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luraorous department. A Natural Lawyer.?A man dropped in on a Stockston lawyer the other day and wanted to borrow $10. "Haven't got it," said the lawyer. "Well," returned the modest man, "can't you borrow it for me ?" "I might; but you must pay back that $5 you borrowed from me a year ago first." He left. The next day be catne again, and brought the $5. "Thank you, thank you," smiled the member of the bar, pocketing the piece. "That ain't the proper thing to say; 'thank you'is too tame." "Yes?" "Yes." "What should I say, then." "Why, you ought to say, 'Come on, Old DOy,-iei S go uowu auu nave buujcthin'.' " "Well, then, come on, old boy !" They went down and had something, and the "old boy" called up his friends. There was just $3.10 left out of the half-eagle. That afternoon the "old boy" dropped in on the lawyer again. "How about that $10," he asked. "What $10?" "Why, that $10 you were going to lend me if I brought back the 5. I've come to get it." "Great Caesar! Say, just sit down over there and go to studying law. I need a man just like you ; I'm going to make you my partner."?Stockton Mail. Two Miserable Sinners.?At a revival in Rock Hollow, Deacon Budd arose to "relate his experience," and gave himself a very hard name, and so did everybody else, that he did not deserve the half of it. But it was the style for the saints to give themselves a setting down for t he benefit of sinners, and Brother Budd played it for all it was worth. "Yes, brethren and sisters," he said, in conclusion, "I'm secb a pore, mis'able sinner that it's a wonder the Lord has marcy on me. and lets me live, i ieei as u i nam t do uusiuess in sech a meeting as ibis, and my place is a corner behind the door." Sister Briney, who was a widow, and suspected of a fondness for the widower, Deacon Budd, arose and told her story, and a sad one it was. There had never been such an utterly unworthy object, such a continual monument of mercy, as Sister Briney, if her showing up of herself was to be taken for truth. "Yes, brethren and sisters," she said, at the windup, "I'm such a poor, mis'able sinner, that it's a wonder I'm allowed to stand here. I feel as if my proper place is behind the door along with Brother Budd."?Traveler's Mag-1 azine. French For Seven Button.?"Let me see some of your black kid gloves," said Mrs. Snaggs to a clerk at a Fifth avenue store. "These are not the latest styles, are they ?" she asked, when the gloves were produced. "Yes, madam," said the clerk. "We have bad them in stock only two days." "I didn't think they were, because the fashion paper says that black kids have tan stitches and vice versa." I see the tan stitches, but not the vifce versa." The clerk explained that vice versa was French for seven buttons, and Mrs. Snaggs bought the gloves. The Penalty of Profanity.? The average small boy of the present day is seldom at a loss for something to say, even iu the most embarrassing suuanons. coony, a precocious you iu of 6 summers, had been indulging in profanity, and in order to escape the punishment for which his mother had made preparations, he crawled under the barn and remained there in a state of siege for the greater part of the afternoon. When his father returned at night and learned how matters stood, he made his way, with much difficulty, under the barn in search of the boy. "Hello, pa," said Bobby cheerfully, as his sire approached, "you been swearing too!" ? ? loT "I intended to tell Jane to bring a fresh bucket of water," said the wife of Professor Nottlehead, looking up from her sewing. "You doubtless mean a bucket of fresh water," rejoined the husband. "I wish you would pay some little attention to rhetoric; your mistakes are embarrasing." Some months later the professor said : "My dear, that picture would look to advantage if you were to hang it over the clock." "Ah !" she replied ; "you doubtless mean if I were to bang it above the clock. If I were to hang it over the clock we couldn't tell what time it is. I wish you would pay some attention to rhetoric; your mistakes are embarrassing." How Long He Would Wait.? "How long would you be willing to wait for me?" she asked, in tones so low be could scarcely catch the words. And then she went on : "You know, George," she said, "that father has recently invested in a western silver mine, and he is going there at once aud I cannot leuve mother alone. So I ask you again, George, how long would you be willing to wait for me " "Wait for you, my darling," repeated George with deep emotion, for his was no fleeting love, my dear readers ; "I will wait for you until we learn how the silver miue pans out." A Reasonable Explanation.? "If you are a quiet, honest citizen of New York, how did these skeletonkeys and brass-knuckles happen to be found in your pants pocket?" asked Judge Duffy of a hardlooking case. "Were those things really found in my pants?" asks the prisoner, incredulously. "You know very well that they were." "Well, judge, the only explanation I can offer is that during the scutlle nie and the policeman who arrested tne must have changed pants. We were very much excited at the time." I ^International ^rosoiir.. ITHE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 29. Text of the Lemon, John iv, 5-15. Memory Verses. 