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tumorous |jcpartmc?t. What She Ca-ll?d Him.?The discussion was over the proper pronunciation of the word "chauffeur." They were all Native Sons and the argument was entirely friendly. "It's 'show-fir.' declared one." "Never," insisted another; "it's 'chaw-fur." "Not much." interposed a third; "It's 'chef-fear.'" "Ah," Interrupted another, "here comes Bruce Cornwall. He's a prominent member of Stanford Parlor, lawyer, and all that; and, besides, he runs a machine, so he's know." "Sh." cautioned one of the group. "Rnice has only been married a few weeks, and the thing that would please him most would be to ask him how Mrs. Cornwall pronounces 'chef-fear.'" "Hello, Bruce, old man! Glad to see you. Accept my congratulations! Say by the way, what does your wife call the fellow that drives her auto?" "Well," and Cornwall crimsoned, "we're all Native Sons together, and I don't mind telling you. She calls him 'dearie.' "?San Francisco Chronicle. Tale of a Moras.?"Oh, do send a man out here. There's a mouse in my desk." Thus spake Miss Ida E. Edgerton, principal of Scranton school, to Secretary Gammel over the telephone a day or two ago, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Oh, a mouse isn't so dangerous," said Gammel soothingly. "May be one of the pupils can catch it." "Oh. but It's dead." exclaimed the agitated teacher. "Dead!" repeated Gammel; "don't mean to say you're afraid of a dead mouse?" He repressed a chuckle at the idea. "Oh, no. no," assured the teacher; "you see, it seems to have been dead some time. It?It must have died here In the desk. It?" "I see," s .Id Gammel promptly; "It's been dead so long, you wish it were alive so it could run away. We'll send ? nornontor r?1lt Rt OnCe." ? ? Shrewdness In Love.?Down the winding country road walked a strange trio?a comely and perfectly composed looking maiden and two men, on each of whose faces one could perceive the influence of the green-eyed monster. Their names, the reader will be interested to hear, were Miss Jones, Mr. Brown and Mr. Robinson. Suddenly, as they say in the novels, a severe thunderstorm came on. Lightning flashed, and Mr. Brown remarked that he was frightened. Here was Robinson's chance. "What are you afraid of?" he answered, contemptuously. "I am as cool as can be." "Why, of course," answered the astute Brown. "If I were alone I should be the same; but I am afraid for Miss Jones in this lightning. You see, she is so attractive!" Robinson is still a bachelor, but Brown is not. Couldn't Stick Him Again.?A bishop, accosted in Fifth avenue, New York, by a neat but hungry stranger, took the needy one to a hotel and shared a gorgeous dinner with him, yet, having left his episcopal wallet in the pocket of a different episcopal Jacket, suddenly faced the embarrassment of not possessing the wherewithal to pony up. "Never mind," exclaimed his guest. "I have enjoyed dining with you and I shall be charmed to shoulder the cost. Permit me." WhereuDon the stranger paid for two. This worried the prelate, who insisted, "Just let me call a cab and we'll run up to my hotel, where I shall have the pleasure of reimbursing you." But the stranger met the suggestion with, "See here, old man! You've stuck me for a bully good dinner, but hanged if I'm going to let you stick me for cab fare!" The Way of Refxthm.?In a little Alabama town a score of years ago there was a shiftless colored boy named Wash Jones, who, after being caught in a number of petty delinquencies. was at last sentenced to a short term in the penitentiary, where he was set to learn a trade. On the day of his return home, says the Woman's Home Companion, he met a friendly white acquaintance, who asked: "Well, what did they put you at in the prison. Bill?" "Dey started in to make an honest boy out'n me, sah." "That's good. Bill: and I hope they succeeded," "Dey did, sah." "And how did they teach you to he honest. Bill?" "Dey done put me in de shoe shop, suh. nailin' pasteboard onter shoes fo' soles, sah." Wholksalu.?An old gentleman stopped over night at a small hotel In western Pennsylvania, and in the morning asked (or a drink of brandy, saving that lie was not feeling very wellThe landlord produced the brandy, and (he old gentlenvan helped himself. He poured out a glassful and drank it. Smacking his lips, he said: "That is pretty good: I guess 1 will have some more." Filling up the glass, he again drank the contents, and handed the landlord a quarter. The latter gave him back 17 cents. "You have made a mistake." remarked the lodger, gazing at his change. "You have given me back too much. I usually pay 10 cents and you have only taken eight." "Well," drawled the landlord, "it is cheaper at wholesale." Mi-ch Si.