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WHAT HE WANTED L 1! Among Summer Boarder Desired a Taste of His Boyhood Days. T1)e m#I * emnlze a ' lindane of Ho Got a Great Deal More Than Ho r.,OU?_ai , Expected, But He Wee Game and K Had No Complaint to Make. ag the wedding b "Ever since my wife and I begun to Persian bi keep slimmer boarders," remarked -phg pe Caleb Peaslee, "we've tried to give 'em from one I what they wanted. If- 'twas anything tlon. Oft( you could call within the bounds of 0f many j reason." arranged t Mr. Hyne caressed his chin with the ctpals wer hack of his hand and looked at Caleb the time t keenly. guests are "What you tryln' to get at?" he ^ about asked; and then, without waiting to bearing gi learn, "What kind of a critter Is thnt roses to omisti man that I've noticed round When son your place lately?" he demanded. be lnvlte<] "That's the critter I had In mind groom doe when I begun to tell you," Mr. Penslee himself, b replied, "and In some ways he's about he can aff the most cur'us boarder we've ever Before I took. We've tried hard to satisfy him, curi?us nt and fr'm what he told us this inornlu' tercd lute I guess we've made out. "kaben," < "When he fus? come," Caleb went on, 8Utn j8 ngi "he told us that he'd been born In the j payment c country and lived there till he was flf- can pUt _ teen years old, and then his folks When It te moved to the city and he'd lived there j dlfllcult, tl ever since. He'd never hnd a chauee j possible s\ to get back to the country for's much band may as a week till this summer, and he lyide a 1 wanted to have things as near the way , wings, or they was when he wus a boy es we , fore he ci could make 'em. j which gen "The fust night," Caleb continued, 1 permanent "we put him In a big room In the front j The act part of the main house, with four win- tend over ders and a good spring bed. Ooine rooms In morning, he didn't c'inpluin exactly, j rich foods but gave more or less p'tlculars 'bout and dancli the room he used to sleep In when he tain them, was a boy; so after breakfast I sot bride and myself to the task of tlndln' out, If I sport of t could. Jest what he did want, and when by a pair I fln'ly got It through my head I After t couldn't believe It for a spell, nor my three or wife, either. What he really wanted, heavily v< 'cordln' to him, was an open room In horseback, the attic, where he could sleep on a bearing he husk bed. wedding c? "That was yest'dny, and last night severul da he went to sleep up In the attic. You know what a br'illn' hot day It was Th yest'day? Well, I mistrust that attic The tak must have been n good deal like an czar's lam oven, and the only way to get nny com- fact thnt fort ut all would be to open the win- book, "Tl flers, and they ain't screened. I had liabed a fe Idea that he'd find the mosquitoes gathered 1 full's thick as he'd care 'bout bavin' facts, stat *om hlit I u*n'nU n'nnroil OM,,f * nrt * ?, ....? . ...... .. * . v Bian peast like his looks when he came down- H second stairs this mornlu'. His efes looked new addlt slf they was swelled 'bout shut and without a his hands and neck?well, they was a selves." 1 sight. He had better grit than I'd ever be a slave had to stuy there uu hour, let alone all he wus st night. ter's tools "And further'n thnt." said Caleb, "he owners's 1 stood there In the doorway this morn- "The mos In', trylu* to grin, and owned up to his Mr. Bever mistake In u way that I'd call hand- growing o some! peasant tc " 'For a number of years,' he anys, as well as I've been lookln' forward to the time patlon. when I could get hack to things as I Russian p had 'em when I was a boy,' s'he, 'and a Russian last night I did?good and plenty. I he tolerat guess,' he says, 'that I'm like a good American many others?I didn't remember the au of this discomforts of boyhood as well as J impertlner did the pleasures, but last night to wrong t brought 'em bock to me plnln! faintest cc " 'That husk bed,' he says, kind of peasant th hunchln' up his shoulders, 'was Jest as jn what li hard and Just as full of lumps as the did the 111 one I used to have, and the room was tlnues to < full as hot?I ain't sure but It wus a course." mite hotter,' s'he grtunln' kind of sheepish. 