itself down through a varied array of banners, gonfalons, ensigns and other "bits of red rag," and kept the herald's college busy, besides supplying the poets with admirable local colorings for their battle pieces. Does not Scott tell us in some famous lines: Then fell that spotless banner white, Lord Howard's lion fell; But still Lord Marmion's falcon flew With wavering flight, while fiercer grew Around the battle yell. Here, it will be noted, the whole gist and point of the fight centers in the pennons of the leaders, and of the same vital importance of the flag there are innumerable instances in mediaeval literature. When the Douglas unfurled his standard at Otterbum?a flag, by the way, which is still in existence ?he declared, and thought not without reason, that the mere sight of that famous cloth would put the English host to rout. And even in comparatively modeVn and prosaic times the belief that a dreaded captain was beneath a certain emblem has sufficed to turn the scales 0$ battle. Thus in the French war of 1797 the Da/? n A mlral Corov H/ViOn ncuwii xvcat xxuiuii a* mo.i vj ** mvm cruising with six frigates in the bay. of Bali came in sight of Ave -of our Indlamen, one of them the Woodford, Captain Lennox. They were homeward bound and all richly laden, and to all appearances they had no chance of escape, when Captain Lennox rescued them by an act of great Judgment of mind. He first of all hoisted in his own ship a flag which the French admiral knew well, that of the British Admiral Rainer, blue, at the mizzen, and he made all the other ships in his company hoist pennants and ensigns to correspond. But he did more. He detached two of the Indiamen to chase and reconnoitre the enemy, and as these advanced toward the French reconnoitering frigate, the Cybele, the latter, completely deceived, made all sail to join her consorts, on which the French admiral, believing he was in the presence of a powerful British squadron, made off with his frigates under all sail, and Captain Lennox and his consorts completed their voyage in safety. The flag indeed preserved its glamour long after the time when it was the cynosure of conflict, the emblazoned meteor of victory, as Milton calls It. Napoleon's officers, retreating from Moscow, burned their standards and In the excess of their bitter affection mixed the ashes with wine and drank them so. The same was done at Metz and Sedan, and even today there is probably no soldier in the world who would not do a little more for his colors than for anything else within his martial horizon. The idea has penetrated into all ranks of society. To nail one's colors to the mast is the last expression of desperate resolve, Just as to haul them down indicates the abyss of humiliation. How Bering Died.?In the June number of Harper's Magazine, Collins Shackelford tells the true story of the fatal expedition of the Explorer Bering, from whom Bering Straits are named. Here is his account of the adventurer's death after the loss of his Bhip: "Bering, who had been for some time totally disabled, was brought ashore on a hand-barrow In a boat and placed in a sheltering hollow, where his still faithful men?a mere handful?had cleared the snow from the sand. Even then he was dying. His great age and the hardships he had undergone on this voyage made his struggle for life hopeless. # "His slow passing away was pathetic and pitiful. In effect, he partially burled himself alive. He lay under the shelter of a tent, made from an old sail. Long suffering had made him childish and petulant. Each day and ill day his weakening hands were constantly busied scraping down upon his body, beginning at his feet, the sand from the ridges on either side. "He would submit to no Interference with this occupation, insisting that the sand warmed him. When he O 17-41 O rv-?/-trkf Vi oftor Jieu, ucmnuci o, xi-IX, a. uivuw ixxv?the landing, his body was already half buried, and it needed but a little work )n the part of his skeleton comrades to enclose this hero of the Arctic regions in a coffin or frozen sand. An electrically charged wire grldron is the newest fly killer. AO Auiipal S'ory For Little Folks = Lion at the Barber's Once upon a time the Hon decided that he should go to the barber's, and feo he posted off to the shop fcept by the monkeys. "I'm In a big hurry," said the Hon as he climbed Into the barber's chair. "Get through with me as quick as you can, for I want to catch a train." He threw himself back in the chair and closed his eyes, and before the mon1 BE HAD FALLEN FAST ASLEEP AND WAS 8NOBING. keys had half recovered from their icare he had fallen fast asleep and was snoring. "What did he say he wanted?a hair cut or a shampoo?' asked the chief barber of his assistant "He didn't say," answered Jimmy. "OToii i ompqq vnu had better wake him up and ask him." "Well, I guess I'll resign my job," replied Jimmy. "If I wake him up he'll eat me up." "Then I'll shave him," said the chief. "Maybe that Isn't what he wants, and he'll eat you up," said Jimmy. "Then suppose I cut his hair?" "He may not want his hair cut, and he'll eat you up for that" "Then I guess I'll cut his hair