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tumorous department. Old Fashioned Lard.?Grocer (to I clerk)?Say, what became of that bar- b rel of soft soap ? I Clerk?Don't know. ir "That's mighty strange, for it was y sitting here." I "Oh ! you mean that pale looking ? stuff?" * e, "Yes." "I sold it for lard." . "Did eh ?" ?. "Yes, sir." 11 "Did anybody kick?" ; "Not exactly about the soap, but one 4 man came along and said that the last u flour he got here made him slobber i like a horse in a white clover pasture, o but?here comes some one." o Old-timer enters?Say, got any more o' that lard ? tl . "No, sir, just out." p "Wush you bad some more. Makes the best bread I've eaten sense I was a n boy. W'y it jolts like bein' punched e with a rail. That's the sort o' viddults a I like?somethin' I can feel. Wife don't like it, out tnen sue am t ueeu jj uster good livin1." ' 8 *'We'll order you some more." d "Wush you would. You may talk ?rbout your cotton-seed oil, an' all y that, but old fashion' lard is the best stuff fur cookin' purposes after all. Q It's nachul, and' nobody has ever improved on natur' yit. Wall, good mornin'. Don't furgit to order the lard. Say, I wouldn't care if it was a f leetle stronger."?Arkansaw Traveler. 11 Expected Her to Help Some.? ? Silas is a country character, who , means well. He tries to earn a living and "tinkers around" at odd jobs and chores and whatever else be can get ' to do; but he works a good deal as he * talks with a painful drawl that is very 11 suggestive of tb&t state of natural restfulness which his ilk call "bom tired." a Silas came to mend a fence the other to day for one of his patrons in the su- s burban village where be belongs, with a peculiar air of festivity about him. c He bad on a bright new necktie of a Japanese silk, and his honest face e was covered by an expansive grin all the time that he was receiving his b orders. 8 "You seem happy, Silas," said Mr. j Blank, with some curiosity, when he had finished about the fence. c "Ya-as," drawled Silas. "Ya-as, I've been a gettin' married this morn- * in'." "Married? You? way, ouas, . man alive, what on earth have you . gone and done that for? "You can't j support yourself at it is!" "Well," said Silas, "I ken pooty near support myself, 'n' I think it is a v durn pity if she can't help some." ? Truly a Wise Elephant.?"Speak- 11 in' about animals, to my experience the elephant is the smartest of the t whole caboodle," said the ex-canvas- * man. "I remember back in '56, when ] I was with Barnum, ole Emp'ror i; showed one day he could read." "Oh, come off." ii "I won't come off, neither. An.' I'll } prove it to you in about two minutes, s Well, as I was sayin', the old fellow a got into a scrap with the royal Bengal tiger, an' 'fore we could get 'em sepa- |j rated he got his trunk purty badly (, clawed up. After the scrimmage was fc over, Emp'ror he breaks loose and s starts down the street on a dead run. c 'He's goin' wild,' somebody hollers. 'Don't you believe it,' says I. Now where do you suppose that there ele- ^ phant went to?" ?, "Went straight to the surgeon's, I ? suppose. Say, can't you get up a bet- j ter yarn?" "Naw. He didn't go to no surgeon's neither. He went straight to a 8 % little portmanteau shop which had the . sign out that said, 'Trunks repaired while you wait.' Of course, he had 8 made a mistake, but what do you ex- e pect of a poor dumb brute?" The Water He Had Hauled.? j One day as Pat baited at the top of j the river bank a man famous for his j inquisitive mind stopped and asked, (tUnur ir>,i<r h?vp vnn hauled water for "u" J the village, my good maD?" "Tin years, sor," was the ready answer. ' Ah ! How many loads do you take in a day?" "From tin to fifteen, sor." "Ah ! yes. Now I have a problem for you. How much water at this rate have you hauled in all, sir?" Pat promptly jerked his thumb backward toward the river and replied, "All the water you don't see there now, sor." IST The other day a seedy gentleman dropped into a cheap clothing establishment. He nosed around, and finally laid his hands upon a coat aud vest of loud color and coarse texture. "How much ?" he said, laconically. "Dree dollars." "Three dollars! That's too much." "Dot vas sheap, mein freund. Dot vas a goot goat 1 and vest." "Are they wool ?" The s proprietor held up his hands. "Are they vool ?" he repeated. "So help i me gracious, mein friend, dey vas all < vool except the buttonholes " t < ? t J?