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tumorous department. Lining Out the Hymn.?A colored exhorter, while holding a meeting in Georgia, says the Atlanta Constitution, solicited a special collection to defray the expenses of the meeting. "We'll pass roun' de hat," he said, endurin' de singin' ob de hymn on Page No. 205?'On Jordan's Stormy Banks.'" And then he proceeded to "line out" the hymn, but so intent was he on the collection that he forgot whole liues of it, and supplied others, with the following result: "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand En cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair en happy land? (Don't let dat hat pass by!) % "O de transporting rapturous scene Dat rises to my sight! (Drop in dat nickel, Brudder Green !) En rivers of delight! "Could I but stand whar Moses stood En view de landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor Death's cold flood? (We wants ten dollars more.)" SlST A Louisville gambler on one occasion thought, he had a good thing when a stranger who looked as if he had plenty of money came along, and suggested a friendly game of poker. The game ran along smoothly for a while, and at last, when the opportune moment came, the gambler dealt to the guileless stranger four queens, and gave himself four kings. The betting became interesting right away, and after all the cash was up and it came to a show-down, the Louisville man laid dowu his four kings, aud the stranger showed four aces. "Take your money, mister!" gasped the astonished Kentuckian; "take it, if you have the heart to do so; but I'll be darned if that was the hand I dealt you !" She had never been to a dinner party before, says the Boston Home Journal, and so was nervous. When the ices came, small cakes were passed with them. Most of the cakes were covered with pink icing, but on the further side of the dish was one coated with chocolate. "I will take this," eha PTnlnimpH and attemnted to Dick W&4XS VMW??? ? X * * * up the cake. To her surprise it seemed glued to the platter. At the same time attention from all quarters was centered on her by the remark of the sable waiter, "Beg pardon, miss; but that's mine." The supposed chocolate cake was his thumb. t8F A young western lady who wanted something that would keep her stockings up where they belonged, thus addressed the terror-stricken young store clerk : "It is my desire to obtain a pair of circular elastic appendages capable of being contracted and expanded by means of oscillating burnished steel appliances that sparkle like particles of gold leaf set with Alaska diamonds, and which are utilized for keeping in position the habiliment of the lower extremities which iuuate delicacy forbids me to meution." 8ST" They weie having some private theatricals, and Mr. and Mrs. Jinks gave the scene from the "School lor Scandal," in which Sir Peter berates and reproaches Lady Teazle for her extravagance and other shortcomings. Edith Jinks, aged eight, was in the audience, and when asked at the close of the entertaiument how she had enjoyed her parents' acting, she electrified her hearers by saying, in a tone of disappointment: "Acting! They were not acting. That's the way they are always goiug ou at home !" He Was Equal to the Emergency.?"I want," said the recently married man in the novelty store, "a lady's belt." "Yes, sir," said the polite shop empress. "What size?" A blush mantled the customer's brow, and he swallowed twice in rapid succession. Then he said: "I don't know exactly. - l __ 1 ft L,et me nave a yarasuca, piease.' And as be placed it along the inside of his arm, from shoulder to wrist, the shop empress remarked beneath her breath to her chum, "He ain't the fool he looks, is he, Jenny ?" t8T A Texas judge was robbed of a horse not long ago, and the thief being apprehended, was brought before him for trial. The judge eyed the prisoner with deep satisfaction for a minute or so, and then delivered himself of the following: "Owing to a persoual prejudice, the court will not hear this case. It will be tried by the bailiff, who will tind a verdict in accordance with the facts. In the meantime," he added, impressively, "the court will go outside and bend a rope and pick out a good tree." 8A guide was recently showing a party of ladies through a museum, explaining the various objects as they went along. "This," he said, taking up a sword, "is the weapon with which Balaam threatened to kill his ass." "I never learned," interrupted one of the ladies, "that Balaam had a sword. What I have read in history is that he wished he had one to kill his ass." "Well," replied the young man, "that is the sword he wished he might have had." Two Points of View.?Old Mr. McGinnis is auxious that his son, Hostetter, should marry a rich girl, so he said to him, one day : "Hostetter, why a >? at ice l^nnfli'un. 14V/II V J VU |MV|iWOV iV ^VwMv..r per? She's got lots of money." "Yes, but she liinps with one leg aud squints