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Humorous Department. A DRY SEASON. "Stranger, I take it,'' observed an elderly resident the other day, as I stopped and asked if there were any blackberry trees around his way. "I judge so. I was a stranger myself when I fust kim here. That was in the summer of '49. Hottest summer ever known in tnese parts. "Any warmer than this?" I asked him. "Sumraut, suramut! That summer of '49 the cedar trees melted and run right along the ground ! You notice how red that ere dust is!" "Pretty warm," I ventured. "Why sir, durin' the summer of '49 we kept meat right on the ice to keep it from cookin' too fast, and we had to put chickens in refrigerators to get raw eggs." "Where did you get the ice?" "We had it left over and kept it in b'ilin' water! Yes, sir. The temperature of b'ilin' water was so much lower than the temperature of the atmosphere that it kep' the ice so cold that you could not touch it with your finger!" "Anything else startling that season ?" "That summer of '49?" Well, I guess! The Hackensack river began to b'ile airly in June, and we didn't see the sky until October, fer the steam in the air. And fish! fish ! They were droppin' all over town cooked just as you wanted 'em. There wasn't anything but fish until the river dried up!" "What did you have then ?" "The finest oysters and clams you ever heard of. They walked right ashore for water, and they'd drink apple jack right out of the demijohn! Yes, sir. You call this hot!" I feel like an overcoat!" "What is your business?" I asked him. "I am a preacher," he replied. "By the way you wanted blackberry trees. Just keep up the thumb hand side of the road until you come to the big pasture, and there you will find the trees. Climb upon my goose roost, and you can knock down all the berries you want, if you can find a pole long enough."?Brooklyn Eagle. His Ready Wit Came in Handy.?There was a little incident not down in the regular programme mapped out for the re-interment of Jeff Davis at Richmond, says Kate Field's Washington. Leaning upon the clerk's desk at one of the leading hotels was a well known general whose name has heretofore always been svnonvmous with bravery in action on the side of the lost cause. Unnoticed by , him, and equally unmindful of his presence, there approached the desk a man who enjoys the rare distinction of having served in the Confederate army as a private. Running his finger down the open register that lay upon the desk the new-comer halted a moment and, turning to a companion, exclaimed : "General Blank; so he's here. Well, I should like to meet that fellow again. The last time I saw him was at the battle of Y?, where he was running like a turkey from the enemy." Here the general turned and the two men recognized each other. The speaker held out his hand in greeting and instantaneously concluded?"and I was keeping him company." Why He Didn't Take It.--Not long age an old pioneer, who had lived in Texas in the days of the early colonists, was boasting of the good old times. "Why, sir," said he, "I was once offered a league of land for a pair of old boots." "Didn't you take it?" said the party he was talking to. "No, sir; I didn't." "No account land, I reckon?" "Why, bless your heart, sir, it was the best piece of land outdoors. Grass five feet high, a clear stream of water running through it, and an undeveloped silver miue in one corner." "And why in the thunder didn't you make the trade ?" said the other. "Because," said the old man, in a sad and regretful tone, "because I?I didn't have the boots." 10" Put not your trust in a woman is a paraphrase to which the tragedian George C. Milne would unhesitatingly assent. He was at one time playing in a Western city, and observed in the front row an old lady dissolved in tears. Highly flattered, he sent an attendant to say that he would like to see her after the performance. When they met, Mr. Milne was graciousness itself. "Madam," he said, "I perceive that my acting moved you." "It did that, sir," said the old woman, "You see, sir, I've got a young son myself play actin' down in Kentucky somewhere, an' it broke me all up to think that mebbe he warn't no better at it than you, sir." VST Schoolma'm (who has never made a study of agriculture)?I planted four bushels of wheat on three hundred and twenty-five acres of land, etc. When she collected the arithmetic papers, one sober-faced, unimaginative lad had none to give her. "How is this, Peter ? Couldn't you work the problem?" "No, ma'am." "Why, I'm disappointed ; I thought you understood youi work well yesterday." "Well, there wasn't no examples like this yesterday. "Yes, they were worked just the same." "I can't work no such example as that. Four bushels of wheat on three hundred and twentyfive acres wouldn't bring no kind of an answer, no matter how hard a fellow worked." jpor~ ur. uosern, an ausuii jiu^muiiiii, ?uc called on to attend old Uncle Mose, who drives a dray. "You have been gorging yourself with green watermelons for dinner," said the physician, feeling the patient's pulse. "How de debbil did yer find dat out?by fellin' my pulses?" "No, but by seeing the watermelon rinds under the bed." Said the old man, raising himself up in bed, "You am de knowiuist man in Austin. Heab, old 'oman, take dat ole harness from under de bed, or dis heah medicinal gemman am gwine to treat me for eatin' a mule for dessert to settle my stomach. I aiu't touched a watermelon in foah weeks." I?* "Don't you love to smell a good cigar?" inquired an Austin antipode of Van derbilt of (Jus De Smith. "You bet I do," replied (ius, his face brightening with anticipation. "Have you got ten cents about your person?" inquired the first speaker again. "Yes, what of it," asked (ius. "Well, you give me ten cents, and that with the money I have, will purchase a prime cigar." "But what will I get ?" "Why, you'll get the smell which you say you dote upon so much." One Sure Kefuue.?Deacon Ironside hat! been attracted by an interesting story in his . favorite paper, "The Weekly Commentator,' and had found that it led gently to an elo quentand moving dissertation on the merit! of Dr. Kybolk's Concentrated Extruct o Wild Cherry, price twenty-five cents a hot tie, for sale by all druggists. "It's got s< nowadays," he ejaculated, throwing the pa per dowu in disgust, "that there's only aboul oue publication that doesn't trick you int< readin' patent medicine puffs!" Aud h< picked up the family Bible, and opened it ai the book of Jonah. J?" "You remind me," said the man at tin hotel where they have waitresses, to one o the prettiest, with whom he (sought t< flirt, "you remind me of my sister." "Yes?' said she ; "now isn't it funny ? You rernim me so much of my brother." "Indeed,' said the gratified young man, "in wha way ?" "Why he could never mind his owi business." And then he ordered something to take her away, and immediately departec himself. ? ^ Presence of .mind.? wnen an Austtt schoolmaster entered his temple of learning a few mornings ago, he read on the black board the touching legend: "Our teacher i: a donkey." The pupils expected then would be a combined cyclone and earth quake, but the philosophic pedagogue con tented himself with adding the won "driver" to the legend, and opened tin school with prayer as usual. Flours Shy of Patent Pills.?San Johnsing felt very much aggrieved becausi an Austin justice lined him five dollars fo disturbing the peace. "Mr. Johnsing," sab the justice, "you can take an appeal; yoi have a legal remedy." "I knows al all about dem remedies, sah; dey am wcrr much like dem udder remedies you gets a de drug store. De mo' oh 'em yer takes d' sicker yer gits." | IVnasitlc (Satheriugs. ! 