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"MONARCH OF THE EA8T.*? : ? ? A Pccular Plant Which Flowers With , out Earth or Water. The Saxrmoiraium Gutta turn, or I-?Monarch of Vi? Bast," is a bulb, I "wnlch h is the extraordinary power of I being able, to sr.t on a table Ci znahtel f piece in mid-win ted and. without j v/aier, produce a huge flower 18 inches "high. Its only necessity is something to sit on. It belongs to the same fam ily as*-the white arm lily, and the Sower is like a tall, narrow edition of its -Fhite-cousin, .but is of a splendid yeUdw, richly spotted with velvety <crim son. The bulb is not unlike a huge half penny bun, and must be placeu, with out earth or water, on a mantelpiece, in an incredibly short time u^e ilower will ? appear; when it has faded the hulb, should be plantel in tlie garden, where in the sprlngit will throw up a stout stem two feet high, covered with -dark purple spots,, and bear ng at the ^.summit .a^uuge ..umbrella-shaped leaf. Dig up the bulb In tue autumn, wash it and sake it tidy and put it on the mantelpiece, and it will bloom just ?hs before; in Tact, the fascinating for jsniila. may be repeated year after year. .Ferocious Only in Bocks. *A:blooahouud is. a terrible thing to -read about,'" says a man from North CJaroiina, ' but in ality he isn't much more-dangerous than an Irish setter, -rand, you cuuV rely on.him-any more than you can on a woman's watch. My uncle was sh ff once while down home and I remember that one of the first criminals he had to hunt down ? was a.negro man who robbe la bouse. There was uo doubt as to the man's ?guilt. He was recognized by the owner of the house and it was ho trouble at all to get some old clothes of his to familiarize the baJOv.L-.-uud somebody ioaued my uncle with his scent "Uncle took the ferocious animal to ?the scece of the crime and put him on the scent. The sagacious creature nosed about a bit and then gave chase down, the pike. Uncle loped along in his rear, sure of his,prey. The crimi nal hadn't much of'a start of him and uncle felt that he was as good as handcuffed alread.. On went the no hle dog.' uncle following. With un -erring scent the intelligent creature tracked the fugitive and caught up with him. ?"What did he do then? Did he tree the inan? Did he tear him imb from limb? No, he took such a fancy to that negro man oa sight that when uncle overtook then the negro simply "sicked' the dog on him and uncle had the time of his life protecting himself. He had to shoot the dog. and, of course, he had to reimburse the man who loaned htm for the loss o? his Tamable services. The criminal got away. Bloodhound! Why, a yellow ?<coon dog is worth a pack of them." " Old Gunpowder and Bullets. In the roof of Durham Casue, Eng land, there'' has been discovered a hucket containing bullets and gun powder. It hi believed to have been walled up about the year 1641, when the castle was being prepared to with stand a Scottish raid. The bullets .-are molded spheres of two sizes and insist of a little over 99 per cent of lead, witti iron and silver^ and' traces of bismuth, arsenic and anti mony. The gunpowder Is not granu lated like tha: of the present, day and was evidently prepared by simply mix ing the ingredients. It contains about one per cent of moisture and the proportion ol! the constituents cal culated on the dry powder is practi cally identical! with that of the black gunpowder of today; that is, niter, 75 per cent; carton, 15 per cent, and sul phur, 10 per cent. ? Trolley Wires and a Fire. The head of the fire department of Rotieri, France, has suggested to th* Mayor a nov'Jl project in the fire ex tinguishing service. Inasmuch as the city is traversed everywhere by the ?electric street car wires It is suggest ed that, there should be provided pumps, driven by dynamos, to take current by means of trolley uooka at tached to the street car wires at the nearest point ? to the fire,' The ad vantages are seen at a glance. The power . is mlimited; the motor strength on a 500-volt circuit could do anything with a stream of water. No engines would have to be kept go ing, and the machinery would be smaller than the great mass or metal that has to be dragged to the scene -of a fir*. Weird Wedding Dress. Members or the M'jiji tribe, who live on the Limpopo river, in Africa, wear au extraordinary marriage dress This wlerd r,nd uncomfortable look ing costume is made entirely of split reeds, fastened together with grass, and. the unhappy bachelor who con templates matrin,. ay is compelled to wear it. for three solid months before the happy event takes place, mean while leading a life of strict seclusion. Don't Want Lemons. It seems to be a solemn fact tl at a certain popular expression is hurting the lemon trade. Whereas there was formerly no more hesitation about asking for a. lemon than for any other kind of fruit people acquainted with the vernacular now pass on am buy vorae other variety. At least st ?ay some ol the dealers." Notice to Teachers and Trustees. A supply of blauk report cards will be sent out the last of November from this office free of charge to all vnblic school teachers. Teachers are therefore requested to arrange to be ?gln keeping their records of the work -done by each child from the first of November on. so that they may be- ! xin sending out a report of each child's work to Us parents for No- i vember and the following school months. L. W. -Livingston. Oct 17. 