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YOUNG RECR?I How "ETnol0 Sam Tea com? ? 1 roe&.jf&n ia bujldbg ?P a navy wo on is to be rthe fi?eafc in the wurld. He ie turning} out sailors to mas it wiltja arethe finest in tho world, For tie. mafeipg pf these Bailors be bas two great factories, oae in Newt pori sud..ono in San Francisco. To msko ?bess wouderfui sailors . of hU' your Uncle Sain tokes boys when they are young and sends them to One of these t&o big faotor?es, wjbka eire call ed training stations. Almost every boy thinkB he would ; i '-,e to ; be a sailor, and Uncle; Bain gives auoh, boys an opportunity, free of expense to them or their - parents, to go to one of these training stations and t*y H. ; ; If tho bey has it in him to become a first-class man-of-wsra-mau begets ?? education and a career. .*]}:'j Ali that be has tb do ie to learn bis profession thoroughly and behave' himself, and Unelo Sam takes care of him for the rest of his life. Never in all his days will he have to worry about where his rent, his food or hie clothes are coming from; ho can .save money, ho can visit strange lands and sail strange seas and see .11 the wonders of the world at Government expense. ; Every bey has not got the making of a good sailor in bim, and a number of those who go to the trainiag schools at Newport and San Francisco are dis charged for "inaptitude"---? word whiah covers i. multitude of sins. The only Way a boy can tell whether he is cut oat for a man-of-wars-man is to try it. There are many good fj&ilors in the world. Including the natives o? thc varions nations, the merohant fleets, and'the fishing vessels, it ia estimated that 1-700,000. of the world's popula tion are afloat constantly. But no other Bailors have quito tho same eare f ul preparation of their life's Work aa those' who graduated fronVUnolo Sam's public- nautical schools. Any boy who sings to himself- ,(M I "A.lifo forme ia a life at sea. Onboard of a mah-o'-War," =-=has ou.y to go to thc nearest navy yard or the nearest naval recruiting station--and there are recruiting sta tions in nearly every city of any sise -and'state MB caso to the officer in charge Or he can write to the super intendent of one of the training sta 'tions for information and then go to the station itself and enter the sohool, instead of being fnr?arded from tho recruiting station. Tho boy must be physically, sound, be able to read and write, haye the written consent of his parente or guar dians^ and be between 15 aud 17 years of age. When a boy arrives ut the training station he is sent to a particular build ing where other newcorr^rs arehoUsed and with them he enters upon a new world. He sees the marine sentries with.their trim uniforms end shining bayonets; the great buildings of the school; here and there great anchors and coils of chain; trophies of cannon, captured, in some historic sea fight; squads of boys drilling in uniforms of brno or white, or the school bat talion parade. \ Boheara tho sound of a band play ing military music and now and then the notes of a bugle dall. Old Glory floats from tho hf ty tuastiu front of tho headquarters and. from th? station ship morned hear by, and all tho grounds and buildingc have a trim, clean appearance 4hat seems to shout "Order"'-and "Oicanlinesal" at him. El_? t_ _. ' A -'. . C fr?O?; (?Mua ?uo iUGODlOg Ol ino phrases "Order is Heaven's first.law" and "Cleanliness is nest to Godli ness." Tho lesson may not be taught in just these words, but it ia taught lust the same-good and hard. In fact, all through his apprentice career these two things are dinged into him morning, noon and night and between me>.is-Order and Cleanliness j Arriving at the quarters *r tho newcom?ra he finds thirty, forfcj. per haps fifty other boys, some of .whom, like himself, have just arrived and are in citizen?' clothes, and others who havo beeu^the/rc a week or so in work ing suits of w&it*i uiost of them, like himself, aro raider dazed by their new aud novel surroundings, so dif ferent from anythiog they havo known. Ho soon makes acquaintances, and is eompariog notes with them when a t>?i7v. Officer appears and calls out EHftt^'along with thoaft of several othy?;I)oy3 ; who havo not been sworn io. f?o ia marohod to tho headquar ters; vvhero thc doctor takeB a look at ! him to eea if he has aoy physical do- j thea to the commendantV olnee, Where he lakes au path to serve the cl soharg??