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A COMET'S TAIL ?? | The Way This Filmy Dust Train Is Tossed About by the Sun. No bridal veil was ever so filmy r.s a ! comet's tail. Hundreds of cubic miles of that wonderful appendage are outweighed by a jarful of air. By means of the spectroscope we have magically transported this fairy iiiim*. t.. <vr 1'iiiornforii's find linve >v discovered that it is akin to the blue flame of our gas stoves: for the pas by which we eook and the delicate tresses of a comet both consist of corn- | binations of hydrogen and carbon, appropriately ca'led by chemists "hydroit tirst appears in the heavens. " -moved from the sun. a comet is 1 a dless bloteh of light. a coinet swi.ns <>n toward the : (rruu the hydrocarbons of t!te tail split up under the increasing heat into l:y- i <V*op^n pas and 1;v !rocarbons of a , higher boiling point. With a still , < ioser approach to the sun. these more t resisted hydrocarbons eventually yield i to th-' increasing heat and are d.^composcd in the form of soot. Interplanetary space is airless; hence the soot cannot burn. It must pursue i the comet in the form of a dust train. The particles constituting that train are small enouph to l?e toyed with by the pressure of sunlight No matter where the comet may be In its orbit, whether it has just entered the solar system or is speeding away, *1 ' If hlv fAccail r* Tl'il V ! I Hill JliUUJf 10 luctuuvj; M .? M%. from the sun, just as if a mighty wind were blowing It from the central luminary. The appendage of shining dust is the symbol of the triumph of light over Eolar gravitation.?Harper's Magazine. THE PLANET JUPITER. What the Man of Science Has to Say About Its Wonders. The jolly Jovians are said to be realities and not myths. Not only are there said to be inhabitants on Jupiter, but also on some of bis moons, in the midSt of which the vast planet. 1,300 tltnW the size of the earth, spins at such tremendous sj?eod that it causes around the equator a furious wind that blows perpetually at the rate of 230 miles an hour. Those who believe in the Jovian say that bis height runs from fifty to fifty-five feet and that he exists for about 800 to 1.000 of earth years. The Jupiter year, how f ever, consists of 144 months. The I I oceans of Jupiter, torn into fury by the f hurricanes, would pay no attention to r one moon such ns moves the tides of f our earth, and it takes no fewer than five of these satellites to perform this work for Jupiter They travel at various rates of speed, some flying close to Jupiter's surface, others far off. They have atmospheres like ours on earth, and a moonlight on Jupiter is Indeed a glorious sight, for these m*ons have a variety of color; two are jpue, one is yellow, and one red. Jupiter needs all her moons at night for Illumination, for without them her five hours of darkness would lie black indeed. So distaut is the sun that broad daylight is hardly brighter thau twi light on eann, ana one June muuu would not reflect enough of the sun's rays to guide the Jovian footsteps. The Human Touch. "Janie had a doll that would say 'Papa' and 'Mamma.'" "What became of it?" "Jane's mother is an advanced person, and she said the doll was an inexcusably childish rcmiuder of a grossly benighted period." "And what did she do?" "She threw it in a dark closet where Janie didn't dare to go. And then a d^y or two later she happened to step on it in the dark and it shrieked 'Mamma r so naturally that she fell over in a faint and bumped her head and had two buckets of water poured over her before she recovered consciousness."? Cleveland Plain Dealer. An Anticlimax. Sir Henry Irving was frequently a victim to the Interjections of gallery crulc Whon nlnvlnf* *'M neheth" one " mvm f *Mo ?? ? night he had reached that dramatic moment in the banquet scene when In dreadful fear he bids the ghost of Banquo to vanish: "Hence, horrible shadow, Unreal mockery, hence!" he exclaimed and. shuddering convulsively, dropped to his knees, covering bis face with his robe. As the ghost vanished a shrill voice In the gallery broke the momentary silence: "It's all right now, 'Euery; he's gone!"