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MEN'S FIVE SENSES. CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THEM NOT GENERALLY KNOWN. The XerTes of Taste Are Paralysed by Either Very Hot or Very Cold Liquids?the Ear Is a Wonderful Organ?-The Eyes Easily Deceived. For some unknown reason different parts of the tongue are assigned for the perception of different tastes. With the tip we taste sweet substances and salts, with the Dact we tasie uuiui things and with the sides we taste acids. The middle part of the tongue's surface has scarcely any sense of taste at all. The long named substance parabroinbenzoic sulphinide produces a most remarkable effect, for it gives a sense of .sweetness to the point of the tongue and of bitterness to the back. Pure water tastes sweet after sulphate of magnesia. We can only taste things in solution; hence if the tongue were perfectly dry it would not be affected by the strongest flavored substance in a dry state. The taste nerves are paralyzed by very hot or very cold liquids. After drinking very hot or ice cold water we could not taste even such a substance as quinine. This fact supplies a useful hint for consumers of ill flavored medicines. Smell, though the least useful, is the / . most delicate of all our senses. We can smell the three-hundred-millionth part of a grain of musk. No chemical analysis can detect such minute quan tities. The most powerful microscope would not render a particle ten thousand times as large visible. We could not taste it were it many thousand times as large. While we taste liquids, we can smell only gases. Fill your nostrils with eau de cologne, and you will experience no odor whatever. Fine as our sense of smell is, it has deteriorated immensely since the time when our forefathers were wild men. The Calmucks can smell an encampment twenty miles away; the Peruvians can distinguish all the South American races by their odor. But smell is a sens highly susceptible of cultivation even by the modern white man. Dealers in tea, spices, perfumes and drugs, in consequence of their training, can distinguish the faintest differences in odors. The orgaD of hearing is one of the most marvelous pieces of mechanism in the body. In animals the external ear acts as a trumpet to collect the sound wares; in man it is little more than an ornament, but tbe internal ear is alike in both. So wonderful is its construction that we can distinguish sounds varying from forty to 4,000 vibrations per second. This feat is performed by a portion of the ear called the organ of Corti. What a wonderful organ ijjul is luhj l/c uuuciowvu , ,v~~. the fact that it consists of 5,000 pieces cf apparatus, each piece being made up of two rods, one inner hair cell and four outer hair cells?that is, 35,000 separate parts. In some mysterious manner the rods, with other things, are tuned to different notes, and when they vibrate they cause the hairs to transmit an impulse to the nerve of hearing. To be musical, therefore, is to have a good organ of Corti. Why is it that scratching a piece of glass with metal causes such an unpleasant sound? Because it is what is called the fundamental tone of the ear, which is very high. What the fundamental tone exactly is would take too njuch space to explain, but if you blow across the mouth of a bottle, a hollow globe, etc., you get its fundamental tone. The ear is a deceptive organ, and it is often a matter of guesswork to tell whence a sound comes. Indeed, if you nlace the oneu hands in front of your ears and curve them backward sounds produced in front will appear to come from behind. Human beings and monkeys see most things with both "eyes. Our whole field of vision extends over 180 degrees or half a circle. The middle half of this we see with both eyes together, but the quarter at each side is seen only with one eye. Ail other animals see most things with one eye only. Scarcely ever can they fix both eyes on anything at tbe same time. But there are considerable variations. A bulldog, for instance, somewhat closely approaches the condition of a monkey. The larger the pupil the greater the quantity of light which enters the eye. Large pupiled people, therefore, see the world in a brighter and more cheerful state than those with small pupils. They can see things better in the dusk or at night 1 As every one knows from tbe optical illusion pictures, the eyes are easily deceived. A white square on a black ground appears larger than a black square of the same size on a white ground. Red near green looks redder; Viino