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FORTUNATE OF EARTH ARE THOSE WITH WHOM CHIL DREN ARE CONFIDENTIAL. Probably the Most Precious Gift That the Fairies Bestow and lt ls Not Given to the Majority of Mankind. It is very likely a fairy gift, and if you haven't it there is little hope of your ever getting it. If you have it, however, you are the most fortunate sort of all sorts of fortunate folks. You are the sort that the children talk to in the street. Ard the reason that the person the children talk to in the street is so very fortunate is that they tell him things that nobody else ever hears, and very good things to hear, at that. From that fact it is easy to understand that this talk of theirs ns no more "good morning" or "hello" sort of conversation. It is real talk about real things, although, to be sure, it is only the fortunate person who hears it that can really under stand it. They begin very abruptly, these chi1 dren, and the beginning may be in .e middle or at either end of a th: jg. It does not matter. The talk may start something like this, entirely un expected or unsolicited on the fortu nate person's part: "You'd think they'd fall out anyway, if you did think anybody growed on the moon, wouldn't j you?" And it may lead anywhere. Sometimes it is much more personal j than that You may meet a small boy aimed with a toy gun and a sword and he may begin, "You'll have to run for lt," meaning the street car, "but if j you ain't got any better luck than me you'll miss it anyway. I bet I got the worst luck of anybody, and I bet I've found the most horse shoes. If I had good luck I'd been a girl and then I : wouldn't have to fight all the time." | And this is probably from the terror Of his neighborhood, a boy who is supposed by teachers and neighbors | and parents, to exist solely for the i joy of battle. If you are the fortunate sort of per son, you will be stopped and consulted ! about everything the children are do- j lng. It may be cold and almost dark, j and you may be hurrying home to sup per, hut if you are the right one, the little girl who is contemplating the snow woman, a plump stylish creature with full skirts and a hat with a feath- j er, will call to you without a doubt of j your sympathy, to know whether or | not you don't think "she is just a lit- j tie cross-eyed." "It's the newsboy's fault," sh6 ex- ' plains, "he poked har in the eye and it ain't been right since. I could take a couple of buttons off her waist, they're only walnuts, and make her some oth er eyes just to match, but she is get ting so slippy/* They may run after you to tell you a bit of gossip about their "friends," imaginary friends that nobody else ever heard of. They may trot along with you repeating the most astonish ing conversations that they h??ve had with squirrels or bears or stars or policemen. And it is all true. It is all because they believe it. and it is the expression of their queer little selves. Justice, Then Prosperity. The difference between the men in ; office now in city, in state and in fed- ' eral government, and those men in . office 20 years ago, in those rather ; narrow but controlling arcas of our ' politics where there are actually ; marked differences, lies not In mat ters of honesty, not in matters of ca pacity, not in matters of party faith. Tho real difference is found in their philosophy of life, William Allen White writes in the New York Inde pendent. The political leaders of ma jorities in the eighties and nineties of thc last century believed in busi- ; ness for itself, that prosperity was an ? end of itself. Today our governments, ? city, state and national, are more or 1 less under the control of men who ali ? profess, r.nd who in the main believe that justice is more important than I prosperity. And the politicians are only taking their cure from the peo-. plo. A sense of justice;-with here a ? backset, and there a reaction-is 1 growing steadily and overwhelmingly in the American heart. Zeppelins Built Sines the War. According to a dispatch from Berne. ? Switzerland, there are now some eighty Zeppelins in the German i service. This statement, is said to ? be based on information developed at | Friedrichshafen, where the airship ! works are located. Recently one ol* | the latest type Zeppelins made a trial i flight. It bore tho number LZ-9"".. and in design varied considerably from thc- | ante-bellum Zeppelins. Its gondolas I are said to bc of plated steel. The craft is plentifully supplied with ma chine guns and apparatus for throw ing bombs ar.d aerial torpedoes; among the latter being a new type which is reported to bo far more pow erful then any heretofore developed. In fact, rumor has it that thc new aerial torpedo is to play a prominent part in the event of the German war ships and Zeppelins coming out from their sheltering harbors and engaging in battle with the British fleet in the North sea.