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fWISDOM OF GREAT PAINTER fllelasonier'a Comments Show That Ho Waa a Philosopher as Wot! aa a Superb Artist We always like to know what a great man has said about his work, ?nd how he feels about other things |2iat are of interest to every one. For tunately, Meissonler left a record of ?any of his feelings and opinions, 'published as his "Conversations." Of all the painters. Rembrandt was his favorite. Among his sayings >?ere the follow tog: . " 'Let well enough alone' ls the mot to of the lazy." "The man who leaves good work be Jaind adds to the inheritance of the 1mman race." "The master is an artist whose works never recall those of some oth er artist." "I would have drawing made the basis of education In all schools. It is the universal language." "No artist would paint if he knew ie was never to show his work. If he felt no human eye would ever rest upon it." "I never sign a picture until my whole soul is satisfied with my work." "'To will is to do' has been my motto. I have always willed. Oh! tow I regret the lost time that can never be made up. As I grow older, I work harder than ever."-From Charles L. Barstow's "Famous Pic tures" (Meissonier), in St. Nicholas. BEAL LAND OF THE AUTOMAT "Germany, Probably More Than Any Other Country, Makes Use of These Simple Devices. Germany might almost be called .the land of the automat" Automatic devices of all kinds are popular and are used for a thousand purposes. At all postoffices, stamps and post cards are sold by automatic machines; at the railway stations, platform tickets ?nd suburban tickets are sold by automats; automat restaurants, where one can secure a glass of beer, wine, or liquor, a sandwich, square meal, ?up of coffee, chocolate, etc., by drop ping a coin in the slot, abound every where. Every city of 15,000 or 20,000 population and over has from one to Beveral hundred such restaurants. At railway stations automats sell choco 2ate, candy, picture post cards, and even a little kit of "first aid to the in jured," containing a few drops of pain killer, bandages, needle, thread, etc. Ten pfennigs in a slot opens the doors of toilet compartments, delivering a towel or piece of soap. A coln in a slot obtains a cigar, a tune from a mechanical music box, a pair of shoe strings, a collar button, or a visiting card. Editorial Confessions. Tho following confessions have been Slade by Thomas E. Thompson: "I once had a round key check with my name on it-about the size of a silver quarter. Occasionally when at church I found myself dead broke 1 would drop that key check into the hat fer a bluff and the next day the arothor treasurer would bring it around and I would redeem it But one time lt went out and never came back, and new I have to put In the coin or give the sign of distress. **0nce when I was on earth the first time I tried to make love to a giggly girl She laughed me out of court and I was firmly convinced that she was not capable of a sensible, serious thought I saw her not long ago and abe looked as if she hadn't giggled or even smiled for a score of years and I was glad she treated me as a joke in the other days."-Kansas City 6tar. Flt Word. The claso had been discussing re cent affairs In China. A few days later the fate of a man who was eat en by his savage enemies was referred to. Anxious to enlarge the limited voca Iralary of the children, the teacher ask <ed what name was given to men who ,cte other human beings. "Savagea" and "man-eaters" were ?the only words most of them could tere. At last the eagerness of a sdgat-eyed boy indicated that he thought he had a better word. He It waa "Manchus."-Youth's panton. j. - Nature's Sun Dial. There is no need for clocks on the ?Aegean sea any dar when the sun ls .?bining. There nature does not vary, though the centuries pass. This nat ural time-maker is the largest sun dial in the world. Projecting into the blue waters of the sea ls a large promon tory which lifts its head 8,000 feet above the waves. As the sun ewings round the pointed shadow of the mountain just touches one after the other of a number of small islands, "which are at exact distances apart ?nd act as hour marks on the great tilaL To Tax Bill Boards. The newspapers of Paris the beau tiful are loudly demanding that the ^gigantesque panneaux reclame"-gi gantic bill boards-that disfigure some .of the most prominent places in the .city be eliminated. They hold that the only means to obviate this barbaric invasion ls for the city to tax these rboards at such