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FIRST AND SECOND WIVES. Edith Sessions Tupper Declares the Later Have All the Best of Life. Edith Sessions Tupper. writing for the Chicago Chronicle. sayz: I heard a heated discussion the rther evening on the subject: "Does the second wife have a better time :han the frst?" Most of the ladies present took the negative. They agreed that a man's first love iz always dearest, that she is loved .nore and in con sequence has more advantages and privileges than the second or third. Moreover, that as a man grows older he grows poky and prefers a quiet life and expects his wife to conform to his ideas. I think they were wrong. If I were a young, attractive woman and lookiig for a nice, soft sinecure in the way c-f a livelihood, I should lay siege to a 'niddle aged widower. I consider such a man about the softest proposi tion in the market. A widower is like a baby. He is helpless. He weeps constantly for a while. Then he sits up and takes notice. He is just hungry for a consolation and grateful to the one who bestows it. The first wife works and scrimps that the second may spend. That is shown every day. Poor dear Maria Jane does her own housework, makes over last year's gowns, denies herself all the little luxuries that women so dearly love in order to lay by. for "a rainy day." The "rainy day" materializes in the shape of Eugenia Maud, who, af ter Maria Jane, tired out, is laid un der the daises, steps in. takes her places and makes the old man pay the freight. That is life in America. So, whenever I see a woman fret ting and stewing and worrying over piling up a fat bank account I wish to say to her: "For whom are you scrubbing and pinching? For the next wife?" The widower just cannot help him self. No i was so kind, so forgetful of self, so economical, so prudent and made such lovely pie crust, and he is so lonely. So the first young girl'with a dim pled chin and a saucy air who makes "goo-goo" eyes at him sets his mid dle aged heart a-flutter. He weds Eugenia Maud, implicitly believing he has caught another Maria Jane. He is soon undeceived. But his new wife is so graceful, so pretty, so vain, so lazy, so helpless that he at once becomes her slave. For after all there is nothing a man so absolutely adores as a helpless wo man. He may .admire an alert, in depe'ndent woman, but when it comes to doting he wants a clinger. I have seen big, strong, splendid men, the absolute serfs of languid, lackadaisical, helpless wives. It's grotesque and it's pitiful, but it's true. The second wife quickly persuades "papa" as she is fond of calling him, that what went before Jane died is now impossible. Poor Jane's best black silk dress and gold broach shrink away abashed before Eugenia Maud's chiffons. The house, too, must be brought up to date. And No 2 must have a span and victoria. Poor Jane drove an old nag hitched to a side bar bug gy. Servants? Jane had one hired girl, Maud has three maids and a man. Everything changes on a like scale. The queen is dead. Long live the queen! And the poor besotted king? Well, at first he is rather frightened. But, bless you, he soon grows to like it all--the show, the style, the extrava gance, especially the bewildering little creature, half child, half wife, who cuddles him carelessly and cajoles him to the top of his bent. When she trails her laces to his side and puts her peachy cheek close to his and murmers, "Who is dearest, loveliest old thing in the world?" he ;ises like a fish to a bait. Poor, dear Jane was always too busy and too tired to pet him. But Eugenia Maud knows her business. Of course there are times when he thinks about Jane. He uneasily re calls her unselfishness, her thrift. He wonders what she would say could she see all this extravagance. But when he falls to dreaming of her, ly in g in her grave with her tired hands Make Your Own Ice Cream. There has just been placed in all the grocer] stores, anew preparation called Jet Ice Cream POWDER which is meeting with great favor, as it enablei everyone to make ice cream in their own home witi verylittletrouble.Everything inthepackagefor mak ingtwoquartsofdelicionsicecream. If your groce cn't yousend25c. fortwopkgs. bymail. Van sa,ChocaILStrawberry and Unflavored. Address The Genesee Food Co., Box 295, Le Roy, N.Y crossed niecklv ii !er breast. he hears a swish of silk and presentl3 two satiny hands-hands; that knowN no work, hands to be kissed and fond led-are pressed over his eves and z seductive voice whispers: "Bless hi! old heart! Did pap want his littl( girl?" The minx! She understands hov to wheedle. Decidedly the second wife has thi better. the easier time of it. So m) advice to wives is this: Don't bothel too much about that "rainy day. For it may turn out to be a "raini daisy." k'anama-s ?ealth. Colonel Gorgas, surgeon genera of the Atlantic Division of the Unite( States army, and acting health office of the Panama Canal zone. says tha within two years there will be n< yellow fever in that part of the isth mus under the jurisdiction of thi United States. and by the time th< canal is completed there will be n< healthier place in the world than th< canal zone. It is to be hoped he i: right in this statement. There i no doubt that he believes it. The work of getting rid of yellov fever has been begun by inauguratinj a war on the mosquitoes. The peopli have been instructed to kill the mos quitoes they find in their houses, an< a brigade of mosquito killers has beei organized to fight