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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNS, Pre?'! F. O. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Surplus and Undivided 1'roflts PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS F?jf Interest j on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Ilajne, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12. 1903. NO 33. MY When I get rich, I'll quit the road for good And stay oon ent at home as each man should, Who has a home wherein the faithful wife Through years of lonesome labor spends her life; ni give som* younger man my timeworn grip And let him take my routine monthly trip, When I get rich. When I get rich, at homo I'll gladly stay, And give my wife some comfort every day, I'll smooth away the wrinkles from her face That time has all too soon begun to truco; I'll lighten all her labors, great and small, Anr '? she would consent, I'll bear them all, 'When I get rich. THE MITIGATION How Miss Nervy Turned the Tab Snubbing Him, and then By MAY BELLI It was mail-day at Waxhaw. The nar row street in front of the postofflce was . full, and the hitching-posts each teth ered its saddled horse. There were high-heeled boots with jingling spurs, reckless-looking sombreros, cartridge belts and full holsters, as well as leath er and befringed leggings, but the crowd about the gray and weather beaten cottonwood building was a de corous one. Even those who came and went through the swing doors of the Cow boys' Rest down street did so in a sub dued way. Had a stranger, expecting vociferation and reckless shooting, questioned the state of affairs, Limber Jack, the erstwhile Bad Man of Wax haw, would have explained. "Don't talk too loud, er Miss Narvy'll git after ye. She don't like a racket whan she's sortin' the mail." The men lounged and talked, ex changing tobacco, the news of the range and frequent libatiors. Suddenly the postoffice door opened, and there was a hush. An erect, well-built woman of about thirty-five stood there. The sun caught the ripples of her red hair, turning them to copper; her mouth was set in a grim line as she looked sternly across the crowd. "You Samuel Smith!" Her voice drifted commandingly even into the in terior of the Cow-boys' Rest. "Your broncho's scratching itself against the south wall fit to kneck the house over. If you men ain't moro careful you can ' not hitch here at all." A dozen men sprang with alacrity in answer to her complaint, and as many more reproved the owner of the of fending animal, who was Smiling Sam to all but Miss Nervy, and who meek ly led fhe pony away. .Juno Minerva her father had named her, and he had fondly hoped that in his only daughter might be united the wisdom and the beauty of her goddess godmothers._The.?e she came to pos sess only in a moderate degr?s; also from Minerva, perhaps-she inherited a temper. Her father, early widowed, had be taken himself and his young goddess to the plains of the setting sun. whsre in the heart of the great glazing country he established a small store at a trad ing point on ?one of the great stage . lines. He died white his daughter was yet young, the general opinion upon his taking off being epitomized by Si Merristalk when he said, "How glad the old man must be to be good an' dead, an' whar Miss Nervy can't boss bim fer a spell." "Blamed ef she don't try to reggelate every li vin' one o' us," Limber Jack would complain. "Jaws us ef we don't change our shirts, er ef we run our hosses er take a hand at a quiet little game. Allays two kinds o' things is wrong-them we do, an' them we don't don't do-so anyway she's sure to skin us." Despite their fault-finding, the men who frequented Waxhaw secretly ad mired and gloried in the possession of Miss Nervy. The very fearlessness and the high temper that rendered the contraction of her name a fitting one caused them to respect her. She was neat and businesslike; the goods in her little store were irreproachable; as postmistress she was accurate; her arraignments, if severe, were us'.ally acknowledged to be well groundod, and, above all, she was a woman. Today thc crowd that awaited tho sorting of the mail displayed, with all its decorum, a suppressed excite ment. After much discussion of ways | and means whereby Miss Nervy's se verity might be lessened, some of the more daring ones had hit upon the scheme of furnishing their goddess with a suitor. "Love," declaimed Limber Jack to tho camp-fire circle-"not the philan derin' flirtin' that most o' us has done, but reggelar, squashly love, that means tyin' up to the same post-softens the hardest-hearted, which means Miss