with one eye." "Don't be a pessimist. Be an optimist. Say she has one leg she doesn't limp with aud one eye that doesu't squint." ?a?" Holmes gives the following splendid type of innocence: One of ray friends had a little marble statuette of Cupid in the parlor of his countryhouse?bow, arrow, wings, and all complete. A visitor indigenous to the region, looked pensively at the figure, asked the lady of the house, "If that was a statoo of her deceased infant?" WSP "Papa," said Tommy, "little brother is a week old tomorrow, isn't he?" "Yes." "Let's you and me give him a birthday preseut." "Very well. What shall it be?" "Let's buy him a wig. He needs that more than anything." Wagside (5athcrincjs. aST If ignorance is bliss, more ignorauce is blister. gSF "The tooth of time," is the one extracted on credit. StaT" As the evenings grow longer the oil bill grows stronger. 8?" The best readers of signs are surely the deaf and dumb. a?" Advice to old bachelors who dye their hair?"Keep it dark." 8?* Lawsuits are too expensive for most people to go courting in. 8?* Mauy young ladies have students instead of pupils in their eyes. 8?" It is generally other people who profit by our bitter experiences. 8?" The cowboy supplies the fuel that warms the cattle range. 8?- Uneasy rests the number seven foot which wears a number five shoe. 8?* Nothing can keep men from having a good time in this world but sia. 1&T The devil will he sure to stay a while, if he calls on you when you are idle. S@T When the office goes out to seek the man he is generally within hailing distance. B&T It is better to deserve praise and not get it, than to get praise and not deserve it. tiaB* Since 1870 Victoria, Australia, has voted more than $250,000 for the destruction of rabbits. &2T The reports show there are on the rolls 3,550 pensioners who draw $50 per month or over. Caterpillars from 6 inches to 1 foot long are common in the vicinity of the Darling river, Australia. JOT In 1871 the enrollment of school pupils in the United States was 7,561,582, and in 1896 it was 14,379,078. It isn't the cost, it isn't even the beauty of a gift that must be first considered ; it is the need of the recipient. SGT The muskrats of Minnesota are this year building their houses high, with thick walls. This iudicates a cold winter. tt?T A New York precious metal firm says its sales of gold and silver to jewellers this year have been the largest in nearly 20 years. SoT The best thing for those American prisoners released from Cuban dungeons to do is to register a vow never to go there again. tlST "It doesn't seem right for the wind to relieve us of our wealth of leaves, when we have to root for a living," soliloquized the trees. ?af Mr. Moody has coined many a cnnciKIa oniorom Whn P.ntlld S?V a ilSNO'UlV * J ? better thing than this: "Character is what a man is in the dark ?" J6T Ou the planet Jupiter the night6 are only five hours long. This reduces the business hours of cats to one-half of what they are on the earth. f6T" They say that women are great match-makers; and yet everybody knows how long it takes them to match so simple a thing as a bit of ribbon. I?" "Would you be mean enough to give a bad piece of meney to a blind man ?" "Of course; he can pass it of!" with a better conscience than I can." S&F Russia is said to own 30,000,000 horses, or nearly one-half of the whole number in existence. Most of them belong to the peasants of that vast empire. B8F Zion's Herald cautions the ministers against uncredited revivalists, reformers, and anti-Catholic crusaders who are seeking the privilege of speaking in the pulpits. I?* America, rather than Palestine, seems to be the promised land of the Jews. They claim to number 1,000,000 in the United States, New York alone having nearly 350,000. tSP "I say, do you think that Wiggins is a man to be.trusted ?" "Trusted? Yes, rather. Why, I'd trust him with my life." "Yes ; but with anything of value, I mean." W&~ It requires 130,000 cows, and in winter more, to give New York city her daily suppply of milk. This involves a half-million acres of pasturage land aud 250,000 of good meadow. IThe Macon Telegraph says that western cattlemen are buying up Georgia cattle and shipping them to the Indian Territory. It pays them better than to raise the cattle themselves. i>ol a. suug-uiru uni iu siuua. is posted on frequent bulletins through the millinery department of Marshal Field's great Chicago store?public acknowledgment of the victory of the Audubon crusade. Wa&T The appropriations for cleaning the streets of some of the large cities are as follows: Chicago, $672,000; New York, $2,999,000; Boston, $306,000; Paris, $1,400,000; Berlin, $1,400,000; Vienna, $850,000. ?6T English clergymen iu poor parishes have to turn their hands to all kinds of work. A Sutherland vicar, who acted also as dentist for his parishioners, hauled out twenty-five thousand teeth during a long ministry. BoP This advice may not be absolutely new, but it is worth repeating : Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds?all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. 