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DRESSING A SHIP. A Man-of-War Wears More Than One Suit of Clothes. INNER AND OUTER GARMENTS. Besides Its Coat of Armor Pltse It Has a Special Set of Underciothes to Pro tect the Vital Parts of Its Anatomy. Mineral Wool Muffler. Battleships wear coats of stout ar mor plate, as everybody knows, but everybody does not know that they wear undergarments which are pro duced chiefly from cocoanuts. Your most powerful man-of-war is really a very delicate object and requires special underclothing so that some vital parts of its anatomy may not be come too cold and so that other equal ly vital portions may not become too hot. From stem to stern, which Is another way of saying from head to toe, your enormous super-Dreadnought Is envel oped In an undergarment placed im mediately behind its topcoat or armor plate. This Is Its special mackintosh. or, rather. waterproof, which acts as a protection from fire as well as water. In the ordinary way If a shot pierced the side of a battleship water would pour In at the bole and possibly the ship might sink, but this Is obviated by providing a backing to the armor. Great secrecy Is kept In the various navies regarding the material used and its arrangement. In many of the latest battleships, however, the coating is made of cellu lose, which again is obtained from the fibrous cocoanut rind. Celulose pos aseses the peculiar property of swell lng Immediately it It comes in contact with salt water. Therefore the moment that water pours in at a hole at the ship's side the celulose almost In stantly expands and so closes the aper ture. Of course the cellulose is es pecially treated in order to render It fireproof. A man-of-war has its vitality enor mously diminished If certain portions of It become too cold. in much the same way as Its human tenants. Ac cordingly its- boger and steam pipes' are clothed with "jackets." In some cases the jackets are made of ordinary blanketing. others of a fibrous clay-like composition or even of close grained wood. In general the material used for a ship's underclothing of this de scription consists of mineral wool. However. the great ship is more lke ly to suffer from the effects of beat than from those of cold. There is al ways the danger owing to the newer type of machinery employed that the powder magazines may get too hot. In the latest men-of-war the stores are surrounded by a thick coating of mineral wool. Mineral wool. by the way, has nothing whatever to do with wool, as it consists of a mass of snowy threads of a kind of glass. It Is made by blowing jets of high premure steam through the furnaces in the manufa ture of Irontand steel. Enoemous'quantites of this strange variety of wool are used on board for the purposes of urmerclothing the bulk heads and the more delicate portions of the ship's body. This Invaluable enhetance acts equally well as a pro tector from heat and from cold. It Is such a remarkable nonconductor of heat that It is used for covering the refrigeratora and the cold storage cambaers and therefore the explosive Ithe dockyards all men who are emzployed in packing the mineral wool in the spaces on the ships are obliged to wear masks. This is~ to prevent the sharp needlelik, particles from being Inhaled and so causing chest troubles of fatal character. The ammunition rooms themselves are kept cool by a refrigerating plant In addition to being clothed In mineral wool, the same applying to the ammu nition passages. The wool is also packed between the double bulkheads which separate the boiler spaces from the other portions of the vessel. Alto gether the uses of the mineral wool on board are extremely numerous. Even reindeer hair is to he met with on board In the capacity of a particular sort of underclothing. This material Is very liht-conslderably lighter than cork, for Instance-and It is not so sub jeet to decay. For this reason among its many uses It is of great value as a illing for the life buoys. - Boston Smoking Befoe Meals. People will persist in smoking, even after they have read the following from that eminent authority, the Lon don Lancet: Smoking jus before meals is to be deprecated, because the pungency of the pyroligneus products contained in tobacco smoke renders the buccal mu cosa Inensmve to alimentary stimula tion. In fact, the effect is to dull or abolsh the olfacto-gustatory reflef. thus depriving us of what Pawlow canls "appetite juice." Self Confidence. "Do yor "elieve in all the views you advocate: "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. after some hesitation. "I do. but I doubt whether a less skillful reasoner than myself would he able to convince me of the correctness of some of thein"-Washington Star. His Conclusion. Mirs. Gnaggs - rn never forget the night you proposed to me. You acted like a perfect fooL. Mr. Gnags--That wasn't acting.