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THC NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYN3, Proa't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capita!, ?250,000. Un.ll vK.cil Profita }.?110,000. Fnotlitlvs of our macnlfleent Now Vntilt containing 410 Safety-Lock Bosos. Differ ent Sizes aro .?fforei? to our patrons and ino public at $3.00 to $10.00. per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. rays Interest on Deposits, Accounts Solicited. L. C. Hayne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1902. NO. 43. j For Laye, Lita 4 ' LBy W. S. ! Four o'clock in the afternoon. Peo ple * ho - were going down Cort landt - street stepped quickly to one side. These who were coming up did likewise. This ac tion made a free passageway for a man who was hastening at the top of his speed to the ferry. When he came to whtre another street . intersected' Cortlahdt he dodged in and out be tween thc.wagons with surprising agil ity and without perceptibly slackening his pace. He was a peculiar-locking man. Scarcely live feet tall, with shoulders of the breadth of a large and portly man, a large head, set upon a thick, short neck, a derby hat two sizes too large resting on bb prodigious ears, and exposing a broad, " bulging fore head; small at '.he waist, with slender legs bowed almost to deformity, and 4o:s that lapped over each other as he npa, he attracted scrutinizing atten tion. . -XX. Li Some of the people who mado way for him stopped and ga7.ed after him un fil he was lost to sight by the filling up of the gap which had been made to let him pass. Even the stalwart po liceman, who carefully guards the foot steps of the almost constant throng of pedestrians to and from the ferry, momentarily relaxed his vigilance, as the dwarf shot by him. and rushed into the ferry-house, ff the people who saw the dwarf had suspected his errand he would have been surrounded as by a mob. He passed the ticket punchers be fore they*.had time call upon him to halt. By the time they thought of their duty, the dwarf was tapping a man on thc r ?m. This man stoou near thc. gate leading to the boat, which -was just coming in. The man whom the dwarf tapped on the arm was fully six feet tall. Ho wac dressed in the somewhat worn and ill-fitting garments of a laborer. Over his right eye was a green patch. His beard was two day3 old, and he had been clean shaven when a razor latt touched bte face. His slouch hat was pulled well down on his forehead. The dwarf spoke to thc man as he turned about and bent his head down ward. "But I cannot come, Jimmy," he said. Again the* dwarf spoke to him in a whisper. Then the two turned away together. They went directly "jto the Sixth avenue elevated station, the dwarf walking behind. When they reached. Twenty-eighth street it was dark and rain was falling. 'UTWLJiWhere- -they- turned "Tip""'"''Towri, walked a few minutes, aud the dwarf's companion paused. When Jimmy came up he said: "You must go in.." "But I cannot.'.' "She is waiting for you." The man wont up the steps, reaching the threshold just as the dcor opened. He stepped inside. The door closed. Jimmy Avaited until he heard a sob just as the door was closing. Then he hur ried away. His work was orly partly done. He walked briskly, and in a little while ascended the steps of a residence on .Madison avenue. The door opened before he tad touched the bell. He went inside and a young woman closed the- door. Thc dwarf followed her up one flight of stairs into a sitting room, which was evidently her own. When she-had closed the door she said: "Well, Jimmy? "He is with his mother." "Thank you, Jimmy. You may go."? When the dwarf had gone the young woman stood looking apparently at the figures of the carpet at her feet. But if she had ever known what the fig-1 ures were, they were then as far from, her thoughts as the date of the dis covery that the world was round. This, young woman was Elizabeth T)alow. She was -not beautiful. Her face was too strong for beauty. But a novice in character reading must have seen that she would be impressive anywhere. Passing into another room, she quickly returned in a mackintosh and' was ready to go out She passed, quietly down the stairway, opened the door gently, and a moment later was walking swiftly down the avenue. Later she passed up the steps where the dwarf had left thc man with the green patch over his