92T Missouri leads the world in lend production. S?* He who is not sometimes a fool is al i ways one. J BUT If you are a gentleman you will nev- J | er find it necessary to say so. fiST When courtesy is set higher than integ- i rity, reconstruction is necessary. BS&F When a man has a stitch in his back, j i 11. maxes turn ieei son 01 sow-sew. I SaT California is the twenty-first State to j ! | extend the school suffrage to women. 8??? The fattest man ever known was Dan-. iel Lambert, who weighed 731) pounds. > 86?" The czar's throne is said to be worth four times as much as Queen Victoria's. ! 86?" It is estimated that 90,000 piano-fortes are manufactured every year in London. 86?" The distance from the nearest point of , polar discovery to the pole itself, is 4(50 miles. Hdf It is a good rule never to do for the | sake of gain what you would not do for love or duty. 86?" The largest pyramid in Egypt has by late measurement been proved to be 43S i feet high. 8?* Whenever we vary from the highest I rule of right, just so far we do an injury to the world. ; 8^" When some men tell us "the fools are j not all dead yet" we record it as an honest confession. ' 8?* Take care that no young person at ' any time sees or hears you say or do any- } 5 thing base. 1 86?" Gideon, with his band of 300 faithful, men, could do more than 32,000 who were : not faithful. 86?" A man's worth is in himself, and not ' in the clothes he wears nor in his grandfather's tomb. 16?" If you want to learn how to become a cheerful giver, you can begin by being a , systematic one. 86?" Paris has twelve more daily papers than London, New York, Philadelphia and j Boston combined. 8?" The open animosity of hatred often j injures us less than than the apparent kind- j (I ness of friendship. 86T" Some of the silver mines that closed down during the deeline in the price of silj ver have opened again. : 86r"No humau being can come into this; | world without increasing or diminishing ! | the sum total of happiness. There is a man in Canada who signs j himself "T. Pot.1" It is said that the least; I thing makes him boil over. 8^" Some of the Comstock mines are so deep that no means has yet been devised to overcome the excessive heat. B3F There are 14,000 silver miners in Colo, rado, and between four and live thousand j men employed in the smelters. 8ST" The first building erected in the United ; States for the Federal government was the i ' United States mint in Philadelphia. 8ST* As long as the devil can make an out-; sider believe he is as good as a church mem- i ber, the devil has a sure hold on him. 86T" Patent leather shoes may be stylish I t at all seasons, but in summer they are the I , hottest things men can wear. ; 8&" Paris now gets its water supply from , six great springs, th.e water of which travels ' , through eighty-three miles of aqueduct. 8ST A pretty girl can make an ordinary j ' mirror more ornamental than the most ex-' i quisite oil painting by simply looking in it. i 8?" If you would find a great many faults j be on the lookout. If you would find them 'I in still greater abundance be on the look in. j 1 BST The sacred scriptures teach us the I best way of living, the noblest way of sufler! ing, and the most comfortable way of dying. 8?* Horace Greely once said that whether ' woman was equal to man or not depended on who the man was and who the woman j was. 8fiT" The empress of China carries with her 3,000 dresses when she travels. These fill G00 boxes, and arc taken care of by 1,200 ! , coolies. ?a?" liIIow do you distinguish an old fowl from a young one?" "By the teeth." j "Come, no joking! Fowls have no teeth." , "But I have." i 8?* The czar's personal expenses are $9,000,000 a year, which is $0,200,000 more than Russia's annual appropriation for common schools. tSF The man who leaves $200,000 behind , ' does not half so much to 'distinguish himself j as would somebody who should take ten "cents with him. 8ST" A Chinese gentleman very seldom ap-1 pears in the street with his wife, and can under no circumstances be induced to ride in i the same carriage with her. II 8?* There are reported to be 119,000,000 of 1 the big old copper pennies lying unused 1 somewhere in this country. Few of the old 1 ! pennies get hack to the mint. ' SiST Many a bankrupt business man can testify to the impossibility of keeping one's , [ head above water and above whisky at the 1 the same time, remarks the Buffalo Courier, j 86T" A Maine bee-hunter declares that bees j #ln nnt liL-o cnlitiwlft juul kppn near habita- i ' j tions, and that it is a mistake to look for , I wild bees at a distunee from cultivated regions. 1 8It is said to cost less to send the proj duct of an acre of wheat from Dakota to t; England, than it docs to manure an acre of > j land in England so that it can grow good . j wheat. I 8S?* The salt mines of Nevada throw into , the shade all others known in the United; ; States. One bed alone covers 15,930 acres, i! and no bottom to this salt has ever been dis-: i covered. i #8T*The Oregon Improvement company j II have exhibited at their oflice at Colfax, that j !! State, six turnips which aggegate 102 pounds weight, the largest weighing 2<> pounds and 1 2 ounces. k 8^? Servant?Your dog is outside, I suppose! Caller?Dog! I have no dog. "Well,' j I didn't know. When I showed your card ( to Miss Angelina, she said, 'Don't let the j ' puppy ?? '" I BfeEr Timid woman to ferryman who was Crowing her across the river: "Are many people ever lost in this river?" "No, j ma'am," he replied; "we always find 'em! ! in a day or two." efcaT" Teacher?That is the fourth question i you have failed to answer. If you don't ! study harder now, how do you expect to | get along when you grow up? Little Boy? I guess I'll be u school teacher, an' w'en I j want to know anything I'll jus' ask the I class. 8ft?C The "school age" is a variable quanti', ty in this country. In six of the States or f territories, children are admitted to the pubj lie schools at the age of 4 years; in nine-1 teen at 5 ; in twenty at (>; in three at 7 : and * in one (Texas) at eight. eoT" A man will burn his fingers lighting a 1 " cigar with a piece of paper, and make no fuss about it ; but when his wife asks him to ^! set the teakettle over, and he takes hold of the warm handle, he is mad enough to sliip^ i wreck the kitchen. I iikxT The flags to be hoisted at once in signaling at sea never exceed fout. It is an I interesting arithmetical fact that with eigh2! teen variously colored flags, and never more j. than lour at a Mine, no tewer man i.