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|? Sfpattmmt. A Suggestion for a Poet.?Martin F.1 Tupper was at one time immensely popular,' both in England and America. Grace Green- j wood says of his poetry that it was of a ''brief \ though furious fashion," and she goes on to | illustrate his British inability to take an American joke by a story of his mystification by Senator Tom Corwin. One evening the two sat together at a public dinner, and Mr. Corwin proceeded to discourse on the divine art of poetry in a | manner delightfully absurd, but rather puzzling to a poet. "Why, Mr. Tupper," he asked, "do you poets always make the heart the seat of love? Now I should locate that passion in quite another organ?the liver." "Why, bless your soul, Mr. Corwin, you're not speaking seriously!" "Perfectly, my dear sir! For example, when a young man is in love, his heart is seldom affected, but his liver always is. He loses his appetite. If there are obstacles, he peaks and pines. You surely have observed it! Now, you poets ought to let the heart alone and deal with the liver. I would even have changes made in the old poems in accordance with physiological truth." "But, my dear sir, what about the rhyme and the rhythm ?" "Oh, those little things could be arranged. For instance, take the first two lines of Byron's 'Maid of Athens "Maid of Athens, ere wo part, Give, Oh ! give me back my heart." "Now, how simple the change and how satisfactory: "Maid of Athens, ere we sever, Give, Oh! give me back my liver." ?Youth's Companion. Supported by Scripture.?There are very few transactions for which some kind of authority cannot be unearthed, and the smart clerk at once found proof that he was supported by Scripture. A highly respectable firm of silk dealers, of which the principal was a Quaker, when engaging salesmen instructed them to engage in no sale which could not be supported by Holy Writ. The next day after he had engaged a newsalesman, a lady entered the shop for the purpose of buying some silk for a dress. The polite clerk showed her a sample at five shillings a yard, which was scornfully rejected as not good enough ; she wanted a better one, so he took this back and brought another, which was also rejected. The clerk said he had a very high-class silk, but he was afraid that the expense would be too great, but with her permission he would show it to her. He then fetched the high-class silk, which gave every satisfaction, and a dress piece was ordered from it. After the lady had left the shop, the salesman was severely interrogated by his Quaker master as t<? how he could support by a quotation from Scripture, the sale of a one" dollar silk for three dollars per yard, knowing full well that the piece he had sold to her was the identical piece which ne snoweu first. The clerk replied that he had kept his master's instructions fully before him, and as this was the first time the lady had ever entered the store, the sale was covered by the passage, "She was a stranger, and I took her in." The Joke on the Parent.?"Thanks," said the reverend doctor, 1 eking the match and lighting the cigar. "This reminds me of another match. Did you ever travel on one of those branch-line, independent, go-as-youplease Southern railways ? I did once, and the monotony was varied by a lovely incident. As we waited for the conductor at a station (he had stopped off to visit his family) a young couple came aboard in a hurry. Before long, we learned that they had eloped and were bound for Gretna Green just over the State line, where they didn't call for a license and other delays in marrying. They were greatly flustered because the irate parent was in pursuit, But finally the train got away without the parent appearing. I say got away, and mean that it left the station ; but the station you know wasn't uny kind of a racer. Finally the State line was passed and the long desired town was reached, and as we all alighted who do you suppose appeared ? None other than the irate parent. His patient mule had gone ahead, beaten the train, and there he stood (the parent, not the mule), a conquering hero, ready to intercept the two. We found he'd been waiting nearly thirty minutes." "But doctor," interrupted a listener, "why didn't you perform the ceremony on the train when you reached the State line ?" ? "I did, said the doctor, quietly. "That was the joke on the parent."?New York Sun. A Narrow Escape.?The tall, aged, sadlooking man ate a bountiful dinner at the restaurant, and then with a check calling lor seventy-five cents made his way to the cashier's desk. He banged down the check with a battered silver dollar, and looked sadder than ever. The cashier picked up the dollar, and examined it suspiciously. It had a deep dent on one side, and looked as though it had been plugged. At that moment the customer spoke: "It is very painful for me to part with that dollar. It saved my life once, however, and must do so again. At the j siege of Yicksburg I carried it in my vest pocket, and the dent you see there was made 1 by a bullet, which otherwise would have ! killed me. I have kept it since as a memo-j rial, and it wellnigh breaks my heart to let | it go; but I must?I have nothing else." 1'he cashier was plainly interested. "In j whc.c year was the siege of Yicksburg?" he j asked. "Sixty-three," said the sad man, promptly.: "And this dollar," returned the cashier, ! "is dated 1877, and is a counterfeit." The sad man looked annoyed. "Of course j it is," he replied. "How could I have an | 1877 dollar in '63 if it wasn't counterfeit?" j And the cashier was so dumfounded that I he passed out a quarter in change, and al-! lowed the sad man to escape.?Boston Herald. He Still Lives.?(ieneral Forrest, during the late war, was once approached by an Arkansas man, who asked : "General, when do you reekin' we're goin' to get something to eat?" "Eat!" exclaimed the general ; "did you joiu the army merely to get something to : eat?" "Wall, that's about the size of it." "Here," calling an officer, "give this man something to eat, and then have him shot." { The officer understood the joke, and replied : "All right, general," The Arkansas man, exhibiting no alarm, said: "Bile me a ham, cap'n, stew up a couple o' i chickens, bake two or three hoe-cakes, fetch a gallon o' so o' butter milk, and load yer guns. With sich inducements, the man , what wouldn't be willing to die is a blamed fool." A hearty meal was prepared for the soldier, but he still lives. Why in the Fourth Class.?In administering punishment in the navy different , penalties carry with them reduction to a \ lower conduct class. Of these there are four, the fourth being the lowest, and one placed 1 in it is deprived of shore leave for a period ! of three months. For some breach the exe- I cutive officer of the United States ship Ju-1 niati found it necessary to place a man on the fourth class, who decided to try to obtain a mitigation of his sentence. With this object in view, he sought and obtained an interview with the executive officer, when the following conversation ensued : "Well, L., you wanted to see me?" "Yes, sir, I did. I wanted to know Mr. B., why you put me on the fourth class ?" "Ah, you wanted to know why I put you on the fourth class, eh? Well, I'll tell you L., I put you on the fourth class because I hadn't a fifth class to put you on. Now, go forward." i He went. - ? Travklincin a Circlk.?"It is very in- j teresting," he said to the dyspeptic young man, "to observe the different names we have ; for the same thing." "Is it?" "Of course it i is," he went on with the persistence of a man of research. "Take 'lamb,' for in-1 stance. When it gets gets old it is called 'sheep.' " "Anybody knows that." "And I the sheep, after it is killed, is called 'mut- j ton.'" "You're getting right around to where you started from." "How ?" "When J your mutton is cooked and served in ourI boarding houses it becomes 'lamb' again." j IWaibJidc {gatherings:. 