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HOW ABOUT THE WELL What Sort of Water Are You Drinking This Year. Is it Pure, Use Plenty of it Inside and Out and You Will Feel au; Look Better. "What sort of water are we goin to drink this year," is a question that concerns every reader of this paper. for upon the water we are going t. drink depend the health and eveu the lives of very many of us. We commend the following extracts fron a letter written to the Progressivc Farmer by Dr. H. F. Freeman on the subject of drinking water: "The water we drink goes to make more than two-thirds of the blood which flows through our veins. The blood has about four functions t< perform. This stream of blood i, the medium which receives from th< outer world the different matter: which go to make us well or sick. As it passes through every part o: the body, the various tissues of tb body take out of this ruddy strean the materiala necessary for thei: nutrition and health. It is the med lum which takes up or asorbs th. dead or refuse matters from the var ions tissues and carries this poison ous or dead matter to the various or gans whose business it is to throv off and out of the body this dead ma terial. It warms, moistens and ir vigorates the whole body whe! healthy. "Now you see the need of pur< water, for the water you drink i; making two-thirds of the blood fron which so many fever and ague germ come. How about your drinkin water? Is it pure? Many hundred; of cases of sickness and death hav( been traced directly to contaminate< water. Are you concerned about it Do you know that this water yoi drink is carrying into your bloo< the germs which it contains? Tha is just what is being done. And i it were not for nature's forces whilb strong and vigorous, you would soo: be sick. But let some of these nat ural forces get wrong, a screw loos, or a tap off, and you are sick a: once and the doctor has to come anc tighten things up and set these force to going again. This costs more. though, than it does for you to clean out your well. "The time to clean out a well ii not when the water Is lowest. bu; when the well is full to overflowing When the water is low in the well it then should be the purest, as it all comes from deep down in the ground But when the well is full of water it has run in from all the little water drains and especially through those nearest the top of the ground, and many times it gets in from the top of the ground. Now this rush of water from the top, and through the earth's pores carries along with i: all the impurities in reach. Many times the death germ is taken into the well this way. Now when youl draw all this water fro~m the well when it is full, you bring out the germs carried in by this rush of wat er. We drew all ours out a few days ago and left a pure stream of water rushing In near the bottom. Clean up about your well and raise the earth around it so the water wifl run off. Don't have pig holes anC chicken holes about the well. "I know of an incident or two which happened not so far from here A tenant had a nice horse when he moved to a place where the well water was bad. This norse soon af ter began to look bad and to get In bad condition generally. This continued during the year, and the man moved to a place where the wat er was wholesome and good. The horse soon got back, to his old self and remained so afterwards. This was true also of the family. "My friends, when your cow, horse, pigs, or chickens are not doing well, examine your water supply, and make sure that Is Is all right. I was called to see a sick member of a large family. I at once advised the man to clean up around his home and fill up the puddle holes. He paid no attention to this advise. Several of the fanrily wer'e sick and one died during that summer and fall. "If you feel bad and look bad, ask yourself what kind of water you are drinking. Have you done anything for the last three or five years to supply your family and stock with pure, sweet water? There are a great many families who look pale and bad all the time. Much of this is caused by bad, germ-laden drink ing water. All of you readers who have not been in the best of health now for sometime, just look into the condition of your drinking water. Then after you know it is pure, use a plenty of it inside and out and you will feel and look better." ONE GIRL SHOT ANOTHERk. About a Young Man Who Was At tentive to Her. A special from Asheville, N. C., gives the particulars of a sensational shooting there last week of a young woman, Miss Ida Franklin by Miss Parseda Shelton. It seems that the shooting is the result of enmity arising between the two former friends over the love of a young man with whom both were infatuated. Miss Shelton, hearing that that Miss Frankin had been "talking about her," went to the latter with the purpose of securing a personal interview about the matter. When she appeared she was refused r.iittance to the Franklin home and S- Boor "was slammed" in Miss Ste :'s face. Th' 1*'rmerl1 thereupon drew a pis tol and !. -d through the door, the bullet strik~iug Mfss Franklin in the breast, making a dangerous wound. Longest and Shortest Days. At London and Bremen the long est day has sixteen and one-half hours. At Stockholm it is eighteen and one-half hours in length. At Hamburg and Dantzig the longest day has seventeen hours. At St. Petersburg and Tobolsk, Siberia, the longest day is nineteen hours and the shortest five hours. At Tornea. Fin land, June 21 brings a day nearly 22 hours long and Dec. 25 one less than three hours in length. