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Prof. Surgery Medical Cole; of Vir ginia: "I have never used any mineral water so e' *- ely as the Fenticello, and it has given uniformly good resul--.- prescribe it in kidney and bladder troubles very largely. and also in stomach and nervous disorders. with splendid effects.' Carried in stock by DR. W. E. BROWN & Co., Agents. . BANK OF CLARENDON. Manning, S. C. We solicit your banking business. It is to your interest to patronize this safe and strong bank. Four years of con tinued growth and operation without the loss of as much as a dollar, speaks for itself, does it not: We want to be your bankers, if you are not already a customer, come and see us about it and tell us why. if you are, come and see us anyhow. It is never too late to do a good thing for yourself. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. BANK OF CLARENDON, Manning, S. C. Our Stock of Farm Implements is now complete and we can serve you to your best interest. We now have the largest and most complete Stock of Farming Implements ever shown in this town. Having bought heavily before the advance on everything in our line, we are enabled to offer you the best goods at the least price. Call .to See Us. ---8.50 SINCE it is an established fact that Sthe corset is one of the most im tant parts of a woman's wearing apparel, it is worth your while to care fully study the various makes of corsets now on the market. We invite the most ;critical examination of the KABO Cor set. for the reason that we are absolutely - certain every purchaser of a KABO Corset will prove a satisfied customer. This explains why we are advertiising its merits. Closely study cut of style 1909, appearing herewith. You will observe it is a very late model, with - ~ at the sides to permit free arm move STY 1 ment. Long beautiful back lines, and hose supporters on front and sides. very beautifully tr immed with wide lace and bebe ribbon and two op bow. Has 13 inch. 6 hook non-.rustable clasp; made of hand ome fifiured Broche. This is exceptionally road value. D. H IRSC HM A NN. /1 '4 -w on The Best Pills Ever Sold. "After doctoring fifteen years for chronic indigestion and spending over two hundred dollars, nothing has done me as much goad as Dr. King's New Life Pills. I consider them the best pills ever sold." writ-, B. F. Ayscue of Ingleside, N. C. Scd under guarantee at Arant's drug store. 25c. The Commencement. The word "commencement" enables orators in frock coats to tell beautiful young ladies in white organdie that the extinction of the academic era marks the commencement of their real lives." Maybe you have heard them. and witnessed the thrill with which the notion was received by blushing maidenhood. It is a stupen dous thought, bulging with originality, and I suppose it is mean to meddle with it, even though one knows how that use of the word commenced-or "began," if you prefer. In the old days degrees or diplomas were not granted in June. They were granted in September, and the seniors of yes teryear were forced to reinvade the academic shades to acquire them at the commencement of the new term. After awhile it dawned upon, our insti tutions of learning that the arrange ment necessitated undue bother, so they moved the "commencement" ex ercises back across the vacation and put them at the end of the year. How ever, they neglected to rechristen them, and oratory has gained much by that inspired oversight-Boston Transcript A Fountain of Ants. The house I was occupying in India was a bungalow, and, as is the case with many bungalows, the inner walls were constructed of merely sun dried bricks, and in the recesses of. one wall a colony of white ants had established a nest It was evening. I heard be hind me a buzzing sound. I turned, and from a hole near the bottom of the wall I beheld a fountain of young white ants ascending. They reached the ceiling, and then the descent com menced. They alighted by thousands on the table and there shook off their wings. In a few minutes the cloth, the plates, the glasses, even the lamp shades, were covered with the little white, feeble, crawling creatures. The fountain of ants continued to play for at least ten minutes. When, next morning, the floor was swept the wings that the ants had shaken off filled a large basket What became of the ants themselves I cannot say.