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tumorous Jrpartmrut. The Biter Bit. In the broad light of day a would be highwayman sprang from th bushes that skirted "Big Road," an< with pistol at Eli's head, commande the wayfarer to hold up his hand! Without hesitation Eli obeyed, grab bing his hat in true darky fashloi while his hands were making the as cent. Then he stood trembling, as I in great fear, and said: "Lawdy. Boss, what Is dat you got? The highwayman replied, "It's bulldog." "Kin he bark, Boss?" asked poc Ell. "Certainly." was the answer. "Boss, I'll gib you a dollar des t hyeah dat dawg bark wunst," sal humble Ell. "Bang!" went the gun, and the ba went crashing through the woods. E! pulled out a silver dollar and hande It over to the wouldbe robber. "Do hit ag'ln. Boss," said Ell. A second, a third, a fourth, a flftl a sixth time the dog barked, and eac time Eli paid a dollar for the fut When the revolver had been emptie the darky asked pitifully: "Boss, can't he bark no mo'?" On being assured that the dog coul< bark no more, Ell said: "Well, Boss, ain't you got anuddai dawg?" The robber said he was sorry, br he did not have another. Then th darky said, as he ran his hand in hi hip-pocket: "Boss, I got one o' dem dawgs mah se'f, an' I 'spect' I'll let you hyeah min bark some. Drap yo' dawg, Boss, ar drap hit quick." he commanded, as h pointed his gun at the would-be rob bers's head. Down went the othe man's gun. "Now dr^p dem dollars right' 'loni Bide o' dat gun. Be quick." said Ell Down went the dollars. "Now you git, an' don't you lool back. Step lively, an" ef you das' ti look bac", you sho' will hyeah sump'i impawtunt."?Lippincott's Magazine. A Maine Fish Story. A correspondent of Maine Wood writes: "Seeing some of your flsh an< bear stories, I must confess some o them do smell a little fishy, and for i change I will give you one founded oi facts. You see, it was this way. W< were fishing on one of the Keswlcl lakes in the spring of '93, and ou: catch had bee a enormous. About I o'clock in the afternoon we heard t peculiar noise on the bank of the laki like tearing of roots. So we went t< investigate, and on nearing the shon were surprised to find a large blacl bear digging up the ground to bea nine of a kind. We lay low to watch and what do you tliink he was doing Why, he was digging worms, and af ter putting nice fat angleworms 01 each of his forepaws, he ventured ou in the lake on an old sunken log, pu down his forefeet in the water and ac tually scooped out huge trout so thlcl and fast that he almost darkened th< sun. After awhile, thinking there wai enough fish for us, we put an ounc< ball in his head. Talk about Ash Great heavens! There lay trout to< feet deep, on which two young cubi were gorging themselves. Well, wi skinned that bear, and, wishing to se cure the cubs alive, I Just threw th< bearskin over me and got down on al fours, and those cubs followed m< right into camp, thinking it was moth * er bear. The cubs I afterward sol< for $25 each, and the hide of the moth' er bear, which was a very large one brought me $40, not too bad a day'! work. Oh, yes, about those fish on th< bank. Well, we went back the nex day and barrelled up twenty-four bar rels of the best of those trout. Th< rest were left to rot in the sun. W< put those fish in cold storage, and have some of them yet." L/ooic.?"Hur-rumph!" said good ol< Parson Bagster, in the midst of a re cent sermon. "Muh friends when d< prognostic and de in-fiddle 'sails yo' answer him wid logic?give 'em d< word wid de bark on! Don't hum haw around and 'pologize for de faitl dat am in yo', but th'ow de harpooi of de D'lnted troof into 'em plump u] to de han'le! Des de yudder day, whei . I was uh-'spostulatin' on de cawne: by de post-office 'bout de Chil'ren o Izrul uh-crossln' de Red Sea dry shod while de 'Gyptshuns drowned whei dey tried* to foller, 1 'splalned de phee nomination by sayln' dat the Chil'ren bein' 'dustrious folks, got up in di cool of de mawnin' befo' breakfas and crossed on de ice, while di plague-taked lazy 'Gyptshuns wait ed twell atter noon, and wha wld de weight of deir possonali ties and deir dinners, dey all boolgei th'oo de ice and was drownded slicke dan a whistle; well-uh, and up step: a prognostic, one of dese yuh youni yaller niggers wid dess enough educa tlon to make 'em cunnin'?he buttei into de agitation, he did, and 'lowed in a pompous sawt o' way. dat de Re< Sea was located so close to de Bquato dat no ice never froze dar. "'Well. uh. young Mister Belcher? heahs dat dat's yo' name, sah!'?say I, right sharp and snappish. 'Well uh, young Mister Belcher, yo' forgit to organize one 'pawtant p'int in you specification, and dat, muh young am indigenous friend, am de fact dat da 'ar circumstances done happened loni befo' de Equator was invented. Am I darfo* politely invites yo' to git oi whuh yo' got on at!' "And yo' awtuh yeahed de bruddrei chuckle; Dat's It, muh people; W'hei dey 'sails yo' wid deir akeptualities give 'em logic?and give it to 'em fun tie shoulder!"?Tom P. Morgan li Puck. His Exclamatory Ailment.?A col ored man in the employ of Representa tive James D. Richardson of Tennessee w?s detailing ^o a friend Ihe par ^kjulaps of a relative's illness*, when according to th? congressman, tn< following dialogue ensued between th' ^wo darkies: "Y^s, siree!" exclaimed the negr< first referred to. "Mose is sure a sicl man. He's got exclamatory rheuma tism." "Yom m,ean inflammatory rheuma tism,'' explained the better informe< colored man. "de word 'exclamatory means to yell." "Yes. sir, I knows it does," quickl; responded the other, in a tone of de cided conviction, "and dat's jest wha de trouble is?de man jest yells all di time."