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|*u?ot0tt!S gcpartmcut.! AN UNEXPECTED ANSWER. ' Waal?er?hem !?children," began Col-j onel Handy Polk, the well-known real-estate, loan, and insurance agent of Oklahoma, who had wandered iuto a Sundayschool, and been invited by the superintendent to address the children, "I didn't come yere with the expectation of makin' a speech ; but now that I've been called on, I'll say a few words on the?er?ah?duties of honesty and?er? truth. Honesty is the best policy. Alwers be honest, children, and alwers be truthful. As?er?Whal's-his-name trulysaid,an honest man is the?er?er?noblest work of God. And a truthful man is better?er?ah? many sparrers. Alwers remember that, children. If everybody was honest, what a different world this would be ! But, alas! they hain't. Instead, the generality of mankind in?er?general is forever tryin' to git the better of the?er?er?generality of mankind in?er?ah?general, so to speak. From i this we should learn?should learn, as it were, to?er?be honest. But I'll tell you a little story to sorter illustrate my meauin'. ftnee on a time thar was a bov whose parents were poor, but honest, and tried to raise him up in the?er?way he should go. But he wouldn't obey 'em, and seemed to take a delight in doin' wrong. He began stealin' little things when he was no higher than the table, and 'peared to prefer to lie when the truth would have done just as well, or even better. He grew worse and worse as time passed on, and by the time he had grown to be a man he had become a regular out-andout scoundrel. He made a business of swindling lyin', and cheatin,' and seemed to glory in his shame. And what do you suppose became of him ? I ask you children, where do you suppose he is at now?" And the colonel's innocent hearers answered, in one voice: "He now stands before us!" His Favorite Drink.?Dr. Sims was one of the most prominent members of the general assembly while he was there, and was a gentleman of the qld-time Georgia school. He was very fond of the society of younger men than himself, and was always good company wherever he was thrown, telling jokes of the funniest variety wherever he went, and making friends on every, side. Those who where his colleagues in the legislature remember very well the trip to Savau- i nah, when the general assembly was invited to that hospitable town to witness the stride Savannah was making toward securing; "deep water" in the port. Dr. Sims was taken in tow by one of the most prominent citizeus of Savannah, and taken to one of the ntUr momltppg for iviint I UiUIJ3 niUII? nuu lut viavi iuv?uvv?w .v. .? the Savannah folks term "refreshments." "Now," said the hospitable Savannahian, "you can fiud every sort of liquid iu this club you ever heard of in the shape of wines and tempting driuks. There is not a thing you can call for that will not be served you promptly and up to the queen's taste." "I'm afraid you haven't my favorite drink," said Dr. Sims, dryly. "Oh, anything in the world," said the Savannahian ; "you will find every braud, every drink known to humun palate?champagne, cocktail, fine sherry, oldest Maderia,! finest whiskys?everything !" "I repeat that I am afraid ray fastidious! palate cannot be satisfied at your club," said the doctor with even greater seriousness. "Pray what can it be that you would I have?" asked the geutlemau of Savannah. * "A glass of plain water." Sure enough it was not to be found in the club. A Mixed Prayer.?At the advanced age of five, Murjorie developed an extraordinary liking for prayers. She had been taught not only "Now I lay me," but also the Lord's Prayer, and then at her request a cordicil had been added, praying that "papa and mamma "and all my relations" might I he protected during the night. She said the | prayers just before going to bed, and in the morning, and her mother often heard snatches of them as the little girl went about her doll's affairs during the day. It was no doubt partly owing to this familiarity with her prayer, but largely to drow siness, that one night the sleepy little girl electrified her listening mother l?y hastily cutting short theLord's Prayer and ending up the ceremony with, "Deliver me from evil, and?all my relations." Her father said she was a philosopher, hut that she ought to have added relations-inlaw. Another Kind of a Prodigal.?A young lady who was recently staying at an old farmhouse, had her curiosity excited by an action of the lady of the house, who used each night before retiring, to place a lamp in one of the windows at thefrontof the house, wnlch faced the only approach to the farm. | One night her curiosity got the better of her discretion, and she ventured to ask the1 old lady her reae*m for so doing, saying: "I suppose you have a prodigal son away j in some foreign land, and" you place a light j there nightly so that if he ever returns he; will see that he is not forgotten ?" "Bless yer, no," replied the dame. "I ! ain't got no son away in distant lands ; but I've got a prodigal husband down at his; club in the village, and who would never | find his way up the lane if it wasn't for that j light." A Boy's