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INSTINCT SAVES FROM DEATH Few Animals Will Eat Poisonous Food Unless Well Dis guised. That animals of every species can detect poison in food is a well known fact. Disguised though it may be, the deleterious matter is discovered and instantly rejected unless disguised by artifical means. As a rule dumb 'brutes seem to have very little sense of taste upon the palate. But carniv orous animals have a kind of "half way" sense between taste and stom .acheache which very soon tells them when they have taken poison or any thing likely to disagree with them, and nature has kindly arranged that they can get rid of it by the throat with very great ease. Wolves, tigers. leopards and all other carnivora are difficult to poison because of the power which they have of rapidly getting rid of -the drug. Lions, on the other hand. are very fre quently poisoned. as they eat vora ciously and quickly, more like a dog than the other large felidae. It is said that a good many lion skins. es pecially those brought back by for eign counts and others from Somali land, were obtained by tho unsports manlike method of poisoning carcas ses and leaving them for the lions - to devour. Cattle. which have no less than four stomachs, are hopelessly poisoned if once they. have swallowed a dose, whether in a toxic plant or otherwise. It is the curious arrange ment of their interiors which makes it such a difficult matter toi give cat tle medicine at all. In common with human beings ani mals seem to be affected by poison in certain forms when in a particular .condition of health. At other times they can eat the same plant or shrub with impunity. In certain states of health a man can eat pork, lobsters, cockles. scallops and other somewhat riskv foods without bad effects. At other times the same edibles would produce on him th.effect of ptomaine poisoning. Two persons may eat of the same food at the same time, and while one is perfectly well afterward, the other may become violently ill. The curious cases of yew poisoning among cattle or horses seem to be somewhat analogous. They will some times browse on shoots of yew and take no- harm whatever. At other times they are obviously made ill or die from eating the leaves. They have even been found dead with the yew fresh anid undigested in their stomachs. Where poisonous plants are present in any great numbers in herbag'e it seems quite impossible to prevent cattle from eating them. "The poison veld" of parts of the Transvaal has a particularly bad reputation caused by plants-one of which is said to be species of tulip, which comes into leaf in the sprinig. In addition to the poisons mention ed above the deaths or illness of En glish cattle have been traced to eating the leaves of laurel, common crow foot. and various other plants of the ranuncclus family. wild parsnips and acorns, which are very astringent, and also, it is believed, ,to their-eat ing woody nightshade. The keeping of a goat with cattle may be bene ficial, because goats eat by- choice and with impunity plants which are in jurious to cows. Birds seem to have no discrimina tion whatever in regard to poisons, probably because they have almost nc sense of smell and swallow their food without masticating it. They are ter rified to paralysis by the appearance of a poisonous snake (tnless the ter ror be due to dread of the appearance of the serpent rather than to an in herited knowledge of its venomous power.) but such intelligent birds as rooks will pick up and Eat poisoned grain, and crows and ravena readily eat poisoned eggs and meat. Chick ens will eat the poisonous seed oi the laburnun and die from the effects Whether birds such as tits and green tinches ever do so does not seem tc be known. But wild birds are ire (luently found dying in gardens tho ugh apparently they had been ir .(I health a fewv hours before. and 'h-eir leatth may probably be due tc the co nm'mption'i of poisonous seeds. "What prompted you to rbb this man's till?" asked the judge of th< prisoner. "My family physician sir." was th< reply. "He told me it was abssoltel necessary that I should have a litth' It's Not War. New York Post. The raid of the Vladivostok squad ron has brought out, in a certain im practicable idealism, the seamy side of Japanese valor. Such incidents as the refusal of troops on transports to surrender to warships, the whole sale preparation of such troops to commit suicide, and the demand that an unsuccessful admiral should take his own life, reminds us startlingly of the gulf that lies between ourselves and these Orentials. As for the troops who lay helpless under the guns of the Russian cruisers, their preference for death gratified only a personal punctilio. By surrendering at discretion they could have put the Russian fleet to considerable embar not have taken them prisoners; in deed. would have been obliged to fur nish some means of escape from the sinking transports. Under such cir cumstances. the Japanese would have been under no parole, the Russians would have been subject to a peril ous delay, and a thousand troops would have