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Humorous department. Black Art in Another Form.?A German gentleman and his young son. Fritz, were on an express train bound for the seashore. While Fritz was snoozing, his father. who occupied the window seat, snatched his cap and se< mingly threw it out the open window. "Aha." the joking father said "your cap is on de outside. Never mind Fritzy. I'll vistle und it'll come on de inside again mit quickness." The father whistled, and at the same moment deftly placed the cap on his attentive son's head. Fritz was speechless. He pulled olT his head covering and gazed at it in wonder and at his paterfamilias in deep admiration for several minutes. As the train neared a bridge the little chap was inspired. Leaning far out of the open window he dropped the cap and, turning to his dad contidentIv oaid "Vlatlo fadder." Willie's Confession.?Little Willie had been very naughty?so much so, in fact, that after having reproved him several times, his mother was at last forced to severely punish him. When his father arrived home in the evening he at once perceived that Willie's eyes were suspiciously red. "What's the matter, sonny?" he cried. "(>h, nothing." responded Willie, uneasily. "Come, don't be frightened." said the father, in coaxing tones. "Tell me all about it; I want to know." Willie remained silent for some time and then suddenly burst out: "Well, if you must know, I've had a thundering row with your wife." Appropriately Named.?Aunt Lindy had brought around her three grandchildren for her mistress to see. The three little darkies, in calico smocks stood squirming in line while Lindy proudly surveyed them. "What are their names, Lindy?" her mistress asked. "Dey's name' after flowers, ma'am. An name em. ue o Gladiola. De nex' one, she name* H liotrope." "Those are very pretty," her mistress said. "What is the littlest one named?" "She name' Artuhflcial, ma'am." A Challenge.?A white haired lady, who had been awarded ?150 for the death of her husband, applied for it to be paid out to her in the Bow county court. Judge Smyly?Will you have a crossed check to save trouble if you have your pocket picked? The Lady?Certainly not. I've looked after myself all these years and think I can do it now. (Looking round the court)?Who is it that thinks he can pick my pocket??London TitBits. Did His Part.?A little boy of five was invited to a children's party. The next day he was giving an account of the fun. and said that each of the little visitors had contributed either a song, recitation or music for the pleasure of the rest. "Oh. poor little Jack!" said his mother. "How very unfortunate you could do nothing!" "Yes, I could, mother," replied the young hopeful. "I stood up and said my prayers!" Why She Liked Him.?"I count myself fortunate," says a Philadelphia minister, "in numbering among my parishioners several who invariably tell me the truth about myself. I asked a worthy but uneducated woman of my flock which she liked best, my written or my unwritten sermons. "She reflected for a moment, and then replied: "I like you best without the book, because you keep saying the same things over and over, and that helps me to remember.""?Harper's Magazine. J':" One of Lord Sandwich's ancestors went to Paris to learn dancing, but as his lordship had an awkward, shambling gait, his attempts at dancing were not successful. The dancing master had been civil, however, and the earl, as he was taking his leave, offered to do what he could for him in London. "Then," said the man, bowing profoundly, "I should esteem it a particular favor if your lordship would never tell anyone who taught you to dance." "How is it?" inquired a young bride of an older married friend, "that you always manage to have such delicious beef?" "It's very simple." said the older wo Of eulnot a trt Iiul hnr?f'?t man. i nisi i. ...... butcher, and then T stand by him." "You mean that you give him all your trade?" "No; 1 mean that I stand by him while he is cutting the meat." '.t' Mr. Craig was reading the evening paper, while his wife sat near by, knitting. "Just listen to this, Debby," he said. "It says here in the paper that more than r.,000 elephants a year go to make our piano keys." "Gracious!" cried the wife. "Ain't it just wonderful, Dan. what some animals can be trained to do!"