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without interr-:p tion and in Spitzbergen the longest Ay se thraene an on-haf months. MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS. Queer Notions About the Stormy Pet rel Among Saiiors. The stormy petrel. alias Mother Carey's chicken (Porcellaria pelagl ca,) or (Oceanites oceanicus). ac cording as we have reference to the species of the eastern or western At lantic, has not got the epithet o "stormy" for nothing, sys Forest and Stream. As already stated, the bird appears to revel in a tumult of the winds and waves and actually does so for a good and suflt'ilnt reason. This is that its f:od sup;:y is very much more abundant when the ocenfl is agitated than when it is at rest. Then, the petrel has a decided habit of following ships. which has really nothing to do with impending storm. No. it seeks the ship, not because it Is afraid or louely, but simply be cause the ship agitates the waters. Very like.y as it follows a storm may spring up and then. seeing the bird so obviously delighted, poor super stitious Jack not unnazura:ly thought there was srnie conii.ction between them. From this to a belief in a ccmpanionship in evil was only a step. The queer notions about the' stormy petrel did not end here. It was be lieved (and the naivete of this belief is decidedly racy of poor Jack) that It carried its eggs uud:r its wing and hatched them on the water. It was also believed that it could appear at will In the neighborhood of a ship anywhere about the ocean. All tais certainly pointed to nccromantic or uncanny power, and it is not to be wondered at that the bird became such an object of fear and aversion to the poor man before the mast. The poet Coleridge has left us a fit:e picture of the terrifying inluence of the albatross on the Ancient Mar iner, but no poet seems to have awak ened to the possibilities of the stormy petrel as a theme. However, we read much about it off and on in old chron icles or tales of the sea. In one of these it is recorded that the sailors, seeing the herald of storm join the ship too near land as they supposed, mutinied and refused to proceed. JUST KICKED A CAT. Cure for Rheumatism Discovered by a Jersey Freight Clerk. A clerk in the Pennsylvania Rail road freight oilice in Jersey City, suffered from spasmodic twinges in his right leg. which he attributed to rheumatism. He consulted a physi clan and spent a good deal for medi cine, but continued to grow worse. One morning recently the oflice tomcat in a spirit of friendliness arch ed his back and rubbed against the afflicted calf. The clerk gave a vici ous kick with his bad Jeg and a gray streak shot through the air. He hob bled to a chair and sat down with a few stirring remarks about cats and 1 rheumatism. A few minutes later he gritted his teeth hard and arose. He shook his leg and feebly smiled. Then he walked like a drum major across the floor and boisterously shook hands with hituself. The sharp twinges had disappeared and there has been no recurrence of pain. The clerk's doctor corrected his di agnosis when asked for an explana tion of the sudden cure anu said that what he mistook for rheumatism was probabiy "aused by a twisted ligament. The kick at the eat straightened out tie twist and removed the cause of the trouble. What Gum Arabic Really Is. Gum arabic, which forms one of the more important minor exports of Egypt, is really the sap Iromn a speci:s kind of tree which grows from three to five yards in height, whole iorests of which are found in the Ko:'dofan Province, and also near GeL.A. in the White Nile Province. The natives are free to collect the gum. The season during whicn the trees yield their sap runs from December to May. Pri or to gathering the crop the natives prepare the trees by slightly cutting the bark in numerous places. The sap then exudes. solidities in the shape of large and small lumps and is af terward gathered by hand, such gath ering being done before the rainy season esommences. There are two Imain classes of gumu-amiber-like and bleached. In the latter the gum is merely exposed to the strong antion of the sun-generally in Omdurnan while in the formter instance it is al lcwed to retain its natural amber color. The confectionery trade is perhaps thle principal putrchase'r of gum arabic. though a very largc number of other indlustries-eheinical works. printing and dyeing mills, let terpress printers and so on-are in terested in this produ('t of the Sudan. Dead Bacteria Dangercus. One result of bacteriological re search is the distinction between in fective and intoxicative diseases. In the former the general multiplica.tion of micro-organisms in the body of the patient is the salient