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MA N)NJ[D M i 1-! 1912.. PCBLt5I1=D EVERY WEDNESDAY ren .t!ZC nm :ot. he:. writer ;n orde~r to v Qmmunlicativa oi a personLa calracter i..e P Z'5-': ex:-ept r advertisemer.t cntered at th- Postot-c :, . an '-i Srk Ond CI.;s nata: six :nonths....---- ....---. - - - Fout Months........ ..... - - - ADVE !.I*';IlN*4 One square. one tzne. .:!s et, sertion. 5,) cents. obit,:.: * ribute . Respect charged 'or as . ,-rt%.er. Liberal contracts mzaie for r ree six and tW t THE LEGISLATIVE-FOLITICAL CONSPIRACY ADJOURNED. The people of the State are to be congratulated in fin diy get ting clear of the legislative wrangle that has oen go1:: On. in Columbia for phe past two months. There was more parti san politics tian legislation. must be conceded by tiose who attempted to keep up wih the1 proceedings of the iegiature. An adjourn uient was reached last Thursday afternoonI u nliv after the imiost terr1ile k>arI mentary battle ever waged in the senate, and had it not been for the house, the legislature would have taken a recess until May, or some future date, to suit the Whims of those who have given more attention t) partisan politics than the inter-. ests of the masses. When the legislature took a Iecess on Saturday 24th, to re turn Monday 26th. it agreed that the final adjournment day should be Thursday 29th. The Senators had "a gentleman's agreement" to have no legisia tion, and transact no business except to consider vetoes should any be sent up, and in this. emergency nothing would be done until every senator hadi been notitied to return: the rea son for the session of last week was to permit certains Acts to become law that had not been signed by the governor, although i all but two were already in the hands of the Secretary of State for which his receipt was given to the governor. There was one veto, a Telephone Bill, but those who were after a prolong ed session did not call up this veto for consideration, had they cdone so, it would have necessi tated the carrying out of the agreement to notify the absent senatpors; had they been notified, there wvould have been enough present to preent the p)assage of a resolution to hold the legis lature in session. so they let the Telephone Bill slumnber, and having counted their strength with the ones that were present' they forced through, over sren-I uous protests, a resointion to rescind the former resolution to adjourn as agreed, but they did not succeed in this act of bad faith without their perfidy being fully exposed; the excuse given by them was that certain recomn mendations for appointments bad been sent to the Governor and that he had not returned them to the senate for confirmation. that it was their purpose to hold the legislature together until these appointments were made. There is nothing in this conten tion, as the law, Section 176 of the Code distinctly says, in the matter of Supervisor of Regis tration the Governor shall ap point between the January 1st, and the 15th, of March, and if the senate is not in session at the time he makes the appoint ments, the names of his ap pointees shall be sent to the senate at its next session, so it will be seen readily there was no reason to hold the legislature together on account of a few appointments for supervisors of registration and magistrates. The Governor we have no doubt, where the delegations are agreed upon an appointment, will ap point those recommended, but 'where they are not agreed he will hold the appointments up for an agreement to bereached, if this caninot be secured,he will use his own judgment as to the ap pointmnent he will make. The point is, there w~as no good rea son to keep the legislature in session, nor could it have accom plished anythmug had it remain ed in session. even in the matter of appointments, because tfle governor could have made his appointments according -to the law, and entirely ignored this session of the senate, had lhe *done so, the senators responsi ble for the prolonged session would have been given the dry grins. In our opinion, the appoint ments was not what prompted the action of those who fought for a prolonged session, ther-e was some other scheme in view which they kept hidden even from many of those they were leading, but after all, their efforts availed them nothing, be cause. the House r-efused to go back on its agreement to ad jouru on Thursday, and when the senate attempted to fluke,) the House closed up shop and quit, leaving the senate where it belonged, high and dry on thel rock of disappomntment with no alternative but to follow the action of the House. There is much ado being made over the speech made by Senator Waller of Greenwood, the genx tleman referr-ed to, did walk up and down in tihe senate chamberi insisting upon st:oying until the governor sent up) the appoint mnents. and he onice or twice said 4overnor if he reused to send im Lhese appointments, but this was il1 stuff, it amounted to nothing more than the expression of sore tiess. it was childish in the ex treme, and it had no more effect u1on the senate than water drop ping on a duck's back. Senator Waller is an excitable individual. and his dislike for Blease is a sub ject for jokes: it was galling to him not to have his way, and he would have sent Blease to the penitentiary if he could, all be cause the governor would take his lawful tine to send appoit mients to th. - enate: in the case of Greenwood county we under stand that .h- senator