13-15?Golden Text, John It, 14?Commentary Prepared by the Rev. D. M. Stearnn. [Copyright. 1S98. by D. M. Stearns.] 5. "Then cometh Ho to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychnr, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his T " *L? lo nnninfcod with the bUIl uuocpu. XAV ?* Holy Ghost and with power and goes about doing good, seeking never His own will, but always the will of His Father, and all His steps as well as all His words and actions are ordered by the Father (Acts x, 38; John vi, 38; xiv, 10; Pa xxxvii, 23). To live such a life is the business of the Christian, and Christ in us will live that life if we yield fully to Him. 6. "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, beiiig wearied with his journey, sat thu9 on the well, and it was about the | sixth hour." As we said in a previous lesson, probably 6 a. in., according to | John's way of counting. He would be journoying eurly, so as to avoid the heat | of tho day. Ho is weary, for He is truly roan and in all points tempted like as wo { are We have not a high priest who cannot bo touched with a feeling of our infirmities. He knoweth our frame; He remembers that wo are but dust. 7. "There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink." For our sakos He put Himself in the limitations of a mortal body, liable to weariness, hunger, thirst, suffering and death. He who made all things and upholds all things made Himself ^dependent upon the ministry of others for the necessities of life. He fed millions with manna for nearly 40 years and ' u*" ?*?- f?nnb at Tlln nlftAfi uruugiiu waici iiuiu vuv 4W? ? ? r ure. 8. "For His disojples were gone away unto the city to buy meat." He who said, Come, buy wino and milk without money and without price (Isa. lv, 1) sends his disciples to buy with money things neoessary for the body. It is very difficult for us to believe the extent of His humiliation. We cannot understand how rich He was nor how poor He became for our Bakes (II Cor viii, 9), but wo can look up gratefully and say, Lord, I thank thee for bearing it for me! 9. "How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans." Thus answered the woman of Samaria. How different from Rebekuh when Eliezer said, Let me drink, I pray thee (Gen. xxlv, 45, 46). See in II Kings, 17, the origin of these Samaritans. Do good unto all, especially to the household of faith, and give to him that asketh thee are good precepts to remember and practice, for not only is it more blessed to give than receive, but not even a cup of cold water given in the name of a disciple shall lose its reward (Acts xx, 85; Math, x, 42). 10. "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that 6ulth to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of Him, and Ho would have given thee living water." The gift of God i6 the Son of God, as we saw in last lesson (3-16). If the woman had ever learned what we call Isa. lv, 6ho might now have thought of the words, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!" and have said, Art thou He of whom Isaiah wrote? If sho had known Jer. ii, 13, she might have asked, Art thou a fountain of living water? But she knew not these things; 6he was not living unto God, yet her soul was precious in God's sight. 11. "Tho woman saith unto Him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence, then, hast thou that living water?" Whether it be rich, religious ilesh, as in Kicodemus, or poor, sinful ticsh, as in this woman, it is in either case ignorant of spiritual things. The well is too deep, and the natural man has nothing to draw with. The woman unwittingly described her own condition in her words to our Lord. She thought only of natural water, u rope and a bucket She did not know the words of Isa. xii, 8, 'With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation."- He testified what Ho knew and had seen. Those who believe His testimony proclaim Him as the Truth, but those who receive not His testimony make Him a liar. Let us as faithful witnesses proclaim what we have heard and seen (I John i, 8). 