1910?4t- SuptBd. BAKED ELEPHANT'S FOOT. Col. Roosevelt Will Bo Privileged U Taste a Delicious Dish. While Colonel Roosevelt Is In Afri ca he will have an opportunity of tast ing that delic'ous dish, baked ele phant's foot. The Blephas Indicus .or ,:3!e;vbas iLoxodon) African us walks on his toes and the balls of his feet The real foot of an elephant extends up some - distance from the ground. Llye .the V better "of the hog the foot oi C;e elephant ?$ full of gluten, and ,j.he flesh. If properly baked,-is very 'ender. tasting something between fork .&sd chicken. From a freshly kilieil ek-phant the foot is cut off at the ankle, und baked in a hole in the ?.irovmd which has previously been hea'.ctf with hot stones. The hole raust be red hot and a few heavy stones left in the bottom. The foot having been put Into the hole, which is made just about big enough to re ceive it?some natives line the hole with green leaves- sand is shoveled over, it and It is left to cook. One must not bo in a hurry for his dinner. When ta!:en out and the thick skin peeled away a delicious inorsoi awaits the epicure. Our National Forests. The recent proclac-ations setting aside the Ocala National Forest in North Dakota bring jthe number of states possessing such forests belong ing to the Unltc-d States up to 20. if Alas':a be included. Of these forests, Arkansas, has two. but all the others,, except the new ones in Florida and North Dakota, are in the Rocky Moun tain or Pacific coast, states. It ir, ex pected that the Oeala Forest area, which covers 201.4-VO acres, will be come densely covei-ed with the sand pine. No part of the area ri^es more than 1T?6 feet above sea-level. The Dakota Forest is in the ".id Lands re gion, and much is expected from its influence, since -North .Dakota is the least forested stste In the U.'jlon. The new forest covers 1 3.080 icres. The Columl.'.!G Tree. In the outskirts the o'.d city of San Domingo, of tue Dominican re public, among the shvcl;:. dilapidated dwellings and mass of debris that lit ters this section of the town bordering the bay. stands a g-.inr. oak. The tree is mach larger than all the trees around it; in truth, it is much larger than the average trees of the island, ac-d, for this reason, is peculiar. But the tree is interesting, not alone for its bigness and its apparent age, but because of the story a leached to it The big oak is calied the "Columbus Tree," and the story is that Columbus tied or made fast his ships by long hawsers to this tree.-when lie came into the harbor on that memorable twelfth day of October. 1492. Insist on Yellow Flour. Charles Christadoro, an e::pert on fljur and grains, sounds the keynote of the new situation bro-aght about by the bleached flour decision when he says in a communication to the editor commenting on the bleached flour de cision: "The housewife will now in sist on yellow tinted or creamy flour, and will learn to realise that a natural flour very white can in no manner compare with the creamy or yellow flour in so far as glutens and muscle bu?ding values rre concerned. "As from 813 to 90 per cent, of the large flour mills of the country were using this bleaching process, the de cision i? far-reaching." ? National Food Magazine. Egyptian "Sabsk." ThiB name is given to a peculiar kind of manure employed in tipper Egypt, and found on the sites of ancient Arabian habitations. Even the crumbled walls of the habitations themselves have added, valuable in gredients to the deposits, because the walls were composed of earth inter mixed with an abundance of straw. The sites of these ancient dwelling places are recognized, in the first place, by the finding o?relics of house hold articles, and eve:: bits o" jev/elry. The deposits are found in successive layers, indicating that the sites have been occupied, abandoned, and reoe* cupied a number of times. ChomlcrJ analysis shows that the denosits o* "sabak" are veritable beds of nitrates. An Old, Old Life Site. Recent excavation at the Maurabury Rings! Circle, in England, is regarded as corroborating the tradition that a Roman amphitheater once existed on that site. A stratum of quartz, flint and fragments of shells, such as the Romans placed on the surface of the arena where gladiators fought has