83T Sam Jones says that the women are cutting off their dresses at the top for ball rooms and are cutting them off at the bottom for bicycles. Sam says he is getting frightened, for he don't knew when the women are going to stop cutting. Sfcalf* A Loudon medical man is collecting statistics iu regard to consumption in Japan. He wants to see whether there is an appreciable dimunition of that disease as compared with milkdrinking lands. In Japan they have na mi 1L- fn cnt?nLr r\f TIlP nfltivPS Ho uot care for it. Moreover, milk is an animal product, and as such is prohibited by the native religion. A little Esquimaux child will bite through the skiu of a walrus as easily as an American child will bite an apple, although the skin of this creature is from half an inch to an iuch an a half in thickness and very much resembles an elephant's hide? and not only bite it, but swallow it, and yet not suffer from indigestion. international irssnns. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XII, FOURTH QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, DEC. 19. Text of the Lesson, I John I, 5, to 11, 0. Memory Verses, 8-10 ? Golden Text, I John 1, 9 ? Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 5. "This then is tho message whioh we have heard of Him and declare unto you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." John wrote his gospol that wo might bclievo that Jesus is tho Christ, tho Son of God, nnd believing have life in Him (John xx, 31). He wroto this epistle that we who bulleve might know that we have eternal lifo, be full of joy and not 6ln (chapters v, 13; 1, 4; il, 1). Knowing Jesus personally, having heard and seen and looked upon and hnndled Him, he declurcs Him us the Word of Life, that wo, too, may have fellowship with him, and with tho Father, und with Jesus Christ. 6. "If wo say that wo have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth." From tho beginning of the Bible story light is suggestive of God and darkness of sin and satan. Tho waste and void and durk condition of thipgs in Gen. i, 2, seems to have been tho result of a judgment which must have come upon tho earth, for, according to Isa. xlv, 18, It. V., compared with Gen. 1, 8, God did not create the earth wnscc and void. Isa. xxxiv, 11, and Jer. iv, 23, are the only other two pluoes where we have the same combination of Hebrew words as in Gen. i, 2, and in euch cuso a judgment Is manifest. 7. "But if we walk in the light, as Ho is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and tho blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." Light Ghines, discovets, beautifies, purifies, for light is of God. Not only did Jesus Christ say, "I am tho light of the world," but Ho also said to His own, " Ye arc the light of tho world; let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Fnther which is in heaven" (Math, v, 14, 10). If we walk with God, weeannot butwulk in tho light, but walking with God Implies at least two things?viz, humility, such as is not natural to us. and perfect agreement with God about everything (Mio. vi, 8, margin; Amos iii, 8). 8. "If wo say that wo have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and tho truth is not in us." Thero are thoso who conclude from tho.previous verso that all sin, root and branch, is removed from their being, but such a thought is contrary to the teaching of Scripture, and surely tho Holy Spirit in placing tho statement of this verse just whore Ho has sought to correct any such false teaching. While wo uro in these mortal bodies tho flesh or old nnture remains in us and lusteth against tho Spirit, but + Vlrvlvl* ia filer* 1 r* no no #?hUilri?n nf finri by fuith in Christ Jesus and keeps us from the things which otherwise we might do (Gal. v, 17, R. V.). A. " If wo confess our sins, Ho is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleunse us from all unrighteousness." While in the mortal body nlway delivered to death for Jesus' sake?i. e., the doutb of self or the flesh or sinful nature (II Cor. iv, 11), if wo sin against God, as all are liable to do, lu re is our comfort, that instant confession of sin brings instant forgiveness through the blood of Christ, and then we must go on moro watchfully and prayerfully. 10. "If wo soy thnt wo havo not sinned, we mako Him a liar, and His word is not in us." John is writing to those who are children of Cod by faith in Christ Jesus, for only 6uch as liavo received Christ are children of God (John i, 12). Others are childron of tliodevil oven though they may bo very religious, according to our Lord in John v 1 ii, 44. 