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UFE A HARD ONE Toll I* Unaanltary Quarter* atfr'r for EMaeeee That ghortens TK^r Qaya. lL\ih> toM, lathe ?auae CjuKh of the 4*tm\Qn In "The ratio la probably S*ber among tb* tollere of the iid George McPheraon Hunter .American Seaman'* Frieud *o? in The Survey. "Below deck In ' ^Lp>? of the ahlp. twenty feet ^TtJe sunlight, atokera stand on ol?te? I" frout of ol>?n fui>n*c?"? ,brjr backa to nil the coal a! and then awing the <oal Into TJt furnace mouth. The roll of ?blu and the awing of the body rj# uneven atraln oji the lower of (be torso whlob cauaaa' hernia, fc^ts tell with great guato of Triors killed by plrktea and buo^ n and sometimes by tbe 'bucko ? 'ah these amiable gentlemen ['rune never killed or maimed aa |. men aa tfcs forecaatlea of the C tbst sail the a?aa. The medical Cr of (b0 ',urt of I>"ldo,JI ?ubmita Ebi? sbowlog the minimum air , allowed for cattle to cowsheds, for individuals in military bar workrooms, lodging houaea and i?n'i quarters. Setting theae side liide, it Is shown that cattle are off in this respect and seamen I The reports of the surgeon vi of tbe United States Marine (jtai service ahow continuously teamen suffer in a startling man from diseases, most of them lading from the inadequacy of pure and healthful places in which to ao0 sleep." [ED TO SHOW GRATlYUOE for 8on-ln-Law to Prove Him If Worthy of Favora He Had Bssn Receiving. Ison-ln-law," he said/ aa he called into the library and locked the j -you have lived with me now o?er two years." ?yea, sir." Bn all that time I haven't aaked a cent for board." t fruo, sir." all your little quarrels with my iter I have always taken your and decided In your favor." lUlways, ?ir." have even paid some of you! f -V ' Bf-you have, sir." Ktad in every way helped >ou to ?long." ?you have been very kind, sir." have tried to be, my boy, and ] ; you appreciate it." i ?I do, sir." plunks. Kindly tell your mother iv that the poker chips which she :ed up in my room this morning dropped out of your pocket, and call it square!" STRATEGY OF A BUSHMAN How ? LJtU Natlv* of South Africa Put ? FJ#m Um to Flight. 1lM little bushman or Booth Africi to not Oulj muiMll u stoe, but fooblo In mind. Tot there to on record u ?n oouuter between ft bushman and ft Hon which show* th? man u oool la dan ?for ftod fertile la raoovM, Harper's Woftkljr Mjri, Thto bushman, while ft loa? way from hone, was mot by ft lloa. The ibIw), assured that he had hto victim completely la hto power, be gan to sport and dolly with him with ft feline Jocosity whioh the poor little bushman failed to appreciate. The lion would appear at a point lu the road and leap back again Into the Jungle, to reappear ? little further on. T%e bushman, however, did not lose his preeanoe of mind and presently hit upon a device whereby ho might outwit hla foe. Thto plan woo rag gee ted by the lion's own conduct, ?war# that the heast waa ahead of him, the bushman dodged to the right and fooling pretty sure of the lion's whereabouts resorted to the oourse of quietly watching his movements. When the Hon discovered that the man had suddenly disappeared from the path he was a good deal perplexed. Hs roared with mortification. Then he espied the bushman peeping at htm over the grass. . The bushmsn at once changed his position, while the lion stood Irreso lute In the path, follo\)ing with his eys the shifting black man. In an other moment the* little man rustled the reds, vanished and showed him self at another point. The great brute was. first confused and then alarmed. It evidently began to dawn upon him that he bad mistaken the position of matters and that he was the hunted party. The bushman, who clearly reo ogntoed the situation, did not pause to permit the Hon to recover hto startled wits. He began to steal grad ually toward the foe, who now, In ft oomplete - state of doubt and fear, turned tall and decamped, leaving- the plucky and Ingenious little bushman master of the situation. 8olar Eclipse Affects Wlrstess. During tho recent solar eclipse an Interesting test was undertaken be tween tho radio station of the Royal dock yard In Copenhagen and thf Blaavandshuk station on the coast ol Jutland, so as to asoertaln the effect of the eclipse upon wireless transmis sion. It transpired that the telegraph* Ing became more distinct and. reliable as the eclipse progressed, and that it was most distinct, shortly after the culmination of the eclipse. The view that it is the effect of the solar light upon the atmosphere which to the cause of radio telegraphy being much better at night than during the day seems thus to be confirmed. INSANITY AND THE "BLUES* PtjMUon Generally Duo to ? Dloor do red Stomach or Liver, and Not tho Broln. It U announced that among tho minor forum of mental disorder that are to be ntudlvd at Jobus llopklns university U that familiarly known aa "tho blues," tho Now York World re