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I JO HONOft )*rHER AT LAST y^vwwtnt Undsr Way to Place N?8 lected Parent on Pedestal and gtrcw Roeee at Hie Feet *t last poor old father la to have bin M for these many moon* we have JZD slnglo* toe praises of mother ed deservedly ? wad telling of what a Jj^ry world It would be without her, ud all tbe while father has been *un(JlDf around aa unnoticed and as neflect?d as the bridegroom at the wedding. He hae been looked upon, or ^ther tolerated, aa a neoeesary ?vlL be been spoken of, In aome /jttArteru at leaat. In terms of reproach aDd derision. We all remember the dutiful ballad which blatantly called attention to the fact that everybody tolled but poor old dad. Tbe refrain 0f that song wan taken up every wher?, ?u(j tho enthusiasm with which It wan huuk by nil sorts and conditions of people would lead one to^nuspect that the author had wade a remarkable dls covery, which ho was only too glad to 8hare with the world. flow all this is to be changed and dad i? to bo placed on a pedestal and flowers laid at his unworthy feet and TerseB recited In his honor. The red rote haa been eolected as an appropri ate emblem for father, and on one day Id tho year everybody? or nearly ev erybody?is to wear that flower In or der to let the world know that. In iplte of all bis faults, they dearly lovo the old man. This Just and proper recognition has been a long while in coming, but now that it is at hand there seems to be a disposition to do It with a whole-heartedness that will ?tone for past neglect. Tho only one who will not quite understand It will be dear old dad himself. He will do as he Is told, of course, but we venture to say that the movement is going to make father Bcratch his head in won der, if not in delight. household economy is next Manufacturers Have But Lately Used Waste Products and Housewife Will Adopt Plan 8oon. Aji important factor in the Indus trial prosperity of the world is the utilization of waste products. It has not been long, as time goes, since packers learned that they would ubo all of the pig except his squeal. Saw dust. which was formerly thrown away, is now the chief fuel of many lumber mills, or from it great quan tities of wood alcohol are manufac tured. The industrial world has learned to take its profits from what yesterday were waste products. There 1b a fortune left every morn ing in American coffee cups. It is es timated that the average person uses at leaBt a fifth more sugar than the liquid into which it is put absorbs. Smokers habitually throw away a third of every cigar or cigarette light-, ed. Gas rangos aro kept burning be cause th?y "will be needed in a few minutes." Electric meters hum mer rily because people feel that it is har.il> worth while to put out the lights when they will be needed again If In an hour or so. Pood which might rcadiy be prepared for another meal is thrown away. Possibly a fourth of the cost of unkeep of every American home is unnecessary cost, which could bo avoided by frugality and tha em ployment of common sense. The elimination of waste has not become a general object In house keeping. We have learned the value of economy in manufacturing, but we hav<* not applied economic principles to the administration of the house hold. Americans and the Rich. The United States is perhaps the only country in the world in which money, in itself, carries no public hon or with it, and in which tfven the most lavish heaving of coins to the rabble goes fnrewarded. An English Carne gie would have had a seat in the house of lords twenty years ago; a French Rockefeller would have -sported the grand cordon of the Legion of Honor before he ever sported a toupee; a German Morgan could never have es caped the Red Eagle and privy coun cil. Rut in the United States a great fortune is the most effective of all b^rB to public dignity and preferment, and oven to private respect. Our Ryana and Harrimans are not idols, but tar Rets; the one sure way to make a stir In politics is to attack them success fully. ? H. L. Mencken in Smart Set. > German Postal Automobile?. A system has been established in Germany by which the postal automo biles aro made use of to bring relief from the larger cities to smaller ones threatened by fire. Only the larger cities of Germany are supplied with fire-flghting apparatus, and in the event of fire or a serious conflagration hap pening in one of them located at a dis tance of more than ten miles from an established fire department, the appa ratus will be secured to a postal auto roobilo and drawn to the seethe of the fire. The system was recently availed ?f and valuable. .assistance rendered to the village of