Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It ^Ba|MamBIHHa|MiaaHaaBaBHaHMOBMHnM PI i liooas Sarsaparilla Will purify your blood, clear ; your complexion, restore your ! appetite, relieve your tired feel- | ing, build you up. Be sure to j take it this spring. Get it today in liquid form or in tab- ! | lets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses $1. 1 When improvements now under I way on the Trans-Siberian Railroad are completed the distance from : Paris to Pekin will be 6300 miles, in- j stead of 7500 miles, over the present , line through Harbin and Mukden. r I OPERATION UNSUCCESSFUL. 8 a Toif? nf Kirlnev Suffering. (Mrs. Emily H. Murdock, 6 Lorraine ; Place. Rochester, N. Y., says: "Kid- j ney trouble came upon me when living in Cape Town, j ? South Afr'ca. I \ consulted the best ! physicians and an operation was or- j Hospital. After j the operation^ I j managed to 'pull j together,' but was j far from a well j woman. I grew worse, the kidney i secretions had to be drawn with a i catheter. In despair I decided to try ; Doan's Kidney Pills. I rapidly recov- j ered and really do not know what I : would have done without them." Remember the name?Doan's. For \ sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. 1 Poster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ?1075 For a Fox Skin. A fine silver for skin, nearly black, 1 was brought to Edmonton, Alberta/ FeOruau^k ranking as me nnesc sKin ; show^^He in some years. * It was purcl^^^by a dealer for $1075.? ; ' fjMBBWgwMpfc Hands Cracked Open. a man seventy years old. My | raWflands were very sore and cracked ! I^^^pen on the insldes for over a year I . with large sores. They would crack | open and bleed, Itch, burn and ache i ao that I could not sleep and could do j ?>. but little work. They were so bad i that I could not dress myself in the ' morning. They would bleed and the : blood dropped on the floor. I called V on two doctors, but they did me no good. I could get nothing to do any v; good till I got the Cuticura Soap and ' . Cuticura Ointment About a year ago my daughter got a cake of Cuticura J . Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment and in one week from the time ; '-v I began to use them my hands were all healed up and they have not been a mite sore since. I would not be without the Cuticura Remedies. "They also cured a bad sore on the hand of one of my neighbor's children, and they think very highly of the Cuticura Remedies. John W. Hasty, So. Effingham, N. H., Mar. 6 and Apr. 11, 1909." : . Otter Caught in Fish Trap. The pelt of the first otter trapped v In Loyalsock Creek for many years '"* has been purchased by Michael Kel lar, a leather dealer in Williamsport. The otter measured fifty-four inches in length. It is estimated that the ' akin when tanned will be worth $150. The otter was caught by a boy who had a trap set for suckers in the creek. The otter followed a fish into the net, and becoming ensnared in the meshes drowned.?Philadelphia Record. Wife Must Pay For Own Dresses. In France the husband, being the j / recognized chief of the family, is re- , sponsible for all his wife's debts. This. ! so the Paris courts have just decided, does not apply to an Englishwoman I who buys dresses in Paris. She must j pay for them herself. In a suit brought by a firm of i dressmakers against an Englishwom- j an English laws have just been sue- ! cessfully invoked by the prosecution, j the court deciding in its favor and j sentencing the woman in question to ! pay the amount due.?Echo de Paris Ml "I SIlFFFRIWi! Ufl X JUiUim FOR YEARS Cured by Lydia E. Pink3, ham'sVegetableCompound Park Kapids, Minn.?"I was sick for P~~ "~~l years while passing through the Change of Life and was 16 : hardly able to be Aipll- around. After tak* *Sp!!l|jlj; ing six bottles of Ml Lydia E. Pinkham's **7. | vegetable Com ' pounu x gameu zv pounds, am now able to do my own W01r1k? an^ feel WKllntnll'l kMwwA M T, 4 Doit, Park Kapids, Minn. Brookville, Ohio.?"I was irregular and extremely nervous. A neighbor recommended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to me and I have become regular and my nerves are much better."?Mrs. R. Kixsrisoisr, Brookville, Ohio. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable ComEound, made from native roots arid erbs, contains no narcotic or harmful drugs, and to-day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of female diseases we know of, and thousands of voluntary testimonials are on file in the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass., from women who have been cured from almost every form of female complaints, inflammation, ulceration,displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains,backache, indigestion and nervous prostration. Every suffering woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. n^^^Jfyou want special advice write Lynn, Mass., for it* PEACE. b . t 0 my comrades, why such eagernc39 and t hasting, a Such pulping down of life and never tast- ! mg? " I am going?you may tarry here in town, s The trees do not hurry in their growing, g Aor even the little flowers to their blow- , *n?' Nor the red leaf to its fall among the si brown. You will not hide yourselves where I shall g hide me, Where fern and laurel linger green beside a me fi And soothe the hectic year with dreams ( ] of spring; , You will not Know the wild primeval feel- Sl ing w When solitude and stillness, softly stealing, e< Untie the cords that bind the spirit's , wing; D You will not hear life's undersong the cl ocean Singeth around the keen ship's quiet motion J And the cedars and the hidden rivers sing. w ?Charles W. Russell, in Everybody's Magazine. e: ir si J RIETRO. i " - - * p( ^ By Marie Sturtcvant. ^ ! A A A A A ^ b tc Marjorie slackened the speed of her runabout as she approached the k: unfinished building just beyond the Parkway. She wanted to catch a s? glimpse of her Italian. He was mix- S{ ing cement with his back toward the street, his shabby, slouched hat pulled well onto his head. She readily recognized him, his vigorous movements a< and magnificent physique distinguishing him from his heavy-limbed fel- ^ lows. She had first seen him yesterday afternoon while driving past. Her veil had blown off and had lodged in the hod of bricks borne upon the " shoulders of this sturdy son of Italy. In her work in the college settlement, Marjorie had picked up a little gc Italian, and with girlish ostentation j thanked him graciously in his native C( tongue for returning to her her property. A brilliant smile had lighted r? up the dark, soiled face. He was an unusual and interesting type. His w thick, towzled hair, which he kept uncovered while he stood by the car- e( rlage, was as black as ebony, and his ai unshaven face would have tended to m give him a rather ruffianly eppear- cj ance but for the clear eyes, as blue as tc the skies of his beloved land, as Mar- ja jorie herself put it?though this comparison was manifestly an exaggera- ci tion. The girl was young and impetuous, with just enough experience jn to feel a tender patronage toward iD these child-like immigrants. And so cc she left no embarrassment in linger- 0( ing a moment to find out, if she 0j could, how this black-browed youth eJ came by these sunny eyes. 0j "You're from Sicily?" she asked in ni Italian, with a patronizing air. tfc He hesitated; Then pulling awk- tr wardly at his front hair, and with a g] ducking bow, answered shyly, "Syra- jD cuse, Signorina." sc She could well imagine him the descendant of the old heroes of that g, historic land, but she did wish he sj. wouldn't pull at his front locks, and T: scrape the ground with his feet in sc that servile way. e, "What is your name?" n( Again he ducked clumsily. "Pie- j_j tro, Signorina." Then she handed him a coin for ^ his services, and sped away. m When nearly opposite the cement fe mixer this morning, a sharp report f0 like a pistol shot warned her that a w tire had burst. She ran the machine into the ditch and stopped. Pietro t0 was quickly at her side, proffering his te assistance in soft Italian, with a dis- 0j play of white, strong teeth. Before jn the girl realized what he was doing ^ he had the tools spread upon the 0, ground and was proceeding to jack ki up the machine. At this moment, q when Pietro was on his soiled knees in the dirty road, the "boss" of the work rushed out. "Here, you! Go hack to your work," he cried angrily. ' Pietro arose hastily, and withdrew M a little distance with the wrathful ] overseer, who in picturesque English, j.