Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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gumotous fjqiartnieut. Trading a Horse.?They say when a man goes to trading horses he can uo longer be honest, at least in respect to horses, and yet, "they say," may be mistaken. At least it occured to me so, one day, as riding a pleasant road I met a man on horseback. "Want to buy a horse?" he inquired. "What you want for him ?" said I. "$200," said he. "What do you ask for him ?" said I. "$175," said he. ? a. ?;ii u: on T -- ?Y uui win you iuko lor uiui .- sum i. "$150," said he. "What will you get for him ?" said I. "$125," said he. "What did you give for him ?" said I. "$100," said he. "What is he worth ?" said I. "$75," said he. I reckon you don't want to buy a horse, mister," and he rode into a yard of a big establishment I could see through the trees. "What's that building?" I asked of a man a hundred yards farther on. "Lunatic asylum," he replied curtly, and I steered in the other direction. The Twins.?"Boss," he whispered, as he leaned over the counter, "de old woman wants some tea mighty bad, and I hasn't got any money." "Can't help that, sir," was the reply. "I'm giving more than I can afford to without taking on any new applications." "'Zactly, boss?I presume so. Boss, please give me your full name." "John Y. Blank." "An' dat of you parduer." "His name is William J. Jones. What do you want with our names ?" "Wall, I didn't get tea, but you used me like a gemlen, an' bein' as we got twins in our family I'ze gwine to name 'em arter you an' your pardner." "Oh !" you said tea, eh ? Why, yes, I'll be happy to put you up half a pound. Green or Japan?" Twins, eh? Hope the mother is doing well. Say, if you want those boys to make smart men give 'em smart names. If I were you I'd call 'em Washington and Jefferson." Equal to the Situation.?The showman, Barnum, was always equal to a situation, said a Saratoga woman the other day. Years ago, when Tom Thumb was his only attraction, he came to Saratoga and attempted to give an entertainment. The village fathers, however, scared him away by the price of their license, and he went to Ballston, the next town, and advertised the performance. A special train was run from here, and a great many of us went down on it. When the curtain went up, Barnum name out and made a little speech. ''Ladies and gentlemen," he began "it was my first intention to give this entertainment in Saratoga, but I soon discovered there were some men in that place so much smaller than my famous Tom Thumb, that it would be useless to attempt competition with them." The Saratogians laughed as hard as the Ballston folks, and the hit was retailed for many a day. His Circus.?"I say, John, did ye see the circus ?" yelled a little boy to another, last evening. "No-o-o-o, I didn't see the circus," sneeringly said John, who had been kept in the house for disobedience. "Humph ! You ought to have beeu there; j biggest show you ever seed ; elephant and ; carmel and boa contwisters aud?and every-1 thing! If I couldn't go to the circus I'd j . run away." "Who wants to goto your old circus?" yelled John. "I had a circus all to myself. Tied the milk can to the cat's tail and the cat knocked down two flower pots, and smashed the cucumber frame, and broke a pane of glass in the dining room window. Git away wid yer old circus ; been to more'n four hundred, and didn't have so much fun ; and didn't git licked, nutherand the boy who had been to the circus felt as if he had got hold of the castor-oil bottle by mistake. The Machine Could Stand It.?The stranger at the hotel approached the typewriter girl stationed in the reading room and said with some embarrassment, according to the Inter-Ocean : "I want to send a letter to a man in Milwaukee, and I haven't time to sit down and write it. It wouldn't take you more tliau three or four minutes to click it off from my dictation, would it?" "No, sir." "And that's what you are here for, isn't it?" "Yes, sir." "The?the man I want to write to has j played me a scurvy trick in a business trans- j action and I want to use some pretty strong j language. I didn't know whether?wlieth-! er you would." "I guess the machine can stand it/' said j the typewriter girl with a yawn. "Fire! away." In the Interim.?"You are doing nice-; ly," said the doctor encouragingly to an old ' darkey patient. "I will call again tomor-| row, and will leave you this prescription j now, to save you from pain in the interim." Then he went out. "Da's er 'scription dat de doctah lef," said the patient feebly to his wife, "an' I want yo' ter go to de drug sto' an' git it i filled. Tell de drug sto' man dat it's fo' my j interim, an' be sho an' ax him ef I'se ter! take it eternally, or jess rub it on the out-1 side, an' ef so whar." S&* Her lips quivered, and her breath | came iu labored gasps, but she did not speak, j "Do you love me?" he anxiously demanded,! seizing her shrinking hand. "I?I don't! know," she faltered. Gently he insinuated ; his arm about her. "Darling," he mur-1 mured, "would you like to have me ask your j mamma first?" With a sudden cry of ter-j ror she grasped his arm. "No, no, no !" she | shrieked convulsively. "She is a widow. 11 want you myself." She clung to him until J he solemnly promised that be would say nothing to the old lady for the present. Amicably Adjusted.?"Do you mean to call me a liar?" asked one rival railroad man, during a dispute they had on business.1 "No, colonel, I don't mean to call you a liar. On the contrary, I say that you are the only man in town who tells the truth all the time ; but I am offering a reward of $25 and a cbromo to any otber man who says be believes me when I say you never lie," was the response. "Well, I'm glad you took it back," replied the other party, as the tiger-like look of ferocity faded out of his features. JEST" A pious and aged Saeo lady, who felt that the end of her earthly existence was close at hand, was settling her bill with the ice-man the other day and took occasion to remark, in an earnest way, "I don't suppose I'll take ice of you another year. I expect to pass over to the other side of the river before long." "Oh, no trouble, no trouble at all," replied the enterprising ice-man, "we seud a team over there every day !" Apropos of the lawyers pitching into experts on the witness stand in murder trials, the case is recalled where the lawyer looking quizzically at the doctor who was testifying and said : "Doctors sometimes make mistakes, don't they ?" "The same as lawyers," was the reply. "Hut doctors' mistakes are buried (5 feet under ground," said the lawyer. "Yes," said the doctor, "and lawyers' mistakes sometimes swing about <> feet in the air." WST They had been quarreling about his next summer clothes. She wanted to have his liirht clothes cleaned up for ]S!)4, and he wanted a heavier suit. ''What's the use of fighting about this?'' he said finally. I may he in the cemetery next summer." "I think," she replied, "you will need your summer clothes wherever you may he." ftA disannointed fish hawker was bela boring his slow, but patient horse in the street one day, and railing out his wares at intervals, as "herriu,' herrinV A tenderhearted lady, seeing the act of cruelty to the horse, called out sternly, from an upper I window, "Have you no mercy?'' "No. mum," was the reply, "nothin' but herriu*." ^ Brown?Did the christening of the twins go off all right? Mr. Poppeigh?Yes: but I didn't like the hymn the choir sang. Brown?What did the choir sing? Mr. Poppeigh?"Still there's more to follow." Itfapdc Siithetiugs. B5T" How to make farming pay. Work. ?Fair dealing- is the sand and cement of society. BST" The worst troubles we have are those that never happen. ?aT" Mail is distributed in (!S,403 post offices in the United States. figy Be careful of your manners; they indicate your breeding. ?a?