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HARVARD'S ODD CLOTHES. 1 \ m [. Students Give Cast Off Raiment to Poor-?Where SImwk and Hats tk?. Every spring there occurs at Harvard College a curious convention of the old clothes, as It might be called, at which the cast off garments of hundreds of college undergraduates meet and mingle for tho last time before starting out on an odd and practical philanthropy. The affair Is conducted by an undergraduate organization known as the Student Volunteer Association. Everything In the way of clothing la Included; underwear, suits, even an occasional dress coat, stockings with all the variegated splendor that clings to uudergraduate ankles, plain and fancy waistcoats and hats literally too numerous to mention. During the week of the collection, mays Modern Women, the old Harvard Yard Is full of moving bundles all tending toward Phillips Brooks House, where the various religious societies of the college hnvo their headquarters. Here the bundles are opened, the various articles sorted, arranged and finally distributed to local and distant charitable centers Boots and shoes, for example, are what might bo called the Tuskegee specialty at Harvard. Several boxes of thorn go annually to Booker Washington's Institute where tho shoo shops are Immediately useful in mending them up and starting them on a new career of utility. Tho Salvation Arfny In Boston gets practl cany all the derby huts. Quite a Patriarch. Ago Is r matter which seems dependent on one's point of view. A Now Yorker Imprisoned In a tonBorlal Btudlo" foil victim to the garrulousness of the artist oxocutlonor. and was Informed that the latter, recently married, was about to set forth on a visit to the old country ' "I suppose you'll take your wife along," suggested tho victim, helplessly. "No, sir. I'm not going for pleasure this tlmo. I want to see my father before he dies." "Isn't he woll?" 1 "Oh, he's well enough; but one never can tell what may hnppen. Ho's getting along In years." "How old Is ho?" "Forty-nine." , | =VC Misrepresented. '7>v- - _.w Much lias been said of the dirt of the peasants of Brlttalny, and ths well known "proverb "Ninety-nine pigs and ono Breton make a hundred Bretons," and tho still more scathing saying, "Tho Bas-Bretons and tho pigs sleep together?I should not have thought tho pigs so filthy," will serve to keep up this reputation though tho laud should he scoured with soap. The Interiors of the homes of the people are by no means always dirty, and the brass ornaments upon the cupboards, the pot# and pans aro Invariably scrupulously clean. The caps, too, of the women are always snowy white upon Sundays and week-days alike. I A Fortified Monastery. At Solovetsk, in Russia, Is a remarkable fortified monastery. It Is enclosed on every side by a wall of granite Boulders nearly a mile in circumference. The monastery Itself U very Btrongly fortified, being supported by round and square lowers about thirty feet In height, with walls twenty feet In thickness. The monastery consists In reality of six churches, which are completely filled with statues of all kinds and precious stones. Upon the walls and the towers surrounding these churches are mounted huge guns, which in the time of the Crimean War were directed against the British White Squadron. I ? Wives By Purchase. Wives are still obtained by purchase in some parts of Russia. In the district of Kamyshin, on the Volga, for example, this Is practically the only way In which marriages are brought about. The price of i pretty girl from a well-to-do family ranges from twenty to forty pounds, and in special casos a much higher sum is obtained. In the villages the lowest price is about five pounds. A young farmer whose father cannot afford to pay for a wlfo for him need not think of getting married. Honoring Family Trades.' ' A singular illustration of the per slstence with which the Japanese ad hero to their family vocations 1~ seer in an announcement ' in a Japanese newspaper that a celebrated danc lng-master was to hold a service ir honor of the one-thousandth aunt versary of the death of his ancestor who was the first of the family tt take up the profession. t i " Keeping the Air Cool. By a somewhat primitive systen the town of Thompson Fall, Mout. manages In the hottest weather t< keep rooms at a temperature of F>! degrees. Wells are covered at th< top and largo pipes tap the curren of cold air a few feet below the sur face of the ground, conveying it ti different rooms in nearby buildings | Native Tortoise Shell. Tortoise shell, as It conies to mar ket from the West Indies, is coarse dirty, and lustorless, and only thi most skilfull and patient manlpula tlon makes it the rich and beautifu material it eventually becomes. Owns 85,000 Dogs. Probably the owner of the largea number of dogs in the world is i Russian cattle king, who has 35,00< shepherd dogs to look after 1,500, 000 cattle. t imia >- A | Poetry Worth Reading.