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KEEPER RESCUED BY IEAP Animal Attacked Mate When the Lai ter Tried to Pounce on Man Who Was Helpless* Tim, a big polar bear in the Central park menagerie at New York, 4ave<l the life of Tim Coyle, a keej>er for whom he was named. Coyle had drained the tank in the outdoor cage occupied by Tim and Molly, his raate.'to repair a drain pipe. He was in the bottom of the tank when Molly sprang down from the rocke and leaped into the tank to attack Coyle. Since his eubhood days Tim had been the particular pet of Coyle. He watched Mollv, and when he saw his mate ubout to attack the keeper he sprang from a crag, landed in the tank and fastened his teeth in Molly's throat. The hears fought in the tank, giving Covin time to escape from thp r>ficr/> ' "O1-1 I?il I Snyder and his assistant keeper? had to pry the bears apart with sharp-pointed irons. Mollv's throat was eat and both had wounds from teeth, hut Tim hnd saved Tim Covle. SNAKE NESTS IN CEILING Strange Noises Explained When the Reptile Thrusts Its Head Through Bored Hole. A blacksnnke found its way to the coiling between the plaster and roof at the home of Clifford Fliteraft, near Daretown, and had made its home there Cor a long time. The family had heard peculiar noises, hut thought they were made bv rats or mice. While repairs were being made to the coiling a hole was cut and tin; snake poked its head through. It was dispatched and was found to measure 5"i inches, tic longest ever seen in this section. The supposition is that the reptile crawled up from the ground between the trout her board* and planter.?Salem ( X. J.T"Dispatch to Atlantic City Review. SCALE IN WATER JACKET. Often in the "gyp" w?tcr region, or in any region where the water is hard and contain.* a pood deal of suspended matter, scale will rapidly collect in the cylinder head, exhaustvalve jackets and small piping of a gasoline engine. Commercial muriatic acid in it* undiluted strength can he put in the part of the water jacket where the scale has formed and let stand from four to six hours. The cylinder outlets should he separated from the rest of the cooling system by plugging them up. If the engine is hopper cooled, no such preparation is necessary. After allowing the spent acid to flow into the container and he thrown where it will do n<* damage. wash out the water jacket thoroughly with a strong stream of ? ater. Keep the acid off any material about the engine that may he dam aged by if. Keep if awav from the oment foundation of an engine if if has one.? -Renry L. Thomson. Department of Farm Engineering, Oklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater. BEFORE HIS TIME. "That was a good story you told. | hut it. seems to me that 1 have heard j it before," said the man who easts a; damper on everything. "Maybe you have." answered the raconteur, slightly irritated. "The j tir?t and only original funny story | was told bv Adam to Eve in the Oar-! den of Eden, and 1 didn't happen tobe there." THE HARDER BATTLE. "After a man has made a million i 1 presume he can lake it easy." "Xo. After a man has made a million he has to light harder than ever to hang on to it." THEIR ppnoco oi */?c "My dear. these are regular scrub j plants." "All right: I'll give them to the floor cleaner." DEFINED. "1*0, what's a symposium?" "It's a sort of meeting, mv boy. so calleil because a lot of simps usually pose at 'em." UP TO WRONG EAR8. "Is Jo'.ies up to his ears in debt?" , "Wowe?it has come to other people's eara> too." if"-" u ii I HORSEHAIR USEO IN RUSSIA] ] Is Employed in the Manufacture of a Great Variety of Articles Used j In Commerce. Horsehair is used in Uussia for making a great variety of articles, an exchange says. Brushes are marie from it. the rnanes being kept for soft brushes. White horsehair is considered the most valuable for this purpose, and black the second best. The long hair of horses' tails is utilized for fishing taekle, violin bows, military headdress and cloth for pressing oil. Shorter hair is used for stuffing mattresses and fwniinre, after having been cleaned with soap and water. The value of horsehair varies greatly, according to grade. On the Petrograd market one pood (3fi.ll pounds) of unprepared horsehair (gray manes) may he purchased ?t six to eight rubles /CPO PA A- _ ^A * I \0n.o\i ro tii.iu per iimi ponlids), while long horsehair manes fetch a price of $10? per 100 pound" and even more. The prices paid for Russian horsehair abroad are much ! higher. THESE WOMEN iff Ilenpeck?May I ask. my dear, what you are scolding so about? Mrs. FT en peck?There now. you've j driven it completely out of my head. I wish you wouldn't ask *ueli' -illv nlli>?;Hnnc FLOPPING OF THE WORM. Mrs. Enpcck?The paper ' that Doctor Pillshury and Miss Golding arc to !