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A H TL IL L L. -THIRTEEN S'.VOR .N SLA;N BY ONE MAN BEi0,.i AN ARMv. A Scene More Exc!nz Than Any Battle In te Aunal. of Modern History-Ten Thou4and Witnessem to the Terrible Work of One Sword. To give an idea of what a beave man can do it he knows fencing thoroughly and but keeps cool and collected in danger we will relate a historical duel. So extraordinary is this combat that it would be held a romance had it not been witnessed by a whole army. The hero is Jean Louis, one of the great masters of the beginning of last cen tury, and the duel happened in Madrid in 1813. He was the master-at-arms of the Thirty-second regiment of French infantry. The First regiment, com posed entirely of Italians, formed part. of the same brigade. Regimental esprit de corps and rival ries of nationality caused constant quarrels, when swords were often whipped out or bullets exchanged. After a small battle had occurred in the streets of Madrid, in which over 200 French and Italian soldiers had taken part, the oficers. of the two regi ments, in a council of war assembled. decided to give such breaches of order a great blow and to re-establish disci pline. They decreed that the masters at-arms of the two regiments should take up the quarrel and light it out. Imagine a whole army in battle array on one of the large plains that sur round Madrid. In the center a 'large #ng is left open for the contestants. 'his spot is raised above the plain so that not one of the spectators of this tragic scene - gayly dressed officers, soldiers in line, Spaniards, excited as never a bull fight excited them-will miss one phase of the contest. It is before 10,000 men that the honor of an army is about to be avenged in the blood of thirty brave men. The drum is heard. Two men. nakell 16 the waist. step in the ring. The first is tall and strong. His black eyes roll disdainfully .upon the gaping crowd. He is Giacomo Ferrari. tii celebrated Italian. The second, tal-, aiso hand Ssome and witb r!u:evies like steel. stands modestly awaiting the wrd of com and His name is Jean Louis. The seconds take their places on either side of their principais. A deathlike silence ensues. 'On guard!' The two masters cross swords. Gia como Ferrari iunges iepeatedly at Jean Louis, but in vain. His every thrust is .met by a parry. He makes up his mind i bide his chance and caresses and i;teases his opponent's blade. Jean Louis. -'Calm and watchful. lends himself to th_ play, when. quicker than lightning, tb4 Italian -jumps aside with a loud yeU and makes a terrible lunuge at Jean Louis, a Florentine trici-. oftel sue 1.-cessful. But with extraordinary rapid I,Jean Louis has parried and risposts quicly in the shoulder. "It is nothing. cries Gia,omo: -"a nere scratch." And they ag.ain fall on guard. Almost directly he is hit in the breast. This time the sword of Jean louis, who is now attacking, penetrates deeply Giacomo's face becomes livid. his sword drops from his hand, and he Sfa he-aviiy on the turf. He is dead. Jean Louis is already in positio':. He wipes his :-eeking blade: then. with the point of his sword on the ground, he calmly awaits the next nman. ~The best feneer of the First regiment has just been carried away a corpse. but the'day is not.yet Over. Fourteen adversaries are there, impatient to imeasure swords with the conqueror. iburning to avenge the master they had deemed invincible. Jean Louis hardly had two minutes' zest. He is ready. A new adversary stands before him. A sinister click of swords is he$ard, a lunge, a parry, a ris post and then a cry, a sigh, and all is over. A second body is before Jean Louis.' A third adversary advances. They want Jean Louis to rest "I am not tired," he answers, with a smile. -The signal is given. The Italian is as tall as the one who lies there a corpse covered by a military cloak. He bas losely watched Jean Louis' play and thinks he has guessed the' secret of his victories. He multiplles his feints and tricks; then, all at once, bounding like a tiger on his prey, he gives his opponent a terrible thrust in the lower line. But 'Jean Louis' sword has parried and is now deep within his opponent's breast. What need we to relate any more? -Ten new adversaries followed him, and the ten fell before Jean Louis amid the *excited yells and roars of an army. At the request of the Thirty-second regiment's colonel, who thought tlie les son sufficient. Jean Louis after much pressing consemted to stop the combat, and he shock imnds with the two sur vivors, applauded by 10.000M men. From that day tights ceased between French and Italian soldiers. This wonderful and gigantie combat might be held.a fable were not all the f~a above stated still found in the archives of the ministry of war.