?Lippincott's. t' Dr. Arnold was paying a visit to one of his patients?a young mother. "You must let the baby have one cow's milk to drink every day, Mrs. Burell," he said. "Very well, doctor; if you say so, of course I will," replied the perplexed young woman, "but I really don't see how he is going to hold it all."?Lippincott's. X" A little boy being taken to task by his teacher for being late one very slippery day during the winter, gave as an excuse that it was so slippery that every time he took one step forward he slipped back two. The teacher in surprise, asked how he got to school at all. wnereupon me nine ieu<>? iiuhmj implied: "Why, I just turn?d*around and went toward home!" Increased Weight.?They had been married for some little time, and it seemed to her that his love had grown cold. "You used to tell me." she complained. "that I was worth my weight in gold." "Itut you must remember that you didn't weigh more than half as much then as you do now." t The two sisters while visiting in Ireland in Victoria's time got into con versation one day with a tenant of their hostess, tine of the girls, who is quite stout asked the old woman if she would have known them for sisters. "Well" was the answer, "ye look alike, but yer sister's slender, while you, miss?well, you favor the quane." Ittisffllanfoiis ?fadin(|. HORSES THE SIZE OF DOGS The Legend of the American Desert Is an Open Secret to the Geologists Horses. some no larger than shepherd dops. and others so old in history that until this year it had not been believed they had existed on the Western Continent once cavorted and frisked on the Mojave Desert, and, after cavorting and frisking, left traces that have rewritten much in the science of historical neology. Fossils picked up within a twelve-month on the wastes of the desert in Nevada tell a story of a queer old world when animals could gallop, unstopped by watt r, the whole measure of the world's circumference. In the face of rocks all the way from France to China have been found fos silized remains or me iamous mppurion horse of the Pliocene Age, but until the Mojave told its story to Prof. John Campbell Alerriam, of the University of California, this country was thought to have been one of the newer lands where pliocene animals never roamed. The discovery gave proof to the theory that the continents were connected, and brought a tinge of authenticity to the cherished legend of the "vanished bridge of land." The Mojave went further. A world-wide search for the particular species of Dobbin that ran wild before the Hipparion had never filled the gap in knowledge until the California professor started digging again in the Mojave, the Thousand Creeks, Virgin Valley and Mina fossil fields of Nevada. Then was discovered the horse of the Middle or late Miocene Age. the great-granddaddy of the Hipparion, and proof positive that, so far as present research can show, horses inhabited what is now the Pacific Coast before they trotted over the slopes of the "older" continent. The story of the horse, as* written in fossils today, means that they originated not many miles from San Krancisco, and have roamed over a world. This continent is no longer to be despised as the "new" one because it was discovered by men at a later date, but that right here was founded the timehonored genus Equus. It is a romantic story unfolded after many failures and vicissitudes, false grounds for hopes and unexpected triumphs, and in all, a story of hard work. The Mojave desert, since Prof. Merriam's visit, has taken on an international significance as a virgin field for research. No one knows what secrets lie buried in the sands and, as the results so far have been so promising, it is certain that natives of the oil field regions will soon grow accustomed to "high brow" professors "digging for bones." The man who explores the Mojave goes back to the time when horses had three toes and must go with a knowledge of the shifting sands of ages. Centuries ago when a Hipparion hors" sought a sheltered place in which to die, he performed a favor to science, for in those semi-sheltered spots the preserving sand gently sifted in. In years the accumulated sands and wa ter covered the bones with a deep conglomerate, which for storage purposes, has had no equal, and which preserves to this day the record of ages. It is for this reason that deserts and mountainous regions are the hunting grounds for the geologists. In addition to the horses of the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene ages. Prof. Merriam found in the Mojave the record of the twisted horn antelope, likewise an evidence of the connection of the Old World life with that of America, for the eland and kudu of Africa were hut first cousins to the twisted horn. Half of North America, then, is the vast collecting ground for fossils which the world of science has left to Prof. Merriam and men who have been his students and assistants in the University of California. The wonder is the field has been so long neglected. The great basin from which many more discoveries may come extends from the Wasatch Mountains to the Sierra Nevada and from San Francisco mountains northward for 1.500 miles. This great expanse was, when Dr. Merriam started his explorations, with the exception of one small area, virgin field. The Mojave, it is predicted, will add more to the science world.?San Francisco World. HEROES OF THE BIRKENHEAD Thrilling Story of a Famous Tragedy of the Sea. To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, iu n,.thini' ?<i had when vou've cover to hand an' leave and likin' to shout; But to stand and be still to a Birken'ead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew, An' they done it, the Jollies, 'Er Majesty's Jollies?soldier an' sailor, too! Their work was done when it 'adn't begun; they was younger nor me nor an' you; Their choice it was plain between drownin' in 'eaps an' bein' mopped up by the screw. So they stood an' was still to the Birken'ead drill, soldier an' sailor, too! ?Rudyard Kipling. One of the old, almost forgotten horrors of the sea which thrilled the world some sixty years ago, arousing no less admiration than it did pity, was the loss of the troop ship Birkenhead off the coast of South Africa in February, 1S52. Last week the last survivor of the disaster, G. A. Lucas, died in England. The Birkenhead, a roomy sailing vessel, had aboard 6.1S persons. Most of them were British soldiers bound for garrison duty in South Africa, and there were aboard the ship the wives and children of many of the troopers, for those were the days when Tommy Adkins was allowed to take his family into foreign parts with him. The vessel passed Gibraltar and steamed along down the west coast without mishap of any sort. Indeed to many of the troopers and their wives it was a sort of pleasure trip, with little to do but sit lazily on deck, watching the sea lazily rolling under tropic skies. Back in England there was no such luxury as this; people were shivering at this time of year, and the poor huddled their nigged cloaks around them, worse tilings in the world than being a soldier's wife even if it did mean exile from home for nobody knew how many years. Struck a Reef at Night. The crash came at night. The Birkenhead was cruising off Simon's Bay well out to sea. when it struck .a sunken reef. There were no water tight compartments in those days, and no one had ever dreamed of wirele? Ships sank or swam, survived or perished. by their own efforts; and prayers "for those in peril on the sea" seemed to come closer home than in the days of great liners. It is an old tradition that Anglo PRESIDE! [ ?ft : % fiT IRS. H? JHH ;? - vj^V- HT^|||?kE9 President Wilson (left) and his mat Saxons may usually be depended upon to acquit themselves creditably in time of disaster, and certainly the soldiers and the sailors of the BirkenI head fulfilled that tradition nobly. At first the troopers, who formed in | ranks on deck to receive orders at once after the crash, were assigned to throw overboard the cavalry horses that were being taken out to Africa. It was hoped that by lightening the ship it might be saved. But in a very little while it became clear that that was a useless waste of energy; the Birkenhead was mortally wounded and wallowing to its grave. Boats were lowered and the women and children placed in them. They stood a good chance of reaching the shore, for the sea was not running high. Then when the boats were launched, the soldiers formed once more in ranks on deck and stood at attention while the ship filled and lurched. There was a tearing, crashing sound; the ship was breaking in two in the middle. The captain of the vessel shouted that it was every man for ( himself now. But the commander of j the soldiery had a different idea. He , stepped forward with upraised hand. Men Agreed to Stay. "If you men try to reach the boats," he said, "you will only swamp them and take away the women's chance c* life. What will you do?" "We'll stay," came the answering shout from the ranks on the deck of i the Birkenhead. And so the ship went down, with 454 men standing at attention on its careening decks, and as the vessel I *final rtlnniTA n frrpat irniiuiru iui me >?? , ? 