Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 13, 1893, Image 4

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Humorous department. "CABBAGING" FROM A QUAKER. A friend says : I remember an amusiug story my father used to tell. He was cutting, some thirty or forty years ago, in Philadelphia. One day during the dull season an elderly Quaker came into the store c-r\YY\c\ nlntli Ko UMQ^nfl fn VlflVf* Ollt, W 1 til OVLUV VlVklt ITlliVi* MV 1T<WXV\? VV MM * v VM* into a coat. My father told him he would cut it for a dollar. "Well," said the Quaker, "thee may cut it; but as the tailors sometimes cabbage cloth, as thee calls it, I shall stay and watch thee while thee cuts it." "All right," said my father; "but really friend, your watching wouldn't keep me from cabbaging, if I chose to do so." "Thee is welcome to all thee can steal without my catching thee," said the Quaker, confident in his own shrewdness. The cutting-board was close against a window, between which and the board were some eight inches of space. My father, in laying off the coat, left a good vest pattern, which he then chalked in various shapes, and after he had cut all the pieces, he called the Quaker's attention to something in the room, and with his shears, pushed the "cabbage" from the board between it and the window, when it dropped quietly to the floor. He rolled up the job, putting in all the scraps, and handed it to the Quaker. "I suppose you're satisfied that you have all your cloth ?" asked my father. "Yes, I'm satisfied. Thee's welcome to an inee s stoien. When the Quaker had gone, father took the "cabbage" from under the table, and cut a vest from it for himself. Not long after he was standing in the door, with the vest on, when he saw the Quaker on the other side of the street. He called to him and invited him into the store. "How did your coat fit ?" asked ray father. "Very well; thee is a good cutter." "Thank you. How do you like my vest ?" I asked my father, throwing open his coat and showing the "cabbaged" garment. "It's a nice vest. Where did thee get the cloth ? It's like mine." "It was yours; you gave it to me, you remember." "No, I don't remember." "You said I was welcome to all I had cabbaged.'" "Yes." "Well, I 'cabbaged' this." "Thee did ?" "I certainly did." The Quaker scratched his head a moment, and then reached out his hand, which my father took. "Thee is a good cntter," he said, and he added as he turned to go, "and thee is too smart for me; but thee is welcome to the vest." Learning Things.?The drummer was looking so sad that it attracted the attention of the hotel clerk. "What's the matter?" asked that functionary. "Lost a friend, or your job ?" "No, worseresponded the drummer. "v a?.A o?) /Mil tuft Ct'TYl nO_ "liUSt LWU 1I ICI1UO ? V|UC11WU HIV OJ thetic clerk. "No; just thinking of a man I met out here in Adrian last night at supper." "What did he do to you? Beat you at poker?" "No; asked me a question and I answered it by asking him another." "Give me the particulars." "Well, it was this way," and the drummer showed by his looks how bad he felt to bring it all up again. "Wo were at supper and I had been pretty smart and the man had been very quiet." " 'Did you ever notice,' he said, as innocent and kindly'as a school teacher, 'that oyer in Wisconsin the people shake the pepper-box this way, while those in Indiana ? hold it fast and pat it on the bottom this way ?' "I had noticed it and told him so." " 'I'm from Indiana,' he said, knocking some pepper on his potatoes." "Yes," said I, "it shows on you." " 'Do you know,' said he seriously, 'why they do it differently ?' "No," said I, "why do they ?" " 'To get the pepper out,' said he earnestly, and then the gang at the table gave me the laugh in eighteen places, and the man asked me how much salary I got for learning things.?Detroit Free Press. Truly a Serious Case.?Once I was assistant to an elderly doctor in Ontario, who also ran a drug store. He was as peppery as a cayenne pod, and from time to time customers and patients had sprung jokes on him, just for the fun of hearing him blow off. On one occasion a well-dressed young fellow called at the shop aud asked the doctor to prescribe for a breaking out and a rash on his left arm. The doctor examined the limb, and pronounced it to be a bad case of psoriasis and eczema. "I suppose,doctor, you can cure it?" said the patient. "Why, certainly," replied the doctor. "How long will it take to get well ?" "Oh. I jruess about two months." says the doctor. "Quite sure, sir?is it a bad case?" "Positively the worst I've seen." "Then I will leave it with you, and call for it again when cured," solemnly said the patient, slowly unfastening his arm, which was an artificial one, and painted for the occasion. Swelling Words.?William Wirt, when a young man, wrote a farce, in which the! most eminent lawyers of Virginia are in-; troduced, and their peculiarities humorously | exaggerated. Among them was one who | had been Minister to England, and was re-1 markable for using swelling words. He is represented as conducting a cause in the county court, and in asking the clerk to call some one iuto court, thus addresses! him : "Mr. Jones, have the benignity to vocifer- j ate Peter Jolley into court." The clerk bawled out, "Vociferate P. Jolley ! Come into court!" While examining a loquacious female witness, the lawyer loses his patience and exclaims: "This woman ought to be deposited into taciturnity !" "You may go to Tass Eternity yourself,! but I reckon you'll have none of my com-1 pany, sir!" retorted the angry woman. Wished They Were All Blind.?Ilob-j ert Burns's friend, Dr. Blacklock, the blind poet, was a licentiate of the Church of Scotland and used to preach occasionally. One Sunday he was supplying a country J pulpit. Certain deaf old women, as was the ; custom in those days, had squatted on the' pulpit stairs to be as near the preacher as 1 possible. Like the mass of the Scottish people, they abominated sermons that were read. One of them, as soon as the discourse was I begun, said to her neighbor in a tone that was audible through the whole church, "Is he readiu'?" "Tuts, woman ! No, he cannn read?he's blind." "Blind, is he, eh? That's raal fort'natc. I wish they were a' blind!" A good story is told upon a Washing-: ton woman who now makes her home in Colorado, says Kate Field's Washington. With evidently no thought as to the curious ! sound of the combination if spoken quickly, j she has called her oldest child Helen Virginia.; Xotlong ago, upon a visit to this city, skei proudly brought her young daughter in to see an old friend. "What have you called | your daughter?" queried the visitor. "Helen Virginia," was the complacent reply. "Ah, j and what do you call her in Colorado?" \ was the unexpected but very natural response. a iniufpp who wiis sometimes foriret iv JMIIJV. fill, having been engaged to plead the cause of an offender, began by saying: "I know the prisoner at the bar. and he bears the character of beiug a most consummate and impudent scoundrel!" Here somebody whispered to him that the t prisoner was his client, when he immediately continued : "Hut what great and good man ever lived who was not caluminated by many of his contemporaries ?" ? ? ? - fiaT" Choleric Party?Take that away, waiter. When I say I want rare roast beef I don't want jerked buffalo hide. Waiter? It's curious how partic'lar all de gemmen are today, sir. I've served that cut to 'bout twenty of 'em, sir, and there won't none of 'em take it. Proprietor says sombody's got to eat it. ! 