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THE WOtfAK'S AUXILIARY. The Host Largely Attended andi Host Successful Convention in the History v of the Diocese. Tfce 19th anana! convention of the Diocesan branch of the Woman's Auxiliary convened in the Church of the Holy Comforter last "Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. The convention was opened with religions services consisting cf the litany and the Holy Communion, the Kt Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D., and the Rev. Messrs. G. F. Mosher, of Shanghai, China, G. H. Wood and H. J. Mikel!, cf Charleston, and H. H. Covington, of Sumter,-were in the chancel. Immediately after the cele? bration of the Holy Communion the convention was called to order hy the president, Mrs. Robert Wilson. The roll was then called revealing the fact that there wore 83 delegates representing the Woman's Branch, not counting the Junior branches. It is considered one of the largest and most representative conventions ever held. The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer and the reports of the vari ous~branches as well as the annual ad? dress of the president showed a healthy and prosperous condition of affairs during the past year. ' The meeting has . been a perfectly harmonious one and the entire set of present, cheers were reelected. At two o'clock the convention took a recess and were entertained at luncheon by the local branch at the Hotel Jackson.' This af rernoon the ^session will be devoted to the businessvof the Junior branch. Tonight at 8 o'clock addresses will be made by the Rev. Messrs. Mosher and Wood. Mr. Mosher is said to be a most interesting and entertaining speaker, and the public are cordially invited-to attend. The afternoon session of the Wom? an's Auxiliary Convention was called to order at 3.30 o'clock Wednesday aft? ernoon. This session was devoted to the Junior branch of the organization. After the regular reports by the officers and special reports from a number of the Junior auxiliaries had been presented, Rev. G. T. Mosher, the missionary to China, addressed the meeting. The Junior branch of the South Carolina Auxiliary has been engaged for several years in assisting iu the support of Rev. Mosber's mission and has recently purchased and turned over to him an organ for use in his work, Mr. Mosher in his brief ad? dress gave an interesting account of his work and the conditions prevailing in the Chinese mission field. At 5.30 o'clock a recess was taken until 8 Molock. Fifteen Junior Aux iliarys were represented by 29 dele? gates. The final session was called to order at 8 o'clock, Bishop Capers presiding. The feature of the evening w?s the - address of Rev. L. T. 'Mosher. He ^discussed the missionary outlook in China from the religious, educational and political points of view. He first, gave an outline of the conditions pre? vailing in the East prior to the China Japanese war, and discussed the re? sults of that war and its effects upon the people, pf the East. From this pbase-of tbs'subjcet fae passed to the present conditions touching briefly in turn upon the causes and effects of the Boxer uprising and the underlying causes and probable effects of " the present war between Japan, and Rus? sia. His analysis of the situation and his statement of the point of: view or" the natives were highly interesting and instructive. His address was al? together a remarkably clear cut and able presentation . of the subject of missionary efforts in the East, and. gave evidence that he is hot only an original thinker and a close and obser? vant student of affairs, but a man able to appreciate and to understand to an extent not usual with mission workers, the radically different point of view that the Chinese and other Eastern, peoples' occupy. The address was heard with the closest attention and was commented upon as an interesting and original presentation of the for? eign mission question. Dr. Wood, Secretary of the Mission Board, made a brief address on home missions and the kindred subject of the means of supporting and extend? ing missionary work. With, the meeting Wednesday night the convention came to a close. It was the most largely attended and in many respect the most successful convention that the Woman's Auxiliary of this Diocese bas ever held. . The delegate were charmed with their stay in Sumter, and on all sides were heard expressions of appreciation of the delightful and gracious hospi? tality of which they were the recipi? ents while in the city. Hie examination o' applicants for positions in the rural free mail deliv? ery service