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IW^bCeTtrTke-out. ^Hov?y Struck Twice at One Pitched Ball. Baseball continues to be the m American game for the next I years a duplicate of Eddie I's third strike on llarry Ston 1887 or 1888 will never be ' said a veteran shortstop to a land Press reporter. I^^^P^eatin?a little man?had the Imt astonishing slow ball that was It offered up to a batter. The tter could never tell whether the 11 was coming like an automobile a messenger boy. "The Cleveland team was playing e Athletics in Philadelphia this 1 1 V 11 A 1 4 ? j^MOay, ana we naa tne game d to i in Hpthe eighth inning. ' In the ninth, .two men out, the Athletics ? ; ^jnanagedf to get three runners on * the bases. Then came Harry. I .' h "Storey was a grand batter, a I lightning base runner and a superb ail around player. A single meant a f tie game, a double a victory for the ^ Athletics. "Beatin- had his nerve with him and put a fast one straight across. * Strike!' yelled the umpire. ' "Beatin grinned from ear to ear as he poised for the next delivery, i ^ It was an inshoot, and Stovey let it i ??"Two strikes!' was the verdict. "We all expected Eddie would , waste the next one?give Stovey a i of his reach, to keep him ?but Eddie had a plan of t "With exactly the same notion . with which he had shot the first i strike over the plate, he offered one | of those marvelously slow teasers. R-. The bail seemed to just bang in tbe ttUke a whiff of smoke. *When. Stovey thought the ball qpgh? to be somewhere near him, pwajjfl/nade a terrific swing at it, missf *Eajt it a mile or less, for the ball was ^ftal a long way from the plate ? ^"Then something funny happen-1 ^ ed. Just as the umpire started his W <ay, Three strikes!1 Stovey drew back his bat and swung at the ball. i r This time he hit it to center, and two men came dashing in. "But the umpire said nay, called Stovey out and the game was over, vnth the score'3 to 1 in our favor. y Ait awful uproar followed. ' u 'Why doesn't that hit count? .Why doesn't it ? yelled Stovey in t .^'Because, Harry,' said theUmpire quietly, there is no rulaumow> mg you two strikes the sjfm? ball, fc.' You were out a full second before ! H wir" Down*t ** ^"Why-don't I many ?" said a con-! I |pnned bachelor in reply to a quesI tkner. "I will tell you of the little undent which cured" me of my lean^ inks toward matrimony. ;|$il was working my way through a lAeroWd in a shop, and I steppec upon of a lady's skirt. She turnO ad quickly round, with a f urious look, and was evidently about to adRB dress some fierce remark to me when achange came over her face sudden Va<Oh, I beg your pardon.' she j^H^said. I was going to get veiy anYou see, I thought it was my H smiled faintly as I walked off, >g to myself, 'If wives get angry IUV1C IJIUtAlJ W1U1 uivu they do with other ^pP*3^irhat is the^seqfbeing a hnsB Wotm For Him. A man whose wife had gone away ^MdhrfiYe with her mother was met |H[ a friend, who, in apparent symI fhj, accosted him thus: BH <fMan> Jamie, this is an awful K^toing that has befallen you! It's V a great pity that your wife ha* gone I "'B>eed, man," quoth Jamie, L Wrii dae waur than that yet." "What waur can she do than I that?" anxiously inquired his j "Shell come back again," replied Jamie ruefully.?Pearson's. An Obliging Apothecary. A man went into a drug store and asked for something to cure a headg^-^lache. The druggist held a bottle of I hartshorn to his nose, and he was I nearly overpowered by its pungency. f As soon as he recovered he began to rail the druggist. "But didn't it help your headache?" asked the aDothecarv. "Help my headache ?" gasppd ihe man. "I haven't: any |rf*" iCmlache. It's my wife that has the headache." A Disraeli Story. K- After Disraeli was created Lord I Beaconsfield and had attained ev'ery K distinction he could wish for he was BjU--dining out one day at a fashionable r London home and was asked > y the lady whom he had taken in to dinner, "Is there anything, my lord, that you can now possibly want r which you do. not already possess T* His characteristic reply, after due f consideration, was, "Yes, a potato, please." rf Boy Wat Maligned. i The principal of the school was k talking with him about his boy "By K the way, Mr. Wipedun^" he said, ^1 have made a discover}' about, JerK wj. He's ambidAtrous." "I doo't F see how that can be/' replied Mr. f * jWipedunks, with rising indignation. ' "He hain't never been exposed to it. | Besides, he was vaccinfted last year, t we bathe him reg'lar every week, >arid E -his mother always makes him vfrear a.little bag of assafiddito tied arouhd Hk&fis neck. Some of the -other bpys Msbien lyin' on him."