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MOTIONAL BANK OF A?GUSTA IV. C. HAYNS, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Sarplns and [fr] OC fjAH Undivided Profits i H> i ?J'vWU ? Facilities of our magnMcent New Vault j [containing 410 t-afetY-Loclc Boxes. Differ lent Sizes are offered to our patrons and -1 the public at 93.00 to 910.00 per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, A UHU STA, ei. Paja Iniamt on Deposits. Accounts Solicitad. L. C. Hayne, President. Chas* C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDN?SDAY.'A UGUST 19. 1903. NO 34, HOW SHE She'd dressed np to go oat with him, 'Twas on the topmost floor; Before th? mirror she had posed A weary hour or more. At last she started down the stairs, And he was glad, but then, She tarried on the second floor To bee herself again. Before another mirror there She turned and turned nnd turned And took her time and primped as though She only was conoerned. Bbs patted bows and touched up tucks And felt her fluffy hair. And rearrange-! her new ''flat" hat With undiminished care. And then she gathered up her skirts And fixed thom in her hand, Coquettishly looked back: once more Into tho mirror, nnd "Went down another flight of stairs To the reception room, Where he was huddled, like a chunk Of ralubow-colored gloom? An Altruist ii i. Denbeigh Hall was In the flood tide of its regular "at home." Denbeigh Hall, so called from its London pro totype, was one of those escape valves of modern altruism known as social settlements with which the east side dwellers of New York are now as fam iliar as with their own delicatessen shops. Among this institution's various activities there was religiously observ ed a weekly form of social amenity known as Denbeigh Hall's "at home." On this occasion there fell to each resi dent in turn the lot of providing some definite form of entertainment for the "neighborhood," whose members filed in, sheepishly receptive to those pro cesses they were about to endure at the hands of these fervent if untutored acolytes of the new democracy. This evening it had been Miss Rood's turn, and that worthy young woman had , elected the less technical results of a five years' research regarding the Pas sion Play of Oberanunergau, most of which had seen the light in an ab struse publication devoted to the ana tomy and cot to the flesh tints of science and literature. Her audience meanwhile moved rest lessly and wearily in the creaking, wooden chairs. It was made up of hard-featured, apathetic wom?n, list less, tired-looking girls, and here and there a stray man. with an obvious de sire to fall peacefully asleep. Miss Rood, however, blind and d-eaf to the atmosphere she had gradually created; approached a fine and yet finer point of argument. Eleanor Cavendish, one of the newest recruits at Denbeigh Hall, glanced apprehensively at the danger] signals.flying from the tortured ? She looked despairingly about ; the other residents, scattered < creet intarvais through, the rex searcJj^S^some one. .wno might Standing n?ar the door that I? the narrow hall were three o of the men, residents in Marston the University Settlement three down the street One of them immearn ately attracted' Eleanor's attention, if j only for the reason that he looked as bored and mutinous as she felt herself. She was sure she had never seen him before..As she looked more closely at him, however, it struck her there was something oddly familia " about the high-bred poise of the head, the clear cut features, and the tall, well knit form. Suddenly he turned slightly and fastened his eyes fu\\ upon her own. Eleanor promptly turned away, and at the same moment Miss Kood's voice mercifully ceased its relentless drone. Miss Drummond; head worker of Denbeigh Hall, a position sue held by virtue of having been instructor of j zoology In a woman's college, rose with her most impressive classroom air. "We. will now have a little music," she. announced In the manner of one scattering .intellectual largesse to an unlettered mob. "Miss Cavendish, whom you all know so well, will now sing for us." - As Eleanor came swiftly forward, J3CT ? lighted at tho chance to make, an api peal to the simpl?Aaotiens of her au- j dience, a young giri in tue middl? bf the room caLed eagerly out, "Oh, Miss. Cavendish, please piay 'My Cakewalk Queen.' " Eleanor nodded and smiled brightly as she se-ted herself at the piano and bent her head over the keys. As she finally rose from the piano she saw, coming toward her with an air of assured acquaintance the man she had noticed in the doorway. "Good evening. Miss Cavendi?h," he exclaimed eagerly, "this is unexpected good fortune. The last time I saw you I think, was at Mrs. Harmon's house party. Do you rememoer?" "Why, certainly I remember, Mr. Trent," she returned with a frank smile of undisguised