8?* "God is too kind to grunt all we ask.'' 8?' Forgiveness is a rose without a thorn. , 86?" Ceylon has cinnamon plantations covering 36,000 acres. 8?" Hats cost the American people $300,000,000 annually. 86?" Don't wait for somebody else to show you how to do right. 8?"Mark this: You don't have to be dis-1 agreeable to be good. 8i?" In the rock of Gibraltar there arc seventy miles of tunnels. 8?*" A vacation begins on a gold basis and ends with a silver panic. 86?*'Wine clarifiers in France use more; than 80.000.000 ecrsrs a vear. 86?" There is no nobler motives of action ; than the desire of-doing good. 86?" There is nothing easier to believe than a pleasing lie about ourselves. 8?* The outcome of a courtship nowadays is largely the question of income. 86?" The cotton acreage in India this year is 500,000 acres iess than last year. 8?* Every time the promise of God is tested somebody's faith is made stronger. 8?" Some people think that one good intention weighs raore'n a dozen bad acts. 8?" In a garden at Lexington, Fla., there are said to be 122 different varieties of roses. 8?* It is predicted that the Maine hay crop will exceed a million and a quarter tons. 8?* To seek a responsibility is a danger-! ous business; to shrink from one is none the less so. 86?" In 1783 Noah Webster printed the first spelling book ever manufactured in this country. 86?"Scepticism finds no meaning in life; but faith, hope and love find life very full of meaning. 86?" All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for what I have not seen, says Emerson. The United States has a less precent-: p L.l? ?1 4lw,n nno ntKnf nnuntrv in I age UI U1IUU pt'U}UC UlUll ail,) uuat vwv*?.v?j *U the world. VaF? In the early days of this century there were thirty-three tons of silver to one of gold in circulation. W8T There is many a wife whose husband belongs to the church who never suspects that he has religion. 46?" Since 1840 the world's production of meat has increased 57 per cent.; that of, grain 120 per'cent. 4?* Almost everybody has met with losses j these "hard times," but if your manhood is left you are still rich. 4?" Since the organization of Yale col- i lege, 15,350 students have graduated, of whom 7,80,0 are still living. 4?* We are less apt to criticise the extrav-. agances of others when we are made the' favored partakers thereof. 46T A type of firearm has been invented in ! England by which compressed gas is utilized | instead of powder as a propelling force. 46T The devil loves to hear a man talk in | church who will not pay his honest debts, j but an honest man he does not care to listen to. , 4?" It would be a heap easier for some : people to pay for a memorial window in n! church, than it would be to speak a kind word. I?" The bicycle fever has reached Paris, aid atone school alone 1,400 women and 15,000 men applied for lessons in sixteen months. lOT'Say nothing good for yourself, you will be distrusted : say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.?Joseph Koux. 46?" We must patiently suffer the laws of our condition ; we are born to grow old, to grow weak, to be weak, to be sick, in spite of all physic. 46?" The Chinese have a saying that "drunkenness does not produce faults, it discloses them, fortune does not change manners, it uncovers them." 4&"Iu the town of Flint, Mich., a man and his wife are candidates for school trustees on opposing tickets; the man a Republican and J his wife a Democrat. 8?* The most expensive fur is the skin of the black fox of Kamschatka. The animals j are scarce and hard to kill, and a single skin sells for about $1,000. #6T" If the peach crop reaches the present estimate of 5,000,000 baskets, it will be double the ordinarily good crop, and by far the largest ever gathered. eST" Caution to young men who are trying j to live at the rate of a thousand dollars a j year on a five-hundred-dollar salary : Two and two do not make five. SScff" "Mamma, didn't I hear you say that1 matches were made in heaven ?" "Yes, my dear." "Well, then, why do they keep the fire and brimstone in the other place?" 8@T Assuming the working age to be from twenty to thirty years, and counting only male workers, 440 persons in this country | live on the labor of every 100 workers. 8?* It has been calculated that the annual income of the London Hebrews is nearly ?5,000,000, which means that they are eight and ( one-quarter times richer than the (Jentiles. WST The assessment rolls for New York city this year show nearly two billion dollars' worth of taxable property, and an increase of $57,(577,71)0 in landed values in one year. 8^" "What in the name of Jupiter have you sewed up all the pockets in my overcoat for?" "Dearest, I have an important letter to my milliner that I wish you to mail." fife?" Russian women do not advocate the abolition of smoking on the cars. The gov-1 eminent has recently ordered that smoking I compartments for ladies shall be provided on all trains. 8ST Whenever a newspaper man gets so he can please everybody, his usefulness on this earth will he cut oil", for right there he will he gently wafted on angel's wings to the heaven of rest beyond. 8fciEC A Kansas City man the other day took out a license for a dog named Christopher Columbus. And the license clerk made the , transaction historically complete by number-1 ing the license 1,41)5. BfcSr The net revenue of the New York post office over and above all expenses the last fiscal year, was $4,700,947.84. The total number of pieces of mail matter of all kinds handled during the year was 1,307,254,4(50. 8?* "Mr. Williams, I dun saw yo' comin' out oh a saloon yesterday. I am s'prised at yo', so I am." "Miss Johnsing, look here. | Did yo'expec'me t'nebher cum out? De Lawd's sake! I lied t' cum out sometime." Catarrhal affections arc almost unknown among Quakeresses. This freedom from a disease common among other people is believed to be due to the fact that the Quaker bonnet protects the back of the head and neck from cold air. B^aT" Scientific analysis shows that nervousness in a cow increases the percentage of butter-making qualities in the milk. The percentage under normal conditions is about 41, hut under the excitement it sometimes rises to 12 per cent. SfeiT "Brethren," said a preacher, when the collection was being made, "perhaps one of you will be good enough to put a needle and thread in the hag. so that I may be enabled to make some use of the buttons with which you are all so liberal." 