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MAJOR By Martha n ^ n... . Mcculloch * AND THE THIEF * - $ Copyright, 1901. P By Martha Mcculloch Williams. ? ti Old man Buckley, one of Marshall town's titree inveterate topers, was trying to sober up against his daugh jti^r's wedding. When he had his com .^piement of drinks, he was to outward seeming as sober as a judge. Lack of them set aim reeling upon his horse and guiding the sagacious beast in let? ter S's all over the road. "Look!" Major Boram said to Molly, his niece and adopted heiress. "That's what Tm 'trying to save you from-the thing which biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." Ton needn't try to make out poor Jink is a snake," Molly said spiritedly. *Tm sure he wouldn't crawl, not even to get me." **Oh, ho! You think it was his inde? pendence fiat kept him from signing the pledge when I demanded it of him," the major said, with a fine, lofty scorn. Aga in Molly tossed* her head. "I would have said no to him if he had signed it," she said. "Why, Jink was never drunk but once in his life, and that was in the way of business. If he had not drunk to match thai Long Hollow crowd, his pa would have ?pst ail their trade, and it's worth a thousand dollars clear profit every "rear." "The major groaned. He was a round, pursy man, rosy faced, with lit? tle eyes twinkling through smothering fat. He had come back to his native ^ town the year before breathing out a vague aroma of riches and ready to give advice offhand to anything from divine Providence to the town coun? cil. Marshalltown folk said he was cram full of crank notions, which he had had no chance to spend properly in governing a wife or bringing up chil? dren of his own. He struck Marshalltown a teetotaler ?of the first water, the second water art? also the third. Water was indeed his creed and rallying cry for the time being. His mind and heart were set upon: organizing a temperance knight? hood after ideas peculiarly" his own. Marshalltown would have none of the. knighlhood. It was so temperate, letting the single saloon languish ex? cept at Christmas time and the Fourth of July, that it resented organized tem? perance much as it might have resent? ed the organization of an antistealing brotherhood. To its mind a man ought to drink when he felt like it and had good liquor handy, but should never be | tempted into swallowing stuff he did j not really care for by giving it the tang I of forbidden fruit. So it heartily ap? plauded Jink Travis' refusal to become the first fruits of the major's enthusi? asm, ?t was a fine thing, everybody admitted, seeing how matters stood Jink as good as engaged to Molly and Molly's heiress-ship contingent on her marrying to suit the major. Jink and Moily had been lovers time out of mind. It was all settled that they should marry when Jink was tak? en into the finn. But the major came down upon them three months before the sign. "Travis & Son. Groceries. Hardware Provisions. Liquors, Whole? sale and Retail," went up upon the big block at the head of the main street. Molly had eight younger brothers and sisters. Her father could not hope to ?o more than feed and c*othe them. So the major and his fortune had to be taken into account, especially when Le asked to have Moily the same as his pwn child. That was where the pinch came. For j fcerself and Jink, Molly cotrfd have bid' j den the fortune go hang. But the chi!- ; dreni She could not shut out her moth- ! er's anxious eyes, her father's patient. 