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pMwotous fjcparimeut. Wanted to be Right.?They were talking about the state of the thermometer, and by the time all had got through it was found that the record ranged from 2deg8. to 7 degs. below. Finally an old colored man, who sat next to the stove, was appealed to, and he said: "Gem'len, I knowed dis yere coldness would come up on de kyar dis mawnin', an' so I made up my mind I'd be right about it. My thermometer showed jist exactly 6 degs. below half an hour ago, an' I took it down off de nail an' put it in my pocket to bring along fur proof. She's yere." And he took it from his overcoat pocket, unrolled it from a handkerchief, and passed it over. "Why, it shows 28 degs. above!" exclaimed the man who received it, while everybody understood that it had warmed uo. and began to laugh. "Hu ! She does eh ? Waal, dat settles me wid any mo' foolin' around! Reckon de pendlum haffdropped off in de snow an' she's sot out to paint de town red!" $9* A San Antonio darky was on trial for stealing money from a house on Soledad street. Julian Van Slyck, the attorney for the prisoner, in his address to the jury, said: "Gentlemen, my client is a poor man. He was driven by hunger and want to take the small sum of money. All that he wanted was sufficient money to buy bread, for it is in evidence that he did not take the pocket-book containing $300 that was in the same bureau drawer. If he was a professional thief, he would have certainly taken the pocket-book." The eloquent attorney for the accused was interrupted by the convulsive sobs of his client. "Why do you weep?" asked Judge Noonan, who was on the bench. "Bekase I didn't see dat ar pocket-book in de bureau drawer," was the reply. Everybody laughed except Van Slyck, the attorney for the defence. One Way.?"See here," said a man to a Dakota real estate agent; "you know that lot you sold me for $50 last fall ?" "Yes." "Well, I find you've just sold the same lot to an eastern speculator?just saw the records?warranty deed, consideration $300. What do ycu mean by selling my t-i AM 106 t" "Isn't your lot down under twenty-five feet of snow?" "Well, yes, from twenty to twenty-five." "Well, this lot I've sold to the New Englaud man is on top. When the snow thaws in June you just go ahead and take possession of your lot and tell the Boston man that his lot has melted and run into the Gulf of Mexico. Oh, there's more than one way to skin an eastern capitalist besides holding over him in draw poker!" "Whar Dat Veal?"?Judge Lamar is reported as telling the following story of his experience at apolitical meeting in his own State soon after the war. He was one of the speakers, and alluding to the civil war, suggested as a parallel case the parable of the Prodigal Son and the joyful reception at his home when the naughty boy returned. He was succeeded by a negro, a Republican, who, after some general remarks, paid his respects to Lamar's parallel. "Forgiben!"saidhe. "Deyforgiben?dem brigadiers! Why, dey'se come walkin' into de house an' bang de do' an' go up to de ol' man an' say: 'Whar dat veal?' "?New York Sun. What Made the Visitor Laugh.? "That's what I call a good dinner," remarked Bobby, as he leaned back in his chair with an air of repletion. "Bobby," said his mother," "I'm ashamed of you." The visitor who was dining with his family, laughed heartily. "Bobby appreciates the good things of life," ne said, "like all the rest of us." "Don't you think it was a good dinner ?" Bobby asked of the visitor. "Yes, indeed. I enjoyed it very much." "Ma said she thought you would, bemuse she didn't think vou erot very much athome." " I Not Inquisitive.?A gentleman once saw a boy peeling the bark from one of his choice trees with a hatchet. The gentleman tried to catch the boy, but the latter was too quick for him, so that the farmer changed his tactics. "Come here, my little son," he said, in a soft, flute-like voice with counterfeited friendliness, "come here to me a minute. I want to tell you something." "Not yet," replied the recreant, "little boys like me don't need to know everything."?Si/tings. ? The Majesty of a Title.?"You needn't order me around, sir," said the washerwoman. "I'm not the hired girl. It's Bridget's place to look after the milk. I'm the laundry lady." "That doesn't scare me," said the man. I'm the P. W. G. R. K. of the U. 0, G. G., and the Most Eminent Past G. W. of the Ancient Order of M. X. Q. Z., and I want somebody to take this milk." "Yes, sir," said the washerwoman, meekly, as she went to find a crock. What He Meant.?"Witness," said a lawyer in the police court, "you speak of Mr. Smith being well off." Is he worth $5,000 ?? "No, sah." "Two thousand?" "No, sah; he hain't worf 25 cents." "Then how is he well off?" "Got a wife who s'ports de hull family, sah!" Natural.?Fanny--You know my husband is very rich, and yet I am not hap- j py with him. His way of eating is so ; disagreeable, showing that his early education must have been neglected. I wish I could improve his table manners. Laura?His stable manners you mean, dear. And now they do not speak as they pass : by.? New York Graphic. Getting a Verdict.?"Ah, gentle-: men," said the foreman of the jury, as he wiped the copious tears from his eyes, j "that was an affecting summing up of the I defendant's counsel. Excuse this emo- J tion, but is the vercnct gumy or not gun-1 ty ?" And each juror, his voice thick with I emotion, murmured: "Guilty." Where they Landed.?Newpaper Advertiser?Been sending circulars to people, I see. Business Rival?Um?yes, I sent out a small lot last night. How did you find it out? "I saw them scattered arouud the post office floor where people get their letters." Distance Lends Enchantment.? Bobby?Clara was telling ma that she had a call from you through the telephone yes- I terday, Mr. Featherly. Featherly?Yes; and what did your sister say, Bobby ? Bobb?She said it was the pleasantest call she ever had from you .?The Epoch. Fogg has said the meanest thing - ? oi-or tt'oa / nnnhlfi nf savinf. nuy uiau v*v4 tf ww v. When Mrs. F.,Ieft him alone in the house the other evening she remarked: "You won't be lonely, dear?" "No," he replied: "I shant't miss you at all. The parrot, you know, is here." JS?