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THE SENT IN LRNA Eutered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, 8. 0., as second olass matter, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Vo , * PICEENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY, 14 11008 N. '. Twelve Mile River Association. Trhe Ministers' Conference and Union Meeting of the Twelvc Mile River Baptist Association will meet with the Cheohee Baptist church, Oconco county, S. C., on the fifth Saturday and Sunday, the same being the 30th and 31st of May. . rogramme as follows: Introductory sermon, by Rev. B. F. Murphree, Saturday morn ig, at 10 o'clock. 11 o'clock a. m,-Quories. Ist. "How shall we over cone the world?" Opened by Rev. D. Littleton and Jesse Lay, Jr. 2. "What is the first thing to do in becoming a Christian?" Opened by Revs. J. B. Colley :and J. L. Hudson. 3. ."What does love and sel fighness do in churci work?" 'Open\i1 by Taylor H. Stewart and Revs. B. F. Murphree and .L. M. Lyda. Sunday morning, 10 o'clock -Song service, conducted by Prof. J. L. Murphree. 11 o'clock-Sermon by Rev. W. M. Walker. The remain der of the day will be spent in *ong. ServLi conducted by Prof. J. L. Murphree and others. Dinner will be served on the -grounds both days. All the churches are earnestly requested to send full delega tions, and let us make it the best Union we ever had. T. H. STEWART, FRANK HEATON, BURT ALEXANDER, Committee. Union Meeting. The Union meeting of the Pic-kenis Association will be held with Cedar Rock church the fifth Sunday in May and the Satnrday before. Following is the pro.ramme: SATURDAY. Meet at 9.30 a. m. .Devotion al exercises by J. H. Miller. 1st subject-"Do we .-exercise discipline in our churches ac cording to God's word?" Open ed by MattheW Hendricks. 2d subject-"Duty. of. church members to attend their clurch services." Opened by J. T. Taylor. 3d subject-" How can we maintain interest in Sunday schools?" Opened by J. B. ' Fendley. SUNDAY. ~1 9.30-10.30 - Devotional song and prayer. Service to be con dutcted by Revs. B. E. Grandy and J. 10. Foster, 30 minutes each.. From 11 o'clock the re ni inder of the service will Le given to the Layman's Mission ary movement. We urge every church to si. nd delegates. We also urge every SSunday school worker, superin tendent and others interested to .attend. ContrrTVEE. Advloe to a Wife. Ad rice is often too good to be taken butit a very agreeable variety was onet voyn' by James Russell Lowell to woman about to be married th ~ys give your husband-your owi A Thirst For Knowledge. - i--I wish you would tell mi - Ethe real difference is between - 1I arlus and any other violin. In tol Ion Editor--Well, sometimes it 11 h na $5,OO0-CtaoTreerebhn DESIRE OF DISTINC N. Quaint Illustration of a Peculiar Phase of Human Nature. In "Doc Gordon," by Mary E. Wit kins-Preeman, is a quaint illustration of a peculiar phase of human nature. It develops with the visits of the two doctors to their poorer patients: James drove all the morning with Dr. Gordon about the New Jersey country. The country people were either saturnine with an odd shyness, which had something almost hostile in it, or they were effusively hospitable. forcing apple jack upon the two doc tors. James was much struck by the curious unconcern shown by the rela tives of the patients and even by the patients themselves. In only one case, that of a child suffering from a bad case of measles, was much interest evinced. The majority of the patients were the very old and middle aged. and they discussed and hoard discussed their symptoms with much the same attitude as they might have discussed the mechanism of a wooden doll. If any emotion was shown, it was that of a singular inverted pride. "I had a terrible night, doctor," said one old woman, and a smirk of self conceit was over her ancient face. "Yes, moth er did have an awful night," said her married daughter, with a triumphant expression. Even the children clusthr Ing about the doctor looked uncon sciously proud because their old grand mother had had an awful night. The call of the two doctors at the house was positively hilarious. Quantities of old apple jack were forced upon them. The old woman in the adjoining bed room, although she was evidently suf fering, kept calling out a feeble joke in her cackling old voice. "Those people seem positively elated because that old soul is sick," said James when he and the doctor were again in the buggy. "They are," said Dr. Gordon; "even the old woman herself, who knows well enough that she has not long to live. Did you ever think that the desire of distinction was one of the most, per haps the most, intense purely spiritual emotion of the human soul? Look at the way these people live here, grub bing away at the soil like ants. The most of them have in their lives just three ways of attracting notice, the momentary