0 shout as of victory went out through the night. One or two men, unusually strong swimmers, kept alive, through the night and were rescued at dawn, but of the 638 men and women who had been aboard the vessel, only 184 lived. And most of these were women and children. Twenty years ago a poem commemorating the wreck of the Birkenhead was written by Hattie Tyng Griswold. This is it. Miss Oriswold, you will observe, made use of her poetic license to the extent of shifting the time of the accident from February to May for metrical purposes, swelled the passenger list to one thousand, and changed nigh into day, but otherwise the description is fairly accurate: It was forty years ago, in the merry month of May. That the good ship Rirkenhead off the coast of Afric lay. Filled with soldiers just embarked for a distant port, they say. And with her canvas spread swept she from the sheltering bay. Close to shore she softly sailed, in the soft and spicy breeze. And a thousand soldiers paced her broad decks in idle ease. Sport of Fortune, every one, common soldiers rough and rude, Their religion to obey, their one fortune fortitude. Lounging, aimless, stood they there on the day of which we tell. When the ship by hidden rock was pierced through and woe befell. Ran the sailors here and there, struggling with the deadly leak: Swift the captain's orders came, but the strength of man was weak, i And the ocean with a Mood hurried in on every side. And the weight of mighty waves pressing down all skill defied. When they saw that hope was gone ( and the ship was but a wreck. Then the colonel formed his men in a line upon the deck. t I And he spoke as soldier should in a crisis sharp as death. With deep silence in the ranks, for each soldier held his breath* "Men, the ship is breaking up?boats can reach the nearest banks. Sailors put the women in; let no soldier leave the ranks." And the soldiers with one voice sent a shout into the sky: Never yet commander heard such a cheerful, proud reply. And through all the heavy strain of the hours so fierce, so Mne. 1 When they waited there for death, not 1 a soldier left the line. i Calmly in the ranks they stood, with 1 the colonel at their head; And when all the ship was cleared, i this is what the colonel said: "In a minute we go down?do not break the ranks." he said. ' They went down a thousand strong i with the colonel at their head. ( Not with panic and with rout went 1 they to their bitter doom. I Hut they gave one mighty cheer ase they sank into their tomb. , And the story still is told, and it shall I be told for aye. How a soldier can obey, how a man can rule and die. i A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE The Genuine Specimen is Different ' From the Hero of Fiction. Glamour and romance are supposed i to surround the career of the profes- i sional soldier of fortune. We read of him as standing tall and erect amid i the dust of conflict, with a 45-caliher i revolver in his left hand and a saber i in his right, while directing the opera- i lions of the revolting Valutions i through 32r. pages of popular fiction, i and as receiving "the girl" into his he- ; roie arms on Page 326. He is. of i course, an American, and his name < \IT WILSON AT CLASS I y.vy WJ- ?^.y. n /. y /.'-' l -.-.T. . . . . //.' a es of the class of 1879 at their reunior must be either Valentine Blood or Basil Underwood; none of your Smiths or Joneses or Perkinses. Conceive of a romantic hero named Horace Perkins! Now, in many ways Tracy Richard son comes up to scraicn very wen. nis name is not half so bad to begin with. It has a good swing to it, and looks well when prefixed by a title. Also, he is slender, good looking and a genuine American. But Tracy Richardson himself is responsible 'or the ideal-shattering assertion that being a soldier of fortune is not all that it is RichardHarding-Davised to be. I met him here in Vera Cruz the other day, a courteous, educated, mildmannered individual, with calm, blue eyes and a slight mustache and a habit of talking earnestly about his mother and sister, back in Lamar, Mo. He had arrived not long before