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if II BUS LIVER For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and constipation. uet a lu-cent dox now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfort able you are from constipation, indiges tion, biliousness and sluggish bowels ?you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don't let your stomach, liver and ; bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets to-night; put an end to the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your inside organs of all the bile, gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A 10-cent box means health, happi S ness and a clear head for months. ' No more days of gloom and distress , if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't forget the children?their little ln ides need a cleansing, too. Adv. His Table Manners. "The charity worker," says one of them, "is always learning. We can learn much from the destitute. Thus, apropos of the affectation of some of our table etiquette, I once heard a hagged little chap at a school treat say, as he held a chicken leg in one fist and a hot potato in the other: "The trouble about table manners Is that they was invented by people who was never very hungry." THICK, GLOSSY HAIR FREE FROM DANDRUFF Girls! Beautify Your Hair! Make It Soft, Fluffy and Luxuriant?Try the Moist Cloth. Try as you will, after an application of Danderine, you cannot find a single a ? j. aa . - /.-in a truce ui uauuruu ur iaiuug uair auu your scalp will not Itch, but what will please you most, will be after a few weeks' use, when you see new hair, fine and downy at first?yes?but real ly new hair?growing all over the scalp. ^ A little Danderine immediately dou bles the beauty of your hair. No differ ence how dull, faded, brittle and scraggy, just moisten a cloth with Danderine an<J carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. The effect is im mediate and amazing?your hair will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have an appearance of abundance; an incom parable luster, softness and luxuri ance, the beauty and shimmer of true hair health. Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any store and prove that your hair is as pretty and soft as any?that it has been neglected or 4r? "fiTrorl Kv ntifolnca f roa tm on + at'a iMJUibU J VUA VA OUbtUVAt V VMMV 0 all. Adv. Willing to Learn. Pauline motored to the station to meet her dearest friend, who was com ing down for a week-end. "Oh, Belle," cried Pauline enthusi astically, "do you know, Mr. Barnum, the young millionaire, is going to teach me to swim." "To swim!" exclaimed the guest, wonderingly. "Why, Pauline, I thought you had been taught already." * "Yes, so I have, dear," said Pauline, "but not by him." IN MISERY WITH ECZEMA Franklinton, La.?"About four years ago my face broke out in little red pimples. At first the eczema did not bother, but finally the pimples began Itching and burning and then there came little raised places. I suffered untold misery. I scratched them un til they bled and I could not sleep at night. I was ashamed of my face and I could not bear to touch it "I tried different remedies without result until I tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment and in six weeks they com pletely cured my face. That was ; nine months ago, and no sign has ap peared since." (Signed) Mrs. Leola Stennett, Dec. 14, 1912. . . Cuticura Soap and Olntmentf Bold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."?Adv. Unpleasant to Hear. " ine very souuu ui avwts peuyitj o voices is exasperating." "Quite true. Especially when they say, 'Move on,' or 'Pay up.'" ' Particular. "Jack loves to be alone with you, doesn't he?" "Yes, he even insists on putting the light out." For Every Kind of Lameness Rub it on and A ho rough 17 HAN FORD'S Balsam ofMyirh For Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Sprains, Strains, Stiff Neck, Chilblains, Lame Back, Old Sores, Open Wounds, And all External Injuries. Mads Since 1846. "jJXp Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 Ail Dealers1 r ? Co-Operai Products I / How It Is Done in Eur in America to th Farmer and By MATTHEW WHY IRISH BUI The Omagh Co-oj Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland.? "What the city woman needs is butter that is standardized and always of a uniform excellence?butter which comes as fresh and comes as straight as may be from the cow on the farm to the table In the city dining room. With the husband singing in her ears the eong of high cost of living?and what husband Is not driven to such songs Jn these days of high prices? she feels that she must get butter that I can be bought at sometmng ibbb uuui the fancy prices charged in the exclu sive