-sooner, and to bear tiru allegiance to tho Governnv??t- of i n United States and defend it from al ITS FOR NAVY: ches His. Boys to; Be-1 jailors. Then ho i3 marched off to another plac?, whr./e all eorta of equipments for boya in his aitaatjbn are kept. There he gsts a white .canvas working | suit, st? outfit of underwear, a white sailor hat, comb, brush, whisk broom . and various other things, along with a big canvas bag in whioh to keep thew, By the time he geln back to the | building where he was first sent and which is to bs his. home for a few weeks until b* gets broken in a bit, it is probably dinner time, and, in spite of the strangeness of everything and a slight feeling of homesickness perhaps, ho feels hungry. A boy has to be pretty homesick when he can't eat, and the bracing salf. breath of the sea blown from the shining waters which wash the she re a of the training station, is a wonderful provoker of appetite. Ho hears a bogle blowing a oheer fol tune and eees tho older boys gmilo gleefully. / .He never forgets that dinner1 oall. It is the first ono of the many bugle calls he learns to recognize &ud tbe one to which he responds always with commendable promptness.. He ' ia marched, with his companions, to the great building which makes the most prominent and imposing appearance ] of all those on the grounds, the great barracks where the apprentices; live.?? H? passes, through long corridors and catches a glimpse of. a great drill hall With a gallery around it. Thare j S^h indescribably olean smell about the building and it looks as if it were forever sorubbed and scoured it $ :.. ' . -Arriving at the mess hall ho finds a ? of boya there-hundreds and hun reds of them} he never saw such a lot of boys gathered in One room before; ,n the school ' is full there may be a ousaod of them. They aro in uniform and sit at long tables, and on th? tab.'os are thingB to eat, whioh fact is of interest also, but I ie cannot keep his eyes from the ? boys-big ones and little ones, Unole | Sam's apprentices, soon to ho trans-j formed into the "men behind the ins*'-the pride of the nation. Whatever day of the week it ??p eos to be when the newcomer takes ia first meal at the training station I he will find on ihe table plenty pf goodwood. If it happens to be Mon- j lay ho will find that his dinner con - isto of roast beef, potatoes, stewed irn (or if it is in season, perhaps corn cn tho 00b,) bread, milk, coffee and ginger snaps. An awful lot of ginger snaps are consumed at the trail/log stations-the boys seem to like them. All the boys finish eating at, the same time, which seems singular to the newcomer first, but ho soon be comes acouBtomed to i? und learns to regard it as a part of the olook-iik? regularity with which everything moves in this well-ordered world which he has entered. After tho dinner the boy is march- j ed back to the building whence he came and there he is allowed to loaf about for half an hour, to stroll with in a limited area outside of tho build ing, and to get new impressions qf the thousands of new things whioh engage hie attention. Summoned baok into the building petty omcors appear, who go about in"? ^eructing the newcomers in a business, like way aa to tho proper manner of folding their ?loLhing, ho^ tc stow thom *:u their clothes bags, how to j Bw?ag a hammock and how to get into it and stay there without tumbling out at tho further side. Ila 23 taught how to lay his "kit" '00*; for inspection, How to "fall in" and "fall oat," how to stand in ranks, and hov? to march. He is told such a lot of things that ko is in despair of over remembering one-half of them, and what *7ith thc strangeness of it ali and a feeling of loneliness in spite of tho many folk j around him, by the timo the bugh I sounds for supper he ia pretty well tired out and perhaps a little discour aged. ; <|l||l However, Vupper oheors him'up a bit. Tho meal is serged in the samo big mass hali whero. he ate dinner, and on tho day chosen for illustration, Monday, it ;wii? Consist of cold roast beef, tomato catsup, bread and batter and toa. Aftor supper the now boy is pretty much his own master until bed timo, and whoo thc bugles sound the sweet music of taps he Binks to sleep to dream fantastic dreams, in which the hems ho has; left and tho home he has aovve to are all mixed "Up in confused jumble. ..