* "About all the use some people's heads are is to put their hats on. SST The walls of Babylon were 340 feet high and 100 feet thick at the base. SaT1 Worth recently made for a Persian belle a gown which cost the wearer $30,000. t&T A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. S&* Native laborers in Palestine work for 15 cents a day and pay all their own expenses. Australia is said to have more churches in proportion to population than any other country. SSf No man has so mauy faults as his enemies declare, nor so many virtues as his admirers claim. JST" There is at present a colored prisoner in the Alabama mines who speaks twelve different languages. fBST Some one who believes that brevity is the soul of wit, writes, "Don't eat stale Cucumbers ; they'll W up." tgST Photographers claim that they can take a picture of a rifle-ball traveling at the rate of 3,000 feet per second. fiST There are now about 100 army officers engaged in teaching college youths the theory and practice of the art of war. Christianity does not propose to make a man better than his neighbor, but it proposes to make him better than himself. W8T One of the sages says: "Don't go to law unless you have nothing to lose ; lawyers' houses are built on fools' heads." flQT" One ought to carry his religion into everything that he does, just as he carries any other part of himself?unconsciously. &&T Roman law allowed divorce for three causes: the Scriptural reason, designs on a husband's life, and the possession of a false key. 86T "Patrick, were you a minor when you landed in America ?" asked the naturalization officer. "No, your honor; I was a bricklayer." t8T It takes a man with a good deal of influence with himself to do something he doesn't want and doesn't have to, because he ought to. W3T These six?the peevish, the niggard, the suspicious, the dissatisfied, the passionate, and those who live on others' means?are forever unhappy. 8?" Marriage is a contract, but it differs from all others in that it is the only contract that minors can make which in a court of law will be held good. 86?" In North Carolina there are 33,280,000 acres of land, about 12,000,000 of which are in cultivation. Of this number 1,(500.000 acres are in cotton. 8?"* No man's religion is better than his politics; his religion is puie whose politics are pure, and is religion is radically wrong whose politics are wrong. 8ST" "Ah, parson, I wish I could take my gold with me," said a dying deacon, who was very selfish. "It might melt," was the minister's consoling reply. The most curious animal in the world is the ornithornycus parodoxus. It has a beak like a duck, a body like an otter, is web-footed, is amphibious, and lays eggs. 86?" A scientist says: No one need have any fear of a male wasp. He has no sting. The trouble is that a fellow isn't positive as to its sex until after he has been interviewed. $6?" It is so much easier to raise your hand at a revival meeting, to signify that you are a Christian, thau it is to lift the same hand to do a good deed after the meeting is over. IST Sir James Stephen knew the value of a short and explicit will. His is as follows: "This is my last will. I give all my property to my wife, whom I appoint my sole executrix." W8F Some of the early kings of England aud France, when they were traveling, were attended by coiners, who supplied them with money as it was needed, fresh from portable mints. SH&T The oldest engine is claimed to be in operation in a Savannah (Ga.) rice mill. It was built in 1S15 by Jaines Watt, of Lancashire, England, and was brought to this country in the same year. BOF Near Brenham, Texas, lives a man who has only one eye, the strauge feature of his case being the fact that the place where the other eye should be is a blank, and has been so from birth. "You say, Pat, that the Garden of Eden was in Ireland." "Vis, sor." "But there are no serpents in Erin." "Share, now, don't you know that Adam lived before St. Patrick kem over." I?" Within the last month Iowa, Kentucky and Ohio have granted full suffrage to woman, makiug twenty-three States in which women can vote on equal terms with men in all elections pertaining to school management. During a call that little four-year old Mary was making with her mother, a slice of cake was given to her. "Now, what are you going to say to the lady?" asked the mother. "Is you dot any more ?" said little Mary, demurely. "Say, are you the boy I sent with a letter about three weeks ago?" Boy?Yes, sir. "Well, why in the mischief didn't you bring the answer back?" Boy?You told me to wait for a reply, and the man won't be home before next spring. flaT" "Well, why don't you say that you wish you were a man?" asked Mr. Potts during the little discussion he was having with his spouse about some matters of domestic management. "Because I don't wish anything of the sort," she retorted. "I only wish you were one." BUT The Oxford University press has issued the most diminutive Bible in existence. It is finely printed on Oxford Indian paper, and its minute dimensions are only three and three-fourth inches in length, two and one-eighth inches wide, and seven-eighths of an inch in thickness. SOT Little Tout K., was to have a newfather, and his grandfather, who was to pre| pare his youthful mind for the event, said : ! "Tom, by this time tomorrow, you'll have a | new papa, and your mother will have a newname." Tom (with bewilderment): "And 1 who will I be, grandpa?" g?r Of our fifty-one States and Territories, j twenty-seven are each larger than all of j England, while the entire territory of the | Union would contain England sixty-nine I times. Five of our States and Territories I are each larger than the united kingdom of i (treat Britain and Ireland. fla0f* The migrating instinct is uncontrolablc in birds that have it at all. Geese hatched from the eggs of the wild variety, though they have no opportunity of learning, j take wing in the fall and fly ofl'to the South : if their wings he clipped they will walk off i as fast as and go as far as thev can. flaT "I iCt me tell you, Mrs. Thomas," said a happy Long Island parent to a rustic neighbor, "my son Ernest has got a first ; prize." "Oh ! I quite understand your f'eelj mgs, inarm," said Mrs. Thomas. "I felt : just the same when our young pig carried off a medal at the agricultural show." Several of the senators in congress take daily naps