tumorous Department. Any More Questions ?? Max O'Rell tells a good story of Mr. William j Redmond, an Irish member of parliament. Mr. Redmond was once ad- \ dressing a meeting of Irishmen in the t Centenary hall at Sydney, Australia, and at the conclusion of his speech | the audience rosa en masse and cheer- j ed themselves hoarse. The chairman, who was a very meek and mild man, ( at length succeeded in restoring quiet, ( and said, "Gentlemen, I am requested by Mr. Redmond to say that if any one wishes to ask him a question, he ( will be glad to answer it." A man arose from the body of the meeting and ascended the platform. I "Mr. Chairman," he said; but he ( never got any further. He was recognized at once as a notorious Orange- 1 man, and, quick as a flash, a great, ] big specimen of an Irishman sprang at him and struck him in the temple. ( The man fell like a log, and it was ( thought that he was killed by the blow. They carried him out on a stretcher j and sent for doctors. Imagine the ex- j citement all this time, continuing for a quarter of an hour. ? Finally the chairman rapped gently j on the edge of his desk, advanced to the front of the platform with is eyeglasses poised on the end of his fingers, " and there was quiet at once. Then, j very deliberately, the chairman said : "Gentlemen, is there any one else who would like to ask Mr. Redmond a 1 question ?" ( . ?. 1 A Surprised Bishop.?A certain well-known bishop recently went to a J town to periorm a marriage cereuiuuj. He arrived the day before the weddiDg, and he left at the same time the bridal pair did, although he was driveD to a different railway station. Ashe passed through the station, carrying his traveling bag, he was aware that be was creating a sensation ; but was totally at a loss to account for it. Ou the platform he found that he was still the object of amused attention. The porter positively snickered as he passed his carriage, and the church dignitary felt the fdrce to demand the reason. "What is the matter with you, my man ?" asked the bishop. The porter's smirk broadened into a laugh. "Ain't you left the good lady, sir?" he chuckled. "Eh?" exclaimed the bishop in surprise. Then his eye fell on the side of his traveling bag, which the porter had just turned round. There, glued to it, was a wide strip of white satin ribbon, on which was painted in large letters: "Married this morning." The facetiously minded best man had mistaken the bishop's traveling bag for that of the bridegroom. The All Important Question.? A North Omaha Sunday school super interment arways conducts iue iwsuu j review in his school. He spends about five minutes in explaining the lesson, and then asks: "Now, has any one a question to ask ?" Last Sunday he explained the lesson as usual, dwelling at length on its chief thoughts, and wound up with the usual question : "Now, has any one a question to I ask ?" A member of the boys' junior class raised bis hand. "Well, what is your question ?" asked the superintendent. "Please, sir, are we going to have a picnic this summer?"?Omaha WorldHerald. t8T "I will ask you now," the attorney for the prosecution said to the witness, "if the defendant in this case confessed to you his motive in shooting the deceased ?" "Hold on !" interrupted the attorney for the defense. "I object." "I only want to find out whether?" "I object!" Legal wrangle of half an hour. "The witness may answer," ruled the judge. "Now, then, sir, I will ask you again. Did or did not the prisoner confess to u:. *: yvu uis uiuiive iu auuuuug iuc uc- ? ceased ?" "He did." 1 "What was it?" "He wanted to kill him."?Chicago J Tribune. < The Sadness of Love.?Jack?It \ is time for me to go, dearest. I shall ^ be locked out, and I left my nightkey in my room. Jess?Must you go? Jack?Yes, really. You wouldn't 1 want me to sit in the park until morn- ' iug, would you ? Jess?No ; but I see you so seldom. j Jack?I have been here every night since New Year's. Jess?I know, but a day is such an age. ! Jack?I know, dearest (sighs,) and the days are growing longer now.? ! Harlem Life. He Still Had Them.?Judge?I ' see you lost a couple of frout teeth in ' the fracas. Prisoner?No, your honor, I didn't ! lose them. ! Judge?But they are missing. Prisoner ? Yes, but I swallowed 1 them.?Chicago News. ?6T He?Do you know, I am tempted ] to kiss you ? She?If you kiss me, sir, you will either have to get another man to do ' it for you or get some other girl to help you do the kissing.?Boston j Transcript. ] Wanted Further Orders.?Em- . ployer?Pat, if you should meet Mc- i Manus on the way, tell him to be sure to call at my office in the morning. | Pat?All roight, sor. An' if Oi don't , mate him, phwat will Oi be afther tell- , in' him ??Chicago News. , ; j "Where is the island of Java sit- ' uated ?" asked a schoolteacher of a I small, rather forlorn-looking boy. "I < dutino, sir." "Don't you know where i coffee comes from?" "Yes, sir; we i borrows it from the next-door neighbor." i Wayside (gatherings. B8T In 1800 there were 200 horses in Australia; in 1900 there are 2,000,000. t@?