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.? The Press and Banner. Published every Wednesday at two dollars a a year lp advance. Wednesday, March 13, 1912 T\r.T??T4frirr?v?n Hfflna r\P f Ka ' I 'HJbAbUKl i/rjTAAUuii^i, v/mvv vi viic A Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C., March 8, 1912.?Sealed proposals will be received in this office until 3 o'clock p. m. on the 19th day of April, 1912, and then opened, for the construction (including plumbing, gas piping, heating apparatus, electric conduits and wiring, aud interior lighting fixtures) for the United States post office at Abbeville, S. C., in accordance with drawings and specifications, copies of which may be obtained from the custodian of site at Abbeville, S. C., or at this office, at the discretion of the Supervising Archi tect. The building is two stories in height; of approximately 3,850 square feet ground area; bricked faced with stone trim; tin roof, and non fire proof construction with the exception of the first floor. James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect. Notice. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Peoples Savings 13ank will be held in the office of the bank Tuesday, April 2nd, 12 o'clock. R. E. Cox, Cashier. fc._ Off to California. Mr. Herbert Bowen, youngest son of Mr. T. J. Bowen, left last week for Bakers field, California. He will make his home with Mr. W. W. Frazier, who was formerly a resident of this county. Mr. Frazier has Erospered in his new home, and he is hold ig out a helping hand to other Carolina boys. Mr. Herbert Bowen comos of a good family. JJe is young, intelligent and act ive, and will doubtless rise rupidly in the land of the setting sun. Fill the Holes. While the weather has been such that no regular work could be done on our atfoBfc unofinl pffnrt should be made to fill holes that have been cut in the road here and there. Some of them have been cut very deep. A little timely work would save much more work later. Civic Club Meeting. Culture meeting of the Civic Club will be held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock in the Club rooms over Philson <fc Henry's store. Mrs. F. J. Marshall will read a pa per on "Old Days in Abbeville." A full attendance is desired. Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Pres. Mrs. F. B. Gary, Sec. For Sale. Keenan staple cotton seed, best staple cotton seed on the market. Produces as much per acre as anv short cotton and hHn<re 5 tn 7 cents ner bushel more. PriCe $1.25 per bushel. Also Columbia and Rut land staple cotton seed at $1.00 per bushel. G. L. Connor, Cokesbury, S. C. Mar. 6. tf ^ Save money by hav ing your shoes repair ed when they need it. Brown & Percival. The Moving Pictures Begin for , 1912. v The first film for this year was snown Saturday night. The next is "A victim of the Mormons." 1 It will be shown on Friday and Saturday evenings. This film is one that has created much ! interest, both on account of the subject and on account of the excellence of the picture. The Mormons have always been an in teresting people and anything that con cerns tl eir religion and mode of life is widely read. The story to be shown Friday is in three acts or three reels. It is the story of a girl who falls into the clutches of the [ Mormons. Death of Mr. Joe Sherard. , Mr. D. Joseph Sherard, of Iva, died last week in his 77 year. He went with the t first company to the war, fought in every I battle fought in Virginia, belonged to Jen- < kins Brigade and came here after the four years without a scratch. He is survived by four sons and two 1 daughters; Mr. Mack Sherard, superin- 1 tendeutof Pelzer Mill, Mr. Calvin Sherard, of Augusta, Mr. Jesse Sherard, Mayor of Anderson, and Mr. Joseph Sherard, far mer. The daughters are Mrs. Lula Keid, of Iva, and Mrs. Elia Wilson, wife of Dr. J. D. Wilson, of Lowndsville. Mr. Sherard was on? of Anderson's best v citizens. He leaves to his children a price less heritage in a life well spent. He ran with patience the race that was set before him, even looking to the Almighty as the auiuvi uuu uiuonui 1119 luiui. WELL PLEASED. Prof. Huguelet and Greenville Have Formed a Mutual Ad miration Society. We {hear thut the musical element of Greenville are well pleased with the abili ty and musical accomplishment of Pi of Huguelet. And we also hear that Prof. Huguelet is delighted with Greenville. Abbeville kept the best member