a high figure as to dis courage the big advertisers from using them. The French parliament has al ready passed a law taxing bill boards ir. the country, where they do not add to the beauty of the landscape. COST THE LEOPARD HIS LIFE Baboons Had Revengo for the Seizure o? One of Their Number, Though Many Wert Sacrificed. The leopard likes the meat of cer tain monkeys, but the Indulgence of his taste sometimes costs him dear. A remarkable battle between a leop ard and a company of baboons, seen by a traveler in Africa, is described in Das Buch fur Aile. I was sitting in the shade of a ra vine, resting from the midday Bun, when a company of baboons came clambering down the opposite wall to ward the water that trickled through the gully. I sat still and watched them. A big male led, and after satis fying himself that all was safe, ut tered a few deep notes. Reassured by ?the call, the others quickly followed; a mother, with an ever-watchful eye on her two young ones, brought up the rear. Suddenly, like a streak of lightning, a leopard sprang from behind a rock, and with one blow of his paw, felled the little baboon nearest him. But be fore he could make off with his prey, the furious mother attacked him. The attack had come so quickly that the rest of the company hardly realized what had happened. But at the moth er's cry of rage they all at once turned and fell upon the robber. In a moment the leopard was sur rounded and almost covered with fur ious baboons. The battle waxed hot Although numbers of baboons went down before the powerful paws of the cat, their places were immediately filled by others. It was not long be fore the leopard began to tire; he could make no noticeable impression upon his assailants, and his strength was sapped by their sharp teeth. He struggled bravely, but in vain; slowly he sank out of sight beneath the fiercely chattering foe that he had despised. The baby baboon was avenged.-^Youth's Companion. WORLD OF HIS OWN CREATION Great French Writer In His Absent Mindedness Lived Far Apart From His Fellow Men. A writer in the St James Gazette tells us that Theoptiile Gautier's ab sent-mindedness amounted to actual somnambulism. He so identified him self with his mental pictures as to lose all consciousness of time and place, and for the time he would actu ally live in the scene that he had cre ated. "We are told that rarely, if ever, has a man had such a gift for getting out of himself. H? would enlarge on his magnificent golden tea and break fast service, when the most hurt irum china lined his shelves. And tl ough his servants were all treated li ! the most fatherly way, Gautier woul^telL you that he never permitted the. i to utter a word in his presence, thaj?ijjj only employed negroes, tl givelB orders by signs. If they undersjflHJl my signs, well and good. If they d?sar, I kick them into the 3osphorus.M ano1 there ls no doubt that be actually heard the wave closing over the head of a black slave. He actually meant what he said. The street outside was actually for him the Bosphorus. Doctor of Agriculture. The time is coming when every ural community of sufficient size will have one or more agricultural experts -men professionally trained to serve in an advisory way all the farmers of the community for a fee. These men will understand the chemistry of the soil and plant growth; their laboratories will be busy with soil analysis and the study of local plant diseases; they will be entomologists and bacteriologists, and their value will be obvious to the en ightened farmers of a new age. These farmers, no longer content to depend on the free clinic of the state experiment station, will seek the ad vice and prescr? .Mon of the local doc tor of agriculture. The dignity and the rewards of this profession are ound to increase, for it is founded up n the basis of our greatest industry, j -World's Work. Women Run French Town. Folsay, a small town halfway be tween Paris and Amiens, In Franco, is said to be the only civilized com munity in which the municipal affairs are entirely in the hands of women. The mayor is a woman, and so is the superintendent of the railway station, the switchman, the mail carrier and the town barber. Mme. Leseboro ls the telegraph messenger and Mme. Druhou-Marchardln is the drummer whose duzy it is to announce each proclamation of the mayor. Mme. Druhou-Marchardln is described as an octogenarian who has held her post through wind and rain for upward o? twenty years. The letter carrier, Mme. Doubour, has held her office for more than ten