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" STABLISHED MY, 6o CAR 6 NBER E Htave Selected Harris Springs AS. 'LAUiC FOR STACE TE0ACHERS TO GATHER NEXT JULY. Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Assoelation-Programue Discussed and Agreed Upon. (The State, 80th.) It -has beei decided that the next annual gathe'ring of the State Teach orA' Association will be held in July, commencing on the first day of that month and the Harris Lithia Springs have been selected as the place of meeting. This makes the third State Association to decide to hold its ses sion at Harris Springs. The State Medical Society will hold its annual sessions there in April and the State Dental Association will have its an nual gathering there in the latter part of July. The hotel accommo dations at Harris' and the splendid health-giving waters have proven great attractions for bodies that meet in summer. The executive committee of the State Teachers' Association met here last night in the office of Superin tendent Dreher of the local city schools. Chairman J. W. Thomson of Rock Hill and all the members Prof. J. F. Brown of Spartanburg, Prof. L. W. Dick of Aiken, President Woodward of the South Carolina college and Prof. P. T. Brodie of Clemson College-were in attend ance. The committee first fixed the time for the annual gathering as indicated above. Then the matter of the placO for the meeting was brought up. Mr. Harris was here, and in person pro sented a good proposition, offering the tuachers special inducements. An invitation from Clemson college and another from Sullivan's Island were received. The committee do cided in favor of Harris Spring in ^hort ord9r.. The g1r.' pogramme of the gathering was outlined, but it was iot made public and will not be un til it is known whether those selected for addresses, etc., accept the invita tions extended to them. It is the purpose of the committee in arrang ing the programme this year to se cure distinguished educators from outside the State to deliver addresses and lectures. Everything will. be so arranged that the teachers can make up a party and leave in time to get to Washington for the annual meeting of the National Teachers' Association, which begins on July '7. The committee has not yet com pleted its work. It will meet again at 10 o'clock this morning. This evening the State gathermng of the superintendents of graded schools will be held in the otlice of Supt. Dreher. It is expeted that a large number of superintendents will be here. Take JOHNSON'S CIIILL & FE~VER TONIC [The Chicago News.J If a man never makes mistakes he never makes anything else. If at first some men don't succeed, they fail, fail again. If you must bet, always bet on the top dog and the bottom facts. If angels fear to tread where foole rush in they should use their wings. If a girl is pretty she doesh't have to go to the trouble of hanging up mistIetoe Christmas. If love was dumb instead of blind it.wounot b e r'ble to give voice to so mtych foolishness. If you would avoid the usual Christmas box of cigars from your wife swear off smoking immediate. ly. If a man was careful in scraping acquaintances he might avoid many] 6A the scrapes acquaintances get him i into. THE OF AIIAHAM. ie was Iturl the Cave of Machlpoian aud the Alt, edanus are Keeping all .ties Out. [From Job toddard's Published tures.] But of fi, eater interest than this ppol of )n is an object now inclosed by massive walls of a Moslem mosq 'ho Christian trav eller 'may su their exterior at a respectful die ,e, but if he places k the slightest to on his life he should not tr ntor the inclosure. Bonath the quo which those high battlem urround, there is a t cave. It is orn of Machpolah,- i which Abra n the death of his I wife, Sarah hased as a family place, nearl years ago. Here 1 he himself also buried; and, t later on, w this cave were laid i to rest Isan Jacob, with their wivs-Jaco dy having, at the 0 patriarch's r t, been brought t from Egypt o placed there by the sido of b ife, Leah. More over, since it e embalmed after manner of E tins, his features probably remai )l.nigh intact to day. It is humili to 'admit that neither Jew nor 'stian can today stand beside th ibs in which re poso the foundo f the Hebrew nation. But suc he fact, for the Mohammedans g w,th jealous reverence the ton Abrahai for whom their name 'he Friend of God." It is a sin coincidence that' such a title tId bs given him by Moslois, 11 thoopistle of St. James we r "Abrahtim 4 believed God, and as imputed unto him for righto ss; and be was called the Frion God." Of f course no illustratio the tomli thomselves can be ob d to loi t as such restrictions 0 but one may view at least the o Ico to the patriaroh's sF;pxlphnro, 'rded by solid masonry akd iron . By a special firman from (IO itinople, in 1863, the Prince of iles was admitted here, attended Dean C Stanley. In 1866 a si favor was accorded to the Marqi f Bute, and three years after to crown Prince of Prussia, the late iperor Frederick. Ono can imagi here fore, what chance thc-ro is ordi nary tourists to enter. According to the accounts hose who came here with those ,ely, r visitors, the tombs of A Am, Sarah, Jacob and Leah are ,,p. arate apartments, lined with ble and app)roached through silver es. The place of honor, in- the con is occupied by the tomb of Isaac. e twoeon the tombs of Abraham, id Isaac is a circular opening; a it app)ears pr-obielo that the struct s which are seen ai-o merely mo I cenotaphs, the actual sopulchres . ing in a subtorranean cavern still lower depth. The floor of inclosure is covered to some dop with pieces of paper, which repr sent the accumulations of conturio: They are written peOtitions to Abrar ham, which pious Moslems hay dropped through an aperture above. "Is this the real cave of Mach pelah!"' we inquired. "Carn this be the actual tomb wvhich Abraham ac quired 40 centurios ago, with all the formality and care revealed in the description given *of that bargain in the boo0k of Genesis P" IL seems at first incredible, but there are man,r arguments in favor of its genuine. ness. Text DI)dn t A pply, [Pittsburg Chronicle0-Telograph.] Mrs. -Northaide wvas telling about bhe trouble Mrsi. Manchester was saving with her maids, and was amp pearantly taking much pleasure out >f her diflicullties. "You should not be glad because Wrms. Manchester is in trouble," said MIr. Northaido. You should remom >er that the Bible says, 'Rejoice not vben thine enemy falloth." "Oh,.that's all right," replied Mrs. Worthside briskly. "Mrs. Manchos em isn't an enemy at all. She is my inarest frind." HUMAN STOMACH IS REMOVED WOMAN LIVES AFTER OPERATION HAS BEEN PERFORMED. lhe Is Gaining Strength-Surgeons Now As sert That the Organs A Not Neees nary to Lif. New York, December 24.-Tho Vlodical Record will tomorrow pub ish the following account of the irst successful removal of a human itomach: ".Le 'ot itself is the most bril iant and daring over attempted in econt surgical history, bnt the at *ndant discovery that the stomach E not a vital organ is oven more im ):tant. Hitherto it has boon con idored utterly impossible for a per on to live without a stomach. With he fall of this long recognized ax om the old theories of medicine and t urgory may be entirely changed nd the field of possibilities which he discovery o,ens up is pjactically imitloss. "The operation which has so tartled the medical world was per ormed in Zurich, Switzerland, by )r. Carl Sehlatter on September Oth ast. The subject was Anna Landis, ifty-six years old and a silk weaver. Chis woman hiad complained for ,oars of stomach trouble. Dr. ichlatter diaguosed the vase and ound she was sufforing from an ox optionally large oval tumor in her tomach. "The operation lasted nearly two ouis and a half. The loss of blood vas slight. "The operation was wonderfully t )orfornied. The patient, although t ld and feeble, exhibited but few of t he serious symptoms thr. usually ollow a vital operation. Minute t juantities of liquid food woro given o her at short intervals. With the xception of occasional vomiting, his food seemed to be assimilated, lespite the absence of a foodi -recop aclo. In the second week a.ter the poration she