on the lounges in the cloak rooms, and it frequently happens in the middle of the afternoon that the lounges are all occupied by sleeping statesmen, some of whom snore so loud that the doors have to be closed to keep the rumble from becoming audible in the galleries. flay* The Shah of Persia is exceedingly superstitious. He always carries with him when he travels a circle of amber, which is said to have fallen from heaven in Mohammed's time and which renders the wearer invulnerable, a casket of gold which makes him invisible at will, and a star w hich is potent to make conspirators instantly confess their crime. Soy*' All I\urope seems to have the exhibition fever and some sort of world's fair is to be held in every Kuropean capital during this year. And the epidemic is spreading farther afield. Alexandria is preparing a national exhibition of ancient and modern Kgypt, to he open in that city during the coming .summer. It is to be a complete exposition of the modern life, social industrial and artistic, of the land of the Pharaohs, and also of much of the country's wondrous | past. ?he Jam and . TAX LEATHER AT HOME. In a recent letter to the Abbeville Press and Banner,'Mr. XV. L. Anderson says : Enclosed yon will find a piece of alumtanned leather. The process of preparing it is sometimes called glove tanning, from the fact that small skins are tanned in this way for glove making. Some persons, who have seen some of the leather prepared by Air. J. Rhodes, who is living 011 my place, have asked me for a description, in detail, of the way it is done. I have thought it might j prove interesting to the farmer readers of Tho ! Press and Banner, to learn of a better way j of disposing of their beef hides and sheep 1 and goatskins than selling them at two cents j and buying from the merchants their necessary supply of leather at -10 or 50 cents per !pound. Another reason for sending this to you for ! publication is that there was a man in the town i of Ninety-Six last week trying to sell the rights to use this or a similar process at $5 each. There is nothing new in it. It is rather aucient for a patent. With this preface I will give, in as few words us is consistent with being understood, the details of the process by which the leather was tanned from which the piece enclosed was cut. All the farmers need to make a tanyard is a kerosine barrel sawed into two tubs. Locate the yard under shelter, out of rain and sunshine. Begin with the skin as soon as taken from the animal. It is more easily worked, but if you start off with a dry hide, soak in water for about three days or until thoroughly soft and pliable, remove all the bits of flesh and fir from it and put into lime or strong ashes and water sufficient to cover. As soon as the hair becomes loose, in about two days, remove it all. I use a common farm hoe to scrape the hair off with, return the hide to the ashes or lime and soak it two to four days longer to swell the hide. This loosens the texture so it will readily take in the tanning substance. Next you want to get rid of the lime or caustic potash left in the hide; to do this, soak it in the other one-half barrel in clean water, which keep up for four to six days changing the water every day, or tie it to a weight and throw'it in tho branch. If you expect to curry the leather, you will do better to keep it out of the sand of the branch. The hide is now ready for the tanning vat, which is the easiest and simplest part. Use alum and common salt; alum one part, salt two parts by weight. For calf, sheep or goat skin, one pound of alum with two pounds of salt; for the hide of a beef weighing 50 pounds to the quarter, it will take 5 pounds of alum with lOpoundsof . L-rvi.ood flm tiirlo niit ilneli eirtp nn enrin =>U1I., OJ/.V.... ~ r> kle the pulverized mixture of alum and salt on it, fold or roll it up with the alum or salt inside, place in the vat with heavy weight on it, without water. Let it stand for six hours, and if the hide is not covered by the solution coming out of the hide and water see that it is. Tuke it out every two days, fold it a different way and return to the vat. A small skin should remain in tan four to six days, a hide from one week to three weeks, according to size. When the leather is taken out of tau, comes the working part of the job. If you want soft pliable leather, elbow grease is essential just here. Begin as soon as it comes out dripping wet to beat with heavy sticks or flail it over the lop of a stump for fifteen or twenty minutes and repeat three or four times a day until it is ready for use. Do you ask what sort of oil ? Don't use any vegetable oil, castor, linseed, olive, nor cottonseed. Beef-foot oil is excellent ; home made lard (I am afraid you havn't got it) mixed with kerosene is good. How to curry the leather I do not know, but you will find a way to get the rough off, or you may know some one skilled that way. Brother farmer, try this : you can, with a box of copper rivets and burrs, make all your plow and wagon harness at home that will, with care, last as well as store bought ones made of leather at 40 or 50 cents per pouud. In dressing sheep skins with the wool on, of course, you do not soak in lime or ashes, but carefully remove all the flesh and fut, and wash thoroughly with soap and water, then sprinkle on one pound each of alum and salt pulverized, fold together accurately the flesh sides, and leuvc it so for three days. Do not weight it or cover it with water, nor beat it with sticks, but rub often until dry, to keep it soft and suple. "If you don't succeed try again." PASTURING THE TEAMS. It requires some management at this season to keep the teams in good condition. Farm work of all kinds is pressing, the teams must do their part, and this is often the hardest part. All animals, at this season; crave something fresh and green, and a j supply is very beneficial after long feeding ; on dry grain and roughness. But the teams need all the rest they can j get, and for this reason it is not always best j to turn them into the pasture at night. [ There are two serious objections to this. 1 One is that it deprives them of needed I ?- 1 ' So .... 