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Why They Dies.
Naturally applicants for lifo insur?
ance may ho expected to pat as good
a faro as possible oo the reports con?
cerning relative? and the causes of
their deaths, but they sometimes make
rather amusing statements. Home one
has collected s few of these wblcb
ware origlneliy published In the Brit?
ish Medical Journal:
"Mother died In hi fancy." "Father
want to bed feeling well and the oeit
morning woke up dead." "Grandfa?
ther died suddenly at the age of 103
Cp to this time be bid fair to reucb s
ripe old age." "Applicant does not
know ctuse of mother's death, but
states that she fully recovered from tier
last Illness.' "Applicant baa never
been fatally sick." "Applicant's broth
sr. wbo was an Infant, died when be
was s mere cbMd M "Grandfather died
from gunshot wound can red by an ar?
row ahot by an Indian." "Applkuot's
fraternal parents died when be sjsjg a
child" "Mother's last Illness was
caused from chronic rheumatism, but
ehe was cuml before death." "Father
died suddenly; nothing serious "-^Jour?
nal of American Medical Association
Leaded Far Economy.
A fireman was op for examination
for promotion to rbe poaltlou of engi?
neer. He passed a fair test oo the
rules snd machinery, but during all
of it the examiner was constantly lec?
turing blm as to the need of economy
In the use of fuel and oil. so that by
. the time be finished his examination
it waa pretty well on his nerves. I lav
tag finished the technical part the ex
aminer thought be would put the man
In ? critical position to see what be
might do in an emergency. So be put
this qneetion: "Supposing yon are the
engineer of a freight train on a single
track, and you are In danger of a bead
on collision wltb a pasaenger train,
and yon know that you could not stop
your train?that a collision could out
bo everted what would you do?" The
man, unstrung by tbe vigorous in
structlon he bnd receive ss to eeon
omy. replied lo this way: "Why. 1
would grab the oil cao in one band
and a rump of coal In ths other and
Jump."?Art issn Globe
Candle Making In China.
The manufacture of candles in
China la no new thing. Tears before
the advent of the foreigner the na
three made rhern by crude methods
and used them in home and temple.
Even today million*- of enndk* are
made by the old process of dipping,
at which the old Chinese are very ex?
pert, A misture of tallow and castor
oil Is first prepared and the operator,
o ng a straw to serve as a wick
between encb of bis reo fingers, dips
then Into tbe preparation as many
times ss oerpvsary to give the cn tidies
che lealred rolckncaa After this they
are set up on end against s hoard to
hsnleo and the straw wicks c lpped
to s proper length. The finished prod?
uct burns well, gives a fair ligbt? Is
consumed slowly, and. beet of nil. In
native eyes. Is very cheap. These can?
dles are usually made by small fac?
tories for sale to storekeepers, but
many Individuals still manufacture
for family sod temple use.
Budditi Prieets of Burma.
Every morning after sunrlss tbs
Buddblst priests of Burma go our. In
Indian file, preceded by a boy with s
hail, wblcb be rings at Intervals This
warns tie pvopls of their approach,
and It Is wonderful to see with what
revere nee the people regard ttese
prleats Immediately the bell ringe s
BnroHwe wotnan runs out with her of?
fering of rice, bauanas. eggs or the
bast that her bouse can provide No
words of greeting are exchanged. Ths
offering* are made and received In si
lanes Tbe HnddbUtt priests msy lot
receive money. This Is wby they hnve
to beg for rhelr dally bresd.
0ays of tie Weak.
While the Egyptian* named tbe days
of tbelr week, tbe Jews numbered
them only the first day of tbe week
belog always the day after ths weekly
fifteen different methods of
counting are known to hove
nring the last 4.01)0 yes 's. In
cludiu? ?very day of the week, weeks
if dlfferenr and varying length, from
six to ten da.?*. and months of various
and varying ivngtb
Had Cat ttie TMette.
A d1?cus?ton on appointments to
ths Most Sohle Order of the Thistle
gave rise to s esus?c ssylng on rhe
art of Disraeli Among the nam*s
Jggested waa that of a certain peer,
bo displayed more ten! than Judg
isot in bis sup|>ort of tbe Cooeervv
Vf parr? "oh. no!" remarked bis
ugratefni sMsJ mI couldn't glvs Lord
? the fttsftgj He'd eul If ' - London
?rsphlc
A filmple Twin of the Wrist.
"Too know Jones, wbo waa reputed
o rich? Well, be died tbe other day.
n>1 ths oni? thing he left wss sn old
Jstch clock "
"Wsll. there's one good thing shout
t-lt won't he moch trouble to wind
ip bis estate "-Hacrsd Heart Review.
An Amiable Dentist.
TtcHus 8sy. dum ye, you've pulled
tbs wrong tooth! Dentist?From the
way you bollered I thought 1 had hold
f ths right one. but we'll call It my
ihrtaksw?rhlcsgo Tribune.
Weslsh and Wisdom.
A man who Is worth more tbsn $1.
aXXO can get any commonplace ro?
ta tk accepted as sn epigram.?Chi
igt? Record Herald.
What s srrsoge thing Is man and
bat s stranger Is woman I?Uyroo
The Moors.
Morocco Is not so bot as It Is often
supposed to be. The greater part of
the country ts near either the sea or
the mountains, often both, and It is
only about as far south as Georgin or
Louisiana. The sun la hot of course. I
at midday. In a dry region where the
sky Is usually cloudless and the lati?
tude Is about like that of the gulf const
of the United States. Uut the tern
perature In the shade Is seldom ex?
treme?that Is. In the parts of the conn?
try where the bulk of the people live
South and east of the mountains, on
the border of the 8ahuru desert, the
conditions In respect to heat are alto?
gether different but there the popula?
tion Is small. The people of Moroe
co are fanatical Moslems, and they re
eent bitterly any kind of pressure to
charge old customs or give up old
ways, but they are much less formid
able than they used to be In the prime
of Moorish power, especially in com?
parison with the conditions In the ad
vanced countries of the earth.?Cleve
I land Leader.
