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The Monitor-register., 1897-10-01
P~ennsv1lIe Record.

one more pack on Friday, and this will
close the season of '97.
Mrs. May Justice, of Pedricktown,
spent a portion of this week at the home
of her mother, Mrs. VIM. Somers.
Superint Samuel LEROY, of the N. E.
Sunday school, and wife, will attend the
County Convention held at Elmer on
Friday.
The address of R ~. DR.. Marshall, of
Camden. or Tuesday night, was appre-
dated by a large congregation, who had
come to hear him.
Albert Batten has secured a situation
in Philadelphia, under Thomas Biddle,
and left on Wednesday morning to
engage in his new field of work.
The election held here on Tuesday was
q very quiet one. A light vote was
polled. so ballots were cast, rs in favor
of the amendments and "a against.
The M. E. Church, most likely, will be
heated by steam the coming winter. A
meeting of the Board of Trustees will be
held on Friday evening to consider the
matter.
The M. E. Sunday school of this place
sem the following delegation to the con-
V6ubiOu Lulu az lliutcI vi 4IEu6ys blIs
and Mrs. VIM. 81. James, Rev. John
Goorley, Mamie ]. Mitchell.
Irving Callahan, son of Samuel Fl.
Callahan, started on Monday to enter the
College of Pharmacy In Philadelphia.
He also has received employment in a
drug store at times, when he is not at
school. ME
VIM. Acton, while coming from Salem
last Saturday morning, got out to fix
part of the wagon, when his horse
became frightened and ran away. not
stopping until it reached Pennsville.
Fortunately no serious injury was done.
Frank Newcomb. of C~hurchtow n, and
Miss Fannie, daughter of Paul McAllister,
were united in matrimony at the brides
residence, near S%harptown, on Wednes-
day night. A pretty home coming took
place after the ceremony, in which a large
number of relatives and friends of the
bride and groom were present.
-e-
PennsgrOve.
Miss Julia Hickman has returned to
the Bordentown Female College.
Micajah Conover was an over-Sunday
guest with his brother, Hires Conover.
Richard Lummis, who held the position
of baggage-master on the Delaware River
Railroad for several years, has secured a
position with the American Bridge
Company and moved his family to
Camden.
Mrs. A. M. Holvey gave a very interest
ing Temperance Lscture in the st. Paul
M. E. Church ON Sunday morning. The
service was well attended. She also gave
a lecture in the Emmanuel M. E. Church
In the evening.
Jos. G.. French has closed the side en- :
trance from the street to the basement OF
the old Brick Hotel Building aud is
repairing the insids previous to Edw. ID.
Green, Superintendent of the Delaware
River Railroad, moving there.
I-nvIgOrarIng.
Bread made from our whole wheat
-four will be found wholesome and very
palatable during the warm days; and IL
| will brace you up further to see
Choice millet, 81 per bushel; white
bottled Nova Scotia plaster, GOO per bag,
So per ton: pure manila binder Irvine,
| ITO per ID; Standard binder twine, % per
Id; Siseal binder Irvine, 90 per 10.
Ore car Washburn, Crosby q Co,
sack bran the first of ext week, $ll.5O
per tom.
One carload genuine buffalo gluten
feed to arrive first of next week, $11 pei
ton. DAVIS, CoLsoN & Co.
M - " z-n~onn Of X
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Fine lot of express wagons at L. B.
Wright's sale, Ost 9th.
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DOTu y 600' ~ :"
HalI's Family Pills are the best.

About so or GO bushels of rye 10 small
lots to suit purchasers, good for seed or
feed, at L. B. Wright's sale, O,t. 6sh.
The Monitor-register., 1897-10-01

10 Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
II C. @. C. fail to cure. druggists refund money.
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~SharptOwn News.

