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THE COUNTY CONVENTION. ? Brief and Harm?nicos Meeting of Sum ter's Representative Democrats. The County Democratic Convention met in the Court House at ll o'clock Monday morning. County Chaiiman Joss M. Knight called the meeting to order and after Secretary H. L. B. Wells had read the call under which the convention assembled, in which the object of the meeting was stated, he called for the enrollment of delegates from the clubs of the conn ?er. - ? The complete roll, by clubs, was as follows: Stenier Democratic Club,-, X Manning, A. Moses, T. B. Fraser, B. D .Tjeef BL C. Kavanaugh, H. L. Scarborough, L. L Parrott, J. H. Chandler, M. Moise, Creo. W. Dick, J. M. Knight, J. E. Gaillard, J. D. Wilder, F. D. Knight, B. D. Mitch? ell? ST. O'Donnell, H. G. Osteen, J. & WnHden, C. M. Hurst, E. C. Haynsworth, T. E. B?cbardson, W. T. Bough, C. W. Stansill, J. W. KcKiever, W. H. Epperson, L. W. Jenkins, L. D. Jennings, D. B. JfeOallum, M. G. Byttenberg, W. H. Ingram, S. F. Flowers. Member Comity Executive Com mi tee, Mar? ion Moise, Privateer.-W. E. Kolb, A. W. Broadway, W. E. Pritchard, J. M. Jackson, W. O. Cain. Member County Executive Committee, W. O. *Cain. Boesard.-Joe Moon, J. S. B. Brown, Marion Dorn, Member County Executive Committee, Marion Dorn. Sniioh.-J.-W. Hicks, J. S. Dennis, W. J. Keels, J. B. Dennis. Member gcnxtfy Executive Committee, W. J. Providence,-j! R Barfield, B M. Brown. Member County Executive Committee, J. B. Barfield. Taylors-J. D. Truluck, W. D. Gra? ham, J. H. Mott, J. T. McNeill, M. L. McClain. Member County Execu? tive Committee, J. T. McNeill. Mayesville-E. B. Muldrow, W. S. Chandler, F. J. Bass, C. N. Sprott. Member County Executive Committee, E. B. Muldrow. Wedgefield-J. B. Byan, J. B. rCrouch, E. E. Aycock. Member County Executive Committee, J, B. Byan. Manchester-W. J. Ardis, T. H. Osteen, G. T. Geddings, M. E. Eiv? ers, J. H. Christmas. Member.Coun? ty Executive Committee, G. T. Ged? dings. Scarboro-W.. D. Scarborough, G. E. Martin, D. C. McLean. Member County Executive Committee? W. D. Scarborough. Zoar-J. J. Britton, Jr., P. L. Jones,. J. C. Stubbs, S. S. Davis. Member County Executive Commit? tee. J. J. Britton. Jr. Farme?T-W. J. DinMns. T. W. Lee, J. B. White, J. C. Dawkins, L. F. Jenkins. Member County Execu? tive Committee, W. J. Dinkins. Baiting Creek, J. M. Jenkins, E. E. Be m bert, A. K. Sanders, H. C. McLeod, S. L. Young. Member County Executive Committee, A. K. Sanders, . Salem-E. W. Dabbs. Member County Executive Committee, J. H.' Boykin. g Borden-B. S. Brown, B. J. Mor? ris, J. W. Wilson. Member County Executive Committee, C. L. Emanuel. Stateburg-W. J. Bees, A. S. Find. Member County Executive Commit? tee, W. X Rees. When nominations for permanent Chairman were called for Mr. B. L Manning nominated Mr. A. K. San? ders There being no further nomina? tions, Mr. Sanders was elected, by ac? clamation. CoL W. D. Scarborough was elected First Vice President and Mr. J. J. Britton, Second Vice President by acclamai on. Mr. H. L. B. Weils was reelected Secretary without opposition. Mr. Sanders thanked the convention for the honor conferred upon him and expressed his appreciation of the com? pliment paid him. Nominations for member of the State-Executive Committee were call? ed for. Messrs. R. D. Lee, Marion Moise and B. L Mannnig, were nomi? nated. Messrs. Lee and.Moise declin? ed and Mr. Manning, who bas repre? sented Sumter County on the State Executive Committee for the past two years, was reelected by acclamation. The next business in order was the election of eight delegates to the State convention. The following gentlemen were noimanted. R. E Manning, R. D. Lee, W. D. Scarborough, A. Moses, J. J. Britton, J. H. Clifton, E. E. Aycock, L. R. Williamson, R. P. Sta?khonse, J. M. Knight L. D. Jennings, H. D. Tindal, E. E. Bembert, J. M. Woodley, T. B. Fraser. Messrs. Lee, Knight, Bembert and Fraser withdrew. On motion of Col. Scarborough the three nominees receiving insufficient Tote to be electa were named as alter? nates. While the vote was being tabulated, on motion of Mr. R. D. Lee, the re? gular order of business was resumed. Nominations for county chairman were called for. Mr. Neill O'Donnell nominated Mr. E. W, Dabbs. There being no other nominations Mr. Dabbs was eleced by acclamation. At tbe request of citizens residing in Providence township, near Des Champs' Mill, Mr. Altamont -Moses offered a resolution that they ,'be per? mitted to organize a