delight. "It was one of the most charming things of its kind. But what are you doing here, may I ask?" "I am in residence at Marston House." , "What! You in Marston House!" Eleanor's eyes were wide open in their surprise. "Saul also is among the prophets," quoted Trent laughingly. "And since when?" pursued Eieanor incredulously. "Since last election day. And now, please, won't you sit down and tell me something about how you happen to be over here yourself?" Eleanor Cavendish was the favorite niece of the wealthy and fashionable Mrs. Stanley Meredith. As such she bad been put through three years of the hybrid profession typical of a New York fashionable finishing school for girls, a four years' supplementary course of travel and studv abroad, and oue season of society. At the beginning of her second season, however, she had quietly elected to go into residence at Denbeigh Hall for an indefinite period. It was the wave of municipal reform which had swept over New York dur ing a campaign memorable for thc roused conscience of Its better citizens that carried Schuyler Trent temporar ily over to that much-exploited ground of the reformer, the east slrJ-s. He was but one of several university gradu ates, ripe for hero-worship and its in SOT READY. He smiled, as any husband should, Fut managed not to speak, Ana it was well; for ho was sure He'd waited there a week. Ee rose to go, but .-ho advancod Upon the large pier glass And back and forth in front of it Began to pa-s and pass. She started with her bat and hair And gradually worked down, Inspecting things, until she roached The bottom of her gown. She caught her skirts again and looked To see how she'd appear, And, evidently satisflod, . She said: 'Tm ready, dear." He heaved a sigh (but made it soft) And headed for the street, But hearing not the footfalls Of her Louis XIV feet, He turned-he staggered and then fell Against tho nearest wall She was gaziDg in the mirror i Ia the hat-rack In tho ball ! -The Baltimore American. c Adventure. I evitable idealizations, who had flung themselves .into the war of municipal redemption. When their hero had tri umphed, together with most of thc reform ticket, they had pitched their tent near that of their idol In the fast nesses of the east side. Schuyler Trent had an unusually keen memory of his first real meeting with Eleanor Cavendish that lazy week in June when they had both been guests under Mrs. Harmon's hospitable roof. At first he had treated her .vith only that amount ol deference welch an unusually pretty and popular de butante might naturally expect to re ceive. Then her excellent golf won his admiration, and finally, at the end of a week, he was ready to join the dance of not a few other moths about her fascinating flame. Within ten days, however, Miss Cav endish had sailed for Europe, and Schuyler Trent was cruising in North xYtlantic waters on a friend's yacht. II. After that evening. Schuyler Trent found it by no means a difficult thing to include Denbeigh Hall as a vital part of his settlement activities. Whereas he had heretofore given it a wide berth, as the headquarters of uneasy though estimable women of un certain ago he nov,- haunted its pre cincts with unflagging industry and zeal. He was constant in his attend ance upon the Thursday night "at homes," thereby winning the head worker's heart beyond recall. More over, he organized countless expedi tions of sociological relief to philan thropically undiscovered portions of -tha-invadrd- territory, upon most of "discovery of ol crevasses, Tor i aux get ting terribly tired of this awful monot ony of clubs and classes. I don't see how I can stand it much longer with out a return to the upper air." "Pray don't leave me ouc of lt," pleaded Trent. "Remember how often we've been partners in crime." "I promise you solemnly," Eleanor reassured him gayly, "that you shall share my disgrace." She gave him an opportunit? no lat er than the next day in the lovm of a characteristic note.. "I have an invitation for the artists' frolic at the Sherwood studios,", wrote Miss Cavendish, "with the privilege of choosing my own escort I told you I should do something desperate pretty soon, so I've promised to go. Will you be my escort? Kindly let me know at once what" you will do. And if you de cide to go as you stand pledged to do, call for me, at Aim tie's, not. later, than 9 o'clock .tomorrow evening. She will be'completely, shocked, of course, but I am- simply crazy for. an evening of careless, happy-go-lucky fun, and . I mean to have l.t . Please participate" in this carnival bf. crline;" ..Schuyler Trent was.too much in love to*need any urging to follow his divin ity. He therefore accepted the invita tion by return messenger. III. "And this Mr. Trent," qui 3tioned Mrs. Meredith with the air of one com pletely dazed, as indeed the good lady