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NERVOUS ENERGY. Don't Overdraw Your Aecount In the Bank of Nature. You have a deposit of nervous energy placed to your account in the bank of your body. It may be large, in which happy case you are a millionaire in strength and accomplishing power, or it may be so microscopic as to need careful husbanding and little expendi ture to keep it from dwindling out al together. But many millionaires become pau pers, and some "dime savings" swell Into millions. It depends upon the way the capital is managed. You may think you have so much that there Is no need to be economical. You get up in the morning and feel the blood bounding through your veins like moun tain cataracts, and you think you can turn the mill wheels of the world. You work day and night or you play day and night, which is sometimes more exhausting, and go at the limit of your speed all the time. You are over drawing your bank account of energy, and that needlessly, for you probably have enough to last a long and useful lifetime. It pays to sit down and sharp en your tools, and it adds cent per cent to your body bank deposit. Another with not half your brans or bustle will get ahead of you in the end, for he makes every aet, every thought, go straight to the mark. He wastes no effort. Everything he does means something. It helps toward some given end. You spend a great deal of ammunition on your quarry because you are overanxious. He keeps cool, takes steady aim and wings his bird. You get wrinkles and frost tipped temples and become a bankrupt in vi tality when you should be in your prime. You have overdrawn .the best and most valuable bank account the Lord ever placed on the books of life the ability "to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." A MONTE CARLO LEGEND. The Story the Croupiers Tell of the Wandering Jew. All gamblers are superstitious, and some of their pet superstitions are now so old as to have acquired the respec tability of venerable traditions. The croupiers of Monte Carlo have an. in teresting set of traditional supersti tions of their own, most of which are entirely unknown to the many thou uanhds of visitors who toy with the "tiger" in that gilded court of chance. The most striking of these is the story of the Wandering Jew, which the croupiers, believe as fervently as they do that the bank will down any "sys tem" that ever was invented. There is one day, and one day only. in the year on-which the rooms of the casino at Monte Carlo are closed-that is on Cood Friday. When the rooms are opened on the following day, they say, the first- person to enter the "Grand Nouvelle Salle de Jeur" is an old man of venerable appearance. He wastes no time, but. walking straight to one * - of the tables, be places with the trem bling fingers of extreme old age a piece of money upon a certain number. The.wheel Is turneti, the croupier's na sal cry falls upon the ear, announcing t,hat the number selected by the old man has won. With a bitterly savage exclamation the aged man seizes his winnings, throws them about him and hurries from the room to disappear, no one knows where. -He is the Wandering Jew, and until he can lose a bet at Monte Carlo he must continue his wanderings. Get on the "blind side" of any of the old crou piers of Monte Carlo, and they will tell you this legend. Have they seen him? Of course they have and are fully per suaded that the aged and mysterious stranger is none other than the man condemned to perpetual earthly wan derings nearly 2,000 years ago. An Obstuele to Piety. A story told by a western congress man Is about two brothers, Ed and Jim, who dealt in wool at their home in Iowa. Jim went to a revival meet ing (unthinkingly, the congressman says) and "got religion." In his first burst of enthusiasm he told his brother of how much better he felt since his conversion and urged Ed to come into the fold. The latter pondered gravely for a time and then said: "Ain't any doubt but what religion's a good thing, and I'm glad you've got It, Jim, but I guess you better let me~ alone just now.," he continued reflectively. "You see, Jim, one of us has got to weigh; the wool." Chase That Frown. Learnto laugh. A good laughis8bet ter than medicine. Learn how to tell a story. A well told story Is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sickroom. Learn to keep -your