>c married this evening. Vou know 1 was engaged t<; j him before I inet vou. Enpcck?Yes, I know. Anyway ; the doctor is to be congratulated. Mrs. Knpeck ? Why, 1 wasn't aware that you knew Miss Golding. t Knpeck?I don'*. HIS APOLOGY. Rifkius?I have been told that vou called me a flannel-mouthed old duffer. Mifkins ? Someone has beer stringing you. I hope 1 have toe much sense to use such highly improper language as that. Flannel shrinks, you know, and that is mon than I could truthfully sav of voui mouth. HOW, INDEED. "Did you see anything of a strm pii; along the road?" asked tin farmer of an Irishman who wat passing. "Begorry," rejoined the son ol Erin, "an' how would Oi he afthei knowin' a sthray pig from any othei ! P'K ?" PER80NAL TRIUMPH. ! "Was the suffragette rally a sue eess ?" "It was so far as Mrs. Seadsor was concerned." J "What did she do?" "Nothing. But she was the bestdressed woman there." \ i SORRY HE SPOKE. He (during family quarrel)?J suppose some idiot proposed to you before I did. She?No, when you did.?Host or Transcript. THE SPECIES. "Do you l>elieve there ran he germs in osculation?" "Certainly; germs of alTeotion."? Baltimore American. APTLY DEFINED. "Pa, what is an echo?" "An echo, my son, is the only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word." HER VERSION. Kniotor?Did your wife Mow yon 1 ?p? fieokwr?3he aft/a I atnadt * . TURNING ATTENTION TO WAR Inventors Are Flooding the Depa -tment at Washington With Every Kind and Form of Suggestion. The number of suggestions and propositions which are being received at the war and navy departments from inventor-* is increasing to a prodigious extent, attaining such proportions that the ordinary facilities for handling such matters are proving utterly inadequate, the Army and Navy Register statca. Formerly the war department received an average of two hundred of these communieations a year; now I Km- OI?A A 1 ' A A ? uir Kiniiug in ui mar rare per week, with a variety and range of subject corresponding to the nnmer- | ieal product. It has become a serious problem how these inventions shall he treated in a way which shall not give occasion for complaint, the impression prevailing, evidently, that on account of Secretary Daniels' inventions board some new assurance exists for the favorable consideration or adoption of all sorts of inventions. Indeed, a large part of the communications that are being received are impatient protests against the delay in aciion or remonstrances against the failure to accept suggestions. One correspondent calls attention to his discovery that there is being produced in this country for use in the army a shell similar to that which he "invented" three years ago. The complainant "videntlv believes that he has been robbed of the fruits of his ingenuity, although, of course, the explanation is that the man invented something which was already in service. MANY MEN. MANY MINDS. Ideas of "solid comfort"' vary. A pipe and a jug and n fishpole is a suggestive combination in the mind of manv a man: a hook of verses underneath a hough, etc.. was the poet's dream (though, to be sure,' there was a jug in that vision, too).; Rut le? your mind grasp this paragraph from ihe Manchester (England) Guardian. "The wants of the men in the trenches are curious and varied, but this request from a university youth at the front is a queer combination of the intellectual and the practical: 'Could you post me each week The Spectator and a small tin of insect powder?"' It takes so few creature comforts to make a man contented! exclaims the Cleveland l'iain Dealer. One pictures this educated young soldier waiting eagerly for each week's mail, seizing his precious packages with trembling, anticipatory glee, and. wicn ins powder tin in one ham! and liis magazine in the other, running to his cozv little nook for an hour of mental and physical bliss! _ - - . LIGHT OF LAST RESORT. "Miss Soreleaf says young Jack Dibble proposed to her last night." "Let nie see," mused Miss Outturn. "They went motoring, did they no; ?" "Why, yes." "I thought so. When a woman's features will no longer l?ear close inspection in daylight, or in the glare of electric light, she can still bewitch some foolish l>oy bv the light of the moon." FEWER LETTERS. "I think I'll call my lunchroom1 'The Massachusetts.' How much will those handsome enamel letters cost?" ! "Six dollars per letter." Tm. guess I'll name it 'The; Ohio.'" ? Louisville Courier-Jour- \ nal. i, THE NEEDY, GREEDY ONES. Irate Father?It's astonishing, Richard, how much money you need. Son?I don't need it, father. It's the hotel keepers, the tailors and the . toxical* men.? Boston Transcript. HAS MUCH PRACTICE. "The dentist should make a godd soldier." "Why so?" "He's drilling all the time." THOROUGH JOB. "What's the cause of all the dis- ' order here?" "Ma's cleaning up and she's ' cleaned pa out." 1 HIS STATE. __ ; "Your pot frog does not seem to like my attentions, my little fellow " "Ha don't, sir; Wa hoppi^ | AND JOHNNY STILL WONDERS i -Information That He Sought to Obtain I From Hia Father Was Not Forthcoming. The head of the family, with his beloved briar-root pipe and hia ! 