and some of his delegzion are at variance as t:> their appointments, the senator wanting one man, and soi. f the delegation another. notwithstanding this condition the senator gets angry, and wouId, if he had the power, im JeacLh the governor for not ig norin the House delegation and listening to him. The session of 1912 will go down in history as one of the most peculiar the State has ever had. and it has opened up a while lot for the people to think about. Taxation cainot be de ceiaed as long as we have men in tei Leneraiassembly who have more Iegard for partisan politics than they have for the welfare of the masses. and there can be no progressive legislation as long as there is a purpose to tear down those in poxer forn* the advance n:ent of those se.eking to get into power. I other words as long as the -outs" have ;L strong force in the legislature the Ins" will be prevented from legisltmg in the interests of the masses. This was so before 1890, and not until Tillmau got a legislature which would be fair to him could he ac complish any of the reforms he promised. Blease cannot accom plish any reforms with any an tagonistic legislature. He may veto every measure it passes and they can pass them over him, his pruning knife into the appropri ation bill was in the interest of economy, but the opposition would not have it so. If Judge Jones is elected over Blease, in order to do anything he will have to have a legislature which will be insvmpathv with his measures therefore we say, if an adminis tration fails to carry out its prom ises it does not imply that the governor is to blame, but the blame must be placed on those who have the voting power, and use it to obstruct, in order that the governor may be discredited with the masses. We regret to see a condition which makes it necessary for candidates for the legislature to have to say whether or not they are in sympathy with this or that candidate for governor, but the opposition to the present gover nor has. in the up country, brought about this condition, we think it will spread throughout the whole State, candidates for the legislature will be voted for as Blease or .Jones men. A can didate who is opposed to the pol icies of Blease will be supported by the opposition to Blease, and the Blease men will be opposed by the supporters of Jones. We hope this sange yard stick will not apply to the county oticees, but in the excitement of such a e-impaign we fear it will be the case as it was in 1890. There cannot be too much stress laid upon the people guard ingt their intet asts in the May coivention, care should be taken that no delegates are sent to the county convention who favor a restricted suffrage in the pri may, there is an element back. ed by the cotton mill and other large interests who is very desir ous of cutting down the primary vote so that it mnay be confined to the towns and the cities, but if the masses are aroused we do not think the effort will succeed; it is our honest judgment that what is known as the "Citizens Bil" has something to do with the ef for-t to getting the Democratic convention adopt a rule that no one can vote in the primary who does not present his tax redeipt and his registration certinecate the same rule as is required of negroes when they offer to vote in the general election. We there fore caution every white man who does not favor such a restric tion, to watch his club meetings and see that none who do favor the scheme go to the convention. Since our r-eturn home from the generl assembly we have recei v ed some nice letter-s from friends in this and other counties endors inst our course in the legislature, an'd thanking us for the letters which have appeared in these columns. this was veryv gratify ing and we hope that during the cotest which will be on this summer we shall conduct our pen so as to win the approval of those who read after us. It shall be our purpose to be conserva tive and absolutely falir, we shall not per-mit ourself to become ex treme either for or against the caniates who w~ill be asking for the people's suffrage, but when there is an effort to depriye the masses of their rights, we shall ex pose it in no uncer-tain ters. TIF MIDDL.E OF THE ROAD. Since so much has been said by our ne wspaper contemporaries about The Enquirer in connec. tion with the guber-natoriat con test most of it kindly, but some of it unkindly, we will, not be cause we deem our views of such great importance. but rather in justice to ourselves, and for the satisfaction of those who believe in the sincerity of our motives, edeavor to mnake our position as near as it is possible for us to mrake Lt at theC present moment. First. Personally we have no p1etun the miserhle feud that interest in the political fortunes I or ambitions of any individual in this state. Second. Our only desire and i aim is the promotion, to the ut 1 most of our humble ability, of a better political and moral atmos- 1 phere in South Carolina. We do not see how this result can possibly be brought by the perpetuation of factional differ ences in the state. "South Carolina has fully dem onstrated her total incapacity for self-government. If it were not for the fact that she is forcibly held in place by the other states, she would, like many of the lit tie South American republics, be in a constant state of revolution." This flumiliating remark was made in the presence of the writ er recently by an intelligent non resident, and although we con fess