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Humorous Uqiiivtmcnt. On His Mettle.?lie was telling it tc his honor at the police court yesterday, lit said : "Well, you know, I went home about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Wife was there. 1 chucked her under the chin tender-like and says: " 'Molly, who runs this shanty?' "And she speaks up very promptly and says: " 'Samuel, it's a woman about my size anil don't you forget it!' "'Pshaw!' says I. " 'Dead fact!' says she. "And I chunks her under the chin again not quite so tender this time and says : '' ' *' " T .1? ?- ? n Waii f i n?r " 'JlOliy, 1 CilU UO yuil U|l in UUUUI V minutes.' "And she dosen't wait a second to an swer: "'Samuel, that's where you are lame, I'm the better mau.' " 'Get, out!' says I.' " 'I'll prove!' says she. "Well, your, honor, she put me on mj mettle, as it were. No husband as is a hus band can stand to have his wife say she car wipe the boards with him, and so I spits or my hands and sails in." "And you came out ahead?" "Well, that's the way I've got it dowr in my diary. She gave me two scalp-cuts, i black eye and six bites, aud I loosened three of her teeth, cut her lip aud choked hei senseless. If she goes bragging around thai it was a draw I'll be ready to try it again for I'll allow no living woman in Detroit tc walk on me. I'll light 'em till I die!"?Free Press. Six Times an Orphan.?"You see," saic the boy between his sobs, "we were all Mormons living down in Southern Utah, where dad was a bishop, and of course had five wives. Well, each one of them had a boj baby about the same age, and they were all named Brigham"? "Isn't it strange to name them all alike?'1 "They always name the first one Brigham, if it is a boy, and," said he, "when we were about four years old dad used to drive the little flock of Brighams down to the farm and make us weed carrots. The farm was two miles from town, and one day when we were all alone a baud of Indians kidnapped the whole of us and took us away down into Arizona. The other boys got sick and all died, but they kept me with them five years before I could escape, which I finally did, and got back home. Well, when I got back I didn't know my mother or ever her number, and she did'nt know me, and they all claimed me as their little lost Brigham. So they had to draw cuts to see which one would have me; and I was her's till she died?theu the next, and so on. My first mother died a year after I got home ; then I became the son of mother number two. She apostatized, and ran away and married a Gentile, and got killed iu a railroad collision. I lived with this mother a year and a half. The third mother got hooked by a cow six months after she had me. The fourth one died after I was thirteen, and my last mother died six months ago. And now dad's dead. I tell you what's the matter, mister, they don't know what real sorrow is till they've been an orphan like me?six times."?Chicago Tribune. A Sensitive Business Max.?During the prevalence of the failures last fall, a retail dealer in Cleveland shut up shop and announced his failure, with an offer to pay ten cents on the dollar. "See here Jake, said an acquaintance, tl*.\ nlvAll f VAIir "mere ure some icjiui uuuuu jwu. failure." "Ish dot bossible?" "Did any of those New York houses owe you ?" "Oli, no!" "Did you owe any of them ?" "Not a cent." "Well, why should their misfortuue affect you? You don't fail every time an Eastern house goes under do you ?" "Mr. Smichdt, you dean' understand der case, and I vill oxblain. My brudder Isaacs was mit one of de busted firms." "Well, what of it ?" "Isaacs vhas very sensitive?very. If Issaacs vhas busted aud I vhas doing a rushing peesness, he would grief to death. I fail oud of resbect to ^his feelings. My wife was also very sensitive, aud if I offer more ash ten per cent., she goes into a decline. Dot vhas how I vhas fixed, and I like eferybody to know I vhas shoost as square a man as efer had a brudder Isaacs." No Forgery for Him.?Among the candidates for appointment to vacancies on the police force in Dublin, was one Patrick Murphy, whose appearance before the marshal was hailed with cries of "He can't write." The marshal said he was only there to take down the names of applicants, who would come up a fortnight later for examination. A friend set Murphy, in a fair round hand, the copy "Patrick Murphy," and then kept him practicing at it assiduously. When the eventful day arrived, "Take that pen," said the mayor, "and write?write your name." As Pat took up the pen exclamations arose: "Pat's a-writen'; he's got a quill in his fist! Small good will it do him ; he can't write with it." All were dumfouuded when Murphy recorded his name in a bold, round hand, and the marshal declared, "That'll do but one of them shouted: "Ask him to write somebody else's name, yer honor." "Write mv name, Murphy," said the mayor. "Write yer honor's name !'* exclaimed Pat. "Me commit forgery, and goin' into the police ! I daren't do it, yer honor." Two Interpretations.?A young farmer who had been converted at one of the revivals, went before the next conference and asked for a license to be a preacher." "I know I am born to preach the word," said the applicant, "for I have had three visions, all the same, and it has made a lasting impression op. me." "What was your vision ?" asked a bishop. "" i t ? i.: l m.?. " ?? ill, l NlW u uig, rouuu, una" "> ? mi sky, and inside, in great gold letters, were 'P. CV It meant 'Preach Christ,'and I want to join the conference." The argument was about to carry, when an old pastor stood up in the hack part of the hall and said : "Young man, we don't doubt your intentions, nor do we doubt you saw the vision with the golden 'P. C.,' but I am of the opinion that 'P. CY meant 'Plough Corn.' " The convert is still a farmer. &??" When, during the war. the late General Jubal A. Early was in the Shenandoah valley, he was one Sunday attending a village church. The minister was inclined to make the occasion patriotic, if not heroic, and. with animation, went over the doings of Washington,Sumter, Marion,.Jackson ; then, since he must halt somewhere, when he thought he had stirred his hearers to a high pitch of admiration, lie said : "Now, if we had all these honored men among us today, what would you do?" Jubal piped out, with his high-pitched voice: "I'd conscript every one of 'em!" fiaT The golden text for a certain Sunday school was, "And the child grev* up and waxed strong in spirit. Lukeii: 40." Little Ted's hand went up like a Hash when the superintendent asked; "Can any of these bright, smiling little boys'or girls repeat the golden