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I To Defy Old Age, I KeeP The Heart Young By Beatrice Fairfax I KNOW a little old woman of 70 whose heart ia as young as though she were in the twenties. Her hair is as white as smqw, but in her eyes there burns the fire and vim of youth. She has worked hard all her life and has saved quite a sum of money. Her people are anxious that she should stop working and live comfortably on her savings for the rest of her days; but she says she is too young to give up work yet for a while. So she trots cheerfully about the kitchen. She is a cook, and makes the best pies in the country. She has a keen, sense of humor, and her laugh rings out a dozen times a day as gay and merry as a girl's. She likes to have young people about her, "For," she says, "Sure, Miss, .we are all young together, and do be having a fine time." Dear little old woman! Her heart is as sweet and. pure and kindly as a baby's, and that is what keeps her so young. Time could not have the heart to do other than deal gently with her. . You eau all keep young, if. you keep from getting into a rut and keep jour interest in people and things alive. Gray hairs and wrinkles will come, but it is the spirit that really keeps you young. If your heart gets dried and old it will show in your face, for the eyes are the windows of the sou! and the truest index to your character. If you are an unmarried woman, don't sink into the typical old maid existence. '. Don't be kittenish. Nothing is more objectionable than the kittenish woman. But keep young. Keep abreast with the times. Be interested in young people and their .doings, and don't withdraw yourself into a shell of reserve. Go out a^nd visit your friends, and if you have ailments, keep them to yourself. Don't get into one way of doing things and imagine that your way is the -only way; and don't fail to appreciate a joke, even when it ls at your own -expense. Look for the sunshine of life, for nothing so preserves youth as cheer fulness. The mere fact that you are over 50 need not make you an old man or woman. If you take care of yourself and live sensibly, getting plenty of -sleep and fresh air, you will Se able to hold Father Time at bay for years. Train yourself to take a cheerful view of life. Don't worry over trifles, and don't lose your temper. Frowns are great wrinkle builders. ' I know that this is a true recipe for youth, for has not my little old ?lend proved it?-New York Evening Journal. * * # The Bachelor Tax ^ By Walter G Michel HAT, I wonder, do the lawmakers of Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas and other states, expect to accomplish by their bachelor tax? If they think that they will benefit anybody by tell ing a man that he must elthtr marry or pay a tax, I think that they are badly mistaken. In the first place, why are there bachelors? Do they exist just f jr the fun of the thing, because they don't want a home, because thej* want to be diff?re, from other peo Why aret?ost of the marriageaum nvuiuu ...... . .. _ sure I don't know. It certainly isn't the man's fault that a woman doesn't know how to sew, cook, made a'bed correctly, and in fact keep ? house in the way a house should be kept. Every man likes to have a home, a place where he may rest from his la bors, a wife and children to welcome him. Give a man a decent position and a woman who knows how to run a home and he will get married every time. '/< . P Felling a Great Tree i By Clifton Johnson ? J ?.???frN the wooded shores of Puget Sound, Washington, the trees *, *, sometimes have a diameter of a dozen feet. The cedars, in * T * particular, reach a' vast girth, and in the valley by the S ? *, roadside was one with a circumference at the ground of 63 ? *c feet, and nearby was another that had a Gothic arch' cut ?-H^Hwl through it affording easy passage for a man on horseback. ********** But the tallest trees are the firs. Two hundred feet ls a # very moderate . height, and some shoot up to above three hundred. The fall of one of the monsters when the woods men have cut throjjgh Its base is something appalling. As the tree begins to give the sawyers hustle down from their perch and seek a safe distance. Then they look upward along the giant column and listen. "She's workin' all the time," says one. "Yes," agrees the other, "you can hear her talkin';" and he gives a loud cry of "Timber!" to warn any fellow laborers who may be in the neigh borhood. The creaking and snapping increase, and the tree swings slowly at first, but soon with tremendous rapidity, and crashes down through the forest to the earth. There is a flying of bark and broken branohes, and the air Lr filled with slow-settling dust. The men climb on the prostrate giant and walk along the broad pathway of the trunk to see how lt lies. What