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OUR BOYS ON THE BORDER. Interesting Letter from Member of Second Regiment. Just a few words to the folks of deai old Williamsburg, about facts . * of*our post patrol guard duty which L the second S C Regiment has just rnmsnea, ana now we are. As you know, the first regiment was ordered home on the fifteenth of November. In a few days, in place of cheering for the fact that we would see our home and friends, we were detailed for fifteen days on outpost duty,which of course wasn't as much welcomed as an order to go home would have been. Howeve r, we did it with the thought of being patriotic. J We were posted along the border at different places from Fort Handcock to Las Cruces, some post one, and some post two company. Company A, which included some of the Williamsburg boys, with Company B, both of the Charleston battalion, were to gather at the smelter of a cement plant on the Rio Grande river six miles west of El Paso. Company I, or the Timmonsville Company, which includes the other Williamsburg boys, was sent to Las Cruces, the town we hiked to last Summer, and on account of some of the boys having a swell time with a case of mumps, they havn't gotten back into camp yet. The other boys are back in camp doing the same: "squads right," and "squads left," aod so it goes. W hile on out-post duty we Of Company A were on duty twenty-four hours, and#then came back into camp while Company B took their turn of twenty-four hours. While we were on I must say that it was not very pleasant, as it was very cold, and we couldn't have any fire on account of ; the light. Nothing looks fayorable toward going home any time real soon. We enjoyed a very good dinner Thanksgiving on the border.and I think we shall have the pleasure of having another one on Uncle Sam for Christmas. The boys are getting along very well. Most of us are in good health, the principal complaint being homesickness. Clarence B Clark, Co. A, Second S C Inf. A * Scaly Legs In Poultry. This troublesome disease is caused hv t. minute harasite working undei the scales of the shank, throwing uy a deposit of scurf which sticks to the leg and in a little time becomes hard and apparently a part of the leg. When it first gets in its work the leg will show but little roughness, but as time passes it increases until it becomes a great bulky mass about the shank, very unsightly in appearance and cumbersome. Finally it so affects the joints as to make the fowl almiist unable to walk. This trouble comes on so gradually that the casual observer or owner does not detect it until it has spread 'all through the flock, which it will do ir * * f iL. 1 _ ?*. f, trie course or a lew rnonins, 11 lt-n \ unmolested. It is no trouble to keep tin check if looked after when it makes its appearance; in fact, in s fiock of chickens well cared for, with ; good, clean, sanitary surroundings, l it seldom shows up at all. I T? our way of thinking there is nothing that looks so disgusting tc a person that likes the looks of a good chicken as to a scabby-legged old hen, or young hen either, for tha^ matter, Now for the remedy for those whc get it into their flocks. The mosl ^ - *1 1-5 e iiective one is me piain Keru&t-iic uij. Take a tomato can nearly full ol kerosene oil, tack it to a post or wall of the roosting house where it will be handy; into this dip the legs ol each afflicted chicken just to but nol touching the feathers, holding it there for a minute or two that the oif may soak under the scales and loosen them. This should be done three times a week until the scale has all crumpled off to the shank proper. Then this operation should cease and be followed up by an application of sweet oil for some time or till the surface of the shank looks smooth and normal. When but a few lowls are ^ troubled with it, they should be removed from the rest of the flock tc prevent contamination.? South'rn RuriUst. i: ' Resisting Power In Babies. Many illnesses that do not amount to much in Rrown-up people are very serious when they attack babies. That is because young infants, and new-born babies especially, have slight resisting powers, although these powers differ greatly in children of equal age. It is natural that a baby born of healthy parents, in good surroundings, should have more resistance than one born of weakly parents, in unsanitary and crowded quarters. Moreover, a baby may come into the world with strong powers of resistance, but j may be so unwisely handled and fed | ihat all those powers are weakened ' and broken down, until the child becomes an easy prey to infection. But the strongest baby needs Hreful watching, because, at the best, i it is less ab e to resist disease than 1 older people are. That is the reai or*r\ tuKu onnoihln n^nnln orn OA PQrO. , own *!!* OVIIOIUI^ pvvptv HIV vw? v ful about a baby's diet. An attack of indigestion that would be only an annoyance to an adult might easily, in a young baby, produce convulsions that would injure it permanently or even end fatally. The death rate is naturally higher among the babies of the very poor than those of the well-to-do, because it is well-nigh impossible for a hard-working mother in a crowded tenement to surround her baby with the right conditions. That so many survive is a testimony to their inherited powers of resistence, given tnem in many instances uy parents of hardy European stock, who passed their own childhood in healty rural distticts. The death rate among the babiss of the poor grows steadily less, becruse so much attention is now being given to the subject; but it is still far too large. Besides the question of food, there is overcrowding, with consequent impure