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rr7*;''- . ... . v ?1|| PgglTHE BAMBERG HERALD. W | ? " j a Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1906 One Dollar a Year || .? 1?M , - IN THE PALMETTO STATE. INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Slate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading Pungent Paragraphs About Men 4 and Happenings. Mayor T. H. Gibbes was re-elected mayor of Columbia laft Tuesday, defeating Col. J. Q: Marshall. The vote was 1,026 for Gibbes to 816 for Marshall. ? The hotel at White Stone Springs, ) Spartanburg connty, was burned last Sunday night. Most of the furniture ** was saved. The loss seems to be covered by insurance. Superintendent Frank Evans of the Spartanburg city schools has been api ? pointed on the board of the Jamestown 1 exposition, in place of J. Wright Nash, who declined to serve. K. A. Windham was tried at Darlington last week for the murder of Charles Amerson at Lamar in that county a few weeks ago, and acquitted. It is said that - much evidence was likely suppressed. Both parties white. Mr.'W. H. Hand, superintendent of the dty schools of Chester, has been elected professor of the department of pedagogy x in the South Carolina University at Columbia. He has accepted, and will enter upon his duties at the opening of the fall session. A white tramp who insulted a white lady in Cherokee county last week was I caught by a crowd of men and severely | * whipped and told to leave the country. ' > The crowd wanted to lynch him, but were * prevented from doing so by the woman's father. T. C. Thompson, colored, was shot and ^ killed on the place of Dr. J. B. Steppe at r Switzer, Spartanburg county, on SaturI day night between 12 and 1 o'clock, while I ' v ho and several others were sitting round t' -vv the fire. The weapon was a shotgun and > it. was fired from the-outside through a j -window. ; ? n. M. miliar, lue vuiui^u mwjci nuv attempted to bribe the deputy sheriff of '- V .'' ticbland county to release some pickpockets whofee case he was interested in, '* and who himself was arrested for at>' . tempted bribery, has been released on a fejcash bond of $1,500. He says he will rer torn in June for trial. K ' One hundred and fourteen packages of whiskey shipped to the state dispensary 'by the Big Springs Distilling company of Savannah, Ga., were seized by internal * revenue officers a few days ago because * of ilfegal stamps. Efforts are making for ... a compromise, the company claiming . ' that it was only a mistake on their part. o ^ Dal Spinks, an engineer on the Southern, while leaning out of his cab window was struck by some object and knocked to the ground and killed. The accident : .r 4 happened on 8undav between Latham > and Easley, 13 miles south of Greenville. j& He was a citizen of Greenville and was / 60 years old and had been an engineer j; \ for forty-two years. J. M. Ashley was shot and killed in the town of Honea Path, Anderson county, last Thursday afternoon by Policeman : ; * > White. The policeman attempted to ar; rest the dead man's son because of some 1 * troubl^with a negro, when J. M. Ashley i began the shooting. One of his shots hit the policeman on a finger and splintered his club. Policeman White returned the w * * fire, mortally wounding Ashley, he dying t about four hours later. The Ashleys say the dead man was shot for no cause, but eye-witnesses say it was clearly a case of self defense. Ashley was a cousin of c Joshua W. Ashley, who is a member of the legislature. McLaurin May Run. Mr. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, who was in the city yesterday, stated that there is a lot of talk in that section of j the country to the effect that Mr. John L. McLaurin may oppose Senator Till; "> man on the stump this summer. Mr. Stevenson thinks that Mr. McLaurin can command a larger vote than is commonly [ V supposed, although it might not be | enough to defeat Senator Tillman. Mr. , Stevenson is out of politics himself.? Columbia State. * Why is it that some people will never pay a bill the first time it is presented, ? but invariably have the collector call again and again? Collecting bills is a ' great deal of trouble and every man who makes pretensions to business should pay them as soon as they are presented. Even in this country, the home of free i ralitHnn. John Dew. a Bible teacher of I Boston was sent to jail. It was not because he read the Douay or King James version, but because he forged a few certificates of stock. He can now take a five years' course in his Bible while he is serving a term in prison. "I am greatly troubled with kleptomania," exclaimed the fashionably dressed woman, as she bustled into the drug * department. "Now what would advise me to take for it?" 