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EUROPE'S REAT WI A CHARACTERISTIC GLIMPSE OF How to Make a Line Dryer. The line dryer here described will be found a useful addition to any an gler's tackle-box. and any one con structing same will be amply repaid for the time so spent, as its use will J A ,A */'Ig/) add greatly to the iife of expensive lines. Cut from a board of half-inch stuff two strips (A, Fig. 1) one inch wide, and of such length as to fit tackle-box, jointing them together firmly at right angles as shown in Fig. 1, also boring a small bole through the centre of same. Then fasten to each of the four corners lengths of heavy brass or copper wire (Fig. 1), thr e of them being the same leng witi small loop turned on on end (to keel) ln .rom slip over the ends). th, fourth being - e a little lo so as to form die for turning (B, Fig. 1). The hod of attaching wires is shown by A, Fig. 2, the ends of the wires be .tng filed to a sharp point and a hook formed which is then driven in, as shown in B, Fig. 2. To use the dryer simply assemble as shown in Fig. 1, passing a large screw eye through the hole made in the centre (C. Fig. 1), also placing a leather washer on eith er side (Fig. 3) to make it turn more freely, then fasten by means of screw eye to some stationary object (B. Fig. 3). When not in use it may be taken apart and placed in large com partment of tackle-box.--William A.| HER LITTLE r ~ "~* ~ '!, ~ ~ . The Ldy-- kne .i Tha o agai.- Sketch. Aut Tie Mdein ecton.%*: * AnatmblVieta isfi tob4 ouar-seill)mn o hem L ay- e, v t enair. NTER PLAYHROUND. J . OUTDOOR LIFE AT ENGELBERG. Novel Toy For Children. Children who have been watching the circus parade this season with bulging eyes and have seen the lions and tigers pacing their cages may themselves own a cage with a restless lion in it if their parents are so fortu nately situated as to be able to buy them one. A Michigan man has de si-ned a toy which fills the bill. It consists of a little wagon, modeled faithfully after the usual circus cage, inside which is an oval track. On this track is mounted a lion or some other one of the animals that Colonel Roosevelt is busily engaged in shoot ing. Pulleys running under the body of the wagon connect with the wheels, and as the child draws the wagon around the nursery floor the animal circles the track inside the cage for all the world like one of the restless rc man-eaters in the circus p)arade. It now remains for the Michigan genius to so improve on his invention that Leo will give forth blood-curdling roars as he stalks about.-Washing ton Star. Great Britain in 1908 sold $200, 000,000 worth of coal to foreign na tions. MISTAKE. ofaGie ha e h ol -ulecp numbr o setos,sytele n eahpeei boltl needn ofZ~ th tes ah eto a t ppret. 4he on of ths' sc iofns ieaspnctureo oldherwiseSdam nuer ofca setaknS. ot~e anded cIf i is al amagedtee-i cfth thersac section,fwicheeas exta This saeindltr is ntond seaasy, fidx,hut all chapr than uthel style, togetuh as firrepaable damey wer one spot piee no makbe. the ad-l wortagess but th ientis s readily repairedin aWfen mnuftese sec Tihn is uctess o otheecricale l ageditated beaeal gou nds reaied tha it is ow adlydamaed ato e uoot This saetioas l e itolyumiayted fi,bt sceaelhndh ldsye OOD OADS Dut Laying oi En~lh Road:. The dust laying on Erglish roads pro:nises soon to be a problem of the It 4s bemn _o1-ed by develop mntc of ro.d ta:-rin,g. Two y(ars a-o t1 c :e C 1. th iry 1 1 Cs of tr2a e?d roads in Englan:I: yar there were 200 milcs: tir re are n::: -5;P miles, and in two years you may e: pect 20,000 miles. On th-se roads the dust problem is'absolutely killed. Until recentl: what tarred roads England had wt:re nearly all hrt lengths. Now long stretchcs have been completed, such as from Coven try to London and from London to Herne Bay. In many counties. nota bly Hertfordshire. Middlesex and Kent, the advance has been rapid. To-day England leads the world in road improvement. France comes next. Five years ago the "routes na tionales" in France were, as a whole, superior to English roads as a whole, although not equal to Englani's best. To-day England is enormou3ly ahead even of France. and the work done in other countries is comparatively small. Tar fresh from the gas works is to tally unsuitable for using on the roads. It contains a proportion of soluble matter which washes out and which. if it runs into streams, may kill fish and do other damage. The ordinary tar splashes and injures dresses, etc. These facts have caused considerable naturalprejudice