-Phfladelphia Record. Talebearers are just as bad as tale makes-Sheridan. The Art of Embalming. The modern embalmers have not re covered the secret of the art as prac ticed by the old Egyptians and prob ably never will. Some of the bodies known to us as "mnames'' buried 3,000 or 4.000 years ago are still In a state of perfect preservation. Back of the ancient art lay a religious creed. The ancient Egyptian believed that after many thousands of years the soul came back to find Its body and that If It was not found the soul wan der-ed forever In misery and wretched ness- hence it was absolutely nece sary to preserve the body, and hence. finally. the embalmer's art.-New York American ___ It Fitted the Case. The girl asked the polite salesman If he had good cheese. "We have some lovely cheese." was the smiling answer. "You should1 not say !ovely cheese." she corrected. "Why not? It is." be declared. "Because-with a boarding school dignity-"lovely should be used to qualify only something that Is alive-" "Well," he retorted, '1l stick to A WELSH JAWBREAKER. The Great Big Name of a CharminS Little Vit:nge. Llanfirpwlkwymayi::.:erychwyrnl fdrobwillla ij i t -:::a is a hat 1ng little vi::;e in An:lesey. Wales and a favorite visii;: place for tour Ists. There are many other charmin.g little villa;:es in Wales--al over th< world, in fact, but none with a name like that. Llan1airpw.. etc.. mean! "the Ciurch of St. Mry in a hollow ol white hazel near to the rapid whir' pool and to the Church of St. Tysilio by thc red cave." It is declared that only a Welshman can pronounce the name of the village, but there is no harm in you trying if you wish. The first syllable. "Llan.' is very simple. You must double back your tongue along the roof of your mouth and get ready .o say something that sounds halfway between "clan" and "thian." and there you've got it. The second syllable. "fair." Is encour &gingly simple. And if you want to go on and.learn the whole name of the village the following rhyme may be of assistance: At ftrt it began fair. Commencina w!th Llanfair, Then started a fingle By adding I'%ilgwyngyll. But was horrible. very. To stick on Gorery And simply ignoble To run to Chwyrndrobwi!l. Tl it almost will kill you To say .landysilio. With a terrible shock At the end Gogogoch. The inhabitants of the village and the postoffice authorities have shorten ed the name to Llanfair, P. G., while the railroad limits it to Llanfair.-New York World. THE GOLDEN CAT. Legend of the Founding of a Persian College at Meshcd. The following story from the Per sian manuscript of which a transla tion has been published under the title *The Glory of the Shia World," reads lke a passage In the -Arabian laghts." It tells of a Persian at Meshed who had founded a college with wealth gained In a remarkable manner: "One day a rich merchant asked him whether he was willing to work at a place to which he would be cor Iucted blindfolded. Being a fearless .erma ni and very poor. he agreed. and was led through mauy streets to a court yard, where the bandage was remov ed. and he was ordered to dig a hole and bury gold coins and jewelry. This he did for several days, and, being searched before he left. he saw no chance of bettering his condition. "However, one day he saw a cat, which he killed and ripped open. He then sewed up some money and Jew els Inside It and threw It over the wall. After this. when his work was done, he wandered about until he fund the cat and not only secured the money hidden in its body, but also learned the position of the house. "Its owner shortly afterward died, and the astute Kermani bought his ouse with the gold sewed up inside the cat. As the merchant had never re vealed his secret to any one he became his heir and, in turn, when dying, be queathed his money for the pious task of founding and