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I , " vr OUR BIG BROWN BEARS. Thay Are More Than a Match For the Largest African Lions. What percentage of people, even of those who fee! an interest in wild animal life, really know that the largest flesh eating animals in the world are found in America? People generally believe, and have believed lor ages that the African lien is the king < f boasts. But he is not nonrlv si> i m- o or as nov.erful an animal as tin* large brown'bear of subartie America. The bears are not as ferocious or combative as the lions, nor arc they nearly as vicious as they are given credit for being. But the largest of them are much larger and more powerful than any of the lions. It is safe to say that the largest of the brown bears of the north would weigh three times as much as the largest specimen of lton and is beyond all question greatly superior in strength. Comparing these two powerful animals in action if brought together in combat, the bear would at first appear very clumsy. It would not be capable of the quick rush or the catlixe spring of the lion. It would not attack, but would remain entirely on the defensive, meeting its adversary with blows of 6uch rapidity and terrible force as at once to illustrate its superiority not only in strength, but in action. I do not believe that there is an ani inal in the worm tnar can act more quickly or effectively or can aim its blows with greater certainty than the bear. The large brown bears of the Alaska peninsula, south of Bering sea, are among the largest bears of the world, and it is evident that ' there is no part of the world out side of America in which such large flesh eating animals are found. The bears are flesh eaters, or carnivorous, yet there are none of them that depend upon flesh for food, and with most of them flesh comprises but a very small percentage of their food. The large brown bears of the north and those of the Alaska peninsula usually travel to the sea when first leaving hibernation. ? Andrew J. Stone in Scribner's. Language of Bella. Volume of sound is, indeed, the * ? * i M L .11. U 4 U1 L Doasi 01 mosi oia Deus. .iiiuuugu jny waiste is small," says a Somerset bell in its motto, "I will be heard against you all. Sing on, my jolly sisters!" We are not surprised, knowing bells, that "this old oell rung the downfall of BonaI parte and broke, April, 1814." We only wish there were more Bonaparte6. The inscription on a Rutland bell has a bitter significance for the enemies of church bells besides its own sad one for most of us, "I sound not for the sonls of the dead, but for the ears of the living." But the inscription that deserves to be written in gold over the belfry of, say, Kensington church is the beautiful old Latin one, also on a Rutland bell: "Non - ? _ ^ i _ * I ciamor sea amor cantat in aure Dei" ("Not noise, but love, 6ings in the ears of God").?St. James Gazette. Our Most Humiliating War. But for Osceola there would never have been any Seminole war at all, and, all things considered, his career marks the most humiliating war the United States ever engaged ?." - in. There were less than 6,000 Seminoles, men, women and children, in all Florida when hostilities began with the murder of General Thompson by Osceola. That great chiefs cunning, capacity and courage had coat the nation no less than $30,000,000 and the lives of three soldiers for ever}' Indian brave that he led. Such an appalling record of destruction stands against no other fighter on all our frontiers.? Lynn Tew Sprague in Outing Magazine. She Won Out. He?I love you 1 She?But 1 have not a farthing in the world. He?Ah, but you did not let me finish. I was going to say, "I love you not." She?Indeed! I only meant to put you to the test. The fact is, I have a fortune of ?60,000. He?Yes, but you again interrupted me just now. What I meant to say was, "I love you not for the sake of your money." She?So glad to hear you say that! It was all a joke about the $60,000!?London Mail. Suspicious. "I am in terror/' said Mrs. Goodson. "Every time I hear the bell ring I know I'll hear something dreadful about Jack. I'm sure he's been in some mischief." I. "What makes you think so?" asked her husband. "Oh, he came straight home from school this afternoon, sat down and ?tudied his lesson for tomorrow for ? nearly two hours and has been as good as