delicatessen shops to which she is driven in her efforts to insure her family a good grade of butter. Ask her and she will tell you that if co-op eration will enable her to get good but ter at a price made somewhat less by the elimination of excessive distribu tion charges then she is heartily for co-operation. The city man of course, wants a good butter to eat. The farmer wants to make money from his dairy. They have been telling us in America that direct c6-operative marketing will give each what he wants; that co-operation has repeatedly accomplished these re sults where it has been tried in Ire land, in Holland, in Denmark and in Germany. If co-operation will do this, it is well to look into it for good but ter is important?and financial profits ? -VHa C*/% of "11C OTP Urt? WUI 111 YV lilio. uu buuiv v/i. um over here in Ireland to see if co-opera tion really is a benefit both to the city eater and to the rural producer. The co-operative creamery here is turning out good butter?none better anywhere. We think we have found why Irish butter ig good, why it brings to the farmer a good price In this city. The butter is good because co-opera- , tive creameries use good methods of butter making; because their patrons get good milk from good cows, take good care of it, and deliver it in good , condition to the creamery; and lastly because when once made it is hurried off to a consumer before it can get stale. They get a good price for it be cause It is good butter. On the other haiid, the city gets it at a reasonable pric6 because co-opera tive marketing in Ireland is direct marketing; because the butter comes quickly and directly from the cream ery to the city home with little added expense for much handling by many middlemen. Why Farm Butter Is Sometimes Bad. The writer remembers summer but ter made from cream skimmed from uncooled milk and kept on the warm nVinlf H urine lnne- hnt ycWivi j ?v*-o ? - -?^ - until churning time. It was hardly but ter?it was in fact commercially ranked- "grease." It brought six cents per pound, and as butter was worth less. Failure to make good butter was in evitable. Nor were the tired farmers' wives to be criticised for the poor re sults obtained. They had no facilities for keeping the milk and cream clean and cool, no facilities for making but ter, no facilities for keeping it. Co-Operation Lightens Labor. What the woman on the farm most needs is to be free from the burden of the endless handling of milk, cream and butter, from skimming the milk, and churning the cream and from salt ing and working and molding the but- 1 ter?from, all the labor entailed in the production of home-made, hand-made butter. She needs it if ehe is to have any life outside the kitchen and the milk room. The laborious weariness of the un eventful existence of the farmer's wife has produced many candidates for the insane asylums. More than one worn out unfortunate has been taken into custody because her household duties have chained her to a maddening monotony unrelieved by opportunity for intercourse, and have made impos sible any thought above the churn and the cook stove. One Wisconsin farm er's wife was adjudicated by the coun ty Judge to be afflicted with insanity. vvnen tne judge announced tne dsci- 1 eion to the husband he was incredu lous. "It can't be she's got insanity or anything else," he said. "She's had 1 no chance to catch it. She hasn't set a foot off the farm for 14 years and no neighbor has stayed at our house long enough to give her anything." i If co-operation in the production and marketing of butter will take off even a small part of the burden of the farm ers' wife, if it will give her time to straighten up from her work at table and tub and leave her free to remem ber that she is a human being with a head and a soul, if it will permit her to get off the farm oftener than once in 14 wears?if co-operation will do this or help by ever bo little to do it, the woman on the farm is for co-opera tion. An Ungallant Irishman. We have found one man here in Ire land who is opposed to co-opera*-.?. Walking along a country road near tive Farm Marketing fTER IS GOOD. ope and May Be Done e Profit of Both Consumer S. DUDGEON. I i perative Creamery. Omagh we came upon a shrewd faced Irishman who was very ready to talk about co-operation. He was evidently a man of some Intelligence and, judg ing from his manner and address, a man of some experience and success in business. So we engaged him in conversation about cooperation and Its effects. "I am against It," he said. "There is no sense In it." And he gave us In forcible and picturesque language the story of how he had been personally injured in his business by co-opera tion. It developed that he had been a buyer of farm produce?a commission merchant in a small way. "Now there is no money In It," he said, "since the margin between what the city man pays and what the farmer receives is cut down. The farmer sells through f V? o Araonl^otlnn HlrAnflv vuo VV~V|IV/tUVlTV VlgUUitlHWiVU U?t VVV?