3ftai?shte 6athrnngs. BttT" There are thirty species of tobacco. Vested interest?Money in the waist coat pocket. ! 8a?" The world now uses 13,000 kinds o I postage stamps. ; l&sSr When a man takes a crooked step In j leads some boy astray, i 8ST In marriage announcements in Spair the ages of both parties are given. BST1 The wall-tiower is often the only girl in the hall that can make cake. 8?" Twenty-five per cent, of the population of England have their lives insured. 8^" The average wheat crop of this coun try yields about 500,000,000 bushels, j 8?* No one is useless in this world whe ! lightens the burden of it for another. | 8?" What some people consider prudence 15o xtftiof ftifair nPMrlibnrs call meanness. JO ? J.I.V 80T" Happiness is composed of so many pieces that there is always one missing. SOT One-quarter of all the people born die before six years, and oue-half before sixteen, 86?" Unless a Christian's walk corresponds with his talk, the less he has to say the better. 86?" I have seen better days," said the blind man. "So I hear," remarked the deal man. 86?" To-morrow is the day on which all the triflers are going to do something worth while. 8?* To be perfectly proportioned a man should weigh 28 pounds for every foot of his height. 8?" A bridegroom looks, the first week of his marriage, like a boy caught in a melon patch. 86?" We attract hearts by the qualities we display ; we retain them by the qualities we possess. i 86?" There are men who go to a gymnasium for exercise while their wives are sawing the wood. 80?" At Great Falls, Mont., the mercury has been known to drop 25 degrees inside of five minutes. 86?" The golden candlesticks used in the temple at Jerusalem were supplied with pure olive oil. 8?" The United States holds first place among the countries of the world in wheat production. 86T" It has been discovered that the cholera germ is seldom fatal to a system impregnated with tobacco. 86?" A gentleman must kiss every lady he is introduced to in Paraguay. It is the custom of the country. 8A Russian scientist has succeeded in tracing all a man's diseases to the fact that ho wears clothes. 83?? "There's one great drawback in my business," said the druggist. "What is it?" "Porous plasters." 8?" It has been calculated that 800 shots were fired for every man wounded during our late civil war. 8A man is always more truthful in his opinion of his second baby thar. of his first. Women call it more brutal. 8?? Massachusetts has more incorporated cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants than any other State in the XTnion. B6T Washington, D. C., rejoices in the possession of a clothing firm bearing the suggestive name of Brown, Mudd & Co. 8?? We should never grumble at tiiose things we could have prevented, nor at those things we could not have prevented. 8?? If a wart be rubbed with the pared surface of a freshly cut potato three times a day, it will disappear within a month. 86?" "Keep 'em alive, boy! keep 'em alive!" said an old physician to his young brother practitioner; "dead men pay no bills." 8?? He that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so ; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the biggest fool. 8?? The original of the word trump, as used in card-playing, is said to be the French word "triumphe;" equivalent to the English "triumph." 86?" In Malta the virus of the bee sting is regarded as an infallible cure for rheumatism, and the remedy is resorted to in all severe cases. 8?? Eleven million six hundred and twenty thousand families, with an average annual income of $9G8, pay 90 per cent, of the taxes in the United States. 83?" It is a fashion to say a girl is "as graceful as a willow," but don't you think the willow, with its drooping ways, looks a 11UIU i uuim v<.? . BSTThe latest statistics prove that more than two-thirds of the grown male population of the globe use tobacco in some one of the many forms in which it is taken. 8?" Samuel and Simms trammel, of Hickory Flats, Simpson county, Kv., are probably the largest twin brothers in the United States. Their combined weight is 542 pounds. 8ST The points of the compass may be told from trees, the moss growing thickest on the north side, and where exposed to the sun, the limbs arc largest on the south side. 8?* It is asserted that a water-wheel runs faster at night than in the daytime, because at night the water is cooler, and therefore more dense than when warmed by the sun. The speed of the fastest railway train is only a little more than one-half the velocity of the golden eagle's flight, the bird having been known to make 140 miles per hour. AST" "How is Johnny getting along with his writing?" asked the fond parent. "Rapidly?" replied the teacher. "I think he is already competent to write his own excuses." f&diF Palmistry has had its days, "l'edistrv," or telling your fortune by your feet, is the latest fake art introduced. As long as there are fools in the world, palmists and pedists will grow fat. The condor soars higher than any other known species of bird, spending ninetenths of its life floating about in the rarified atmosphere at a height of over three miles above the level of the sea. BSaT' Wm. K. Smith, for many years superintendent of the Rotanical Gardens in Washington, has, it is said, personally directed the planting of more than 0,000,000 trees in different parts of the United States. chop and a cup of coffee, quick. My train leaves in twenty minutes." "Yes, sali; seventy-five cents, sail." "Do you want pay in advance?" "Yes, sail. You may be gone before it is cooked, salt." 86?" The discovery lias been made by a scientific Frencfiman, tnai potatoes piaiueu near an electric wire grow to be very large, and that tomatoes in contact with an electric wire ripen eight days earlier than usual. flfcaj"* An authority on weather declares that tornadoes are most frequent between noon and 0 o'clock, and that the rainiest hour of the day is 4 o'clock in the afternoon. This is the report of a meteorological expert: not a weather prophet. BfeJP