2-1. "My littles children, theso things write I unto you that ye sin not, and if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Our marching orders day by duy are to 6in not. Wo have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, that tho righteousness of the law might bo fulfilled in us who walk not after tho flesh, but after the Spirit (Rom. vlii, 4). Surely God has made full provision for us to live this life which Ho would hove us live to His glory by our advocate or paraclete with Him, Jesus Christ tho righteous, and by our paraclete in us, the Holy Spirit; yet so wcukuro we and ofton so unwatnhful that notwithstanding tho abundant provision we grieve both Father, Son and Spirit. 2. "And Ho is the propitiation for our -* J 4. / ? 1? k..*. ~ ?. 61IJ9, aiiU nut lur uura uui) , uut iumjiui' iijo Bins of the whole world." Propitiation hero signifies atonement, reconciliation, sacrifice, and that provided by God through Christ is sufficient for ull the world. There is no forgiveness of sins apurt from Him and His great work, but in and through Him there is sufficient for all who will accept Him, even for every soul on earth If they will come. How shall they oome If they do not hear? 8. "And hereby wo do know that we know Him if we keep His commandments." Not faultless conformity, for there is nono such on earth, nor over was, except in Christ, but a hearty acceptance of und willing subjection to His wholo revealed will. He Himself said, "He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that lovcth Mo." 4. "He that saith, I know Him, and koepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." So skillful is satan in perverting the truth and in blinding peoplo that ho leads some to say, "Oh, it does not matter very much how I live, I believe in Jesus Christ, nnd therefore I am saved. If my life is not quite correot, I will only lose my works." Now such are evidently deceiving themselves, and are liars. Helieving about Jesus Christ saves no one. Ho must bo received into the heurt, and that is the Scriptural sense of believing (John i, 12). 5. "Hut whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the lovo of God perfected Hereby know wo that wo aro in Him." When we receive letters from those whom we love, we treusure thorn und read them many times, und live on them. A mere oasuul reading of a lotter, ami that but once, would not indicato much love for the writor. How, then, cun tin -< he paid to lovo God who care not for Kb; word? 6. "Ho that saith he abidelh in Him, ought himself ulso so to walk, even as Ho walked." Ho could say, "Tho Father bath sent Me, and I live by tho Father." Hut Ho also said, "As tho Fathor hath sent Mo, so send I you," and "He that eoteth Mo, even ho shall live by Me" (John vl, 57; xx, 21). Now Ho was hero wholly for God, speaking tho words of God, doing the will of God, always pleasing God. There is no other way for us, and wo must ho willing to renounce self, deny self, die daily unto self that His life may be manifest in us, or else prove ourselves unworthy of His name. 8You can break a thread very easily. But if you twist a hundred of them together, you can't. So with the habits you form. 8?" Never fear to bring the sublimest motives to the smallest duties, and the most infiuite comfort to the smallest trouble. Jam and fireside. ; CARE UF FA KM IMPLEMENTS. Careful farmers may feel disposed ' to regard suggestions respecting the i necessity for sheltering and caring for < farm implements after their season i of use is over as somewhat threadbare i and as a partaking of the flavor of the 1 chestnut, but it is often necessary to < repeat the "old, old story" if it be t true, for, unfortunately, all farmers I are not of the careful kind. In these s days when machines of one kind or ] another so largely take the place of i hand labor, the tax which the cost of I implements makes upon production I is quite large?one of the most consid- < erable, indeed, which farming has to I bear?and care with regard to articles i which cost so much ought to be every- | where the rule. It is with machinery i oa a/ifh m??n?mnrfl rust out than wear 1 out; and with the machine the larger part of the rusting out is due to a lack of suitable care and protection after the active campaign in which it is used , is over. The season for the use of , man}' of the implements employed on the farm is drawing near a close, and < all of them should be safely boused, first taking care that they are cleaned and put in good order. A little cheap paint for the painted parts will add to the life of any machine far more than the cost of the material and the labor of applying it. The bright parts should be protected by the application of something that will turn water, and | a mixture of tallow and graphite is probably as good for this purpose as any other. It can be applied warm with a brush, and on cooling it will be sufficiently hard to remain on, and , yet will come off easily enough when ( the machine is again put in use. , A good deal of time can be saved at the opening of the next season by ( making a memorandum of any repairs that may be needed to machinery, , and putting it iu a place where it will not be