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IF" " 1 ( rrc??-tK . ?> BIG DUST CLOUD IN ALASK Volcanic Ashes From Katmal Delayc Progress of Stswner?Explosion Heard Afar. Ab we approach Kodtuk, strani dark clouds were seen obscuring tt horizon at several points and one 8 heavy and black that it resemble smoke from a groat forest fire. Ca] tain Jensen startled us by explainln that this was dust blown by tho sti breeze from the lofty hills all aboi us. These hills seemed covered wit snow, but the whitish deposits prove to be ashes, rained down several fe< deep upon all this section during tb eruption of Mount Katmai in Jun< 1912. Katmal is still smoking. The sun looked like a dull sllv< Hnllop o CI 4# ohonn !< noK viwiim uo iv ouvuo vni uufva mist. The dust cloud was tkic :hat It held our steumer up (9; Jq\ hours until the way was clear* ing your hand over the rail 9^ JJb boat you found your fingers streake with the Impalpable gray powde When we landed at Kodlak we foun piles of soft gray ashes and l&rg and small pieces of light, {rjflbl stone, like pumice stone, whlffi ha been thrown out by the volcaitg. United Statos Marshal F. BfOi nerman of Yaldez. who was lello passenger with me. says the exploslo of the volcano was heard at thi place, 400 miles away from Kodla! and sounded like a cannonading, was followed by a deposit of fir ashes in V'aldez.?John A. Slelcber I Leslie's Weekly. Activities of Women. Women are prohibited from preac lng in Norway. All the German nuns are being drl en out of England. New England shoe manufacture] make a special shoe for New Y01 women, embracing the last word i style. Women barbers have replaced nea ly all the men "wielders of the razoi in warring countries of Europe. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont was one < the first women to enlist in the woi of getting votes for women in th country. Mrs. William J. Bleese has been a in tltn W. In O, T ...I. J 1 IU.1.VV,U w Hie UU1 1 Li Lll. UUU1S UUU w practice law as her husband's partne Under the terms of the new Pen sylvania labor law the state will 1 divided into districts, each having superintendent and a council of s persons, of which one member of ea< council must be a woman. BUILT TO WITHSTAND SHOC Architecture of Old Peruvian Ci Adapted to the Needs of the Locality. The most characteristic phase Peruvian architecture is found to 1 in the old city of Arequipa, whit more than any other west coast ci should be regarded as a home of ci ture in general, and therefore specii ly a center from which control ai direction of the fine arts has pr ceeded. The Peruvian "Tarrytown." we mi call It. since the name Arequipa si niiles in the Indian tongue "Yes; re here." But orderly processes of s chitectural development were rendert impossible in Arequipa, even more i feasible there than in other populoi cities, mountain-built or on the Andet littoral. Repeated and very violent eart quake shocks forbade simh edifices i would have been stable enough o?hor la-,..j. to "r? -t here," or in s curity anywhere near the geosynclin that follows the Andean coast line. The cathedral at Arequipa, former Anore irni tsinir than it iv nt np.iQuri Js built of volcanic Stone in a sty adopted." as a famous traveler write "after the earthquake of 1821, whu laid most of the city in ruins, as security against similar catastrophes Letter than any other large huildii it represents the earthquake phas It is an expedient complying wit while bravely protesting against, ii perative demands of the pluton forces; not towered and domed. Ill the cathedral and the Cctnpania i Cuzco, but capped with spires in tl fashion of the church of San I'edro Lima. Had to Watch the Game. Milroy, a Rush county town, sev? miles south of Ruahville, is a grei place for marbie fans. They hold tournament each spring and summe One day recently a storekeeper, wl is a marble fan, was standing in t alley by his store watching a close contested game. An Indianapolis tra eling salesman, who had come to si the storekeeper, saw a person enti the man's store. He went to tl storekeeper. "There's a customer in your store he said. "Pst. be quiet," said the storekee er, "he'll go out in a minute." Ai he never took his eye off the game.Indianapolis News. Best Sleeper in the World. John H. Walker, a Phoenlz, Ar\ man. guest at Summer house, Tular Cal.. is adjudged the nrize sleet^r some manner Walker's bed In h room was set afire, and Walker on awakened after he pad been draggi from the burning clothes and carrl< to the open air by a hotel employe Walker was only slightly hurt,?Si Francisco Chronicle. If you don't know what you g| your cows and you don't know wl your cows give you. why do you ke cows? Keep records. ? J- ?