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Iuuuqvous flqiartmrut. | A QIIET WEDDING. "Did you attend the Bircher-Jacklong wedding out at Billy-bee Dam last night, ; Ike?" asked the able editor of the Hawville , Clarion. "Aw, yes!" answered Alkali Ike, wearily, "I was thar." , "Of course there was a lively time, and all ; that?" "Accordin' to how I looked at it, I called j it mighty slow. Outside of the regular rou- , tine and the eatin', nothin' happened worth mentionin'. To be sure, the preacher and the groom got into a row because the divine wanted his pay in advance; but that is a common occurrence. The Rev. Mr. Harps is too old a bird to take any chances. Of course Jack Howcome, the fiddler had too much, as usual, and this time he fell ofF from the table and broke his bow arm ; Jack always was more trouble than he was worth. The bride's mother, who didn't like the groom anyhow, jumped 011 to the poor fellow's neck jest before the ceremony with a rollin'-pin, and it took half-a-dozen of us 10 minutes' hard work to tie the old lady fast in a rockin'-chair and carry her a few hundred yards out on the prairie. Durin' the rumpus somebody stole the feed, and we never saw hide nor hair of it all the rest of the evenin'. They accused me of it; but I was as innercent as a lamb. I hain't that kind of a man ; and besides, I had a private snack of my own. That was every blamed thing that happened, except that a deputy sheriff slid in and arrested Coyote Pete for horse-stealin' or a little suthin' that-a-way, and some feller had a fit. Shucks! Weddin's hain't noways what they used to be a few years ago. Lord ! Them was the times! But now everything is gittin' to be too much like it is in the East." His First Call.?At the dinner of the Paint and Oil club of New England, Mr. Alex. S. Porter told about a youth in a nearby city who had reached' an age when his mother thought he ought to go into society. He was a diffident youth, and dreaded the ordeal. But his mother insisted, and told him that he must return the call of a certaiu prominent lady. The youth dreaded it, and suggested thi\t his mother could take his card when she went to call upon the lady, and leave it, and it would answer the same purpose. But no; his mother declared that he must go alone. So he screwed up his courage and started. He thought it would help him out a good deal if he took a bouquet of llowers to the lady, and he purchased a beautiful bouquet. But just as he was about to approach the house, it suddenly occurred to him that the lady herself had a fine conservatory. .He tried to think of some way to get over the blunder. Suddenly he recollected the saying about "carrying coals to Newcastles," and determined to make use of it. But as he rang the bell the cold sweat began to ooze from every pore, and when the lady nppeared in the reception-room he scarcely knew where he was at. "I?I?th-thought," stammered the em? 1 .1. ii?l *1 4 T T oarrassea you ui, -in?uim ??i ? ? i>wmu b?bring you a b?bou?bouquet; b?but its like c?casting p--pearls before s?s? swine." Wanted to Ask a Few Questions.?A man six feet high, with the side of his head wrapped in flannel, went into a dental emporium the other day and sunk wearily into a chair. In response to the propreitor's "What can I do for you ?" the large man said : "I have a toothache that is breaking my heart, and I think that I ought to have a tooth drawn ; but you see, I haven't been to a dentist since I was a boy, and I want to j ask a few questions before you go to work." i "Go ahead." "I want tq know whether you prop a i man's jaws apart with an iron wedge, aud | then tell him to 'look pleasant please."' ( "Certainly we don't. ! "I want to know whether you fasten one j hand in the victim's hair and brace a knee against his throat, and then draw his tooth i as though you were pulling the cork from a j beer bottle with a cork screw." "Why, that would be murder. You feel! no pain at all." "That's what the dentist told me when 11 was a boy. I want to know whether you j use a jimmy to draw a tooth when the, pincers fail, and also whether you will re- j place, free of charge, any sections of the j: jaw that may be removed during the opera- 1 tion." "We won't hurt you at all." ' "Then you may go ahead ; but I have a < friend at the foot of the stair-way. He is a 1 larger man than I am, and he can punch a 1 hole through a stove lid ; and if I yell once, 1 he is coming up here eight steps at a time to knock down the ceiling u itn you. i^o ( you want to go ahead ?" < "I am afraid not. You had better go up ] the street to the veterinary surgeon." j Man for Man.?When* Colonel Patrick i F. Shevlin went to the front, he knew very little about war. His first big fight was at | Gettysburg. He was a little worried about j the tactics, and so, before the engagement! j began, asked his superior officer whether the j fight was going to be helter-skelter or man i for man. "Man for man," quickly quoth the officer. Six hours afterward, when the fight was hottest, the officer happened to , go to the rear, and was surprised to see ; ( Colonel Shevlin seated on the prostrate J j body of a soldier who wore the gray. The j, colonel looked happy, smoking a short clay j j pipe. * |, "You rascal!" the officer shouted; "why j don't you go into the engagement and fight ? i Are you a coward?" "No, sirree," responded the colonel; "I i, am obeying orders." "Obeying orders! How?" "Why, you told me man for man," sagely i, replied the colonel, "and I've got my man here." ^ Working His Passage.?A story about j, an Irishman was once told by Jay Gould, jJ When there were packet-boats on the Erie 'f canal, an Irishman offered to work his pas- j ? sage to Buffalo, and they set him leading the !. horses that towed the boat. He worked ! faithfully for two days, doing a great deal of thinking. On the third day he thought it f out. "By the powers !" he exclaimed, "I may as well walk as work my passage." And walk he did without even thanking * his employers. \ f flSTFrom a London friend comes thUJ^r'.'* tie anecdote of a Glasgow minist^r*fq>he ' reverend gentlemai^iaving ?- one gu/.Tng v\u told him one day thai he conswfcw^a u w'ouiu be more becoming in a worshipper to keep his eyes decently closed. The man scowled, "Doesna the scripture bid us watch as well as pray ?" he replied. "And hoo can a body j watch wi' their een steekit ? Na, ua ; I'll just stan' and glower aboot as I line aye;1 dune !" Took it for a Sample.?As Burton, the, comedian, was traveling on a steamboat down the Hudson, he seated himself at the table and called for some beefsteak. The waiter furnished him with a small strip of ' the article, such as travelers are usually put off with. Taking it upon his fork and turning it over and examining it with one of his peculiar serious looks, the comedian coolly remarked: "Yes, that is it; bring me some." > [ i fS3F "If I live long enough," lie said, moodily, "I hope I'll get over being a natural mark for any bunco steerer that happens to be loose." "What's the matter?" "Iconeluded I'd have to economize, so I sent fifty cents to a man who said that was all he'd charge to tell me how to make a little money ' go a long way." "And what did he tell you?" "lie simply wrote, 'Send five cents by express to San Francisco.' " One Way to Tell.?"What is a diamond?" asked the teacher. "Carbon," replied the class. "Yes, a diamond is pure carbon : hut you must remember that coal is also carbon. That was taught in the last lesson." "Yes'm." "Now, how could Insure to tell ttie difference between the two; kinds of carbon?" "Ask the price," piped up a small boy. Blinkerton?"Come over to the house tonight, old man. We're going to celebrate: our silver wedding." l'igarie?"Your silver1 wedding! Ain't you a little previous? Why, | you've only been married fifteen years!" Bliukerton?"That's all: but silver is away below par now, you know." (gatherings. ! SoF" The German army uses 137,000,000 blank cartridges a year. 8*aF* Elephants' skins are tanned to make carpets. They never wear out, but are expensive. fi6F*Some of the largest ocean steamers can be converted into armed cruisers in 30 hours. ASF* Six veterans of Waterloo are still liv-! ing in France, 14 in England, and three in the United States. 