?Success. IW "No," said the cannibal king: " take great pleasure in informing yoi that I have abandoned my former cus torn of dining on such sailors a should be shipwrecked on my island I have lost all liking for them. "Ah!" mused the missionary. "Th salt has lost its savor."?Magazine o Fun. ittiscfltiuiroiis grading. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. e Newt and Comment Clipped From ] Neighboring Exchanges. d LANCASTER, s. News, January 5: Mr. Ben Hunter >- of Chesterfield county, and Miss Jennle Belk of Union county. N. C.. were married at Tradesvllle, Thursday. Dec. I' 27th, by Notary Public H. M. Polk, at the latter's residence... .Mr. and Mrs. " XIT t n hA livotl in Yrtrk rnuntv a the past year, have returned to Lancaster. They spent the holidays with relatives in Greenwood No, that noise you have been hearing: recently in the direction of Catawba river is o not caused by blasting at Great Palls, d but by Rock Hill's citizens falling over one another in their eagerness to accept council's proposition to allow 11 them the privilege of reaching down d into their individual pockets for the money to pay for paving the city's streets Mr. and Mrs. J. Davis h Caakey of this county, who have been h in Athens, Ga.. for the past several , L weeks, at the bedside of their son, Mr. d J. Willie Caskey, who was prostrated , with typhoid fever, returned home this week, bringing their son with them, d The young man is now convalescent, and stood the trip remarkably well. , h He will remain with his parents until his health is fully recovered The , t following young ladies, who spent the e holidays at home, returned to college s Wednesday evening: To Winthrop? Misses C&Uie Sowell, Pearl McManus, - Jessie Porter, Margaret Williamson, 8 Marie and Janie Craig. Julia Gregory, i* Celesio Cauthen, Mildred Cunningham, e Annetta Stoval. Converse ? Misses - May Ferguson, Bessie McManus, Ivy r Crawford, Hessle Thomson. Greenville Female college?Misses Ola, EsJ telle and Sadie Gregory. Columbia ' college?Misses Bessie Flynn, Bessie Stewart, Birchie Funderburk, Minnie * and Georgia Plyier. 0 JCHESTER. 1 Lantern, January 4: Mr. Ernest Gladden, who has been a salesman in S. M. Jones & Co's. store, left Tuesday morning for Yorkville to spend a few 8 days with relatives. From there he 1 expects to go to Asheville to enter , t school Miss Effle Holmes return- , * ed yesterday evening from a visit to ] i her sister, Mrs. C. J. Hughes in York- , s vllle. Master Charlie Nesblt Hughes, i t who has been spending several weeks r with his aunts. Miss Effle and Mrs. W. , 3 H. Lowrance, accompanied her to his i home. Mr. Hughes and family have ( s recently moved from Grover, N. C., to , > Yorkville... .Mr. R. C. Guy and fam- ( 8 ily, who have been living here the past , ' two years, have moved back to their 1 former home at Lowryville. Dr. and , I Mrs. W. M. Kennedy have gone to ? housekeeping in their home on West . End recently occupied by Mr. Guy and i family. Mr. W. M. Nicholson and fam1 Ily have moved from the new Nichol1 son hotel into rooms over Mr. A. W. - Kluttz's store. Mr. Geo. W. Ferguson t and family moved Wednesday from B Columbia street to tne morgan uuuse J on Center street. For the present 2 Mrs. L. F. Westerlund, who has been ! occupying the Morgan house, will J board with Mrs. Agnes Bigham on 3 East Lacy street. Mr. T. C. Faley, b who recently purchased the house va cated by Mr. G. W. Ferguson's famiB ly, are moving in Mr. W. S. Fer1 guson and Miss Mamie Blanks were 2 married at the home of the bride's pa rents near Edgmoor, Dec. 26. The cer- ' 1 emony was performed by Rev. W. H. Ariaii. Miss Sudie Brunson and Mr. i . Walter McGuire were married at the < s home of the bride's parents near Edg- s i moor, Thursday, Dec. 26, the Rev. W. f t H. Ariaii officiating. Married at the I - parsonage by Rev. E. F. Holler, Sab- 1 i bath, Dec. 23. Miss Maggie Allen and < i Mr. Lawrence Grant, both of Arme- i i nia. Married,, Dec. 27, at the Metho- 1 dist parsonage in this city by Rev. M. \ L. Banks, Miss Kate Grant and Mr. 1 J W. O. Pressley, both of Armenia. 1 - Married at Lando, Sunday, Dec. 23, by j ? Rev. W. H. Ariaii, Mr. Robert J. Black < , and Miss Etta Bell. Married at Ca- i ? pers Chapel, Tuesday, Dec. 26, by t . Rev. E. A. Holler, Miss Beulah Grant < i and Mr. J. C. Allen, both of Armenia. 1 i Mr. Hllliard Gladden's family re- i j celved a letter a few days ago from i their relative. Dr. J. W. Gladden of i r Tennessee, informing them of the ac- j f cldental killing of Mr. W. D. Howze, a < , prosperous merchant of Crenshaw, i i Miss. Mr. Howze was a son of James i . D. Howze and was fifty-seven years ? i, old. On Christmas day he borrowed ( 8 a gun and went hunting. Next morn- j t Ing when he went to open his store he j e took the gun with him to return. It i - seemed when he put the key in the t t door to unlock it, the gun had slipped j . and the trigger striking the step, dls- \ 1 charged the gun and the whole load , r went into his left side just below his j s watch and killed him instantly. No ( I one saw the accident but when the i - next door neighbor heard the shot and s 1 went to him he was dead and the key j I, was in the door. He was a member of ) d the Methodist church, was Sabbath , r school superintendent and was fore- , most in all religious movements and i I interests in his town and a genuine j s Christian. He leaves a wife and five .