~n? ? iff." A WAR HAS CUT OFF GENIUS L id But Famous Russian Bacteriologist N Believes Science Will Continue to Forge Ahead. re I asked Metchnikoff a while ago ie whether the war really deprived the tt 10 world of genius; whether we should U id have to vait long years for new inven- y< p- tlons. for tho solution of problems In ig which vex and weigh upon humanity, b< tt says a writer in the London Observer, lc it The veteran bacteriologist was in a d< ,h hopeful mood. In the calm of his lab- m id oratory, in which 1 found him engaged n< ?t on a study of silkworms as if there at ie wero no earth-shaking war, he Bpoke th e, to tnis eiiect: u' "It is true that thoro has been a 8,1 >r loss of science on the battlefield. Two 8t 7 of the young doctors here lv?vo died 8C Js at the front; a young professor of p" promise has also perished. These are P* but samples of what has happened evorywhere. I3ut I do not despair. Na>d ture is boundless in her resources; the to r- regenerative force of France and Rusd sia is not exhaustod." ! w< >e On tto contrary, he feels that this ve lo frightful war q^ay advance science sa ^ rather than retard it. If the Germans "f arc beaten they will turn more readily ,n ^ to thoir Interrupted studies and knowl- fo w edge will benefit by their application. a in I did not ask the learned lnvestigator whether he thought the German ra' was indispensable to science; but, at It tho moment, England leads the way, ro 10 and one of her sons, graduate of a fu ^ new university, has discovered what nf appears to be the ideal antiseptic. cr Doctor Dakin, the fortunate scientist. Bn has been working with Doctor Carrel, |? I1" the French-American, at the Com- f piegne branch of the Rockefeller in- n v" stltute. Tho young savant treats of ? his discovery in tho "British Medical rs Journal." And now, the French hos"I1 pital, if not the last work in scientific installation?for that costs money and a great deal of it?is at least admlr- w x~ ably adapted to the end in view?the r rapid recovery of men from their Mi wounds. of PETS OF FAMOUS SONGSTERS (j. Grisi Owned a Monkey, Lind a Mock- na HI ing Bird and Patti Was Fond ,r of a Parrot. nje Of all classes of humanity in the rp| a world fcmalo singers are the most ad- s'f ix dieted to keeping pets. London Tit- 'ic Ij Bits states. In the days of her prime, n" Bome years after her marriage with no Mario, Mmo. Grisi was the proprietor i'" ? of one of the smallest and prettiest ou I* monkeys imaginable. It was a speci- a ' men of that diminutive and charming ty race, the ouistiti, and was usually r>,r' most amiable, only protesting by a ! ' plaintive cry whenever its mistress Do fondled her children or caressed her '?' husband in its presence. *h When Jenny Lind was in the United ho, ^ States one of her countless admirers made her a present of a fine young 3, mocking bird in full song. He be- w-) 1{j came exceedingly tame and was wont to perch on the great singer's finger and take seed and fruit from between \y her UP8' ho g. In Minnie Hauck's Swiss home she ni( gt was always surrounded by flocks of ir. tame pigeons that perched on her 5(1 shoulder and ate from her hand. They ha n. often carried their audacity so far as i,0 jg to enter her bedroom and revel in a m good wash in her toilet pitcher, to the great disorganization of the very neat F| jj. arrangements of her waslistand. ls The parrot of Mine. Patti is quite Co jn a famous fowl, not only on account of e. the celebrity of its owner, but also heal .ause ot its own varied accomplishments. * fai [y ? ? a, MEANT YES ALL THE TIME Kitty Fearcvi l.esl Answer of tha an Previous Evening Miqht tie Taken Kri Literally by Hir Lover. "I am in too much of a hurry to ' write .1 superscription, or whatever it lmi Iff VOll writ A at fill' Kr>Ori nrv * v? tr r? !lO