^ to the city merchant." Reluctantly he admitted that maybe*it was better for the farmer and better for the city con sumer who had little with which *to buy food. "But It's hard on ub com- : mission men. It's putting us on the rocks. I am not buying butter at all any more., The co-operative creamery here has run me out." We asked him if co-operative butter ; making did not make the work of the farmer's wife and daughter easier. "Of course it does," he said. "And lit tle good it is doing them. They don't have to.Bklm the milk and churn and mold and salt the butter now and so < they go galavanting over the roads on their bicycles. They don't stajf home at all any more. They're worsd about gadding than city women," and he < shook his head with misgivings. So, if it be true, as our Irish friend in his self pity proclaimed, that co- 1 operative butter making and butter ] marketing is going to make it cost the consumer less and net the farmer ' more, we suggest that both maker an? 1 gater will be for it, the ex-commission ' merchant to the contrary notwith- 1 standing. They Vill both in city and ' country be interested in seeing co-dp- 1 sration accomplished. Certainly the 1 country woman who feels the burden 1 butter making will welcome a pro- J cess by which she is to get an oppor tunity to see something besides the ' top of the cook stove and the inside of the big churn. And we do not believe ' that the ordinary Amerit/an farmer will object to co-operation even if it floes give his wife and daughter time f to get out upon the road in buggy or 1 on bicycles. ] The Omagh Creamery. When we learned that the Omagh J Co-operative Creamery system of mar- . keting was cutting down the margin ' af price between farmer and consumer ] ?was both raising the price to the farmer and lowering the price to the j consumer, we concluded that it was a concern worth considering. Even the 1 iccusation that made it possible for , the farmer's wife and daughter to get j jut on their bicycles occasionally did j lot unduly prejudice us against it. The ^ Dmagh creamery is capitalized by con- ( tributions from 600 members who in zested from five dollars, up to $250 jach. But the voting is not by shares. It is on the one man one vote plan, rhe five-dollar man votes just as often ] ind as forcibly as the $250-daUar tfian. The members voting thx^-' ileot a - Doard of directors. These in torn have \ :he best man they can get as manaKW. i But he must be more than a butter ] maker. He must be a good business i man and an expert in marketing. No ] matter how much money is made, !t ] must all go ba?k to the members in i proportion to the butter fat delivered ] to the creamery after a dividend not ] Bxceeding five per cent, is paid to the .! stockholders. Five per cent, is the ] limit of profit to shareholders. This iB i the rule in all co-operative enterprises i [n Ireland. It is organized primarily < that profits may go to the man who i brings in the cream. It is not ranked | as a particularly fine investment for i the shareholder. i Differs From American Creameries. We find the mechanical processes of butter making much the same as those In the best up-to-date American butter factories. We do find, however, that this co-operative association has had an output that is of more uniform ex- i cellence than that of the American i factory. Here each member seems to realize more fully than does the Amer ican farmer that the utmost vigilance must be exercised in keeping the milk and cream fresh and free from all im-t purities, that keeping up the quality of the butter is as much his business as the butter-maker's. Therefore he breeds and feeds and cares for his cows and handles his milk on scientific lines suggested by co-operative instruc tors and inspectors. The farmer is saving hie own interests, of course, for a falling off of quality and reputation means a falling off in the price ob tained for butter. The creamery tests carefully, not only for butter fat but for freshness and flavor. Supervision and Inspection. Then, too, the Irish Agricultural Or ganization society, which is the central federation of all co-operative societies, inspects the creamery and its output frequently, points out defects and helps to remedy them. The business side is not neglected. The organiza tion society has complete business su pervision of the creameries, which must keep their accounts and records in the way and on forms prescribed by this central body. The creameries re port to the organization