< - children. Two sons and two daughters s are grown and the youngest son is i i* fourteen years old. One son was in . d business with him and one is in bus- j t iness at Pine Bluff, Ark. Besides his j ar home and store in Crenshaw, his life | i was insured to the amount of $10,000 < f for the benefit of his family. Mr. Glad- ] den Is not sure what relation he is ] but he is connected with the Howze's j a of this county and thinks his grand- ] K father moved to Mississippi before the a civil war. ? GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, January 4: Mrs. - Hattle Hopper, wife of Mr. Plato D. , - Hopper, died suddenly Wednesday - evening at 6 o'clock at her home near j UUIIHS. Ollf nau ucrn uuucu iui u. month or more but her condition was , e not believed to be serious at all and e the end came unexpectedly. Mr. Hopper is engaged in placing machinery ( 3 in the new Monarch mill. Deceased n is survived by a husband and several ( - children. The funeral was conducted at the home yesterday afternoon by - Rev. E. L. Bain and interment was j i made in Oakwood cemetery here. - Mrs. Hopper was a member of the , Methodist church Rev. .and Mrs. / J. W. Carson returned yesterday to j - Mississippi after a pleasant holiday t visit to the former's father, Mr. J. B. p Carson, in the Pisgah neighborhood, and other relatives. Mr. Carson has. , until recently, been pastor of the A. R. , I P. churches at Cotton Plant and New II Albany, Miss., but the work has grown - to a point where it became necessary s for New Albany to be made a charge , 1. within itself, and Mr. Carson was | made pastor. His many friends in 1 Y Gaston were glad to see him on his j native heath once more One of \ the most beautiful home wedding's of the season took place at the home of Mr. \V. H. Gattis on Oakland avenue ? last night at 8 o'clock when Miss Katie Gattis became the bride of Mr. Frank Gray. The marriage ceremony, f which was performed by Rev. R. C. v Anderson, took place in the presence j of the members of the family and a r number of very intimate friends of t the young couple. The Gattis home f was handsomely decorated for the oc- t casion and the ceremony was both j beautiful and impressive. The groom ] is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Gray j and is well known In and around Gas tonia, having been raised here. He Is ? now employed by the Southern Power company. The bride is the beautiful daughter of Mr. W. H. Gattls and is very popular with a large circle of friends. The young couple will re- < side with the bride's father for the present. "LUCKY" BALDWIN. His Whirlwind of Speculation In the Mining Regions. In 1853 a little party of gold seekers with a meagre outfit of horses and wagons started for California from the village of Racine, Wis. In com- a mand of this adventurous expedition a ? ' " >'.>11 n a m n n ?'hn took with him r his wife and infant daughter. His f name was E. J. Baldwin and he made a. wise choice in shaking from his j restless feet the dust of a, tamer civil- r izatlon. He needed a larger theatre t of action for his pent-up surging ac- c tivities. While trailing through the l mountains of Utah the pioneers were a attacked by Indians, who were beat- a an ofT during a six hour fight in which f poung Baldwin killed their chief. At- j ter six months of hardship the party r reached Hangtown (later called Pla- c ?ervllle), In California. 1 Here Baldwin tarried and began a placer mining. He appears to have o been no more than an ordinary redshirted argonaut, meeting the ups 1; ind downs of mining luck until the I Ilscovery of the Comstock lode at 9 Virginia City. Thither he drifted and ? Jiscovered that his natural bent was t gambling with the mines that other I men had opened. Amid a whirlwind s it speculation he fought his way with I' such success that he loomed from the t smoke in a few months as "Lucky" a Baldwin, the man who had cleaned up c 17,500,000 In the gigantic deal$ In the t stock of the Ophir mines. f San Francisco was the Mecca of t those lucky sons of fortune who were 1) rearing a great city by the Golden Sate. As a stock and mining specu- d ator "Lucky" Baldwin shone resplen- s lent, but he was also a loyal son of r San Francisco. He built hotels and a theatres and business blocks even I while he was amazing that far from 1 :onservatlve community by madly r freakish extravagances. n In a very lucid Interval he bought t ill the Spanish grants he could find ' near Los Angeles and there spent a I Trillion in making this ranch of his v lot only a splendidly productive prop;rty, but also one of the most beauti- * ful estates ever laid out In this or any d jther country. It was his hobby, his ' pet, and he planted miles of avenues 0 with noble shade trees and made ^ wonderful tropical gardens, sur- c rounding a paradise of vernal beauty. 0 Ralph D. Paine in Outing Magazine. s v THE TRUE SPORTSMAN. i: He Always Stands For a Square Deal. * The news comes from England that sportsmen of the Kingdom are fast r roming to the opinion that every bird 0 should be given a chance for its life, t md that driving to stands and other n forms of hunting in which the game t las practically little opportunity for a sscape, Is being abandoned as un- c sportsmanlike. This information will >e received with pleasure in America, v where the true sportsman cares more v ?? At? ?ohnl than or Hie Illitivilis U1 6UUU auv? ?.. | 'or the size of the day's bag and takes v pleasure in giving his victims a good v :hance to escape. Next to the Amer- v can's hatred of the pot-hunter he game hog is disliked for the kind t >f slaughter that our English friends t lave long been accustomed to indulge c n. Ii A few years ago the true sports- r nan in this section would never dis- v pose of his 1 l for money and in the r lays when