* The world's supply of diamonds s 20 times greater than it was 30 years ?go. S&T In a short time the Japanese copulation of San Francisco will reach J?),000. 8?" William J. Bryan has returned o Lincoln, Neb., for a stay of two nonths. t&r You cannot dream yourself into jharacter ; you must hammer aud forge yourself one. tdr Omaha now has over 300,000 jopulation, while the Indian Territory slaims over 400,000. J6T You will discover what a numjer of things you can do without when ?ou have no money to get them. In many parts of California }uail pick up grain with the domestic jhicken and roost in orchard trees. J?" The total value of the exports "rom Manila from August 13, 1898, to December 31,1899, was $19,838,355. Some people are uever satisfied. The man who finds fault with August leat will complain of cold in February. g@~No Japanese is ever guilty of wearing, for the simple reason that )atbs are unknown to the Japanese anguage. J6T Within 20 years California has idded half a million to its population, )r five times as many as the entire population of Arizona. The tallest man in Maryland ives in Carroll county, near the town )f Westminster, and, with a strange ippropriateness, his name is Miles Dong. ?6T He that doeth a deed and look3th about him on the right and the eft for applause, will find vanity to be she father of the deed aud criticism its sponsor. Over 1,000.000,000 feet of logs ivere cut in the pine forests of Minnesota during the season just closed, rhe industry in the state employs 16,\f\f\ man /vv ujuu. Since 1868 the corn production )f this country has increased more ihan 152" per cent., while the proluction of wheat has increased nearly 15 per cent. Statistics show that more money s spent in the United States for eggs ,h'an for flour.. Farmers want to look ifter their poultry and improve it by jetting better stock. B&F The recent floods in Texas have lot injured the cotton crop. The eason is that the cotton seasou in the jone Star state is very backward this rear, and no extensive planting has ret been done. 6?T The thimble was first called the 'thumb ball," because it was used on he thumb instead of the finger, as at >resent. The word soon evolutcd into humble. The word thimble is comjaratively modern. BST Farmers in the vicinity of Wichta are arranging to attend the Democratic convention at Kansas City in caravans. There will probably be a rain of 100 wagons. They will leave he farms a week before the convenion? At a flower show recently held n London a vine was exhibited that vas said to have been grown from >eeds taken from the tomb of an Egyptian mummy 2,000 years old. nil.* i>ina is r\F o irariof.v miwh likfi the L UV T 1UV ?U VI W T M* ivvj ?? -? ? weet pea. tW "Simon, my boy, you are now joing to set up in business on your >wn account, and I wish to give you a >it of practical advice." "Well, atber ?" "When customers don't see vhat they want, teach them to want vhat they see!" J@" This country last year exported nore meat products, leaving out sheep ind mutton, than all the rest of the vorld combined. The amount was searly $200,000,000, and the great srops of Indian corn are the founda,ion of the trade. f@T Guesses on the population of the United States returned by the 12th ;ensus range all the way from 70,000,)00 to 100,000,000. The treasury department figures the per capita circuation of money on the estimate of 77,)00,000 of population. The elephant's sense of smell is so delicate that when in a wild state it jan scent an enemy at a distance of 1,000 yards, and the nerves of its trunk ire so sensitive that the smallest substance can be discovered and picked up by its tiny proboscis. Batf* For whooping cough take the white of an egg and beat it until it is a stiff froth, add a teaspoonful of granulated sugar and eight drops of oil of tar; give a teaspoonful of this mixture to a baby every two hours, aud a little more to those children who are older. The remedy is harmless. B@T The largest smokestacks which have ever been manufactured in the United States are now being buiJt in St. Louis. They will be 70 feet in circumference at the base aud gradually taper to 40 feet in circumference at the top. They will be 200 feet high, and will cost about $20,000 apiece. Bg&* The most famous religious relic, says a church paper, is the "Iron Crown," which was worshipped in the Middle Ages. The tradition is that it was made from the nails which were driven through the hands of Christ at the time of the crucifixion. This celebrated relic is dow in Naples among the state jewels. 