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tumorous gjtpartmfttt. Objected to the Principle. "I didn't know how they did business In Porto Rico until I got there?" said an American who was stationed on the island for a year or more, "but it didn't take me long to find out Nobody paid cash down over there until he worked the credit system out. "Indeed, it was the hardest kind of work to leave money behind you. The system was to 'charge it up' and col lect in sixty or ninety days, ana we soldiers had a good thing out of it for the first six months. Then we had to pay cash, and the merchants couldn't get it into their pockets quick enough. "While the credit system was in full swing a Spanish tobacco dealer asked me to teach him the game of poker. As he had been very liberal in the matter of cigars I took hold and spent about three days with him, and at length he was ready to bet on his hand. I was also ready to win his money, and before we made a jackpot I said to him: "Senor, you must understand that I shall play strictly after American principles. If you lose you pay at once.' " 'Si, si,' he replied, and we went at it. "He was dead-easy game, but I let him win about J10 and told him to charge it. The next day we sat .down again and I soaked him for $50, and when we rose up I asked for the money. He looked puzzled and paid It over reluctantly, and when I went on the third day to skin him some more he said he guessed he didn't care to play. " 'But I thought you liked the game?' I said. " 'Si senor, I the poker game do like,' he replied, 'but I object to the principle of America in it.' "'How do mean?' " 'Why, when you $10 lose It Is charge It up, but when $50 win it is hand it over, quick right off.'"?Exchange. Not Good to Eat. The Galveston News is authority for a good story ahout Gen. Miles' recent visit to that city. While inspecting Con Tnnintn one of the men who have the ammunition magazine In charge was standing at the door of the place with two little strips of something that looked like macaroni, they being about the size and length of that Italian delicacy. "What is that?" said Gen. Miles. "Don't you know, general, what that is?" said the government official. "Don't believe I do," said the general, examining a piece of the stuff. "That's the powder we use In that rifle there," as he pointed to one of the giant 10-inch guns fronting out over the emplacement. Nobody laughed so heartily as the general himself at the very ridiculous idea of the head of the United States army not knowing what powder was when he saw it. One of the officers then said: "That stuff is put up in boxes you see over in that corner there. When the storm hit this fort and scattered our guns' or,a ammunttlnn nil (lVPr Smith Texas I it became necessary for us to send out an officer to locate and recover as much of it as possible. "One day while in the discharge of his duty he came upon an old farmer up the bay somewhere who had been picking up what he could find over in his section of the state. The officer found several of these boxes stacked away in the old man's larder, and he, in the name of Uncle Sam, proceeded to seize the combustible. "The officer procured a wagon, and as he was leaving the old man's place with his capture loaded on the wagon the old man with some degree of satisfaction sang out: " 'Take your old macaroni. It's no good nohow. Mary boiled some a whole day, and it tasted like mule.'" *3" There was a big overflow of Elks from the Baltimore convention here last week, and hundreds of them are here yet. A party of about a dozen of them were swinging along the board walk the other afternoon when they met Mr. Stoy, Atlantic City's mayor, taking his constitutional. The Elks know him by sight. One of them stepped forth from the gang, politely raised his hat to Mayor Stoy and said to him: "Beg. pardon, sir, but do you live here?" "Why, yes," courteously replied the mayor, "I "Then?why?don't?you m-o-v-e?" bawled the dozen or so Elks in a hilarious basso chorus. The mayor looked surprised for a moment and then he smiled good naturedly and engaged the Elks in conversation. "Well." remarked one of the Elks to the mayor as the party prepared to move on, "there's one thing you've got here that we haven't out west." "What is that?" unsuspectingly replied the mayor. "The east!" howled the Elks, again in a thundering, deep unison, and then the mayor good naturedly gave them up and resumed his stroll.?New York Sun. An Affair of Letters.?We are much surprised at meeting little Polly Corntossel, formerly of Bowersville, in England, says Judge. "Why, Polly," we say, "how is it we find you here?" "Polly?" she repeats with a dignity we never knew she possessed. 