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fie u ine - 0Jo ' nI a. Published Weekly. PICKEDNS, SOUTH CAROLINA. For the time being gasoline is the favoritp perfuine. People who keep their sidewalks clean deserve at least honorable men tion. If one swallow doesn't make a sum mer, what don't threo robins make? Spring? Manuel Is to got $39,600 a year. Per. haps there is something in the king business after all. When rats are not disseminating the bubonic plague they are engaged in other nefarious practices. -All the world loves a lover, but as to these noblemen who seek American girls with money it is merely curious. If those New Jersey people think that "'hello' verges on profanity" what must they think of "line II busy"? Think how many lien's eggs young McLean could have bought with the money ho paid for that hopo dia mond! - Paris is making a move to elevate the moral tone of its literature and Its art. There is room for the exer cise of its efforts. A Colorado couple who were di vorced in 1875 have Just been married again. Sometimes second thoughts como a long time afterward. A Chicago girl captured a bandit who tried to grab her pocket book. lHan dits will learn in time to confine their operations to the less resourceful malo Bex. SIOX. It they take the exaggerated shiou' ders away from the mien and the rats away from the women hotel mat tresses might achievO additional soft ness. A Boston theologian declares that tho story of Adam aind Eo Is merely a parable. But, the old Adam, who blamed everythinmg on his wife, is no body's fic(ion. Thirty per cent. of the students at the University of Wisconsin are round shouldered. Anmot her airgumilent. aiginiist the over development of gray matter in our youth. ..A n was sent to a hospital iI Now Xorlc for examination as .to his sanity becan,30 he th ought , himselfi a fish. Maiybo iolebo(y t Id hl1n1 lie was in the swii. / Asheville, N. C., h I a "Jack the Kisser" scare, b~ut we 411113mly erceive that thIs may only3 be an advertise ment for the lahce as a summer re sort for 01o liaids. The aeropllane has been developed far enough to warrant less enlthlusiasmi ini offering p~rizes for flights and imore attenition to thie developmenCft of a practical paraehute. One marriage out of every three in San Franicisco ends In dlivorce, accord inig to 01n0 whlo dlelves in such things. Apparently mat rimon11 al earthquakes are common there, too. Innovating dIressnmakers may try to banish the waist 11ino from the feminine form divine; but enterprising man will continue to seek, locate and restore it with his strong right arm. Not content with the hobble skirt, those Parisian intriguers have sprung the "trouser gown" 0on us. Possibly the pantaloon effect Is expected to make a hit with suffragettes. Corset coats for men are reported to be recommended by the fashionable tailors. Evidently tho fashionable tailors have faith in the theory that men arec turning from foolishness. And now a phlysician blames the sepread of infantile plaralysis on fleas. 'What? Flefrs on pitty itty tootsie woot .sie? Lot- the (lotor lprepare for an -onslaught of highly insulted moth era. A beauty expert says that to keep their mouths beautiful, women must shut them. Here is the sex confront ed with tho most hiarrowinig alternative ever presenitedl to distracted human choice. An educator asserts that aeroplanes wvill abolish war. WVhich looks like 'working up a mlovement to have the Carnegie Peace board use a half miu lon a year in subsidizing aeroplane 'factories. New York women say that the feni niue throat loses Its beautiful conitouir in making the hissing "5" sound so characteristic of English. As in "Yes?" The Aero Club of America has acted commendably in taking stops looking to lessening of danger In aviation. One proposition is that ma chines shall be examined more close ly before any attemplt at flying is permitted. This is a simple precau tion which should be easily taken. ,A New York physician tells us that he can cure old age. We have also heard of men who thou ey had discoveredi the secret tual mo tion. Strange .to $a ysicia is te. itie Rep s of f A TRUE STORY OF TJ By COL. H. C. WHIT T was sometime in the fall of 1859 that a strang er came trudging along the turnpike. lie was short and fat. His round red face was covered with a stubby growth of blonde whiskers. He wore a broad flat blue cloth cap and a long brown linen duster a little out of sea son. A bundle tightly roll ed in black oilcloth was strapped to his back. He stopped in the middle of the road. Looking about, his eyes rested upon a weather-beaten sign board upon which had once been painted the picture of a black bear resting upon its haunches. For more than a hundred years this sign board had been .swinging to and fro as if beckoning and inviting passersby to enter the little inn that was standing seoine 15 or 20 feet back from the road. It took Mr. Hicruman Weingar ber several minutes to decipher the inscription beneath the faded picture. When ho had succeeded, as he I hought, he muttered audibly, "Dish ish do blace. Der black bear vas Inn, und I shust myself vill walk in mit him." Bracing up a little and stroking his chin ho stopped with a lengthened stride into the little front rooni that served as an ofice for the Black l3ear Inn. Hlero ho found himself in the presence of a pleasait-faced woman who smilod coquettishly. lilo greeted her in his own tongue, in which she replied, and the conver nation was now carried on briskly in tho German language. It was a bux omt widow on the one himud and a ras cally counterfeiter on the other. I If! was a long-timo rogue, but Sh was honest and unsuspielous. With ter the world was good, with hint it was dog eat dog and the devil take the hindmost. 