* This here piece inj the paper < makes use o' the word 'superfluity' ' several times," remarked the man t who was sitting on the empty soap i box. "JNoff, wnat uo you iaae super- < fluity to be?" "I dunno's I can ex- I actly tell it," answered the man with I twine suspenders. "But I sense it all right enough." "Kin ye illustrate j it?" yes, I reckon I kin. Su- ] perfluity is a good deal the same thing ] ez a fellow wearin' a necktie when . he's got a full beard." i J?* Grandpa?Who was the first ; president of the United States? ! Four-year-old?Don't know. 1 Grandpa?George Washington. Now ] you know, don't you? 1 i Four-year-old?No, I don't know it. I I only have your word for it. 1 Wayside Gatherings. |6T Ad Indiana man has goDe insane [[ ecause somebody killed his pet cat. It is not enough to keep the poor i mind; give them something to keep ou in mind. W&" There is boundless pleasure in ^ taking others happy, even if the othrs are "only animals." ^ ST The man who mounts his high a orse is invariably the one who gets 0 le least pity when he falls. j IPins have been made for only b 50 years, while needles have been t< sed more than 40 centuries. fi ffl" It is estimated that there are t ver 50,000 families in London with ly one room for each to live in. s VST Four things cannot come back? a lie spoken word, the sped arrow, the 1 ast life, the neglected opportunity. v I? Prejudices are like rats, and a " lan's mind like a trap; they get in c asily, and then perhaps can't get out t all. 8 I?* There is a time in every man's ? fe when he thinks there is nothing & weeter under the sun than somebody's t aughter. I? There are few things in this t /orld to be more dreaded than a com- c lunicative man with pothing to com- 0 lunicate. , v I? The forest area of the United p itates, according to a recent official eport, is 500,000,000 acres, not includ- D ag Alaska. c I? Age is hard to define. Some g aen are aged beyond their years, and a ome men at 70 are virtually younger t. ban others at 40. I?" As a means of imparting agricul- c ural information, The New England d farmer says the large fairs are grow- d ag less valuable each year. ? I? Li Hung Chang was so surprised ^ t the number of generals who greeted 1 iim in this country that he had no 8 urprise left for the colonels. J? If a man has a right to be proud ^ if anything, it is a good action, done c ,8 it ought to be, without a base inter- g st lurking at the bottom of it. I? They say in Texas that the cow- f >oy of the future will use a wheel intend r?f a horse. One cowherder in ? Ltcbison, Kan., already uses one. [ I^Wben you bear one girl speak r if another as being "good and sensi- c tie," you can feel perfectly confident t bat she is as homely as a rail fence. p 1?* There are men in the world who, a f they displayed one-half the energy a n business that they exhibit in loaf- t ng, would soon become independent, f t?" Before going to law, be sure it's vorth while. It takes only two to c ake a quarrel, but all the courts in ,v be oountry may be required to'settle 1 t. 8 t8T If any man has failed to estimate he affection of a true-hearted wife, he vill be likely to mark the value in bis oss when the heart which loved him t s stilled by death. There are about 100 grains of j. ron in the average human body, and t et so important is this exceedingly j mall quantity that its diminution is p ttended with very serious results. I?" A collector of bad debts who f ives in a New Jersey towns drives a f - ?Li?L 2m iltMAMin A + a. iorse over wuiuu <s tuivwu a Dum. tearing this inscription: "This horse tops only in fiont of houses whose inflates are bad pay." ??~"Yez may say wot yez plaze, ;intleman, it's not onywhere ye'U be binding braver men nor th' Irish." 'Come off, Pat; it was only the other light I made five of them run." "Was t long catchin' ye, they were?" $e/T In unfolding his wings, the goose ihows a row of white feathers, and his action signifies his intention of lying; and thus the thought of cowirdice has become associated with the expression. tST "Yes," said Mr. Spiffin,"! never lad no cbauce at an education myself, >ut I am determined that my son Abler shall have the best there is going. ' shall send him to college." "Yale, larvard or Princeton?" "I haven't lecided yet. What's this Electorial sollege I see mentioned in the newslapers so much ?" 