pigmies they seem amid the mighty trees around! The ancient and lofty forest could well look down on them and despise their short-lived insignificance ; yet their persistence and ingenuity are irresistible, and the woodland is doomed. The Outing Magazine. ? The Child Must Have ? Home Training ^ By Percival Chubb, of the Ethical Culture Society ^ UR old home culture, and, wrose still, the old home pieties, are disappearing. The church and Sunday school have not kept pace with modern, pedagogy, and are losing their hold on1 society at large. In the Increase of hoodlumism, divorce, child labor, luxury and extravagance, there is a relaxation of moral muscle, and in distress we are turning to the schools td stem the tide of moral insufficiency. President Eliot said spend more money for education; but lt is a mistake. We camnot transfer the duties of the home or of the church to the school. In his social environment, in the time he spends out of school, the child gets hiore education or miseducation than he gets In lt. We have to come back to the old idea of having the parents purge out the moral ma laria.-Leslie's Weekly. M Scared. "Don't worry about John, mother." ."Well, Eph, I don't suppose I should ; nut when one letter says his condition j Js so good and the next that he'll have to get rid of his condition before the faculty will let him play football, I'm awful afraid he'll make himself sick and weak."-Puck. When a dentist in China is extract ing a tooth for a patron an assistant pounds on a gong to drown out the cri?s of the patient. * No Novelty. "A novel always ends with the mar riage." "Which is proper. There's nothing novel about the subsequent hunt for a flat and a cook and a job lot of furn iture."-From Puck. Among the thousand and one pro jects on the program of the Young Turks for the regeneration of Turkey the Constantinople journals announce, with much satisfaction, the intention to rid" the city of its street dogs. brinkley, Ark., a Scene of Terrible Desolation THE INJURED NUMBER OVER 50 Reports Prom tho Storm-Swept Ar kansas Town Reveal an Appalling Condition. Brinkley, Ask., Special.-Fcrthei details of thc %'reat disaster lier? stato that thirty or more lives were I snuffed out, C? *oecplc were injured and property estimated to ho worth .$1,000,000 was destroyed as a result ! of the tornado which wrecked this I little city Monday night. Of the known dead 14 s-? while people, the j others colored. Wreckage Piled High. The tornado hovered about the city onl ya few minutes but its work of I dostuction was complete. The Ro man Catholic church, standing direct ly in the path of che storm, alone escaped dnmag3 o ' rdestruction and stands a grim seniintl on a scene of 1 desolation. Main street and Cypress avenue, the two principal thorough* Caves of thc town, are impassable and are piled high with w rc** a ge from end to end. Even' business house is in rains and there is hardly a home that has not at least suffered the loss of a roof or wing. The Arlington Hotel was totally demolished. Eighty guests were registered but all escap ed uninjured. The Brinkley Hotel. Southern Hotel and Kelly Hotel wore all destroyei without ioss of life. Relief squads were at work all day Tuesday caring for the dead and injured. Thc Rock Island and Cotton Belt Rnilwaj-s have placed cars at the disposal of the relief committee and t seeking a temporary refuge at othei poin's nearby. Thc dead were sent io Helena, from which point inter ment will take place. Governor Donaghey arrived from Little Rock in the afternoon tn re sponse to a call from the citizens' committee. He has the siltation well in hand and saye food, clothing and shelter are the things most needful. Hundreds cf people are homeless and are wandering about seeking a tem porary abode. Three special trains arrived from neighboring: towns bringing relief workers, physicians and nurses. The Catholic church bas been converted into a hospital and here the doctors and nurses are caring for the injured. The citizens of Helena have generously offered the use of th?-.\r homes for the destitute. Mass meetings were called for in Memphis, Little Rock and other ?w?ne tn raise funds and supplies for As a result, it is b?lieved there will be a quick return in Missouri to 3 cent fares. Frank Hagerman, for the IS companies involved, asserted that the decision sounded like the death knell of the 2-cent rate in every State in the Union. Judge McPherson held that both the commodity and passenger laws were confiscatory and unconstitution al, and Mr. Hagerman declared that it is not conceivable that if the 2-cent rate is confiscatory in Missouri, it can be compensatory in other States. The State- on the other hand, de clares emphatically that Missouri's fi-rht over lower rates will continue. Elliot W. Major. Attorney General, who was in court when the decision was reached, said an appeal would be taken and that the present Legisla ture would bo asked to pass new rate laws that would stand the tests of the courts. Governor Hadley made a similar statement. Government by Commission. Birmingham. Ala.,. Special.