years and goes about with her letters regardless of the weather. Married in Mourning. Sin couples dressed in mourning came to the garrison church at Pots dam recently to be married. They are known as the "Louise bridal pairs," for every year theso funeral weddings are celebrated at 9 o'clock on the anniversary of tho day and the hour the good Queen Louise died. In the year of her death a Lutheran bish op left a sum of money, the interest of which was to be divided between couples married on its anniversary, and the directions he left for the ?ceremony are still observed. This ?year each couple received the accept 'able sum of $110 in return for theJr sacrifice of the bridal finery. PLATINUM REALLY AN ALLOY Ita UM by Jewelers and Dentists la What Haa Made lt a Costly Metal. The mineral called platinum ls really a natural alloy of iridium, rhe ! fitaum, palladlnum and often osmium? with, varying amounts of iron, copper and gold. It ls usually found as Email nuggets, scales and rounded or Irregular grains. Its eolor is steel gray. The specific gravity of the orude platinum varies from 14 to 19. The output of platinum in the United States ls practically limited to Cali fornia and Oregon. Owing to its high melting point and great resistance to acids, platinum is extensively used for laboratory uten sils. Platinum salts are employed In chemical analyses. In the manufac ture ot sulphuric acid the metal has been used in making large concentra tion kettles, but of late gold has been substituted for it In photography, dentistry and electric installation much platinum ls used. Of late the manufacture of jewelry has con sumed large quantities of lt. It is ex tensively used for chains and for the setting of diamonds, the claim being made, not only that it is more resist ant than silver and harder than gold, but that the stones are better offset by platinum and appear larger than in any other kind of Betting.-From a Ge ological Survey Report ICES A UNIVERSAL DELICACY People of the South of Italy Remark able for Their Fondness for Thia Simple Refreshment If you wish to realize what devotion to ices means you should go to Paler mo. All over the south of Italy ices are eaten to an extent of which we do not dream, but lu Sicily and Palermo In particular the custom has attained amazing proportions. Ices are eaten by people of all ranks and ages from morning to night. Where a true Briton would demand a glass of beer the Palermlan asks for an Ice. Morning, noon and night the consumption of ice goes on. They are in wonderful variety and cheap. The stranger in that \iGautlful coun try finds t'.e cafes invaded between 4 and 5 o'clock by ice eaters. He sees officers and men of the army, mer chants and work people, the rich and the poor of both sexes consuming ices | with gusto. No one evades this pleas- ' ant duty. Lines of carriages draw up | at the side of the pavement before the : cafes, the occupants, the coachman j and the footman all with their favor- ? lt? delicacy. At first the stranger I wonders, then he falls a victim.-Lon- j don Chronicle. j Reward, but No Claimant. Despite the view that players are anfand do not save their' ey. Arfe Lewis'ia a frugal act PPS- she-has boSi putting her money, "away-for years. She is the owner of aa apartment building? in New Ro chelle. When she went down there to ] make arrangements for building the j apartment she was waited upon by some members of the chamber of * commerce, who congratulated her 1 upon her enterprise, ? "Will dogs be allowed in the build- , lng?" was asked. . i "No." ! "Will children be barred?" ? "No, indeed," was the quick reply, 1 "and I will go you one better. I will \ give a month's free rent to the j parents of every baby born in the i apartment" This pleased the committee im- j mensely, and as they bowed out she '. smiled a little and remarked: "But, I forgot to say, this ls to bo a bachelor apartment"-Cleveland Leader. Lots There to Capture. During the civil war there was an Irishman of the Thirty-sixth Indiana, who, while on the skirmish line at Dallas, Baw a good chance to capture a confederate. He availed himself of the opportunity, captured his man, and was passing to the rear with his prisoner, when one of his comrades called out o him: "Pat, let me have that man. I will take him over to General Gross, our brigade comman der." "Niver mind, me boy," replied Fat "I left a million back over the hill there. Go yourself and fetch one of the lads over and take him to Gen eral Gross." Rough on "Good Samaritan." Frank Koetsch, a