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tumorous jEJepartumtt. His Bad-Colored Whiskers. "A little joke happened at the turn back there last year," said the stage driver as .the highway made a half circle to the west. "What sort of a joke?" asked the man on the seat beside him. "Wall, among the passengers to start from Hill Top one mawnin* was a red-whiskered man who was great on the blow. He said he'd almost .? AA - L? ofnnnpfl give flUV IU Ilittc uic oiuf, > and that he wasn't afraid of no forty road agents rolled into one. "This gave the boys an idea, and it was put up that Joe Harper should be at that turn and purtend to hold us up and see red whiskers go down into his butes." "And did it come off." "It did. When we reached the turn I slowed up a leetle and Joe Jumped out and yelled fur hands up. I pulled up the hosses and he hollored fur the passengers to git down. Lord, how Joe hollored! You could have heard him two miles away. Everybody got down and tfce passengers in the joke purtended to be half-skeert to death." "But how about red-whiskers 7" "Fur about a minit or two he 'peared to be ready to collapse, but then he pulled himself together and it was bad fur poor Joe Harper. He had a gun In both hands and he opened fire and shot to kill. "I don't know how many bullets he shot into Joe, but it wasn't less'n six, and then he put in half an hour to see if any more robbers was on hand." "Then the joke was not a success?" "Not skassly, sah?not skassly. Joe Harper is lyin' in his grave back thar, while the red-whiskers man was so mad about the put up job that he driv all the passengers out of the stage and made them walk fifteen miles." "I'm a great hand fur a joke, sah, ' T no more?not with UUl 1 (X1U V jvnin *aw ..... . red-whiskered men. They may be great hands to brag, but they also is loaded fur b'ar." . The Terrible Demurrer. After having been solicitor general Captain Evan P. Howell, our present distinguished mayor, retained a considerable amount of private practice in Clayton superior court. At one term of the court he had a weak case for a very dull witted but persistent client. When it was sounded on the docket for trial the lawyer for the defense had filed a demurrer that was discussed and sustained, ' thereby throwing the plaintiffs case overboard. The plaintiff had listened imcuacijr to a legal duel, the purport of which was to him as a display of cuneiform inscriptions, but had a consciousness that something awful had happened wfcen the fracas between the lawyers came to an abrupt end. He went out like Mary's little lamb and lingered around until Captain Howell emerged from the courthouse door. His client seized him by the arm and dragged him off to a quiet spot in the shadow of John L. Doyal's law office. "Evan, whut's happened?" he tremulously questioned. "Why, John, that unfeeling Judge in there let the case go off on a demurrer." "Well, Evan, I know that, and we're flung out all right, but whan'n thunder is a demurrer? Tell me that now!" "Oh, John, you go home lo your plowing and don't worry. The good Lord never intended a fellow like you to understand the lengths and breadths, the heights and depths, of a demurrer! Why, a demurrer is one of the most dangerous things that the law of a thousand years has brought down to us for our affliction! Go home and try to forget it!" And John went?went in a hurry, so as to get space between him and the demurrers as quickly as possible.? ' Atlanta Constitution. Too Great a Strain.?"Speaking of names," he said, "some one toia me that Shadrach was a good name for a fisherman, but Ida known if he was Earnest in his remarks. He'd Rhoda good many Miles and was Justin from the country. To be Frank, he looked like a Guy. Said he came to a river and had to Bridget." The other looked at him wearily, but rallied and came back with these few remarks: "Reminds me of a girl I met last Eve who knew Isabel socially. She told me she was an acquired taste?her name is Olive. I Owen I was a little startled and lert tne uora-jar wnen i went out, but I had Prudence and endured all with Christian Patience. If I had been Abel and Neil I'd have done so and Rosa-gain only when she promised Mercy. But Mark me"? "Nay: Marcus both." Here the strain proved too great and they parted in silence.?Brooklyn Eagle. Thrbb Ancients.?A tourist passing near Aberfoyle. a place in Scotland noted for the longevity of its inhabitants. saw an old man sitting by the hedge crying bitterly. When asked the reason of his grief he replied that his "father" had struck him. The gentleman surprised, asked his age. "I dinna ken," he said, "but I'm near a hunner." "Take me to your father," said the tourist, and there, sure enough, was a tail, older looking man at work in a barn. "Is this your son?" it. i : io Kza w<15 lilt* IIM|UirtV. L/CCU I1C IO, me young loon!" he angrily replied. "An' he'll get niair the next time I come across him clodden stanes at his grandfa it her!"