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PLAN TO UTILIZE NOISES. Have Them All Properly Attuned to Each Other and Made Agreeable. Chicage Tribune. The proposition of Mrs. Amelia "Holbrook before the Professional 'Woman's 1.eague that children should be taught not to scream off the key. but that mothers should carry a tun ing fork and give them the proper note. o , if there are several of them. thev should be taught to cry in uni son, is not. to acoustic experts. a pre posterous proposition. "We know little of the laws and properties of sound and what might be (lone with discordant and unrelated noises." says Mr. Kitchings,. who makes acoustic apparatus ior instruc tion in physics. "Take a tuning fork of large size and set it vibrating. and one in the same key across the room will soon give out the same sound. The <isagreeable noises of a city-the roar of wagons. street cars. the 'U road. the cries of peddlers-might. if prop erly attuned to each other be ren dered agreeable instead of discordant and a nuisance. A municipal league of harmony. like the one for art, might in time bring it about. There is considerable waste energy in noise that might be utilized. For example. it would be possible to arrange the combination of a safe lock so as to iopen it by singing a certain melody. "The notes would set corresponding ,metals vibrating: these would com municate with electric power. which, in turn. would move the tumbrils of the lock and the bolts would turn back. . "A set of whistles on board ship might be arranged to stand for the different poins of the compass. In a fog the whistle corresponding to the direction in which the vessel was sailing would be blown. On board other ships there would be a set of reverberators indicating in the same way the points of the compass. By -running over these the one in har -onv with the whistle would be pick ,ed out and at once inform the second vessel of the direction of the first ship and so a collision would be avoided. A- warship-might communicate with its consorts ind the enemy be unable to read the signals." 'To Use the Flag For Bait. I -Seems to me you are beginning your preparations for the great and glorious Fourth a little early." ob served the fat clubman to his thin brother. when the latter took from his pocketbook what appeared to be a dozen tiny American iags. "Fourth of July nothing." said the 'thin man. "I'm going up to the Adri ondacks for a week's fishing. "Where do the flags come in?" - -'Ti ft's where the nish bite. I h.ope. smiled the thin man. "They are flies. as carefully made as any grayhackle or Silverton vott ever cast, and some thing entirely new in the 6ishook "Do you dope it out that the Adir <dack trout have taken cn a patriot ic streak?" asked the fat man. taking one of the American flag novelties .and examining it. "Whose idea?' "The first one." explained the own er of the flies. "was made for the Brit ish Fly Fisher's club, and presented to Ambassador Choate at a dinner which the cltib gave hinm. It was just a conceit, a pretty compliment of After the Lapse of Years. Mr. Eubedee-Yes, I've changed a 'ood deal since then. Mlrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones--And for the better. I trust. Mr. Eubedee--They used to call me a wild youth. you remember; but now 2.-.Jones-Now? Mr. Eubedee-Now they' call me an old reprobate. Love-Making in Borneo. \\'hen a dyak of Borneo makes love ie helps the girl in the hardest por tion of her dlaily toil. If she smiles upon him. no matter how sweetly, he does not immediately respond. hut waits until the dark night. Then lie steals to her house and wakens her as she lies asleep beside her parents. The parents. if they approve, make no sign. but sleep on or pretend to. If the girl accepts she rises and takes from her lover the betel and sweet meats he has brought her. That seals their betrothal, and he departs as he came neither speaking nor being naken to. Couldn't Break in Anywhere. A lively looking porter stood on th< rear of a Pulmian car in the Penn sylvania depot, says the Clevelan Plain Dealer. A fussy and choleri, iooking man clambered up the steps He stopped and then turned to th, young colored man in uniform an< said: "'Porter!" "Yes sir!" "I'm goir.g to St. Louis to the fair I want to be well taken care of an< can pay for it. Do you understand? "Yes sir I hope "Never mind what you hope. Yot listen to what I say. Keep the trait boys away from me. Dust me of Whenever I want you to. Give me at extra blanket. and if any fellow ha! the berth above nie. slide him ove1 into another one. I want you to "But. say boss. I " "Don't talk too much. young man Here's $2. Now I want to get th, good of it. Not a word, sir." The train was starting. The portei swung off the platform. "All right. boss," he shouted. "I'n powerful sorry you wouldn't let me talk, but I ain't going out on that train." How the Fly Walks on the Ceiling. Harper's Weekly. Few people. probably. know what it is that enables flies to walk on the ceiling. It has been supposed that their ability to do so was due to the fact that each of their feet is a minia ture air-pump. This theory was found to be unsound, and it was then explained that the feat was made pos ible by