( which was plainly audible to Mar jorfe, informed the laborer it he Qj didn't go back to his "job, pretty quick," he would be "fired," and _ "fired for good;" that he "had no use for ladies' men on this job;" that ^ they ware working short-handed and ? were behind on their contract, etc., etc. She could not distinguish Pietro's soft reply, but to her dismay he returned to her. His grimy face ex- u pressed no emotion, but the blue eyes 11 had changed to a steely gray. Of n' course he hadn't understood a word 0 of the harangue, and had no knowl- p' edge of the calamity that threatened him. In her anxiety for the young 1 man's welfare?for Marjorie was a very tender-hearted girl?she was bereft of the little Italian she knew, ^ which, however, would have been totally inadequate for the occasion. So, like the "boss," she addressed him in u excited English, exhorting him in the name of his family, dependent upon his wages, to return to his work. But Pietro understood nothing, and is even her expressive pantomime, 2 frowns, and dramatic pointing to- fi ward the cement trough, made no im- t< pression upon him. He only showed is : his white teeth in an innocent smile, rl and with astonishing capability and c< ; swiftness removed the old tire, drew fj ' a new one from its place, and with ii his powerful hands pulled it over the h rim. f< Marjorie, completely vanquished n patrolled the roadway and laid plans t< for the future of Pietro s wife and i) children. He evidently knew some- c, thing about an automobile, and she p was sure her father could find work ^ for him superior to that of a day n j laborer. s ' Her eyes were very kind as they j | rested upon his perspiring face when i at the end of half an hour he l-ose ! from his task. She handed him her visiting card, and in labored Italian made him understand that he was to t< ^all at her house that evening and ii see her father, who would find work p l'or him. In his gratitude, Pietro's self-consciousness and awkward man- n ners dropped from him. The expression in the blue eyes when, a few moments later, she glanced at him n '' ' 'V *efore starting her carriage, was not ' hat of the humble laborer. Somehing in his look caused a strange nd sudden tumult in the breast ot is young patroness. The machine hot abruptly forward, and Pietro. tanding in the road with the card I i his dark bands, watched it out of ight. Marjorie felt angry with herself, he determined not to see Pietro gain, but to turn him over to her ither alone. She could not explain f lie sudden reserve and timidity that le felt. She realized that sh<i ished very much to see him that vening, and the consciousness rought the quick blood to her tieek. That evening the maid handed her le card of "Mr. Peter Sturgis." Marjrie did not recall the name, but she ent to the drawing room. She knew him instantly by his yes. He was in irreproachable evenlg clothes, his black hair cropped ? lort, and there was nothing in the noothly shaven jaw to suggest the s affian. c "I want to thank you for your ^ indness to Pietro." His English was erfect. "And may I explain that, as * am to make construction work my usiness, I thought it advantageous ) begin at the bottom." 8 "But you've lost your Job, you now," flashed Marjorie. ;>Y3 li U1X1 IUC Uiptiiti xo tuai UUIIU5 509 it was rapidly expanding. One of the most interesting: feaires of Lake Chad is the dense asses of a tree some twenty-five iet high and with a trunk over a iot in diameter which grow' in its aters. When the water around it .lis below a certain level, or becomes o salt?as it may do when the wars shrink?the tree die. The wood ! this tree, when dry, is the lightest . the world, being only one-tenth of ie weight of water and less than le-half that of cork. The tree is nown as th6 ambuch.?Lohdon lobe. _ A Mortgage Under Cleopatra. Of all the numerous Egyptian pairri datiner from the Graeco-Roman jriod and preserved in the British ^ :useum none can be said to be of t reater interest than those throwing ght on the social conditions and manors and customs of .the period. Many I these documents are mortgages, ills of sale and marriage contracts, f the first named class a very inter- 1 >ting one dated in the twentieth year E Cleopatra and Ptolemy Las recent- ' r been published by Dr. Nathaniel ' eich. It appears that c. shepherd amed Menthu and his mother, Ta- ( sir, finding themselves in difficulties, 1 tortgaged their field to a woman amed Ete for the sum of C90 pieces ? [ silver, which they promised to re- ? ay in eight months time with inter- ] st. In case of failure of this condi- 1 on .they are willing to forfeit the 1 eld without further trouble or obli- ' ation. After giving the measure- 1 tents of the land and particulars of s boundaries the document is at?sted by Heru-se-esi, scribe of Usir- * r, alias Amenhotep.?London Globe. 