Nervy, to'rds the whole world, which means us. We'll choose a likely duck to b'siege our fair postmlssis, an' trust the rest to him an' Providence." After much deliberation, Tom Ketch um, who had been Nervy Tom until Miss Nervy wrested away his laurels, was selected as the Horatius of Wax haw. "I s'pose it might as well be me as any one," he remarked, in tones of resignation. "I'll die some time, any way, either by shootin' er broncho bustin', an' ef it'll help the gang any to have it come by red-headed lightnln/ all right." "He's never balked at a proposition yit, fr'm a bob-cat up," sai.i Limber Jack, exultantly; "an' ef he causes Miis Nervy to sVender, he'll be good to her. We don't want to s'press her, understandin', merely to-er-to miti gate her, so to speak." Again the postofflce door opened, again sb.e of the auburn hair Is sued an ultimatum. "Such of you as expect any mall may come in now-single file, remember. No, Thomas Ketchum," holding up a warning hand, "you ain't had even a circular from a whiskey-house in a year. You stay out." "But I want some terbacker," ex postulated the man. "Walt till the mail's distributed," she snapped. "I'm not a storekeeper now; I'm the gov'ment's representa vow. When I get rich, I'll give with lavish hand To help the fallen rise in every land. TU give to spread tho gospel far and wide, To feed and clothe the poor on every side; I'll advertise that I have funds to BJ,are In doing good to others everywhere, When I get rich. When I got rich, Why make so rash a vow? voice within, me whispers, even now .' hou art already rich in resource grand A voice that now can chc-jr, a helping band, A heart that sow ?hould beat with love divine Give what thou hast, give freely what ls thine, For thou art rich. -Charles W. Scarf!, in Ram's Horn. OF MISS NERYY. 1 _ 3 les on Her Cow-Bo/ Lover, First ^ Falling in Love with Him. ^ ?THXE BROWN. ^ The last letter and paper were hand ed out to the file that came and went, but the crowd loitered outside as a moral support to Tom, who entered last and ?lone. The minutes went by, but no sound was heard from within. "I tell ye, boys," gloated Jack, "Tom's the one fer Miss Nervy. He'll give her jest that, mixcher o' firmness an' blarney that'll ca'm even a red headed woman. Why ain'jt we thought o' this afore? While he's courtin* her, we boys kin hev some liberties when we come to town-" The door opened with explosive sud denness. Tom, with petrified face, came hastily down the steps, and Miss Nervy appeared so quickly behind him as to almost tread on his spurs. "If any of you men want to buy goods here, come cn! If not. get away from my premises!" Pier square jaws fairly snapped shut. "And if your busi ness is done, get back ? J work! Town's no place for you!'' And Tom's spirit was broken. Ho took his share of the work in a dull, dogged manner that hurt his fellows. Whatever Miss Nervy had said or done had been as an acid that bites deeply. A smothered aversion to the woman came to life, and among those who frequented Waxhaw, and loitered to trade with Miss Nervy and listen to her vinegary spc?clfes, the "Flying Flag" men were conspicuously absent. One usually transacted business for the outfit, and even his visit was brief. At first, Miss Nervy ignored the ab sence of the "Flying Flag" contingent, but finally curiosity-a failing common even to goddesses-mastered her. She was handing a sheaf of mail across the counter to Limber Jack. "The 'Flying Flag' seems to be giv ing us a needed re3t," she observed, sarcastically. "Has the foreman really got them to work at last?" "They're mcs'ly takin' turns at nurs in' Tom Ketchum in their spare time," answered Jack, nonchalantly, as he stowed away the mail. "What ails Ketchum?'' she queried, a shade of interest crossing her face. "Seems to hov been breakin' down fer the las' three months," replied Jack. "Acts jest like a man I knew 'at got clawed up with a wil'-cat, an' los' his spenit. So's when a cayuse 'at Tom was breakin' fell on him two weeks ago, an' smashed some ribs, he kind o' give up an' got a fever. We boys don't know much to do; but Bob Vermilllon, 'at's been a hoss doctor, he fixes up some mashes now an' then. We re all sorry." "A hon>e doctor! What a pack of fools!" scolded Miss Nervy. "You'll kill him amongst you." Jack was at the door, but he turned, and drawled, gently, "Oh, no. Miss Nervy; his death won't be at our door. We all knows what's killed Tom. He allays had more backbone an* life than any man on the range, and np man er gang o' men could do him up that-a-way." "Who's that?" asked Sam, later In the day, pointing across the prairie. A buckboard drawn by a rangy sorrel was approaching. "Rig b'lcngs to the eatin'-house at Waxhaw," said Jack, "but I can't see w?io's drivin'." Just then a turn of the road brought the slanting sun direct on the figure on Gie driver's seat. It was a woman, and even at that distance they could see the glint of burnished copper. "Miss Nervy," ejaculated Bob. "Now we're in fer it!" "I don't see it that.