against tar preparations among many land owners and country residents. Meth ods had to be found of removing the soluble matter without going to the other extreme and making the coat ing brittle. There are now various ways of doing this. The Roads Improvement Associa tion's experiments showed that roads can be made dustless by applying one gallon of tar to every four superfi cial yards, costing about $200 a mile for an average road. It was found that satisfactory results could only be had by giving much heavier dress ings than were formerly considered necessary. This tar dressing so adds to the wear-resisting qualities of the high way that so far as can be now seen it will more than repay its cost by the saving it effects in road mantenance. But it is not possible to speak finally on this point until the tarred roads have been laid down for a longer pe riod.-Chicago Tribune. Get Expert Advice. One or two bits of counsel in re gard to good roads building cannot be too often emphasized. In the first place, never proceed without expert advice. In some sections of the South the movement for better highways has been set back a full generation because of ignorance and consequent ,wastefulness in the use of road funds. Get your State Highway Commission er, your State Geologist, or some offi cial of your State Department of Agri culture, to advise you as to what sort of road improvement policy you should advocate. Many counties are too poor to build macadam roads as yet, especially where stone for macad amizing must be brought a great dis tance. In such places the merits -and applicability of the sand-clay system should be considered. It is much less expensive than macadam. and in hun dreds of counties in the South is the best system that can be adopted. And on all clay roads, the split-log drag should be regularly used.-Prores sive Farmer. A Good Roads Dividend. The county of Sullivan, Tennessee, Is building turnpikes. A dispatch from Bristol tells of the sale of a farm in Sullivan County for upward of $14,000. Before the building of turnpikes the farm would have sold at not more than half that amount. The place was put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. There is nothing to account for the increase in value, aside from the fact that Sulli van County now has good roads where formerly it had bad roads.--Louis. ville Courier-Journal. Baltimore's Horse Heaven. Baltimore is about to open its rest farm or fresh-air home for horses tin der the management of the Animal Refuge Association. It is a charit able enterprise, as only the horses of poor cabmen and hucksters, who are unable to care for their animals when they become ill, will be received at the farm. These men are forced to let their horses suffer, and oftentimes to sell them when they are unfit for work. When the horse of a poor owner becomes ill now he has only to notify the Animal Refuge Association, and for $2 a month his horse will be taken to the farm, where it can revel in clover and forget the hot and dusty streets and the rough cobblestones until it is well.-New York Tribune. Bound to Get It. They were coming nome from Co ney. The conductor came by. handed ten cents change to the man out of the quarter and gave three transfers to him. "'What's the third Tr?" asked the woman. The man looked amazed. He looked also at the ten cents out of the quarter. He ran to the conductor and grabbed himt by the coattail. Th'ire was a hurried explanation and he 'ame back again. "He charged me for that child who sat back of us." he cried in amaze ment. "What (10 yotu think of that? Just picked me out as owning the child and made me pay his fare. I just caught him in time." -- New Yor'k Press. Her Transf'ormnat ion. !rene was a little street waif. A kind hearted woman called her into her home one day, gave her a bath, bruished her hair' and arranged it be comingly, tying it with a clean pretty ribbon; then step)ped back to view the result. A friend who was present remarked that there was such a change one wotuld scarcely know that it was the same child. Then the little girl spoke up timidly, "But my name's Irene yet, ain't it?"--Delin. HIS - -Cartoon BUILDS IDEAL TOWN If It Existed 'Twould Be a "Slightly Ele ---Only One Curch Needed, and I Do --- Mrs. Pattison Tells Wi 'Arlington. N.. J.