was given solid food. I was retained and digested with ut discomfort. And even Dr. t chlatter himself marveled at the ilmost unexpected success of his old work. Ho wias handicapped in living the patient solid food, be ause she had only one tooth left in ker head. . t "On October 1 ith, a month and ive days after the stomach had been emoved, Anna Landis left her bed. 3y Novomber 25th she was feeling )orfectly well and vas walking iout. Her weight increased and ipparently she was in far better aealth than before the operation. "Dr. Edmund Charles Wendt, of loew York city, the correspondent of] ['he Medical Record, wvho obtained )r. Schlatter's personal account of h1e feat, states that on the 9th of his month lie saw Anna Landis, and hat to all intents and purposes she s a well woman. She is still under >bservation at the Zurich county iospital, but is able to do her full hare of work in the wards. She ias had many medical visitors from di quarters of the globe, and by his time has grown quite proud of er depleted body." \ohnson 's whill and ever onic ires Fever LA One_Day. If ai an cannot be a Christian in the li where lie is he cannot be a bris4 an anywher.-Hoenry Ward B3eecl r. ChuXch fairs, amateur theatricals, home alent concerts and similar affairs are called entertainments, but nobody ,p ows why. -IPeople ometimes weep witnessing a death ene upon the stage, but it is usuale because they realixe that it is only sham and that the actors still live, The south's Great Soldier. LAtlanta Constitution Dr. E. B. Andrews, the distin guishod president of Brown univer )ity, is recognized throughout the ength and breadth of this country is a bold, original and independent ;hinker. His recent victory over the ;rustoes of Brown university in the ight which was made upon him be auso of his zoolous championship of )imotallisu constitutes one of the nost signal triumphs which free hought has achieved during the )resent generation. This reference to Dr. Andrews is nade for the purpose of calling at ention to the estimate which he >laces upon the military genius of lonoral Robert E. Lee. In com nonting upon the loading figures of he late war betwoon,the states Dr. kndrows, in a public address deliv ired in Chicago on last Monday, do. lared that General Lee was not only the greatest soldier which the Yar produced, but that, in many )hases of his military genius, ho was he greatest soldier of modern times. ks Dr. Andrews served in the union rmy, this candid expression of opinion in regard to the military kill and prowess of the South's rent soldier cannot fail to awaken loop interest in both sections. ;peaking first of the religious side >f General Lee's character, Dr. An Irows declared that he had the faith >f the crusader, and that his letters n themselves constituted a guide to ioliness. He furthermore observed hat profane language never passed brough General Loe's lips, and that he habit of imbibing strong drink, io common to soldiers, was some hing in which he never indulged. roceoding from this point Dr. An Irows said: "I fail to find in the books any Iuch masterful generalship as this woro showed, holding that slim, gray ine, half starved, with no prospect >f additions, and fighting when his irmy was too hungry to stand and he rifles wore only useful as clubs. lis courago was sublime. He was is great as Gustavus Adolphus, or 4apoleon, or Wellington, or Von Voltko. His cause was not the lost ause 80 much as is suspected. All hat was good in his"cause has been trafted into our laws and our consti. ution. The doctrine of states' -ights as now interpreted by the su 3rome court is in exact accordance vith his clainis on the point. Gen iral Leo lost at Gettysburg because he federal troops had received a new notor of tremendous strength, wvhoso ower no one knew--Gen. Hancock. Ito also lost because Meade's men vere fighting on union soli--almost vithin hearing distance of the pray srs of their wives and children for rictory. They were at their hearth itones. Mon are tigers when wives md families are the inspiration in vai. Before closing his tribute to the mouth's