THE NEWS FROM Two COUNTIES.
The Monitor-register., 1897-10-01

Anti Execut'eI Woman
Gamb'ngl App'm'tsI Suffrage
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

A TRAGIC PRACTICAL JOKE.-A
distinguished looking lawyer of the
old school in southern Kansas was ex'
ceedingly near-sighted, but had a habit
of laying his glasses on the table dur
ing his speeches to the jury. One day
as his back was turned to the other
lawyers, one of them picked up the
glasses, and with a bit of mucilage
fastened to the lenses pieces of tissue
paper which exactly covered the
glass. Soon the owner Of the glasses
came back to the table, and put them
on to examine paper, adjusted them
again-and then a pallor overspread
his face that was pitiful to see.
"My God, gentlemen, am blind
II have feared it for years." he ex.
claimed :; and dropped his head on his
hands.
For an instant the courtroom was
hushed. Before anyone could speak
or the sheriff rap for order, the attor'
ney lifted his head, took off the glasses
and had his sight again. His face
flushed as he rubbed the tissue paper
from the lenses, and he stood up, an
angry and excited man.
"If knew who did that dastardly
tric-if I knew who had brought
that minute of grief to me-" he broke
out, II swear I would kill him."
He left the courtroom, and the Judge
adjourned the session for the day.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07
=, {Rl|!,IagU1g8sgAs
farn1 aad fireside.

Hot WATER CUREs.-There are but
few cases of illness where water should
not occupy the highest place as a
remedial agent. A strip of flannel or
a napkin rung out of hot water and
applied around the neck of child
that has Group will usually bring re-
lief in ten minutes. A towel folded
several times and quickly rung out of
hot water and applied over the seat of
pain in toothache or neuralgia, will
generally afford prompt relief. The
treatment in collie works like magic.
We have known cases that have re.
sisted other treatments for hours, yield
to this in ten minutes. There is moth
ing that will so promptly cut short
congestion of the lungs, sore throat or
rheumatism, as hot water when appli-
ed promptly and thoroughly, Pieces
of cotton batting dipped in hot water
and kept applied to sores and new
cuts, bruises and sprains, is the treat
ment adopted in many hospitals.
Sprained ankles have been cured in ar.
hour by showering it with hot water,
poured from a height of few feet.
Tepid water acts promptly as an emet-
ic, and hot water taken freely half an
hour before bedtime is the best Ca
thartic in case of constipation.-Leeds
Mercury.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

A BRIDE WITH SOME GooD POINTS.
Some years ago in an agricultural dis
trict, there lived a farmer who wanted
to sell one of his cows. There was not
that time a weekly paper in which
he could advertise, so he resolved to
follow local custom and asked the
vicar of the parish when giving out
his notices at church to advertise the
cow.
ayes, farmer" said the vicar, 81
should be willing to oblige you, but
you don't attend my church"
Presently, however, they struck q
bargain that the vicar should adver-
tise the COW, and the man in return
promised to 60 to church. Unfortu'
nately the man was deaf, and on the
Sunday following, when the vicar
gave out the banns of marriage be.
tween Joseph So-and-So, bachelor, and
Sara So.and-So, spinster, the farmer
took it for granted that the vicar was
giving out particulars of his COW, and
shouted: "You might as we'll say
while you are about it that she is q
most gentle creature, entirely free from
vice, and is strongly crossed the Alder,
ney breed"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

How's THIS For NERVE 2-Mrs.
Adam STREET., an aged woman living
two miles from Adrian, Mich, was
cutting grass on the river flats recently
when big snake wound itself around
her bare ankle and bit her. In her
fright she dropped her sickle, but
quickly nerving herself she seized the
snake and flung it from her. Itimme-
diately coiled for a second spring, and
she jumped back. Again the snake
coiled, and when it sprang Mrs. Streit
made a swipe with the sickle and cut
it's head clean off. With the same
blow, however, she cut big slash in
her ankle, severing two veins and
opening a wound across the place
where the serpent had sunk its fangs.
She ran to the river and washed the
blood away and then sewed up the
wound with needle and thread which
she had in her pocket. She started to
walk home, but soon the thread gave
way, and the wound began to bleed
afresh. She had no more thread and
could think of nothing but big brass
safety pin which held her dress to-
gether. With this she gathered the
edges of the wound, and holding her
apparel as best she could walked a
quarter of mile to her home.
The doctors say that the profuse
bleeding saved her from serious results
of the snake bite.
The snake proved to be rattler FIVE
feet long.-New York World.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07
Mistellaueolls 8eaaing.
WHAT A GOOD KNIFE COSTS,
lore Men Spend 50 For Pocketknife
Than Less That Amount.

