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Be Sure to Use Only Cream ol Tartar Baking Powder Food made with alum baking powder carries alum to the stomach unchanged. Scientists have positively demonstrated this and that such food is partly indi gestible and unhealthful. Union Meeting?Fourth District. At the request of Mt. Pleasant Bap tist Church the Union of tho Fourth Division of Laurens Association will meet with said church Saturday, De cember 29th, 1905. All churches of this Division will please take notice and send representatives accordingly. PROGRAM: 11:00 a. m. ?Devotional, "Drawing of Spiritual Light;" Johp 1:1-14, Luke 2:7-20. Led by tho Moderator, Bro. W. P. Turner. 12:00 noon.?Organization. Inter mission. 1:00 p. m. ? Educational, "The Great Teacher and the Doctrines and Princi ples to be Taught;" Matt. 5th, 6th and 7th chapters; Matt. 28:19-20; J. A. Martin, J. H. Wharton, Wade Pinson and W. P. Brown. 2:00 p. m.?Altruistical, "Christ Our Example in Living for the Good of Oth ers;" John 9:4, John 13:12-17, Luke 7:22-23, and other passages; W. B. Ful ler, M-. B. Crisp, J. B. Benjamin, J. B. Parrott. Sunday Morning: 10:30 a. m.? Missionary Addresses? W. C. Wharton, W. E. Griffin. 11:00 a. m. ? Sermon- J. B. Parrott or J. A. Martin. W. P. CULBERTSON, Clerk. A Bad Scare. Some day you will get a bad scare, when you feel a pain in your bowels, and fear appendicitis. Safety lies in Dr. King's New Life Pills, a sure cure, for all oowel and stomach diseases, such as headache, biliousness, costive ness, etc. Guaranteed at Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Only 25 cents. Try them. THE INFERNAL REGIONS. Hott They Arc Depleted In Bnddhtam and Iilnmtim, The Infernal regions of Buddhism are horrible. They comprise a great hell and 130 lesser hells. In these hells, according to the sculptures of the Buddhist temples, inen are ground .to powder and their dust turned Into ants and fleas and spiders. They are pestled in a mortar. Tho hungry eat redhot iron balls. The thirsty drink molten iron. Islnmism says of the Infernal re gions: "They who believe not shall have garments of fire fitted for them. Boiling water shall he poured on their heads and on their skins, and they shall be beaten with maces of iron." In the Scandinavian mythology, tho mythology of Odin and Thor, we nre told that "In Nnstrond there Is a vast and ('.ireful structure, with doors that face the north. It is formed entirely of the backs of serpents, wattled to gether like wickerwork. But the ser pents' heads are turned toward the in sido of the ball, and they continually aend forth floods of venom, in which wade all those who commit murder or forswear themselves." In the past Christian clergymen loved to describe hell. The present tendency, however, is to avoid discus sion of this place?to dwell upon the gentler and more lovely side of Chris tianity.?Exchange. 25 CENT COLUMN. NOTICE -All parties indebted to me can settle with Mrs. Godfrey, J. W. Donnon, Esq. or W. B. Sloan. (Dr.) B. F. Godfrey, Laurens, S. C. 16-4t FOR SALE-Thirty-four acres land and six room dwelling on Academy a' 4 Cross'Hill; price $1,800. Address ox 13, Cross Hill, S. C. 16-4t TED?Good Cow, fresh in milk. F 'peland, Laurens, S. C. 17-tf ty+ t/* i/ms December 13 Wednesday A good day to use TIGER BRAND FERTILIZERS So is every other day in the year. Sparenburg Fertilizer Co. P.O. Draw 78. Spartanburg.S.C. PERSONAL AND OTHER NEWS. Mrs. Dorroh Peden of Gray Court visited in the city during the past week. Mrs. Dr. J. W. Benson spent last week with friends at Clinton. Dr. A. R. Huntor, a genial gentle man and prominent citizen of Gray Court was in the city Saturday. Mr. Claude B. Leonard, a progressive young farmer of Youngs township, was in town Saturday. Chief of Police W. S. Bagwell and Deputy Shoriff A. R. Sullivan visited Spartanburg officially last Thursday. The holiday trade is now on and if you would know where to do your shopping advantageously, consult the advertising colums of this newspaper. Mr. M. H. Hunter of Ora, who has been with Kennedy Bros, since Septem ber has moved his family to the city, having purchased a cottage on North Harper street. Only two weeks now remain 1 which to pay your State and Couni taxes without penalty. You would sa\ your self from much inconvenience bj com ing in at once as there is always k msh the last week. Besides the Ct nty Treasurer needs the money. Willis?Cox. Miss Leona Willis and Mr. Boyd Cox, a popular young couple of the Hobbys ville section were married at Cedar Shoals Church, Spartanburg county, on Sunday, Nov. 26th, the Rev. J. T. Taylor officiating. Double Daily Passenger Trains. A double daily passenger service has just been put on between Augusta and Greenwood over the Charleston & West ern Carolina road which of course will be of great convenience to the traveling public from Greenwood on down. That