Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Watches and Jewelry. I want my friends and the public generally to know that when in nteed of a Wedding, Birthday or Christmas Present,. That in the fnture, a.. wtl as the past, I am prepared to suppiy ti- .. M line ( Watches Clocks Sterling Silver Diamonds Jewelry cut Glass Fine China Wedgewood Spectacles and Eye Gasses Is comp-te, a it will afford me pleasure to show thiu. Special and prompt attention given to all Repairing m e at prices to snit the times. Atlantic Coast Line, S UA 1,11, rJ EJ ER. Watch Inspector. &=,W . FOLSOM, S.C Look to Your Interest. Here we are, still in the lead. aud why suffer with your eyes when you can be suited with a pair of Spectacles with so little trouble We carry the Celebrated HAWKES Spectacies and Blasses, Which we are offering very cheap, from 25c to $2.50 and Gold Frames at $3 to $6 Call and be suited. W. M. BROCKINTON. The Rind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for -over 30 years, has bornie the signatnre of and has been mnade under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. a 4*zr&;z5_7OAllow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and1 "Just-as-good " are but Eprmnts that trifle with and endanger thje healthi of Tnfants and Children-Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor OI, Pare gorie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. 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Potratue n ChnPit ing Cmec: Stat e png Com e orah.Tpwi-:.Ecuon rtr and seeprhe sin MiiAryrll Phyicand o e porise' SunaliendM.taySce EXPESES inticuteo,. oard npetiontof my00 suto iof Si mn-h 10:Sren Heathflns-ue adr Doubl arness 3.Bat-eeusand somaddlesdings maesi oak f 4.Inieldee-So e ineua hang aes: 5.nterrisele T n d au ratrn cen er:6 ch aniatosteary cniete.Y foun any A. Y . .A, ol Jouna : C oSxm e an six fme tah-s eretn aigclee niuie sities. Her Brilliant Innpiratlon. That the proverbial azbsentinded professor Is sometimes ably abetted by his wife is illustrated by a story told of Professor Bunsen. One evening about the usual hour for retiring he took it into his head to run over to the club just as he and madam were re turning from an evening call. "But," said the lady. "I must have the front door locked be.ore I retire." This emergency staggered the pro fessor. and as be looked bewildered at his wife the lady, seized with an in spiration, continued: "Ill go in and lock the door and throw you the key from the window." This programme was carried out, and when he reached the club the professor related the incident to a friend as evi dence of his wife's unusual sagacity. The friend greeted the story with a roar of laughter. "And why, my dear professor." he said, "did you not simply admit your wife, lock the door from the outside and come away?' "True," ejaculated the learned man of science; "we never thought of that." The clmax of the incident was reach ed an hour later when, returning home, the professor discovered that the lady In her excitement had thrown out the wrong key. Skipped the Hard Words.. "While I was in practice," said Judge I Gates of Kansas City, *I was before I the supreme court on one occasion. While waiting for my case to be called I listened to a lawyer from the south eastern part of the state arguing his case. He was at least 6 feet 7 Inches tall and had a voice so deep that when he spoke I^ seemed like the rumbling of Niagarn. 'I will read.' he said. 'from a wcrk with which your honors are no doubt familiar-Blackstone.' "The judges did not smile, although there was a decided twinkle In their eyes as they glanced at each other. The man read a few lines and then said: 'There Is reference here, your honors, to a footnote by Lord Gran ville. I would have your honors pay particular attention to this note be cause it Is by Lord Granville.' "The judges waited expectantly. The lawyer held the book in front of him, glanced at It two or three times and then coughed as many times in rather an embarrassed manner. Everybody waited for several seconds. Finally he said: 'Your honors, I see on closer Inspection that this footnote Is in Lat in, so I reckon 1d better skip that."' Her Chef From Paris. "An American woman," says the Bos ton Journal, "who lived In Paris was famous for her cook. Her dinners were popular and celebrated, and the conver sation was largely a tribute to the chef. The day came when she should return to the United States. Could the cook be persuaded to go with her? 