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tumorous department. Wilder, the Humorist. During his long career as lecturer, professional humorist and vaudeville entertainer, says the Chicago Chronicle, Marshall P. Wilder probably has amused as many people as any man now living. During all these#years he has met with many odd experiences in out-of-the-way places. For several years he was engaged regularly as a visitor at various asylums and hospitals, where he spread good cheer .4 throughout the wards. He never can forget, he declares, a visit he once made to a Keeley institute. He made a tour of inspection of this institute, taking note of various interesting things. He observed that some of the patients were still highly delirous and shouting in a manner to strike terror to the ordinary mortal's heart. One of the victims roared suddenly thatVI o *1,11 nf ronttlAS He WaS 1US> iVVill ntw J.W<1 V* ? wild In his fear of reptiles. Suddenly he changed his mood and declared that there was a woman in his room, then relaxed into silence. "She must have been a snake charmer," murmured Mr. Wilder as he moved on to the next room. After his performance at a New York vaudeville theatre Wilder was approached by one of those blundering old fellows who mean well but invariably make bad breaks. Attempting to compliment the humorist, the blundering old party said: "Oh, Mr. Wilder, there was one very good thing about those stories you told tonight." "H'm," replied Wilder. "Well, I suppose that was better than missing the point of all of them." Here is a story Wilder tells about an ancient Hebrew who had retired from Wall street with a competency. "I am afraid I am not going to live long," said the Jew to Wilder. "Pshaw," replied the humorist, "you are only sixty now, and I'll bet you live to be one hundred." "No, no," retorted the old broker sadly, "The Lord will never take me at par when he can get me for sixty." Getting Even. She was a sharp eyed, independent little woman, and if the conductor had been a reader of character he would have known better than to try to match his wits against hers. She had ridden two blocks before the conductor got around to ask for her fare. "This is as far as I want to go," she said. "I'll get off here." "But you can't get off without paying fare," said the conductor stupidly. "I can't eh," she answered. "Well, let me see you collect it." She made for the door, but the conductor barred her way and refused to pull the bell cord. "You stop this car or you'll be sorry for it." she exclaimed angrily. "You must pay your fare before you can get off," the conductor kept repeating. That was all he could think to say. "Very well," said the woman, plumping herself down in a seat again. "I guess I can ride free as far as you can afford to carry me." After a couple of blocks more the conductor pulled the rope and said, somewhat sheepishly: "You might as well get off here, then, if you won't pay your fare." The woman stepped haughtily to the street, and then, turning with a smile, said sweetly: "This is really the corner that I wanted. I knew you'd carry me a block or two after I told you I wouldn't pay. so I began the quarrel early." And as the conductor gave the rope two especially vicious jerks she called after him: "I wouldn't have done it if you had not carried me a block past my street yesterday."?Buffalo Express. To Pool the Mosquito.?This is the. latest story of Kirke La Shelle going the general rounds, says the New York Times: There are very few mosquitoes at Mr. La Shelle's summer home on Long , Island, Bellport, but many of his friends are sufferers from the pestiferous insect. He visited a friend at a village some miles from Bellport and found that the mosquitoes were numerous and active in what would other... wise be a veritable Arcadia. "What would you do if you lived here Kirke?"' asked his friend, as the two sat on the porch smoking hard to keep the enemy at bay. "I know you have an idea which is well spoken of." La Shelle smoked for a minute before he replied: "Have you tried coal oil?" "Yes; gallons of it." "Citronella?" "Yes." "Pennyroyal?" "Yes." "Ammonia?" "Yes." "Screens?" "They get inside." A smile brightened the manager's countenance as he said: "Then there is only one thing I can recommend. You say all the mosquitoes get inside your screens?" "Yes. Confound them." "Then." said I^a Shelle, "why don't you keep outside the screens and fool them!" Follow