12. "Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof himself und his children and bis cattle?" In chapter viii, 63, the rulers ask Him, "Art thou greater than our father Abraham? Greater than Solomon or Jonah (Math, xii, 41, 42), greater than prophots or patriarchs, greater than angels or archangel, one with God the Fachor, God manifest in the fiesh, how meekly He bore it all, to be so unknown, so misunderstood! Are you, for His sake, willing to have some one far beneath you socially or intellectually spoken of as better than you, and can you keep still? Can you bear to hear some other land or oity honored above yours and be meekly quiet because your city is New Jerusalem? 13. "Jesus unswered and said unto her, Whosoever drinkcth of this water shall thirst again." Both literally and figuratively true. The first tho woman could grasp, for sho came often to draw water, but the seoond sho understood not. But few have yet learned that the waters of this world cannot satisfy, and the multitudes seek the pleasures of sin, which satisfy but for a season. They hew themselves out cisterns that can hold no water (Heb. xi, 25; Jer. ii, 13). 14. "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him 6hall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life." Christ in us, the hope of glory is a well that not only abundantly satisfies, but is ever springing up to refresh others. It is possible to bo satisfied with favor and full with the blessing of the Lord (Deut. xxx, 28), so occupied with God that tho plqpsurea of this world liavo no power over us. In chapter 1 we have water in conneotion with the forgiveness of sins, in ohapter 2 water in connectioflpvith the wine of the kingdom at the marriage of the Lamb, in chapter 3 water in connection with the first step toward the kingdom. Here we have an advance, for every believer may be a well of water if only willing. 15. "The woman saith unto Him, Sir, give rae this wuter, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw." She still thought only of natural water, but soon, as His lovo and wisdom continued to deal with her, she began to see herself a sinner Then she saw Him as the Messiah and her Saviour, she received llim as such, und joy so filled her thut she forgot all else but Him and run to bear the glad tidings to others. 8&" Education is not what is put into a" man, it is what he is capable of putting out. To gather the knowledge of others and place it in our memory, no more makes it ours than putting stones in our stomachs makes it a part of our food. Like food, knowledge must be made over, digested, assimilated, before it becomes our own. 2Hisccllanrous Reading. THE AKKANSAW TRAVELER. As Told By Colonel "Sandy" Faulkner. The following introduction by an unremembered "explainer," tells the story of the origin of the "Arkansaw Traveler." Colonel Sandy Faulkner, the original Arkansaw Traveler, was born in Georgetown, Scott county, Kentucky, March 3, 1803. He came to Arkansaw in 1820 and settled in Chichob county on the Mississippi river as a cotton planter. In 1820, Colonel Faulkner, (with his father, the late Nicholas Faulkner, a Virgiuiat^by birth,) took up bis residence in Little Rock where he died August 4, 1874, at the age of 71 years. It is well-known throughout the northwest that Colonel Faulkner was the original personator of the "Arkansaw Traveler." It was his pride to be known as such. The story, it is said, was founded on a little incident which occurred in the campaign of 1840, when be made the tour of the state iu company with the Hon. A. H. Server, Governor Fulton, Chester Ashley and Governor Yell. One day in the Boston mountain, the party approached asquatter's for information of the route, and Colonel "Sandy" was made spokesman of the company, and it was upon his witty response the tune and story were founded. Ou returning to Little Rock, a great banquet was given in the famous "bar room" which used to stand near the Anthony House, and Colonel "Sandy" was called upon to play the tune and tell the story. Afterward it grew into popularity. When he subsequently went to New Orleans, the fame of the "Arkansaw Traveler" had cone ahead of him, and at a banquet amid clinking glasses and briliant toasts, he was hauded a violin by the then governor of Louisiana, and requested to favor them with the favorite Arkansaw tune. At the old St. Charles hotel a special room was devoted to his use bearing in gilt letters over the door, "Arkansaw Traveler." DIALOGUE. Traveler?Hello, stranger. Stranger?Hello, yourself. T.?Can I get to stay all night with you ? S.?No, sir; you can't git to T.?Have you got any spirits here ? S.?Lots uv 'em ; Sal seen one last night by that ar old holler gum, aud it nearly skeered her to death. T.?You mistake my meauiug ; have you got any liquor? S.?Had some yesterday ; but old Bose, he got in and lapped all of it out'n the pot. T.?You don't understand; I don't mean pot liquor. I'm wet and cold and want some whisky. Have you got any ? S.?Oh, yes?I