'Your departure, madame, by all means," replied the floorwalker and bowed her to the elevator. A LIVELY TUSSLE Tvith that old enemy of the race, constipation, often ends in appendicitis. To # avoid all serious trouble with stomach, liver and bowels, take Dr. King's New Life Pills. They perfectly regulate these - organs, without pain or discomfort. 25c nt Hoover's drug store and J. B. Black's. DARING ATTACK ON LITTLE GIRLS. Negro Attempts to Assault Little White Girl in Rock Hill. Rock Hill, March 11.?An attempted assault on a 14-year-old white girl was made by a negro boy Saturday afternoon near the Arcade cotton mills, in this city, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Four young girls, from 8 to 11 years 01 age, left their homes in the mill village for a neighbor's house to purchase milk. They had gone to the house and secured the milk and were returning home, when a negro boy appeared before the oldest girl in the party and made a disgraceful remark to her. She, like the remaining three girls, became frightened. The negro caught hold of both of her arms near the shoulders and tried to push her to the ground. By this time her companions had deserted her and she was left in the woods with the negro. The negro, who had a knife in his hand all of the time, told her he would cut her throat if she did not agree to do as he had asked her. She screamed fiercely while the negro continued to scuffle with her. Presently the negro became frightened and released her, after he had succeeded in tearing some of her garments. The negro made his escape by going through the woods near by, from which the young girls had just come. The little girl went home and reported the affair to her father. A negro boy who had been cutting wood around over the mill hill was at once suspected and the city authorities were immediately notified of the affair. The negro in question is William Crosby. Crosby had slipped around through the woods and was brave enough to come to Main street, and by 4 o'clock that afternoon he had secured a job in the meat market of Robbins & Wilsont on Railroad avenue, in the heart of the city. A little later he was arrested by Officers Miller and Devinney in a store just across from the depot and lodged in the city guard house. He was arrested about dark. It was the intention of Chief Partlow to keep the negro in the lock-up until the next morning, when he would take the negro before the little girls to identify him. Owing to the wild excitement which was raging in the mill village, be thought it best to get ^he negro out of town just as soon as possible. About 11 o'clock that night he slipped the negro out of the guard house and carried him to the mill village, where he was identified by three of the young girls as the man who had made the attempt. Officer Langley was then told to take the negro to Yorkville and lodge him in the county jail and by 2 o'clock the orders had been fulfilled. The negro stated to Mr. Langley on their way to Yorkville that he was 26 years of age. He also stated that he had not been on the Arcade mill hill in over a year. He was seen at the mill yesterday about 12 o'clock collecting money that was due him for work he had done for the citizens at the mill. The affair was not generally known over the city until today, but the excitement ran high all of Saturday night among the mill people. Everything is quiet now. "An Editor" Defined. The definition of an editor, given by the Spectator in a review of the new edition of Blake's poems, is worthy of quotation: "A good editor in an immortal benefactor. His work, unlike the work of the critic, can never pass away. He loses himself, subordinates all his personal predilections and aims to the meaning of his author, and his reward is perpetuity for his work and oblivion, it may be, for himself. He helps readers to their destination, and like the engine driver of a train, is forgotten as soon as they have arrive in safety. He is like a perfectly transparent window through which the light of his author streams without diminution or distortion; while the aesthetic and original critics resemble a window of colored glass which permits the passage of only bo much light as will serve to set off the pride of the artist." Fellow Countrymen. An English actor tells a story of an Irishman named Flanagan, who had been out of work for some time, and at length applied to a circus proprietor for a position. There was no regular place open, but the manager looked Flanagan over and said: "Our largest lion died last week, but we kept his skin, and if you like to get into it, and be shown as a lion, you can have the inb." Flanagan agreed. At the first show the proprietor stepped into the cage and said: "Ladies and Gentlemen: To prove the docility of this roaring lion, I shall order him into the cage with a ferocious tiger." Flanagan hung back, but the circus proprietor prodded him with a sword and threatened to run him through, and the "lion" was driven into the same cage with the tiger. There he backed into a corner and cried, "spare me!" Then the ferocious tiger jumped to his feet and answered, "Ye needn't be afraid of me. I'm an Irishman meslf! "?Western Recorder. Three little rules we all should keep, To make life happy and bright, Smile in the moring, smile at noon, Take Rocky Mountain Tea at night. H. F. Hoover. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Aroand the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, March 12.?Mr. M. A. Kinard was kicked by one of Mr. S. H. Folk's horses. Mrs. Folk, who is Mr. Kinard's sister, was spending the day, and when ready to leave Mr. Kinard went intn tho lnt trk hriHle the hnrsp. The horse instead of giving his head gave his heels, which struck Mr. Kinard in the back between the shoulders. The kick is painful but not thought dangerous. On Friday and Saturday evening, March 30th and 31st, at 7.30 p. m., there will be preaching in Ehrbardt Lutheran church, with services on Sunday, April 1st, both morning and afternoon. Holy communion after the morning sermon. Rev. P. E. Monroe will be assisted in these services by Rev. Miller, of Mt. Pleasant, N. C. Mrs. H. Z. and J. E. McMillan and Misses Sudie and Florrie McMillan spent Sunday with Mrs. W. P. Pate. Mrs. W. W. Dewitte, whQ was burnt several days since by accident, is not ex* pected to live. Mr. L. A. Bikle, who was in the Den* mark wreck, is home with his family, nursing his breaks and bruises. Will be some time before he is able to attend his work again. Corn and bay are in good demand among oar farmers. Bad business, as bought corn will not fatten stock. For much cotton will certainly reduce the price in the fall. Corn should be looked after more. Jee. Old-Fashioned "Circuit Riders/' Eugene Wood, in "The Old-Time Revival," in Everybody's, describes as follows the "circuit-riders" who used to distribute religion to our forbears: "Never before was there such a spreading of the Gospel. The aureoled saints that converted Europe were but a feeble folk beside them, slow-motioned, temporizing. They were unlearned men, these circuit-riders. As one of them has said, they 'murdered the king's English at every lick,' but they had power given unto them to move the hearts of men, such power as we can only estimate by first reading the accounts of camp meetings in the 'airly days,' and then going to a modern one,thinly attended and only by the very old, at that, and deadly with a dullness that no brass quartet, or hired singers of religious ballads, or frequent jingling of tawdry 'gospel hymns' can lighten in the least degree. In the old days whole settlements were utterly deserted to attend camp meeting, and if the rowdies came and brought their whiskey aoa ikat olcn UUtllCS a LIU rnauc uuiui uuuk/i/j, wan aisu was good times in religion. A mighty power could smile them senseless to the ground, if not the preacher's fist on 'the burr of the ear,' as Peter Cartwright calls it. Says he*: 'I did not permit myself to believe that any man could whip me till it was tried.1 But the mighty power could not always be depended on, and if 'the slain of the Lord' did not keel over by the hundred under bis preaching, the circuit-rider examined his heart to find out why." In the spring time you renovate your house. Why not v our body? Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea drives out impurities, cleanses and enriches the blood and purifies the system. 35c. H. F. Hoover. m I One of the strangest cases' of kleptomania ever brought to light was heard in Paris. A certain woman had such a passion for smoking and for coloring meerschaum pipes that she had been for a long time stealing pipes of this description from shops. In the flat which she occupied there were found no fewer than 2,600 pipes, not one of which, it is believed, she had paid for. Keep the little ones healthy and happy. Their tender, sensitive bodies require gentle, healingremedies. Hollister's Reeky i Mountain Tea will keep them strong and ORA Trto A* f aKlnfo TT P TTAntror ITCli. UV/V/j VI unviviiOt XX x* xxw* vit It may not be generally known that for barns and scalds nothing is more soothing than the white of an egg, which may be poured over the wound. It is softer for a burn than collodion, and being always at hand can be applied. It is also more cooling than the sweet oil and cotton, which were formerly supposed to be the surest application to allay smarting pains. It is the contact with the air which gives the extreme discomfort experienced from the ordinary accident of this kind, and anything that excludes the air and prevents inflammation is the thing to be at once applied. TORTURE BY SAVAGES. "Speaking of the torture to which some of the savage tribes in the Philippines subject their captives, reminds me of the 1UICUSC SUUCliU^ X CUUU1VU AVi vuivv months from inflammation of the kidneys," says W. M. Sherman, of Cushing, Me., "Nothing helped me until I tried Electric Bitters, three bottles of which completely cured