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A DUSKY CYNIC' Trfcuwa1 atztet yMm*9 A My was walking along Fifth are? as ? eeapis sf wnhi ago when a big (I op to bar politely and to gtvs htm a quarter. *Iini shipwrecked sailer," ha told -lav. Three dare ago the ahtp I waa as want aebere owtrtac Bandy Hook, efrer since than 1'rs been wandering ?reood without being able to gat a Jon," The lady gare him a quarter and leased en. A weak keter while going lgr the asms tpot on fifth a venu? ehe teas approach** ooee more by the 1 tu I ablpwreeked aaDor," be be am. "Three days ago" - She let htaa flniah. Than aha ra? ted: weeks ago when I gare you a 70a tstd me that same atory you aakl that you had been rked tars* daya before. Mow you ?ay the eame thing.'* ?ad aba looked at the negro svvsreiy. Ha threw back hat bead and burnt tafth lato roeta of laoghter. ?Did?did I gtre you dat atory laat waakr he chuckled. "Did yon glvi aa> a quarter T WeU. if dat aint a Joke dal goer And aba loft him ataadlng on the atatawalk oonrnlssd with Ungbtor. Tork Tli CARDS IN CHURCH. Ikey Were Net Uncommon In the Old Daya la Insjlead. of card playing oc In churches la ceden daya ra the or curtained family pawa that to bo found in sswral parts of taat ? caaa of card playing waa men by the poet Crabbe aa baring tired In one of those pewa In Trow %ttdge pariah church. Mr. Borosford eta ted that card playing waa not imon to ctrorcbee baring cur pewa, where tboaa occupying were attaoned from the obeerva an of the real of the congregation, ad that one of the Oeorgea la credit I with taking part at a game of wfciet I taw church bo attended. Iba church at Little Stanmore, in baa a taxurtoos room pew rh at approached by a apaclal door egad staircase. ?Hat old Rt PwaTe catbodral before '9Mmy groat kra of London waa uaed by aassteees men aa a aort of ear hange. wBi poTuco waa aw ont vo oucKecer*. eaaf la those daya gambting and cards ana both aakl to hare boon Indulged without lot or tilndnmce wtthtn too H Chit w let hag a aTtoahrangar. Mr. Georgs ? Bonaire "ftoory of Aaatrallan Busntwagars" too foi ttttts r^eaoda la rata tod : A man Mtehssi. who want to an ton ' food, found the peace In the bands the bwshrengst'a. Fourteen gueota already disarmed and ware being to order Mkinaal waa corn ay take bk) place to Una. The banded htm a pannfim of hefsrs they took bat monoy. Know what waa coming, bo hold too pan aa U the tea were ?00 hot to and whan the leader of the iwaymen waa ?oofchag away drop kat roil of bank notes Into rt Ho quite quiet and when too bush? es me to fool hat pocheta there only a fow abllrings to thorn, rob bora appeared satisfied and al? lowed him to go. He carried bat pan out with him, took bat monoy put It In hie pocket wtthont being red. Than bo mounted bat horse, to the near eat pottos station and ernes Information. ____________ Aja^r rler I adocsewiont. ^TaUdam,'' aakl the tetter of a bank Jew Baltimore to a woman who had ofjasstad him a check to caab?"madam, 90a bare forgotten to Indorse." X worried ?mile cams to the wo snsn's face, but ana took back the pa mwt and wrote something 00 too back ?fgr*of. rar*-- ?? , e*Wheff again the teitor ooaed at the ?4eck bo found that the woman had In* eVreed ss followa: The ? bank baa always paid me ?nftaatever it owed, and you need bare aa> worry. Therefore I Indorse chia ?k. Very truly yours, Anna M. '-Harpers, Red tehees aUdlabee originated In China, where they bare been culttrstad for many aanturtes and aomotimaa grow aa big as a man's head. la Germany the old fashioned country mothers cure bosrse aaas and cough with tadhm Juree mil sal with augsr candy. The rsdashes of Soda7 hare no neroe, no character. Formerly their sharp, bit lug taete them pataUbes. An "What makes you so later asked the boy's parent. The teschar kept me In because 1 sosldo't find Moscow on the map of akaiupo.