that our tirst impulse was a pretty hiot rejoinder, realizingI that there was no intention to give offense. we allowed it to pass, and since then we have been wondering how much truth there may have been in the observa tion. Here we have been having a legislature passing a law, a gov 'rnor %-etoing it, and the legisla ture coming back and passing it over the governor's veto. Not only is this lack of harmony ap parent as between the legislative and executive brauches of the government. but it includes also the judicial branch, from which, as the resnilt of a bitter contro versv with the chief executive, we tI d the very chief justice re .we i-nn the- -'en signing the high position and en tering the political arena as a candidate for the governorship. Now we cannot believe that the wrong is all on one side, and we are no apologist for Governor Blease, the legislature or Chief Justice Jones. We look upon the whole thing rather as a "tempest in a teapot." and feel that the best interests of the state will be subserved by setting aside the entire outfit, and going back to I the people for fresh material. What is the use, now that it has been demonstrated that there can be no effective prosecutions, and in what way does it serve the public interests, to gnaw and chew over the dirty rags of a dead dispensary? Why not cut the whole thing out and make i the industrial and moral uplift of our people the one paramount issue. In a very recent issue, we stat ed frankly the real basis of such support as we were able to give Mr. Featherstone. It was not be cause of any belief in the idea that prohibition is an infallible political panacea; This writer I admits that he was inclined some what that way years ago, and al though he has not yet reached the point where he can apologize for- or justify government sanc tion of the liquor traffic, more age and experience have taught him that there are still other things in government. We believed and we still believe, that if elected, Mr. Featherstone would attain these things to a greater extent than any other man in the pri maryv of two years ago. We have not sought to lead the political, industrial or moral thought of the state. We recog nize our utter- incapacity to do so, and we want to say now and here that while we are not insensible Iof the high compliment implied by the contidlence with which a number of our contemporaries geemu to be looking to us for guid ace, we feel too weak to assume the r-esponsibihty they would put upon us. We are only groping in the dark like the rest, trying from time to time to make our way in the direction of such rays of light as appear. If in follow ing us any one should get lost, the only satisfaction we will be able to offer will be the explana tion that we are doing the best we could. According to our estimate. the one paramount issue-the only measure of broad, general impor tance-that has been brought for ward in this state for years, was the warehouse bill. It seemed to rise like a sun out of the long Arctic night. As much as we desir ed to see the bill become a law. we confess that we would not have esteemed it a calamity had the governor vetoed it. Such a veto would inrve meant that two-thirds of the members of the general assembly would have had to be come its defenders on the stump. and Hon. .John L. McLaurin, au thor ot the bill, would have been compelled to canvass the state for governor. Just think of a speech by Mr. McLaurin in every county in the state like that he made before the committees of the house and senate recently, and the educational value of the same being further amplified by te legislative and other candi dates. No, it would not necessar il have meant the election of Mr. McLaurin as governor, and that erhaps would not have matter ed, out the educational value of such a campaign would have been beyond estimate. We do not desire to make any secret of the fact that we think Mr. McLaurin would make a good governor, and we may as well confess too. that we have tried to persuade him to become a candidate; but lie has firmly de ciined except on the conditions -ecently announced and as those conditions failed to materialize, we are not considering him any further-. According to our view the re election of Governor Blease or th election of Judge jones will indeinitely continue the present unspeakable conditions, and the only hope of permwanent relief f-om these conditions is a give and take agreemen t upon some big, broad man who can occupy the goernor's c-hair without per ias been thriving in this state for more than a generation. We do not care to undertake to .ndicate just at this time the in. luences behind Judge Jones; but we have no hesitation in saying Jhat we believe they are such as will make thousands vote for 3overnor Blease simply because 'hey do not see how they can vote Eor Jones without stultifying ihemselves. Again there is a large and in elligent class in this state which s so disgusted with political con litions that it deliberately re rains from going to the polls. his class sees nothing in the present turmoil and strife except factional politics. These men hould be given an opportunity to come out and vote without hav ing to identify themselves with a faction. Of course we recognize that we may be entirely wrong; but we have thought over the matter seriously and without any selfish motive so far as we are aware of. If we have an "axe to grind" we do not know it. The only consid eration we are willing