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itHE NRTIOHflL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. O. HATH2, Prut t. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits . Facilities of oar magnificent Kew Vanlt j fcontalnlr.g 410 Safety-Leek Boxes. * Differ-1 eat Sixes are offered to oar patrons ?nd I Oie public at 93.00 to 910.00 per annum, \ $125,000 VOL. LXVII1 EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1903. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA, Pays Interest . on Deposits. Accountu Solicited. L. C. Hayne. President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. NO. 9. CLIMBING Tl Little ona ollmblnff the hallway stairs, Be careful-the way Ia steep* And the Utile; hands and feet are weak For the task of tho upward creep. .Tis nany a fall you've had, alas! And many a bump and bruise; ._.. JjuXhope. brims tull In your Ilttlo heart,_ And quickly the task renews. Little one climbing the hallway stairs, Look up and climb, nor fear; For dose in the shadows a watcher stands And fatherly arms aro near. I THE WHI' * - LB, George EtH The leaden sky contained snow and 'flakes were falling spasmodically. All around in thc dense woods drifts were heaped high. Donald Stalworth, with snowshoes sinkiug deep in the flaky crust, stood pan Ling with his exertions The mighty stillness of the words op ' pressed him. Overhead the dull clouds I were murky and threatening. "I" must1 be five miles from home,' Donald muttered. "It will be a hard pull, and there's more snow coming.' He rested some moments against heavily laden birch tree, whose white bark he mechanically stripped off. While engaged in this occupation he heard a noise which aroused the natur al instincts of the hunter. It was faint bleat of a deer, but with a strange ly pitiful plaint in it that made Don , aid exclaim "What's up? Something is wrong! It must be a wolf or dog The possibility of a stray dog in the great lonely woods was not great, and he soon dismissed that view from mind "It must be wolves or some other wild beast I wonder how far it is!" He listened intently, applying his ear to the surface of the snow. The dismal cry of the deer was. repeated at Intervals, growing fainter at every call. Suddenly Donald looked up at the sky anxiously, and then do/rn the trail which led to his home. But with a new resolve he tightened the strap of one of his snowshoes, picked up his rifle, and started off in another di rection. "I must find out the trouble," be said between his clenched teeth. Tired though he was he slid along on his snowshoes with agility, and quickly passed beyond the opening in the forest to the thickest part of it. Prom this direction came the strange bleat of the deer. Five minutes later he stood in an opon glade with one of those rare sights of animal struggles pictured before him that is allowed to the fortunate few. Two large bucks stood facing each other, with low?red heads, and horns interlocked in a dead ly embrace. In their fierce struggle tor thffimastery' their horns^had become " entwined so that ne-ither could escalpo. Back and forth in the small opening they had been plunging, pushing, shov ing, and pulling, hoping to break the deadly embrace, but all they had ac complished was to pack the snow hard under their feet and tighten the fearful grip of the horns. Donald stood a moment in surprise and amazement watching the strug gling, doomed arlmals. No power of their own could ever release them. Ono might prove the stronger and gradual ly tire out his opponent, but death to either one meant lingering starvation to the other. To be interlocked with the horns of a dead deer was no vic tory to anticipate. Bcjth animals appeared to realize their danger. Instead of bucking and fight ing with the fire"?f anger flashing in their eyes, they stood quiet and tremb ling, bleating pitifully for the help which might never come. Nothing could break the-lock of the terrible ? horns. ". * - - - "Well, this ls a conundrum," re marked Donald with a whistle. "If I shoot them both, it will relieve them of a lingering death; but I can't take home their bodies, and if i leave them here the wolves will soon make way with them." He stood idly by, gazing at the ani mals, while the two bucks stood quiet as if waiting for his verdict. A far away cry of a wolf suddenly made them shiver with fear, and one utter ed a half-broken plea for help. This rowed Donald to say: "I'll get them out -'of'the troubl? if I can. It's a shame to leave them here to be killed by wolves. But it will take time!" He glanced up at "the gathering signs of a new storm, -and at the dark ening landscape around; but as ii for getful of his own -danger