1 ( "Chantecler" Profits. The publishing house of Fasquelle ] > said to have received orders for 00,000 to 300,000 copies of its three \ ancs fifty centimes edition of "j? lan- j ;cler," and the weekly L'lllustration i paying M. Rostand for the serial . ights thereof a sum which the most , anservative reports set at 75,000 \ -ancs an act?that is, 300,000 francs l all. Furthermore, the publishing ouse of Pierre Lafitte has pjrchased 3r a sum which it is safer, perhaps, ot to specify, but which is.admitted 1 3 be large, the right to issue a de [ ixe illustrated edition of Rostand's Dmplete works. This edition will ap- ' ear in seventy weekly instalments of J twenty jiages each. To these emoluiontc mnv hp nriripri the considerable um paid for serial rights by a Lonon weekly?Literary Post. A Kins Xo Subject. Sir Francis Burnand, the late edijr of Punch, was requested one night : i company to make a pun extern- 1 ore. "Upon what subject?" asker Burand. I "The King," was suggested. "Oh, sir," he replied, "the King is o subject."?New York Times. ^11 ?tm ? Progression. One smile makes a flirtation. On lirtation makes two acquainted. Twi icquainted makes one kiss. One kis nakes several more. Several kisse nake an engagement. One engage nent makes two fools. Two fool nake one marriage. One marriag nakes two mothers-in-law. Tw< nothers-in-law make a red hot. time ?Woman's Life. Teaches the Blind. Mrs. Agnes J. Rossler is the per ion who is notified when a blind vis tor appears at the Museum of Natur il History. Mrs. Rossler has though ut classifications and arrangement vhich are labeled in Braille or Ne^ fork point for the use of the blini ind as each article is passed Iron land to hand and studied by th >lind visitors an informal lecture i jiven.?New York Sun. Second-Hand Opinions. Leading physicians and eminen specialists might be greatly edifiei f they could hear the opinions at ributed to them at luncheons am >ridge parties or other purely femi .? XI 1 TTF "That's of no consequence, he ' lid airily. "I can get another on the s ?wer with some of my class-mates." "And," she continued reprovingly, You said you were from Sicily!" "Pardon, Signorina, Syracuse. Syr:use, Onondaga County, New York." It was a rapid courtship, and frdm lat day to this she has called him Pietro."?Boston Post. PROBLEM OL LAKE CHAD. s Shrinkage?No Reason to Believe It is Drying Up. Lake Chad in the Sudan has for )me years offered an interesting obsct of study to the geographer. Ac>rding to observations made by j avelers from time to time it was 3 ipidly drying up. It seemed likely . lat at no very distant date the lake ould entirely disappear. Native traditions, however, assert1 that it was subject to fluctuation id if so the apparent drying up ight be one of these. Capt. Tilho, lief of the French commission sent i study the district, has just been ying the results of his observations jfore the Royal Geographical So- ety. When Capt. Tilho visited the lake l 1904 the water was shrinking and i 1908 the shrinkage was steadily ntinued. The open water then only :cupied one-fiftieth of the total area ! the lake basin, which, in its full { ctent, is about four-fifths the size ! Belgium. Lake Chad is of the iture of an inland sea, receiving g te drainage of the surrounding coun- t y and having no outlet. When e lied, however, it floods the swamp- c g valley of Bahr-el-Ghazal, on the c >utheast. ^ Its average depth Is not more i:han j ve feet. In spite of the continued i irinkage up to his last visit Cp t. ? ilho concludes that there is no rea- . >n to suppose that Lake Chad w*' rentually dry up. And the latest nuts gacueriugs. wumcu a 1.0115 uc un riot on such occasions, and th voman who has not the courage t idvance an opinion of her own fall >ack upon her doctor or her husband epeating over and over again, lik t parrot: "But Dr. So-and-So sal ust this," etc. And as no one els leard the doctor's remarks her state nents cannot be refuted.?New Yor Tribune. Work of Police Woman. The Berlin police -w oman, Fraulel Margaret Dittmer, appointed just 'ear and a half ago, has found th >osition no sinecure thus far. Durin ** . | Blueflsh a la Venel o *00) cleaned and scraped; p !* q > o one-half cup of liquor i 3 o " a I choPPed tomato and fiia ^ o 5 J and bake for fifteen n 3 K S with crumbs and mincei 0 01 | dot with butter and ret ler first year of service she had 60 :ases to deal with. Much of Fraulei Mttmer's work corresponds to tha >f the woman probation officer 1: American cities. Youthful delin luents, waifs and deserted childre ire placed in her charge. She deal vith them as she thinks fit, some imes placing them in institutions lometimes?in the case of delin luents?restoring them to their par snts and afterward visiting them fre luently. Among 'Fraulein Dittmer' :harges last year were 165 boys an jirls who had run away from thei lomes in the provinces to Berlit The majority had come because the 'wanted to see the Kaiser's palace. ?New York Tribune. They Do It