More Men Spend SO For a Pocketknife
Than Less That Amount.
"More men pay So and upward for
a pocketknife than less. That may
not be the experience of all cutlery
dealers, but that's the kind of trade
we cater to-" said knife expert from
behind the counter of a store on one
of the most frequented of down town
streets. "Spaniards spend the most
money for Knives" he continued.
"Spaniards who come here are very
fastidious in the matter of cutlery any
way. Where an American family in
the same circumstances will be con-
tent with the ordinary plated table.
ware, costing 81 or $3.50 a dozen, a
Spaniard will have nothing but the
finest steel with ivory handles, at $1s
and over. The average business man
spends usually about So for four
bladed knife. If he loses knife Of
ten, as many men do, he comes down
to So, then to 81. Most expensive
knives are bought for presents. Four
dollars buys an excellent gift. Last
season many knives were given for
prizes at eucher parties. Such knives
were usually the fancy ones, with half
dozen blades or attachments. That
big seven.inch knife there is hun
ter's knife. 1t costs 81.
"a man who buys that will take it
to the Adirondacks, and when he
leaves there present it to his guide.
We have one customer who buys three
of those knives every year. He gives
them to his guides, he says. We sell
nearly $50 of them every year. This
heavy one here with big steel hook
is a horseman's knife. 1t costs 81.
The hook is used for digging out a
stone from the horses hoof. 1t has,
as you see, other attachments, such as
a corkscrew, screwdriver, nut cracker,
awl, gimlet and score of things for
other useful or useless purposes, &C.
cording to the point of view. We
sell many of them, probably more
than any other one kind. Sailors
usually buy pretty good knives. They
and Italians 60 in for big, sharp
knives that should be handy in case
of defense. Pretty nearly every trade
has a peculiar knife. That's one rea-
son why a we'll equipped cutlery shop
makes such a formidable display.
Knives cost all the way from so cents
to $25. We don't sell many at the
latter price. New York Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

A DISCOURAGED DRUMMER.-Frank
Redmond, Chicago drummer, ex-
plains to the Chicago Dispatch why
he didn't tell anything to reporters
anymore. "Well, once when was in
a hotel at Cleveland telegram reach
ed me stating that my brother, who
worked in the lumber woods of Forest
county, Penn, had met with fatal
accident while trying to roll log with
a cant-hook. A reporter inquired OF
me concerning the accident as 1 was
leaving, and when I returned few
days later saw in an old paper the
statement that my brother had been
fatally injured by mooley cow.
"What under the starry canopy put
such an idea into your head9" l said
to the reporter next morning.
"Well,' he replied, you said he
had been injured in some way by a
cant-hook, and the only thing l can
think of that can't hook is a mooley
cow"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07


THE VIRTURE OF Hot M1LK.-1t is
worthy of reiteration that milk heated
to as high a temperature as it can be
drunk or slipped, above 100 degrees,
but not to the boiling point, is of great
value as refreshing stimulant in cases
of overexertion, bodily or mental.
To most people who like milk it does
not taste good hot, but that is small
matter compared with the benefit to
be gotten from it. Its action is exceed
ingly prompt and grateful, and the ef-
fects much more satisfactory and far
more lasting than those of any alco-
holic drink whatever. 1t supplies real
strength as we'll as exhilaration, which
alcohol never does.-Good House
keeping.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

A PROPHETIC JoKE.-Thus do the
prophetic jokes of the humorists come
true. A wedding of cyclists took
place at Epson the other day. The
bride and bridegroom, the witnesses,
the two families and the attendants
rode to the church and stacked the
wheels outside the sacred edifice.
When the happy pair presented them,
selves before the clergyman, he looked
from one to the other in a puzzled
way. Both were dressed exactly
alike. They wore the same coats, the
same waistcoat, the same breeches,
the same shirts and collars, the same
short hair, the same smooth face in
each case. The embarrassed eccleias-
tic was forced to say, "Excuse me,
but which is the bride?" Here is
equality of man and woman turned
into identity.-New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

BATH For CHILDREN.-Children
should be accustomed to the use OF
water from their birth, using it at first
milk warm, and gradually reducing
the temperature as they become accus-
toned to the bath, unless the child
seems too feeble to react we'll after
cold water. The bath should be re-
peated every day. 1 am aware that
the notion is quite prevalent that chill
dren, like pigs, thrive best in dirt
but when thrifty in midst of dirt, they
thrive in spite of the dirt, and not in
consequence of it. do not think it
possible to keep the little fellows clean
all day, without subjecting them to
restraints and annoyances that would
more than counteract the advantages
of cleanliness.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

