Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 28, 1897, Image 4
^tumorous department.
THEY CHANGED THE SUBJECT.
The men who utilize the corner grocery
for a clubroom in the evening and
on stormy days, says The Free Press,
had just been discussing a fox hunt
about which one of their number had
read aloud, when the conversation
naturally took a reminiscent turn.
"Nothing cuter nor more cunning in
the world than a fox," said Goggs, by
way of introduction. "I remember
one night when I was a boy, that we
heard a great fuss among the dogs
that were chained up. It took us
about half an hour co get dressed and
armed to sally forth for the purpose of
investigating. Not discovering anything,
we loosened the dogs, and they
darted off on a trail, yelpiug as they
went. We didn't know whether it
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run the dogs brought up at the henhouse
and tried to tear it down. Well,
sir, an old fox had deliberately showed
himself to the dogs so as to excite
them, made that run while we were
getting ready for trouble, and, circling
around, was robbing the roost while
the dogs were off the premises."
"I waked up one moonlight night,"
volunteered the man on the woodbox,
"and seen a fox under au apple tree
where a fat pullet was roosting. I
knew the thief could't climb, so I just
stood at the window laughing. The
fox barked to wake the 'chicken, and
then began circling around the tree,
slow at first, but going faster and faster.
Of course the terrified pullet followed
him with her eyes, and got so
dizzy that she fell out of the tree."
"I saw somethin' like that once,"
said the lank individual on a paint
keg, "only that the chicken I was
watchin' wrung its own neck, 'cause
the fox was goin' so durned fast."
Then, by common consent the crowd
took up the subject of floods.
OLD PUT'S JUKE.
Shortly before the Revolution, when
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bodings of the approaching struggle,
old Major Putnam happened to be in
Boston. The Major disliked the redcoats,
and sometimes inveighed against
their arrogant superciliousness in no
gentle terms. One day an officer of
His Majesty's regulars overheard Putnam
assert that the provincial army,
, untutored in arms as they were, would
fight with the courage of trained soldiers.
The officer resented the assertion,
and, after some hot words, challenged
the Major to a duel, provided
he dared to fight.
"Dare," shouted Putnam. "Why,
at any moment; but I choose the
weapons."
"Name them," haughtily replied the
officer.
"Two kegs of gunpowder ; tLe time,
tomorrow; the distance, 10 paces ; the
fight to be as follows : You to sit on
one keg, I on the other, a slow fuse to
be attached to each, and the one who
holds out the longest shall be declared
the winner."
There was nothing for the officer to
do but but accept the unusual weapons,
and on the following day at the
appointed time and place the combatants
took their seats upon the kegs .of
gunpowder. The fuses were lighted
and began sputtering, rapidly ap
proacning tne Kegs, ine omcer was
deadly pale, and watched the growing
danger with dilated eyes. At last he
could stand it no longer, and with a
leap he left his keg and raced like a
madman out of sight. When he had
gone Old Putnam laughingly kicked
the burning fuse away and disclosed to
his friends a keg of onions. When the
matter came to light the officer was
subjected to the laughs and gibes of
the entire command.
Much Mixed.?"My hearers?"
The chairman of the school board
was addressing the Annual Teachers'
Institute.
"The schoolwark is the bulhouse of
civilization?I mean?ah !?"
The chairman was slightly chilled.
"The bulhouse is the schoolwark of
civ?" An invisible smile began to
make itself felt.
"The warkhouse is the bulschool of
?" He was evidently twisted.
"The schoolbul is the housewark?"
An audible snicker spread itself over
the faces of the audience.
"The scowse bool?"
He was getting wild. So were his
hearers. He mopped perspiration,
gritted his teeth, and came up to the
post again.
"The schoolhouse, my friends?"
A sigh of relief went up. A-h-h!
Now he has gotten his feet under him
again.
He gazed suavely around. The
light of triumphant self-confidence enthroned
upon his brow.
"Is the wulbark?"
And that was all.
iSTSmithers?You say you are the
luckiest man in the world. How is
that? Bilkins?Why, I've had extraordinary
luck in cycling. I've
wrenched my shoulder in a collision
with a milk wagon, collided with a
tree and cut my scalp, scraped the
hide off my left leg in being thrown
while coasting, sprained my right
wrist in a race with a friend, and
knocked out four teeth in last week's
spill will Bromley. "And you call
that luck?" "Well, I should smile;
for, if you will believe it, in all those
scrapes I didn't scratch nor injure my
wheel in the slightest."
Noah's Misfortune?"I have always
felt sorry for Noah," said the
large-hearted man.
"I don't see the need of it," said the
man of the shrunken sympathies.
"Looks to me as if Noah got off' pretty
well."
"But just think of it. When the
waters subsided there was not a soul
left for him to ask, 'Now, what did I
tell you ?'"