8fatT'',Looky here," said farmer Begosh, in a Chicago restaurant, "can't 1 get anything to eat on this meal ticket ?" "What kind of ticket is it?" asked the waiter. "It's a season ticket." "All right ; help yourself. Here they are; salt, pepper, vinegar, and mustard." Bk?T The Sunday law is said to be very strict in Pennsylvania. It is reported that ail Italian living in Johnstown attempted to remove his trunk and valise from one boarding house to another on Sunday, and was .,,,,1 c.iw.,1 fun I- il nil mix for desecration ill I WIVU UIIU IIIIV ' ?V?1? of the Sabbath. ?aF*" Dudely? I want an elegant suit, something stunning, donteher know? How long will it take you to make it? Tailor?Three days. '*And it will cost?" "Seventy-live dollars." "All right. I'll give you my note at sixty days. When shall I come to try on the suit." "Come in sixty-three days." ?a?" Travelers in arctic regions sav the physical effect of cold there is as follows: Fifteen degrees above, unpleasantly warm ; zero, mild; 10 degrees below, bracing; -0 degrees below, sharp, but not severely cold : '50 degrees below, very cold ; 40 degrees below, intensely cold ; 50 degrees below, a struggle for life. i 4W the jitae tfivcte. "DRINK IT? NEVER!" It was a gay, convival entertaiment. Mabel Howard had been united to the man of her choice. Many young people were assembled and all were enjoying themselves greatly. The ruby contents of the wine cup Hashed ruddily in the light, and lent a glow to many a manly check, and made many a maiden's eye sparkle with brilliancy. ! Few were there who hesitated to sip the sparkling fluid. Perhaps the most beautiful being in the whole assembly was Mabel Howard, who had just become the wife of Hugh Harrison. She was a lady of most attractive form and features, admired by all and respected for tier strength of character and nobility of nature. A friend led her to the table, and pouring out a glass of wine from the decanter, ofi'ered it to her, inviting her to drink with him. Mabel took the glass nnd*holding it at arm's length, and pointing at the sparkling wine, she exclaimed : "Drink it! Drink that which has been the cause of so much misery to me? Once I had a noble and generous father. No nobler man existed than he. Admired, respected and honored by all for his talents and manly beauty, he was nevertheless ruined by the demon?drink. Lower and lower he fell, until he became a miserable sot?a disgrace to humanity. And now he fills a drunkard's grave. One day frenzied by this, this which you ask me to drink, he struck my darling mother?his own wife?a fierce blow, and felled her to the ground. She never rose again?for he killed her! And yet you asked me to drink this! This, which has brought so much woe to me! This, which has destroyed the happiness of so many wives and daughters, and mothers! This, which has ruined so many noble men! This, which is a curse and nothing but a curse to society ! Drink it? Never !" And she dashed the goblet to the ground and broke it into a thousand pieces. A solemn silence rested on the assembly. Surprise and astonishment were visible on every countenance. The wine was removed and never again was it seen on the table of that mansion. From that evening many a man, accustomed to imbibe sparkling wine, refused ever afterwards to touch the ruinous wine cup.?Golden Censer. To hk Kememhkreij in* the Home.?It is better to be silent than to say unwise or unkind things. Do not boast of birth, wealth, influential friends or bodilv nrowess. V & Look at those who address you ; but in j speaking to others do not stare at them. Remember that a servant is a man or a woman, and will appreciate treatment as J such. A compliment to be appreciated by any | sensible person, must he prompted by sincerity Never urge another to do anything against his desire, unless there is danger before him.! Never enter an apartment occupied by I another person, except the common rooms j of a dwelling, without knocking. Ladies should pass through a door first,! but a gentleman is to precede in going up | stairs. I)o not constantly refer to experiences or j honorable positions which may have been enjoyed. Always give preference to elders, visitors, those of superior position and those who are weak or ill. Do not forget a kind word to each member of the family on parting at night or a pleasant greeting on meeting in the morning. Do not depreciate the gift which you give, nor laud immoderately that which is received ; in each case it is the sentiment which prompts the ollering that is vastly more precious than that which is oHercd. A gentleman never indulges in winks or grimaces when talking with another, does not talk "shop" or business outside of business hours; never laughs at his own jokes, or at coarseness, profanity or indelicacy from others; never intentionally wounds the feelings of another, or brings a blush to the cheek of modesty. Talking With God.?Prayer is based j upon the presumption that God can commit-1 nicate directly with us. We speak to God and God speaks back to us. This ripens into lifelong converse, in which the Father treats His children to extraordinary revelations in the , things of God, not miraculous, not outwardly marvelous and spectacular, but profoundly experimental and hallowing. It opens up and makes known the unspeakable in re- j ligion. It is a close and familiar walk with j God, a life hid with Christ in God?a "partaking of the Divine nature." But we must guard ourselves at this point against a dangerous extreme, an irreverent, profane fanaticism. It. is the arroirant and false assump-: tion that we are told directly and unmistak- j ably what to do, where to go and what to say. j * * * God speaks to believers; but how ? I I answer, through J lis Word, His providences, His ministers, and through direct i impressions made upon the 'mind by His Spirit; not in any case so as to displace our ; judgment, our will, our choices, or our re-1 sponsibility. Hence it is blasphemy for any ; one to willfully do indiscreet and wrong) acts and hold God reponsible for them. God will forgive your irreverence and folly, but never sanction it; and because j such impiety can he avoided He holds usj responsible for it. If it be persisted in, it becomes sin and puts the soul in peril. It is 1 as much the duty of a leader of a meeting' to correct false teaching and irregular conduct as to stimulate.devotion and spread) holiness. The cause of Christ has been much ! injured by the whims of unattached and irresponsible persons. They assume to rise into ethereal regions above sects and denom-; illations, and say and do not what the church or any human authority advises, but what God directly tells them to do and say. Such extravagance should be corrected by those who write, preach, or conduct services for the enlightenment, cleansing and edilica (ion of precious souls.?Dr. Asbury Lowrey. ^ ? If ha i) This, liovs.?A gentlemen advertised for a boy to assist him in his ofliee, and nearly fifty applicants presented themselves 1 to him. Out of the whole number he in a short time selected one and dismissed the rest. "I should like to know." said a friend, "on j what ground you selected that hoy, who had not a single recommendation?'' "You are mistaken,'' said the gentleman ; [ "he had a great many, lie wiped his feet when he came in, and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful. He gave ; up his seat instantly to that lame old man, showing that lie was kind and thoughtful. He took oil' his cap when lie came in and answered my questions promptly, showing that he was polite and gentlemanly, lie picked up the hook which I had purposely laid upon the floor, and replaced it upon the table, while all the rest stepped over it or shoved 1 it aside: and he waited quietly for his turn, instead of pushing and crowding, showing that he was honorable and orderly. When I talked with him I noticed that his clothes were carefully brushed, his hair in nice or-; der, and when he wrote his name I noticed that his finger nails were clean instead of being tipped with jet, like that handsome little fellow in the blue jacket. Don't you call those things letters of recommendation ? I do: and I would give more for what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes ten minutes than all the letters he can bring me." - Thk Hoys.?"You can't keep boys quite straight, you know. They must have a chance to sow their wild oats." Must? A ! word from satan's vocabulary ! Look ahead a few years. There he goes?young boy! swearing, swaggering, coarse, obscene ! You hope he will marry and sober down ! Yes, if some pure girl will pour the fullness of her sweet life into the turbid stream of his, there is a bare chance that he may lie saved. How much better to have trained him to the right when you had him under your hands! In the outset he was not unlike his sister in morals. You held her to the proprieties and decencies, while you let him run at his own will in the paths of misdeed. Now, in purity of life, they are leagues apart. There are as many boys as girls in the infant classes of our Sunday-schools; but not one-half as many boys as girls in the Bible classes. Women outnumber men in the church two to one. In the State prisons men outnumber women tifiv to one. This sad proportion tolls its own story.?