an angel ever since." / * THE SABLE ANTELOPE. A Beautiful Creature, Powerful, Grace ful and Glossy. ! Of the many beautiful antelope which abound in Central and Soutl Africa two species, the larger koo don ami the sable, must be awardei the first places. Of these the for mer is a veritable king of the for est. The exquisite symmetry o the long, curving horns, their spira twist, their noble spread and strik ing poise on a well shaped head which seems almost too small t carry suc h a glorious ornament, gi to make a picture which is rnatchcc by few other denizens or tne roresr The sable makes a good second Long, massive, ringed horns, form ing, in a good specimen, nearly i | perfect semicircle, rise almost ver tically and close together from i narrow forehead. Bending back ward in a bold sweep, they lose thei rings near the tip and taper grace fully outward, to end in shiny blacl points. Add to this a powerful elegant body, narrow shoulders an< graceful limbs, a glossy black hid; shot with, rnsset gold, brillian while paL 1ms below the eyes an< an under bo Iy of the same color, i short biack mane, and the portr&i is complete. Seen at close quarter in his native haunts, he makes a pic ture few will forget. His natural habitat becomes yea by year more restricted, but witl sensible game laws let us hope th< day of his final extinction is stil far distant. At one time plentifu in South Africa, his gradual extinc tion there has been brought abou by the rinderpest, and still more s> by the wanton destruction of ani mal life characteristic of >,he Dutcl and the early pioneers. At th< present time, except in some part of Mashonaland, tne Kalahari an< the Portuguese territory, he exist only in herds north of the Zambezi where the Dutch are not and wher i the South African of destructiv ! tendency has no inducements to go Here again the distribution o j the sable is peculiar. Ilis firs I cousin, the roan, swarms over Por ; tuguese Zambezia and northeaster] Rhodesia. The sable, except in i few localities, is comparativel; scarce, while in British Central Af , rica, the adjoining country sep ; arated from the others by no dis ' tinctive change in scenery or cli ! mate, it is exactly the contrary? I the sable is common, the roai J scarce in comparison.?G. A. Park I Ross in Macmillan's Magazine. The Judge Understood. I The late Judee Pettencill of th< 0 - o Maiden district court concealed un der an apparently stern exterior i kind heart, and nothing touchei him so quickly ?s an unintentiona witticism, especially if it were a the expense of the court. One day a prisoner arraigned be fore him for drunkenness, and stil under the influence of liquor, plead ed as hard as he could to be place* on probation. "Why should I place you on pro bation?" said the judge sternlj "Why, you're drunk now." "No, I'm not, your honor," sai< the poor prisoner earnestly; "J'n as soL'.r as a judge." He was placed on probation.Boston llcrald. Equal to the Occasion. Joseph H. Choate, the famou lawyer and diplomat, said at a law vers' dinner: "We lawyers couldn't do bette than resolve to be gentler in ou cross examinations. Rudeness i] cross examination never, neve pays. This is a truth that I one saw proved in a damage suit. I: I this suit a cross examining lawye 1 shouted at a witness in overalls: // /*?. .1 n 11 _ "*lou, tncre, in me overalls | How much are you paid for tell in, untruths ?' " 'Less than you are/ the witnes retorted, 'or you'd be in overall too.'"?Indianapolis Star. Compound Interest. i A celebrated English authority i] j a well known work entitled "Ob i serrations 011 Reversionary Pay j raents'' makes the following won derful calculations: It is well knowi to what prodigious sums money a compound interest will increase. 1 penny so improved from the yea 1 A. D.