CONSUMPTION CURED BY WARM
MILK.-The fact that consumption can
be cured is daily becoming more and
more impressed on the mind of the
layman. One of the simplest and best
methods of fighting this dread malady
is the warm milk treatment, and while
undergoing it the patient is advised to
90 on some farm, where he is sure to
get it fresh, and where, moreover, he
can pass his days in horseback riding.
When the entire treatment is under
gone, recovery from consumption will
not only be possible, but would very
likely occur, unless the lungs had been
too seriously diseased. An outdoor
life in pure air, good wholesome food
and plenty of it, are the surest cures
for the malady, and no one of the fea.
lures is more important than either Of
the others.-New York Telegram.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

DIsCoURAGING TO MosQUIToEs.-A
mixture of glycerine and carbolic acid
is said to form a wonderful protection
from mosquitoes as we'll as a cure for
the bites. These directions are given
in the New York Tribune: Take
about 20 drops of the acid and put it
into bottle containing an ounce OF
glycerine and half an ounce of rose
mary water. If used freely at night,
the sting of the bites will be almost
miraculously cured and the disfguring
blotches removed by morning. If the
odor is found too disagreeable, two or
three drops of after of roses will per.
haps make the remedy pleasanter and
will leave it quite as efficacious.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

EARLY PIETY.-D. L. Moody, the
evangelist, told story in Philadel-
phia the other day about his life be-
fore his conversion, when boy of II.
He said that while he was pretty
bad boy in his unregenerate days,
deep in the follies and errors of the
world, he never broke so far away
from his early religious training as TO
forget to say his prayers every night.
II used to sleep with my BROTHER" he
said, "and if either one of us happen.
ed to jump into bed without first get.
ting on his knees the other would
swear at him vigorously and kick him
out on the floor"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

How TO CURE HEADACHE.-"Wo-
mans curse, the ordinary nervous
headache, brought home almost always
as one of the acquisitions of days
shopping, can be greatly relieved and
generally cured by very simple rem
edy," said a physician. "Simply soak
a spong in water as hot as it can be
borne and apply it to the back of the
neck. Repeat this many times, also
applying the sponge behind the ears,
and soon the tightly drawn muscles
and nerves which have caused so much
misery will be felt to relax and the
pain quickly disappear. 1t doesn't
cost anything. Try it the next time
YOU have headache"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07
A Snare
And DeluSiOn.

i policy in an Old Line high price "level
premium" company with the idea that
You would at sometime in the future,
while you yet drew the breath of life, re-
ceive substantial cash returns or "big
dividends" we are here to tell you that
you will be disappointed. Your policy
will prove snare and delusion. 1t is
all right for protection for your wife and
children, as they will receive the face OF
the policy in case of your death, as they
would also in company that charges
you half as much. A life insurance poll
cy is a fraud as an investment for living
man, and is the greatest blessing Of hich
we or anybody else has any knowledge
as a means Of protecting the widow and
orphans, after the breadwinner has been
removed by death.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

s@ Mr.. Billus Cooking over his ex-
pense account Marie, we spent ex-
actly $50 more than our income since
the first of the year. We've got to
retrench.
Mrs. Billus-"It wasn't my fault,
John. didn't lose $75 on the elec-
ton, nor pay out $40 in club and socie-
ty dues, nor spend s65 for cigars, nor
run through 5000 in three days at the
races, nor"
Mr.. Billus (still looking through the
account)-None of these things account
for that $50. Here it is! "Subscrip-
tion for PASTORS salary $50" Marie,
we cunt stand that. The preacher
will have to get along without any
thing from me.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07
ny Mrs Samuel D, Mooke) Stow. j

a@ Mrs. Samuel D. Looke) Stow, in
a history of Mount Holyoke seminary,
shows how meagre were the early ad-
vantages for girls. "Boston did not
permit girls to attend the public schools
till 1890, and then only during the
summer months, when there were not
boys enough to fill them. This lasted
till 1922, when Boston became city.
An aged resident of Hatfield used to
tell of going to the schoolhouse when
she was girl, and sitting on the door
step to hear the boys recite their les
sons. No girl could cross the thresh.
old as a scholar. The girls of North
hampton were not admitted to the
public schools till 1892"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