(iospcl Toaelior. Bwy If you olimh to any high place in this world do not forgot the point from which you started, nor tin* friends who helped you ion the way. i ilif ^tovii ?rUcr, SCENE IX A JURY ROOM.) I once had the extreme felicity of leaving iiny business to serve upon "the jury." I | pleaded in all manner of ways for release, I but to no eftect. I could not swear that I was deaf, nor blind, nor yet 11011 compos; but did tell them that I had already formed-an ' opinion. They asked me if my opinion | would prevent me from receiving the testi-! mony in good faith, and rendering a verdict ( ' ' T i:_.i Ii,?? ?! T according 10 ll. I rcpuuu Uiia UI luiiisu j should weigh the evidence carefully, and be governed by it. I was then informed that I "would do.'' The case to be tried was one of arson?then a capital offense?and the prisoner at the ! bar was a young man named Charles Ambold, j whom I had known from boyhood, and who j was naturally one of the finest youths of the i town where he resided. He had a widowed ; mother who depended upon him for support, and his circle of friends was large and choice, j I was morally certain that he did not commit I the crime, and hence, I am sure, those who | were friendly to him got me on the panel, j and had me retained. The trial commenced and we twelve men took our seats in the jury box. I had a very i respectable set with me?only there was j one whom I didn't like to see there. This J man was Moulton Warren. He was a dark [ faced sinister looking fellow?at least to me. i I knew that young Ambold had one fault, j He had been recently addicted to drink, and ; had been known to visit disreputable houses, i It was one of those houses that had been j burned, for setting fire to which he had been } apprehended. Now, I had often tried to dissuade Charles | Ambold from the course he was pursuing. [ He had repeatedly promised me that he would reform, and as repeatedly had he broken j away. I had often talked to him of his poor j mother, until he had wept like a child ; but; the effect was not lasting. There was a pow- j er of temptation more effective than any in- j fluence I could wield. He would fall away ! into this evil companionship, and for a while his manhood was gone. One or two j abandoned women had gained great power j over him, and upon them he wasted much of I his substance. And I knew that this very man who was ! now upon the jury?this Moulton Warren? j was the one who had done more than all i others to lead the poor youth away. It was Warren who had drank with him, and ! who had led him away to those more abominable haunts of sin and pollution. Whywas he upon the jury ? I could only account for it upon the ground that Charley still supposed him to be his friend. The poor scorched insect was still ignorant of the flame that scorched him. lie really be-j lieved that Moulton Warren was his friend.! The trial commenced. The indictment1 set forth that Charles Ambold had, "with | malice aforethought," and with all sorts of wicked and felonious intents, set fire to a j certain dwelling house, thereby endangering, human life. This dwelling, as I have al-! ready intimated, was alow sink of iniquity, j where the abandoned of both sexes were i wont to congregate; and where the youthful prisoner had spent much of his time. The evidence for the prosecution came on,1 and I was startled. One after another gave j in their testimony, some of them very re- j luctantly, and I was frightened when I saw i how plainly it all pointed to the prisoner as I the guilty party. Several credible witnesses j swore that they had heard him threaten to i burn the house down ; and others had heard , him say repeatedly that he wished it was | burned down ! Then came several witness- j es?three of the prominent citizens?who saw him lurking about the premises 011 the | night of the fire. With regard to the provocation on the prisoner's part for such a deed, it was proved, upon his own admission, that he hud been ill-treated there and that he had sworn to have revenge. And furthermore, it was proved that lie had been heard to say that his salvation of soul and body depended up-! on the destruction of that house. Xext1 came more testimony stronger still. The lire hr.l been set in a back basement j room where shavings and other stuff for | kindling were kept. Entrance had been! gained through a back window, which had J been partly pried open with a stout knife : which had been broken off in trying to raise j it fthesash.l The blade was recognized as I belonging to the prisoner's knife ! A maker of cutlery bad made a knife to order for Am- ; bold only a month previous, and lie knew the blade at once and swore to it. But this was not all. The fire had been evidently set first to the shavings which lay ; upon the stone floor, but piled up against a, wooden partition. This floor was damp, and i some of the outer shavings, even, were not j wholly burned up. But just at the edge, [ where the fire commenced, lay a piece of; paper, rolled up, and about half burned, and , from the manner in which it lay, it was > very evident that the fire had been set with j it. This piece of rolled paper had been ig- j nited by a match, a number of which were ; scattered around, and as soon as it was on I fire it had been laid upon the lloor, with 1 the burning end just in the shavings. Of course these shavings were in a blaze instantly ; but the paper torch being upon the damp stones, had not burned wholly up. And this paper was found to be a part of a letter belonging to the prisoner. A letter which he had received from a friend of his, (and a friend of mine) only a week before! That friend had to come forward and swear that the piece of charred paper was a part of a letter he had written to the prisoner !, This friend's name was*Stephen Grant. He : was a young merchant, and the letter had j been written for the purpose of inducing I Ambold to reform. Stephen tried hard to avoid testifying, for he knew, as did others, that the fire must have been set with that identical paper; but he was summoned, and j he could not deny his own chirography. The case looked dark. Many witnesses j were willing to testify to the prisoner's good I qualities; but no one could swear that lie was not dissipated and degraded. That house had been to him indeed, a region in-1 fernal. Its degradation cried out for his bodily life : ami its existence had long been eating away his soul. Boor Charley ! I' had before been sure of his innocence; but j now I could only shake my head and pity j him! Finally he was allowed to speak for him-; self, lie said he was innocent of the crime! imputed to him. He said that he had threat- j ened to burn that house down?that he had said all that had