game was more easily t 'ound there were less game hogs. It r s regrettable that of late many good t shots have drifted away from these a customs and do not hesitate to go for r t week's shoot and sell the greater part of their game. Such practice is d io more sport than is a game of cards ii :o which a man enters for the sole o nducement of what money he may a je able to get out of It. If sportsmen t ivill insist on killing more of a dimin- I shing game supply than they can t possibly use themselves, would it not 1 ie more sportsmanlike to give the g surplus to friends instead of selling r t to the meat dealer? In this way o :he money inducement to kill, which v vill not tempt a real sportsman, is t iliminated and the hunter may re- n :urn from the slaughter at least with 1 i clear conscience from a financial t standpoint. b The game hog should he eliminated by law. Not only should close sea- I sons be longer, but the law should r put a limit upon the number of birds J ind other kinds of game that a hun- c ter may kill. In some of the states t such laws exist, and their institution H has proved successful. In Georgia our i present laws should be vigorously en- 1 forced and others passed by the leg- a Islature.?Augusta Herald. a What Is Money??To the query, I "What is money, anyway?" the fol- a lowing answers are made: v Money is the loudest sound in the s voice of life. t The most effective substitute for J brains. f A provider for everything but hap- v piness; a passport to everywhere but r heaven. t Something that always gets the v glad hand. t Money is the most difficult road to i cultivate. The best talking machine. t That which women look for while s men sleep. I A curse to some that have it and a s ?urse to all that haven't. 0 What the rich don't need and the t poor can't get. e The breath of business. I The antidote for poverty. .? That which speaks a language we a Jan all understand, but in which, few c ire able to converse.?Xew York rimes. i ? i Among the middle classes of Rus- f sia when a death occurs and an im- c press!ve funeral cortege is desired. f tramps are sometimes employed as mourners, suitable clothes, with the r exception of shoes, being furnished by r the employing agency. \ PIERCING HEART OF AFRICA. >teel Highway of the Whit* Man In the Congo Jungle. In the heart of Africa, 1,700 miles rum the Atlantic, a lltlte band of vhlte men, not 200 In all, directs the abors of 5,000 negroes In one of the nost remarkable conquests of nature o the credit of civilization. They >ress forward, step by step, clearing he tropical rorests ana surveying tne and, throwing up embankments and aylng the ties and steel rails of an ron highway as they go. In front is a country rich in gold ind copper and the diamond fields of he Transvaal. Behind them are 1,400 nlles of railroad and waterway, which line years ago were veiled In the mysery of Stanley's "Darkest Africa." rhe scream of the locomotive pierces he Jungles where lions and leopards lad their lairs, and droves of wild elejhxnts stripped the palm trees for heir yellow fruit. Telephone bells wrangle with gray >arrots. Churning steamboat wheels nvade the dwellings places of hlppojotaml among the reeds on the river >anks. A saw mill sings at the spot rhere Henry M. Stanley twenty years igo heard the horns, drums and sav ige yells of the cannibals and told his nen they must go down the river beore them or die. The story of this conquest of the ungles of the Dark Continent is so omantic and amazing and the disances are so vast that this greatest >f romances seems like a dream in a and of dreams. The Africa of the ichool books and history must be cast iside. The story belongs to the last Ifteen years. Turning to the map of Lfrica new divisions appear in the teritory south of the Sahara?a tableland comprising 5,000,000 ^square miles, or ,300,000 square miles more than the rea of the United States, Alaska and iur colonial possessions. The conquest of the jungle here reated refers to the very heart of the >ark Continent under the Equator, the 00,000 square miles of the Congo Free state, which, if laid on the map of he United States, would cover the few England and Middle Atlantic tates and extend westward on paralel lines nearly to the Rocky Mounains. The topography of the country ,t once suggests the more familiar ontour of Mexico. They are alike in he strip of low, unhealthy, tropical orest near the Atlantic and beyond he mountain chains, with the table ands between them. The heart of this continent was inleed "Darkest Africa" when Living tone cast the first glimmer of light ipon It In 1867. Stanley's Journeys .cross it In 1874 and 1877 and on the Jmin Pasha relief expedition of 1887888 are so recent that nearly everyone emembers how they set the white nan's world by the ears. Africa was hen to the nineteenth century what kmertcan was to the fifteenth?a new Si Dorado, a land of mysteries and vonders. "Without a railway I do not value he Congo State as worth a dollar," leclared Stanley after one of his vists to the Dark Continent. He knew if the vast riches in the table land iehind the mountain ranges, which ommerce could only approach along me highway?the Congo river. It is econd in the great streams of the k-orld, 2,500 miles long and seven mttes ride at its mouth. Only the Amazon b greater in the volume of water; only he Mississippi and Missouri combined xceed it in length. The nation that controlled the Congo iver, said Stanley, would be mistress f Central Africa, Sailing up this waerway from the Atlantic through 110 nlles of swamp and tropical forest, the rader was halted at the mountains by l series of cataracts. In