Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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P. B. Mouzo has one of the best Cold Storage plants in town. We are the house keepers delight. At our Grocery every thing is clean and fresh, and only the best. goods are handled. CANNED GOODS, COFFEES AND TEAS. CAKES ANI) CRACK ERS, FRUITS AND CONFECTIONERY. CHOICE BUT TER, HAMS AND BREAK FAST STRIPS. v-erything tat is haoi :1 in a 'St class Grocer'. It is my object to please and 1 invite your patrona e. P. B. Alouzon W F E N YOU COME T TOWN CALL AT W E L LS' 'U IAVING SALOON 'V i -+ i -itt.1i up with ar .ei, to ;(w a"mfort of hie: HAIR eUTTING IN ALL STYLES, S HAV IN AND SHAMPOOING ikone with neatness and dlispaitch... .. .... A cordiad invitation is .,xtended. . . J. L. WELLS. Manining Timies Block. Eat and Grow Fat FRESH MEATS AT ALL TIMES. EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT. Give us a Trial. Clark & Huggins. APPAREL SHOP FOR MEN AND LADIES. Everything of the best for the personal wear and adorn ment of both sexes. We fill mail orders carefully and. promptly. DAVID OUTFITTING COMEPANY, Charleston, S. C. Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in the case of my son, who had chronic naso-phar yngeal catarrh, with great benefit to him. I often prescribe it for other of my patients, and I think it is quite the fnest remedy for catarrh that has eyer been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past favors, I am. Yours very truly. M. J. D. D~ArZLER, M. D., Elloree, s. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is "rinning fast in this country. It has effected some remarkable cures. I do not snow that it has failed in one instance where it has been fairiy tried Very truly yous. ALN Lexington, Ky. Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy is for sale by H. R. Boger, Manning. S. C. A month's treat ment for $1.00- a free sample for the asking. A postal card wils bring it by mail. Woodmnen of the WVorld. Meets on fourth Monday nights at 8:30. Visiting Sovereigns invited. DR. J. A. COLE DENTIST, ,U'pstairs over Bank of Manning. MANNING, S. C. Phone No 77. - DR. J. FRANK GEIGER. DENTIST, MANNING, S. C. JH. LESESNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. 0. MCSWAIN WOODS, 0. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Manning, S. C Otlice Over Lev-i's Store. . . PRDY. S. OLtVER O'BRY PURDY & O'IBRYAN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, MANNING, S. C. C HARLTONDUAT ATTORNEY AT LAW, N1ANNING, S. C. W. C. DAVIS. J. A. WEIN~BERG. DAVlS & WEINBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , MANNING, S. 0. Pr-ompt attention given to collections. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. ManZan Pile Renmedy R&LIVES WHEN OTHERS FAIL Pinesalve ACTS uIn A POLTCE EELIZv~S ALL Carbolized roaMS or aKrranzSEASE Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar (Cures all Coughs, mud expels Colds frorn the system by gently moving the bowels. Rrinnnnor Jnh Work to The Times office. The trouble with m1ot cougu curt that they constipate. Kennedy's La., ative Cough Syrup does not constipatt but on the other hand its laxative prit ciples gently move the bowels. It pleasant to take and it is especiali recommended for children, as it taste. nearly as good as maple sugar*. Sol by W. E. .:'own & Co. BURIED HER VOICE. Why Pauline Lucca Never Sang Afte Her Husband's Death. Great stage artists die twice-th first time, when they take leave of th, stage and set aside the harp: the sec and time, when, like ordinary mortalr they go the way of all flesh-and wh knows but this last act is not mor bearable, not less dreadful, than th fist. when, after all the blinding glory the shadowy curtain of oblivion de scends? For Pauline Lucca this firs act was of lon, duration-nearly twen ty years. She had tine to outiive he glory and to become acquainted witt the bad memory of mankind. Ilk: Horwiz-Earnay tells this story in con nection with a visit which she mad< to. the Lucca home in Vienna: "I ask ed, 'Do you ever sing?' 'No! No Never:' she almost shouted. 'I neve sing, for I lost my voice, lost it sud denly. by suggestion. through the wil of another.' After being urged to ex plain she exacted a promise of secrec until she was no more' and said -You know, my husband, the Baroi von Wallhofen, was sick for a lon, time and heard little singing. Whe: I did sing for him it had to be an ol song which I disliked, but he wa: fond of it because of its words. On evening we had a few friends here He was feeling somewhat better an( had his chair wheeled into the draw ing room. To please him I sang hi: favorite song. He wept with pleasure Then he took my two hands anc caressed them, stroked my hair anc my face and whispered to me: "Thanl you! Thank you! You are an angel!' And. still caressing me, he said, "So : shall take your voice with me to the grave!" I laughed and said, "Yot will outlive my voice and me." Bu he repeated, "I shall take your voic with me to the gravel" Two day: later the baron died, and 1 was nevel able after his death to sing a note.' " Vienna Neue Freie Presse. HER FACE WAS NOT FAIR. But There Was One to Whom She Would Always Be Beautiful. The blind boy raised a rapt face t< the light. "And my mother?" he said question ingly. "Tell me how she looks again I shall soon be able to see, and I know I shall find one more beautiful than al the rest and cry: 'Mother, mother! Why do you not speak?"' His sensitive face was turned re proachfully toward his father. "Yot have always told me how lovely she is She is little-not taller than my shoul. der-I know that." The old man la:d his arm over the lad's shoulders. "You must know now what your blindness would have kept you fron knowing," he said. "Your mother if not fair and beautiful now in face, bi her soul is what God made for a moth er. When you can see, look for the face which holds the greatest love, You will not be mistaken. It will be your mother's." The great surgeon looked for a mo ment or two into the sightless eyes and then turned and laid his hand on the father's trembling arm. "Only God can make him see, my friend," he said kindly. "Your boy was born blind, and human skill can not help him." The blind boy was the first to speak and he laid his arm around the sud denly aged form of his father, "Come." he said. "let us go back tc mother. She will always be beautiful to me now," and they turned and gave place to the others.