been sworn to. And furthermore, he was around the house on the night I of the file. He was not ten rods off when the flames burst forth and he was one of the first to g.ve the alarm. He had uttered one cry of lire when he noticed where the flames must have originated, and tlie tnougat came ; to him if he were found there, lie might he j suspected of having set the lire; so lie ran away, lie also said that three nights before j the conflagration, he had been robbed in that house. I lis pockets had been emptied ofi everything in them, and his pockct-book containing forty dollars in money, and some valuable papers, had been taken, lie had; gone theve on the night of the lire to try and persuade them to give him back his money and papers?or at least to get back what he could. When he got there lie saw a man go in whom he did not wish to see, so he had hung around, waiting for him to depart. He was around by the back of the building once? and that was an hour before the lire broke out. i He knew nothing?nothing, lie clasped his hands, and with his tearless eyes raised toward heaven, he called to Hod to witness that he was innocent! I have told that I knew him well. I knew 1 him so well, that from that moment I knew him to be innocent! I knew his very soul ? I knew how free and open it was?all, how sinfully so ! I knew there was no falsehood ! in the story he told us. "My boy is innocent! My boy is innoi cent !" I heard the cry?and I saw an old woman sink back into the arms of a male companion, j It was his poor mother! Her heart was well nigh broken ! Vet I saw that all this had but little ell'ect upon the mass of spec-j .... .... 'im... oiiiiki' nf ft i?i t i;ifiitn I lillUIT*. 1 11V |?Hf)UIIV.? n VWM..-V J., Jiis many threats against the house, ami the very fact of his having heen robbed and abused there were heavy against him. The counsel for the prisoner made his speech, which was labored and hard, lie was foolish enough to intimate that if his client was around at the hack part of the | house more than once, he must have heen I intoxicated. In short, his plea had better. , been left out. The evidence he could not I shake, and he did all he could to suppose j evidence, some of it most absurd and ridiculous. I afterwards learned that Moultou Warren engaged that lawyer for the youthful prisoner! The government's attorney made his plea. It was plain, straightforward and very conclusive. The judge finally gave his charge, lie was fair and candid. He reviewed the evidence carefully and pointed out such as bore heavily upon the case. He told us if there was a lingering doubt in our minds we must give the prisoner the benefit of it. Hut I could plainly sec that there was no doubt in his mind. We, the jury, were conducted to our room In- on nllii'iT !ind there lneked lin A si lence of some minutes ensued. Moulton Warren was the first to speak : "Well," he said, "I s'pose there's no need of our iK'in' here a great while. Of course we all know that the prisoner must have set fire to the house!" There was something in the manner of that man as lie said this that excited my curiosity?I won't say it was suspicion then ? only curiosity. He spoke with a forced effort at calmness which I at once perceived. The more I looked at him the more T became strangely nervous and uneasy ; wondered why lie should he so anxious to be rid of the case and have Ambold convicted. I knew that he had frequented that evil house, and that lie had done so much toward helping Charley to dissipation. I knew he was in that house on the night on which the prisoner was robbed?for Charley had told me so when I visited him in his cell. I had then asked the unfortunate youth if he was sure Warren was his friend. (), he was sure of it. He should have hunted hira up on the night of his robbery, only they told him Warren had gone. By the by, the foreman proposed that we should each take up a piece of paper and write down our opinion, and then compare notes. I went to my hat, which I had placed upon a table with a number of others, and took out a sheet of paper. I had got half way back to the table when I found I had made a mistake. I had got part of a letter from another man's hat. I was about to turn back when the name of the writer of the letter arrested my attention. I looked more closely, and read?"Stephen Grant." Next I caught this sentence: "And now dear Charles, if not for your own, yet for your mother's sake, let me hope you will do better." I started as though a shot had struck me. I held in my hand the other half of the sheet which had been used to fire the burned house ! I went to the table and found that I had taken it from Moulton Warren's hat! I looked to see if I had been observed?and I had not. I put the paper back, and then took a piece from my own hat, which was of the same pattern as the other, and by its side. I returned to the table and sat down. Warren was by my side. He had written his opinion and took a knife from his pocket to cut it from the large sheet. "Get me take your knife a moment, if you please,'7 I said to him. Without hesitation lie did so. I took it? it was Charles Ambold's knife!?the large blade was gone ! With all the power I possessed, I restrained my deep emotions, and having cut my paper I handed back the knife. Why should lie have the knife so boldly about him? I afterwards learned. lie had not worn those pantaloons before since the night of the fire; and now he used the knife, probably, without the least remembrance of the loss it had sustained during a very peculiar piece of work, to the execution of which it was subservient. We talked for some ten minutes, and I found that eleven of the jury were bent on rendering a verdict of guilty ; though most of them were in favor of recommending the prisoner to mercy. Moultou Warren was decided. He had no mercy at all. Presently I started up and pretended to be faint. I said I must go out a few moments. I kicked at the door and the deputy sherilfeame. lie heard my plea and let me out. As soon as we had gained a safe distance, I told him all. He was astonished. He went away, and when he came bock he brought the district attorney and the district judge and the sheriff. I told again what I had seen?I assured them that I knew what I had seen?that it was no mere suspicion. And I explained, too, Warren's manner in Ihe jury room, his former connection with the prisoner, and his known character. The officers went away and at the end of ten minutes they returned with a constable added to their number, and this constable had a freshly written instrument in his hand. The sheriff bade me point out the hat to them as soon as we entered the room. The door of the room was opened, and I nn'tvtn/l lif.in 1 n t ll f? tlllf Tllf> sllPI'lff tfiok it and asked whose it was. Warren leaped to his feet and seized it, hut he was held back. Word was instantly sent to the judge that the jury could not agree. They were discharged, and then Moulton Warren was searched. The knife was found upon him, and his behaviour at once exposed his guilt. The presence of that letter was accounted for by him in a dozen different ways within an hour. A new jury was empanneled, and Charles Ambold was acquitted. Shortly afterwards, Warren was tried, audit was plainly proved that he had set fire to the house, and the woman who kept it was to have been burned up in il, as he had contrived to lock her into her rocun shortly after setting the fire. She had incurred his displeasure in various ways, and this was his revenge. Not only she, but two of her girls had suspected him from the first,\ hut they dared not complain, for