-qo-*i signals can be given. >1 SOT Experiments made in the hygenic inj stitute in the Berlin university have shown >. that cholera bacilli die more quickly onto-. ^: baeco tiiati on dry glass plates, that they do 1 not multiply, but quickly die on moist tobacr | co, and that tobacco smoke quickly kills j j them. B8P An English inventor lias constructed a novel device to do away with the enormous , pressure of water against the bows of ocean ( r steamers. It consists of one or more screws 1 on each side of the bow, which throws the s water aside and creates a dry well in front ; of the vessel. Skaf Nearly one-third of the cotton raised . -1 in South Carolina is now manufactured ; 1 there, and new mills are constantly going up. 2 Some twenty or more mills are now under, contract, or likely to be in the immediate j future. She has already more cotton mills , ! j than any other Southern State.?Boston e : True Flag. r ! Chemists now turn scrap iron into ink, ] old bones into lucifcr matches, the shavings i of the blacksmith's shop into Prussian blue, | 1. fusel oil into oil of apples and pears, the) y draining of cow houses into fashionable per- j t i fumery, beggars'rags into new pilot coats, e ' cesspool tilth into ammonia, and tar waste | into aniline dyes and saccharine. IgisccUaucoMS KILL Alt I' ON FINANCE. lit* Uot'Mi't l ii.lfisliiiitl llif Situation lint Think' no Xet'tl a Statesman to rntaiiKlt* tin* Financial Skein. From the Atlanta Constitution. Silver and gold. I wish that I did understand it. I have heard so much about binietalisin and demonetizing and free coinage and the Sherman act and the purchase of bullion and what congress should do and shouldn't do, that it makes my head swim and I lose confidence in Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle and everybody else. The whole thing seems to be in a tangle. Have we no great statesmen, no great financiers tc back up to? Are the editors of the papers to box the thing about forever and ever and keep the people in a quandary? Is partisan politics to curse the country while it is suffering from a financial panic that is paralyzing every industry and creating a general distrust. There is not a Republican paper but what would rather the Democrats would make a blunder than to bring relief. They are a heartless set?these politicians. They are everlastingly machining around to keep in office or to get in and the Democrats are nearly as bad atf the Republicans. I have heard so much in the last two weeks about machine politics that I am sick. I never conceived how many bargains and trades had to be made to get an office; how many traps and triggers and how the patronage and spoils and perquisites had to be divided out to suit the congressmen and keep them in office. Xot all the congressmen, of course, for thank heaven we have some there who have no machine and who would not fear to have every act of their political life laid open to the people, but with some of them a public office is a private trust. They say, "This is my office. I worked for it, stooped for it, lied for it, and I'm going to make all I can out of it." It has been that way always I reckon, and we can't help it, but I do wish we had some great statesmen like there used to besome great thinkers and leaders like Calhoun and Webster and DeWitt Clinton of ho nidon iimps I wish that we had Justice Jackson in congress, for I do believe that a man who could untangle the Central railroad as quickly as he did could untangle all this money business and tell tho country what to do to restore confidence. That is all that is wanted, they say. Confidence ! I want some myself. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. My old friend Cicero Strong told me the other day that the way to settle the trouble was tc take the $100,000,000 of reserved gold that was in the treasury and use it, for it had been there for years and years doing nc good and they might just as well fill up the bags with iron or lead or copper and nobody would ever know the difference, for it it never counted, but is weighed twice a year. It could be fixed up in the night by the treasurer and one or two men to help, "What is the use of the gold locked up sc long when it is needed so bad ?" Maybe that's been done already," said I. "Maybe the gold isn't there, but it is only bags ol lead." Maybe them Republican* did change it," said Cicero, and he looked solemn, like he, too, had lost confidence. During the last great political excitement when the People's party was cavorting around, a little preacher over in East Tennessee mounted a wagon body at a justice court ground and harangued the boys on the silver question. "Free silver!" lie cried "Free silver! Blessed be the prospect, When our party gets in power, my brethren there will be no more want, no more poverty, no more hands to hang down or feeble knees to shake, but everybody will have silver. Bless the Lord ! We will run every mine to its full capacity day and night, and we will open a thousand new ones and ship the shining ore to the mints and melt and mold and stamp and then ship it all ovei the country by the carload, and when our share gets here we will load it in wagons and drive out on every road, and as the wagons move along we will shovel it out and scatter it far and wide, and even the women and children will get some, bless the Lord! Free silver; come quickly and buy without money and without price, oh ye ol AvWK D nn<] tKn gni/1 " UlliC JtULii, au\i uiv [/vv|iiv wmm. M4..v... That wasn't much worse than a speech that I heard George Francis Train make at Rochester about twenty years ago. He grew sublimely eloquent about the government issuing millions and billions and trillions and quintrillions of paper money and lending everybody just as much as they wanted. "Keep the paper mills running day and night and the printing machines, and let the bright, new bills Hood the land and then I will have a pocketful and feel like a gentleman, and my country friend over there will have his saddle bags full, and that good old woman will have her apron full, and we will build docks and canals and railroads and meeting houses and ships and factories and everybody will have plenty to do at big prices and the poor will become rich and those who are now rich will become poor, for their old-fashioned money will be good no more, and we will all be happy as if the millennium had come.': "Hold on, Train," said one of his hearers : "holdon a minute." "What's the matter?' said Train. "Wouldn't the whole thing collapse und bust up after a while?" said his hearer. Train looked at him with sovereign contempt, and said: "Why, of course it would ; any fool might know that. There would be an awful bust up, but all these hotels and canals and railroads and factorieswouldn't bust up?they would be there." There is some truth in all this, even if ji crank did say it. Go to Decatur and Anniston and Boyee's and Sheffield and Florence and Bridgeport. Go anywhere, where there was a boom a few years ago and see the big houses and stores and factories that are emp ty. They are all there, but the collapse came and the builders have scattered te parts unknown. You can't force prosperity by a boon neither can it he forced by legislation al Washington. They may grease the wagor so that it will run easier, but 110 permanent relief will come until there is a demand foi the products of industry, whether they conn from the factories, the mills, the furnaces 01 the soil. There has been an overproduction of almost everything and two much extravagance at home. If a man gormandizes himself he gets sick and has to take modi cine. Just so most everybody has been living beyond their means?buying too much 01 a credit because credit was offered and good; were cheap ; and now when the sliutdowr comes, we are not prepared for it. That'i the way it is at my house, and all I can do is to lay it 011 this financial .business