maintaining a col ege"_ _ ' Corret Way to Roll Umbrella. A badly rolled up umbrella, besides looking unsightly, does not wear half as long as It ought to. The process of rolling an umbrella is very simply. The majority hold it by the handle and keep twisting the stick with one hand, while with the other they twist and roll the silk. Instead of this they should take hold of the umbrella just above the ribs of the cover. These points naturally lie evenly with the stick. They should be kept hold of and pressed tightly against the stock and then the cover should be rolled up. Holding the ribs thus prevents them from getting twisted out of place or boen-in out of shape, and the silk Is bound to follow evenly and roll smooth and tight. If an umbrella is rolled in this fashion It will look as if newly bought for a long time.-Bosten Her ald. A Bible L-inrary. Probably the lnest collection of Bibles in the world is that In the 11 brary of the General Theological semi Way In Chelsea square, New York. In the fireproof Bible room on the second loor are more than 1.200 different edi tions of the Bible, In all about 2,500 volumes, arranged on shelves and In glass cases. Of these 533 edItions are in Latin, making 1.053 volumes. Of "polyglot" editions-In more than one language-there are 93. In 500 volumes. The most interesting of the Bibles Is the Gutenberg volume, printed at Mo gunta between 1450 and 1453 by Jo bannes Gutenberg, which has always ranked as a mastergtece of art. Timber and Lumber. "Paw, is there any difference be tueen timber and lumber?" "There is no necessary difference in kind, my son. They differ merely In degree or stage of development. For exmple, a man may be spoken of as good timber for some high cffice and yet represent nothing but lumber when e gets there."-Chicago Tribune. His Weakness. Wgg-Your friend the actor seems rather eccentric. Wagg-He's the per nonlatlon of eccentricity. Why, that man actually admits there are other actors just as good asm he is.-Phila delphia Record. A word of kindness is seldom spoken In vain. It is a seed which, even when dropped by chance, spring:; up a lower. Foley's Kidacy Pills "Folev's Honey and Tar is the best cuhremedy I ever used as it quickly stolned :a ,evere~ couigh that long trouoled mne",ays J. W. Kuhn. l'rinee ton. Nebr. .I ast so quickly and surely grippe and lung~ :rouble. lIefuse sub less tidy clothes are a matter of course can righxty estimate the extent to which this question of clothes and cleanline-ss l'ears upon the crimninality of youths. l'irty. ragged garments, greasy caps and neck scarf., worn day after day without the possibility of a chance are. I believe. responsible for much. Certain it is that the lad who is cvLnteat with but one set of raimaent Invariably belonLes to a very low .stra tun of society. '.ad the absence of a desire fvr a& tunday suit and the un abashed wearing er the~ weekda.'y suit on the Sunday is very frequenity in deed the mark of one largely Imper vious to outside, inluences.--C- E- It. Russel In ..vou Goal Birds." Cured Splint I have used Sloan's Liniment on a :ine mre. for spiint and curei he. This aaes t h e t h i r d hor s e 've cured. I lave recommendcd it to mv nuiga bors for thrtsh and they say i: is :.ne. I tind it the best Liniment I ever used. I keep on hand y-ur Sure Colic Cure for myself and neigh bors, and I can certainly recom mend it for Colic."-S. E. SimT, McDonough. Ga. Cured Thrush. Mn. R. W. Parasir. of Bristol. Ind..R. No. 2. write:--- have usedi lots of your Liniment for hor-es and myself. It is the best Liniment in the world. I cured one of my horses of thrush. IHer feet were rotten; the frogs came out ; she laid down most of the time. I thought she would die. but I used the Liniment as directed and she never lies down in the daytime now." SLOAK'S LINIMENT should be in every stable and ap plied at the first sign of lameness. You don't need to rub, it penetrates. Will kill a spavin, curb or splint. re duce wind puffs and swollen joints. and is a sure and speedy remedy for f i s t u I a. sweeney, founder and thrush. Price. 50c. and $1.00 sloax's book on horaev, cattle, ubeep and peultry *ct fe.Addrean .34-4a. Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Man., U. S.A. In the Wrong Church. A Cleveland man recently told this story of the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, fa mous New York divine of a generation age: A wealthy man came to him and said he wanted to rent one of the most expensive pews in the church. "But," he added, "I'll only take it on one con dition-you mustn't expect me to do any church work." The eminent rector smiled. "My friend." he replied, "you have come to the wrong church. You belong four blocks down the street, in the Church of the Heavenly Rest." - Cleveland Leader. I A Changed Man. Admiral Capps, addressing a temper ance society, told a story of one of the best men he had ever known, who quickly went from bad to worse be cause of excessive drinking until be became a total wreck. "One evening," said the admiral, "this prematurely old, thin, worn out man with red rimmed eyes, said, 'You are a good, true, noble woman Jenny, and should have married a better man than I am.' "Looking at him and thinking of what he once had been she quickly answered. '1 did. James.' "-New York Tribune. A Religious Innovation. A certain well brought up little girl who lives'~ in the near vicinity of Rit Benhlouse square yawned at the break .ttbe last Sunday morning and ventured :a polite proposition to her mother. "I really dont feel at all like going to church this morning." she remark ed. "Cant we just send cards?"-Phl adephia Times. The Easiest. Friend (sarcastically)-Which one of your many bad habits do you think you could manage to give up? Easy One (nettled--That of lending my friends mioney.-Baltimore American. Niot a Word ol Scandal :arred the call of a ne'ghlbor on Mrs. WS. P. Spaugh. of .\anvi:ie. Wyc'.. who said: "she told me Dr Kinr' New Life lills bad cured her of (IsuLnate kidney trouble. and made her feei like a new woman." l.asy, but sure remedy for stomach, liver and kidney troublts. Only 75c. at alt druggists. Puzaled. An aged colored man was passing a fish store when be stopped to examine a huge t'urtle chained in the doorway as an adi ertisement He bad never seen a turtle before, ,mnd he prodded the strange creature curiously. Suddenly be popped his fin ger into hIs mouth with a bowl of pain. .A.ter the linger had stopped bleeding he gazed at :t ruefully, then "-What's the matter. Rastus?" asked the fish dealer, with a grin. "Nuffin', sab: nullin'. Ah was jest wonderin' whether Ah bad been bit or stung."-Lippincott's. The Artistic Temperament. A famous singer was undergoing tho minitration of the ship's barber. "I 'opes." said the barber. "that we shall 'ave the leasure of 'earin' you at the concert tonIght." "No." explained the famous sInger, "I've had a long and exhausting sea son in America and within a few days I am to open In London. I have decid ed not to do anything cn this voyage." "It's the same way with me," said the b::rber understandingly. "When I'm hiashore I never looks at a razor." -Success Magazine. A Legal Holiday. "-Bindlesworth seems to rather look upon his wife with awe." "Yes, I me: him yesterday, and he wanted to borrow $5 from mue. I ask ed him why be didn't go to his bank for it. and he repied with surprise that he was unable to conceal: 'Why, bless me: 'd forgotten that the banks were open today, just the same. You see, this is my wife's birih day.' "-ChIcago Rtecord-Herald. This Hard, Cruel World. Mrs. Crawtordl-You can have all the bread atnd butter you want. but no more :-a ke. Willie-Say. ma. how is it I can eet:e a se-co'nd helping of any STAGE ANECDOTE The London Debut of Edmu Kean, the Great Tragedian. A SUCCESS AND ITS PATHC The Tearful Meeting With His W After His Triumph on the Boar Snub'Ing a Noble Lord-An Engl Critic on Edwin Forrest's MacbetP Edinund Kean's London debut v made ia 18141. at a time when fnancial affairs were at a very 1, ebb. With his wife and one child was lodging in an attic. Ilis r-cept as Shylock was most encouraging a flattering. In an almost frenzied stasy l. rushed through the wet to hunble lhi'ging. 