means of a viscous substance which exuded from the hairs on their feet. This theory was also abandoned as being only partly accountable for the facts and the preferred explanation is that flies are enabled to walk upside lown on the smoth substances by the help of capillary adhesion. An in -estigator has found by a series of nice calculations-such as one weigh ing and measuring of hairs-that a ly would be upheld by capillary at traction were it four-ninths as heavy again as it is. Every fly is supposed to be furnished with from To.000 to 12.000 minute foot-hair: these exude an oily fluid, and it is because of the repulsion between a watery surface ind this oily liquid that a fly finds it difficult to mount a dampened glass. really using the fly. Then one of the members tried it on the Tay, and got rise after rise of the American flag when the fish had scorned everything else. If British trout will bite simply >ut of their regard for the new hands across-the-sea spirit. what won't the Americans do for their own emblem? \yway. I'm going to give them a :ry.( and we'll hope they have sense nough to followv the flag-swallow. mean.' Dr. c. J. Moffett is a graduate of meintE and has as nflnch right to prescribe for the sick s any physician, and gives to mothers hi: TEETHINA" as the best remedy they car use for their teething children. "TEETHINA' Aids Digestion. Regntates the Bowels. Over 0 es and counteracts the Effects of the Sum ner's Heat and makes teething easy. It takes a smart bunko man to un lad a goltd brick 'n his wife. A girl hasn't much use for a mar who is too cowardly to propose. "A\nd so." concluded the fond fath' 'r. "they were married-" "Oh. yes. I know." interrupted the daughter and heiress. "an' got a di vorce and lived happily ever after!' -Philadelphia Bulletin. Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea Afte: Ten Years of Suffering. "I wish to say a few words in prais< f Chamberlain's Colic. Cho' era am D)iarrhoea Remedy." say's Mrs. Mat tie Burge. of Martins' ille. Va. suffered fri m chronic diarrhoea to ten v-:ars andl during that time trie' 'ari' ins med(icines without (btainin any permanent relief. I.ast summe n 0f my children wvas taken witl choera morbuts. and I procured a hot te of this remedy. OnTly two (lose were requiredl to give her entire re lie. and did not use all of one bottl be re I wa wel' an:d I have neve 'nce be.en troumbled with that con plit. (One cannot say' too much i fa ir of that wonderful medicin' hi r:medy' is for sale by Smitr Drg~ Co. Newberry, and Prosperit Drug Co. Prosperity, S. C. Harsh Criticism. "When I was a boy in Washing ton." said John Philip Sousa, "there was an old Scottish musician with whom I played now and then. One afternoon I ran through for this old gentleman a new waltz of my own composition. .Well. sir.' I said, when I had fin ished. 'what do you think of that?' 'It carries me back to the home land. ladie.' said the old man. 'It car ries me back to a day when I played at an entertainment in a Scottish lun atic asylum. Mv instrument was the fiddle.a nd after I had ended my fiddle solo the head of the institution said to an aged lunatic on the front row: 'Well Saunders. how did you like that, man?' *Saunders answered. frowning at me: "It's a guid thing we're all daft here." One Lady's Recommendation Sold Fifty Boxes of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. I have, I believe, sold fifty boxes of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets on the recommendation of one lady here. who first bought a box of them about a year ago. She never tires of telling her neighbors and friends about the good qualities of these Tablets.-P. M. Shore. Drug gist, Rochester, Ind. The pleasant purgative effect of these Tablets makes them a favorite with ladies everywhere. For sale by Smith's Drug Co., Newberry, and Prosperity Drug Co.. Prosperity. S. C. "We will sing 'Awake. Ye Saints.' immediately before the sermon to morrow," announced the minister at choir practice oi Saturday afternoon. "Don't you think." inquired the ob servant tenor, "that it would be more appropriate to sing it immedi ately after the sermon?"-New Or leans Picayune. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This remedy is certain to be needed in almost every home before the sum mer is over. It can always be de pended upon even in the most severe and dangerous cases. It is especially valuable for summer disorders in chil dren. It is pleasant to take and nev er fails to give prompt relief. Why not buy it now? It may save life. For sale by Smith's Drug Co.. New berry. and Prosperity Drug Co.. Pros perity. NOTICE. We will receive applications for Dispenser and Clerk. for Town of ten o'clock a. m., and will consider same and elect August Sth, 1904, for the -erm of one year. Applications must be in legal shape. Jacob Senn, J. P. Harmon. .3. R. Scurry. Board of Control. TEACHER WANTED. The trustees and patrons of Vaughnville school will meet on the first Saturday in August at 3 o'cixck to elect a teacher for the next school term. The school will run 8 to 9 months.. Applications must be sent to the below trustees. C. A. Brooks A. A. Madden. H. M. Boozer. 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