he stepped up to the two-struggling animals. They winced and renewed the struggle as he placed a hand on their heads. But they were helpless and unable to make resistance. "Now keep quiet," he said soothing ly, stroking them with his hand. But lt required some effort on his part to induce them to be quiet while ha stud ded the oroblem before him. The horns were locked in one of the simplest wkys Imaginable, but nothing would ever break the embrace unless they could be. pried sideways at just the right angle. Donald placed his rifle between the horns and started to pry them apart; but this caused renewed kicking and bucking on the part of the two terrified animals. Bark- and forth, he followed them, holding his rifle in posi tion and prying hard at every, favora ble opportunity. "You foolish things? why don't you stand still?" he muttered, as he tugged away. "Can't you see I'm helping you?" Finally, worn out with their contin ued exertions.. the- bucks stopped in the middle of the glade and panted and bleated mournfully. Another cry of a distant wolf made them quiet and fearful. Touring this lull In their strug gles Donald put ..all" of his strength and energy-info-, a few desperate ef forts to pry the barns- apart How* hard and tough they appeared; yielding slow ly to his tug and pull. Twice he had the obstinate^ horns at the point of Upping apart; but they fell back in eir former.'- position . with a- sharp lick. Each time the bucks jumped Ideways and tried to renew their truggles. * ' But tho third^time Donald was more ccesaiul. With a Anal effort he swung ? largest born around the bend in ?iE STAIRS. Now over tho topmost Btep you ria?, And your eye Is Unshed oa me; UV piad heart warms and joins you in Your cry o? victory. Little one climbing the ballway stairs, I speak to myself in you ; For lama child with an upward task, And I am a climber, too. 'Tis many a fall and a soar I get In climbing the upward way, - For weak are these ho ads and feet to keep On tho ascent day by day. -Toledo Blade. TE DEER. ? elbert Walsh. the other, and then released it. There was a louder click than before, and the two bucks leaped a foot in the air. But much to their own surprise they raised their heads In the air and shook them free. They stared at each other, twisted their pecks to see if they were broken, and bent their heads down and then up again. They danced around the open space and appeared so daied by their sudden release that they acted [in.e children just out of school. Donald laughed aloud and said: 'Don't know what to make of it, do rou? Well, don't do any more fighting, jr you'll get in trouble again." The bucks appeared not to notice dim. Then, at the sound of his voice :hey stopped and stared, at him. Now lon't try any of your "tricks on me," Donald said, knowing the bellicose na :ure of the animals. "I can drop both )f you in your tracks." . He held his rifle ready for an emer ?ency, but the bucks after staring hard it him for several moments turned luietly and trotted away together in he forest. They were like two friends vho had made up their differences, and vere determined not to fight or quar ti any more. Donald raised his rifle to lis shoulder and muttered: "How easily I could drop them! I vonder why I don't? I've hunted weeks >efore and never got such a fine shot as his. Why don't I shoot?" He iowere.i aun taised his rifle, but :ach time he shook his head and added: 'It would be a shame to shoot them ifter helping them out of such a family rouble. It wouldn't be right!" Then they got beyond his range, and ie lowered his rifle for good. "Well, low they are safe, but I can't say that am. It's pretty late and over five miles o travel. It's snowing hard, too!" The snow was falling heavily, and In illnding clouds. Donald had oeen so nterested in the two deer that he had riven little attention to the approach ng storm; but now he whistled sharply iud turned to move down the tra!1 Thc ?louds of snow were obliterating it ixcept for a few feet ahead. With bent lead he stared hard at Restudying the rees as~~he Hurried along. It would be atal to get off the trail. The storm was the second half of a rtizzard-cold, windy, and blinding, rhe flakes of snow struck his face with Ingling pain. He tried to ward them iff, but he had to study his path care ully in order to keep on the trail, and hus his face had to receive the brunt if the storm. He covered a mile and then stopped md panted. Regaining his breath, he ried to renew the journey. The second nile seemed harder, for the snow sur ac'e yielded to his weight, and made mow-shoeing slow and difficult How ie covered the three miles he could not my; but when on the point of congrat llating