1?~ A minister, who had been accused >f preaching a sermon that was not lis own, went to the parishioner who iad made the charge, and asked him o retract. "Well," said the paiishoner, "I thought, when I heard that * ' A I 1 ermon, tnat it was laaeo irom a uuun had at home ; but I went home and ooked in the Ijook?and it was all here." 43?" An Irish lawyer having address;d the court as "gentlemen," instead )f "yer honors," after he had concluled, a brother of the bar reminded lim of his error. He immediately troseand apologized thus: "May it ilase the coort, in the bate of the desate I called yer honors gentlemen. I nade a mistake, yer honors." The speaker then sat down. 8?* Only 906 persons in every millon, according to a reliable statistician, lie of old age, while 1.200 succumb o gout, 18,400 to measles, 2,700 to ipoplexy, 7,000 to erysipelas, 7,500 to jonsumption, 48,000 to scarlet fever, 15,000 to whooping cough, 30,000 to typhoid and typhus, and 7,000 to rheunatism. The averages vary according ,o locality, but these are considered sretty accurate as regards the population of the globe as a whole. I6T There are now 60,000 postoffices n the United States and the number is apidly increasing. At the close of the Revolutionary war there were only /o. \t the close of the war of 1812 there I ivere 3,000. At the beginning of the Divil war there were 28,586, and five years after its close, in 1870, there were I 18,492, or about 100 less, the only step i backward during the history of the postoffice department. By 1880 the . upward rise had started ugain in full i force and the number of postoffices in < i.he country reached 42,000. 1 ?hf ?>ton| ?fUct. 'HE AUCTIONEER'S STORY. This is a strange world ! And yet I ever thought so until my attention raa called to the fact by a little indent that befell me one day and set le to thinking so hard that I seemed D grow out of my own head and reach great height, and then look down n my other self with compassion. I on't know that it made me any wiser, ut at least it made me more attentive o my fellow-beings?more thoughtul of their joys and sorrows?and bat counts for something, I reckon. I had cried dozens of pawnbrokers' ales in my time, and never thought nything about them, unless it was hat old Two to One or Give and Take fere doubling their money, and raakag a pretty penny, even with 10 per ent commission taken off. *But I had never thought of the tory connected with any one article ~ - - - - * J _ f the sale?of toe neariacnes, 01 ue-1 pair, and woman's tears. It was but , joke to me, who bad known the ime when to "spout" a watch or listol, or some light trinket, in order o carry on a frolic, or help a poorer hap than I was, was but the impulse f the moment, and carried no further weight than the relief from empty lockets at the moment. But, as I said before, something aade me think, and ever since I have lot the same heart to cry away the ;oods of the poor creatures that want .nd misery has driven into old Two o One's clutches. The city of B is a splendid narket for our business. The trade lone there by one house alone would liscount any banking, commission or >ther business in the place, and only ty some token, the pawnbrokers equal is ia power and profit, and give us ome of our biggest sales. An odd lot came into the wareroom me day consigned to us by Clutchem c Keep, a shrewd firm of new beginters, and as it fell to my duty to asort and label the goods, it thus also ell to my fate to have a part in the ollowing story. The consignment consisted mainly if nriaofl and silverware. Dictures and ironzes, as Clutcbem & Keep were ather first-class in their business, and lid not condescend to family Bibles; tut'in the lot I came across a few tieces of furniture which attracted my Lttention from the fact of our having in order from a western house to pick ip all the antiques and oddities afloat, or a bric-a-brac firm. Here was about a dozen specimens if claw-legs, stick-backs, and othervise uncomfortable household articles, n the way of chairs, dressing-glasses ind cabinets, and i at once labeled hem sold, that they might not get nto the next day's