Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. NF NNSN II n t K> i >M ( >l II < i u. COH1U iFOXMEXlBi f - Item* of Interest I roin nil Purls ni iinl \djoming Counties. KOT1CE TO CORRESPONDENTS. IIMil your letter* so that they will Svach this office not later than If OH Sm> when Intended for V lay's Paper and not later than Thursday for Saturday's Issue. This, of course, applies only to regular correspond? ing. In case of items of unusual saws vslue. send In immediately hg small, telephone or telegraph. Such news storie* are acceptable up to the hour of going to press. Wednesday's ??per Is printed Tuesday afternoon and Saturday's paper Friday after DARK CORNER. Park Corner. June 6.?We had a fine rain here last night, the largest that has fallen since we commenced to prepare our lands last winter, but no excess yet. There was some hall, but we have seen no damage or he n 1 of any being done by It. The crops seem to be revived already by the rain. Everybody has about finished chopping out cotton; some have hoed over the second time. Some of the farmers are ready to start to plant? ing peas and laying by corn. I hear of one small farm the corn has been layed by. That is the farm of Rich? ard and Ran ?rr.cy. I understand they finished laying by on the even? ing of the 4th. Crops are generally small, but healthy and well worked and are clear of grass. Mr. Jim Avln was considerably bet* ter at last accounts. Mr Merry Christmas was about the game as he has been for some time. Mr. Wash Scott is and has been sick for the last four weeks. He is la a critical condition this morning. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Windham ,of AVedgefield, visited at Mr. Wash Scott's yesterday. Mr <;. hllngs and his mother. Mrs. Robert J. Geddings, and Mr. t>an 8. McCasklll. of Plnewood. vis? ited at Mr. Wash Scott's yesterday. Miss Agnes Drewer visited .Mrs. W. J. Ardis yesterday. Miss Agnes lirewer. with a few Invited friends, celebrated her 21st birthday yesterday. Mr. Kddh? Kolb snd sister. Miss Llssle. of Ramsey, visited at Elm Hill yesterday evening. Mr. Lucius Geddings and sister. Miss Mary, with Wsj Sue Johnston, of Plnewood. visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnston at Ramsey yesterday. Mr. R. If imp Wilson, who moved his shingle mill from Lu know. Lee county, a short time ago, has taken down all of his machinery and Is preparing to move again. Fie nc> ? I down here to cut the express timber In the heid of the Weeks mill pond, but found the timber was no good, ss It was win 1-shaken and r tten hearted. Mr Meddlln. of the Randie sewing machines and organ house of your city, was here hunting up buyers last w ? . k Mrs. C. T. Kolb and niece, Miss Skinner, of your city, spent Inst w . k here at Mr W. T. K? lb s. Mi. C. T. Kolb rame down Saturday night, and returned home yesterday, accompa? nied by his wife and niece. rocky rim i It m k\ I'.hiff. June 7. ? We Bft hav? ing fine weather at present, farmers sre busy gartherlng oats. They aro much better than expected at one time Coffg and cotton are doing nicely. The health of this ? ommunity is very good, no sh kness to report. Master llolman 1' r rth nf MtTf? vllle Is visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McLeod. MSBgSt Uertha. Kate and tola House of the l...ssard's neighborhood are \lslting Miss Kite MeLeod. Mr. T. E. M'l.1. who has been at Otfggfc l'la.. for the pgjg| six months has returned home much lQ the de? light of Ml many friends. Miss Lsjetls McLsod si \isiting hef father Mr. j !.. M< LtOd, Mr p. j. Jordan, ol Orangebargi hi Visiting In tie Steghbortl.I. Mr. W M. Crown of Ro. Uy Blttff has roeoYered from ? severs att ich of lagripi" A party pass, d through the c.ty Tue%la\ fr?m I ?a vis Station IP Clarendon lountv to Salt Lake City. Utah, where they will make their home. They were Mr. W. II. Cobla, three daughters and tWS sons and Mr snd Mr- R. L. PoUltcey, These delightful June da>s, with the theriooriieter down t ? M In the morning and scant II at noon. gSSJtS one glad th.it hi lives in Richmond,? Richmond Times -1 dspateh. Yhe*e in such a thing as lin k. If you are a small eater and a slow eater, yon are lin k. - At hlson fJlobe. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will und? rst ind him?Phil? lips IJrooks. OUR POOR LiTTLE EARTH. A Mere Speck Compared Wit:-> Some of the Monster Suns. The main tacts Ol astronomy are eighty interest In;; It hi only dry ii" honks that have made us turn BWUJ from them. Reed ? good popular us tronomy und you will gain a dim, re mote IdOl! Of tntinity and elerni;\ lOtDOtlnHM you think yov >ee a lit; star. t?ut yon do no:. You merely Me the Ugh! from it Which has heen -."