will be held on the 21st instant. There are two positions to be filled on June 1st and that there are somewhere ia the neighborhood of twenty applicants. U. D7eV~MEETING. An important meeting of Dick An? derson Chapter, U. D. C., will be held at the residence of Mrs. Alta? mont Moses at 6 o'clock, Thursday afternoo:. All members are request end to be present as arrangements for tbe distribution of Cresses of Honor are to be made. Agnes Bogin, ' _Secretary. Buv yonr Binder Twine from W. B. Boyle. ' 5-113t Tbe Funeral Directors Association of the State of South Carolina, will meet in Sumter next month. A com? mittee of local undertakers and coffin manufacturers and other citizens met Wednesday morning to formulate plans to entertain the association, which is composed of a representative body of gentlemen from ali over the State. A committee was appointed to meet City Council that evening to solicit an appropriation and to solicit private subscription for entertainment. Messrs. R. F. Haynsworth, W. U. Chandler and E. L. Witherspoon compose the committee on subscrip? tion. GLENN SPRINGS WATER T&e Kidney-Core. NOTES AND COMMENT. 3T WJC li, ?. lion. Joel E. Branson and family moved to Manning last week. Sum ter regrets to lose them. Messrs. C. E. Rose and S. E. Fraser have mov? ed into his residence. 'Commissioner White has cleaned ont, all the drains of the city and put them in good sanitary condition. Are the Sumter county citizens go? ing to let the offices run them down. It looks so. Only one announced 60 far. In oth?T counties they are swarming. It is due to the persistent and in? telligent work of Messrs. Edmunds, Strauss and Chandler that our band will get $250 annually from the city treasury. Prof. Edmunds' presenta? tion of the claims of this institution were incontrovertible. There's going to fae an Episcopal college in this State. Sumter is the place for it-the best in South Caro? lina. Who can dispute it?, Some of our Aldermen are too bash? ful about "speakin' out in meetin'. " I don't like to see this spirit of wait? ing on the "the other fellow." Speak out! Sumter is going to have a bunch of pretty June brides. No excuse for bachelorhood in Sumter, anyhow. The beef dispensary will be on North Main street. The "booze fighters" will then have fun "gwine an' comm'. Congressman Lever stirred things up in Washington by that speech "discrimination against the South in the rural * free delivery service." They are "coming to taw." The examination for two rural car? riers will be ? held next Saturday. After June these carriers will be* paid $720 per annum. There are several applicants. All are glad to see Mr. Claremont Meses out again. He had a long and severe spell of sickness, Rev. R. E. Peele met with a hearty reception. There were not seats enough last Sunday evening for the crowd. He preached two splendid sermons. Saturday night the incandescent lights burned out. The light was too bright Some people kicked. So it goes-they are too bright, and they are too dim. The rural carrier examination cer? tainly will be held on next Saturday. Those who have application blanks out better forward them at once. I note that some of the girls from the fifth to the eighth grades have donned long drejsses, and assumed the dignity and grace of a sure enough grown woman. It's amusing, for in less than fifteen years I. bet they'll wish'they were back to short frock days. So it goes. This recalls the way the girls dress? ed when I was a school-boy. They wore short dresser but flared, ruffled, frilled, starched pantalettes nearly to the shoe tops. So it goes. In this day, such a sight would make you believe Barnum v.'as in town. And do you remember those olo joop skirts ? Mercy gr ide me ! I can never forget the fun I once had with a teacher who tried to whip me. She could not get to me properly. She wore one. I like to hear Prof. Schumacher on the violin every Sabbath at the First Baptist Church. liv just fills in your heart something you crave. But it wouldn't" suit these old fashioned, back-woods fellows. I remember when the tunea were raised or pitched by a low whistle, hum, or the ring of a fork tine. But my ? when they were raised-whoop ! they were raised. The office of City Recorder is a bard place to fill. -Outside of the trying duties and responsibilities, the officer gets more unkind criticism than a doz? en bad citizens should get And "by people who know as much about law as a dead mule about the Deity. Of course, such things never worry a con? scientious man. I don't like to hear them. As Gloomy Gus says, "it makes me tired." I wonder what the conditions of