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tumorous ^Department. An Exhorter In Great Trouble. A well-known planter in south Arkansaw, a man who has exhorted at more revivals than any worker in the state, had trouble last week. While hauling cotton along a muddy road, one of the steers broke the yoke and ran away. The old fellow sat down on a log and said: "Lord, you know pretty well what I have done for the church, and how many privations I have stood without a whimper of complaint. If you have observed me very closely, you know I never said a word when my fences were washed away, and that even when Josh Chandler beat me in a lawsuit I did not murmur, but now, after mature consideration, I am compelled to say something. Damn that steer! I think that under the circumstances I am excusable. Very few men would have stood as much as I have, especially a man whose wife is in a flout half the time, so I submit the question : Don't you think that I am justifiable in the course I have this day taken ? Here I am stuck in the mud. By the time I can get another team the boat will be gone, and I'll have to leave my cotton or haul it back home. If I leave it on the bank somebody will steal it, and if I take it back home Anderson will catch it with a mortgage. So, you see, I am peculiarly situated, and am, before any court in the world or out of it either, justifiable in remarking, Damn that steer!", The Rev. Billy Hibbard.?The Rev. Billy Hibbard, as be was uniformly called, was a somewhat eccentric but zealous preacher, who labored in Columbia and Livingston counties some 40 years. At a meeting of conference the bishop called the roll of ministers' names, but ou calliug the name William Hibbard there was no response, whereupon the followiug dialogue occurred : Bishop?Brother Hibbard, why do you not answer to your name as called ? Mr. Hibbard?You have not called my name. Bishop?What is your name, brother ? Mr. Hibbard?Billy Hibbard. Bishop?Why, that is the name of a little boy. Mr. Hibbard?I was a very little boy when my father gave me that name. The reply upset the gravity of the conference, and an explosion of laughter followed in which the bishop joined. Mr. Hibbard at one time, in conversation with a minister of another denomination, was asked the following question : "Brother Hibbard, why is it that you have so few doctors of divinity in your church ?" He answered : "Because our divinity is never sick." S8T As suggested by the recent story of the woman who was forbidden to "get religion" in a ritualistic Episcopal church, a pretty good oue was told in a similar strain. A so-called evangelist was holding a series of meetiugs in a certain town, and a member of the church was much interested in them, attending every meeting, somewhat to the loss of home comlorts by husband aud children. Fiually, the old gentleman had his innings in telling how they had called on her to lead in prayer. Suddenly realizing in what an unaccustomed position she was placed, for among Episcopalians no oue is ever so called on ; even the most prominent clergyman, if seated in the congregation, taking no other part than the rest ot the people do, the good woman turned purple with embarrassment, squirmed about iu her seat, choked up, and finally managed to stammer out that she was an Episcopalian, and she never prayed! His Appetite.?"ino," sam tne philanthropist, firmly, "I cannot give you financial assistance. I am opposed to the principle of indiscriminate almsgiving on the street. But I will gladly give you an order on a restauraut for whatever you may want if you are hungry." And he did. A few days later he visited the restaurant, walked up to the cashier's window and said: "I suppose you hold a charge against me here. I sent a poor fellow to you last Tuesday, and I want to settle his bill." "Yes, sir," replied the young woman behind the counter, as she rummaged among some papers, and found an unpaid check, "70 cents, please." "Mercy on us!" ejaculated the philanthropist, "that poor fellow must have been nearly starved. What did he eat to amount to so much as that ?" "One gin fizz," she said, "two Manhattan cocktails, a whisky straight and three beers." A servant girl was brought to a hospital suffering from an overdose of poison. When questioned as to her motive for taking it, she replied : "I wasn't feeling well, so I went to my mistress's room to get some mediciue from the chest she keeps there. The bottle I got was marked, 'Three drops for an infant, six for an adult and a tablespoouful for an emetic.' I knew I wasn't an infant, I wasn't sure about an adult, so I thought I must be the emetic, and took the spoonful." S&" A newly appointed Georgia justice