-"Haunts and Hobbies of an Indian Official." Sly Old Commodore. "When Commodore Vanderbilt was alive," says a New York Central offi cial, "the board of directors of he New York Central used to find their work all cut out for them when they met All they had to do was to ratify his plans and adjourn. Yet they had their uses. Occasionally a man would come to him with some scheme which he did not care to refuse outright "'My directors are a difficult body of men to handle,' he would say. I'll submit it to 'em, but I warn you that they are hard to manage.' "The matter would be submitted to the board when it assembled and promptly rejected. "'There.' the commodore would say when his visitor came to learn the re sult 'I did the best I could, but I told you in advance that my directors were an obstinate lot'" His Card. Mr. Newrich, the dust contractor, having made a fortune, part of which he had Invested In house property in the east of London, wished to rise, like a phenilx, from his ashes into some sort of society. His golden key, ap plied to the coffers of an impecunious aristocrat, opened the way. His new friend, among other things, advised him that visiting cards were a necessity, and, as a guide to drawing one up ready for the printer, handed him one of his own, which read, Harold De Vere, Iona House. Ports mouth Square, W." Two days later, as De Vere was sit ting in his dressing room at breakfast, a servant brought In on a salver a visiting card bearing the following: "Ephraima Newrich, I Own 23 Houses, London. E."-Philadelphia Ledger. Pepys' Kiss. For more than two centuries the body of Katherine of France. Henry V.'s queen. uncovered in the building of Henry VII.'s chapel, was one of the sideshows seen by every visitor to the abbey. Pepys, indeed, records that on Shrove Tuesday, 1669, he "had the upper part of her body In my hands and did kiss her mouth, reflecting upon it that I did kiss a queen."-P. P.'s London Weekly. A Little Matter Among Friends. Two boys were in fighting atti tude. like bantams. Another and a smaller one stood watching them, wip ing his eyes, sobbing the while. ' "What did yer hit him for?" said' one. "'Tain't none of your business." "Yes, it Is. He's my friend." "Well, he's my friend too." - New York Globe. Apples For Health. A correspondent writes to ask us what he should do when his doctor pays him more visIts than are neces sary. We would remind our corre spondent of the old saying: An apple a day Keeps the doctor away. But the apple must, of course, be well aimed.-Punch. His Merit Card. Mother '(surprised) - Why. Johnny, how did you happen to get -the merit card for good behavior at school this week? Small Johnny-It was like this, mamma. Harry Jones won It, and I told him if he didn't give It to me I'd punch him.-Hebrew Standard. The Change. Reddy (putting down a gold piece) Ticket for Del Monte. Ticket Clerk Change at Castroville if you take this train. Reddy-I'11 wait, then, for I want my change right here, uncle. Monterey Gossip. Prescribes Dr. Blosser's C'atarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in thc 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 finest remedy for catarrh that hats ever been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past f av:>rs, I am. Yours very truly. M. J. D. D.yrLElt. M. D., Elloree, S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is wrinning fast in this country. It has effected some remarkable cures. I do not linow that it has failed in one instace where it has been falriy tried. Very trulv yours. Rsv. T. H. ALLEN. Lexington, Ky. Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy is fur sale by H. R. Boger. Manning. S. C. A mcnth's treat ment for $1.00. A free sample for the asking. A postal card w.~ill brina it hy mail. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digasts what you eat. Pineules for the kidneys. 30 days' trial 1.0! Guaranteed. Pineules act directly on the Kit neys and bring relief in the first dose to baci ache. weak back. lame back, rheumatic pain kidney and bladder trouble. They purify th blood and invigorate the entire system. Sol by The Manning Pharmacy. Fearful Tortures. Some years ago I was a teacher it fghanistan, and during my stay it that country I was often an unwilling witness of some horrible exhibition; of torture. Here is one they use in the case of women to extract testimony It consists in prying off the finger nails by means of a small chisel 01 brad awl, which is shoved in slowly but firmly, from the finger tip down ward under the quick of the nail. whicl is then lifted up and out. This is another that I once saw user in the case of a small child who woulc not own up to some petty theft: Stick, were thrust between its fingers and the fingers then squeezed together, s( that the sticks crushed into