ki> Instructions.?"Please, sir." said the new office boy, "I took this letter where you told me to, but the lady wasn't in, so I've brought it back." "Brought it back, have you?" fumed the irate merchant, relates the Boston Journal. "What d'yer mean by doing that? You don't seem to have any more sense than a hard-boiled egg. Take it again, and if she isn't in leave it in the letter box. or push it under the door: leave it somewhere?go; go. before I bite you!" Presently the youth returned and a satisfied expression was in his eye. "You left it this time, eh, Solomon, Jr?" queried the merchant. "Yes, sir." said the sparkling lad. "I couldn't reach the letter box, and it wouldn't go under the door, so 1 tore it in pieces and bunged it through the keyhole, sir. Was that right, sir?" pisreUaucouis pUadinji. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. News and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest. liPffESTER! Lantern,' August 28: Misahiariie May Carroll has been elected a teacher in the Denmark. Bamberg county, graded school. She will leave Chester on September 12th. in order to be present at the opening on the 14th. Miss Carroll is well prepared to fill the position to which she has been elected Messrs. L. T. Nichols and E. F. Reid, of the Carolina and North-Western railway, left Wednesday evening for New York on business connected with their road Mr. T. G. Hudson's dwelling, near Armenia, was destroyed by flames on Wednesday, and the boxing about the well was also burned. On yesterday, William Barnes, a colored man about thirty-five years old. went into the well to clean it out. There was IOU1 air in Wie wen aiiu ixc niw V/?C?come. He hollowed for help, but was too weak to hold to the rope. When the body was taken out, the man was dead Dr. G. B. White returned Wednesday from his trip to the old country. He was thoroughly delighted with his trip, but he says that he is equally delighted to get back home and * see his friends again. While Dr. White ] was in Ire'and several letters appeared ' in the Lantern written by him, which were read with great interest. He vis- . ited many places and saw many things which will be of interest to the read- ' ers. He has kindly consented, when he , gets rested, to give some further ac- , count of his observations and experiences in the old country. Rev. James . Russell landed at the same time but he , spent a day in New York and a few ( days in Philadelphia. He is expected j to arrive here today. ( LANCASTER. i Ledger, Au: ust 29: Lawrence Allen, colored, a fu jitive from justice in ( Union county, N. C., was captured by Constable O. W. Mackay at Heath 1 Springs Wednesday. - The Negro ran 1 and was shot in one of his legs, being sprinkled from his heel to his knee. He was brought on to jail at this place ? ?- ? 1 * 10 awau me arrival ui me sucim ui Union county for him. The wound is not serious. The same day Constable J. B. Connor of this place captured Robert Perry, colored, another fugitive from justice in North Carolina and landed him in jail here. This capture was also made at Heath Springs. Both Negroes were turned over to the North Carolina authorities yesterday. I ....The Lancaster Mercantile company lost two fine carriage horses Tuesday afternoon valued at about $400 i from the extreme heat that day. They { had been sen: out from the stables to s Taxahaw and on the return trip while 4 very warm drank a quantity of cold > well water at Mr. J. N. Estridge's. The c driver noticed that they seemed to be i sick when he reached Mr. Jack Hin- 1 son's place and stopped there. It was ' but a short time before both horses t died, not more than five minutes elups- t ing between their deaths Married, < at the home of Mr. Jasper Horton, the i bride's father, near White Bluff, Wed- s nesday, August 19. 1903, by Rev. R. J. l Blackmon, Mr. J. F. M. Estrldge and I Miss Arabella Horton, all of this coun- s ty Married, on Sunday night last, August 23d. 1903, Mr. Roby Bell of Magill, and Miss Monnie Bruce, daughter of Mr. W. B. Bruce of Heath Springs. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. C. Chandler at the Methodist parsonage Married, on Wednesday, August 26th, 1903, at the home of the bride's father, by Rev. Mr. Lawson, Mr. James Carter and Miss Bell, daughter of Mr. J. B. Bell, all of Cedar Creek township A report comes from Maxton, N. C., that in a difficulty there last Saturday, Wm. Deal shot and killed Sham Bullard in a drunken row, and since the killing it has developed ?' that Sham Bullard was none other than ' Jim Lowry, the murderer of Policeman i Jones at Shelby, N. C., about two years i ago, and for whose arrest rewards ag- * gregating $800 were offered Ker- 1 shaw doesn't do things by halves, and ? her "good roads" meeting and barbecue next Thursday, September 3d, will ' demonstrate this fact to everybody who s attends, and every man in the county I is expected. The citizens of Kershaw < have raised several hundred dollars, ' procured a fine brass band and Will < prepare a barbecue dinner for 2,500 < people on the occasion. Governor Heyward. Senator Latimer, Mr. F. H. Hyatt and other prominent speakers are expected. We urge cit izens from all sections of the county to attend this meeting. It will be one of the grandest rallies held in the state , In the interest of good roads, for, as , we said in the outset, our enterprising ( sister town never does things by ( halves During the protracted meet- . ings just closed on the charges of Rev. , R. J. Blackmon there have been about , seventy-five accessions to his churches oy oapusm, ieuer ana restoration. ai Pleasant Plain, 21 accessions; Fork Hill, 20: Bethlehem. 4: Charlesboro, 3; none at Taxahaw, and at Flint Ridge, the new church recently organized with sixty members, there were ten accessions. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, August 26: Messrs. L. H. Long and T. N. Kendrick returned last night from a great day's fishing at Mr. Rufus Davis' mill pond on lower Crowder's creek in York county. Mr. Long has a reputation among his friends and our readers not only as a mighty good fisherman but as a mighty good reporter of the results of fishing excursions. Fortunately for his reputation in this case, his testimony does not have to be taken unsupported, for Mi-. Kendrick and fifteen of the neighbors at Davis's mill will testify to the correctness of the report given below. The pond was let off early yesterday morning. Seining began about ten o'clock and lasted until five in the afternoon. The catch of fish was simply great. The total was 159 fishes, weighing 278 pounds. Of these, twenty-five were carp which weighed 177 pounds, six of the biggest weighing sixteen pounds each. > Mr. Kendrick was weigh-master, book- ; keeper and divider of the catch, as well as one of the happiest of seine- I pullers. He weighed the fish, counted I them, and divided them into twelve messes for as many families. They all have fish to fry and fish to spare to3ay. But the party had a great fish Jinner at Mr. Davis's house. When the word came for dinner all hands Iropped their nets and went. "It'3 been a long time," says Mr. Long, 'since I sat down to such a great dinner as we had on this trip.".?... .The Southern railway's detective, Mr. T. j N. Haney, has been in the city this tveek for the purpose of obtaining evidence relating to the wreck of No. 35 it the Ozark Cotton mill. He is working on some clues, but nothing very :angible has yet been secured; at least no arrests have been made so far Mrs. Samuel Scott and Mrs. Samuel GHlfillen of Yorkville, spent Wednesiay and Thursday at Mr. W. S. Lough ;ridge's. They returned home last night The Negro, Pink Whltesides, ivho stole a mule from Mr. J. Grler Jenkins Saturday, was captured at 3-rover Tuesday by Chief of Police Kendrick of King's Mountain. He was ?iven a preliminary trial before Esjuire Garrett and bound over to court. Hie was taken to Dallas Wednesday ind placed in jail. The mule was found in a corn field near Grover in jood condition. Whltesides confessed :o the theft In place of the barn Sestroyed by fire a few weeks ago, Mr. Jim Adams is now completing a new ind much larger one. Mr. J. F. Jackson was down there Wednesday to lelp him cover it. The sides of the -oof measure 27x53 feet each, and :hose who were covering the west slope about three o'clock Wednesday ifternoon didn't have any icicles hangng from their hats There Is considerable stir in Mecklenburg over the eport that Mr. Henry Little, superin;endent of the convict camp, had .vhipped one of the convicts to death >n the road near Davidson College. A epresentative of the Charlotte Observer went to see Superintendent Little ?" laorna/1 frAm V* I *v-? Q f MoOTH Dliver Clark, was whipped about nine /clock Tuesday morning and sent back o his shovel. About eleven, he was put to work with his squad on the ock yard at the crusher. A little af;er one o'clock