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Humorous Department. | A Client Demands Protection.?A few days ago in the District Court, a prisoner, who had been defended by one of our , young lawyers (who had been appointed by ; the court) received the highest penalty i the law allows for horse stealing, fifteen I years. After the verdict was announced this lawyer was observed to speak excitedly to his j client, whereupon the client stood up and told the judge that he looked to him for protection. His Honor, Judge Noonan, replied that the sheriff would see that his rights were not interfered with. "But that vs not what I mean," urged the prisoner. "What do yo mean ?" inquired the judge, kindly. "I want you to protect me. This young man you 'pinted to defend me says he is gwine to ask you to give me a new trial, ? ? * i- x X T 3 19 ana I want you to protect ine, juuge. And now that young lawyer tells people that he won't defend pauper criminals without being paid for it, not even if Judge Noonan sends him to jail for refusing.? Si/tings. Dr. Talmage and the Evolutionist. It was suggested to Mr. Talmage that he get up a lecture on "cranks," and relate his experience with cranky people. He laughed and said that while his experience was wide and varied on the subject of "cranks," yet there was one story that always came to his mind when the conversation turned on these peculiar people. He was once very busy writing in his room at a hotel when a card came up. He gave the bell boy instructions that ne could see nobody and dismissed him. A little while afterward the card came up a second time and he said to the bell boy tell that man to call on the next day, that he wouldn't see the angel Gabriel if he called to-day, and the bell boy's eyes stuck out. In a few minutes the card came up a third time, and then Mr. Talmage went down stairs to see who his persistent visitor was. A man stepped up to him and said: "You are Mr. Talmage?" "I am, sir." "Well, sir, I am an evolutionist, and I wanr to t'iscuss that question with you. 1 am also an annihilationist. I believe that when I die that will be the end of me." "Thank God for that!" devoutly ejaculated Mr. Talmage, as he walked off and left the man perfectly dazed. He Could'nt Stand Oratory.?When Blackburn was first running for Congress he happened to be present one day at an execution in Owenton, Kentucky. After the nreliminaries had been arranged the sheriff consulted his watch and discovered that it was not quite 12 o'clock, the hour fixed for the execution. Turning to the > prisoner he said: "You have ten minutes yet to live; is there anything you have to say in the meantime ?" The prisoner sullenly replied there was not. At this instant Blackburn sprang from his seat, and advancing to the edge of the scaffold, said : "If the gentleman will allow me the remaining ten minutes, I will be glad to announce myself a candidate for your suffrages. If elected to Congress"?At this point the prisoner interjected: "Mr. Shersff, I won't stand on a few minutes when it's death or listening to one of Joe Blackburn's speeches. Flip the trap and let me go." The good natured sheriff obligingly "flipped the trap," and the next instant the desperado swung into eternity. Knew Her Weak Point.?Wife?"This 1 is a nice time of night to come home; ain't you ashamed of yourself?" Husband (pulling off his boots and carefully putting them on the mantel)?"Don't- : er-scold. Couldn't get away?er?moment sooner. Had a?hie?big argument." W.?"Big fiddlesticks." H.?"Fact, I 'sure you. Wadcher think ? All?er?boys of the lodge in it. Queshion 1 was, which of us had?er?most amiable. , and?er?beautiful wife. I beat 'em all. | Described you?hie?roses, teeth pearls, lips cherries?temper?er?hie?likenangel. Of- < fered to fight 'em if they wouldn't admit < it. They gave in, 'n here I am?late, late? j er?victorious, finest wife in?er?world." ] W. (with a sweet smile)?"You are a sad fellow, John. I'm afraid you'll never be anything better. Let me help you take off . your coat, dear."?Sun AngeloStandard. ? . ? * t * : ... ? i DIDN'T KEEP AN INN.?A neignDOr 01 mine is quite annoyed by having all the traveling agents, etc, etc., quartered on him for the night, and the more he entertains, the more are sent him for that purpose. One cold night last winter, after he had stowed two guests in his front chamber and two in his lower bed-room, he heard another stop at his door and ring him up at 12 o'clock past. This was entirely too much for human patience. "What do you want?" said he, opening the window. "I want to stay here all night," came the answer from a voice on the sidewalk below"Well, stay there, then," was my neighbor's benevolent response, and down .went the sash with a jerk \?St. Louis Magazine. When She Feels Real Glad.?"I tell you how it is with me, Mrs. Blodgett," said the dressy neighbor. "When I goto church and get all stirred up over what a desperate wicked set we are, I feel vexed and put out to think what a shame it was that Eve didn't mind her own business and not bring such heaps of trouble upon us; but when I put on a new dress that fits me so nice I can't find a particle of fault with it, and a hat that makes every woman I meet feel as though she hadn't a friend in the world, then I own up that I feel downright r?l a r\ oho urao fr\nr1 nf fruif o n rl T non't Koln ^tau snu >too luiiu ui xxuic, auu x V/au v ugip it."?Chicago Tribune. ? ? ? I I 1ST "Cholly, would you believe it but Gussie Willoughby was actually bitten by i Miss De Snook's howid pug dawg lawst i evening." i "Gwacious! And it hain't got the wabies, i I hope?" i "Cawn't say, you know. Don'tcher know i butGussie isactually pwoud of it." "Pwoud of being bitten by a nawsty pug , dawg! How strange, to be sure! Why?" < "He says it's quite English, you know." , Cigarettes and vanilla cream for two. i ] t&~Mr. Cohen?"Repecca, my tear, der ( doctor has given me oop." , Mrs. C.?