sale, but be forvarded at once to our western house. One article al-one I noticed with atention enough to remember afterward md then only because I struck my land roughly against it, and the pain nade me stare hard at the cause of it. t was an old cedar cabinet, brass >ound and clamped, but rusty and 'orlorn looking enough in its changed ortunes. I labeled it, as I thought, or our next day's sale, as there were wo others to go west, and the home narket was then going crazy for sverything old, but parents and friends, is either the north or west. But subsequent events discovered ny mistake. Our Saturday's sale was i big one?the rival house across on he corner hadn't a chance against is on that day?and by noon every irticle put up was bid off lively and luick. The crowd had begun to thin, and I ivas busily mopping my wet face with i fresh handkerchief?for it was warm vork, I can tell you, to cry such sales rom 10 to 1 o'clock?when a lady same back in the store and approachid me eagerly. "Are you the proprietor, sir ?" she isked, with nervous haste, and I saw ihe was trembling. "I am the auctioneer, madam," I ;aid, wondering what was wrong. "I ivill call the firm, if you wish." "Perhaps you can attend to my busiless. I?I?do?not?understand? hese?matters very well.,'' she falterjd; and then I saw she was poorly slad, although well bred and timid. I drew an old chair up into the jorner, and asked her to sit down, '" ^ r>AAs little iuu sue uiu su giai/ctuuj?puui ni/viv woman J?I took a good look at her. She was still young and pretty. Behind her hung a long mirror. It aad grown dim hanging there, and sad a misty shadow over it, and in .he two angles of the corner stood a aded old Japenese screen and a tall ;hest of drawers. The store was now empty, and the light was leaving it, as the sun was creeping away from the door-sill atid noun ting up to the roof, as it bad only waited for the sale to be over. The lady had a face that touched ne at once. She was pale and timid; jut there was that in her faee that nade me take off my hat while I ulLrnrt i<-? hop T Hnn't, Ifnnnr hnw to express it; but it was as if I stood io .be presence of death, and the natural everence of that great mystery comuanded ray respect. "What can I do for you, madam ?" [ asked. She had been looking all around ner, as if seeking something. "You sell the goods, do you not?" >he asked eagerly. "Yes, madam." "Would you know the articles sent aere ?" "Probably." She looked about her again aud the :he color came and went in her face nervously. "I have just come from Clutchem & Keep," she began in hurried tones, as if ashamed of admitting her knowledge of those gentlemen. "They? had some things I was forced to? part?with?" Here she paused for a co moment; then looked up at me with a is faint smile. "You hear this said so mi often it will only weary you." th Somehow or other, it seemed to me to I had only then understood the possi- cli bility of a heart of sorrow being at- is tacbed to the exchange of goods such wl as I had that day sold. ps "I am anxious to help you, madam." pr And I was. I believe I was growing ye superstitious, too; for it seemed to me m as if a ghostly pageant was crossing and recrossiug the dim mirror, and the old screen shook as if the sighs or sobs were coming from it. "Thank you ! I am looking for a 1 - - * ; " "-"J ln/ltr oranf) tr woni 01 turn uutn x icniutu vuiuugu ? the papers that he was dead, aud bad left an estate to his wife and children, l* "I could not grieve, except that he ? died in his sin ; unforgiven by me. I Ia was poor, for he left me only the \A household furniture, and I have toiled A all these years to maintain my cbll- _ dren. So, for their sakes, I applied to a lawyer to obtain possession of the estate. R "Ob, the shame, the despair, of finding another claimant in France to my w children's name and honor. "'I must prove our claim as wife ai and children,' said the careful French lawyer, 'by the production of the marriage and baptismal certificates!' "And I knew not where they were!' |i "The minister was dead, the wit- u nesses gone I knew not where. "I felt as if my carelessness had dishonored my children, aud for days could get no relief from my horrible | anxiety, until by a flash as if from I heaven, I remembered that I had placed the certificates with