Philosophy.?One of the favorite | winter games of the small boy who lives along the Hudson is "jumping laddie-cakes." This sport reaches its height just as the ice: in the river is breaking up, and when the great cakes go floating up and down with the tide, a dozen or more youngsters may he seen running from one cake to another, and sometimes making really dangerous leaps. One day a boy, apparently about nine years old, was to be seen standing on a cake which was rocking in a somewhat alarming manner, and the little fellow was crying in a frightened sort of way. "What's the matter?" called a passer-by from the shore. And then came the sobbing answer: "I'm | afraid diss cake'll turn over, an' if I get drownded me mother'll lick me." His Kindly Feelings.?The patient had j been sick a long time and the doctor had done his best, but in vain, and the end was ! approaching. "If you have anything to say before go-! ing," said the doctor, "it will be best for you I to say it now." "Well, doctor," replied the patient cheer- J fully, "I have only the kindliest feelings for1 you, for I'm sure you wouldn't lose so good a ! customer as I've been if you could possibly . prevent it." Wanted a Grosser Boy.?Grocer? What have you been doing in the cellar -o long? Grocer's Apprentice?I have been clean-' iDg out the molasses measure. It was so, clogged up that it didn't hold more than half a quart. Grocer?Oh, that's what you've been do"" ing ! Well, you take your hat and go home, and tell your father to send you to the theological school. You ain't fit for the grocery business. f@T She is the brown-eyed girl who works in the telephone exchange, and lie is the young man who is sometimes more energetic I than courteous. "Hello, Central," he called, I the other day, "this is the second time I have called you. Have you been asleep?" "Yes," she answered, sweetly. "I have, and i I had such a strange dream ! I thought I heard a yoice from the infernal regions, and awoke just in time to hear you calling, j What number?" ? ? B&- "My young friend," said the million-1 aire, frowning, "you admit that you are poor, and you know that my daughter is very wealthy. Would you, a pauper, marry j her, knowing her to be worth a million?"! "Sir," saiil the young man, who was a person of intense resolution, "my affection is proof against such tests. I would marry i your daughter if she were worth two mil-! lion." Defending Herself.?"Mamie," said Mrs. Gazzam to her daughter, "I was shock- ' ed to hear you tell Miss Trotter that you had turned some young men down. That's | very reprehensible slang." "Not in this case, mamma," replied the maiden. "I was speaking of Mr. Page, and it is quite proper to turn a page down." Fat Lady ?I atn going to ride on one of the donkeys, and will pay for one for you if you like to accompany me. Small Hoy ? Thankee, mum, but I'd rather sit here audi laugh. I jjUisccUaueoiis grading. DIVORCE CURIOSITIES. A Missouri divorce was once granted because "the defendant goes gadding about leaving this plaintiffsupperless, or, if be gets any, he has to cook it himself.'' In Ohio a divorce was recently granted because "the defendant pulled this plaintiff out of bed by his whiskers." A New York wife was granted a divorce because her husband threw the baby at her, when she hit him with the coal bucket for spittiug on the stove. A Virginia wife was set free because "the defendant does not come home until 10 p. m., and then keeps this plaintiffawake talking." Iu Minnesota a decree was given to the wife because "the defendant never cuts | his toenails, and, being restless in his sleep, (scratches this plaintiff severely." In Kentucky a divorce was once granted because "the defendant came into the bedroom the morning after the marriage and beat the plaintiff over the head with her snoe neej. A New York man, in petitioning for divorce, pleaded that "the defendant would not sew on this plaintiffs buttons, neither would she allow him to go to fires at night." A Wisconsin man got a divorce because his wife kept a servant who spit on the frying pan to see if it was hot enough to fry. In Illinois a decree was obtained by a husband because "during the last year the defendant struck this plaintitf repeatedly with pokers, flatirons and other hard substances." In Pennsylvania a husband was relieved from the yoke of matrimony because "the defendant struck this plaintitf a violent blow with a bustle." An Indiana divorce was some years ago granted because "the defendant pulled all the covering otT this plaintiffs bed, and she likewise ran a knitting needle four inches into his arm." In Colorado a wife was granted a decree because her husband cut off her bangs. A New Jersey wife got a divorce because "the defendant, the husband, sleeps with a razor under his pillow to frighten this plaintiff." A decree was granted in Massachusetts | because "the defendant keeps this plaintiff I awake most of the night quarreling." A Tennessee court liberated a wife because "the defendant does not wash himself, thereby causing the plaintiff great mental anguish." A Kansas wife was released from her husband because "the defendant pinched the