-a-way,'' answered Jack, eyeing the approaching figure sternly. "We'll meet her in a body, an* ca'mly ask her to go back to Wax haw, whar her talents'll be more ap preciated. Tom's hed 'nough o' female wil'-cats." As Miss Nervy jumped nimbly to the ground in front of the group. Jack ad vanced a trifle. "We boys think ye'd better go back, Mis? Nervy-meanin' no disrespec*. They ain't nothin' fer ye to do here." For a brief moment only Miss Nervy looked at Jack, but it was long enough io shrivel him into nothingness. "You boys think!" The repetition was snarled with telling effect. Turn ing, she drew a bulky package from under the seat of the buckboard. "You boys have been thinking a good while, and now suppose you do something. Mister Juck, go to the cook-shanty and bring me a kettle of hot water-hot, mind you-for herb-tea. Samuel Smith, you take me in to Tom Ketchum, and lc,t me see how near you've all come to killing him. Bob Vermillion, you've been a doctor long enough; you'd bet ter go back to hosses, and you can be gin by taking care of mine. The rest of you clear out. When I want you I'll let you know." It was after ?upper. The men lounged on the crisp buffalo-grass that sloped away from the houses. A hush fell over the group as a woman came walking briskly over the grass toward them. Miss Narvy stood before them, stern as ever, but with no trace of venom in her glance, and looked at the men, who rose to their feet at her com. lng. "Tomorrow's Sunday," she an nounced, "and the circuit rider preach es at Hoover's Ford. That's twenty mile. Can one of you get him here by tomorrow night?" "Great Caesar!" ejaculated Sam, "Tom ain't that bad, is he, Miss Nervy?" THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNS, Pre?'! F. O. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Surplus and Undivided 1'roflts PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS F?jf Interest j on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Ilajne, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12. 1903. NO 33. WEDDING CAKE MYSTERY SUPERSTITIONS CLUSTER AROUND THE MARRIAGE FEAST. _ . They Cause Trouble Sometimes for the Prop. 'etor of the Bake Shop and His Assistants-Some Cakes Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. All wedding cakes are fearfully and wonderfully made, but some are more wonderful than others. The bigger the cake the more mysteries it can con tain, hence the seeker after novelties In wedding cakes would do well to make a tour of the bakeries in the foreign col onits, where a gigantic cake ls an im portant accessory to every marriage. Or, if he has not time to go the rounds, he can concentrate his attention upon one rather small down-town bakeshop and learn there everything there is to be learned on the subject. The proprietor of that shep is chock full of wedding cake :ore. He divides his cakes into classes, first according to nationality. This it not hard to do, for while a wedding cake is a wedding cake the world over, it is run off in many different editions, and the archi tecture of the more pretentious ones Is frequently modeled after famous edi fices in the Fatherland and doctored up with ingredients that give the whole confection a decidedly national tang. For example, there are Russian towers, Turkish minaret*, and Gothic facades and quadrangles done in sugar, and all flavored with a peculiar essence that tells the initiated to what land the bride's family belongs. The largest wedding cakes turned out in that particular shop are those built in Russian style. The designs therein employed call for generous proportions, and by the time the various sections of the cake have been joined together the whole is a thing at which to marvel. "When you bake cakes of unusual size and shape, who is responsible for the designs?" asked a visitor who had been admiring one such gigantic pro duct of the baker's skill. "Sometimes I study them out for my self, sometimes the wedding party of fers suggestions. I prefer to do all the planning myself, however, for, If I do say it, I know how to put up an artis istic cake, at least so far as external appearances go. On the other hand, my customers' Ideas on thc subject are often perfectly crazy, ard If I try to fol low their instructions