of the peace was informed that some oue had stolen his horse during the night. He was not long in locating the criminal, who was speedily hroufrht to trial, when the iustice said : Q , u "I ain't qualified ter set on this case, seein' as the horse was mine ; but I'm goin' ter let the bailifT preside, an' while he's a-tryin' of the criminal, I'll be out yander a-stretchin' of the rope an' locatin' of the tree !" ^ A Modest Request.?Lover (passionately)?"My sweet! My darling ! I love you with all my heart! Be mine!" Fair maiden?"Oh, George, this is so sudden ; I must have time?" Lover?"No, no! I must have an answer now, for I have my eyes on another girl." Wajjsidc 6athctiag$. f8F Havana's principal theatre was built by convict labor. 8&" Above all things speak the truth ; your word must be your bond through life. W3F God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty. One pound of sheep's wool is capable of producing one yard of cloth. V3F The railways of the world carry every day between 16,000,000 an<ri7,000,000 j>assengers. iMf Switzerland is the only civilized country in the world which grants no nn tents for inventions. BfiT Married men, like candles, often go out at night and leave their wives in the dark as to their whereabouts. S@T A crust of bread with contentment therewith is better than a dish of strawberry ice-cream with a sore tooth. 8?~ A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron. 8?" Philip Sidney said : "I am no herald co inquire of men's pedigrees; it is enough for me to know their virtues." W8F John Neal says some persons read mankind as they do a proof sheet, merely to find the errors and omissions. 8?* It is estimated that greater quan tities of gold and silver have been sunk in the sea than are now in circulation on earth. 8?* "Dab's only one kind er good luck," said Uncle Eben, "dat kin be trusted, and dat's the good luck o' bein' born wif sense." If some one can start a story that gold nuggets may be picked up at the North Pole, the problem of its discovery will soon be solved. 86?* An apothecary asserted in a large ct mpany "that all bitter things are hot, ' "No." reolied a nhvsician * "a bitter cold day is an exception." aST" Put 20 people, all of one denomination, on a deserted island, aud in less than ten years the island would have at least two religions, says the Somerville Journal. BSP Why he was fined : "I understand that Wheeler was fined for scorching." "Scorching nothing! He was fined for riding so slow that he impeded traffic." 8?* In Hindostan, when the parents of a baby cannot agree upon a name, two lamps are placed over the names. The one over which the lump is brighter is that which is chosen. 8?" A German farmer disputed his tax bill. He said, "I pays the state tax,the county tax, and the school tax ; but I pays no total tax. I's got no total, and never had any." 8?" In the little German principality of Waldeck a decree has been proclaimed that a license to marry will not be granted to any individual who is in the habit of getting drunk. 8?" "Might I ask what school of poetry you prefer ?" inquired the young man who writes. And the old gentleman replied, "The honueopathic school. The smaller the dose the better it suits me." 8?f The falling off in the sale of cigarettes in Indiana since the law went into effect fixing a penalty for their sale to minors is said to have been so great that many wholesale grocers will stop handling them. Klondike is said to be a corruption of the Indian "Tron-dak," meaning "plenty of fish," which may remind us that the supply of fish was of much more importance to the aborigines than the sunnlv of gold. ?-~ A A W We?T The largest proportion of single persons is found in Ireland and Scotland and the smallest in the United States. In Ireland, 67 per cent.; in Scotland, 65 per cent., but in the United States only 59 per cent, are in that condition. A western citizen who had been worsted in a fight was told that he could collect damages. "I did collect damages," he replied, mournfully. "I collected everything but a piece of my left ear and two front teeth ; I couldn't find those." 8?? Bason?I see they have put a soundingboard at the back of the minister's pulpit. What do you suppose that's for ? Egbert?Why, it's to throw out the sound. "Gracious! If you throw out the sound, there won't be anything left in the sermon." 