| p Hat Xemedies ^ \ By JR. Holt Lomax ^ ATS, it is known, are responsible for maty of the diseases which affect mankind. In Denmark, not so long ago, an act was passed empowering rewards for the destruction of these animals and the creation of an organized fund for 8*~ their extermination. Some idea of the danger of permitting rats to breed unmolested may be gathered from the fact that the fema'e can produce fourteen, sixteen and even -? eighteen at a litter. Many couples have as many as thlr teen utters in three years. But In that time, allowing only un average of eight to the litter, it is possible for a pair to become the promentors of no fewer than 65G.S08 rats of all ages. Of the rat tribe the brown is the most pugnacious and prolific. In England he conquered the black rat that in turn had invaded Britain with William the Conqueror and had ousted the original water-rat. In his Universal Directory on the taking Alive and Destruction of Four-footed and Winged Vermin, Robert Smith, who, in 1768. described himself a rat-catcher to Princess Amelle, says: "I was once exercising my employment In a gentleman's house, and when the night came that I appointed to catch I set all my traps going as usual; and in the lowerpart of the house in the cellars I caught the Norway rats, but In the upper parts of the house I took nothing but black vats. I then mit thum incmiKo- 1 ? - ?? * ' ..? iu U Bleu cage 10 Keep mem anve till me morning, that the gentleman might see them, but the Norway rats killed the black rats immediately and devoured them in my presence." The mongoose is reputed an expert rat-catcher. Says Mr. Jamrach, the well-known naturalist. " kept a mongoose in a cage, and one day put him In my stables to catch rats. He caught forcy-tive the first night; the second night he caught an Indian pheasant and another rare bird valued at thirtylive dollars. He also caught the canaries in my shop window, enough parrots to stock a parrot-house, and a macaw that had hitherto evaded all attempts to catch it. I use traps now." In olden days the rat-catcher relied for success mainly on the sense of smell in rats, which dearly love a sniff of aniseed or oil of rhodium_ He . worked with a wooden trap some three or fcur feet in length. Into this receptacle h.e secnted and tempted the rats, feeding them for a week on savory food. At length one fine night, when the banquet was in progress, snap went the trigger and the feasters were entrapped. The operator then despatched his "take" to the rat-pits and reset the trap. In Paris sewers food is placed on electric wire laid an inch or two too high for the reach of a rat on allCours, which, on rising to get the bait, is instantly electrocuted. Most rats are cannibals. Aboard ship it was customary to keep hungry the trapped rat and then turn them loose to feed on their kind. Another method of extermination was that by pans of milk containing a solution of plaster of Paris that solidified on consumption.?Harper's Weekly. /> i ^ ?i v w \ f What Every Man Owes \ ?? \ Should Prepay to the World the Equivalent \ < ' of His Living ' j Ey Daniel Jlrthur ' ; T is too often said that "the world owes every man a liv <. ing." Rot, buncombe, etc. Any one who makes such a 1+ statement and believes it lays himself open to the charge + of being a cheat and a defaulter. Every man owes the + world the equivalent of his living, and the world's average tftftfftt* price for said living is cheap, too. When a man prepays tlilltTnt lhls dcbt to th,e world he 8ets a tremendous discount?a discount so great that he. is frequently tempted to sit down too early in life, and his sons often do worse than sit down. On the other hand the man who is tardy and unwilling in paying this debt to the world has to pay an awful price for his delay. In other words the man who spends his salary before he earns it has to pay a rate of interest which lends him in the tramp line If carried to its logical conclusion. In '76 percent of the cases this living beyond one's means and selling salaries before they are earned there is absolutely no excuse for, and in 90 percent of the cases the victims do not realize the danger of this greased incline. It would therefore seem to the writer that it would be a good plan to make this subject a separate branch o* study in our public schools and colleges. fcfcVlVlX'MVlVtVCfe'dlVlVlVtVlMVtttfeVifcVlVlVtVcVa 11 The Ex'Sultari"* 9 His Good Side i i; By Sydney Brooks J ? O far from being in himself a cruel man. the testimony of all S observers agrees lu depicting Abdul Hamid as absolutely I the reverse. "There is in Abdul Hamid," wrote a former Serviau minister who knew him intimately, "a peculiar ? ? ???? modesty, timidity and tenderness which are quite wouianly. He always looks earnest, almost sad, as if he