I am sure to turn out a real freak in confectionery, and that is always painful to professional pride. "It is at other people's suggestions, too, that I mix in all thc sentimental eimcracks with which I sometimes spoil an otherwise good cake. Being an old hand at the business, I know what liberties can be properly taken with": the internal arrangement of a wedding cake, so, of course, I always attend to; the rings and the china dolls and thei other conventional superfluities; but in you ever get hold of a piece of caktf? buUod J*.t\Hthis_K>inrt oti.l hrr^r vowj*% teeth on an ola coln or a queer charm or something of that kind, you may rest assured that I ara not responsible for the accident. The customer order ed the thing put. In. Those amulets and heirlooms are a part of his superslti tion. "Just because a man has emigrated to Nev York and settled down in this matt('r-of-fact city is no sign that he has left his fourteenth century super stitions in the old country'- The chances are that he did not, or even if he did his wife is pretty sure to hold on to them, and as a number of those absurd fancies are centred In a wodding cake, i am bound to humor their whims when mixing the batter. Many of that class have their queer beliefs so deeply in grained that they make their own cakes. However, if they have not the facilities for baking they are obliged to intrust it to the sacrilegious hands of a mere baker, In which case they come down here in a bunch to superintend the mixing process. They do that be cause at a particular point in the pro ceedings it is desirable to perform cer tain curious incarnations. Those out landish signs and gibberish are sup posed to bestow upon the cake certain virtues that will be imparted to all who eat of it, and the bride would rather live an old maid to the end of the chapter than omit these queer obser vances. Naturally I don't approve of any such tomfoolery, and it. gets dread fully on the nerves of my men to have all those outsiders dawdling around, droning and whining while they are at work beating eggs and creaming but ter and sugar; but since a wedding cako is quite an expensive luxury, I can afford to grant a few concessions to the weakness of the purchasers." "How about recipes: asked the visi tor. "Do you use your own in these special cases or do the customers pro vide them, as well as the minor sugges tions?" "They generally leave that part of the business to me," said the proprie tor. "While there are no hard and fast rules In regard to the composition of wedding cakes, they really do not differ much, except in the matter of flavoring and unimportant details, and I am able to satisfy all tastes. In cases where a cake of extraordinary size is required; tho customer gives me an idea of the1 dimensions and I apportion the ingre dients accordingly. The recipes I fre quently use in mixing these cakes call for such large quantities of provisions that they sound as if I was preparing rations for an array. Here Is a r-ample of the kind and size I make every day of the year." ? The proprietor tossed about a fevs letters on his desk and presently pro duced a scrap of paper, from which hi read glibly: "Eighteen cups butter, ll pints sugar, 8 quarts flour, 10 dozei eggs, 14 pounds currants, 7 pounds cit ron. 8 pounds shelled almonds, 1 pounds raisins, 3 pints brandy, ounces mace." "To mnko a cake of that kind," h continued, "is an al?-day job. It take at least five hours to mix it properly and about six hours to bake it. It wi make sixteen good sized loaves ari will keep from generation to genen tion, and if the girl who has matrimoL' on the brain ever intends to dream >'. her future husband she will dreai auout him when she goes to sleep wi.i a slab of that concoction under hr pillow. "But even though wedding cttis sound like such impossiblo conglomla tlons they make mighty good eating," the proprietor went on with profession al alertness.. "Women are particularly fond'of-them. I have one customer up town Who has never been married in her life;'and since she has had such bad luck with her eyes and complexion I am afraid she never will be, but she buys a wending cake regularly every year. 'She began it fifteen years ago. "Most wedding cakes come high. Tho cake Itself, if of ordinary size, can be made for from $10 up. It is the decora tions that cost. Special appliances are required; for molding the pillars of su gar and the doves and cupids and all Hke ornaments, and by the time ono of those, mountainous affairs that con tains ten dozen eggs for a starting point is" ready for the table lt weighs anywhere from fifty to seventy-five pounds . and costs even dollars for pounds^ or perhaps more. But in spite of their expense, wedding cakes are ordered every day In the year. There ! are a few of us who get married only once in a lifetime, and we cannot af ford to dispense with the cake when we do make the riffle."