?^dago K a* j CONDENSED STORIES# _ / f What the Letters "P. C." Meant<'n the Texas Cotton Belt. Kepresentative Burleson of Texas raises what would bo termed1 in his state a "mighty'' lot of cott<*usnvs the New York World, lie is^ofien times unable to get labor to pit-it u. During the last eolton pickup*' season iiie negroes got up a big revival meeting, and there was littlt1 work done, and hundreds of pounds of cotton were being lost. ?* the best pickers "got religion" aid went off to preach. One of the liest hands on the place went to .Mr. Burleson one morning and told him of a vision. "I see de big white clouds a-rollin' aroun' an' a-tumblin' an' a-turnin', <bw> "THE LETTERS P. C. STAND FOR PICK COTTON." an' on dem clouds was de letters 'P. C.' in blazin' lire." "Well, what of it?" Mr. Burleson asked, suspecting that his cotton Sicker had "got religion." "What o you think those letters T. C.' stood for?" x "Dey stans for 'Preach Christ/" declared the darky, "an? means Ps got to go out an' preach." \ "Not at all, Mose; not at all," answered Mr. Burleson. "The letters T. C.' stand for 'Pick Cotton,' and you .get your sack and go out or the devil will get you sure." Need Glossary Accompaniment. The* agricultural department issued a publication a few days ago entitled, "Soil Inoculation For Legumes." \ A copy of the document fell into the hands of Champ Clark of Missouri. He turned to the first page and read thi3 wonderful opening sentence : * "The primary object in undertaking an instigation of the Ifixation of nitrogen by the root nodules of legumes was to devise if possible some method of bringing about the artificial fatroduction of the necessary organisms into a soil which was naturally devoid of them, and at the 6ame time to attempt as far as possible to corelate and reconcile the vast amount of conflicting evidence that has been accumulated by various investigators in regard to the exact nature of the organism, where the nitrogen is fixed, the effect upon the host and similar problems." 'Tine!" said Clark. "Fine! And now let's print a glossary to go with ever}' copy of the report."?New York World. A Harp Within Thoir Hands. The wife of a senator from the north was recently conferring with another lady in Washington with respect to the selection of a school to whieh in send her vouncest bov. " *"v" J O 'V/ aged ten years. "What do you think of such-and such a school?" asked the senator's wife, mentioning a certain school maintained by Friends which has the reputation of being exceedingly strict as to the morality of its pupils. "Oh," said the second lady, "I should say you'd feel perfectly safe in placing your son there. Why, J understand that the future of the boys at the Friends' is felt to be so secure that they teach them to play the harp."?Lippincott's. How Ho Retracted. President Roosevelt relates a story of a negro minister who, delivering a forceful sermon on the.sin of theft, became personal and said, "I see before me twelve chicken; thieves, including \\ 1111am sanaers." i Sanders resented this and under threats of violence made the preach- i er promise to retract. This he did on the next Sunday by saying that . he wished to amend his statement of a week before. "What I should have said/' he concluded, "was this: (I see before me eleven chicken thieves, not including William Sanders."?Chicago News. HAIRY ELEPHANTS. The skin of the elephant is practically destitute of the hairy coat which is the distinctive covering of mammals. But the extinct mammoth had an undercoat of reddish brown woolly fur, in which dark, bristly hairs were thickly set. Both wool and hair have bacii found with remains in the frozen s^il of Siberia. Some years since tracesVif this fur were ikagvered in the Indian elephant?