-"Young man," he said, "do you remember the old saying: 'Money is the i root of all evil' ?" "Yes, sir." "Well, do you know that many of the old sayings contain much that is food for serious thought?" "Yes, sir; there is 'Boot, hog, or die,' for instance."?Drake's Magazine, j Mrs. Dumpsey?"Our Bessie is the; brightest little child you ever saw! She 1 picks up everything she hears." Mrs. Popinjay?"Something like our Willie, j He picks up everything he sees."?Bur-: lington Free Press. Easily Pleased.?She (just through playing)?"I fear my music is too poor to give you enjoyment." He (assuringly)?"Oh, indeed. I do en-: joy it. It does not take much to please me in the line of music, you know."?Judge. ?&c Jattn and Jiresidc. EVERY FARMER HIS OWN CHEMIST. Every farmer should be his own chemist, to the extent of determining what elements his soil, or a particular field requires, and what proportion of these elements will give the best results. He has only to consider his field as the laboratory of nature, the fertilizers he applies the reagent, and the details of preparation, planting, culture, etc., the manipulations of the chemist. If the farmer wants to know if cotton seed meal or whole cotton seed, or the unexpressed kernel, which is the best and mostprofitable form for use as a fertilizer, alone or in combination; or if he wishes to know whether potash is needed by his soil, and if needed, what form of potash is most effective and profitable; or if he wants to know the best proportions, and the best paying quantities, or any other of a thousand questions that might be propounded, let him put his laboratory in order, lay in a stock of reagents, and do the work of analyzing himself. Let him ask Nature, and she will answer in an unmistakable way. In other words, let every farmer become an experimenter, to the extent at least of solving for himself the questions which come within the range of ordinary intelligence and skill, and which most concern him and his own farm. Such experiments, or practical analyses, cost very little more than the necessary care and attention requisite to secure accuracy in the details ana reliability in the indications furnished by the comparative and direct results. The manipulations are such as the farmer has been accustomed to; they are a part of his daily business. Farmers do not experiment enough, or with sufficient care and painstaking as to secure reliable results. Too much is taken to.iof ViooroQit "Tcu nil t.hinfrs." and V/U 11 UOC U1 IIVUIOUJ J ?* ? V-.-? hold fast to the good, should be the watchword.? Southern Cultivator. Too Much Meat.?Most people eat too much meat. Nature has so bountifully supplied this country with animal food, that our people appear to have come to the conclusion that it is an essential duty on their part to make daily consumption of large quantities of it. While some animal food is needful, it is a great mistake to suppose that it is required three times a day, or really oftener than once every twenty-four hours. European laborers rarely get meat more than once or twice a week, and yet they are as a general thing robust and strong, and capable of enduring hardships'under which our great meat eaters would surely sink. A writer says: "The heavy work of the world is not done by men who eat meat. The Russian soldiers, who built such wonderful roads and carried a weight of armor and luggage that would crush the average farm-hand, lived on coarse brown bread and sour wine. They were temperate in diet and regular in exercise. The Spanish peasant works all day and dances half the night, and yet earns only his black bread, onion and watermelon. The Smyrna porter eats only a little fruit and some olives, and yet he walks off with his load of 100 pounds. The coolie fed on rice is more active and can endure more than the negro fed on meat."?Philadelphia Star. Plow Horses Rest.?"Horses can get some rest standing," said an old trainer, "provided the position be reasonably easy, but no full rest except recumbent. It is known of some horses that they never lie down in the stall, though if kept in pasture they take their rest habitually in a recumbent position. It is well to consider whether the habit has not been forced upon the horse by some circumstance connected with the stall he was made to occupy, in that it had a damp earth floor, or one made of dilapidated Dlank, uncomfortable to the horse that had been accustomed to select his own bed in the pasture. "If the horse can have the privilege of selecting his own position for resting on his feet he can sleep standing; but while his muscles may be to a certain degree relaxed, and get rest in that position, what can be said of the bearings at the joints? Without relief through the recumbent position the joint surfaces are forced continuously to bear a weight of from 1,000 to 1,800 pounds. This must act unfavorably, especially unon the complicated structures within the hoofs, which nature intended should have periods of rest each day." Nutriment in Rice.?Touching the nutritious value of various foods variously cooked, it may be well just now to point out that one pound of rice, prepared for the table, gives eighty-eight per cent, of nutriment, and consequently, a relatively proportional ability to labor compared with other articles of food. A pound of beef contains only twenty-five per cent, of nutriment; yet countless numbers strain a point daily to purchase beef, when they could get a pound of rice for one-third of the amount; the rice, moreover, having three times as much nutriment as the pound of beef, making a practical difference of 800 per cent. There is, also, the additional fact to be considered that boiled rice is digested in about an hour, roast beef, on the contrary, requiring three hours and a half. There is meaning, after all, in the fact that two-fifths