this world would become if woman was removed forever? Did you ever think about such a thing? I believe men would then grow tusks, claws, walk-on hands andi feet, scream, rave, roam aimlessly about Flowers would quit blooming. Handsome churches, fina residences, and big stores would become a habitat for bats, owls, scor? pion?, and lizzards. Yet, men do not appreciate, or know the true value of woman. Shutout the sunshine; stop the song of the birds; bury the blos? soms; away with the little boys and giris; take that tender hand away fronf the achein? head ! Then, maybe, her worth could be realized. This is doubtful. Some of the greatest writers have sung her praises-appreciated and adored her. Listen to Wordsworth : The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warm, to comfort and command. A creature not too bright or good For humar, nature'3 daily food : For transient sorrow, simple wile.?, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. And Milton : So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Deems wisest virtuousest, discreetest, best. Then Barrett: Not she with traitrous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue: She, while apostles shrank, could dan? ger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at nis grave. Oil, you miserable, pitiless Sumter bachelors! Whither are you drifting? What on earth will become of you? --iiniii? - Buy your Binder Twine from W. B. Boyle. 5-11-:5t> mm9 mm - GLENN SPRINGS WATER Cares'Dyspepsia. Kagcod Notes ?ni Comment. Hagood, May 5.-Have Just return? ee, from an extended trip through Lee into Kershaw county. . That is fine farming land around Spring Hill, territory om county could ill afford to lose, and it is in the hands of men, sn ch as Lawrence White, Wes Weldon, Wil Smith and others, who know how to cultivate it. - Spring Hill has a bright futurs before it, being free from malaria, having fine water and other desirable advantages. The men are vigorous, euergetic, of sound judg? ment, and are succeeding most admi rably. Besides those above named we mention Dr. Britton, who needs no commendation from my pen. Dr. Fox who stands high in the esteem of the community, Trace Mannerlyn, young, clover, energetic, independent without being big-headed, the Robinsons, father and son, Charlie Evans, whose wit and humor has entertained manya crowd, etc, etc. All these and others net mentioned are fine people, just sn sh as help to make a great country. But I have a quarrel with them, not about their roads, some of which co lld be better, but about education. It does seem that a people of their means and intelligence would have a fine academy, irun principally by them? selves and not by the public. In offer? ing; this criticism let me say that there arei a number of other communities I know of to which it applies. Above this community, toward Salem, around Antioch and out toward Camden there is plenty of room for development. Th 3 country ?E sandy, sparsely settled, the roads poor and misleading, most of the land is uncleared though once un? der cultivation and having a clay foun? dation seems capable of fine crops. I heard of a man once of whom it was said that when Gabriel blew his trum? pet he would ask him to wait till he had lighed his pipe. While others were plowing their crops some of these were jnst putting down fertilizers. YOE. can imagine how pushed they were when one man had his wife out helping him. They were in the midst of a drought and have not to date, the 13th of May, received any rain to spei.k of. Let not the reader think that every one in these communities is indolent, unprogresive, backward. There are the Davises, James, Sr., and Jr., Luke, and Tal, the Moseley?, father and sons, McLeods, Boykins, Mat? thews Barfields, men who are farmers eveiy . 5t, who make agriculture a study ? .? are thoroughly up to date, as the*, surroundings clearly prove. A trip through the country proves that there's as much in the man as in the laud, some farms being over-run with briars aid weeds, the ditches full, the bottoms, in this country the best land, thrown out, while others, once, only a short while ago perhaps, in the above condition, are well order? ed and drained., producing every year most satisfactory results. The whole country is on a boom. I heard som? chu]*ch men say they had no trouble to get ?vhat money they wanted, so it is to be hoped that the generation of those who give the Lord only that they don't need is fast dying out. I heard of one such saint (?) who when he found his potatoes were all rotting and kne?v not how else to dis? pose of them said "Wife, lets