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I ' * THE DYING YEAR. ? ? Farewell, farewell, old year, to thee I fondly say adieu; Like Christmastide, ".oon wilt thou ' glide, To make way for the new. The birdH and buds have disappeared, I've watched the Jeaf grow sear, And, with a melancholy sigh, I part with thee, old year. When nineteen-nine is ushered tn, And joybells gayly ling, I'll keep in mind the bygone days, 'Round memory will they cling; . I'll brush a tear for a missing voice, ? Recall a vacant chair; At the sad and solemn hour of night. I part with thee, old year. Thy race is run, brief is thy stay, Thy bells no longer peal; Farewell, old worn-out castaway, For thee a pang I feel. Soon will the now, with rosy hue, 'Mid Joyous shouts appear, And with a melancholy sigh I say farewell, old year. WU KN SCOTLAND YARD WARKS. Crooks,Find it Wise to Quit England. Some Reap Rich Harvest. New York,Dec. 19.-"I notice that Scotland Yard recently warned a batch of American crooks out of Eng land," said a retired detective of the old Tom Byrnes staff. "Now, that warning out stuff might pull a laugh from American crooks who don't know tho way the game ls managed on tho other side. But they'd laugh on the other side of their faces if they put themselves in the way of getting that kind of a hotfoot from the Scotland Yard folks. The Yard has a little way of dealing with the crooks who are pin-headed or pig headed enough not to conform to such a beat-it request. You'll never find an old timer familiar with the Yard's methods telling them that he won't go when he's asked to go. "When 1 was in active harness I knew slews of high notchy American crooks who at one time or another got that run-homo Invite from the Scotland Yard un? fit, and none of them wasted time obeying orders. A good many of them, I must say, brought back to this country stacks of plunder before the Yard wised lip to them and sent them spinning back this way. "One of these was Ned Hapgood, an all-round crook, but mostly a thimble-rigger, from Chi, who wont over to England to see what he could do In the early S O's. "Ned had a bank wad at the time and didn't have to get right down to work, but he'd thlmblerlgged so long in thia country that soon after he hit England he began to hanker to get into motion, took in the fairs all over Enga?ad with pea graft, and he found that it . was Uko taking the yeast money from a little girl on her way to the grocery. "One afternoon when he was run ning his pea game at a fair In York shire he had the fun of trimming the man who's now the King of England, then tho Prince of Wales. The Prince didn't guess where the pea was five straight times for a guinea per miss, and tl en he laughed and moved on with his party. "Hapgood had a pair of link cuff buttons made out of two of the quid that Albert Edward forked over and passed the three others to pals as souvenirs. Tom O'Brien, the gold brick man, who cashed lu at the French colonial prison where he was sent for killing Kid Waddell, his pal, In Paris, carried one of these guineas as a pocket piece for years. "lt took the Yard a long time to hep up to Ned Hapgood's game, but finally they sprung him and told him to be on his way, and Nod knew his his little book well enough to sheer off and point his prow for this coun try within twenty-four hours after getting notice, and ho never went back there any more either, soft as the graft was. "Clip Morton, an American crook who came from a lino old New Or leans family, was the man who Intro duced tho cute little game of three card monte to the Inhabitant:; of the British isles. As a general thing they're a pretty cagey and suspicions lot over yonder, but tho Britishers sure did bite on Morton's three card monte batt. "Clip looked like tho president of four banks, and dressed tho part that way, and there never wa his supe rior ns a monte man. When ho sot out to work the monte thing on the trains he took on an English crook to act as his valet and he traveled In style. "He did a testy, grouchy, grouty pnrt on the trains, and kept bawling nt his valet to wrap hin. In rugs and bring the water jug and all that sort of bally fooling. Then after getting the attention of the passengers, he'd howl at his valet for his solitaire board and cards, and he'd begin a game of solitaire. "Now, most folks have got a pen chant for rubbering at another man's game of solitaire, and that's tho way Clip Morton got 'em. He'd fllzzle out with his impossible solitaire game, to the amusement of the rubbers, and then In a snappy, Ul humored sort of way he would toss the three mon? o papers and Invite them, if they wo?-o so smart, to pick out the right one WHIing to divert and at the spme time tr? put lt on the grouchy man. they'd stand for the harpoon, and Morton tossed lt Into them for years that way without ever getting a rum ble. "He took turns working different. Important trains, but mostly he'd work the Paris express from London. Occasionally he'd keep right on and do profitable monte business through to Constantinople or St. Petersburg. "ii wasn't until Morton had snaked out a whole dishpan full of money, enough to last him for lifo, that Scotland Yard woke up to his lay and Invited him to take a quick look at his native land. He settled on a ranch In Southern California and died there in luxury, a very old mau. "Then there was Dinge Fraser, a good looking duck from Mobile, who got his nickname because he was sus pected of being an octoroon. Fraser took a swell mob of American dips over to England In 1870, and what the Fraser outfit did to Great Britain during that tour Was too many for anybody to recite or run over hastily. "Fraser used the malt ?