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HIS MONEY TROUBLE. He Gained a Dime and Then Ha Fig? ured Up the Loaa. The next time Lionel, whose other name doesn't mutter, gets his optics on an unsttached dime he'll look the oth? er way. For Lionel is all peeved up ever en adventure he had the other night?en sdventure that had a dime for Its foundation and for which be can blame no ?tue but Lionel. He re? hearsed his money trouble thuswlse: "In a Broadway car I saw It?the dime that was luKxlooed. It lay upon the floor of the csr unclaimed and lonesome. No one else seemed to care to take It in and give it a welcome, so 1 did. But even as 1 reached for the bit of silver the trouble drama opened. My suspenders snapped with the strain ?for. ss you can see. I'm not built on the sunken garden plan as regards avoirdupois. Thereupon I reached back to gather the frayed ends of the busted surcingle, still feeling for the chunk of white metal with the other hand. My watch, not to be shoved out of the drama without a chance to do Its little part, dropped out of my pocket, ma ic? ing a decided hit. The crystal broke Into 7.888 pieces, not counting the one that 1 got In my finger later. The works mingled with the dirt and shat? tered glass, and the case tripped gayly Into s corner. Just to show it was also Interested, a perfectly good silver dollar bounced out of my waistcoat pocket sod did the vanishing act where, I know not. A fountain peu. all framed up with gold bands, follow? ed suit. By this time 1 was giving the rest of the passengers the show of tbelr lives?and nobody coming across with anything but the giggle gag. And 1 couldn't vocalise my feelings because there were ladies present. Holding on to my wrecked raiment and carry? ing my assorted ruins as well as I might. 1 burled myself off that car at the next corner. Then I beat it for a friendly retreat and totaled up the event. The wreck had set me back $41. but I bad the dlme!"-Cinclnnatt Times-Star. Another Way Out of It Nobody had ever had reasou to ac? cuse Abel [\md of being dishonest, hut he wus as sharp a man in a bargain as could be fcund in the county. When the building committee applied to him for a site for the new library he wus ready to sell them a desirable lot but not at their price. | "1 couldn't feel to let It go under $000," he said, with the mild obstinacy that characterized all his dealings with bis fellow men. "It wouldn't be right." "Too ought to be willing to contrib? ute something for such an object." said the chairman of the committee. "If It's worth six hundred, why not let us have It for five hundred and call It you've given the other hundred?" ??M*m?no, I couldn't do that." said Ha Fond, stroking his chin, "but I tell you what I will do. You give me seven hundred for It and I'll make out a check for a hundred and hand It over , to you. so's you can head the list of subscriptions with a good round sum and kind of wake up folks to their duty.' ?Youth's Companion. A Real Apology. "When the late Joel Chandler Har? ris was an editor here among us." said an Atlantan. "1 called on him oue day and found him very willing to correct an error about me that crept Into hia columns. "We talked about uewspaper contra? dictions, public apologies aud tho like, and 'Uncle Remus' took down a scrap book and read me an apology that was sn apology Indeed. It had happened, ht said, In a Transvaal paper. I'll nev? er forget lt. 1 agreed with Mr. ?ar rls that It was the finest Bpeclmeu of the public apology and retraction ex? tant. It ?mId "I. tha undersigned. A. C. du Please, retract hereby everything I have said against the Innocent Mr. O. P. Buzulden bout, calling myself an Infamous liar and striking my mouth with the exclamation: 'Tou mendacious m^uth! Why do you Ha soT" I declare, further, that I know noth? ing against the character <>f Mr Q, P. Besul'K-nh-at I call myself, besides, a genuine re\r of the first class. "A. C. DU PI.ESSId." His Cough Cure. "In my htJusSJOd there came to our town." said a clergyman, "a gentle in In Ister who, the very first Sunday of his InciunlM'Qcy. sjejsjppsjd] effectually his coughing congregation. "It was a congregutlon. too, slngti larly addicted to coughing. Battling volleys of coughs ran over it every few minutes The minister, indeed, that first Sun lay could hardly make himself heard. He had rather a weak voice. ' Well, after his sermon had proceed ed for ten or twelve minutes, now au? dible enough, now drowned under great waves of coughs, he took a resolution, and when the next outbreak was at Its height he ceased preaching. ' \t once the conning cased. Thero was a profound silence. Tho minister smiled. " My friends,' said he. 