Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHEN YOUCOME TO TOWN CALL AT XA/ELLS' SutAVING SALOON ' bth is itittd ulp with b a \' :o tier the c fort of his :nsto-ners. .... .. HAIR CUTTI\( IN ALL STYLES, SH AVIN E AND SHAM PO OING . cordial invitationr J . L,. %V WC . 1.S. lnuuing Times iock. Eat and Grow Fat FRESH MEATS AT ALL TIMES. EVERYTHINGGOOD 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 COMPANY, Charleston, S. C. Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in the case of my son. who bad chronic naso-phar yngeal catarrh, with great benefit to him. I often prescribe it for other of my patients, and Itinh it is quitte finestemed ao rcatarr that has ever been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past favors. I am. Yours very truly. M. J. D. DA-TZLn. M. .,. * Elloree, S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is -inning fast in this country. It has effected some remarkable cures. I do not l-iow that it has failed in one instance where it has been fairly tried. 'Very truly yours, Rr. T. H. ALLEN. Lexington. Ky. Dr. Biosser's Catarra Remedy is for sale by H. R. Boe, Manning. S. C. A month's treat ment ror $100. A free sample for the asking. A postal card will bring-it by mail. Summerton, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK - $25,000 00 SURPLUS..-.-.-.-.8,000 00 STOCKHOLDERS' LIABILITIES - - - 25,000 00 $58,000 00 IN OUR SAVNGS DPARTMENT We pay interest at the rate of 4 Per Cent. per annum, compounding sameI quarterly. RI9HARD B. SMYTH, President JOHN W. ILESESNE, Cashier. DR. J. A. COLE, DENTIST, Upstairs 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. C. MCSWAIN WOODS, C). ATTORNEY AT LAW, Manrnmg, S. C Office Over Levi's Store. R. 0. PCRDY. S. OLIVERt O'BRY P URDY & O'BRYAN, Attorineys and Counselors at Law, MANNI.NG, S. C. C HARLTON DURANT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, N1ANNING, 6S. C. W. C. DAVIS. J. A. WEINBERG. DAVIS & WEINBERG, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , MANNING, S. C. Prompt, attention given to collections. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. Pinesalve ACTS LK A rOULnCE Carbolized roatsor SzamDaSEASS Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar Cures all Coughs, aud expels Colds from the system by gently moving the bowels. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digasts what yon oat. The trouble with most cough cures that they constipate. Kennedy's Lax ative Cough Syrup does not constipate. but on the other hand its laxative prin ciples gently move the bowels. It i leasant to take and it is especially recommended for children. as it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. Sold by W. E. Brown & Co. FRIENDLY ANIMALS. The Intimacy Between Them and Man In Yellowstone Park. One of the mest pleasant features of the drive through the Yellowstone N1 tional park is the apparent intimacy be tween man and the animal and bird life in the park. Thanks to +he wise and stringent regulations, no shooting is allowed within its boundaries. "The result," says an English tourist, "is positively charming. U:ndreds of little chipmunks, with thug gaudy striped backs, scamper impudently about or peer at the passing coach from the roadside. The squirrel did not bolt for the nearest tree, but nodded a wel come. All bird life treated us like wise. Even the lordly eagle hovered near, and the wild turkey stalked un concernedly through the rank grass. We perceived a doe and a fawn graz ing by the road. Not unti we were within a few feet did they seek the shelter of the woods, yet not to fly. They simply moved aside. Here at least mankind was regarded as a friend-one who could be trusted. The only animal who ran away was a brown bear. He turned tail at the sight of a coaching party. Yet it was quite a common thing for bears to approach close to the hotels at evening to feed on the refuse thrown out. It was an after dinner relaxation for the guests to watch them feeding. They munched and disputed the choicest morsels, for the most part indifferent to the com pany. Only when we became inquis itive and approached too near did they retire, and these animals were perfect Ly free and unfettered in their move ments. It may read- like a fairy tale, but it is solid fact." THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. What Great Britain Owes to Holland and Pepper. It is curious to remember that when England's commercial greatness was i-making her most serious rival was Eolland. But the enterprising Dutch men ruined their chances by their reediness. There was a popular little -ouplet which ran: En matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Es giving too little and asking too much. The whole course of English pre fominance abroad might have been changed if the Dutch had not "asked too much." In the closing years of the sixteenth century they had a trade monopoly with the East Indies, and they "put ap" the price of pepper to such a point that the English consumer "struck." A meeting of London merchants made one December afternoon- a deci sion the importance of which to Eng land cannot be exaggerated. It was nothing less than the resolution to form a London East India company. The petition of these merchants to good Queen Bess was granted in ai royal charter of incorporation. The company, founded at first to es tablish direct trade communication with the east and lower the price of pepper, soon took to- Itself larger pur' poses. Fleets of merchant ships came and went between England and India, and from the quarrel about pepper the corporation of* merchants was des tined. through Clive and its "nabobs,' to give England a vast empire.