56?" "And," were the concluding words of the professor's lecture to the medical students, "do not promise too much. I knew a physician of real ability who promised a patient, whose legs he had just amputated, that he would have hira on his feet within two weeks." IST" Nebraska used to be marked on the map as a part of the "Great American Desert." If the mapmakers would visit Nebraska now, says the Omaha, Neb., Bee, they would have to change the designation to that of the "Great American Grain Garden." A Kansas preacher thus brought his discourse to a sudden stop on Sunday : "Brethren, I will now close, for I see that we are going to have a thunderstorm. The congregation will please follow me to Brother Soandso's field and help him stack his wheat." S&f The United States census gives the number of deaths from alcoholism in 1880 as 1,592 ; in 1890, 2,G57, an increase of 67 per cent. If the same ratio has been maintained during the past seven years, the present annual death rate from alcoholism is nearly 4,000. Stir Better times have reached Colorado, or have begun there. The greatly increased output of gold is a prime factor in the prosperity. The production has run up from $5,000,000 in 1892 to 16,000,000 in 1896. As the state has only 400,000 inhabitants, this amount is a large increase to their income. St?T When a railway is being built the surface of the road has to be bal lasted, gene ally with gravel, sometimes with ashes or other material. The Great Northern, of Scotland, is ballasted with granite chips; the Southern Pacific is ballasted with salt; the Durango line in Mexico is ballasted with silver ore and laid with ties of ebon}'. international Wessons. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XI, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, SEPT 12. Text of the LcMon, Rom. xiil, 9-21?Memory Verses, 16-18?Golden Text, Rom. xili, 21?Commentary by the Rev. D. M, Stearns. 9. "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is ovll. Cleave to that which is good." Tho R. V. says, 'Tef. lnvn he tvithrnit. hvnocrisv." The Holy Spirit through John says, "Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in doed and in truth" (I John iii, 18). Tho title of our IcHson is "Christian Living," which is elsewhere defined as "the life of Jesus made manifest in our mortal flesh." The thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians describes the love that was manifest in Christ us never in any other, and He will manifest that lovo and that life in us in proportion us wc present to Him our bodlos a living sacriflco (verso 1). 10. "Bo kindly affcctioncd one to anj other with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another." This is tho love that soekcth not her own; not our own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved (I Cor. x, 83; xiii, 5). The "therefore" of verse 1 of our lesson chapter takes us back to the"justiflwl freely," "justified by faith," "no condemnation," "freely with Him all things," etc., of Rom. iii, 24; v, 1; viii, 1, 82, and because of all this it is surely a reasonable thing that wo should let Him have our whole being, that Ho may by renewing our minds transform us into His own imago (Rom. viii, 29). 11. "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." The R. V. says, "In diligence, not slothful," und in the margin suys that some manuscripts give, "serving the opportunity." The latter would suggest tho simplicity of I Sam. x, 7, "Do as occasion serve thee, for I God is with theo," and the former would be in the line of Col. iii, 28, "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to tho Lord, und not unto men." 12. "Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing instunt in pruyer." I think we are safe in saying that tho hope in the New Testament generally, if not always, refers to tlie second coming or Christ and the events therewith associated. Seo Rom. v, 2; viii, 24, 25; Titus ii, 13; I John iii, 8. Tho tribulation thut worketh patience is our privilege all ulong tho journey (Roiii. v, 8; John xvi, 83; Rev. 1, 9; Hob. x, 36, 87), and the attitude of increasing pruyer is our great privilege as well as necessity (I Thess. v, 17; Heb. iv, 16). 18. "Distributing to tho necessity of saints, given to hospitality." If one should be asked why he worked so hard early and late at his daily toil, and should reply, "That I may have to givo to him that needeth," he might seem to be a little unbalanced in his mind, but he would bo talking, as well as living, according to the Scriptures (Eph. iv, 28). 14. "Bless thorn which persecute you; bless and curse net." Now this is easy talking, but the practice of it is not so populur as to have as yet become tho fashion. It is, however, the plain teaching of our Lord (Muth. v, 44), and He always practiced what Ho preached. If His life is to bo made manifest in us, this phase of it is surely included. It was beautifully manifest in Stephen when he in the midst of their persecution looked liko an angel and acted liko the Lord Himself (Acts vi, 15; vli, OU). 