great soldier Dr. Androws leclared that the-final overthrow of ~he confederacy was not dno to the !act that General Lee was outgenor iled, but rather to the fact that over wvhelming numbers on the union side, soupled with the hardships and pri rations which the southern army was comlpelled to suffer, made the miccess of the confederacy implossi 21e. With the decades which have >lapsed since the late war between :he states much of the bitterness of reeling engendered by that conflict Eas passed away; and while the southi can now, without the least prejudice, contemplate thle superb uanaities of Grant and Shioridan and Hancock, it is also true that the gon srous and candid north can fully ap preciate the heroic virtues of Jack son, Beauregard and Lee. P'rosperity come1(s quicke4 to thec mmn whos * liver I' a goo.t concillion. l'oW lits LitIlo Eanrly RhOtrso re amous lit., in pmillsi iur stomach anmd liver troual,s.1w.IE.i'Pelham. Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns hinm unreal; so t,hat his whole life must seem like a mnordiy dramatic representation. -- Haw.. thorne. THE MAJOR DODUED 1101ITNIN(A. ne Tells of an Ingenious Uersoai's Ureal Invention. (San Francisco Cal.) "I see," said Major Blazen, as he took a cigar out of my vest pockot and proceede3 to light it, "that the statistics show that deaths from lightning are becoming moro fro :uent every year." We were sitting in the lobby of the Occidental hotel, and the ma,or had a red-colored volumo on his kneo, which he had boon reading prior to ny intrusion. I merely nodded. knowing that my lilence was moro likely to draw him nto conversation than my words. Ho puffed vigorously at my cigar !or a few minutes and then begmn: "Yes, sir: tho deaths aro becoming noro frequent overy year, and I Nonder that no one in this country ias ever invented a patent lightning onductor that could be carried tbout the person by peoplo living in ho districts whero electrical storms tro so frequent." Again he puffod at his cigar, stop ing only to expectorato thoughtful y at a cuspidor romoved somic two ards from his foot. He (id not hit t, but the mattor did not f3oomi to vorry him tiuch. "Talk about Yankoo ingonuity," 2i said prosently, "why I know a 3erman who beat us all hollow. He was a scientist of the first water and iad a trunk full of diplomas and all int sort of thing. I met him out n Buenos Ayrc , somo years ago, Ahore, as you know, electrical storms ire very frequent and of great forco." I was not aware of any such thing, 3t noddod again. The major chewed a pieco off hii .igar and pasted it, on the whito pil ar near his seat. "Yes, sir: storms are vei:- frequent >ut there, and one year I remember that deaths from light iing avVraged 'en a day." I coughed, but the major's oym. were fixed on the ceiling and ho did aot hear me. "One morning the German scion ist came up to my apartments and maid that lie had just completod a portablo lightning conductor which would make his fortuno, and which would soon be owned by eyory resi lent of Buenos Ayres. He showod me three small rods, fitted into ono ,nother, the whole boing about twolve reet long. The middle one of those was to be atIached by a strap to the wearer's back; the lower would then reach the ground, the top one would project some feet into the air, and the olectrical current would be car ried directly into the earth. I ma~ add that a small wheel was attached to the bottom rod, enabling it tc glide over thme ground easily and not retard the wearer's movemients9. i, object in comning to me was te request me to make a trial withi his patent before he finally put it on the market." Thme major's cigar had gone out, and he p)roceeded to light it. "What was I to do?" he asked me after he had satisfied himself wit,h few puffs. I merely waved my hiand1. "The afternoon p)romnised1 to be t st,ormy one," lie continued. "anid so] agreed1 to be on hand and risk my life for his special benefit. At o'clock I repaired to the place os meeting, a lonely plaza on thme out, skirts of tile city, and just as the storm began to breakc I took the t'h" rods from him