| Where tho WttjfH Knd. What la tho Horrow? A little apace? Tho cry of the fallen in the race: ? The dying cry which the world heodb not? 111 renieinbored or soon forgot. Joy or sorrow will end In rest? Dust, and n rose 011 a dreamless broAat. What Is tho sighing? It is not long; One in the end are tho Blgh and song, One tho faith, one the doubt? Tho cry of tho vanquished?the victor's shout. Victor and vanquished must creep for rest Where the dust is blown o'er tho dreamless breust. And what in tho transient gloom and glow; Is the beautiful love that wo cling to so. The rose red lip, and tho sparkling eyo? A gracious greeting?a sad good-by! With pallid faces and Hps griof prest The lovers creep to the rose for rest. So we smile at tho dark?on the pathway rough: There shall bo sunshine and rest enough, After the stormy days are past, Rest shall be sweeter at last?at last! Joy and sorrow will end In rest? n,.?> i .. ? - -i ?? aim It IUBU VII U II I v'cv III 1 breast. The Land of f,oiig Ago. Adown the leafy lane of time, By vehicle of roving rhyme, To tho Land of Long Ago! Hero shadows underneath the trees Are love's Immortal mom or lea, And faintly echo down the breeze Sweet vocal ghosts of melodies From the Land of Long Ago. Here every sorrow disappears; Here hope is king, and will no tears In this domain, nor any fearsliut years are days and days are years In the Land of Long Ago. Here thrives no rank and weedy hate, Ilero friendship dwells in noble Htate; Oh, ho is master of his fate Who can unlock tho narrow gato Of the Land of Long Ago. If any man of us there ho Whose heart is pure, whose soul la ' free. Ho shall possess the golden key To pass him in, with you and me. To the Land of Long Ago: By vehicle of roving rhyme, Adown the leafy lane of time, To tho Land of Long Ago. At tho Call of the Hoiul. Let's go out on tho road to-day, Out on the winding wide highway, Out where the shimmering vistaa shine, Wide and wonderful, yours and mine! Time there was when we wero not free: Custom thrulled us, you and me; Old Convention bade ns bido In stuffy stalls of a house Inside. But by the eager spirit's stroke All the chains at last we broke; Slipped the leash and burst the bond At the call of the road so luring fond. Now there Is none to Ray us nay! Let's go out on the road to-day: Staff In hand, let us take the road And travel far to gods' abode. Staff In hand and soul aglow, Over the halcyon hills we'll go; Over the hills and up the height Where the road dips down In a bat! of light. Robertas Love. Intent. It's true, I haven't done a lot To show my natural bent. The things to Judge folks by Is not The act, but the Intent. The crop that measured scant an small The roof where rain came through? Don't notice them. \They ain't at ah The things I meant to do. Behold that lofty mansard roof? You'll have to shut your eyes And take my spoken word ns proof? See how that grain field lies Stretched out for miles. And from afar Great crowds have come to view My vast munificence. These are The things I meant to do. Wnali Incl nti Stnr Trimming. From Greenland's icy mountains To India's coral strand, Tho kingdoms all contribute To make her bonnet grand. ' Tho mines give up their Jewels, ' The bird's glvo up their plumes, In wierd and wild profusion Tho gardens give their looms. i The orchards glvo their tr'bute Of bright forbidden fruit, ^ And every organism Is fain to follow suit. > 9 Man boasts the only c-catare Escaped from her decroo ITo wears within his headgear 0 A Presidential bee. i, McT.andburgh Wilson. Unbiased. 'Tis true, I am no more myself That Is, the self of long ago; Hut I am nearer like that elf e Than anybody that I know. - Since I nm so much like the man 1 Whom once I heartily admired, I bear with me as host I can, Although I sometimes make m< ti red. Family Tree. ' He carved initials on a tree ' Eternal love to swear, And now he cuts a switch from it To I % HOW THE SWISS MAKES AN Al&MY | 1W7,()00 Hold lore to a Population of Only Three Million*. According to the Arena the Sw1? system of militia saves millions of money to the taxpayers and gives years of freedom from military service to the soldiers. Practically all Swtsa serve from the age of 20 to 50 In the mllltla and reserves. The raw recruits go Into schools, the Infantry for forty-flve days, the cavalry for eighty days. After this the cavalry serves sixteen days oach year and the Infantry