-Pear son's Weekly. The Reason. It was Washington's bir'th'day, and the minister was making a patriotic speech to the children of the secondary grade. "Now, . children," he - said, "when 1 arose this morning the flags were wav ing and the houses were draped with~ bunting. What was that done for?" "Washington's birthday," answered a youngster. "Yes," said the minister, "but last month I, too, had a birthday, but nc slags were dlying that day, and you did not even know I had a birthday. Why was that?" "Because," said an urchin, "Washing ton never told a lie." - Philadelphia Ledger. __ _ _ _ _ _ Mussels of Philippine. During August and September as many as 1,000 to 1,50'0 sacks, each con taining nearly 200 pounds of mussels, are dispatched every Wednesday fromi Philippine alone. Holland, Belgium and France are the best customers of the Philippine mussel farmers, but quite a number of the cherished shell fish find their way across the channel from the Dutch beds to the -Britishers dinner table. In Philippine mussels form, one may say, the staple food 01 the population. They are consumed in every possible manner-stewed, fried, in soups, in gravies and with particular relish alive.--A. Pitcairn-Knowles in Wide World Magazine. A Retreating Chin. Nothing weakens a face more than a retreating chin. Unfortunately compar atively little can be done for it. It can be remedied to a certain extent it childhood by rubbing from the throat up and out, holding the head well up during the process. Sometimes, too, the trouble may be caused by the way the jaws close on account of the posi tion of the teeth, and a gcod dentist may often be of help. Bandlages wort round the chin at night, so placed that the lower jaw is forced forward, vwill sometimes remedy the defect slightly, especially when begun on quite youna children.-Exchange. Useless Money. Languid Lannigan-After all is said, pal, money ain't everyt'ing. Dry Dee gn-I knows it frum experience. wunst found a five dollar bill near de enter uv a prohibition state.-Puck More men are drowned in the bowl than in the sea-Irish Proverb. There is a Pink Pain Tablet made>b Dr. Shoop that will positively stop an, pain any where. in 20 minutes. Dr-ug gists everywhere seil them as Dr Shoop's Headache Tablets. but the: stop other paius as easily as headache Dr. Shoops Pink Pain Tablets simp. oax blood pr-essur-e away from pai centers-that is a!!. Pain ,-ones fr-on lood pr-essure- congestion- Stop thu pressure with Dr. Shoop's Heauae.h Tablets and pain is instantly gone. 2 Tablets 25c.. Sold by WV. E. Plrown C o. .. Frenzied Arithmetic. Teacher-Now, Tommy. if your fa her had twenty dozen eggts !n hit store a:nd found that eighteen of then were bad, how rnch would he lose Tomny-Nothin'. You dont know pa .Tathfinr.r ANIMAL VISION. Its Acuteness Depends Upon the Size of the Eyeball. Dr. Alexander Schaefer investigated the vision of many animal species and found that the size of the eyeball is the principal factor of acuteness of vision. The bovine species has the sharpest sight. The second place is oc cupied by man and the horse. which have nearly equal visual powers, the third by the sheep. Small and espe cially small eyed animals. whether mammals. birds. amphibia or reptiles, have very poor sight. Owls and buz zards are the only birds that possess great acuteness of vision. The low po sitions in the scale occupied by dogs, cats. bats and many fishes which feed upon living prey is contrary to all ex pectation. In the case o' dogs and cer tain fishes lack of sharpness of vision is due to the great size of the retinal elements It has long been known that degs have such indistinct vision that, as a rule, a dog is not able to recognize his master by sight alone. These results emphasize the distinc tion between vision of motionless ob jects and vision of moving objects. The latter faculty is necessarily keen in all animals of prey. A cat is little affected by the sight of motionless ob jects, but pounces on a fleeing mouse or a trailed string instantly and with unerring precision. A trout will rise to the most inipossible artificial fly if its motion resembles that of a living fly. The inclusion and position of man in the series are based upon the ocular measurements given by Helmholtz in his "Physiologische Optik."-Seientific American. OUR NEED OF WATER. Muscles Made Elastic and Tempera ture Regulated by Moisture. Physiologists tell us thatthe animal body consists of almost SO per cent of water. Admitting this to be true, it would seem plausible, says the Medical Record, that this quantity is necessary in order to carry on the normal physi ological processes of the animal econo my in proper condition. For similar reasons it would also ap pear plausible that should this quanti ty in any way be greatly reduced or diminished, either through normal proc esses of the body or through abnormal processes. this lost quantity must im mediately be resupplied. Should such a withdrawal of water be permitted to be unduly prolonged the disorders will assume such grave dimensions that life itself may ultimately be terminated. Elasticity and pliability of muscles, nerves, cartilage, tendons and even bones depend mainly on the amount of water they contain. Water also serves as a -distributer of bodily heat and reg ulates the body temperature by the physical process of absorption and