'But,' he says, 'I've got to j w* nU , give up that even when I was a boy I novations, never saw any such mosquitoes. They QU8 l8 '( prob'bly wa'n't anywhere near as big fected aft as doves nor as'savage as wolves,' ho Wilfred Fi says, 'but It seemed to me they was? | cur j.;t.ksU and wuss'n that! \ nn and u ' 'Now,' s'he, *1 want you both to slty Q{ ^ understand that I nln't complalnln' at i ^ ls 8U all. I'm Jest satisfied that I've had Dakln soU things as I've been, wantln' to have I everytljinK em for a number of vears. And now.' hp says to iny wife, sudden-like, 'how c?" ,e, ua bout that wlteh-hn/el? Ain't that ^domlna! good for insect bites?' | <llrectly 11 "And that's the way I left him," K<>?h Caleb continued, "doctorln' up his bites J* as and llstenln' to my wife's sympathlzin' %af, 8 while she told him how comf'table she ? j<KM ** was goln' to make him In the front ^ ^lle room from now on."?Youth's Compan- t,on lnto t ion. mean eerti tlon, a ch Willis?The Highfliers are going to munganaU give up their big house this winter. rectly lnt< Mrs. Willis?You must be mistaken, disturbing I was talking with Mrs. Highflier only evil eleine yesterday. Willis?Well, I was talking with the Two ?^ mortgagee only this morniug.?Puck. at each o < C. A. How muny of us will muke the In- "Who e creased duty on tobacco a Jumplng-off- salesman i place for total abstinence? Probably "One Is more In Great Britain that would be tlve unsw the case, say, In Holland, where the editor of i average smoker consumes four times "What's as inuch tobacco as does the Kngllsn- "Well," man, says the London Chronicle. that at oi An ingenious German a few years the magic! ago worked out the rank of countries haudkereh la smoking. After Holland, which him up a tnes easily the first place, come Aus- "The mi tiro, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium end sidd: and Germany. Modest places are tak- ' 'Thanh en by France, Sweden and Spain, with one clepn Britain almost at the foot, next to And eve Italy and Russia. The United States insisted tl smoker makes the nearest approach log to th< to the Dutchman's eight ounces with hotel man Uis consumption of three ounces a ' editor's p week Washlngto thk la: KEDDINGS IN PERSIA' pilUP ?, Continuing Several Day^ ! ( Moat Curioue and Elabo- I n?. ?? w.Hd. . Serbian In Tlage ceremonies which sol- World's wedding among the MohamPersia ore among the most ad elaborate In the world. N#w D|#cov rican bridegroom who dls- M w. t men are wont to describe an 188 and bother" of a formal Statea bould regard the case of his rother and take heart. The man 1 rslan ceremony may take telephony p< to two weeks for Its coraple- that he ha( :n the betrothal Is a matter ' that would rears' standing, having been from static >y the parents when the prln- same troubU e still yonng children. When ' transcontlne 'or the marriage arrives the j Prof. Mlcha summoned by heralds, who 'lAmerica In the neighboring villages, immigrant, lft? of apples, cloves and City Times, accompany the invitations. ! have netted le powerful personage Is to : most recent I, the father of the bride- him in a st 8 not send a herald, but goes dred thousai earing as rich a present as :| Wireless t ord to give. been subjecl (he wedding there is also a a composite tie business arrangement en- jical trouble >. This Is the matter of static lnterf ir the prHce of divorce. Additions it is reed upon In advance by the a wireless i ?f which the future husband and during islde his wife at any time, day traustnl i desired to make the divorce tion. tie kaben is set at some 1m- Professor nil or commodity. The bus- ago thet hi be required to give the the problem lundredwelght of mosquito ' he had perf one of his arms or legs, be- knew that i in divorce lier, a condition ments. The orally makes the ninrrluge a time of war affair. give the sid< uul wedding festivities ex- vantage ove days. The guests are given son Profess* the house and served with would not r and sweetmeats. Musicians his lnventlo tig girls are hired to enter- war, and and If the families of the should be tli groom are rich the favorite 1 