*^ from time toitime' individu^Bcfc-ur in which thfc hairs are devt^Kj^ to jsuchas to be " I ?|[j JJMI 1UI I noticeable by casuaT observers. A natural history journal has call ed attention to the fact that then is now a hairy elephant in the Zoo logical gardens at Basle. ?0 thicl is the growth that at the congress 0' zoologists at Berne in August, 1904 the remark was made?of course ir jest?that the animal was really ( mammoth, Bustum, an Indian elc pliant that lived in the Kegent'i Park gardens from 187G to 188? when it was presented to the Berlir gardens, was almost as hairy. Th< calf born in London in 190? had ? hairy coat, as may be seen from it: mounted skin in the Natural ilisto ry museum.?London Telegraph. r\l U/ltL A ...i.iin PmnMrnr The Emperor Francis Joseph ha< a rule of life which greatly perturb: some members of his court. H< dines every day at half past 5, anc he has done this since the beginning of his reign. As that hour does nol suit everybody, it follows that the personages who are honored with invitations to dine with the emperot find it very ditlieult to muster ar appetite for dinner at tea time. The} suffer in silence for the most part but it is said that a certain great lady resolved to act. She was invited to dine with the emperor, but she sat at table and ate nothing. The kindly sovereign felred she was indisposed. Xo, she wa^uuite well. Then why did she send\very dish away? "Sire," she answm>d, "I never eat between meals." The repartee has had a success at Vienna. But the emperoi still dines at half past 5, without the society of that great lady.? London Chronicle. Why the Hermit Kingdom? Oppressed by her neighbors foi centuries and overrun with war, her people decimated, her cities, her temples and her libraries sacked and destroyed; her nobles and maidens driven off to China and her artisans to Japan, the most ambitious and unscrupulous of her subjects constantly stirred to intrigue and conspiracy by foreign powers, it is small wonder that Korea has endeavored to shut herself off from the world and, bv becoming the Hermit Kingdom, has effectually barred the waj to all progress.?Century. The Wall Street Tonic. Henry Clews, who is seventy, tells an interviewer that there is something in the Wall street life \mich keeps a man young in spite of years. 'HIere the pulse of life beats fastest. Wall street throbs with the daily ebb and flow of millions, infusing life into our vast enterprises. There is something in the air that stimulates. It is effervescent; sparkling, like champagne; lifts one up; gives one the lire of youth, energy, vim." The Halifax Dockyard. The great Halifax dockyard, established 150 years ago, is to be abandoned by the British admiralty. Its closing with only a week's notice threw 300 men out of employment. The chief reasons for the closing were the expense, its payroll amounting to $50,000 a year, and the fact that, in the opinion of the admiralty board, its maintenance was no longer necessary in the new scheme of imperial defense. The Oldest Journal. Xinpan, an official paper of China, is the oldest journal in the world, dating back to 911. * It became a weekly in 1361, a daily in 1800 and is now a tridailv. The regular issue is 8,000 copi&. The morning edition is printed on yellow paper and is confined to trade interests. The noon issuf is white and wholly official, while that at night is printed on black paper, and its contents are n scellaneous. Picture Pott Card Censors. Picture post cards are subjected to stern censorship in some continental countries. In Russia those bearing the portrait of Tolstoi have been suppressed. Turkey forbids any pott card bearing* the name of Aliah or Mohammed or the portrait of a Mussulman. France will not permit the designer to ridicule the corpulence of the king of Portugal. Japan's Christian Advancs. The following is from an essay on the Japanese written in the recent grammar school examinations by a lower schoolboy: "Until recently the Japanese used to fight with bows and arrows, but now they are equip?ed with the complete arms of a 'hristian."