from Mexico C*ity after a lot of campaigning with Orozoco. "I've been written up about a dozen times by newspaper men," he said, edging away, "and every time they ask how many times I have been shot and then send the papers to my home town and scare my folks. I'm becoming 'leary.'" "Well," I said "how many times have you been shot?" "About six," he grinned. "None of 'em ever amounted to anything, and I wish you'd make that clear?because nf Lamar, Mo., you know." "How did you get into the game?" "Oh, I liked adventure. I couldn't reconcile myself to the idea of becoming a lawyer or a doctor or a clergyman or of selling ribbon behind a counter. I happened to hear of the prospect of trouble down in Honduras. The thing was a fizzle and I was pretty disgusted and started home. I happened into Nicaragua and had my tilings in ine custom uouse au iwu; to sail. Then somebody stole the stuff from the custom house and that was the last I saw of my clothes and belongings. That's how I got into it? somebody stole my clothes. "However, there was a revolution in prospect in Nicaragua and I joined the rebels. Ive been at it ever since. That was in 1910. I saw thirteen months of scrapping in Nicaragua and managed to stop a bullet twice. "Then another row started in Honduras and my outfit having won in Nicaragua, I slid over into Honduras and joined the rebels there. I was a colonel. Served under Bonilla, the rebel leader, and when we won he became president. I suppose I could have had a job as long as his lasted, but the fever had got into my blood then and I couldn't stop. "I heard that there was trouble brewing in Venezuela and that the place for me to connect with it was in New Orleans. I went to New Orleans and entered myself for the Venezuelan Derby, but the truth is I never left New Orleans in that affair, although I drew full pay f-om the prospective revolutionists all the time the thing was in the wind. "After that I came to Mexico. T was with Orozoco in the campaign against Madero and later I fought with Huerta's crowd against the Carranza people?although not under Huerta himself. My job was shooting the big guns. I was called colonel. "Next you find me here, waiting a chance to fight with my own countrymen for the first time. If the armv advances I hope to go ahead scouting, because I am pretty familiar with the country."?Vera Cruz Cor. Chicago News. ALASKAN WONDERLAND Possibilities of Development Greater Than Known Resources. Preliminary work upon the projected government railways in Alaska will soon he underway. The engineers have started and ITicle Sam will push the work and show himself again a great huilder as at Panama. In 1867 Alaska was purchased by the United States for $7,200,000, and a cry went up that it was an exceedingly bad bargain, yet since that time over $500,ftOO.OOO worth of products have been taken out of the country and have more than justified the makers of the bargain. Now $35,000,000 will be expended by our government in making the beginning of a system of railways in Alaska. Each of the three projected routes will connect with the great navigable rivers of the interior, which are open to trade for three months in each year nnd whose waters How far north and empty into the Bering sea. The popular idea is that all Alaska is forbiddingly frozen and almost uninhabitable. As a matter of fact, its Pacific coast is warmer than Scotland i>r Norway. A record of temperatures for one year in this coastal region shows a maximum of S4 degrees and a minimum of twelve degrees below, a range not unlike a considerable portion of continental 1'nited States. Beyond the mountains in the great interior valleys there is a climate not lissimilar to that of Alberta and Sas REUNION ^wl.'lif ^HgftaMBgn \ ' ^ ^ ?3^2 : :&?: JB ."r :^:*.:?r-r.<::.v..J:'^!W?.'^A. :::::::.