This onehe Persians may be staged ! also is the it of professional wrestlers. j tern of oceai he celebration lias lasted 1 $200,000 for four days the bride rides I "loading" c lied to her new home on telephony p< She Is followed by porters : the dlfflcultl r-dowry on their hacks. The i ephony. II< deb nit Ion then continues for world's fore ys longer. I It was to i j that I'upln e Russian Peasants. no dream :ing over of some of the then; he wi Jed possessions recalls the occupation. Albert J. Beveridge, in his j York he did le Itu. -jlan Advance," pub- from one Jol w years ago and in which he j came n fnrn lolitlcal, sflclal and economic The dnughte es that even then the Ilus-' ested the S int was looking forward "to , and Pupln w emancipation, giving them determined ions of land absolutely and worked as i ny cost whatever to them-' hath shop ai iVhen the peasant censed to led at the he did not comprehend that Union. He ill not free to use his mas- when a fri or to cut from the land- Rcholnrshlp I forests timber for his use. able to hob t curious situations," says students. F idge, "ure even yet arising, Columbia ui ut of this inability of the bridge and 1 ? comprehend the obligation Berlin, whe the benefits of his emancl- German mas Liberties are taken by the ne fame 1 easnnt with the property of fessor at C(, proprietor which would not was not con led for an Instant by an ?t once turn In the same situutlon. In his scientific c there is not the slightest aa an Invent ice, not the least intention ? he landed proprietor, nor the i,jm that \vh inception on the part of the time to som at there Is anything Immoral quired to gh le does. He or his fathers 8jty work, ke before, and he Just con- fj,e Serh Jo the same as a matter of years ago a to humanity consul genet the remarkable medical In- probably the most marvel- When I s lew antiseptic solution per- time, fully < er ten years' work l>y, I)r. were still hl< rallck of New York; Dr. Oh- j?g that tl In of the University of Ber- driven on, s r. A. C. Allen of the Unlver- National <J? icngo. streets were jerlor to the famous Carrel- remained or ition because, In addition to French soldi that preparation can do, It He chorus; a ed on the brain und In the the only gu cavity and cun be Injected the Italian < lto the blood without dan- never a llghl I have ne\ : named qunlity makes It of as In wande ilgnltlcance in the treatment white, moc olsonlng. regiment of i ? put the Carrel-Dakln solu- hobnails sen he veins of a patient would down on the aln deuth, the new prepara- took the cu Jorinated solution of per- town. > of potash, can be ^*un dl-. Then an E ? the blood stream without asked the so anything there except the to expect f nts meant to be attacked, , from no oth< I ' h nere, n sut glaring aud glw-enng! nno? v ther In a provincial Y. Al.! fling-song to tre the two grouches?" a Policemen asked. side In New our hotel proprietor," a na- to about ered, "and the other Is the amazement i the local paper." i tton of the got their goat?" | about them said the native, "It seems', new or lue: ir school treat last eveuing the cop on lan uskcd for the loan of a found one. lef, and somebody handed mange.v fur big squure of muslin. 'street light, nglclun unfolded the square at that pnrti up to remov* : goodness there's at least ?it was an sheet in this towq.' " ?halted hln r since then the editor has sleepy one. mt the magician was allud chance to i i hotel bedclothes, and the light. Don't i has insisted that it was th? on purpose." a per was being knocked*? neatly rolled n Star. It originally ROASTER NEWS TUESDAY, OCT. 2, 191 riur urdc was filled with curiosity ' ""? HUtt H# Wat Ju,t w,|t|?Q t0 Sec Whether ???? Wife Would Carry Out Throat , . ? . _ to Go Back to Mother's. imigrant Now One of Greatest Scientists. Thc ninn wns 8tnnd,np beh,nd a tree In front of nil apartment house in a cross street when the cop on that beat ery te Add to Weelth of '"I""""" "',","1 ?? ' It was close to midnight and naturally > a mo o e n ed tjle CQp amj looked at the man i Penniless In 1874. standing behind the tree. "Howdy," says the cop. by way of who made transcontinental opening conversation. isslble