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C.a PO' in the soi stalk and The natural - i1 simply one < Potash, the raw mr converted valuable. 6 an expei IWrite to-da New York-9 The Capture oV'Jefferson Davis. How Mrs. Davis prevented her hus band from escaping in his flight after the fall of the Confederacy is told in Mrs. Avary's book, "Dixie After the War." After leaving Washington, Ga., Mr. Davis had heard that maraud ers were in pursuit of his wife's cortege, and, turning out uf his course, he rode hard across country, found his family, conveyed them beyond the present danger, as he thought, and was about to renew his journey south. The. party camped, when he was roused at dawn by his negro serv ant, who said troops were coming. Mrs. Davis begged her husband to leave. His horses and weapons were near the road down which the cavalry was coming. In the darkness of the tent' he caught up what he took to be his raglan, a sleeveless waterproof garment. It was hers. She then threw a shawl over his head. He went out of the tent, she keeping near. "Halt!" cried a trooper, leveling a carbine at him. Mr. Davis dropped his wraps and hurried forward. Mrs. Davis saw the carbine, cast her arms about her husband and lost him his one chance of escape, ,for he might have slined away in the dark. Chronic Constipation Cured. One who suffers from chronic consti pation is in danger of many serious ail ments. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrui. cures chronic constipation as it aids digestion and stimulates the liver and bowels, restoring the natural action of these organs. Commence taking it to day and you will feel better at once. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nauseate or gripe and is very pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes. The Araut Co. Drug Store. The Rain In the Woods. The lamentable effects of the gener al destruction of forests are now suf ficiently recognized In all civilized countries. Such destruction Invites devastating floods in mountain streams and causes the surrounding land to dry up. Fbrests act like vast Lon densing screens. They preserve a moist atmosphere about them, atten uate the force of torrential downfalls, promote a more gradual melting of the snow in early spring and protect the soil against too rapid evaporation. And yet the manner In which forests act their beneficent part is not exactly such as might be supposed. They ore vent a large part of the rain that falls from reaching the soil at all. It Is es timated that in European climates the forests evaporate directly or transpire physiologically four-fifths of the rain that falls upon them. Thus the forest atmosphere is no less important than the- forest soil In equalizing the cli matic conditions of a country.--Youth's Cmpanion. Tale of a Coat. The elawhammer, or evening coat, has many oddities of cut These odd' ties were once essentials. There was, in fact, a time when every idiosyn crasy of the clawhamimer served some useful purpose. The cutawPay front of the coat. for instance, was originally cgt away so that the wearer when on horseback wo'uld net be incommoded. The two buttons at the back were ror fastening up the tails out of harm's way, each tail having In the past a buttonhole at its end. The sl eves, with their false cuffs, are relics of the days when sleeves were always turned back and therefore were always made with cuffs that unbuttoned. The col lar, with its wide notches, Is a sur vival of the old collar that was notch ed in order that its wearer could turn it up conveniently in cold or stormy weather. The dress coat, in a word, Is a patchwork of relics-relics once es sential, but now -ef no use on earth. Philadelphia Bulletin. Webster's Fine Talk to a Fish. I had a chat once with old John At taquin, then a patriarch among the few survivors of the Mashpee Indians. He had often been Mr. Webster's guide and companion on his fishing trips and remembered clearly many of their happenings. It was with a glow of love and admiration amounting to worship that he related how this great fisherman, after landing a large trout on the bank of the stream, "talked mighty strong and fine to that fish and told him what a mistake he had made and what a fool he was to take that ly and that he would have been all right if he had left it alone." Who can doubt that patient search would disclose somewhere in Mr. Web ster's speeches and writings the elabo ration, with high intent, of that "mighty strong and fine" talk address ed to the fish at Mashpee?