to aekiow ledge is what we conceive to be the good of South Carolina, and until there is more light than has appeared up to this time, we beg leave to remain "in the middle of the road." THE VIEWS OF AN HONEST EDITOR. The Yorkville Enquirer one of the oldest newspapers in the State, and always fair, honest and intelligent contains two editorials-this week that should be read everywbere, and we herewith reproduce them for the benefit of our readers; "Governor Blease vetoed thirty-one items in the appropri ation bill, and all but a few of these items have been passed over the governor's veto. "Just what the meaning of this antagonism between the gov vernor and the general assembly is on this particular bill we can not say that we have an entirely satisfactory idea. We cannot believe, however, that the gen eral assembly voted these appro priations just for the satisfaction of spending money and we can not believe that Gov. Blease has used his vetoes so freely solely for the purpose of contrarying the general assembly. A majority of the members of the general assembly, we feel quite sure, are honest, earnest and conscientions, and they should b! given credit for reas onable intelligence. Whatever else may be said of the governor, he is not a fool. and the man who takes him for a fool will make a serious mistake. Then why all this apparent contrai ness? As the result of very consider able thought that has been put upon the situation, we have come to the conclusion that there is more politics than anything else in the mixup and as to which side one is to take de pends very much on how he stands on the taxation question. During the last campaign ai cetain York county candidate for re-election to the general assembly asized up the taxatiou question about like this; "I be lieve in holding taxes. down as low as possible; but there is the enitentiary to be supported, and the State hospital, and the Cedar Springs institut9. and the State colleges and the state gov einent, anid the' State debt is to be provided for, and other things, and as I do not see h6'w any of these appropriations for any of these purposes can be cut, I cannot promise you any reduction of taxes." That sounded all frank enough, put at the same time it will have to be admitted that there was very little hope in it. Practical and well informed men throughout the State under stand that while there is no hope of reduction in taxes on account of any of these purposes enum erated above, still there are many little appropriations here and there that are not absolutely necessary, but owe their success to the fact that different people backing other little appropria tions of the same character get behind each other, make com mon cause and in the aggregate a-l these little appr-opriations make a big item that adds mills to the levy. As is well known, Governor Blease in all his campaigns made bold claims as to what he would do in the way of reducing taxes and really we do not see how he could start in to make good that promise except by vetoing a bunch of items in the appropria tion bill, It is not our- purpose to attempt to pass upon the wis dom of his respective vetoes at this time. We do not feel quali fied to do so. It is quite probable that some of them are right and proper and it is quite probable thtt in the case of others a fail ure of the appropriation would result in loss to the State instead of a saving. We think it probable that in most cases where the general assembly has passed items in the appropriation bill over the governor's veto, the general as sembly is right as to those speci tiic items, but still we can see some justification for- the gover nor's vetoes. If they serve no other good purpose, they bring the attention of the people more directly to the real cause and origin of taxes. When the peo ple are called to sit as a jury to decide the issue as between Gov ernor Blease and the general assembly they will likely be told more about some of these things than they have known hereto Just what would have been the result if the general assem bl had nadjorne and left the appropriatlon bill in the hands of the governor, we do not know, of course, but we think he would not have riddled it quite as severely as he did. We are inclined to thp opinion that if he had been confronted with full responsibility he might have let some of the items be a vetoed stand as they were. But at the same time it is quite cer tain that other items would have ,gone by the board, and the gen eral assembly acted the part of C wisdom and prudence in staying t by the- thing to the end." I It looks as if there is a serious division in the ranks of the Re pubbcans in this State. There : are two factions, one led by John G. Capers, and the' other by J. W. Tolbert. The Capers faction! claim to be regular, but this is dipouted by other side, each fac tion will send delegates to the national convention for that body to decide which is which. I t was state'd in Monday's State that Col. D. A. Spivey of Horry may be a candidate for, State Treasurer We have known!1 this gentleman for a long ti me and if his services can be pro- i cured for this important office i the State would be the gainer thereby. Spivey is a successful banker. and has served in the State Senate with distinguished ability. We hope be will run. The entry into the national contest of ex-President Roose velt has stirred the nation from one end to the other. The Dem ocrats seem to be as greatly alarmed, as are the Republicans who are supporting President Taft for re-ele':tion. It is our opinion that nothing could hap pen better for the Democracy than for Colonel Roosevelt to get his yarty nomination, be cause the Taftites and the in dependent republican vote would not support Roosevelt and would either remain away from the polls on election day or vote the Democratic ticket. The nearer we get to the election the better is the prospect for a Democratic victory. The State Democratic conven tion will soon be getting together, and it is well to begin to cast alout for the principal tigures that are to be selected by that b dy. The position of National Ex.'