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Humorous Department. TEDDY O'TOOLE'S SIX "BILLS." A merry evening party in an English country town were bantering poor Teddy O'Toole, the Irishman, about his country- i men being so famous for "bull9." < 'By my faith," said Teddy, "you need \ not talk about the same in this place; you're as fond of bulls as any people in the world, so you are." , "Nonsense," some of the party replied. "How do you make that out ?" ; "Why, sure, it's very aisy, it is; for in , this paltry bit of a town you've got more . public houses nor I ever seen wid the sign ( of the bull over the doors, so you have," j i said Teddy. i'{ "Nay, Teddy, very few of those; but , there's some ot 'em, you know, in every 1 lown." i "Yes," said Teddy obstinately sticking to his text, for he had laid a trap for his friends; but you've no more nor your share, barrin' that you're so fond of bulls, j as I say. I'm sure I can count half a dozen of 'em." "Pooh, nonsense!" cried the party, ! "that'll never do. What'll you bet on j that, Teddy ? You're out there, my boy, ' depend upon it; we know the town as well as you, and what will you bet?" "Indeed, my brave boys, I'll not bet at all. I'm no betthor, I assure ye. I should be worse if I wur." 1 This sally tickled his companions, and he proceeded: "But I'll be bound to count ana name Uie six." "Well, do, do," said several voices. "Now, let me see?there's the Black 1 Bull." "Yes, that's one." 1 "Then there'fthe Red Bull." "That's two." "And the White Bull." "Come, that's three." "And the Pied Bull." "So there is; you'll not go much further." "And then?there's?there's the Golden Bull in?what's-it street?" "Well done, Teddy; there's five, sure enough. But you're short yet." "Aye," said the little letter carrier, who sat smirking in the corner, "and he will be short; for there's isn't one more, I know." "And thin, remimber," continued Teddy, carefully pursuing his enumeration, "there's the dun cow." At this a burst of laughter fairly shook the room and the busy hands kept the tables and glasses rattling amidst boisterous cries of "A bull." Looking seriously at all around, reaay deliberately asked: "Do you call that a bull ?" ?To be sure it's a bull!" exclaimed several voices at once. "Then," said Teddy, "that's the sixth." He Got his Meal.?The tramp entered the diaconal council. He had on a long frock-coat, fastened closely around his waist by a thorn, and from the flowing lap above protruded the ends of a much soiled handkerchief. His closely fitting trousers, through numerous portals of which protruded bis interesting self, seemed to run without any dividing line into the shoe and boot which respectively incased his. feet. The deacons had time to note these peculiarities before the stranger broke the silence. "Gentlemen," he began, "your pardon for disturbing you, but I am very sick." He paused after this announcement to note the effect. "I went to the doctor," he i soon continued, "and he gave me these pills ?see, the pills," and he held up to view a small bottle which he had in his hand. "He said take the pills, three after each i meal, and I would like very much to have some assistance." < "Well, why in the thunder don't you i take your pills, then, and not come bother- i ing here?" interposed a deacon, who. was becoming tired. "Gentlemen," replied the tramp, with , much unction, "I cannot take the pills; I have no meal." , He got a meal. A New Text.?An old preacher, whose name we will call Birch, was famous for preaching on the subject of paying off old debts. One of his auditors, who had been wearied with Brother Birch's iteration on this subject, once said to a neighboring minister: 'I wish you would suggest a subject that I can give Brother Birch, out of which he cannot get anything about paying off old debts." "Give him the conversion of Saul of Tarsus," said the minister. Soon after this the wearied brother met his pastor, and said : "Brother Birch, I would like to hear you preach a sermon on the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Won't you do it ?" "Certainly," said the pastor. "It is a capital subject. I will preach on it next Sunday." On the following Lord's day Brother Birch announced the text, Acts ixM 6: ? "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" and opened thus: "My brethren, I shall preach to you to-day on the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Saul, my brethren, was a truly converted man, and my sermon will be a discussion of the marks of genuine conversion. And the first mark,my breth ren, of a genuine conversion is that a man will always pay off his old debts." How it Was Settled.?When T. II. Benton was in the house, he was of the opinion that congress closed on the third day of March, and consequently the congressional term ended at midnight of that day, instead of at noon on the fourth, as unbroken usage has fixed it. So on the last morning he sat with his hat on, talking loudly, loafed about the floor, and finally refused to vote or answer to his name when the roll w as called. At last the speaker, James L. Oir, of South Carolina, picked him up and put an end to these legislative larks. "No, sir; no, sir; NO, sir! shouted the venerable Missourian ; "I will not vote. I have no right to vote. This is is no house, and I am not a member of it." "Then sir," said speaker Orr like a flash, with his sweetest manner, "if the gentleman is not a member of this house, the sergeant-at-arms will please put him out." And so this vast constitutional question settled itself. B&" A new boy came on board a West India ship, upon which a painter had also been employed to paint the ship's side. The painter was at work upon a staging suspended under the ship's stern. The captain, who had ju9t got into a boat alongside, called out to the new boy, who stood leaning over the rail, "Let go the paint " TTirflrnKArlw ohmilrl tnnw that, a U1 JJYV/IJ WU\IJ WUVWiV* ?? ?..??? M boat's painter is the rope which makes it fa9t, but this boy didn't know it. lie ran aft and let go the ropes by which the painter's stage was held. Meantime, the captain wearied with waiting to be cast off. "You rascal!" he called. "Why don't you let go the painter ?" "He's gone, sir," said tho boy briskly. "He's gone?pots, brushes, and all!" EST- The colonel of the?th cavalry was a martinet in all save his own habits. On one occasion the regiment was about to start on a long march through Texas, and orders were issued that baggage should be reduced to a minimum. Lieutenant B. had just received from his father a small box of books twelve by fourteen inches in measurement, and timidly asked the colonel if he might not take it aiong. "Good gad ! Sir! No, sir! Couldn't hear of such a thing, sir!" "I'm very sorry, colonel! It will be very dull out their without any reading. My father sent me a barrel of whisky, too, but of course I couldn't take that." Good gad! Sir ! Of course you can.sir! Anything in reason, sir!" A Cautious Rejoinder.?An elegantly dressed woman asked to be shown some ?Anma onr) maHo tha linfrtrtlinfllfi 9U<V lUi gunnoj UUVt IUMV4V VMV clerk hand down and unfold piece after piece without coming to any decision. Finally she concluded she would prefer some patterns that she had first looked at, which involved the turning over of the entire pile, and at last asked : "Are you quite sure, sir, that this style is worn?" "It was, madam," answered the clerk, "when you came in, but after the period that has since elapsed, I should not like to say for certain." 