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^tumorous Department. A Drummer's Yarn. The first time I made Philadelphia for my firm I had a funny experience," said the furniture drummer in the lobby of the Bingham house. "I was green then so far as this market was concerned and didn't know Tom, Dick or Harry. All I had to go by was a list of the trade and explicit instructions to sell the old-fashioned, way-back firm of B. & Co., if possible. They were as rich as Croesus, but harder to crack than an ivory nut, so there waS special emphasis on the words 'if possible.' "I came down on the 7.25 and spread out mv banrsragre as much as I could in order to keep the whole seat for myself, or if compelled to share it to give room only to some one who looked congenial. You fellows know how to work that scheme. And if your companion happens to be one of the fair sex you are in luck, but I wasn't in luck that morning, at least I didn't think so, for my neighbor turned out to be a crabbed old gent, who looked like a second edition of Scrooge, the tight-fisted partner of Marley, in t^ne of Dickens's tales. "Well, this Scrooge and I got to talking together after awhile, and I told him I was going to try and make a record for myself on that trip by selling a big bill to B. & Co. " 'Do you think you will?' he asked. " 'Not on your life/ said I, 'B. & Co., don't do enough buying to keep warm. Seems to me they're dying of dry rot.' And then I got my hammer out and began to knock. 'Why, look here; we-ve got a line that everybody bought this season, but not B. & Co. Oh, no, not them! They don't know a good thing when they see it. Jenks, the cod who buys for them, ought to be In an old ladies' home. He's a lobster for fair, and crawls backward, like a crab.' "Well, I raked Jenks fore and aft, and when I got through pouring in the hot shot the old gent asked quietly: 'Is that your candid opinion of this buyer. " 'Lord, no!' said I. I've never seen the old guy'in my life. What I'm telling you is the opinion of my firm, and they ought to know.' "Then the train reached Philadelphia, and as we got out at Broad street I left my friend at the station. "That afternoon, after a good dinner, and feeling pretty nervy, I started with my sample photographs for B. & Co.'s. The buyer's office Is in the rear, and when I pushed open the door, Great Scott! I thought Td faint, for there, seated at the desk, was my railroad friend?Jenks, the buyer. "Did I feel cheap? Say, I don't really know how I felt My first impulse was to slam the door and escape, but he called to me very kindly: 'Well, sir, what can I do for you?" and then retreat was out 01 me question. "Would you believe it, he never let oh that he knew me? Treated me like a total stranger, and the apology that was on my lips I very wisely smothered. Not a word did he say about the meeting on the train or what I had said about him. But he ordered a good bill; shook hands with me cordially: said he was glad I had called, and gave me a Perfecto when I left him. "You see I had unconsciously held a mirror up to him and he wasn't pleased with the reflection and wanted to square himself with the firm. Funny, wasn't it! That's the only time I can remember ever entertaining an angel unawares."?New York Times. The Highest Court.?In Colorado Is a small town which has the distinction of beiftg away up above Cripple Creek, as well as 13,300 feet above sea level. In the month of May, not many years since, they carried the mail to this town on snowshoes, a distance of 150 miles. So you see, it is of some importance. It would be important if for no other reason than it boasts of a justice of the peace, and he is as important as any other functionary of the class. However, he has a lot of solid horse sense. A suit was to be tried before him and one of the parties stirred the community "from centre to clrcumpass" by sending off and importing a lawyer. That case dragged Itself out to an unprecedented length?and the populace had never dreamed that law was so full of objections and exceptions, motions, protests, expostulations and the like, as the lawyer proved It to be. He was to them another wonder of the world. But there was one thing he couldn't prolong, and that was the prompt, crisp, decisive "judgment for the plaintiff," that his honor snapped out as soon as the trial was fairly over, and almost before. "Well, sir," said the lawyer, in tones of superiority, "we will have to take this cause to a higher court." "You can't do that, mister," replied the magistrate. "And why, not, pray?" "There ain't no higher court, sir. This court is 13,300 feet above the level of the sea, sir?and I'll have you to distinctly understand, sir, that it is the highest court in all this broad land, sir."