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FON TICEL LOh LITHIA SPRING, W. G. TA LOR, Prop., Richmond, Va., U. S. A. What Leading Physicians Say. Dr. 1roehliu;. the weil.k:i own Consulting and Analytical Chmist: ontice o Lithi: \\'ate: is ab'so. lutely free from all orani inpurt'i ties and perfectly p:r. antd as an uoquestionablo proof of my faith in the wuaer. Ise it irether.'' -Richmond Times. Geo. Ben. .D nrsten. Yi. D . Prof. Surgery Medical College of Vir -inia: '-i have never used any mineral water so extensively as tilie Fen~t~icllo, andi :as iven uniformly good resnits. i escribe it. in kidney and blaider troubieh very largely, and also in sto:narh and nervos disorde1r-. 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 mucht 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. 1 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 of1 1 Farming Implements ever shown in this stown. 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. INCE it is an established fact that the corset is one of the most im tant parts of a woman's wearing apparel, it is worth your while to care rfullystudy 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 satistied customer.1 This explains why we are advertising its merits. Closely study cut of style / 1909, appearing herewith. You will observe it is a very late model, with V ~ high bust and draw strings honed low at the sides to permit free arm move Sy ~ ment. Long beautiful back lines, and no hose supporters on front and sides. Very beautifully trimmed with wide lace and bebe ribbon and two loop bow. Has 13 inch. 6 hook non-rustable clasp: made of hand some fifiured Broche. TIhis is exceptionally road value. D.u HIRSCH M A NN. To Investigte A Hackney Buggy is to Invest. If you cuestion i come i and I wil nocl yor douby into smitherens. We like the trade ti on: but when you compar):le pur qua ti's and 'lge prices'w th tause o:Tered you eigewhere, I am sure I will be benelit'd anid you will tuan. Come mt an~d look over our line. End Sprinws. or Side sprinirs. with uomfo rtale s.eats and pitena y of .e room. Come and inspect our ii repository and stock. It will saP' tou Ifuney - F. C. T H0 A S. The Best Pills Ever Sold. -A fter 1hmtoring fifteen veua-s for l hronie indigestion and spending over i wo hundred dollars, nothing has done iu e as umuch goad as Dr. King's Ne b ife Pills. I consider them the best ills ever sold." writes B. F. Avscue if ngleside, N. C. Sold under guarantee t" Arant's drug store. :3c. B GRAT GOLD SCARE Nhen the Yellow Metal Was First Found in Australia. FRAID OF THE CONVICTS. t t the English Government Tried to and Did For a Time Suppress the News Because It Feared a General Upris- f ing In the Colony of Criminals. Gold in Australia was discovered t >ne might almost be pardoned for say- I ng first discovered-many times. But t he news of the earliest discoveries was r ealously kept from spreadiag. The se ret of this reticence lay in the pres nce of the army of convicts which hen composed the balance of the pop ilation. Had a gold panic broken out t was fecred that a general uprising >f the prisoners would take place. Nevertheless the rst gold found in Lustralia was by convicts, in 1S14, tear Bathurst, New South Wales. The liscoverers gathered together a quan ity quite sufficient to lead them to be eve that they had found a gold mine, >ut when they reported what they con idered their good fortune to the keep r he, instead of undertaking to rec mmend them for pardon or easing r heir hard labors in any way, threat- t ned to give them all a sound flogging f they ventured again to say a word .bout the matter or to spend any more t ime picking up gold. The next find as made on the Fish river in 1S23, ot far from the spot where the con iets had come across it nine years be- t ore. This news, being reported to the uthorities, was also ordered sup ressed. Within the course of the next wo years finds were so frequent that he London government began to take ,reat interest in the affair. But the act that another region of the yellow t netal might be at the disposal of such .s might seek was kept rigidly secret intil in 1S25.a dramatic incident pre luded all - possibility of further se recy. < A convict was discovered with a nug et of gold in his possession. When sked how he had come by the metal. e said that he had picked it up in the t ush. He was cautioned and told that he authorities had no doubt that he tad stolen the gold, but the prisoner toutly held to his original tale. At ength he was taken out and severely logged in public as a thief. There is Low no doubt that the man told the ruth. After this. although the public as every now and then keyed up. to reat expectations by some reported ind, no further veins were discovered t ntil 1839, when a Russian nobleman ound a rich deposit in the