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THE INDIAN S VEROICT. ft Wu tho Opinion of Man Who Could Koop Hia Mouth Shut. A stolid blank looking Indian sat in a federal court room to be arraigned for bootlegging. His case was called. The marshal told him to stand up. He only stared, apparently not comprehending. The marshal motioned him to rise. He stood. "What i9 your name ?" the judge asked. No reply. trrr _ .11 n? nave yuu au auuxucv : Only a helpless stare from the Indian. "Can you understand English ?" Silence on the part of the prisoner. "Mr. Attorney, what is this man charged with ?" asked the judge. <i The district attorney stated the ease. "It seems to me," said the judge, *that this is a very trivial case. The poor thing doesn't seem to understand a word of English. He probably has no understanding that he i has done wrong. Mr. Attorney, just enter a nolle prosequi in this case." The Indian was told that he could go. He stood staring and motion less. The marshal with a gesture ordered him to sit down. He obeyed and stayed throughout the long afternoon session of court. In one case, the charge was similar to his own. A noted local lawyer was defending. He entered a plea of guilty for his client and then made an impassioned appeal for mercy. His pathos would have moved a marble statue. He represented long and earnestly the wonderful virtues and manifold kindnesses of his client. When he sat down the judge said: "Five years in the penitentiary." Court adjourned and as the crowd passed out the Indian followed. He walked down the steps behind the lawyer for the man who had just been sentenced. Suddenly he leaned over and whispered in the attorney's ear: "White man talk too darn much." ?Case and Comment. Tho Cleanliness of Animals. Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shieldlike bibs and napkins. Moles living in elimw irnrmc me CBHil BUU cauug ouuij n viuiu are jet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash. The squirrels in these resiny woods keep themselves clean in some mysterious way; not a hair is sticky, though they handle the gummy cooes and glide about apparently without care. The birds, too, are clean, though they seem to make a M>od deal of fuss washing and cleaning their feathers.?From "My First Summer In the Sierras/' by John Ifuir. Cattir1! Appaaranca. Julius Caesar was a thin man, tall and with a very wrinkled, seamy countenance. His forehead was troad and full of wrinkles. His eyes were not large, but described *8 exceedingly bright and quick. His nose was of more than usual size and his chin full and prominent. He walked with a slight, scholarly stoop in his shoulders. His ears stood out well from his head, and his hair was always cut close. Early ; , in life he became bald. Home Sights. Home sights and sounds are best j of all. The sublime beauty of the j Yosemite touched me with wonder 1 and awe, but when I heard the rob- ! in's note it touched mv heart. 11 think I am something like a turtle j in the way I like to poke about in j narrow fields, but why should I rush hither and yon to see things when I can see constellations from 1 nay own doorstep? ? John Bur-( roughs in St. Nicholas. Grammatical Knowledge. When General Leonard Wood was a small boy he was called up in the j grammar class. The teacher said: i "Leonard, give me a sentence, j and we'll see if we can change it to the imperative mood." "The horse draws the cart," said Leonard. "Very good. Now, change the Mdtence to an imperative." "Get up," said young Wood.? Christian Register. Mum'i tho Word. Doctor?Something wrong with the baby? Mother?Yes, doctor. He got hold t>f an old dictionary some wav and chewed up two pages out of it. "Did you give him an emetic T* "Yes, doctor, but I can't get a word out of him."