himself at his progress he sud lenly started with alarm. He was not >n the trail! Ih some way he had nissed it and had followed a false one br a long time. Donald's heart dropped and his hands rembled. It was almost useless to at empt to find it in that blinding s*orm. fet he could not give up in despair. ie stopped and tried to think, going >ver mentally every back step he had aken'and studying in his mind each amiliar landmark he had noted. It was with a dreary and almost lopeless spirit th?t he finally turned iround and tried to retrace his foots teps. But these too, were filled up vith the drifting snow a dozen yards >ack, and he was more hopelessly nixed than ever. In his extreme peril, donald for the first time wished he had lot turned out of his path to save the leer. "I might have left them alone to ight it out or shot them and moved in," he .''aid bitterly. "I saved their ives, but L'v2 lost mine." These reflections irritated him, and ie stopped several times to inveigh igainst his luck and the deer. "They vere thankless things, anyway," he inally muttered. 'They trotted off and lidn't even thank me." Donald shook himself. This sort of hing would not do. He was slowly ridding to the cold, and half-dreamily iccusing the deer of his whole trouble. )nce or twice visions of them had act ?ally appeared before his mind. They ooked like "white deer" flashing out )? the clouds of snow. "If T only knew where I was I would lot care," doggedly said the fellow. 'But this being lost in a storm is ter rifying. If I only had something to ruide nie or keep me company. There's hat 'white'-" He stopped and hit his head. The vl iion of the "white deer" had appeared lefcre his mind again. But this time it lid not disappear when he opened his ;yes. There is stood before him. Donald gasped and then rushed forward to .ouch the animal. His hands caine in contact with the warm, wet body of an animal,, and then ;he "white deer" sprang forward and lisappeared in the cloud of snow. "It ?vas no vision/' Donald said exultantly. .'Well, I'll follow his tracks. Deer al ways know how to get out of a storm." Peering down in the snow he picked jp the small holes made by the deer'a ieet, and in a few moments he was fol owing the tracks as a hound after jame. They led in the opposite direc :ion from the one Donald had been tak ing, and in a short time they brought ?lim to a denser part of the woods, rhen the snow obliterated them, and tie was left to his own resources. Through the deadly stillness of the storm there came a gentle breathing, pulsating noise that alarmed Donald. Was he yielding to the cold again? HQ stamped his feet and flung his hands outward to rouse himself. But tho noise continued. Donald picked himself up and followed its direction. A dozen feet forward he stumbled against some thing hard which reared directly in bis pathway. He touched it, and in the darkness tried to study it with his eyes. Then he gave a shout of exultation. It was one of the small log shelter cabins he had helped to build for summer uses when camping In the woods. He : knew that under its sheltering roof and sides tnere would be warmth and. pro tection from the terrible storm. But Inside the shed-like cabin there was a noise of alarm. As Donald floun dered through the snow a deer rushed out of the shelter and disappeared in the storm. It was his "white deer"-one of the bucks he had rescued. Donald stood silent and amazed. It seemed so like a vision that he was unable to speak for some time. In the desire to find shelter from the blizzard the buck had unconsciously directed him to the old cabin, where he was safe from the cold for the night. ^ "I don't think I'll say-anything more about ungratefulness," Donald re flected. "That deer was the only thing that saved rae from a terrible death. Sometimes Providence works in a strange way."-New York Times. CL'AINT ANO CURIO J i Most fishermen along the coast of France still avoid going to sea in the first two days of November, owing to the superstitious fear of the "death wind" and the belief that at that Urne the ghosts of drowned fishermen rise and capsize boats. Millions of butterflies are eaten every .year by the Australian aborigines. The insects congregate in vast quantities on the rocks of the Bugong mountains, and the natives secure them by kindling fires of damp wood and thus suffocat ing them. Then they are gathered in baskets, baked, sifted to remove the wings, and finally pressed into cakes. According to a telegram lately re ceived from Irkutsk, a huge rent of re cent formation has been discovered on the side of Mount Verkholensky. At first it was thought that the fissure was thc-result of volcanic action, but