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need by ou -. IaP. Write - t LeautiluIly illustrated andl descrliv b -A Book Store in your homne.Iti free. Write today. We Ctunranter (:,- a- h '0Our priecs the !V~eat. Wr~tc for catl: t 0 .. free The larc" a i! order Book liouse in the oor'd. -isyasi busns. T Dept. -N. r. 142. THE FRANKILIN-TURNEIR CO., 65-71 Ivy St. Atanta, Ga. Trobacco. THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE1 MANNING, S. C. The Manning Market is now ready for business and the PEOPLES WAREHOUSE is headquarters for high-price Tobacco If you want your Tobacco sold by wide-awake experienced tobacco men bring it to the PEOPLES WAREHOUSE. This is the best lighted warehouse in the State and your tobacco will show to better advantage on this floor than any other in South Carolina. Under these conditions and with our experience in tobacco. we feel safe in saying that you will be pleased with all sales entrusted to us as we promise also to give our very best per sonal attention to every pile and not let it go for less than the highest market price. A trial load will convince you. W. H. McGUIRE, Proprietor. W. K. McINTOSH, Weigher and Book keeper. A. T. THORNTON, Auctioneer. DAVE TURBEVILLE, Clerk. FONTICELLO LITHIA SPRING, W. G. TAYLOR, Prop., Richmond, Va., U. S. A. What Leading Physicians Say. Dr. Froehling. the well-known Consulting and Analytical Chemist: "Fonticello Lithia Water is absolutely free from all organic impuri ties and perfectly pure, and as an unquestionablo proof of my faith in the wster, I use it altogether.'-Richmond Times. Geo. Ben. Johnston, M. D , Prof. Surgery Medical College of Vir ginia: "I have never used any mineral water so extensively as the Fenticello, and iv has given uniformly good resnlts. I prescribe it in kidney and bladdcr troubles very I Vely. and also in -stomach and nervous disorders, with splendid effects." Carried -in stock by DR. W. E. BROWN & Co., Agents. Far merS! 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. To Arrive! CARLOAD OF Horses THE LAST of THIS WEEK F. C. Tomas BRING YOUR zJOB WORK& TO THE TINES OFFICE. NEW QUARTERS VcLEOD BLOCK. My patrous and the public gen erally is invited to visit my new store which I have lilled with the Freshest Family Gro ceries, and always kecp my large Refrigerator full of the best Cheese and Butter. There is nothing in the Grocery Line that cannot be found in my store. Headquarters for Flour, CotTey. Sugar, Teas, Canned Goods of every kind, Crackers, Cakes, Biscuits, and Confec tionary. Let me have your orders and prompt and satis factory service is guaranteed. P. B. Mouzoni 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.i Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first used your Catarrh Cure in the ease of my son, who had chronic naso-phar yngeal catarrh, with great benefit to him. I often pre.cribc it for other of my patient,. and I think it is quite the finest remedy for catarrh that has ev-er been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past favors, I am, Your-; very truly, M. J. D. DATZLr.R.r . D., Elloree, S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is winning fast in this country. It has effected some remarkable ures. I do not sznow that it has failed in one nstance wb 're it has been fairiy tried. Very trulv yours, REv. T. H. ALLE. Lexington, Ky. Dr. Blossers Catarrh Remedy is for sale by E. R_ Boger, Manning. S. C. A month's treat. ment for $1.00. A free sample for the asking. ,. postal card will bring it by mail. HAVE YOUR Pressing and Cleaning DONE AT THE Citye Pressing Club heeyounare guaranteed good work anship and prompt deliveries. 'Phone ad your clothes are called for at once. LADES' SKIRTS A SPECIALTY. Rates: *1.00 per month, or 50 cents er suit. 'Phone No. 97. W. E. REARDON, Prop. KDL L THE COUCH AND CURE THE LUNCS WITH Dr. King's New Discovery Fo OLDS TelalBoteFe AND ALL. THROAT AND LUJNG TROUBLES. GUAR ANTEED SATISFACTORY OE MONEY REFUNDED. Arant's Drug Store, FLEYIO1EYmTAR for chiLdren; safe, sure. No opiatet P ines alve ACTS LIEA POULnCE Carbolized rox~ l aEB FARMERS! Fe Control the price of you you can by diversfying th pastures will mean more por pasture is not expensive. B fall will be in fine condition:i once planted will afford graz eral seasons. It will enable expense and these housed fri help to cut down fertilizer bi There is no limit to the land, and farm cut into corn and cultivation. WE HAVE JUS the largest shipment of Wire ever brought into the county This Fencing was bougl by the makers more than th: sell this fence to our patrons gin of profit. We want to st 1st of September, do not :1 purchase