--Exchange. Caustie Whistler. Whistler's caustic wit is shown by the following anecdote: "Of one who was held to be Eng land's most brilliant young artist, 'Yes, he said thoughtfully, 'he's clever, bui there's something common in every. thing he does, so what's the use of it?'" Like many grant men, he had bui little time for any but his own work '"He told me a story demonstrating this most clearly. His "Nocturne In Blue and Gold, Valparaiso," was in the Hil) collection in Brighton. Mr. Hill had two galleries and a well known collec tion, eventually sold at Christie's, Whistler went down to see Mr. Hill, and said he: "'I was shown into the galleries and f course took a chair and sat looking at my beautiful "Nocturne." Then, as there was nothing else to do, I wen1 to sleep.' "-Sidney Starr's "Personal Recollections of Whistler" in Atlantic. A Chinese Delicacy. The tips from the topmost shoots of the bamboo tree are culled when they are not more than three inches long, peeled and preserved much as pine apple is, though the tips are cut ir quarters. This fruit has a remarkably delicate and pleasant taste and is large ly used as a flavoring for meat, thougli it can be eaten in the raw state, being rich and juicy. The edible is expen sive on account of the difficulty in se. curing it from the tops of the tall, slender trees at just the right time. An Uncomfortable Answer. In one of Sir George Colley's letter: he says: "Lord Lytton had a good story about poor Lord Leitrim, whC shortly before his murder, talking witi a eduntryman about some cases o1 landlord shooting, asked, 'Why don'1 the rascals shoot' me?' 'Ah, thin, yet honner,' said the man, 'it's just this what's everybody's . iess is no body's business!'" The Real Genius. "They say. it's hard to live with genius:' "Borh! Were not all women gen luses ho.w vwould most families exist?' -Louisville Courier-Journal. There is a Pink Pain Tablet made b; Dr. Shoop that will positively stop) an pain. anywhere. in 20 minutes. Dr'ug ists everywhcere sell them as Di Shoop's Headache Tablets, but the. stop other paius as ersilv as headachC Dr. Shoop's Pink Pain Tlablets simipl coax blood pressure a way from pai cernters-that is all. Pain co~nes fr'ot blood pressure- congestion. Stop tha pressre with Dr. Shoop's Hleadach Tablets and nain is instantly gone. 2 Tablets 25e.' Sold by W. E. Brown Frenzied Arithmetic. Teacher-NOW, Tommy. if your fa ther had twenty dozen eggs In hi store and found that eighteen of thet were bad, how much would he lose Tommy-Nothin'. You don't know pt -athfindeor. THE MAGIC PAINTINC When the Room Was Darkenec the Cew Went to Sleep. IT WAS A VERY SIMPLE TRICK Pow the Transformation Was Effectec and How Some Other Seemingly Wonderful Effects May Be Producec by the Aid of Chemicals. SThe Chinese Emperor Tai Tsung pos sesed among other treasures a picture known as a magic painting. It repre sented a pastoral scene with a con - standin- in a Geld and mountains be vod. When the picture was shown t< - strangers or guests and they admiret it. the r:le:or would say: "Yes. this is a remarkable painting The cow, as you see, is standing. bul - it the room was darkened the coy would think it night and would lic down." Then the emperor would order the room to be darkened, and the cow would he seen to be lying down. ap pareutiy asleep. "lThe picture was a water color, ovei which was painted in colorless phos Ihorescent paint a similar picture rep resenting the cow lying down. In the light the standing animal was seen but at nighit or in a darkened roon> only the phosphorescent picture was visible. So the magic picture was, aft er all, a very simple trick. A Dresden chemist named Schade discovered a method of imitating ii which can be accomplished as follows: First paint in ordinary colors the 'picture of the cow standing. Then E melt some Zanzibar copal over a char coal fire and dissolve fifteen parts of it in sixty parts of French oil of turpen tine. Filter this and mix with twenty five parts of pure linseed oil which has been previously heates and cooled. Now take forty paris of the varnish so obtained and mix with six parts of prepared calcium carbonate. :welve parts of prepared white zinc suilphide and thirty-six parts of luminous cal cium sulphide, all of which can be ob tained from any chemist. This emulsion should be ground very fine in a color mill. The result will be white luminous paint, which should be used to paint the cow lying down. Many seemingly wonderful tricks can be performed with the use of a few simple Ahemicals. One of them is the ball of are. Take for this barium sulphate (CP) one part, magnesium carbonate (CP) one part, gum traga canth q. s. This should be mixed and rolled into marbles and kept at a red heat for about an hour, then allowed to cool slowly and placed in a glass stoppered bottle. A few hours before using place in the sun, and the marbles at once be-opeluminous. At the etertinment ordinary mar bles are pa~ among the audience, one or more of the luminous marbles being concealed in the hand. The ex hibitor then takes a marble from some one in the audience, holds it between his thumb and forefinger, blows upon it and asks to have the ligflts turned down. As this is done he substitutes the luminous marble, and the mysteri ous light is seen. This is handed around and changes again as the light is turned on. when the magician pre sents to the audience 'several of the ordinary marbles as souvenirs. Another trick is very effect!. Take two similar bunches of artificial flow ers. Brush one over with glue or mu cilage and powder it with the dust from one of the marbles described. Then place in the sun. When taken into a darkened room, luminous flow ers are seen. The magician exhibits the flowers that have not been prepar ed and shows that there is nothing pe culiar about them. Then as the light is turned down he substitutes the con ceal,ed bunch, blows upon the flow ers and, presto, displays to the as tonished observers a luminous bunch, each flower of which stands out as if at white heat. Luminous letters can be written and exhibited in the dark to the wonder of the audience. Luminous ink is made by placing a piece of phosphorus about the size of a pea in a test tube with a little olive oil. Place the tube in a water bath unti! the oil becomes heat ed aud the phosphorus liquid. Shake well and pour into a bottie with a glass stopper. Admit air just previous to using it, and the fluid will become luminous tracery in the dark. Water can be rendered luminous in a very simple manner. Dissolve a small piece of phosphorus In ether for several days in a glass stoppered bot tie. In this place a lump of sugar, then drop the sugar in water, which' will at once become luminous. Luminous paints can be made any color-green, yellow, violet or blue and If applied to various objects make a wonderful display at night. Odd Names of Maryland Farms. The curious names given to tracts of land by the owners in olden times are illustrated in a conveyance recorded in Liber W. G., No. 00. folio 57. It was executed in i700 and conveyed from Joshua Stevenson to Richard Gettings five tracts of land in Baltimore'county-, the consideration being ?200. The name of each tract and its -dimensions are as follows: My Sweet Girl, My Friend and Pitcher. 02 acres; Here Is Life Without Care and Love Without Fear. 41%4 acres: The Unexpected Dis covery. 202 acr-es: Hug Me Snug. 15 acres, and Stevenson's Cow Pasture, With Little I am Content. 22 acres. Baltimore Sun. There is one good thing about the gas bill. It is a monthly lesson in punctuality.-Washington Times. When you think of indigestion thiok of Kodol, for it is without doubt the only preparation that completely di ests all classes of food. And that ib hat you need when you have indiges tion or- stomach trouble-something that will act promptly but thoroughly: something that will get iiht at the t-ouble and do the very work itself for the stomach by digesting the food tna ou eat and that is Kodol. It is pleas Sant to take. It is sold by WV. E-. Br-on & Co. The Retort Direct. "See here." cried the artist, who had come to complain about the material: he had bought, "I can't imagine any tthing worse than your paints." " 'That's strange," replied the dealer 0 "Don't you ever use your imaginatior Son your painting?"-Exchanlge. Hopeless. "We wish, madam, to enlist your als in influencing your husband for thi Spublic good. Hie holds the key to Ivery- interesting situation and" I don't see how I can be of any as . sistnce to you. John never could finC THE COCOA TREE. This Evergreen Is Found Everywhere In the Tropics. The cocoa tree is an evergreen and grows to a height of from fifteen to twenty-five feet, its leaves being bright and smooth, somewhat resem bling the foliage of a rubber plant It is very low branching, and the blos soms are small and pink. The blos soms and pods not only spring from the branches, but often from the trunk itself. The fruit is a yellowish pod about the size of a cucumber and is filled with seeds, all strung together in a pulpy, pinkish mass. It is from these seeds or beans, each about the size of a chestnut, that the chocolate and co coa of commerce are manufactured. The trees bear from the fourth to the thirtieth year, and it is not unusual to see on the same tree buds, flowers and fruit. When ripe the pods are gathered by the native women and are allowed to lie on ,the ground for a day or two, after which they are opened. The pulp containing the beans then ferments for about a week, the astringent quali ties of the beans being much modified and their flavor improved. After being thoroughly dried the beans are packed in hundred pound bags for shipment. When received by the manufacturer they are carefully picked over for quality, assorted and roasted. The nibs, as the roasted beans with the shells removed are called, are then fed into a hopper and ground be tween stones similar to an old fash ioned flour mill. The grinding process, coupled with the friction of the stones, which produce a temperature of some 120 degrees, chagges the solid nibs (without the addition of anything) into :a thick, heavy liquid. This is technic ally termed "chocolate liquor" and Is sold to confectioners. This same liquor, subjected to hy draulic pressure, with the resulting separation into a clear oil, gives the cocoa butter of commerce. The remain ing pressate when powdered forms drinking cocoa. The chocolate liquor solidified becomes cooking chocolate, and, with sugar, vanilla and spices added, it is sold as "sweet" or "eating" chocolate. THE ENCHANTED MESA. Story of Great Disaster Which Wiped Out the Population. The story of