the bones So much for women and children Here is a method of eliciting informa tion from an unwilling man: The cul prit is stripped to the waist, and ther boiling oil is flicked on to his back This seldom fails to find the man'; tongue. The above are the chief forms of "fahana," or torture. for the purpos 9f eliciting information, but it mus: be stated that such inflictions as nip ping of noses, tearing out tongues 01 splitting eyeballs do not come undel the heading of "fahana," they being punishments rather than tortures. London Standard. Duchesse and Anarchist. Upon one occasion the Duchess d'Uzes and Louise Michel met at th bedside of a poor sick woman whoa they were mutually aiding. They me here frequently for a brief period. Thb woman died. Louise Michel, who was present at the death, wrote to thl duchesse: "Madame-Our poor friend i: dead. I have looked among her fey belongings for a souvenir for you Here is a small piece of passementeri done by her hands. Accept It." . few days afterward Mme. la Duchess d'Uzes, nee Mortemart, went to thi home of Louise Michel, the anarchis -a bizarre abode at Levallois wher the poor found always both a goo( word and a piece of bread-to than] ,he "red virgin" for her letter and he: gift. A friendship so was cementer between the oddly assorted pair tha was later not without result in the operation of the most gigantic charit: of the Duchesse d'Uzes-Boulangerism -Harper's Bazar. He Left at Once. He had been worshiping her fo months, but had never told her, an she didn't want him to. He had com, often and stayed late-very late-any she could only sigh and hope. He we going away the next day on a holiday and he thought the last night was th, time to spring the momentous ques ion. He kept it to himself, however until the last thing. It was 11:30 b; the clock, and it was not a very rapii clock. "Miss Mollie." he said tremulously "I am going away tomorrow." "Are you?" she said with the thoughi lessness of girlhood. "Yes." he replied. "Are you sorry?" "Yes, very sorry." she murmured "I thought you might go away thi evening." Then he gazed at the clock wistfull; and said good night.-London Scraps. The Power of the Whale. If the whale knew its own power, could easily destroy all the mnachiner; which the art of man could devise fc catching him. It would only be neces sary for him to-swim on the surface I: a straight line in order to break th thickest rope, but Instead, on bein; struck by the harpoon, he obeys a na1 ural instinct, which, In this instance betrays him to his death. Not havin; an air bladder. he can sink to the lou est depths of the ocean, and, mnistakin; the harpoon for the teeth of a sword fish or a shark, he Instantly descends this being his manner of freeing hin self from these enemies, who eannc bear the pressure of a deep ocean, ani from deseending and ascending I: small space he thus puts himself in th power of the whaler. The Popinijay. The origin of the application of th term "popinjay" to a dude was as fo) lows: The popinjay was a figure of: bird shot at for practice. The ja; was decked with particolored feather so as to resemble a parrot and, bein; suspended on a pole, served as a tar get He whose ball or arr.w brough down the bird by cutting the strin; by which it was hung received th proud title of Captain Po'pinjay for tb rest of the day and was escorted homn in triumph. He' Had Not Forgotten. Artist William M. Chase told a stor; of the eccentric Jimmy Whistler.I was at a dinner party after all th guests had been seated, when Chas gently drew Whistler's attention to th fact that he had forgotten his' tib "Forgotten?" shrieked Whistler. "NotI ig of the kind. Why should I spo3 the effect of a good linen collar, wit) excellent lines, by sticking on a foolis] little piece of fimsy lawn?" And the dinner proceeded. Unfeeling. "Bilger eloped with his cook, the ut feeling wretch!" "Well. I don't know. Why shouldn he if he wanted to?" But his wife was just going to giv a dinner party."-Life. A Pretty Sure Sign. Mrs. Hoyle - I believe that I ax growing old. Mrs. BoyleWhat give you that idea? Mrs. Hoyle-I am gel ting so that I don't care to go to ft nerals.-Echange. In the philosophy of some men heal en is nothing but a place where every body will be able to buy cheap and sel high.-Chicago Record-Herald. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pill are prompt and thorough and will in very short time strengthen the weal ened kidneys and allay troubles arisin from inflammation of the bladdes. The are recommended every where. Sol by W. E. Brown & Co. No Gift "Would you call that orator's e1< quence a gift?" "Not at all. He always chargesa least 50) cents admission."