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i BABY NAMES. Frowzie Head and Slumber Eyes, Little Light o' Day, Sunny Locks and Golden Hair. . ; . 'Lizabeth and May, Butterfly and Elfin Heart, Wiil-o'-Wisp and Gleam Babied have a thousand names In a poet's dream. Heart of Life and Azure Eyes, f Little Patter Feet j Names that fill the happy day . i With a music sweet Mamma's Little Fretfulness, Sister Baby Bluo, Buttercup, Forgetmenot, " Little Love Me True, . " U Sugar Plum and Honey Caka, Little Tippy Toe, Pitty Pat ana Dear My Soni Little Never Grow, Teeny Weeny, Little Wight, Happy Wander Child, Shuffle Shoon and Amber Locks, Tender Heart and Mild, Little All Aloney and i Funny Little Thing, Hush-a-by and Roek-a-by . When the dreamers sing: Lud%dy Dud and Googly Goo, Little Dearie ?, Nestle Down and Dimple Chin, Little Love Me So Thousand names a baby has . In the sweetheart land, Where ?iie leads the Dream of Life, By her little band; Bosy Cheek and Chubby Fist, Blinky Wink and Ned, But the sweetest name of all Angel Gift of God! -Baltimore News. "This bacon is not fit tc eat He lifted a bit on his fork and smelled at it suspiciously. 1 "And the ecJfee is quite cold, and there isn't a morsel of toast Beally, it is too bad to expect a noan to -go to his work without any breakfast. " '"The charwoman didn't come this morning, yon know, Everard, and" Dorothy was desperately afraid that she "would cry .-?and she was determined not to cry, so she said no more. "Why; can't -you find a- servant, . (then?" growled her husband. "Such wretched mismanagement I never saw. " \ 'Perhaps you were more comforta ble in lodgings." said Dorothy, taunted in to speech. No answer. "Perhaps yon think it was a mistake *to have married me. " Silence, HO much recommended . in cases of this kind, is sometimes the . most cruel, of all retorts. It was so now. Yet Everard Payn said not a word. Hf 'knew he was behaving like a brute, but .he .was cold, hungry and haunted with "corroding care. He turned to the fire . place and tried to poke the mass of coal and coal dust into a flame, but his ef forts were iii directed, and the smolder ing heap remained ' dead. He threw down the poker in a passion ar.u went ont into the hall and into the street, closing the iront door after him with a hang. Hour after hour Dorothy sat at the - wretched breakfast table without mov ing. She was alone in the little house and had no ono to mind hut herself Tho tears came freely enough now. - They trickled through her fingers and dropped, one hy one, on the soiled ta blecloth "Was it trae, then?" She asked her self^ "Did Everard regret already the rash step that had brought them to gether?" He was only a poor writer, . straggling for dear Hfein the crael bat tlefield of London. She knew that be . waa often pressed for money, though he told her little of his money troubles. Was it not a piece of folly in them to marry? . At length she rose and mechanically began to clear away the breakfast things. The kitchen fire bad gone ont. ' Everything was cold and dreary. And if it were all a bnge mistake i She went up stairs and began to put a few-of her personal belongings into a ' portmanteau. .One volume she thought she must have-a copy of "The Imita tion of Christ" She found it after a little search, but then she remembered. It had been a gift from Everard-how 1OE? ago it seemed-in the days of their courtship. The pet name be bad given her, and t.'jat no one ont him had ever called her, "Dodie," was on the fly leaf in his handwriting. Sba could not take it She kissed it and put it away in a drawer. Then she went on putting things together, one by one, on the bed. The winter afternoon had given place to twilight when Everard put his latch key into the door of the little dwelling. He bad long since, repented of bis bad temper, and be had brought with bim a twopenny bunch of violets as a peace offering. It struck him, as be opened the door, that there was an unusual echoing in the passage. Closing the door behind him, be shouted, "Doro thy I" There was no reply. "She can't be sulking still?" he said to himself. "That is not like Dodie Where are yon?" he cried again, push ing open the door of the sitting room. He half expected to feel a pair of warm arms around his neck as he did so, but there was no sound of any kind. The room was dark and cold. With trem bling fingers he lit the gas. The cold light fell ou a black "grate. Evidently the fire bad not been touched since he left in the morning. He ran from room to room, dreading he knew not what as ho threw open each door. Dorothy was not there .Nor did he notice that their bedroom window was open and that the draft caased by