'Lady Oledebts, if you please." An apology on our part establishes friendly relations once more, and she tells us that she really has won and wedded Lord Oledebts, and that her father's dollars are being expended in the refurnishing of the Oledebts castle. "But," we say, "It was rumored in Bowersville that you were hesitating in your choice between three honest farmer lads in the vicinity. How was it, then, that you married his lordship?" "Oh!" she titters, "he came to Bowersville one day. When I saw him I dropped ray eyes and he began dropping his hi's, and It wasn't long until he induced me to drop my j's, and now we are both making papa drop his v's and x'r " pisrellaunw Reading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. Newt and Comment That It of More or Lett Local Interest. CHESTER. Lantern, August 11: Mr. O. J. Gwin of Olive, has a pear tree raised from a seed which was brought from Virginia in 1861. The pears are exceptionally fine, though entirely different from those produced by the parent tree in Virginia Rev. B. G. Murphy returned Saturday from Mount Holly, In York county, where he assisted Rev. E. A. Wllks in a meeting last week. The following persons left yesterday morning for Clemson to attend the state farmers' institute: Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Love, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Love and Messrs. J. L. Abeil, J. L. Miller, H. W. Miller. T. C. Strong, J. R. Reld, J. O. Barber, T. J. Ford. W. A. Blain, J. B. Morrison, S. H. Hardin, S. E. Wylie and W. H. Simpson. Mr. M. E. White went this morning We made a little trip recently on the Carolina and North-Western railway, and were most favorably impressed. Broad gauge trains seem perfectly at home on the new track provided for them. From here to Gastonia and on the return trip the train made Just a little better than 30 miles an hour, in eluding all stops. That Is about as fast as conservative and cautious people wish to travel. In the matter of safety this railroad has made an exceptional record. Under the present management, extending over ten or twelve years, no passenger or employe has been killed or even injured on a train, so far as we can recall. This covers the time too when a new roadbed in part and change of guage were being made and some confusion and accidents might have been expected. It may be said that this good luck just happened, but we have noticed that safety generally "happens" when care is exercised, and so long as the C. & N.-W. continues to carry people over its line so swiftly and carefully, we shall continue to give the officials credit for attending to their business. LANCA8TER. Ledger, August 12: Rev. B. F. White of Moundsvllle, W. Va., after spending a few days with his brother at Unity, left Monday for the New England states where he will spend the summer vacation given him by his congregation The following persons from this county are attending the State Agricultural institute at Clemson college this week: M. E. Jordan, A. B. Ferguson. W. J. Cunningham, W. J. Bailey Walker Dunlap, colored, was in town Monday looking for a doctor to remove a load of bird shot from one of his legs. He said that Bob Sullivan, another Negro of the Dixie section, had shot him from the edge of the woods, as he stood in his own door that morning. They had previously quarreled when Bob went off and got his gun. Returning to the edge of the woods he tried to get Dunlap to come out there and on his refusal to come Bob pulled down on him with the result that he scattered the load of shot about in his leg-. A woman was the cause of the trouble Coroner Caskey went to Haile Gold mine Monday to hold an inquest over the body of John Leach, the Negro who was shot in the bowels at the Blackmon mine on Tuesday of last week by Walter McManus alias Arants. Leach was carried to hi3 mother's at Haile mine after the shooting where he could be attended by Drs. Gregory and Twitty. Despite the skill of the physicians he died Sunday afternoon. The shooting, we learn from the Era, was the outcome of a difficulty between the parties on the Sunday previous and that Leach was sitting down when shot Elsewhere the supervisor gives notice I of a good roads convention to be held at this place Saturday, August 22d. Senator Latimer has accepted an Invitation to address the convention. The senator has not failed to awaken enthusiasm on the subject whenever he has spoken and every county where he has been Is actively moving In the Improvement of Its public highways. Every man In the county Is interested in having good roads. Come to the meeting on the 22nd and hear a discussion .of the most feasible plans for getting them. This good roads movement should be sanctioned by every farmer and have his enthusiastic support. Come and bring your neighbor with you. unvj i Gaston ia Gazette, August 11: The official returns from Thursday's election seem to indicate that the people didn't want to Issue bonds for good roads. We believe they want good roads and that they will issue bonds to build them?but Thursday wasn't the time to give the word. The Gazette, however, hasn't dropped the issue or despaired of ultimate success. Bond issues often fail at the first election Mr. Pelham Morrow and family arrived Friday night from Davidson College, where they have been living for the past two years. They will reside in Gastonla in the future, occupying Mr. Morrow's residence on Main street