8i^*In Newton, Mass., the other day, a man's $5 bill was blown out of his hand, and he could find it nowhere. A friend cut a piece of paper just the 3ize of the bill and liberated it at the place where the man had lost his money. The paper blew down the street and around iuto an alley, and there the man found the $5 bill. 8?* The term 'namby-pamby," which has come to be applied to a person of vacillating character, as well as to weak literary productions, was originated by the Poet Pope. He applied it to some puerile verses that had been written by an obscure poet?oue Ambrose Phillips?addressed to the children of a peer. The first half of the term is meant as a baby way of pronouncing Amby, a pet nickname for Ambrose, aud the second half is simply a jingliug word to lit it. farm and .fireside. IMPORTANCE OF WIDE TIRES. It is frequently claimed that roads in s the United States, instead of getting better, are constantly getting worse, and when the reason is asked, the ex- . planation is made that the damage done to existing highways by the use * of narrow tires is far greater than the ? ^ r. f ma/la Kit tVlfl camt.nn. ^ llijpi UVCUICUb LU UUU *JJ vuv V.U uual effort at fixing the roads. Without entering into a discussion of this claim, there is no denying that u heavily loaded wagon with narrow tires leaves its tracks on the highways, and the depth of these tracks depends upon the character of material of which the road is built, the width of the tires and the weight of the load. Whenever a loaded wagon becomes stuck, it is due to the fact that the road is too soft, and the tires are too narrow for the load on the wheels. Water and narrow tires are the two causes which contribute to ruin the best roads. They aid each other in the work of destruction. The rut formed by the passing wagon forms a trough for the rain which, instead of running off to the side, as it would on a hard smooth surface, sinks into the ground. The next wagou, finding the ground softened, digs its wheels deeper into the surface, and so the demoralization and destruction continues. This suggests one of the strongest arguments in favor of the use of wide tires. Wide tires are road-makers; narrow tires are road-destroyers. Wide tires roll and harden the road surface, and by their use every road wagon can be turned into a road-roller. Every wagon which today helps cut up the roads could be utilized for their improvement, for nothing so to tends to the making of good roads as continual rolling of the surface. Onondaga county, N.Y., furnishes an interesting illustration of the value of wide tires as road rollers. TheSolvay Process company, of Geddes, in that county, was accustomed to hauling 1 t ? -C ? ueavy iuuus ui stouc iui iuui auu a half miles from the quarry. To test the wide-fire theory, it built several wagoDS having 4-inch tires on the front wheels and 6 inch tires ou the rear wheels, and with the rear axles longer than the others, so that the track of the rear wheels would just lap outside of those made by the others. The result of the use of these wagons was to produce a hard, smooth, compact surface, and the road, having been filled so as to raise the middle or "crown," it is thoroughly drained at the surface, and always fit for use with the heaviest loads. Loads of eight tons are frequently hauled over them, and instead of tending to cut up the road, serve to roll it harder and harder. The superintendent reports, too, that the improved condition of the road has reduced the cost of hauling the stone from 80 cents per ton to 60 cents, or 25 per cent. PRUNE TREES NOW. In a resent article on prunning trees, I said there was a time and a season and a way to do it successfully. The time spoken of extended from the first of June to the middle of July. The instruction as to the method was, hold the saw parallel with the trunk of the tree, cutting the limb as close as possible, shoulder and all. Do not forget to saw on the under side of the limb, so that in breaking down, the tree will not be injured. Why is the above rule given, and why are the time and the method so dogmatically designated ? The experience in