it has been found on close examination by geologists that the steam and white hot exudations thrown out from the rent are due to the spontaneous com bustion of coal schists under the sur face of the mountain. Madame de Genlis, in a work on "Time," tells us that the famous Chan cellor D'Aguesseau, observing that his wife always delayed 10 or 12 minutes before she carno down to dinner, and, reluctant to lose so much Hine dally, began ?hr he prose wai tir a boo.. con-pV editions and wu. S The number of artificial coloring matters prepared since Pekin's discov ery nearly fifty years ago of the pre paration of aniline dyes from coal tar has been enormous. It is estimated that at the present day over 3,000,000 different individual dye stuffs are easi ly accessible to our industries, while at least 25,000 form the subject of patent specifications. The number of coloring matters furnished by natural agancies is comparatively small, and those that do exist threaten soon to be ignored in favor of coal tar derivatives. Mr. Moeran writes to describe a re markable incident that occurred while shooting at a herd of ten deer at Port umna, states the London Feld. "I picked," he says, "an eight-year-old buck that stood head and shoulders clear of the others, a little nearer to me and broadside on. The bullet struck J.iim fair on the neck, about three inches below the butt of his ear, turned almost at right angles, and came out at the back of his neck. It then struck a doe in the centr? of th? forehead, coming out at the back of her head, and finally passed through the neck of a yearling doe just behind the ear, lodging under the skin on the far side. All three deer were killed on the spot. The distance was ninety-sev en yards, and the rifle used was a Win chester carbine 440, with a flat-nosed bullet. rhenomenn In Anntrnlln. . A great deal of interest has been created In scientific circles here by the dispatches from Australia telling of an extraordinary red dust storm that broke over Melbourne, November 12, and which afterward became general over New South Wales. One phenomenon in connection with the storm was the falling of fireballs, which "set fire to several buildings in Melbourne. At midday the city was in darkness, people traversing the streets with lanterns. The superstitious thought that the end of the world was about to come, and scenes of panic are described in some of the dispatches. At the same time comes the news that the Savaii volcano in Samoa is in violent state of eruption, and that the villages In the neighborhood are cov ered with ashes to a depth of two inches. Sir Norman Lockyer, the as tronomer, in an interview printed in The Daily Mail stated that fireballs were constantly seen at the time of tht recent eruptions in the West Indies, so that it is possible that the phenom ena in Australia may have been con nected with the volcanic activity in Samoa. The fireballs are generally described as globular lightning. There are rec ords of much damage having been caused by them. In 1S09 the Warren Hastings, a British warship, was struck on the masts by three fireballs in quick succession. In 1S81 an elec tric ball entered a wooden dwelling in a village of Auvergne. It exploded and set fire to the house, with the result that a child was burned to death.-For eign Correspondence of the New York Times. A MIch'T I'ollilcinn. Politician-There goes a mon you should know. He carries thc state ol' Illinois in his pocket. Candidate-Indeed! Who ls he? Politician-A map peddler- Chicago NewH. -H - ?? NEXT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. RSV **!85!HE Hon> JoseI)u G- Can* non, who will in all hu A man probability be ?lect if 1 jy cd Speaker of the House of the Fifty-eighth Con gress, has the distinction of having served longer In the lower legislative chamber than any of his thirrj'-four predecessors. The Eigh teenth Congressional District of lill* nols first bent him to represent lt at the National Capital in the year that General Grunt defeated Horace Gree ley for the Presidency, and he has done so continuously ever since, with the one exception of the Fifty-second ses sion, '90 to '92, when he was made to stay at home by a Democra* named Busey. His election to the next highest office under the Government will be the real .n, near Guilford Courthouse. In 1S30. He went to Indiana early with his parents, where he received only a common school education. At fourteen he hired out ns a clerk in a country store, and Ive years later bopan the study of law. Deciding that there was not much tionor for a prophet In his own country be concluded to go to Douglas County. Illinois, to begin his practice. That Qrst year in bl? profession, 