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tumorous Jrpartmcnt. Single Entrt.?There was a certain young business man of Baltimore, not long married, who, relates Har- j per's Weekly, bethought him of a device to curb the growing extravagance of his wife. "Now Margaret," said he, producing a neatly ruled memorandum book, "for some time you've been spending the money I give you for the household expenses, not to speak of your own personal expenses, in a somewhat loose and haphazzard man-/ ner. So I've got this little book for you. You'll find that a keeping of your acounts will tend to a more economical disbursement of our funds." And the husband explained how the receipts were to be entered on this side and the expenditures on the other, thus affording an Itemized statement of the monthly balances. 1 The young wife took the sugges- ( tion In good part and promised to keep the book as directed. At the end of the month the hus- ( band asked that he might see how she had kept the accounts. "Oh. everything is all right, Dick." said she; "you'll find that it balances j perfectly." Dick took the book. A single ( glance was sufficient to send him Into hysterical laughter, for these were the entries: "On one side: "Jan. 1. Received from Richard $100." On the other: "Spent It all." On the Train.?Two men coming uptown on a subway express last night were trying to make themselves i understood despite the roar of the train, says the New York Times. The i result was something like this: "How are your folks" said one. "I i hope they're all well." "Yes," from the other, "that last 1 word expresses it exactly; it was very I hot yesterday." i "The weather was fine today, wasn't < It?" continued the first man. < "Yes," from the second, "I under- 1 stand there is going to be a rise in < the price of ice this summer. It's i hard on the poor, isn't it?" "Are you going away this year?" < from the first man. "Near? Yes. *1 live near the sta- i tlon where I get off; I find It convenient, too." the second man replied, i "We're thinking of going to Eu- ' rope. Which is the best line to sail on, do you know?" from the first. "Show? Yes, old man. it would be a joke, with the warm weather we are having, wouldn't it? Snow, ha, ha; good Joke." Then they transferred to a local and got off the train at Times Square. The first man said to the second: "The subway is a great institution John; it gets you up here in no time." "You bet! I like it. Some persons say they have trouble conversing while the trains are in motion, but it doesn't effect me." WiiajNQ to Oblige,?a farmer in the neighborhood of Lanark lately took unto himself as his better half a young damsel who officiated as his kitchen maid. The newly made mistress was no sooner installed in her new position than she began to give herself the airs of a duchess, and naturally the other servants about the farm resented this and sometimes treated her with scant courtesy. A week or two after the marriage the farmer betook himself to a 1 , neighboring fair for the purpose of hiring another kitchen maid, his wife ' strictly enjoining him to get a "ceevll 1 spoken hizzie." On meeting with one 1 whom he thought would be suitable 1 for the post, he engaged her, after 1 expressly stipulating that she must ! be "rale ceevil to the guid wife." ' "An", mind ye," he continued, "if ' ye an' her can 'draw* .thegither < there'll maybe be a bit of 10-shilllngs or sae mair at the term end for ye." *T faith maister," exclaimed the j girl, "I'se dae her biddin', an' I'll tell i ye what," she added, with a quick < perception of the situation, "gin ye ( mak* it a poun mair I'll say 'ma'am' to her!"?London Tit-Bits! An Unexpected Question.?Apropos of the discussions now on as to whether hell is a place of fire and brimstone, a state of mind or merely an idea, the following anecdote, for which strict originality Is not claimed, was told by a layman: "A negro parson in Macon was addressing his congregation on the birth of man. In an eloquent and exegetical voice he said: " 'And de Lawd, He made Adam out uv wet mud and sot him up against a flahplace to dry?' "A brother among the congregation arose and interrupted: " 'You just said dis was the fu'st thing de Lawd made. Now, who made dat flahplace?" "The parson hesitated a minute and then cleared his voice: " 'Sit down, you fool nigger.' he said: 'sich questions as dem will upset any cistern of theology.' " Where She Had Seen Him.?Dr. Hook, a celebrated Yorkshire vicar. afterward dean of Chichester, was not a handsome man. An old acquaintance says of him: "The boy, Walter Farquhar Hook, might almost have been described as one of those on whom nature is said to have tried her 'prentice hand." He was very fond of commenting on his own ugliness and repeated with great amusement some of the "left handed compliments" he had received. On one occasion the good vicar saw a little girl looking attentively into his face. "Well, my dear," said he, "I don't think you have seen me before." "Oh. yes, I have!" "Where?" "I saw you the other day climbing up a pole and I gave you a bun."