\tei.int.?At a country fair a man went up to a tent where some elk were on exhibition and stared wistfully up at the sign. "I'd like to go in there." he said to the keeper, "but it would be mean to go in without my family, and I cannot afford to pay for my wife and seventeen children." The keeper stared at him in astonishment. "Are all those your children?" he gasped. "Every one." said the man. "You wait a minute.M said the keeper. "I'm going to bring the elk out and let them see you all." Aimptabijc.?Small Robbie was laboring over a drawing which was obviously of great importance. His mother, who was sewing in the room, got up to see what he was doing. "What is it you're drawing, dear?" she said, as she stood behind him. Bobble was embarrassed. Struggling to cover his nervousness he answered with an air of great nonchalance: "Oh, it's papa I'm drawing, but I don't care anything about it. Guess I'll put a tail to it and have it for a dog."?April Llppineott's. ittiscrlliuifous trailing. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. New* and Comment Clipped From Neighboring Exchanges. LANCASTER. News, June 15: Mrs. J. C. Counts of Hickory Grove, is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. M. Moore... .The new bridge over Lynche's river, know as the Sowell bridge, has been completed and was received Thursday by the county offlniain The bridee was built jointly by the counties of Lancaster and ( Chesterfield. Mr. George F. Taylor . was the contractor for the Lancaster , side Mr. J. E. Hunter, a young ] farmer of this county, died Wednesday ( of fever, at his home two miles from , Taxahaw. He was a son of Mr. W. | F. Hunter and was about 30 years old. ( He leaves a widow and three children. | The remains were buried Thursday in , the J. C. Blackmon graveyard { Mr. John D. Adams is quite sick at his home in this vicinity. He helped to nurse his mother, the late Mrs. Sallie Adams, during her last illness, and | also his brothers, Messrs. Will and Fred Adams, who were ill for weeks with the same disease that proved | fatal in the case of Mrs. Adams, and , it is thought that he has contracted < the same malady... .Col. A. R. Banks, superintendent of the Lancaster grad- ( ed schools, has been engaged, by the < state authorities having the matter in j charge, to write an educational history i of South Carolina for the hand-book ( that has been authorized by the legislature to be published. Col. Banks \ went to Columbia this week to enter t upon the work. He will likely be ab- | sent a month or two, as It will take several weeks to look up the necessary ( records in the state capltol and write f the history desired. s CHESTER. 1 Reporter, June 12: The hail storm < of Monday afternoon broke a number c of windows and was responsible for ( other damage to the Workman House in Camden. This hostelry is the prop- i erty of Messrs. A. X. Sample and T. i M. Whlsonant, both of this city 1 Mr. Sompayrac when shown the site 1 in the rear of the court house Monday I declared the place an ideal one for the i erection of a modern Jail. He was ' given some idea of the kind of build- < ing that the county would require, a 1 modern three story structure, equipped with steel cages and with a separate I residence for the sheriff, divided from f the prison by a court. Mr. Sompayrac estimates that a building of this description will cost $29,500 Rev. S. P. Fulton, returned missionary from Japan and who will be remembered as pastor at Lowryvllle many years ago, was In the city this morning with his family on his way to Virginia to spend several wee..s with relatives in Giles and Montgomery counties. Mr. Fulton left Japan in December last. He speaks encouragingly of the outlook for religious work in the Mikado's kingdom.. He declares that the Japanese as a whole are remarkably friendly to the American people, and the war talk, he thinks, is mostly the work of politicians A northern lady, who saw Col. J. \V. Reed at Jamestown, evidently thinks that the doughty colonel is still unreconstructed. While at the exposition. Col. Reed noticed some of the West Point cadets on duty, and approaching one of them twitted him upon the fact that the government now uniforms the young West Pointers in our Confederate gray. A lady who bore the ear marks of being from the north overheard the sally and turning to her companion said in a voice awesome and audible. "I do believe he is still unreconstructed.' Lantern, June 14: Miss Julia Patrick of White Oak, spent yesterday morning at Dr. G. B. White's and left on fhe 12 o'clock train for Yorkville by way of Rock Hill, to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Martha Love Mr. J. M. McGai'ty of Richburg, was in town Wednesday morning. He