the service will soon be extended to Spartanburg is said to be quite likely. A Blind Tigress. Jane Austin, a negress of the city, forfeited a $30 cash bond in the Mayor's Court Saturday morning for her non appearance on the charge of violating the dispensary law. The raid and ar rest were made by the State constable Seated here, assisted by the police. Death of a Child. Annie Lou, aged four years and the only child of Mr. and Mi's. Mason L. Mote3, died of pneumonia at the home of her parents in the Laurens Mill vil lage Wednesday afternoon. The little one was laid to rest Thursday after noon at New Prospect Church, five miles below the city. Annie Lou was an exceedingly bright and attractive child, a favorite with all who knew her, and much sympathy has been expressed for the afflicted ones. VILLAGES IN THE DARK. JnpnuoMC Settlements Amid I)enM UrovoH of KvePKreeim. Without Laving actually seen them you canuot imagiuc how dark some Japanese country villages remain, even fn the brightest and hottest weather. In the neighborhood of Tokyo Itself there are many villages of this klud. At a short distance from such a settle ment you see no houses; nothing Is vis ible but a dense grove of evergreen trees. The grove, which Is usually composed of young cellars and bamboos, serves to shelter the village from storms and also to supply timber for various pur poses. So closely are the trees planted that there Is uo room to pass between the trunks of them; they stand straight as masts and mingle their crests so as to form A roof that excludes tho sun. Each thatched cottage occupies a clear space In the plantation, the trees form ing a fence about It double tho height of the building. Under tho trees It 1? always twilight, even at high noon, and the houses, morning and evening, are half In shadow. What makes the first impression of such a village almost dis quieting is not the transparent gloom, which has a certain weird charm of Its own, but the stillness. There may be fifty or a hundred dwellings, but you see nobody and hear no sound but the twitter of invisible birds, the occasional crowing of cocks and tho shrilling clcadae. Even the cicadae find these groves too dim and sing faintly. Being sun lovers, they prefer the trees outside the village. I forgot to say that you may sometimes hoar a vlowless shuttlo - chaka-ton, chnka-ton?but that familiar sound In the great greon silence seems an elfish happening. The reason of the hush is simply that the people are not at home. All the adults have gone to the neigh boring fields, the women carrying their babies on their backs, and most of the children have gone to tho nearest school, perhaps not less than a mile away.?Atlantic. CATCHING COLD. The War Thla I* Aided t?y Improper Method* of Feeding. The really important question is, In what does predisposition consist? We talk of a man "catching a cold." But it would be more correct and equally graphic to say that the cold has "caught" tho man, for It does catch him unawares and often when he least anticipates It. But no cold ever caught any man unless ho had first prepared the ground for it by a careful process of fertilization. No amount of mero oxposnre to a low temperature alono will cause a "cold" in a perfectly healthy man In whom the product of wear and tear of nerve and muscle with adequate excretion of waste products on the one side Is even ly balanced by food supply and exercise on the other. Where this equilibrium does not exist such exposure then op erates as a "chill." Now, who are the people who are liable to catch cold? Not those whose dietary Is so earetully adjusted to tho work they have to do that there Is no opportunity for the nccumulatlon of un used foodstuffs In their tissues, but those who In the better fed ranks of society eat and drink more than they need to meet the dally requirements of their bodily activity and are thus con tinually storing up In their tissues and excreting organs material which if ap propriately used would form valuable ammunition for the development of energy either of body or mind, but which when stored beyond a certain point has to be blown off in a "cold" or a "bllllous attack" or in a more pro nounced fit of gout.?Dr. Francis T. Bond, a London Bxpert. PALMETTO LODGE ELECTS OFFICERS. Marcus L. Nash, One of the Brightest Young Masons of the City, Chosen Worshipful Master. At the regular communication of Palmetto Lodge, No. 19, A. F. M. last Friday night, officers for tho ensuing year were elected and installed as fol lows: Marcus L. Nash, worshipful master. Carroll M. Miller, senior warden. William P. Caine, junior warden. Oscar B. Simmons, treasurer. Dr. William H. Washington, secre tary. George L. Pitts, senior deacon. John H. Peterson, junior deacon. E. O. Anderson and A. H. Sanders, stewards. William L. Shockley, tyler. TELEPHONE HABITS. Difference* of llualncn? Cuttoma In