nose of this plaintiff, causing it to become very red, thereby causing the plaintiff great pain and anguish of mind." A Connecticut man got a divorce because "the defendant would not get up iu the ' morning, nor call this plaintiff, nor do anything she was told." A Michigan wife was released because the husband did not provide the necessaries of i life, saying "he would not work his toenails off for any woman." Heliogabulus divorced one of his wives because she had a mole on her shoulder. Romau law allowed divorce for three causes: Adultery, designs on a husband's life, and the possession of false keys. Gallus divorced his wife because she ran about with her head bare; Vetus got rid of his because he saw her talking with a freed j woman; Sophus because she went to the jtheatre; /Emillius Paulus because he did [not like her. Ax Arithmetical Paradox.?In an old Hindoo manuscript was found this remurkable decision of a dispute. Two travelers sat [down to dinner; one had five loaves, the [Other had three. A stranger passed by and [desired permission to eat with them, which they agreed to. The stranger dined, laid down eight pieces, of money, and departed. The proprietor of the five loaves took up five pieces and left three for the other, who objected, and claimed half. The case was brought before the chief magistrate, who gave the following judgment: "Let the owner of the five loaves have seven pieces of money, and the owuer of the three loaves one." Now, strange as this decision may appear at first sight, it was perfectly just; for, suppose the loaves to have been divided iuto three equal parts, making 24 parts of all the eight loaves, and each person to have eaten a third share; therefore, the stranger must have eaten seven parts of the person's bread who had the five loaves (or 15 parts when divided), and only one of him who contributed three loaves, or nine parts.?Youths' Compauion. TT - " """" k t ny a r\ Cnma Ainmr HUJIUK AT inr. .iLi.in.?cuiuc iuuii j stories are told about the marriage services. One of them relates how an old man brought rather unwillingly to the altar could not he induced to repeat the responses. "My good man," at length exclaimed the clergyman, "I really cannot marry you unless you do us you are told." But the man still remained silent. At this unexpected hitch the bride lost all patience with her future spouse and burst out with: "Goon, you old toot! Say it after him, just the same as if you was mockiu' him." The same difficulty occurred in another ease. The clergyman, after explaining what was necessary and going over the responses several times without the smallest effect, stopped in dismay, whereupon the bridegroom encouraged him with : "Go ahead, pnss'n, go ahead ! thou'rt doing bravely." Upon another occasion it was, strangely enough, the woman who could not be prevailed upon to speak. When the clergyman remonstrated with her, she indignantly replied: "Your father married me twice before and he wasn't axin' me any ot them impertinent questions at all." + ^ ? Trying to Atone.?A seu-euptain who lived in Washington during his stays on land had a great fancy for fowls of all sorts, and especially prized an old gobbler which had been long in his possession. From one cruise, says Harper's Young People, he brought home a mischievous young monkey, which made as much trouble as the proverbial "white elephant." One day, hearing a terrible commotion in the hennery, the captain entered and found Jocko with the gobbler under his arm, while he was deliberately pulling out the poor bird's last tail-feather. The captain rescued the turkey and punished the monkey severe ly, who knew very well wny ue was chastised. The next day, again hearing a commotion among the feathered tribe, the captain went to the scene of action, and there sat Jocko with the much persecuted gobbler between his knees, while was he trying to put the feathers back. His intentions were good ; but the tnrkejseetned unable to appreciate them. A liuv KnuINEER.?Ericsson was}* bom machinist. Before 4ic was 11 years of age he had produced the model of an ingeniously constructed saw-mill, and also a pumping engine, designed to keep the mines free from water, llis tools were of the most primitive description; but the result of his labor indicated such remarkable genius that he was appointed a member of the surveying party of the Gotha Ship canal, and given entire charge of one of the sections. It must have been a curious spectacle to see a 12-year old lad, so small that it was necessary for him to stand on a stool to use his surveying instruments, directing the working operations of 600 of the royal troops. The Wife.?No man ever prospered in the world without the co-operation of his wife. If she unites in mutual endeavors, or rewards his labors with an endearing smile, with what confidence will he resort to his merchandise or his farm, flv over the land, sail upon the seas, meet difficulty, encounter danger, if he knows he is not spending his strength in vain, but that his labor will be ivwardi*d by I lie sweets 01 notne. jsoiicuuue and disappointment enter into the history of every man's life; and he is but half provided for his voyage who finds hut an assoeiate for happy hours, while for months of darkness and distress no sympathizing partner is prepared. Why a Cat Falls Upon* Its Fkkt.? The fact that however a eat may he thrown it will usually manage to light on its feet is ; because of the facility with which it balances itself when springing from a height : which power of balancing is in some degree produced by the flexibility of the heel, the bones of which have no fewer than four joints. Another reason why it usually alights softly on its feet, is because in the middle of the foot there is a large ball, or pad, in five parts, formed of an elastic substance. and at the base of each toe there is a similar pad. ! ^'.uisulc ^atltcviugs. ! 