vpllnw looks bluer: white near black looks whiter. Touch really includes several senses. Thus there are spots on the skin which feel heat only, spots which feel only cold, spots which feel only pain, spots which feel only pressure and spots which feel tickling. These spots are supplied with nerves capable of doing - only one particular duty. The sensations of the skin are grouped by physiologists into three kinds?tough, pain and temperature. The skin which covers a soar has only one kind of sensation. It can feel neither pressure (touch i proper* nor temperature, but perceives pain very acutely. The tongue is 1ho most sensitive of all parts to touch, the forehead and elbow to heat or cold. YTc only dream sights and sounds. v,"e never dream tastes or smells. If v.e dream cf a flower garden, we see the flowers, but do not smell them. If we dream of a dinner, we see the dishes, but do not taste thcin. " WSLFtSL , ^ . tp MAKES I a 1 * | j| WAKT." That old copybook maxim finds its most forceful application in the waste of vitality, which is called "burning the candle at both ends." A woman is often tempted beyond her strength by domestic or social demands. Some day she awakens from this waste of strength fr> Txw?fnl want of it. She has be come weak, nervous and miserable. For weak, nervous, run-down women, there is no better tonic and nervine than Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It restores the appetite, quiets the nerves and gives refreshing sleep. It cures local diseases peculiarly womanly which undermine the general health. It makes weak women strong, sick women well. " No doubt you have forgotten me. but after you read my letter you will remember me," writes Mrs. Annie E. Moring, of 23S -th Avenue. S. W? Roanoke. Va. "In the yjar 1S97. I wrote to you for advice, which you* ga%*e me free of charge. When I wrote to you I was a wreck ; I could not walk straight for pains in my abdomen ; could not sit down, lie down, or get any ease at all. I had what was called the best doctor here, but did not get any better until I went through a course of your medicine. I took eight bottles each of ' Favorite Prescription' and 'Golden Medical Discovery.' and ten bottles of the ' Pleasant Pellets.' I tell you the medicine made a cure of me." Weak and sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness. Too Lote to ^TeeK. engs One day a man and a woman entered Four Mile Bend on horseback, and the I woman got down and asked one of the i miners if there was a man named Sam Brown in camp. "We buried him only three days ago," was the reply. "Was he related to you?" "Yes, somewhat related." "Well, all your weepin' won't bring | him back to earth. Sorry for you, but""Weep!" she shouted as she flourj ished a club over her head. "Do I look like a woman who'd be a-weepin' ' fur any sich critter as Sam Brown? He left me back in Injiany two y'ars ago and hasn't writ me a word or sent me a dollar, and I cum out yere to take him by the h'ar and club him till he couldn't holler. So he's dead, eh?" "Gone to his reward, ma'am." "And he didn't leave nuthin' behind?" "Not a shillin'. I hev jest written you a letter to notify you of the sad tragedy and to say that he died with your name on his lips." "Humph! Waal, I don't want no letter, and as fur my name on his lips. I'd 'a' made him yell it all over camp.if I'd got here a leetle sooner! I married ag'in a y'ar ago, and my husband's over thar, but I jest wanted to wollop Sam Brown black and blue for old times' sake and let him know that I wasn't sheddin' any tears on his account. So he's dead, eh?" "Yes, ma'am, and I guess it's lucky fur him that he is." "You bet it is," replied the woman, and she shouldered her club, lifted her skirts and walked back to her horse and husband. Wanted. Wo would like to ask, through the columns of your paper, if there is any oerson who has used Green's August Fiower for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Liver Troubie that has not been cured?and we also mean tbeir results, such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, habitual costiveness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches, despondent feelings, sleeplessness?in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or livei? This medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wisb to correspond with you and stnd you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We have never known of its failing. If sc, something more serioue is the matter with you. Tbe 25 cent size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents., At all druggists. G. G Green, Woodbury, N. J. Belated Kindness. Mr. Smitli (in street car)?Madam, take my seat. Mrs. Jones (who has been standing fifteen minutes)?No. thanks. 