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THE S NT.INEU JOU EnteredjApril 23, 1903 at Pickous, 8. 0., ale socoud Class inattt r, 111idor act of Cogress of March 8, 1879. 0SUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. M. in1 A Terrifying Wig. One day Many years ato while Cap taini Arthur Culinninghall of the Brit ish army was stationed in Nankin, Chi n, a friend of his stepped into a bar har's shop, and by way of employing his time lie desired the barber to .shave his head. This gentlenian wore a wig, but which, for the sake ot coolness, he hlt pln'evd la his pocket. This opera tion of shaving, so comiion in. China, was speedily and quickly exceclted, the barber seeming to be delighted with the honor of shaving one of the illus trious strangers. Previous to lil-.ieav ing the .shop andi while the 1n1n'4 lit tention was called in some other diree tion my friend replaced his wig, upon hils head, little thinking of- the result of this simple process. No sooner, however, had the barber turned around and observed. him whion he hald. o lately cleared of every vestige of hair suddenly covered with- a i'st luxu riant growth, than, talsing one steady gaze at him to make 81re lie was not dieceived, he let faill the razor, cleared his counter at a bound amd, running madly through tihe crowd, whIch -Was speedily collected, cried out that he was visited by the devil. - London Standard. Petrarch. Petrarch lived seventy years. The famous sonnets to Laura, the only prodilctiols; by whileh the poet is now reneibered, were all written within a ieriod of twenty years, during which time the intimiacy continued. l'etrareb had beell writIng sonnets to Laura for -' b'ouit sixteen years when the lady fan eiled she discovered symptoms of a not unnatural weariness an( plaintively asked, "Are you tired so soon?" Dangerous Diving. Drowning is a quicker death than most people suppose. Insensibility is said to begin in about one minute, and fatal imconseloiisness generally super venes in the neighborhood of two min utes. Few even practiced divers can remain under water more than a min ute and a half, and it is generally fatal to remain beneath the surface longer than that. At Navarino, where there are many expert divers, who plunge into the sea aftel' sponges, not one was found who couth remain under water for two minutes. In the Red sea the Arab divers generafy remain down one and a quarter minutes, while at Ceylon the pearl fishers can seldom stay below for even a minute. There is a case on record at Falmouth where .a diver had descended eighty feet and on giving the signal was drawn up slowly. It was two minutes before he reached the surface. Blood ran from .his ears and nose, and he was ipsensi ble. He died without speaking. In sensibility, however, does not always involve death, for in many cases a per *on may be resuscitated by the use of energetic measures.-London Saturday Review. The Birds Didn't Come pek. A century ago * piatriotic Scot, Sir John Sinclair, 'tried to' establish the \t 'tingale in Sbotland. He commis sloued a London dealer to purchase nightingales' eggs at the liberal price of a shilling each. These were well packed in wool and sent to Scotland by mail coach. A number of trustworthy men had preViously been engaged to take especial care of all robins' nests in places where the eggs could be hatched 4 In safety. The robins' eggs were re mioved and replaced by those of the nightingale, which were hatched and TOeared by their foster mothers. The young nightingales, when they .were full fledged, seemed perfectly at home near the places where they first saw the light, and in September, the usual period of migration, they departed. But the nightingales iever returned to What is a Dropt In medlecine II drop is a "gutta," or a "'minimr." The wvords mleain the same that is, one-six teenth of a fluid dram. * This is the official tahle: Sixty minims * (guttac or drops) make one fluid dram, eight fluid drams make one fluid ounce, sixteen fluid ounfces make one pint, two pints make one quart, four quarts nake one gallon. Forty-five drops. of ter, or a comimoni teaspoonful, make ut one0 fluid dramn, two tablespoonfuls ut one fluid ounce; a winegilasful bo~ut one and one-hlalf fluid ounces, a teacuptl is about four fluid eCs. But, my ba"thren ini suffering, nmany different sizes of teaspoons, spoons, wvineglasses and teacups ilove in this world of ease? And drops, no two liiids If dropped bottle in thle old fashioned way g the end of the finger over the will drop drops of the same ew York Press. Worry and fret are fatal to the in tegity of nlerve :Ind1 brain. F'ear can sting like a s'orplioii and tormet like U Scoul"e.-s ece. Oriental Politeness. To look at .high Chinese official through glasses is to be ,wanting In proper respect, and the man who is forcerd to wear glasses all the time sho"uld be Careful to explain, Or lie imlay give oflense. - To make a social call In Chinuta in a iedanii chair with short han- I dies reates something of the selsafltion that would .he created in Amerca if .one were to make a social call In a hearse, because a short handled sedan chair Is employed af fullerals to carry the spirit of the deceased. To send presents wrapped u in the wrong way or by the wrong kind of a llessenger is to deprive them of their value to the reelplent. To hold one's hand behind the back while talking to an oriental is to be discourteous. To walk rapidly is to class oneself with coolies. To inquire of a Moslem about the health of his wife is to offer an unpardonable insult. To coiunt the children of a household In Africa is to bring bad luck upon them. To jump1) quickly out of a gharry in India is, in the estlima tion of an East Indian lady or gentle man, as un(lgnfelld as for a lady in New York to Jump over a fence.