86F" Analysis proves that white corn has about one percent, more muscle-forming element than yellow. B6F" France is the only European country that has fewer able-bodied men to-day than it had 30 years ago. 5?" The library of Gottingen has a Bible written on palm leaves. There are 5,373 pages, each made of a single leaf. ASF* It has been estimated that it will require 85 men working every day until 1947, to unearth the entire ruins of Pompeii. B2F" The State Capital at Austin, Texas, ranks next in size to the capitol at Washington. It is 5661 feet long, 28S feet 10 ' Hi inches at its widest parr, ana on icci 86?" Mohammedan widows find it difficult to re-marry. An association to assist them in finding husbands has been organized in Turkey. 86?" It is generally accepted as evidence of the business revival that new and expensive hotels are in course of construction nil over the land. 86?" If it were not for the salts of the ocean the whole sea would soon become a mass of corruption, owing to the decuy of the organic matter it contains. 86?" Haifa pound of dried currants, 'in lieu of oats, is said to be fed to the Sultan's horses in Egypt, and this is claimed to be the secret of the animals great endurance. 86?" No man can, for any considerable period, wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without becoming bewildered as to which may be the true one. 86?" People who use the eyes much in reading, writing, sewing, etc., will rest the organs of vision by lifting the eyes every ten minutes or so, and gazing at some distant object. 86?" Litigant?You take nine-tenths of the judgment? Outrageous! Lawyer?I furuished the skill and eloquence and legal learning for your cause. "But I furnished the cause." "Ob, anybody could do that." 8?" An Albany (Georgia) dame, who tried to rid her premises of rats by sonking hominy in arsenic water, says that the entire tribe of rodents now inhabiting her place are of snowy whiteuess, but still alive and frisKy. 8?" "When I get to heaveu," said the small boy, who has but lately begun the study of Genesis, "the first thing I am going to do is to hunt up Adam and give him a licking." BST Three-tenths of the earnings of a Belgian convict are given to him on the expiration of his term of imprisonment. Some of them thus save more money in jail than they ever saved before. OST Near Galveston, an old man was awakened by a burglar in his room recently. He grappled with the robber, in whom he afterward discovered a long-lost son whom he had mourned for dead. fiSTThe sending of a message and reply between Manchester, England, and Victoria, British Columbia, recently, occupied only 90 seconds. The total distance by wire, outand return, is 18,000 miles. SSST The skull of a man who has died from delirium tremens contains an alcoholic gas. A small opening in the skull, soon after death, permits this gas to escape, and it can be ignited, and burns with a bluish flume. 8ST Frederick Schwatka, the traveler, once experienced a temperature of 71 degrees below zero, in the Arctic regions, near Burk's Great Fish river. It is said to be the coldest ever endured by civilized man. WST Magistrate (to witness)?I understand that you overheard the quarrel between this ? i _. _? J i.: q 4uTVll ueienuaiu aim iiiswuv.- its, sm, the court, if you can, what he seemed to be doing."' ''He seemed to be doing the listenin. " ??? SST On the field of Waterloo a topa^setflseP" in gold was recently found, bearing the arms and motto of Viscount Barrington. It belonged to Ensign Barrington, who was killed at Quatre Bras, June 16, 1815, and had lain undiscovered for 80 years. 6?* Frost bells are tolled in some districts of France when frost is threatened. Immediately the inhabitants place quantities of tar between the rows of vines. The tar is lighted, uiid volumes of dense smoke aries, thus protecting the vines. SaT" On payment of $300 a young man is excused from military service in Spain. The other day a man wrote to the queen that he !iad already paid $3000 for ten of his sons, ind begging her to excuse the other 14, as lie had no more money. The queen granted the request. ??** In one of New York's apartment houses there are 226 pianos?one to every four persons?besides a whole orchestra of piccolos, violins, guitars, cornets, and an oldfashioned melodeon. Those who live across the way say that it is the noisiest house in A. m erica. By?" "Papa, will you tell me a story?" 'Yes. What shall it be?" "Oh, tell ine .hat story over again about when you was ishing up in Maine.* Mother (calling from lext room)?Willie, come out here this nstant! Don't you know your papa joined he church last week on probation. &3F One ranch in Wyoming covers an area ){' 75 by 100 miles, and is stocked with 2,000 lorses, 15,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. The extreme length of lthode Island is 50 niles, and her extreme breadth is 35 miles? ler entire area being 1,250 square miles. The area of this ranch is 7,500 square miles, ind it is, therefore, just six times as big as Rhode Island. BSsT" A 14 year old boy at Lake Odessa, Mass., was being whipped by his father for smoking cigarettes. The father chanced to ipply the shingle to the pocket where the ad kept a box of matches. The concussion gnited the matches, and in an instant the )oy's pocket was ablaze. The father put mt the llames by dropping the boy into a >arrel of water. BeaT" An ingenious way of smuggling opium las been discovered by the customs oflicers n Paget Sound, aud had evidently been ;oing on for years. A log was sawed lengthvise, and hollowed. The halves were then listened together with wooden pins, and the loUM'dled with contraband opium. Few lflicers woul>^ausoec^in innocentoLndciug UnP" The Taris police eft' ft remarkable hotel in the FauhougPnrAutoine. It was a resort of thieves. The rooms had double ceilings, the iloors had trap-doois and all the drawers in the furniture had false bottoms. Large quantities of jewels, money, securities and plunder generally were discovered. During the search the maid-servant in the kitchen threw something into the soup. The soup was strained and proved to contain diamond rings. tSeiF In the space of two minutes John Swanson, of Omaha, had two almost miraculous escapes from death, lie was standing near a quarry when a keg of powder exploded and hurled him a considerable distance from the spot. In a senseless condition he landed just above a charge of dynamite, the fuse of which had already been lighted. Before he could be rescued the .w-.....nil.. ..Ytiliiiled and Swanson was blown a second lime in till' air. Notwithstanding this double accident the man escaped with only a broken leg and arm. At a fair in Wicklow, Ireland, there was a fierce shillalah light. One man received a fatal blow on the skull, and his assailant was convicted of manslaughter. Just before beingsenteneed, the prisoner's-counsel, with the view of arousing the judge's leniency, referred to the doctor's testimony that the victim's skull was abnormally thin. The prisoner, on being asked if he laid anything to say for himself, replied, "Xo, ycr honor ; but I would ask. was that a skull for a man to go to-a fair wid gaSf" One