'What! Leave Paris? Never!' But she offered him a salary that was incredibly. pre posterously high, and he went with her. "She had hardly settled her house when she gave a dinner party that she hoped would be sensational. Not one dish was fit to be eaten. The hostess. almost hysterical, after the gloomy meal was over rushed to the kitchen to find out whether the cook's art was a matter of Parisian atmosphere, and then, and only then, she discovered that her famous chef had never cooked a dinner for her In Paris; that- he had I got it all from a world famous boule ard restaurant." fli Clad Statues. We sympathize with the tailors of Berlin. They may well be indignant1 at the way sculptors libel tailoring. If they have a Bismarck clothed In bad 1 fitting garments, we, too, have a John BrIght and a W. E. Forstar portrayed in garments that would bring the blush 1 to any tailor's cheek. Sculptors de light In folds and locseness, and what care they that the coat buttons on the 1 left side or' the pocket fiapa on one side I are half as large again as on the otlier. Buttons and seams are of ten beneath their notice, and so they perpetuate monstrosities such as no'man wiould or could wear, let alone any tailor make. London Tailor and Cutter. f For Their Own Cnlves. A couple of young men were out fish- 9 Ing one day and on returning were go- I Ing past a farmhouse and felt hungry. ~ They yelled to the farmer's daughters, ~ "Girls, have you any buttermilk?" i The reply was gently wafted back i to their ears, "Yes, but we keep it for I ur own calves." The boys calculated that they had ~ business away, and they went.-Coun- ~ try Gentleman. Theory and Practice. "Dinglebat has original ideas about t family government. He says every ~ ome should be a little reptiblic, where I uiversal toleration prevails and every C one has a voice in the government." 3 "Yes, his family Is managed on that t plan; but he and Mrs. Dlnglebat have ~ the same old wrangle every day as to who shall be president." Not Painful. "Here," cried Oldham to h~s fellow I odger, who was starting for his holi- f dy. "that's my brush and comb you're '~ utting in your portmaanteau." C "Well, let me have 'em. You won't r eed 'em; you've grown so bald lately." o "That's just it. I can't part with k hem."-London Answers. e His Usefulness. I "Cholly doesn't seem to be of much a use in the world.' b "Oh, I don't know; he makes a nice c igarette holder."-Philadelphia Bulle- d Vouldn't Use Him. Cholly-So you thiuk I am too slow for any use? She-Yes. You don't even make the other young men jealous.-Smart Set. Slagnanimity. It became necessary for an Emsworth: papa to chastise mildly his small son t the other evening. Some time later. wishing to negotiate for a favor, the hastised one stated his wishes and as n Inducement added: "Papa!" "Well, James?" b "If you'll do this, papi, I'li excuse a you for that whipping you gave me." ?ttsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. p Excluded Him. He-I saw an interesting educated pig the other day that She-Oh, indeed! I- K He-Come, now:: Dor:'t say It! You were going to say you suppose I looked ' in a mirror, weren't you? She-Not at all. I don't consider you Interesting or educated.-Eschange. g Why He Is a Suburbanite. - a "You should strive to teach your chiil dren patience." "I realize that," said Mr. Binzon. "it t] was my rurpose in taking up my resi-n dence on a suburban car line."-Wash NEGRO SOCIETIES. THE SOUTHERN COLORED MAN'S LOVE OF PCMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE. WonderZully Named Organizations to Prov .de For Members' Slek Bene fits and Funeral Expenses - How They Flourish In Charleston. The southern negro's love of pomp and circumstance is nowhere exempli fied more forcibly than in the manner in which he multiplies his charitable organizations. Inordinately fond of company, he has few societies founded with the sole view of promoting sochiz enjoyment. For the most part, what ev.er foundations he makes have a semireligious trend, the dues entitling -nembers to sick benefits and funeal expenses. There is usually an elabo cate regalia and an intricate ritual. Not a few negroes of a southern city, such a.