club. Tea resolu? tion was adopted. -^Jfc On motion of Mr. J. M. Knight a new club recently organized at Borden was recognized and the organization of the club was confirmed. Mr. R. D. Lee offered the fellowing resolution : Resolved, That immediately preceed ing any county convention hereafter to be held it shall be the duty of the Presidents of the several clubs to appoint a committee on revision of rolls, whose duty it shall be forthwith to revise such rolls and upon which revision the several clubs shall elect j delegates to the county convention. Said committee shall consist of at least three members in each club of which the President shali be ex-officio chair? man. Resolved, That the Presidents of the j respective clubs shall be charged with j the duty of carrying out the provisions j of the3e resolutons. Mr. T. B. Fraser proposed as 'an j amendment to the foregoing r?solu- J tioa ihH the Sumter county delegate? t the State Convention be charged y i J the duty of bringing this matter to the attention of the State Conven? tion with the view of having the Constitution of the party changed so as to conform to the provisions of the resolution. Mr. E. W. Dabbs also offered an amendment charging the Sumter county delegation with the duty of bringing before the State Convention not only the advisability of requiring the revision of the club rolls im? mediately prior to the county conven? tions, but that a rule should be adopt? ed providing that none but qualified electors shall be enrolled as members of Democratic clubs. Both amendments were accepted by Mr. Lee and on a vote the amended resolution was adopted with b it one dissenting vote. ... .The tellers .having at this stags com? pleted the count of the vote for dele? gates to the State Convention -;he re? sult was announced as follows : Delegates-B. L Manning W. D. Scarborough, Altamont Moses, J. H. Clifton, E. E. Aycock, L. D. Jen? nings; R. P. Stackhouse, J. M. Wood? ley. Alternates-L. E. Wiliiamso:i, H. D. Tindal, J. J. Britton, Jr. There being no further business be? fore the Convention, a motion to ad? journ was made and adopted. Immediately following the adjourn? ment of the Convention the County Executive Committee was called to? gether by the county chairman ard the organization of that body was per? fected. Some Red Saunders Philosophy. **Of all the worlds I ever broke into this one's the most curious," said Red Saunders, "and one of the curiousest things in it is that I think ifs queer. Why should I. now? What puts it in? to our heads that affairs ought to ?50 so and so when they never do anylhing of the sort? Take any book yon read or any story a man tells yon. It runs along about how Mr. Smith mad? up his mind to do this or that and pro? ceeded to do it And that never hap? pened. What Mr. Smith calls nianing up his mind is, when you come down to bed rock, nothing more nor less than what Mr. Smith pleasantly calls his mind dodging to cover under pressure of circumstances. That's straight. Old Lady Luck comes for Mr. Smith's m nd. swinging both hands. She gives it a stem winder on the ear, lams it for keeps on the smeller, chugs it one in the short ribs, drives right and left in? to its stummick, and Mr. Smith's in ind breaks for cover; then Mr. Smith tolls his wife that hes majle up his mini he. mind youl Wouldn't that stun you?"-McClure's. Ancient Cooking School. We of the twentieth century are In? clined to think of cooking schools as-lie longing exclusively to our day and gen? eration. Therefore it may be news to many people that as long ago as't ie reign, of good Queen Anne a Mr. Kid dee had a school of cookery in Queen street Cheapside, and another in Hol? born. Here is his advertisement-the original is on good paper, with a neatly engraved border: To All Young Ladies: At Edward Kiddee's pastry school, ut Little Lincoln's Inn Fields, are taught all kinds of pastry and cookery, Dutch hollow works and butter works on Thurs? days, Fridays and Saturdays, In the aft? ernoon, and on the same days in tte morning at his school in Norris street. St James. Haymarket, and at his school a t St Martin's le Grand on Mondays. Tues? days and Wednesdays, In .the afternoons What Dutch hollow works may be none of the cooking schools of toda;r Beems to knew, but they sound good. The Fierce Caterpillar. A more harmless, inoffensive creature does not crawl than the common gar? den caterpillar, yet this small worn will put up an appearance so fierce upon occasion as to frighten its ene mies away. Soft and pulpy, with nc defensive or offensive weapons, this destroyer cf cabbages and lettuces will bluff itself iuto a veritable armored cruiser and frighten many more for midable insects into ungovernable flight Its method of procedure is like this: Immediately anything approaches, the slow moving, fat caterpillar raises ! its hairy body, wags a formidable look I lng head and looks the essence of j strength and defiance, so much so that ! 