-\Ta?v?-s* day ?U ihs rsskisg o? pu? w Unelo Sam's sailors oteaos upo 1 a tired and bewildered boy, whose mest de imite idea of it all ia that nothing is quito like what he thought it was going to be. A tar/ Man's B?fese* of Als Kino*. A utan is set to digging a weil. If he bo an industrious man, ono of the kind that loves work for work's aake, he will dig patiently and joyously along until his task is completed. Bat if he be a Issy mas, ha will cessas ?se dreary arduouenesa of his task and look about for some wey to make it easier. Suck a ma? sadonbtedly rig ged np the first windlass. Wben yow come to look* jato the" matter yon csnnot fail to realise thal nearly all the progress the human race has bw.de ^ioK ?he day of Adam waa driven from the garden of Edon and f otead to go work, has bee? due not to the efforts of the ssaa who loves tel work, hat to the efforts ot the man who is averse to work and is trying to < get ont of it. 'Mm VII bet the idea of a threshing raa ohine first came to a lazy men who bsd to thrwh out wheat with ft flail, and I'll bet that the idea of a mowing ma chino firufc oamo to a lazy man who had got curvature of the spine mowing with a scythe. IIB Th? world creo a lot to the lasy man. Tho man who loves to work just works right straight along, bat the man to whom work is dip tasteful, will, when oompclled to work, raok his brain for some way to lighten his. labors.,. In /aol, tho entire progress of tho world ia almost directly due to. tho efforts of the Issy man to get out of work. I had no idea I could figure out so good a case for na fellows, but it is alt right, sound and logical, and the more you think it over the more you'll bo convioced that I'm right? The lazy man has never had the standing ia the community whioh he should have. We are looked down ap on and sneered at, and every fool writ* er and speaker has something abusive to say of os. And it isn't right. If a man likes fco .work I never inter fere with him.' Bless his heart! Let him work. I don't write articles and make speeches giving Mm fits about it. And ? ca? prove-in fact, have just proven-tba* mea of my OISBS have done more for the human race than have tho men of hie class. How did Watt discover the power of steam? Did he db it while, he was chasing around doing a lot of work? No. Ha was sitting by the kitohen fire. Ahl there is comfort for you. Sitting by the kitohen fire I And when he saw the steam fron the tea-kettle lift the heavy lid, it occurred to him that if it could dc that it could lift a good many things And SQ it has; but can't you see that if he had been ono of those terri* hi v .industrious fellows he would never have been sitting idly by the kitohen fire? I And how did Newton cusoover the I law of gravitation? Was he cutting cord wood, or digging ditch, or haul ing gravel? No, he wa? lying on hi? back under an apple tree. Bid yon ever lie on your back under an apple.tree along o? a summer after noon, and watch the jgreat white clonus, away off yonder in the sky, as they changed their1 shape from an i elephant to a lion, and then to a great snewy chariot, drawn by tremendous [horses, driven by ? woman in long, ? flowing robes? And did you ever try j ta. imagine how it would bo to sit on .One of those great clouds and look down upon the earth and out into space? 0( course you have, and that is what lawton was doing when an apple-a comical, humorous, fun-lov ing apple-seeing an opportunity to j play a praciioal joke, loosed its hold upon a twig and dropped, kitting Now ! ton on tho end of his idle, inquisitivo apse. And if an apple can laugh at all, I'll bet that apple laughed heartily as it rolled away and l?d itself in the grass. . Then, no doubt, Newton forgot ali about tho clouds very ?tiddes?y, and sat up cad rubbed his nose. Then ;?e??:s?ng/iTu?t had happened," he; lay down , again on his bacik and looked ?up into tho tree. And being ah idle, in quisitivo fellow, with a deal of imagi nation, bo wondered why that apple, being loosened from tho twig) did not, instead of falling straight down, fly off I at a tangent and keep going and going ?nd going, until it landed in the bosom of one pf the great clouds? Or why it ? didn't go straight up and up and up until-? Well, there Was no tolling where it would come to finally. Heaven, maybe. And from that ho went on until