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pg Gov Butler, of Massachusetts, has at
last contrived to turn the venerable joke of
the spoons to his own advantage. 1t is
said that while delivering a speech in Bos--
ton recently one Of his hearers cried out
"How about the spoons, Benz" Benjamin's
good eye winked merrily as he looked bash
fully at the audience and said: 81 was a
Republican when 1 stole the spoons"
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VOICES OF THE DEAD.-"He being dead
yet speaketh."
The dead speak to us and commune with
us through the works which they have left
behind them. The good man speaks in the
character and influence which he leaves be-
hind him. =. .'.ltt.f
The dead speak to us in memory and as
ISOLATION, in those religious suggestions
those consultations, invitations and hopes
which the bereaved spirit indulges. They
utter words of warning, and speak to us by
the silent eloquence Of example. By this
they bid us initiate all that was good in theil
lives, and all that is dear to remember. BY
this, too, they tell us that we are passing
swiftly from the earth and Fastening to join
their number. A little while ago, and they
were as we are; a little while hence, and
we shall be as they. Our work, like theirs
will be left behind us, to speak for us. How
important, then, that we consider what work
we do.
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TO CURE A FELoN.-Take of soft lye soap
and flaxseed meal sufficient quantity, STIR
ring the meal in slowly with spatula or
csse knife, manipulating thoroughly, so as
to form salve or poultice. Corn meal is a
good substitute for the flaxseed. Envelope
the finger in this, applying snug!ly,. and oc-
casionally pressing it to bring it in close
Driven or twenty -four hours. Don't try every pre-
scription you may hear of. 1t will, if ap-
piled in time, abort the disease; if adopted
later, it will bringi to small "head" Gf
not too far to be scattereD, when it may be
pricked almost painlessly.
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a GREAT .TRUTH.-That was a great

\ GREAT TRUTH.-That was great
truth tersely stated by Bishop keener in
his address to the deacOns at the Baltimore
Conference: "We want men not so much to
lecture against sin, but to live against it,
Lecturing is easier than right living, and
censoriousness more prevalent than right
eousness. A holy life speaks better things
than wordy platitudes. A young mission
ary, in relating his experience before the
Board that accepted and sent him abroad,
said: II passed through bitter years OF
skeptical unrest, hunting up every posi-,
BILE objection to the Christian system; but
there was an argument l could never an
swer-the consistent, godly life of my ia,
ther." The life has a voice more eloquent
than human speech and a power as lrresis-
tible as eternal truth itself.-NeW Orleans
Church AdrOcQte.
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BLIss.-"What is promised to the right
eous ?" asked mild and amiable Sunday
school teacher of small child at the far end
of her class External bliss" quickly re-
sponded the child. "Quite right, my dear
child" said the mild and amiable. "And
now tell me what is promised to the wick
edw eternal blister, ma'am," was the
prompt reply. The teacher pronounced it
theologically correct but peculiarly ex-
nrnsSnd
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WHAT MAKES MOST MARRIED MEN
MAD.-Joseph Smith, of Racine, fell down
the cellar stairs the other day, and broke his
left leg, his right arm, two ribs, his nose,
one finger, and cut his scalp, sprained his
ankle, and put his shoulder out OF joint:
But he didn't really begin to feel bad about
Boston Post.
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1B- Twenty-Five years ago young PhIla-
cause she could not afford to scrape from
the walls the unsightly, old-fashioned pa.
per, full of peacocks, and pelicans and
things, and put nice, neat new style in its
place. Now her married daughter is weep
ing because she can't afford to put the pea
cocks and pelicans back. Life is full of trou-
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SAFETY OF Observation-Disclosures are
not dependent upon circumstances. Their
ioy comes not from what they have, but
from what they are not from what they
enjoy, but from that which has been suffered
for them by their Lord. 1t is u singular
ioy, then, because it often buds, blooms and
ripens in winter time; and when the fig
tree does not blossom and there is no herd
in the stall, Gods Habakkuks rejoice in the
salvation.
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FROM OLD VIRGINIA.-A prominent
broker of Richmond Va, whose name we
withhold, says he has used Norman's Neu-
tralizing Cordial several years for all irreg-
ularities of the stomach and found it effect
ual in every instance. He recommends it
as an excellent remedy for man who loses
on fltureS-AdU
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nay How often we forget that the common
round of everyday duty is the sphere of the
most sacred and far reaching, activities;
Toiling in tread mill is very irksome and
monotonous, perhaps, but it is it that turns
the wheel and produces constant and lasting
rncu1tS
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Bar If the cream or the milk is wrong-or,
90 to the fountain head, if the cows and the
feed are not right-the butter will show it.
If the milk and cream are not well handled,
the butter will surely 60 wrong. If the
churning be overdone, and the working be
overdone or underdone, the butter will be
off, off, off. Packing is Of little account, un-
less the butter is up to the mark as well as
the market.
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A HORSES WEAK PoINTs.-The weak
points of horse can be better discovered
while standing than while moving.
If he is sound he will stand firmly and
squarely on his limbs without moving any
Of them, the feet planted fatty upon the
ground, with legs plumb and naturally
poised; or if the foot is lifted from the
ground and the weight taken from it, dis
ease may be suspected, or at least tender
ness, which is precursor of disease. If
the horse stands with his feet apart, or
straddles with his hind legs, there is a
weakness in the loins, and the kidneys are
disordered. Heavy pulling bends the knees.
Blush, milky cast eyes in horses Indicate
moon blindness or something else. A bad
tempered horse keeps his ears thrown back.
A kicking horse is apt to have Scared legs.
A stumbling horse has blemished knees:
When the skin is rough and harsh, and
does not move easily and smoothly to the
touch, the horse is heavy eater, and his
digestion is bad. Never buy horse whose
respiratory organs are at all impaired;
Place your ear at the side of the heart, and
ifa wheeling sound is heard it is an indi-
cation of trouble. Let him go. ...
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ps~ While our young people are uninter-
ested and unemployed in Christian work
it is impossible to keep them out of the fol-
lies of the world. FIVE do not harness them
for Christ, the world will take them. Put
overv one of them to work.
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FebrllarV s
TAX NOTICE..ISS2.