4t requires a bird of a particularly val? iant disposition to attack it-Chicago Record-Herald. When Doctors Were Slaves. Romans of means had physicians in their own houses. 'These men were slaves, for, odd as it seems, many Ro? man slaves, were accomplished in liter? ature, art and science. At one time thc? selling price of .a slave doctor was about the equivalent of $300 in our money. After the time of Julius Cresar, who encouraged physicians, the art began to "lift its head" in Rome, and later mgn of character and position, though generally foreigners, entered the pro? fession. Some of them accumulated large fortunes, and one made the equiv? alent of at least $500.000 in a few years. Sarcastic. In a volume of memoirs it is told that on the first council day after Lord Der? by's elevation to the premiership Gre? ville showed his disapproval by not ap? pearing in his place as clerk. Som-? busybody asked Lord Derby whether i he had noticed Grevillea absence, and j Lord Derby replied, with a face of I benevolent apology: "No, really: Yo;: ; know. I am the most inattentive fellew? in the world about these things, l never notice, when I ring the boll. Whether John or Thomas answers it." Boon Island. Probably Roon island would he but little known outside of New Hamp? shire, Maine and Massachusetts if it were not for the fact that the island is the terminal of the Cape Ann trial course. Perhaps it would be more prop? er to call the island the northern termi? nal, but at any rate Boon island gains a mention in this way every time n new battleship or cruiser is tried off this coast as all those not built on the Pa? cific always are.-Boston Globe. DIED WITH HIS BOOTS ON. John R. Keels Falls at Hand of S. M. You mans in Front of Manning Court House. Special to The State. Manning, May 2.-S. M. Yonmans, magistrate at Manning, shot and in? stantly killed John E. Keels, a lawyer, lately from Snmter, this afternoon. The shooting occurred nuder the courthouse portico while Judge Purdy was holding court upstairs. Five balls entered Keels' chest just below the throat and four went through the body, Keels falling under the eaves while the rain was dripping off the court house. The difficulty was not unexpected as the parties had trouble 30 days ago about a mule. Keels was known to be a desperate man and Yonmans was equally as dangerous when aroused. Several witnesses saw the killing, among them Clerk of Court Timmons, who saw Keels strike at Yonmans and then Yonmans commenced firing. Yonmans immediately walked into the sheriff's office and surrendered and is in jail. The coroner died yesterday and the inquest is being held by Magistrates Richburg and Bateman. THE FARMING OUTLOOK. AD Observant Correspondent Writes of Present Conditions and Future Prospects. Hagood, May 1.-Yon are right, Mr. Editor, when you commend the thritf of Snmter county. In a short trip through the country the other day I was struck, much pleased by the thorough preparation of the soil, and the condition of the crops such as are up. The oats were the best I have seen in years, that is more advnced, and the corn looked promising. Twelve cent cotton has waked np a lot of people so that there are not a few who not simply want but expect a bale or more cotton per acre. Your cor? respondent was mistaken about the amount of fertilizer that is being used, for upon investigation he begins to realize that more has been consumed than ever before in all the history pf the country. Many people have plant? ed with a view of early harvesting of cotton because they expect a large crop, and a speedy decline in the price of - cotton. In consequence there is great complaint about the stands, cot? ton being planted early and having passed through all the recent cold. Because of this seed have become scarce, in some places unobtainable. Here begins the curtailment of the crop. Now for a bit, not of Scripture, but what is as true : "Man proposes, bnc God disposes," and "There isa Divinity that shapes our ends rough, I hew them as we may." That is good as gospel. Mind, I am not