8ST- During the recent "dark day" in Chicago the colored people were much concerned. One old fellow was found praying in an alley. "Lawd," said he, jest let dis yere cup pass, an' I'll promise neber to vote dat Dimercrat ticket no mo'. I?" Just then it grew darker and the old man quickly added: "De Publican ticket, Lawd; I means dat if you'll let dis cup pass I never will vote de 'Publican ticket no mo.' I?" A heavy cloud of darkness settled down. "Oh Lawd, I won't vote for neither. If you don't like neither party I won't run wid none o'em." kL ?hc |[<roti anil HOW THE PRIZE OATS CROP WAS GROWN. The American Agriculturist for December contains its awards for the best yields of oats on one acre and the following account of how the grand prize of $500 in gold was won : IIOW THE GRAND PRIZE CROr WAS GROWN. The surveyor's sworn certificate showed that the acre, measured June 28, by J. II. Howard, was 528 feet long, and 82J feet wide. The witnesses at the harvest swore than this identical acre was re-measured then, with the above result. The soil is a :lark loam, with a clay subsoil. It is nearly flat, there being a slight depression cross-wise through the centre from south to north, leaving the ends about two feet higher than the centre. This accounts in part for the extraordinary richness of this plat, as the depression has evidently served to catch and retain the fertility washed into it from the surrounding fields. The niftt is natnrallv well drained, and as the r*? ? ? / season was dry at the start, the moist section in the middle was a great advantage. HISTORY OF THE LAND. For fifteen or sixteen years back the land has grown the rotation common to Orleans county farming?grass, corn or beans, and wheat, with one exception, three or four years back. It always yielded about one-third more than the other five acres in the same lot. Prior to and including 1884, it was always lightly covered with barnyard manure before each plowing. In 1884 or 1885 five loads of cornstalks that had been left out all winter were burned on this particular acre, including about 50 bushels of unshucked ears. In 1885 a heavy sod was plowed under and planted to white beans, but with no fertilizers except ashes; the yield was 29 bushels. In 1886 the lot (six acres) was sown to oats without any fertilizer or manure, and yielded 510 bushels; an average of 85 bushels per acre. This showed that the soil was peculiarly adapted to oats. In the fall of that year sixty loads of fairly-rotted stable manure was spread on the oat stubble on the six acres, aud plowed under, wheat being sown. The crop was a failure in 1887, not producing five bushels per acre. Grass seed had been sown with the wheat, but did not catch well, and the light sod was plowed the third JTm?a (1 QQQ\ ihn c\f c5 v w trtris. i li uuuu \iuuu; tv vnw uv^?.&t u< . inches. It was very dry, but a rain coming soon, the soil was thoroughly fitted with a spring-tooth harrow, and planted to white beans on June 27. The crop was hoed twice, and kept thoroughly worked with a Planet Jr. cultivator, and when harvested with a bean harvester (yielding twenty bushels per acre), the ground was left very level and mellow on the surface. MANURES. It will be seen, therefore, that this acre was a naturally good soil; it had been quite well manured, and for the last three years the crops v. .re so light as to draw very little on the stores of plant food in the soil. The soil being retenti ve, there was no loss of fertility by leaching. It had been kept under clean culture, so that annual crops of weeds had not exhausted it. The good culture and frequent stirring of the soil had also been., beneficial in developing nitrification. Therefore, when the spring of 1880 arrived, the soil was well filled with manure (not forgetting the potash and phosphoric acid from the wood ashes and cornstalk ash, two specially important elements for oats) distributed through the soil in a thoroughly decomposed state, and in a condition to be readily taken up and assimilated by such a gross feeder as the oat crop. Mr. Strickland wisely concluded that to put more manure or fertilizer on laud in this condition would be to stimulate growth of straw at the expense 01 grain, iso iuriner application of plant food wa9 made. PREPARING THE SOIL. With the land full of fertility, the great object was to so prepare it that the plants' roots could readily make their way through the soil and assimilate its elements as rapidly as possible. We find that it was plowed six inches deep, with a Wiard plow, on April 24 and 25, but not crossplowed, as it never had been. As soon as plowed Mr. Strickland went over it with a roller, but the soil was so wet that the rolling packed it down very hard. It was then harrowed lengthwise of the furrow with a spring-tooth harrow and a homemade chisel-tooth harrow. It was then rolled with a large heavy roller, again harrowed (this time cross-ways), rolled, harrowed corner-ways, rolled, and harrowed corner-ways in the opposite direction. The weather was fair, and this repeated harrowing and rolling left the soil very fine and mellow?a perfect seed bed except in one spot of about twenty square rods, where it was a little lumpy. SEEDING AND AFTER TREATMENT. Two and one half bushels of White Bonanza oats were sown broadcast by hand on April 27, just as soon as the land was fitted, and before itcould get dry or lumpy. The seed was obtained direct from John A. Salzer, a Wisconsin seedsman, and had never been grown in Orleans county before. The planting took about half a day, the seed being covered about two and a half inches deep by careful harrrowing with a smoothing-harrow. It was not then rolled, as the soil was rather moist. Mr. Strickland usually rolls after seeding when it is dry, and has always noticed a difference in favor of rolling when not too wet. . The crop was fairly up over the whole acre May 7, when the land was quite dry on the ends, but in about the right condition at the centre. The season continuing rather dry, the field was rolled when the oats were four to six inches high. This seemed to retain thesoil moisture, and kept the crop in good shape until rain came. Nothing further was done to the crop until harvest, but it was fortunate in escaping disaster of every kind, though the latter part of the season was too wet for the best effect. HARVESTING AND THRESHING. On August 7th, Mr. Strickland cut, with a William Deering self-binder, the crop standing so straight that the job was completed in one hour. George Moore, A. S. Bennett and A. L. Briggs, all of Albion, were present as witnesses, and have sworn to the report as described in the first part nf thic urtii'b A nminfr. nf hnnrllpQ nf grain when dropped from the binder showed the witnesses that there were 323 bundles on the exact and original one acre. Mr. Strickland writes: "On account of the oats being so very ripe when cut, to save shelling I screwed my binder down (in the presence of the witnesses) so that it put just two Common bundles in one. I have cut over 200 acres with my binder this year, and know that these 423 bundles were as large again as any others I have cut this year. The bundles were carefully stacked in the field, aud afterward hauled to the barn, the witnesses being present, and again counting the bundles. On September J)th the bundles were threshed, and tallied 423 bundles at each count by the witnesses, who also satisfied themselves that the bundles had not been stuffed or tampered with. These oats were threshed separately from all others, and were put into an empty granery, which was locked by the witnesses, and the key taken in charge by them. After the rest of the oats were threshed, the witnesses unlocked the granary, cleaned the graiu, and weighed it themselves, on scales whose accuracy they tested and found correct." The total weight of the cleaned grain was four thousand three hundred eleven and one-half pounds (4,3111) pounds. At thirty-two pounds to the bushel?the standard weight which has been adoDted throughout this contest?the crop wl. ?34 bushels and 23? pounds, by weight. One evenor"struck"bushel weighed 37? pounds, so that by measure the crop was 115 bushels. Of course, the yield in pounds per acre is the only fair way to measure. Consequently, the American Agriculturist awards its grand prize of $500 in gold coin to Ralph W. Strickland, of Albion, Orleans county, N.Y. The other reports received are equally interesting, and practical points from them will be presented in the next and succeeding issues of the American Agriculturist. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The account is favorable to the crop and to intensive culture, as stated below, but it seems fair to add at least fifteen dollars for the plant food taken out of the soil by the crop. The standard average of the composition of oats shows that this is a moderate estimate. Even on this basis, the expenses are only $34.15, while, at 32 cents per bushel, the crop is worth $43.12? a profit above fair wages for tho work performed of about nine dollars. This is exclusive of straw, to which Mr. Strickland attaches no commercial value, because so abundant in his locality. He figures the cost as follows: Interest on land for one year, ? C 00 Plowing represented labor worth 1 50 Harrowing, 1 50 Rolling ami other preparation, 1 20 Cost of seed, 5 00 Harvesting, 1 25 Drawing in crop, 00 Threshing (agreed upon in advance) 1 80 Total oxpenses, $10 15 |Ui5ccUa?cou5 Reading. HOW TO COLOUR A PIPE. "Now, I have about as good a meerschaum pipe as one wants to see," said the writer to a tobacconist and pipe-maker, a foreigner, who learned his trade in Vienna, by the way, "and I want to know how I shall start in to color it." "It is well you ask me if you don't know," was the reply, "for if you attach anything more than asentimental value to the pipe, you can just about double its value by careful coloring. "Meerschaum pipes need about as much care as a baby. First of all you must get a false bowl, that is a bowl of brier wood or 1 meerschaum which you must fit into the top of your pipe. Don't use the lower S bowl for smoking at all, but the false one, ! or you may burn your pipe and almost | spoil it. Then, too, you must keep your ! pipe case well brushed out. If pieces of tobacco are allowed to get in it they harI den and scratch the pipe all up. And you I must keep the pipe wiped, too, for the same reason, and also that it won't have a dirty look. Your false bowl must be wet just a little on the inside before you use it, and be smoked very carefully until it gets a crust, or you will have to throw it away and get another. "Plug cut tobacco is the best to use, as it is not as hot as most fine cuts and is not as likely to burn the bowl." "Isn't a meerschaum pipe ruined after it has been burned once?" asked the writer. "No. That is a mistaken idea. If you burn your pipe so that you find it won't color any more, bring it in to us and we will boil it in wax, and then you can try your luck again. All meerschaums are boiled in wax; and when a pipe is overheated that waxy polish on its surface disappears, and it looks dull and chalky. In making a carved pipe they cut out the design in the rough and boil the pipe in wax. Then they finish the carving and boil it in wax again, and the pipe is ready for market. "Now here is a pipe in the shape of a woman's head, with a wreath of flowers across the forehead. The wreath, you see, is white and chalky, and the rest has the familiar wax finish. That is because the wreath was carved after the pipe had been boiled in wax the second time ; in carving the wreath the workman cuts below the wax finish. When the pipe is colored the wreath will remain white, as you see it now, and the effect will be very fine." "Where are the most meerschaums made?" "In Vienna. Pipe making is a trade there and there are very few first class pipe makers outside Vienna and Pesth. American work is often pretty, but it lacks the finish of the European. Foreign pipes are lighter and more graceful than tne American. "In a first class pipe half of the value ought to be in the amber; but both meerschaum and amber are of all qualities. For instance, one bundle of meerschaum may be worth $50, while auother of exactly the same size may be worth $500. The lighter the better is the general rule." "Where do you get most of your meerschaum ?" "We get most of ours from Asia Minor, where it is mined, the town of Kouish furnishing the principal supplies. The Austrian merchants buy it at Smyrna. Meerschaum is also found less abundantly in Greece and some of the Grecian islands; in Moravia and in Morocco, where it is used when fresh as a substitute for soap. A variety used as a building stone is found in South Carolina. Its name, 'meerschaum,' is the German for sea foam, and is giveo it only because of its appearance. "An imitation meerschaum used for making pipes is made of hardened plaster of Paris, treated with parafflne and colored by gamboge and dragon's blood. The French also use a substitute for meerschaum, a preparation chiefly of potato. The artificial meerschaums cannot easily be distinguished from the real, but they are usually heavier and freer from blemishes, caused by the presence of foreign minerals in many genu'ne meerschaums. "By the way, that new pipe of yours is now worth from $12 to $15. Color it up well and in two months you can sell it for $25. Yes, this false bowl will cost you twenty-five cents."?[Boston Globe. WHERE NICKEL COMES' FROM. In the Copper Cliff Mine near Sudbury, Canada, it is said, more nickel is produced than the entire market of the world calls for at current prices. A little branch railroad off the main line of the Canadian Pacific railway, four miles in length, leads > ? ^ - it-A ?A I >? A ?*? U * A U A?-An>i i f t-> A fnnA A f UUt LU lilt; miur, wium upcus in iuc ia^,c m a crag of the brown, oxydized Laurentian rock, characteristic of this region. The miners are now at work at a depth of about 300 feet below the surface. As fast as the nickel and copper-bearing rock is hoisted out it is broken up and piled upon long beds or ricks of pine wood to be calcined, or roasted, for the purpose of driving out the sulphur which it contains. The roasting process is of the nature of lime kilning or charcoal burning. Each great bed of ore requires from one to two months to roast. When roasted, the rock goes to the principal smelter, a powerful blast furnace, "jacketed"?in mining phrase?with running water, to enable it to sustain the great heat requisite to reduce the crude, obdurate mineral to fluidity. The dross of the molten mass is first allowed to flow off, find afterwards the nearly pure nickel and copper, blended together in an alloy called the "mat," or matte, is drawn off at the base of the furnace vat into barrow-pots, and wheeled away, still liquid and fiery hot, to cool in the yard of the smelter. The mat contains about 70 per cent, being mainly copper. When cool, the conical pot-loaves of mat can easily be cracked in pieces by means of heavy hammers. The fragments are then packed in barrels and shipped to Swanse, in Wales, and to Germany, where the two constituent metals are separated and refined by secret processes which are very jealously guarded by the manufacturers. So jealously is the secret kept that no one in America has yet been able to learn the process, although one young metallurgist spent three years at Swansea, working as a common laborer in the factories, in order to procure it. At present there are produced daily at the Copper Cliff Mine about 90 pot-loaves of mat, each weighing 450 pounds, an output which yields an aggregate of more than 4,000 tons of nickel a year. Agricultual