?Exchange. A Nkw Enci.an'I) Sandwich.?"How many children have you?" asked the friend of his boyhood. "1 have three. The oldest and youngest are girls, and the second child is a boy. My wife calls them "the sandwich.'" "Huh!" said the boyhood friend. "That's the lirst time I ever heard of a sandwich with the tongue on the outside."?New York Times. *'T"Nora!" gasped Mrs. Hiram Offen, "surely that's my new hat and gown you're wearing. "Yls, muin." replied the cook lady, "Oi thought since ye're not goin' out ye'll not be nadin' thim the day." iHiscdlantous pleading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest. CHESTER. Lantern, August 14: Miss-Anna McCaw of Yorkville, is visiting her cousin. Miss Susie Caldwell Invitations were received in town yesterday to the marriage of Miss Mary E11& Weiser and Dr. Marcus Babcock Heyman, Wednesday evening, August 26th, at 9 o'clock, at St. Paul's church, Kittanning, Pa. Dr. Heyman is a Chester man, who has a responsible position in a hospital on Long Island, New York. He has numerous friends in the city who have many good wishes for him in the happy step he is soon to take Mr. R. H. Fudge of Lyle, along with nine other men, went foxhunting at Mitford, Fairfield county, last week. They took along three wagons and about twenty-five or thirty hounds. Several of the men returned on Saturday, but some remained over until this week. Very little success crowned their efforts last week. They had a few chases, but it was up in the day when the trail was struck each time, and the ground was so dry and the sun so hot that no fox could be caught. Mr. Fudge did not himself see a single fox, but he said that some of the party reported seeing one or two. He saw several tracks he said. Miss Inez Hamilton's at home on Monday evening from 9 to 12 o'clock, given complimentary to Miss Mayme Darby of Lowrysville, Misses Mary Sue and Ellye Walker of Elleree, and Miss Grace Stokes of Yorkville, was a most brilliant affair. The rain in the afternoon rendered the lawn inaccessible, the spacious piazzas and parlor served Instead. Refreshments were served in abundance during the evening. All went merrily on, and the evening was most pleasantly spent. ** ,,A ooolofo/1 Miss namiuuu u.uu muse vmu (uoum her are to be congratulated upon the skillful management of their guests. Miss Josie Oates, daughter of Mr. J. F. Oates of Chester, was notified on Wednesday that she had been successful in the competitive examination for the Winthrop college scholarship, held several weeks ago under the direction of the county board of education. There are three scholarships for Chester county. Two of these have already been awarded by the Winthrop faculty, the persons holding them last year having been successful in making the required average. There was on'y one scholarship to be awarded this year, and is worth $44. LANCASTER. Ledger, August 15: During the storm last Thursday about noon the residence of Mr. John McKeown, about a mile and a half from town, was struck by lightning. The bolt demolished the stove flue of the cook room, tore off some shingles from the roof, knocked down the stove pipe and passed through the floor into the ground. It seems miraculous that none of the family was hurt. Mr. McKeown was slightly shocked, one of his fingers being in contact with the metal lock of a door to the room which he was opening at the time, but beyond the hurting of his finger and a temporary pain in the temple on the right side of his head, he felt no ill effects from it Mr. H. E. Coffey, " hn woe onnnlntod carrier of R_ F\ D. No. 1. on the resignation of Mr. Jno. D. Taylor as carrier several days ago, has declined to accept. Mr. Coffey sent in his resignation yesterday. Mr. E. D. Tillman will likely receive the appointment About 3 o'clock yesterday morning four Negro men went to the house of a Negro woman living on the T. K. Cunningham plantation (who is separated from her husband George Brown) for the purpose of administering a whipping to another Negro Emory Lomax) who had been warned to stay away from the Brown woman's 'house. Lomax ran on hearing them approach the house but was overtaken before he had gone more than 300 yards and the proposed whipping given him. He was then permitted to go on his way after getting some very emphatic instructions as to what the