? London Bellman. Achill Island. There are few people who once having seen the Island of Achill can forget its beauty. The island lies close j to the west coast of Ireland. When the skies are blue, mouutaius green and smiling, bogs clad in purple and piafc heather and the whole picturisland in sunshine, the place is a wonderland. Consistent. "The people who say that women are inconstant and inconsistent," declares Eof fqlly, "are dead >ars ago a girl told me twenty-two, and she lnie figures today."? r. His Line. er?I was out so late ! my wife wouldn't let tall Player?Well, you ; "out at home."?New :wo days to live. It Is while to spend them outemptible rascals.? t I THE FOREHEAD. What Its Size and Shape Are Said to I Indicate. A bicrh foreho.nl to be very good should Ic well developed about the eyebrows. Breadth of forehead is always favor- ' able. It is distinctly connected with breadth of character. A forehead that curves back reveals a poetic temperament, a fondness for the arts and n talent for either music or painting. Of course a broad forehead may be j ( part of a weak faro, and a weak chin 1' and mouth will naturally give a truer J impression of character than even a c< ibination of a narrow forehead I with an otherwise Strom; face. If there is quite a perceptible bulge of the eyebrows, combined with a high forehead, the sign is of a calm. cool, i deliberate thinker. ' If with these eyebrows is combined a forehead that slopes gradually back, a sensitive, poetic temperament is dis- ! closed. If. again, they are combined with a short, narrow forehead, the subject will 1 e successful iu business i . and in everything connected with | worldly matters, but lie will be in- i ? capable of appreciating to any extent ! . or of creating anything connected with :" the arts.?New York American. SAW IT IN A DREAM. A Lost Check and the Peculiar Way It , i Was Found. t A wealthy New York lawyer sat up ' \ : . . ... ... . . _ . late one nigiit wriuug letters ne uau 11 not been able to finish during the day. | ( It was past midnight wheu he went out j to mail them, and when he returned ! f and was undressing he paused in dis- ! ^ may. missing a cheek a large sum i received during the day and taken \ 5 home with him. In vain was the house ' rausacked at fliat late hour. lie went to bed convinced that the lost check ^ must be in the house. An hour later > he fell into uneasy slumber and beheld as with his eyes of the tlesh the pink / check curled about an area railing four * or five doors from his own house. So real was the dream that the trou- / bled man woke tip. dressed and. slipping down tlie stairs into the street walked along the sidewalk to a spot f still seen vividly in his mind, and there, sure enough, standing edge upward and partly curled about the iron, was the t missing check. "I think," he reported to the Psychical Research society, "my subconsciousness must have noticed it r M " ?- t lb ~ J 4Ra mil i rum my [?u*.*ki*i as 1 iy iuc mail box and my subliminal self point- 1 ed it out to me in sleep."?William G Fitz-Gerald in New York Tribune. I The Dogs of Constantinople. There are at least 235.000 dogs in Constantinople, which lias a population ] of 1.150.000. They are the vilest of cowards and are the scavengers of the , city. It is said that scores of people ' are bitten daily by the dogs of Constantinople. but that a case of hydro- ] phobia was never known there. Three centuries ago Nassuf Pasha, grand vizier to Achinet III., transported all 1 the dogs to Asia and would have had 1 -*t .1 4Ur> ciiWnn 1 lllL'IIi ut'?ll U%> I'U lUt'lc, uui iuc OUJIUU, on consulting the mufti, was told that I every dog had a soul and consequently t forbade such wholesale destruction. After the slaughter of the janizaries Mahmoud intended to get rid of them, for he caused an immense number of sausages (!) to be made and. having poisoned them, gave the dogs a feast. Many thousands were thus killed in one day. but the people murmured so much that he was afraid to begin a second day's work. He therefore ordered them to be expelled