fear he would not be convicted, and would then be sure to murder them. The hardened villain confessed his guilt after he had been condemned, and then it was that lie told how he happened to be so careless in regard to the paper and knife. It was lie who had robbed Ambold, and when he took t he old letter from his hat to use for a torch in setting the fire, he did not notice what it was, and even when that partly burned half had been exhibited in court, he had entirely forgotten that he had torn oil' the other half and put it back in his hat, as he must have done. The letter had been found in Am hold's pocket book, and he had kept it because in it the youth was warned against his influence. He confessed that he held a slight idea of calling the writer to account when it should lie convenient. With regard to the knife, it was as I before stated. He took that also from Ambold's pocket, and put it in his own ; and on the night of the fire he used it to pry up the sash, and when he had broken it he put it in his pocket and forgot it. Thus was Charley saved?and saved from more than an ignominious death, too. He was saved to lie a noble, virtuous man ; and his mother once more took ample delight and jov in the love and tender care of her \J IIB^ Villi'*. When Charles Amliohl knew that Moulton Warren had expiated his crime on the gallows, iie sat down and pondered upon his past past life. The thought of his old companions being hanged sent a strange thrill through his frame. Hut he was able to trace out clearly and logically, this terrible result from the course of life this ill-fated man had pursued. He shuddered as he remembered how far he had gone in the same course himself; and he was able to see the only safe path for any youth. Not only must he shun temptation?not only keep clear of even the appearance of vice?but, above all be must shun evil companionship. A youth may make all the good resolutions thought can allbrd, but if he continue one evil companionship, he is not safe! FPR I?* 1 ;f?l ^AKlK15 POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar linking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.?f.atest I'. S. Government Knoll Kejiort. Hoy a I. Ha kino I'oWDKit Co., I()(i Wall St., N. V. FOR THE SUMMER CAMPAIGN. WK want our friends, the club makers, to continue to work j for Thk Enquirkr during the spring, summer and early fall of this year, and I in order to make it worth their while i to do so, we have decided to make them liberal offers, and we do it with the assurance that they will be received with enthusiasm. We will offer one ; LEADING PREMIUM, besidessever! al smaller ones, which will be awarded ! to the club-makers who may return j and pay for the clubs of yearly sub! crrihrrs IWvvppii APKTT. c iXnr i ANI) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24! | 1893, at 3 o'clock p. 111., as stated be1 low. I We have for a number of years been in the habit of using Buggies as premiums, and experience has taught us that such a premium meets with general approval. At first we offered Cincinnati Buggies, worth about $55, but found that while they were all that I was claimed for them, they were not jof a grade that fully met the requirements of this section, and our two last 1 offers in Buggies have been the product : of our own "Carolina Buggy Company," which is acknowledged to be a leader in the manufacture of high grade 1 vehicles. These buggies met with the endorsement of our friends. They knew that the winner of the buggy i would get something of which any ! man might well be proud. Fully rej alizing the standing and reputation of 'the "Carolina," we have arranged to | offer one of the Company's best j $90.00 Open Buggies I as a premium to the club maker who returns and pays for the largest 1111111| ber of subscribers between the dates , named above. Last year we offered one premium i for the summer campaign, but this ; year we propose to give everybody a 1 chance. We will award a $25 watch I?either Elgin or Waltham niovej meiit?in an open face coin silver case, j to every club maker who may return i and pay for SIXTY or more yearly subscribers between the dates fixed for the opening and closing of the contest. For every club of FORTY or more, and less than sixty, we will give one 7 jewel Elgin watch in an open face dust proof silver case, worth $13. For every club of THIRTY, and less than forty yearly subscribers, we will award one New York Standard watch ! in a dust proof open face coin silver case, worth $10. For every club of TWENTY and less than thirty subscribers, we will award one New York Standard watch in an open face uickle case; worth $7. For every club of TEN we will send The Enquirer for one year as com: pensation. For every club of FIVE and less than ten, we will give one twenty-four j hour nickle alarm clock, valued at \Si-75I In case a club maker who may reI turn 60, 40, 30, 20, 10, or 5 names should win the buggy, said club maki er will not be entitled to any other # J j premium. CONDITIONS. In this contest OLD and NEW sub scribers count tlie same, but the name ' of 110 subscriber now 011 our list, whose i subscription expires after October 24, j 1893, can be entered 011 any club I maker's list to be counted in compe: tition for any of the premiums offered I under this proposition. The following are the classes that will count: 1. Those who have never been ! subscribers. ? 2. Those who have at any time in the past been subscribers, but whose names are not now 011 our list. 3. Those whose names are now 011 our list, but whose subscripI tions expire? before October 24, 11893. The regular club price of $1.75 must ! be paid for all yearly subscribers. In this contest, TWO six months' subscriptions at $1.00 each will be considered the equivalent of one ycari ly subscriber at $1.75, and so counted. The propositions contained in the J above are open to even-body 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 I be desired will be furnished 011 application. L. M. GRIST, i Yorkville, S. C. I THE KING OF ! BIKES IS THE MONARCH. oM^ t h; 11 woii t 11^' iiii i iortant j weighs, all on, .'til pounds. MONAHCHS alI ways "got there" and the following are a few of the reasons: I They are the llest Designed. They arc the Highest (trade. They are Sclentifically Constructed. I They are the I.ightcst Running l?y ;t:i per cent. They are the Most Hlcgaiit. They are tlic Most Durable. They are the Finest Finished. I They arc the today Cycle for today People. I1I.V.I.I Hi r* n it v I /icy uri' H ncnuuii; iimji ?. ? ,...J Weight of Kidcr. i It' yim arc going to riilc a bicycle can you aiivaiicc any plausible reason why you should ride anything hut a MONARCH? You can propel yourself with ONK-TIIIKD less exertion 011 a Monarch than any other machine, and this i is because i>f the superiority of the Monarch j bearings, which are controlled by the Monarch j Cycle Company and used KXCLl'SIVKLY on their machines. There is a difference of opinion , as to which is the best tire made and also as to saddles, but you can get any saddle or tire J you want 011 a Monarch. Of course there are J other good wheels on the market, but always bear in mind that the Monarch is King of Rij cycles. The Lady's Monarch is the finest wheel J for ladies yet nroduced. Catalogue, prices and ! terms furnished 011 application. SAM M. (J HIST, York villi', S. Agent for York and Chester counties. | DKKSS-MAkING AM) TAILORING. I CALL the attention of those interested, that I have added a DKKSS-M A KINO RKI'ARTMKNT TO MY TAILOR I NO AND j RKRAIRINO DKl'ARTMKNT, and I will be glad if my huly friends will consult with