society and their books and accounts are period ically audited by the organization so ciety's auditor. Co-Operatlon Does the Work. In short, the butter ie good because of co-operation. The members co-op* erate with each other and with the Omagh creamery; tha Irish Agricul tural Organization Bociety co-operates Ttf-ltVi fVi^ flmaeh droamiirv' thfi Omafih creamery is federated with hundreds of other creameries and is federated with and co-operates with the Irish Wholesale society through which the butter is marketed. It is co-operation everywhere and the object of it all is to produce good butter, to market it in good shape and to get a fair price for it. Quality and Brands. But quality after all is the whole thing. If butter is not good no system of marketing, no business methods, no exercise of federated strength, no co operative endeavor can do anything for it The Omagh creamery makes good butter and tot years has made good butter. It has a well established reputation for good butter which is worth at least one cent for every pound that it makes. In order to be able to collect this cent on each pound it must mark each pound that it Bends out. And printed upon the wrappers and stamped upon the cases is the guar anty of quality: "Guaranteed Pure Centrifugal Creamery Butter, Finest Quality." Butter Central Label. But more important still is the an " J T-*?U A^ahUhmI monzeu muei ui iuo mou aguvuiwunM Organization society iBSued from Its headquarters at the Plunkett house in Dublin. It goes upon only the best of butter. It goes not upon a case or cake or cover, but upon the butter it self.' The label is printed upon thin tissue paper. When it is placed upon the butter It is stamped with a die that fixes the label firmly upon and in the butter and teare the paper so that it cannot be removed and used again. This label is guaranteed as carefully, as are the coins of the realm. Each has a series number and can be traced to the creamery to which it was deliv ered. If by any chance It is found up on a poor quality of butter, the butter Is at once sent back to the creamery to which the use of that particular label was entrusted. > What We Need In America. We have plenty of creameries in the United States. Some of them are Dwned co-operatively by the farmers. Butithe farmers stop just short of the highest success. The marketing is generally haphazard. The different creameries do no* co-operate in sell ing. Often good ^utter goeB bad be fore It 1b sold. No one knows where the demand Is greatest today, when the butter should be sent tomorrow. The quality is seldom uniform. Many a good butter maker with good butter making equipment turns out poor but ter because the patrons bring in poor cream. The farmers do not co-opera tively work for quality. The creamery does not always discriminate between the best fresh cream and cream that is a trifle stale and old. Butter buyers cannot know what they are getting. The name of the creamery upon a package carriee no guaranty of qual ity. It is put on good and bad butter alike. A Definite Prescription. What is needed in the United States Is, first, creameries supported by farm ers working-together co-operatively to produce an absolutely uniform higfc grade product; second, a brand that is authoritatively fixed only on butter of the highest quality after official tests and grading; and third, a central as sociation or federation of creameries that will perform the functions of the [rish Wholesale society and of the Irish Agricultural Organization society. This central federation should control the branding of butter, possibly under 3tate supervision; it should respect and audit and advise with each sep arate creamery; It should aid in mar keting the butter intelligently and economically. (Copyright, 1914. "Western Newspaper Union.) Modern Spinster. She need not be rich, but she must be perfectly dreesed; she iyee<i not he very wise, but she must certainly be witty. If she is as well equipped with tact, good health, and good humor as 3De is wun Decerning evemiig-go wujs, tia^ a serviceable knowledge of places md people, and a certain amount of bonne volante, Bhe may be as indls pensable^at dinner parties or in coun try houses as the most ornate bache lor-man. For the popular spinster nowadays leads an almost ideal life. She is free to come and go where she likes, without asking anyone's leave; she can choose her own friends, male and female after their kind; she can entertain at her club, at home or at restaurants; and she can travel to the far ends of the earth without anyone being scandalized. A cynic recently suggested that the reason why the modern spinster is often so genial and so cheerful is that ehe retains all her Illusions about man bright and lus trous. At any