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;?SZT SPOILED BY ADULATION Great Piano Virtuoso Never Employed to Best Advantage the Great Gift That He Possessed. It is only when we remember Liszt's profession that we can read the riddle he presents. From childhood up, he was the idolized piano virtuoso. He ?was petted and adored all his life. He was smothered all his life under the adulation showered upon him in every capital of Europe, showered upon him in every tangible form by women cf the highest society. His was not a character profound or fine enough to right itself. He never managed to de velop out of that stage, to contact with truly nourishing things. On the contrary, he became completely up rooted, came to exist entirely in this modern Capua, came to love it and to crave the rose leaves and the clouds of perfume. His music is largely an inspiration toward it, an attempt to perpetuate about him the admiration and adulation, the?-glowing eyes and half parted lips, the heaving bosoms, jit is a mee' anism for procuring for ihimself the Pascha power he desired, j 'indeed, beside Liszt, Chopin seems a i ?veritable anchorite. True, Liszt in- ? jterested himself in music for another ?reason. If it served to procure him ?the particular "place in the sun" that i ?he craved, it furnished him also with 1 a most engaging pastime. He inter jested himself in music as cue might ; .interest oneself in a sport as one be- j ?comes more proficient in it. He stud- ? 'ied its rules, its teachings, its tricks. ?With what keenness he mastered them ; his compositions show. But that inter- : 'est was only minor. The other was jthe major.-Paul Bosenfield, in Seven ,Arts Magazine. i -: FEW BIRDS SING IN AUGUST i - iMidseason Month Noticeable for the j Absence of Music From Nature's Feathered Creatures. ! Once upon a time when we had something to say about August we spoke on it as nature's silent month, remarks the Terre Haute Star. Al most instantly we were reproved by readers who said that in August the locusts and some dozens cf their kin ? made the month noisy, if not musical. | Confessedly, when we wrote of Au- 1 gust as the silent month, we were thinking of birds, not bugs. I The song sparrow, the red-eyed vireo and sometimes the ovenbird try ! to take from August its value as a synonym for silence, but of what ac count ls the music of three when their thousand fellows refuse to sing? August is the molting month and molting is a painful process. The jbirds do not feel like singing, and, mostly, they do not sing, but it is Ligh tly probable that they would not, even if nature were not insisting on a 'change of feathers. The reason is that the season is late. Housekeeping was pushed forward because roofs were likely to leak. August, however, for its main part, will hold its silent record. It is the iMidseason an ! it shows forth together some of the beauties of summer and : of fall. The belated rose blossoms with \[:'.' early USUs and the goldenrod stands between. August has neither the full glory of burning July nor of con! September, bur it shares in some small part of th? glories of each. Poets and Coffee. Poets have neglected eofl'ee; partly because poets are greatly under the in [fluence of tradition, partly because coffee is a hard word ta find a rhyme for; ope had hoped feat vers libres ?would give srnpe io eofl'ee lovers. But t!:n vers-librettlstl and vers-Mbrettistae .(those gentlemen and ladies who write ?poetry for the eye and the ear rather than for the intelligence) have been .equally negligent. Philosophers do ?not care for breakfast. Kant took a ?pipe and a stroll for his morning meal, ' ni:<\ if we were to inquire into the I habits of the extremely modern poets .we shoal.1 be likely to lind that they 'are equally reckless of breakfast. I (suspect them of gruel or mutton ?broth. I To return, as.I have said, no poet has celebrpted coffee. Shakespeare came too soon. Pope has a mere ref erence : Coffee, which mnkes the politician wise. And see through all things with his half- j shut eyes. But in Pope's day coffee was an jufTalr of afternoon and company did ?not appeal to romantic sentiments as 'breakfast coffee does.