Mr. L. M. Hull of Shelby, had the misfortune to lose a good horse here Sunday morning. He was driving through from Rock Hill to Blowing Rock on his return from Lancacter, S. C., from which point he ran an excursion 10 Asneviue last ween. Before reaching Gastonia he fed the horse on corn and soon after arriving here Saturday evening the horse became sick and died Sunday morning. The horse was valued at $135.... It is a distressing duty to chronicle the death of Mr. Ivy Holland, which occurred at his home yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. He was on the road to recovery from typhoid fever, when he took a relapse and died. He was a son of the late Franklin Holland and leaves a wife and three children. His age was thirty-two on the 16th of last May. A Brilliant Retort.?After dinner speaking is an art, and like many other arts, its excellence has much to do with the mood of the artist. Some of the best of our after dinner speakers sometimes fail, but it is not often that failure results in the enrichment of the world's store of epigram, as it did in \ the case of Lord Erskine many years ago. When Lord Erskine was made a member of that highly honorable body, the Fishmongers' company of London, he made an after dinner speech on the occasion of his first appearance among them as a member. Upon his return he said to a friend: "I spoke ill today and stammered and hesitated in the opening." "You certainly floundered," was the reply, "but I thought you did so in compliment to the fishmongers." TAN'S VERY WISE DOG. Knew the Morse Alphabet and Could Play Poker. "Everybody down at Graneros remembers Tan's pup," said the operator as he flashed the picture of the dog. "I remember the dog very well. Tanquary was the operator down there when I first came to Colorado. Graneros was made up of a battered box car that had been dumped at one side of the track. This served as a telegraph office, and It was a dreary place for the bravest man, and Tan got lonesome staying there. "One day some one sent Tanquary a dog. It was a mean looking animal of mingled breeding, and it had a tail of the length, breadth, thickness and general outline of a banana. But the dog was welcomed and soon made friends with the lonely operator. Tanquary taught the animal to go to the section foreman's hotel, where he boarded, and fetch his lunch, although the dog was at nrst tncunea iu iukc a. aumau n?.iday with the food. "Tan also taught the dog a number of tricks, such as standing on his head, to leap sideways, to chew tobacco and to smoke. The only picture I have of the dog is the one where he is seen smoking. "Although Tanquary taught the dog a good many things, the brute went on to learn many other things without the operator's assistance. The two grew more and more fond of each other, and once when Tanquary came up to see if Denver was still here he brought the dog with him. They had sundry adventures and finally brought up at a poker game behind a Wazee street barber shop. There three strangers had decided to gather in Tanquary's six months' salary. "They played with great energy until the operator had reached the last dime in his pocketbook. He looked about him and his eyes fell upon his faithful dog, which had taken a position on a chair on the opposite side of the taKlo 'Pan lnnkfd mournfully at the brute for a minute, and then his love for the game overcame him and he said: " 'If you are good sports you will let me put up that dog against a dollar's worth of excitement and we can go it a little longer. Otherwise I am out of It.' "Tanquary told of the dog's accomplishments and put him through a few of his tricks. Something seemed to be worrying the dog, and it could be seen that Tanquary saw his pet was not satisfied to masquerade as a jackpot. Well, the three gamblers consented to let Tanquary stake the dog. "After that the game became one of life and death. Tanquary, after the draw, found himself possessed of two kings and the same number of tens. All but one of the strangers fell by the wayside and Tan was getting worried about the single opponent, for the fellow held up three cards. The operator weighed his hand and then sat silentI" opoof tho fu'A nolrfl SilHdPnlv he heard a sound, a slow, steady taptap. Tan's telegraphic ear caught from the mysterious sound these Morse characters: " 'He has deuces.' "Now, Tan was a man who did not inquire into the whys and wherefores of Providence. When a miracle was performed, the purport of which was to inform him that the other fellow was bluffing on deuces, he accepted the tip and played back with all his strength. The result was that he garnered *2.85 on that pot and was staked for the next deal. "They started in again and Tan got three kings, we was mcunea xo oei like an amateur, but he suddenly heard again the slow tap-tap. He Inclined his head and heard the telegraphic alphabet. The dots and dashes read: " 'Keep out. I see four nines.' "Tan cast a hurried glance around to see if he could locate his miracle-working messenger. He saw nothing but the dog sitting disconsolately on the