? Pearson's Weekly. a uawe of oridqe.?rney were playing a game of bridge whist--the young man, the girl and the father and mother. The young man liked the girl. He would kick her foot gently now and then. The game?or rather, the two games?progressed nicely for a while. Then the young man decided it was time to deliver another love kick. It was a little more vigorous than usual. A look of pain passed over the father's face. "Ouch!" came from the girl's father. "Who kicked my corn?" "I?I guess I did," stammered the young man with a sickly smile. "I?I was trying to get Nellie to play spades." The old gentleman leaned over and rubbed his foot. "Spades!" he growled. "You were trying to get her to play hearts." ittisfcllanrous ^trading. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. News and Comment Clipped From Neighboring Exchanges. CHESTER. Lantern, June 6: Mr. W. G. Chllds, has added something to the "can'tremember" literature of investigation ?"No, sir; I can't remember, because it might reflect upon somebody and it would be unjust to reflect upon them." A memory under perieci comrui, that.... Billy Mobley, Jr., was found dead in his bed this morning, at his home a few miles below town, from a gunshot wound supposedly Inflicted by his own hand as a gun was lying near by. He lived alone in a cottage near his father, his wife having died a few years ago. He leaves no children. The burial will be at Woodward church sometime tomorrow Christy Heywood, a mill operative at the Wyiie mill, was sentenced to thirty days on the chaingang this morning in Judge McLure's court, for disorderly conduct at a game of baseball at the mill Friday afternoon. The grounds are provided with seats for which the occupants pay ten cents each and while the game was In progress Heywood rid the place of the ladies. He had a pair of metal knucks which added to his offence Little Miss Cleo Partlow went to Yorkvllle yesterday to spend two months with her sister, Mrs. George Wallace Mrs. Mary Davis Hardin, widow of the late D. N. Hardin, died Saturday morning, June 2, 1906, at 10.30 o'clock at the home of Mr. Will Smith in the Armenia neighborhood. She had measles in April, followed by dyentery and has been on the decline since. She would have been seventyfive years old next September. She leaves several grandchildren, but no living children. The burial was at Armenia Sabbath after funeral services conducted by Rev. J. M. Fridy One night last week Sam Gist, colored, broke into a freight car at the Southern depot and removed four sacks of 3ugar, a box of hardware, which he 1 thought was canned goods, and a box of books which belonged to Mr. Burr 1 Randall. He was caught with a sack 1 of sugar on his back, by Mr. B. E. Wright, and lodged in Jail. Next morning Mr. Starnes found one of the 1 sacks of sugar in his delivery wagon ' at his yard and delivered it to Chief 1 raylor. Gist is still in jail Fraser Gist, colored, who has been on the ' ~ ~ *-? mAntko fn r r?ar Jlidiusaiis iui a icw mvniiio &vi v?. jreaking, sawed his chains off last 1 night and was making his escape when fie was shot by a trusty who was keeping guard, and is seriously hurt. He svas brought to the hospital and an >peration was performed by Dr. S. W. Pryor but as his intestines were puncured in twenty odd places it is not probable that he will recover. He is i brother of Sam Gist, who was lodged in jail last week for a similar offence... Mrs. Jos. Gilbert and Utile daughter of Abbeville, spent Satirday night with Mrs. W. G. Johnson >n their way to Rock Hill Miss \nna Lewis of Yorkville, came yesterlay to visit her cousin, Miss Wrenn fiunter Mrs. Eliza Moore with tier two granddaughters, little Misses Hattie Meek and Leona Moore of Rock Hill, came down Saturday to risit her brother. Dr. S. G. Miller, and eturned yesterday afternoon Misses Marie and Susie McCrorey of Rirhhure were guests Friday night of Mrs. W. F. Marion. The former went ' lome Saturday morning and the latter ivent to Roek Hill to attend commencement Miss Marie and Mat;ie Corn well of Rock Hill, who have t>een visiting relatives at Fort Lawn, spent Saturday night with their un?le, Mr. W. A. Cornwell, on their way to Baton Rouge to visit other relatives. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, June 6. Mr. W. M. Swift, the popular liveryman of Besse- , mer City, was taken to Charlotte Sunday morning by Dr. Garron to be operated on for appendicitis. Mr. Swift ( has been suffering four or five days.. .. Mr. Arthur Winget, formerly with the Thomson company of Yorkville, is now with Jno. F. Love (Inc.) Mr. W. Meek Oates and Miss Geneva Church of Gastonia. took an adventurous drive across the line Sunday and returned husband and wife. The knot was tied at Bowling Green by 'Squire D n.,lln TV.O rn11nn-lni> invl. tation, although not unexpected, was received by many friends of the young people in this city yesterday: Rev. and Mrs. John Lemacks Stokes extend an invitation to the marriage of their daughter Elise Meynardie to Mr. Robert Julian Sifford, on the evening of Tuesday, the nineteenth of June, at half past eight o'clock, at the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Yorkville, South Carolina." Miss Stokes has been for several years a member of the Graded school faculty, and during that time, has won hundreds of friends by her sweet disposition and charming manners. Mr. Sifford is one of Gastonia's most popular and industrious young men. He is at pres eni me enicieni oouKKeeper ui me Gastonia Hardware company. After they return from a bridal trip to northern cities, the happy couple will be at home in Gastonia Mr. Pink Roper, an aged and highly respected citizen of Gaston county, died at his home north of Belmont Saturday afternoon, after a long, wasting illness. Mr. Roper was about eighty years of age. The surviving members of his family are his wife. Mrs. Nancy Roper, his daughters and sons, Mrs. William Springs, Miss Sue Roper. Mrs. Albert Millen of Gastonia. and Messrs. Chas., Logan and Lee Stowe Roper. The funeral services were conducted at Goshen church Sunday Mr. James Neagle, one of Gaston county's most highly respected and honored citizens, died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. H. C. Johnson, near Belmont last Thursday morning, after a very short lllriuuu Mr whs einhtv Vears of age and is survived by a wife and three daughters, Mrs. H. C. Johnson of Belmont; Mrs. A. P. Lentz of Mount Holly, and Mrs. Lizzie Henderson of Mtn. Island. The funeral services were conducted at Rbenezer church, Friday, by Rev. J. H. Bennett of Lowell. Moors Consider Us Dirty.?A habit of our own which we consider far more cleanly than eating with our fingers is looked upon by the Moors as filthy?that is, washing our hands or face in a basin, and still more, taking a bath where the water is not running. The cleaner we become, they say, the dirtier the water we are washing with must necessarily become, and eventually we step forth as cleansed from water which is no longer clean. A Moore to wash Ills hands has the water poured from a vessel over them and never by any chance dips them into the dirty water. The same way in their baths. The water is thrown over their bodies out of bright brass bowls and flows away through holes in the marble or tile floor. ?Modern Society. TABAH DISTRICT OF SINAI. Subject of Dispute Between England and Turkey. The village of Akabah, which has recently emerged Into notice, Is occasionally visited by travelers who, having proceeded through the peninsula of Slnal as far as the Monastery of St. Catherine, wish to pursue their journey to visit the wonderful remains of Petra, that "rose red city, half as old as time." The route from Slnal to Petra passes through Akabah, where a new set of camels and Bedouins must be hired, and where the traveler must enter into negotiations with the Turkish officials and the Arab sheikhs for permission and an escort to proceed. These negotiations are always tiresome and protracted, and probably most tourists who have found themselves at Akabah are heartily glad when they get away again. There is nothing attractive about the place except Its site. It lies amid a pleasant grove of palms at the head of the Eastern Gulf of the Red Sea, corresponding to Suez at the head of the Western Gulf. There the similarity ends. Akabah has none of the busy life, the bustling traffic or the procession of "great liners. white and gold" that give interest to the scene at Suez. It is in a cul de sac. You may walk for a day along the shores of its barren gulf and never see a sail. Brilliant and sparkling as are its waves, yet as far as traffic Is concerned the gulf is almost as dead the Dead Sea. savs a corresDond ent of the London Globe, and at the head of the grulf the waters die away into a dismal salt flat as if from mere dulness. On the land side, too, Akabah Is equally cut off from the world by leagues of flinty desert, skirted by jagged and precipitous mountains, a region bare, stony, waterless and inhospitable. Of course, if the new Mecca railway has a branch to Akabah the isolation of the place will be remedied, but hitherto It has touched civilization no nearer than Gaza, which is a week's camel ride