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Dr. and Mrs. Keller left last week l'or Columbia. After spending several days in Columbia they will visit relatives in Lake City, Flu. f Mr. \V. Joel Smith is at homo froiri> the Citadel for the summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McCaw and little baby left Tuesday for their home in Columbia. Mr. Lewis Lawson, of Columbia, spent the week-end in the city with his parents, Mr. and Mis. James Lawson. Mr. Mac. Henry and mother, Mrs. Francis Henry, have gone to Winnsboro to \isit Mrs. J. B. Doty. Mrs. 11. C. Phil son and little daughter are in Columbia visiting Mrs. Philson's pa rents. Mr. ami Mis. II. I. Hoiton. Mrs. John Hrownlee, of Antreville, spent Tuesday with her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Dickson. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Rogers, of Atlanta, wore the guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Long, the latter part of the week. Mrs. Livingston loft Saturday for her home in Clinton, after spending several days with Miss Matuie Lou Smith. Mre. Ernest Neill, of Arkansas, formerly Miss Mazie Cason of this city, has been the recipient of many charming attentions while a truest in the city this past week On last Thursday afternoon her hostess, Mrs. Furman <Hubert), entertained at auc tion quite a number of her friends. Mrs. Furman's rooms were made very attrac tive on this occasion with vases and bowls of beautiful roses and sweet peas. Tnere were about seven tables of bridge, and at the close of the games delightful refresh ments wore served. Again on Friday afternoon Mrs. Neill was delightfully entertained by Miss Lat imer at auction. Miss Latimer is ever a charming hostess and was especially so on us.-. Ifor rnnms n-Arfi decorated ClUO wvnoiwui with a profusion of cut flowers and hand / some ferns and palms. Six tables were ar ranged for the players. The ladies were dressed in their best "bib and tucker" and made a l>eautifiil picture in their different costumes and many beautiful colors and shades. At the close of the evening deli cious ices and cake were served. Miss Mary Hodges served iced punch at a daintily ap pointed table in the hall. One of the most attractive affairs of the week and one of the largest was the regu lar meeting of the Bridge Club held at the home of Miss Eunice Calhoun. The out of / town guests were Mrs. Ernest Neill, of Ar kansas, Mrs. Thomas Pcrrin, of Mississ ippi, and Miss Kitty Perrin, of Greenville. Miss Calhoun had with taste arranged the parlor and dining room for the players. Cut llowers were placed on tables and mantle piece. Iced tea was handed the guests oil their arrival. There were nine ur leil IUUU"? Ul miv> nijujiu i/iiv interesting game of bridge. A tempting ico course was served about 7:30 o'clock. Messrs. \V. \V. Bradley, W. 1'. Greene, R. E. Cox, Major Nickles and others went to Columbia to the mooting of the State con vention. There was services at the A. R. P. church on last Sabbath. Rev. Mr. Pressly preached a very line sermon which the congrega tion enjoyed very much indeed. Rev. Pressly has just returned home from Mex ico a few days ago. The many friends of Mrs. Greeno were grieved to h?arof her death on Saturday afternoon. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community. Mr. John McCaw spent the week-end with his wife, who is on a visit of a few weeks with M^.-hihI Mrs. James Lawson, Miss Essie Pick, of Hartsville, is on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Benton who have been living in Atlanta for several years are coming back to their old home to live. Mr. C. E. Williamston spent the week end with friends in Donalds. Miss Lallie Calhoun is home again from Decatur, Cia. Mr. and Mrs. James Pen in, of Yazoo, Miss., aie in the city on a visit to their un cle, Mr. Edwin Calhoun. Mr. Perrin is one of Abbeville's boys and the town is proud of his success in his adopted home. Mr. H. G. Smith and Miss Fannie spent the week-end in Lowndesville. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Calhoun, of Ala bama, are on a visit to horcefolks. Mrs. Sol Rosenberg and little son are home again from several weeks visit to h'oinefolfes. Messrs. R. L. Dargan, 3. D. Brown, .7. M. Gambrell, J. S. Morse, Revs. Louis Bris tow) S. O. Cantey and Dr. G. A. Neuifei have gone to Chester to attend the Lodge of Knights of Pythias. They will return on Wednesday. The friends of Mrs. Xarryinore were grieved to hear of her death on last Wed nesday. Mrs. Narrymore is well remem bered in Abbeville as Miss Nettle Miller, where several years ago she visited in the homes of Mrs. Polly Miller and Mr. II. T Tusten and made many dear and devoted friends. She has been sick for quite a while and at the time of her death was living at Baldwin, N.C., having gone there for liur hoiilt), \T.