Better in Greece? Views of divorce which an Englis ilergyman has just expressed hav irawn high encomiums from sundr livorced women in town who hav jrown reticent about their ages an lave given up having birthday pai ies. "We ought to have the divorc aw that was enforced in ancien Jreece," the preacher said. "If :ei"tain old Greek clause were tacke ;o every separation, I am persuade hat divorces would fall off sixty t ieventy per cent. This law was tha vhen a man got a divorce he coul lot, under any circumstances, marr mother woman younger than his foi ner wife. An innocent law, a bri aw, not much to look at?but hoi v?or?Tr eiii + a wnnlii V*o ninn* Xiauj UiT VI VV 0U4VM TT V U|1M / W n the bud if all husbands knew tha ifter the separation they could no narry younger women, thaa the wive ;hey had cast off?"?New Yor 'ress. Women Intend to Vote. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont has writte in article entitled, "How Can Wome 3et the Suffrage?" which appeared i ;he current issue of the Independen 'n it she sets forth her reasons fc Delieving in the final victory of th :ause and tells how to get the vote n the quickest way. "One fact may be accepted," sh says, "that women intend to have th suffrage. There are very few of th most bitter opponents who do nc ldmit the most the;; can hope for ] :o defer as long as possible what the choose to term 'the evil day whe ivomen shall vote.' "One of the highest dignitaries sai n mo rofontlv 'Of pnnrsp wp tenty :hat woman suffrage is inevitable :he only question is how soon V: wi lome.' This is the sole point at issu aow between the suffragists and ant suffragists?when will women get tb ballot?" Mrs. Belmont replies to this que! tion herself by saying the quicke; method for suffragists to pursue is t awaken public interest, to gain tb assistance of men and to create a si nation which will bring publicity t ihe cause through the newspapers. The Chantecler Ruff. Whether or not there will be an season-lasting fashions evolved 01 of the Chantecler fad, it is quite ce: tain that the word- itself is to I applied to a vast amount of thin? that commonly constitute a woman wardrobe. The Chantecler hat is not to I taken seriously, considered as whole, but the Chantecler feathei that are used on it will probably L with us all summer. There is no reason against this they are really very pretty in cun and coloring, and are quite an add tion to the vast amount of comrao barnyard plumage that we have bee wearing for years since the Audubo Society became more than a name. Its work has given, women a quot feeling about wearing songsters an their plumage, and the milliners hav iSHf bowed to the law. At once there e sprung into the millinery market the 3 products of invention and ingenuity, s and the result has been altogether a admirable and satisfactory. We have 3 . ! _ not gacrmcea our ueiLer iceuuga auu g we have 'not sacrificed the beauty of e our hats. -? 3 We wear ignorantly and blissfully l( the plumage of the guinea fowl and the Cochin China hen. We add to this now the tail and neck ruff of the rosters and call them Chantecler. To show how ingenious the French are are in naming fashions, in popularizing some passing garment by giv~ ing it a local habitation and a name, i there is this story: This neck frill r which they took up last autumn was j a truly French variation on our more a severe and trying Peter Pan. It was accordian pleated, made of softest lingerie fabric, and was applied to a neckband that was only slightly lower than the usual one. To-day, and not until to-day, has it been popularized. And why? Be-* * cause it has ingloriously been given ^ the name of Chantecler ruff. And it really Is not unlike the soft collar I ^ of long feathers that adorns a rooster's neck. 3 This name has given an impetus 0 to its being made in the iridescent col 0 orings of red, and bronze and black, s that one notices in the cock's feathers; the fabric is chiffon or net, and e the effect is gained by placing a layer ^ of one color over a layer of another e color. . Attractive as this is from a color ^ standpoint, one has to go carefully in applying just such a bit of neckwear. It won't blend with white or cream, but it is rather effective on an alln black gown, and queer, odd tints of a red. As an article of wearing ape parel, however, it can hardly'haye a g chance to be popular because of the :ienne.?Have a two-pound blueflsh lace it in a buttered baking dish with fn which mushrooms were boiled, one : mushrooms. Cover with oiled paiter iinute3, take from the oven, sprinkle 1 parsley, season with salt and pepper, urn to the oven until browned. 