pruu" - * _ I mg lor me iaso iweaiy years suan answer. Trees are composed wholly of cells. They grow from year to year by increase iu the number of cells, in the same manner as a child grows. In their growth trees are of two kinds, exogenous or growing by outside additions, forming what is known as yearly rings, and endogenous or growing by inside additions, as in the case of corn aud palms. Most of our fruit trees and shade trees in this latitude are exogenous. In the spring, the sap, which is a thin, watery substance, begius to ascend in the sapwood of the tree. It finally reaches the leaves, which are the trees' lungs, and there becomes elaborated or thickened and imbued with vegetable life. It then returns between the sapwood and the bark of the tree, making the yearly growth or deposit. By this deposit from year to year, the bark is stretched, which occasions the roughness we see on many trees. Now, if an incision is made, as in cutting off a limb, the healing salve is ready at hand, to be spread upon the wound. The thickened sap, which is a living vegetable substance, will ooze out where the incision was made, and the yearly growth will begin. From year to year the growth will continue until the wound is entirely covered. In front of my house stands a tree from which a few years ago, a limb 9A inches iu diameter was removed ; today it is quite difficult to find the spot where the limb grew. It makes no ] difference as to the kind of tree, whether it be ash, elm or maple, the same results are obtained. No paint or any other substance was spread on the wound, but the healing balm was in the tree itself, and nature made the application. In the year book of the department of agriculture for 1895, I observe the following: "All the more general pruning for shaping the tree and keeping it vigorous and healthy is done during the dormant period in the fall, winter or very early spring." I feel quite sure that trees trimmed accordiug to this rule will be permanently injured. Some such cases have come under my observation. There is a time and a season for all things, and things done out of season are poorly done. It requires judgment and care to prune shrubs and trees properly. There are thousauds of farmers with good, commou sense, aud yet there are only a very few that actually know when and how to trim a tree. I repeat, that during the month of June to the middle of July is the only time, and cutting the limb close to the body the only way.?Orange Judd Farmer. BfiT It is easier to keep a cow from shrinking thau to restore the yield after it has once been allowed to lessen. JUisccUiincous grading. ? IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. R a iummaryofthe News That Is Beinc Pub- il llslied by Exchanges. A CHEROKEE?The Gaffhey Ledger, ft Vlay 18 : Be ready for the celebration ft it Cowpens battleground on the 26th. Distinguished speakers will be preset. The Cowpens chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution will be here. The fair daughters and the mllnnt. snna of Cherokee and other :ounties of the state and North Caroina will be there. All to do honor to u he heroes who made the field famous. Supervisor Lipscomb made an offi:ial visit to the county chaingang ? Tuesday, which is camped uear Anti- * >ch, in Cherokee township. He stated ,o a Ledger reporter yesterday that he ound the gang doing good work aud ? he people pleased with it. Mr. Lips- j :omb, like every one who goes to Jherokee township when the wheat ^ srops are growing, i9 loud in his prais:s of it. He says he hasn't seen such t] arospects in years, and that the big ields of it reminded him of wheat vhen he was a boy. He attrbutes the ine condition of the crop to thorough t, reparation, liberal fertilizing and the general careful farm work for which >ur over the Broad farmers have ong been famous. He found other ^ :rops in as good shape as was possible b vith the prevailing dry weather which jj aas somewhat retarded work. Miss fj Nellie Wood, sponsor, and Miss Annie Brown, maid of honor for Jake Caraenter camp, U. C. V., at the state re- t] anion to be held at Greenwood, this (nin nf Phprnkpft's mOSt . jrruj, aio ?..?? "i ~ d :harming daughters, and are over- tj vhelmingly entitled to the honors of g heir positions. Miss Wood is a laughter of Lieutenant Moses Wood, >f Company F, Fifteenth South Caroina volunteers, who entered the com jj lany as a private ; but on account of n lis general good soldierly qualities, his 3 ;oolness, bravery and daring in battle, t, le rose to the rank of first lieutenant tud commanded the company the last c avo