to Asia, but the order was very indifferently executed, and in a short time the dogs were as numerous as during the time of thejanizaries. The Dog Morland Painted. Of the many stories of the seemingly ( unconscious heroism of Newfoundland j dogs none is more interesting than the one concerning the noble dog which Morland afterward painted. When William Thillips, bathing at Portsmouth, ventured beyond his depth and was drowning, two boatmen, instead of setting out to his rescue, haggled about a reward from the bystanders, who were urging them to go to Phillips' rescue. In the midst of the controversy a Newfoundland dog leai>ed into the water and brought the exhausted bather to shore. Mr. Phillips bought the dog from its owner, a butcher, and yearly gave a festival in honor of his rescuer. It was for Mr. Phillips that Morland painted the dog's picture, and Bnrtolozzl engraved it A Dream Warning. A strange story comes from Calabria. One Braecala, a resident of Fizzo, had a dream In which he saw his sou, twenty years of age. being attacked by two men, who were stabbing him with knives. Braccala awoke and, arousing his wife, told her what he had seen. She tried to calm him, but while they were still discussing the matter a noise was heard in front of the house, and. hastening down, Mine. Braccala opened the door just in time to catch her son in her arms as he fell swooning to the ground. He had been attacked and stabbed and died shortly afterward. Too Easy For Him. '"Sir, I want work." "Here's a penny. Buy yourself a newspaper." "But I know nothin' about runnin' a newspaper," protested Tired Tiffins, who really wanted alms.?Louisville Courier-Journal. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the uicht the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.? , Shakespeare. Announcement /] I Having removed mv business1 into one of the ;:e\v brick stores near the railroad 1 be# to offera select line of Jewelry, Clocks, Watches Silver Ware and Gold and ^ilvpr Nnv*?ltip<; ; ? ^Also v "ch and c h repair work w 011 short notice-?? mpetin * prices. L^ook i the Watch Sign. E. 4. WATTS, Kinjistree, S. C. >-29-tf * "N* 3UR C. otJIN'Q RATES' We offer ?hear> clubbing rates viin a numbi>s^ popular news-1 >apers ami periou. lis. Head care-, uily the following list and select i he one or more that .^u fancy and 1 ve shall be pleased to end in your >rder. These rates aie of course all; :ash in advance, which means that j >oth The Record and the paper I >rdered must he paid for, not 1, 3, j 1, O, 0, 10. 11, but twei.ve j iio\th> Below is the list of ii >ur be%# offers. The Recok. News & Courier Semi-weekly,) $* ^ The Record and. * & Farm twice a month,) $1.35. The Record and New York World 3 times a week,) $1.75. The Record and Atlanta Consult t ion (3 times a week) $1 85. The Record and Atlanta Consti- j ntion (weekly $1.50. The Record and Brvan's Com-. I nouer, $1.75. The Kecokd and Cosmopolitan Magazine $1 75. THt Kecokd and Youth's Companion (New Subscribers) $2.50. The Kecokd Semi-Weekly State, j;2.50. The Kecokij and Lippiucott's Vlagazine 1 year each ?2.75. The Kecokd and National Magazine, 1 year eaeh, $1 60. N. K. We do not club with any laily papers. The first issue you eceive of the paper or periodical is 'vidence that the money for same las beeu forwarded by us. We are lot ret>{H)?sil>le after that. THE COUNTY RECORD^ Kingstree, S. C. tz:. of r>. Kingstree Lodge Kniabts of pytbias Regular Conventions Every 2odiand 4thiWednesday nights. Visiting brethren always welcome, Castle Hall 3rd story Gourdin Jluilding. II. A. Myer, C. C. A. C. Hinds, K. 1{. S. xxxxxxxxxxxxx suns m 8 SATIS, 8 un V We cut fine piece gooi * stores right next door to y Q Princess Dresses and Jumpe ft Suts. O Balance of our ladies' white an ft colored lawn and lingerie princei dresses an J jumper suits on sa X at the following reductions: * $ 4 00 Dresses reduced to $ - C V 5 00 Dresses reduced to 3 3 O 7 50 Dresses reduced to 5 C A 10 00 Dresses reduced to 0 t A 15 00 Dresses reduced to 10 C X IS 00 Dresses reduced to 1*2 (' St :i0 00 Dresses reduced to 13 3 V 30 00 Di esses