1 get o!I at the next corner. Mr. Smith?That's all right. So do I. ?Chicago Journal. Xo L"se at All. J He (who has offended her)?Won't j you Iooi: up at me? She?If I did. you'd kiss me again. He?No; honest. I won't. She?Then what's the use??Life. A Reminder. Dearborn?What have you .act that j string tied about your finder for? ' Wabash?Oh. I've been yetting mar- ! i ried. and my wife doesn't want me to j forgot it.?Dos ton Herald. ifypocri.-rr becomes a necessity for those who live scandalously.?DeI'incu. FOiEYSMOMi^YM Cars*? Colds; Prevents Fn-ajnonte HOW HUSBANDS SHOP. A EionNe That It V.r.s Certain WonL" Xt>i Please the Lauy. The pleasures of shopping arc as rigorously denied to "mere man" as are the advantages of whistling to fair woman. The decree, being nature's own. is universal, and the attempts made to contravene it are few and unsuccessful. An exception, more apparent than real, was made a few days ago by an uxorious Berlin husband intent cn presenting his better half with a new blouse. He hurriedly entered one of the first shops in the capital and cojifided his intention to the graceful young lady assistant. "I want a blouse ?a good one. You understand, it must be silk?the best silk." "May I ask what color you prefer?" inquired the superior young saleswoman, with a smile. "Oh. I'm not particular about the color. but I may say thac it may cost from 30 to 40 marks." "And the cut?" "The cut? Well, I really don't much care. After all. it comes to the same thing." "May I ask about the lady for whom it is destined ?" "Why, she is my wife, of course! Whom else did you"? "I beg your pardon. What I meant was what is her size, at least approximately ?" "It doesn't matter in the least. Please show mo some blouses, one blouse, any blouse, and let me go, for I am in a hurry to catch a train." "With pleasure, sir, but if you cannot give me an idea of the color, cut or size or anything else to guide me how can I hope to suit you?" "Give me any blouse you like so long as the price is between 30 and 40 marks. It doesn't matter a straw what cut or color or size i cnoose, ior in any cast? it's certain to bo changed. I told you it is for a lady!"?London Telegraph. Greenville, Tenn. I have thoroughly convinced myself that Dr. Baker's Blood and Liver Cure is the finest medicine made for Indigestion and Constipa tioD. (I have tried them all) and was cured by the use of this medi cine, after all others had failed. I most cheerfully and unhesitatingly endorse it. -Yours truly, H. N. Bnker. Mayor. F.,r sale at the Bazaar. SHOPS IN JAPAN. The Floors Are the Counters axiU Squatting Places of Euyers. To start a Japanese shop is the simplest thing in the world. You take the front off your house and arrange your worldly possessions on the floor. Jananese floors are raised off the street, though nothing is raised off them. The transient customer sits on the edge of the floor sidesaddle. A real shopper who means to do the thing properly climbs up on the floor, which is also the counter, and squats on his heels. Real Japanese shops have no doors or windows or counters. Shop windows in England do not leave much wall in the frontage, but even an English shop window does not take the whole front of the house. The Japanese have not many regular shops. There are very few streets of shops even in Tokyo, which is as large as Berlin. Foreigners never buy anything but curios. If they are fools, they deal with shops kept by Europeans; if they want bargains, they deal with Chinamen. There are many Chinese shops in treaty ports. The Chinaman is cheaper and more reliable than the Japanese. European shopkeepers do not s up in Japan for philanthropic reasons. Japanese shopkeepers are the lowest class of population except the outcasts. Servants and laborers take precedence of them in society, and precedence is the hobby of the Japanese. You have a different bow and a different ' ?hitation for a man who is below you or your equal, and several for the people above you. You have even a different language for each, and Japanese writing wriggles like carving on their temples.?London Standard. Bother Hirn. A German clergyman who was traveling stopped at a hotel much frequented by wags and jokers. The host, not being used to having a clergyman at his table, looked at him with surprise. The guests used all their raillery of wit upon