chair on the opposite side of the table. Nevertheless, Tan threw down his kings and lost ten cents. On the next hand he reaped $37 on one of the spirit manifestations by telegraph, which told him one man held a pair of fives, another a bobtail flush and the other two pairs, kings up. He himself held three treys. "Well, as the night wore away the mysterious messages kept coming and Tan began to roll in wealth. Next morning he went back to Graneros with $1,737, all the three sports and he himself had at the beginning. "When Tan got up out of his chair one of the sports said: 'Well, I hope you've, got enough money to buy that dog some grub. He's been sitting there wagging his tail all night.' "Tanquary looked up in a rather startled manner, for a groat truth was beginning to dawn upon him. And he guessed right. The dog had been watching the ofher fellows' hands. His tail was sandwiched In between two of the uprights in the back of the chair. As Tanquary stood looking at the dog the brute's tall began wagging again. Tan listened closely, and as the dog's tail struck the uprights of the chair the operator deciphered the letters. The messaere was: 'And we didn't do a thing to them.' "Tanquary reached over and stroked the dog's head. He was mystified for awhile: and I don't believe he ever did figure out just how it came about, but it's a well-known fact."?Nashville American. When a man takes your hand with a firm, cordial grasp, it is a sure sign that his heart is full or his purse is empty. t*y The self-righteous man has no place in an organization; his place in ihe wall had better be left a hole. RACE ISSUE IN ARMY AND NAVY. Promises to Become Troublesome In Next Few Years. The race problem, says a Washington letter to the Brooklyn Eagle, promises to become a live and troublesome issue In the army and navy during the next few years. Negro officers in the army who have heretofore been isolated with colored troops, are about to be promoted to positions where it will not be practicable to further separate them from white officers and enlisted men. The annexation of Hawaii and Porto Rico, with the subsequent appointment of naval cadets from those territories, will bring dark skinned boys to the naval academy, which up to this time has been most successful In excluding Negroes. This matter has been discussed of late by leading officers in both services and also by officials of the war and navy departments. Some concern has been expressed by them as to what the outcome will be. The feeling against Negroes in the military service is decidedly stronger in the navy than in the army. Possibly this comes from the fact that after graduation from the academy naval officers are thrown Into more intimate personal relations with each other than are officers of the army. Life on a warship brings all officers into pretty close contact and it is likely that this thought is responsl ble for the deep-seated prejudice that ' has always prevailed against Negro 1 cadets at Annapolis. < It Is a matter of record that while I many Negro youths have been deslg- J nated for appointment to the naval ' academy, very few have succeeded in ' passing the entrance examination. Occasionally, however, one puts up so I creditable an examination that it is ! impossible, even by a stretch of the 1 prejudiced mind of the examiner, not 1 to pass him. History has yet to re- ( port the graduation from Annapolis of < a colored cadet. For one reason or an- 1 other they were either dropped or pre- 1 ferred the quiet of life at home to the ' rigors pf existence in the academy 1 with a lot of uncongenial whites. 1 Now the question of the reception at Annapolis of a boy of off color is to 1 come up again. Ellis Landon, a native ' Hawaiian, was appointed a few months ago bv Delegate Wilcox as a cadet to 1 Annapolis. He passed the examination ! for entrance and is now en route for ! San Francisco. Much curiosity exists at the navy department regarding his complexion and other facial features, but as one officer said: "None of us ! know whether he is white or green." A great deal depends on this apparently trifling matter. i The question of the kind of reception i natives of Porto Rico are to receive at i Annapolis has been postponed for a i few more months by the failure of all candidates from the island thus far to I pass the examination. When provis- i ion was made for the appointment o'f naval cadets from Porto Rico it was stipulated that the candidates should be natives of that island. Commission- i er Dagatau, Porto Rico's representative in the United States, is. authorized to i make the appointments._ He picked out i a couple of likely Porto Ricans, one i of whom journeyed to Alaska to take ] the examination. He failed to pass i and, as the alternate did not show up, 1 the matter will go over to the next ex- I umination. Porto Rico's candidates < for appointments at West Point have < also fallen by the wayside, so that the island has no representative either in i the army or navy. Hawaii has one representative at West Point and one j at Annapolis, but