4 very reason that it is difficult to find n anything .to put it against. t There is no such obstacle to the Q popularity of the all-white or ivoryl tinted Chantecler ruff. It is here aln ready in large quantities, and in every s width and degree of fineness. >r It is to be hoped .that it will not bei, come popular in the very cheap musi lins and coarse cotton laces. There i9 - always that danger in lingerie things. It is so easy to coarsen them and s bring tham within the reach of every d one who wishes to invest in the last r thing. i. Not .that one wants the smart fashy ions kept for the people with full " purses.. Far from it. They are too often the people who cannot wear the "l&st thing" with half the snap of the girl who hasn't a dollar to spend on h superfluities; but if these girls e couldn't pick up the cheap-looking y Chantecler ruff for a few cents they e would go nome ana maice one ior a d few more cents that would have the - charm of fineness about it. e No one counts on these rooster ,t ruffs being becoming. There is somea thing trying about that straight pleatd ed line below the base of the neck, but il tthe American girl can be trusted to o turn and twist it to its best advanit tage. d When it/ has points at the lower y line, and is worn a bit lower in the > front than at the back, then it has .f more chance of setting off the face iv abovj it.?New York Times. J V Figured foulards are to be used as u linings for many of the smart tailored n coats. ? Cornflower yellow is one of the ^ evening shades that are popular in all fabrics. e ,s Many turbans are trimmed simply with huge bows of changeable ribbon e at the back. e Crochet lace is decidedly smart ,e this season, whether or gowns, aprons >t or lingerie. is The dotted veils are enjoying a. rey vival of favor; the very small dots are n the smartest. Challis comes in very pretty patd terns and makes dainty little frocks w for small girls. jj With the afternoon dresses there are carried parasols of black chin, chilla lace over white. Mnnv of the nesTlis-pps'have a hint of the Directoire with crossed vests o? 3_ brocade or beaded net. st For street wear the correct stock;o ings are the plain, heavy black silk, ie with an embroidered clock. A bewildering number of changes 0 will be rung upon the way in which the new smart coat is fastened. Belts of every description are found; even on evening gowns we are y astonished by a belt of leather. Wrist bands which are a revival of r" the early Victorian beaded bracelet Ie have been introduced, and there is a ?s threat of quite a revival of these s trifles. The costume is now considered inie complete without a wrap of some sort. ,a 110 matter how slight it may be, and s this has caused a renewed vogue foi |0 the scarJ. .. A number of pretty suits are made ' f ^/\1ako fr i ?n m^rl with hr?nrle nf" 0 111 LUIUI O CI tUJ liiv>u li ii>a i/uuuo v? j. heavy white or ecru lace instead of n the lace to correspond with the color n of the suit. n Spanish and Russian mantles are decidedly artistic, but they must be _>r worn by a woman of height and slend der build?ona who can carry her e gown gracefully. Road Building as a Study. "Road building," writes a sutJsrrihor whr> is a nrominent county engineer in Massachusetts, "is a matter which requires special study in each particular case, and the effort to lay down uniform practice even for localities which have fairly uniform conditions leads to imperfections. Methods which worked well in one particular stretch of road may fail when applied to another. In making up specifications for country roads, while it is convenient to have a standard form, the engineer will do well to vary that form to suit the conditions. Traffic should be studied more . and the benefit derived should be commensurate with the expense. "The phase of the study of roads which is preliminary in its nature, should be more dwelt upon by essayists and authorities. The importance of the road from the standpoint of its expected use should be more thoroughly inquired into before entering on the actual construction, as well as the various preliminary engineering inquiries of the state of the soil, the availability of native material, drainage, etc. In other words, does public canvenience and necessity require certain work done? "The construction of good roads over long stretches of country means such a vast expenditure, not alone in first cost, but of more importance still, In future maintenance, that haphazard methods must be abandoned and all the elements of present and future use gauged