laborer, was put on trial at Graz for his action in saving the life of a would-be suicide. ? He had found a man dangling from ( a tree, and had promptly cut him i down and taken him to a hospital. The I man recovered from the effects of the hanging, but complained of a scalp ; wound he had received when falling to . the ground, and he brought a charge of personal injury by carelessness ? against the man who saved his life. ] Koetsch was acquitted, but declared i he would take caro never to act the Good Samaritan again. Cure for tove. "Yes, I finally got rid of him,'' she said, "without having to tell him in so many words that I never could learn to love ' .ni. I didn't want to do that, becaus- he's an awfully nice fellow, and 1 should have been very sorry tc cause him pain." "How did you manage it?" her friend asked. "Why, you see, he's subject to hay fever, BO I decorated the house with golden rod whenever he sent word that he was coming." hris When you star come to our stor ber of tlie family, Buy something Don't throw your that will be brok( over. We are si ties, neckwear an c de Our hats for m< possible to mentic vou through. W lowest. Yours for busii Isr La Measurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be jpen for the purpose of receiving taxes From the 15th day of October, 1912, to the 15th day of March, 1913. All taxes shall be due and payable be tween the 15th day of October, 1912, ind December 31st, 1912. That when taxes charged shall not oe paid by December 31st, 1912, the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent for ? anuary, md if taxes are not paid on or before February 1st, 1913, the County Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent from 1st of March to the L5th of March. After which time all anpaid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for the year 1912 are is follows: For State purposes " Ordinary County " Cons. School tax " Special County tax " Bacon S. D, Special " Edgefield S. D. " Long Cane S. D. " Libertv Hill S. D. " Johnston S. D. " Collier S. D. 3 " Flat Rock S. D 4 M Prescott S. D. 3 "Plum Branch S. D. No 1 5 " White Town S D " Trenton S D Ward S D. " Moss SD Parksville S D " Washington S D " Oak Grove S D " Red Hill S D " Shaw *? R R Bonds Wise T's'p " R R Bonds Pickens "RR Bonds Johnston " RR Bonds Pine Grove " RR Bonds Blocker " " Bonds Town Edgefield " School Bonds " Town of Edgefield Corporation Purposes . All male citizens between the ages of 21 years and ?? years except those ex empt by law are liabia to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capitation tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citi zens between the ages of 18 and 55 years must pay $2.00 commutation tax or work six days on the public roads. As this is optional with the individual, no commutation tax is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax re ceipt when you desire to pay road tax. James T. Minis, Co. Treas. E. C. 5 3-4 mills. 41-2 " 3 " 2 3-4 " 9 " 5 2 2 3 3 2 3 -2 2 1 1-4 3 v 3 12 12 1-2 1 10 2 1 Separate Your Seed For Planting. Fat seed make fat crops. Fat props make fat bank rolls. With my improved separator I can sepa rate your cotton seed for planting better than ever this winter. A postal will bring me. John W. Spann, Edgefield, S. C. .tinas Goods for 411 t out to do your Christmas shopping e. We have something for every mem boys and girls, father and mother. ; that is useful as well as beautiful, money away on cheap, trashy things m and ?one before the holidays are Lowing a full line of notions and novel d handkerchiefs, gloves and hosiery. *|TJ? shoe department is full of beauti ^ ful stylish shoes. Our clothing partaient is still unbroken in sizes. en and boys are the latest. It is im )n everything. Come and let us show e guarantee prices to be as low as the less for Christmas 1912. ael Mukashy Tgain House ext Door to Dunovant & Co. m to Your Christmas hopping A problem that will confront everyone for the next two weeks will be their annual Christmas shopping, making purchases of re membrance for friends and loved ones. Come to our store and let us help you solve it. Why not purchase something that can be used, something for actual service as well as for its beauty. Our Dry Goods, Clothing, Hat and Shoe Department will offer a large assortment and will aid you in making selections. The best part of it, our prices are so reasonable that you will be surprised with how small sum your whole list of prizes can be purchased. Make our store your headquarters for Christmas shopping.