1S3S. was pretty hard pulling for the future Speaker of tho House, and there is no denying that he would have come to actual Avant If a friend had not stood for his board bill. It was not in thc young lawyer's make-up, however, to allow difficulties to daunt him. By hard work and untiring perseverance each succeeding year saw his Influence broaden and his practice enlarge. With his inborn aggressiveness he was soon Identified with his party's politics, and In lS?l he was elected State's Attor ney, a position he hold until 1808. His experience ns counsel in oases or every conceivable kind, during those fourteen years before he became a member of Congress In 1S72. undoubtedly fitted him for the useful place he has filled there. Mr. Cannon ls ono of the oldest and ablest veterans In public lifo-Indeed, he will be the oldest mau who has ever occupied the Speaker's chair. Through all of his long career his bitterest ene mies have never bren able lo connect bis name in the remotest way with any scandal. Ile Is a rough-and-tumble fighter: In debate he ls not choice in the use of lils adjectives, but he has a keen intellect, unimpeachable honesty, and a character of sterling worth. Ile Is well known as one of tho most con servative members of the House. As Chairman of the Appropriations Com mittee he has had control of the supply bills, and with so jealous care has he watched tho proposed expenditures that he has Callen heir to the late Mr. Hol man's sobriquet, "The watch dog of the Treasury." KING CH?LAL0NGK0RN, OF SFAfl. i /*.->?.. --R..JU,.-.... ki. It Is reported that he will soou pay a .visit to the United States. Over $500,000 is to be spent on hy draulic mountings for the barbette guns of the battleship King Edward YU., now building nt Devonport, THE SQUARE PAPER CAP to Make the Kind Worn by Workmen r\ Cartoons. ?If you are a workman you would, perhaps, like to have one of those neat looking square paper caps such as thu uyawny and handsome workmen of tl\e cartoons wear, pduard A. Loos, a chemist, sends tn the*\ Philadelphia Record an interesting -a iii I lei, . ?upanyiug dia gram carefully, may build for himself in a few minutes a cheap, strong and durable working hat. "There appeared some time ago," writes Mr. Loos, "some remarks about the conventional headgear of the work ingman of thc cartoon. This is not, as seemed to be supposed, a portion of a flour bag, but a sheet of paper, about A_c B D nineteen bj' twenty-three inches, fold ed Into a cap. This sheet ls folded so ns to form a rectangle four and a half Inches by seven Inches, in thc centre, ns indicated by the lines AB, CD, EF and GH in tho diagram. The sides and ends are then turned up to form a sort of box, to do which it is necessary to make diagonal creases, as shown. MS, for example, being made by bringing MH un to MD-shown by the folded paper - the triangular projections at thc corners being folded up along the pidos of tho box. Now, by a little pa tient manipulation thc edges of this box are all (urned down outwardly for about one Incliof thc depth. This turn is then repeated, It being a little less troublesome to make the second turn. In tilla way a surprisingly strong cap ls produced." Vox to Shirt ii I'tilky nurse. A balky horse and a load of coal caused considerable excitement at the railroad station, and by Ibo arrival of Ganeit Duryea, an experienced horse man, bystanders were taught a practi cal lesson in starting equines with a bad temper. The horse refused to draw the load and would not move an Inch despite all kind of endeavors and suggest ions until Duryea arrived and commenced to apply the whip lightly to tho animal's fore legs. Suddenly (he horse started ahead on a trot for Uniondale, where thc coal was to be taken. Duryea walked away uncon cerned with the plaudits of tho specta tors who witnessed his successful feat. "I never knew that trick to fail In starting a balky horse," he said. "They can't stand any whipping on the fore legs. If you ever have a horse that will not go, just try lt."