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SentiC - -Jo urn al Published Weekly. PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA. Beware of thin ice. "Dog upsets auto." An up-setter? Why Is he always called a "lone" bandit? Why not just a "a bandit?" A deep snow would help the avia tors that have acquired the falling .habit. Now they say that the old hoop skirt is coming back. Here's hoping that it can't. Russia is importing thousands of typewriters from this country. No, Julius, they are just the machines. Milwaukee physicians plan to put an end to telephone practice. They cannot see a man's tongue over the wire. The automobile is acceptable in funeral processions but the aeroplane is still barred out by the undertakers' trust. Skating season is upon us-that is. ice skating. Skating in a general way is practiced regardless of the weather. Before long Germany may be eating imported meat exclusively. The pret zels, however, will be manufactured at home as of yore. If It Is agreeable to the surgeons. -ne average man would prefer to be operated on for appendicitis only when it is necessary. A man who marries two wives is a bigamist, but that California man who married six of them is just the old. reliable brand of fool. That New York person who shot himself five times and failed to kill himself will probabiy di'e some day of the pip. You neve: can telL A Washington man has started suit for $300,000 for the loss of his wife. All of which leads us to remark that she must have been some wife. "In future." says Doctor Wiley. "the air will furnish heat. fuel and power." It might do so right now if some way to extract the coal from it' could be found. That Kansas City man, as we under stand the case, did not want a dli vorce merely because his wife smoked, but on account of what she smoked. Europe's wine shortage this year is said to be the greatest for a century. Still there will no doubt be enough -for us who buy It only for medicinal purposes. te Yr ec A writer in teNew YokMdcl Journal says whisky is not a cure foe' snake bite, but kindly refrains from px pressing an opinion as to its suitabi'. ity for fish bait. .~ A lady smu'ggler arrested wig $8.000 worth of jewels in her stockir ig claims that that's where she alw' atys wears 'em. Evidenly we've been F/>verlooking a good thing. / A few phlegmti /men whto never become excited about anything are Snot go' to ouiy a fruit farm next y ric'r in one season by The fashionable dressmakers are still quarreling over the location of the waist line, and women will have to go along a while without knowing where it will finally be located for the sea son. There are many ways of getting in bad. only one of which is to travel on a train which is about to be wrecked. A Massachusetts octegenlarian who has never shaved in his life, claims to have saved $24.000O in that way, but most men would rather not have the money than the whiskers. We are told that the day of the novel is ended. When we consider the alleged literaturn that has been perpetrated recently. we cannot srluee~ze out even the semb~ne~e of a tear. -Now wec are told tha: the Garden of Eden was lccated at the north role. Possil y we shall learn also that .\dam and Eve were Eskimos and a'e of the forbidden blubber instead of the for bidden fruit. A Boston young woman has been vis iting dentists' ettces and stealirng mon ey and other valuables from the wraps of the patients in the torture chamber. Here's another excuse for not going to the dentist when you ought to. The New York doctor' who asserts -that overripe eggs are as nurritious as the fresh kind will not maitt with violent objections if he tries 'o get a - monopoly of eatirg the atnc'rt vintt age. The hobble skirt and high :tl-7 car steps harve clashed in Trer ton. The' steps may have the logic of :he situa tion, but the bobble s:-irt has: the eter nal feminine end of the discession, and all human expe'rienlce is a u4 it on what bappens when logic attempgs to tackle th6e, ternal feminine. T HAS been told before this how t1 African treasures of the Nation Museum in Washington brought o of the dark continent by Theodo Roosevelt. Edmond Heller, Dr: Edg A. Mearns and J. Alden Loring. a stored away in great chests and c shelves in by-rooms of the museu a building, and how the specimens big game will not be mounted f< general inspection until many monti have passed. The treasures are a !n the big building. however, and if one has i: terest and patience one of the scientists wi draw them forth from their recesses and gi% ham a chance to study and to admire. It was my good luck not long ago to be 1: vited by Theodore Roosevelt to go through ti National Museum with