'prang up the sta and threw,ppen the door. Ilis wife r to meet him. No words were requit -his radiant countenance told a] and they mingled together the fi tears of true happiness they had as: experienced. Ile told her of his pre achievement and in a burst of exul tion exclaimed. Mary you shall r! in your carriage, and Charley. my ix -Iaking the child from the cradle a kissing him-"you shall go to Et and"-a sad reminiscence crossed I mind, his joy was overshadowed a be murmured in broken accents, "( that Howard (his dead child) had liv to see it'-but he is better where he I On the night of Edmund's first: pearance as Richard a group of i4 actors in the greenroom were discu In,- his merits in anything but a libe spirit. "I unders'and," said one, wJ an elaborate sneer. "that he is an : mirable barlequin." Bannister enter at that moment, overheard the rem and retorted. "I am certain of that. he has jumped over all our heads." It seems that the great tragedt Edmund Kean. and Charles Incled< the popular singer. were one day wa Sgn in Bond street when they u Lord Essex. who bowed coldly Keau, though they were on terms intimate friendship. The next day Kean found a note the theater from my lord desiring h to call at his house. When there t nobleman said to the tragedian. ") dear Kean, you will pardon me. Y know hbw greatly I admire your g( ius, but I was surprised yesterday see you 4n company of that singi man, Incledon." "My lord," s: Kean with fdashing eye. "Pray do; excite yourself, now, my dear Kea. interrupted my lord. "but the respe I may say reverence, I have for yo wonderful genius prompts me speak thus." "Lord Essex," cri Kean, drawing himself up and casti a withering glance at his noble patr< "twelve years ago my family were want of bread and Charles Iicled< my friend, supplied the means to pi cure It, anid when Edmund Kean f4 gets his friends may God forget hin And frem that hour the two men nes exchanged courtesies. Kean, from early manhood, had internal complaint, for which he h always been his own physician a prescribed that sovereign balmn call "brandy," from which it general found relief, and at least it alwa p'oved an alternative. While tray i ng from London to Belfast, on qu ting the coach at Donegal Arms, missed his sovereign balm and he ec ed out to the Irish waiter to searcht lately abdicated vehicular conveyam as he had left his pocket pistol behit "The devil a pistol can I find." cri the searching Hlibernian, "or anythl else but this," producing the lenti covered, charm. "Why, that's It, y blockhead." exclaimed Kean. suiti the action to the word and tasting be convinced. Pat scented the cord and, laughing, cried: "Do you call 11 a pistol, sir? Why, then, faith, thou I'm a peaceable man, I wouldn't mi standing a shot or two of that pis myself." When EdwIn Forrest went to IA don he was received in anything but cordial way. One critic wrote: I"Our old friend Mr. Forrest afford great amusement to the public by1 performance of Macbeth on Friday the Princess. Indeed, our best con actors do not often excIte so great quantity of mirth. The change fr< an inaudible murmur to a thunder sound was enormous, but the gra feature was the combat in which stood scrapingr his sword against tU of Macduff. We were at a loss to kn< what this gesture meant until an lightened critic in the gallery shout out, 'That's right, sharpen it!' " A good story Is being told at the 4 pnse of a cerrain local theater wh< "Standing Room Only" notice Is longer needed. One night after t purain was rung up a small boy '3 'discovered in front of the box olfl The mana~rer of the theater went the lad and kindly askted him what t trouble was. "I want my mon back," sobbed the boy in answer the query. In surprise the mana; asked his reason for such a reque "Because-ibecause i'm afraid to it In the gallery all alone:" he wail< His money was returned.-Frank Barry in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Mere Trifle. The young lady had won the phi pena. "Well," said the gentleman wV had lost, "I've lost: what shall I gi you?' "Your photograph, nothing 1 your photograp~h." the' answered, "I: pretty little gold mounting set in gold bracelet.- with ai sprinkling of e cralds and just "ne solitaire-one on mind you-no more" Habit is the' deepest law ef hum atre.-"arlyke. A Mother's Safeguard 'ele~ .. lione'r and Tar for' the el dren':. ~ l bes: and safest for all cong cl#:., croup. whoop: cougzh and br chai:is. No'. opia',te- ,'W. E:. lirown .