-Scientific American. Help! Help! "Do you know. Miss Peaches. I think you must be very egotistical." "Why, Mr. Sympe! How can you imagino such a thing?" "Because you have such capita! eyes." NEVER LEADED THE TRUTH Callow Youngsters Might Have Re pented of Their Condemnation If They Had but Known. Youth and presumably Innocence were waiting at a French goods coun ter while the clerk wrapped up jars of pink stuff which they didn't need. Each was audacious in the matter of short skirts, and both were chewing gum. On a stool at the same counter sat another customer, a woman just facing the agony line which separates beauty from vandal Age. And Youth and In nocence felt called on to dissect her. They bandied impressions as to the woman's looks, and giggled over her desperate attempts to retain her com plexion and age. Their sharp young eyes took in the nobby dress that was almost shabby, and their sharp young voices would have stabbed her to the quick except that she seemed to be walled in by some concentrated thought that cloistered her from their blows. "I betshees bad." The gum-stuck verdict came from Innocence, whose lawful place at that minute should have been in some eighth-grade schoolroom. "Uccorse. Anybodyk'n tell that Whodjespose would lookatarole mut like her?" Then Youth and Innocence, without explaining how they came to be so sordidly enlightened at their callow years, suddenly switched interest to their wrapped-up stuff, and- That was all there was to it. Except, that the woman, having bought and paid for her own little box of something, got up and hurried to the store entrance, where another woman stopped to congratulate her on some appointment obtained by her son: "Isn't it splendid! Papa and I are so proud of him-I'm especially glad for papa, because he has been so de pressed ever since his last attack Ned's going to send him to Atlantic City right away- Imagine! After all these poverty-pinched days-" "Well, you surely deserve all the good luck that's coming to you- Don't see how on earth you keep your color after all the nursing you've had to do-" "Rouge, my dear. Papa'd be too wretched for words if he knew my complexion had gone yellow-but Ned says I shan't need it after this-" This isn't much of a yarn, of course, but we have Plutarch's word for it that truth is always worth considering. And this is true.-Washington Star. Scientists Study "Flying Sickness." "Flying sickness" in its more essen tial particulars is deserving of care ful and scientific investigation, ac cording to the London Lancet. It raises matters of interest in connec tion with so-called mountain sickness. Edward Whymper states from his own experience of this condition that the abiding symptoms are profound lassi tude, intense headache, feverishness, accelerated respiration and occasional spasmodic gulping of air, "just like the fishes when taken out of water," palpitation and tinnitus. The latter two symptoms, no doubt, occur also with great frequency at relatively low levels. "It is clear." says the Lancet, "that flying sickness is not comparable in the strict Eense with mountain sick ness, in spite of the fact that some of the symptoms are more or less identical. Hitherto we have had little direct evidence of what occurs as a result of rapid transference from high to low altitudes, for the laborious as cent of the mountaineer into rarified air is very different from a speedy re turn to normal pressures, while the climb of a flying machine is hardly so rapid as to cause any ill effect. The pilot who is lifted from bis machine, after a fast, volplane, in a semicon scious condition, falling thereafter into a deep sleep, shows a phenome non not met with either in mountain sickness or in caisson disease." To Promote Safety. The newest museum in New York is called the American Museum of Safe ty. It contains collections of models, charts and photographs, actual ma chines safeguarded in full size, to gether with models of safety devices and sanitary appliances. The mu seum is free io the public. Ry special arrangement it is open in the eve nings to classes and societies. The activities of the museum of safety are devoted to the safety, health and wel fare of industrial workers and the ad vancement of the science of industry. The society gives yearly medals to those which make notable achieve ments in devices for the security of human life, and to firms that make notable progress in the promotion of hygiene and the mitigation of occu pational disease in their industry, and to railroads that promote safety for the traveling public. Japanese Turn to Dye Making. The Japanese are apparently going to take up dye making, now that Ger man products cannot be obtained and tim plan bas been taken up by private enterprise, assisted by government. A number ol' business men were invited to the department of agriculture and commerce one day lately and shown the draft law for the encouragement of the manufacture of