air and constant exposure of the baby to infections. In small and crowded quarters it is difficult and often impossible to isolate sick children from well ones. Therefore measles, from which the elder children recover easily enough, is very likely to end ' the life of the little baby. Heat is another menace to the babies; and not only the heat of mid/ summer, but that of overheated rooms, in which the stove is the chief piece of furniture. Constant I education of the mothers is our best hope for the future; the necessity for clean food, fresh air, protection from flies and vermin, and isolation I from other children in case of illness must be preached in season and out of season.? Youth's Companion. Georgetown Home Bnrned. Georgetown,December 25:?Christmas Eve night the home of Mrs ! J J Rogers was destroyed by fire j and members of the family narrowly escaped with their lives. Mrs ? I Ward, the married daughter of Mrs .! Rogers, had put the baby to sleep I up-stairs, in which room an oil stove II was burning, and gone below. About a half hour later Mrs Ward's broth( er went up-stairs to retire in an adj joining room, when he discovered I ?% ! r iL L j names issuing irom ine reum which ( his sister occupied. Opening the door he with difficulty rescued the ; little child and gave the alarm and .! the other inmates of the house suc(, ceeded in getting out with only their I wearing apparel. Willie, a young son of Mrs Rogers, in trying to put out the flames was ( severely burned about the hands . and arms; his injuries, however, are ( not considered serious. Mr Ward,- the husband of Mrs 11 Ward, whose baby escaped miracu[ lously from the flames, is seriouly r ill in a hospital in Columbia. There . was no insurance on the house and . contents valued at about $2,000. i WEAK, NERVOUS OHIO WOMAN 11 Made Well By Delicious Vinol > | Bellefontaine, Ohio.?"My blood waa ! very poor?I was in a weak, nervous, | run-down condition. I tried different I remedies without benefit and one day ' my druggist told me about Vinol. I tried it and it built me up in every way " ?blood, strength and nerves, and I tell | my friends it is the best medicine on ! earth."?Mrs. Eakl Bbunso.v. ' Vinol ~ sharpens the appetite, aids . digestion, enriches the blood and in nnlnrol monnur nraofufl ofrnmrfK liizn naiui ai uiuiiiivi vivuwv^ ' Complete formula on every label. Scott lirugO, King.-tter, S C. Martha's ?111 i 1 hanksgiving i She Found a Reason For Celebrating It By CLARISSA MACKIE "Give thanks for what?" demanded Martha Butterworth fiercely. ''Being alive, of course, for one tiling," retorted her roommate, old Mrs. Lovd. "Alive!" sniffed Martha. "Everybody else in the world is alive as weli as I be." "You're sacrilegious, Martha," said Mrs. Lovd solemnly. "J s'pose I be, I s'pose I be," said Martha drearily, and she stared from the window down at the frost J i e 1.1 1... Ilippeu lawn in lue uiu i<iuii> mum.-. Martha Butterworth hated the old ladies' home with a fervor that few of its inmates understood. Most of them were simple minded old women who had invested a little nest egg of savings in the institution to receive dividends of a lifei long home and decent burial. Mrs.-Butterworth in her younger days had been quite a personage in the county, for her husband, Darius Butterworth, had been known as the richest farmer within a radius of twenty-live miles. But Darius had fallen a victim to the gold mine fever and awoke one, morning i to tind himself the possessor of ai big tin box full of worthless mining stock, while even his farm had been i mortgaged to its full value. The horde of censorious relatives j which immediately gathered at the < RnltorirnrHi furni nml elnmOTcd their disapproval of Darius' "crazy, investments" proved to be too much for the patient, unbusinesslike Darius, who, dazed by the great misfortune that he had brought upon his wife as well as himself, promptly disappeared, taking the box of beautifully engraved stock certificates with him. The closest search failed to reveal the whereabouts of the fugitive farmer, and the aforesaid relatives, ^till censorious, but in a mute, heartbroken sort of way, helped Darius' bewildered little wife to close up all the affairs that hungry creditors had not already pounced upon, and they agreed that Martha should live in turn with one and another of, them until Darius should come back or something turned up. The bread of dependence is bitter, and for five long years Martha Butterworth tasted gall and wormwood. Then she packed up her few belongings and took a position as housekeeper in the family of a man who had an invalid wife. For five more years Martha looked for her husband's return, and then hope died in her breast with | the ending of the tenth year of his absence. Shortly after this a severe attack of rheumatism crippled Martha's' busy feet, and so she gave up her situation and. taking her small savj ings, did what her soul loathed to do?she became an inmate of the old ladies' homo in the adjacent city. Old Mrs. Ixivd knew that Martha Butterworth had been a very brilliant pianist in her day. Before Martha had married Darius she had taught music, and after she was married she played for her husband's pleasure. For ten years her work hardened fingers had not touched piano keys, and in spite of Mrs. Lord's pleading that Martha enliven their long autumn evenings with "tunes" on the big square piano in the parlor of the home Martha had as steadfastly refused to touch it. i "Thankful, indeed!" muttered Martha again. "I hate this old place! I hate this home!" she said between her clinched teeth. Mrs. Lord, who was now standing in the doorway, heard he^ and \ drew her mouth in sudden dismay, j "I'd be afraid to say that, Mrs. Butterworth. It's flying in the face of Providence to say such tilings. I've got a sister who is crazy to come here and stay, only she hasn't got $500 to buy her way. If she was here with me we'd be perfectly happy. I'm afraid she will never have $500 to come, though." "Y*>u don't know. Maybe Provi- , donee will open a way for her," said ; Martha Butterworth, suddenly losing her bitterness. '*1 know of somebody who is tired of it and . wants to leave." j "You mean vou?" cried Mrs. i Loyd. Martha nodded. "If I do your \ sister can have my membership." ! "Oh. oh." cried Mrs. Loyd.de-I lightedly; "that is good of you, Mar- I tha Butterworth! If you don't change your mind Hannah will I ,t, .... lm . 