drunk the last this mornin'. T.?I'm hungry ; haven't had anything since morning; can't you give me something to eat? S.?Hain't got a durn thing in the house. Not a moufful of meat, uor a dust uv meal here. T.?Well, can't you give my horse somethiug? S.?Got nothin' to feed 'im on. T.?How for is it to the next house? S.?I don't know, I've never been thar. T.?Well, do you know who lives here ? I S.?Yes, sir! T.?As I'm so bold, then, what might your name be? S.?It might be Dick, an'lt might be Tom ; but it lacks a right smart uv it. T.?Sir! will you tell me where this road goes to ? S.?It's never gone anywhar since I've lived here; it's always tbar when I git up in the morniu'. T.?Well, how far is it to where it forks? S.?It don't fork at all; but it splits up like the devil. T.?As I'm not likely to get to any other house tonight, cau't you let me sleep in yours; and I'll tie my horse to a tree, and do without anything to eat or drink ? S.?My house leaks. Tbar's only one dry spot in it, and me and Sal sleeps on it. And that thar tree is the ole woman's persimmon ; you can't tie to it, 'cause she don't want em shuk off. She lows to make beer out'n em. T.?Why don't you finish covering your house and stop the leaks? S.?It's been rainin' all day. T.?Well, why don't you do it iu dry weather ? S.?It don't leak then. T.?As there seems to be nothing alive about your place but childreu, how do you do here, anyhow ? S.?Purty well, I thank you, how do you do yourself? T.?I mean what do you do for a living here? C touorn onr] ap] 1 whiskV T. ?Well, I told you I wanted some whisky. S.?Stranger, I bought a bar'l morn'n a week ago. You see, me and Sal went shars. Arter we got it here, we only had a bit between us, and Sal she didn't want to use heru fust, nor me mine. You see I had a spiggen in one eend, and she in t'other. So she takes a drink out'n my eend, and pays me the bit for it; then I'd take one out'n hern, and give her the bit. Well, we'sgetting along fust-rate, till Dick, durned skulkin' skunk, he bored a bole in the bottom to suck at, and the next time I went to buy a drink, they wan't none thar. T.?I'm sorry your whisky's all out; but, my friend, why don't you play the balance of that tune ? S.?It's got no balance to it. T.?I mean you don't play the whole of it. S.?Stranger, can you play the fiddul? T.?Yes, a little, sometimes. S.?You don't look like a fiddlur, but ef you think you can play anymore outo that thar tune, you kin just try it. [The traveler takes the fiddle and plays the whole of it.] S.?Stranger, tuck half duzen cheers and sot down. Sal, stir yourself round like a six-horse team in a mud hole. Go round in the holler whar I killed that buck this mornin', cut off some of the best pieces, and fotch it and cook it for me and this gentleman, directly. Raise up the board under the head of the bed, and git. the old , black jug I hid from Dick, and gin us I some whisky; I know thar is some left yit. Til, drive Ole Bose out'n the bread tray, and climb up in the loft, git the rag that's got the sugar tied in it. Dick, carry the gentleman's horse round under the shed, and give him some fodder and corn ; much as he 1 kin eat. Til?Dad, they ain't knives enuff for to sot the table. S.?Whar's big butch, little butch, pie case, cob-handle, granny's knife, ' and the one I handled yesterday ? That's nufF to sot any gentleman's 1 table, thout'n you've lost um. Durn 1 me stranger, ef you can't stay as long as you please, and I'll give you plenty to eat and drink. Will you have coffee fnr nnnnor 9 ouj/j/vi t T.?Yes, sir. S.?I'll be hanged if you do, tho', we don't bave notbin' that way here, but Grub Hyson, and I reckon its mighty good with sweetenin'. Play away, stranger, you kin sleep on the dry spot touight. T.?(After two hours' fiddling.) My frieu.*, can't you tell me about the road I'm to travel tomorrow? S.?Tomorrow 1 Stranger, you won't git out'n these diggiu's for six weeks ! But when it gits so you can start, you see that big sloo over thar ? Well, you bave to git crost that, then you take the road up the bank, and in about a mile you'll come to a two-acre-and-abalf-corn-patch. The corn is mitily in the weeds, but you needn't mind that; just ride on. About a mile and a hall or two miles from thar, you'll cum to the dampest swamp you ever struck in all your travels; its boggy enuff to mire a saddle blanket. Thar's a fustrate road about six feet under thar. , T.?How am I to get at it? S.?You can't git at it nary time till the weather stiffens down sum. Well, about a mile beyant, you come to a place where there's no road. You can lake the right bund ef you want to ; you'll foller it a mile or so, and you'll find it's run out; you'll then have to come back and try the left; when you git about two miles on that you may know you'r