-New York Times. THE WORLD IS SMALL. Two Men.Who Kept Running Across Each Other Think So. 'The*extreme diminutiveness of the world'iis a thing that has often sur prised ."me during the quarter of a cen tury tuat I have been going up and down the world," said Frank M. Pan coast, a traveling man whose "terri tory" is the entire glebe, for he sells bridges, and trestles and structural steel. .^'Chancing In many different parts 8f the earth upon people I never expected to see more than once is an experience I have had so often that it has served to shrivel my world Into an exceedingly contracted affair. "For. example, four years ago I voy aged up the West Coast from La Liber tad on- a coffee freighter. The only other passenger on the steamer be sides, myself was a planter from Guatemala-a middle aged Central American and a very accomplished and entertaining man. We smoke?, halkcd, played cards, and ate and drank in eath other's company all the way up to Sari Francisco, and enjoyed the trip thoroughly. He told me that ho was sjtarting out on a little tour of plea&urej but did not mention where he was goincr. We parted at the Pal ace bojtiel In San Francisco with mu tual regret. m "I made a straight jump for New YorkV A week after I got there I went down to the beach oue evening for some ?ir and music. I was taking a bite alb?c cn the hotel veranda when who should come strolling up to my tableiwith a smile and his eternal yel low ' cigarette but my Guatemalan friend;-. I was glad to see him. He bade me adios in New York in the morriig, saying that he was going to ta~ke a->teamcr that rame day. So was I. In the'afternoon, when I went aboard on steamer, I hiimpccl?? of ?^r?p^*g?Tns?%"n^^ a auf!? sufflfiid a pith helmet who was 3t^Vng at the starboard rail smoking a yellow cigarette. I turned to apol ogize, and my friend from Guatemala smiled at me in his beard. "We had a pretty good time together on the eight-day run to Galveston, and put up in adjoining rooms at the Beach Hotel, outside the cltj', which has since been destroyed by lire. I finished my business in Galveston in a day, and then, with the Central American, had a week of rest and run on thc gulf sands and in the city. Tuen my concern sum moned me back to New York, and once more, after a mutual exciianfe of re grets, we separated. A while after my return to New York a relative of mine, a young fellow from the western part of New York state, turned np, and I showed him about the town a bit. "Among the restaurants we visited was a Chinese place in Mott street, where we had one of those weird chop, stick feeds. We hadn't more than be gun before my friend from Central America strolled In and greeted me Justas If we had made an appointment to meet each other at the Chinese res taurant that evening. When I left, him at his uptown hotel at midnight I fig ured that the chances of my running across him again were pretty slim, for I vas booked for a trip to Japan, on a trestle-selling expedition, within a week or so, and the Guatcmallan told me that he himself was off on a long journey, although he didn't mention I ?whither that journey was going to ? tike him. Again, it. was adios. A | nonth later I was writing my name on I the register of thc Grand Hotel in Yokohama when I felt a touch on the shoulder. I turned about and looked In tho placid blackbearded phiz of my Guatelmalian planter-ho had taken mother route for it, but was just get ing in, nevertheless. I haven't run across him since I left Japan on that trip, but I wouldn't be surprised to meet up with him on Pennsylvania avenue this evening. It is such ex periences as these that have caused me to lose my once profound impres sion of the vastness of the world." Washington Post. Catches the Feminine Shopper. There is one clever New York shop man who has made a study of tho type feminine. His show window ls a triumph of art and artifice. This Solo mon is a vendor of shoes. He employs the looking glass as a bait for the fem inine shopper, who, he dcclades, "can not pass one, even though she may just have passed a dozen." But he is sharper Dhan the ordinary shopkeeper and has observed that, while a woman stares into a mirrordecked window, she does not necessarily observe the goods therein. Indeed, usually she ls so taken with her own reflection that, the mirror is thus a distraction as well as an attraction. Therefore he ha? cunningly arranged a group of mirrors behiud his wares so deftly that, no matter where she may stand, she can not catch sight of her face in any one of them. Any position she assumes a long vista of dainty shoes Is reflected, but no counterfeit presentment of her self.