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[REAL FRIEND IN NEED STORY OF JAMES T. BRADY AND A NEW YORK NEWSBOY. Famous Lawyer Rescued Orphan From Poverty and Started Him On Way to Prosperity. It is several years ago now, but this story was told me shortly after my admission to the bar; it left a lasting impression, writes William Sulzer in the New York Times. How the biting-cold wind howled and whistled-that night as it swept down avenues and around corners. A lawyer, whose fame was known far and near, had just left his office on Broadway, where he had been de tained by an important consultation, and was hastening as fast as he could uptown. At the corner of Duane street ho saw a newsboy leaning against the lamp post; under his left arm were a few evening papers. He .was shivering with the cold and cry ing. His shoes were broken so you could see his bare feet. His clothes were ragged. He may have stood there for an hour or more; hundreds of people had passed him. Not so the lawyer. One glance told him the story; b? ap proached the little urchin, and in quired the trouble. The boy, amid sobs, said that it was his birthday; he was just five years old; he had been out all the afternoon trying to sell bis papers, with small success. The only friend he had in the world-his widowed mother-was lying ill In a tenement house a few blocks away. * The story touched the heart of his questioner. He took the boy by the hand and led him home. Up the _ rickety stairs to the top floor of the tenement; he opened the door into a little garret room; striking a match he Ht che remains of an old candle. To the side of the room some one was breathing heavily. It was a wom an lying on what was not even an apology for a bed. Squalor and de jspair only were there. A hurried glance around told all. The little JnewBboy's mother lay there; she was ?asleep. The boy went over and kissed her affectionately. He put his arms around her neck and said "Wake up, mamma, wake up, here'B a nice man who wants to see you." She awoke with a start, dazed and frightened. The stranger reassured her. She had a raging fever-she was dying there alone, and as well as she ?could she told her story of hardship ?and trials. j The lawyer summoned a physician, and everything that could be done to save her life was done. But the dread disease had progressed too far. and. notwithstanding the best medical aid, she died the next day, and the news boy was an orphan. That week was a busy one for the lawyer. He neg lected briefs,. and clients, and cases. - Se personally superintended the buri al of the woman. After the funeral he took charge of the orphan, sent him to school and college, and for years did for him all that a father could do for a loved son. The lawyer has long since gone to Ibis reward. The little newsboy ls a (prosperous merchant today in New iYork. He is loved and respected by (all for his kindly spirit and his many ?generous benefactions. I He has an office downtown, and jover his desk, in a most conspicuous ?place, hangs a large picture. Every 1?lawyer in the state knows that picture -that massive head, those curly locks, that stern, kindly countenance J-the picture of the newsboy's bene factor, James T. Brady. J How to Grow TaM. I A man's organs and those of his ibones which are not subjected to pres Isure grow continuously until he ls {forty years old; that is to say, the jheart should become stronger, the ca pacity of the lungs increase, and the ,}brain should develop steadily until Ahe fourth decade of life. Also one ?should wear a larger hat at the age iof forty than at thirty. { A man ceases to grow tall, however, at the beginning of the third decade, {because after that time the downward (pressure exerted by the weight of the ?body while in the erect position com presses the vertebrae or small bone? lin the spine, the disks of cartilage be tween them, the pelvis, and the thigh Ibones, and the pressure overcomes Jthe natural elasticity of the disks and ithe growth of these bones. However, ia British scientist contends that were man a quadruped, and therefore freed from the downward pressure produced by h's weight upon his spinal column, he would continue to grow in height for ten yearB longer than he does at present, since it has been found that bones not subjected to compression Increase up to the fourth decade. "Jag" Gone in Seven Minutes. j Dissipating a "jag" in seven minutes is the record that has been established by the precooling plant recently estab lished at San Benito, in the lower Rio Grande valley. While a car was being cooled pre .paratory to loading it with fruits and vegetables, the men having charge of the work found an intoxicated man ly ing in the gutter. Thinking to play a joke on him, they placed him in the car. He had been lying in the sun with the temperature playing about him in the neighborhood of 100 de grees, and the sudden change to a temperature only a few degrees above the freezing point wai something of a shock. 1 At the end of seven minutes he was beating on the car door clamoring to get out.