?Yonkers Statesman. Joy. .Toy is the mainspring in the whole round of everlasting nature; joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, K-ins from their firmaments, rolling sphere? in distant space seen not by o c-'as- of the astronomer.?Schfli* r. TO MEASURE THE MOON. ) i Mar# Is a Simpls Msthod, and It Is Accurst# and Instructive. Any boy or girl cnn measure the 1 size of the moon by carrying out a < simple experiment and using the j fact found in any geography book- - | that the mean distance of the moon 1 from the earth is 238,840 miles. We do not need to know a great deal nor to be very observant to realize that the farther away any object is from us the smaller it aeems. If we stand, say, 100 feet fro ii a wall, it appears to be a certain height, but if we go 200 feet away the apparent height dwindles ' to half, and at 400 feet this is a ' quarter, and so on. The apparent \ size of an object therefore varies in i a regular proportion, according to j the distance, and it is this knowledge, properly used, that enables us to measure tfie size of the moon. Let us cut out a cardboard disk the size of a silver dollar and stick this with a dab of gum or paste to the window pane when the moon is < at the full. We then stand in such ? a position that the disk is between t us and the moon, and we step back | until the little round card exactly t covers the outline of the moon, no j more and no less. Now measure the distance from where we are standing ^ to the window, and it will be found j that this is 165 1-3 inches. Our geography book tells ns that j the moon is 238,840 miles from the earth and at that distance it appears ( exactly the same size as the disk at j 165 1-3 inches from our eye. By reducing the distance of the moon to inches and dividing the result by 165 1-3 we find that the moon is 92,- j 500,000 times bigger than the disk. To get the diameter of the moon therefore we measure the diameter j of the disk and multiply that by 92,500,000. The result is 2,160y2 j miles, which is within a mile of the actual diameter of the moon, as { measured elaborately ? namely, ] 2,159% miles. ( Having found the diameter, we , can get the circumference by multi- , plying the diameter by 3.1416. As j the moon is an almost perfect j sphere, we get the area of its sur- { face by multiplying the circumfer- j ence by the diameter, and to get the enhie enntents we mnltinlv the area of the surface by one-third of the radius?that is, a sixth of the diameter.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Windsor Castle. Windsor ca6tle is near the town of 1 Windsor, in Berkshire, England, \ twenty-three miles from London. ' Windsor is one of the ancient towns 1 of England, dating from the early ; middle ages. The castle was erect- ] ed by William the Conqueror.' It was originally the site of a Roman settlement and has figured in English history in many important pic- j turesque and tragic ways. Many of 1 the kings of England Are buried ' there, beneath the royal chapel, in- j eluding King Edward VII., who was j buried there in May. 1910. The castle, surrounded by magnificent ' grounds, has been the chief residence of English sovereigns for many centuries. i Hi* Opportunity. "Harry, I've been reading up on parliamentary U6age. I've got to preside at a meeting of our girls' club. But there's one thing I don't quite understand?what is the 'previous question?'" "It's the question I've been trying to ask you for a whole year, Mabel, but you never would listen to me. You'll let me ask now, won't J you?" "I?I suppose so, Harry, if?you i are sure it's parliamentary."?Chi- ( capo Tribune. - -c - Naming a Book. It is not generally known how Kipling chose the title "The Light i That Failed'' for the book that help- i ed to make him famous. He had almost decided to call the novel "The Failure." although he was somewhat i dissatisfied with this rather prosaic ' title. One evening as he was sitting in his study reading by lamplight t the light went down suddenly, when * Kipling exclaimed: "Bv Jove, I've got it! 'The Light t That Failed!"' i t The White Headed Boy. t The phrase "his mother's white 1 headed bov" is as old as the hills in t Ireland. It appears in many of the i Irish fairy stories of the last century. Irish mothers who knew good fairies always kept the secret for the "white headed boy" of the family. Gerald Griffin in one of his best short stories years ago used the phrase as one he had borrowed from an old Celtic book. c War. t Fell slaughter, one of the most anthentic products of the pit you y would say. onee give it customs, becomes war, with laws of war, and is customary and moral enough, and j red individuals carry the tools of it 1 girt round their haunches, not with- , out an air of pride?which do thou ] nowise Wame.?C'arlyle. ' A Grippe Epidemic Every winter Health Boards warn against this weakening disease which often strikes those who are least prepared to resist it You should strengthen fouraelf against grippe by taking ObmwiS which is the cream of cod fiver