marks. It la argued that the demo tion la dije to a species of Insanity, mild lndoad at tho beginning but liable to become dangerous. Aa one author Ity puta It, tho disease U ao alight aa i not to ho notlaed except by thoao vory , cloao to tho sufferers. It la tho pur poao of tho experimenters to make It tho subject of "suggestive treatment" Wo have here what ha* ovory ap pearance of being another attempt to account learnedly for aomethlng that lan't ao. The dejection known aa "tho hluea" haa tta aeat generally in the stomach or lp the liver rather than in the brain. Suggestive treatment by the ablest of allonlata or hypnotlata or even Chrlatlan aciontiata would not do the patient halt ao much good a# a dose of calomel followed by a aane ayatom of eating end living. Furthermore, the man to whom ev* erything looks blue la not more crazy than the man to whom everything looks roay. The vlotlm of blues doesn't buy gold brtcka or apeculate with trust funds or organlae third parties, Why, then, occuae him of Insanity The Muoh-Tranalated Bible. The Bible contlnuea to break all reo orda* for tranalatlon Into alien tonguoa. Another language haa juai been added to the long list by th? completion of the Ibanag New Testa ment In the Philippines. The Old Testament la being brought out in th?* Pan ay an dlaleot, and the Pentateucb in Pampangan and Cebuan la ready for the printer. The Kurdish Now Tea tament la well under way. and revl* tona are being made In Tag slog. Por tuguese, the Wenli and Mandarin in China, Siamese, and Zulu. The total Issues for 1911, the ninety-sixth yeai of the existence of the American Dibla aoclety, amounted to nearly 3,700,000 volumes, moat of these being portions and not entire Biblee. Of tho later, however, there were more than 400,000. The total laauea of the aoclety during lta ninety-six years reach tho gigantlo figure of ninety-four million volume* ? New York Evening Post. What's the Difference? Chappy ? Mabel, I swear those gloves fit you like a Bhoe ? Mabel ? Sir! How daro you insult me? Chappy ? Oh, really, I beg pardon? I meant to say your shoes fit like a glove. Mabel (benmlngly) ? Now you'ro try* OUD BELIEFS OF THE MOORS Arab* Believe That the Earth Is Bal anced on Horn* of a Bull ? Wl*? ardi and Q hosts. The Araba of Uorowm b*?ll*ve that the wtftth U balanced ou the horns of ? bull, which Itaelf reata on a flah on the aurface of tha aea, the aea being borne up by the divine power. When the bull la tired ha changes tha earth from one horn to the oth?r, with the reault that there is an earthquake! During aleop the aoul leaves the body utul vlilta other aouls. What wa see and hear whilst dreaming are the t hinge which the aoul sees and the conversations In which It takes part during Us peregrination*. Consequent ly, we ought never to awaken a ?leep< er rudely. for If he happwis to be dreaming at that moment hi* aoul may uot have time to return to the body, and in consequence the man will die. Moroccan wizards contend that ghoeU can only be devils, uever tha souls of dead people. They are hu* man in appearance, with the excep tion of their eyes, which are dlreoted downward, and their feet, which are forked or shaped like tho hoof of a oatnel. These ghosta speak, but they are intauglble. They are of all colors ? yellow, red, green, white and black ? and thejr principal occupation con alsta In playing trlclca on human be ings. At Marakech there is a 'house in which the owners placed a bath; but they were unaware that the property belonged to the devils. A young wom an came to have a bath, but no sooner had sho stepped into tho water than she disappeared. Hearing her cries for help, the neighbors rushed in, where upon she appeared on tho surface of the water. As soon as the people tried to seize her she disappeared, and so on for some time. There was nothing to be done but to close the house, which thus fell into the hands of the talebs, who had spread this Btory among the credulous population of the town for their own end.-? Wide World Magazine. Use for the Thermometer. "That new maid is a genius," said the young housekeeper. "She has even found a use for the cooking thermo< meter. Nobody ever used it to cook with. After I flhlshed my course in the school of domestic sciences I bought a splendid thermometer be cause the teachers said I ought to. ! paid $5 for it. It had a solid iron bulb, and waB warranted to stand any amount of wear and tea?. In spite of my determination to cook by rule, that thermometer was a white ele phant in the kitchen until the new mold came. Sho uses it to crack nuts with/' ANCIENT RELICS ARE FOUND PI?om of Pottery UnurtM In Jirw ulim App??r to OtU From 3000 B. 0. Some Interesting archaeological dis coveries bare beeu uiade recently by a French party engaged in extensive excavations at Jerusalem, on the southeastern alope of the temple hill ?the Ophel of Sortpture. A number of very early to in be oontalulug pot