overlooked. These repairs are fresh upon the mind now, whereas, if a note of them is not made, by the time the next season of use comes around they wiil have been forgotten and will only be discovered upon putling the implement into the field, and then work will have to stop while the operator goes to town for the repairs of which be should have had a memorandum and should have made before beginning work with the implement. A little care and forethought along I these lines will lengthen the life of many implements and reduce the tax which the implement bill is upon the farmer, as well as save many steps aud considerable loss of time wheu the implement is again wanted for iwo ?Rrchnnirft. It's This Way.?A writer gives this amusing explanation of the abilities of woman versus the limitations of man. Just watch them and see if it is not true. A man cannot do two things 1 at a time. A woman will broil u steak, and see that the coffee does not boil over, and watch the cat that she does not steal the remnant of the meat on the kitchen table, aud dress the youngest boy, aud set the table, aud j see to the toast, and stir the oatmeal, and give the orders to the butcher, j and she can do it all at once aud not ] half try. Man has done wonders ] since he came before the public. He has navigated the ocean, he has penetrated the mysteries of the starry heavens, he has harnessed the lightning, aud made it pull street cars and light the great cities of the world. But he can't find a spool of red thread in his wife's work basket; he can't discover her pocket in a dress hunging in the closet; he cannot hang out clothes aud get them on the line the ; right end up. He cannot hold clothes pius in his mouth while he is doing it, ( either. He cannot be polite to some- ( body he hates. He can't sit in a rock- ] iug chair without banging the rockers < iuto the baseboard. He can't put the | tidy on the sofa pillow the right side out. He cannot sew on a button. In short, he cannot do a hundred things that women do almostt instinctively. Cow Peas.?The yield of the two acres aud one picking of the sowed patch was 57 bushels, 20 of which I set aside for seed, the balance was eagerly taken by my neighbors at $1.50 per bushel. I have had equally good results the present year, and I am a ( thorough convert to the belief that the southern cowpea is the best all-round < friend the farmer has. I would tell the man with poor land that he can soon have it rich; and the man who has rich laud, that be can easily keep . it so. A crop of cowpeas on average . soil, if plowed under just before the j bulk of the crop is ripe, will add more 1 fertility than three crops of corn or j wheat will take away ; and that the 1 yield of feed per acre has a value dou- } ble that of timothy or clover. Aside j from this, there are few farm crops so 1 well suited to the small farmer or so profitable, if grown for sale of seed, j The yield is from 15 to 30 bushels per j acre and the price in the spring is from j $1.25 to $2.50 per bushel. An acre J will yield this and still feed equal to ] an acre of the best timothy. No read- 1 erof The Journal will regret an invest- J ment in this most valuable acquisition I to the farm.?K. Doolittle, in Journal ' I of Agriculture. Easily Prevented.?Very few people are wholly at ease duiing a violent j j thunder-storm. Lightning generally ] strikes somewhere, and no one feels I absolutely safe from it. There is a { simple way 01 insuring uucscu ngmuai, j danger, however. If you put on a pair of rubbers when the lightning begins to flash aud thunder to roar, and stand 011 the floor so that you touch nothing else, you will be as safe as if you were sealed in a glass cage. Rubber is a nonconductor of electricity, and if the lightning has to go through a piece of rubber to get at you it will leave you alone and take something else. In other words, when you have on a pair of rubbers and not in contact " with anything, you are perfectly insulated. This is a not a theory mere- j ly. It is a fact proved by innumerable ( experiences. A pair of rubbers has saved many a life in a thunder-storm. ^ But they must be sound aud whole. Do not don an old pair with a crack e in the toe, because electricity will get out of a very small hole when it is cornered, and a pair of defective rub- 1 cers will do you no good. Fence Posts For Long Wear. Timber for fence posts should be cut about the middle of the winter. White cak is preferable. Split about five inches square, and season standing in \ shed for six months; then burn the lower end a little, so it will have a coal showing from the lower end to six inches above the ground when set; .hen the burned part should be well saturated with hot coal oil. The posts are then ready to be set. But if not set for some months, they should be left standing under shelter, with the black end down. Posts fixed according to the above showing will last twenty times as long as those of the same timber that are