rate she does not in dulge in those querulous complaints which make the society of the married a. Questionable Joy.?Pittsburgh Di?? patch. Pawnshop Refuses Aeroplane. There is no money available in the French national pawnshops for loans on aeroplanes. This discovery was made recently by an airman in the south of France. With the idea of saving the expense of garage room for his machine during the winter he made a flight with it to the nearest large town and there sought to pledge It at the communal pawnshop. The economical aviator was informed that aeroplanes were not Included In th? list of pledgeable articles and there fore no loan could be made. Mien/tonal ! SlINMfSCGOOL LESSON : (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute, ' Chicago.) ^ LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 22. ^ FAITH DESTROYING FEAR. LESSON TEXT-Luke 12:1-12. GOLDEN TEXT?"Every one who shall sonfess me before men, him shall the 3on of Man also confess before the angels at God."?Luke 12:8. / The first verse of this lesson indi cates the character of this period in the life of our Lord which we are now 13tudying. It was a time of thrilling Interest and of intense excitement. A (time when the crowds were so great that they "trode one upon another." : This may have resulted from the preaching of the seventy; but we of today can see what Jesus then saw, that this interest was only superficial and transitory. So it was that the Master turned "first of all" to his dis ciples lest they be deceived by this seeming popularity. Hiding the Truth. I. The fear of losing a reputation, /v. 2, 3. The Pharisees made great, j pompous claims at their being re ligious. A hypocrite is one who hides behind a mask, one who is a play ictor. It Is pretence instead of reali ty. Therefore, if one is not real his tear of losing his reputation is increas Jd in direct ratio to the extent of his deceit. The principal error of these Pharisees was that they hid the truth ind at the same time refused to be < ruled by it themselves. Jesus de- t man Ha a row niihHHfrv (v 21 nf aftVV Ice and in the presence of this vast crowd denounces this hypocrisy as be- i Ing sin. He alBO says plainly that what they had been saying in darkness will \ be proclaimed from the housetops Our Lord compares hypocrisy with i leaven in that it is the product of cor- i ruption, it works secretly, it infects : Ihe whole mass*. (So hypocrisy will affect our whole life and conduct) This leaven is a sour spreading cor- ] ruption that changes the whole charac ter of a man. It cannot be hid. No i amount of care can effectually cover :>ur deceit. We may, for a time, hide { aur sin from men, but God knows and in due time will publish it abroad (v. 3); L Tim. 6:24. Not alone our acts, but our secret thoughts also. This Is comforting and. condemning as well. The word of counsel to the seek er of life eternal will have its re ward. To the saint of God this thought brings no condemnation, L ' John 4: 18. ' Warned by Jesus. 1 II. The fear of death, vv. 4, 7. Such publicity will and always has led to ; persecution, and so Jesus calls his i , disciples to courage, charging mem that they fear not those who have ] power over the. body, but rather to : tear him whose power is over the ! 30ul. Notice the manner of address, 'my friends, fear not." Intimacy and ' courage are suggested. Look up the many times the Scriptures admonish ub not to fear, I. John 4:18. Satan and | man (v. 5) have power over the body, but they cannot touch the soul. The . Christltm, however, needs not to fear ( 'man or Satan, Isa. 51:12, Rom. 8:31, ' for the angel of Jehovah (the Lord ! Jesus) encamps about them that fear 1 Jehovah (Ps. 34:7). Paul tells us that 1 I to depart from this life is again, Phil. 11:21; II. Cor. 5:8. We have, therefore, ' i no cause to fear the death'of the body. 5 One only, God, has the power after 1 death, to cast the soul Into hell (v. 5). ! He It la who gives us a suggestion of 1 awful consciousness of the soul, and of 2 the body as well, when they are In 1 bell, Matt. 10:28. Jesus has warned us and we are to warn others that they * avoid that which was prepared, not for ( man, but ofr the devil and his angels, Matt. 25:41. Is there a hell? Yes! < Else Jesus was deceived or has de- < liberately deceived us. Thank God, however, that as a man Is of more i value than a Bparrow, so God has pre pared better things for those who place their faith in his son, (v. 6). He also looks after the most minute details * of our lives, beyond what we can do, I down to the counting of the hairs of ( our head (v. 7). Contrast "Fear him," ' v. 5, and "Fear not," v. 7. The fear of ? God produces that obedience and fel- 1 lowship whereby all other fear is ban- t ished. All fear being