of his family, who is now permanently identi fied with the town. She is the pretty wile of a mighty go<d man who holds the throttle of a Seaboard engine. When not giving mu&iu lessons Prof, i Huguelet is kept busy drawing salaries. | His son Arthur is on rising grounds, and! he will be detained drawing salaries, i That other, the best of sons, Eugene Hu- i guelet has gone to Albany under the* necessity of drawing increased salary. j Mrs. Huguelet misses the help and com panionship of our womanly daughter, who is one of the noblest of her sex. Mr. Huguetet has asked Mr. W. D. Wil kinson to write full particulars of story of j a $13,000 liddle, that was reported to be at large. | Dr. T. \V. Sloan has imposed additional member, without any increase of salary. { Real Trouble About Reform. "I specks," said Uncle Eben," "dat reform would be a heap easier If dar i wasn't so many different people klckln' 'bout so many different things." I Somewhat Mixed. "Something wrong with this item." , "How now?" "Says the bridegroom took his place beneath the floral bell and 2,000 volts were immediately shot through his quivering frame."?Wash ington Herald. ft ILLNESS OF FRANCIS HENRY Good Citizen and Gallant Sol dier on Bed of Affliction. Mr. Erancis Henry, one of Abbeville's best and most respected citizens, has been ill for sometime. Mr. Henry was born in Abbeville county in October, 1843. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in Co. A, 2nd S. C. Regi ment and was severely wounded in the shoulder in a skirmish at Bottom's Bridge near Petersburg, Va. The shell that struck Mr. Henry, after tearing away part of liis shoulder,, glanced and knocked down his father, Peter Henry, who was standing near. Mr. Henry married Mrs. Sarah Calvert in 1872. Their living children are: Mrs. Annie Leslie, wifo of Mr. W. E. Les lie; Mrs. Florence NeuiTer, wife of Dr. G. A. Neuffer; Mr. David H. Henry, professor of chem istry at Clemson College; Mr. Albert Henry, merchant of tho Phil son <fc Henry Company; Mr. A. Mcllwain Henry, manager of the Buckeye Oil Mill of Jackson, Miss.; Mrs. Sara Hill, wife of Dr. James Hill, of Abbeville, and Miss Lucy Henry, teacher at "Winnsboro, S. C. Besides these living Mr. and Mrs. Henry have lost two children by death. To his children Mr. Henry has given lib oral educational advantages, and to him they are a crown of priceless value. It would be hard to find young men and young women of more sterling worth or of more pleasing attributes than are to be found in this family. Mr. Henry has been a farmer all of his life;,at this vocation he succeeded. He moved to Abbeville in 1883 from the coun try, occupying the Martin place, one mile from the square, to get the educational advantages he wished for his children. Personally he is a man, honest and up right in all his dealings, especially in bus iness matters. His word is his bond and pcoplo know it. He is a type of citizen of which wo have too few. A man of moral strength and integrity, he has the respect of every man of his acquaintance. Hum ble withal. All of his children who are away have been home to see him. Miss Lucy Henry, of Winnsboro, is here now, the other children having returned to their Several vocations. EUREKA ITEMS. Various Notes of the Best Hotel on Earth. Various of Mrs. W. T. McFall-s friend* have been with her at the Eureka Hotel among the number were: Mr.'-ani Mrs. H. C. Huntley, of Roanoke, Va. Mr. Huntley is at the head of a large furniture business in Roanoke. Mrs. Huntley was Miss Orene Hughes of this city. Mrs. Huntley's face bears evidence of happiness in enjoying the love and af fection of one of the best of husbands. Mrs. Joe Hughes, who was Miss Carrie Huguelet, is as pretty a6 she was before she became the wife of one of the best and most worthy engineers on the Seaboard road. Her accomplishments, her beauty, and her lovable character will make her to Mr. Hughes, a joy forever. Mr. W. H. McFall has resumed charge r?f the hotel, and is giving his entire time to it. Mr. H. A. Oden, of Greensboro, N. C., is now the polite and accommodating clerk and bookkeeper. The Eureka lias been worked on?reno vated?and its increased accommodation for guests is appreciated by customers at this hotel. They say that the dinners on Sunday arr now, more than ever, a special attraction We had not noticed this change. We have thought for years that the dinners every day in the week, and