\, I Books on a Shelf. Books are frequently ruined throu carelessness, This is less in the h: dn- often than upon the shclv Books should not be packed tigh on a shelf. It ruins the back a causes thema to tear loose witht strain of gettin~ in and out. Often forces the leaves to sag to the sh' when pushed unduly. it is just as b f'r books to b'e too loo'se on a shelf. they wanrl. and the spreadingt leat -neou"traare dust. A bookcase with I contents at every angle is not a ple: inug sight. There azre some h~ouseke< ers who think a yearly dusting of books at heusecleaing time sutlcie This Is bad enough when they kept under glass; when on oP shelves It mueans ruin to valual book<. It takes~ a lIttle longer to di the backs and tops of books on en shelf ov'ery day. Use a soft chee cloth or silk duster and shake it f antly.-London Globe. 4 to a Fertilizer than lusively by the results M Royster Fertilizers. perience obtained by s of what the plant tm ready reference n Royster Goods is od value, and has its r time, therefore the )YSTER goods is fed time until harvest. r Royster goods and k is on every bag. + you know that enuine and original .er. ANO COMPANY, ALES OFFICES. N C CO:UMI s. .C. A SPARTANBURG. S. C. MONTGOMERY. ALA,.e CAUGHT BY DRIVER ANTS. Exciting Experience In West Africa With These Deadly Pests. + The driver ants are a terrible pest in * West Africa. Crawling over the ground in countless thousands, invincible to + mything but a wall of fire, they bring uick death to every live thing unfor- I tunate enough to be caught in their + path and leave behind them tV skele tors of lizards, rats, sheep, cattle and even human beings. In his book entl- 8 ted "We Two in West Africa" Major + F. G. Guggisberg recounts the terrors $ )f one night when the pests invaded + as house: I heard voices calling. -Get up; the . its are on us.' S'tting bolt upright, [ found the room apparently in dark 2ess. In reality the lantern on the ! loor at the foot of the bed was stM1 - burning. but as I threw my hand out d felt the heavy weight of the mos :Iito net I suddenly realized that it ras coated with ants so thickly that t kept the lIght out as effectively as a relvet curtain. Two bounds took me out of that mosquito net and the but, but It was in uncanny feeling when my feet :runched through the living carpet of ts. flitting the side of the doorway n my hasty exit. I brought down a hwer of the little 1csts on my head ind shoulders from rafter, wall and roof, and then the fun began. Some people say that the ant buries as head in you and leaves it there. thers that he drives some other part af his body into you. I didn't worry ibout exnaning which theory was orr'ct. It did not affect the torture of the result. For the next ten min nes I was standing in a state of na ture n '.ne open, the rain beating: Ior and the boys, hastily roused. picg ants off my body by the ibgt y torches. I was so engrossed in this new sport that I quite forgot about Lees; then I suddenly realized that he was not there. I won amoral V. C. by going Into that infernal place and haulIng tim out. Hie was- a pitiable sight In he torchlight, his hair waving as if [n a breeze as the ants crawled throngh It, his body black with them. To pick them off was too slow a job. seized a tin of kerosene oil 'and poured it over him, sweeping the en emy off in thousands. One of my ham-i mock boys rushed up with a daming torch, meaning In the kindness of .hls heart to give master more light. I yelled to him to keep away. and be. thinking he was being urged on,. rushed toward us quicker than ever. Luckily Lees' cook stopped him in time, and a tragedy was averted. We spent tbe remainder of the night ader a tree. In spite of the discom fort of it all-the persistent rain, the mist, the smarting pain of the ant bites-we could not help laughing at the idea of our helplessness againstjD the little brutes that were occupying our comfortable huts. Hlowever. the only thing to do was to wait patiently until they cleared out. A Repulsive People. The inhabitants of Dutch New Guineat i not an attractive race. "The na-' tive woen." says Dr. ErIc Marshall, the explorer. "drngs up the children., uts the firewood, brings in the sago, works the canoes, occasionally provingK her sill as a warrior in the family and village quarrels, and always com- Ti ing off best with her tongue. She isl usually content with a strip of bark F eloth. When in mourmng she dis penses even with this. The male sexr predominates, and most of the men have to be content with one wife. On the death of a man the widow, clad like Eve, but as ugly as Satan. crawls aroun the ::rave, wailing and chant ig, performing weird movements wit arms and body, whIch may or may not L be meant for dancing."