-a V.. daughter of Col. "\V. Y. Miller of this city, The sympathy of the community is with the bereaved family. The Library association will have 'Tan Day" on the 5th of June which will be this coming Friday week. This should be s very interesting time for the peonle of tin city. Not only the Children but men ant women should take a hand in it. Com( and give your help as well as money toi good cause. A Card of Thanks. We take this means of expressing oui sincere appreciation of the great kindness shown us during the sickness and death o our precious little child. Such thoughtful kindness shown by kin< friends in our darkest hours of troubli can never be forgotten. Sincerely, Mr. ami Mrs. Ira A. Cannon. White Slave Subtleties. W. B. Trites, the novelist, said at i dinner at the Hotel Negresco in Nice "I eee that certain squeamish Nev England minds are kicking now be cause our school teachers give sex in struction to the little children." Mr Trites made a gesture of pretest. "l$u what I want to know is," he demand ed, "how the deuce, without sex in struction, can the little children uc derstand our modern plays and films T LdWNDESVILLE Happenings of a Week In and About the Seven-Hilicd City- Personals. Lo'.vndesville, .May l(?th, 1W11. Rev. J. L. llarley, ?>f Spartanburg, cat 110 in hist Saturday, and the next day hold three special meetings, the one at Smyrna at 11 a. in., another at the liid^e at. 3::n? p. * ' ' ^ I I... !?...>? in., aim ui<" ouici ui o i>. in. ciu hi. j?i|'i,ioi church. At all three the congregations were large and very attentive, and it is hoped that ranch good will result. He, as is known, is the Superintendent of the South Carolina Anti-Saloon League, and is giving his timo and talent to the promo tion of the temperance cause. He while here made many friends socially and along the line of his beloved life-work. Mrs. O. Johnson, a former citizen of this place, now of Anderson, came down this week and spoilt several days. Maj. J. G. Huckabee went up the country today was a week ago and spent a day or two. Mrs. B. C. Kay went to Atlanta the last of last week and will spend sometime in that place. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bell and little girl, and Mr. Willie Bell, of Augusta, came up last Sunday. The first returned to his home that evening; the others will stay for some time with their kinsman, Mr. B. A. Bell, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John W. McCalla came up Monday; the .latter went to GafTney to spend a few days. Mrs. A. E. Floyd, who had been sorely aimctec lor some time, uespice tne pnysi cian's skill, tiie most unwearying atten tion of a trai'ied nurse and all that loving hands could do, reached the end of life's journey last Monday, 10 a. m. Some years ago she came here from Brevard, N. C., bought a lot, improved it, and has since oc cupied the well-appointed home. She was ' a good woman, all of her life having be^n spent in the service of the Master. She was always at her post in the Baptist church. The next day her remains were carried to the depot and put upon the 10:30 a. m. train for Walhalla. Quite a number of her friends followed the casket to the depot and placed upon it many beautiful floral wreathes. Mr. and Mrs. D, K. Cooley, Miss Ella Floyd (these last two her only daughters, Mrs. B. Boiling Allen and Mr. Robert Smith, went with the remains and saw them deposited in their last rest ing place. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Barnes went to An derson Monday evening in their auto and came back the next day. Mrs. W. 1'. Fanninpr, who had been at the home of her daughter Mrs. I. B. Bell for ten days, left Saturday to make some visits to friends in Georgia and then to her home. Air. iVU'i viii jieiins, 01 anuersun, spent several days of this week with Mr. E. \V. Harper and family. Mr. J. B. Lelioy and his grandson Bob tyo Smith, went to Anderson Tuesday. Mrs. R. H. Moseley went to Atlanta this week for a few days stay. Mr. W. AV. Thompson, who serves Rural Route No. 2 from this place, brought with him Wednesday a large bundle of oats from Mr. Joe Hill's farm. It is said to be .. rn;M enmnia Af .. p ,?f + i,? <L mil I'l <1 JIV1U VI IVUl ?VlVO \n WIC , Fulwer variety. It excelled anything of . the kind that the writer has ever seen. , The bundle was nearly five feet high, standing on its end, and the heads were all well filled, and it is safe to say that the owner will get between two and three hun dred bushels from the four acres. Besides ' the above, Mr. Hill also has about ten acres of equally as good oats of another kind. This will be a remarkable yield, ; considering the dry weather. It shows i what industry, coupled with proper prep aration and proper fertilizing, will do,'-and . that good crops can be raised despite ad verse weather conditions. Mr.Hill's place was quite poor when he began with it; now he raises the best crops to be found. If all of the planters in this section had 1 j the vim about them that he has, it would j blossom as the rose. It is worth any man's while to visit Mr. Hill's farm?to .visit it during the crop season. He owns and operates more labor-saving machinery . than anyone else that the writer knows of. Troupe. Helpful Words i From an Abbeville Citizen. I* your back lame and piinful ? , D>'es it ache especially after exer | j tion ? Is there a soreness in the kidney r< ! gion ? >| These symptoms suggest weak kid nev?. If' so there is danger in delay. Weak kidneys get fast weaker, jj (Jive your trouble prompt attention, j Douri's Ividuey Pills are for weak "j kidneys. , Your neighbors use and recommend L, them. >. H ad this Abbeville testimony. >' Mrs. M. N. Thornton. Abbeville, S. L C., says : "I have always foutid Doan's i Kidney Pills to be a good kidney medicine and I consider them worthy of the highest praise. 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"jsaAjej-j sqj ;o we-] THEIR NEW NEIGHBOR By LUCY CONKEY. "How do you like your new neigh bors?" asked Mrs. Camuel of her friend, Mrs. Easterlie. "She's a fine little woman, but she's going to spoil every husband in the entire neighborhood if she remains here long enough." "Heavens! You don't mean to say she?" "Certainly not! She is a perfect lady, and would not flirt with, any man. She thinks her husband is the finest man in the world." "Perhaps he is." "And you with a husband of your own to say such a thing as that! I have often wondered if you and Mr. Camuel got along as well as you?" "We get along as well aB some oth er people I could mention." "Meaning me and my husband, of course. We have our spats on the nights when he comes home over worked and cross. I won't stand any of his growly bear business from any man. A man should at least bring some sunshine with him when he comes from town." "That's the way I look at It. Jack Easterlie and I quarrel occasionally, but on the whole we get along as well as our neighbors. But we were talk ing about Mrs. Braynerd. In what way do you suppose she will go about spoiling our husbands? I don't ex pect that she can spoil either of them ?much." "That's the truth! But the danger lies in the different manner in which she handles her husband." "Well, her husband is a smaller man than either of our husbands, and we couldn't begin to handle ours." "I did not mean in that way. Take, for instance, last night. An old friend of Mr. Braynerd's came into town and went out there for supper. He had only an hour and a half until train, and Mr. Braynerd went to the train virltVi Ulm f a!1 V* I a /I o 11 crVl f Ol* TVT Q T? nivu 111141, 10111115 UIO UWUjjUW* ~~M. jorie that he would be right back and assist her with her school problems." "That was no more than he should have done." "Of course, not. But when ho got home he found a note the size of an office letter-head hanging on the door bell. The note read: 'Robert, come nl/in/y /Inii'n f a Wo?rfnna ThPV telephoned for us, and then Mr. War burton came after us when he found you were out.' It was signed with Mrs. Braynerd's name and the names of the children." "Hmm! I'd like to see my husband stand for a trick like th^at!" "Same here! I'll bet Jack's lan guage would blister the paint on the house if I should do a thing like that." "But the worst is yet to come. When he got to Warburton's he found a similar note on their door, reading: 'We have all been invited over to Mr. and Mrs. Cleavage's to meet some friends of theirs from Cleveland. Come on