-"Flshing and Shooting Sketches," by Grover Cleveland. A Literary Tragedy. When Carlyle bad fnished the first volume of his great work on the F$rench revolution he lent the manuscript to his frIend John Stuart Mill. One even ing soon afterward Mill entered Car lyle's door, pale as Hector's ghost, with the dismal Information, gasped out in almost inarticulate words, that wlkh the exception of about four or five sheets the manuscript was completely annihilated. Mill had left It too care lessly lying about, and a servant. think ing it so much waste paper, had burned It Five months of steadfast, occasion ally excessive and painful toil utterly lost! For three weeks Carlyle could do nothing but read Marryat's novels. Then one night, sitting talkIng to his cook, he decided It should be written again and eventually finished "such a task as I never tried before or since." A Valuable Lesson. "Six years age I learned a valuable lesson," writes John Pleasant, of Mag nolia, Ind. "I then began taking Dr. King's New Life Pills, and the longer I take them the better I find them." They please everybody. Guaranteed at The Aa n Conrug Store. Price 25c ASH L puts corn on the money in the bank process of plant growth )f chemical conversion. aterial, is cheap; but when by nature into corn, it is The use of Potash is not ise, but an investment. .y for our free booklet "Plant Food." GERMAN KALI WORKS I Nassau Street. or Atlanta, Ga.-1224 Candler Building Smoked Glass. Murphy-Well, this bates the mis chief. Dooley tole me that If I shmoc ed a piece of glass I'd be able to see the sphots on the sun. Sure, ain't I fairly kilt wid thrying to make me pipe draw? 'Tis the way, I'm thlnkin; that either I haven't the right kind of klass or else Dooley's been fooling me. -London Tit-Bits. Took Wind Out of Their Sals. Addressing one of his southern audi ences, Sam Jones once requested all the husbands present who had nof spoken a harsh word to their wives for a month to stand up. He shook hands with those who arose and then Intro. duced them to the rest of the audi ence as the "twenty-seven biggest liars !i. Tennessee." Neighbors Got Fooled. "I was literally coughing myself to death, and had become too weak to leave my bed: and neighbors predicted that I would never leave it alive, but they got fooled, for thanks be to God, I was induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery. It took just four one dollar bottles to completely cure the cough and restore me to good sound health," writes Mrs. Eva, Uncapber, of Grover town, Stark Co., Ind. This King of cough and cold cures, and healer of throat and lungs, is guaranteed by The Arant Drug Store. 50c. and $1. Trial bottle free. Hard on Beggars. The philanthropist, handing the beg gar a dime, said: "The world Is in a bad enough way, dear knows, but I.am not one of those men who say that It goes back Instead of forward. Take your case, for In stance. You are practically unmolest ed, aren't you? A few months is the most you ever get for begging. And do you know what would have been done to you in the fifteenth century.? The first time they taught you begging they'd have whipped you at the cart's taill. The second time they'd have slit your right ear and bored a hole In your left ear with a hot Iron. Catching you a third time, they'd have put you to death as a felon." "Gee," said the beggar, "who'd 'a' thunk it?"-New York Press. It Is Woman's Way. When a woman undertakes to decap itate a fowl or anything with an ax she grasps the tool close to the head, raises her chin, squints both eyes, clinches two rows of teeth and hacks straight down, missing her aim by about two inches. That was sufficient for a Batavia lddy to sever her left thumb. She was not a fainter and, re placing the thumb, which had been chopped at the first joint, bound the parts together and has excellent prom ise of its complete restoration. The game is not always lost when "thumbs are down."-Detrolt News-Tribune. Timely Precaution. "Maria," said Mr. Quigley, entering his home in some excitement, "I want you to promise me not to look at the papers for the next three months!" "What for?" wonderingly asked Mrs. Quigley. "I ha've just been nominated for a public office," he faltered, "and I don't want you to find out what kind of man I really am."-Chicago Tribune. shrewd Game. "Extry!" yelled 'the bright newsboy. "All about the 'ter'ble wumpty-er wump!" "Eh?7" asked the inquisitive .Md man. "What did ye say, sonny?" "I didn't say It," replied the boy. "Buy a paper an' see."-Mlnneapolls Journal. AMways Growling. "Binks Is always growling that he doesn't have justice done him." "Yes. When he gets a halo he'll prob ably say it Isn't a square thing."