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** COSTLY L0THB.
Cottumn W*m by Ort* t?t ?f Lew^e*
Boy CKorictirs.
i As a rule, boys are not disposed to
be overproud of their clothe*, but *
lad whose Sunday suit costs muiip
?40 and is of so striking a character
MB that it is considered unsafe for Inni
H^Fto walk abroad in it alone mijrlit be
SJB i /? l.-:? .. .? ??i.i
jBB eicuscu ior ueiug ;i imih- muu up
H in this connection.
rat Yet in London every Sunday there
^^Vare ten boys who
BHlv and brilliantly habited. Thev are
^Bthe ten chori.-ters belonging
^ majesty's chape; in St. James' palBBacc,
and truly gorgeous are they
HKwhen arrayed in their "state suits."
Senr'ct cloth is the foundation of
B^Khe Costume, and bands of royal
R^Bpurplc bet worn rows of heavy o!<!
^Hlace are the adorning of it. LrandEB
est of all, old lace rallies arc worn
at the neck and wrists, but these arc
|^Bso valuable and difficult to replace
Mthat it must be a special occasion to
^ warrant their being donned, white
^Hlawn bands being substituted as a
thing.
to exercise great care
for it must last
jears, while his undress
..placed every eight months.
RB The choir of this royal chapel is
H one of the historical institutions of
Bl Britain, and many of its old time
H customs, including the dress of the
boys, are retained to this day.
Eg Some canons customs peculiar to
St. James' choristers may be men
tioned. "The most interesting of
M theee is the right of the bead boy te
B demand a guinea as "spur money"
9H from any offiacr entering the ohapei
ffig wearing spun.
It is related that whan Sir Arthur
fM Sullivan was head boy the Daks of
M Wellington would always corns to
HH the chapel in his spars in order to
^Bhavc tbc pleasure of paying the forBfto
bis favorite chorister.?Pear
I ion a wweiuj.
Hack Writers.
Tbe journeymen writers write altaost
all that almost all Americans
|se*d. This is a fact that we love to
fool ourselves about We talk about
rbtseraturc/' and we talk about
piack writers/' implying that the
reading that we do is of literature,
the truth all the while is we read
Kittle else than the writing of the
backs, living hocks?that is, men
and women that write for pay.' We
pay hug the notion that our life
and thought are not realty affected
by current literature, that we read
the living writers only for utilitarian
reasons and that our real infcllectual
life is fed by the great
lead writers. But our hugging this
I [elusion does not change the fact
nat the intellectual life even of
cost educated persons, and certainy
of the mass of the population, is
ed chiefly by the writers of our own
ime. Let us hope that the great
niters of the past do set <ihe standrds
whereby a few judge 'the writag
of the present But even if this
ie true it is still true also that the
utellectual life of the American
eople is chiefly shaped by current
rriting.?Walter H. r*?e in Athnlc.
CsuWirt Dieeberfe Him.
I! When the jury had find in for at
kast the fourth time, with no tip
tff coining to an agreement in the
bribery case, the disgusted judge
lose tip and Mid, *1 discharge this
T? this one lensitha talesman,
stung to the quick by this abrupt
and ill sounding decision, -obstinately
faced the judgeTon
can't discharge use, judge!"
lie retorted.
"Why not V asked the astonished
judge.
"Because," announced the talesman,
pointing to the defendant's
lawyer, 'Tin being paid by that man
there!"?Lippincott'a.
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Th? Fithcr and Hit FTfaa.
| Donald McTavish, an adept at
angling after the "saumon" oa Deeside,
dissatisfied with the lures for
pie royal fish he could beg or buy,
began to dress his own ny boeks.
JLn old crony, Sandy Wallace, met
M^BicTavish one morning and said:
IKfl "I he?ir ve're st-airted to dress wr
uHn hooks noo, Donald. Is that
HH "It's a" flint," answered Donald.
MgaB^Arr can ye pat them tip g&j
H^Ht'ral ?" inquired Sandy.
H"1 dinna ken for that," replied
HH)nnald, "but there wis a spider ran
H^Bra' wi' two o' them yesterday."?
HHLundee Advertiser.
Th# Htfpfng Hand.
^H^The company had been discussing
I^Bthe social rise of a man of millions
SBPwho had begun life as a laborer.
W "He owee it all to his wife," de
blared one?of the number.
fit The others regarded her inquirV
"As soon as he was worth a milI
Bon," she explained, "his wife set
B labout exchanging his union card for
I Emcoat of arms. By the time he was
I prorth two millions she had made
i&e trade. The rest was easy."?
6 Youth's Companion.
THE MHUA.