was by this latest development in Eleanor's altruistic career. "Who is he? You call him a worker, I believe. But that conveys nothing to my mind. Has he any family! Where is his home?" Eleanor shook her head in a^ manner distractingly vague. "Really. Auntie, I don't know," she finally remarked. "It has never occurred to me, do you know, to ask him. We have had so many more vital topics to discuss that family tree3 would have been rather a dead Issue." Mrs. Meredith looked genuine amaze ment and despair. "My dear child," she exclaimed, "this is a dreadful state of things. Meeting persons who live in tenements is bad enough, but going to bohemian gatherings with nondescript young men Is impossible. To work among the poor with people of no so cial position is sometimes, I know, un avoidable; but to recognize them in any other way seems to me fatal." What reply Eleanor might have made was happily averted by the ringing of a bell. "Here's Mr. Trent, now. Auntie," she exclaimed. "Oh, no, of course you must stay," as that lady prepared to beat an offended retreat "It would never do for me to receive Mr. Trent alone up town you know." And Mrs. Meredith, speechless be^ fore Eleanor's audacity, helplessly awaited the next move of the game. When she saw Schuyler Trent, son of one of her lifelong friends, advancing deferentially to meet her, her anger was converted into terms of unmiti gated amazement and delight. "Schuyler, I'm charmed to see you," she cried with a warmth that surprised that modest youth. "Hut with uo thanks to Eleanor, who has been giv ing :ne the most disagreeable sort of a shock by telling me I was about to receive one of her social pariahs from the east side. I had no idea you ?iad gone into that sort of thing, too." "I assure you no one is more of a social outcast than I am, Mrs. Mere dith," laughted Trent with his most ir resistible air, which never failed, among women at least, of its effect "You are both misguided children," retorted Mrs. Meredith in high good humor, "but I suppose we shall all of us be only too willing to hill the fatted calf as soon as you show the least de sire to be .forgiven." "Don't forget, that, Auntie," laughed Eleanor, as the house door closed on them, "when I throw my prodigal self at your feet And now," turning to Trent with childlike glee, "please tell the man to drive up Broadway. It's so long since I've seen the dear old glar ing lights." IV. She leaned her arms on the ledge left by the closed doors of the hansom, and looked happily out on tho gay whirl of color, light, and sound. "Isn't it intoxicating?" she sighedi her dark eyes brimming over with un conscious delight "Do you Know, Den* beigh Hall makes me feel most of the time as if I were being starved out of my youth. Do you know what I mean; she appealed to Trent "Certainly," he returned, "by virtue of sharing a similar emotion. I'm afraid, Miss Cavendish, that this social conscience of ours is too young not to require its natural fling." "Well, mine will soon be enjoying a prolonged fling," returned Eleanor, "for my three months of residence will have expired in two weeks, and I don't intend to extend the term." "And what shall you do then?" Trent's manner suddenly became very grave. "Wear the purple robe, I hope," laughed Eleanor, "ard the gold ring. Didn't you hear what Auntie said to night? Well, I feel that the time is ripo to enact the part of the Prodigal Son. Why don't you try it yourself?" "I ral her think I shall," said Trent slowly. "Cnly, before I do that, I must ow if I have anything to hope for in coming back up town. You sec, Elean or," as the girl glanced at him in a shy surprise that made his heart W^at per ilously fast, "instead of falling in love with the new democracy I've fallen in love with you, and-oh, Eleanor, I wonder if you won't, give me just one word that will make the coming back worth while." Eleanor's head was turned towarA Broadway, but her hand, of which Iv; had somehow become possessed, still lay quietly enough in his own. Finally she turned and looked at him. Her lips were quivering, but her eyes spoke in effable things. "I've fallen in love with the new de mocracy for just one thing," she de abled him to" say: "And after we're married, darling, we'll live-" "Up town," concluded Eleanor. Mabel Warren* Sanford, in the New York Times. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A Swedish sculptor has solved the problem of casting statues in one piece. Native feelings in India have been hurt by the new rupee because the king appears on it. without his crown. To be bare headed iz repugnant to thf Oriental. % What is stn ted to be a spring giving forth a liquid resembling essence cf violet both in perfume and chemical composition has been discovered in a valley near Millau, Avcyron, France. Japan is getting the bicycle craze. It Imported $2.700,000 worth of wheels last year, mostly of the cheaper grades, costing from $12 to $25. They are chiefly used for business and army purposes! The highest point to which a man has ever climbed is 23,080 feet, to tho summit of the Andean peak Aconca gua The feat was accomplished by two men sent out by the Royal Geo graphical society. In Japan very thin, transparent pa per is used instead of glass in win dows-not that glass is not as plenti ful and cheap as in this country, but that the Japanese desire the paper to filter the air they breathe. A traveler who has recently re turned from a tour abroad, in the course of which he met friends of Mas cagni, the famous Italian composer, says that, the musician's stock of Eng lish words is limited to "goodby," "New York," "Philadelphia" and "San Francisco." Twenty-six German titles are worn by American girls who have married abroad and 20 English peerages. There are three French duchesses and five French countesses of American birth. Seventeen Italian noblemen and six "Russians of title" have laid their coronets at the feet of American brides. Holland has two baronesses, American born; Bavaria one countess, and the sovereign princess of Monaco closes the list. Louis Couldn't Keep lt. York house, Twickenham, so long the home of the exiled Orleans family, is to be sold. A number of anecdotes are related of the kings in exile. Loifis Phillippe once had a witty conversa tion with the landlord of the Crown hostlery. hard by Ycrk house Itr;elf. "And who are you?" asked tho exiled king of thc landlord, whom he met in the grounds. "I keep the Crown!" replied thc other. "Ali," answered Louis Phillippe, "that's moro than J could do."-New York Tribune. Nearly all the royal families of Eu rope employ American deatis.*^. JEWISH LIFE IN EUSSIA. RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS BY AN ENGLISHMAN. A Visit to the Jewrleo of Russia, Ga? Ucla and Roumania-Scenes Of Mis ery, Poverty and Degeneracy-Some Exception* to the Rule. As a member of the royal commis sion on alien Immigration I have thought it most important to investi gate the question of Jewish Immigra tion on the spot, and accordingly I spent the last parliamentary recess In visiting the homes of all our different aliens. I reached Dvlnsk, my first halting place In the Russian pale, on a mourn ful rainy Saturday morning. The town Is said to have 80,000 inhabitants, and some 70,000 are Jews. The persecuting May laws of 1882 drove many of these from the villages and smaller towns into the larger centres of population, hence the high proportion of Hebrews to be found in the place; hence also much of the misery and poverty from which these poor people suffer. The. preponderance of the Jewish race, was at once apparent, the Sabbath sending the whole place to sleep. Not a shop was open, not a stroke of business was being dono. The only sign of life was in front of the synagogue; there a large crowd of decent locking folk were holding their church parade, promenading up and down. On the next day, Sunday, I was able to see the town in its business dress, though the Russian law forbids the opening of shops by the Jews till 1 p. m. on the Christian day of rest After that nour the markets were in full swing, crowded with country folk and soldiers from the cantonments near by. All were eagerly doing busi ness with the Jews. A peculiar feat ure was that the soldiers were mostly . sellers and the Jews buyers. Strips of embroidered Russian cloth, old boots, uniforms and a mass of miscel laneous odds and ends were the arti cles which the czar's "Tommies" had for sale. Every article was the sub ject of a protracted bargain, and each group of soldiers in their white jack ets and caps was surrounded by a crowd with the characteristic stoop of the shoulders and flowing beards. Round the markets were many drink ing and gambling dens and disorderly houses. No doubt tho crowding of the Jewish population Into tho towns has led to a general deterioration both moral and. physical. The struggle for life, is a desperate business for many of them, and scruples diminish in proportion to its severity. The house accommo dation is poor and squalid, but there is always light and air space, and, con sidering the Dvinsk from the purely " -.* - T T>nrconni!v merged tenth is submerged mueeu. The ghetto is a seething mass of hu manity. Many of tho streets and al leys are so narrow that the pavements almost touch. At intervals through out their length are gateways leading into courtyards, around which the dens and . lars in which the people live are ch rod. I spent a ide day visiting them. In the cornt f the court one would find a wood* -ough into which all the refuse of houses was thrown. The stench ;. i these receptacles filled the who;.