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LAURA WLULAliS. Impossible to Triumph Over Nature-The New and Happy Life Was Not to Last. Spartanburg Herald, 2oth. The story that came to us last week from Newberry of a young woman masquerading in man's clothes is fraught with interest which goes deeper than the mere novelty of it; and in the causes which prompted a procedt7e %hich most people of this day are inclined to look upon as merely a freakish one there is a lesson most instruc 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 reaing; 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 woman's instincts and a woman's heart, and with that'inherited right of every American woman to protection and sustenance and respect, with that Heaven given right to a pure and honorable life so long as she wills it, and the blood circulates in her veins. Here was a girl, we say, who-as she tells it, and whether it be true or no the like is true was thrown out upon the world in Rutherford county, N. C., at the tender flowering age of seventeen, without a home, without parents or friends or means of sustenance She tried to find honorable means of making a living, but what can a white girl of seventeen, without education and training in some industry or art, do? She was in distress and misery, and physical want. Exactly where she went and what she did at first we are not told, but she was "nagged at and hurt,'. she said, till after a while she "sickened of the life a homeless. friendless girl 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 thus 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 certain men who have been persecuting me." But this new and happy life was not to last. Alas how impossible it is to triumph over nature, or to hide it! This young woman, Laura Williams, was engaged as a lineman at Tryon. She did her work well it is reported, in a manner satis factory to her employers and grati fying to herself. But although she was able to keep her sex concealed for several weeks while living with a rude, rought set of workmen, the secret leaked out at last, and she fled. Going from place to place, wandering alone and friendless from town to town seeking emplov ment she was arre'sted last week in Newberry on suspicion of being a man by the name of John Long. who was connected with the "petri fled man" swindle. Being badgered in court, hard pressed with ques tions, she finally broke down and in that natural womanly recourse of tears she exclaimed, "I am nothing but a poor girl, after all, and I have done no wrong."7 Are there' not others? "This rain saves the life of tie streams,' said a farmer tcday. "In my neighborhood the beds of the creeks were barely covered, and the earth was needing water." Ii didn't fail to get it. The Columbia coi respondent of the Greenville News said Hub H. Evans ran like a wild horse in his race for chairman of the dispensary board, defeating his opponer.t by almaaSr two to one. VEGETABL-E PRCUPINE. P.'ild Cttle Eat Its Sharp Spines a& WIth Ironclad Mouths. The best hated cactus in America is the cholla. The Mexicans say that if you go near a cholla joint it will jump at you. Certainly if you touch one it will stick, and when you try to free yoarself it will pierce your other hand as well. Each pendent joint seems to reach out for the passerby, and the ground beneath the broad cholla trees is strewn with fallen 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 Ari zona quietly browsing on chollas. The phrase "cactus fed" as applied to Ari zona is not a figure of speech. During the years of drought thousands of cat tle carry themselves over until the next grass by eating chollas. With their leathery 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 cattlemen therefore often burn the thorns from chollas and nopals in order to tempt their more fastidious animals to eat.-Country Life In America. MYSTERIES OF SAP. How the Circulation From Roots to Leaves In Maintained. To illustrate the modern view of sap circulation, which is not thoroughly un derstood, it is necessary to explain that the chief food of the plants, con sisting of inorganic salts dissolved in water, is absorbed from the soil by the roots. The root consists of a hollow tube or cylinder lined with- several cells, the outer layer of which contains. certain hairlike processes. The water in the soil, containing the salts in solution, is absorbed by these root hairs and passes by filtration into the cells and capillary vessels. The activity of these root hairs and the concentration of fluid in the adjacent cells create what is called "root pres sure," and this forces the sap into the general vascular system of the plant and up to its furthest extremities, or: leaves. This "root pressure" is further sup plemented by "transpiration," or loss of vapor from the leaves under the influ ence of heat and light. Plants may be said to breathe or respire by their leaves, and this abstraction of water by transpiration creates a fresh de mand for the vital fluid supplied by the roots. In this way the circulation, or "rising of the sap" from root to leaves, is maintained.