JJ. ' - ? "? tor, and I an* going to send this off ^ at once by a delivery boy; because w" It suddenlv came to me what a risk 'n I was running?with life so uncertain, ?1 ind all. You see, it's like this: err "Last evening, when you told me U8? you loved me, and 1 was so startled and surprised (and all the time I'd co' known more about it than ycu) and >'* 'n when you begged me to marry you, 3h< a and I said No, I never could, and no, i"n a and no over and over, all evening?O, An r' dear, how can I explain? Well, It ^ 10 seemed all right, and all--but then wa 1,1 this morning it suddenly came to me r>'* ?what if you should die or something v" before you come over again, and never na 30 know! 'M "Bocause. you see, everyone ol 10 those 'no's' was as black as the trey ? of cluba. not little white lies at all, ' but regular ebony. Because it isn't in 'no' at all. It's 'yes,' O, a great big j"l: 'yes'; only I wanted to make you wait, 11 and make me say it! O, why are j girls mado like that? I don't know? 1 I'm as ignorant 0{ the machinery in- ,:1 I side of me as I am of tho little crawly wheels in my watch. And I just did what my diabolical ancestor grand 1111 e- mothers did, I suppose, when I said 'n no,' and I meant 'yes' But I wa* 1 is cary this morning when I got thinkly ' n or nf whftt if T Ko/I ? ' o .. ..?-v ? < i?otgi navi c* i imin r at nil to change It, and tell you the tJ1 3d ?rll(h Wl ,e- So I JiiRt took n pencil stub out ol in a.y smallest brother's pocket and a st piece of mother's best stationery and ,u sat down here on the floor, with my In loor locked, to scribble this off to w iat >'0U. Qoed-by And?"yes, yea, yea!' | lb ap Kitty."?Chicago Tribune. , m , . m . , TI r F LA X PA ST KTi NKW h .EN6TH OF LIFE INCREASED lot Yours or Mine, out Those of the Coming Generation of United States Citizens. Dr. Victor C. Vaughn's assurance lat the average length of life in the nltcd States has been increased ter. sars since 1880 makes cheerful readig. Coming from a man who has ?en president of the American Medal association, the information is mbtless evnct, but it may be easily Isunderstood. Doctor Vaughn docs it mean that ten years have been Ided to the ordinary man's life. On te contrary, there are plenty of fle es to prove that life has been cut lort rather than lengthened from the atlou fifty years and onward. The -called diseases of maturity have sen making sad havoc among our derly men of late, and nothing has ippened to check the loss. The gain of ten years to which Docr Vaughn refers has been effected r saving the lives of children who mild formerly have perished of pre'ntable diseases. Each child thus ved Increases the average length of e, though mature persons go on dy? g prematurely, Just as tboy did here. Statistics are sometimes verv lusive. The rapid extinction of our elderly en with the rescue of young children em untimely death Is filling the untry with a comparatively youth1 population. The phalanx In the ughborhood of forty years Is Ineasing rapidly. That between fifty d sixty Is diminishing in proportion the whole number. This is not as should be. The mature man who 8 outlived the competitive struggle r success and has leisure to serve e public Is perhaps the most valble figure In our national life.? irtland Morning Oregonian. iFE TAUGHT HIM A LESSON stake While in Fuddled Condition Brought Home to Him the Morning After. "Some wives,' remarked Sam Herrd the other day, "have terribly ectlve methods in training their sbands. "A young man had the habit of turning home from the club occamally In a state of semi-intoxica li. He married not long ago and, hough lie decided to turn over a w leaf, the old habits were too otig for him, and one night while t with the boys, he took on board trifle too much. 'Next morning he came down to pakfast with the dark brown tnatn icre was something on the plate fore him which had evidently been okod and was supposed to be food. 'He took It up on his fork and Id it up, looking at it In wonder. ''What in the world, he demanded, this supposed to be, dear?' * 'Well,' replied the young woman. | th disdain, 'It looks very much like ur new soft felt hat, and that is lat I thought it ran; hut you pulled out of your pocket when you came j me last night, and told me it was a e. Juicy steak, and that you bought on the way home, and you wanted j broiled for breakfast. You can ve it all. 