eye. The door opened at her touch. She. too. was evidently expected. An elderly woman conducted her to a room at the rear of the hall, smothering lier sobs as vthey went. Fefore she touched the door knob she turned in response to a hand upon hnr shoulder. Elizabeth spoke-only z. word: "Courage." Then they entered the room. Both stood looking at each other. The eyes of the elder woman were suffused with tears, those of Elizabeth were filling, but her face was no longer stern. Elizabeth spoke: "He is here?" "Yes." "Sha? I see him?" "Yes." ' Mrs. Julia Gaylord was CO years of age. Her face was sweet, pure, woman ly-such a face as a boy who loves his mother never forgets, as a man in stinctively trusts, and is better for the-, trusting, as her husband had been, and who had died Raving a smile in return for a kiss that had opened for him the gates to the visible sunshine of eternal day. Mrs. Gaylord left the room, soft ly closing the door behind her. - In a few minutes the door opened and a young man entered. He was neatly and carefully dressed. Tall, slender, pale, ami with his eyes upon the floor, he advanced to the middle of the room. His face was clean shaven. Elizabeth sobbed, but her courage did net escape. She arose, went up to bim and said: "I am glad you arc here." He raised his T:ead. He coul l rot. speak at first, however hard he tried. Tears came to bis eyes and then ran dowjx .his face. Again 'Elizabet h said and there was that in her voice to give a much weaker man strengiu: "Courage." pty and Honor. 5 fr SNYDER. K Young Gaylord's voice came to him. He said: "This means State prison." Elizabeth shuddered, but William u-d not. ' For a moment he was the stronger of the two. At length she said: "Not yet!" Young Gaylord looked at her as if he scarcely comprehended. Then she added : "There is always hope." This roused him and brought him back to himself. He said: "Not for me." "Let us see. Tell me all." "Have you not heard?" "Something from my father, but per haps not all. Tell me" "Tn four words: I robbed the bank." "Yes, I know. But that is not- all," and Elizabeth gently laid her hand on his arm. "1 have come to see yon," she added, "to help you, if I can. Will you not trust me? I am, I knew, only a woman but, I trust, a true woman, and one who must be convinced that her ideal of true manhood is unworthy of her faith before she will give that ideal up. "My trust in you tells' me that there is something yet to be uncovered, and may not one as leal as I am claim all loyalty from you? Tell mc all, William, and then I can decide f~- jnyself that which I cannot. permit even .you, under a cloud beyond which I cannot see, to decide for me. Come, then, tell me all." The young man looked at her stead fastly a moment and then sahl : "I will tell you all. But, why should I? It may break your heart for, sure ly, it will shatter your faith where I; had rather be adjudged a felon than have it broken. Besides, you may not believe me. Your father is the presi dent of the bank." . "But I will believe you-I must be lieve you. My faith, unto thc pleading of my heart, is pledged. My trust in you is immutable until you have made my mind turn traitor to yourself, and lcd it to doubt my own sincerity. Do, William, tell me all." "Why should I break your heart, and destroy in you a trust which' must make you miserable for life, and make you despise mc forever? It is hotter that I should bear this burden alone, for by so doing I may retain, or at least some time regain, some share in your esteem." "William, I love you! Now, tell me all." , - . -, j |vV Young Gaylord hesitated only un ?I tie had looked' into her ul^dl^-lc^?5 _ w(fr?3I?jiu. nuw^wagpecP^rrf^own?' He saw her love in all its sweetness and purity unfolded as plainly as lie had xn hour before seen the anguish upon iiis stricken-mother's fabe. He spoke: "God forgive mc if.T do wrong! You remember. Elizabeth, that two years ago I was made cashier of the bank by your father. My hands were then as .lean of crime as ruy mother's name ivas above suspicion. I worked faith fully. My salary was small. I do not plead uns in extenuation of my error, jut it was wholly out of comparison with my duties. The directors were :-lcsc fisted men. At the end of a year [ asked for a larger salary. "The directors said they could get competent and more experienced men Cor what I was receiving. My good mother had only