A little Scotch hoy, on being rescued by a bystander from the dock into which he had fallen, expressed heartfelt gratitude, saying: "I'm so glad you got me out. What a lickin' I wad have I'tae my milher if I had been drooned !" The Berlin gold heaters at the Paris exposition, showed gold leaves so thin that it would require 2S2,000 to produce the thickness of a single inch, yet each leaf was so perfect and free from holes as to he impenetrable by the strongest electric light, fifes?" "As I grow older," said a man of moderate means, "I find that I have much to he grateful for. Wealth went past my door and stopped at my neighbors''s; hut then so did death : while health stopped at mine, and has kept us jolly ever since." In all, there were 1,N<)4 arrests made at the World's Fair. Twenty-four for smoking, 382 for jumping the fence, and 150 for drunkenness. The total includes the great number of persons arrested for being displeasing to the Columbian guards. f&if" That wlncli is popuiariy kiiowii as me funny bone, just at the point of the elbow, is in reality not a bone at all, but a nerve that lies near the surface, and which, on getting a knock or blow, causes the well known tingling sensation in the arms and lingers. Ufary Munhall, in his "Balance Sheet of the World," says : "Every day the sun rises upon the American people it sees an addition of ; $2,">00,000 to the accumulation of wealth in the Republic, which is equal to one-third of the daily accumulation of mankind outside ' of the United States. A locomotive is being constructed in in England to run 100 miles an hour. It is 2,000-horsc power, and the driving-wheels | are twelve feet in diameter. The three cylinders are forty, twenty-eight and eighteen inches in diameter, with a thirty inch I stroke. The boiler pressure is 200 pounds. \ A \ ?ltc (favm and rfivesidc. # COXIH'CTEI) BY ROWLAND BLACK. | | Original.) f WINTER HINTS. As competition forces farmers to conduct > their work on a more business like basis, they are led to consider carefully the wastes and i leaks of farm operations. As there is not much competition in the South, probably I this is why everything upon the farm is done in such a careless and shiftless manner. The 1 great question with farmers now, is how to C?'"> Oni-i/le mill limv fn pnmllillP 111 pTil sn * V/ ovv/vrv m/ii v v vv?i ?... v ^ lis to get the most good, both as regards nutrition and manure. The farm stock should be classified and , fed according to their requirements. There are calves, work oxen and horses, milch cows, beef cattle, and, maybe, other animals that are not growing, giving milk, or being fati tened only, consume food to keep up the wastes of the body, and in winter the grcati est of these wastes is keeping the body warm ; and here the question aries, is your feed cheaper for this purpose than a good com' fortable barn? We think not. The temperature of a healthy animal is 100 degrees, and, of course the colder it is, the more food it takes to keep the body at its uormal temperature. If the temperature of your barn is only 20 degrees and that of your ) neighbor is (!0 degrees, it certainly must take more food to keep the temperature of your cows at 08 degrees, than it does to keep your neighbor's cows at the same temperature. Just the same as it takes more heat to keep a loosely boarded house warm, than it does a a tight; comfortable one. In the poorly built house you will have to use more wood. In the barn more feed, (lood stables save feed. Feed costs money. No matter if one raises his own feed, it takes some time, toil, fertility and wear of tools. Perhaps some readers of Thk Enquirer live in a community where it is fashionable to winter stock behind a straw stack. If they do they should set a better fashion. A straw stack can be made into a very comfortable shelter with the aid of posts and poles, but it could not be made very convenient for feeding. I5ut if nothing else is at hand, do the best you can with the straw. It is not to he expected that the man whose stable lets 111 the ngm inrougn the cracks, and whose cattle never taste grain, will concern himself about warming water for his stock ; but this is evidently what every progressive farmer is coming to. Think of a cow standing in a dark, cold stable where the manure is frozen solid and plastered upon the cow's sides, and then think of her turned out in the cold to drink ice, water and wander around the pasture, shivering all day. Winter dairying can never pay with farmers who treat their stock in this way ; nor does it pay to use any kind of stock in this way. Yet hundreds of farmers do as bad, if not worse. It costs about twothirds as much to keep a cow in a good barn as it does to keep one in an open lot. Cows should never be turned out in winter, except on warm days, unless one has a covered yard for them to exercise in. In good stables cows do better, young stock grows far faster, fattening animals take 011 flesh faster, and work cattle can do more work if properly cared for. Many farmers never think of this; they are too busy. They go in the same old ruts, never using their minds or learning anything new. j It is this class that the agricultural papers would benefit more than any others, and yet how many of them ever see a paper? REQUIREMENTS (IF PLANTS. To secure the growth of farm crops cer-) tain conditions arc necessary; a soil for the I roots to penetrate and from which a large proportion of nourishment is to be obtained ;! moisture in sufficient abundance to assist j in the preparation and molding of the plant) food for use, and heat to give vigor to the natural processes in operation. A soil may be fairly fertile and yet be so imperfectly porous as to greatly impede the root development; it may be so caked and hard as to retard plant growth ; or so unpenetrable as to hold stagnant water, which is destructive to plants. It may also be deficient in lime and humus; thus it is seen that there arc both chemical and physical conditions which may prevent a healthy development and diminish the product of a crop. In general, if it is so'that upon a soil j that appears to possess a good degree of for-1 j tility, a crop makes a stinted and unnatural j I growth, it is not a certain evidence of a want J j of fertility, but rather indicates some me-j | chanical or chemical condition that requires | changing before success in a crop culture can j be hoped for. In such cases better conditions must be established, by means of irrigation, drainage, deep culture, better plowing, applying mulch j or marls as may seem to he required. These plants will be likely to allow all the dcvcl! opment required. It must be remembered that the more | (favorable the conditions of soil iu its median- 1 | ieal and chemical nature, the greater will ; be the demand of the