-Lip Epincott's.________ When a man will kill h.imself because a woman refuses to marry him it is conclusive evidence that the woman -=ws=ht-Baitimoaremrld. THE WILY RED MAN. Some ]nsnc-w. of the Indialma Qtn",-%:ne.s cr Wit. u : red man's quiek:t -:. . :1 by those who h:ve i.:. ..: v him. A C : - r.:s !..:i':g idly on work ilmprov.:.: v.i;e;y newly acquir ed from I::e dus.:y 1:-:L. "Why don't y . :.: :A"d the su pervisor of the vi:et "Why you :.4 v:: oref'ws the rejon!14. A "I work h,adwor':." re.iled the white man. toue!:in. !:is Io:-el.:ad. "But come here and kill t1:is calf for-me. and I'll give you a quarter." The Indian stood still for a moment. apparently deep in thought. and then he went off to kill the calf. "Why dont you finish your job?" presently asked the supervisor, seeing the man stand with folded arms over the unskinned. undressed carcass. "You say you give me quarter to kill calf." was the reply. "Calf dead. Me want quarter." The white man smiled and handed the Indian an extra coin to go on with the work. "How is it." asked the Englishman one day after a series of such one sided dealings. -that you so often get the better of mey' "I work headwork." solemnly replied the man of the woods. A white trader once ,succeeded in selling a large quantity of gunpowder .to one of this tribe on the assurance that it was a new kind that the white man used for seed and if sown in es pecially prepared loam would yield an amazing crop. Away went the Indian to sow his powder and in his hope of making money from his fellows was careful not to mention his enterprise. When at last, however, he realized how he had been duped he held his tongue for a year or more until the trickster had completely forgotten the occur rence. Then he went to his hoaxer's store and bought goods on credit amounting to a little more than the price of the planted gunpowder. He had the reputation of a good payer. and his schewe worked easily. When set tling day came the creditor called promp:t ly. "I ght." said the Indian slowly - "right, but my powder .not yet sprout ed. )e pay you when me reap him." CURED BY SARCASM. A Leisou In the Uxe of Simple Terms In Letter Writing. A few months ago the son of a :ail way director was through his father's in:quence given a position of some im portanc on a large railway. He was fresh from Cambridge, and in the or ders which he from time to time issued to the men under him always made use of the longest, most unusual words. This habit led to some rather expen sive blunders, and, the matter coming before the general manager, he wrote the young official the following letter: "In promulgating your esoteric cogi tations and in articulating your super ficial sentimentalities and amicable phil-. osophical or psychological observations I beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communication possess a clari'fied conciseness, a com pacted comiprehiensibleness, a coales cent consistency and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all congloipieration of fatulent garrulity. jejune babblement and asinine affectation. Let your ex temnporaneous deseantings and unpre' meditated C:::..-i:.iio have intelligibil-I ity and veracious vivacity, without rho domontadle or r! ..-. anical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic pro fundity. ventriloquialI verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double en tendre, prurilent jcosity and pestifer ous profanity, obscurant .or apparent. In other words. talk plainly. brienly. naturally. sensibly, purely and truth fully. Don't put on airs: say what you mean: mean what ybu say, and don't use big words. The young otficial took the gentie hint and changed his style.--London Tit-Bits. Doing Europe. Facilities for traveling nowadays are so accelerated that it is quite possible for the tourist to pass through five Eu ropean countries in fourteen hours. barring accidents-namely. England, France. Belgium. Germany and Hol land. Take the express from Charing Cross to Dover and cross over to Ca-I lis-two countries. Then with the in-t tercontinental express you proceed to Brussels-three countries. From the Belgian capital by train to Aix-la Chapelle, which is German territory, making the fourth country, and after allowing time for a meal a drive to Vaals, in Holland. makes the fifth country-and all in fourteen hours. An Odd Ccl1eetion. An entertainer whbo visited the Fiji islands and ;ave his performance be fore the natives had the following re ceipts for one night: Four sucking pigs, 800 cocoanuts. 