15. "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." Tho unity of the body of Christ is such that when tho members are abiding in Him if one member suffers all suffer with that one, and if ono member bo honored all the members rejoice with it (I Cor. xii, 26). This is .:s it should be, but where is it 6oen? W.iat, then, ails tho body? Is it as in Phil ii, 21, "All seek their own, not tho things which are Jesus Christ's?" If so, how can tho body expect tho blessing of the Head? Let each ask himself, Am I a healthy member of Hia body or a grief to Him? 10. "Bo of tho same mind ono toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits." On tho second clause the margin say a, "Be contented with mean things." Tho margin of the R. V. sayH, "Bo curried away with them that arc lowly." If we will allow ourselves to bo carried away with Him who is meek and lowly, who made Himself of no reputation and humbled Himself unto death for us, Ho will surely take possession of us and manifest His life in us. 17. "Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest In tho sight of all men." Not rendering ovil for evil, but, contrariwise, blessing, knowing that yo aro thereunto called tliut ye should inherit a blessing (I Pot. iii, 0). Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men (II Cor. viii, 21). Whatsoever things aro true, honest, jus*, lovely, wo ore to think on thoso things (Phil, iv, 8). 18. " If it bo possible, as much as lleth in you, live penceably with all men." This seems very carefully worded. There aro those who know nothing of poace, they seem born for war, and yet somehow they get united to or mixed up with thoso who aro for peuco, and tho peaceful party seeniH to bo in u good school for the cultivation of patience. Well, we must "let the peace of God rulo in our heurts" and be thankful that Ho is able to subduo, for Ho is the Princo of Peuco (Col. iii, 16; Phil. Hi, 21). 19. "Dourly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give pluco unto wrath, lfwiffiji* V/mr?/nmnn lo rv\4r\n T lUi' 10 IS ? I il/ltll) V VAi^lUUVV AO I A will repay, snith the Lard." This certainly cannot luean that wo are to be satisfied with getting angry, but without taking vengeance. Rather, as in tho R. V. margin, give place to the wrath of God. Let Him take charge of all the wrath and vengeance business. 20. "Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink, for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his heud " This is a quotation from Prov. xxv, 21, 22, but the last clause of that passage is omitted, "The Lord 6hall reward thee." 21. " I3e not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." Tho oxnamentof a meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price (I Pet. ili, 4), uud the meek and lowly one who when Ho was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not, will work in us this pirit and live in us this life whenever we aro willing that He should. Tho word "transformed" in verso 2 of this chapter is the same word thut is translated "transfigured" in Math, xvii, 2; Mark ix, 2, and "ore changed" in II Cor. ili, IS, and it is used only in these four places. Tho lust passage seems to mo to show the only way to be thus transfigured; therefore let us go on "beholding Him" until wo see Him face to face, und then we shall bo like Him (i Jonn in, OS?" The virtue of patience is of a value so inestimable that it cannot be won except by the sternest sort of discipline and self-suppression. OS?" Inability to speak words of praise when they are really due is the sure sign of a mean and narrow nature. Jam and Jirwide. RENOVATING OLD TREES. It is often the case that trees are neglected so much that they become unthrifty and unprofitable, if they do not cease entirely to bear lruit. With a very old tree very little in the way of renovating can be done with anything like permanent benefit. But with young trees that have simply been neglected a very decided benefit can be secured. Of course, if this is done it is necessary to do thorough work. Generally the longer a tree has been neglected the longer time will be required to restore it. Oue of the first things to do is to prune thoroughly, cutting out all diseased or dead wood at least, and as much of the other growth as may seem necessary. No set rules can be given, as to the extent of pruning that should be given, as the soil in which the tree is growing, as well as the growth or thrift of the tree, must be considered. The pruning should be done reasonably early in the winter, at lea3t before the wood freezes hard. The wood should all be gathered up and burned, as in this way disease germs and injurious insects may be