me." Cures liver complaint, dyspepsia, blood disorders and malaria; and restores the weak and nervous to robust health. Guaranteed by Hoover's drug store and J. B. Black. Price 50c. MARION ASHLEY KILLED AT HONEA PATH. Excitement Intense for a While and Militia Took Charge. At Honea Path last Thursday afternoon John Marion Ashley, one of the most prominent members of the Ashley family, was shot and mortally wounded by Pnlirpinan Whit.fi of that town. From what can be learned White was making an effort to arrest one of the Ashleys for some disturbance, when Marion Ashley pulled out his pistol and shot at White. Several shots were exchanged between the two, Mr. White being shot in the ' hand and Ashley receiving a wound which caused his death in a few hours. Excitement ran high and White was spirited away to a place of biding by his friends, as the Ashley family gathered in large numbers as soon as they leu.r?d of the shooting of Marion. All sorts of rumors were afloat and the military company from Anderson went down on a special train, arriving about ten o'clock at night. They immediately assumed charge of affairs. White was placed on the train and carried to Anderson f<^r safe keeping. The military spent the entire night on duty, and order is restored. The dead man was one of those mentioned in connection with the lynching of the negro Allen Pendleton a few months ago. Pat Yourself in His Place. Suppose you had contracted to carry a lot of people in your wagon from one place to another, and one of the passengers would persist in jumping on and off while you were trotting along the road and you would tell him half a dozen times he was likely to get hurt and finally he did get hurt and sued you for damages, and a jury would give him $2500, you would think you had been mighty badly treated, wouldn't you? And so you would have been. But that is exactly what a jury did to a railroad company in o_t_ tt c_ rn r% ~ 4 OUllimee vs. n. 00 x. v. xvjr., a tasc uicu in district coart in Collin county. A boy sixteen years old was a passenger ann persisted in getting off at every station and waiting until the train started before he got back on. He was warned a half dozen times that he would get hurt. But he boasted as to his ability to catch a train. And to give evidence to such dexterity he tried it again. His funeral was largely attended. Then his people put aside their tear jugs and sued the company. The jury gave them $2500 for no other reason than its desire to rob a railroad. Suppose some fellow you had cutting wood fof you was a little late in coming from his dinner, and, in harrying to his work, should accidentally run against | some man, who got in his way, and injure him and the man should sue you for dam ages and a jury would give him $5000, you would froth at the mouth wouldn't you! And you would have a froth coming. Yet, this'is the kind, of justice a jury gave a railroad in the case of Edwards vs. M. K. & T. Ry. (4 Tex. Ct. Rep. 784) tried in Denton County. A-train stopped for dinner. The brakeman was delayed in getting his, and the train started before he finished. He ran to catch on and bumped against some loafer who happened to be standing around. The fellow was knocked down and hurt and a jury stuck the company for $5000. Do you think these exceptional or extreme cases? Not a bit of it. They are mAf*Altr oflmnloo Knn^roHo of inctonPPQ UiV/1 ViJ OOUiyi^O VI UUUU? VMM V4 AMWWMMVVW I where juries have given verdicts against a railroad in cases which would have been hooted and laughed out of court had they been brought against individuals.? Texas Coaster. The Awkward Squad. Capt. Tillman, drilling awkward squad of Republican Senators: , "Attention company. Get into line there, Private Aldrich. This is not a Standard Oil picnic. "Body erect on hips. Don't project your stomach on the landscape, Private Elkins. "Heels together. Look at your feet Private Piatt. You are not an express messenger boy. 4iKeep knees straight. What's the matter with you, Spooner ? Are you bowlegged ? "Righ? dress. Draw in your beer tank, Lodge. The man on your left can't see beyond you. (tLet the arms and hands hang naturally, palms to the front. Here, Private Depew, what are you doing with your hands behind your back, and the palms held upward? Yoislook like a hotel waiter expecting a tip. Didn't you hear the command, eyes right? Quit looking to the left in the direction of the insurance companies. "Private Burton is, I believe, in the guard house, and cau't drill just now. "Attention company. Shoulder arms. Forward march, and don't look so dam sulky about it."