-Pall Mall Ga Blue Tits Love the Bees. Bees bave enemies of vaxrious kinds like the rest of creation. Everv one knows that many birds are insectiv orous, but all insects do not form the food of any one species. The bird wilch has formedl a taste for bees is the blue tit, and if a pair of these dis cover a suitable nesting place In the neighborhood of an apiary it Is sur-4 prisg how many bees w!!l be carried' off to satisfy them and their young. Generally their work is miostl' felt wer queen raising Is extensively in dulged In, for queens and drones being - largest andl slowest on the wing form - a desirable aind easy prey.-Agricul turl Economist. Up to His Standard. t A merebar't in a small town was 1 about to becomne bankruprt for the sev nth time. Hie -:aled In the account ants to go over his books. When they j had inished they told himx be would e able to pay Z cents on the dollar. A trubl's! look came over the mner hant's face. "Hleretcfore." he said, " have always paid 10 cents on the doitar, and I'll do It now." be attirmned s :: benevolent smril,: overspread his face. --l! pa a the' rest out of may own roc.r-t."-FrerybodlY's. I ~ A Reliable Spring Goods At D. Hirschman's. j AZ price?; are right, tha:'s o::r -eret od hoidlin- trade. anl why we are growMa larZ -'r all tho time. .Lay piesant to !i1! your nail orders. or see yon if you are coming to Manning. and you can depend upon get'.ing Square P~eal just aadvr-i;d. as a continu ance of your trade is looked for. i. will pay you to call on us. Get Busy! Almost anythiu.' in the line of Men's. Bo' and (Children's Clothing at ( 'u .'ri"es D. Hirschman.I LIME, CEMENT* Acme Plaster, Shingles, Laths, Fire + Brick, Drain Pipe, Etc : HAY. GRAIN. Rice Flour. Ship Stuff, Bran, Mixed + Cow and Chicken Feed HORSES. MULES. Buggies. Wagons and Harness.-No Order Too Large or Too Small BOOTH-HARBY LIVE STOCK CO. SUMTER. SOUTH CAROLINA KRASNOFF S ,orner Store MAK E'YOUR O W1M DR E S'Th' c,* -Coop iM~T ?iA-S . , Ycu cAN - ~ *Av :0: O .i i-arC/S - M1AT-R AL5 - 1u.s TERERw WE KNoW THAT MANY WISH To BULlD THEIR RESSES To ASUIT THEMSELVES; foR THOSE /Ho0 Do WE HAVE HEAPS o1f SPLENDID SEASON L E MATERIAL. Do NOT BELIEVE BECAUSE WE AKE THE FoLLOWING PRICES ON OUR DRESS ooDS THAT THE QUALITY IS NOT GOOD: bnville (iham'ory, solid or faner...... ...... ...... .9c. yard. tility Dress Ginghams .......... ............... ..9c. vard :e Sheer Indian Linens.......... .. . -..--....c. yard. >. irganidie (or fac Lawns...... ...... .......... 9c. yard. utchiers Linens or Linienes ... ..... ......-.........10c. yard. . Uleaches. very tio.... ...... .-...... ----........1 M-. yard. ucks or Pique. 1-2c. grade.......... ...... ..........1Z". yard. hf inest var~ietyt ofr White Goods ..... ......... .....1ic. yard. KRASNOFF'S DORNER - STORE. Manning, S. C oaPhysicians Advise eus f godlaxative, to keep the bowels ope-a and 1:revent *.he pisons of undiesta edJ f rom gettinginfto yojr sytm The latest produzt of science is VELVO .xative iner Syrup, purely vegetabde, gentler, ,iiable and of a peasant, aromatic tas.te. Velvo acts en the hver, as we! as on1 the enach and bowels, and is of t.: greatest possble efficacy mn cons1ipation, maigestion, iausness, s~ck headache, feerishness colc,latulenc, et:. ry F .1 E Lb LAXATIVE L L I ULIVER SYRUP S, nid That there is mor; S. Analysis is proven conc obtained every year frc They are made from e actual feld experimew, requires, and not fr formulating. he Every ingredient oi selected for its plant fe ud work to do at the prop,! es lis plant fertilized with R( irs regular from sprouting ed I Ask your dealer fc st see that the trade-mai et u \ When you see this u d you are getting the i .d \ ROYSTER Fish Fertili on is F. S. ROYSTER GU nd oh. FACTORIES AND S ed NORFOLK. VA TA:UORO. BA4'mOsgC. MO. MAC6. 'e CO UMBUS. GA. th id ed - rk The Snail and the Screw. 'or It is no doubt true that nearly all hu man inventions have been suggested ,. by natural objects. M. Charles Fre >n mont of the French School of Mines 1k- points out an interesting example et in the case of the screw, the fun to damental idea of which, he believes, of was suggested to primitive man by the spiral shell of the edible snail. It was; at not the shape of the shell that suggest n ed the screw, but the spiral motion he which it is necessary to give to the y body of the snail in order to with ou draw it from the shell. This at once M- showed that an object ef a screw to shape embedded in a solid powerfully ag resisted attempts to withdraw it by a Id straight pulL The hint was enough. 