destroyed. The ground should be thoroughly plowed, taking care to plow shallow near the trees so as not to injure the roots. It is often the case that one of the principal reasons, if not the sole cause, of the trees failing to make a thrifty growth and bear good crops of fruit is a lack of available plant food. The trees are starving, and, of course, cannot grow r. yield fruit. The best plan of manuring is to apply broadcast after plowing and tben work it into the soil with a harrow or cultivator. Almost any kind of manure can be used with . J ... ..... .U- -J... Denenr, out me uuvuuttt^e iu usiug well-rotted manure is that the effect will be realized sooner, or at least a good portion of it. With trees, as other plants, the fertilizer, to be available, must he soluble, and a larger proportion of well-rotted manure is iu this condition better than if applied fresh. The principal advantage in using salt is that it helps to make plant food that is in the soil available. It contains little fertilizing value in itself. Wood ashes can nearly always be applied with beuefit when it can be had. With a little care in this way an orchard that has beeu neglected or starved down may be renovated and made profitable if the trees are uot too old. With an old orchard in which the trunks of the trees are more or less decayed the better plan is to cut it down and make a new start. HEALTHY COWS, PUKE MILK. The quality of the milk depends very largely on the condition of the cow and ou the character of her food. If she is starving she cannot give rich and wholesome milk. She cannot keep in good condition on poor feed, or ou feed in which the flesh and fat producing elements are out of proportion. Such must have good feed in proper quantity, and must also have clean water in abuudance. The milk is elaborated from the food eaten and the water drank, and must of necessity partake of the character of both. No alchemy of the cow's system can make good milk out of poor food, any more than a cider mill can turu out 1 - * -1 I" I sound ClUCr jrOUl i OUCH ujijuco. name from the influence of breed, the quality of milk depends solely on the quantity of food and drink. Hearty, nitrogenous food is required to produce muscle and a caseous matter of which cheese is largely composed. While such food to some extent may be converted into fat, it is conceded that carbonucious or fat and heat producing foods are never converted into nitrogenous matter. The latter must be in the food eaten and in a soluble and digestible form before it can be elaborated by the organs of the cow in the casine of the milk. The food must be free from rank flavors and odors or they will appear in the milk?as the flavor and odor of onions and the ferments in sour distillery and glucose refuse and in stagnant water. Taints are also developed in milk by its not being aired and cooled, by the commencement of incipient decomposition; they are also absorbed from the surrounding atmosphere. Hence it will be seen that healthy cows in good condition, clean, sweet food and water, careful handling, and cleanly surroundings are necessary for the production and delivery of good, sound milk. Watering Before Eating.?The popular plan of watering horses before eating, so customary in France, is upon hygienic principles favored by the veterinarians not only in France, but in England and in this couutry. M. Gayot, French government veterinury and equine historic writer, favored this plan, as does also Dr. Fleming, the eminent Scotch veterinarian, where running water is not available. Some will say, "My horse will not drink before eating," but it should be taught, and when once accustomed to drink first, will eugerly look for water on cold mornings as well as in the warm weather after the all night rest. A drink of water refreshes the horse, improves its appetite and aids digestion; but if allowed to eat a hearty feed and then be watered, the digestion is deranged and a direct loss of feed is the result, besides colic or other troubles ensue. Teach horses to drink before eating. How Much a Cow Eats.?A cow is uot inclined to gluttony. Usually when the appetite is satisfied a cow will stop eating. Any cow's appetite may be gauged in this way : Givejher all the feed she will eat and have some left. Weigh what is given |to her and notice what is consumed. Then make the regular ration threefourths of the quantity eaten. No animal, not even a man, should have all :? ??? Oio ciirnlnu ahnVA IV hut. 11 CUll CUV, auu VIIV UUIJ/.UU uuv.v if? necessary is injurious, and produces disease. Generally more harm is done by over-eating than by starving. For kicking, tie the horse's hind foot to his under jaw and make him kick. If he then