-Pearson's. YULETIDE IN SERVIA. The Poor Save For Months to Buy Their Christmas Pig. In Servia they keep Christmas eve in asomewhat peculiar way. The fa ther of the family goes into the wood and cuts down a straight young oak, choosing the most perfect that he can find. He brings it in, saying, "Good evening and a happy Christmas," to which those present reply, "May God grant both to thee and mayest thou have riches and honor." Then they throw over him grains of corn. Pres ently the young tree is planted upon the coals, where it remains until Christ mas morning, which they salute by re peated firings of a pistol. The national dish in Serria Is pork. The poorest family in Servia will pinch themselves all through the year so as to have money enough to buy a pig at Christmas. Skewered to a long piece of wood, the pig is turned over a blazing fire until cooked, the guests watching the process with increasing Interest After dinner stories are told and songs sung. Santa Claus, who, in the person of an honored guest is present to re ceive instead of to give presents, de parts after the feast, decorated with a long ring of cakes around his neck and laden with such gifts as his friends can bestow. A French Deputy's Pay. A French deputy receives a salary of 9000 francs ($.00). He also receives free railway transportation and free luncheons at the bar of the Palais Bourbon, where many a lawmaker; spends more time than he does in the Salle des Seances. Some are -accused of taking all their meals at the free lunch counter. A deputy even gets, at reduced rates, a special brand of cigars which is called "cigare de deputes." With these cigars he treats his influen tial constituents. In spite of all these privileges, there have been many coin plats that, unless he has a large per sonal income, a deputy cannot live de cntly. Therefore many members of parliament when they are not well to do have to make up for the insufficien-, cy of their pay by contributing to news-. papers or pleading In the courts.-Cen tury. Wrath and a Soft Answer. She-Don't you believe that "a soft answer turneth away wrath?" He--Oh. yes. Oftener, however, wrath ,.l.W'.- ..-y a soft nswer.-Kansas PHYSICAL AdfG-IV I Nothing Else Can Supplant It as a Preserver of Youth. Next to air and food in the human economy comes exercise. We may have plenty of fresh air and a proper allow ance of the right kind of food. and yet without helpful daily exercise these will not avail to keep the body in good condition. In answer to the question, -Why do we grow oldv' a French writer :-ives these three reasons: "We do not get enough physical exercise in the open air. we are poisoned by mi crobes wihich the phagocytes have not suceeded in desixoying. and we are depressed by fear of death." Of the three reasons it will be noted that he gives the place of first importance to lack of exercise. There is nothing else which can take the place of physical activity as a preserver of youth and energy. "Grow younger as you grow older by cultivating a moderate love ef good. healthful. honest sport." is sound advice. Walking. running. jumping. rowing. playing golf, tennis or croquet or any other milder form of exerciso in the open air keeps the muscles sty ple and prevents the joints froin stilf ening. fills the lungs with life giving oxygen and keeps the blood fr'gn h1 coming sluggish or the liver toril. In short. it is exercise that keeps the body in tune and *up to concert pitch." just as exercise keeps the voice of a music instrument in perfect tone. EYES INCREASE IN SIZE. Change Often Results In the Im provement of the Sight. A conversation with a prominent hat ter developed the fact that among men of large affairs where decided emecu tive ability and strong mental equip ment were requisite it was common to find an increase in the cranial develop ment. A more detailed investigation among some of the large metropolitan hatters revealed the fact that many of them had for years by means of an automatic measuring device kept rec ords of peculiarities of the cranial out line of many of our prominent men, which had led to the discovery (to which, however, little importance had been attached) that the skull often shows a deelded increase in size after middle age. Thus, if it is a fact that the human eye depends largely upon the surround ing bony structure for its size and pro portion, it can readily be seen that in the case of an eye which presents ab normal visual conditions due to an in adequate development the increase in the size of the skull referred to, ac companied, as it usually is, by general ly improved physical conditions, would naturally tend to a corresponding in rease in the size of the eyeball, there by contributing to a possible neutral Ization of the visual defect.