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Jiumoraus ijfpartmcut. Ship's Strsnys Name.?"When member a of the crew of warships of different governments meet while on 'liberty leave' at port there usually follow badinage and banter that would make good reading," said a former bluejacket of IJncle Sam's navy a few days ago. "The funniest thing I ever heard was when I was at Hongkong with a liberty party from the Wisconsin, and we met a similar squad from the English manof-war Goliath. "As usual, we started In to 'kid' them about having odd names for their boats. " 'Our scrappers may 'ave hodd names to you Yankees,' spoke up the boatswain of the squad, a burly cockney, 'but we 'aven't such bully names as O. H. Ten.' "This brought a laugh from King Ed ward"s men, but we could not see the Joke. "O. H. Ten?" questioned one of our men. 'Why, we haven't such a name as that on any of our boats.' " "Cawn't 'elp It,' came back from the cockney, ' I saw It with my own heyes only lawst night as the boat cleared port She had it on her stern, O. H. Ten.' "Then there came a laugh from my party that could almost be heard to the state their ship was namea for. The battleship that had cleared Hongkong the night before had on her stern in brass letters two feet high, OHIO." Playing Safs.?Everybody In Middle Bay knew that Mrs. Captain Liscomb was talking about making a visit to her married daughter in Cincinnati. She had been talking about It for two years, but age and the natural timidity of a woman unusued to travel had postponed the great event from month to month, until the neighbors began to wonder whether it would ever come to pass. So one morning, when Uncle Billy Evans met Captain Liscomb in Eccle's store, there was twinkle in his eye as he asked: "When's Mis' Liscomb going out to Ohio, Daniel V "Don't ask me!" returned the captain, a little peevishly. "I don't know nothin' about it. If I tell her to go, she says I want to get rid of her. If I tell her to stay at home, she says I'm mean! I ain't,saying a single word!" ?Boston Olobe. Nice for the Porter.?An odd story which Oxford has laid to the credit of Doctor Spooner, warden of New College, refers to an occasion when he was seeing Mrs. Spooner off by train. First of all, on arriving at the station he called a porter and said, "Put this rag and the two bugs in the town drain!" What he wanted, of course, was to have two bags and a rug put in the down train, and the porter, knowing the warden, did as he was expected. Then, just as the train was about to Start and Doctor Spooner was saying good-by to his wife, the porter came along for his tip. Doctor Spooner immediately gave his wife a shilling and kissed the porter! That, at least, is the story they tell in Oxford.?London Answers. Not True to Life.?The son of a man who had been a great philanthropist welcomed a visitor to his office. The talk turned on the career of the father of the young man. "It was a great blow to everybody? my father's death," lamented the youth. "By the way, here's the last portrait painted of him." He led the visitor to where hung on the wall a large portrait of the dead philanthropist, depicting him as standing erect with his right hand in his pocket. "A fine Diece of work." said the visi tor grimly, "but It's not true to life. Nobody ever saw your father with his hand In his own pocket."?Popular Magazine. A Wise Artist.?Edward was showing Miss Brown how well he could draw a cow. As he drew, he glanced from time to time at a cow grazing in a nearby yard. "This is her nose," he said, drawing a curved line. "Here's her body," he explained, and after a look at his model, he added another curved line. "Now, here's her tall," and he placed a curved line opposite the socalled nose. As he held the finished drawing up for Inspection, an embarrassed smile spread over his countenance. "Perhaps we'd better call it a pump," he said.?Chicago Chronicle. A Question of Hearing.?The burly farmer strode anxiously into the postoffice. "Hnv(? von ent nnv letter for Mike Howe?" he asked. The new postmaster looked him up and down. "For who?" he snapped. "Mike Howe!" replied the farmer. The postmaster turned aside. "You don't understand!" roared the applicant. "Can't you understand plain English? I asked you If you've got any letter for Mike Howe!" "Well, I haven't." snorted the postmaster. "Neither have I a letter for anybody else's cow! Get out."?Atchison Globe. Knew Their Names.?They were discussing the North American Indian the other day in the primary room of a district school, when the teacher asked if any one could tell what the leaders were called. "Chiefs," announced a bright little girl at the head of the class. "Correct," answered the teacher, "and now can any of you tell me what the women were called?" There was a moment of silence, then a small boy's hand was seen waving aloft, eager to reply. "Well, Johnny?" asked the teacher. "Mla/>hlnfo " ho nrnmntlv nnnnunr ed.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Came too Late.?A middle aped bachelor was in a restaurant at breakfast when he noticed this inscription on the egg: "To whom it may concern: Should this meet the eye of some young man who desires to marry a farmer's daughter, 18 years of age, kindly communicate with , Sparta, N. J." After reading this he made haste to write to the girl offering marriage and in a few days received this note: "Too late. I am married now and have four children."