-utive Committeeman is one which should not lightly be con sidered, at present Hon. B. R. Tillman holds the place, and so far as we are concerned we are willing for him to continue to do so, but in case he decides to give it up, then we nominate Hon. Le grand G. Walker of Georgetown. a gentleman who has the ability to meet with the brain of the leaders of the party and who is slendidly qualified to represent thie Democratic party of South Carolina in its counsel chamber. How's This f we offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hars Catarrh Cure. F. J1. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo. 0. we. the undersigned. have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan-' aily able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. ws-r & TRUAx, wholesale druggists. Toledo. 0. WuLNG, KZNNAN & MARavIN, wholesale drug gists. Toledo. 0. Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the M'ood and mucous surfaces of' the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all pruggists. Testimonials free. Hlais Family Pills are the best. a1s n -it must have you both witho~ LON actually wear longer th money-they are thc la glove and comfortable them on. We are hea< and guarantee to please can supply you in C.zy size and any last, whet more conservative sa White Front Store. M A1E Like Father, Like Son. "I won't pay another penny of your ebts for you. you disgrace! You iust either go bankrupt or get mar led. I bad to do the same."-London )pinion. Beauty Is the first present nature Ives to worn noI the first It takes way --Mere High bri.g:'. \ -w York. was com leted in 1- i :,t that time was onsidered oie .t !he world's marvels f bridge bull'i;. It may be added hat it still is looked upon by bridge uilders as a ode of its kind. This ,reat stone bridge was built to bring vater into the city from the Croton iver valley after the great dam was brown across it forty miles above kanhattau. The aqueduct, cut part vay through solid rock and part way ontinued by tunnel. had to be brought teross the Harlem, and the solution of his engineering problem was in High )ridge. His Rule In Danger. The tough looking citizen who had >een sentenced to six months' impris nment at hard labor for beating up 1s wife appealed to the court with :ears in his voice. "Have a little pity, judge," he vhimpered. "I speak to you as man .o man. If you send me up for a :hing like that I'll never be able to naintain discipline in my family igain."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.. It Didn't Work. They had talked together five mix ates or more on the street corner when the man with the fuzzy bat took a iotebook from his pocket. "By the way," he said, "what is your telephone number? I might want to :all you up some day." "That wouldn't help you any, Fergu son," said the other man. "My name's Fladger. I knew you were trying with i. your might to place me and couldn't guite do it."-Chicago Tribune. Behind the Scenes. The theater was in an uproar. "They're calling for the author," said the stage manager. "Oh, I can't make a speech," plead ad the man'responsible for the play. "Oh, well, just go out in front and tell 'em you're sorry!"-Yonkers States man. He Had. "Have you ever written anything" maid his cynical friend, "to make the world happier or better?" "Rather," quoth the insurance agent who sometimes dabbled in verse. "I have written $400,000 worth of life in urance within the last year." R. G. Collins, Postmaster, Barnegat, N. J., was troubled with a severe la trippe congh. He s'tys: "I would be :ompletely exhausted after eaeJh fit of iolent coughing. I bought a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and )efore I bad taken it all the coughing peI!s had entirely ceased. It can't be Makirig a Magnet. The simplest way of magnetizing a bar of steel is tbat known as "single touch." The bar to be magnetized is aid on the table and the pole of a powerful magnet is rubbed from ten to twenty times along its length, always la the same direction. If the north pole of the magnet is employed the end of the har first touched will also be come a north pole, while the opposite end, at which the magnet is lifted be fore returning, will be a south pole. There are other and more compli cated methods, known as "divided touch" and "double touch," in which two and even four magnets are em plyed. A steel bar can also be magnetized by placing it within a coil of insulated wire, through which a galvanic cur rent is circulating. The magnetism in duced i.n this way, however, is weak compant w'~ith1 that which can be pro cured if' the samle strength of current is emp2;lyed hbrough the intervention of nu eintro-maasnet. der Adeas in S y, ilh axirm le" io not all that ecssary a.. shxoe gang Ie give at in~cinfg either. an other shoes for the same tes word in style, fit like a from the day you first put 1quarters for shoe satisfaction yo~ or theeisino sale. We kahryou may wish, any hr z nbby, latter-day or N KINSON, Brown Block. rING. 