?Memphis CommercialAppeal. A SCIENTIFIC WONDER X lie cures luai aiauu iu 113 ucuu waac Bucklen's Arnica Salve a scientific wonder. It cured E. R. Mulford, lecturer for the patrons of husbandry, Waynesboro, Pa., of a distressing case of piles. It heals the worst bums, sores, boils, ulcers, cuts, wounds, chilblains and salt rheum. Only 25c at Hoover's drug store and J. B. I Black's. M'LAURIN FOR THE CABINET. Former Senator From South Carolina May be Invited to Accept a Place. Washington, March 11.?Recently there have been many expressions of opinion from the South in favor of having a a Southern man in the cabinet. That section has had no representative in the cabinet since H. A. Herbert, of Alabama, and Hoke Smith, of Georgia, retired. The renewed talk of cabinet changes, the report that Secretary Taft may be appointed a justice of the supreme court, that Secretary Hitchcock may retire in the summer and that Secretary Wilson may give up the department of agriculture almost any time has led to considerable discussion of the name of former Senator John L. McLaurin of South Carolina for a place in the cabinet. When he was in the senate Mr. McLaurin was noted for the broadness of his views. He coined the phrase "Commercial Democrat," meaning the Democrat who was broad enough to rise above party environment and look after the South's material interests. President McKinley offered the senator a place on the Philippine commission,and President Roosevelt offered him a place on the court of claims. At that time he refused to accept any post Decause ne desired to be free to identify himself with the industrial development of the new South. Mr. George Yon L. Meyer, American ambassador to Russia, is to be made secretary of the navy, to succeed Mr. Bonaparte, some time during next year. Mr. Bonaparte will become attorney general in place of Mr. Moody, who retires.? New York Herald. R. A. Adams to be Hanged. R. A. Adams, the Colleton county farmer who killed his kinsman, Henry Jacques, whom he shot down in the field,after looking him up with a shotgun for that purpose, is finally to be hanged for his crime, the Supreme Court having reversed the action of Judge Townsend in granting Adams a new trial on after-discovered evidence, the after-discovered evidence consisting mostly of affidavits to show that one of the women witnesses testified in accordance with signs she received from a relative of Jacques sitting in the court room, being intimidated to do ibis by threats from the Jacques side of I the house. The Supreme Court finds that Judge Townsend was altogether in the wrong in granting such a motion, from which tbe State appealed, it Demg-conclusively settled" that the judge had no jurisdiction, since the Supreme Court had already passed upon Adams' appeal and affirmed the death sentence of the court below. The Supreme Court alone could have granted leave to apply for such a new trial. The case was before Judge Townsend merely for the purpose of having him set a new day for the execution. Judge Townsend was much criticised at the time for granting this motion. Adams has had some novel experiences since his trial and conviction. In the first place he was allowed to escape from jail, and he continued not only to live in the county, but he carried on farming operations, hiding out as circumstances required. He sent word that it would be dangerous for any one to attempt to take him. Finally a well-armed sheriff's party surprised him and captured him.? Columbia correspondence News and Courier. "You mus' fight de good fight," said Brother Williams to his congregation, "but I don't mean dat you mus' go into it wid a hymn book in one ban' en a razor in de yuther! "?Atlanta Constitution. Dispensary Investigation. Washington, D.C., March 13.?Messrs. Christensen and Lyon, of the dispensary investigation committee, arrived in Washington today on their return to South Carolina from Baltimore and New York, where they have been making investigation of claims against the State dispensary by whiskey houses in those places for goods sold in the dispensary and which are now tied up. It is assumed they will consult with Tillman about the situation. Should Not Have Hesitated. The lawyer was talking about Elihu Root's legal talent, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. "He shone in a court room,"' said the lawyer. "From the beginning of his career he shone. "He had a happy gift of humor too. One day he was cross examining a young woman. "'How old are you?' he said. "The young woman hesitated. " 'Don't hesitate,' said Mr. Root- 'The longer you hesitate the older you'll grow.'" To the best paid man. It's sound sense that we tell you. Tour work costs less dollars and is best every time you use the L. & M. paint. You do more painting with one gallon of L. & M. than with two gallons of other paints and the L. & M. zinc hardens the L. & M. white lead and makes the L. & M. paint wear like iron. 4 gallons L. & M. mixed with 3 gallons linseed4oil will paint a moderate sized house. Actual cost L. & M. about $1.20 per gallon. A. T. Terrell, River* 1 3 "V <4*1 A ttqq ro o rrr\ ncint iltmu, X1! XM W lltCSf XV J VMI a wgv ^ratuv ed with L. & M. Only now requires repainting." Sold by