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SKILL MYSTERY SOLVED. Gruesome Find in Ancient Mansion , Correctly Classified. Shades of Edgar Allen Poe. the! mystery of a human head, the grue- > some flinty relic picked from the walls of the old Laurens mansion, J( that is being rapidly razed to the ( around at the corner of Laurens and; , Bay streets, has been exploded. Hundreds of people have stood be- j fore the King street store window | , in which the petrified head from the I old Charleston residence has been j , exhibited since its discovery. The I . Savants and the highbrows of the community have swapped glib sur mises across the unresponsive dome j that was acclaimed a cranium. Just what the suspicious looking , boulder with two holes where a human's eyes are supposed to happen. ^ and a pitiful wrinkle about its wide open mouth, chanced to be in this life j has been a matter of ardent conjee- . ture during the past several days. That Fracture. At first he was an Indian, who came to his end by some foul means (' and was bricked in a-la-Black-Cat-orCask-of-Amontillado. An irregular , had evidently been suffered by ( the unfortunate stone-head. Some ( miserable sneak thief had probably entered his wigwam at ^Jead of night and attempting to extract a few paltry strings of negotiable wampum f aroused a squaw, whose shriek 1 awaked her lord in time for that ^ worthy to receive his deathblow. Some onlookers differed as to the location of the deathwound. A deep ^ cut. that had undoubtedly been stiched while fresh with cat gut and I a fishbone needle appeared directly t above the left eyebrow or at least the place where the eyebrow used to be. 1 The ossified Indian theory was abandoned when it became known i that petrification in this neck of the 1 woods means limestone and not flint, i Those High Cheek Bones. The object of public curiosity and ? some solicitude for himself and his < ^ family bore criticism with extreme I /fortitude and good will. It was even ? mentioned in his presence that he t had high cheek bones, and again that t he had come over in ballast in the t hold of a tramp steamer with a bunch 1 of other' cobble stones that took their origin from clay less fine. All t of this the hungry skull, with the 1 open mouth received without com- 1 ment. z "I will donate it to the Charleston i museum," said the holder of the an- ( y cient relic, ."after the populace have ' gazed t,heir fill." \ To doubters the ever present t group of excited "scientists" have 1 merely extended the unfortunate hu- S man's gums. "Feel here," was the 1 sesame which opened the door of ? perception for the less imaginative ( of its beholders, "clearly he (the I -status of Neanderthal suffrage ap- z ! pears to have left no doubt as to the ( sex of the deadhead), possessed a splendid set of molars." I That jaw-bone-tooth-socket experi- i ment proved a clincher. The neo- ( phytes have been succumbing to it s ever since the outraged cobble-stone c became the centre of a label that endowed with former human attributes t ' . and petrified it subsequently. 1 What It Really Is. i ^ A cobble-stone?for such it has " ? o government z I oeen piuuvuu?u ? r expert, one of the nation's ablest s men in such lines of research who f is in Charleston today. 1 The expert, reading of this "10,000 year old" Indian skull, paid a ? visit to its depository, expecting to t add to his store of anthropological i information. But he had no sooner 1 taken one look at it, than he threw ? up his hands, to exclaim that it was i merely a cobble-stone of irregular i shape, explaining that the two holes ? resembling eye sockets, and other i coincidental indentations had misled I the finders of the rock. It resem- i bled a human head in a vague way s only. s Au Bevoir. I ! Anyhow, the so-called Indian skull, I even if it is nothing but cobble-stone,! i has served to interest the public no! little, and should be exhibited per-;j ,i? ov.TnHian ex-Detrified maneiiii> as an v..? - . ex-skull.?Charleston Post. < The Limit of Legal Tender. j The largest amount that a person i making payment may offer in silver or copper coins, with the certainty ; that the other party to the transac- ] tion cannot refuse, is commonly ( known as the "limit of legal tender." ] A definite limit is specified for coins L of each denomination except gold coins and silver dollars both of^ which may be used in making legal j j tender up to any amount. Of the;] small coins now current. 