*'Ach himmel! dat is ja schrech- , lich!" Mr. C.?"Id seems hart to leafe you." Mrs. C.?"Boo-hoo! Ich ben veruckt." Mr. C.?"Id seems hart, Repecca, und der busy season is gomin' on in a week. Put ( dot chob lot of combs in der goffin. I'll , spring'em on der angels. Hast du gesehen?" ^ I6T A Hibernian Senator speaking on the j subject of preventing suicide, said: "The only way I can conceive of stopping the business is to make it a capital offense, punishable with death."?N. V. Herald. f&T "A genuine patriot," said an election " orator, recently, "must at all times be ready to die for his country, even if it should cost him his life." [Thundering applause.]? Chicago Journal. \ <?he -Itotg iellet. OLD PAUL. THE MYSTERIOUS ROOM, AX J) WHAT ITS Oi'EXIXG REYEA LED. Old Paul is dead, and who cares? Nobody. For Old Paul was a sloven, a glutton, and a drunkard, and when he died the world said good riddance from poor rubbish. Still, Old Paul made a most respectable appearance as he passed through the village on his way to the graveyard, the most respectable he had made in it- for twenty years. For, instead of his broken down horse, in a harness tied together with strings, Old Paul was drawn by stately white horses in rich trappings, and instead of his crazy old wagon, with rickety wheels and spliu* * ? 4L?.,?L lerea snaits, uia j^aurs varrmge, uiuu^n iui some reason few like to ride in it, was in every way respectable. Nor was the poor old man visible, with his slovenly dress and bloodshot eyes and burning face, and grizzled, shaggy beard, for Old Paul had adriver, and rode inside, and instead of the crowd of rascally boys that were wont to follow him, deeming it rare sport to see humanity sunk so low, Old Paul was followed by a long and most respectable funeral train, for he had many relations, though no friends, and they were all most respectably dressed in mourning, though in all the sable crowd that stood around the open grave I saw not one quivering lip or falling tear as the first earth clods fell upon the coffin's lid. Old Paul's wife left him near twenty years ago, and the world excused her for it, for how, said the world, could any woman live with such a brute ? But old Aunt Prudence shook her head at this off-hand verdict of the world. For she remembered that he was once young, dashing Paul, and Polly Jones, proud and handsome as she was, met him more than half way, as the gossips said, fifty years ago, for he was rich and she was poor. "And if the truth must be known," said Aunt Prudence, knocking the ashes from her pipe and lowering her voice to a confidential tone, as if afraid of being overheard by some tenant of the graveyard, "they du say," forgetting that the tongues once busy with such gossip, all except her own, had long been silent in the grave, "they du say that Paul married for beauty and Polly for money, and you know, as old Billy Bain, down at the poorhouse, says, life's wagon will go hard when there is no love to grease the wheels." Yes, gold had dazzled and blinded the one, and beauty had dazzled and blinded the other, but they soon waked up, the one to the fact that for gold she had bound her life to a coarse and brutal nature, and the other to the fact that beauty, like frostwork glittering in moonlight, may be brilliant and at the same time freezing cold. "How shockingly they have abused them paus," said Old Paul's wife the day after he was buried, on returning to the house that had .been her home for more than thirty years, where her children had all been born and most of them had died. Old Paul was, indeed, a brute, and he was well mated with one who, under such circumstances, could think of such petty trash. But three short weeks had passed when I heard that Old Paul's wife was sick, the next day worse and the third day dead, and she passed over the same road, drawn by the same richly caparisoned horses, in the same much dreaded carriage, to be laid by Old Paul's side. One day I chanced to take a walk down to Old Paul's house. The spring was in its glory. The forest was clad in richest verdure. The apple trees were in full bloom and filled the air with fragrance, while the bees feeding upon the blossoms filled it with a dreamy murmur. The corn was just - - 1 a a.i? peeping irom uie grounu auu me rye ueius began to wave in the passing breezes. The meadows were vocal with The bobolink's clear thrilling strainOf liquid sweet. The ground birds were singing in the hedges and the robins from the trees that overhung the road. As I approached the house I noticed horses tied to the posts and groups of men standing about the doors, and heaps of old furniture scattered here and there which reminded me that it was auction day. It was a large, old-fashioned square house, with two ancient elms growing before it, spreading their giant branches far and wide. In their thick, damp shade the moss had accumulated year after year until the whole front had grown quite green. There was everywhere an air of dilapidation and neglect. On all sides there were broken boards, ragstuffed windows, rickety fences and fallen gates, all proclaiming the habitation of the drunkard. On looking around I found everything in conformity with the first view from the road. Fields half cultivated, fruit trees unpruned, fences that had caught the habits of their master and had fallen or were staggering to their fall, gates hanging by one hinge, plows with broken handles and carts with broken wheels, manure accumulated about the barns instead of making the crops look "lush and lusty." The barns themselves, ventilated by loss