?St. James' Gazette. A Nursery Hint If a child should Swallow any dangerous substance, immediately slip down iis throat the white of an egg, which will form a curd around it and thus prevent serious effects.' Women With Beards. Two German* doctors have been looking into the question of bearded women, and they have discovered that out of every 1,000 sane females 290 are bearded. Of these 230 have only a slight down, 40 have a very visible beard and 10 are, unmistakabl^adorned with this hirsute appen?|e. Out of 1,000 insane womeiJexamined 481 had slight beards, vAile 56 hod beards well grown. M Why Pastry "(Mmrla." Pastry "crawls" fr&^he edge of the plate because all dOT^|h shrinks in cooking. Pastry used foiltaaking pies should be spread loosely over the plates. This should be noted in connection with both the upper and under crust. By attention to this point much of the loss of juice in fruit pies will be avoided.?Table Talk. i Comical Sayings From tho Mouths of Youngsters. c First Small Boy?My sister got f her picture in the paper for. bein' , cured. i Second Small Boy?Huh! That i ain't nothin'. My goat got his pic ture in colors 011 a brew'ry poster. 3 . ; Grocer (to small customer)? 1 Johnny, would you like to have an j apple? ! Johnny?Xo, sir. I'm afraid to 3 eat 'em. Grocer?Why? Johnny?'Cause my grandfather died of apple-plexy. 3 "Tommy," said the teacher to a 5 small pupil whose hands were not ? as clean as they should have been, 1 "what is that on your hands?" r "Huh!" exclaimed Tommy cont temptuously. "You ain't much of a ; schoolteacher if you don't know dirt . when you see it." t Little Johnny ? Papa says that . honesty is the best policy. Mamma?Well, what of it, dear? Little Johnny?Papa's a politician, isn't he? , Mamma?Yes. Little Johnny?Then how does he know??Chicago Xews. She?And are you really so much better since you returned from your. trip abroad ? lie?Yes, indeed. I'm quite another man, I assure you. She ? Well, I'm sure all your | friends will be delighted to hear it. In For Keeps. Boy?'"here's a man out here that: wants to know if you are in. Lawyer?A rather seedy man, eh? He probably wants to borrow a dollar. You can tell him I'm in and pi\ r . '.o be out?not even to the extent of a quarter.?Boston Tran-! script. A Ruling Passion. Wee Katharine was born with a love for pretty things and a great fondness for dress. One day she as, tonished her mother by anxiously inquiring, i "Mamma, what dress shall I wear at the judgment day?" ?Lippincott's Magazine. In the Water Barrel. The Tadpole?Why on earth are you wriggling and squirming around bo much? You make me nervous. The Pollvwog ? I got the idea | from the physical culture page of the Sunday paper.?Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Conscience Doesn't Tell. Jimmy?Didn't you hear the Sunday school teacher say your con-; science'is what tells you when you | are wrong ? Tommy ? It's a good thing it doesn't tell your mother.?Philadelj phia Ledger. How It Might Be Utilized. "The phonograph is a wonderful thing." "Yes indeed.1 If some people would sing into it and then listen to themselves, they might know better than to sing any more."?Xew York Press. ' Wedded Bliss. "Do you believe in war?" "Well, I have to." "How's that ?" "That's the only way I can keep peace in my h%isehol(l."?Yonkers Herald. i Only Lacks Briains. "He seems to be so much in Ioyc with his wife." "Yes, he's a very eccentrip person. Almost sufficiently so to be a genius."?Chicago Kecord-Herald. All For Appearances. "He's very fond of her, isn't he/" 1 "Well, really I don't think he's as fond of her as he fond of having people remark that he is fond of | her."?Philadelphia Press. Both Wrong. She?A woman judges a man by ' ! his looks, you know. He?And a man judges a woman by her mother's looks.?Brooklyn Life. To Do Up Colored Muslin*. To make colored muslins look i like new boil one quart of wheat j bran in six quarts of water for half j { an hour. Strain through cloth, and i when cool wash the dress in this, using neither soap nor starch. Rinse lightly in clear water, to which-a litj tie ox gall has been added. If colors are to be set, a tablespoopful of the gall is the usual amount. If there is no danger of fading, a teaspoonful is enough. When t nearly dry, iron. This preparation of bran both cloanses and stiifens th,e fabric. I ^ ( Eear Sir: Some think we takes good deal of risk in "inviting com- ' plaints of Devoe lead-and zinc? we : I authorize our agent to sell it under1 ( . this guarantee: "If you have any fault to find j with this paint, either now in putj ting it on, or hereafter in the wear, tell your dealer about it. "\Ve anthori'/e him to do what is J right at our expense.'' The following story tells how lit-1 tie the .