** replied Johnny. "And no wonder you couldn't fl id Moscowt It waa burned down years ago. It's an catrage so treat s chid In that way r A fine Dodger. Carol'* grandfather bad served In the wsr, and Carol liked to bear of the many battlss In which be hsd fougit Oos day after lstenlng to the vivid re> cital of many Lerolc deeds Carol sal<l: ??Grandfather, yoa went through all ttoae batUesr "Yea." MAnd the shot snd shell fell til around you?" "Tea." "And soldiers wars falling and dylag srerywhereT" "Yea." "Well, grandfather, what a one aVdger yen must bate beenf*?Deltnoa THE ANCIENT GR] THEY WERE MASTERS IN THE 80MNCE OF GOVERHMMNT. Mmmr St.rdy Sjaallttos Had tk? Mm*- \ tit***, b?t tfc? UclvMul Om?? Not ?!??? Pr?iH?t<T-OB? BrIWsvat Exception to too Rml?. Tbt statues and literary master? pieces of Hellas, whose themes were mainly legendary, are reeponalble for the Impression that the ancient Greek was cast In the heroic mold. The he? roic Greek waa a turbo lent, master? ful, egotistic demigod. He had no counterpart In any historical figure ex? cept Alexander the Great, who deem? ed himself a deocendant of Achilles, the aea nymph's eon, and acted very much like him. The Greek of history waa an uncom? monly consistent republican. In the tolerance ho gave to individualism and the capacity ho showed Ipolde hie city state foe collective action ho carried the acJcoeo of government and of po? litical self control In some roopecta to a height from which all subsequent hietory It a descending slope. While maintaining democratic standard*, ho did not enforce nor bow to that tyran? nous aod narrowing pobhc opinion which In our own time threatens to east an men in much the name moid. Ho found a place in his scheme of things for diversities of natural bent? for the effeminate drees of AJclbiedes, the tub of Diogenes, the railings of Cioon, the austerities of Arletldea, the satire of Aristophanes, the arrogance of P hoc km. The democracy of Athena woo never the democracy of the dead level. It meant opportunity, not a steam roller. As creditable a story is told on the aide of collective action, Greek politics implied, aa Mahaffy has observed, "the reasonable diecneeion of the public, the final decision of the majority, the aub misstnti of magistrates and rulers to the wfD of the people." The Greek "nmKftuus" was tolerant, patient, loy? al to tta loaders and capable, as it showed in the Peloponneslan wax, of mo king exemplary sacrifices and of In? itiating and maintaining a course of action for a protracted period, The whose population of Athena, for in? stance, abandoned the country and took to their snips, leaving the enemy to destroy their city and their poo aea atone while they sought him and finally cooQuered him on the aea. For that fortitude it would bo impossible to find s modern parallel. His ehrte qualifies are qapafojl in the grant period of Greek hietory?a ?son appreciation of humor that acted as a safety valve to the turbulence of lasemblies, an aptitude at public speaking which was useful in bntiOe as in council. Every free Greek was at once a legislator, an orator, a potential admiral or general. These was one capital defect in the Hellenic character. The individual Greek could not stand prosperity. As Grote put it "The effects of a copious draft of glory on the temperament of an anoMp rising and ambitious Greek wens perfectly maddening" Bo was a good loser, but nearly always a bad wmnss. Almost every ocmptouous Greek of history became at tta? end a corruptioMst or a traitor, etitdsdes, rioter of Marsthon, became s pirate clea was negotiating to betray the Gre? cian armament to the great king the day before ho dsstiuyod tbt Persian fleet at Salamis. AJcfboadee betrayed tm torn the Athenians, the Spartans and the Persians. Demosthenes was banished for embesstomsuL The Syra cusan leaders became tyrants when they could. Of all Greeks only Timo leon, the OormtbJsn who freed Syro cussj. *t ?noe hooorabta, fortunate and acclaimed. Although the Hellenic world fringed the Mediterranean and the Black oeaa I from end to end, the significant politi? cal history of Groses ia almost alto- I grthex tbnJWstory of Athena ang Spar- , ta. The great planes 6? heroic legen], Ithaca and Pytoa and Pbjtbia and. Ar- , cad hi and Argot and Oorcyra, '"the , Pheeakes' land,1* figure but faintly in | the historical period. Ithaoa was only a barren rock, Arcadia a recruiting ground for rustic mercenaries and Ar? gos. ang Oorcyra and auch states as Ae tollsTMesssne, Tneeealy and the Achse? an League ancient; peutotpyes of the rods and turbulent Balkan states of to? day. The transitory pre-eminence