he started up an empankment, but fell before reaching the op. He was carried to the shade and sxpired in a few minutes. He had not nentloned being sick. The superinendent thinks he died from being pverheated. The Observer says the jrand jury will probably make an investigation. COST OF THE COTTON CORNER. _arge Proportion of 10,000,000 Spindles In New England Stopped. Shutting down on the part of cotton nanufacturers both here and abroad joes on apace until of the 10,000,000 spindles installed in New England but 1,000,000 are said to be in operation, vhile the mills of England and the ontinent have, to a large extent, given tp the attempt to make goods which vould have to be marketed at a loss, rhe present high price of the raw maerial could not but work disastrously o legitimate industry, and when the ?nd is reached the enrichment of the 'ew fortunate speculators who have so successfully manipulated the corner vill be found to have been at the expense of the million wage-earners and stockholders. The loss to the manufacturer cornjelled to call a halt on production, an tern that does not always appeal to he average outsider because less sus eptlble of reduction to actual dollars md cents by the non-expert, must be idded. Taking the case of print cloth, - ... - - x x^ - x I cosis irom one-nan a cent to a ceui ind a quarter on each pound of production to stop manufacturing for a short season. This means for a 70,000 spindle mill consuming, say, 12,000 sales of cotton a year, an expense in shutting down from $600 to $1,500 a week, a loss for which there can be no idequate compensation, and when umped with the loss in wages of from 14,000 to $5,000 a week, makes a formidable figure to be charged against :he adroit and able manipulators who lave succeeded in making the restricted output imperative. Multiplying: the case of this singrle mill by the hundreds of larger and smaller ones where work has been suspended, one can get some idea of what the cotton speculation means to this most important industry and the interests that are intimately and remotely lependent upon it.?Boston Transcript. AS TO VAGRANCY. fhere Is Plenty of Law if It Were Only Enforced. Quite a number of delegates at the recent convention of colored men to consider the lynching question, advocated the enforcement of the vagrancy laws, and held the idle Negroes iround the towns and cities largely responsible for the conditions about which so much complaint is made. In Georgia a law was passed at the recent session of the general assembly to reach this very class. There is ample law on the statute books to get rid of the vagrant class in every community, and to make it so hot for the idle men and boys that they will want to work or move to some other haven of rest. When Attorney General Gunter was * maHfitvata nt Snn ntnnhn vcr V*c* rioted and sent to the chain gang no less than 300 Negroes and 120 white men as vagrants. He made it a point to keep the chain gang supplied with the young fellows, who rather work for the county than get at some legitimate task, and in his crusade against the idle class he sentenced women to pick peas at the county poor house farm. The campaign had its good effect. There are a great many towns where the present statutes can be used to supply much of the labor for the improvement of the roads. There could be a more sweeping law than that now an tne statute noons. anil tne ueiegates to the recent convention would do more to show their good faith in their campaign if they would take it upon themselves to begin the crusade Against the worthless and idle Negroes About many of the towns. L'nder the present law magistrates have jurisdiction in cases against vagrants and the statute allows a fine of $100 or a sentence to thirty days to be h imposed. h The only trouble about the thing is v that what is everybody's business is t nobody's business.?August Kohn in li News and Courier. B CALAMITY JANE. J True Story of a Remarkable Female tt Character of the Wild West. The body of Calamity Jane, says a Terry, S. D., letter of August 4, was a placed this week in the Mount Moriah 1 cemetery, in Deadwood, beside the ^ bones of "Wild Bill" Hickok, her friend ^ of long ago, whose murderer she caused to be lynched twenty-four years ago. 1 Though she had had twelve husbands, v the last still living, it was one of her dying requests that she be allowed to v sleep by the side of the man she first * loved. a Somewhere In North Dakota lives a p daughter, her only child, but the girl 0 was not at the bedside of her mother. 