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tumorous Department. The Essence of Economy. Secretary Crowley of the Cattle Raisers' association praised the other day in Galveston, the cowboy-automobile. "The cowboy automobile has come to stay," he said. "A cowboy at the wheel can handle a hundred times as many steers as a cowboy in the saddle." "But the expense?" said an English rancher. "It's cheaper in the long run," said Col. Crowley. "I don't believe in cheeseparing on these western plains of ours Cheeseparing out here, amid this bounteous nature, looks as ridiculous as the tactics of the St. Joseph "There are, you know, two famous misers in St Joseph?two old bachelors, of course. The old miser called on the younger the other night and found him sitting in the dark. He lit up, however, when he found there was a mortgage paper to be examined. Yes, he lit up a small candle. But as soon as the paper was read through he blew out the candle again. " 'Why did you do that?' his guest, a little offender, asked. " 'Now, my dear sir,' said the host. "can't we talk Just as well In the dark? Of course we can; and think how It saves the candle.' "So they talked on. Money, money, money. But the host noticed strange sounds coming from his guest's chair ?strange creaks and rustlings?and at last he said: " 'What are you doing there, anyway?* " 'Why,' said the other, 'It's dark and nobody can see me, so I thought I'd take off my trousers and save wear and tear."*?Washington Herald. Mighty Hard to Please. A New Englander, traveling on foot through the southern mountains, studying the people, asked a man whom he met to direct him to a certain cabin at which he had been advised to stay overnight "Going :har?" said the man. "Well, Tom's a first-rater, take him Just right but he's mighty queer." "What do you mean?" asked the traveler. "Well, it's like this," and the man looked at the stranger in a calm, impersonal way. "He'll be setting outside, most probably, and he'll see you coming; he'll take a good look at you, and ef you don't suit him he may set the dog on you. "Elf he don't, and you get to talking with him and say anything he don't like, he may throw you down and tromp on you. But ef you're careful In your talk, on the other hand, he's liable to take you for a spy and use his gun fust and listen to explanations afterward. "But It's no use trying to get by without stopping," concluded the man, with evident relish of the prospect he was opening up to the stranger. "Ef you was to undertake that, 'twould be all up with you, for he'd think you was proud and blg-getty. "Ef you want to come out of the mountain whole, don't go past Tom's cabin without stopping, whatever you do!"?Youth's Companion. Comic Side of Crime.?It Is a generally accepted fact that one can see humor is most things if one looks deep enough, says the Strand. The following Is, perhaps, rather a queer story, but it is worth quoting if only to emphasize the futility of choosing Juries In the haphazard way still followed in England: A man was tried on evidence irresistible "to anybody but a jury"' for a most terrible murder. He had slain his father and mother on testimony so clear that there could be no shadow of doubt as to his guilt. The Jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty." It was an example of the comic jury yes, screamingly funny comedians ?a troupe of twelve led by a comic foreman. The judge was furious, and asked the comedians what they meant by such an outrageous verdict, "when they knew the culprit was guilty and ought to be hanged." "That's Just it. my lord," said the foreman of this distinguished body. "I assure you we had no doubt about the prisoner's guilt, but we thought there had been deaths enough in the family lately!" An Unsympathetic Audience.?"I dined with Somerset Maugham at the Ritz in London," said a poet. "Maugh a M<11lAn_/)Al. am, WI1U liuw 5MUU3 uui cl uiaawn-uvilar comedy every month or two, began by writing tragedies in German. " 'From tragedies in German to "Mrs. Dot!'" I cried. 'How did you come to It, Somerset?' "He peeled the silver wrapping from a great black cigar. " 'My German tragedies,' he said, 'had few hearers, and these hearers were sympathetic, I, in those days, was like the science professor who found one night that his audience consisted of but a single person. " 'The amphitheatre was very large. The audience, a little man, sat high up and far back on the last bench. My fried," said the professor, genially, "why don't you come nearer? You would hear much better on the rront row." "'"Ah, rats!" said the audience. "I didn't come In to listen to you. I came to get warm. ?Washington Star. Sincere Courtesy.?At a dance given by a certain set in Philadelphia society there was one participant, a man from Wilmington, who met with a mishap on the floor due to his lack of skill in dancing. The Wilmington person observed to one guest: "Sir, you are the only gentleman in the room." "Thanks," was the dry response. "May I inquire what motive has led to this complimentary outburst on your part?" "Why," explained the out-of-towner, '"when I tripped in the dance Just now and fell sprawling to the floor, incidentally ripping off a large section of my charming partner's gown, you were the only one in the place who did not laneh " The guest smiled grimly. "The explanation lies in the fact that the lady is my wife, and that I have paid for the gown."