announced recently "You're another," replied the man i 1 completed an Invention good-naturedly. free wlrelees telegraphy "Whucliuh doln'?waltln' for someInterference, much the body?" Inquired the brave policeman. ] i that so long hindered the "Nope." ntul telegraph. He Is "Just stnndln' there, hey?" el I. Pupln, who came to "You've hit It." 1874 a penniless Serbian "L,lve near here, do you?" according to the Kansas "Right In there," says the cltlsen. His Inventions already jerking his thumb In the direction of i him 51,000,000 and his the apartment house he was standing one probably will bring in front of. im running Into the bun- The cop looked at him thoughtfully ids. for a minute. rnnsmlsslon has heretofore "Mebby it's none of my business," he t to one serious handicap, says, "and then again mebby It Is. I of atmospheric and phys- don't like to go 'round buttln' Into anys known to scientists as body's private nfTnlrs, but tell me, erence. Under such con- neighbor, what's your graft, anyhow?" ? often liupc sslble to get "Well," loosened up the citizen, "If uessage through for days It's a case of me a-tellln' you or you portions of almost every croakln* from curlostty right In front sslou Is out of the ques- of my eyes, I'll tell you how It Is? provided It don't go any further. My Pupln announced a year wife says to me when I started down; believed he had solved town this evenln', 'If you're not home Recently he stated that I>y midnight I'm goln' to pack up and ected Ills device and now go right back to mother's. So there !' " t would meet all require- "Well?" says the cop. valuo of his Invention In "Well," repeated the citizen, "It's is tremendous, as It would Jl,st about midnight now, and I'm like ? possessing It a great ad- y?l?I've got curiosity. I'm waitln' r Its foes. For that rea- here to see If she's goln' to keep her ir Pupln asserted that he word." nuke public the secret of The cop's curiosity ceased at that n until the close of the point, and he walked on down the that the United States street, whistling, without waiting to le tirst to possess It. sop thing out.?Cleveland Plain time Serbian Immigrant Healer, iventor of the present sys- " ii leiepnony. no received insurance roucy an Marriage, thnt Invention. The siune "The Important thing Is that the inoil that rendered ocean surnnce policy?big or little?should tsslhle also put an end to coniP ,nto every home with the mares of transcontinental tel- rhtge license. It should precede the ? is rated as one of the savings hank account, the home, yes, most electrical scientists, even new clothes, or hotter on the escape service in the armv tnt?l??. No man has u right to take a lied to America, lie had P,rI out of hcr '"titer's home without of becoming a scientist Pr?tectlng her from starvation In case anted only some peuceful the accident of death. When he lunded in New "There comes the unhappy word not have n cent. Drifting again?death. Yet the shadow of it > to another, he finally he- need not rest heavily upon us. The uni hand in New York state, fortunate thing about n will is thnt it r of the farm owner inter- ls associated In the average man's lerblnn lad in education; life only with death. It should he ent hack to New Y'ork city associated with life. The time for a man to acquire learning. He to make n will Is todny, while he can a masseuse in a Turkish do it with a smile on his lips, nnd the id in his spnre hours stud- Jests and good wishes of Ills witnesses night school of Cooper ringing cheerily in his oars. Such a progressed so fast that ninn cannot cheat death of its ultlend obtained for him a mate victory; hut he robs it of its In Adelphla college he was Bt'ng. for he has mnde death powerless i his own with the other to bring poverty and distress to those mm Adelphla he went to who are left behind."?Woman's Home niverslty, then to Cam- Companion. Innlly to the University of re he studied under the many parts or the country ueuges ter scientists 8r<* tuking the place of fences, and the iinck to America ns n pro- change ls certainly a desirable one ilumbla university, but he from, the standpoint of beauty. They .tent merely to each; he *?ulre ,ltt e- lf ?ny. more care than ed to the practical use of ? nnd ?re, oq"u,,y as ^ ' knowledge. So valuable <)f courso' m/an he?KKea ? . .. . .. ~ ,?m,, are more desirable for fields than or ls ho that the Columbia , . ? fences, but as a surrounding for the tave an arrangement with . 