"Y,Books for the collection Of the first install
lYl ment, will be opened at
Blacks Station, on Thursday and Friday, the
3rd and 4th days Of May.
Clark's Fork, on Saturday, the 9Th day Of May.
Yorkville, on Monday, the 7th day of May.
Hickory Grove, on Tuesday, the sth day of
May.
J. w. Carrolrs Store, on Wednesday, the 9th
day of May
McConnellsville, on Thursday, the 10th day Of
May.
Bethel, (Glenn's store) on Friday, thel day
of May.
Clover, on Saturday, the 18th day of May.
Clay HILL (Neely's Store) on Monday, the l4th
day Of May.
Fort Mill, on Tuesday the 18th day of May,
Rock Hill, on Wednesday and Thursday, the
10Th and 18th Of May.
Massey Store, on Friday, the 18th day of May.
And at Yorkville from Saturday the 18th, to
Thursday, the 31st of May.
Failure to pay the first installment in May, in
ours penalty of 5 per cent. on it, in the Fall.
All taxpayers who wish, can pay both install
ments in May.
H. A. d. NEELY, County Treasurer
April 5 IA tt
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aar Church fellowship, as a means, is to
be honored and improved but as an end of
religion it is utterly worthless and if de-
pended on for salvation, it will prove to be
one of the wiles of Satan, by which the soul
is enticed to it's own ruin.
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ssy Do not spend your time in talking
scandal you sink your own moral nature
by so doing, and you are, perhaps, doing
great Injustice to those about whom you
talk. You, perhaps, do not understand, or
would doubtless, be more lenient.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
rn,rrrv np ynpV rnI.pT np rOUWON PLEAS