banished we be come conscious of his love and we are inspired to persistent service. III. The fear of making an open con fession, vv. 8-12. With such a tender, * beautiful assurance of God's care over i us it would seem unnecessary for j * Jesus to admonish his followers about | < confessing him before the world. Yet ! * such is the persistent hardness and | I the natural timidity of the human \ 1 heart that the Master, in mercy, warns ; '< his followers, Rom. 10:9, 10. Our j t Lord looks beyond i 3 disciples to the i ? dispensation of the Spirit and de- t clared that men, speaking against him i would be forgiven, but that those who slander, detract and heap vituperation upon the Spirit would commit a sin, a blasphemy, which could not be for- i 1 given. Moreover, in that dispensa- I i tion of the Spirit, no matter how much 11 men might suffer, or be in danger, c they would be taught by that Spirit i what they ought to say, vv. 11, 12. 1 The one who commits this sin, de- 1 liberately attributes to the Devil what r he knows to be the work of the Spirit, I Matt. 12:22-32. It is a deliberate J r choice of darkness and the heart Is so I i hardened as to preclude repentance, j i There is no desire for repentance, j e I Those whom Jesus calls to proclaim the truth concerning the Kingdom of God may depend upon a co-operation of the Holy Spirit which will make / them fearless of all opposition. The i death of the body Is but an incident. ^ As we receive the Comforter and i come to know the God of all comfort ( we begin to sense our value to him in ] carrying out his enterprises and the t mystery of his condescending grace, t There is no warrant for undertaking y work for Christ without adequate j preparation, but there is sufficient war- t rant for fully trusting him in every j emergency. j MARKED y.M.C.A. PROGRESS Interstate Committee Notes, Man) Fields in the Carolina* to be Occupied. Anderson.?"1913 has been one of narked progress," says the annual re port, of the interstate executive com nittee, Young Men's Christian asso ciation of North and South Carolina, vhiclj met in Anderson recntly. "Perhaps the most important de velopment," says the report, "has been he inauguration of community boys' vork in Rock Hill and in Salisbury, rtie aim of this type of association vork in to conserve and develop the >oy life of the community; its meth >d is to federate those agencies that :ouch boy life in its making, viz.: The lome, the school, the church and the nunicipality?in an aggressive cam uaien fnr tho rioTrolnnmont nf hrvr lifA mder the leadership of a boy's work spec'alist. The work is done by using :he "equipment at hand, such as the :hurches, school buildings and play grounds, ratjier than by providing the lsual association equipment. By di ecting the play life of the boys of ;he school and of the city; by organ zing and promoting campaigns lead ng to the enrollment of boys in Sun lay schools; by conducting classes for parents in the study of boy life; by serving as probation and truancy of ficer where the need may require; by promoting boys' clubs in needy sec Lions of the city and by other smiliar methods; the community boys' work becomes a vital force in the com munity. "While there Is every cause for gratification with the results of the year's work and the committee feels a warranted pride in what has been accomplished thus far, a study of the attached table will show up to what extent we have occupied our' field and will make it plain that our greal work is yet before us. "mere are in we uaroiinas i t ciues of 10,000 population and over. Ot these 13 are supplied with associa tions. "There are 29 cities of 5,000 to 10, 000 population. Two of these have community boy's work, two have rail road associations. Tho other 25 are unoccupied. "There are 19 cities of 2,500 to 5,000 population. Of these two h-^e rail road assocations and the. other 18 are unoccupied. 'There are 54 preparatory schools and colleges. Associations are organ ized in only 36 of them. "There are 119 towns and city high schools and this large and most important field has not yet been touched. 1 "By making a most liberal estimate we might say that the association to day is available to only 20 per cenl of the young men and boys of the Carolinas. "Without 'disparaging one Iota the achievements of the past it is obvious that we are just beginning to see our task in its majestic scope and possl blllties. Babcock Donates Collection. ?."TV*ft HKrot*Tr r\f tho TTni V>U1 urn UiO.