what you will wan ment you have made in man We are still selling the ] mower is without compariso the same test that the Ideal line of repairs for them. In Rakes, we are selling a lot< and Two-Horse Steel Beam: Chilled. We also sell the Red Ri] Cane Mills ani A full line of all sizes, business, and we will make ours, to deal with us. Very ti MANING HAI Bring Your Job Pril Jury List. Following is the first week Jurors Sept. 21, 1908, Monday, 10 o'clock a. m. J. R. Winter, Alcolu, R. F. D. T. J. Cutter, Foreston. W. J. Bryant, Foreston. J. A. Fann, Alcolu. D. M. Barwick, Alcolu, R. F. D. J. E. Reardon, Manning. D. R. Lide, Pinewood. D. A. Brunson, Davis Station. J. M. Rowe, Summerton, R. F. D. A. Plumer Burgess, Sumwerton. l . S. MlcIntosh, Manning. R. F. Ridgeiway, Jr., lanning. W. F. Hush, Turbeville, R. F. D. Harry C. Carrigan, Summerton. W. P. Emanuel, Alcolu. J. S. Bell, Manning. P. B. Lawrence, Pinewood. A. G. Altman, Manning, R. F. D. C. E. Morris, Turbeville. B. L. Bradham, Jordan. J. M. Geddings. Paxville. .1. P. Mahoney, Manning. W. E. James, Summerton. R. E. Burgess, Mouzon. Jeff krdis, Pinewood. W. B. Jayroe, Manning, R. F. D. Lonnie Tobias, Manning. H. R. Cobett, Davis Station. R. W. Chewning, Jordan. J. C. Baker. New Zion, R. F. D. J. G. Wells, Summerton. R. R. Billups, Summerton, R. F. D. J. A. Way, Silver, R. F. D. R. S. Johnson, Wilson, S. C. F. L. Wolfe, Manning. Morgan P. Strange, Manning. 2ND WEEK JURORS. J. H Horton, Davis Station. John H. Ham, Lake City, R' F. D. J. M. Strange, Wilson. D. M. Carraway, Paxville, I. C. Plowden, Jordan. W. D. Childers, Jordan. S. Scott Burgess, Sardinia. M. I Mims, Pinewood. H. J. Haley, Foreston. B. F. Stukes, Foreston. R. C. Gibbon, Turboville. B. T. Thames. Manning. D. M. Rodgers, Summerton, R. F. D M. L. Shirer, Suminerton, R. F. D. J. P. Buddin, New Zion. R. C. Graham, Pinewood. J. B. Holladay, Summerton. A. J. Hamilton, Bloomville. J. W. Ridgeway, Manning. W. J. Holladay, Manning, R. F. D. F. S. Geddings, Paxville. S. H. Tisdale. Manning, R. F. D. J. G. Allsbrooks, Foreston. E. J. Buddin, Tnrbeville, R. F. D. T. F. Jones, Manning. - J. A. Barrineau, Lake City, R. F. D. C. W. Barrow, New Zion, R. F. D. C. H. Castine. Turbeville. . J. C. Ridgeway, Manning. J. R. Jones, Manning. A. W. Griffin, Pinewood. H. D. Berry, Alcolu. R. J. Coskrey, Summerton. T. C. Owens, Alcolu, R. F. D. F. N. Ridgill, Manning, R. F D. A. J. Geddings, Remini. Will Interest Many' Every person should know that good health is impossible if the kidneys.are deranged. Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure kidney and bladder disease in every form, and will build up. and strengthen t'ese organs so they will perform their functions properly. No danger of Bright's disease or diabetes f Foley's Kidney Remedy is taken in time. W. E. Brown & Co. THE BUCKBOARD. Invented In -the Year 1820 by a Penn sylvania Doctor. Though the name "buckboard" is ap plied to thousands of cazriages, few people know how the word. came to be used. Back around 1820, says the American Veecle, in explaining it, when the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise was almost entirely by wagon, a Dr. Buck, who for many years afterward was the military store keeper at Washington, was in charge of military stores en route to .army posts in the southwest. In east Tennessee much difficulty was experienced by reason of the rough roads, and there were frequent mis haps, mostly from the wagons over turning. Dr. Buck overhauled the outfit, and, ~bandoning the wagon bodies, long boards were set directly on the axles or hung below, and the stores were loaded in such a manner that there were no further delays from break downs, and the stores safely reached their destinations. In special emer gency, too, the loati could be shifted or taken off in a hurry. The idea was probably not new, but Dr. Buck's example was followed, especially when roads were rough, and soon much hauling was done by the use of wheels, axles and boards only. Now we have the buckboard, both in carriage and automobile forms, con forming closely to the original Idea, though few suspect the source of it. San Francisco Chronicle. Bees Laxative Cough Syrup always brings quick relief zo coughs, colds. hoarseness whooping-cough and all bronchial and throat trouble. Mlothers especially recommend it foz childrn. Pleasant to take, gently laxative. Sold by The Mianning Phaarmacy. nce Your Land produce in the only way a use of your land. More - and more profit. A hog rmuda Grass planted this or pasturing next year, and ing for hogs and cattle sev you to keep cows at small m convenient pasture will possibilities with well