of boards, in the shed Old Raul's wagon, and tied to a post his old horse, apparently looking mournfully forward to'his future prospects in the hands of the jockey who had bought him for ten dollars on speculation. "Going, going at ten cents," I heard in a harsh, husky voice, "all this lot of pans, once the pride of Aunt Polly's heart, bran new only twenty years ago, going, going and gone to Patrick McFadden for ten cents." Ten cents, then, was the public valuation [)f what had occupied the thoughts of Old Paul's wife, to the exclusion of all the tender memories of fifty years as she returned to her old home. At length the house was all cleared except one room. This room Old Paul kept locked for twenty years, never permitting any one to enter it but himself. A jury of neighboring gossips had more than once had the subject under advisement, and had brought a unanimous verdict of "strange and very mysterious." As no one knew anything about it, every one felt free to say just what her busy fancy suggested. Some said it was haunted, and one cadaverous old maid, who had dried up in single blssedness, threw out dark hints about a peddler who had mysteriously disappeared. Some said lights had been seen and strangely sweet music heard there more than once at the dead of night. The children caught the infection, and, if j possible, avoided passing Old Paul's house | in the night, but, if at any time benighted, i their fear would add wings to their feet and j eyes to their imaginations, and a ghost: story was sure to be the result, especially j if Old Paul's white horse was feeding near the hou&. This room also seemed to pos-! sess a strange power over Old Paul himself. | He seldom visited it, and always left it j greatly agitated and commonly in tears, j and after such visits he hadbeen known to be sober for weeks together. This mystery, whatever it might be, was now about to be cleared up. A group of eager gossips had already gathered about the door, which had to be forced, as the i key could not be found. One of the shut-j ters, which Old Paul always kept closed,' i was opened to let in the light of day, and i with it all that mystery vanished. Instead I of a haunt for the revels of spirits of darkI ness or murder spots that "would not out,". | we saw only a large square room, furnished ' with an air of gentility and taste that the dust of twenty years could not hide, and in | strange contrast with the rest of the house. The mystery had vanished, and with it j all that coarse hilarity. Even the rollickling auctioneer stood mute, his coarse features covered with a shade .of thoughtful | sadness. i More than one lip quivered, and more i than one hard hand brushed away an obtrusive tear, as this dusty old room called up from its oblivious slumber some touching memory of the past. There was one old woman who, in the midst of the bustle, had seemed busy with her own thoughts, and more than once her heart had seemed full as some little article was sold. I had noticed her, and inquired who she was; and they told me that her husband had once been a drunkard worse even than Old Paul, but that he had suddenly reformed and became a respectable man; that they had been miserably poor, with a large family, but after his reformation became quite comfortable livers, and i all agreed that she was as good a woman ! as lived this side ot heaven. As she entered the room her feelings quite overcame her. The tears coursed each other down the deep furrows on her cheeks. "Yes," at length she said, "this is Nelly's room, just as she left it. What a sweet creature that was! She was an angel to me in my poverty and suffering. Hardly a day passed without her bringing over some nice little things for poor little Willie, who was sick so long. But he is well now, thank God, and they are both in heaven together. And then she had such a kind way to give anything that it would make a brown crust taste good. It was different times in this house when she was in it. I always hoped she would be able to save poor Paul, for she could do anything with him ; but she saved my poor husband, for he never drank a drop after she talked to him?so like an angel as she was just before she died. He could never speak of her to the day of his death without crying. She wasn't quite eighteen when she went away. I always told him she didn't belong in this world, but was only here on a visit. What a time that was the day she was buried! Everybody seemed to feel just as if they had lost one of their own family. I didn't see but our children felt just as bad as when our Katy died. "Poor Willie cried till it seemed as if his heart would break, though she told him but the day before she left us?for poor child, suffering as she was she seemed to be thinking of everybody but herself?to be patient and good-natured, and not much to mind if he did not suffer a good deal, and ! he would see her again before long. "It is enough to make one want to die just to see the poor child again. But never mind children I shall be with you soon." As she said this she looked steadily upward and spoke in a confidential tone, as if she saw those dear ones on the very border of the spiritual world, wating impatiently for her to join them. During this simple talk of the loving old woman, if there was a dry eye in that a-minute-before careless, jovial crowd, mine were so blended that I could not see it, and I felt convinced, more than I should have been by volumes of panegyrics, that from that dusty room more than twenty years ago an angel had taken her homeward flight, and she had since been permitted, occasionally to fit across Old Paul's degraded soul, if, perchance, she might yet win him from the error of his ways. But how, thought I, could such a one grow up under