1,000 of a common class of moonstone collected on tLe beach. 40 pearls. 23 model canoes, 200 yards of native cloth, 42 Fiji costumes, 3 whale's teeth, hundreds of sharks' teeth, one or two cart loads of beautt-' ful coral, war implements, such as spears, knobsticks and knives, native -ats and pillows and 7 grog bowls. CAUSES OF COLUS. One of th 3"os Cer.Xnao of Th .4 is E.t in:r -700 .Yc The invari;ihca of coids comes from within. not withoit. No one Tal:es cold when in a vigorous state of health. with pure- blood coursing through the body. and there is no good reason why any one in ordinary health should have a cold. It may come from insulficient exercise, brelathing of foul air, want of wholesome food. excess of food. lack of bathing, etc.. but always from some violation of the plain laws of health. There can be no more prolific cause of colds than highly seasoned foods as well as frequent eating. These give no time for the digestive organs to rest and incite an increased flow of the di gestive secretions. Thus larger quanti ties of nourishment are absorbed than can be properly utilized, and thp isult is an obstruction, commonly c;.. ._d a "cold." which is simply an effort of the system to expel the useless material. Properly speaking. it is self poisoning, due to an incapability of the or.gmnism to regulate and compensate for the dis turbance. A deicient supply of pure air. to the lungs is not only a strong predisposing cause of colds, but a prolitic source of much graver conditions. Pure air aud exercise are necessary to prepare the systen- for the assimilation of nutri ment, for without them there can be no vigorous health. The oxygen of the air we breathe regulates the appetite as well as the nutriment that is built up in the system. The safest and best way to avoid colds is to sleep in a room with the windows wide open and to remain out of doors every day, no matter what may be the weather, for at least two hours. preferably with some kind of exercise. if no more than walking. One should not sit down to rest while the feet are wet or the clothing damp. A person may go with the clothing wet through to the skin all day if he but keeps moving. Exercise keeps up the circulation and prevents taking cold. The physiologie care of colds is the prevention of the occurrence. The.per son who does not carry around an over supply of alient,tation in his system and furt:.re secures a purified cir eulation by stict. sanitary cleniiness. thus plac-:g himself in a posiive con dition. is iniune to colds. A starving man caninot talKe cold. A carefu! diet would exclIde the use of all narcotics and al. food that is not thoroughly appropriated. An overfed person is worse off than one who is un derfed. because the overfed body is taxed to dispose of what cannot be ap propriated and, when not properly dis posed of, remains only to be an element of danger.-Science of Health. Poisonous and Harmless Snakes. There is a certain physiological dif ference between the poisonous and harmless snakes which exists very plainly in their manner of dentition. All snakes are objects of aversion and d'ead to mankind, so much so that to be bitten by a snake has at times been so fearful to the victim as to have pro duced dpath although the snake was harn;less. Such is the instinctive dread with which these reptiles are thought of that' it may be desirable to have some easy mode of distinguishing the one kind from the other. This distin guisting characteristic is afforded by the teeth. Ln all poisonous snakes there are only two rows of teeth, the fang or fangs being arranged either within the twvo rows or outside of them. The harmless snakes have four distinct rows of teeth, and when the bite shows this kind of wound and not any single deeper or larger puncture there need be no apprehension. Walkins For Malaria. Obstinate cases of malaria that have withstood the ocean voyages, mountain heights and quinine dosing are said to have been conquered by systematic and continued walking. What the malarial patient wants most to do Is to sit in doors, nurse his aches and pains or to lie down and doze. Advocates of the walking cure maintain that fgUsh air is an antidote not only to the malaria It self, but to the blues, which usually accompanies it. Their advice to the sufferer is to dress up warmly if the weather is damp or rainy and go out to walk. Wear flannel next to the skin, stout shoes and simple hat. If It is warm, dress lighti:, but carry a wrap to throw around the shoulders against drafts and too rapid cooling off. When one comes to think