and began to adjust them. Peals upon p)eals of thiundoe broke over the city, and the lightning flashed every few seconds. It wvas forked lightning, too, sir, and I as sure you it kopt, me jumping froum side to side to avoid iboing struck Fortunately," continiued the major looking at his shapely limbs, "I an, well built and exceedingly agile.A less agile person would have beoor struck repeatedly, but I como of fin old stock, sir." He eyed me fiercely, and I bowed "Finally I succeeded in adjusting the three rods, attached them to mn' middle, and, up m my bonoer, 51r thme lightning slid down that rod ii front of me for two hlourA in on< solid streak. The German scientis made a for tune, but he died o apoplexy shortly afterward. S aal we drink, sir?" he continued, as h took my arm. We did, and 7 pai< for them. VAUA11UN 08 VEASTIED. 12,000 .1lys mnd Giril Entertained by n, Ex-Newnhl.y. (Chicago Tribuno) Twelvo thousand boys and girh wore tho guOsts of one man in Chicago on Thanksgiving day. It was the fourteenth annual feast fur nishod by Isac Woolf, a wealthy merchant., to the papor sol'er, th< bootblack aud the youngsters whose homo is tha 8troot, and it was spread in lis; storo. Sovonty.-five waitors- wero tsy for six hours dealing out in generous quantitios portions of the following collection of oatables: Four hundred and sovontyd-ivo turkeys, six bar rols of mashed potatoos, twenty bar rels of apples, 1,000 gallons of milk, four barrels of cranborry sinuce, 1 ;'; bunches of bananas, 850 loaves of broad, fifty )oxos of grapes, sixty boxes of orangos, 050 dozon cakes, 1,200 pios, amid colory and other side relishes galoro. Prior to t.he "feed" a parado of newsboys, hoaded by a newsboys' band, marched across the river to the Vooif storo. Froi their arrival till lato at night it kopt a dozen poicumen busy holdiig back tho crowds and rostraining tliv eager youigstors. Nino hundrod wero seated at once, and the scono in the big store was romarkablo. Bo sidesl the iusic of munching and drinking tb-eo was an orchostra preent, and also voamal artists, wlic assisted in diverting the feasters and the hundreds who lookod on. Mr. Woolf was born in London forty-six years ago, and lived next to Barney Baaruato for i t imo and pod dled papers With the once diamlork king in the stroots of the world's me tropolis. Tho memory of this ex perienco in early yout h1 is the caus of his generosity on each succondiny Thanksgiving ovo. mo,mpt WrIClcm of ithe TV31-64 (From Gosta Typographica.) "What is this ir" xclaimled a coml positor who was expecting to bo pro moted to a proofroadershidp shortly "'Sormons in stonos, books in th running brooks!' Impossible! Hi means, of courso, 'Sormons in bookE. and stones in the running brooks.' And a new reading of Shakespear appoarod next morning. A sporting compositor thought "Cricket on the Hearth" must be 1 slip of the pen. li ma1de it "Crick ot on tho IIeath." A writer on angling had the joy o noeing his sentence, "The young sal mon are beginning to run," prinlte< '"The young salmon are beginninug t< swim," another t houghtful c'omnposi tor having been at work. Happier was the transformation o the sentence, ''Bring me my toga,' mnto "Bring me my togs." There is a loss subtle veom of hui mor in the story of the editor wh, wvrote during an election, ''The bat lIe is now opened." Th'le complosito spelled "ba)lttle with an "'0,'' and1 t.h other sido salid, of course, that the had suspected it fromu the first. It was b)y a siimllo mistake th the late Bankor P'ashma, who migh fairly be described as a ''batt.le scarred veteran,'' wvas clled( a "hbat tie- scaredl veteran,'' thle libel bieinu by nto meanms p)urged wvhen thme newvs paper called the gallant olhIcer "bottle-scarred votorani." Owing to an error in printing th announcement, "A sailor going t sen, his wvifo (dosi ros the pr'ayers c -the congregation," hocamoe "A sailo going to see his wife de(sires Lh prayers of the congregat ion." The tatement, "MoIssrs. - preserves cannot 1)0 beatenm," wm rather vitiatedl as mn advert isomer by the omission of ''b'' in the lam wvordl. Inoetly gay was the niewspapel) report wvhich said that the In n lo express5 had knockol down a cowv an cut it into "calves." MIqs A lih, lin-->he(s Norfolik, Va., wa's frlgli i futly~ b,trueil oni t he fae nm,l 114ck .Pa, in wv. ing a t-ar. (t, l iii I fan u pilo rI l ,ned W. 