-Brooklyn Engl?. Ac'1 TIL: lind Urn wine. To a group of friends Ellen Terry once said: "Acting is not like drawing. You make a line. If lt ls wrong, you mb lt 0"t nt once and make another. With acting that ls Impossible; there is"no altering-it must stand. I often feel as if I must cry to the audience, 'Oh, that is wronp. not ns I meant It to be; let mo act that part or sentence over again.' "-San Francisco Argo naut. y KntcrprlsInB Til levee. . South Africa can boast of some en terprising thieves. The equipment of the Kruersdorp and District Rifle tar gets and a hut have recently been stolen. .......I.u^^Mjg^ CHANGEABLE CATTLE CARS They Can Be Used For Transporting Beeves or Sheep. The transport of sheep and -cattle on tlie Argentine railways ls an item of traffic of considerable and steadily In creasing importance. The numbers car ried being large, the distances great and the freights low, special arrange ments have to be made for dealing STOCK CARS ARRANGED FOR C&.TTLE. with this class of tuiflLc, and tho wagon illustrated herewith with two doors is an example of the style or type most generally used, although differing in.many details of design. The upper door is raised when the wagon is used for cattle, and lowered into position when I lie two floors are. required for sheep. These wagons ar? run coupled together, in trains of twenty or more wagons, each wagon containing an average ol' 200 sheep. In the present design tho loading and vnloadiiig are facilitated by making the upper as well as thc lower floor continuous throughout the train when Hie wagons are standing. The upper floor consists of four flaps or sections hinged to the sides of the wagons, this arrangement being found .o involve less complication than liftlm j " STOCK CARS ARRANGED FOR SHEEP. or lowering it by gearing, as ls some times done. The Hoer is carried on six hearers of pitch pine, three iuclies by four and a half Inches, strengthened by wrought iron plates one-eighth inch thick screwed on to one side. When the lower floor only is used the upper one Is turned up and safely secured hy pins and cotters, four of the bearers being disposed at the sides of thc wagon underneath the middle rall, which carries the hinges; but owing to the width of the wagon In propor tion to its length, lt is impossible to 'ii accommodate all In this pos?tlcu, each end one being placed slightly across the corner. .These end. bearers have hinged to them a small flap, which serves the purpose of joining and mak ing-continuous the upper floor. Leprosy la Frnnce. The revelation that leprosy exists in .France to Buch an extent as to call for the erection of a special hospital -has caused quite a scaxe iu Paris. It ap pears that there are nearly a score of cases under treatment in the St. Louis Hospital, and the Municipal Council has been-asked to vote 25,000 fiancs for the erection of a special pavilion, so *as to isolate them from the other pa tients. It asneara, however, that leprosy is not a contagious disease and that the other'patients run no risk of infection. The doctor in charge of the hospital, however, fears that the lepers may be attacked by tuberculosis, to which they are peculiarly subject. As cases of tuberculosis are treated In the same ward, he thinks it better to erect a spe cial pavilion for the lepers. This dec laration as to the non-contagiousness of leprosy will come as a surprise to rrtfst people, as it is a popular belief that the disease Is contagious In the highest degree. As, however, there is not the slightest grounds to doubt these declarations of men .of the eminence of Dr. Allopean and his. aids, the Paris ians need not* fear the outbreak of an epidemic of leprosy. r Dead Sea Evaporation. Scientific observation justifies the estimate that a daily average of 0,500, 0?0 tons pf water is received into the Dead Sea from the Jordan and other resources during the year. During the rainy season, says the Chicago Record Herald, the amount is very much .greater; during the dry season lt Is. of course,' very much less, but this aver age will be maintained year after year. There is no'outlet^ and the level Is kept down by evaporation., only, which Is very rapid because of the intruse heat, the dry atmosphere, and the dry winds which, are constantly blowing down the gorges between the mountains. This evaporation causes a haze or mist to hang over the lake at all times, and, when lt.Is more rapid than usual, heavy clouds form and thunderstorms sometimes rage .with great violence In the pocket between the cliffs, even In the dry season. A flood of rain often falls upon the sur face of the sea when the sun is shining, and the atmosphere ls as dry as a bone half a mlle from the shore. The moun tains around the Dead Sea arc rarely the two found tm-.? -^uj_..! ~ many bathing establishments which even now still survive In the older quarters of Paris. Scarcely had the editor settled himself down to enjoy his warm bath when he heard Beaude laire call out: "Now that you can no longer defend yourself,1 dear friend, I will read you my live-act tragedy!" It should be explained that lu those days the taking of .1 bath was, in Paris, a lengthy and important business; the longer the bather stayed in the warm water the better it was supposed to be for lils health. To facilitate tho calling up of ve hicles telephones are to be erected on or