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tumorous Department.! TOO OLD TO HE TRIFLED WITH. Dr. Malone, a regular army surgeon, was j very fond of a joke (if not perpetrated at his j own expense), and had, moreover, a great I contempt for volunteer officers, who were j more renowed for their courage than for j their scholarship. One day, at mess, after the decanter had : performed sundry perambulations round the ' table, Captain Simpson, a brave and accomplished officer, and a great wag, remarked to the doctor, who had been somewhat severe in his remarks on the literary deficiencies of some of the new volunteer officers : "Dr. Malone, are you acquainted with Captain George ?" "Yes; I know him well," replied the doctor, "He's one of the new volunteer set. But what ot mm ?" "Nothing in particular," replied Captain Simpson. "I have just received a letter from him, and I will wager you a dozen of old port that you cannot guess in five guesses how he spells cat." "Done," said the doctor; it's a wager." "Well, commence guessiug," said Captain Simpson. "K-a-double-t." "No." "K-at-e." "No; try again." ' "C-a-t-e." "No ; you've missed it again." "Well, then," returned the doctor, tartly, "c-a-double-t." "No; that's not it. Try again?it's your , last guess." "C-a-g-h-t." i "Wrong again," said Captain S., "and you have lost the wager." "Well," said the doctor, with much petulance of manner, "how the deuce does.he spell it?" ' "Why, he spells it c-a-t," replied Captain S. with the utmost gravity. Amid the roars of the mess, and almost choking with rage, the doctor sprang to his feet, exclaiming: "Captain Simpson, I am too old to be tri tied with in this manner i" He paid his bet, however, like a man, and after that had some charity for volunteer officers, who were as useful as himself. The End of His Shamming.?The doc-; tor of a hospital-ship complained to a visitor | of a lazy colored man whom he could do : nothing with. ! "We don't like to throw the rascal out, "but it is easily seen he is only shamming. He finds his present quarters too pleasant? no work and plenty to eat. I wish I could get clear of the fellow without creating a disturbance." " . "Well, doctor," said the visitor, after a lit tie reflection, "lend me a few yards of string, , and that nigger will be miles away before . night." "You don't mean to strangle hira, I hope," said the doctor. "Oh, no," replied the visitor, "I promise to do no injury to him." "He got the twine and put on a melancholy air, he weut to the darky's berth. "Very bad?" he said. "Yes, massa," replied Sambo, "dredful ' sick." The visitor made no futher remark, but placed one end of the twine at the darky's 1 head and drew it slowly, very slowly, until 1 it reached his toes. Then he measured him across the chest. The fellow looked the picture of astonishment and terror, and gasped: "What dis for?" The visitor never answered him, but was walking away, when Sambo sat bolt upright i and called after him, imploring an explanation. The visitor pretended to relent, and whispered : "My poor fellow, if you are not going to | recover it is only an expense keeping you j here. I have just been taking your measure"?here he lowered his voice still more? "for a coffin. We bury you with honors to'Tic hocr. fnr nil hnndc vnn knmi\" No one knew how or when that Negro got elear of the hospital-ship, but there was no trace of him in the morning. Wanted His Share.?1"Iz you Mr. j Hoyue?" asked a frost-bitten old Negro, dressed in an old cavarly jacket, as he entered the room of the commissioner in the custom house. Mr. Hoyne never denied his identity. "I dunno ef I come in the right place or not, but I was told fo' to see you," continued the relic, at the same time looking around the room. Then he handed the commissioner a slip of reprint, which read as follows: "California raised in 1893 a I bushel of wheat for every man, woman and i child in the United States." The commissioner asked what of it. "Iz California pawt ob de United States'?" ; "Yes." "Her owes 'legence to de gubment?" "Yes." Then he pulled a gunny sack from under his coat. When unrolled it stretched across i the room. He then counted on his fingers? ! "Dar's Melindy is one, my old woman ; dar's i Jackson Van Buren, my oldest boy, dats I two, an' Aberharo Linkum, de last bawn, j dats tree, an' me, dat's foh. Ain't dat right ?" "That's right." "I want ter ax you fo' to send dis hyar gunny bag by de pos' oflis fas' mail down to Wash'nton an' put it on de penshun list for foh bushels of California wheat. All I ax i ob de gubment is fall play. I neber got nuf-! fin out of it yit, and ef de gubment's gwine to do any ting for de cullud man now's de i time." On the Wyoming "Flyer."?A man was J one day making a trip of the "flyer" on a j Wyoming railroad. Passage on these trains! is never taken except for journeys of considerable length ; walking is as easy and much cofiaw frti* /lictonnoo On apimicinn i the movement was even more deliberate than usual, and a passenger called the conductor to his seat, and said : "Isn't this motion pretty slow ?" "Well, we ain't flying, I admit." "May I ask what is the trouble, then ?" "Certainly. We found a fine two-year-old j steer stuck in a trestle hack here before you got on, and stopped and helped it out. You know the rules of the road are, in such J cases, the animal belongs to the company." "But I don't see why that should make you run so slow." "Why, we're taking that steer to headquarters, got it tied behind, and it ain't used , to leadin', and don't walk up very well. I'm doin' all I can?got the brakeman prodding it up with an timbrel', and an ear of corn , tied to the bell-rope. If you think I'm( goin' to start up and go howlin' along, and yank the horns oil' as good a steer as there is in this State, why, you're mistaken, that's all!" Mork Profitable Than Bugging.?A ! couple of tramps who are now touring through the country are making quite a little "pile," owing to the cleverness and wit of one of them. This is how they worked their little dodge the other day in a village J through which they were passing: Going to the only inn in the place, they called for drinks, and perceiving a number! of men in the corner, the witty tramp en-) gaged them in conversation. After a time he offered to bet each of them a dime that he could show them something 1 they had never seen before, and would never see again. The men were surprised, and deeming the tramp's assertion an impossibility, agreed and duly deposited the stakes with the other tramp, closely watching him the while, to see that he did not escape with the money. "Well," replied the bettor, taking from his pocket a plum, "none of you ever saw this j1 plum before, and (eating it), none of you will ever see it again." The pair then walked out, having pocketed a dollar by the maneuver. ! i floTSis and Tom were sitting in the drawing room, and she was getting sleepy. " Wlqit time is itV" she asked, lie looked at the watch, and replied that it lacked live mill-: utes of eleven : and just then living struck with an idea, he asked, "Why is my watch j like you, my pet ?" "I don't know." "liecause it is very pretty," he replied. "And i why is my watch like you," she asked. "I I don't know, I'm sure. Why is your watch < like me my dear?" "Because it won't go," j < she replied, with a yawn. Then the young! man went home. ? ? ISP" "That's an uncommonly pretty girl over j there pouriug tea." "Yes, she is one of the reigning belles this season." "Ah ! these : girls never reign but they pour."