~ XUO uwiiujr v* VM-W w ? /ersity of South Carolina la once more indebted to that friend of the Inetltu tlon and of learning, J. W. Babcock. M. D., of Columbia, this time for an in*''"* *?nt additori to this department jf 'Carollnlana,'' by the gift of practi cally his entire collection of books ind pamphlets relating to the city of Columbia," says a statement Issued recently. "Some are much desired duplicates, athers supply real deficiencies. Be sides, there are pictures of old Bar lamville Academy of the Limestone Springs Female high school of the isylum as a war camp and others; ilso an original account sheet signed by the commissioners and dated Charleston, Nov. 10, 1786,' showing coin nf Info In tVifl .UU III OL DUiV WL IV/fcO iu vuw ;ity of Columbia. "Another valued donation refcently ;omes from Capt. Dibert Jackson In :he (partial) file for 1806-7 of the South Carolina Gagette and Columbia Advertiser." Weather Bureau Valuable. Columbia.?"Acording to the latest :stimates, the unavoidable loses ap jroximated $3,200, while $15,000 worth )f property was saved by the warn ngs Issued by the weather bureau," ;ays Richard H. Sullivan, section di rector, in his report on weather condi ions in South Carolina for January. Clear Up Reservation. Charleston.?The work of clearing IP the hospital reservation at the lavy yard is going forward at a rap d clip. Old stumps and dead trees ire being blown out of the ground by iynamite, underbrush Is being cut iway, trees ire being trimmed and >ools drained. The government ap propriated some 200 for this work, md indications are that it will prove o be about the best money the gov Vino enont a 1 r\r\ y fViic lino at ;iuiacuc imo uivu^, ?<uV w? he local navy yard in quite a while md will improve the appearance. Build Big Warehouse. Hartsville.?The Hartsville Tobacco .Varehouse Company, recently organ zed with a capital of $15,000, is ilanning in earnest for this season's :rop. It is estimated that the tobacco tcreage in this section will be much arger this year than last. Two way louses will be built and experienced nen will be in charge. The Hartsville fire department is iow in Its handsome new home. The juilding is of brick, two stories, and s modern* in every respect. An alarm lystem will be installed soon. Organize Bottlers' Asociation. Columbia.?South Carolina Bottlers' Association was organized at a meet ng here recently of a wholesale pur veyors of "soft drinks." Ralph J. Ra ner, of Anderson, is president; J. M. Jraham, of Columbia, vice president; 3. 0. Bristow, of Darlington, seer?* arjf, and R. E. Pole, of Columbia, xeastirer. The first annual meeting will be held the third Tuesday in next February here. Mutual protection and he placing of the basis on a higher ilane were given by members as the mrpose of the association. Quickly Yielded To Lydia?. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. - Baltimore, Md. ? "I am more glad to tell what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Coxa pound did for me. I suffered dreadful pains and was very irregular. I became alarmed and sent for Lydia E. Pinkham'i Vegetable Com pound. 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The court of appeal has finally de cided against Mr. George Gray, the well-known actor, In the action brought against him by Miss- Marie Corelli for infringing the copyright of her novel, "Temporal Power," in his sketch, "The People's King." if Miss Coreiii has a large circle or readers who admire her books, there is also a number of people who do not Two men belonging to the op posing carsps, both well-known Jour nallsts, were discussing her the other day. "What I like about Miss Coreiii,'" said the one who admired the au thoress, "Is that she 1b bq^-so alive!** "Yes, that's what. I object to!" re- . \ torted the other?Pearson's Weekly. ; ; Amusing Truth. , 4 The l^te Frank Simmons,- the fa mous American sculptor who recently died In Rome, was an exponent of the f ' frank, naturalistic method. ? "How much more amusing the true is tnan tne iaeai," ne saia one aay ia r his studio to a correspondent "Take \ the case of the little girl. '"My dear,' the little girl's mother said, 'don't you think you're getting tooi old to play with boys?' "The little girl frowned in scornful astonishment '"Why, no, mamma!' she cried Im patiently. /The older I get the hetter I like 'em."* Says Electricity Aids Digestion. Professor-Bergonie of Bordeaux and Professor Arsonval of Paris announce 1 that currents of electricity of three amperes and from 1,000 to 1,500 volts passed through the body of a man ' enable him to digest 70 per cent, of t the food which ordinarily passes away undigested. The Attempt "Did the-new actress in the party \ 1 " try to do the swoon well?" "She made a faint effort." ' r rV * .. * Appetite Finds Ready Satisfaction In a bowl of Post :,'v Mga Toasties and Cream. Thin, crisp bits of In- . dian Corn ? cooked and toaste I so that they have a delicious flavour? Wholesome Nourishing Easy to Serve ?sold by Grocers every where.