Blue moun-t ains. The British government again tecame fearful of the consequence of uch news upon a colony of convicts tnd ordered the matter suppressed. et sufficient people-had heard of it to :eep the story alive and give credence o such rumors as arose from time to me. So matters drifted on. Time .nd time again bushmen. shepherds, nvicts and surveyors picked up small oggets and brought them to the cen ers of population, but at that day peo ile were nothing like so keen on gold ninlg as they subsequently became, id the subject of gold in Australial was not pursued as one would; expect t to be. The discovery of gold in California hanged all that Those rich fields,I anning out their golden store and fill ng the coffers of lucky individuals end governments at a rate never reamed of, awakened a thirst for rospecting all the world over. In very part of the earth men west out vith pick and pan, hoping to come cross the precious metal. When the news of California's for une r-eached Australia, many took hip to America's shores, and among hese was Hammond Hargreaves, an nglishman, native of Gosport, who id emigrated to New south Wales in 1.82. In Australia he engaged in arming without much profit and was mong the first to rush for California. On reaching the auriferous region the irst thing that struck him was the Imilarity of the geological formation1 n California and Bathurst, Australia, td there and then he made up his nind to inquire into the subject should ie ever return to Australia. He work 1 for something like a couple of yearsI n California and then set sail for New south Wales- Returning, he of course arred in his mind the thought that erhaps there might be gold in Bath Irst, and when he landed he set to ork to make a thorough search. Before this, however, he had made he acquaintance of William and James Coms and J. H. 0. Lister, who were mxious to prospect for gold. Har ~reaves taught them how to use pick md pan, the dish and the cradle-in 'act, gave them a practical if rough ~ducation into the mysteries of gold md gold bearing rocks and gravel. LChese men struck out, and in April. L51, the three pupils returned to their >ld master, and. 1o, in their pockets :hey carried gold to the amount of 'our ounces! Hargreaves, knowing the' pes. took this gold and full direc :Ions to the proper quarter. The news went forth, the rush began, rich finds were made, and Hargreaves was hail ad as the discoverer of gold in Aus ralia. In reality he had won the title, or it was his knowledge that first ed icated the Tomses and Lister, and it n-as his knowledge again that sent. :hem in the right direction. Duty is what goes most against-the, rain, because in doing that we do >nly what we are strictly obliged to md are seldom much praised for it La Bruyere. ?rescribes Dr. Biosser's Catarrh Remedy. D)~ar Sirs-I Iirst used your Catarrh Cure in .he ' cas~e of miy son,. who had chronic naso-phar n :iealm eatarril. with grat benefit to him. I f ten prscribe it for other of my patients. and think it is .'uite the inest remnedy- for catarrh hat has,ver been placed on the market. Thaknkig you ror past favors. 1 amt. Yours very truly. Elloree. S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is winnintr fast in his country. It has eff-cte-d some remarkable ures. I do not I:now that it has failed in one istan&c where it has beeun fairly tried. Very trulv yours. R~v. Tr. HI. ALLEN. Lexinuton. Ky. Dr. Blossrs Cutarrh Re-medy iN for sale by E-.. HLoer. Manning. S. C. A month's treat ntnt for $1.00. A free sample for the asking. A postal card will bring it by mail. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Dinants what you eat. Pincules for the lcidnys. :o days' triLl ' 1.0. uar:Uttol''1. 1'iiiules aict dire ctly oni the i hI evs and bring relief in the tirst dose to back ie. weak back. lame back. rheumatic pains. iduy and bladder trouble. They purify the luod and invigorate the entire system. S .ld r Tiu Mannin: Piarmacy. The Worship of Serpents. The small town of Werda, in the ingduom of Dahomey, is celebrated for s "temple of serpents," a long building a which the priests keep upward of a housand serpents of all sizes, which hey feed with the birds and frogs 'rought to them as offerings by the -atives. These serpents, many of them of normuous size. may be seen hanging rom the beams across the ceiling, rith their heads pointing downward nd in all sorts of strange contortions. he priests make the small serpents go rough various evolutions by lightly ouching them with a rod, but they do Lot venture to touch the largest ones, ome of which are large enough to in old a bullock in their coils. It often happens that some of these erpents make their way out of the emple intolthe town, and the priests rave the greatest difficulty in coaxing hem back. To kill a serpent intention lly is a