distant. Save at times of exceptional excitement, such as the present, or when the caravan of the Haj, or Pilgrimage to Mecca, passes through, life at Akabah must be extremely dull. No wonder then that the rare advent of a European traveler with his camp Is an occasion of which the most Is made in the way of getting as much out of him as possible. The route from the Monastery of Sinai to Akabah strikes the shores of the grulf at Nuweba, where there is an Egryptlan outpost in an oasis of palms on the seashore. Some thirty miles further on up the coast the traveler passes through Tabah, which though sometimes lately alluded to as a "town" is merely a wadi, or valley where a few palm trees and a spring make a possible camping place. Another two hours' journey round the top of the ?ulf brings him to Akabah itself. In order to understand the game of traveler fleecing as played at Akabah, It is necessary to describe the situation there In normal times. First, there Is the Turkish garrison, usually under command of a kaimakam (Colonel), who acts as governor of the place. This garrison is located in the fort, the only substantial building in the place, a great square, old fashioned castle, whose massive curtain walls?and frowning gateway are flanked by imposing towers. The rest of Akabah, consisting of mud built hovels, clusters modestly among the palms around the fortress. fay aay comes rarely in me rurkisn army, and at Akabah it hardly ever comes at all, to judge from the ragged and miserable appearance of the soldiers. A gleam of satisfaction, however, probably crosses their countenances at the sight of the traveler's ramp arriving. Here at least comes some one who can be made to hand over money even if the sultan cannot. Allah be praised! The tourist cannot proceed on his way without the permit of the Kaimakam, who will see to it that he does not start too easily. Next in importance to the Turkish governor and in many ways even more influential. Is the sheikh of the local Bedouins. He owns all the camels in the district, and as camels are the sole means of transport, he can make his own terms. He is the ally of the governor in making the traveler pay out liberally, though these two worthies are evidently suspicious of each other as to dividing the spoil. Lastly, there are the villagers who have eggs, scraggy chickens and goatlike lambs to sell, nn/l <i>Lr> /> *,? nnul/v.w. aim ? im die aiiAiuun mai iiir Diiaiiferi should not depart from their coasts too soon. Judging from the rapacity of all these people, you conclude that some of the sharks, of which the Red Sea is so full, finding the water come to an end at Akabah, must have got out here on to the shore. The traveler who rashly intrudes into this home of harpies does not do so without fair warning of what he may expect. The admonitions of guide books and the records of previous journeys warn him that every care should be taken by inquiry at Cairo and Suez to ascertain whether the route to Petra is open or whether the lawlessness of the Bedouins makes the Journey on from Akabah in that direction impossible, that letters of commendation should be carried to the military authorities at Akabah, and that, as a final precaution, a messenger should be sent on about a week ahead from Sinai to Akabah on a swift camel to bring back an assurance that the traveler really can be sent on to Petra. What avail all these precautions? Your messenger, of course, brings back glowing promises from the Akabah authorities, who naturally want you to walk into their clutches, your letters of commendation are received with every mark of consideration, but when you are a week's journey from everywhere, and there is no telegraph. such things avail but little. The main point is, "Behold, this traveler Cometh, come let us bleed him!" the traveler is presumably accompanied by an honest dragoman, who has contracted to carry out the journey at so much a day. inclusive, and who naturally does not care to sub mit to exactions, though otherwise he has no objection to the journey being lengthened by a few days' delay. The process of traveler bleeding as practised by Turkish officials Is simple and efficacious. First comes a great overhauling of your baggage and store for contraband or suspicious articles, and as the customs laws in the remoter parts of the Ottoman dominions are, to say the least of it. vague, there is much backsheesh necessary before the matter is settled. Then the examination of pasports, however carefully procured, always discloses some mysterious and alarming irregularity, which, however, is capable of equally mysterious removal by dint of a cash payment. Next you are Informed that the Kalmakam, out of the solicitude for your safety, has sent ten soldiers to guard your