it. F. Hoover, Bamberg, S. C. . * V- ' ?. ' . > Who ig the "Prominent Member!" The Washington correspondent of the Columbia Record quotes one of the South Carolina delegation in the house as saying: "If there had been clean, open, square politics played against the dispen sary there might have been trouble for it, but there has been too much underhand - _ J dirt in the whole thing, too much black* guarding of character and Tile insinuation." This is a mystifying declaration. Underhanded ''dirt," for example, Jseema to be a sort of spit ball phrase, but the main question is, who is the "prominent member" who has been thus moved to righteous wrath? Seven districts all powerfully prominent, compose this impregnable and invincible delegation? the same significant number by the way, that composed the historic group of wise men in Greece, who are now dead. Of. these modern, mystic seven, at least a quartette have been counted as unfriendly to the dispensary system, namely Representatives D. ?. Finley, J. T. Johnson, Wyatt Aiken and George S. Legare.* Messrs. J. E. Ellebe and J. O. Patterson are new mpmhprfl Mr A F T.PTPr'aHii. pensary views we do not know. Who are the most prominent "members" of . .511 the seven? Who is the great unknown thus scathing in his denunciation of methods employed in fighting thedispenIn brief, if one-seventh of the House delegation in Congress from South Carolina holds these views and has given them utterance it would be fairer to sixsevenths if he come into the open. Other- , n wise, the suspicions of the Prohibitionists will be aroused more especially against one, two or three of the delegation. And woe betide them!?News and Courier. R. A. Adams in. Chains. Gov. Heyward has received the follow- ' ing telegram from Sheriff L. G. Owens of Colleton county: "I have R. A. Adams , under chains. What must I do with ^ him?" In reply Gov. Heyward stated: "Telegram received. Hold prisoner in J| safe keeping pending sentence as required by law." When Adams escaped from the Colleton county jail at Walterboro about three years ago there was a great deal of talk about the lack of proper precautions at the jail, and Sheriff Owens indicates in kio taloimm that ho nr/iiuviM /> Ka1/1 t ho UIO bViV^l UUA VUUV MV |/ftV^VWVO KV UV4U MIV - -.'jyg prisoner this time. There was a reward 1 of $1,000 for the capture of Adams but this did not, have to be paid, as the fugitive was captured by the sheriff and hit Yjji posse, after the exchange of shots. \. It is quite probable that an effort will be made to get a pardon for Adams and '-M the pardon board will have a stiff propo- . : sition in this case if the petition should . M be sent in. Adams indicated while he was in detention at the State prison in Columbia that he would try to get executive clemency.?Columbia State. Woman's Home Companion. The Woman's Home Companion for April offers an interesting list of stories, including "My Friend Jack," by Clara Morris; "The Strength of Wisdom," by Emery Pottle; and "The Ambition of Viejo Chavez," by Lanier Bartlett. Three || timely articles, illustrated with admirable ? photographs, describe "The Havoc of the Avalanche," "The Strangest of Christian Pilgrimages" and "The Four Greatest Living Americans at Work." In "The Softly Shaded Light," Louise Hamilton t shows several pretty lamp shades; Mrs. Anna S. Richardson sensibly discusses the advantages and dangers of "Beauty Culture as a Profession." Besides Miss Gould's four fashion pages, there are articles on "Lingerie Waists" and "Crocheted Norfolk Jackets;" Samuel Armstrong Hamilton tells of "A One-Sum- , merGarden," Fannie M. Farmer gives a variety of "Easter Novelties for the Table," while a hint for a First of April party helps to make the magazine both entertaining and useful. Published by I The Crowell Publishing Co., Springfield, Ohio; one dollar a year; ten cents a copy. A New Patent A pair of embroidered, fancy looking - v|g! suspenders hung in front of a Michigan avenue store the other day, and a young man stopped to examine them. "Something new?" he asked as the proprietor came out. vg| "Shust oud, mine friendt. Dose ish batent suspenders." "Are you the sole agent?" "I vhas. Dot batent came oud about two weeks ago, and my brudder in New * York sends me a shob lot yesterday. You can't buy em no blace else." "They don't look very strong." ? . "Vhat! If you can preak dose suspend- . J ars by shumping nine fences, I gif you ten bairs!" "I wonder how they'll wear?" "Shoots like iron. Here is a bair of dot patent," he replied, as he unbuttoned his vest, "dot I haf worn ofer two years." "I see that some lecturer says that the average woman talks so carelessly that it's difficult to understand her." "I wish the lecturer could be around wheD my wife speaks her mind to me." ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Socially and medicinally a housthold necessity-SHAW'S PURE MALT. For sale at the Dispensary. ^ ^