the enchanted mesa was but a tradition when in 1541 the Spaniards first visited the pueblo of Acoma, In what is now Valencia coun ty, N. M. Powerful tribes inhabited the region. These tribes or nations were constantly at war with each oth er, which accounts for the fortified character of the villages of the na tives. The Queres, whose descend ants now occupy Acoma, held this re gion and dwelt in small fortified towns, the capital of which was Acoma. It was not, however, the Acoma of today, but a city perched upon the top of the great rock now called Mesa Encan tada. It was the magnificent city of the nation, and there dwelt the great men of the tribe, together with their families. The rock then, as now, was unseal able, save at the one point where a narrow and precipitous trail led up the dizzy height While not the most convenient dwelling place, for neither water nor vegetation was to be found upon the summit, It was safe from the attacks of foes. One man at the top of the trail could defend the city against the warriors of the entire west One day, while a large number of the inhabitants were at work In the fields on the plain below or attending to the afairs of the tribe in the v-arious neigh boring villages, something within the rock or in the earth beneath It awoke to life and motion. There was a heav ing. a squirming and a shivering of the great rock, and, with a mighty noise, It parted in twain, and a portion fell in fragments to the plain below. Such persons as were carried down in the debris were crushed to death. A worse fate remained for those left prisoners on the top of the mesa, for that which fell carried away the nar row trail, the only means of ascent and descent. The stranded ones per ished from thirst and starvation. The present Acoma family are the descend ants of disaster. Ethnologists who vis ited the top of the rock some years ago found unmistakable evidences that it had once been the site of habitation. The story of the disaster had previous to that time been discredited and con sidered but an idle Indian legend. The discoveryF of the ancient ruins, how ever, seemed confirmatory of the tale, and it has since been credited.-Den. ver Field and Farm. HARDNESS OF DIAMONDS. The Stones Can Be Forced by Pres sure Into Steel Blocks. A word as to tihe hardness of dia monds. They vary much in this re spect. E'ven different parts of the same crystal differ in their resistance to cutting and grinding So hard Is diamond in comlparison1 to glass that a suitable splinter of diamond will plane curls off a g:tss plate as a carpenter's tool will piane shavings off a deal board. Another experimnent that will llsrate its hardness is to place a diamond on the tlattened end of a conical block of steel and upon it bring another similar cone of steel. If I force them together with hydraulic power. I can force the stone into the steel blocks without injuring the dia mond in the least. The pressure which I have brought to bear in this experi ment has been equal to 170 tons a square inch of diamond. Tihe only serious rival of the diamond in hardness is the metal tantalum. In an attempt to bore a hole through -a plate of this metal a diamond drill was used, revolving at the rate of 5,000 revolutions a minute. This whirl ing force was continued ceaselessly for three days and nights, when it was found that only a small point one :1fourth of a millimeter deep had been drilled, and it was a moot point which had suffered most damage. the dia mond or the tantalum. After exposure for some time to the sun many diamonds glow in a dark -oom. One beautiful green diamond In my collection when phosphcrescinlg in a vacuum gives almost as much light as a candle, and you can easily read by its rays. But the time has hardly come when we can use diamonds as domes tic illuminants.--Sir William Crookes in North American Reviewv. Good Reasoning. "I don't see, madam, how you can exect us to pay any claim under your husband's aiccident policy."~ "Well, you see it was this way: When he asks which It was, a boy or a girl, and the nurse said that he was the father of triplets, he dropped. Now, his death was due to an acci dent." "How do you make that out?" I"It was an accident of birth."-New THE CHARM OF ISLANDS. What Is Missed by Those Who Lil Far From the Sea. No men of the world are so to I pitied, I think, as those who dwell f: from the sea. They shall never kno but a piece of life. A plain, to be sur is very well. It responds delicate enough to the humor of the season changing from green to gold, fro gold to dun. from dun to white. has, too, its moods, its laughters, i melancholies, its rushings of the win its illimitability of the dark. A hil though, is better-that is. a hill th looks across a plain, never one that huddled among its fellows, for thei one is caught like a beetle in a cu: A hill gives one a sense of freedoi and a perspective upon the world. Is som.ething to look down on the pa quetry of field and town and wood an stream, to keep vigil upon the dram woven invisibly below one's eyes. An It has moments-a hill; certain nigh of stars, certain bursts of storm, ce tain Iridescent afternoons, when tl whole tragedy of autumn is unrolle at one's feet. But above all else in the world gih ine an island! There is your true m crocosmos! There you hold In yot hand, as !.t were, the essence and epi ome of the universe. Your own eart spreads under your feet. Your ow sky hangs over your bead. Your ow sea encircles you. Your own portio of life is meted out to you day by da: distinct from that of other men. F< not the least charm of an island Is il privacy. An islet, of course. I mean one from which you may catch tI glint of water on every side. Othe wise yo:.r island is no better than pasture. Whether you be a hermit< whether you have a book of vers( underneath the bough-and the requ site concomitants - or whatever I your personal circumstances, you a yet divided from a hostile or indiffe ent wor::d. You are at liberty to fey and to test your own personality. Yo are not overborne by the rush of h1 inanity which is the burden of tern firma.