8SF" Duty aud today are ours: results aud , futurity belong to God. S3T* A preferred creditor?One who is in j t no hurry for his money. Stammering is practically unknown . among uncivilized people. Every time we break a law of health we drive a nail in our coffin. Cotton has not been so cheap at Liverpool as it is now for 46 years. 8?"*" Babies are described as coupons attached to the bonds of matrimony. SaTIf the children would stop growing so fast, the rest of us wouldn't feel so old. ; February is the month in which the greatest number of births occur. June the j I?"*" I SOT" Pride is increased by ignorance ; those j who assume the most are usually those who , know least. 8Saf Greeley wrote of a will "admitted to j probate." The compositor made it "adminis- i tered in potash." ' 86JT France is the only European country j that has fewer able-bodied men today than it, had 30 years ago. "He has eaten his last rice," say the | Chinese when they wish to imply that a j man's end is near. i ffiaf "Faith," said Pat, "an'do ye know j that I think not more than half the lies they | tell about the Irish are true." Since the American colonists achieved their independence, about 18,000,000 immigrants have come to this country. Saf Edison's great-grandfather died at 102, his grandfather at 103, one of his aunts at j 108, while his father is alive at 90. Robbing graves is the only Chinese law ! for which the thief may justly be killed on j the spot by anyone finding him out. 86T" A promise should be given with caution ! and kept with care. It should be made with the heart and remembered by the head. 8&* Every heart has its secret sorrow, | which the world knows not; and oftentimes I we call a man cold when he is only sad. 8?" "There is but the difference of a letter | between the beginning and the end of life," j said the cynic, "creation and cremation." 06T" The darkest hour in the history of any j young man is when he sits down to study I how to get money without honestly earning j it- ( 86T "Doctor, I fancy, somehow, I've got a ;; touch of gout." "Fancy, my boy! H'm! , TP l>nil r..wl ..All il-nllllth'f. fmwv; voll'd JWU WUU, J UU WV...... . .....w., , ^ g I know." l! 6ST" Four hundred and twenty-five Fahren- j < heit below zero is a temperature that has J been reached aud used in laboratory experi-j menls. j 8GF Old people wear spectacles because j the lens of the eye becomes flattened in old ! age, and must be assisted in its action by j artificial means. 8*2T Men sometimes get credit for great > liberality, when they are really doing very j dishonest things?giving away other peo-1 pie's money. 8?* De Toequeville said that, "After all, I men in every age like to hear about their j souls, though they seem to care only fori their bodies." 8ST" "Never write anything you would not! sign your name to," is the text which ought | to hav.e won the prize for the best advice to a : newspaper man. \ ?ST "Will you admit you are licked ?" yell- j ed the upper man in a street fight. "No, i sir," replied the under one, I ain't licked,; but?I'm satisfied." USf One of the saddest anil most vexatious j trials that comes to a girl when she marries is, that she has to discharge her mother and { depend upon a hired girl. | fiJaTHe wouldn't marry her because she; i had false teeth. But, when his wife kept I him awake nights with the toothache and neuralgia, he wished he had. 8?* It is noted as curious that the most beautiful girls, and those with the greatest social advantages, more often die old maids than their homely sisters. 8?* "What's eggs this morning?" "Eggs, of course," says the dealer. "Well," says! the customer, "I'm glad of it, for the lust I bufughI"61* ybu~were chickens." Legislator?What, sir! You take me for one who cau be biibed ? You insult my sense of honor. But, in case I was such a man, how much would you give. fiST It is a theological error to suppose j that Adam lost anything by exchanging the j fJm-den of Eden for the whole wide world. , j He "guined ground" by the operation. BS&F "How one thing brings up another," said his lady, in pleasing retrospection. I "Yes," replied Dibbs: "an emetic, for in-j stance." She left the table in a huff. , gfcgr Pernambuco, when translated into j : English, means the "Mouth of Hell." The allusion is to the tempestuous surf that con- 1 I tinually renders the neighborhood dangerous ! I to the sailor. * JST Japanese stockings