-Mhat is to say, put out a o per cent compound interestwould by this time have increase* to more money than could be con tained in 1>0,000.000 of globe equal to the earth in magnitude and all solid gold. His First Refusal. A young gentleman who had no familiarized himself with the form of polite correspondence and lacke* the good sense to discover the forr for himself found it necessary to re fuse an invitation. The Chicag News gives the note which h wrote: "Mr. J. Henry Newton decline with pleasure Mrs. Raymond's invi tation for the 21st and thanks he extremely for having given him th opportunity to say so." c A COMPOSITE GENIUS. T * He Seem* to Have Read Biography thit I Wrong Way. a In reading the lives of men who u h played a great part in life we are fl - often struck by the fact that those 5* 1 heroic men were in many cn>es ad- jj/ - dieted to certain vices. But it a" - would be well for young men to re1 member that the great ones of the If 1 earth succeeded not because ef any ? . bad habits they may have bad, bat '?: in sjiite of them. To get the groat- jjo est possible bene St from reading 5 A 0 biography we should make an ef- I 1 ; fort to emulate great men in their 1^ earnestness and goodness and not L . ! in thr>'"r 1 i ti <->? hndnpss Thorp I -! is something unworthy to be found t a | in the lives of all men, human na- I -! ture being far from perfect. But ^ a such unwort"hiness is not to be cop ied. The young man spoken of in dh r the following little story seems to sei - have read biography the wrong way: *b ? He lingered near the managing editor's desk, waiting for an ap- _ i pointment on the regular staff, e "But you drink," said the man- j ? t agcr, wishing to let the young fel- j . 3 low down easy. a "Yes," replied the young man. t "So did Alexander the Great." s "And you are a dude," glancing - at the youth's dandified dress. "So was Disraeli." ^ r "And you are a liar." ^ a "So was Napoleon Bonaparte." -g e ! "And you swear occasionally." * 1 "So did George Washington." 1 "You are liable to get drunk." "Like Daniel Webster." ^ t "And you write a fearful scrawl." , 0 "Like Horace Greeley." ^ "Well," said the manager, plung- er 1 ing at a heap of manuscript, "any- ^ e how we don't need you. You won't j s do. Good morning." ^ i The young man turned away sors rowfullv. "It's no sort of use," he i, said. "A fellow combines in his e own brain and person the traits of li e all the great men from Alexander ' to Greeley and can't even get a I place on a newspaper. The world e? t is growing too fast for genius."? m - Exchange. of l : in a An Unuaual Father. gC y He began after the usual form: ht "I have a little boy at home in - who"? th They interrupted him before he fr - had got lar. wi "Pardon me, old man, I must be m a going along. Sorry I can't wait, tr - but I'm due at the office," and so hi on. 1m "Just a minute," he urged, but- ui tonholing the two nearest. "It e won't take a minute." hf They sighed and resigned them- di a selves. tv] 3 "All I want to say," he went on, .it 1 "is that I have a little boy at home w< t who never said a bright thing in his hi life." de They grasped his hands with 1 thankfulness that could find no ex- Hj - pression in words. And then he re 1 added: . ai "He's too 6mail. He can't taiic is - yet."?London Mail. b< ui Americans Growing Bigger. 3 A tailor whose firm has been /s a continuously in business in Philadelphia for over a century has com- g( piled from his books of measure- er ment some statistics that discount ej : the statements of the pessimists. ca I These statistics show that the s ! American in the past century has _ j grown taller, stronger and slimmer ' ?greater in height and in chest i r girth, less in the girth of waist and L r j hips. The average chest of 1795 g? a was 36 inches. It is 38 inches now. ei r | The average height was 5 feet 7 w e ' inches. It is now 5 feet 8y2 inches. Ii a The length of leg has increased in hi r the same proportion. The shoul- Ii ders and chest have greatly devel- tl j j oped. The waist, on the other g t hand, has lost two inches. m , n< s The Brougham. ' fa s What is the correct way to pro- cl nounce the name of that vehicle, at the "brougham?" Up in Scotland, b< where the original Lord Brougham in o came from, the name was pro- h< h i nounced "Broocham" (with the c< - i "oo as in " oook ami uiu in ?io - in "loch") and also "Rroofam" anil tl i "Brooham" ("oo'' a little longer), ai t In London society made it "Broo- y< \ ; am*' or "Broom" ("oo" as long as I t one pleases), and tbe vehicle was t i '"broom." Elderly people still say - j "broom," says the dictionary, and i a few make it "broo-am," but "bro- 1 *r - am" is commonly preferred by the ai s educated among the younger gen- C( J, eration. Tbe one really vulgar pro- 111 nunciation is "brome." tc Russia's Vast Forssts. t: Vcrv ncarlv four-tenths of the ?' s surface of Russia in Europe is covi crod with woods and forests, aca