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V, - -ms"-: ' ' ' ' ) ... ' i * 7 ? ODOR TAINTED AIR. It Is Not In Itself Poisonous or Even Unhealthful. According to the American Magazine, "bad" air is not so bad. The y>oint is explained as follows by ] V Ut- - Ilirshberg of Johns Hopkins j ' university in an article on "Popular Medical Fallacies:" "Foul air?which has for its acmnoninrr nir Know \rifVi flip VV|/IVU V gases and odors of decay?is not in itself poisonoi^ or even unhealthful. Unless it contains such a large proportion of foreign gases that it is noticeably lacking in oxygen its chief effect is psychic. Some persons, in brief, cannot abide a stench. It sets their nerves on edge and excites their imaginations, and the result is that they grow pallid r ~*nd at times seasick. ~-v "Thus indirectly it may weaken them and make them an easy prey to wandering microbes. But of itself it produces little direct harm. Medical students, breathing the unspeakable gases and odors of the dissecting rooni, manage to eat vast dinners and to grow fat. Tanners, garbage men, workers in fertilizer factories and other persons who are habitually surrounded by hair raising aromas arc ordinarily just as healthy as other folk. ?TW fmil nir ia nana III* lflrlpn with rather more germs and germ bearing insects than air which seems (to the nose) to be pure is beside the point. Experience shows that pure air often contains as many of these enemies to health as the most foul exudations from a sewer outlet. The Stegomyia fasciata, which carries the germs of yeWow fever, would be just as deadly on a mountain top as along the shore of a Louisiana bayou; hence the absurdity ^f shotgun quarantines and of all the other medicinal manifestations of alarm that appear when yellow jack rages on the gulf coast." I French Art Running Riot. Clever dealers in artifice?that is what the majority of painters in Paris have become. For one man whose work is "of the centre" you have scores, hundreds, who are facile and sometimes even accomplish^ ed, but in the grain of their work inj : curably factitious. They have made i no better use of the freedom from formula, won by Manet and the others, than to put more formulae, usually very hollow ones, in the foreground. Little groups are formed, each one devoted to the unfolding of a trick which some new man has made temporarily popular. They ^wax and wane, and you wonder why they ever flourish at all. A sensation is made at the salon not by an honest piece of painting with an original accent, but by some prismatic audacity having 110 relation to nature, by some purely arbitrary scheme of chiaroscuro or, as in one case that I have in mind, by a return to the "brown sauce" of the old masters. ? Royal Cortissoz in Atlantic. An Ideal Citizen. The ideal citizen is the man who ^ri^ieves that all men are brothers anofae nation is merely an extension of hS family, to be loved, respected and cared for accordingly. Such a man atttojds personally to all civic duties wjth which he deems himself charged." Those which are within his own control he would no more trust to his inferiors than he would leave the education of his children to kitchen servants. The public demands upon ?f;| ins time, uiougiit ana muiiey eume upon him suddenly, and often they find him ill prepared, but he nerves himself to the inevitable, knowing that in the village, state and nation any mistake or neglect upon his part must impose a penalty sooner or later upon those whom lie loves. ?John Habberton. Punctilious. A Washington woman prominent in the official set of the national capital tells of a function to which she had invited an attache of one of the legations famous for his extreme politeness. The invitation was formally accepted, but on the morning of the appointed day she received a note, written bv the diplomatist's valet and couched in the following terms: "Scnor Blank regrets much that he will not be able to attend Mrs. So-and-so's reception on the evening of the ?2d inst., as he is dead." ?Harper's Weekly. - , Not In the Ci r. Mr, Jecklyns had just received fron?his younges* >on, who was in his lir>t year at college, a telegram to this elTeet: "Dear Father?1 am about to take up a new stihIv. Please send me to pay i- r tin? outfit." He Answered it ;:i "mo ii: this wise: "Dear John?Wh t I- the study ?