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# # t * A DYNAMITE STORY. r Was Wholly Untrue, but It Served a Very Useful Purpose. “I>ing may be a useful tiling sometimes, even newspaper lying, ’ said a man from Mississippi, “and one little incident during the over flow of 1893 convinced me of the fact in a rather forcible way. “Do you remember reading a sto- ^ry about a fellow being shot while trying to dynamite the levee in Sun flower county ? It was a fake pure and simple, and a newspaper fake at that. Daily, weekly jpid month ly papers all over the country came out with stories and editorial com ment on the thing, publishing pic tures of the scene along the levee line where the alleged attempt to dynamite was made. A bloody hat was found near the scene, and it had been shot full of holes by the men who caught the man in the das tardly act of trying to relieve the high tension of the river for some mysterious motive. You will re member that this motive was care fully concealed; that the body of thc- man had disappeared as suddenly and mysteriously as if it had melted into thin air. “All these things came about for a specific reason. The levee at that point was very weak. There was danger of a break, and one would re sult in inestimable losses of prop erty values and life. It was impos sible to get labor enough tc strengthen the weak place. The river was rising rapidly. The pres sure had touched a high point. Danger was upon the people in the lowlands. But they were indilferent to the situation. Evidently they did not understand the real state of things, else they would have Wen out working like Trojans. So the story of the effort to dynamite the levee at the weak point, with all it* blood curdling and harrowing de tails, was sent out, published and circulated in every possible way. Bv sunrise on the following day fully 600 men had swarmed around the place, and before the sun had set that day the weak point had become the strongest in that section. It shows what direct lying will do sometimes, for there would have been a fearful disaster but for the circulation of the dynamite story.” —New Orleans Times-Democrat. OUR FIRST HUNT CLUB. AN ERA OF IMITATIONS WEEDS USED IN MEDICINE. It Wan OrKiinlsed *•» I’ennio Ivanla Away llut-k la 17UU. The year 17GU is far back, but It is interesting to think that the mutter- iiip» of the comlnj; war storm were not jet so en.aro'beven then but that the sportsmen of Pennsylvania could turn their attention to a more system atic organization of their fox hunting forces and then established the lirst hunt club in the country, the Glouces ter Hounds. Not that this was the be- gUining of the sport in Pennsylvania, that eminently horse loving >apatry, for fox hunting had held a high place in the pastimes of the people many a year before, it was rather the evi dence that the sport had become so im portant that it needed systematizing, so that districts might be thoroughly hunted in turn and contentions, rivalry and clashing dates be avoided. Ail the early fox hunting clubs had their origin in the pre-existing owner ship of a greater or less number of hounds by private owners. Every con siderable landowner in the soutli kept tuem, and good dogs they were, not always orthodox, according to the standard of the Belvoir and the Quorn of today, but nevertheless bounds de rived from the best English and Eu- ronean stock and continued by judi- i-ious selection of those who showed the instincts by conformation suitable to the country in which they were called upon to work. Washington may be quoted as one of the southerners who kept hounds and hunted them too. Lafayette, moreover, sent him from France a splendid pack of French fox hounds. with qualities which still fur ther helped to complete the most per fect animal for American fox hunting, the American hound. From the formation of the Glouces ter Fox Hound club in 17<»G until to day clubs have played the most im portant part in preserving the sport and regulating its practice. Not all clubs of equal importance, it is true, but all of the same spirit.—Illustrated Sporting News. Chicago Profersor Says We Are All Terribly Alike. LIFE A MEHRY-G0-E0UND OF FADS NEW YORK TIME. Dead Men's Shoes. It is not generally known that a special line of shoes is manufactured for the undertaking trade. In ap pearance they dilfer to only a slight extent from the shoes made for or dinary purposes, but there is no leather in the soles, and they are made entirely for show. They^are sold to the trade in assorted sizes for prices varying slightly from $1.50, and they answer every pur pose as well as those coating five times as much. It is said there is only one factory in the country ir which they are manufactured, and, considering the amount of orders the firm receives all the year round, this is probably correct. It is well known that special lines are made for burial purposes in various ar ticles of clothing, but it will lie news to many that shoes with light pasteboard soles are made to go with them.