crime punished with death, nd if a European were to kill one the uthority of the king himself would carcely suffice to save his life. Any ne killing a serpent unintentionally aust inform the priest of what has curred and go through the course of urification which takes place once a 'ear. Artificial Limbs. "A manufacturer or dealer in arti icial limbs who wears a cork arm or eg himself is much better equipped for usiness than his competitors who are ound," said a mt.n who uses, a cork eg. "In fact, it has become a sort of Lnwritten law among us to patronize uch men when possible. Sentimental easons may have something to do with he case, but I guess the chief reason s that we consider that If a man can nake a limb for himself that fits like he paper on the wall he can make t for others. Manufacturers of arti icial limbs know this, and- frequently on will find an advertisement like. his: 'The So-and-so artificial leg Is milt by a man who is wearing one .nd who knows from experience what ou want for comfort' This is a strong rgument, for It's no easy thing to get n artificial limb that just fits. Per ons who have trouble getting shoes hat are just right are In great luck ompared to us."-New York Sun. An Admiral's Stories. One of the English admirals has a hcice collection of stories at the ex ense of laymen placed In office at the ndmiralty as a consequence of a turn f the political wheel. Of one lord of he admiralty he told a delighted -house f commons how, receiving a report of Lisaster to a ship couched in technical hrase, he wrote a reply remonstrating vith the officer for his use of bad lan uage. Another civilian lord, looking ver a chart and observing that one of is majesty's ships, homeward bound. assed within a space of two inches n the chart an island where cast Lway sailors were sheltering, wanted o know why it could not call and re eve them. 'The admiral explained hat the two inches on the chart meant distance at sea of 4.000) miles.-Lon [on Strand Magazine. Boone's Portrait In Oil. There never was but onie oil portrait if Daniel Boone painted from life, and hat was by Chester Harding, a dis inguished artist of Boston, who came o Missouri In June. 1820, and painted t in the resIdence of Flanders Calla vay. Boone's son-in-law, where Boone ras then living, near the village -of Xarthasville, in Warren county. The ey. James E. Welch, on~e of the oldest aptist preachers in the state and fa her of Aikman Welch. attorney general >f Missouri during Governor Gamble's tdministration, sat in Boone's bed be ind Boone for him to lean against rhile Harding painted the picture, the ioneer being too feeble to sit alone. arding's portrait'of Boone now hangs the state capitol at Frankfort, Ky. ansas City Star. The Glass Snake. The slowworm is the snake which ountry people tell you has the peculiar roperty of breaking itself into bits. ach piece afterward surviving. The ruth differs slightly from the legend. The slowworm is a timid creature and then first captured tightens all its nuscles. thus reducing itself to a re narkably rigid state, in which condi ion it will no doubt snap like a dry wig; but needless to say, only the ipper and vitai portions survive the rdeal.-London Globe. What the Jury Thought. During a trial for assault in Mel >ourne a club, a rail, an ax handle, a :.nife and a shotgun were exhibited as he instruments with which the deed as done. It was also shown that the .ssaulted man defended himself with . scythe, a revolver, a pitchfork, a 'hisel a hand saw anad a dog. The ury decided that they'd have given a overeign apiece to have seen the fight. A Dainty Combination. "You can't tell," said uncle to us; 'you can't tell. Feller I know that's aesthetic artist-know~ what he does? Je smokes chewin' terbaccer in a >ipe that's made o' rubber. Honest, ie does. An' he claimns his health is Lelicut!"-Cleveland Leader. Didn't Want Agoniy Prolon~ged. Missionary-Will you do me a favor? 'nnibal-What Is it? Missionary hen you get ready to0 eat me, I wish ou would arrange it so that I can'be q cuick nch rather than a course din ier.-New York Press. Invitation Dieclined. "As Shakespeare says," remarked lassidy who was fond of airing his 'book larnin'," "what's in a name?" "Well"~ replied Casey, "call me wan hat Oi don't like an' Ol'll show ye." ?Kansas City Newsbook. ~eWit's Kitdney and I~ladder Pills re ~ promiflpt am ii t.horo~i uth and will in a -ev shot, im e stx.rengthen the weak-I -e'd kid eys and allay troubles arisingi ro infammation of the bladdes. They~ .re reomme ndledl cery wher-e. Sold >v V. E. Brown & C'-) Out of ai Job. Minister - Is yorr father working aw. Johnny? S-nail Johnny-No, sir.1 Sinister-Why, only last week he toldI m he had a job. Small Johnny-Yes, sir. But the man he was working iled.-Chicago News. Against God's wrath no castle is thunder proof.