of the charges brought against his wife by a man in Heaver, Ha., in a suit for divorce, was her rude and unladylike way of serving him with fried eggs. On a Sunday morning, whileshe was preparing breakfast , and he was getting ready for church, they had some verbal disagreement ; and she emphasized her remarks by throwing a dish of fried eggs at him. This treatment made him hopping mad. and his comments upon her conduct so angered her, that she avowed her determination to hereafter let him have then raw in tin* shell. ?hc J>totn $cHev. js i GUIDEl) BY A GHOST, j I The Strange Experience of a Traveler "ill Virginia. On the 9th of July, 1872,1 was rilling through the State of Virginia anil along the pike that leads to the ancient little city of Alexandria, which is situated just across the Potomac from the national capital. It was a delightful evening, the sky was clear, the moon was bright and the stars twinkled like i diamonds. Cool and refreshing breezes i wafted along the incense from the flowers in the woods. As I came along by the battle- j field of Chantilly , otherwise known to the , 1 Confederates as Ox Hill, I turned my norse, ! for I was riding on horseback, and rode out ' into the field through a gap in the fence. As I sat on my horse, which I stopped at about the spot where the brave and fearless ' Phil Kearney was killed, I thought of the 1 days of that great and memorable struggle , between the North and South?the whirlwind of strife that lashed alike the palmetto j and the pine. I could not help but think of the pitiful sight of one brother arrayed against another, and sons and lovers falling with the sweet kisses of mother and sweet- 1 heart fresh upon their lips. As I sat thus musing, I heard a slight rustling in the thicket at my left. Turning ray head in that direction, I beheld a slight, but graceful figure, clad in pure white, standing at the edge of the woods. The figure motioned me forward ; but thinking it some member of a frolicking party trying to f frighten me or play a practical joke. I pull- ( ed out my pistol and fired a shot into the ground for the purpose of giving the party a ' good scare. As soon as the pistol exploded, 1 however, the figure disapeared as if by magic. This sudden and noiseless disappearance ' was not exactly what I had expected ; but, , I thinking no more of it, I rode my horse out , through the gap into the road and continued my jouruey towards Alexandria. I had gone perhaps 300 rods or more, when lo, and behold, this same white figure ] was moving along by my side?gliding along ( like a fairy of olden times. Suddenly my j horse caught sight of the figure, which he had | not observed before, and with a snort and a wild plunge, he threw me to the ground and \ dashed down the road at his very best speed. | I sprang to my feet as quickly as possible; ( the figure was not there. I groped about and found my pistol, which dropped from , my pocket when I fell, and brushed the dust from my clothes as best I could. I started i to walk back to a farmhouse which I had 1 . A _:i_ .1 J ?!,? passc(l auoul u unit; uji me iuuu, <inu tuc ugure appeared again before me in the middle of the road, motioning me as before. She, for I was close enough to discover it was a woman, seemed to glide along as be- i fore, without a particle of noise. I could see ( her face plainly now, and it was what the novelists love to call "strangely beautiful." j There was no mistaking that. Her lips and her face were as "white as marble. The eyes appeared to be deep blue, and the lips were , beautifully modeled. My appearance was not exactly favorable to making a decided impression, although when I am well dressed, I am not bad looking. My watch, which j I had not observed before, was dangling at , the end of the chain outside my waistcoat, and, when I raised my hat, my hair was , sticking in every direction. However, I attempted to beg her pardon for my strange j couduct, und at the same time to ascertain the cause of hers ; but I received no reply to I my interrogatives, which were as polite as I j could make them. j I am not a timid man, and, above all, not afraid of a woman, so I proceeded to follow, ' hazarding all sorts of guesses as to who the stranger was and what she was up to and j how ray peculiar adventure would cud. It , j was certainly a strange proceeding to me. I thought of all the "Nameless Heroines" of the rebellion, and how they had led the to places of safety, through the dead of night, but litis seemed no occa- , sion for the assistance of such. However, she went up the road at a rapid , pace?so rapid I could barely keep up. She I passed into the field where I had stopped, went across and into the woods, stin uecKon- . ing me to follow, which I did as fast as I could , without breaking into an undignified run. As soon as we entered the wood my progress | was somewhat impeded by the trees and | brush, but she seemed to have no trouble. Once I lost sight of her, but she waited until I caught nearly up with her. All at once she stopped by an old stump. I came up to within four or live feet and she disappeared and for the life of me I could not j ] j tell where she went to. I then made up my j j mind I had been following a vision. I did ' not like to eall it a ghost, for I never belicv- j, ! ed in them. It was too dark in the woods to J distinguish much, although the moon was , j shining brightly through the trees, so I lied | my white pocket handkerchief to a twig, in | ! order that I might easily find the place in | ' the morning, and retraced my steps, i Arriving at the road I paused a moment. , I knew something was wrong, but what it j | was, I had 110 idea. I am not naturally su-I, perslitious, but I would have given a good , deal at that moment to have had my strange , experience explained and the mystery 1111- , raveled. I had a feeling that upon visiting . the place in the morning something would be revealed, and I was not mistaken. j I went up the road to the house I had , passed on my way. A pleasant man an- ( ; swered my knock at the door, and I asked to be allowed to spend the night. He greet- ( ed me cordially and invited me into the house, ( which was old fashioned brick, that had , been built long before the war, and had re- mained uninjured during the fighting in that j locality. As it was then rather late, his lam- | ily had retired. , 1 explained 10 nun as nrieuy as possioie my i j experience of" the evening. The man was h i an ex-Confederate soldier, as I afterward j, | learned, and a genuine, good-hearted and i 1 hospitable Virginian of the old school. We j very soon became acquainted, and, as I had j ( | eaten my supper, we sat on the broad, vine- j | covered porch in front of the house and j smoked a cigar apiece before retiring. While |, we sat smoking, I having related my adven- j ] ture and expressed a desire to visit the spot ] I in the wood where I had tied my handker- !, j chief to the tree, he narrated the following, which I give in his own words, as nearly as , I can remember: , ! "I was born and raised in Virginia, and i~7fuhhTTii.