?Newark Star. | i THE SCHOOL AND HOME (Continued from First Page). I did not call Bethel "home." In my lar-away western home at my mother's knee, where I learned those stories of truth and beauty that delight every childish heart, 1 heard, also, many a tale of dear old Bethel. How olien was I told of "Father" Watson, who administered the sacrament of baptism to me at this very place, and of Dr. Tom Campbell, whose kindly heart and skillful hands made his services indispensable when 1 was to be usnerea mio mis wuriu, auu ut uiau/ another whose life has made the name of Bethel illustrious. Nor was 1 allowed to forget that the men of Bethel were of a rice of warrior heroes, that they were among those who sacrificed their lives upon the altar of Freedom at Ring's Mountain, that they were also among those whose blood ran red upon Virginia's hills in defense of homes they loved and for rights they held sabred. Is it any wonder then that as a boy 11 grew up steadfast in the belief that I South Carolina was the grandest state | in the Union, that York county came I first in South Carolina, and that in i York county Bethel stood highest? But I love Bethel not alone for the I glories of her past, but also for the brightness of her future. And one of K?lo.h?ou? nrnnharlMI for her fu ture ia the growth of thla co-operative {spirit?the spirit of the brotherhood of man?as evidenced by this organization. We are proud that the whole south has quickened to the sti> rings of this spirit of brotherhood; and we are prouder still that Bethel is taking her place in the vanguard of this movement for a more satisfying rural life, 'the meaning of this great movement for co-operation throughout the whole south is simply this: Rural life in the immediate past has not been satisfactory, and men are feeling themselves drawn together by that bond of brotherhood so that they may unite their efforts toward so improving conditions of rural life that it will satiety the whole man?his material, his moral and his social needs. The plans for this improvement have been laid broad and along many lines. They have been laid in the full knowledge of the :fact that in union there is strength. The simple fact has been recognized that ten men working together may do a great piece of work that would be absolutely impos sible for one man alone. These plans have also been laid in the I'.ght of the further knowledge that two men working against each other create a condition worse than if no man were working at all. The Yorkville Enquirer recently expressed the matter something like this: "A co-operative organization comprehends the same principles that are necessary for the successful operation of a cross-cut saw." If each man pulls in his turn and then gives away while the other pulls the results will be satisfactory; but if each man tries to pull the saw his way at the same time the results will be unsatisfactor y to everybody. In the same way everyone who goes into a co-operative organization of this kind must expect at times to give up some of his pet theories, and stand aside while the other fellow pulls the saw to his side of the log. Some of the things we hope to accomplish by such an association as this, are in improving the church and giving our people a more satisfying spiritual life, to co-operate with each other in securing gcod roads, in learning more scientific methods of farming, in forming societies for buying and marketing farm products, and in obtaining modern conveniences and labor-saving devices for the home, in order that the material conditions of life may be more satisfying; we wish also to co-operate in maintaining public play ground?, literary societies, and lyceum courses that the social conditions of rural life may be satisfying; and (last but by no means least) we must co-operate with others in'establishing and maintaining good schools. That is the first essential. I was especially pleased on the day this association was formed to note that Dr. Dulin, in his paper, emphasized the necessity l'or school Improvement as one of the very first steps toward an Ideal rural community. He recognized the fact that our institutions of higher learning are receiving from the state a disproportionate amount of support as compared with that given the common public schools. In other words our educational system is top-heavy. It has been developed at the wrong end first. There must be a re-adjustment. Our common schools must receive more liberal support. Dr. Tait Butler, I believe it was, in a recent editorial in the Progressive Parmer, was writing of the many plans now being advocated for making more pleasant the conditions of living in rural communities, and in kU onM Uic LUUI3C UJL U1S UIOL UOOIU11 UC o?i? that before we can get all these things (such as good roads, improved farm machinery, pure-bred stock, modern conveniences for our homes, etc.), we must have money; and, since the soil is the only source of a farmers' money, we cannot win from the soil the greatest amount of money until we farm that soil intelligently and according to scientific principles; and we cannot put into practice those principles until we have learned them; and we cannot learn them until we have better schools with longer terms and especially adapted to the needs of farm life and not modeled after the school of some city system. So we see that in its last analysis we come down to the school as the very base upon which the whole fabric is founded. I am sure that we must all agree that we need a belter grade of school and more of it. Now it remains for us to decide how we shall go about accomplishing this end. Let us look for a moment at some of the ways in which this problem of eu ucu. hub unuureu ntia uccu ttyproached in the past and some of the things that may be done to relieve the present situation. In an earlier day than this the wealthy planter of the south employed a private tutor and had his children taught in his own home. His poorer neighbors, deprived of his cooperation, were unable to maintain schools, therefore their children remained untaught; and social cleavage lines developed between the