Education.?To educate our children agriculturally Puck say9: "The only way to do is to throw aside all fancy theories and do it with a club. If your boy, whom you desire to develop into an agriculturist, sleeps later than four in tne morning, go 10 mm anu yaus. mm rudely out of bed, and hammer him into his clothes, drive him down stairs to milk 20 cows, and feed the stock, and fetch in a lot of wood, and clean up the harness, and wipe the surface of the army mule with a handful of straw. Then give him a breakfast of corn bread and weak coffee, and work him all day long behind the plow or in the corn field, and hurry him off to bed at eight in the evening, that he may secure all the sleep he requires, before four o'clock in the morning. After the boy has been worked in this way for six or eight years, he will understand the mysteries of agriculture well enough to make a living on a farm. Or, else he will be so disgusted with farm life that he will make a desperate struggle to distinguish himself in something else. A Costly Book.?From a money standpoint Rome boasts of the most valuable book in the world. It is a Hebrew Bible, | preserved in the Vatican at Rome, and I remarkable for its size, weighing over j 325 pounds, and requiring usually three ; men to carry it. In 1512 "a syndicate of i Venitian Jews" offered Pope Julius its j weight in gold for it, or 8125,000, but mougn ueeuiug uiu muucj gietiuy) lie , refused it. According to the present standI ard value of gold as compared with that ; period, the book ought to be worth, upon i the terms of those old Jews, about $375,000, and it is doubtful if Rome would sell j it for any such amount. j She Wanted to Get Even.?The following seems to be the latest "thing one would rather have left uusaid." A pian- j i ist spent the evening at the house of a 1 j lady. The company was agreeable, and ; he staid somewhat late. As he arose to 1 take his departure the lady said: "Pray ! don't go yet, Mr. Jones, I want you to; ; play something for rae." "Oh, you must j (excuse rae to-night: it is very late, and ; I should disturb the neighbors." "Never mind the neighbors," answered the young j lady quickly, "they poisoned our dog yes-1 terday." j ! i 56T German chemists have discovered in the cocoanut a fatty substitute for butter, j and this new product has begun to be manufactured on a large scale. 1 ,f m the |bmc f&forle. WHY I (JO TO CHURCH ON RAINY SABBATHS. I attend church on rainy Sundays because : 1. God has ble&sed the Lord's day and hallowed it, making no exceptions of hot or cold or stormy days. 2. I expect my minister to be there and should be surprised if ho were to stay at home for the weather. 3. If his hands fail through weakness I shall have great reason to blame myself, unless I sustain him by my prayers and presence. 4. By staying away I may lose the prayers which may bring God's blessing, and the sermon that would have done me great good. 5. My presence is more needful on Sundays when there are few 'than on those days when the church is crowded. G. Whatever station I hold in the church, my example must influence others. If I stay away why may not they ? 7. On any important business, rainy weather does not keep me at home, and enurcn attendance is, in uoa's signt, very important. 8. Among the crowds of pleasure seekers I see that no weather keeps the delicate female from the ball room, the party or the concert. 7. Such weather will show me on what foundation my faith is built; it will prove how much I love Christ. True love rarely fails to meet an appointment. 10. Those who stay from church because it is too warm or too rainy, frequently absent themselves on fair Sundays. I must not take a step in that direction. 11. Though my excuses satisfy myself, they must undergo God's scrutiny; and they must be well grounded to do that. 12. There is a special promise that where two or three meet together in God's naige He will be in the midst of them. " 13. An avoidable absence from church is an infallible evidence of spiritual decay. Disciples first follow Christ at. a distance, and then like Peter, do not know Him. 14. My faith is to be shown by my selfdenying Christian life, and not by the rise or fall of the thermometer. 15. Such vieldiner to surmountable diffi culties prepares for yielding to those merely imaginary, until thousands never enter a church, and yet think they have good reasons for such neglect. 16. I know not how many more Sundays God may give me, and it would be a poor preparation for my first Sunday in heaven to have slighted the last Sunday ou earth. [Frances R. Havergal. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. John Perciyal was a boy about 9 years old, who, like many other boys, had not learned that one might have too much ol a good thing. . One day he said to his mother, "I wish I were a man !" "Why, Johnny?" "So that I could have as much blackberry pie as I want." "Don't you have as much now as you want? You always share with us." "Yes, mother, I have one piece, sometimes two pieces, but I want a whole one, and when I get to be a man I mean to have a whole blackberry pie to myself." "Well Johnny, you need not wait to be a man for that, you may have one now." "What, mother! a whole one all to mvself." "Yes; you go and pick the berries and I will make the pie for you, and you may have it all to yourself." "Oh, goody!" exclaimed Johnny,and in great haste he ran off to pick the berries. He brought them home, and his mother made a nice, fat berry pie. When baked it was handed to Johnnv who sat down in the corner to eat it. He began with a hearty relish, smacked his lips, and pronounced it a real good pie, and soon had half of it devoured. But such a pie is a great deal for one boy to eat at once; he attacked the latter half with less eagerness. His mother saw his failing appetite and pleasantly said: "Johnny, you need not eat it all if you do not want." But Johnny had undertaken to eat the whole pie, and did not mean to give it up, so he answered : "Yes, mother, I do want to eat it all; but this part is not quite as good as the other half." "That can't be, my son, for it was all made together*. One part must be just as good as another." Johnny kept on eating, but slower and slower, and with less relish. He persevered, however, till he swallowed the last mouthful. Then he pushed the empty tin away, and said aloud: "I wouldn't give a cent for a black berry pie." . SIMPLE FAITH. A story is told of a street boy in London who had both legs broken by a dray passing over them. He was laid away in one of the beds of the hospital to die, and another little creature of the same class was laid near by, picked up sick with famine fever. The latter was allowed to lie down by the side of the little crushed boy. He crept up to him, and said: "Bobby did you ever hear about Jesus?" "No, I never heard of Him." "Bobby, I went to the mission school once and they told us that Jesus would take you up to heaven when you die, and you'd never have hunger any more, and no pain if you axed Him." "I couldn't ask such a great big gentleman as He to do anything for me. He wouldn't stop to speak to a boy like me." "But He'll do all that if you ax Him." "How can I ax him if I don't know where He lives; and how could I get there when both my legs is broke?" "Bobby, they told me at the mission school as how Jesus passes by. Teacher says he goes around. How do you know but what He might come around to this hospital this very night. You'd know him if you was to see Him." "But I can't keep my eyes open. My legs feel so awful bad. Doctor says I'll die." "Bobby hold up your hand, and He'll know what you want when he passes by." They got the hand up. It dropped. Tried again. It slowly fell back. Three times he got up the little hand only to let it fall. Bursting into tears he said, "I'll give it up." "Bobby, lend me your hand ; put your elbow on my piller; I can do without it." So one hand was propped up. And ?1 *1 ~ wneii iiiey uttuie in me uiuiinu^ mo wj lay dead, his hand still held up for Jesus. You may search the world and you cannot find a grander illustration of simple trust than that of the little boy who had been to mission school but once. Unjust Punishment.?Well does the writer remember the case of a parent who whipped his little daughter, attempting to overcome in this her whimsical terror of the dark when left alone at night. The poor little maid sobbed herself to sleep that night. But the next evening, five minutes after she had been left alone with the, to her, fearful darkness, her terror overcame her dread of punishment, and a pitiful little voice was heard at the head of the stairs : "() papa, please come up here and whip me ! I'm so afraid of the dark !" "I shall never forget.