fenced 'enient lields for pasturage T RECEIVED. Fencing (Barbed and Woven) it at the lowest price named :-ee years. We are going to at the lowest possible mar ll the entire lot before the ail to see this lot and to . It will be the best invest days. :deal Deering Mower. This . No oth~er Mower has stood Deering has. We have a full addition to the Mowers and )f Smoothing Harrows, One Plows, (Syracuse and Oliver per Hay Press. Evaporators. Remember we want your .t to your interest as well as 'uly yours, WARE COJIP'Y iting to The Imes, But not a Bale to Spin. Instead of closing down be cause of inability to secure rav material, the Evansville, Ind. cotton mills ought to have gon< into the New York market ox Thursday, where the -bears" sol( some 200,000 bales at prices rang ing around 8.7 cents. It must have been the irony o fate that with 200,000 bales goin, at figures like that. the Evans ville. mills had to shut down fo! want of raw material and turr several hundred hands into idle ness. Doubtless there are other mill. in the country about to find them selves in similar positions, bu why close down. when New Yorl has all that cotton for sale ank is, apparently, hungry for buy ers? Where they get it we do no know, but surely the New Yorl "producers" have the staple o they wouldn't sell it. It would be preposterous wouldn't it, to assert that the New Yorkers are selling some thing they don't own or that doe! not exist? Perhaps they grow it in Cen tral Park or pick it from Nev York bay. We cannot say as t( that, but it stands to reason tha they get it somewhere, else hom could they sell it and bow coult people buy? Two hundred thousand bale, in one day! Think ot it, and that too, the very day on which th( Evansville mill shuts off thE steam because its last bale hai been spun into yarn or cloth. There must be something wrong somewhere. We canno1 conceive that the Evansville mill in these days of rapid trains and telegraphs, was ignorant of th( fact that New York had 200,00( bales of cotton to dispose of a1 something like 8.7 cents the pound, yet there is no recorc that it even attempted to renem its supply of raw material in thi "glutted" New York market. Why was it, then, an opportun ity like this was so carelessly le1 slip, when it was announced that the only reason for ceasing oper ations was a lack of raw mater. ial? There's something funny in this business that ought to be looked into. If New York has been surrep titiously growing cotton on thE Harlem flats, there has been jug gling with the statistics, for ii has not been reported. If, on the other hand, New York is sehing something it hasn't got and cannot get-bul we cannot think it. There's a mystery here some Sherlock Holmes should get or to at once.A nation waits breath lessly its solution.-Atlanta Con. stition. Passes Examination Successfully. James Donahue, New Britain, Conn. writes: "I tried several kidney rem edies, and was treated by our best phy sicians for diabetes, but did not improvi until I took Foley's Kidney Remedy After the second bottle I showed im. provement, and five bottles cured me completely. I have since passed a rigit examinatioai for life insurance." Foley' Kidney Remedy cures backache and al: forms of kidney and bladder trouble. W E. Brown & Co. About Feeding Horses. "When the farmers of the soutl learn to use more of their cotton products, learn to feed thei2 horses and stock with cotton seed products, it will mean millions o: dollars to the south, part 0: which every farmer will save fo2 himself. No report has ever shown that injury to a horse has been a result of feeding cottor seed meal. Feed it every day. That's why I do. It is not a ho1 or a cold climate feed. Feed noi less than one pound nor more than three, the amount to be de termined by the age, size and work of the animal. Not only is it the most nutritious food but il greatly aids the digestion and general health and good appear ance of the ammal. Feed cotton seed meal with anything you ever heard of a horse or mule eating corn, whole, corn, cracked, ensilage; bran &c. Don't stick to any one food. Give a variety. Change as the pricE changes. It is always best to feed hard working stock ground (not too fine) feed. Cotton seed meal is fed to best advantage when thoroughly mixed with the other portion of the grain part of the ration. If you know what number of pounds of grain will maintain your animal, reduce this twc pounds for every pound of mea! you feed him. To illustrate this: if you have been giving him 14I pounds of corn, give him now~ only 10 pounds of corn and pounds of cotton seed meal. HE will soon improve and do better work than ever before." Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers. Foley's Honey and Tar affords im mediate relief to asthma sutierers in th4 worst stages and if taken in time wil effect a cnre. W. E. Brown & Co. No Place For Dogs. Is It impossible in Japan to keep good dog? I have twice had my dog: disappear in a seemingly miraculou way. As I am well aware that ther< is a great demand for dogskins, espe caly those of young dogs, we havy been careful In having our dog watcn ed. Nevertheless he disappeared thi: morning. Almost every foreigner hai lost a dog or dogs, and even a sea cap tan who was three days on shore ha< his dog poisoned the first day he Pu his feet on land.-Japanl Chronicle. Millions of bottles of Foley's Hone, and Tar have been sold without_ an; person ever having experienced an; other than beneficial results from it use for coughs, colds and lung trouble This is because the genuine Foley' Honey and Tar in the yellow packagi contains no opiates or other harmfc drugs. Guard your health by refusmn: -a utth nuine. W. E. Brown A DESERT PERIL. The Deadly Clear Water of the Death Valley Pools. "One of the chief dangers to travel ers in crossing such dreary and arid wastes as the far famed Death valley arises from ignorance as to the char - acter of the infrequent pools of water along the route," said a mining engi ner of Denver. '"The tenderfoot, growing faint un der a blazing sun, will want to quench his intolerable thirst when he comes to a shallow hole whose water, clear as crystal, seems absolutely pure. He can with difficulty be restrained from drinking it by some experienced com panion, who knows that one draft will probably cause serious if not fatal Illness. This water, for all its seeming purity and clearness, is loaded with arsenic, and many a man has lost his life by Its use. Curiously enough, the only water in the desert that is safe to drink is foul looking and inhabited by bugs and snakes. When you come to a muddy pool on the surface of which insects are disporting themselves, however re pulsive it may be, both to the eye and palate, you may drink It with im punity, despite its looks, as a man will who is crazy with thirst produced by the burning sands and merciless sun." -Baltimore American. THE PALISADES. Their Counterpart Cannot Be Found In All the World. The edge of the world, if such a thing may be, lies hardly a rifle shot away from one of the centers of. the world itself-the city of New York. The Palisades, those mighty, walls whereon the annals of the centuries are graved-what an edge of the world their lip presents to him who comes, perhaps at night, to their rough hewn elevation! In no other place other than this near proximity to man and one of his greatest cities could a physical fea ture so profoundly vast and impressive be so hidden from the world. Their counterpart cannot be found in all the world, and yet the Palisades are almost unexploited and unknown to the globe circling, sight hunting public that year ly traverses the continents or seas to gaze at things less wonderful in some distant field of nature's marvelous achievements, for little does any one know of these titanic walls who has merely seen them from the Hudson. Were they somewhere off in a land comparatively inaccessible, reached by a transcontinental thread of steel, the guidebooks would be rich in their pic tured grandeur and man would rove far to explore them.-Philip Verrill Mighels In Harper's Magazine. When Trifles becomes Troubles. If any person suspects that their kid neys are deranged that should take Foley's Kidney Remedy at once and not risk having Bright's disease or diabet es. Delay gives the disease a stronger foothold and you should not delay tak ing Foley's Kidney Remedy. W. E. Brown & Co. Present Giving Worse Than Tipping. The trend of the times makes itself felt in the matter of presents and present giving. In the days of our grandmothers these tokens of affection were few and far between and were marked by a stern simplcity. But we have changed all that, and the up to date riot of presents means a deadly drain on our bank balances. The tipping tax is, bad enough, but the burden of countless presents can -give it points and a beating.-Londonl Tatler. In a Bad Way. "You seem much upset, my good man," remarked the curate, who hap pened to call when Murkie was laying down the law somewhat emphatically to his family circle. "Hupset?" bellowed Murkie. "I should think I am hupset! Our bless ed kid's just set 'isself on fire, an' blowed if the missus 'ere ain't bin an' put 'im out with my pot o' beer, an' me stony broke too!"-London An Rings Little Liver Pills for billiousness, sick headache. They keep you well. s5c. Try them. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy. A Curious Army Toast. Of all the British regiments the Welsh fusileers have the most curious army toast. It forms part of the cere mony of the grand dinner given annu ally on St. David's day. After the din ner the drum major, accompanied by the goat, the mascot of the fusileers, bedecked with rosettes of red and blue ribbon, marches around the table, car rying a plate of leeks. Ev-ery officer or guest who has never eaten one before is obliged to do so, standing on his chair with one foot on the table, while the drummers beat a roll behind his chair. He is then considered a true Welshman. All the toasts are coupled with the name of St. David. It is in much this way that the toast with highland honors Is drunk. Each guest stands with one foot on his chair and one on the table, and the pipers, a-pip ing, parade the room. If you arc a sufferer from pies ManZan Pile Remedy will brina reliet with the tirs-t applica tion. Guaranteed. Price 50c. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy. Got Full Weight. "Sir," says the aggrieved cur amer, approachIng the booksellet, -have called to express my opinlo -your business methods." "What is wrong T' deferentially ask ed the bookseller. "I bought a set of Shakespeare from you last year. It weighed fourteen pounds. Yesterday I ordered a dupli cate set for my son's library, and it only weighs thirteen pounds and nine ounces. I'd have you understand, sir, that there is a city ordinance against short weights." Thoroughly humbled, the bookseller made up the shortage with seven ounces of miscellany.-Exchange. UeDeWitt's Little Early Rises pleasant little pills that are easy to take. Sold by W. E. Brown & Co. 1-ow Frozen lnsects Revive. -Experimeuts in reviving frozen in sects by a naturalist show some sur prising results. A large cecropia moth, - frozen in the center of a snowball until it was perfectly brittle, revived tin twenty seconds when held near a stove. Several newly hatched lo moths revived In a similar manner after being frozen stiff and then thawed out. Sin lar experiments with ants, butterfiles and house flies gave the same results. But the naturalist noticed that recent Sly hatched insects resist cold better than older ones. Makes Kineys. nd Badde Right HIS OWN BAIT. The Giant Alligator Snapping Turtle as a Fisherman. There is a canny reptile fisherman which makes effective use of the bait which he carries in his own mouth. This is the alligator snapping turtle, a giant among reptiles, known to attain a maximum weight of 144 pounds, with a length of shell of about twenty-eight inches. It haunts rivers flowing into the gulf of Mexico, including the Mis sissippi, where it is common. In ap pearance and actions it is an enlarged duplicate of the common snapping tur tie. Its pale brown hues well match the soft, muddy bottoms on which it lies motionless, angling for fish with the decoy. The bait is attached inside the lower jaw, close to the tongue, and is a well developed filament of flesh, white and distinct from the yellowish mouth part and closely resembling a large grub. While waiting the turtle keeps this grub in motion, giving It the aspect of crawling about in a small circular course. Its mud colored shell, often studded with a growth of fine, waving moss, looks like a great round stone, and close to it is a second small er stone, the head. Close to this small er stone crawls the plump white grub. A fish sees it and makes a natural mistake, only to be seized by a sudden snap of the powerful jaws. The jaws are remarkably powerful. The com mon snapper, which attains only a third of the size of his larger relative, will bite a finger clean off, and the al ligator snapper could bite through a wrist or foot.-Chicago Tribune. TRICKS OF WRITERS. A Ruse by Which Kipling Piqued His Readers' Curiosity. "When I first began to read Kip ling," said an admirer, "my curiosity was immensely piqued by the scraps of verse with which he usually headed his early stories. They were all cred ited to poems I had never heard of In my life and were just such salient, striking fragments as would naturally whet one's appetite for the remainder. For over a year I tried hard to locate those mysterious poems and enlisted half a dozen book dealers in the search. At last one of them wrote me that I was wasting time and that the alleged quotations were merely Mr. Kipling's little joke. "In other words, he manufactured 'em to order and stuck them at the top of his tales for the sake of the odor of erudition they lent to the production. I was mad for a while, but when I