-M,%rs. Mary Pattl son, president of the New Jersey Women's Federated Clubs, has built the ideal village-in her imagination. But she Is sure that if such a place ec Isted in fact it would be "a slightly elevated spot somewhere, of course, in New Jersey." ThiWeis how Mrs. Pattison pictured the ideal village in a talk before the members of the Civic Club of Ar lington: "Let us take at imaginary Jour ney," she said, "to a slightly elevated spot somewtere-of course in New Jersey-and build an ideal village or town. Let there be a clean, wide sweep of greensward shaded with trees and cut with winding roads, a few hills and a cool, picturesque val ley to one side, through which a clear. happy rivulet curls its way untainted with sewerage and disease-carrying Insects and unspoiled by the dumps of refuse usually deposited along such banks. Let there ha.cleinstead grass, flowers and birds. "On o e of these hills near by we find a roomy sehoolhouse, than which nothini better Is known, where the children are bein educated In the real things of life, in common sense, and in industrial and organic matters, with no danger of forced mentality. Here we find usefulness with beauty of method; as a result, horse or coarse play and disrespect are un known; individual and careful think ing are encouraged, and appreciation Is developed, with charm of manner and the cultivation of the hec.lthiest bodies. "In the centre of the town, near a few choice shous and offices, we find an airy and well built market, where only the best and purest foods can be bought. not necessarily luxuries, hut the substantial v'arieties that make~ blood and muscle strong and of good quality-a place where it is not suffi cient to simply label the contents of packages, hut where it is necessary to tell which beefsteak has had its juice AMERICAN HABITS AR So Says Dr. Craft~s anci Names as Chief St. Louis. - That conditions of American life promote insanity and that heredity, alcohol and a special groun of diseases are rapidly increas ing the number of Insane persons in proportion to the total population were statements made by Dr. Leo M. Crafts, of Minneapolis. before the Mississippi Valley Medical Assccia tion. Dr. Crafts, giving figures for States which he said were typical, showed the extent to which insanity ha'd in creased in this country during the past generation. The insane nercent age of illinois as typical of this sec tion, he said, In the past thirty years AUTO DUST PlIN Me Rushes Through Darier ging Behind and'i South Norwalk, Conn.-The police and public of Darien arc up in arms over the actions of a New York auto moblist who is, they say, the mean est man on earth. This man, whose number they think is 1770. fastens a large limb to the rear of his machine and, with this trailing in the road, he goes racing through the town, leaving a cloud of dust which entire ly envelops him and the machine number, and whi'ch leaves the town sputtering and fuming, winking and blinking, for some minutes. Even the Rev. H-. S. Brown has joined In the protest, saying that the nuisance is the cause of perversion, New Church to Be Provided With Airship Landing Place on Roof. Atlanta. - Anticipating that air ships will be in common use in a few years the officials of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, now nearing com pletion, Instructed the building com mitteeto so arrange the roof that there will be no difficulty in adapting it to airship landings. The officials declared that in future years the communicants of the church would sail to and from the services in airships, just as they now speed their automobiles. if Your'i Isn't Worth Advertise| mURNW by Berrymian, in the Washiington Star. IN HER IMAGINATION. vated Spot Somewhere ;n New jersey" .ittle For Lawyers antd Doctors to imen's Civic Club f.b3ut It extracted, what fish and fowl have been embalmed, what animals died in disease, and what fruit has had its natural fermentation stopped by the use of preservatives. It Is, in fact, a place to buy food where one is not ]n danger of one's life, or worse, one's health, at every turn. "Let us perhap-, build two churches in our beautiful village, although that may be one too many, but let there be one opening the gate of heaven through the intellectual door or un der the portal of the understanding where reason reigns and science proves; then a little further on let us find another, bringing God on earth through the aid of the emotions, with the heart as the knower and the senses trained to love. Let them both be beautiful, but let us go first to one and then the other till in the f uture they unite. " Our community is made up of homes, cheerful, normal, happy homes, Individual in expression, co ope'rate in management and lovely In desizn, where the atmosphere Is the guiding element, where