-Ar thur Judson Brown in -Outlook. What's In a Name? Perhaps you may have beard of the celebrated divine who could move a congregation to tears sliply by repeat ing the word "Mesopotania." It was in the sound. Some words have indi viduality of their own. You cannot twist "Mesopotamia" to mean any thing but a sleepy, sun-kissed land. You could not, for Instance, endow those soft vowel sounds with the rug ged quality of another unmistakable word, Saskatchewan! Sas-katch-e-wan! Spoken as though It came always from the full ridged chest of a tall red man, thin In the flank, hard in the leg, spoken as though with the exhalation of lungs full of rugged northern air. What word In the glossary of rivers sur passes this in the-virility of Its sheer sound? It reeks of kinnikinic and dried white fish and smoked breasts of wild geese and service berry and pem. mIcan. You cannot avoid seeing dog sledges, or help hearing the honk of wildfowl, or refrain from noting the blown breath of men running in the cold, when you hear the mere name, wild, mysterious, of this river, one of the trails of the young men.-Emerson Hough in Outing Magazine. . "Tho Soar-it Lette"? The old saying, "Every cloud has Its silver lining," should often bring. us comfort when the world appears to be frowning upon us. A rare example of this was shown by Hawthorne's wife, who proved herself to him a true "friend in need.", One wintry day he had received notice that his services would no longer be required at his of fice. Weary and downcast, he return ed to his humble home. His young wife stood waiting for him and no ticed at once that something was wrong. He told her his troubles. Straightway the brave little woman with her ovrn hands kindled a bright fire; fetched pen, ink and paper, which she set beside him; then, with a beam ing face, she touched the sad man on the shoulder and said, "Now you can write your book." Immediately the cloud cleared, and things presented themselves' to Hawthorne under a changed aspect. Hie felt a treed man; the offlee appeared as a cage from which he had escaped. "The Scarlet Letter" was writtenl and proved a mar velous success, and' fame rewarded Hawthorne and tihe brave lIttle wife who had faced the cloud and found Its silver lining."--"The Value of a Life." Football In Shakespeare's Time. Did WVilliamn Shakespeare ever look on .at a game of football or join In one? asks the Herald of Stratford-on Avon. J. E. Vincent, the author of a book orV Berkshire highways and by ways, found at , orth Moreton in the register there, ait entry of a murder done by One "ould Gunter," Rays the Heoraldl. "0Ould Gunter," it seems, was a football player, or, at any rate, his sons were players, for they and some fellows tnamed G regories "fell together by the years (ears) at football. Ould Gunter drew lis dagger and broke booth their hendes, and they died booth within a fortnight after." S'avage 0o(d manl! There was bad blood over foot ball even then. This miurdete was in Shakespeare's time, In 1598, and foot ball must have been long played then. In later days Chlarles HI. dismissed football "as meeter for laming than making able the plaves thereof." BODY CLEANINC EVERY MORE IJRI'ENT Many Women Hlave Discovered With Pe-ru-na Cleans Accumiulatiog W2. ... MRS. ALCK BRADLEY. Mrs. Alice Bradley, Thorold, Ont., Can., writes: "Two years ago I became weak and rundown and as time passed I gradually failed until a year ago, when I experienced a stroke of paralysis which affected one side and I was helploss. "I called in professional medical treatment, but steadily grew worse. "I had decided I never would rise again from my bed, but, when Peruna was brought to me and after having taken four bottles of it, I was able to be out and a wonder to myself and friends. "I consider Peruna a great blessing to the afflicted. I may add that my daughter has also used Peruna and has been blessed with renewed heaffh. I believe Peruna saved our lives." CIMe Up Once a Year. Mrs. N. P. Lawle EILBANING up the body in the spring PittsburgKas., wri Is a duty everyone owes to himself. ''Last sprng I e Face powders may hide a rough skin, which developed in but Peruna helps to produce a skin that calarrh. I felt wea need not be hidden. neither eat nor slee The source of good blood is good di. "A member of ouy gestion. Peruna aidadigeation. cured of catarrh 9 Those people who have regular bodily oa t''ded m functions have a clear and delicate sktn. "I expected help, 1 Perunb helps to restoro.these functions. W def Change I Most skin deformities depend upon derved almost a so systemic derangements, which cannot Ing it. be corrected by local treatments. "In three days I f< Peruna is a systemic remedy, reorgan- within a week I was tbing and regulating the whole body. "I continued takii "It was real convenient for him," says a Billville exchange, "that when I There are eight dp the train ran over him and killed him planets, Mercury, N he was In the company of his uncle, Jupiter, Saturn, Ur who is a lawyer; his brother, who is a and several hundr tioctor, and his brot her-i n-law, thedscerd ice1 towun undertaker."