of the human family live on rice. Mutton is five per cent, more nutritious than beef, plums lour per cent, and grapes two per cent. Codfish yields, only twenty-one per cent, more of nutriment than milk.?Aew? YorkHerald. How Much Pork from a Bushel of' Corn ??The question, how much pork mav be made from a bushel of corn ? is an important one, but it has never been answered beyond all controversy. In most cases recorded as tests of the matter the corn was fed in a mixed state, with roots, potatoes, etc., all of which make it diffl- j cult to arrive at a definite conclusion. : Thomas I. Edge, Cheshire county, Pa., j was credited some years ago with having I fed five pig9, of the same litter, five bush- ! els of shelled corn and receiving IT1! pounds ! of pork, or 1) 3-5 pounds from the bushel. ; An experiment at North Chatham, X. Y., j on record, gave a fraction of less than 1:1! pounds of pork from a bushel of corn, j Eleven records, kept and recorded by F. ; D. Coburn, of raw corn fed iu the ear, gave i an average of over 10 pounds of pork from one bushel of corn, fed in the ear and upon the ground. The question whether one-eye, twoeye, three-eye, or half pieces or whole po- ; tatoes for seed should be used is a condi-' tional one. In a very rich soil two-eye | pieces might give the best crop; in a poor j soil larger pieces would perhaps yield better. Some varieties of potatoes are weakly growers and would be helped by the larger seed. Others are rank growers and small seed pieces would serve as well or better. This problem is best solved by each planter, as the condition of the soil differs with the locality. l)o Forests Influence Rainfall?? j The belief very generally exists that the I nnOnrp nf fnrpsfx induces nn increase of rainfall and that their destruction dimin- ; ishes it. Mr. Henry Gannett, in Science, claims that a satisfactory explanation of, this "supposed phenomenon" has rever been offered, lie goes further, and as- i sumes that results gained in our own coun-; try go to show "that the influence of for-1 ests upon rainfall, from an economic point! of view, is too slight to be of the least j practical importance." SOT There is no reason why farmers j should receive less than the regular prices j for any kind of produce. If they will ship articles in good condition, and allow nothing to leave the farm except that of the best quality, they can always find ready sale for all classes of produce. Muffins.?One pint of milk, two beat- j en eggs, two tablespoons of melted butter, two tablespoons of sugar, two teaspoons of cream tartar, one teaspoon of soda, Hour enough to make a batter that will drop from the spoon. Bfeg" A box 10x10x101 inches will hold just j half a bushel. Such a box may easily be j made, and is very convenient to have on the farm. It is cheaper and just as good j as a more exoensive measure. Reading for the JFaMratlt. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] i HEAVEN. It isastrange thingthatChristians think so little and talk so little about Heaven. There are many in every community, who are fully aware of the solemn fact that in a short time?a few fleeting years at farthest?they will bid an eternal farewell to everything by which they are now surrounded. In fact, there is no one who is not aware of the fact that he is soon to close his eyes on all earthly scenes. Startlingly true as this fact is, none of us are preparing, as we ought, for the move. How differently we would act, if we had disDosed of our earthly effects with the in tention of emigrating to some other section of the country. We would be untiring in our efforts to learn everything possible to be learned about that country. We would examine maps ot that country, read everything we could obtain, which would be likely to give usjiny information respecting the soil, the climate, the production, the advantages and the disadvantages of the country which we proposed making our future home. We would talk about that country around the fireside. We would talk with our neighbors about it. All our plans would be made with reference to the move. Every person in the community would know that we were preparing to leave our old home for our new one. All over Christendom there are a vast number of persons, who, professedly, have disposed of their worldly effects; rather, who have professedly turned their backs on the world, and have in good earnest set out for the New Jerusalem?the heavenly Canaan. Do we look like travelers? How many are in sober earnestness inquiring the way which leads to Heaven ? How often does a householdparents and children?gather around the family fireside and talk of Heaven ? how often do we, as members of the same congregation, sit down and quietly talk about our future home, which we are soon to reach? How often do ministers of the gospel describe Heaven as it is described in the Bible? These are practical questions, the asking of which contains the answer. In the nature of things, there is nothing better calculated to stir the devotional feelings of the human heart than the descriptions of Heaven which are contained in the Bible. In the Scriptures Heaven is described as a place. It is not a visionary state. It must be a place. Moses and Elijah, soul and body, are in Heaven, and our Saviour ascended to Heaven with the same body which was nailed to the cross and which lay in the sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea. Our Saviour calls Heaven his Father's house. "In my Father's house there are many mansions." How suggestive are these words! How full they are of encouragement! Repeat them over, and meditate upon them for a moment, and the tear of heart-felt joy begins to flow. Is it possible that believers are on their way to the paternal home of the Lord of glory and yet are indifferent? From the Scriptures we learn that Jesus Christ is the elder brother of all believers. Such being the case they are going home. Heaven is their Father's house, because Jesus Christ is their brother. A father's house, no matter how humble, is the