his opening the door had sent a scrap of thin paper on which Dorothy had written a farewell message fluttering to the floor. He gazed round the deserted bedroom, noting the signs of packing, and the truth burst on him. He felt as if she had died. Then sudden ly a revulsion of feeling came upon bim. "She can have no heart, after all. to leave me when she knew I was in such trouble!" he said savagely. He turned, left the house and never entered it again. A month later the landlord seized the furniture for rent and let the place to another tenant. Dorothy woke next morning with a painful secse of something dreadful having happened, and she instinctively listened to learn whether her husband was up. Then she remembered. She got np and dressed herself and began con sidering what she should do. She had been careful to leave her address, so that Everard might havo no difficulty lu iracmg uer, anG soe nao. no'cu that he would turn up some time < ing the day to scold her-she deterr ed that she would submit to the sc ing without a word-but, at any r to take her home. She did not go out' all that day she should miss him, but he never ca When night fell, she would have t glad to go back cf her own accord, her pride forbade her, and she remai where she was. Surely, she thought will come tomorrow. But that day, passed, and Dorothy began to rea that her husband had taken her at word. As a matter of fact, on the morn of the second day Everard had leftw where he was to be found at the ho agent's office .and inserted one or 1 advertisements in the daily papers could not afford many-and then told himself he could do no more. Dc thy was dead to him-lost in the gr whirlpool of London. . ' * a . * a A year went by and Dorothy, p and thin and shabby, waa slowly dr ging her way through one of the gr thoroughfares. Her heart was hea' for there was a cradle in the poor ro shfj had left and in the cradle a bi giri. What Dorothy Payn had g( through during the last six months 01 she and her God knew. At one time f had all but starved, but one of tl much sneered at class-district visit -had found her out, given her symj thy, money and fresh hope for the i ture. Since her recovery she had st ported, herself chiefly by typewriting an art she had learned in the days ber girlhood. A few days before Mrs. Ea inf ort who had succored her, had written tell her of a situation for which e might apply. It was the post of scho mistress in a school in the north of Ii land. Mrs. Rainforth had told Doroth] sad story to the clergyman of the paris and he had promised that he would what he could to get the post for h< and she had good hopes that she won .obtain it. It was not the life she won have pref err ed,, but, in contrast wi the hardships of the last 12 months, looked like paradise. Dorothy was nc on her:way to meet one of the sehe managers who was examining cane dates for the place . On her way she passed a church. SI slipped in and sat down. Thoughts God came into the girl's mind. She hi not said a prayer for years. Was the not something in the Bi bk about ai sw erin g prayer-some promise thi whatever we pray for would be grantee ' She was sure of it At once Dorothy r e?lved to put it to the test. She won! pray for this post in Ireland. Sinkii on her knees, Dorothy poured out hi petitions to the Father of her apiri mor did she content herself with mere] stating her request, but returned to : again and again, beseeching the A mighty that this, thing might be gran ed to her. She saw the school manag? and he professed to be well satisfie With the proofs which she furnished c her fitness for the post. Three weeks went slowly by. Doroth thought she had never known time t pass so slowly, and then one morning large envelope was handed to her. ] bore the Ballyrowen postmark, and* he fingers trembled so that she could scarce ly tear open the cover. There was nott ing but her few poer testimonials re turned to. her, with a civil note sayinj /that the managers regretted to be un able to avail themselves of her services That was alL That was the victory o her prayer I Two months after her great disap pointxnent Dorothy obtained a larg manuscript which was to be typewrit ten as soon as possible. Hurrying home she threw off her hat and jacket, lit tb lamp, and, taking a peep at her sleep ing baby, began her task. The littl< thing slumbered on. She was so used t< the click of the machine that it neve: disturbed her now. . The manuscript was a story by Gid eon Armstrong, a writer of whom shi had heard once or twice within the las' few months. She dashed at the writtei pages and covered several sheets befor< it occurred to her that the handwriting was familiar to her. "It