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fumiovou'j department. ROBBED HIM OF ALL. A deputy sheriff rode up to a cabin in East Tennessee, and calling an old fellow, who stood with a gun in his hand, said : "Dan, you'll have to stop you foolishness." "What sorter foolishness." "Why, every morning just as soon as you get out of bed you take up that old gun and begin to shoot at everything you see." "Wall, ain't that right?" "Right! Why, of course it ain't. Yesterday you shot Anderson's colt 5 -1-1- : ?- "A" Virnlfe lh(> hind ana mis uiuium^ jvu vlv?v leg of old Mrs. Tomlin's cow." "Now, look here," said Dan. "The folks in this here neighborhood have set their hearts on makin' a saint of somebody and have settled on me. Sometime ago a committee from(the church come and 'lowed that I was drinkin' too much whisky to suit the brethren. Wall, I 'lowed I'd quit, as I didn't want to cause no trouble, and I did quit although it was a powerful hard pull. About two weeks atterward here comes along a lot of women folks. I wondered what they could be atter, but I w'an't long in findin' out. They said that the sisters bad come to the conclusion that I was chawin' altogether too much tobacco; that I was settin' a bad example for the boys, and 'lowed, they did, that for the good of the community and the risin' generation in particular, 1 must quit. Wall, as I never did cure to bang out against the best interests of the community, I did quit. It then went along all right for a while, and I had becun to look on myself as a pretty ac commodatin' sort of feller, when, lo aDd behold, another flock of women called on me one day." " 'What in the world can you want now ?' I asked. "One of the women sorter simpered a little and fixed up her mouth in a shape that was good enough to bite, and then said: 'Mr. Dan, you have been mighty accommodating in the past and we do hope that you won't disapp'int us this time.' " 'Fire away,' said I. " 'Well,' she said, simperiu again, 'we have noticed that you fish on Sunday.' " 'That's a fact,' I answered, 'but Sunday is about the only time I have to fish, and, to tell you the truth, I am powerful in need of water vidults.' "She simpered agin?and blamed if I didn't come mighty nigh grabbin' her and kissin' her right thar, vidults or no vidults?simpered agin, and 'lowed that it was powerful bad to fish on Sunday. She said that I was ruining all the boys in the community and hinted that if I didn't quit, the work of the circuit rider would be all undone. Wall, you see I didn't want to be credited with no such wickedness as that, so when the little critter had simpered agin, I jest jumped up, popped my heels together about three times before I bit the ground, and told her that I'd be blamed it it shouldn't be as she said. "Now, Mr. Sheriff, it won't take much of a man to see how it left me situated. I was mighty fond of licker, but the licker was gone; I was awful fond of tobacker, but the tobacker was gone ; powerful hankerin' after water vidults, but as I could only fish on Sunday, and had promised not to do that, water vidu'ts was gone. There was only one enjoyment left." ' ? ?? . "Ana wnai enjuymeiJi >vno iuan "Snatchin' up my gun as soon as I got out of bed at mornin', and shootin' at everything I could see movin' about, and I do hope that the folks hain't taken it into their heads to rob me of my last and mcst innocent amusement. I am a poor man, Mr. Sheriff, and have had no great deal of fun, and I think the good people of this neighborhood should take some little pity on me." "I sympathize with you, Dan, hut you'll have to stop that shooting." "Wall," he said, scratching his ragged whiskers, "that leaves me out entirely. Mother, oh, mother (calling his wife), pack up the children and the other duds. We'll have to leave this community, and go where folks don't tread a po' man into the face of the yeth." The Chief Jvstice In a Fix.?An amusing anecdote is told of the celebrated Chief Justice John Marshall by his descendants, in illustration of the curious lack of piactical sense of that wonderfully profound legal luminary. Returning one afternoon from his farm near Richmond, Ya., to his home in that city, the hub of bis wheel caught on a small sapling growing by the roadside. After striving unsuccessfully for some moments to extricate the wheel, he heard the sound of an axe in the woods, and saw a Negro man approaching. Hailing him, he