'Im not hungry.' "?Green ok Magazine. RST TO PERFECT REVOLVER ~I lonel Colt Has a Place In History for His Invent cn?American Makers of Ordnance. i "!ol. Samuel Colt has a world-wide no as the first man who perfected practical revolver. His first imi orit patent was taken out In 1S35, but had to face a skeptical public and r.y and navy officers refused to int permission for an official test of weapon. However, the effectiveis of the Colt revolver was shown in i Seminole war. in 1>>37. A com11 y was formed to exploit the invenn. but soon failed, as no market s found. Gen. Z:u nary Taylor, who Lnessed the work of the revolver the Seminole war, at the outbreak the Mexican war persuaded the goviment to order u thousand for the 5 of Texas rangers. Storic-s praising American revolver soon began to no back from Mexico ar. l the "forniners" made It well known. Colt artly afterward found a market in gland and orders were placed In lerica for the Crimean campaigns. P PPVnlunr r\t rUnt r\rxwi*xA U ^ ? ? . v** iuoi l?n UA1, llUWCVCl, s a clumsy ucapon compared to the >es In use today. Gatling, Maxim, mlngton, Parrott ard Dalilgren are mes of other Americans who sua ne *s rifle and ordnance makers. Not New-Laid. Some workmen on an ostrich farm South Africa one day found a live ell left by some artillery men who d been at target practice on the tiins a few days before. Not knowK it was loaded, they whitewashed it id placed it in an ostrich's neat, inking to play a joke upon the bosf. The next morning ono of the hands, i Irishman, came around to look foj ;gR, and finding, as he thought, a rgo one, he seized on it at once. In his astonishment at finding it 89 avy he dropped it, with the resist at it exploded with direful effect. Pgt as hurled several yards away, but, rangely enough, beyond lying unned for a few minutes, he was unirt. "Whew! boys!" he murmured, hen he recovered his speech, "bedad, at igg was the stalest I iver knocked :ross!" f - n r ECIwUARY 18,1016. x SOLOMON ON ENGLISH BENCH 7! Judge 8uggeeted That Half-Starved Pi Bear Be Allowed to Eat Lame Pony. A showman named Viso Marklnkovitch. belonging to a band of Serbian ce gypsies, was charged the other day \ at West London with 111 treating a po brown bear and a pony. th Inspector Hrockhouse said the bear is was tied by the nose and neck to a t'oi van, and fell down when its chain ha was undone. It was in a neglected tw condition, and when offered some oil pieces of bread "simply took them ar like pills," bolting the food ravenous- sh l> ?1.1-1. -1? "- > ?- ? /. a uc J, wuitll ? tio clIBU llt'U IU I lilt the van, was lame. Both animals ta< were being dragged along. su The prisoner, through an interpret- ar' er, declared he was ill. and It a doctor ale would certify him well he would be ] willing to go to prison tor twenty | wl years. th< A veterinary surgeon said the bear thi wanted feeding up, but It was cruelty so! to allow the pony to live. W' "Then it would be better If the bear ate the pony," the judge Bald, "for the P? bear would then be fed and the pony I Pa would be out of Its misery. I understand that these wild and carnivorous ' animals have to be kept half starved . or they become dangerous?" sh "That is so," said the witness, "but to not so much as In this case." A remand was granted, not to en- a able the bear to eat the pony, but to cli allow the prisoner to engage an attor- i ney.?London Chronicle. an pe SCIENTISTS KEEP AT WORK *nnt or; Turmoil of War Seems to Have Had co, Little Effect on the Develop- We ment of Ideas. So thick and fast come the devel- w opments of science in these days that men are losing their sense of astonish- If ment. The impossible becomes the actual so often that it is unsafe to say that anything cannot be done. A few months ago the first telephone i message was transmitted across the usi continent. Today we hear that a "V still greater distance has been covered a by a wireless telephone. Forty years po< ago a current of electricity could not lis be made to jump more than a few of inches through a vacuum. Today or there is no known limit to it, or rath- tin or to the capacity of now instrument* frs