?Life. I * Itfnnsidc Minings. ! ?t?f* It is better to fail in trying; to do good than not to try. SfiT" One cannot always be a hero, but one j can always be a man. 8Sy*The less a Christian reads his Bible the j more his heart shrinks. fiST A good sewing machine is supposed to j do the work ofl2 women. 8?" The devil has oue arm ground the man who is trusting in himself. 8ST" There are 1,785 separate railroad companies in the United States. , ftoyXo part of Greece is 40 miles from the ! sea nor 10 miles from hills. 86?" A person may walk through seven I German States in seven hours. 8?"" The highest point of land in Florida is ' only 210 feet above the sea level. AST A hint to the wise is sufficient, provid-1 ed the wise are disposed to take it. 8?" The running expenses of Harvard | university are one million dollars a year. 8&" Stockholm has the highest death rate | from drink of any city in the world, 90 in 1,000. B&T Angels weep on the day a young man begins to spend more money than he can make. 86?" It has been estimated that 20,000 tons of candy are consumed in the United States annually. 86?" France has more persons over GO years of age thau any other country. Ireland comes next. If you love your neighbor as yourself, God will give you plenty of chances to let him know it. j #2?" American meat dominates the markets j of Europe. If shipments are delayed three days, the price goes up. 86?" The most costly medicine in the world is metallic gallium, which sells at a price equal to $100,000 per pound. 86?" Gold has been found, though not al- j ways in paying quantities, in every State in the Union except Delaware. 86?" Those who notice the rapid growth of their fingernails should be happy for it is * - * * - J t 1*1 considered 10 indicate goou ueuun. S6T Every water, save that of springs, contains animal life; but it is not necessarily injurious to health on that account. 86T Postage stamps of the ordinary adhesive variety cost the government about seven and one-half cent^ a thousand. ftS'The average stature of citizens of the! United States is greater than that of English-1 men, Frenchmen, Germans and Irishmen. 8&* They say that money does not bring happiness. This is an experiment, however, which every one wishes to try for himself. 86T If your neighbor's hens are troublesome, and steal across the way, don't let your angry passions rise; fix a place for 'em to lay ! 86f Ealing contests are a feature of the religion of the South Sea Islanders. They hoop themselves like barrels to keep from bursting. 8ST* Energy will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstance, no opportunities will make a man i without it. SOT" The production of silver in the United States for th.e calendar year 1803 has been ; estimated by the directors of the mint at 00,000,000 ounces. 8?" "I saw the lady next door give you a I meal, and you didn't do any work for her, did you ?" Tramp?Yes, ma'am, I tried . to eat the stufFshe gave me. ear a man will lose five hours' sleep play- j ing poker, and not feel half so tired the next morning as he does when he has lost an hour's sleep owing to the baby. Bar A British firm has started the establish-1 nient of a watchmaking concern in Japan for j the manufacture by the Japanese workmen I of watches for Western markets. *8*3?* In the British house of commons there j are 10 newspaper men, 0 printers, 4 tailors, j 3 stationers, 2 butchers, 3 hotel-keepers, G I farmers, 1 coal merchant and 1 cab driver. i 8^* "That's the kind of weather profit for j me," mentally observed the merchant, calmly j charging a customer three dollars for a two- i dollar umbrella one rainy morning a day or j two ago. fiia?" One towboat on the Mississippi, in a j good stage of water, can take from St. Louis to New Orleans a tow carrying 10,000 tons | of grain, a quantity that would require f>01 railroad trains of 10 cars each. OaT" English is spoken by 90,000,000 of peo-: pie ; Russian by 75,000,000; German, 50,000,- \ 000; French, 40,000,000 ; Spanish, 38,000,-j 000; Italian, 20,000,000; Portuguese, 14,000,-' 000, and Scandinavian, 9,000,000. 8ST" In ancient Rome a married man having ! three children was entitled to a better seat in the theatre than less fortunate Benedicts. ; A married man having twelve children was entitled to a robe of honor and a pension. 86?? The new magazine rifle which the French army is experimenting with can be fired one hundred times without being taken from the shoulder, and the cartridges weigh > only half as much as ordinary ammunition. 8?" Some of the native women of Australia have a queer idea of beauty. They cut themselves with shells, keep the wounds open for a long time, and when they heal, huge scars are the result. These scars are deemed highly ornamental. SeT" In Gray county, Kansas, there is a school district that contains only one family. The father, mother and oldest son have elected themselves trustees, and engaged their oldest daughter at $35 a month to teach the younger children. The hanging gardens of Babylon did not hang, nor were they gardens. They were terraces supported by arches and overgrown with trees. They were erected for the amusement of a Babylonian queen who had come from a mountaiuous country. SoT" The postoflice department has a printed circular to send to correspondents who write to ask how much the government pays for canceled stamps. This became necessary on account of the large number of people who seem to think that there is value in such stamps. Most persons will be surprised to learn that a needle in the course of its manufacture and before placed on the market for sale passes through the hands of from 80 to 120 people. Eleven complete processes, each involving several minor operations, are necessary before a sewing needle is fit for sale. fifejTA proposition has been made to take the Columbian Bell to the Holy Land, and on Christmas eve, 1S99, to connect it by cable and wire with all parts of Christendom, so that the one thousand and nine hundredth anniversary of the birth of Christ may be celebrated by all the world at the same instant. W&F Underground London is getting to be many stories deep. The new city and Waterloo underground electric railway, in traversing Queen Victoria street, passes for a considerable distance directly under the low level sewers, which in its turn runs beneath the underground railroad. The electric road at this point is <!2 feet below the surface. It is said that $2,000,000 has been made out of a single brand of chewing gum. It is not all used, by the way, by children and foolish women. Dentists often recommend chewing gum for the teeth, and physicians prescribe it some times as an aid to digestion, because it excites the activity of the salivary glands. Large drug houses keep gum in answer to this demand. fitsT" It has been estimated by competent civil engineers that the Mississippi river an....?ii? ,i;^.i,^,.?.