-Spaniish Proverb. Bi cuts or little ears, smatll scratches >r bruises or bitt ones are healedl suickly by DeWitt's Witch Hazel' 3alve. It is especially good for piles. Be sure to get DeW itts. Sold by WV. Consumptives Made Comfortable. Folev', Honey and Tar has cured manv eases of incipient consumption and even in the advanced stages atfordh comfort, and relief. Refuse noy but the renuin' holey's fouey and Tar. V lE. Brown & Co WE SHORTEN OUR LIVES. Human Beings Should Live at Least a Hundred Years. Every man who dies before he is a hundred years old does so because he has neglected the laws of health. I believe the time will come when men will commonly live to be 150 years old. But to do this they must be born right and be taught matters of health with their A B C's. A majority of the people of America lose about thirty years of life througi not understanding or not following the demand of nature for regular and ade quate exercise. Our systems of civill zation have worked a vast improve ment in production by training men to special lines of work. Thus they become wonderfully proficient. To see a man rattling up long columns of reading matter on a linotype machine is inspiring, to hear a lawyer clearly and incisively summing up a case fills one with admiration, to read a strong, forceful editorial affords pleasure al the thoughts so well expressed, tc watch the violinist and listen to the sweet melodies he draws from the strings wafts our souls to higher realms, yet the acquirement of eacl and all these abilities has robbed thi trained or talented performers of some thing else. The linotype is wearing out his nerves in setting type at suet a rapid pace; the oratory of the law yer has been acquired at the expense of a dyspeptic stomach; the man whc wins us with his facile pen envies the strength of the sturdy laborer shovel. ing In the street; the virtuoso would fain have the appetite of the perform er on the big horn In the little streel band. In thus specializing each Is apt tc neglect the routine work for all the muscles that nature demands to keel up the physique. Had each of thest performers or geniuses done his stin1 of work on a farm, raising the food h consumed, he would have been lest skilled In his vocation, but possessec of vastly better healtn. And all would live out not only their full seventy but a round hundred or more of years -Charles H. Cochrane In Metropolitar Magazine. OUR FIRST PRESIDENT. The Average American Knows Verb Little About Washington. Born Feb. 22. 1732; died Dec. 14 1700; fought Indians; time and place t little vague. Was he not with Brad dock? Married a widow named Mar tha; was commander all through out Revolution; was our first president ani bad two terms; wrote a farewell ad dress; knew Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson; crossed the Delaware a Trenton just before Christmas and sur prised the Hessians; beat Cornwallis at Yorktown and was first in war, firs in peace and first In the hearts of his countrymen. These are all public facts. Wha1 does the reader know of Washingtorn the man? More than likely it will hi as follows: Cut down a :cherry -tree with hatchet; owned up to having done so syng. "Father. I cannot tell a lie; threw a stone very far across somi river; climbed up the side of th< Natural bridge and cut his initials worked hard at school; was steady was very good all the time. and every body looked up to him: of course ver3 brave, of course very wise and a grea patriot; was one of the greatest mez In all history; was tall, strong; wor those knee breeches of colonial days and a wig; Jooked stern; would prob ably lecture you and tell you to be vir tuous aD'. ., ou would be happy. Sueh if I mistilre not, is the reader's visiol of Washington as a man-cold, austere unemotional, without passions, grand not merely greater than human, sims ply not human at all--a sort of marble statue. A figure to prize, to be proum of as an American. a figure to revere but not a character to love, to be drawn to, to feel any~ kinship with-il a word, immortal, yet not living. Everybody's Magazine. The Preservation of Caste; It Is well known how carefully. ap parently at least, the Hindous are t< preserve their caste from contamlina tion ivith anything of a lower order In towns where Hindoos and Mussul mans, followers of Mohamined, live side by side the sellers of drinking water supply the liquid through littli portholes, one for each religion. Thb drinker is thus supposed to tbe ignoran of the caste of the man who supplie: the water and his own caste is conse quently unbroken. From Hand to Mouth. "11 never speak to him again!" er claimed the dark young woman. "H called me his queen and asked if h< might kiss my hand. I said yes, and and after that he kissed me on the lips without asking." "I suppose." said the light young wo man, "he followed along the line o: least resistance." Melancholy Milk. "Haven't you any milk that Is morn cheerful than this?' queried the net .boarder as he poured some of the liq uld nto his coffee. "Why, what do you mean by that? queried the landlady. "Oh. nothing." rejoined the ner boarder; "only this milk seems to hav the blues." Mean of Her. "Everybody says baby Is very lkt me," said young Mrs. Papley fondly. "Yes, the cute little thing." remarkei MISS Diggs. "What fat ankles she has!"