a@ A man, after eating a very poor
dinner in a third-class restaurant,
leaned back and asked of the Negro
waiter how much money was due,
"Sebenty-f' Gems, sah." "What, fol-
the wing of a chicken and a piece oi
corn bread ?" ayes, sah." "It's out
rageous! l never heard of anything
like it betore!" "Boss, lemme tell
you. Yer looked like man dat want
ed de bes', an I gin it ter YER
"The best ?" ayes, sab, fur dat wu7
de wing O. de games chicken in dis
country. Eff yer wanted common
chicken, w'yn't yer say SOP"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

s@ "Did I see any service?" ex
claimed Mulcahy; ~ should say
did. P'r'aps you never heard what
Grant said to me at the battle of the
Wilderness. I'd been pegging away
all day, loading and firing without
stopping for bite or sup. 1t was jis,
beyant sundown when the ginera
came riding along. He jist watched
me for a while, and finally he sings
out, says he, Private Mulcahy!
let her drive wants more, and then
turned about and gave him the salute
Private Mulcahy,' says the gineral
go to the rear; you've killed mer
enough for wan day."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

effort, then you might as well die
Your case, let it be as difficult as il
may, is no worse than that of thous
ands of others who have, nevertheless
kept a stout heart and won the day
God is simply putting you to the test
in order to determine the quality Of
your manhood. He has no evil de-
signs against you. All that he sends
or suffers to come will turn out for
your good if you only accept it in the
right spirit Advocate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07
If You Have
No Insurance,

And think you should have, we would be
pleased to explain the Mutual Reserve
system to you, The Mutual Reserve is
the largest and strongest natural premi-
um company in the world, and the fourth
largest of ANY KIND. 1t has paid
about S55O, 900 to the widows and orphans
of deceased policy-holders in South Car
lima alone, during the past twelve years,
and if all the insurance now carried in
old line companies in the state was in the
Mutual Reserve, not less than S400, 900,
which now annually goes into the Golfers
of the former, would be left in the state
to help relieve the hard times about which
we hear so much,
General Agents, s,.,.......,,. Yorkville, 8. G,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

s6 There was a very mad man in
one of the hotels the other day. He
had left an order at the Office to be
called at Z O'Clock in order to get 8
train. The next morning at 7.30 the
Irish porter raped loudly on his door
and said: "Mr. B. wake oop, wake
oop! Are you awake ?" Finally a
sleepy response issued from behind the
door. "Ye-es ~ Then quoth the
porter: "Well, go to slape again, sor
1 called you to let you know that your
train had gone, sor!"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

A DEBT THAT DIDN'T CoUNT.-A
St. Paul gentleman tells of church
incident that came under his observa.
ton in the western part of New York
state several years ago. A pious
church member arose in experience
meeting and gave review of his life.
When he came to the declaration, 81
thank God owe no man anything"
quiet man, in a remote corner, jumped
up and said
~ have little account against you,
brother, that you must have forgotten"
"Ah! Brother Camp" said the
speaker, unconsciously, that debt was
out of date good while ago."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07
If You Will Lay Aside
Your Prejudice

AND COME to us With a desire to
learn why it Is not to your interest to
carry high priced insurance, and how we
can furnish you just as safe insurance
for at least 10 per cent. year less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
to your satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIA-
TION of New York does busi siness OH a
plan that is, absolutely safe, and will pro
they now are, at even a greater cost to
to you. Of course if you are too preju-
diced to investigate and imagine that the
high price you are now paying makes
your insurance better or safer, or better
than it would be at less cost, we can't do
anything for you but will be forced to
let you go on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that you have been deceived.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-07

n6 During big thunder storm little
Willie, who slept upstairs alone, got
scared and called to his mother, who
came up and asked him what he was
frightened about. Willie admitted
that the thunder was little too much
for a youngster who slept alone.
"Well, if you are afraid" said his
mother, "you should pray for courage"
"Well, all right" said Willie, an
idea coming into his head "suppose
you stay up here and pray while 60
down stairs and sleep with pa?"
She didn't stay.