said, "If you will get that axe and cut down this tree, I'll give you a dollar." "I c'n git yer by 'thout no axe, el dat's all yer want." "Yes, that's all," Faid the judge. The man simply backed the horse until the wheel was clear of the sapling, then brought the vehicle safely around it. "V... J H ~T - 4l,of "1UU UU1I 1/ luai^c a uuuai iui uiav do you ?" asked the astonished chief justice. "No, massa ; but it's wuf a dollar to lam some folks sense." The quick-witted darkey got his dollar without further questioning. A Traveling Congregation.? Two Methodist ministers were beginning a revival in a neighborhood belonging to their circuit. During several evenings they were vexed by the ill manners of the audience, many of whom walked out in the midst of the services. Finally, one of the two brought the trouble to an end with the happy criticism : "We are traveling preachers, but that is no reason why we should have a traveling congregation." Wayside (gatherings. WaP" Ad inch of rain meaDS 100 tons of water on every acre. W3T People who borrow trouble are always giviDg it away. IW Texas is harvesting the largest grain crop in its history. tST People do not grow in grace by looking at the faults of others, nor a ton of oil has been obtained from the tongue of a single whale. fST If a maD waits too long for something to turn up, it will be bis toes. That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. t&F A pious mother told ber son to be careful not to lose bis religion m getting theology. ffiy Overripe fruit is more dangerous to the health of children than fruit which is too green. W3T Louisiana claims to have the largest farm in the world ; it is 100 miles long by 25 miles broad. W&T During the last 25 years the United States patent office has granted 711 patents to Thomas A. Edison. V&" Pumice-stone resembles sponge in numerous respects. Jt is almost the only example of rock that will float on water. I?" It is calculated that by the end of the year 2000 there will be 700,000,000 English speaking persons .on the globe. W&T Those Christians accomplish the most for their own denomination who never talk about the bad in other denominations. V3F According to the recent census, the population of Greece is 2,418,000, or an increase of 240,000 over the figures of 1889. IST Some one says the only way to receive help is to help others, and the only way to help others is to help them to help themselves. I&* A servant girl puzzled a Philadelphia druggist's clerk recently, for a moment, by asking for a dozen threegrain Queen Ann pills. W3T "There's one wise thing about having only one leg," said the veteran. "A pair of socks lasts twice as long as they would otherwise." (6T Breathing through the nose is the only proper way to sleep. If you wake in the night and find your mouth open, get up and shut it. S6T The amount of iron in the human blood is about an ounce to 100 pounds, or a little over a quarter of an ounce to the individual. W3T Green Fluke, one of the three colored men who were in the band of pioneer Moimons who founded Salt Lake City, is still alive in Idaho. I?* The legislature of Massachusetts has appropriated eight hundred ttirvncariH rtnllnrs in hp uspd in road building in various parts of the state. t@P Experiments have proved that when fish get below a certain depth in the sea, they die from the pressure of water, which they are unable to support. W3F A tree grows in perfect balance on every side. When a large branch shoots out on ~ne side, one of equal size or two smaller appear on the other side. What is more deserving of our sympathy than a young man with fifteen cents in his pocket, a girl on each arm and seven ice cream signs in sight ? 1ST Yes, my dear boy, there are more than seventy million people in this country, and you are only one of them?just one ! Think of that once in a while. Medicus?The physicians of the present day have given up entirely the old system of bleeding their patients. Practicus?Have they ? Just look at last year's bill. W8T The southern states produce more than three-fourths of the cotton required to keep at work the 85,000,000 spindles 5d existence in Europe and the United States. W3P "Uncle James, what is a pessimist ?" "Oh, he's any sort of an old thing that won't enjoy his ice cream today because he is afraid he won't have any tomorrow."