send our preacher a bushel." So mote it be, amen. Hagood. I Buy your Binder Twine from W. B. Boy le. 5- l-3t !fc->tx?cin i-.a a. Gardener. Fond aw Uuskin was of flowers, espe? cially wi-. j unes, he had his own ideas as io what ;i garden ought to be, and in bis practical gardening was quite a '.aadscapist. Ho liked making paths and contriving pretty nooks. When he tl rsl came to lira titwood he would have his coppice cut io more. It spindled un :o great tall steps, slender and sin uou ? promising no timber, ' and past the age tor all commercial use or time honored wont. Neighbors shook their heads, but they did not know the pictures of Botticelli, and Ruskin had made bis coppice into an early Italian altar piece. Then he had his espalier of apples and a little gooseberry patch and a few standard fruit trees and some' strawberry mixed with flow? ers. In one corner there were beehives in the old fashioned pent house trailed over with creepers. Here and there were little hummocks, each with its special interest o? fern or flower.-Good Words. Weather Wisdoui. A/rory curious method of making weather predictions bas been discov? ered >y an old French farmer. "On Christmas eve." he says, vwhea the bells begin lo ring for midnight mass, take twelve onions and place them in a row on a fable. The^nrst onion will represent January, the see ond February, and so on. Next make a large slit in each onion and pour lome salt into it. If at the end of an hour you find that the salt in the Marci onion has melted yon will know that there will be much rain in March, and, on the other hand, if the salt in the April onion is not melted you may be certain that April will be a dry month. Moreover, if the salt in any onion is melted at the top, but not at the bottom, the first fortnight of the month will be wet and the second fort? night dry." The Hoopoo Bird. The hoopoo is essentially a bird of the desert. A pretty tradition regard? ing the crest upon this bird's bead tells ?hat the crest was a gift from King Solomon in gratitude for shelter from the midday su)n provided by a flight of hoopoos. The first decoration was a crown of gold, but as thia broug.dt unwelcome attentions from fowlers the monarch changed the crown to a crest ol' feathers. The characteristic note of the hoo? poo is produced as follows: The bird swallows as much air as possible and then laps its beak upon the ground The escaping air produces the ' bo? hoo-hoo" which has earned for thc bird it:? popular name.- London Mail GLEHN SPRINGS WATER Bust Remedy fer Stomach Troubles. THE BAPTIST CONVENTION. Nearly $53,000 Contributed to Louisville Seminary. Nashville. Tenn., May 14.- The second day's session of the 49th con? vention of Southern Baptists was made memorable by contributions aggregat? ing $52,991 to the endowment fund of the theological seminary at Louisville. There were several gifts of $5,000 each, one coming from a Boston man, and one from an Atlanta woman, Mrs. W. A. Wigga There had been anticipation of a ripie in the convention when the com? mittee on work among the negroes made its report but it was received and adopted in an harmonious manner. This committee, of which Dr. A. C. Davidson of Birmingham, Ala., is chairman, considered the Virginia memorial, asking for appointment of a commission to study the uplifting of the^ negro in all its phases. After a session of five hours the committee arrived at an agreement satisfactory to all interested. It provides for the appointment of a representative from each State to confer with the home mission board with regard to plans for carrying on the work. The committee on nominations for place of holding the next convention held a session today and it is under stood that Fort Worth, Tex., was favored by a majority. Kansas City and St. Louis have been spoken of in this connection. At the night session Kansas City, Mo., was selected as the next meeting place. The nominating committee reported in favor of Fort "Worth, Tex., but the sentiment of the convention was overwhelmingly the otber way. Before a vote was taken Fort Worth was withdrawn. Nashville, Tenn., May 15.-No busi? ness was transacted by the Southern Baptist convention here today. The various pulpits of the city were occu? pied at morning and evening services by visiting ministers and large con? gregations greeted them. In the afternoon a rally at the taber? nacle in the interest of Sunday school and evangelistic work was attended by 3,COO persons. Tomorrow night the convention will complete its work. During the day reports of the com? mittee on work of the foreign mission boards was heard. This work during the last year has been larger than ever before in the board's history, the fund devoted to it aproximating ?250, C0D. Committees on the work of the Sun? day school board, on nominations and on finances will also report. In ad? dition final conclusions will be arrived at. as to the home 'mission board's work. Fighting in the Philippines. Wshington, May 16.