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tumorous department.
HE DECLINED TO DIE.
This is a great place to hear the veterans
of the war recount their experiences,
says a Washington correspondent
of the Northfield, Minn., News.
I was present the othe day when Captain
W. H. H. Wasson and Captain
Wise met. Captain W?sson is one of
the few men who enlisted when the
first gun was fired, and stayed until it
was over, and he was mustered out in
1865. Although he carries the scars
of wounds made by several rebel bullets,
be is today one of the most active
veterans I ever met. Captain Wise is
of the Confederate army.
After spirited relating what great
satisfaction each had experienced in
chasing one another's commands over
various battlefields, Captain Wise was
reminded of an incident which he witnPQQprt
in a Confederate hospital. A
Yankee bad been brought in whose
leg was shattered by a ball. The surgeons
were about to amputate bis leg,
but paused to listen to bis story. He
had been a preacher; but when be
enlisted be did not feel that he would
be doing bis duty if he went out as a
chaplain, so he served us a private,
and was now fearfully wounded. He
closed his story to the surgeons by
saying :
"If I could only know that the Stars
and Stripes were waving over me, I
could die happy."
A Confederate soldier was standing
near, and bad listened to the talk of
the Yankee, and he reached over and
took a Federal flag and waved it over
the wounded man, and said, "Now
die, d? you, die; why don't you die?"
The man declined to die, and is alive
today. The flag which was waved
over him is now a prized relic carefully
guarded in a glass case, which
stands in the capitol of a northern
state.
His Longest Day.?A serious mannered
Irish member named Blake, relates
Henry W. Lucy in The North
American Review, is remembered for
a brief correspondence he read to the
delighted bouse. It was introduced
in a speech delivered in debate on the
Irish Sunday-closing bill. Mr. Blake '
had, he confidentially informed the
house, an uncle who regularly took 1
six tumblers of whisky toddy daily. 1
This troubled him, and after much
thought he resolved to write and re- '
moDstrate with his relative. The fol- 1
lowing was the letter; "My Dear 1
Uncle:?I write to say how pleased I 1
should be if you could jee your way 1
to giving up your six glasses of whis- J
ky a day. I am sure you would find ;
many advantages in doiDg so, the
greatest of which would be that, as I
am persuaded, it would be the means '
of lengthening your days." The un- '
cle replied: "My Dear Nephew :?I am !
obliged to you for your dutiful letter. 1
I was so much struck by what you
said, and, in particular, by your kind
wish to lengthen my days, that last '
Friday I gave up the whisky. I believe
you are right, my boy, as to my days
being lengthened, for, bedad! it was
the longest day I ever remember."
His Sign Manual Known.?Mr. S.,
the theatrical manager, though in other
respects a thorough business man,
could neither read nor write, but kept
a private secretary, who had strict injunctions
not to betray the secret.
One day the manager was dining at
the hotel when a gold watch was raffled
for. Each of the guests staked two
shillings, wrote his name on a scrap of 1
paper, and threw it into a hat.
Our manager was dreadfully per- <
plexed when bis turn came to sign bis
oame.
However, in order not to expose I
himself, he pretended to write, rolled 1
up the blank piece of paper, and threw 1
it into the hat along with the rest. As 1
chance would have it, this very paper 1
was drawn.
Great was the astonishment when it
was fouud to be Mank. But B., the
low comedian, who was present, asked
to have it shown to him, and when he
had examined it carefully, he gravely
exclaimed :
"That is our manager's handwriting.
I should know it among a thousand !"
t8P A Kansas farmer, who simply
could uot get harvest hands, put this
sign upou his fence, says the Kausas
City Journal: "Harvest hauds wauted.
WirpH air) hlnnde and eenial. Cabinet
organ music in the evening. Pie three
times a day. Three spoons of sugar
with every cup of coffee. Hammocks,
feather beds, or leather divans at your
option for sleeping. Rising hour nine
o'clock in the morning. Three hours'
at noou. Come one, come all."
t | \
t8F They were out driving, and had
come upon a fine stretch of shady
couutry road. "Do you believe in palmistry,"
he asked?"the reading of
one's fortune by the lines in one's
hand ?" "I believe," she said, "that
if I could see 'he lines in one of your
hands, I could foretell that we would
have a very pleasant drive." He im
mediately caugnt on, ana graspea me
reins with one band ard the situation
with the other.
tlSF A parish beadle was lately much
exercised at the appearance of a
strange old gentleman who, when the
sermon was about to begin, took an
ear trumpet, iu two parts, out of his
pocket, and begau screwing them together.