other papers in the old cabioet that I had S parted with to Clutchem & Keep. I weut to them ; they had sent it here for sale, and now you?" ( She broke down and with a moan of despair. It was more than I could stand. That cry and the pitiful story ~ forced me into action at once. ^ "You shall have back the cabinet, l madam," I said, solemnly, as if devot- ^ iug my life to its search. L "Oh, sir ! you will do a noble deed ? if you but find it for me," she cried, l gratefully, looking at me with beam- ? ing eyes. . A Her face looked at me as if a halo ^ came over it, and I dimly felt why I L had stood bareheaded before her. ? | Truly I had stood in death's presence |L< ?the death of hope and love in tins ? poor woman's life?the tequiem of L gladness and impulse. ? She left me with a hopeful smile, L taking my hand with a pretty grace, ? and I watched her, in the mirror, go down the shadowy room into the sunlight of the street, and the shadow (], seemed to fall from her forever. n I telegraphed the western firm. jV They had the cabinet, and returned it at once ; so that before many days the n little nervous fingers were searching, in the presence of the lawyer and myself, for the precious papers. _ She found them ! I shall never for- ii get her face when she held them up. The halo was there as she said so softly : "Thank God !" And it seems to cling to me still, and to make me think how much p misery' our evil passions can work through selfishness and thoughtlessness. Cl Where Meerschaum Comes From, l There is a very general impression in the minds of smokers that the meerschaum part of the pipe, which they He treasure so carefully and take so much re pride and satisfaction in "coloring," is mpressed sea foam. Such", however, not the case. The German word eerechaum means in English, form of e sea, but its formation has nothing do with the sea. It is a kind of ay, comes out of mines like coal, and found only in Turkey. The artist I< bo carves meerschaum is required to iss through as severe a school of apenticeship, lasting from 3 to 10 ' iars, as though the work were in arble. ] ROYALi BaJking Powder T AbftoloToly Pure ROYALf Baking Powder 1 AbftolutcVy Pure a ROYAL? Baking Powder AbftoluTcly Pur* UOHIVEfl&HD CHABLESTOIR.B. / SAMUEL HUNT, General Manager. ] 1IME TABLE of the Ohio River and L Charleston Railway company, to take t Feet Monday, June 1,1896, a 7.40 a. m. ' STANDARD EASTERN TIME. J QOIKO SOUTH NO. 12. | ^ save Marion 2 00 pml ave Rutherfordton? 3 85 pm| p ave Forest City 4 05 pmj ave Henrietta 4 30 pm! y. ave Mooresboro 4 45 pm 1 ave Shelby 6 00 pm | ave Patterson Springs.. 6 15pmi 8 ave Earls 0 25 pm rrlve at Blacksburg 0 40 pm. f V/1 QO I Wn 1A Dally Monday Except We'ns'd'y ,. 8unday. Friday. 1 ?ve Shelby 7 40 ami > I >ave Patterson Springs... 7 50 am| sov Blacksburg 8 30 am' 8 40 am x ?ve Smyrna 8 50 am 0 06 am ?ve Hlclcory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am save Sharon 8 20 am j 9 50 am ?ve Yorkvllle 9 85 am! 10 20am iaveTlrzah 9 47 am 10 45 am 1 >ave Newport t. 9 51 am 10 55 am , ;ave ]3ock Hill 10 80 am 12 55 pm I javf Leslies 10 42 am; 1 15 pm ?ve Catawba Junction- 10 51 ami 2 00 pm a >ave Lancaster 11 17 pm 3 40 pm save Kershaw 11 57 pm| 5 25 pm rrlve at Camden 12 45 pm 8 45 pm ~aoi~NQ~yoRTH. | "NolS. | No. 85!- ' Dally | Tuesday Except Thursday J Sunday. Saturday. ?ave Camden 1 16 pm, 8 00am ?ve Kershaw *2 15 pm 10 15 am -i ?ve Lancaster 2 55 pm 1150 am J save Catawba Junction 3 30 pm 120 am ?ve Leslies 3 38 pm 1 40 am ?ve Rock Hill 3 54 pm 4 00 pro ?ve Newport 4 09 pm 4 20 pm ?ve Tlrzah 4 15 pm 4 35 pm . ?veYorkvllle. 4 30 pm! 500pm J save8haron 4 45 pm & so pm save Hickory Grove.... 5 00 pm! 5 55pm save Smyrna 6 10 pm1 6 15 pm save Blacksbure 5 30 pm( 6 45 pm save Patterson Springs.. v5 50 pm' , rrlve at Shelby 6 00 pm! j No. 11. | save Blacksburg 8 20 ami J save Earls 8 40 am t save Patterson Springs 8 50 am save Shelby 9 30 am J save Mooresboro 10 20 am 1 save Henrietta 10 30 am save Forest City 10 50 ami ' l save Rutherfordton 11 20 am| ' rrlve at Marion 12 50 pm: ? + Dinner. f CONNECTIONS. j No. 32 has connection with Southern t ail way at Rook Hill. Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers. s Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion 3 ith Southern Railway. ] At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek j ad London, trains stop only on signal. S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A. ? A. TRIPP, Superintendent. 