WalBdorf, which would have been wiped out but for the help thus secured. ? An Ostracised Flag. The minister of the Boston South Congregational church Bald the othei day: "Instead of the cross I should like to see tho white flag on the topmosl spire of every Christian church. On thp flag of faith, there floating aloft, 1 *"ould put the Christian Btar of Iieth leb**tn." 1? would be legal on a church spire but under the new Massachusetts la^ It could not be carried In a paredc. . . . PRETTY PAIR OF TWINS BY DON MARK LEMON. - ? ? ? ? Ed. Burns nntl Tiin Hinith mar ried hh pretty a pair of twin slaUrs an you'd iMe in a picture gallery, and then settled down in the same town Ion* aide of oue another. For a year everything went as smooth and ?asy, and then a change came over tho spirits of Ed. Burns and Tim tiuiilh. K<1. got to looking at T 1m h wife, and Tim got to looking at Ed's wife, and they concluded they had married tho wrong sister. It wa? ainuuitiK when you come to reason it out, for tho girls were aa much alike aa tho same letter out of tho same Identical printer's box. Hut Kd. remarked to his wife, what a line housokepor her sister was, and Time remarks to his wife, what u fine cook her sister was. Ed. says to Jenny? that's his wife: "Why don't you dress yourself up pretty, Uko your sister does? Hho's got style, Bho haH," And Tim says to Mary? that's his wife: "Why don't' you look stylish, like your sister does? She's got a backbone like a wax iig' ure in a Fifth avenue store. " It run on this way most a year, and Ed, and Tim got mor"o and more careles of their wives' feelings, and tho two women folks got more and more mlserabio and unhappy. Well, it went on this way till the rift in tho flddlo wau big enough to swallow a meeting house, and then one day something curious hap pened. Ed. and .Tim kissed their wives and made up, and acted pret tier than they did in their courting days, and everybody in town was glad to see it but me. You see, Tim had taunted Mary about how much nicer her sister was, till Mary flies up and says: "Why don't you trade mo for Jenny, and bo done?" Tim could hardly believe his ears for a moment, then he grabB Mary and shouts: "You moan it?" , "Yes," Bays Mray, with her lip ? trembling. Just then who should come In but Ed. and Jenny, and I'll be eternally demoralized If Ed and Tim didn't go at It on the spot and swap wives without, anv compunction or-hoot. "Nobody will know we've done it," said Ed. "You couldn't tell 'em apart till you've lived with ono of '?im a year." "Nobody but us will know it," says Tim, looking at Jenny like a boy with a dime in his pocket looks in a candy store window. Then Jenny and Mary went up stairs together and changed clothes, and came down, and Tim grabB Ed's wife and Ed. grabs Tim's wife, and everything looked as rosy and com fortable as the big gold seal on a divorce certificate. Ed goes home with Mary and Tim stays with Jenny, and the two men folks wcro as frolicksome and af fectionate as two bull-pupa with their first muzzles taken off. Ed. acted as if nothing was too good for Mai*y, and Tim thinks there wasn't anything half good enough for Jenny, and the two women folks got to laughing and growing fat from pure joy, and as nobody but thom and me knew anything about the deception, and mo laying low and saying nothing, why, things w*nt on from good to better and from better to best. But what sort of surprised me v?s the way that the sisters took to it. Their consciences didn't seem to be troubling them at all, and they grew fat and saucy on the love they were getitng. I concluded that Ed. and Tim hadn't wanted to swap wives any better than Mary and Jenny had wanted to swap husbands. But 1 couldn't blame the women folks much, for they were now being treated like, human angels. Well, it went on for most a year this way, with Ed. and Tim treating the sister they had swapped for like knights In old story books treated their beautiful lady loves, then, one day, I discovered something that'll make mo turn over and laugh In my grave. ^ I've said before that Jenny and Mary being twins and born of the same mother looked just alike, and I'll be eternally shanghaied If they hadn't fooled their own husbands. They had gone upstairs and changcd dresses, and then came down and pretended Mary was Jenny an Jenny was Mary, and Ed. had gone off home with his own wife, thinking her Mary, and Tim had stayed where he was with his own wife, thinking her Jenny, and by treating their wives like they were Bome other fel low's wife, I'll be hanged if they didn't love 'em like they were. When I discovered the truth I went home and #?d my bull-pup on liver till ho begged me to quit it, and then I sat