^ m ."oo nnn nno onn fnhic feet of water into the (lulf of Mexico. Of this prodigious quantity the 1-2, 000th part is sediment. Thus it will be seen that the Mississippi annually deposits enough mud in the gulf to cover a square mile of surface to a depth of 240 feet. feaT Among the Sioux Indians a common custom exists. When one family borrows a kettle from another, it is expected, when the i kettle is returned, a small portion of the food that has been cooked in it will be left in the bottom. Should this custom be disregarded by any one, that person would never be aide to borrow again, as the owner must always know what has been cooked in her kettle. feaT There is a church in London, near Charing Cross, from the steeple of which every day at noon a bushel of wheat is thrown out as a donat ion to the pigeons. The wheat is provided by funds left over 200 years ago by an elderly maiden lady. The' pigeons understand the custom perfectly and when the noon bells begin to ring may be1 -een Hying by thousands from every direction toward the church. I iJfclisccUattcou.s landing. I CI RING Ills PAIN. lie came home with u terrible pain in his; back. He was suffering greatly ; pains were racking his spinal column of a nature far I more severe than had ever been suffered by 1 mortal man before?he admitted it himself.1 "Make me a mustard plaster, Mary, and j make it good and strong," he wailed, as he ! threw himself upon the sofa. In a few minutes the patient little wife came in with a plaster about the size of an ordinary sheepskin saddle?good and thick, too. He took it into his sleeping room, and said he'd put it on himself, says the Indianapolis Sentinel. "Why, dear, you can't put it on your back yourself; let me fix it ou for you," and she started to follow him in. "Never you mind, now ; I'll attend to this," he growled. "You go 011 with your work, and see to it that I am not bothered. This pain is killing me by inches," and he shut.the door. Well, he undressed, picked up the plaster from the dresser, and tried to get it on?and there was a circus that came nenr to equalling "the greatest show on earth." He tried to reach back with his hand and lay it on his back, but only succeeded in getting it on his side, while a pint or so of tJie mustard trickled on the lloor and down into his clothes. It didu't feel good, and he got mad. He pulled it off and tried it with the other hand, but got the same result. Then he pinned it on the wall and tried to back up against it, and ran three pins into his hide. As a last resort, he spread the plaster upon the floor, and then lay down to press it on, but miscalculated the distance and got his head in it. As he raised up, with his hair looking like, a glue pot, he 011 the whole greatly resembled a Zulu dressed for a ball. His "talk" during the performance had been getting more and more emphatic, and at last brought his wife in. She prevailed upon him to allow her to arrange the plaster, and, after wiping him of]', she was not to take it off his back, 110 matter how much he howled with the burning, for lie was determined that he would kill that pain. She promised, and, by his instructions, locked the door upon him. He j was alone with the plaster. For a half hour she heard nothing excepting the rattling of the bed-spring as he tossed about; then she heard him walking the floor; then mutterings and grumblings, with an occasional stamp on the floor; then a short and decisive yelp. She smiled. "I guess that will help him if he leaves it 011. I'll let it stay, as lie wanted me to, so he won't be grunting around witn ins nacK ior a week. I had one experience like that with him"?a prolonged howl interrupted her, and she heard the crash of falling china. "Mary, unlock that door and come in here, and take this lava bed off me; I'm no hog; I know when I've had euough." She was just going over to a neighbor's to get a little codec for supper, and thought she'd wait till she got back. As she stepped into the house, ten minutes later, blows of heavy boots were threatening to hreak in the door, while screeches and roars came from within that room. "Open the door, or I'll break it in, and turn in the fire alarm !" he yelled. "This outrage means a divorce, and you might as well make up your mind to it." There was a final struggle, a rippling and tearing, as she got the door open she saw she was too late. Sticking up against the i mirror was a dark and soggy mass, while! her lord was doing his best to get his back | down into the wash howl. Of course, it was upset, and the Hood of water added to the ruin. He put on his clothes, and, he stamped out of the house, stopping to hiss between his teeth : "You'll pay dearly for this, madam ; mark my words," and he was gone. That night he came in about S o'clock, with his arms fillet! with fruit and confections. The plaster had stopped the pain. ? ? CORPSE WONDERFULLY PRESERVED. One of the most shocking chapters in the history of the French Revolution is that which tells of the desecration of the graves of the royal rulers of France. The remains of these kings and queens were stored away in the sacred vaults of the church of St. Denis. They represented the deaths in the royal line from the time of Dagobert I., and among them were the remains of 50 kings and an equal number of queens. They were in all conditions from a few scattered bones to leathery mummies, which seemed to defy the corroding touch of time. The corpse that was most remarkably preserved was what had in life been Henry IV. A witness who was present when the Revolurwl (rlinlllilScIl fllPV tfl tllA UUIllM* IUI1ICU U1VII ^iivuiuiwi* -"'j vw V..W graves at St. Denis says: "Anyone who had ever seen Henry's image could have recognized him in the midst of a thousand bodies, his features, even though he had been dead over 200 years, were, so little i altered. It looked as if putrefaction was afraid to approach the heroic remains. Yet, i the profane hands of the Dantonites took ' them from the tomb and dragged them in j the mud.'' A