- Charleston, belong to no less than a sicore of these oeders, the names of wlch are oftentin'es curiously and wonderfully made. What, for inst:nce, wouid the ordinary patron of secret or ganizotions think of possesing mem bership in the Sons andi Daughters of the Seven Gciden Candlesticks In Charity or in the Sons and Dalaghters of I Will Arise? - The sons and daughters idea is work ed to the limit of endurance. There is scarcely a well known name in Biblical history that is not tacked on to it. There are in Charleston alone no less than seventy-five of these societies with charters from the state of South Carolina, and how many there are that have no legal status no man may say with confidence. Dues are paid weekly, and, strange as it may seem when the great poverty of the negro of the south is considered, the arrears list is a brief one indeed. Of course the charges are small, usual ly about 25 cents a month, but when it is remembered that many individuals belong to six or eight or even wore orders it is little short of marvelous how the funds necessary to meet the demands of the collectors are founi. and yet it is so deep a disgrace to be expelled that instances of the kind are very rare. To hold membership in a number of societies is regarded as a badge of honor. Meetings are held monthly in private residencts, in public halls or. more fre quently still, in churches. These gath erings begin at the fashionable hour of 10 p. m. and continue not Infre quently throughout the night. Re freshments are to be had for a small consideration, and as these are for the most part of a liquid nature the sons and daughters .are prone to be con spicuous by their absence fronm their several places of employment next morning. Often the police have to in terfere to restore that harmony In which brothers and sisters should ever dwell together. Among the societies in Charleston are the Sons an.d Daughters of the P11 grims, the Sons and Daughters of the Telve Disciples, the Sons and Daugh ters of the Bearer of the Cross, the Sons and Daughters of the Evening Star, the Sons and Daughters of the Seventh Star, the Sons and Daughters of the Celestial Travelers, the Sons and Daughters of tlie Good Samaritan, the Sons and Daughters of the East, the Sons and Daughters of Lazifrus, the Sons and Daughters of Christian Love, and there mig;ht be added to these fully twoscore of others. The devotion of the negroes to these or ganizations and the!: loyalty to their fellow members are absolute. The funeral of a colored man or woman who holds membership in a baf dozen of these orders is a specta ele worth witnessing. Occasionally bitter fends arise between rival so ieties for the possession of a corpse, for the negro's love of a funeral is not second even to his love of melons. The eeremonies usually begin the night be ore the actual interment is to take >acd. There are sermons, prayers and personal experiences interspiced with wild bursts of incoherent melody, which arouses religious fervor to fever beight. Men and women faint in the yourse of the exercises, many others all into trances and talk of visions of heir dead friends enthroned in glory. The ceremonies culminate in a form a procession. It is forming for an our before the residence of the late lamented son or daughter. Negroes from the uttermost parts of the city ather in the streets. The occasion is a estive one. They run and shout and 2aper. The members of the organiza ions to which the dead person belong d stand in solemn order, clad in elab rate uniforms and bearing the ban mers and other insignia of their re spective orders, and when the cortege Snally moves, wending its way at times through miles of the city's streets, it is followed by a mad rush of men, women and children, who block the thoroughfares, 'and traffic for the time being has to be suspended. he hope of such a funeral is the 'in. piraton of many a negro's whole life. He slaves and deprives himself of etual necessities for years to meet Lhe demands of the collectors of the ocietes in order that he may go to ts last resting place in the midst of uch strangely weird pageantry. Charleston Letter in New York Trib une. Hymns at S300 a Yard. A musical composer once said to Mr. ankey with more frankness than cour esy that he could write such tunes as thom of the "Gospel Hymnbook" by the yard if he were willing to come down to it. Mr. Sankey quietly re plied, "Well, sir, all I have to say Is hat I am willing to pay five hundred lollars a yard, either to you or to any body else, for all the tunes you can bring me like those in our 'Gospel Ehymnbook.' "-Ladles' Home Journal. Infusorlal Earth. In the whole catalogue of "chemi -als, minerals and rare elements," the rices of wh-lich are quoted every week y trade journals, perhaps no name is nore puzzling to the uninitiated than 'infusorial earth." Still, if one knows nuch about dynamite he is aware that his is the stuff employed as an ab orbent to hold the nitroglycerin of hat famous explosive. It was Nobel, he great Swedish engineer, who ounded a number of attractive prizes o encourage scientific progress, who irst discovered tihe trick by which iitroglycerin could be safely handled. :nfusorial earth is composed of the ~ilicious shells of minute vegetable ~rganisms, Giatoms which reveal won lerfully complicated and beautiful tructures under the microscope.