- though I have wished a thousand times that I could, how I punished little Mamie for continually pronouncing a word wrong?as I thought willfully?after I had tried hard to make her say it correctly. She was quiet for a few moments after I punished her, and then she looked up with a quivering lip and said: "Pana. von will hnvfi to whin me atrain. I can't say it." "You can imagine how I felt, and how I kept on remembering the look on her face and the tone of the sad little voice." ?[Youth's Companion. Christ-life is manifested not by forsaking the world for a conventual life, but by staying in it, in the place where God has put us, and by endeavoring to help those about us. During a political canvass a candidate is willing to go into any place where men congregate, pat them on the shoulder and talk with them without any fear of injuring his character. But, often, when a Christian is urged to go out after men who are in the highways and byways of sin, to invite them to church or to the prayer-meeting, he is apt to selfishly consider whether or not his going would he injurious to his business or retlect on his character. Encased in his rubber suit the diver will descend to the lowest depths and search for the treasures lost in the sunken ship. So the Christian, panoplied with Christ, may search among the lowest of mankind for the pearls of great price buried from the sight of human eyes. Don't talk about what you are "going" to do; then if you fail to accomplish it, nobody will know. Wnusidc ftatbcmfls. B&T Connecticut has 157,2-13 children in her schools. J8ST Every one can master a grief but he that has it. BST If matters cannot be hotter, let us be glad they are no worse. figy-The only thing that beats a good wife is a bad husband. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Within the last twenty years Kansas courts have granted 7,191 divorces. AST It takes more than a well-starched shirt front to make a polished gentleman. 46T Some one says that it is better to be small and shine, than to be great and cast a shadow. Sgg-The United States bought over two million dollars' worth of eggs from Canada last year. jtfcirThe collapse of a real estate boom only means that the wind has been taken out of the sales. When an intoxicated man stands before a mirror how can the mirror indulge in sober reflection ? figTlf you learn that people say spitefully vyiukuu iiuuga auuut )uu, nuu uuuuiuiui things at that, be silent. The chiefs of Swaziland, Africa, have joined in a petition for the abolition of the liquor traffic in their country. jgT Speaking of drinking, it may be observed that the man who can take it oi leave it alone, generally takes it. JUST In New York and vicinity over one hundred newspapers and periodicals are printed in the German language. J8ST People who talk the most do nol always have the most to say, but so lon? as they think they have they're happy. BST The latest figures compute that there are 250,000 Indians in the United States living upon 110,030,103 acres? or 400 acres apiece. SST When a man is young he thinks t< reform the world, but when he gets oldei he is quite satisfied if he is able to reforn . himself. AST Hayti objects to Minister Douglass because he is black. This is the worst eas< i of the pot calling the kettle black that has ' yet transpired. flaT Buffalo Bill contemplates taking his Wild West show to India. Certain Indiar potentates who visited Paris this summei advised him to do so. i BST There is probably but one thin^ which is harder to do than to get out of ? f warm bed in the morning, aud that is tc get into a cold bed at night. fiST A smart Georgia shoe-dealer had ? drawer full of old faded slippers. He hung out a sign, "Old slippers to throw al brides," and they all went. An auctioneer at Bath, Me., disgustec at the low price offered for his goods sar castically put up a five dollar bill, which was promptly bid off at $4.90. i The "Pilgrim's Progress" has beer translated in Amharic, the language o t Abyssinia. The book has now been trans lated into eighty-four languages. 1 S@T Cottonwood Palls, Kansas, is out o debt, has money in the treasury, and wil levy no tax the ensuing year for municipa purposes. It has a woman city council. a&* The man who keeps his mouth clos ed seldom gets into trouble with hi! , neighbors, and, what is quite as impor tant, increases his chances of reaching old age. The keeper of the morgue in New York city states that four-fifths of the five thousand bodies that reach the citj , dead-house every year are sent there b^ t drunkenness. 86T With the new smokeless powder, th< fire of a whole battery of artillery doe: not make half so much smoke as tha made by a company of infantry using th( old black powder. ; AST Brazil is so vast and yet so poorly equipped a country that in remote sec tions the people, it is said, do not yel t know of Dom Pedro's deposition and th( establishment of the republic. a?" The extreme length of the city o i Chicago is twenty-four miles, its extreme width is ten miles, its area is one hundrec and seventy-four square miles, and its es timated population is 1,100,000. ; During 1889 slightly over one huu dred million dollars' worth of gold ha! Iionn /-Inn. fPAm ttio o?rth nn (hp lour f>nn tinents. The largest quantity came froir Australia, California and South Africa. 8ST- A good-sister, in answer to the ques , tion, "What is your standard of a gooc sermon?" said, "When a sermon make: you feel that you ought to do better anc that you can do better, I call it a good ser i mon." S6F A man aroused his wife from a sounc 1 sleep the other night, saying that he hac seen a ghost in the shape of a donkey "Oh ! me go to sleep," the irate dame re ' joined," and don't be frightened at youi own shadow." AST The Knights of Honor, an order now sixteen years old, has a membership o one hundred and thirty-one thousand, sev en hundred and forty, and has paid out ir benefits during its existence the grand to tal of $29,049,054. fiST"Minister (to little boy with fishing ?Dnn't vour mother whiD vou foi r / v poing fishing, Tommy? Tommy?Yes sir, except on Sundays. Minister?Anc why not then? Tommy?'Cause pa al ways goes fishing with mo Sundays. S6T No definite action has been thus fai taken in the arrangement of the forty-twc stars in the new union for the United States flag. It is thought that the desigr of six rows of seven stars each, proposed by the navy department, will be the one adopted. ASS" A girl in Smith county, Kansas, "wor $30 by husking and cribbing sixty bushels of corn in five hours." A man in an ad joining county got six months' board anc lodging at the county's expense by "crib bing" only one bushel. Another mar "husked it." flSf When the bark from which quinine is made