cut and set green, and without being burned, and the cost of the above fixing is only about two cents a post. Tn Pt.f.atm a TVT apst tntohh.? A dirtv mackintosh should be spread out flat on a table, and scrubbed all over with a nailbrush, using cold soft water and yellow soap. When all dirt is off, dip the cloak in several lots of clean cold water, but do not wriug it out. Shake well, and bang it up in the open air, if possible, to dry. Failing this, let it bang in a cold room, but on no account put it near the fire. Hot water must never be used, and if there are any very bad stains or grease marks which will not yield to the soap alone, rub a little turpentine on them. Excessive Fertilizing Not Profitable.?In a New York test, 1,000 pounds of fertilizer applied to an acre Df potatoes increased the crop 48 bushels in '95 and 40 bushels in '96. The same season the application of 2,000 pounds to a like erea produced 53 bushels in '95 aud 54 in '96, thus sbowiug that the use of over 1,000 pounds per acre was added with a loss compared with use of 1,000 pounds. RPR kOYM r*^1 plj ^akW? POWDER Absolutely Pure CABflUIA & IMWISlinT G. W. P. HARPER, President. Schedules in Effect from and Aftei 31 ay 2, 1897. CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. GOING NORTH. | No 10. | No UP. Lea\ e Chester 0 20 a m 8 30 u n. Leave Lowrysvllle ! 643am1 9 05 am Leave McConnellsvlllel 0 58am ; 9 39 a m f ?? - ? A.WU.taurrlllo 1 7 A" <1 TT1 | Q AA ft TYl UCttVC UUblUICOVJIIV Mil W I w w ?. M. Leave Yorkvllle 723am 10 Mam Leave Clover 7 53 a m 11 33 am Leave Gastonla 8 25 am 120pm Leave Llncolnton 9 20 am 2 16 pro Leave Newton 10 05am 4 20pm Leave Hickory 10 50 am 6 15 pm Arrive Lenoir 1155am 8 00pm GOING 80UTH. | No. 9. | No 61. Leave Lenoir 3 10 pm 600am Leave Hickory 4 15 p m I 7 50 am Leave Newton 5 10 p m 9 00 am Leave Llncolnton 556pm | 10 30am Leave Gastonla 6 57 pm 1 00 pm Leave Clover 7 42 pm 2 02 pm Leave Yorkvllle 8 11pm 310pm Leave Guthrlesvllle ... 8 34pm 3 40pm Leave McConnellsvllle 8 43pm 355pm Leave Lowrysvllle 1 9 05pm 4 25pm Arrive Chester I 9 30pm I 5 10 pm Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. SO and 61 carry passengers and also run daily except Sunday. There is good connection at Chester with the G. C. & N. and the C. C. & A., also L & C. R. R.; at Gastonia with the A. <fc C. A. L.; at Lincolnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. G. F. HARPER, Acting G. P. A., Lenoir N. C. 9610 MM AHD CBAHLGSTON B. R. TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway company, to take affect Monday, October 18th, at 6.50 a. m. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. Daily I Dally Except Except Sunday.1 Sunday. GOING SOUTH No. 32. | No. 34. Leave Marlon 7 00 am 1 30 pm Leave Rutherford ton 8 05 am 3 05 pm Leave Forest City 8 20 am 3 35 pm Leave Henrietta 8 35 am 3 55 pm Leave Mooresboro 8 50 am 4 10 pm Leave Shelby 9 20 am 5 00 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 9 30 am 5 45 pm Leave Earls 9 35 am 5 50 pm Vrrive at Blacksburg, 9 50 am 6 10 pm Leave Gaflhey 6 50 m 7 15 pm Vrrlve Blacksburg 7 25 m 7 50 pm Leave Blacksburg 10 10 am 8 00 am Leave Smyrna 10 30 am 8 25 am Leave Hickory Grove 10 45 am 8 45 am ^eave Sharon 11 00 am 9 10 am ^eave Yorkvllle 1115 am1 9 40am Leave Tlrzah II 27 am 10 05am Leave Newport 11 33 am 10 15 am jeave Rock Hill 1145 am 10 40 pm Leave Leslies 12 05 pm 1 00 pin Leave Catawba Junction.. 12 15 pm 1 15 pm Leave Lancaster 1 00 pm, 3 50 pm Leave Kershaw 1 45 pm; 5 30 pm Vrrlve at Camden 2 50 pm 6 40 pro GOING NORTH. | No. 33. | NoT35. I Daily i Dally | Except Except : Sunday. Sunday. jeave Camden 12 05 pm| 9 00am .eave Kershaw 1 05 pm 11 10 am -.eave Lancaster 1 ia pm i uu pro -,eave Catawba Junction 2 30 pm 2 40 pm .eave Leslies 2 40 pm 2 SO pm .eave Rock Hill 2 55 pm 4 :10 pm .eave Newport 3 10 pm 5 00 pm .eaveTlrzah 3 15 pm 5 20 pm .leave Yorkvllle 3 30 pm 6 00 pm .eave Sharon 3 45 pm 6 20 pm .eave Hickory Grove.... 4 00 pm 6 40pm -leave Smyrna 4 15 pm 6 55 pm .eave Blacksbnrg 4 35 pm 7 30 pm .eave IJlacksburg 6 00 am 6 30 pm Vrrlve Gaffney 6 40 am 7 05 pm - eave Karle's ' 5 05 pm .eave Patterson's Spring. 5 10 pm -leave Shelby 5 20 pm .eave Mooresboro 5 47 am .leave Henrietta 5 .55 am .eave Forest City 6 12 am .eave Rutherfordton 0 27 am Vrrlve at Marlon 7 30 pm CONNECTIONS. No. 32 has connection with Southern rtailway 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 vith Southern Railway. At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek md London, trains stop only on signal. S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. SAM'L HUNT. General Manager. I tome FOR HERE IS THE OPPORTUNE OF CHARACTER TO GUT UP CLUBS FOR Pleasant and Cert IN UNUSUALLY YAL Two High Grade Buggies ai Leaders and Every \ COMMENCE TODAY BETWEEN this date and the MIDDLE OF MARCH, It Is usual for the people of this section to select their reading matter for the s following year. Being one of the cleanest, i most