near all thc cab ranks in Berlin. -- (** A ' FAMILY rtrnU Bill Jones, he hos a little boy. With such a wondrous head That Bill will stand around for houra Repeating what he said. And even it we do not smile, Bill laughs with all his heart, And says he is a lucky man To havo a child so smart. Of Bill's Intentions there's no doubt; He doesn't mean to shirk, But keeps on talking of bis boy i. When ho should go to work. Ii that child holds his humorous beat, A mournful fate he'll meet His father won't do work enough To earn tho price of meat. -Washington Btar. . , HUMOROUS. --- \ "The fact that some marriages are happy and others are unhappy," says the Cynical Bachelor, "is purely acci dental." . Wigg-Old Happygolucky is pretty well preserved, isn't he? I wonder how he manages it." Wagg-I sup pose he keeps out of jars. Sharpe-I wonder why women are not admitted as members in the Stock Exchange. Wheal ton-For practical reasons. If one came in a man would be 'expected to give up his $20,000 seat to ncr. "Young man," said the minister, gravely, "you must choose between the narrow path and the' broad road." "Guess I'll take the .broad road," re plied the rich man's son. "I own an automobile." "Am I to understand that you were discharged from the army for a, mere breach of etiquette." queries the inter ested friend. "Yes, sir," boldly as serted Col. Blupher. "What was it?" "Turning my back to the enemy." Son of the House-Won't you sing something, Miss Murial? Miss M. Oh, I daren't after such good milgie as we have been listening to. Son of the House-But I'd rather listen . to your siDging. than to any. amount of good music. Jack (to lady, come out to lunch) Are you coming wit!? the guns this af-i tenroon, Miss Maud? Miss Maud-I would, but I don't thjnk I should like to see a lot of poor birds shot! Jack Oh, if you go with Fred, your feelings, will be entirely spared. Merchant-Yes, I've lost my entire fortune. Our most trusted employe robbed us of enough to force my com pany into bankruptcy. Friend-But you surely saved something from the wreck. Merchant-No. We found the receiver as bad as the thief. "Reginald,."_she^ sald^_tp^_jvealthy "'""?' rlnnrlv whn Had UPPTI navin .r-T?fa What do you call that?" " 'Men Who Bled Their Country.'" 1 ''Tell the truth, now. You are a pro- J fesslonal beggar, are yon. not?" said J the keen-faced individuel who'EaV?eca^ braced. "I used to think I was," re plied the weary wayfarer, "but since 13 cents and an exchange ticket are all I have to show for a day's work 1 am forced to the conclusion that I am merely an amateur.-" "Wasn't it a terrifying experience," asked his friend, "when you lost your foothold and went sliding down the mountainside?" "It was exciting, but extremely interesting," said the col lege professor. "I could not help no ticing all the way down, with what ab solute accuracy I was following along the line of least resistance." Trayer Healing Sustained. By his decision on the Eva Earl case in the police court, Judge Dick has es tablished the right of persons to en gage in the business of praying at the bedside of sick persons, for certain fee. The defendant, Eva Earl, was arrest ed some time ago on tho charge of violating the medical laws of the state by practicing medicine without a li cense. The person was a Mrs. Prentiss of Valley Crossing, now deceased. J In passing upon the case Judge Dick said UT?--whole question hinged upon the word "treatment," as used in the statutes. He reviewed the testi mony in the case, and said that there were fess paid the defendant; accord ing tb the testimony she was to receive $5 for her,- first visit and ?3 for subse quent visits. The evidence showed that the only treatment was that the ? defendant kneeled by tho bed of the sick person and prayed; this, while it may not have done ?ny good for the sick wom an, evidently did no harm. The Judge said he did not believe the law con templated restricting prayer, even though the person doing the prayer re ceived a fee; he took it that the law was meant to apply to persous "treat ing" invalids, where there was no skill and where an injury might follow. After dwelling to some length as to the right of a sick person, or the friends of a sick person, to call in anv one for the purpose of praying, Judge Dick dismissed the defendant-Colum? bus Dispatch. Interesting Hird i?rouplncu. Two new mountings have been added to the bird room of the University ol Michigan museum. The first consists of a floating nest and eggs and two pied-billed grebes. The nest was found by Richard "D. T. Hollister, in a marsh near Whitmore lake. Tho second is a kingfisher's n containing seven young bird nest is in a model bank eight feet long.