The beadle watched him until
the. process was completed, and
then, going stealthily up, whispered,
"Ye mauna play that here ! If ye dae,
I'll turn ye oot!"
JST" "I have just had a note from
Willie's teacher," said Mrs. Parvenue ;
"and she says that he is very deficient
in spelling." "What in thunder is he
studying spelling for?" demanded Mr.
Parvenue, angrily. "Does his teacher
mean to insinuate that he won't be
rich enough to hire a typewriter ?"
piSccUaitfous Reading.
A PIONEER DRUG STORE. '
We bad four or five saloons and one
grocery at Cedar Hill when the outfit
of a man named Dayton arrived. He
bad seven pack mules loaded with
goods, and after a day or two be unpacked
and set up for his business,
and hung out a sign reading, "Dry
Goods, Clothing, Hardware, Groceries,
Boots and Shoes, and Tinware; also
Drug Store." The shanty which he
occupied for a store was about 14 feet
J -s. U?/l /vt?AM?f#kinnr nonlrorl
square, auu uc uau ovoijvuiug ^uvaw.
in a heap.
The drug store was an innovation. It
was not onlytbe first to be established
at Cedar Hill; biit the only one for 200
miles around, and we were inclined to
look upon the druggist with awe and
respect, states a writer in The AmeriDruggist.
We were a very healthy
lot up there, and, aside from accident,
no man bad lost a day for six months.
No sooner was that drug store opened
for business, however, than most of us
felt a yearning. Hiram Davis hit the
nail on the head when he said to the
crowd :
' "Boys, that drug store reminds me
of home and of the old woman and
children. Jest think of pills and salts
and calomel and quiuine! Civilization
has come knockin' at our doors,
and it's our solemn dooty to feel bad
and buy sunthin'."
Plenty of us began to "feel bad,"
but when we came to buying something,
we found that the druggist was
doing business on a line of his own.
When Abe Smallman dropped in to
eet a dose of calomel for his liver,
which was doing business seven days
in the week, and in need of no encouragement
of any sbrt, Mr. Dayton said
to him:
"I bought this drug store outfit of a
tenderfoot down at Grass Valley. He
was sick and discouraged, and wanted
to go back home. I don't know much
about the business myself. I'll bunt
up the calomel and sell it to you, but
I won't be responsible for the results."
"What d'ye mean by results?"
queried Abe.
"Wall, I've got calomel, arsenic,
salts, and a lot of other things, all
mixed up here, and I'm not going to
guarantee anything. Mebbe it'll be
calomel and mebbe not."
We all shied off for a day or two at
that, but when we came to uiiuk it
over we rather liked the uncertainty,
and the druggist was kept busy with
our purchases. Some of his liquids
and powders were in bottles and papers,
duly labeled, and some of the
_?.J ???? !? nn-nolo mitlinnt a la.
pUWUCl 3 WC1C 1U ^/aiwvio t? ituvuv m
bel on them. If anybody asked for
Epsom salts, for instance, the druggist
would fish around under the heap
of boots aDd shoes and clothing till be
got hold of a box or parcel, and bringing
it out, he would say :
'All I know about this stuff is that
it ain't copperas. I took a parcel of
copperas on a debt once, and so I
know the stuff when I see it. If you
want to run chance9, you can take it
along.
Most everybody was willing to run
chances, and for two weeks all went
well. If nobody was made any better,
nobody was made any worse, and
the druggist did a rushing trade. Then
came an afternoon on which old Joe
Crosby laid down his working tools,
and announced that he was "off bis
feed," and bad got to have something
to ward off a billious attack.
"I can't say what's good for it,"
said the druggist; "but I'll fish up a
lot of packages, and you can take
your choice."