wrong, fur they ain't any road thar. You'll then think your'e rnity lucky ef you can find the way back to my house, whar you can cum and play on that ar tune as long as you. please. BRYAN UN FREE SILVER. SayH the IsHue Will Remain Until Settled Right. Colonel Wm. J. Bryan declared at Dtnver, Col., last Tuesday in a brief speech, which he made at a public reception given to him by the Bi-Melallic League of that city, that the silver issue is still very much alive. He said : "The cause lives because it embodies the hopes, the aspirations and the belief of our people. It is a strong cause, because the people need silver. The American people favor bi-metallism. Never miDd where silver is produced? we do not need it because it is produced here. People eat because of the need, and not because food has to he consumed, and so with gold and silver. They are important in the world's commerce, because tbey are needed and you can never destroy silver while it i9 needed. The farmer, the creator of wealth, knows that the gold standard lowers prices without raising money, and if the gold staudard should once be established you may set it down that the date of bankruptcy is not far ahead. To restore bi metallism is to restore the parity between money and property. Those who advocate the gold staudard, as a rule, know that the gold dollar is not stable nor honest. The strength of the gold staudard is to be found in the money centres, and its strongest advocates are those who, when their dollar is invested, want it to go up. If our cause i9 just, and I firmly believe it is, its triumph is sure. Truth cannot be crushed to earth. The hour of death is not here." McCRAW'S BICYCLE BILL. What Charleston Wheelmen Think of the Cherokee Statesman. News and Courier, Tuesday. The Charleston wheelmen have read something recently about a bill before the present legislature to prevent cyclists from passing any person on horseback or driving without the permission of the owners of horse or team, and they are wondering whether the author of the bill rides a wheel or owns a horse. They are also anxious to know what the state of South Carolina will do in regard to this attempt at "class legislation." If there is auy reason why the proud owner of a nag should be consulted before the bumble wheelman or wheelwoman can cross his path and spin ahead, then the average bicycle rider would like to bear of it. "Just imagine," said a man yesterday, (who rides his wheel to and from bis business and also uses this modern steed for pleasure trips), "how delightful it would be for me to come up behind a procession of cotton drays on Meeting street, for instance, and be obliged to ask permission from each ol the Negro drivers before I could proceed across their path and get to the office? I don:t know who Mr. McCraw, the author of the proposed law, may be; but I'll bet a hat he has tried to learn the wheel and found it too swift for him. Anyway, I fail to see why a representative from Cherokee should undertake to legislate on such matters for the entire state. If they need rules like that in Cherokee, why let the local or county authorities fix them. Charleston doesn't need any such thing, and if she did the city council would very properly pass au ordinance to that effect. There are something like 5,000 wheelmen and wheel women in Charleston and the riders range in age from 8 to 80 years. There is rarely an accident of any kind to riders, and the law proposed, to compel a cyclist to wait behind a team until permission is given to pass, would be utterly absurd. On the whole, I believe it would be worse than ridicu- < lous, for it would give the driver of I any vehicle the right to be iusolent, < and, as such a law would be openly I violated every hour in the day, it | would encourage ill-tempered team- f sters to interfere with cyclists whenever the opportunity occurred." 1 GUS DEAL IN HAVANA. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. this, I remembered having heard somewhere that depression of the mind constituted a considerable portion of most cases of sickness, and so I thought, "what a magnificent opportunity to make a lest by cheering up." [ tried the remedy and found it to be an heroic one; but the hardest case of "cheering up," I had ever even heard of. First I tried to see the funny side of it, and had I been well myself and up on deck or on land, I might have been able to do so. Then I tried to recall all the funny things that I have ever read about seasickness; but I thought of oranges and lemons instead, and then I thought of the hard-tack. canned-beef and pork and beans that had beeu offered me that night for supper. I could think no more, and so calling to my bunkie above to bold up, as it was my turn, I resigned myself again wearily to seasickness. Finally, when