tents. This guard Is quite unnecessary, but it is provided in order that you may have to pay the soldiers, who are expected to be provided with cigarettes and coffee, and anything that may happen to be going in the way of food. As these poor creatures seldom get any pay or s.ny little luxuries one does not grudge them a few simple little treats If one has spare stores; but you would havej Dreferred. sav. onlv one sentrv In stead of ten, as then you would not1 be kept awake at night as they sit around a campfire discussing you and your coffee. The arrival of a messenger hotfooted from the castle to say that two of the officers are suddenly and dangerously 111, and could you spare a bottle of brandy, need cause no alarm, but the request had better be complied with, If possible. While your dragoman is conducting the more serious negotiations with the kaimakam and the sheikh, you have plenty of time to "do" Akabah. Your guidebook tells you that in Solomon's time this was Elath, through whose port poured vast stores of merchandise and treasure; that later on, in the days of the Crusades, this was so important a citadel that Saladln thought It worth while to transport boats across the desert from the Mediterranean for its capture. Nothing now remains to suggest the busy traffic or the commanding importance of the past. It has all gone?gone as completely as Solomon's glories and Saladin's boats. Still, you may wander pleas antJy among the paim trees lr me persistent wind is not blowing a cloud of sand and dust; you may notice the curious fresh water wells on the seashore almost within wash of the waves, and you imagine what this shore, with no quay and with scarce a boat, must once have been. No doubt if the railway comes thither the place will regain some of its lost life and energy, but the traveler of the past will remember its silent sunbaked network of hovels as a spider's web stretched glistening across his path in the glaring desert, in which for a time was the fly. HEROINE OF THE CRIMEA. Miss Florence Nightingale Recently Celebrated Her 86th Birthday. Miss Florence Nightingale celebrates her 86th birthday, and the occasion finds the heroine of the Crimea living her life of placid retirement in the house near Parklane which has been her London home for upwards of forty years, and which she has not left for close upon eleven years. Though living the life of a recluse, Miss Nighingale is not entirely a helpless invalid. Occasionally she leaves her couch, but for the most part prefers to receive her friends while reclining. The sweet, tender face which drew forth the admiration of the countryside when Florence Nightingale '.vas the "squire's daughter" of Lea Hurst, is still beautiful in old age. Its soft, rounded placidity bears no trace of the hardships and toil she endured in the great Barrack hospital at Scutari, or the heights of Balaclava. The Indomitable spirit still gleams through the failing eyes, while the hands which soothed and tended countless soldiers under the surgeon's knife still retain their beautiful shape. "I could bear the pain because she aiuuu ity me, uci uci w D?< ^ ... ~ courage," is the testimony of Crimean veterans today when they fight their battles o'er again and recall the gentle ministrations of the lady-inchief. Though memory fails a little. Miss Nightingale's mind Is, for her great age, keen and alert, and occasionally she surprises her friends with a flash of the old caustic wit. She enjoys a good story, and can tell one. Nothing pleases her more than a talk over nursing matters with old friends and she eagerly follows the developments taking place in the profession which she created, and of which she remains the bright, particular star. It was some time before Miss Nightingale could quite fall in with the designation of "profession" as applied to nursing. To her mind It was a ministration rather than a "profession," and the fear of vulgarizing It by too great consideration of personal gain made her antagonistic to the ultra professional attitude. "We hear a great deal nowadays," said Miss Nightingale, on a recent occasion, "about nursing as a profession, but the question for each nurse is, 'Am I living up to my profession?'" Today her room will be bright with birthday floral offerings, for her friends know that nothing affords her greater pleasure than the sight of flowers.?London Tribune. Proving the Mosquito Theory. For the foundation of her defence}! New Orleans must acknowledge her debt to three young United States army surgeons. Reed. Carroll and Lazear established near Havana in 1900 an experiment station to test on human subjects the mosquito theory suggested by Finlay and earlier observers. Two adjoining houses were selected. presenting precisely the same condition