1 I't'Slj UIIU WiC u111L*i ir> mat it id uu uii|mvuo ant task tramping through the wet grass early in the morning after them, to say nothing of the time lost. Yet this plan is i followed by many farmers. As soon as the | horses are done eating their grain at night, they are turned into the pastures and are j put back into the stables the next morning. In their desire to satisfy the appetite for | something green, the horses will tramp the I greater part of the night, and while the grass does them good, the loss of rest does j not. I One of the best plans is to have a good ; but small pasture convenient to the stables, i and then after they have eaten their grain | at night they can be turned into this pasture for an hour or two and then be put back into the stables. Another plan that is often followed is to have rye or clover growing conveniently near, cut a good feed at night for them and feed it in the stables. While some grass is a good thing, too much of it is harmful on account of its weakening effects, lint when the teams are not at work they can nearly always be turned Into the pasture with benefit. It pays to use all reasonable care to keep the teams in good, thrifty condition. They must have strength if they are to stand up well under the work that is to be done at | this time; and, while grass is a good feed, plenty of grain with some hay is needed to ; supply material lbr bone and muscle. It is possible for teams to do considerable work 1 on grass alone, but they cannot be pushed, as is often necessary, without a liberal supply of dry feed.?The 'Republic. Skasonino Oak.?Oak is one of the timbers that reuuires extra care in seasoning, as its sap ferments and heats more quickly than j the sap of any other wood. The logs, remarks an exchange, should he sawed as quickly as possible after being cut, or at least after warm weather sets in. It has heen noticed that the sap exudes to a considerable extent after the planks are sawed, and that it dries, forming a gummy surface, which to a considerable extent prevents the action of the air upon the interior sap. To overcome this, experiments have been made by putting the planks into swinging crates and sinking them in running water so that they sire entirely submerged. After they have been in the water two days they are removed and stood upon end under a shed, where they are well protected from the sun and rain, and where there is a good circulation. In this position they dry without warping, and much more quickly than when piled up in the customary manner, and when iseasoned the color is uniform.?Scientific j American. TlIK I'KKKKITIOX of I,KMoNADK.?(Sood lemonade is one of the most perfect drinks ever devised. 1 can hardly understand why it is not in daily use in place of tea or coflee, and why it does not drive out every kind of alcoholic drink. Perfect lemonade is made ns follows: For a quart, take the juice of three lemons, using the rind of one of them, j Carefully peel the rind very thin, getting just the yellow outside; cut this into pieces and put with the juice and powdered sugar, of which use two ounces to the quart, in a jug or a jar with a cover. When the water ji.sjust at tin* boiling point, pour it over tlie j lemon and sugar, cover at once and let it get cold. Try this way once, and see if it is not delicious. While on the subject, let me say that I know a physician whose exclusive drink is lemonade, lie uses about three thousand lemons a year. He weighs ISo pounds, and does not know what it is to he ; ill.?Journal of Hygiene. Bkif" The first- cattle brought into the American colonies were landed at Jamestown, Ya., in the summer of li!(>7. ! (The fton> Seller. ----- ... - THE FUGITIVE LIEUTENANT, i .1 stoic r of the coxtixext.il army. . It was while the American army wasl j freezing and starving at Valley Forge, and I j the British army were rioting and luxuriaI ting in Philadelphia, that a lame, dirty, beggarly looking fellow, walking with a crutch, approached the northern outpost of | the royal forces, and, with a simple idiotic | laugh and leer, announced his intention of1 j entering the city, and taking the British! j general prisoner. "Indeed ! then I shall he under the necessity of arresting you," said a young subaltern, winking at some of his companions, and assuming a serious air. "Ho! ho! ho!" laughed the idiot; "just j you try it?that's all." "Why, my good fellow, what would you ! do ?" "Do!" exclaimed the other, drawing himselfup with an air of defiance, "why, I'll tell the great General Washington." "Then, I am afraid to enter upon your arrest, so pass on; you will probably lind General Howe prepared to receive you." The idiot suddenly looked troubled, glancing about him warily and suspiciously, as if he feared he might meet the general he was so boldly going to capture, but, finally, hobbled off toward the city. With some such silly dialogue, he got past the sentries, who seemed to give him no thought beyond the amusement of the time. By night he was fairly within the town, and kept on his way, sometimes humming snatches of old songs, and, in general, not much noticed by any. Through one street after another he continued to hobble forward, until he came-to one of great length, containing a block of three story respectable-looking houses, which might have been occupied by persons ii^ middle circumstances. This street was not lighted, and appeared deserted, so that when he stopped before one of the dwellings, he was not perceived. He knocked at the door. A woman's head appeared at the second-story window. "Won't you-give me something to eat, ma'am??I'm nearly starved," said the idiot. "Yes, poor fellow !" replied the woman, in a kindly tone; "in a minute I will hand you something." Soon after, a lower shutter was pushed back, and a hand containing some bread and meat was thrust out. "Mother," said a low voice. "Gracious Heaven !" exclaimed the female within, in an agitated tone. "Hush !" returned the beggar, in a guarded whisper. A moment after, and the door was thrown open. "Yes, ma'am?thank you?don't care if I do," as if iu answer to an invitation to come in, at the same time crossing the threshold with an uppearance of deep humiliation. The moment the door closed behind him, the man dropped his crutch, and flung his arms around the other, fairly sobbing: . "Mother ! dear, dear mother!" "William !" exclaimed the other, pressing the ragged mendicant to her heart; "oh, my dear, dear William ! what is the meaning of this? and how is it that I find you in this sad plight?" "I have passed the British lines in this disguise, playing the fool to the sentries. But tell me how you are, dear mother, and how you fare in these troublesome times ?" "Indifferently well, my son. The British are our masters here ; but, so far, I have little to complain of in the way of personal treatment. Provisions are very scarce and high, and only by the strictest economy shall I he able to live through, if they continue to retain possession of the city any considerable time. Your sister Mary is at your uncle's in Delaware, and will deeply regret that she missed this opportunity of seeing you." "Are you alone, mother?" "No ; two English gentlemen are boarding with me." "Do they belong to the army?" inquired the young man, quickly, uneasily; "and are they in the house ?" "Xo, they appear to he private gentlemen, j of some means, and neither is within at present. But you look troubled ; have you anything to fear, my son ?" "If detected, I may be hung as a spy." "Good heavens!" exclaimed the mother in alarm ; "you terrify me. Are you here without permission?without a pass?" "Yes?did I not say I played the fool to the sentries, and got past them ?" "But I thought that was for your own amusement. "Oh, William, if you should be discovered ! Why did you venture in this desperate manner?" "I could not get a pass, and I was so anxj ious to see you and Mary, that I resolved to : risk all." "Quick, then: come up stairs, and let us j fix up a hiding-place, at once, before anything happens. Oh, William, I am so ! alarmed !" j Both hastened to the third story, and