'It seems that when I stop you stop.' "From that day lu that church they coughed no more." Opening sn Oyster. "The Cook s Orach ." n hook which wa* never lar from the kitchens of our great-grand mot hers. Is very precise m Its directions as to the proper manner of preaenliig and eating oysters, says an Knglish journal "The true lover of an oyster." writes the author, "will have some regard for the feelings of his little favorite and will never aban? don It to the mercies of a bungling op erator but will open It himself and contrive to detach the tlsh from the shell dexterously that the oyster is hardly conscious be has been ejected from his lodging fill he fe?ds the teeth of the piscivorous gourmand ti< kling him to death." Tho foolish and the doad alone never change tholr opinion.?Lowell. A ?cholarl/ Child. Boston haw fbff long enjoyed the refutation of having exceedingly learned children who uro able, s?. It is ?aid. to dispute on subjecu, far above the beads of their elders of other re? gions. But Boston hi uot unique. In ? book entitled "The Scot of the Wight eenth Century" Ian Marlareu describes a similar characteristic of the Cale? donian. It to the inevitable tendency of the Scot'? mind to follow out every line to ita terminus, even If it be over a preci? pice, and to divide every half till In Unity la tow bed. It is not only In church courts, but In market place? and in railway sta tlons, in humble cot tax?? well as in university societies, that the BcOt is disputing, in every spare moment of his time, from morning till night. The story goes that a minister over beard a mother questioning her child as it supped. its porridge, after the day's work was done. "What," said this austere mother, "ts the true relation between kirk and state, according to the principles of the Free church f And the favored child promptly re? plied, "Co-ordinate Jurisdiction with mutual Subordination."?Youth's Com panion. Posted on Music. In one of the large music publishers' establishments on Broadway there is a man whose employment it Is to be? come acquainted with all the music of the day, both classical and "popular." When prospective purchasers are un? able to enlighten tho other clerks of the place as to what they want to buy, they are referred to him as a court of last appeal. *1 wish to get a piece that has been running through my head ever since I heard it," says the distracted custom? er, "but the trouble is I don't know the title or the composer's name." "How does it go?" inquires the spe? cialis sweetly. "Something like this: Tun>ti-ti, tuin tl-tl." "Ah, yes; you will get it at the second counter to your right Ask for the 'Pink Waves Waltz,' by Straws." And the remark* hie thing about it is that he has Heidorn. If ever, been known to falL?New York Post Teaching Cubs to Kill. Have you ever seen a cat catch a mouse and hand It over to her kittens to teach them how to kill? Well, a tiger is merely a big cat and she teaches her cubs almost In the same way, only not with mice. An Elast In? dian officer witnessed a scene of this kind. An old bull bison had been the victim, and the tigress had disabled him by breaking one of his forelegs ' jnat below the knee. She never touched the throat, the usual place of seizing, but allowed the cubs to worry the disabled animal. The eyewitness relates that the cube acted exactly like kittens, advanced and retreated and worried the victim, all the time mew? ing and snarling, while the tigress sat near by, watching their antics and oc? casionally giving the bison a blow with her paw when he showed undue ac? tivity. What They Make Judges Out Of. Justice David Brewer of the United States supreme court, during an ad? dress before the students of law at the University of Pennsylvania, told them one of the experiences of his judicial career at his own expense. "It happened I was sitting at one time on a number of cases in which a good friend of mine was Interested as counsel, and It also happened that In many of them my decisions were rendered against my friend's clients. One day ufter the completion of ?neb a case we sat together talking, when a very bashful young man from the rural districts came in to see me bear? ing a card of introduction to obtiln my advice upon the choice of a pro? fession. 'What do you think you want to do?* I asked htm. '1 kind of thought I'd better study law.' he replied, 'not that I want to very much, but because I guess I'd like to be a Judge. They make Judges out of lawyers, don't they?* he asked, somewhat hesitat? ingly. 'Once In awhile,' my legal friend replied before I could answer. 