1 . . . ., ? . . . .. ki, house und yard they are preferable. en he wishes to devote his ^J , , , ' . , , ? . . . . . There are two general kinds of hardy ie invention he ls not re- . , . . 7, , . , hedges, the deciduous nnd evergreen, re any attention to univer out the rormer Is more common In this . . , cotintry and seems to meet with the linn government severnl . . , .. , . , , , . . . , . most favor. In planting deciduous icknowl.dged his services Bhrubg g 4 w|(le ?nd ? > ma ng in onorary j,K.|?,s ,i00p should be dug the length a! to .New \ork. <)f tfae rnw A (lra,nage should then _ . he provided of broken stone and the aw Monastir ror .art ,u.d wUh he Wst 8o? u ,s one-half of Its population tf) ,n ,ftnt, Cftr<1 9houl(1 ling in the cellars and hop- ,)(i tnken fo?ow thp dlrec(|on glven *e Bulgarians might be thp nurfle in> so that when the ays Herbert Corey. In the shrubs niHture ,h(.y wlll be close ,.graphic Magazine The o h toK,t,l(T^:x(.hnnge. empty. The one cafe that ten was tenanted only by As well die a Jew or a Christian as ers singing a rousing Gal- not make the pilgrimage to Mecca, said nd In the single restaurant Mahomet; and no obligation of Islam Is ests besides myself were more piously discharged. It is believed flicers. At night there Is that the ritual connected with the visit t in the city. to the Ka'nbn?the "square building"? er felt so absolutely alone an(j the kissing of the blnek stone go ring through these broad, back to days of Idolatry, the "time of nlit streets. When a ignorance" before the new faith tired men shuffled by, their bloomed, says the London Chronicle. nping on the cobbles. I sat m jut- uiui'k siorie, wmcn measures curb to watch them. They ai>0ut six Inches by eight, Is believed irse of emptiness oflf the bave from l'nradlse, to have been guarded during the deluge and inglish officer came up and handed to Abraham by Githriel when rt of a question one learns the Ka'uba was built. Certain purts rom an Englishman and 0f the ceremonial?the throwing of r man on earth. stones at the devil, and fhe Imitation said he, "can I find a pi- of Hugar's distracted wanderings In iaut to have a sort of a the desert, are supposed to have had night." significance for the pre-Mohammedan times as well as for Islam, on duty along the East York become accustomed Meaning of "America." everything and reg ster Whaf d(>eg the word ..Ainerlca? only after long consldera- meanj Few know. It is derived from thousands of odd things ^ word Amabrlc, a proper name when they find someth ng wh|ch repre8onted tbe old Germanic tplalnable. One morning l(,pn, of hero|gm ftnd leader8h,p. Tbpn the Second avenue bea ||m> Nonnnn French softoned ? to ' * V' 're< 8n< Amaury. Then In Italy they changed 21 niTStol " <? "? '"< making the sidewalk dark the ..p. and tbe ..r? pothered the eular spot. As he cllmhed . .. . , , . .. . Italians, and It became Amerrlgo, and ? It a voice from the house ? ,, ... ? ?>? .. v. . ., . . . finally with one "r. Thus it became Irritable and sleepy voice _ . , , .. . ... . "(let awav " roared the th<> narm> of Amer,8? Vespucci, a Horah i k V i . ? entlne merchant and ejtplorer. And It "All night I don t get a . . . ... . . . ... . la In honor of his voyages of exploraileep on account of that 4l . .. .' * . ,, _ tourh.lt; I put It out there """ "orS V " < f"T After which the coot wa? Mortln WoMtuuenul er b, I nntl .taurine.) bttek where ""?? _ . ^ continent.?Ladles' Home Journal. carof I row. 7. Bothered by Asthma, 'ity the "Vap-O-Rub" T? lieves by Inhalation and tion. No Stomach D No need to disturb yoor i internal medicines for th Vick's "Vap-O-Rub" Salve, < special process?Menthol. T lvptol, Camphor and PineTai applied to the heat of the b VTCK'S IiUIllt NO CiENTL Mnrse Henry Wnttorsai llim Willi Jrffcr: (From Louisville Couri Jefferson, whom Jot hated and whose philosc ilton abhorred, was, a according to both of th< tleman." Hurr