of hygiene, sanitation and temperature, and in these, squads of volunteers were domiciled. In one was put the soiled sheets, pillows and blankets from the hospital at Havana, in which yellow fever pa tients had slept and died. This dwelling was carefully screened to prevent the entrance of mosquitoes. In the foul bedding the volunteers slept for two months. Not one case of yellow fever developed among them. The other house was kept as clean as sanitary science could make It. Everything used by the men who volunteered for this part of the work was sterilized. Into the room were introduced specimens of the stegomyia mosquito, which had bitten yellow fever patients. Of the occupants of this room fifty per cent developed , yellow fever. Finally, men who had lived unaffected for twenty days amidst the foul surroundings of the firvo o-oahli.tihment. allowed them selves fo be bitten by the infected mosquitoes, and seventy per cent of them took the disease. No low order of courage was required in those who i suhmitud to either test, since, on the other hand, the fever was universally regarded at that time as a mysteriously air-borne disease, while on the other, the physicians frankly told those who submitted themselves to the mosquitoes that they would probably take the infection.?Samuel Hopkins Adams in McC'lure's. tv" What one goes into debt for nine time out of ten is a luxury. ROYAL TIGER DRIVE IN NEPAL. Close Cordon of Four Hundred Elephants Employed. Wishing to see something of Jung's famous method of tiger driving, I went with three gentlemen of Mr. Girdlestone's party to the neighborhood of the jungle which was to be beaten an hour or so before the time fixed for the prince's start from camp. Before we had gone half a mile, says a correspondent of the Indian Pioneer, we got a glimpse of the scale on which Mahar ajah conducts his operations. For the purpose of this single beat upwards of forty huts had been constructed, only of boughs and leaves It is true, but still huts quite as substantial as those which the Taros In the Teral consider good enough for permanent habitation. These huts were built in a perfectly straight line about twenty yards apart, this line being In fact the chord of an arc, the arc Itself formed by a close cordon of elephants. By day for several previous days these huts, open towards the arc, had been occupied by troups of soldiers and shikarles who by the noise of their chatter and the clatter of their cooking and wood cutting quite deprived the tigers in the forest in front of them of any fancy for strolling that way; and by night these sentries had maintained huge fires between each hut, which fires had the same result of barring the way during the dark hours. In front of this line of huts a path about ten yards wide had been cleared of timber so as to permit the convenient approach of the prince's elephants to the scene of action. By this time the prince and his party were beginning to arrive, so the Maharajah pushed forward to meet him, and we joined in behind. Now the plan of operations, which is indeed of the utmost simplicity, began to develop itself. The cordon of thirty or forty elephants which I formerly mentioned, and which marked one end of the arc or semi-circle of elephants, now extended themselves in line, directly the prince's party had passed, so as to form the chord of the arc, as far as their number permitted. In the meanwhile, the prince and Maharajah with their followers, proceeded along the line of huts until they came to the last, where was the other extremity of the arc. The elephants of our party (also perhaps thirty or forty in number) were then extended backward so as to join hands with the pad elephants which had sufficed to furnish, say, half the chord, and then the ring of ele pnanis aruunu uie uuumeu ugei wtu complete. Three elephants only were exempted from forming links In this chain, those of the prince, the Maharajah and Gen. Probyn. These were within the ring and free to go wherever desirable, all others to keep in their places In the circle so far as Intervening trees would permit, and simply press convergently to the centre. Strict directions were given that no one under any circumstances was to Are except the prince. Even Jung Bahadur and Gen. Probyn would not fire unless In the case of the prince's extreme peril. Then the ring of the elephants, every mahout pressing toward the same central point and the prince and his two companies moving toward the same point, but within the ring, and a little In advance of our part of It, began to close in. There were about 400 elephants employed. I should guess that at first there may have been on the average four yards between every two elephants. Allow six feet for the breadth of the elephant