income enough to sus tain her properly, and my salary bare ly kept me decently. I saw no pros pect of making a home of my own. But I plodded along. Eagerness to ad vance in thc world sharpens, the wits. One day I discovered that the dirccVors, your father included, were speculating in a mining trust. One discovery Ted ' to another. I was not long finding, out that they sometimes used the bank deposits to add to their personal gains. "lt was easy for me to persuade my self that if the officers could make money in this way, I could-not.fail to do so. Six montos ago I began* to use my own money... I had saved nearly a thousand dollars. I went into the min ing trust. At first I made a little money, and I had $1500.. Then I went deeper. Meanwhile the bank's officers were speculating. Thc trust began to go backward and I began to steal. The officers were doing the same. They could keep going because their oppor tunities were better. They had easier access to the funds. "The deposits were running low. Three days ago the officers called me into their private room. They had discovered' my speculations and told me so. I confessed, and asked for three days in which to make my losses good. They knew that, they were, like my self, guilty, and perhaps mistrusting how much I knew, they granted my re quest. Then I thought of you. Your father must go with the crash. I could not drag him down and disgrace you. I determined to run away, and before I went one of the directors, more bold than the rest, came and told my mother that I was a defaulter. She would not believe him, but I was in the house, and when confronted by them I confessed my guilt, but made no explanation beyond the mere con fession. This .afternoon I, having cleanly shaved ray face two days be fore, procured a second-hand suit of clothing in exchange for others, and was in the ferry house when Jimmy founrl me and urged me to come back. Why I did not resist him I do not know; only that you had sent him. I simply could not go. and 1 returned. Tomorrow my'mother will beggar herself to try to save me. If she fails and I almost pray Heaven she may I must go to jail." '.' ..* 1 Here young Gaylord broke down com pletely. Elizabeth did not". She still clasped his hand,but yhe almost choked as she said: "And this is all?" "All." "And my father was as guilty as the rest?" Gaylord bowed his head. Then Elizabeth said: "I believe you. You shall not go to ?jail." "It was for me you hid ray father's crime. Surely my love can save you,. I and In it you can never again g? astray. If you could do this much fof me, my womanhii'1 would he false hearted to falter in my duty. Wait here for me until to-morrow. I will come. I will go to your mother now." Mrs.' Gaylord's pillow was wet with tears that night, but they were the teare of gratitude, and peace came tc her like a ray of hope that never leaves a sombre shadow, from the Giver of every good and perfect gift. The remainder of this story is quick ly told. What Elizabeth said to her father will never bc repeated in words, but it had its full and perfect effect. She reUirncd to young Gaylord the next evening, and this is what, she said to him: "William, my mission has been a suc cess. I Sieved you and I know that you told me thc truth. You aro a free man. Before I rested last night my father, confronted with your words, confessed all. I went with him to the bank today and faced the directors willi him. Iiis head was only one of all thc rest that burned, suffused with shame. I demanded your freedom, and my father then admitted 'hat thc trust had advanced again and that thc b^flk was now as solvent as ii ever had bwn, Even your investment had made *ia loss. "Indeed, there was something said about the profits pained, and I then demanded a promise from each sepa rate individual that not one penny of this gain should ever bc touched by a single officer of the bank. The prom ise was made, and, Wiiliam, you will promise, too? I know, my love, you will." And as he promised her, tears mingled with his own, while Mrs..Gay. lord lifted up her voice from a heart overflowing with gratitude to Him who has promised to be mindful of the widow's son. William Gaylord and Elizabeth Dalow, his wife, ave living in the West, happy and as nearly well contented as loving man and wife can bc. she stiil doing him honor, and he as proud of her as an honest man caa bc of a pure and loving woman. If any man or woman is disposed to doubt the truth of this story of real life in all essential details, lc: it bc said that it is true, and that there aro men-for the incident is not of remote date-who can verify it almost within reach of thc writer's hand. This is but one incident of its kind. Arc there any more?