He laid out ten parcels on the counter,
and old Joe wet the tip of his finger,
and tasted the contents of each in
succession. He finally found one to
3uit his palate, at least, and he bought
a dollar's worth, and went off to his
shanty to dose. Half an hour later
he was taken with violent cramps, and
iDside of two hours he was dead. A
move was made on the druggist, but
the smiling and urbane Mr. Dayton
replied:
"Gentlemen, it might have been
powdered borax, or it might have been
arsenic. I can't tell the difference between
the two, and I have been free
to say so. I gave him good weight,
and ne iook nis cnances.
Our purchases were light for the
next week, but in time we got over the
scare, and went to buying again. A
fortnight after the death of Crosby, a
man named Healy was made terribly
sick for two or three days by a dose of
some uuknowu stuff, and the next day
Sile Warner entered the drug store to
say
"I ain't feelin' jest as I orter, and I
want suntbin' to brace me up. Kin
ye recommend a bracer?"
"I never recommend," was the reply.
"Here's the bottles, and here's
the packages. They may brace, or
they may lay you out."
"Wall, this is a world of chance,"
continued Sile, as he pawed the stuff
over, "and I'll take a dollar's wuth of
this stuff over, "and I'll take a dollur'e
unith nf this stuff in the bottle.
It'll wet the throat when it goes down,
anyway."
The stuff was probably laudanum,
for Sile never woke up from that night's
sleep. His chum went over to give
the druggist fits about the matter, but
Mr. Dayton headed him off with :
"Dead, eh ? Sorry to hear it, but
he took his chances. I will now lable
that bottle 'Poison,' and should any of
you wish to commit suicide, you will
know what to ask for."
We tried to brace up after the second
calamity, and were gradually getting
our confidence back, when a man
named Grimshaw got something for
chills. The druggist wouldn't recommend
it, as usual, but it had been
marked by the tenderfoot as "Good
for chills." It proved to be. One dose
removed Mr. Grimshaw from this chilly
world, and over his grave we held
a public meeting, and :
"Whereas, It bein' only a question
of time when our drug store will kill
off every man in Cedar Hill; and,
"Whereas, We owe a dooty to ourselves
and them as has gone; now,
tharfore, . .
"Resolved, That one or the tother
of us has got to git."
The "tother" was the drug store.
After a general consultation, we made
up a shake purse of $50 to buy all the
drugs left on hand, and after everybody
had given himself one last dose
of whatever he fancied, the remainder
was thrown into a ravine, and Mr.
Dayton turned his attentiou entirely
to other lines.
DON'T WEAR BLACK.
A New York physician said recently
?/\ o notlont nf his a ladv of wealth.
that he would refuse to treat her further
if Bhe did not give up weariug
black. It was not, however, until a
discussion ensued that he found out
how much he was asking; not only
were her gowns black, but her underwear
throughout was of the same
color. The doctor then remarked that
he had considered the alternative he
offered her, to abandon black gowns
or find another physician, an extreme
measure, and only justified because of
her peculiarly nervous and neurotic
state ; but when it came to discovering
that she had n'otbing but black clothes
upon her person, he would refuse to
treat anybody so dressed. The "peculiarly
nervous and neurotic state" he
considered largely explained by this
dress alone.
He succeeded in effecting a change
in this patient's attire throughout, insisting
on white, all white underclothes,
and as much use of white in the outer
garments as was practicable. There
are hundreds of women similarly ill
and dressed as she once was, who have
no idea that anything but a question
of taste is involved in the color of
their garments. They would not expect
a plant covered up from the sun
by repeated layers of black cloth to
flourish, but they do not know that
light and sunshine are necessary to
their bodies. They think if they see
it, if their eyes are blessed thereby,
and thus their minds cheered, that
light has performed its good work upon
them.. The whole body needs light,
and sunshine is well recognized as having
the most valuable healing properties
; upon the nervous system it acts
with especial force, and sleeplessness,
nervous headaches and irritability can
often all be cured by sun baths alone.
Sam Jones's Hit.?Some years ago
Sam Jones preached at a campmeeting
in Texas. The grounds were located
near a little town where there
were ten saloons to every church spire
and schoolhouse. In his sermon the
first night he told his audience that
he was going to preach to men only
every morning at 5 o'clock, and that
unless he had good audiences at every
sermon he would pack his trunk and
go home. For seven mornings the
horn sounded at five, and, strange to
say, nearly every seat in the big tent
was occupied. In his farewell sermon
he said:
"I suppose that I should make some
sort of an explanation as to why I
have called you men out here every
morning before daylight. Well, I'll
tell you. If I gave you until nine or
ten o'clock every day, you would be
so full of Texas beef and whisky that
it would take somebody bigger'n Sam
Jones to get next to you. I have
tackled you on empty stomachs when
you were weak, and as two hundred
of you have joined the the church, I
think my system has worked pretty
well."