elimination. Under normal conditions and in a proper degree of health this supply is ordinarily furnished partly by the food and partly by the drink we are daily consuming. An overindulgence in the use of water. provided it is not carried to excess, will seldom if ever be pro ductive of any deleterious conse quences. The Tuscan Farmer. The Tuscan peasant stands in the pe culiar position of being neither a pro prietor nor a dependent, writes Helen Zimmern in the Youth's Companion. He is instead the partner in an indus try. According to this method of farming, which is called mezzadria, the proprietor of the l-nd pays all the taxzes. advances all money required, furnishes capital for the purchase of cattle and keeps in repair the dwelling house. The peasant in return works the fields. attends to the live stock and to other home industries, sells the products-in short is the absolute mas ter of the land that is confided to him. He works the soil exactly as if it were his own, and then, at stated intervals in the year. divides the products and profits with the real owner. Don't Live' In New Houses. Why is a new house unhealthful? That is a question which has been asked by many and answered by few. And yet the reason is obvious. In the construction of just one medium sized house it is estimated that over 30,000 gallons of water is used. This water does not evaporate so quickly as it would in the air and sunlight, but lies near the surface of the earth and tin der the house and in the walls of the cellar; hence the house is damp, and damp houses foster illness. A house that has been standing for a year or so is much more healthful than a new one.-Minneapolis Journal. Cheering Him Up. Little Elmer-Grampa, why do you look so sad-? Grampa-I was just thinking. Here I am sixty years of age, and I have never done anything that will be likely to make posterity remember me. Little Elmer-Oh, well, don't worry. Mebby you'll still have a cha'nce to live in history as some body's grandfather Couldn't Risk It. First Sportswoman (after jumping a stile)-Come along- Do have a try! Second Sportswoman-Oh. it's all very well for you to risk your neck, but Im going to be married next week! Punch. A Collector of Coin. Ostend-Pa, what is a numismatist? Pa-A numismatist, my son, is a col lector of coins. Ostend--And. pa? Pa Well, my son? Ostend-Is a head wait er a numismatist?-Chicago News. Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.-Dowden. When you think of indigestion think of Kodof, for it is without doubt the only preparation that completely di1 ests all classes of food. And that is what you need when you have indiges tion or stomach trouble-something that will act promptly but thoroughly: something that will get right at the trouble and do the very work itself for the 'stomnach by digesting the food tna you eat and that is Kodol. It is pleas ant to take. It is sold by W. E. Browu & Co. - The Retort Direct. "See here." cried the artist, who had come to complain about the materials he had bought, "I can't imagine any thing worse than your paints." "That's strange," replied the deale~r. " Don't you ever use your imagination ~n your painting?"-Exchan2ge. Hopeless. "We wish, madam, to enlist your aid n influencing your husband for the public good. He holds the key to a Ivery interesting situtrtion and" "I dont see how I can be of any as s istance to you. Johni never could find a keyhnle"--omaton Post BURIED ALIVE. The Mode of Death Selected by a Chi nese Murderer. Rough justice as it is administered in most parts of China is sometimes tempered by individual tastes, as an incident printed in one of the China port journals attest. A man in Suchien, condenned to die, preferred to be buried alive, and his wishes were car ried out to the letter. During the famine two brothers who lived in Suchien fought desper ately to stave off starvation from their f yn:ilies and bad blood arose between them. At last the elder brother sold his father's coffin fo;: food. When he refused to divide the proceeds w- '"s younger brother the latter ch' his head with a cleaver. Because it was too espe sly carry the murderer several miles to the nearest yamen of . ice the local elders, including the father of the murderer, whose coffin had been sold, sat in justice upon the culprit and condemned him to death. He asked that he be buried alive instead of re ceiving the horrible torture of the "thirt; slices." The father interceded with the other elders to get them to grant his son's request. A grave was dug, and the victim, with his arms and feet securely bound, was trundled in a wheelbarrow to the edge of the pit by his wife. There, upon the murderer's own request, his bonds were loosed, and he walked to the grave, lowered himself into it and was ready. The victim's wife put a felt hat over his mouth as his request, and then she helped the elders to fill in the grave with sire feet of earth. TORTURED TO DEATH. The Horrible Fate' of a Number of Regicides. The lot of the regicide ,vhen caught is not usually a very enviable one. To be hanged is the least he can expect. Perpetual solitary imprisonment is a far more dreadful fate. It drove Bres ci, the assassin of King Humbert of Italy, to suicide, and it transformed Lucchini, who murdered the empress of Austria, into a hopeless imbecile. Among the plotters implicated in the murder of the late shah of Persia one was tortured to death in prison, while another was incased in wet plaster of paris, which on setting slowly crushed the life out