after considering several places, decided that the ! loft close under the roof might he the best i place for concealment, as the trap-door leading to it could be fustened underneath, which would tend to blind the search ; while the young man, if pressed, could escape to the roof, and by means of a long rope fustened ' to the chimney could lower himself into the! street or yard. This would not insure his | | escape ! but this was the best plan the two j could think of, and served to render both ! less fearful of detection, and the serious con-j sequences. Having provided the rope, the j ! mother hastened to brintr una lame quantity j of food, which he soon began to devour with j ' a ravenous appetite, which showed he had ' told no untruth, when in the character of a j j beggar, lie had declared himself in a state ! bordering on starvation, i While lie was eating his mother plied him j ; with questions concerning the army at Val- j ! ley Forge, in which he liad a lieutenant's commission, and which he had left 011 a furlough ; and the answers of the young soldier | depicted a state of destitution and suffering that caused his hearer to weep for very symi pathy. Three thousand soldiers were down i on the sick list at one time, and, without the common necessaries of life, had perished by hundreds; while of those capable of doing duty, scarcely any had a blanket to cover theni at night, or food enough to keep soul iand body together. Pale, emaciated, ragged and dirty, many, with their bare feet upon the frozen earth, they walked shivering through the camp by day, and crowded themselves together by night, to get what little warmth they could from each other's ! bodies?the most forlorn and wretched set ' of beings that ever a nation called to arms. "(iod help us!"' ejaculated the mother, in I a dejected tone; ''I suppose, after all our I hardships, we shall be compelled to succumb ] to our tyrannical foes." "Never!" cried the young officer, "while there arc a thousand men left in our coun-1 try to make a desperate stand. We can ! only he conquered by annihilation; and if lit is (Jod's will that a tyrant should rule j over this broad continent, not a single true I 1 heart will li\e to feel the oppression and disI grace. Fro that time, dear mother, I shall be beyond the reach of earthly monarchs." "(lod bless you, William !" cried the moth' er. enthusiastically grasping his hand; i "your father's spirit speaks in you. He died Jon the battlefield with those sentiments in his heart; and I freely give you?my only son and hope?to the glorious cause which his blood, and that of thousands of others, 1 hallowed." For several days the intrepid young officer ! remained beneath his mother's roof, supposj ing his presence to be known only to them- i selves. But one evening, at the end of his ! furlough, when he was beginning to think nl.niit in-uii.ii liur fill- llitt Kliprnt 111'1 ill 1'I 11I I> nil ! I !' ? !'" ?"M - -! .... | | officer and six men appeared at the door, I ; and said he had orders to arrest one William j i Buggies, supposed to he somewhere in the I dwelling. "Why, that is inv son," said the widow, : in great trepidation. i "So much the more likely that lie should I he here, then," was the unfeeling reply. "And for what would you arrest him, and j what will he done with him if found?" I "We will take him for a spy, and if found guilty, he wilt he hung, of course, as every cursed rebel should be. Here, you Bent and Wallers, begin the search ; and you, Jones and Johnson, remain where you are. Sharp, j now, all of you ! Let the fellow be taken j j alive, if possible?but, alive or dead, let him j : be taken ! Now, good woman, if he is in ! this house, of which we are strongly assured, j let him appear, and save yourself much trouble; otherwise, the consequences be on your'own head." "If you think my son is in the house, search to your heart's content!" returned the mother, externally caltn, internally suffering. And forthwith the search begun. Meanwhile, the young lieutenant who hud ; heard enough to comprehend his danger, hud set about making his escape, but not altogether in the manner first intended. lie went on the roof, it is true, and tied the long rope to the chimney, casting one end of it down toward the street, hut this only for a blind, lie had seen that the bricks of the dividing wall between the houses occupied by his mother and one or two adjoining buildings had been loosely put up under the Hll^v|iuic( mm aim jncoi ih ti no iu ?I move si few of these, crowd through into the I loft of the other house and replace them. This purpose he effected before the soldiers searching for him came up near enough to hear the little noise he was compelled to make. The open trapdoor of the roof, and the rope uround the chimney, served to mislead them, as he had hoped, and it was with ; intense satisfaction that he had heard them announce the manner of his escape. Immediately after the whole party left in haste, first threatening Mrs. Haggles with subse-1 quent vengeance, for harboring, concealing and conniving at the escape of a rebel spy, | even though the man were her son. When fully satisfied that the soldiers had gone, young Kuggles attempted to return into his mother's dwelling by the way he had left, but in again displacing the bricks for the purpose, one of them slipped and went down through an open trap-door, upon the floor below, making a loud noise. Immediately after a light flashed up through the opening, and a timid female voice demanded who was there. Here was a dilemma. Should the soldier reply, he would be exposed ; and should he keep silence, a search would be made which might prove more serious in its consequences. What was to be done? A sudden inspira-! tion seized him. It was a woman's voice, and women are seldom steeled to pity. He would make himself known to her, appeal to her sympathies, and throw himself upon her mercy. "Lady," he began, in a gentle tone, calculated to reassure his fair hearer, "he not alarmed. I am a friend in distress, the son of your next neighbor. I am hunted as a spy by British soldiers, and if found my life would be forfeited. If you cannot pity me, for God's sake, pity my poor mother, and assist me for her sake." He presented himself at the opening to the loft, and boldly descended the loft leading down from it directly before the lady, a; sweet, beautiful girl of eighteen, who stood ! with a light in her hand, and seemed dumb| and motionless, with a commingling of fear, surprise, and curiosity. The young man continued to speak as he descended, and hnrripdlv went on to narrate all that had occurred, concluding with the search of the; soldiers, and his escape into the loft above. "Thank Clod, it is in my power to aid you \ sir!" were the first words of the girl, spoken : with a look and feeling of sympathy that made the heart of the young soldier bound j with strange emotions. She went on to tell him that a cousin from j New Jersey, about his size and build, and 1 looking not unlike him, was then on a visit; to the family, having a pass from General Howe. This pass she had been looking at,' and by accident