Story 94 th? Plant'? Strang? lntr?du?tien
Int? England.
Not long ago there appeared on '
the table of a lady who is an en- i
thusiastic gardener a dish which ,
puzzled her palate. .She could cot ;
decide whether it were a singularly i '
turnipy potato or a remarkably pn- ,
tatoev turnip, and whichever it was 1 ?
she did not like it. Site summoned :
the cook, and inquiry presently re- ,
vealcd. to her dismay, that it was
neither, but some of her choicest (
cactus dahlias, innocently mistaken
for a vegetable.
The error was less disastrous than
the famous one of the Dutch homokeeper
who during the prevalence
of the historic tulip mania accidentally
boiled for onions a handful of
tulip bulbs worth a fortune. l?ut it
j was certainly vexatious as well a*!:
funny.
According to historic tradition, i ,
the original introduction of the dahlia
into England occurred through I
an error exactly opposite in charac-1
ter. It was imported for a vegeta- j
ble and tufoed out a flower.
A little over a century ago, so the j
story runs, Lady Holland, traveling
in the 6outh of Europe, was regaled
upon a soup of delicious flavor,
which her hostess informed her was
ealled "Palestine soup," because its
chief ingredient was the Jerusalem
artichoke.
Lady Holland, always on the
alert for interesting novelties, ordered
root of the artichoke to be
sent to her gardener st Holland
House. This was done, as every*
tody eoppoeed, but when the strong
shdots, thrusting up boldly in the
? MkUn nmHftf
the watching eves of gardener, oook
and peat lady, arrived at maturity
and bloomed, they bore a new and
splendid flower, inedible, but glorious.
The plant was tTanafwrred to the
parterre and-became the pride of
the garden, although at first Lady
Holland a feelings were mixed, for
she did not like to lo6e her 'Talestine
soup." But when a London
seech run enme to look at it and offered
30 guineas for the root her
last truce of disappointment vanished,
?Dtl her husband's graceful tribute.
which was soon passing from
lip to lip ihwugh the fashionable
draa ::g rooms of London, added
the r'.ia! touch to her satisfaction.
Lorti Hoiiawi. wno naa u preny
taste in verse, wrote gallantly:
The dahlia you brought to our is!e
Your praises forever shall speak
In gardens as sweet as j our smile
And ccSors as bright as your cheek.
?Youth's Companion.
A Free Agent.
Although the old gentleman with
red face and choleric temper had
opened the car window five times
with mach vigor, be had found it
closed every time be waked from
his dose.
He felt perfectly sure that the
person to blame was the man benind
ban, who gave vent to a stifled
groan -each time the window was
opened. At last the choleric gentleman
tamed in his -seat.
"Sir," he said indignantly, "yon
are evidently one -of those persons
who cxnnot bear fresh air, but may
1 ask you who controls this window,
the person beside it or the one behind*?"
'If yon could tftay awake a few
minutes," responded his neighbor,
"you'd ooon ameover that nobody
can control that window, sir?not
even the brakemwn or the conductor."?Exchanre.
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Origin if Om Dogwatch.
The deewatch on shipboard ia
either of the shoal spells from 4 to
6 o'clock in the evening or from 6 i
to 8 to taeak the anonotony of the
regular four how -watches, so that
the same men will not stand watch
during the same hours every day. 1
mvii nVi??nM o?lr mftflt I
nautical person of jour acquaintance
or, indeed, all die nautical people
you know why this is so called,
you would probably find them unable
to tell you. Tfce true answer '
is this: Dogwatch is a corruption '
of dodge watch. The dogwatch was 1
introduced to prevent the same men '
'from always keeping watch the same
hours of the day; henoe on these oc- 1
radons the sailors are said to dodge
the routine or to he dome dodge
watch.?Philadelphia Record.
Th? Lev* Thai Late.
Ob, the dear hate of 1117 girlhood,
the kind I wore at school! 1 really 1
thought them pretty. I must have
been a feol. And jet 1 toed to
think myself on hats a tasteful miss. .
Perhape I was, as fashion went But !
what was that to tMs? Oh, the lovely
little ptncake, the charming little '
mat I It makes my head look fetch- 1
ing when tilted from the flat. Oh, !
a lister's lore is charming, as everybody
knows, and a handsome eous- ;
in's love is nice?that is, I should ?
suppose. And the love of a true
lover is the love that cannot pall,
but the love of a stylish new hat '
lasts longer than them all!?Lon- :
don Scraps. ]
AHHCAN NEMftt.
Theee Unschooled Natives Take 8peeial ,
Care ef Their Teeth.