-up and graft of an American street medicine fakir, with the long black Buffalo Bill hemp, the sombrero, frock coat and all that stuff. Rigged that way, he'd charier an open barouche and sell what he called American yarhs, with a gold watch and chain and a dia mond pin with each shilling package. But the dope vas only a side issue. "The main graft was to get the folks together around the wagon With the crowds asse.obied. Dingo's squad of leather workers would ge. busy. Every one of tho dips In thvj Fraser troupe was a Class A man ai. the game-, and the way they did do walletlze England, Scotland and Wales wi. 5 a sin and a shaine. "It took the Fraser outfit more than two years to work Great Britain, and during all that time the Yard never got hep to lt that Fraser's street medicine gag was only a blind for the operations of tho dips. Finally tho Yard folks hepped up to it, however and Fraser and his bunch got the rumble and had to beat it back to the States. Not a man of the gang had to work for three or four years when they returned to this country after that huge clean-up. "American crooks somehow or another used to find lt mighty easy to put down scratchy paper In Eng land. You remember. the big case where the bunch trimmed the Bank of England for millions nefore getting accidentally nailed. But there were others. "There was Joe Mason, the merry go-' jund man, one of the original UH '-ry-go-round men of this country, by the way. Joe was an educated man, and he put a series of fake American gold mine frame-ups across In Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and those towns, in 1881, that was something scientific. "He took the first American steam propeller merry-go-round to England. But the thing didn't fetch In the coln quick enough to suit Mason, and so he just left lt standing In a lot and went after the big stuff with some nicely engraved shares In Amer ican gold mines that weren't. "I don't know just how much high change he picked up at that game, but lt was away up In the tens of thousands before the Yard fell to sniffing at his heels. I don't know If he did any squaring, but it's a cer tainty that ho wasn't pinched. All that happened to him was that he got ono of those go away from here InN vites from Scotland Yard, and he wasn't unwilling to skin hack here with four ov five Gladstone bags stuff ed with Kale so that their sides bulged. "Mason, when he got back here, went to his home town In the West, and he died there only nine or ten years ago. Ills widow had a memo rial window placed In the church which Joseph attended after he got coln enough to conclude that he could afford to be religious." ORINO Laxative Fruit Syrup Pleasant to take The new laxative. Does not gripe or nauseate. Cures stomach and liver troubles and chronic con stipation by restoring the natural action of the stom ach, liver and bowels. Refuse eubatltutes. Prloe OOo. J. W. BKLI,. Wulbai hi. Stonccypher Drug Co., Westminster. 1009 1'ENS ION RULES. Huies fur the Guidance of Commis sioners ns Lnid Down hy Act. Columbia, S. C., 1908. 1st. The County Board will meet and organize at once by electing one of their number County Pension Commissioner. The Pension Commissioner of euch cousty will attend in the County Auditor's ornee on each Saturday in Janus T, 1909. This commissioner ls chai ged with the duty of prepar ing all pension papers in a condition to go before the Count" Board (which County Board meets on the first Monday in February). The Pension Commissioner is cautioned to use in each instance the proper blank for the application. Immediately after the adjourn ment of the county board (the first Monday in March, 1909.) the Pcu sion Commissioners will proceed to prepare tho Hst as follows: Use the Pension Report for pensioners of 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908, marking off those dead, removed from the Stato, trans ferred to another county, or dropped, giving reason. Then make a Hst of all the approved pensioners for 1909 only. If it is proposed to raise any pen sioner from the class in which his name is now enrolled, lt will be necessary to preparo a new applica tion, setting forth the faits, and if approved by the County Pension Bonrd send the same to the State Pension Board. In no Instance must he send an application for a person who ls already on tho roll, except where lt ls proposed to raise said ap plicant to a higher class, and then the application must so state. Transfers. A suitable blank will be furnished him, on which he can certify to other commissioners and county boards that the party desiring to go to ano ther county ls regularly on the pen sion ll,st In his county. Wc do not want approved applications to com* here from any county where the ap plicant is an approved pensioner in some other county. County Pension Boards. The County Pension Boards elect ed this year under the pension law shall meet during this year, and elect one of