-San Antonio Light. DEER FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA Are to Be Brought From English Estate and Turned Loose in the Rockies. After completing a hunting tour which occupied the greater -part of two years and which has been con ducted in the wilds of three contin ents, r: E. Lucas, an English hunter and naturalist who ls visiting Van couver, will make arrangements be fore his departure with the British Columbia government and game wardens of the province for the accom modation of several hundred red deer which will be brought from his father's estate at Warnham, Surrey, England, early in September next year. These animals have been given to the government of the province by C. H. Lucas, Sr.. the intention being to turn them loose in the wilds of the Rockies and allow them to increase ur til their numbers warrant the pass, ihg of a game ordinance allowing ttiem to be shot in limited numbers. Mr. Lucas said that it was originally intended to send the deer out this year, but unhappily the outbreak of foot and mouth disease among Eng lish cattle had prevented the exporta tion of any live stock from the old coun try. Consequently the animals wera retained. About fifteen years ago his father had made a similar gift to the government of New Zealand and since that time they have multiplied so rapidly that they were now shot every season. During a recent visit to the islands he had been able to secure four magnificent specimens. MADE USE OF NATURE'S GIFTS Some of the Make-Shifts Which Have to Be Employed in Various Parts 1 of the ?arth. We in this country have so many kinds of cheap pails, cans, boxes and receptables of ail 3ortB ready to our hand that it ls hard to realize what straits the people in cruder lands are put to fcc such things, in a large part of the Orient wine and water are still carried and stored in bags made of skin, usually goatskin with the hair side inside, just as in Bible days Even now the same rule applies against 'putting new wine into old bottles," for the dampness soon rots the leather nnd makes it weak. . In Asia and Africa bamboo joints are utilized for making receptacles in great variety. The bamboo in favored places; grows to a diameter of six inches or more and a "joint" from a foot to two feet or more long, makes an ideal bottle or jug, for nature pro vides it with a partition at each joint which makes it water tight. Bamboo is very light and very strong.-The Pathfinder. Tennyson and Tobacco. Tennyson's devotion to his pipe is well known, but the following story of-it ?will probably oer fresh to 'most readers. A friend had driven him from Plymouth to visit an old lady who stood in no awe of the poet. Tne visitors were invited to remain for ihe night, but on Mr. Tennyson s stipulating that If he did he should be allowed to smoke in his bedroom the old lady bridled up That she could not allow. Bedroom smoking was not only objectionable but dangerous, and for no one would she relax her prohibition rule. Mr Tennyson prov ing equally obdurate the hostess's *jwn carriage was ordered out and he was sent in it back to his hotel at Ply mouth, whence, however, he returned the next morning to breakfast.-From Mrs. Walford's Recollections. Men, Beware. Simultaneously with the announce ment that waistcoats for women will be all the rage this coming winter every married man dashed out and bought an extra lock for his ward robe. The announcement was made at a recent meeting of women's tailors in Pittsburg and brought joy to those women who for years have envied men their easy apparel. Attempts to ap propriate trousers from the sterner sex have been made from time to time without much success, but ft is ex pected that wemen will jump at the chance to wear the snug-fitting waist coat They are to be cut man fashion, with enough room at the neck to show the cravat, woman naving adopted the latter when soft-collared waists be came popular last summer. All Resources Needed. Those who are anxious that the boundaries of knowledge should be en larged ought to be most eager ?hat. the influence of women should be in creased, in order that every Bource ol the human mind may be at once and quickly brought into play. For you may rely upon it that the time is approaching when all those resources will be needed and will be taxed even to the utmost. We shall soon have on our hands work far more arduous than any we have yet accomplished; and we shall be encountered by difficulties the removal of which will require every sort of help and every variety of power.-Buckle. Told of Eugene Field. Eugene Field and his wife once en tered a street car. to find all the scats taken save one at each end. When the conductor collected fares, Mr. Field announced audibly as he gave him a dime, pointing to thc far end cf tho car, "This is the fare for tho lady there-the rne wearing the new. beautiful brown dress. ' All eyes turned, and her pretty face was rose color; but back of her reproving glance was mingled indulgence, appre ciation, and mirth at the unexpected and truthful announcement.