^ft? i at Princeton commencement exehcises katchewan, those provinces in Canada to which so many good American farmers have been immigrating and making fortunes in the cultivation of wheat. In this region temperatures have been recorded as low as 76 degrees below zero and as high as 90 above. This means a short, hot, luxuriant summer, with a lonir severe winter, but neither of these is materially different from regions in Canada that are furnishing homes and prosperity for hundreds of thousands of settlers. All this region is full of a multitude of resources that has been but indicated by the accomplishments of the last decade and a half. Already gold aside from that which has been washed out of the sands has been regularly mined in Alaska sufficient to furnish a wealth of $57,000,000. Of this nearly $5,000,000 was produced last year. Yet this hardly compares with the placer gold that has been washed out of the sands at Nome and Fairbanks and over on the Yukon and down the Susitna rivers. Of this powdered gold $145,000,000 has been sent out of Alaska, and last year's production was $12,000,000. Though the Alaskan miner has been interested in little else than gold, he last year extracted 90,000,000 pounds of copper from the ores of this region. Here also is to be found coal in practically unlimited quantities, and so placed as to make it particularly easy to get out. To be tapped by the proposed railroads are the Bering river region and the Matanuska fields, which compare with the best regions of Pennsylvania. There are gold bearing gravels and copper deposits and wide stretching forests to the interior, the possibilities of which are us yet merely a matter of speculation. Last year $100,000 worth of potatoes alone were raised in this part of Alaska. Oats and barley and rye are grown and ripened in abundance. Thrifty farms are springing up around Fairbanks in the far interior. The department of agriculture reports that there are great numbers of crops that may be produced abundantly during the short, warm summers and that there are possibilities of developing certain varieties of grains that will be peculiarly adapted to Alaska conditions and that may open up undreamed possibilities. It is even hinted that these broad acres might be made to yield of their abundance in the short summer season and that their owners might spend half the year in California. Most unique of all the known latent resources of Alaska is that which lies in its reindeer herds. For thirty years the federal government has been building up reindeer herds in Alaska with the idea of substituting reindeer raising for cattle raising and in grafting it as a mammoth industry upon this region. The government herds are now many and large, and their numbers are multiplying so rapidly that it is promised that soon the ranges of Alaska may be stocked with reindeer as were our western plains with cattle three decades ago. But, according to Secretary Lane and the Alaska railway commission ana otnei authorities upon the development of new regions, the possibilities of such a country can in no way be gauged by its known resources. When a railroad penetrates a region and great numbers of people follow that road they everywhere turn up new ideas that lead to wealth. When the Southern Paeitic railroad, for instance. pushed through New Mexico and Arizona and southern California, no human being dreamed that this country, then called "the Great American desert," was to become the greatest copper producing region in the R01 BAKING] ABSOLUTE Insures t delicious and 1 By the use of Royai great many more art: readily made at hom lieious, and econom variety and attractiv The'1 Royal Baker i containing five 1 receipts for all k and cookery, free. Baking Powder < world. Neither did anybody dream that the time would come when water would be placed upon these desert sands and they would be sold at priecs as high as $1,000 an acre. So may Alaska be expected t o develop many surprises when government built railroads carry great numbers of settlers into that unknown region. In speaking of the problem of Alaskan railway construction Secretary Lane said: "There is but one way to make any country a real part of the world?by the construction of railroads into it. This has been the heart of England's policy in Africa, of Russia's policy in western Asia, and is the prompting hope of the new movement in China. Whoever owns railways of a country determines very largely the future of that country, the character 1 or us population, trie kiuu oi inuustries they will engage in and ultimately the nature of the civilization they will enjoy. The policy of governmental ownership of railroads in Alaska seems to be one that will most certainly make for her lasting welfare. "To build these railroads ourselves and control them may be an experiment, but such a plan does not suggest scandals more shameful or political conditions more unhealthy than many we have known in new portions of our county under private ownership. And in the end we will be free