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A OATARACT OF FIRE. Mt. Etna is the Most Olassical of Vol Canoes-Some of Violent Erup tions. London Weekv. Etna is the most classical of volea noes, celebrated as it is by Thueydides. who records three of its eruptions; by Pindar in his first Pvtlhian mde. and by Livy. who speaks of iun eruption and earthquake which took place in 42 B. C. shortly before the death of Caesar, which it was supposed to po'r .tend, The two most disastrous of all. however. occurred in the ( hristianl era. Tn 1169 a violent earthquake. felt as I:r as He,wio in a few minutes. destn,.ved Catania and 15.000 of its in habiints. At it was the vigil of the Fe' ..f St. .atha. its cathedral was crew". *ed wit h a co ngr'eiention. includ i 7 wl bishop and forty-four Bene diiie monks. who were all buried ben t h it - ruins. ;1iz erliption the\! side of the e n~*4 the errat er'ater toward Ta '; felfl n1:t., the w\ater. Oln Mareh h c41nvt. Ited Nico '1~ I.-ln' t eive mile< lI e i i f - h- I m:.t 1: un 14 haIle depth in - te i-le f the muntain. CN !ini fronm the Piano di St. Leo tM Mee Frm.no vi m 1 nilev fromql thet Qt i. [r Twa ni Ihe tose of the . 1y a 1'vw rlIter lipened. a mile 1I. th t ]her. and v4imited forth a nI If lava two miles wide. -I BMoll a t-mwn with a ' ::IL w L4Vr'iatei' openedI44 sev - r. ithl which, inl thlrev n4. .u1fe inl d1ia11Mee.1 Ih hI dv a t1 et 1.f I la 1va . ii NIarchi 23 thisItr,y edI thIe Itown el 114-aluiia. It thell 0ividit-d into an1 - tIrd Aisr1hin4.eIl . It Vlwed on. -till subhmwriu-in-- frieen other * i'a.s. till it rea hed \1lhanel. Iw 111 hil.i-it u ih I n - 1, 4 * i 1 4. ' u- , . ri -4n ih is e n s Vai e 111s st'1tm. .\ th len h I I 4f1 1 b vi vvr wa at least fit Ileuvn miles. while its aver:-e hieadtl was hetweenl tw4 1 l III ree. iIl iust have ( vere-vd at h'ist for'ty'5 lilar m'' iile's i of surfae. JAPANESE SECRET SERVICE. Story of a Lieutenant Who Became Disipated to Fulfui a Mission. "I retqire of1 yon(l." said the c'hiief (of the4 st aff'~l14 inlied J1apan lese', 11that youi shoul leav'e yourl prIesenlt molIde of liv'imr. anid. baecomie, (4n the sten-'I haIve 1for yoIiI'-Ihaunts tenf houses lhe was healthy minded and diet est ed voIIted 144 his country, h '.le set Ihis t eet h -an 11beyed~v'4 oldelrs. iIe was 1to heeomie d1I~it i'e1 nl ord4erI tobl~ proseinte s'ome11 of whieb'I he' ctuild only surmiuse. A t f'irst he found that it is nut so -easy 1for 111e good414 toa tall. lie neither ik t.' 1,ay cos tilned gIirils n1or' lie the accompiilanlimfent oft manyi sweet At last the da 1fei caime; the lieutenant, after all, w'a hmnan, not of adamant. Hle actually fell head over heels in love withi a geisha, says the Tokio correspondent of the Lon don Telegraph in wr'iting of the .Japa nese secret service. From that day lie ceased to be sonm bre and silent, and went boisterously to the devil. His superiors at head quarters dismissed him from the ser' vice, and with ignominy his father forbade him the house, his relatives politely declined to see him, and his acquaintanlces many of them thiems'el ves military men, knew him not. HIe was an outcast. "Now said the chief of the staff, "you have reached tihe condition that I earnestly desired, and you will re eive your reward. I am about to .send you on a mission of high import ance to thle state. To-night. telling *nobody-not even your father-you ill proceed to Nagasaki. There yell will open the box which I will give yot~t Wir of hletteur, and inside are complete instruction-s as to your fu ture.'' Tliese instruetionms wee that he was to go to a certain cmntry where a first elass Power was at war with the natives. Here he joined the staff of the native chief, and his bravery s no less than his military genius, son ti acquired for him a fame not alto- S getlier uniniugled with notoriety. As w a matter of fact, his presence count- 0 ed so much in the campaign that. the t< first class Power opened diplomatic ti negotiations with Japan. contending f seriously tlhat a military officer was il serving in a high position on the rebel g chief 's staff. Of course the Japanese v -overnment knew nothing about the 0 matter. nor was it likely to, seeing ti that no militarv otficer had been offi- w viallv d(patched on such a curious c mission. le was