all they overed 200 miles of the river's course. When Stanley said this vast empire ras not worth a dollar without a railray he meant that bands of steel must iass these cataracts and others further ip the stream before Central Africa rould be open to the commerce of the rorld. Could such a railway be built? In he face of the obstacles it seemed to ie an enterprise with Insuperable difflultles?still the dream of the explorer n the lund of dreams. The white man oust conquer marshes and jungles, rith their wild beasts and serpents, nountains unknown except by name, he vast tableland, drenched with ains that bore disease and death in heir train, the poison arrows of savges, 1,000 miles of open water, cataacts and Jungle again. King Leopold of Belgium listened and ireamed. Then Stanley's wonder tales nflamed the Imagination of men and ithers dreamed. Their cupidity was roused. The world is not so large hat such an empire, even under the 3quator, can be neglected. England's tolicy foreshadowed her approach to t from the valley of the Nile. Portu;al claimed the land south of the nouth of the Congo and France that m the north. Englishman and Boer rere advancing on the south. The inerest aroused by Stanley's tale terninated in 1885 In the treaty of Berin, whereby the Congo Free State lecame neutral territory for a num?er of years. The conquest of "Darkest Africa," legan at Matadi at the head of the lavigable waters of the Congo on the Atlantic side. Before the would-be lonquerors rose mountains 6,000 feet ligh and the first series of cascades. The distance to Stanley Pool, at which s now Leopoldville, was 200 miles. There the Congo becomes navigable igaln. The building of 260 inlles of railway iround the cascades from Matadi to ^eopoldville meant harassing delays ind engineering problems. The way could have been easier, the engineers :aid, if It had been laid through the erritory of France to the northward, tfter many complications this was ound to be Impossible. There was no vay out of It but to penetrate the nountains, burrow around and beneath hem. The concession for the railroad vas granted on March 26, 1887; the nountains were conquered and the allway opened to traffic In 1898. laminar ac this pncineerlne: feat o the majority of readers, the results itill seem like a tale from "The Ara>ian Nights." East of Leopoldville itretched the great tableland, from 1,00 to 3,000 feet above the level of he sea, hot and moist, densely forsted with broadleaved trees and impenetrable undergrowth, inhabited by ravages, droves of buffalo, elephants, intelope, hippopotami, monkeys and rocodiles. Then the magician waved his hand, soon steamboats were plying up the iver 1,000 miles to Stanleyville and Stanley Falls, In the very heart of the ontinent. By the end of the century, tr in a brief two years, the steamers lumbered 100. The largest of them low have a burden of 500 tons. The vaterways of the Congo State have been Increased to 9,500 miles. Telegraph lines begun in 1892 annihilated 800 miles by 1900. The number of trading posts Increased from 45 In 1882 to over 200 in 1902, the investments of commercial capital in the same period from $17,000 to $26,000,000. The white man found that with temperate habits it was no more difficult to live on the tableland than in any tropical climate ?at New Orleans, for example. He had planted 2,000,000 coffee bushes and 300,000 cocoanut trees and had cultivated 5.000,000 India, rubber plants by the end of 1902. The Belgium company owning the concession for the railways In Congo State Intended at first to build the lines toward Egpyt and the Upper Nile in the northwest. Reports of the riches in gold and copper In the south, however, determined them to push on In that direction and build the system of Iron highways that Is now under way. At Stanley Falls the course of the Congo river turns sharply to the south and a second series of seven cataracts begins. The railroad that has Just been completed circles these cascades from Stanleyville to Ponthlerville, a distance of seventy-five miles. The river curves like a bow and the new railroad may be said to take the place of the bowstring. How was this iron highway constructed 1,400 miles from the sea and In the very heart of the Jungle? When the work was started on January 26, 1903, only fifty-three white men?Belgians, Italians, Scandinavians and Swiss?were available, although the number naa Deen increased iu mmc than 100 by the end of last year. Under thfem were 3,000 black men. The expert machinists, masons and trackbuilders are negroes who came with their families from West Africa. In that region the negroes who were savages fifteen years ago are running locomotives, working in machine shops, building the Congo steamers and serving as crews on the railroad trains. The Congo steamboats have as their pilots the Bengula who tried to kill Stanley. These skilled workmen are assisted by apprentices from the government and missionary training schools. The road graders, track-layers and common laborers are negroes recruited from the neighboring tribes. Two hospitals were built In Stanleyville for the railroad men?one for the whites and the other for the blacks. The danger from smallpox is always great in Central Africa and everyone, even to the wives and children of the common laborers, was vaccinated with virus from a plant near Stanleyville supplied with cattle from Europe. Native policemen were appointed to maintain order among the laborers. Three physicians accompanied the party to regulate the sanitary conditions. Repair shops were built and prospectors were sent In advance to find clay for the many bricks which