nothing is held that gives more trouble than worth, where harmony, health and happiness leave not a crevice for hell to neek through. "And now a little walk to the right, te vic Clubouse, a Ine p extraced whatpe fior an ages. Itaise place webled ha andmasiae inperisese an wat forui as had its sofresvathiroos. for ms,ifc, at dancig. etf. one' lfe,or worse fones heavlt, atevythurn.c scey ol Loet ts has. l to hrce in ywke our beuiuhilg,ato that mayebe onde toay utert ther ew onlae oei t inaetal at heaen inhesonce- the eledo o un-h dr the prt of just lunerstandre whetr ran rawyers and scite mnce proes tn ambertlndfuethers onlt the fidanothr, bringing Godr ony hearth thiertsh knower andher theeai senss wthaie."lv.Le hmbt had thnree fohr tillInes fradl tshy unthepplto.OhrSae homes eerl noberm ofl, hp h o,rdigdulto eD ression,s oe deuntrne were thevetmophere isante guidiugh elment,a whrebithince doing thais mpoortroubl thinane worsons wher thamony, hseapilth and hapeslevTe ngo asevc flor honell to nee thrnish.nte eapeo and inoapbtle alkptio the Ariht uan oipcrieashe par whremed tof place wher golcay and ymnast are superied, n pretrats.ofal , o , w Vith m foremc, rg d'ncinB.etksan or at ois frivoltya wimth whichtocey would v los betse chams. on bsnesi the atwoperkee our thaplace thne wrher andhen the dustis in the anr. Thn aosstc- faste he onre libto free tahe art bynes lvng,o herw adctros and lawer ate tthe ini muien hadber reuatind teohrs atestn mimu,pcwwere aghnl ady althied Iis touht tn her the ustofe ir vir gting life." Tenw a l Cpe auses. btteplc nedt asrehmas fou imen nusac rad achbstheopuyatn. dOthSates an Betin erenic tter off ,mbhs ofccrintoer.lmu Cas othe coates we rehbishopiynghr ina speech adeoiveed Weter hehodbs Day doinqutiny the oporti of san craeThe negbiso wasrin alo ite raetIicapable of aopin of Asai-a itca ehos detironmto "ihan se ota othreas hero thristopher Co thobse whoso cazed and hae tois plcied imng rtreats a h pto ofthe Knigoshere ofth olacebus." Ad erisimciea n ngtetw and dor t h te Sale. "His Brother's Keeper." I By HOLMAN DAY. On Little Spruce Island on the Maine coast I feund three old men, brothers-williai, Daniel and Nehe miah Shanks. They have lived there all their lives in a iumble-down little shelter. They are melancholy old men. They are contentcd, but the rea has b-ought to them a strange brooding, wistful solemnity. William and Daniel never married. Nehemiah has had a poor little romance that broke his heart. He went home with his confession of wrong-doin. -*Then you must look out for the boys after I'm dead," said his father, forgiving him. Nehemiah has spent his life "looking out for the boys," who are now infirm old men. 'It is my duty in return for my father's pardon of my wrong-doing," he told me, "and I have tried to do my best. I am the youngest, and I am best able to work." For more than twenty years Will iam has never come out of the hut into the sunshine. He told me that he feared the sun might heat his brains and interfere with his life work, which is the composition of poetry. While William idleE, Nehemiah tills the little garden, catches fish, digs clams and cooks. He is cheer fully the burden-bsarer, and wi.th some pride says that he is the head of the family; for when his father imposed the trust on him he did so with a ceremony truly patriarchal; he gave into Nehemiah's hands the staff on which he had leaned for many years, saying that it should be the badge of Nehemiah's authority. Nehe miah described the scene to me, tears trickling down his wrinkled cheeks. Memory was only a partial spur to this grief. Daniel, after more than sixty years of obedience, had' become a most amazing rebel. He had declared that another flood had been prophesied to him in a vision, and that he had been ordered to build an ark on Little Spruce. Little Spruce is owned by a lady in Boston, as part of an exten sive holding of Islands. The Shanks brothers have been permitted to re main as squatters on condition that they do not disturb the standing tim ber. Nehemiah gave this promise to the manager of the estate. Daniel, though threescore and ten; took the family axe, hand-saw, and hammer and proceeded to his labors on his ark. Nehemiah stood in front of the lordly spruce that Daniel was about to attack with the axe, and in the name of the Shanks family for bade him to chop. Daniel had the zeal of monomania and insisted. Then Nehemiah brandished the family staff and threatened to chastise the disobe dient son of their, father. Daniel, in a frenzy, made at his brother with the axe, routed him, captured .the staff, chopped it up, and then began on the tree. He laid waste quite a section of woodland before Neheiaih got word to the agent. Then in high dudgeon Daniel built a shack of his own. He lives In it and, refuses to speak to his brothers. "I still hope to be able to meet fa ther at the door of heaven and tell him that I kept the Shanks family together and kept it decent, as he would have liked to have me keep it,"' said Nehemiah, sadly. "Daniel was always hard to manage; father found him so. But I think he will come back to his home, for I-'am .the only one in the family who can cook things as mother used to cook them."