The Oldest City In the World.?
i?nr iwm; in t.hft Chaldean Dlain there
is a round hill, called "The Son of the
Prince," by the Arabs, which has just
been excavated by Professor Hilprecht,
the eminent American arcbteologist,
who has found it to contain the ruins
of a city going back to the year six
thousand B. C., or thereabout. It is
consequently the oldest city whose
remains have yet been disco\ered,
and it proves that men were civilized
at that remote epoch. The city
of Nipur, as it was called, is mentioned*
in the Chaldean records, but the
excavations show that it bad a much
more ancient origin than was thought.
It is built of bricks, some of which are
8 feet thick, and each carries the imprint
of the maker's finger as a kind of
trade mark, which would please Mr.
Francis Galton, since the ridge and
furrow pattern of the skin is peculiar
to each individual, and does not alter
throughout life. If men lived in cities
of this advanced order, with great
temple and palaces, 8,000, years ago,
the human race must be a great deal
older than we had imagined from what
we knew of history.
Largest Regimental Loss.?The
inrorpQt rporimftntal loss on either side
???
during the late Civil war was sustained
by the Twenty-sixth North Carolina?
Pettigrew's brigade, Heth's division.
They had a full quota of 800 men on
July 1, 1863, but in the single battle of
Gettysburg lost 588 men, 86 killed and
502 wounded, not including the "missing,"
of which there were 120. According
to Colonel W. F. Fox, in one
company, 86 strong, every man was
hit, and the orderly who made out the
list did so while suffering from a wound
in each leg. Surely those were times
which not only "tried men's souls,"
but made heroes of those who survived
and martyrs of the dead.
HSf A burglar in Germany, passing
through a room where a boy lay in
bed, explained to him that he was the
devil, and having thus frightened him,
as he flattered himself, into a condition
of silence and immobility, went his
way after the silver. But the boy,
who was a religious character, presently
said to himself: "If I should kill
the devil there would be no more sin,"
and creeping to where his father's gun
lay, took it and shot the burglar. He
now believes that the devil is dead.
tfltc j^tory Seller.
h liHH SUH'lliW1.
Raphael Semmes, long dead, was in
his day a terror of the seas. Commander
first of the Sumter and then
of the Alabama, northern commerce
rotted in China ports for the dread of
bim. He was called "buccaneer,"
"pirate," and other choice names, by
the Federal press. The passions of the
war have lessened, and men are now
willing to grant that be was a regularly
commissioned officer of a regular
navy, belonging to a regularly organized
government whose rights bad been
recognized by many of the European
powers. One man met him who preserves
a vivid recollection of him.
This is old "Cap'n" Strout, of Lewiston,
Me., a grizzled seadog now in bis
seventies, but still bale, and still hearts
Ktrnnf. likp.fl to nit and craze over
the tumbling waters that roar against
Maine's rock-bound coast, and tell of
the time that he saw Semmes. Incidentally
bis tale is indicative of his
own iron nerve.
"I was master of the American brig
Cuba," he told a Chicago Times-Herald
man, "and sailed out of Trinidad
on July 2, 1861. I bad a cargo of sugar,
and was bound for London. The
Cuba was two hundred and thirty-six
tons burden, and with the wind dead
astern she walked the waters like a
thing of life. Which is poetry. Two
days out?which is to say on July 4?
we sighted a vessel on our star board
bow. She was traveling nearly a parallel
course, and pretty soon she veered
in and fired a shot across our bows.
Naturally I stopped. The Rebellion
had broken out, and Confederate cruisers
were scouring the seas snapping up
our merchantmen, but I relied on our
bills of lading to see us through. They
bad the stamp of the British consul at
Trinidad. I was ordered to go on
board the Sumter, and Semmes took
my papers. He was a sour-looking
man enough, and when he saw the
consul's stamp, be grinned. 'That's a
Yankee trick,' he said. Then he
added : 'I am sorry to inform you that
you are a prisoner of war." I told
him that he wasn't half as sorry as I
was, and he seemed to believe me.
