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OK WITH* OF THE ORIENT. ft* OrteMtal Spectacle of Cerent Beau? ty * Ml be Given as One of the Feu <ine* WIUi the Wild Went and Far C? etrthiug contrast to the battle es and warlike features of tho West section of Buffalo Bill's Will Waat and Pawnee Bill's Far flaat will be the Introduction of an ?rieutal Spectale aa the principal nejatbec in the Par East division. Wean the rowed vistas of our own mountains end plains the scene shifts te te*p sands of Sahara with the pyra? mid* and Sphias In the distance. Ths entere srene presents with accuracy a section of the desert with Its glls and glimmering stretches of id. In the foreground a caravan is its camels and donkeys are halted while the Bedouins prepare their camp Soon ensures a scene of grandeur surpassing anything ev? er, toefdre attempted In an open-air arena. The Bedouin bandits are hold? ing a party of tourists for ransom, and ?whole negotiations are pending give them an Oriental entertainment as a pastime. The pageant which opens the entertainment displays the gar gooaa costumes and trappings of the aeawnj. Dgyutian, the oamels and ele? phants bedecked with varl-colored accoutrements, the various tribes andx le of the Soudan and Far Bast lowing in native garb, displaying an ensemble of color surpassing in beauty anything hitherto seen In a nnM?c oaKblUen. As a particular feature of an entertainment which can* auto requisition Arabian and fapsaese aftrobats and atheletes, Hindu fakirs and other skillful deni? ed the Far Bast Rossi's Musical I tenants Will be introduced. They hells and pump organs with their feet* blow trumpets in musical har? nt my and In general present a opec taft<n of surpassing interest. Ac ssangseyiag thorn through their spe maltg. four beauUfully-costumed la? dies will assist On the musical features , and participate in the marches and , shsHa which form part of the ele- | fskanfs eahibit The Far Bast fea tare* wlB be in mark id contrast, as has bean said, with the Wild West section of the entertainment?Indian battle* typical Western scenes and dh*?fay? of broncho "busting" being vastly differest from the mild and pHctd scenes of Orient beauty. FOOT BAM, GAME. 1 PVmght Rattle Pulled Off Mon? day Afternoon. I >' football game was pulled ah ** ? ????? U+M p?rk Mondev after? noon between the 9th grade team and tb ? it m I street tesm. The Broad strx*t team shut out the 9th graders, making a touch down and kicking a ge*l m the first half. In the second hni< there were no scores made, al? though tlie hardest sort of fight was pot up Those who witnessed the con? to*) any that the boys played a claasy gees The line-up follows: 9th Grade. Broad St. R 'lo-vl . . . c . . . . J. Chandler J. rones.rg.R. Moore AOfftand. Ig.H. Owen P. IMch.rt.R. McKny M Pitts.It.B. Boyle C. Hurst . . . . qb . . . . J. Haynsworth I* l ."Gr* imI . le.H. Bultman O. Othiun . . re.W. Reynolds P IloPhi in.fb.S. Nash Fl Mftaw . . . . Ihb.B. Marshall H loo,*, ... rhb.H. Bowman skore* 9th grade e; Broad St 6. Hot Supper and Barbecue. A Hot Supper and Barbecue will be given at th? residence of Mr. B. W. Ps?kcr. Jr.. of Daisell, on Wednesday night. October i7th, for the benefit of IN Methodist church at Daisell. The public is cordially Invited to at RFST MADE EASY. IVmre Will Be I<ees SleepleNsne** When Snsuter People I^earn This. Cent rest st night with a bad back. A lime, a weak or an aching one. Down's Kidney Pills are for bad Ml they cure every form of kidney IBs. hi ?m common backache to dia? betes Tit are endorsed by Sumter poo it n W. A. Clyde, living at S19 B. Lib S*ty St.. Sumter, S. C says "I can bi*r. u recommend Doan's Kidney Pili ? ? i they h%ve proved of great valu? to me. I suffered from dull nagging backaches and distressing pabw through my loins and also had an annoyance from the kidney secre? tions The 4ecr*?ttons also contained a sediment and were scanty In pas? sage. I did not rest well and In the snsriiing 1 felt tired and languid, hav? ing very little strength or energy. I finally procured Doan's Kidney Pills at China's drug store and since using them. I have been froe from back? aches and my kidneys are normal. I am a' id 10 recommend each a splen? did remedy is Doan's Kidney Pills." K m sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents Post r-Mllburn Co., Puffalo, Now Y ok solo agents for the United fifties: Kami.ember the name?Doan's- -and fta other. No. i. INVESTIGATING FOR MR. TAFT. Secretary Dickinson Studying the Ne? gro Question In the South. Washington. Oct. 12.?It Is learned on good authority that President Taft has asked Secretary of War Dickin? son to make a special study of vari? ous aspects of the negro race ques? tion. The object of this request is not made apparent and further details are not yet yet obtainable. Secretary Dickinson for some time has been at his home at the Belle Mead farm in Tennessee. While at home Mr. Dick? inson has been looking Into th<: sub? ject. During a recent visit to Nash? ville it is understood that he asked Major E. C. Lewis, one of that city's prominent citizens, what he proposed as a solution of the race question. Major Lewis Is prominent in the com? mercial world by reason of his con? nection with the Nashville Terminal Company, but has never gone Into politics. According to the report Ma? jor Lewis declared that the abnolute enfranchisement of the negro and his elimination altogether from politics Is the only thing that would solve the race question and benefit both races. \ The response of Secretary Dickinson to this suggestion Is not known. Dickinson's Plan Attacked by Chand? ler. Former United States Senator Wil? liam E. Chandler writes as follows in his home newspaper, the Concord (N. H.) Evening Monitor: "Secretary of War Dickinson, in a speech