most attractive place on earth. The most attractive place in the universe to the believer is Heaven. His maker, preserver, redeemer and sanctifier is there. There, in a particular sense, God the Father is, who loved him when he was most unlovely; there, in a particular sense, Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for his people, is; and there the Holy Spirit, the sanctifier of his people is. TV* onpmirnorA hie pnrlv fliepinlps. and to encourage his people in all time, our Saviour says that there are many mansions in his Father's house. There are multitudes of the best people in the world, who have no home here. They have lived in miserable huts, and these not their own, all their days. They have been on a journey. Night and day they have been on the road to their new home. When they reach that new home they will find it a large mansion. There is no danger that when the weary traveler gets to his journey's end, that there will be no room for him in that mansion. No danger that all the places will be occupied or engaged. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for each and all of his people. Often in this world the poor are crowded out of the land. No such thing as that will occur in Heaven. When the beggar, Lazarus, died angels carried him to Abraham's bosom. His body, while on earth, was covered with sores which dogs licked, but when he closed his eyes in death, he opened them in glory, in the house of the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The land of Canaan was too small for Abraham and Lot, but there is room in Heaven for all that will accept of Jesus Christ. The description of Heaven contained in the Scriptures is exquisitely beautiful, and incomprehensibly gran^i. It is called the New Jerusalem, the holy Jerusalem and the holy City. The streets of the city are pure gold, as it were, transparent as glass. ff iu Iifern 11v thp r>itv r?f (rnd. Xn sun hv (lay nor moon or stars by night shine in it. The glory of God and of the Lamb is the light thereof. There is no city on earth like the city which the redeemed are to spend an endless eternity of bliss. In all the large cities on our globe there is a vast amountof wealth and a great amount of poverty, but in the saints' eternal home there are none whose wealth causes them burning anxiety; nor any whose faces are pale, and whose eyes are deep set in their sockets and present a ghastly appearance, because of the heavy load of poverty which they have borne so long. Wealth and poverty are words not found in the language of Heaven. There is no anxious care, no sorrow, no sickness, no hunger, no thirst, no tears, no aching hearts, no | bitter sighs, no death, no graves in Heaven. None of those things which make our lives, in this vale of tears, so sad have any existence in Heaven. What the positive enjoyments of Ileav-' en are no language can picture. To be j free?absolutely free from the ills which sin has brought into the world, is bliss, but it is only negative bliss. The bliss of Heaven, however, is real positive bliss. This positive bliss will consist in part that the redeeemed will be satisfied. I, says the inspired Psalmist, will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall bo satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. The meaning j of the Psalmist is that when he awakes I from the slumbers of the grave, when soul j and body are admitted into Heaven, he will ; be satisfied, perfectly satisfied, with every- i thing in the universe, and perfectly satis- ! fied with himself. What positive misery we experience in this world, not because we are dissatisfied with all that is without j us, but because we are dissatisfied with I ourselves. In Heaven all this feeling of I dissatisfaction will be gone. All God's j dear people will leave it behind. In ad-! dition to this, the positive bliss of the re- j deemed in Heaven will be intensely augmented in that they will not only be in j UUt LlIt*%V Will UC nncic muii j rified redeemer is, and they will be like him. "Father," says our,Saviour, just hefore he made his soul an otiering1 for sin, "I will that they also whom thou hast given me he with me where I am." It is : impossible for the human mind, in its present feeble and undeveloped condition, j to comprehend what ineffable bliss there : will be in being with Jesus. There was j positive bliss in Paradise, but there is far greater bliss in Heaven than ever was or ; could be in Paradise. In Paradise God was known and worshiped by Adam as his maker and preserver, and the maker , and preserver of all things, but God in Heaven will be worshiped and adored as j the infinitely merciful redeemer of sin-1 ners. All of Adam's race, who enter the | heavenly Jerusalem, will see the face of their redeemer, and they will sing the song of redeeming love. Jesus gives as the reason why he prays the Father that all his people may be where he is, "that they may behold his glory." Sometimes in this world the inhabitants of extensive tracts of country assemble together to see some benefactor of his race or deliverer of his country, i When General Washington, on his way j from Mount Vernon to New York, to take ' the oath of office as President of the United States, the road sides were lined with glad men and women, all anxious to see the great man, who, under God, had led the colonial forces to victory. Floral arches spanned the road at Trenton, and a great multitude of free Americans sang : "Strew, ye fair, liia way with flowers, Strew your hero's way with flowers." These were glad days to Americans. The war was over and sweet peace had returned. But what was the delivery of the American colonies from British domination to the delivery of sinners from the guilt and pollution of sin ? Nothing. O, what extatic delight the redeemed will experience when they behold him who * * ji ... . . t_l 1 TlTJiL oougni mem witn nis own uiuuu. wiui what delight they will sing, and sing forever that new song, called the song of Moses and the Lamb, only a few words of which have been