saying that we are going to have a short crop of cotton but it is all in the hands of the Lord, and for one whether or no it crosses my purposes, I am glad it is so. But about this curtailment ; it is being brought about in various ways, and that in spite of the farmer. For instance the labor problem, both in cultivation and gathering of crops, has become an item for serious con? sideration. It is a fact that it is no longe as plentiful or satisfatory as in the past. The boll weevil next comes in for consideration. I heard it stated last fall, I hope the party was mis? taken, that it had made its appesrance in our own county. Then the seasons of late years seem no longer what they have been. But there is no rea? son why we should worry over these matters, that doing no good. Let each cast his own plans then hew to the line, letting the chips fall where they may. g Finally, I have known since my first acqnintance with this country that there was no reason why Sumter county should not grow as fine, and even finer, crops than Marion and Marlboro. Hagood. FOR THE HAMPTON MONUMENT. School Children are Asked to Conlribute on Memorial Day. The following circular letter has been sent ont by order of the^aughters of the Confederacy of this State. To the Supt. of Public Schools. Dear Sir : In order that the children of South Carolina may take part in erecting the monument to Gen. Wade Hampton, the S. C. Division U. D. C., earnestly request that you will ask each pupil of your school to contri? bute at least one cent to the Monu? mental Fund upon Memorial Day (May 10). This contribution will be known as : "The Childrens' Memorial Day Offering." You will please receive it and forward it to the undersigned ' at your earliest convenience. A fnll report bf schools contributing ?ind amounts received will be publish? ed in the State papers. By order of the President of South Carolina Div. U. D. C. Address Mrs. B. G. Clifford, Cor. Sec., Union, S. C. An Inquest at Pisgah. Pisgah, May 2.-A few days ago a negro woman living on Mr. John R. McLeod's place died. Rumors were thick that she died from a severe beat? ing that her husband gave her. These rumors were of such a nature that several gentlemen deemed it best to have an investigation made, so Magis? trate Folk was notified and he prompt? ly came and had the body disinterred. Dr. Foxworth was summoned and after an examination reported that he could not find any evidences of foul play as the body was too much decomposed to sea it. So the matter was dismissed. The negroes say that the woman got the beating but they seem reluctant to act when the test is made. Thc matter should have been investigated when the woman died, but those who know ail about her death, kept quiet. The man bears an unsavoiy reputat on foi wife heating, and I am clearly uf tho opinion that if the matter I ad been pushed further, the chafes against him would have been sustain? ed. The inquest took place yester? day. J. E. D. The hammock season has arrived. A large stock to select from at Oste( n's Boc k Store. GINSENG GRAZE IS SPREADING. Farmers all Over the Land See Millions in lt. Its a Delusion, Though, and Those who try to Raise it are Likely to Suf? fer Thereby. From the New York San. Washington, April 23.-Despite the efforts of the agricultural department to head it off, the ginseng craze has spread over the counry from ocean to ocean nntil the situation from certain points of view has become serious. Many presons who can ill afford to lose money are certain to suffer, the department officials believe, unless something can be done to convince them of the folly of trying to raise ginseng. Ginseng is a plant used only by the Chinese. The -root is aromatic and slightly stimulant, and the people of China have a faith in i?3 medicinal properties that amounts almost to a superstition. They are willing to pay as much as $5 a pound for the dried root, and on this fact and to statements made by the agri? cultural department some time ago is due the craze for raising it which has swept over this country. Ginseng grows wild in the United States and Canada, but the best root comes from Corea, and from that country the Chinese annually import a large supply. The plant is cultivated in Corea and Manchuria and to a small extent in the United States. Here is the danger to American farm? ers who go into the cultivation of ginseng : Prior to 1902 China imported from this country in five years only 172,000 pounds of ginseng. That amount of roots could