Grimshaw?Hopping hornets ! why
didn't you call me in time ? Here it's
seven o'clock, and the boys have started
off au hour ago. I told you last
night I wanted to go fishing through
the ice. Mrs. Grimshaw?But, my
dear, it was so cold? "So cold, eh ?
You didn't think anything of that last
week, when you woke me up before
daylight to shovel off the snow."
Wajtsiitle (featherings.
aSf There are more Germans than
Irish in the United States.
It doesn't take many pints of
whisky to make a peck of trouble.
8?* When people are crazy to marry
they attach no consequence to consequences.
8?* There is more snuff used in Boston
than in any other city in the United
States.
VST A sound discretion is not so much
indicated by never making a mistake,
as by never repeating it.
46T Not one unmarried woman in a
hundred tells the truth when she is
asked why she never married.
J6T" Said an Irishman in the course
of an eloquent speech, "Mr. Chairman,
the gals is the boys to do it."
Happiness consists not in having
vast and rich possessions, but in
being fitted to enjoy what we have.
8Fear of what people will say
has a more religious effect on the
world than the fear of what the Lord
will think.
t8t A Winconsin girl has refused an
offer of marriage, on the ground that
her father was not able to support any
larger family.
86T" Many men imagine that the
world couldn't get along without them,
but when they die the town in which
they life experiences a boom.
SST The man that forgets a great
deal that has happened has a better
memory than he who remembers a
great deal that never happeued.
fiS?* A harmless lotion for removing
freckles is as follows: Lemon juice,
one ounce; powdered borax, one-half
dram ; sugar, one-half dram.
fiGf When a man makes up his mind
that he is a good man, he should be
ready to show others what he is good
for, remarked the N. O. Picayune.
t&T The London telegraph office is
the biggest in the world. Over 3,000
operators are employed, and upwards
of 30,000 batteries being used.,,
16T" Usually, the greatest boasters
are the smallest workers. The deep
rivers pay a larger tiibute to the sea
than shallow brooks, and yet empty
themselves with less noise.
86T True happiness never flows into a
man, but always out of bim. Hence
heaven is sometimes found in cottages
and hell in palaces. Heaven itself is
more internal than external,
fl?" Contempt for holy things is the
highest road to infidelity. Once let a
man begin to make jest of any part of
Christianity, and I am never surprised
to hear that he is a downright unbeliever.
Daniel Webster was once asked :
"What is the most important thought
you ever had ?" He replied : "The
most important thought I ever had
was my individual responsibility to
God."
5?" A little girl who had been very
observant of her parents' mode of exhibiting
their charity, when asked
what generosity was, answered : "It
is giving to the poor all the old stuff
that you don't want yourself.
t8F Watch crystals are made by blowing
a spere of glass about one yard in
diamter, after which the disks are cut
from it by means of a pair of compasses
having a diamond at the extremity
of one leg.
8?* Little girl of seven being asked
why she ate her tart all round the edge
first, and consequently got her fingers
covered with jam, answered reproachfully,
"Meg, don't you know?duty
first and pleasure afterward.
t8T An old Marquesan chief, on being
told by a missionary that in heaven
there was no war, nor hunger or thirst,
nor sickness or death, replied, "That
will be a good place for cowards, and
lazy folks who are afraid to fight, and
too lazy to climb bread-fruit and cocoanut
trees."
UST A queer libel suit has been
instituted against a newspaper in Indiana
for averring that the plaintiff's
horse was fed on soup, being too old
to eat corn. He claims $2,000 damages,
alleging that he has suffered great
mental anguish on account of the publication.
An Irishman was asked if he
could define an Irish bull. "Yes,
mum," he said. "If you are drivin'
along the road, a\jd you see three cows
lyin' down iu a pasture, and wan of
thim is standin' up, why that wan is
an Irish bull."
8ST" Too often, as a very respectable
looking professor of religion dashes
by iu his phieton, with his wife and
daughters dressed in the most costly
garments, the remark is heard, "if I
had what belongs to me he would not
cut such a dash."
W&T "I thought you advertised that
you were selling out at cost," growled
the customer, throwing down the required
25 cents for a small package of
note paper. "Yes, sir," replied the
stationer briskly. "That's right. We
referred to our postage stumps. Waut
any."
SfcT I ^emons are a simple and excellent
remedy for billiousuess. Take the
juice of one or two lemons in as much
water as will make it pleasaut to
drink without sugar, before going to
bed. In the morning on rising, at
least half an hour before breakfast,
take the juice of one lemon in a tumble
of cold water.
Atar Overpaid labor is not the sort referred
to in the supreme judicial court
of Maine, sitting at liangor, where an
old farm laborer said that he had received
as compensation for 11 years'
toil on a farm "his board, a few pairs
of pants, a second-hand overcoat or
two, some tobacco and a licking."
Evidently he had not suffered too
much protection.