nominally a rebel h under the rebel's hannier. In tlis way ,' he secured the needed and valuable d information about the topograply of W Ile country, the enemy s plan and j scheme of operations, his tactics and P his strate.y. his ftirtificatiols and his defence works, all of which were of a the 1inim1st value to -Jnpan. ti Tei.ii Y . onn . Ilicer. after many adt'eenei. mode lii way haIk to Ja 1an. .Ily to fiid that tle chief of the ait' uns ilead and anidher 4)eeipied h his plave. S lIe was disowiled by the arny. but 11 told privately that work like that lie hiad just accomplished votld le found b for him in Manchuria. Possibly lie f thotuimht he had done enough for his a V1lmitriv liowever. le disapbeared C aid. stianllely euiough, the geisha with Y wlimi hle fell in love hias disappeared 1 also. ToIetlher, far from the madding n (ro0Wd, tle ymun liieutennlit and the h mit f thie i('a shmp are living hap- C Py ever after.l No Worse Off Than Others. The heitt o ' siftlessness eimin :Ovd in "lill' Parkinson. a udi1rep table citizen lit* a villa._,e in central Mass.1-hu1svils. Thel villa. e imIIPro(Ve IlIent s wciet whiieh had lao.re0d lon-" to Imakv thill plave atraetive, 4-ould do 114111-tn wi lii ll. wlmOsf. homese was a b1mliot' dirty slinl-les on the main Litlie streamlis 41f, water hadl worn .ullies in tle sidewalk, or I lie place where Ilie sidewalk siild Iv have been Iiill . n t 111 ke thv11 i lde to fill t i1h im, I,. ill- m -il hacive .1-ne withi a tw -11 ,!f 111f lrth. )l 41( ;1 :i v (Ii Siwn1 I in 14! b1 oke myneckya-ewssitn napl I - . aid h illrd. a inhnoe t:,n iltr ll1-.''. I l n Ih I WIh e 1 i Jile nwal t h t I 'lv \.X( lj . m ti l y.'l.-il, f k y xycthe gte!m't' ee' Well whyvIIv 11* d n t ilu fix 111hos,e ho'les inl your sidewalk I I ntearly brokes "Sry"saidl Bill. "WhIiih ho0le "Funny .'' observedl Bill. retfletive ly, pulling a piceC of bark off the slab I hie was sitting omi and chewed it for a miomen'it . "Lots oi' p)eope 'ye fell out t here, but I don 't reme'mber aniy onej cmplidai nin' of4 it before."' Just What They Where. Whiitinig 4on the early days5 of ('ali forn11ia' p lro)sperity. Mr*. HI. A. Vae hellh saysV. 'i' hilt ward and1114 visiblet most miaif est in thle houses ( they wer('e alwa~Zys spo4keniA ofi as reidenIces), wvhi ch like A ladd in 's palace, seemed to lbe built and14 fu rnished in a single "Onht 4n occasion l' Iwas in a P~ullI 11n11ali ia. an td we w.ere passi ig thbrough aL valley d14t tedh with mo)st unsightly houses-ramshiakle buildings, for' the mos4)t part,ci each an1 amalgam of half a dozenC1 styles of architect ure. and each obviously built for show. "''What are thiey? ' asked an old Scotehiman, who was oft the party. "' 'They are priviate residences.', replied ani American proudly. 'Yes siir, we 're passing through Paradise Park. Six months ago, sir, this tract' wvas a howling dlesert of cactus and S sage-brush.' v'ate residlences, ye say?' " 'Yes, sir'. What (lid you taker them for?' ''The old Scotehman answered so- I berly: 'I was of the opinion that they were luatic asylums.' "A big fellow, 'evidently a cattle mran from Arizona, burst into loud laughteri.t " 'You've hit it 1' he exelaimed. (' ' That's just exactly what they air.' n a "You should cultivate a more cheerful disposition," said Mr. Cheer- ' up. "Believe in the honesty of human nature.' "Yes,'' answered the man with the hi acid countenance, "most everybodv do es till lhe has indorsesl notes f'or a d few pnon.'1~' Stanford White. ichard Harding Davis in Collier' Weekly. One who is permitted to write i w true words about a man whonevei oke an unkind one resents the fac at before he can try to tell wha tanford White was, he must first tel lint Stanford .White was not. Bu iving to the manner of his death an< > the conduct of certain newspapers ic preface is necessary. Had Stan >d White died in bed, with his fam y, friends, and the family physicini athered ouut him, no newspaper, 'ould have found anything to sal r him save that. which was apprecia ve, true, and kind. In his death the ould have seen only a loss to thil ty and to this country. They woul arve regretted him as a great artist hose wdrk instead of hanging in thi rawing-rooms of the few rich, stand: here all men get the god of it, ou f doors, in the public streets, in