reduced to l'0 (1 X Ladies' Walking Skirts of Blac X and -Navy Blue Panama. Fane St mixtures and Black Chiffon Ta y feta Silk. Reduced ONETHIR Q OFF FORMER PRICE, ft We carry a large assortment ( ft WRITE FOR PR xxxxxxxxxxxxx I i $30 Tn Rnstf and reti Atlantic C Tickets on sale July SOtli.; 4th limited to start on return sion or return limit may beol by deposit and payment of $ in \ew York on return trip. W- J-Craig. Passenger Traffic Manage W I L M I N G 1 STOLL B' J _____ WF BU i I AND AND SELL L AN it will p. j to always any business of this kind. OFFICE OVER BANK < ^ ^ EVEi<\ | It never muses a mark, a regulating an accurate and point of the pen, and the ( in the pocket, always ready the instantaneous call of stock from which to select I al-o handle all text books a South < arolina at prices fix?*?l G OLL1E EPF >0000000000000 1 k COM P"ACTION Of IDE ill FM ds for merchants in any length ou. r Ladies' Lace Waists in black, ji white, cream and ecru colors from $ j $2.9* to $25.00; Blaca from $0.50 ... to $25.00. ? 5d ji 'e Tailor Made Soils at Half Price. it Every one this season's stylesj( < jinrl most wanted fabrics, in Prince 1 ' Chap and Madame Butterfly ef-11 J2lfects. |] '" $12 00 Suits reduced to $0 00 ', ! 15 00 Suits reduced to ? 50!< '2 -0 00 Suits reduced to 10 00 '* 25 00 Suits reduced to 12 50,' '0 -JO 00 Suits reduced to 15 00 - 40 00 Suits reduced to 20 00 k : :y Ladies' W aists Grouped in Three 1 f-! 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The Si,000 (Juarantee Investment Home Purchasing Bond, issued by the Southern States Trust Company of Columbia, S C, upon which they are granting tj per cent loans for 10\ years will enable you to buy or build anywhere or to lift your mortgage. Be your own landlord. Worth investigating. Do it now. Address W. C. Furse, General Agent, Columbia, S. C. 5: tf "magazine I T* A TNTJTIP r~7 ???, ALTAIC, a SUNSET MAGAZINE beautifully illustrated, good stories ?a and articles about California and ^ all the Far West. J** CAMERA CRAFT devoted each month to the at- _ tistic reproduction of the best $1*00 work of amateur and professional A jm photographers. ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS a book of 75 pages, containing 120 colored photographs of $o.7S picturesque spots in California and Or egoo. Total .. . $3.25 All for . . . $1.50 Address all orders to SUNSET MAGAZINE Flood Building San Fraacisco THE TIIRICE-A-WEEK WORLD IX PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. More Alert, More Thorough and More Fearless than ever Read in Every English-Spoken Country. A president of the United States will be elected this year. Who is he and who is the man whom he will beat? Nobodyyet knows, but the Thrice-a Week World will tell you every step and every detail of what promises to be a campaign of the most absorbing interest. It may not tell you what you hope but it will tell you what is. The Thrice-a-Week World long- ago established a character for impartiality and fearlessness ifc the publicacion of news, and this it will maintain. If you want the news as it really is subscribe to the Thrice-a-Week edition of the \*evr Yorlr Wrirld which comes to you every other day.except Sunday, and is thus, practically a daily at the price of a weekly. The Thrice-a-Week World's regular subscription price is only $1.00 per year, and this pays for 159 papers. We ofer. this unequalled newspaper and The County Record together for one year for $1.75. The regular subscription price ot the two papers is $2.00. XXX xxxxxxxxx : King Street, x - South Carolina X BACK | THE SOUTH ^? X arest mail box places our X Dixie Frames and Nets comte for wood or iron beds. Spe- O Pull line of American and Eugi Bobbinet 75c to $10 a piece. X roll Blinds Keep Your Piazzas O Shady and Cool, Q :e (? feet by 8 feet $1 00 e 8 feet by 8 feet 1 l'5 /\ :e 10 feet bv 8 feet 1 50 X iu^ in One of Our Hammocks. A A'e have a full line in pretty Q ors. Pillow ami full value, y* to $10 each. >peciai. jr Ladies' Chiffon Taffeta Silk >/ raper Suits. Solid colorsjand O ipes. Value $13.50. Sale 10 ft ON AN ORDER . ft ooooooooocxxx