-Washing1 ton Star. The greatest quarrels in the world history have been between people wh were once frniends.-Atchison Globe. Big cuts or little cuts, small scratch< or bruises or big ones are heale uickly by DeWitt's Witch Hazi Salve.~ It is especially good for pile Be sure to get DeWitt's. Sold by V I: I Consumptives Made Comfortable. Foley's Honey and Tar has cured many cases of incipient consumption, and even in the advanced stages affords i comfort and relief. Refuse any out the I renuine Foley's Honey and Tar. W. I E. Brown & Co. Bribes For Clergymen. "Three or four attempts have been made to bribe me," said a clergyman. I "My friends of the cloth tell me that 1 they, too, have been occasionally tempt ed with bribes. "Once it was the advertising man ager of a health food. He offered a subscription of $100 to our mission i school If I would tell from the pulpit how much good the health food had t done me. I made him give me the a money for the mission under threats of exposure, but. of course. I did not mention his food in the church. The church Is no place for health food talks. "The widow of a drunkard and gen- 1 eral good for nothing offered me $50 if I would lie in praise of her husband in his funeral sermon. I praised the man heartily in the sermon-no matter how bad a man may be, if you examine his I character you will find in it many traits worthy of praise-and to the widow I wrote a note of gentle rebuke. I "Often we are asked to date back marriage certificates, to say a couple 4 were married in six months or a year - before they really were. A man once offered me $1.500 to perpetrate a wrong of this sort. I thrust a tract in his hand and turned him out of doors." Cincinnati Enquirer. Rain and Animals. "Lions, tigers and all the cat tribe dread rain," said a zoo keeper. "On a rainy day they tear nervously up and down their cages, growling and trem bling. We usually give them an extra ration of hot milk. That puts them to sleep. Wolves love a gray day of rain. They are then very cheery. Treacherous as the wolf is, no keeper need fear him on a rainy day. He is too happy to harm a fly. Snakes, too, like rain. They perk up wonderfully as the barometer falls and the damp makes itself felt In their warm cases of glass. I "Rain makes monkeys glum. They are apt from instinct, when they see it r through the window, to clasp their i hands above their heads and sit so t for hours. That attitude, you know, makes a kind of shelter. It is the primitive umbrella. So, when it rained, the naked primitive man and woman sat gloomily in the primeval swamps of giant ferns." r A Mouse and a Candle. I At the end of the bathing season, a few years ago, a candle was left on the mantelpiece of a family in Pouli guen, France. When they returned the next spring they found, according to La Nature, that a mouse had done these things: Climbed somehow a marble chimney V piece, there being no piece of furniture near enough to leap from and no way of descending from above. Climbed the candlestick itself, which was of highly polished silver, over ten inches high. with a broad flare at the cup. Climbed the candle, began eating at ~the top, eating evenly all round down to the base, leaving the bare wick standing up perfectly straight r If the mouse had begun at the base of the candle, Its weight would have caused it to t'opple over. It must have taken the mouse a good many days to t eat the candle down to the bottom. r A Persistent Friend. SMr. George Weir, an English actor, In his early days appeared one night in~ the role of Hamlet in an improvised etheater at Stroud, in Gloucestershire, and suffered much embarrassment from the demonstrative attentions of an enthusiastic former schoolfellow, who sat in the front of the tent and kept up a running comment on the performance. "That .a Gargy Weir," exclaimed the admirer. "I knows Gargy! I used to go to school along t wi' he." After many expostulations the interrupter was turned out, and all went well until the audience was hushed to deadly silence while Ham let was going through his soliloquy. Then suddenly a still, small voice came cheeringly from the back row of seats, "Garge, I be in again!"-Bell man. Kaffirs' Courtship. SThe, Kafmrs are a very light hearted people and do not worry about the fu ture. As soon as the girls have fin ished their work they may take up the tigubu, which is an elementary musical instrument, consisting of a taut bow dxed to a gourd, and march across e country twanging the string with a lit. * tie piece of reed. The instrument, as a rule, gives but one note, but to the girl's sweetheart such music is "the food of love."