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LAURA WILLIAMS. Impossible to Triumph Over Nature--The Niw and Happy Life Was Not to Last. Spartanburg Herald, 20th. The story that camue to us last week from Newberry of a young woman masquerading in man's clothes is fraught with interest which goes deeper thati the mere novelty of it; and in the cause; which prompted a procedure which most people of this day are inclined to look upon as merely a freakish one there is a lesson most instrue tive, one it is mete we should fix in our consciousnesses. A girl-let go her antecedents, let go the circumstances of her birth and reaiig; we know not what these were; they are apart she was a girl of Anglo Saxon blood, born into this world with a woman's form, with a woiat's instincts and a woman's heart, and with that iherited right of every Aierican womian to protectiol and sustenance and respect, with that H1cavent given right to a pure and hionorable life so long as she wills it, and the blood circulates iii her veins. Here was a girl. we say, who--as she tells it, and whetier it he true or no the like is true was thrown out uponi the world in Rutherford county, N. C., at the teider flowering age of seventeen, without a home, without parents or friends or means of sustenance She tried to find honorable means of iaking a living, but what can a white girl of seventeen, without education and trainiing in somie industry or art, do? She was in distress and misery, and physical want. Exactly where she went and wiat she did at first we are iot told, but she was "iagged at aid hurt," she said, till after a while she "sickened of the life a homeless, friendless gir) may lead," and "find ing it impossible to get along as a woman,'' she got a suit of man's clothes and bade farewell to her girlhood. She thins began to play in the dreadful tragedy of life in a new but an easier role. People were kind to her and she readily found work. She was free, she was inde pendent, and she was happy. Espe cially, she said, she felt "secure from some certaili men w,ho have beeI lersecUtiIng me." But this new and happy life was not to last. Alas how imposs05ible it is to triumph1)1 over naturie, or to hide it! Tlhis young woman, Laura WVill ia ms, was engaged as a linerinan at Tryon. She did her work well it is reported, in a mannter satis factory to her emp lloyecrs and1( gramti fyinig to hiersel f. Ilu t alt houghI she was able to keep her sex concealed for several weeks while living with a rude, r:> ightI set of work men, the sec'ret leaked out at last, anmd she lied . 00oing from p)lace to place, wanderinig alone and friendless from towni to towni seeking employ mienit she was arrested last week in Newberry oni suspicioni of being a muan by lie name of John Long who was conniected with lthle " 'petri fied mian'" swindle Bleing badgered ini court, hard p)ressed with qules tionis, she finally broke down and( inl thait natutral womanly recourse of tears she exclaimred, "I' am nothlintg but a poor girl1, after all, and I have (lonte nlo wrong." Are there niot others? "hsr tin saves the life of the st reatms, ' saidl a far mei t-dayv "In miy tneighiborhiood t he bedls oIf the creeks w~ere barelyv covered, atnd lie earth wams nedinig water." It didn't fail to get it. The Columbia cot respondenit of the Greenville News said Hub IH. Evans ran like a wild horse in his race for chairman of the dispensary board, defeating his opponent by almost two to one. VEGETABLE PORCUPINE. PVIld C ttle Hat Its Sharp Spines as With Ironcladl Mouths. The best hated cactus in America is the cholla. The Mexicans say that if you go near a cholla joint it will juiup at you. Certainly if you touch one it will stick, and when you try to free yourself it will pierce youir