was a heavy loser by the hail storm Monday afternoon. He had with him some sample stalks of cotton which were stripped of all limbs and foliage. He says the hail was all shapes and of tremendous size and after the storm was over his field of fine cotton had the apuearance of having been mowed. His land was also terribly washed There was an electrical display in the ' eastern heavens Monday evening on a scale which only nature can approach. The whole east was lit up with a con- 1 stant flash of dazzling light. There ' was sheet lightning and balls of fire < dashing athwart the heavens and exploding like rockets?and all In silence. I the report of the crashes that must ' have accompanied the display being i lost in the distance Col. S. J. C. Dunlap, father of Mr. C. L. Dunlap of Fort Lawn, died at his home at Bar- 1 tow, Fla., Monday, we believe, aged < about seventy-three years. He lived : years ago near Fort Lawn, whence he ' moved to Rock Hill and later to Flor- 1 ida. He leaves four children, two by ' each of his wives, who were Misses I Ingraham... .Mr. Hawkins Meador has ? just sold to dealers in town the product of about a quarter of an acre 1 which he had planted In potatoes, and i the amount received was $91.70. He i will plant the ground in watermelons i now. We thought what comment upon < this case was in order but concluded ! that nothing we could say would be so impressive as the simple fact i They say there Is nothing wrong with ! Dr. \V. DeK. Wylie's cabbage except I that they are too large. At least Dr. ' McConnel! wanted the smallest heads ' in the wagon, and could get none ' weighing less than five or six pounds. They were not planted with any ' thought of selling, but they were so 1 large and numerous that a colored man i about the place suggested bringing a load to town and was permitted to 1 > ...HI, , I (in sn. ' 'lit* iit'mi lui ii'inii ?? mi \ii*r i outer blades weighed twenty-two pounds, and stripped to the hard head i? weighed sixteen pounds. Persons who saw the lot say they had never seen their equal. We spoke of these as Dr. Wylie's, by courtesy, but of course, we know that they were made under the supervision of Mrs. Wylle. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, June 14: In the offices of the Citizens' National Hank Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock the board of directors of the Gastonia Library association met in annual session and took some important steps looking to the enlarging of the library's facilities and a widening of its influence. The old officers were reelected as follows: President. Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway; vice president. Rev. Ft. C. Anderson: secretary and treasurer. Mr. John P. Love: librarian. Miss Iyottie Rlake Sheriff Tom Shuford and his deputy. Mr. Rob Rhyne, made another haul Wednesday when they captured, near Ramseur's mill, a 60-gallon still. They passed through Gastonia Wednesday afternoon en route to Dallas, having the still tied to their buggy. The boozemaking machine was reposing peacefully in a bam on the Kiser plantation tvhen captured. That it had been in iperation there was umple evidence as I hey found nearby several stands of beer and mash ready to run. When the sheriff received information that a still was in operation in that community he put out in company with Deputy Rhyne to find the aforesaid and the same. On aiTlving at the spot where the still was supposed to be located they found the material ready to run, 1 * ?ah' fotmono Thpu UUl no Sllll OH 11IC 1UI.| decided that, by waiting In hiding for i while, they would capture both still and distillers. After waiting for several rtours, however, they grew weary and decided to use some more active measures to bag their game. A search was instituted with the result as above stated. The still was carried to Dallas where it is in the custody of the sheriff. As to the distillers, they are it liberty yet. AMBITION TO DO NOTHING. Ven Who Are No Good In This World. Some men have the ambition to do things. Then the world hears of an Alexander, a Caesar, a Napoleon, a 3rant. Other men there are, says the London Mail, whose only ambition is to do nothing, not even "sit by the fire md spin." When such men die the vorld says: "Good riddance: there joes nobody." Men who have ambition to do nothng are found everywhere. They are he curse of society, the drag of business and the dregs of the cup of life. The other day a young man was discharged from his position by his mployer. In extenuation of himself he said: "Why do you discharge me? I lave done nothing." "Yes," said the ;mployer, "that is just the reason I lischarge you. because you have not lone anything." Years ago a young man wrote to a 'amous