—Exchange. It la tlie Slandurd l.'aeil In AH Oar * Weather liurenii Stationa. When we read a report from any of the 100 regular weather bureau sta tions throughout our land bringing the information that a rainstorm, a tor nado or some other meteorological phe nomenon began at a certain hour we need not suppose that the hour men tioned refers to the time at the place where the observation was made. The Lour given is the exact New York time, for every clock at the regular weather bureau stations all over the land is set to the seventy-Ufth meridian, or east ern standard time, which is exactly five hours behind Greenwich time. Only this standard of time is used in the text of the Monthly Weather ttevlew, and all weather bureau ob servers are required to record observa tions by it. The reason for tills is that the best scientific deductions from the weather reports must be based upon the conditions of the atmosphere exist ing simultaneously in different parts of the country. It would be very ludicrous if all the hundreds of reports sent daily had to be changed at the central office in Washington from local to eastern time, and so all the regular observers are re quired to use the New York, or easterc time, in making their reports. There art* many volunteer observers and newspaper correspondents who in reporting weather phenomena use oth er standards of time. If the weather bureau inis occasion to use their re ports the time is often corrected to agree with the eastern standard or the local standard is mentioned.—Detroit Free Press. I’rofo.ssor Gcnrjfe E. Vincent Say* We Will Never Get Rid of Them, ui:>1 Slay Never He Kid of Iinlta- tion.*—Tell* (tub Women That All People Seek to Eollotv Example of Katvhionuble Set. Life is nothing but a merry-go-round of fads and imitations, according to the ideas of Professor George E. Vin cent of the University of Chicago, says the Chicago inter Ocean. At the Mutheou club in Chicago the other afternoon Professor Vincent said: “We are all terribly alike, and every man and woman is but an imitation of some other man or woman. But if we thought that we looked io God like the Chinaman <joes to us, how many of us would be rei’gious? “In literature, art, religion, we are all under the inil ience of some domi neering power. Even in sports we are not free from imitation. Thousands of people who did not want to ride bi cycles did so because they wanted to Imitate the wealthy class at Newport. And of what use was their rejoicing? Now they must needs motor, and play golf, because it is fashionable to do so and the people they want to seem like enjoy those things. “Then the lessor games. We used to put the ‘pigs in the pen,* dawdle in ‘tiddiedowinks,’ roller skating and cro quet, and who w 11 forget the terrible days of pingpong? And now it is ‘bridge,’ and palm reading. Many a man sits with clinched fists all through an evening for fear of having his char acter read from ihe lines in his band. A few years ago he had to" assist at table tippings and other ghostly amuse ments because o;her people did such things.” Among the fads of today, Professor Vincent cited amateur photography, architecture, card playing, patriotic so- e ties, embracing “ancestral trees,” nature study. Ibsen, current literature, women’s sleeves, child study, women’s clubs, things colonial from dress to Ideas, high hand shake, poetry, tidies. “If we were : sked in this day to define cur xoc bulary, most of us would be terribly embarrassed intel lectually,” said Professor Vincent. “We don’t know the meaning of half the words we use, but we bear other people use them. “We will never get rid of the fads, and we may never get rid of the Itnita- tdons, but the only chance for the lat ter is to cultivate individuality. The way to do that is to stimulate your selves for greater efforts by never let ting a day pass without spending fif teen minutes at least with some one you feel is superior to you or by read ing for that length of time In a good book.” JAPANESE WAR SPIRIT. Why Thunder Sours Milk. You have often asked or been asked, “Why does thunder sour milk?” The answer is this: Milk is very susceptible to atmospheric chances. Electricity,, the cause of thunder, produces, or if it does not really produce follows, great and rapid changes in the atmospheric conditions. Lightning is the dis charge which conies of electrical inequalities, producing chemical cha ages in the air. Thunderstorms represent the greatest activity of electrical phenomena, and the best authorities give it as their opinion that the electricity in the atmos phere is the prime cause of milk souring during the prevalence of such storms. Women W ho Drcx* Like Men. Tourists in the Austrian Tyrol and the remoter regions of the Swiss Alps of ten come-across strange peculiarities of dress, especially among the females in those out of the way places. In the