11 Calamity Jane long ago sent her away s for her own good. It was an outcrop- 6 ping of the real woman that prompted c Jane to say long ago that her daugh- v ter should not be shocked by looKing into the face of her mother. 1 So, when friends begged her to tell ll her daughter's name and home during v her last sickness, the broken-down a pioneer said with firmness. "Would yer hev me shame my own s daughter? She'd wish she hedn't seeit 9 this ugly face. Let her be." And indeed there was no trace in her cross-lined, leathern features of ^ the prettlness which, it was said, be- v longed to the Missouri girl who went over the mountains to Nevada forty v years ago. Calamity Jane was only * fifty-one years old when she died, but in those years the real Wild West was 1 born and died. Its passing left her c forlorn. Martha Canary?for that was her real name?was left a lone girl in the 9 mining camp of Virginia City, Nev., in 9 1862. Shortly after their emigration from Princeton, Mo., an Indian war * separated the child from her parents. 1 She fell into the hands of an old woman who allowed her to select what * she would from the rough life of the 13 camp. It was horseback riding and v crack pistol shooting first, and not many years later the girl sat on sa- * loon bars and regaled the men with e songs and stories. 1 It was about that time that the real i: Indian fighting began and the girl was 1 eager to display her horsemanship ^ and marksmanship. She applied at a a number of posts, attired as a man, before she found one where she was not 13 known to be a woman. Gen. Crook ' accepted her as a scout and she was '! happy. For a time she served In that 0 capacity under Buffalo Bill, and he, r her life-long friend, recently said of \ her record: "Though she did not do a man's a share of the heavy work, she has gone r in places where old frontiersmen were ^ unwilling to trust themselves, and her t; (oui age and good fellowship made her C popular with every man in the com- * niand. Tn her neat scout's uniform, g Martha Canary m&de a handsome pic- ii ture, especially when astride a good v horse and riding like mad over the plains 011 some wild expedition. She was eccentric then, and she is eccentric now, but the winsome Martha F Canary of those days was not the Calamity Jane of today." She was at the camp where she had spent much of her girlhood, now the c site of Butte, Mon., when an appeal came from Deadwood for troops. She ^ was then twenty-two years old. Yvnen e the soldiers marched to Deadwood to h relieve a party of miners surrounded by Indians she went along. It was not alone a matter of driving a away the Deadwood Indians; the whole b northwest was in arms. At Goose ? Camp, S. D., a small detachment under c Capt. Egan was surrounded by a large h band of redskins. They had the sol- |( diers at their mercy, with the reliev- j, ing troops too far in the rear. v Martha Canary rode like the spirit ? of death into a group of Indians who j were about to kill the wounded cap- g tain. Before the Indians could realize E what had happened she nad swung ^ the captain to her saddle and dashed g away, amid the patter of bullets, to a a place of safety. * When the captain was told by the troops that he had been saved by a t woman he said: "Jane, you're a good one to have * around in times of calamity." t And from that time On Martha Ca- E nary was known as "Calamity Jane." ^ Among the miners, who came to know her so well, none of her twelve b husbands was allowed to change his f' wife's name. Each of them was t known as "Calamity Jane's man." All c but the last met violent deaths. The b flirt one she killed herself. When she was in the prime of her wild life, she traversed every part of p Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas, E ranched in Missouri and fought In- ^ dians in Kansas. She made her stake f, in the mining camps, and it went to n regale the boys in wild west fashion. ^ Her passion for fighting Indians was c never satisfied. t< She crossed a wild country In a 1 frightfully cold winter to take import- JJ ant messages to Gen. Custer. 