years of the war, and was in com- y nand of it when it surrendered with tj general Johnston, at Greensboro, N. {] [J., in 18G5. Miss Brown is a daughter e if the late Major John J. Brown, who ti vho organized Company H of the f( Palmetto Sharpshooters, and with a narked courage and ability command K ;d it until he was permanently disabled 6l >y wounds received in battle. ^ UNION?Times, May 18: Union a :ounty's new dispensary board of con- w -rol is composed as follows: P. C. b Whisonant, Union; F. M. Whitlock, b jrilmer's; T. K. Foster, Union. The 0 lew members take hold as the terms ^ if the old members expire, which is h liflerent dates. One member goes out h n October and the other two next D fanuary. The couuty board of ;qualization met in the supervisor's 81 iffice Monday for the purpose of re:onsidering the assessments made upon -he property of the Lockhart mill 0 iroperty. At this meeting the assess- ^ nenls was reduced $47,000. The aslessment stood at $300,000. It now P itands at $253,000. Since our last Jj ssue two or more of our citizens have ieen attacked by the smallpox. In -hese two instances, however, it is only :ases of varioloid, both patients having ? ieen successfully vaccinated two years igo. Mr. Robert Allen was the first 0 o be attacked. He was removed the ' iext day alter Dreaxtng out, to tue g jest house or sanitary station. A few t lays later a Mr. G. C. Wright, who vas boardiug at Mr. V. Friend's, over ^ >n Knitting Mill hill, developed a case ind was promptly removed to the sta- n ion, which is located a mile or more jut of town. Both patients are doing is well as could be expected. Mr. ^ T. W. McGowan informs us that in ooking over some of his old papers a 0 'ew days ago he fourid his old parole, t ivhich was given him at the time of jj he surrender of the Confederacy. It jears the names, umong others, of j jlenerals Johnson and Sherman. It is a i valuable relic which Mr. McGowan j, says he will preserve in his family. ( Hie did not know but what it had been t ost. Wonder how many more can jj put their hand on their old parole? t Mr. Frank Israel, of the police q force, captured a strange bird here a :ew days ago. It had become eutan- f ?led iu the telephone wires and could lot extricate itself. It has very long t ;oes and a very long sharp bill. It is of ilue color and somewhat resembles a pigeon about the body. It is some tind of a marsh fowl, no doubt; but 10 one around here seems to know c vhat kind of a bird it is. Mrs. \ Darey Willard died at ber home near c Sardis, Wednesday morning, after sev- g ;ral weeks illness. She was a consis- a ent member of Sardis church, three t ind a half miles south of Union. She s eaves a husband, nine children aud u nany friends behind. b LANCASTER?Ledger, May 19: Mr. W. B. Sapps died last Wednesday 8 light, May 16th, at the residence of a lis father-in-law, Mr. W. J. Long, at .bis place. Mr. W. C. Clyburu, of 8 Huile Gold Miue, this county, had the n Misfortune to be in a railroad wreck n while en route to Hot Springs, Ark., a o attend the Southern Baptist conven- a ion. When the car he was in turned p )ver, he attempted to climb out at a v window; but the window was too small for him and be got fastened in it, ? causing him to be about the last to get jut of the wreck. No one, he writes, ? was seriously hurt, and he was thank"u! for his miraculous escape without ? njury. "Wild Jim," the Texas jowboy and cattle king, gave a "free" exhibition of his expertuess with the ille and the lasso at. this place Wed- ? lesday afternoon. It was rumored ^ irouuil that be would ride some wild v nules at his exhibition and that was q what attracted the largest portion of he spectators. Several mules were in hand to he ridden ; but "Wild Jim" equired a stake of $20 before he 0, would ride. No one would put up y, he stake and the crowd was badly ja lisappointed in not seeing an exhibiiou of his riding. "Wild Jim" is a a jood shot, lassoes well ; hut above all, xcells in taking up a collection. h CHESTER?The Lantern, May 18 : ct rhe Rev. S. R. Hope, of Lowrysville, who has been a missionary of the Pres- tl lyterian church in Japan for the past sight years, arrived here Wednesday iveuing, to spend a vacation. At ir lie residence of Mr. Samuel Lewis, by i. VV. Henry, N. P., May 15th, at 10 'clock a. m., Mr. Joseph Mobley and Iiss Tinny May Mobley. All of RodiaD. At Richburg, Tuesday evenjg, May 15, by the Rev. J. H. Wilson, Ir. J. O. Barber and Miss Maurice larion, daughter of the late Dr. T. D. larion. A COLON? OF Y0NS0NS. [any of That Name In Bnaineaa In a WUconiln Town. "Up in the central part of Wisconln," said a Chicago traveling man who ad got tired talking about the trusts, there is a town that is inhabited al lost exclusively by 'Yonsons.' Tne ame of the man who keeps the hotel i 'Yonson,' the drug store on the corer Is owned by a man named 'Yonnn,' the proprietor of the establisblent that uses our goods Is a Mr. fonson,' and I noticed when I was iding up town from the station that lie grocer and the butcher were both fonsons.' " 'What's the matter here?' I said to lie bus driver. 