it was in her possession, the ! cousin having gone out with the rest of the family, and forgotten it. "Take it and fly, and may God preserve you," she said ; "I can arrange it with my ! kinsman. I can have lost it, and he can easily j procure another." She hurried him down stairs, throwing a i cloak on his shoulders on the way, which she insisted upon bis wearing, saying that it had belonged to a deceased brother, and he J could return it at any future time. She then j hastened to get the pass, which she placed ! in his hand, and urged him to go at once. "If I could but see mother for a moment," j he said. "No, no?leave all to me. I will explain all to her. Go while you can?before it is, too late." "God in heaven bless you, sweet lady!" he said, impulsively seizing her hand, and touching it to his lips ; "I will never forget you." The next minute he was gone. He escaped ; and true to his declaration, he never a;.I (lir> en-out trip] wtin Iwf'riiMidpd him u,u lv" Sv,/ "" h" ' * ? in his hour of peril. Years after, the honorable wife of General Rugbies was many a time heard to tell of her first romantic meeting with him she loved, then a hunted fugitive from the Continental Army. \Bakincf_ , _ ^^Powder) Absolutely 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. REGISTRATION NOTICE* Ofllce ofSupervisor of Registration of York County, YoitKVir.i.K, S. March 12, l.SiM. NOTICE is hereby given that the books of registration will remain open in my ollice, as the law directs, IXTilK ('()l'RT JlOl SK AT YORKVILIjK, on the FIRST MONDAY in each month, commencing on the FIRST MON DAY (If JAM A11A , l?H, aim continuing until tilt' FIRST MONDAY IN JULY, 1S1M, inclusive. This is for the purpose of registering all persons who have become of an age qualifying them to vote, or who may lie entitled from other legal causes, since the last election, to register ; to transfer voters so desiring from York to another county, or from one residence to another. Voters desiring to avail themselvesof any of the above privileges, must make ap]dication before, or on the FIRST MONDAY, 2ND DAY OF JULY, 18114. CLAY HILL and THOMPSON'S MILL precincts have been discontinued by act of the legislature, and in their stead a voting precinct has been established at FOREST II ILL. Electors ali'ectcd by the change are required to surrender their registration certificates in order that they may be made to conform with the law. Those who fail to have their certificates changed, will not bo entitled to vote. A change of certificate will also be necessary to enable electors to vote at the new precinct of SHARON. The location of TI R/.A 11 precinct having been changed from the ('luirch to the railroad station, persons who have been voting elsewhere, and lind it more convenient to vote at Tirzah, can have tlieir certificates changed accordingly. I. R. CORDON, Supervisor of Registration, York County. Til 10 STATU OF SOUTH CAROLINA, | Yerk County. WHEREAS \V. DROWN WYLIE, ('. C. C. Pleas, has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of JOSEPH L. PLEXIOO, late of the county aforesaid, deceased : These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all J and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me, at our next Probate Court for the said coimtv, to be l..\l.]?n >! York Court lloosoon lln> 14111 dsiv of Jl'NlO, 1SIM, at Hi o'clock a. in., to show cause, if any, why the said Administration should not lie granted. (Jiven under my Hand and Seal, this fith day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and in the listli vear of American Independence. \V. II. Met OK K L10, Probate Judge of York County. Mav!' l!i tit' I MONTVAI.r. STOCK I'Alt.M, lllnckshtirg;, S. C. RIOtilSTIOKIOI) JIOKSIOYS, WIOLCII AMI; SIMOTLAXD I'OXIIOS. (Imported stock.) 10SS10X AND HlCtilSTlOKIOD CIMOSIIIltlO 1'KiS. Itred and for sale. Ol'It JIOKSIOYS are all of the celelu-.ited Victor and Stoke Kogis strains, which have attracted so much attention throughout the1 North. KILL CALV10S KoK SALIO ATI KAKMHKS' 1'KICIOS. If you are thinking of j starting a dairy herd don't overlook the Jerseys. | Tliev are the West dairy cows known to the! world. We guarantee our ponies to he perfectly safe ! for ladies and children to drive. CAN SIOLL SIIIOTLAND TON IKS AS CII10AI' AS ANY I HK10101>10IIS IN Til 10 SOCTII. Write fori what you want. Address, Dr. J. (J. BLACK, Rlackshurtf, S. C. i m ii,ni\<; mmihok iob sali:. IIIAVIO in my vard about TWIONTY-FI YIO i THOUSAND VlOIOT OF FIRST CLASS j H10ART l'INIO LUMB10R, whieh will be sold at a verv low titfiiro for spot cash. It consists of FRAMIXO LUMBIOR, FLo()RlX(J AND WI0ATIN0R ROARDINO, etc. For prices and further particulars, apply to W. C. LATIMKR. May it If tf "For Years," Says Carrie E. Stock well, of ChesterHeld, N. H., "I was afflicted with an extremely severe pain in the lower part of the chest. The feeling was as if a ton weight was laid fBjfts on a spot the size perspiration would 7fc\ stand In drops on I !jt\vk my face, and it was lor me ,0 W?)f> make sufficient effort even to wills* suddenly, at any /j?J$ hour of the clay or /paiS T,ffl \ \ night, lasting from ^ " thirty minutes to hall a day, leaving as suddenly; but, for several days after. I was quite pro?trated and sore. Sometimes the attacks were almost dally, then less frequent. All:* about four years of this suffering, I was taken down with bilious typhoid fever, and when-1 began to recover, I had the worst attack of my old trouble I ever experienced. At the first of the fever, my mother gave me Ayer*8 Pills, my doctor recommending them as being better tlinn anything he conld prepare. I continued taking these Pills, and so great was the benefit derived that during nearly thirty years I have had but one attack of my former trouble, which yielded readily to the same remedy." AYER'S PILLS Prepared by Or. J. C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Moss* Every Dose Effective This picture illustrates one of the many striking scenes in our new Serial entitled A YANKEE IN GRAY 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 ENQUiliElt for Three Months. FTnsure^ Your Life And thereby insure the comfort of those who are depending on you lor support, it you are alone in the world insure your life and form an endowment that will comfort and support i you in after years. At all i' events insure your life. What | is the best form of insurance? j TheTontine Policy issued by the Equitable Life It offers advantages to be had under no other form of insurance, besides being backed up by the richest and strongest society in the world. Write at once for particulars. W. J. RODDEY, Manager, Department of the Carolina^, ROCK HILL, S. C. ! Schedules in Effect from and Alter March 25, 1S94. G. W. F. Harper, President. ooinu xoitrii. I No JO. | No 00. i I.iinr ('hosier 0 10 u Ml 0 00 u ill ' Leave Lowrysvillc 7 07 u 111 9 85 a in Leave MeCnnnellsville 7 20 a in 10 0:1 a in IjCiivc Ifiithrlesville 7 Hi a in 10 15 a in Leave Yorkville 7 57 a in 11 00 a in Leave Clover * 80 a in 11 -15 pin Leave Castonla IMW a in 1 'JO p in Leave I.ineolnton 10 10 a in - 4.i pm Leave Newton 11 1- a m 1 1) pin Iaiivc llieknr.v 12 20 pin (i 20 pm Arrive Lenoir 1 50 pin HUlpm (iolNCt sot'Tll. I No 01. | No 9. Leave Lenoir 5 :f0 a in :l 15 pm I.eave Hickory 7 01 a in 4 40 pm I.eave Newton k 20 a m 5 IS pm Leave I.ineolnton 10 10 a in 0 12 pm I.eave (Jastonia 12 >" pm . 