soldier who was present cut off a por-! tion of the king's long beard and another, emboldened by the act of his cowardly com-1 rade, produced a pair of forceps and pulled a ! few of the monarch's teeth, which he after wards sold as relics. From the vault the re-; mains were taken to a street corner and the coflin placed iu an upright position against a ' pillar, where they were in plain view of and subjected to outrageous insults of the hood- j lums of the blood-drenched capital of France, j Hoys pelted the feelingless mummy with stones and decayed vegetables, men (?) prod-! ded it with their canes and creatures that were supposed to be women, thumped and kicked all that the "cold, chill hand of death" had left of "Henry the (iood." Finally a gigantic being in skirts and petticoats but with no other marks that would class it as being of the genus homo, gender feminine, "squared off and struck the dead face a blow sufficient to knock the head from the shoulders and send it rolling in the dust, j This ended the horrid spectacle and the remains were taken to a room in one of the public buildings, where they lie unburied even to this day. ? now infill was -ijaiiki/s tower?" The exact date of the building of "Nimrod's Folly," as the Chaldeans say in alluding to the Scriptural "Tower of Habel," (the i Armenians speak of it as the "Tower of the Confusion of Tongues,") or the height to: which it penetrated the rarefied atmosphere ! of the oriental plains, will, perhaps, never be known. The date of the laying of the! famous structure is ususually set at 2,2-17 years before Christ, or iu the year of the flood *101. The expression oft he sacred historian that its top was to "reach unto Heaven" is now set down as a strong Hebrew phrase denoting a very lofty tower, but not necessarily meaning one that would reach to the abiding place of t lie Lord and His hosts. Proof that this is prohnhlc may he found in several places in Holy Writ. The walls of the cities of Canaan are described by Moses in a similar phraseology. The spies sent out by him returned and reported that the cities of that country were great and were "walled up to Heaven."' See Deuteronomy i,2S and ix, 1. There is a Jewish legend recorded in the Talmud which tells us that (Sod did not put a stop to the building of the tower until it had reached a height of 10,000 fathoms, which is equal to nearly 12 English miles. The sacred historians have not in a single : instance left data upon which we can base a calculation of its exact height and general dimensions, and it is because of this omission, no doubt, that the imaginative orientals and other ancient writers have given such fabulous and extravagant traditions concerning it. Even St. Jerome alleges, from the testimony of eye-witnesses, who claimed to have seen and examined the ruins of the skyscraping shaft. that in his day, (horn :M"> A. D.) it was over four miles high. While con- ( sideling these untenable notions, it may not he out of place to mention that other fanciful writers make its height range all the way from a single furlong to o,000 miles in height. Machinery has now become so perfected that establishments now oiler to remove trees from six to twenty feet in diatn- \ tor from one locality to another. Such trees i are now lifted, together with from one to four tons of soil, ami reset before one's door. Tree moving began in the West, and records its greatest success there, but quite large undertakings of this kind have lately been successfully carried out in New Kngland. I'eo-j pie used to have to wait for trees to grow.! Now a man can buy quite a respectable ready-made forest, all grown. She ?>tovi? ?eUcr. THE CHEMIST'S STORY. .1 Til HI I.LI X<t SKETCH. It was about 11 o'clock on a stormy evening that I bid eood night to my student, Tom Richards, at the door of my laboratory, at the south end of the college. "Good-night, professor," said Tom : "we are going to have a fall of hydrogen, oxygen ' and a trace of saline." Hvdrniren and ovxeen?in our nomenclat urc, 1120?is water. 'I hope," I said in answer to Tom's playful words, " that it will not rain before I can : get home." "Oh, no; it won't for an hour yet," said : Tom. "Then," said I with a sigh, noticing that the mercury in my barometer was rapidly falling, a sign of a violent storm, "I shall certainly get wet." Tom was very anxious to know what would | keep me up after 12 o'clock ; so I told him I was about to commence analyzing the stomach of a Mrs. Johnson, whose husband now lay in P. jail, just across the road from the college, on suspicion that he was the murderer. Tom said that I had worked hard i enough that day, and deserved the night to myself. He spoke the truth. Still I had delayed examining the woman's stomach so long, and the trial was so close at hand, that I could not in conscience put off the examination farther. As Tom was passing out of the college I yard through the gate, his head turned bid-1 ding me good night, he brushed against ai man standing with his back to the college' and his face towards the prison. The street | lamp showed me that the man was clad in ; the police uniform. Re-entering my laboratory, I took down a glass jar from a shelf and sat down before my sink to examine it. This jar, which contained Mrs. Johnson's stomach, was covered by a cloth, duly tied with strings, and prop- i erly sealed with my official seal in red wax. Breaking through the cloth and seal, I lifted the stomach out with a dissecting hook, and laid it on a white platter before me, then became busily engaged in applying those tests to its contents by which we detect the presence of injurious substances. An hour had passed since the departure of young Richards. I had carefully emptied the contents of the stomach into a number of bowls and basins. I had labored hard to discover traces of poison in all this, but had been unsuccessful. Joe Johnson, the suspected man, had been a student of mine a few years before. I thought him a goodhearted. intelliirent fellow, onlv a little wild. and I really began to hope that he might prove innocent, when, among the macerated food, I came upon a small, infinitesimal white grain. By careful manipulation, and the use of my magnifying glass, I managed to get this upon a piece of smoked glass, and examined it. I was then certain I had discovered arsenic, hut, to make assurance doubly sure, I determined to apply a well known test for that poison. Accordingly I placed in the woman's stomach the usual acids, and then turned on the blow-pipe flame, and presently, upon a white and beautiful porcelain ground, there appeared that brilliant metallic mark, worthy of Cain's brow, which is the sign and signet of the Poison Fiend. "Yes," I exclaimed, as I saw the futal blazon, "Joe Johnson is the murderer of his wife; with the evidence of that