> unpleasantness was one of , ,"^Io&|rs men. We did a great deal of light- , ingm%tiv*is vicinity, and after we disbanded j I wit tied down on this place, which I had | purchased only a few days before the first j | gun of the war had been 11 red. The niggers j j about here tell a yarn in which I have never < ! taken much stock. They say that during j | | the light in which our men killed Kearney, a J young ollicer that was the on stall' was fatally ! j j wounded and left on the field for dead. Af- j ( j ter the fight was over and w hile the dead and i; wounded were being looked after and eared ' for, this young officer could not he found. I ] "It was first supposed that his body had j i been claimed by friends who arived shortly j | I after the light and had been carried away, j, hut this supposition was afterward discover-jed, so the story runs, to have been unfownd-1, i ed. The Negroes claim to have seen his | 'ghost on the battlefield on certain occasions | and they insist that his bones are still in that , ! field through which you came, although the [Held has been plowed a number of times\\ without any remains having been discovered,;; so far as I ever heard. "Vn " ii?? cnid. in answer to niv ouestion, i "none of my family have ever .soon the vis-1 ] ion you speak of, ulthough 011 one occasion ! during the summer of '<><> a boy that I em- '1 ; ployed on the place came running up the j road, nearly frightened out of his wits, and said that a lady's ghost had followed him up s the road, making all sorts of gestures. He 1 was a weak-minded sort of a elmp, however, : and none of us ever paid any attention to his story. Hut the niggers claim that it was theli spirit of his fiancee, haunting the place j! I where her lover died. It was known that I j he was engaged to a very beautiful and ae-! jeomplished young lady of Massachusetts: ] j and that she died soon after hearing of his 1 j strange disappearance after the battle of Ox j | Mill, or Chantilly, as you Yankees call it. ; I The dead body or whereabouts of the young i , oflicer have never been ascertained to this 1 | day, although the ground about here has j often been searched by his relatives, who are j 1 very wealthy. This was several years ago, I however, and his friends have concluded, < I as I have heard, that lie was buried with > ome oftlie Union dead at Arlington." ( It now being very late, we retired for the ' est of the night. The next morning we ,vent over to the wood where I had been led )y the lovely apparition, and were not loug | n finding the place where luy handkerchief ,vas tied to a tree. We inaugurated a senrch, 1 jut for a long time discovered nothing, and vere about to give it up in disgust, when 1 rhompson, the name of my host of the evenng before, discovered in the old stump an | officer's sword, badly rusted, and also an jfficer's belt bearing the initials R. H. L. tVe went back to the house and procured a spade and hoe, and returning to the spot, J lug all around the stump and soon unearthed a human skeleton with a staff officer's ' uniform nearly rotted away. After putting the remains in a box we ! sent a telegram to Washington, and the . name of the officer, for his remains proved to 1 be, was soon ascertained from the rolls in j the office of the secretary of war. The young officer's name was Robert H. Lane. r t .1 <? Al..?nn,l.:n t? < I WUUL UUWI1 LU AlUAUllUllil, LI II i/ lUllli IJt'll LU Thompson's house n few days thereafter. A brother of the dead officer, who lived in New York city, had been notified and had been down there and taken the remains away. I saw him a fortnight after in Washington, and related to him my strange and uncanny experience of that eventful night. He produced a photograph of a young lady, and I recognized in the features my strange visitor on the night of July 9, 1872. He then told me that the phtftograph was one his brother's fiancee had had taken not long prior to his brother's untimely death on the Chantilly field. When she heard of his death she was broken-hearted, and lived not long after.?Philadelphia Times. A MORTGAGE PAYING JUG. I saw it hanging up in the kitchen of a thrifty, healthy, sturdy farmer in Oxford county, Me., a bottomless jug! The host saw that the curious thing caught my eye, and smiled. "You arc wondering what that jug is hanging up there for, with its bottom knocked out," he said. "My wife perhaps, can tell you the story hotter than I can ; but she is bashful, and I ain't so; so I'll tell it." ' "Mv fiither owned this Amu before me. ' He lived to n good old age, worked hard all , his life, never squandered money, was a can- , Lions trader and a good calculator; and as men were accounted in his day and generalion, he was a temperate man. I wns the youngest boy, and when the old man was ready to go, and knew it, the others agreed lhat since I had stayed at home and taken care of the old folks, the farm should he mine, and to me it was willed. I had been I married then three years." < Well, father died?mother had been gone < three years before?and left the farm to me, i with a mortgage on it for $1,500. I had i never thought of it before. I said to Mollic, i my wife : "Mollie, look here. Father's had this I farm for ySars, with all of its magnificent < timber, and his six boys, as they grew up, i equal to so many men, to help him ; and he 1 worked hard, early and late, and you look at i it! A mortgage of $1,500. What can I do?" ] "And then I went to the jug?it had a i bottom to it then?and took a stiff drink of ] something much stronger than water. "I noticed a curious look on the face of < my wife just then and I asked her what she < thought of it, fori supposed she was thinking of what I had been thinking about, and I so she was. for she said : < "Charles, I have thought of this a great i ileal and I have thought of a way in which | I believe I cau clear this mortgage olf before live years arc ended." i "Says I, Mollie, tell mc how you'll do < it." I She thought for a while, and then said 1 with a funny twinkle in her blue eyes? < said she : i " 'Charles you must promise me this, and < promise me solemnly and sucredly : Prom- I isc me that you will never bring home for the purpose of drinking for a beverage, at i any time, any more spirits than you can I bring in that old jug?the jug your father has used ever since I knew him, and which you have used since he was done with it." ! "Well, I knew father used once in a while, i especially in haying time, and in winter when we were at work in the woods, to get I an old gallon jug filled, so I thought she meant that I should never buy more than i two quarts at a time. I thought it over, < and after a little while told her that I would i agree to it." i "'Now mind,' said she, 'you are never to i bring any more spirits than you cun bring in I that indention! jug.' And I gave her tlie ' promise." "And before I went to bed that night I took the last pull at the jug." "Well, I went out after that, and then went to bed, and the last thing I said before leaving the kitchen?this very room where we now sit?was: < "We'll have the old brown jug" filled to- < morrow.' "And then I went ofl'to bed. And I have remembered ever since that I went to bed . that night as I had done hundreds of times | before, with a buzzing in my head that a 1 healthy man ought not to have. ! "Well, I got up the next morning and did I my work at the barn, and ate my breakfast; but not with such au appetite as a farmer ] might to have, and I could not think that I my appetite had begun to fail. However, 11 ate breakfast and then went out and hitched i up the old mare, for to tell the plain truth, I < was feeling the need of a glass of spirits and [ hadn't a drop in the house. I was in a < hurry to get to the village. I hitched up i ind came in for the jug. I went for it in i the old cupboard and took it out, and? 1 "Did you ever break through the thin ice i mi a snapping cold day, and find yourself aver your head in freezing cold water ? Be- 1 cause that is the way I felt at that moment. I The jug was there ; but the bottom was i *one. Mollic had taken a sharp chisel and s hammer, and, with a skill that might have ] lone credit to a master workman, she clip- I [>ed the bottom clean out of the jug, and < then she burst out. She spoke?Oh ! I had ] never heard anything like it! No, nor have 1 heard anything like it since. She said : 1 " 'Charles, that's where the mortgage on ] lie farm came from ! It was brought home i it that jug?two (piarts at a time ! And < there's where your white clean skin and 1 your clear eyes are gone. And in that jug, i my husband your appetite is going also. 0 1 let it be as it is, dear heart! And remember 11 your promise !' j i it A .wl !?