aristocracy and the common people. This system was not democratic and was therefore undesirable. A later and more common practice?one which still exists?is that of sending children away from home to preparatory schools and colleges, often involving the expenditure of a scanty fund which can ill be spared. This practice of sending children away from home to preparatory schools, aside from the unnecessary expense, is obviously bad, because it deprives a child of home environment and home influences at a time when he needs them most. Another thing that may be done is for the people of a given community who have children to prepare for college to unite their efforts and by private subscription maintain a preparatory school in the home community. Thus at no greater expense than before, they accomplish the same results as to education and at the same time nave ine sausiuciion 01 Keeping uieir children at home and in the family circle. This is a form of co-operation and is better than the former plans, but it is good only so far as it goes. The trouble is it does not go far enough, because it is only the children of parents who are able to subscribe more or less liberally that get the benefit of this privately conducted school, and the community as a whole is no better off than it was before. Again we have an undemocratic condition of affairs. For the sake of a community's citizenship every truly democratic person wishes to see the poorest child in the community have identically the same school advantages that the child of the wealthiest parent has. A writer in the Columbia State recently expressed the same idea something like this: "The spectacle of human brethren doomed by that unsearchable decree of selection to creep "through all their lives in the twilight of undeveloped mind, appeals to every democratic spirit as the most heartstirring experience In all the range of his life." That plan Is best then whereby all the people of a community unite their efforts to support a school, the benefits of which are shared by every child In that community. The plan found satisfactory in all cases where it has been fairly tried, is that of special taxation and the consolidation of two or more weak schools into a strong central school. The co-operation for a consolidated school like all other co-operation, "comprehends the same principles that are necessary for the successful operation of a crosscut saw." Every man must pull when It is his turn to pull and then give way when it comes the other fellow's time to pull. In other words, we must all work together for the same pur pose, namely, the good of the whole community. We must avoid the mistake made by two Irishmen of whom I recently heard a story. They were employed to move a number of heavy timbers which were to be carried a short ~'.stance. The Irishmen selected a piece for their first load and laid hold of It, one at each end. They raised it to their shoulders, and there they were, face to face and couldn't go anywhere. They laid it down and each man turned around. They raised the timber to their shoulders a second time, and then they were back to back and couldn't go anywhere. They then threw the thing down and looked at each other in disgust, as one said to the other, "Ah, begorra, what's the use? How can two men carry one plank?" There was no co-operation in that All they needed was to get their faces turned in the same direction; but they could never do it with each man turning round and round at his own will and without regard to the other man's turning. Let us get our faces turned in the same direction, making sure that they are turned to the right; and then with the same faith and obedience which led the Children of Israel over difficulties that semed Insuperable, let us obey the same command that they obeyed, "Go forward!" "WHEN I WAS A BOY." A Review of Childhood for the Man of Today. There are those who can remember as far back as childhood; and there are those who can't. Some there are who ?In Alice Meynell's beautiful expression of It?keep the Immortal child tarrying all his lifetime in their hearts; others, having put away childish things grimly decline to remember how they felt and thought and acted when they were no higher from the floor than a big dog. A man who has forgotten his childhood tries to talk the Juvenile dialect and fails. He cannot mentally get down on his hands and knees and?in the spirit?make himself small enough to Join the game played, the life led in the childish microcosm. It is Alice In Wonderland's puzzle whether to drink from a bottle or nibble at a cake in order to shrink sufficiently to enter a tiny door. He forgets how the scale pf values and sizes was inverted when his birthdays were few. A cent looked very big to him then. Vacation was only a few hours long; but the school year was an Intolerable lifetime. Food and a place to sleep were solid facts, and clothes were taken for granted, with no particular thankfulness to the source of their provision. Parental might made right, and fathers and mothers often interfered unreasonably and laid down the law with needless harsness?in the opinion of the patient and long-suffering offspring. The child was sent out with a snow shovel or a lawn mower or a pitchfork several sizes too large for him, and that, of course, was cruelty. A baseball bat just as heavy or a canoe paddle Just as long would have been received with joy and applied with delight. Adults were so big and strong they could not realize how little and how weak you were when there was any work to do. They had a strange, tyrannic notion that after the school doors closed a little labor of the house or field would not undermine your constitution and lead straight to a premature obituary. They saw with what muintflnonng srnltv von