have been raised in a field of fifty or seventy-five acres. The agricultural department has distributed to inquirers not fewer tuan 25,000 or 30,000 copies of a pamphlet describing ginseng, and the officials are now painfully aware of the fact that if a dozen persons in the United States should seriously take up the culture of ginseng they would im? mediately supply the entire Chinese demand for ginseng from this country. Moreover the market price of the root would immediately decline until it reached next to nothing. The crop wouldn't be profitable. James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul? ture, is an enthusiast on the subject of introducing new agricultural pur? suits into the United States, but he makes no bones of denouncing the ginseng craze. He says ginseng is a delusion and a snare. The eagerness to take np ginseng culture is especially noticeable on the Pacific coast, where hundreds of thou? sands of farmers and small ranchers are dreaming of great riches to be had from marketing their product in China In Seattle a few weeks ago a well known actor announced his in ention of retiring from the stage, buying a small ranch near the city and raising ginseng for the Chinese market. The agricultural department constantly receives requests for infor? mation about this fascinating crop. Corea is recognized as the natural habitat of the ginseng plant, and United States Minister Allen has thrown up his hands in despair over the growing volume of his correspond? ence on this subjct. He has received so many letters from would-be ginseng farmers in the United States that he has informed the State department that he cannot undertake to answer any more of the communications. Every mail, the minister says, brings to him requests for ginseng seeds and plants and information. Not realizing that the agricultural de? partment long ago became swamped with similar inquiries, Mr. Allen has referred his correspondents to that department. In a letter to the State department, in which Minister Allen tells of his troubles from the ginseng craze, he says: "With great difficulty living roots have been shipped to America and a reliable supply must now be available. At least one enterprising American (of San Francisco) has spent some months at the ginseng farms in Corea, studying the culture and conditions and taking away with him a large shipment of living plants, so that dealers in the United States must now have a plentiful supply of reliable plants and fresh seed. ?""The ginseng farmers are some sixty miles distant from Seoul and there is no person there to whom one may apply for seeds or plants. The Ameri? can missionaries residing near the farms have wisely decided not to attempt to export the seeds and plants, as such a course would ultimately, cause trouble for them with the natives. "If all the ginseng plants in America succeed the product will be of little value. The only market for the roots is in China, and it is overstocked, while the Corean product-which seems to be of especial value, due to conditions of soil and climte-is in? creasing so greatly that the purchasers of the last crop were obliged to destroy a large quantity in ordei to keep the supply more nearly within the demand. " Both Minister Allen and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson are of the opinion that ginseng is a greater delusion than was Col. Seller's famous Oriental eye linament. It may seem as if there were millions in it for the ginseng farmers of the United States, but Mr. Wilson says: "Let ginseng alone." It was the department of agriculture that began the trouble. It issued a pamphlet of thirty-two pages on the subject of ginseng as long ago as 1895. It was a long time before the authors of this really innocent publication fully realized the trouble they had made for themselves. Farmers all over the country began to make inquiries about .ginseng cul? ture, and the inquiries increased in number until the officials were sorry they had ever heard of ginseng, much lesa written about it. In 1902 it was deemed necessary co reprint the pamphlet and to publish with it a vigorous note of warning, but the mischief had been done, and the department was taxed more than ever with requests for information and applications for plants and seeds. This spring the ginseng craze seems to be on the increase, and instances arc known at the department of per? sons who hove actually begun the cul? ture of the much advertised plant. Fraud in connection with this infant