feature, wvnile in the latter poisoning is the ectuse of the malady. Thus, states a well-known atuthor'i ty, the dead bodi'es of typhold' t; cilli. although destitute' of all infetive properties, are yet toxic whe-u i:tro duced into animals in virtue of the intracellular poisons they contain. Accordingly. in the case of many dis eases formerly regarded as purei: in fective, it has now become app;~rent that, in addition to the infectivo. the poisonous properties of tee invcaing bacterial cells must be taken into ac count. SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Three Men. All Prominent, Shot F~romi convent Grounds. Dr. Glovonni Grana, a prominent physician: his brother in law, John Orofino, and a friend. Alfonso Mole, were shot from ambush in Ybor City, Fla., by four men, who had secreted thenmselves in the grounds of St. Joseph's Convent. Mole will prob ably die, the others being only slight ly wounded. All are Italians. and the shooting is believed to be the re suIt of a Black Hand Plot. Five thousand dollars was demanded fron: Dr. Grana several weeks ago, and he had also been war::ed to leave the city. Demands have also been made on other prominent Italians. and much alarm has pirevaiiled in the Italian colony. The police have ar rested five Italians on suspicion. It's a poor tool that can't be work ed both ways. Successful men possess either abil ity or nerve. It tickles some men almost to death LOSE THEIR LIVES. - The Sad Fate of Three Little Boys Over in Sumter. A dispatch from Sumter to The State says between .5 and 6 o'clock Tuesday the dead body of Welley Wedekind, a young white boy be tween S and 9 years of age, son of Mr. Henry C. Wedekind of that city, was found floating on the water of a clay hole at the Sumter brick works just outside of the city limits. Mr. Tom Roland being called, went in and brought the body ont. 'T'he caps of two other boys were also found, and Durrell Lide, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lide, and Archie Ledinghan, two boys about 9 years each, are nissng and there is little doubt but that they were also drown ed in he asme hole. All three of the boys have been missing all day. Mr. Irvin A. Ryttenberg. proprietor of the Sumter brick works, says that the three boys above named were at the brick hole that morning, when he ran them a.way. An old boat in the clay hole has been used by some of the boys around the town and the supposition !s that these three boys went out in this boat. which overturned or they fell out of it and were drowned. A searching party has been drag ging the clay hole for the two missing drowned is unknown. drowned s unknown. At 9:15 information was broughtto the city that the body of Archie Led ingham had been recovered. The deplorable tragedy has cast a gloom over the entire community and the afflicted parents have the sympa thy of all the people in Sumter. THE DISPENSARY MESS. What Senator Tillman Thinks of the Whole Matter. In speaking 'of the dispensary mess in Columbia Senator Tillman express es himself in his usual plain manner: I "The trouble never would have oc curred," said the senator to The State's correspondent, "if the legis lature had never placed the funds in to the hands of a commission which could take the money out of the State treasury. Do you suppose that if the money had been in the State treas ury and the regular officers of the State in charge of it, any federal judge whould have dared to touch it? Judge Pritchard's action had for its -ground the fact that the commission was acting merely as trustees for the State, and he holds that this places them in the same position as trustees or agents for any business concern. There is something pecu liar about this commission business anyway. I have been tryng to find out who was the author of the bill to create it. It looks to me like at the bottom of it there was some attempt to play underhand politics, and while I don't like to say there is something crook ed about it, it certainly seems that the banks which have had all that money on deposit all the time have been 'greatly favored. Why hasn't Ithe commission paid out the money, or at least those claims which they have approved? They hadn't paid any of it out until a little over a 'week ago. All the time it has remained in the banks and the banks have been getting the benefit of it." THREE DROWNED. Boat Capsized With Party of Ten Persons In It. Mrs. Augusta *Keller, two of her children. Mr. and Mrs. Clack, Mr. W. F. Bone, Mr. and Mrs. James Queen, W. H. Bright and Charles Green, all operatives of the Appalachee mills, were in a small canoe on the pond near Greer Sunday afternoon for a pleasure ride. The load in the boat caused it to dip and when some water came into the boat, Mrs. Keller and her two children jumped overboard. The other persons in the boat be came panic stricken and also jumped into the water. Mr. J. B. White, who was strolling along the bank of the pond witnessed the accident. He quickly secured an other canoe and paddled to where the victims were doing their best to save their lives. Mr. White succeeded in getting his hands on thie clothes of the two -chil dren of Mrs. Keller and they were drawn into the boat. White then at Itempted to catch Mr's. Keller. but she Isank to the bottom. White then turned his attention to the other per sos in the water and succeeded in rescuing them. The first one to be rescued after the children was Mrs. Queen, then Mr. Queen and then ~Brght, Green and Clack. The victims who could not be reached, were Mrs. Clack'. Mrs. Kel ler and Mr. W. F. Bone. The bodies of those sank to the bottom, and since the pond is several feet deep it wa necessary to dred.ge for them. All three of the bodies were recov ered. SERIOUS WRECKi. At Trenton in 'Which an Engiaeer and Fireman We~re Killed. A frightful accident occurred on Ithe Southern at Trenton at 11 o'clock Wednesday night. resulting in the death of Engineer Rob'?rt Hubbard. and a negro fireman. Tillmnan Lcw man, of Columbia. and the i.iis-ing though not s'eriously. of Coneicrtor Charles Wright and Mr. Lewis Har rison, a trainman, he roads fr'om Columbia to Augusta and from Aik en to Edgefield cross at Treriton. An extra passenger train was i'un ning from Aiken to Edgefield. a freight train heading to Augusta was hifting, and one of the boxes back ed and left across the point where the lines cr'ossed, and the train from Aiken cr'ashed into it. The engine was turned over and t he dead men were caught under it anrd crushed to death. Mrs. Hubbard. the wife of the en gineer. with Miss Helen Haltiwanger 'of Edgefield, occupied the passenger, con:. which was also turnd over. but the escaped without serious in iury. The coach caught fire, but the flames wer'e extinguished before it was much burned. An inquest was held, the jury returning a verdirt in conformity with the above factsr.* Speed the D~ay. Miss May Harris Armor of Georgia is trying to earn fame as the Mother Shipton of Pennsylvania. She is up there prophesying that in ten years not a drop of licuor will be manu CIRCUS MAN KILLED. Meets Instant Death in Railroad Ac cident in Augusta. W. B. Bunnington, in charge of the first advertising car of the Sparks' Circus, was killed i' the C. and W. C. Railroad yard in Augusta late Wednesday afternoon. Bunningt-,:i was standing en the rear watching the trucks of his car to see if they wero running hot and leaned too t.-r out uver an adjoining track. In passing a switch the steel disc on the top of the switch rod struck him in the face, completely severing the whole right side of his head. Gen. Lee at the Wilderness. There he stood, the grand old hero, great Virginia's god-like son, SeconI rnt none in gory-ec l to her Washinton: Gazing on his lin. of bz:ile, as it wavsed to and fro; 'Neath the front and flank advances of the almost conquering foe, Calm as was that clear May morning, ere the furous death-roar broke From the iron-throated wair lions crouching 'neath the cloudy smoke; Cool, as tho' the battle raging was but mimicry of fight, Each brigade an ivory castle, and each regiment a knight; Chafing in reserve beside him, two brigades of Texans lay, ll impatient for their portion in the fortunes of the day. Shot and shell are 'mong them fall ing, yet unmoved they silent stand, Looking, eager for the battle, but a waiting his command. Suddenly he rode before them, as the forward line gave way, Raised his hat with courtly gesture, "Follow me and save the day!" But as tho' by terror stricken, still and silent stood that troop, Who were wont to rush in battle with a fierce avenging whoop. It was but a single moment, then a murmur thru' them ran, Heard obove the cannon's roarng a. it passed from man to man. "You go back and we'll go forward!" now the waiting leader hears, Mixed with deep impatient sobbing as of strong men moved to tears Once again he gives the order, "I'll lead you on the foe!" Then thru' all the line of battle rang a loud determined "No!" Quick as thought a gallant major, with a firm and vise-like grasp, Seized the general's bridle, shouting "Forward, boys! I'll hold him fast!" Then agan the hat was lifted, "Sir I the older man; Loose my bridle, I will lead them," in a measured tone and calm. Trembling with supprossed emotion, with intense excitement hot In a quivering voice the Texan, "No by God, sir, you shall not!-" By them swept the charging squad ron with a loud exultant cheer; "We'll take the salient, General, if you watch us from the rear. And they kept their word right nobly, sweeping every foe away, With that grand grey head uncovered watching how they saved the day. But the calm was shaken, which no battle shock could move By this true spontaneous token of his soldiers child-like love! MUST BE DEAD. Hope No Longer Entertained for the Modern Crusoe. All hope of finding Fred Jeff s. a sailor who was stranded on Indefati gable Island, in the Pacific ocean, hai been practically abandoned. The gunboat Tankton, which was sent from Cailao to hunt for the missing seaman, has arrived at Acapulco, Mexico, and the commanding officer reported to the navy department that no trace of Jeffs has been found, which is taken to mean that he is dead. That Jeffs must have experienced many more hardships than those re lated of Robinson Crusoe, is evident