?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Sensible and Polite.?Opie Read, author of "The Starbucks," tells of nn nlrl fftllnvv frnm tho nnnntrv wVin one day gave his seat to a girl In a crowded street car. As he arose and she sat down, he remarked: "I may not wear as good clothes as some folks, but I notice thet I have a heap more politeness." The girl, who was with a companion began to converse audibly with her companion about her "mash," and commented unfavorably on his lack of style. The old man overheard her . and finally said: "I beg your pardon, Miss, but I believe. I left my pocketbook on the seat." The girl arose, and as soon as she did, the old fellow sat down in the vacated seat. As he settled himself comfortably he remarked: "I may have more politeness than some other folks, but I have noticed thet I haven't nigh as much sense." I aUsreUatuous Reading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest. CHESTER. Lantern, April 17.?Invitations have been received here from Mr. and Mrs. A. Coleman Lyles to the marriage of their daughter, Edith Isabelle to Mr. Rowland Glenn Hill, in the Methodist church, Carlisle, at noon on the 22nd instant. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Scott, of Monticello, have also sent out invita IIUIIO lu lAio tuai i mgv vi. v>mm0u.v. Irene' to Mr. Thomas J. McMeekin, Thursday evening: the 23rd Mr. D. P. Davis, of the Chester Machine and Lumber company, and Miss Lula Hinnant were married Wednesday evening at the Ridgeway Baptist church by Rev. J. L. Freeman, of Winn8boro. Miss May Hinnant, sister of the bride, was maid of honor and Mr. A. Ehrlich best man....Will Torbet was interviewed by Officer Wright a day or two ago about his city tax. Officer Wright had an eye out. for a watch that some time ago got out of Mr. William Orr's pocket when Torbet was around, so he got the Negro to Spawn his watch for his taxes, and it was identified as one taken from Mr. R. M. Pearson one night by an unknown Negro, who knocked him down and took his watch and money. Torbet claims that he traded for the watch two or three years ago in Lancaster. He says if he had known that he was suspected he would have gotten the money and paid the old tax. He Is said to be well acquainted with chaingang' and penitentiary life. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, April 17: A unanimous call to become its pastor was extended to Rev. W. F. Watson last Sunday by the Monroe Baptist church. This is the cluirch which recently sent a delegation to Gastonia to attend Mr. Watson's church services without his knowledge. The nature of the committee's report is indicated In the call extended. Gastonia Baptist are no longer feeling the best sort toward their Monroe brethren. Mr. Watson is in Monroe today looking over the field with a view to considering the call. Dr. A. M. Croxton, the present pastor at Monroe, will retire the first of June. ....Her friends here sympathize sincerely with Mrs. W. R Watson in the death of her only sister, Mrs. Jno. C. Finch, which occurred Saturday afternoon at her home in Edenton. An invalid for many months, she was in Gastonia several weeks last fall on a visit to Mrs. Watson in the hope of regaining strength, but the hope was disappointed. A steady decline followed her return. Two grown daughters, a little son, a brother, who is a prominent business man of Edenton, and a sister, Mrs. Watson, survive her to mourn their great bereavement At the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McArver near the Modena, Mrs. J. A. McAllister died at six o'clock Wednesday evening. She had been In failing health for many months on account of lung disease. Four or five months ago, Mr. McAllister brought his wife from Mt. Holly, where they lived, to Gastonia, where she could receive the care and attention of her mother. She leaves a husband and some small children to mourn their great loss. It is a sad death indeed. Mr. W. Miles Pegram, a brother of the late Mr. T. C. Pegram, died Tuesday at his home in Charlotte after a prolonged illness, in the 49th year of his age. He had been a resident of Charlotte for the past twenty years and was a prominent citizen and business man, having been connected with the Springs and Burwell grocery firm, the Piedmont Wagon company, ana Mr. E. Nye Hutchinson's Insurance business. The funeral was conducted at the residence Wednesday morning by Dr. J. R. Howerton, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of which he had long been a member. Mrs. T. C. Pegram, Mr. Lamar Pegram and Mr. Ed Pegram attended the funeral. Many friends here heard of his death