could not be surely it could not be- Yes, it was hei husband's 1 So he was Gideon Armstrong 1 He was known, becoming popular, perhaps rich-at all events, well off-and she, the poor, discarded wife, was starving in a garret, glad to earn a pittance by doing the work- of a clerk in connection with the manuscript which would fill hie pockets and make him more famous than ever 1 Dorothy clasped her hands before her on the table, rested her head on them and wept bitterly. At last she bent to her work and for a time wrote steadily. But suddenly she came to a full stop. "It was impossible for Dodie to say , more" J Her own pet name, the name Everard i had given her when they were lovers, j looked out at her from the paper; put evidently by mistake for the name of the heroine. She must have been in his mind, she said to herself, or her name could not have found its way to the pa perl She blushed and her eyes shone. But what was she to do? Was she to hold her peace and let him go? If he indeed remembered her Then an idea struck her. Here and there throughout the manuscript she substituted "Dodie" for the name Ever ard had given his heroine. She thought he would be sure to notice this, to won der why it had been done, to make in quiries. If he did not choose todo so, if he made no sign, she could go on as she was doing. That night the manuscript was fin ished. Next day she took it back to the office and received the few shillings that were due to her for her labor. Then she went homo and waited. For the next three days her heart beat with sudden painfulness at every ring that came to the lodging house door. After that she began to fear as well as hope, and when week after week went by and her husband made no sign she knew the heart sickness of hope de ferred, and after that the torpor of de spair. ' One evening she could uni: work baby was worrying, and the time that should have been spent over her type writer was given to soothing the little one's cries. Weary and half distr?ete!1, on account of her neglected work, Dorothy was sitting down to her ma chine when she noticed that the baby'.-, cough mixture was nearly finished. Only a few drops were left in the bot tle-. It was scarcely 10 o'clock. The drug gist's snop would oe open ir sne weut at once. Throwing a shawl over her head, she went out, closed her door behind her and began to descend the dark staircase. "Can you tell me whether a Mrs. Payn lives here?" said a voice close to her. Dorothy was silent. She felt as if her heart must stop beating if she tried to speak. "I thought I heard some one coming down. I shall do you no harm. Surely you need not be afraid to tell me if Mrs. Payn lives in this house." "Everard, do you want me? I arr, Dorothy I" . ...... "When Dorothy came to herself, she was lying on the floor of her room, her head resting on her husband's arm and baby screaming lastily in her cradle. Soon she was able to take the child and hush it. "Is that our baby, Dorothy?" said her husband, wondering. Dorothy blush ed and nodded and put the child into his arms. In the long talk that followed Everard explained that he had tried in vain to find his wife, and had only seen the name "Dodie" in his manuscript when it had been delivered to him along with a bundle of proof sheets that afternoon. After the talk there was a long si lence. Dorothy slipped out of the room and got the baby's medicine, and when she came back her husband said to her: "Do you know, I always believed that I should find you one day ? I had an offer to go to Edinburgh, but I refused it be cause I felt certain that you were in London." Dorothy made no reply, but she threw her-arms around her husband's neck and kissed him. He glanced down and saw that his wife's eyes were closed and her lips were moving. He thought that she was thanking God, but he did not know that what she had in her mind at that moment was an unanswered pray er.-John K Leys in New York Press. Siamese Football. The Siamese youth have only one game worth considering, and that one is indigenous-or native to Burma-the question of parentage being a much mooted one. At all events the game re quires a certain amount of activity and is very interesting to the onlooker. It is a kind of football-in fact, I have heard it called Burmese football-played with a ball about four inches in di ameter, made of braided rotan, entirely hollow, very strong and resilient. The number of contestants is not arbitrarily fixed, but play is , sharpest when there .are enough to form a circle about ten feet in diameter. Th? larger the circle after it has passed the desirable diam eter the slower the play. The game is to keep the ball tossing into the air without breaking the circle. As a man fails at his opportunity he drops out, and when there remain but four or six the work is sharp and very pretty. The ball is struck most gener ally with the knee, but also with the foot, from in front, behind and at the side. Some become remarkably clever. I have seen a player permit the ball to drop directly behind his back, and yet without turning return it clear over bis bead and straight into the middle of the circle by a well placed backward . kick of his heel.