clergyman, asking him to find in easy position for him, and the reply is said to have been: "My dear joy, there Is only one easy place, and hat Is in the grave." Yet there are nany men who are In search of the 'soft snap," content forever to sit lown doing nothing, being nothing: iving idle, aimless lives. Such men as these are forgetful of he fact that wealth without labor, position without use of that position ind Jelsure unearned are the very :hings that take away the zest of life, 111 the mind of man with unutterable jitterness and mad jealousies that inlame the passions and incite to the performance of the worst deeds. Nothng comes from nothing is the old law >f life. It needs to be emphasized igain and again. Every great creaJon of art, every masterpiece in literiture. every victory for the right and ruth has been won at the price of lard and continuous labor. Behind every great action there is a p-eat heart. Behind every noble creition there is an aspiring soul. If a poy refuses to master his lessons he is (imply widening the distance between lim and the delectable mountains of in achieved success and is preparing limself for a life of uselessness, sloth md contemptible idleness. A boy reading a Bible lesson came :o the words Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Reading and unable to pronounce them, he skipped them. A few days afterward, reading the same lesson in an examination, and still unible to pronounce the hard names, he said, "There's them fellers again." Everyday life means a daily meeting 31 some ?naurai,n, nir.iiiauu ui .-iocwrtego, and unless mastered there is absolutely no advance. Work is valuable, not simply because of the outward things it constructs, such as bridges, ships and towers. More useful is it in the secret character that it constructs, enabling the building of greater things as the years roll by. The idler, the dawdler cannot be a happy or useful citizen. He who sits by the fire and loafs will soon want a fire and loaf to satisfy his hunger and warm his miserable body. MADE MIRTH AND TROUBLE. Some Amusing Incidents Over Designing the First Dollar. Documents in the Congressional Library at Washington show that when the establishment, of a mint was under discussion in Washington's time there were some amusing debates in congress concerning the devices the coins should bear. There is one account of a. squabble over the design for the silver dollar. It appears that a member of the bouse from a southern state bitterly opposed the choice of the eagle on account of Its being the "king of birds," and hence neither suitable nor proper to represent a nation whose institutions and interests were wholly inimical to monarchical forms of gov eminent. Judge Thatcher In reply had playfully suggested that perhaps a goose might suit the gentleman, as it was rather a humble and republican bird ind would also be serviceable in other respects, as the goslings would answer to place upon the dimes. This reply created considerable merriment and the irate southerner, considering the humorous rejoinder as an insult, sent a challenge to Judge Thatcher, who promptly declined it. The bearer, rather astonished, asked: "Will you be branded as a coward?" "Certainly, if he pleases." replied Thatcher. "I always was one and he knew it or he would never have risked i challenge." The affair caused much mirth, but was finally adjusted, cordial relations jeing restored, the irritable southerner concluding there was nothing to ee gained in fighting one who fired nothing but jokes. The Farmers Creep. ? Beecher 'went west" a long time before the ivil war and located in Indiana where ie edited an agricultural paper?and t was a good one?In one issue of ini<i it.iu'n thn "PsLrmers* [Treed," and In all the years that have dnce Intervened and all the progress hat has been made In agricultural levelopement no better creed has been levised. Here it is: Take it, consider t. and say wherein it can be improv>d: "We believe in small farms and borough cultivation "We believe that soil loves to eat, is well as its owner, and ought thereore. to be liberally fed. "We believe in large crops which eave the land better than they found t?making the farmer and the farm >oth glad at once. "We believe in going to the bottom f things, and, therefore, in deep ib wing enough of it. All the better vith a subsoil plow. "We believe that every farm should iwn a good farmer." PIGMIES MUCH LIKE APES. Found Living In Trees In the Tropical African Forest. The report which Viscount Mountmorres made to the British foreign office of his eight months of Investigations in the Congo Free State has just been published. He adopted the unusual plan of keeping away from the beaten paths and the main lines of