*' To the query'cam-' ?i : rejourn.:. . KI)ear Father?It is golf." * - V * ' ? * . WOMAN'S PERFIDY. The Way It Was First Disclosed ti George Brandes. In his young manhood Georg< Brandes lived almost entirely in the life of the intellect. Once he miss ed keeping an engagement with i girl because he was absorbed in lie gel's philosophy at the time whei he ought to have been at the tryst ing place. He tells about it in his "Kecollections:" "With a passionate desire to reach a comprehension ol truth, I grappled with the system began with the encyclopedia, read the three volumes of '.Esthetics, the 'Philosophy of Law,' the 'Philosophy of History,' the 'Phenomenonologv of the Mind.' then the 'Philosophy of Law' again and finally the 'Logic,' the 'Natural Philosophy and the 'Philosophy of the Mind' in a veritable intoxication of comprehension and delight. One day when a young girl toward whom I felt attracted had asked me to go and saj goodbv to her before her departure I forgot the time, her journey and my promise to her over my Hegel. As I walked up and down my room I chanced to pull my watch out of my pocket and realized that I had missed my appointment and that the girl must have started long ago. Once before in earlier days had he missed another engagement with another young lady, one Henrietta. Vny iKn cqL-o rtf TTpnripftfl's beauti ful eyes and under those eyes he had soundly thrashed another little boy. Then Henrietta asked him if he would meet her the same evening under the old bay tree. Dr. Brandes writes: "When we met she had two long straps with her and at once asked me somewhat mockingly and dryly whether I had the courage to let myself be bound. Of course 1 said I had, whereupon very carefully and thoroughly she fastened my arms together with one strap. Could I move my arms? Xo. Then with eager haste she swung the other strap and let it fall on my back again and again. "My first 'smart jacket' was a well thrashed one. She thoroughly enjoyed exerting her strength. Naturally my boyish ideas of honor would not permit me to scream or complain. I merely stared at her with the profoundest astonishment. She gave me no explanation, released my hands, we each went our own way, and I avoided her for the rest of my stay." Then Henrietta went away and told people. "This," says Brandes, "was my first experience of woman's perfidy. This was my first real experience of feminine nature." No Quail For Him. "Quail, villain!" He pointed his trusty shooting iron at the head of the man who had been treating the beautiful maiden to a job lot of general wickedness ever 6ince the curtain went up. "At last I have thee! Quail!" But,'contrary to the direction in act 3, scene 2, the villain stood his ground. "Quail. I tell thee! Whv dost not quail ?" "Can't risk it on 30 bob a week," quoth the villain, with a defiant sneer saved over from the first act, "because, forsooth, quail is legally out of season, and I see a gamekeeper in the audience." Then he kicked over an Alp, waded through the bay of Naples, fell into the thunder and only stopped in "his mad flight to remark to the manager that an actor with a reputation must decline to play on that stage, as there were flies on it.? Pearson's Weekly. Hi* Thr** Thinks. A father instructed his son never to speak until he had thought three times. One day the old gentleman was standing with his back to a fireplace and his coattail dangerously near the bars. The lawabiding son was in the room and suddenly jumped off his chair. "Father," he said, with wonderful deliberation, "I think"? "Well, what do you think?" was the reply. "Father," repeated the youth, "I "Well, well, my son, what do you think ?" said the father. "Father," again the boy remarked, "I think"? "Well, well, what do you think?" said the father impatiently. "I think your coattail is on fire!" Her Compliment. "Well, goodbv, Mr. Green. It was so nice of you to come. It does father such a lot of good to have some one to talk to." "I was delighted to come, Miss Brown, but I'm not much of a conversationalist." "My dear Mr. Green, don't let that trouble you. Father's ideal listen o- is an absolute idiot, with no conversation whatever, and I know he has enjoyed himself tremendously tonight." * V V I ODD CASE OF COMBUSTION Rosebushes Shipped In Wet Moss Al* most Burned Up. A peculiar case of spontaneous ' combustion or something like it is ' described by a writer in CassieFa Magazine. 1 On Feb. 1?, 1906, two large refrigerator cars of young rosebushes 1 were received at Ho.,:r*-u J j a nursery in California. They were j ' shipped in wooden cases containing t numerous auger hole3 for ventila' tion and were carefully packed with f wet sphagnum, or California swamp I ; moss, to prevent chafing and to sup-1 port their vitality. Xo ice was put in the cooling i tanks, and the covers of these as j well as all other openings in the j ; cars were closed as tightly as possible. The cars were ten' days in 1 transit. The outside temperature was 60 degrees F. at the start and ' 15 degrees at the end of the trip. Upon arrival steam was issuing from every crevice of the cars. ' ; Upon removing the tank covers it j rushed out in large volume. The j doors were opened, and ice was put j ! in the tanks. The free circulation ; of cold air soon cooled the contents | of the cars. In unloading it was discovered J 1 that some of the upper layers of! boxes were badly damaged bv heat,; which naturally was most intensej near the