-Harper's Weekly. The Points of a Cat. A good cat-the kind yon want to have in the house, if any-will have a round, stubby, pug nose, full, fat cheeks and npper lip, a well developed bump on top of the head between the ears, betokening good natura A sleepy cat that purs a good deal is apt to be play ful and good natured. By all means to he avoided is a cat with thin, sharp nose and twitching ears. It must be remembered also that a good mouser is not necessarily a gen tle or desirable pet Although any good cat will catch mice if she is not over fed, quick, full, expressive eyes gener ally betoken a mousing cat The greatest mistake-probably the most common one-in the care of do mestic cats is overfeeding, particularly too much meat. In the wild life,a cat bas exercise which enables ber to digest food. In the lazy house life the same fnil feeding f?ads to stomach troubles and to "fits."-Woman's Life The Llffhtlnir of a Room. Tho lighting of a room, says The Pharmaceutical Era, depends to a largo extent upon the cclor and material of the walls-in other words, upon the percentage of light reflected hy them. Recent experiments have shown the proportion of light reflected to be in percentages as follows: Black velvet, 0.4; black cloth, 1.2; black paper, 4.5; dark blue, 6.5; dark green, 10.1; light red, 16.2; dark yellow, 20; blue, 30; light yellow, 40; light green, 46.5; light orange, 54.8; white, 70; mirror, 92.3. The Slaroangr The gentle siamang is a gibbon and no monkey. In assemblies on the tree tops live the siamangs, whooping over the octave^ calling to their friends from miles away and swooping off to meet them, racing steeplechases with tho winds. I have seen, and hope to live to see again, a pack of tho sia mangs going through the jungle, a long black arm and a small crumpled body swinging wildly from it like a pendulum run mad, then a suicidal fling, a crash in the covering green, and so they are gone. Tame they are the gentlest creatures. The Malays catch the young ones and bring them to our doors, knowing that buy we must.. It is not among the pos sibilities for a Mern to resist the forlorn, small, speechless thing when it winds its long arms and fingers round her neck and hides ita black, wrinkled face of on cid woman, with round, unhappy eyes, in the softness of her morning gown. Or it lurches across the veranda on a pair of very bandy little leg.s, balancing itself with outstretched arms. But they always die. They who have weathered torrential rains under the open heaven die in captivity of consumption and cough out their ill comprehended souls like Christians huddled in a blanket. "Rl?irl-.WO?d's.. -<?- : CASTOR IA j For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought j Signa varo ot j GUARD YOUE HEALTH SOME RULES BY WHICH YOU MAY PROLONG YOUR LIFE. The Cnrcfnl Enting of Simple Food, Regularity In Hnl>? ts of Living and. Above All, Proper Breathing Are Essential to Longevity. Men and wom?n know less about the care of their own health than of any other subject. That is the oldest and plainest kind of a fact. The farmer who keeps his cows and horses alive and well into very old age dies when he should be in his prime. The woman who knows all about the care of linen, oilcloth, flowers, etc., knows nothing about her own mucous membrane or the care of her children's teeth. Igno rance shortens by a third the normal life of the average man who passes 50. It kills outright thousands and millions in early youth. In some ways this may have been a good thing. Men and women have died when their active careers were ended and the populations harried by the struggle for existence were not bothered unduly by the care of the aged. When so bothered, as Eli Heclus so grewsome ly relates, it has been the custom of va rious peoples to hasten the end for the old folks even to the extreme of murder Probably you take a very solemn and mysterious view of doctors' wisdom. Learn that it amounts to ven- little. The surgeon is a remarkable chap, and he has reduced cutting*and slicing to marvelous perfection. But his friend, the pill and prescription giver, can really do very little. He can only help nature along to a limited extent, and the