th< arks of the p ople. But because his death was violent d to the most painful degree sensa Onal, that part of the press that fat ns oil senlsationl ordered tlie loca >mIl "to play up.'' to "let it run fo 11 it will staid, to pile horror 11POI orro1r. And to tile truth. which wa: id enough, was added what was abso itely untrue and absolutely unpar onable. Speaking as one who haii en in the newspaper business fo ifteen years and as one who was wel equainted with Stanford White, ,n truly say that in those fifteci ears I have never known an attael aide upon any one as undeserved, a! ifair, as false as the one made upol in. That within three days the awfu I:1r.es fell to pieces of their own rot '11ness did not correct tle wrong thu ad been committed. a wrong fai ~m'se tha iimrder. It was three av: l h.te. Over all iblis C4ount1try. lve! ;lnpe. hil hveln seIt bri'I'leist til elli.s Ilni Iwpvll illia.- <-, thle imal 1, kiew to hp so ditTereit, and tl d that Stanlf'ord White had don, s inter'il with his hones. It eal (of rean bui hried. Seeingt- no othe ignm ofI1 it. I cnlit not believe tha ImIllg. 11S fair play is so de(ld tha ien will listen to those who attael nither onlY when lie is unable t viendi hiniseli or to punish them. Th aist an1id tle t'airimtiled will ask wIr heeca eswere*l , m1a.,dt againl h I lein a.fter lie wva- 1murdere." l, wi hv. I tll Iewspapj1. erS kieiv hll i n . th v di nI.,t c1imina n1 11.11 -014ne0r (ilithill m }0 b i ,l , :It. t- n \\. er dI-II)I ' 4,o - wh l ,t ,11 W hite still was Ilive. t ' V( 1 l lv! 'l v. II v h lasl u I tly isI d,Is sinice his death,11 f.heir ebrt iideis tihey wthl be 'fibsurd. Hal 01m1e1' of' t lhem heen true Stanforl Vlite wollI have been the first t, ut hiis own acquainitance; had other a'een tru-te he would have eut his owi Iiraoat. F"ortuniat ely thle testimony to thii alseniess does not come only' fror hose who knew and liked him, but al o fr'om the witnesses called agains li by the yellow newspapers and b: neni htired to spy upon his ever' movement in t hat time were unable ii attlain onie item of evidlence agains im: thea societyv whd ih the yellov tress declared, it hteld among its re o'rds evidencme of Whiite's miscondnet baroughi its president indignmant ly deC iedl that this was so, oir that for snel st atemient there was the least found ion; and~ of three places dleseribe<a s "'st udios ' ' rented by White. th wner of each showed that White hiai eve~r even visitedl his house, was ut er'ly unaknowt to him, and demandet haii thle niewsp)ep)er mnake retract ion 'wenity-f'ouri hours latc r withou hanme newspaper's that had accuse YThite of mnaiintaining three harenm egret ted its "'mistake. '' Its real r'e ret was that it had made the mistak f offending living owniers of' rea ~tate w~hio tmigh t adlvert ise, not tha had wantonly lied about a man wht 'as dead. But. perhaps, what most helped to 'ard the truth and what in New Yorl Inirted the reaction Stanford White' avor was the testimony of the vern' romen who, if anat has been said o tanford White w~ere so, had thme lbes e'asotn to lie his~ enemies. It is true that some of these youni ersonis, to get their pictures in the Morning Telegraph,'' would talk t< :1e newspapers on almost any subject ~ut not all of them. And it was th< vidence given before the District At. rney by one of these latter that firsi Edled ''shame'' to the yellow journal nd to those who did not know Whitt inowed the man as he ws, She spoke at a moment when the moejg of his death and the suddenness i the attack upon his memory hma ft those who were supposed to ba is friends stunned and silent, and henm those who did not know him were rawing from this silence the wvor-s Ualit tag chOw4 !--af - . .. - - I the fondn- ..:- c : . I amn unt ,&' ' .7,-,tenn x:A s id mi.fyin.g effcc. on c.h r Intceral revcL- sta I.Zyniicd brauds w~ m enoug .:f six and a quarter n*lio aounmtion in the Unite.l . 