1 ? troubled face. As long as she did not rebel openly she was free to help with i>Otb bands. SO she contented herself -with vowing she would die an old maid onless she might marry Jink and smil? ing her sweetest at Jink himself when? ever she got the chance. Jink could not well be so patient. He wanted a wife, a home of his own and Molly for that wife. He was ready to do anything reasonable to get her. He might have gone in for that knight? hood foolishness if he had not known she would be the first to despise him for it. He might even have done it and tried to square himself later with his sweetheart if he had been sure the major was honest in his crank'ery. Somehow the major's enthusiasm rang false to him. Under and behind the flow of words he saw something in the unctuous lips, the beady, twinkling eyes, which made him suspect that the ma lox*, like other self deluded mortals, was moro anxious to pose as a great moral force than to rule strictly his own appetites. Indeed, as Dan Brown put it, "the cut of the major's jib gave him away for a blamed old hypocrite." Dan Brown was Jink's chum, the head man at the new electric light plant, which Travis & Son had done so much to get installed. Of course, their own store was the very first to be wired and lighted.. All tho first week afterward Jink himself did" nothing much but march around with swarming rural customers and flash lights into every dark hoie and corner from the third story to the cellar. In the flashing he Incidentally made them sure there was no danger of getting a stroke of light? ning. Otherwise trade might have suf? fered. "I say this yere projick. it jest j knocks the socks oSTn anything ever I saw," Squire Crane said as J?'ik j ?ade the cellar dark or light by the ; mere turning ox a button. Afterward ht? explained chat the ecirar "vould bc always light. Then everybody smiled. iThat meant something to Travis' cus I tomers. Ever since The "store ope???"3 I there had been a barrel of the best j whisky conveniently remote from gen? eral view, but free to whoever chose j to go and take a,, drink. It was, of course, a point of honor not to drink unless you. were, a pretty good cus? tomer. Major Borum was a pretty gpod customer, in spite of social com? plications, but nobody ever suspected him of even knowing where the bar? rel stood. It lay bung up, with the thief hang? ing upon a'handy nail in the wall a foot away. The thief, understand, was only an ia?no?ent tin tube, open at both ends and slender enough to slip easily through the bunghole. In use it was thrust down into the liquor, open end? ed. Then a finger held close over the upper end made it fetch out enough liquor for a drink, stiff or mild accord? ing to the depth of the plunge. By way of keeping the thief in place a lit? tle ring had been soldered on to the up? per end, a long wire twisted in the ring and likewise made fast to the nail in the wall. Careless drinkers might otherwise have dropped the invaluable tube or absentminded ones, after the third drink, have gone off with it in the pocket. Throughout the summer Major Bo? rum came into the store only when he had business, but as the days grew short and nipping he fell into a way of sitting into the group around the stove, listening when he had to-that was rather seldom-and talking when he could-that was most of the time. Toward Christmas the major haunted the store more than ever, especially late in the day when there was al? ways plenty of trade. He had got so familiar he went everywhere, up stairs or down, without pxciting comment Some few said he was simmering down. They reckoned it would be all right be? twixt Jink and Molly by-well, say, next spring; but Jink and Molly knew better. Indeed they had almost lost hope when Dan Brown came to their help. The lights had been working badly, so Dan chased down into the cellar about dusk