He sent me back to my vessel along
with a prize crew that was armed to
the teeth. ' .
"The Sumter took us in tow at 10
o'clock in the morning. At three the
next morning the hawser broke.
Semmes tried three times to refasten,
but the sea was too high. He then
ordered the captain of the prize crew
to take the Cuba to Cienfuegos. We
were only 60 miles west of that point.
We were unarmed and allowed to
walk the deck. I got a chance to talk
to Jim Bebbage and Jim Carroll, my
two mates, and we determined to recapture
the vessel. On July 8 I found
the prize master asleep on the roundhouse.
Immediately we got possession
of all the arms. The prize crew
got on to the racket, and ran for their
arras. Finding them gone, two drew
their sheath knives and one got an
axe, and they rushed aft where we
were. The mainsail was down, and
lav between us. One of them tried to
jump over it, and I hit him on the
bead with a cleaver that I bad in my
hand. He fell, scrambled back, and
did not attempt to return. My mates
and my cook were now armed with
revolvers, and one of my seamen had
a cutlass. 'If you stir,' I shouted to
the prize crew, 'I will blow your heads
off.' They didn't stir. When I ordered
them to surrender they yielded
and went forward, followed by myself
and the crew.
"I bad ou board only four pairs of
irons. I put one on the prize master
and the others on three of the most
dangerous of the prisoners. The rest
we tied with ropes. That day I fell in
with the brig Costa Rica, which took
two of the prize crew. I then headed
the Cuba for New York.
"Nothing of importance happened
till July 14, when the prize master,
whose irons had been removed at his
urgent request, managed to get hold of
a pistol, and perched himself in the
maintop. Then he rolled a cigarette
aud lighted it, blew some smoke
through his nostrils and called down
that he had something to say tome.
'Do you iutend to carry me to New
York?1 he asked. I told him that I
did. He took some more smoke into
bis mouth, blew it out, laughed and
said : 'Well, you'll never do it alive.'
'All right,1 said I ; 'then I'll carry you
dead.1 At that he yelled out, 'It's
your lime to dodge,' and fired at me.
The bullet struck the deck at my feet,
and I did dodge. Johnny Reb told
the truth that time. He fired again,
and I did some more lively hopping.
Then I rau below and got my pistol.
As my head reappeared in the com
panionway, he turned loose one more
time, and the splinters flew into my
hair.
"I got on deck at last, and proceeded
to even up things. He was swinging
around up in the maintop, and I
was dancing around on the planking.
I suppose it was the funniest-looking
duel that ever was. He used up all
of his loads without hitting me, and I
shot at him three times without coming
anywhere near him. Then I lodged
a ball in the mast just above his
head, and the next shot I got him in
the arm. It was his right arm, and
was broken above the elbow. He
dropped his weapon to the deck. All
of this time he had been holding his
cigarette in his left hand. He was the
nerviest devil I ever saw. He threw
the cigarette away and came down. I
dressed his wound and locked him up.
I kept guard over him until we reached
New York, on July 21. It was
Sunday, I remember, and, though we
did not know it, the guns then were
roaring at Bull Run, the first battle of
the war. I delivered my prisoners to
the United States authorities, but the
prize master, whose name was Thorn
as, went to Bellevue Hospital, whers
some northern women nursed bim until
he got well. He stayed in prison
awhile, and there was talk of hanging
him for a pirate, but I did the best 1
could for him, because he was a brave
man, and finally they exchanged him
and be went back south.
UI began suit for salvage of the brig
Cuba, and I got one thousand dollars
for it. She was owned in Millbridge,
Me., and when the Alabama claims
were up for adjustment her owners
reaped the benefit. I don't like to say
so, but I am afraid that first and last
they got a deal more than she was
- tf 4- J
wortD. i was compiimenLeu suiue iu
the papers, but I don't bold that what
we did was especially brave, because
we had all the guns you see. I tell
you that the six chambers of a loaded
revolver are powerful pacifiers.
Not so long ago?four or five years,
I guess?I got a letter from Thomas,
who is practising law down in Georgia.