consequences would be if caugm mere again, l/imax appeareu in Magistrate Caskey's court yesterday and swore out warrants for George Brown, husband of the woman, Jack Montgomery, her brother, and Moore Dunlap and Collins Jones, saying he recognized them as his assailants. Trial was set for yesterday afternoon. Lawrence Copeland, formerly postmaster at Bethune in Kershaw county, was committed to jail Tuesday in default of $2,000 bond, to await trial at the November term of United States court, on the charge of embezzlement Mr. J. M. Heath, president of the Heath Banking and Mercantile company, who has been suffering intensely since last Sunday of gall stone, left Thursday for New York, accompanied by his family physician, Dr. J. F. Mackey. If deemed necessary after their arrival in New York. Mr, Heath will undergo an operation. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, August 14: It will be a long time before Pete Stroup and Grant Hinson are seen in Gastonia again. Both are in Herkimer county jail in central New York state. The boys left here in May and a few days later were imprisoned for burglary and grand larceny. Efforts have been made to get Stroup released but all to no avail. The sheriff of Herkimer says they have been trying to break jail and he has to keep an eye on them. It is his opinion that the boys will have to remain in jail until court convenes in December, when they will be convicted and sent to the reformatory Yesterday's Charlotte Observer says that Mr. Alexander Auteri, one of the three men who were shot by Sol. Shuford, a Gaston county Negro, near Davidson last Sunday, died Wednesday after noon in the hospital at Davidson. The other two men. Messrs. Sam and Jno. Lawton, have recovered from their wounds. Shuford is still at large though two of his companions have been caught The court of arbitration selected to try the case of Forbes vs. Riddle from (Jrowders Creek was in session Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, rendering its decision Wednesday afternoon. The court consisted of the following gentlemen: Mr. Eugene Summey and Mr. Robert Rhyne of Dallas. chosen by the plaintiff; Mr. John F. Leeper of South Point and Mr. Frank McArver. of Gastonia, chosen by the defendant; ex-Sheriff M. H. Shuford . umpire. The plaintiff was represented by Hon. O. F. Mason of Dallas, and the defendant by Attorney E. T. Cansler of Charlotte. This case, in which Mr. H. F. Forbes sought to recover damages from Mr. J. B. F. Riddle for injuries alleged to have resulted to his property from water backing up from the dam at Mr. Riddle's mill, had been pending in the courts for the * -- J V*.. wMittiinl nAn _ past two years, anu uy muium w..sent was referred to a court of arbitration. The court spent Monday going over the grounds, making a close investigation of the creek, dam, and adjoining lands and then repaired to Gastonia where Tuesday and Wednesday were spent examining witnesses, quite a number of whom were presented by each party. When the testimony was all in the attorneys agreed to give the case to the court without argument. The case was decided in favor of Mr. Riddle; the costs in the case to be paid by Mr. Forbes. This settles the case finally as there is no appeal from the decision of a court of arbitration. STARTING A RAILROAD MAN. Young Man Had a College Education But Took Office Boy's Place. It all occurred in the Atlanta railroad world, and it so happened that the Constitution man was in on the first chapter. ? 1U1-. It. Wits lilts \\u.y. One of the officials of the road sat in his chair dictating to a young man the while he sorted with skilful hands and a quick eye certain typewritten sheets of brownish paper that in the railroad world mean orders. "It will be impossible to hold thirty-nine for the time you suggest, but if you can guarantee 125 we will run a second section that will make the eastern connections." The dry monotone of the dictator was broken by the appearance of a clerk in the doorway who, with the pause, announced a waiting visitor. The face of the official wore a bored expression as he finished the letter and then touched an electric button for the caller to be shown in. "How are you?" he said affably as he greeted the first of the two personages; "what's the good word?" "Why, I've got a boy here who wants to be a railroad president," was the response, "and I want you to make one out of him." "By appointment or. promotion?" asked the railroad official trying hard to look pleasant, no matter how painful. "Well, the material's a little raw for the first," the father laughed, "and I reckon the sudden change would be a little