to establish and maintain our own chosen relationship between Alaska and the rest of the United States unhampered by threats of confiscation or the restraining hand of any merely selfish influences. By this act the United States adds to itself an empire." UNJUST TO SEMINOLES Writer Criticizes Course of the United States. It was 6s years ago that the Dade massacre took place near Fort Drane, in Florida, writes the Rev. Thomas H. Gregory. Major Dade and his command of 100 men were attacked by the Seminoles and completely wiped out, only four of the force escaping. The head and front of the Seminoh war, in the course of which this "massacre" occurred, was Osceola, as pure a patriot and as gallant a fighter as ever broke into historv. The Seminoles were dissatisfied ' with a treaty that a few chiefs had made for their emigration west of the Mississippi, and when Gen. Thompson was sent to remove them by force they arose, under the leadership of Osceola, and began fighting for the land that had come down to them from their fathers. They did just what the Americans wuuiu ceruumy nave uoue unuer similar conditions. The United States troops were invaders and the Seminoles resisted them. Major Dade and his men were the invaders and the Seminoles killed them. The fact that a little bunch of chiefs, assisted by American "diplomacy" and firewater, had made a "treaty" Riving away their country did not seem sufficiently sa- i cred to the red men to justify them in submitting to the American claims. Osceola fought like a lion for two years against vastly superior numbers, ' and in 1837, was made a prisoner by General Jesup, while holding a conference with him under a Hag of tru:e, and imprisoned in Fort Moultrie until j his death which took place two years later. Ueaten in the field and bereft of their great leader, the Seminoles re tired to the swampy fastnesses of tlio everglades and kept up the flght for five years longer, successfully resisting the onslaughts of more than 10,000 American troops. To this day the descendants of the Seminoles are to be found in the big Florida swamp, pre- ( serving in their features and in their j coufage the characteristics of their < stalwart and gamey ancestors. / (>sceola had every cause to hate the j white man. His wife was seized as a ^ slave, and when he protested and j threatened revenge he was seized by J Gen. Thompson and imprisoned for six ' days in irons. For this outrage Osce- J ola killed Thompson, for doing which J he was dubbed a "ferocious savage" ' and declared an outlaw. < Great is the mystery of the white | man's justice! It is no wonder the | children of the forest were never able ^ to understand the ethics and religion | [ of the paleface. | ? ( Six Ounces of Mud.?Gardners and I other botanical experts may like to f know of the two following experiments 4 which illustrate very graphically the ' lavish way that nature goes about her ~ work. One year, in the month of February, Darwin removed from three different parts of a small pond, th**ee tablespoon fuls of mud, weighing in all six and 1 hree-quarters ounces. This he placed in a breakfast cup and kept it covered up in his study 'or six months. By the end of that time he had removed in all 537 plants. Another interesting experiment was carried out by a Scotch gentleman a few years ago. In a patch of soil, taken from a hedge roof of about 28 inches long by 11 inches wide and 28 deep, he planted a dozen acorns, and took note of the number of plants which grew from seed naturally contained in the sou. At the end of the year he had taken out. as they came up, 155 plants! The following year 56 more plants were removed. and in the two succeeding years 211!?Answers. 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We do not < but order from the Rebuilders within One Week from day of Buy a Rebuilt Typewriter them learn to use it while they forces good spelling, where poc poor penmanship. The printed of the poor speller. Use a Type your friends will thank You for No. 4 Underwoods No. 6 Remington (Blind V No. 10 Remington (Visible No. 3 Olivers (Visible Writ No. 5 Olivers (Visible Writ No. 2 Smith Premiers (Blir Royals (Visible Writers) No. 2 L. C. Smith (Visible The Above Prices are for ] Prices will be quoted on am above. Rebuilt Typewriters ai and will do any work, run as w machine, as all working parts a chines have new type, new plat< ly enameled, making the mach new one. You