rushed off to the ballfleld or the mlllpond, and they could not believe that It would Irreparably damage your constitution to saw wood or cut the grass. And then they "rubbed it in" by telling you what a fine thing it was to be young, and that you would never be so happy in all your life again. You thought you were a Roman galley slave, and they could not hear your clanking shackles, but they kept assuring you that you were as free as a bird with a home in the wildest mountains. Yet, despite the cruelty practiced upon children, there are a few compensations in being young. You escape anxious consultation as to how to make one dollar do the work of ten. You sleep with an easy head and an untroubled conscience?for you said you were sorry, at your mother's knee, and that wiped out all old scores. You do not have to make important decisions on which the living wage of hundreds or thousands of others depends. Everything is done for you?there is no distressful foraging. A man-grown cannot confine himself to his own troubles?he has a duty whose circumference may exceed his interests and his sympathies. He is a citizen of the world, and his newspaper may spoil his breakfast with evil tidings. He cannot live hutched and sheltered. If he was coddled too long at home, and not taught to stand and run soon enough, that was his misfortune. He learns now at tho oxnpnse of hard knocks and ruthless blows. We look back regretfully at those days enveloped In a roseate haze of fairy-book irresponsibility; yet oncreeping age brings with it from year bo year its own peculiar benefits and pleasures. Choate, when ambassador to England, told his hearers that he had discovered that the eighth decade of life was the most agreeable of all; and blessed is the lot of him who insists with Oliver Wendell Holmes that the septuagenarian is still one of the boys, if only he wills to be. Remembering the joys of the first decade or two, he has experienced in their fulness the satisfaction of being a man and of doing a man's work in the world. He has. perhaps, found himself in a congenial occupation which taxes every capacity and gives room enough for the exercise of imagination as well as the fulfillment of dutiful routine. He has learned, as Doctor Eliot puts it, to find pleasure In his worn, and tnat iun Is something besides chasing butterflies or romping with the dog. The "durable satisfactions" of which the good doctor speaks he knows by heart and hand. He does not waste time any longer upon sickening misadventures and fool's errands. He Is not so gullible to the smooth talker who would part him from his money. A clergyman of this city describes the importunity of one who came to his door one day and said. "Sir, I am looking for a little financial succor." "You should have come to me when I was one," said the dominie, as he gently but decisively closed the door. But old age has no business to bring with it the "sour severity" to which millUIl UU>n IS ill UlUl tuimr? (IWII. mx has no right to dry up the wellspring of human kindness, in the conviction that it is a moan and miserable day we live in. There is no scenery in nature so beautiful as the sundown of a life that for all the sorrow has not lost faith, and for all the disappointment and the broken promises has not relinquished hope that "the best is yet to be."?Philadelphia Ledger. *3"Wood mines are found in Upper Tonquin, China. The wood was originally a pine forest which the earth swallowed in some cataclysm. Some of the trees are a yard in diameter. They lie in a slanting direction and in sandy soils, which cover them at a depth of about eight yards. As the top branches are well preserved,, it is thought that the geological convulsion which buried them cannot have occurred very long ago. The wood furnished by these timber mines is practically imperishable, and the Chinese gladly buy it for coffins. ptis?Uatt(ouis fading WOMAN'S LIFE IN MEXICO Her Home Life, Courtihipe and Her Religion. Mexico Is not a land where the modem heresy of woman suffrage makes much progress. It has been said that it is a land In which the middle class Is conspicuous by Its absence, and true it Is that there Is a great gulf fixed between the milady of the stone palace In the Paseo de la iteiurma in uie uny ui mexico ana the native woman patiently pounding and patting her corn cakes in the mountain village. "The colonel's lady and Judy o' Grady are sisters under their skins," chants Rudyard Kipling, but even though Diaz Is in exile the aristocratic tradition is not destroyed, under which the ignorant peon looked upon the upper classes as hopelessly distinct from him In ideals and sympathies. The freedom of the American girl amazes her Mexican sister. The father is absolute lord of the family, and he mounts jealous guard upon the members of the household. There is no such thing as divorce In Mexico, but that Is not because there are no grounds on which to base an application. Under one roof there may dwell a confusing complexity of aunts and grandmothers and other relations and it goes without saying that all is not peace under the vine and fig tree. Strangers are not freely admitted to the penetalia of the Mex lean home. A girl of the better class, when she takes her promenade, is always accompanied by an older woman. The woman of the former regime did not often go to drive In a victoria, and her interests were altogether centered around her home and her husband. He might come and go as free as air, as detachable thistle down, but she must dwell in rigorously inforced seclusion. So that it is not surprising that the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet has been enacted times beyond number In the land of Cortex, since her home has been to the aristocratic Mexican girl a good deal of a prison. A