plant for the three I principal elements of plant food, phosphoric I acid, potash and nitrogen, and by a liberalj' ! application of these elements, the crop may he said to he followed the same as an annu-! j al when in good condition can be followed j ; by providing wholesome, digestible food, j To the end of supplying the crops that the ! farmers desire to produce, there is one clear j ' principle that must be observed, which is very j1 i simple, and that is to enrich the soil with the j food constituents, phosphoric acid, potash j and nitrogen, until they are present iu suflij eient surplus, that is, till a further enrichment : will produce no effect; and to hold the soil in | this degree of surplus food. Then, with such cultivation as should be given, a proper con- j j dition of moisture, etc., there can hardly be I a crop failure. Diffkkk.vck in l'tcs.?If all men are ; equal, all pigs are certainly not. The farmi er who goes into the pork business with that ' notion will soon find himself a poorer and a | wiser man. There's money in the raising of i hogs if the work he done intelligently. They ; can be made ready for market in a short 1 time, so that quick returns can be had?that I is, if the breed is a good one and the animals | are given proper care. The last is the great stumbling block. The majority of farmers seem to imagine that j hogs cannot exist without dirt. It is almost I j impossible to convince them to the contrary. I Mouldy corn will not answer as well as sound corn, and a weed pasture will not keep them in as good condition as a clover field. Pigs will eat and flourish on a great deal that i would otherwise go to waste, but even they .draw the line somewhere.?X. V. World. . Hakuoiunc Ykk.min.?Pats, minks, mice and other vermin will readily accept all in| citations to abide with you. They must have secure retreats, and ifyou provide them,! they will he occupied Pemedics are useless 1 unless they can be applied. Wherever there j exists a pile of lumber or logs, or debris of any kind, the rat will be sure to put in an | appearance, lie can burrow into the ground, and delights in getting under a floor, from which he will make nocturnal raids on the I chicks. He can go where the cat and terrier j cannot reach him, and the host way to get! ! ri?l of him is to give him as few harboring j places as possible. When yon go to town, lake something I to sell, and try to carry more in value than ! you expect to bring hack. This is the true policy of a farmer. Special tanners cannot I do this, for they rely on one crop which comes in at one season of the year, and as a j consequence they must wait until it is ready.1 The man who grows only cotton must wait I j until the fall (September to November) he-! j fore he can get. any cash to pay for the | things he has bought during the preceding time. It must be admitted that this aj poor business. Let us change it. We believe it can be changed. Iteadcr, what do you say? 8?'/}'" J>on't try to plant young trees in an old j orchard to replace old trees. The young j trees will not thrive, as the soil is nearly im! pregnatcd with roots from old trees which j absurd the nourishment that the young trees I should receive. I s (Tltc ?tovi> <TcUev. ! I * A MODERN MAGDELEN. A LOVK THAT l>i:STKOVi:i) WHAT IT I COLLI) NOT ATTAIN. Sonic one rapped at my door in the early gloaming, and when I opened, Dr. Augustc ! stood before me, his expression wavering between confidence and deprecation. "I?I want?I have come," he said, "to make an appeal to you. Lil is dying down at Sangster's, aud it seems pretty hard that clw. tlimiM luivn no woman with her. Would ! i ?would you mind going down there with me? I know you dare if you only will! i Astute Dr. Augustc! lie had shown how to strike the right chord. He might else ! have put his ease on grounds humanitarian, I or womanly, or Christian,and so might have 1 put it in vain. For I am only a woman, { with all a woman's innate hardness toward ' the erring of her sex, and calloused, more- 1 over, to suffering and sorrow by personal ex- ' pcrienecs. Hut on a point of pluck, no one appeals to me twice. It struck me that here 1 was a rare good chance to affront and defy ' the arrogant prejudice and narrow minded- ' ness of the little French watering place. 1 The gudewives' flesh would crawl with hor- ' ror when they should know of my visit to the dying Magdelen. ' I wrapped a furred cloak about me, and ' took up a laquered box, wherein I carry a ' li.tie store of drugs and simples that often 1 find opportunity in my vagrant artist life. Then Dr. Auguste led the way down the 1 gulch to Songster's big rough barn of a place, < part restaurant, part lodging-house. * "It's uncommonly nice of you to do this thing. T like brave women well," said the lit- ' tie doctor. 1 "Oh, nonsense! It's shop with me, you know. I've been waiting to paint a Camiile, ( and here's my model in unconscious repose." Now, this he knew, was the sheerest aHec- ' tation of hardness, but it silenced him, even ' the simulacrum of such brutality, as well it ' might do. No more said he until lie pushed ' open the door of the room where poor Lil ( was fighting her last hard battle with the 5 lorces 01 a piuiess woriu. "I have brought a woman to you, Lilly," ' he said ; "and a true woman you will lind 1 her. She can do you more good now than I can. She will listen to the message that has been troubling you. I'll look in from time to time to see if I am needed." He plucked my sleeve; I followed liirn out to the passage. "No one will dream of molesting you," he said ; "you arc as safe in this room now as in a sanctuary. Yet I will remain within call? only just far enough away to lose the confidence she wishes to make you." And with that lie was gone. I drew near the dying girl; she must have been five years younger than I?and I was thirty. With her great brilliant eyes turned full upon me, as if to burn her words into my memory, she told her story. Not continuously she spoke, as I set it down here, but brokenly in the intervals when her fragile body was least shaken and torn by the throes of her malady ; but the words that I write are as nearly as possible the words then spoken by Lillian. "Five years ago," she said, "I lived in Grysaept, a little Belgium town, dependent on mining interests, and with a population largely ignorant and vulgar, and nearly all grossly immoral. "I did not realize or understand the full sense of the conditions about me, for before this all my surroundings had been pure and refined, and I was inexperienced, innocent and ignorant of the world's ways?astoundingly ignorant, incredibly innocent. I can hardly believe myself that I could have been so innocent, looking back as I do from my present dreadful depths of knowledge, across the gulf of these years, with