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WHERE TILLMAN STAYS. He Has Comfortable Apartments ir "The Farragut" in Washington. Washington, January 11:?As soon as a citizen of South Caro lina reaches Washington lit makes a beeline tor the Capitol in quest of a member of the Con gressional delegation, with a preference for senator Tillman. As chairman of the committee of the tive civilized tribes the South Carolina Senator has a a comfortable apartment on the gallery floor of the tenate, adjacent to the document room This committee room is easy oi access in two directions, and it is rarely that it is not the scene of a conference between mem bers of the South Carolina dele gation and some of their consti tuents. Recently a party of gentlemen from the Paimetto State were visiting Senator Tillman and one of the them asked him how it came about that he had been assigned to the committee oi of which he was chairman. "It has been a puzzle to me," replied Mr Tillman, "and the only solution Vould seem to be that my colleagues in the senate look upon me as a big chief and good Indian." When not in his committee room or on the floor of the senate, the South Carolina senior Senator can be found at the Farragut apartment house, to which he was removed from the Normandie hotel, where he resided for a while this winterHis present quarters are in one of the most aristocratic portions of Washington and he is with in easy walking distance of the White House_ and Government departments. STATE BANKS FLOURISHING. Bank Examiner Issues Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Columbia, January 9:?The State bank examiner has finish* ed the compilation of a statement showing the condition of the 204 State and private banks in South Carolina, based on statements sent in response to a call of the examiner for the condition of the banks December 20, 1906. This statement, of coarse,' does not include the national banks in this State, which make their statements on the call of the treasury department officials. The statement is as follows: Resources?Loans and Discounts?$30,909,032 51; demand loans $2,232,715 14; overdrafts $820,379 33; bonds and stocks owned by the banks $3,766,090 44; banking houses $592,022 35; furniture and fixtures $299,73009; other real estate $266,952 25; due from banks and bankers $5,669,620 08; currency $1,215, 482 31; gold $138,685 69; silver, nickels and pennies $264,254 01; checks a*d cash items $418,01826; exchanges for the clearing house $54,559 48; other resources $123,279 06. Total $46,870,82180. Liabilities-Capital stock paid in?$7,788,899 61; surplurs fund $1,249,379 61; undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid, $2,561,631 10; due to banks and bankers $1,023,013 31; du< unpaid dividends $23,201 05; in dividual deposits, subject tc check, $17,164,627 82; savings deposits $11,888,556 68; demanc certificates $559,566 22;timecer titicates $1,973,214 42; certifiec checks I $18,009 70; cashier# checkst$85,612 79; notes and bills rediscounted $65,91218; bills payable $1,796,624 79; othe: liabilities $96,072 52. Total, $46, 870,821 80. It is 9. well known medical fac that pine resin is most effective is the treatment of diseases of theblad der and kidneys. Sufferers fron back ache and other troubles due t ^ faulty action of the kidneys find relief in the use of Pine-ules. $1,0' buys 30 days treatment.?Sold b W L Wallace. I A Boston s weak and sickly. His arms we He didn't have a st entire body. The physiciai the family for thirt Scoffs Emu Is l NOW: _ To feel thi would think he we JraLry hlncktmith. llr* all DRU0^ttT8t L ? " SOLDIER AND A PACK OF CARDS. 1 A Pack of Cards Series for Bible, Almanac and Prayer Book. (Publbhed by Requcit,) A private soldier Vas taken before the Magistrate of Glas> gow for pla}'ing cards during Divine service. : The account is given in the "English Journal." A sergeant commanded the soldiers at the oVinfoVi anH u-hpn the oarson VUUI VU) u?iv% ?. ; read the prayers he took his text. Those who had a Bible took it out, but the soldier had neither Bible nor common prayer book, but pulling out a pack ' of cards, he spread them out before him. He looked at one and then at another. The sergeant of the command saw him and said: ' "Richard, put up the cards,' this is no place for them." "Never mind that," said Richard. When the service was over the constable took Richard prisoner and carried him before the Mayor. "What have you brought this soldier here for?" "For playing cards in church." "Well, soldier, what have you got to say for yourself?" "Much, sir, I hope." "Very good; if not I will punish you more than ever a man was punished." "I have been," said the soldier, "about six weeks on the march; I have neither Bible nor I Prayer book; I have nothing but I a pack of