'Phe widow IIartz was al together too unsophisticated to pene trato the dark recesses of the hollow hearted man that had by chance come smddenly into the affairs of her life. Sho judged him by her own heart and little dreamed of the misery so sooa to follow her chance acquaint aito with lierman Wolsgarber. Her husband had died about two years bofore. At this time her heart was centerod on her son, a young man nearly twenty years of ago. John Hartz, thanks to the training of his father, was honest and industrious. The Black hoar Inn and the little farm adjoining was a sacred inheri tance from htis paternali grandfathor. The Inn was now somewhat out of datq, but was still doing its part to wards furnishing the mother andl son a living and a little to lay up for a rainy day. John's father had taught: him to stand firmly for the right in all things. Mr. Weisgarber's gray blue eyes were shining brightly beneath his overhanging brows as he stood ex plaining to the widow Harts regarding himself. The word tramp, now so aptly applied to the tie-path tourist, had not been coined in that day and men of his like were little understood. lie said he was just out on a pleasure tour and that he traveled on foot as a matter of ohoice. lie was moving leisurely along that he might better enjoy the lovely scenery and pure mountain air. is words wore well chosen and deeply impressive as he cautiously worked his way up to the point of offering to remain for a time and assist in the work about the Inn and farm, Hie had a smooth tongue. The turn-pike, winding its way along up and down the sides, over and across the Allegheny mountains was then the popular highway for drovers and wagoners upon their way to and fro between Eastern Pennsyl vania and Pittsburg. The people along this route were principally Ger mans. Some of them could neither road noer speak English. They lived mainly on what they produced and had little occasion to spend their money, Almost anything that looked like money wouald pass. In those days much of the paper money in circulation was of the wild cat kind. Bletween the counterfeit and genuine issue there was but lit tIeochoice. One passed from hand to hand almost as readily as the other. Herman Weisgarber, as he called himself, had for many years boon dodg ing about from place to place ma king a living by shoving the queer. Under pretence of his inability to un derstand the English language he was able to deceive the officers and es cape arrest. It was always "Nicht vorstehe" with him. "He shust didn't know netting 'bout baper monies." To the widow H~artz he appeared a man of honor. She measured his character by her own and could see no farther. Six months had scarcely passed from the time she met him until he became her husband. When John Hartz came in contact with his step-father he was honest, and had he "followed in the footsteps of his own father he wouldl have re mained so. It did not take long to prove that he was siuseeptible and easily drawn into ways that were dark and forbidding. Step by step he was led along and craftily initiated into the yaterious doings of counterfeit, .4 Jo tSe of .ch JE SEGRET SERVICK W st LEY -Chi Unit d LEY States Sfecret Service co H1 in One day a drover came along the hi pike with a long string of oxen and cu stopped at the Black Bear Inn, and engaged a pasture for his cattle over its night. The drover was new in that fo, part of the country, and for safety he TI handed his pocket book, containing it several hundred dollars, to John Harts 1: for safe keeping, in the presence of st Weisgarber. Shortly afterwards when th the drover was out attending to his a1 cattle, Weisgarber suggested the idea po to John of changing the good -money ar in the pocket book for an equal vil amount of counterfeit that he had on fic hand. John was easily persuaded. lie he thought his step-father knew best. In se the morning the drover received his de pocket book and proceeded to count th its contents. lie at once saw that an the bills were of a different kind than w( those he had been carrying. lie po pulled a counterfeit detector from his Ia pocket and examined them. Having ex satisled himself that they were bad, de he charged John with having substi- li tuted them. The accused man's face ga turned red and lie began to stammer. er but his ste)-father who was standing