text for today? Ah! how glad it makes my heart to see so many hands go up ! Teddy, my boy you may repeat it, and speak good and loud that all may hear." And they all heard this: "And the child grew and waxed strong like 2.40." -V BaT A young lady at a fashionable dinner party pestered an Oxford don with a conundrum?a thing which the learned man detest ed. "Why is the letter '.) like the eim oi spring?" Of course the (ion could not tell. "Because its the beginning of June," was the solution. "Now will you tell me why the letter'k' like a pig's tail?" sternly asked the don. The young lady had to give it up. "Because its the end of pork." He was bothered with no more conundrums. fittT'The story is told that two little daughters of an old suburban family had attended church Sunday school on Master, and in the afternoon the elder, aged eight, was catecising her five-year-old sister, whose face was the picture of woe, under the ordeal. "What did Cain say when the Lord asked him where was his brother?" asked the interrogator. The little one's face brightened as she answered, "I am not my brother's bookkeeper." If he ?f?M and .fivcside. I ? HOW TO ACT WHEN BABY IS CHOKING. J Mothers need not be told that children of a certain age have an unconquerable tent j dency to make the mouth a receptacle for [ j every small substance they pick up. As a , natural consequence, gaging or choking is ! not of infrequent occurrence. At such times more than likely the mother I [ in her fright looses all self possession, and I frantically catching her strangling little one II screams the injunction to "spit it out,,' and at at the same time emphasizes this with a rough shaking. Even if the victim of the accident could , -do as told, which is seldom possible, ho would be rattled out of his senses and try to ? cry in terror, and thus make matters worse, j Unless the offending substance is quickly | dislodged from the throat the irignteneu | mother is pretty certain to lay tue unfortu.: ate across her knees, on his back, and thrust | her forefinger into his throat and push it I aimlessly about. This part of the treatment ! is all very well when intelligently applied ; ' but such position of the child makes the danger of strangling infinitely greater. i A child in this state should be caught up i by the waist and laid across the lap, face downward, but with his chest well over one of the knees so that the head is suspended, i The mother should then slap him forcibly i several times between the shoulders. If the ; substance is not disloged, she should then r j lay him on the table, still face dowu, with ;; head well over the edge, and put her fore, finger gently into his mouth, carrying it back ) i as far as possible. 5 This will often quickly cause vomiting, a ! fortunate occurrence, and if it does not, she ! should delicately feel around the throat for i | the offender. The force used should be only I that which is necessary to keep the finger in ' j the mouth ; noue will be needed, nor must ' I any be used, while searching for the ob' struction. 1 j No mother, no matter how cool and self I possessed when this accident occurs, can '; treat her own child as skillfully as she cau J the child of another. Hence it is always 1 best to leave this work for some one at ! hand. But if alone, the mother must do the ' best she can. And if she will only believe > the trbth, namely, that of all the many acci1 dents of this kind but very few indeed result fatally, it must lessen her terrors someI j what, and steady her nerves, which happy result will greatly favor success iu the treatII meut. It is scarcely necessary to add that a physician should be sent for without delay in all such accidents.?Boston Herald. VALUABLE RECEIPTS. Common starch, moistened with camphor or arnica and placed immediately on a bruise, will prevent discoloration of the skio. Camphor takes away all soreness, while the starch keeps the parts cool and excludes the air. If troubled from too free perspiration, bathe in strong solution of soda. Bathe the eyes, when tired or weak, in warm salt water; it will soothe and strengthen them. To wash wicker chairs when soiled, use strong brine. A salt poultice, moistened with vinegar, will instantly relieve pain from the sting of a bee or wasp. A paste of common earth and water is also good. To remove ink and iodine stain (while I j fresh) from white goods, saturate the gar-' ! ment with kerosene oil and put it in the sun. | After an hour or two, wash it in hot soap j suds. With two or three applications of oil | | and soapy water the stains will be entirely i removed. To prevcut bedbugs, brush every crevice with a beaten white of an egg, into which a little quicksilver.has been stirred. Attend to it in March, and you will not be troubled with bugs. Either red or white oak bark is excellent j to keep in your water troughs for chickens. Equal parts of sweet oil and vinegar make | an excellent preparation for polishing fur miure. Wash oil cloths with sweet milk and water. Eat parsley, after onions, and it will efFec. tually destroy any odor of the breath. Wash gilt frames in the water in which ! onions are boiled. Two large onions to one ! pint of water. When not too bad, nasal catarrh may be relieved by snutfing tepid salt water through the nose two or three times a day. Calomel, sulphur aud lard, mixed, is a cer; tain cure for sore heads in fowls; calomel | destroys the humor?sulphur and lard heal the sores. Brilliant Whitewash?Take one-half | bushel of nice unslaked lime, slake it with , : boiliug water; cover it duiing the process to I keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through ; | a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck ; 1 of salt, previously well dissolved in warm I I water; three pounds of ground rice boiled j ; to a thin paste ; one-half pound of powdered Spanish whiting and one pound of clean j glue which has been previously dissolved by i j soaking it well, and then hang it over a slow J j fire in a small kettle within a larger oue j filled with water. Add five gallons of hot j water to the mixture ; stir it well and let it | stand for a few days covered from the dust, j | It should be put on hot, and for this pur-' ) pose it can ho kept on a portable furnace.' jit. is said that about a pint of this mixture j will cover a square yard upon a house, i if properly applied. Fine or coarse brushes . may be used, according to the neatness of the job required. It answers as well as! paint for wood, brick or stone, and is! cheaper. It retains is brilliancy for many years. There is nothing of the kind that I will compare with it, either for inside or