mark to back me, no power can save him from the rope." "Do you really think so?" said a calm, squeaking voice behind me. I turned quickly, and discovered a tall, thin policeman, having red, weak and watery eyes, standing at my oflice door, and staring in. His body looked as if it had been rolled out long between hands, like a molasses candy stick. His nose was merely an elongated fleshy plug, and his forehead was decorated with two red streaks instead of eyebrows. He had no expression at all in his face, and his policeman's hat was so large that it threatened to settle down on his shoulders. His uniform reassured me, and I addressed him thus, with some impatience : "My friend, I suppose I am wanted to attend an inquest, or what is your purpose?" "No, doctor, the man ain't dead yet." "Anything in the surgical way?" I was police surgeon as well as coroner. "\*n ? id the very middle or u choice extract troin one of my lectures. "Why, hut you hain't told me how it goes oil". If lire won't bust it what in?hem?will?" "I told him that if it were pressed, or anything fell upon it, it would explode. 'TIaee it under the crusher of a eidermill, strike it with a hammer, let a weight fall upon it from a height?" "Yes," said my man; "and that rouses its voleaner. does it ? How does it come, perfessor ?" "In little cans?why, like these," said I, discovering that there was a little can of it on the marble sink, which I had carelessly neglected to replace in the cellar. 1 then took a little of the glycerine and spread it on a thin piece of paper, and, laying the paper on an anvil, struck it with a hammer. A slight explosion and a llame burst from the paper. "Now. really," said the policeman, starting back ; "I suppose, perfessor, that there can would make a mighty noise if allowed to explode in here all to once?" "It would blow the entire building to atoms," said I resuming the analysis of Mrs. Johnson's stomach. "No," I heard the policeman remark, in deliberate Yankee tones : "you don't say so?" The next moment I lay on my back, a gag j in my mouth, terribly frightened and sick at heart. Over me stood the policeman, and the first thing that functionary did was? looking me straight in the face?to takeoff' his nose. He then rid himself of his red eyebrows, hair, cap, and overcoat, and be0:11110 a determined lookimr fellow, with the eyes of a fiend and the nose of a Roman. ' So yon think," said the metamorphosed, in the tones of a gentleman, "that nothing! can save Joe Johnson from the rope? Poor fellow ! it looks like it. Rut, my dear pro-j fessur, Joe Johnson is fortunate enough to 1 have in me a devoted friend, as well as brother. I have undertaken to save him, and he shall be saved. In order to this end, it will be necessary to remove from the face , of the earth not only the stomach of his J miserable wife yonder, but also, my dear! professor?I'm sorry to be obliged to say it, | for I believe you were my brother's teacher! and friend?yourself as well." I saw that he was in deadly earnest. "Your death must apparently result from"; accident?at least, so it must seem to the I authorities. My brother is in jail: they will not suspect him ; and they certainly will not | suspect me." What terrible deed was on his brain hatching? Was he going to murder me? ^The ' hard-earned knowledge of a score of yeai's 11 would have given for power to utter one | single cry. He took me in his arms and placed me in a chair, and hound me to it, and (hen from a side pocket he produced another rope. Was it myself who was going to hang in- j stead of Joe Johnson ? No ; yes. He placed the line pulley-like; over an ann of the hanging chandelier. This i was too slight a support even for one of my slender frame. It was not to he hanging then. To one end of the rope he attached a j weight, and raised it by pulling the other end (! or 8 feet -from the lloor. The loose' end he secured to the sink. Was he mad? did he mean to draw me under this weight, I and seud out of the world in a novel way, by ! letting it fall and dashing my brains out ? | To the sink end he attached a long, yel-1 low string. Under the weight on the tloor he placed | the can of nitro-glycerine. I recognized the J yellow string; it was a fuse, and would burn ! (10 minutes. It would buru across the mar- [ ble slab?there was 110 hope of it igniting! anything that might warn my friends. ''Do you begin to see through it?" asked Joe Johnson's brother. I believe I cursed him with my eyes. I i could only breathe through my nostrils, and i the great veins were swelling and growing! hot in my forehead. Drawing a match from his pocket, lie lighted and applied it to the fuse, that little tyrant that gave a man an hour to live, and killed him at the end of it?that little irre- j sponsible terror that, less merciful than! Providence, told a man the second he was to \ die, if fright and horror spared him to itself.! Slowly the flame crept, snake-like, around j the twine. "In one hour," said the poisoner's brother, "you will be in heaven or hell. I will watch with you for half an hour; the other half: you will spend alone." He sat down some minutes in a chair, j ! watching the flame. Then he arose and 1 took the piece of porcelain with the murder-1 er's mark thereon from the table, and shook his head gloomily. "I am chemist enough to know it is arse-1 nic." he said. "Yes: those briubt metallic' "Well, then, why do you send for me at this time of night ?" "Don't bother, professor; the man ain't dead yet, but they say he will die before morning." "Are the doctors attending him?" "Oh, he's in good hands professor." "What is the matter with him?" "Well," said the official, "some folks say he's got so much knowledge into him that he can't live under it." "Cerebral disorder, eh?" "What?" asked the man. "Bruin disorder, I mean ; something wrong here ?" I touched my forehead, and so did he, as he said: "Aye; and I thought I'd drop in and tell you if you was going to the station tomorrow, to take a look and see if it's post mortem or not. Besides, I wanted to see where I could always find you in cuseofneed." I bowed, and attributed his visit to a feeling of curiosity. He sat on the sink, with one rubbered foot thrown over the other, and wiped his nose with a dirty handkerchief several times, while his eyes wandered about like Christopher Columbus after discoveries. Finally he spoke, like one who thought himself called on to say something. "l'erfessor, there been a terrible accident this arternoon?terrible, too." "Ah!" said I. "Awful !" said he. "What was it ?" "Xitro-gly-cerine explosion up in the iron mills: a hundred fellow mortals busted." "Sad !" "Affecting, very!" Here he rubbed his mouth with the back of his hand. "l'erfessor, what is that nitro-gly-cerine?" "It is a very dangerous article," I answered, happy to display