Vnrloni Cutumunltlern. In the ofllees of the great telephone companies statistics uro kept from Which charts are plotted showing how the telephone is used in the different exchanges at different hours of the day. The convenient talking instru ment is very little employed lu early morning or late in the evening, but during tho working day the rise and fall of the curves that represent the fluctuations in the number of calls makes au entertaining study. Among many other facts these plot ted curves reveal the great differences that exist in the business customs of American cities. A comparison, for example, of the charts of tho Broad" street exchange, New York, and the main exchange, Chicago, on almost any given date will prove, what is gen erally known, perhaps, that Chicago ans put in a longer if not more strenu ous day than Now Yorkers. The "traf fic curve" In the western metropolis begins to rise about 8 o'clock and reaches its forenoon maximum of calls about U. The "load," as it is designat ed by the telephone engineers, stays heavy through the morning hours, dropping at about 1 to the noon mini mum, which is universal, and then mouuting well up agaiu through the afternoon until 5, after which it falls rather gradually till 8 o'clock. A characteristic curve of the great downtown New York exchange, which includes about all the offices of the Wall street district, reveals that busi ness men in Gotham go to their of fices a full hour later than lu Chicago. The highest peak is reached ut 10 o'clock. The noon hour apparently be gins a little earlier than in Chicago, though the lowest point of the noon depression is reached at exactly the same time. Evidently more New Yorkers go home shortly after lunch eon, for the afternoon load is relative ly not so high in New York as in Chi cago. The curve also drops more rap Idly through the afternoon, and at 7 o'clock less business is being done by belnted officials than must be the case in the neighborhood of the Chicago main exchange. Such differences as exist between New York and Chicago appear In tho curves of other cities. In general It may be said that the tendency in the eastern cities is toward shorter hours than prevail in the west. Boston and Washington very closely follow New York in their telephone habits, while the average day's curve of Cleveland or Denver is not far different from that of Chicago. Men and Hat* and Chnrchea. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries hats were commonly worn by men in Protestant churches both on the continent of Europe and in Grent Britain. Pepys notes in his diary ns a singular circumstance that at tho French church at the Savoy he saw, on Sept. 28, 1002, what he had never seen bo fore?viz, u clergyman preaching with his hat off. Another author of the period says some congregations took ofT thoir hats when they sang tho Psnlmu, but kept their heads covered If they read them. Tho custom almost died out after the restoration, but was revived again by William III. When William, however, found the Dutch habit caused offense to his English subjects he diplomat leally remained bareheaded during the prayers and then put on his hat for the sermon. Poloworth soys the custom survived Id Truro church as late as the yeai 1800. BAR HARBOR. The Finrly Dnyn of Thin Now Film on* Maine Snuimer lloHorl. In 1088 Mount Desert and Its heigh borhood were granted by tlio French to a man namod Cadillac. When Acndia was finally as a result of that long war relinquished to England it was given to Governor Bernard, t ut ns this gentle man when the Revolution broke out was loyal to King George the estate was confiscated. Meanwhile M. Bar thol .mew Grogoiro nnd bis wife, Maria Thercaa, who was the1 gvanddaughter of the original grantee, revived the claim of Cadillac, and It wan allowed. For years tho Island remained a soli tary place, with long stretches of uu broken forest? Into whose labyrinths no stranger dared venture without a guide, Its land uncleared, Its future un dreamed of, but artists, weary of the commonplace, found out the spot and bore to dwellers In towns glimpses of Its wild charms, and now and then a world worn, brain spent man would steal away to seek the island's solitude and stimulus. Theso seekers for beau ty or health would carry their own comp outfit or later would patronize the hotels. The first summer cottage there was built on a slto that was boutrbt for $800. When fashion bad put her stamp of approval upon the place land that would not have brought a dlino an aero during the time of the Gregolre.