-World's Work. t What's the Use? e "Does wealth bring real enjoymenty' e -'Naw. They won't let you eat the grub you like or wear the clothes you consider classy or listen to the music you understand or even put a cast iron dog on the lawn."-K~ansas City Jour Snal.. Envious of the Immune. Little Henry (at the table, to the vis tor)-I wish I were like you. Visitor (flattered) - Why, little man? Little -Henry-Because no one boxes your ears when you eat with your fingers. t London Opinion. e Flowers. Flowers are the terrestrial stars that bring down heaven to earth and carry up our thoughts from earth to heaven, 2 the poetry of the Creator written in s beauty and fragrance. -The Kind He Bought. Little Edwin-Mamma, what Is lqg id air? Mamma-I don't know. Ask -your papa. He's always going out be . tween the acts "to get a little air." Exchange. _____ After weariness come rest, peace, joy, If we be worthy.-Newman. s -_ Bees Laxative Cough Syrup for young and old is prompt relief for coughs. croup, hoarse Sness. whooping cough. Gently laxative. Guar anteed. Sold by The Manning Pharmnacy. I C oleridge's Cloudiness. There isin Mr. Ellis Yariaoll's remi e niscences, "Wordsworth and the Cole ridges," a very amusing story of Sam tt uel Taylor Coleridge, whose thoughts - were sometimes too profound even for poets to follow. Wordsworth and Sam-. ue Rogers had spent the evening with s Coleridge, and as the two poets walked 0 away together Rogers remarked cau tiously: "I did not altogether understand the a latter part of what Coleridge said." dd -1 didn't understand any of it." l Wordsworth hastily replied. S "No more did I!" exclaimed Rogers, . wh a sigh. of relief. You Should Know This. Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any ase of kidney or bladder trouole that s Lot beyond the reach of medicine ,o medicine can do more. W. E. 3rown & Co. How a Hat Is Sized. C. writes that the size of a bat is alculated on a curious principle. It s the length plus the breadth divided y 2. Thus a head 8% inches long and i inches broad would require a hat Ize of 14%/ divided by 2. which is 7% -Gladstone's size. Your correspondent C. is perfectly ight in his description of the curious ray in whie'. the size of a hat is ob aiued. writes G., but his sample di nensions are slightly misleading. Such tn "oval" as 8% inches by 5% inches vould scarcely be met with twice in lifetime. The normal difference be ween the length and width (technical y called the "oval") is invariably rough the gamut of sizes 1% inches. Chus an ordinary 6% hat would meas ire 7% inches long and 6 inches wide nd a TK (four sizes bigger) S Inches ong and GM inches wide. The longest lead I have measured in many thou ands was S% by 7%, which is the quivalent of a 2% inch oval. Needless o say, the inside of the hat was the hape of a canalboat. - Manchester guardian. It Did Not Work. Mrs. Billings was installing the new ook, a maiden from Finland, to whom he kitchen contrivances of America vere new and wonderful. "This, Ina," aid the lady, indicating a perforated vooden board that hung against the ttchen wall, "is the order list. See, it ays 'butter, eggs, sugar, coffee, tea, nolasses'-everything that we need to at. Whenever we are out of any of hese things all you need to do is to )lace one of these little pegs in the role opposite the name and the things vill be ordered." Mrs. Billings is not a methodical iousekeeper. There were several con ;ecutive days when she completely for ,ot the existence of the of'der' list in he kitchen, but ina labored with It althfully. "Meesis,"' pleaded Ina, after strug ling with the order board for three lays, "I tank dose board must be out )f order. I push dose peg in yust so 'ar as I can, but notting will come-no agg. no butter, no nottings."-Youth's 3ompanion. The Voice and the Phonograph. A vaudeville monologue man met a riend in a Broadway car. After they ad talked awhile the friend said: "'ve been conscious ever since we ,egan to talk of some change In you, )ut I couldn't make out what I know iow. It is your voice. You speak so nuch more distinctly than you used :o." "That Is because I :have been talking nto a phonograph," said the vaude ille performer. "The surest remedy )n earth for slovenly speech is to hear t little lecture of your own rolled off a honograph record and find that about alf the words have been pronounced n direct opposition to Webster and all the rest of the authorities. That was ny experience. I. practiced for two nonths hard before I could improve speech that - had been good enough or the theater up to the point where t would pass muster -in a talking' ma ~hine."