?Harper's Weekly. So Lacking.?A woman who visited the British Museum recently Inquired of an attendant: "Have you no skull of Cromwell? I have been looking all around for a skull of Oliver Cromwell." "No, madam." replied the attendant. "We've never had one." "How very odd!" she exclaimed. "They have a fine one in the museum at Oxford!"?Ladies' Home Journal. RETRIBUTI Attempts to Dec< Are ] i Written for The Yorkville Enquirer. i Text: "Be sure your sin will find yov i out."?Num. xxxll, 23. t This Is the declaration of God. It it therefore certainly true. It Is a starti ling, a dreadful truth. Moses spoke 11 to the two tribes of Reuben and Gad i as a warning; should they fall in theli duty to aid the other ten tribes lr gaining their inheritance In Canaan, It stands recorded In the Book as God's encouragement to all men always to dc the right, with his most soiemn wot uing never to do the wrong. In this short sentence of eight monosyllables, "Be sure your sin will find you out," God declares the evil that Is In sin, and the certainty that that evil will come upon the sinner. There is a strong delusion among men that sin may be practiced with impunity. Men do not believe that every transgression and disobedience shall receive a Just recompense of reward. They believe that sometimes disobedience to God, especially in their own case, goes unpunished. Yea, the delusion goes still farther. They commit sin expecting not only to escape punishment, but actually expecting to be benefited thereby. This delusion is of the devil. The first sin was committed because the woman believed the devil's He, "ye shalt not surely die;" and disobedience to God has been practiced ever since by the sons and ~ ? * *KaI? daughters or lsve, Decause, imc UIVU mother, they too, believe this lie of the devil. But the testimony of the Lord is sure, "Your sin will find you out" 1. Sin never pays. Sin never brings good to the sinner. Sin is never worth what it costs. No matter how enticing or plausible her plea, her promises of good are a lie. She may, she does often give temporary pleasure, never true peace or happiness, but the end is bitter as gall. "Sin when it ii? finished bringeth forth death." Gehazl, the servant of Elisha, by telling a lie, secured from Naaman two changes of garments and three thou " ?? ??.. ha trnt mnrp sana aonars in mivci, uu<. <? ...? than that, he also got Naaman's leprosy on himself and his family forever, and lost his Job besides; for he went out from the presence of Ellsha, not only a liar, but "a leper as white as snow." His lie did not pay. Sin never pays, except In the devil's coin. "The wages of sin Is death." He that renders the service of sin Is sure to receive the wages due. Let the sinner know assuredly that when he traffics In sin, he will certainly receive payment in the currency of hell. If he does not like the wages, he would do well to quit the service. 2. Sin always brings evil to the sinner. He may seem to escape for a while, but the evil will surely come sooner or later?generally sooner and later. God declares it.?"The soul that slnneth it shall die." Ez. xvili, 4. "Woe unto the wicked! It shall he ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him." Isa. ill, 11. "For it is written, cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." Gal. ill, 10. This witness of God is sure. Conscience confirms it. When a man knowingly breaks the law of God, a silent voice within declares his guilt before God, and assures him that God will punish him for his sin. This is conscience, God's voice in man and man's moral sense witnessing together that sin deserves punishment, and will therefore certainly be punished. Conscience means, knowing together. It is the Joint verdict of God and man, that wen doing deserves rewoiu will certainly receive It; and that evil doing deserves punishment and will also certainly receive It So the lashings of a guilty conscience are a part, and no Inconsiderable part, of the penalty that must be paid for sin. The evil of sin begins to operate at once on the sinner. "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Gen. 11, 17. The evil effects of their sin upon the souls and characters of our first parents were instantaneous. At once they lost their fellowship with God and incurred His displeasure. At once they lost their love toward God and felt a fear and dread of Him. This was spiritual death, the penalty threatened. though their bodily death did not occur till many years afterwards. So sin always has the Immediate effect of alienating the soul from uod, of degrading the character, of the loss of self respect, and of strengthening the habits of sin and deadening the moral sensibilities of the soul. These spiritual evils consequent upon sin may not be detected by the sinner, but they are none the less sure because sometimes unrecognized. The evil of sin in this world is not confined to the degradation of character; but much of the suffering, and loss, and failure, and distress that falls !? ?