down and wondered about how long it would bo before Ed and Tim would And out the truth, and tho truth would -make em ashamed. (Copyright by Dally Story Publishing Co.) The Instrument. - 'T heard the young couple we passed say they wanted to drink in tho starry night. How could they do 11?"" ~ " "Isn't thero the Dipper?" Reason of It. "Ma. are eyes the window? of tho soul?" "Thoy say so, dear." "Then Is that why sometimes they look glassy ?" MODERN USE OF CHURCHES ? ? ? ? ? ? Now Idea* In Meetings and Social? Would 8hook Puritan* and Old Mlnlatara. The churchman? minister or lay man?of the Puritan stamp of two ceuturies ago, or his descendant who lived In Now England at any time In the nineteenth century, would be grievously shocked if he could look In upon some of the gatherings In Yes try or other church apartment, which are held On the Babhath under the name of Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, or something similar. Suppose for the moment that Dwlght L. Moody should Bean the weekly cal endar of the church in which he was to conduct a revival service and find thy announcement of an address by a distinguished musical director on "How to Listen to Grand Opera," to be given between the morning and evening services. What would Camp Meeting John Allen say or think should he be sum* moned to u midweek evening vestry party by a printed Invitation bidding him to "come hungry" and bring hlB "best and lutest story," and upon ar rival dlBcover that was a regular "ladles' night" of the "Men's Noisy and Stay-Up Late Club!" These are two incidents in the broad and diversified program in which nearly every church in Boston hus taken purt during the last few years with increasing success und at tendance. The two are chosen for illustration because they are so radi cally different from the old-fashioned ideas of anything distinctively ligious in character. STUDENT HAS ODD DISEASE Chronic Case of "Caroanserlnusabme tu" Prevented Him From Winning Diploma. Before a student can be graduated from Columbia college he must be able to swim at least one hundred feet. Felix Metzger Rosenstock of the senior class cannot swim at all. When Rosenstpck found that he was In danger of missing his degree, he called on Dr. George L. Meylan, dlreo tor of the gymnasium, and explained that he bad a serious skin disease, which would be aggragated by contaot with water in the university swlm ntfng pooT "Bring a note from your doctor to that efTect, and I'll O. K. it," said Doc tor Meylan. Rosenstock brought this note, signed by a physician: "This Is to certify that Felix Metz ger Rosenstock 1b suffering from an exceedingly bad case of Caroanserinu sabmetu, and his condition will be ag gravated If he goes near the water." The name was new to Doctor Mey lan, but he translated it with the help of a Latin . dictionary? caro, flesh; anserinus, of the goose; ab metu, from fear ? goosefiesh from fear. Jtosenstock was not excused from his swimming examination. ** He and four others failed to get their de gree. Health. There w%s a bank clerk who saw the men of his own age losing health year by year through overwork, indoor sedentary life and lack of dally ex ercise. He saw them growing yellow and flabby and unfit, and the spectacle didn't attract him. He decided that success had better come late, or even not at all, rather than at the price of a ruined body. Health became to him the choicest of the mercies, the best of life's comrades. Up and away the person in health can dash ? to another Job, to another clime, master of his fate. Ill health is a chain that ties to the dreariness of what is nearest at hand. After a youth of weakness and fatigue, the rtian was happy in finding that an hour of exercise a day changed the aspect of the outer world, and removed him for all time from the ranks of the unfit. ? Collier's jWeekly Jungle Experience^ The hour was rather late, and con versation at the club had turned upon mysterious midnight noises. An eeri? feeling pervaded the atmosphere, and a spare young man struck a furthei weird note. "Gentlemen," he said, "for real aw? give me the roaring of the lion, or sharp trumpeting of an elephont, borne on the night air as you lie silent and inert." They looked at him in surprise. Wai this spare youth some great \raveler1 "Have you really slept in the j)ingl? and heard these sounds?" queried one of his listeners, with interest. "Well, not exactly," said the youth* as he edged towards the door; "bul I sleep with my window open, and mj rooms are by the zoological gardens!" A Chemist's Monument. A monument to Chemist Berthelot Is being finished by Sculptor Saint Marceau, and it is designed to be erected only a short