was no rssentially si low fellow cent issue of "The Outlo man Abbott gives si new ed bit of testimony to It ions qualities. He finds interesting historical pa cribinsr what la hnltovo/ "oldest hotel in America man Arms at Rhinebeck ! son. Under the man twenty-two successive 1 has been continuously inn since 1700. room," says this pampt same that all the guests great and humhle have y y y l Deposit 1 I The Fi V V y >; Our sonn in?j holds s; > elation. y Deposits through ea this hank b Isponsibility The intei of Deposit highest pos? security foi We invite < "muity to (1 and assure eourteous a we do to tli The Fii ciias. i)., k. m. cwo: Fh'KD AD; % An Ambi ! "y HE needs of t ! of the Southern I / J (he upbuildinr of the i A 2 The Southern R*1 /I J accorded to other*. I 2 The arr.Mtlon of I y i on>f of Intereat that I I < the railroad*i to tee pe I ment of railroad* wl ^ acenrlr*| to realize tl -ny- to OOtaiQ the additiuna ^ enlarped facllltlea Inci I aervjcci and, finally? To take Ita niche I other rrrat Induatriea, | rif Lit and ojual oppofl ^3^ " The Sou Southerx 7 ? Catarrh, Bronchitis, * Head or Chest Colds?' Kdionts arc released in the form of vapors, eso boo thing, medicated vapors an in. 1 Abaorp- haled all night long throngh the air paaea. i ' gee to the luugs, looseniug the phlegm, *' soothing the inflamed membrane, and akU Btomach with ing the body cells to drive ont the invad. oee troubles, ing germs. 3omV?ilii?a hv * In Vl-t-u i_ -i - ? t iuk B in Biworoea IQTOOgft bytnol, Eac?- the poree, reducing the inflammation and , bo that when taking out that tightness and ft 11 i mii ody, theae in- 25c, 60c, or $1.00. At all draggiata.'iJ' EM AN. in. The fireplace there is the eame before which one night in 1813 Aai Compares ton Burr and (Jon. John Armstrong son. sat chatting when Miss Eliza Jarer.Journal.) uues. daughter of the landlord, enin Marshall tered to pass through to the kiteh>pliies Ham- en. Burr imperiously ordered her iceording to to bring him a bootjack. She modem. "a gen- estly replied: 'It is not my place to t. He was bring you a bootjack, but I will orIn a re- dor a negro to do it.' Burr sprang ok" Dr. Ly- up angrily, and shaking his fist at lv discover- her. shouted: 'By God. you are not urr's obnox- too good to bring me a boot jack'' i this in an (Jen. Armstrong sprang in front of mphlet des- Burr, and. shaking his fisl in turn 1 to be the at him. cried: 'By God. sir. she is the Beck- too good to bring you a bootjack, -on-the-Hud- and if you say that again I'll knock agement of you down, sir-' Burr subsided: he landlords, it knew that the general was an esopen as an pert swordsman. Gen. Armstrong The dining lived long in the house, an honored ilet, "is th? guest. He was United States Senof the pas4, ator from New York: minister to broken fast Prance, and Secretary of War." II I I V y y four Cotton Checks In j rst National Bank ????? ' V V id policv of conservative bank- > ufety above every other eonsid ' V V arc at all times protected > reful guidance of the affairs of J' v a directorate of recognized re- v 1 and broad experience.. V est rate we pay on Certificates and Savings Accounts is the isible consistent with absolute * funds. e every farmer in Lancaster * leposit his cotton checks with us > them the same welcome and ' ttenton to the small account, as y e large ones. >! V V y v rst National Bank |i LANCASTER, S. C. ! : JONES, President. < NTON. V. Pres. and Cashier. I VMS, Assistant Cashier. > > MM?# ition and a Record : he South are identical with the nerds ! J lailway i the rrowtb at.J iuccch of one means ! \ / xb"' ! \) Itray asks no farort?no special prMlere not , JF I the Southern Railway Company It to tee that i ???*?* t born of co-operation between the public and e-w rfected that fair and frank policy in the manaye- J j >ich Invltet the confidence of foverntnental , X w Itatliberality of treatment wblch *111 enable It , I I capital needed for the acquisition of better and Ident to the demand for increased and better -r I In the body politic of the Sooth nlonnldc of J with no more, bjt with e^u*l llbertlei. rousl unities. them Serves the South." H . J - - ' jr>|| 1 /" T/>*\ 1 Railway System*