enterprising and reliable newspapers In ] the state, it is natural, therefore, that THE t YORKVlLI.E ENQUIRER should also be ( one of the most popular. Ninety per cent, of the families In the county desire It as a regular visitor to their homes, and all those who can afford it, may reasonably be looked upon J as probable subscribers. One of the most so- ] rious drawbacks, probably, Is the inconven- ] ience of writing letters, sending money and j attending to the matter of subscribing at the t proper time. It is this fact that makes It es- ^ pecially desirable for us, Just at this time, to secure the services of a large number of Intelligent and energetic assistants, and to make It worth their while to give the matter their 5 attention, we are making the liberal offers i which we will presently explain. 1 The price of a single subscription one year * Is TWO DOLLARS. This is to the individual i who does not give his name to a clubmaker; but sends it direct to this office. In clubs, however, the price Is only ONE DOLLAR t AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS. That Is the ; price which the subscriber pays the clubma- 1 ker, and the price which, under all circum- , stances, he is expected to pay us. Now to our propositions: THREE BIG PREMIUMS. ; The three leading premiums are a CARO LINA BUGGY, a ROCK HILL BUGGY, and a MONARCH BICYCLE, for lady or gentle- < man. The "Rock Hill Buggy"_is to be a < quarter leather top, and the "Carolina" an open buggy. Both vehicles are to be of the < very best grades manufactured by the respect- * ive well-known establishments. The Bicycle Is to be of the highest grade manufactured by the Monarch Cycle Company, and the Monarch wheel, as every wheelman knows, Is without a superior. TERMS OF THE CONTEST, ; The clubmaker who returns and pays for } the largest number of subscribers?NEW AND I OLD?will be entitled to the choice of the three ' above described premiums. The clubmaker 1 who returns and pays for the largest number of NEW NAMES, will be entitled to second 5 choice. The clubmaker who returns the sec- , ond largest number of names?new and old? ! will be entitled to the third choice. In other J words, the first choice goes to the largest club ; . the second choice to the largest number of j new subscribers; and the third choice to the second largest club of old and new subscribers. OTHER PREMIUMS. In addition to the competitive premiums . mentioned above, we also offer various other f premiums for clubs containing specified num- . bers of names, and propose to deliver the pre- ( ralums whenever the numbers specified are returned and paid for. Upon securing one f premium?a watch or sewing machine, say? t the clubmaker will be at liberty to try for the . same thing again, or for anything else on the { list, and If In the aggregate, by the 9TH DAY < OF MARCH, 1898, ne snail have succeeded in t returning and paying for the largest number . ot NEW NAMES, he will be entitled to the ( SEf'OND CHOICE of the three leading pre- < ml inns mentioned above, Just the same as if he had not previously taken other premiums. Now, then, read the list: For 60 Subscribers, We will give the clubmaker his choice of the following premiums, each valued at S25: A FOUR DRAWER "ENQUIRER" SEWING MACHINE, together with all attachments; a "HOUSEKEEPER'S" SET OF KNIVES, FORKS AND SPOONS, made by Rogers; a "WALTHAM" WATCH In coin silver, dustproof case : a NO. 6 AUTOHARP, a BANJO, guitar, Mandolin, or violin. For 40 and Less Than 60 SUBSCRIBERS, we will give the clubmaker his choice of the following, each valued at 815 : WALTHAM WATCH, in open face silver case; set of half dozen ROGERS BROS'. KNIVES and FORKS (12 PIECES): NO. 4 AUTOHARP, BANJO, MANDOLIN, GUITAR, or LOW ARM SINGER SEWING MACHINE. For 30 and Less Than 40 SUBSCRIBERS, choice of the,following, each valued at 810: NEW YORK STANDARD 7-JEWELED WATCH in dust-proof case; 14K GOLD FILLED WATCH CHAIN, or HALF DOZEN TEASPOONS. HALF DOZEN TABLESPOONS and BUTTER KNIFE (13 PIECES). Address, L. M. GRIST October 23,1897. GARRY IRON RO< MANUFACTl IRON ROOFING, CRIMPED AND CORRDGATED Iron Tile or Shingle, FIRE PROOF DOORS, THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0 ^^Orders received by L. M. GRIST. When You Want j Nice Clean . Job Printing You should always go to The j Enquirer office where such ^ printing is done. Excursion k Bills, Programmes, Dodgers, Cir- ^ culars, Pamphlets, Law Briefs, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill ? Heads, Envelopes, and Cards of v all kinds printed on short notice and at very reasonable and legitimate prices. PINLEY HKICE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, - _ Yorkvllle, S. C. ALL business entrusted to us will be f given prompt attention. OFFICE IN THE BUILDING AT I THE REAR OF H. C. STRAUSS'S 1 STORE. f< ENQUIRER 1898. Y FOR PEOPLE !, ENERGY AND CAPACITY , A POPULAR PAPER. Tork. Good ain Pay UABLE PREMIUMS. [id a Monarch Bicycle the Vorker a Winner. AND