ho had the law of gravi tation all figured out. Now, if he had boen one of those peoplo who dearly love to work, he'd have been ohasing around in the sun performing a lot of labor, and the ap ple, had it fallen at all, would have, fallen unchecked, and the human race would today, bo doubt, bo butting its way through the agc? without gnow ing anything about the law of gravi tation. . Newton and Watt might not bo complimented by what the lazy man'rt advocate says of them; and atti! there I may bosomo truth in it. Anyhow, wo won't disputo farthorwith tb* lazy maa. for there aro timns ohfln M nf us havo s foilow-?eeUng for him, how ever much wo may disguise it -. A coastwise steamer is one that ?keon{: oft It^?eskt. j Stuck to Hl3 Bargain. I At the "Old Commins Jackson j Mills," on the Wcs?i Fork river, ia I what i 3 now West Virginia, was liv i i cg? sixty- seven y esra ago, a healthy hoy, who had very definite ideas nf honor anda strong sense of right. Little Tom Jftckeou, like a good many other boys, ; .was tend of fishing, and equally as fond of selling hi* fish whenever he could find customers. In the village of Weston, three miles above the mills, Conrad Kera* ter kept s small store, and market. Ho had agreed with the uoy to give him fifty cents for every pike a foot or more in length that he caught in the mil! pond. Tho boy was only ten years old, but ho made the contract in good faith; and- as the sequel shooed, he knew how to keep it. As time went on a good many twelvo i ooh pike were delivered at the mar ket, with mutual satisfaction to both parties in the trade. One day the boy was seen tugging through thc village with an enormous fish that almost dragged on the ground. It was two inches over a yard long. Colonel Talbot a gentleman who knew the young fisherman very well hailed him an3 complimented him on hie suooess. ^|"A noble fish, Tom. Where arc you going with it? I want to buy it.' "It's sold to Mr. Ko rs ter," said th? boy, Without stopping. ! "That can't,be.. He hasn't seen it 8ay, I'll give yon a dollar for it." ;f "I tell you its sold. 'Tisn't mine.' "What's Kerater going to give yoi forit?" % ; ;"Fifty oents," shouted Tom, stil keeping on his way. Tho colonel called after him,"!'] give a dollar and a "quarter." Tom turned a moment, with an in dignsot'look, and replied: "If you ge any of this pike, you'll have to get i of Mr. Kerster," and. on he wenl bending under his load, until he read ed the store.. Mr.*kerster was astonished. "Fift cents isn't enough for that fish," ii said. "I shall have to give you a do lar." "No, sir; it's yours at fifty cents, insisted Tom. "I'll not take an more. You've been kind enough I pay me for some that were prett short." And fifty eenie waa tho pri< paid for the big pike. This story Mr. Kerster himself, i bis old sge, gave to his nephew, Judj MoWhorton, who gave it to the Ch ?ago Standard. Tho fino conscience and keen sent of honor that ruled the boy fixed tl habit of a lifetime. The name 1 Which he became known to the wor! was "Stonewall" Jackson.-Prcsb terian. m- ? - Engineer Earns Big Wages. Los AngeleB, Cal., Aug. 12.-Enj "ne'er Waybcy, who was in charge the engine that drew tho Lowe spoo into Los Angeles yesterday, reoeiv $450 fer the skill ho displayed. Wh Warboy took the train at San Berm dino, Mr. Lowe, in his anxiety complete his wonderful journey, off ed $50 for every minute gained by t engineer over the schedule. The r froin San Bernardino to Los Ange is sixty miles, and Warboy covet thc distance in sixty-two minute! nine minutes ahead of the schedu A great part of tho run was at tho r: of a mile for every fifty seconds. - No cheating nor bargaining v eyer get a single thing out of Natur establishment at half-price. Do want to be strong?-we must wo <?o..be hungry?-wo must starve, [.be happy?-we,,must be kind. To wiso?-we must look and think. - A large saving makes a wi j circle of attention possible. I .? ? 1 *-1-. 