little village of Champery. which nes tles almost under the frowning Dent du Midi, the women dross like men and may often be seen in the fields. Nat urally they are objects of much inter est to tourists, but the women do not *oem to be at all uncomfortably con scious of the peculiarity of their garb. The peasants of Champery are a sim ple, kindly folk, and doubtless find this novel dress more accommodating to the hard work they have to do. \n IInn(liinaiuiih. Queen Victoria, with the prince con sort and iter family, attended in state the opening of the great exhibition of 1861. While the choir was singing the ’‘Halleluiah Chorus” a Chinaman su perbly robed suddenly emerged from the crowd and prostrated himself he fore the throne. No one knew who he was. He might be the emperor of Chi na himself come secretly to England to share in the groat doings. The lord chamberlain, greatly perplexed, applied to the queen and the prince for advice and instructions. He was informed that there must lie no mistake as to the stranger’s rank and that it would be best to place him between the arch bishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Wellington. In this position of honor the Chinaman, with magnificent dig nity, walked through the buildings to the delight and amazement of all who watched. Next day it was discovered that he was the keeper of a Chinese junk which had just cast anchor in the Thames and which everybody was in- vit<*d to visit on payment of a shilling a head. Men with smallpox are to be pitted Poor CondltiouM. “Ask papa tonight.” suggests the gen tle girl to her adorer. “He is in such a good humor because lie got the better of some man in a business transaction today.” The adorer shakes his head doubt- ' fully. I “I believe I’d better “not,” he sighs. “I am the man he got the better of, and he would be sure to say that he couldn’t let his daughter marry a man eo unsuccessful."—Judge. Wealey on Wedlock. In an Interesting little tract on “Mar riage” by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, ail the duties of a wife are sumuiod up in two rules—namely, that she must recognize herself as the In ferior of her husband and that sin must behave as such. These were John Wesley’s theories, and that his practice may have been somewhat sim ilar Is shown by the following sentence from a letter to his wife: "Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me." John Wesley’s opinions on this subject were perhaps the fruit of his experi ence, but it Is also possible that they wen? a cause rather than nn effect, and that the thorniness of his marital rela tions may have been in a measure traceable thereto. Subscribe for The Ledger, only 51.50 Uotv nn Income May Be Obtained by Olixervaut Funnem. A paper lias been prepared by Aiico Henkel, who is the assistant in drug and medicinal plant investigations of the department of agriculture at Wash ington. Her work is entitled, “Weeds Used In Medicine,” and ip. introducing her subject she says: “It is a matter of Interest, primarily to the farmer, that certain of the well known weeds now either generally or locally Infesting the country are the sources of crude drugs at the present time obtained wholly or in part by im portation from abroad. Boots, leaves and flowers of several of the species most detrimental in the United States are gathered, prepared and cured in Europe and not only form useful com modities there, but supply to a consid- erable extent the demands of foreign lands. Hence It appears probable that while weeds can hardly be made de- alrable, still in Ids fight to exterminate them the farmer may be able to turn some of them to account. Some of the plants coming within this class are in many states at present subject to anti- weed laws, and farmers are required to take measures toward their extermina tion. It seems, therefore, desirable to make these pests sources of profit where possible. In many cases when weeds have been dug the work of han dling and curing them is not excessive and can readily be done by women and children. “The prices paid for crude drugs from these sources are not great and would rarely tempt any one to pursue this line of work as a business. Y’et if in ridding the farm of weeds and thus raising the value of the land the farm er can at the same time make these pests the source of a small income in stead of a dead loss something is gain ed.” She then treats her subject with minuteness, giving complete descrip tions of all of the common field weeds and of those which are not so well known, so that after a study of the work a farmer could readily distin guish the different species which may have been unfamiliar to him before. Among tbe plants described are the burdock, dandelion, dock, pokoweed, foxglove, tansy, mullein, boarbound, Jlmson weed, boneset and many others. The work has been Issued by the de partment of agriculture as farmers' bulletin No. 1S8. Stomach Troubles and Constipation. J “Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are the best thing for stomach troubles and constipation I have ever sold,” says J. R. Cullman, a druggist ! of Potterville, Mich. They are easy to I take and always give satisfaction. I tell my customers to try them and if not satisfactory to come back and get i their money, but have never had a complaint.” For sale by Cherokee; Drug Co. Although eighty-five years old, Mrs. Sarali McLaughlin, of Lynn, Mass., does a good day’s work binding shoes. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the healt-h of the people of this county is | in imminent danger and must be taken care of. It has been decided that every precaution be taken to prevent prolonged cases of pneumonia, grippe, etc. The best thing to do is to give a good cough mixture as soon as the cough starts. Get Murray’s Hore- hound, Mullein and Tar. Only 25c a bottle. At all druggists. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery of the coachmen are all scarlet. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud ing Piles. Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, in C to 14 days. First application gives ease and rest. 50c. If your druggist hasn’t it send 50c in stamps and it will be forwarded post-paid by Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo. BE SURE! If you want something food to eat go to Alexander’s. Best Flour Best Corn Meal Best Sugar Best Coftee Hog Lard, Rice and Hominy, Canned Corn and Peaches, Tobacco and Cigars, Soap, Soda, Starch and Blueing and every thing needed in the home in our line at the lowest possible prices. Drink “Egg-Nog,” and be good. Get it anywhere. J, L. Alexander, The favorite pastime of a lynching party is looping the loop. Children Poisoned. Many children are poisoned and made nervous and weak, if not killed outright, by mothers giving them cough syrups containing opiates. Fo ley’s Honey and Tar is a safe and certain remedy for coughs, croup ami lung trouble, and is the only promi nent cough medicine that contains no opiates or other poisons. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. The man who wants it w 1' done must blow his own horn. Wedding Presents. The “marrying season” is on now, and of course that means a “present time.” I have just received a hand some lot of Rich Cut Class any piece of which would delight the heart of a “blushing t ride.” Come and inspect my line of Wedding Presents. Thos. H, Wes f rt!pe. Full Line of Jewelry. Repairing of all Kinds. THE JAPANESE SOLDIER. The Women Teuoh Their Children to Yearn For Glorlea of Combat. The war spirit in Japan is not, as one might suppose, a virtuo handed down from sire to son with severe teaching, says the Paris correspondent of the New York World. It is from the gen- Ue, submissive mother, who from his cradle reverences her son as her lord, that the pugnacity of the islanders is derived. So Jules Bois, who has dwelt long in that country, writes in an article re ceutly published at Paris. He describes the women of Japan us being far from the fragile, the doll- like creature pictured by Pierre Loti. There is stern stuff in their makeup. In every household the mother makes a cult of the historic worthies and heroes of the race. She goes through a daily eeremonj In the presence of her children, from which they learn the names and <1 *eds of the great in their country’s chivalry; she extols the glories of war and impresses upon them the shame that it would be to live if the slayer of their father lived. Toy WnrNbiii Fur the Sult>*\n. The Turkish cruiser Medjidie in min iature is to be presented to the sultan of Turkey as soon as the Medjidie her self reaches Constantinople, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The model Is an exact replica of the latest fighting machine in the Ottoman navy and was made in the pattern shops of a large shipbuilding company. It took nine months to complete it, and it is proba bly the finest toy boat ever made. It is five feet six Indies in length, has twenty-two guns, four searchlights, six boats, a launch, steam winches and en gines on deck and tiny rapid fire guns in the military masts. The vessel cost several thousand dollars, and on board the Medjidie it rested in a solid ma hogany case with plate glass slides. A March Fantasy. Oh, for the sound of the merry-go-round And the swerve of the switchback car And the people who stalk down the long board walk, Where the candy and side shows are! Oh, for the band with the leader bland. With a sad and eccentric air! Oh. for the cute little bathing suit, That causes the crowd to stare! Oh. for the lay of the barker gay, Who grabs you and won’t be shook! Oh. for the grin th .t each face was in When we all had our pictures took! Oh. for the light r.t a starry night Near the cave where the mermaid dwells! Oh, for tbe crunch of a popcorn lunch And the crackle of peanut shells! Out, alack ai d tilrc what days rtust pass Ere Juno Is once