-Pittsburg Despatch. Assuming that experimental teats continue to verify the electronic hy pothesis, the discovery of the existence of these infinitesimally small quanti ties of matter will remain a monument to the power of scientific research. WHAT IS BAD AIR7 Impurity of Air and the Frequent Catching of Cold. The air which has been brea tr ?d is not flt to be breathed over again we all know from experience; yet it ls not easy to give a satisfactory scien tific reason for this ?act. ^yhat is the vitiating constituent of the human breath? Certain it is that the chief constitu ent added to the air by respiration namely, carbonic acid gas-per se has little or no effect upon the health. Indeed, it has been stated that men can breathe for two or three hours without marked discomfort air which contains-with, of course, its full com plement of oxygen-as much as 20 percent of carbonic acid, and the pres ence of 1 percent has not the slightest effect. But if the carbonic acid in the air be raised only to 1-10 percent by human respiration, the resulting air is mest unwholesome and detri mental. There is no chemical .differ ence, of course, between the carbonic acid gas ol the human breath and the carbonic acid gas obtained from chalk or from the combustion of carbon or coal gas. The obvious deduction is that the carbonic acid gas of respira tion has a poisonous companion, and this companion has so far eluded all attempts at isolation and recognition. This poisonous constituent may occur as a constant quantity in relation to the carbonic acid gas; possibly it does not. We do not know, although it is very important that this point should be determined. We are content, however, to judge the impurity of air by measuring the amount of carbonic ?cid in it, and to some extent this measure is a valua ble guide. It is not satisfactory that the evidence of impurity is not ob tained more directly than this. Every one knows that air vitiated by human respiration is offensive and poisonous. In other words, bad ventilation-that is, a condition in which the products of human respiration are not remover -sooner or later produces to~ic symp toms. There are usually less of ap petite, discomfort, severe headache and malaise, which cannot be traced to infective organisms any more than the absence of such organisms can explain the curative effects of fresh air. Moreover, it is a common experi ence that a sojourn In a badly venti lated rcom occupied by a great num ber of people predisposes to disease. There seems little doubt that the im purity of the air has some connection with the "catching of a cold." The presence of respiratory products is declared by an offensive smell, and it seems odd that chemical analysis is net able to lay bare what actually the nose readily detects. The effect of bad air upon u.e health cannot sim ply be that of an offensive smell, though that undoubtedly plays a part. * * * It not only is absolutely de void of the vitalizing effect of fresh air, but it has almost a sickening smell, and sooner or later gives rise to a sense of oppression. What is the:j whole" question ^s a^ ^ 'tended inquiry than has oe eberto carried oVt, for surely cTj?y& and physiologyVhand in JiSi^ctiTd' event. ually elucidaXg .lid matter.-The Lan cet. Last of the Cairidh. The great mass of the reading pub lic have possibly no idea of what the "cairidh" really is, for out 'de the lim its of the Hebridean country it is un known, says the Scottish American. The cairidh ls neither more nor less than a gigantic salmon trap. On the west coast it was at one time common, and was extensively in existence as early as 1519. Of course, catching sal mon by this means is illegal, yet' the last cairidh was only done away in 1S8?). A very old one it was, too, tra dition ascribing it to the Norsemen, whose ships ploughed the Minch ten centuries aso. And now to let our readers form some idea of what a cairidh really ls. Out iuto the shallow water of a sea loch, and for prefer ence near the mouth of a river, a low stone wall is built for about 100 yards, according to the depth of water; then, bending round parallel to the coast, it may be continued for from twice to four times that distance. The wall generally ends where there is a rise, or bar, in the loch's bottom. With the rising tide thc salmon push up, In tending to ascend the river, and con siderable numbers