He must be pretty nearly as old as 1
am by now. He said that his arm was
all right; that I was the liveliest Yankee
on my legs he ever saw ; that he
would never forget how I hopped
about the deck when he was shooting
at me ; that he was something of a
shooter, but he didn't think he could
have hit me with a shotgun ; that he
bad never heard of a man who could
hold a candle to me when it came
down to dancing, but that if I would
come to Georgia he would show me
some 150 pound gals that would give
me all I wanted in that line. I am a
Methodist," added "Cap'n" Strout,
gravely, "and I don't dance. That
Thomas is a reprobate and a brand
still in the burnin', I know, but 1
would like to see him again, just the
same. Seems that you kinder feel
warm-hearted toward a man after you
have shot him."
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And Delusion.
IF you have taken out a life insuranct
policy in an Old Line high price "leve
premium" company with the idea thai
you would at sometime in the future
while you yet drew the breath of life, receive
substantial cash returns or "bi|
dividends," we are here to tell you thai
you will be disappointed. Your policj
will prove a snare and a delusion. It is
all right for protection for your wife and
children, as they will receive the face o:
the policy in case of your death, as tbej
would also in a company that charge.'
you half as tnnch. A life insurance policy
is a fraud as an investment for a livine
man, and is the greatest blessing of whicE
we or anybody else has any knowledgt
as a means of protecting the widow anc
orphans, after the breadwinner has beer
removed by death.
It You Will Lay Aside
Your Prejudice .
AND COME to us with a desire tc
learn why it is not to your interest tr
carry high priced insurance, and how w?
can furnish .you just as safe insurance
for at least 40 per cent, a year less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
to vour satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION
of New York does business on s
plan that is absolutely safe, and will protect
your loved ones even better than
they now are, at even a greater cost tc
to you. Of course if you are too prejudiced
to investigate ana imagine that the
high price you are now paying makes
your insurance better or safer, or bettei
than it would be at less cost, we can't do
anything for you ; but will be forced tc
let you go on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that you have been deceived.
If You Have
no insurance,
And think you should have, we would be
pleased to explain the Mutual Reserve
System to you. The Mutual Reserve is
the largest and strongest natural premium
company in the world, and the fourth
largest of ANY Iv TNI). It has paid
about ?550,000 to the widows and orphans
of deceased policy-holders in South C'arlina
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,
which now annually goes into the coffers
of the former, would be left in the state
to help relieve the hard times about which
we hear so much.
SAM M. ?fc L. GEO. GRIST,
General Agents,' Yorkville, S. C.
TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE undersigned offers for sale, the
HOUSE AND LOT in Yorkville.
known as the "Meek House," occupied
by Mr. O. E. Grist and situated opposite
the O. R. A C. R. R., depot. The house
contains six large rooms and a basement.
The house is in good repair, and
contiguous to water-works lire-plugs. Ou
the premises is a well of excellent freestone
water.
Also, a cottage on Madison street. It
contains four rooms. The house is in good
repair and on the premises is a well ol
good freestone water. L. M. GRIST.
HlilltMliSTIIU
TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and
Charleston Railway company, to take
effect Monday, May 5tb, at 7.30 a. m.
STANDARD EASTERN TIME. '
QOIXO SOUTH NO. 12. |
Leave Marion - 4 45 pni;
Leave Rutherfordton.. 8 20 pmi
Leave Forest City 6 50 pm
Leave Henrietta 7 10pm|
liftvo Mnnrpstmii) 7 25 Dm i
i Leave Shelby.. 8 25 pm
Leave Patterson Springs.. 8 40 pm
1 Leave Earls 8 45 pm
i Arrive at Blacksburg 9 00 pm
No. 32. | No. 34.'
i i Dally Dally
Except Except
1 ! Sunday. Sonday.
! Leave Shelby 7 30 am]
. Leave Patterson's 8prings. 7 42 am
, Leave 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
1 Leave Yorkvllle 9 35 am 10 20 am
. Leave TIrzah 9 47 am 10 45 am
' Leave Newport- 9 51 am 10 55 am
k Leave Rock Hill 10 20 am 12 55 pm
[ Leave Leslies 10 35 am 1 15 pin ?
Leave Catawba Junction.. 10 40 am 1 50 pm
! Leave Lancaster 11 22 am 8 55 pm
| Leave Kershaw .. 12 05 pm 5 80 pm
s Arrive at Camden 1 00 pm 6 50 pm
I QOIMQ NORTH. | No. 83. | No. 85.