'Haven't you any peole In this town who don't belong to ic "Yonson" family?' " 'Vail. Ay tank dare been von or svo,' he replied. " 'What's your name?' 1 asked. " 'Yonson.' he replied. "I was about to make some further lquiries as to the 'Yonson' family, ut at that moment we passed the pubc laundry, and, looking at the square, ?d sign above the door, I read: "'Yip Yonson, Laundry.' "Inside the Chinaman who owqed tie concern was busy ironing and perilttlng his pigtail to hang down his ack. I am almost convinced now lint some of those 'Yonsons' are rauds.^-Chicago Times-Herald. THE LEVER THAT RAISED HIM. A young man who Is now well up the st of high salaried officers of a big lanufacturlng company said several ays ago that he owed his first opporinity to show his ability to the fact iat he was not afraid to soil his lothes. He was one of half a dozen oung men just graduated from scienflc schools who entered the shops of lis company as students. They were xpected to show that they were praccal workmen, but most of them preirred theory to practice. The manger of the company was a self taught lan, and he didn't take much stock in eleutifle schools. The young man rho has succeeded took his measure ccurately and, putting on old clothes, rent to work in the shops. Whether y accident or design he was noticed y the manager one day stretched out n D13 uacK unaer a iieuvy casuug rtth a hammer and cold chisel In his and working away as if he had no igher ambition. A week later the lanager summoned him to the office. "Didn't I see you under that casting everal days ago?" he asked. "Yes." "Well, I find that we have a vacancy n our staff now. and you may fill it if on choose." The young man did choose, and his rogress has been rapid. He does not ave to soil his clothes now to prove is ability.?New York Sun. HE TOOK THE HINT. General Harrison, in 1S89, sent Dr. Icdloe of Philadelphia to Canton as onsul. During his term the doctor ras spending a month or two In Washagton and was largely in evidence In ocial and political circles. About this Ime the Gridiron club gave a dinner nd both gentlemen were guests. The loctor told a few stories early in the venlng, and later on the president aade a speech. "I was charmed," he said in his soft, raceful way, "to hear the clever anecntes from our distinguished consul to -I mean from Amoy." Then he passed n to other topics, but the doctor took he hint, and the next steamer carried iim back to his post It was not the first time that Dr. ledloe had experience with presidents t club dinners. Once President Cleveand was a guest at the celebrated Hover club in Philadelphia, of which he doctor is a famous wit The Clovertes always interrupt their guests when hey rise to speak. Knowing this, Mr. Cleveland began: "Go on, gentlemen; I am prepared or the worst" There came an instant's pause, and he doctor cackled shrilly: "So are we."?Philadelphia Post THE POWER OP THE WHALE. If the whale knew its own power, u ould easily destroy all the machinery phleh the art of man could devise for atching him. It would only be necesary for him to swim on the surface In , straight line in order to break the hlckest rope, but instead, on being truck by the harpoon, he obeys a natiral Instinct, which, in this Instance, etrays him to his death. Not having an air bladder, he can Ink to the lowest depths of the ocean, nd, mistaking the harpoon for the eeth of a swordfish, or a shark, he lntantly descends, this being his manor of freeing himself from these enemies, who cannot bear the pressure of . deep ocean, and from descending nd ascending in small space he thus uts himself in the power of the rhaler. If we Include the pressure of the tmosphere, a body at the depth of 100 eet would sustain that of GO pounds n the square inch, while one at 4,000 eet, a depth by no means considerble, would be exposed to a pressure of ,830 pounds. We need not, therefore, eel surprised that on the foundering f a ship at sea, though its timbers art, not a spar floats to the surface, or If the hull has sunk to a great epth all that is porous Is penetrated