frequently enter the open mouth of the cairidh, the wall at the far end, of course, preventing their further advance. When the tide re cedes the rise at the mouth of the cairidh is left bare, and thus between it and tho wall, which is now above water, the salmon aro left in an en closed pool. Here they fall easy vic tims of the crofters, who wade in and sometimes obtain a good haul. When, however, the western shores came under the salmon act of 1898 the cairidh was demolished, the last being probably the first, since it had reputed ly existed for 10 centuries. Wagner and the Return to Nature. A Utopian society has established itsalf in Ascona, a little place on the borders of Italy and Switzerland. This little society, which numbers 3S indi viduals, seeks to solve the problem of how to live happily. The members are pledged to observe certain simple rules of living, which they have car ried out now for three yeara. They eat no meat, but live principally on fruits and herbs, and they wear one simple garment only, ard no hats. There are l? women in the sect. They know no laws save those of na ture, and they amuse themselves with Wagnerian music. The founder of the colony is a Belgian. Each new member is initiated on his finding suf ficient money to buy a plot of land, by the cultivation of which he is expected to support himself.-London Mail. Her Birdlike Voice. She was a proud young mother, and she was telling the crusty old bache lor how talented hov little girl waa, while that angel child ate sticky candy and pawed the bachelor's immaculate shirt front and plied him with ques tions in a phonograph voice. "She sings beautifully," said the mother. "Why, song flows at. natural ly from her ns from a little birdy." "From a parrot, I suppose," growled the brute.-New York Press. Largo Shipments of the best mt received. Our stock of furnlti plete. Large stock COFFINS an always on hand. All calls for 01 to. All goods sold on a small mi I will save you money. G. P. COBB, J * 1 W, J. Rutherford. W. J. Ruthe MANUFACl AND DE/ Cement, Piaf Fire Br Ready Roofing an Write Us 1 Corner Reynolds and AUGUSTA, = .B:".DS PLANT TREES. An oid-timo Arizona wood choppei says the blue jays have planted thou sands of the trees nov.' growing In Arizona. He says these b'.rds have a habit of burying small seeds in the ground with their beaks, and that they frequent pine trees and bury large numbers of the small pine nuts in the ground, many of which sprout and ?row. He" was walk'ng through the pines with an Eastern man a short time ago, when one of these birds Jew ?rom a tree to. thc ground, stuck bis bill into the eailli add 'i?ul?il*7 flew away. When told what had hap pened the Hastern man wa3 skeptical; but the two went to the spot and with a knife blade dug out a sound pine nut from a depth of about an inch and a half. Thus it will bc seen that nature has her own plan for forest perpetua tion.-Indianapolis NewB. The women of the United States will probably be Intel es ted to learn that Uncle Sara ls cultivating a beau ty plant In the experimental farm at | Washington. The women of Algeria eat the seeds of this plant to make them beautiful, and the government experts are trying to determine what grounds they have for the faith that is in them. The outcome is not a matter of much practical importance, however, for there are many beauty foods now, and little use ?3 made of them. There are fresh fruit and vegetables, and there ls absolutely no doubt about their beautifying quali ties, according to Professor II. W. Wi ley, the government chemist. Why this ls so ls not perfectly understood, but their health and beauty giving powers are marvellous, and the worn in who wants bright eyes and a clear complexion can scarcely eat too much, )f them. The report of the Fiench bark Vin cennes of a sea of pumice stone six miles long, soulh of the Tongan group would seem to indicate that there has heen some great volcanic outburst in the neighborhood, of which the rest of the world has not heard. The first ships which passed through the Sun do Straits after the eruption of Kra katoa found the sea for miles cov ered with a thick coating of pumice and for some of them it was the first Indication that anything extraordin ary had taken place. The Ottoman Government has bought the English concession for a line of railroad from Haifa tc Dam ascus, It is intended to build a rail way through Galilee to Mzerib, by way of Meisan, connecting at Mzerib with the Damascus-Mecca line. While the line will be built for strategical purposes, lt can hardly fall gradual ly to develop the trans-Jordan coun try-hitherto another Thibet-by bringing