own troubles to yourself. Teworld is too busy to care for your rlls and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you can not see any good In the world, keep the bad to yourself. Learn to hide your pains and aches under pleasant smiles. No one cares to hear whether you have the earache, headache or rheumatism. Thoughtful Nature. "How wondrous Is nature!" sighed the dreamy eyed person. "You bet!" answered the practical man. "Why, you know how little love is lost between the Hibernians and the Africans, and just look how nature has arranged things so as to prevent the Irish potato from coming in contact with the blackberry." - Baltimore American. Iferely a Suggestiou. "Mian proposes and woman disposes," remarked thie young man who gets quo tations twisted. 'Well." replied the beautiful blond on the other end of the sofa, "I'm disposed to do my part if' some man will do his." Three minutes later she had him landed.-Chicago News. Her Idea of It. "Do you believe In short engage m,ents?" "Yes, indeed, and lots of them!"-D. troit Free Press. -j FEEDING THE ANIMALS. How Some Wild Captives Act When Mealtime Arrives. An animal Is almost as demonstrative when he is hungry as when he is in a rage. They are both natural feelings. and he sees no reason for disguising them. Human beings who are affected in the same way as animals by hunger pay tribute to civilization by not let ting this appear. At an animal show in this. city the wild occupants of the cages get' very wild when the hour comes for them to be fed. A truck laden with meat and vegetables is wheeled around. Long before it gets to their cages the lions act as if beside themselves over the maddening pros pect of food. The cages are very small, and yet a lion and lioness will often be in one. They tear from one side to the other, the lion jumping over the body of the lioness rather than make a "lon ger trip around." Though they ought to have learned that each will get a share, they both plunge for the great chunk of meat. Once they get it they eat it with a certain intensity, but de liberation. The hyenas, "bounders" of the ani mal realm, are horribly greedy and will steal from each other every chance they get. The apes, the "snobs" of animal kind, are rather fastidious, if greedy. The ostrich, large, robust bird that it is, awaits its food with much stolidity and when it gets its head of cabbage pecks at it in a most con tained, ladylike fashion. The stoical elephant is a placid eater also.-NeW York Times. Speed of Racing Camels. The racing camel is very carefully bred and valuable prizes are offered by a racing society at Biskra for the fleetest racer, says Pearson's Magazine. I have seen the start of a race and it remind-' ed me, In a faroff sort of way, of a horse race. The camels were all ar ranged in line and they sniffed the air in their anxiety to be off. A flag was waved and they set off at a terrible pace, as if they were only racing for a short distance. They kept together until they were almost out of sight. Then they seemed to settle down to their habitual pace and the race pro ceeded with long intervals between the competitors. I have also seen the finish of a camel race, and it reminded me of the first inotor car promenade between' London and Brighton. The camels were certainly not so broken down and bedraggled, but they came in at intervals -of several hours and great patience was necessary to watch them arrive. -- A Mystic Volume. A good story is told of the Russian police, who are very careful lest any literature of an atheistic character shall fall Into the hands of the peas ants. A peasant In the province of Minsk went to a publisher's shop and asked for a Bible. Unwittingly the shopmanl gave him an algebra primer. On opening the book when he reach ed home, the peasant was surprised to find It full of mystic signs and hiero glyphics. The peasant showed it to a policeman, who felt convinced that the signs were of an "extremely freethink ing character," and so arrested the owner. At the trial the peasant was dis charged, and the policeman, instead of being rewarded for his religious seal, was reprimanded. Oil of Rattlesnakes. In Pennsylvania the oil of rattle snakes is preserved most carefully as a liniment especially good for sore joints and for rheumatism. In procuring the oil the dead snake is nailed head and tal to a board and cut open. The