20 pin Leave Clover 150pm SOU pin ! Leave Yorkville :t 05 pm s 12 pin Leave (iuthrlesvllle :i :? pm 9 02 pin Leave MeCnnnellsville 5 15 pin 0 12 pin Leave Lowrysville I 12 pin 0 :? pm Arrive Chester I 55 pm 10 Oil pin Trains Nns. P and 10 are lirst-elnss, and run daily exeopt Sunday. Trains Nns. 00 and 01 enrry passengers and also run daily except Suuday. There is good connect inn at Chester with the <L C. A N., and the C., C. A A.; also at Hastonia with the A. A' A. I..; at I.ineolnton with the ('. C.; and at Hickory and Newton with thcW. N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Superintendent. II. II. BKAItD, Oeneral Passenger Agent. March 2k 0 tl CAUTION'.?If a dealer oflera W. Ti. Douglas Shoes at a reduced price, or sayi he hat them without name stamped on bottom, put hi in down as a fraud. t^Nk Jtfs W. L. Douglas ffio quae1 best in 90 urlUL the world. w. i>. douglas Shoes arc stylish, easy fitting. anil give better satisfaction at the prices advertised than any other make. Try one pair and lie convinced. The stamping of W. L. Douglas' natne and price on the bottom, which guarantees their value, saves thousands of dollars annually * L- - " ? ,i.? i 19 umsc wnu wear mv.ni. vvitvu ...... |?un u.v sale of W. L. Douglas Shoes gain customers, which helps to increase the sales on their full line of goods. They can afford to sell at a less profit, nr.tl we believe you can save money bv buying all your footwear of the dealer advertised below. Catalogue free upon application. Address, XV. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass, bold by J. J. SMITH, Clover, S. C. C. W. FREW, Roc k Hill, S. 0. January 10 - -It for Infants and Children. ' Castor la is so well adapted to children that Castor i a cures Colic, Constipation, I recommend it assuiieriortoany prescription Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, known to me." II. A. Archer, M. D., Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. gestion, Without injurious medication. "Tho u.? of 'Castoria it 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 (f su^x-re rogation to endorse it. Few are the do so as it has invariably produced beneficir.l intelligent families who tlo not keep L'astoria I results." vlitia vary reach.*" I Edwin F. Pardee, M. D., t Mautyn, I). D., I street and 7th Ave., New York City. New York City. | The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, New York City. j GARRY IRON ROOFING COMPANY, Manufactures all kinds of EB IKON ORE PAINT IRON HOOPING, Aiul Cement. I CltlMl'Kl) AND COKKUGATKDSIIIING. 152TO 158 MKRWIN ST., kike i*kook hooks. shutters. .te ^ Send for Circular ' - and Price List No. 75. THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. r J&r Orders received by L. M. GRIST. YOUR FATHER AND HIS PA WERE, no doubt, very good farmers in their day and generation. They farmed exactly on the same principle that their ancestors had done, and by the use of slave labor, the hull tongue plow, etc., and raising everything that was used on the farm, they were enabled to keep moving. It made no ditferenee to them how long it took to hoe an acre of cotton, pull 1,000 bundles of fodder, mow a meadow, cut and hind a grain crop, sow an aure of wheat or oats, etc., and they cared very little for large yields. Just so enough was made to feed and clothe the "niggers" everything was right. Is the foregoing correct ? Now, he honest. When you commenced farming after the war, I don't know how long, you adopted the old plan, lmt had no "free" labor. You paid good wages and raised lots of high priced cotton. Everything went smoothly for a time, hut finally prices dropped "way down." You continued the same plan as to mode of cultivation and amount of labor and the year 1MB fnuls you trying to raise? cents cotton on exactly the same plan as that in vogue twenty-live years ago. Your crop costs about the same per acre to cultivate, hut you can't see where the trouble is. During the past few years you have been raising corn, wheat, oats and hogs, and the grocery bill has not been so heavy. You are to be congratulated on seeing the advantage of this course, and I rejoice in your being able to give the time business the cold shoulder. You, However, Have Not Been Able to See That you are losing money every year by sticking to the old ante-bellum methods of preparation, cultivation, harvesting and preparing your crops for market, hut such is a FACT, nevertheless. Is it possible to get your eyes open? Some of your neighbors have had theirs opened and great is their satisfaction with the new way. Here are some facts that can't he turned down : You can't afford to raise 7 cents cotton on the same expense as when you received 12 to 15 cents for it, when you can reduce the cost of preparation and cultivation at least one-third by the use of the C'orbin Disk Harrow for preparing the land and the Evans Steel Frame Lever Harrow or the Western Tripple Harrow for cultivating the crop. You can't afford to pull fodder when you can sow your stubble land with peas or millet and mow and house a better quality of forage at about one-fourth of the cost of the fodder per 100 pounds, by the use of a Corbin Disk Harrow, a New Light Buckeye Mower and a Thomas or | Chieftain Horse Bake. You can't afford to cut your wheat and oats with a cradle, waste from a bushel and a half to i two bushels of the grain per acre, when within Buckeye Frameless Binder you can cut and hind from fifteen to twenty acres a day and not waste a half-bushel of your entire crop. It will work satisfactorily on land on which an old-fashioned Reaper CANNOT he used. The price is $140. You can't afford to gin your cotton on an out of date, run down, rattle trap Gin and leave Jt from five to ton percent, ofthclinton the seed and injure the staple to the extent of not less than one-fourth of a cent per pound, when by the use of a Daniel Pratt Gin you can get ALL the lint and make a sample that will bring the top of the market. The cotton buyers at Hickory Grove say that cotton ginned on Pratt (Sins brings one-fourth of a cent more per pound than that ginned on any other make of gin. You can't afford to thresh your wheat, or allow somebody else to thresh it, on a run down, dilapidated thresher that will leave 25 percent, of your grain on the straw, but you, or the man who does your work, should haven Card well Thresher, which is the simplest and best. The James Leffel Engine stands at the head for simplicity, durability and steam generating power, ft don't take a fortune to buy one, either. The (Uiver ('hilled is the best turning plow on the market. It's groat. The Farmers' Friend Grain Drill is without apcer, and WILLdrill rust proof oats. * I am agent for each of the above mentioned implements and machines, and they are absolutely the best of their kind on the market, and each of them is sold under a guarantee to give satisfaction. I DON'T SELL EXPERIMENTS. SAM M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. i **? Captain J. Wilson Marshall A Son are my authorized agents at Rock Hill for Buckeye Mowers, Corbin Disk Harrows and Thomas and C'hioftain Horse Rakes. THE "iQlllRl" CHARLESTON.CINCINNATI^CBICA60 R* SAlll'EL HUNT. Agent for Part-baser. mmm MtruiMM ..???phi Oil Hilt U 111/lllllim IMPROVED, HIGH ARM, PERFECTED, i rpiMK TABLE of the Charleston, Cincinnati Shipped on Approval and Guaranteed to ^ and Chicago Railroad in effect from and afGivc Entire Satisfaction, and if Not Sat- . tor April 9, 1?W, Daily Except Sunday. ^ is factory after a Test of TWENTY j STANDARD EASTERN TIME. DAYS in Your Home, the Ma ! ?"