Mexican girl cannot go to walk or /Irlvn nolthnr id qHa aIIaivaH tn at tend the theatre, unchaperoned. A young man?even when the duenna Is with her?will often follow a girl for blocks, lavishing complimentary epithets upon her, and as Bella creature," or "OJos bellos,' (beautiful eyes.) Nobody gets angry, for It Is the accepted procedure. But to gain access to his inamorate in her own home is much more difficult than an ascent of one of the snow-clad volcanoes. He must observe the rules of the game. He Is first expected to stand around, like a detective, watching the house, for the chance appearance of his lady-love at a barred casement. Because of his restless promenade, like that of an animal at the zoo, this first stage of courtship is called "playing the bear." Now it is that the lady must make It plain whether the attentions of the lovelorn swain are welcome to her or not If she is disdainful, she pays no attention to his distraught posing. If she is willing to give him a chance, she might drop a clandestine note, or her handkerchief, or even?O rapture!? blow a kiss to the pensive sentry. When she goes to mass, he follows devoutly In her train, though his uevotion may not be strong enough to lead him across the threshold of the cathedral. At last he makes so bold as to smuggle in a letter by a servant or purveyor whose palm has been crossed with silver. In some cases the fair Dulcinea herself is willing to lower a cord from her balcony and haul up the missive affixed by the cavalier below, as a gamin might fish for minnows with a bent pin. Then the parents intervene in favor of the affair or against it If they disapprove, she may be sent to a convent, and at least she is forbidden to have anything more to ao witn Komeo. If they are willing to let the wooing continue, the object of it may talk to the wooer from a barred window. A "bear" who suspects a rival will disguise himself in peasant costume and keep a sharp lookout A challenge to duel is often the result when a girl throws a flower as a coquettish sign of favor to another suitor. The necessary preliminary to a proposal is the talk with the parents, and confronted by this ordeal, one can readily understand that the young Mexican's feelings must be those of a bashful youth who said he didn't mind popping the question, but questioning the pop was the dreadful thing. If the affair has this final parental sanction he may now at least enter the door and continue the courtship in propria persona. But his troubles are not over. All the family who wish to are on hand whenever he calls. He cannot take his "best girl" to an evening entertainment without taking the whole crowd along. In Mexico the "little brother" is in his element. Of course, the husband furnishes the dwelling, but he must also provide the trousseau, though in aristocratic circles the bride's family gives all the clothing except dresses and jewelry, of which Mexican women are extravagantly* fond. Domestic science is not in the vocabulary of the Mexican woman, whose whole existence might be summed up in religion and love?if love be allowed to include the whole range of domestic affections and of a generous and sympathetic hospitality. There are frequently eight men servants and women servants in the household, all of whom address their mistress as "nina"?little girl?and all of whom will cheat her and lie to her without provocation, though they care for her sincerity In their own way. A cook is paid about $1.50 in American money per week, and if there were anything much left over after a meal it would be carried away to dependents?a practice not unknown at the back doors of New Orleans, or, let us say, In Alabama. Servants in Mexico rival the Chinese in living on nearly nothing?give them their corncakes and their black beans, and perhaps the luxury of roffee, and about all else that they require is a corner of a dark hallway In which to repose enwrapped in a serape (blanket). There Is one custom in which the fair Mexican might be envied of her American sister. Who has not heard the latter utter the "bromldlom." after washing her hair. "I can't do a single thing with it," or seen her sitting on the seasands letting It bleach in the sun, In rivalry with the Sutherland sisters? The Mexican girl believing that her hair is her chief glory, makes a shampoo the excuse for a street parade, in the smaller cities. The poorer girl is usually hatless, and dresses simply because she cannot afford the ilamboyant colors and the rich, or even sometimes the tlnselly and tawdry materials she ' would like to wear. Among the wealthier sort the Spanish mantillas and delicate laces are giving ground to the modes of Paris? though every woman in the lxnd eschews quiet colors when she can and delights in rivaling the peacock, the rainbow and the iris. Of course, many of the girls are sent to school in foreign lands? (Whether to France, the Latin-American earthly paradise, or to London, or to the United States. If she stays at home she is not likely to go beyond a rudimentary appreciation of the three R's, a smattering of conversation book French, and a superficial acquaintance with lightweight composition written for the pianoforte. She may know a little about geography; she freqeuntly is an adapt at needlework. If she should see the field games at Vassar or the other American women's colleges with their "sprints" and baseball throwing and jumping, her beautiful dark eyes would open wide in wonderment. The native Indian women, most of them, need to be led "up from slavery," social, moral, political. Early marriages are fortunately the rule, there being no such inhabitation of remarriage as that which makes pitiful the lot of the child-widows of India. The church is exerting its in fluence to correct the deplorable