-New York News. CUAINT AND CURIOUS, If great cold should condense the earth's atmosphere to liquid air it would make a sea which would cover the earth 35 feet deep. The stick insect of Borneo, the larg est insect known, is sometimes 13 inches long. It is wingless, but some species of stick insects have beautiful One of the most singular cures for deafness ever recorded is quoted by i the Independent Beige, from thc Dutch papers. An old man ol' 70, living at Krommeme, who had been deal' for 20 years, got involved in a dispute with some neighbors and became literally transported with ra.?;fj. In his semi- j Jemonjc.d stale ?io suddenly recovered his hearing, which he has retained ever since. In a remarkable surgical operation. Dr. Nicholas Senn of Chicago has suc ceeded in making a new knuckle for the thumb of Mrs. Thomas M. Hunter, wife of Alderman Hunter. Two years ago Mrs. Hunter caught a splinter of wood under her thumb nail. Inflam mation set in recently and resulted in blood poisoning. Dr. Semi removed tho knuckle and formed a new ono of strips of bone. Few persons aro aware that it is possible to tell lime by tho eye of a cat. This is done by a close study of the feline pupil, which contracts and expands with, groat regularity each day. Thus, at noon, the pupil of a cat's eye is contracted into a mere s3itfc a mere, horizontal line, and at midnight it is at its largest point of expansion, being then as big and round as a grape. With a little study of the feline optic any one. can easily come within a quarter or a half-hour of the time by reference to a cat clock. .Human skulls arc a strange article of commerce. Yet such is thc demand which' has arisen among curiosity deal ers in Europe for the skulls of New Guinea native ancestors, which have ornamented tho poles of native dwell ings in New Guinea, that the Austral ian government has inhibited thc trade. Large prices were offered the natives for the strange relics, and it was feared that thc temptation was becoming so strong that as thc supply of genuine ancestors ran low illegal methods of procuring spurious ones would bc adopted. The director of tho Orphanage at Temesvar, in Hungary, has arranged to hold an "infant market" once a month, at which all the children at the Orphanago will oe on view, and at. which persons desirous of adopting one or more can inspoel them and take their choice. The first of these mar kets passed oh" very successfully. Thir:y children were on view-boys and girls between thc ages of one and 10 years. Nineteen of them were adopted-five boys and 14 giris. Most of thom weir? adopted by fairly well to-do people, ami one foster-mother went straight to a lawyer's office and made her newly-adopted child heiress tc her fortune of $100,000. I'ennntn I? Afrlc:?. According to published statistics the last peanut harvest on the Coromandel coast yielded 49.000 tons, which with an oil capacity of 40 per cent., would produce approximately lit.Hui) tons, or 110,000 barrels of oil. The oil from this district has not a particularly good flavor, and is used for thc manufac ture of soari, says tho Berlin Nachrich ten. Thc harvest matured carly this year, and 12r>,ooo halos, sufficient for 20,000 barrels of oil, were sold for de livery at Marseilles I'M February. On the coast of Senegal CO.non tons of pea nuts were harvested. Those nins dc not contain as much oil but it is of a finer quality and is used as a substi tute for olive oil and cottonseed oil. I % Suspicious Characters jj I* of the Woods. P By Willi?nTs. Rice. p IULE you are in the coun try and roaming through fields and thickets indis criminately,on your btuft ing or fishing excursions, let me utter a word $f caution against the dan gerous diameters you ute liable to encounter. j No, I tlo not refer to tramps, boags or snakes, but to much more sly ?uni dangerous foes, the poisonous plants and shrubs which lurk in every nook and cranny, and there He in wait for their victims by every fence posf, woodland path, pile of boulders, or. perhaps, on the same premises where you aro staying. if you will come along with mc this beautiful summer morning I will give you an introduction to these villains of the plant kingdom. But in case we accidentally expose ourselves to th$vl .influence it would be wise if we oW-< served some precautions. L?t us.carry? with us a flask of cold water, juffi Hal??'