must be used and limestone to be burned into lime for mortar. These elaborate preparations ended, the army of 3,000 odd, with their wives and children, set forth to conquer the jungle. They clear the forest for a short distance, as the engineers survey the land. At once the road bed Is graded and the tracks are laid, so that the construction train can be brought to the very end of the line with earth and materials. No great difficulties are encountered in making the embankments, as the road passes through alluvial soil that is free from rock. As they advance deeper Into the Jungle saw mills are erected, and In these the negroes saw the timbers for ties, bridges and warehouses. The ties are of bombali trees?the "sham cedar"? a tough, durable wood cut from the neighboring forests. The steel rails are brought from Europe, the freight charges being $2,500 for a kilometer of track, or about $4,160 for a mile. This expense raised the cost of the Stanleyvllle-Porthiervllle road to between $15,000 and $20,000 a kilometer, or from $25,000 to $33,300 a mile. Now and again a stream is reached. It is onogea uy airuviures ui ry and steel. As the army advances, step by step, the telephone goes with them, the wires to Stanleyville being fastened to the trees or to steel rails set upright In the ground. After the telephone comes the permanent telegraph. The wives and children of the negroes advance with their husbands and fathers. In a few hours cabins of palm leaves and grasses can be built close to the tracks. They supply all the shelter the climate requires. Thus the black men live in little tribal villages, moving forward from time to time as the railroad advances. This battle with the jungle has lasted three years. The railway around the second series of cataracts to Ponthiervllle was opened for traffic on September 1 last. It was equipped with fourteen locomotives and 124 cars. Steamboats were launched above the second cataracts and steamed south to Kindu, along 186 miles of waterway that had been opened to them. At Kindu another line of railroad was started at once to Bull 180 miles distant around the third and last of the series of cataracts in the river. Here 160 white men and 5,000 negroes are pressing forward through the Jungle toward the gold and copper ore and the diamond mines of the Trans railway men wtrr wur ,.s .... question of accidents. "The roads in Scotland," said one official, "used to have a bad name, indeed. in respect to accidents. No one thought of embarking on a railway journey unless he had provided himself with an accident policy of insurance. "The famous Dr. Norman McLeod was once about to set off on a long journey through the Scotch country. Just as the train was pulling out the clergyman's servant put his head through the window and asked: " 'Ha'e ye ta'en an insurance ticket, sir?' " 'I have,' replied the doctor. " 'Then,' continued the servant, 'write ye're name on it and gi'e It to me. They ha'e an awfu' habit o' robbin' the corpses on this line.' "?New York Times. DOG GOES 500 MILES ALONE. Collie Didn't Like His New Home and Found His Way to His Old Master. Thin and gaunt, and with no other Instinct to guide him save the memory of a warm kennel, good food and an occasional caress, a little Scotch collie dog, said to belong to a man at Valentine, Neb., returned 500 miles to its former master in Des Moines. So wabbly and weak was the dog that had it not been for a glad light of recognition that sprang into his eyes as his former master opened the door, he might have been driven from the premises. Just how long the dog was making the distance has not yet been ascertained, but with unerring instinct he Mn/ln klu iifAtr iii'ae l-i 11 I ?? ?wl r?ro ( plo maur inn naj w*ci tin* uuu piuuic, through timber and across rivers, finally arriving in Des Moines, where he was given a hearty welcome, a warm kennel and a hot bowl of milk for a 1 starter. Five weeks before a man from Valentine. Neb., saw the collie, bought him and took it back with him to Valentine. After the collie left his new home he was seen at Fremont. Neb., where ' some boys threw stones at him while he was stealing a meal from a back door. This was the report until he appeared In Des Moines, j His master was awakened by a ! slight scratching at the front door. Or opening It he saw a shaggy, thin, dirty little collie, and from his actions al first judged he was made. He soor recognized his former pet, however and declares he would not now pari with the animal for twice Its value.? Our Dumb Animals. ? F. C. BLACK I-,ifo InNuranue Old Line Mutual Legal Reserve Just as solid as it is possible tc make anything. THE SECURITY LIFE AND ANNUITY COMPANY Has complied with the general Insurance laws, and Is licensed to do business as legal reserve "Old Line" company. This means, that the state ol North Carolina guarantees that the company's assets and liabilities are correctly given In Its published statements. That the Company has deposited cash securities with the insurance commissioner for the absolute protection of Its policy-holders. FRED C. BLACK. IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OF HIGH GRADE COFFEES OUR ROASTING PLANT Is In Full Operation, and to Those Who Desire a Clear, Well Roasted and High Grade COFFEE We are Prepared to Furnish It. We name the following brands: Old Government Java, Monogram, Fort Sumter, Blue Ribbon, Arabian Mocha, Mountain Rose, Morning Glory, Maracaibo, Jamoma Sun licum, Electric, Porto Rico, Red Owl, Acme, Aromatic, Dime. A Trial Will Convince Consumers ol OiinnrtAx UfaHfo f\t Hiir "Rnflsfpfl me ou jyui iv/i iuvs ibo w*. v ? Coffee, arid Once Tried Will