drugs and dye stuffs. The vice-minister of agricul ture and crmmerce reported particu lars regarding the encouragement law, and invited those present tc give their views, without reserve, regarding the establishment of a company. It was susbsequently decided that those pres ent should consider the matter, and g.ve their views later. Only Those Which Are Wost Pre cious Are Acceptable to Our Heavenly Father. One of the qualities which makes an offering acceptable to God is that it shall cost the worshiper something. Offerings are not acceptable merely because they are expensive; they must meet other conditions as well, but he who contemplates rendering any worship or service to God may well count the cost. Before the temple waj erected on Mount Moriah that mountain was the I probable scene of two sacrifices made i to God. On that summit Abraham is I supposed to have built the altar on i which Isaac was about to be offered I when God interposed and accepted a : substitute. The father of the faith i ful as good as offered God that which was most precious to him, and was accepted as if that offering had been made. Long after, David had occasion to offer a burnt offering upon that same mountain, and he uttered thia i resolution, "I will not offer unto the Lord that which costs me nothing." Two persons were publicly com mended by the Lord for their gifts, I and both of them were women. One j had cast into the treasury of the ' temple a very small sum, two miteB, 1 which make a farthing. The other had given a box of ointment which I was very precious. Both of them seem to have given all they possessed. The offerings were appreciated be cause of their expensiveness, but their expensiveness was not to be es timated only by their intrinsic value. Lack Proper Spirit in Giving. The tendency of the present day seems to be to offer to God that which Is costly. Members of the church, in determining the amount of money they shall devote to relig ious purposes, generally fix upon a sum that will not deprive them of a I single thing they care to have. They i contribute what they can give with* ! out feeling it. They expect God to be satisfied, and even gratified with I an offering which costs them nothing. ! That tendency is not confined to financial offerings. Some have been known to excuse themselves for fre I quent absence from the morning ' church service by the fact that they have occasion to be up late the night before, and it is hard to rise early on the Sabbath morning when that is the only morning of the week they can sleep late. Some of them a.ld as ' an additional reason that It is not easy to sit through a long service when the sermon is not very interest ing. They are absent from the eve ning service and from the midweek prayer service because in the press of business and social engagements they, want an evening to spend with their families or for quiet reading. Their excuses can be boiled down into one simple statement: Because it would cost them something, they will not give these things to God. They for get that the thing which costa noth ing is not worth giving, j The reason why more of the mem I bera of the church are not willing to be active in the Sabbath achool is that it would cost them something in time and etfort and personal ease. The reason why more are not willing to seek out those who are careless and try to win them back to the church and a place in its service is because it costs too much. The fact must be faced that the thing given to God at small cost to the worshiper ia held cheaply by him who receivea such worship. Thc gift which he appreci ates is tho Rift which moans a real sacrifice and expense to the giver. The United Presbyterian. KEEP THE LIGHT UNDIMMED Christian Must Remember That Neg lect May Work Injury to Him self and Others. Some years ago a steamer waa com ing up the Firth of Glyde on a stormy night. Careful watch was kept and all was geing well, till suddenly a dim, flickering light appeared right over her bows. In another instar.t the steamer went crashing inte a shin lying at anchor. Several lives wtro lost and much damage was done. What was the cause of the accident? The anchored ship had allowed her light to groAv dim for want of oil. It was only neglected. This is like what many Christians do: they forget to read the Word, to meditate upon it. and to watch with prayer; therefore their light is almost out. to the in jury of themselves and others. "Te are thc light of thc world." Christ's churches are golden candle sticks planted in a dark world. They aro to hold forth the word of life. O Christians, watch and pray, and see to it that your lamps are trimmed and burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord.-The Light-Bearer. Secularization of the Ministry. The greatest peril that could befall tho country would be the seculariza tion of the ministry. There is a com pany of men who need to deliver their full force upon tho spiritual and eter nal. Tho amelioration of hard physi cal conditions is a good thing; but if you secularize tho clergy by absorb ing their thought and energies in mere ma*tors of physical comfort or even of cultural improvement, you will de stroy thc one power that can ever hold human lifo to higher levels.-Raleigh Chris iten Advocate. Advancement of the Master's Kingdom Consists of Helping With What One Has. If one makes a study of the miracles that Jesus performed while in the world, he will find that there are two distinct sides to them-the human and the divine. He will also find that almost without exception, the divine work was dependent upon the human, and that one could not do a success ful work without the active co-opera tion of the other. When Jesus per formed the miracle of turning water into wine, he commanded his followers to fill the jugs with water and he con verted it into wine; Lazarus was raised to life only after human hands had rolled the stone away from the sep ulcher and the multitudes were fed because the disciples were ready to work hand In hand with their Lord. This does not mean that Jesus was not able to do mighty and wonderful works and perform miracles by his own power; rather lt proves to us that he chose to have human agency in active service with the divine in sav ing a lost world. Jesus had the power to change the water into wine, to roll away the stone from the sepulcher, and to feed the multitudes without any help, but he chose the disciples that they might have a part In that great work. The text was given on a miracle oc casion and it contained that same co operation of the human with the divine as the other miracles we have men tioned. Jesus and his disciples were In a desert place and a great multi tude of people had followed them out of th3 cities and villages. There was nothing for such a mass of humanity to eat and they were fainting and fall ing by the wayside. The disciples came to Jesus and asked him to send the multitude away that they may get something to eat. But Jesus com manded them "they need not depart, give ye them to eat." They pleaded that their supply was not sufficient for the demand and Jesus said to them, 'Taring what ye have to me." And the master took what the dis ciples had, and through them, fed the great multitude that was in need. No one can read this passage of Scripture without being impressed with the need of bread to sustain physical life. Realized the Great Need. The disciples saw the need of the multitude and it caused them to want to do something to meet the need. This ls alwayB true. When we see one in trouble, if we are normal, we want to do something to help relieve that trouble. But when the disciples began to see the great need and to .realize the smallness of their supply, they were overwhelmed. Jesus had asked them to feed the multitude but what could they do with five loaves and two fishes when several thousand people were to be fed. They realized that their supply was not sufficient for the demand. And that is the condition that we must come to before we can be of much service to our Lord. We have depended upon ourselves too much already. With all our great or ganization and equipment and with a wonderfully fitted and talented peo ple, we have come to think that we can do the work ourselves, and have often gone forth independent of tho Lord. But our failures are an open book and we have been surprised and disappointed. We must come to real ize that we can "do all things through Christ" and that without him we are failures in his work. "Bring What You Have." When we corn? to see the need be fore us and then to realize our inabil ity to meet the need by ourselves, it ls not a time for discouragement, for it's just hore that the master will come upon the scene. Ho will take what we have and by his pewer increase the supply until the need is net. Jesus said to the disciples "bring what you j have." Oh, that's what the Lord wants us to do. He wants us to bring what we have and are to him that he may use us for the advancement of his kingdom, lt doesn't make much dif ference about how many talents we have or the gifts that we may possess. The Lord simply wants what we have. A great many people are continually pleading for more talents or gifts and saying that if they were endowed like this fellow or that they would do won derful things. I am convinced more and more that it is not a need of more : talents and gifts but a more thor I ough consecration of what we already have in order to do the master's work ! as he would have it done. Wc have i enough talents and gilts in the church j to take this great section of the coun try for Jesus Christ and then have a great deal to spare. Look at the results of this miracle. Because the disciples brought their lit tle meager supply ard let Jesus use it with themselves, the great multitude was fed and there was left over 12 baskets full. The