are made with a| separate compartment for the big toe, as the ! fastening of the sundal comes between that ; and the next. Few working people wear j< : stockings at all. ?dy Japanese politeness translates into 11 1 queer English. "How is your honorable; j wife ?" one gentleman will ask. "I thank I( you, honorable sir, iny dirty fool of a wife is I I well," is the answer! ' 8&T The number of immigrants arriving in j i the United States during the twelve months | : ending December 31, 1894, was 248,983, and \ ( j during the corresponding period of the pre- , ceding year, 488,776. , PUT The farmer who sent his son to the | I city to become a clerk, nuw writes and asks < , the merchant if there is anything in the boy. | j ! "Yes," replied the merchant ; "just after he |< ! has been to a saloon." 8S?" "Talk about your aristocratic descent ? 1 i Why, my father often had 10,000 men di- 1 ; reelly under him." "All! a general ?" "Well, 1! j not exactly." "A wholesale contractor?" 1 I "No, an aeronaut." < j #sir A woman wrote favorably of her litis- ' ! band, saying he was specially well qualified :' i to be janitor in a school, "because he had a ' | sister who was married to a gentleman whose 1 i father had been a teacher." ! So?" "Here, you young rascal, give an ac- ' count of yourself. Where have you been?" 1 "After the girls, father." "Did you ever know me to do so when I was a boy ?"?"No,:: sir; but mother did." 80T "Johnnie," said his sister, "you must j not commence a quarrel; let the other boy j begin." "Well," exclaimed the little hero,! i but if I wait for the other boy to begin, I'm j j.afrjji.d there won't be any fight." j j j VST "Twenty-live cents a pound for sau- , , ! sagq? ^4'liy, I ?-;i 11 g?*t liicin down at , ;Schmits l'V twenty-cents!" "Veil, den, vy , | didn't yer?" "'Cause, Schmits was out of | 'em. Veil, uv 1 was own 01 tin, 1 sen em ^ j for t wendy cents too." i SaT "How did you like the hymns," he | i asked his city cousin as they left the church. J | | "Oue of them was just splendid," she re-1 ; plied. "Ah! which one?" "The one in h I the next pew, with black curly hair, and i I such killing black eyes." i 8?" Little Alice was crying bitterly, and, {< on being questioned, confessed to having re- i1 i eeived a slap from one of her playfellows.!1 i "You should have returned it," unwisely | I said the questioner. "Oh, I returned it'1 before !" said the little girl. ; Siberian women are raised as abject slaves, untidy in dress, and are bought with i1 money or cattle. The most capricious whim 1 I of her husband is law to the Siberian wo- , [ man, and should he desire a divorce he has ' only to tear the cap from her head. 8?""What does your husband do?" asked , ' the census man. "He ain't doin' not hi n at j j this time of the year," replied the young i wife. "Is he a pauper." asked the census | man. (She blushed scarlet to the ears.) , i "Law, no 1" she exclaimed, somewhat indig- j nantiy, "we 'ain't been married mor n six . weeks." ' j BttfifThe teacher told the class to make the < numerals from one to twelve. The class | j went to work, and one Utile boy got through | very quickly. The teacher praised him Ibr, i getting through his lesson so well. He look- , i-d frankly at her, and said, "Ye.-'in. I copied , them from the face of the clock : the rest did < not.'' i BfeTSay what you will of old maids, their < love isgenerally more strong and sincere than I that ol the young milk-and-water creatures j whose hearts vibrate between the joys oI'm , wedlock and the dissipations of the hall-ji room. Until the heart of the young lady is ; j capable of setting firmly and exclusively on : I one object, her love is* like a May shower, i which makes rainbows ; but lills no cisterns, i l ihc (Telle v. ji A BANKING MISADVENTURE. '' . . i < BY K. U. ORENVILI.E MURRAY. j ( . t Herr Zebedee Hanser, the great hanker of j Cologne, was a very sharp man, and "bad to 1 beat," as the Americans say. He belonged to | a family that had multiplied and spread over j J the earth, founding counting-houses in all ' ilm fiinitnl eifip? nf tln> vvrirlil timl Kiiekimr up gold from their adopted countries as1 i though their lingers were fashioned like the!' tentacles of the octopus. As nothing urges a , 1 man to despise his fellows so much as mak- j1 itig money out of them, Herr Zebedee, who ' | was in a way the head of all the Manser j, firms, had collected a number of aphorisms , as to human imbecility which he was fond , of repeating with a broad Prussian grin, lie was an ugly old man, with hard features ] and very shiny gold-rimmed spectacles, | through which his eyes gleamed with a . sagacious leer of constant incredulity. He ] took snufi' and dressed in the fashion of 401 j years ago, wearing mostly a loosely button- ( ed brown coat, which readied almost to his'] heels, an unstarched white cravat, and low i ; shoes with strings. When he went out to j < the Cologne Bourse he covered his bald head ! i with a broad wideawake, his hands with ; cloth gloves, and carried a gold-headed stick, , wherewith he rapped the pavement with I little knocks of complacency, as if it were j all his. The small boys