to detect it. Some electrical en- eni gineers believe that messages could be as sent to the moon, and perhaps out into mt inlinito space through the ether Just hb as easily as from San Francisco to lie Honolulu through the atmosphere, a | With all this, no man can tell what set electricity is. All wo know about It hn Is that when a certain thing is done on certain results follow.?Now York eai Commercial. a i . thi Rare Old Bible. \ ro1 I. G. Glltner, 224 Harris avenue, Is in the possessor of a Bible which he says has been In his family more than al> 100 years, relates the Indianapolis wh News. This Bible was In the flood eVl In West Indianapolis and was rescued ev< though In a somewhat damaged con- ga ditlon. It Is a folio of more than 1,000 pages and contains not only the generally accepted books of the Old and New Testaments, but the apocryphal ^ books of the Old Testament. It is print- Jo ed in rare old German text, and the illustrations, which are numerous, appear to bo of a much earlier date than fl). the book itself. The following is a translation of a part of the full-page title of the book: "Blblia: That is the on!ire Holy Scripture of the Old unci New Testaments with their transj lation into our German mother-tongue i as begun bv Herr Doctor Martin Lufin ther in 1522 and completed in 1534; , I and afterward with the summaries of ^ i Herr Johann Sanberti; also with dlI verse; instructive explanations above 1 evt ry chapter, by Herr Doctor Salo- 1fl rnon; now provided with entirely new v ' and beautiful copper pictures; with a " preface by Herr Johann Michael Dill- ? herrn. Published by the Johann Andrea Trades company, 17S8, Nurem-? Motorcyclist Riding Nightmare. C. H. Sargent, a motorcycle racer of Indianapolis, suffered a broken leg p(. in a race at Vlncennes, Labor day. tn and was in the hospital there for sev- ^j, eral weeks. Ho had a bad night shortly after be- ng i lng taken to the hospital. The ward nn was quiet when the whole hospital flv was startled by hearing Sargent yell: "Hold her. Newt, hold her!" a catch saying among motorcyclists when a machine seems to be go??"- ' for the rider .vaiues came rushing rit( in, fearful that Sargent would fall out of bed. When he reached Sargent the t^1 latter was lying comfortably with a rather foolish look on his face. "Did you call?" asked the Intern^ "Why, io," said Sarajpt, "hut 1 j could use a drink of water." ar' _______________ | of Three True Steels. 11 Iron and carbon steel, vanadium ' steel, and tungsten steel, are pointed 811 sill* ho D.?? I /\ ? -? I th uuv uj e iui< j . u, nnioiu, oruma metallurgist, as the three true steels. The second kind is iron and carbon : 9teel with Ave per cent of vanadium, **' the Iron carbide having ceased to ex- *a 1st. and vanadium carbide being pres- Wl ent. and the third kind is iron and !l" < arbon steel having 11.6 per cent of ? tungsten, the iron carbide having neen 1 na expeiied by the tungsten. Iron and ^ carbon st*el hardens at 730 degrees , !" C.; riridium stoel. Just below 1450 I a degrees, its melting point, and tung- , | stan steel at 860 degrees to 1,200. TT 1 {L . S TO THE MAKING OF PINS -ocess Is An Intricate and Interesting One, All Conducted by Machinery. To make a pin is an Intricate pro88, but it la all done by machinery, spool of brass wire running on steel j sts is fed Into jaws which bite off ; e length of the pin. A small length left to make the head, which is rmed by three rapid blowB of a mmer which moves forward oneentleth of an Inch at each blow. The ti then drops to an incline in which i e grooves deep enough to admit the I ank, but not the head. As the Din ! >ves down its point comes In const with & cylinder with a file-like rface, which causes the pin to turn Dund so that it ta sharpened on all les. It next drops into a receptable lere a layer ot pins is placed, and en a layer of finely ground tin until e pan is filled. Heat and a chemical lutlon coat the pins with tin. They e then polished in a barrel revolving pldly. They are placed in the pars by a machine, which seizes the per and crimps It Into divisions as de as the length of the pins. The bottom of the box is made of uare steel bars, which allow the anks but not the heads of the pins pass through. The bars are In mon, thus shaking down the pins until row Is formed, when they are imped in place by the bars. A fold paper Is pushed up against them d pressed Into place. This is rested until the paper is full, when other takes its place. It all sounds xicate. but being done by machinV it is rapid and cheap, else we aid not have the billions of pins that ! waste.?Exchange. ELL, NOW, WHAT IS THE USE You Feel That Way About Anything, <t Certainly Is "No Use"?to You. Sometimes people ask: "What's th? a of dressing children so nicely?" 