him on a tour of exar ination of the pelts of the big mammals. and t: skins of the many colored birds and of the sma L E3. -BOR P~ mammals of which hundreds and hundreds we brought to America to ;:ve the stu:dent an ao quate idea of the fauna of the African plail mountains, valley and forests. It was Colonel Roosevelt's first glimpse of tl African quarry since he saw it living in its tive wilds. It was his dlesire to kcnowV how pe fectly the specimens had been prepared ai what deterIoration, if any. the climatir <ondiio: before shipment and after arrival had caused. Accompanying M1r. Roosevelt in his tri through the museum were D~r. C. Hart M1erria: now the head of the Harriman Zoological Fot daton and former chief of the United Stat Biological Survey; ?31r. E-imundi Hller, whoa companled Mir. Roosevelt to Africa and who pl pared most of the big game specimens for shi met; Edgar A. Mlearns. the ornithologist, wl accompanied the expeditiont and collected mo of the birds; Louis Agassiz Fuertes. the mai mal and bird painter; John Sn'tre. and myse We had the huge rooms in which the Roosevi collections ar' stored all to ourselves. (Colon Roosevelt spoke freely about his trip and to ay anecdotes in conne1tion t; rwi'Qh h o not appear in his book and which he did n ell in his lecture before the National Geogra;h Society. It is hard to describe radl.quatey the enth rasm of the Oyster TBay hurmtr *:ver the natur history treasures wvhich his expedition had l red for the National luset'm rad which, mu< to the Colonel's delight, had arrived In splend condition. due largely to the hard. driving. pair taking work of Edmond Helter and J1. Aiden I. -Z rng and Dr. Mle:::ns in preparing the 5pecime~ urer the beat of an African sun and wilth on natives to help theim in their de!icate and di cut task. The first visit of the colonni was paid to art of the museum whern the elcihant. .inoceros and the nippopotamosn Iis f crude form a-e s'ox'edc awny :iwa.':i tae when they wi'1. be trocunted and :s'to apPc n nrtural fortn in ~e gr.m-t ex~tion hal. 'T colonel stepod be Ic~"e th.-. shn cM oe ggn nhn.Th h Am 1 cn 'Led or. a Lu cr ow" '."- 'o :h r n-:A stretched out V oit. " aelphan: which I had l -d.t h-Id o' work to shoot. I labored n .der the blistering sun to get within c< in kuir 1.g range. for the specimen was a ti oa I wanted to be sure that I could add URD/ AD WATRD CIJARK i wnt .hemonte. I undwt/ iIi Heler en ove an xmne h lehn n re irL n-~ msseduhi of reing.' Hellerh waesnein that st ory and I am willing, for he gets lots of fun out of it. All I have to say is if the elephant dropped dead of apoplexy at the instant I fired I it was the most considerate elephant that ever roamed Africa." In the African fields there are thirty or forty ~;species of antelopes, one, the giant eland, is big ger than an ox. and it inhabits a fever stricken territory in which only a few hunters and those of the hardiest kind will venture. The colonel is exceedingly proud of the giant elands which he senured and which are now in possession of the , jmuseum and in perfect condition for eventual mounting for show purposes. One of the antelopes which the expedition se cured has a remarkable hide. Colonel Roosevelt spent a long time examining and admiring this slecfmn. The skin is Iridescent and . as you turn it at dilTerent angles to the light it sent Sforth colors of blue, green, red and purple. It has a watered silk effect, but perhaps no watered silk that woman ever wore held such a marvel ous combination of hues. l)r. C. Hart M1erriam. who Is now, as has been e said. the head of the Harriman Zoological Foun .- dation. was the first man to suggest to Theodore SRoosevelt that after he retired from the presi dency he ought to go to Africa to collect speci e mens for the National Museum. Credit for the .- suggestion was given Dr. 31erriam by Mtr. Roose .velt in his lecture before the National Geographic cSociety. It Is probable that Dr. M!erriam is the s for most authority in the United States on sev er-al branches of natural science. lHe is particu plarly interested in bears and it was by him that :comparisons were made of bear skulls by which . recently a separation of species was made where s It was no'. known definitely that a difference e.- existed. e. It must have been fully a century ago that an .- English scientist hunter who had secured a specd o men or the cane brake bear declared that it was ta speeles distinct from the ordinary black bear 1.- of the eastern Unitedi States, the bear known to if. every dweller in the eastern region remote from it the populous centers. ci There was a dispute among scientists about d the matter and it never definitely was Fettled. h the general opinion remaining that the cane t brake b'ar was simply the ordinary black bear ec of thEl:Qnies. the Adirondacks and the weeds5 of Mlichigan. Wisconsin and Maine. When .