1 cent and 11 5 cent pieces are good only up to | 25 cents. Dimes, quarter dollars and i half dollars are good in making pay-h ments up ?o $10. Although it is done' as a matter of business custom there is no law compelling any one to j: make change, and, as a matter of law, a street car conductor, for ex-j ample, can refuse to take the 5-oent fare out of a dime just as he can re-j fuse to take it out of a $10 bill. CONTAINS GRAYK WARNING. Copenhagen Paper Comments on C American Note. London,' Feb. 14.?The Copenhagen Politiken, commenting on the te American note to Germany, is quot-joi eri in a dispatch from the Danish U; capital to the Exchange Telesraph js as saying that "America is acting w with all the energy which might he j,j expected, and her note contains a Ql grave warning: so grave that war rf between Germanv and the United i States can no longer be regarded as|tl an impossibility. |q "President Wilson and Secretary ;g( Br yap," the PolitiKen says, "arejCi peace-loving men. but public opinion ' jr in America and Anti-German senti-g( aient may drive them farther than g, they desire." The newspaper con- a tinues: A "America stands to win a lot mere- r 1 Iv by confiscating German ships now j p; interned in American harbors. Ger-jgi tnany has everything to lose, and it p is earnestly to be hoped that th^ c. \merican warning will not be with- p put the desired effect in Berlin." j Further dispatches say the German p warning to neutral shipping has p :aused anxiety and suspense in Scan- tj iinavia, as there are 150 steamers jt :oming from over the seas. \\ The Scandinavian shipping confer- 7] >nce, it is said, disscused the ques- d :ion of cooperation between the gj L'njted States and Scandinavia, but jo :he positions were so difficult that a 7] ombination was impossible. g ~ p, Woman on a Pedestal. Woman is the strongest moral ^ 'orce on earth and the helm of all 01 :hings human. She is the mother of all living? H lers are the sacred dead. n She is the most relevant thing in : F' lature. She is as sunshine on a; t ji1 * loliday, Balm o' Gilead, strength in veakness. T She is as a full moon in harvest. T! i prepetually recurring comfort and ;onsolation; as cold water to a :hirsty soul and as the shadow of 1 great rock in a weary land. Of She is a rod and a staff, a friend hat sticketh closer than a brother, Ct he eternal feminine that draws men >? a single hair. The words of her mouth are sweet;r than honey and smoother than >utter in a lordly dish; she is ain( ieaven-born apparition, sent to bei^1 in earth-worn ornament?a help- p? neet given that men may know what ar Jod in womap can bestow. She is all things to all men?Lot's at vife, Miriam with her harp, Ruth in he cornfield, Rebecca at the well,jm Jagar in the desert, Mary at the;11' Sepulchre. She is Cleopatra, Helen, j _ 3oadicea, Lucretia, Borgia, Florence ,;bi Nightingale. Mother Bickerdyke, |cc Jrace Darling, Jenny Geddes, Annie .aurie, Bonnie Jean, Victoria Queen 1 _ md Empress, the Red Virgin of the J p] Commune, Emmeline Pankhurst. 0J She is heaven and hell incarnated. Jer love is eternal, her hate is im-| j.j nortal, her instinct passes the wis-{ lorn of men. her reason the wit of! e, ;ages. her counsel is as the counsel sz >f princes. She is fair as the moon, clear as sj he sun, terrible as any army with; Q, lanners, and like dew on the gowan, w s the fa' o' her fair feet. ni Thrones, dominions, principalities 0, md powers have bowed to her sway, tj ;he has crushed empires beneath her j a] eet, the proudest of the sons of men iave craved life at her hands. She suffers long and is kind: she!tj suffers briefly and is cruel. She enties not: she is filled with jealously. CI She vaunts not herself: she displays ler charms. She is not puffed up: b; she cackles. She does not behave j ]a mseemingly; she behaves herself un- js jecomingly. She seeks not her own: she fights to the death for that which s hers. She thinks no evil; she sus- i? )eets the circumspect. She rejoices :sj sot in iniquity; she finds unction in j ti scandal. She rejoices in the truth: ]l she is the high priestess of evasion. | tj she bears all things, she believes all j ^ :hings. She hopes all things; she|ni lever fails. S( She is strenuous and dilatory, 0] strong and weak, resolute and irre-j tl solute, determined and vacillating. I ei ?arnest and unearnest, vigorous and j h lebile. ardent and cold, bold and \ bi 'earful and energetic and feeble, ig; rehement and emasculate. r< She is love and hate, affection j, ind hatred, attachment and dislike. passion and ice, devotion and x estrangement, benevolence and un- w kindness, charity and uncharitableness, kindness and malice. a: She is loyalty and insurgency, ficiei-i ti ity and unfaithfulness, allegiance| an*d treason, obedience and rebel- J ti lion, constancy and inconstancy, i S( truth and falsity. . t! In the first blush of motherhood J (] she is the envied of gods and all; e angels: she is a thing of divine beau-j j; tv as she cuddles to her breast her! firstborn to be a Christ, or a crimi-l p nal: a Judas, or a Justus: a Cassius. j ]{ or a Caesar: a Booth, or a Lincoln, j si To be a Moses, or a Ma^hiavelli: ai0 C.o'iath or a David: a Burns or a j ti bibbler: a Cagliostro, or a Chitchton:! s a Shakespeare, or a suffragist: aj_ SPKX11S TWO MILLION'S. leik of Ways ami .Means Committee Prepares Statement. Columbia, Feb. 11.?It will be incresting to study how the $2,000,>0 that the State annually expends nder its general appropriation act spent. .Mr. DePass, clerk of the ays and means committee, has preired a correct and detailed summary ' the sub-divisions under the bill as cported, which is as follows: Following is a recapitulation of te appropriation bill: overnor's office $ 18.830.00 icretary of State 7..">20.00 omptroller general .. .. 