over.' And that was signed with' the name of Mrs. Braynerd and the children." "Tho Braynerds remained at Cleav age's quite a while, then they went back to Warburton's, and when they got there they found that Mr. Bray nerd had turned me note over auu written: 'I have gone home. All of you come up there.'" "And did he roast his wife when he got her home?" "He was not there. When they ar rived home?the Braynerds, I mean, and the Warburtons with them?they found a note saying: 'I have decided to go around to Cleavage's. Come around there.' And when they got to Cleavage's they found a note reading: 'I have gone back home.' So they all dragged their weary feet around there. And there they found that Mr. Bray nerd had gone around to the delica tessen storo and rustled up a Dutch lunch, and the lunch and Braynerd and the Cleavages wero awaiting them. And they had a grand little luncheon." "And she didn't give him a piece of her mind?" ''Not a piece. And he didn't give her a piece of his mind. Wasn't that ridiculous?" ' Indeed, it was. But, do you know, I believe this whole neighborhood needs spoiling just the way the Bray nerds are spoiled."?Chicago Daily News. Big Explosives Output. The bureau of mines has compiled some figures on the production of ex plosives In this country in 1912. It appears that there were manufactured 230.233,369 pounds of black powder, 24,630.270 pounds of permissible ex plosives and 234,469.492 pounds of high explosives, such as dynamite, ni troglycerin, etc. Of the high explo sives 69.703,081 pounds were consumed in mining other than coal and 4,668, 399 pounds of permissible explosives in the same industry.?Mining Jour nal. I j THOSE POTATO BUGS By LOUISE OLIVER. 9 I j Victoria had abandoned the little car in disgust when the gasoline gave out. She was only half way home from the post office and had the pros pect of walking two .miles to the Em ersons, where she was staying. , She tucked the letters into her i blouse and trudged along, the hot sun beating down on her bare head. Col I lar turned in and sleeves rolled up, Sol was having a pretty good chance , to spoil the milky whiteness of her skin. All at once she saw some cows. And no fence to restrain them, for they i ?1 ? 1 I were uui m cue iutiu auu i ward her. Three of them! one red, one black and white, and a Jersey. If there was a thing in the world . tha? Victoria was afraid of, it was a cow. She stopped suddenly in dismay. I What in the world should she do? On one side were some grass, a few bushes, and a fence. She couldn't hida under a bush. She would be sure to I be trampled on. Where could she go? i The fence was high. She had never climbed a fence. But the cows were coming! Anyone can climb a tree if a bear is after him. So Victoria got over the fence. That is, she climbed to the top and fell the rest of the way. And she knocked a pan out of a man's hand on her way down. Before she could scramble to her feet she caught sight of the contents of the pan, now scattered in all direc tions, and she started to scream and shiver, and cover her eyes with her hands. About a hundred or two squirming, crawling potato bugs was the sight she was trying to shut out. And then the man took her firmly by the shoulders. "Shut up," he snapped. "For the love of Mike, don't have hys terics here. What's the matter with you?" Victoria was impulsive and generous by nature. She held out her hand. "I am very sorry. But I was scared to death at the cows. If you have an other stick, maybe I could help get them hack In again. I mean the bugs." He laughed. "No, thank you. It will only take a few minutes, Miss? Miss M "Harmon. I am Victoria Harmon, and am staying over at the Emerson farm. My car broke down and I'm walking." "But it's two miles." "I know." "And it's a beastly hot day." "Yes, it is." "Well, won't you let me hitch up and drive you home?" Victoria, accustomed to offers of homage and also accustomed to ac cepting them, said simply, "Yes, thank yo?, I believe I will." So she waited in the shade of a chestnut tree while the man went to the barn and got the runabout ready. She was thinking that, dressed up, he would be very fine looking, and he cer tainly had a commanding manner. Jtie was so different from the men whom she knew at home. He was big and brown and hearty and she was sure he had never an unwholesome thought in his life. So he drove her to the house. Then he towed her car home a little later. And