- lr. The stucco walls wero blistered and rotting as if In fected by the poisonous atmosphere within. Inside, the people were crowd ed pell moll, regardless of health, age or sex. In one room I found a luna tic in the middle of a family of young children. I was followed ss I walked by a crowd of haggard, anxious, care worn people, staring at rae with mournful eyes. Some openly begged alms; others had trifles for sale. Many seemetl to pass their time in the-syn agogues, rocking and chanting them selves into oblivion of their miseries. I carno across several who had been to Whitechapel and had been sent back, I suppose, as fit for nothing. One man with a large family wished to make another trial of England, and asked me, of all people, for money to help him to get there. There are other towns, however, In the Pale, where things are better. Pinsk is one of them. Here Jewish skill, labor and enterprise have been combined to good purpose. It is a pic turesque place. The streets of wooden houses and cottages are lined with trees; there are a quaint old church and a sominary, and the river hanks are full of life and color. The popula tion is 40,000, of whom 37,000 are Jews. This disproportion, as in most of the towns of the Pale, would have resulted In congestion in all employments open to Hebrews had it not boon for the energy and enterprise of certain lead ers of the community, such as Messrs. Lourie and Halpern, who, by starting factories, have succeeded in profitably utilizing the labor of their co-religlon ists. In Pinsk there Is plenty of poverty the poverty which is common to all large towns in every country-but nothing hopeless or abnormal. The 5000 hands In regular employment I leaven the mass, and the homes, though humble and very poor, still in several instances show signs of comfort, and comparative prosperity. From Pinsk I mado a tour into the interior of the country. I was anxious to see the condition of things in the j small towns and villages. The enter ? prying Jews have started lines of steamers which ply on the numerous streams that intersect the country and add to the prosperity of the town. On one of them I took a passage. It was a market day. and the river was crowded with primitive boats and dugout canoes laden with many kinds of produce. The Christian peasantry aro engaged solely in agriculture; all other employment and handicrafts aro conducted by Jews. Their capacity for business, is hrdlu urdlu hrdlu pu prr business and organization is, on the whole, I think, a benefit to the peas antry. It is the Jews who find a mar ket for the produce of tho land, and every village and townlet In the Palo containsian agent or correspondent of tho big exporting firms in Rigo, Liban or Odessa. It is this elaborate organ ization which gives rise to the com plaint so often heard in Russia that the Jews aro the exploiters of the peasantry. It wo??d;;take too much space to de scribe all I saw in Poland, Galicia and Roumania, and I must therefore con fine myself to a few points. There is one I^E^Mmmon to all, namely, the tendency' of the Jews to congregate in the towns; In the fifteen provinces of the Pft^^hey are obliged to do so by law, itt'LPbland and Galicia no such leg al obligation exists, yet it ls in the townsj..We find them. In Warsaw alone some?three hundred thousand Jews have to make a living, and in Lodz, the Manchester of Eastern Europe, there ar? n^iyjerne hundred and fifty thous and. :>;?In the latter town the over crowded and unsanitary conditions un der V[hich the poor people live are ap panfr? One-tall wooden house which I inspe?red was packed solid with hu manity. I found people living in tho apexiof the roof between the tiles and the"t?p; ceiling. I had to crawl into thia noisdo? receptacle on my hands and knees-, and to climb a ladder to reach it. Tbjf police had Interfered, I was told^?wt the place was ocenpied again, as soim^as the backs of the authorities were turner. Such incidents are re produced in the East Side of London. Inj.Galicia the condition of the Jews seemed- to be worse than in Russia or Polanc'. A fatal apathy and bigotry seemed, tb have set! led upon the major ity of the Hebrew race here. They are dhlnetf into factions and engage In incessant quarrels with one another. There are no laws to oppress th? m. but they are extremely unpopular with their Christian rellow subjects and as a class are wanting in those qualities of pnsh, enterprise and desire for edu caU?'ii' for which their co-religlonlsts elsewhere are so conspicuous. A considerable portion of the land in Bukovlna and Galicia is owned by Jews, who are, moreover, said to hold mortgages on many of the remaining estat.ea But there are few manufactur ers, and a great part of the Jewish population seems to have nothing to do.