B6T The carrier pigeou when traveling
never feeds. If the distance be
long it flies 011 without stopping to
take nutriment, and at last arrives
thin, exhausted and almost dying. If
corn be presented it refuses to eat,
contents itself with drink a little water,
and then sleeping. Two or three
hours later in begins to eat with great
moderation, and sleeps again immediately
afterward. If its flight has
beeu very prolonged the pigeon will
proceed in this manner for 48 hours
before recovering its normal mode of
feeding.
international Wessons.
THE WNDAYSOTOOL
LESSON VI, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL
SERIES, MAY 9.
Text of the Lesson, Acts xiil, 20-89?Memory
Verses, 88, 39 - Golden Text, Acts
Xlli, 38?Commentary by the Rev. D. M.
Stearns.
26. "To you is the word of this salvation
Bent." By invitation of the rulers of the
synagogue at Antioch, in Plsidia, to which
place they came after leaving Perga, where
Mark deserted them, Paul is preaching on
tho Sabbath day (verses 14, 15). His opening
words are, "Men of Israel, and ye that
fear God" (verse 16), and this, in substance,
he repeats in this first verse of our
lesson. Jde begins witn tne deliverance
from Egypt and mentions the period of the
wilderness, the judges and the reigns of
Suul and David, then pusses at once to
Jesus, the Saviour of Israel, of the seed of
David, who Is the salvation of God prepared
for all people, a light to lighten the
gentiles and the glory of Israel.
27. "They knew Him not, nor yet the
voices of the prophets which are read every
Sabbath day." As it is written through
John, "He was in the world, and the world
was made by Him, and the world knew
Him not; He came unto His own, and His
own received Him not" (John i, 10, 11).
It was the complaint of the Lord through
the prophets that His people did not know
Him. "Israel doth not know, My people
doth not consider."
28, 29. "When they had fulfilled all that
was written of Him, they took Him down
from the tree and laid Him in a sepulohcr."
Although they knew Him not, yet
they unwittingly fulfilled the Scriptures
concerning Hinx. Both Herod and Pontius
Pilate, the gentiles and the people of
Israel, with all their indifference to or
hatred of Christ, only fulfilled what God
had determined Ix-fore to be done (Acts iv,
27, 28), and yet they were all free agents.
Spurgeon once said, "My God can rule frco
agents, leaving them absolutely free, and
yet effecting ull His purposes with them."
I do not understand how this can be, but I
believe it.
80. "But God raised Him from the
dead." See also verses 83. 34 and 37. and
let this fourfold emphasis given by the
Spirit in this lesson to His resurrection
from the dead show you the importance
of this great truth and recall to your mind
the fact that by His resurrection from the
dead He was declared the Son of God with
power (Rom. i, 4). Our Lord Jesus was
dead, but is alive for evermore, and has all
power (Rev. i, 18). *Wc, believing in Him,
are one with Him, as children and heirs
of God and joint heirs with Himself.
81. "And He was seen many days of
them which came up with Him from Galilee
to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses
unto the people." He was seen at least
ten times during a period of 40 days after
His^resurrection lxjfore He visibly ascended
from Olivet, to which same hill He will
In duo time return with all His saints
(Acts i, 8, 11; Zecb. xiv, 4, 6). The one
thing for a believer to do is to be a witness
by life and testimony to the great fact that
Jesus Christ is His living Lord and Saviour
coming again to fill the earth with
righteousness. When we arc reudy for
this, He will fill us with His Spirit to this
end (Acts i, 8).
82. "And we declare unto you glad tidings."
The angel at His birth brought
"good tidings of great joy for all people"
(Luke ii, 10), and we are commissioned to
testify the gospel of the grace of God and
the gospel of the glory of the blessed God
(Acts xx, 24; I Tim. i, 11, R. V.). We are
allowed of God to be put in trust with this
gospel, and we are to speak it, not as
pleasing men, but God, who trieth our
hearts (1 Thess. ii, 4). But it is a trust
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Are we faithful to our trust?
83. "As it is also written in the Second
Psalm, Thou urt My Son, this day have I
begotten Thee." The Second Psalm tells
us that, in spite of all the rage and vain
imaginings of the ungodly nations, God
will yet sot His King upon His holy hill
of Zion (Ps. ii, 6). And verse 7 is here explained
as referring to the resurrection of
Christ from the dead to that end, and not
to His birth in Bethlehem, as some might
suppose. It is a great inspiration to believe
that notwithstanding all hindrances
and delays every promise of God shall be
fulfilled; not one can fail (Joshuaxxiii, 14;
I Kings viii, 50).
84. "I will give you the buto mercies of
David." These sure mercies are set forth
in II Sam. vii, 12, 13, and I Chron. xvii,
11, 12, and are more fully stated in connection
with Israel's future glory in Isa. lv.