outside walls. Buildings or fences cover-1 ed with it will take a much longer time to j burn than if painted with oil paint. Col-; oring matter may be put in and made, of any shade desired. Spanish brown will [ make a reddish pink when stirred in, more , or less deep, according to the quantity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, i well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone color; yellow ochre stirred in j makes yellow wash ; but chrome goes furthther, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier. It is difficult to make rules, be; cause tastes are different. It would be best to try experiments on a shingle and let it dry. (ireen must not be mixed with lime; I it destroys the color, and the color has an ef feet on the whitewash which makes it crack ami peel. C'onvkniknt S.malh Tools.?Many fanners only purchase agricultural implements as , agents call upon them and importune them into buying. As a consequence they are well I supplied with mowers, reapers and the like, while their stock of small farming im| laments, like axes, hoes, cultivators and other similar articles, is of the poorest pattern and ; quality. Vet the small instruments are usu- i ally at work ten days for even one that the 1 reaping and mowing machine is in the field. The cost of the small tools kept in good or- i der is very small, and their increased effici- j ency often pays for a new one by a single: day's work, besides the vexation of spirit resulting from trying to make a poor tool do j the work of a good one. Have as many hoes and other small implements in perfect eondi tion as there are men to use them, and if there are hoys to work in the potato or corn field have some implement of lighter pattern for their use. Heaviness and clumsiness are, however, not usually a fault of tools that are j new and up to date. They are more apt now to be too light and too frail for the best |service. Allkckd t't rk roit r.\Kt monia.?A correspondent sends the following as a tried i and true cure for pneumonia Take six to ten onions, according to size, and chop fine, j put in a large spider over a hot lire: then add about the same quantity of rye meal, and i vinegar enough to form a thick paste. In ftw. nii>ntiwhile stir it thorouirhlv. lettinc it ! simmer five or ten minutes. Then put in a 1 cotton hag large enough to cover the* lungs, j and apply to the chest as hot as the patient j can hear. When this gets cool apply another, and thus continue hy reheating the poul-1 tices. and in a few hours the patient will be : out of danger. This remedy has never failed to cure this too i often fatal malady. I'sually three or four i j applications will he suflicient, hut continue always until the perspiration starts freely I from the chest. The recipe was given many j years ago hy an old physician of large expe-! rience. ? Denver News. teTA mixture of equal parts of brown or | granulated sugar and borax is said to he a I good preparation for getting rid of cock I roaches. It can be placed in any part of j the house as it is perfectly safe. ^aivsuk ?athmuqs. if I ftaT" It is quite us hard to act a lie as to tell the truth. | gfcaST Think high thoughts and you won't j j do low deeds. , &&F When sleep is broken, what becomes j of the pieces? i fisaT" Minneapolis makes 7,000,000 barrels : j of flour a year. I Bfi?" The honest man never stops to inquire if honesty pays. | fiaT" Every man has too much faith in other | men's faith in him. fiST" No matter what the Wood, 110 animals ] thrive without care. Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak. EST' We are all alike in one respect; we find it difficult to save money. There is such a demand for good men and the supply is so wretchedly short. 8ST Fruit that ripens most quickly is not the sweetest, nor does it keep longest. BSTlt is surprising how much trouble a man will endure before it reaches him. US?" An elevator up Mount Calvary is in construction for the benefit of pilgrims. The most difficult task in the world is to live a day without making a mistake. The population of the Indian empire is shown by the census to be 285,000,000. 8ST Does any man ever know when he stops being agreeable and becomes a bore ? 8ST The offspring of parents of unequal height most frequently follow the shorter. fiST There is one comfort in dealing with a liar; you are not compelled to believe him. J86T" The earth was made subject to man. That is the reason why every man wants it. 3ST What is the greatest luxury a man can j enjoy in this life? An honest man's sleep. IST It requires only a few years for a youth's elder sister to become younger than he. tfcjT The man who watches the clock the closest is the man who puts in the longest day. Q3F Zoologists say that all known species of wild animals are gradually diminishing iu size. 80f- Don't be critical; criticism is not wisdom, though foolish people sometimes think it is. BST" Labor is sweet, and labor is noble?especially when some other fellow is performing it. WGF The best friends a man has are those who are never called upon to prove their friendship. flof We judge our neighbors by ourselves when they are good; when bad, by other neighbors. flfeirifthou shouldst find thy friend in the j wrong, reprove him secretly, but in company I praise him. 8ST" The world is sadly in need of an invention that will warn people when they have talked enough. 8ST" Australia is claimed to have more churches in proportion to population than any other country. BaT" Put off repentance until tomorrow and you have a day more to repent of and a day less to repent in. tOT If every desire of our hearts was granted, we would be worse oil'than if not one of 1 them was given us. AST" It is considered unlucky in Ireland to j ' view a funeral procession while the beholder j is under an umbrella. B68* The man who believes only half he i hears generally gets along pretty well if he selects the right half. iST There are 288 cities in Kansas in which women have municipal suffrage on equal terms with men. B6F* She?Do you know the hour of the day when Adam was created ? He?No ; except that it was before Eve. B6T The most charitable thing you can do 4rv 1SA oknnt tlmm u:hon IVV fcUIUC iO IV Jl\> uwviuw I.UVIU If MVM you are asked to tell the truth. 5?