-i was sold at from $25,000 to upward of $100,000 an acre.?Four Track News. Napoleon and III* Tntor. Napoleon was a great soldier, but he could not spell. Ills handwriting was also so bad as to give rise to tho ru mor that he used undecipherable char acters to conceal the fact that he, the master of Europe, could not master [Trench orthography, In the early days of the empire a man of modest aspect presented himself before the emperor. "Who are you?" asked Napoleon. "Slro, I had the honor at Brlenne for fifteen months to glvo writing lessons to your majesty." "You turned out a nice pupil!" said the emperor, with vivacity. "I con gratulate you on your success!" Nev ertheless he conferred, ft pension upon his old matter. Li & M. Paint. Lend and zinc non chalkablc. Wears and covers like gold. Sold by W. L. Boyd, Laurens, S. C. U bit. YEAR OF CONFUSION IT WA8 THE LONGEST ON RECORD ANU HAD FIFTEEN MONTHS. TU? War Jaltu? Caesar In the Year 40 II. C. Straightened Oat the Calen dar Muddle?Early Attempt to Ad just the Lunar Cycle*. The longest year In the world's histo ry was a year that contained fifteen uionth8. The original causo that led up tu this was an early attempt to ad Just the lunar months which began with each new moon in their relutlou to tho solur year. Twelve revolutions of tho moon take 854 days, about eleven days less than a true year. Tho au clents tried at first to correct this by inserting, generally every other year, a speelul intercalary month, just ab we do an additional day in leap yoar. In tho Roman ealendur, from which our own has descended, these corrections were always made at the end of the year. The earllost Roman year began in March, as we see by the numerical Latin names of several of our months? September (seven), October (eight), No rember (nine), December (ten) - and we still add our lnturcalary day in leap year Just before the ancient New Year's day. In time the months dropped their lu nar character and became of irregular length, varying from thlrty-oue days in March to twenty-eight in February. The year had 80S days, some ten days less than a true year. Later on the 1st of January became both the New Year and the Inauguration day of the Ro man consuls. Those chief magistrates of tho Roman republic, unlike our pres idents, wore elected annually, so that inauguration day then was more Impor tant than it Is at Washington, since it was actually the boglnning of a new official or civil year each 1st of Janu ary. The Intercalary month was, how ever, still Inserted between February and March, according to ancient cus tom. Tho Insertion of intercalary months and all matters pertaining to the calendar rested in ancient Rome with the college of pontiffs, which formed the supreme priestly council, the proper observance of the festivals of tho gods and other sacred days com ing especially within the domain of re ligion. Rut the pontiffs, with their chief, the pontlfez maximus, were too Often dominated by political considera tions. In early times they were chosen exclusively from the patrlela? families. Their privilege of inserting or omitting the lnterculary month gave them great political power, which, politician-like, they used to the advantage of their own party and the Injury of the plebe ians. On personal grounds they capri ciously lengthened the year when their friends held the chief magistracy and shortened it when the opposition held ofllco. This practice at length involved the calendar In such confusion that In Cice ro's day it was three months ahead of true time. Thus the 1st of May fell in blenk wintry weather at what was properly about the 1st of February, while the 1st of January came in the fall season at what Is now the begin ning of October. The ancient Romans had to endure the Irony of dating their letters in November when they were trying to bear up under the blazing heat of an Italian summer. But In tho year B. O. 40 Home's fore most soldler, Julius Caesar, was a bio to take tho matter In hand. Among tho many honors received by this eon queror was tho ofllco of pout If ex max imus, and as head of the priestly col lege manors appertaining to the calen dar fell within his province. His sol dier's system took up the muddle in the calendar, which ho straightened out with his accustomed vigor. To imagine a modern parallel we should have to suppose some one like Napo leon on his elevation of the consulship or General Grant fresh from tho civil war and his election to the presidency undertaking to correct a confusion In the calendar due to the manipulations of politicians. Caesar called in the aid of Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, to rectify the error and prevent it for the future. It was In the year of Rome 708?40 B. ('., according to our reckoning -that the revision took place. It Is said, al tlxnigh this point Is not quite certain, that Caesar intended to fix the 1st of January In the following year 700 (B. C. 45) on tho winter solstice, the short est day in the year. This arrangement would have heen as nearly perfect as possible, far superior to that which we observe, In which New Year falls some ten days after the solstice and has no reference to anything of a nntural