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Strange Wanderings of a Word. Ln't il strange to liunk oi a wur.l "\\ .oideriug\\ i' like to 1h-:i<1 a traveler te'l his adventures. of tile countries lie lias seen the people he has known. Do yon know that some words are ?\perieiiced travelers and could tell a wonderful tale of new lands ami changed customs ? Just take, for instance, the word "bureau." Should you think it had any connection with the word "fire"? In old ijreck days there was a word "pur." or "fire." Then the Latins needed it tor "fiery red." and they made it "burrus." Presently it wandered to France and hecame "buire." meaning "reddish brown." For a long time it lived there until it grew to be in modern French "liure." a rough wollctt cloth. The Frenchmen used the cloth to cover their writing tables, so these were called "bureau." j Knrn ?u'.?d 1>C.\1 IIIV J5U?H1IIIIVIU .?v. .v?.v?. the word, for their valuable papers wiVe kept ill tlic writing tables, so "bureau" came to mean a place of information or depart incnt of state. You know we use our bureaus for keeping our clothes. What do you think of that for a serie* of adventure*? The word "hank" has an interesting life. Once it was "banco." a bench. You wonder where is the connection? Wei!, in Italy the Lombard Jews used benches in the market place for the exchange of money. As times grew prosperous they had to move to larger quarters. In Venice. 1550, was the first public hank started. Then you can think of other words from bench. The river bank, the bank of keys of the organ or a hank of clouds. Every known language contains Buch names as cuckoo, pewit, whippoorwill and others, in which the sound emitted by the animal is utilized as the name. Look Carefully To Your Kidneys Dr. Jenner's Kidney Pills i cause the kidneys to work as nature intended they should. ? They build up the shrunken walls of the kidneys, as no ? A J ?V Virtf ViAAti ft. LIU W U IClUCUjr uas la.wu iuuuu to do before. As a cure for urinary troubles they have no equal. 10, 35, 50 Cents us DR. W, V. BBOCKINGTON. Kingstree, S. 0. jsubtle | B Dyspepsia is unrecognized in I I half the cases. Jt deceives the * r unknowing sufferer. Its many B I variations work along the weakest H Z lines of t!ie system. To battle 4* 9! against only one of them is vain. SK Our booklet explains its syinp- 8nS ton is. Our Dyspej>siaTal)lctsgivo ^$4 Z complete and lasting relief. s^j I GILES9 i B n?ffor?r?r*r?io Tohln+c fUjfO|Jcpdia i auiu&o ? 10c., ?5C. -'<0 AND 50c. Dli. W. V. BROCKINGTOX. Kiogstree, S C. Don't Force Your Bowels with harsh minerals which -ilways leave bad after-effects on the entire system, and where their use is persisted in, tend lo completely wreck the stomach and boweh. 1 .,USE.. Edgar's Cathartic Confections The only harmless, vegetable, bowel regulator, and liver vitalizer known. As pleasant to the taste as candy, and as positive as the harshest mineraL No gripe or pain. S3? 10, 25, 50 cents. DR. W. V. 15 liOCKI NGTO X, | Kincstree, S. C. I o) J sample Highway* liuilt. ?w jr AKTIN DoiMiK. I?ir ctor ; jV /1 of Public Uo:i<l Inquiries i \/ I Office. wrilcs ;is follows in ? Municipal .lounuil anil Knj jjineer: The re Jos infli enee of ilie bicycle and llie automobile lias tinally created a public sentiment that is crystallizing into betterment of the public highways to an extern that is most gratifying 10 the good roads euthusi- ^ ast. Many States which have failed | to make any appropriation for the ini- , proveinent of roads in the past year j j yielded to th public demand and made I'cr them liberal npproprialious. The good example of Massaeliusetts. Connecticut. New Jersey. New York and other States is bearing fruit. in the aggregate, including the l small appropriation made by the Government. millions of dollars have been set aside for the betterment of the eouutry roads during this year. Canada is by no means a laggard, but rather well in the lead, when nil things are considered, for she has np- : propriatrd 51JHHI.OOO to be expended j upon the improvement of the high ways curing me seasuu. Tho good roads train wHiv-li has hocii louring the South during the last Hirer mouths, was made up at Chi- I <-ago through tho co-operation of the National Association of tiood Uoads. tho Illinois Central Hailroad and several manufacturer* of road-making machinery. The train started from Chicago on April 2U. equipped with i eight carloads of the host and most important roaduiakiug machinery, expert operators, roadmakers and engineers. arriving in Now Orleans on April 22. Tho following week an object lessou road, about two ntiles in length, was built in the suburbs of Now Orleans. over a low plain, formerly sub- I jeet to overflow. It was desirable to raise the roadlud higher than usual to get above the action of the water. ! whirh soft pus the surface of the rond so rapidly; therefore, earth handling machinery was used to advantage. The New Era grader, propelled by twelve animals, was tirst put upon the work, and earth was transferred from the sides to the centre, at the rate of four ruble yards per minute. Within the short space of two days ihe uudlsturbcif earth was transformed into a smoothly finished roadway, over which automobiles could pass with perfect ease. During the week n State convention assembled for two days In pursuance of a proclamation issued by the Governor of Louisiana. Every parish of the State was well represented, there being about one thousand delegates in attendance. As a result of this couventiou a permanent State organization was formed, which will operate in co-operatioii with the national association, to carry on the work already so well begun. On the first of May the train left New Orleans for Natchez, Miss., where it remained a week building I niinthoi- liiKvnn rami nnil hold ins a district convention for two days, at the dose of which a permanent organization was formed for carrying on the work in that vicinity, and for the purpose of co-operating with the State association, afterward formed at Jackson. Miss., and the national association, formed last November at Chicago. We had here the hearty cu-operaiiou of ibe city and tin? county authorities, the object lesson road being built partly within and partly without the city of Natchez. Our next stand was at lirccnville. Hiss., where we arrived on May It!. This is in the midst of Ihe famous Yazoo Delta. The soil is an alluvial deposit, subject to overflow and inundation. A portion of this soil* is known Jis "buckshot laud." and is exceedingly difficult to handle and more difficult io retain in the form of a smooth roadbed. It was doubted whether the earth-handling machinery so successful in other soils, would he able to handle ihis peculiar buckshot formation, but our efforts wore crowned with success, and we left them an object lesson of great value, in ih? form of smooth, well rounded roadbeds, raised well above the water level. We also had a very successful two-dav eon vent ion. which terminated with 1 lie organization of a permanent association for the improvement of highways. 