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A Race For a \Y/;k vv ut He Got His Answer In Lapland Fashion. By ELEANOR L BRITTON Spitzburger was a great traveler. He had visited every country on the globe, and I verily believe that if aviation had come up in his day he would have sailed up beyond the clouds to find others. When I made his acquaintance he had settled down in a place he called by a jawbreaking name signifying "dwelling" that he had picked up among the Eskimos or some other benighted people. Spitzburger was a widower, with one child, a daughter. She was twenty years old and for half her life had traveled during half of each year?the summer season? with her father. Heredity and travel had made her as odd as he. Bather she was unique. She was of medium height, lithe, wiry?indeed, a femiline athlete of the featherweight type. Her hair was black and straight as an Indian's; her eyes large black ones, with lashes of the Spanish type. I wondered if her mother had not been some dusky semicivilized creature her father had picked up on the underside of the world. But he told me his wife had been an American Creole. The reason for my making the Spitzburgers' acquaintance was this: I was taking a postgraduate course at the time, studying the customs of different races of men, the causes and effects which shape them and their relationship. Desiring some information as to the people of Tibet, a land forbidden to foreigners and therefore little known, I was recommended to Spitzburger as one who had penetrated to the interior of that country. I went to see him, and my visit led to my studying with him. How long I remained there doesn't matter, "but it was sufficient wntr AT\4k*AllmATtf kr 4kof I XVI ill J cutiiiauui\;uv uj tuu w ubiiv , savage/' as I called his daughter, Irene. \ The only thing to indicate that Irqpe and I were drifting together as lovers was that we took long walks together. I made an excuse for this that in her company I could both exercise and study. This was true. I could get from her certain information of the domestic habits of the people she had visited that I could not get from her father. One day while we were on one of these walks I said to her: "Your father tells me that in Lapland to marry a girl without her parents' consent is punished as a crime. Please tell me how a man in that country does his courting." "He goes to her parents and asks for her. If he is refused there is no hope for him. If they approve of his suit they tell the girl of it She may or may not have seen the lover, but the process is the same in either case. Her parents give a feast at which they, the girl, her suitor and mutual friends are present The two orincioals are Dlaced opposite each other at table, where they can observe and talk with each other all they like. "After the feast all go to an open space suitable for running a race. A eourse is marked off?a quarter of a mile usually?and the girl is given a handicap of a third of the distance. The handicap is intended to , enable her to win the race easily if : she wishes, and if she wins that in- \ dicates her refusal of the offer. But j if, on the contrary, she purposely lags and her suitor catches her, that indicates that she accepts him for i her husband." It was a month after this that, I having got all out of Spitzburger in the line of my studies that I desired, I went to him and asked him for his daughter. "I will inform her of the honor yon do her," he said. I waited a day for a reply, and as I received none the suspense threw me into an awful fret. At the end of the second day, the situation being the same, I was almost demented. On the morning of the third, determined to have the matter out with Irene, I asked her to go for a walk with me, the last we would take together before my departure. She assented and went up to her room for her wraps. She was some time getting them, and when she came down what was my surprise to see that ^he had put on a skirt reaching but little below the knees, and instead ot a nat sne nad wrapped a veil about her head. I didn't dream for awhile what this meant, but when she led me along a paih and across a stile to a apace used in season for pasture I inspected at once ihat she proposed to satisfy a whim liv giving me an answer to mv proposal after the ^3 ? ' Lapland custom. I was too hungry j for it to object to the terras and i was quite ready to run for my answer. Indeed, so impatient was I that I opened the subject myself. "A good place for a race," I remarked. "I will race you to that; oak tree yonder. What handicap : do you want?" "I wish no handicap," she said. J "I think I can beat you on equal terms. I will go over to that stump, which is about the same distance from the tree as we are here. One race would be little fun. Let us make it the best two in three. You give the signal." "Agreed," I said, and she went off to the stump. "One, two, three?go!" I cried. She ran like a deer; but, spurred by love, I kept an equal pace with her. I won that race. The second race was very different. Irene permitted me at first to gain a few yards on her, but before we had traversed two-thirds of the distance she forged ahead and reachthe tree full ten feet ahead of me. I knew now that she could beat me if she wished. Nevertheless I deemed it my proper part to do the best I could in the third and decid ing