-Phildelphia Press. Evading the Issue. "DId you break this dish. Mary?" "No'm; I only dropped It-St. Loui1 Bees Laxative Cou~h Syrup for y'unge mn ld is promipt relief for coughs, creup. hn'as ess whooping cough. G;ently laxative. uim a~tted. Sold by The Manning Phmarmmacy. A Natural Curiosity. Do you kuow what I do when man offers me advie?~" said the curb stone philosopher. "Ask him if he's tried it."-Clev'elani Plain Dealer. Not Suspicious. The Constable-Yes. your worship the prisoner is a most suspicious char ater. The Accused (indignantly)--It' him that's suspeecious. Aw'm no sus pecious o' onybody!I-Punch. The good-man prolongs his life. Ti be able to enjoy one's past life is t< You Should Know This. Fo'lev's Kidney Remedy wilt cure a, case of kidmney or bladder trouble th is tot Ibe'vond the reach of meinici No medicine can do more. V. Brown & Co. CHURCH TOWERS. They Are a Distinctive Feature of tl Mexican View. There is no country better worth vi iting than Mexico. It is very strikii in crossing the border from the Unit States to note how completely ever thing changes. Here there hard seems anything man has constructs which harmonizes with its surroun ings; thei-e everything seems to be e tirely a part of the country. It more foreign than Europe is now ai constantly reminds one of the ea, Riding in some of the little travel< districts, I could hardly believe that was not in India. The dust in t] road, the thorn scrub on both side with that pungent smell of the bk soms, all reminded me of the count about Ahmedabad. The plateau winter, the dry season, is very mu< like the desert-long stretches of con try, with purple mountains in the d tance, without a tree in sight exce where there is a town or where irl gation has kept a little green and few trees have been planted. Oft the horizon is so distant that t) mountains melt into the sky, and pc haps one catches a glimpse of the sno on one of the volcanoes. The color that of its own Mexican opal-greet blues and reds. Everywhere the distinctive featur are the church towers and tiled dom rising above the towns. The exterio of these churches are always pictt esque and interesting, but the interio are usually disappointing, for thi have suffered much during man-y rev lutions and perhaps even more fro senseless renovations. There are few still untouched, where one can s them as nearly all were once, entire covered with richly carved wood hen sly gilded. Gold was used thickly e erywbere till the carving looked Ii solid metal. I have seen much gold churches, but none to equal that Mexico. -Lockwood de Forest in Ce tury. NO ALTERNATIVE. The Jury Had to Teach the Pompo Judge a Lesson. A certain trial judge in a cert. state became so unpopular that t only way he could get a verdict for t state was to make his charge in fav of the prisoner. When matters h; reached this stage a famous feud fig er was arrested on a charge of murd and brought to trial. The case. whi was the judge's first murder trial. tracted much attention, and the Judl whose unpopularity arose from I vanity and pomposity, greatly enjoy his role as umpire of the law. T case was a clear one against. the fendant, and his guilt was so cone. sively proved that the judge even p: sumed to charge accordingly. T jury retired, and when they filed ba into court it was noticed that th avoided the prisoner's eye and look unusually solemn. "Gentlemen," said the judge. wayi the clerk into silence. "have y reached a verdict?" "We have," said the foreman. The judge opened a paper bag a drew out a black cap. With an portant look around the courtroom placed this on his head and pulled down until It met his ears. "Prisoner," he said, "arise and 10 at the jury. Jury, arise and look at t prisoner. Gentlemen, what is yC verdict?" The jurymen, who had been whiSpi ing to each other, nodded cheerfu: at the prisoner. "Not guilty," said the foreman. "Of course," he said later, when'< ry one had shaken the innocent maa hand. "he was guilty all right, a that was going to he our verdict. I when the little judge put that bla cap on his head and pulled It do' over his ears like that there was or Ione thing for us to do, and we did I -New York Sun. I Graveyard Neighbors. The agent for a cemetery compa was expatiating on the good points a cetain lot, Presently the prospa tive purchaser interrupted with t -enumeration of several prominent fa: ilies owning property there. "Is this lot near theirs?" she asked The agent admitted that it was qu: -a distance off. "Then," said the woman, "I dol Swant it I'd rather pay more and Sin a good neighborhood." The agent collapsed. - "Has it come to the point." he sa "where people consider their next d( -neighbors even In a graveyard?"