* The ways of men and of women are far apart. A woman's hat is on her head, while a man's head is in his lmt. fiSTOne would think that the fruit crop had enough experience to teach it to keep on its winter underclothes until May. B6T" Fool a man, if you enjoy it, but you will have to be on your guard every time i you see him for the rest of your life. BfiT"Well, Patrick, how is your brother I today?'' Patrick?I'm sorry to say that> there isau improvement for the worse. ?aT To refuse to speak to your next-door neighbor, and emit prayers for the heathen, is a sort of consistency that don't jingle. ?a?" It has been figured out that a man who shaves regularly until lie is 80 years old, has cut off ahout 35 feet of hair from his face. 8?? Josh Billings says "It is a statistical i fact that the wicked work harder tew reach j hell than the righteous do tew get to heav- i en." B?* In the old days pigs were considered a . great delicacy in ltome, and those for the magnates were fattened on honey, ligs and i whey. ?af" England has won S2 per cent, of the i wars she has engaged in ; but in over a ceil-1 tury she has defeated no white nation single handed. ?ST" Irate '.lennan (to stranger who has stepped on his toe)?"I know mine feet was! meant to be walked on, but dot brivilege pc- J longs to me." ?aT "What dis country wants," said Uncle | Mose, "is some sort oh patent contraption ' wliar a man can drap a nickel in de slot an' i git religion." B?"" A Nebraska man hugged his girl so hard that he broke one of her ribs. When she got well he forgot to hug her and that j broke her heart. i 8?" A Berlin dentist, in drawing a lady's j tooth, had his linger bitten by a convulsive ; closing of her mouth. He died in two days from blood poisoning. A statistician gives the number of: newspapers in the world at 83,000. About j about one-sixth of these have the largest I circulation on earth. ??" A man would not go far wrong if he could learn to treat his ease as if it were his j neighbor's, and then take the advice he j would give to his neighbor. ?aT" "It is a shame, husband, that I have to sit here mending your old clothes." "Don't say a word about it, wife. The least Cilltl) tills fVV/IIVOl 1?V Our nickel five-cent piece gives a key j to the intricacies of the metric system, as it j weighs exactly live grammes and is exactly j two centimetres in diameter. tie#' Why was Kvc the unluokiest woman on earth? Because she could not tell her husband how other women dressed, and tell him what kind of dress she wanted. BfeaF" "It is no use telling you to look pleas- i ant," said the photographer to a pretty young lady, "for you could not look other- j wise." And his scheme worked admirably. StaT" A citizen of (Jrecncastle, Md., has I trained his rat terrier to hatch out spring chickens, and the little fellow does it tlior- j oughly. lie is now sitting on goose eggs. gfcay*' Wool?"How do you go to work to tell the age of a hen?" Van Pelt? "By the teeth." Wool?"A hen hasn't any ! teeth, you idiot!". Van Pelt ? "No; but I have." VHT The Siamese believe that the human soul requires seven days to journey from earth to heaven ; hence, the prayers are con-; tinued for seven days after the individual j dies. ^ fta?" "That fellow is no good : he wears rub-; bers," is the latest slang expression. It j means that he is not to be trusted, and, fig- j uratively speaking, he approaches you with ! muflled feet. fifetT Observant doctors have been taking I measurements of the height of women in Kng-1 land, France and America, and announce , that the Fnglish woman is the tallest, and | the American next. paT" In a Scotch asylum there is a woman J whose form of insanity before she was incur-1, CO rated consisted in having her horses' shoes | of.solid gold, with gold nails, each sets of"j shoes and nails costing $2,nOO. I flo?" ,lI can't say as he went to heaven," re- i marked a citizen of a deceased townsman, n ' lmt he paid a hill of eleven years' standing only the day before lie died, and yon can judge for yourself." ] SbT The estimated number of horses in this'I country on January 1, 1SSI3, was more than jf Hi,U0(1,000, and valued at $900,1X10,000. Jan- j ] nary 1, 1S04, there were more horses, but 11 the value bad decreased to the amount of $223,000,000. The horse business got hit I i hard. j ?hc ^tovn Idler. A CYCLONE OF HORNETS. | BY APACHK CKORfiK. It was tv very bold thing to do, and Engineer Sam 1'eckham, of the Sunset Express, when his train stopped at Magnus, a watering station along the line of the great Southern Pacific railroad, on the edge of the great Prison Plain, in Texas, blushed and stammered when he called Section Boss John Pruitt aside and told him that he loved brown-haired Kitty, the boss's daughter. "What!'' cried Pruitt, aghast. "You love my Kitty ? Why, man alive, she's only a baby !" "She is nenrlv seventeenenntemleil the V J k,,v engineer, "and I am willing to wait a year.'' "Seventeen!" ejaculated the father, as though the fact wus a new and startling piece of news. "Bless me, so she is! Well, I'll have a talk with mother about it, Sam. Seventeen years old ! My, my, my ! Who would have thought it?" This brief interview had taken place while Sam's locomotive was filling its tank, and Kitty, by a previous arrangement, did not make her appearance as usual to greet her lover, but watched him slyly from the window of the section-house kitchen. She hardly dared raise her eyes to meet her father's when the train rumbled away and the section boss came into the house. "Boss Pruitt stood for a moment in the doorway and eyed his daughter with anxious interest, not unmixed with astonish- . raent. "Seventeen years old!" he muttered, j "She is a woman !" Having arrived at this conclusion, he drew a chair up to the stove, about which his buxom wife was busying herself, aud ! greatly astonished that lady when he said : "Mary, did you know that our Kitty was seventeen years old ?" "Why, of course I did!" was the rejoin-; der. "Her birthday is the seventeenth also, j This is the eleventh." "Well," continued the section boss, "you can't guess what Sam Beckham, the engineer on the Sunset Express, asked me." "Perhaps not. I'm not good at guessing. What did he ask you?" "He wants to marry our Kitty." "Well, what of that? I was only a few j months older than she when I was married, j and she's a more sensible and steady girl i than I ever was. Sum Peck ham is a good fellow, honest, sober and saving. He'll make her a good husband." "Oh, Sam's all right?" agreed the section , boss. "I didn't know how you'd take it." "You didn't, eh?" retorted his spouse. "Well, you know now. I'm glad to hear it and I wish Kitty much joy !" "That settles it, then !" said her husband, j Aud turning to Kitty, to whom neither j had paid the slightest attention, much to that young lady's confusion and embarrass- j ment, he added : "It's all right, Kitty. I'll tell Sam so j when he stops on his down trip. Come i here, girl, and kiss tne. Lord ! but it makes J mc feel like an old man. How time does