cooled off I had a good big laugh. Of course you know Scott used to do the same thing, and so, for that matter, did E dgar Allan Poe. Poe was really the worst quotation fakir of the lot. "He would write wise sounding de tached sentences and credit them to imaginary German philosophers with long, outlandish and impressive names. However, I don't know why the thing shouldbe punishable. The business of a writer of fiction is to create an 'Illu sion, and as long as he does it I for one am not particular what means he employs to contribute to the end." New Orleans Times-Democrat HE LACKED TACT. Bad Breaka. of the Man Who Was Trying to Seil Spectacles. "The meanest job of my lean days," said a millionaire, "was spectacle pe'd ding. I still see the sad and scornful looks, I still hear the reproachful oaths, which that work brought down on me. "It was at the seashore. I had a case of spectacles for every age from forty-five up. I paced the beach and the board walk. "Once I walked up to a lady and gentleman seated close together on the sand. "'Sir and madam,' I said, 'would these interest you? The best and cheapest brand of old age spectacles on the market. This pair would be your size, sir-forty-nine years. Lady, will you try these fifty-four year ones?' "They reddened, and the man told me, with an oath, to move on. I remem bered as I moved that he had been holding her hand. A seaside fiirtation. Of course they hadn't liked their thoughts brought down from love to old age spectacles. "On the board walk I accosted a pretty girl leading an old man by the arm. "'Would your grandpa be interested in these, miss?' I said. 'Best glass, warranted, eighty year size, prine' "'Tell him to go, Billy,' said the girl. "And as I went a hot corn man chuckled: "'That, you dub, was Gobsa Golde and his young bride.' "-Los Angeles Times. To the King's Taste. We learn In "Leaves From the JTon> nal of Sir George Smart" that when Sir George, who was chorister at the Chapel Royal, arranged the musical programme at the opening of the new London bridge in 1831 his chief at traction was a glee party. Immediately after the glee party had sung "God Save the King" In the tent in which the king and queen were seat ed two unknown persons in costume, a man and his wife, stepped forward, and to Sir George's infinite disgust the man played "God Save the King" with his knuckles on his chin, accompanied by his wife's voice. The king called Sir George to him and asked who they were. Sir George by that time knew the name of the performers and gave it, adding that he was sorry they had intruded with out permission. "Oh, no intrusion!" said the king. "It was charming. Tell them to per form agaIn." So Sir George had to tell the per formers that their number was en cored by royal command, and to their great delight and to the chagrin of Sir George they repeated it. Not Abashed. "When I was young," said a lawyer, "my best client was a wealthy old lady noted for saying caustic things about her acquaintances. One morn ing, when I was staying at her house, she vilified one of her neighbors, named Stamford, without stint. "By way of changing the subject I proposed to read to her from a volume of lectures I had happened to bring with me. She assented. I start ed at random and when too late dis covered that I was in the middle of a lecture on the government of the tongue. "I was afraid she would think I had selected It to admonish her, yet I dared not stop for fear of seeming to make the offense more pointed. So on I read to the end, pretty sure that my reading would cost me a client worth two hundred a year to me. But when I ended she said: "'Thank you, Mr. --. It is an ex cellent lecture and would fit my neigh HAD BEEN IN JAIL Yet It Did Not Prejudice His gdndind as a Witness. An important case was beltg tried before the criminal court of the Dis trict of Columbia. An old negro was in the witness box. The district attor ney commenced: "What is your name?" "John Williams, sah." "Are you the Sohn W111ams who wab sent to the Albany penitentiary for larceny?' "No, sah-not this John." "Are you the John W111ams who was convicted of arson and sent to the Bal timore penitentiary?' "No, sah." "Have you ever been in any peniten tiary?" "Yes, sah." AU1 eyes were now turned upon the witness. The district attorney siniled complacently and resumed: "How many times have you been In the penitentiary?" "0Twice,. sah."t "Where?" "In Baltimore, sah." "How long were you there the first time?' "About two hours, sah." "How long the second time?" asked the attorney, rather crestfallen. "An hour, sah. I went there to whitewash a cell that waswa'nted for a lawyer who