~ (colouel Rcosev~elt killed his spe'.imens of the ai c are hr-the bear he examined them and came to - the conclusion that the Englishman who had h separm'edi it as a species was right. The colonel id to put the matter to the test Sent the skulls of - the beairs he had killed to Dr. Mierriam. who put .- in a lot of painstaking study comparing them s with the skulls of the ordinary black bear and v It was found the Englishman who had cntendied -fl for separate species was right. If it had not been for the Roosevelt study and his dc~termina ep t:On to submit the matter to the test science e probably would still be holding to the belief that r th~e eastern United States have only one species yv of the brutin tribe. r In the hear room of the museum Mr. Roose e velt saw thec shulls of the species which he was e~ inst~:ental in giving a separate place to and e I.e saw the skulls of every bear k'iown to the e wld To the laymen present these skulls were r nothing bu:t skulls and origina!!y they might hav.e d formed the head bones of any lkind of an animal. hc but scientists ca~n pick up a bone of ary kind and r not orl:. tell what it came from. but from it can ?r- construct the entire naimal. I e In it~e room set aside for the ?!-esent as a It storage place for the collection of .Africanl birds o M PMOPhI/T 8? VRAMT TER9SO/Y Wk MAT-/M MUJEUM Colonel Roosevelt seemed to find special dellight. One can exhaust all the color adjectives Int the English language and yet hardly do Justice to tlhe hues and combination of hues of the o age of the tropical birds which the expedian1)1 brought back from Africa. Dr. Edward A. Meurs, who is a surgeon of the 'United States arm?, lNut now on the retired list, did most of the ele:t ing of feathered big game and small game. '-:r. "Yearns Is one of the world's foremost 07%,ift ologists. While he was stationed with the t/oaeps In the far west he made a special study of 11;e birds of the sections in which he happened to be, and on several occasions he was authorIzed by Uncle Sam to join scientific expeditions or ganized to make Investigations and collectic-as In new territories. It Is well known that In a general way the more soberly clad birds are the best songsters. For instance, take the hemit thrush and the mocking bird of America. They are both dressed in homespun, but they have voices of the kind which people call "fortunes In themselves." There are some sober clad birds In"th trople and there as elsewhere theyj givu the better singers. In Americ-a we by e a bird 11aled the shrike. le C onelbos gelt seedto fichditpemale o Onan miexhasta thean coo thejeuarry. lThe shrikis languge and soft hrly ado whie rte ta heandmebintionb o hueas of theilliant ag fTefrical bhrs which the Mxernscol brout ack fro Arica. Theodardoseel shed whai ma re nrs o the dayte Stte armch hewet nhough the reiedstm did mostaps tmon cLethe moarst billan onoeded of the world'sfrms ~. They oregist Wle the Asmeriane wrlth tnaer only? inthe scarest ohe kid ta sels tdyurnhe sight onnerl ocasiolt he as aeenhving a yt t'le Samntros woith Scientific expitottH Thar ganied te maueistgtions earoeciv colorationa of btirs weandow tamarThr in a general th tiore soberl cladtects ethen b etsureferom Foristae tasknow thaet thush perfctl tre o okibids of Ameica. Treyre bth rThaye tinkmspaten, butilli avel voumaed fh birdr wiit pophe callu hreld upneo thme!sries Theres sarlatre somndbe clad birdsonc.y "Thre's angda thebirdsonesewghtereadily belteve that. InhAeriae tork an bird Arcanolletsin. hichki tabt the seizes ofearedined in the bird.treswNow itlmustbe knownstooerya cohen me anpditon went inets Africh it wmas gree thoratter makd enking benn the ctuaird ndsmce of thene brains of toure quarry Thea sikfoTe rulesedIsf ays and whe aheri andsmer birdammas orbrd nof measho krindiand lieThe Abeiant ofhrey, wmich adr otern crold Terletdadi which TMr.o Roosevelt sistewed~ anmkd interestth onthe readiy incqui- het wen throduht the mueume. aren perhap Mamn theso motrilantxe colored bistrds othe wnted They re norne thaue Aericanscalt taneager sonly anther sltork to the colletion. sem toldur holoe sih.lnlRoosevelt hagon toenkavn ante itr. Te contoers witgh Scntsidst Abot is T~arfd birds and mamml." Mr. Thasevelt's agne-ral sicnic protct thmayn aun meosre f-sode doioery.the isnresthof this s' erfetl tu ofe so e insre wildy cr eae t mus. T Dyr. thn that verram brilliatl pmaged irds arud proeted Colonel Roosevelt n adTher-y ofan! viei o theoseumit ofm.el upine ofin te