3 at:: the letters on s-C-H-N-A-P-P-S, an, R.J. 1REYNOLD Winston-S. 41 V.11 111 ta i;11 14, I 1a .11 Ilhe %-. IWO IIt a 'zirl risedl inl leenest iiielii.na~tican nst the hysterival shrieks of abuse. Thu i hi ei--a ict ures. (Ip iet tl a S lu( ri. and ats "The Hiter." you know this irl. but you d not know that un der the necklaces of Houri and the erey of the bather she wears a seap ular. and that she is as good a Vatholic and14 as -ood a "ird as ever camIIe out of Ireland. anld if she4 de. nt often -- t the 'infessional i i tv bn-WV ,b- h a n1othinl. t- :d - -I I- Iltiji k e' I I IF it wil na.Sesrnkaclean,. Im ly. bl(v w 1,r61: . the -h1uder. W 1hat hI..'h1 Iheu !!w Iair: it IrII,p- withI hone-110 ty, dv. ti- iit ilme peo -lie f,t -I I I Iey w.ere .11 i ! I hIe r Ihi .1 s Se his II- d ti : Stlan fmr.l W hIIi te h IIas s bIn du-e a!ihe1 II that beav"4-t ". as a t hhl-k.:niard. as an c-re. Bluebeard. .1 a1d satyr. To a1nswer this by saying : he wa a irrat architect is not to an a swer it at all. He was an architect, s blit what is more' impIortant is that a lie also was a most kind-hearted, most considlerate. gentle and manly man, r who no more could have done the a things at tributed to him than he could .have roastedl a baby on a spit. t HIe was big in mind as he was hig in 7 body: he was as ineapab)le of little , meannesses as of great crimes. He loved life and gzot more out of it in t more intelligecnt and in more different lways than anty other man of his day in New York City. He admired a beaut ifuil weoman as lhe admired every -other bea ut iful t hiniz that God has given us. It might be the colors of -an (old p)ainting. it ighZt be the eil.1 ing on the carved frame of the old painting, it might he Emmna Emxao 's singing of Massenet 'a ''Ele-.de' or1 . Blanche Ring's singi:..: .f --ne (Grai I 0O(1 Summer t ime.' ' the -~K2-:e u . ees of Sharkey. or the '--.i"C of a I Greek Temple. Hi' dieirht over ore I was just was keen. a' bvPyh. an~d c grateful as over all the c.h- I)e 1 scribed as a 'velup! ary." an:rat i est pleasure w'a~.s -' 3:.': aU day 1 waist deepi in the rapids 'df a (ianadian river and1 figh1t it outi with the salmonl. >He always was brimmuring with so.me generous new enthusiasm. -''You haveun't seen it !'' he would exclaim, raising and clenching his two fists. ''It's bully. wonderful, gorge r ous! It 's the finest bit of his work in E America.'' To him everything in life was ''bul ly, wonderful, gorgeous.'' His brother artist testified that lie had not a jeal ous drop of blood in his veins. No one knewv better than lie what in another man 's work was good, and no one was more,qjuick to say it was good. Of his own work he was sincerely modest almost to shyness. If you emphasized the work- as his work, and not the wvork itself, lie would shake himself like a great bear and turn your re mark aside. If the work were good and beautiful, in his admiration for it it did( not matter whether it was his or that of an unknown art studeunt. He wrab always helping these beginnings, encourae.ju* adlvising, finding them comins; when he assiisted some The fact Is so widelyl that it is the besti flat plug. .Other plug "the 8ize and shape and c --other tagwarmmdeltolc s-yet there are more pour ,d annually than all othe cr onl-,y chIoicn ztlections rf :e!tr.tur - . v:.e) : , t f d)-nx-c r. -o s'-:p y r t)i o .L-I~!ione.xprence - e:i ' .'.. .. ReyncIda T~ a.bCAo E.haq: Ce tC: prove th.-t it r:ieirca r.n: A any ot. ki.id-and has a wholesome, ewers. siC3 shOw tint SCHNAPPS and other h chewers in r)ne fiscul yzar to make a net r po n-la, or one-third of the entire increat States o- chewing and smoking tobacco. the tag and under the tag spell I you wi-t have the genuine. S TOBACCO CO. Ilem, 1. C. Th 41ne heard of it. as no one heard of the girls lie aided for the sole reason that they needed aid. I t. thlrough the girl, any ile did hear of it he attributed to White the worst motives. Personally I know of many cases where he has helped those who had absolutely no claii upoln him except that they were ill and poor. And so far from being the ogre he has been pictured. when a man c1r, w1omana was in trouble. Stan fri White was the firt manl in New Y"lrk to wh ': r he : cw wo hild triu . knwincthat. zi.,king nw questimns. pn-ebi.rno rma .'it wouild .2ive hitmI pesur t' serve them. (hvin!-, iII the name of his profe."ien tll; ~Illiark. ~io New' Y,-rk1 I 'i!