-The Moros, who attacked the American troops on May S and killed two officers and a number of men, may be severely pnnished by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who is marching on the band with a force of 450 ofiicers and men. Major Gen. Ainsworth, military secretary, received a cablegram today from Gen. Wade, commanding in the Philippines, in re? ply to a message asking particulars concerning the movement against the Moros in Mindanao. Gen. Wade's message is as follows : "Major Gen. Leonard Wood, with 450 officers and men, is en route to recover the bodies of our kliled. Two of the number who were previously reported killed have come in. It is learned that four more who were re? ported killed are alive. "There is no trouble outside of Ali's band. Piang is friendly to the United States. Everything is quiet in Cottabato Valley, people planting crops, and anxious to have Ali's band taken, and furnishing assistance free? ly and willingly. Ali's outfit is in the country east of Lake Lignasan, which is swampy and almost uninhab? itable. "Word from the expedition is not to be exxpected for several days. It will take the command six days' hard marching to reach the place where the engagement of May 8 occurred " Jacksonville, Fla., May 16.-In the recent primary two tickets for dele? gates to the national Democratic con? vention were in the race One was put out by the Hearst clubs aud the other was in the interest of no parti? cular candidate. Returns show that three of the Hearst men were elected and six others The tenth delegate will probably have to be chosen in the second primary. No% fight was made on Hearst from any of the campaign headquarters back of the several State and senatorial candidates. The six anti-Hearst delegates are uninstructed but all have expressed themselves as in favor of the nomination of Judge Parker. ? The railroad commission has receiv? ed a number of complaints from the people of Ferguson, a town in Berke? ley County, stating that the Atlantic Coast Line had refused to put a depot agent at that place, and consequently the people have to haul freight to an? other station, about ten miles. Fer? guson is the end of a branch '.line of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern, and the railroad claims that the place is too unhealthy for an agent to live. The commission will look into the matter. My Twine is here. See me before yon buy. W. B. Boyle. ? 5-ll-3t A JoaiSflable Evasion. One time when Sir Walter Scott was asked if he wrote the Waverley novels, the authorship of which was a great secret, he said, "No. I am not the au? thor, and if I were 1 should say thfe inme." Mr. Gladstone thought this a Justifiable evasion. Sydney Smith once said of some ot his anonymes efforts. "1 have always denied lt; but. finding that 1 deny it lu vain. I have thought it might be as well to Include the letters in this collection." The Extremity of Bits?. Tlie Parson- Dis am mos' pos'tively ck? mos' 'streemly juiciest chicking I nbor put in mah mouth. Br'er .Jackson. Br>r Jackson- Yes. sah. pausen: dat .lt"?ki,n^ wnz raised an' I ?rung up on .. ..-rm?laiis*. sah - ??s?; "'s Weekly COURTESY IN THE HOME. It I? E?xect?al to Happiness In the Family Circle. There i* no place where there is greater need of true, relined, everyday courtesy or where it will be more j greatly appreciated than in the home circle. Yet in hov,- many households do we soe an entire lack cf it. The husband comes in tired and sur? ly, hurries down his meal, gives the cat a kick and departs without one kind word cr gracious act to any one. The children are noisy and quarrel? some. The mother, tired and nervous, has only sharp, recriminating wci;df5 for her husband, the children and thc servant. The whole atmosphere ap? pears surcharged with the very quint? essence of disturbing and dishearten? ing elements. Let a visitor come in to make a neighborly call, however, and how quickly everything is changed. Both husband and wife welcome him with the sweetest of smiles and courtesy. When the visitor departs, he is bowed out with the most charming grace and in silver tones invited to call again. This is eminently right and proper, but why should not the same consid? eration prevail among those who