kicks with his loose foot, tie both feet to his jaw and make him kick. Three or four kicks wil | cure him. pijs?U#nwttsi jScitdtag. A MILLION DOLLARS DAILY DESTROYED. "Every working clay in the year Uncle Sam destroys a million dollars ; deliberately tears up and grinds to pulp one million dollars' worth of paper money?genuine bank notes and greenbacks," writes Clifford Howard | in the September' Ladies Home Journal. "A million dollars in one, I two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one-hundred, and one-tbousand-dollar notes are daily punched full of holes, cut into halves and thrown into a machine that rapidly reduces them to a mass of mushy substance. "Whenever a piece of paper money becomes soiled or torn it may be presented to the United States treasury [and redeemed. Sooner or later every note that circulates among the people becomes unfit for further service, for it is bound to become dirty or mutilated by constant handling, and the United States government stands ready to give the holder of such a note a uew note in exchange for it; or, in other words, the government will redeem it. "The majority of the clerks employed in this importaut department of the government are women, many of whom are the most expert money counters and counterfeit detectors in the world. In fact, only experts can properly perform the work that is required ; for not only must the soiled and mutilated money be accurately and rapidly counted, but all counterfeit notes must be detected and thrown out. When we consider that some counterfeiters can so cleverly imitate genuine money that their spurious notes will circulate through the country without detection, and are not discovered until they are finally turned into the treasury, some idea of the proficiency of these experts can be gained, especially when we bear in mind that these notes are often so worn tnat ine imprint on mew uuu scarcely be deciphered. It not infrequently happens that these bad notes are detected simply by the feel of them, which, in some cases, is really the only way of discovering the fraud ; for while a counterfeiter may occasionally succeed in so perfectly imitatirg the design of a note as to mislead even an expert, it is next to impossible for him to counterfeit the paper used by the government." TO CIRCUMVENT BORROWERS. It is often asserted that city people are not neighborly ; that they live side by side for years without becoming acquainted, and that they are so wrapped up in their own affairs that they pay uo attention to those who live next door. A North Omaha woman is willing to assert that the charge is not true, says The World-Herald. This particular woman, who will be called Brown, chiefly because that is not her name, has a neighbor who is exceedingly neighborly. After filling divers and sundry cups and bowls with sugar, tea, coffee, starch, salt, vinegar, rice, lard, butter and other things necessary to life in a large city, and failing to note any adequate returns, Mrs. Brown began to think. A hazy idea came to her that somewhere she had read of a plan to circumvent a borrowing and forgetful neighbor, and suddenly it dawned upon her that in her mother's old sorup book there was a remedy. Mrs. Brown dug up the old scrap book out of a closet and searched it through. She found what she wanted and the next day she had a conference with a cabiuet maker. In a few days the cabinet maker brought her a neat box divided into compartments. Each compartment was appropriately labeled and Mrs. Brown filled them with sugar, starch, tea, coffee, salt, etc., and wailed for results. Whenever the neighbor made a borrow the article was taken from the box. When the neighbor made a return the article was dumped into the proper compartment in the box. When a compartment was empty Mrs. Brown notiuea tne uorrower that she was out. Mrs. Brown is satisfied with her scheme. All it cost was a little start, and since then the borrowing neighbor has been borrowing her own groceries. Several of the compartments have been er-jpty for sometime, and Mrs. Brown declares that when all are empty she will show the box to the borrowing neighbor and explain the exact status of affairs. DOM PEDRO'S RUSE. Dom Pedro's once gave an audience to a young engineer who came to show him a new appliance for stopping railway engine0 The emperor was pleased wi?.n the idea. "Day after tomorrow," said he, "have your engine ready. We will have it coupled to my saloon carriage and start. When going at full speed I will give the signal to stop, and then we shall see how your invention works." At the appointed time the emperor entered his carriage, the young inventor mounted his engine, and on they sped for several