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mark wak on rat. Currli'rs of Bubonic I'Ihkiio Without Krtlirmftif; (futility. The rut belongs to the mouse rumll.v, of which there are something like ::00 species?from the tiny tlehi mouse to the American muskrat. Hut tlie rut tiiut is now being discussed. because of the presence of bubonic plague, is lite only one that is t?? be here considered, says George K. Iturga in the t'olumbus Oispatch. Mice iia\e accompanied man upon his migrations, wherever lie iias gone and es tnblishcd his home, and the great brown rat that is now carrying dls e:'!t< Hi* common house rat. us it is I'alieil?hasn't been known so ver> long in tile Western worhi. or in Kni ope. There used 1o lc.? a black rat in Krropc. and it became very numerous along about 'the l"th and 1 Hi: cent uries. Tiicn tlie brown rat num. lis vay from China to Itussiu aim on to l-'iirupe and drove out the ' lack rat. I'.olli tlie black rat and tin brown one originated in China. as did the little mouse which we lind about the houses, or the domesticated mouse as it is culled. The Held mlei sometimes take up their abode about tlic barns and outhouses, and even in residences, but that "s not their Iteni r:il custom. The mice you sop about the burns and homes are the domesticated mouse and came originally from Asia. It was unknown in lids country until some time after the lirst white people settled here, hut it found its way across the seas and took ii| its abode and is now a par: of the household property. The rat is repulsive, vicious and destructive and there is no reason v:hv man should tolerate it. Its worl iis a yciivcHKT lines not compensate Ini- its (testruction?and civilized man inmht to l>e getting urotmil to tin point where lie needs no such scnvi ni;ers. Milt the persistency of the rat ami the extent to which it has multiplied, shows how nature takes care of all her children, whether we consider these children Rood or had. Man has always made war upon the rat. of course, for it has hcen in his way. Mut this warfare, up to thitime, has not licen successful in ex terminating the species. In fact, tin trihe has increased until it is now more numerous than ever before Mut a determined effort is now to he made, especially in the cities, to ge' ri?l of this disease hearing pest for that is exactly what it is. The hu hcnlc plague is a germ disease, and the rats carry the germs from one house to another. The only successful method of combating the diseas. is to coinhat the rats. Mut even if it carried no disease the rat still plight to he extermin J'teil. It causes millions of dollarof damage on the farms of this conn try and in the cities its rawices nr. jilcn great. When it romps to gettlnv ritl of it. however. 111:111 is going te find ju*i how vpi'V l"ird it is to 1* terminate a species t tint lias learned > -'.<> carp of itself ill the face of warfare. Men Who ItcfiKcil Cniwiis. Several times in the world's historv crowns have heen as promptly rejected as though tliev were very ilain a veil ami worthless articles illileeil Marly in the last century the crown of (Ireoco was offcreil to I.oril Myron, who .lied hefore he had a chance to accept ii l.ater 011. tjneen Victoria's second son. the late I hike of Mil in I i'ItIi. was invited to liecoine king of the Hellenes, hut the jealousy of foreign powers decided his refusal n it was offered in turn to Mr t "n.lslnne and it-njaniin Hisraeli Marl of Mr-ifonstlel l. hut neither wa attracted l?v the honor. Napoleon a nt 'eipa t ed the patriotic Hungarians l.y wishing to separate Hungary from Austria in isn't, wlicn lie offered tin separate crown to the great Mute tarian fount Hsterhazy. Hut tin count refused and went into temporary < vile. Marly in the history of I'ns-ls. when it was scarcely