-New (ork Tribune. When a friend comes up to you and :ays, "Now I want you to tell me the :ruth," prepare to lie, or else say some :hing disagreeable.-Atchison Globe. Don't ignore a man because he is In' he lightweight class. It is easier to brow a cannon ball a mile than It is LN THE CAR KITCHEN SNUG MANNER IN WHICH EATABLES ARE STOWED AWAY. ethods by Which Storex Are Re plenished Which Give Out En Route-The Room For the Waterx. The Cookis and Their Work. The actual standing room in the car .itchen consists of an aisle only w:de mough for two men to pass each other tmd about 3fteen feet long. On one ;Ide is an unbroken row oil ranges. the rery best sort invented, for when \uen 1o women's work they are not content with makeshift tools. On the other side is a steam table for keeping things aot, other tables and some of the re 'rigerators, for there are many. Hot water and cola h held in cylinders wvhlch lie along the ceiling and look Ike the projectiles used on torpedo )oats. One refrigerator is devoted exclusive. ,y to fish, which lie shining on blocks )f clear ice as tempting as In any fish narket. Until I had actually seen this 'efrigerator It had been my practice to efuse fish in traveling, feeling there wvas some mystery about Its )reserva :Jon, but now-indeed. no sneh thing. I iad fancied the whole menu cooked at mce in enormous quantities, like a sol liers', mess at camp. and my fastidious !ar appetite had revolted and faded iway during the first course. but now : eat with relish. kumwing the condl :Jon of the source of supply. Another refrigerator Is entirely for eats and game.'another for fruit. and !ven bread and eake are kept in a re Irigerator that they retain their mois :ure. Outside the kitchen there is a acred Icebos under lock and key, and 2o man ms.y put his hand therein ex ept the steward or housekeeper of the lining car. There twenty-five kinds of r.ine are kept, and there will be shown :o you, with a mninner a wed but prctid. he royal family of champagne with ool, gold crowned heads sitting on an cy throne. But, to go back to the kitchen. that tpartment is occupied by three men il in white, with perhaps a blue cor Ion for tradition's sake. who serve leftly and capably the hiveful of wait rs that swarm at the open square at :he inner end of the room. It is a vise provision that prevents close eon acts, for cooks are apt to be "redhot" Lt the crucial hour of.dinner serving, Lud, besides. the car kitchen can con aln no more men than the three cook., who broil, roast, stew and fry the umberless fancies of the patrons' pal tes. These men work hard. The iead cook, whose salary is about $70 er month, stands farthest from the indow where the walters clamor and s a bit more serious. The middle took, on $45 salary. Is lively or sub nissive according to the man he ad Iresses, and the end cook finds time o chaff the owners of the dark faces vho call orders, and sometimes he sings as happily as a conceited boy ho fkncies his future on the operatic itage. These three men make up the white apped trIo we see peering out of the vindows of the dining car as it slips nto the station. All the other em loyees of the train come into contact rith passengers and have interesting periences, but these are confined in he galley and are eager for scant ~lmpses at the station. Sometimes he car has a little balcony at the end, there they can escape the heat of heir quarters, a needed relief in sum ner time. The waiters have a pantry adjoining he kitchen and opening into it only y the little square window with a ounter on either side. When your or ler is given and the waiter disappears, his is where he has gone. Here are :eptsupplles of dishes anc. silver, and ere it is the waiter makes up the lishes ot cakes, fruit and cheese you all for with which to tie up the ends if your appetite. Before the dining car is drawn away rom the caryards the special house :eeper who has It in charge must see hat every sort of supply is on hand .nd n suiflcent, but not too lavish, uantity. Sometimies there are ninety ersons to feed, sometimes one-third bat number. but the probable number n the vairiou:s runs Is known. In long urney:s t're are commissary sta ions alo: ..e way where the car may e restock- I butt this is seldom neces ary xe(rplt with such perishables as ream nu imilk. Have you ever heard porter :..ziating that subject with tation en. Ioyeevs at Buffalo or else rhere? 