??) - yean In reaching us Almost everybody knows thai ? '? earth la a third rate planet in o ?: iolar system. Jupiter WOO Id searoe!> goodeeceod to notice us. Dm itaey n. not know that our sun Itself sits I low the salt It would riot he gdtuh ted to n congregation ul Import urn heavenly bodies Cauopus. the Im I gest star that we see. is 10,000 tin: - the size of our sun. and our solar ee .? ter ts hopelessly outclassed by All!*' baran. Rigel. Sirius. Retelguese ami countless others Mark Twain put this fact very well In one of his stories. "Captain Storm field's Visit to Heaven." When Hu? captain arrived and announced that he was from the earth the recording an pels could not remember ever bavttti; heard of such a place before <>:: ? finally recalled that it was a poor ill tie planet belonging to a poor lit11 ? solar system away down la a dark cm ner of the heavens. ?New York Worn! A BRIGUT IDEA. Unusual Sagacity That Was Lauded b, ? the Profetsor. That the proverbial absent minded professor Is sometimes ably abetted by his wife is Illustrated by a story to. ? of Professor Bunsen. One evening about the usual hour for ret Iii Ug he took It into his head to run over to the club Just as he and madam wer? returning from an evening call. "But." said the lady. "1 must have the front door locked before I retire.' This emergency staggered the pro? fessor, and ns he looked bewildered at his wife the lady, seized with an In? spiration, continued: "I'll go in and lock the door and throw you the key from the wludow." This program was carried out, aud when he reached the club the profess? or related the incident to a friend as evidence of his wife's unusual sagac? ity. The friend greeted the story with a roar of laughter. "And why, my dear professor." he said, "did you got simply admit your Wife, lock the door from the outside and come away?" "True." ejuculated the learned man of scleuce. "we never thought of that " The climax of the Incident was reached au hour later when, returning homo, the professor discovered that the lady in her excitement had thrown out the wrong key. Littlest Father. The woman who came to (lean U|i was tolling how she left her boy lo tggj .in' of the baby; The boy was two and one-bglf years old. The bul?.? ^ ga all in-.nt ha, "Tbaff the youngest little father I ever heard of.*' said the Mat dwell* r she tfgl cleaning up for. "Do y i lock them inV" "Yes." said tie* cleaning wonnr.i. "Poor little fellowT said the IM dweller. MLo< led in to burn in c Of tire! BOOM day when you ure cleaning up for tue 1 want to go over and see that little father, who onyhi to be In the ( radio himself, taklll j care of the six month-old baby. i want to Just sit there and look o:i awhile. Poor little fellow!"?Ohlcagu Inter Ocean. His Angel. Miss Rogers-How did you lmaglm anything so beautiful as the angel In your picture? Artist?Got an engaged man to describe his fiancee to me.? Brooklyn Life. Having swung around the political elrcle, Tom Watson announces him? self back at his starting point?the Democratic party.?Rochester Poet K\ press. There seems to be a good deal or malicious animal magnetism loose in Illinois politics Just now.?St. I.,olu:> Repnbllo, Champ Clerk wanti ipeaker Can non'i ' hair, so they gay, but as champ has beog wanting it tor the past num? ber of years it won't hurt him so bad When he bj disappointed.?Milwau k< a Sentinel. lass than three weeks now until Colonel Roosevelt win be "in our midst" again. Think of it?leaa than three .? eeks! Can we wait? Wc can. ? K.inaai <*ity Journal. The Dutch poet Who wrote tin jingle recited In Holland by Rooae wit never dreamed that !?'? would be elevated lo the dollar?a?word class.? Washington Star. Mr Rooeevelt aeema to know every* thing that everybody else knows ? Charleeton News and Courier. And now aomebody has aecuaed Dr. <',..,k of stealing another peraon'a i grammar, Ii there no limit to the reckleai depravity of that man?? Washington I b raid. Intreeal in the foot work of Jack Johnson seems to have entirely eclip? sed the Interest In the head work of Booker T, Waahlngtoon.?Younga to vn T. b gram. A COMEDIAN'S TRICK. Ruse by Which He Escaped Arrest and Had His Debts Paid. Many amusing *t< ules arc told of .loe Haines, n comedlnu of the time of Charles n., sometimes called "Count*' Htlnes, It is said that be was arrest? ed one morning by two bulllffs lor a debt of ?20, when be saw a bishop to whom he was related passing along in bis coach. With ready resource la* im- . mediately saw a loophole for escape. and, turning to the men. lie said. "Let me speak to his lordship, to whom I gm Well known, and he will pay tin* debt and your charges into the bar- j gain." The bailiffs thought they might veu- j ture this, as they were