-Dr Charles W. Elliot, retiring-president of Harvard University, spent the da? here. He discussed "Government bj Commission." He maintained that the highest efficiency in municipal government is accomplished by small governing bodies placed in office by universal suffrage. He gave the re sults of his investigation in Galves ton under the commission form. Hinton Helper a Suicide. Washington, Special-Hinton Row an Helper, a native of Davie county North Carolina, former United State.' consul general at Buenos Ayres,' com mitted suicide herc Tuesday. He wai 80 years old, a veteran of the rivi, war. The tragic act was committee in a room ar 028 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, by tying a towel about his neck and turning on the gas. Papers and letters found. in tht room where Helper took his life re vealed the fact that he was evidentl) deeply interested in on\y one matter the project to build a great inter continental railway, to extend through' North, Central and South American. Seven-Year-Old Boy Bound and Gag* ged by Burglar. Savannah, Ga,, Special.-Seven-1 year-old Evelyn Rabey was surprised alone in his father's home here Tues day by a masked negro burglar who, threatening the boy with death from two pistols and a knife he carried, bound the lad with a rope to a chair and gagged hj?m with a bundle of cloth until the child was near suffo cated. Was First White Child Born in Chi cago. Chicago, Special.-Mrs. Margaret Ellen Liscom, the first white chile born in Chicago after its incorpora tion as a city, is dead in Blooming ton, 111. She was born on March 3d 183G, and was surrounded at bet birth by squaws. Her first bath was taken in a tub from an old bollov log. She was rocked to sleep in ? cradle of bark. Mrs. Liscom's pa rents were Mr. and Mrs. Jame; Kinsey, who came West soon aftcj their marriage in Virginia and settled at Fort Dearborn. I SOUTH CAROLS! News of Interest Gleaned Proi Arranged Por War Against Tuberculosis. j Aiken, Special-Miss Susie S. Iiev uiel has been employed'by the Aiken Ucunty Anti-Tuberculosis league as a :rained nurse to assist the league in ts work for the prvention of the vhite plague. The league has been rery active in its inauguration of a var against consumption.- Although ;he league has been, organized only a few weeks, practical results are now >eing obtained, and the people are feing instructed in the means of pre senting the disease. It is only in rcent years that means :or coping with this dread disease lave been discovered, and this knowl idge is not yet prevalent among the >eople, and the dissemination of this mowledge is the primal object for the eague in this country. No dues are )aid for membership in the league, >ut voluntary subscriptions are being received by the officers of the prose ?ution of the work. Many of the Northern visitors have liberally help ed in this work. Miss Ravenel has already com nenced her work. She devotes the forenoons to the work, making visits ;o all parties who may need her as sistance, which is given, not from a icistanoe, which is given, not from a maritable standpoint, but as a matter I )f giving valuable suggestions for the ! iaring of patients, prevention of the ipread to other members of the fam :ly and to persons with whom infect ?d persons may come in contact. Miss Ravenel has had long experienct as a lurse, and she has entered the work with spirit. She will make periodical reports to the president of the league, Dr. Fillmore Moore. The trained nurse will conduct her ?vork in conjunction with the board jf health. Miss Revend will also ?onsult with the physicians of the ?ity and work in conjunction with :hem. Cases that are reported to her is needing assistance or advice she ?viii visit. The object of this is, of jourse, to prevent the'further spread )f the disease,. and it is stated that -vhere persons refuse to heed friendly ind voluntary suggestions for sanita iion and safety of the people against mberculosis,, such cases will be re ferred to the board of health to take such action as they see fit for public mfety. I ?ral, Wm. F. Stevenson, colonel. ? (raw; Judge Advocate General, Benja nin A. Morgan, colonel, Greenville; lommissary general, Robert P. Ha mer^ Jr., colonel, Hamer, S. C.; chief ?f ordnance, David W. Daniel, col mel, Clemson College; aides de camp, tVilliam W. Moore, colonel, Barnwell; los. G. Wardlaw, colonel, Yorkville; Daniel 0. Herbert, colonel, Orange burg; military secretary to Governor, ""has. H. Cabaniss, colonel, Columbia; lides de camp, David R. Geer, lieu tenant colonel, Belton; Francis S. Evans, lieutenant colonel, Greenwood; Alvin Etheredge^ lieutenant colonel, Saluda; William Banks, lieutenant zolonel, Columbia; Thos. B. Butler, lieutenant colonel, G .ffney; Saml. T. McGravy, lieutenant colonel, Spar enburg ; Hal T. Buck, lieutenant col wel. Conway. ("Signed) M. F. Ansel, "Governor." Wind and Rain Saved Johnston. Johnston, Special.