-Henry Dwight Sedgwick in the Yale Review. Why We Read. We should not, supposing each of them to render life as he saw it, quar rel with Fielding, whose idea of cause and effect is that drinking makes a j man a fine, genial fellow, any more | than with Zola, who wrote a book, called "L'Assommoir." Actually "Tom j Jones," since it is a more filtered work -since it is a product of the author's experience of life, whereas Zola's book is a product, not of experience, but j of tabulations-"Tom Jones" will prob- j ably have a more persistent vitality. It is a rendering of life as it is, such as it is, a picture of manners. It in- ! terests because it excites our curiosity, j After all, we most of us read because i we want to know-because we want to know so many things. Corrected Description. "Tour boy tells me his father ls saying such queer things. Susan. Is he out of Ks head?" "De doctah, mum, says ns how ho | is deleterious wiv de fevah, mum." i I MAY HAVE BEEN INDIGESTION i Indianapolis Man ls Puzzled Over Pe culiar Action of Hitherto Well Behaved Automobile. The accustomed peace and quiet in : j the village of Woodruff Place was 1 i harshly broken late the other evening j I by a disturbance Huit caused A. L. j Smith, living in the East drive, to won- j der what particular brand of spooks ? i finds lodgment in the innards of motor ! cars, says the Indianapolis News. Smith put his car in the garage at a decent and respectable hour, turned off the lights, locked the door, hung the key on the nail in the kitchen and went to bed. But that motor cur did not seem io be fully satisfied. Perhaps the heat and the stuffy garage had something to do with it. Whatever the nature of the bug un der its bonnet, the troubled soul of the automobile found voice along about midnight. From the dark re- ! cesses of the garage rose a quavering howl that put to shame all roosters within half a mile. Slumbering neigh bors turned over, muttered "What the deuce?" or other synonymous classical ' references, and peered out of thc ! bathroom windows, while Smith, trust- i ty revolver in one hand and flashlight < in the other, padded cautiously garage-1 ward. Peering within, nothing arr j peared, but the car still yelled its head j off. Advancing boldly, he commanded, "See herc, now, that's enough of this nonsense," and stepped on the running board, at which the car gave a final yelp and subsided. "Now somebody tell me what started it," said Smith next morning, at the caucus of neigh bors in the alley. "Sounded mighty j spoooky, anyway." IDEAL METAL FOR MOTORS Secret of Material Which Has Made German Airplanes Superior to Oth ers Has Been Discovered. The United States government has i learned that the success of the Ger- ! man airplanes is largely attributable to what is kau ? a as kaiser zion metal, which is used for the motors. A piece of this metal was picked up by i a British soldier who brought down a German taube. It interested him so much that he subjected it to a scien tific test and discovered that it con- i sisted of the following: Copper, L58 parts; tin, P2.9S parts, and autimony, j 5.-14 parts. This alloy, which Is somewhat akin ' to Britannia metal, was discovered by the Germans about HO years apo. They first used it as a substitute for silver j in the making ol' all kinds of articles i for the dining ?'hle, never dreaming ] that some day it would prove so serv- : ; iceable in military affairs. It is as i light as aluminum, has great tensile ? strength and unusual resisting power. ! A prominent American manufacturer i of motors has succeeded in duplicating 1 this alloy perfectly, and in a short i time several thousand motors made of j it will be ready for use. It is claimed that it can be turned out at small es- ? pense. Shall lt Be "Langleys?" j As n tribute to the memory of the fran who was first to discover, and j partly to apply, the rule in aero- i statics, to which the world is in- | debted for tho modern advance in nvl- i ntion, it is proposed that tho United ] States government shall designate the airplanes which it is to send to Ku- ' ( ropean battlefields "Longleys." Great- ; \ cr recognition than his work has re- i ccived should certainly be given to the i modest professor, who, theoretically, ] at least, proved it possible to navigate 1 the air with heavier-than-air machines, j But, then, there are the Wrights. No ? injustice should be done the men who . , put Professor Langley's theory into , practice. Would not "Langwrights" be ' , u belier name?-Christian Science ? Monitor. . 