/*** elm tlir/AiL* )\r*v nrmc nrmmrl iriv 1 :ieck and burst into tears. She could speak j i no more." And there was no need. My eyes >pcucd as (hough by magic. In a singu^B minute the whole scene passed before nu^fl fitting on a bench outside the door, I saw alff the mortgages on all the farms in our neigh- ] liood; and I thought where the money had 1 {one. The very last mortgage father had j 1 jver made was to pay a bill held against him :iy the man who had filled this jug for years ! j < Tes, T saw it as it passed before me a flitter- j I ng picture of rum! rum!?debt! debt! debt ! And in the end, death ! I returned to 1 Mollie, and giving her a kiss, said : I " 'Mollie, my own, I'll keep the promise! j1 [ will, so help me heaven! And I have j t kept it. In less than five years, as Mollie il liad said, the mortgage was cleared off, and < now we have a few hundreds at interest, i There hangs the old jug?just as we hung it I in that day, and from that time there hasn't i lieen a diop of spirits brought into the house i for a beverage that that bottomless jug t wouldn't hold. "Dear old jug ! We mean to keep it and I hand it down to our children for the lesson I it can give them?a lesson of life?of a life happy, peaceful, prosperous and blessed ! j And as he ceased speaking, his wife, with ( her arms drawn tenderly around the neck of t her youngest boy, murmured a fervent ( "Amen." t . -o~ ( Tun Frenchman's Pu\m I'cddinu.?A i story that has got into print and keeps < there is of a Frenchman who, eating plum i pudding for the first time, was so pleased t with the dish that he liegged his Hnglish f hostess to give him the receipt for it. This i die did, and lie took it home for an early ; lest at his own mahogany. His wife, on \ learning his enthusiasm, elected to suprisc him one day, and the dish was served at <. dessert in a soup tureen and in soup plates, i Not recognizing the mixture, the master of i the house asked what it was, and was told i it was "plum pooding." When he disputed i this, he was confronted with his own receipt, j j; Alas! the lady who gave it to him had for- < gotten'the cloth. All the ingredients had j t been put, according to directions, into a pan i of boiling water, had been cooked the pre- <: scribed time, and the result was?soup. r lite Jwm and rfivtsitle. BUTTER AND CHEESE. I'reHlilcnt Hart, of Cleitinon Given the People Some Valuable Point*. From the Greenville News. Before establishing any enterprise it is at first necessary to find out if the requisite jonditions arc present to ensure its maintenance. For any manufacturing enterprise, I plenty of raw material must be in sight jefore a foundation stone is laid. A cream- J jry or cheese factory is no exception to this rule, as many neighborhoods where large j and costly creameries have been erected Inive fouud out to their cost. Before building a creamery or cheese factory the milk of i ^sufficient number of good cows should ; oc pledged for a year or more. In practice, it has been found that three hundred sows, within three miles of the factory, are is few as will ensure a successful business. To pay the running expenses of a hundred sows creamery would require such a large percentage of the receipts that there would \ be no money in the business for the pro-j tlucers of the milk. The site of a creamery or cheese factory I should be easily accessible by good roads,! should have a large supply of pure water, und sufficiently elevated to secure good :1 rain age. There are many different ways in which cheese factories and creameries arc coniluctcd which for the sake of convenience may be classed under one of the following beads, proprietary and co-operative, which names explain themselves. In the latter class the farmers who supply the mrlk usually own the plant, elect officers from among their number, hire the laborer and conduct the business. Another way is to employ some responsible maker to handle the milk who charges a certain price a pound of cheese or butter for manufacturing, which is somewhere about 1J cents per pound for cheese and 4 cents per pound for butter. The proprietary dairies are run on the railway manager's maxim?"all the traffic will stand." The co-operative basis has naturally proved to be more satisfactory to the farmers as all the proceeds less the expenses go to them. To start a co-operative dairy enterprise there must he one or more puuuc spirited citizens, who possess the confidence of the community, and who are willing to spend a little time in posting themselves upon the requirements of, and working for, the business. A public meeting might be arranged for, to which all interested in cows and cow produce should be invited. Specially invite the ladies as a creamery will relieve them of the drudgery of making butter in a dash ' churn. After full discussion, lists can l>e| apened for the subscriptions of those who are ready to put their money and cows into the business. A canvass should be made of iny others, not at the meeting, who might wish to take part. Before proceeding very far, a meeting of the stockholders should be called, a constitution, bylaws, rules and regulations adopted and a permanent organization effected. Co-operation means a working together, and is found in all trades and professions except farming. Should the elements of co-operation be lacking, should opposition, or worse still, indifference, be met with, it is better to encourage the furthering Df private dairying and wait for the growth i 3f a more healthy public sentiment. Neighborhoods, attracted by the glittering iiait held out to them by the agents of certain 3 airy supply houses, sometimes make the mistake of building and equipping loo expensively at the start. It is better to commence in a modest way md enlarge the premises and plant as the circumstances of the case demand ; and the building and machinery should be planned with this end in view. Many creameries sarry on profitably a trade in cream, buttermilk and even eggs. Ice, or artificial refrig oration, will be indispensible lor making butter in summer, and, whether to get a smull refrigerating plant, which can be had us low as $(>50, or to buy ice is a question that must be decided. A cheese factory is a very cheap and simple ufTair. The building need be only a one story plain frame struct lire, having the walls and ceiling of one room well insulated by | the plentiful use of building paper so the| temperature can be controlled. The outfit for manufacturing the milk of 1500 cows iirto cheese need not cost over !?o00, and the total cost of building and outfit would not exceed a cow. In a country district, with the surroundings favorable, a cheese factory could he made highly profitable if the patrons would bend their energies to the production of cheap milk ; but in a town a cheese factory by itself might prove a failure. Taking such a large quantity o'f milk oir the market as a cheese factory does, would create a shortage in the local supply of milk and butter and an advance in prices to the detriment where there is considerable demand for milk for family use, a creamery or combined creamery and cheese factory will be found more profitable, though costing considerably more at the outset. In the North there are two kinds of creameries, gathered cream aud centrifugal separator, [lathered cream creameries are adapted to