such circumstances and with such surroundings? How? Why, in the same way the most beautiful flower can grow and shed its fragrance under the cold droppings of the glacier. The divine goodness is so prodigal?no, not prodigal, but profuse?in the bestowal of its gifts that, as there is no place in nature without its beauty, so there is none so morally waste and desolate that it does not produce some flower of Paradise; there is no thick mantling pool of depravity so stagnating that its waters are not sometimes stirred by the rustling of an angel's wings.?Henry T. Niles, in Toledo Blade. GRANDPARENTS. There is nobody like a comparatively young and lively grandsire or grandmother to till in the family chinks. Grandfather roasts bones and compounds savory, hot messes, well peppered for the hens, and keeps them laying all winter when the neighbors are stirring a spoonful of snow into cake in place of eggs. He keeps the wood-box well filled with the nicest of kindlings and the driest of wood, and never forgets to wind the clock. He oilsthe creaking door hinges and rusty locks, replaces the tack that has worked out of the carpet, and solders the pinhole that has impudently ap peared in the new tin pail. He pares applesand brings the rind off in one unbroken red curl, for the little ones to fling over their shoulders, to form queer, misshapen capital letters; nobody can coax corn to pop into such white flakes as grandpa, and nobody else can so inend toys, direct the boys about training the "yellings"or tunneling through the deep snow drift at the foot of the hill. If a cow in the neighborhood is sick or a sheep refuses to own her lamb, grandfather is sent for, and he knows a sure remedy. He has forgotten more than all the neighborhood know to-day, and yet remembers more than all they ever knew. And what is there that grandmother cannot do ? She is always in order to see company and never at a loss for something to say. She is ready to take the baby when nobody else can give him attention ; she binds up bruised fingers with soft rags and wounded hearts with tender words, kisses and a stray peppermint from the depths of her pocket or a mysterious little box which she takes down from a high shelf in some cupboard. She keeps the thin places in the stockings and mittens darned before they become real holes, and her wise counsel and soothing words prevent many holes in the peace of the family and neighborhood. She has great stores of supplies for everybody far and near. She never forgets where her sage and summer savory and catnip are, and her hoarhound candy and thoroughwort syrup are so delicious that every coughing child for miles about considers himself in luck when he gets a chance to take them. Grandmother lias weathered the stormtossed sea of retribution and gotten into the peaceful harbor of forgiveness. Childhood is infinitely more tender in her sight than it is to the father or mother, and what are ; deliberate wanderings out of the way in j their eyes are but involuntary slips of the \ untried feet to her. Grandmother knows : that the hasty word or the unrelenting pen- j alty of to-day may gnaw forever at the ! heart of the speaker and inflictor. Ah, how much grandmother knows! There is never a snowstorm but that grandfather or grandmother remembers a j worse one away back in the fabulous times of thirty, forty or sixty years ago. No late i springs or early autumn frosts surprise them, for they know by long experience that the promises of seed time and harvest are sure.?Lewhton (Me.) Journal. ! ^Usccltoucous ?cadiittg. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. One of the most important laws passed during the present generation has lately j ; received the approval of the President. Although it is only a law, which can be re- j pealed by Congress at any time, it is in effect a constitutional change?not in the ; sense of making an amendment of the Con-1 stitution, but in that of changing the constitution of the Government. It is provided in the Constitution that "the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President." Under this clause Congress passed an act in 1792. declaring that in the event so stated "the President of the Senate, or if there is none, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being, shall act as President until the disabilty is removed, or a President elected." There is a curious bit of history connected with this law. It was the general opinion, even when the act was passed, that the Secretary of State rather than the President of the Senate pro tempore ought to succeed to the Presidency; but so bitter was the opposition of Federalists to Mr. Jefferson, who was then Secretary of State, that the succession was devolved upon the presiding officers of the two branches of Congress. The law so passed remained in force ninetyfour years. It was many times attacked during that period on various grounds, but it is only lately that the dangers of the system excited alarm. Until 1881 there was alway a President pro tempore of the Senate, because it was the custom of the Vice President to leave ^he chair before the close of the session, in order that the Senate might choose one. Rut once every two years, from the close of one Congress on the fourth of March until the mesting of the next Congress in the following December, there was no Speaker in the House of Representatives. Twice in the last five years there has been no President pro tempore of the Senate, in each case because the Vice President, contrary to precedent, continued to preside over the Senate till the day of final adjournment. Had President Arthur died after the death of President Garfield, before Congress met in December, 1881, or had President Cleveland died after the death