'I. f J' ipend the best Thanksgiving she *ver had!" "I shan't change my mind," said Martha decidedly. "You can write and tell her she can have mv half of the room on Thanksgiving day. Don't cry about it, Mrs. Loyd, and, no, 1 don't want you to thank me. It's not because I'm kind hearted, for I'm not. I'm dreadful bitter. 1 do it gladly because 1 want to go away from here.*' inose are me worus mar .Marina | Buttenvorth spoke, but even as she uttered them she felt a tremor of fear for the future. In leaving the detested home she was throwing away the last defense between her frail body and?the poorhouse. On Thanksgiving day there was a feast in the long dining room downstairs. After the long dinner was over the old ladies g?. tered in the stiff splendor of the parlor, where a great tire had been kindled 011 the hearth, and they told stories and jokes, and there were much laughter and funmaking. Then Mrs. Green asked Martha Butterworth to | play something for them. To everybody's surprise Martha went to the piano without a word and, sitting down before it, played one thing after another until eaeli old lady had had her favorite piece played or her favorite song sung. At last Martha's lingers strayed into a melody that she had not dared r'emember for ten years. It was her lmeltniwl^ / I bi vnm'l i* .1 VAVito cAllif it ur* u?i i ivi o \ I'm iuo j latviuc and one she had played for him times without number. Xow her voice was somewhat broken, but it was still penetratingly sweet, and it pierced through the walls of the home, and a man passing deje tedly along the sidewalk heard it, stopped short and mounted the steps of the home and rang the bell. Mrs. Green, the matron, came: into the parlor again and looked strangely, doubtfully, at Martha Buttcrworth, who was still at the r piano. r "Somebody wants to see you, Mrs. Butrerworth/' she said meaningly. A man was waiting in the dining room ? a tall, white haired, pale i faced man, well dressed and prosperous looking. He looked once at Martha as she entered and held out his arms. Martha stared at him with unbelieving eves, for it was her husband, Darius Butterworth. In another instant she was in his arms and Darius was telling his story. One of the women relatives had scolded Darius well that day when ruin fell upon him, and she had told him that the best thing he could do was to take himself away where he couldn't do any more harm to his wife's interests or happiness. Of course the relative was sorry afterward, but then it was too late, for poor Darius had taken his worthless mining stock and departed for the west, where for years he struggled for a living, while he patiently investigated every mine until at last i he found one that really held out a J prospect of paying dividends to its, trusting stockholders. That was the i beginning of the fortune that Dari- ' us fiad puea up irom several 01 ins so called "worthless certificate", When he had regained the fortune; he had lost lie went back to his old home only to find that his wife had i disappeared after five years, and,; while it was known that she had en-; tered a home somewhere, she had taken no one into her confidence. Darius had been wandering disconsolately through the street that Thanksgiving night when he had recognized his wife's voice singing. "And I believed that I didn't have a thing to be thankful for," said Martha remorsefully. "This'll be the hanpicst Thanksgiving my sister Hannah ever had," confided old Mrs. Loyd to the women about the hearth lire. "Martha Butterworth's going to leave, and Hannah's going to take her place.". Charitable. A Washington man in motoring through Virginia stopped one day at a toll bridge he had often passed over and found there was a new keeper in charge. "Where's the man who used to act as keeper here ?" asked the motorist. "He's dead, sir," was the reply. "Dead! Poor fellow! Joined the great majority, eh ?" "Well," said the new man cautiously, "I wouldn't like to say that, sir. lie was a good enough man so T 1 W TT A iar as 1 Know. ?nurpci s .uugazine. Genius and Goodness. I have had sometimes in mine the gloved and white palm of the upper i class and t he heavy black hand of the lower class and have recognized that both are but of men. After , all these have passed before me 1 say mar nunuinny lias a syncui>m, : equality, and that under heaven | there i< hut one thins we ousrht t" how to. genius. and the only tleny hef< re tvhfeh w? ought to kneel, i goodness.?Vietor lingo. i f ' A A SPARK P 11 ME A SURE SPARP ; GIANT- LEAK FITS ALL MO' Ofe J The electrodes on : J? :j constructed that n< Bli: :: IB the sparking gap be Kingstre LIT. Thompson, . ? M OS j 15c lb. Paid for 1 I Choice Beef, Porl I Mutton and THE PEOPLE'S H. A. MILLED, Pro THE CASH has a good wan waiting for you. your headquarter in town. Am alw: to see you in 01 i Best Price Paid for C Flour and Rice a Specialty. Seed L. S. 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