'i aat means the emergency as arisen in the dining car. Such ings might easily happen In a larder here demands are irregnlar and mar eta scores of miles a way. It is a won er they do not happen oftener when re reflect that economy in perishable bings is exacted from the steward ousekeeper. Just before he sends his black coin alssary to announce dinner to the hun ering pasengers every man slips on cket and apron of whitest linen and *y this little a~t of costuming is con erted at- once from the nondescript an of the streets into the most spruce f servitors. Then, with everything eady in the kitchen and with his tiock f assistants about him, the house eeper of the dining car awaits the oming of his guests. And In they ome, thoughtless blessing takers, with ever a reflection on the hours of prep ration bf the army of men that it as taken to give them the degree of omfort which is purchasable for a ollar bill.-Ainslee's Magazine. Buildings In Stoekholm. Only twvo-thirds of the area of the lot an be covered in Stockholm evce t on treet corners, where three-fourths is lowed. The remainder of the lot mst be reserved for courts for light nd ventilation. All chimney flues must e twelve or fifteen inches and must e swept once a month from October y April by official chimney sweepers. Every Man to His Trade. 1 The Green Bag tells of a lawyer who ras about to furnish a bill of costs. "I hope," said his client, who was a aker, "that you will make it as light s possible." "A," said the lawyer. "you might erhaps say that to the foreman of our establishment, hut that is not the ray I make my bread!"1 Happiness is sometimes like a pair of pectacles. While one looks for it it ts astride one's very nose.-New York 4 !imes. If a man saved the ash of all the el ars he smoked, he would have con omed 1,600 before he had a pound of The river flows quietly along toward e sea, yet it always gets there. It dght be well to remember this when n e +,,ring to ,-nsh things.-C~hihan C gI LIVER A and then you'll t have been benefitt Diseases of Live cured. It acts ge whole system. that we all want. Buy a bott Read what others tI Thacher's Liver ever used. Juliette. Fla. I have been very - Medicine. I did so a gladly recommend it i and Dr them. If he P 50 cents for a o Write our Coz symptoms and reo THACHER MEDIC The Wate:: Carnvera. The number -f i-i- oi-vous creature found in the v::: s: u. ot of proportion to th..: u:.i ;i'der of natur. but this is perha :; 0.in iause the minute. almost invisible ete: cf whieh th rivers and ponds are full and which are the main food of the sm.ler water car nivora, live mainly on decaying vege table substance, which is practically converted and condensed into micro scopical animals before these become in turn the food of others. It is as if all the trees and grass on land were first eaten by lusts or white ants and the locusts anl white ants were then eaten by semicarnivo rous cows and slxep, which wcre in turn eaten by true carnivora.. The wa ter weeds, both when living and decay Ing, are eaten by the entomostraca. the entomostraca are eaten by tMe larvm of Insects, the perfect insects ar e eaten by the fish and the fish are eaten by men, otters and birds. Thus we eat the products of the wa ter plants at four removes in a fish, while we eat that of the grass or tur nips only in the secondary formi-lheef or mutton. Fish That Go Forty Miles an Hour. Few of us have an eenrute idea of the rate at which fish swim. When we say that a person Is "as fast io a por poise," we hardly auwe'ea quirh rate of swimming with that iudividual. yet he and everybedy rlse would like to be able to get thro::gh the water as rapidly. Porpoises :azve -been seen to dart round and round a steanier :avel ing seventeen miles an hour. tius prov Ing their capacity to swimn at a greater rate than that. The dolphin may be placed on a level with the porpoise. but the bonito has occasionally been known to approach forty miles for short distances. Herrings, in shoals, move steadily at a rate between ten and twelve miles; mackerel swim much faster, and both trout and salmon go at a rapid pace when migrating up a stream for spawn ing. Whales are not fish in the scientific sense, but It is Interesting to ntote that these monsters swim at a rate of six teen mIles an