1 11 1 ? . '.' I Ar? Lotta* Xmey By Obeying The Law. Obedience to law is causing finan ?dial worriment to a manufacturing es tablishment which has had large pat ronage io this State. The obedience tn ?aw on their own part ia not the trouble, but they are vexed by the fact that others who hare not the esme re gard for the law are enabled to under sell. The attention of the attorney general heo been oalled to the way in which the law is disregarded. Last February the legislature passed an act to fix the weight of corn meal and to regulate the traffic in that com modity. It was declared that there had been no uniformity in the measure ments and while some merchants wore selling 48 pounds for a bushel, ethers were using 40 pounds as the standard of measurement. Tho act of Feb. 23, 1903, declares that the standard weight o? a bushol of oom meal-whether bolted or unbolted -shall bo 48 pounds. Any persone guilty of violating the provisions of this aot shall bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon oonviotioh be punished by a fino of not more than $100 ar by fine and imprisonment at the disoretion of the court, tho imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. The law is made to apply to the aliquat parts of a bushel as will be observed from the following extract from seotion 2 of the new act: "It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to pack for salo, sell or offer fer sale in this State any corn. meal exoept in bags or paokages containing hy standard-weight two bushels, or one bushel, or one-half bushel, or one fourth bushel, or one-eighth bushel respectively. Each bag or paokage of corn meal shall have plain ly printed or marked thereon wheth er the meal is bolted or unbolt ed, the amount it contain s in bushels or frsotion of a bushel and the weight: provided, the provision of this seotion shall not apply to the retailing of mool direct to consumers from bulk stock when priced and delivered by aotual weight or measure." The law went into effeot on the first day of April. Prior to that time a milling company of Wilmington, N. G., sent to all its customers in South Carolina a copy of the new law of this State and advised them that it would observe the law strictly. This concern writes the attorney general that it changed their quotations on meal and ' offered to South Carolina merchants prices on meal at 96 pounds per pack age. For a while this milling company had no trouble disposing bf its pro duct at 96 pounds to the- paokage. "But lately we ar J having, consider' able'trouble and are losing for the reason that the Wholesale merchants of Wilmington deal exolusivoly in the 92 pound meal and have been contin uously shipping it into your State. The value of 92 \ "und meal is about 5 1-2 cents less than that of 96 pound meal. This enables the merchants who handle the 92 pound meal to undersell those who try to comply with the law." The Wilmington correspondents urge.that if something is not dono at-d unless steps be taken to enforce the law, the situation will get worse. "Thc intention of the law was to oom I' pol" everybody ,to sell uniform weights in tho State, and the failure to enforce the law makes the matter much worse than before the act was passed. It gives the dealer who violates the law an undue advantage of those who aro trying to comply with the. low. and we think the law ought to be enforced or to be repealed."-The State. Steps Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinino Tablets I oure a cold in one day. No Cure, No j Pay. Price 25 cents. I - Tho performance of the amateur musician is often ? music raok. rr.-*-:-;-;-===5=====--' .- ? ?? ^^^^^^^E<ir rata 8? caito to C. J. MOP FETTEM. D* OT^LOU18^MO. ?-??-IM ???III II i ATLAKTA, Ga,, NOT. X9.IMO. . Wa hara handled Dr. Moffitt'* TBETHTOA (?aaUi?nfi Powders) OT? aliico Ita Ora* Introduction to tho rmh?lo ?jd, trade aa ?proprietary xaedlclna, and our trida In U hos steadily increawd ?rem? y*ar to year until ont ordera nov amount to two or tbrea h ?nd rod trot* p*r rear, wfaJeh la a> TB ry . iron? ortdencs ot lia mari t and tho -at! ??acUoo ll toslnng to tho mothera ot th? country, for tho? say noUUC* ao efloctoa?y eoontwacU tho affecta of tho sommai?? 1 OTer00mM *? QttS?t?y troabJ?* ^T^LAttAB *ff'rtAI'^aN DBUG) COU Whotcaala OroogtoUv !^^^^^ THE UNE FOR BUSINESS; tzMztm-wvcr THE LITCE FOR PLEASURE, Ei??d THE LINE FOR ALL THE BEST f l on &tc 5UMMER RESORTvS . jj- ^^T^^"^ Comp?elc Stimmer R-wt-Fo?der 3^1^***'" Mailed Frc? to Any Address. fi J^lWW W. A. Turc, S. H. HARDWICK, V/. H.TArto?. St 1 PaaS. TiafHcMfT. Gan'l Pas*. Arent. Asel. Can't PM*. Act. 7,(1 WA3HIMOTCN, D.C. WAS! MK OTOH. D. C. AYUNTA. OA.1 f; -i-T .. - - "J 'RYC?JINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. 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