with great regret. Mr. J. B. Pegram, of Yorkville, was in Gastonia Wednesday, returning from the funeral. He was on his way to Yorkville to see his children, intending to go thence to Asheville, where Mrs. Pegram has been under treatment for several weeks. LANCASTER. Ledger, April 18: Mr. Verner Craig, son of Mr. S. W. Craig, of Sincerity, returned home from Texas this week and will spend the summer with his parents. He had a very severe spell of fever shortly after going to Texas last year and has not fully recovered from it's etfects yet. His friends are glad to see him back in old Lancaster. Married, at the residence of the officiating minister. Rev. R. J. Blackmon, at Fork Hill, at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, April 16, 1903, Miss Cora Lee Welsh and Mr. J. M. Carson. Miss Welsh is the youngest daughter of the late lamented Dr. C. C. Welsh, of Longsville, and is an unusually attractive young lady, both in appearance and manner. Mr. Carson is a prominent merchant and a successful business man of Kershaw, the head of the lafge mercantile firm of J. M. Carson & Co. He is well known and highly esteemed both at his home and in the state and his many friends will be glad to know of his winning one of Lancaster county's fairest daughters as his bride. The best wishes of their friends here are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Carson Invitations have been received by relatives and friends here to the marriage of Miss Etta Williamson, daughter of Mrs. Hettie Williamson, and Mr. Emsily W. Griffin, April 29th, at half past seven, in the Presbyterian church at Monroe, N. C Another of Lancaster county's old veterans who wore the gray has gone to his reward. After some weeks' sufferI intr of SDinal affection. Mr. Pike Bil lings, an aged and respected citizen of Flat Creek township, died last Tuesday and was buried Wednesday at the Farmer graveyard near his home. Mr. Billings was the youngest brother of the late Capt. K. G. Billings, of this place. He was about 65 years of age, a member of the Methodist church, and leaves his widow surviving him, no children having been born to them. He served through the civil war, being a lieutenant at its close Mr. Paul G. Youngue, of Fort Lawn, had a very narrow escape from drowning last Sunday while attempting to cross the river at Youngue's island. When about midway the stream the boat sank, he having to swim about twentyfive yards with his . wet clothes on. Mr. Youngue cut a severe gash on his * * " x OAma vlriAC nana wnue trying iu gnup ....? on the bank. After remaining on the Island three or four hours and halloaing faithfully he was heard by some Negroes, two miles away, who went to his rescue. A LESSON IN MANNERS. How Zack Renfrew Was Taught to Respect the Parson. "Zack Renfrew was as square a man as there was in the Coeurd'Alene in most ways, said the man from Idaho, "but he sure was a gila and a horned toad when it came to sky pilots. "Somehow or another, Zack just couldn't naturally abide the sound, smell, touch or presence of a parson. Zack was so pizen sore on 'em that he'd invariably butt in when they were in the midst of their exhortings and stampede their meetings. " 'Trying to lariat 'em out o' th* fire o' hell!' Zack would bawl at the meetings. 'Trying to scoop 'em out of the bottomless sulphur beds with a lasso o' chinmusic, are you?' he would go on howling. 'Why, you couldn't dig ary one o' this gang out with all o' th' hydraulic dredges ever packed over the mountains on th' backs o' burros, nor, foe the matter o' that, blast one of them out of the clutches of the devil with all th' dynamite cattridges that ever was made. " 'F*r why? Why, because they all wants t' sizzle fr all eternity?that's why! Wow! We all want to roast fr eighteen billion years, an repeat, on burning marls! " "So what's the use of a yea, verily ombrey hikin' 'long this-a-way an' shootln' off his fussy little squibs with th' idea o' redeemin' an reclalmin' a bunch o' gophers that like th' turnpike t' hell so much that they'd rather keep on hittin' it up than traipse along th' brick pavement leadin' to th* happy huntin' grounds ?' "That's the kind of yip-yap conversation Zack 'ud hurl at all of the aerial steersman that would visit the camp with the idea of chucking a little bit of the light into the boys, and when they got these jolts from Zack they'd always curl up on the camp and pass the Job of reclaiming It on to the next. "Zack could sense a parson a good three miles. He came a-loping into the camp from bis claim, three miles back among the foothills, once, when a sky pilot who was aware of Zack's peculiarity with regard to the preachers started a little meeting on