'ir t st i 1)IPel0am Only evil grows of itself, while fi Igoodnoss we want effort and conurag .....Amia, The EIna HMtglog. Over the far lands and sit- lands Over the frost and the snow; Over the hills and the frozen rilk, Blow, little bugles, blow! lilow us, in 111inl or rin1, To 'eate, from, paths of pain; 01rom1 gathering night To the rosy light Of childhood's years agaIn! Over the lowjinds and1 hghland , Whero the red 1.horniq -Ifffi0%. O'er the strifo and tihe stontm of i fe, llow, little bigles, blow! llow us from1 fet--s and I ares To,0 the hrine Of (I iirst ispe(i prayer.s: Froml gathering Il"igt To the I"orninlg light or the heatitul fi, beautifiul ylear! Over the sigh ing- Iti(l and iri Of lives in the <1st, irolght low, Over.1 the gloom to the light, 111141 the bloom. llow, lit tle blgl1s, bl..w! Imlow us fron iarkest. iighiit, To a haveln starl-ml anil bri1ght 'rom grie( andl g loomi. T('o tll! 8lMav-ti me bloom in the beaut.iful mOrninlighi,t! siep, W rl ,4 1111,,igev iy. (IFrom tho British Medical Journal. Homo of 1ho greatest workers of our (a3y IIIvo done with m1uich less tiai eight honr1 of HIV-1). Dr. J ae1110 1 egge, IrOft'lissor of ChiIVS0 inl th Unlivorsity of Oxford, who has just diod it th ige of 82, was, it is said, in the luabit, of rising at 3 A. M., and allowing linsolf only livo hours of slop. 3lrunol, tho famous enl gmlieer, for a conlsiderillo part, of his lifo worked nearly twenty hours a day. Sir Goo A. Elliott, i.t"rward Lord Ileathlioild, who was inl comlt man1111d throughout, tho great Hoigo Of (ibraliar, which lasted fourl yearm, tnevor during aill that. timlo slvep.moril than four hours out of I ho twont,y frai. I- liivo to tho age of ij "As I got old," Hiaid Itumbolft, "I want moro sloop--four houtrs oaiut. When I was young, two hours of s0lo0p woro quito onough for mo." On Prof. MAix Muller hint.ing it.ho found tils a hard saying, Itumbolt snid: "It is quito a mistike, though it is very widely spr-ad, that, wO want sovon or eight. hours of sieep. WeII I was your agO I simlly lay (own onl the sofit, (itnied downI my lump, aind Ifter two houmrs' sloop I wis ats freshi as v.r." e livvd to ho 81.. Thes ('XIIIpI'les ar(,, to use tl conlsecrateod p11so of Che h11agio grap~hors, moroP( for adi~hnrationi thant i for imitation; but. t boy servo to shiow tht lorgeovity and1( a sitil alilowanie of sleep tare niot inl all (cases inucomn patilo. One of the most curiious i ngs - (I odk in, in thie January5 P3 At( lnie, is r that the( pl)Iic (100s not, eXxect, fromt i a newspapeir prioprietor thle samo11 sort, of mtora lity3 if.Ot expoets froml 1por 801n5 ill ot.her ca lba gs. It woIld d(1is L ownI a b11 oosller and coase tall int~fer t course wit.hi hlim for ai tithle( of the -falsehoods and pettfy frauds whtich it - I)asso1 unnlloti0Ced iii a new'~spa1pp proprir. If may13 diisbl Ii(ve every word1 he says8, and1( 3et p rofess to re spe1)ct him, and1( mayf occatsionallIy yo ward'( him;t so that, it. is quIitol possilblo 1 to find( a ne('wspaper) which nearl ty ) overyb)ody conidomnis, and1( whose ini. f fluonce lhe wvould repludiate, circulat-. r inrg very fr'ee ly ar nonig roligious and1( (i moral peoplei, and1( maikinig hianidsomne potsfor its prop4riefor. A news. 5 j5)ppr proplrietor, therefore, who finds 5 that hiis profits remuani high, 1no mait t ter whatil vi(ewI he p)romullgates and1( t what kind( of mioraility lho pratctices, c:mi hardly, with fatirniess to the comI r. mntnity, b)0 treaIted as5 ani' exponenIt 1n of its opinlions. HIe wvill s of conrider' 1 what it thinks, wheni lhe finds1 ho has only to ejiisidoer what it wd.l buy, anid that it w-ll buy his lapor' with I- out agreeing with it. IS V D 1ovotion inspiros mon with senti mnonts of religiotus gratitude and1( >r swells their hearts witi inwa:d trans p, ports of joy and1( ocultatioe.-Addi.. non.