was gathered from wild trees ir Central America, the price of the drug was $3 an ounce. Now that the trees arc planted and cultivated, the supply of bark has increased, and the price of quinine has fallen to fity cents an ounce. AST The debt of the city of Paris amounts to 720 francs for every man, woman and child within the city limits. In Frankfort the debt is equivalents 317 francs pei head, in Milan to 218, in Berlin to 154, in The Hague to 13G, in Brussels, the most heavily indebted of all Furopean cities, to 1005. , flSr A minister of the gospel, a son of a prominent minister of Lexington, Ivy., is attempting the extrordinary task of committing the entire New Testament tc memory. lie has been working on it for years, and as he has a woudefully retentive brain, the work is in a fair way to an early completion. AQT In a length of only 78 miles, a railway on the French Island of Reunion has four tunnels aggregating nearly seven miles, with many deep cuttings and high embankments, 43 large bridges, including one of 1,040 and one of 1,312 feet; togethei with 200 bridges and culverts of less than 33 feet. Agy A Buffalo physician, who died recently, left a codicil devoting $500 for a funeral feast for hi3 friends. The banquet was held a few days ago, and included champagneandoysters. Oneabsent-minded person proposed that they drink the health of the deceased. It is supposed he had been overcome by the champagne. Bgf "What is an agnostic?" asked Rollo, who was reading something by Huxley. "An agnostic," replied his Uncle George, "is a man who loudly declares that he knows nothing, and gets mad and abuses you if you believe him. He says he doesn't know anything, but he really believes he knows everything."?[Brooklyn Eagle. fig?" A gentleman coming home at evening, spoke harshly to his little three-yearrtid who was nlaviny verv noisilv. The iittle ifldy dropped her playthings, and retreated hastily to a corner. "What's the matter?" asked papa. "Well," said the child, "I've been a good girl all this day, and now you come home and make trouble the first thing." flgr The abject poverty of the northern peasantry in China is represented to be almost beyond belief. In various districts not classed as "distressed" it was found that in many instances a family of five or six persons supported life on twenty cash a day, the food being a small bag of turnips and dried cabbage boiled in water. It I takes about 1000 cash to make a dollar. 1? Croyalmmwj Win0 POWDER i Absolutely Pure This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strensth and wliolesumeness. More economical tliari the ordinary kind*, and 1 cannot be sold In competition with the multitude or low teat, short weight alumorphosphatcpowders. Sot.o only in can*. ROYAL, RAKING POWDER CO., 106 Wall St., N. Y. April 24 17 47w THE CORBIN DISK HARROW. ! It is Simple in Construction and Does Its Work Thoroughly. i It is Hcavtily Endorsed by Every j Farmer Who Has Used It. 5 mHE COBIN DISK HARROW is tho inyonJL tion of a practical farmer, and is, as now ottered to the farming world, the result 15 years experience in the manufacture of Agricultural " Implements and combines selctions from over two hundred patent claims. It is superior to 4 all other harrows in its lightness of draft, per' feet flexibility, regulating lever for adjusting ' depth of cut, and case hardened anti-friction ball bearings, easily oiled and sand proof. [ The following are some of the advantages P possessed by the Corbin Harrow over all oth' ors : First, None other has independent gangs, either of which can lit any ridge or hollow with5 out disturbing the other. Second, None other has chilled journal boxes; those of the Corbin J Harrow are so hard that a tile will not scratch them. Third, None other has anti-friction balls in its journal boxes and as a consequence none ) other has so light a draft. Fourth, None other f can be set at so sharp an angle, owing to the j severe friction on their journal boxes, and as a consequence none other will pulverize like the Corbin. Fifth, None other has a successful 3 SEEDER ATTACHMENT, making it really j two machines in one, at less than the cost of one. . Sixth, None other is so simple is in construction or so durable. Numerous other advantages possessed by the Corbin Disk Harrow 3 could be mentioned, but is unnecessary. f WHAT IT WILL DO. The Corbin Disk Harrow will level rou^b r land. Will soften a summer fallow. Will ^ break up clods and lumps. Will pay its cost . by increasing the yield. Will make the best ciAA/1 Ko/1 foi. nrmiin Will u/Avlr ornnnrl ^WOOiUiO OUVJU WOVl AVI gAUltll I ? *** II VI n. UIVUIIU stumps, in hollows, or on knolls. Will mix l rough manure with the soil as no other harrow f can. Will lift and turn the soil to be fertilized ! by the sun and atmosphere. Will cut weeds, ' corn stalks, cotton stalks, and roots and bury them at one operation. Will increase the crop J at least twenty per cent, by reason of its thorough work. Will prepare grain stubble and corn stubble and cotton stubble lands for sow1 ing without using a plow. There is no implement in the world adapted to more uses, and j none has been more successful in every locality where introduced. The Corbin Disk Harrow is intended to successfully take the place of the Cultivator, Drag, Smoothing Harrow, Spring Tooth Harrow, Drill, and on some soils the Plow, for it will do all that any, and more than most, of these tools will do. Used as a Seeder it will cover every seed to a uniform depth. Will pay its cost in seeding grain alone, as it covers every seed. Will enable the farmer to seed four times as many acres in a day. It will sow all kinds of grain more evenly than can be done by hand. Two sizes of disks are used. The smallest size is 13 inches in diameter and the largest 16. The manufacturers make harrows with 12, 16, 20 and 24 disks each, but experience has demonstrated the fact that the 13-inch, 12-disk, or the 16-inch, 12-disk, six foot cut, is best adapted to general farm work. MEN WHO ENDORSE IT. The Disk Harrow is endorsed by the following gentlemen, each of whom is a practical farmer and knows the value of such an implement on the farm, and speak from experience: Rob't K. Guthrie, Guthriesville, S. C. ; Dr. W. M. Walker, Capt. R. H. Glenn and W. H. Herndon, Yorkvilte; Win. S. Wilkerson, Hickory Grove, S. C.; Felix H. Dover, Grover, N. C.; Wm. O. Guy, Lowrysville, S. C.; and in fact by farmers of every State in the Union. By an especial arrangement with the manufacturers of the Corbin Disk Harrow, I am enabled to oiler the farmers of York and surrounding counties this most valuable imple1 ment at unusually low prices. I have several of the 16-inch, 12-Disk Harvrtwa rvn Vionrl anrl nan fill ntvlAra fnr t.hla at7.A without delay. I shall be pleased to furnish any further in3 mation that may be desired in regard to the . Harrow. I have in my possession a number of j testimonials as to the value of the Harrow, which were furnished by well known York county farmers, and will be pleased to submit . them to any who desire more light than is i given in this advertisement. Call on or write to J SAM M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. THE OL.D REIjIAJBJLE. j T WOULD respectfully announce to my pati JL rons and the traveling public generally that notwithstanding my occasional absence from Yorkville during the next few months, my I /KEY AND FEED STABLES will be conr tinued as heretofore, and the business will be conducted with the same promptness as if I were present in person. f MY OMYIBIIS ' Is still on the streot, ready to convey passengers 1 to all departing trains, or from the trains to - any part of town. FOR FUNERALS . I have an elegant HEARSE and also a CLARENCE COACH which will be