distance away from the laboratory where he worked. The funds were secured by Interna tional subscription. The subject of a memorial to W. T. Stead is being con sidered by his English associates and! will probably take the form of some ; sort of an Institution for women, ae he was always greatly interested In the cause of woman. It Is also likely that a monument will be erectcd on the Thames embankment! I 1 An Overestimate. Gllzzard ? riVJipt I've Bmokod fifty of those dnrnod things tsday! Shykes (oountln- the matches on the floor) ? n-bl ciirp, you do yoursell a cruol I njn ><u've smoked only ?wenty-sev' Ducks aro profitable. Provide polos for beans. ?? Take good euro of the colts. I'lant corn after sugar boots. ? Careful feeding prevents scours. T he Hoason for grape pruning is past. Don't sow untested seed of any kind. " Sow p?Hs early, then plant for suc cession. tirass will soon show in the color of the butter. Concrete makes a good foundation and barn wall. Initiate the butter-fat test and recall the boarder cow. Many an animal with a pedigree 1b not a profit producer. Farming problems demand good Judgment and keen thinking. *1 he silo has come to stay as a per manent form of farm equipment. UarnB and silos save feed enough In * short time to pay for themselves. The dairy farm that is carefully managed improves from year to year. A bruBh to wash dairy' utensils Is -mom~-*atUtary than the tlme.hoporod rag. A solid concrete base for the sepa rator will lengthen the life of the ma chine. Silage is the cheapest dairy feed thorn Jb and in. many reBpects it Is the best. ..j The man who breeds the best stock 1b almost invariably the leader in his community. ' . I he mating of ewea and rams takes place from the last of March to the middle of June. For bloat in sheep give one dram hyposulphite of 'Boda and three drams pf spirits of ammonia. Chicks must bo well fed to grow; the feeding pen saves the feed and protects the little chicks. When vegetables are grown to sell, the eye must be consulted as well as the palate. "The looks of things" count. It's fun to watch the thrifty early Bpring pigs tumbling over ono another trying to see which will got to the trough first. To rid the premises of rats, fill the holes with tin scraps from the tinners or with broken glass and plaster over with cement. . / There is nothing that adds the ap pearance of prosperity to the farm stead more readily than good paint on buildings and fences. There Is nothing like spring sun shine for the cows." Their quarters may be ever so comfortable but the sunBhine does them good. Did you forget to trim the trees? Say, go out in the orchard and" do a little trimming some day and give the team a little extra rest at noon. A few hours of work "grounding" the wires of the fence about the pas ture may save the best cows in the herd from destruction by lightning. It is just as necessary to plow or otherwise- cultivate the peach orchard, when it bears not a peach, as it Is when the trees are to be loaded with fruit. > ? / A Colorado fruit grower has pat ented electric massage for fruit trees. The object is to enable fruit trees to resist frost when they are budding and blossoming, A mixture of salt, ashes and salt peter raked into the soil when pre paring the onion bed, stimulates the growth of the onions and tends to banish the onion maggot. Work a little slacked lime into the noli where your cabbages are to be grown to prevent club-root. A garden well fertilized better reslBts the at tacks of pests than one meagerly fed. In starting ? new hedge begin it as soon as the ground Ib workable from receding frost, it pays to dig out the ?oi! and enrich it bb for making a garden bed or border. The digging rhouki be to the depth of two feet. SAWYER'S KID Our cooling drinks and ice creams are pure, nour ishing FOODS, easy to digest. Our creams are Jersey-rich; our sodas contain snowflake-pure syrups. The flavorings we use are fresh and nat ural, and most delicious. Give your little folks a dime a piece and let them come, to our cooling fount and have a wholesome meal. Our Candy is PURE. Come to OUR Drug Store Sawyer Drug Company Smile Producers You'll smile and look pleasant when ' you partake of a Cool Drink such as we dispense at our Fount. Camden Candy Kitchen Polite and Courteoua Waiters to Serve You REAL ESTATE SELL Do You Want to \ loan BORROW I May Help You. LAURENS T. MILLS. CAMDEN, S. C. You Cannot Help ^ ? & But Select a Becoming late . Spring and Summer HAT From Our Display of Exclusive Fashionable Millinery for our showing comprises the latest and really exclusive models. Smart, refined, becoming effects? the best of materials and reasonable prices. MISS MATTIE GERALD