COUNTY OF Y0RK--.COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
John r.. Houser and Jane Goforth, Plaintiffs,
against Harriet Howell, Faithy Wilson, Nan
cy Buchanan, Elizabeth Henry, John II.
Houser, Russell Houser and Mary Houser,
Defendants. s.-SumNl0nst for Retief-C0mptaint
not se1Ted.
To the Defendants, Harriet Howell, Nancy
Buchanan, Elizabeth Henry, John II. Hou-
ser, Russell Houser and Mary Houser
VOU are hereby summoned and required. to o
answer the Complaint in this action, which
was filed in the office of the Clerk Of the Court of
Common Pleas for the said county, and to serve
copy of your Answer on the subscribers, at their
office in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twen-
ty days after the service hereof exclusive of the
day of service and if you fail to answer the
Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plain
titts in this action will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded in the complaint.
Dated Yorkvile, $. c., April T., \. D. 1888.
WILSON IL WILSON,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
H. ST. JOS. +. WALLACE, c. c. Pls.
April 10 l6 bt
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B9 Guano or plaster may be applied
wherever grass or clover have started to
grow. The best time is when the fields
begin to have fresh and green appearance.
Sow broadcast one hundred pounds to the
acre
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A FAMILY AFFAIR.-John Hodges, an
Austin business man, is being constantly
feeced, not only by strangers, but by his
own son, without his ever knowing it. Not
long since he was speaking to friend, who
cynically remarked: "Your son seems to be
rather fashionable young man." "Yes,"'
was the reply of Hodges, "he is an awful
smart boy. He keeps horse and buggy,
goes to balls and parties, dresses in the
height of the fashion, and the most wonder
full thing about it is he does it on forty
dollars month. He is smarter than l am,
but my daddy wasn't as smart as his
daddy. ."-1sras Sytiags.
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EXAMINATION OF MINISTERIAL CANDI-
DATEs.-Rev. C. H. Wiley tells good
story about his ordination. He and DR..
Charles Phillips were ordained in 1856, and
not having passed the seminary curriculum,
they were subjected to an exhaustive exam
ination. Presbytery sat up with them all
through the day, and not till the candles had
been burning several hours did the eXaml-
nation show signs of a close. Finally they
were examined on Hebrew. OF course
neither of them knew anything about it..
Mr.. Wiley was under examination. He
told Presbytery that he knew nothing what
ever about it didn't know a Hebrew letter,
and wouldn't promise to study the language,
pleading that his time could be more profit
ably employed in something else. He was
pressed but refused to yield. DR.. Phillips
was then put on the rack and the thumb
screw vigorously applied. He acknoWl-
edged that he did know the Hebrew alpha
bet, but that was the extent of his knoWl-
edge. He would not promise to master the
language, unless there was a greater neces-
sity than he could then see. Presbytery
was anxious to ordain these learned and
able men, but there was the book of discip-
line prescribing the Hebrew examination.
A second supply of candles was ordered.
At this juncture q certain divine, VINO IS
famous for hair-splitting, suggested a way
out of the difficulty. He read the rule
which requires the examination, and point
ed with great solemnity to the fact that the
rule didn't require that the candidate tor or
dination should have any knowledge OF He
brew. He said that a most exhaustive &C.
animation had been made. DIR. Wiley and
DIR. Phillips were ordained without further
ceremony. DR.. Wiley, who is man OF
strong practical common sense, is not an en-.
thusiast on the ''higher educational theory"
of the Presbyterian church, Greensboro Pu-
hiot.
THE KNOT AND THE MILE.-The knot"
and the emile" are terms often used inter-
changeably, but enormously so. The fact is
that a mile is less than eighty-seven per
cent, ola knot. Three and One-half miles
are equal, within a very small fraction, to
three knots. The knot is G,0S2.6O feet in
length. The statute mile is $3.50 feet. The
result of the difference is that the speed in
miles per hour is always considerably larger
than when stated in knots, and if a person
forgets this and states a speed at so many
knots, when it is really so many miles, he
may be giving figures verging on the in
credible. When we hear parties say that
such vessel is capable of making twenty
knots per hour, we usually take the state
ment with a very large grain 0fsalt, for tWen-
ty KNOTS is % OF milesper hour, a speed which
few vessels have made, and it is doubt
ed by some who have the best opportunity
for making actual measurements, whether
any vessel has made twenty-five miles in
sixty minutes. 1t has been said that some
of the English torpedo boats have made as
high as twenty-four or twenty-five knots.
Twenty -four knots are over tWenty-seven
and a half miles per hour, and twenty-five
knots are upward of twenty ght and three
quarter miles per hour, distances that are
Incredible
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two sisters present, one a widow who had
lust emerged from her weeds, the other not
long married, whose husband had lately
gone to India for short term. A young
lawyer present was deputed to take the
young widow in to dinner. Unfortunately
he was under the impression that his part,
ner was the married lady whose husband
had just arrived in India. The converse
ton between them commenced by the lady
remarking how warm it was for the season
of the year. eyes, it is quite warm," re-
piled the lawyer. Then happy thought
suggested itself to him, and he added, with
a cheerful smile: "But not so hot as the
place to which your husband has gone."'
The look with which the lady answered
this lively sally will haunt that unhappy
man till his death. Cincinnati Commercial.
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HB- We are no longer happy so soon as we
wish to be happier.
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STILL ON THE LINE
TONSORIAL.
CHATTEL MORTGAGES,

MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles tc
lN Real Estate. For sale at the
ENQUIRER OFFICE
April5 II II
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& L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD
egan 81 'EsS$sEsHz55i EsS$sE@sHHzz55i

SCHEDULE Of Mail and Passenger Trains
y from Chester, S. c., to Lincolnton N. c., ta
king effect at 2,45 i'clock, P. NJ, May 2, 1882
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YORKVILEE
LIVERY AND FEED STABLES,
NEAR THE COURT HOUSE,
BUGGIES AND PHETONS.