'Ohe h sickness that followed the trying experience was all that saved her from e o being killed with Custer's army, for ^ she had planned to campaign with r him. When Indian fighting was not to be ? hud. Calamity Jane found employment jj in carrying government mail and driv- n Ing stage coaches. She was one of the first of (he 3,000 arrivals that caused g Dead wood to spring into life in a e night. She never failed to attend a v lynching bee if she could be present, y and she didn't take hold at the far end s of the rope, either. v She was riding in a stage coach ? driven by Jack McCaull, a notorious ? character of Deadwood, when a band v of Indians swooped down. McCaull b was wounded and fell back on his " seat. The six passengers in the coach e were helpless with fright. Calamity o Jane scrambled to the seat, lashed the ^ horses into a run and escaped. tl It was this same McCaull who after- b ward was made the most memorable e example of Calamity Jane's vengeance. McCaull shot "Wild Bill" Hickok from g behind a tree, for a reason never p mown, after "Wild Bill" had staked lim. Shooting from ambush was the rorst crime known in Deadwood in hose days, and when Calamity Jane leard of it she started at once to find JcCaull. "Wild Bill" was her friend, nd the fact that she had once saved JcCaull's life did not deter her from aking it. "I gave it to him once," she declared, 'I'll take it back now."' She came across him unexpectedly in . meat shop, seized a cleaver and, hreatening to brain him if he moved, waited till her friends bound him. She was one of those who tugged lardest to pull him over a cottonwood imb, and with grim satisfaction she matched him kick his life away. There were two womanly traits I'hich Calamity Jane always manifesed. While she might be drunk one ay and chasing Indians over the irairie another, she never missed an pportunity to put on skirts and dlanonds at a dance. The next morning he would be ready for a trip with the :overnment mail, or perhaps would be racking the bottles in a saloon with veil aimed bullets. But she would stop abruptly even he Incomparable pleasure of "shootng-up" a saloonful of miners bristling rith guns, If some one should report . case of sickness. She never refused o go even great distances to nurse the ick back to health. Here was to be een her other woman's trait. An old cout said of her: "The first time I met Calamity was lown In Kansas the year the cholera iras so bad. I was riding along carryng dispatches from Harker to Wallace rhen I met a woman riding toward led Cloud. "'No: Indians be damned!' she yells: I'm going down to the front to take are of the boys.' "I knew her best in Deadwood. I Irst saw her there at the time they trung up Flyspeck Bill; who'd been tealing horses. " 'Well, Billy,' she said, 'you're goin' o sure die now. and you're goin' to ie with your boots on.' "'No I ain't, Jane,' he said; '"ou ake 'em off.' And Jane pulls off his oots and puts 'em on herself and rears 'em till they're worn out." The only time Calamity Jane tried he more civilized life was when an nterprlslng woman, who was anxious o sell a publication she controlled, nduced her to go to BufTalo to attend he exposition. Jane liked the start, ecause she was initiated by driving ,n eight-horse team through Buffalo. !he was to sit in a den and sell the looks for a commission and her livng. She grew suspicious of her share n the profits and accepted a better ffer from a man on the midway. One light she got on a spree of the Monana variety, tried to shoot up the rhole midway and landed in jail. She soon met Buffalo Bill in Buffalo nd asked him to stake her to her raiload fare. He readily did so, and' she eturned to Cheyenne, Wyo. Since hen she had lived in the most respecable fashion ever attempted by her. )ccasionally she resorted to her oldnal^KroHnrio hilt oho ivQQ aoiiiuiicu ccitt/i aiiviiu, wui. umv ic-kened of them because she always nded them In jail. She was prospectng for a congenial locality when she ras taken sick here and died. POINTERS FROM THE POINT. :ine Corn On the River?Cotton Small but Well Fruited, and Other Crops are Good?The Smith-Davies Marriage. torrespondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Point, August 28.?The crops In this ectlon have improved since the rains, 'he corn crops on the river, so farmrs inform me, are better than they ave been for the past four years. If t is not injured by overflow, these armers will make plenty of corn to do hem. Mr. P. R. Currence has five cres on the river that he says Is the est he has ever seen grow on this rlvr and he has farmed here for more han fifty years. The balance of his rop is fairly good. Mr. G. L. Suggs as a large body of very