one night to look after the switchboard. In a minute he came up, his eyes staring like saucers, beckoned Jink to him and plunged again below. Nobody saw any more of them that night They worked in the cellar until near 12 o'clock and went home chuc? kling aloud.... All next day Jink moved like a man in a dreamt waiting upon customers with, his head half turned over his shoulder. It was a busy day. Satur? day, and the world and his wife were In town. About noon, when the crush was greatest, everybody was startled by a succession of yells, unearth? ly, agonizing, coming up, it seemed, "from right under their feet. Three parts of the hearers dashed into the street, two women fainted, and old lady Buckley snatched up ber basket of eggs, crying out that she "allus knew som'p'n' was bound ter happen ter that store ever sence they took an' made candles outen the Lord A'migh ty's own thunder." But half a dozen rushed below, where the screams still kept up. intermingled now with roars of strenuous laughter. There was more laughing when they saw the whole thing-Major Borum. their in hand, howling, hopping from one foot to the other, unable to let go and between howls swearing like a pirate at Dan Brown, who stood with his hand upon an innocent looking key newly set in the switchboard. Dan was saying between gasps: "You've got to agree, major. Let Jink have Molly or here you stay all day. You can't let go that thief. It's got a full lamp voltage. We fixed it, Jink and I, as soon as ever I caught you taking a drink on the sly." "No. no. Dan. 1 can't let you perse? cute Molly's uncle." Jink said, reach? ing for the key. "Fm awfully obliged to you, though, for watching here." he went on, "You know," to those be? hind bfm. **we could not afford to turn OD the current-until we were sure of our man," "I sorter reckon you've made sure of your gal," old man Buckley said as the crestfallen major vanished up the stair. Sure enough, it turned out that Jink bad. OrJffin of A Dam ra. Absinth, the green fiend that satu? rates fashionable France, was original? ly an extremely harmless medical, remedy. It was a French physician who first used it His name was Ordinaire, and he was living as a refugee at Couvet. la Switzerland, at the close of the eighteenth century. Like many other country doctors at that time, he was also a druggist, and his favorite reme? dy was a certain elixir of absinth of which he alone had the secret. At his death he bequeated the for? mula to his housekeeper. Mlle. Grand pierre. and she sold it to the daughters of Lieutenant Henriod. They culti? vated in their litt?e garden the herbs necessary for concocting it. and after they had distilled a certain quantity of the liquid they sold it on commission to itinerant peddlers, who quickly dis? posed of it in the adjacent towns and villages. Finally, during the first decade of the nineteenth century, a wealthy distiller purchased the formula, and very soon afterward he placed on the market the modern absinth, which differs greatly from the old medical remedy, since the latter contained no alcohol and very little ahsinth. So Con*!cIerntc. Mother (an invalid?-Johnny, don't you think 1 ought to punish you for bei nz so had? Johnny (aged ?)-No. mamma. You know the doctor said you was not to Indulge in any violent exercise.-Chi? cago News. The Real Difficulty. "Are you suffering from cold?" "No. My trouble started with a cold, but I took all the remedies my friends prescribed, and they are what I am suffering from now." - Washington Star. A TRANSIT OF VENUS. HOT? It Was Observed by a Party ol German Scientists. On their way between Telriz and Teheran the members of an expedition sent to Persia by the German govern? ment to observe the transit cf Venus mot a solitary Cur pean lady riding in tho opposite direction, a member of Uv English colony, who was as clever as she was beautiful. Having been ion; a resident in Persia, she was fearless ly riding alone a long way ahead ot* ber caravan. Tho Germans marveled at such an apparition in such a drear.