their frightful revelations. "It was here I met Jack Lake, leader in the feverish local gaities of the not too respectable English colony. His destiny must have been linked with mine from the beginning?on the night after I first met him. I dreamed that lie led a hand of people to niv brother's house, to fix upon me some dreadful unknown crime, and to drag mo away to death in penalty. That dream alone should have made me shun him?such warnings arc not sent to us without purpose. "He was a most anomalous being. At ] times lie appeared a hoy, a lad, a more child, y so boyish was his build, so young and tender ^ his countenance ; again, his features wotdd , harden, and his face take on the look of an old, old man, sin disfigured. In character, ' too, he was like that; some of his traits 51 were almost sublimely good and noble, while < in others he seemed to sound the depths of l baseness. Naturally enough it was long be- 'I fore I perceived his ignoble side, for, such as t. he was, I loved him ! I "My heart and my soul went out to him , irresistibly. I forgot my self respect, the j dignity of womanhood, everthing that a woman ought to remember! "I think," she went on shortly, "that no one ever suspected what were our relations. The very openness and heedless display of < what seemed our mutual infatuation misled i those who might have thought amiss. Jack | planned all our secret meetings with a tact >, and an impunity that betokened long prac- . tice in intrigue?at that time I did not think of this?then I was full of admiration and ! satisfaction for the cleverness that secured j1 our meetings free from discovery. ' "All at once, without waste of words, ah- j 'I ruptly, brutally, he told me that all must I cease between us ; his affianced was returning [ / to (irysaept, and they would marry at once. | j I had been too drunk with the pleasure of L the present to dwell much on the future, but in an indefinite sort of way I had always felt, rather than thought, that marriage would he 1 the outcome of our association, llut Jack's ' decisiveness effectually undeceived me of ^ further hope in that direction. The only ' loyally of which he was capable was toward ; Miss Stuart. I "And now this woman was coining back y here, and was about to marry Jack Lake? my Jack! j "I cannot explain?I cannot understand? r the change that came over me at the news, j Before this, in spite of my sinning for love j ^ of Jack, I had kept the tenderness, the deli-1 1 eacy, the horror of evil of a true woman. I '1 "Do you know?" said this poor Lilly, ; struggling to sit upright among her pillows, j i and looking at me with wistful, yearningL eyes, "I think that a woman giving way L through her first young love is not debased j ^ by it, because, until the undeceiving comes, she does not realize that she is doing evil. It j 1 is only when the man casts her oil'that she ! sees herself as lie sees her. a thing degraded \ and dishonored. ; < "From that time on, every bad, wicked, fe- j rocious instinct awoke and raged in my soul,! revenge of all most potent. 1 went on j: through my part of the anomalous gailiesof: I the place, to all seeming as joyous as ever :!!, people thought it was Jack who was suffer-' j ing from our evident rupture. And s\U the ! i time, night and day, I was planning, plan-11 ning, planning. j. "Jack had an odd pocket-fla.sk, given him t hy a rowing-club, of which he had been ! I captain at Ins old home?a great shell of *' beaten silver. I ordered its duplicate from I Kastern jewelers. My own schoolgirl chum j j 'at home' was the daughter of a druggist?a n spoiled child, who had easy access to her } father's stock. I wrote to her that I had dis- 1 covered a new process of etching, for which I t must have hydrocyanic acid of a purer grade a than was obtainable in (Jrysacpt. She sent iv it to me without a suspicion. ! ( "Then?I brought-Jack to me. I need j not tell you how. A woman may always have her will, if she hut stoop to play upon j a man's baser passions. It is the women that hold themselves apart, pure and proud, who excite in men resistance, opposition, persecution. Jack was smarting under the twits of his associates over my indiU'erence : he could not resist the chance to prove to himsclfand j to me that his power over inc still existed ? | and he condescended to grant me one more j ? meeting. As much of true love and reverence as was in liiin he had given to Miss fc Stuart ?and yet he could come to my arms i on the very eve of her arrival. i * "I steered our course for the valley, where there was a wind-break and some benches, j and where as i had eaenlated, our footprints would not show on the trodden ground j \ as they world in the dusty roadway else- \ where. ; ' "Onrtalk was very stormy. Jack was res 1 olnle. in his allegiance to Miss Stuart. At r that time it was incomprehensible to me that such a woman should attract, or he attract- d ed by, a man like. Jack. Kelleetion has shown me that her loftiness of sold was just ij the stimulus needful to what good was in him, and his uplifting may have seemed t( her generous heart her one great mission. "At any rate, as I had expected, he clur.; to her. 1 had been only a toy, a makeshift "With taunts and sneers I deliberately provoked him into rage to make my opporai nit v. As I had foreseen, out came the flash at short intervals. Then I claimed that agi tation had made me feel faint, and askeci for a sip of brandy. Instead of returning his llask, I exchanged it in the darkness foi my own, part full of brandy, with twe ounces of the acid poison. "When Jack lay dead, I did not even kiss him. I went stealthily home, and a weeklater, not from remorse, not from need, God knows not from inclination, but, like many li disillusioned woman before me, from sheer lierce pessimism and desolation, I plunged into the life that has brought me to?this ! "Three hours after they found Jack, stretched dead on the rough bench, with his poisoned flask by his side, Miss Stuart arrived in (irysaept?arrived to find her lover lead, and, instead of sympathy and compassion for her 'sorrow, an onset of slurs and icofling that might be expected from savages, l>ut not from decent humanity. "This is why 1 have told you the story ; purge it of its poison for her. Tell her, not :hat Jack was faithless, but that I was furi)us at his preference for her?and that he lid not take his own life?that I murdered tiim. Write it to her?Diana Stunrt, in care of The Continental Magazine.' That will be a 10111 fort. Oil, I could almost die in peace if [ could ask her forgiveness! My wrong lo tier lies heavier 011 my soul than the rest of liy sins together!" She sank back gasping. Her breath was rattling?it went no lower than the hollow >f her throat. She could not swallow the stimulant. Her eyes held mine pitcously. "Oh, God!" I cried in my heart, "let her live long enough to hear and understand me." I would not take the instant of time to ry out for the doctor. "You" can die in peace," I said, "sure of licr full forgiveness. She sorrowed for the over she believed in?she scorns and abhors he memory of the traitor! He deserved his rate?it is only you I pity?yes, yes," for the piestion in her eyes was the very cry of a ;oul in torture?"believe me! Sec! I kiss you again?again?like a poor loved sis:cr! I am Diana Stuart." \.Bakmcr - absolutely Pure A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.?Latest United States Government Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall Street, N. Y. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE hoTMTP. Do you wear them? When next In need try a pair. Best In the world. *5.00.rf?""'v43.00 UOOjf \S2.50 *3.50 B- jfc<2.00 *2.50 *2^00 *2.25% -M 1*1.75 *2.00 s7g3 If you want a fine DRESS SHOE, made In the latest styles, don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or $5 Shoe. They fit equal to custom made and look and wear as well. Ifyou wish toeconomizolnyourfootwear, do so by purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoes. Name and price stamped on the bottom, look for it when you buy. TV. I.. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mill. Sold bj J. J. SMITH, (Hover, S. C. August li'l :M 4in tend iVhat rtvo tloneyluving Satisfied Junto 111 crs lave I'o lay. lore is what Mr. II. II. Kd wards, tndcrsoii, S. C., lias to say of )ur $'2d COIiirMltlAN Sewing lachinc, under date of .111 lie I .'I. lHt);i: ?Vl.? V? 1 I'm ([Mill t\ Mnrlitnc bought of you has been rerciveil Unl thoroughly tented, t has given entire satisfaction, t is a heauty. >urh a Machine VonM have cost me 'Ifly or Sixty Dollars lere. iiilecil, I don't I'll ink they lave any her(c Is good as it is." dr. !. II. ('linkskales. Due West, S. ays, under date of May .'1, IHJKI: I received the COLUMBIAN Machine several days ago, III flight, >Vith all the Ittaemhciits. We Ire well leased iVith the Machine, Ind all tliat lave seen it say That it is the BUST darhlnc on tiic Market, think I will he able To Send you in In order for others n a few days." Send for Full Particulars to I,. M. Crist, forkvillc, S. C. Jtfo BAPTIST IIICII SCHOOL. Yorkville, S. C. ~~4rKKV. K. II. ( KIKFITI1. I>. II.. Prinei|ial. Tin-: FIRST SESSION of this institntion will eoninienee on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY '{, 1S!M, and continue ive months. The school will he opened in the tuilding formerly used by the King's Mountain Military school, of Yorkville, which was built specially for school purposes. In the building, n addition to the recitation rooms, there is ainde accommodation for UH> hoarders. The purpose of the sponsors for the school will e to give to hoys who may enter its walls, a borough and practical course that shall lit them in-the everyday a Hairs of life, or for entering ollege. T Kit SIS I'M It SKSSIOX. For school expenses, including tuition, boardng, fuel, lights and washing, 5-7~.~>U per session, if live months, payable in advance. Day pupils v ill lie required to pay tuition for entire session n advance. It is important that the principal should have he name of every pupil before the school opens, ltd requests that those who' expect to attend rill notify him not later than December to, lsh.1. I'upils are requested to bring with them the he text hooks they last used. Parents who have hovs to educate will do well o send for circulars giving full information. Address, SAM M. CRIST, Secretary of Hoard of Trustees. September -7 '{! .'hn FIRST NATIONAL I1M, 11 ode I I ill. Si. < lapltal, $7510 inrolns anil Profits. 45.500 litloiial Liability' of SMIiolta, 75,010 Total Protection to Depositors, $155,500 v. i.. koihikv President. V. .1. KOIHIKV Vice .'resilient. [. ii. miixkit Cashier. t. I.KK K Kit It Teller. 11II IS ItANK oilers its services to thcmihlic . fjenenilly and solicits accounts from Karmrs, Merchants, Corporations and Private Inlividnals. We shall he chid to furnish our terms upon pplieation. INTKHKST HKAKINO CKUMKICATKNOK HKPOSIT ISSCKH. Scptemlier '11 .'!!? lim THE VORkllili E\UI IK1.K For 1894. ^ Handsomely Priitteu on Strom White Paper. |j THE LOCAL SEWS A SPECIALTY, i ? NEW Subscribers in Clubs Received Fre. vious to Christmas, 1893, Furnished With the Paper Until January 1. 11 1895, for $1.75, Cash in | Advance. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! A $100 Wilcox & White Organ to lie Awarded to the CJub-Mnker who Secures the Largest Number of NEW SUBSCRIBERS by 4 o'clock |t. in. on Thursday March 15, ISO 1. A *90 BERRY. A *75(101,1) WATCH A.NI) A CORBIN DISK HARROW FOR TIIK THREE I,ARREST CU BS. , Premiums Tor other I'lulis Rankin); in Size from SIXTV Down In FIVE Subscribers. LI n Ell A L COM FENS. f TI (IX FO It A LL IIOIIKElts FO It THE EXOriltElt. TIIK YOHKVIMjK KNOriKKIC will enter upon the KOKTIKT1I vearof its pulilieation on the Til I It I) DAY OF JANUARY, 1?M. In making our annual annouueciiient we avail ourselves of the opportunity to return thanks to our friends and patrons for the generous support that h:us been extended to TIIK KNQl'IKKR for the past year, and to say that during lsni.wo do not intend to take any steps backward: but will endeavor to make the paper more i and inoro entitled to the support of the people of York county. THE ENQUIRER having intelligent, trustworthy and wide awake special correspondents in York and adjoining counties, hut little transpires in which the people generally are interested, that is not promptly made known through its columns. Besides this, it shall continue to be our aim to watch carefully after everything that is calculated to make known to the outside world the business advantages and natural resources possessed by York county?agricultural, mineml'and climatic?and when we say York county, we do not mean any particular section of it, or anv particular class of people; but THE W1IOLKCOlTXTYANDAbbTHE PEOPLE. While the local and general news departments of the paper will be carefully looked after, all the features which have given THE ENQUIRER a distinctive original character from the first day of its publication will be maintained. From time to time it will contain short stories and serial stories from the best writers; every week a column of fun and humor; carefully selected and seasonable articles intended for the benefit of the farmer and housewife. To recapitulate: It is our aim to print a hightoned, clean, newsy family paper: one that is RELIABLE, and one whose weekly visits will always be looked forward to with pleasure by its patrons. Terms of Subscription?Postage Free. Single Copy, one year, 82 00 Two Copies, one year, 3 50 One Copy, two years, '! 50 One Copy, six months. 