consideration of their kind -birth, marriage, sickness and death. With the first they are hardly actively concerned; even with the second many have nothing to do. There are more women than men, as usual, and. al though the women want to marry, all the men do not. There remains only sickness and death for a standby, so to speak. If one of them is really sick and 'dles, the people are aroused to take notice. The sick person and the corpse have a certain state and dignity which they have never attained before. Why, bless you, man. I have one pa tient, a middle aged woman, who has been laid up for years with rheuma tism, and she is fairly vainglorious. and so is her mother. She brags of her in valid-daughter. If she had been more ly an old maid on her hands, she would have been ashamed of her, and the wo man herself would have been sour and discontented. But she has fairly mar ried rheumatism. It has been to her as a husband and children. I tell you, young man, one has to have his little footstool of elevation among his fel lows, even if it is a mighty queer one, or he loses his self respect, and sell respect is the best jewel we have." - Condor individuality,. We had the best chance of studying the colors of the condor head. The bill was hern color, and tihe red skin of the head extended down, covering It abou! halfway. The legs were tan, but ou each knee was a .patch of red. On the breast of each bird the skin was blood red and could be seen occasionally when the breast feathers were sprea1 and the birds were preening. Both had light colored wing bars, and the pri marnes were well worn. The skin ox the throat hung loose, and the lowei mandible fitted close under the upper The chin was orange red, and belovi this on the neck was a strip of green Ish yellow merging into the orange about the sides and back of the neck The top and front of the head wer4 red, but between the eyes was a smal patch of black feathers, and these ex tended down in front of the eye int< the orange rod of the cheek. The pupi of the eye was black, but the iris wai deep and red and conspicuous. Th4 bald and wrinkled pate, the fiabba jowls, with the cave-In expression of toothless old woman-these helped t< make up the condor individuality'. William L. Finley in Century. rOld men's eyes ire~- ii old inen't Smemories; they are strongest toi things a long way off,-ElIot, m~ Much Wanted. The following advertisement, quoted from a Boston paper of a date early in the nineteenth century by Mr. Janson In "The Stranger In America," shows that the domestic problem Is not one of modern manufacture. But what mistress of today would dare to im pose such conditions on the hindrance in the kitchen? Much Wanted: A neat. well behaved female to do kitchen work in a small family in Charlestown, near Boston. She may pray and sing hymns, but not over the dish kettle. She may go to meeting, but not belong to the con gregation of midnight worshipers. Inquire at ]Repertory office, near Bos ton. A Natural Fortress. In the northern part of Madagascar is the most remarkable natural fortress in the world. It In occupied by a wild tribe who call themselves the People of I the Rocks. The fortress is a lofty and precipitous rock of enormous size, 1,000 feet high and eight square miles in area. Its sides are so steep that it cannot be climbed without artificial means. Within it is hollow, and the only entrance is by a subterranean I passage.-St. James' Gazette. Thrift. There Is an old fashioned word that I ought to come into use again-thrift. I There are a distressing number of bliftless people in the world, and., while we shall call no names, we hope every reader will pause at this para-I graph and think seriously of thrift and shiftlessness.-Atchison Globe. The Changed View. Every man takes care that his neigh bor does not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he, does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.-Emer son. A Little Ball. Cassidy-Ah. well, no wau kin pre vint w'at's past an' gone. Casey-Ye could if ye only acted quick enough. Cassidy-Go 'long, man Iow could yer? Casey-Stop it before it happeuns. -Kansas City independent. A common danger produces unanim ity.