character. If Caesar had taken the shortest day for the 1st of January he would have had a definitely llxed landmark Indicated by tho movement of the oartb Itself as pre-eminently the correct point of time for this event, for the sun sinks dally and the days become shorter until Dec. 21 or 22, when, as If new born, the sun be gins again to mount the heavens and tho days to lengthen. The Roman name for this time was "Natalls soils lnvictl" (tho birthday of tho uncon quered sun), when that luminary's decline was changed Into a fresh as oenslon. It Is one of tho greatest misfortunes Of the calendar that this change was not carried out. But tho story goes that ahout ten days later than the sol stice there was a new moon, which was the starting point of tho ancient lunar months. It wos still looked upon as a good ougury for a month to bo glu on the now moon, and as it was doMred that tho year 709, tho opening year of Caesar's new calendar, should bo inaugurated under clrcumstauoes that would be auspicious and com mend the change to public approval It was determined that the following Jan. 1 should be on tho day of tho new moon. But as tho now moon would come at different dates In other years the good ougury for that one yoar was secured at the loss of a far more Important consideration for all future time. So our New Year is close to the shortest day, but not on it, and derives its present arbitrary position, according to this story, from the new moon happonlng to fall on that day In the yosr B. C. 45. Corrected. She?Oh, you men, with your prov erbs! You say that knowledge Is pow er, yet? He Well, Isn't It? She? Knogledge! No; It's tho way you do your hair.?Brooklyn Life. The object of art |s to crystalllsse emo tion into thought and then fix It In form.?Delsarte. CASTOR IA Vor Infants and Children. the Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the ^nnture OUR DO SOES Beats Other People's Say Soes 30,000 Millinery! Oh, My! It's jiistj beautiful, and so many pretty Patterns, and the price is so LOW. General Merchandise TO GO AT RED HOT PRICES Six Special Bargain Days Each Week at Red Iron Racket. Read this price Sheet carefully and figure out yourself the differ= ence. You save 15 to 35 per cent in buying your Goods at Red Iron Racket. Buy your Goods at Red Iron Racket and when you get home if you are not delighted, your money back for the goods. What more can we say? 1,200 Feabody Linen Collars, our Red Hot price, 5 cents each. Two big Handkerchiefs, 5 cents. Special Clothing Sale now on at Red Iron Racket. Come quick and get your Suit. 1,200 Men's Linen Collars, the well known Peabody brand, sold at 15cts. Our price while they last 5 cents each. Just closed a deal with a Pants Factory for 2,000 pairs heavy Winter Prints at a big discount: $1.25 pants for 98cts; $1.50 pants for $1.25; $1.75 pants for $1.39, up to a $1.50 pants which we sell at $3.39.__ Just received (300) three hundred Men's Suits for Fall and Winter wear which we bought at a big discount. We buy Bargains and sell Bar gains. $7.50 suits for $6.00; $8.75 suits for $6.98; $10.00 suits for $8.25; $12.50 suits for $10.00; $15.00 suits for $11.00._ Ladies' Jackets! Just received a fine assort ment which we are selling very fast 98 cents $1.50, $2.48, $2.98, $3.50 to $6.97._ Dress Skirt Values, the best U ever saw 98 cents $1.39, $2.25 to $3.47._ Just received two cases fine yard wide Bleach ing, no starch, 7i cents quality our price Q>\ cents; 10 cents quality our price 8 cents. White Homespun (good) 5 cents. 25 cents Menen's Talcum Powder, 12 cents. 25 cents Table Oilcloth, 15 cents per yard. 8 cents Ginghams, our price, 6 cts per yard. Shoes! Shoes! Ladies' and Men's solid leather shoes for winter wear: 98 cts, $1.23, $1.39, $1.68, $1.97 up to $3.39. The above shoes are worth 15 to 20 per cent on the dollar more than we ask you for them, but we buy Bargains and sell Bargains. Special lot Callico, 5 cents quality, our price 4 cents per yard. Ladies' Fine Wool Dress Goods, big assort ment, 22^ cents, 33;\ cents and 48 cents per yard. MILLINERY! We have a new arrival of Shapes, Ribbons and Feathers. See Mrs. Knight, she will make your Christmas Hat and save you money. Underwear values that are warm, 18 cents, 23 cents, 39 cents and 48 cents. Dress Shirts to beat the world 25 cents, 39 cents, 48 cents and 89 cents. Fancy Vests, all styles, 98 cts to $2.25. Silk Ties, 10 cts, 18 cts and 23 cts. * Six Special Bargain Days Each Week Come bring you wife and children along to see Bargaindom. Our force will be glad to show you through this Immense Establish^ ment. Don't spend a Red Cent until you get to Red Iron Racket?cheapest House on Earth. Red Iron Racket Laurens, Greenwood and Spartanburg Shoe and Clothing Houses J. C. BURNS & CO., ( Keep this "Red Hot" Sheet for Future Reference \ J. C. BURNS & CO., Carolina Hustlers \ } Carolina Hustlers