communication as much as possible. He covered about 3,400 miles?a large part of the way on foot or In native canoes manned by blacks whom he picked up at the villages. He nas noining 10 say oi me mckneyed and writes only of peoples who are not yet well known to readers of African literature. He followed, to be sure, one well travelled route, the Ubangi river, the largest tributary of the Congo; but what he has to say about the Ubangi tribes Is new. It is a curious fact that though some of the most flourishing stations of the whites are scattered along this great river scarcely a book has been written that even mentions these leading tribes. Mountmorres has now supplied the lacking Information. He also pushed far through the great tropical forest and came across the lowest type of pygmies, of whom we had previously heard only vague reports. Mountmorres In fact saw them only for a minute, but he Is the first writer who has seen them all. He was forcing his way through the dense forest when some tiny arrows fell close to him and looking up In the trees he saw what seemed to be a number of chimpanzees springing from branch to branch and then stop- ^ ping to look at the Intruder, after the manner of the larger apes. He thinks that none of them were over three feet nine inches in height. They were entirely naked, had features as flat and foreheads as receding as the chimpanzee and, if it were not for their use of the bow and arrow, they would be taken for apes. They showed their teeth and jabbered Just as apes do, and it was difficult to imagine that the noises they emitted could form an intelligent language. All we had heard of them was that they live in the trees. The explorer had no opportunity to investigate this question, for he would have been compelled to fire on the pygmies in self defence if he had remained under those trees Mr. Wteslet, a state official, told him that he had broken in upon a group of these strange little people in exactly the same way, and he assured the explorer that he had seen their habitations, which consist of shelters in the forks of the trees made by plaiting the smaller boughs together. Another white man in the neighborhood also told him that he had seen them retreating Into just such shelters as Mr. Welslet described. As for Mountmorres, he was so busy watching the little men and women springing from one branch to another with the agility of monkeys that it did not occur to him to look for any shelters. The most remarkable feature of the Dongo cannibals on the lower Ubangi is their prolificness. A family of twenty wives and fourscore children is by no means a rarity, and sometimes a man brings forward ovfcr a hundred of his own offspring. As the state has full control over them they can no longer Indulge in' cannibal practices, though they still declare that human meat is preferable to all others and the flesh of the white man Is superior to that of the black, because It has a slightly saltish taste. They say they know because they ate a white man ten years ago. These are the people who refused to sell vegetable food to the first explorers that visited them except In exchange for men to eat. Mountmorres says there Is a remarkable difference between the forest dwellers and those who live on the plain. The forest people, living In perpetual twilight and skulking along their game tracks, are the most primitive of human beings; while the plain dwellers, In the full glare of day, lusty and intelligent, busy themselves with numberless crafts and Industries. He found the Banfca tribe of the upper Ubangi distinguished for physical beauty and with an indigenous civilization for which they owe nothing either to the whites or the Arabs. Their chiefs have high intelligence and quick reasoning powers and are very apt In retort. Each vilage has a maternity home to which prospective mothers are sent for comforts and conveniences that they do not have at home. As the care of young children tends to keep many wives from their work the little ones are placed together In large shady places surrounded with meshed nets and women are assigned to look after them. Their Industries are numerous and quite highly developed and the American white potato Is now one of their field crops. In the areas set apart as rubber concessions, where the blacks have been maltreated and In a few other districts where they seldom meet white men, the natives fled at the explorer's approach, but everywhere else he was received with the greatest friendliness. All along the Ubangi the innaDuanis came hwmus umvn the water's edge, shouting and cheer- ' Ing as soon as the approach of the ' white man's canoe was announced. ' They gave him many presents of ' food, and men eagerly volunteered for 5 the