-Youth's Companion. PHEASANT TOOK LONG WALK Remarkable Pedestrian Excursion to the Credit, of English Bird in America. Some years ago a wealthy resident of our hills stocked his game pre serve with English pheasants, which have now spread over the country. The pheasant is a walker. You can not mistake his tracks, for he puts one foot neatly down directly in front of the other, making a elean impres sion, as if he had picked it up again very carefully. One morning I found close to the house the end of a pheas ant trail. Something had evidently scared him, and he had risen from the ground, brushing the snow on both sides with the first flap of hi3 wings. Curious to see how far he had walked, I put on my pedometer and followed that trail. It led me through my little swamp, up the hill through a neighbor's yard, across the road, through a spruce hedge, across the great lawn of a big summer estate, into the woods behind. I put on my snow shoes in the woods and kept on. The trail finally ceased in a brush heap, where the snow was tracked all about, and In one place scratched through the bro* n leaves. That pheasant had walked exactly one mile and a quarter-a long walk for a bird! And in all that distance there was no sign that he had stopped to scratch for food. It was as if he had set out deliberately to walk to my house. I could not flatter myself that such was the case; doubtless some sense of his had told him it was useless to scratch; or perhaps he had fled from the bushes through which he had walked. But his trail was without a break. Walter Prichard Eaton, in Harper's Magazine. WAS HIS TURN TO LAUGH Uncle Aaron Allred Wanted Nothing to Disturb Him During Period of Enjoyment. "It's a matter of total indifference to me whether Capper beats Hodges, or vice-vercy!" triumphantly ex claimed Uncle Aaron Allerd. 'The Bul gars may put the Turks to the sword as fast as they can ketch up with 'em, for ali I care. I am not troubled about Stubb's defeat by What's-his-name. My nephew, Claud Duval Sisson, who looks just that way, and has lived on me ever since he graduated from the village academy, three years ago, b'cuz I didn't have the nerve to give him both barrels in a vital spot, and differed with and from me in politics and religion and for the same length of time, and acted superior to rae b'cuz he didn't have to work and I did, has just married, under the im pression that he is going to enjoy a good home and a vacation all the rest of his life, a large and eminently able red-headed widow lady with masterr* ful methods and six children, &oM blast him! Hi-lo! Hi-lee! ?hjdWB ho>! Lay-he-O-e-e-e!" * r-pmm?fggm Cat in Church. A stray cat roamed into the Metho dist church ono morning at the 10:30 service and for a time all service was interrupted while some of the mem bers of the church tried to catch lt. Rev. J. N. Patterson was speaking in the pulpit at the time and Choirmaster Henry King left the loft to chase the cat out. Finally other members followed In the pursuit and the cat seemed to play tag with its pursuers, much to the amusement and delight of the entire congregation. Finally Pastor Patter son suggested that the cat be let alone and thc service continue, which was done, and the cat after a while started from the front platform without inter ruption, walked down the aisle and passed out of the building.-Thomp eonville Cor. Hartford Courant. Imitation Sandstone. The Prussian government has erected at Stettin a building composed cf imitation sandstone, granite and marble. The sandstone forms the greater part of the exterior. The framework is of brick. All tho blocks, window frames, sills, columns, roof, balcony and portal ornaments are of imitation stone, and they were so exactly cast and num bered that they were fitted together and set with little or no chiseling. The pressing or stamping of theO molded pieces was done by hand. From three to four weeks were re quired for drying. The cost is said not to have ex ceeded half that of natural stone, and the durability is believed to be equal. Why the Jeweler Fainted. Paddy Dolan bought a watch? from a jeweler out home, with (a guaran tee to keep lt in order for twelve months according to standard time. About six months after the purchase Paddy took it back because it had stopped. "You seem to have had an acci dent with it," said the jeweler. "A small one, sure enough, slr. About two months-ago I was feeding the pig and the watch fell into the trough." "But you should have brought lt before." "Sure, I brought it as soon as I could. We only killed the pig yesterday." Latest in Hosiery and Shoes. New ideas in hosiery and in shoos are constantly appearing. Despite the protests of medical men, stockings are still cobwebby. The latest idea appears to be the netted silken hosi ery, which, when drawn on the foot, have the appearance of a fish scale. To throw the mesh into high relief, an understocking of very fine silk is worn -white if the upper hose be black, black if the net fish scale be In white. CITATION. The State of South Carolina County of Edgeficld. By VV. T. Kinnaird, Probate Judge Whereas, Mrs. Emma H. Atkins made suit to me, to grant her Let ters of Administration of the Es tate of and effects of John F. At kins. These Are Therefore to cite and admonish ail and sinirular the kin dred and Creditors oTthesaid John F. Atkins deceased, that they be and appear before rae, in the Court of Probate, to be held at ridgefield C. H., S. C., in my office, on Feb ruary 7th next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted Given under my Hand, this 20th dav of Januarv A. D., If! 18. W. T. Kinn aid, P .1 E C. SEEP IN PERFECT HEALTH. You owe it to yourself, your family and your work to keep in the best possible con dition. If you have strong, ready muscle7 ?