-New York Sun. A Curious Ear. The catfish uses his lungs as an 'or gan of hearing. The needless lung be :omes a closed sac filled with air and :ommonly known ass the swim blad let. In the catfish, as in the suckers, :ubs and most brook fish, the air bladder Is large and Is connected by a lender tube, the remains of the tra ~hea, to the esophagus. At its front t fits closely to the vertebral column. Ehe anterior vertebrae are much en arged, twisted together, and throughi them passes a chain of bones. which onnects with the hidden cavity of the iir. The bladder therefore assists the ear of the catfish as the tympanumn, ad Its bones assist the ear of the aigher animals. An ear of this sort :an carry little range of variety in sound. It probably gives only the im ression of jars or disturbances In the water. More About Crusoe. Robins'on Crusoe had just discovered 2uman footprints on his Island. He followed them ug. They led him to a knoll overlooking the sea on which somebody had put up billboard with this Inscription paint Id upon It: Use Bunk's Pills For .All Liver Troubles. 25 Cents a Bottle. Owing to the avarice and greed of the publishers, however, who refused to incorporate this incident In the story iness paid regular advrertising rates. It was omitted, and the book went to ress in the garbled and inconiplete orm with which the reading public Is familiar.-Chicago Tribune. The First Monotheists. So far as we know, the Egyptian riests were the first monotheists. There existed in Egypt two kinds of religious teaching, the "exoteric"' and the "esoteric." that for the masses of the people and that for the select few, the little company of the "wise." The asses were polytheists, believing in a ultitude of gods, while the few be ieved only in one god, of whom OsirId, bead of the popular deities, was but a weak reflection.-New York American. Stands For Many. Boy-Cow Is a noun, feminine gen ler, third person singular, and stands for Mary. "Stands for Mary?" asked the master n astonishment. "Yes, sir." responded the urchin. with a grin. "for If the cow didn't stand for Mary how could Mary milk :he cow"-London Express. Some family trees seem never to yar anything but lemons.--Dallas Operation for Piles will not be necessary if you use ManZan Pile Remedy. Guaranteed. Price 5c. Sold by The .Manning~ Pharmacy. An Explanation. The passionate rhythms of "The hierry Widow" waitz floated through the office, and the boss looked up from ls desk impatiently. "Frederic," he said, "I wish you wouldn't whistle at your work." "I ain't workin', sir," the office boy replied calmly. "I'm only just whis tli~n'."-New York Press. A Japanese Joke. Guest-DO you know that fellow of Sayama Is telling all kinds of lies to defame your character? Host-If he is telling lIes I don't care, but If he'd begin to tell the truth I'11 throttle him. Gues-Oh you will eh?-.Tanan Cur Feminine Inconsistency. A clubwoman, writing in the Phila delphia Record, reveals a feminine in consistency in the peculiar views held by some women about the use of their first names. She says: "A couple of years ago I had occa sion to send a letter to a married wo man, and in addressing her I wrote 'Mrs. Henry -.' Imagine my sur prise when in reply I received an in dignant letter from her, in which she said: 'I do not at all like to have my identity submerged in that of my hus band. I do not see why I cannot be addressed by my own name. Becau: I am married is that any reason why I should lose my individuality? My name is Anna.' The next letter I wrote to the indigeant wife you can be sure it bore the first name of the woman in question, but the climn came recently, when the husband died and my fastidious friend was left a widow. I wrote her on club business and, bearing in mind her first scold ing, took particular pains to address her as 'Mrs. Anna -.' The answer to this from her makes me shiver to think about 'Do you think I have so far forgotten my beloved Henry,' she said, 'as to be willing to abandon his name altogether? I wish you would address me as Mrs. Henry in the fu-. ture, please. I may be an unfortunate widow, but I still bear my husband's name, I think. " The President's Salary.. It is safe to say that very few of the people living in this country know how the president of the United States draws his salary of $50,000 a year. Of those few who may have given the matter