Sunday, too, were a* srood and as bountiful as the markets and human skill and the arts of the best cooks :>n earth could make them. Traveling salesmon say most pleasant things of the Eureka. They spend Sun lay at this hotel, and say most pleasant things of the Eureka, which is one of the best kept hotels to be found in this quar ter of the globe. There never was a better hotel than that which is k??pt by Mrs. McFall. The meals look in viting on the nicest dishes. The cook room is screened off so that the flies are kept completely out. If we ever hear of a better hotel which is better kept than the Eureka we will telegraph you at onr ex I ten so. A better hotel does not exist. POSTMASTER DEAD Mr. Frederic Minshall Passes to the Great Beyond. Mr. Frederick Minshall, Postmaster at Abbeville, died ut his home in this city on last Thursday, March?, 11)12,and was bur ied in Melrose cemetery the following day. Ky birth he was a "West Virginian, lie came to Abbeville to bid on the con structions of the city waterworks and sew erage system, in which undertaking he was eminently successful and was after wards installed the p ant. He was a civil engineer who knew his business. In addition to the sewerage plant ho erected the Court House and the City Hall, which will building will stand as monument to his efficiency. He also built the Abbeville Shops for the Seaboard railway. This building is one solid block of concrete. He built for himself the splendid resideuce now occupied by Mr. Mart Coleman, which is one of the pret iest homes in town. \ He early won the heart of Miss Rachel Hemphell, who with three children, sur vive; him. Physically, Mr. Minshall was a wreck due to a stubborn attack of fever through which he passed years ago, but mentally b<> was fverv inch a man n mnr> nf otmmr mind, quick of wit, keen of perception. Last year he was appointed Postmaster for Abbeville by President Taft, which of fice he'filled acceptably until the day of his death. The sympathy of the community is very much with the widow and children in their bereavement. Baltimore's Experience. The more you hear about what them boomers is goin' to do the more you don't hear about what they have went to work and did.?Baltimore Evening Sun. '-!< iv'. The South Pole is Really There. | Captain Raould Amundson, a hardy llorweigian and interprid sailor has post ed the flag of the country on it. Many will ask ithe question, "What has been pained by the discovery? What ad vantage will accrue? From a financial and and economical standpoint; one would say nothing, from a standpointof knowl edge and science much. There is now ( no ultima thule, nothing more to be discovered on old mother earth. Further i discoveries must be made either within the earth or in the heavens. It looks as if we were out to reach the nnd of things. ; One strange and unaccountable find in 1 connection with South Pole discoveries istho locating of coal beds near the Pole. c/.ionr>o oo?rs that, in the formation of coal a tropical climate is necessary, this being the case the South Pole at one time at least in the history of the world was as hot as Brazil. If such were the case and if the earth has always held the same relation to the sun, at that time how hot was Brazil? A while ago glaciers a mile deep stretch ed from Massachusetts to British Colum bia. The .;glacial moraines '.may be seen there today. Rock and stone scooped and scoured from a former resting place have been deposited hundred of miles from their former home. Lakes were made by these masses of 'ice ^scouring over the land, to wit, New York state and the New England states. These glaciers made in possible for the rivers of Massachusetts and Con necticut to turn so many wheels by scour ing across the courses and forming many waterfalls. Under the very moraines of these gla ciers of long ago men are today digging coal. Thus the same spot has at one time, at least, in tho past has been as hot as the tropics and at another as cold as the South Pole. Here is room for further discovery. Ab IA> UU? biixo uauig auyuu vuviv mlv w eral theories. One, an interesting onr too, is that of "The Central Sun" the Spec t roscope has shown us that in addition to our movement around the sun we art moving: with the entire solar system at a terrific speed toward the Dog Star, a sun thousands of times larger than ours. Af it requires 365 days for the earth to re volve around the sun, so