I Dally Dally .
Except Except
1 Sunday. Snnday.
1 Leave Camden 2 00 pm 9 00 am
. Leave Kershaw 2 45 pm 11 10 am
Leave Lancaster 8 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
s Leave TIrzah 4 50 pm 5 20 pm
Leave Yorkvllle 5 05 pm 0 00 pm
Leave Sharon 5 20 pm 6 20 pm
i Leave Hickory Grove.... 5 40 pm 0 40 pm
Leave Smyrna - 5 50 pm 0 55 pm
Leave Blacksburg 0 20 pm 7 80 pm
Leave Earle's ' 0 85 pm
Leave Patterson's Spring. 0 40 pm|
Arrive at Shelby 0 50 pm *
No. 11. |
Leave Blacksburg 8 10 am
Jieave Earls 8 30 am
Leave Patterson Springs 8 40 am
L?aveHneiDy v iu am
Leave Mooresboro 9 SO am
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. TRIPP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HUNT, General Manager.
CABQLIIA ft MTOTO187. ;
G. W. F. HARPER, President.
Schedules in Effect from and After
i May 2, 1897.
f '
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.
' GOING WORTH. | No 10. | No 00.
Lea^e Chester 6 20 am 8 30 am
Leave Lowrysvllle ...... 6 43am 9 05am
Leave McConnellsville 6 58am 939am
Leave Guthriesville.... 7 05am 9 56am
Leave Yorkvllle 7 2} a m 10 50 a m
Leave Clover 7 53 a m 11 33 am
Leave Gastonia 825am 120pm
Leave Llncolnton 920am 2 46 pm
Leave Newton i 10 05 am 4 20pm
Leave Hickory 10 50 a m 6 15 p m
Arrive Lenoir... 1155 am 8 00 pm
% GOING SOOTH. | NO. 9. | No 61.
[ Leave Lenoir 3 10pm | 6 00am ?
Leave Hickory 4 15pm( 7 50am
Leave Newton 5 10 p m i 9 00am
' Leave Llncolnton 556pm 10 39 am
Leave Gastonia.... 6 57 pm! 100pm
Leave Clover i 7 42 pm 2 02 pm
t Leave Yorkvllle i 8 11 pm 3 10 pm
r Leave Guthriesville ... I 8 34pm 3 40pm
, Leave McConnellsville! 843pm 3 55 pm
i Leave Lowrysvllle I 9 05 pm 425pm
j, Arrive Chester ' 9 30pm 5 10 pm
r Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and
i run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
. 60 and 61 carry passengers and also run
r daily except Sunday. There is good con!
nection at Chester with the G. C. & N.
5 and the C. C. & A., also LAC. R. R.; at
| Gastonia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Lini
colnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and
Newton with W. N. C. *
G. F. HARPER,
Acting G. P. A.,
Lenoir, N. C.
ESTABLISHED 1891.
L. GEO. GRIST,
! FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY, ~
I Yorkville, S. C.
I REPRESENT pver $27,000,000.00
of assets in my fire insurance agency,
. and I am prepared to write FIRE and
i TORNADO INSURANCE on short noi
tice at the lowest prevailing rates. Each
fire policy carries with it, without extra
? charge, a "lightning clause," which proi
tects the insured against loss or damage
1 by lightning. I represent the Norwich
, Union Fire Office of England, which is
an absolutely fire tested company, having
been "dragged oyer the coals'' since
1797. Then I have the .Etna of Hartford,
which has been doing business at the
"old stand" since 1819; the Pennsylvani
ia is by no means a "squatter or experii
ment," having been "hgbtin' fire in all ^
i its fury" since 1825. The Delaware Insurance
company has been pretty severei
ly burned several times, but has maini
tained its motto?"Just, Prompt, Certain"
i since 1835. The Old Continental, which is
living in exile from the South-Eastern
tariff association, thinks she can stand
i alone and work in "single harness," and
i since 1853 the "old lady" has helped her
children to something over 835,000,000 and
i she is always "at home." Insurance left
i with my agency will always receive
prompt ana caremi attention.
L. GEO. GRIST, Resident Agent.
$hc ^orkvitle <gnquircr.
i
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