my bunkie declared so emphatically that be bad thrown up everything but bis job, I remembered Senator Vance's saying that ou a trip across the Atlantic, be bad thrown up everything except bis seat in congress. And again, when "Dad," an old white haired man of my own company was begging so piteously to be killed, I thought of Mark Twain's description of seasickness, "One" moment you are afraid you are going to die and the next you wish you could." But Seuator Vance and Mark Twaiu never traveled like cattle in the filthy hold of a transport ship, or possibly their expressions might have been a little stronger. The next night I had to find a new place to sleep, for to go down into that reeking hold, wade through filth and breathe the foul air, I could not and would not. But to find a place on an overcrowded ship where every inch almost above was already taken, was not so easy. However, I braved the heavy dew and the chance of rolling off into the sea, and went to sleep peacefully euough on a little space ol the deck ; but a hard rain soon came on and I was driven in. Then I went to the extreme rear end of the ship, where the vibrations of the propeller would almost shake you into a jelly, and wearily lay down in a little narrow passage. I was soon waked, however, by one of the sailors violeutiy "stampiug his trademark upon my expression." I shouted after him as he hurried ofT, and stretched out again. Very soon I was reawakened l?y another sailor trampling ou me ; this time on my sore stomach. It was too much I urose hotter than the place to which I consigned him, to hear him mutter angrily as he stumbled off, "vot der h?II, you mean blocken up der gungway !" I then began to ramble aimlessly, stupidly about the ship tryiug to find some place to lie down ; but every nook was full to overflowing, and the men were strung out on each side of the narrow passages, while the rain was still beating bard on the deck above. Finally I spied some of the teamsters sleepiug in the old hay and manure under the troughs of the mules. I immediately turned in, and although I was still very sick and the mules frightened me by continually running forward when the ship would lurch heavily, I managed to get to sleep, and so passed my second night. Early the next morning, knowing that we would come in sight of Havana about 12 o'clock that night, 1 secured a place on deck and held it all day. The breeze was so strong and delightful that I began to revive and take an interest in life again. By night I was eagerly watching to get my first glimpse of the lights of the famous Morro castle. It came in view about 12.30 a. m., and a little later the scores of twinkling lights of the city of Havana. We drifted during the rest of the night and entered the harbor the next morning, passiug up the narrow channel by Morro and Cabanas fortresses at about 8 a. m. A little later we passed the ill-starred Maine. The band played the "National Hymn," while the men reverentially uncovered and strained eagerly forward to see. The harbor was full of shipping, and off to the east were several of the United States naval ships. Among them I recognized the Brooklyn and the Texas. We were soon in dock and the difficult task of unloading the mules begun. Alongside of us lay the immense and well appointed Mobile? the largest and best transport in the government service?which had come in the afternoon before, bringing the Fourth and Ninth Illinois regiments. The First battalion was landed, held in the streets several hours, and about 1 o'clock, without any dinner other -' 1 ?:?:? ~i r-..:. ?k?? man ine quuuuwea ui n un man mt men bad eaten, started on the ninemile march to camp. A good many fell out and took the ambulances and wagons; but it was no disgrace in this case, for they were weak. aud some still sick from the voyage across. There was considerable confusiou in unloading the ship, for the company baggage had gotten mixed and the canteen goods were at the top, while the tents, which must be gotten out and used at once, were packed away at the bottom. However, a few tents were gotten out and we were thankful to escape the exceedingly heavy dew by sleeping 14 and 15 in a tent. The tents are large, betpg 14 feet square and having six men to the tent. We are supplied with nice folding cots. The duties are light and the men generally are having a very pleasant time of it. They are contiuually exploring the country round about, marveling at ifa lunnflopa anrt mnkinor n rmii I'fll fl V "" ?? o "r i j futile attempts to speak Spanish. Many have expressed their intention of remaiuiug or returning here, and the high wages paid and splendid prospects in farming seem certainly to justify their decision ; but wait uutil the warm weather comes on and we will see how many will begin to realize that South Carolina, the white man's country, is their slate, their home and the best place after all. I am in splendid health, mamma, and enjoying the trip immensely. Give ray kindest regards to every one and write to me soon. Trusting that you are all well, I am, svith a heart full of love, Gus. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. < Summary of the Newa That In Being Pub- \ ll?he<l by Exchangee. CHESTER?The Lantern, January 1 17 : Elsewhere will be found a eard nominating Paul Hemphill, Esq., for 1 mayor of Chester at the election, 1 Tuesday, May 2, 1899. Miss Bes- ! sie Lindsay returned yesterday from a 1 visit to Misses Clara and Bessie Hoi- ' land, in Gaatonia, and her sister, Mrs. ' J. R. Miller, at Rock Hill. At a J regular meeting held last night of Chester Conclave No. 108, Knights of 1 Damon the following officers were 1 elected : Commander, Francis Os- j borne ; vice commander, W. N. Walk- ' er; prelate, J. R. Culp, Jr.; secretary, ' Arthur E. Cornwell; treasurer, Paul 1 Hemphill; collector, I. N. Cross; sr. ' warden, J. E. Cornwell; jr. warden, D. E. Colvin ; sentinal, J. E. Sloan; medical examiner, Dr. S. W. Pryor. 1 Mrs. M. J. Knox, of Richburg vicinity, ' died last Wednesday, aged about 63 1 years. Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. C. B. Betta, at Union church, and the remaius were ' buried there, on Thursday. LAN CASTER?The Ledger, Janu- 1 ary 18 : The town electiou for Ker- < shaw will be held next Monday. We hear of no opposition to the re electiou < of the present efficient incumbent, Mayor E. D. Blakeney. Rev. J. E. J Carlisle will preach at the cotton mill next Sunday, morning and night. His 1 appointment for the mill this year is the fourth Sabbath in each month. 1 Justice Ira B. Joues came home yesterday from Columbia to be preseut at the marriage of his daughter, Miss ; Rosa Jones, to Dr. Paul B. Mariou, ol J Richburg, which happy event will take place at the residence at high noou today. Chief Justice Henry Mclver, Justice Y. J. Pope, Justice Eugene B. I Gary and Judge Ernest Gary ure also 1 here to attend the wedding. Among 1 other guests at Justice Jones1 are Mr. aud Mrs. S. B. Joues, Mrs. M. A. Ren- 1 wi..lf Vlrn Miss Nannie I' Renwick aud Miss Neville Pope, of Newberry ; Miss Marie Gary, of Abbeville ; Miss Tiny Elliolt, of Winnsboro; Miss Marguerite Durham, of Marion, aud Mrs. Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville. Review, January 18 : Police- . man Pat-Due arrested Mr. Joseph Clark last Saturday us he was returning from North Carolina with some six or seven gallons of liquor in his buggy. The liquor and turnout were turned over to the council; but the latter was subsequently released. Mayor Thomson telegraphed the governor to know what to do with the whisky, aud was directed to ship it to Columbia. He is holding it, however, for further advice. From what' we cau learn, Mr. Clark oas not violated the law, aud the whisky seized should be surrendered. It was in three separate vessels, one keg for himself aud the other two for other parties, with the name of each on the keg, marked for personal use as the law requires. A WOMAN DEFENDS HUDSON. Says the Kansas City Reporters Slandered the Merriinac Hero. New York Sun. When Lieutenant Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac, passed through Kansas City recently it was said in the newspaper that he had been kissed by more than 400 women and that be had encouraged them in their osculatory exercises. So far Mr'. Hobson has said nothing in his own defense, if he needs auy, and no one has seen fit to defend him from the attacks of his critics. A young woman of Kansas City, howRow V in?AiiiTFiyt Makes the food more de woval baxtwo pow SOUTH CAROLINA k t TIME TAB IN EFFECT 12.01 A. M.,SC WEST?1st Class Daily. Leaves, a. m., 7 10 Charli 44 a. m., 6 20 Augi " a. in., 9 20 Colur 14 a. m., 10 10 Kings WEST. NORTH CAROL 81 I 75 I 77 I 2d class 2d class lstcla's STATI a. m. ! a. m. ; a. m. lea vs. 8 20 ! 11 40 Cam ' 8 50 > 12 00 DeK; I 9 05 12 12 West : 10 10 12 40 Kersl 10 30 12 55 HeathS : 10 40 l 00 Pleasan j 11 50 i 1 20 Lanw ; 12 15 1 35 River 1 50 1 50 : Catawba J 3 10 2 15 Rock 3 50 2 35 | _Tirz 4 4U , z to i iorni i 5 10 3 03 i Shar 5 30 ! 3 18 Hickory 5 45 ; 3 30 Smy 7 40 6 20 j 3 35 I Blacks 8 00 ' 4 10 Ear 8 10 1 4 15 Patterson 9 00 4 25 Shell 9 35 j 4 45 Lattim 9 48 4 52 Moores 10 10 1 5 02 Henr 10 35 [ 5 19 Fores 11 00 1 J 5 34 Rntherfi 11 45 5 59 ' Therms 12 10 6 14 i Glenw 12 35 j 6 30 i Mari p. m. ; p. m. . p. m. i west. GAFFNEY 85 83 Mixed. Mixed. STAT3 p. m. j a. m. leavk. 4 10 I 5 .30 Blacks! 4 35 S 50 Cherokee 5 00 (J 20 Gatl'm p. m. a. m. j [ Train- No. 77, going west, makes daylight R. R.; at Rock Hill with the Southern R. the Southern. Traiu No. 78, going east, ni the Southern R. R.; at Blackshurg with t L. & C. R. R. Train No. 81, going east, ilia) S. A. L. R. R. going east. All local freight with tickets. I. A. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. I iver, has written a letter to an officer n the navy who is stationed in New fork, in which the Hobson incident is eferred to as follows : There is a set of young reporters in ,his city who vie with one another in writing up any hit of news in the wit,iest (?), most entertaining manner, and n their efforts to excel they ruthlessly sacrifice courtesy, justice, and truth. [ am in position to know that the newspaper accounts are a gross exaggera,ion of facts. At no time during the eception (from 4 p. m. until 5.30 p. 11.) was there a crowd or anything ipproa<?bing a crowd. 10 my judgment 300 is a sufficiently large estimate of ;he number of persons who attended, *ud the reporters' story that 417 by ictual count kissed Mr. Hobson or were kissed by him I do not hesitate & cull a falsehood. The reception was i very impromptu, informal affair, and i frieud who atteuded assures me that % large majority of those who kissed Mr. Hobson were school girls. The men themselves are largely responsible for the ukissing bee," as the papers are pleased to call it, for the tirst person who kissed him was a young girl whose father remarked, as be introduced her, "Now, Margaret, you know what all the girls do when they meet Mr. Hobsou," and a gentleman who was largely iustrumeutal in bringiug the lieutenant to Kansas City told in my preseucc of his slipping ? * ? J 1 1J! ... behind iVir. nousou una noiaipg a spray bf mistletoe over bis head. Mr. Hobson came to the city, an in- , vited, honored guest. For one small fault be has been misrepresented, unjustly accused and grossly insulted. It a disgrace to Kausas City that her leadiug papers should use their columus to so belittle and dishonor a man whose pure life, brilliant mind and heroic deeds entitle bim to the homage of bis countrymen. Mr. Hobson made a mistake in encouraging or permitting the kissing, aud I regret extremely that be placed himself in. position to be so unmercifully criticised, but my love of fuir play will not allow me to remain silent when bis friends are assured that the high colored specimens of yellow journalism are correct reports of what happened. * CAROLINA & NORTH-WESTERN |j RAILWAY CO. 4 Time Table No. 7?In Effect Oct. 30,1898. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. QOIMQ NORTH. | No 10. | No SO. Leav e Chester 7 20am 9 00am Leave Lowrysvllle _.... 7 41 am 9 35am Leave McConnellsville 7o7am 10 05am Leave Outhriesville.... 805am 10 20am Leave Yorkvllle 825am 1100am r Leave Clover 856am 1148am Leave Gastonla ; 9 27am 120pm Leave Unco In ton 10 20 a m 2 40 pm Leave Newton 1105 am 4 00 pm Leave Hickory 1155am 665pm Arrive Lenoir? 12 52am 800pm oonro booth. | No. 9, | No 61. Leave Lenoir ?...I 4 15pm 6 00am Leave Hickory .. 5 15 pm 815am Leave Newton 1 6 06pm 9 00am Leave Lincolnton - I 6 56pm 10 20am " * - I 1 nm 1 OH n m Leave uasionm i w p?i * j* ? Leave Clover 8 32 pm 2 90 pm Leave Yorkvllle 9 01pm 345pm Leave Guthrlesvllle ... 9 20 pm 4 15 pm Leave McConnellsville 9 28pm 4 30pm Leave Lowrysvllle 9 46pm 6 00pm Arrive Chester I 10 11 pm 5 15 pm Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 60 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. <fe C. A. L.; at Lincolnton with C. C.: and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. G. F. HARPER, G. P. A., Lenoir. N. C J. M. MOORE, G. F. A., Lenoir. N. C. E. F. REID, Auditor, Lenoir, N. C., L. T. NICHOLS, Supt., Chester, S. C. 4 Baking ^ Powder Hire licious and wholesome BORGIA RAILROAD (II. . LE NO. 1?>. NDAY, OCTOBER 2,1898. EAST?1st Class Daily. sston, n 8 00 arrives p. m. ista, 10 45-arrives p. m. nhia 0 arrives p. UJ. "ille'V.V.V.. 4 28 arrives p. nK_ INA DIVISION. EA8T| 18 I 74 I 82 I ONS. 1st claV2d class 2d class ABBIVE. P. M. P. M. P. M. ^ ~ 3 00 ; 430 ?,ehn 2 40 4 00 Jin'e 2 28 3 40 !e' 2 15 3 15 tia\v' I l 45 2 10 li> 200 ' V 1 20 1 20 la^r- ! 1 05 12 15 3ia8? 19 V) 11 20 r?ycy?n 11 25 9 50 J1'11 12 05 8 15 SV;- ::: n 52 7 50 rlUe? 11 37 7 15 * ?"? 11 22 6 50 11 10 0 30 10 45 0 00 i 7 25 !bur& 10 30 7 00 is,?.* 10 25 .J 0 45 Springs 10 15 6 30 - 9 55 5 10 '"re, 0 43 ! 4 52 iboro 9 33 , 4 25 9 2i | 4 00 t W 9 06 | 3 30 ardton, 8 41 2 50 '1 8 24 i 2 25 8 10 1 2 00 ion A. M. A. M. P. M. branch. east. ! 84 80 QjjS. Mixed. Mixed. ABBIVE. A. M. P. M. ! 7 30 i 6 30 < ,Uvjf,'i" 7 05 ; 6 05 1 a"s' 6 40 j 5 40 | A. M. I P. M. connection at Lancaster with the L. AC. R. going north ; at Blacksburg with lakes connection at Marion, N. C? with he Southern, and at Lancaster with the ces connection at Shelby, N. C., with the traius will carry passengers if provided S. B. LUMPKIN, Div. Pass. Agent.