ch by, came at once to the front and coin- ha menced to talk in German to John. te Turning to the drover he protested in fe badly broken English that the young re man was honest and hadn't even de opened tho pocket book. Between the two the drover got a tongue lashing an for his accusation that so completely be upset him that lie was none too sure th that he ever had any money. le Was to now in a bad fix; a long ways from an I-# to ay is xpeses hm. withgarboeti bout of cgen- ha osity, was good enough to loan the cel drover one or two hundred dollars to roi pay his way until he could reach th4 Strasburgh, a little to~wn at the foot an of the Three Brother mnountains. The pa drover was silenced but not altogether all convinced. His money was all right ste the day before, but he wasn't quito wa sure it 'was of the right stamp when ho lhe handed it over to the young man for safe keeping. Here was an exemI- act plification of the little difference be- go tween the truth and a lie Well stuck to to. Time rolled on and John Hartz' me career in crime became more and wi more firmly fixed, no One (lay the sheriff came with a thi warrant for the "Flying Dutchman," ca1 which meant Herman Weisgarber. fir. "Gott en Himmelli Vet ish dish?" Se' he exclaimed, ant A long explanation ensued and the col sheriff was greatly puzzled regarding m( his duty. He was convinced that to the accused man was innocent, and thi he thought it might be a safe thing to tut leave him at his home and go back to hir the county seat and report before ma king the arrest. When he reached is there .ho was told to return at once to and bring his man. When he got back ces to the Black Bear Inn Mr. Weisgarber ar< was out. He had saddled up and his rode away and might not return for wil several days, perhaps never. But the th4 good-natured sheriff didn't see it that cla way. He would come back again /or to he might present himself volunt fly He at the sheriff's offe.- . for The mother had noew experI need on enough to satisfy her that sh~ had to made a great mnistake and th t she ppr was tied to a bad man, Her tof be- thi came a burden to her. One ,day she ma suddenly disappeared. Afted a long me search she was found dead with a the rope tightly drawn about her neck dus hanging~ to a stout hook I the smoke He house. the scene was 3auch for uni bn. He now became dazed with tr and excitement. He left the home his boyhood on foot and made his iy to Philadelphia, where he chanced meet his step-father who was a )mber of a gang of counterfeiters. hn was easily persuaded and he suf. red himself to be led along stop by )p until he was deep in the mire. Our Civil war had brought a great ange in the finances of the country. ild cat banks had gone out of ex ence and a new kind of money was use. There was a great deal of unterfeiting going on and John irts was one of the number engaged it. Like the most of the men of 3 stamp he was unsuccessful in ac mulating wealth. A counterfeit beer stamp made i appearance in Philadelphia and I ind it necessary to visit that city le night was dark and stormy and was about the portentous hour of 00 a. mn., when ghosts are said to %lk abroad in ghastly white array, at four detectives left their comfort Is quarters in the hotel with the ex etation of making an important rest. The man they sought was in ible during the day time and a dif tit man to encounter at night. He d frequently been heard of but had Idom been seen by the government tectives. When the officers reached E appointed place they scattered d took up their positions where they muld attract as little attention as ssible. Their mysterious mission d been fully explained; a deal was pected to be pulled off. One of the tectives was rotund of person. He d, through one of the counterfeiting ng, been introduced as a beer deal who said he was willing to take his ances with bogus stamps, and he d bargained with one of the coun' 'feiters for flve thousand counter t lager beer stamps, and was to ,eive them at a certain hour at a signated place. When the man put in an appear ce to make the delivery he was to arrested. This individual, owing to darkness of the night, was unable see tho detectives stationed about, d he walked with his carpet bag in E /MPW - Y rridl clsdi.Tecutret ddn rei o nd g uso. Frsoemiue cuflngan twiing wa' uiu Kl hewsntfarysbue ni r of glseighad"f a //duo i rit. Tecl adaely ok theou offie hin ait.h sat one paecored uoengha tiwasl coed in. Thend conrfit did that areadiecbt ad thonothe aesonet fond the ader takldus reah cutomr o sourmhc mariutesl scuftheingaver twitng wlats furous ic he wstaiwry subdued. uIl wa a o listerpised hnus ae aght wapon ar.This wsh cold itok he hadh met im. he hand for ra ywas einfteaind af copuair esn thte aetectaud peon the verdnt ndr a rmsanxis reac t sue, icuh parelafry atr them engraer f he polate furoms ingho the mpowreantmed. behind ah lquetlerurprise whe tis leand usuathy whoesalos dpowerfuelhadc thet waseJoineart. hisa theog it time ittle mest imor had they ldelnotuner any cvircuhmsances be