had robbed his client" The attorney sat down amid the laughter of the spectators. The Best Machines. The idea that peace could be the normal relation of the nations never entered Napoleon's head or the head of any man about him, declares A. L. Kielland in "Napoleon's Men and Methods." In his mind'peace could only mean a pause between-two wars. He had no idea to give to the world. His thoughts did not go beyond his own life. He shrinks at once In com parison with a man of science, who ex pends his life to create a thought that will nourish and elevate posterity. If Napoleon reached the highest sum mit df a prince and a commander, he was also the last who succeeded In gathering about his~ person all the glamour that had been wont to accom pany and adorn the bloody business of war. There was no more of it after his fall. War became afterward an academic study. Military affairs came to resemble industrial Interests, In which it is the best machines that gain the victory. We now strip our armies of their gold cords and waving plumes. The admiral, who used to stand on the bridge In his gala uizifform, with' his decorations and sash, now sits in a steel box and presses buttons like a telephone girl. When the glamour goes from a thing It is near its end. The Greatest General. All things duly considered, the reat est general of whom we have any knowledge was In all probability the Carthaginian, Hannibal All the in formation we have of Hannibal comes from his enemies, and yet what achievements they'were forced to ced It him withi The second Punic war the most briliant In history-was prac tically one man against a whole nas tion, and that the -strongest'-then known. With the army that he had nolded out of raw -and barbarous levies Hannibal had to fight a nation of the stoutest and best trained war riors of ancient times and- edbad to do this without any assistance from home. It has been wlaidtat re fs nowhere else an example of what a sngie -man of genius may- achieve apntthe most tremenousteds Mw York American. The Color of Jade, The idea of jade possessing the vir tue of bringing the wearer food for tune arose In China, where the stone. Is so valued that the finding of a par ticularly fine piece causes the state to take possession of the land where it was found. The best specimens rep resent all the hues and -effects of sea foam, but these are eagerly snapped up by collectors and seldom come into the public market. There Is another cause for the popularity of jade. Its peculiar green tinge has the effect of maleing the human skin look .very white. In this connection the quality of the stone is of no account so long as the color Is there. Indeed, many of the less expensive jade ornaments are made from chips of - the stone which contain noticeable flaws.--Pear son's. The Actress' Retort. Georgette Leblanc, the actress, wife of Maurice Maeterlinck, was on- tour in a French town, where the local com pany "supported" her In one of her husband's plays. Blut the support was weak and halt Ing. The poet's lines were mangled, and several characters seemed unable to understand what they were saying. Me. Leblane sought out her man ager and spoke to him. "A writer like Maeterlinck should be treated with more respect." "Madame," he answered, "M:LMaeter lnck is not the first to suffer. So phocles, Moliere, Raclne, Shakespeare, Goethe and other great- dramnatists are daily murdered in the same way." "Possibly, but they are not murdered alie, at any rate." The Unappreciative Londoner,. London Is a marvel. But we LAD doners do not wax passionate over Its -uaities as the enthusiastic French man does over his Paris. There is more beauty, more charm, more wealth, more culture end more art to he found in London than anywhere In the world, and we stolid -Engish people do not really appreciate lte London Graphic. An Unwritten Law. The smaller man bristled up. "See here," he jgrowled, "you have applied two unpleasant terms to me." Then he paused and scowled and came a little closer. "I just want you t9 understand that a third term doesn't go In this country." Whereupon the big man drew a little and said no more.--Cleeld Plain Dealer. Located at L.ast. Drummer (settling bill In E~g10 House, Hayfield)-Pardou my curiosi ty, sir, but what do you stuff your beds with in this hotel? Landlord (proudly)-Best straw to be had in thIs hull county, b'gosh! Drummer-Ah!l That is very interesting. I kow now where the straw came from tht broke the camel's back!-Puch. His Was Hors. "I beard him behind the doer plead ing for just one. They miust be en gaged." "Naw, they're married. It .wes & dollar he was pleading for."-ionis vil Cuie-Augl