'Once In awhile they do, but not of ten.' Philadelphia Press. When the Sun Grows Cold. Dr. Fridjof Nansen predicts the fats of the earth in the far distant future, when the sun grows cold. The sim? ple, low organisms, he says, will prob? ably live longest, until even they dis? appear. Finally, he says, all water on the earth's surface will freeze and the oceans will be transformed into Ice to the bottom. Some time later the car* bonle 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 880 degrees below zero 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 helium. The sun will go through the same process. It will con? tinue in its way as a dirk star through ?pace, accompanied by lbs planota, Dolly Madison Mrs. Dolly Madison, the wife of tho third president. Is described by (iris wold lu this way: "Dolly Payne, bom in North Caro? lina, luis been educated according tc the itrlCtOil mlef Ol the Quakers lu Philadelphia, win re at aa early ago she in.'riled a young lawyer of this aact namad Todd; bot, bacomlng ? wid? ow, ihe threw off drab silks and plain iacaa and foi several years was one of the gayest and moai fascinating wo men of the < Ify. She had many lovers but she ga\e the preference to Mr MndLson and beta DM his wife In 1704" ? - ' ? Custom reconciles us to everything Bdmnnd Burke. A Study In AnaUmy. The brain Is the headquarters of the nervous system und coutalns the ceu tral offices of the Anatomical Tele? phone coiupuny. When the suburban nerve center says, "Hello, central," the brain eithet replies "What Dumber?" or "Husy" or i "Out of order," as the case may be. Sometimes the wires are crossed and the company falls to declare any divi? dends, thus placing the entire bruiu in the hands of a receiver. From the brain issues the spine, which is sometimes useful iu matrimo? ny, although rarely strong enough in man for practical purposes and con? stantly growing weaker the longer he is married. On top of the head the hair grows, er is supposed to. In some cases, how? ever, it falls to grow despite the most painstaking efforts. In ladies there are two kinds of hair ?viz, the Imported and domestic. In gentlemen also two kinds?namely, permauent and transient. The perma? nent is seen in wild men, the transient in civilized men wheu young. At one time all the hairs were care? fully numbered, but the practice has been discontinued owing to great pres? sure of other matters.?Llpplncott's. The Father Pipefish. ?The best of fathers Is the pipefish," said an angler. "He hatches the little pipefish, and after they are hatched he carries them about with him till they can take care of themselves. "This fish has under his tail a sac. In it he bears the pipefish spawn. Thus tho spawn hatch in perfect safety. They are not decimated, like the other fish spawn lying unprotected on the bottom of the sea, by every hungry passerby. No; they all hatch, every one of them. As soon as they hatch the father fish splits, or nature splits for him, the sac, und all the little fish drop out into the sea, but they cling to papa. Wher? ever he goes, llko a gray cloud those thousands of tiny sons and daughters surround him, and on the approach of danger they pop back again into the sac Just an baby kangaroos pop into the sac, or marsupial pouch, of their mamma. "The male pipefish Is, in fact, the female kangaroo of the sea.** Wills and Edmund Kean. Irving used to tell with dran h ef? fect a story about W. G. Wilts, the dramatist, who, among other services, wrote for him the play "Charles I.** When Wills. TTOl a boy ten years old he was taken to see Edmund Kean play Macbeth. In the murder scene he was so affected by the realistic power of the actor that, seized with a severe attack of nausea, he hurried from the box. Ten years later he was lunching at a chop house in Fleet street when a man entered, sat down at a table near him and ordered a meal. He was a perfect stranger to Wills, who, after a few minutes' pro? pinquity, was again seized with a fit of nausea, from which he had not suf? fered since as a boy he was at the theater on the occaslou mentioned. He was obliged to leave tho room. When some minutes later he paid his bill the waller said to him: "Did you see that gentleman at the table near you? That's Edmund Kean."?H. W. Lucy In Cornhlll Magazine. No Time For Retreat. In an Irish garrison town a theatrical compauy was glvlug performances, and some soldiers from the local barracks were engaged to act as supers. Their duties Included tho waging of a tierce fight in which, after a stirring strug? gle, one army was defeated on a given signal from the prompter. For a few nights all went well, but on the Friday evening a special performance of the piece was to be given under the patron? age of the colonel and other officers of the garrison. The two armies met as iwual at the end of the second act, when they fought and fought and kept on fightLng, regardless of the agonized glare In the eye of their (actor) gen? eral, who hoarsely ordered the proper army to "Retreat, confound you." But the fight still went ou, aud soon the horrified manager saw the wrong army being driven slowly off the stage, still fighting desperately. Down came the curtain amid roars of laughter, and the fuming manager hastened to ask the delinquents why they had failed to retreat on hearing the slgual. "Retrulte," roared a burly fuslleer whose visage had been luidly battered, "and is it retrulte ye'd have us, wld tho colonel and all the officers In the boxes?