?Puck. W&T A British scientist recently stated that if a man weighing 140 pounds were placed under a hydraulic press and squeezed flat, the result would be 105 pounds of water and 35 pounds of residue. S6T Minneapolis is said to have nine ty thousand non-churcb-going people. Of the sixty-six thousand who attend, forty thousand are Kcman Catholics, and ten thousand are Lutherans, mostby Scandinavians. VST A few years ago, 4,500,000 bronze two-cent pieces were afloat. Three million of these are still outstanding. Three million three-cent pieces are scattered over the United States, but it is very rarely that one is seen. P&T The number of languages spoken by mankind at present is estimated at 3,000. The Bible has been translated into 200 only, but these 200 are spoken by about two-thirds of the whole population of the globe. 1ST To guard against poisoning, a law has been passed in Germany that all drugs intended for internal use must be put in round bottles, and those which are only used externally must be placed in hexagonal bottles. ( W3T Doctor (to patient)?I do not wish to frighten you, but if you have , no objections I'd like to call in a cou pie of my brother physicians. Irascible Patient?All right! If you need any assistance in murdering me, call in your accomplices. IST Abraham Lincoln once received a letter asking for a "sentiment" and his autograph. He replied: "Dear Madam :?When you ask from a I stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp; i there's your sentiment, and here's your autograph. A. Lincoln." ( ?hc cftotjj ?cUcr. texasYtories. A Watermelon Dinner-An Episode of Semi-Starvation. "No," said the cowboy, with a smile, as he pushed away the plate hnlHincr a spirment of dewv. ninkv W ~~0 ? - ' i * fruit, "I don't eat watermelon, and I'll tell you why. "I was quite a youngster when I got the ranch fever and started out with a cousin of about my own age for a big cattle ranch in Texas, in which his father was financially interested. It was our first trip of the kind, and we were both young and pretty green?typical tenderfeet, in fact. "The ranch was ninety-five long, weary miles from the Dearest town and railroad, and you can fancy our feelings when, after riding over this distance on two of the most angular little Texas bronchos ever given to equestrian novices, we arrived at our destination, to find no one at home but the caretaker and a couple of men, all the rest having gone off on a loug roundup. It was early autumn and fine weather, but the place looked dismal enough, not a suggestion of civilized comfort. The caretaker advised us to remain ; said we might be sent for any moment to join the outfit, as there was a short count of men just then, but told us frankly we would have to rough it, as provisions were pretty low. "It wasn't precisely what we had anticipated when we made our giltedged plans at home, but we couldn't turn back at once, and, to tell the honest truth, we didn't want to strike that return trail to the railroad until our bruises had healed up a little. We did rough it, for sure. Our diet was principally bean3 %nd tallow, not appetizing, although we were hungry enough at mealtimes to eat shoe leather. We generally practiced ridiDg and roping all day under the tuition of the caretaker, in order to fill the bill if sent for suddenly to join the outfit; and we took a general lesson in caring for the stock and working rrmnil l.he nlace. -- I "After about three weeks of it, my cousin gave out; said his stomach wouldn't stand any more beans, and be was going to start for civilization ; he had bad enough of rancbiug to last him a lifetime. So he left in disgust, but I stayed on. I bad come to stay. I expected to rough it a good deal, and although I didn't altogether enjoy it, I wanted to see the thing through. "A week later word was received at the ranch that one of the boys had beeu hurt, and as I was the most available of the home force, I was notified to start off and take his place. Perhaps you can imagine my importance. I fairly bristled with youthful pride. ; The outfit was about 150 miles to the south of us, and on my way there I was obliged to pass through the little town where my cousin and I left the railroad on arriving in Texas. It oc- < curred to me that under the circumstances of the past month, and presumably of some future months, a good, square meal would gild the ] present moment, and possibly lend a halo to both past and future ; so I i proceeded to look up the best restaurant in town?sort of feeding trough in the slough of civilization, it proved, with the queerest old duffer standing in the doorway. "He was using a toothpick upon the one tooth that graced his jaws, had jeans trousers stuffed into cowhide boots, and a dirty sombrero on the back of his grizzled old head ; but bis responses to my plea for dinner gave him for the moment an importance and attractive personality not possessed by the governor of the state. " 'Have you any nice beefsteaks ?' I asked. " 'You bet.' " 'Can you broil me a good big one ?' " 'You bet.' " 'Can you fry me some nice pota toes, crisp r " 'You bet.' "'And coffee?'