stiff on Willy. Shake hands with him. anyway." The official and the raw material got together as directed and the former sized up the latter from his patents to the well-defined part that ran through the centre of his ha}r with the quick, scrutinizing glance that comes with a long practical training in the railroad world. He paused for a moment at the crimson tie that was backed up against a pink shirt waist. "Don't appear to be much sign of oil or cinders," he commented. "Where did you work last?" "Neven have worked, sir. I've just left college about a month." "Don't let that discourage you," returned the official. "We have men on the road who have succeeded in spite of college training. What can you do?" "Nothing more than try." The official turned to the father. "I suppose he has always shown a wonJ i 1 A a TTcorl t r* haP' UCIIU1 1U\C IUI lauiv/auo. w w VwD his nurse to take him where he could see the wheels go round and knows the number of at least three of the trains on the main line. They all do that," said the official, and to the close observer it was evident that there was a tired if not sarcastic tone in his voice like that v/hich comes at the end of a long day of dictating orders and letters. "No," answered the father. "I don't remember ever hearing anything of the kind. Willy has made considerable mistakes off and on, but I never heard him accused of being a genius. How about it son?" "Not on purpose, dad. I've been reading law lately, and it has taken me just one month to find out that I never was intended for a lawyer." "Well, if you're looking for some thing easy, it won't take you two days to learn that railroading is about as near the hardest work in the world with a sick headache thrown in that you have yet missed in your search for employment. I don't know that we can do anything for you, anyway. You see, the president of this corporation Is not only giving excellent satisfaction to the directors, but is enjoying excellent health, and that position is not vacant. In fact, I don't know of a single opening unless it is that of office boy. Our present Incumbent is off on his vacation. and his substitute refused to clean up a mess I carelessly made, on the ground that he did not break into the railroad business to become a nigcr nAidot* nocmlf n>o c* f T Vi o rl feci |JUI ici . liter irouu ? cio iiiai i itau to let this Napoleon of the future seek new fields to conquer, while I did the work he refused to do. When it comes to work you will find that railroad men are just about as common as the rock ballast used on heavy grades, and there's a deal more have graduated from overalls and jumpers than have got degrees, although I don't deny that the theoretical training is a great thing to refer to after you have forgotten some of the unnecessary information acquired. A college education is a good deal like a good woman, she may make a great appearance while you are engaged, but you never know how much she is really worth in a practical way until long after you've been married. Now, if you wanted to take that boy's place, it may be I could get you a job as a section hand or perhaps a flagman by the time the regular boy comes back?that is, if you want to learn the railroad business." 'Til take it and thank you, sir." The official looked up, and although he may have been astonished, he did not show it. It's another characteristic of the railroad man that he wears the same mask in tjmes of great pleasure, tragic excitement, and daily duty. "When can you start in?" he asked. "I'm ready right now. If you're without a boy. I at least know the way to the postofflce, and I dare say carrying the mail is one of his duties. I don't know at all that I'll be very quick to learn, but I'm not afraid to do any kind of sweeping or cleaning up. I reckon that'll just about fit my meas ure, ana 11 mere is a cnancc <x& a i.o.6man, I'd thank you if you would keep me in mind. Can I start in now?" The official called in one of the clerks outside and told him to break the new boy in. After he had left he turned to the father and said: "That boy's got a mind Just sudden enough to make a railroad man, and if he always back up his judgment with as quick action as in this particular case, he'll do. That is, if he sticks. I had no more idea of his taking the job than anything in the world. It's rather refreshing to be disappointed that way now and then. Most of the applicants talk a lot about the beginning at the bottom and work up system, but what they really are after is an appointment to something easy. And they always find that we're out of easy mings. xi you u wan a. ic? utes while I open