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BURNS & CO.'S 2 RED IRON RACKET STORES and buy your bill---you will be] glad you did. 6 Bargain Days Each Week No. 1 Store 210 W. Laurens St. No.2 Store O.B. Simmons Block next to Laurens Hardware Co. J. C. Burs &C.s Red Iron Racket pRIRCED TO OWN UP MR. PEASLEE TELLS OF DOWN. FALL OF STUBBORN MAN. Of Course Jonas Might Have Thought the Window Was Open, but It I Certain That the Shoe Came Through It. "That Jonas Ebbitt," observed Caleb *Peaslee as lie leaned upon his hoe and rddressed Obed Gunney, "is the stub bornest man in Dilmouth. I wouldn't 9e 8'prised if he was the stuhhornest one in Maine." Mr. Gunney nodded his head in con hithaation. "Ebbitt is sot," he conceded mildly, "hut what fetched him into e,;our mind right at this minute?" "Oh, I Jest got to thinkin'," Mr. Peas -tee replied. "Last night Jone had a ihance to show how 'sot' he could he, Aind I happened to he there when he done it." "Jest what shape did his sotness take?" Mr. Gunney wanted to know; and Caleb chuckled. "He'd come down to the post office )y way of the beach rond," he began, "and he'd got gravel into both of his "hoes. 'Stead of takin' off one shoe tnd dumpin' the gravel out of that and Wien puttin' it back on again, he took em both off. I' di'now why. I lre sume likely he done it to be different. "When he went to put 'em on again he took up the left shoe fust and tried so put it onto his right foot. Mehbe k'd have shifted it to the other foot if f.,em Piper'd kep' his mouth shut ; but ,Lem ain't gifted that way. "'That's the wrong shoe you're tryin' to put on that foot, Ebbitt,' Lem says. aind Jone's mouth came together like a Lrhp. "'I guess I know full's much 'bout ny shoes and feet as you to, Lem Viper,' he snapped out, 'and 'less it liakes some gret difr'rence to you, I'm ,oin' to put these shoes on to suit my .eif 1' So Lemt, knowing that talkin' wouldn't change him, Jest watched him, and so did the rest of us. "Well, by workin' and twistin' he uanaged to get the left shoe onto his fght toot, and then he started on the ther one, and by the time he'd got ;fat one on I don't b'lieve a day's work Sgeid have tired him more. His fore 1aad was all of a sweat, and they must ve'hult him like time, but he never bowed a sin of changing 'em. "He sot there a spell, to make it ap pear that he hadn't been doin' anything out of the common, and then he said he'd got to be gittin' 'long home. "My way laid along with his, so I started with him. I wanted to get home, of course, and besides that I wanted to see how he'd make out to cripple home with them shoes on the! wrong feet. He didn't act very tickled to have me along, and only grunted when I told him I'd bear him company. "I mistrust that if I hadn't been with him them shoes would have come ofr: 'bout as soon as he got round the fust turn ; but with me there he couldn't shift 'em without givin' in that he was wrong, and I guess he'd ruther lose a foot than do that. "If a half a mile ever seemed long to any man, that piece of road between the post office and Ebbitt's place must I have seemed long to him. It must have 'bout killed him to walk it, buL he tried not to make any sign of it. Once or twice he'd step on a stone that'd roll, or on an oneven place in the road, and it'd fairly fetch a groan out of him; but he triel to turn it off that he was kind of singin' or hummtn' onder his breath. "We fin'ly fetched up at his place, and Jone didn't waste any tIme in sayin' good night to me. le jest hob bled up that path to his (loo', walkin' on the sides of his feet and groannin' every ine he sot foot on a hubble. le fairly fell into the door, and for what took place a fterwards-well, I dessay Jonas thought the winder was open." "'Winder was open'?" repeated Mr. Gunney, wonderingly, and Caleb nod ded. "I hadn't taken more'n a dozen steps," he explained, "when I heard the sound of glass breakin', and some thing struck within ten feet of ne in the road. I took pains to go and pick it up, and it was a shop-'hout such a shoe as I'd seen Jonas put on to wear home. "And from the way it come out through the winder there so spiteful," Mr. Penslee concluded dryly, "I thought that Jonas had sort of give in for once that he was wrong."-Youth's Com pinion. Thieves' Insurance Plan. A thieves' mutual aid society has sprung up in London. Its aim is to pay police court fines inflicted on thieves. Offenders are insured against fines, paying toward the support of the society as they would in a life in. surance proposition. It is said that both honest Abd dis honest men have clubbed together to make a livelihood from the Ihusiness done by the society. They appoint ati oficial culled "the banker," who col lects the money, and it is his duty tc attend the court and pay the fines. In one case a youth enught stealing had in his possession a card showing subscriptions .to the amount of ?2 foi use in paying fines of friends found guilty of theft. Germany Exports Copper. Ironmougers (n Tlolland are contin uing to receive copper utensils export. ed from Germany. People in Holland are utch astonished that so great n quantity of copper is still being ex ported i!om Germnny.