35. "Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy
One to see corruption." That David in
Ps. xvi, 10, spoke of Christ and not of
himself is made very plain in Peter's sermon
at Pentecost, and also that David saw
in the promise of God, not a mortal man,
but an immortal man, risen from the dead
(Acts ii, 25-31), in whom His throne and
kingdom would be established forever.
80. "For David, after he had in his own
age served the will of God (margin) fell
on sleep." Being a child of God by faith
in Christ Jesus, the thing for us then to do
is to let Him accomplish His will in us in
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serving Xlis purpvise n iw us nuuv vve uic.
Let the question search us, Am I fully in
His will for His pleasure or living for my
pleasure? "Even Christ pleased not Himself"
(Rom. xv, 3).
87. "But He whom God raised again
saw no corruption." That body, although
for us it tasted death, was us free from
oorruption as from 6in. We are comforted
by believing that even though our bodies
soe corruption "This corruptible must put
on lncorruption," and if we tarry till Ho
come, "This mortal must put on immortality"
(I Cor. xv, 58). Death, which
smites the body and makes it sleep and
pass through corruption, is an enemy which
shall be destroyed (I Cor. xv, 26), and concerning
which God has said,*"0 death, I
will be thy plagues" (Hos. xiii, 14).
88. "Through this man is preached unto
you the forgiveness of sins." We are sure
that the kingdom will come and the nation
of Israel be all righteous, and the
earth be filled with the glory of God, but
what is the present benefit of the work of
ChristP The forgiveness of all sin. By
sin came death and every woe. Our iniquities
separate us from God. But in
Christ there is full provision for the com
plete blotting out of all our sins. The
blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all
sin. One of His lust commands was that
repentance and remission of sins should be
preuched in His naiue among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem (Luke xsiv, 47).
89. "And by Him, all that believe aro
justified from all things." The law cannot
justify any one, for the law is as holy as
God, and all are sinners. But since God in
Christ has taken the sinner's place and
borne our sins in His own body, suffering
the just for the unjust (Isa. liii, 5; I Pet.
ii, 24; ill, 18), a full justification is granted
freely to every sinner who receives
Christ (Rom. iii, 24).
86T" To pray as God would have
us; to pray with all the heart and
streugth, with the reason and the
will; to believe vividly that God will
listen to your voice through Christ,
and verily do the thing he pleaseth
thereupon?this is the last, the greatest
achievement of the Christian's warfare
on earth. i
$mu Hurt fireside.
Watermelon Culture.?In answer
lo a correspondent with regard to watermelon
culture, The Southern Cultivator
says : On a small scale one cau
plant quite early. Say first of March
and protect from cold by placing over
each hill a box without top or bottom
JLUX12 luoues auu pumug a pane ui
glass on top. This makes a little cold
frame for each hill. On a large scale
where protection is not practicable,
melons should be planted at cotton
planting time. They should not be
planted on land which has grown
melons the previous season?the interval
between melon crops should be
two or three years. The melon prefers
a rather light soil?a rich, light
loam. They grow admirably on new
ground, and on well-drained sandy
bottom land. The ground should be
very thoroughly prepared'and heavily
mauured ; well-rotted barnyard manure
is excellent. In its absence cotton
seed and ashes make an excellent
combination for them. Lay off rows
12 feet apart, open a deep furrow and
iu it place manure; then bed on it,
making beds 12 feet wide. Make hills
12 feet apart along the rows, and work
into them a little high-grade fertilizer
containiug a good percentage of ammonia
and potash. This last is done
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io give ilie yuuug jiiuuis u scuu-uu.
Give first a plowing with shovel, or
solid sweep; ufterwards cultivate like
cotton with heelscrape, running farther
and farther from plants as the
vines extend. Never disturb vines
with plow after they fairly begin to
run. The favorite varieties in Georgia
are the Rattlesnake, Jones and Kolb
Gem.
Remedies For Internal Poisoning.?These
remedies for internal poisoning
are suggested by a technical
journal : A tablespoonful of ground
mustard in a glass of warm water,
followed by more warm water until
vomiting occurs, is an excellent emetic.
Common salt will answer in the absence
of mustard, or a glass of cool
water, with a heaping teaspoonful each
of common salt and ground mustard
stirred into it is good. The whites of
eggs or a cup of strong coffee are antidotes
for a greater number of poisons
than any dozeu other articles known,
with the advantage of being easily
accessible. Sweet oil, lamp oil, drippings,
melted butter or lard, are good
substitutes, especially if they are
vomited quickly. Should vomiting
continue excessively after all traces of
poisou have been removed, it may
often be relieved by immersing the
hands and wrists in as hot water as
can be borne; meanwhile give the
patient clear cold coffee, or cream of
tartar water.
Don'ts For Mothers.?An infant
should be given no food containing
starch until it cuts its teeth. Starchy
foods include biscuits, corn flour, tapioca,
sago, rice, potato, etc. An infant
cannot digest any of these until its
teeth are cut.