were suhdued by the consciousness of his great responsibilities. He " " smiles quietly, almost sadly, very often, but he hardly ever laughs loudly. He is distinctly a mar. of aesthetic taste. He is fond cf flowers, of beautiful women, of Cne horses, of lovely views of sea and land, cf everything that is beautiful, lie is an affectionate father. He can be, and is. a devoted friend to his friends. He is able to contract deep and faithful friendships Ho ic fnncwiaMto -i.?"' ?" ? ..v ... , uiuUI:3\p lutuie, ana patient. His consciousness of his responsibility toward God makes him hesitate to punish any one severely. Certainly he was never carried away by impulBlveness. He even exaggerates in his desire to consider every question from all points. He is slow; often much too slow for the nervous and impatient sons of the West. Terribly earnest as he is and so sensitive to everjthing touching his personal dignity, he has much of quiet humor in him. He quickly perceives the comic feature in things and men, and in a peculiar quiet way enjoys it. His skies are generally and almost permanently < bv clouds of state anxieties and personal melancholy. But from t most unexpectedly these clouds are pierced by the 6unny r mor. Peisonally 1 could never detect in his character ev cruelty."?Harper's Weekly. The * | Psychology of 'Baseball j J Hugh S. Fullerton / V9 ^/"^V *V*^V*v EARL.Y every baseball came Is won and lost on one play, a i ? ? play that comes at the psychological Instant. Among the ! M players who do not study psychology, the crucial moment Is 1 known an "thfi hreaU " a nh?n?m?nm wfclak "? ? I |ln? 11 j| alyxed, and which the players themselves do not under| ^ _ U stand. Twenty men on the bench are watching closely and |! ^ ^ | intently every move of the pitcher, every swing of his arm. loeBHOBaBcaU The tide of battle rises, ebbs?and then suddenly at the start of some inning something happens. What It is no one outside the psychic sphere of influence ever will understand, but the silent, tight-lipped, watchful, alert fellows on the bench see something or feel p, something, and the mysterious "break" has come. Baseball Is almost as much psychological as athletic. Why one team can heat a stronger one regularly, and lose to a weaker one with the same t regularity; why one batter can hit one pitcher and Is helpless before another; i t why ore pitcher is effective against a strong team and at the mercy of an, ether that cannot bat half as hard, are psychological problems.?American SNAPPY AND BRIEF Items Gathered and Told While You Hold Your Breath. SOME EYERY DAY HAPPENINGS Lively and Crisp as They Are Garnerad From the Fields of Action at Home and Abroad. On the theory that nature has made an enemy and a destroyer for every enemy and destroyer of man's interests, it is now believed that hair worm introduced into the mosquito breeding: places will be effectual for their eradication. At Manitowoc, Wis., Fred Dicke, a lawyer, saved seven women by jumping overboard and taking: hold of the launch with his teeth and swimming: to shallow water with it nfl nr nil ii"nlnoii?n .fnculmn v.. VI 1115 5T..gine. The women were severely but not fatally burned. Dr. J. C. Kjtfore, of Trinity College, will public reply, through the Christian Herald, of New York, to Dr. Eliot on the latter's new religion pronuneianiento. Extensive military maneuvers, including an attack on Boston, will be held in Massachusetts from August 14 to 21. Several graduates of Johns Hopkins University have been elected members of the faculty of Trinity College, Durham, N. C. Governor Brown, of Georgia, has signed the bill prohibiting the use of trading stamps. South Can una's 21 dispensary counties will hold an election on the 17th tc* determine whether or not the sale of intoxicating liquors shall continue. By legal enactment all the dispensaries closed on last Monday evening so as to run the campaign on cooler headed deliberation, uninfluenced by intoxicants. Six persons were drowned last Sunday in Massachusetts, all but oue were brothers. Grace and Alphonso Vivinno, children of a wealthy Italian, were lured away from their home in St. Louis, Mo., on Tuesday and search for the kidnapped children has thus far been fruitless. Farrill, Ga., narrowly escaped a race war last week. The Great Northern Railroad has agreed to haul all material for good roads in Louisiana free of charge. The House bill passed the Senate Tuesday, granting the right to dam the Savannah river between Edgefield counts*, S. C., a:id Columbus counts-, Ga. A women shot a lawyer in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, Wednesday, the bullet being deflected bs* A fountain pen. She accuses him of discarding her. Chicago opened the first school in the United States for tuberculos children