1 SAM'L HUNT, General Manager. j nsni in una uaiui! chetiules in Effect from and After Angnst 30, 1896. r. W. F. Harper, Receiver, i CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. i f GOING NORTH. | No 10. | NO HQ. ' ea^ e Chester 8 20 am 8 30am * eave Lowrysville 8 46 a m 0 05 am ^ eave McConnellsville 9 04 a m 9 89 a m s eave Guthrlesville .... 9 12 a m 9 56 a m 1 eave Yorkville 9 35 a m 10 50 a m i eave Clover 10 18 a m 11 33 am , eave Gastouia 10 56 a m 1 50 pm , eave Llncolnton 11 55 a m 3 10 pm ' eave Newton 12 so p m a ? pm ? eave Hickory 1 23 pm 6 15 pm E rrlve Lenoir 2 Hfl pm 800pm 1 GOING SOUTH. | Nu. 9. | No 61. 1 eave Lenoir 2 10 p m 6 80 am 1 eave Hickory 3 -12 p m 8 10 am t eave Newton ; 5 08 p m 1) 10 am s eave Llncolnton ' 5 51 pm 10 30 am i eave Gastonla i 6 57 pm 1 00 pm ? eave Clover 7 37 p m 2 02 p m , eave Yorkville 8 06pm 8 10 pm 7 eave Guthriesvllle ... 8 29 pm 810pm 1 eave McConnellsvllle 8 38 pm 3 55 pm t eave Lowrysvllle 9 00pm 1 25 pm s rrlve Chester 1162 pm i 5 10pm t Trains Xos. 9 and 10 are first class, and ' in daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 1 ) and 61 carry passengers and also run aily except Sunday. There is good con- " ection at Chester with the G. C. it N. id the C. C. A A., also L A C. R. R.; at astonia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Linilnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and ewton with \V. N. C. ?. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt. G. W. F. Harper, Receiver, Lenoir, N. C. 0 icorporated 1819. Charter Perpetual. t /ETNA i IRE INSURANCE COMPANY * OF HARTFOKD CONN. ash Capital 9 4,000,000 OO C ash Asse s 11,000,000 00 i osses paid 77,000,000 00 1 Other strong reliable companies repre- e inted and business entrusted to us will v iceive our most careful attention. B S. M. A L. GEO. GRIST, s Resident Agents. ceaar cauiuet, b?iu uic iouj "which was among the articles I carted with to Clutchem & Keep, and I was told that it was sent here for sale. I wish to redeem it at any price?" She stopped suddenly as she saw my . face change. I A cedar cabinet! I remembered it at once. The hurt on my hand recalled it, also that it had been labled for that day's sale. She grew frightened at my hesitation. 1 "Do not say that it is gone?" she cried, rising quickly and grasping my arm. "Oh, God would not so afflict _ me! Look, look every where for it, I ni beg. I pray you." . * jjj Her hands shook so on my arm so that I could feel the quivering of her thin fingers. I tried to think to whom I bad sold f the cabinet that day ; then it flashed -fi on me that there had not been one in the catalogue. Had I made a mistake and sent it west with the bric-a-srac lot? If so, H it could be recovered. I felt glad for -* my error, but the poor little woman mistook my silence and broke down completely, sobbing so pitifully that I ? knew then that some great cause was U bidden beneath her desire to reclaim the old cabinet. u "It is more to me than life or death," she cried out passionately, l< looking straight before her. "It means ^ my children's honor. Listen and you ? will be influenced by my great need to ? find this cabinet for me. I believe it contains the certificate of my marriage ^ and my children's baptism, without ij which I cannot lay claim to my busband's estate in France. It is not the l< money I want," she added, with proud ^ spirit?"I cannot bear to touch that; but my children shall not be robbed L< of the right of their father's name." l< She paused to look at me. I felt as Lt if a severe tension upon her nervtj xj had given away at last, and, crushed Ai by the fear of her cabinet being lost to ? her, her silence and reserve had bro- ~ ken down, and that she had appealed to me unconsciously in her need. ^ The shadowy pageant passed to and u fro across the mirror, and as she went on passionately with her story it seem- u ed to me I saw the whole sad episode pass in review on the dim surface. L< "Fifteen years ago my husband deserted me. Evil influences led him u astray, and, while for my children's sake I would have pardoned him, I u never saw him again or heard one 3 ~ C L T lnn?n n/1 * V> CfK 