fat is taken out and laid upon a cloth in the hot sun, from which the filtered oil drips into a jar. From fear that the reptile may have bitten itself the clear oil is tested by dropping a portion of It into milk. If It floats in one globule, It is regarded as unaffected; if, on the other hand, It breaks into beads and curdles the milk, it is judged to be pot sonous and thzown away. He Knew Some Costly Ones. In order to discourage the use of ob jectionable words, says the Chicago Post, the father had evolved a system of fines, somewhat after this fashion: Hang It, 1 cent. Darn it, 2 cents. Gosh, 3 cents. Gosh darn it, 5 cents. The boy who was to be reformed by this method studied the tariff with con siderable interest, but it was some time before he spoke. "Well," he said at last, "I guess I know some words that would cost a quarter!"________ To Clean Niekel Clecks. Cheap nickel clocks that have proved their convenience through much popu lar use play tricks with their timekeep ing occasionally for want of clanningr. This fault may be quickly remedied with naphtha. The backs should be unscrewed and the works taken out and immersed in the fluid, a treatment that will speedily restore their service unless some more radical defect than dust is the trouble. Too Much Like Work. "Its terrible to be sleepy so much of the time," said Meandering Mike. "Why don't you go to sleep?" re joined Plodding Pete. "You might as well." "Dat's where you're wrong. If dere is anyt'ing I dreads, it's goin' to sleep. I might dream I was workin'."-Wash inton Star. Irene's Opportunity. Willie-What makes you come to our bde so often. Mr. Hankinson? Do you want to marry our Irene? Miss Irene (taken by surprise, but realizing with rare presence of mind that Mr. Hankinson has to say some thing now)-Willie, you impertinent boy, leave the room! Uually the opportunities that come to a man aretphose that knock on his oor on a cold morning and e has to go out in his bare feet and coax in. Atchison Globe. FATAL. WORM . The Slip That Doomed Major Andre and Saved West Point. At Tarrytown there is a monument surmounted by a bronze figure ever on duty that marks the spot where on Sept. 23. 1780, a man sprang, as it were, out of the ground, seized the bri- I die of the traveler's horse and at the same instant demanded a halt. Two other men joined the first, and to these three the traveler offered the authority f for John Anderson to pass on public r business and signed by the major gen eral commanding West Point. For one moment the pass sufficed. i Then there was doubt. In that moment of hesitation the traveler's eyes rested upon a coat that one of the men wore which he had obtained while a prisoner I not long before, and, recognizing the ] garb of the Hessian soldiers attached to the British army, the traveler con eluded hastily that l, had fallen l among friends instead of foes. "I see you belong to the army down below, as I do," he remarked, with a slight ges ture of the head toward the river. Fatal words! They sealed the doom of Adjutant Major General John An dre of the British army. He was quickly dismounted and searched with out result, and still there was delay. Some latent sense of required vigilance incited these humble militiamen to re newed search of the traveler's person. West Point was saved. A Horse's Sense of Smell. A horse will leave musty hay un touched in his bin, however hungry. He will not drink of water objectiona ble to his questioning sniff or from.a bucket which some odor makes offen sive, however thirsty. His intelligent nostril will widen, quiver and query over the daintiest bit offered by the fairest of hands, with coaxings that would make a mortal shut his eyes and swallow a mouthful at a gulp. A mare is never satisfied by either sight or whinny that her colt is really her own until she has a certified nasal proof of the fact. A blind horse, now living, E will not allow the approach of any stranger without showing signs of an ger not safely to be disregarded. The distinction is evidently made by his t sense of smell and at a considerable i distance. Blind horses, as a rule, will. gallop wildly about a pasture without striking the surrounding fence. The sense of smell informs them of its prox-I imity. Others will, when loosened from the stable, go direct to the gate or bars j opened to their accustomed feeding 1 grounds and when desiring to return, after hours of careless wandering, will , distinguish one outlet and patiently await its opening.