arid artillery fourteen days each every other year. The reserves serve only five or six days svery four years. The officers, of course, are carefully trained In good schools for a period of years. This short servloe would be Insufficient were It not preceded and supplemented by military training for boys In school and rifle practice every year by practically all Swiss cltisens. Target shooting ta the national Sport, and In accordance with the law a plaoe for target practice must be supplied by every town in the country. As an encouragemout prlr.es of all sorts are offered by the national government. Thus little Switzerland, with a population of leas than 3,000,000 of people, has an army of 337,000 of the most martial soldiers of Europo ? armed, equipped and ready to take th* field at a moment's notice. Rats and Silver. Rats, like magpies and Jackdaws, seem to have a partiality for silver. A lady writing In Nature Notes, says: My sister was staying In * lonely house In the southwest of Ireland. One evening the housemaid, when laying the cloth for late dinner, placed the butter-dish and silver butter-knife on the sideboard and left the room. Returning a few minutes later she found the butter-knife gone, and suspected the rats, which had taken other articles of silver. When search was made the missing butter-knife waa found behind the sideboard, and behind a heavy piece of furniture anothor butter-knife was found which had boon lost for three months. Half-way down a rat-holo In the pantry a silver fork and an ordinary dlnnorknlfe wore found. Silver teaspoons had also been found under the drawing-room floor. American Mineral Water. In 1860 about 47,000,000 gallons of mineral waters from springs In the United States were sold; In 1900, 60,000,000 gallons, and In 1906 about 76,000,000. The value at the point of shipment now reaches $12,000,000 a year, and taking Into account the expense of transit, bottling and the profits of retalleas $20,000,000 must be expended each year for American mineral waters. The productiveness of th* mlriAval * * VMW w? w HWI VA liiv United State* la practically anllmV ted, and .at the rate at which the product ia Increasing It oanaot he long before the amount aold each year will reach 1#0,000,00# gallons, about a gallon and a quarter pea capita per year. A Novel Dinner. At a cookery exhibit lately held ia Paris an lntereetlng feature waa the reproduction of a dinner offered te Napoleon I., exactly 100 years before by Prince Talleyrand, his famous Foreign Minister. It waa an elabor at* repast for twenty-alx pereoua, and the original menu of 180# prepared by Talleyrand's famous oook. Caromo, was faithfully followed. I The pots and pans used, and the table upon which the dishes were prepared, were actually the same aa used at Talleyrand's house a century ago. "Doping" on Board Ship. In his charge to the Warren county Grand Jury recently Judge Rush drew attention to the alleged "doping" with cocaine of roustabouts by steamship mates. The Judge stated that It had come to his ears that mates carried a supply of the deadly drug, which they gave to the negroes In liberal doses. When stimulated by the drug the rouater's rapacity for work Is greatly increased, but by the time the trip Is onded he Is a physical and mental wreck.?Mobile Register. Iceland's Wireless System. Iceland, cut off from the rest of the world save for slow malls, la to he linked to other countries b> means of wireless telegraphic con section with the Shetland islands This Is to follow the action of the Ice Inndlc parliament, at Its last session. !n voting a yearly subsidy of $9,380 .or twenty years for that purpose. African Drinking Customs. In German East Africa the natives who can Indulge In the luxury of drinking soda water take it dlrectlj from the bottle Instead of pouring it into a glass. The Government has forbidden this practice, on pain of severe punishment, lest white men may happen to get the same bottles refilled. 1 Railroads in United States. There are 195,000 miles of main railroad track in the United States, as compared with 271,000 miles In all the rest of the globe^?Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Canada, and Central and South America. When llrcad Was Painted. It was the vogue at one time In Venice to gild the rolls of bread and oysters on the supper table. The candles were also coated with gold. PAID HIM OUT. Tho 9mm Who Laughed Lwt Lnnghod Longest. A mmA who ?u evidently from the ooantry hod occasion recently to ge to eoe ml onr large towns on a j natter ot hualnoss. The morning ' after hie arrival he was going to 1 keep aa appointment, when he lost hie we/. Greeting the first policeman he not he asked him for Information. "How eaa I beet reach Streetr* woo the countryman's question, "Oh,"* replied the policemen, who always thought himself exceedingly ; smart, "yen east take a cab, or you can taks a motor-'bus; or, It is only about two hundred yards from here, yeu eaa walk." "Ah, yen." iatd the other, smiling, as tbeugh he wished to show an appreciation at the Joke, "I know I can walk, hat what I wamt to know Is the way." "How, that's different," responded the petteemss, with an air of superiority. Be then proceeded te give the necessary directions, and the countryman pat his hand into his pocket as if to find a tip. "Will yon take a drink?" he asked, and the constable expressed his readlnoee to do so. "Well," the countryman continued, "you had better go and get one. and you can either pay for it yourself, or you can get someone else to pay for It, or take It without paying at alL" Truth Crushed to Earth. There Is a gentleman in Brooklyn knewn to Marshall P. Wilder, who tells ths story, who Is particularly careful to aeo that none of the | vAHnoalass Its bis fa frill v uholl nonni\A I ; \'u iu muni; oiiuu uo\ U|/v the penalties of to 111 u c a falsehood Om evening a caller, taking some latereet In the eight year old lad of tke family, endeavored to get the boy te draw nearer, desiring some confidential ehat with him. But the boy hung back. "James," sharply exclaimed the father, "won't you go to Mrs. Blank?" "No, air," eullenly responded the lad. "Why, don't you like me?" asked the lady, Interposing a remark before the father could speak. "No, ma'atn, 1 don't," was the frank response. "Look here, young man," shouted ths now angry parent, "what do you mean hy talking ao disrespectfully to thU lady T" "Indeed, father, I don't know how te pleaee you," said the lad; "yesterday yea nearly licked the life out of me fee telling n lie, and to-day, when I'm Inking no chances, you get mad keeanee I tell the truth."?Success Minln and Mnecle. Tke superintendent of n factory WMt lit* the storehouse one day Nbi nv (k? storekeeper tugging away at a big case ef goods. His Um was rw4 aad the muscles of his KMk war* bulging out. "Hsftd an, there, Jack." orled the saperlatoadent, "allow ma to demonatrata to you tha powar of brain over moasla."* Ha than grabbed a hook that waa an a shelf and stuck It In tha aaaa, gava It a quick jerk and toppled arar Into a pile of rubbish. Ha gat mg and looked at the store keeper, and said: "Blame It, the handle was loosa." "Yea. air,** replied Jack, "that's | why I didn't usa It" Girls. GMrla ara funny things. They all waat to ba boys. They don't like to jump and swim and steal watermelons as boys does. They Just want to play with dolls and tin dishes and look purty. When girl get big they don't hare but one age. My sister Sal haa baaa 21 aver since I can recollect. If I keep on growing, her and me will be twins. Sal dresses mighty fuany when she goes some place. She puts on a wad of cotton on her back and on her broast and she looks Just like she was stuffed. Gece, I'd think it would be awful In hot weather. Ills Sensible Advice. You grumble at de weather's ways, A-drownln' yo' delictus; Ole Noah stood It forty days? Forty days an* nights! You keep "a-frownln* at de sky, An' weep, an' wall, an' whine; You'd better all be satisfy. An' rise yo'aelf an' shine! Didu't Know for Sure. . "It yon? brother a TegetarlanT" "Woj 1 think he's * ~* ^"byterlao.^ Threaten* Tillman# | dispatch from Chicago says a written threat, direct at United States Senator Berjsmln R. Tillman, in which It waf announced that, he would be shot on the rostrum of Orcheatrr Hall If he persisted in giving the lcc ure rchcduicd for next Tuetday night #cr the benefit of the Cblcrgo Ucl' Hospital, was placed In Chief Collin hands Thursday. The chief lmneo lately notified the authorities and a investigation wos begun Tha thre* written on a postal or J as follows. ' The Honorable Bei juxln TlJlman will not speak. If he does he will be Rhot by a mulatto, who will go In the hall unattended. (Signed:) "A. T. Fon*a.M No suoh person as A. T. Homes can be found and tbe police are at a loss to understand who could have written the mis Ive. The communication was written on a common one cent postal card, and was p< sted et 11 o'clcok at night. An attempt to disguise the writing was evidently trade, as the formation of the letters changes In different coitions of th? cose. nere Is our condensed opinion of the1 Original Laxative Cough Syrup: "Nearly all other cough syrups are const'pating especially those containiegopiates. Kennedy's Laxative, (con-, taiuing) Hcney and'Tar moves the I bowels. Contains no opiates. Conforms , to the National Pure