from the nature of the island upon wih h was stranded. Indefatig able or Santa Cruz Island, is on the equator, entirely uninhabited save by monster turtles and venomous rep tiles of the tropical regions. The searching party believe that Jeffs could not have lived long after he was wrecked, on May 8, 1907. GRANTED TIME TO WRITE His Biography by the Governor Be fore Being Hung.. Gov. Claude A. Swanson, of Vin gnateehoned Sheriff Lawler that Leo C. Thurman,unesntceo be hanged today at Norfolk for the murder of W. P. Dolsen. had been respited to the 27th inst. The respite was granted on the plea of Thurman asking for a fortnight more in which to complete a history of his life, which he is writing. Saving Her Own Beoks. The fact that some person will occa sionally borrow from a circulating li brary the very book that he has In hi. own home puzzles the library attend' ana One day a librarian sought en lightenment on this duplication. "Yea just bought a set of these books for yourself, did you not?" she In quired of a woman who had asked fo "Great Expectations," "Haven't the: been delivered yet?" "Oh, yes; they've come all right,'' was the reply, "but I .don't like to use them for fear they might get dirty." New York Post "What did you think of last night's opera?" "I'm not quIte clear about It," an swered Mr. Cumrox. "I can't exactly make up my mind wbether I couldn't apprecite because I bad a headache or wvhether I got a headache trying to apprecate lt.''-Wishuington Star. Th next pa'\ WSt thing to wealth is a deposition to smure under a cloud cf debts. Gov. Johnson has declared that he is for Bryan and want him nomi nated. He knows that Bryan is the strongest candidate the Demo crats can nominate, and will do all he can for him. _The' Rentuacky Senatorship." The Springfield Republican says "the outcome of the Kentucky sen atorship contest furnishes another telling argument for the election of United States senators directl? by the people. The legislature was De mocratic on joint ballot by eight vot es, and, according to the ordinary rules of the political game. the Dem ocratic party was entitled to the sen-! atorship. Four Democratic mem bers, however, refused to be bound by the verdict of the Democratic primaries of the State in favor of Former Gov. Beckham, and tnus a deadlock was created. Q"The final election of a Republi can, Mr. Bradley, was brought about under circumstances that do not reflect favorably upon the pre sent sysem. T Desceri:nr bers fel ill and v ere absent without pairs. while anot>er had di-, d. The four Demccratic bolters then voted for the Republican candidate al though, when their purpose was fi nally disclosed, Beckham released al of his followers from their primary pledges ond offered to support t&e releection of Senator McCreary or any other Democrat upon whom t&e party could agree. For the Demo cratic bolters to persist in voting for the Republican cs.ndidate, under such conditions, was, from a party point of view no doubt, political treachery of an exceptional nature. "No such action was ever taken in Delaware by the Republican opon ents of Addicks even, in the years of his malodorous struggle for a place in the United States senate, although there were many occasions when a combination would easily have sent a decent Democrat to Washington. 'The fact that these four Kentucky Democrats were willing to deprive their own party of a senator, and at the same time increase the Republi can majority in the United States senate, reveals again the progressive demoralization of the Democratic party and the extreme bitterness of its factional feuds. "These legislative contests over senatorships are vicious to an excep tional degree if they result in a State being misrepresented. Wheth er Kentucky is Republican ore Democratic on national issues, at the present time, may be a mooted ques tion. On State issues last Novem ber, it elected a Republican gover nor, the legislature remaining Dem ocratic, but the same voters might have chosen'a Democrat to the sen ate had they been given the chance of voting directly on the senatorship question. However the electors might have decided as between Bradley and Beckham and other can didates, they would at least have set tled the issue beyond further dis pute. And the popular choice would have been made clear. But now Kentucky has a senator elected through an extraordinaay complica tion of accidents, feads and deals; and no one knows whether or not he s the real choice of the people." Blames the President. Some Republican papers, especial ly those of the independent kind, are giving their readers information of the sorry pass the Republican party has brought the country to. Thus the New York Sun declares we are now indebted to President Roosevelt for: "Private confidence and credit shattered; decreasing business; emnp ty freight cars and empty pay. envel opes; railroad employees and indus trial workers laid off by the hundred thousand; disaster made entirely Re publican; the Constitution kicked one side like a broken teddy bear: the courts insulted; capital persecuted and frightened; suspicion and hatred sown sedulosly