revealed. But not only will the redeemed see Jesus in glory, but they, in some sense, will be like him. The beloved disciple says to believers, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall belike him." Vain curiosity inquires in what will the likeness of the redeemed to the redeemer consist. Let us remember that beyond what is revealed we cannot go. We cannot know what has not been made known. We may safely say, however, that the redeemed will be like the redeemer in that they will be entirely freed from every taint and trace of sin. Heaven is not only a happy place, but it is a holy place, inhabited by holy beings. While in this world believers suffer the sad effects of sin, both in soul and body. To no man this side of the grave is God all in all. The love of sin dies out slowly in all, and the growth of gra?u#4?radual. The tares and the wheat grow together in the church, because they are together in the heart of every believer. When sin in its love and lusts is entirely eradicated from the hearts of believers, then glory succeeds grace, faith is merged into fruition. This is Heaven. Some change will take place in the bodies of believers at the resurrection, or before they are taken to Heaven. Paul says the bodies of believers are "sown in dishonor, but they are raised in honor, they are sown natural bodies, but they are raised spiritual bodies." If we knew what a spiritual body means, then we would know what change will take place in the bodies of the redeemed at the resurrection. All that we certainly know is that the bodies of the redeemed will be like the glorified body of their Saviour. They will retain their identity, that is they will be the same bodies, which in various ways and under various circumstances, crumbled into dust. Just as the body of the redeemer, which ascended to Heaven, and in which he sits at the right hand of God interceding in behalf of his blood bought people, is the same identical body which was nailed to the cross and laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. With regard to the resurrected body of our Saviour, John makes a very suggestive statement. It is as follows. "Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst." John 20:19. The remarkable clause in this statement is, the door beinr/ shut. We are told that while the doors were shut "Jesus came and stood in their midst." Iiow did he enter the house, the doors being closed? Was his glorified body not subject to that law of matter which makes it impossible for two bodies to occupy the same space at the same time ? This seems to be the most reasonable conclusion. There was evidently something miraculous in the entrance of our Saviour. If he entered the. house without opening the closed doors, and it ispositively stated that he did, then we are warranted in concluding that the resurrected body of our Saviour was not subject to the laws which govern ordinary matter. We may ask, Will the bodies of the redeemed be like the body of our Saviour in this respect? Again, we are told that after his resurrection our Saviour accompanied two of his disciples on their way to Emmaus, but they did not know him, and also, "that he vanished out of their sight," literally became invisible from them. Something very like this occurred on the Mount of Transfiguration. Moses and Elijah were seen by Peter and James and John. The trarieficrnrcitinn cooma tr? hnvptnkpn nlnpp VtMUUIIgUkUUVU VV w "* I' j in a moment and the appearing of Moses and Elijah as suddenly. The disciples, sore afraid, fell on their faces, when they heard the voice out of the cloud. Jesus touched them, bidding them arise. This they did, but when they looked up Moses and Elijah were gone. They had vanished out of the sight of Peter and James and John. The power of divine grace is the wonder of angels. It was the wonder of Paul. It will be the wonder of all the redeemed throughout all eternity. The sinner dead in trespasses and sins is not only "saved to sin no more," but he is made by adoption "a child of God, and if a child then an heir, heir of God, a joint heir with Christ, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled and fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven. Great and indescribable glory will be revealed both to believers and unbelievers, when the affairs of this world are brought to an end. Bright prospects are before the humble child of God. What a pleasant thing it is to think of Heaven. It cheers the drooping spirits to think that a few more losses and crosses and we will be home safe in our father's house. Thoughts on Home.?The road to home happiness lies over small stepping-stones. Some men are at home everywhere ; others are at home nowhere. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of one's home. To Adam, Paradise was home; and among the good of his descendants home is paradise. What a man is at home, that he is indeed?if not to the world, yet to his own conscience and to God. Some persons can be everywhere at home ; others can sit musingly at home and be everywhere. There is something in that little word "home" which lifts the heart into the throat, and ever excites intense emotion. "Everyone wishes to have truth on his side," says Whately; "but it is not everyone who sincerely wishes to be on tne siue 01 trutn." a vital ainerence. Those who wish to have truth on their side, are apt to persuade themselves that what is on their side is truth, and thus to prive the authority-of truth to their error. Those who wish to be on the side of truth, search honestly to discover on which side truth is, and if need be, renounce their error to embrace truth. A Calaphas may be the outcome of the first process; only the second process has its outcome a Paul. USaS"*" Electricity always seeks the best conductor. God uses those who are most in harmony with himself. 