industry has already appeared some firms having advertised ginseng seeds for sale, which when planted produc? ed common turnips. THE USE OF IRON. It? Effect In the Induntrinl World as a Barometer of Trade. There is an old industrial tradition that the iron market is the "barometer of trade." This saying has been as? cribed to many modern authorities, ranging from Jay Gould to Andrew Carnegie. As a matter of fact, it is much older than any oracle of this cen? tury or the last, lt had its origin in the earliest days of the period when iron manufacture and the use of credit were simultaneously rising to impor? tance. The basis for the tradition is that the use of iron and of its products ls essential for the prosecution of vir? tually all other industries. Before the output of miscellaneous manufactures in a community can be much enlarged the industries concerned must be equip? ped with new tools and new machinery. Before a railroad system can be pre? pared to transport a greatly increased traffic it must have new rails, new bridges, new stations, new cars and new locomotives. In these days of the steel and iron office building a "boom" in the building trade cannot go far without increasing enormously the de? mand for structural iron. Even in the agricultural industry it may be said that expansion and prosperity involve necessarily largely increased demand for farm machinery.- Since the use of such additional equipment must pre? cede any increase in the busin?ss of these other trades it naturally follows, first, that demand in the iron market will be felt aggressively even before the other industries have shown full meas? ure of activity, and, second, that if such other industries foresee a period of slack demand and idle mills the first thing they will do will be to reduce their orders from the iron and steel mills.-Alexander D. Noyes in Forum. Disgusted. . Amos Cummings of New York used to tell this story of his first assignment as a newspaper reporter: He was sent out to write up an accident where an Trish hodcarrier was injured in a fall from a building. He arrived just as two officers were assisting the injured man into the ambulance. "What's his name?" asked Cummings of one of the officers, at the same mo? ment pulling out his pad and pencil. The Irishman heard him and, mistak? ing him for the timekeeper on the job, exclaimed, with a look of disgust cov? ering his face: "Isn't it trouble enough to. fall three stories without being docked for the few moments I lose going to the hos? pital?" Never Occurred to Him. "I don't know why it is," said Mr. Glossup as he came downstairs red eyed and sleepy and greeted his guest, "but I never can get used to the strik? ing of that clock in our room. "It has such a loud, insistent 'bang' when it strikes the hours that it wakes me up nearly every time. We've had it in the house two or three years, but I can't become accustomed to it. We would have put it in the attic long ago, only it's a present from my wife's mother, and that would never do. Good clock, too, aside from that, but it wor? ries me nearly to death. I wish I knew what to do with it." "Why don't you wind merely the timekeeping part of it," said his guest "and let the striking part go un? wound V" "Johnson, you have saved my life!" exclaimed Mr. Glossup joyfully. "I never thought of that." The Woman Musi Speak. Mr. Skrap-There's just this about it It is impossible for us to live together and not quarrel. Mrs. Skrap-There is no possibility of our quarreling if neither of us speaks. Mr. Skrap-Of course; but, as I say, it Isn't possible for us to live together and not quarrel.-Philadelphia Press. Hi? Problematic Tour. "Did you over appear in a problem play?" "Yes," answered Mr. Stonnington Barnes. "Last season I was doing sums with hotel bills, time tables and box office statements all the time I was out."-Washington Star. A Matter of Opinion. 