been found there. A very in1 cresting fact is that other remains indicate that tu?1 place was used by Neolithic people as ;?. fiint workshop. It is ap parent ihat. they used picks made oi deer's antlers to excavate the pit where the flint was found. The lilt is 30 feet deep. The place seems to have been almost continuously occu pied since Neolithic times. An Actor's Russ. One of the leading oomediiins of the Frankfurt Theatre in Germany went to the director and asked for an ad vance on his week's salary. The books showed that the whole amount had Al ready been drawn, and the director said "No." "Very good." said the actor; "then I shall refuse to go on to-night." The director saw that it was dan gerously near curtain Urne nnd reluc tantly gave rhe actor the amount ask ed for. but said: "Remember, sir, this iB nothing short of extortion, and a cowardly one at that." "Not at all. Herr Director." said the ector. aturnng the money in hip pocket, "my name Is not on the bill for to night, anyway."?The Argonaut. Estate Notice. All persons having claims against the estate of Morgan L. Gleaton. de ceased, will present the same proper ly attested, and all persons indebted to said estato, will make payment to Mike Gleaton. administrator cum testamento annexo. of Morgan L. Gleaton, deceased. Mike Gleaton, Administrator, cum testamento an-j nexo.?10-22-4. j MONEY FOR SCIENTIFIC WORK. British Academy Receives Endow ment for Research. The British Academy has received ?10.000 for the purpose of establish ing a memorial to the late Leopol 1 Schweich, of Paris. ' This is the first benefact on the academy has received. In accordance with the wishes of the.donir, says the London Express-, the endowment is to be ca.led "The the end< wment is to be called /Tha Leopold Schweich "*und," ard is to be devoted to the futherance of research in the archaeology, art, history, lan guages and literature of ancient civi lization, with reference to Biblical study. There are to be am ually not less than three public lectures to be delivered in London, dealing with a subject coming within the scope of these studies. The r sidue of the income of th<* fund, with all sums which may be added, is to be applied for the pur poses of excavation, and for the pub lication of the results of original re search in connection with one or moie of the subjects named. Ash Pit for Every House. Among the objects that invariably attract the attention of tourists in Denver are the ash pits at every house. These are made necessary b. the character of the coal commonly used for domestic purposes and by Uu high winds that prevail, says the Kansas City Times. The ashes of the lignite coal so ex tensively burned hold the heat for u.i extraord nary length of time, remaii - ing red hot for many hours, or. it kept from the air, for days after pass-, ing through the grate bars. It is evident that if these red hot ashes were thrown out in hack yan ? or vacant lots the high winds the; sweep across the plains would scant: them br >adcast, making them a wn stant menace to the eyes and cloth it; of passersby; as well as to inlian. mabie properly of every kind. Evcj i iiouse is therefore required by city ordinance to be, provided with an yit'i shaded like /an old fishlone s bake oven, with small openiags at U.: top. through which the ashes au thrown. Another opening i.. one si( t at the bottom permits their removui when the pit is full. $1.000 For a Newspaper. During the siege of Kimlerley the editor ol the only dally paper (he.? was often hard put to find enough news. One day in a club room be found Cecil Rhodes reading a fairiv new pai-cr from Cape Town, lie bor rowed it and rushed to his own office, where it soon appeared as a sped J editiun, selling like hot cakes. That same evening he met Mr. Rhodes, who inquired: "Where's my Cape Town paper?" Oh, I cut it up for the prin -. ers," was the reply. "Please don't ao that again," said Rhodes mildly. "That p.;per came through by native runuers and cost me 31,000." Ho: s?s Made From Whales. (Not very' long ago there was cn the coast of Lancashire, England, a cottage and boathouse that were mace almost entirely from the remains of s score or so of whales that had been driven ashore some years before. Tl s framework of the edifice consisted wholly of whalebone, and the dried skins of the huge creatures were neai ly and strongly fastened as a coverirsi for wai.s and roof. Thre is another building of exactly the same kind in Scotland, and In this case the skulls of the whales and some of tue heavier nones aie used with great effect as outside ornament*. Thunder pers'.itions. Thund r, just because it is a noh 3 for which there ..; no visiole can?;. has alwi vs exckc.1 the Imagination Ct the unscientific, jne old, writer ex plains the belies: oi his day that "a storm is said to follow presoh?y Wftc .. a company of hwges rucae cryi, a home," on the ground that "a hogte Is most dull and of a 'melancholy na ture and so by reason doth foresee the rain that, cometh." Leonard Digge., in hi6 Prognostication Everlastinj " (155G) mentions that "thunder in tie morning signifies wind, al out noon rain and in the evening n great tem pest." A Remarkat' New Potato. The British Vice kmsul at Ronen r? ports that the culiivation in k-rance <J the new potato b ight from Urugu y das been observe<l or some ime wi j great interest. T .j variety is called "Solanum com. .