-N York Sun. Business Sense. In new lines of goods is where t profits lie. The old standbys that< ery dealer keeps have the prices allC to pieceia on them. Get the new thin ahead of the other fellows and ma money on them. Frequent change the arrangement of your show cas gives the effect of new goods receivi The same old arrangement month and month out, no matter how ma new goods, looks like the same < stok.-Printers' Ink. Persuasive. "Your wife is somewhat strong mu ed isn't she. Littlejohn? "Strong minded?' A furniture you. peddler came here yesterday :antd five minutes she soid him some po01 she had made herself."-Londonl Te graph. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ An Easy Way. One of thet easiest and~ most oertl ways of escaping the nairdshiips prison abuses is found in the situ old process of keeping ont of prisot Chicago Rlecord-Hlerald. Honor the tree that gives you shelt -Danish. Operation for Piles w~l nott b'~e ne ou OU ue~ Mau.an! Phe Femnd:;. ( uarante ' Price 0c. Sol y The Main tu Plinacy. The Old, Old Story. Old Lady (reading a letter from I son in college)-Lor' sakes alive,, iar if John hain't gone an done An' he warn't no hand fer the g: nuther! Her Worse Half-Wut's the trout ananthy? Old Lady-Why, he says he's fall i love with Belle-er-Belle Lettres Brooklyn Life. H is Thanks. "I notice." said the young man's e loyer. "that you are always about t first in the oflice in the mornings." "Thank you. sir."~ "Why do you thank me?" "For noticing it."-Chicago Reco] WARNED BY D[SERTS What These Sandy Wastes Mean to Mother Earth. A DEATH GRIP ON THE WORLD is ig They Indicate the Beginning of the d End of Our Beautiful Planet, Which P is Doomed to Roll Through Space a 13 Parched and Lifeless Orb. )d d. Deserts already exist on the earth, u- and the nameless horror that attaches s to the word in the thoughts of all who id have had experience of them or are ;t gifted with imagination to conceive is ad in truth greater than we commonly I suppose, for the cosmic circumstance e about them which is most terrible is s not that deserts are, but that deserts ,s have begun to be. Not as local evita iy ble evils are they only to be pictured, in but as the general inescapable death h grip on our world, for it is the begin 2. ning of the end. What depauperates s. the forests to grass lands and thence to pt wastes must in turn attack the sea bot i- toms when they shall have parted with a their seas. 3n Last of the fertile spots upon the 1e planet because of the salts the streams r. have for ages washed down and of the wy remnant of moisture that would still is drain into them, eventually they must s, share the fortune of their predecessors and the planet roll a parched orb es through space. The picture is forbid es ding, but the fact seems one to which 's we are constructively pledged and into r- which we are in some sort already ad 's ventured. y Girdling the earth with what it takes ,o. but little personification to liken to the m life extinguishing serpent's coils run a two desert belts of country. The one ee follows. roughly speaking, the tropic of ly Cancer, extending northward from it; v- the other, the tropic of Capricorn. Ari .v zona is in the northern band, as are the ke Sahara, Arabia and the deserts of cen i tral Asia. in Now, these desert belts are growing. n In the great desert of northern Arizona the traveler, threading his way across a sagebrush and cacti plain shut In by abrupt sided shelves of land rising here and there some hundreds of feet high s: er, suddenly comes upon a petrified for est Trunks of trees in all stages of frac ture strew the ground over a space he some miles in extent So perfect are he their forms he Is almost minded to or think the usual wasteful woodchopper d ,bas been by and left the scattered t products of his art In littered confu er sion upon the scene of his exploit t Only their beautiful color conveys a t sense of strangeness to the eye. and, leaning down and touching them,;he finds that :they are-stone; chalcedony. he not carbon! Form has outlived sub stance and kept the resemblance, while l- the particles of the original matter u- have all been spirited away. Yet so h perfect is the presentment .one can he hardly believe the fact, and where one fallen giant spans a little canyon one e almost thinks to hear the sound of wa ter rushing down the creek. But It Is some millions of years and umore since this catastrophe befelL, and u the torrent, uprooting