-Har. per's Magazine. Pope Pius and the Guards. It would seem to be the ambition of Pope Pius X. to pass down to pos terity as..the Reformer. He has al ready instituted several notable ro forms, in the total reorganization of the financial departments of the Vat ican, in the ecclesiastical congrega tions, in taxes, and in the ceremonial music. At present the Pope Is con templating a number of important changes within the walls of the Vat ican with a view to reducing need less expenditures. He has expressed the opinion that there are far too many idle people about the premises -officials who are costly, but whose offices are pure sinecures. The guards, for instance, are practically valueless. The Guards of Nobles, the Swiss Guards, the Palatine Guards, the Gendarmerie-all alike necessi tate a vast expenditure for which little is obtained in return. If his holiness acted In accordance with his real wishes, he would abolish all these, but consideration of historic interest will probably induce him to confine himself to a mere reduc tion in numbers.-Rome Correspond' ence of the London Globe. Facts About Gravesend. Gravesend, now smarting under her treatment by the admiralty in re lation to the disposition of the war ships in the coming Thames review, has been always more or less a spoiled child of fortune. As the great out post of London her privileges in the matter of customs and pilotage have been considerable. When the town was burnt and plundered by the French and Spaniards in the reign of Richard II. the king compensated the citizens by giving them the exclusive right to carry passengers to London by water at 2d. a head (., 4s. per boat). Twopence, of course, was no mean sum in those days. Gravesend has also the distinction, among Eng lish towns, of having been the first to organize a river steamboat service to London. This she did as long ago as 1829. The gloomy name she bears loses its sombreness when we remem ber that it Is derived from the Saxon "gerefa," and indicates the limits of the jurisdiction of a port-reeve. In Domesday Book she is recognizable under the name of Gravesham.-Lon don Chronicle. Chauffeuse Fined. Miss Sydney K. Lodge. a profes ionaal automobile chauffeur, was ar riginedI this morning in the M&!nici pal Cour; b)eforre Judge Benneltt on charg'os of having no badge and of nt having a lihecd lampi on the rear of her car at n1ight ti:n. She p)lead dr gult andl ;us finetd $15, which se !'aid. - Bosoun Evening Trr.n PALETTO STATE NE!S COlumbia, S. C.-A statement I, sued from the office of Commissione Watson shows the average yield pe acre of the oat crop in South Car( lina this year to be twenty-one bust els per acre. The yield shows a; increase of one bushel per acre ove last year. The average yield for te years has been 16.2 bushils per acr, It is shown in the report that tb average yield for South Carolina greater than any other of the souti ern states. The number of bushels producE this year is 4,431,000. The numb. last year was only 4,020,000. On October 1 the average price e bushel was seventy-four cents, an one cent less in September. This is a most excellent showin when compared with the prices in th: west, oats in Illinois bringing only 27 cents per bushel and 34 cents - Iowa. The following comparative stat ment of average yields per acre V the souhern states of oats will prov very interesting: South Carolina 21, Texas 2.3 bushe less, Mississippi 5 bushels less, Gec gia 2 bushels less, Florida 4 bushes less, North Carolina, 4.5 bushels lei Kentucky about same, Alabama 4 bushels less, Tennessee 1 bushel lei Virginia 2 bushels less. The quali: of the oats has been increased to great extent. Spartanburg, S. C.