cording to the Revue Economique ^ i- Internationale. In fact, the Bus- * o sian forests are so great in extent e | that they almost equal the entire I united area of western Europe, in- " s ; eluding Austria-Hungary, German}', 68 - Switzerland, Belgium. Italy, France r and Spain. Among European coun- ^ e tries, next to Russia, Austria-Hun- a'gary is the richest in forests. e Without Alcohol l Strong Tonic Without Alcohol l Body Builder Without Alcohol t Bloo<! Purifier Without Alcohol l Great Alterative Without Alcohol t Doctor's Medicine Without Alcohol Iyer's Sarsaparilla Without Alcohol A We publiah our formulae We baaiah alcohol MmJA J flrom our medio in ea / ft 1 tPTQ Weutfeyoa to ^ JLi/cto "sa&r" er's Pills ire liver pills. They set ectly on the liver, make more bile creted. This is why they are so valule in constipation, biliousness, dyspsia, sick-headache. Ask your doctor be knows a better laxative pill. -Wade br the J. c. Ajtt Co., Lowell, Ma 00 3UILT BY UNSEEN HANDS. ! Nvltii Legend of Solomon and the House of the Lord. '"So that there was neither hamer nor ax nor any oiher*tool of de heard in the house while it was ! hiding" (I Kings vi, ?). The above ' a Scriptural quotation, to be 1 und at the citation given, and is incerning the building of Soloon's temple. The reason therein signed for the pei^ect quietude nich existed in and about the gTeat lilding while it was in course of ection is that the stones und timirs were all mude ready before l>eg brought to the site of the great lilding. Hebcr beautifully alludes this in the little couplet, in which ! says: o hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung, ke some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. The Jews have a legend to the rect that Solomon did not employ en in building the great "house the Lord," but that he was aided the gigantic undertaking by the inii. Having a premonition that 5 would not live to see the buildg finished, Solomon prayed to God at his death might be concealed om the genii until the structure is finished. Immediately after he ade a staff from a sprout of the ee of life, which was growing in s garden, and leaning upon this > died, standing bolt upright in the lfinished temple. Those who saw him thought that ? was absorbed in prayer, and they d not disturb him for upward of a hole year. Still the genii worked iv ivn/1 nirrVif fliinlrinor tlmf thf?v I V *",v* ?*?& j ?re being constantly watched by m who:e eyes liud been closed in :ath many weeks. All this time, so the legend says, ctle white ants (one account say9 d mice) were gnawing at the staff, id when the temple was finally finbed the staff gave way, and the >dy of the dead Solomon fell prone >on the floor. Mohammed alludes i this queer legend in the Koran ee Sura xxxiv), where he says. >Vhen he (God) had decreed that flomon should die, nothing disooved his death unto them (the genii) :cept the creeping things of the irth."?St. Ix>uis Republic. Satisfaction. On one occasion some remarks of lcledon, the once famous singer, lve offense to a man who resolv1 to have "satisfaction'' for his; rongs. Accordingly he hunted up. lcledon the next afternoon, finding m at dinner in a noted hotel. "Mr. lcledon," said the visitor, entering le room in a towering passion, rou have l>een making free with y name in a very improper inansr, and I've come to demand satisiction!'' After some parleying Inrdon rose and, striking a graceful tiuule in the center of the room. ?gan to sing "lllack Eyed Susan" i his most delightful style. When j had finished the song he saidt >olly, "There, sir, that lias given uuplete satisfaction to several lousand |>eople, and if you want lvthimr more I've onlv to sav r? _ - - w w >u'ro the most unreasonable fellow over met !" Space Fillers. Two chance acquaintances on a ain between Washington and Phillelphia discovered that they had >mc originally from the same ?ighborhood in Delaware and fell > conversing about old times. "By the way," said the passenger i the skullcap, "whatever became ' Harry Mullins?" "Oh, he's a special writer on one : the New York papers," replied ic passenger with the red tie. Sets $10 a column. Good thing." "And his brother Dick ?" "Dick's a fat man in a museum, 'eighs 410 pounds. Gets a good dary." ( "Well, well," mused the man in le skullcap. 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