sent to any part ; of the county at short notice. Prices reasonl able. Buggies and other Vehicles . On hand for sale. Bargains in either new or second-hand Vohicles. I HAVE YOUR HORSES FED ' At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables ' where they will receive the best attention. > F. E. SMITH. July 10 28 tf 1 PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. THOROUGHLY fitted up with new backgrounds, accessories, Ac., and with a fine sky-light, I am prepared to take a picture in t any style of the art, as well executed as can be done elsewhere. ? CHILDREN'S PICTURES A SPECIALTY. i r Ry the dry plate process I can take them in| stantly ; makes no difference about fair or ; cloudy weather. I do all my own printing and finishing, and ( thore is very little delay in delivery. ENLARGED WORK. | Pictures copied and enlarged and finished in , the highest style to be had, and prices reason. able. Give me a call and see specimens of work, at 1 my Gallery on West Liberty Street, near the : jail. J. R. SCHORB. "APPLICATION FOR HOMESTEAD. L STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA?YORK COUNTY. I IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Kx-parte Mrs. Julia F. Campbell.?Petition for i Homestead. NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern that a petition was, on the 2nd day , of Decernbor, 1889, filed in my office by Mrs. 1 JULIA F. CAMPBELL, tho widow of Dr. W. G. Campbell, deceased, formerly of the county , i and State aforesaid, asking that a HOME, | STEAD BE ASSIGNED TO HER out of her Husband s esiaio, anu mat on 1110 ^ u ut\ 1 1 OF JANUARY, 1800, I shall appoint apprais1 ors for that purpose. W. BROWN WYLIE, C. C. C. Pis. Yorkville, S. C., December 4,1889 48 5t CRAYON AND OIL PAINTING MISS DAISY WILLIAMS. Artist in Crayon and Oil Colors, RESPECTFULLY announces that she has opened a STUDIO on the second lloor of 1 KENNEDY BROS. & BARRON'S building, ! where she is prepared to paint Portraits in Crayon, and also to giye instructions in either Crayon or Oil Painting. Instructions given in Crayon work, twenty lessons, at $2.50 per month ; in Oil painting, twenty lessons, at 83.50 per month. An inspection of specimens | of her work is respectfully solicited. Entrance | to the Studio through the store room, j September 18 38 tf flliifel M.'.y 15 ' ' " 20" " " ly SOLE AGENT, TIIIS will certify that SAM M. GRIST, of Yorkville, S. C., has been appointed as SOLE AGENT for the sale of CORJHN DISK I , HARROWS, CORBIN ROAD CARTS, Ac., in j and for the counties of YORK, CHESTER, j LANCASTER and FAIRFIELD, in the State j of South Carolina. I ST. LAWRENCE M'F'ti CO. I Decombor 18 51 tf THEYORKVILL FOR : Handsomely Print* Paper with I THE LARGEST COUNTY NEWSI THAT IS PRINTED EK The Ijocal News of 7 Counties a NOW IS THE TIME ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN THREE LAROEST CLUB A Splendid Stem Winding am Wateh tor a Club of 1 THE first week of January, 1890, will coin- j o monce the thirty-sixth year of the connec- fi tion of the present proprietor with the publi- v cation of THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER, s It is with pleasure that he announces t>* its ; ? friends and patrons thatat no time in its 1 sto- o ry have the faciiltios for furnishing a newspa- | h per so nearly suited to the wants of the people e of York and surrounding counties, been equal J j< to what they now are. It will continue to be j n handsomely printed on fine white paper with ! p large and clear type, and is now the largest j ti county newspaper in South Carolina that is ! ti printed entirely at home. Having intelligent and trustworthy spe- | cial correspondents in different sections of: ^ York and adjoining counties, but little trans- ' ? pires in those counties in which the people [ generally are interested, that is not promptly made known through the columns of the paper. ; a Beside this, it shall continue to be our aim to < ti watch carefully after everything which iscalcu- j lated to make known to the outside world the i business advantages and natural resources j n possessed by York county?agricultural, min- tl eral and climatic?and in employing our col- Q umns in the development of tnese and further- v ing the interest of the people. h In addition to local affairs, such attention n will be given to matters inside and outside of y the State, as is likely to be of interest to our a readers, and necessary to keep them well in- p formed as to what is going on in our own and t< other countries. c< While the local and general news departments of the paper will be carefully looked ? after, all the features which have given THE ENQUIRER a distinctive character from the first day of its publication will be maintained. " From time to time it will contain short stories and serial stories from the best writers ; every week a column of fun and humor calculated a to "drive dull care away" and cause the reader to "laugh and grow fatcarefully selected n and seasonable articles intended to benefit r the farmer and housewife; articles for the ^ young people, the object of which will be to assist tnem in becoming good men and women and ornaments to society; besides articles, by 0 the publication of which it is hoped the men, women and children who read THE EN- e QUIRER, will be better, happier and wiser. Terms of Snbscription?Free of Postage, n Single Copy, one year ?2.00 s< Two Copies, one year 3.50 si One Copy, two yeais 3.50 One Copy, six months 1.00 n One Copy, three months 50 r e Ten Copies, one year 17.50 i a And one copy one year to the person mak- i ing a club of Ten at $1.75 for each subscriber. ; Payment is required to be made in advance. | PREMIUMS TO CLUB-MAKERS. ! J For the largest clubs of subscribers at 51.75 : i for each subscriber, we offer THREE CASH ' fi PREMIUMS, amounting in the aggregate to 1 t! ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, as follows : I t: For the largest Club, Fifty Dollars. ; 1, For the second largest Club, Thirty Dollars. ; For the third largest Club, Twenty Dollars. ; To EVERY person who may obtain a club i GARRY IRON ROC Manufacturers of all kinds of k IRON ROOFING Iff CRIMPED AND CORRUGATED SIDIS6, Iron Tile or Shingle, Vr PIRE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS 4C., ^ THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF Orders received by L. M. GRIST. From Camden to In Effect Marc Going North. | No. 53 | No. 39 | 11 Daily i *" STATIONS. Daily except Sunday p. m. a. m i .. Leave Camden 12 45 9 00 .. Arrive Lancaster 12 40 Leave Lancaster 2 10 1 00 Leave Catawba June. 2 50 2 50 Leave Roddey's 2 55 3 00 Leave Leslie's 3 00 3 10 Leave Rock Hill 3 18 3 50 Leave Old Point 3 22 4 00 Leave Newport 3 30 4 15 Leave Tirzah 3 38 4 30 Leave Yorkville 3 50 5 10 Leave Sharon 4 10 5 40 Leave Hickory Grove 4 25 6 20 Leave Smyrna Arriye Blacksburg... 4 55 7 20 Leave Blacksburg 5 00 Leave Shelby 5 40 Arrive Rutherfordton 7 30 i p. m. p. m Connections.?At Camden, with South Carol K. K.; at Lancaster, witu u. <x u. k. k.; at uataw ville, with C. <fe L. R. R.; at Blacksburg with A. & Blacksburg, S. C., March 26, 18S9. C. & I. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. ? SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., daily except Sunday, taking etfect September 22,1889: GOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir 8.25 A. M. Leave Hickory 9.35 A. M. Leave Newton 10.10 A. M. Leave Lincolnton 11.00 A. M. Leave Dallas, 11.50 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 12.07 A. M. Leave Gastonia 12.10 A. M. L Leave Clover, 12.46 P. M. L Leaye Yorkville, 1.20 P. M. L Leave Guthriesville 1.42 P. M. l Leave McConnellsville 1.49 P. M. L Leave Lowrysville, 2.05 P. M. L Arrive at Chester 2.30 P. M. L GOING NORTH. ? Leave Chester, 3.40 P. M. j Leave Lowrysville, 4.06 P. M. ? Leave McConnellsville, 4.22 P. M. ^ Leave Guthriesville, 4.30 P. M. ^ Leave Yorkville 5.00 P. M. j Leave Clover, 5.35 P. M. ? Arrive at Gastonia, 6.10 P. M. ? Leave Gastonia, 6j32 P. M. ^ Leave Dallas, 6.46 P. M. Leave Lincolnton, 7.32 P. M. Leave at Newton, 8.21 P. M. Leave Hickory, 9.00 P. M. Arrivo at Lenoir 10.12 P. M. G. R. TALC'OTT, Superintendent. UNDERTAKING. ? 