top of the cars. Xo signs : of actual combustion were found,; but this would probably have oc- { currcd in a short time had not thej , ears been quickly cooled. The temperature must have been I ' ? # nearly up to the burning point, as, many of the green stems of these , plants were black and brittle. Wet sawdust in large quantMicj frequently becomes very warn ia i the interior even when exposed to j winter weather?in fact, the lower VI UiV Ullliv^|/Iiv?v VW hotter usually the sawdust. : ! Pitti and the Emperor. A pretty story is told of Patti's friendship for the old Emperor Wil- ] liam I. of Germany. Once when she was singing at Hamburg the king 1 sent her a message asking her to walk with him in the morning when | he took the waters. "Certainly' not," replied the prima donna to the bearer of the message. "I get < up early for no king in Europe." In ] later years when the emperor, then j an infirm old man, sent to ask her , to visit him in his box, apologizing for being unable to go to her behind the scenes, she replied, with | tears in her eyes, "Oh, now, sire, I would run anywhere to see you." ( Jr% I (Prickly Ask, Poke R< MAKES POSITIVE CURES OF A Physician* cndune P. P. P. u s (plan- I did combination, and prescribe It with I bm great aatiafactio^ for the caret of all I forma and itsfM of Primary, Secondary 1 BH and Tertiary SyphiHa, Syphilitic Ew I matUm, Scrofalona CJlctra and S .? , Gland alar Swelllaga, Rhenmatiam, 1 J aej Complaint*, Old Chroni* Uleera U 0 ^ggj SYPHM' hare raaiated all traatn^ Catarrh, Bkla Dtaeaaaa, Ecmi, Chronic Pea ale A a 'omplelnu, Mercurial Polaoa, Tetter, Scaldbead, ate., ate, P. P. P. la a powerful to ale aad aa excellent appltiaar, build lac ?P tha ayatett rapidly. If 70a are weak aad feabla, aad feel badly try P. P. P., aad RHEUM I It will be I vantage to i us as we ar I ELLINC A' Reduced S.. MA Kingstre 2-14tf * - ,w' * I ' -V ,%>j WecA OYk ToYw \wpxwes %x\ SYwrvu!lotf w Three ways are used for curing and preparin bacco for the market; cured, air cured and The old and cheap way cured; the later discove: proved way is called flue In flue curing the toba from the fields and racki especially built to retail mere sudjccicu iu <% temperature, produced b; heat of flame heated fl brings out in the tc stimulating taste and expert roasting develop coffee. These similar pr< to both tobacco and coffe ing and stimulating qualii ularizes their use. The quality of tobaci much on the curing proc kind of soil that produce pert tests prove that thi? R. J. REYNOLDS T< ygm??1??l?? Fire Insurance.1 The largest md most liberal com-1 panics in thd world, s?u:h as, j Insurance Company ol North America, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The best is none t x> good when it comes to Fire Insurance. 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ScYmcupps^otaacco 11 and Cottee ^ by farmers tobacco, grown in the famous Piedig their to- mont region, requires and takes less namely sun sweetening than tobacco grown in '$jBI flue cured. any other section of the United States is called air and has a wholesome, stimulating, * vy| ry and im- juicy, full tobacco taste that satisfies . a cured. tobacco hunger. That's why chewers cco is taken prefer Schnapps, because Schnapps ed in barns cheers more than any other chewing i heat and tobacco, and that's why chewers of inuous high Schnapps pass the good thing along >1.11 y the direct ?one chewer makes other chewers, $ lues, which until the fact is established that bacco that there are more chewers and more aroma that pounds of tobacco chewed to the ' s in green population in states where Schnapps ^cessesgive tobacco is sold than there are in- , .4 e the cheer- those states where Schnapps has not ty that pop- yet been offered to the trade. ^||h A ioc. plug ol bcnnapps is mors r*3| co depends economical than a much larger ioc.. ess and the plug of cheap tobacco. Sold at 50c. :s it, as ex- per pound in 5c. cuts. Strictly 10 J 5 flue cured and 15 cent plugs. dbacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. 11 Mid-Winter Offerings* | | | nNVITE^ECU^TTENTIW TO MY ||g J; IionBedsteads ? | ? 2v?a,ttxesses j? ? Centre Tables ? | Sid.? Boardis. ? ^ ?? ?*? I keep on hand 2il the time a complete line of | Coffins, Caskets and Undertakers' Supplies ? M j? and render services day and night. 5 I s L. J. STACKLE Y, ! ? THE FCRSITITRE MM. >* ? ? KINGSTREE, - - S. C. ? | f5 D ' ft tofC ? J* w l j | Hotels H fjm g 1 Public buildings ?|? 17/foderate S | 8 {Perfect jfcting. | | ^ Gasoline Engine for any purpose. < | W cf. cT. Snffman, Florence, o. C. yf |T^e Parlor Market! I *< __================_=_=== &? '.m |J ???????? ^ J? Dressed Meats. Fish, Game, Poultry ? Jj Oysters, Eggs and Full Line ? 1 ? ? ?? s i x^sllelctt" cs"3tocozr3.es g i ? hides wanted highe^Pmarket j? | prices paid.; tc< $ ? tlxe parlor 2*?a,x2cet? ? | T. B. Arrowsmith, Agent., ? ? KINGSTREE S. C. ?