-Jewelers' Circular-Weekly. LOCKS AND KEYS. Their Use Can Be Traced Back to the Ancient Egyptians. According to Denon. locks and keys can be traced back to the ancient Egyp tians, more than 4,000 years ago. This is inferred from the sculptures on the great temple of Karnak, which closely resemble locks still in use there lumsy, massive wooden locks, in which three pins drop into three boles in the bolt, wheni it is pushed in, and are raised by corresponding fixed pins on the big key. Similar locks and keys are found at Mosul, near Nineveh, the key being more than a foot long, quite clublike and often carried on the shoul dier. Keys are also mentioned at the siege of Troy.. 1193 B. C. The Phoenicians are said to have exchanged locks for tin from Cornwall. Occasional notices of them occur in many Greek and Ro man writers. Pliny ascribing their in vention to Theodorus of Samos. Bronze and iron keys have been found in the ruins of Pompeii. Possibly far more ancient than these are Chinese locks, with springs and tumblers, some of them musical, almost exact counterparts of -the famous Bramah locks of England In the eight eenth century. Why Little Folks Are Big Eaters. It has been laid down as a physiolog ical rule that the requirements of adult diet depend not on the weight of the eater, but on the extent of his .bodily surface. In the case of children this rule is further modified. An infant may weigh one-eighteenth as much as a growvn man, but its surface is more than one-seventh as great. As the first requirement of the infant's fod is to relace the heat that is continually be ing lost by radiation from all parts of the body, the latter fraction determines the needed proportio~n of nourishment rather than the former. But in the case of a growing child food is also needed to supply the increase of bodily weight. In all. an infant's rattion may be five times as much as would be esti mated from its actual weight alone. Success. - An AppeaL. The Owner-See here! That trunk never did you any harm. did it? The Porte-Any harm? Of course The Owner-Well, then, don't treat 9 aS I It dA --BrOOklYnl Life. VIOLET $KIN LOTION. There is only one VIOLET SKIN LOTION for the face and hands. There may be imitations-all good things are imitated-but there is only one genuine VIOLET SKIN LOTION. Have you tried it on your face after shaving, or on hands? Call and let us show you. Hundreds of careful people use it daily. Wi E. Peihaw& Son0, Reliable Prescription Pharmacists, Newberry, S. C. QUIT COUGHING There is no need of wearing your Lungs out. when you can get a bot tle of Murray's Horehound, Mullien and Tar. A few doses of this Househeld Remedy will give immediate re lief. A positive cure for Influenza. Bronchitis and Diseasses of Throat. Anti-Spasmodic in Croup. Put Up By THE MURRAY DRUC CO., Coltityml'a, &- C WhiSkey - M* h"* -j cigarette _ - J M ' - Habit, t hbiHabit, Hi %bl: S Cured by Keeley Institute of South Carolina 1329 Lady St. (or P. 0. BoX 75), Columbia. s. C. Confidential correspondende solicited. We Desire To remind our friends that we carry the very best flour can >e bought Loose Bickwheat. Raisins. Nu Figs. D;.tes. Grted Cocoanuts, Cranberries Niice Meats, etc. DAVENPORT & CAVENAUGH Phonel 10. Main Street. NEW GOODS! We are receivinig new goods daily and ii' w ha~ve th- mo com plate and n p to dat.. lise~ of furnitn re and1~ hionsa fur. ishi a goods ever open-i-d ini Newberry. Come to so& us. WV- w:il sell '.0 o oe piece. or a whole snit of rmr,tnre cheaper thav any other bonse in tb-. S1uts. We t:onght them cheap atrid .are goiCg to stell them ch-. ap. SHELLEY, DEAN &SUMMER Newberry Hardware Co's. Old Stand, Main St. L 9w Rates ..VIA : The Nashville, Chattanooga a ~d St. Louis Ry., and the West ern and Atlantic R. R. The scenic Batti~ieldi Roc To the Ncrit, North es and Quick. -t ~i r~ i( rates. c du' -r No.1 NrthPryor St.,A a .G. Opposite Union Depot. Beu 'Phone I 69.