and tel my folks it is lack of confidence. It is al right, and we are taking our medicine. Chi cago has gone up the spout at my housethank the good Lord. Hill Aiu\ ? Distant us at tmk Fair. ?To see all thai is to be seen and improve all the opportune ties it oilers, will be no summer day's task, One who comes to Chicago expecting ti take in these wonders in a day or twi or a week, will go away regretting thai which he must of necessity leave unseen A month would not exhaust its interest Perhaps it is thought that this is an over statement. A few facts and figures will show that it is not. Jackson park, in which tin exposition is being held, has a frontage 01 Lake Michigan of LI miles and contain; ">:53 acres, 77 of which are water. The Midway plaisanee is a mile long am (too feet wide and contains SO acres or more There are thirty-nine exposition building.' proper, with a floor space of l -ll) acres. Add ing the galleries, there are 11)1).7 acres Grouped around there are forty-four Stat< and Territorial buildings, eighteen building! hv fioreien iroveriiinents. and forh others for the minor purposes of the mini agement, restaurants ami advertising ware! and enterprises. In the Midway plaisanct sire the foreign villages, shops, etc., describe! in a previous letter. The visitor who would merely take a pass ing look sit each of the vast array of exhibit! must prepare to walk along 124 miles o aisles. Add to this the distsinees from on< building to another, which must of necessity he traveled many times, and the distance t< he covered will reach fully lot) miles.?Cor Pittsburg News. A man of tact always manages to ge out of a difficulty. The clerk of si parish whose business wsis to read the "first lesson,' came across the chapter in which the name: of Shsidrach, Mcshach and Ahednego occui twelve times, and finding it extremely difli cult to pronounce these names, lie wen through the chapter referring to them a: the "aforesaid gentlemen." ,j che f tott) crllrr. I CAPTAIN JANE. j It was early in the spring of 1850 that i I person walked into the store of Chencry an< i Htyeltine, in Sacramento, and inquired f'oi the head of the firm. Mr. Chencry made his appearance. "I want to purchase a load of goods fo; ! flip northern mines and I want to mirolmsi ! them entirely on credit. I own thcsix-muh 11 teiim standing just on the outside. I am, a: 11 you see, dressed in male attire, but I am i 11 woman. My name is Jane?plain Jane ,! Women, you know, have no rights in this I world, and it is not necessary lor them tc ; bother about names. I drove this sami team across the plains, arrived here last fall ' took my team to the Gordon ranch over 01 1 Cashe creek and did work of one kind and another to support myself while the mule! recuperated. They are beauties, as yoi see. They were in better condition whei they reached Sacramento than any othci team I saw, because I took care of them There is not a mule out of the six whicl would not follow me around like a dog i turned loose. They love me, you see, because : I am kind to them. My plan is to take uj! a load of goods, sell them, return the money | take up another load, repeating until I gel rich and this lirm gets richer than it is." | Richard Chenery whistled, and the whistle had a big exclamation after it. "Who are you, and where elid you come 1 from ?" "It is not to our purpose to discuss thai point. I am here before you. I am twenty : two years of age, I am five feet seven inchee | high, and weigh 105 pounds. I can lift a bar rel of Hour into a wagon, and can cut a figure eight in the street with a six-horse team. ] will pull the lines over the wildest team evei hitched up. I came across the plains, stooe my watch regularly, handled my gun it ' two fights with the Indians, and asked nc odds of any man. I am here to muke some : money?get rich. I am going to get rich bj my own exertions. Then it's mine, yoi J. see." "Hazeltine, come here; I want to intro1 duce you to to this lady." "Lady?" "Yes, lady. Though not so dressed, she u 1 a woman, and her name is Jane, plain Jane ' but, by Jove, she is a captain !" "Captain Jane, your most obedient," suit: Mr. Hazeltine, as he extended his hand. ' -The situation and the request were ex ' plained by Mr. Chenery. "I was just hunting for a team," said Mr 1 Unvpltinn "nnd T run irive. her a load t( ' Shastu at ten cents a pound. That teair can easily carry 9,000 pounds. The trip car | be made in two weeks, and, us the grass if ; green, there will be but little expense. Vol can comeback here with $1,000 clear monej ' and no risk." "Risk ?" replied Captain Jane. "Do ] ! look like a person afraid of risks? If ypu ' gentlemen are afraid of risks, why did yoi ' come to California? I have risked my life? ' yes, what every good woman holds dearei ! than life, a good name?for gold. Gold h the world's idol and I am going to have il : or I will fill a grave at the head of whicl ! some teamster will in kindness stick a boart with 'Jane' penciled on it." "Captain Jane," said Mr. Hazcltinc, cor ' rectingly." "I accept the amendment and thank yoi ! for the promotion. Women have small van ! ities as well as men. Rut, as I was going tc observe, I have an idea that I can both bin ' and sell to advantage. I have figured u{ > just what I expect to buy and what I expcci to pay. You will see that I know prices as ! well as you do. I have also figured, fron ! what I know goods will bring at Shasta quite a margin over ton cents a pound You sec, I took one of my mules and rodi i up to Shasta. I know what is wanted Look at that team, look at the driver Don't you think we can get a load of good: to Shasta as quickly as anybody else 1 Nothing has passed us since I was there." ! "This is a good list of goods and it look: ' like your figures are correct. Your bill o ! goods here amounts to $5,375. You woult' ' have to bring back, according to your owi ' figures, over eight thousand dollars in gob ' dust." "More risk, eh? I)o you sec this?" put 1 ting her hand on a revolver at her belt. "1 ' claim to have the nerve to use it." She got the load of goods and an accoun! was opened with "Captain Jane." All thai summer and the winter following she madi regular trips. The winter of 1850-51, be il remembered, was the driest season the Americans have seen in California, so team ing was not interrupted. At the end of tin year Captain Jane had deposited with hei merchants about fifty thousand dollars. Every resident of the west side of tin Sacramento valley and of Shasta remember; Captain Jane. She purchased a farm or Thorns creek, just below the town of Telia ma. The teamsters and tavern-keepers nlonj. the road in that day had many incident: to relate of her. Camping miles away Iron anybody, she would sleep in her wagon or be side it alone, when it was well known thai she had large sums of money. She was i woman of action, not of words. Shctalkei more to her mules than to men. When sin threw the harness on, each mule walked tc his place. Nor did she ever picket out on< of them. Freed to graze upon the best grass they were sure to be on hand in the morn ! ing. She kept her Tahama property hut i short time, and selling it at a profit she dis ' appeared. s ****** * In 1852 George \V. Frink kept the Tehani;: 1 House, at the corner of California and San ' some streets, Sun Francisco. John Duncai 5 was his clerk. There were sitting arouni his oflicc stove General E. O. C. Ord, hi: I brother, Judge Pacificus Ord, Judge Cy Wal ' lace, I)r. Robert Semple, General J. W. Den ! 