work of paddling his canoe to the { next village. He found also that in c the northeastern part of the Congo state many of the tribes are coming 1 under the Arab influence and the raw f natives are rapidly taking on more ^ civilized habits of life. This writer, > in fact, takes a very hopeful view of 1 the future of the Congo natives. RAZORLESS SHAVING. , ( Tonsorial Artists Astounded by a Paste f That Cleans Off Beards. Scores of excited barbers forced ( their way into a room at the Cannon Street hotel yesterday afternoon to witness an exhibition of razorless ^ shaving. They were stirred into tense excitement by seeing a deft operator j remove a stubby three days' growth t with the edge of a match box. The razorless shaving exhibition was organized to show how by covering a beard of any age or growth with a paste made from the "Razorless Shaving Powder" it was possible to f remove such beard with the blunt f edge of a paper knife or other article. E rn|.- -- ? " It tt.no avnltilna^ mnbno I ' Jilt? pUMC, ii ?ao ca|/ii<iiivu, iiiancii the beard brittle, in which condition t it can easily be broken off. t The six persons to be shaved J mounted the little platform and walk- r ed to their chairs with the gloomy r lepressed air of condemned persons jolng to their execution. There were wo men wearing neckerchiefs, who, ^ vlth a week's growth on their chins, lad apparently been recruited from .he street; there were also a fair nustached young clerk, two British vorkmen, and a portly middle-aged nan with bushy side whiskers, who ^ ooked the picture of a highly reipectable butler. With solemn faces, the victims flung t heir heads back and had white iloths tucked under their chins. 'Cheer up," cried voices In the crowd, ? nit not a man smiled. The operator, [vho had been mixing his paste In ivhat looked like a sah'd bowl, now :ame forward and lathered the men. Us composition seemed a creamy paste of the consistency of mortar, vlth a pungent smell faintly resemjllng that of a heliotrope. Anguished disappointment swept he crowd when It was seen that the bushy side whiskers of the portly jutler were to be untouched. "Be a nan," he was urged, but all in vain. The lathered men lay back for ten ninutes having their photographs aken and listening to banter, and hen the operator with a bone paper tnlfe began to scrape the paste off he first victim. The bristles came )ff with the paste. The man got up 'rom his chair clean shaven, and the jarbers in the gathering were aghast. Then came the turn of the other men. They were shaved with the following irtlcles: The back of a lady's comb, i wooden salad spoon, a shoe horn tnd a match box.?London cable to Chicago Inter-Ocean. HOW BIRDS OF PREY HUNT. Vonderful Power* of Vision?Their Value to Farmers. The eye of the bird of prey is probibly the most perfect organ of sight hat exists, says a writer In The World ro-day. Most marvelous of all Is the sight vhlch enables the owl to strike the nouse in the darkness or to pursue ind capture the bat which we can carcely see. even In early twilight. The talons of some of the larger )lrds of prey are extremely strong. The feet of the osprey make a splenlid fish trap, one from which no fish f :an escape when once caught. a The great curved talons of the eagle ire most effective, and are certainly itronger than those of all other birds. iVhen they once close on an object, he clutch is so tight that it can tcarcely be loosened unless the bird's eg be severed. The strong claws are lot only used in catching food, but are ised also In carrying nesting material. If, instead of killing Its prey, a spe:ies of bird is accustomed to feed on ;arrlon, this change is clearly reflectid in the weaker muscles of the feet ind in shorter and duller claws. Many people have thought that buzzards have an unusual sense of smell hat guides them over miles of terrlory In search of food, but many years igo it was proved that sight is the irlnclpal factor In guiding the bird >f prey. 11 Audubon made careful experiments vlth a black vulture. The dry, stuffed skin of a deer which he placed in he field soon attracted a vulture. Alhough there was no smell of flesh and lothing eatable about it, the bird lit md began tugging at the dry skin. Loiter when the same bird circled over he field, It espied a small snake, not hicker than a man's finger, and 11 nnn It" In another case the decayed car:ass of a hog was covered with >rush so that it was invisible. It renained undiscovered by the vultures :hat frequently passed over the place jy accident, although the stench was rery strong. The sparrow hawk, Is perhaps, the jest known of our birds of prey, as t ranges through the entire country. Contrary to what the name might signify, this bird lives