marital promiscuity. The peasant woman cannot hope to maintain her good looks in the unceasing toll that is her lot At 30 she Is old and shriveled, in many cases. She is a sufferer from the drink evil, for the curse of the country Is pulque. This is the cheap and popular decoction of the century plant, and four trainloads of the vile stuff are brought Into the capital every morning. Cleanliness is nowhere nor godliness in Mexico, for whereas at least the form of religion Is prevalent, the custom of bathing is chiefly honored in the nonobservance outside of the tropical regions where water Is plentiful. Mexico needs plumbing and plumpers. No description of the existence of the Mexican woman would be complete that omitted reference to her spiritual life. The church peculiarly depends upon her Influence In Mexico, since the men as a rule are contemptuous of religious observances. The civil wedding Is followed by the church ceremony, and women are scrupulous in the performance of de* " - > vouonai rues. j.ne muuu ui iujdui, exaltation produced Is not likely to proceed afterward to works of practical philanthropy?for the Mexican woman does not like self-assertion in any direction. She can, of course, be an Amazon when aroused to fury, but that is not her nature. Her whole existence is calculated to represent the side of life that is summed up in the Spanish phrase that is ever on her lips?"muy sympatica"? "very sympathetic." She is not ambitious, except for her pride in her son and her desire to keep her husband's undivided affection. Would not Mexico be in even a worse plight than at present, if it were not for the sedative restraining influence of the senoras and senoritas??Philadelphia Ledger. iiiAUAkiie AOCAT niornucov TTwmnn a untn i wiuww > >.. Perfects Process for Waterproofing all Kinds of Fabrics. Mrs. Ernest Hart, the woman scientist, whose discovery of new system waterproofing made washable banknotes possible, is the presiding genius in a factory which was erected in a London suburb to carry through some of the chemical processes she has perfected. She is also largely responsible for the Introduction of cottage Industries into Donegal, where she has established cotton mills, says a London letter to the New Tork Times. In an interview with your correspondent Mrs. Hart objected to being designated as an inventor. "The word 'inventor' is very loosely used," said she. "I auDDOse that the actual inven tors can almost be numbered on one's fingers, and even the greatest of these probably owe something to those who have gone before them or to those who worked side by side with them. There is an innumerable host of small men who glory in the name of Inventor, but who generally are as poor In knowledge as they are in pence, and who as a rule Invent little that Is not already known. "My work essentially Is that of Improving existing processes. Some valuable discoveries have been more or less the result of chance, but I cannot say that I profited in this way. Ever since my early days, when I studied medicine and chemistry in London and Paris, I have been attracted by the practical side of laboratory work, and am fond of taking up forlorn hopes. In this spirit I set myself to the task of overcoming difficulties In the weaving of ramie fibre, and after many experiments I succeeded in weaving every kind of fabric in pure ramie on power looms. "Then I found nobody could waterproof material for me, and I began to study the process of waterproofing. It was during these Investigations and after a long time spent in patient and costly experimental work that I arrived at patentable processes. Anything can be treated by one or the other of these processes, from tissue paper to coarse canvas, and from the flimsiest silk fabric to the heaviest cloth." Argentine State Railwaya.?Argentina is properly regarded as the most progressive country in South America. It is a country of almost limitless resources, and for the last twenty years Its progress and development have been most remarkable. It is, therefore, a matter of some significance that a bill has Just been introduced In the senate authorizing the executive administration to lease the state railways already constructed and to provide for the completion by private enterprise | of those now under construction. It is proposed to Invite tenders for : the lease of the state railways for slx[ ty years, the right being reserved of taking the offers as a basis of negotiation. The companies securing the leases will be required to carry out the construction work considered necessary to complete the railway system of the country. The reason the government is anxious to get the railways off Its hands Is not mentioned, but presumably it is thought that the system under private management would thrive as well as If under the control of the state.?New Orleans ricayune. . Ths First Almanacs.?The almanac, properly so called In Its origin, Is not merely a device for keeping people in mind of the progress of the year, says the Westminster Gazette. It is an attempt to show what destiny has In store for us as indicated by the position of the stars in any particular year, and as according to astrological lore, the destinies of men are ruled by the different aspects of the planets, so also the human body is subject to the influence of the constellations through which the sun appears to pass in his yearly course. A French almanac of 1610 gives a diagram of the human body surrounded by all the signs of the zodiac, and Indicates the various organs and members over which these signs have power, and this for a guide pour les salgnees, or to show at what period blood may be let with safety. But the same almanac also gives directions sensible enough for the avoidance of the plague which would not be