of it, there are few maladies on earth that fresh air and moderate exercise are not good for. The spectroucope. Originally tile spectroscope was ap plied only to chemistry, and in that limited field proved itself an invalu able aid in accurate analysis. By hold ing in ai Uunsen flame a platinum wire moistened by contact with the skin the presence of a few gzaiu s of sal t swal loed a few minllutes previotusly can be detected with the spectroscope. In deed. so wontde:'fully refined is the work oi the spectroscope chemist that he can discover in a substance the pres ence of one three-millionth of a grain of metal. . e a,n sworal ar but slow engmfe~ of destructionl i :mparison with the hnhbler.-Steele. ,..'THE... People'sNational Bank PROSPERITY, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK $25,000. Burglar proof safe and insurance fire proof vault. We do a general banking business. We solicit your business. Prompt and polite at tention. Interest allowed in savings de partment. M. A. CARLISLE, President. H. C. MOSELEY, Vice-Pres. W. W. WHEELER, Cashier. DIRECTORS. W. P. Pugh, W. A. Moseley. Jacob B. Fellers, R. L. Luther, Geo. W. Bowers, John B. Fellers, T P. Bowers, George John-tone. -M. A Carlisle, H. C. Moseley, Jos. H. Hunter. rrmE SCHL.. ...COLD-SET TIRE SETTER..... "The Machine that Does it Right. You can find this ma chine at ourshop. Why! not set your tire andI not let your wheels run down. Why not spend one and a half dollars for a whole set instead of spending five dollars for one wheel? Will give perfect satisfac tios. Blacksmithing, Wheelright, Horse shoeing a specialty. Call at our shop. Bodikight & Earglo, NEWBERRY,%S. C. Mrs. Fred Unra.th, 1.resdent oury(ab, Benton "After my first baby was born l did not seem to regaln my strength aithough the doctor gave me a tonic which he consid ered very superior, but instead ci getting bete igrw eaker dy. Mus for aweek and see what it would dolfor me. Idid take the medicine and wasv y grateful to find mystrength and hea slowly returning. Intwo weeks I was out of bed and in a month I was able to take up my usual duties. I am very enthusi astic in Its praise." Wine of Carduireinforcth ogans of generation for the ordeal of preg nancy and childbirth. It prevents mis cariage. No woman who takes Wine of Cardui need fear the coming of her child. If Mrs. Unrath badc taken Wine of Cardui biefore :Lr h&uy cany: she would niot have been~ '.s.enyid she was. Heor raid r'e":: io - comnc-nd this great :::dy to ev:. enectant miothe:. \in of CarLi' WMEorCRDUI 1. 0.0o.F. PULASKI LODGE NO. 20. '~iETS EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT .L.at 7 30 o'clock at their ball at the Graded School building. Visitors cor dially invited. J. S. SMITH, N. G. T. 0. Stewart, Jr., Secretary. CURSE OF DRINK DRINK EVIL DRUNKENINESS CURED TO STAY CURED BY WRITE RIBBON REM I announce to the world that I have an absolute cure for drunkenness in White Ribbon Remedy, based on thous ands of cures made of the most obsti nate cases. In a majority of cases White Ribbon Remedy was given sec retly in tea, coffee or food, without the patient's knowledge. By degrees the patient gets a distaste for intoxicants and finaly leaves off altogether. It is wonderful. Many a hard drinker has thus been reclaimed and restored to his family- and friends. White Ribbon Remedy is easily given. by following the simple directions. It is tasteless, odorless, and perfectly safe to give or take. White Ribbon. Remedy will cure or destroy the diseased appetite for all alcoholic drinks, whether the patient is a confirmed inebriate, a "tippler," so cial drinker or drunkard. Impossible for any one to have an appetite for al coholic li uors after using White Rib bon Reme. It re;tores a victim to normal health,n gvin - him or her steady nerves,'and a determinetion to resist temptation. Builds up the will power. Indorsed and Sold by Members of a Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Anna Moore, Press Superin tendent of the Woman's Christian Tem perance Uunion, Los Angeles, Califor nia, states: 'I have tested White Rib bon Remedy on very obstinate drunk ards, and the cures have been many. I cheerfully recommend and indorse White Ribbon Rex;edy, and advise any woman to give it to any relative suffer ing from drunkenness.' Sold in every drug store, 50c and $1. Trial package free by writing or call ing on Mrs.A. M. Townsend (for years secretary of a Woman's Christian Tem perance Union), 218 Tremont St., Bos ton, Mass. Special agents in .-NEWBERRY, S. C., GILDER & WEEKS. Cheap ' Tickets , TO THF. 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