'Tard?n me. sir. but isn't there an? other artist in this building?" "Well, that is a matter of opinion. There is another fellow who paints." Chicago Journal. A Little Mixed. Patient-Look here, doctor. I'm not going to starve to death for the sake of living a little longer. IPRIDE OF NOF _5-YEAR OLD C( 1^-^ Direct From Distil Kj .? truthfulclainisofunset lj? '3? Distillers. We comme ?SJ thc most riviid examina Whiskies in thc Unit CaTolina that RiK.r.izitc fe H|R| smallest. We art* one ' MnS, 'lirect from liie Distill alike the possibilities M^^VsSPvv^^ securely packe?! in pla allil\\t^V^VV\VV^ vo?r order reaches us, H References: First Nati Which Wa? Hi? Wife? A certain Turk, according to rumor, was once married to a veiled lady ia white iii the presence of the sultan. As soon as the ceremony was concluded the bride ' mysteriously disappeared. The groom was led into an adjoining room, where stood twelve ladies ail dressed in white, but without veils. "Choose from the twelve," exclaimed the sovereign, "her that is your bride." As the man had never seen her face the command bewildered him. "If you make a mistake," added his majesty, "your life shall pay the forfeit." The poor man walked up and down the row cf beauties, but saw nothing whatever to aid his choice. "You have only a minute left," yelled the sultan in anger; "choose at once." Ten of the ladies, he noticed, gave him nothing else than a stony stare. One of them frowned, the other smiled. "The frowning one," he* thought, "is my bride, for she express? es her displeasure and impatience at my Ignorance. "No," he said to him? self, "it must be the smiling one, for she desires to Invite me to her." After debating the subject in his mind until his time was up he boldly made a se? lection from the two. He was success? ful. He had regained his bride. Which was she, the one who frowned or the one who smiled? The Vault of St. Michail's. The most interesting place of pilgrim? age in Dublin is St. Micban's church, where the organ is still to be seen upon which Handel is said to have composed his "Messiah." In the graveyard is the last resting place of Robert Emmet, and. the vault of St. Micban's provides a. more grewsome thrill than the morgue. The sexton lifts an iron door and descends a few rude steps, carry? ing a light, without which the place would be pitch dark. You follow and find yourself in a narrow passage, from which cell-like recesses belonging to different families branch off. Whether it is owing to the extreme dryness of the surroundings or to some mysterious property of the place, the process of d? cay has been arrested, and the feature* of persons dead for two centuries may be recognized from authentic portraits^ Perhaps the strangest thing about the vault is the; fact that, apart from the weird sensation, there is nothing offen? sive in the surroundings.-London Tat Ier. A Thrifty Bride. "It's a pity," said; the man. in the rough brown suit, "that Johnson mar? ried at the very beginning of his bus! ness career. I am afraid that young wife of his, with her love for pretty clothes, will be a millstone around his neck." "Don't you believe it. She'll make him president of a bank one of these days," said the man in the new derby, who had been spending the week end at the small suburban home of the aforementioned Johnson. "'Every towel! and napkin I saw in the house had the name of some hotel stamped on it, and so did the spoons, by Jove! She had gathered them up on their wedding journey."-New York Press. Englishwomen of Rank. "If you come across a very shabby. looking Englishwoman on the con? tinent," said a traveled American, "in nine cases out of ten she will turn out to be somebody of rank. When I was inTlorence. I was a great frequenter of the Ufizzi gall?/ies. and there I met a number of times an oldish English? woman with a young girl, whom I took to be governess, and pupil, as the former was evidently educating .t?e* latter's taste for art and would analyze the styles of the different artist* audi make the girl pick out their pictures through her knowledge of technique. It was cleverly done, and as the older' woman saw that I was interested ic? her art lectures she kindly included-; me in the curriculum. The giri vsas> shy and stiff, like most -D* her young' countrywomen, and I never heard bet' call her companion by any name, so ? still retained my first impression until one day when a smart young person, who was evidently a J?dy's maid, brought in some wraps and addressed the older woman as 43rour grace' anti the younger one as 'your ladyship,' the two proving to be the Duchess of and Lady Emily, her granddaughter.** -Philadelphia Ledger. ; Compulsory Piety, Sunday School Teacher - I hope ?rt the little girls in my class love God?" Eva Brown-I do. Sunday School Teach? er-That's right. Eva. Now tell us why you love him. Eva Brown-Got to. I.ipplncott's Magazine. There is a whole chapter of sound advice in the admonition: "Don't dodge difficulties: meet them, greet them, beat them." UH CAROL?NAI DRN WHISKEY_| Iery to Consumer. 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