cards, and I hope to satisfy your lordship with the purity of my intentions." Then spreading the cards before the Mayor, he began with the ace: "When I see the ace, if reminds me that there is but one God. When I see the deuce, it re- i minds me of the Father and ( Son. When I see the three, it re-1 minds me of the unity of the' I Godhead in the trinity of per- J . sons. When I see the four, it re-' minds me of the four Evange. lists that preached: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. [ When I see the five, it reminds [ me of the wise virgins that trimmed their lamps?there were ten, five were shut out. When I see the six, it reminds me that in six days the Lord . made heaven and earth. ) When I see seven, it reminds : ; me that on the seventh day Godj 1 rested from the great work He j . had made and hallowed it. I When I see the eight, it re- j ? minds me of the eight righteous ; s persons that were saved, when: 3 God destroyed the world?Noah ; r and his wife, his. three sons and I . their wives. When I see the ten, it reminds j me of the ten commandments j which God handed down to | Moses on the tablets of stone. When I see the king, it req minds me of the Great King of 0 Heaven, which is God Almighty. ~ When I see the queen, it rej minds me of the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon, for she choolboy was tall, J re soft and flabby.. T rong muscle in his JL Jr a who had attended A y years prescribed 0 on. 4* ? Z Ll uojr uiu jrwu W i apprenticed to a X ........ I was as wise a woman as he was a man. "Well," said the Mayor, "you have given me a description of all the cards in the pack except one," "What is that?" ' Phe Knave," said the Mayor. "I will give your honor a description of that too, if you will not be angry." "I will not." said the Mayor,"( if you do not term rae to be the Knave." "Well," said the soldier, "the, greatest knave that I know of is ; the constable that brought rae! here" # % I It Quiets the Cough \ This is ooe reason why Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is so valuable io consumption. It stops the wear and tear of useless coughing. But it does more ; -it controls the inflammation, j quiets the fever, soothes, and | heals. Sold for 60 years. - Ayer** Cherry Pectoral baa boen a regular Ufa preeerrer to me. It brought me through i a urtre attack of pneumonia, and I feel I that 1 owe my life to Ita weadetfnl earattre ^ropertiea."? Williak H. TtOlTT, Wawa, A S.jry.fTriifTf"'1Um" i A\ a ,^eat tUtafiMSJU. A lyers aauniMa. HattMi recovery by kemplng tha bowata regular wttn Ayr'i PtUa. Tk* Last Htm. There was a vacancy in the minietry of a vest highland nariah. for! - D | ? ^ | which three candidate* preached in the church on three succesaive Sundays. The first was diminutrre in stature, the second smaller still, and the third wts the smallest of all. A lady in the congregation spoke with a member of the church committee and demanded to know why such small candidates had been selected. The exrln nation, as a writer in the London Telegraph gives it, waa thin: ;,V.'?'el. mum, ye see the steepends hnp become very small, and they're riu bring-in" oot such big ministers tlmr used to do." The Publisher's Claims Sustained United States Court ok Claims The Publishers of Webster's loteraaUoaal Ptctliaery allege that it"la, in fact,the popular TTnehridirM thorotiirhlr remitted lneverr detail, and vastly enriched In every part, with the purpose of adapting it to meet the larger and severer requirements of another generation." We are of the opinion that this allegation moat clearly and accurately describes the work that nas been accomplished and the result thathas been reached. The Dictionary, as it now stands, has been thoroughly roedlted in every detail, has been corrected in every part, and is admirably adapted to meet the larger and severer requirements of a generation which demands more of popular philological knowledge than any generation that the world has ever contained. It is perhaps needless to add that we refer to the dictionary in our Judicial work as of the highest authority In accuracy of definition: and that in the future as in the past it will D9 the source of constant reference. cma C. NOTT. Ch itf Jortk*. LAWRINC* WELDOS JOB* davis, BTAjrrog jTpeklle. b. Howry, irUgm. Tbe above refer* to WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY THE GRAND PRIZE (the highest award) was given to the International at the World's Fair, St. Louis. GET THE LATEST AND BEST Tou idU be interested in our Z'OTN, specimen page*, sent free. f V/ \ I worran 1 G.