among classes whose prosperity or adversity is insepar ably mutual; half veiled, sinister prophecies of riot; the army demor alized by favoritism, the navy em barked upon a mysterious and dan gerous adventure; currency reform unachieved, civil service reform made a byword." The Sun might have added that Trusts have been fined but no trust magnate, however guilty, is yet in stripes. Harriman, that malefactor of great wealth, is at large and is said to be again likely to be a dele gate to the Republican national con vention. The Trusts are still selling abroad cheaper than at home and the margin is larger than ever against the American people. Ser ious scandals in Congress, to say nothing of frauds being widespread. Such and more is the Pandora box of evils that the people inherit from Republican rule. Another Scandal. Another scandal is brewing in Congress, but that is nothing new for a Republican Congress. It gen erally has one or more on its hands. IIn 1902 there were charges made and evidence produced that the same Holland--Electric Boat Compa ny that is now under charges was mixed up in dubious transactions, and those eminent Republican statesmen Lemuel E. Quigg and Congressman Lessler were toasted over the fires of investigation, but were whitewashed by a considerate Congress. At that time Congress man Lessler said he would not trust but one of the Republican members of the committee on Naval Affairs and now Congressman Lilley sayts he has evidence against five of them.. This time they have Ex-Senator M. C Butler, of this State, mixed up in the scaadal, and that gent emnan im mediately went to Washington~ to face his accurers when he heard of his name being connected with a shady trausaction in connection with the H~olland-Electrie Company that is now under invention. The Ex-. MONEY CHANGERS KNOW A LOT indeed They Have To, to Keep Tracl of European Coins and Coun terfeits. "I never realized until today," said a man who had just returned from Europe, "what an undertaking it is to be a money changer. "I came back with about $20 In foreign money, principally French and Italian. This I took to a money changer's to cash in. "He looke,. over the coins rapidly, throwinb them into little piles and putting down notes on a slip of pap er. When he had cleared up the lot he said I had $10.25 coming to me. "At first I thought he was doing me. But he was not. He showed me a dozen or so Italian coins that had been demonetized and were worth about 40 cents on the dollar. There was a nice little pile of counterfeits that were nut woi th a cent, ani alogether only about a third of the coins thzie I trc!:ght hc:no were worth their ill value. "The only consolation 1 had was that I thanked by stars I am in the insurance business and not in the ex change business for my poor little brain could not carry half the things that those fellows have to remem ber." The man with the coins did not ex aggerate. There are thousands of different coins floating about that a money changer has to know. He has to keep in mind every demonetiz ed coin made within the last' hundred years. In addition to that there are coun terfeits. The immigrants bring over heaps of bad coins. Many of them buy up counterfeits cheap with the hope of exchanging them at Ellis Is land. Then there are the coins of the South American countries. They are worse than those of the European countries. Brazil for instance has a scheme all its own. Certain notes ar.e good for ten years, after that time for every year they lose 10 -per cent. of their face value until the whole value is used up and they are worth only the paper they are print ed on. As one man expressed it you have to know the history of the world to be a money ch'anger. A peculiar part of the business is the reshipment of coins back to the countries whence they came. Often during the rush season one firm sends back a million coins, while It is estimated that in the course of a year $10,000,000 in Tor eign money is reshipped to Europe and a million to the rest of the world. Money changing is a business just like any other. They do not ex change money. They buy it. When you go there with foreign coins they buy them from you at a stated price. When you go there to get forrign coins you buy them from them at a certain price just as you buy eggs and cigars. CLOTH. FhOM IRON AND STONE. A Wool Made in Electrical Furnace Fabric From old Ropes. Cloth of gold the fairy books des cribe; cloth of iron is a real product of the mills. Iron cloth is used largely today by tailors for making the collars of coats set fashionably. It is manufactured from steel wool by a new process and has the appearance of having been woven from horse hair. Wool which never saw the back of a sheep is being largely utilized on the Continent for making men's suits. It is known -by the name of limestone wool and is made in an electric fur nace. Powdered limestone mixed with a certain chemical is thrown into the furnace and after passing under a furious blast of air is tossed out as fluffy, white wool After com ing from the furnace, the wool is dyed and finally made into lengths of cloth. A pair of trousers