with as certain a forecast as possible. "These are some of the points which I feel ara somewhat neglected in current literature, and it would aoom nlfio that thfl State legislation is perhaps weak on the subject of maintenance; legislators do not understand that &fter a macadam road is built three or four hundred dollare per mile a year must be spent to maintain it; in .the long run perhaps more." In Kentucky. / The county court of Boyd County, Kentucky, has announced, Its intention to make an official trip of inspection in automobiles over the roads of the county, to determine what steps are required to put them in first-class condition. When the couri convenes after the inspection it is expected that contracts will be lei for the repair and maintenance oJ the roads for a/term of two years. WHERE CHINESE SAILORS FAIL j They Never Learn to Tie a Kno1 Properly, Says a Skipper. "I don't know why it is," said the captain of the tramp steamer in South Brooklyn, sixty days out from Hongkong, "but you can't teach any ol those Chinese sailors there to tie e real knot. ( "There isn't much need aboard a steamer for the rope knowledge thai used to be so much the part of a j focs'le training, but we do need I splices and knots now and again jusl* I the same. i "Those Chinese there, who were ; ' signed a3 A. B.'s, can do anything I needed in the way of splices that would make an old tar green with envy, and they'll fix up deadeyes bet- , ter than most of the men I've shipped. | "But you can't get one of 'em to J tie a right knot. Teach 'em again ! and again, they remember the lesson i for half an hour. Next time there's a straight everyday knot to be tied the Chinese focs'le hand makes up the same old granny^ "Every child that tries to tie a knot makes a granny. This kind oi j a knot is made up by passing the ends ! around each other in the reverse di- j rection, making the ends stand out | at right angles. The ends should be 1 wound around each other in the same ! direction. When they come out oi i the knot they should lie alongside j the line on either side of the knot. . Such a knot won c sup. ?sui a ^uma- | man can't learn it for keeps?not j he. "The Lascar*and Malay and Kan| aka learn the right knot easily j I enough. In a storm that's one of the i i things we have to guard against if j I we have Chinese sailors."?New York i ! Sun. Tobacco Monopoly in France. An increase in the tobacco tax In ! I France has brought forth a miss of j official statistics on the subject o?- its | productivity. Every Frenchman, it ! appears, spends on an average thirteen francs a year on tobacco, and of I these thirteen francs not less than j eleven francs and ninety-seven ceni times go to support the revenue. The I monopoly was first instituted by Louis I XIV. in 1674. The Revolutionists abolished it in 1791, and the Bourbons restored it in 1817. In the first year of its renewal ik. brought in an income of ?2,480,000. In 1903 it was yielding ?17,360,000. In 1908 the yield was ?20,360,000, and the Minis- J ter of Finance estimates that in a year's time it may be expected to I yield little short of ?23,000,000.? | Westminster Gazette. In Plain Sight. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Joseph ! I Choate were chaffing each other at a ' I banquet given by ths Medico-Legal j | Society in New York. I "One thing about your profession, j my dear doctor, that I have always ' " ?' "ie that vntl I envieu, sum ?ui. vuuaic, ?? , bury your mistakes under ground." "True enough," smartly replied i Dr. Mitchell. "Yours I believe, swing jpon trees."?New York Times. In France a spinster is not allowed to put money in the bank or have a :heck book. However, once married j jr a widow she can do business with j bankers as far as ter means and mind I to. . . .. ,,. :: --V1 ' '4.'r - Vv- j^Sf? wjf THE YOUNG PHENOM. A. Young phenom in a bush league grew, Whose batting average was three-two-two; When running bases he surely flew. Mon dieu! His rep. it certainly grew and grew Till a scout went on nis work to view. A ??'J o Ki? 1 nomia nlllVi Vrtll'll do. nilU sum, X KJl a, i^4|S iv.6uv Oh, you!" He drafted the kid without ado To join the ranks of a major crew And show the vets what he could do. . Quite true! Well, the youngster's chest it grew and grew, And somehow he thought he really knew The game of baseball thrdugh and through". Sad, too! \ / \ When he bid his native town adieu. The bands all played and the whistles blew, And the papera gave him a send off, too. Hoo! Roo! The rest of the tale is sad, but true; He only lasted a week or two? ' _ Many are called?those chosen are few. Boo! hoo! ?Ed. A. Goewey, in Leslie's Weekly. "A freak, is she?" "Yes, Indeed. She's two-faccd, fore-handed and five feet."