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Violent noises auu ruugu suuMuga
or tossings are hurtful to a baby, and
should be avoided as much as possible.
Infants should never be put into a
sitting posture until they are at least
three months old, when they will
probably sit up of their own accord.
They should be carried flat in the
nurse's arras, as if the little back is at
all curved it may lead to curvature of
the spine or chest disease.
Until children are six or seven years
old they should have 12 hours' sleep
every night. In addition to this a
nap of two hours, either in the morning
or afternoon?especially in hot
weather?will do a great deal toward
keeping them bright and well.
Hints.?The calendar says it is
spring, but do not lay aside your
heavy flannels.
Whenever vegetables put up in tin
cans are opened and only partly used,
do not allow the remainder to stand
in the tins, but turn them out into an
earthen bowl and put in a cool
place.
Silk handkerchiefs and ribbons
should be washed in salt and water,
and ironed wet, to obtain the best
results.
Whenever the careful and kindly
housewife cooks cabbage, onions, or
other vegetables of penetrating smells
in the kitchen of her flat, she sprinkles
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stove to neutralize the odors.
Never Frighten a Child.?One
of the worst things that can happen
to a child is to be frightened. The
mischief that has resulted from a sudden
shock cannot be overestimated.
Fainting fits, weak nerves, illness of
the brain, hysteria, and St. Vitus's
dance can often be traced to a severe
fright. It is not, however, an easy
matter to avoid everything calculated
to arouse fear, but parents must try
and educate their children so that their
nerves are good and steady.
Temperature For Seed Germination.?It
has been ascertained by
an extended series of experiments that
rye and winter wheat will germinate
in soil the temperature of which is as
low as 32 degrees. Barley, oats, flax,
clover and pease will sprout at 35 degrees.
The turuip is as cold-blooded
as the rye and winter wheat, but the
carrot needs 38 degrees and the bean
40 degrees before they will make the
initial effort to send the life-shoot in
search of air and light.
An pvnpripneed vpterinaiV civeS
the following simple remedy for founder
: "As soon as possible take a
lump of alum as large as a hen's egg,
powder as fine as possible and drench
the horse with it; I have used this in
many cases, and I never knew it to
fail. Of course, other remedies should
be used to allay the fever and inflammation,
but I advise the use of alum
in all cases.
Those who teach young children
should speak to them properly,
not lisping or using silly words, lor
they can understand sense better
than nonseuse.?Good Housekeeping.
B&T The tomato was originally known
as the "love apple plaut," and considered
poisonus.
piscfUaufous palling.
HOW INDIANS ARE NAMED.
As the Indian child grows he commits
acts from time to time each of
which gives him a new name. For
example, he may see a bear, and run
screaming to the tepee. The folks all
laugh at him, and call him Runs-from-abear.
Later on he may become the possessor
of an unruly pony which he fears
to ride, and becomes known as Afraidof-his-horse.
Or he may mount a horse
from which another Indian has been
thrown, and then he is spoken of as
Rides-the-horse. Further ou he becomes
a great hunter, and kills five
bears, and they call him Five-bears, and
when he slays another his name changes
to Six-bears. He may pertorm a vanuni,
deed in battle, and ride his horse
through the camp of the enemy, for
which he is dubbed Charges-th rough the-camp.
During the conflict he may
kill one of the enemy. If his victim is
the only one slain he is called Kills-theenemy.
But if others fall, the oue he has
killed must be described as Kills-theone-with-the-big-knee.
If he braids in
his hair a yellow feather which he has
plucked from the tail of an eagle, he
may be called Eagle-tail, Eagle-feather,
Yellow-tail or Yellow-feather. If
be gives it to his friend, he will be
named Gives-feather, but if he refuses
to part with it, his name will
change to Keeps-his-feather. Or he
may obtain his name from some other
object. If he is accustomed to ride
what is commonly knowu as a "calico"
horse, he may be called Spotted-horse ;
but if his horse has a short tail, he will
be knowu as Bob-tail-horse.
The chances are that he will be
known by all the foregoing names.
His enemies in the tribe will contiuue
to speak of him as Long-ears, RunsC
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while his friends will call him Rideshis-horse,
Six-bears, or Kill's-the-enemy.
For this reason it occurs that il
you speak of the Indian in the presence
of certain members of the tribe and
call him Six-bears, they will laugh at
you and say, "That not his name; his
name Runs-fro n-a-bear." But if you
speak of him to certain others as Runsfrom-a-bear,
they will scowl and say,
"That not his name ; his name Killsthe-euemy."