fine corn in he bend of Crowder's creek, just where t empties into the river, and if there 3 no serious freshet Friend Suggs /ill have corn to sell. Messrs. Andy 'hompson, John and Earl Thompson, ,'ampbell Harper, Wm. Brandon, D. C. loyd, P. R. Currence, Vessey Currence, illas Glenn, Captain David Johnson, 1. J. Currence, J. D. B. Currence, W. \ Boyd, Mrs. Jane Dellinger, J. P. loyd, John Campbell and Samuel S. Imith all have good corn on the river ,nd are consequently anxious that here be no overflow. Means grass is plentiful along the iver banks and farmers who own land here are curing a great deal of hay. Cotton Is small, but well fruited and he present indications are that twohirds of a crop will be made. I notice hat it is opening in certain places. Mr. Sralnard Currence says that he will ave cotton to pick by the 15th of leptember. There has been some fodder pulled; ut the main crop will not be ready or three weeks. The molasses crop is promising: and he cane is getting ripe. The fruit rop has been abundant and I venture o assert that the good ladies have aore dried and canned fruits than hey have had for years. The watermelon crop has been esecially good on the river. Mr. J. D. t. Currence has had more than he and is many friends could consume. They re of a variety that I have never beore seen. The rind is very thin, the ieat a dark red, very crisp and sweet. Ir. Currence has pulled a number that . eighed more than fifty pounds. I onsider them superior to the Middleon. If my good friend J. B. Scott of )elphos, could once eat of one of these oelons I imagine that I would hear im say, "Go away Middleton. You ave lost your sweetness." Mr. W. P. Boyd has greatly improvd his dwelling house by putting anther story to it and adding an ell. Irs. Emily Harper is having a new oof put on her dwelling. The most notable event that has takn place in the Point for many years ccurred here on Wednesday morning ist. Mr. S. S. Smith surprised his lany friends by taking to himself a air bride. The lady is a former Yorkille girl, and has many friends there. Ihe was Miss DeNicey Davies, youngst daughter of Mr. Thomas Davies, >ho for many years resided in Yorkille, and kept a hotel there several ears after the war. She has been reiding in Richmond, Va,, and was here tith her sister, Miss Annie, on a visit o their sister, Mrs. Will Smith. Friend lam was fortunate in getting her to onsent to be Mrs. Smith, and stay rith us in the Point. Miss Annie went o her home on Thursday. A large umber of friends accompanied by the ,'urrence string band, gave them a sernade Wednesday night. Samuel came ut smiling and gave them a cordial 'elcome. In his little speech he said hat "It was a long lane that had no urn; that everybody heretofore had een fooling him; but that he had foold some one at last." Sam is well now 11 as one who was a brave and allant soldier and an all round clever entleman. Long may he and his fair artner live and prosper. x Ao Animal Story For Little FolKs THE Frog Makes Love iht Moon | The frog fell In love with the moon and made up his mind that he would ask her to marry him. He put on bis best clothes, and when night came and the moon rose high in the sky be sat down beneath a tree and began to /ll* J/ HE PUT ON HIS BEST CLOTHES. croak out bis story of love. Just as be reached tbe point where he was going to ask tbe moon to marry him she hid behind a cloud. When she reappeared be began his courtship all over again; but, just as he got to the point of proposing, way she went behind another cloudT ^jphen he tried a third time and a fourth time, but whenever he was ready to "pop the question" the moon disappeared. He was a very persistent fellow, however. and at last he was successful in asking her the very Important ques tion. He smiled bis sweetest and spoke in bis tenderest, most loving tones. "Will you, ob, will you, dear moon, will you be"? And before he could say "mine" the moon bad disappeared behind a bill, and the poor, foolish frog shed a few frog tears and went home. He is a bachelor yet if he has waited to marry the moon.?Pittsburg Dispatch. PHOTOGRAPHY XJ9 AN ART AND it takes an art st to be a photographer. One who Is not an artist doesn't stand much of a chance of making a success at photography. 