Victoria kindly consented to drive over to Hanging Rocks with him on Sunday to see the falls. It was as she had thought. He did look well dressed up, and he seemed to know how to dress. His clothes were well made and made for him! She began to be puzzled. Once he spoke of Naples as though he had been there. The Emersons knew nothing of him except that he had recently bought the Brown farm. There were several rides and many walks before the time came for Vic toria to go home. She both hoped and feared some thing, but when the day oame her young farmer friend said only a polite "good-by" at the station. Victoria went home to the city with a vague longing in her heart. One day her mother said to her, <<Tr: -A-~ T wAiil/i ha tn V lULUilU, X ? 1QLi jruu nuuiu UD Mr. Thurston whom your father is bringing home to dinner tonight. He is very desirable, good family and all that?and very rich. He has been away and has just come to town. He has the reputation of being eccentrio and people say he is crazy about farm ing. I don't know much about that part of it, but I know he ia very, very welJ off." "Yes, and I suppose he is as ugly as satan and as rich as Croesus and he's looking for a young wife and I'm it," Victoria stormed and ran out of the room. She was getting very irritable. The whole scheme of society nauseated her. Dinner was at eight. She was dressed by seven, for she wanted an hour in the cool darkness of the little garden back of the house. She walked restlessly up and down beside the hedge of althea and finally dropped dispiritedly onto a bench. "Donald," she almost sobbed aloud. "Donald, Donald, Donald! It is so lone ly without you," she moaned into the darkness. And out of the night, yet close to her, he answered: "Victoria, dear; surely you can't mean me. If you do I am the luckiest dog In the world." Then it all Hashed across her brain. Iler your.g farmer of the potato &ugs w'us Donald Thurston. No wonder peo ple thought him eccentric. Tales of Tennyson. I The London Times at two cents would have relieved Tennyson of one of the minor annoyances of his daily 1 life. Lady Taylor once took a friend , to see the poet and was rather coldly received. On Lady Taylor rallying him ! on his manner, he said: "Madam, I am a poor man, and as 1 can't afford to buy the Times I have it from the 1 stationer. He charges me two cents . for it, which entitles me to keep it i an hour. Why will people select just | that hour to come and call on me"" Send U: For J in our juu ed to print < from a Vis Circular. F Write us toe press" 1 t/erti Span. At tk? Halterophile club ia ^aris --* * ^ ..M...,,,! ? noi long ajju uue reiuucau auiuncu a record by tearing a pack of pjaying cards lu one pull?time, two r^iautea and thirty-two seconds. The e^?*its in this caid-tearing contest were: Tear ing th? greatest possible number of cards tied together top and bo?tom? time allowance, three minutea) tear ing a pock of 80 cards in the q^ckeat possibI? time; tearing the g?;atest possible number of cards in foi?t. This is a form of "sport" whereiP many Frenchmen specialize.' The m*?i who enter the contests are not nec?tsarily powerful, but they possess ero/moua strength in their fingers?a Stiength that Is further developed by careful train Simplified Spelling Pioneer. A hardy pioneer makes monthly appeal to our notice. "The Pioneer of Simplified Spelling" certainly Jiaa the courage of its convictions; it car ries the principle of phonetic ortho graphy (we acknowledge the contra diction in terms) to its remorseless limit. Without going beyond the latest issue, we note such headings as "Mr. Sexton's Sceem," "Voisez Vrnm i/rna tVia Hhanol " "A Mori Mis tres'z Apoloejia," "Noetz and Nyuz," "Pres Cutlngs of the Munth." Who can fail to admire the unabashed in sistence on forms like "woz" for un reformed "was," "poot" for "put," "mis taicen" for "mi6 aken," and "chainj" for "change"? Bravo! Beter a lie wel stuc tu than the tryuth waiver Ing. Introducing New Woofi Five million gallons of wood oil (also kncnn as tung oil), made Trow the seedft o*{ the wood oil tree, w3ii 1 import ed from China last year, and ihe prod uct la said to have had a revolution ary effect on the varnish industry of the United States. It has largely taken the place of kauri gum at d has ma'de possible the manufacture of a quicker drying varnisn, wani :s less llabJe to crack than that irtde from kauri gum, and has been found jf