it, left It prone. with limbs outstretched in futile grasp tipon the other side. A conifer It was, rcousin only to such as grow today, and flourished probably In the cretaceous, beera, for the land has not been under itwater here since the advent of tertiary ok times. - beNowhere near it, except for the rare becottonwoods along the bank of the Lit rtie Colorado, grows anything today. The land which once supported these rforests is incompetent to do so now. Yet nothing has changed there since except the decreasing water sup Sply. During tertiary and quaternary time the rainfall has been growing less d and less. Proof of this Is offered by t the great pine oasis that caps the pla .teau of which these petrified forests nform a part'and Is kerneled by the San Francisco peaks. The height above sea level of the spot- where the chal cedony trunks are strewn Is about 4.500 feet The lower present limit of the pine In Its full development is i ,500 feet. Two thousand feet upward fthe verdure line has retreated since the offormer forests were. And this Is no local alteration. for upon the other side e of the plateau petrified remains of trees are similariy found. The line of perpetual green has risen becaiuse in desert regions the moisture Lte is found most plentiful nearest to the clouds from which It falls upon a 't parching earth. Streams, instead of etgathering volume as they go. are lar gest near their source and grow less and less with each fresh mile of flow. The brooks descending from the Anti Lebanon, in Syria, water the gardens of Damascus and, thence issuing upon the plain, lose themselves just beyond the threshold of Its gates. So in the eArizona desert, though in a less de e gree, and those who live there know It tbut too welL-From Percival Lowell's "t'Mars and the Future of the Earth" in Century._______ es- The Angler Fish. j. A singular superstition about the' in angler fish is entertained in some parts y of Sweden (Bohuslan), according tol ld Maim and Smitt. "It is so feared by many that the tackle is cut as soon as the 'monster' reaches the surface, and, Its captor hurries home in order to get . there, if possible, before the misfor tune portended by the monster over takes him." The extreme of misfor a tune-death-is believed by some to be sh indIcated. Nilsson tells that the Swed . Ish fishermen on the banks "believe that on board the vessel on which an angler is taken some one Is doomed to~ die soon. They therefore never or* e hardly ever take the angler on board. of but prefer to cut the line and thus lose l the hook with the fish." ..An anemometrical faculty is attrib uted to the angler in Massachusetts. According to Storer, "among the fisher men in some parts of the bay there is a common saying, 'When you take a g-oosefish, look out for an easterly Largest Grave In the World. The largest single grave in the world occupies just exactly one acre of Ler g'oundl, which is surrounded by an o- iron r'ailing. This enormous grave is ti located at P'earto Cortez, in Honduras, ls and is the burial place of a woman. The tombstone occupies the center of the ground inclosed, and several wood en figures representing the deceased en are arranged in statuelike form in dif ferent parts of the ground. There are no fewer than sixteen of ihese fig ures, which in the evening give the place a ghostlike appearance. The de m- ceased had died rich and in her will e hnd specified the amount of ground to be purchased for her grave and the manner in which it should be deco rated. She had many curious notions, d- and the size and ornamentation of her ATE HIS FILL The Sharp Traveler Had His Money's Worth and Caught the Coach. /There was a coach that used to run between Nola Chucky and Paint Rock, a matter of some forty miles. For lunch the coach stopped at a halfway house in Tin Can, and here a good fifty cent meal was put out-cake and pie. colee and tea and all the cold meats you could mention. But the landlord of the halfway house had a mean little secret dicker with the driver, whereby as soon as the travelers had paid for their lunch and got fairly settled to it a call would come for an immediate start. So off they'd all go, grumbling. They'd have paid for 50 cents' worth of food and only eaten, you see, about 5 cents' worth. But along came one day a traveler with a sharp, bright eye. The landlord found this chap some ten minutes aft er the coach had started on again still tucking in pie and ham at a terrible rate. "Why, man," he said, "you've let the coach go without you." "I know it," said the traveler calmly. "I was too blessed hungry to stop eat ing." Suddenly the landlord's face paled. "Good gracious." he said. "all my silver's gone!" It was too. Not a knife, fork or spoon was left except the sharp eyed man's. He said as he kept on eating that he had noticed a suspicious looking chsr acter among the' passengers,- a man 'with a red beard.