%# ?v>o n In fKlo 1 i fo 4 r. H 4 motlv IV/ IUC IVl U1 man 111 WHO a*v *o U14WV1,; traceable to sin. This statement needs no proof. Let any man look Into his own experience, and he will find the proof. All history wltnesseth the same. The God of Providence so orders the affairs of this world that the evil of sin is cropping out all along the pathway of life, so that men are compelled to see and feel it. This evil does not usually follow immediately upon the commission of sin. Hence men foolishly conclude that it will not follow at all; and so they encourage and confirm themselves in wicked living. "Because sentence against an evil work Is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Eccl. viii, 11. It is no proof that sin is not after a man because It is out of sight. God pledges His justice, His truth. His wisdom, His power, that sin will never lose track of the sinner till he is overtaken. Sometimes the delay is long as in the case of David. Sometimes it may not come in this life at all, but in the world to come; as in the case of the rich fool whose soul was required ol him in the midst of his abundance. While much of the evil of sin is suffered in this life, the full, complete, just punishment of sin is reserved for the world to come. The evils of sin suffered in this life are but the mutterings of the divine wrath which shall be poured out without mixture upon the wicked In the world to come. "The wicked shall be turned into hell." Ps ON IS SURE. eive the Almighty Futile. i ix, 17. "Depart ye cursed Into everlasting' Are." Matt, xxv, 41. "It Is a ) fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Heb. x, 31. t There 'is one door of hope for the 1 sinner; one way of escape from sin. ' He that enters that door, that travels i that way. sin will not And him out. . God Himself has opened that door, and ' invited the sinner to enter, assuring him that sin can not follow him there. Christ is that door. He that takes i refuge in Christ Is safe. There is no i other hiding place from sin. "There is none other name under heaven given 1 among men whereby we must be 1 saved." Acts iv, 12. By repentance, renouncing and forsaking sin, and believing on Christ, i the sinner enters this open door. That man now in Christ has no sin to find him out. Christ has taken it all away, nailed it to his cross, and thereby de1 stroyed It forever. "The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Isa. 1 1111, 6. "God was In Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing 1 their trespasses unto them. II Cor. 1 v. 19. "Blessed Is the man uhto whom the Lord lmputeth not Iniquity." Ps. xxxII, 2. Look at the pit of hell where your * T tVin ornoc Sin IS UKing yuu. uuun ai u<? v.v_ where Christ takes your sin and makes It His. Look at the crown which Jesus offers to pardoned sinners. Hear His loving call, "Come unto me." Heed this tender, loving call of Jesus, and live, and love, and reign with Him forever. Saved! W. B. Arrowood. UNDERGROUND WATER. Wonderful Supply That Does Not Appear on the Surface. One night a professor of mathematics was at work in His little siuay lornting over the lake at the university of Wisconsin, says the Technical World Magazine. He was a theorist, whose main interest in life was the speculation as to what a particular sort of curve will do if it ever encounters another particular sort of particular curve on a dark night somewhere just this side of infinity. And his name, not unknown among other such theorists, was Charles Sumner Slichter. To him, thus studying the manners and customs of irrational curves, came another nrofessor. from the agrricultur a] department of the same university, one' C. I. King. He, too had his hobby, and It was the study of academic particles of soil under the influence of academic particles of water. What King wanted to know from Slichter was the precise mathematical formula for determining how much water would reach the acre of potatoes In the northwest forty, when one inch of rain fell on the 500 acres Just north of your farm, and similar problems. The first thing a bona fide, antiBarrios theorist does when he is given a new problem is to find out what the Oermans have done. Slichter looked up what the Germans had done and he was very much pained to find that they had done very little. He couldn't even tvrrt** with their estimate of the amount of water there wad under the earth, in the first place. He corrected that amount until he brought it around to a neat 565,000,000,000,000 cubic yards? one-third the volume of all the waters in all the oceans on the surface of the earth. But that was merely a spin up a side lane. The real road he was following led to an introduction and possible acquaintance with those millions and millions of cubic yards of water that had been hiding themselves in places like California, and Kansas, and Colorado, so successfully from man. Of course he did not know it himself at that time. He did not guess it at all, any more than he guessed that a " ?? ? " U a *-> A Kim molrinfr tVlA lew years wuuiu jwu ? ? .? plans for a $350,000 pumping station, which would catch and harness 60,000,000 gallons of those waters In one day In one place alone, like Garden City, or that he would be assisting cities with more drinkers than drink, like Brooklyn. to overtake other millions of gallons that were running away underground to the sea. ROYAL FOLKS ON TANTRUMS. Queen Boxes Ears?When Kaiser Didn't Have His Own Way. RoyaJtles seem to be getting un|ni?ocan?iv hanHv with their fists these jJictvoaiinj ? .... days, says Pearson's Weekly. A story is even going around that our beloved Queen Alexandra has been guilty of assault recently, though It must be admitted that her majesty fought in a good cause. Her majesty, driving in a pony cart in a