spe cial value in waterproof pr'mlag for cement. The tree is CAimUically adapted for cultivation in Ihi, South ern states, and the departnrant of ag riculture is distributing o'^e-j ear-old specimens to bona fide experim enters. The Stage in Albania If the new ruler of Albania desire* to please his people, let him build a theater, says the Journal des Debats. Since vhe Albanians obtained their in dependence they have shown an ex traordinary fondness for literature and the drama, neither of which existed during the tfamidian epoch. T*ine, If he wer# alive, would have pleasure tn verifying his celebrated doctrine that the art of ft people develops out of Its great emotions. Until now thei'e has been no organized theater in Albania, a corp? of amateur players, wfco pur sue other callings for a living, Uie the people of Oberammergau, travei acoui the country giving representation* of native plays. But no permanent the atrical bailding has been erec'.sd. Miss Amy Wrsc., a Brooklyn l?.wyer, has within the Ia3t few years defend ed a number of. Ch'namen. She says that her practise among them has been most satisfactory, and that they ( can be depended upon whenever they tell you anyth'ttg. la eight years she has never lost but one case for the ( Chinese, and that was the case of a j man who was convicted on the charge j of manufacturing opium. In order to ? defend a Chinaman in New Haven i recently she had to be admitted to the ( Connecticut bar. A New York China- ] man of some prominence says that j Mies Wren is as capable as any man j and more energetic than most of them. ? Friend of Chinese. s Your ob Prin Department we mything you r iting K^ara 10 \ }rompt delivery : lay for Prices. lil \ "ui c n iDDUViiiU) g. V, New Yorker Shoots Polar Bear. . The shooting cf .he first polar bear was delegated to Sir. S. Osgood Pell of New York, a pHylleg^ of no secon dary kind in a pasty of rather keen sporting appetites. It Vas midnight? the transparent gaize of a half dark ness. A sailor called our attention to a blot of white moving cautiously to ward the ship, an<5 in a few minutes the ungraceful bultr. c 1 a polar bear was plainly visible, ambling along fas ter and faster. When Ttthin a hun dred yards he utterod ? angry growl and raced toward us, with the mani fest intention of cleaning the Neptune and her passengers off the map of the Arctic. Mr. Pell's first shot hit him in the shoulder and tumbled him off the "pan" into the water. He attempted to dive, but rifle aft?r rifle took a line on him and landed four or five shota before he gave up the fight. We low ered a small boat, photographed Mr. Pell and his bear, arid "brought the first trnnhv rvrnn/iI v ahnorr? WiHfl A HVJ/UJ 1'* World Magazine. Aeschylus at Syracuse. For four days in April dramas of the Athenian tragic poet Aeschylus were performed in the old Greek theater al Syracuse, in eastern Sicily. Aeschylus has long been popular in Syracuse. Twenty-three centuries ago Athenian prisoners taken in the great defeat be fore that city, and sold as slaves after the custom of the time, earned their freedom by reciting the verses of their great po?t. Perhaps some of the men thus sot at liberty organized a com pany and acted "Prometheus Bound" or "The Persians" in the same theater where the same plays will be pre sented next spring. The poet who ia held in favor for 2,300 years in one place cannot complain of public fickle ness. Doubtful Ancient Armor. There has recently been much said of the armor of Philip II of Spain, ol which the museum of artillery has been deprived in favor of King Al phonso XIII. We hope that this rare piece is more authentic than the armor ot Joan of Arc, which the king of Spain so greaf.'y admired at his re cent visit, says La Cri de Paris. The breastplate that Alphonso XIII gazed upon with such feneration is In real ity an armor fashioned at least 150 years after the death of the Maid ol Orleans and was \\orn by some Italian condottiere. For a long time this shell has ceased to figure In the catalogue ^ WilA ~ C iUA uuuei UlU LillU U1 ILIC glUilUUS JUOXi. After all the essential thing is not to have the armor of Joan of Arc?only to believe that you possess it. Rebuked. That little affair in Zabern has taught the German civilian that no liberties are to be taken with those who wear the soldier's privileged garb Little Rudolph, aged ten, had joined the Boy Scouts. Little Rudolph's father ventured to smile indulgently upon his son as the lad In full field kit of khaki set out for a practise hike across the turnip fields that lie about the ancient city of Dinkelsbuhl. "Don't grin at me that way, father," spoke up Rudolph, in a tone of dignified repri mand. "Remember, I wear the unl form." Censor Bans Costly Film. G. A. Redlord, the liritish censor o 1 films, who was formerly censor ol plays, has banned the cinema version Df Laurence Cowen's drama, "The World, the Flesh and the Devil.