disciples were not able to do the work of themselves, but in active co-operation with the mas ter they could accomplish the seem ingly impossible. But this is just as God's word says it shall be. It sets forth the impossible tasks as in easy reach of the one who is wholly com mitted to God. One shall chase a thousand and two shall put ten thou sand to flight. There are no forces in the world but that they can be brought into subjection and used for the ad vancement of the master's kingdom. Rev. H. K. Morehead. FIGURES IN HISTORY CITY OF LAON RENOWNED FOR MANY CENTURIES. Two Thousand Years Ago lt Was a Central Point for Which Armies Contended-Cathedral the Ad miration of Travelers. Laon, behind the German lines, is one of the pleasantest towns of north ern France, says a description issued by the National Geographic society. Founded by the Celts, it felt the early waves of Teutonic invasion more than 2,000 years ago; and greater and lesser waves have followed in varying succession ever since. With Laon as a base, Celt and Roman car ried civilization across the Rhine; taught the rude warrior folk to the north the refinements of ancient em pire; and brought them weights, money, letters, improved weapons, manufactured products, and the glow ing wine of the southland. Remigius, who baptized Chlodwig, appointed a bishop to Laon almost be fore the Christian morning in Trans Alpine Europe had it dawning. The Normans swept over the town in 882, and the next few centuries saw many another horde of wasters follow the same path. 3y the beginning of the fourteenth century, however, Laon waa a world-city, guarded by strong walls and towers, and garrisoned by the choicest adventurers of the em pire and of the low countries. Henry IV reduced the city in 1594; and, in 1814, the citadel on the flat rock on which the city stands was successfully defended by Russian and Prussian soldiers against the de spairing thrusts of the great Napoleon. In 1870, here In Laon, was performed one of the most renowned of all the valorous deeds of the Franco-Prussian war. As the Magdeburg Jaeger stormed Into the citadel, crowding back the small French garrison and filling the Inclosure, the French blew up themselves and the victors, selling the place at an unexpected heavy cost. Where the walls once stood-im pregnable defenses in the old days be fore the use of gunpowder and the high explosive shells, today are situ ated beautiful shaded promenades. Everywhere in the older town, that part upon the hill, are interesting me morials of the city's gray past. In the lower town are the concessions made to modern times-the railway station, the gas works, beet sugar fac tories and abattoir. The Laon artichoke is a blue-ribbon winner among vegetables, and it finds its way only into the most exclusive kitchens of Paris and London. More over, it is an edible of literary fame ; for, in popular European romances, its presence on the table ls the writer's way of marking dinner and surround ings as quite out of the ordinary. The cathedral at Laon, a wonderful structure that many travelers deserv ing of opinion treasure even beyond those of Reims, Paris, Orleans, Rouen. Noyon and Amiens, dominates from its stocky towers all Picardie for miles around. Around tho cathedral in the upper city are scattered a num ber of structures of long pasts and scinating reminiscence. Cash Coim We are showing an atria every department. Everyt merchandise in the stock manufacturer. bee our beautiful wn-di ?roods new weaves ii thc popular color? Our notion slo?-k is up to thc i ted. Come in and lot us show y< W> call especial attention lo c All of the late styles in the pupa sonable. Do not fail to come in to money. c NOT BUE Although the fire wu corner ol' our warehoi have storage for 8,000 not touched, and our usual. DAYISt Augusta, (?a. CLEAR SKIN COMES FROM WITHIN. It is foolish to think YOU can gain a good clear complexion by the use of face powder. Get at the root of the trouble and thoroughly cleanse the syst'-m with a treatment of Dr. King's New Life Pills. Gentle and mild in actior, do not gripe, yet they relieve the liver by their ac tion on the bowels. Good for young, adults and aged. Go after a clear complexion to-day. 25c. at your druggist. 1 WINTHROP COLLEGE. SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 7, at 9 a. ra. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When Scholarships are va cant after July 7 they will be award ed to those making the highest average at this examination, provi ded they meet the conditions gov erning the award. Applicants for Scholarships should write to Presi dent Johnson before the examina tion for Scholarship examination . blanks. Scholarships are worth ?100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1916. For further information and catalogue, Address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. 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