the way for a party of Masons in the south to travel to some seashore resort in the east without having to change cars more than once or wait anywhere iov more thari thirty minutes between connections, I'll take you up to the Transportation club for lunch." Several days later the railroad man for the Constitution found Willy still in the office as proof that he had stuck. More than that, he learned that he had? But that is quite a different story.? Atlanta Constitution. . STUCK TO HIS BARGAIN. Incident of the Boyhood of Stonewall Jackson. At the "Old Cummins Jackson Mills," on the West Fork river, in what is now West Virginia, was living, sixtyseven years ago, a healthy boy, who had very definite ideas of honor and a strong# sense of right. Little Tom Jackson, like a good many other boys, was fond of fishing, and equally as fond of selling his fish whenever he could find customers. In the village of Weston, three miles above the mills, Conrad Kerater kept a small store and market. He had agreed with the boy to give him fifty cents for every pike a foot or more In length that he caught in the millpond. The boy was only ten years old, but he made the contract in good faith; and, as the sequel shotted, he knew how to keep it. As time went on a good many twelve inch pike were delivered at the market, with mutual satisfaction to both parties in the trade. One day the boy was seen tugging through the village " ? Ann^mnno floh fhot nimnst draeeed ail CIIUl IllVUa 1101* vi*v*v ? oa on the ground. It was two inches over a yard long. Colonel Talbot, a gentleman who knew the young fisherman very well, hailed him and complimented him on his success. "A noble fish, Tom. Where are you going with it? I want to buy it." "It's sold to Mr. Kerster," said the boy. without stopping. "That can't be. He hasn't seen it. Say, I'll give you a dollar for it." "I tell you it's sold, 'Tisn't mine." "What's Kerster going to give you for it?" a "Fifty cents," shouted Tom, still keeping on his way. The colonel called after him, 'Til give a dollar and a quarter." Tom turned a moment, with an in dignant look, and replied: "If you get any of this pike, you'll have to get It of Mr. Kerster," and on he went, bending under his load, until he reached the store. Mr. Kerster was astonished. "Fifty cents isn't enough for that flsh," he said. "I shall have to give you a dollar." "No, sir; it's yours at fifty cents," insisted Tom. "I'll not take any more. You've been kind enough to pay me for some that were pretty short." And fifty cents was the price paid for the big pike. This story Mr. Kerster himself, in his old age, gave to his nephew, Judge McWhorton, who gave it to the Chicago Standard. The fine conscience and keen sense of honor that ruled the boy fixed the habit of a lifetime. The n%me by which he became known to the world was "Stonewall" Jackson.?Presbyterian. WHEN STARCH WAS NEW. It Used to Be Made In Colors so as to Tint the Fabric. "A package of starch?" asked the intelligent and learned grocer, and as he wrapped the package up he talked. "Starch originated" he said, "in Flanders. It was introduced into England, with the big ruff, in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It was like our starch of today, except that it was made In colors?red, yellow, green, blue. The effect of this was to tint delicately the white linen to which the starch might be applied. "Before Queen Elizabeth's time ruffles and ruffs were made of fine holland. which required no stiffening. Then the ruffs of cambric came,, and these must of necessity be starched." The grocer, consulting his memoran..r.o.. nwt.l . mm ijuwi\, i rr?uiiicu. "It is recorded that 'when the queen hail ruffs made of lawn and cambric for her own princely wearing there was none in England could tell how to starch them; but the queen made special means for some women that could starch, and Mrs. Gullham, wife of the royal coachman, was the first starcher.' "In lfiG4 a Flanders woman. Frau Van der Plasee, came to London and established there a school for the leaching of starching. The school succeeded. The Flanders frau got rich. She charged Cf> a lesson and an extra 20 shillings for a recipe for the making of starch out of wheat flour, bran and roots. "Yellow was the most fashionable color In starch among the nobility. The Puritans used blue starch, though at first they had been against the stuff altogether, dubbing it 'a certaine kinde of liquide matter which they call starch, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and dive their ruffes, which, when they be dry, will' then stand stiffe and inflexible about their necks.' "Starch, is made from wheat, com and potatoes, and starving men have often subsisted on tt, finding it nourishing, though not tasty."