found fault with by a modern fashionable doctor: Who would keep his body In health, And resist the infection of the plague, Let him seek joy and sadness fly, Avoid places where Infections abound And cherish joyous company. A few examples exist of almanacs of this character before the invention of printing, although none, it is believed, earlier than the twelfth century. But some of the earliest specimens of printing are black printed Oerman sheet almanacs, which are chiefly concerned about blood-letting. tr It la perhaps possible for a man to ape the nobility without getting as drunk as a lord. Medical College' Of the State of SOUTH CAROLINA CTI1T.1WOI, s. a Medicine and Pharmaoy. Owned aad Controlled by the State Session opens October 1st, l?ll; ends Jons 4 th, 1914. Unsurpassed clinical advantages offered by the new Roper Hospital, one of the largest and best equipped hospitals In the Sooth. Extensive outdoor and Dispensary service under control of Faculty. Ten appointments each year for graduates in medicine for Hospital and Dispensary service. Medical and Pharmaceutical Laboratories recently enlarged and fully equipped. Department of Physiology and Embryology In aAUatloa with the Charleston Museum. Practl r*l vapV fnr madlpst and nharms ceutlcal students a special feat are. Sight fall-time teachers In the laboratory branchea For Catalogue address Onoar W. ohlstsr, BagMnur, Oar. Queen A Franklin Bts* Charleston. 8. C. ' The Endorsed GOVERNMENT STATIST pended In this country for "Llvli expended for "Necessities." This Is good food for reflect!) yet regardless of the ratio of GOOD POLdCTY and system to i your BANK ACCOUNT, thereby convenient reference. The END ( plete transaction. It Is the Mode This may be the opportune ! with us. Loan and Si 8. M. McNFEL, President -S-iT.A /JV wV twt 'iTli/ wV ^TuJ www w | Attractive I Propo ! Six Dollar Valu I en A I PRETTY, SERVIC I Thirtv-one Pi< Ten Sul ? IT IS NOT A DOLL TEA-PART ? BUT FULL SIZE GOODS | IN AMERICA. j I & HAVING TAKEN ADVANTA f Fifty DINNER SETS that retail a biy under that figure, we have de in consideration of the work of se . QUIRER, and in appreciation ol & scarcer and harder to get at this s $ ing the offer especially liberal. q We propose to give ONE of tl * FOR EACH CLUB OF TEN YEAI ? AND PAID FOR AT THE RATE ( a. and October 1st. We^will give a Dinner Set foi * at $1.75*Each and $3.00 Cash, ad ?In connection with this offer, maker, printed Coupons for each p. rate: 3 Months Subscription?60 ? 6 Months Subscription?$1, * 9 Months Subscription?$1, ? 12 Months Subscription?$1.1 For FORTY of these Coupo X DINNER SET, delivered at THE ? Yorkville Express Office. j| L. M. GRIST'S SONS A/T\A A/f\A A_/T\A A/^A /T>A/n (TlJ TWT WTW TWT w 9' VTW TWW # POSIM PROOF Should Convince tha Greatest 8kaptio in Yorkvillo. Because it's the evidence of a Yorkville citizen. Testimony easily investigated. The strongest endorsement of merit. The best proof. Read it: Mrs. W. L. Wallace, California St, YorkvlHe, S. C.. says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have been used in my family, being obtained at the Tork Drug Store and the results have been satisfactory. A member of my family suffered from dizzy and nervous spells and her back and head ached. Her kidneys did not do their work as they should and no doubt caused sdl the suffering. Doan's Kidney Pills gave Immediate relief." For sale by all dealers. Price, BO cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United Statea Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. Royal Pressing Club CLEANING, PRESSING, DYEING ALTERATIONS AND MENDING. We are especially prepared to do DRY CLEANING and give special attention to any kind of Fancy Goods, Silks and Laces. Cleaning and Pressing, 75 Cts. a Suit Sponging and Pressing, 50 Cts. a Suit Dry Cleaning and Pressing, $1.50 a Suit. Ladles' Skirts, cleaned and pressed at proportionate prices. When in need of any work in our line, call Phone No. 141. We will call waii* mAi4r rvSAm ntltr IUI ftuu UCIiTCI /wu? irvin Fiv*.?r*v' Tour patronage solicited. 1 Royal Pressing Club SCHOOL TAX ELECTION NOTICE Is hereby given that an Election will be held at the School House in Beersheba School District. No. 19. on SATURDAY, AUGUST 30TH, on the question of levying a Special TWO MILL Tax for school purposes. J. L. HEMPHILL, A. E. BURNS, H. B. McDANIEL, Trustees Beersheba District No. 19. 65 t 2t Typewriter Ribbons?At Ths En* quirsr Office. All kinds. Check ICS SHOW that of the money exlg Expenses," only 14 Per Cent is on from an economic standpoint? "necessities" and "luxuries" It is lave ALL Expenses pass through keeping an accurate record for a ORSED CHECK shows the comrn Method. time for you to open an account ivings Bank J. P. McMTJRRAY, Cashier - -/TV A/T\-A -A A/f>A ASA Tip wV VTw VTiTV w w twt Dinner Set f | sition ? es Almost Giv- ! iwav 1 i IEABLE, STYLISH I sees For Only ! >scribers | Y SET WE ARE TALKING OF; 9 OF THE BEST QUALITY MADE ? ? GE of an opportunity to purchase Jj t J6.00 each, at a price considers- cided to offer them to our friends & [curing subscriptions to THE EN- % c tne ract tnat money is rainer g. eason than later on, we are mak- i tiese HANDSOME DINNER SETS * tLY SUBSCRIBERS RETURNED & )F $1.75 EACH, between this date * FIVE YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS f dltlonal. we propose to give to each Club- X name paid for at the following Cts.?One Coupon. ,00?Two Coupons. ? ,50?Three Coupons. ?5?Four Coupons. ns we will give ONE 31-PIECE & ENQUIRER OFFICE, or at the X , YORKVUjLE, S. C. | Uh /T\^./Tk AAA fTtA/TY A/T\A A^A A/TlJ. A/TlA wVTP Kt/ ww WTUl ^T?TT VTX7V FOR SALE 70 Acre*?Known as the Bob Lee J place, 2 miles from Yorkvllle on the I'lncaney Koad, adjoining W. Lb Wllliums and others. A nice cottage, good well water and a two horse farm open?Price 92,300. The Moss Place?2 miles of Hickory Grove. Kent, 6,200 lbs. of cotton. Price, 920.00 per Acre. This Is one of the best farms in the county and a great bargain. Has three good houses of nve rooms each. Terms to suit 157 Acres?At New Bethel church Price 912.50 Per Acre. 02 Acres?At C. C. Hughes store? and Gin. One of the nnest email farms In the county. Much of the land produces a bale per acre. Property of W. F. Jackson. Prices leas than 150.00 per acre. 126 Acres?Two miles of Bethany. Property of A. A. Lockrldge . Two Mouses and lots In the town of " Clover, adjoining Ralph Adams and others. Price, $1,155. Will sell separately. 