Brain Stimulant.?'The best possible
thing for a man to do when he
feels too weak to carry anything
through is to go to bed and sleep a*
long as he can. This is the only recuperation
of brain-power, the only
actual recuperation of brain force;
because during sleep the brain is iu a
state of rest, in a condition to receive
and appropriate particles of nutriment
from the blood, which take the place
of those which have been consumed
by previous labor, since the very act
of thinking burns up solid particles,
as every turn of the wheel or screw of
the steamer is the result of consumption
by fire of the fuel in the furnace.
The supply of consumed brain-substance
can ouly be had from the nutritive
particles in the blood, which
were obtained from the food eaten
previously ; and the brain is so constituted
that it can best receive and appropriate
to itself those nutritive particles
during the state of rest, of quiet,
and stillness of sleep. Mere stimulants
supply nothing in themselves;
they goad the brain, force it to a greater
consumption of its substance, until
it is so exhausted that there is not
power enough left to receive a supply.
?Medical Journal.
"Keep Your Top Cool."?It is reported
of Artemas Ward that he once
offered his flask of whisky to the driver
of the stage on which he was riding
through a mountainous section. The
stage driver refused the flask in most
decided tones. He said :t
"I don't drink ; I won't drink ; I
don't like to see anybody else drink.
I am of the opinion of those mountains?keep
your top cool! They've
got snow, and I've got brains ; that's
all the difference."
There is a great deal of wisdom in
his remark?"Keep your top cool."
Without a sound brain man is not of
? 1J A 1
raucn use 111 me woriu. aicuuui,
whether in beer, cider, wine, brandy,
or whisky, is a foe of the brain ; and
when it gets there inflames it, and
renders it unfit for use. Be like the
veteran stage driver, and resolve to
"keep your top cool."
Sheridan and the Wigmaker.?
Sheridan once had occasion to call at
a hairdresser's to order a wig. Ou being
measured, the barber, who wasja liberal
soul, invited the orator to take some
refreshment in an inner room. Here
he regaled him with a bottle of port,
and showed so much hospitality that
Sheridau's heart was touched. When
they rose from the table and were
about separating, the latter, looking
the barber full in the face, said:
"On reflecting, I don't intend that
you shall make my wig."
Astonished and with a blank visage,
the other exclaimed :
"Good heavens, Mr. Sheridan ! How
can I have displeased you ?"
"Why, look you," said Sheridan,
"you are an honest fellow, and, I
repeat it, you sha'n't make my wig,
for I never intended to pay for it.
I'll go to another less worthy son of
the craft."
Women as Soldiers.?"I do not
see," said a clever woman recently,
"why the newspapers should feel culled
upon to poke fun at the new law in
Colorado which permits women to
serve iu the state militia. In time of
battle woman is just as necessary as
man. Just wearing a uniform and
shooting a gun are not all that constitute
a soldier. What about woman's
place in the hospitals during time of
war? Does it not require a brave
heart and a strong nerve to wait on
't-- 1-^ Iu nr,f ?
uit; wuuiiucu ?iuu ujiug ? a.j uw
woman a soldier who can assist the
surgeon as he amputates the limb or
binds a fractured bone? Are not the
Red Cross nurses soldiers? It seems
to me that a woman will make just as
good a soldier as a man, and always
fiud her place in time of war."
56T" Some men win a reputation for
what they don't say.
tmim iniiTnnsmi n.f
i
G. W. P. HARPER, President.
Schedules in Effect from and Aftei
February 7, 1890.
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CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. j
GOING NOHTH. j No 10. i No 00.
1 1
Lea\e Chester (I 10 a in 8 30 u in
Leave Lowrysville (i :t6 a m 9 05am
Leave McConnellavllle tt .Ham 9 39 a m tl
Leave Quthrlesville .... 7 02 a m | 9 56 am p
Leave Yorkvllle 7 22 a m i 10 50 a m gi
Leave Clover j 7 52 am 11 33 am ?
Leave Gaston la i 8 '27 a m 1 50 p m
Leave Lincolnton 8 45 am 3 1(1 pit
Leave Newton j 10 23 am 4 45 pm
Leave Hickory 11 10 am 6 15 pm
Arrive Lenoir 1 12 17 p m 8 00 p m c
GOING SOUTH. | No. 9. | NO 61.
Leave Lenoir 3 30 pm 6 30am P
Leave Hickory j 4 34pm 8 10 am il
Leave Newton 5 14 p m 9 10 am ?
Leave Lincolnton I 6 00 pm 10 40 am
Leave Gastonia 6 57 pm 1 00 pm i
Leave Clover | 7 37pm 2 02pm i
Leave Yorkvllle I 8 06 pmj 3 10 pm 1
Leave Guthrlesvllle ... 8 29 pm 3 40 pm y
Leave McConnellsvllie 8 38 pm i 3 55 pm J
Leave Lowrysvllle 9 00pm 4 25 pm n
Arrive Chester I 9 32 pm 5 10 pm e
Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and ?
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. '!