--onall .iolet." it said to possess e. ellence of taste t:s well as umritive alue, and is pqu. ? to i he best table potato known i^. France. This variety is dis ngiushed by its resistance frost, as also 10 disease, . nd its om ^roat advantage is ihiii it Prospers most in a dant|> and swampy so:!, whfl:e no other kind of potato would grow. Chemist-> 1 Fatigi A Cernian invest ieator. V'eichardf. has promulgated the theor that f; - tiguc is the direct result ol a poist i Oiaoitfaetured by he system and de veloped by hard ork, and reqairi. j rest to drive it out Weiohardt expei i ttiented with the mu.-jclc Juice c. guinea pi^is which he bad previous fatigued nnd hio ncamlnalion prov- - that this juice acted as a verbal, poison similar to some of the we. - known toxins. By inoculating oth Mfmah* he produced Symptoms of f; tijeee ??*<?'? large flosas produced death. fall to Owdit?rs. St;iN? nf South CnfoHnn. County of Orangebtirg.- ?In Common Pleas. John H. Unk?-?. Plaintiff, agsilnst J. VV. iL Dukes, tl ah. I>-?r inls-nts. All persont; having claim* against the estate of Mrs. Sophia J. I?;i!ce3. deceased; are herby required to prove their r?*Hi?ectivt? denmn's before the undersigned at Orangehnrg, S. C. on or before the ?!'th day nf Xpveuuer, 1910. or be debarred imytt" -c Robt. TO. Copes, Judge ol Proba'e, as Special Referee. November 7th. 1910. i TIPS FOR MAKING TAILORED SHIRTWAISTS. So, with the coming of the spring, ?one begins to think about replenish ing the shirtwaist box) that being of more immediate need than the pror curing of frocks; which can weir be put off a while" until the styles are definitely settled. ? A natty'model is one' made in a reasonably" heavy; quality of batiste. Over the shoulders are four half-Inch tucks of the convention length. But instead of a. box-plait of the same material for the front, there is a band of white pique about two and a half inches wide, with the edges scalloped instead of simply hemmed. The sleeve is of the variety called "shirt sleeve," made like those in a man's shirt, but with a flaring, turn ed-up cuff also scalloped. This waist was finished with a rolling Byron or Dutch collar, scalmpod, of course, to match, but this might be replaced ?by the collar of o.diuury cut. This attractive design can be var ied in a number of ways to adapt n for wear with special tailored suits. For instance, the pique might be colored, a faint vloiet or green or any of those lovely, dull tones so much' in vogue this year, being pret ty. Or, perhaps, the white pique miglit.be embroidered in the colors, and if a small, conventional design in several shades were added to the plain scallop, it would be stunning. Indeed, such a waist with the colors of the embroidery matching the tones of a suit and hat would certainly make a satisfactory, durable and sty lish rig for work or shopping. Again, linen either white or colored, might be hemstitched instead of embroider ed, and this with feathersLltching or a bit of embroidery, such as rows of dots, would be gcod-looking, too. Another waist recently made for a woman who always has a number of these stiff models on hand, is braid ed. This particular blouse Is one made with the kimona sleeves (those cut in one piece with the body of the waist) and in place of the box plait has a piece laid on separately. This, however, is broader at the top and narrows from about three and a half Inches there to about an inch less at the bottom. The cuff is the*brdlnary shirt cuff, fastened with link buttons, and the collar is on the lines of the embroid ered linen ones so much worn with waists cf this kind. However, the special one is saved from being in discriminate by the braiding, whicl is done with white' cotton soutache in a simple conventional design. The piece down the front, the cuffs anr1 collar are all worked with this, thf pattern on the first being so ar ranged that three large pearl but tons that come through buttonholes made of the braid, form a part of the design. On the cuffs, too, the links of oval-shaped pearl, come through holes outlined by the braid and also fit into the design.?Phila delphia Press. Family Peace. The modern theory- of child training is to shift the responsibility of wrong doing to a child's own shoulders. It is early taught to weigh right and wrong and count the