800,000 PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS " s pretty good evidence that rhe Ladies' ?W - Home Journal N s "immensely popular." The ournal is recognized as being ^ he BEST Monthly Magazine or Ladies published in the world. ^ The . Journal will be sent to any ddress for 12 months on receipt f ONE DOLLAR. REG. M. GRIST, Subscription Agent, ** 1 Yorkville, S. Carolina. -: THE: SAYINGS BANK % OF . ROCK HILL, S. C. * Capital, - - - - $50,000. Surplus and Profits, 31,000. ^JTITH ample resources and every &ility for the transaction of the Banking ' j/ iusine8s in all its branches, this bank olicits the business of corporations, | irms and individuals, tendering all the curtesies and accommodations that are isually extended by a WELL CON)UCTED AND OBLIGING BANKING JOUSE. ' ' i Correspondence or a call solicited from hose contemplating a change in their tanking arrangements or the opening of , new account. . 4' . ) Interest bearing certificates of deposit ssued under special agreements. D. HUTCHISON. President, r. R. LONDON, Vice President. R. LEE KERR, Cashier. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Bock HU1, 8. C. iT.iL! CI-.aaaaJ/i 1 ilr a CJ n nnnofi JUlDlIlg ouixeeus uiivc ouvvcoot ORGANIZED JANUARY, 1887. , lanital, $75,080 ^ ' inr^lns and Profits, - - 30,500 JiTiJeads PaiO, - - - - 51750 % i . 'J OUR very progressive town has continued to move onward and upward, , ind is today, the financial centre of York 'ounty and of this section of the State. ' v The First National Bank has built up a business large in volume, and gratifying o its owners. We realize that human nature is never latisfled. We still want good customers? Merchants, Manufacturers, Capitalists, , farmers, Public Officials, Savings class ind others. , We offer absolute security; resources md facilities unsurpassed; rates to corres>ond with the change of times. Our cusomers are our true friends and we always ook after their interests. fV. L. RODDEY, President. W. J. RODDEY, Vice President. v J. H. MILLER. Cashier. L. C. HARRISON, Teller. PAUL WORKMAN, Bookkeeper A HOUSEHOLD REMEDY. Dr. J. B. Delvaux's Great Indian Blood Purifter Is Nature's Own Remedy. T IVTADE from the best and most powerLtX fill medicinal and curative roots and lerbsof the forest. Dr. J. B. DELVAUX'S INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER is truly a narvelous remedy for the treatment of ill Chronic disease in individuals who iave thin blood and have lost their vitality, and as a tonic it has no equal. It invigorates the system, overpowers dyspepliaand walks roughshod over all ailments laving a tendency to depressed spirits. fVithin a radius of 100 miles it has nearly un all other preparations from the market and is emperor of all family medicine :hests. It cleanses and tones up the itomach, promotes a healthy action of the iver, bowels and kidneys, and produces lure rich blood, thus giving the patient he strength to withstand the attacks of liseases. It cures syphilis in any stage, icrofula, old sores, piles, shaking chills, lervous prostration, general debility, md will prevent malarial fever. This rreat remedy has no rival. Sold in all irst-class drug stores, and general connry stores, and by authorized agents, who ire now covering ever nook and corner of hsminntv! or vou can ce tit direct from is bv applying "to Dr. j._B. DELVAUX t CO., Yorkville, S. C. HUNTERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, FOR BOTH SEXES. # PRIMARY, English, Classical, Musical, Business, Shorthand, Art, Typewriting. This school has been adopted as a Presbyterial school by the First Presbytery of the Assoiate Reformed Synod of the South: hough it is not strictly a denominational chool. Its pupils enter three of the best olleges in the South without examination t holds three competitive scholarships in s many colleges in South Carolina. Come and prepare yourself to enter ollege, or for any profession. Send for Catalogue. GRAY A CROSBY, Principals, Huntersville, N. C. ^ July 18 58 s3m ^ lOFFINS ROBES AND CASKETS ITTE now have probably the largest VV stock in the county to select from. 'rices to suit customers, from the cheapst to fine Oaks, Walnuts, Broadcloth's of arious qualities. Metalic and White ? oods in infants- and adults sizes. Peronal attention. ;New Hearse. W. B. MOORE & CO. /