-Scribner's Magazine. A CASTELLANE PIRA CE. Took Sultan's Library and Demande Ransom Fcr Its Return. In 111 Jean Philip de Castellar was commander of the French man-o war Notre Dame de Ia Garde. Henr IV. sent him to Morocco to demand ( the sultan the. release of certal French prisoners. De Castellane ca ried his negotiations to a successfi conclusion, and the sultan as a pea< offering sent to the French command< twenty Arabian horses for the kini "Just as the Notre Dame was about 1 weigh anchor the pretender to the M< roccan throne gained a decisive victor: and the sultan decided to flee for h' life. He engaged passage for himse: and harem or a Dutch merchantmal and to De Castellane be intrusted h' library, one of the most extensive co lections of Arabic manuscripts at books .in existence. The great Mula Ahmed was the founder of the librar. "Arriving at the place of rende: vous, Commander de Castellane set word to the sultan that he could has his library for 3,000 ducats, the pric of transportation. "The sultan protested that he ha~ made no such agreement and that b< sides he did not have the moneyt pay the demand, whereupon De Cat tellane sailed away. "He had not gone very far when great storm overtook the Notre Dam and drove her, a wreck, upon the Afr can coast at Casablanca, then occi pled by the king of Spain, who was war with Morocco. The Spaniard seized the library and shipped itt Spain, where it was placed in a win of the Escurial. What remains of th library can be seen today in an alcoi labeled the Arabian collection."-Flo: ence (Italy) Journal. Shiraz, Xeres and Sherry. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff's know~ edge of Spain and of Persia is show in the following paragraph taken fro: his "Rambling Recollections:" "I~n Persia no wine is manufacture for salez except at Shiraz. When Pers, was invaded by the Arabs they too back with them to Morocco the grape of the district. In Spain they wishe to naturalize the new fruit, and thj they did at a place called Xeres, i. tended for Shiraz, there being sound equivalent to 'sh' in Spanisi There they cultivated the grape an made wine, which now returns to E1 rope as 'sherry,' that word being paraphrase of Shiraz. Shiraz~wine very similar in taste to sherry." Juvenile Logic. Marie Is a very bright kindergarte pupil. She came home to her paren the other day and told them that th kindergarten teacher had said she wi g:ow up to be a very nice lookin young lady if she is a good girl, but wi grow up to be a very ugly woman she is a naughty girl. "Is that tru mamma?2" asked Marie, and she we informed that If the teacher said so: vas true. Marie then sat still for while, pondering seriously. "Bt mamma," she suddenly burst fort again. "why was the kindergart teacher so naughty when she was a ii tle girl?"-Philadelphia Record., One Exception. "I am reduced from affluence to bel ;ary!"' he faltered. In as few words as possible sI broke their engagement "I wish to show," she observe haughtily. "that women, contraryi general report, do not necessarily ca: for things just because they are r< duced!"-Detroit Journal. One pound of learning requires te pounds of common sense to apply it Persian Proverb, "Health 'Coffee" is really the close Cofee Imitation ever yet produce: This clever Coffee Substitute wasr cently produced by Dr. Shoop of R~ cine,~ Wis. Not a grain of real Colff in it either. Dr. Shoop's Health Coffi is made from pure toasted grains, wit malt, nuts, etc. Really it would fool expert-who might drink it for Colff No 20 or :30 minutes tedious boilin; "Made in a minute," says the docto Sold, by Manning Grocery Co. The Sign of Wedlock. She-W'ait Is the proper formula ft a wedding announcement? He-I kno what is ought to be. She-What? He "Be it known by these presents."-Ba timore American. Don't imagine you are a good Col versationalist just because you talk good deal.-Atchison Globe. A Vast Difference. "D~on't I give you all the money y need?" her husband complained. "Yes," she replied, "but you told s before we were married that you won give me all I wanted."-Lonldon T~ tlea EXPLOSIVES. ,e Dangerous Substances That Are In Almost Constant Use. e Among the many things in almost ir constant use are some that are more or w less dangerous from their explosive e,I properties, properties often entirely ly unknown to their users. , For examples, chloride of potash m lozenges if accidentally brought in It contact with an . lighted phosphorous ts match are dangerous. Bicarbonate of a, potash if mixed with subnitrate of bis 1, muth. the latter a remedy for indiges t tion, will explode. is Iodide of nitrogen is highly explo re sive and is often combined with other p. drugs. Its use by those ignorant of its m danger is a menace. It Sal volatile and chloral hydrate are, r- under certain conditions, as dangerous d as dynamite. a Tincture of iron and dilute aqua regia d when mixed, as they often are In med ts icine, throw off a highly explosive gas, r- which has frequently shattered the bot ie tle in which the mixture was kept. d One often finds bottles of medicine in which the cork has not been tightly e pushed minus the latter or has had a i- cork pop out of a bottle while held in ir one's hands without any attempt to re t- move It on the part of the holder. This :h always shows that gas Is forcing the n cork out. n Danger In combs. ,n Every now and then one reads of cel c. luloid articles, from fancy hair coiffure >r combs down, catching fire and serious ts burns or accidents resulting. - It would seem that every one should ze by this time know that celluloid con r- tains in its composition gun cotton and a also camphor. both highly inflammable. >r No woman wearing celluloid combs or s hair ornaments should place her head near an uncovered gas jet or other un e protected light, as celluloid catches fire e so quickly and burns so rapidly that it r- would hardly be possible to avoid seri ous burns.