race. Burning to know my late, I wished to start at once. But she declined to go until she got her breath. While we waited I endeavored to see something encouraging in her eyes?something to indicate that these races were the answer I was expecting. But there was nothing in her expression to indicate that we were running for any purpose except pastime. She studiously ignored every other consideration. Finally, when my patience was nearly exhausted, she signified a willingness to start I gave the signal, and for the first half the distance she seemed determined to win. Surely she could have put forth greater effort. I saw her glance aside to 6ee where I was, and she dashed on, seemingly bound to reach the goal jefore me. But i when within ten yards of it, my dis! tance being twenty, she tripped and : *-11 T 4- 4-U- 4?- 4-,,-U^l I iv 11. l rail un iu inu nee, iuuv,iicu I it and then back to her. Raising her, I said impatiently: | ''I suppose we must try this one I over." i "Xo," 6he said; "I couldn't run again." I still held her in my arms, and, taking this for the answer I craved, I wound them about her, covering her face with kisses. Supposing that my love had been injured bv her fall, I proposed to ! carry her home, but she stepped out ! quite readily. "How about that tripping?" I asked. She looked at the ground, but made no reply, and I knew she had 1 tripped on purpose. When we returned to the house | Spitzburger looked at us both curiously. I knew at once that he was aware that his daughter had given me my answer and that she had giv en it in accordance with the Lapland custom. He first scanned her face, but receiving no satisfaction there bent his gaze upon mine. He did not require a long examination of my features to know that I had been made very happy, and the cause was evident. I took Irene by the hand and, leading her to her father, told him the story. When I came to the part where Irene stumbled and fell he burst into a laugh, saying that she could run for hours without a stumble or a misstep. 8p*ct?cl?s For Cow*. The idea of cows wearing spectacles may seem ridiculous, but more than 10,000 bossies on the steppes of Russia wear dark glasses to protect their eyes from the glare of the rays of the sun on the snow. The cows subsist on the blades of > grass that crop above the snow, and the sun shining on the 6now is so dazzling as to cause snow blindness and great suffering among the animals. An enterprising and kind hearted man designed for the animals smoked glasses which could be worn with comfort and safety.? American Boy. A Mattar of Thrift. Two Scottish women were arguing as to which was the thriftier. First Woman ? Do you see that purse? Weel, that's my first ane, an' it's as guid as the day I got it Ye cannot beat that, noo, can you? Second Woman ? Michty me! What a poor boast 1 Ye ken Dugal, my husband ? "Oh, aye. What aboot him?" "Weel, he's my first man, an' noo you've got yer third. So dinna preach thrift to me again." Little Left. "What's the matter here?" asked the caller, noticing the barren ap | pearance of the house. "Sent your goods away to be stored?" i "No," replied the hostess; "not; at all. My daughter was married last week and she has merely taken away the things that she thought belonged to her."?Detroit Frw Press. \ MAKING A SOLDIER. ] Modern Military Training Producaa an i Anavi \j Pvnarfa j Military training, a* now understood and practiced, i- no longer the simple thing it was in other days, or, if it be objected that even tin soldier of old received, or at len.>t needed to receive, rather complicated instruction before he became a really efficient swordsman, his science had the simplicity of being useful only for the purpose of wu> That is not true at present. Tin* modern army requires the service c>! men in great numbers who are expert in half a hundred or more occupations formerly considered distinctly and exclusively civilian, and the military training of the future will doubtless ineludc as many kinds of teaching that will help to earn a living in times of peace. Once, when armies wanted to move, they marched. That is too slow for modern operations, and the soldier, though an infantryman, usually rides from wherever he may chance to be to the front. That change has made the problem of A A - -L- - - ii.. iransponuuuii a vu&uj xuipuitaui one, and those who solve it as drivers of the various kinds of motored vehicles, from locomotives to the big and little automobiles, are considered as essential to victory? must have as much skill and courage?as those who hold the trenches or charge across "No Man's Land." The galloping orderly of the past, too, has been almost entirely replaced in these times of enormously far flung lines by telephone and wireless corps, and the members of these bodies are not mere operators of mechanisms constructed and maintained by others ? they must themselves be both constructors and repairers, able to overcome all sorts of mechanical difficulties, and it is a part of their day's work to do what their civilian colleagues would call | impossible. Also they are expected to get killed when occasion arises, i ?19 it 11U t IIllIUV|UCUiijr uvvu. * .'W men who handle the big guns of today handle machines, the complexity of which would be utterly bewildering to the artillerists of fifty years ago, to say nothing of those who worked the stone throwing catapults of Roman times. This list could be continued almost indefinitely?through most of the trades and not a few of the arts and professions.?Xew York Times. Goldsmith's Obituary Notics. It would be difficult to find a more quaint announcement of death ; than that published in an old newspaper in 1774, at the time of Oliver Goldsmith's demise. "1774, April 4, Died. Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. Deserted is the village. The traveler hath laid him down to rest; the good natured man is no more; he stoops but to conquer; the vicar hath performed his sad office, it is a mournful task from which tha hprmit mav essav to meet the dread tyrant with more than Grecian or Roman fortitude." ? Exchange. Bad Tamper Made Wore#. A well known judge tells the story of a cross examination of a bad tempered woman in his court. She was an Amazonian person. Her husband, obviously the weaker vessel, sat sheepishly listening. The opposing counsel pressed a question rather urgently, and she said angrily: "You needn't think to catch me. You tried that once befdre." The barrister replied, "Madam, I haven't the slightest desire to catch you, and your husband looks as if he was sorry he did." A Reacting Test. A visitor was testing the class. "Now, children," she said, "I had $5 the other day and went shopT 1_ Li _ U_i. / SO a ping. I DOUglU H uat iui <P<J auu u i pair of gloves for $1. Then I spent 50 cents for some handkerchiefs. How much had I left?" A little sharp eyed girl said quickly : "Mamma always tells us to count our change before we leave the store. If you did that you'd know." ?Christian Herald. Why Snow Is Whits. The white color of snow results from the fact that the snow crystals are so minute that each cell of the retina receives a general impression produced by the combination of different wave lengths reflected from innumerable minute facets. An analogous case is the white light produced by reflection from pounded glass or any foaming liquid or from a surface covered witn hoarfrost. Hs Was Thsir Man. A pleasant little story is told of Dr. Boyd Carpenter in the days before he was bishop of Ripon. To him came one day a young man and maiden, both bashful and on a very obvious errand. "Are you Mr. Carpenter ?" began the swain timidly. "Yes," was the reassuring reply; "C-irnenter?and joiner."?London Tit-Bits. 1 ! SUNDAY SCHOOL! Lesson III.?Second Quarter, For April 15, 1917. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, Text of the Lesson, John x, 1-18?Memory Verses, 11, 12?Golden Text, John x, 11?Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. The Golden Text seems tb be the heart of the lesson this time if not always. While in onr lesson He is the Good Shepherd laying down His life for the sheep and giving unto them eternal life, with the assurance that they can never perish nor any power take them from Him (verses 11, 15. 27, 29), In Heb. xiil, 20, 21, He Is the Great Shepherd risen from the dead, living His life in us and working in us that which is well pleasing in the sicht of the God of Peace. In I Pet. v, 4, He is the Chief Shepherd who shall give rewards to His faithful followers at His appearing. In Gen. xlix, 24; Ps. lxxx, 1, He Is the Shepherd of IsraeL This last shall be fullj seen when Ezek. xxxiv, 11-10, and verse 31 shall be fulfilled, and then shall be seen the significance of Ps. xxill as never before in the history of the world. In our lesson chapter He is talking to Israel, but He spoke of other sheep whom He must bring (verse 16), and some of those we are now gathering to complete His body, the church, but the full gathering of the nations to Him shall be after Israel ' has learned to say, "The Lord is my Shepherd," according to Zech. ii, 10-13; "Many nations shall be Joined to the Lord in that day and shall be my people." Also Jer. ill, 17, "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem." He bad been dealing with and was in the midst of thieves and robbers. I who sought to enter the fold, but not j by the door. They were persistently robbing God and making His house a den of thieves (Mai. ill. 8; Matt xxi. 18). He is the door as well as the Shepherd, the only way of access to God. God's own appointed way, and it is not possible to come to God but by Him (verses 7-9; chapter xiv, C). But by Him, the door, any man may enter in and be saved and in Him find pastures green and waters of quietness (verse 9), peace as a river and righteousness as the waves of the sea (Isa. xlviii, 17). All who are not Christ's are in the employ of the leader of all thieves and robbers and liars and murderers, the devil, of whom He said in a recent lesson that these re- i ligious hypocrites were his children ( (verse 10; vtll, 44). With righteous wrath He denounced them in these words: "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damns- ' uon or neu t piatt. xxui, &i.) The Spirit through Paul said to Ely- , mas, who tried to turn a man away i from the door to life, "0 full of all subtllity ant! all mischief, child of the dev- ? II, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ( ways of the Lord?' (Acts xiil, 7-lOt) Contrast the Good Shepherd, who by laying down His life for us has provided life, and life abundantly, for all who will receive Him. He gives freely that which He has purchased at so great a price, even the sacrifice of Himself. Life