?but I didn't wait for another 'You bet.' I gave the order and sat down in the bar, my mouth fairly watering in anticipation of a real dinner once more. After a month of beans and tallow, you can fancy what visions of juicy steak and nicely browned potatoes flitted through my brain. I could just catch the fumes of the onion and pork frying deliciously, and fancied I could hear the little sizzle as the potato slices were dropped in. "I was so intent upon the thought of my coming feast that I never noticed a great hulking fellow who walked into the bar, and, ordering a large watermelon, cut it open and began to eat. Presently I heard him say, in very mild tones?I should have taken warning from that very mildness, but 1 I hadn't sense enough?'Have some i melon, sonny ?' " 'No, thanks,' said I, carelessly. "'Oh, do; it's fine.' " 'Thanks, but I've ordered grub.' "'Really, yer better try just a little ;' this rather insinuatingly. < "If I had not been so infernally green I might have taken warning. As it was, what with my swelled head at the prospect of becoming a fullfledged cowboy and those dinner air castles, I lost my temper. " 'Ive already told you my grub is ordered. I don't want your melon.' ! "'Waal, now, I reckon ye'll change < yer mind, sonny, now, won't cher?' j and the first thing I knew I was looking down the mouth of his gun, point- < ed right at my nose and not a foot i away. Talk of cannons ! Why, that revolver barrel looked big enough for | me to crawl into. I think I must I have turned green instead of white. i " 'I reckon yer changed yer mind i now, hain't yer, sonny?' i "If ever any one felt like murder, I 1 did that moment. But I tell you I was f scared. I begged. I pleaded with tb< old ruffian. I told him I had beei filling up on beans and tallow for i month, and just had the chance o one decent meal. I urged him to joii me, bribed him with drinks; it was n< use. 'Jest a leetle bit, sonny ; jest i leetle bit more,' be drawled, when finally concluded it best to sail in and 'jest a leetle more' it was until ! had finished every morsel of tha wretched melon, while he?blamed ol( beggar !?held his gun at my head. "Talk about records! I must hoh the championship easily. When found I had to eat, I went at itdoubh quick. I didn't like the look in thi old sinner's eye. I didn't know wha other scheme might be working in hit fertile brain. And of course when mi steak and potatoes arrived', there ! sat, so full of watermelon I couldn' eat a "mouthful more. You can scarce ly blame me for never having toucbe( watermelon since. "About three years after the water melon episode I was still a cowboy and with the same outfit?but n< longer a tenderfoot. I could ride rope and shoot with any one, and wai earning my thirty-five dollars a month with grub, right along; in fact, bj reason of my relationship to one o the ranch owners I was never laid off even in the dull season. In all thii time I bad never gone borne, althougl my people were constantly begging foi a visit. I liked the life, the constan change and adventure; but one daj I concluded I was tired of punching cows, and told the 'boss' I was goinj to take a vacation and go and see mj family. "We were driving a big bunch o cattle to the railroad, and the bos: asked me to take charge of them t< Kansas City, where he promised t< meet me at the company's office anc settle up as to my back pay. Thi: meant a good deal to me, as I had le my wages remain with the firm foi nearly two years, and had quite a po of money coming to me. At the sta tion I got my cattle aboard, and wi started. It was beastly weather; n< rain for weeks; dust simply awful water, too, mighty scarce, and wha there was bad to go principally to th< cattle. "I was walking over the tops of th< cattle cars the first night, when I