* The film cost $50,000 to produce and hun dreds of contracts have been made for Its exhibition in Loudon and the prov inces, while foreign rights have been secured 'for the film to be shown on :hu continent, in America, India, and jven as far away as Siam and Japan Bedford allowed the production of the :>lay, but held that a scene depicting i young girl's betrayal was objection ible in the film. II 1 f ?* Orders i 4 ting. i \ ;l 4 are prepar- | nay need? -J the largest -| 1 3 guaranteed, Forced Napoleon to YIeW. The abdication of Napoleon *ti negotiated one hundred years ago April 5. The plenipotentiaries of N* poleon arrived in Paris at 10 o'clock in the morning and were lmmedfeutyfl received by the Emperor of Ifejto sia, wno was tad dominating sptru among the allied sovereigns. The Rnft sian emperor, after a moment, of d* liberation with the allied princes an! their ministers, Informed the negotte tors that the maintenance of the lm perlal dynasty was out of the que? tion. The offer of the Island of Bib* as an asylum for the dethroned ean peror was then made, together wttt the promise of a principality in ItatJ for Maria Louisa and the King at Rome. Napoleon endeavored to M cure greater concessions in tbe lntas est of his family, hut these were d? nled him and six days later he un conditionally yielded up his throne. Ht Standard Teats for Hemp* According to a report from tbt American consul at Hongkong, the fiber division of the bureau of agri culture at Manila is conducting eofr tensive experiments for the porpoM OT establishing scientific standards, foi testing hemp, in lieu of the present methods according to which expert! of many years' experience judge t3u quality and value of the product If sight and touch. The new teats will be based upon the relation between the weight of a meter length of tba fiber and the breaking strain. Teats for single fibers will be varied with teBts for twisted fibers. As soon tf this system of tests is fully worked out It will be put into effect In the Philippine hemp market Skeleton of Small Dinosaur. | There are now being assembled fcf the United States National museua the boneB of a very small three-hornet dinosaur, which is being made tft type of a new species. This dixolmt tlve dinosaur, when completely a* sembled, will measure about six feet in length and stand only about thretf *"1* 1-l-iU Tin liAM <1 In OO tnjikAfl Inn? icct UlgU. I ID iicau ID AH iviifi When its bones are compared witl those of the larger members of thli extraordinary family of reptilee, U will be seen that this specimen 1b leaf than one-fourth of their size. In thf National museum are several skulli of one of the large horned dinosaur* Triceratops, which measure from to eight feet, and in one case nine fe?t The Real Irishman. Canon Hannay lectured In Londoi the other day on the stage Irishman which is not, he says, a bit like tin real thing. Irishmen do not drlnl with careless bonhomie, with a Je* on the lips and laughter in the eyq he said. They do it with a certaia shamefaced deliberation, and they <k not sing. As a rule a drunken Irlib man staggers silently home, and 11 he opens his mouth at all it is to tall serious speeches about politics or n ligion. Irishmen do occasionally bor> row money, but not with the genial ail of conferring a favor on the lend?8 They do it with groveling servility] declares Canon Hannay. .T-~! Child Labor Law. Mrs. Florence Kelly, secretary <* the National Consumers' league, told the congressional committee lnaulrln| into child labor that she believes thai more children under sixteen are work ing today in dangerous occupatloni than there were when, thirty yeari ago, she began her work to get bet> ter legislation for the protection oi the young. A national law is needed she said. Of course, she said, it ll to be understood that the child laboi bill forbids the employment in a&9 capacity of ail children under the of fourteen. j0^xu..-44ni r" ?