?London Graphic. BATTLE WITH A BIG SHARK. It Occurred In Jamaica Bay and Lasted Forty-five Minutes. August is considered to be the shark month In Jamaica Bay, but this year the sharks have already put in their appearance. John Whittaker of Canarsie, caught one last week which was as long as his fishing rod, and which when speared, was found to contain six two-pound lobsters. He was fishing with the usual eightounce rod and an eighteen thread line, 600 feet long. His boat was anchored at the point of a bar in the Fishklll channel. Thinking that he might strike astray striped bass or a channel weak-fish, he A ? U ?' nroK put on a. large uan ui sucuuci v> uu. As a measure of safety he took off his gut leader and substituted a long wire snell in case a big blueflsh should come along. A hundred feet of the line had run off his reel, when, whizz, out went another 400 feet with a rush. He realized that he had struck a monster that he could not check with his light tackle, but he gave the fish the spring of the rod -and reeled In until the shark was within 100 feet of the boat. The wind was blowing rather stiffly and there were white caps on the bay, but through the smother of the wave he caught a glimpse of the great fish. Then the shark, in turn, catching a glimpse of the boat and Whitaker's erect figure, made a bee line for the Inlet. This time it took all but twenty-five feet of the line off the reel and Whlttaker was feeling for his knife to save his rod, when the shark slackened. D.r cVioki-, i-ooHnu ho mannp'pd tn rptllfn 400 feet of his line. Realizing the difficulty of capturing so large a fish with so slender a rod, Whittaker .almost decided to cut the iine, but fighting spirit got the better of his economical instinct, and he determined to fight the shark to a finish. A flat-bottomed skiff is solid enough in a calm, but when the sea-horses are running it furnishes a very Insecure foothold. However, by bracing his feet against the sides of the boat, Whittaker managed to maintain an erect position. The second time the angler reeled in the shark was led like a lamb to the slaughter. It came up to within thirty feet of the boat, the great cle*aving back fin on the fish being plainly visible. Then came another rush. By holding the rod straight up in the air until every fibre of the wood was strained, the angler managed to limit the rush to 300 feet. By this time Whittaker was beginning to be more confident. He is a big, muscular man, and the battle so far had only stimu lated his nerves and awakened his enthusiasm. Seeing a chance for ultimate victory Whittaker decided to shift his position so that In the event of tiring the shark he could draw it up in the shallow water on the bar and shoot it. So he directed the boy with him to pull up the anchor and raw a hundred yards further up the bar. The tide was going out and Whittaker realized that in a short time a portion of the bar would be above the water line. From that lime on Whittaker fought the shark standing in water up to his knees, for he had jumped out of the boat. For nearly fifteen minutes the fight went on/ until Whittaker's arms were becoming numb from the strain. rtraduallv the rushes of the great fish became shorter and the boy at last managed to plant a ,38-callbre bullet In the shark's head. The shock of the bullet seemed to madden the shark for a few minutes, but It weakened rapidly and Whlttaker was enabled to tow It up on the bar, where It was quieted by six pieces of lead In Its ugly head.?New York Sun. SPAN OF HUMAN LIFE. Steadily Increasing Because the Mind Is Kept Occupied. Medical men are discussing a lecture by Prof. Pfluger, of the university of Bonn, on longevity. In which he asserts that the average length of human life Is steadily increasing. He maintains that one-third of all the deaths registered In Munich ore due to heart disease. brought on by the Immoderate use of beer, and that tobacco also claims a large percentage of the victims. Among forty centenarians who have come under his notice there was only one smoker, while nearly all professed to a moderate use of alcohol. What Prof. Pfluger most seriously warns people against Is the thought and fear of death. The mind- must be occupied, he says, in order to secure longevity. Hardworking men who re tire, rarely live much longer. The German census statistics show that in 1871 the centenaries numbered 147 men and 287 women, but in 1900 only five men and thirty women. As is well known, In Munich, the consumption of beer per capita is greater