of Then as was the pre eminence of its ons greet seedier, !X>am1rtondos. Between them Spartans and Atheni? ans wrote the great story of pottGoai Greece. Tue ?psrtsna wees moss a military ti Pith er hood than a state, the men dining in barracks p ad visiting their famines by stealth and aU free? men desptelng wealth and any tofJ ex? cept that of the gynmaslum, the drill ground and the batttenoid. They were a proud, shy, self oontalned, home keeping people, so ill at ease and un? practised In public speech that the word "laconic" has become a proverb. I Their cautious political sense, their military discipline, their long lived dy? nasty and their unbroken maintenance of one form of government secured them the instinctive deference of other Greeks. Arms, Lags and the Man. now many of us have noticed that we walk with our arms as well as with our legs? Sitting on a grassy slope overlooking a seasklo promenade I was struck by the mechanical swing of the arms of the stream of imssersby?the right arm always keeping position with the left leg and the left arm with tho right leg. Ity attempting to reverse the order of tho swing I found that I had a tendency to progress like n crab, while tho effort to keep them fixed by the side was like the shutting off the steam from the engine. Arms and the man must be amended to arms, lege and the man!?London Chronicle. REUCIOUS ACIWBATS. India oaTere many cartons tbmas in tba way of religion, and the strangest of them all to the aerial etide, wbteh to performed annually at Knlu, in tba Himalayas, At a petart where there hi a cliff o versa aging a precipttooe gorge several broad red feet in width and a hundred feet in depth a rope Is made fast to the rock. The ether end of this Is carried aerocft the gorge and there secured to a stake The total length of the rope between the two points to when drawn taut 2,600 feet, and the end attached to the cuff is several hun? dred feet higher than that fastened on the opposite aide of the ravine. Thus a slide to contrived, and it la a danger? ous one to all appearance. It Is down this incline that the per? former baa hie path. For the lofty journey a sort of saddle la provided made of wood, with botoa In ft, through which the rope passes. But before a start la mads the whole length of the rope is wot to prevent the saddle from catching flro from the friction. The performer arts astride this seat, and to his legs are fastened bags of sand, which serve two purposes they enable him to maintain an upright position during his Ughtnlng-Uke descent, and they increase the momentum. The lowor end of the rope is carefully wound with bits of carpet to check the speed before the stake la reached. Without this precaution the performer would be dashed to pieces. The terrific velocity of the descent for the first few hundred yards Is shown by the stream of smoke that trails from the wake of the saddle, de? spite the fact that the rope has been wet. Afterward the Incline diminishes somewhat, and the pace becomes corre? spondingly slower. By the time the goal is reached the Jheri, as the per? former. Is called, Is able to come to a standstill without disaster. This slide in the air is supposed to reveal the will of the gods aa to the crops of the approaching season. If the perilous trip is accomplished In safety a plentiful harvest Is assured. Naturally, therefore, every care la tak? en to minimise the dangers of the per fecmafjoa. The ceremony la of ancient origin, and those who engage in it as Inert form a small caste apart.?Mew York Tribune. A MEDFORD STORY. Ligiiia1 ef the Phantom Ship and toe Mad Pirate Captain. The town of Medford, Mass., has a tegeed of a phantom ship beside which the Flying Dutchmen is only a peace? ful merchantman. The Medford story runs that a ship laden with rum and gold and stiver bars put out from that place in the days when the Spanish main was mfssssd with pirates. It waa beaded for a West Indian port, bot got into the dosdroms and was so long becalmed that water ar4 provi? sions gave out, and all hands perished of thirst and starvation. When the wind came up again the ship sailed away with bar ghostly crow, was seen by a bosoanses, chased and over? hauled. The pirate oaptain mads fast so hts