at Nashville, Tenn., on Sep? tember 23, adopted a new plan of re? construction, differing from that placed in the Constitution of the Uni? ted States at the close of the 'war be? tween the States', as It is at the end of nearly half a century pleasant to ( ill the slaveholders' rebellion. HI* plan 1 s to abolish negro suffrage ? In the Southern States in return for ef? forts to abolish the lynching of ne? groes. ? "This is his enactment: L "No negroen are to be appointed to office in the South. II. "The white people are solely to govern. III. "Inferential y the colored voters are to be deprived of suffrage to any appreciable extent, but the 10,000.000 of colored people are to continue to bo the basis on which the white vo ?ers at the South are to possess f?0 ff'etorel votes; and 60 rcpresentnthes In Congress. In return for this destruction of the nolwolplai ?t geltlenl equality, without regard to race, color or pre \lous condition of servitude, as now declared by the Constitution, there is to be at the South: IV. " 'A government of law and not of nassion', lynchlng8 are to be abolish? ed and the colored people are to be protected in their property rjghts. "To what extent President Taft is committed to this new scheme of re? construction, Secretaary Dickinson does not state. Whether the fifteenth amendment is to be formally chang? ed or only silently abandoned by the S >rih as a guarantee of impartial ' 'age, while the South, in its own approved and noble methods, sees to i ?hat the amendment Is In fact nul I led does not appear. Time will tell. ntime. the Republicans of the eountry. including the colored voters, ein think over the plan of the able U ! courageous Secretary of War." HEAL FUN FOR HALLOWE'EN. Oldtlme Rowdyism Should be Super? seded by Other Amusements. Every boy feels that he has a spe? cial right on Hallowe'en night to go out and have some fun. Somehow or other the fun is very apt to be at the expense of other people. It may seem very amusing to take gates off their hinges and hide them, but this is cruel fun. for it makes work for the older people who have to put them back again. Ringing doorbells is another stand? ing joke that may turn out badly. Some boys once stood a board up against a front door, rang the bell and ran across the street to se what would happen. A woman came to the door with a lighted lamp in her hand, and the board fell against her, smashing the lamp, and setting her on fire, so that she was terribly burn? ed. There are plenty of ways of having fun without injuring anybody, and a good plan is to get up a Hallowe'en masquerade party. Let every boy hunt up the queerest old clothes he can find and dress in them, so that the others will not know him. If he has not a mask he can rub his face with burnt cork, or paint himself to look like an Indian, doing anything that will make it hard for the other boys to recognize him.?The Deline? ator. I Peary Is not the only man who, in i trying to do some nailing, has ruined I his own hand.?Charleston News and I Courier. Wheat and Oats for Seed. Prof. W. F. Maasey. While a great deal has been writ? ten in regard to the breeding and Im? provement of the seed of corn and cotton, there has been little said about the improvement of the seed of wheat and oats. With these crops the farmer is not in a position to do real breeding work, though much has been done, and more can be done, by experts in this line or work. But the farmer car. do a great deal In maintaining the character of the small grain he sows. I was attending a county fair in Maryland this week and was much interested in the samples of wheat exhibited. Unfortunately, even the best samples this season are poorer than usual owing to the unfavorable season and the attacks of rust which damage the foliage and, of course, prevented the development of the grain. But even under these unfavor? able conditions there was a great dif? ference In the various samples of wheat shown, even of the same varie? ties. Samples shown by a wheat grower, whose main business is the production of seed wheat, showed what intelligent care of the seed could do even In a bad season. He had samples of the Dletz, of the Currlll, and of the old Fultz. The Fultz showed the effects of the sea? son worse than others, and It is evi? dent that the bearded wheats are to be more grown hereafter, for the greatest damage to the yield this season was done by the hard rains that spoiled the flowers at blooming time, and this was worse with the bald-headed wheats than with those bearded. But it was evident that care in the selection of the seed has had a great effect on the quality of the crop. The Dietz wheat grown by this seed grow? er was remarkably heavy even this season, while samples of the same va? riety shown by farmers who do not take the same pains with the selec? tion of the seed, were light in weight. I was at the farm of this seed grower ,and noted the care used in his fanning mill. The fan was on an upper floor, and below there were four chutes coming down. The first one delivered a mixture of light weeds and grass seeds; the second, light shriveled wheat for chicken feed; the third, what he called mill? ing wheat, a fairly clean sample of wheat, and the fourth, delivered only the largest, heaviest and plurnnest grain- his seed wheat. said thai SOflka f j . tners were buying his milling whc-at and claiming that they sVwed als wheat, and he stopped that and Pefuies io ~e.Il thtt except to miUetki as he did not want to risk his reputa? tion on any but his best wheat, and in better seasons he usually makes 40 to 45 bushels per acre. Now, while few farmers will go to the extreme care that this man does, or will have as complete machinery for the purpose as he has, any one can prepare his seed far better than Is the