-St. Louis Republic. u TRAVELERS ABROAD. A Document That Should Be Carried In One's Pocketbook. Replying to an inquiry about the dis d position of the. body of an American dying in London, our consul general offers some advice to citizens of this 1e country traveling abroad. He says: "If a citizen of the United States be traveling abroad unaccompanied it would be well for him to carry in his satchel or pocketbook written instruc Stions as to what he desires should be i done in the event of anything happen re ing to him. The envelope containing such Instructions should be headed, 'Instructions in the event of my death.' Inclosed he should give his home ad dress or the address of a friend in the United States, so that communication could be made, or the address of any friend or business connection on this side could be mentioned with the same 1 object and for the purpose of obtain lug necessary funds. I have been in formed on credible authority that a person has no legal right to control the disposition of his remains, although I have no doubt relatives or friends Lt would respect the wishes of the de ceased. In the event of the death in ethis country of a person domiciled in the United States at any of the hotels dan undertaker is at once called in and the remains removed therefrom, pro ovided always the deceased has had proper medical attendance and that the <doctor attending gives a certificate of adeath. If the death is sudden, the cor oner of the district is at once notified and.an inqiqest is held, the body in the Lmeantime being removed to a public Imortuary pending result of the In s quest. If the verdict of death from : natural causes be rendered, the coro ner signs an order and gives it to the ~repres~entative of the deceased, who in structs the undertaker what to do. The transportation of the remains is in the hands of the friends or the rep resentative of the deceased and is not ..controlled by any local or government authority." In Another Voice. As the pastor of the Zion's Hill d church looked down at his parishion ens, to whom he had been giving thir ty-five minutes of sound doctrine, his face took on a less benignant expres slon. S"Bredren an' sisters," he said, "I want to warn you against one t'ing, an' dat is t'inkin' ebery man dat don't 2 hab jes' de same views you got is a no d 'count religionist. "I don't want to hear so much talk a about 'wvolvyes In sheep's clothing'' as I bene hearin'. You don' want to settle It in yo' minds dat a man's a wolf in sheep's clothin' jes' because he don' bl'at exactly like you do." -Youth's Compnon.. e Gout the Foe of Consumption. ISir Dyce Duckworth in his address to the faculty of medicine said that many persons were constitutionally predisposed to rheumatism and gout, but an important characteristic In such t cases was the antagonism of the tis t sues to the bacilli of tuberculosis. aThe more rheumatic or gouty a person was the less pronounced was his tend nency to consumption.-London Post. Relic of the Past. "So, woman, you treasure another man's photograph?" "Don't be foolish, Henry. This is a portrait of yourself when you had hair."-Louisville Courier-Journal. *"htPowerful Explosives. sdv. "htare the most powerful explo osesknown?2" Queried the young man. e"Two prima donnas in one opera company," replied the ex-theatrical manager.-Chicago News. - Hope is 16e bread of the unhappy German Proverb. S Manza Pile Remedy comes ready to use. in a c. collapsible tube. with nozzle. One application soohes and heals. reduces inflammation and re e-lieves soreness and itching. Price 50e. Sold by a- The Manninr Pharmacy. h Applying the Test. n"There was a barber in an Indi ta .city who, having been out late he night before, had a shaiky hand the next morning and cut a patron's cheek four times," said th'e man who insist ed he saw the incident. "After each accident the barber said as he spong >r ed away the blood, 'Oh, dear me, how W careess!' and laughed and let it g6 at -Ithat. .- "The patron took all those gashes in grave silence, but when the shave was over he filled a glass at the water cooler, took a mouthful of water and. with compressed lips, proceeded to shake his head from side to side and to toss it up and down. 'What is the mattery2 the barber >u asked. TYou ain't got the toothache. have you 2 1 "'No,' said the customer. 'I .'aly I just wanted to see if my mouth would ,t- stll hold water without leaking, _that was nall.'"