will be more th; and what it saves you. L. M. GRIS TYPEWRITERS, RI 11 Greenville, ege, South Carolina ng ideal. moral and social surroundings and rds, and intellectual training, in a boarding dted to write for catalogue and 1914-1915 with a distinctive Christian purpose, giving pcily develop womanhood. Rellgiousstudy sin avoided. ioa-level. on the slope of the Blue Ridge: is, handsome buildings especially arranged ^ true education, especially adapted to tbe andard; entrance upon 14-unit basis. Coli.. B. A.. B. 8., B. Ped. Colkje of Fine Arti ). Business Courses, and one of tbe best exemplary Christian character, specialists id Announcementi, addrett ^ dent, GREENVILLE, S. C. " irt Growing Yes. sir, our Soda Fountain and Ice * Cream trade is growing right along. People who drink Soft Drinks are telling us that our Soft Drinks and Ice Creams are as eoods as can be had anywhere and they are showing their faith by giving us their business. One thing is certain, We are doing our Y very Best to give our Patrons Good Service and using every elTort to insure CLEANLINESS about our Soda Fountain Drinks ami lee Cream making. We appreciate your patronage. FRUITS Please remember us when you want FRUITS of any kind. We have all the FRUITS in season. ^ THE KANDY KITCHEN JOHN DEMAS, Proprietor. FOR SALE * 136 Acres?The Wells Place, the property of R. N. Plaxco, a very fine farm. High state of cultivation. I have had many inquiries about the County Home Lands?First Tract: 90 acres, on Rock Hill road; also 137 acres join J. L. Moss. I must sell this land At Once. .If You want it, see Me at Once?It is a good money maker. # County Home Farm?90 Acres, Joining T. L. Carroll, $25.00 Acre. 140 Acres?Joining R. R. Love, J. L. Moss and others. Magnificent bottom land in this tract. See me. Cottage Home?Of W. C. Miller, on Charlotte road, near Ancona Mill. ^ 300 Acres?Property of D. A. Whlsonant, Joins J. W. Quinn and others Pries $16.00 40 Acres?Property of John B&rnett, joining farm of J. R. Connolly and Wm. Harrison Est. lands. 100 Acres?Known as the Dorster place, about 1 1-2 miles from Philadelphia church and school. If sold during February, I will take the small sum of $20.00 an acre for it 109 Acres?Near Lowryville, $25.00 per acre. I desire to say to my friends that I have property that I can cut up In small tracts and sell on long terms. # The Quinn estate land?On King's Mt. road, adjoining Frank Riddle's Neil place and others, am willing to cut this into smaller farms to suit the purchaser. The residence of the late Dr. J. B. Allison, Joining the new Presbyterian A Manse. Can be cut into two beautiful w building lots. The property of Dr. Mack White on King's Mountain Street, also 2 dwellings, property of Quinn Wallace, et al, on Kine-'s Mountain Street. This property will be sold quickly and if you want it, see me. I have for sale three of the Finest harms in xorK county, ana iney are ^ very cheap at the price; to wit: ^ The John Black?Henry Massey homestead. 600 Acres?The R. M. Anderson Farm. 410 Acres?Of the S. M. Jones-Ware Farm, about 4 miles from Rock Hill. ^ Also 18 acres, and a nice cottage, ' beautifully located within the incorporate limits of Yorkville. Read my list of Farms and send me some offers. Two Go?d Houses?On King's Mountain Street. , J. C. WILBORN iy Merchandise j R CUSTOMER OF THE YORK- J % OUGHT TO BE. WHY? SIM- jj t INTEREST TO BUY YOUR 2. WE HAVE GOOD, CLEAN, OF QUALITIES THAT WILL J YOU WILL FIND THAT OUR J U WILL FIND ELSEWHERE. MAKE IT A POINT TO VISIT * )USE. WE KNOW THAT WE V JLE MERCHANDISE IN QUAL 5 BERING SPECIALS THAT ARE V RATION. COME AND SEE. Bargain House Iipewriters4 quote the Lowest Prices on ave ever been able to quote, quotations from the Rebuildlachines and when these are ^ f You need a Typewriter and ve Several Dollars even on a carry any machines in stock, and make deliveries usually Sale. for Your Boy or Girl. Let are young. The Typewriter & >r spelling is often hidden in type will not hide the work iwriter yourself, and perhaps ^ more legible letters. $32.00 to $60.00 /riters) $20.00 Writers) $45.00 ers) $27.00 ;ers $40.00 1A \A7rifprc\ An IU f f llivi jy $33.00 to $46.00 Writers) $39.00 Machines Delivered Free. / make of Machine not listed re in every w*y satisfactory ell and last as long as a new ire renewed when worn, masns, new nickeling, and new- ^ ines look quite as well as a an pleased with the machine T'S SONS BBONS, PAPERS.