within two or | three yards of the conch, and acceded I to the request. Joe boldly advanced | and took off his hat to the bishop. His lordship ordered the coach to stop. ; when Joe whispered to the divine that j the two men were suffering from such j scruples of conscience that he feared they would bang themselves, suggest- I lng that his lordship should invite ! them to his house and promise to sat- j isfy them. The bishop agreed, und. calling to the bailiffs, he said, "You two men come to me tomorrow morn? ing, and I will satisfy you!" The men bowed and went away pleased, and early the next day wait- j ed on his lordship, who, when they were ushered in, said, "Well, my men, I what are these scruples of con- i science 7" "ScruplesV" replied one of them, j "We have no scruples! We are bai- , llffs, my lord, who yesterday arrested your cousin, Joe Ilaiues, for a debt of 1 ?20, and your lordship kindly promised j to satisfy us." The trick was strange, but the re tUlt was stranger, for his lordship, 1 either appreciating its cleverness or I considering himself bound by the ] promise he had unintentionally given. | there and then settled with the men in full. ! A CHINESE SOLOMON. His Decision In a Case of a Woman With Two Husbands. There was a Chinese Judge named Wang, who was as wise as Solomon. Before Wang two meu and a woman appeared. The older man was the wo? man's first husband. He bad gone to the wars and been reported dead. Now he returned alive to claim his wife. But she meanwhile had married the younger man, who refused to give her np; henco all three came before Wang that he might decide this truly difficult j case. "Yang KL" said the judge to the wo- i man, "which of these two men made the better husband?" "Both were perfect husbands, my | lord Judge," Yang Kl modestly replied. | So the Judge told the men that he WOQld keep the woman by him for a week, examining her thoroughly, and a week hen^e he would decide the case. Well, the week passed, and the two husbands came once more before the Judge. He shook Iiis head gravely and said to them: "The woman, Yang Kl, hus died. There is no case. Let her original hus? band take the body away from my house and pay for the burial." "Ho, not I!" said the original hus? band. And. so saying, he darted from the court and was soon lost to view. "You, then." sold the judge to the other man, "must stand these burial expenses." "Yes," the man answered, "that Is Just, and I will give this woman, who was good and kind, the finest burial my purse will allow." The Judge clapped his hands. Yang Kl. blushing and smiling, entered the courtroom in a rich dress of gold bro? cade. "Take her," said the wise Judge, "for you and not the other merit her love and service." How the Rash Comes. In measles a rash appears on the fourth day of the fever. It Is first seen on the forehead, face and neck, nfterwurd over the whole body. It consists of raised red spots. In scarlet fever the rash appears on tho second day of the fever, commencing on tho upi>er part of the chest and neck, whence it spreads over the body. In smallpox an eruption Is seen on the third or fourth day on tho face, neck and wrists. In chicken pox the erup? tion is made of small blebs. In typhoid fever tho rash rarely shows Itself be? fore the seventh day of the fever. The spots are rose colored, and they disap? pear on pressure. Wonderful Memories. We arc told that Pascal never for? got anything he had seen, heard or thought Avlcenna could repeat by rote the entire Koran when he was ten years old. and Francis Suaroz had the whole of St. Augustine in Iiis memory, In three weeks Scaliger, the famous scholar, committed to memory SVery line of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." Another scholar, Justus Llpsius, offered to repeat the "Histo? ries" of Tacitus without a mistake on forfeit of his life. After the Honeymoon. "Pa. what's the difference between Idealism and realism'.'" "idealism, my son, is the contempla? tion of marriage; realism is being mar? ried.*'?Boston Transcript. Greatly Overestimated. Hewitt Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives. Jewitt? 