it requires 175, 000 years for the solar system to make tlu annual trip around the Central Sun. A> we approach that sun old earth warms up the ice at the pole melts, everything be comes tropic, vegetation flourishes, coa! measures.formed, and a summer time o) thousands of years broods over the earth. In the winter of this 175,000-year yeai when the earth is farthest away from the Central sun, the world is cold, so cold thai the poles'reach down to Northern Ken tucky. We are now in the spring of thai great year. The winter is over. Another theory is that the heat of tht earth depends on the amount of carbon dioxid in the air?that is gas given of) from anything that burns or rots. Mon coal is being burned now than ever before in the world's history so far as we know and some scientists say that if the con sumption Keeps up at tn? inwcub muo 200 years the air will become so impreg nated with this gas that the climate of th< earth will be materially affected. Th< earth will become blanketed, so to speak and warmed to such an extent that th< tropics will encroach on the temporal zones and the temporate on the frigh zones. And in the dim and distant futun miners in overalls and shirt sleeves ma> dig coal from its bedjunder the ice ol the South Pole. . WITH THE INTELLIGENCER. / Anderson Intelligencer. Mr. W. H. Board, well known newspaper man, hns aeceptcd the position as circula tion manager of The Intelligencer. He is a live wire and is cirtain to up much new business for the paper.^The subscription list of The Intelligencer has grown to such proportions that the'.management has found it necessary to put on a men to look out for its interests, and in the selection of Mr. Beard, feels that it has secured one or the best men available. Mr. is the gentleman who, through the newspaper, challenged Tom Felder to ? He is some scrapper and has tied him self up with a'j newspaper where he will probably get the chance of putting int? ivfli.iitinn ciimo hift ififted talents witl lire arms. Not only is Mr. Board gifte< in the use of artillery, but he slings ink ii i style all his own, and will all along con tribute articles to the paper that will cauS' the politicians of the state to sit up and take notice. Miss Britt has resigned the Fonvill< school. Rumor says she is preparing to teach one of her own. Miss:Estello Mills Strickle will finish out the un-expired terra. Appreciative Tourist. A lady distinguished as a society leader in New York recently made an extensive motor tour through France, and on her return to America she was asked how she enjoyed the trip. After recounting other pleasures she said, "But my most delightful experience was hearing the French 'pheasants' sing the 'Mayonnaise'!" Blame Electric Lamp, The Glasgow board of trade court is investigating the loss of a local steam ship which stranded in a mysterious mOnriAw a Anltr V? /xntur aWawa/I r? n ixiciuuci. i iic yjiiij mcui j uucicu iu a^ count for the mishap is that an electric lamp in the pocket of the lookout man deflected the compass. The man ad mitted that he had been leaning against the binnacle just before the vessel stranded. Plan Children's Saving Banks. The Hampshire (England) county education committee has under con sideration a scheme for teaching thrift among children by establishing in the lower and infant schools a sav ings bank on the lines of the post of fice. All sums deposited will re main untouched to the end of school life, to be used for helping the chil dren when starting work. Unnecessary Repetition. Little Jean Elizabeth was being bap tized. When the minister put the war ter on her forehead she said, loud enough for all the congregation to hear: "My muzzer washed my face." ?The Delineator. Depths of Misery. Downcast Alaskan Prospector?I Just ain't got the heart to dig, 'cause With every ounce o' gold I takes out o* the earth, I decrease the purchasin* power of the dollar!'?Puck. \ 77 ACRES?