eternal, the water of life, eternal redemption and all that Is included in such expressions become the sure and everlasting possession of all who receive Him, and there is nothing in the Bible that In any way conflicts wltn tne positive assurances \ of verses 27-30. See Heb. 1, 3; Ix, 12. i 20; Horn. vl, 23; ill. 24; Rev. nil, 17. J piers can be no contradictions in tbe ( Bible, for tbe same Holy Spirit wrote > tbe whole book. As to life abundantly, compare par don abundantly and an abundant entrance into His kingdom dsa. lv, 7; II , Pet. i, 11). The Lord gives not only freely, but? folly, all that He has purchased for us, and He desires to be able to give full rewards for service in that day (II John 8) which He c certainly will do if we have been faith- ? foL Salvation is wholly of grace and 1 the same to all. but the rewards will ^ be according to our works (Rev. xxii, 12). Note the wonderful statement in verses 17. 18. that no man could take j His life from Him. but that He laid it ' down of Himself, having power to do this, and to take it again. His was the only life that could not be taken from Him. It is true that they killed Him but It was because He allowed them to do It He willingly suffered all that was put upon Him, leaving us an ex-! ample that we might follow His steps, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered He threat- . eaed not but committed Himself to c Him who Judgeth righteously. Then, , having left us a perfect example and i baring' no a in or tils own. ror tie was withont guile, He took the sinner's place and suffered In our stead. His own self bearing our sins in His own body on the tree (I Pet ii, 21-24). Hirelings seek their own welfare rather than that of the flock, but true followers of the Good Shepherd seek j j the welfare of the sheep, not consld- j t ering themselves. .JQavid took his life I? in bis hand when he uCMjered part of c fliv-V fmm fVin llnr, (iil4 the lw#r. ^ but the Sod of David actually laid < down Ills Hfo for His flock. Wfcen He < patteth forth His sheep He goeth be- t fore them and He only asks that we t keep <-l? se to Him and follow Film ] folly (1 ten! S?. 1 I ! i t V HANDS, ARMS, LIMK ASLEEP And Was Run-Down, Weak and u c rn i ? t nervous, jays norma Laay. Five Bottles of Cardui Made Her WelL Kathleen, Fla.?Mrs. Dallas Prine, of this place, says: "After the birth of my last child...I got very much run-down and weakened, so much that I could hardly do anything at all I was so awfully nervous that I could scarcely endure tho least noise. My condition was getting worse all the time... I knew I must have some relief or I would soon be in the bed and In a 6erious condition for I felt so badly and was so nervou3 and weak I could hardly live. My husband asked Dr. about my taking Cardui. He said, 'It's a good medicine, and good for that trouble', so he got me 5 bottles... After about the second bottle I felt greatly improved.. .before taking it my limbs and hands and arms would go to sleep. After taking it, however, this poor circulation disappeared. My strength came back to me and I was soon on the road to health. After, the use of about 5 bottles, I could do all my house-work and attend to my six children besides." You can feel safe in giving Cardui a thorough trial for your troubles. It contains no harmful or habit-forming drugs, but is' composed of mild, vegetable, medicinal ingredients with no bad after-effects. Thousands of women have voluntarily written, telling of the good Cardui has done them. It should help you, too. Try it E 74 LMTHERtlORN&SON .A CHARLESTONS. 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Zed RoweH ^ Dental Surgeon Kelly Building; First Room in Front j Andrews, - South Carolina DR. R. CLAUDE McCABE, Dental Surgeon, Office in Hirsch building, over Kingstree Drug Co's. 8-28-tf DR ROBERT J. McCABET DENTIST, KINGSTREE, / S. C Office inNexsen Building, 3 doors fron Postoffice. Phone 78. M.D. NESMITH, DENTIST, Lake City. S. C. W. L. TAYLOR DENTIST, Office in N?xi?n Baildiag KING9TRCE, - 9. C. 5-21-tf. 1866 1918* A. M. SNIDER, SURGEON DENTIST. Office at Residence, Railroad Ayenne. J. DeS. Gilland Attorney-at-Law Second Floor Masonic Temple Florence, S. G General practicioner in all State and Federal Courts. Benj. M-'NNES, M. R. C. V. S. B. Kater MclNNES, M. D., V. M. D VETERINARIANS. One of us will be at Kingstree the first Monday in each month, at Heller's Stables. 9-28-tf KIN6STREE 1 Lodge, No. 46 A. F.M. meets Thursday before full moon each month. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. S P Harper, W M. J D Brixton. Sec. 2-27-lv Kingstree camp no- 27. i . iMrui uun?M !(*gt - t'^ "Ji ' V. The Thl rd Monday ^ ' I Pv-C3^' ! Night in ^e??h *8k5wBBw>^V/!' Vlairing chopper* roi llally Invited to com# ?P 1111(1 8lt 00 a stomp Vx/ or hang about on the ^ limb*. P H Stoll, J M Brown, Clerk. Con Com -4 Insurance! When ycu want Insurance of any kind, call on us. We write Life Fire lire Stock Plate Glass Accident and Health D J: C 1A? Dunning a jpeuouy We are the largest and most experienced agency in Williamsburg county, and are in a position to give you the best service. Kingstfee Ins., Real Estate & Loan Co., Agts., PHONE 85, KIN6STREE, S. G. BBMHnmnHm * The senior class of Winthrop college went to Charleston Saturday to visit Magnolia Gardens. The.v received many social attentions *hile in the city.