fly!" Forthwith Kitty, her blue eyes a trifle! misty and a suspicious trembling about her j red lips, rushed across the apartment, threw ! her arms about her father's neck, hugged J him convulsively, kissed him hysterically j and burst into tears. Then the section boss took her on his lap and soothed her and patted her brown head, and called her his "own girl" and his "little Kit," until smiles of joy cleared away the tears. The balance of the day Kitty felt as though she were in paradise, so joyously did her heart sing. The Sunset Express would return the following afternoon, beiug due at Magnus at 3.15, and t.he time seemed to drug along with leaden footsteps to the impatient girl. The following day was an "off" one with the section boss, and he kept his gang of Chinamen employed iu the neighborhood of the section house. Lung Foo, the track walker, came from the upper end of the section shortly after dinner, and reported a lire which had burned many of the crossties and weakened the track. He had extinguished the flumes and hurried back to report the disaster. Forthwith the section boss got together his gang, loaded a truck with crossties, and the entire party hurried to the scene of the disaster, which was live miles distant, Mug- j nus being exactly in the centre of the sec- j tion. Just as he was leaving he entered the | house, and said to his wife : "Mary, if I'm not back by the time the j express goes by, tell Sam that it's all right. | "Oh, 1 won't forget!" was the reply. And then kissing both wife and daughter,, Pruitt hurried out to the waiting-room, and | they were ofF up the track. At twelve o'clock, Mrs. Pruitt and Kitty j had dinner, after which meal the former j declared her intention of taking "forty! winks" of sleep. "I'll clear up, mother, dear," said Kitty,! "and have a lunch ready for father when he comes back." "That's a good girl! Wake me before the j express comes along." "I will," answered Kitty. And she blushed crimson and turned away her head. It was past two o'clock and Kitty had finished the last of her household duties,; when she heard the thud, thud of approaching horsemen, and glancing carelessly through the door, gave utterance to an exclamation of terror and astonishment. Five men?one of who she recognized as Juan Yallez, bandit and desperado, upon whose head a price was set?had ridden up to the tank and were watering their horses. Her first impulse at the sight of the rufii- j ans?for she knew instinctively that the bandit's companions were men of desperate character?was to bar the doors and close the windows. She was about to do this, when Yallez j and one of his companions strutted toward the house. There was no time to entrench herself: now, and with a hurried prayer on her lips' for the safety of her sleeping mother, Kitty darted out of the back door, hesitated a) moment as to which direction to flee, and then, hearing the voices of the desperadoes, close by, dropped down and crawled under the house. The floor above her head was composed of: a single layer of boards, and presently they j creaked beneath the tread of the bandits. "Ila! Xo one at home, eh!" she heard Vallez say, in Spanish. "Boss l'ruitt has j taken his home birds along with him, no doubt. I would't lmve objected to stealing a kiss from the lips of that handsome daughter of his; but then, it's probably just as well that she's not here." j "Right you are, captain," agreed his com- ( pan ion. "No women, say I, when you have ' business to attend to." "By-the-way," said Vallez, "we need an j axe. Take that one in the corner there. I intend to stop the express in the deep cut this side of Rocky Canyon. It will be easier to fell one of the big pine trees across the truck, than to hunt around for crossties < enough to make a block." "I'll take the axe, captain," responded the other. "When is the train due?" "We have barely time to reach the cut and get the tree across the track," said Vallez. "Come on !" The two men left the house, and directly j. Kitty heard the band riding oil'. It was not until the sound of the hoofbeats died away that she ventured to crawl i from her place of concealment. "They mean to hold up the express," she murmured, looking across the plain toward the fast disappearing horsemen. "If I only had my pony up, I'd ride around by the Tules, cross the canyon at the upper pass, | and notify the telegraph operator at Los I Pinto. Something must be done. They i < will kill poor Sam, for he is too brave to!' surrender wiiunui a siruggie. is u jiossmie fur me* to net ahead of thorn?'' She glanced at the kitchen clock, and saw that it was twenty minutes past two. f In fifty minutes the express, if it were 011 11 time, would reach the cut. Kitty uttered a cry of despair; and then, f with an expression of determined resolve on 1' Iter face, seized her sunhonnct, and leaving ] the railroad track upon her left, ran with all ; 1 speed through the charparral toward the1 little tree-crowned hutte in the distance, j j toward which the bandits were hurrying. t Reaching at length the base of the hutte, die began to climb its steep side. She could distinctly hear the chuck! chuck! of the axe, as it hewed its way through one of the pine trees. The bandits had selected a tree on the: opposite bank of the cut, and just as Kitty reached the summit of the butte it toppled over with a crash, and, thundering down J the steep bank, lay straight across the track,! not far from where the robbers had picketed : their horses. Creeping cautiously to t he edge of the cut, Kitty peered over. There they were, directly beneath her, | waiting for the coming train. "What can I do? How can I signal the! train?" she thought, and wrung her handsi despairingly. Toot! toot! T1,? ?vn..,>o, iiict It.n graph station. In a few minutes it would be here. Kitty glanced across the canyon, and wondered if it were possible to climb down the opposite side of the butte and cross the bridge without being discovered by the robbers. No. They had an uninterrupted view of the brook to where it took a sudden course to the left on the opposite side of the canyon. Kitty uttered a sigh of despair, and her fine head drooped forward on her bosom. She raised it, however, very suddenly, and with good reason. A gigantic Mexican hornet had lit upon her neck, and the insect's vicious sting shocked her almost as much as a bullet wound. Tears of pain started to her eyes, and but for the robbers in the cut below, she would have screamed with agony. She was leaning against the trunk of a big pine tree, the branches of which projected over the cut. From one of these limbs depended an enormous top-shaped nest, buzzing