$1,000 Near Clinton, N. C. Clinton shipped .5,000 bales cotton last year, also tons of tobacco ; 3(J acres of this farm ih cleared productive fields, balance timber : to close immediately, price only Sl.OiJO", part cash; for pic ture of the seven room house and details of other big bargains in good farms in North Carolina and Viginia, Bee page x20, "Strout's Big Farm Catalogue No. 35"; copy fr?e. We pay buyer's R. R. fares. E. A.. Strout Farm Agency, Station 24, 517 Lithia Btreet, (jreensbrro, N. C. Was Too Original "Good evening," said the young man in fervent tones, aa the young woman on whom he was calling enter ed the room. '1 just thought that I'd drop in and ask you to marry me." . ."I will not!" declared the young woman after she v had caught her breath. "Why, Arthur Lewis! The idea! What do you mean by?" "I thought so/'' said the young man, resignedly, sitting down and staring at the polish on his shoes. "There isn't a girl on earth who is mentally ad vanced enough to appreciate,, common sense or admire novelty.; They all wont tho camo th^'MITlfl WaT. at the same time! I suppose.if I led you into a dim corner and held your hand and gazed into your eyes with an expression of deep emotion and adoring worship, and had said, 'Made line, my heart's darling! Listen! I 1-lov-ov-e you!' you would have fall en on my neck?" "I don't understand you!" interrupt ed the young woman, breathing rap idly. "I don't understand you at all! I don't see why you should assume that I'm In the least anxious to marry you." "I don't," explained the young man: "I wouldn't be so rude and conceited. I merely assumed that you would marry me if I asked you?and I've ask e'd you, and you say you won't "I must admit," went oif the young man, "that I am both surprlaed and pained. I feel that you have been leading me on all this time Just to amuse yourself, and I must say that I didn't think you were that kind. I?M' "I don't think you are very nice,* declared tye young woman, "to4 come here and call me names and act u tnougn I were to Diame aoouc some thing I I'm not In the habit of be lieving that every man who calls on me wants to marry me, and?" "Now, Madeline!" interrupted the young man decisively, "that sounds very pretty and ladylike and no doubt you think it Is so, but It isn't In the bottom of your heart yoti know that when a man calls three times on a girl she begins sizing him up as a possioie nusoana, ana u sue iuiujlb ug won't do, she gets rid of him. She has a headache when he calls, or she has another engagement when he. asks her out, or she forgets appointments with him. You've not done a solitary one of these tricks! Tou've let me come and acted glad tc see me?and you've ducked engagements with oth ers to go places with me, and you've cooked indigestible things in the chafing dish at weird hours and urged them upon me, and otherwise given me to understand that you didn't ex actly hate me. Naturally, from all thia I deducted?" "I don't understand you at all!" flared the young woman. "I think you are acting perfectly horrid, and you ought to apologize!" "Oh, of course," said the young man. "I know if I had wanted to be dishonest with myself and you I could have wrung tears out of my eyes and murmured things about not being worthy and not daring to reach so far above me and called you an angel ?but really, you know, it's six ol one and half a dozen of the other, and we'd make a good married couple However, you must admit, Madeline, that you get an edge on your tempei occasionally?Just as you have now, for instance. Still, I can handle that You could do far worse than marrj me. Do you love any one else?" "No!" said the young woman. "Bui that doesn't mean that I care twc straws about such a conceited Individ ual as yourself 1" "You should," he persisted. "Yoi can't deny that you've been fond of m? up to this moment. What's wrong all of a sudden?" "You are!" she told him. "Totally!" "Strange," murmured the young man. "Say, I bet what you're mad about is the way I did It?isn't it?" "I never heard of such a proposal," she informed him. "You might have been offering to sell me a book or ask ing for a contribution to something! Any girl would say no!" "Well," said the young man with a sigh, getting up, "it's too bad, and I'm awfully disappointed. I won t both er you any longer?" "There's no need to hurry," Bald the young woman. "What's the use of staying?" he ast ed, bitterly. "I've got a broken heart and you don't love me, and?" "I?I never said that," murmured the young -woman. She looked away. "It's Just as I said," the young mar told her two hours later when affairs were permanently settled. "Girls in slst on all the artistic finish on these little affairs. I was too abrupt!" Many Uses for New Invention. The microphone, in a modified form Is being used successfully by a French Inventor to find springs of water, and they have been located as far as fifty feet