of Vice President Hendricks, last autumn, there would have been no person designated by the Constitution or the law to act as President. It need hardly be said that a great many times it would have happened under the old law that a President of different politics might have succeeded the elected President. Under that law Senator Sherman would now become President in the event of the death of Mr. Cleveland. At last the" many perils and inconveniences of the ancient statute have led Congress to pass what is known as the Hoar Presidential Succession bill. The principle of the new law is to make the several members of the Cabinet, beginning with the Secretary of State, followed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and so on in order through the list, President in cause of the inability to act, from any case, if both the President and Vice-President. It is also provided that the cabinet officer succeeding in such a case shall fill out the elected President's full term. Under the old law there would have been a new election unless the term was nearly completed? Youth's Cornpan ion. Ol!R MANNERS. I No one quality of the mind and heart is more important as an element of success in this life than good manners. A good manner is the best letter of recommendation among strangers, civility, refinement and a 1.. TT;oft fnnoafo rwr&v anfl (IlillJiy UCilllllg. 11IOIUIJ Ibpvuiu ?TV> ?...V. over again, examples showing that it is the bearing of a man towards his fellow-men more than any other quality which promotes or retards his success or advancement in life. ^Success or failure often turns upon the manners of the man. Civility and a genial bearing is not only one of the essentials of high success, but is a small fortune of itself. Honesty, refinement and gentleness of character are everywhere worth 100 cents on the dollar. They are passports to hearts and homes, while awkwardness, coarseness and gruffnessare met with locked doors and closed hearts. Says Emerson: "Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes" ; and if to these qualities we add honesty and integrity of purpose, we have a solid foundation for a grand success in life. There is no occupation or profession where good manners are not necessary. Manners are really minor morals. A rude person is ofteu assumed to be a bad person. The manner in which a person says or does a thing furnishes a better index to his character than what he does or says,, for it is the incidental expression given to his thoughts and feelings by his looks, tones and gestures rather than by his words. The manner in which a favor is granted, or a kindness is done, often effects us more than the deed itself. A favor may be grauted so grudgingly as to deprive us of all feeling of obligation, or it mav be so courteously refused as to awaken a far greater feeling of kindness than if ungraciously granted. Let us ever be mindful of .the fact that every act of our own affects in a greater or less degree some other individual, and it is a binding obligation to ourselves, our friends and our neighbors that we be truly polite and gentle. True courtesy will oil up. the machinery of life to a wonderful degree, and make many I glad hearts, thus really lengthening our ! days and promoting our usefulness in the j world. 1)0 ANIMALS THINK ? A great deal has been written to show | that animals think and reason, just as man j does, though in a lower degree. Perhaps i some of our readers may notice things in ! animals which show that they have a great | deal of intelligence, even if they do not reason. Mr. Paul Brocca, the French au-1 thor, devoted much attention to this sub- J ject. It has been said of animals, writes Mr. Brocca, that their actions are mechani- j cal and without method. This may be true j of domestic pets, who are influenced almost entirely by the human being, around them, j but does not the beaver change his plans, | acting now as builder, now as miner accord- j ingto circumstances? Besides this, every one knows that the bee frequently substi-: tutes pentagonal, or five side, for hexagonal, or six-sided cells, and that alteration in the j work is made only when necessary. It has : also been said that animals do not reason. ' NVhat then is done by the foxes, which in Thrace are driven on to the ice to test its strength ? These animals step carfully and : lightly, with their heads inclined, and turn back suddenly directly they discover by the j sound of the ice cracking that it is not safe to proceed farther. A dog which, in follow- j ingascent, arrives at a cross road is seen' to stop, consider for a moment, then plunge along one of the roads, sniffing cautiously, turn back and try another road in the same manner, and finally dart unhesitatingly down the third. It is evident that his logic tells him that as his prey has not taken one of the first two roads examined, it must: necessarily have taken the third road, so he does not waste time in further investigation. That this is not mere instinct is shown by the fact that a dog sometimes i makes a mistake in such a case, and that j when the fact becomes evident he slinks j out of sight of the hunters, looking a picture of shame and humiliation. Foresight is a quality the possession of which no one will deny to ants and bees, and the former certainly have a sense of compassion. This is displayed in the tender care bestowed on the wounded during the terrible battles fought between different tribes of ants. The suffering and helpless ones are not left to perish, but are carried off the battlefield by a regular "ambulance corps." No one doubts the existence of memory in animals, and as to ambition, is it necessary to recount the pitched battles which take place in bee hives between the different