quiet lane near Sandrlngham, came upon a tinker boy ill treating a dog. She was unattended, and having no one to send to the dog's rescue, she left the trap by the roadside and went herself to rescue the howling animal. The boy, seeing an unknown lady bearing down upon him in a threatening manner, left beating the dog. Then the queen, not content with giving him a scathing lecture, brought the interview to an end by giving the dog's per secutor a resounding box on the ear. Some one has appealed to Princess Victoria to say If the tale Is true, but her royal highness has refused to be "drawn." All she will say la: "It is just what my mother would like to do." The recent death of the Chinese sovereign recalls another historic slap. The young emperor went to call on his august aunt. He was attired very ' smartly In garments that might have been cut In Savllle Row, an outrage against Oriental tradition that was more than the old Dowager Empress could stand. In an outburst of fury jViq pnvorort the rpfnrmlner emneror ! with bitter reproaches, and snatching up her fan she enforced her remarks 1 by dealing him a vicious blow on the ! cheek. ' An incident that occurred In connection with the recent Greek army mani oeuvres resulted In the crown prince , losing his temper and two railway of" flclals getting themselves arrested, i The prince had ordered a special train to be prepared at once. This was s done but before the railway officials ! would allow the crown prince to start ( they insisted on the special train being . paid for. The prince flew Into a pas sion, ordered the officials to be arrested and himself commanded the driver to proceed. I Another crown prince, he of Germany, wanted to put up at a certain hotel. The manager explained that his hotel f was full and respectfully declined to ] admit the imperial party. His high- | ness's "carryings on were something , scand'lous!" 1 The question of women's rights al- , ways roused the Ire of the late Queen f Victoria. When she heard that a cer- < tain Lady had been making a pub- y 11c speech in ravor or votes ror women j { the queen wrote this Indignant note In i the third person: \ "Lady ought to get a good whip- ( ping. It is a subject that makes the ] queen so furious that she cannot con- t tain herself." t King Victor Emmanuel Is very g "touchy" on the subject of his shortness t of stature. One day when he was out c motoring the car broke down. The 1 king left the car to watch the mechanic and very soon a crowd gathered. c A woman asked, "Which Is the c King?" On his majesty being pointed j out to her she gasped out In horror: t "What! That tiny little man there!" r The spectators tittered. The king, s his face purple with fury. Jumped Into e the car and sat there scowling until t the car started again. I: The kaiser does not often get In a a temper, but even when he does his g sense of humor often gets the better r - * V or mm. ? A short time ago he summoned Ba- r ron Boettlcher, the secretary of state v for the interior, and gave him the name d of a man to whom he wished a certain t appointment to be given. The baron protested that the man was entirely d unsulted for the post, and In spite of 1 the emperor's growing Irritation he put e forward the convincing proof of the r man's unsuitabillty. He then asked If e there was any one else on whom hla c majesty would like to confer the ap- S polntment. s "Oh, confer It on Satan, If you like." r InfAW KaiuAaI fA Annoool ft ll 1 lie llllllioici 1/vnvu vv W??VVM* w smile. r "Shall I, then," he asked blandly, "is- r sue the patent to be signed by your t majesty in the usual form. 'To my t trusted and well beloved cousin and fc councilor?'" * This was too much for the emperor. He burst into a roar of laughter, his 'i irritation entirely gone. a _ r WASTE*OF GA8. r t Th? Natural Product Treated as e Though Inexhaustible. Natural gas sufficient to light the * streets and homes, heat the buildings f and turn the factory wheels of every e enterprise in Chicago, St. Louis and '' New Orleans is going to waste In the 11 Caddo gas and oil fields near Shreve- 1 port, La., at the rate of 100,000,000 cu- c bic feet a day, says the Technical f World Magalzne. ' Qas is rushing from the bowels of F the earth through two wild wells and 8 more than fifty gas and oil wells left n uncapped. The crater of one wild well 11 covers more than two acres. The attention of ex-President Roose- 11 velt had been attracted to conditions 1 and by his order all public lands lying 8 In Caddo and Bossier parishes have " Hoari oH+hrirnwn from entrv until the ^ government may take what steps are t deemed necessary to stop the terrific 1 waste and preserve what Is conceded to a be the greatest gas field In the Western Hemisphere. In the meantime, the city of Shreve- r port is thronged with oil Investors from J every section of the country, rival ,( claims have been filed on government lands near the oil wells, the price of v real estate has reached heretofore un- 1 heard of figures, men who a few J months ago held nothing but a few mil.nvor nlno lanrifl now ?ta,u 1 count their wealth by the thousands, and armed guards stand watch over c ground which Is claimed under various acts and entries applicable to the securing of public lands. This territory Is underlaid with two strata of gas sand, averaging from 40 ^ to 140 feet In width, the first 800 to 900 , feet beneath the