more he lets nature alone the better it is for the patient as arnie. With the aid of drugs he can free the system from a clogged up state, and that is about a ll he can do. When he has given you castor oil or salts or something to make you perspire, his work is done. Will yon kindly take, therefore, a lit tle advice and see if it does not improve your condition ? Eat little-remember that what you eat does not give you strength. It simply repairs the waste of tissues. Your food is as important to you as the oil on a locomotive's axles, not more important. Do not imagine that food to your body is what coal is to the engine. The engine gets its strength from coal. You get yours from the air that you breathe. The Swiss mountaineer with a few crackers will climb all over the Alps, while you, full of all sorts of fancy food, cannot follow him. The big dark men rowing your boat on the Nile go all day on a hand ful of parched corn and a handful of dates. They eat meat perhaps once a month-you could not begin to do their work with ten times the nourishment. Do not starve yourself, but of that there is never danger. Eat little while you must work. Eat enough once a day, and do no work for two hours after ward, and don't sleep within two hours of eating. Eat very slowly-nothing can exceed that in importance. Eat simple things and change your diet frequently from one simple thing to another. Never eat half grown things. Lamb, veal, young animals of any sort are poisonous. They are as bad as green fruit. Nature means that her creations shall reach maturity and punishes those who kill and eat them prematurely. Eat regularly, al ways at the same hours, and chew care fully. Pay great attention to breathing. In that is the secret of long life and ener gy. You know, probably, that your blood, having accumulated the impuri ties of the body, passes through yonr lungs to be cleaned. Through the lungs impurity leaves the body and through the lungs the blood takes up fresh sup plies of the utrength on which your work is done. The electricity of the air is taken up by the red blood corpuscles and the life current goes back through the system full of vigor. Breathe in slowly and breathe out just as slowly. If you work in an office, stop occasionally to take ten very deep breaths. Go to your work when possi ble on the platform of the car and de vote that time to proper breathing. One hundred deep breaths per day slowly inhaled and exhaled, filling your entire lung capacity from the bottom to the very top, will easily add two inches to your chest measure in a year. No young man or young woman need have a fiat chest Proper breathing will give you proper lunga and hence a chest of the right sort Careful eating, simple food, slow eat ing, long chewing; avoidance of such American crimes as hot cakes, hot bread, hot biscuit, horrible hash, etc. ; regularity in all functions of the body --eating and sleeping at the same hours and sleeping the same number of hours with extra sleep one day in the week; careful breathing above all. You can live two weeks without food. You can not live five minutes without air, and that alone should make you understand the importance of the lungs. Try to make yourself strong and healthy, and if you succeed use your health to make your brain work. Thok and talk to your fellows and take an interest in the politics and future of your country. If you don't''O that, you might as well as not die o? buckwheat cake poisoning as ice water degenera tion.-New York Journal. Walt Whlt-uan'* School. Admirers of Walt Whitman will bo interested in learning that the good people of Woodbury, N. Y., have pre served the school where the poet once taught. This school was built in 1807, and when the new school was built the old one was moved to ono side. It is now used for public gatherings. Whit man was born at West Hills in 1819. His parents moved to Brooklyn when tho boy was only -i years old, so it is highly improbable that he ever attended the school as a pupil. When lt> years old, however, he became the teacher of the Woodbury school. Before the discovery of One Minute Cough Cure, ministers wer;- greatly disturbed by couuhinu: congregations. No excuse for it :i"W. Evans Phar .macy. - i'C'.V'-r proposals would undoubt edly, vos-;: ia fewer matrimonial fail ures. The* 'adios wonder how Mrs. Ti. manage:- t<" preserve her youthful looks. ?!;.