of him. Three of the as sassins of a previous shah were boiled alive In huge copper caldrons. So late as the year 1831 the two Mavromichaelis, 'who slew Count Capo d'Istra. the first president of Greece, were Immured within close brick walls built around teem up to their chins and supplied with salted food, but no drink, until they died. Damiens, who attempted the life of King Louis XV. of France, was first barbarously tor tured and then torn to pieces by wild horses. This punishment was carried out in one of the principal squares of Paris. March 28, 1757. Ravaillac, who assassinated Henry IV. of France, suf fered a similar fate. The murderer of Selim III. of Turkey was publicly impaled. lingering five and a half days in dreadful torment Those who did to death ils immediate successor, Mustapha IV., were tortured and starved on alternate days and des prived -of sleep by night until death came to their -relief.-Chicago News. PSYCHASTH ENlA. A Physician Says This is One of the Causes of Panics. The panics that start In Wall street ften begin in the morbid financial fears of overstrained brains-psychas thenia. Psychasthenia makes panics, writes Dr. Clarence -Hughes in the Alienist and Neurologist. 'We once knew a mind overburden ed. brain overstrained man suddenly conclude he was coming to want and would not be able to pay his taxes when his Income was $40,000 annual ly. He milked his own cow, he har nessed his own horse and cared for it (sold the others), dismissed all his servants and his wife's and had in somnia, but finally recovered complete ly. Others with less income or more fall through brain overtax into the same morbid way of feeling and think ig. 'One kind of insanoid is a man who under mental stress of any kind acts as though he were insane, but has not the disease of real insanity to ex cuse his actions. "He hovers on the verge, but does not pass over into real mental aberra tion as he appears to be going. He does and says such odd, unreasonable and annoying things that his friends often wish he would pass into genuine insanity, so that he might be properly and lawfully restrained or that he might happily extinguish himself by suicide. Some'timnes he 'does commit suicide or become really insane, and we then know wher'e to) place him." A LITTLE BIT BEHIND. The Old Man Was Not Very Well Posted on the News. In the midst of the heated dissension on points connected with certain his torical seus': Mons which their teacher had sought to impress on them the two grandchildren appealed to their grand father, who sat musing and puffing his pipe in the corner, for support. "Grandpa," cried the eager brother, "who was it killed Caesar-Cassius or Brutus? I say Cassius." "Waal." replied the grandfather, sud 'denly becoming grave and taking his pipe from his mouth. "it war one or t'other. Le't me see. Yes. I guess 'twar th' man you said." "And sis says it was Marie Antoi nette who got put to death in France," again cried the youth, triumphantly glancing toward his sister, "but I say it was Mary, queen of Scts." "Now, you may be right there, too," ventured the involuntary vindicator after fidgeting in his chair. "Come t' think of It. 'twar Mary, queen of Scots. that wvar electrocuted in France." At this the young girl's eyes ilashied. "Grandpa." declared she, stepping be fore him and eying him sternly, "you don't seem to know anything about it." The old man's head went up as if shocked. "Th' truth is, children." he then admitted as he passed his free hand over his head helplessly, "your grandfather' ain't read th' newspapers 'ery careful this week. I'm a le'etie mite behind."--Bohemian Magazine. Thought He Was Going to Shave. The ne-: rubber in the Turkish bath had formerly been a barber. Thus it w~as when his first patron cae in that the new rubber looked him over and said pityingly, "Wash yourself sometimes, don't yonu y-Louis ville Courier-,Tournal. Spare minutes are the gold dust of in good or evil, the gaps through which +t.mpttinsenter.-Mrs. Thrall. The Champion Absentminded Man. A very absentminded professional man, with offices in a Chestnut street building. came downtown the other day and discovere' I that he had left his keys at home. Tlht' superinteudent of the building let the absentminded man into his office, but he was still as bad off as ever. He could not get into his desk or at his safe. lie pondered a lit tle while over his dilemma; then he decided to return home for the keys. "Why not send a mess.nger boy after the keys?" was the thought that struck him, but that was immediately put out of the <luestion by another thought to the effect that the boy would not be able to get in the house in case the absentminded man's wife had left . home. "That's right: I must go my self." decided the troubled man, and some he went, arriving at the very door of his house before it dawned upon him that he without his keys was as bad off as a messenger boy; and the poor man's wife had gone out all right. "Oh, hang it anyway," said the absent minded man, "I ought to have tele phoned her to wait for me! Why didn't i do that? Well, I will go right back to the office and phone." And he did. He phoned and phoned for some time before he could understand why his wife did not answer; then he gave up work for the day.