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i ii. wrr ryi GOOD PROFIT IN GOLDENSEAL Nothing Bettor Can Be Planted on Unused Piece of Ground, la Opinion of Expert. Speaking of plants that may be cultivated with little trouble and with profit to the irrower, a writer in Green's Fruit Grower advises those who have a bit of unused woodland or underbrush to plant goldenseal. He considers it one of the most remunerative of plants to raise, and says that it requires very little i care. The roots of this plant sold fifteen years ago at 3ft cents a pound. The price has steadily advanced j the root is now worth $5/5 ft a pound, | and the dry leaves aud stems now sell for 25 cents a pound. ^ It is ? one of the most widely used drugs known to the modern pharmacopoeia. At the end of three year3 you can sort out the mature roots from the young ones and wash and dry them for Slllp whilp VOtl r?1lt ttin vminrt - . 1 !'" ?"v roots back in the ground. At the end of the three years the grower has a yearly crop of roots', and, beginning with the lirst year, he has a yearly crop of leaves and stems. This is one of the crops on which there is an absolute certainty of u market that will run after you as soon as any goldenseal buyer knows von have the goods to sell. (5o and ask your druggist or your doctor about the valm? of goldenseal. CORES Browne?Made your debut in comic opera last night? Any encores? Tennerman?No, mostly apple. A WAR ORDER. Customer?Here, waiter. Where are the olives? Hold mil Bring me half a melon and some cracked ice. | The Waiter (loudly)?Dumdums, j half a bombshell and a t>owl of shrapnel!?Cleveland Plain Dealer. HUMAN DIFFERENTIAL. "It is so aggravating that .Tack and I haw so many disagreements." "Yes; he doesn't seem to understand that you will have your own way.'' SIMILAR YET DIFFERENT. "Little candles," (pioted the moralizer, "are easily plown out." "Yes," rejoined (he demoralizer, "and little salaries are easily blown | in." : DIFFICULT FEAT. 'Cheer up! The world is your oyster." ' J '"Anybody who has ever tried 1 knows it is no easy task to open an oyster." j CALLING PERCY VIVIAN. Fond Mother?Little hoy. have ] you seen IVrev Vivian? "Yessuni. Iley, Briekfop, yer ] mother wants you!"?Life. PHILOSOPHER. Mike?What's tli' best thin# to drown one's sorrows in, l'at? Pat?-Perspiration! Hard work * ill kill them. HAD IT 8AFE. Fond Motlier?Oh! (Jrorge, dear, you've lost a tooth! tJrorgc?So, 1 haveirt mother; il'a in my juxket.?Jndgl\ USUAL EXPERIENCE. "So Jerry is in town. I* lie taking I in the lifhtu?" W "1 Attar think they are taking * him in.'* - A POE TO ACTION. "Does Boneson care mueh for athletic* y "1 think ttat. Hm fmroritt sport it taking a nap in an mm; ctair." 'r=t - ^rV "j* "i ? y LACKED AN IMPORTANT POINT Claimant Had the Honors in Weight but Fell Short on Another Matter j of Moment. It isn't often that two men of almost exactly the same physical proportions meet at a convention, particularly when the proportions carry with them a weight of 325 pounds to j the man. Yet just this did happen | at a Tecent Indianapolis assemblage. One uf the two arrived the first day of the convention and immediately set up the claim of being the heaviest man at the gathering. Flis statement went unchallenged until tho third day of the meeting, when a contender appeared. The lato arrival immediately sought the first j claimant for heavyweight championship honors. Stepping up to him he said: "I understand yoil are saying you are the heaviest man at this eonvent ion ?" "Yet, sir, I so claim," said the first arrival. "1 am five feet ten inches high and weigh 325 pounds." "Then yo<vjose the championship," said the challenger. "I am fivn foot ten inches tall and weigh 3*?(? pounds/' "Well," said the first, "if you weigh 3?(i that heats me. But, great heavens, man. you haven't any ! shape."?Indianapolis News. BOTH KIND AND THOUGHTFUL Dohba?There is something awfully generous about those coal companies. W?KKa_-T?? ?