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S. Me&Es HI.WILKES& CO Does This Saving Look Good to You? Fuel is high - here is a way to gain big fuel economy and a perfectly heated home. Why not save the gas half of the coal wasted by all other stoves, with the fuel savin& Cole's Original Hot Blast LIVER DIDN'T ACT DIGESTION WAS BAD Says 65 year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Relieved After a Few Doses of Blacki-Draught. Meadorsville, Ky.-Mrs. Cynthia doses of Biack-Draught." Eigginbotham, of this town, Aye: 'At Seventy years of successful use bai my age, which is 65, the liver does made Thedford's Black-Draught a uiotact o wel a whe ~ A~w standard, household remedy. Every, owmember, of every family, at times, Years ago, my stomach was all out of need the help that Black-Draught can fix. I was constipated, my liver give in ccansing the system and re didn't act. My digestion was bad, and lieving the troubles that come from, It took so little to upset me. My ap- constipation, ind!gestion, lazy liver, petlte was gone. I was very weak... etc. You cannot ke) well unless your I decided I would give Black- stomach, liver and bowela are In good Draught a thorough trial as I knew It workin order. Keep them that way. was highly recommended for this Try flinch-Draught. It acts promptly, trouble. I began tak:ng it. I felt gently and In a natural way. if you better after a few doses. My appetite feel sluggkh, tal.o a dose tonight. Improved and I became stronger. My You will fuA& resh tomorrow. Price bowels acted naturally and the least 25c. a packa -one cent a dose trouble was aon rtghtad with a dw All oir usel r d. E cna rackqer gbefoe cengthe w yma ndrr wdrking orde Kepthmatr ay getl and- in aua a.I o 6C a pacage NOW THE FLAVO LASTS SO DOES THE~ PRICE! 187 SAVING OUR BACON Origin of an Ancient Colloqui alism in Connecticut. Expression Used When Debtor Gets Best of Creditors by Question. able Methods in Busi. ness Deals. Distribution and sale of the govern ment supply of bacon brought to the minds of many who are acquainted with old sayings the ancient colloqul alism, "Saving one's bacon." The thrifty housewife, laying in a store of the smoked meat, tsures her near neighbors that she is "saving her ba-, con." The housewife, of course, is tell Ing the truth, but as she repeats the anclent colloquialism she falls to use it in its proper sense. The housewife who is so gay over "saving her bacon" would be 1 orri fled and justlky provoke'l if her neigh bor wvould reply: "'What ! You chenting your creditors?" And that is just what she means if she emplovs the term properly. The story of the origin of the colloquialism is credited to Con necticut. according to the Hartford Times. In the days when the Charter Oak was green and Sir Edimund Andross was more green, New London boasted of a citizenl of the name of Fitz John Winthrop. He was a sailor, and more over of literary tastes. These tastes were more distinctly commercial. That Is, while he was quite a bibliophile on his own account, and had a goodly store of books, he was in the business of collecting books -for others. Prob ably because he was something of a connoisseur, the colonist who coveted foreign published books engaged him to obtain them when he was in port on the other side; or, knowing their fads, he would, of hiR own account, make the purchases, and bring them over, disposing of them at a fair profit. Among the customers was a lawyer who wias also Interested in shipping, politics and several other things which in our later day might go by the name of speculations. At the time when he was flush with money he would invest in books, aind depute Capt. Fitz John to obtain them abroad. Among other works for which he had something of a penchant were those of Lord Bacon. lie managed to have quite i sizable importation at different times. On one occasion, wh'lien the captain eame into port iand brought him a bale of books, lie found the lawyer in financial l fliculties of a shady char acter. )in t lie following (lay the prop erty wias to be "(listrained." Under the colonial law aiong other things exempt from the claws of the creditor was meat of various descriptions aln( quantities. Bewailing the fact that hIs books muist go under the hamamer, he was disconsolate whenl the captainl (nm' with 11lt' additional volumes. li. had a decent supply of wits and he and the lawyar, working industriously by night, managed to stow away a good deial of tile library in inat bar reis it Ilinhe ('cellar. 