KEEP AT IT. For 20 and Less Than 30 SUBSCRIBERS, we will give a NO. V/3 AUrOHARP, valued ut 17-50; or THE ENQUIR3R and any monthly magazine or weekly lewspaper published In the United States, for >ne year. For 10 and Less Than 20 SUBSCRIBERS, a CONCAVE WARRANTED RAZOR, SILVER PLATED GRAVY LADLE, or an extra quality FOUR BLADED DOCKET KNIFE, with name and address on he handle. Any of the articles mentioned vould be a bargain at 82. For 6 and Less Than 10 SUBSCRIBERS, a "CLIMAX" WATCH, waranted for one year; an extra quality THREE 3LADED POCKET KNIFE, or CHILD'8 SILVER PLATED TABLE SET. Good valles at 81.50. For 4 and Less Than 6 SUBSCRIBERS, a "YANKEE" WATCH, rvarranted for one year: "Siren" pattern BUTrER KNIFE, or TWO-BLADED POCKET KNIFE, with name and address on handle. And to Each Old Subscriber, The Yokkville Enquirer?TWICE-AWEEK?filled with bright, fresh news from rHE COUNTY, STATE, NATION AND WORLD, interesting stories, instructive mis:ellnneous matters, and humorous selections, xplanatory editorials, etc. The paper will be leld up to its present high standard, and will sontlnue prompt, explicit, reliable, and, in short, the best. To Each New Subscriber. The same as above except that if the paper s COMMENCED NOW. IT WILL BE SENT JNTIL JANUARY 1, 1896, without any :harge for that portion of the time between low and January 1, 1867. It is understood, lowever, that if the subscriber falls to pay he clubraaker the subscription price, he will < >edue him for all papers that he may have eceived. By new subscribers, we mean those whose lames were not on OUR BOOKS ON OCTOBER 1st, 1897. except we will not count as lew subscribers, cases where the subscription nay have beeD changed from the name of one nember of a family to another. This is inended emphatically to mean new additions 0 our subscription list. Note the Conditions. TWO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS at 81 >ach. will be considered the equivalent, of one yearly subscriber at 81.75 and so counted. A iubscription paid for two or more years in advance at 81.75, will be counted as one name for iach year so paid. Clubmakers will be held personally responilble for the payment of all names returned by hem. After a clubmaker has returned and mid for any name, he can. at anytime there- . ifter, discontinue the sending of the paper to he person for whom he has paid, and transfer he unexpired time to any other person, prodded the person to whom the transfer is leslred was not a subscriber at the time the irlginal name was entered on our books. No name will be counted in competition for 1 premium until the subscription price has jeen paid; nor will any premium be delivered ' antil a satisfactory settlement has been made or an naiiiCT rciumeu uy lucuuumiuci, Persons who commence making clubs will not be permitted to transfer their club to anither clubmaker's list after the names have jeen entered on our books. It Is not necessary that the names on a club should all be at the same postofflce. Names may be taken at any number of places. Clubmakers are requested to send In names is rapidly as they secure them alter October a, J8w7. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at ;he expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmlsilon of money only when sent by draft, reglsored letter or money order drawn on the Jforkvllle postofflce. In sending names, write plainly, and give postofflce, county and stale. All subscriptions will be discontinued at the ixplratlon or the time paid lor. A separate list will be kept for each clubmaker, who will be credited with each name sent, so that the number sent by any one perion may be ascertained at a moment's notice. In case of a tie for either premium, two iveeks will be allowed in which to "untie." The time In which names may be returned jnder our propositions will commence now, 23d day of October, 1897, and expire at 4 j'clock p. m., on Wednesday, the 9th day >f March, 1898. & SONS, Yorkville, S. C. 3FING COMP'NY. [JRERS OF g* IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. Hk 152 to 158 Merwln, St., Cleveland, O. c^^^and Price List F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD FIRST NATIONAL BAM Of Rock Hill, S. C. ORGANIZED JANUARY, 1887. , Capital, $75,000 inrjlos aM Profits, - - 32,000 fotal Diridends Faid, - - 54,750 rHIS BANK is prepared to handle any business entrusted to it, and soieits the accounts of Merchauts, Farmrs, and private individuals. We will xtend every accommodation consistent nth a safe and conservative management. * W. L. RODDEY, President. W. J. RODDEY, Vice President. T. L. JOHNSON, Cashier. A L. C. HARRISON, Asst. Cashier. directors: Jno. R. London, W. L. Roddey, J. E. Roddey, T. L. Johnston, A. F. Rutf, W. J. Roddey, J. H. Miller. HEATING STOVES. rHERE are for sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE cheap, six second-hand I EATING STOVES, in good condition. 'bey are of different sizes and suitable :>r burning soft coal.