about which were hundreds of big black insects, companions of the one that had stung her. "Toot! toot! toot! The express was nearing the canyon. It would soon be brought to a standstill by the fallen tree, and Vallez and his robbers would have the train at their mercy. Could nothing he done? Poor Kitty turned her eyes heavenward. They rested on the hornets' nest, and then a sudden expression of joy Hashed across her face. The limb from which the big nest depended started out of the trunk of the pine almost on a level with her head. At its base a large piece had been split olf, and it was much weakened. Toot! toot! Rumble! rumble! r-r-r-r-r ! The express had turned the curve, and the engine was already on the bridge that spanned the canyon. Vallez and his men sprang to their feet and ranged themselves alongside the track. Toot! toot! toot! Engineer Peckham had discovered the obstruction in the cut, and had shut oft' steam and reversed the lever. He would not be able to check the train before it reached the cut, and then? Kitty, throwing the skirt of her gown over her head, threw her full weight upon the weakened limb to which was attached the hornets' nest, and pulled with all her strength. Crack ! It bent, and the hornets flew out in a Aright. Another pull! A dozen of the vicious and enraged insects settled upon her hands and arms. Courage! She gave another pull, the liuib tottered, | sank slowly, became detached from the j pareut stem, and went thundering down j into the cut right in the midst of the robbers. Then with a wild screum of ugony, she ran back into the timber, still pursued by the hornets, which stung her again and again upon her exposed hands and arms. She remembered afterward that, desper...ill. nliA lliiiAiu tmnonlr iinnn I hn IUC Willi I'illll, ?1JC UliUt) JiViov.11 upv/41 Uivi ground and rolled over and over, crushing ' the few hornets that still clung to her. Then she did what any other girl would j have done under the circumstances?fainted away. Meanwhile, in the cut where the robbers lay in ambush, the hornets' nest had done its work. Just as the cowcatcher of the pulling locomotive touched the tree that the robbers had felled, and the bandits rushed forward to loot the train, the great nest fell amoug them and the angered insects swarmed out. The battle was short, sharp and decisive. Maddened and blinded by the stings, the wretches dropped their weapons and danced about, shrieking wildly. It brought the passengers tumbling from the cars, among them being a synod of Hangers. The passengers were soon demoralized and forced for shelter back into the cars. The Rangers, recognizing Juan Vallez, fought their way through the cloud of buzzing hornets and made both him and his men prisoners, One of the Hangers fastened a rope to the , fallen tree, and Engineer Peckhain cleared, the track of the obstruction. The hornets, robbed of their human prey, j settled upon the bandits' horses, and the maddened animals, breaking their tethers, I tore out of the cut and across the plain. By this time Kitty recovered from her | swoon and crept forward to the edge of the ! cut. Engineer Beckham spied her, and leaving j his locomotive, went up and brought her! down. Between her sobs she told her story, and the engineer kissed her swollen hands and; arms. Aboard the train there happened to he a i party of railroad magnates. They heard the story, and when, a few months later, Sam and Kitty were married, they began ' | housekeeping in a daintily furnished cottage ! in El Paso, presented to the bride by the j magnates aforesaid for effecting the capture | of Juan Vallez and his gang. I j; iii?? urc i A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.?I.a lest I'nitcd States i (iovenunent Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co., j; 106 Wall Street, N. Y. jj SEABOARD AIR LINE R. R.jj The Great Short Line to the North,1 South and Southwest. (J()IN(i SOl'TIL Leave Yorkville, (viu ('. A' L.s:) S 4^ p. in. Arrive at Chester, (('. A* I..) 10 ().'j j>. in.1 Leave Chester, (S. A. L.) ,s ">(i a. m. I Arrive at Atlanta, (S. A. L.) .'too p. in. ! Conneets at Atlanta with all lines South, South- j west and West. <ior.\<i NORTH. Leave York villi?, (via ('. A* L.s>) s -12 p. tn. Arrive at Chester, (('. A- L.) lump. in. | Leave Chester, (S. A. L.) 12Ma. in. Arrive at Raleigh (i ."to a. in. Arrive at Portsmouth 11 a. in. | Arrive at Norfolk 11 4."> a. in. Arrive at Rielimond 11 4">a. in.; Arrive at Washington ."I 40 p. m. 51Also makes good eonneetion with Charleston, L'iiicinuati and Chicago railroad at Catawba | lunetioii, for all points North and South. 15. A. NK\VLANI). T. P. A. j Charlotte, N. C. T. J. ANDKHSON, (1. P. A. The great Seaboard Air Line Route of the anions "Atlanta Speeial," is the nuiekest and best line lrom all points in the Carolinas, to Atlanta, Montgomery, New Orleans, and all joints in Texas, Indian Territory, Arkansas, md the Southwest. Also for Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, j Louisville, St. Louis, and all points in Kansas,1 Colorado, and tin; (Jreat West. And for Raleigh, Weldon, Wilmington, Ports- j nouth, Norfolk, Riehninud, Petersburg, Washngton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and i he North and Northeast. For Maps, Time Tables, and the Lowest Rates, i uldress 1$. A. NFWLAN1), Trav. Pass. Agt. Charlotte, N. C. January 24 4 tf | A Gentleman ! Who formerly resided in Connecticut, but who now resides ir Honolulu, writes: "For 20 years past, my wife ij and 1 have used Ayer'a Ilixlr Vigor, and we attribute to it the dark hair which she and I EplSj now liave, while hunIplW dreds of our acquaiutK Tl ances, ten or a dozen Ma sgftV years younger than we, Jj $&&&&. are either gray-headed, M far*IB!*1 wllite? or WJien asked how our hair has BcLy it retained its color and ml *ullne93?wo reply,' Hy <jgg| the use of Ayer'a Ilair Hll=2Hs flTl if? Vigor?nothing else.'" jffllpgl "In 18S8, my affianced was nearly bald, and ^a'hertouse Iyer's Hair Vigor, and very soon, it not only checked any further loss of hair, but produced an entirely new growth, which has remained luxuriant and glossy to this day. t can recommend this preparation to all in need of a genuine hair-restorer. It is all ? that it Is claimed to be."