-New York Times. This May Interest You. No one is immune from kidney trou ble, so just remcmber that Foley's Kid. ney Cure will stop the irregularities and cure any case of kidney and blad der trouble that is not beyond the reach medicine. The Arant Co. Drug Store. When Hoop. Began. When were ho'ops "in" for the first time? According to Strutt, "trundling the hoop Is a pastime of uncertain or g, but much In fashion at present" (1801). Dr. Murray's dictionary, inci dentally remarking that the original hoop affected by boys was a barrel hoop, gives no English reference to it earlier than 1792. But the hoop was well known to ancient Greek and Ro man boys, who called It a "trochus" (wheel). Their hoops were made of bronze, and representations of them on gems show that they were dri'ven by a little hook with a wooden handle, very like the modern boy's hoop stick. This was called by the Greeks "elater" (driver) and by the Romans "claris" (key). Sometimes the ancient hoop had bells attached to it, and modern Lon don may be glad to be spared at least that exasperation.-London Chronicle. Unfortunate OmIinn One of the most singular instances of punishment for an oversight was that shown by the commitment of an alma nac maker to the Bastile In 171'. It was made out by order of the Duke of Orleans, regent during the minority of Louis V. of France, and read as fol lows: "Laurence d'Henry, for disre spect to King George I. in not mention ing him In his almanac as king of Great Britain." How long this un lucky almanac maker remained in pris on is unknown. The register of the Bastille, examined at the time of the revolution, failed to throw any light on fLAJJE DRESS REFORM''-: IT IS HOPELESSLY HAMPERED BY THE STIFF WHITE SHIRT. The Way This Garment Interferes With Both Health and Comfort. Some of the Absurdities of the Pres eat Masculine Style of Attire. The necessity by which men feel C0. erced of proving to the world that they wear white shirts lies at the basis of all the difficulties of the dress problem.,. Until ihe garment becomes extinct It Is hopeless to attempt the reforl' men's dress on the lines of health ind comfort It will of course ultimately disap pear, for it Is but the mark of a stage in the evolution of dress, just as the vermiform appendix is a useless evolu tionary remnant in the body. But the question is whether we ought to await the slow course of evolution or to use our common sense and abandon the ancient garment at once. Why do we wear white shirts? Ages ago it was only the wealthy who could afford to clothe'themselves in linen. The possession of linen underwear was then a mark of social position, and there was an obvious advantage In making public display of It We may put down three-fourths of the discomfort of the hot summer to the account of the starched shirt. It prevents the. very process devised by nature to keep the body cool-the evap oration of sweat. In so far as it hin ders thisl natural process in summer, the white shirt favors disease. But In winter it is a fruitful cause of-Illness. In winter tlie mere wearing of a white shirt would no doubt leave a man no better and no- worse If he were content to. wear it for his own satisfa'c tion. But the curious law of evolution comes in and compels him to wear'it In such a way as to do himself physical injury. Wherever evolution is at work -dt leaves vestiges-literally, footprints. Probably It is millions of years since the vermiform appendix became a use less -organ, but it still survives. All evolutionary survivals appear to be harmful. The appendix is the seat of appendicitis. In the Inner corner of the eye there is the remnant of a once useful third lid, which now only lodges dust and causes irritation. The lord chancellor's wig was once comfort in ancient drafty legislative chambers and now - merely serves to make a sensible man look ridiculous and give him headaches. People who drew up laws were long ago paid according to the number of words, but the multiplicity of words now only causes confusion. 'S the white shirt that was once a badge of wealth and culture, being no longer of value for that purpose,'is only a cause of discomfort and disease. It Is necessary to cut a piece out of: the vest and the coat, just over the most important organs of the body, In' order to prove to our neighbors that we wear white shirts. Consequently in-the winter time we expose the lungs and the air passages to the cold wind and the cold rain. From the point of view of heath nothing could be more stupid. Bron chitis is one of the most deadly of all diseases In this country.' Bronchitis is simply infinmmation of the bronchial tbes. This inflmmation Is excited by a chill, a chiling of that part' of the body left exposed in order to show that we wear white shirts. The white shirt, In :fact, might ap-a pear In the tables of the registrar gen eral as the cause of so many deaths, perhaps 