a thought, a large majority do not know whether he receives his sal ary monthly, quarterly or semiannual ly. As a matter of fact, the salary due the president is taken to the White House by a trusted messenger from the office of the treasurer of the United States on the last day of each month and handed over to the official whose business it is to look after it The president receives his. salary In. the shape of a check, the $50,000 being di vided into eight checks of $4,166.67 each and four checks of $4166.88 'each. Thus one month out of every three the president receives 1 cent less on his; check than he does the other two. Some such arrangement as this is necessary, as, of course, $50,000 is not exactly di visible by twelve. The Efficacy of Prayer. Among my esteemed neighbors there Is a family known for the piety of its members and their implicit confence In the efficacy of prayer. .One of the daughters, Miss Kate B., has almost reached the age wh. she could be re erred to ungallantly as .an old maid. She is the target for many a good na tured quip pertaining to her alleged hopes and endeavors in the direction of matrimony. Not long ago a certain society of young men which had interested.itself In a campaign for higher saloon license sent a committee to visit the homes of the district and obtain signatures to a high license petition. When this cem mittee, numbering half a dozen mem bers, ascended the front steps at the B. home my friend's wife was the first to see it through the front window. "Laws, John!" she exclaimed to her husband. "See all those yotfng men coming to visit us." Mr. B. glanced out of -the window, noted the number of the invading force and remarked, with an air of convic tion: "Humnph! Kate's been prayIng agan."-San Francisco Call. -An Anecdote of Elsworth. There was a characteristic incident in the e/rly life of Colonel Ellsworth, the brilliant young lawyez who was one of the first notable -victims of the civil war. His struggles to gain a foothold In his profession were attended by many hardships afnd humiliating priva tions. Once, finding the man he was looking for on a matter of business in a restaurant, he was Invited to partake of the luncheon to which his acquaint ance was just sitting down.! Ellsworth was~ravenously hungry, almost starv ~ng, in fact, but he declined courteously, but firmly, asking permission to talk over the business-that had. brought him thither while the other went on with the meal. The brave young fellow In teling the story in after years confessed that he suffered positive agony at the sight and smell of the tempting food. "I could not in honor accept hospi tality I could not reciprocate." was his simple explanation of his refusal. "I might starve, but I could not sponge!' -Marion Harland's "Complete Eti quette." ________ Starting Early. Wangles was married recently, and there was a regular hail of rice, con etiand old shoes for good luck as he got into the cab. Moreover, on turn ing round he was struck above the eye by a friendly shoe with rather a heavy heel. As the cab immediately drove away no notice was taken of the accident. and, despite the large handkerchief tied by his sobbing bride over his in jured optic, the blood still flowed down Wangles' face. When they arrived at their destina tion the newly created Benedict went out to a doctor to get the bleeding stopped. "How did you come by this, my man?" "Well, you see. doctor-aw-I got married this morning, and"- com menced Wangles, when the doctor broke. In: "What! Has she started already?" London Answers. Circumstantial Evidence. "You say you met the defendant on a street car and that he had been drinking and gambling." said the at torney for the defense during the cross examination. "Yes."~ replied the witness. "Did you see him take a drink?" "No." "Did you see him gambling?" "No." "Then how do you know," demanded the attorney, "that the defendant had been drinking and gambling?" "Well." explained the witness, "he gave the conductor a blue chip for his car fare and told him to keep the change."-Lppincott's Magazine. :A Lucky Horseshoe. The Australians when they find a horseshoe throw It over their shoulder. A lady in Sydney found one and threw it gracefully over her shoulder. It went through a hatter's window and hit a customer who was trying on a new hat. This gentleann, under the Impression that one of the shopmen in a fit of temporary Insanity had played the trick, promptly struck him and sent him through the plate glass win dow. A general melee ensued, although on consideration nobody knew what It wa all aot