1 ver, John Bigler, Lieutenant Derby and sev 'j era! army officers. The Panama stcamei ; had just arrived and the political situatioi J at the East was being discussed, when ; h plainly dressed woman walked in, ap 1 proached the counter, registered and askei ^ to be assigned a room. The convcrsatioi lulled. Duncan disappeared to show tlx 5 lady her room, and Frink walked to the reg *' ister to look at the name. "Who is she?" asked Lieutenant Derby. "Plain Jane Smith." ; "From where does she hail ?" "She doesn't hail?that's left blank. ' j For weeks and months the distinguishei 1 guests of the Tehama wondered who Jam ' Smith could be and whence she came, bu 1 uone of them could engage her in conversa ' I tion. The landlord was one of the hand 5; soinest men of his day, and a great ladies ' j man withal, yet he could talk to her of n< ' I other matters than those connected with tin " business between them. She took all tin " commercial papers of the Atlantic board, a well as those of San Francisco. As a pointe John Duncan noticed that the old paper I brought down from her room were minus tin . market reports and shipping intelligence. "No more ham for breakfast," said land ) lord Frank, jocularly, to bis guests. "(Join j away out of sight; been cornered just lik< L Hour was a short time ago. In the last si: . or eight months somebody has corneret . pork, lard, candles, Hour, salt, beans, tobacco - and be hanged if I know what else. I an r told today that it is a woman, who poke: ? around inquiring prices, giving no name, bu l when she buys always says 'Cash.'" ; I "1 have it," exclaimed John Duncan. "I is our woman in sixteen. She has kept post 1 1 ed about what was on the way to this coast . Didn't I tell you about the clippings? Sin ?' must be worth a million. Good for her/' . | It seemed plain to them all now, and then . was a general clapping of hands in the eir j ele around the stove. s "Parrott, or McC'rary, or some one else must be backing or instructing her," said i 'guest. "No woman could do that of her 3 self." ?j "Don't you believe it," said Lieutenau 1 Derby, "if she hasn't self-reliance there i: no virtue in physiognomy." Just then the object of the convcrsatioi i passed through the otliee and on up the stairs f A few minutes later "John Doe," suppose) > to be one of the richest merchants of tin ,? city, came in, sent his card to sixteen am ) nervously waited a reply. It was noticed In .1 drew a sigh of relief as the message came i "Show the gentleman up." j I have given this gentleman* an alias. t| "Miss Jane Smith?" queried Mr. Doe, a: ,! he entered the room. '' "Jane Smith, at your service, sir." 31 "Ah! Mrs. Jane Smith?" r; "Jane Smith is my name, and yours, I he - lieve, is John Doc?" tj He ho wed, and she continued: "Oh, yes si I think I have heard the name before.- Vol I are engaged in trade, I believe, .something jof which women are supposed to know) j nothing. You deal in hams, sometimes in ' Hour, occasionally in pork, and seems to me ! isomebody once told me von handled can-' : dies." "You seem well posted on my business, t Miss Smith." . j "Jane Smith has sought to post herself on ; the business ofseveral gentlemen. How well ''! she has succeeded the sequel must show." { "Lady, whether Miss or Mrs., have you I j any mercy in your composition ?" r I "Do you ask mercy of me?" J "I am bankrupt unless you grant it. I " i tunfurliiiiute Victim of all vour "; deals, or deals I now suppose to have been 1 j i yours. Of course, it was not intentional,! I but it so happened just I bad agreed to de- j j liver a large lot of flour, flour went up. It, ; was the same with pork, tobacco, sugar, cun, dies, and other articles, and now I must ' | deliver hams, hut cannot touch them. You !; hold them ail. Can you make no coucesI sions." . | "Will vou repeat after me one sentence?" J "I will." j "Repeat woid for word us I speak : 'That . mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.' Ah ! you stammer and finally halt at; ' the last word." j- "Woman, who arc you, and why do you j , persecute me?" ^ "Let me tell you a romatic little story?a story filled with acts of mercy. You have a ' son. He married a girl in every way his peer, aye, I maintain in some respects his ; superior. Her descent was honorable. In her veins flowed the best blood of the , land. High principles and nobility of character were liersby the right of inheritance. When she was very young pecuniary mis- i fortunes befell her family. With her own , . | hands she earned the money for her educu-; .: tion. At seventeen she carried away all the j J honors of the college. In your eyes, how-1 [ ' ever, poverty was a crime. You would not 1 J even see this young wife of your son. It, I was enough for you that she had worked in j , I the kitchen. By prejudiced testimony pro-i ,; cured by you, the people, and even the bus-j , i bund, were made to believe this wife false ' ^ I to her vows. All her pleadings for mercy I , j availed nothing. She was driven out, and | even her babe was torn from her arms. I . am that wife, that mother. I swore to make you ask mercy of me. I drove a team across the plains, I fought Indians, I swam . icy rivers, I stood guard in the cold, cold . blasts of snow and sleet. I teamed to the mines in male attire, attending to six mules I night and morning, and driving them all j day. I slept by the roadside with only uj I revolver for a companion. But all, all for! j my baby, oh, my baby ' My purse grew and | ray hope grew with it. I came to the city J with one hundred thousand dollurs to carry , out dreams of the lonely roadside, plans j formed beneath the starry skies, amid a si. lence broken only by the coyotes. I began , operations here, and when I found I could r corner an article, I first bought you short on it. All this, John Doe, to force my way to f justice and ray babe, held from me by force , and wrong. You know of the perjury, you , know of. the wrong; confess them to my husband ; give him back to me ; give me my r i child ; give me back my good name. I can . repeat the line without a quiver: 'That ^ mercy I to others show, that mercy show to , me.' Undo the great wrong, show the I mercy you ask, and all the hams in Calfornia, all the money you have lost will be . i yours. I am not a blackmailer. I am not , proposing to purchase your son ; I am simply , , demanding justice?and justice I will have whether you yield it or not. I feel like an } enraged lionness whose cub has been stolen. . j Oh, my boy, my boy, my baby boy!" , l She sank into a chair and wept. He, too t j wept tears of genuine repentace. He apJ proaehcd her, smoothed back her hair, kiss, j ed her forehead, and said, "My daughter." Wild camels have lately been reported ; in Arizona, and there has been some specula. tion as to their origin. They were import. I ed nearly forty years ago, when Jefferson < Davis was secretary of war under the Fierce ? I administration. It was thought they would j be valuable for use in the "Great American >! Desert," which was commonly supposed to f i be something like the desert of Arabia and I: Sahara in Africa. They were found scrvicei able, but the war coming on, the camels were II lost sight of, became wild and have considerably increased in number. It is said -! that the camel endures extreme cold better I than extreme heat, its only advantage for I hot desert countries being that it can drink II at once enough water to last two or three t-; days. The camel is said to be a more effect' i ive worker in many places than the horse or tjmulo. Its feet will not stand hard roads, J, and it can therefore never be used for farm j ing purposes except in wild, uncultivated } districts. r - . fiSa?" The origin of the expression two-pen}; ny, six-penny, etc., as applied to nails, lies i in an English corruption of the word pounds. 