of Cologne, seeing , him pass, nudged one another, and said : i "That is great Herr Zebedee Hanser, who is as sharp as a gimlet." One day Herr Zebedee, so "bad to beat,"'j received the following lamentable letter from ' ] his first cousin once removed, Herr Zachary . i Hanser, banker and cigar merchant, of Bish-; 1 opgnte street, London : ;j "My DearZkhkdkk:?Praise to Heaven that ( 1 the quotations of our last loan are looking up; [1 but i am sorry to say that my eldest son, Esau, I is giving me a deal of grief, lie lias absconded from London, carrying with him a large sum in securities belonging to our customers, which it! is his intention to negotiate on the Continent. I trusted him with the post of cashier for a week, and this is the never-to-be-suHieientlv-deplored j result. If this affair transpires, and Esau be i caught, lie will lie prosecuted, and our credit will | be damaged, not to mention the never-to-beunderrated grieftiiat a father must feel; but, my dear Zebedee, I have reason to believe that mir Esau will have made for Cologne, there to hide for awhile and negotiate bis paper, so I 1 pray you to find out the youth, and recover the j securities from him, even with threats of ini-! prison ment if he resists. When Esau has re-j stored the paper, then, I pray you, give him ; 1,000 pounds, and start niin for the United States by the first Bremen packet, telling hint ' that his sorrowing father will never see him again unless ho uiaKcs his fortune in America, | and returns, like a true Iianser, to invest it in j the family business. Esau shall have nothing beyond those 4,000 pounds, and his brothers, Hurl, Otto, and Jeremiah, shall inherit the portion destined for him ; so that, praise lie to Heaven. I shall he rather a gainer than a loser by his dishonesty. The last consignment of! jignrsfrom Hambnrg was not up to the samples, I! 1!)(1 I could only get rid of them by raising the 1 price and selling them under a brand not their awn?which is never a convenient thing to do, j but better than losing money. I am your truly ill!icted and not-to-be-easily-consoled. Zachary IIanskr. "Post Seriptum Our reason for believing that Esau has gone for Cologne is that he is traveling with a maiden who is said to have friends in your city, where she once performed ( us an actress. Esau asked our leave to marry m her, and when we refused, then it was that he nbsconded. I pray you deal gently with the maiden, lest any scandal be raised and the business of our bank should stiller at this not favorable moment, when we want to raise public confidence in our last loan. I enclose Esau's photograph. Z. II. When Zebedce had read though this epistle of his Cousin Zachary he took a pinch of snuff, and a malicious twinkle shot through his eyes. "Ach licher Himmel, I am not surprised at this," said he. "This Esau is the little coxcomb whom I have never seen, the only j one among Zachary's brood who would not cotne over to Cologne to serve his apprentice-! ship as a clerk in our house. They said he was receiving an aristocratic education in England. Ah, well, we see what has hecome of of it. He is dressed in this portrait like an unthrifty libertine." Zebedee Hanscr was, it will be seen, one of those excellent men who always contrive to draw some consolation from the misfortunes of others. He read his Cousin Zachary's letter again, and then put on his hat and gloves to go and look for the reprobate Esau through the different hotels of Cologne. The clews he had to work upon i were very slender; but, fortunately, the! photograph would enable him to trace the! fugitive, supposing the latter were truly | in town. Zebedee Hanser felt pretty mix-! ious to lay hold of Esau; for in the first place lie did not wish the name of Hanscr j to be dragged through the mire of a criminal prosecution ; and in the next lie honest- j ly desired to serve his Cousin Zachary, who \ had been doing well in business of late, and j had actually taken the Gerolstein loan out J of the hands of the Sclnvartzchilds. These j sorts of triumphs hind the heart of banking cousins in a tight bond. So Heir Zebedee set out on his tour of! tlie Cologne hotels, and wherever he went j he was obsequiously received by landlords j and waiters, who gave him every i 11 forma- ' lion in their power, being delighted to oblige j a financier of his importance. Unfortunate- : ly, they could not put him in the way of| ] discovering Esau. That youth's photograph j < was respectfully scrutinized, and in half a dozen places it was aflirtned that a gentle-j man like him had been there; lint on closer! inquiry this turned out to be incorrect. Weary and somewhat impatient?for he j did not like to be thwarted?Herr Zebedec j was at last fain to take a cab and explore a new series of inns ot a lower order, lie had been driving for an hour, and had visited j several very queer hostelries without improv- {' ing his luck, when at last, close to a railway ' station, he came upon a newly opened hotel, which had a respectable appearance, though it was small. Here llerr Hanser was not r known ; but the moment lie bad exhibited Esau's photograph, the landlord's wife exclaimed : "Ach Gott,ja; this is the portrait if the young man who is traveling with bis i well-beloved bride or mistress, I know not, which. Mein Herr, this so tenderly attach- j I'd couple are dining now off veal cutlets and ! Rhenish wine. Shall I take your card | "No, I will go to the dining room, and ! : there sit down?perchance cat," said Herr j I Hanser. "Pray do so, gracious sir?a dish of sausages stewed in prunes has just come in," Answered the landlady. "Hi, Fritz, a customer !" Fritz was the landlord, a thick fellow, with i moustache, and with a napkin over his arm.' i who came forward bowing, and ushered Herr j J Hanser into the dining room. Now, tliej banker, having had ample leisure to study Ic 'lie photograph, bad decided that K-un possessed very few of the Hanser lineaments, j | itnd this struck him the more when he beheld ' ( Esau in the flesh. The youth he saw was a rather overdressed lad with a double eyeglass, J who was making love to a fleshy, goldenhaired wench, who who was sharing with liiin a dish of veal cutlets; and it seemed to Herr Zebedec that aristocratic English education had wrought a physical as well as a J moral deterioration in this degenerate scion of Hanser blood. Pleased with himself, howev... r... i...ii... ,111 K.san to earth LI, IUI Having ...? r* iIon.*, without police aiil, lien* Zehedee was 11 most good-humored as lie advanced to the1 [able, hat in hand, and said, with a mocking lir: "Good-day, my nephew Ksau!" "What!" exclaimed the youth thus adIressed, and he started to his feet with disturbance depicted on his physiognomy. "Sit down, nephew, sit down,'' said Ilerr Zehedee, forcing the reprobate into his seat j with gentle violence. "We are going to have some talk, and (here he lowered his voice) if roil try to escape I shall hand you over to [lie police.'' "Aeh (iott. wir sind verlorn !" ejaculated:-* the llcshy wench; and forthwith began to', weep over the cutlets. "Kellner,"' said 11 err Zcbedoe, "bring me i dish of sausages and prunes, with a half 1 iiotlle of Itudesheiin." lie divested himsclfi.'i if his hat. bis overcoat and ~tiek, and rubbed , j nis hands with sarcastic gleefulnoss as lie, s ooked at his nephew, and whispered : "Ksau,! 'I hou art a knave: thou shalt restore me the * securities thou hast stolen, and this very ( night thou shalt start for Kreinen, on thy:*, way to America." 1 "Merev !" prayed Ksau, who saw that eon-)x raiment was useless, and so clasped his liands. "Mercy !*' whimpered the damsel, who was his beloved. "I beseech you, too-muchn j tired-and-never-to-be-snllicien t ly-i in plored j <ir, do not separate my Ksauchen from me." "Ve shall have lour thousand pounds to < dart with, and ye may both go together to I :he devil,''said Herr Zebedee, helping him-1 >elf to a cutlet pending the arrival of the ;u usages. "What, only four thousand pounds !M ex-' daimed Plsau, in seeming consternation. "Only four thousand!'' echoed the maid;n, who always repeated what Esau said. i "Four thousand pounds is enough to make j nillions with, and thou wouldst know it if hou wert a true Hanser," exclaimed Herr ?ebedee, as soon as he could speak, for the tvrath and the veal that were choking him. 'Ah, out upon thee ! I'll give thee a bill at j linety days for the money, and if thou j wan test cash, I'll discount it for thee at the i current rates." "No, that won't do," said Esau ; "I'll take I t to he discounted elsewhere : and'll spread j it about that thou art badly oil' in thy busi- j jess, since thou canst not avoid sharp practice." 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LEGAL I'.LAN KS. CATALOG t*KS, MANDRILLS. PAMPHLETS. DODGERS. LKTTKK II FA 1>S, K.NVKLOl'KS, RILLII FA PS, STATKMKNTS, WKRDINti INVITATIONS, etc., will he given attention on application, t ?rders for .">,000, lu.iXM, 15,4NNl, and itn.nno copies or? more, from anyone form, will he furnished at "special prices." Uumcmhcr us when you want printing. Call on or write to Till*: YOUKV1LLK KNtfl'IHF.K. Yorkville, S. ('. January!' - tf l'Olt CVCI.ONH. I'lRK Olt AC'CIDICNT INSl'IvANCK, you will always lind it to your interest to consult S. M. A" L. GEO. GRIST. .E ENQUIRER LS95 I ted Comity Paper Carolina! : TO SUBSCRIBE! - ? ? Ti?n AT )iiau nx vwuu.vv;, ? allied at 875, Will Be Awarded us and Pays for the Largest its by March 14, 1895. - _ . ? <1 Watch and a Corbin rhree Largest Clubs. BS OF THREE AND UPWARD. >? - - ?? ii in in. we will furnish THE ENQUIRER iir one year, or one (.RAW LADLE of the 'Siren" pattern, made of nickel silver and dated with pure silver, and valued at $2.00. Til It SIX AS It LESS Til.IS TEX. To every person who returns and pays for a luh of SIX and less than ten names, and vho fails to secure any other premium, we will jive a CHIM>\S TABLE SET, including a enife, fork and spoon, made of the best materiils and plated with pure silver. Valued at $1.50 FOIt THItEE AM) LESS THIS SIX. To every person who returns and pays for a 'Ll'B <>F THREE and less thun six names, mil who fails.to secure any other premium, we vill give a handsome "Siren" Bl'TTER vNIFB, made of nickle silver and plated villi pure silver, and valued at 81. A. PREMIUM FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS. V.. ...1... ...,u .,,,.1 n.n<u A.rllm argest number of XKW STBScAiUKRS, at 11.75 oach, between the 1ST DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1894, and 4 O'CLOCK, 1\ M.. ON I'Hl'RSBAY, TIIK14TH DAY OF MARCH, 895, we will give a suite of FINK BEDROOM ?AK FIRNITIRK, VALI KI) AT $75.00. I'liis suite of furniture consists of three pieces, unbracing a dressing case with French beveled liirmr 36x38 inches; a washstand?universal oilet?with French beveled mirror36x24inches; i bedstead 4 feet 8 inches in width and of proportionate length, and a headboard fi feet 0 inches in height. The material of the suite is imk, 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 about live hundred pounds. This splendid suite is to be furnished by Messrs. S. T. hRKVV A CO., of Rock Hill, and they have assured us that they will not sell a similar suite to any person for a less sum than $7."). The suite of bedroom furniture is ottered for the largest club ot NEW SIBSORIBERS 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 offered. 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. m., on the 14th day March, 1895, such person will be entitled to the $85 buggy; if the second largest list, including those which 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, 18!to, 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 old 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, hits also the opportunity of securing an additional premium of even greater value. pif In the contest for premiums ending ft?3~ March 12, 1894, Mr. W. H. Crook, of US. p-ir Fort Mill, was awarded a $100.00 "tSSf. pH~ Wilcox A White Organ and a $75.00 p-&~ gold watch for 40 new subscribers. * Mr. R. T. Rigcins, of Blairsville, was "!?X\ pSr awarded n $90 buggv for a list of 127 pis~ OLD and XFAY subscribers. RENEWALS and NEW subscribers count just the same in competition for all premiums except the bedroom suite, limn IDF urtll CIIDCPDIDFOC wnu Hnt new ouDouniDLno. 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 prejeribed. COM)ITK?S. TWO SIX MONTHS' SUBSCRIBERS at 81 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 81.75 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 paid for any name, he can, at anytime thereafter, discontinue the sending of the paper to the 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 hooks. No name will he counted in competition for a premium until the subscription price has been paid ; nor will any premium he delivered until a satisfactory settlement has 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 dub-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 postotHee. Names may be taken at any number of places. Club makers are requested to send in names asrapidlv as they secure them alter November 1, 1?U. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkville postolllee. In sendnig names, write plainly, and give postolllee, county and State. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. A separate list -will be kept for each clubmaker, who will lifc credited with each name sent, so that the numjjer sent by^my one person may be ascertained alaHponient's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, two weeks will be allowed in which to "untie." The time in which names Tnay l>e returned under our propositions will commence on the 1st day cd November, lKtM, jfcid expire at I o'clock p. ni. on Thursday. tlitSklf li day o|' .March, leWli. ) Everybody. Go to Work N^! 1ST, YorkviHe, S. < 3FING COMPANY, ?5 IRON ORIS PAINT And Cem^^|a 1 ">- TO 1 -><iAUI*OV IN ST.. <-Tevelttiid, O. I T.1 p: Send for ('ironIn ^ ?-I alj(j prjce f,ist No. 75. F IRON ROUFlXti IX THE WORLD. isffi u una u. Bifii. 1 Schedules in Kll'cct from and After December 23, 1S94. <*. W.F.Harper, President. (lolNii Ndktii. j No 10. I No <W. Leave <Chester ; 37 a ln ji oo a in Leave l.iiwrysvlllo S oil a m 9 ? a l" Leave .McConiii-IUville ,s 30 a m 10 00 am Leave (iiitliricsville " s Ml a m 10 1> a m Lea v.- \ , ,rk vll le S a7 a in 11 03 a m ! " ? l"Vfr o .H a in 11 fl) am J.oave i.astonia 10 07 a m 1 10 pni J-OllVf 1.1 licnltifmi JJ ir> 21 III 2.30 pni Leave Newton 11 *.'1 u m I 00 pi" Leave Hickory I oo pin 0 00 pni Arrive Lenoir 1'03 pin 7 30 pm Jl lailMi soi'TH. | No01. | No 9. .1 Uiive Lenoir ; n m n 3 10 pni j J.eave Hickory s 70 a 111 110 pni r 1 Leave Newton 0 10 a 111 ? 10 pni I Leave l.iiicoliiion 11 I5 a 111 7 00 pm 1 Leave (lasioiiia I 03 pin 7 37 pni ii I Leave (lover 1 .-,7 ?m s :K |>m *? m Leave Vorkville J Id inn 0 07 pin jg M Leave (liilhriesville 3 13 1. in 0 31 Pm M M Leave Mci'onnelNville 3 3d >111 0 K) I"" Leave l.owrysvllle I-JO >111 0-VI pm JB Arrive Chester 00 pni lOfpm M I rains Xo$. ?i and If are lirst-elnss, ami run 2M daily except Sunday. Trains No*. M and til carry passengers anil also run daily except Sun- MM day. There is (rood eonncetion at* Chester vyith MM the I!, f. ,y N., and the ,V A.; also at'lastenia with the A. .V ('. A. I,.;'at Linc'Inton vv ii h t he O. o.; and at 11 iekorv and Nevvtoa with f L. T. NlciloLs, superintendent. II. II. HEA KI), General Passenger Agent. December 2tf tf jR