candidates for royalty ? How can one pretend that man only has the gift of language! He must be blind indeed who does not see that all animals have some means of communication with each other. To give only one example : there is no possible doubt that ant9 make themselves understood by their fellows, by means of the touch of their delicate, sensitive anteme or feelers. Before the war a council is held, and messengers hurry about. Scouts or spies are sent out, and the attack is hastened or postponed, according to their reports. All this could not be done without a very complete method of communication, for the giving and receiving of orders, etc. Moreover, if animals had no language, how could they teach their young? That they do teach them is evident from the fact of young foxes in countries where the animals are hunted being infinitely more wary than full grown ones in other lands ! How else are we to account for this than by saying the parent foxes tell their children of the danger, and how to avoid it??American Agriculturist. WONDERFUL CAVES IN 0E0R01A. We first reached the Blowing cave in Decatur county, Ga., which is situated in a large plantation on a hill, surrounded by a broad valley, with the exception of the east, which is a little higher than the rim of the cave and ten miles from Pelham, says a correspondent. The rim of the cave is thirty feet east and west and twenty feet north and south, funnel shaped, about 12 feet from surface of rim, and has two openings or mouths, though which it breathes. Its suction is in the forenoon and it blows out in the afternoon, and the draught is sufficient in the morning to suck in leaves, pocKei-nanciKercnieis, oranyming 01 iigm weight. In the afternoon it blows out with equal strength. I placed my head to one of its mouths and heard a noise like the roaring of a distant wind. This cave must have immediate connection with the Gulf of Mexico, which one would reasonably conclude is the cause of its respirations. This cave is the property of Thomas A. liarrows and he says that he often goees to its mouth of hot evenings in summer and gets a refreshing breeze, for if the weather marks ninety-five degrees, put the thermometer to the mouth of the cave and it will fall to seventy-five degrees, which shows it has no connection with the dreaded place, and then the breeze is pure and healthy. South of this cave about a mile is a beautiful waterfall, the rim of which is about two hundred and forty feet in circumference, funnel shaped, and it is the funnel that receives a stream of water which approaches through a narrow channel at a depth of twenty leet from the surface of the land and pours over a rock into a funnel about forty feet. The bottom of the funnel is twenty-five feet across, and there have been seen in it an alligator and rattlesnake. The water is conveyed from the funnel by a subterranean passage. Next I visited the great lime sink about six miles from Pelham, which belongs to L. O. Jackson, of Bainbridge. The sink is the receptacle of a large creek, and the bottom is about two hundred feet below the surrounding country. There is a grist mill on its verge and the natural water power would run a vast amount of machinery. The fall of water into the sink is ninety feet, which presents a grand sight as it falls. One can easily go down into this sink, which is the approach to a great cavern one hundred feet under ground. On my return to Pelham Mr. Hand proposed to take me to another cave two miles from Pelham. This one is on a large plantation and is a beautiful funnel shaped cave about two hundred and twenty-five feet deep, and has two mouths to breathe through, and it was blowing out strong while we were there. Like the other cave it sucks the air in the morning and blows it out in the evening, and the air is cool and pleasant.?Atlanta (C/a.) JVews. General Nelson A. Miles was a drygoods clerk when the war broke out. He is now the youngest man of his rank in the army. lie naturally rose rapidly. When a dry-goods clerk gets an order he invariably asks: "Is there anything else?"?Chicago Journal. fi?1* When an officer is dismissed from the army he is said to be cashiered. When a cashier is dismissed from a bank he is generally officered. The same thing, only different. ?hc ^urhvillc inquirer. ? ? TEHM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION : Single copy for one year, $ 2 50 For six months, 125 For three months, 75 Two copies one year 4 00 Ten copies one year 20 00 And an extra copy for a club of ten. How to Or?lor the Enquirer.?Write the \ name of the subscriber very plainly, give postollice, county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or postoffice money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. 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' Contracts will be made at reduced rates for i advertising space to bo used for three, six, or j twelve months. All contract advertisements i will be confined to the regular business for which 1 the space is engaged. pgr Rejected manuscripts will not be returned to the writers. Persons who send manuscript to this offico for publication and desire a copy ofthe same, should make a duplicate. Tributes of Respect and Obituary notices ' charged for at the rate of ten cents a line. Usu ally there are about seven words in a line. APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. I THIRTY days after date, application will be . made to the Clerk of the Court of Common i Pleas for York county, for a Charter incorpo- I rating THE YORK COUNTY MEDICAL AND ' SURGICAL ASSOCIATION. R. ANDRAL BRATTON, Secretary. May (i IS f>t SLITS. <"1 ENTS' Readv-Made Suits very cheap, at T KENNEDY BROS. & BARRON'S. RELIEF ! For Forty Years A Sufferer from