underground. It Is expected thai the instrument will be of much value to miners, prospectors and others in similar occupations, as well as In lo cating victims of mine accidents. A tube is thrust into the ground a few feet and the improved microphone at tached to the upper end, when noise made by flowing or falling water ie plainly heard. Now that its spring, brighten up in the kitchen. We have everything in Enamehvare and the kind that will last. Prices very moderate, too. * 1 THE MR HA 8he Couldn't 8ay. A little boy out In Stockton, accord ing to the Rooks County Record, said to his mother the other day: ."Ma, am T - J "I i tfc uosucuuaui, uum a uiuuav/ ? * don't know," replied the mother. "I never knew any of your -father's folks." The father, who was listening, went out In the coal shed and kicked the cat through the roof.?Kansas CJty Star. i . Peculiarities df Taste. ; * The South Sea Islanders ga$ee with disgust upon an American eating rare roast beef, but he will eat a fish raw, especially If he is an Hawaiian, with great relish. He also finds a dozen or more relatives of the oyster on, the reef at low tlde and thinks them highly appetizing. There Is the devil fish, for Instance. The squid Iff regarded as being a delicacy. - * School of Love In Germany. In order to counteract the falling off of marriage rate a "school of love" has been started at Strasburg, Germany. The school will also give advice on ob scure questions, such as how to en courage budding attentions, how to dis courage them, how to converse with serious men Without any serious knowl edge, and how to be gay an<} frlvplqus while suffering from headache, bank ruptcy, and other Ills. Giving Him the Limit. . The reply of Henry Clay Dean, the famous Missouri lawyer of the early days, to a man accused of 'tihapta&abde crime, is historic. The- '-man! asked the lawyer to defend him and admitted to him his guilt. "No," said Deatf, '1 will not defend you. You ought to be shot out of a redhot cannon, through a barbed wire fence into hefll.". 4 What to Do With Batfes. XI me custom or cnecKing DaDies at the department stores and leaving them there continues to grow, it may be necessary for those establishments to hold auction sales of unclaimed ba bies, as the express companies do ot, parcels left on their bands.?New York i Tribune. India Not a Nation. There is no Indian nation, and the. nations of India differ, not only in in terests, history and tradition, but they differ in regard to race feeMng, and there is strong hatred and jealousy be tween parts of India stfll. There is nothing that keep3 the peace in India but British rule. Painter Had No Choice. "May I ask," inquires the interview er, "why you paint non#a but nudeer?" "Certainly," replies the painter. "The styles change so rapidly in clothing that a picture would be out of date almost before the paint is dry."?Chi cago Post. Always. Also In the matter of a* kiaa, two heads are better than one*?8mut)Set Mafrini _ . i _ >-.* - T- v.U'v r ' y.- . - - \ t . * * \< >RGAN=KI tDWARE?OROOKEI "KEEN KUTTER" TOOLS ' " ?.. *' ' -t-u ' Are dependable Tools., See the "Keen Kutter" f ad in the Saturday Even incr Post, the 16th. arid . -T\ . - . * f thea come to. us for the v best Tools made.*, " . /" ' Paiiitv paljnt, Paint , With our large stock of Paint, to 1 dra\v from, you can brighten up 1 _ .. . ? . ?,* for a very moderate sum. jl Ladies^" wherr1 you sew you ?neec >d Scissors. If you ' buy here yoi 1 find the. best > makes?"Clans' i ? ,Ke'eiu*:Ktitter. GAN - KING > flDWARE?CKOCKER \ . 5 ... f%: : ' r I , . 1 ?r~ ' / Absorb 'Water Throuflfh the' 8kln. Experiments haVe been made with frogs which tend' *to: ehx>W that those unim uln taoldly 'absorb water through the pores of the skin. Emphasis ta laid'-by certain authorities ufeon the I fact that frogs .never take -water by* ( the month. / On being exposed for sev j eral hours, to ,<U*>.ahr some frogs ex I perimente^- .with lost 14 per oent^ of [ their weight, :bpt. this was nearly .all : regained withies 24 hours wben they | were placedyin ft dish containing wft I ter only one centimeter in depth. tru-.' , t. .? i. filgna That FofetetT Weather. f I The' oouhtry' (filler has a'thouBand weather signs that the city man never ; knows* A red Buhset'meanft very little , to the man in^hb^Sfrejei Sut.to -the ;man ameng tho lane^it 'lildicites rain and bad' wettther:.'5;*^Sniolfe Hsefr* straight ihthd ^ir iff 'another of ttod ! signs that k faiffia'^r hbtlcer and 'fore5 j tells'bad '^eath'6r. Circles about' th&'j j moon 'and Sun,1"; streaks of greasy I clouds and tne peculiar actions th. birds and domestic "animals arealMn-' ;dications of Some' 'chatfgei' ln ' the weather tb the man whose'-eye has bfcen trained to recoghffce the signs ? :t- ? ,. ;S- '* ?'