'favorite magazine, had settled back ,in the rocker for a quiet., comfortable evening. On the other side of an interven;ing table wa9 the miniature counterpart of himself, the wrinkling of ,whose eight-year-old forehead indicated that he waa mentally wrestling with some perplexing problem. After a while he looked toward his comfort-loving parent, and with a hopeless inflection naked: j; "Pa." "Yes, my son." ; "Can the J.ord make everything?" ?xr a , -1 es, my dov." : "Even'thing ?" ! "There is nothing, my son, that he cannot do." ! "Papa, could he make a clock that would strike less than one?" | "Now, .Tohnnv, go right upstairs to your ma, and don't stop down here to annoy me when T'xn reading." Johnnv went and wondered still. [?Chicago ledger. HIS IDEA Mrs. Ivnagg?Do you regard marrisige as a lot ten*? Mr. Knagg?They should be in , the same class. Lotteries are prohibited by law. HARD TO HIT. "I'm prepared to have my character blackened in u good cause,", said the candidate. "Hear! Hear!" shouted one of , his stanch supporters. "Yes. my friends, I expect a great deal of mud to he thrown in my direction." "Don't worry about that," cried a man in the renr of the hall. "They won't be uble to hit you. Nol>ody knows where you stand in this race." i TABLE TALK. i "Did you ever drink any of those substitutes for coffee?" asked the, hushhouse landlady of her star boarder. ! "Let me sen/' lie mused, "how long have I boarded with you?" "Xearlv seven years," she replied. "But what has that got to do with it?" "Well," be explained, "ycAi ought to know that T haven't drunk anything else during that period." OUT OF THE QUESTION. "Daughter, you don't tarry yourself well. Throw your shoulders back, hold up your head and spurn the earth with your feet." "That's just like you, pa. Always inconsistent." "What do you mean ?" "How can I spurn the earth with liny feet when you won't allow me to wear French heels?" BLISSFUL OBLIVION. "We are going on an automobile tour for our honeymoon." "Better take somebody with you." "We'll have a chauffeur, of course." "That's good. You'll need somebody to tell you when a tire's punctured. when your car gets stuck in | the mud and when other accidents ; happen that you will probably be too busy to notice." THE CONTRARY WAY. "Is the club going to hare a 'shutin' branch?" "I believe that is still an open question." ACCOUNTING FOR IT. "Miss Pretty Face is so sincere; she is a girl who rings true." "No wonder, when ibe'a *uch %' fine kind of ball*." p=lF==H E1B F== LIFE INSI Look at Tt T T 1 UI1UC1 piC&ClIL ule the net seconc are as follows S FOR $1,000.00 L I ?AGE=} 21 vears 23 44 25 44 28 44 30 44 m LU 40 " 45 " 50 60 " =| We will be jflad to quote 3 shown above. These are Old Line rates America- The Union Centra J Your life is insured from 1 T] delivered to you. These policies may be conv surance written by the Co without medical examination No cost to you for medical =| else, except the premium. Bailes & L [ii?11 ?" ?11=" VERY LOW RA1 Panama Pacifi SAN FRANCISCO Opened February 20th, CIcj n ^ 1 ranama-Galirc S* N DIEGO. C Opened January 1st, 1915, Ci VIA Southern Premier Carrier Tickets on sale daily and lim Good going via one route and 1 Stop-overs allowed. From Rour.d-Trip Tare Columbia, S. C - Charleston, S. C. 85.1; Orangeburg, S. C. . 82. If Sumtpr, S. C - 84.1." Camden. S. (.'. 84.14 Aiker., S. C. 79. If Chester, S. C.... 82.9<; Hock Hill. S. C 82.1H Spartanbtirp, S. C .. 81.50 Greenville, S. C. 80.(K1 Green'" ?od, S. C 79.2C Newl ry, S, C. 81.1C P |K>rtionately low rates from oth tr? 1'atPM tf? VV nek rr **/ other western points. t .ill information regarding the vai nednles, etc., gladly furnished. A . quest. Let us help you plan your 1 Why pay tourist agencies, when 01 S. H. McLEAN, Division I'as W. H. Tayloe, P. T. M., H. F. Cary, Washington, D,C. Washin'gti BUILD While the bui and the savii If you contemplate the erectio barn, or outhouse, or the remoc present buildings, DO IT NOW, if you act at once, for you can now than you can possibly do it 30 or 60 days, we verily believe have passed. Labor will becoi Building Material market is aire know say that prices will be bac We will supply you at close figui nish you estimates on what your Take advantage of conditions Build 1 Fort Mill L Phone - ? 11 1 11 J1HLU =J f=l? 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