Catarrh. WONDERFUL TO RELATE. / "tjlOR forty years I have been a victim to G'AI; TAHRH*?three-fourths of the time a sufferer from excruciating pains across mv forehead and my nostrils. The discharges were so offensive thuf I hesitate to mention it, except for the good it may do some other sufferer. I have spent a young fortune from my earnings during my forty years of suffering to obtain relief from the doctors. I have tried patent medicines?every one T could learn of?from the four corners of the earth, with no relief. And AT LAST (57 years of age) have met with a remedy that has cured mo entirely?made me a new man. I weighed 12S pounds and now weigh 14(5. I used thirteen bottles of the medicine, and the only regret I have is that being in the humble walks of life I may not have influence to prevail on all catarrh sufferers to use what has cured me, (Juinn's i??.uuvuv chi'VVS i lutiuci wiuwu ururoui. uu.i iv 1 vn ?i ? mj?j? "No. 2f>7 Second St., Macon, Ga." "Mr. Henry Cheves, the writer of the above formerly of Crawford county, now of Macon, Georgia, merits theconfidenceofall interested in catarrh. W. A. IIUFF, Ex-Mayor of Macon." A superb Flesh Producer and Tonic. <?uiiui*M Pioneer Blood Renewer Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Rheumatism, Scrpfula, ()ld Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine. If not in your market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles ?1.00; large bottles ?1.7"). Essav on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon. Georgia. For sale by DOWRY A STARR, Yorkville. Aprils 11 ly ~T0 THE CAROLINA STOVE TRADE." 1 RESPECTFULLY inform Stove Buyers all over tho Stale that I carry in stock, for Fall and Winter trade, 550 Cooking and Heating Stoves & Ranges. By actual count, requiring Store and Warehouse room, 2.") by 200 feet to contain the stock, and can fill orders promptly. COOKING STOVES FROM $8.00 UP. Warranted to give satisfaction. Best Box Heating Stoves from $2.50 Up. The goods are bought from parties who sell large jobbing trade only, and challenge a comparison of quality and prices of Stoves with any market North, South, East or West. $33* Write for circulars giving prices and a full description of Goods, and SAVE MONEY. I am very anxious to get a sample Stove sold in every neighborhood in the State. TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY. J. I). RATTERREE, Chester, S. C. October 1"> 31 12m THE COTTON PLANT. Tim flnlv \ <ri>iViiHni'nl .Inncnnl in South Carolina. AN EIGHT-PAGE, FORTY-COLUMN AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL ! Strictly and Intensely Agricultural, Fighting for and Aiding the Farmers. The attention of the Farmers' Clubs organizing now in our State is called to THE COTTON PLANT, As the only Agricultural Magazine in our State. Only 60 Cents a Year. HEND FOR SAMPLE COPIES. Address THE COTTON PLANT, Marion, S. C. The Howe Machine Company's LIGHT RUNNING. HIGH ARM. 14 New Howe " WHICH^TOE BEST SEWING MACHINE EVKU MADE. 1CALL special attention to the following features : The NEW HOWE is a new machine throughout, differing in every point from the machines heretofore manufactured by the company. The needle is self-setting. It has the most room under the arm; the perfect Howe stitch ; no holes to thread, except the needle; the easiest shuttle to thread ; the most perfect take up ; the loose balance-wheel; the largest bobbin ; absolutely no vibration; the most perfect tension. It is the lightest running; noiseless, and the most pleasing in appearance. Prices within the reach of all. Call and get a descriptive circular, and see the machine, which is always on exhibition at my Photographic Gallery. PHOTOGRAPHY. ? I would inform the public that I am yet making PHOTOGRAPHS in all tho various styles. Also, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of pictures. 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I'nh'rs, Springfield, Mass. < April 20 17 3t GARRY IRON RO< Manufacturers of all kinds of IKON ROOFING t'KIJIPED AM) CORRUGATED SIDING, BBF Iron Tile or Sliingle, KIKE PROOF DOOKS, SHUTTERS dl\, THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF May 10 THE STATE OF SOTTII CAROLINA, COUNTY OF YORK?COl'RT OF COMMON PLEAS. Mary J. Guthrie, Plaintiff, against Arthur Williamson and Bettie Williamson, (children of John X. Williamson, deceased); Martha E. Carter, Sylvanus Williamson, Harriet Ragland, Louisa Carter and Lerov Williamson, (children of J. Glenn Williamson, deceased) and the widow (name unknown) of' Robert Williamson, deceased, (also a son of y the said J. Glenn Williamson); John M. Williamson, Sarah Ann Jones, and Addie Williamson (married, name not known), (children of Milton F. Williamson, deceased); H. Leroy Williamson, John Williamson, Samuel Williamson, Tazwell Williamson, Alexander Williamson, Bettie Williamson, Emma Williamson and Williamson (name not known), (the children of Samuel E. Williamson, deceased); William A. Williamson, and John J. Williamson, (who, with the Plaintiff, are the children of W. Lewis Williamson, deceasod); James L. Williamson, Mary E. Wilson, and Robert J. Williamson, (the children of Sylvanus Williamson, deceasod) ; F. Leo Erwin and John R. Erwin, . (the children of Ann B. Erwin, deceased)? heirs-at-law?and Robert K.Guthrie?as Administrator?of J. Harvey Williamson, de ceased, Defendants.?Summons for Relief? tk Complaint not Served. To the Defendants above-named, all of whom, ^ nvoont Tnmoa T AX* I 1 1 L' i / (U1K.