rlth water or is greatly compressed.? >znaiKi ?oriu-neruiu. THE OFFICE HOY'S REVENGE. A young lady who Is employed In tie of the tall otilce buildings hni a juug man acquaintance whose name i Jones. A few days ago the ollice oy was saucy, and she scolded him. day or two later he marched Into the iner office where she was at work and unded her one of Mr. Jones' calling mis. "Is he out there?" she whispered to le boy. The latter nodded. Her heart beat faster. She could not naglac what he had come to her of flee for. Perhaps he wanted her to go to the theater that night She went softly to the washstand in the corner and rearranged her hair, tied the ribbon about her neck freshly and then, with her sweetest expression, went Into the other office. A burly man with a mustache stood near the door. It wasn't her friend at aU. "Are you Miss ?" he asked. "Yes?" "Well, I'm a constable, and I've got a judgment or qsiz.ou against tms firm." And now the young lady wonders If she carelessly left any calling cards on her desk or whether It was a curious coincidence and the constable had the same name and used calling cards in his business.?Chicago News. A Very Funny Force.?"Electricity is a very l'unny force," said the observant motorman to bis conductor as he boarded his car at the Woodland avenue barn. "The other night nearly all the current was suddenly cut off from the wires in the barn, and after a minute came on again. Soon an odor like that of an overcooked dinner filled the power house. On examination two chickens were found slowly roasting to death on the main wire. For hours the feathered pair had rested in safety on separate wires. The minute Chanticleer reached across to give a goodnight kiss to his dear biddy, on an opposite wire, a deadly current was forced through their bodies, and hence the odor of roasting chicken."?Philadelphia Press. Founded 1842. QTIEFT PIANOs I ''Sing their own praise." 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Come^ rain or shine, and you will receive the best attention. Very Respectfully, J. R. SCHORB, Yorkville, S. C. OUR personal attention, with long experience, given at all times. All grades and priced goods in COFFINS and CASKETS. Latest equipment in trappings, etc. Robes, Gloves, Slippers ana Stockings carried in stock. Fine Hearse for town and country use. W. B. MOORE & CO. FINLEY & I1KICE, ATTORNEYS AT I.AW, Yorkville, S. C. ALL business entrusted to us will be given prompt attention. OFFICE IN THE BUILDING AT THE HEAR OF H. C. STRAUSS'S STORE. GEO. W. S. HART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Yorkville, S. C. OFFICE: NO. 2 LAW RANGE. 'I'Uoxe r,s. 4 \%V i/3*? "nocK HI ||llin^> hr i0 Prict * above a / dollar or so hi i them when this ii |^.j See our Agent or write direct | |l? SOLD BY GLEIM> CAROLINA & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Schedule Effective April 1st, 1900. North Bound. Passenger. Mixed. Mixed. 1VO. 10. yo. OO. NO. 03. Leave Chester... 8 10 am 7 50 am LvYorkville 9 15 am 9 52 am I.vGastonia 10 13 am 12 35 pm LvLincolnton...Jl 03 am 2 15 pm jjVj>ewion ?ii oz am o .i_ pni LvHickory 12 15 pm 5 50 pm 9 00am ArrlveLenolr.... 1 16 pm 7 GO pm 11 25am Soath Bound, Passenger. Mixed. Mixed. NO. 9. NO. 01. NO. 03. LeaveLenoir 4 30 pm 5 30 am 1 30 pm LvHickory 5 35 pm 8 30 am 4 25 pm LvNewton 6 05 pm 9 18 am LvLincolnton..., 7 00 pm 11 10 am LvGastonia* 8 15 pm 1 12 pm LvYorkville 9 21 pm 3 20 pm ArriveChester...lO 31 pm 5 15 pm *20 minutes for supper at Gastonia. No. 10, uorth bound, connects at Chester with Southern Ry., Seaboard Air Line, Lancaster and Chester Ry. from all points south ; at Yorkville with South Carolina and Georgia Ex. Ry.; at Gastonia with Southern Ry.; at Lincolnton with Seaboard Air Line; at Newton and Hickory with Southern Ry. No. 9, south bound, makes close connection at all junction points. L. T. NICHOLS, General Manager, Chester, South Carolina. E. F. REID, Auditor, Chester, South Carolina. SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA EXTENSION EAILE0AD CO. TIME TABLE NO. 4. In Effect 12.01 a. ni., Sunday, Dec.24,1899. BETWEEN CAMDEN AND BLACKSBURG. WEST. EAST. 35. 33. EA8TEKN 32. 34. 2nd 1st TIME. i?t 2nd Class. Class. Class. Class. Dally Dally Dally Dally Except Except Except Except Sund'y Sund'y STATIONS. Sund'y Sund'y P. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. 8 20 12 50 .....Camden ? 12 25 5 30 8 50T 1 15 DeKalb 12 02 4 50 9 20 1 27 ....Westville.... 11 60 4 30 10 50 1 40 .....Kershaw..... 11 35 4 10 11 20 2 10 Heath Springs. 11 20 3 15 11 35 2 15 ..Pleasant Hill. 11 15 3 00 i- ?)U * ?>i iu