-At 9:40 o'clock Tuesday the cry of fire was given and as a strong southeasterly wind was blowing fear and dread filled the entire town, for all knew that they were at the mercy of the flames, as there is no protection from fire what ever. The fire originated in the mil linery store of Mrs. May Taylor, a wooden building. Rock Hill's Water Supply. Rock Hill, Special.-The Rock Hill Waterj Light and Power Company is progressing fine with the new well it has been drilling for some time near the standpipe. The well is 12 inches in diameter, and will be drilled to a depth where abundant water can be secured. At the 125-foot mark a thickness of about 10 feet of granite was drilled through. The work is be ing done in the most systematic man ner, and'when completed it is thought the well will furnish an*abundant water supply, both for domestic and fire use. Incendiary Fire in Aiken. Aiken, Sepcial.-At 2 o'clock Thursday morning the gin house of the Palmetto farms was burned, and everything'in the house was lost. The Palmetto farms ginnery was one of the best equipped ginneries in the county. It operated two fine gins, and the whole ginnery had only re cently undergone repairs. It is be lieved that the burning was the act of an incendiary, ..-^-i^a Will Revoke License. Columbia, Special.-Commissionei McMaster has announced that he ha? decided to revoke the license of thc Standard Home company of Birming ham, Ala. This company has failed to comply with his demand for a quarterly report as required by law and Commissioner McMaster will pre vent it from engaging further in business in this State and will pro ceed against its agents if he hears ol I hem doing any business hereafter. MA NEWS ITEMS m All Sections of the State and Busy Readers I Blow to Liquor Drummers. Columbia, Special.-A. bill of more than ordinary interest that was pass ed at the recent session is one to make it a misdemeanor to solicit orders for liquor. The bill started in the Renate to provide for a fancy license to solicit orders, but it was changed so as to make it a misdemeanor to solicit orders. The Act as approved reads: "Section L. That each and every person, whether acting for himself or as agent for any person, firm or cor poration, who shall conduct the busi ness of liquor drummer, soliciting or receiving orders for Inter-State ship ment within any county within this State, except as now authorized '<y law, any spirituous, nm!t, vinous, fer mented, brewed, whether lagar or rice beer, or other liquors or beverages, or any compound or mixture which con tains alcohol and is used as a bever age, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, ?and on conviction fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment for not exceeding six months, or both fine and imprisonment in the discre tion of the Court." Tried after Twenty Years. Cheraw, Special.-A case of more than usual interest was disposed of at the Criminal Court for Chesterfield County last week, the case of the State vs. Parker Moore, charged with murder. Nearly twenty years ago, in 1889, Parker Moore, a young man net yet 20, of good family, shot one Jordan, in the leg with a shotgun and immediately surrendered himself to the sheriff, claiming that the deed was done in defence of his own life, and was placed in the county jail to await the result of the injuries to Jordan. Jordan died, and Moore, fearing the drift of public sentiment that ran high on account of several homicides, escaped from jail and went to Texas, where he married and lived quietly with his family until recently when he was brought back and convicted. The sentence was made light and a pardon will be sought at an early day. Dr. Cram's Successor. j Charleston, S.pecial.-A Washing- i ton dispatch says, it is fairly certain that E. W. Durant will become the sucessor of Dr. Crum as collector of the port. Postmaster W. L. Harris, of the city, and Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock, who is Mr. Harris's close friend, called upon President Taft Monday and consult ed with him in regard to the matter. Afr. Harris went to "Washington sev Yale graduate and a man of consiaer able means. It is believed that his appointment would give general satis faction here. First Death Penalty in About 15 Years. Laurens, Special.