'hat'b the use of spending time on flower garden? What's the use of etry? Why not say it in plain Engh? We answer: What's the use tho dimple on the baby's cheek, the sheen on the pigeon's neck, or a flash of the bluebird's wing, or the igrance of the rose? Singularly i ough. the poet is regarded by many an unpractical and unproductive ?mber of society?a drone in the ,'e of industry. Many people beve that it would be better to put pick and shovel into his hands and : him at some "useful task." But. i ppily. life is not constituted solely the plck-and-shovel principle. The rtn is not flat, and the sky is not metallic vault. On the other hand, is little globe of ours is on the most mantle of Journeys, bathing Itself the very elements of magic as it I ?b, and surrounded by the unutterle poetry of the Infinite expanse itch surges through every star and ery child, every grass blade and ery smallest grain of dust In our rden path.?Gems Old Men Are on Top. Oldish men still remain on top In Is war after a year of hard fighting, in four conspicuous commanders are ffre of the French, Von Hlndenburg the Germans, French of the English d Grand Duke Nicholas of the Rusins. All are well up in the sixties. That Is an unusual circumstance. iosar was a young man when he inded Gaul. Alexander was a boy ion ho made his great conquests, ipoleon became the military meteor earth before ho was thirty, and ho d Wellington were only forty-six ion * hey met at Waterloo for tho it fight either ever witnessed. Washington was but forty-ftvo when wintered at Valley Forgo, and ho is not yet fifty-six when Cornwallls rrondered to him his army at Yorkivn. Grant was only forty-three re: stood at Appomattox. Stonewn". ckson had won a military record f. time before he was killed at thir II lilt?. Von Molke was the exception, p.s hA is Roventy when, 15 years ago tfc'a turner, he trapped the armies of anco in six weeks. But these si en* he the days when ago gets *he urns. Didn't our governor Just designate ' Pennsylvania's three greatest men e seventy-three, another seventye and a third seventy-seven?? lirard," in Philadelphia Ledger. ?- ? j Why Gary la Gary. 'The formation of the new immense lei company in Pennsylvania, with , E. Corey as president, refreshes e mind as to tho reason why Inma's magic iron city on Lake Mlchlin came to be called Gary," said Dr. . B. Clarke. "When the town was uuded it was to be called Corey, i ter this same Mr. Corey, thon head j the United States Steel Corporation. ten occurred the Corey matrimonial lsode in New York, which unnecearlly alarmed sensitive capital, and 1 o present name, Gery, was selected. obably the new company can now ve a town named Corey. Judge ayo of the new tgwn now called try, was selected as a committee to lit on Mr. E. H. Gary in Now Y'ork, w the head of the steel corporation, obtain his permission to use his me in that connection?and it took n trim ?n ?ot l? Thot thla la tha ue reason why Gary Is Gary Is own by the fact that this story is 1(1 Just as Judgo Mayo told It to me." Indianapolis News. BIB WORDS CHANGE IN MEANING I Sometime* Through the Centuries I They Became Contradictory? H Two Great Examples. Ejj It Is a curious habit that history re- I veals, that of stripping a word of M original meaning and clothing it with U a meaning radically different. We n were told in our high school days that H Slav meant originally, "master." and H that when the Slavs were captured In great numbers by the more civilized S nations of Europe and Impressed *1 into involuntary servitude, they gave ? their once proud name to he used for- ! ever to designate the condition ot fl slavery. Modem etymologists are in- n clined to scout the Idea that the word '1 Slav came from the old Bulgarian fi "slava," which slgniiled "glory," but ;|1 In the case of another perverted word .]1 there Is no dispute. That word la 41 "Mameluke." l In Turkey a mameluke was a slave II hoy, usually a Circassian, who did || mcnlnl wnpi? i" ?? ? *- ??