* waste-wondered she w.isn't afraid. Wouldn't she iet .-: ine of them stand by unlfl her servants and baggage came up? No, she was quito at case, and usually in her travels was fax ahead cf ber attendants,'whose mules, more heavily laden, could not keep her pace. "And now, gentlemen," she sait'. ! "who are you. and where are yo;: j bound for?" They introduced each other. One wa. the astronomer, another the photogra pher. another tho archaeologist, the nat' j uralist. and so on, and they were soin? to Ispahan to observe the transit ci Venus. The lady smiled, started he pony and waved her adieu, saying: "To observe the transit cf Venus': Ah. well, you can go home. now. gen : tlemen! Your duty is done. Goodby." I The fair vision disappeared at a can ter toward the horizon, and it was sa:c that the Germans did not see the jolt/5 till a long time after Venns had disap j peared from their ken. Life of Ma;?; j General Sir Robert Min ><-li Smith. K C. M. G. Why Ho Hesitated. The Brooklyn Citizen prints an expe. 'rience of a man who traveled all over Europe and declares that he did not meet but one person who hesitated over the acceptance of a fee: 1 was wandering through an old graveyard in an English town and had stopped before a stone which had no?: been long in place. A man who must have been following me stepped up and said: "Ah, sir, but she who lies here will be missed for years to come: She was for half a lifetime the president of the charity board." In an absentminded way 1 handed him a sixpence, said the traveler. He received it. turned it over in his hand in a hesitating way and finally stam? mered: "As she was my own wife, sir. and as I was here to plant flowers on her grave, perhaps it would not be exactly proper to accept a fee." I replied that but fer him I might uever have known about her being president of the hoard, and he swal? lowed his scruples and pocketed the sixpence with oue motion and with evi? dent satisfaction. Office and ?Ian. Once upon a time a postmaster who lived in a Kansas town was seated in his office reading postal cards when a native cyclone suddenly came his way. The wind carried him through an east window and in the direction of a chest? nut grove three miles distant. In a few seconds he was safely seat? ed in the top of a high tree busy pick? ing chestnut burs out of his hair and clothing when he saw the building that he had so suddenly left coming directly toward him. "I declare." he exclaimed, **there comes the old shanty looking for me!" Moral.-Sometimes the office seeks the man.-New York Herald. Sleaningrs of Words and Children. One of my children was reading to me In her English history bow the mayor killed Wat Tyler. "I suppose it kicked.him," she remarked, I explain? ed that the mayor was a man. "Ob." she said. "I thought a mare was an old gray horse!" My~ mother told me that the word "sundry," which she heard in church in the exhortation, puzzled her much till she decided in her own mind it re? ferred to the hot, arid land of Pales? tine, where the Bible was written-a sun dry plan* - Good Wcrds. Warded Off. Mr. Phoxy-Did you send the Boremf a card for our musicale? Mrs. Phoxy-Yes How could I get out of it? Mr. Phoxy-I'll tell Borem that Jenks is coming. Borem owes him money. Hnd Small Hope. First Physician-I understand the measles have broken out in your neigh? borhood? Second Physician-Yes. but the fami? lies aro so scattered I'm afraid they won't catch.