than elsewhere in the world, and the percentage of heart disease is higher. Beer has a worse influence on the heart than either wine or whisky. Tobacco is better borne by adults and the aged than the youth. No youth should be allowed to smoke before tlie age of twenty-one. Wine has been said to be the mind of old age; It should not he used until past the noon of life. That the German census shows a reduction of old men since the war with Prance is natural. The age of industrialism, of city life, of strain, of alcohol and of the venereal diseases, with increase of "tabes dorsalis," and general paresis, is the present age of Ger munv, us it is 01 me unueu owica. Only the sedate and the temperate In all things can expect length of days.? Indiana Medical Journal. AO AniU*l Story For Little Folks The Lazy Lion There was once upon a time a young lion who often went out In the fields and watched the larger lions play baseball, and he often thought bow ! happy tie would be if he was only big 1 ?- * * ' ? - ?A. I ? X V? nJu m Afl enoilgo TO lase pnn 111 men gmurs. Well, be grew and grew, and after ( awhile It seemed to him that he was of | baseball size, and he decided to begin I to play. Now, It happened that this i young lion's principal fault was that ' he was lazy, and when he got to think- ! Ing about how much running around he would have to do as a baseball j player he almost became discouraged. ( After some time spent In thinking this over he determined, however, to 1 try the game anyway. "I'll go off to the cocoanut tree now 8nd get a ball," suid he to himself, and off he went to where the tall trees rose from the sandy soil of the plain. Away up above his head he saw the ( nice round cocoanuts banging to the J I ( IT 8TBUCK THE LAZY LION boughs of the tree, but ther^ was not , a single one of them on the ground. "Now, it is entirely too warm for me to spring up there and knock one of those cocoanuts down," he said. 'Til ! just sit here and wait until one of them drops to the ground." And then the lazy fellow sat down | on the sand and closed his lazy little eyes and went sound to sleep. He slept and he snored, and he snored so hard that he Jarred a cocoanut off the tree, and it came tumbling down like a ride ball. I wonder if you can guess where it fell. Why, it struck the lazy lion j square upon his lazy nose. "Mercy!" cried he. "I'll never again 1 wait for anything that I can get qu. wrlfli Inan noln KyT crnlnCf fAP f4 i CI UUU TTXIU ICOO J/U1U K/J 5V?Mg *V? And Mr. Lion was cured of his lazy habits.?Pittsburg Dispatch. NOTICE. TO all whom It may concern: Please take notice that the undersigned will file their final return In the ' Probate Court for York county, S. C., on SEPTEMBER 7TH, 1903, and'Will ask for their final discharge aS executors of the will of Joseph S. McKen- . zie, dec'd. ; S. A. SIFFORD, GEO. W. S. HART, ; Executors. July 29?Sept. 2 w 6t j ABSENT UNTIL SEPT. 1ST. 1 ] I will be absent from my office from | August 17th to September 1st, for a I short recreation. A V. r.ARTWRIftHT. At Your . You know it, but t you again?we ar ^ believe we are i Our reputation, beai \ There are other*?I at your door?we ? here with a thoro A plant, ready to sei a time you want Coi f ing, a Catalogue, a f ping Tags, Cards, A Briefs, etc. It will \ ure to serve you. * will be a pleasure A uru.on" F uwn % ww wiiwa^ J want to work for (No BUSINESS m BEST work at a Good business mei 4 "Cheap." With th A just anything will your Printing. We ed to receive your it promptly and mi Thank you. L. H. GRIST'S S F?=as=a^Usa 5= ) gUMMER |[ ^T l&WlZse u ^JIATES THE LI OH THE 5UMW SOUTHERN ? TMUM Malic kailwat w.a.t0k. ^ r Pass. Traffic MgT. WASHINOTON, D.C. ECZEMA. ITCHING 4 HUMORS Painful, unsightly eruptions, scabs and scales, itching sensation, prickling pains, thin, diseased blood, bumps, and dirt; specks on the skin, pimples, boils, pale skin, eating sores and ulcers, skin and )lood humors cored J)y taking Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B.). 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I do all of my Jeveloplng, 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. ?? This is a good month in which to get in your fall supply of Stationery. Let us fill your orders. CAROLINA & NORTH-WESTERN DATTWAV nrtVDANV ibmii WAX uuiui an x Schedule Effective June 7, 1903. .Northbound. Passenger. Mixed. "Ex. Sun. Daily. Lv. Chester 9.00a.m. 8.00p.m. Lv. Lowryvllle ... 9.18a.m. 8.28p.m. Lv. McConnelss .. 9.28a.m. 8.48p.m. 4 Lv. Guthries 9.33a.m. 8.57p.m. Lv. Yorkvllle 9.49a.m. 9.19p.m. Lv. Filbert 10.01a.m. 9.44p.m. Lv. 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