?Life. Iiatta Vioan \n this y aUV^Ci3(iViO ua*G uevu *** wu.x country for 250 years." "Gee, bul they've been keeping quiet about it." \ ?Chicago Record-Herald. "I heard somebody say something about Belle Smith yesterday." "Oh, fine! What?" "Nothing bad enough to repeat, dear."?Cleveland Leader. Too much of fame in any shape A bard abhors. A famous poet can't escape His creditors. Her?"Will you please shut the door?" Him?"I've tried to, but iA won't stay closed." Her?"It will it is closed from tfre outside."? Cleveland Leader. He (thinking of sermon)?"Quite a novel treatment, eh?" She (thinking of the hat in front)?"Yes; bu< too glaringly a bargain, don't you , think?"?Judge. "Are you a recent arrival in thia town?" "Sir, I am indigenous." "Oh, well; no harm meant. I didn't particularly want to know." ? Birmingham Age-Herald. "I notice," remarked Mrs. Lapsling, "they're haviog a good deal of trouble in Washington now over the consternation of our natural resources."?Chicago Tribune. "Why were you so chilly to the famous ball player?" "My brothei says his fame is founded on a stealing basis." "He said he is famous fox stealing bases." "Well, what's the difference?"?Houston Post. Mr. Binks (in art museum)?"I didn't know you were such an admirer of curios, Mrs. Blunderby." Mrs. Blunderby?"Oh, yes, indeed; I just delight in iniquities."?Boston Transcript. "You will have to let me off for a day or two in April, ma'am." "Why, Nora, what for?" "I must be sick a, bit, ma'am." "Sick, Nora?" "Sure, ma'am. I'm th' grandmother of an office boy who wants to git off an* see th' openin' ball game, ma'am."? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Some grin and bear their woes; Make little din. And some?(I'm one of those)? Omit the grin. "You make It a rule to keep your Constituents interested as much as possible?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "In politics there is no use of trying to let well enough alone. If you don't give peop! something to think about" they'll l,<* giving i you sometning to tninic aDoui. ?w<usu- n lngton Star. 9 "My husband iu so helpful in our ES household work; you know I just love H to "be tidying up and cleaning and re- H arranging all the time." "And he H takes a hand in the tidying up?" H "Well?er?indirectly. Ie throws j9| things around and out of place so an that I'll have something to do!"?St. B Paul Dispatch. H The Kaiser's Maxims. n The Emperor of Germany has alwayB before him the following rules H| when sitting at his desk in his work* SB room: Be strong in pain. 91 To wish for anything that is unat^ Bfl talnahla is worthless. {Q| Be content with the day as it is," 8B look for the good in everything. iH Rejoice in nature and people and gflj take them as they are. For a thousand bitter hours con- >|mH sole yourself with one that is beauti- fM H Give from yi ur heart and mind al- jflfl ways the best, even if you do not re-j M ceive thanks. He who can learn and' j^H practice this is indeed a happy, free HB[ and proud one; his life will alwavs be beautiful. He who is mistrusting HH wrongs others and harms himself.' _ GBn It is our duty to believe every one to be good as long as we have not the BH proof to the contrary; the world is so BjUH large and we ourselves so small that HH everything cannot revolve around us. BH If something damages us, hurts us, who can tell if that is not necessary |^H to the welfare of creation? |Hfl In everything of this world, wheth er dead or alive, lives the mighty, ^KG wise will of the aimighty and all knowing Creator; we little people only lack the reason to comprehend It. As everything is, so it has to be in H9 this world, and, however it may be, should always seem good to the mind of the creature.?Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. ^^9 A Delicate Job. 9HB Hens are now laying eggs by sclied- BH ule, A scientific farmer who raises Hfl poultry for bird fanciers and sells Bl specially bred eggs for specially made HH pi>ces has worked out a scheme for keeping a record of the ancestry of each egg that is laid. HHjH The various breeds of chickens are segregated in their respective run- IBM ways, and each nest in each runway B9 is duly numbered. To the ler of each HDD hen is attached a numbered meial EBH ring. A boy watches the hens as ^NHj they enter the nest to lay their daily HH| eggs, and on a time recorder stamps the hour the egg is laid, the number of the nest attd the number of the^HHj hen.--System?