-For the first time in about 15 years a Laurens jury has returned a straight verdict of murder without recommendation to mercy. This occurred Wednesday afternoon in the court of general ses sions when the jury returned a ver dict of guilty in the case of the State vs. John Henry Anderson for the murder of his father-in-law. Ander son shot and killed old Joseph Carter at the Cedar Grove church at the funeral of one of Anderson's chil dren. Anderson shot Carter in the back and without immediate provo cation. Killing at Seneca. Columbia, Special.-A special to The State from Seneca, says: Deputy Sheriff W. F. Corbet and his brother, Charles, were killed at the house of J. B. Palmer, near Walhalla, at 10 o'tlock Monday night. It is said that Corbet had a warrant for the arrest of one of the Palmers. Palmer, his wife, one of his sonss and his daugh ter are all slightly wounded. ^ Bitten by Rabid Dog. Gaffney, Special.-Mr. J. Volney Sarratt, one of Gaffney's most prom inent citizens, was bitten by a dog in Hie city on Friday. He was walking along a street in the mill village, when thc dog ran out from a house and bit him pretty severely on one of his legs. The dog later bit a woman o? the mill village and was killed by its owner. Mr. Sarratt obtained a mad stone form Mr. H. M. Johnson and applied same to the wound with the result that it adhered for about eight hours. He will leave for Atlanta, where he will take the Pasteur treat ment. . ^, Uncle Sam's Soldiers Indicted. Columbia, Special.-President Tay lor, of the State Audubon Society, Wednesday secured warrants from Magistrate Fowles here against th? eleven Federal soldiers stationed at Fort Moultry accused in an article iis The News and Courier of having robbed an eagle nest of its young on James slland Sunday. Mr. Taylor is having papers sent down for service. Edgefield's Ne* Powei Plant Edgefield, Special. - For yean Edgefield people have heard of thi Twin City Power Company, its pur pose being to develop a 30,000-horse power electrical plant on the Savan nah River, in this county. The pro ject has received the approval of the United States war department and the construction of the dam has been commenced. This is an immense un dertaking and it is estimated that twr years will he consumed in the build ing of the dara. It means much fr this county. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who cultivates assiduously a reputation for saying things that make people sit up an<j take notice, says the At lanta Constitution, volunteered re: cently that the average married wom an was no hetter off than a slave or a horse; that the marital environ ment frequently contravened the con stitution, inasmuch as lt placed the wifp in a state indistinguishable from '"involuntary servitude." Whereupon a little New York hausfrau, sore smit ten with poverty and domestic cares, issued a libel for divorce based on constitutional grounds, which recited that she was virtually held in peon age to her husband. It is to be hoped the court will see flt to hand ber down a decree speedily, since lt ls evident that upon whatever ground o! justice her special plea may rest she has outgrown her compatibility with the man whose name she at present bears. H-H I. I..H..I..I..I..H??"H"1-I"I"I--1 THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA, GA. L. C. BLAYNE, CHAS. R. CLARK, President. Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.09. Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. The business of our out-of-town friends receives tbe same careful attention as tbat of our local depositors. Tb? accounts of careful conse. <atlve people solicited. [??M.H.i K-H-HH 1 1 H"1"HH HIM H-H I I I 11 H-t-HH The Planter's Loan and Savings Bank Augusta, Ca. Pays Interest on Deposits, Accounts Solicited. LC. HAYNF. CKAS. C. HOWARD, PRE?! BE.i 1'. CASHIEU. RESOURCES OVER $1,000,000. ?? H'M I 1 HrHri I I"I"M"I"M"! INSURANCE 1 now represent a strong line of Fire Insurance Companies and can insure ?your property. Your patronage will be appreciated. GO TC ABLING g elsewher ames. MMHL/flG A.t The Farmers [ New Lo\ m. j. ive Agent. E-jgi -THE T.HX Yo? want an engin? that ran s ilk? a top, smoothly and uninterrupt edly. If an engine balks or 3 tops and you have to fool a?'ay your time to find out the-cause, ' you don't w.nt that engine because it means a waste of time and energy. -:- -:- - E? J. N / Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers," Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. , Gins and Press Repairs, Trv LOMBARD, AUGUSTA. GA. ) SEE r & BYRD e. Wejrepresent the Bes* & BYRD* Bank of Edgefleld ir Rates On $1000 Insurance I. H. G. engine* are so prac tical and so simple that wiura you startthem they run until you stop them whether you am watching or not Never f\ otttolrenaft-^doirtwastefuel Caji on us an 1 we will gladly ?ptom the good points of the I. H. C. engine -.- -:- -t- -t- -s