been spared to fight the battle of the empire. It would be said, of course, that the complete in difference to death which constitutes it part the superiority of the Japan ese army, depends upon this fanatical point of honor, it seems likely, how ever, that for purely military reasons the Japanese 'commanders will be compelled to combat the nationai code of suicide. New Element Found. The Tenderloin has a new saying, according to the New York Times. The bibulous visitor found that out last night. He went into a Broadway cafe and asked for some of the stuff that made Jamaica famous, or words to that ef fect. He had a row with the bar keeper who said: "You get out! You're just the ele ment we want to get rid off." The bibulous visitor stared, for he had heard about the same "element" before, but had never been inquisitive enough. He visited another saloon, made a row, and was fired out, wit thel same parting shot: "You're just the element we want to get rid of." The bibulous visitor stared, but went. He determined to know why everybody grinned whenever the "ele ment" speech was.uttered. He went down Broadway questioning every one: "What is the element we want to get rid of?" - A grin was the invariable answer. At last in desp.,ir the bibulous visitor approached Policeman Boswell. who w;Ls standing at Twenty-ninth street. "Shay of'ser whash th' elen -n' we wan' get rid of." "Come and ask the captain," said Boswell. In- the Tenderloin station Captain Cottrell asked Boswell what the man had.been doing. "Accosting everybody on Broadway He gave me a fight on the way in." "Good, my man, good!" said Cot trell, and added solemnly. "That is just the element w'e want to get rid of." Yeast-He bought his automobile on the installment plan. Crimsonbeak-And from the way he runs it I e:xpect to hear of his be ing taken to the hospital in the same way some day.-Yonkers Statesman. Wood's Seeds. 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Only through car ser go, witho u change Close connections m Seaboard Air Line Rail% Railway and the Southe For map folders or othe T HOS. R. Jon No. I Nohth Pry H. F. Smith, Traffic Manager, (Eastern Standard Tlrr e.) Soeue udin Effect January Oth,1" STATIONS. 840mam Lv Atlanta (8.A.L1 Ar.SSpm p03m bbhen 61 pm 2 lpm Ar Cliton (D!n'r) Lv. 2 5pr 10 00am Lv Glenf pring Ar 40onm 1 17 pm Watero 2 24 pmn 1 3Opm .ar Laurensa(Din'r) L v 2 (7 pum 84 22 53 52 ?1 85 Dy D'y D'ly D'Iy D'l D'I Sun San Sun Sun 71 700 202 ~.L.x.Lauren ArI 5 0 60 47.~ 2 ClIton.. 31 30 . 2 91 50 834 Gollvei 11 30' -4 I891 3 4 rIChareso Lv1 62 2o Tran 953 andI 52aie and~:;i 5ep.5t 20' *2.5"0*04 irr7 a .c. L. s fr igh deot [DATE :e ourselves as a siness and pledge + customers. G STORE. ian's suffrage. Dollars ight place. The well pleased .s to come where he feels con for one hundred cents. Well honest dealing has kept us io ..atest Patterns. 15 cents kind at 12 1-2 cents 10 cents kind at8 1-2 cents. 5 1-4 cents kind at 5 cents. LINE JUST ARRIVED. Lawns, Nainsooks, Linens, .ms, etc., at prices that our onch. i Oxfords in the house. ave ever shown. Our space but we will sell ycu the same ey. We advertise what we ave "Just Sold Out" of. see us, ours truly, )OTEN, rick Patterns. lantic Railroad d nooga , Louis Railroad. nts West and North is Daily with Pullman Atlanta to Sx. Louis, vice, Atlanta to Chica ade at Atlauta with the ray. Central of Georgia rn Railway trains. r information write.to es, T. P. A., or St., Atlanta, Ga. 3has. E. H armon, Gen. Pass. Ageut. iierlcsteR eli Ves8rll CaroliRi Rvr Co Augustiaand A.shevifle Short; Line. (Schedule in effect Auigust 1, 1903.) Bead Down.) (Bead Up1 2.46 pre........Lv Newberry......... Ar 3.10 pm 1.50 pm . Ar Laurens............. Lv 9.02 pm 2.07pm........Lv Laurens.. .. .. Ar 1.30 pi 3.30 pm....Ar Spartan bur..... Lv 2 01 pm 3.40 pm...v Zpartanburg..... Ar 10.25 am 5.32 pm....Ar Saluda........... Lv 3. 39 am e.Ii pro.....Ar Hendersonville Lv .%.05 am 7.15 pm....Ar hAhevlle........... Lv 7.00 am 2.46 pir...Lv Newberry (C.N.&L.) 3 10 pm .50pmn..Ar Laurens...........Ly 2.02 pm 1.56 pn...Lv Laurens........Ar L.45 "im 2.31 pm...Ar Greenwood.....Lv 12.4d pm 52 .....Ar Augsta.............Lv 10.10 am 2.36 pm..Lv A ugusta.............Ar 12.20 am (3.30 p'..... Ar BeaufTort .............Lv 7.15 am~ 5.45 pm...Ar Port Eoya1............Lv 7.05 am~ 2 46 pm..Lv New1bert'y (0 N.aL)Ar 3.10 pm 1 50 pm..Ar Laurena .........Lv 2.02 pm 2 09pm ..Lv Lauri'n........Ar 1.25 pm 3.25 pm..Ar Greenville.....Lv 12.15 pm For further information relative to rates, te., call on, or address GEO. T. BRY .N, Gen. Ag. Greenville, S C ERNE T WILLIAMS, net. Pass. Agt., T. 5!. "' r e"u Tra:mc Man a. Ga. ILUE Rl.4E RIAIL ROAO. 5i. 0, BEA'kTIE, Receiver. In Ere June 8, 1902. netween Anderson ad WaIhalla. ARRIvE. LEAvE. Mixed. Mixed M.9 No. 12 4t.ations. No.II No.9 3 18 955.......Belton......3 20 10 56 2 48 9 33...Anderson F. D....3 40 1111 3 45 9 30.....Anderson P. D......3 45 II100 ...925.....WestAnderson...349 ..... .... 9 09........Denver.....359 ... ...902......Autun......4 05 -.. ....655 .....Pendleton.....4 11 ..... ....828..Jordania Junct ...433 :-'.. 4 40 -