acknowledged as a part of civilized Murope. the Imperial throne was of f. rcd tirst to Prince Mitislnyski, and then to Prince Pozharski, hut the\ fi.ircd to undertaki> such a <lilflciilt task. Finally a youth of It'., Michael was elected on condition that lie swore that lie and his descendant* old reign as constitutional soy igns. He was the tirst Itomanoff I .1 cr on. when Pzar Alexander I died i , IS'J.a. liis hrothcr. Constant inc. was Ik 1 heir, lull he preferred the seiu..lty of private life, and handed it . .. <? |||> .VUIII1K I'I'III licr. AUMlOIJlS I I >rge Washington's army wished to I n. k?> tiini a king. hut he preferred to l>e t tin first president of tin* I nitial States. Swat! Co sock tin* fly upon the dump, and hand to him the lethal hump; go set k him round your living place, and plant your hoot-heel in his face; seek h<m upon the pillow sham, and hand him a back-brenktng slam; seek him n >on grandfather's head, and with a bludgeon lay him dead; seek him in on the hutter-plate, and with one smash annihilate, and send huttor il>ing far to where the other hoarders are: in custard pie land on him hard: win the landlady's fond rcyard l?y always soaking liiin kerhlim and tearing hi:- shape limh 'rum llinh; when you're !:: Ion go eaten i ll\ and hold him up before your eye and make him enter in the plot, remark; "She loves, she loves me not," as you pull out his tender legs. A fly can lay a million eggs; each voting , I1> lays a million more; and ere the summer days are o'er there are ten j billion critters what had not been there had you hut got the buzzing. ! measly, troublous thing you swatted at away last spring. Klies love to | t ike their little forms to where the I . nifty germlet swarms, and take them with him for a ride on in the world so big and wide; he drops them in , th.e milk and sweets, and in the soup and other eats; so If vou do not kill the fly, and land a left liook on his rye, you'll be as full of germs by fall as the sport page is full of ball. HONORING DANIEL BOONE. It soon will be 100 years since the I U-uth of LHaniel Boone, foremost among the rugged spirits who early in the ISth century opened up to 1 b settlement the American wilderness i g between the Alleghany ' mountains 0 and the Missouri frontier. So fully is the name of Daniel Boone con- ' uccted \\ ith the iounding of Kentucky J ' o many of his daring exploits and 11 astonishing feats of woodcraft form- 8 nig a conspicuous part of the early ^ hhtory of the commonwealth, one is ( apt to lose sight of the fact that anoilier State lays claim to having been v .b?' home lor several years of the ilustrious ranger. t Itecently tliere has been erected on nc hanks of the Yadkin river, in ' o Davidson county, N. t\. 12 miles from a Salisbury, on the spot where Boone t pent many years of his young man- i noil, two memorials, u log cuhln i iiiIt alter the fashion of the days if I lie famous pioneer, and a shaft >f native grunitc. It! feet in height. J 4 its summit frowned by a large slab 2 n the shape of an Indian arrowhead. <? I he etlbill. !%,,ilt by the Oanicl Boone MJ Mi inor'. ' association, is a museum j a containmg many valuable relies of " the old frontier days. The monu- J loiiit v as erected by the citizens of 4 Itowan county, N. t'. It was in Bow- ^ a'i county that Ihiniel Itoone lived with his parents. I >a vidson county I 4 having been taken from Itowan in I J I >' 2 H. | . The parents of Daniel Boone moved j* .roin I'ennsy'Ivtmiti to North faroliiia 1 4 n I7M. l>atiiel vvtis at that time just jjj lti years old. lie was born near Bristol, Berks county. Ha., Kebruary 4 -l7:iii. The grandmother of A bra- 4 ham l.ineoln was Anne Boone, a eon - I in of I >aniel Itoone. and the Booties |4 ml Inneolns in Kentucky were close\ allied by marriage. The cabin