are bound to each other by ties of family relationship-"our own. whom we love best?" Why should not the wife, the child. the servant, whom you meet ev? ery day in the most intimate relations -why should they not, I ask, be vouchsafed some courtesy as well as the guest who calls for a brief hour? "Charity begins at home," we are told, and I think courtesy should too. No one, be he man or woman, can stand weeks and years of continual fault finding or habitual discourtesy. You bow to your next door neighbor when you meet her in the street and give her a kind or cordial word. Why not be respectful to members of your own family? Try it. You will find you will be happier for it. Your home will become au ideal one, and every one will be influenced to good by the light which will radiate from it.-Pitts? burg Press. The Clever Brahman. Speaking of the great power the Brahmans in India possess in localizing thought, a prominent Brahman said recently: "We would consider a game of chess as played in this country mere child's play. An ordinary Brahman chess player could carry on three or four games at a time without inconven? ience. The usual 'game played by the Brahmans consists in checkmating with one pawn designated when the play be? gins. I have seen a man perform a long problem in multiplication and division, at the same time noting the various sounds and discussions going on about him in thc room. I have seen a man compose a triple acrostic in Sanskrit in a given meter, at the same time having three well versed men trying to over* throw 1dm in his argument on reli? gion." Went Back on ni? Atxthorltr. Freeman, the historian, was natural? ly familiar in the spirit to readers of the Saturday Ptoview. In the ilesh Mr. Leslie Stephen's single meeting with the historian was in the nature of a collision. "I came in contact with him only once, and at a later period. He wrote a life of Alfred for the Dictionary of National Biography under my editor? ship, but declined to do more because we had a difference of opinion as to whether Athelstane should be spelled with an 'A.' That was, I confess, a question to which I was culpably in? different, but 1 had taken competent advice, and my system (I forget what it was? had been elsewhere sanctioned by the great historian Stubbs. Now. as Freeman was never tired of assert? ing the infallibility of Stubbs, I inno? cently thought that I might take ref? uge behind so eminent an authority. The result was that for once Freeman blasphemed Stubbs and refused to co? operate any longer in an unscholarlike enterprise." The DrngRist Lost In Ibsen. Some one in Scandinavia unearthed the report of the examiners on Dr. Ib? sen's papers at his examination for thc degree of bachelor. It runs as follows: Norwegian, good: Latin prose, good; Latin essay, fairly good: Latin conver? sation, moderate: Greek, bad: arithme? tic, bad: German, very good; French, good; religious kuowledge, good; histo? ry and geography, good; Hebrew, good: geometry, good. General remarks: A young man not to be despised. In spite of many "goods," however. Ibsen was plowed owing to his deficien? cies in Greek and arithmetic. Ile as? pired in those days to be a pharmaceu? tical chemist and. failing to satisfy the examiners, had to seek some other open? ing in life. ?PRIDE ?F NOF 5-YEAR OLD C( Direct From Distil The public has bee truthful claimsof unser Distillers. We com mc the most rigid exam i n; We are the largest Whiskies in the t'nit Carolina that gu?rame smallest. We are out i direct from the Distill* alike the possibilities Middleman We ship ' Pride of securely lacked in plai your order reaches us. : 4 full quarts 1 doz. full qi 2 doz. full pi 4 doz full Pints and half pints 1 to 4li gallons. 5'J..r?ti packing. l.et the above figur Mean, thieving "bust-h this old Honest Hand-i what your father used I anything you ever had return the' goods and y< mail. The D. L Uti SoJlsbviry. References: First Nati Dun or Bi CREDIT DUE TO SOMEBODY. Where Did We Cet the Right ?