hour when excited. al though theIr ordinary speed is estimat ed at between four and five miles. The Question He Asked. Sir Peter Edlin of the British bench was noted for his courtesy to prison ers. On one occasion an Incorrigible ulprit was sentenced by him to twelve months after the mendicity officer had given the usual evidence of bad char cter. "Can't I speak ?" said the prisoner. "Am I to be sentenced without 'av-ing ad a chance?" "Certainly you may speak-," said the learned judge. "Say what you please. ou shall hpive every opportunity. I withdraw the sentence I have just passed until I hear what you have toj rge. Take your time. Pray take your time." "I want to ask a question, my lord." "By all means. Put any question you wish." "Look at him, my lord," said the old rogue, pointing his finger ait the men icty officer. "Isn't he an ugly beg. gar?" Sir Peter laughed till the tears came, bt he didn't reduce the sentence. The .Costliest Painting. The Duke of Marlborough Is believed o be the possessor of the costliest ainting In the world, which was at mne time the property of the first Duke f Marlborough. The picture Is known s the "Blenheim Madonna," painted y Raphael in 1507 and now valued at o less than ?T0,000. It is eight feet igh and represents the Madonna and hild seated on a throne, with a figure f St. Johni the Baptist on the left and hat of St. Nicholas of Bari on the 'ght. Its almost fabulous value is lue to the fact that it Is one of the est preserved of the artist's works in sistence. Bald Through Fright. The recent case of a boy who be ame bald through fright has been dis ussed by some people who do not be-. eve it possible. But other cases have curred. Dr. Pozzi. a Paris physician, nce treated a fashionable woman who ad been frightened by spending a sght in a lonely country villa evading ~he attacks of her husband, who had een seized with violent hydrophobia. When rescue came, she dropped para yzed, and during the next few days very hair of her head fell out.-Lon on Standard. Eskimo Wrestling. Next to gambling the Eskimo men ike to wrestle. The usual wvay of do ng this is a test rather of strength han skill. The wrestlers sit down on he floor or in any convenient place ide by side and facing In opposite di-1 ections, say. with right elbows touch g. Then they lock arms. and each trives to straighten out the, other's rm. 'n awvares. "Oh. my!" she exclaimed impatIently. Well be sure to miss ti.e~ first act. Ve've been waiting a goodl many min tes for that mother of mine." '"Hours. I should say." lie replied ather tartly. "Ors?" she eried .ioyfully. "Oh, eorge, this is so sudden!"-Philadei hia Press. As He Put it. 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C. ; 1Dr. Thacber's Liver and Bood Syrup, er's Liver Kedidine (Dry), or be ca get ron't, seud us 25 cents for a paccsee or bottle-But try your Drugist list. sultation Department, explainingyr eive free confidential advise. INE COMPANY, Chattnooga, Tenn. To Judge an Olni. An expert on opal ning has recent ly explained how tIhe cpr.1 s juziged as to quality and desirability. First, he says, color is of the greatest impor tance. Red fire, or red in combination i with yellow. blue and green. are the bes't. Blue by itself is quite valueless, and the green opal is not of great value .unless the color 1$ very vivid and the pattern very good. The color must be true-that is to say, it must not run in streaks or patches, alternating with a colorless or inferior quality. Pattern is described as being an im portant factor, the several varieties be known as "pin fire" when the grain Is very small, "harlequin" when the color 'is all in small squares, the more reg I ular the better, and the "flash fire" or I "flash opal" when the color shows as a single flash or in very large pattern. Harlequin is the most common and is also popularly considered the most beautiful. When the squares of color are regular and show as distinct, mi nute checks of red, yellow, blue and green, It is considered magnificent. Some stones'show better on edge than on top. An Object Lesson to Grant. This story is told of the first time Grant ever had charge of a large body of men sent out to give battle. He was colonel in the early part of 1862, de tailed to go to the relief of an Illinois regiment, supposed to be surrounded by Confederates at Palmyra, Mo., but when he arrived the regiment had r:: lieved itself by retiring. Grant then went-out to Florida, in the same state. and as the regiment toiled over the hill beyond which the enemy was supposed to be in waiting Grant says he would have "given anything to be back again in Illinois." At the atop of the hill, instead of troops drawn up in battle array, Grint saw a deserted camp.. "It occurred to me at- once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been oY him," said Grant. "From that event to the close of the-war I never experienc ed trepidation upon confronting an en emy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he bad as much reason to fear my forces as I had hls."