*isk is: .1 il Asher & Co, hardware ileal? I ers, Iihinebeck, N V, have sold Devoe fn m '7G till r.ow; have sold thousands of g -1 Ions and have had ; 'justone complaint in all this time. L i 'I'l... .:.i . .. i. .. I fl I i iiitr sun's ui a nouse were per- ; j feet; the fourth was as bail as the ( three were good. ; I Explanation?It rained the night ? before tin- fourth side was painted; g and the painters didn't Wait for the 7 wood to dry. : v What is done in such a case?'; Whatever the dealer, who sold the paint, considers it fair to do. We leave it to hi 111. Jle mav not do ex- j actly what we should do if we were there; but we are not there. The best we can uo is to leave it to him. , Youis trulv F W Deyof. & Co 1'. S. Dr DC Scott sells our paint. A CARD FROM CHAIRMAN CARTER. Organization Urged Hopes to Get | President Smith to Address Cotton Growers' Association. To the Funnels, Merchants and business Men of Williamsburg Co.: j I am pleased to note the fact that wherever there has beei an effort made to organize townships into the Cotton Growers' Association the peo- j i pie have responded willingly. ; Now. let me say to those who were asked to call meetings in the several . precincts and have failed to do so as yet there is still time. Don't fail to organize your precincts. VVill? j amsburg can't afford to lag behind in this very important matter. j: The watch word now is: "Reduce your acreage of cotton; reduce your ^ fertilizers; hold your spot cotton and jr watch results and you will reap iu v, due season if you faint not." : E Now, let everv business man and ~ ; % professional man in Williamsburg county, as well as every farmer producing a bale of cotton, familiarize i himself with the plans and puip ses of ill- .Southern Cotton Association and then give it that support that ' patriotism and common sense and ' self-interest dictate. That is all : [ I ask. I hope to be able in the near: future to get President Smith to address the people of this county iu the interest of the association. Yours very respectfully, J Davis Cartek, County Chairman Cotton Growers' Association. Leo, S. i.., March 2, 1903. TRAGEDY AVEUTEI). * i "Ju-t in tiie nick of time our lit- j tic ooy was saved," writes Mrs NV , Watkins of Pleasant Cit>v Ohio. 'Pneumonia had |>layed sad havoc j with him and a terrible cough set in beside*, doctors treated him, i but lie grew wor-e every day. At length we tried Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption, and our darling was saved. He's now! sound and wed ' Everybody ought to know, it's tiie only sure cure for j Cough ?, Colds and ail Lung Diseases. (iaaraiVleed by Dr \V V Broeki iton, Druggist. Price 50e and il.'Hl. Trial bottles free. Grover Rochester, a young man 22 years old, fell while hoarding a train in Anderson on Tuesday of last week and his foot so badly crushed under the j car wheels that it had to be amputated. I IT ri vVdI> ill > J-! !. 1' A !).l lfart I of Ijiur iiU'f, G.i., suHVivil for six with ;i frightful running s ?iv on his h'jr;1 hut wrius that ll.icUhti's Arnica ^alve wholly c i:v<l it i i tiv.* *lavs. I." - I*" - Vim ul< Pit..,-, it's / 1 " * "" ' ' e the 'test saivo in the world. Cure ' ^ujtr.iiitoo,I. i >iily'2">t,fs Sold by 'Dr A' V Brockintoii. DrugePt. I A Chicago man with an income q of fifteen thousand dollars has set the pace for .spouse pin money allowance. \Vifh reckless prodigality lie pays his wife seven dollars a month. WOK KING OVER M ME. K??rht hour I w- are ignored by tireiP9<( little workers?Dr ^ King's New Life i'ills. Million^ "" niv idwncs at work, nLht and day, ? curing Indigestion, biliousness, Constipation- Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver ami Bowel trou- i hie-, b isy, pl '.tsant. safe and sure. ^ Only -oc, jit Dr \\; V Brckinton'sj Drug Store. j j3d ^ S yr T* * t^'^^JT^WP ^ 1 Vn^fii* T i1 pfiw^Us To oi/r friends, ami mirrfl thorn '.hat wo jI uliio lurjjainsio i i" yP In II I(,JII CLASS W) ilow:? prices. ^ Oar Furniture ff\ Is r. ph to with over jL (leiiimuis nr'. h" no ' 9 ch:?M-i\ < *.' II :<if i lot W) It is a pleasure tos! TURE. Prices are i R Stackley's 1 i KINGSTREE, J6S696S6S6S69* i ! * P OP o 73 O X t? 11 s .