erected by the Boone | , Memorial association stands almost 4 or. the exact spot of the one occupied 1 by the parents of I hilliel Itoone. In s? clearing away the debris of the old < abin for tiie building of the new i a large flat ruck was found, believed ? o have been the hearthstone ol' the ^ Booties. There also were discovered q portions of the old log walls, several broken eups and saucers and pieces >f dishes of the old-time willow ware pat tern. When Boone was HI he married Miss Iteheeea Bryan of North t'uroline. She proved a devoted wife, facing with him unflinchingly the perils I more than one journey through I??? \\ ilderncss. Hoone's wife and IniiKhters were the lirst whit* women stand on the hanks of the Kpiiueky river. Itoone set oil on iiis tirst exploring rip toward the Kentucky frontier in I 7 till, witli only live companions. When he finally returned alone to lis home in N'ortli Carolina lie had hecn Riine two years. His wife and 'hildrcn believed liini dead. Despite lie hardships he had endured and 'he perils he had faced. In 17 7tl he darted hack with his family and nore than 70 other persons. They Hide a sittlement on the Clinch ivi-r, in east Tennessee. In 177.7. having gathered another it I le company ahont him. Itoone darted off again for "the dark an.I Moody Kt'oiimi" to hluze the way for >t hers, for he was determined that Kentucky should become white man's country. These men. with only the n dest appliances, surveyed and laid out a road more than L'OO miles hrough the unbroken wilderness, crossing the mountains from Cum- ? hcrlund (tap to the Kentucky river. There a town \v:is I'liilt. tlu* lirst > 'I>ii? settlement in Kentucky, Justly -lamed I tooneshoro. The town still exists, one of importance in Madison county, Ky? liu miles southeast of l.exicgton. in l:ls sul>se?|iient efforts to open i:p Kentucky to white settlement I tonne hail a most eventful career, ne constantly hesct with peril. Me liveil to tin1 ripe nice of Hf> years, lying at the home of his son. MaJ. Nathan Hoone in t'harlette. Mo.. Sep. loher L'li. 1X20. lie ami his wife ire hurled heneatli the same moiuiment in the cemetery at Frankfort. I\\., ami tin- inscription pays honor to him as the "fathi r of Kentucky." Dahoniaiis Curious Negro 1'isiplc. Northern trihes of Tognland. a ptr.vince of West Africa, are mostly a mixed negro race \lio have hecoiue civilized and industrious. Hut the fl Cahomaiis, in the south, present a curious Idcnd of slircwiliu ss. eruelt\ and supci stit ion. Small, rohust and athletic, they clinil> trees like inonkeys. easily hccnme lluent linguists, l>ut eling to fctisliism, and still praeti< e eannihalisiii, says a hiilh tin of the National Geographie soeiety. The king of the I'ahoiiievs is a trihal deity, colli rolliiiK the lives and properiv of ills subjects, lie was formerly regarded as more ethereal thai, human, tarrying on his conversations from behind a screen and having his lood served to him ill solitude. Ills wives were state dignitaries. <?nl\ (he sons of tin- ih,,i-? ......... . ier,aided us heirs. The sovereign selected other wives from among the A ma'/.ons. TV." wl??>^ was considered tlu' father of all his subjects l>ahonian children were taken from their mothers at an early age and nlvfn to other families so they might form no ties which would conflict with their allegiance to the king. t'hildren \>? re formerly regularly sacrificed and human beings roasted f?.i food Sn imhlied were the Pnhomuns with belief in immortality that they readil\ volunteered for sacrifice and the I wives of Dahontey, like those of In- j d'a. often chose to die when their I husbands did. An object blessed by I the Da human priests became a fetish Snakes were held in special est earn. Tribal dances were amazingly in- 1 t.icute, some lasting 36 hours. ' FORT MILL TIMES, ROUNDING lTP DOIXiRRS. ? t h'lmrtireiit ?