The whiteness and beauty of the 1
teeth of the African negroes have, <
tiirough a mistaken idea, been gen- J
orally ascribed to the food which ]
they eat and to favorable climatic
conditions. But according to a Gcr- J
man medical journal, the Muen- ,
,1 ,. i.? \r?
L'rt'l.ir .MVUiZ.! uiM-ui; n unicu.^uiiii,
these unschooled native- take spe- <
eial care of tl-e teetli and arc familiar
with many remedies for the ]
treatment of dental diseases. 1
From the observations of officials '
in German colonies it appears that
the natives exercise in. re care in '
preserving the teeth than do most |
Europeans. They may owe the possession
of sound teeth of ivory j
whiteness partly to the influence of ,
environment and habits, but in addition
they employ many herbs, !
barks and juices as prophylactic and <
curative agents.
Thus in Negombo it is customary
when a child has finished teething (
to rinse the mouth with an infusion
of tin 'eaves of a native tree with j
the object of tightening the teeth. (
The action of the infuticu is prob- ]
ably due to the prcsenro of a ityptic ,
constituent in the Luves which ,
causes the gum* to shrink. The na- <
tives living near the source of the |
Nile employ the root* of a legumi- ,
nous plant, Ddlbergla c.-ianoxyloa, j
to relieve toothache, vl-ile the na- ^
tives to the west of the source of ,
the same river use an infusion of .
the seeds of ksuao, a climbing viae,
for the seme purpose.
It is interesting to notice that the
use of the toothbrush is not restricted
to the so called civilized ,
peoples. The African negroes fashion
toothbrushes out of the wood j
of a species of adansonia and other
trees. In this respect the natives
probably have an advantage over s
those who use an ordinary bristle *
toothbrush, which is frequently *
used for six months or even longer, 1
indeed until it becomes too offensive 5
to be tolerated longer. The sticks (
of wood such as the natives employ 1
are, on the other hand, easy to 1
make and cost nothing, and they ^
are probably used for only a short '
time. And they possess the addi- (
tional advantage of offering less op- 1
portunity for particles of food and 1
other debris to be retained raechan- (
ically than is the case with a bris
tie brush.
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Tales cf Celebrities.
In the Duke of Argyll's "Messages
From the Past" the author
presents this picture of Tennyson 1
declaiming his verses: "He would 1
take us into the very center of a '
large field at Freshwater, in the Isle
of Wight, to be ftJre that he could !
not be overheard by any one lurk- !
ing in the hedges, before be would 1
stand and declaim in a deep, run- ]
nifig bees "voice any piece on which '
be was aft work at the time or one '
that had been specially asked for. 1
I remeaniber his thus declaiming the {
whole ef bis poem of 'Beadjcee' 1
with hardly a pause for breath." '
la tic same volume appears as '
anecdote of Prince Bismarck at the
Berlin conference: "At dinner the
wince drank only beer, saying that
be need (to drink wine, and too mock 1
mi it, but that now be cenid not II
etand anything stronger than beer,
In obedience to Princess Bismarck j
be made a good dinner, but not
enough of it in her opinion, and ]
when she wanted him to take more
be tuned to me and said the whole J
object in life of a Pomeranian haua- ,
frau was to ruin her husband's stomach."
1
71m Honor Appreciated.
Some years ago when Head Consal
Boak of the western jurisdic-1
tkm, Woodmen of the World, wai ,
traveling through the south the ]
train stopped for some time in a 5
snail tawn, and Mr. Boak alighted j
to make a purchase. The storekeep- t
er could not make the correct j
change for the bill which was pre- i
sen ted, so Mr. Boak started in
search of same one who could. Sitting
beside the door, whittling a
stick, was an old darky.
"Uncle," said Mr. Boak, "can you
change a ten dollar bill ?" c
The old fellow looked up in surprise.
Then he touched his eaj> and *
replied, " Deed an' Ah can't, boss, (
but Ah 'predates de honor, jest de ?
Y> J,-J. 3 T3 ; "D^i- ?
same. ?oavuruaj uvcuiug * vd*. ^
8H. Might. c
"There is one thing you don't t
have to do anyhow," growled Mr. d
Wipedunks through the lather that
covered hia face as he proceeded to
strop hia raror. "You're alwiya
complaining about your hardships.
You ought to be mighty th ankful L
fou haven't got a beard to bother r
nAn yy
jrou. .
"I don't know about that," replied
Mra. Wipedunks. "If I was *
t bearded lady, I believe I could 2
make a better living for this fam- \
ily than you're making."?Chicago j
Tribune.
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Th? #M Maittn
Price* which ran to five figures
ire frequently given for paintings
by what are tailed "the old masters."