-Philadelphia Record. Turning the Tables. When E. L. Godkin was editor of the New York Evening Post he was sup posed by many to lack a sense of hu mor. but those in his employ who stood close to him knew better. One morning he sent for his young city editor. "Last night," said Mr. Godkin, "I read in the Post an account of the sui cide of a boy. Your news paragraph reported as the motive that the boy was being resisted at home in a prema ture inclination to marry. Mr. Blank,. can you imagine how that father felt when you accused him for what was no doubt done in a sense of loving duty of being the cause of the death of his child?" The young editor stammered an apol ogy. "Thank you for your explanation," said Godkin. "But." he went on in a more decided tone. "if anything like that ever happens again I give you fair warning, sir, that I will leave this pa per! I will not work for a paper that says things so cruel!"-Euccess Maga zine. When Britain Fought For an Ear. Perhaps the most extraordinary ex ample of Britain going to war for "no reason at all" occurred in the reign of George II. One Robert Jenkins, an English merchant-captain, trading from Jamaica, arriving in England in 1738, reported that the sloop had been board ed by the Spanish coast guards and that, though no proof of smuggling had been found, he had been tortured and his ear torn off. All England fSew into an uproar. "Jenkins' ear" divided par ties and shook Walpole's ministry it self. The house of commons sent for Jenkins. and he was told to bring his ear with him. The incident grew into a crisis, though Walpole did his best to persuade people to keep their heads, but the popular' indignatio'n was so0 great that the next year the govern ment was compelled to declare war against Spain.-Pearson's. .The Parish Top. Once In England top whipping wasi practically ordered by law. There was a huge top formerly provided in every village to be whipped in frosty weath er that the peasants might be kept1 warmi by the exercise and out of mis- I chief while they could not work. Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night" says, "His brains turn like a parish top." Ben Jonson in "New Inn" writes, "He spins like a parish top." and Beaumont: and Fletcher have "dances like a town top and reels and hobbles." Evelyn,1 the diarist, spaking of the ases of wil-1 low wood, says that it was ordered that < "the great town tops should be made: thereof." .' Is German as Bad as This?, John Ruskin was caustic in his utter ances about the German language. In "Letters of Dr. John Brown" Ruskin is thus quoted: German isn't a "language" at all, but only a "throatage" or "gutturage"-a mode of human expression learned chiefly of wolves and bears, with half of the things It calls words stitched in the middle like wasps and ants or ass panniers, and letters scrabbled out1 when people were mostly drunk, so that they didn't know the tops from1 the bottoms of them. In Wrong. "Your husband Is greatly in need of exercise." said the doctor. "He's in doors too much. He'll have to get out more." "Out more!" excimned the wife.1 "He's been out every night this week. That's what's the matter with him." Realizing that he was in the wrong, the doctor left a prescription and prom-< ised to call la~ter.-St. Louis Republic. The Vote That Counted. "And what was your family's de cision ?" "Practically unanimous in my fa- 1 vor," answered the young lawyer,4 "mother voting aye and father dissent- 1 lng."-Louisville Courier-JournaL.4 His School. "Have you a college diploma?" "No, but I have several mining stock certificates that I might frame and hang up as eviden~ce that I have been through the school of experience." Exchange. The habit of looking at the best side of every event is worth more thiais a thousand a year.-Johnson. "Health Coffee" is really the closest Coffee fimitation ever yet produced.c This lever Coffe Substitute was re cently produced by Dr. Snoop of Ra eine,' Wis. Not a grain. of real Coffee in it either. Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee is made from pure toasted grains, with mait, uts, etc. R9eally it would fool an expert-who might drink it for Coffee. No 20 or :30 minutes tedious boiling. 'Made in a minute."2 says the doctor. Sold k.- Manning Grocery Co. The Sign, of Wedlock. She-What Is the proper for'mula for a weddiig announceme~nt? He-I know what is ought to be. She-What? He-1 "Be it knowvn by these presents."-Bal timore American. Don't imagine you are a good con versationalist just because you talk a good deal.-Atchlson Globe.. A Vast Difference. "Don't I give you all the money you need?" her husband complained "Yes." she replied, "but you told me before we were married that you would ... e me ll I wwnted"-London Tat HARBOR BUOYS. Their Different Colors Serve as Guides to the Mariner. If you examine the buoys on enter ng any harbor in the world, you will ind that those on your right are paint d red and those on your left black. :f you should see one painted in red tmd black horizontal bands. the ship ;hould run as close to it as possible. 1 >ecause that indidates the center of a marrow channel Buoys with red and >lack vertical stripes always mark the end of spits and the outer and inner inds of extensive reefs where there is t channel on each side. When red and )lack checkers are painted on a buoy t marks either a rock in the open sea >r an obstruction in the harbor of ;mall extent, with channel all round. :f there are two such obstructions and t charnel between them, the buoy on :he right of you will have red and vhite checkers and the one on your eft will have black and white check !rs. When a wreck obstructs the chan el. a green buoy will be placed on :he sea side of the wreck, with the 'Wreck" plainly painted on it in white etters, provided there is a clear chan 2el all around it; otherwise an even mumber will be painted in white above :he word "Wreck" when the buoy is )n the right side of the channel and to odd number if the buoy is on the eft.