-Boston Post Trfllitisnr lints. The year INUfi uns a memorable one, as on Oct 21 was fought and gained the battle of Trafalgar, and then, as now. fashion complimented heroes by devising toilets named in th?ir honor. So Nelson was com memora ted by a hat-the "Trafalgar"-and every wo? man and child adopted the wondrous structure, which would outdo even the headgear of the present day. for these hals wen1 of enormous width and breadth, something of the size of a round table, and so loaded with plumes that the wearers must have looked all hat.-Gentleman's Magazine. Qoextion of Ownership. "Need of counsel? Come up and let me introduce you iv my lawyer." "Your lawyer? Do you own a law? yer?" *M cr-well. no. certainly not He v. ~ me "-New York Press. Alway* Oificonteiited. "Man always wants what he hasn't and fails to appreciate what he bas." "Yes; that's what keeps the marriage bureaus and the divorce courts going.", -Chicago Post ?In Season. Do You Run a Gin or Machinery of Any Kind ? Then come to us for BELTING, either Leather or Rubber, PULLEY^ or other fixtures, Machine Oils, Gin supplies in general. Your attention is invited to our fine line of SADDLES, HARNESS, WHIPS. Full stock of PAI3VTS AWD OIL.S And everything in the Hardware line at reasonable prices. Lu B. DURANT, The Hardware Man of Sumter, Sept 18-x ATLANTIC COAST UNE 9ortb-Eastam R. R. of ? CONDENSED SCHSDU~; TRAINS GOING SOC TH Dated No No. No ian 14, 1901 35? 23? 53* m p s c . lores v < 4? ?iogstr ? 46 r Lance 2* 3 04 e Lanes ? 38 9 30 o At r Charity" . 5 04 ?0 55 S 3fi "RA (NS <'4<>l?iG NOR*** St Wo _78* 32* am om a ni Charleston 6 33 4 48 7 00 lr Lanes S 16 6 15 ft?*' ,e Lanoe 3 16 5 15 .8 Kicgstree S 32 r Florene* 9 25 ? 25 a m pm Ci tu , a:., f Daily except Sunday t a. 62 ruas through to Columbia via Ccu ai R. R. of S. C Traine Nos. 78 and 32 run Tia Wilson anr avetteviile-Short Line-and make clo? onnectioQ for all points North. T-*ins oa C. & D R. R. leave H?rem ?i - except Scadsy 9 ZO s x, arrive Darling OB 0 15 am, /Hartaviil? 9 15 am, Oberst 1 30 am, Wadesboro 2 25 p m eav IoreDce dai.'y excepf Suaday 7 56 p ta-. ive Darlington 8 20 ? na, B^nneitsville . m, Gibaos 9 45 TI Lea?? ??crec iaoday only - ' ? *rri7P ftr?tn?rt' .0 C5 a m LeMve Gibso^ - except San^i.. tr., Benoettsviii ? a m, arrive I" 9 8 00 a m, len* 5><igtos S ?> re Florence ? Ti LCJV?- t *?y except ?und? ?> n>, . m, 5ari37il!e " Darli;:; m, arrive Flo-" opton Sunda- -Oe ..ce 9 iia ID. r. R ? n Ge*)'! SJ an Ag. ??-.. H ? BMSRSCN ? ?an** Northwestern Railroad, Tl VfB TABLE NO 4 in Effect Wednesday, Jan 15. 19?l 8ETWEEN WILSONS MILL AND SUtfTE* Sootbboaod 73 3 00 103 3 17 3 30 4 05 4 15 * 0, -? 00 5 45 6 00 8 4t If At Daily ex Saoday Mixed STATIONS Sumter Sum Janctio:. Tindal Packe-ville Silver Millard Summerton Jordan Wlieuwe Mill Nortbboum. 72 p * ll 45 ll 42 ll 1 114 1< 20 110 00 9 26 V<Q 8 47 Lv 8 dc BETWEEN MILLARD AND ST PADL 78 75 Daily ex Sou<*?.y 72 74 p if AM Mixed AH P? 4 lo 9 30 Lv Millard Ar 10 00 4 % 20 fc9 40 Ar at PHUI LT 9 60 4 3( BETWEEN SUMTER AND 'HMDEN 89 71 p M 6 25 > 27 6 47 7 05 7 2. 1 3> 7 0 a CO p v A M 9 4"> 9 02 10 07 10 17 10 35 10 40 11 06 .! 1.5 A If Mixed 68 70 Daily PX Sanday > a & Lv Sum'pr Ar I *f* SO N <V Jonction M3 8 . D-izeil 5-382 Borden 4 {8 0 RfUit-e-td 4 43 7 4i Eilernpe 4 30 7 3 Sou hy Juucnoti 4 2c 7 t Ar Oamd?o Lv 4.10 7 CO (S C & G Ex Deoot) PM * > THOS. WILSON Pr^?rtwt CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH Original and Only Genuine. SAFE. Alway? reliai.!