(^The housing conditions were not bad-infinitely superior to what I had seen elsewhere, or to what I can sec any ..day In my own constituency in London. TJie Roumanian Jows stand head and shoulders above their Galiclan breth ren..and, where not interfered with by law,- do well for themselves. I came across many robust workingmen who presented none of the painful ghetto characteristics. Nearly every house in a Roumanian town ls roofed with tin plates, and this industry is exclusively in the hands of the. Jews. The work - * ' - - - MHAII fir. I "Family Banks." The value of a bank's Identity was being discussed the other day in a group of distinguished old-school financiers-men who were expressing gratification that the identity of a prominent old New York bank was not to be lost. "There is character in a hank as woll as in an indivadrual," said one of the men, "and that charac ter persists thwough habit and tradi tion, training of the officers, tellers and corresponding clerks. To Invade this character, overthrow lt.. and to serve under a good old name to invite pub lic confidence for a style of banking foreign to its history, would be a shallow and futile device. Thc public is quick to detect a motive and quick to leave. Why, the very term 'old' has a money value in banking, the management hoing good and consistent with the best traditions; while the catch phrase, 'not what it once was' is a distinct detriment. "You can always guess the banks where weak loans are housed. You can always judrge from a dividend, his tory how a bank fares through the years. What would be the public se curity if the mere brute force of sud denly contribu? ed capital could be used to crowd itself into the management and control of public deposits to be used as some unseen hand behind the scheme would point out? There are some things money cannot do, and one must be won by years of good conduct and uprightness in commercial transac tions, and one might as well seek to deliver the clients of a great old fam ily lawyer to a Tombs shyster buying the library and office furniture, as to deliver the clients of one of our his toric old city banks to an enterprising promoting company. "I know an old bank In this city which carries In Its vaults millions of dollars' worth of securities belonging to old families, people who live in all parts of the world. The bank has no official responsibility for all this treas ure. It is simply a custodian through confidence. Imagine this being at the disposal of the wrong man? Character Is looked to in banking, and will be looked to more as, in the swift modern changes, the old ideal of commercial banking Is being in practice displaced by, well-something else."-New York Post, Pat's Capability. What'll you charge for taking awaj these ashos, Pat?" I asked, pointing to tho winter's accumulation. "Slvin dollars an' a half, Sor," promptly replied the owner of the vil lage garbage cart. "What?" I exclaimed. "Why, I thought you charged only 75 cents a load?" "Thot's right, Sor," agreed Pat. Slv lnty-folve clnts a load ut do be." "Well," I estimated, eyeing tho pile of ashes speculatively, "there isn't any ten loads here. There's not mort than five, or maybe six nt the outside." "Don't be afthcr frettin' yersllf over thot now, Sar," said Pat. cheerfully. "Shure just lave tit to me cntoirely. Sor, an' Oi'll make tin loads out av ut widout anny botheration at alj, at all. Sor."-New York Times. CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY. Not tho men who make our laws Working long in country's cause. Not tho busy financiers Jobbing stocks for bulls and boars. Kot producers who can feed Nattus with tbolr growth in need. Not tho laborer whose toll Wrings fruition from the soil. No, 'Us loving women be Captains all of industry. All dny long tht?y give and give, Helping weaker slater live. Up nt SUD rise mothering moo, Children, helpers, Idle?, then Moving mountnins from their way, Busy, cheerful housewives they. Never do tboee captains stop lill their flags nt half-mast drop. -Cbicngo Itecord-Horald. HUMOROUS. Wlgg-Talkalot uever seems able to keep any friends. Wagg-No, he's al ways giving them away. Driver (first hack)-Boy, how do you get to the cemetery. Boy-Say, mister, 1 ain't no funeral director. "What are 'seats of the mighty,' pa?" 