?lqTo^ lie our antidote for ivy poisoning. The sun is getting higher in the sky and we had better bo off before the heat becomes too great; so como along, and we will take this shady lane bordered with locust trees, that leads to the Bl ream which ilows through Beimel's Hollow. "Pooh," I can hear some one exclaim, "I have often touched poison ivy and never took it." That's all right. Some persons are susceptible, while others are not. By its irregular, coarse toothed, oval pointed leaves, which are always grouped in threes, and the clusters of small greenish white berries you shall know it. Rims toxicodendron thc learned I botanists call it; and isn't that a hig'.i ; sounding name for such a reprobate? Look at that aged specimen about the I fence; post, like a highwayman lying j in wait for the barefoot youngsters as they climb the fence to take a short ; cut to the swimming hole! In this form j botanists have given it a special name, j lt h us radieans. The country people i of California call this lorin of it ' "poison oak." Now as wo approach ! the thickets of alder which line the I streams on both sides look sharply j about you, for there is another sus ! plcious character which belongs to the j Kims family, hiding among innocent , shrubs and waiting lo brand his trade ? mark upon you, if you happen to come j too closely in touch with him. Ile io I really a dangerous enemy of mankind, I and his effects are similar to those of ; bis relative, the poison ivy, ouly much j worse. This is the Kims venenata, commonly known as "poison sumach," and it is a sturdy shrub from five to twenty feet in height. At the base of these alder bushes grows another three-leaved ivy. "Poison lyy, sure!" my companion exclaims. But look carefully and see for your self. True, there are the three leaves In a group, almost a counterpart of the poison Ivy itself; but where, oh where, are the stout hairy stems and the clus ters of whitehill berries? Instead you will notice clusters of purple bean blos soms or, what follows later, some min iature limas dangling from the slender I wiry stem. J Dig this plant up by the roots, for it j has a secret hidden from most of ns, I and I want to tell you about it. Afraid i to? Why. it isn't poison at all; it is I only a wild bean vine. Besides the i fact that it bears green pods above ' ground, it has an underground fruit, or "hog peanut." as it is called in some localities. These peanuts are small, ;W1L0 . .BEAN-VINE -<?^"' one-seeded pods, and lew persons know this plant's secret. They aie the seeds for next year's plants, produced by queer underground blossoms. "There on that boulder is a poison Ivy with live loaves; bc careful!" ls th?] s.'igo advice my companion oilers nu i ns wc proceed to investigate thc nev? ! lind. A Ave-leavod poison Ivy! Why, didn't I just tell you that the poi.soii j ivy's loaves arc always found arranged in threes? "Yes, but it looks just Iik?? it," he persists. Now look closely, There are live leaflets all springing from the same polut of the stem. They have a regular saw touih edge, and the berries are bluish, almost black. No, this is no relative of the Kims fiimily, but ls closely allied to tho grape, .-ind its botanical name is Am* polopsis quinquefolio, or, commonly, Virginia creeper. It ls perfectly harm less, and one of our most beautiful native climbers.-Harper's Bazar. Not His Plsli That Was Spoiled, ile dilled wherever mea! time found bim. and in consequence in immy dif ferent rest.-una ii is. It had become a habit to notice Hie dish which most o? the other diners had and to order it. .,^J,,?uJJj'^)?.JJJ?<^^-?mv.?v^_UJ^_^>JgLlv??^^?^i'| \\ this particular restaurant a fish finner seemed io be the proper thing. \.u oldman ?il the next (able was par ieularly enjoying hU tish. Presently 4ie waiter brought tho stranger his lortion. He looked askance, sniffed 'reely and remarked to the waiter: ' I ???ny. this fish docs not se^g^^e "?Ti.-'ycs, sir: yours is nlTTTglit," sa iff he waiter. "It's the other gent's vbat's off color," and be motioned vi?li bis timmi) to Hie ravenous ono lear by.