1 think you overestimate tho number of people who mind their own business.? Brooklyn Life. Do not think that years leave us and lind US tho same. ?Meredith. Mrs. Knicker?Do you let Bridget cut with the family? LOVE AND FLOWERS. The Advice a Discerning Woman Gave Unto Her Daughter. My daughter, wouldst thou know a man's secret? Go to the liorist, then, O simple one, for 111 him every man reposetli las confldeucc. Yea. i>y the flowers which lie sendet It a woman shall ye judge the quality of a man's love, likewise tin quantity and exact stage. As vioh ts pass unto roses, and roses unto cheap carnations, and carnations unto naught, so passeth his grand pas Blon from the first throes into matri? mony. Lo. at the beginning of a love affair mark with what care a man selectetb his flowers in person, that not a wilted violet shall offend thine eyes! Yet as time passeth he telephoneth his orders and leavcth it all to the clerk. And there cometh a day when he murmureth wearily, "1 say, old chap, make that a standing order, will you?" Then the florist heaveth a sigh, for he kuowTeth that the end is at hand. Yea, this is the mark of an engaged man who doeth his duty. So after the wedding bouquets all orders shall cease together, and until he seeketh flowers for his wife's grave that man shall not again enter a florist's shop. For stale carnations, bought upon the street corner and carried home in a paper bag. are a fit offering for any wife. Yet a funeral rejoicetb the flor? ist's heart and maketh him to smile, for he knoweth that a widower's next order shall be worthy of a new cause and the game shall begin all over again. Verily^ verily, my daughter, I charge thee, account no man in love until he hath gone forth Into the gardens and the fields and plucked thee a few r?aky pansles or stray weeds with hl^ <>wn hands. For when a man sendeth Hu e vi lets It may mean only sentiment, and w hen he sendeth thee orchids it may 1?? only a bluff, but when he doeth real work for any wroraan it meaneth b *h ess. Selah!?London Tit-Bits. HAD LUCK ON THE WAY. The English Thief That Dropped In to See His Lawyer. Ilere Is a story of a genuine instance of the kind of business which fell to the lot of a once notorious London "thieves' counsel." One day a thick? set man, with a cropped poll of un? mistakably Newgate cut, slunk iuto this counsel's room, when the follow? ing dialogue took place: "Morning, sir," said the man, touch lug his forelock. "Morning," said the counsel. "What do you want?" "Well, Mr, I'm sorry to say, sir, our little Ben, sir, has 'ad a misfortin. Fust offense, sir. only a wipe." "Well, well!" interrupted the coun? sel. "Get on"? > "So, sir. we thought as you'd 'ad all the family business we'd like you to defend him, sir." "All right," said the counsel; "see my clerk"? "Y'es, sir," continued the thief, "but I thought Pd like to make sure you'd attend yourself, sir. We're anxious cos it's little Ben. our youngest kid." "Oh. that will be all right! Give Simmons the fee." "Well, sir," continued the man, shift? ing about uncomfortably, "1 was go? ing to arst you, sir. to take a little less. You see, sir"?wheedlingly?"it's little Ben-hls first mlsfortln" "No, no!" said the counsel Impa? tiently. "Clear out!" "But, sir, you've had all our busi? ness. Well, sir, if you won't you won't, so I'll pay you now, sir." And as he doled out the guineas, "1 may as well toll you, sir, you wouldn't 'a' got the counters If I hadn't had a little bit of luck on the way."?From "The Recollections of a K. C," by Thomas Edward Orlspe. Funny For Her. A New England lad was iutently watching his aunt in the process of making pies and cake. He seemed very much Inclined to start a conver? sation, an Inclination, however, which the aunt in no way encouraged. She continued in silence to assemble the ingredients of a mammoth cake. "leil me something funny, auntie," finally ventured the boy. "Don't bother me, Tommy," said the aunt. "How can I when 1 am making cake?" "Oh, you might say, 'Tommy, have a piece of the pie I've Just made/ That would be funny for you."?Exchange. What Accountancy Means. Accountancy is not and never can be a matter of abstract knowledge to be transferred by means of lectures, but is the art of knowing how to ap? ply that knowledge to the require? ments of business under very varying conditions. It is essentially something that cannot be taught In lectures or classes, but can only bo acquired as a result of careful individual study and a reasonable amount of actual practice. ?Bookkeeping. Iridium. Iridium Is a hard, brittle, silver while metallic clement belonging to the platinum group, discovered by Tennant in 1S(?3, sometimes found native and nearly pure, but generally combined with osmium. It is, with the exception of osmium, the heaviest metal known and Is used for pen points, contact points In telegraphy and points of scientific implements liable to wear. Its specific gravity is 22.4. Avarice is to the intellect and heart what sensuality Is to the morals.? Jameson. There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.?Ilillard. A RARE COIN. It is Called a "Misstrike" and Is Very Seldom Seen. "See this penny I got today at the postollico." said the cashier. "There aren't five other pennies like it in the United