Use nc i Other. Packers of Teas, Splees and Soda put up under our personal supervision and We Guarantee them Strictly Pure Goods. Send for samples and prices before purchasing elsewhere. F. W. WAGENER & COMPANY, Charleston, S. C. W0~ Send The Enquirer your orders for Commercial Printing, THE BANK OF HICKORY GROVE OUR BEST ATTENTION EVERYTHING OF A - BANKING NATURE ENTRUSTED TO OUR CARE. RECEIVES OUR BEST ATTENTION. WE SHALL BE GLAD TO HAVE A SHARE OF YOUR BUSINESS. N. M. McDILL, Cashier. YORKVILLE BUGGY CO Steel Points? Because of the universal complaint . ... * i The vast riches of the Dark Continent thus being laid bare tax credulity. The mind pan scarcely grasp the meaning of 2.000,000 square miles of forest, much of it ebony, teak and mahogany, that stretch from Sahara to the cape; coal fields more than 1,000 miles long and some of the richest iron and copper deposits in the world. On the Congo plateau $8,000,000 worth of rubber is produced every year, not to mention coffee and tobacco growing wild, pineapples, rice, bananas, corn and cotton flourishing in a soil as rich as that on the lower Mississippi. In the light of these facts it may well be understood why the stock of the Congo State railway. 100 at par, is quoted at 5,000. Spaniards never found in America an Eldorado such as this.?New York Times. CitRKKFri* Ajmcji.?A number of - """" leniioali) CT the. against cnmeu piows on uwuuui ui points wearing out so quickly, we hunted for an all steel plow and have found It In the MOLINE line. We have contracted for this line and can now furnish you an all steel plow for not a great deal more than the chilled plow. Take out one of these plows, If you like It keep It, if you don't like It bring It back and that will be the end of It. The above line also covers Steel Middle Breakers, Universal Disc Harrows, Corn and Cotton Planters. We are overstocked on BUGGIES nnd WAGONS and will sell CHEAP to reduce our stock. Yorkvilie Buggy Co. "PRACTICAL GARDENING" Valuable New Hook Just Out By Prof. J. S. NEWMAN Of CLEMSON COLLEGE. "Southern Gardener's Practical Manual," is the name of a new book by Prof. J. S. NEWMAN of Clemson College, recently published. It Is devoted especially to conditions as they exist in South Carolina, tells what garden veg etables, fruits, shrubs, etc., can be grown to advantage in this State and gives detailed Information as to how they are to be Planted, Fertilized and Cultivated. The author has devoted a lifetime to work of this kind and Is probably the highest authority in the South on the subject of which he treats. No gardener, whether amateur or professional, can afford to do without this book. It may be had at the office of THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER for $1.10 a Copy; by Mail $1.25. Address L. M. GRIST'S SONS, PHOTOCRAPHY For first-class Lasting Photographs come to my studio on West Liberty street. J. R. SCHORB. RHEUHA i?cul jdSy3 The Circi KKfc&r" and the :mWW ' IFSloan's wJKiW Jl Addres Wymx ^ vjl i __-_^___________Mi : Real Estate For Sale. 641 acres, 5 miles west Yorkvlll< > adjoining lands of J. H. Good, Berr Burns and S. C. Smith. One two-roon ? 1A OA 0 nuusc, iv auica uuiiuui, uv tv v acres open land; W. J. Good's lane Price >1,625.00. 190 acres in King's Mountain town ship, 5 miles of Grover. Plenty o timber, 100,000 ft. saw timber. Ad joins the lands of Brown and othen Price $1,200. A beautiful building lot on Blast Jef ferson St., near corner of Main streel A part of Mrs. Drakeford's lot?a bar , gain. One farm, seventy acres, one d.well ing, five rooms, wide hall, newl painted, good barn and outbuilding! , One good new tenant house, 3-rooms about 30 acres in timber; 25 acres wir pasture; 350 nice fruit trees. Ides home, 2 miles Yorkville, on Plnckne; road. Price $2,150. I Two lots, 80 ft. front, 350 ft. back, o: ; Wright's avenue. Beautiful residenc ' lots. One lot on west side Lincoln street 130 ft. front?1 2-room house. Cheai > Joins Riddle and Allison property o ; the south side. Near court house. 1 tract land, 3 miles south Yorkvlll* near Chester road; 41 acres, one hous< Alexander place. Price (1,000. One house and lot, containing seve , acres in the town of Clover?good or chard. Good place to educate you children. Price (600?J. H. Neel place. 381 acres?a part of the Shillingla\ land, in high state of cultivation, 1 miles east of Yorkville. A new hous< j water?a bargain. 671 acres?$ mile from Smyrna, on house, branch?30 to 35 acres in tin timber?7,500 feet saw timber?1,00 ! cords of wood. Known as Nancy Do ver land. Cheap, $500. 38i acres on Howell's Ferry road, 1 miles from Yorkvllle, 3-room dwellinj good barn and stables. Price $30 pe acre. 100 acres, 3 miles southwest of Beth any?25 acres open land, 75 acres 1 wood. S. F. Black's land. Price $12.5 > per acre. 154 acres, 4} miles west of Yorkvllh on Howell's Ferry road?has tw [ houses with 4-rooms each?50 aires 1 I timber. > 393 acres, one mile Bullock's Cree church 1, 2-story, 9-room dwelling > New barn, good tenant houses. Ever > thing convenient. 98 acres and residence of Sam ( > Smith; a two-story, seven-room hous< New barn, 10 foot driveway; 3 stall each side?shedded. Loft will hold 10, 000 bundles fodder?good water. Ad Joining academy; 4 miles of Yorkvllh Elegant home. Buy and educate you , children here. 35 acres, 6 miles northwest Yorkvllh good water, 8 acres forest timber, acres tine bottom. Land of S. C. Smltl Price $500. Adjoins Wm. Burns an others. 180 acres, 5 miles south Yorkvllle, i houses, 3-horse farm open, 26 acre I good Lranch bottom. 60 acres in wlr pasture. Good barn and out housescheap?1-3 cash. Dr. Cartwrigh place. 