- I.oralon (lobe, FIRST HUMANS BLACK HAIRED interesting -heory Formulated by American Expert on Conditions in the Tropical Regions. Lieut. Col. Charles E. Woodruff, whose long experience as5 chief meal cal ofilcer of the American army in the Philippines umakes him n expert on tropicnl conditions, has written a book (nlled "Medical Ethnology," In which he advances some Interesting theories on dasrk-skinned and white-skinned races. The Lancet, in reviewing the book, says: "The author holds that the first hu ua beings were black-haired anlnals but not black skinned, as their seat of development must have been in a cold country where condItions of life were hard, necessitating a great develop, met of brain. since only the most In telligent could survive. They were originally cave-dwellers. After a time, when the earth was largely peopled with this race, there arose it large blond type in northern Europe--Nietz sehe's "blond hnst," the Teutonic su perman-who estatiblished himself in i dominhting position in many countries by right of conquest. "To this race belonged the ancient Greeks, the original Itomans, the rul Ing race in Egypt, and so forth. . fortunately this type tends to di when it migrates fromt its native t mate, and so in titne the Itomans died out and their empire fell to pieces and the glorious period of the Greek intel lect was short-lived. In the same way white races fall at the present day to establish themselves permanently in tropical climates." The Lancet quotes, also some of Colopel Woodruff's opinions on the ef feet of light; which he considers al most wholly harmful to white men. "The dark skin of tropical races serves as a protection by cutting off the rays of light; it also assists the body in radiating heat, but at the same time favors absorption from a hot environment, so that dark races stand such heat as that of a stokehole worse than light-skinned people. "Contrary to common opinion, the author holds that bright light is bad for children at school, rendering them restless and irritable. The neurasthe nia which affects white residents in the tropics and their children is due, he considers, largely to excessive light, aided doubtless by high temperature." Then and Now. We never heard the word efficiency in those days, s.o far as I can re member, outside the physics labora tory. -Would to heaven it had stayed there! It must not be supposed, how ever, that we did not work when we did ,work. As I look about me, I do not'see many young men under our present efficient systems who seem to he working harder. Somehow we de rived from the old men a thirst for knowledge, a restless curiosity, a joy ous knight-errantry in the quest for truth. Surely, that tenehing which can induce students to pursue their researehes voluntarily outsi!e of the einssrcom is the best kind of teaching. I get the impression today that most of the joy of college life is con fined to the student bldy, and that that is often hectic. The faculties seem to me overworked, over-serious, Inelking in wlhtt we call pedagoglc faith-faith that the student may be trusted to get some good out of leis uire. I suppose that we shall have to blame, as usual, the Zeitgeist. Crowd ed curricula. imultIform "student ac tivities," and all the full-steam and weighted throttles of modern efil eilency are pushing out of college life Just the one element that should be charneteristle of it-time; time for ru mination, day-dreaming, thought. Robert M. Ony, in the Atlantic. Copper Had a Heart. Here is a potato theft which showed the cop to be a real humani tarian: A little, frail, white-haired old woman, her hent shoulders cov ered with a small shawl, came down an Eastside street toward the corner grocery store. In front of the store she stopped and glanced hastily around. Her trembling old hands came out from under the shawl, seized two or three potatoes on the top of a basket and were drawn back under the shawl again. For a second she stood there,_h'er thin lips moving i. it In prayer, then she weht on. Not ten feet away stood a big patrolman with his back turned resolutely toward the store and his gaze fixed across the street. The storekeeper was singular ly unobserving. As soon as the little old woman had gone the big cop turnel to the storekeeper and re marked: "She's fixed for the day, eh?" "Yes, all right for today!" laughed back the storekeeper.-New York Times. Plant Poplars. Poplar is a quick growth and is in good demand for the making of matches. Recently two steamships have been loaded with the wood for European ports and the cargoes brought large profits to the shippers. With all kinds of forest trees rapidly disappearing from the face of the American continent, this tree might be made a paying crop for many sec tions of the country. The time Is com ing when we shall need wood and there will be little wood to be had. Easily Traced. "The plot of Dasher's latest book has a sort of vague, elusive familiar ity." "No doubt ; he wrote it from the mo fion picture that was adapted from the stage suc'-ess translated from the dra nuitlzed French version of a Russian problem novel. -- Life. Chocolate In the Trenches. This afternoon, everything being quiet, I invited the neighboring sec tion commander to come and spend a little time wIth me. In the trenches we rarely have anything to drink but winef ( and coffee, and, by the way of sptelal feast, I decilded to make some chocolate. So I sent for a canteen of water and poured some of the pre clous fluid into my pan and devoutly emptied in the chocolate and sugar. It was simmering gently on my braz iner, and I was just on the point of adding condensed milk, when someone called me from the outside. It was my orderly coming to see if I needed anything. I invited him to join us, but at the precise mo ment the stupid battery of a 77 began to spit its six shells at us. Two burst so near that my faithful - 'tampon' stumbled in fright and fell headlong, taking with him brazier, saucepan and chocolate our chocolate so nearly ready, which our eyes were drinking so hungrily. The poor chap was most unhappy, so I laughed ; but I must confess my laugh was a bit sickly. At that mo wtjent I detested the Germans worse than ever.---From a French LIeuten ant's Diary in the Atlantic. Finely Milled Broad Seems Best. ~ommenting on the recent order of the British hoard of trade that in milling wheat 80 per cent of its weight must be recovered in floar, in stead of 70 per cent. as formerly. Nature remarks that bread made fronr 80 per cent flour is not so nutritious as that made from 70 per cent flour. 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