sparsely settled districts where considerable territory has to he covered to collect cream. Unless farm cream separators arc used, gathered cream creameries arc not. adapted to our Southern conditions. In a centrifugal separator creamery the milk is either collected by the management or delivered by the patrons. As soon as the milk arrives at the creameries it is weighed, the weight is recorded opposite the patron's name, and a sample is reserved to he tested. The milk runs from the weight can into the receiving vat, where it is heated by steam to blood heat. The separator is now started, the skim milk being returned to the patrons to he fed on the farm, while the cream is cooled and lfterwardsripened and churned. While the separator is running, the cream from the previous clay's separating is churned. At the same time the butter from the churning of the day before may he re-worked and packed. The old way of buying milk or dividing .he net receipts of a factory was to pay each patron according to the number of pounds of nilk he had delivered without regard to the juality of the milk ; the new and better ivay, both in cheese factories and crenmeres is to pro rate the proceeds according to :he amount of butter fat contained in the nilk furnished by each patron, which makes is fair and satislatory a division as woulti making up the milk of each person sepurltely. i nave oeiure me a copy ui me ugnciuiu-1 Btatisties of tlio province of Ontario for ami from it I learn that the across value proiluel of 100 pounds (nearly. 12 gal*f milk was: in creameries 81.2 cents. [n butter and cheese factories IMJ.tj cents. [n cheese factories 1)1. cents. The comparison is useful in showing how lesiruble it is to be able to change readily Tom butter to cheese making and vice versa. Take the case of a creamery. In summer, vhen butter is plentiful it is not wise to force more goods upon an overstocked market, nor to store large quantities of butter o compete with Treshly made butter later,; jut to make clieese. The milk from which j me pound of butter is made will make two' uid a half pounds of cheese, which will sell or .'10 cents at least. A factory manager leeds to make both edges cut and must iceds be ready to cut either way according o the demands of the market. A 300 cow factory for the manufacture of j mtter and cheese can be built and equipped j or $3,000 or $3,"i()0. The extension of dairying in its broadest | icnse will aid in the diversification of agri-! nilture, will increase the direct income of j he farmer, and improve the productiveness! if his farm. The farmers of an exclusively ! rotton growing district, where very few I :o\vs are kept cannot, of course immediately cvolutionizc their methods and commence lairying upon a co-operative basis. They j ran however, gradually build up produe-| ive herds as they are able to grow the feed j or these at home. With a few modern j iairy appliances the butter can he put up in I ittractive form, which, when marketed fresh, j vill bring tlie top price in the market. No effort has been made to paint a gorgeous picture of the possibilities of the dairy { ndusiry, or 10 induce inose noi (planned oy ( lalural fitness and experience to lay hold of) (. in hope of salvation. In a creamery a fanner can reckon on j letting the same price for his butter as good . lairv butter brings in the market without | he labor of making and marketing it. Then | t is probable that a creamery, by the use I if improved machinery, will make from >nc-iif(h to one-quarter more butter from ! the same amount of milk than the producer! of the milk could have done. Success will follow persistent effort; and, | as the operations of a dairy enterprise are i | extended the difference between the cost and the selling price of the product will he ; increased, bringing prosperity to the farm-j ers, which will reflect upon all other classes i of the community.?J. W. H. MAKE YOLK OWN FERTILIZERS. It is apparent to every thinking man that! our farmers can't continue to purchase fer- j j tilizers for cash at the present price of cot-1 ton. We have got to change our present j system or go into bankruptcy. Georgia) cannot compete with Arkansas and Texas in ; the growth of cotton under our present sys-1 lem. we must cuauge or go iu uiu wan. | Now, what is the best tiling to do, is the i question that conies home to every farmer I in the country and they compose nine tenths | of our population. It is settled that we can-! not purchase guano for cash at the rate of j 200 pounds per acre and make cotton. It is i our money crop. We cannot abandon it entirely. We can still make cotton as our forefathers did at live cents but our system must be changed. Last spring we urged our farmers to put in only live acres to the horse on every farm. Manure it highly from the barn yard, give it the same work you would 10 acres and make a bale to the acre. Very few men could see it in that light, *and they put in 15 acres to the horse, and they worked from day to sundown, got the five bales, owed one-third cf it for guano and have got only about $75 for this year's work. We said the system had to be changed. And we refer to it now because now is the time to prepare to make the change. It is too late next spring. The man who prepares to plant cotton this spring must begin now to prepare for it. If you lack any manure and have to buy commercial fertilizers, buy only with the cotton option. That is, so many pounds of cotton for a ton of fertilizers. That is your only safety. We do not advocate the abandonment of cotton. We cannot a fiord to do so. But we can make it a surplus crop that will bring in money iu the fall to pay our debts. The first great step towards Southern commercial independence is to make all our supplies at home?corn, wheat, oats, meat, potatoes, sorghum, everything for the support of man and beast, and then we can raise cotton even at five cents if we do not have to pay for the guano.?Georgia Farmer. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of nP In leavening strength.?Latest United States Government Food Report. Rovai. Hakims Powdkr Co., 10(> Wall St., N. Y. I). K. FIXT.KY. J. S. BRICK. FINLEY & DRIt'E, ATTORNEYS AT I.AAV, Yorkville, S. C. ALL business entrusted to us will be given prompt attention. OFFICE IN TIIE RUILDINO AT THE REAR OF H. C. STRAUSS'S STORE. Or La Grippe, though occasionally epidemic, is always more or less prevalent. The best remedy for this complaint is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. " bast Spring, I was taken down with | La Grippe. At times I was completely prostrated, and so difficult was my breathing that my breast seemed as if confined in an iron cage. I procured a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and no sooner had I began taking it than relief followed. I could not believe that the effect would be so rapid and the cure so complete. It is truly a wonderful medicine."