1 - i ] May Have Solved Old Problem. I < A German scientist claims to have \ solved the problem of transmitting i photographs under the ocean by cable, i His process, if successful, represents < the solution of an old problem. Photo- ? graphs have long- been transmissible i by telegraph by the use of selenium, a 1 metal whose electrical resistance va- i rles with the intensity of the light : I striking it. But a similar process for ; cable work has never been perfected : hitherto, because of the extreme feeble- i ; ness of the electric current that must i 1 pass through thousands of miles of j : wire without a relay. The new process is said to make use of the selenium ! i principle and an elaborate system of relays at each end. Quota, Quote and Unquote. .?Why did it take so long to fill the quotas?" said William Hennessey of the fifth division, repeating a question. "There's a lot of reasons," he an swered. "You've got to pay proper respect to Washington by rending all of their orders. Listen to this one about the examination of teeth: "Repeat following telegram to local boards at once : Period quote physical regulations comma line seven from the bottom substitute quote or unquote for quote and unquote between quote side unquote and unquote two above un quote period, in other words comma man must have two teeth in opposition on one side or the other."-Chlcugo Herald. Tenants Wanted. "I thought that apartment house I put up last winter would prove a sure winner," said tho owner. "Doesn't it pay?" asked his friend. "Nc," veplied the disgusted owner, "lt's a fiat failure."-New Haven Reg ister. Ij^te^tetetetetetetetetel S?T WAS SO SUDDENS _ te te te rr., By ELLIOTT FLOWER. fe ^ te te te te te Ka ?sa te te te te W It came to her as an inspiration. He had taken a seat at a distance of about six feet from her, as was his in variable custom when he called, and his innate bashfulness and diffidence had made his conversation just about as uninteresting as usual. "Are you at ull interested in the subject of hypnot ism?" she asked. "No," he replied. "I never have given It a thought." "But you should," she said. ""But I don't know how to try It," he returned regretfully. "Oh, I can show you that," she said. "You take something bright-a piece of silver or anything like that-and hold it directly in front of the subject's eyes. Then you tell him to concen trate his gaze and thought on that bright object, while you concentrate your thoughts on subjugating his will to yours. I'm sure a man of your force of character and intensity of purpose would soon be in complete control of the subject. You might try it with me and sep if you understand." Of course he was quite ready to mnke an experiment. Slowly he with drew the silver piece, but she made no motion to indicate that she was con scious of any change. "Martha !" he said in some alarm. She went to him without a word. "Sit down beside me," he said, "and give me your hand. "Rest your head on my shoulder," he commanded. "Talk about rapture!" he muttered. His heart was beating like a trip-ham mer, but for ten minutes he sat there without moving. Then he heaved a deep, happy sigh and asked himself: "What would the world do without hypnotism ?" He had befa looking that matter up and had discovered that he had over looked a most Important test. The ex periment was moro protracted on this occasion, but It failed to bring him any j nearer the goal of his desire-and hers. To have a hypnotized girl was j a decided luxury in its way, but it i did not give him the/courage he need- j r-d when she was in her right conscious? ness. The third evening she protested. "What do you do when I am under I the influence of your will?" she de manded. "I-why, -I that is, I don't do any thing." he answered, but if ever false hood showed in a man's face, lt did In his when he said: "I-I simply make von do viirious things to demonstrate my control over your will nnd actions." "I'd like to know what they are." she insisted. "Suppose you just pretend I am hypnotized and tell me what to do. Til promise to do it just as ? WTmld In my irresponsible state. I want to learn the nature of your experiments." "Bat-but that wouldn't demonstrate inything." he argued. Foolish man ! It would have demon strated more than rrll his hypnotic ex- [ ]i peri men ts combined. "Oh. well," she said resignedly, "if it is of any intellectual or other ad vantage to you. go ahead. But realty I j 1 think it would be ever so much bet ter if I were conscious of what was happening; don't you?" He winced, and his face fairly burn ed. In fact, he was so disconcerted that he failed to notice the glonm of triumph in her eyes as he began his usual experiments. If he had, possibly lie would h:ive been better prepared for what happened when it was over, ile had scarcely, as he thought, re moved the spell, when she RU'li,nnIy ex claimed: "Why. what's thnt on your coat?" A moment later, .titer a hasty und interested inspection, she added: "Why-why. it's face powder: and (here's some on your mustache, too. Percy Wallingford ! I demand to know schat you make me do when I am (hus placed in your power! It is my right, sir, and I demand an explana tion. What advantage have you tnken uf my poor, weak, will?" What could he say? What could he ?o? Clearly nothing but make a clean breast of tho whole affair. He hesi tated and stammered, grew red and then white, and finally, driven to des peration, blurted out. "Forgive me, Martha, but I-I love you. I did mnke you put the powder there, but lt was because I-that is, I want you to marry me." "Oh, Percy!" she cried, "this is so sudden !" (Coryright, 1917, by W. G. Chapman.) Primitive Nitrate Working. The nitrate caves in the South were <vorked during the Civil war by very crude methods. Generally the cave earth was shoveled into Iron pots, where It was treated with water and heated over wood fires to leach out its soluble parts. The liquor was drawn from one pot Into another, and used for treating fresh material until it became n highly concentrated solution of nitrate salts. It was then drawn off and allowed to cool, whereupon the nitrate crystalized. The remaining liq uor-was then employed to leach fresh material and the crystals were separ ated and sacked for use. Avoid This Bad Habit. The habit of exaggeration is one of the hardest to correct. The girl who falls Into the way of overemphasizing every statement, find the plain truth very tame indeed. And she little guesses how tiresome her exaggerated statements become to her listeners. Watch i our speech for signs of this fault so prevalent in the speech of modern girls. COOLU HARDLY STAND ALC Terrible Suffering From Headache, Suk-acae, Backache, and Weak ness, Relieved hy Carani, Says This Texas Lady. Gonzales, Tex.- Mrs. Minnie Phil pot, of this place, writes : "Five years ago I was taken with a rain In my left side. It was right under my left rib. It would commence with an aching and extend up into my left shoulder and on down into my back. By that time the pain would be BO severe I would have to take to bed, and suffered usually about three days .. .1 suffered this way for three years, and got to be a mere skeleton and was ro weak I could hardly stand alona Was not able to go anywhere and had to let my house work go...I suffered awful with a pain in my back and I had the headache all the time. I just was unable to do a thing. My life was a misery, my ?tomach got in an awful condition, caused from taking so much medicino. I suffered so much nain. I had just about given up all hopes of our getting anything to help me. One day a Birthday Almanac was thrown in my yard. After reading Its testimonials I decided to try Car tful, and am so thankful that I did, for I began to improve when on the second bottle...I am now a well woman and feeiing fine and the cure has been permanent for it has been two years since ray awful bad health. I will always praise and recommend Cardui." Try Cardui today. E 78 FIRE INSURANCE -F o r This World ONLY J. T. HARLING OFFICE OVER Bank of Edgefield, S. C. Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gle Mills. Engines. Boilers, Supplies and Repairs, Porta je, Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files. Belts md Pipes, WOOD SAWS md SPLITTERS. Gixs and PRESS REPAIRS Try LOMBARD AUGUSTA, GA. GEO. F. MIMS OPTOMETRIST Eyes examined and g.asses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. EDGEFIELD, R. C. Citation. ? The State of South Carolina, County of Edgefield. By W. T. Kinaird, Probate Judge. Whereas, J. E. Ousts has made mit to me, to errant him Leiters of Administration of the Estate and .fleets of A. Clark Ouzts, de ceased. These Are Therefore to cite and idmonish all and singular the kiu Ired and Creditors of the said A. Clark Ousts, deceased, that they be ind appear before me, in the Court sf Probate, to be held at Edgefield, South Carolina in my office on the 17th day of January (luis) next, ifter publication thereof, at ll [/clock in the forenoon, to show sause, if any they have, why the naid Administration should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this 29th day of December, A. D" li) 17. W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Judge E. C. Jan. 1, 1918-St. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard penernl strenfrtheniiifc tonic. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Mnlaria.enriches the blood.andbuilds up the sys leta. A true tonic. For adults and children, 50c V ?.flo h erinm We beg to announce that we are now ready to deliver fertilizers for this season, having secured a liberal supply which we have on hand in our warehouses ready for delivery. 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