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His Wife Rattled Him. "Women are so impulsive,"' said an F.ast End man the <?ther day. "I was awakened from a -ound sleep Sunday morning hv my wife crying in an excit.d manner. "Henry! Henry! come quick! I sprang from lied and ran to the head of the stair- and at once -moiled smoke. Then I -homed. " Take the baby, run to the corner and turn in the alarm! I scrambled back to the room and snatched up some clothes, thinking I'd put them on later. Then I grabbed little - with JUIZaDClU. ?H" wa- -Ulr..6 .. tinder my arm and da-lied downstair-, 'Where is it?' 1 exclaimed running here and there to locate the fire. Behold, my wife was sitting in the dining-room with | the bahv in her lap as calm as could he. with nothing out of the usual, except .a smile of joy on her face. "Why don't you get out of here? Do you want to he hurtled up alive?" I shouted. " 'Why. Henry, what in the world'4 the matter with you? Are you crazy?' " 'Xo. I'm not crazy. I want to know where the fire is;' "'Fire! There is no fire.' she said. "'What did you yell fire for then?' "'I didn't.' "'Well, what in thunder is it. then?' " 'Why. Charlotte has a tooth.* "'Goodness. 1 thought the house w.t? ?n fire.' 44 "IIow stupid." remarked my wife coolly, as she placed the baby in her liifjh chair and Marred '"or the kitchen Why don't you p?* Elizabeth down? Do you intend to carry her under your arm all day? And you had better get dressed, toot breakfast is almost ready."" Look Carefully ^^ToYour Kidneys Dr. JeniieFV J. Kidney Pills cause the kidneys to work as AM A n/1 Viott cVtnnlrl uaiuic IUl(UUt.U UI\.J They build up the shrunken walls of the kidneys, as no known remedy has been found to do before. As a cure for urinary troubles they have no equal. 10, 35, 50 Cents ua Dll. W. V. BKOCKIXGTON, Kingstree, S. C. IfiMBliM 811811 I Subtle I Foe | Dyspepsia is unrecognized in MR < half the cases. It deceives the ? unknowing sufferer. Its many variations work along the weakest Rt; lines of the system. To battle jjE ( against only one of them is vain. 9 Our booklet explains its symp- | toms. Our Dyspepsia Tablets give MR complete anil lasting relief. GILES' I DyspepsiaTablets | 10c., 26c. 259 AND SOC. 9 DR. W. V. BROCKIXGTON. Kingstree, S- C. Don't Force Your Bowels with harsh minerals which -always leave bad after-effects on the entire system, and where their use is persisted in, tend to completely wreck the stomach and bowels* ..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. 839 10, 25, 50 cents* DR. W. V. BROCKIXGTOX, Eincstree, S. C. | Street "ailways vr. Goo<1 ItonilR. ANEW factor that mast soon bo taken into consideration in connection with the jrooil w roads problem is the rapid extension of the electric traction systems into the rural districts. Not content with the immense volume and j earnings of tiie intramural systems. | the street railway intern sis have in-j varied thy country with loupr mierurban lines ihat are already projected nil the way across large Stales. These street railways or electric traction roads are not to lie ignored liy the gcod roads workers. They j must l?e stndied lor the pttrpr.se of j determining the effect tltey will have upon highway travel, whet iter toward increasing or decreasing its volume, or as reducing the iciiutii ot* haul by horse and wagon, and changing* its direction. Practically all of those railways par-1 nllcl important public highways between the principal cities and towns. Many of them have franchises front the Stale, granting the right of construction and operation directly on the public highways, while others own part of them in the shape of purchased rights of way. The cars on tlirse linos transport passengers from town to town, or between the points on the roads, as comfortably, more cheaply, and almost as quickly as the steam cars between stations, aim. i;u- more quickly ami agreeable than the trip. Ion;: or short, can be made by horse and buggy or wagon. It seems obvious. therefore, that the electric roads will tend to reduce the light passenger travel along the wagon roads which - they parallel. But rut'?^tj4ictlon companies are not, by any mr irrTnni iiim i jih passenger business alone. ready embarked in tbe expressai!?T> light freighting traffic, despite the legal obstacles which arc being thrown in their way by the steam railroad . companies, whose contentions have been defeated in the Supreme Court of Ohio. This freighting or express business promises in the near future to become more profitable to the roads than the transporting of passengers, and to grow more rapidly in volume. It cannot be doubted that this draws wagon traffic from the parallel highways. As yet, few. if any. of the electric 1 roads have attempted to embark in the heavy freighting bushes.