4in top of each was a layer of bacon ii coarse salt. Tho followilng day, whet the sheriff's clerk came witi his red chalk, he scrawled Iis "X' on each of the barrels, and the (' contents wertve exemplted. It m1u1st have Ibeen some timie' lanter wh'en Capt. Fitz '.Johin rela ted thle story, anad mani algedi to add, ''Leave it to any one If them bar'ls didnf't hold Ba(oni !" Andh so whent a dlebtor got the best of his credlitor bi'Sy qutestionable methods(1, thle proceedings got to be known as "sav ing one's bacon." The Fathead. It surely wouild bte iimpi'tdeiit to ad dress that formidable creatutre the swordfish as Fathead, yet the term wouid bne qite appropriate. The heads of 100 average swordfish will yi'eld sixty-fiv'e gallons of an oil tatihas high market value. RefIned and sunm bleached, it is iinlleinguishabhle from whale oil, and fetches the samei price. In fact, comnmercially, it ia whale oil. Whale oil1 is obtainedl on a mnuchl larger scale from halibut heads, whieh are treated in thme sname way as the swordfishI heads1-i. e., cooked to a pulp with steam and1( pi'essed. A short toin of thema will yield 4i0 gallons oif 'oil. Boston and~ (loucesler (Matss.) nually pr'odtuce 12,000 gaillotns of re tin d oil from hliIibuit heads. Au .back in thle seventies some hotly ('overed t hatI salimion beads wvere r in oil, andil since thean thle ptroduieth otf it has been a consider able 11n(1 try in conn'ctlon with the Pacific sa on fishery. By 1895 the annuital outl t hind risen to 50,000) gal Ions. Force f Habit Oniy. "Billy Yungdi d's baby is beginning to tatlk nowv." said 'NTones to Smith, the oither day. "Whby, has he heet i boring yout with stories about it ?" sit ,d Smith. ''No, but1 I salt ne(a i~ him at luncheon today andl I hieardi hlima say abse5lnt minadedly to the wa ?tress, 'Dimme a Bits. A Cure Ma'rs. r'ptp-Doci(tor, m f complexion is soi'miang awful. Wt' imt wouild you Mar-. Trpp-Oh. T vet' thotught oft that. WVhat color'' was Id be most he Aroke "Chaeer map, ol mmn I There's Other fish ini 4Se seat" ltejtectedl sitori-- en, but the last one took all any bait .-Life, "Tailor Maid" Fall is bringing back the severe styles- which many women like so well for general utility wear. ' This new boot is strikingly smart with the tailored suit or long coat on straight mannish lines. We have it in black or tan calf and the tan calf with becoming top in neutral shade of buck. It is one of our Cousins Shoes Made in New York for women We give all Mail Orders Prompt Attention Pratt & Taylor R. BEN TAYLOR, Manager Greenwood, S. C. WVelcome to the Boys' Store This is your store, Boys, and we want you to feel right at home here. ,We want you to come in any time---get acquainted, visit, look around, ask questions; don't have to buy anything either if you don't want to. And when you do buy something all by yourself, we'll see that you get exactiy what you should. We'll change things, too, if mother isn't quite satisfied with what you choose first time. We're just".grown up boys, you know---and we know[you'll enjoy coming to see us. Drop in any time. Come along; bring the folks, your pal or thewholeggang.ERWe'll be glad to see you. QiA ndk1Os WHO ARE THE MIDDLE CLASS Brain Workers Who Are Compelled to Do Manual Labor to Eke Out an Existence. Few forces tend so strongly to pro duce social consciousness as a griev once. Not so many years ago one might have searched the world and found nobody who would admit he was of tUe middle class, remarks the New York Times. The term was an epithet used in derision. As the mid dle class N as vaguely supposed to be respectable respectability itself went out of fashion. Today all this is al tered. People write to the papers to say they are of the middle class and they say is with an air of one who after all is somebody. Yet nobody has defined tie middle class, even the sociologists and economists, whose business such things are. In England ". H. Mallock gave a few stray thoughts to the subject and concluded it