Itself, and the circle may be roughly estimated as a mile and a half round. Soon, however, the Interval between the elephants dwindled to three yards, two yards, one yard. At last, except where the trunk of a tree interposed, the elephants olmnot tniinVlIno' pqph nthpr. Before It had actually come to this a large herd of spotted deer, with two fine stags among them, had shown themselves at various points of the circle, seeking where to break through. At last, maddened by the shouting and crashing of branches as the elephants marched on and In utter desperation, one hind rushed between two elephants near me and the rest of the herd followed her. The passage of those timid creatures was quite enough to show me what ticklish cattle elephants are. A number of them backed out of the line and screamed, as much as if these poor scared deer had been so many ferocious tigers; and if a tiger had taken advantage of the momentary break In the circle he might have got off scot free. The deer, however, had soon all passed and the ring was again continuous. At this time a shot was heard. I could not see the prince on account of some intervening underwood, but it was. of course, he who had fired. Then came two shots in rapid succession, and the shouting of the mahouts redoubled; and the noise was Indeed so alarming and stupefying to the birds within the circle that a black partridge actually flew and stunned Itself against an elephant's head. Then came a fourth shot. Still we pressed inward. Only now there was not room for all the elephants to keep in their places In the too narrow circle and a great number of pad elephants were jostled out of the front rank and had to keep In the second row. At first I could not make the tiger out, but he moved, and then I saw the beautiful beast for an instant as he crept into thicker Jungle. And now the din became deafening, the trees were crashing as if a forest was being felled, the four or five hundred mahouts shouted like a whole army of stentors, and the elephants trumpeted and ran through their entire gamut of unearthly noises. Then came one, two, three shots, with perhaps a second between each, and then cheers told us that the tiger was dead. He was a very handsome and rather large one, nine feet nine Inches in length. No one, of course, had hit him but the prince, and he had given hint llin-e moriai ? uuiiuo. hie i igri ?do soon mounted on a pad elephant and despatched towards camp. A Famous Duel. One day the famous duelist Pierrot d'lsaac went to see his friend, the Marquis Merle de Sainte-Marle. It should be explained that in French Pierrot means sparrow and merle means blackbird. "Marquis," said D'lsaac. "I am a Bonapartist, and you are a royalist. Moreover, I am the sparrow and you are the blackbird. Doesn't it strike you that there is one bird of us too many?" "It precisely does," said the marquis. "My choice Is pistols, and. as is appropriate for birds of our species, let us tight In the trees." As if it were not a sufficiently ridiculous thing that one man should challenge another because his name was Sparrow and the other's Black bird, the duel was actually foughl from the trees, the seconds standing on the ground below. The pistols were fired at the signal. There was a rustling among the leaves of one ol the chestnut trees. It was Plerrol d'lsaac, who, wounded severely in one leg, came tumbling to the ground. Al this point the marquis began to chirj triumphantly, imitating the song of s blackbird. This was a fresh insult, tc be atoned for in only one way, anc d'lsaac waited for his wound to recover to challenge Sainte-Marle for the chirp. This time the duel was fough with swords, and Sainte Marie wai badly wounded. The sparrow hac ?vpnf?e>c\ him?u*1f nri tha hlnrlfhlrH ONCE FAMOUS FREAKS. Dime Museum Man Goasipa Abou Queer Human Curiosities. "One of the funniest freaks I eve: ran across," said Frank M. Drew, ai old timer in the dime museum bus! ness, was "Millie Christine, 'the tw< headed nightingale.' "Millie certainly could sing. Am she had two heads all right enough which caused me several times twi kinds of trouble. "I contracted to bring her to Cleve land," explained Drew to a reporte for the Plain Dealer. "She was ti have so much a week and her hote and traveling expenses. I took he over to the old Kennard House, am the manager started an argument He said as two mouths had to be fe< I would have to pay two board bills That opened the question and whei cho 1 Ckfi trtii'n tKo aaw pelled me to pay two railroad fares She was an expensive proposition. "Millie was colored and highly edu cated. The heads would hold con versatlon with each other in all sort of languages. She had travelled al over the world as a freak, and sh had learned every language. "She could give