-T.iatin Proverb. Another Way to Pnt It. "A shining example of private virtue and an exalled teacher of gool and honest government" is the description of Robert Toombs of Georgia glven in "The Brother's War." Toombs was a prominent character for- many years before the war and served In the two houses of congress about fifteen years. le was afterward secretary of state in the CQnfederate government. le had a wit and a flueness of ex pression, says the author, which made his phrases and repartee 'Widely quoted and made him the delight of apprecia tive audiences. A rival candidate, really conspicuous and celebrated for his little ability, in a stump debate pledged the people that if they would send him to congress he would never leave his post during a session to attend the courts, as he un Justly charged Toombs with habitually doing. Toombs disposed of this fling by merely saying: "You should c'onsider which will hurt the district the more, his constant pres ence in or my occasional abeence from the house." Where She Connen In, "I suppose," said Mrs. Jawback,. "that you think lt'p fun for me to sit up and wait for yQWevery night like this." "Nope," answered Jawbaek. "I'm having my fun while yoffe-* waiting. You have yours when I get hame." Cleveland Leader. Her Reason Per Departing. The housekeeper is missing from a certain Newv York millionaire estab lishment, and her former employer is bewailing the departure of such a treasured aid without in the least un derstanding why one so well paid and so well treated should have chosen to leave. The former housekeeper is ex plaining to a few her singular reason for departing. "I didn't mind looking after thirty servants," she has told those who are in the secret, "nor running a house in which every detail, from selecting the menus to ordering(.the sash curtains, tell on me. I did think I was called on to do too much, however, when the mistress of this great house used to get so lonesome in her grand dining room that she Invited me every day to, . come and lunch with her. That was not a part of my duties as housekeep Ier. and I had to go."-New York Sun. SUBJECT OF FUTURE PLAYS. "Homeless Millionaire," Says Actor Who Tells of Dramu's Curse. "I do not believe that it is possible inder present conditions to have a ;reat American drama," said Frank Keenan, the actor, at the meeting of the American Playgoers' society at the Elotel Astor, in Now York, the other tlght, says the New York Tribune. 'We are too busy. We are laboring inder the curse of too much prosperity. rhe great drama of the future will portray how the people tried to be hap )y In this generation-not about the people of the east side, but about the oor millionaire, because he puts his nUllons Into a palace and has no some." The subject under discussion was 'While There Are Numerous American Plays, There Is No American Drama," Ind Mr. Keenan said that the drama >f any nation reflected the spirit of the iation and the period that the drama vas written. "The drama of any nation is just as ;ood or as bad as the people are," he aid. "The drama adjusts Itself to the imes, and we have dramatists who ire capable of writing greater plays ban they do today. We have a purer, weeter, more honest drama today than ias preceded It at any time." Ibsen, Keenan said, would never live is a dramatist, nor would any other nan who showed the ugly side of hu nanity. "One thing we can point to vith pride," he said, "and that is that to drama Is acceptable to the Ameri !an people that is not a clean drama." Samuel Wandell said, "I believe that we are building a drama In this coun :ry today which will compare favora )1y with any of the dramas of the old world." AUTHENTIC BIBLE CODEX. Professor Saunders Holds Freer Manu script Equai to Canonical Ones. Professor I1. A. Saunders of Mich !gan university told the Detroit Archae ologleal soelety the other day that the Freer Iible mantscript rvently brought from Egypt is nothing less thani a comniplete new codex covering two-thirds of the Bible and as authen tic as any of the three codices hereto fore known-namoly. the Vatican, the Alexandrinin and the Sinatitie. Ile Is :-onvinced of this because of the char icter of the manuscripts, says a De troIt correspondent of the New York itiu. They are a Greek transcript of :ome oler manuseript, in which re. ,pec-t they are on a par with the three )ther recognized codices. The age of the collecticon Prnfessor Saunders places it from 400 to 600 A. 1). The 4pok does not contain the reve atons of .ohn. 'Dwelling on this fea ture, Professor Saunders made an in teresting observation. The revela tions of St. Peter were found not many years ago at the same place whore this Freer codex was unearthed. rhe present codex, the professor ad vanced as a theory, was part of a Bi blo' of six books which Included the revelations of St. Peter instead of those of St. John and was used by a Greek church in tipper Egypt and buried or lost at the time of the Mos lem invasion of Egypt in 040. NEW MINERAL FOR AIRSHIPS. Rutile, Discovered in Australia, May 8olve Many Problems. The discovery In Australia of a mina Pral, rutile, heretofore or no commer eial value, p~rombie4 to solve one of the problems developed In airship build lng. says a Waishiuglon correspondent of the New York I~eralid. It has been found that axlets and bearings In flying machines when subimitted to 3,000 rev olutions to the miniute wear and beat so rapidly ats to mtake the substItutIon of somec metal capable of withstanding thisi stralin necessanry. This rutli', accordIng to Consul F. W. Coding of