81 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tliis powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wiiolesomcness. More economical than the ordinary kinds,and cannot he sold in competition with the innltitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sor.n o.m.y in cans. ltOYAL HAK1NO POWDER CO., 1(M5 Wall St., N. Y. (flT- At wholesale hy LINDSAY & MOOUE, Yorkvillc S. C. March 2 II ly BLOOD POISON. Three years ago I contracted a blood poison. I applied to a physician at once and his treatment came near killing me. I employed an old physician and then went to Ky. I then went to Hot Springs and re- I mained two months, but nothing spenied to cure me I permanently, although temporary relief was given me. My condition grew despprnte and I applied to a noted quack, but I did not Improve. I then used a preparation that was prescribed "gratis," but it contained too much alcohol nnd aggravated my sufferings. I then placed myself under the treatment of a noted Nashville physician and for a time was benefitted, but by fall X returned home a ruined man physically and financially, with but little prospects of ever getting well. My money being exhausted, I did not know what to do. In May, 188.r>, my mother persuaded me to get a bottle of B. H. B. (made In Atlanta) nnd I did so to gratify her, but to my utter .astonishment I had not finished the first bottle before every ulcer had been healed. To the present time I have used five bottles nnd have received more benefit than from all the rest combined; nnd I am satisfied that II. B. B. is the most ti'/xntlorfiil Mnn/I niirlfior nv#?r hi>fnro Ifnnivn nnH I ' urge nil afflicted young men lo try one single lioule and tie convinced. I can truly say I think it the host medicine in the world. Z. T. IIai.i.erton. Mncon, Ga., May 1,1886. VERY NERVOUS. For many years I have been nflllctcd with Rheumatism combined with some Kidney Troubles. Indigestion finally added to my misery and I soon became feeble and very nervous, and my whole system was prostrated. Several physicians were employed and numerous patent medicines resorted to without benefit. After seeing so many testimonials extolling the wonderful merit of B. B. B., I commenced its use and the effect was like magic. Rheumatic pains ceased, my kidneys were relieved and my constitution Improved at once, and I cheerfully recommend It to others who mny be similarly afflicted. Miss S. Tomi.inson. Atlanta, Ga., May 1, 1886. TO THE PUBLIC. Charlotte, N. C., April 21, 1886. After using R. B. B. I unhesitatingly state that it did more good for my Kidney Complaint than all other remedies combined. Its action is speedy and I cheerfully recommend It for Kidney Derangement. T. B. Callahan. All who desire full information about the cause and cure of Blood Poisons, Scrofula and Scrofulous Swellings, Ulcers, Sores, Rheumntlsm, Kidney Complaints, Catarrh, etc., can secure a copy of our 112page Illustrated Hook of Wonders, filled with the most wonderful and startling proof ever before known by calling on MAY Sc MAY, Wholesale dealers of B. B. B., Yorkvllle, S. C. February 1 9 ly F. HAPPEBFIELD. GROCERIES AND HARDWARE. TN addition to a full stock of STAPLE AND - N.TA.-.r /tr?A/-.txnTl.lCi TT A T> T\ 1XT A DP Xm 1 J? AINU I (jnut-finiM, n^vxvi^ ?T ivv-., I am now handling the celebrated Navassa Co's Guano and Acid Phosphate. A full stock now in Store and ready for delivery. The above FERTILIZERS are too well known to require anything I could say in their ( favor, having been sold in this place for the past fifteen years by Capt. T. S. JEFFERYS. ( THE MARBLE YARD. I invite special attention to my present stock and prices. It will be to your interest to examine work and prices before purchasing. F. IIAPPERFIELD. DIAL ENGINE WORKS, COLUMBIA. S. C. w E are now manufacturing the ( CELEBRATED "TOZER" PATENT AGRICULTURAL AND STATIONARY STEAM ENGINES, Noted for their Economy in FUEL Consumption, Great DURABILITY and SIMPLICITY, Perfect Workmanship and Design. ANY REPAIR WORK DONE PROMPTLY. < FOUNDRY WORK IN IRON AND BRASS, j Saw Mills, Shafting and Pulleys. Write us for estimates. W. P. LESTER, Supt. j TIIORNWELL McMASTER, Manager. J January 11 2 3m . TOWN ELECTION. 1 BE IT ORDAINED by the Intendant arid J Wardens, the Town Council of Yorkville, i South Carolina, in Council assembled, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That AN ELECTION bo held for I ? rvmuvn t vn A "VTA vniTW WAPTlfVS I it 11 li> 1 U 1 V/U1V IT for the Town of Yorkvillo, South Carolina, on THURSDAY, MARCH THE 8TII, 1888, at the COURT HOUSE, the polls opening at nine , o'clock, A. M., and closing at five o'clock P. M. Section 2, That all male inhabitants of the ago of twenty-one years, citizens of this State, who shall have resided within the State twelve months, and in said town sixty days immediately precoding such election, and not being under any of the disabilities mentioned in the Constitution of this State, shall be entitled to vote. " Section 3. That Messrs. J. S. Lewis, H. W. Hope and J. B. Gordon shall constitute the Managers to conduct said election. Done in assembly of Council, this 13th day of February, 1888, ander the corporate seal [L. S.] of said town. GEO. H. O'LKARY, Intendant. F. A. Gilbert, Clerk. February 15 7 4t THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, York Comity. UJ HKREAS CARRIE A. YOUNGBLOOD p has applied to mo for Letters of Administration, with the will annexed, on all and ] singular the goods and chattels, rights and j credits of LUCY J. YOUNGBLOOD, late of ] the county aforesaid, deceased. ' 5 These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me, at our next Probate Court for said county, to be holden at York Court House, on THURS- , DAY, the 1ST DAY OF MARCH, A. D., 1888, J at 11 o'clock A. M.. to shew cause, if any, why ) the said Administration should not bo granted. \ Given under my hand and seal, this Oth day of j March, in the year of our Lord one thou- ! sand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and in ' the 112th year of American Independence. JAMES R. KENNEDY, * Probate Judge. March 15 7 2t J NEW GOODS. For Holiday and Xmas Gifts. CfENTS' Gold Watches from ?25.00 to $65.00. Ladies' Gold Watches from ?20.00 to ?50.00. Silver Watches from ?10.00 to ?17.00. Plain Gold Rings from 75 cents to ?5.00. Gold Set Rings from ?1.25 to ?12.00. Necklaces ?1.00 to ?7.00. Ladies' "Queen" Chains from ?1.50 to ?5.00. Bracelets from ?1.50 to ?10.00. am/1 T n/I5oo? PnH IlnffAnu frnm .ri()j* tn S4. ^ Gents' and Ladies' Collar Buttons, all prices. 