60 and 61 carry passengers and also run Y
daily except Sunday. There is good con- 1
nection at Chester with the G. C. & N. Y
and the C. C. <fc A., also L & C. R. R.; at |!
Gastonia with the A. it C. A. L.; at Lin- '
colnton with C. C.: and at Hickory and
Newton with W. N. C. 1
Parties desiring tickets to all points
North, East, South and West, will find it ?
much to their advantage to call at or cor- J'
respond with the General Olfice of the 11
Carolina and North-Western Railway at J
Lenoir, N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt. f
S. T. PENDER, G. F. and P. A.,
Lenoir, N. C. t,
TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and t
Charleston Railway company, to take o
effect Monday, January 4th, at 8.00 a. m. *
STANDARD EASTERN TIME. o
QQINO SOUTH NO. 12. | ^
Leave Mar ion 130pnii
Leave Rutherfordton 3 05 pm;
Leave Forest City - 3 35 pmj
Leave Henrietta 4 OOpmi .
Leave Mooresboro 4 15 pm j *
Leave Shelby 5 30 pm g
Leave Patterson Springs.. 5 45pmj
Leave Earls 5 55 pm f
Arrive at Blacksburg 0 lOpml
" No. 32. | No. 34. "
[" Daily I Daily
Except I Except
, Sunday. Sunday.
Leave Blacksburg 8 30 am| 8 40 an
Leave Smyrna 8 50 am 9 05 am Leave
Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am
Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am Leave
Yorkvllle 9 35 ami 10 20am J
Leave Tirzah 9 47 am 10 45 am
Leave Newport 9 51 am 10 55 am
Leave Rock Hill 11 00 am 12 55 pm
Leave Leslies 11 13 am 1 15 pm
Leave Catawba Junction.. 11 30 am 1 50 pm
Leave Lancaster 12 05 pm 3 55 pm
Leave Kershaw 12 4-5 pnv 5 30 pm
Arrive at Camden 1 30 pm 6 50 pm
QOINQ NORTH. 1 No. 33. | No. 35.
i Daily ] Dallj
1 Except Except
I Sunday. Sunday.
Leave Camden 2 30 pm 8 30 an
Leave Kershaw 3 15 pm! 10 45am
Leave Lancaster 3 55 pm! 12 05 pm
Leave Catawba Junction 4 30 pm! 150 pm
Leave Leslies 4 38 pm, 2 00 pm
Leave Rock Hill 4 54 pm 4 00 pm
Leave Newport 5 09 pm! 4 20 pm
Leave Tirzah 5 15 pm 4 40 pm
Leave Yorkvllle 5 30 pm 5 40 pm
Leave Sharon 5 45 pm 6 05 pm
Leave Hickory Grove.... f> 00 pm 8 30 pm
Leave Smyrna - 6 10 pm 8 40 pm J
Arrive at Blacksbure 8 30 pm 7 10_pm ^
No. 11. | (
Leave Blacksburg 8 00 ami c
Leave Earls 8 20 am f
Leave Patterson Springs 8 30 am| (
Leave Shelby 9 10 am t
uca TC iUWlVOUVt >' #w M...I .
Leave Henrietta 10 00 am J
Leave Forest City 10 20 am
Leave Rutherford ton 10 .50 am j
Arrive at Marlon 12 20 pm
CONNECTIONS.
No. 32 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at
Catawba Junction.
Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek
and London, trains stop only on signal.
S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIPP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HUNT, General Manager.
WHEN YOU WANT ,
TO have your PHOTOGRAPH taken, ?
you should not fail to come and see t
tne. I have been in the "picture taking" t
business for a great many years, and am ]
confident that I know my business. It a
has always been my desire to please my c
customers. I am prepared to take Photo- }
graphs in the latest styles and at reason- a
able prices. o
HAVE Y0D ANY . J
Photographs that you would like to have ?
enlarged? If you have, come and see me 1
about it. I can do the work. v
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW c
I ?T>i -i.. 1. ~
vv nere my I'noiograpn uaucij 10, o.m
anyone in town and they can tell you.
DURING THE WINTER,
You will find my Gallery warm and
pleasant. Come and see me whenever
you need photographs. Respectfully,
J. R. SCHORB.
INCREASE ]
OP BUSINESS. |
ON ACCOUNT of considerable in- ^
crease in business, I have had to
look for larger quarters. My friends will
find me now on Jefferson street, back of
May A May's drugstore, where I am better
prepared TO DO YOUR WORK ON ^
ANYTHING IN THE WAY OK MACHINERY.
I also keep 011 hand PI- 1(
PING OF ALL SIZES, FITTINGS, t<
GLOBE VALVES, or anything you may 11
need for your Engine or Boiler. My
prices will be reasonable, and do not buy anything
in my line before seeing me.