and shave him both." "He'll eat us both up then." The chief scratched his bead and the assistant scratched bis head, but presently Jimmy says: "Boss, I would like to get off today to go and see a sick friend." "All right," answered the chief, as the happy Idea flitted through his brain. "And I'll take a day off too." So they took each other by the paw and tiptoed as easily as they could across the plain until they, got ont of earshot of the Hon, and then they ran. And unless he went to another barber shop Mr. Lion hasn't bad his shave or hair cut from that day to this.?Chicago Tribune. - - Thirst For Knowledge.?"Henry," said Uncle John, who was visiting: his city nephew, "who's that man in the house on the other side of the street? Every morning: he stands in front of a window and shaves himself. He's done it now for three days runnin'." "I suppose he has done it every morning for the last ten years, uncle," replied Henry"Has he lived there all that time?" "Yes; and longer that that, for all I know. I've been here only ten years myself." "Who is he?" "I don't know." "What does he do?" "I haven't the slightest idea, uncle." Uncle John put on his hat and went out In an hour he returned. "Henry," he said, "that chap's name is Horton. He runs an insurance office. He's worth about $7,000, owns uiai nouse, Deionga to me rrenuyierian church, has three boys an' one girl, an' he's forty-six years old. I've found out more about him In an hour than you have In ten years. Hanged If I don't believe llvin' In the city makes people stupid!" PHOTOGRAPHY 18 AN ART AMD it takes an artist to be a photographer. One who Is not an artist doesn't stand much of a chance of making a success at photography. I have given years of study to this especial line and I can say with pride that my work will compare favorably with that of any photographer in this section. The best and most perfect photographs are the result of experience and nnt exnerlments. I do all of mv developing, retouching and finishing, thereby obtaining the best possible results. As Far As Prices Are concerned, you need not worry yourself along that score. I know that my prices are reasonable and you will agree with me when I tell you what they are. I am also prepared to develop and print pictures taken with pocket cameras. If you have a Kodak or Vive or any other camera, and for any reason you can't develop and print your pictures, bring them to me at my gallery on West Liberty street. J. R. SCHORB. If . aV * (SUMMER f aw - the l f)d the l jyATES the l on the ,SUMN SOUTHERN ah* Mail! ^JVAILWff w.T?? Pass. Traffic Mgr. WASHINGTON, D.C. ^ Quick, Accurate, Neat And Cheap. A representative of a Columbia printing house came to Yorkvllle a few days ago and solicited a job of Brief printing from one of the attorneys. sHnniav nrw l* /our finwi i?o i?vvv?Mvrf asked. "Ninety cents per page," was the reply. 'Why, my dear sir, The Enquirer people here are doing our printing at only 75 cents for more than five pages and less than thirty pages and at 66 cents for over thirty pages." "Oh, well, but, is the work satisfactory?" doubtingly suggested the solicitor. "Not the least trouble about that, my friend, it is possible that you oan equal it; but i am sure you oannot beat it." And the solicitor from the Columbia printing bouse went on his way. During the recent term of court, an attorney from a neighboring town came to Yorkville to consult with a local attorney about a Brief In which both were Interested, and after the consultation was over, the visitor observed to the effect: 3 'There are about 60 or 60 pages of this and as it has to be filed on next Thursday, I will have to hurry the ccpy down so as to be sure that it is printed in time." THAT WAS ON FRIDAY. "8uppose you sec The Enquirer people here," the local attorney advised. "But can they give it to me in time?" "If thev aav thav will, they WILL." After getting prices, the visiting attorney agreed to turn In the copy Saturday morning. He did so, and it was all in type before 7 o'clock the evening of the same day, and he GOT HIS COMPLETED BRIEF IN AMPLE TIME FOR FILING. The rule of the Job Department of' this office is Accuraoy, Neatness, Deepatch, with prices lower than the lowest U M. GRIST'S SONS, PHnters. CAROLINA & NORTH-WMRN RAILWAY COMPANY. Schedule Effected May 31, 1003. Nortkbeaid. Paaaeager. Mixed. Ex. Sun. Dally. Lv. Chester 9.00a.m. 8.00p.m. Lv. Lowryvllle ... 9.18a;m. 8.28p.m. Lv. McConnelss .. 9.28a.m. 8.48p.m. Lv. Guthries 9.33a.m. 8.67p.m. Lv. Torkvllle 9.49a.m. 9.19p.m. Lv. Filbert 10.01a.m. 9.44p.m. Lv. Clover 10.12a.m. 10.00p.m. Lv. Bo^ilngGreen, 16.20a?nt 10.P4p.in. LiV. uasxoma ia.sua.ni. Lv. Llncolnton ...11.43a.m. 2.00a.m. Lv. Newton 12.28p.m. 2.55a.m. Lv. Hickory . .....12.50p.m. 4.00a.m. Lv. Cliffs 1.23p.m. 4.40a.m. Ar. Lenoir ....... 2.05p.m. 6.00a.m. S?ithb??4. PwMiger. llxed. Ex. Sun. Daily. Lv. Lenoir 3.30p.m. 8.00pm. * Lv. Cliffs 3.08p.m. 9.30p.m. Lv. Hickory ..... 3.20p.m. 9.60p.m. Lv. Newton 3.45p.m. 11.45p.m. Lv. Llncolnton ... 4.30p.m. 1.60a.m. Lv. Gastonia 5.30p.m. 4.20a.m. Lv. Bowling Green M8p.m. 4.55a.m. Lv. 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