the quiet. "Zack was panting and breathless that time when he busted into the hall over Dutch. Kate's saloon, where the il 1 1 J 1 A ti. A*, 1-sn meeting- was neiu, uui it uiuu t muc him more than three minutes at that to herd that parson to the place where his gripsack was and to chase him to a seat on top of the down stage. "The camp didn't like the way Zack behaved to the peripatetic parsons that zephyred Into the camp, but the camp didn't, strictly speaking, consider Zack's conduct on such occasions any of the camp's business. They regarded the thing as Inevitable and part of the game, and they had a feeling that Zack was entitled to his grudge against parsons, Just as he was entitled to any of his other possessions. "But one day Zack overdid the thing, and then the camp conceived a grouch against him. A young sky pilot with a voice like a switch-back engine blowing off was hurling a lot of damnation at the boys, and giving 'em mighty little comfort for their attendance?he had It rigged out, I believe, that they all had to do a million years or so down below, anyhow, before they could be fixed out right?when Zack strode up to the platform, grabbed the young parson by the lapel of his coat, and pulled him to the floor, bawling at him all the time. " 'Stop it, Zack,' said a lot of the boys in chorus, quiet-like, but in such a tone that Zack let go of the parson's coat. " Better mosey,' some of the boys said to the preacher, and he went out of the hall looking alarmed. " 'No more o' that, Zack,' the boys cautioned Zack, who first looked sulky, and then flared up and remarked that he guessed he'd come pretty near doing what he wanted to do, any old time, with any snooping hellflre spieler that came along. "The boys didn't make any reply to that, and there was no further comment on the subject to Zack. But the occurrence aroused a general feeling around the camp that It was about time to frame up some sort of a deal to hobble Zack's antipathy to the cloud guides before he disgraced the outfit by doing something rash. "Bud Rayner and Jink Wheeler were appointed a committee to get together and confer with this idea in view. Bud and Jink meditated a whole lot, individually and separately, as to what ought to be done to cure Zack of the parsonphobia, and then, one night, Vl At? I U O rt r> Wl r? tAOAikar IIICJ LU1I1C 111 IU IUC UUUip IU'jCUICI , slapping their thighs a good deal, and letting out bleats of joy that caused all hands to gather round them. Zack didn't happen to be in camp that night and so the general grin that went around when Bud and Jink stated their game didn't have to be suppressed on account of his presence. "Bud and Jenk went down to Spokane together the next day, and they were gone for a week. They had a contented glint in *heir eyes when they got back, and the boys knew that the errand they had gone upon was all right, without any explanations. "One day, about a month after the visit of Bud and Jink to Spokane, the word got around the camp and the outlying claims that another hymnspieler had wafted into the outfit, and that all hands were invited to attend his prayer and preaching blowing in the room above Clad Kingsley's honkatonk. This was the tip to everybody in the camp except Zack Renfrew? the fact that the meeting was going < to be held In the big hall, instead of i the little room over Dutch Kate's. "There never was such a soap-sud- i sing and washing up In or around that < camp before as took place that after- ] noon. Every man as far back as the 1 second row of hills seemed to do his l blamedest to put a finer soap-shine on his mug than the next one, and the> (1 all knocked off work an hour or two 1 earlier than usual, too, so as stroll into i camp and get properly mellowed up < "ill i>oo,lir tnv thfl tklnir Vint Wflfl to J ?IIU ivtvuj *v? vac 1111115 v*.w " ?' ?come off, of which they already had < an Idea. 1 "Zack Renfrew, his face as shiny as those of the rest, but with a heavy scowl on his brow, such as always ] made Its appearance there when Zack ] knew that there was a sky pilot In , town, got In early, and spent most of 1 his time In Kingley's groggery, not . drinking much, but expatiating upon how warm he was going to make it for 1 the high courier who was to do his ] talking that night. 