\v a- few other men have donl'. The Ill-riple 4df t ile while eln111ty ki that ;1. a 1jude jr .inr1r he has chosen for them publie buikildings which stanld over all America, and that to him are they indebted for much of the beauty of the White City of the Chicago Fair. But they do not know that near ly every block of Newv York's great est t hor'oughfares is crowded withI mfonluments to his taste and genius, and that for tihe last twenty years there has hardly been a civic function er p)ublie celebration that has not ow ed to him something of its success. It was he who( at the time of the Co lumbus celebriation lined Fifth Ave nute wvith Venetian masts and filled the trees of Madison Square wvith orange-color'ed lamps, under' which the p)eople w'andered as though in a fairy Lgard(en of their' own; it was lie who was chosen to decorate the Metropoli tari Oper'a House with fifteen thous and roses: it w'as lie w~ho built tihe Madiison Square Garden, the new Tiff any buiilding,. the homes oif the players, the Century. the Lambs, the Brook, the lofty marble arch to Washington whieb f'ronts Fifth Avenue. The cov' ers you hav'e known for the longest tune oun the magazines are his, and the samej band that made the plans for the Metropolitan Club, the home 'If the "millionaires'' drew the desir.rn fo.r the pediestal of the Farragtt statue, which the homeless take their ease. In New York it is impossible for the poor man, the rich man, the man of taste and the man with none, to walk abroad without being indebted to Stanford White for something that is good and uplifting. It is then in telligent to believe that one whose work w~as fine, big, and far-reaching could himself have been degraded and contemptible?i The misfortune was that Stanford White dlied in such a manner that the last moment of the career blinded peo ple to the years that had gone before and they judged him by those who for the instant dragged him to their level - not by what the man himself had been or by what he himself had acentoplish-' ed. For Stanford White I hold no lyrief. Hie was my friend, and, lie was kind to me as lie was to many others, and I can not butt believe when the hysteria passes the world will again know him as I knew him; as a big-hearted, gen A that SCIiNAFFS rnitated only pr6ves 'hew-the standard es are made to imitate olor of SCHNAPPS )klikoSCHNAPPS Lds of SCHNAPPS r similar tobaccos. .d, tbo-oug;hiy cured heC. zo Cf thet m'- . y ziincc .16'7!5 kes a smnaller - wimaulating of the gain led With Less Sweetening an Any Other 1785 1906 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON Charleston, S. 0. 121st Year begins September 28. Letters, Science, Engineering. One scholarship, giving free tuition, to each county of South Carolina. Tui tion $40. Board and furnished room in Dormitory $11 a month. All can didales for admission are permitted to eolmpete for vacant Boyce scholar ships which pay -100 a year. For entalwn'1n. address Iarrison Randolph. President. University of South Carolina. Session 1906-1907 b)egins Wednes lay. Stplem)er 26th. Five hur-seading to B. A. deiree, four to B. S. degree. one to L. D. deZree and (ne to L. L. B. degree. Certificates given for work completed in ally one of the departments. Expenses: Tuition fee $40.00; term fee $18.00; room fee $8.00; one half of each must be paid at the be ginning of each term. Tuition fee may be remitted upon presentation of certificate of inability to pay the same.Benjamin Sloan, President. SCHOLARSHIP! A chance is still open to the oun men of this county to get a Normal Scholarship in the University of South Carohina. . An examination for that purpose will be conducted by the County Superintendent of Education, F'riday, Au ust 31, 1906. ENte atocfr application blanks to BNJMIN SLOAN, President., Columbia, S.'C. Coal! Coal!! Coal!!! I am making arrange ments to establish a coal yard and will be In posi tion to supply your wants for both hard and soft coal. Should you wish to buy your winter supply for August or September de livery I would be pleased to quote you prices. See me 'before buying. I can deliver any time af ter August 15. SS. B. JONES. An Organ that will last a life time is what yu wan t. Our Organs have a pure tone and lovely cases. We --ean supply you with an Organ that will ple,ase in ever y particular for only $8 and $'70 deliv ered. Write us for our special terms of payment, and for Illustrations of th e beau tiful Organs referred to. If you prefer a Piano we have beau tiful and good new Uprights from $185 up on easy terms. Address Malone's Mui o se