-St. James Gazette. English Style Dinners. In the endeavor to be like the Eng lish in some of their ways, curious cus toms are started In France. For in stance, among the middle classes, when a special dinner Is given in the "Eng lish style" the length of the dining ta- 1 ble Is loaded with Immense dishes, their shape and form each indicating their contents, In the same way as the rounded cover of a cheese dish, in the< form of a cheese, tells Its own story. One of these dishes will be butter col ored, and rounded knobs, representa tive of plain boiled potatoes, will or- { nament the cover; another of green and white will have raised cabbage leaves running over, while yet another Is all In ridges, indicative of a bundleI of asparagus. The wells of the dishes themselves are all treated in the same way, and the coloring, roughly speaking, is cor ret. Good Substitute. "Father, I should like to try one of these systems of physical exercise that are advertised in the papers. They are cheap, and you don't need any ap paratus." "I'll furnish you with one, my son, that I tried with great success when I was a young man, and I'll warrant it to be as good as any in the market." "Could I take it here at home?" "Yes; that is one of its chief mer its." "Any apparatus necessary?" "Yes, but it's quite simple. PIl fur ish it." "Can I take it in my room?" "No; you take it out at the woodpile. You will find the apparatus there, all ready for you, my son."-Chicago Trib une. W. S. Gilbert's Career. It is said that W. S. Gilbert was1 meant for the bar, and his father was reluctant to see him turning in other directions. "If you would only stick to - it," said the elder Glilbert, "you might become lord chancellor." "So I might," answered the author of the "Pinafore" to be, "and if I stick to the theaters I may become Sheridan. t One's as likely as the other, and of the two I prefer Sheridan." That was a preference lucky for the lovers of the stage. Switched the Train. A certain judge is much given to meditating upon his work while walk-r ing along the street, and his acquaint- ' ances and friends recognize his air of abstraction, pass him by with a friend ly nod and never mind if he does not appear to notice the salutation. A lit tle colored newsboy not familiar with this peculiarity of the judge accosted I him one day with persistent appeals: 11 "Buy the mornin' news, boss. Have a a paper, boss." The judge waved the tiny mite of hu- ~ nanity aside and went on abstracted ly, his mind engrossed with the case that was to come up that day in the court to which he was on the way. The dusky newsboy was not easily A evaded, and he kept pace with the a judge, shouting his paper cry at fre- ~ quent intervals. At last the judge a stopped and, grabbing his youthful tor- b entor by the shoulder, he said in his most severe manner:e "How dare you interrupt me when I un following out a line of argument? Don't you ever speak to me when I am pursuing a train of thought"I The small boy looked up In surprise n nd said in a most apologetic tone;:t "Befor' de Lord, massa, I didn't n now you was tryin' to cotch a train. g mEnu z ma "-.B,vmklyn En=lo ROSA BONHEURS PARENTAGE, [umble, but Adapted to Explain her Artistic. Temperament. (From London Truth.) I have come upon a few facts con iected with the life of Rosa Bonheur vhich again speak of the grest su )riority of the French humble class s over those of other parts of Eu ope. In writing a biographical sketch f hers Af Ros4 hadl the weakness to peak of her family as having been n the enjoyment of great wealth, ut reduced to p >vedy by the tern )le events that followed the Frencb ,evolution. She gave the address of LD uncle in the Rue Ste Catherine, 3ordeauz, who had got. on in her REV. GEO. W. WALKER. ime, a- that of her ftber and moth )r at the time of her birth, whereas i birth certificate furnished me by bhe + ayoralty of Bordeaux states hat she was born in the very hum )le Rue St Jean-St Senrin, No 29, n tb't city. The fiscal returns of Bordeoux from th4 time of the Dac le Richelian's Governorship to the rear in which Jean Bonheur went to he Rae Ste atherine, hear no trace f any wealthy person of his name iving in Bordeaux, but numerou.s ~races of petty shopkeepers, costers wd such