Wednesday. The drought in Maryland was broken Thursday evening b.v a copious rain. Baltimore streets ran two feet deep in water at places and at Cumberland there was a cloud burst and hail that broke .plate glass windows. Twenty thousand coat tailors struck in New York Tuesday for the restoration of prices before the great panic. Washington News. The battleship Maine was in danger from her boilers and the fleet sailed for Hampton Roads without her. The increased tax on tobacco will not jro into eltect until .July 1, 1SJ10. President Tat't appealed to the insurgent Republican Senators to vote for the tariff report so that the party mi<;ht present united front. The West Virginia Paper Company of Luke, Md., is bidding for the Government contract for 3,000,000 postal cards. Out of 01 men who took the examination for lieutenancies in the Marine Corps last week only 32 passed. The Treasury Dejiartment decided T'rmJay not to call in the Lincoln 3. i-rress after making some s ill flie leather schedule, passa "Payne" Tariff Bill Tliursnd adjourned sine die. The President signed the bill very promptly. I Foreign Affairs. The Czar of Kussin and the King of England met at ('owes, England, on Monday. The meeting was on hoard a ship and together they reviewed the British navy. The Czar ha?l just completed a visit and interview with the President of France. Tlu> Pma - - * II\; x *.ni III IIIC ir^UlltY UI Cowes while his daughter went shoppins >" the town Wednesday. Ten thousand dollars in cash and $10,000 in provisions, tents and supplies are to he sent at once to Acapuleo by the Mexican Government, acting under the direc t order of President Diaz, to relieve the sufferings of the victims of the recent earthquakes in Guerrero. The news from Spain is somewhat more reassuring and showed that progress was made in the restoration of order. The flood in Manchuria has tied np raft n<* for V* dny*.' MMMHi OFFICER SHOOTS ! WO MEN One Died Sunday Morning?Other May Recover?Officer's Story Justifies Shooting?Negro Employes Implicate Officer. Asheville, N. C., Special.?Mr. John i Bunting of Wilmington, a traveling salesman of the Chattanooga Medicine Company, died in the Mission Hospital here Sunday morning, soon after midnight as a result of a shooting scrape at the Gladstone Hotel, Black Mountain, Sat unlay morning at 1:30 o'clock, while Mr. P. C. Collins, a prominent banker of Hillsboro, is also at the hospital in an adjoining ward with a had wound in the right side. The two men received their hurts at the hands of F. C. Watkins, town constable of Black Mountuiu, in a room at the Gladstone Hotel Saturday morning about 1:30 o'clock. The men were brought to Asheville Saturday morning several hours after Ihe shooting occurred and taken to the hospital for treatment. It was found i that Mr. Bunting was suffering from | internal hemorrhage. Mr. Collins, while dangerously hurt, will probably recover. The officer tells the following story: "I went up to the room,'' said the constable, ''where the men were and cmereu. i ne room was ill darkness and as I entered I struck a match to see my way and lighted a lamp. One of the men, 1 don't know which one, asked who I was and I said a police officer?the town constable. One of the men with an oath said in effect, 'Well, we take care of all police here.' At about that time one of them kicked the door shut and then the light was snuffed out. One of the men jumped at me and grabbed me about the neck, the other at the time also closing in and clinching. The men were both of strong build; one of them had something in his hand hut I don't know what it was. When they closed in on me and grabbed me, one reached for my pistol pocket. I I *1 rou* mv - n ic,?ivu, u o^-caunre oniuii & Wesson and in the darkness tired two shots and the men staggered hack; one of them fell. When I went ! in there was a third person in the j room, but whether lie got out before the shooting 1 don't knew. I called for the door to he opened and it was opened. I don't know whether from I the inside or outside. A light was secured and the manager came in. I assisted one of the men to a bed: the other one went out into the hall. A physician was summoned and in company with the physician the men were brought to Asheville for medical treatment." At the inquest over Bunting however. two negro men. employes in the hotel, give a story to the effect that the officer was not justified in the shooting, that the men showed no disposition to resist. The officer gave bond in the sum of $.">,000. He said that when he reached the hotel women were running around in their night clothing, barefooted and frightened. \ a nous guests of t he hotel, men and women, testified as to tlie disturhance created bv Hunting and t'olline in their room nhont midnight. Several of them