-? t* VI/I/O jk'Ui t:Aaiii|il^ I Dobbs?Here is one that announces that by paying for your coal in advance you can have it delivered later on. RELIEVED. "I bear you were held up by a footpad last night," said Brown. "Were you scared?" "Well," replied Jones, "I was considerably relieved when he went awav." DEFERENCE DUE. "Do you never thank a man for giving you a seat in a crowded car?" asked one woman. "Certainly not," replied the other. "He ought to have walked in the first place and left more room in tho car.". THE CARDS ARE OUT. "Algernon has stopped talking about his platonie friendship for Vanessa." * "Well, he had to get busy. Another fellow came along and got interested in the girl."?Kansas City Journal. COULDN'T KEEP ONE. ANYWAY. "IH> you know that Lacey'g is advertising a mammoth sale this I week?" "No. Why, I thought mammoths were extinct."?Boston Transcript. A FINISHING JOB. "Are you raising chickens on vour place?" "We were, until somebody else took to 'lifting* them." MATERNAL 80LICITUDE. "ller novel shows a juvenile trend of mind. Why doesn't she revise it?" "Her mother thinks she is too young to read what she has written. UNPLEASANT REMINDER. | ? , ' That nmn slammed the door in j my face when i asked him to look at my patent cooler." "No wondcT; he's just out of jail." N IT8 SUBSTITUTE. I t nmi -mere? n?*ver any skating on the Panama canal, is there?" "Nov bat there warns to ha plenty % m > CONFUSING TO THE READER Varieties of Geographical Names in Europe Apt to Prove Something of a Puzzle. foreign geographical names often prove confusing to American readers because each European country has a name of its. own for each of its cities, rivers and other. geographical features. Evert' otffer nation has a different name for the same thing. American jrooi$TaDhipK follow _ ?.- CP the English in thqjr nomenclature, but often employ a different pronunciation. For example, we call the rhief Belgian stronghold and the temporary capital Antwerp, while the Belgians and French call it An vers. We term another Belgian city Mechlin, while at home it is termed Malines. The River Mouse is pronounced in Belgium and France very nearly as we would pronounce it, while the Germans pronounce it as it if were spelled Mnysay, ami the people of the Netherlands call it Maas. Brussels is spelled Bruxelles at home and the final s is not pronounccd. I tendermonde, on the Uiver I tender, is pronounced Dan uiTiiHiiMi i?v us inhabitants. hut it is known as Torinonda in most of the geographies. An 1st is also spelled A lost. Ijouvnin is Lenven ait home, Vienna is W'ien ami (lliont is Hand. So one might go down the line. 11 is to ho hoped that some day the geographical societies will get together and agree upon a nomenelatnre thai will he universally adopted. ?Detroit Tribune. MEAN MAN Mrs. Know sett?My husband is so tender-hearted that he won't even whip the children. Mrs. Tellit?My husband is even too tender-heart oil to beat the carpet. LOCATING THE TROUBLE. "The .linkses are much talked about." "Yes, they've lived in the neigh borhood for nearly a week and noIkvIv knows anything about them." SOLVING A MYSTERY. (?eorgc Weller?I wonder how the Venus de Milo came to lose her arms? . Izander Brown?Broke them otT trying to button Iter shirtwaist up the hack. LIKE FATHER. LIKE SON. "Skinflint's son hikes after him." "In what way?" "He swallowed a silver dollar, and when the doctor applied a .stomach pump all he could get out was a qua demand three nickels." NO JOY RIDERS THERE. "Mv son. f rv to walk in the straight and narrow war." "Yes, father." "Its a safe way for more reasons than one. It's e?miparativelv free from automobiles.' ANOTHER HERO. Fili?Have von heard of our engagement ? Mimi?No -cr who's the plucky man??London Opinion. ITS KINO. "The (Jeriuans and itussians aj>|K'jir to Ik? having trouble in the eastern battles, don't they?" "Yea: Lodz of it." IT8 EFFECT. "An aviator must lw an idealist." "Why so?" "Doesn't In* adept .1 life of high thinking and plane living?*' OBLIGING. "Wretched singing, at that eoncert ! lift I went there merely to kill tune." "Ami tiiej iiiurtiercU U /ur jfau." % ============^^ Printing I ' / . % TR Job Dei The Fort I t 'PHC I. % Prompt Service I f ' - Going If it's the house, b; or anything else, we wi use, quantity required, 1 applied. We have ' ACME Paints, Enamels, Stains any shabby surface?ind Glad to show colors decide to paint or not. "5<'" < <-" : For ?? ? ? / [hat Satisfies . / Y THE % partment of I Mill Times. )NE 112. I Prices Reasonable I H r s. ' to Paint? 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