my knowledge. "It has nearly twice the destruct iveness of gun powder, but, unlike it, does not explode on the application of heat. A red-hot coal dropped into it will not explode it. It will freeze; it is yellow and greasy." "You don't mean to say so!" said the officer, interrupting me in disagreeable tones [ eyes, betrayer of the guilty ! Science, thou i ! wouldst kill my brother. Thou shalt save ! ' him. Let us sec in whose hands thou art J most powerful. Here is a man who, by thy ! | aid, bids the poison-sprite uprise and write i in brilliant characters a foul confession on this piece of porcelain. But behold, O Sci-] ence, it is no sooner written than, by thy | aid, the whole confession and thy chosen i servant are annihilated. Let the good pro-! fessor use his chemicals; the bad brother only asks?a little can of nitro-glyeerine." I heard this speech, indeed; but great j , heavens! it was my eyes and not my ears, j that were busiest then. For from beneath , j the table, covered by the crimson cloth of I which I have before spoken, and which 1 J faced, appeared the head of a child. The hair was rumpled, and the blue eyes were I just open from sleep. The intelligent fore-j head was wrinkled strangely. It was my boy Billy. I was afraid he would cry! "papa!" If he did, the implacable man would add the murder of the child to the j murder of the father. But my boy did none of tliis. lie had, I | suppose, crept under the table unknown to ! me, and fallen asleep there. I tried to tell j the little fellow to hide again, and wait for j i the final half hour when my tormentor would ( I be gone. Whether ho understood me or not, j ! aided by what he had heard, I did not) ! know; but he quickly withdrew his little | curly head, first kissing his hand lightly at j i me, and then shaking his list at the schemer! j watching so belligerently his dumb fire-! I agents. The half hour wore slowly away. Oh, j heavens, what agony did I suffer! not for j myself, but for my child. A slight noise i might discover his presence; the match j might run its tether sooner than was expect- j : ed. He might be murdered or blown to atoms. The fuse burned on?on. The half hour! j is up. The brother of the murderer rises to go. ! Joy !" "Commit your soul to God's keeping," he I ! said. "You who hold the evidence of1 ; my brother's guilt?nothing can save you | I now." With that he turned to take his hat from j I oir the table covered with the crimson cloth, ! beneath which hid my priceless boy. Some- j thing attracted his attention. He held out j hands and leaned forward. I thought | lie had discovered my boy. No; he was j lifting something in either hand?the wires of j the electric battery. In another instant my hoy had leaped from under the table, and ; was turning the crank fast and furiously, i The murderer's brother was in the power j of my boy. lie could not drop the wires; he was helpless and motionless. How my | boy cried for help. The old college rung: again. The prisoner's brother added his I voice to my boy's in his agony. He begged,; | he hesecchcd?all his nerves were racked? i great waves of galvanism leaped, and surged, | and trembled, and jarred over every sensitive ! nerve and fibre. Still my boy was inflexible, i shouted and turned the faster. I'npereeived upon the marble, in the track of the burning fuse, was a pool of inflammable oil. In an instant a great length burned j away. It would last just five minutes, and i no more. "Father !" shouted my boy, "if no assistance comes, this villain must die with us. I [dare not let him free. Help! help! help!" ! Alas! I could not answer him. But some one else did. Thank God ! The j fuse is burnt up. The rope is on fire, the [ weight trembles; another minute it falls upon the nitro-glycerine. The door opens ; j Tom Richards, on a midnight visit to the |sick, has heard the cry. He comprehends all, seizes the can in his hands?the weight [ descends, indeed, but not on the deathII " x* > 1. tl.n dealing 011. I) ; (low u liiiuii^ii ' office floor, down, down, like an evil spirit, j to give hark a dull, metallic echo from the; stones of the cellar beneath. We were saved. Joe Johnson, the poisoner, was hanged, i hut his brother remains unpunished by the j law, for he stabbed himself with a knife, and , thus escaped the hangman's rope. i ni ,_ ^PomferJ Absolutely A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in lea veiling strength.?Latest United States (iovenunenl Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall Street, N. Y. Till: STATIC OK SOUTH CAItOUNA. York County. WHICH HAS W. HltoWN WYLIIC, ('. ('. ('. i Fleas, has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of JOS1CIMI L. PLICXICO, late of the county aforesaid, deceased : , These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to he and appear before me, at our llC.Xt ITOIMte * nun lorwic sum ri>iiui>, u> nr hoidcn at York Court House on the 14th day of JCN10, 1NK4, at 1(1 o'clock a. in., to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should not be granted. (liven under my Hand and Seal, this *>th day i of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and in tin! llNlh year of American Independence. W. II. McCOKKLK, l'rohate Judge of York Countv. May ! IK (it CHi:STi:it I'KIS FOR SAI.K. rpHOROrdHMHKI) OHIO IMIMtoVKll I CIIKSTKIt l'KJS for sale. For further information, address, II. M. Dl'LIN, Howling (Ireen, S. ('. May K IK tf j ! Only the Scars Remain, j "Among the many testimonials which I see in regard to certain medicines performing cures, cleansing the blood,' etc.," writes Henry Hudson, of tho James Smith * Woolen Machinery Co., Philadelphia, Pa., "none impress me more than my. f | own case. Twenty years ago, at the age of 18 years, I had swellings come 011 my legs, which broke and became running sores. Mm B Our family physician could llw * do inc no good, and it was JHj K* feared that the. hones K would be affected. At last, lu Eft my good old mother LJ Kg urged 1110 to try Aycr's M Ezi Sarsaparilla. I took three Kg bottles, the sores healed, I |a B5 and I have not been ^ H troubled since. Only tho ^ -J wfl scars remain, and the memory of the past, to remind me of the good oyer's Sarsaparilla has done me. I now weigh two hundred and twenty pounds, and am in the best of health. I have been on the road for the past twelve years, have noticed Ayer's Sarsaparilla advertised in all parts of the United States, and always take pleasure in telling what good it did for me." For the cure of all diseases originating In impure blood, the best remedy is AYER'S Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. J. 0. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Cures others, will cure you He Held Up His Hands j This picture illustrates one of the many striking scenes in our new Serial entitled A YANKEE IN BRAY BY M. QUAD The greatest of American novelists. Don t miss the opening chapters. It was written for this paper and is COPYRIGHTED AND ILLUSTRATED ; Fifty Cents will Secure THE ENQUIRER for Three Months. You Don't Have To Die To get your insurance under the Tontine Plan of the EQUITABLE LIFE. It is a simple and absolutely safe means of investing your earnings for future emergencies and acquiring the benefit of Life insurance at the same time. It insures you a means of support in after years and insures your family against want i:i case of your death. The name of th: I T7 I* 1 a T ? ~F/~i Eliunauic Lilt 1 alone is an ironclad agreement of / safety. Its security; its contracts; its surplus and resources are not excelled in the world. We will ; make all this .as plain as day t-> you if you will send your address t > W. J. RODDEY, Manager, Department of the Carolinas, ROCK HILL, S. C. 1 | Schedules in Effect from and After March 25. 1 S?4. G. W. F. Harper, President. liol.Vc; NoHTII. | Nolo. I No 00. I 1a'u\c Chester 0 10 a in 0 00 a in Leave Lowrysville 7 07 a m 0 :t*? a in i Leave MeConnellsvllle 7 'JO a m 10 00 a in Leave (iuthriesville 7 :1a a in 10 l"> a in Leave York vilie 7 ;*>7 a in 11 00 a in Leave Clover S :10 a in 11 4:t pin Leave (iustoiiia !? OS a in 1 20 inn Leave Lineolnton 10 10 a in 2 i."> pin Leave Newton 11 12 a in 1 1.") pin Leave Hickory 12 20 pin 0 20 pin Arrive Lenoir I :t0 pin S 00 inn i iioiNo sorrii. | No 01. | Noli, i Leave Lenoir "> :t0 a in :! I."? pin 1 Leave Hickory 7 01 a in A 10 }> in 1 Leave Newton S 20 a in "> IS p in ! Leave Lineolnton 10 10 a in 0 12 pin | ! > -Jl .. ... 7 -dl l.t'llVI- I I- I' IX I ,. ... LcilVC I'loVCf I ."jl j> III S (111 j> III Leave Yorkville (I'l jmi s 12 f> m Leave (iiilliriesville :t :K! pin !? 02 inn Leave MeCniinellsville I"> pin !> 12 pin Leave Lowrysvillc I 12 pin !?:U pin | Arrive Chester I >"> pin 1(1 IK! jnn Trains Nos. !i ami Kl are lirst-elass, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. (it) and lil carry passengers and also run daily except Sunday. There is good connection at Chester with the (5. C. A X., and the C. A* A.; also at (lastonia with the A. A- ('. A. I?.; at Liueohiton with the and at llickorv and Newton with the \V. N. C. L. T. NK'IIoLS, Superintendent, i II. II. HKAHD.tieneral Passenger Agent. March lis (i tl CAUTION.?If a dealer oflers XV. L, Douglas Shoes at a reduced price, or says ho has them without name stamped on bottom, put him down as a fraud. CO GUAET best in 9g O raw EI the world. W. L. DOUGLAS Shoes are stylish, easy fitting, and give better satisfaction at the prices advcrtiscd than any other make. Try one pair and be convinced. The stamping of W. L. Douglas* name and price on the bottom, which guarantees Oioir vnln* c-ivxa thousands of dollars annuallv to those who wear them. Dealers who push the sale of W. L. Douglas Shoes gain customers, which helps to increase the sales on their full line of goods. They can afTord to sell at a less profit, and we believe you can save money bv buying all your footwear of the dealer advertised below. Catalogue free upon application. Address, W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mugs, bold by ,L J. S3ILTII, ( lover, S. C. C. AV. FREW, Rock Hill, S. <\ January 10 - -It for Infants and Children. " C'astoria isso well adapted to children that Castorin euros Colic, Constipation, I recommend it as sujieriortoany prescription Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, l.nown to me." II. A. Archer, M. I)., Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes dill 1 So. Oxford St., Drooklyn, N. Y. gestion, Without injurious medication, "Tho u.? of 'C'astoria is so universal and "For several years I have recommended ::s merits so well known that it seems a work your 'C'astoria,' and shall always continue to i f su>'rerogalion to endorse it. Few are the do so as it has invariably produced beneficial intelligent families who do not keep C'astoria results," \.l:liia eay reach." Edwin F. Pardee, M. P., C a::u>s -Iartyn, I), D., 135th Street and 7th Ave., New York City. New York City. The C'entacr Company, 77 Mcrray Street, New York City. GARRY IRON ROOFING COMPANY, Manufactures nil kinds of S| IRON ORE FAINT IKON ROOFING, And Cement. crimped and coKKirtiATKD.sidixg, 152TO 158 M ERW1N ST., kike proof books, .siiI'TTEits. ,tr.. p ^ "JMr? Send for Circular ? ~ and Price List No. 75. THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. p^S- Orders received by L. M. GRIST. DO YOU DENY THE CHARGE? FOR several years you have been fully conscious of the fact that by the use of a COR BIX DISK HARROW you could reduce the expenses 011 your farm and at the same time increase the producing power of your land. You have known this because you have seen statements to that effect in these columns signed by some of the best farmers in York and Chester counties? men whose word you would not think of doubting in any statement they might make to'you. Isn't the foregoing absolutely correct ? Now, here, doubtless, are some of the reasons you have assigned for not buying, and I will say that none or all of them are worth the time employed in thinking them out: First. "My land is different the man's who made the statement as to his experience with the harrow." Second. "Times are too hard." Third. "The price is too high, if I will only wait they will get cheaper." Fourth. "Perhaps I can get one low down from some fellow who has got tired ofhis, or perhaps I may be able to get a bargain in one at some public sale," etc., etc. For answer to "reason" No. 1 I will say that there is 110 soil in York county, or anywhere else, that can be cultivated at all 011 which the harrow ^ cannot be used to advantage. To No. 2 I will say that the harrow is a time and money saver, therefore the reason is an argument in favor of buying instead of not buying. To No. 3 I reply that there is not the least probability of a reduction in price for the reason that it is very low now, especially when the quantity and d quality of work it will do is taken into consideration.. It is cheaper in proportion than an Iron Foot Plow Stock at $1.00. I11 reply to No. 4 I will ask how many you have known to be sold in the past five years "because the owners were tired of them" and how many have you known to sell at a reduced price at a public sale? Now say ? I tell you what I know. Several years ago I sold a harrow to three farmers, and after using it for more than a year two of them sold out their interest for $2 <?. less than the entire harrow cost the three. Sold one to another farmer. He used it one year, was compelled to raise some cash to pay a note, and sold his harrow for $1 less than he paid me for it. SAM M. GRIST, State Agent, Yorkville, S. C. THE INQUIRER" ' ch&rleston. cincinn&ti & chica&q a &. SAMUEL HUNT, Agent for Purchaser. MIM! HAM IS. IMPROVED, HIGH ARM, PERFECTED, j . ! npiMK TABLE of the Charleston, Cincinnati Shipped on Approval and Guaranteed to JL and Chicago Railroad in effect from and afGive Entire Satisfaction, and if Not Sat- ; ter April 9, 1H94, Daily Except Sunday, isfactory after a Test of TWENTY STANDARD EASTERN TIME. DAYS in Your Home, the Ma going noutii. | No..?. | Noll. . , Leave Charleston, (S. C. U. R.).. 