-Syracuse Post-Standard.. At Second Hand. A Highland laird who could not af ford to keep his own piper was accus tomed to employ the village piper when he had company. On one occasion, through some over sight, Donald had not been given his preliminary glass of whisky before he began his performance. Accordingly, he found his bagpipe In a most refrac tory temper. The laird asked him what was the matter with It, and Donald re plied that the leather was so hard that he could do nothing with It. "What will soften It?" asked the anx ious laird. "Och, just whusky!"- said Donald. A tumbler of whisky was at once brought, which Donald Immediately drank. "You rascal!" said the laird. "Did you not say It was for the bagpipes?" "Och, yess, yess," said Donaldt "but she will be a ferry peculiar'pipes this. She aye likes it blawed in."-Hghland Bagpipe.________ Measuring the Hent of the ody. *By means of an inge:1ious insframent Invented by Dr. Lombard of^NewYork it Is ascertained that a womant'bindy is warmer than that of a man bfibout tree-fourths of a degree and: some times as high as one degree, while in no Instance has the warmth of a man's body been found to be greatei than that of a female. It is also definitely ascertained that chlildreitl are decidedly warmer than adults. the difference be ing about I degree F., the younger the child the greater the diversity. *A dif ference in the- heat of the sides of the bcdy Is discovered to be an Invariable law. The left- side of the head and ex tending downward to the base of the neck Is much hotter than the right side. An Advanced Course. "Oh, Mr. Johns." exclaimed Miss Gush, "I heard you talking to pa about plants, and I do so want to talk to you, for, you know, I am very Interested in, botany. I like all kinds of plants and flowers, as, of course, you do, too, Mr. Johns; but what varieties of plants are you particularly interested In?" "The plants which I am most Inter ested In," replied Mr. Johns, "are ma chinery plants." Miss Gush looked mystified for a mo ment, but soon brightened up, remar'k ing: "I haven't got so far as that yet" London Tit-Bits. Alabama's Capitals. When Alabama was a terrItory Its capital was at St. Stephens, in Wash ington county. The convention that framed the constitution under which it was admitted Into the Union was held in Huntsville, where the first legis lature met in October, 1810. and the first governor was inaugurated. Caha ba became the seat of government in 1820. In 1823 the capital was removed to Tuscaloosa, and In 1846 it was again removed, tbis time to Montgomery. Odor of Metals. Gold and platinum have little or no odor, but the smell of newly cut tin and of other metals is very pronounc ed. It Is suggested that uranium fur nishes a clew to the odors of metals, as this is a very strong smelling sub stance, and It is always giving off the so called Becquerel rays, consisting of streams of minute corpuscles. More people spend their time in won dering why they are not loved than in trying to make themselves lovable. Chicago News. Fights are sometimes thrown, but battles are pitched.-Omaha World Herald. en ars AIh8widYsouavAlaOUgli ATKl@ASrINE CHARLESON, . C., O-:obt G. I'l1 Orn and after i, .1t:,. L ..- ow g pats-ener schedule wll he- -. ie. NOlCTHEASTEtUN sch.. ArIth'Bound '35. *23. -53 Lv Flour:-, 3 00 A. 7 55 P Lv Kingse.,-. : 5. 9 .07 Li Lan,.R 4 11 927 732' Ai i% -ri. -tm. , i- 4u 11.15 9.10 '7e '32 52. Lv Charlest,*P.u 6 45 A. 4 45 P. 7.0 A. Lv Iiv. 8116 6 10 s 34 Lx :e";ste-e. j 32 ; 25 At Fr''.-uu', 9 :.0 7220 I.,,. t ily except Kunle%. No. 52 run :tbrangb *o Cniuuul6mm VTX Ce lfa:-l R :o rainxl Nos. 78 ani .9 ruin . ilson and Fa,,Lu~eviire lit L4e-anbet aijke cloIg.e - r-.tnfor 1 o tavi FNith nce dai t xen-ptr 9.55 a sn, a rive Dar lingtt 10 28 a u 4Cheraw, 11.4 a m Wadext-srts 12 35 p I I-ave frebzo i xcept Msiuey, 8 00 p m, arrm~ bar lington, 8 25 p w, [LiLasave .2r p Di, Bennesviie 9.21 p in, Giben 9 . . Leave Florence suriday on 13 9.55, 16, ar rive Dar!ir:ton 10.27. 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