hap pened to look down, and there, al crouched on the little platform betweet the cars, was a tramp, his teeth chat tering so you could hear it. It wai fall weather, and the nights were bit '" I" nnlil nlthniiffh t.hf> flavfi wpr< mild and pleasant. His rags wen scanty, and, indeed, he shivered so ] wondered how he could bold on. ] called down and found that be hac beaten his way from San Francisco and was going?well, anywhere when meals and night's lodgings abound. "He was one of your down-in-the mouth tramps, the pitiful sort, like c homeless dog, so down you couldn'i give him an extra kick ; so I haulec him up, told bim I had the right to t helper on my trip, but had neglected to bring one, and if he liked to take the job, I would square it with the conductor. Jake, for that was hi< name, ugreed, and for u makeshift bu man being, mostly bones and very lit tie in the way of flesh and muscle t( get about with, he did contrive to b< very useful. He seemed to regard m< as a sort of New Jerusalem shed dowr and round about bim, and fairly crawl ed in the dust at my feet?there was enough of it to have covered him en tirely, anyway. All the money I hac about me was a five-dollar bill, out o which I squeezed food and extras foi us both until we reached Kansas City "There I placed my bunch of catth safely in the stockyard, and then, tell ing Jake to stick to me, for I was go ing to get my stake, I started to lool up the boss, who was to meet me a the office of the people to whom w< had consigned the cattle. It occurrec to me as Jake and I bustled tbrougl the streets that there was very little to choose between us in the matter o personal appearance. My breeche; were almost in ribbons from the kneei down, one of my coat sleeves had beei nearly pulled off in a friendly scuffle my flannel shirt was vilely dirty, s< was my sombrero ; my hair was lonj and unkempt, and I had several days growth of stubble on my chin. Still I had so long been accustomed t< rv?A*\ no mnn o rv r 1 not nf h oi L II I II IV U1 11JC1I C4 0 UJV.U ?tiU (IVV Vt ttiVK clothes, that I sailed right into the of fice, bold as brass, and, finding tlx boss hadn't arrived, asked for a smal advance, sixty cents being exactly the sum I had left in my apology for i pocket. You can picture my state o mind when this modest request wa: curtly refused. "But what am I to do ?" I inquired . " 'Wait for Mr. was the blanc reply. " 'And starve in the meantime?' ] was mad clean through. 'See here my father is Judge . Can't yoi lend me enough to telegraph home! Or you telegraph yourself, collect, anc see that it's square.' " 'My good man'?I shall know bet ter than to ever use that exasperating phrase to a desperate human being? 'we couldn't do it. Your story maj be true, but we hear it in kind everj day. Your appearance certainly does not bear out what you say.' "There was nothing for it but to re join Jake, loitering outside. I told ? i r _ 3 ? Dim tne noie i was ia, auu reanj n was a comfort to find him so sympa thetic. He suggested our trying tc telegraph ourselves, but it was the same old story. We were simply toe disreputable, Jake and I, for beliel from anybody. "We wandered round the town all day, dropping in at the office now and then to find?no boss. Toward night we struck a 15 cents eating house and got a meal apiece, and a little later we found a sleeping place for 15 cents apiece. It was a sort of roller-skating rink by day, and at night was fitted up with wooden bunks. The park benches would have been bitterly cold, 30 we were mighty glad of even this: e but it exhausted the whole of our re- i 3 maining capital, and we rose to a I i breakfastless morning and a drizzling f rain, too. 3 "Of course, I made straight for the 3 office. No boss. No yielding on the i part of the firm. When I came out, I probably with murder in my eye, Jake ; fished out 80 cents and told me to 1 I come along to breakfast. I never have , t known where he got that money, 1 whether he begged it or stole it, or bad it in reserve as a little private 1 fund for himself; but I did feel touched j [ at the way he stuck to me. We visit- ] 2 ed our hash house again, slept in our b wooden bunks again that night, but t the following morning our last cent ] 9 went for a mite of breakfast, and I f was about crazy. L "1 lainy nauniea me omce, ana naa t just about made up my mind to way lay somebody in the street when the 3 boss arrived. He thought