90 acres timber. Two tracts?one 60 acres arid th other 62?one mile King's Creek sta tlon. 25 acres open, balance in tlmbe ?saw, cross ties and cord wood. Pric 615. Latham land. 471 acres near Grover at Beam crossing of railroad and 3 public roadi One 6-room house, painted, on Mail street?one acre of land. Known a the Goforth house. One 4-room house adjoining th above lots?one acre of land?$46( Terms to suit. 18 acres, all In cultivation, 3-rooir newly painted dwelling, ceiled. Insid coporate limits Yorkvllle. Lies well good drilled well, 941 feet. Nice youni orchard. 61 acres, 1 dwelling 5-rooms, 1 ten . ant house 3-rooins. 3 miles Yorkvill on Howell's Ferry road?good schoo , 40 acres in cultivation, 8 acres origins timber, level land; good orchard am , grapes. 160 Acres, 2-story dwelling, rooms; 2 tenant houses; good ne^ barn; 4-horse farm open; 60 acres ii timber; capable of high cultivation 6} miles from Yorkvllle, 7im to Roc! Hill, on Yorkvllle and Rock Hill road Terms to suit purchaser. 30J Acres, 3i miles Yorkvllle; ? acres in cultivation; good stream o water; 1 nice weatherboarded 4 iiuu3c, x iGiiauv itv/uov. 1511 acres, 2 miles of Tlrzah, 6 miles Yorkvlile, 7J Rock Hill. On pub lie road from Yorkville to Rock Hill I near Adner church; high state o cultivation, 75 acres bottom in corn 10-horse farm open. Large new barn , 12 stalls and cribs. 10 acres fine or ch^.rd. 2-story dwelling (painted) ii i beautiful oak grove. Produced 10 bales cotton 1906. 377 acres, farm, both sides King' 1 Mountain road, about 21 miles Beth any High School, 1 7-room dwelling 1 tenant house and other buildings at least 100,000 feet saw timber; ha mineral prospects; A. C. Stroup place 40 acres, 8 miles northeast of York vllle, bounded by lands of Mrs. Nich ols and Mrs. Youngblood; 18 acre woodland. 133 1-3 acres 1 mile west of Hood town. On public road. 60 acres in cul tivation, 35 or 40 acres of fine bottoms 12 acres bottoms in cultivation. Cheat 85 acres, 3-mile from Yorkville oi Charlotte road; a two-room house, II acres in bottom in high state of cul tivation. 113 acres 6 miles west of Yorkville 70 acres cultivated land, well water ed, 2-story dwelling, 6 rooms, on R i<\ D., about 28 acres In pasture ant second growth pine. 35 acres in the town of Yorkville ' will sell in lots from one acre up. 235 acre farm about 8i miles fron Yorkville, 3 miles from Ebenezer; new 6-room dwelling, two 4-room ten ant houses, 30 acres flne bottom lant ?five horse farm.. J. C. WILBORN, Attorney. J. S. WILKER80N & CO HICKORY S. C. General Merchandise OUR Stock of General Merchandlsi is large, varied and well selected We are able to supply almost any thing in the best qualities and at th< RIGHT PRICES. MACHINERY. We handle goods of the Interna tional Harvester Co., including Gaso line Engines, Hay Balers, Harvesters McCormlck Reapers, Rakes, Harrows and sell everything at Right Prices. BUGGIES AND WAGONS. Anything that may be desired li Buggies and Wagons can be had fron us. If It does not happen to be or hand it CAN BE HAD without dir Acuity. But we are carrying a larg< stock In this line. J. 8. WILKERSOX & CO.. Hickory. S. C. Wf Sciul The Enquirer your order* for Commercial Printing. IISfy0\ RED ulation Stimulated Muscles and Joints ited by using oeovs 'i unveivt a :e 25c 50c 6 $1.00 old by &II Dealers Treatise On The Horse" Sent Free I s Dr. Earl S.Sloan,Boston,Mass. I ? 1 professional Cards. S, I UK. ill. W. WHITE, DENTIST f - Opposite Postoffice, Yorkville, 8. C. I. JOHN R. HART. ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Range y J- Yorkville, 8. C. 5 W. \V. LEWIS, y ATTORNEY AT LAW. ^ n Practices In the State and United e Stall m courts, and gives prompt attentlon to all business. Lends money on t. approved security. ^ Office No. 5, Law Range, Yorkville, 4 n S^C. " * A. Y. CART WRIGHT, n SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLE, S. C. r y OFFICE HOURS: v 9 *n>. to i pm.;s pm. toapw. } Office In upstairs rooms of Cart" w right building next to the Parish <4 e hotel burnt lot. 1 5 J. S. BRICE, * 'i' AT* I AtlF M I 1 UMiNtl Y MI LAW r Office Opposite Court House. j >r Prompt attention to all legul business of whatever nature. ? GEO. W. S. HAKT, 0 ATTORNEY AT LAW YORKVILLE, 8. C. It j. 2 Law Range. 'Phone Office No. 58 y ^ , O. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings. j FINLEY & JENNINGS, ^ YORKVILLE. S. C. Jt " Office in Wilson Building, opposite '' Court House. Telephone No. 126. 3 YORKVILLE S MONUMENT WORKS. (Incorporated.) | MONUMENTS" | 1 We are at present turning out large ^ e numbers of orders for Monuments and . Tombstones in Granite and Marble. r Our orders are not confined to any e single section, but are coming from all ' quarters, and especially from points at s which some of our work has been erected. m fj Our marble works are thoroughly J s equipped with the most Improved de- * vices for handling work rapidly and e at the same time enabling us to give r our customers superior quality at the most moderate prices, i, If you intend to put a mohument of e Granite or Marble over the grave of a l( deceased relative, we will be pleased j to have you call and see samples of our work and get our prices. a W. BROWN WYLIE, M Sec. and Treas. Jfl -! PAY BEFORE ' JUDGMENT i DM: 0 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT SHERf Eli'S Ls the PLACE to get the BEST r FRESH MEATS the market affords all the year round. 1 I also have a nice line of CANNED . GOODS, FRUITS and VEGETABLES i, to suit the seasons, with the Beat Act commodations, Low Prices and Quick i, Delivery. i, I want EVERYBODY to PLEASE - PAY. 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