* Carrow Ia "t;atliei::aiics? "Where did we ?et thc* right tc bor? row in mathematics?" asked a inaa who takes an interest in carious things. "We always pay back-a thing we sometimes fail to do in other relation? ships in liff-but where did we get the right to borrow in the first .instance? Take a simple illustration in subtrac? tion: The teacher will tell the pupil lo subtract 4.322 from 0.421. We put the problem down after this fashion: 6,421 4,322 f Here we have the problem and the re? sult. We know that we cannot say 'two from one.' So we borrow one and say 'two from eleven,' and we get the result *nine.' We pay back promptly, for ^instead of saying 'two from two leaves nothing,' we say 'three from twelve leaves nine.' But by what au? thority do we say this? When did we discover that this method would give us correct mathematical results? That's what I would like to know. Here we have one of the problems which the doctrine of evolution may deal-with. I suppose some old fellow in the lons ago found that it was necessary to de? vise a vueihod of meeting this math? ematical emergency, so be hit upon the idea of borrowing from one row of figures and paying back to the next, and so met and conquered a very seri? ous difficulty. The idea originated with some one, and te that some one we owe something1. Mathematics would be ;i meaningless science without this con? venient pian, just as other V ings would be useless but for the clever inventions of men who have gone before. There is the thing, for instance, which stands for nothing, the naught, that round symbol 0. It has a history. We know how they calculated before it came into existence. But I will not tell you about it now. I was speaking about the bor? rowing habit in mathematics, and that is enough to think about at one time Do you know how and when it origil na ted?"-New Orleans Times-Democrat. Anima! Barometer*. The tortoise is not an animal one would naturally fix upon as likely to be afraid of rain, but it is singularly so. Twenty-four hours cr more before rain falls the Galapagos tortoise makes for some convenient shelter. On a bright clear morning, when not a cloud is to be seen, the denizens of a tortoise farm ou the African coast may be seen sometimes heading for the nearest over? hanging rocks. When that happens, the proprietor knows that rain will come down during the day. and, as a rule, It comes down in torrents. The sign nev er fails. This presensation, to coin a word, which exists in many birds and beasts may be explained partly from the increasing weight of the atmos? phere when rain is forming, partly by habits of living and partly from the need of moisture which is shared by all: The American catbird gives warn? ing of an approaching thunderstorm by sitting on the low branches of the dogwood tree (whether this union of the feline with the canine is invariable the deponent saith not), uttering curi? ous notes. Other birds, including the familiar robin, it is said, give similar evidence of an impending change ic the weather. 4 -. j Followed Direction?. , A clergyman in New Jersey hired man to act in the capacity of coachman* and gardener. One day me clergyman bought a bottle of horse liniment and . told the man to apply it to a lame horse . according to the directions on the bot? tle. About an hour afterward he weat tc the barn and found Silas industrious^/ dipping a spike into the liniment and then rubbing it against the horse's leg. "What are you doing that for?"' he asked. The man looked up w-V; a smile of assurance. "Because,'' said, % "'twa* what it said in the directions on the bottle, but it's slow work.'' "You must have made a mistake," sa^d the minister. "I have not," answered the man in an aggrieved tone, "lt sjys here ou ;he Dottle, 'Apply with a large nail or tooth brush,' and. as I had no tooth? brush, I thought I'd better use this spike." A Provident Man. Knicker-Did Suburbs leave his fam? ily well provided for? Booker-Yes, iudeed. Ile had cooks engaged for two months ahead.-Har? rier's. imitate the sun and shine as often aa the clouds will let you. {TH CAROLINA 3RN WHISKEY_ lery to Consumer. Express Prepaid n frequently misled by extravagant and un uptilousdealers who represent themselves** nd this fact to vo\ir consideration anti in vi tr Uion of our claim. distillers and distributers of pure N. C. Corn rd States and the only concern in North es everv package, from' the largest to the of the first firms in N. C to furnish whiskey rry to the Consumer You thereby avoid of Adulterations and the Profits of the North Carolina ". Kxpress charges prepaid, in case so no one can tell contents same dav at the following prices: , nicely labeled, $8.00 per cave, ts. " " " J8.HO Ls. JIM*) " pts - $70.(N) 5 fitted with cork rings. lu jugs hold from per gallon. No extra charge for jugs or es on North Carolina s ttest talk to you. ead*' stuff will cost you more. Try a case of lade Corn and it will give you ? taste of lo enjoy. If you don't find "it better, than in your life and are not more than pleased. >ur money will come back to vou by first Yours to command, . Arey Distilling Co. ivette and Green Streets North Carolina. onal Bank, of Salisbury, N. C. adstreet Mercan-.ile Agencies. r J