it a good ; joke. I didn't. I gave him a piece of i - my mind, and also held forth to those , office duffers. J ) "My back pay amounted to about , $700, and when I came out with it in j 9 a little canvas bag Jake asked, as a , matter of course, 'What luck?' j "I told him to come along, and we f made straight for the best outfitting ', establishment in town, where I fitted 9 the two of us out with everything man i could want. Then I took Jake to a r barber's, where we both had a bath t and a shave and a general trimming T up. I " 'And now, Jake,' I said to my as5 tonished compauion,' 'we're going to 1 the swellest hotel in town to get the ; finest dinner we can order.' I ordered ; f a meal which might have pleased the 9 immortal Sidney Smith himself?wine, ; j everything tip-top. How I did enjoy : ) that dinner! And too see Jake look- ; 1 ing around with bis eyes like saucers, 9 and shoveling away his food with his t knife like a good fellow, would have r warmed your heart. t "We parted that night when I took - the train east; but Jake had already, : 2 on the strength of his store clothes. ) obtained a job as a gripman on the ; cable cars, and as I left him a $10 bill t for immediate necessities, I hope he 2 got along all right. At all events, I never can turn the cold Bboulder to a 2 tramp. It might prove to be another - Jake." !| 1 I RpR | | g *AKlN0 POWDER > Absolutely Pure i ! ?' ; When You Want 3 Nice Clean Job Printing ! You should always go to The ] Enquirer office where such j printing is done. Excursion j Bills, Programmes, Dodgers, Cirf culars, Pamphlets, Law Briefs, r Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill Heads, Envelopes, and Cards of [ all kinds printed on short notice [ and at very reasonable and legit1 imate prices. i 8 A Snare s And Delusion. 8 T F you have taken out a life insurance i JL policy in an Old Line high price "level premium" company with the idea that ' you would at sometime in the future, while you yet drew the breath of life, reI ceive substantial cash returns or "big ' dividends," we are here to tell you that yon will be disappointed. Your policy ' will prove a snare and a delusion. It is 3 all right for protection for your wife and I r children, as they will receive the face of : the policy in case of your death, as they a would also in a company that charges ; ' you half as much. A life insurance poli- , 1 cy is a fraud as an investment for a living ; ? man, and is the greatest blessing of which ( i we or anybody else has any knowledge | f as a means of protecting the widow and i 1 orphans, after the breadwinner has been 3 removed by death. If You Will Lay Aside j Your Prejudice ! AND COME to us with a desire to r learn why it is not to your interest to carry high priced insurance, and how we ) can furnish you just as safe insurance i l for at least 40 per cent, a year less than the ? other costs, we are sure we can show you \ to votir satisfaction that the MUTUAL 1 RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIA- , TION of New York does business on a - plan that is absolutely safe, and will pro, tect your loyed ones even better than . ' they now are, at even a greater cost to " to you. Of course if you are too preju' diced to investigate and imagine that the j high price you are now paying makes your insurance better or safer, or better than it would be at less cost, we can't do anything for you ; but will be forced to let you go on until time, the crucial I tester, convinces you, against your will, , that you have been deceived. If You Have ] No Insurance, 3 > And think you should have, we would be - t/\ ovnloin tbo Hfllt lin) T? oaorvo rn r pitnntu ia/ VA|/iam vuv *?%* * ?*vs>v> ?*y System to you. The Mutual Reserve is the largest and strongest natural premiI urn company in the world, and the fourth | largest of ANY KIND. It has paid . about $550,000 to the widows and orphans -i ' of deceased policy-holders in South Car- J 1 lina alone, during the past twelve years, ? and if all the insurance now carried in . old line companies in the state was in the Mutual Reserve, not less than $400,000, i '< which now annually goes into the coffers ( i of the former, would be left in the state 1 ; to help relieve the hard times about which 1 we hear so much. 1 ' SAM M. & L. GEO. GRIST, 1 i General Agents, Yorkville, S. C. i QHI111VER AS! CH&1LEST1N 1.1. TIME TABLE oftheOhio River and Charleston Railway company, to takeBtfect Monday, May 5th, at 7.30 a. m. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. GOING SOUTH No. 12. | Leave Marlon 4 45 pm Leave Rutherfordton ? 20 pm Leave Forest City - 6 50 pm Leave Henrietta 7 10pm Leave Mooresboro 7 25 pm Leave 8helby 8 25 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 8 40 pm Leave Earls _ 8 48 pm Arrive at Blacksburg OOOpml No. 32. | No. 34." I Dally I Dally j Except Except I Sunday, i Sunday. Leave Shelby 7 30 am Leave Patterson's Springs. 7 42 am lieave Earle's 7 48 am Leave Blacksburg 8 30 am 8 40 am 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 am 10 20 amLeave Tlrzah 9 47 am 10 45 am Leave Newport 9 51am 10 55 am Leave Rock Hill 10 20 am 12 55 pm Leave Leslies 10 85 am 1 15 pm Leave Catawba Junction- 10 40 am 1 50 pm Leave Lancaster 11 22 am 3 65 pm Leave Kershaw - 12 05 pm 5 30 pm Arrive at Camden.... J 00 pm. 6 50 pm QOiNd~yoRTH. I' NOT33.~| NO. 85. I Dally I Daily Except ' Except I Sunday.! Sunday.. Leave Camden 2 00 pm 9 00 am Leave Kershaw 2 45 pm 11 10 am Leave Lancaster 3 25 pm 12 40 pm Leave Catawba Junction 4 00 pm 2 00 pm Leave Leslies 4 10 pm 2 10 pm Leave Rock Hill 4 30 pm 4 40 pm Leave Newport 4 45 pm 5 00 pm Leave Tlrzah 4 50 pm 5 20 pm Leave Yorkvllle 5 06 pm; 6 00 pm Leave Sharon 5 20 pm 6 20 pm Leave Hickory Grove.... 5 40 pm| 6 40pm Leave Hmyrna 5 50 pm 6 55 pm Leave Blacksburg 6 20 pm 7 30 pm Leave Earle's 1 6 85 pm Leave Patterson's Spring. 6 40 pml Arrive at Shelby 6 50 pm No. 11. | Leave Blacksburg 8 10 ami r^ave Earls 8 SO ami Leave Patterson Springs 8 40 ami * Leave Shelby 9 10 am Leave Mooresboro 9 50 am I Leave Henrietta 10 00 am : Leave Forest City 10 20 am' Leave Rutherfordton 10 50 am 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. TRTPP. Snnfirintendfint. SAM'L HUNT. General Manager. Mm t mmimmlf. G. W. F. HARPER, President. Schedules in Effect from and After February 7,1896. CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. GOING NORTH. [ No 10. [ No 60. Lea% e Chester 6 10am 8 80am Leave Lowrysvllle 6 36am, 9 05am Leave McConnellsville 8 51 am ; 0 39am Leave Guthrlesvllle .... 7 02am 9 56am Leave Yorkvllle 722am 10 50am Leave Clover 7 52 a m 11 33 am Leave Gastonla 8 27am 150pm Leave Llncolnton 8 45 a m 3 16 pm Leave Newton 10 23am 4 45 pm Leave Hickory 11 10 am 6 15 pm ; Arrive Lenoir... 12 17 pm 8 00 pm GOING BOOTH. I No. 9. | No 61. Leave Lenoir 3 30pm 6 30am Leave Hickory 4 34pm 8 10 am Leave Newton 5 14 p m 9 10 am Leave Llncolnton 6 00 p m 10 40 am Leave Gastonla 6 57 pm 1 00 pm Leave Clover 7 37 pm i 2 02 pm Leave Yorkvllle ] 8 06pm 3 10 pm Leave Guthrlesvllle ... 829pm 340pm Leave McConnellsville 838pm 8 55pm Leave Lowrysvllle } 9 00pm 4 25 pm Arrive Chester i 9 32 p m 5 10 p m Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 50 and 61 carry passengers and also run daily except Sunday. There is good con- . nection at Chester with the G. C. A N. 1 and the C. C. A A., also LAC. R. R.; at Gaston ia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Lincolnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. Parties desiring tickets to all points ^ North, East, South and West, will find it . j much to their advantage to call at or correspond with the General Office of the Carolina and North-Western Railway at Lenoir, N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt. . ? WHEN YOU WANT ? TO have your PHOTOGRAPH taken, you should not fail to come and see mo T Vtni'n Koan ir? tho ''ninfurti fohinff" 111 G* A uat C UVVII III bUO |/IVbUI V M?niu^ business for a great many years, and am confident that I know my business. It has always been my desire to please my customers. I am prepared to take Photo- ' graphs in the latest styles and at reasonable prices. HAVE YOU ANY Photographs that you would like to have enlarged ? If you have, come and see me about it. I can do the work. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ?. Where my Photograph Gallery is, ask anyone in town and they can tell you+ DURING THE WINTER, You will find my Gallery warm and pleasant. Come and see me whenever pou need photographs. Respectfully, J. R. SCHORB. UNDERTAKING. [AM handling a first class line of COFFINS AND CASKETS which I will sell at the very lowest prices. Personal ittention at all hours. I am prepared to repair all kinds of Furniture at reasonable prices. J. ED JEFFERYS. Ihr *|orJuiUe (fnquim. 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