both are the sons < of Americans. The law does not re- ! quire appointees from Hawaii to be 1 natives. i All told there are now eight colored < officers In the army. Four are chap- 1 lains and are hardly classed with commissioned officers. With one or two < exceptions all are comparatively re- 1 cent appointees. The four colored 1 chaplains are assigned to regiments ( composed of men of their own race. 1 There Is one colored paymaster In the 1 army. He was appointed as a volun- t teer by President McKlnley and at the 1 close of the war with Spain was given i a commission as paymaster in the reg- 1 ular army. i Within the past couple of years two t Negroes won shoulder straps by coming up for examination from the 1 ranks. They are now lieutenants and one is in the 10th and the other in the 24th infantry, both colored organizations. Well up in .the list of captains is Charles Young, colored. He is the only Negro graduate from West Point now in the army. There have been others?two, but neither is now in the service. One named Flipper had a rough time of it from the time he presented himself at West Point. He was exceedingly unpopular with the other cadets and was the recipient of some rough hazing. He got his commission, however, but almost immediately fell Into trouble and was court-martialed and dismissed from the army. The other was named Alexander and from all accounts was a superior Negro. He was universally liked by his brother officers and died after a few years of creditable service. Captain Young was born In Kentucky and was appointed to West Point from Ohio. During the Spanish var he was given a volunteer rank of najor and was assigned to a troop of :olored volunteers. In a few years he vill be promoted to be a colonel and hen he will be entitled to command a egiment. There Is no way the dejartment could arrange matters so that Colonel Young would not be in charge )f white officers, provided he is conInued as a field officer. This is the dtuatlon that is dreaded by war dejartment officials, for it is believed hat there will be trouble from having i rnlnrpd man in eommand over white graduates from West Point. In 1874 a colored youth, Henry E. Baker, was appointed to the naval icademy from South Carolina. At the jeml-annual examination he was resorted deficient, but was given a chance to make up. At the annual eximination he was again deficient and vas turned back to the lower class. In November, 1875, Baker was dismissed tor applying an epithet to a classmate. Another colored youth, Alonzo C. Mclennan, was appointed to the naval icademy In 1873, also from South Carina, The next year he was reported ieflcient In all branches of study and ivas allowed to resign. In 1872 James S. Conyers, colored, was appointed as i cadet at the same Institution from South Carolina. At the examination it the end of the first year he was declared to be a failure with "no aptitude or promise," but was given an>ther chance to make good. He failed " * n nlftr QY\f\ Q t t hp LU improve nuo imm; ? ?> ? ?. and of that year was dropped. These youngsters led a very unhappy life at \nnapolis, for the white boys there have their own way of settling the race juestion. Whether the developments of late years in connection with the suppression of hazing will secure better treatment for future colored appointees remains to be seen. It Is also a matter af conjecture whether the cadets will :lass native Porto Ricans and Hawaiians with Negroes. Instances are numerous where boys have been received at the academy to receive Instructions as a matter of compliment to their respective governments. One or more Japs are usually at Annapolis under this condition. Usually these boys have gotten along all right with their white companions and Instances are recorded of very strong friendships springing up between the American and foreign youths. LOOTED BOER BIBLES. Lord Roberts's Appeal to Their Pos ?? *? Datum tlia \ZaIhwiM COIVI O fcW IVIMI ? IV V Vl?lil??> It is notified from the war office, 3ays the London Chronicle, that a large number of Boer Bibles disappeared Trom the Boer farms, and Lord Roberts asks any soldiers in possession of these Bibles to return them, "as such a kindly act would be much appreciated by [jur new fellow subjects." Since the beginning of the South African war the Society of Friends, whose central offices are at 12 Bishopsgate Without, has had a committee watching for opportunities of giving relief to sufferers in South Africa, irrespective of race or nationality. Last autumn W. H. F. Alexander and L. Richardson went to South Africa, and reported in January, among other things that they had discovered a number of Boer family Bibles, with records of births, etc., had been looted and tak en 10 nmgmna. The society corresponds with ministers and magistrates in South Africar, which of course, is a slow process, and as the owner (or his representative) af each Bible is traced it is sent back. 3ome of the Bibles are greatly prized by the Boers, as they contain the whole family pedigree. They are printed in aid Dutch, not the