Rut what of the original
;oet ? A collector who has been
making inquiries quotes the following
startling figures:
Michael Angelo. he found, was
paid only about $40 a month while
be was at work on his cartoons of
the battle of Lisa. Leonardo, who
utcd as his assistant, received the
ame wage.
Correggio received loss tha ">
For his "Christ In the Gr
ivhile Oarracci's "Resurrection"
wrought its painter still less. Albert
Onror iv;i. tolil nn lviiil in cash for
,..v. ... r -
!?is pen a lid ink j? ?rt raits. A bag
>f Hour, a ]>air of boots or some
such equivalent satisfied him.
Uembrandt, "the mightiest genus."
received as his highest price
mder $.">00 for his "Night Watch."
Valesquez worked chiefly for the
Spanish government. He was paid
>n an average a picture.
Street Cars In Mexico.
"Street car conductors in the
City of Mexico," said a tourist, "give
i receipt to each passenger on taking
a fare. The pads are numbered
and 6how as quickly as a cash
register how many fares each man
must return to the company, provided
that the passengers accept the reeeipts.
The Mexicans never forget
to demand a voucher, for each is a
numbered ticket in a monthly lottery
with many rich prizes, and the
gambling seal of the passengers acts
as a check on every fare taken ia."
?New YorkSun.
Surprising.
"YetUrday tm my biTthdiy."
"I suppose your husband gar* you
a little surprise?"
"Oh, jmf He came home bttare
midnight"?fleueton Poet
If a cough cd ? gets intoyour
ivstem it acts on every muscle and
lbreof the body and makes you
iche all over. It especially affects
he intestines and makes yon com
itipated, so in order to get rid of a
;o)d thoroughly and without delay
?ou should not take anything that
rill tend to constipate. Kennedy's
Laxative Cough Syrup acts upon
he bowels and thereby drives the
;old out of the system. It contains
30 opiates?it is pleasant to take
md is highly recommended for
ihildren. Sold by W L Wallace,
Si. D.
Haye* you paid your
subscription to this paper.
When the stomach, heart, 01 kid?
q??v nerve* l'e' weak, then th< or
hI?u \k fail. Ihui't <!?-. ?j ih.
1 ton awl*, nor stimulate the heu't t
kiilnrja. L'lia i- -iuij Iv .? 11..Uibt't.
(?et a piescriplioii ktrniii o
f\erywhet?- as l>r S'j.jt.p s
Eleetoi aiivf. The RoOrnlive expneesly
for the?e weak insole nerves.
Strengthen these nerves hui d them
up with I?r ShoopV lhstocUive?
tablets 01 liquid?smu we how
poicklv h< Ip aiM coTfie. Free tarn,
pie t?6t tent 011 requ?M 11 Dr Shoop.
Staciue, M 1*. Your health is surely
1_ .?1 it <
worm uu- saiupie ktbu j/ v ijvuvw
Notice to TeachersThe
Reading Circle Coarse for the
present year < onsista of the following
sooke:
Kern's Among Country Schools S .97
rhorndikes Principles of teaching .85
Koran's English Government 1.10
Ther may be had of the Educational
Publishing Co. Atlanta, Georgia.
TatAm talrinir tk? MB4M will hfl
examined thereon at their homes semetime
during the summar, and may hare
their certificates renewed as osaal.
J. G. McCullough,
l-23-3t Co. Supt. Ed.
January 21, 1908.
Notice.
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Notice is hereby given that the
bounty Board of Commissioners will
receive bids at their office in Kinestree
S. C. on Friday, at 11 o'clock, February
21, 1908, for the erection of an iron
'ence around the court house. Contract
will be let to the lowest responsible
bidder. Commissioners reserve
the right to reject any or all bids.
S. J. Eingletary.
fan 21,1903. * County Supervisor.
Notice,
Notice is hereby given that the un[ersigned
corporators, under and by
irtue of a commission to them directid
by Hon. R. M. MeCown, seeretar y
i State, dated January 15th, 1908, will
> January 31,1908 at 12 m. at the ofice
of A. C. Hinds, in Kingstree, 8. C.
>pen books of subecription to the espial
stock of the Blakeley-McCul lough
orporatinn.
The capital stock is to be $15,000 and
he par value of each share one Hun- j
irea Dollars. A. C. Hinds,
J. A. McCulloucrh. i
-23-2t Belle 6. Blakely.
Corporatioon.
The Hirst big lot of cotton
pas sold here Tnesday since the
ecent advance in price. Five
lundred bales were sold at aucion,
225 bales at 12 cents and
75 bales at 11.87 cents. It was
?ought by the representative of
nman & Co it is thought,'^for
ome mill.
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