- secret is she takes Prick ly Ash .Bitters; it keens the system iii ! perfect order. For further partioulars call on Evan? Pharmacy. DUST AND ITS VALUE. The Fertility of the Soil Largely Due to the Atonut. "If it wasn't for dust," said ??rofess or Wiley, the chief chemist of the agricultural department at Washing ton, "man.would have to devise a new plan of existence. He would be com pelled to provide himself with food by some other means than agriculture. Yon could not have a garden or a farm without dust. It would not be possible for a crop to grow unless the soil con tained an organism capable of convert ing nitrogenous matter into nitric acid. Nitrogen is indispensable as plant food, and plants can assimilate it only when presented in the form of nitric acid, commonly known as aqua fortis. That is incapable of antolocornotjnn, and can be distributed only through the dust which falls upon the soil and upon the leaves of trees and plants; hence dust is essential to the pursuit of agricul ture, and if it wasn't being carried about constantly on the breeze through the air we would simply have to quit farming. Animals would have nothing to feed upon, and we would have nei ther meat nor bread nor vegetables. "I have been spending some years, ' continued Professor Wiley, "in the in vestigation of the agricultural value of dust, and it is a very important sub ject. The soil is continually being re vived and enriched from the particles that are floating about in the atmos phere. They como from two sources first, atoms of the earth's surface caught up by tbe wind and distributed else where, and, second, what we call cos mi: dust-that is, mineral matter of meteoric origin. "We are getting gradually to under stand its quantity, its value and the important part it plays in agriculture. The heavenly bodies are constantly shedding fragments of iron and other mineral substances, which fall with great velocity and when ihey reach the atmosphere that surrounds the earth are heated by friction and catch fire by contact with the oxygen. They are then burned to ashes and scattered in minute and invisible atoms. Some of the larger pieces that become detached from the stars reach the earth without being entirely consnmed. We call them meteors, but the little particles that permeate the air, because of this per- I petual and violent bombardment from the stars, are composed of phosphoric acid, potash and other chemicals, which are absolutely essential in renewing the fertility of the soil. "What we call terrestrial dust is also of great importance to agriculture. In many places the soil is almost entirely composed of particles that have been left there by the winds. This is partic ularly true of soils that are made up of volcanic ashes! which are carried im mense distances from the craters. A considerable percentage of the soil on j the earth's surface was originally vol- I canic dust, which has been distributed by that good friend of man we call the wind. Pompeii and Herculaneum illus trate the great depth to wbich volcanic dust may reach. These are called ^Eo lian soils. "The dust from the streets of cities is of a composite nature, and carries all sorts of fragments and atoms in va rious stages of decay. It has a high de gree of agricnltural significance, be cause it is loaded with germs of all kinda Some of them are very useful and some are injurious. The effect upon the public health is not injurious except where the dust carries pathogenic germs -that is, the serins of disease. As an illustration, the sputum of a consump tive, if ejected on the sidewalk, is re duced to dust when it dries, and is then distributed through the air in the form of germs. If they find lodgment in the lungs of a human being whose physical condition allows them to re vive and grow, the disease gets a foot hold and can be conveyed from one to another."-Chicago Record. These Men Were Not Modest. A modern scientist assures us that men of real genius are always proud, and he gives the following examples as proofs of the truth of this statement When Mirabeau was dying, he said to his servant, "Prop np my head care fully, for it is the most remarkable head in all France." Michael Angelo wrote, in 1542: "All the differences between me and Pope Julius arose from the fact that Raphael and Bramante were jealous of me and tried to overthrow ma Yet everything that Raphael knows about art he learn ed from me." Rossini addressed some of his letters to hiBmother as follows: "ToMrs. Ros sini, the mother of the distinguished master." Finally, Schopenhauer, when he was asked where he would like to be buried, replied, "The place does not matter, as posterity will know well enough where to find me." These are certainly striking examples in some respects, but it would not be difficult to find others quite as striking of real men of genius who were noted for their modesty. ' They Knew. Two men were standing outside a jeweler's window admiring the gorgeous display of glittering gems