?Antonio Alarrun, Bastrop, Tex. AYER'S HAIR VIGOR | Many Narrow Escapes ; Sw^/ . I And TWn^d^nts ; CHARACTERIZE A YANKEE i IN GRAY ; And make it one of the most I < stirring stories ever written by M.QUAD I; That master of the story teller's art It is Copyrighted and lllus- < trated and will be printed in serial form ] IN THIS PAPER \ COMMENCING WITH THE ISSUE OF ata XT r\mTT 1Y1LXX X X XX. Fifty Cents will Secure THE EN- < QUIREK for Three Months. j Don't | Exchange a good tiling for something ' of less value. i f Don't (Vive up one insurance policy and l.ii.e n;sothrr. Always remember that a.11.Id policy is of far greater iutriusic ^ value than a new oue. Don't Let the premium on your policy 1 ipse even f..r a day. Vou can't foresee the events of to-morrow. It may not be possible for you to get another policy if the present one is dropped. Don't Consider any other form of insurance until you have thoroughly investigated the plans and policies of the EQUITABLE LIFE. You will perceive their advantages at once. W. J. RODDEY, Manager, , For thcCaroHnas. Rock Hill, 5. C. | i mMMRmmjSchedules in Effect from and After r March 25, 1S94. i - . ? ' ; t (>. W. F. Harper, President. !j . ... ,.rt l <;<>1N(; NOUTII. | AO JU. I AO UU. ' Lea\c ( 'hosier 0 10 u in I) 00 ifm j" Leave Lowrysvillc 7 07 a m 0 25 u m j 5 Leave Mefonucllsville 7 20 a in 10 (Kt a in r Leave (iiilhriesville 7 25 a in 10 15 a in : j Leave Yorkville 7 57 a in 11 00 a in ' Leave Clover s :?) a in 11 0! pin 1 Leave Cast on la 0 OS a in 1 20 jim Leave Lineolnton 10 10 a in 2 45 j>in i _ Leave Newton 11 12 a in I 15 pin i Leave Hickory 12 20 pin 0 20 pin ' ;i Arrive Lenoir 1 20 pin S CO pin I \ <;otx<; sorrii. | No til. | No 0. |\ Leave Lenoir 5 .'10 a in :l 15 p in I c Leave Hickory 7 01 a in 4 1(1 pin ! t Leave Newton s 20 a in 5 IS j?m ! ( Leave Lineolnton 10 10 a in ti 12 j>in ' Leave Caslonia 12 50 pin 7 20 pin Leave Clover 1 50 pin S 00 pill ! ' Leave Yorkville 2 ill pin S 12 pin i 11 Lenvc-Cutliriesville 2 22 jim 0 02 j>m t Lrnve McConnellsville 2 15 pin 0 12 jim t Leave Lowrysvillc I 12 jun 0 2.1 pin j r Arrive Chester I 5.5 pin 10 02 pin ( Trains Xos. !) ami 1(1 are lirst-elass, and rim a lailv except Stuiday. Trains Xos. (K) and (>1 ! e arry passengers and also run daily except Sun- j i lay. There is (rood connection at Chester with \ he <i. C. A* X., and the ('., C. it A.; also at Cas- e onla with the A. A' A. L.; at Lineolnton i ivith the C. C.; and at Hickorv and Xewton with v ho W. X. C. ' i Ii. T. XIt'IIOLS, Superintendent. II. II. HKA H1), Ceneral Passenger Agent, March is (I tf . i ' CAUTION*.?If a dealce offers W. D. Douglas Shoes at a reduced price, or says ho has them without name stamped on bottom, put him down as a fraud. ' il Afi i' Vi wwMa>nw 83 SHOE THE^WORLD. 1 XV. L. DOUGLAS Shoes arc stylish, easy fitting, and give better satisfaction at the prices ad. j vcrtised than any other make. Trv one pair and lie convinced. The stamping of \V. L. Douglas' name and price on the bottom, which guarantees their value, saves thousands of dollars annually to those who wear them. Dealers who push the sale of W. L. Douglas Shoes gain customers, which helps to increase the sales on their full line of goods. They can afTord to sell at a less profit, and we believe you can save money by buying all your footwear o'f the dealer advertised below. Catalogue free upon application. Address, j XV. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. bold by ,J J. J. S3IITII, Clover, S. C. i ' C. W. FREW, Rock Hill, S. <\jal January 10 - -It i for Infants and Children. " Castorla is.so well adapted to children that I Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, I recommend it as superior to any prescription I Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, I.uown to me." II. A. Auciiek, M. D., | Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di- - ^1 Ill So. Oxford St., Ilrooklyn, N. Y. gestion, Without injurious medication. "Tho u.to of 'Castorla h so universal and "For several years I have recommended i s merits so well known that it seems a work your 'C'astoria,' and shall always continue to i f s:i;>ereroi:atin:i to endorse it. Few are the do so as it has invariably produced beneficial intelligent families who do not keep C'astoria results." within easy reach." Edwin F. Pardee, M. I)., Carlos Mautyn, I>. I)., liKth Street and 7th Ave., New York City. * New York City. The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, New York C'itt. GARRY IRON ROOFING COMPANY, Manufactures nil kinds of Sb C5 IKON ORE PAIN'I "kimi'kd AND COKHUOATKDSIDING, 152 TO 158 M ERW1N ST., ire proof doors, siiUTTKits, ac., P=&~ Send for Circular 1 and Price List No. 75. THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. t par Orders received by L. M. CRIST. s r A if A i MPiaif if AllinAr A UU TUU UtNT IHt UHflhbt7 FOR several years you have been fully conscious of the fact that by the use of a CORRIN DISK HARROW you could reduce the expenses on your farm and at the same time increase the producing power of your land. You liave known this because you have seen statements to that effect in these columns signed by some of the best farmers in York and Chester counties? men whose word you would not think of doubting in any statement they might make to you. Isn't the foregoing absolutely correct ? Now, here, doubtless, are some of the reasons you have assigned for not buying, and I will say that none or all of them are worth the time employed in thinking them out: First. "My land is different the man's who made the statement as to his experience with the harrow." Second. "Times ire too hard." Third. "The price is too high, if I will only wait they will get cheaper." Fourth. "Perhaps I can get one low down from some fellow who lias got tired of his, or perhaps I may be able to get a bargain in one at some public sale," etc., etc. For answer to "reason" No. i I will say that there is 110 soil in York county, or anywhere else, that can be cultivated at all 011 which the harrow i cannot be used to advantage. To No. 2 I will say that the harrow is a time and money saver, therefore the reason is an argument in favor of buying instead of not buying. To No. 3 I reply that there is not the least probability of a reduction in price for the reason that it is very low now, especially when the quantity and ^ .nullity of work it will do is taken into consideration. It is cheaper in pro portion than an Iron Foot Plow Stock at$i.oo. In reply to No. 4 I will ask how many yon have known to be sold in the past five years "because the owners were tired of them" and how many have you known to sell at a reduced price at a public sale? Now say ? I tell you what I know. Several years ago I sold a harrow to three farmers, and after using it for more than a year two of them sold out their interest for $2 less than the entire harrow cost the three. Sold one to another farmer. He used it one year, was compelled to raise some cash to pay a note, and sold his harrow for $1 less than he paid me for it. SAM M. GRIST, State Agent, Yorkville, S. C. fi "MIIB" iiiiSSiiiiii ^ I SAMUEL HUNT, Agent for Purchaser. [MPROVED, HIGH ARM, PERFECTED. , __ , | rpiMK TABLE of the Charleston, Cincinnati shipped 011 Approval and Guaranteed to JL and Chicago Railroad in effect from and afGlve Entire Satisfaction, and if Not Sat- tor April 0, MM, Daily Except Sunday, inflictory after a Test of TWENTY STANDARD EASTERN TIME. DAYS in Your Home, the Ma- I ?oin? .north. | No. SI. | Noll. ??? , ? , Leave Charleston, (8. C. H. It.).. 