surface and the sec- ^ ond lying between 1,800 and 2,200 feet. The gas sands show their greatest Q width at Mooringsport, which lie in ^ the more southern portion of the field. t SOME SHORE EXPEN8E8. e r Tremendous Cost of "Our Navy on the p Land" Cited. t The American navy on the land em- c ploys from 25 to 50 per cent more men r than the navy on the sea, writes G. K. e Turner In McClure's. Directly and In- n directly It pays nearly twice as mucn e In wages. It costs as much to maintain ? It, before a stroke of work Is done, as g to maintain the whole fleet at sea. t Twice as many admirals, twice as many captains, three times as many t commanders work for It. Many of g these, of course, are required for lm- v portant military posts ashore; but a a great and growing number merely for t the manufacturing plants of the navy e yards. These military officers?trained h at high expense for one of the most e important and delicate of national ser- s vices (a duty requiring In peace the s qualities of a diplomat and an inter- v national lawyer, and In war the high- li est qualities of character and person- c o' *.1*111 \ r\ nrlfh/lrown frnm tho nrflr?- fl tlce of their difficult profession for the F manufacture of chains and boats and spittoons and the signing of reams of the dullest routine papers. Of the $25,000,000 spent to maintain and extend p this system every year, one-half would be more economically spent If It were spilled Into the sea. For every dollar wasted here Invites the wasting of another. Of $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 ,( of manufacturing it does a good third 0 in excess over the value of the prod- ^ uct. And when it is all done, the military navy is left with its one and only great necessity on 3hore?a repair shop for Its fleet?absolutely unfulflll- _ a l< Tlie Pica of Insanity.?We are dangerously near permitting cold-blooded murderers to escape on all occa- ^ slons. The more shocking and brutal the murder, the more easy it is to plead insanity. Once the plea of in- . sanity is entered, expert physicians . can be secured to help it along. ^ All men are more or less crazy at periods in their lives. Pick up the foolish and absurd things that even the most brilliant men do; form a a chain of these incidents; make them ' the groundwork of a hypothetical e question, and an alienist will tell you j, at once that a person who does these things is more or less insane. a We need a statute to define the dlf- p ference between medical insanity and a legal insanity. We also need a statute that provides when a person is acquitted of a charge on the ground of a insanity that that person must there- s after be presumed to be Insane, and S( confined In an asylum for the insane until he can prove his present sanity. n ?Memphis Commercial Appeal. e EARTHQUAKE REGION. Shifting of Lands In the Mississippi Vallsy Years Ago. Although the great earthquake that destroyed the Italian cities of Messina and Reggio on December 28 last Is one of the most disastrous of which accurate historical details exst, the great loss of life was not wholly due to the severity of the shocks. Messina, like Charleston and San Francisco, was unprepared for a violent assault of natural forces, and is a result unsubstantial buildings, *estlng on light foundations, crum)led together like the houses chllIren make of cards. If the edicesof Messina had been built according to he rules that should guide archlects who Intend to guard against iuch calamities It seems almost ceraln that the disastrous consequences if the shock would have been at east partly avoided. A curious and Instructive example if the manner In which a hardy and courageous people may face great >eril and an Imminent death, may le found In the conduct of the ploleers who inhabited the lower Misisslppi valley during the severe arthquake shocks of 1811-13. Alhough the colonizing of the district lad Just begun, the area of country iireuuy uieureu uy aeuicru wtus ou rreat that the United States governnent was compelled to furnish some kundreds of thousands of acres of tew land on higher ground to those vhose dwelling places had been renlered uninhabitable by the sinking of he earth's surface. Save, perhaps, that which, In 1819, llsturbed the delta of the Indus, in kVestern Hindustan, the Mississippi arthquake of 1811 directly produced nore extensive and permanent local ;eographical changes than any other >f which an accurate account exists. So violent and continuous were the haklngs that the alluvial land in the teighborhood of New Madrid was owered ten feet or more below the trevlous level. Into this depressed eglon the stream of the Mississippi toured with such violence that for a lme its lower water, for a considerate part of their course, turned backward toward their source. It seems likely, judging from exBtlng data on the subject, that an irea of not less than 5,000 square nlles was. on the averaee. thoueh Ir egularly, lowered to the depth of en feet below Its original level. The nergy of the shocks was so great hat the low, strongly built cabins of he pioneers were wrecked. Great orest trees, too, were beaten against ach other, and their branches InterDcked, as they swayed to and fro. The [ regular movement of the ground led o the formation of numerous crevles, from which turbid water was requently thrown up to a considerate height. And precisely at this loini 01 me narrauve