other hand as well. E'ach pendent joint seems to reach out for tie passerby, and the ground bvneatL the broad cholla trees is strewn with fillei fragments, many of which take root and grow. After one has felt the sharp spines through heavy boots and seen their needle points It is a source of continual wonder to see the wild cattle of Arl zona quietly browsing on chollas. The phrase "cautus fed" as applied to Ari zoni Is not it figure of speech. During the years of drought thousands of cat tle carry themselves over until the next grass by eating chollas. With their le-ithery tongues and lips they strip the spiny Joints from the trunk and leave the wide spreading cactus a bare and woody skeleton. It is only the range cattle, whose mouths have been hard ened on the thorny mesquite and iron wood browse, that will undertake to eat cactus, and cattleinen therefore often burn the thorns from chollias aind liolmls in order to totupt their inore fastidious animnals to eat.-Country Life in America. MYSTERIES OF SAP. llowr the Circilation Fi'rom Itootm to Leavem IN Maintained. To illustrate the modern view of sap relulation, wilicl Is not thoroughly uin (erstood, it is necessary to explain that the chief food of the plants, con sisting of inorgani' salts dissolved in water, is absorbed froin the soil by the roots. The root consists of a hollow tilbe or cyl1ider i lined with several cells, the outer layer of 'which contains certain hairlike processes. The water in the soil, containing the sailts in solution, is absorbed by these root hairs aid lasses by (iltration into the Cells and capillary vessels. ''he activity of these root hairs and the coeitration of fluid in the adjacent cells create what is called "root pres sure," aid this forcos the sap into tle general vascihir systein of the plant aid Un to its furthest extremities, or lea ves. This "root pressuire" is further sup pleinented by "t ran spir.a Iion," or loss of vapor froin the leaves uder the lfinl elite >' heat an1d light. Phints iliay be siid to brealthe or respire by their leaves, anlid this albstraction of water by tralnspirl1tion erentes a fresh de i,iiid 'or the vital tluiid supplied' by the roots. in this way tle circuiltion, or "rising of the sap" from root to iiaves, is inan ita ille'd.-P-llea rsol's. YULETIDE IN SERVIA. The Poor Siuve For months to Buy Their Christainm Pig. In Servia they keep Christmas eve in a soiewhilt peeiar way. 'I'lie fil tiier of ti family goes into the wood andi1i (.s114 down it Straight young oa:, Choosinig the inost perfect that lie can 1indt. 1le brings it in, saying, "Good evini,g aid a happy Christ1 aus,'" to wilih those pr'esent reply, ''lay God grat b oth Iito theie an titninyest thlou hav~e riches anid hiono.'" Then they thirow over hitii gra is of ('orn!. Pres-'5 ently the young tree is pianted umpomi lie eoalis, w here it reiuiIns unt ii Chist nas moninag, whliich t hey salunte by re ptented tinmgs of' a pistol. 'Te natIionai Idiishi in Serv' ia is )or'k. 'T'ie poor'tst fainily in Seirvia wvill p1inch thleinslves all thr moiigh thle year so as to havi e ioney ('enughi to buly ai pig at 'histnas. Skewered to a long piece of wood, thle pig is turinietd ov'er a blazinig lire unmt Il cooked, thle guests watching thle process with I in'reaising Interest. A flen dlinnter stories arie told andl songs sung. Snanta ( 'Iaus, who, in thle persou of ani hiontored guest, is prieent to r'e eiv isettd of' to give piresenits, de Pat 's aflter It' feas1t, dlecor-ated withb a long ing of' cakes aroundt his neck and h)'ten wihsuch gifts as his firiends can A F"reunch D)eputy' Paty. A F'renchi deputy receiv~es a salary of 9,000 frn es ($1 .8001). iIe also receives free railwaiy Itranisportattlon anti free' Iinehieons at the har of the Paliiis spends norme ti ate t han hle dot's in thle Sa I lle' St'nnees. Sonie arc -accused (of ltakini g all Itei meals at thle free ilunth cotinteir. A(deputy e'veni gets, it reduched iatIes, at spetelail bra ad of cigaris wle'h is 'alled '"eigare dIe dleputes. Withi thetste cigarms lie tireats his iinfluen tinti ('onstituts1. In spuite oft li theso pivulehgu's, thei(re have been man'iIiliy comii lila ints Ithat, unlless he hits a Ihirge per' .uinIly. 