* Ladle*, art Drohst for CHICELESTEIfS ENGLISH in KEI> end Gold metallic boxe?. Healed with Mue ribbon. Take no other. Refine l>onceron? Substitution? and Imita? tion?. Bay of your Drunp^t. or send 4<*. :a ?ump? for Pitrtlcwlara. Te?tlt.ioruul? aod "Relief for Lad le?." in farrer, br r(.. lum Mull. 1 (>,<*<><> Totinoaialic fWdby all DruggUt?. Chichester Chemical C?v, paper. Madison SQ a? re, I'lIILA.. TA. > Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and alt Pat Jen: businessconducted for MODERATE FEES. iOv.' ?. OrncE IS OPPOSEE U. S. PATE* rO v'lCEj ianu wc can secure pater.: ia !..t.,uo thia ?nose' trem?te from Washington; > ^ < ? Send model, drawing or photo., wita descrip-< jtion. \V'e advise, if patentable or not, free of J ccharge. Our fee not due tiil patent is secured. , t A PAMPHLET, ** How to Obtain Patents," witin [cost of same in'the U. S. and foreign countries J Jsent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&COJ 5 OPP. PATENT OrriCE, WASHINGTON. D. C # CHEAP EXCUESION SCHEDULE. LEAVE A REIVE LEAVE N. C. C. 1 50. S. T. C. 2 00. 0. H. G. 2 50 Today on all Fine Whiskey. Special Low Rates. N. C. Corn Whisky $1 50 per gal Silver Top Corn Whisky 2 00 " u Pride of N. C. Corn Whisky 2 50 " " XX Anchor Rye Whisky 2 50 " " Old Henry Rye Whisky 3 00 " " Old Apple Brandy 3 00 " " Old Holland Gin 2 50 " " Send a trial order and be convinced, as ali will have a good time. This schedule takes zn the well known Silver Top at $2. Remit by P. O. Money Order, Express Money Order or Registered Letter in ad? vance, as whisky cannot be shipped C. 0. D. Train goes out every day. No charge for jugs. Address all orders'to E. A. LACKEY, Hamlet, N. C. dov 20-3m SOUTHERN RAILWAY, Condensed Schedule in Effect July 1, UOJ Sb.ll No.W Daily Daily EASTERN* TIME. 62up 7C0a;Lv 603p 7 41ai M 72?p 855a; " 8 lop 9 23ai " 9 Oap lo 24a! " . Charleston . Summerville .Branchville. .Orangebur.?.. .. Ringville... Ar No. 6?No.H Daily j Daily .ill4r; Ar -Sumter. ...Lv .?ll 2.ai ".Camden.Lv 9 50p ll C?al Ar.. . Columbia-LvJ ll15a j 730p 1U 32a 9 (X>a S 31a 7 Iba. 00a 400p 5-Vp! . o-ja;iiV... Charleston . .Ar ll 15a; 730p 7 25pl 9 15a? " ...Branchville... " : 8 5Jaj 515n 8o5pj 940a " ....Bamberg ... " 827ai 45oi> 817p! 9 52a! " ....Denmark ..." ! 813a! 43p 835n.lol0a| " ....Blackville... . u j 800a! 41$o 9Sis? ll 10a! ".Aiken.** | 7 03a? 3 lip lOa^pill 59a?Av. Augusta andLv .' \ 6 20a1 23g NOTE: In addition to the above service trains Nos. 15 and 16 run daily between Charles? ton and Columbia, carrying elegant Pullman Bleeping cars. No. 15 leave Charleston ll rOO p. m.:arrive Asheville 2:00 p. m. No. 16 lea/e Columbia 1 :?> a. m. ; arrive Charleston 7 rou a. m. Sleeping cars ready for occupancy at 9:30 p. m. both at Charleston and Columbia. These trains make cioae connec ions at Columbia wiih through trains between Florida pointa and Washington and the east. Trains ? os. 13 and 14 oarryEiegant Pullman Parlor Cars be? tween Charleston, Summerville and Asheville. |ExI [Sun. ?EA. * ! Sun.1 onlyj ann. Lv. Augosta Ar. Sandersville. .. Tennille. 7 0Ua 9 30a 5 20p 100p;i250pl 840p 130p| loop 85Up Lr. Tennille Sandersville. Ar. Augusta. 530-?' 340pi 310p 5 40a.' 350p| 323p 9u0aj ;i?p| 83Up DailyiDailyi^ Lv. Savannah. ** Allendale., M Barnwell. M Blackville 12 30a!l225p 3 40al 326p. 4 13a 358p 4 25a 4l2p Ar. Batesburg Ar. Columbia. 615a Lv. Columbia, Daily ll 40a 326p. 35Cp 412p 550p Daily 110a lil-? 12 05p 4 25p 800p Mix Ex su Lv. Batesburg Ar. Blackville. " Barnwell . " Allendale. *' Savannah. 630a 120p 133p 2 00p 305p 252a 1030a 3 07a ll 4oa 3 40a11200m 4 50a* ... Atlanta and Beyond. Lv. Chnriestou., 7 00al 520pj. Ar. Augusta.ll 59a 103?p?. " Atlanta. 8 30p 5 00ai. Lv. Atlanta.ll OOp 5 30aj 515p Ar. Chattanooga. 