7 15 am chine \\ ill be Taken Back and Leave Augusta, " 0 50 am Voiif Mniwv Itel'inideil Leave Columbia. " It 30 um xoui Aionej I undid. Arrive at Camden, ' 1250 pm ^SSHL Leave Camden 1 10 pm a. a a Leave Kershaw 2 :t0 pm hiive I-minister :t -15 pm Leave Catnwha Junction t -15 j>m N WrC? Leave Leslies I 55 pm ? Ijm.v,. Mill 5 45 um " Arrive :it (Mncinimti/tii.'A(*'.)' 7 a) am I1S1SHF.1) IX OAK OH MALSi r v. ,, xr .I.v/> UFAltAXTEEIi FOR TEX YEAHS. ?('in^nn^H a! t r i ?* " ' -m '' Leave Cincinnati, (Q. & C.) 7 00 pm - * Leave Louisville, (L. & N. K. H.).. 8 00 pm This Elegant Machine Delivered. Freight Paid. uSipm at any Railroad Station East of the {^e Kound Kn^ZZZ:::::::: apm Roekv Mountains, for $23,110. Arrive utMarlon,...... 4 :ti pm Ix-nve .Marion 4 45 pm THE KNQl'IltKH has .sent out a large mull- Leave Kutlierfordton 0 10 pm her of the best grades of Sewing Machines *'!}/ 5 5{Pm in the past tivc years, ami in view of the fact j^ve ioiSfczr:.:::::::::::: :::::::::::: f i? K that the business has grown to such proportions Leave Shelby ? 45 am Mtstpm as to warrant it, we have recently perfected an j Leave Patterson Springs u .% am 8 :W pm arrangement for the manufacture of TIIK | Leave Earls 7 Oil am s 48 pm KXtjriKKK SKWIXtJ MACHINE, and we Leave Blucksburg 7 45 am 0 Oil pm are now prepared to furnish them to all who Leave Smyrna.... 8 00 am ?;M, i>,!y, .irst uj?? i,isi, gnuie so,vi,,B M.- | ;;;;; chine at less than halt the price at which such a j<eave Yorkville 9 07 am machine is usually sold by peddlers and dealers. Leave Tirzah o 2i am A Few Fact3 About The Enquirer Machine, F[ii'!;;;;;;;; 10.15 am The accompanying engraving gives a correct J Tinrtiom~Z it 00 am * idea ot the machine. It is as near perfection as Leave Ijincaster 12 00 pm any machine on the market. Any kind of Leave Kershaw....!.!..!.."..."............ ?F 05 pm work can be done on it that any other machine Arrive at Camden 2 oo pin will do. All wearing parts are case harden- Leave Camden, (S. c. It. H.) 2 :? pm ed steel, and are fitted so accurately that Arrive Columbia ' ii 15 pm these machines are as absolutely noiseless and Arrive at Augusta,...." 12 15 am easy running as line adjustment and best me- Arrive at Charleston." 8 43 pm cliimical skill are possible to produce. No ex- 9 Dinner. pelisc or time is spared to make them perfect in nTIIElt CONNECTIONS every respect. The lmlane,-wheel an. many of Um.asl0,._wit|, Cheraw and Chester X. <L the fine parts are nickel plated, with other parts ,..,j|m.l(| for Chester finely enameled and ornamented, giving it a ' Catawba Junction?With <!. C. and N. it. H. rich appearance. 1 he niaehine is ti ted with , H(?.k jnil-No..!:! with "Vestibule Limited" the Improved Automatic Dobbin \; JJJ'jv It : If. and I>. It. It. arriving at Charlotte 8.:t0 p. also has a self-set ling needle and s. ll-thieadiiig I m . Wiishington 7.20 a. in.; Philadelphia 10.40; cylinder shuttle. I he simplicity of the auto-1 x- ... Y.,rk i ... malic tensions, sewir.g fro... Nns. 40 to 100 thread * Ynrkville-With Chester and Lenoir It. It. without altering, recommends it not only to, M?,.|{s|,unj_\vitli it.andD.lt.lt., for Sparex cry beginner, but to am,. ..-i.,,, tanbnrg, Creenville, Atlanta and points South: Each niaehine is in peitict xxoiking rdi i amj charlotte and points North, when shipped, and is accompanied u ill. printed sho]|lV_Wit,, Carolina Centml It. It., with mtruet ions and a complete se of tools and all s(j to Cleveland Springs, necessary attachments, m a handsome plush u Ko(IdevSt oM J,oil^ Kilt^s rreek lined case. I he attachments are the lust. London, trains stop onlv on signal. //on to oft tiii: mai iuxi:. s. d. lumpkin, <;. p. a. i.vroitr.txr i.Mi (HtM.t Tio.\. a. i iti tr. ^' 1rj111oiuioni. SAM L III NT, ( cneral Manager. The price of the Machine is $43. IN o (lelivi'r it at your nearest railroail station free ot freight h. ^ j. s. iikick charges, provided von live east ot the Kooky I*INI,E% <!k ItKICh, Mountains. TlIE'EXlll'IltER will bo sent ATTOHNKVM AT LAW, free tor one year to every purchaser ot a machine. Yorkville, S. C. The cash liiust accompany the A LL business entrusted to us will be given money bylvx press, Money Order, Kegistered iY prompt attention. etter or New ^ ork Exchange. OFFICE IN THE BUILDING ATTIIE REAR WAK11AXTHI) FOR TEN YEARS. oK H< r< STRAUSS'S STORK. The usual warrantee by wliieh we replace any ^^? iMWrarcf SIK <rhc ^ilovluiUr tihuiutrct shuttles, needles and bobbins, goes with everv | Machine. After tiie Machine has been received, ? . vou liave the privilege of returning it within PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 'fWENTY davs, if not satisfactory. Is that , fair? TERMS OF SUltSCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, $ 4 on iNO VARIATION. One copy lor two years, 3 SO We have endeavored to say here all that we For six months too could say in a letter. There can be no change of hot* three months, so terms. D< ask for any variation. Machines Two copies for one year 3.10 are sitipped direct from the factory, and are not Ten copies one year, 17 AO on exhibition at our ollice. We know you will he And an extra copy for a club ot ten._ pleaseii with the machine when you get it, and ADV ERTISEM KNTS you know if it should happen to be unsatisfacto- Inserted at One Dollar per square for the first ry, you can send it back within TWENTY insertion, and Fifty Cents per square for each DAYS and get vourSi't.tH). Address subsequent insertion. A square consists of the l.KWl's >i. (iitisT, Yiirkvillc, s. < . space occupied by eight lines of this size type. Contracts for advertising space for three, UNDERTAKING. s'x, or twelve months will be made on reasonable terms. The contracts must in all eases be con lined to the regular ^business of the linn'or BBB contracted for, will be required'to pnyat the'rate * I AM handling a first class line of COFFINS usually charged for the less space or shorter time AND CASK ETS which I will sell at the very as the case may be. An increase of space or lowest prices. Personal attention at all hours. time will be a matter for special contract. The I am prepared to repair all kinds of Furniture ; advertiser will be at liberty to change the matter at reasonable prices. j at will, provided the copy for the change is in J. hi) Jhl'J hit i S. j the olhre not inter than 111 in. on Monday preJanuarv4 1 tl" [ ceding the day of publication.