'Thierefort ma ny membeirs of parilhienit whlen they arie not well to (10 hav e to maket(( uip I'or thle isuflelien cy otf t'ir pay)1 by3 contr ibtin mg to news Ipaitr or'u5 pleadIig in the courls.-Ceni tury. Wrath andi ni Soft Anniver. She-)oni't you helieve that "a soft answer tu rnethi a way wirath?'" Ile--Oh. yes. Oftener, however, wrath ri i i w av it softinnaswar ....a nsa VHV F1~ &A Nothing Ilse Can Supplant It as a Preserver of Youth. Next to air and food lit the human economy comues exercise. We may have plenity of frvsh air and a proper allow ane of the right, kiditt of food, and yet wit Iout htelI)fti Il(I i3ly exerise these will not stvtil to kovp the body In good contliioll. It answer to the qJuestion, "Wly (o we grow 0(17T' a French wrlIer giIvthe Iveisonls: "We (to not gel titotuglh11 physical exereise In the opt'n :IrI, wve alre poisonled by till crobes w4icII th ithgoyt' have not sticcecded in (lostyoying, iand we are d1eIresseI by fear of (ethi." Of the thret. rvalsonsm It wIll bo no(ed that hie gives the phatce of first IilporIt'itivce to lick of exercise. Thlere is Itotliir.g else which ('ica titke the lte of physical Ietivi(y s it PTSeVr'l, of yoilh ad)I elttergy. "(.row yottutiger as yot grow olIer by cult iva t Inlg :I iluodt-ratte lovv of good, lienithtii, ionost ot," is sotint advice. Walkingp",runt,jnpi. rowinig, 1.yI.N11ing golf', teniiis ort crotitet or attly 411her IIIlde forill of e.\erviso Inl tle open ail kweps ilt' Imtiscles stip pie an11d prevenits ite joilits froiil stiff vlning,. fills the( l111ngs wvithl life giving. oxygeit d1111 keep tlt blood fv"rii 1W. vointin. slitggish or the liver turfid. I i slort. it is exet'iso that keeps ile body inl tiuni .11t "Ilp to conict pitech," Just as exirise keeps tIle voice of ii music Insti-inneiviltl perf'ect tonle. EYES INCREASE IN SIZE. Chanlge Often llte"ut1 Ink the In proveteit of tihe Sight. A coniversation witi it protintent ltt ter developed the fact that among mnen of lirge atfair Ns where dtcled exven five ability an11 t strotng tuienltill equip Iliint 'were I'tpuisitv it wIs COntion to find al Increiase In the erniall develop Iliit. A ilore detailed investigati lon iiltoig Somne of tit large tetropolitan liaters revealed tit' fact 11hit ma11n11y of them ld for years by ieans of, att Ilutotuatic inevstu riig (evice kept Iee ords of pvcllialities of te eraini out linle of uinly of ouri prominiinen mlen, which liid led to the discovery (to wlich, lowever, little itiportance hatd beei litthIled that ile skill often sows a tcideld increase inl size after inuitiflit age. Thus, if' it is a fact that tle hilia eyv deids 1.agely 1up11o tile sirrount1d ing bony structure for its size antd pro portionl, It ('ln readily he sei talt in the case of sl eye whIlich presetiIs sib niorl-1 visuial colitionls due14 to anl inl aidequate develoiiet the increa1se In the size of tite skuIll referred to, ne cotipanlivdt, as It lisislly is , by gentral 13y ilproved physical con(litions, would natu.ilaly tend to a corresponlding in cre1se inl tie size of tle eyeblall, there by contriblitinig to a possible neu1trill Izationi of tie Visual1 defect.