or a coat made from this material can be burn ed or damaged by grease and; is as flexible as cloth made from thae sheep's wool Some time ago an English clothing manufacturer succeeded in making a fabric from old ropes. He obtained a quantity of old rope and cordage and unravelled them by a secret process into a kind of rough cloth. A suit of clothes made from it and worn by the manufacturer himself proved strong in the extreme and kept its color well. It is said that a number of goods sold by some of the best London tailors at low prices are made of old ropes. Goose on Michaelmas Day. The origin of eating goose on Michaelmas Day dates from the time of Queen Elizabeth. On her way to Tilbury Fort on Sept. 20, 158t9, she dined on roast goose and Burgundy wine. With the last glass she drank "Destruction to the Spanish Armada." As she drained the glass news came of the destruction of the Spanish fleet by a storm. Thereupon she or dered that roast goose should be served for her every year on that day, and the custom soon became general among the people. Quite True. "The best laid plans-" "Yes, go an." "J.' was going to say that the best laid plans of grafters are sometimes discovered." Tall persons live longer than short ones, and those born in the spring have sounder constitutions than those born at any other season. THE Republican Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that the convic tion of the Bridge Trust magnates is unconstitutional and turned them lose. Of course these gentlemen are expected'to contribute liberally towards the Republican campaign fund. THE House Committee on coinage, weights and measures has reported in favor of the bill to restore to cer tain coins the motto "In God we Trust." which was removed some months ago by order of the Presi dent. Teddy will have to use his big stick. The Boston Transcript says: "The old South may be counted for Bry an in spite of the screams againt his nomination of the Charleston News and Courier." That is right. Bryan has the Siuth for he, now nd in November he vwi have the Economizes the u ter and eggs; m, cake and pastry ing, nutritious Sc ake and iast ABSOLUTi This is the < powder mad( Grape Crean It Has No Thee are Alum and Phosphal a lower price, but no hoaseco of her 1amily can of L MOVING PICTURES IN ITALY. The Residents in That Land Are Sur feited With Dancing Women. Milan. the centre of Italy for the moving picture machine trade, has al. ready about forty such theatres. Every available hall is being turned into a moving picture show, while nearly every second and third rate theatre and "cafe chantant" finishes the evening's performance with a few cinematograph pictures. During the dull summer season even the larger theatres are used. Dramatic and tragic scenes, natural scenery of an interesting nature. and comical farces are sure to fill the fail at any time in Italy. The Italian loves to see living scenery; for in stance. a moving picture view of NL agara Falls was a huge success here a short time ago. Tae italiar. also likes to see typical scenes of national life. such as for instance, bull fights in Spain and winter sports cn the snow and ice in Switzerland. Rail way scenery is very acceptable, as are views of large towns. Pictures of the larger towns of the United States would be a huge success in Milan. Occasionally typical scenes from Am erican life have been thrown on the sheeting. such as cowboy life and train wreckers. The Italian is dis. gured. if not already surfeited, with pictures of singing and dancir. v om.. en. neither, does he like fantL-Stical scencry from fairy tales. -P!entiful Garme in Gsrnnny. Half a million sportsmen in Ger. Imany, kill annually 40,000 head of red and fallow deer, 200.000 roebuck, 4,000,000O hares, 4,000,000 partridges and 400,000 wild duck, In all some 2~>.000.000 kilograms of wild game of a value of 25,000,000 marxs, or 5, O00.000O. forming nearly -1 per cent of the total meat supply of Germany. Tobacco in the Philippines. , ohc Is the fourth largest ex port of the Philippines. while in point of total crop value it is only exceeded by hemp and rice. The main tobacco belt is embraced in Lu. zon. Cebu and Panay, the famous Cagayan Valley, in Luzon, producing the bulk of the finer grades. Con. sidered as a manufacture the making of cigars and cigarets is the largest industry in the island today. 12,000 Miles For $15. What is probably the cheapest rate for a sea voyage ever offered is that now made available by the Govern.. ment of New South Wales. Australia, to young women who are prepared to go out to the colony to undertake domestic service. The charge to ths emigrants for the journey from Eng land to Sydney, 12,000 miles, is $15. U. S. Behind in Aeronautics. That the Government and the peo Iple of the U~nited States are lagging far behind the European countries in the matter of aerial navigation Is the opinion of Major Henry B. Hersey. chief inspector of the Government Meteorological Service. He urges that an aeronautical department be established by the Government to keep pace with the European Pow. ers. There Were Other Pockets. Nathan Straus was driving his