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"She'll be a turrible wife if we don't begin to train her," he remarked calm ly as he strode from the room, -his treasures under his arm. - Ladies' Home Journal. Retort of a Bonaparte. The former king of Westphalis, a man of wit. was one day examining an inkstand upon the table of some one we know. The writer, at whose house Jerome Bonaparte was at that mo ment, had brought back from a trip to the Alps, made In company with Charles Nodier, some years before, a bit of steatitic serpentine, carved and hollowed into an Inkstand, which he had purchased of a chamois hunter of the mer de glace. ,Terome Bonaparte was looking at this. "What Is it?" he asked. "My inkstand," replied the writer. Then he added: "It is steatite. Ad mire nature, who makes this charming green stone out of a little dirt and oxide." "I admire much more the men," re sponded Jerome Bonaparte. "who make an inkstand out of this stone." For a brother of Napoleon this was not a bad reply, and he should be credited with it, for the inkstand Is to destroy the sword.-Victor Hugo. A Foible of the Great RacheL. "Look at the presents Rachel, the great actress, made to every one," say the panegyrists. They forget to men tion that an hour afterward she re gretted her generosity, and from that moment she never left off scheming how to get the things back. Every one knew this. Beauvallet, to whom she gave a magnificent sword one day, in stead of thanking her said: "I'll have a chain put to it, mademoiselle, so as to fasten it to the wall of my dressing room. In that way I shall be sure that It will not disappear during my, absence." Alexandre Dumas the younger, to whom she made a present of a ring, bowed low- and placed it back on her finger at once. "Allow me to present it to you in my turn, mademoiselle, so as to prevent your asking for it." She did not say nay, but carried the matter with one of her fascinating smiles.-"An Englishman In Paris." Misanthropy-or Caution? What could be more refreshing to a jaded sense of humor than this story, which the London Daily Mail tells of the greatest buttoniholer In London? On his return from a winter holiday. this gentleman was telling his ac quaintances at his club In. Pall Mali that he had been occupying a house at Davos, not far from Mr. Labouchere, who, he added, was in a very melanl choly state. "I am truly sorry for that," said one of his hearers. "What is the matter with him?" "Well," replied the bore, "I was out walking one day when I saw Labon chere coming down the lane toward me. The moment he caught sight of me he darted into a fir wood which was close by and hid behind a tree till I had passed. Oh, very sad, indeed!" Naming the Boy. Old Jum, gardener and general fac totum, was accompanied one day by a bright looking lad eight or ten years old. "Is this your boy?" I askred. "Yassuhi, he mine, de las' one I got, suh. Junior, you wuffles nigger, mek you manners ter de whitefolks." "Junior," I commented. "So he is named after you." "Nawsuh," the old man replied rather indignantly. "He ain' name fuh me. My name Jumbo, whar my mammy git out'n de Bible. Dis hyah chile name Junior cuz he wuz bawn in June." Lppncott's. Pleasant For Slithers. "Well, Tommie," said the joyous Slithers, "you must congratulate me I am going to marry your sister." "Oh, -thunder!" growled Tommie. "Why, Tommie!" protested Slithers. "Don't you like me?" "Oh, yes, I like you well enough," said Tommie, "but I bet Mabel a pound of candy you wouldn't be fool enough to ask her, and she bet you would."-Harper's Weekly. Disraeli Placated Carlyle. Carlyle's opinion of Herbent Spencer as "the most unending ass in Christen dom" must, of course. be read in con junction with Carlyle'e derision for mankind in general. 'Msostly fools,'' he cheerfully thought of us all. Dar win, we know, he would not have'at any price-not a word of him. Ruskin was a bottle of soda water. "A bad young man" was .his sum-up of another eminent writer. But these hostile phrases were subject to. considerable modiication if the man against whom they were aimed came near dough to Carlyle to - do him a personal favor, even to pay him a personal compli ment. Disraeli, whom he had describ ed as a mountebank dancing upon John Bull's stomach, offered Carlyle a baronetcy and elicited from him, to gether with a refusal of the title, many tributes to his magnanimity. He said very little about Disraeli henceforth 'i print, and in private he spoke of himu~ only -as "a very tragical comical fel The World's Largest Flying Bird. Among the most notable birds in the London zoo is what is generally re garded as the largest fiying bird in the world. It Is known as the lammer Igeyer (lamb vulture, or bearded vul Iture). This giant bird Is from India and is the largest of all eagles or vul tures. Its wings measure over four teen feet from tip to tip, and it is not yet full grown. The lammergeyer is found In mid-Europe, Asia and north Africa. It Is said to live mainly on carrion, but it is not averse to creat ing carrion by knocking an unwary chamois or goat over a precipice with a blow from its tremendous wing, aft erward flying down to the body to ob tain a meal. Even mountaineers have been reported as having fallen victims to thi method of assault-London