*?.*?? - ? ? I?**' No " , J Leave ( liarleston, (S. C. It. It.).. / 15 am chine Will he Taken Back and Leave Augusta " li 50 am Vo.... M.inev Uet'iiiuleil Leave Columbia " 9 30 am loui Mom y Kclumletl. Arrive at Camden " 12 50"pm ^ - " !\rriv< ^^?V ^ ..... ^ 7^uin i j\isiii:i> ix oak on walsvt j x. x. , N'":ai ?S& I,oave Louisville, (L. & X. K. It.).. 8 00 pm This Klo-ant Machine Delivered, Freight Paid, j Hotsprin^it.'?'if.)?!'. 124? Jm at any Railroad Station Hast of the | j* i S pm Roekv Mountains, for $2:5.0(1. | Arrive at Marlon .. . J 33 pm Leave Marlon 4 45 pm The exouirer h as sent out a large mini- Leave Riitherfordton ti 10 pm her of the best grades of Sewing Machines Leave Forest City 0 33 pm in the past live years, and in view of the fact j yiwS&Z?ZZZZZ ZZ ZZ 7 43 pm that the business lias grown to such proportions j jj0ave Shelby 0 45 am S 2:1 pm as to warrant it, wo have recently perfected an Leave Patterson Springs 0 % am 8 30 pm arrangcmeiit for the manufacture of THE | Leave Earls 7 03 am s 48 pm ENQUIRER SEWING MACHINE, and we ' I/Cave Rlacksbtirg 7 45 urn 9 08 pm are now prepared to furnish them to all who Leave Smyrna.... . 8 09 am j wisli to buy a lirst class high grade Sewing Ma- "j^n ,rove j 7.! J[{J{ chine at less than half the price at which such a Ij0uve yorkvlJteIZ"Z:::::::: 9 07 am j machine is usually sold by peddlers and dealers. Leave Tlr/ali 9 2:1 am A Few Facts About The Enquirer Machine, J; iSliiiiZ:::::::::::::::::::::::: 10 15 am TI10 aecoi.ipanying engraving gives ,1 <orro<-t J^fe'juneiioiVZZVZ il 00 urn idea ot the machine. It is as near perfection as Leave Lancaster 12 00 pm any machine on the market. Any kind of Leave Kershaw.".1!!ZZZZ.Z. *F 05 pin work can be done on it that any other machine. Arrive at Camden 2 00 pm will do. All wearing parts are ease harden- Uuve Camden, <s. c. K. H.) 2 30 pm ed steel, and arc fitted so accurately that Arrive Columbia " 8 15 pm * - 1 ?rtL.nlA..a ntl<l Awivo rtt A lll/liutll _** 1*2 If, Sk 111 I tllOSC lUiK'IUIlCS Sin? JIS jidmhiuui^v uui.iciviM auu easy running as tine adjustment and best me- Arrive at Charleston." s ij pin I chanical skill are possible to prodnee. No ex- * Dinner. , \ pense or time is spared to make them perfeet in oTHKlt I'dVM.'cTrnw j every respect. The balance-wheel and many of , , ,,, " , *.' \ x. ... I the line parts are nickel plated, with other parts j/' ,'".3. | ' heniw and ( hester N. (i. I lineiy enameled and ornamented, giving it a ,lo ,...i !, i,,,/wti < <1 1 v- i? > : rich aiipearance. The machine is lilted with ^ V, ',.1: / . ,,, I the Improved Automatic itobbin Winder. It M11V, ,,if iV . " ' l*}!,''1,0 I'1"!1.1,?1 also has a sell-setting needle and self-threading ,,, . \v,!i,-'Jfr n \1 \li. ,, , #.?{0 p. cylinder shuttle. The simplicity of the auto- v"' J ..11 ' 'dladelplna 10.-M; inatic tensions, scwir.g from Nos. 40 to 100 thread * v,.-i.,.; i.Al"\\'V.'i. <' i. ? without altering, recommends it not only to ... .1 ,1..., I'^Krand Lenoir R. R. ' everv becinner imt to At.i.. I. I'laeksburg?\\ itli H. and I). R. R., for Spurj Kacli machine is in perfect working order V ? ilw Iv'11 iU,(' I)0i"ts South ; when shipped, and is accompanied with printed I' Ji,.,|ii!rL\viii/>Ir !i!!T, 1' V , i> intructious and a complete set of tools and all ?'?, 3 l>lltril' U., with necessary attachments, in a handsome plush ' h ' i'\.. At i' jl1 ,?s", .. ' lined ease. The attachments are the best. . ' . lie,',' ? oint, Kings (reek and I.omlon, trains stop onlv on sienal , mm TO UKT / ///; M.miiMs. it. IAJMPKIX, i?. \ nn'intT.ixr i.vroini.triox.] A. TRIP P. Superintendent. I MM ,| ,, I ? , l SAM I. HI'NT, General Manager. I lie price ot the .Machine is We deliver it at your nearest railroad station free of freight k. kjni.ky. j. s. brick charges, ]irovided you live east of the Rocky FINLI2Y HRIC'R. Mountains. TllK KXtjriRKR will be sent,' ATTOHNItYH AT I^AW " free for one year to every purchaser of a machine. Yorkville S C ' ' The cash must accompany the order. Send . . . . . ? . V * money bv K.\ press, Money Order, Registered A business entrusted to us will be given I Letter or New York Exchange. ^ prompt attention. OI? l< t( K IN Til K lllTII.DI V(* ATTIIV If I.' a If WAllKAXTKI) FOlt TKX YKAltS. j ok 1L t\ STRAUSS's"stV)HK. The usual warrantee by wliieh we replace any ? ???him SSK-?,sea=!iht ^ovltviUc (&tt<iuim shuttles, needles and bobbins, goes with every | 22 V * ^ mJWU* * Machine. After the Machine has been received, I ? vim iiave the privilege of returning it within PUBLISHED WEEKLY. a I'rWKXTV davs, if not satisfactory. Is that fair? * TEKMHOPMUIWCRIPTION: Single copy for one year, $ 2 <M> NO V All IATIOX. j One copy for two years, 3 50 We have endeavored to say here all that we j For six months I 00 could sav in a letter. There can be no change of For three months, so terms. 'Do not ask for an v variation. Machines Two copies for one year 3 SO are shipped direct from the factory, and are not Ten copies one year 17 so on exhibition at nurolliee. We know you will be ! And an extra cojiy for a club of ten. pleased with the machine when you get it, and ) A l>TUHTIKKMKXTH you know if it should happen to be unsatisfacto- Inserted at One Dollar per square for the lirst r ry, you can send it back within TWKXTY insertion, and Fifty Cents per square for each DaVs and get your$2.1.00. Address subsequent insertion. A square consists of the i.K.wis M. <;kist. Yorkvltic, s. c. space occupied by eight lines of this size type. | pit- Contracts for advertising space for three, (IXDEKTAKIXC. six, or twelve months will be made on reason?hle terms. The contracts must in all cases be ^ confined to the regular business of the firmjor terly, seini-niiiiual or annual contracts for a'^i v j contracted for, will be required to pay at the'rate TA.M handling a first class line of COFFINS usually charged for the less space or shorter time , x*i\ it 1 DC i."iv ...1.;..1, r ,.-:n c.ll . < ?li.> iu.vi- ! .... il... ....... i... , .. . .. _ . II.1IH .loilivio Mlllili ? n III .Till in nit lllllj III', .111 Ult'lC'llSC III Space nr lowest prices. Personal attention sit all hours. time will lie n matter for special contract. The I am prepared to repair all kinds of Furniture i advertiser will be at liberty to change the matter at reasonable prices. , at will, provided the copy for the change is in J. El) JKFFERYS. the otlice not later than 12 m. on Monday preJanuarv4 1 tf ceding the day of publication.