1AM handling a first class line of Coffins and Caskets which I will sell at the vory l lowest prices. Personal attention at all hours, l I am prepared to repair all kinds of Furui- p, ture at reasonable prices. ; J. ED. JEFFERYS. A DENTISTRY. 1 AM again before the public asking their attention to the prices G below: One Upper or Lower Sot of Teeth, ?10 00 ta Partial Sets, one Tooth on Plate 1 50 S< Partial Sets, two Teeth on Plate, 2 00 Ti Partial Set, three Teeth on Plate, 3 00 pif All work guaranteed. I will have my Office with Dr. CARTWRIGHT, who will at any time, in my ab- / seneo, EXTRACT TEETH, TAKE IMPRES- \ SIONS, etc., for me. H Come to see me before vou have your work tl done. W. M. U'ALKER, D. D.S. bi September 18 38 tf o: C. E. SPENCER, N. W. IiARDJN, Yorkvillo, S. C. Black's S. C. SPENCER A IIARDIN, " ATTORNEYS AX LAW, J] BLACK'S, S. C. * WE make a specialty of collections. All business entrusted to us will be given prompt and careful attention. D. K. FINLEY. J. S. IIRICE* FINLEY A BRICE, Si ATTORNEYS AX LAW, ? Yorkvillo, S. C. * ALL business entrusted to us will bo given t prompt attention. T OFFICE OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. A I ENQUIRER L830I sd on Fine White large Type. 'APER IN SOUTH CAROLINA fTIRELY AT HOME. ? ' iTork and Adjoining' Specialty. TO SUBSCRIBE. CASH PREMIUMS FOR THE ? OF SUBSCRIBERS ! [1 Stem Setting Nickle-Silvcr Niirty Subscribers. f THIRTY or more names, but who may iil to secure oue of the three Cash premiums, re will give as compensation for securing the ubseribers, one ANTI-MAGNETIC SOLID IICKEL-SILVEIi WATCH. Thewalch isan pen face, stem-winder and setter, and is, peraps, the best and most reliable Watch, considring price, that can be obtained. A leading aweler of Yorkville says that "it is a good, onest watch, well made and well worth the rice at which it sells." The case is acombinaion of silver and nickle and will wear a lifo ime. The retail price of the watch is ?10.00. The time fixed for completing clubs under ho above offers is limitea to one o'clock, p. o., on MONDAY, the 10th day of MARCH, 890. No name will be counted in competition for premium, and no premium delivered, until he subscription price has been paid. To persons who make up clubs of ten or aore names, but who may fail to obtain one of he above premiums, we will send The Enuiher one year free of charge; and to those fho send a club of twenty or more names, ut who may fail to get one of the other proliums, we will forward The Enquirer one ear free of charge, and a copy, one year, of ny weekly newspaper or monthly magazine ublished in the United States, the publication 3 be selected by the person entitled to roeivo it. It is not necessary that the names of a club hould all be at the same post-otlice. Names aay be taken at any number of places. One ame for two years will be equivalent to two ames for one year each. All subscriptions must bo forwarded to us i lueoxpeusu oi mose sending mem. We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, egistered letter, or money order drawn on the forkville post-oflice. In sending names, write plainly, giving postfflce, county and State. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the xpiration of the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with every name ent, so that the number sent by any one peron can be ascertained at a moment's notice. Persons who commence making clubs, will ot be permitted, after the names have been utered on our books, to transfer the names to nother club-maker's list. The time in which additions may bo made to clubs under this proposition, will ex-ire on the SECOND MONDAY OF MARCH, 890. Therefore, persons who desire the beneit of club rates, must subscribe and pay for he paper before that date, as after the oxpiralon of that time it will not be furnished for ass than 32.00, unless new clubs are formed. All letters should be addressed to LEWIS M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. )FING COMPANY, ' y IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. feraEr 152 TO 158 MKT1WTN ST Cleveland, O. ^if Send for Circular and " r i price Ligt No> ?5 IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. S OF T H hi o. R. It.. Rutlicrfordton. h 31, 1889. No. 38 | No. 52 Going South. Daily except Daily STATIONS. {Sunday A. M. A. M. 9 00 Leave Iiutherfordton 10 50 Leaye Shelby 11 27 ...Arrive Blacksburg M 1)0 11 30 T.OQtrfl UlunLoLiiPff ~ ~ Leave Smyrna 9 00 12 00 Leave Hickory Grove 9 30 12 15 Leave Sharon 10 30 12 30 Leave Yorkville 11 00 12 45 Leave Tirzah 11 20 12 50 Leave Newport 11 40 1 00 Leave Old Point 12 30 1 15 Leave Rock Hill 1 00 1 25 Leave Leslie's 1 10 1 29 Leave Roddey's 2 50 1 34 Leave Catawba June. 4 10 Arrive Lancaster 4 30 2 10 Leave Lancaster 7 40 3 27 Arrive Camden p. m. p. m. ina Railway; at Rock Hill, with C., C. A A. ba Junction, with G., C. <fc N. R. R.; at YorkC A L R K JOHN F. JONES, Superintendent. IICHM0ND AND DANVILLE R. R. CO , South Carolina Division. COLUMBIA, S. C. CONDENSED SCHEDULE In Effect August 18,18S9. (Trains run by 75th Meridian time.) 80uth bound. No. 50. No. 52. Daily. Daily. iCave New York, 12.15 Night 4.30 P. M. ,eavo Philadelphia,... 7.20 A. M. 6.57 P. M. ,eaye Raltimore, 9.45 A.M. 9.30 P.M. ,eave Washington, 11.24 A. M. 11.00 P. M. ,eaye Richmond, 3.00 P. M. 2.30 A. M. ,eave Greensboro, 10.37 P. M. 9.50 A. M. ,eave Salisbury, 12.32 P. M. 11.23 A. M. leave Charlotte 2.20 A.M. 1.00 P. M. ,eave Rock Hill, 3.17 A. M. 1.57 P. M. leave Chester, 3.58 A. M. 2.40 P. M. .eavo Winnsboro', 4.59 A.M. 3.39 P.M. .rrive at Columbia,.... 6.30 A. M. 5.10 P. M. ,eave Columbia 6.55 A. M. 5.30 P. M. lOave Johnston's, 9.00 A.M. 7.33 P. M. .eavo Trenton, 9.16 A. M. 7.50 P. M. ,eavo Graniteville, 9.50 A. M. 8.20 P. M. .rrive at Augusta, 10.30 A.M. 9.00 P. M. .rrivc at Charleston, 11.00 A.M. 9.30 P. M. xiivu nt v tin i iciii f u.iv r, m . u.ou A. i>i. NORTH IJOUf *\ No. 53. No. 51. Daily. Daily. eave Augusta 8.50 A. M. G.10 P. M. oavo Oraniteville, 0.30 A. M. 7.10 P. M. eave Trenton, 10.04 A. M. 7.50 P. M. eave Johnston's 10.21 A. M. 8.10 P. M. eave Columbia, 12.50 P. M. 10.35 P. M. eave Winnsboro' 2.24 P. M. 12.10 P. fci. eave Chester, 3.3:1 P. M. 1.20 A. M, eave Rock Hill, 4.10 P. M. 2.05 A. M, , eave Charlotte, 5.15 P. M. 3.13 A. M, eave Salisbury, 7.05 P. M. 0.22 A. M. eave ureonsDoro, ?.4(J I'. M. 8.00 A. M. eave Richmond, 5.15 A. M. 8.30 P. M. eave Washington, 6.53 A. M. 7.13 P. M. eave Baltimore, 8.20 A. M. 11.25 P. M. eave Philadelphia, 10.47 A. M. 3.00 A. M. rrive at New York 1.20 P. M. 6.20 A. M. THROUGH C AR SERVICE. Pullman Palace Cars between Augusta and reensboro, on trains 50 and 51. Pullman Buffet Parlor Cars between Augusi and Charlotte, on trains 52 and 53. DL. HASS, D. CARDWELL, JAS. L. TAYI.OR, raffic Manager. D. P. A.,Columbia, S. C. Gen'l Pans. Agent August 21 34 tf MOSEY TO LOAN "AN IMPROVED FARM LANDS, in bums I of ?300 and upward. LOANS REPAYALE in small ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS, trough a period of 5 years, thus enabling the orrower to pay olf his indebtedness without chausting his crop in any one year. Apply to C. E. SPENCER, Attorney, Yorkville, S. C. Octobor 16 42 6m Ihc HoiIuiUc (fruqttim'. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ??? 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