*'?Londou Scrups. The Pimpernel. The common pimpernel, "poor man'i weather glass." has the dlsadvontag? of boing n native plant and has been almost completely expelled from our flower gardens In favor of exotica which are rarer, but lack much of be? ing as pretty. The pimpernel is a charming little fiower which opens about 8 in the morning and closes late in tho afternoon, but has tho remark? able peculiarity of indicating a com? ing shower by shutting up its petals. Awkward, but No Chump. Once there was a pretty woman who came upon a huge ostrich In the des? ert. "Foolish bird." said the pretty wo? man. "You cover your head with sand and think you are out of sight." The bugs ostrich laughed. "My dear madam." he chuckled, "there Is nothing foolish about that. Don't you cover your head with a hat decors ted with my feathers and think yon are 'out of sight ?' " Monti. The ostrich Is an awkward bird and eats horseshoes, but he can hit back In other ways than with his big feet,?Chicago News, Tf you don't know what to name tho baby, ask tho census man. PARIS HONORS THE ROOSE vklts. Brillant Reception by President and Mine. Fall lores. Paris, April 2 2.?President and Mme. Falllerea tonight gave a gala dinner of 104 covers at Eylsee Pal? ace in honor of Theodore Roosevelt. The entire palace was brilliantly il? luminated and the Republican Guard lined the stairways. The assemb? lage was a notable one. President Falberes look out Mrs. Rooaevelt, who looked charming in a blue brocade crown, embroidered with gold and crytttal ornaments, while Col. Rooaevelt escorted Mme. Fal lieres. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, who wore a gown of pink, was escorted by M. Jusserand, the French ambas? sador to the United States. Among the other distinguished guests were Ambassador and Mrs. Bacon, former President and Mme. Loubet, Premier Brland, Foreign Minister and Mme Pichon and other members of the Cabinet and their ladies; M. Pallaln, governor of the Bank of France; Gen. Dalstein, mili? tary Governor of Paris; Gen. Brue gere, former comamnrting general of the army; Gen. Brun, minister of war; Leon Bourgeois ex-minister of foreign affairs; Louis Renault, perm? anent delegate to The Hague tribunal from France; Baron D'Estrournelles de Constant and the Baroness de Constant; Frank H. Mason, the American consul general and Mrs. Mason; M. Croisot, dean of the fac? ulty of letters of the Sordonne; Henri Barbou, chief of the corporation of barristers; Admiral Lepard and Mr. j Boutroux, professor of philosophy in I the University of Paris. The Cocaine Habit. Ordinary citizens have little notion [ of the progress which the cocaine I habit is making in this country. It is I one of the most destructive drugs ! known to the world. It has its uses j as a local anesthetic and in some pre : BCrlptlona, but it is as dangerous as it la serviceable. Not many years ago a determined effort was made to wipe out the opium evil in this city and it seemed to have a good deal of ef? fect. Apparently the opium dens were closed, and some good people congratulated themselves upon the j success of their crusade. It is much j to be regretted, but it seems to be a fact that a worse evil has taken its place. All sorts of stimulants have their ! uses at times, but the abuse of them I has made thousands mourn. We know in these days that the brain is the seat of all Intelligence and that it is not an amorphous organ, but it is divided up into many compart? ments, one or some of which may be i injured without detriment to others. I But cocaine is one of those stimu j lants which seem to destroy almost I every function of the brain, save Im? agination, which it distorts to an un? wholesome degree. The cocaine ha I bit is worse than the opium habit and its effects are quicker. It can j not be acquired without destruction ! of mental faculties to a large degree. I It is insidious and deadly unless I speedily checked. I The police authorities are to be as? sisted in every way In closing this t terrible avenue toward self-destruc? tion. The druggist who sells cocaine to degenerates Is an enemy of society, for no one knows what the victims of this drug may do to innocent per? sons. The police seem to be doing the best they can and are bringing offenders to justice. Here is an in? stance where every good citizen should he on guard and report vio? lations of the law. Indeed, it looks as if the State would have to take over the entire sale of such drugs. It Isn't pleasant to contemplate but If we can stimulate making anti-tox? in for diphtheria, we may do some? thing toward stopping the abuse of cocaine, whose laudable use is only occasional.?Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. R. I. Manning, despite the con? stant reports for the past several months that he would be a candidate for Governor, made an emphatic an? nouncement yesterday that he would not offer as a candidate. Mr. Man? ning, no doubt, would have made a good governor, should he have made the race and been elected, (and some of his friends were confident of this fact) l>?it be does not see his way dear to be a candidate this summer, and his ardent supporters will be forced to lend their suport to one or the other of the numerous candidates who will tii.iisc the race. Mr. Man? ning would have made an excellent run. perhaps, but he thinks at this time thai his business interests In Sumter are of more importance than being n candidate for governor of South Carolina. Tins announcement comes as a great Mow to Mr. Man? ning's friends, especially to those w ho were so sanguine in their hopes and predictions that he would be the next governor of this State.?Orange blirg News. At lust me. ting of the directors of the Farmers' Bank and Trust Co. Mr. Charles Schwartz was elected as director. Heal Kstato Transfers. T. C. Williams Realty Co. to Edens' Music House, lot on Broad street place, fur $300. W. H. Webb to Fannie E. Andrews, partition deed of estate of Mrs. Mary Webb. Henry Mayes to William Davis, lot in Mayesville, for $15. Hugh C. Haynsworth to Emily Heattie Haynsworth, lot on Calhoun street, for $5 and love and affection. O. D. Harvin to Trustees of Mt. Sinai school, one acre for $5. W. M. DeLorme to Geo. Robertson, lot in Sumter for $500. Fannie E. Andrews to W. H. Webb, partition of estae of Mrs. Mary E. Webb. Lilie G. House to W. H. Ingram, 27 1-4 acres in Stateburg township for $1,200. J. A. Plnson, executor, to J. A. Stubbs and W. T. Rowland, one acre south of city of Sumter for $351. Dora S. Bultman to H. von Ohsen, lot and buildings in Sumter for $3, ?00. Hazel M. Sanders to Pauline E. Huger, lot in Sumter for $6,000. Lena Thomas to C. C. Beck, four lots in Sumter for $600. Alice Taylor and Lula Young to Bynum Pitts, five acres for $150. Kathryne R. Jenkins to A. C. Weatherly, lot in Sumter for $100. Mary A. Durant, Frank L. Brunson and W. L. Brunson to Maria L. Brun? son, 19 49-100 acres on right-of-way on A. C. L. railroad for $5, and other valuable considerations. I. C. Triplett to P. M. Tiller, a lot, "Bland Land," in Mayesville for $1 and other valuable considerations. I. C. Triplett to E. G. and J. W. Spencer, two lots "Bland Land" in Mayesville, for $1 and other valuable considerations, McCallum Realty Co. to T. P. Ly nam, lot and building on Blandlng street in Sumter for $525. I. C. Tripl?tt to R. J. Mayes, Jr., two lots "Bland Land," Mayesville, for $736.51. Claude P. Lesesne to Mrs. Julia V. Beck, lot and building in Sumter for $1,500 and assumption of mortgage. R. J. Brownfield and A. B. Stuckey, executors, to William R. Allen, 40 acres to pay off indebtness of the late Washington Allen. I. C. Triplett to E. J. Buddin, one lot "Bland Land" In Mayesville, for blank consideration. Geo. D. Levy to Horace Harby, lot in Southern portion of Sumter for $400. Katheryne R. Jenkins to J. M. Harby 4 7-100 acres in Sumter for $4,7S5.00. R. J. Mayes, Jr., to C. P. Hancock, lot In "Bland Land" Mayesville, for $75. Mary Singleton and Cuffie Bradley to Jas. A. Scarborough interest in 20 acres in city of Sumter for $800. Margaret G. Gregg to Malcolm R. Rivers, lot in Sumter for $2,000. Leonard Brown to Albertus S. Brown, trustee, for Julia Cummings, et al, 100 acies for love and affection. Jas. F. Bland to I. C. Triplett, lot in Mayesville, for $2,000. Mrs. Anna C. Sanders to J. P. Roseman, J. Lewis Adkins and J. F. Roberts, timber deed for $10.000. Francis H. Allen and M. Louise Haynsworth to Edgar C. Haynsworth, lot in Sumter for $5 and other good considerations. W. E. Brunson to Mary A. Durant, lot in Sumter for $290. The summer school for Sumter county will probably be held from July 20 to Augsut 20. The date, however, has not been definitely fix? ed. It will come about that time. CARLISLE WON'T RUN. Spartanburg Senator Declares He Will Stick to His Post In Upper l/ouse? Pleased at Suggestion. Spartanburg, April 22.?State Sen tor Howard 13. Carlisle of Spai tan burg will not be a candidate for gov? ernor this summer. He reached that decision today and Issued a statement to that effect. He says: "Both the suggestion and the indorsements I have received have been exceedingly gratifying to me, but 1 feel that my entrance into the race at this time might to some extent endanger the success of the cause, which I believe has the In? dorsement of the majority of the peo? ple of South Carolina. My contract with the people of the county is to serve them as senator for two yean and 1 shall lend my best endeavors to worthily represent them and the State in that capacity." Mellette, Red Oaks, Tlndal, Provi? dence, Ingram and Gilgal schools In Privateer township will all close by May 1st. How harsh It sounds to hear a man criticise your pet hobby! HCiS ?VERY1 ^CH|g50,anoo IFOR m ?LLTHROATAND LUNG TROUBLES TRIAL BOTTLE PRg GUARANTEED SAr/SFACTOfir Of? MONJSY &EFUNDCD. 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