Newvcatstle, Australia. it a repnrt to the department of coln mereoe and~ lab'or, will fIll this want. It was discovered in the Tiaaroo district of Queenslanid. It is a titanIum diox ide, contatitning from '70 to 98 per cent of titanic acid, chiedly depending on the quantilly of iron prtosen~t. Pture rtutlle contalus 98 per cent of titanic acid atnd 2 per cent of iron. The min eral _ocurs wvith wolfram and tin and is worth fotur times the ptice of wol franm at the present time. Bobby-Sister has got a' beatu all right! Tommy--What makes you think she has? Bobby-She used to say, "Blobby, see :Who's calling," when the phone rang. -Now she runs to it herself Instead ef tellng mne-..Vavaland Lmad.. HAD TWO MORE PLATES. And Felt They Svec" the Honor of the Amerlua Navy. Every graduating class at Annapolis leaves behind it the fMme of certain heroes in the line of physical prowess or mental endeavor. One- of these he roes was George Dewey, & fine, manly, athletic youth, the pride of the bozing and fencing masters and 0e terror of all bullies. In Dewey's class was n mouth of an excellent bent for applied nyathematics, but so tender of physique that he often suffered from the rough hormplay of his elders. Dewey took the boysederiple protection, and the two became fast friends. They swung their hasempeks in the same watch on their graduating cruise and when the ship touea.d at Liverpool obtained permission ta run up to London on a day's leave-. By rigid economy the two had scraped to zmther a little more than 12 apiece;, and eylanded In the English capitall ar rayed in spick and span new uniforms. A round of sightseeing had reduced * their combined capital to 2 sovereigns and their return tickets when their boyish appetites announced the hour of noon. With the cautious economy of his an cestors the Scotsman suggested a chop house, but nothing but the best would suit Dewey, and he accordingly steer ed his chum Into the finest hotel he could find. The two seated themselves at one of the tables and scanned the menu with a magnificent air. The first item that caught their eyes was strawberries and cream, and this, with its reminiscence of home, they proceeded to order. N4ow, the time was winter, and strawberries from the hothouse are ex pensive in London, so it was small wonder that the other guests who had learned the order looked inquiringly at these specimens of the jeunesse doree of the Amerlean navy. An Oxford lad who sat next them seemed particular ly impressed and turned his large eyes upon them with awe. The strawber ries were good, and all went well until the obsequious waiter returned with a bill for 1. The Scotsman nearly col Lapsed, but Dewey noticed the eyes of the Oxonian upon him and, turning su perbly to the waiter, ordered two more plates. The middles left with empty pock ets, but haughtily conscious that they had saved the honor of the American navy. AN ANCIENT HIGHWAY. England's Great North Road Is Two Thousand Years Old. Before we reached- Hatfield, a few miles out of London, we had already been impressed with the magnificence of this Great North road, which is said to have been built by a Mr. Cae sar, whose headquarters were in Rome at the time. It Is the direct route from London to Edinburgh and has been traveled for so many centuries that the earliest histories of England contain accounts of the movement of troops upon it. It is a great thorough fare for vehicles of all sorts, motor ists and cyclists, and in these modern days there are well worn footpaths along either side for pedestrians. We passed scores of motors, and I was told while. in England that the popu larity of motoring had noticeably di minished the number of first class travelers by rail. We found the road for its entire length of'400 miles In perfect condition. In many portions the macadam is said to be nine feet thick. Long sections of the road are oiled, and on no part of it was there any apprecIable amount of dust. There are few sharp curves, and the grades are so slight that it has become a great thoroughfare for speeders, witb the result that there are many police traps for which one has to watch. We found that we could stop in almost any little village and get information as to just where the traps were located-as, for instance, they told us at Bigles wade, which is a better looking place than Its name, to look out for' traps just the other . side of Buckden and again in approaching Weston-Frank Presbrey in Outing Magazine. A Few "Wantede," Wanted-A young man to take car. of a pair of mules of a Christian dis position. Wanted-Two apprentices who will be treatedl as one of the family. Wanted-Experienced nurse for bot tIed baby. Wanted-An industrious man to take charge of 8,000 sheep who can speakc German.-"Ulumor of Bulls and Blun ders." The happiness of life consists in something to do, something to love and something to hone for....n Chalmers.