it into touch with the out side world. A mouse recently wrecked a train out West. It was walking along a rall, looking at the, moon one even ing, when an owl saw it. Tho owl Immediately sate chase, and the mouse retrey,*?J gracefully into the jaws of a switch. The owl got wedg ed in the jaws of the switch, and pre- j vented its being closed, so that a freight train was derailed. Unfortu lately the Western papers failed to ?tay whether or not the mouse escaped. CRUELTY IN REFINED FORM. "Yes," said the critic to the aspirin,) young playwright, "there ar* great possibilities In this play of yours." "Thank you. It IB very kind of yon Co say so." "But there will be greator possibili ties in the follow who is clever clough to find them and get them out."-Ch* cago Re*ord-Herald. Buggies. TURE. ikes of wagons and buggies just ire, housefurnishings is com id CASKETS ir Hearse promptly responded irgin of profit Call to see me, fohnston, S. C. R. B. Morris. [ :URERS OF U-ERS IN ster, Hair, ick, Fire Clay, d Other Material. For Prices. ! Washington Streets, ? GEORGIA. SURtTMSFCD OLD BRUIN. A wildwood adventure of two Fenn srv?vania boys comes from Pocono, ,'Icr.roe ea'tnty, as fellows: "The warra v.-oath?r started the maple sap to running. A great deal of maple =;ugar is "mride in this vicinity. A farmer named Bush, living near tho Knob, being ambitious to send to a Philr.dolphi.1 b'iycr sugar made' a memth earner than usual, tapped a' number of trec3. One Sunday, recent ly, his two sons, Willie and Levi, aged . 10 und 12 years, weht to the woods to 1 ' V STT? ?j ?? 7S?7'r" of saf ,Th?y [ came suddenly: upon 'a'-big- sheb bear.-: with three rubs, thc latter being but a few days old. The mother bear was I regaling herself on tho sap from one I of the pails, maple sap being o great delicacy with the bear family. The boys were not discovered by the old bear, and they held a* hurried council and returned home. Without saying a word to any of the household, the boys took their father's rifle, and get ting away with it unobserved, made haste back to the woods, which were I half a mile distant. When they reached the spot the bear and her fam ily had disappeared.' The boys were on the point of entering the thicket when the old bear came rushing out toward them. Levi, who carried the gun, stood his ground, but his brother ran away. Levi fired at the bear, and the ball crashed through her brain. She dropped in her tracks and died almost instantly. The three cubs fol lowed their mother out of the brush and the boy captured them alive, and started home with them. Before he got there he met his father and brother, the latter having run homo and told of the situation. The father and a hired man brought the carcass of the old bear in, while Levi went ba with his three cubs."-Detroit Freo Pros?. ? Wireless Telegraphy in Forests. M. Maiche, a French inventor, has made some experiments A-Ith wireless, telegraphy in the forests of St. Ger main. The transmitted was placed on the top of a house, but connected to the ground in the manner of a lightning rod. A thousand yards dis tant two iron poles 90 feet apart were connected together by wire, and had a telephone receiver in circuit. Sounds fron the transmitter wore plainly heard in it. Receivers off the lina of transmission do not catch tho mes sage. A British parliamentary paper ?shows that as usual, nearly 20,000 more boys titan girls were born in the British Isles last year. Whence, then, the "superfluous woman?" The boyp die, during the first weeks and months of life, at a far greater rate than tho supposed "weaker vessels." In a few months they have sunk to an equality and soon woman takes the lead, nam srically, and keeps it, numerically. The reason is not unconnected with the larger size of the baby boy's head, for which he either pays the penalty trery early or reaps the reward-if roman will forgive the hint-later. Recent forest fires and floods renew public demand for measures on a large scale to prevent the occurrence of such disasters. The average for est-fire loss is estim?t ed at ' $30.0^0, 000 a year, most of which, it is claim ed, could bo saved by greater care on the part of campers and by the remov al of underbrush kindling that start3 these fires going. The prevention of floods is a much more difficult mat ter, but it ls said that water storage at the sources cf the groat middle western rivers and their tributaries would prevent floods In thc future. If this can be demonstrated, remarks Public Opinion, congress will doubt less be as liberal In providing ways and means as it was lu appropriating money for forest preservation and ir rigation.