1 have given years of study to this especial line and I can say with pride that my work will compare favorably with that of any photographer in this section. The best and most perfect photographs are the result of experience and not experiments. I do all of my developing, retouching and finishing, thereby obtaining the best possible results. As Far As Prices Are concerned, you need not worry yourself along that score. I know that my prices are reasonable and you will agree with me when I tell you what they are. I am also prepared to develop and print pictures taken with pocket cameras. If you have a Kodak or Vive or any other camera, and for any reason you can't develop and print your pictures, bring them to me at my gallery on West Liberty street. J. R. SCHORB. n= I Calendar f We wish to call f Merchants, Bankei f and other business 4 on hand about 250 4 including the very A richest productions A can and Fareign Ca A lithographers. Our x endars suitable for ^ at a great range in pect to use Calendai f by the way is one ol V tory ways of advertii f endar advertising ri f is constantly refsrrt f us and let us show f quote you prices. 1 4 ing by getting our Lif you do not. L. n. GRIST'S : Tfr ~ <\ ?, RUMMER > THE 1 ^RATES i ??! ON THE SUM? 0UTHERN ? \w Con :s?&WM Mai m W.,T??. WW1 Pass. Traffic Mgi r WASHtHOTON. O. ( I 1 Vv Professional Guards. Thos. F. McDow. W. W. Lewis. McDOW & LEWIS, Attorneys and Counselors at Law,' No. 4 Law Range, Yorkvllle, 8. (!. Prompt Attention to all business. Money loaned on approved security. July 25 sw If GEO. W. S HART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, YORKVILLE, f C. i LAW RANGE. 'Phone Office No 5S. D. E. FINLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office in WILSON BUILDING, opposite Court House. Telephone No. 126. A. Y. CARTWRIGHT, SURGEON DENTIST, YORKVILLB, S. C. jfJSBfe OPPICB HOURS: 9 ?. m. to 1 p. m.;? p. m., to 5 i>.in Office In upstairs rooms of Cartwrlifht Building, opposite Telegraph and Express Offices. STATE OF SOUTH GAROLDfJ., County of York By W. H. McCorkle, Esquire, Probate Judge of York County. WHEREAS Mrs. EMMA H. BEA=tD has applied to me for letters of Administration on all and singular, :he goods and chattels, rights and crecits of E. B. BEARD, late of the conity aforesaid deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kind ed and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me at our n;xt Probate Court for the said county, to be holden at York Court House on :he 8TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER. 1903, at 10 o'clock, a m., to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should tot be granted. Given under my band and seal this * 24th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred t nd throa nnrl In thp 128th VPftJ of Amir lean Independence. W. H. McCORKLE, Probate Judge of York Counts'. August 25 t ^2t CAROLINA & NflRTH-VE&TElS RAILWAY COMPANY. Schedule Effective June 7, 1903. Xortkbeuad. Pasaeager. Mlxel. Ex. Sun. Daly. Lv. Chester 9.00a.m. 8.00p m. Lv. LowryvlUe ... 9.18a.m. 8.28p m. Lv. McConnelss .. 9.28a.m. 8.48pm. Lv. Outhries 9.33a.m. 8.57p m. Lv. Yorkvllle 9.49a.m. 9.19pm. Lv. Filbert 10.01a.m. 9.44pm. Lv. Clover 10.12a.m. lO.OOp m. Lv. BowlingGreen. 10.20a.m. 10.24pm. Lv. Gastonia 10.38a.m. 12.30am. Lv. Llncolnton ...11.43a.m. 2.00am. Lv. Newton 12.28p.m. 2.55am. Lv. Hickory 12.50p.m. * 4.00am. Lv. Cliffs 1.23p.m. 4.40am. Ar. Lenoir 2.05p.m. 6.00am. * Sou tk bound. Passeager. Mixed. Ex. Sun. Dal ly. Lv. Lenoir 2.30p.m. 8.00p.m. Lv. Cliffs 3.08p.m. 9.30p.m. Lv. Hickory 3.20p.m. 9.50p.m. Lv. Newton 3.46p.m. 11.46pm. Lv. Llncolnton ... 4.30p.m. 1.60am. Lv. Gastonia 5.30p.m. 4.20am. Lv. Bowling Green 6.48p.m. 4.55am. Lv. Clover 6.57p.m. 5.10am. Lv. Filbert 6.08p.m. 5.40am. Lv. Yorkvllle .... 6.23p.m. 6.00am. Lv. Guthrles 6.40p.m. 6.60am. ^ Lv. McConnells .. 6.46p.m. 7.00am. Lv. LowryvlUe ... 6.67p.m. 7.23am. Ar. Chester 7.17p.m. 8.00am. L. T. NICHOLS. General Manager. E. F. REIO, G. P. Agent, Cheater, 8. C ^-1 I ' the attention of f rs, Manufacturers, f folks that we have r Sample Calendars, f . ' ' handsomest and d of the best Ameri- A lendar printers and A line includes Cal- A any business and . a prices. If you ex- \ rs this year?which . F the most satisfac- f sing, because a Cal- f jns for a year, and f >d to?please phone f you our goods and f fou will lose noth- f prices?you might J SONS, Printers. 1 ? _l LINE FOR BUSINESS, LINE FOR PLEASURE, LINE FOR ALL THE BEST 4ER RESORTS iplete Summer Resort Folder led Free to Any Address. S. H. Hardwick, W. H. Taylor, r. Gen'1 Pass. Agent, Asst. Gen'l Pass. Agt. washington, b.c. atlanta, oa. J)