me mgn courge of these hardy American ploieers should be noted. Guided by an nstlnctlve knowledge of natural laws ,nd determined not to abandon the and in a panic, they felled trees so hat they lay on the ground at right ngles to the general trend of the Issures, and built places of refuge on he broad foundations which they hus secured. It may be noted, too, hat the brave men who thus faced , terrible natural catastrophe?coolV, courageously, unflinchingly ? hortly afterward shouldered their ifles and marched to join General ackson In the defense of New Organs. Thus these brave men lived, their -l-l ?uv iromen ana cnuaren remaining wim hem, until the gradual subsidence of he shocks and the reformation of he land enabled them to select new Ites for their permanent homes, 'hey seem to have accepted the trange and unnatural situation as almly as they faced the British regilars at New Orleans; and In the arthquake region, as on the field of attle, their natural shrewdness supilled the place of exact scientific :nowledge. The huge trees they had elled supported their temporary welllngs until the shocks gradually ubsided, and, although new fissures pened In the ground, those already ormed did not widen. The peculiar local subsidence of he land which occurred during the arthquakes of 1811 In the alluvial AsHnn nf thA Mississlnnl Valley Is irobably to be attributed to the fact hat in the delta regions the frequent hanges in the path of the stream orm numerous lakes in the abandond portions of the river bed. These iatural basins gradually become fllld with accumulations of vegetable natter, and in time are flooded over, o to speak, by the river mud. In his manner all surface indications of he effaced lakes are removed. Then he thick layer of vegetable matter radually decays, the carbon unites /ith the oxygen or becomes a gas nd escapes to the atmosphere hrough the porous coverings of the arth. When this process of decay las gone on for a great period, an arthquake shock causes the mass to ettle together, and, as a result, the urface Is much lowered. The shocks ,'hlch affected the Mississippi valley n 1811-13 are, by their violence and ontlnuity, to be ranked among the rst score of recorded earthquakes.? 'hlladelphia Record. YOUNG AMERICA TOO DAINTY. >rof. Fritz Koch of Switzerland, Writee of Children Here. American children are too clean, do vain and too "puffed up." Amer:an school teachers are too much Inlined to be fashionable. American arents are too anxious to earn mony. This is the view of conditions In the Jnited States pictured by Prof. Fritz Loch of the Lake Geneva New School, iwitzerland. His opinions, gained uring a recent Investigation of Amer. an educational institutions, are statd in an article on "The Conservation f Childhood," in the Elementary ichool Teacher, issued from the Uniersity of Chicago press. Professor Koch believes the chllIren would lose a part of their vanty if the too fashionable school teachrs were banished from the schoolooms. "Not least among the detriments to natural development of children is ashion, a forced culture of vanity and xtravagance," he declares in discussng the tendency to place clothes bove learning. "Not only do the a rents but also the teachers set exmples. To follow slavishly all the xtravagances of fashion appears to be far stronger tendency than the deIre to be refined and simple. It is o utterly common to be fashionable owadays that I should think teachrs. at least, would refuse to Imitate the great mass of humanity, unless the fashion happens to be adaptable to the particular personality of the Tl wearer. "For the benefit of the children I would recommend that all 'self-crip- fo pled' exponents of vanity be banish- th ed from the schoolroom. Dressing fr fashionably, dressing elaborately is nc often so strongly Impressed even up- th on the youngest children that it pre- ex vents them from concerning them- Qi selves about things of much greater er value to them. be "Cleanliness is a virtue not demand- re ed from fhe factory hand while at th work, but children while at play are la constantly reprimanded because of pe their dirty hands, spots on their co clothes, etc. So frequently are they It called away from their real life be- hf cause of this, and so dressed up are eo many of them (because the father a can afford it and the mother likes it) be that natural, intense, wild play is gradually replaced by occupations of fa lesser value, or by systematic games nc like tennis, basketball or baseball. co "Spontaneous action and natural he growth take place when 'children are sh left unincumbered by critical adult he supervision during their free play er hours. They are naturally diggers of bi the dirt, waddlers in puddles, climb- Fi era of trees and fences and balus- It trades. ed "Real boys and girls are rovers in sv field and forest, in alleys and danger- CI ous places. Real boys and girls are vl fascinated by the most gruesome er ghost stories, and they listen to the hi most impossible fairy tales with te breathless attention. They keenly ki enjoy the inner battle between fear ht and courage. le< "Children up to 14 should wear play clothes designed on the simplest b lines and made of tent canvas if need eti be. Children should wear stockings ta and sandals only when the weather jjj gets too cold, but run barefooted oth- k erwise. Rubbers are inventions to e\ please the housewife. To the