121 Acres?Adjoining Home Orphanage and Joe Dickson in Torkvllle. An ideal farm for sale quick. 100 Acres Surrounding McElwee school houce. Property of Simpson Love. Guess what Residence on Main St. and Lincoln can be bought for 91,(007 i The Lot is worth the money. 110 Acres On King's Mountain road, near Bethany?$4,000.00. A great big bargain. 105J Acres?1-4 mile from incorporate limits of Yorkvllle, on the King's Mountain road, fronting King's Mountain road, Joining B. N. Moore's J farm. Will cut to suit purchaser. 150 Acres?Fronting King's Moontain road. Joining farms of B. N. Moore and Frank Riddle-Jos. W. Neil place, at a bargain. Will cot these farms into small farms to suit purchaser. Must sell at once. 8$ Acres '' Adjoining Geo. McCarter and A. D. Bigger. 40 ucres in cultivation. One 7-room house and one (-room house? $17 Per Acre, 05 Acres Fronting the Charlotte road, i-mlle from town limits. Joining the Ancona mill property, Church Curroll and otheru For quick sale. 8ee me at once. H?e T. P. Moore residence In Yorkville. Five Ilonsea and Lota In Clover, property of F. B. Clinton. Plica, 91,500. Rented for $180 per year. 9.7 Acree?In Clover; fronting on Church and Bethel streets. One 9room dwelling. Price, $1,000. Jolna Robert Jackson and others. ' 114 Acres?S| miles Hickory Orova Beautiful home of J. F. Watson. $99 pes Acre. 901 Acres I miles Hlokory Grove. $90.00 per Acre. 100 Acres?Half mile from town of Yorkvllle; long frontage on King's Mountain road; Joins W. B. Keller. $60 per Acre, will cut Into two tracts. 200 Acres?Tom Allen place at St. Paul Church. Will divide this Into 8 tracts, each tract will have a nice new f-room cottage on It, plenty of wood. Tenant houses. m 80 Aores?The beautiful homo and m farm of Arthur Boheler; 1 mile Srayr- m na station; nloe, painted oottage; new barn; double cribs.- Price, $9,99$. Ill Acres Near Sharon. Known as the Wylle place. Price $18 per acre, 409 Acres?Lowryvtlle. Price, $8,99949 100 Acres?Delphoe. Price $M00. 89 Acres?Delphoe. Prloe $9,900. 99 Acres?Delphoe; Will Clinton. Price 91,000.00. 99 Acres?Filbert Price 8U90J9. iuu Acres?urzan; j. m. v> rnce fi.ntt fir TEN beautiful Building Lota ou the Hope property. Pay $8.0Q per month. Mrt. Drakeford residence, on the corner of Main and Jefferson street* Harry Neil Lot, No. 1, Steele property. 11 Acres?Joining rear of abort lot Sg Acres On King's Mountain road. Joining King's Mountain Chapel. The price?$1,600. Two nice new cottages ou the corner , of Bast Jefferson and Railroad are. Front of Col. L W. Johnson's residence. Price, tllM.M. 144 Acres?Joining J. C. Klrkpatrlck and others; 7 miles from Sharon. Price, 91,000.$$. 191 Acres Known as the Bherer place; 7 miles from Sharon. Prioe, $735.00. 18 Acres?At Sharon. Price, 97$$. One-Half Acre Lot and t-room residence in Sharon; Joining L. BL Good and W. P. Youngblood. J. J. Smith House and Lot?Hi Clo- * ver. Price, $8,400.00. 56| Acres?Half mile of Reerahebs church; good school; 4-room house; good water, plenty of wood. $1,$$$.$$. The Jim Bed house for sale, IUM. 145 Acres?Near George R. Wallace, Joining Avery and Smith lands. * miles irom iuhviuv, j. ?-nvi/ ?room house; l-horse Cum open; 7K acres In timber; I springs, t streams. Big, new bam; I tenant houses; halt mile of Beth-Shlloh church; 10 aerea 'of bottom land. $35.00 par Aara 811-3 Acres?Joining F. EL Smith. Ed Roddey and others; S good dwellings, 40 acres In cultlyatien; good outbuildings. Property of J. M. Campbell. 101 Acres?Joining Harvey Hamel and Mr. Youngblood; good dwelling and outbuildings; half mile of good school Price $38.00 per acre. 50 Acres 10 acres under cultivation, good barn; S miles of Yorkvtlle. 100 Acres?Joining the Klsers* land, near King's Mountain battle ground; known as the Love Est. lands. $10.00 Acre for quick sale. Offers wanted on It Hie Worthy Farm?At Sharon, consisting of 17 Acres, nicely lpcated on a public highway, 1| miles from depot i Very cheap for quick sale. J. C. WILBORN. professional Awards. R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Mt&Ceel $uilding YerkoiUt, S. C. 0. E. Finley J. A. Marion FINLEY * MARION ATT0RNEY8 AT LAW Oppoaito Court Houae Yorkvillo, 8. C. Dr. B. G. BLACK. Surgoon DontiaL Office aecond floor of the New McMo.1 hniMini/ At Plnvftr Tii*iAa.v and Friday of each week. Geo. W. 8. Hart. Joe. E. Hart. HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkville 8. C. No. 1, Law Ranje. 'Phone (Office) It, JOHN RrHART ATTORNEY AT LAW No*. 8 Law Range. YORKVILLE* 8. C. j J. 8. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. A Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. JASPER REAL ESTATE CO. ATTENTION is called to Northern Florida and adjacent country. We are in a position to accomodate anyone wishing farms of 100 acres or more In any section of the country desired. Our lands are fine < and the climate is the finest in the world, neither too hot nor too cold. Come and see us, or write for our descriptive circular. JASPER REAL ESTATE CO. Jasper, Florida. 49 f lit , Carbons for typewriter and pen- * oil us*?at The Enquirer Offiee, |2jOQ been paying $&00 for.