like. The birth place of Rosa Bonheur's father is also given n a municipal certificate as the Rue ntre Deux Mers. whbich although ~ather a slum street, is fairly respec ~able. The witnesses of the famous nimal paiDter's bi'th, as given in be municipal certificate, are Fran ois Bonheur, the infant's grand ~ater, a&so hyvmg at 29 Rue St Seu ,in, and by profession a cook, and 3illame Laville, a clerk, living at 2 Re Castel Mouroti, a iatber slum ny lace in 1822. The father of baby Rosalie is Oscar Raymond Bon ieur, age 26, and set down as a Irawing master. His wife, merely nentioned as such, is named Sophie britine Dorothee. The graQd nother on the paternal side signue, without being a legal witness the irth declaration as Marianne Perard, !emme Bonbeur, .1796. This is, and robably was in that year, a wretch id street. Francoise Boneur hired 3imself out by the day to cook in pri rate houses. Bordeaux is, like all great commercial places, a city of ood cheer. The dinners of the Due le Richelien set up a luxurious aud efined standard and had the effect f enabling men cooks to earn hand ome wages. It would be interesting to know why Francois and Marianne Perard ailed their son Oscar Raymond and why he dropped the former name. Chere had never been an Oscar in Trance before the translation came ut of Ossian's poems, that Bona >arte and Bernadotte used to devour. WVe may conjecture that the Ossianic ,aste and the poems, perhaps, also filtrated down to the Rue des Deux ders. Mine Talma at public meet ngs recited selections from these high-flown poems, which met the de lamatory bent of the time. At any ate, Ossian was new to the French. Lhe fact of the journeyman cook aling his son Oscar is not without iguficance. There is no solid ground o go upon to tracing the origin of losa Bonheur's mother, Marquis or rarquessa, beyond that she figures a the marrirge registry of Bordeaux ,s a native of Altona, and that her :ven names, Sophie Christina Dor thea, might have I een culled from he Royal Almanac of Prussia RoMa ad heard that her mother's family ad come rt-fugt-s from Spain to ltona a long time back. Whbatever nestry may ha.ve been, she ap ears to havM rt c4ived a firstrate 2nsieel edur-'ion and4 to have been igh stran, frar k and c..uragE ous nd gifte I with a fine voice. Nap d on's wars so eburned np Eur p aat one cannot worder at her being >ssed or b'rought from Altonia to lordeaux. It is cilear that she could ot have been a Frenchwoman an1d it, therefore, Rosa Bonheur had ixedl blood an!d early composite ar stic clture. Io, Ca. Invite a careful inspec-, tion of their Large and and Choice Stock of Goods com .prising Dry Goods, Notions, Millinery, Shoes, Rugs, and Portiens. etc, etc Everything first class as we enLu eavor at all times to keep clear of shoddy. Our line of D 'ss Goods is up to date in every par ticular, style, ma terial, colors etc. Trimmicg- and Linings to suit the -ost fas tidious. In Millinery we take special pride and pleasure, and can safely g aT antee satisfaction to our customers. Our Shoe Stock is of the largest in the ct and we handle noth ing which we can not represent as be ing of the very best for the price put up on it. To the members of the Conference we ex tend a special invi tation to make all , which they may de si re. 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From now until after Xmas you will be looking for all kinds of delicacies and snbstantials for your table, and we wish to call your attention to our well se lected and full stock of such things. -12 and 5 lbs., Fruit Cakes- 'eady for the table. Cranberries, Celery, Saratoga Chips, Extracts, Spices, Raisins and Currants. All kinds Green and Dried Fruits, Canned Meats, Fish and Vegetables. Send in yourorders or ring up Ns stock we can serve you well. Yours truly, M|embers of South Carolina CONFERENCE' USE PELHAM'S DANDRUFF CURE AND HAIR TONIC, THE SURE OAiDRFF CUR. lures Dandruff, Stops Falling of Hair, Oleanses the Scalp, , Promotes a Good Growth 1 Of Hair. t Price 50c. Bottle. PREPARED BY W. E. PELHAM & SON, Prescription Pharmacists, EWBERRY. - S.C. NilPiani Johnson's IIard ware STORE IS THE PLACE To buy your Hardware, Cutlery, Paints, Holiday Goods, Etc. at Lowest Prices. Platedware. Tablespoons, T9aspoons, Ice Cream Spoons, Nut Picks, Rogers Bros. Knives and Forks, Etc., Etc. 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