prise without firing a single shot, and, attributing the vessel's nonxestotnnce to fear or keck of arms, be wss the first man to leap on board. But the rope with which the captored ship bad boon osretossiy lashed to bis own parted under the strain of tba seaway, and be found bimsstf rapidly borne away from ms comrades on wnot .be soon disoovered to be a floating oof&n. A stiff brooss filled the aaJJs of the derelict, and before bis own vessel could overtake It night desoended on the ocean, and the pursuing ship tost night of it ahtogothsr. Left alone in pitch darkness on tba grewsoms craft, tns pireto wont mad with terror and, seising the wheel, raced away before the wind and, according to the legend, was condemned to range tbt seaa for -TJI.J^*3 hi comma til of bis horrible prisa, *eata? eaW?*V*N Woe to the ship that enxtouneered it scudding along by moonlight or in the lightning's glare, manned by skeletons und steered by a shouting, gesticulat? ing madman, and when on several oc? casions It was sighted in the fog off Medford it was considered as the her? ald of storm and disaster and the los? of many ships,?Nev, York Press. Ckeasr Fees. rmia Is oat fox," said a furrier. "We sss It for Lining*. An excellent lining eat for ma tea too. Dogs, calves, corto. cooua. opossums, bats, rats?any animal that wears fui. in fast, la sala? ble la the for markst Bat hair is felted up wttb other stuff into an Imi? tation skin. It Is also uand, I boiieve, in rope pleKlnej. The ?log, the coon and the opoasnm yield a fur that, prop? er ry tree tod. makes a very handsome lining. Rat skins are employed in cer? tain delicate repairs, and they also serve to form the thumbs of cheap gloves. A queer thing about the fur business Is that the furs must be taken In the dead of winter. The trapper must work under the cruel eat climatic coudrtlcce. Only tbua is the fur at its beat. The dresaer, on the other hand, who could work best in cold weather, must do all his work In the beat of summer or otherwlso he would not be able to koep up with the changing fashions,"?Exchange. A KU? That Rroasht Death. Courtship In Spain Is regulated by tho strictest etiquette. As Is well known, a young man Is never left alone with his fiancee. Near Malaga a beautiful young girl of twenty com? mitted sulcldo by drinking a cup of coffee In which phosphorus had been dissolved. It appears that the girl had been driven to the deed by the adverst comments of neighbors who became aware that she had given her sweet? heart a kiss.?London Malt A r?l3(W( RUSE. The Pi ssnwisktr*i Lurs Thai tntiwroc fh? Amsrlesms. QtSjSt Mmrftrot Q<mM HrUa ta the Bsptsas tar Woman's Horn? Cornaanfor: sosae of tba war* fhs Parisian Clrrw mstiag establishments tell their goods to Aairktn women. Here Is one rose that aha taw worked tn one of the big? gest eetabtlsaments in Parle: There waa a tndden and er Klent co is rastlos among the employees. '"The priacseti The prroeees! She baa arrived T they cried. American eyes begin to bulge. Oat from a magnificent equipage stepped a regally gowned grand lady, attended by footmen and maid and re? ceived by the whole bowing estab? lishment, to the neglect of all other cnetemera. She was in a gracious mood this day and easy to be pleased, praising their past efforts and select? ing several of their new creations with? out regard to cost After she had made her departure amid like cere? monies there was no need of the sales? woman bothering her bead ever sug? gestions. Er err American woman present wanted a gown copied from the one the princess had bought, and she get K after much pleading and at a price far beyond the limit she had set And the point of this fable is this: The princess was no princess, but an employee of the bouse. Every French gown has two prices? fin American price and a French price. It la needless to say which is the greater price. Along about April the cry goes up, "The Americana are coming!