States.'' lie banded out a cent piece with the die impression half off the face of the coin and with a big half moon of blank metal showing aloug one side. "They call it a misstrike," lie con? tinued. "Perhaps once in 10,000.000 times the two little notched fingers on the minting machines that grip the blank disk and draw it forward to the die fail to spring away. In this case the left hand linger stuck and pushed the coin halfway over the die. That is how the impression is only half on the disk. "Yon can see the raised edge on the blank portion of the metal." the cash? ier went on as he took up his pen. "It ' isu*t every body knows that each coin goes under the dies twice. The first | time it is struck with a blank, dome shaped set of dies to put an edge on the disk. Then it gets the regular die With the familiar head on it. "What's it worth? Oh. I'll say prob? ably $20 or so. I see it's been in cir- ' culatiou for nine years. It's a wonder Bomo coin collector hasn't nabbed it. I'm going to keep it as a rarity."- - New York Times. _. i SENSE OF HEARING. Sound Waves and the Way They Act Upon the Ears. I The detection of the direction of a sound by the sense of hearing is. like the rapid focusing of the eye on ob? jects at different distances, one of J those instinctive operations which are ! continually done without any conscious method. Sound waves traverse the air as rip? ples stir the water, and the ear by ex? perience acquires some slight power of detecting the direction in one case, as J the eye does with far greater accuracy I in the other. Usually we unconscious Ij receive assistance from other senses BJ well. Often we fail to locate at once some hidden source of sound, such as a singing bird, and then our Instinctive ingenuity displays itself. The intensity of souud is, of course, by no means so great behind a screen as In front of It, and every one carries with him the screen of his own head, which may prevent a particular sound from being heard so well by one ear as by the other. If, then, the head Is turned until thi3 Inequality disappears and both ears hear equally well we know that we must be directly facing or turned from the source of sound, and our previous rough idea of its whereabouts generally prompts us to face it. A Gentle Hint. A certain butcher Is renowned among his contemporaries for the quaintiiess and originality of some of his remarks. On a road leading to a neighboring parish he one day met a gentleman who at the time owed him for some meat. After a salutation the gentleman remarked: "That's a tine fat dog you have, Al- ; exander." "Sae weel he may, sir." was the re> i ply. "for he has an easy conscience and is oot o' debt, and that's malr than you or I can say." The hint was taken, and the butcher got his money next day.?London An? swers. Breed and Pipo Baker. The lecturer at the cooking school sometimes enlivened her remarks with an anecdote. "The eighteenth century baker," she said, "was a pipe cleaner as well, just as the barber a little earlier was a surgeon. Kverybody in those days smoked clay pipes, provided the same as cups or spoons by the coffee houses. Well, each morning a waiter carried his master's stock of pipes, some hun? dred perhaps, to the nearest bakery. The baker would boil them, then dip them In liquid lime, then bake them dry. They came out of the oven as sweet and white as new."?Philadel? phia Bulletin. A Reply to Gladstone. "Gladstone had no great scientific knowledge." said an English writer, "and at a dinner, when Faroday de? scribed on important new scientific discovery, the premier showed indiffer? ence. " 'After all.' he said, hiding a yawn behind his hand. *what use will it ever be?' ! " 'Why.' said Faraday, 'there's every ! probability, sir, that some day you'll ! be able to tax it.' " A Turn Down. Snaggsy ?Ib'g pardon, mister; I'm a ? stranger in des*- parts. Farmer liar- j I row Well, I dunno of anybody that j I wants t<> git acquainted with ye. j I (Turns n way. i-Boston Transcript. An Easier Dose. Johnny?The medicine ain't so nasty ! as It usetcr be mommer. I'm gcttln' I used to it. Mommer?Do you take a whole spoonful every hour? Johnny? I No'ra; I couldn't lind a spoon, so I'm usin' a fork.? Cleveland Leader. Hope. "Say, pop. I*ve got to write a compo? sition on 'Hope.' What is 'hope,' any? way?" "Hope, my boy, Is the joyous expec? tation of being able to dodge our Just deserts."- Life. A Short Fall. "Golly. Mike, are you alive after falling two stories?" "Why, that's not far; this is a fifty one story building."