she inpeitionle atire an ld sad thonman "Tere'sv n~g t the baidone might: tedl fIne thas. beluabe fistojectin the Afiannmaplst whirct ext anrte whoetorkld.th ASrcan c~ectponted nee.ds of sc a esult of your wnhen itwa DYSPEPTIC PHILISOPHY. A 'What the theater really needs IS ? Soclety for the Prevention of Cr elty Lo Audiences. Why are we supposed to have mOr@ respect for gray hairs than ior a bad head? A man can face the world with . good heart if he can also face it 'th a good liver. From a masculine point of view would it be heresy to questiou the sex of the devil? Some fat men are meaner than oth er men simply because there is mo:e of them. Many a man who thinks he is 1r. love lives to discover that second thoughts are best. Some men are born great. some ac quire greatness. and others have great aess thrust upon them, but it doesn't seem to take any of them long to get -id of it. The Modest Model. The late Julia Ward Howe, though a woman of very good appearance, was extremely modest. "She once posed for me." said a Boston painter the other day. "But she hesitated a long time berore con senting. To urge her on I said: "'Don't be afraid. I'll do you jus. rice. madam.' "'Ah, she answered, 'it isn't justicoe I ask for at your hands; it's mercy.'" Not Just Off the Shelf. Little Marget has the childist trait of curiosity, especially in regard to the age of her elders. "How old do you think I am. dear?" counter-questioned the spInster aunt to whom the child had put the imper tlnenibdfry. The little girl consid pr-' -arnestly before replying: "Well, I don't know. Auntie Alice, but you don't look new:" INSIDE HISTORY. Some Self-Explanatory Letters. Battle Creek, Mich., Jan 7, 'H. Dr. E. H. Pratt, Suite 1202, 100 State St.. Chicago, lilinois. My Dear Doctor: "Owing to some disagreement with magazine several years ago they have Ozcome quite vituperative and of late :ave publicly charged me with falsehoods in my statements.! that we have genuine testimonial let ters. "It has been our rule to refrain from publishing the names either of laymen or physicians who have writ ten to us in a complimentary way. and we have declined to accede to the demand of attorneys that we turn these letters over to them. "I am asking a few men whom 1 deem to be friends to permit e tO reproduce some of their lette "We have hundreds of letters from physicians. but I esteem the one that you wrote to me in 1906 among the very best, particularly in view of the . fact that it recognizes the work I have been trying to do partly through the little book, 'The Road to Wellville.' "I do not sell or attempt to sell the higher thought which is more imporJ tant than the kind of food, but I have taken considerable pains to extend to humanity such facts as may have come to me on this subject. "In order that your mind may be re freshed I am herewith enclosing a. copy of your good letter, also a copy of the little book, and if you will give me the privilege of printing this over your signature I will accomp~any the printing with an explanation as to why you permitted its use in publl cation in order to refute falsehoods. and under that method of treatmernt I feel, so far as I know, there would be no breach of the code of ethies. "I trust this winter weather is find ing you well, contented and enjoying the fruits that are yours by right. "With all best wishes. I am," Yours very truly. C. W. POST. Dr. Pratt, who is one~ of the most prominent aind skillful surgeons in America, very kindly granted our re quest in the cause of truth and jus tice. Chicago, Aug. 31. 1306. Mr. C. W. Post, Battle Creek, Mich. My Dear Sir: "I write to express my pr-rsona! ap. preciation of one of your business methods, that of accompanying eac'h package of your Grape-Nuts prohue tion with that little booklet "T'l Road to Wellville." A more appro priate, clear headed and effective pre. sentation of health-giving auto-sugg.s tions could scarcely be penned, "Grape-Nuts is a good food in itee'lf, but the food contained in this littie article is still better stuff. I commend the practice because I know that the greed and strenuousness, the conse quent graft and other types of thiev ery and malicious mischief generally can never be cured by legislative ac tion. "The only hope for the betterment of the race rests in individual soul culture. "In taking a step in this direction, your process has been so original and unique that it must set a pace for other concerns until finally thte vwhol country gets flavored with genuir, practical Christianity, "I shall do all that lies in my pow er to aid in the appreciation of Grane Nuts, not so much for the sake of th food itself as for the accompanying suggestions.