1 Anciently nails were made a specified num* her of pounds to the thousand ; and this ' | standard is still recognized in England. > For instance, a ten-penny nail is in England 1 one of a kind of which it would require "j 1.000 to weigh ten pounds. Fenny is really t. a survival of the English "puiv," a corrup1 tion of pound. Formerly the mark denot' ing the English pound sterling was used, ; following the number designating the size of 1 j the nail, but in time this gave way to the; ; I pence mark i d) as now used. The reader j ?I will note that hundred, when applied to > ' | nails, was six score, or 120; hence a thou-j 1 sand was 1,200. % ? Qukkk ik Tui'K.? You may try this as many times as you like and it will never 1 fail. Ask a person whether they were born I I ?l... Tf llinw <1,1 iint at UlgllU Ul 111 lilt- lltljl lllllt. II IIIVJ t.tr < j know, bid them not to tell, but to clasp their _ hands and that you will tell them. They '; must clasp tin1 hands with the lingers interlacing. Now. some people will do this by ( bringing the right thumb over the left "i thumb, and they were born at night. The r same person will always do it in the same J 1, way. Any but their own natural way seems 1 queer and unnatural. Vou will find that j ' j the person wl:o clasps the left thumb over is J 1 surprised to find that anyone can do it any 1 'j other way. No one has ever been able to j '! explain this matter.?New York Mercury. I Killed uy Ice-Water.?Cases of death I ' from drinking ice-water when one is over heated have been reported, (treat care should be taken in regard to this matter.! I The craving for cold water when the heat is j t i great and a person has been exerting himself,! ? j is sometimes almost irresistible. Hut the j j craving should be but sparingly indulged, j In fact, it would be better at such times not .; to drink very cold water at all. Water of only moderate coolness would be a great deal better. One should exercise the re"1 straints of common prudence in such matters. 3 j "Killed by icc-water" is a verdict which no j ' 1 coroner's jury should have it in their power j to render. ?! Bfejj"' One of the most remarkable illustra-j lions of progress in electrical appliances is! , I electrolytic painting. Hitherto if copper! N or other metal had to be deposited eleetri' l cully, a bath of solution was needed. Now J j ! all this is changed, and a ship's hull can : be plated as easily as a spoon or teapot. ' Instead of a bath, insoluble salts, ground to a i s fine powder and mixed with water, are used. \ . This mixture is painted on the metal to be plated by a fine wire brush, to which one J t pole of a dynamo conductor is attached, the other pole being connected with a plate. Not only metal, but all sorts of alloys, can (j be used. 0OYA1 J; j | i ^awN15 1 POWDER Absolutely Pure. ! A oreiim of tartar halting powder. Highest of all | In ten vetting strength.?Latest 1'. S. Government Food Keport. - { Koyai. Hak ino I'tiwiiku Co., lOli Wall St., N. V. SKI'AHATOltS. MAKXAIjOX, (JKI/KIt AND KAIUJI'A11A K Separators for snle. ,r| RtM'K HILL .MACIIINK W'oKKS. | spmnmrnmrni ! E Another . ^ Fine 3 r Story ^ ^ BEGINS IN THIS ISSUE OF THIS PAPER, ^ | gWaring's 3 | | .*. Peril.3 ^BY CAPT. CHA5.E2 ^ R. KING. 3 ^Do Not Miss3 ! ^ Reading It. 2 ^uuuuuuuimi j' FOR THE SUMMER CAMPAIGN. WE want our friends, the clnb makers, to continue to work for The Enquirer during the spring, summer and early fall of this year, and in order to make it worth their while ? to do so, we have decided to make them liberal offers, and we do it with i the assurance that they will be received with enthusiasm. We will offer one LEADING PREMIUM, besides several smaller ones, which will be awarded to the club-makers who may return and pay for the clubs of yearly subscribers between APRIL 5, 1893, 1 AND TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1893, at 3 o'clock p. 111., as stated be-%, " low. ?' We have for a number of years been 1 in the habit of using Buggies as pre- < miums, and experience has taught us J that such a premium meets with gen- * cral approval. At first we offered Cin- 1 cinnati Buggies, worth about $55, but j found that while they were all that 1 was claimed for them, they were not { of a grade that fully met the require- 1 ments of this section, and our two last \ offers in Buggies have been the product 1 of our own "Carolina Buggy Compa- j ny," which is acknowledged to be a ( leader in the manufacture ot high gracie j vehicles. These buggies met with the f endorsement of our friends. They < knew that the winner of the buggy 1 would get something of which any 1 man might well be proud. Fully re- ' alizing the standing and reputation of ] the "Carolina," we have arranged to offer one of the Company's best $90.00 Open Buggies ! i as a premium to the club maker who ( returns and pays for the largest 1111111- 1 ber of subscribers between the dates 1 named above. 1 hast year we offered one premium 1 for the summer campaign, but this 1 year we propose to give everybody a 1 chance. We will award a $25 watch 1 ?either Elgin or Waltham movement?in an open face coin silver case,! j to every club maker who may return j and pay for SIXTY or more yearly j subscribers between the dates fixed for it the opening and closing of the contest, j,, For every club of FORTY or more, 11 ^ and less than sixty, we will give onei( 7 jewel Elgin watch in an open face dust proof silver case, worth $13. ( For every club of THIRTY, and less 1 than forty yearly subscribers, we will ] award one New York Standard watch 1 in a dust proof open face coin silver i case, worth $10. J For every club of TWENTY and t less than thirty subscribers, we will j award one New York Standard watch i in an open face nickle case, worth $7. j For every club of TEN we will send I Thr Fntdttirkr for one vear as com-!. , IJ pensation. i For every club of FIVE and less than ten, we will give one twenty-four < hour nickle alarm clock, valued at | S'-75- ! In case a club maker who may re- t turn 60, 40, 30, 20, 10, or 5 names j should win the buggy, said club mak- i er will not be entitled to any other j premium. CONDITION'S. In this contest OLD and NEW sub-1 j scribcrs count the same, but the name ? of 110 subscriber now 011 our list, whose \ subscription expires after October 24, ! 