-Pearson's Weekly. TRICKY JAIL BIRDS. ~any Ways the Convicts Have of Feigning Sickness. "Hear the song of the dear little jail girds." said the jailer as a burst of ribald melody came down the gray !orridor. "The dear little jail birds!" ae shook his head and sighed. "They are all playing sick in that hard," he resumed. "There's. nobody man malinger like a jail bird. His dicks are amazing. "To fake a fever he will whiten his :ongue with chalk. flush his cheeks with a red flannel undershirt and dis )rder his stomach by swallowing a mid of tobacco. "To fake consumption he will cut 3ls gums so as to spit blood and go through a terrific kind of Swedish novement in bed so as to produce light sweats. "Some jail birds have brought on settle rash by temporarily poisoning themselves with smuggled crab or lob ,ter. Some chew soap so as to froth it the mouth in fake fits. Some even thrust needles down to the lids of the ?ye to bring on cataract."-Minneap >lis Journal. A Bank of the Year 600 B. C. The very earliest banking firm of vhich there is any record was that of Egibi & Sons. an institution which car ied on advance, exchange and general inancial business in Babylon in- the ear 600 B. C. Knowledge of this firm s obtained from certain records on !lay tablets which have been found in 'ecent excavations made by a party of English and French archaeologists ear the site of the ancient city above nentioned.. Bills of credit. drafts. etc.. n the form of small burnt clay tablets, each bearing the characteristic signa ure of Egibi & Sons, have been found n many other parts of Asia Minor. and .t is believed that close study will rove that some of the clay tablets ound in tombs and pyramids in Egypt ill finally prove to be Egibi "nego iabe notes." Australia. The first civilized settlement in Aus ralia was made at Botany bay in 1738 >y some 1,030 persons, mostly convicts. :n 1825 Moreton bay. New South Wales, was settled. The settlement of Western Australia dates from 1829. Explorations of Australia began in LS5 and have. been kept up at inter rals ever since. The greater part of :he interior of the continent is little etter than desert, being either sand r dense shrub or porcupine bush. In LS75 Giles traversed a territory 2,500 niles in extent which ivas declared 'unfit for 'human habitation." And ret the artesian well may yet make ustralia bloom like a garden.-New rork American. A Queer Joke. A resident of 'Vevey. Switzerland, lied some years ago and left a will, in wich he bequeathed the whole of his roperty, of which he was supposed to ossess a large amount to the "local aospital of the town." There being wo local medical charities-the town ospital and the Hospice de. Samari 'n-a suit at law was entered by the ~ormer in order to decide its right to -he legacy. After considerable ex >enses had been incurred the dispute as abruptly brounght to a close by the iiscovery that the deceased had in ulged in a most unseasonable jest mnd, in fact did not possess a penny :o bequeath. The Vienna Woman. The Vienna woman is called the best iressed woman in the world, and she vel deserves her title. She is more rench in attire than the Parisian, and he is. more elegant than the Russian. she combines the usefulness of the English with the delicacy of the Span sh. Yet she is a school of her own in ress; she is original to the last die 'ail. To be thoroughly Viennese in ress is the dream of the well gowned ~uropean woman.-Brooklyn Eagle. The Office and the Man. "The office should seek the man, you mow." "That's all right," replied the avow d aspirant "but I gave it a fair hance, and it seemed diffident"-Phil tdelphia Ledger. Agree, for the law Is costly.-Latin ?roverb. MaZan Pile Remedy comes ready to use, in a ollapsible tube. with nozzle. One application oothes and heats, reduces inflammation and re eves soreness and itching. PrIce 50e. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy.. Applying the Test. "There was a barber in an Indi ia :ity who, having been out late he ight before, had a shaky hand the ext morning and cut a patron's cheek tour times." said the man who insist d he saw the Incident "After each icident the barber said as he spong d away the blood, 'Oh, dear me. how ~areless" and laughed and let it go at "The patron took all those gashes in rave silence, bu~t when the shave 'as over he filled a glass at the water ooler, took a mouthful of water and, vith compressed lips, proceeded tO Gake his head from side to side and :o toss It up and down. "'What is the matter?' the barber skzed. 'You ain't got the toothache. lave you r "'No,' said, the customer. 