their number County Pension Commissioner, who., shall perl orin tho duties prescribed In the net approved February 25, 1902. The County Pension Boards are In Btructed Instead of meeting In Janu ary, 1909, to meat the first Monday In February, ^909, and pass on all the applications prepared and sub mitted to them by the Pension Com missioner, approving or disapprov ing the tame. They will meet again the first Monday in March, 1909, at which time they will examine and verify the Hst submitted to them by the Pension Commissioner, and sign and Immediately forward the sama to the Comptroller General. The-, are Instructed to give due notice of the manner In which applications must be made under the law, as the State Pension Board will not con sider applications for pensions ex cept where they come in the .egu lar way and time prescribed by law. Do not send to this office disap proved applications for pension. By act. approved 24th day of Feb ruary, 1906-see Section 108."?-a pensioner ls allowed to certify as a witness. Class A. Those who as a result of wounds received In the war are Physically helpless, or who while In such service lost both arms, or both legs, or are totally blind, whether the result of service or not, or who are dlsal 'ud by paralysis and are unable to make a living, and whose Income or his wife's does not ex ceed $150. This does not Include ?soldiers whose disabilities arise from diseases and causes arising since the war, except those totally blind. Class B. Those who have lost one arm or one leg and whose Income or his wife's does not exceed $150. Class C, No. 1. Those soldiers and sailors disabled by wounds received during the war, whose Income or bis wife's does not exceed $75. Class C, No. 2. Thoso soldiers whose Income does not exceed $75 Irrespective of age. Class C, No. 3. Widows of those who lost their lives while In the service of the State or Confederate States, and whose Income does not exceed $100. Where a widow of a Confederate soldier marries after tho death of her second husband, she ls entitled to apply and draw a pension or account of the service of her first husband, provided she ls entitled un der the other provisions of the pen sion law. Such widow must apply In her own proper name, but at thc same time state that she ls asking for a pension as the widow of her dead husband, giving his name, com pany, regiment, etc. Class C, No. 4. Widows above the age of sixty (60) years whoso In come does not exceed $100, or If not sixty years of age, can receive a pen sion if married at close of war. Al ways state when applicant ls widow of a pensioner. County Boards cannot bo iou care ful lu these matter? of "Income" or "physical condition." > Physicians are urged to stato not only nature of wounds, but disability resulting therefrom. Ile Is a very poor man whose gross Income from labor, rent and othor sources does not exceed $75, or poor lands, If any, that will not produce inis amount gross. Property sufficient to produce S7-J In applicant's or his wife's name de bars him. Where soldiers or widows dispose of their property by glviug or sell ing to their children, they are de barred. Pensioners who move to another Stato are not entitled to a pension. Tho pension law provides that thlB fund shall be idatrlbuted April 1st; therofore, it ls ve -y important that you mail the pension lists, with the approved applications of your county promptly on the first Monday In March. Let county boards act promptly and fnlrly, giving the Stato Board full information, with complete re ports for each county, using pension reports for UK se already on roll, and making a list of thoso approved 1900. If applications are correctly filled out, and do not haye to he ro turned lt facilit?tes getting out the pension fund. In making reports to the Stat?, Board, the reporta should bc signed hy each member of the County Pen sion Board, who can sign lu report and then Hst for 1908. A. W. Jones, Comptroller General, Chairman. D. R. Flennlkln, W. II. Hardin, Dr. B. M. Lebby, . Dr. Wm. Weston, Surgeon Kate F. Maher, Pension Clerk. I will attend In Auditor's office each Snturday in January. Please read rules carefully and see what class lu which you will belong. J. W. Holleman, Pension Commissioner, Oconeo Co. Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch of your clothing. Doan's Ointment cures Ibo most obstinate cases. Why suffer? All druggists sell lt. The Highest Mountains. Texas, according to a recent re port printed In the Boston Transcript, is to take the honor from North Car olina as having the highest peak in the Southern States. Baldy Peak is given the altitude of 8,382 feet, while Mitchell is 6,711 feet. However, grand old Mitchell claims naught but the honor of towering above all other mountains this side of the grim Rockies. Of altitudes In the South that have been measured, 2,483, not including varying mea surements of the same places, are above 1,000 feet. The highest alti tudes measured by States are: States- Feet. Texas .Baldy, 8,382 North Carolina .. Mt. Mitchell, 6,711 Tennessee.Mt. Guyot, 6,363 Virginia .... Rogers Mountain, 6,719 Georgia. . . .Sitting Bull M'tn, fi,046 West Virginia. .Spruce Knob, 4,860 S. Carolina. . .Rich Mountain, 3,569 Maryland. .Allegheny Heights, 3,187 Arkansas. .Fourche Mountain, 2,800 Alabama.Pulpit Rock, 2,018 Kentucky.Frazier Knob, 1,540 Mississippi.Holly Springs, 602 Louisiana.Arcadia, 368 District of Columbia, Soldiers' Homo Grounds. 