** and then the prices go up too. Along about November, when tho Americana have left, you might almost Bay they are giving away gowns, only the Frenchman never docs give away anything. Then it is that the French? woman in general and the French actresa in particular selects her ward? robe. When the 8un Grows Cold. Dr. Frtdjof Nansen predicts the fate of the earth in the far distant future, when the sun grows cold. Tbc sim? ple, low organisms, be says, will prob? ably live longest until even tbey dis? appear. Finally, he says, all water on the earth's surface will freer.? and the oceans will be transformed into ice to the bottom Some time later the car? bonic acid of the atmosphere will be? gin to fall on the surface of the earth In the form of snow. Some time after that the temperature on the surface will have reached about 380 degrees below aero F. New oceans will then be formed by the atmosphere being turned into liquid, and the atmosphere of that future earth will be only hy? drogen and bellum. The tun will go through the tarns process. It will con? tinue in its way aa a dark etar through space, accompanied by the planets. Taetr Absence Explained. During an acrimonious debate is the bouse shortly before the civil war Mr. Potter of Wisconsin made some very sharp strirtoree on Mr. Pryor of Vir? ginia. Tue result was a challenge from Pryor to fight a duel, which Potter promptly accepted, naming as terms bo wie knives at five paces, terms which he well knew Pryor would not dare to accept, as he waa a small man, while Potter was a large, powerful man and familiar with the use of the bowie knife. Pryor declined on the ground (hat the proposed terms were beneath the dignity of a gentleman to accept and so the matter ended. But on the day following (he challenge, while the result was still unknown, both Potter and Pryor were absent during roil call, and when Potters name was called a Quaker member rose and in mild voice said, "Mr. Speaker, I am Informed that the gen? tleman from Wisconsin had a Prior en? gagement** And when Pryor*s name was called a moment later he rose again, saying, "Mr. Speaker, I bear that the gentleman from Virginia bos gone to be aa clay in the bands of the Potter.- . De?M? Thinking. | Professor Jaetrow, writing m the Popular Science Monthly of the causes of certain Lapses of speech, recalls the singular power that Sir Walter Scott among others, possessed of conducting two trains of thought at the same time. When highly developed this pow? er ensbiea its possessor subconscious ly to find words expressing a thought already formed while at the same time shaping the nest thought period in conscious preparation. An instance la given by Scott*a amanuensis, who re- ! lates that while dictating the novelist would sometimes search through a book, finding and reading a passage, and that keeping two trains of thoughts going simultaneously. The amasuensia discovered the fact that Scott wat doing double work in his brain through tho occasional occurrence in the dictation of a word which did not fit In the sentence, but four or five lines farther on the place where the word belonged would turn up. Cnndlulltfht. Hail candlelight without disparage? ment to tho sun or moon, the kindliest luminary of the threo. If we may not style thee radiant deputy, mild viceroy of the moon! Wo love to road, talk, sit silent eat drink, sloop by candlelight They ore everybody's sun and moon. This is our peculiar and household planet By the midnight taper the writer digests his meditations. By the tame light we must approach to their perusal if we would catch the flame, the odor. Night and silence call out tho starry fancies. Milton's "Morning Hymn In Paradiso," we would hold a good wager, was penned at mid? night and Taylor's rich description of a sunrise smells decidedly of the taper. Even now a loftier speculation than we have attempted courts our endeavors. We would Indite something about the solar system. "Betty, bring the can? dles.*'?Charles Lamb. ALCOHOL 3 PIK CENT A^eetaWerVtpwlonfiris. sira?a^ (Tf rood and Re^ii? ttag??SinaaTtogMBoi*iiof Infants rCmiDRrv Promotes Di$?HoT\J[W? Opwm JMorphi? rarMumL Not Narcotic. J*n*wSmr JlxSema + j%MeSA Him St*? - ?SeipLr? /Jrw. Iperfpct Ffcmedy forCowflft t tan, Sour Stc roach. Dlarrta Worms ,Cc nvulsions Jfvcrislr ness and Lo ss OF SLEEP. TaeSmik Si$~rve of NEW YORK. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hava Always Bought Bears the Signature of If ferafiteei uncWihePcxg Exact Copy of Wrapper. ' *r ii t .Ja Thirty Years TM K OKHTMia ?OMHHY, MCW YORK C?TY. N. G. OSTEEN, JR., Dentist. 