1 00 One Copy, three months, 50 Ten Copies, one year, 17 50 And one copy, one year, to the person making a club of TEX' at.81.75 for each subscriber. Payment required to be made in advance. PREMIUMS TO CLUB-MAKERS. For the three largest clubs of yearly subscribers, at 81.75 for each subscriber, we otter the three articles mentioned below, the aggregate value of the three being ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE DOLLARS, as follows: For the largest club, a 890 OPEN" BUGGY. Particulars in regard to this premium will be nlDn,..|,n.n For the second largest club, one ?75.00 Watch. The movement fortius Watch is manufactured by the Columbus Watch Co., of Columbus, Ohio, and is called the "Railway King." It has 16 jewels, in gold settings, extra center hole jewel, patent regulator, adjusted to heat and cold; gold finish. It is one of the finest movements mado in the United States, and is used exclusively on a number of the great railroad systems by reason of its reliability as a time keeper. The movement will be fitted to a Boss filled gold case. These cases are made of 14 karat gold and are warranted to wear 20 years. The price of the movement is ?40 and that of the case ?35, making the value of the watch ?75. For the third largest club, a No. 7 12-disk latest improved Corbin Disk Harrow, worth ?30. To EVERY person who may obtain a club of sixty or more names, but who may fail to secure one of the three premiums already mentioned, we will give as compensation, one Chicago Singer Sewing machine; or if tlio person entitled to the machine does not want it, we will give one Fifty Tooth Evans Steel Frame Smoothing Harrow; or if the Harrow is not wanted, we will give one II jewel Elgin watch in a Fahy's dust proof open face silver case. The retail price of the watch is?24.00. Either the Sewing Machine, Harrow or Watch will be delivered free of expense for transportation. To EVERY person who may obtain a club of FORTY and less than sixty, but who fails to win one of the three leading premiums, we will give one 7 jewel Elgin Watch in a Fahy's dust proof open face case. This watch usually retails at about ?13. To every person who may obtain a club of THIRTY and less than forty subscribers, but who may fail to win the Buggy, the ?75 Watch or the Disk Harrow, we will give as compensation for securing the subscribers, one 7 jewel, open faced American Standard Watch in a Fahy's dust proof case. This Watch would be considered a bargain at ?10. For a club of FIVE and less than ten subscribers, we will give as compensation for securing the names, one 30-hour Niekle Alarm Clock, the retail price of which is ?1.75. To persons who make up clubs of TEN and less than twenty names, we will send THE ENtJlHKER one year free of charge; and to those who may secure a club of TWENTY and less than thirty names, we will forward THE ENtjUIRKR oiieyear freeof charge, and a copy, one year, of any weekly newspaper or monthly magazine published in the United States, the publication to be selected by the person entitled to receive it. The time fixed for completing clubs under the above oilers is limi'cd to I o'clock p. in., on THURSDAY, the 15th day of MARCH, ism. NEW SUBSCRIBERS. Competitors may commence to secure subscribers at once. All NEW SUBSCRIBERS | that are returned in clubs previous to December 25. IS! 13. will be furnished with the paper from tho time the subscription is received until January 1. 1K!>5, lor ?1.75. By XI0W subscribers we mean persons whose names are not now on our subscription list and have not been within THREE MONTHS of this date?November 1. A change of address FROM ON 10 MEMBER OF A FAMILY TO A X OT H KIIM10 M B10 R O F TH10 S A M K FA M ILY, WILL NOT BIO CONSIDERED AS A NEW SUBSCRIBER. Every new subscriber j must lie genuine. For the Largest Club of New Subscribers. To the person who may obtain and pay for the largest club ot NI0W SUBSCRIBERS between the first of November and THURSDAY, the l~?th March, 1S04, at J o'clock p. m.,wc will give as compensation one WILCOX A WHITE OR(JAN, valued at ?100. [For full description of the Organ see advertisement printed elsewhere.] The Organ is ottered independent of all other premiums, and the person who receives it will be entitled to have his names counted in competition for either of the other premiums ottered. For example: 11' the person who secures the Organ shall have returned and paid for the largest list of names by Thursday, the 15th day March, 1K!>4, including those which entitled him I to the Organ, he will be entitled to the?!Nt Bug! gy ; if the second largest, including those which J entitled him to the Organ, he will be entitled I to the ?75.00 Hold Watch ; if the third largest, in- | eluding those which entitled him to the Organ, lie will be awarded the Corbin Disk Harrow. I If it is found that the person who secured the j Organ has a sutticieut number of names on the j fifteenth day of March, 1MB, including those | which entitled him to the < >rgan, to entitle him j to a premium ottered for sixty, forty, thirty,! j twenty, ten or live names, and has failed to secure one of the three first premiums, he will be I awarded either premium he may select to which j ! the number of names returned entitles him. RENEWALS count just the same as new | subscribers in competition for all premiums ex-1 j ceptthe < >rgan. CONDITIONS. No 11:11110 will lx> counted in competition lor a 1 ! premium, and no premium delivered, until the ! J subscription price has heen paid. It is not necessary that the names of a club j' should all bo at the same postollice. Names | may be taken at any number of places. One 1 ! name for two years will be equivalent to two j names for one year each. Club makers are requested to send in names as rapidly as they secure them. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at h the expense of those sending them. < We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the York- ! I villi* postollice. 