him without eliciting a remark. The clergyman ate his dinner quietly, apparently without observing the gibes and sneers of his neighbors. One of them, at last, in despair at his forbearance, said to him: "Well, I wonder at your patience. Have you not heard all that has been said to you?" "Oh, yes: but I am used to it. Do you know who I am?" "No, sir." "Well, I will inform you. I am chaplain of a lunatic asylum. Such remarks have no effect upon mo." A Rnssian Bnnlcnoto. The 100 ruble note of Russia is barred from top to bottom with all the colors of the rainbow, blended as when shown through a prism. In the center in bold relief stands a large, finely executed vignette of the Empress Catherine I. This is in black. The other engraving is not at all intricate or elaborate. but is well done in dark and light brown and black inks. ^00 "> "rv.t rrT>-? A reliable remedy for bowel complaints should always bo kept at hand. The risk is too great for any ci:e to take. Ch&RibeTlaiu's Co):.", Cbcierr. and Diarr! <ca lifmedv sever f.ule and when reduced with x?a?er is pleasant to take. For bale by The Ecufcsann Drug Co. Sndorssd Tillman. Spartanburg Free Lance 2 tL iest. Magistrate J. S Garris ha9 j ih: I received a letter front B R Tillmac, Jr, a personal friend of bis, in which the writer enclosed a very interesting endorsement, which was sent to Senator Tillman by tbe leading citizeus of Terrell, Texas, endorsing the Senator's speech on the "Race Problem in the South," delivered recently in the United States Senate. The endorsement which has the signature of one hundred leading citizens of the place, reads as follows: 1 "We, the undersigned citizens of Terrell, Tex**, do signify our appreciation and regard for the brave, patriotic, historic,philosophic and statesmanlike utterances of one of the eons of South Carolina, Senator Tillman, delivered before the United States ! Senate on the race problem in America, and we feel that, there are yet men who are interested and desire that the Ciucasin race sheli rule and oe responsible for the wt-ai or woe of the America people at large." Congressman Lsver was in Spa'tauDuig ^esiriday. While here he was talking with Magistrate Garris, when the subject of Tillman's speech came up. Congressman Lever said; 'Tt was the greatest speech I ever heard. Kight in the midst of Tillman's speech I remtmber that Senator Morgan of Alabama rose from his seat in the Senate and going over to th-^ speaker, (Senator TillmaB) he interrupted him by Hayiog, Tou are making the greatest speech ever heard in this Senate ' The Senator's speech wa3 all the talk in Washingion for many days after its delivery,"' said Congressman L-ver. Dreadful Attack of Whooping Cough. Mrs. Ellen Hanson, of 300 Park Ave., Kansas City, Mo, writes as follows: "Oar two children had a severe attack of whooping cough, one of .them in the paroxysm of coughiDg would often faint and bleed at the nose. We tried everything we heard of without getting relief. We then called in our family doctor who prescribed Foley's Honey and Tar. With the very first dose they began to improve and we feel that it has saved their lives." R-fuse sub stitutes. Sold by the Kaufmann Drug Co. ? Wonderful Insect Vitality. It is a standing puzzle to the entomologists how frail little insects of the mosquito and butterfly order can brave the cold of an arctic winter and yet retain their vitality. The larva of the milkweed butterfly has been exposed to an artificial blast 68 degrees below zero. Taken out of range of this artificial blizzard and gradually "thawed out" this same worm was able to creep in less than half an hour afterward. Butterflies have been found flitting joyously about in the highest latitude man has ever penetrated, and the mosquitoes of Alaska and Greenland are known to be the healthiest specimens of that race of little pests. A disordered stomach may cause no end of trouble. When the storn' it-a fnnf.Hnns fchfl aca iaua iu jjdxiuiu ^ bowels become deranged, the liver and kidneys congested, causing numerous diseases, the most fatal of which are painless and therefore the more to be dreaded. The important thing is to restore the stomach and live to a healthy condition, and for this purpose no better preparation can be used than Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by The Kaufmann Drug Co. "Hit Him Again." A small church was sadly in need of general repairs, and a meeting was held in it with a view of raising funds for that purpose. The minister having said $500 would be required, I a very wealthy (and