miles. There came no signal, and the engineer began to fear that the emperor had fallen asleep. Suddenly the engine came to a sharp curve around the edge of a cliff, when, to his horror, on the track directly ahead of them, the engineer saw a huge bowder. He had just sufficient presence of mind to turn the crank of his brake and pull the engine up within a couple of yards of the fatal block. Here the emperor put his head out of bis cur window and demanded to know the cause of this sudden stopping. The engineer pointed to the rock, and J)om Pedro began to laugh. "Push it to one side and go on," the emperor said, calmly. The engineer obeyed, and kicking the stone, was still further astonished to see it crumble into dust before him. It was a block of starch which the emperor had had made and placed on the rails the night before. How to Put Out Clothes on Fire. There have been such shocking instances of death and injury this year by clothes catching fire, that people of an altruistic spirit are moved to make the danger impressive and ofi'er a means of prevention, says The "Woman's Journal." It i9 well at this time to show the means of comparative safety and exhort the public to employ them. To cultivate presence of mind in children when burning accidents occur is good, but perhaps more difficult than to clothe them in slowburning fabrics. The fire drill in schools is a good thing, because it tends to reduce the danger of panic, but to teach young children control of their faculties and the exercise of judgment when actually attacked by fire is not easy. Still, presence of mind is common enough, even in childhood, to make the experiment of cultivating it worth trying. If the child whose clothes catch fire?or the grown person, either?would wrap some hea vy stuff about the flames or roll over on the ground, the fire would soon be extinguished, while running only adds to the danger. Muslins and tarlatans, the most inflammable goods, when treated with tungsate of soda, cannot be made to burn with a blaze. If all cotton dresses and underclothing, especially those of children, could be treated in this way, a great number of lives would be saved and much suffering prevented. I prn I Eovill &J?|6 POWDER Absolutely Pure When You Want Nice Clean Job Printing You should always go to The Enquirer office where such printing is done. Excursion Bills, Programmes, Dodgers, Circulars, Pamphlets, Law 'Briefs, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill Heads, Envelopes, and Cards of all kinds printed on short notice and at very reasonable and legitimate prices. A Snare And veinsion. IF you have taken out a life insurance 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, receive substantial cash returns or "big dividends," we are here to tell you that you will be disappointed. Your policy will prove a snare and a delusion. It is all right for protection for your wife and children, as they will receive the face of the policy in case of your death, as they would also in a company that charges you half as much. A life insurance policy is a fraud as an investment for a living man, and is the greatest blessing of which we or anybody else has any knowledge as a means of protecting the widow and orphans, after the breadwinner has been removed by death. It You Will Lay Aside Your Prejudice AND COME to us with a desire to learn why it is not to your interest to carry high priced insurance, and how we 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 your satisfaction that the MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION of New York does business on a plan that is absolutely safe, and will protect your loved ones even better than they now are, at even n greater cost to to you. Of course if you are too prejudiced to investigate and imagine that the 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 tester, convinces you, against your will, that you have been deceived. If You Have No Insurance, And think yon should have, we would bo 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 KIND. It has paid about $550,000 to the widows and orphans of deceased policy-holders in South Carlina 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 coders of the former, would be left in the state to help relieve the hard times about which we hear so much. SAM M. & L. GEO. GRIST, General Agents, Yorkville, S. C. FIRST NATIONAL BANK 01 Rock Hill, S. C. ORGANIZED JANUARY, 1887. Capital, $75,000 Snrnlns aiifi Profits, - - - 32,000 Total DMMs Pail, - - 54,750 THIS RANK is prepared to handle any business entrusted to it, and solicits the accounts of Merchants, Farmers, and private individuals. We will extend every accommodation consistent with a safe and conservative management. W. L. RODDEY, President. W. J. RODDEY, Vice President. T. L. JOHNSON, Cashier. L. C. HARRISON, Asst. Cashier. niRKCTOKS: T..