mare, Ida Highwood, on the New York speedway. A company promo. ter. noted no less for his wealth than his unscrupulousness, dashed by and Mr. Straus said: "'There is Blank. When he came to New Yorx in the seventies he had only a dollar in his pocket." Mr. Straus paused andj smiled. "However." he said, "there were other pockets." Burdett's "Owl Nest." George A. Burdett, the noted Boston composer and organist, and dean of the New England chapter of the Am erican Organists' Guild, does all his work In a little room at the top of his house. n hieb he calls "owl nest,", In which is a piano and all sorts of things calculatcd to appeal to the musically inclined. Cremation in the Alps. Cremation makes grea~t ha ~dway in the Alps. Geneva takes the lead, both in point of number and equipment, but Zurich. Aareu. Berne and Laus. arne are each building a second cre matoriurn. Five other towns are do ing likewise. It Is not generally - known thata spoonful of ox..gall in one gallon of water will set the colors of alr-ost any goods which are soaked in it be fore washing; also, that a teacupful of lye in a pail of water will imiprove the color of any black goods. Vine gar in the rinsing water will bright en pink or green calico, and soda will do the same for purple or blue calico. A man doesn't mind being fooled se of flour, but ikes the biscuit, more appetize ind wholesome. :L PURE >niy baking Ohl-m RoyaI I of Tartar. Substitute a of Lime MiXtarMs sold 49 eper regarding the bcaltL Wor to we tON.&I Had Been Paid. Walter L. Freeman, colored, was up before United States Commission er Robt. Lide last Tuesday on a very serious charge. Freeman was form erly a student at the State. Colored College and is charged with unlaw fully attempting to. collect a money order by forging the endorsement of the rightful payee, Isabella Cauthen, at present a student at the State College. It'seems that the order was sent to the Cauthen girl, who never received it, but had a duplicate issued instead, which was paid by -the- Orangeburg postoffice. In some manner the orig inal order felJ into the hands-of Free man. who was teaching school in Adalbell, Ga. -Freeman endorsid the order by signing the girl's nme and forwarding it to John Shell. a' friend%< of lils who lives In Rowesville, in struc ting him to come. to Orangeburg and collect the amount, five dollars, and remit the proceeds to Frceman by exprecs money order. When the order was presented at this office it was disdovered that pay ment had already been made of the duplicate, whereupon Shell was ques-* tioned with the result that Informa tion leading to the arrest of' Free man was secured. Postoffice In spector S. W. Kingsmore was put in charge of the case and it- was not long before he had Freeman, who-will have to stand trial in the Federal Cout. In default of bail Freeman was lodged in jail to await trial. The Government was represenpted by Assistant District Attorney A. Lath rop and the defence by President Thos. E. Miller, of the State Colored Colege--Orangeburg Times and Demn ocrat. the kind of sympathy that goes with To Probe for Graft. Chairman Wanger of the House Committee on Extpenditures_ in the Post-office Department proposed to investigate that department on the ground that "Some of the' expendi tures appear to have been made in contravention of law." No doubt he has in mind the paynient of. the salary and expenses of' Assistant Postmaster General Frank Hitch cock w/hile engaged in influencing Southern postmasters to work for Taft's presidential boon. The -Com mittee on Expenditures in the war Department would do well to follow Mr. Wanger's example, and inquire into the payment of Taft's own sal ary and expenses out of the Treas ury, while he isjengaged in traveling and speaking in the advancement. of his own boom. Such grafting ought to be exposed aud- punished, even though it is countenanced by Presi dent Roosevelt. THE State says: "If you do not see the name of the candidate you want, ask for him." 7FE E i i(!h t the receiv ership of the dispensary to the last dith._________ The public had better get ready to hold its nose, as the Thaws are about to ventilatetheir matrimonial infe licities in the divorce courts. THE News and Courier says the Republicans are not worrying them selves about Nebraska. Neither are they worrying themselves about Minnesota. THE Milwaukee Free Press re marks that the New York World's efforts have resulted in presenting to the country sixteen "desirable Demoratic candidates" for presi dent, but not in raising a ripple against the Bryan wave. SINCE Gov. Johnson has declared that he is in favor of the nomination of Bryan a so-called Democratic bureau in Washington has declared for Ex-Gov. Douglass, of Massa chussetts. Anybody to beat-Bryan is the cry of the plutocratic Demo crats, THE New York Sun predicts that Bryan 9.- he Democratic presiden tial canididate '. ' -v--v tw-~ State agaitany cardi .:.e th! Regu~Al can? an nominate. A DISPATCH from Los Angeles s a plan for defeating Bryan by inging out candidates from many sections of the country is being ~orked by the so-called Democrats ho really want a Republican elect