equally stingy; ? J ? : j j member of Ibe churcn rose ana uaiu | be would give ?1. Just as he sat | down, however, a lump of plaster fell j from the ceiliug and hit hicn on the i bead, whereupon he rose up hastily j and called out that he bad made a ! h,o WD!'11; I Sail. This | was too much for an enthusiastic J member present, who, forgetful of everything, called out fervently: "Oh, Lord, hit him again I"?Baptist Union. Women as Wei! as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, discourages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor tana cheerfulness soon disappear when the kidneys are out of order or diseased. Kiaiiey trouble has become so prevalent that it is not uncommon for a child to be born afflicted with weak kidneys. If the child urin ates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age v/hen it should be able to rnntrnl tha it is vat afflir.tp.H with bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and<he first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made miserable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect ol Swamp=Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fiftycent and one dollar sizes. You mav have a sample bottle by mail ? free, also pamphlet tell- Homo of Swamp-Root ing all about it, including many of the thousands of testimonial letters receivec from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmei & Co.. Binghamton, N.* Y., be sure anc mention this paper. PJ H 0TWO ^NDEEj tions. If you are Interested, write us loi . our handsome illustrated catalog, IDE LANIER SOUTHERN BUSINESS COLLEGE MACON, GA. November 19, 1902?ly, Tki?\rnn A T 'Marvin? UJUiJ i?3LitJ n\J JL JLLL. DR. L. L. TOOLE, of North. S. C. will . be at Swan-eft, S C., on the second Wednesday o! each month, aad at Gaston, S. C.. on Thursday lollowing. Oct. 29-6m Parlor Restaurant 1336 main street. COLUMBIA, - S. C.a The only upto-date eating House or its kind in the City or Colombia. It is w?ll kept?clean linen, prompt and polite serviceaudgetitquickly. Quiet and order always prevail. You gel what you order and pay only for what yor get. Within easy roach of desirable sleeping apartments. OPEN ALL MGTIT. B. DAVID, Prcpriotcr. FOLEYSH0HEM? for children! eafet sure Ifo opiates TOT FBTIR 1 nii mi i hi, 163s-1640 ~Sl Columbia, This stock is e to the retail t reduce* This sale will not last very long as convert same into cash in t You Know tlie I 1^ 3 ool HIHTITTFH SF u&y IJllJ&ill, y.O. i i AND REPRESENTS ONE ST I Sajgs T}"!1 ej Yours very truly, | ?M. F. : I BEESWAX WANTED i | 15 LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES WE WILL PAY TEE HIGHEST MAEket price lor clean f.ni pure Bee?j wax. Price governed by color and condition. THE BAZAAR. LEXINGTON, S.C V B MIT TREES | fv j ||> <3f That Grow and Bear Frnit. Write for our 60 page 11- ] ?&) ilustrated catalogue una *v ; 'page pamphlet, "How to 1 iPlant and Cultivate an Orchard," Gives you that in;formation you have so Ions IS?! :wanted; tells you all about those bitr red :>pj>les, lueious j 'peaches, and Japan plums [with their oriental sweetness, ' ^ .all of which you have often I | :wondered where the trees < jcame iroin that produced 1 /v ; t'a | them. , !Ji! EVERYTHING GOOD IN j I FRUITS. j & r.?i/ iUnnsal One stock of SILVER ! 7& ^ tf* 'MAPLES,young, thrifty trees J 5 oLA tk. ^smooth andstrai ht, thokind j ' that live and grnv off well, j ' old, rough trees. This is < . most rapid growing maJ ^K>v^sPi*iPlQ and one of the most beauv^la^S^ltiful shatle trees. ! ^ Write for prices and give list of wants. I J. Van Lindlcy Nursery Co., ! Pomona, NO. | ... , J HAIR*BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the ha?T. SM Promotes a luxuriant growth. *JI? Never Fails to Eestore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. I Chirr* scalp diseases & hair falling. j 30c,and $1.00at Druggists _ J 1 iii i iiii, ' , maiuis n iii. Will F'ccU'-e n a-l Cmirt?, KAUFMANN BUILDING, LEXINGTON, S C i On the hth du or October, we formed ^ I a co-partnership for the practice of law. v4 ' ?? ? 11 liu n'M.oH ir\ ranaivt.. thnCA lwvini/ I legal bu-in* s to be attended to at our otlice in the Kanlrnann building at any time. [ Resoecttnlly. J. Wji THURMOND, . G BELL IIMMERMAN, October 22 1902.?ly. Hilton's Life for the ; Liver and Kidneys tones ' up the stomach. ^ ^3^ 1 i of AIX STREET, - - ? -0 1 low being offered rade at greatly i prices. f -o it is the wishes of all concerned to he next thirty days if possible. -o y jines Handled are OF THE LARGEST IN THE ATE. 7 and Often. ? 7 /