?W. n. Williams, Crook City, S. D. AYER'S Cherry Pectoral Prompttoact,sure?ocure MONTVAI.M STOCK FA KM. Illncksburg, S. C. REGISTERED JERSEYS, WELCH AND SHETLAND PONIES. (Imported stock.) ESSEX AND REGISTERED CHESHIRE PIGS* Bred and for sale. OUR JERSEYS are all of the celebrated Victor and Stoke Rogis strains, which have attracted so much attention throughout the North. BULL CALVES FOR SALE AT FARMERS' PRICES. If you are thinking ot starting a dairy herd don't overlook the Jerseys. They are the best dairy cows known to the world. Wo guarantee our ponies to be perfectly safe for ladies and children to drive. CAN SELL SHETLAND PONIES AS CHEAP AS ANY BREEDERS IN THE SOUTH. Write for what you want. Address, Dr. J. G. BLACK, Blacksburg, S. C. HU REPRESENT The <-"v"Ni;vr.w.. motto of the OKINAWA UK, an' .iust, i?komi*t ' and certain". Their rates are as low as those of any reliable company, ami they never try to shrink from their obligations. Wo solicit your ( business and pledge onr best and most courteous attention. SAM M. Sc L. <<K(>. (iHIST. ( I Men, Ask Your Dc:*.!er A'j.vr.t 7':-nr. Kor Sale llv CLOVER COTTON M'F'G. CO., Clover, S. C. ' November" 4"> ly i AM, >11:X MUST 1)1 H." |j \Ti)V will observe that tlio above <|notati<?ti j X does not say, all men can die, miiiiit die, t may die; hut "Ml'ST" die. Tin-re is no es- I cape. The debt MrsThepaidsoonerorlater.lt It is our calling, to cure for the mortal remains j t of loved ones who pass into the "treat beyond." I J Thcrclorc, we wish to announce that we are prepared to perform the services required of us, rUMJItAIi DIllKUTOHS. We carry in stock a complete line of caskets of every style and trimming, and also collins of all erodes from the cheapest to the best. S. T. FKKW A- CO., Hock 11 ill. S. ('. THE YORKVIL FOR Largest Home-Prii in South NOW IS THE TIMI PREMIUMS VAL ^ ? A Magnificent Bedroom Suite, to the Club-maker who Ketn Number of New Subscril ? - - ? All $85 Buggy, A $75 Go Disk Harrow for the LIBERAL PREMIUMS FOR CLI WITH the issue for WEDNESDAY, JAN- | UARY 2ND, 1KD5, will commence the i FORTY-FIRST year of the publication of, THE YORKVILLH ENQl'IRKR, during all of which time the present proprietor has been connected with it cither as publisher or proprietor. It is safe to say that the MAIN FEATURES which have been peculiar to THE ENQUIRER in the past, will remain unchanged; and all reasonable efforts will be continued in order to make it an acceptable visitor to the homes and liresides of the people within the bounds of its circulation. In brief, it is our aim to print a high-toned, clean, newsy, reliable family newspaper, which can be read with pleasure and profit by every member of the household. Terms of Subscription?Postage Free. Single Copy, one year, $2 00 Two Copies, one year, .'1 ft) One Copy, two years, 3 ft) | One Copy, six months 1 00 One Copy, three months, ft) Ten Copies, one year 17 ft) And one copy, ono year, to the person making a club of TEN at 81.75 for each subscriber. Payment required to he made in advance. PREMIUMS FOR THE LARGEST CLUBS. For the THREE LARGEST CLUBS of yearly subscribers?OLD AND NEW?at 81.75 for each subscriber, we offer the three articles mentioned below, the aggregate value of the three being $1110.00. For the largest club?OLD AND NEW?an 8S5 OPEN BUGGY, manufactured by the Carolina Buggy company, of Yorkville, S. C. The buggy we have arranged to offer as a premium for the LARGEST CLUB, is equal in quality and finish to any buggy made and sold by any establishment in the United States at the same price. It will be supplied with either end or side bar springs as the person entitled to it may prefer. For the SECOND LARGEST CLUB?OLD AND NEW?one ?75.00 GOLD WATCH. The movement of this watch is made by the Waltham Watch company of nickel, lias 15 jewels, 4 pairs ruby jewels in gold settings, patent regulator adjusted to heat and cold, is value by the manufacturer at ?40, and is a reliable time keeper. The movement will be fitted to a Boss filled gold case made of 14 carat gold, warranted to wear twenty years, and is valued at ?35?the watch complete being listed by the manufacturers at ?75.00. For the THIRD LARGEST CLUB-OLD AND NEW?one 12-DISK LATEST IMPROVED COR BIN DISK HARROW, valued at ?30.00. The worth of this excellent farming implement is well established in York county, unci any one who secures it will get a valuable machine which may be classed as a standard article. PREMIUMS FOR OTHER CLUBS. FOR SIXTY OR MO 111: FAMES. To every person who obtains and pays for SIXTY <">U MORE NAMES at 31.75 each: but who fails to secure either the buggy, gold watch, or C'orbin disk harrow, we will give as compensation, one "ENQUIRER" SEWING MACHINE, or one ll-JEWEL WALTIIAM WATCH in a Faliy's dust proof open faced silver case, or a HOUSEKEEPERS SET OF SILVER SPOONS, FORKS AND KNIVES, etc. The sewing machine is similar in every respect to the well-known and popular "Peerless." It is of the high arm style, has four drawers, finished in oak or walnut as may be preferred, is finely ornamented, is fitted with improved automatic bobbin-winder, has self-setting needle and self-threading cylinder shuttle, anu all the tools and attachments required with a lirstclass sewing machine, 'ihe watch which is here mentioned is all that is requisite for one who wants a reliable and durable time-keeper. The housekeeper's outfit consists of SIX DESERT SPOONS, THREE TABLE SPOONS, SIX MEDIUM FORKS, ONE TWIST BUTTER KNIFE. ONE SUGAR SHELL, and SIX MEDIUM SIZE KNIVES. These articles are manufactured by the Rogers Brothers, of Meriden, Conn. Every article in the set is of A1 quality, and plated with pure silver. Either premium would be good value at 322.50. FOlt FORTY AX I) LESS THAX SIXTY. To every person who obtains and pays for FORTY NAMES and less than sixty, and who fails to obtain one of the three leading premiums, we wijl give one SEVEN JEWEL WALTIIAM WATCH, in a Fallv's open face case, or a set of ROGERS BROTHERS' CUTLERY, consisting of SIX MEDIUM SIZED TABLE KNIVES and SIX FOUR TINE FORKS. The blades of these knives are made of the finest ounlity of crucible steel, finely tempered, ami the handles of nickle silver, quadrupled plated with pure silver. The pattern selcctled is known as the "Siren." The watch is a reliable time-keeper, and either of the premiums offered is worth 315.00. FOlt THIRTY A XI* LESS THAX FORTY. To every person who returns and pays for a CLUB 01' THIRTY and less than forty names, and who fails to secure one of the three leading premiums, we will give one SEVEN JEWEL OPEN FACE AMERICAN STANDARD WATCH in a Faliy's dust proof silver case. Or, if preferred, will give a set nf HALF DOZEN TEA SPOONS, HALF DOZEN TABLE SPOONS and ONE BETTER KNIFE of Rogers Brothers' "Siren" pattern. These spoons and hotter knife, are made of niekle silver and plated with pore silver. Either of the premioms offered is worth at least ?10.00. rOll TWENTY AXI) LESS Tit AX TI/IltTY. To every person who returns and pays for a clnl> of TWENTY and less than thirty names, and who fails to secure any other premium, we will give a copy of the TIIE ENQUIRER for one year, and a eopv for fine vear of anv WEEKLY NEWSPAPER or MONTHLY MAGAZINE published in the United States, the publication to be selected by the person entitled to receive it. t on TEX AXI) LESS TUAX TUEXTY. To every person who returns and pays for! it CLUB OF TEN and less than twenty! names, and who fails to secure any other pre-1 Our Propositions are open t For further information, address LEWIS >1GARRY IRON RO< Manufactures all kinds of 3 IKON HOOFING, aIM I'KD A N I> COKKUOATKD SI 1)1 NO. SflK Iron Tile or Shingle, h'lltK l'KOOK DOOItS, SIIUTTKKS, AC., f " THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 fiir Orders received by L. M. GRIST. HIGH GRADE JOB PRINTING. Good Work at Legitimate Prices. WE do not claim to l?o hotter prepared to execute Jolt PRINTING than any of lice n the I'liitcd States, for such is not the owe. | Nor do we claim to do work at prices lower than hose of OTHER FIRST-CLASS PRINTERS; >ut we do claim and know it TO RE A FACT, hatnnr prices are only commensurate with the natcrial used and the work executed, and our rices will compare most favorably with New ] fork. Parties wishing estimates on LAW | IIRI EES, ROOKS. LEGAL RLAXKS, CATALOG 1'KS, MANDRILLS, PAMPHLETS, DODGERS, LETTER HEADS, ENVEL>PES, RILLHEADS, STATEMENTS, WEDDING INVITATIONS, etc., will bo given ittention on application. < >rders for f>,(X)0,10,000, f>,00<), and -0,(KM) copies or more, from