-New York Tribune. Tlio Art of Itrcathiiig. It is possible lo exercise one's whole >ody, to keep ii strong and well, shu ?ly by breathing properly. Children fhould be taught to breathe ami to get nto thc habit of tilling the whole lung ipacc at each inhalation and of cmpty ng it completely at each exhalation riiere is no better way of gening to deep soon after going to bed than by )reathing properly. Push away the ullow and lie Hat upon thc back with the muscles relaxed. Slowly draw in che deepest breath possible, hold it for four seconds, then slowly expel it until the chest and abdomen have collapsed. Repeat this process until you are tiree [ir fall asleep. There aro seores of ivays of varying tills exercise. lint this is the essential. Of course, it is as sumed that one sleeps with his bed room windows open. rino House SOO Years OUI. This is one of the buildings called "stnburs." which are to be seen in Tele mark, in Norway. They are built of pine wood, and most of them (late from tl. eleventh or twelfth century. They are storehouses for provisions to be used during the long winters, and cor. tain among other things quantities ol the peculiar hard. Hat, Norwegian bread or biscuit, which is as thin as a pancake and thirty inches in diameter. Many of these buildings are adorned willi artistic wood carving ami painted bright red. There ?re wooden ehurche.f of equal antiqui y. Tim Sponge nf ?lu- Intellect. As memory is the sponge ol' ilic in tellect, we should be careful that the eyes and ears, which give to it that which it absorbs, bi' clos-d to all that is unlovely, unpleasant ami vicious - New York New.-. Religious in it met ion is not given iii Japanese schools. ON ABSENT-MINDEDNESS. Argument to Show It .Dons Not Mean UTeiitnl Failure. Vs absent-mindedness indicative of mental failure? This question is sug gested by such fads as the large num ber of unaddressed letters posted each year. An English contemporary cites in evidence the official list of articles left in one year in the Loudon cabs and omnibuses. It includes 850 canes, 13.000 umbrellas, 2C7 rugs, 742 opera glasses, 920 articles of jewelry, 180 watches, 3,239 purses, besides birds, :loi's, cats, otc. The list seems like a pretty severe indictment of thc mentaj qualities of the modern city dweller, and if the hard-pressed newspaper reporter hap pens to see it ho will undoubtedly send off a harrowing syndicate letter to all thc Sunday editors on this alarming demonstration of mental degeneracy of thc twentieth century man. Even our medical contemporary suggests thc advisability of those who ride in omnibuses and who forget things of consulting a physician. Thc more marve' us thing, however, is that they do not forget far more often than they do. Civilization lias suddenly increased a thousandfold tho necessary and synchronous preoccu pation of the mind. Singleness of at tention was the predominant charac teristic of mental action before our time of bewildering interests and du ties. Not to have learned thc trick of poising in the attention at one instant such a multitude of objects is certain ly not a demonstration of mental fail ure, but rather of non-acquirement of a difficult art. But the more convincing proof of thc actual triviality of the amount of forgetfulness is shown by the compari son of the number 6f memory slips of the Londoner with the number who ride in omnibuses and other public carriages. Let us double the number of lost articles and put thc total at 50,000; if now we roughly estimate the number of rides each day in London, as at least on the average one for each twentieth citizen, we calculate in a year there are surely as many as 100, 000,000 trips made. Consequently, on the average, a person forgets some ar ticle once in about every 2.000 trips taken. The alarmist adviser of consultation of an alienist for such failures of mem ory would probably smile at this evi dence of his own mental failure. American Medicine. Great Cork I ore*ls of Spain. The cork forests of Spain cover an area of 020,000 square milos, producing the finest cork in the world. These forests exist in groups and cover wide belts of territory, those in the region of Catalonia and part of Barcelonia being considered the first in import ance. Although the cork forests of F:stremadura and Andalusia yj0,^ ^ork in g "?oin e "excel 1 en F~qu"afi t ks " its con sistency is less rigid and on this ac count it