-Jevelers' Circular-WVeelfly. LOCKS AND KEYS. Their Une canl mle Tirneed 11n1ek tt) the Antclinal - inN Aecordiiig to Ileqjot, lo'ks :t0tid keys ciatn be t'imvl '1ck to the aniinioit 111gyp tians, Itlor thasni -1,)001) yert's ago. This Is inlferrted rtn*11 the sculturel)t1's on the grt't(t ttnfl of Ki1nk, whiich closely rt. h-1110k. locks still il tse there ch nutsy. isissiv'e w otlitn locks, in whtich raiised by3 correspodinglit~ ixxed pitis oit the big k.oy. Sintiilart locks antd keyus iare fon att(1it Alosul, tneari Ninievehi, the key be)ting intoire than a f'oot long, <lullIt' ('lutl im 1andih( oftent carried oin theu shoul lieys sire atlso imetntioned at the sIege of TIroty, II1 :t 1. C2. lThe l'hweiahits iar'e sid( to havi e ext'han tged locks for titn frtomt CJorntwatll. O ccasionlaI nttices o1f tm ocetur int many ti3' reek itml Ito an wr'iItrs, l'liny atscr'ibing thteir in 'etionIct to l'Tteodruts of Sam nos. ll'iroze' Iand iron keys hitve been fottnd In thle I 'ossibhly fart imotre anacient than i those iarte ChIinose locks, withI spt'intgs and1( Itmbler's, somet of temn musical, almtost exact counitt'i'pa rts of thle famous firtaitis lo tcks oif 10nglan in t the eigh t t'tnIth century'3. Whym~ l.,ile Flkslc Are HIt EnterM. it lias beent Iaid down its a phy3siolog lea rulte it'Ili thIe rtequirtemien ts of adult tie' t'pendl n11ott t ho weight, of It' ealter', bu)tl ott thle extenlt of itis boily3 Ht'surtao. itIn the case of clhidrea t his rtule Is furithIer mnodflted. Ani infiant a rwnmn bu ittsrfc is morea than oni-seveth as gr'east. As thet fiirst i'qitiement of thle itnfanit's food is to rep'lat't thIe hetaIIt Iha is eotinuialtly 13 be Sig lost. by3 raiati on fi'tom aill lpartis of the botdy, the litft'tr frsit'iont dtmisit' t' needed frop'thlltion of1 iiour'islittii rt'shIeri ta itheit foirmer'i. I tut ini te cas' of' sa gt'owintg clihlt f'ood is also nt'edle'd Io sutppt'lyt' ittcreatsei of hodily be Ii vteI timtes aSt mutchI' asi would hte1) esti1 atIed ftrotm ifs acltiual weightt alone. Success. An Appeal. VTe Owner-See here! That trunk never did( yott any1 harm, dId It? PTe l'orter'-Any harm? Of course not. The Owner--Well, then, don't treat I' as If It did.-Brooklyn LIfe. VI LET $KIN There is only one V LOTION for the faCE There may be imitat things are imitated only one genui.ne V LOTION. Have yoi your face after sha hands? Call and let Hundreds of carefu it daily. W. E. Pelhoi Reliable Prescription Pharmacisi QUIT COUGHINE There is no need o Lungs out. when yoU Ile of Murray's Horeh( Tar. A few doses of this H1ouseheld Rene lief. A positive cure for Influenza. B Thlroat. Anti-Spasmodic in Croup. TrHE MURRAY DRU( Whskey Morphine Cigarette Itabit, 11abit 11.1bit, Cured by Keeley Institute of 1329 L,ady St. (or 1'. 0. Box 75), Colum1bia. S. C. Confid 'WW. e D e c.. To remind our friend- ihA we carry 10 5e bought Loose 13.ckwheat Rais ins Fig'. D..es. ( il.ied C!0oco:u N1ck N1 ats, etc. OAVNPOR T & C. Phone 0. NEW GO We r" r(eceiving~ new' gcods. daily a compleIi~te 1(n5 ni Ip Io da4th lie of (urnit ai n go'od(s ever opie-d i nI i Newbietrry. Com sell .son onel piece'4- or at whule 4'uit (of any) (ibi ha'' naise ini the S oil'. WVe i: are gzohng to1 sol'i ihorn ch. al'p. SHELLEY, DEAN s Newberry Hardware Co's. Qld -: VIA: The Nashville, Chat St. Louis Rv., and er-n and Atlant The Fcenic Battle To the Nortt, North-"% Q uick t 7rr. im (.r rai(. No. 1b Norh Pryor- St., Oppositk- Union Depot. IOLET SKIN . and hands. ions-all good -but there is IOLET SKIN - tried it on ving, or on us show you. I people use Son, s, Newberry, S. C. f wearing your can get a bot iund, Mullien and y will give immediate re ronchit is and Diseasses of Put Up By - Co., o~. _ E ) 1 j \\ | i r i1 IIii12 S South Carolina ential Lorrespon(le le solicited. o)ire ie very best flour can Nu , ranberries VAE.N.AUGH StnMain St. rthre V\heaprt agttp. ha r Stnd Main St. / 2 ates.f tano1 aa the West ic R.o~ 9.