330 Morlda.Mos.<v Head, 274 It was down in Ravenswood, 111., that a teacher who had sent a note home with a pupil asking her parents to buy a grammar for her recelvel the following note: "Missus techer: I do not desire that Jennie shall ingngo ls grammar, as I prefur bur to ln gage In more useful studdles, and can learn bur to speak grammar myself. I went through two gram mars, and can't say as they did me no good nohow. 1 prefur Jennie to Ingage in French, drawing, and vocal music on the planny." Foley's Orino Laxative cures chron ic constipation and stimulates thc livor. Orino regulates the bowels sc they will act naturally and you do not have to take purgatives continu ously. .1. W. Bell, Walhalla; Stone cypher Pharmacy, Westminster. 7,016 Words on a Post Card. Most people think they are dolus reasonably well If they manage to get on the back of a postal card even a little of what they wish to say. But there ls an Atlanta man who has compressed 7,616 words on one-half of a postal card. This king of miniature penman ship ls Ike M Irschfeld, 2 4 years old, now in the jewelry business at Fort Worth, Texas. A music house ol that city offered a $400 plano to the person who could writo the words ol their firm name, together with thc statement "sell only reliable pianos," the greatest munger of Unies on hall of a regulation post card. Mr. Mlrschfeld wrote the sestence 1,088 times, making a total of 7,616 words, and won the piano. Don't If you aro ?ick, don't to make yourself well. 1 the words of thousands womanly illa, when we BI TAKE CA it wm i For 50 years, this WOE been benefiting sick wome of Cambridge City, Ind., i with female trouble, and They wanted to operate, made me feel like a new i this wonderful medicine, AT ALL DR Food Required by Cow?. From Farmers' Bulletin No. 2 2, U, S. Department of Agriculture:) The cow requires not only mate rials for maintenance, but munt also have protein, fat and carbohydrates lo make milk from. Tho milk con tains water, fat, protein (c sein, or curd), sugar, and ash, and these are ill made trom the constituents of the food. If insufficient protein, fat and carbohydrates are contained in the food given her, the cow supplies tills deficiency for a time by draw ing on her own body, and gradually begins to shrink In quantity and Quality of milk, or holli. The stingy feeder cheats himself as well as the cow. She may suffer from hunger, although ' or belly ls full of swale hay, but : .ie also becomes poor and does not yield tho milk and butter slie should. Her milk glands aro a wonderful machine, but they cannot make milk casein (curd) out of tho constituents in coarse, unappetizing Indigestible swale hay or sawdust any more than the farmer himself can make butter from skitn milk. She must not only have a generous supply of good food, but lt must con tain sufllcient amounts of the nutri ents needed for making milk. Cot ton seed meal is the greatest protein food obtainable in the South. Until this fact ls understood and appre ciated, successful, profitable dairying ls out of the question. Many forcible Illustrations of Its truthfulness have been furnished by the agricultural experiment stations. More people are taking Foley's Kidney Remedy every year. It is considered to be the most effective remedy for kidney and bladder trou bles that medical science can devise. Foley's Kidney Remedy corrects ir regularities, builds up worn out tis sues and restores lost vitality. It will make you feel well and look well. J. W. Bell, Walhalla; Stone cypher Pharmacy, Westminster. china's Baby Emperor. (Philadelphia Public Ledger. Poor little Pu Y* finds himself at the age of three called upon to rule over a population of some 4 30,000, 000 and an area of 4,250,000 square miles. If would seem to bo a job for a man full grown. The estimated population of the United States, in cluding our insular dependencies, ls something less than 100,000,000, and our area 3,750,000 square miles. And the President of the United States ls certainly not likely to find a single hour of the working day hanging heavy on his hand. A FACT ABOUT THE "BLUES" What ls known a? the Blues' ls seldom occasioned by actual exist ing external conditions, but In the great majority of cases by a disorder cd LIVER.- ?? 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(Chicago Dispatch,) A "drunk'* tlint ultimately netted Its owner In tho neighborhood of $80,000 was related in Judge Mack's court Saturday, as a part of the evi dence resulting In the court setting aside the will of the late Joseph Wil son, at the roquest of his widow, Mrs. Hertha Wilson. .WI'TII, lt was related, while in toxl 'ed, bought a piece of West Side real estate for $1,300 somo years ago. When ho became sober ho regretted the deal, thinking some ono had taken advantage of his con dition. Ho investigated, however, and, to make tho liest of what he considered a bad bargain, made suffi cient Improvements to pay taxes and a little profit. The property to-day is appraised at $85,000. In setting aside the will Judge Mack found that the testator was o? unsound mind When the?.instrument was executed. 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