--Atlanta Constitu- ta n lnt u o.Ther ancets.ghe" In 1834 Capaiupillir,,watuhadbUr secod i coma ni a Lae..Eie ande Wovrse hnd dcOlieveredxctdaviln pltca a wince tha lu tion. oto n yr t- bow boncinthroghe oft A C onsiuio wihFigureheadBoherstlent dtt'n sond reint macn. Lae.e unerycuhh Wre lTh night his excellency was decapitated express for the sou as neatly and deftly as if the best to gather headway. tools had with patient iabor enlisted car and dlroppedl lnt the brightest sunshine in the desecra- "Oh, Lord!I" he tion. Marines and bluejackets were nmenced tugging at held under' dark suspicion, and the have to excuse mue country seethed in a ferment of keen the rightful occupan contention. Itewards were offered, but section, "but I've jt in vain, and for years the secret was ftight shioes off. I jo well kept. It is said1 that a seaman into a store on my was the culprIt, not for any political and( get another pal motive, but because of a cherished an- to try them on, but tipathy to the full length image of a iand1 1 toild the clerk landlubber at the -bow while three fine wanted to make si sailors were compelled, with inade- large enough." quate busts, to smile grimly at the iwR this time two stern. However, another head was se- .were eXiposedi to vie cured to the trunk with copper bolts relief tihe man lit so tremendous that for many years age tight slhoes out of ti could not wither it nor custom stale reached for tihe box the unshaken fortitude with which Old ,ones. Hickory defied the breezes and the* "Great Scott!" lie brine.- ed his purchase. "') 1 me tens, children's Ledger. SPRING THAN HOUSE CLEANINC. I That-a Course of Treatment Ds the System of the is of Winter. Health and Complexion, Strength and Beauty Depend Upon Clean Blood and Good Digestion. Mrs. Daniel Passmore, Welland, Ontario, Can., writes: "For three years I was severely afflicted with stoa. ach trouble, and for days at a time I could not eat any thing. I grow thin in flesh, had headaches and was the picture of despair. "I was attended by three doctors,. but got no good results. "Finally I began the URO of Poruna. I soon noticed an improvement and after using three bottles, I was able to relish a meal, in fact, could eat anything. "To-day I feel well and strong. I consider that Peru na has saved my life and I shall always praise it." *9 4; MRS. DANf gL SSM~OWt~ r, 428%N. Broadway, and within two week. I was in Raue tes: health." aught a severe cold " Pera'n Is a wesnder-ful mallda'* tond SrO co* ofMr. Lee King, R. P. D. No. 4,1armera. well. viile, Tex., writes. club, who had been "My health has been better generally *rough the use of this spring and summer than it hes boon to try it and I did for four years and I have worked nearly ut nothing lik, the evr day. rtebeerIo-"I suffered with dysentery and bowel rn the bstated takb- trouble. uasIsatdtk."Your remedy also cured my wife @t Ul much better, and constipation. well. "I wish you continued success with Itg the entire bottle your great medicine. Pertin." A. rimary" or "major" Marvelous Mmories. 'enue, Earth, Mas There have been many men with mar amus and Neptune, Velous memories. Themnistocles could ed minor planets, call by name every one of the 20,000 i01. It is certain citlizens of Athens. A London school Iter, was known to teacher by the name of Dawson on a ther they knew of wager of $1,000 repeated offhand every lied. word of Spensor's "Fairie Queene," a work of 4,000 stanzas of- nine lines efr.each. Person could repeat "Paradise an eiry gozn Lost" hackward. It is said that Ma ecuiary aonii. caulay never forgot anything that he dicates corns came ever read or heard. John Fiske knew the gates at the the position of almost every book in not long ago and the Harvard .library as well as the form of the through Contents of the same. :h just as It began One Way to Trap a Bear. Hie limpedl into the The ways of trapping bear are nu a seat. merous, but there is onae old fashioned froaned, and comn- way that amuses many. It Is the sys a shoe. "You'll temn or getting a molasses barrel and "he continued to driving spikes around through the out t of that particular side near the open end with the poInts st got to get these of the spikes protruding downward it had timne to rush toward the bottom on the Inside. A. way to the station bear will force his head into the bar c-didn't have time ret in the center of the cIrcular row of wear only sevens, spikes and eat all the molasses he can I wanted tens. I find, but when he comes to pull his re they would be head out the points of the spikes catch in the fur- and skin of the neck and liaring white socks head and lhe cannot get rid of it. The w. WIth a sigh of barrel prevents his seeing. Ho is help rned the despised less andi sure to get rattled as soon as ie car window and the situation (dawns upon him.-Duluth containing the new News-Tribune.. a I French Guiana has the most violent gasped as he view-: thunderstorms in the world. Tfhe 'hat idiot has given thunder is almost deafening, and the ;ize!"--Philadelnhia j neals come in mult-k succession.