an entire pro gramme by herself. First she woul< sing an alto solo and then soprani solo. Occasionally she would sing i duet. "She had four arms and four legs When It came time for the instru mental music she could play a stmpl thing with two hands, or she coul< play an Intricate composition witl four hands. Great girl, she was. "The most expensive exhibit I eve had was Lucy Zarote, the Mexicai midget. She was really the smalles woman in the world. She was abou twenty-two inches high and playe< like a child. She got $20 an hour fo sitting on the stage. "I don't believe there ever was i boy who hasn't heard of Barnum' "what Is it?' The bills called him Zip He was a southern colored man wltl a peculiar shaped head. I don't be lleve any one really figured out Jus what was the matter with him. "Living skeletons and fat men an< women were plentiful as the air. Thi best skeleton we ever had was Isaai Sprague. "Isaac used to walk around with i can of milk in his hand to keep him self alive. He sure was a thin one We had a fellow though, who was al most as thin as Isaac, who could ea anything and everything. I never sav such an appetite. Still, he couldn' get fat. "During one particular week w< had two fat women on exhibition 'Big Laura' Wolford was the star an< Hattie Bowen was the other. Laun was colored, Hattie was white. Lau ra weighed almost a thousand pound and Hattie weighed a little less thai eight hundred. "A Circassian girl could be made ii a few minutes. All that was needet was a luxuriant head of hair or i good wig. Nothing else was needec except a little bleaching material foi the long haired girl. "Jo-Jo and Creo were the onci famous hair man and hair woman Both were completely covered wltl hair?real hair, too. There was noth Ing fake about them. "The camel girl was a funny look ing object. Whenever she walked shi walked away from herself. From thi thighs down her legs were turned thi wrong way. If she stooped over hei knees would stick out behind like < camel's. "Ivanovltch, 'the Siberian exile, was one of the most versatile exhib its. He was a hideous little fellow nearly covered with hair. "One day he would be the exile Next day he might go into a cage an< be a wild man, but it didn't mak< much difference to him which he was "If anything he would rather pla: the exile, because the wild man ha< to try to eat raw meat. Ivanovltcl didn't like that very much. Trip, was the armless wonder. 1T' used to travel with Barnum's. Trli was really good. He could write, sew feed himself and do anything eisi merely by the use of his toes. "We had a girl, too, who was bori without arms. She went Trip a farther and played the piano with he toes. That Is no Joke. "Next to the Circassian girls snaki charmers were easiest found. Any body could go Into a cage with th< snakes. "Bill Doris had the largest one tha ever played Cleveland. One of then died at the museum. It swallowed i big woolen blanket and choked t< death. "Sad end for him. The blanket go caught In his teeth. You know thel IftflM muni Uitlnnaiu, JU mat n ucu ever food is swallowed it has to re main in the stomach until it is di gested. That is what queered thi reptile. "The ossified man I found up ii Canada. I brought him down her by paying the expenses of himsel and his son and giving them a littli money. They stirred up the most at tention the museum ever had. "Myrtle Corbin, one of our four leg ged girls, was a good drawing can until she was married. In her travel she found a man from Kentucky an< married him. Now she has three o four children. They live in the Ken tucky mountain regions and so far a I know are perfectly happy. "Annie Jones was the best bearde< lady we ever hid. She married a lecturer with a museum. It is a peculla thing about freaks that practically al of them are married. They marr; each other or they marry some on< who wants to get in on the salary the] make. "We got a lot of free advertlsini out of Lizzie Mills, the big footed girl Wu Wild an nffar nilhlishod of $5,001 to any one who would marry her. W< never had to make good with th( money, for no one would take her If her feet were concealed she wai really a nice looking girl. She hat an attack of elephantiasis, I guess." " A man always making excuse.' leaves himself no time to make anything else. ....OUR NEXT INTE] THE R ;l A Story of the I ; and Ha BY JERE ( This will be the tit story to be publishe< RER, and the first pear in our issue of 1 The story is one o 3 triotism and ambitioi The leading charac j and Alexander Hami i, and Hamilton the vil 0 Although in the f largely historical, the fined himself closely I 0 out. j Jeremiah Clemens, r story was once a m a from Alabama. Thi; 1 pearance in i860, wli i lished by J. B. 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