'They are the seats the men who run the automobiles sit on, my child." "Now I realize that riches take unto themselves wings," mused the married man as he noted the plumage on his wife's new hat. "He's so foolish," said the one in white. "Foolish!" returned the one in ?ray. "Yes. Why he wants me to mar ry him." "Oh, then he is foolish." He-I had a hard time getting a ?ood wife. She-Goodness! Have you been married several times? "Oh, no, but I courted my present one six years." Miss* Woodby-Really, you don't think that I would consider for a min ute a proposal from him, do you? Miss Newitt-Oh, no. Of course, you wouldn't take that long. Pallette-You'd be surprised if you knpw the amount of time spent on that canvas. Pellette-Yes; I understand men have stood in front, of it for hours trying to make out what it is. Scribbler-Have you read my new sea story? Scrawler-Yes, indeed. I threw myself right Into it. In fact, before I was half-way through I ac tually became a skipper myself. "I see that Andrew Carnegie thinks Homer didn't amount to much." "That's queer. Surely Homer must have had ono good point in Andy's es timation. He didn't die rich." "That reminds me," said Barnes, at the height of the street fight "Why are the police like electricity?" "Give it up," said- the chorus. "Because," said Barnes, "it is an unseen force." ,,TT"- ofo-no wit ri vour wife?" neighbor s cm "I notice some of the Insura-" e com panies call themselves 'assura. ?? so cieties.' Is there any differenc ''..be tween 'insurance' and 'assurance "' " "Usually assurance is what thc fellow" has who is forever trying to sell you insurance." Tommy-Pop, is patience a virtue? Tommy's Pop-Yes, my son." Tommy -And ls virtue its own reward? Tom my's Pop-So we are told. Tommy And do all things come to those who wait? Tommy's Pop-My son, never attempt to monkey with the prover bial buzz-saw. Arthur-Millie may be a little pecu liar at times, but she means all right Harry-Yes, I guss that's so; but what are you driving at? Arthur-I called at her house t'other night, and tod^y she said lt was not until I had gone that she realized what a pleasant evening she was having. "Yes, I enjoy an orchestra to play while my patrons dine," remarked the proprietor of the lunch room. "But why do you make the musicians play such quick airs?" asked the friend. "Oh, that causes people to eat faster, and make room for others. Their jawe work in harmony with the the music." "My boy," he said, as he led the way to the woodshed, "you've been very naughty today and have annoyed me greatly, but I want to say-" "They all say that," retorted the boy, who thought he knew what was coming. "I want to say," repeated the old man, as he reached for the switch, "that this gives me great pleasure." An Incident of the Meet Tlie field day of the rival women's colleges was in progress and competi tion ran high. The score was close, with the high Jump in progress. Sud denly a wild cheer broke forth from the wearers of the baby blue. Miss Tessie Thistledown had just cleared the bar in the running high jump with a record of four feet and three inches! A moment later the tall blonde cap tain of the rival team tapped the spec tacled referee on the shirt-walsted arm. "I claim a foul," she said "On what ground?" Inquired the offi cial. "On the ground that just before this girl reached the bar somebody in the crowd shouted 'Mouse! and then she jumped and broke the record."' "I did not hear the romark," said the bloomered referee. "If I had I would have jumped myself."-Cleve land Plain Dealer. Barred Out. "Why, there isn't enough roon: In this flat to swing a cat," said the man contemptuously. "That, needn't bother you," promptly replied the janitor. "Wc don't allow rats here."-Philadelphia Press. i -- Where the Trouble Lies. Silfklns-ds there any truth in the report that Blank's wife suffers from kleptomania? Timkins-No. I guess not. I under stand it is the shopkeepers who suf fer-Chicago News. Wagons. FURN! Large Shipments of the best mal received. Our stock of furnitui plete. Large stock COFFINS an always on hand: All calls for oui to. All goods sold on a small mai I will save you money. G. P. COBB, J W. J. Rutherford. W. J. Ruthei MANUFACT BRI AND DEA Cement, Plas Fire Bri Ready Roofing an? Write Us F Corner Reynolds and AUGUSTA, - . _ _ COLIC UNHORSES. Many owners of horses really be lieve that f.heir animals are subject to :olic in the sense that the troublo ls one that can not be entirely eradicat ed. Thi3 is not true, for It has beer, proved time and again that colic is l-l- -1..? *~ tmnrnnor m?lhnrls Cit grain, and the quantity or grain should be just enough to keep the horse In good condition. Oftentimes the gntfn food is not sufficient in quantity, while the hay or other roughage is given In excess. When an attack of colic comes on the following will be found an excellent remedy. Take two ounces each of tincture of opium and sweet spirits of niter and pour in one-half pint of cold water for a dose. Repeat in an hour if relief does not follow. This ls am old fashioned remedy, but a most reliable ono.