- Ph inalph ia Record. HE DIDN'T GO HUNGRY. Neither Did His Partner After Their Scheme Succeeded. The man who once was down and out, but is so no longer, was telling the other day of one of his poverty time devices. He was traveling with another chap just as much down and out as he. and both were hungry. Their capital was insignificant, and they didn't intend to spend any of it. But they had a re volver, which suggested to the first man a scheme. It worked out some thing like this: "I gent into a pretty good looking restaurant." said the prosperous one, taking a long draw at his cigar. "and as my clothes looked pretty good I wasn't an object of suspicion. I had an overcoat which belonged to my partner. "As the overcoat and the revolver were chief characters in the ensuing drama, they have to be mentioned prominently. I got a seat right near the door and hung up my coat so that it was only a step away from the door. "Then I sat down and ordered a square one, a meal that it would be impossible to describe it was so good. It was flavored with the sauce of absti nence-from food. "I ate and ate and ate, and by and by my partner came along. Without his overcoat-and it was a cold day he didn't look good. He hung around the door for a long while, looking like a hobo getting up his nerve to come in and beg. "Just about the time he made a sig nal to me that showed he was about to enter I got up to go to the cigar coun ter to pick out a nice after dinner smoke. In-came my partner-and slunk up to the desk to ask for a bit of food. "Nothing doing. He was turned down cold. Then to make the thing work better he came up to me and asked: 'Say, boss, won't you give me a lift? I'm down and out' I repulsed him sternly, and after looking around he started out "I said to the proprietor in a virtu ous way, 'I don't believe in helping those bums.' to which he answered with a smug shake of the head, when my partner grabbed the overcoat I knew what he was doing, but I pre tended to be very much interested in the cigar until the proprietor yelled out, 'Hey, he's stealing your coat!' "I held on to the cigar, wheeled around and started for my partner. He was half out of the door. I yelled, 'Drop that!' and for answer he drew the revolver and flourished it "The proprietor dropped behind the counter, and the waiters fled to the kitchen. From his place the proprietor called out: 'Look out! He'll shoot you!' And, taking my cue, I let him rug out. "Then when the excitement cleared C off I raised an awful row about losing the coat, and the proprietor finally came up with the money for a new one, say about $30. Well, did that meal pay me? What?"-New York Sun. Exploding a Mine In. Grani-te. One of the methods of quarrying granite is to dislodge a huge sheet from the surface of the formation through the medium of a powder mine. A large perpendicular shaft is first blasted to a depth of about thirty feet. At the bottom of this and radiat lg in all directions horizontally, like the spokes of a huge wheel, long holes are drilled. The extremities of these holes are then shot with light charges of dynamite in order to create chain ers large enough to receive large quantities of black powder. This takes weeks of ever increasing charges. Then the final charge is loaded. The now huge chambers at the extremities of the spokes are packed with hun dreds of pounds of powder, numerous electric wires attached and the whole mine tamised with fine materiaL. A mighty roar and rumble in the bowels of the earth and the huge sheet is de tached from the Iedge.-Popular Me chanics. A Fraudulent Tax. A well to do German farmer'in a western state came into the town of which he was accounted a resident to pay his taxes. The bill was handed to him, itemized as follows: - State tax.................----- .----- 15.90 County tax...........-------.--- 8.50 School tax..............----------- 5.00 1 Totail.......... After the German had carefully scru tinized the bill he set his lips. tightly and in a very determined manner said: "I pays de state tax, I pays de coun ty tax und I pays de school tax, but1 L be doggoned if I pays dat total tax. I never had no total tax! I think he is a fraud!"-St. Paul Pioneer P'ress. Missed the Mark. A north of England clergyman re cently preached against ill natured gossiping and spoke pretty plainly to his congregation on the subject One of the members of the congregation to whom he was especially alluding came up to him after the service. The vicar thought he had touched her and that she was about to express contrition, but she said, "Ah, vicar, I am so glad you spoke out, and what a good thing it was the Misses - were there to hear you."-Church Family Newspa per. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Greatness Appreciated. ) "Katy, who's in the high school," re marked Mr. Dolan, "have been readin' Herbert Spencer to me. "Who's Herbert Spencer?" "He's wan iv the smartest min an earth. He could explain anything at all to yez if yez could only be polite enough to stay awake an' pay attn ton."-Washington Star. It is a miserable thing to live in sus pense- It is the life of a spider. Swift. Thirty days' trial $1.00 is the offer on Pine les. Relieves Baekache. Weak Back. Lame Back. Rheumatic pains. Best on sake for Kid neys. Bladder and Blood- Good for young and old Satisfaction guaranteed or money re funded. Sold by The Mannig Pharmacy. Stropping a. Razor. in stropping a razor the blade should be drawn across the strop from the heel to the point, at the same time go ing tile full length of the strop. In shaving this motion should be reversed, the blade traveling from point to heel. The reason of this is that the edge of the blade has tiny, sawlike teeth, and the opposite movements use these to the best advantage. Opened by Mistake. Absentmindedly .the young woman yawned. "Pardon me," she said. "I didn't mean to do that" "1 see," responded Mr. Lingerlong. "Opened by mistake."--Chicago Trib u ine. _ _ _ DeWitt's Little Early Risers are small, safe, sure and gentle little pi-lis. Sold by. E.T Brown & Co. - A REALISTIC PICTURE.. t Proved Too Absorbing For Old Uncle Juniper. The Mississippi courtroom was pack d with negroes, and it was fairly vident, says a contributor to the Tay or-Trotwood Magazine, that some ing of unusual interest was about :o transpire. Within the bar on the risoner's "seat an old negro leaned agerly forward as his attorney ar ued his plea of not guilty before the ury. "Who, gentlemen of the jury, has ;worn that he saw this man commit his theft?" demanded the attorney. 