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" twigs" OF TBE tOWFl ' f IN SCRANTON. i MRS- ARMOR SPEAKS TO LARGE AUBI ENCE?NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE OF A BUSY COMMUNITY. Scranton, May 4:? Mrs Mary Harris .Armor of Georgia delivered an address in the Meth. odist church here Saturday afternoon to an audience of about 500 people. Her remarks were -confined almost exclusively to an exDlanation of "how Georgia ? - __ 4 wentdr}\" Mrs Armor came over from Lake City on the 12 o'clock train rfind was met at the station by the members of the local W CT C, under whose auspices she came. A procession was formed which marched to the Methodist church, carrying" banners with appropriate inscriptions tbere^ on. Business was suspended and 4 4 everybody turned out to hear Mrs Armor's address. She spoke with glowing tervor and enthusiasm and made a deep impression on her audience. After the meeting adjourned the crowd repaired to the pine grove on the suburbs of the town, where a bountiful dinner was served. The :ocal dispensary was closed uring the day by order of the county dispensary board, but there was some evidence late in the afternoon that the dispensary at Lake City had not gone dry. Dr W S Lynch went to Florence Monday and brought his automobile home from the garage. A goodly number of Scrantonians, among them the writer, attended the closing exercises ? r o aa 1 of r .q l'a UI HI C ^UUCU OVUl/Ul C4.W uuuv City Friday evening. Mr CD Gandy, who is in the service of the Florida East Coast Railway, was in town one afternoon last week. He was railroad agent here several years and his many friends were glad to see k him again. Mr and Mrs P A Parker celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage on the 29th uit. Dispenser Inspector West was in town last week and checked up the local dispenser. Mr and Mrs J A Gantt of Florence visited the latter's parents, Mr and Mrs P A Parker, one day last week. Mr F K Singletary of Florence was in town Saturday. Judge S W C Shipp came down from Florence Monday and spent the day fishing on Lynch's river with some of his friends. Messrs K B Cannon and R E McKnight attended the district Pythian meeting at Florence last week as delegates from the local lodge. The Methodist and Baptist Sunday-schools will join in a picnic at McAllister's mill on Saturday, the 15th. Mrs W H Murphy has been very ill for a week but is improving. A great many people from town are in Lake City attending the preliminary hearing in the case against P M Lec,C F Kamrow. C P and Bert Johnson, charged with incendiarism. W EC. Lived 152 Years. Woi Parr?England's oldest man ? married the third time at 120, worked in the fields till 132 and lived 20 years longer. People should be youthful at 80. James Wright of Spurlock, Ky, shows how to remain young. "I feel just like a 16-year-old boy," he writes, "after taking six bottles of Electric Bitters.For thirty years Kidney trouble made life a burden, but the first bottle of this wonderful medicine convinced me I had found the greatest cure on earth."' They're a godsend to weak, sickly, run-down or old people. Try them. 50c at D C Scott's. The Record, the Semi/Weekly News and Courier and a pair of patent shears that retail at one dollar?a three dollar value for $1.85, while the offer lasts. \ ' Ctttage od Acade?y Slree! Destroyed ?Inadequate Fire Protection. On last Tuesday morning about 4 o'clock an alarm of fire i was sounded and a large crowd 1 collected to see the dread demon j devour the home of Mr O II Patrick on Academy street. On account of something being wrong with the pnmp, it was some time before any water could be gotten, and when it came it was too late to do any good except to keep the tire of! - 1? i : i J : tne nearoy ounuuiga. All of the household goods were saved except the kitchen furniture, which, owing to the fact that the fire started in the kitcben,it was impossible to get out. It is not known how the fire originated, unless from rats and matches. The house was owned by Mr II H Keliahan and was valued at $1,500, with only S500 insurance. Anyone who was at the fire could readily see how badly Kingstree needs an up-to-date fire department, with an available amount of water sufficient to fight the demon, and it is to be hoped that the city fathers ? mi i ? ? i- 4.v,a Will 1UUK 1UIU LUC luaiici 1U kUL near future and give the citizens of Kingstree the protection to which they are entitled. If yau desire a clear complexion take Foley's Orino Laxative, for constipatiou and liver trouble as it will stimulate these organs and thoroughly cleanse your system, which everyone needs in the spring in order to feel well. D C Scott. Where She Would Exit. 1 Miss Whackemall was lecturing her class upon the formation of the globe. "Now, what country," she said, : turning to the dunce of the class, "is opposite us on the globe ?" "Dunno," answered the pupil. "Come, come!" said Miss "Whackemall. "Suppose I were to bore a hole through the earth here and you were to go in at this end. Where dtryou think you would come out?" "Outer the hole, miss!" shouted the dunce and went down one. Very Different. r? "HOW uarc juu; I-Atiaiuw WXAV angry composer to his critic. "How dare you, sir, characterize my music as you have ?" "I don't understand you," demurs the critic. "You said that ray rhapsody impromptu was :? bum tune!" "Bum t-Mie! r;., mv good friend, I said r/> - v'j 'hing! 1 said it was I vagrair ciody.'"