chil- 'n dren they are the cause of more sick- or ness than their not wearing them ed tumiM Krino- Whv nnt let them PT- a 1 change their sandals for slippers when entering the house? Talks about 8]j rubbers and leggings and this wrap and that and all kinds of temperatures have created a greater wave of fear pf and sickness and worry than all the written and unwritten ghost stories m put together, and, furthermore, such over-anxious adjustments to weather et conditions have prevented the child from freely exercising his real inner jn forces." tv m pi MAKING MONEY IN AFRICA. ?5 It - ?i -i ? r _ _; Ii? Experience or an cnyu?n rwmi/ ... k* Northwest Rhodesia. of "In one of the most remote parts of ^ 'Britain Beyond,' north of the VIcto- qi ria Falls, three days' Journey from sp Bulawayo, but only twenty miles from w' the nearest point on the new Belra = and Mashonaland railway, we have * formed a settlement of six white per- ? sons?my husband, myself, our three ^ children and my brother-in-law, the boss of the gang. "Our little home consists of 24,000 7 acres of land In the Mapanza district of Northwest Rhodesia, with four huts, the most imposing of which Is 41 our married quarters. One is occupied by my brother-in-law, one by the * servants and the fourth as the kitch- ^ en," writes a correspondent of the jt Queen. "Although we are only twenty miles e?i rrom me railway our uisutuoe num ? any other sign of civilization Is far * greater. Choma Is nominally a rail- ejf way station, but is only a geographi- , cal expression. It consists of one cor- *7 rugated hut wherein our postman squats, waiting for the train which stops once a week to deliver and take *7 up our mail. Our situation is abso- ^ lutely desolate; the only sounds that disturb the stillness by day or night, ^ except the cattle and our natives, are ^ the roaring of the Hons and laughing ' of hyenas. But the solitude is compensated for by the glorious climate, * the infinite variety of game, the rapid development of the place and the splendid financial prospects. Every ^ acre arter cultivation increases ten- fold in value. Literally, as well as metaphorically, the men work to pre vent the grass growing under our feet ? ?the local grass runs up to the height of a two-story house after every rainy season, and has to be cut down. "The live stock consists of about ?li 200 cattle, a couple of dogs and some poultry. Our first crop of tobacco, eji the best Turkish, 's an unhoped for success?and we ha/e been equally fortunate with hemp, mealies, castor oil bean, ramie (a Jute which we have . Imported from Japan via India), ba- 'P nanas and flgs. It Is a wonderful soil, on which exquisitely colored flowers flourish as well as English vegetables of all kinds. ^ "Only horses fail to do well here, probably on account of the altitude and intensely rarefied air. We bought ^ two in Rhodesia, but although salted for Rhodeslan use they died here af- <5* ter a few hours' horse sickness. "We have a little army of local tal- ^ ent for the purposes of labor, and very fine fellows they are. Their com- ^ mander in chief, a native with some ^ French blood In him, claims to be the Comte d'Artois; but he is the author of lnnumeiable stories of adventure, ^ most of which appear to have little or no foundation in fact. "We are In the happy position of ^ making money rapidly without any opportunities for spending it except = in the purchase of groceries from Bui- fli awayo, which reach us a week after I we have sent the order. We have no B other requirements that cannot be B satisfied by barter, for which purpose B calico and matches are our currency. The clothes we brought from home B two years ago will last until we have B succeeded so far as to be able to take a trip home. "Occasionally the monotony is relieved by an incident such as happened a few weeks ago. Our postman was some eight hours late In delivering our weekly mall, which consists of a few letters, sometimes a small parcel from London and always a batch of illustrated newspapers. The boy was reprimanded accordingly and with a delightful grin made his apologies. On the homeward Journey from the railway there had been a slight difference of opinion between him and a lion as to which could run the fast er. l lit: uuy a ociioc ui ovu-j/ivsvui. tion, to say nothing of the safety of the mail, suggested the nearest tree as the winning post. " 'It was lucky.' he remarked, 'that I got there first or you would have had no picture papers this week.' He had exhausted the patience of the lion while studying some of the newspaper Illustrations. "A few weeks ago we had a pleasant break In our uneventful life. The Duke of Westminster camped Just on the border of our estate. It seemed so strange having a neighbor with whom, I need hardly say, we exchanged 'calls'?and very informal they were. One day when he came over to see us he brought with him a baby elephant which he had recently captured. It may be months before we have another visitor." Si 80METHING ABOUT BIROS. hs Hawk on Washington's Postoffic# Affords a Thsms. "It may have been a fortunate thins r ornithologists that the hawk of ie postofflce tower has been spared om execution, but it perhaps would >t have been spared had the sex of e pirate been discovered before the :ecutlon was stayed," said James B. reen, to a Washington Post report"The bird in the postofflce has sen termed a 'peregrine