1 left the '.rain temporarily at this point, and the te xt stand was made at (iranada aid another McComb City, and from Md'oiaii they went to | Cambridge, after which the great convention w;ij held at .faeksoti. Miss., where an object hs -on road was built, as at each of the oilier plates. The St.at convention was probably the I larg. : t and most Mice..-.-fill of any I load con.t illit.n ever assembled in j America and result; d in a permanent i 'irirnuizatiou for ibe entire State. __ i I-'roin Miss.. the train wi-rr I l?? Tt int.. where a I program was ear.'icd out. Ti:e lie\t | great stand Was sit Louisville. Ky.. where I in joined 1 !:: train on .i;:rie "_'T. Tim < inventor <>:' Kentucky JZ had issued his proclamation for the | State convention in lie held here ::t | this time. and continue two days. This was well attended hy eminent in; a from all parts of the State, and was one of the best conventions ever held i:. the interest of good roads. tioveruor Deck ham was present and delivered an address lull of encouragement for the cause and urging: the people to industrial activity. A line object lesson road was produced here just outside the city limits, and a permanent organization formed for the purpose of .........On., ..n tin, ivnrlr !r> connection mucins >" with the national association. The ;rain went from Louisville to Ilopkinsville and repeated there substantially the same work that had been done in the other places. Owenshorn. Ky.. was reached .Tidy 14. and a most enthusiastic conveutiou was held on the fair grounds in that city. From here we crossed the Ohio River into Southern Illinois, and made a final stand at Effingham. It was expected that the train would move from here to Mattoon. hut owing to a disastrous fire in that city, the engagement was cancelled, and the great tour of the good roads traiu was closed. -j n THE PRESIDENT ABROAD. The Idea That He Cannot Vlelt For etc* ^Oll ft .UCfB OUpciau?.VH. There is a popular superstition that ^ the President of the United States is ? inhibited from leaving this eountry w during his terru of office, but it is sit- \ perstition only. The article of the Constitution which relates to the Pres- e' idenr contains no provision of the sort. r' and therefore the President is quite j free to do precisely as he chooses in this matter. <> The reason why no President has si ever visited foreign countries until at- .V tor ills retirementvlms probably been a due to the fact that In the early years jj of the republic, before the invention of the telegraph and before the laying of the Atlantic cable, and also before i he development of steamships of ? great speed, absence from the country would have meant so protracted severance of communication between the executive and the subordinate officers of ihe tSoverninent as to constitute ~ what would have been practically an ' inability to discharge the powers and ( duties" of his ottiee. When it required t ;i month to make tno voyage 10 miropr and when letters and orders could be transmitted only by sailing packets, + or. afterward by steamship, it would. > of course, have been impossible for the President to visit England without practically abdicating his office and installing the Vice-President in his place. But now. when the time re- v I quired to pass from New York to n Queenstown is but little more tliau five days, ami when immediately upon his landing lie would be in telegraphic communication every moment with his Cabinet, there exists no satisfnc- ^ tory reason why he should not feel entirely free to perform a striking act in international courtesy. It is not. indeed, true, that no President has ever gone beyond the lioun- daries of his country. President Ar- " thur. during his term of office, went to l| Florida by sea. ami although he did .-<> on a vessel of ilio navy, and was therefore technically still upon American soil ii was. as a matter of fact, shut off from communication with the administrative departments for se\< ral days: and President Cleveland also on one occasion, while shooting in the I Adirondack's, crossed the Canadian J border, and for several hours was. without knowing it, actually upon British territory. If. indeed. ii:<> President of the Tailed Stares were now to visit Egypt lu; need never he so remote from Wash- ? inglon in point of facility of communication as was President Monroe " when, during the era of good feeiing. he left the seat of floverniuonr and " traveled by canal and coast and carriage to the city o* Boston.?The Bookman. A Kurnlnj Qncatlon at Bryn '"Of course, some of our problems in mathematics are very puzzling.*' said the Bryn Mawr sophomore, but there J is :i iar nnruer question wou-u i> m u<> way conuecred with our studies. There is an unwritten law in Bryn Mawr that a girl must uot walk alone with a professor, and we are all very careful about observing it. There is another rule, also unwritten, that a student must not walk about alone after dark. Now. if a girl is detained tinavoidably in the evening, and while walking home meets a professor going her way, which rule is she to breakV There have been a great many bitter discussions about that point, and nobody has ever reached a decision." Yes." said her friend, sympathetically. "it inusi be a very troublesome question. D:;r what docs a girl generally do v.* It oil site is caught in sucii an embarrassing situation:" "Oil. that." replied the young col- | legieiiue. 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