almost exclusively on Insects, except where such tood is difficult to obtain. Upon the treeless plains and hills hroughout the west it is a common J sight to see these little falcons beating ilong over the waste, frequently swerving upward in flight and coming \ :o a dead stop, as they hang sus- | pended in the air with rapid wing ] beatings, looking for prey. In local- ] ties where grasshoppers are abundant j :hese hawks will congregate and < jorge themselves continually. During the winter, about the San ] Francisco bay region where the En- i jlish sparrows are plentiful, the spar- < ow hawk sometimes comes Into the i lowns and captures a sparrow from i flock. The red-tailed hawk is of- i :en called chicken hawk, but he does t lot deserve the name. Many of the I Jawks carry undeserved reputations. ( In regions and in seasons when ani- 1 rial and insect food is scarce, this 1 lawk will catch chickens and game 1 jlrds. but it lives mostly on mice and direws as well as frogs, snakes, lizirds and insects of various kinds. In i prairie and hilly country almost its mtire food is squirrels, gophers, neadow mice and rabbits. The osprey is one of our noblest >irds of prey. He hunts about over :he rivers and lakes, living almost ;ntirely on fish. A fish, as seen by one looking down nto the water from above is very de;eptlve owing to the refracted light. CVhen the fish seems to be a foot unler the surface, he is often three or 'our feet. But the osprey. hovering >ver on poised wing, drops like a ilummet, often completely disappearng beneath the surface, and, in ipite of the rapidity with which a fish :an move, this bird Is generally suc;essful In capturing it. In the mountainous regions of the .vest one may occasionally see the folden eagle hunting for his prey. [During the summer of 1904 we made ieveral visits to the aerie of one of hese big birds and found that a very arge proportion of the eagle's food supply consisted of ground squirrels vith an occasional rabbit and quail. Dn one trip we found the bodies of r our ground squirrels lying on the rim { if the nest. 1 The hills in many places were per- * 'orated with the burrows of the * ground squirrels, and the eagles seem- j >d to have regular watch towers on he high racks from which they J swooped down upon their quarry. If t were not for the birds of prey about r hese hilly districts the places would s toon be overrun with harmful rodents. * As a family the owls are among the c nost beneficial of all birds from the c conomical standpoint of the agriculturist. With few exceptions, the >wls are nocturnal. Their eyes and / cars are remarkably developed and ^ tre keenest in the early hours of the g light and morning. s Many harmful rodents are most ac- s ive in their search for food during he night, and the owls are the natu- f al check for this multitude. The t lawk hunts by day and the owl by j, light and the work of one supple- s nents that of the other. I SURVEYOR'S COSTLY BLUNDER. Mistake Deprives Michigan of a Vast Tract of Land. It is because a government surveyir in the early days of the Lake Su>erior region is alleged to have taken . wrong terminal In running the bounlary line between the two states that Michigan is laying claims to an area >f several hundred square miles of erritory now included within the Units of the Badger commonwealth, says i Marquette, Mien., uispaicn to ine i Chicago Chronicle. It appears that congress, in 1838, LUthorlzed the boundary survey. Michigan had been admitted as a itate; Wisconsin was still a territory. :n 1840 Captain Cram, of the topographical engineers, was assigned by he war department to the work of napping out the boundary line. Lltle was known of the region and his nstructlons were necessarily vague, n general terms they were to mark is the boundary the channel of the Montreal river from the mouth at Jake Superior to the headwaters, hence in a direct line through the vllderness to Lax Vieux desert (Lake >t the Desert). Captain Cram came into the region >y way of the Menominee and Brule ivers to Lake Brule, where he comnenced his operations, and for two leasons he worked on the survey, i'rom a synopsis of his report to the lepartment it appears that his concluilon was that there was not to be ound in nature any conditions of a latural boundary between the headraters of the Montreal and Menomllee rivers and, therefore, it became lecessary to make a delineation of the :ountry between those headwaters ind along the intended route of the >oundary. Accordingly the survey was comnenced from Lake Desert and conlnued westward. When within a dlsance of some 20 miles Captain Cram iame to a river two rods in width rhich he thought might be the Mon real, and carrying the survey to the nouth, found