5 45a 9 45a?lo 05p Lv. Atlanta. Ar. Biriuiiifihm. *. Memphis, i via Bir'mgam) Ar. Lexington " Cincinnati. .* Chi t rago_ 6 00al 4 lop 12n'n|l0 0Op S05p| 7 15a 505p 5(X)a 730p 7 45a 7 15a| 5 30p Ar. Louisville. " St. Louis .. '50p 8 40a 32a Ar. Memnhis. fvia Chatt) Wp To Ashoviile-Cincinnati-Loaisvill?. ASTERN TIME. Ly. Lv. Lv. Ar. Augusta Batesburg Charleston. |Nol34 Ncl30 Da: ly j Daily 250-)! ?3up 4j>Sp:12o7a "j"": lOa ll OJp Columbia t Union Depot).jil 3/a 7 20a Spartanburg .j 3 l**p 10 25a Asheville . 7 lop 2 wp Knoxville. . . 4 15a| 7 Wp Cincitmnati.j 7 30pl 8103 Louisville i vii .Tellico?. ... ..16 5va To Washington and tho East. Lv. Augusta. " Batesburg. " Columbia.. Ar. Charlotte.. Ar. 1 >an\ ili?-". Ar. Richmond .... ?_.. Ar. Washington. . " Baltimore Pa. K. R. " Philadelphia.. M New York. .i50p) 930p 438pl207? 555pj 215a 900pl 9 45a [Tala i) Wa; lSSu o ?ap 7 35a i 900p 9 12a 1125p Il 33al 2 56a .J Q3pj 613a Sleeping Car Line bet wem Charleston and Atlanta, via Augusta, making connections at Atlanta for all points North and West. < A ?nneerions at Columbia with through trains for Washington and ;ho East; also for Jackson? ville anti alJ Pl trida Points. FR A NK S. GA N N < >N. J. M. CTJLP, Third V P. * (Ten. Mgr. T. M., Washington. ROBT. W. HUNT. Div. Pass. Agt., Charleston, S. 0. B. H. HARDWICK, W. H. TAYLOE, if. P 4.4 Washington. A. G. P. A., Atlanta.. R.S. Ci tai I ) Schedule No 4-h. effect iii < Juac Bel?* vjatu?e? S (J %od B Read dow o R?- ? *3r> 33 -r 3. a .. I j? -N 8 20 12 5i ?? 8 50 I ii 2>> 9 20 1 27 VCMI M 10 50 2 00 Jv' 1 3 '1 2o 2 12 i : 2 12 20 2 37 12 40 2 *0 !?--r. ,0* 2 30 3 10 Cata* a ? -J , 3 4 0v 3 40 '.ocS 4 45 4 02 rib 9 5 20 4 18 v'orfev ? i *. 45 4 34 Sbaro 9 0 8 6 05 4 50 Hickory . -. 7 6 20 5 00 Son rn 7 6 50 5 26 SlHcket-u;: ? 7 pm po t?eiWfn-? Blacksborg t? C., . ? R*>td down Re*d 1 33 Kf.tne??. i .a" ?32 m om >TATIO<N 6 45 5 26 Blacksbu 7 32 ' 5 49 Earlr 7 4* 5 49 Patterson Si 8 20 6 00 Shel?. 9 00 S 21 Laura o 9 10 6 30 Moore?o< 9 25 6 41 -ie> ne' 9 55 ? 69 Foreet ? 10 30 7 15 Rutherford 12 00 7 50 Thermal Ci 6 12 25 8 10 Glen woo? 1 00 8 30 Mario' p m p m Gaffney Di vis io r. Re*-i dowo Rend > EASTERN TIME ' ! 13 . STATIONS ?4 ni a m ? >< 1 00 6 00 Blacksburp i 3 0 MO 6 20 Cherokee Falls 7 30 2 40 1 40 6 40 Gaffney to 2 2 ?? ?. am .Dany except Sunday J 20 uvnn?ee for dtooer Trains Nos 32 and S3 axe operare daily Traine Nos 23, 35, ll. 12. 13 14. 15 ?nc 19 'e ( parated daily except < zndny CONINE "TIONS. At Cam len with Southern Ky; SA b A C Line. At Lancaster with Lc ORR. A Ca awba Jct with Seaboard A>r Line . A? R'.ek H??l with Southern Railway At Yorkville with Oaro-ina & oith Wer . ern R R. At Biacksburg with S uta? m Bai1 way At Shelby and Rutherford ou witb S A At Marion with ootbern Ra:lw ?y. . S A MU KL HUN : fr-rfiii, 4. TRIPP. Superintendent E H. SHAW. ??n'n>oiMnv-' ?. The Best Paper Published in the United States for Demo? crats and for ali readers is the Twiee-a-Week Courier-Journal The equal of many dailes and the supe? rior of all other semi-weeklies or weeklies. Issued Wednesday and Saturday. 104 copies a year, and you get it for only $1.00 A YEAH. 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Deposits of $1 and upwnrds received In -rent allowed at the rate of 4 per cer t per n'icnm, on amounts above $5 ?D<1 not exceed . K $30!, peyab'? quarterly, oo 6rst days of January. April, July nnd October. R M WALLACE. R I- EDMUNDS, President, flaunt-_m Plymouth ,??Rocii?? I have f :>r sale a few Barred Plymouth Eock Cockerels, from the fin? est strains. Also, Eggs from a pen of pure bred and se? lect Barred Plymouth Kocks. Orders will he filled promptly if book? ed now. Price for sit? ting of 13, $1.00. H. G. OSTEEN.