>f Ju -th < lln< ('or.virtc.T Five Thousand Sin k 1 Five thousand draft evador* have , >een convicted in ftderal courts and , riven sentences of front 30 d..ys t > tie year in prison, according to re- ] ort? compiled at the department of 1 ustice._ ..Thirty thousand cases. i?- ' iialn to be Investigated, l>u? ortic'nls j aid recently that rapid progress \va-> icing made in I minding up tho del!.!- | uents. Tlte report. it was explained, , Iocs not include cases of persons who , fere called in tile draft and deserted, , k suclt cases arc Itandlcd l.y the mil.- , ary authorities. So far approximately 1'7a.nn0 cases r ,i.-H.. . - i.m ii who su.Ti'dli il in 1 voidiiiK actual entrance into the, ! ? Annoum I (n<r new Imildini; , plcted and we wish t< ' are now equipped to il I of Automobile l'aintin We also make Seat iai C urtains and Signs. j Pyramid P > ROCK HI! Overhead Bridge A First Cla Grocery St<i Our experience of in the G rocery Bus 11 how to buy goods o our customers get tl knowledge. Your \: ited and appreciatec _A__ O. vTC CLE South C NEXT SESS: r ami curitsi Colli'no l.:iinls l.Til!" iifivs. Value I'tilleKt* Plant $'_\0<?i>.inii Teaeliers. < >tlleM-s. Assistant"?I Enrollment til Itt- l?2tl? tol l. Ten Decree ('(iiirH-s in: Acrlei Areliiteellire, Chemistry. t'lr l-aiuineeriiiK. Civil l.imiu< K.leel lieal KuuineeritiK. Meeli f-.nuiiieeriot:. Industrial l'Min t.eueral Seieiiee, Textile liul.e Sport t'onrses in AKricnlluro Text iles. SlMMI It St IIOOI. 11-July 2 I. Virriciilt ural Tcui hers. t? weeks Juno l4-.lt 4 weeks course?Juno 118-Ji Cltlloil {.rilllillg OllirSC. Begins June It ami contii.u aliout four weeks. 4'ollcge Make-up ( nurs's. 4 Hurss for Keiuoval Kiitrniice ilitlon*. J one 1 4 -J illy U I. 4 lull Hoys' 4'nurses. July Ill-July 211. SKC4)\I> IID.M1-: (OMIM Inly HI*. Ill anil AiikiisI I AM graduates and ex-studiii urged to attend this gntherir "Tigers" at the old I?ulr! Yo t>e quartered in Itarracks, so sheets, towels, etc.. us you ili.l you were a cadet. W? i a i accoiuniod..te only 1, Barracks and \s ill reserve sp:i oroer of the applications rece.v For Full Informa 1)1? NtiT DKI.AY. Y4i|* .\i FORT MILL, S. C. ?er\ ice?have been invpsliirutt'il by j he% department out of a total of HIH.- jy H re|?orted. The results of the in- Ej aestivation show about in.000 cases | fl i( failure to reuister and an equal W "Uivber of false questionnaires C About I'd per cent, of the men I listed as delinquents were found by M he department's agents to have en- M listed in the American or allh d ar- |G nies without the knowlt d?(c of their |y ocal hoards. ' Careful attention is. heinyr Riven >8 'alse questionnaire returns. officials' iay. as well as casts where wealthy |H men bought farms before the call i fl . ante and obtitlnetl deferretl classiti- Kj -ation on agricultural grounds. Ijt Conseit nee is the parent of eltnrac- ?L| tor. atul without character no man Is - j today rated a success. r*| cement j is now about coin- | o announce that wc ; 1 lo the highest Oracle ami Top liniIi 11 l?. ^! vers, Cushions, Siile ! aint Shop \ LL, S. C. i i. * - - -? " liiMiK ior inc Mfiii. ? | ==! SS I >re over thirty years I less has taught us J f first quality and A he benefit of this | >atronage is solicl j* DUSTIES * i i msonT arolina's College of Ag ION Ol'KNS WI'IA I Ls' I Value of a Colle ,'0. TIiitc \vas ni\cr a tim?> nit in *-, i'liiical was so IukIiIv |uiy.oil and s ^ rinn. lanical 11'"h '? 1 '"'train.