Taal, and many are zery fine specimens indeed. So far information has been received >f some twenty Bibles which are wanted. One is in the care of the Bishop of Rlpon, which belonged to 3en. Prinsloo. The Bishop of Ripon las expressed his willingness to re:urn It. Another fine Bible, belonging :o an Outlander family, was heard of n the west of England. This was probibly taken from Johannesburg, and a hird is that of a Dutch commandant lamed Haasboek, who was killed In he war. Mr. Alexander has two Bibles by um. une la u iiict^iiiiiuciiL vuiutuc, a arge folio, dated 1660, 18 inches by 11 nches, belongng to a family named /an der Merwe, and returned by Capt. iVerneford, 44th Georkhas, who found t near Ermelo. This contains a pedigree, the first part of which is in iluminated characters. In all probabili;y it belonged to one of the old Voorrekkers, who established the Orange liver colony and Transvaal. The oth>r is not so old and apparently belongs o a family named Grant. Only yesterday an officer living at Vewcastle-on-Tyne wrote to say he vas returning a Bible he bought from >ne of his men, which belonged, he >elieved, to one Martlnus Els, of Sloot iraal, Heilfron, Orange River colony. i ne rronuspiece or mis naa Deen torn iway, the Bible having been found lear a deserted farm house which had >een partially destroyed. The only volume yet sent back Is a ^salm book given by a father, when in his deathbed, to his son, and this las been sent to the widowed mother, t is hoped that, as the movement for eturning the Bibles gets better known, nore progress will be made and that he sympathy It expressed will be appelated by the Boers. IF a man is kno1 he keeps, he is i printing he sen Don't send out f\T ana Advertising Wj> Best. it Business today if often it's a sma r the scales. 3 That piece of pi pect to send out resentative of y< An Anin?&l Story Por Little Polks The Sparrow's Revenge One day the squirrel was feeling in a bad humor, which is not nice in little squirrels any more than it is in little boys and girls, and when the sparrow was trying to take a little nap on a twig of the tree the squirrel shook tho Urn ha an hnrd that the DOOT sleepy bead could get no rest. "Please don't do that," pleaded the sparrow. "Oh, It's lots of fun to keep you awake," replied the selfish little squirrel. "I'll do anything for you if you will only let me sleep for an hour or two," said the sparrow. "Well," said the squirrel, "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll go down on the THE SPABBOW AQBBED. ground, and you may toss me some nuts, and I will store them away In the little hole In the ground In whlet I'm going to sleep this winter. If you do that, I will let you sleep a little 1 while." The sparrow agreed to this, and the ' squirrel hurried down the tree trunk. Now, it happened that the sparrow 1 had a nest in the top of the tree, and there were two little eggs In the nest * Instead of getting a nice nut to drop down to the squirrel Mr. Sparrow pick ed out the biggest egg In the nest. "Tlimw tliom atrnlffht!" rrlpd the squirrel. "I'm going to catch them lr my teeth!" And he opened his moutt as wide as he could. Then the sparrow dropped the egg. Oh, my! Oh, me! It struck right square In the squlr rel's mouth, and the shell was crushed Into a thousand pieces. The white ol 1 the egg and the yolk of the egg splash ed all over the squirrel from head tc heel, and the worst of It was that hlf eyes were filled with the egg and he could no more see than a blind man. Then the squirrel ran away into th< grass, and the sparrow laughed and said, "That serves you right for treat lng. me bad." Then he closed his lit tie eyes and took a nice long sleep.Chicago Tribune. Obstinacy. "One of the most remarkable cases In my experience," said a country doctor, "was an old woman In a fisher?v?t?* /v? /^ottnllno ahnrA T1 iiia.ii a iiui <jii me vaivimu ?<w? was a long, dreary drive of ten miles and when I reached the place I found that the only occupant besides the sic* woman was a skit of a girl, who waf utterly worn out by weeks of care and nursing. I examined the patient and found every sign of early dissolution Her pulse was growing feebler, and 11 was only a question of a few hours, in my mind, before the end would coine The idea of the girl being left alone ir that hut touched me, and I decided to remain with her, even though the unexpected happened and the old lady lived through the night. The men ol the hut were fishermen, and they n*?rvKn Kltf Ka Konlr f Hq ri OTf HflV >Y UU1U UUftUIJ Mt UUVI\ fc??v So I sat with the girl In the corner ot tePir^ I XllrwN TOE I ^iIATFS twf ? ON THE 5UM1 tfJUTHERH ^ ^CIP ? Ma lulLifif WAT?? Pisa. Traffic Mg WASHIHOTOH, D. L -J A, - I wn by the company 5 also known by the ds out. "cheap" Stationery ? Literature?get the L. is a fight?and very ill matter that turns inting that you ex: should be a fit repDur business. the room and told her what I Intended to do. "'Won't she get well?' asked the girl after I had explained as mercifully as I could. 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