more aglow! \nd it’s sad to dream of such bliss ex treme While we shiver r.nd shovel snow. —\V» shington Star. Points About Ills Rations and His Ability us a Fighter. The other day I spoke of rice and dried fish being the uniform food of the Japanese army In campaigning times, says a correspondent of London Truth. This is the way In which the rice is cooked: It is boiled until quite thick and glutinous. Next it is placed on a ceramic slab, rolled out and cut into squares. Tbe squares are then placed In the sun to dry and often turned. When hard as sea biscuit and greatly reduced in weight they can be stored. A certain number are allowed each day to the soldier. All he has to do Is to break up a square in boiling wa ter and to it add tbe dried fish. In a few minutes he has what seems to him a delicious thick soup. If he cannot procure boiling water he slmplw&ats his rice cake dry. In the fruit .dfilhnn he substitutes fmit when be can ob tain it for tbe fish.* The Japanese soldier, M. Pichon tells me. bus muscles like whipcord, is a sure shot, has an eye for landmarks and a memory for locality. He can do with three hours’ sleep out of the twenty-four, is cleanly, attends to san itary instructions, is ardently patri otic, holds his life cheap and runs up hills like a gout. lie costs the state about 4 1 ^ pence u day and thinks him self well off. GerinleNN Railway Sleeping far*. Owing largely to sanitary consider.! tions the Pullman company has adopt ed a new standard sleeper which little resembles the ornate cars built a few years ago, says a Chicago dispatch. The new pattern is severely plain, be ing devoid of all scroll and grill work. The upholstery of the car lias been re duced materially, and all the angler possible have been suppressed. Im ported mohair has been adopted as a standard curtain, and the decorations and furnishings are planned so as to minimize the work of cleaning the car ind to prevent the lodgment of germs. All Pullman cars will be built on the same plan and pattern, so that uni formity In equipment will be attained The IIobMon* of Japan. In the glorious navy of Japan, Where the heart is big In the little bres^n man. Their feats of arms are making, they say, A hundred Hobsons every day. There a navy of Hobsons think it spost To scuttle a ship and block a port, For they like the trick, and they turn 11 neat In the very teeth of the Russian fleet. When the admiral says, with a stately bob. “I want a Hobson to do the Job," A thousand Hobsons from Tokyo Step forth and holler, "Please let me go!” Ah, well for the nerve of the little brown man Who fights for the sun of a new Japan! He may smile at death, but I think he'll shun A Hobson’s part when the war Is done. Can those thousanus of Hobsons bravely stem The tide of the geishas waiting for them? Will their swart cheeks blanch at the sibi lant hiss Of a feminine nation's kiss, kiss, kiss? The broad lands shake with the volley and roar Where the blasts of war on the waters pour. But the skies wHl split with the loud*- smack That will grett the Hobsons when the. corne back —Wallace Irwin In New York Globe CO -—'■'—3 til S/y r •Wt - - ^ * v* Y'H lit The Planter V *• with a habit is determine 1 to-:'.' the best possible results from uis iaoor—tuerefore, ho so*, t^ac his lauds are well provided with Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers! Tnls Is a mi. ht” 'toed . t' by the way—for they enrich the sou, roauy ■ t •• icreage, and make certain tuc bir-rt or .< r.: ■ • - ■■ t , - otiou. Made of tbe very b. nro ■' V • .• >u< y . buy ami of the highest i.- |.. > ;>,j t. ; > o - , i r->duoes, as well as tin flat I ■ . rop can boast. They always coin* ip < or cv irgua ir. 1 e J analyses. If you: foi equ ' > . : , . . i i • A A** i V If > our doator ca’ihbt -u- i iy you wi«,i these brands of tlnzc-r'-, drop (,.■> a p i t.tl or lei’ter. ami you will bo uipp m w .‘h. hc-itf-.-: jb.Y.as u: the least possible cost. VIRGIN!A-CAPOLINA CHEMICAL CO., at any , :ie of those cities: *\. C. iriutr., >. bavann »h, Ga. •’ t'.'ornery. Via. MempAiis, Tonn. rxissrasssTrszsz&agmmem w o ° ° CD firrr>$kr m **f A Steady Growth Business in vest ments often afford '•pportunities for rap- itilv increasing your wealth. But they in volve a large ... Element of Risk ... Not so with vour money if deposited in the Gaffney Saving**; Bank. It is absolutely removed from all the uncertaintie- of other investments. It draws interest at the rate of 1 per eeut. from the day you deposit, increase'! in amount without any effort on your part and is always >afe and at hand. The Gaffney Savings Bank. Office in the National Bank of Gaffhey. Bank Closes 3 P. M. Every Day Except Saturday, 5 P. M. ft ~ STAMPS Are my long suit. I make any kind except the bad ones. I furnish a Name Stamp and an Indelible Pad for Marking Linen for 40 CENTS. I have some other good things. j. wiLsorv oirereos*. Typewriters. Office Supplies, Etc. 1334 MAIN STREET. COLUMBIA, S. C.