?Judge. The devil has his martyrs among I men.?Dutch. fl ? LANDES SHEPHERDS. French Peasants Who Are Experts In Walkiny on Stilts. There is a vast district iu Krance whore the entire community goes about and transacts its business on stilts. This district is called "Lea Landes." The inhabitants, who are among the poorest peasants in Trance, gain tneir subsistence by tishing. by such little ngrieulture as is possible and b> keep? ing cows and sheep The shepherds make use of their stilts for two pur? poses?first, because walking is quite impossible on uccouut of the sage and undergrowth of brush, and. secoud. because the height of their stilts gives I hem a greater range of visiou. The stilts generally are about six or seven feet high. Near the lop there Is a supjM?rt for the foot, which has a strong stirrup and strap, and still nearer the top a band of leatfier fas? tens the stilt firmly to the leg just be? low the knee. Some stilts, especially those made for fancy walking and for tricks, are even tilg er than seven feet, and the man w.o uses these? and he must be an expert?can truvel as fast as ten miles an hour. The lower end of this kind of 6tilt Is capped with a sheep bone to prevent Its splitting. Some of these Landes shepherds are wonderfully clever In the management of their stilts. They run races, step or Jump over brooks, clear feuces and walls and are able to keep their bal? ance and equilibrium while stooping to the ground to pick up pebbles or to gather wild flowers. They fall prone upou their faces and assume their perpendicular without an effort and in a single moment after they have thus prostrated themselves.?Technical World Magazine A VICTIM OF WORRY. The Man Who Is Always Expecting Some Kind of Trouble. There is always a cloud on his face because he is constantly expecting that something unfavorable Is going to hap? pen. There Is golug to be a slump in business, or he is golug to have a loss, or somebody is trying to undermine him, or he Is worried about his health, or fears his children will be sick or go wroug or be killed. In other words, although he has achieved quite a remarkable success, yet be has never really had a happy day in his life. All his life this man has been chasing rainbows, thinking if he could only get a little farther on, a little higher up, he would be happy, but he is just as far from It as when a boy. I believe this condition has all come from the habit of uuhappiness which he formed during his hard boyhood and which he has never beeu able to overcome. lie has learned to look for trouble, to expect it, and he gets it I have beeu his guest many a time. He has a beautiful home, a very charming wife, a most delightful fam? ily, but there Is ulways the 6ame cloud on his face, the same expression of anxiety, of uuhappiness. of forebod? ing. A little properly directed training in his boyhood would have changed his whole career, and he would have been a happy, joyous, harmonious man in? stead of being discordant and unhappy. There is everything in starting right. What is put into the first of lite is put into the whole of life.?Success Maga? zine. Self Control. The self control of the Japanese, even In times of the utmost stress, and their courtesy, which begets quiet? ness and discretion, are both brought out by a writer In SL Paul's Maga? zine. "Cry. It will do you good." 1 said once to a poor Japanese woman who, crouching beside her dying husband, was controlling herself with an effort that would. 1 feared, make her 111. She laid her little slim brown finger upon her trembling red lip and shook her head, theu whispered. "It might disturb him." "Cry. It will do you good." I said the next day. when the man was dead and she seemed almost prostrate with grief and overenforced self control. "It would be most rude to make a hideous noise before the sacred dead," came the soft reply. Encouraging. A Philadelphia clergyman tells of an Incident In connection with hi* first visit to a town In Pennsylvania, where he expected to be called as pas? tor. While tramping along a dusty road he was so fortunate as to encounter a man In a wagon who gave him a lift. During the conversation that ensued between the two the divine chanced to ask: "Do the folks hereabout enjoy reli? gion V" "I don't know exactly," replied his companion, "but 1 s'pose that them that has it enjoys It." Writing For Money. Fond Father?Yes. my boy at the varsity has written several articles for the magazines. Friend?Hut he's not a professional writer, surely? "What do you mean by 'profession? al?' " "Why, he doesn't write for money?" "Doesn't he? You ought to see some of his letter, to me!"?Exchange Both Sides. Doctor's Little (Mrt?Your papa owes my papa money. Lawyer's Little Girl ?That's nothing. Papa said he was glad to get off with his life.?Baltimore American, I'U a sure will be paid, one time cr anothl r.? Shakespeare.