't and the screw became one of the ear -" liest of man's inventions.-Youth's t Companion ur to Real Accommodating. ed Olga, Swedish maid of all work, had curiously defined ideas regarding prop erty rights. although she had no in tentioni of being at all dishonest- On one occasion when it was Olga's after noon out her mistress sadd to her I when she was about to depart from the house: er "Olga, I can't find those handsome silk stockings of mine. Uave you seen them?' d Yes, ma'am, I have them on. 1 a know you stay home today and do not, eneed then. You can have a pair of 1mine o wear yoost around homne If ys yuhfnone."-.1irnneapolis Journal. I- A Special Medicine for Kidney Alments. Many e-lderly tieople- have found inl Fole -s Kidney R~emedy atquick relief hand pecrmanent benetit from kidney ::nd ce bladder ailments andi from annoyin' "urinarv irregularities due to :Ldvane-: ed ing tears. Isaac N. Regan, Fatrnm. ag 31o..' sa:.s: "Iol-y's Kidney lamnedy' er etectedI a complete cure im myae o and I waat others to. know of ir."* W. . -. lirown a Co. to . --- - al- BOILED BANKNOTES. dCaustic Soda Used to Destroy Worn ed Out French Currency. Everybody knows that wornout - bhnnotes in this country are destroy a ed by maceration at the treasury de partment, but the manner In which the ed notes of the Bank of France are de Sstroyed is probably not so well known. tA~t the bead orice of the Bank of -France there is a permanent tribunal c before which all doubtful paper is an brought. The tribunal writes "anule" on the f::ces of the banknotes. The fjudgmnent i-. coiuntersignxed by the etreatsurer. andI :hey are taiken to the hceilars in wthich the priating o:!ice is asituated. lIn the* presence ot the bank's wofficial they aire broug~ht out for an m- nihilation. [istributed one by one into dbaskets, the conudemnned notes are emp tied into :a great cylinder half filled ' with water and caustie sodam. 'se The oritiee of the cylinder Is then n0 locked and set in motion. It turns for he two dayss at the eud of which time as the oticials who presided at the be :e. ginning of tihe operation return to wit to ness the end of the notes. he Furnished with a long spoon, a work ey man thrusts into the depths or the to cylinder and withdraws a thick. steam -er lng liquid, which he pours into a thin st. basin. Another workman approaches up with a similar spoon, with which he x. stirs the stuff airounmd to make sure tn not a remnant has been left of the notes. When the bankno~e soup has been reduced to paste it '., sold for $1 a hundred kilos. about 2to pounds. al J- though the paper ait one time cost $~> ho for two pounds.-Washington Heraild. ut KIND CAPTAIN KIDD. a His Wickedness and Buried Treasure m- Both Said to Be Myths. y, Doomed to anm infamy undeserved. his nzae reddened weitha crimes he nev-er cvmmiittedl and made wildly ro a mantic by tales of treasure which he did not bury. Capstain Willianm Kidd is fairly entitled to. the sympathy of Pos lad mnakers .:nd allege-d historians who have obscured the facts in a cloud of in- fable. .o. Fate has played the stratngest tricks with the tuemory of this seventeenth century seafarer. wtho never cut a throat uor made a victim walk the plank, who w-ts no more than an ama teur Ipirate in an era when this inter Iesting profession was in its heyday; ly and who was han;;ed at Exeention dock h for th:e excessively unromiantic: crime eof crackinir the sknll 'if his gunner wiha woodena 1.ucket becautse, for sot. i ajesty's otticers were un a Iable to pirove their charges of piracy. asAs for the ri-hes of Cazptainf Kidd. eIthe origina! dicumients in his camse. pre heservedl ammr.:: the state pampers of the pubic re':.,rd * 4h.e inm London. relait' with taulh det:ail whamt booty he hamd and what he- did with it. Alas, they reveal the futurity o.f t:., searches aft e er the stout sea: chest buxrie-d ab~ove l Ihigh water mark. The ouly authen st jtic Kidd treasure was dug up and in ch Tentoried mo. re than '.h .years na'. nr.r has thme sligltest clew to any other been f'tud .in'- then.---omaces of Bur..i.. Treanure" in Metropolitan Mag