1 pai rof handsome Vases atcost, $2.50. 1 Waterbury Watches $2.50, and a great many other articles. Call in and examine before buying elsewhere. 1 A. S. MORRISON, Agent. < January 18 3 tf ( FINE HIULES FOlTsALE. THE undersigned, as agent of A. WILLIFORD, offers for sale a lot ot FINE f WELL-BROKEN YOUNG MULES. They i will be sold CLOSE FOR CASH, or on a credit until NEXT FALL on liberal terms. I guarantee all stock sold by me to be as represented, i The above Mules mav be found at the Stables \ formerly known as WHITAKER&GLENN'S, near the Old Masonic Hall. WANTED.?10,000 BUNDLES OF FOD- ' DER, for which tiie highest market price will bo paid. T. M. WHITAKER. January 25 4 tf EXCHANGE 1IANK, Yorkville, S. C. T. S. JEFFERYS President. JOS. F. WALLACE Vice-President. FRANK A. GILBERT, Cashier. Organized September 1, 1887. rjlIIE BANK will reccivo Deposits, buy and X ?ol 1 Exchange, make Loans and do a general Banking Business. The officers tender their courteous services , to its patrons and the public generally. 1 September fi 3(5 tf ANNEAL RETURNS. " .EXECUTORS, Administrators, Guardians l i ami others acting in a fiduciary capacity, are notified that their RETURNS MUST BE FILED in my office duringthc present month r and February next. JAMES R. KENNEDY, Probate Judge. January I 1 8t APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. | NOTICE is hereby given that the undersign- ~ ed, Administrator tic bonis non, cum tcstavicnto unncxo, of the estate of It. A. SPRINGS, deceased, will make a final settlement with the Judge of Probate, on Saturday, the 10th day of March, 1S8S, and will apply for a final discharge from liability as Administrator of the said estate. L. 1). GUILDS, Administrator. i February 8 9 at JIl .NIC Li:sso\s. MISS ZOItAIDA INGOLD respectfully of- " l'ers her services, at her residence, as TEACH Kit OF MUSIC ON THE PIANO. ] Pupils received at any time. System thorough J and practical. Prices reasonable, and furnish- 1* cd on application. April ].'{ 15 tf GARRY IRON RO Manufacturers of all kinds of _ IRON ROOFING CRIMPED AND CORRUGATED 911)1X0, MBfWjm Iron Tile or Shingle, FIRE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS 4C., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 y&r Orders received by L. M. GRIST. May 10 WINCHESTER REPEATING RIFLES. SINGLE SHOT RIFLES, Reloading- Tools, AND AMMUNITION OF ALL KINDS, MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO., NEW IIAVEN, CONN. SEND FOR 76-PAGE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Mention this paper. January 11 2 - lOt J. ED! JEFKERYS. Pay Up. T MUST have money, and I would be glad JL td make recepts for parties having accounts m my books. J. ED. JEFFERYS. UNDERTAKING. WE claim to be abreast of the times in the Undertaking business. We have the latest novelties in the way of trimming, &c., ind carry a complete stock of Coflins of all dzes and prices. We also have on hand a lot of very handsome burial Cases and Caskets for adults made of walnut and other choice woods. We have some Broadcloth Cases that ire very handsome. Also, Metalic Cases. We have a nice line of White Gloss Cases and Caskets for children, which are very pretty and ippropriate. We will make it to the interest 3f anyone in need of any of the above mentioned articles to call on us. We will sell as dieap as anyone, and will sell on time to responsible parties. Our personal attention will be given to all funerals in town. J. ED. JEFFERYS. i FOUNDRY AND Machine Shop. ,**8?===^ ?,f(= r B I \ THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on liislot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared to do all manner of work in light iron md brass castings, and general machine work. REPAIRING, 3f all kinds, promptly done on short notice, Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery of my kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, my class of work that mav be wanted in his shop, he will attend any call for repairing stationery engines, doing the work on the premises, thus obviating the necessity of moving the jngine. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on the completion of the work. EDWARD THOMAS. 1888. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1888. Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables A RE still on a boom, and the year 1887 finds /V. me with some of the finest Vehicles ever shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and iurpassed by none. Everything will be kept in the best style. Give me a trial and be convinced. Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies Df every description will be kept. Spring Wagons,* Pluetons, Ac., of the best make, always on hand. FOR FUNERALS [ have a fine Queen City Hearse and a Clarence 3oacli, which will be sent to any part of the nnntv at short notice. Terms reasonable. A Big Bargain. I have a Jumpseat Phaiton and some Bugties on hand that I will give a big bargain in, f sold soon to make room for my new stock. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At the Yorkvillo Livery and Feed Stables vhere they will receive the best attention. F. E. SMITH. THE LEADING SOUTHERN SEED HOUSE. T. W. WOOD & SONS. ! 10 S. 14th St., Richmond, Va. Request all Gardeners, Farmers and Truckers to send for their NEW SEED CATALOGUE or 1888. It contains descriptions of all new and desirable varieties of cmrc 2 PI ANTS UkkUV ? I knu V or the Farm and Garden that are adapted to the South. Catalogue mailed free. Send for it. January 4 1 3ni . K. SPKNCEIt, X. W. HARDIN, Yorkville, S. C. Mack's S. C. SPENCER A HARDIN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BLACK'S, S. C. IIiTK make a specialty of collections. All TT business entrusted to us will be given rompt and careful attention. July 20 20 tf FARM LOANS, rX ANY AMOUNT from $.',00 to 910,000, upon |_ six years' time. Interest payable annually, 'or further particulars, apply to C. E. SPENCER, Attorney at Law. January 1 tf OFING COMPANY, fj IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. 