that the Ontonagon had >een reached and that the Montreal nust be many miles to the westward. Continuing the survey westward or 30 miles or more a good-sized tream was Intersected which later )roved to be the east branch of the Montreal river, but which the surveyor deemed to be the real Montreal Iver, the object of his quest. In brief, Captain Cram marked the >oundary mistakenly along the sotailed east branch of the Montreal Iver Instead of the main river. It Is :ertaln that the point where the present boundary line strikes the east >ranch of the Montreal river Is far rom being the "headwaters" of that tream, as described In the enabling ict. If the east branch is the main Iver, then Pine lake is the. "headwaters," and if the west branch Is the nain river the "headwaters" are at sland lake. Some 20 years later when the liniar surveys were extended over the egion It became apparent for the lrst time that the point selected by Captain Cram was on the east branch >f the Montreal and not on the headwaters of that river. Captain Cram ivldently never saw the Montreal rivlonot nnlv that nnrtlon from vhere the east branch formed a Juncion near Lake Superior. In 1846, when Wisconsin came Into he union, its boundary was desiglated as follows: "From Lake of the desert, thence in a direct line to the teadwi'vs of the Montreal river as narked ?n the survey made by Capaln Cram." Thus, through the error of Captain ?ram, it is contended that a considerable area, including the city of Hurey, now In Wisconsin, in realty beongs to Michigan. Eventually, it is inderstood, the boundary dispute will each the United. States Supreme :ourt for adjudication. MEERSCHAUM. {mail Supply of Commodity la Controlled by England and America. From current reports It seems that :he meerschaum Industry is now facng a situation for which there appears to be no remedy, and the manufacturers of meerschaum pipes, cl?ar holders, etc., will have to go out Df business or into some other line. They are unable to secure anything ike an adequate supply of raw material, and for the trifling quantities ;hey can secure must pay a greatly ncreased price. In the last three years prices of raw neerschaum have about doubled, and it the same time America and Eng,and have secured control of practi<niiv nil the meerschaum still to be had. Recently a small shipment has seen received In Germany from Asia Vllnor?the first In some time. An idvance of about 30 per cent. In price 'ollowed Immediately. Practically all known deposits of neerschaum have been exhausted, It jelng now found only In the mines of Sskl-Schehir, In Asia Minor, and the >utput there Is very small. Agents of American and English nanufacturers have secured control )f this entire output and German nanufacturers can count on no more tupplies from that source. In the last Ive months the price of raw meerichaum has advanced 50 per cent. The manufacturing town of Ruha, in the Thurlngian forest, will be he most affected. There from 3,000 o 4,000 workmen have for years past >een employed In this Industry. A Ruhla specialty Is the meerichaum pipe, and with It goes hand n hand the manufacture of pipe items, pipe lids and mountings, cigar lolders and mouthpieces. The anlual output averages about 27,000,000 )lpe lids, 10,000,000 pipe cases, 15,000,000 pipe stems, 10,000,000 nouthpleces, 10,000,000 porcelain )ipe bowls (covered), 5,500,000 1mlatlon and 540,000 genuine meerchaum pipes with amber mouthjieces, 5,000,000 wooden pipe bowls ind 15.000,000 completed pipes?a jroductlon of the value of about 6.100,000 marks (Jl,428,000) per anlum. The first meerschaum factories were bunded In Ruhla in 1767. For Ruha the passing of the meerschaum in iustry is a blow from which it will icarcely be able to recover practically the entire population being dejendent upon this industry. Consul U. J. Ledoux makes the folowing report from Prague on the neerschaum supply In Austria: "According to reports from Gernany the manufacturers of meerichaum pipes and cigar holders are jassing through a serious crisis on iccount of their being unable to seure raw material. It is claimed that luring the last few years America and England have bought nearly all the neerschaum produced In Asia Minor. This industry is quite extensive in tustria. but up to the present there >as been no serious complaint regarding the lack of crude meerchaum, though the effect of such a carcity may be seriously felt later. ?he production of amber is said to lave considerably decreased during he last two years and as the demand 3 greater than the supply, prices are teadlly advancing. ? Philadelphia ..edger. Legal Blanks and Formsc ASSORTMENT TO BE POUND AT THE ENQUIRER OFFICE. 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