? yv imv'.) v ? ' / Afcnfj r.v^ . N Appeal .of jhft, Affflqte^ ^ , It was W^lfer's.first visit to churqh?. and he tried hard to remember all the Varied Instructions he had received, such as not; whispering, keeping his! i head bowed ; during the prayer, etc. But , during the-main petition of the service. ,nature ^on a complete battle over memory and decorum. "Mother," shrilled tfye .^-eary , youngster, "when i ylll it be time for pie to str^ghten ; my neck? It's like to break if I don't : <io it soont" \ * /~"4 ' \ t *'" Asbestos1 Shln'glis. Asbe'stb'a 'shingles, aVe' now' being manufactured in tfilB'cotiniry with suc cess, ai^d the, trad# has grown enorm ously. -The new-products.-are of the lightest weight and; flreflnJeJ 'up to'a temperature of two"' "'thbusgftid' and more degrees..- They, pje prao{.;against acjds'and weather and are said r.to. last as long as a concrete; buildingr-wUh - ] . ' ' ' - '- ,-.ivlv .r*;- i !? At Last. The- London Gazette, after an ex istence of nearly two and a half cen turies, has adopted the plan of print ing a table of contents. This should A dispose of the libel that we Britishers ' are slow to adopt new ideas.?London ' Punch. | O Joy! i Mose Persimmons?Wal, I Jest bor- , rled money enough to git de marriage , license! Now I hain't got nuffln' to worry about till my dog license comes , due!?Puck. Try Scissors Next Time. "She meant to chop off the chick en's head with a hatchet," says a Mis- ? Bourl editor, "but only succeeded In cutting pff her forefinger. The next 8 time she has designs against the life ^ of a chicken we recommend the use of a pair of cis sorg.M?Atlanta Con* ftttvtiog. , ' ^ . Let us leed. We have Fence. Come in COMPANY \~ a?< Mm Tramp Not Wholly Lost A tramp stealing a ride on a trail! Jumped off as It passed a burning ho tel, aroused the sleeping lodgers and, his rescue work done, regained his place on the bumpers before the train left the yards, a pretty fnfl volume of comment on American human na ture Is contained In the brief report of the incident Why the Passengers Kicked. . V ' A motor-bus while traveling in Bow . ^ road recently was struck in the rear by a tram car, and the impact forced ' It on to another bua, which was st&* ' ? ttonaryt ?_ ..The latter mounted this pavement and smashed Borne rail lngs. Passengers in each bus com plainest 'of. cuts, from broken glass.? ' London Dally News.. Redeeming Feature. ,Wlfler7".Do you like those beautiful suspenders I embroidered for yo?u dear?^,; ^bby-^-'-Yes, darting. They , don't show when I am dressed.?Mil waukee News. . ' 41 -.1 * ' i *>i?m Banana a Curiosity. A peculiar fact about the banana is that no Insect will attack it, and an other is that it is absolutely immune frbm the diseases that fruits are sub ject to. It is one of the curiosities of the vegetable kingdom. ' Smart Set In Danger. From one of the fashion journal! tve learn that "stripes will be worn by. be smart set next spring." Has the -man oeen com Dining in restraint or xade? ' ' ,v? , .. Downfall of Venice. It was December 28, 1805, that Via ice, the "Queen of the Adriatic," was robbed of the crown that she bad proudly worn for more than 1,100 years. By tbe terms of the treaty of Presburg, as dictated by that creator and -destroyer of kings and kingdoms, Napoleon the Great, the ancient re public was annexed to Italy, and th9 glory of the city of the Doges was ao more. Fo-te. It was thy tuost exciting moment of 3De of those midnight rehearsals. Try as he would, Donald Brian, the actor, :ould not Induce the orchestra to play lmirt fnr a nmnshlne flrtnlA Finally In desperation he called oat to the orchestra conductor: "Swell 1 Vicars, Swell!" Whereat the phleg matic, unruffled English conductor stopped the band, turned smilingly to Mr. Brian and said: "Thank you, sir." 1?? r An Inference. There died in Chicago the other d&X l man of whom it is said that he knev he intimate history of every Import* int family in the city. Some members if some of the Important families must )e mighty glad that he died.?Saraa lah News. .. ; _ V- ' j' kijk