oil, refined, purified and to skilfully prepared that it enriches the blood rtreams, creates reserve strength and fortifies the lungs and throat Don't delay?It may mean much. fuse SCOTT'S Refuse Substitutes Boott ft Bonx. Bloonfeld/N. i. T-tt | CARLISLE SCHOOL NOTES | Honor roll for month beginning October 29 and ending NovemDer 23 follows: Hrn^p 1 nrimarv? Williard Brock nton, 93. Grade 1, advanced? Irving Eaddy, )3; Clyde Flagler, 91; Nellie Smiey, 91. Grade 2?Annie May Flagler, 91. Grade 3?Ethel Brockinton, 93. Grade 4?Lonnie Flagler, 93; Leon Kelly, 93; Lucile Flagler, 91. Grade 5?Hazel Flagler, 97; Pearl Joye, 96; David Kelly, 94; David Mouzon, 90; Mazie Brockinton, 90. Grade 8 and 9?Unie Allene Brockinton, 97. Carlisle 3chool has completed its second month's work. The children lave made marked improvement luring the past month and we are very much pleased to see some new aames on the honor roll. We hope L" imnv/vtmmanfo novf I LU IIJtlAC ^icatci Illl^/IUVCUJCUM UVAW month than this, as the children ?eem to take a great deal of interest n their work this year. Teacher. A committee of Western sheep growers has gone to New Orleans to look into the possibility of moving millions of sheep from the West to toe South. The homestead act is crowding sheep out of the Western States, and grazing lands must be found for them elsewhere. Notice of Application for Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the T\ 1 miF? T :ii Sfin day 01 uecemoer, lan, a win c41jly to P M Brockinton, Judge of Pro>ate for Williamsbug county, for Let:ers Dismissory as General Guardian of Jie person and estate of Katie MiDwee loper. S McB Graham, ll-22-5tp General Guardian, Tax Notice. The tax books will be open for collee:ion of taxes for the year 1917 on the 15th day of October, prox. Tax levy is follows: For State nulls Ordinary County 4 44 Roads 3 " Constitutional School 3 " For High School No 16 2 " 44 Bonds 44 16 2 ? ? ji 4 ?? 44 12 6 44 44 15 8 4* ?4 42 4 44 44 58 5 ? * i ''25 3 44 5p'c"l Sch No 2, 32, 40 and 47, 2 ,4 31 3 8, 38, 51, 37, 45. 61. 25, 11, 46. 48, 50. 58, 34, 58, 4, 59, 5, 41, 60, >,17,29,43, 53, 14, 7,18and57. .4 mills Special School No 49 6 44 44 No 13, 27, 28, 54. 42, 12, 16, 22, 36, 39, 52, 19 and 56, 8. - mills Special School No 24 10 44 15, 23 and il2 y 12 44 For Clarendon Township?Bond Tax "or Clarendon Court House, 1J^ mills. A tax of 50c on dogs. All parties between the ages of 21 ind 60 years, inclusive, are liable, uness exempted by law, to a poll tax of >1.00, also to a commutation tax of $2.00. Crvn/iio 1 lortr an oil aah/q ^aoto <taqfo "F1*-'"' ,v ' f ?" ? ? ""6". fe? ind sheep in parts of Penn, Anderson md all of Suttons townships for fence, >0 mills. Upon all unpaid taxes after Decem>er 31 a penalty of 1% will be added for January, 1% for February and 5% o 15th day of March next, after which .he books will be closed and executions ssued upon all unpaid taxes. Those who desire to pay their taxes through the mail may expedite matters )y dropping the Treasurer a card askng for the amount of their taxes, so as x> avoid sending the wrong amount, ilso stating the towninip or townships [if property is owned in more than one) ind if possible give school district vhere property is located. After payng taxes examine your receipts and see f all your property is covered; if not, tee about it at once. By following the above suggestions implications and additional cost may >e avoided. R B Smith, 9-20 County Treasurer. What is LAX-FOS LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA \ Digestive Liquid Laxative, Cathartic md Liver Tonic. Contains Cascara Bark, Bine Flag Root, Rhubarb Root, Black Root, May Apple Root, SennaLeaves and Pepsin. 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HEARSEY nounce 1 the public in general automobile suppiy bu . L. T. Thompson, and itomobile Accessory ai with a general auton der the firm nane of tl A!aw CaIaa i a' UlUI JOlCd \M i is agent for the folio , and in the counties na r handled: r' Chevrolet *? Qarefldon, rA|am.k:. Willi I florry WI1IUIIUW Fior le of Chevrolet parts i as well as accessories C J. TBOMPSC and Treas. "Hj uns! 1 i I aoso | __ I ry| saf cfe % IT re j at < id ie a. a o bo IR ( t. Carolina ! . K. MdNTOSH; % I I that they { siness forthey will id Supply lobile and 16 1 ie i i mpany wing wellmed oppomsbnrg and I rgetewn 1 amsbnrg, Horry, ence, Geer'town carried in > for other IN, Manager. * 1