stated that the two men were shouting and using profane language. and that on complaint to the proprietor of the hotel the latter sent for the village constable to quiet the disturbers. Sunday Merrymakers Drown. Toledo, <)., Special.?Two men and one woman were drowned and seven men were rescued with difficulty when a launch containing a gay party of merrymakers capsized in Maumce bay "?00 feet off of the Casino, a summer theatre, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. All were residents of Toledo. Dill, one of the drowned, was the owner of the boat and took out the party of ten men and one woman over the earnest protests of his wife. Congressman in Fight. Washington, Special.?Representative J. Thomas Heflin. of Alabama. Knnnmn inrnloo/l '% > ? 1 ?V^WM4V Iiiiunvu ill it |RTMIIIill cilcounter with nn automobolist, whose name is said to be Johnson, on the streets of Washington Tuesday afternoon. As no arrests were made the identity of Mr. Heflin's antagonist could not be clearly established. The Sutton Investigation. Annapolis, Md., Special. ? Mrs. James N. Sutton, of Portland, Ore., and her daughter, Mrs. Rosa Sutton Parker, of St. Paul, Minn., with Henry E. Davis, their counsel, arrived here Wednesday night from Washington, determined, they snid, to fight to the hitter end to remove the stigma of suicide from the nnmc of Lieutenant James Sutton, of the marine j corps, Mrs. Sutton's son, when the naval hoard of inquiry res.unes the investigation of young Sutton's death. State Rests Thaw Case. White Plains, N. Y., Special.?The State rested in the Thaw case Wednesday and from now on it devolves upon xiarry k. Thaw and his attorney, Charles Morchauser, to offset the testimony of the State's alienists, who have sworn without exception under cross-examination of District Attorney Jerome that Thaw is still ihsane and would be a menace to the ejpuntry if released from the asylum ft Mflfle.vran. ' ' PALMETTONI Things Doing And Happeni Told In Condensed A Unloaded Gnn Was the Cause. Columbia, Special.?Gov. Ansel 1 Monday granted a pardon to Ursa s,n t Alman, a white boy, who last fall in Spartanburg county was given a sen- *? tence of two years on the charge of ^>0 taking the life of a playmate, Tom !1?' Burgess. ust Gov. Ansel has not been liberal in me the use of the pardoning power, and tin his action in this case was taken de- ^ hberately. He wrote upon the application for pardon, "Under the cir- K cumstances of this ease and the stale- 0P' ment from the solicitor and the judge, bij; the pardon is granted." iv,j The two boys, Ursa Alman and Torn Burgess, were playmates at the Appala ">e mills, near Greer. The boys often hunted together. On tlie day l'u of the tragedy. Alman, who had two pr< single-barrel guns, loaned one to a utM | friend and taking the other himself ul;, | started out huntinu-. A fin*. !.?.. i?-> ....vl UIC) lllltl I |( pone a short distance they met Bur- tilt pess in the road. A1 num. believoinp, ter ; lie says, that the pun was not loaded. tin I pointed it at Burpess and the pun wh I went oil. Tlie Burpess boy was e,j killed. The evidence in the case, says the petitioner, shows that they were (|u close friends. Xo malice was shown su. and the killinp was alleped to be ac- wa cidental. evt There was an apreement between wa the solicitor and the defendant's at- j,e. i torney's that Alman should plead jai, I guilty, receive a sentence of two snj years, and, alter six months' im-|ret nvicnn??A??* 4'? " ' n. iue solicitor would ask prtJ J for the boy's pardon. ket j A contra petittion, presented in (o this case by relatives of Burgess, islated that tlie sentence was regard- ^ ed as very light in the Greer com- .HM munity and that "in a moment of j>0 trying to be big Alman did to death !(S| an innocent little fellow." But Mrs. j(| Burgess, it was stated by those who (j)C presented the original petition, did j not have any feeling toward Alman J" and although Gov. Ansel set July 19 ^ as the date for hearing this case none of those who opposed the granting of the pardon appeared before him. The prosecuting attorney. Judge T. ^ S. Sease. wrote the Governor: "This is a correct statement of an agreement whereby Alman was to ,p|( plead guilty on condition that I would recommend his pardon at the end of six mon and I now urge that he he pardon I according to tie ^ State's agreement." nsj Judge Memminger wrote: i i 'PI- * me airreemcnt neintr certified to|"'v bv the solicitor we think it should be I ro.'. carried out and the boy pardoned. N\.. 