cost Mothers who are In- despair over the behavior of their children should try making them free agents. Show them plainly how unpopular thoy are mak ing themselves by their horrid behav ior. Appeal to the reuson. Teach them to form their own decisions and abide by the results. A child so trained usually acquires self-control when other children are having parental control punished into them. This method of training is not feas ible, however, without parents have the good judgment to keep in such close touch with their little ones that they can act as counselor, as a last ccurt. of appeals and as presiding judge, whose rkeipions are final. A mother of a largo and interesting family said. "If I had a dozen children I would have to evolve a different way to train each one according to its idio syncrasies." Instead of mourning over a child's misconduct, study to make it good in spite of Itself. Keep it so well that a happy deposition comes natural. Teach Mary or .lohn self-govern nient, but at the sajne time let It be thor oughly understood thai you are gov> erner-in-chlef in disputed points, One mother who bad ideas on self rule for tier children allo.ved thone children to be tenors to the neigh borhood. Even in chun-h she would sit placidly by while they crawled un der the pews to pinch the- worshipere in front or slyly run pine i?i? the next person. A mother who does not know the difference be:ween self-control and lack of control and better abide by Solomonic precepts of child training. Applied judiciously, the method of making a boy or girl a free agent has bren found to work well in the inter est of family peace. Sure Things. "If I take th<- plac. . imtm." In quired the prosjMsoiive cook, "kin I eat with the faini:y?" "I should say so!" exclaimed Mrs. Subbuhs. "Why I'll elvc u dinner In your honor every week." A Foolish Trick. "Say, Si your hired man has just fell off the barn." "That's a foolish trick. He can't kill more 'n two or three rrrtnutes ?im? bv it and he micrht break a leg. .Nottee ot Final IHsehnrge. On I he 23rd day of November, 1.910. I will tile rny final account as administrator cum testamcnto nn nexo of Morgan L. Gleaton. deceas ed, with the Probate Judge for this County, and will thereupon ask for I my ffn>:I discharge. Mike Oleaton. Administrator, cum testa men tu an nexe. -10-2C-4. Finest shipment of Bnamel Ware ever brought to the city on sale at iBlackmon's all this week. Cheap. MASSAPEQUA SWEEPSTAKES ace 126.4 Miles Without a Single Stop. (Averaging 5 5'Miles Per Hour.) FOR SALE BY SEE THE NEW HUDSON. Why Not Select From. Waonamaker's Holiday Stock Now? By careful and timely buying we can offer our friends an early selec tion of Christmas and Holiday Nov elties. { Check over the following list and then come and choose for yourself. Early buying pays and a deposit will. put aside anything you especially! like. Waterman's Pens, $2.50 to $10. Cut Glass; in profusion, pitchers,' tumblers, fruit and salad dishes; ] all dainty and new designs. Cigars; boxed and loose, the best and choicest brands. Comb and Brush Sets* Manicure Sets; a great variety. Boxed Stationery?very good. Smoking Sets. Shaving Sets OF COURSE:~The splendid Huyler Candies. So fresh and good; all fresh. J. G. Wanna maker M'f'g Co. Dear Madam: We wish to call your attention to a. silver poli-'.h which we are selling in our long experience of mort than forty years in the jewelry busi ness we have never found any poi Ish io equal it. It conies in the form of a paste and very slight rubbing removes th< tarnish from the silver a.most in atautly. and t-'ie beauty of i: Is thai it never senile lies. We use it extennively in our bus iness ami think so highly of It that we will readily refund the purchase price to uny dissatisfied purchaser. Ash for SILVER CREAM? th# best silver polish in the world Price 25 cents. Respectfully, 11. KPAFIK & HOX. ONE CAR OF Horses and Mules ON SALE AT I N. Scovill's Stabis. WHY WILL YOU Let Wife and Children carry the risk any long er? Be a Man give them the protection you should to day. Did It Ever Occur to You That neighborly sympathy for the widow is good; but the company's draft is better? Write, Phone or call on ZEIGLER & DIBBLE, Agents for the Equitable Life, New York. Don't Be Humbugged Have Nothing But an Equitable Policy FIRE, LIFE, BURGLARY, TORNADO ~4 o o % ALSO I SURETY Written by I H. C. Wannamaker I I represent companies that's know to be good. \ I Give me some of your business, | f L-kVERYTHING Iff Machiner_ We have built up a reputation for making prompishipv ments that we arc justly proud of. tWt are located near ai3 freight depots and can get goods in a? the latest moment .Call us up over long distance phone, telegraph or write o& Express shipments are given special artendoo by tta; COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY. Colombia, S. C