-: in this country, though it has been done in Europe. We may safely predict, however, that in time the traction companies will attempt to secure much of this business also, unless legal restrictions debar them, for they can operate as cheaply as the steam roads, and in many cases they haw* advantages over the latter iu facilities for handling such freight. However, if the interurban roads reduce the travel between towns on the highways which they parallel, they , will surely increase the travel on tiie cross roads leading from the farms to the railways, and which act as feeders to the steel ways. This will also undoubtedly increase the volume of travel oil the roads reaching from the villages off the lines of the electric and steam roads to those through which these lines extend, (iood road advocates have no reason ' for becoming apprehensive that the 1 extension of the interurban electric 1 railways will cause any of the wagon 1 roads to be abandoned and to fall into 1 decay. While they seem likely to reduce traffic on some of the main thoroughfares connecting towns, their [ effect will be to increase the number of short hauls in the aggregate on 1 others. It is, at any rate, a factor iu 1 the highway improvement movement 1 that may be studied to advantage. The progress being made bere and ; abroad in the manufacture of practi- 1 cal a-'.l economical rtcrmi and gaso- 1 f-v'-c <-n,1 V.vvinc " Ot, n-.->ll oc ' passenger coaches, for the transporta- ; ;io:t cf freight and passengers on the 1 public highways offers the good reads enthusiast sufficient guarantee for a counteracting influence tending to give tile interurban wagon way a new | importance. It will probably then come to a struggle between the operator of the motor stage and the electric traction companies to decide which of them can reduce the cost of operation to the lowest point.?I-I. \V. Perry, in the <Jood itoaus Magazine. Opposed at 1'irjt. V.'hen the New Jersey hard road ir.w was passed there it was bitterly i pposed by the farmers, and to put in operation in some eases where farmers were the officials to the initiatory sups, it was necessary to compel th m to act by mandamus proceedings. During the tirst year only thirty miles of hard roads were built; last year 11-1 milc-s were constructed, aud the prrsmt year over five hundred miles are petitioned for by the farmers of New Jersey. TVitl IJ? Eyesores. Tim dweller in rural regions would think New York City far behind the times if lie rode downtown in a ricketty stagecoach over a cobblestone pavement. It is gratifying: to note that there is a spirit being manifested which in time will make the present dusty or muddy roads, lull of ruts and "thank yer. ma'ams." as much an eyesore to tlie farmer as a cobble pave mcut is to the city man. The (tri-atc?t Drawback, l It must then be admitted that from end to end of our beautiful progressive country the greatest drawback to thorough education, the greatest drag on spiritual, mental and moral development is the hindrance of free social intercourse between the city and the country through bad and, at times, impassable road?. RURAL TELEPHONE LINES. Proper Construction and Itespect I For the Wires. A paper was read before the Independent Telephone Association of the United States at Buffalo not long ago by S. I'. Slieerin. Some of his ideas are calculated to provoke discussion, and will r.ot command universal assent. but others are sensible and convincing. Mr. Slieerin favored plenty of neat, heavy poles, none of them shorter than twe:iiy-!ive feet, and at j least sis inches in diameter. Then he would allow no grounded lines, but have complete metallic circuits. The better tlie line the hotter the service, and if the general appearance was respectable he thought it would command better treatment from small boys. The telephone. Mr. Shccnn insists. lias a perfect right on the highway. since it is built for communication between residents of a town, exactly as a road is. Strong ground was taken in regard to trees. The speaker said: "As it was necessary to trim away the original forests to make the roads so I would trim* away the trees aloDg the side of the road which belongs to the ef^jH^g^TTrees along highways, near bouseS^*t^^nstas well be set back twenty-flveo^nlrtj^^g^Tliey have no business on the hlghwB^^iB| overlapping the highway, when they interfere with the uses of the highway." = Whatever he thought of this and other opinions expressed by Mr. Sheer- ^ in. few will dissent from the follow- * iug doctrine. "The telephone?which, after all. has only had its development in the last six or seven years?is a ( greater boon to farmers than to any other class of people. The great drawbacks of country life are its isolation, its meagre opportunities for social intercourse, and its still fewer opportunities for protection. When we add ^ to these the disadvantages of being ^ tAii/.li Ti-ttli tin, moi-L-nf iiMil rmr of roach of the great news pulse of the country, the sum of the country life's shortcomings is complete. The telephone changes all tins. It comes as a C benefactor, exceeding all others in Its possibilities and usefulness. No man can fully estimate its benefit to the farmer. It brings his ear close to the market tickers of ihe world; brings ~ the weather report to his door in time _ to protect his crops and cattle, and J travels what would be to him and his horse weary miles in the ordinary transaction of his every day business."' Tie Married 8000 Coaplea. For more than twenty years John Hause, of Jeffersonville. Ind., has been . connected with the business of mar- | rying eloping couples from Kentucky j and Illinois, an industry of which he is practically the creator. Long before be was elected a "squire,' with power to tie matrimonial knots and collect wedding fees, lie was a "runner" for . 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