1 In sending names, write plainly, give postj ollice, county and Stale. I All subscriptions will be discontinued at the 1 expiration of the time paid for. I A separate list will be kept for each club- : maker, who will be credited with each name | sent, so that the number sent by any one person I may be ascertained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, two weeks will be allowed in which to "untie." ? ?1 ..1..1.U ...ni | I '(*1X1111M ? JI?? ruiiiuu iirr niaiMii^; < nun, >tin . I not be permitted, alter the names have" been J entered on our books, to transfer the names to " another ebib-maker's list. ,/rft" The time in wliieli additions may be made < to elnbs under our propositions will expire on TliritSDAV, Til K loth DAY III-' MAKC1I, IS!H, at 4 o'eloek, p. in., therefore, persons who desire the benefit of elub rates, must subscribe and pay for the paper before that day, as alter the expiration of that time, it will not be furnished for less than ?2.110 unless new clubs are formed. ( All letters should be addressed to L. M. (iRIST, Yorkvilie, S. SI0P A It ATOMS. ' MASSAI.ON, OKIXKH AM) PA1U}1TA11A It Sepamtors for sale. HOCK III I.I. MA CI I INK WoHKS. I for Infants and Children. " CastorlaLssowellodapted to children that Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, I recommend it as superior to any prescription Sour Stomach, Iiiarrlitea, Kructation, l.nuwn to me." II. A. Arciier, M. I)., Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes <li111 So. Oxford St., Ilrooklyn, N. Y. gestion, Without injurious medication. "Tho uso of 'C'astoria is so universal and "For several years I have recommended i:s merits so well known that it seems a work your 'Castoria,' and shall always continue to i f suiiererngalion to endorse it. Few are the do so as It has invariably produced beneficial intelligent families who do not keep Castoria results." within easy reach." Edwin F. Pardee, M. D., \ C ,u:u>h Mautyn, D. P., ISftth Street and 7th Ave., New York City. New York City. The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, New York Citt. TO BE GIVEN AWAY! $100 WILCOX & WHITE ORGAN To foe Awarded to the Club-maker who Returns and Pays tor the Largest Number of IVUW sTTnsr.mwrc'RK X. 1 Ji. -J T ? ^ - X p ' -V U <X * * M. JXWrv_y Between November 1st, 1893, and March I^tli, 1804, at 4 o'clock p. m. Go to Work RIGHT NOW and KEEP AT IT! LAST year wo awarded A ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR WILCOX & WHITE ORGAN as a premium to the club-maker who returned and paid for (he largest number of NEW SUBSCRIBERS within n specified time, and as the otter was received with such groat favor hy the club makers, we propose to repeat it tiiis year, and by a special arrangement effected with the manufacturers, through their general agent for this section, Mr. GEORGE T. SCIIORB, of Yorkville, we are enabled to otter an instrument that IS THE EQUAL OF ANY $100 ORGAN MANUFACTURED In the United States, and far superior to most of them. The above picture will give a fair idea of the appearance of the organ, and the following description shows that it is an {instrument which will please the most exacting artist: The case will he either Black Walnut or Quartered Oak, as may be preferred. It is l? feet high, 4 feet in length, 21 inches in depth, and the case is finely finished and hand rubbed. Same quality of tone and workmanship as is found in their higher priced styles It is ornamented with two French plate beveled edge mirrors and has a closed convenient musical receptacle. It has eleven stops, none of which are "dummies." THE WILCOX & WHITE ORGAN COMPANY Stands at the very head of the list of manufacturers of line, RELIABLE AND DESIRABLE INSTRl'M ENTS, and has received more medals and diplomas on regular catalogue styles than f any other American manufacturer of organs. Its organs are handled by leading dealers throughtlic world, and is enthusiastically endorsed by musicians. A great many of them are in use in York and adjoining countiesand arc giving universal satisfaction. The organ will be awarded to the club-maker who returns and pays Ibr the largest number of NEW yearly subscribers to THE ENQUIRER at $I.7;T each, between NOVEMBER I, 1MB, and THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1894, AT 4 O'CLOCK P. M. With the organ will go, without extra expense, one Plush Top Stool worth ; anil a copy of Dr. J. (J. Burnett's Electric Organ Teacher, worth <2."id, and by the use of which a person may become a skillful performer; not needing any other teacher. ^ THE ORCEIN IS <i ITA?A>TTKE1 > By the WILCOX ?fe WHITE OIUIAN COMPANY for six years, nnd by Mr. SCIIoRB for no less than twenty, lie proposes to keep it in thorough order free of expense to the person who wins it. Now we want to use some VERY PLAIN ENGLISH. The organ will be awarded to the person who may secure and PAY Ibr the largest number of NEW YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS at $1.75each, between November 1, IMG, and March 1">, 1MB, at 4 o'clock p.'m., and we EARNESTLY REQUEST EVERY ONE WHO EXPECTS TO ENTER THE RACE, to READ our prospectus and learn all the conditions, and especially as to what is meant by a N EW subscribers, and then go to work without delay and KEEP AT IT. The largest club of New subscribers, whether it be 10 or 100, or more, takes the organ. LEWIS 31. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. A FINE $90.00 OPEN BUGGY TO BE GIVEN AWAY To the Person Who Secures the Largest Club of Subscribers to THE ENQlIIRER?OId and New Counting Just the Same. ? \'\' A' \r 1 : 11 ~ ? it.; A* I 1.. ? Altn;<iY made 1 ?y the CA ItOMX A 1SI utti i u.m r.\ > i , m lnrKviuc, ixn uihikoi Iiraiuy, \ mid is us durable as it is possible to make a vehicle with the same amount of wood and steel, mid for this reason TIIK KXQl'IKKlt has boon using tlio ('AHltLINA 151 <i(?A CO.'S vehicles for several years as a PKKMIl MS T(i I'lA 15 MAK Kits ; and as wo have never used a i more acceptable premium, have decided to eontinue its use FOR THE FALL AND WINTER CONTEST OF 1893-94. The buggy we have arranged to oiler is a $00.00 OI'l-.X with either end or side-bar springs, and as stated above, is as line a vehicle as is on the market at the price, and we think it filial to a great inanv that sell for more money. It is our purpose to award this buggy to the CIA I5-MAKKII M II<> MA\ IlKTl'HN AND PAY FOR the largest number of YFARLY SI'BSt'ItlI5FKS?both old and new?between NOV KM 15KH 1, IS! 1.5, and THl'HSDA Y, MARCH loth, 1S!U, at 4 o'clock p. in., whether, the * number be TKX, FIFTY, ONK IH'NDHFD <>R M< >K K, at S1.7A each. The reputation of the CAROLINA 151 * < ?; A COM PAWS WuRK is something of which Lite people of South Carolina should fee J proud, as notwithstanding the fact that our country is now passing through the greatest financial stringency ot the past twenty years, the company has been operating its plant to its full capacity ami has been unable to keep up with the orders." No stronger testimonial could he ottered as to the high standing oI its w<>rk with those who know what :;ood work is. SOMEBODY IS GOING TO WIN THIS BUGGY, And we have No 1'KKKKItKNCK AM TO Wllo TIIK WINNKU SI IA 1,1, |$K. What wo propose to do is to award it to the person who roturns and pays lor the largest mimIu>r of sul>- * <oriners, both OLD ami NKW, hot wool) the dates mentioned above. The oiler is open to the world. Oo to work today. I.KWIS M (iIt 1ST, Vorkville, S. ('. GARRY IRON ROOFINC; COMPANY, :t"i | i' l ii^e List I. 7.*^'*'' THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OK IRON ROOKING IN THE WORLD. ^ir-Orders received by L. M. CI HIST.