the pests outsid< of the houses. Dr. Gorgas doesn' say what the plan is for exterminating the mosquitoes, but it is probable tha the lands will be drained along th< canal strip and the low places filled I The mosquito must have still wate: in which to breed. It would be ai expensive undertaking to rid the en tire canal zone of all mosquito-breed. ing places before the work on th< canal is begun. Therefore, only th< territory that is close to the line o: the canal will be put into a conditior that will prevent misquitoes frorn thriving upon it. Dr. Gorgas says the yellow fevel carrying mosquitoe doesn't mov< than 100 feet. That being the case it can be seen that only a small stril along the line of the canal will hav< to be put into first-class sanitary c'on ditions. Anemone Facts. Naturalists have duly recorded tha1 if a sea anemone be devided in halved longtitudinally a new animal will ir time be reproduced by each half, as suming the anemone is kept in pure sea water. An old zoologist relates how he watched an anemone which somehow or other had contrived tc half swallow one of the valves of ar oyster shell. Practically the shel] struck in its gizzard and gradually cuts its way dowvn through the sofi tissues until it halved the animal as by a partition. Perfect reproductior of two anemones through the division of one was noted to be the result of this accident. Even a fragment or two of an anemone body left at tacked to its rock may in due season reproduce a new body. CHURCH NOTES. The finest city and village Churches are painted with the Longman 89 Martinez Paints, and we want every Church to accept our donation when ever they paint. 8 and 6 make 14, therefore wher you want fourteen gallons of paint buy only eight of L. & M., and mi, six gallons of pure Linseed Oil witi it, making the actual cost of paint about $1.20 per gallon. Don't pay $x-50 a gallon for Lin seed Oil (worth 6o cents) which yot do when you buy other paints in a can with a paint label on it. .Many houses are well painted with four gallons of L. & M., and three gallons of Linseed Oil mixed there with. Wears and covers like gold. These C'elebrated Paints are sold ho Brick! Brick!! For Sale by C. H. CANNON. - EASONABLE U GGESTION Soda water is always' 'in season'' Whether taken hot or cold it is a wholesome beverage, tinless ren dered deleterious to health by be ing loaded with impure artificial flavorings and poor syrups. Cold Soda drawn from Our Sanitary fountain Lacks nothing that could be Desired by the most Sensitive palats. We use Only pure juices made Direct from fresh fruits And can give any flavor. Our "Cold Soda" is always cold. THE PROSPERITY DRUG GO., Prosperity, S. C. Southern Railway. WorlT sir - ---- St. Lolis Best Line, Choice of Routes, Through Pullman Sleepers, Dining Cars. Stop-overs allowed at Western North Carolina Summer Re sorts and other points. , Low Excursion Tickets. t For full information or World's Fair literature apply to any agent Southern Railway, or R. W. HUNT, Div. Pass. Agent Charleston, S, C.. Cottoni Giising We are prep Jpared to gin 125 bales per day at 50 Cents a bale, Wil furnish bag ging and ties at market prices. We invite your patronage. Will buy your seed. Souherm Cotton Seed Oil Co., L. W. FLOYD, Manager. MOWERS, RAKES, Orain Drills. Do not place your order for these ma chines untill you get our PRICES, we have the BEST MADE. F. A. SCHUMPERT, AIR LINE NORTH SOUTH - Two Daily Pullman Vesti Between SOUTH anc FIRST-CLASS DININ The Best Rates and Rout< Via Richmond and W Norfolk and Steamer Nashville, Memphis Louis, Chicago, New Points South and Southwe and Jacksonville and a and Cuba. POSSITIVELy THE SHORT NORTH AN] arFor detailed information, man reservations, etc., appy board Air Line Railway, or Jo, Passenger Agent, Columbia, C. F. STEWART,Ass SAVANNA Western and Athi an Nashville, Chattar & St. To St. Louis and all poir west. Three Solid Train Palace Sleeping Cars, A without change Only through car serv go, withou c I Close connections ma Seaboard Air Line Railw Railway and the Souther For map folders or other THOS. R. Jone No. I Nohth Pryc H. F. Smith, C1 Traffic Manager, WORLD'S FAIR, -via SOUT HERN Best Line, Choice of Routes, Thi Dining C Stop-overs allowed at Western No and other Low Excursion Rate Tickets on St Season '1 ickets - Sixty Day Ticket: Fifteen Day Tick< For Full information, or World' any Agent Southern Railway, or Di' Week End Rates via Southern.J For Saturday and Sunday morning trains the Southern railway will sell round trip tickets to the following points at very low rates. Tickets good returning until Tuesday following date of sale: Walhalla, S. C., $3.40 Spartanburg, S. C., 2.10 Greenville, S. C., 2.ro Asheville, N. C., 3.85 Hot Spring, N. C., 4.6o Arden, N. C., 3.85 Fletchers, N. C., 3.85 Hendersonville, N. C., 3.85HE )ARD RAILWAY. SEAST -- WEST. buled Limited Trains I NEW YORK. G CAR SERVICE, . to all Eastern Cities ashington, or via 's.-To Atlanta, Louisville, St. Orleans, and All st-To Savannah 1 points In Florida .ST -INE BETWEEN D SOUTH. rates, schedules, Pull to any agent of The Sea 3. W. Stewart, Traveling s.C. t. fienl. Pass. Agt., H, GA 3ntic Railroad ooga Louis Railroad. ts West and North s Daily with Pullman Ltlanta to Si. Louis,, ice, Atlanta to Chica de at Atlauta with the ty. Central of Georgia n Railway trains. information write to s, T.n P. A., r St., Atlanta, Ga, bas. E. Harmon,. Gen. Pass. Ageut. - - ST. LOUIS, RAIL WAY. 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