-rich, heathy blood and a clear brain, yon can do more and better work and really live, and enjoy living and bc a blessing to those you love. Much of the eternal grouch and many of the aches and pains you see every day are caused directly by a lazy, torpid, over? worked liver, and all of that may be abso lutely cured by R. L. T. (Richardson's Laxative Tonic). One fifty-cent or dollar bottle of this magnificent tonic will prove to you that it is the finest laxative and the quickest strength building tonic ever of fered sick, suffering humanity. Get a bot tle from your druggist today, and keep it always in the family medicine chest ready to put the Liver right in one night or curs malaria, constipation, or bilious fevers in the shortest possible time. If not on sale in your town, write R. L. T. Go., Ander? son, S. C. ERL A Perfect Tonic THE BEST LIVER MEDICINE 50c & $1.00 per Bottle. All Drag Slorzs. Make the Old Suit Look New We are better prepared than ever to do first-class work in cleaning and press ir!?rof all kinds. Make your old pants or suit new by let ing us clean and press them. Ladies skirts and suits al so cleaned and pressed. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Edgefield Pressing Club WALLACE HARRIS PROP. Light Saw, Lathe and ?Shin gle Mills, Engines, Boilers, Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En tines, Saw Teeih. Files, Bells and Pipes. WOOD SAAVS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Pre.-s Repairs. , Try LOMBARD, AUGUSTA. GA. Trespass Notice. AH persono are hereby notified not to trespass in any manner upon tile lands ol' the undersigned. Those who fail to heed this notice will be prosecuted under the law. J.E. Johnston, F. A. Johnston, T. E. Wood, W. F. Holston. 12-ll-8t. A Hero in a Lighthouse. For years J S Donahue, Soj Haven, Mich., a civil war captain, as a light-housekeeper, averted aw ful wrecks, but a queer fart i.->, he might have been a \*reck himself if Electric Hitters had not prevent ed. They cured me of kidney troub le and chills, he writes, "After I had taken other so-called cures for years, without benefit and they also improved my nulli. NOW, al seven ty, I am feeling tine.'' For dyspep sia, indigestion, all stomach, liver and kidney troubles, they're With out equal. Try them. Only 5Uc at Penn & Holstein's, W E Lynch & Co. WANTED White Boys and Girls from 12 to 25 years old to learn to spin and weave in Bagging Miil;will start pay at from Per week while learning. After learning can earn from 00 $10.00 . Per week Mill runs 57 hours per week, 1-2 day holiday Saturday. Families having 3 or more boys or girls to work can get new houses, with bath, electric lights and, and water, and all mod ern conveniences at very reasonable rent within 5 minutes walk of mill. If interested fill in coupon below and mail to us. Name. Address ? How many in family wanting work_ Mail to charleston Bagging Mfg. Co. CHARLESTON, S. C. mm a--mm Round Trip Excursion Fares to Columbia, S. C. and Return -VIA- "-^ \ Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South -ACCOUNT Fifth National Corn Exposition Jan. 27- Feb. 9,1913 Account of this occasion, the Southern Railway an nounces very low round trip fares to Columbia. S. C. and return, tickets on sale January ?3. 25, zl and 31, February 3, ?5, 7, 1913 with final limit returning to reach original starting pomt nov, later than midnight February 12, 191 3,. as follows : Aiken, $2.45 Edgefield, $2.10 Batesburg $1.20 Leesville $1.20 Johnston, 1.70 Proportionately reduced fares from other points. At tractive side trip fares from Columbia. For further infor mation cali on nearest ticket agent, or? A. H. Acker, TP A., W. E. McGhee, A GPA Augusta, Ga. Columbia, S. C. H. F. Cary, GPA., S. H. Hardwick PTM Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C.. 66 Whose Fciulf?" If you do not get value received for your money. Ii you get inferior goods for which you pay as much as we charge you for the gcod kind, you can blame only yourself. Our 20 years experience in the grocery business and our -'square deal" policy ir. worth some thing to the prospective buyer and all we ask isa trial. '"We can deliver the goods." Groceries and feed for man and beast. ARRBNGTON ^???. & CO. Augusta, Ga. Office and salesroom 863 Broad Warehouse Ga. Railroad tracks. P. S. Mr. M. Gary Satcher is with us and will be glad to see his friends S 4