that lay be fore them. Presently one of them, pointing to an object in a red plush tray, said: "Just look at that scarfpin represent ing a fiv. Any one can tell that's not real." "Well, I should think so," answered his friend. "Whoever saw a common fly with such a bright appearance'' Why, it makes me weary when I think that the jeweler who produced that fondly hoped that some one would pur chase it to deceive his friends. If I saw that on a man's scarf, I could tell di rectly that it was enameled imitation." At that moment the object of their condemnation moved across the tray, flew in the air and vanished. The two men looked at each other, gasped and moved away without a word. Happy is thc man or woman who can eat u goo*i hearty meal without suffering afterwards. Ii' yon cannot do it. take Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure. It digests what you cat, and euros all PjiSraii of Dyspepsia and Indigestion, ft va us Pharmacy. - The poet probably sings of the silvery muon because it comes in halves and quarters. Prickly Ash Bitters cures the kid neys, regulates the liver, tones up the stomach and purifies the bowels. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. Personal Eccentricities. If most people were not able to bide their personal eccentricities," said a popular physician, "we'd think the whole world was going crazy. A doctor in general practice is continually con sulted about the strangest things. I was consulted recently by a business man who feared he was becoming in sane because he felt an irresistible im pulse, whenever he spoke, to touch his lips with his right forefinger. I laughed him out of hie panic and loaned him a book in which a thousand analogous cases are cited. It was nothing alarm ing-simply a morbid kink in a hard worked brain. The only danger was in brooding and thus paving the way to something worse. "I know scores of people who have equally curious idiosyncrasies. One is a lady who invariably touches the walls of houses when she passes corners; an other lady always starts across the street with her left foot first, and still another never fails to tap the knob of her front door five times before she turns it. "I know these things sound like the vagaries of a disordered mind, but no well posted specialist would regard them as serious. Their origin and develop ment are a deeply interesting psycholog ical study and entirely too complex to explain to the general public, but I mean that they are not necessarily man ifestations of insanity as the word is or dinarily understood. They are merely eccentricities, and, as I said before, thousands of people possess them in se cret. "-New Orleans Times-Democrat. A Lowly Start. A tramp called at the kitchen door of a St. Joseph residence a few days ago. He was ragged, cold and hungry, and his feet were wrapped in rags. When the hired girl opened the door in answer to bis knock, she scowled. She did not like tramps. "IE you please, miss," said the tramp, taking off his old, battered cap and making a bow that had the sem blance of politeness about it, "can you give me a few old, soggy biscuits?" The request was so unusual that the hired girl called her mistress, who hap pened to be in the kitchen at the time. The tramp repeated the request to her. "Why, what do you want with old biscuits?" she asked. "Wouldn't you rather have something good to eat?" "No, ma'am," the tramp replied. "I want soggy biscuits-all I can get o? 'em. It is a well known fact that they produce dyspepsia and that dyspepsia brings on nervousness. Anybody knows that nervous people are ambitious, and that an ambitions man generally geta rich. It's wealth I'm after, and I'm starting at the foot of the ladder to get it."-St Joseph News. One Day In India. Everyday life for the English woman in Calcutta is said to pass about as fol lows: About 7 o'clock in the morning comes the light bread and butter break' fast, followed by a drive or a ride. When she returns, she makes one of the changes of dress with which the Anglo Indian day is punctured, then has a real breakfast at 10. After this comes a long morning of industrious idling be fore 2 o'clock, the hour for tiffin. Calls are made between 13 o'clock and 2, foi after tiffin Calcutta goes to sleep. Foul o'clock tea is the signal for them to be np again and dress for the afternoon drive. At 8 everybody dines, and then follow cards, dancing, billiards. or the theater. Needed TXo Advice. Nothing galls the natural pride of the true blue Scotchman more than to have Scotland overlooked. A striking instance of this feeling is said to have occurred at the battle of Trafalgar. 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