does not enjoy the high repu tation which the cork of Catalonia does. In Spain and Portugal where the cork tree or Quercus suber is indige nous, it attains to a height varying from 35 to 60 feet and the trunk to a diameter of 30 to 00 inches. This species of the evergreen oaK is often heavily caparisoned with widespread ing branches clothed with ovate ob long evergreen leaves, downy under neath and thc leaves slightly serrated. Annually, between April and May. it produces a dower of yellowish color, succeeded by acorns. Over 30,000 square miles in Portugal are devoted to the cultivation of cork trees, though the tree virtually abounds in every part of the country. The methods in vogue in barking and harvesting the cork in Spain and Portugal #re virtually the same. The barking operation is effected when the tree has acquired sufficient strength to withstand the rough handling it re ceives during this operation, which takes place when it has attained the loth year of its growth. After the first stripping thc tree is left in this juven escent state to regenerate, subsequent Strippings being effected at intervals of not less than three years and under this process the tree will continue to thrive and bear for upward of 150 years.-Boston Herald. Diamonds Loan Favor. According to an expert writer in thc Peti: Bleu, tho heyday of diamonds has gone, at least on the Continent. Diamonds arc succumbing to three kinds ol* evolution: (1) Tho evolution of moral taste. It is now considered bad form for la dies and gentlemen to advertise their wealth by a display of diamonds. (2) A scientific evolution. Thanks to this diamonds are so wonderfully well counterfeited that they are no longer thc sign of wealth. Thc larger and thc more numerous Hie diamonds the more they arc suspected of being false. (3) The evolution of artistic taste. The diamond admits ol' hardly any va riation in shape or composition. The great Continental artists of to day in ihe jewelry line use gold. ,CT, even copper or iron, and pro'' .ce with them little marvels of art. in which thc diamond hardly ever enters, unless i i a very minute and accessory way, .D order to "animate" the whole. lino Sting* Tor Itheiitnntlgin, William Snivcly, an aged resident of Shady drove. Pa., has been a suf ferer with rheumatism for a lons time i;iul lost tho usc of his arms. When in the garden some mon were hiving a swarm of bees and they settled on the old man and slung him sorely. Whoa the swelling from tho stings disappeared, thc rheumatic pains ami stiffness also left, and the old gentle man can now do as much work as be fore afflicted with thc malady. ?altimore American. (Jttlqiiff Hrcord. Judge and .Mrs. G. L Mitchell, of Eureka, are able lo boast of a rather novel record. They have been married forty-three years, and during all that time there liss never been a death or birth in th? family, and Mrs. Mitchell says that only twice ?a her married life did she have to get up in the night j to huul ' oHc medicine for hir bus I band.-Kansas Citv Journal, Large shipments of the best makes of wagons and buggies just receiued. Our stock of Jurni ture and house furnishing is complete. Large Stock of Coffins and Caskets alwags on hand. All calls for our hearse prompt ly responded to. All goods sold on a small mar gin of profit. Cull to se 3 m% I will save you money. THE ARTISTS' FAVORITE THE MATCHLESS Unsurpassed in touch, tone, workmanship and dura rabilay. Sold on YMENT. Factory ?md fm?m, Ghandi Olio. J. A. HOLLA/ND, Traveling Agent for South Carolina, NINETY-SIX, S. C. W. J. RUTHERFORD. R. a MORRIS. . HU Bair, Fii Ready Hoof WHIT Cor. Beyiis mi Mitt Sis. - insta BL HOW DAVIS MANAGED. Method In Which the Washington Monument Was Saved. If, says the New York Tribune, there is a nan *n the world who might restore the placidity of Venice, which has been so disturbed by thc fall of the Campanile and the precarious con dition of its other famous types 'of architecture, ho ?3 the new American major general who Is shortly to re lieve Chaffeo of thc Philippine com mand. For it was George W. Davis who saved tho Washington Monument from destruction and by thc applica tion of his ingenuity, solved funda mental problems in his unique, offhand manner that had baffled t^o highest engineering skill of modern times. Af ter the great shaft to the Father of His Country had risen slowly to thc height of 197 feet and rested