Food and Drug Law. old by Conway Drug Oo, Tub southern immigration convention at Nashville last week was well attended. Gov. Heyward was tbe central figure of the convention and made an address that has been very favorably or mmented on. He was elected president of the association. The next Hwesien will be held In Birm'ngham, Ala. I Give children a remedy with a pleasant taste. Don't force unpleasant medicine down their ihioats. Kennedy's Laxative containing Honey and Tar is mosL pleasant to iaue. unuoren; like it, and as a relief for colds, coughs, etc., there is nothing better. No opiates. Conforms to National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Should tfv Republicans nominate Rrotr-velt f( r a third term he would be VeetfP. Need a gocd cathartic? A pill is best. Say a pill like DeWitt's Little Karly Risers. About the most reliable on the market. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Jt will always remain a mystery t? us how scire pec pV who ca.n'ti pay their debts can afford to give big functions. Good for everything a salve is used for and especially recommended for piles That is what we say of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. On the market for years and a standby in thousands, of families Get DeWitt's. Sold by Conway Di ug Co. ?cuth Carditis honored \he memory of one of her ur r' m t.'Ons on Tuesday win r the rrnr cm n* was unvailed to Wadc FT'vmn^n In Oolumb'a "For years I starved, then I bought a 50 cent bottle of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, and what that bottlt benefited me all the gold in Georgia could not buy. I kept on takiug it and in two months I went back to my work as machinist. In three months I was as well and hearty as I ever was I still use a httls occasionally as I find It a fins blood purifier and a good tonlo. May you live long and prosper "?C. N. Cornell, Roding, Ga.. Aug. 27,1006. Kodol is sold hers by Conway Drug Co. THE "HU r~ l shoe rc * . . . ? ?. . Thia brand on tta shoe meant Thettefor ?/uor money call fo J. E.N Robt. B. Scarborough, 11. President. Vice-' BANK Ol Conwa Capital Stock : D1RKC Robt. B. Scarborough, Hal L. Buck, George J. Holliday, We will pay you 5 per cent. int< isk aariage banks to tboae wialiin Try oar plan for haying yoar nicklei tkeie Utile banks tnd ike iatereat vr liftln *(\n "V1J/ BANiToF OON W> CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSF/ OEM B. Q COLLINS, Prksi?EKT. C. P. QUATTLEBALM, V-Prij. Our Bank, being a local institu building of Horry County and for tl aning tkia policy vre take pleasure ii aocominodatioti uken consistent wit) Witk gratitude for the liberal : cordially solicit your future bueinee ' Respect i D.A.SP1VE> ! i ?" i ' ' The best treatment for indigestion ard troubles of the stomach is to rest the stomach. It can be rested by ttarvatton or by the use of a good digestion which will digest the food eaten, thus taking the work off the stomach. At the propeM*>m perature, a single teaspoonful Koool will wnolly digest 3 000 grains~0f food. It relieves the preseDt annoyance, puts the stomach in shape to satisfactorily perforin its functions. Good for indigestion, sour i stomach, flatulence, palpitation of the, I heart and dyspepsia- Kodol is made n strict conformity with the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by Conway Drug Co. , t ... ^ Dr E1 win M' ms wins the Patterson Memorial Cup for the best book of the year by a North Carolinian. The Horry Herald ..cemiT, s. c. Tha&Uy, November 29, 1*04. Professional Cards. cCsrd fc McCord, SURQEON DENTISTS,; Con/pay, S. C. f^"Over Bank of Hony. H- W. Burroughs Physician and Surgeon, Conway, S- Cfl H. WOODWA, Attorney and Counselor at Law, CONWAY, S C. B. Wofford Wait, ATTORNEY AT LAW Conway, S. C. Office in Spivey Building. R. B. SCARBROUGH. CONWAY, S. C., r.li I >1 Y AT I AW. Conway Market Fresh Meats and Sausage always on hand. Ordsrs are taken and promptly delivered every day. I. 1U PVfiVl I V Wt JUi* JLU Ml OJLl| I Propretor. ? I B" SHOE. IR MEN *5 - 1 something! ft ' - ?^ 8 r "The jtf i [C ^77 v?%. I icliol | L. Buck, Will A. Freeman I President. Cashier. I ? HOItRY, J y. S, C. I $25,000 I yroRS: I W. R Lewis, 9 W. A. Johnson, 9 Will A. Freeman 9 ireat on yearly deposits. Will furn- 9 f to open amall accounts with us ^9 ? and dixnea, and you will find that ^Tj will pay you on your savings will nnNWAY I \Y, S." O I SUFRPLUS FUlsD, $20,000. I rs, $180,000.00. C?RS: D. A. SPIYEY,%?AsniER. W. W. COLLINS, ABBT. C/bhieb tion, lias always atriven for ihe.up- H j? betterment of lier citizens. In pera extending to our customers every \k sound banking. patronage received in the past, we Bj ally yours B { V-?ASH I