'I only rust wanted t'o see If my mouth would itill hold water without leaking, that ..an al "--Phnaelphia Record. The Amenities of Oysters. One of the most profound remarks ever made by that profound philoso pher. Thackeray, was when he passed two tubs of oysters side by side, and he saw one was labeled "1s. a dozen" and the other "1s. 3d. a dozen." He ex claimed, "How those oysters must hate each other!" Well. "even an oyster may be crossed in love," and William Dean Howells has another tale to tell anent the psy chology of the oyster. At one of the little suppers that the poet Longfellow gave to the brilliant Cambridge circle James Russell Lowell paused with the pepper box poised, above his plate of oysters to say whimsically. "It's as tonishing how these fellows love pep per." "Dear me! You don't say so!" ejacu lated a nice, prosy old gentleman who used to sleep through the suppers. The temptation was too strong to be resist ed, and Lowell was fairly launched into an account of how a red pepper accidentally dropped into a basket of oysters had been drawn out with half a dozen of the bivalves clinging to it when the ever gentle Longfellow inter posed to save his matter of fact old friend. Grandma's Destination In Doubt. Ethel is of the mature age of five. Recently her grandmother concluded that it devolved on her 'to instruct .the child in religious matters. "You must be a good girl, Ethel," she said. "Then you will go to heaven when you die." Ethel seemed scarcely pleased with this reward for exceptional conduct "Don't you want to go to heaven?" asked grandma with a -look of re proach. "Oh. I don't know," temporized Ethel. "I guess not" "Why not?" demanded grandma se verely. "Because maybe I couldn't get out," answered Ethel. "You wouldn't want to get out," re plied grandma. - "Oh, yes, I should," returned Ethel with conviction. "No," argued grandma, "you would not. Why should you want to get out of heaven?" "Why." answered Ethel, "I guess I'd want to go and see you once in awhile, wouldn't I?"-Woman's Home Com panion. Identified. Although straws usually tell <which way the wind blows, occasionally even the proverbial straw proves mislead ing. Previously to entering the railroad yards an ablebodled lodfer picked up a small, glittering object from the side walk and, without examining it very closely, pinned it to his coat. Three minutes later he collided with a slowly moving freight. train, was liurled against a post and picked up insensi ble. The train dispatcher, notified-by tele phone. called up Patrick Doyle. the yardmaster's assistant, and said: "You'd better search his- pockets, Doyle. Find out who he is. notify his friends and report to me." A few moments later the report came: "There's not a line of writing. on him." said Patrick, "but we've. idni fed him by the badge on his coat He's a Lady Maceabee."-Exchange. Confucius as a Poet. For those who want to know some thing of the poetic abilities of Con fucius. the Orient Review. publishes some translations from a collection given to the Chinese world 500"years B. C. One of these is called "The Bride Coeth:" The turtledove dwells in .the magpie-s nest. One cometh as a bride to be-caressed. A hundred carriages have gone in quest. The magpie's home the young dove hath possessed. This lady cometh as a lifelong guest A hundred chariots -on the road have pressed. The turtledove shall fill the magpie's nest. She travels far from home to love and rest. A hundred carriages her rank attest. One Service Barred. A famous London barrister was upon one occasion -called - upon to defend a cook tried for murder, being accused of having poisoned his master. The bar rister after a most able and brilliant defense of the. culprlt, secured an ac quittal. The cook, anxious to show his gratitude, said, "Tell me, sir, whatever can I do for you to reward you?" The triumphant counsel -answered. -"My good man, do anything you can, but for God's sake don't ever cook for me!" Honest Graft. "Joneis made the best part of his money by grafting." "Why. I thought he had such a high reputation for honesty." "So he has. He must graft, though, for he keeps a fruit nursery."-Balti more American. Curiosity. If you want to find out how busy men are, paint a red ring on your door. Every man who passes will stop to find out what it is for and then wait until the next man comes along that he may tell about It.-:Atchison Globe Tollope's Recipe For Novel Writing. - Mr. Trollope wrote immensely and never waited for inspiration. He said the best recipe be knew for novel writ ing was a patch of cobbler's wax on his chair and to take great care he sat on it.-"Leaves From a Life." Long and Short. Famier B.-This 'ere paper says they ain't nothin' f'r an appetite like a long tramp. His Wife-Land! They don't now what they're talkin' about. A short one c'n eat just ez much.-Path inder. Thirty days' trial $1.00 is the offer on Pine ules. Rcelieves Backache. Weak Back. Lame Back. Rheumatic pains. Best on sale for Kid neys, Bladder and Blood. Good for young and old. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re funded. Sold by The Manning 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 the full, length of the strop. In shaving this motion should be reversed, the blade traveling from point to heel. The i-eason 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 ya wed. 'Pardon me," she said. "I didn't mean to do that." l see." responded Mr. Lingerlong. "Opened by mistake.'