any one j brm, will be furnished at "special prices." itemember us when you want printing. Call n or write to THE YORKVILLE ENQl'IRER, Yorkville, S. C. January 0 2 tf FOR C'YCI.OML I'IRH OR ACClDIlN1 , INSrUANCE, you will always lind it to your interest to consult j S. M. A L. GEO. GRIST. I LE ENQUIRER 18951 ited County Paper Carolina! E TO SUBSCRIBE! QED AT $265.00. Valued at 875, Will Be Awarded iriis and Pays for the Largest bers by March 14, 1895. >1<1 Watch and a Corbin Three Largest Clubs. FBS OF THREE AND UPWARD. inium, we will furnish THE ENQUIRER for one year, or one GRAVY LADLE of the "Siren" pattern, made of nickel silver and plated with pure silver, and valued at $2.00. FOR SIX A XI) LESS Til AX TEX. To every person who returns and pays for a club of SIX and less than ten names, and who fails to secure any other premium,' we will give a CHILD'S TABLE SET, including a knife, fork and spoon, made of?the best materials and plated with pure silver. Valued at $1.50 FOR THREE AXI) LESS TIIAX SIX. To every person who returns and pays for a CLUB OF THREE and less than six names, and who fails to secure any other premium, we will give a handsome "Siren" BUTTER KNIFE, made of nickle silver and plated with pure silver, and valued at $1. A PREMIUM FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS. To the person who returns and nays for the largest number of NEW SUBSCRIBERS, at $1.75 each, between the 1ST DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1894, and 4 O'CLOCK, P. M., ON THURSDAY, THE 14TH DAY OF MARCH, 1895, we will give a suite of FINE BEDROOM OAK FURNITURE, VALUED AT $75.00. This suite of furniture consists of three pieces, embracing a dressing case with French beveled mirror .'#1x38 inches; a washstand?universal toilet?with French beveled mirror30x24inches; a bedstead 4 feet 8 inches in width and of proportionate length, and a headboard (1 (pet <> inches in height. The material of the suite is oak, quarter sawed, and finished in the best style. As an indication of its substantial character, it may be mentioned that the weight of the suite is aliout five hundred pounds. This splendid suite is to be furnished by Messrs. S. T. FREW A CO., of Rock Ilill, and they have assured us that they will not sell a similar suite to any person for a less sum than $75. The suite of bedroom furniture is offered for the largest club of NEW SUBSCRIBERS and independent of all other premiums, and the person who secures it, will be entitled to have his names counted in competition for either of the other premiums olfered. For example: If the person who secures the bedroom suite of furniture shall have returned and paid for the largest list of names (including old and new subscribers) up to 4 o'clock p. j in., on the 14th day March, 1895, such person ; will be entitled to the$85 buggy; if the second largest list, including those wnich secured the bedroom suit, will be entitled to the $75 watch ; if the third largest, the Corbin disk harrow. If it is found on the 14th of March, 1895, that the person who secured the suite of furniture has a sufficient number of names to be entitled to a premium offered for sixty, forty, thirty, twenty, ten, seven, or three names, and has failed to secure either the buggy, gold watch or harrow, offered for clubs of olcl and new subscriber, such person will be awarded the premium to which the number of names is entitled. Thus the person who secures the bedroom suite for the largest number of new subscribers, has also the opportunity of semiring an additional premium of even greater value. 2&r In the contest for premiums ending Hai ! par March 12, 1894, Mr. W. H. ('rook, of j Fort Mill, was awarded a $100.00 "TfcV Wilcox A White Organ and a $75.00 "TS*5^ ! gold watch for 40 new subscribers. "95. | Mr. R. T. Biggins, of Blairsville, was "tBfc JZ?r awarded a SKLbiiggy for a list of 127 mfcX. %: &- OLD and NEW subscribers. tfcV RENEWALS and NEW subscribers count just the same in competition for all premiums except the bedroom suite. WHO ARE NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 1. Those who have never been subscribers. 2. Those who have been subscribers, but are not now; nor were subscribers on the 1st day of July, 1894. A change of address from one member of a family to another member of the same family does not constitute a new subbscriber and will not be so considered. It is intended that each new subscriber shall be in accordance with the rules prescribed. CONDITIONS. , TWO SIX MONTHS' SUBSCRIBERS i at $1 each, will be considered the equivalent of one yearly subscriber at ?1.75 and so counted. ; A subscription paid for two or more years in advance at ?1.75 will be counted as one name for each year so paid. Club-makers will be held personally responsible for the payment of all names returned by ; them. After a club-maker has returned and j paid for any name, lie- can, at anytime tberej alter, discontinue the sending of the paper to the I person for whom he has paid, and transfer the unexpired time to any other person, provided the person to whom the transfer is desired was ; not a subscriber at the time the original name ! was entered on our books. -Ml 1 - -i-.l f ? .M> name Will DC couiueu 111 cumpeuwuii lur ? preniiuin until the subscription price has been paid ; nor will any premium be delivered until u satisfactory settlement lias been made for all names returned by the club-maker. Persons who commence making clubs will not be permitted to transfer their club to another club-maker's list after the names have been ! entered on our books. It is not necessary that the names of a club ! should all be at the same postoflice. Names 1 may bo taken at any number of places. flub makers are requested to send in names i as rapidly as they secure them alter November j 1, 1894. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at I the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registeri ed letter or money order drawn on the York| ville postollice. In sending names, write plainly, and give postoflice, county and State, j All subscriptions will be discontinued at the 1 expiration of the time paid for. j A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each name i sent, so that the number sent by any one person may be ascertained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, two weeks will bo allowed in which to "untio." The time in which names may be returned under our propositions will commence on the 1st day ot November, lnt>4, and expire at 1 o'clock p. in. on Thursday, the 11th day of .March, lKOti. o Everybody. Go to Work Now! IIST, Yoivk> 3FI3(ii COMPANY, V ^ jfS IRON ORSePAIN'T A.n<l Cement, T0158 MKRW INST*, 1 I Cleveland, <>. | MV'. Sand for Circular I ?--?-' and Price List No. 75. B F IRON ROOFIN'U IN THE WORLD. I lliSTil'''j Schedules in Effect from and Alter jH December 23, 1894. H (i. \V. F. Harper, President. H OOIXO NOKTH. | No 10- I N? ,i0 > "7 *i7 a in 9 00 u hi EB9|S uilvo l^wrj-MVliie . W ? "J |>J{!! [[[ IxiiVtf Mcfoim.Usvllle * *' ! inr. 1! ! \XZ\TSZ*". r .'if jgIs l,e.ve Mncohiton II ; " 4 00 nm FlBfl i?'5s: 'jsj 12 :i HI GOING SOUTH. | 1 * ? i^cavo Ijcnolr ? ?j ? |J| \ 41: p m Leave Hickory H J> 1() In W Leave Newton 8?a 1 I HUM Leave Llncolnton 1 Ig ? - ,, ,n I Leave antonla ? ?;? , F Unive Clover JSp n ft 07 p n. | H Leave \orkvlUe -L ' #:u )lln ... IiCave MUhriesv lie iSum ft 40 pm g Leave McConnellsville ] $ f, m ?5Hpm h MEW :::::::::::::::::: i*v? >? ?>"!> f -Train. No.. 9 .ml" 10 ?? s!r-.?'?n"u'l I MB .,iV '.I I I' v L. 5 at Lincolnton tonia with the A. A C. A. " , V vtnn hHW with the C. C.; and at Hickory and New ton w it^f MM tl,e W* N' C|' T nichOLS. Superintendent. I H. 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