~a hump and a Emp oh, verysuspicious! The landlord sent, a hostler off to overtake the coach and bring it back. In about forty minutes the coach re turned. Then the sharp eyed man came forth, wiping his mouth. But he made no effort to Identify the sus picious looking passenger. Instead he got aboard the coach, took his seat and said coolly. "Thanks, landlord, for the good food. You'll find the spoons and things In the coffeepot Now, driver, oftwe go ag'in."-Washington Star. PAYING BY CHECK References- Required to Open a Bank Account In. England. "I like the American custom of car rying money loose in the pocket,"said D. H. Lieben, a retired tianker of Lon don. "In England gentlemennd bus ness men carry very little money with them. Nearly everything- is paid for by check, except, of. course. money enough to pay the.smal incidental-e penses of a day.. "If a man goes into a store to'buy a hat,- he does not pay money for it. but ,gives a check. If he is dimiig.at. a 'ublic place, he very likely 'pays for his meal : with a check. The system pf credit in England is different fronithat in this country, and the mere ifactthat a man has-an account in a bank serves to give him-standing.. "One cannot open an account with a bank in England merely bycafifying money to the bank and depositing it He must have two first class -refer ences before a bank will accept his ae count, and when, reference is~ given it means that the person giving it would indorse or stgfnde for the person to whom it is given. "A reference In Englnd means more than a mere phrase. Ch'ecks'on.banks in England cannot be obtained for the mere asking, and a man must have an account in order to get :checks from any bank. They cannot be picked up on bank counters or in public-places. "Private accounts In Englieh banks are not accepted unless-they are paid for, the .general charge -being $50 'a year. There are. one or tev anks in England which discrminate so care fully in the. accounts they accept, tilat when a person Is fortunate enough to be 'permitted to open an account with them he'ean get credit in any city in England or the continent of'Europe." Washington Post How to Guess Any Number. Desire one of the company to think of any number she, chooses, - provided . It be even. '.ell her to triple it, halve the product, triple this half and then tell you how many times -nine will go into this last number. Multiply this bytwo and It will produce the original number. Thus suppose 4; to--be the number thought of.- You, 'triple it. making it 12; halve this product, leav ing 6; again triple this, aking' 18. In which 9 wIll go twice. This twice, multiplied by 2, gives you 4, the num ber thought of. Or, to give another example, suppose 6 to be the number. Triple it, 18; halve this, 9; triple It again. -27. You ask how many9 times 9 will go into the result and, being told three times, multiply 3 by 2. and the answer is 6. On What Their Fate Depended. During the .week certain members of the Eiotch minister's flock had been paying overmuch attention to sampling the local whisky, and the minister took advantage of his position In the pulpit to administer gentle reproof. "An' I tell ye, one an' all, ye're on the way to perdeetion!" h'e cried. At that moment a fy setted on the Bible before him. He raised his Ast "Ye're gaeln' tae hell!" he shouted. "An' ye'll all get there. just sae sure as-sae sure as I ding the life out o' thIs flee?' His fist crashed down as he uttered the words. Then he looked to see the result ot his handiwork. "Missedi" he ejaculat ed. "Ah, weel, maybe there's a chance for some o' ye yeti"-Londol Bellman. The Wrestler's Pr'de. in olden 'times a wrestler who had won a belt used ~to go toehis village church on the following Ssnday wear ing the belt. On the Sundly following, that be went . to some neighboring church In his belt and ch:imed preced ence over the other y.ung fellows. Nearly all the -champicis were men great in girth and weigJ. Old Stead man,, accounted by mny the most powerful wrestler eve known, was twenty stone weight- Manchester Guardian. ._____ .How the Du~Ih Eat. A Dutch meal is ay-ays reminiscent of a game of card.' for the mother deals out all round ta table, and when that 2rst hand is p.'yed out she deals afresh, and so or until the dish is empty. There is r promiscuous serv ing, as with us, yad the quick feeder (if such a person auld exist in leisure ly Holland) reas no advantage. If meals are to b~likened to games of cards, our men in Dutch eyes must look like gair' of "grab."-London Queen. _ _ _ _ _ The aws of Death. Teacher (afr reading the "Charge of the Light Bride")-Wh~o were the six hundred refeed to In the verse, "Into the Jaws of.eaith rode the six hun red" Pup-i expect -they were den tists m a'mllstatd Bits.