-Chicago Trib DeWitt's Little Early Riser-s arec small, safe, sure and gentle little pills. old by W E. rown & Co. DUELING STORIES. Girardin's Satisfaction and a Winning Choice of Weapons. M. de Girardin, the father of the statesman and author, Emile de Girar din, on one occasion entered a place where several men. were firing 'at a tgrget. A gentleman present, whom M. de Girardin did not know, hit the bullseye at every shot Several by standers expressed themselves in very great admiration of the gentleman's precision. "Yes," said De Girardin, "he shoots remarkably well, but it's quite a differ ent thing to hit a man In a duel from hitting a piece of pasteboard." The marksman overheard the remark and was offended. "I think you are mistaken; sir," he said to De Girardin "I assure you that if I had you before me I shouldn't miss you." "You can have me when you like. said De Girardin. "Let it be immediately, then," said the other. An attempt was made to patch the matter up, but neither man would agree to an amicable settlement The seconds were chosen, and the men went to a locality 'favorable for the duel. It was decided that they should fire separately, and it was left to a de cision by lot-which fired first The lot fell to the mysterious marks man. He fired at M.' de Girardin and missed him. .De Girardin stood still. making no sign as if to fire at his an tagonist "Come, why don't you shoot?' asked his seconds. "Why should I shoot?" asked De Gb. rardin. "There is no reason why 1. should kill this. gentleman. I main tained that even. a crack shot could easily miss' his .man' at twenty-five paces. This gentleman maintained the contrary. He must. now be convinced that he is wrong. I owe him no il will f for having discovered that" A better method of meeting a due ing challenge was no Tubt one which was employed -on a certain occasioaM by a French statesman againstM. Vi tor Noir, an illiterate-bully of the press in the time of .the:second empire: The statesman, received from _,Moir; tor no f real reason whatever, a challenge to fight a duel. Noir was a- densely ignorant sman. and nearly every word in the challeng - was misspelt The.statesman respond ed with the following letter: Dear Sir-You have called me out with out any good..reason. I.have therefore y the choice ..of weapons. I- choase . thean t . spelling book, and you area deadanan Theduel was never fought -Iondon", T it-B its . . P I O N G; P0~1ING'AS FINEART. Scale of Prices Submitted to the ae tian Council of Ten. Venetian poisoners first came jinto notoriety in the fifteenth century -Attu that period the mania ..for : onK had risen to such a height-: thatthe governments of-the states ;Weefrm ally recognizing' secret ' ninn n by poison and considering the of emperors, princes sand powerfn 'no-t4 ^ bles by this method. The notorious couillot ten met to consider such plans, and an and record of their speean tlel ists, giving the number f those w1 voted'for:.and whoevoted" against the '-~, proposed removal; the reasonst for the~> . nssasinatfon 'and the sum.tohe-paid. for its execution. ' Thus these 'Conspirators-.guietlya ranged to take thie-li'res of inanypom- - inent individuals, and "we ,the -eed was executed It was reitrdon the margin of their officiald'ecord by thie. i. significant word "faetunm." On Dec. 15, 1543. John of Eaguba offerd the council a selection of poi~ ' sons-and declared himelf ready-t t e- A move any person whom they-deemned - objectionable- out-. of the way. fe almly stated his terms. which for the first successful case were to b'ape sion of 1,500 ducats sayear,to be in creased on the execution of fui'ther' services. -- The presidents G'uolando Duoda and Pietro Guiarni placed this matter.e fore the councll'onJan. 4,154.~,and - - on a division It was resolved to aceept . this patriotic offer and'to experimeii first on the EmperorMwavimllti John. who had evidently, reduced poisoning , to a fine 'art,. submitted afterward - regular graduated tariff t~ thie council. The highest fee was for poisoning the sultan. 500 ducats; for the king 'of Spain, 150 ducats, including, the ex penses of the journey; fottheDakeo 4~ Milan, 60 ducats for the Mfarquis of Mantua, 50 ducats; for the pope.,~ ducats.-Health New Light on the Zones. A class of boys averaging abouit twelve years of age had been eam ied in geography, which had beenpre ceded the .day before by grammar Among the questions in -the geography paper was the following: "Name the zones." One promising youth of eleven years wrote this answer: "There are two zones, masculine and feminine. The masculine Is either temperate or intemperate; the femil nine is either torrid or frigid."-Ne York Sun. An Unwelcome Gratuity. An American merchant bitterly op posed to the -custom of "tipping'' public. servants for each inconsequentini serv ice was astonished to find the, practice in Europe more general than in Ameri - ca. While in London he had occasion to employ a cab and upon being driven to the desired destination .drew forth - a handful of change, counted out the exact fare and tendered it .to the driver. "Beg pardon, sir!" exclaimed the cab by in a tone of Injury. "'Ow long 'ave ye been saving up for this 'oliday?' Suppressing his annoyance at the driver's effrontery, the tourist sought a restaurant and upon receiving the din ner check again tendered the exact amount of his bilL. The waiter bowed, assisted his guest into his coat, then. selecting a bright new sixpence, of fered it to his patron with: "Beastly weather, Sir! 'Ere's coach fare"-Lppincott's Magazine The Rat. The rat's sins are manifold. The damage which he does in a year to crops, cargoes, stores,.granaries, poul try and game, dairies and onthouses. foundations, wails and drainage :can not be calculated exactly, but it must be enormous. He is ubiquitous. lHe swarms in fields, hedges. coverts, farm yards, cellars, sewers, docks and ships. He is clever in getting out of difficul ties, extremely couragedus, able to exist on almost any kind of food and horribly prolific.-Lonldon Spectator. One Exception. "You know." began Lovett, "it Is said that 'love levels all things.'" "Yes," remarked the crusty bachelor. "it may level all things except~the lov r's head"-Phlladelphia Press.