1 have no reason to urj;e against w this course." s*u Gov. Ansel had another unusual *'acase for consideration. A commuta- **1! tion of sentence was the result. This ! is the case of David Hutson. convict- .' cd of assault and hatterv with intent 1111 to kill. He was tried at the October ^0I term of court for Kershaw county 1 and sentenced to five years on the Sl>1 chainiratiir. Pei In ar.uitiii'j: a commutation from 1'u five vears to two years Gov. Ansel <'?l says: "in "ruder the peculiar circumstances of this case and the report of the nia jud?e and solicitor, I commute this (,(l sentence to two years. no' Mr. M. (\ West, the county supervisor. slates that the prisoner is >'?< (|uiei and has had an exemplary re- >'?< corl since lie has been on the chainirnntr in Kershaw ma The special judge presiding at the P?i term of court writes that inasmuch as as there was prevalent in Kershaw at uni the time crime such as assault an 1 i'ai hatterv, he wished to impress th? roj (onununitv with the fact that this wil tendency should l>e stopped and he poi imposed heavy sentences. sp< Night Watchman Scalded. Columbia, Special.?W. W. Hill, 1 night watchman for a bridge com- mil pany here, met with a peculiar aeei- hni dent lost week. He was walking *'ri around an engine in the Seaboard S{?t yards and somebody turned on steam but from one of the engine valves. Hill (db was painfully burned about the neck jpc and shoulder. His injury is not Soi serious, but tlie scalds are painful. als Calhoun Falls Swept by Fire. ( Anderson, Special.?Fire Sunday pt>' night came near wiping the town of ja? = - ? 1 .... .o .. i>vi?uiku user or the ter. But his company wishes to do ?rything to guard the purity of the ter and their policy is to go the litli authorities .who are most vigiit, one better in their methods of 'eguarding it. Mr. Fewell received urns from three samples drawn nn Well Xo. d, the well which lias 'ii closed. These samples were sent the State chemists of South Caroa, Maryland and I'enm-.lvania. I of them pronounced the water as fectly pure and wholesome. The wer Company will now. probably, ; the board of health for permission reopen the well. In the meantime 1 company is continuing the sink: of additional eight inch wells rthwest of Wiuthrop College, ere they hope to find an unlimited iply of pure water. Education Day at State Fair. ?olumbia, Special.?The fair socieis now at work on plans for an icational day during fair week, is was decided 011 at the February eting of the executive committee I Tuesday w.v? fixed as the day for 1 s work. Secretary Love has sent t notices to schools and colleges ting that all co-operate in making i day a success. The city, the railids and all public organizations II lend their aid in the work. There II be no charge for any pupil or ulent of a school or college 011 that v and any adult accompanying a ulent or pupil will be admitted 011 a If rate. It is required that the studs or pupils secure their free adssion cards from the proper olTi s of tlie institution the week be e tlie fair opens. Mr. Love lias it the following letter to State Surintendent .T. E. Swearingen: 44At February meeting of the executive limit tee of t he State Agricultural 1 Mechanical society of South Car- i 11a it was unanimously decided .to ike Tuesday of next fair week 4 liege and school day,' as you will te from the inclosed notices. I 110e that in August you will begin nr educational campaign and at ur convenience I would like to con with you relative to handling this Iter in connection with your car.iign and getting out such literature will he necessary for the proper rlerstanding of the matter. All the . 1 roads entering this city and other ids in the State have expressed a llingness to furnish every transrtation facility possible and to have ;cial agents to superintend same." Lanford Oil Mill is Sold. Laurens. Special.?The Lanford oil il property was sold Monday under akrupt proceedings to Mr. J. S. ;iig of Clinton for $8,000. The upprice had been fixed at $12,000, t receiving no bids the attorneys ered it to the highest bidder subt to confirmation by the courts, me machinery and supplies were 0 sold, bringing $885. In Camp at Fort Moultrie Charleston, Special.?Tie lies from Aiken and Lane: bed companies of the ' > ; ard of South Carolina, are ' pr ? encamped on Sullivan's i.-'v. 1 the men will be driller guns and mortars, and a all arms. The situation np is near Katlerv Capror ellently located for the 1 convenience of the men / was really the first day i ..u.p, the companies arrived on Sunday, 1 the first day was taken up in ting settled, and the schedule of lis and exercises were started ght and early. barleston Men Favor Dispensary, 'harleston, Special.?At a meeting a number of husiness men held ^ nday at the rooms of the Charton chamber of commerce, n resoion was unanimously passed urg the voters of Charleston to snp t the dispensary system for the dilation of the liquor trattic on 4 gust 17, in |>reference to prohiion and a committee was appointto use it? efforts t0Tcc.-^o that end. "