1893, can be entered 011 any club I < maker's list to be counted in compo-1' tition for any of the premiums offered 1 under this proposition. The following are the classes that l will count: \] 1. Those who have never been j subscribers. i 1 2. Those who have at any time J in the past been subscribers, but ] whose names are not now 011 our'> list. ;! Those whose names are now 1 011 our list, but whose subscrip- J tions expire before October ^4, 1?!!?. I } The regular club price of $1.75 must; J be paid for all yearly subscribers. j 1 In this contest, TWO six months' { subscriptions at $1.00 each will be | considered the equivalent of one year-1, ly subscriber at $1.75, and so counted, j1 The propositions contained in the above are open to everybody and any ;? one who works will be well repaid for all the labor expended. The buggy is | absolutely sure to go, whether the larg-! est club is 5 or 100. If you want it, go | to work today. Any further information that may j be desired will be furnished 011 ap-j plication. L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. I CHAMPION ltOM.KK Ml M.S. IRKSPKCTFIJI.LY beg to announce that the CHAMPION ROLLKK MILLS have ! been completed at /.eno, on Crmvdcr's Creek, h ? ..1 1 ..... 1 I 1 III')' IIIl? IllMY ill U|ii'iauwu, uini > din i'ivi/??iv?t i to make for customers ax KINK A Ql AL1TY OF I'ATKNT HOLLER MILL KLOl'll, as ran lie had in the United States. We have a capacity of thirty barrels of tine Hour a day. The patronage of the public is solicited and satisfae- tion is assured. <?. L. HIDDLIO, Proprietor !< "('hanipion" Mills. | < July "> tf | for Infants " Cantor la Is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription l.nown to me." J I. A. Arciier, M. P., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N". Y. "Tho uso of 'Castoria Is so universal and i:s merits so well known that it seems a work i f su;>ercrntfation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." C'auuos Martyn, P. P., New York (,'ity. The Centaur ( VAN WINKLE GIN A ATIiANTA, MAN UFA' rHE host system for elevating and (listribntin been awarded to us. Write for catalogue an AVIS CAN WAV VAN WINKLE GIN ; .May :si . GARRY IRON RO Manufactures all kinds of ?8 I HON ItOOFIXG, KIMl'KI) AND COKUl'liATKI> SI 1)1 NO, Iron Tile or Shingle, jfSsk IKK l'KOOF DOOKS, Sll L'TTKKS, (( -, THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS I ^Sf-Orders received by L. M. GRIST*. "DEAD MEN EARN NO MONEY!" rimes May be Had Now, Rut When the Ineouie Stops Altogether, What Then ? READER, the following truths on the subject of life insurance are submitted for your onsideration. You will do well to weigh them . arefully: Between the ages of 20 and .'{0. GS porsons die ait of every 1,000; between ."JO ami 40 the number s 80, and between 40 and fiO, 121?premature leaths, careers, promising and otherwise, cut ihort, hopes and aspirations unrealized. These ire facts. If you, the reader should not make old Jones?and the above statistics illustrate the leavy chances of such a contingency?what will aecome of those dependent upon you? Do you are? If so, how have you shown your anxiev? By thinking about it, perhaps, or by not hinking about it. If that bcall, have you liuuilatcd your debt to duty? Remember, they may have to go to the work house. They may iiave to subsist on the charity of friends. They nay have to earn their bread by drudgery. A pretty heritage! You are poor, probably, in which ciiso you are >ne of a large majority of your species. Who is not poor now ??perhaps one man out of every ;en. You cannot leave a fortune for your wife ind children, and would not if you could, iuite right; but there is a wide difference beAveen that and leaving them destitute. Your income is probably only sufficient for necessities, and in this you also form one of a large constituency. Rut what are necessities ? The bread and butter of today "only," or the bread and butter, of say, this time next year, ivhen perhaps you will be under the sod. Dead men earn no money! Times may be aid now; but when the income stops altogether, ivhat then? You cannot do much?granted ; but you can do your best. Angels can do no more. You can insure your life, and that is ibout the only thing you can do to meet the circumstances. If it won't run to more than bread anil butter low, do without the butter,and securethe bread Tor those you profess to care for. $2,000 or 000 at your death is not a very fat fortune, but it may make a vast difference to the >vell-being of its recipients. Without it the prospect is not nleasant. 1 louselold furniture sacritled under the hammer, proceeds absorbed in bills and expenses, wife and aniily on their beam ends, turned out of house ind home into the unsympathetic world without i fair chance. Will they sink or swim? With it, the home saved, debts discharged, and i comfortable sum in hand to act as a lever to a ivlihoood. This is a funny world; when one is down there ire plenty willing to give him a kick, but ii few mndrcd dollars at the rear secures no little deference and consideration. Therefore do your duty, and don't think twice ibout it. Insure your life for as much as you lossibly can, and thus give your boys and girls a hanee in life, and minimize the possibilities of intold misery.?Insurance Agent and Review. A (Irkcian Mo it a i,.?A countryman, in the >1(1 Grecian time, was driving his wagon to uurkct over a muddy mud, when .suddenly his vheelssunk into their hubs and the horsestop>ed. Without putting his shoulder to the wheel, vithout, in fact, making the least effort, he foepin to call upon his god, Hercules, for help, rlercules answered him to lay a hand to his own oad, reminding liini that the gods helped those ,vho helped themselves. The moral of this is hat it is not faith, but unpardonable cheek, for i man who neglects or refuses to insure his ife to say that Providence will care for his tamly, if lie dies poor. Providence is a good irovider, but for men of that kind he generally irovides a poorhouse.?John R. liegeman. What is an Insuranck Aoknt.?The life insurance agent is not a bore. lie is a creator of .vealth. He is a saver of estates. He is a payer >f mortgages. He is almoner to widows. He s the protector of orphans. He is an organizer if comfort. He is a promoter of thrift. lie isa ihielil from squalor and crime. He keeps the itore onen. lie keeps the mill running. He lolds down the farm. He isa maker of sunihine. He is an encourager of the prattle of hildron. He is a teacher of duty. He is a jreacher of righteousness. Ho is a consoler, lie isa benefactor. lie is a philanthropist, lie sa hero. Oftentimes he is a martyr, and it is ust possible he may save your estate by that lolicy you took to get rid of him, and you call lim a "bore."?A. W. Kimball, in Lever and Fulcrum. The man who cairies a life insurance polity can look into the future with confidence, {flowing well that old age will not tind him i tit subject fbr eharitv, and that if death should luim him prematurely his family would not be ell penniless in those dark days when, were it itherwise, they would be desolate and despairng. Happy indeed must be the last moments >f the man who, with his dying breath, can say: 'Wife, dear, in my desk, yonder, yon will tind my life insurance policies." And.aflcra little ivliilc, when he, the bread-winner, is no more, mil the tirst paroxysm of grief is over, lightened ndeed will be the burden of the wife to whom le let! them, and a grateful remembrance of him ivlio was always so thoughtful, kind and true, ivill ever be with her.?News Letter. .pit" The following texts are worthy of consid rut ion by the uninsured : "A good man leav than inheritance to his children." "Withhold tot good from them to whom it is due." "A trudeut man foreseeth the evil and hideth himiclf." "If any provide not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he hath denied he faith and is worse than an infidel." "When hou liest down