-1 AJ, * ? X I 11 < W11 o VJ 11 nilU UUUl'U J J, .1. Guthrie, are non-residents of the State: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, which is this day herewith tiled in the ofliee of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for said Countv. and to servo a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber, at his office in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the'day "of such service; and if you fail to answer the Com- ^ plaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff' in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. [Summons and Complaint filed April 28, 1880.] [r.. s.] Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis. Dated Yorkville, S. C., April 28, A. D. 1888. C. K. SPENCER, Plaintiffs' Attorney. April 28 17 Gt" C. & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD ~ SCHEDULER of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., taking effect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, February 7th, 1880. going south. Leave Lenoir 0.00 A. M. Arrive at Hudsonville/ 0.24 A. M. Arrive at Lovelady/ 0.40 A. M. Arrive at Hickory 7.10 A. M. Leave Newton 8.05 A. M. Arrive at Maiden/ 8.33 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 9.10 A. M. Arrive at Hardin's5 9.48 A. M. Arrive at Dallas, 10.07 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 10.23 A. M. Leave Gastonia 10.40 A. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek/ 11.07 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 11.30 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 12.05 P. M. Leaye Yorkville, 12.25 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville/ 12.53 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville/ 1.30 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.25 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 4.55 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.30 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 5.55 P. M. Leave Yorkville 0.10 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 0.45 P. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek 7.10 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 7.40 P. M. Leave Gastonia 7.55 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 8.11 P. M. Arrive at Hardin's, 8.35 P. M. ^ Arrive at Lineolnton, 9.00 P. M. Arrive at Maiden, 9.40 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 10.05 P. M. Leave Hickory, 10.50 P. M. Arrive at Lovelady, 11.20 P. M. Arrive at Hudsonville, 11.37 P. M. Arrive at Lenoir, 12.01 A. M. * Flag Station. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. February 18 7 tf job printing. OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and first-class appointments throughout our ofiice, we are prepared to execute all manner of JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that will compare with New York or Philadelphia charges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to'whieh me invite the attention of business men : ^ IJILL HEADS. CJin Cnrlllill' Half-sheet Bill Heads,..* $3.50 $0.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet oill heads. We will till an order for bill heads, giving any desired number of either size of sheet at proportionate prices. LETTER HEA.DS. For 500 For 1000 Commercial Note, $2.15 $3,25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.00 For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in every instance. We also give special attention to the printing of Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authori- * ties, which we furnish strictly according to the requirements of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exercise the utmost care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to fiurnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST. Yorkville, S. C, FOTODRY AND Machine Shop. c rUHE undersigned would respectfully inform X the public that he now has in operation, on his lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared, to do all manner of work in light iron and brass castings, and general machine work, REPAIRING, Of all kinds, promptly done on short notice. Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery of any kind overhauled and repaired. Besides,"any class of work that may be wanted in his shop, Jie will attend any call for repairing stationary engines, doing the work on the premises, thus obviating the necessity of moving the engine. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion of the work. EDWARD THOMAS. 1886. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1886. Ytrkrille Livery and Feed Stables ARE still on a boom, and the year 1S8G finds me with some of the finest* Vehicles ever shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and surpasssed by none. Everything will be kept in the best style. Give me a trial and be con- "' vinced. Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies Of every description will be kept. Spring Wagons, Phaetons, ifce., of the best make, always on hand. * ' FOR FUNERALS I have a line Queen City Hearse and a Clarence Coach, which will be sent to any part ef the county at short notice. Terms reasonable. A Big Bargain. 1 have a Jumpseat Phaeton and some Buggies on hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold <0011 to make room for my new stock. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables, where thev will receive the best attention. F. E. SMITH. APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. N'OTICE is hereby given that the undersigned. Administrator of the estate of I. MILTON WALLACE, deceased, has made a final settlement with the J11 dire of Probate of York countv. niul on Saturday, the 22nd day of May, 188<>, at *11 o'clock, A. M.,\vill make application for a final discharge from liability as Administrator of the said estate. K. H. MKNDKNHALL, Administrator. April 22 1(5 at* 3FING COMPANY, ^ , t|? IROX ORE PAINT An<l Cement. 15-T0158 M krwin street Cleveland, O. ' Send for C'ircnlarand Price ^ ' IROX ROOFING IN THE WORLD. a ly . -J