is middle class to have an incone of some $730. Prof. H1. Rt. Seager stated in America the figure would have to be raised to $1,150. It is the way of the elder sociologists to write as if the determining factor is always maoney. ' Our common sense knows better. The middle class is distinguished from tUe class on its oie hand by the fact that it works, not with one's body, but with its mind. It is distinguished from the class on its other hand by the fact that, not having sufficient capital to re tire upon, it has to work. The middle class timan is a brain worker, who is obliged to work or go under. And he is obliged to conform to current stand ards of respectability, physically as well as mentally and morally. In the nineteenth century the in come standards had at least a shadow of justifleation, for wages and salaries still maintained some definite relation ship to the character of work done and service rendered. Today we have changed all that and with one notable result. A large group of people among us have become class conscious-those, namely, who do professional work for less than the pay of a hand laborer. Mentally and morally they have two strong props of character-the fact that the hitrunent of their labor In the mind and the fact that they are urged on by necessity to use it. Explanation of Humidity. Humidity, technically speaking, says the Philadelphia Press, Is te amount of water or vapor moisture In the air. A given space at a given temperature can contain only a definite amount of water. If it contains less it will en deavor to fill lip by evaporation, If it c:t:a imir the surplu; Water will coldense. When a nmss of air contains all tre moisture it is capable of holding it is said to he saturated. The higher the temperature the more molsture it Iakes to sa turate lie air. If it contains less moi.:ture than would satturate it at a given tempera ture, then the lower temperat ure at which this would sufficient for satura tion Is called the dew point. The per centage of moisture in the air to what it would hold if saturated Is called the relative hinidity. Thus, If the air contialvs one-half the moisture neces sary to saturate it, the relative hi midity is 50; If only a third, it is 33. It is of course, at its maximun when at 100 anid fog forms and mist falls. The Most Ancient Egg. Just biefore the war began, during excavations in the anlcient Mbigunti acum, uder the auspices of the Arche ological society of Mfayene, there was found a lien's egg which was es timated to have ibeen buaried in tihe earth for something like 19) centuries. Mioguntiacum was built b~y Drusus, the son of the Roman emperor Augums tus, in the year 14 BI. C. bpon the slte of the ancient Rtoman castrum or encampment near the city the excava tions ini question brought to light many interestinag relies, including sonme wa ter clsterns of Itoman make. It was in one of these, which was locnted some 20 feet below the surface, that a damaged IRoman claypot was discov ered contalninig the shell of a broken egg and also a whole egg that had been kept from being smashed by a shred oif the taaged pot, whieh cov ered it. Th'ie anelent egg was depos tied in thec munlipal museum. Ten to One Against. "Sorry" said the village constable, "buit I'll have to iarrest ye-yg"'ve been driv-in' along at the rate of 50 miles ian hour." "You tarte wurong. my friend," said the dlriver. "I stay I wiasn't, and here's $10 that says I wasn't." "All r-ighat." returnedim thle consttable, pocketinug the monley. "Wi ih ten to one aigaist mae I ian't goina' to subject the counaty to tha' exaenase of a trial." Father's Foot. "Is it absoluately ne.ce.'sary that I speak to youmr fathei-?" iakedl the w',ooer aifter thle gir-l of his haeart haid promiisedl to lie his. "Why, of course, lie is the head of the failly, you kntow." "'it isun't thle heral of thle fatally I'm tafraid of; it's the foot."~ --Londlon Ideas. Practical. Thue Weliwishaeir--I itd you readi abouott that aiwful tor-nadlo disaster? S'ad. wasns't it? The Effleigniey lapert-Very sadt. JTust thaink of till thait energy absolute Not Claiming Too Much. "Are ye-a' it hen apta in of your soul ?" "Soir; tf second leutenant," ven t ured Afr. I Ttnpeeek dubiously.-Man. chester Evening Oazett,.