ine I before placing their work. All work delivered j when promised. Work-room in the building 1 north, and to the rear of Mr. Jetferys'sI'nder j takills' establishment. Mrs. ltlinDA U KKlUil'SON. I May 10 10 If % for Infants ai ______ " faatoriaia so well adapted to children that | I recommend it as superior to any prescription l.imwii tome." II. A. Archer, M. I)., HI So. Oxford St., Jlrooklyn, N. Y. "Tlio uso of 'Castoria it so universal and i:s merits so well known that it seems a work i f sii|HTero^aiiou to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." C'aumis Maiityn, J). I)., New York City. The ('kntacr Cot VAN WINKLE GIN A? ATLANTA, MANUFAC THE best system for elevating and distributing been awarded to us. Write for catalogue and WK CAN HAVE VAX WINKLE (ilX A> May 31 GARRY IRO?vT ROC j Manufactures all kinds of tpi IRON ROOFING, | CKIMPED AND OOllHt'GATKD SIDtNfJ, Iron Tile or Shingle. ; FIKK CROOK DOOMS, SIII'TTKHS, THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 01 | Reorders received by L M. GRIST. ityfoFFORD QoLLEC SI'AKTANItriUJ, K. C. August 2 ; ^?? ' Til|? STATU OF SOUTH C AROLINA, County of York. ^ IN TICK COURT OK COMMON IM.KAS. | J. W. Rliyne, Plaintitl', against J. R. Ross; The Wilson Drug company, a corporation r duly organized and created under the laws of North Carolina; The J. W. Copeland j company, a corporation duly organized and j created under the laws of South Carolina; | . Julius Edell and David Edell, as EdeRL Brothers; J. R. Smith and R. JIuxthal, Jr., j j partners in trade under the firm name of J. [ R. Smith and company; J. W. Craddock, L A. P. Craddock, T. M. Terry and Max ( '(iuggenheimer, partners under the linn ^ name of Craddock, Terry and company; j , Weisiger Clothing company, a corporation , duly organized and created under the laws j of Virginia; R. M. Rose, I. M. Potts and ^ Harvey Potts, partners under the firm . name of The R. M. Rose company; W. A. , Russell, The Weisiger Clothing company, a corporation duly organized and created ; * under the laws of Virginia; Egbert G. * Leigh Jr. and William A. Palmer, doing ' business as Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. and company; W. Nick Redford, W. Nick Red ford; Wingo, Ellett and Crump Shoe company, a i j eorjioration duly organized and created un-1 ^ der the laws of Virginia; Wingo, Ellett and I Crump Shoe company, (names of individual j ( partners unknown); George D. Thaekston | and James O. Martin, partners trading un- j der the firm name and style of George I). ! Thaekston and company; Russell Alsop and J. R. Mosby, heretofore trading as partners as Alsop, Mosbv and company; | Geo. A. Smith and T. L. Courtney, Jr., formerly partners in business under the firm I name of Smith and Courtney; K. H. Dean and J. A. Addison, partners in trade un- der the firm name of F. II. Dean and 0 company; L. C. Younger; Francis Bin-1 , thenthal and Monroe L. Rickhart, do- ' ing imsiness under the firm name of Rlu- 1 thenthal and Rickhart; John R. Carv, L. ' F. Loch, J. S. Locb, I>. A. Locb, doing 1 business under the firm name of Loeb -j1 Brothers and company, Defendants.?Summons for Foreclosure of Real Property. ' Complaint not Served. i, To the Defendants; J. R. Ross; The Wilson { Drug company, a corporation duly organi- 1 zed and created under the laws of North x Carolina; The J. W. Copcland company, a * corporation duly organized and created un- j der the laws of South Carolina; Julius Edell !l and David Edell as Edell Brothers; J. It. i Smith and R. Iluxthal, Jr., partners in | trade under the firm name of J. R. Smith i and company; J. W. Craddock, A. P. Crad- t dock, T. M. Terry and Max <Iuggenheimer, I I partners under the firm name of Craddock, \ Terry and company; Weisiger Clothing l company, a corporation duly organized and created under the laws of Virginia; R. M. 1 Rose, I. M. Potts and Harvey Potts, partners under the firm name ot The R% M. | I Rose company ; W. A. Russell, The Weisiger Clothing company, a corporation disorganized and created under the laws of Virginia; E. G. Leigh, Jr., and William A. \ 1 Palmer, doing business as Egbert G. Leigh J Jr. and company; W. Nick Redford, W. r Nick Redford ; Wingo, Ellett and Crump I Shoe company, (name of partners unknown), i a corporation duly organized and created I under the laws of Virginia; George D. i Thaekston and James O. Martin, partners 5 trading under the firm name and style of i: George D. Thaekston and company; Rus- f oil Alsop and J. R. Mosby, heretofore trad- 7 ' ing as partners as Alsop, Mushy and com-11 pauy; George A. Smith and T. L. Court- t ney, Jr., formerly partners in business under 1 tlu*! firm name of Smith and Courtney; I*. c 1 tr Iv 1 T t liUlluAM IVkrtlWrtM ill V 11. I'I'ilH 1111(1 ! ;\t ... trade under the firm name of F. H. Dean i j and company; L. ('. Younger; Francis t Bluthenthal and Monroe L. Biekhart, doing f business under tlit* linn name of Bluthenthal t and Biekhart; John It. ('ary, L. F. Loch, c J. S. Loch, D. A. Loob, doing linsincss nil- j j: der the lirin name of Loob Brothers and s j company. j "TT'OFare hereby summoned ami required to ' i J. answer the complaint in this action, of { which a copy is herewith tiled in the ollice of;'1 j the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for; j the said county of York, and to serve a copy ; ' of your answer to the said complaint on the! I subscriber at his ollice in Blaeksburg, ?S. C., with- _ I in twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive ! ' of the day of such service; and if you fail to I answer tin* complaint within the time aforesaid, > I the plaintiff in this action will apply to the court s for the relief demanded in the complaint. I Dated at Yorkville, S. ('., July l.'tth, A. D., lstKt. ( \V. It. tiK LOACH, IMaintitls's Attorney. I Attest: \V. IIhiiwn Wyi.ik, C. C. ('. Pis. | s To the Absent Defendants, The Wilson Drug * i company, a corporation duly organized and . created under the laws of North Carolina; The J. W. Copeland coumany, a corporation dulv organized and created under the laws qf South i Carolina; Julius Kdell and David Kdell, as I Kdell brothers: J. K. Ninitli ami U. I luxuiai, .?r., i partners in tram? niuler the firm name of.I. R. j Smith and company; J. W. ('ruddock, A. n P. Craddoek, T. >1. Terry and Max (luggenlieiiner, partners under the tirm name of ('rad'dock, Terry and company; Weisiger Clothing, 1 e(.mpany, a eorponttion duly organized and j i created under the laws of Virginia; R. M. Rose, " I. M. Potts and Harvey Potts, partners under the ti ; tirm name of The R. M. Rose company ; W. A. ti Russell; The Weisiger Clothing company, a ii ! corporation duly organized and ercjiteo under v | the laws of Virginia; Hubert <!. I.eigh, Jr. and lj Win. A. Palmer, doing business as Kgbcrt (i. c Leigh, Jr., and company ; W.Nick Redford, W. o 1 Nick Redford ; Wingo, KUett and Crump Shoe 'I company, a corporation duly organized and p j created "under the laws of Virginia; Wingo, e j Kllett and ('rump Shoe company, a corporation J duly organized and created under the laws of I Virginia; (ieorge 1). Thaekston and .lames " O. Martin, partners trailing under the tirm ! name of (ieorge 1>. Thaekston and company ; Russell Alsop and J. R. Mushy, heretofore j trailing as partners as Alsop, Mosby and j company; (ieorge A. Smith and T. I,. Courtney, Jr., formerly partners in business under (the tirm name of Smith and Courtney; F. ' I II. Dean and J. A. Addison, partners in ( | trade under the tirm name of F. II. Dean and J company; L. C. Younger; Francis Rluthenthal and Monroe L. Rickhart, doing business under | the tirm