4 RE now open and will be kept in tirst-class
N style with comfortable vehicles of all kinds,
good horses and careful drivers.
BUGGIES AND HETONS.
Just received another lot of those nice Cincin-
natl Leather Trimmed Buggies, warranted stan
dard work I sell no inferior work. Come and
examine my Leather Trimmed Hickory Buggies,
Frimpkin Side-Bar Buggies, Eureka Jump-Seat
Phptons &c. All furnished with the best hand
made Harness, manufactured by tlrst-class work
men, and as cheap as can be bought anywhere:
A Second Hand Carriage, in good order, for
sale cheap. Also a good Spring Wagon for sale
cheap Call at the Yorkville Livery and Feed
Stables and see them,
FEEDING.
You can have your horses fed as cheap as the
cheapest, at the Yorkville Livery and Feed Sta
bles.
WANTED.
Corn Oats, Fodder and Hay always wanted,
and the highest market price, in cash, will be paid
+. +. SMITH.
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Your THoUGHTs.-Dived down into the
bottom of thy heart and see how the mus
ings and iInaginations thereof do work ;
are they chained only to things of this
world? DO they trudge to and fro, every
one of them laden only with burdens of
earth? And when they come thronging
about thee, do they buzz nothing in thine
ears but intelligence either from some base
lust or worldly profit? If. this be the: con-
slant and only employment of thy thoughts,
assure thyself that thy treasure is not laid
up in heaven; no, nor on earth, but which
is worse, it is laid up in hell. The thoughts
of a child Of God are still taking wing and
flying upward toward heaven; one thought
is laden with the actings of faith, another
with the actings of hope, another with
the actings of love, and they never leave as.
sending, until they get in the presence o OF
ON and God again fills them with heaven
ly treasure, and bids one though carry, a
smile to the soul how dear it is to him; by
another thought he conveys strength, and
by another comfort, and sends all away la
den with precious treasure to the soul.
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An1uoruns department.

PRIDE THAT HAD A FALL.-Those per-
sons who enjoy seeing naughty spirit
suffer fall should have been on board one of
the sleeping cars attached to through train
from Chicago to Boston short time ago.
Among its passengers were a middle-aged
man and woman from the remote West,
who had evidently come upon sudden rich
es and were devoting all their energies to
advertising the fact. They were gorgeous
ly dressed; the woman sported any guam
tity of diamonds and no occasion for in
forming the other passengers of the wealth
and position of their family was suffered to
pass unimproved. They had with them
q plug of boy about fourteen years old:
One morning after the parents had dressed
themselves they discovered that their hope
full son was still slumbering and the mother
set to work to arouse him. Repeated calls
failing to have any effect, she finally had
recourse to thumps and digs in his ribs,
whereupon the boy evidently dreaming
that he was at home and being stirred up
to perform some accustomed duty, bawled
out: "You let me alone and go feed the
hogs yourself!" A joyous smile enliyened
the features of the rest, of the Travellers
Boston Journal.
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SOLVED THE fUZZLE.-Ine OGlleI HlSul
a merchant in a village in Ohio was dis
covered in his store at an unusually late
hour, and in reply to inquiries he said
"My confidential clerk is missing"
"And what of it?"
'Why, Pm looking over the books, but
they seem to be all square,"
. "Have you counted your cash?'
"Yes, and it is correct to the dollar"
"LoOked over your bank book? ?"
81 have, and it is satisfactory. That's the
puzzle, you see. He's skipped, and can't
make out what for" ..sr.-.
"Been home since nOon?"
"No."
perhaps he has eloped with your wife"
LANDS alive but it may be so! If it is,
then the puzzle will be solved"
He hurried home, and it was so, and he
felt great anxiety off his mind.
THE Coon HUNTERS WIFE.-A minister
laboring in the mountain districts OF Fay
ettecounty, West Virginia, givesthe follow
ing conversation he had with a woman there
recently:
"Is your husband at home?"
"No; he is coon hunting, He killed two
whopping big coons last Sunday"
'Does he fear the Lord?"
"I guess he does cause he always takes
his gun with him."
"Have you any Presbyterians around
herew
"I don't know if he has killed any or not
You can 60 behind the house and look at
the pile Of hides to see if you can find any
of their SKINS"
'sI see that you are living in the dark"
. ""Yes, but my husband is going to cut out
awinder soon."