&C.MERRIAM COH UrtR^rouJ PUBLISHERS, \D^O\aRY/ 8PRINOFIELD, MAM. THE MELANCHOLY DANE. i Supposed Source of the Plot of Shake' speare'a "Hamlet." While Shakespeare no <3oub' wrote the tragedy of "Hamlet," a! it is found today, he borrowed mani of his data from an earlier Writer Saxo Grammaticus, a Danish his torian who -lied about 1204. HL writings we.'e in Latin, and ii Shakespeare's time they had no1 been translated into any moden language. The story is to be fount in Belleforeut's collection of nov els, begun in 1564, and an Englisl translation of it was published en titled The Hystorie of Hamblet Prince of Denmarke." Horvendili in the novel is the name of Ham lef'o fafhor Fanirnn that nf hia iin ? , o -r? ? cle and Gervth that 01 his mother Fengon traitorously slays Horven dile and marries his brother's wife In the second chapter Hamlet coun terfeits the madman to escape th< tyranny of his uncle. Through th< machinations of his uncle he i) tempted by a woman, the unch thinking thereby to undermine thi prince and find out whether hi) madness is counterfeited or not. In the third chapter Fengon, tin uncle, tries a'second time to en trap Hamlet in politic madness ant causes one of his councilors to b< secretly hidden in the queen'i chamber behind the curtains b hear what speeches pass betweei Hamlet and the queen. Hamle kills him and thus escapes danger In the fourth chapter Hamlet i sent to England by Fengon, witl secret letters to have him put t< death. While his companions'slee] Hamlet counterfeits the letteri "willing tHe kitig of England to pu the two messengers to death." Her< ends the resemblance between th< histnrv jiprl Hip nlnv Thp Hflrrllp of the history returns to Denmark slays his uncic, burns his palace makes an oration to the Danes anc is elected king. He goes back t< England, kills the king of tha country, returns to Denmark witl two English wives and finally fall through the treachery /of one o; these ladies. This is tXe supposec source of the plot of Shakespeare' "Hamlet." A Pardonable Excuse. A Columbia university man wh< makes frequent use of foreigr words and phrases in his talks an< his literary products was under fin for this practice. The feeling among his antagonists was that th< English language is a good enougl means of expression. "Well," sai< the expert in word pictures, "to m< a number of these foreign phrase hare an interesting history whicl their use recalls. I plead guilty t< a sentiment for just this kind o thing. Take the expression 'sul rosa. Its English substitute ia'pri ately/ I prefer to think of tb rose as an emblem of secrecy u ** s il i. L!.l L . ureece, ana ine cunom wiuen ax on* of these pretty flowers huiq over the table whare guests war entertained in totea that nothing heard there wae to be repeated hence the expression 'tub rose.'" A Uvsi? Csurt Seem. They had a lively aoene in a eour in Algiers whan thirty thieves wen brought up for their sentanoea. Th judge had just sentenced the oris oners whan a notorious thief fiunj a boot at him. It hit the presiding judge squarely on the nose, mahin| the blood spurt. This was a signa to the other prisoners, for immedi ately a storm of boots, caps and oth er articles hurtled through the aii and amid the confusion the band o thieves made a daA for liberty The gendarmes had to draw thei s wo ids before order could be re stored. All the prisoners wen caught and lined up again befor the judge, who gave them all threi years more at hard labor for com mitting an outrage on the magis tracy. Psrsisn Justice. Professor Williams Jackson tell in his "Persia Past and Present some stories illustrating characte in the land of Omar Khayyam. On is of a man who, suffering from in flamed eyes, went to a horse docto for treatment. The veterinary gav< him some of the salve that he usei on animals, and the man lost hi eyesight. He then brought suit ii court to recover damages. Th judge, after weighing the evidenc in the case, handed down his deci sion as follows: "There are no dan ages to be recovered. The ma would pever have gone to a veteri nary if he had not been an ass!" A Willing Witness. To solemnize the ceremony c taking the oath Chinamen kill cock. By another process the break a plate. The English habi is to kiss the Bible. The other da a widely traveled Chinaman in Johannesburg court was asked whs form of oath he preferred. He it plied, "Allee samee, break-un platee, kill-um-cockee or smell-un Dookee, allee samee." 9 > which will surprise you, if you have never ^ r | called on us before. 5 i f Bed room Salts $17 50 to $45.00. 1 ' I Oak Beds 2.50 to 15.00. | 1 Iron Beds 2.50 to 14.00. i ^ ^ Folding Spring $1.75. ? ^ Above we give you a few of the many things we ^ 5 have at the right prices. ^ % MATTINGS, RUGS, WINDOW SHADES, f . 5 LAMPS, CLOCKS, CHAIRS and ROCKERS. S J | AT THE | ? | Lake City Furniture Co's | ^ JM TRULUCK, L O HOLLOWAY, L M B^LK, ^ ^ President. Vice-President. Manager. ^ Iaamamam i 1 1 1 CO. 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