tery were discovered, but only a few | of the graven were sufficiently well preserved to enable their exact age 10 be determined. Judging from the fragments of pot tery and other objects which wera found they appear to date front about i 8000 B. O.? 1000. Rome of the frag |. menta resemble the claaa of ware dis covered by Hchliemann at Hlaaarllk, In Troy, and other places In Ada Minor, while aorne show tracea of arohatb Greek influence. There were alao found aome brok en flguree of Ashtaroth, the Canaan ltlah form of the Babylonian goddess lahtar, but no lnscriptlona either in I Babylonian or Phoenician were I brought to light. When Kvery Sailor Wore a Queue, ^ The sailors' broad collara were de> viaed so that the powder or tar ou the ? wearer's queues should not come oft on the blouse. In the old days every sailor wore his hslr in a queue and either had the queue powdered or held together by tar. This was not good for the blouse or Jacket underneath. 8o detachable broad collars were sdd ed. Sailors stopped wearing queues s oentury ago. . Dut they still wear the wide collar. When Lord Nelson died the Brttlsh navy went Into mourning for him. Sailors put' brosd blaok rib* i bone on their caps and blaok ribbons i on their blouses. And the ribbons re j main to this day, not only on the unl ; forma of British sailors, but on those j of other navies as well. The broad "bell shaped" ends of aailors' trouser I legs were thus shaped ao that the wearer might more easily turn his trousers up above his knees when he had to swab the decks. Deck swab bing was a hateful and supposedly de grading task. Hence the sailors called their enemies "swabs" as a term of contempt. Aerial Tsxlcab Is Tested. Some remarkable flights have been made by the aerial taxi cab built by llleriot for a European firm. A 140 horse power engine has been Install ed In place of the 100 horse power motor with which the machine was originally equipped. Loaded with about 650 founds of ballast, it carries a cargo equivalent In weight to that of four passengers besides tho pilot. As yet no four passengers have ven tured to take their seats In the taxi cab body. SPEAKING AS ? P'NE ART Many M?n Who Attempt to Addreee Audiences Canneft Mtk? Them* eelvee Heard. gpeaklug la oua of those arts wbloh peuyltt seem to think it unnecessary to atudy and learn, and the probability la that moat speakers of the kind men tioned are blissfully unaware of tbelr Inaudibility. ? I>oubtlees their voloe re sounds comfortably In the empty spacea of their own cheat and head, | and this prevuuts them from knowing , that It does not penetrate to the audt I tory apparatus of other people. To be a lecturer, It la not only neo fHbarly to know your subject, but the art of ouunolatlou and audible delivery needa to be learned also. And - the uound of one's volco In one's owa ? uiM Is a most misleading guide. Such people ought to be trained by being made' to read or speak from one end of a large room to somebody at the other end; wheu they would soon And out that tones whloh paaa muster In a conversation are useless In a public speech. In conversation we oareleasly slur hulf our syllabled, leaving ouc^ Inter locutor to guess them from the con text, but this will not do In a public speech, where people are too far off to oatch the signs. Again, a word pro nounced In tho ordinary HngUsh way ??of throwing a strong accent on a single syllable and slurHng the other syllables ? becomes reduced to a mere monosyllable when said In that man ner In a large room. ? Theosophlcal Path. THINGS THAT COLOR THE SEA Kluensse of Watere of Old Qoean It In Constant Ratio to Ite Saltlneee. It hna bsen proveu that the bluenesa of aea water la In constant ratio to it# saltiness. In the tropica, the tremen dous evaporation Induced by the bla? Ing buu causes the water to be much more salt than It Is in higher altV tudes. For about thirty degees, both north and south of the equator, the waters of the world's oceans are of an exquisite azure. Beyond these lati tudes the blue fades and changes te green, and In the Arotlc and Antarctic oceana the .greens are alxnoat aa vivid as the tropical blues. The extraordi nary bluenetiH of the Mediterranean has two causes: one Is that very fen largo rivers of fresh water run inte this sea; the second, the Medlterrai* ean is practically land'loeked, and, being exposed to a powerful sui^ evaporation Is great. China's Yellow Sea la usually sup posed to owe Its origin to the flood of muddy water which its great rivers pour into it. Hut here living orgatv isms aro responsible for its pecullaf tint. ? Tho Sailor's Magazine. Kimball Player- Piano When in the Market for Anything in the Music Line Come to Melton's Music House ? .V ' * ? ' >, - m .! ; l.?- >?.,./ ' ' ? ???' - . ....... \ ? ? .<* ' ' . f1 - ; :? f: ? ? On Main Street, just Opposite the Opera House, Camden, S. C. 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