100,000 a year. And does It repIly improve a man's - appearance? By virtue of the associa tion of ideas It certain1ly does. Usual ly men who do not wear white shirts are not given to cleanliness. The man. who wears a white shirt washes his. face and hands and brushesblis clothes;' hence when we see a white front and white cuffs we experience that pleas ant sensation produced by general neatess of the person and clothWn . But that a few square inches of white clothing over- the chest makes, a "man look better Is an absurd conclusion. - The case for the white shirt has. not: a leg to stand upon. The garment is uncomfortable, unhealthy -and 'unbe- - coming. And as it has lost the only useful function it ever possessed-that is, Its symbolism of exceptional wealth -we ought to discard it altogether. The difficulties of this course are very great no doubt What we want Is an "antiwhite shirt society," which would agree to wear, from some prearranged date, a dress designed wholly with re gard for comfort, health and beauty. T. F. Manning in London Gossip. . Making Love t'p a Tree. Billing and cooing among the Fijians is a curious feature in their'social cus toms. It is decidedly against the rule to do any courting within doors. The gardens or plantations are the spots - hleld sacred to Cupid, and the generally approved trysting place of lovers Is high up among the branches of a - - breadfruit tree.'* You may often walk around a plantation on a -moonlight -- night and see couples perched forty feet from the ground in the breadfruit trees, one on each side of -the trunk,' a. position which comes fairly withIn the limits of a Fijian maiden'7s Ideas of. modesty. - Substitutes For Tea. English cottagers have to use the leaves of- shrubs and herbs for tea such as the black currant Our Penn- -- sylvania mountaineers use the Solidago odorata for tea. instead of the costly China tea. Solidago odorato is a varle-. . ty of the familiar goldenrod. In Loul-' siana It Is laregly used by the French population of the remote districts. Checkerberry or teaberry -(Gaultheria repens) is a little spicy plant-also used for tea. Housekeepinlg fn Japan. I never could regard housecleaning seriously in Japan, where the walns can be put aside by one hand, where there is no particular furniture to wor- - yone and where even the matting can elaid and lifted without -tacks' or nails. But the Japanese housekeepers of my acquaintance rather resented' my - light attitude, assuring me, quite after the manner of housekeepers all over the world, that it is all very hard and requires much work-oh, very much work indeed. In order to justify my self to one housekeeper I drew a com- - parison of her own difficulties and - those of an American woman, but the' American picture seem'ed to her so ter rible and she became so deeply sym pathetic that I had to stop short to save her feelings.-Housekeeper. Fit and Fought. One would have thought this an Americanism. but I find it -in Garrick's "Miss In Her Teens," where Tag says to Flash: "Oh pray - let me - see you fight! There were two gentlemeni fit yesterday," etc. (act 2).-Notes and ALCOLU RAILROD. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS Effective May 1st, 190. NORTHEAST.-READ DOWN. SOUTHWEST.-READ UP. No.1. No.3. No 5. Q j No.2. No.4. No.6. Mixed. Mixed. Mixed. STATIONS- Mixed. Mixed. Mixed. A. L P. M. P- M. 200 745 ........ 0 Lv............... Alcolu ...............Ar 25 800 .... 205 750 ........ 2 .............McLeod*............... 23 745 .-...... ....... 215 800 ........5...............Harby............. 20 740 ........ ........ 2 20 SOS ........ ........ 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ALDERMAN, Traftic Manager. construction. muh-dMoreover, Diamond Brand Dress Shoes are made by the best paid shoe-workmen, of the highest grade leathers. B R IN G Y O U R They fit faultlessly, snug up under the arch beautifully, and hold their shape. J O B W O R Kl,9 .9iaJe /eAON D B/ 671aW MAE j f/NE S110fS TMAN ANY OTHIR fl/0S. /TI/t WfST TO THE TIMES OFFICE. ... , . * . NORTHWESTERN R. R. OF S. C. Open D W TIME TABLE No. 6, In Effect Sunday, June 5, 190. BETWEEN SUMTER AND CAMDEN. Mixed, Daily except Sunday. A n u Southbound. Northbound. No. 69 No.74 No. 70 No. 68 PM AM AM PM 625 936 Lve..Sumter..Ar.9 00 545 6 27 938 N. W. Junction....5 58 543 647 9 59...Dalzell ......822 513 7 05 1010........Borden ......8 00 4 58' 723 1021........Rembert's...740 443 730 10 31 ........ Eller be ...... 730 4 2$ 750 11 10..So. Rv. Junction..7 10 4 25 S 00 11 10 Ar...amden..Lee7 00 4 15 You can then pay your The urcuiaion Sd PM PM AM PM, ; BETWEEN WILSON'S MILL AND SUMTER flu iusces and Jois 1 Southbound. Northbound. we ret m to you the No. 73 Daily except Sunday. No. 72 l rrbt P-M PIM1 300 Leave......Sumter ...