1 "Every seat in the hall was taken at ( the hour the meeting was announced, and large numbers of red and blue ] flannel-shirted men stood behind the benches at the rear. Zack Renfrew, < still wearing his portentous scowl, \ had a seat on the aisle on the second 1 bench from the front 1 "If Zack hadn't been so much bound , up in himself and what he was going j to say and do to break the sky pilot 1 up in his business, he would have no- 1 ticed that the whole camp was on hand at the meeting, something that had ] never happened before in the history 1 or the outnt. ( At the hour the man in ministerial clothes appeared at the door and walked down the aisle to the platform. Those that thus caught their first view of his back observed that he was bullet-headed, that he was tall and slender, with very broad shoulders and a tapering waist, and that; despite his parson's garb, his walk was suggestive rather of the bouncer of a big honkatonk than of a sky pilot. "When he stepped up to the platform steps and turned around, the boys saw that he was just as bullet-headed in front as he was behind, that his eyes were small and beady-blue, and that his face, with its very square, forward protruding jaw, was covered with about a month's growth of scragly reddish beard. "He rested one hand on the table ] beside him, and surveyed the gang with j a smile that was meant to be engag- . ing. i " 'My brethren,' he began In a voice so mild that some of those present ] knew that it was assumed, and with , difficulty, 'we are gathered here to- , night to praise and do honor, and to?' j " 'Same old thing,' spat Zack Renfrew, Jumping up in his place and , shaking a finger at the man on the , platform. Same old bunch o' guff, an' j in about two minutes you'll be throwing heated air to us 'bout bein' baked , an' fried an' toasted in th' pit fr?' "Well, that was about all for Zack. The man on the platform had been stepping down slowly and advancing so cautiously upon ?ack that Zack, immersed in his discourse, didn't take much noticed of him, or, if he did, didn't bother about his advancing, anyway. Then the man in the ministerial garb had Zack by the slack of his blue fiannel shirt, and yanked him to his feet so suddenly that the men in the back of the hall could hear Zack's teeth rattle. "Zack was a pretty sizeable and husky man himself, but when the man in the black clothing held Zack off at his left arm's length and deposited a A. ?lnwo W?*Vi +VlA IUUI LI emciiuuuoijr uaiu aiapo mm mv flat of his right hand on Zack's left cheek, the victim of parsonphobia was clearly seen by the boys to be away outclassed. ? " 'What kind of a bunch of ?haw d'ye think y'r passin' me, hey, Petey?' inquired the man with the black clothes in the vernacular of the dance hall and with his chin pushed forward, and 'smack' went that huge red right palm :and deposited another resounding slap on Zack's face. 'Were d'ye think you butt in fr a stampeder o' anythin' but jack-rabbits, hey?' and then the bullet-headed man switched his clutch on Zack to the other hand and passed Zack a slap on the right cheek with his left that sounded like the impact of a stage slapstick. 'They tell me that you've got th* bug In y'r conk that you know how t' ride hard on anybody that drifts y'r way that you don't like, hey?' "At this point Zack reached back for his guns, forgetting that all hands had left their guns downstairs, " 'No, you don't do any lead-squirtin' t'night, Petey, nor no other night w'en I'm around, but you're agoln' t' do somethin else, an' you're a-goin' t' do it blame sudden, at that, after I ' give you th' book t' read from: Y'r goin' t' repeat th' words "Rock o' Ages," an' then y'r goin' t' take a quick sneak out t' y'r claim t' think 'em over,' and the man In black suddenly thrust Zack into his seat with ? an awful thud, keeping his grip on him with one hand, and reaching out for the hymnal that was all ready and stretched toward him. "The corner was already tu^d down at the Rock of Ages' page, will ; the man who had a-hold of Zack opened the book there, gave the book to the thoroughly stunned Zack, and said 'Read them words.' "Zack read them In a low tone. He might not have done so had he not been so utterly paralyzed and dazed over the situation?but he read them, all right. "'Now, you t' your claim!' said the bullet-headed man, turning the stunned Zack loose suddenly. 'An th' next time you think you kin git real mussy with th' fellers that wear th' cloth, jes' remember how you got your'n t'nlght, an' think it over.' "A committee of four of back's friends was appointed forthwith to escort Zack to his claim, the committee being instructed to see to it that Zack didn't get hold of his guns or any other guns during the night. "After Zack had departed in convoy of the committee, Jim Dimmesdale, the then champion weltherwelght pugilist of Idaho, stripped off his black clothes, met four or five of the boys who were good at the boxing game and easily disposed of them and wound up by giving the cleverest exhibition | >f bag-punching that had ever been ieen In the camp. "The pugilist was gone the next norning, and Zack didn't come into jamp hunting for vengeance, anyway. He knew that the whole camp had lelped to frame it yp on him and that le couldn't eat up the whole outfit. "But he did better than that?for :he camp. He simply stayed away ?rom the meetings after that when the jky pilots drifted along?so that the jutflt finally gained a reputation imnne the narsnns of nossesslner one jhance In a million of being saved, anyhow."