usual custom. The fanning mill properly used will enable any one to get the heaviest seed for his own sowing, and can be made to clean it, too, from the worst weeds. Take a sample of oats as usually bought, and in many cases you will find what an ordinary observer would call clean oats. But the man who knows seed will look carefully at it and will find that there are many small grains that look like small oats, and he will know these to be cheat seed, and if the grain is sown, he will find that it has 'turned to cheat" in the spring, when it was cheat all the time from seed to heading. Now, use the fan thoroughly on that sample, and you can blow out ail these seed as well ak many of the lighter weed seed. With screens properly arrang? ed and the fan energetically blown, any farmer can prepare much clean? er sample of seed than is commonly sown. It is far better to blow ou. the light seed than to sow them to produce weak plants. We want the land occupied only by the strongest plants, and the stronger, plants are produced only by the best deevlopod s -ed. Any one, with even the common fan will be surprised to find how small a percentage of the wheat put into the fan will be of the heaviest class. But it pays well to sacrifice the Inferior seed and sow only the plumpest and heaviest grain. You will have less winter-killing of the oats if you sow only the heaviest grain, for the strongest plants will he produced and these of cour.ie, are hotter able to resist tne cold than tho weak plants grown from light seed. The cheat seed that you sow are never winter-killed, for they are far hardier than the oats, and they may deceive you with something green when the oats are killed. Hence, it is better to blow them out and sow only clean and heavy oats. Whatso? ever a man soweth that he will reap. Sow poor seed of wheat or oats, and you will get poor wheat or oats, sow cheat seed, and you will get cheat. How plump, heavy wheat, and outs clean of weeds, and your crop will be likewise clean and heavy. Kvery farmer Should have a fan nlng mill. The fanning mill does not cost a great deal, and will save Its cost in the first small grain crop. SIGNALING WITH MARS. Prof. Brooks Describes His Idea of Calling Up the Rod Planet. (Prof. Wm. R. Brooks in Collier's.) As the opposition of Mars on the 24th of this present month ap? proaches, renewed interest is mani? fested in the fascinating subject of signaling with our planetary neigh? bor. At a previous favorable opposition, about 15 years ago, certain astrono? mers saw some unusually bright points flashing out from the surface of Mars, which led to the idea that they were signals; and some more im? aginative than the rest thought these signals took the shape of the Greek letter o?Theos. God. This, of course, raises the old and ever-popular question, one which is asked the astronomer more frequent? ly than any other: Is Mars Inhabited and by intelligent beings? The most that the conservative as? tronomer is willing to say is that the apparent conditions there seem suited for habitation. Mars has the succes? sion of day and night similar to the earth, the only difference being that their day is half an hour longer than ours. They have the same beautiful recurrence of the seasons, with a year nearly twice the length of our own. Added to this are the so-called ca? nals of Mars, and, of course, if we accept the artificial character of these striking features of our neighboring planet, the question of its habitability is settled. These canals are so num? erous and on such a gigantic scale that they must have been wrought by people of extraordinary engineering skill and industry. Being older than ourselves, they may be much farther advanced. These, inhabitants may differ from us greatly in form and structure and development, and be perhaps?humil? iating thought?vastly our superiors. This being granted, it will be seen that they could easily follow us in any system of signals that we might construct, be they never so complex and gigantic. What kind of signals are possible that would be likely to attract atten? tion of the people on Mars, assuming that they possess eyes and telescopes comparable to our own? The method proposed by the writer is the establishing of a great area of electric tights :hat could be dashed on and oft at regular intervals during - ur midnight hours, ihe.se flashes to be arranged not necessani; after the i Morse "code, fox it were idle to r pose that the Martians are familiar 1 with this. But a much simpler ar? rangement is suggested. A series, tor instance, of five or seven flashes of one minute duration each, with an equal space between; then an open Interval of 10 minutes, to be follow? ed by another series of flashes of one minute each, and so on. Let these signals be repeated every night for several weeks before, during and af? ter opposition. Of course, we should not expect an immediater esponse, for ?.cnsiderable time would be required to construct the answering signals. I' we had ours ready by the next opposition of the planet In Novem? ber, 1911, then at thet succeeding op position. in two years and ?.wo months from that date, we might watch nightly for their response. Or supposing we kept up the sig rals at every opposition until the next equally favorable one, 15 years from now, and then received their answer, would it not pay? Would no: the achievement be moment3us f Be true to thyself, and all things shall be true to thee.?Sylvester Judd. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tbl Kind You Han Always SougH Bears the Signature of The Most Giveable Gifts, Most appropriate, most ap? preciated, are shown here in all their surpassing beauty. Our Cut Glass display is a worthy one?inclusive, ex? clusive. 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