152 TO 158 MERWIN ST . Cleveland, O. JKjr Xjfifci ""'-T Send for Circular and Price List No. 75. iF IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. ( 9 ly | Piedmont Air-Line. i nrnrinf avi\ a vr\ i\ ittttr r ri r* -r* KILHiTiUfllJ A?U DANVILLE K. K., South Carolina Division. I COXDEXSED SCHEDULE In Effect January 15, 1888, (Trains run by 75th Meridian time.) NORTH BOUND. No 17. No. 51. No. 53. Freight. Daily. Daily. Leaver Charleston, ) r. nn n \r I via.S. C. R. K. i o.uui.m. i Leave Augusta 6.C0 P. M. 9.33 A. M. Leave Granitevillu,. 6.56 P. M. 10.15 A. M. Leave Trenton,.... 7.30 P. M. 10.48 A.M. Leave Johnston's,... 7.51P.M. 11.05 A.M. S' Leave Columbia,... 4.50 A. M. 10.30 P. M. 1.40 P. M. v Leave Winnsboro,.. 8.52 A. M. 12.33 P. M. 3.19 P. M. Leave Chester, 11.30 A.M. 1.57 A.M. 4.29 P.M. 1 Leave Rock Hill,... 1.02 P.M. 2.55 A.M. 5.12 P.M. J Arrive Charlotte.... 4.25 P.M. 4.25 A.M. 6.15 P.M. 1 Arrtve Salisbury.... 6.44 A.M. 8.02 P. M. 1 Arrive Greensboro'. 8.28 A.M. 9.40 P.M. ArriveRichmond,... 3.45 P.M. 6.15 A.M. Arrive YVashington,. 8.23 P. M. 8.10 A. M. Arrive Baltimore,... 11.25P.M. 10.03 A.M. Arrive Philadelphia, 3.00 A.M. 12.35 P.M. Arrive New York, . 6.20 A. M. 3.20 P. M. SOUTH BOUND. No. 52. No. 50. No. 18. ? Daily. Daily. Freight. Leave New York,.. 4.30 P. M. 12.15 A. M. Lenve Philadelphia, 6.57 P. M. 7.20 A. M. Leave Baltimore,... 9.42 P.M. 9.45 A.M. Leave Washington, 11.00 P. M. 11.24 A.M. Leave Richmond,.. 3.30 A.M. 3.10 P.M. * Leave Greensboro', 9.48 A. M. 10.44 P. M. Leave Salisbury,... 11.23 A.M. 12.37 A.M. Leave Charlotte,... LOOP. M. 2.30 A. M. 4.30 A.M. Leave Rock Hill,.. 2.02 P. M. 3.23 A. M. 7.20 A. M. Leave Chester,.... 2.45 P. M. 4.03 A. M. 9.35 A. M. Leave Winnsboro", 3.47 P. M. 5.00 A. M. 12.20 P. M. Leave Columbia,... 5.43P.M. 6.55 A.M. 3.35P.M. Leave Johnston,... 7.51 P. M. 9.01 A.M. Leave Trenton 8.08 P. M. 9.18 A. M. Leave Granitevillu, 8.36 P. M. 9.46 A. M. Arrive Augusta 9.15 P. M. 10.3J A. M. Arrive Charleston, I ? ,, ,n , ,, via. S. C. R'way. \ 10"5j P" M" 10 35 A" M" Pullman Palace Cars between Charleston ami Danville, on Nos. 50 and 51. Pullman Palace Buffet Cars between Aiken and Washington, I). C., ou Nos. 52 and 53. 50 and 51 make close connection at Columbia with C. and G. Division, 50 and 51, to and from points West, via and Spartanburg, Asheville and Paint Rock. SOL. 11ASS, D. CARDWELL, JAS. L. TAYLOR, Trnffic Manager. D. P. A., Columbia, S. C. Gen'l Pass. Agent. January zto o u C. & L. NARROW GATJGE RAILROAD. ?CHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C.,taking ect at8.30 A. M. Sunday, January 1, 1888: GOING 80UTH. Leave Lenoir 8.30 A. M. Leave Hickory 9.42 A. M. Leave Newton 10.12 A. M. Leave Lincolnton 11.04 A. M. , Leave Dallas, 11.45 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 12.02 A. M. ^ Leave Gastonia 12.05 A. M. Leave Clover, 12.46 P. M. , Leaye Yorkville, 1.17 P. M. Leave Guthriesville, 1.38 P. M. Leave Lowrysville, 2.09 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.35 P. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.37 P. M. Leave Lowrysville, 5.03 P. M. Leave Guthriesville 5.34 P. M. Leave Yorkville 5.55 P. M. Leave Clover, 6.27 P. M. ^ Arrive at Gastonia, 7.09 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 7.27 P. M. Leave Dallas, 7.42 P. M. Leave Lincolnton, 8.32 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 9.22 P. M. f Leave Hickory, 9.54 P. M. Arrive at Lenoir, 11.00 P. M. Freight trains run daily. Going North, arrive at Yorkville at 10.45, A. M. GoingSouth, arrive at Yorkville at 2.40, P. M. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. January 11 2 tf PHomrRAPw rfA11 FPY~ m THOROUGHLY fitted up with new backgrounds, accessories, etc., and with a fine sky-light, I am prepared to take a picture in any style of the art, as well executed as can be done elsewhere. CHILDREN'S PICTURES A SPECIALTY. By the dry plate process I can take them instantly ; makes no difference about fair or cloudy weather. I do all my own printing and finishing, and there is very little delay in delivery. ENLARGED WORK. Pictures copied and enlarged and-finished in the highest style to be had, and prices reasonable. * Give me a call and see specimens of work, at my Gallery on West Liberty Street, near the jail. J. R. SCHORB. SHERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue of writs of fieri facias to me directed, will bo sold between the legal hours of Sheriffs sale, on the FIRST MONDAY in MARCH NEXT, At York Court House, the following property to wit: All that lot or piece of land, situated in York county, on tho Chester line, belonging to John S. McNeel, containing about seventy acres ; it being that part of the W. R. McNeel home place, (lying in York county,) awarded to John S. McNeel by award made September 15th, 1880, by R. S. Hope; bounded by lands of T. J. Cockrell, A. M. Titman and others. Levied on as the property of JohnS. McNeel, at the suits of W. T. 1). Cousar and Son, and others. [83.50 Terms cash, or the property to bo re-advertised for re-sale on the next Sales-Day, at the risk of the former purchaser. Purchaser to pay for papers. " R. H. GLENN, S. Y. C. February 8 5 4t NOTICE. PERSONS living along the post route from YORKVILLE to BULLOCK'S CREEK, S. C., or between YORKVILLE and CLARK'S FORK, desiringto subscribe to the Yotikvii.le Enquirer, and to whom it is inconvenient to receive their papers at a post office, will have* their popers delivered to them FREE OF CHARGE for carrying, by nutting their names on my club. J. N. ROBERTS. JNovemoer ;ju 48 tr CHATTEL MORTGAGES, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. forfevillc drnquiw. ?# ? PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 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