-no IS 5 w "n * ? J ? X ? * Z 3 SSi j; f|3S ; J SI' & H P ? (/i * j O i p , : ! i > . i 1 A lynching is reported from [azen,Churchill county, Nevaa. Two men accused of rob- . erv at a railway station, ran | lto the sage brush, where one ras overtaken and handed by a j nob. The other escar-ed. ? ,1 Every J Two Minutes Physicians tell us that all the blood in a healthy i human body passes through - * the heart once in every two t minutes. If this action be- 'c comes irregular the whole \ body suffers. Poor health follows poor blood ; Scott's ? Emulsion makes the blood J pure. One reason why S SCOTT'S I EMULSION is such a great aid is because it passes so quickly into the blood. It is partly di- , gested before it enters the t stomacii; a double ad van- e tage in this. Less uork for the stomach; quicker and more direct benefits. To get the greatest amount of good with the least pos- i sible effort is the desire of t everyone in poor health. 1 Scott's Emulsion docs just j that. A change for the 0 better takes place even be- j fore vcu expect it. We will send you a t sample tree. L; sure that this : r'rrure in th- form of a iabei is on the wrap- , ? >f e%cry bottle of l...;uision you buy. Scott Sc Bowne Cheniisu 409 Pearl St., N Y. jo cents sad {1. 00 All dmggms I Kingstree vv, Rakery. ! \\vvwww-?:? J| !11 t ontectionery and General u Merchandise. !d 4 A FRUITS AND VEGATABES ? H. A. MEYER, I" !o 'INGSTREE. ' S. C. a . ?-- cL )r. J. L. BASS, " Physician and S urgeon, (irigstree, S. C. ? rpffice at CENTRAL HOTEL l /L #__. ^^HHB some K'*"i , )st f) ^niH Department, fl iV^H jjK Cash StoreTW A GOOD SHOT sa!\vit\> articular uhout his AMMUNITION'. V?iu'Crtfwu?fc induce inn to use poor powdor or shot rtr nforior cartridges. Ho knows that GOOD AMMUNITION ihs a lot to do with his success as i marksman either In the flel I or" it the target. The hunting season is now at hand and we have laid in i stock of aminuniMon that will not lisapjMiint you in any way except :he price, and that pleasantly so. Let us fit you out' KINGSTREE HARDWARE CO ? ?Willi "1 .' FOR.. ^ ligli Grade Toij^Sijp. . Seveu cakes to box, worth $1.(10, lei 1 for 40c and AGENTS DOUBLE rHEIR MONEY. A money coiner 4 Don't fail to write for full particuara at once. ?:?r . ?%? u iinttwi coin. 4 538 ?. Lake St. Chicago. >1.-19?6m 2ax! Registration Notice. '1 he office of the Supervisors of Registration will he opened on the first Monday in every month for the purxise of the registering of auy person vho is qualified as lollows: Who h1ih.i1 have been a resident 00 lie Mate for two years, and of the :ouniy one year, and of the polling prennet in which the elector offers to p-ote fout -non Mis before the day of-v m lection, ,.d shall have paid, sis " I nonths before, any poll rax then due I md payable, and who can both read ind write any section of tiie coustitk* m ion of 1895 submitted to him by tk& Jupervisois of Registration. or vho^VJi an show th:it lie owns, and has paid ' ill taxes collectable on during the 1 relent year, projerty in this Mate issessed at three hundred dollars ot uore. J. J. KADDY. . Clerk of Board CABBAGE PLANTS. From the best tested seeds. Now ready for shipment, large, trong, healthy. These plants are' jrown iu the open air and will stand evere freeze without injury. Early Jersey Wakefield, .Large type or Charleston Wakefield, whicb are the J jest known varieties of early cabjages, also Henderson's Succession, lie best large, bite and sure header Vugusta Early Trucker, also a fine ype of late vai iety. Neatly packed ] n light baskets. $1.50 per for fiva . housand or over $1.25 per >t F O.B, Cxpress Office. Special pi ices made 11 laroe lots. Chas. M. GiBsn.Nr. n. 3tuo. Young's Island, S C. ' 1 * IGURES THAT FASCIM A Tr 1 l. re those on a page of a bank book, 'ach entry means a lot. It means certain measure of sncpess and inipendence. '-* HONEY IN THE BANK takes a man of you, with the repoet of your fellow citizens. I account at THE i as BANK OF -^v