10,200.00 isurance Com 11,095.00 :ate treasurer S.650.00 apt. of education 12,340.00 djutant general 24,130.00 ttorney general 5,845.00 ailroad commission .... 14,089.00 ublic schools 250,000.00 :ate librarian 2,476.00 ublic buildings 32,620.88 atawba Indians 7.500.00 ept. of Agri. .! 12,120.00 udicial -department .... 55.676.25 iealth department .. .. 55,676.25 'd of Med. Exams 3,000.00 ax department 97,746.42 | ni. of S. C 103,251.44 1 'inthrop 156,249.32 ! be Citadel 36.000.00 | eaf and Dumb Inst. .. 59,600.00! i :ate negro college 15,000.00] ther Edu. purposes .... 1,500.00. he asylum 309,700.00; C. Industrial School .. 31,000.00 1 anitentiary 7.050.00] ] ther charitable and penal purposes 4.305.00 tiief game warden 3,900.00 ' istorical commission .. 4,550.00 i iterest on bonded debt 261.033.38 ! lections 9",275.00; spenses common to both houses 520.00 ; he senate 18,765.00; tie house 36,277.20 i ngrossing Dept. 6.344.00, edical college 37.SOS.00 | iscellaneous 125,309.94 ate warehouse com- \ | missioner 17,337.65 jnfederate infirmary .. ^ 17,454.75' Total $1,942,986.23 The appropriation for pensions is )t included in the above. A bill oviding for $300,000 has been issed by the house and the waysid means committee has provided r a levy of one mill to cover this nount. i The $300,000 for pensions is not eluded and added to the direct ;ms totals $2,242,986.23, which are e final and checked figures in the 11 reported by the ways and means immittee. Read The Herald. $1.50 per year.j reacher or a panderer; a reformer - a renegade; a man or a manikin. ! Her reign is forever and ever; her ingdom is without beginning of . ays or end of nights; she >s from! /erlasting to everlasting and the ime yesterday, today and tomorrow.! She walks by faith and not by i ght and her hand is the right hand ; fellowship. Nature made men i hen she was an apprentice, she ade woman when she was mistress j R her heart. She Is the last and' ie best of all created things, and j 1 angels and all furies are drawn: i her image. Her love is stronger lan death, her jealousy cruel as ie grave, her hate needs, no added tterness, her sorrow is sorrow's, own. For darlings who triumph in the, ittles of peace, she weaves gar- j nds, those of Helios; for them she! all smiles and woman-witchery; ! )r her heroes who go forth beneath j ie banners of war and return to! 5r breast, borne upon many a bloody! lield, she is transfigured. A light! iat never shone on sea or land il-! imines her face with a glorv-glow, | lat God or man, or angel, never i new. There lies her diadem of; lotherhood who gave his life a ran-; >m for many; a purple testament j f blood-red war. She hears again j ie tumult and the shouting, the; irthquake-shout of victory, and as! e is borne from her to his last j ivouac, her heart is torn with min-i led emotions of joy and mother-sor-i 3w?her cry is as the cry which! urst from the lips of every British I lilor on that October morning when elson was lost, and Trafalgar wasi on. She brought sin into the world nd by her came also the Resurrecon and the Life. At her command the dreams of -oubled fancy flee. It is hers to jothe the friendless grief, to wipe ie deathdew from the brow of the R ying. to calm the struggling spirit H re it part and hush the groans of R lo s lasi agony. The day breaks. The shadows eo. The bars are down. The ever- ' isting gates are open wide. Hope j pes a star. Faith hears the rustle i : f angels' wings. There She stands :> welcome you. You are hers and j : he is yours for ever?your mother. L. -G. M. in Insurance Critic. I HiH JL tfltllJU K . . * 1 . , ?i?^* ????~ "" /j&j Your troubles and the War : ^ by reading up-to-date litera- I ture. We have just added | to our large line of Station- J erv, Office and School Sup plies a large line of all the ? LcucaincvY i| Magazines 1 And hereafter you can get J - any Magazine you want here. | If ther? is some special one you want that we haven't in S stock let us know what it is jf and we will get it for you. .Jj Also, if there is any new book jj /vul- vr/\ii tiror*f ^1*^11 J ltd I uui inai jruu YY ant kv/ii it to us" and we will get it for you. Come to see us. I Those New J Steel Pens] | \ We have added still another fl line to our ever growing as- 1 sortment. We now have a full line of the National Pen j| Co.'s new Writewell Special Nickel Silver Line Steel Pens. | ? v 1 i I ""'A? The Herald Book Store ' 'It ' - ' - % All Mail Orders Filled Same Day Received Bamberg, South Carolina 'Si ? ???J "-/9m * j tffr&itr,r'u .w??riirrt I^UOSdoLiMfci