there like a rough factory chimney, an unfinished oyesore for 20 years, Congress deter miner1 to completo it, and gave the job to thc army. Built on the edge of the Potomac marsh, as unstable as the soil of the Queen of the Adriatic, the shaft had already leaned live feet out of plum, and nobody could bc found to set it straight and insure-its per manent stability until Davis, lately a quartermaster, then an infantry cap tain, volunteered to lift the hundreds of tons of masonry back to the per pendicular and build under it a foun dation that would permit thc lifting .f its top to the highest point ever at nined by a monument erected by nan. To hold the soft earth in place te built a hugo barrel a hundred feet u diameter around the base and drove t deep into thc earth below the ti lal level. He bound together the la closed mass with piles and braces, weighting it all down with.stones and concrete, until he had secured a sta bility that would endure forever. Then he wedged up the monument and put an everlasting foundation under it and finally turned the work over to the engineers under Colone! Casey, who eventually set the capstone 656 feet above the earth. Up to this day the great structure has not moved a hair's breadth, and frequent inspection de monstrates how wonderfully Davis planned. But as he cannot be spared from Manila to save Venice, perhaps it would be as well for the Venitlans to come to Washington and study his triumph. A Ride In the Incubator. After making sundry clerks miser able on the ground floor of the depart ment store with her shopping-no-buy ing, she started up stairs to burden other lives. "Please tell me where the Incubator is?" she asked looking for til" ?r elined plane that Is in healthy comp?tition with the elevator. The .reedited elev!-: felt that he had his revenge.-New York Press. RECOPIES, Peach Bavarian Crdam. - Rub enough ripe, pared peaches through, a sieve to make a pint of pulp and add to them one tablespoonful of lemon Juice, enough sugar to make very sweet and one half box of gelatine which has boen soaked In a half cup ful of water then melted over hot water. Stir occasionally till the mix tures is quito thick, then add one pint of thick cream which has been whip ped to a stiff froth. Turn into a wet ted mold, and when firm turu out. and serve with whipped cream heaped round it. Queen Fritters.-Put four level tea. spoonfuls of butter in a small pan, with half a cupful of boiling water; as soon as this boils add quickly half a cen of flour and stir until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan and quito stiff; remove; add two eggs unbeaten, ono at a time, beating well after adding each; drop by the spoon ful into hot fat and fry until puffed and brown: drnbi, rr..-?::o an incir.ion on one bine and fl il with preserves or herries mashed and mixed in whipped cream sweetened, or fill with chocolate cornstarch. Bolled Cucumbers.-Old cucumbers are nice served in this manner-Pare thom; cut In halves lengthwise, then cut crosswise, then in halves lengths wise again; cook soft in boiling salted water; turn into a colander, and add them to a white sauce lightly season ed and a- few drops of lemon juice ad ded: servo very hot. Bread Fritters fer Breakfast-Cut pieces of raised bread dough the size of an egg; drop thom into hot fat and fry for five minutes to a doughnut brown; remove them with a skimmer; drain on paper; sprinkle with powder ed sugar; sorvc hot. CLEANING A FLANNEL WAIST. Have a tub half filled with warm (ninety degrees Fahrenheit) soapy wa ter, to which have been added two tablespoonfuls of borax. Wash waist up and down in the water with as lit tle rubbing as possible, as this mats the fibre. Never rub soap directly oa flannel. Rinse well In two or three waters ot the same temperature as the first, adding to the last water one tablespoonful of glycerine. This helps to koop thc wool soft. Loosen the tension of the wringer, put the waist through and hang until nearly dry. Place a slightly dampened cheese-cloth over the flannel, on the right pide, and press with a moderate ly hot iron. In removing the cheese cloth the fibres cling to it and are drawn up, giving the flannel a soft finish much like the new material. A writer in the Revue de Paris de clares that mauy Frenchmen hope that some day Spain, the most fertile and most il ?-governed of European countries, will become French soil.