name of Rluthenthal and Rickhart; John R. Carv, I.. F. Loch, J. S. I.oeb, D. A. Loch, doing business under the tirm name of ! l.ocb brothers and company. J NOTICIO. Take notice that the complaint herein was j tiled in the otliee of the clerk of court of j common picas and general sessions, at York r j court house, on the With day of July, A. 1>., IMi't. W. R. dk hOACIl, Plaintiff's Attorney. s i Yorkville, S. ('., Julv IJth, A. I>., isH't. o ! Julv 11) ' 2!) (it I : w I1(US ll/uni .11. nimnn I HON" KINO, Elmo, Star, (Jneen Cooking f Stoves and Kanjjes. All made l?v Charles I Noldc A* Co. Also a line of low priced Stoves at 1 | (J. II. O'LEAHY'S. i nd Children. Castoria cures Coiie, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Plarrhcpa, Kructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes digestion, Without injurious medication. "For several years I have recommended your ' Castoria," and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced lieuefleiul results." F.dwin F. Pardee, M. P., 125th Streot and 7th Ave., New York t'ity. <pany, 77 Murray Street, New York City. W MACHINERY CO., &EOHGIA. rriiEKS. sjunc direct to gins. Many gold medals have what you want. YOU MONUY. ill MACHINERY CO., Atlanta, Ga. ! 4lll >FING COMPANY, Q IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. pffiPPPPSk 152 T() 158 M KRWIN ST., 1'i-^e List No. 75. ' IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. J AS. H. CARLISLE, LL. I).. Prest. * ET TitO h'VI.L COVICSKS. .Necessary expenses for year, One Hundred ntul Fifty Dollars. For catalogue address, J. A. GAME WELL, Secretary of Faculty. 31 3t NOTICE TO ROAD OVERSEERS. )fllee of the County Commissioners of York County, Yoiikvii.i.k, July 23, 1893. ro OVERSEERS OF THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS OF YORK COUNTY: You are ierel?v notified, between the date hereof and the TRS'T DAY OF NEPTKMHER next, to call nit the ROAI) HANDS belonging to your repective sections and devote at least live days to uaeing the highways in FIRST-CLASS condiion. You are especially required to repair very small bridge and causeway on your secions, and -see to it that the right of way is not rcspassed upon. Each public road should lie IT LEAST TWENTY FEET WIDE. Overseers are required to give their hands it least twelve hours' warning, stating the hour md place of meeting and the tool each is expeeed to bring. All able bodied male persons bewecn the ages of SIXTEEN and FIFTY rears of age, are liable to road duty. The only icrsons exempt are students and teachers of cliools and colleges, and ministers of the gospel vho are actually in charge of congregations as lastors. Overseers will collect, keep and preicrve all tools belonging to the county, and see o it that the same are used only for public liighvay purposes. If there is any section WITHOUT AN 1VERSEER, let the fact be reported to the loard at once, together with a recommendation >f some suitable person for the position. Ry order of the Hoard. J. S. BRICK, Clerk. July2ff 30 (it EXCELSIOR RUBBER STAMPS. ' ' - IlI'DD I'll t!T ( \ID Su ? Uw ynu kimn iiuii 11 hi. iiuiiii niuxn in ?? very useful article with which to mark our collars, cult's, shirts and handkerchiefs? iVell, if you don't, it is time you were learning. VikI it "is also useful to merchants to stamp heir wrapping paper, etc.; also useful to hotel icrks, hankers, druggists, postmasters, etc. I lave on hand some very line specimens of type, uitable for marking clothes, and also for stampng envelopes, letter heads, hill heads, statenents, shipping tags, visiting and business cards, >tc., which is at least equal to, or better than 75 >cr cent, of the ordinary "botch-work" of amaeur country printers. I also sell steel stamps, vax seals, seal presses, door jilates, German ilver key checks with name and address, and ilso badges for policemen, railroad conductors Hid porters. "SAKKTY" PKXCIL POC'KKTS. If you have a fountain pen or a pencil that you lon't want to lose, you can keep from losing hem by buyinga "SA KKTY" PKXCIL Pot'KiT. It only costs TWKXTY-KIVK cents, and vill save you the expense of buying so many cad pencils. I will be pleased to till all orders given me. 'romptness and satisfaction guaranteed. Address all orders to RKG. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. 0. IT DRAWS CUSTOM. [K you are working for the public you must lirst do first-class work and next meet com etition?that is if you expect to be "in it." ['his applies in a very forcible manner to the nihlic ginner. You can't expect your neigh>ors and friends to patronize your establishment f you can't give them as good yield and as tine [uality of lint its your competitor. If your gin s run down or worn out, you are not in it. Xo armercan afford to have 8 cents cotton reduced to } cents in ginning. This is what some old and lot a few new gins will do. If you want to be leyond the reach of your competitors, you should use a PRATT (IIX. Then you can't be touchd either as to quality or quantity. A ginner, rho is mmyiperating a PRATT IIIX, but foruerly operated one extensively sold in this secion, said to me a few days ago, "I now gin for icople who never patronized me before, undcoton ginned by me readily brings from I to i a out a pound more than that ginned by inyconi etitors. I would not have a gin as a gill inee I have used the PRATT. I thought the ? was pretty good until I tried the PRATT, nit now I can see that it is a poor affair." I can give you bottom figures and liberal terms n the PRATT, for which I am agent. SAM M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. ('. PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. rHOROUUHLY fitted up with new backgrounds, accessories, A*e., and with a fine ky-Tight, I am prepared to take a picture in any tyle of tiie art, as well executed as can be done Ise where. HILDREiYS PICTURES A SPECIALTY. By the dry plate process I can take them intantly ; makes no difference about fair or cloudy leather. I do all my own printing and finishing, and here is very little delay in delivery. ENLARGED WORK. Pictures copied and enlarged and finished in he highest style to be had, and prices reasiftiulde. Give mo a <'all and see specimens or work, at 11 v Gallery on West Liberty street, near the jail. J. K. SCHORB. MAP OP YORK. COUNTY. r\WlN(i to unavoidable dillieuties in seeur<) inn the necessary data, 1 have been unable i) finish my map ot York eonnty within the ime originally set. The work, however, is still icing pushed forward as rapidly as possible, and rill lie completed in due tune. The map will ie sold at the uniform prieoof three dollars per opy, and 1 shall be pleased to receive as ninny tilers as possible by the time it is completed, 'he money is to be paid on delivery of the map, irovided, of course, the work is all that is claim* d for it. .1. <i. McXUI.TY, Yorkville, S.('. June 28 2t> tf i. K. KINl.KY. J. s. Itltll'K. PI Nl.l'.Y A ItKICK. ATTOUNKYS AT I.AW, Yorkville, S. C. A 1,1, business entrusted to us will bo given . jL prompt attention. > V 1' 1 (' K IN T11K 11U11.1) IN (J A T T1 i K K K A H >F M. A H. STRAUSS'S SToKK. January 7 1 tf \V. WADDY THOMSON, ATTOltN 10 V ArP I. AW, Yorkville, S, C> |>KACTI0KS in all State and Fedora 1 Courts L Prompt attention to all business. September 14 87 tf SORGHUM Ml M.S. r! IK (fCKKX OF T1IK SOUTH?the best SORGHUM MI 1,1, on the market. See ample at J. W. DORSON'S, Yorkville, and-at or factor v. ROCK 11 f I.I. M ACII INK WORKS. MOWIIKS AM) KKAI'KltS. IIIIKrdeluatod WAI.TKH A. WOOD Mo\V. INO ami KKAIMNO MA01IINKKY and H'TTON OINS, arc I'm* salt* liv HOOK III LI, M AOMIN K WollKS.