- - ?~ ... uuubbuoiq or tne master. About the year 1200 a great body of these slaves were sold by Genghis Khan to the ruler of Egypt. In 60 years they had seized the government, assassinated the monarch and elected one of their number to the throne. Their government lasted until 1617, when they were overthrown by Selim I, sultan of Turkey, but they continued to be a power in the army until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Mehmet All had them massacred, because no ruler could ever feel secure on his throno as long as the cavalry wing of his army wfcp composed of mamelukes. Their vvry name had come to signify the masterful qualities that belong not to the slave, but to the conqueror. Wood's Productive Seed Corns. Our Virginia-grown Seed Corns have an established reputation for superiority in productiveness and germinating qualities. Wood's Descriptive Catalog tells about the best of prize-winning and profit-making varieties in both White and Yellow "o. Cotton Seed. We offer the best and most improvod varieties, grown in sections absolutely free from boll weevil. j Our Catalog gives prices and infor- V mation, and tchs at>out the best of | Southern Seeds, j 100-DAY VELVET BEANS. Soi* I Beans, SUDAN GRASS, DallU Grass and all Sor&hums and Millets. Catalog mailed free on request. T.W.WOOD Ct SONS. SEEDSMEN. - Richmond, Va. Deafness Cannot Be Curedh^ by local application*, aa they cannot roach tba d'?< ascil portion of tho car. There la only ona tray to euro deafness, and that la by conatltutlon. al remedies. I>cafue*s la cauaed by an inflamed condition of the mncotia lining of the Kuatachlan Tube. When tlila tube la tnflunicd you hare r rumbling aound or Imperfect bearing, and wh?\ It 1* entirely cloaed Deafuess 1* the reault, and j nnleaa the inflammation can bo taken out and thla tube restored to it* normal condition, bear- I lug will be destroyed forerer; nine case* out of ; ten tire cauaed br Catarrh. v;hlcU la nothing but an Indnmod condition of the mucou* aurfacea. , We will give t)ne Hundred Dollars for any case of Denfne.a (cauaed by catarrh) that cannot W ! rured by llall'a Cctnrrh Cure. Send for clrcu* | 'ara, free. t F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. I Sold by Pmgglats, 75c. j Tako llal. a t'uuilly l'ill* foi constipation, i SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of tlie South. PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES. T' ..ins arrive Lar.c: t'.er from: ,'c. 118?Yorkvlllr, Rock Hill and Intermediate stu'.lon. 8:dl a. m J'o. 113?Charleston, Columbia and Intermediate Canons 11? r 05 a. m. .'o. 114?Marion, Blacksburg, Ch-rlotto and Intermediate stations, 1:35 p. m. # \. in?Columbia, Klngsvllle and atermediate stations, 7:41 p. m. r. .ting leave Lancaster for: eo i 18?Klngsvllle, Columbia and Intermediate stations, 8:31 a. m. 110 U.oie TTMI nt % . nuva 11II I, OliirKSDlirg. Marlon, Charlotte and Inter^. mediate stations, 10:05 a. m. Nt>. 114?Ktngsvllle. Columbia, Charleston and Intermediate statlous 1:36 .. No 117?Rock Kill, Yorkv'llo and Intermediate stations, 7:41 p. m. Schedule figures are published as Information only, not guaranteed. For Information as to passenger fares etc., call on Lancaster & Chester Ey. Co. Schedule <n Effect August 15, 1915. Eastern Time. WESTBOUND. Lv. Lancaster ...6:00am?2:30pm Lv. Fort Lawn ..6:30am?4:08pm Lv. Mascoinvllle ..6:45am?4:28pm Lv. Richburg ....6:55am?4:43pm Ar. Chester 7:30am?5:26pm EA8TBOUND. Lv. Chester .... 9:00am?6:4Spni Lv. Richburg ... 9:45am?7:27pm Lv. Baacomvllle .10:00am?7:38pm Lv. Fort Lawn ..10:30am?7:55pm Ar. Lancaster ...11:00am?8:26pm Connections?Chester with Southern. Seaboard and Carolina & Northwestern Railways. Fort Lawn, with Seaboard Air Line Rnllways. liiwicjBwr ,wui southern Railway. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 (>nys. Votir drngrriat will refund money If PAZO UINTMHNT lilk to tir? any cite of Itching. BUnd. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 day*. The first application glees Sih and Bast. 30q?