-'I ration, ii yoiiiik man to ilisrotint tl li'j. iic.ilion 11111 sin Ii all I'tlm ami work of four years. vii weil I of time ami money, is e<| to ail estate of more lion '' v What estate i >111|?;i|-]iI \ ily 1:4. <>f avcr?Kc means hope t<? n es I'or What voniiK i.n.n run ae< ; Id tlif same time at an; nil ' <>??l.il mat Hut tits one for a tie limited oil l> hy Ins '< Kventually for th<- nutraiia-i [j i ry of iKnornnt and iindirce <s , t'leinson CollfKc Initios w 'K of young man in South t'arolii n will sihilities of a t? ? hniral cilia hriiK when h'Ko a hoy from tin- huiiih olina can prepare himself f ooo in service of his State and noli ice lit ed. W. tion Write or Wire: 7 AY RK ritii\Vl?KI? i ?|TT. APIM-HWTI Ice Ceam D Sunday Mor Wo are now pi C 1--. wjunucty morning < Cream for househ< Let 11r> have your ore The Candy II. CARKQS, 1 irmwi ii >rir11 mmi n hi im?nm pjM MMMMliM* iMUHnaaBB Mi Varatinr t a \. 7 a 111-:i*? ?;! : staktino <>n v. i v?mi: i !:% ?: st < i: i-; nkkus it it:i:?ji i:n ti.y iiamt: ns i TnMMItS Ai:K I'NAIIIK T? > t ; |. !' I'l.i 1 11 > AN I? I I1 Wll.l. A 1 >1? T. SIKNT UK Yol'll VA?"\TH'N 11 WITH YOU. \V 1111. K Y < l A li ! : A \V A Y I K A ol: I >KKS T? ITS. IT W'l l.l. ||; Y<M' Till-: SAMK I A Y. \YK Wll.l. OIYK I'AIJTK'lM.Ai: I-I NISI 11.NO. M All. Y<?ru K I I..M: TIIKM I ?i:VI-:i.ol'Kl> AMi ICl.TI' 1' K N I I N O Yiil l: A Ii 111 \ A I Till-'. IllU li Slll.tl'. Ol I Lytle Drui Phon IOB PRI lT the times offici lwbmflbkanumnandbldl COLLI riculture and Engineeri :si)AV, IS KPT KM BK Education i liistM'l an \rri<nli ii , \mlinli ii wliin expert knowleilico i> lii^ltlv compelisateil. Ti? U I'm II.K < Iml lalmr will t? 111>t many i j S,,M n' value of a college imi- 1 l.ilu iiiion. ri'iin-nciniiiK ,, ,, I'eo Itoe merely as an investment j Coastal I ual in earning ea|?aeit> $r.li.ti(iO. Irtll m IIIM'I*. villi tills can tlif parent j IIOI.V ;ive i<r leave tu ills soil? The i1 lHire that much value j year selu ier luisiness? | ami I exl ' ?ne Yea life \V linsi* possibilities tnher I i | ship is \ ipucttv ami ciiaraeter. , I lion. I tiiere awaits the sluv- Seliolai ? . tinns are teil effort. Iiouses a ...... . , ? for full i it Iiiii the roach of every scl.olarsli la the henetits ami pos- m xl ses> ation. At I'leiiison Col- their awi Those lest home in South Car- i enter on or a IiikIi place in the statwl ?x rather tl ion. ' he * 'oil. Im given Nl. Kit}t>S. I'reshlent. the conn he Registrar, Clemsc i?NS Wll.l. KK <'< tNSIDKKKI? IN I'll elivered I nings I epared to make I deliveries of Ice | ">ld consumption. ^ lens on Saturdays, j Kitchen ; Proprietor. |l si l a?MMMMttia? Mir will Ultd J'l i Needs VA? "ATI" ?.\. I.I-'.T I'S Sl'IMM.Y I'llAT WIIKN AWAY Ol'K fl'S .*.1.1. Till: IK WANTS SIT'I ill- ?'< ?.M l-'i ?KT A\|i KN'JuY- jg \>.i IIAYK Tl l? ?SK N K101 ?S fi Nl-:i.l? AKISKS. MAIL Y.U'K ? ,\ M ' rw 11 I Tl'.l ' l ' 1 fl CAKIi I'M YiHlt KU|>A1\ | < To IS AND W K WILD 11A V K I l:\Kli 'I . ? Vol', III! IIKLI > KI: \i. si:K\ i< i-: t Comp'y e 16 IKMrintMIMMMHMMiflMMMMMBlHMMUBnviAA INTING I - - PHONE 112 lGE 1 ing | U IJS, I{>'20. | I'l Itl.iC Sl.KVM I. M \iiiily>i- ami lii~-|i<-itlnn. H <1 I'laiil IMst'iisi' Control, B ral Iti M'lirrli. h ral Cxton-loii. w I 'li iiis.ni I ' IIcmc. S C. ^ <li<-alimt. 8 lorn ('onlrol. Kjj -k Saiiitarx Work. E ft y National I 'a i. k I SMi?., l!\|H'i-im< hi Slailou. (| Klori'iioo, S<". n Main l-'.?|M*rliiu*iit Station. g Siiiiiini'i'vllli'. S t'. B i? tlirsc HKi'ittir* for H Ksiiirs \ni? i:\a\ii\\- q TIOXS ollt'K*' maintains 17(1 foiirdurships in the Agricultural 1?I? Courses. ; 111 I ~>2 in the r Agricultural Course (t?clo June It Kach scholarvorth $ I nil.no alul free tuirship ami entrance exaiuinahcl.l at tin- counts coiut t : a. hi.. July !?th. Write nforuiation in regard to th>' dps o|tcn to your counts lion, ami the laws governing tril. who are not seeking to schola rslii|?s are advised to a in i ii.11 ions on July I'lli, inn ssait until they come to >gc ill the tall. Credit svill for cxa initial ions passed at ly seat. >n College, S. C. II-: iilll?l-:i: KKCK1VKD.