'We have broken every link in the weak chain of circumstantial evidence with which the state has tried to en :angle him. Why, his neighbor, Tom rones, swore that he sold him the neat that was found in the defend tnt's house and that he shot the hog >ecause it was wild. "It is true that Colonel Smith swore that one of his hogs disappeared about Dec. 23 and that about fifty yards rom a certain stump he found blood md then followed a trail of blood from hat spot to this defendants cabin. But vhat of that? "This defendant told you-and his vife and brother swore the same-that hat was the blood of a coon which he iad shot and carried home the day be ore Smith lost his hog.' Give him jus ice as you would do If he were a white man. He cannot help being >lack. 'The leopard cannot change his ;pots nor the Ethiopian his skin.' For wenty years he has been a leader in he church. Let him remain free to joy the bread of life with others of he faithful." As the lawyer sat down the women, vho had been "weaving" back and orth for some minutes, commenced to ;hout: "Bress de LawdP' "Dar, now!" "We knows yo's innocent, Br'er Juni The sheriff had to threaten to clear he courtroom before order was restor d. When at last there was silence the listrict attorney rose. "Gentlemen of the jury," he began' n closing the case for the state, "I de ;ire only to bring a picture to your ninds." - Here the prisoner adjusted his big' >rass: rimmed spectacles as if to see he picture, and his manner showed hat he was determined to let no- detail escape him. "The 23d of last December," contin ied the district attorney, "found Juni )erradley without meat His son vas coming to spend Christmas with lim. But Juniper did not worry, for >nly half a mile away in Marse Smith's voods were some fat hogs. "An hour before sunset Juniper was Heeling behind a large stump In these woods, with his rifle pointing toward a iog that at some distance away was ooting among the leaves." The district attorney paused. Taking t cane to represent a rifle, he knelt be iind a chair. After some minutes of noving to right and left now raising, iow lowering his rifle, he took careful tim and then fired, Imitating the noise >f a report very successfully. At the sound Juniper, who had been miling, apparently oblivious to every bing save the district attorney's move nents, exclaimed: "Yas, suh, dat's des de way I done it, boss!" The laugh that. followed brought Ju dper to a realization of what he had lone, and he shuffled round. In the risoner's seat, muttering, "Nigger got t show nohow!" THRILLUNG SPORT. lafting Down the Canyons of an Un mapped Glacial River. With provisions for only ten days-a arty of explorers in Alaska found one eptember that they must build rafts ad take their chances of letting the wift river carry them to settlements here food could be obtained; other vise ice and snow would shut them in *rom all hope of rescue. In "The hameless Diary of an Explorer" Rob rt Dunn tells of the journey on the oughly made rafts. "At 11 o'clock today began the most hrilling sport I know, rafting down he snaky canyons of an unmapped ~lacial river.. "Fred and I captained the Mary Ann I., the other three the Ethel May. We asped and hauled them over the gravel hadows of our tributary, shot out >tween the main walls of the stream nd seized upon that boiling current "We reached silently from cliff to luff, jammed pike poles into the slate hef overhead, twirled out of eddies. ;e bumped and grounded. We dashed verboard and on the run eased her cross shallows. We tugged half an iour to make an inch at each shove brough the gravel, suddenly plunged n to our necl-s, and she leaped free as re scrambled on. "Bowlders rose through white ruffs >f water In midchannel. We might or night not hang on them for a perpen licular minute. "You must be very handy with a yole. You must have a hair fine eye or moving angles, the strength of an eddy, the depth of foam ruffling over ustump. You must be surer of the ength of your pole than a polo player )f the reacl; of his mallet You must e quicker than a Siwash dog. You nust know the different weight of ach log down to ounces, the balance >f the duffel piled high like a dais, :overed with the tent and the bean pot, the macknaws and the ax lashed to ull the lashings. It's a pretty game." An Ancient Suez Canal. - It is certain that in ancient times a canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas did exist Herodotus as cribes its projection to Pharaoh Necho, 000 B. C. The honor of Its completion s given by some to Darius, by others to the Ptolemles. How long this canal continued to be used we do not know, but, becoming finally choked up by sand, t was restored by Trajan early In the second century A. D. Becoming again useless from the same cause, It was reopened by the Caliph Omar, but was finally closed by the "unconquer able sands" about . D. 707, in which state t has since remained. This an :lent canal, from Suez to Bubastis, on the east branch of the Nile, was 92 mles long, from 108 to 160 feet wide ind 15 feet deep. .His Prayer. O'Connell had got a man off at one time for highway .'obbery and at an >ther for burglary, but on a third oc :asion, for stealing a coasting brig, the task of hoodwinking the jury seemed too great for even his powers of cajol ary. However, he made out that the yrime was committed on the high seas nd obtained an acquittal. The prison 3r lifted up his hands and eyes to hear an and exclaimed, "May the Lord long spare you, Mr. O'Connell, to me!" Amoat.