~ t? T. ,1?,1 W. L. Roddey, J. E. Rod'dej*, ' T. L. Johnston, A. F. Ruff, \V. J. Roddey, J. II. Miller. THE TWICE-A-WEEK ENdUIKEK IS an up-to-date family newspaper, always tilled with clean and wholesome home reading and is published and mailed on time. Subscription price, ?2; in clubs of two or more, $1.75. Everybody is invited to make up clubs. GARRY IRON RO MANUFACl IRON ROOFING. CKIMI'Kl) AM) COKKl'OATEh Iron Tile or Shingle. jBtttj&tM&l&fZ FIRE PROOF DOORS, " SHUTTERS, ETC. I THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS I ^S^Orders receivedby L. M. GRIST. ail urn in ami TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway company, to take effect Monday, May 5th, at /.30 a. m. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. nnrvn uaittu Mr* 19 i Leave Marion .. 4 45 pnn Leave Rutherfordton (I 20 pm| Leave Forest City II 50 pm Leave Henrietta 7 10 pm Leave Mooresboro 7 '25 pm Leave Shelby 8 25 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 8 40 pm Leave Earls 8 45 pm Arrive at Blacksburg 9 00 pm WO. 32. | Ho. 84. i Dally j Dally I Except Except [ Sunday.] Sunday. Leave Shelby 7 30 ami Leave Patterson's Springs. 7 42 am Leave Earle's 7 48 am | Leave Blacksburg 8 30 ami 8 40 am Leave Smyrna 8 50 am' 9 05 am Leave Hickory Grove A 05 am 9 25 am Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am Leave Yorkvllle 9 35 am 10 20 am Leave Tlrzah 9 47 am 10 45 am Leave Newport 9 51 am 10 55 am 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 3 55 pm Leave Kershaw 12 05 pm 5 30 pm Arrive at Camden 1 00 pm 6 50 pm going worth. | No. 83. | No. 85. Dally Dally Except Except 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 6 20 pm Leave Yorkvllle 5 05 pm 6 00 pm Leave Sharon 6 HJ pm| b aj pm Leave Hickory Grove.... 5 40 pm| 6 40 pm Leave Smyrna .... 5 oO pm: 6 55 pm I.eave Blacksburg 6 20 pm 7 80 pm Leave Karlc's ! 6 35 pm I^eave Patterson's Spring. 0 40 pm Arrive at Shelby 6 50 pm No. 11. | Leave Blacksburg 8 10 am I.eave Earls 8 80 am Leave Patterson Springs 8 40 am Leave Shelby 9 10 am Leave Mooresboro 9 50 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. EARILI1AI BOBTHffESTEBIBT G. W. F. HARPER, President. Schedules in Effect from and After May 2, 1897. CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. GOING WORTH. | NO 10. | No OPT Lea\ e Chester 6 20 a m 8 80am Leave Lowrysvllle 6 43 am 9 05am Leave McConnellsvllle 6 58am 939am Leave Guthriesvllle.... 706am 9 56am Leave Yorkvllle 7iaara 10 50am Leave Clover 7 53 a m 11 33 am Leave Gastonla 8 25am 120pm Leave Llncolnton 9 20am 2 46 pm Leave Newton 10 05am 420pm Leave Hickory 10 50 am 6 15 pm Arrive Lenoir 1155 am 8 00 pm GOING SOUTH. | No. 9. | No 61. Leave Lenoir 3 10 pm 6 00 am Leave Hickory 4 15 p m 7 50 a m Leave Newton 5 10 pm 900am Leave Llncolnton 5 56pm 10 30 a m Leave Gastonla 6 57 pm 1 00 pm Leave Clover 7 42 pm 2 02 pm Leave Yorkvllle 8 11 pm 3 10 pm Leave Guthriesvllle ... 8 34 pm 3 40 pm Leave McConnellsvllle 8 43 pm 3 55 pm Leave Lowrysvllle 9 05 pm 4 25 pm Arrive Chester 930pm 5 10 pm Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 60 and 61 carry passengeis and also run arnant Snnrl?T7 There is POOd COO nection at Chester with the G. C. & N. and the C. C. A A., also L & C. R. R.; at G&stonia with the A. & C. A. L.; at Lineolnton with C. C.: and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. G. F. HARPER, Acting G. P. A., Lenoir, N. C. HICKORY GROVE HIGH SCHOOL, THE HICKORY GROYE HIGH SCHOOL opens on the FIRST MONDAY IN SEP1?@TEMBEK. Mr. W. T. SlaughJjfey ter, for tive years principal of the Greenville Graded school, and who has had an exerience of 16 years in teaching, will have charge, and Miss Mattie J. Wilson, who comes highly recommended from Pamplin City, Va., will be bis assistant. Arrangements can be made for boys to board themselves in "Mess Hall," at actual cost. For further | particulars, apply to either of the undersigned. W. M. McGILL, ) W. S. WILKRRSON, \ Trustees. W. J. MOORHEAD, J August 25 68 w2t S. W. WATSON. PHOTOGRAPHER, Cleveland Avenue, Yorkvlllc, 8. C. PHOTOGRAPHY in all the latest styles of the art. Special attention given to outdoor work. My gallery is thoroughly and comfortably furnished with all the latest improvements. Terms reasonable and strictly cash. s w WATSON. BARGAINS IN BRICKS. J HAVE at my yards on the York Cotton mill property, something like a QUARTER OF A MILLION of the FINEST BRICKS that have ever been manufactured in this vicinity. They are for sale at low prices. 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