?Judge. Disraeli Among the Lords. Disraeli was a past master of the art of flattery, but his audacity carried him out of danger. Soon aftei his elevation to the house of lords he was asked by a brother peer how he felt in his new surroundings. "Oh, don't ask me/' he groaned; "dead and buried." Then, remembering that his auestioner was of the company which he was condemning, he added, "and in the realms of the blessed!"?Westminster Gazette. A A1 A ijenuei Missi We have arranged to publ for civic righteousness in novelized from Thomas A, ful play by Frederick R. Be-ger, Ryder and Will J< Portrays Vividh to Involve a Uni in a Land Deal An interesting phase of r ing an honest gentleman practical politician who Will be read with peculia "The Man of the Hour." turns, with never a break the reader in the first ch > \ Non-alcoholic Sarsanarilla L i If you think you need a tonic, i | ask your doctor. If you think you need something for your i blood, ask your doctor. If you think you would like to try , Ayer's non-alcoholic Sarsapa' rilla, ask your doctor. Consult him often. Keep in close touch with him. M We publish our formulae fW n We beaish alcohol MtmM f from our medicine. / UPTQ Weurre jou to A JLliGi O ~SSB~ Ask your doctor to name some of the !1 results of constipation. His long list will , j begin with sick-headache, biliousness, I dyspepsia, thin blood, bad skin. Then : j ask' him if he would recommend your , i using Ayer's Pills. ' | ?Midi by J. C. Ayr Cm., LoWll, If ? " PRODIGAL WITH MONEY. An Author Who Was Constantly In > Financial Difficultits. 01 Robert Buchanan, an author whose books seem nowadays in a : fair way to be forgotten, there arc , some interesting glimpses in Chambers'J*" \ A friend A vs of him tha' man wh. was con6ta ..culties in regard to money niaiters. He would have a 1 pocketful of money one day and none at all the next. lie "gave . money away right and left to those who appealed to his sympathy," and he was absurd in generosity as regarded his friends. This particular I friend Bays of this trait: <rT found it extremely difficult to get him to accept any money due to him for transactions undertaken for me. If I asked him, How much do I owe you, Bard ?* he invariably an! swered in the same strain, 'Eight thousand five hundred and nineteen pounds four shillings and sevenpence,' or 'Give me half a million, and we will cry quits.' If v^dined ' together casually," one, two^ix of us, he invariably managed to get hold of the bill and pay it. "This trick of his, of course, became familiar, and we seldom asked him to dinner unless we had arranged the matter beforehand with the powers that be. When he discovered that fact he would say: 'Oh, this is a duke's affair. All right, ; I expect to be treated as in a ducal mansion.' It was the same with cabs and trains. He was a large, stout man, but he had a curious faculty of reaching the cabman's hand or the ticket office before the 6lim 1 raest of us. "He. was a confirmed turf specu1 lator?a strange pursuit for a singer of songs and dreamer of dreams? and it need hardlv *e said he lost far more than hfr ined, but when ' he was suet sful-. nd occasionally his winning* >ere J 'ge?he always . managed to , J eans of sharing 1 his good fc time ith those le?9 privileged than hir *lf. One of his many methods /"felling white lies was this: T _ are you, X.? I i owe you ?2(1 fhis is the first I have heard u. n/ would likely be the reply. 'Oh, 1 took the liberty of i putting a sovereign on King Charles ' for you, and he started at 20 to 1,' and forthwith he handed over the ; money." Our premium offer with the i News and Courier expires June L 1, so if you want to take ad\antage of it act at once. nan From ssippi ish this great story of a fight the United States Senate, Wise's immensely successToombs, and illustrated by )nes. y the Conspiracy ted States Senator Lational legislation contrastof the old school with the believes in "honest graft" r interest by all who read Humorous and pathetic by in the interest which grips apter. " 1 through a bank account. It requires a skilful surgeon to set a bone, but anybody can set an egg. When a girl falls in love with a loafer we usually find him the idle of her heart The corn-field ought to take a high rank, because there are so many kernel* in it. It would not take a thrashing machine very long to thrash out some men ideas. Pride is undesirable,and yet we are all agreed that rice is not likable unless it is all puffed up. "By their fruits ye shall know them," bnt what about a tree with a , dozen different varieties of grafts? ) Our neighbor's faults are magni- I tied seven-fold, but as to our own / , short-comings we cannot see them with a microscope. It is not best always to stay at 1 home; an occasional chauge is good for everybodv. Even the kitchen fire goes out occasionally. T * - ?241% iUn iinirrklvAl* ' in u nurse ueai huh tuj uuguuvij when looking for the spavin on his animal, do not neglect to mention the splint on thine own, aud thus thou shalt have a record' for fair dealing. Notice to TeachersThe regular Teachers' Examination will be held at the courthouse in Kings* 1 tree on Fridav, May 14, between tne , hours of 9:80 a m and 4 pm. There will be no summer school this ' year and I see no chance for renewal ; of certificates. 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