dservicqel. I coul well auortd iho the mtrminnt meaturehin prhisqueer ins caeer. tHs kid usuall the, ostssownfu adjnct thictie hart Whidasly aheeod-. shave littl arespecd fovrahi thmey paeligcterfetne avandmele had sericeasIns wssel acqusned psqelons hist cnfeerates. He in to 'stthe possernento apinciple neIhad areted seeatim tiese passin cunerfi lney rcmsancea tfcoud rate to sacre meniselfn 3ed to squeal, but I pounded John rts up one side and down the other al. road davigteh w..huta etmii the slightest information. I had of fered him his liberty and $1,000 in money as an inducement, but he stub borWy refused. He seemed to have deluded himself into the idea that treachery among a gang of criminals was much worse than the unlawful deeds performed by them. I learned from the prisoner that he had a family. When this was men tioned he shuddered a little. Coming to the conclusion that I could learn nothing'from him I was ready to lock him up. Before doing this I suggested the idea of taking him to see his wife and children. Early in the morning I .procured a carriage, and after a 20 minutes' drive we stopped in front of a large tenement house which we entered, ascending the stairs to the second floor. Knocking at a door to our right we were after some delay admitted by a woman wearing a calico wrapper, and we entered the room which was dark and dismal as a tomb. Two or three broken chairs, a rickety table and a mattress spread upon the floor and covered with ragged quilts, consti tuted the furnishings. Peeping from beneath the tattered covering I saw the bright eyes and curly heads of two young children. "Is this your home, Mr. Hartz?" I inquired. "This is where I stay," he replied. I saw at once that I was up against a species of affliction for which I had no ready-made speech of condolence, and I was just a Uttle embarrassed. There was a depth of seriousness in the affair that I had rarely met with. I was confronted with the genuine woes of humanity and at a loss for the moment to know just what to do or say. After deliberating a short time I came to the conchsion that it was best to explain all to his wife. She looked like an intelligent woman and I proceeded to cequaint her with the facts concerning her husband's ar rest and the punishment that was suro to follow. I likevise pointed out the door through which he might escape. I demanded a clean breast without reserve. I was to know all the partic ulard in regard to the conspiracy, and he was to act in good faith and to. as sist the detectives in plans to cap ture the engraver and all others con nected with the affair; besides, he was, if it became necessary, to go up on the witness stand and testify against his confederates. Counterfeit ers as a general thing are treacherous towards one another when in a tight place; it is anything to save them selves. With John Hartz it was dif ferent; he preferred to sacrifice him. self rather than to give away his con federates. When the wife was made acquaint ed with the proposition that had been made to her husband she appealed to him in language that seemed irresist ible. He hung his head. There was an expression on his face that was in definable. A fresh link in misery's chain had now reached his heart. The scene was absolutely painful and 1 soon saw that he was weakening. A man's character varies in accord ance with the position in which he is placed. Criminals are human, like our solves, and if 'we would learn the dangers lurking in our pathway, we should know how they chance to stumble and fall. Seome men are weaker and more prone to vice than others. There 'is a never-ending bat tie between right and wrong. I never yet found a man so bad that there was not something in his character upon which to base a hope. I never yet saw a man that was so good as to be free from danger. There is a thread of gold running through the character of the worst of men; the difficulty is to reach it. The prisoner"s eyes fell and were filled with tears. We have no pity for the tears shed. by criminals. They are deserved, but they are tears just tho same, and sometimes come from a heart unjustly pierced. His wife now approeached him and said, "Where is the money to come from to pay the rent for this miserable room we are living in? Hlow am I to obtain food and clothing for our children when you are in the penitentiary?" Accustomed as I was to scenes of this kind my heart was deeply touched and my hand went almost involuntari ly to my pocket. I pulled out a roil of bills. It was the government's money. Peeling off five twenties, I handed them to the woman. "Take this, my good woman, I cannot save your hus band, but I will give you something with which to supply your immediate wants. Buy these children some clothes." I handed her an additional twenty. The counterfeiter anel his wife stood looking earnestly into each other's faces. Beth seemed well nigh broken hearted. He stepped towards me as he said: "You are the only decent man I have ever seen in the detective business and I am going to tell you all about