thou shalt not be afraid ; yea, hou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be tweet.?.Ktuu. If any company asks you to take a policy ivhich appears to offer a big investment if you ive, and to charge you nothing for your inmranee in the meantime?don't Vou may rely tpon it that the company don't intend to lose noney on its contracts, anil if the policy seems o lie worth more than it costs, it is because you lon't understand it as well as the company does. Don't attach too much importance to estimates ?f agents. It is easy to make big estimates ivhen the results cannot be determined for wenty years to come. Hie Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, of New York, is the largest Natural Premium life insurance company in the world, and is the RKST of anykind. It furnishes insurance at guaranteed rates per and that rate is about half that charged by level premium companies. I f you have no insurance you should not postpone the matter another day. If your old line policy is burdensome you will do well to investigate the Mutual Reserve. Hit 1ST PROS. A RRICK, (len'l Agents, York ville, S. ('. f>. K. KINI.KY. J. S. 1IKICK. riM-iov A hkicil ATTOltNEVH AT I,AW, Yorkvillc, S, C. ALL business entrusted to us will lie given prompt attention. >KKI('K IX TIIK HlMLDINti ATTI1K KKAlt )K M. tV II. STKAlTSS'S STOHK. January 7 1 tf and Children. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, I)iarrhu>a, Knictation, KilLs Worms, gives sleep, anil promotes digestion, Without injurious medication. "For several ypnrs I have recommended your' Cast or la,' an?l shall always eontinue to ilo so as it has iuvariahly produced beneficial results." Edwin F. Pardee, M. r>., 125th Street and Vth Ave., New York City. Company, 77 Mvrray Street, New York City. M) MACHINERY CO., GEORGIA. UTIHEKS. ig same direct to gins. Many gold medals liuve id what you want. IS YOU MONKY. INI) MACHINKRV CO., Atlanta, Ga. ?1 4il? OFING COMPANY, IRON ORE PAINT Ami Ccmonr. 1M TO 158 M KRWIN ST., . y"! T ^ aiid* Price List No. 75.' !)F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. ' YOUR FARF. TO Til E WORLD'S FAIR! "\7"OU cannot afford to throw away $>'H) or $40 JL and let some traveling sewing machine agent pick it up. Yon may Jisk yourself "How do | I throw &K) away and how does an agent pick it up?" Here is the way: An agent comes to your house, and alter hogging and persuading you, you let him put his machine in your house, ^ and gets you to trv it, and it really runs "pretty peart," and he calls your attention to the nicely nickel plated attachments, and the number of i drawers It has. and the "solid" (?) oak or walnut woodwork, which in many cases is only very thinly veneered. Then he goes to work and tells ? you how heavy your machine runs, and how it rattles, and how much rheumatic tire it must give you, and then how pleasant it is to run his'n ; then he makes you a flattering offer about as follows : "I will give you my Smith machine for 1 your's and $.'10, and give you two year's time | in which to pay for it." Isn't that llattering? ! If you try, you can buy his machine for $30, cash. Your machine runs heavy?your machine rattles. It is not worn out. It runs heavy, because it has become gummed with oil and dust. It rattles because some of the screws have worn loose. You can have it put in thorough repair for $2.50, j and make it good live years longer, and thereby | save $27.50, which will almost pay your fare to * I the World's Pair and return. 1- or further in1 formation apply to A. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. July 12 28 tf EXCELSIOR RUBBER STAMPS, DO you know that a RUBBER STAMP is a very useful article with which to mark your collars, cutis, shirts and handkerchiefs? Well, if you don't, it is time you wore learning. And it is also useful to merchants to stamp their wrapping paper, etc.; also useful to hotel ! clerks, bankers, druggists, postmasters, etc. I 1 have on hand some very tine specimens of type, : suitable for marking clothes, and also for stamping envelopes, letter heads, bill heads, statements, shipping tags, visitingand business cards, etc., which is at least equal to, or better than 75 per cent, of the ordinary "botch-work" of ama1 teur country printers. I also sell steel stamps, wax seals, seal presses, door plates, German silver key checks with name and address, and also badges for policemen, railroad conductors and porters. "SAFETY" PENCIL POCKETS. If you have a fountain pen ora pencil that you don't want to lose, you can keep from losing them by buying a "SAFETY" PENCIL Pot'KI ET. It only costs TWENTY-FIVE cents, and will save you the expense of buying so many , lead pencils. I I will bo pleased to till all orders given me, | Promptness and satisfaction guaranteed, i Address all orders to REG. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. 0. RELIABLE FIRE INSURANCE. We respectfully off^our servirtjs j Gho us a call at I our office in TitK Enqimhkk building. S. M. A L. GEO. GRIST, Agents. PIIOTOOP A PH fJALTFRV. Thoroughly fitted up with now i>ackg rounds, accessories, ?&e., and with a fine sky-Tight, 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 j 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 Libertv street, near the jail. J. K. SCHORR. KING'S MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL fFor Both Sexes. *= A THOROUGH AND PKACTIji CAL SCHOOL. Prepares for colh lege or business. Location is most healthful, society moral and refined. Prohibition prevails. Board in BUST private familcs only per month, while in clubs it will cost lint &>, TUITION from tM.'Hl to jt'l per month. Kali sessions begins AUGUST 21, lstk'l. For full particulars, address, J. A. MONKOK, A. M? Principal, King's Mountain, N. C. July 27 4t MAP OF YORK COUNTY. OWING to unavoidable ditlicutics in secur- / ing the necessary data, I have been unable * to finish my map ot York county within the time originally set. The work, however, is still being pushed forward as rapidly as possible, ami will be completed in due time. The map will be sold at the uniform price of three dollars per copy, and I shall be pi casts 1 to receive as many orders as possible by the time it is completed. The money is to be paid on delivery of the map, provided, of course, the work is all that is claimed for it. J. G. .McNl'LTY, Yorkvillo, S. ('. Juuc2S 2d tf UNDU.RTAKING. I AM handling a first class line of COFFINS AND UASKKTS which I will sell at the very 1 lowest prices. Personal attention at all hours. * I am prepared to repair all kinds of Furniture at reasonable prices. J. KD JKFFKRYS. January 4 1 tf l)lt I4SS-M A KING AND TAILORING. I CALL the attention of those interested, that I have added a DUKSS-M A KING DK PAllTMKNT TO MY TAILORING ANI> KKl'AIKING DKl'AHTM KNT, ami I will tic ylsul it* my lady friends will consult with me i before placing their work. All work delivered when promised. Work-room in the building north, and to the rear of Mr. JeH'erys'sUndertaking establishment. Mrs. HUODA L. FKUGl'SON. May hi lb tf AI > >11XI ST It A T<) It'S X (>T I CIO. VLL persons holding claims against the estate of WILLIAM WATSON, p. e., deceased, are hereby notified to present them to the . undersigned, duly authenticated, within the time prescribed by law. All persons indebted to the said estate will make immediate payment ' of the same. W. HRoWN WYI.IK, Administrator. [ July VI *Js :it