--- Arrive.. 120 of each month and 3 03.......Summerton Junction........12 27 320..............Tindal................11 55 which are thus made a 335...............Packsville............41 30 355............ Suver...... ........ 1100 in fuV )orevr ............Millard ............. 5 30 *11020 4 45...................Summerton_.......10 15 dollaryou pay out. 5 2.......-...Davs.............. 9 45) 545...............Jordan .............. You can always make change 6 30 Arrive......Wilson's Mill.Leave 8 40 PyM AM withacheck. BETWEEN MILLARD AND ST. PAUL. Daily except Sunday. Ba m a Pealers Southbound. Northbound. No. 73 -No. 75 No. 72 No. 74 PM AM AM PM f IN 1W s 4105 1020 Lve Millard Ar.10 45 5!30 415 10 30 Ar St. Paul Lve.10 35 420 T Ilo nt Fre PM AM AM PM ddress Dr Ead; S.S!3w,,os FEOS. W ifS'N, President. Summerton, S. C. -- 1- I Oe FFERED -?Zn1U.G PEOP Money to Loan W2 ~ ~~ w retes :n! tou youns thette 1. ;rmrmi rr education, who wish toand 11 :.o~i -a~ *Zrerms.Fo Convenience an qafety, end~ncwhich arrebabue madeua Don delry. Writetoday. APPLY TO You should deposit your money in agood ban. -s=ssColede,.nacon, Ga. Fire Insurance. Time Lock'. Bonded offhcers and Regular Ecaminatiow;.ifld our co.n CHARLTO'N DuRANT. tinued growth Is evidence or, the contidence reposed in us by the people of Manning1, land the surrounding country. ~~o~ky MountaouncTealwNysgmak Dhn e pst Ocoe 1, 9'4 $3 15 82 A F3S .ene Wo BLsyN Peie. W eoisO tbr1 95 *~ sne~i fi foreCoCsrcation.oInSiimulontediv I Bckahe.It' ItckyLoutainTeeintab II tas~raDarnCoxw, MadsonreissbyD8.E.afurth.S loanC,B toas Su meto, . .. GOLDENUGES FOR yonsLOW nOPL atteroerigsinitd THE DEVILFISH. Its Ability to Change' Its Own and the Water's Color. "I was lying on a rock watching the movements of some land crabs which kept retreating from the water as the tide rose, when suddenly a crab dashed frantically from the water, and out after it galloped - there Is no other word for it-a devilfish nearly two feet across," writes an observer from Ava Ion, Cal. "The animal continued the chase a short distance, lifting its ten tacles in the air in a sort of overhead motion; then, finding pursuit hopeless, it withdrew with a peculiarly unpleas ant, writhing, gliding motion charac teristic of these animals. Upon reach ing the water it stationed itself just at the edge, so mimicking the color of the bottom that when I glanced away and looked suddenly back I could not at once distinguish it. This devilfish bad the appearance of a cat watching for mice, andi when a crab was seen it would shoot out a long, attenuated tentacle and attempt to seize It. By carefully insinuating my way to the water's edge I quickly grasped the specimen and after a short struggle tore it from the rocks and secured it. "At various times I had from three to five devilfishes In an inclosure where I could watch them change color and- test their strength. In confine ment, if the tank bottom was dark, they assumed various tints, generally a dark reddish brown, but the largest one was a tigerlike creature, about three feet across, with a ground of livid white covered with black or dark gray blotches, giving it a truly fiendish appearance, especially as the eyes were conspicuous and appeared to emit lambent gleams. The change of color was marvelous in its rapidity. In a special tank in which two of these prisoners were confined they-occupied the corners, facing outward, with arms either coiled under or above them. At any offensive movement on my part, presenting my hand under water, the color scheme would change. A blush appeared to pass over the entire sur face, and in a large squid I can only compare it to heat lightning-a rapid and continued series of flushing and paling, from deep brick red to gray. "It was very evident that the ani mals differed much in pugnacity. Some did not resent my touching them; others merely threw a tentacle in my direction, while one never touched me, but directed its siphon at my hand under water and sent a violent current in that direction, apparently endeavor ing to blow my hand away. It was fascinating to observe the range this water gun had and how by seeming Intuition the devilfish could direct it at my hand as I slowly moved it about while attempting to attract the ani mal's attention in an opposite direc tion." C.A.S T O'E:F.XA. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of And Cheerfully Too. "Ninety per cent of the men in this world make fools of themselves for money." "Worse than that Ninety per cent of them make fools of themselves for noting."-Cleveland Press. It is often better not to see an insult hn to avenge it.-Seneca.