Thanking you, one and all, for your
nast favors, I am very respectfully,
F. A. G OS MAN.
Highest cash prices paid for old Brass, Copper
and Lead. *
F1NLEY A BRICE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Yorkvllle. S. C. C
ALL business entrusted to us will be I
given prompt attention. F
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\ $1,000 WORD.
wo Papers at the Price of One and
a Chance at $1,000, Additional.
he Third Missing "Word Contest of
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution,
In Which $1,000 Will 43c Distributed
to Successful Contestants on
the 1st of May.
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution has
laugurated its third consecutive "missig
word" contest, which began on the
?t of March and close on the 1st of May?
ixty days.
It publishes the cashier's receipt for
lie special deposit account of $1,000 to bo
aid to the person, or persons, who, in
ubscribing to The Weekly Constitution,
anies correctly the missing word in the
illowing sentence:
"The Right of 4 ' is the very
ssence of the constitution."
The sentence is taken from a historical
ublication, and the sentiment to which
; gives expression is that of an eminent
/riter.
By special arrangement with The Weeks'
Constitution, that great paper and
'hk Enquirkr can be obtained for one
ear at almost the price of one paper.
?ot only that; but under our arrangenent
with The Weekly Constitution
very person who takes advantage of this
lubbing proposition, subscribing for
mtli papers, will be entitled to a guess at
lie missing word. All clubbing subscrip!
1 1,1 rp?? r.r.
lUiiss guwuiu uc ^cut tu inr< uiiv^uinAn
rith each subscriber's guess at the missrig
word plainly written. The guess and
he name and address of each subscriber
rill be forwarded by us to The Constiution.
The Constitution's first "missing word
ontest" closet! on the 1st of January, and
lut one person, Mr. M. L. Brittain, a
lardworking school teacher, guessed the
uissing word, receiving therefor a check .
or $1,000. Its second contest closed on
he 1st of March, and The Weekly Contitution
of Monday, March 8tb, will conain
the announcement of the awards in
rhich ?1,000 in cash is to be distributed
motig the successful guessers in that
ontest.
The readers of The Enquirer who
ubscribe jointly to it and to The Weekly
^institution have free access into the
hird contest, just opened ; and it may be
hat some of them will get the ?1,000 to be
listributed on the 1st of May.
The only condition of the contest is that
iveryguesser must be a subscriber ; and
aking advantage of The Constiution's
itler we present this opportunity to all who
vish to subscribe to both papers. Every
terson should have his county paper and
.no crpnt crpimriil nfi\v?nar>?r and Thfi
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if 156,000, occupies the unique distinction
if being the the greatest American weeky
newspaper.
THE ENQUIRER and The Con^titration
will be furnished one year
or $2.50. .
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And Delusion.
LF you have taken out a life insurance
policy in an Old Line high price "level
jremium" company with the idea that
?ou would at sometime in the future,
vhileyou yet drew the breath of life, rereive
substantial cash returns or "big
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?ou will be disappointed. Your policy
,vill prove a snare and a delusion. It is
ill right for protection for your wife and
rhildren, as they will receive the face of
lie policy in case 01 your aeatn, as tney
vould also in a company that charges
pou half as much. A life insurance poli:y
isa fraud as an investment for a living
nan, and is the greatest blessing of which
ve or anybody else has any knowledge
us a means of protecting the widow and
irphans, after the breadwinner has been
emoved by death.
It You Will Lay Aside
Your Prejudice
\.ND COME to us with a desire to
earn why it is not to your interest to
rarry high priced insurance, and how we
>an furnish you just as safe insurance
or at least 40 per cent, a year less than the
ither costs, we are sure we can showyou
o your satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION
of New York does business 011 a
ilan that is absolutely safe, and will proect
your loved ones even better than
hey now are, at even a greater cost to
0 you. Of course if you are too preju1
iced to investigate ana imagine that the
ligh price you are now paying makes
rour insurance better or safer, or better
ban it would be at less cost, we can't do
mytbing for you ; but will be forced to
et you go on until time, the crucial
ester, convinces you, against your will,
hat you have been deceived.
II You Have
No Insurance, 4
Vnd think you should have, we would be
ileased to explain the Mutual Reserve
iystcm to you. The Mutual Reserve is
he largest and strongest natural premiim
company in the world, and the fourth
argest of ANY KIND. It has paid
ibout 8550,000 to the widows and orphans
if deceased policy-holders in South Carina
alone, during the past twelve years,
aid if all the insurance now carried in
?ld line companies in the state was in the
ilutual Reserve, not less than 8400,000,
vhich now annually goes into the coffers
f the former, would be left in the state
o help relieve the hard times about which
re hear so much.
SAM M. ?fc L. GEO. GRIST,
ieneral Agents,. Yorkville, S. C.
UNDERTAKING.
r AM handling a first class line of COFL
FINS AND CASKETS which I will
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ttention at all hours.
I am preparea to repair all kinds of
furniture at reasonable prices.
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our at the lowest market price.
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