-Indianapolis News. SELECTING STOCK. It is impossible for a farmer to reach a high position with his herd ir flock until ho has selected the best fe . several years. Even the most -:ki'lM brooders do not succeed in recuring but a few valuable individual mimais from their herds, though ;ach year may witness an advance in their efforts, and a great prepotency or capacity, to transmit thc most de sirable qualities sought by reason of selection of tho best from among certain families. The farmer who simply alms to breed up his animals 'o a higher standard ls as much inter ested in tho selection of sizes, that will render the greatest service as ls the breeder who is often satisfied with one or two wonderful perform ers from among a large number. Worthless sires, even from pure bred stock, are not desirable for the farm er. When he evades up his herd or flock he will dave time, labor and money by procuring the best for the purpose, Just as the breeder of pure breeds seeks the most valuable sire in order to Increase the value of his 3tock. Pain Appr?t 'm. When you say that one -jan ^ears pain better than another man may lt not simply be 7*other way of saying that the latter has simply a greater capacity for feeling pain? I have heard lt declared that pain waa largely a matter of imagination. This, of course, is true in a measure. If the mind can be occupied in some other direction one may forget pain. On the other hand, a man may Im agine pain possibilities that will un norve him and make him sensitive to a triffe. A man ought to bc able to walk a narrow plank between 'he top of the Prick building and the tower of the Court House just as easily as he would walk that same plnnk six inches from the ground. But If he wen: able to picture himself falling through dis air. could tamcinc his brains and blood bespattering the ground when he struck It with his head, he would not be able to do Much elevated wolking And so I have no i-ontompt for tho man who shuddpr? at the thought of pain, who shrinks from the ordeal. He perhaps best, appreciates just what it is.-Gr.'f Alexander, in Pittsburg Dispatch. Buggies rURE. %****>%**> ces of wagons and buggies just re, housefurnishings is com* d CASKETS r Hearse promptly responded -gin of profit. Call to see me, ohnston, S. C. R, B. Monis. rf ord & Co J DEERS OF LIME, UER5 IN ter, Hair, ck, Fire Clay* I Other Material. :or Prices. Washington Streets, = GEORGIA, ARMY AND NAVY FLAGS. Size and Proportion of the Govern* ment Standards. Tho manner of arranging tho stars In the union of the American flag baa never been prescribed by an act of Congress, and in consequence there bas been a striking lack of uniformity WI lu..; UIM i_ . always in vertical rows; th j general effect, however, being about the same as the naval flag. Hereafter there will bo no difference in the arrange ment of the stars between the army ind navy, as an agreement has been arrived at between the War and Navy Departments. While the sizes of the Government flags are not prescribed by statute law, they are fixed by regulations of the army and navy, which have been based upon convenience, utility and beauty, and the exigencies of the ser vice. The storm and recruiting flags measure each eight feet in length by four feet two Inches in width. The post flag measures 20 feet in length by 10 feet in width. The garrison flag, hoisted only on great occasion* and national holidays me?sures </8 feet In length by 20 feet in width. The union ls always one-third of the length of the flag, and extends to the lowor fcdge of the fourth red stripe from the top. The national colors carried by regiments of infantry and artillery and the battalion of engineers are made of silk. They are six feet six Inches long and six feet wide- tho union be* lng 31 Inches in leng?i and extend? lng to the lower edge of the fourtl red stripe from the top. . The London Law Times, in review, ng the "noteworthy decisions" of the udiclal year, calls attention to a mriouB case. The defendant made aids at a sale and, because of deaf ness, mistook one lot for another, a'hlch he was desirous to acquire. On .earning his mlstaVro he refused to sign the contract, and the auctioneer, oefore leaving the rostrum, purport ing to act as his agent, signed lt for him. The plaintiff, as owner of the property in dispute, brought suit to compel the defendant to purchase the lot The court held that from the moment of the hammer falling there was a contract, and dismissed as op posed to principle the defense that l?:e auctioneer could not sign the con tract The official statistics of foreign trade In 1902 show the extent to which . Russia ie interested In the export of igricultural produce to Germany. The imports from Russia during 1902 were ralued at $190,000,000. Agricultural produce formed a very large percent- .*? ?ge of this total. German exports to -^ Russia during 1902 amounted in value to $85,925,000. The principal Items were gold, $9,150,000; ironware, $7. '50,000, and machines, $5,375,000. X "Every man has a weak spot, if yon only know where to find it," runs the old adage. The trouble is that every man has too many weak spots. It is more important for us to try to And ane strong spot in ourselves, and then develop that spot so that lt will spread over our whole moral struo* .ur*