falcon.' The al meaning of peregrine is 'not nave,' and, strictly speaking, in the nguage of falconry, the female tregrlne is exclusively called the fal>n. There are falcons and falcons. occurs to me that the hawk that is been destroying the carrier pigins of Washington may not be such valuable species, after all. It would i well to investigate. "Cain was the first man to study the Icon. Having slain his brother and >t knowing what to do with the >rpse, according to the Koran of Ma>met, he carried it about on his toulders until he saw a raven that id also destroyed one of his feathy fellows, scratch up the earth and iry the body, and Cain did likewise, ilconry is a lost art in this country, flourished in Italy and was esteem1 of equal importance with the irord. In the thirteenth century, in ilna, Kublal Khan had in his serce no less fewer than 10,000 falcons, who attended him on his great intlng expeditions. It may be inresting to modern bird fanciers to low that every falcon of this king id a silver band upon one of the gs with the king's name on it. xnese airas were extremely swiri flight, and so powerful that upon ilng unhooded and set upon the lase, they would not hesitate to atck nor fall to subdue such large tarry as wild swan, crane, geese and her great fowls. So intense was ublal's interest in this sport that pen when old and incapable of takg part in the chase on foot or horseick, he caused himself to be carried i a litter and thus reclining, enjoyl great satisfaction from the view one. The people of the avenue who ive been watching the hawk In the >stofflce tower have been enjoying a ffht that kings paid to see." a vaiuaoie Mnsicrai.?a counierirt of the Davy Crockett coon skin ory la this one told on Mr. S. B. inner, the well known cotton mill an of this city: A short time ago the mill at Henrita was much Inconvenienced by uskrats which raided the place. On 1 hands the result of their work was evidence. Finally Mr. Tanner called to small boys who work about the ace Into his office and offered them cents a piece for every muskrat they lied. They were on the Job at once. was not long until they marched oudly In, holding a deceased rodent the family named. They got the tarter. In a short time they came rain with a dead muskrat. Another larter. Words of commendation were token. Encouraged by these, fired Ith the desire to gain wealth the boys :: THCNatiot 1_____ >+ B A ?? ~ i 4? Is a Large and 14? and Is Offerii 4? People of York 4? of Things Tha 4? able and Helpf * WE ARE STRIVING T< 4? AND MQRE AS BANKERS, A FOR THE PEOPLE. WE WA T YORK COUNTY THE BANK] ?g? AND IT IS OUR INTENTION . POSSIBLE EOR A BANK TO V AND THE VOLUME OF BUS ?L ENOUGH TO WARRANT 01 , EQUIPPED WITH ALL MOI T ANY CITY BANK, AND, BED THE NECESSARY FIXED I BUSINESS IS SMALL COMP. V INSTITUTION THE SAME SI ?2? ABLE TO GIVE OUR CUSTO THE AVERAGE BANK TH V FOLLOWING ARE ONLY A I ^ OUR CUSTOMERS: ^ FIRST: THEY ENJOY THE ROWING MONEY AT j ^ SECOND: WE PAY ON AU 4> INGS DEPARTMENT ?L FOUR PER CENT PE] . TERLY. f * THIRD: WE WILL INVEST T IN REAL ESTATE LOA X BRING A GOOD RATE J PARTMENT ESPECIA) 4* POSE. ANY LOAN TH IS ALWAYS PASSED I * MITTEE, THE TITLE AND IS TAKEN FOR ^ OP THE PROPERTY. * ^ FOURTH: WE WILL ASSIST \ ~ IN ALL THEIR BU8I> 4* ALWAYS GLAD TO AD tf FIFTH: WE GIVE THE SA ATTENTION TO 8MAL1 TO LARGE ONES. t THE - NATI0NA1 (ABSOLl ?f? W. J. RODDEY, Presldcn . * ROCK HILL - - - TYPEWRFj SUPPLI STA RIBBONS, CARBO FOLD PAPER, M ERS, PAPER FJ T* I 1 uverytmng in i We are carrying in stock O BONS (for different machines) WRITER PAPERS of various kin the same as desired, in different si: in any quantity. We also handle TYPEWRF desired in NEW OR REBUILT M. L M. GRIS came back, now one, now the other, time after time. Finally they had collected from the management about $3.50?a fortune to them. Then It was that the mill management smelt a mouse. There was no ap- ^ preciable diminution in the original nuisance. An Investigation was made to see what was being done with the defunct animals. You guess the end, perhaps. There had been but one killed. The joke was on the mill and the boys kept the money.?Charlotte Observer. fof Interest to Free Masons and Their Friends The firm of Chaa. M. StlefC and their Southern Manager have donated a magnificent world renownoA OtUff DI?nA <h* Ma sonic Bazaar to be held in the Charlotte Auditorium April 12, IS, 14. 15. If, 1909, Charlotte. N. C. The money derived from this Bazaar will be used In the erection of a Masonic Temple, a building that will be a pride to every Mason In the Carollnas. Don't you want this artistic Piano for your lodge, your home or your friend's home? Visit Charlotte during The Bazaar. Reduced rates oil Do<1?.AOji? APDRESS C. H. WILMOTH Ch. 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WE HAVE A DE[iLY EQUIPPED FOR THIS PURAT WE MIGHT TAKE FOR THEM UPON BY OUR DISCOUNT COM- * EXAMINED BY OUR ATTORNEY, ABOUT ONE-HALF THE VALUE LADIES IN EVERY WAY WE CAN rESS TRANSACTIONS, AND ARE 1 VISE WITH THEM. ME CAREFUL AND COURTEOUS j TRANSACTIONS THAT WE GIVE L - UNION - BANK JTELY SAFE) IRA B. DUNLAP, Cashier. - SOUTH CAROLINA f? "f* "I* *? ? 4* 4* ^ rER I ES AND ^ TinWPDV L A X . "PER, MANI- 4 ANUSCRIPT COVISTENERS. ::::: wmmma Reliable Goods. OLUMBIA TYPEWRITER RIBAND CARBONS, and TYPEds and weights, and can furnish tea, PRINTED OR UNPRINTED rERS, and can furnish anything \CHINES on short notice. ITS SONS. ,