18 West Liberty Street - - - - Up Stairs. Hours:?8.30 to 1-P. M?2 to 6. Office Phone? N o. SO - - - House Phone 382 THE EXPERT AT WORK. Mr. W. W. Haralson Begins the Ex? amination of the Books of City Of? ficers. Mr. W, W. Haralson, an expert ac? countant, of Troy, Ala., arrived In the city on Thursday and has begun the examination of the books of all de? partments of the city government which was ordered by city council at the last meeting, on motion of Al? derman Ligon. Mr. Haralson will be in the city several weeks as he has been employ? ed to make a thorough examination >t the books and accounts for four years back, and the task is ore of consider- | able magnitude. He has !had many years experience in this class of work \ and was highly recommended to the committee those who have employ? ed him. WintI rop C 'Ilcze SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION. ?DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little liver pills, small, gentle and sure. Sold by all druggists. Fire in Country. A dwelling house in Privateer, about six miles from the city, the property of Mrs. William Wells, was burned Thursday night. The house was an old one and was occupied by a family of negroes. The examination for the award of vacant Scholarships In Winthrop Col? lege and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, July 2, at 9 a. m. Applicants must be not less than fifteen years of age. When Schol? arships are vacant after July 2, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for Scholarships should write to Presi? dent Johnson before the examination for Scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session w?l open September 15, 1909. For furth-< er information and catalogue, address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill. S. C. W. & S. to 7-2-09. ?If you want to feel well, look well and be well, take Foley's Kidney Rem? edy. It tones up the kidneys and bladder, purifies the blood and restores health and strength. Pleasant to take and contains no harmful drugs. Why not commence today? W. W. Sibert The County Board of Equalization was in session Friday in the Auditor's office. It Is said that there was a strong sentiment to bring about a real equalization of assessments of prop? erty and to put all property on the same footing. The fish fry given at Cain's Mill Thursday by the plumbers of the city was largely attended, and a most en? joyable day spent. Superintendent White chaperoned the boys and says ho had a "plumb" good time. ?If you desire a clear complexion take Foley's Orino Laxative for con? stipation and liver trouble as it will stimulate these organs and thorough? ly cleanse your system, which, is what every one needs in the spring in order to feel well. W. W. Sibert. The city is infested with a pest of vagrant dogs and the enforcement of the muzzling ordinance will ha wel? comed by ninety per cent, of the peo? ple. ?If you expect to get the original Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, you must be sure it is DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. It Is good for cuts, burns and bruises, and is espe? cially good for piles. Refuse substi? tutes. Sold by all druggists._ HikLTHSCOUGHI 4 ' ? ?? per ?Everybody is likely to have kidney and bladder trouble. In fact nearly everybody has some trouble of this kind. That is the reason why you so often have pains in the back and groin, scalding sonsation, urinary dis? orders, etc.?that's your kidneys. The b?st thing to do is to get some of De? Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills right away. Take them for a few days or a week or so and you will feel all light. In this way, too, you will ward oft dangerous and possibly serious ail? ments. They nre perfectly harmless, and are not only antiseptic, but allay pain quickly by their healing proper? ties. Send your name to E. C. < De Witt & Co., Chicago, for a freV trial box. They are sold here by all drug? gists. FoI?y'o - 0RIN0 ive* I? Pleasant and Effective OUHI8 Constipation, Stomach and Liver Trouble. by stimulating these organs and restoring their natural action. Is best for women and chil? dren as ORINO does not gripe or nauseate. SIEBERTS DRUG STORE. . 4