it." I have seen crime in its many phases and have noted the effect of a long term of imprisonment upon men as they received their sentence, but John Hartz appeared as the most repentant criminal I had ever met. He had been -caught red-handed and could have been easily convicted, but the. result of his confession and assistance was many times more important to the government. It led to the breaking up, root and branch, of an extensive group of dangerous counterfeiters. The engraver, procurer and sir others were arrested with the evidence of their guilt in their hands. All were convicted and sentenced to serve va ious terms in the penitentiary. My promise to Harts was religiously kept. He was suffered to go at large, What became of him I am unable to say, (Oopright. iflO, by W. G. Chapmaig) Worms, 'Cascarets are certainly dne. I give a frien4 one when the doctor was treating him for cancer 4 of thestomnach. The next morning he pase4 four pieeof a tae worm.- He then got a bo ud i three das . 4r o'a r& rmutbin Co Pa. Iam quite a worker for Casca-. ret. I use tiem aysel 'and find them beneficia for most anY disease caused by -nure blood.'s Chs. oAon, ewiston, Pa., tiflin Co.) Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken Weaken or Gripe. 10o, 25o 500. Never sold In bulk. The genu ine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to oum or your moaey back. 983 Give a girl a present, and she will not worry about the future. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coateda easy to take as candy, regulate and invig. lorate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not grape. The test of whether'you are edu cated is, can you do what you ought, when you ought, whether you want to do it or not?-Herbert Spencer. For COLDS and GRIP Hicks' OAPUDINE Is the best remedy-re lieve. the aching and feverishness-cures the Cold and restores normal conditions. It's iq uid-offrets immediately. 10c., 2c.,and50c. at urug stores. I honor any man anywhere, who, in the conscious discharge of what be believes to be his duty, dares to stand alone.-Charles Sumner. Tasted Good. "1 saw John, the butler, smackingr his lips, just now, as he went out. Iad ho been 'taking anything, Katie?" asked the mistress. "What was he doin', ma'am?" asked thq pretty waiting girl. "Smacking his lips." "Sure, he'd just been smacking mine, ma'am! "-Yonkers Statesman. His Aspiration. Richard, aged 12, Warburton, aged 14, and Gordon, aged 10, were discuss Ing what they would do with a million ilollars. Richard said: "I would buy a motor boat." Warburton said: "I would spend my million for music and theater tickets." Gordon, the 10-year-old, sniffed at them dlerisively. "Humph!" said he, "I'd buy an automobile, and spend the 'est in fines!"-1-larper's Bazar. Consumption Spreads in Syria. Consumptives in Syria are treated today much in the same way as the lepers have -been for the last 2,000 years. Tuberculosis is a cowmarative ly recent disease among the A rabs and Syrians, but so rapid ' ha ft spread that the iatives are in ear of it. Consequently when a ber of a family is known to have isease, he is frequently cast out an pipelled to die of exposure and wan ~ sukll hospital for consumptives r bee-. opened at Beyrout under the rtion of Dr. Mary P. Eddy. UNGALLANT. Bloom--I'm glad I met your wife. She seemed to take a fancy to me. Gloom--Did she? I wish you'd met her sooner. HONEST CONFESSION A Doctor's Talk on Food. There are no fairer set of men on earth than the doctors, and when they find they have been in error they are usually apt to make honest and manly admission of the fact. A ease in point is that of a practi tionei*, one of the good old school, who lives in Texas. H-is plain, unvarnished tale needs no dressing up: "I had always had an in tense preju dice, which I can now see was unwar rantable and unreasonable, against all muchly advertised foods. Hence, I never read a line of the many 'ads' of Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till last winter. - "While in Corpus Christi for my health, and visiting my youngest son, who has four of the ruddiest, healthi est little boys I ever saw, I ate my first dish of Grape-Nuts food for sup per with my little grandsons. "I became ex-ceedingly fend of it and have eaten a package of it every week since, and find it a delicious, re freshing and strengthening food, lear ing no ill effects whatever, causing no eruotations (with which I was f or merly much troubled), no sense of fullness, nausea, nor distress of stom ach in any way. "There is no other food that agrees with me so well, or sits as lightly or pleasantly upon my stomach as this Mdoes. "I am stronger and more active bilnce I began the use of Grape-Nuts than I have been for 10 years, and am no longer troubled with nausea bnd indigestion." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, Look in pkcgs. for the famous little book, "The Rload to Wellville." "There's a Reason." Ever read the above tetterf A mew Pu appears froms time totime. They lat geutae, true, andfl tued =a5 n