-Many farme in Spartanburg county have be@ caught short because they contract% with buyers and mills to furnish a ce tain amount of cotton at a giv( price, less than 13 cents. Cotton -h: advanced within the last few day and many farmers are now forced buy as much as thirty bales to their contract, paying as much 13.50 for the staple. At a meeting the County Farmers' Union, held hel this feature of the cotton busnls was discussed, and the practice farmers of selling their crops befor gathered was decried, for it is a form of speculation. It was said it 'is a case of counting chickens before are hatched. Washington, D. C.-J. Ross han of Charleston was in Washingtc attending a meeting of fertilizer i "Charleston," Mr. Hanahan Gaid, experiencing a good-sized boom. 'i .; houses are difficult to rent and busin men expect a good, steady tras There is not the least doubt, in mind, that with the completion of Panama Canal we will make a jump both in population anO bi ness." Spartanburg, S. C.-The Caroli Clinchiel. and Ohio Railroad, new trunk line through southw Virginia and east Tennessee, will completed to Spartanburg, S. C., October 29, and the first train v be run into that city October 29. The C., C. & 0. has cost bOtw# $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, and many respects is one of the most markable railroads in the Uni States. It is built through the ro,: est mountain country east of Rockies, and at places the road cost, for a distance of several mI." as much as $200,000 a mile. M than $5,000,000 has been spent in I neling mountains, so that the rc though only 225 miles In length, cost more than an ordinary road 1,' miles in length. Columbia, S. C.-According to preliminary statement Issued froip-s office of Commissioner Watson, consumption of cotton 'by the m. of the state this year will be 45, bales less than last year. The repor based on reports already received d ing the year from eighty-three ml and the reports of the other at as given in the handbook for 15 The consuming of a less number bales this year is caused by the f. that most of the mills are changi or have already changed, from coarse grade to a finer grade mat - ally Increases the value of the pra act. It does npt mean that the has been a curtailment in productic -- but rather Increased value of prodt tion; a product which can .be plac.* directly from the mills on the sout. en markets. Only about fifteen mills, and half their production, turn out expoa goods, according to the statement. Up until a few years ago all -a the mill manufactured a coarse gra. of cloth. Since 1907 there has be a gradual change from the coarse - the finer goods, all of which Is beL cial to the manufacturer, farmer ad consumer. STATE CAPITAL NOTES. ...An invitation has been r-eceliv by Commissioner Watson to make a" address on agriculture at the neg farmers' conference to be held Denmark November 17, 18 and The conference Is held under the at pices of the Voorhees Industr * chool at that place. The state flags are soon to be ph ed on sale In the state. Sever : * ms will manufacture them, besid . naller ones will be made by the tc tile department at Clsmson Coller - It is the hope of Governor An-sel th the flags be found in the schools the state during the present ye~ Few children are acquainted with t state flag. .... Governor Ansel has refused a pa don to Clarence Sumbler, convicted Union county at the January term court on the charge of burglary, ar sentenced to serve a term of ti years In the state penitentiary. T. petition sttaes that Sumbler Is on a boy of 16 years, and has a widows' mother, who Is dependent upon hi~ He has served six months' of t. sentence.. *. ...According to a new tariff Issu by the Atlantic Coast' Line rates cabbage plants in the future will the same, to points In South Carolin as on cabbage. Some time ago se eral of the cabbage growers of Youn sland, near Charleston, complain' to the railroad commission that tI rates charged on cabbage plants this state by the Atlantic Coast L.hv were too high, and higher than tI rate on cabbage. The commissic: took the matter up with the Con Line officials, with the result that new tariff will be put into effect. Th new rate will be a gr-eat reductio over the old. .... -Governor Ansel offercd reward for several prisoners in Abbeville county. A reward of $75 is offeret for the apprehension of Alonzo Mar ton, charged with the murder of Johb' Johnson. The crime wvas committec In November, 1901. A reward of $10( . Is offered for Epi' .Jacksonl. who it here charged with the murder of Luciar or sut Adams in .January. 19". A reward OJt $75 for Weslety Les;ey, who is charg ed with- killing Joe stewart in Octo br, 19)6. A reward of $75 for ilenthe diffe;. Tate, charged with killinz LU0i 'W-'" Small