7 15 am chine \\ ill be Taken llack and Leave Augusta, " ii ra am Moiiov Refunded Leave Columbia " li:? am * n" lie i. j l^^ J ? ~~ ?' Arrive at Cincinnati,'(Q? AC'.)..7 'JO am V1XISIIE1) IX OAK Oil ll'ALXl'T | \I AM J Ot'AItAXTEED EOU TEX YEAKS. GOING SOUTH. No. 32. | No. 12. Leave Cincinnati, (Q. & C.) 7 00 nm i Leave Louisville, (L. & N. R. It.).. a 00 pm This Elegant Machine Delivered. Freight Paid, j L?[ve Hotsnringsf^R.'i if?.:!" 122Sm at any Railroad Station East of the ^'k^;?- 352SE Rocky Mountains, for $23.00. j Arrive at Marion...... 4 33 pm Leave Marion " 4 45 nm rlllO KXQl'IKKR has sent out a large ntim- 1 Leave Rutlierfordton n 10 pm her of tlie best grades of Sewing Machines 1 heave r orest City <; 33 j)ni .1 the past live years, and in view of the fact j SSSS^S^Z^ZZ'. 7 g {J|J{ hat the business iias grown to such proportions Leave Shelby . ? 45 am H .? E" is to warrant it, we have rocontly pertoeted an Leave Patterson Springs....! ? 56 am s :?i pm irrungeinent for the iiianufaeture of THE I Leave Earls 7 03 am S 48 pm SXtif'IKER SEWIXO MACHINE, and we I^aveBlacksburg 7 45am ootipm ire now prepared to furnish them to all who Leave Smyrna.... 8 00 am visli to buy a lirst class high gmde Sewing Ma- }'"{?; Shana? V? a f> ?!? hine at less than half the price at which such a Lcuve Yorkvllte":Z Z::":::: J of uachinc is usually sold by peddlers and dealers. Leave Tirzah it 23 am * i. Few Facts About The Enquirer Machine, il'uve ,0 *}" The accompanying engraving gives a correct IV ^ um dea of the machine, it is as near perfection as Leave Lancaster .. ""ZZZ" 2 00 pm my machine 011 the market. Any kind ot Leave Kershaw ?t 05 pm vork can be done 011 it that any other machine Arrive at Camden ...'. 2 00 pm vill do. All wearing parts are case .harden- Leave Camden, (S. c. K. R.).. 2 30 pm si steel, and are fitted so accurately that Arrive Columbia " ti 15 pm hese machines are as absolutely noisele&sand Arrive at Augusta,...." 12 15 am >asy running as line adjustment and best me- Arrive at Charleston." s 45 pm hnnieal skill arc possible to produce. Xo ex- s Dinner. H'lise or time is spared to make them perfect in OTHER COXXEl'TlOXS very respect. The balance-wheel ami many of ( ........ ,,Z.. ... * * ' ?. ,. he line parts are nickel plated, with other parts .... i rr(,.,,VSf. 'I,,. nux 111 Chester X. O. inelv enameled and ornamented, giving it a i,., t,,,, .. , x. ,, id. appearance. The machine is titled with , S NfsRwU,? lie Improved Automatic Robbin Winder. It .... n ,m,i i> 0 iV ..-../..i,,,, . P ?? u ilso has a self-setting needle and self-threading L . \v,lsi1|l,iril,i, -\>p ' f immiilV ylinder shuttle. The simplicity of the auto-1 y *'. y.'i. 1'.? >?' ' hRodelphia lO.-Ki; uatic tensions, scwir.g from Xos. 40 to 100 thread * Yorkville--\Vi?'iwi..??f?r.... 1 t : i> ? ""b' " L 11? H.,r for SparEach machine is in perfect working order m\\V('luiVhd?e an.'^ Imints xllrth"11 points Soutl1? vlien shipped, and is accompanied with printed slndhv With r .r.lim .* /? V 1 i> i? ntructIons ami a complete set of tools and all ^fcKhnWll en,nl "* U" with lecOHsary attachments, in a handsonio plush, h i>0,ldovs ohl Ih.V.o i*t.. <- 1 > ined case The attachments arc the best. At itodiiovs, Old I out, Kings Creek and "si. 1111 .IU.K lunulas an 1111 ocsi. , l<on(|ollf trains stop only oil sienal tow TO UET THE MACIIIXE. S. 11. L1JMPKIX, (i. P. \ 1.111'OIITAXT IMEOHMATIOX. A. Till PP. Superintendent. mm r.i \t 1 ... , SAM'I. HINT, General Manager. 1 he price ot the Machine is $211. \\ e deliver t at your nearest railroad station free of freight ltlCE SEEI) FOR SAI.E barges, provided vou live east of the Rocky T 11 1 vie .... 1 1 ... ' '' . ilountains. THE EXt^'IRER will be sent I i?(il*4iir itr "v 2.-J. Vf '.'P*1-'-1"** ree for one year to every purchaser of a machine. ii,oso who wKh to'?..? '^e#J V } !, w , to 'he cash must accompany the order. Semi or jtM1 ,.onK V,!l 1 .W?m .ai?ia uoiiev bv Express, Monev Order, Registered ,,01..^ 1 rt. Apply at Iiik Enquikku .etter or Xew York Exchange. | Maivl. 7 K, ( WARRANTED FDR TEX YEARS. j " The usual wariiuitee bv which we replace any | I'orld lllr (DutJItlVCV. buttles, ninth's unit bobbins, goes with every | luchitic. Alter the Machine lias boon received, PUBLISHED WEEKLY. on have the privilege of returning it within j m '\VKNTY days, if not satistaetor.v. Is that q^KUMW of HUHscun'TKJXs ur' Single copy for one year, $ 'Z <m> NO V A111 AT ION, i ?}Py two years ;i , 'r or six months, 1(H) \\ (? have cnclcavoreu to say here all unit wo tliroc^ mouths, r>o Diild siy in a letter. There can be no change ol ?pwo (.,?pieS for one year 3 so ?rius. Do not ask lor any variation. Machines ?pgu < ,,t>icH one year 11 ,lo re shipped direct from the factory, and are'not AntJ un oxtRl , tbriiciiibof't'eii'. n exhibition at our ollnfe. W eknow you will be nv-i-nT.i4Ji"?T.'vfr. leased with the machine when you get it, and 'Vl)' 1,lK1 ISI.MI.N If-* oil know if it should happen to be unsatisfaoto- Inserti/.l at One Dollar per square for the first y, you can send it back within TWKNTY insertion, and Kilty Cents per square for each >.\S'S ami get your $?1.1)1). Address subsequent insertion. A square consists of the i.Kwis .m. liicisT. Yorkvllli*. s. < . space occupied l>y eight lilies of this size type. .?*3~ Contracts for advertising space for three, UNDKKTAKIN'C. s'x? (,r twelve months will be made on reasoii able terms. The contracts must in all cases be confined to the regular business of the lirni'or ^ individual contracting. Parties who niakequar^ ^ + * a a a _A. * =* * * ' ti?r1v vikiii.'innnul <%* niiuu.il 4\.? r \M handling a first class lino of COFFINS usually charged for the loss space or shorter tinio L VXD CXSKFTS which I will sell at the very as the rase may lie. An increase of space or >west prices. Personal attention at all hours. time will he a matter for special contract. The I am p ret aired to repair all kinds of Furniture advertiser will he at liberty to change the matter t reasonable prices. llt w>11' provided the copy for the change is in J. KD JKFFEHYS. the ollice not later than 12 in. on Monday preJanuarv 4 1 tf ceiling the day of publication.