?New York Sun. The Wife For a Preacher.?In a recent address, Bishop Charles N. Fowler, the presiding officer of the New Jersey Methodist conference, said to the conference class of candidates at A.sbury Park: You are not called upon to gabble or twaddle in the pulpit. A preacher now-a-days must give his people footer thought, and food too, that will be accepted by people who come to church with magazines in their pockets and live on a diet of good literature. There is only one bishop who can excuse you for duties unperformed, and that bishop is the undertaker. Don't talk about higher criticism and other nonsense. You will have enough to lo to save souls. At the utmost you can preach only two hours a week, and evil nfluences are likely to have play almost all the rest of the time. Circuit preaching is hard, but it is nard on the horse, not on the man. Why, it's almost as easy to be a cir :uit preacher as to be a bishop, and go iround and preach your old sermons >ver and over again. I hope you each have a good wife. t you have not, get one, and don't narry her because she is pious. Mar y her because she has good common >ense. If I had two women to choose 'rom, one having common sense and ;he other only religion, I would take he women with common sense; for if i person with common sense under:akes this work that person will be eligious within the next hour. A wonan who is only religious may backslide, and I have no doubt but a woman who has common sense will not expect js to be saints. Painting a Prince In India. A well-known New York artist, who has just returned from an extended lourney in the I?ar East, tells how he ittehnpted to paint the portrait of a native prince in Corea. "For more than three hours the prince sat motionless and without a word, like a statue. 'It is finished,' I inl/1 Vilm of loaf nnrl Via 4nmnaH nn LUIU 111III UI UUU IIC J UIII^UU U|/ like a child and ran over to see the work. His delight was unbounded, and he seized my hand and began to shake it in a most enthusiastic manner. "Suddenly he became grave and stared at the picture In a mystified way. He looked and looked and then peered round at the back of the canvas. He seemed horrified beyond expression. "'What is it?' I inquired. " 'You have not put in my jade ornament,' said he in despair. "I had painted his portrait full face; and as the Coreans have the strange habit of putting small buttons of gold, silver, jade or amber behind the left ear these, of course, did not appear. 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' :h pleased. , tly received the fola well-known gene had filled a small 'i , S. C., 4-14-1903. received those slips yesternt to tell you that I am very -it is just what I wanted. cut?it came in truly, s with your orders ease you in Quality, Ze'll thank you for try to please you. - - - Yorkvjlle, S. C. ^ MB j RN RAILWAY TRADE tad TRAVEL UTHIRN STATES. Imt Contxnlmt tchtdut*t rm Trip to Umm who THCRN RAILWAY. Service In the World. to, lUtot and StwwplnS-Car r?wr? I of THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY. >W1CIL W. H. TAYLOC. MTD.6 ATLANTA. OA. Ul CAROLINA & NORTH-WESTERN . RAILWAY COMPANY. Schedule Effective April 12,1009. Northbound. Passenger. Mixed. Lv. Chester 8.25a.m. 8.30p.m. Lv. Lowryvllle.... 8.45a.m. 9.00p.m. Lv. McConnells .. 8.57a.m. 9.23p.m. Lv. Guthries 9.03a.m. 9.34p.m. Lv. Yorkville 9.20a.m. 10.02p.m. Lv. Filbert 9.35a.m. 10.37p.m. Lv. Clever 9.46a.m. 10.54p.m. Lv. BowlingGreen. 9.55a.m. 11.15p.m. Lv. Gastonia 10.13a.m. 12.30a.m. T.v T.lnpolnton ...11.09a.m. 2.00a.m. Lv. Newton 11.49a.m. 2.65a.m. Lv. Hickory 12.14p.m. 4.00a.m. Ar. Lenoir 1.32p.m. 6.00a.m. Southbonnil. Passenger. Mixed. Lv. Lenoir 2.25p.m. 8.00p.m. Lv. Hickory 3.23p.m. 9.50p.m. Lv. Newton 3.50p.m. 11.45p.m. Lv. Lincolnton ... 4.30p.m. 1.50a.m. Lv. Gastonia 5.30p.m. 4.20a.m. Lv. Bowling: Green 5.48p.m. 4.55a.m. Lv. Clover 5.57p.m. 5.10a.m. Lv. Filbert 6.08p.m. 5.40a.m. Lv. Yorkville .... 6.23p.m. 6.00a.m. Lv. Guthries ..... 6.40p.m. 6.50a.m. Lv. McConnells .. 6.45p.m. 7.00a.m. Lv. Lowryville ... 6.57p.m. ' 7.23a.m. Ar. Chester 7.17p.m. 8.00a.m. CONNECTIONS. Newton and Hickory?Southern Ry. Gaatonia?Southern Ry. Chester?Southern Ry., S. A. L., and L. & c E. F. REID. G. P. Agent, Chester, S. C.