Poor Hsnd In s Bible Class,
A woman of Louisville. Ky.. who en
Joys a game of cards, receutly visited
i friend In Indianapolis. Sunday
morning came, and the hoste; s Invited
her visitor to accompany her to Sun?
day school. It Is the practice of the
teacher of the Bible class of which the
hostess Is a member to ask each mem?
ber of the class to read a verse from
the Bible and comment on it. The
visitor from Louisville had oot been
Informed of the teacher's custom.
However, the teacher seemed to think
that visitors as well as regular mem?
bers should participate, and when the
member next to the visitor had read
her verse and made her comment the
teacher smilingly looked toward the
visitor. The visitor appeared to be
disconcerted for a moment and then
She hastily said. "1 pass."?Indianap?
olis News.
Roman Bricks.
When the preparations for rebuild?
ing the Campanile. In Venice, were
undertaken the archaeologists were
afforded an opportunity to make some
Interesting studies of the bricks. It
was found that they bud been used
In arches, fortifications, the tops of
walls and in other ways before they
were built Into the campanile und
that they were not Venetian but Ro
man bricks. These ancient bricks
were made iu slices, for In many the
layers could be seen undisturbed. It
Is said tb??? bricks made this way can
bear a greater weight than modern
bricks. The bricks examined were ot
the first century. One of them bore
the Imprint of a horseshoe, which
may prove that Romans used a horse?
shoe like ours, although It Is generally
believed that their horseshoes were
strapped on, not nailed.
Losa of Weight In Rowing,
A well known physician In New
Tork city who has long been identified
with aquatic*, says that the average
Individual loss of weight in a four mile
pull, whether In a race or a row
against time, la two or three pounds.
Under peculiarly trying conditions of
boat the Individual loss may reach five
or efclx pounds. On the other band,
eays this physician, many oarsmen go
through ? four mile pull with the
k>ss of only about a pound In weight
This lost weight Is fully recovered by
the next day. Proper training la so ar?
ranged In these days that a four mile
race .comes only when the oarsmen are
thoroughly rested and at the top of
their training weight so that the loss
of weight rarely indicates that the in?
dividual Is "stale," or below good train?
ing condition.
Goldsmith's Obituary Notice, |
It would be difficult to find a more
quaint announcement of death than
that published in an old newspaper In
1774. at the time of Oliver Goldsmith's
demise.
"1774, April 4. Died, Dr. Oliver
Goldsmith. Deserted Is the village
The traveler hath laid him down to
rest; the good natu red man is no
more; he stoopse but to conquer-, the
vicar hath performed his sad office;
It Is a mournful task from which
the hermit may essay to meet the
dread tyrant with more than Grecian
or Roman fortitude."
Dead Loaves as Fertilisers.
1 According to tests made In France,
dead leaves possess a high value as
fertilizers. They are extensively used
' by the market gardeners about the
city of Nantea Pear leaves have the
highest quantity of nitrogenous, oak
leaves come next, and the leaves of
vines etand lowest In value.
Kindness Misdirected.
"What has become of the meer?
schaum pipe?" Inquired an Inveterate
smoker.
-Welt my dear," his w?fe : ?plled, 'It
was getting awfully discolored, so I
gave It s coat of white enamel, and
It Is not quite dry yet!"
Extravagant.
nub?Reckless and extravagant?IY
When did 1 ever make a useless pur?
chaser Wife?Why, there's that Are
extinguisher you bought s year sgol
We've never used It oncel
Seek the tight
If there is auy where on your horlxon
a spot of light, fix your eyes upon it
and turn your thoughts away from the
clouds which may cover the rest of the
sky.
He Knew.
"It's hard to collect money nowa?
days."
"Ee#Ti trying to collect some?*
"No. oh. no I But s lot of peop!e
bavs been trying to collect from me."
Birds and Fishes and Glass,
A correspondent recently reported
what he described us the "curious
freuk" of u bluckbird flying against I
parlor window many times at the
same spot continuously. Such un Inci?
dent is not uncommon. Birds have
been known to tight for hours at a
time, day after day, with their own
image reflected hl n pane oi glass,
peeking and fluttering against the pane
aud quite exhausting themselves in
their fury to demolish the supposed
rival. It is another instance of how
the aftf of our civilization corrupt
and confuse the birds. It U the same
with Ashes. Darwin tells a story of a
pike in an aquarium separated by
plate glass from ?sh which wore its
proper food. In lying to get ut the
tish the pike would often da. h with
such Violence against the glass as to
be completely stu.med. It did this
for more than three months before it:
learned caution. Then when the glass
was remove 1 the pike would not at?
tack those particular tish. but Aould
devour others freshly introduced. It
did not at all understand the situa?
tion, but aaaoclated the punishment
it had receive! not with th ? glass, but
with a particular kind of tish.
Boiled Down.
When Suinuel (i. Blythe. the writer,
was editing a news|?aper in New York
stute a green reporter one uight turn?
ed in u long und thrilling story re?
garding the rough treatment handed
out to John Smith, a visitor to the
town. The story relutcd that Mr.
Smith, wearing a high silk hat, had
ventured down to the docks after
nightfall und a silk hat being unusual
and provocutlve of antugonisms in
that section Mr. Smith had emerged
from among the dork hands without
the hat. Nevertheless he carried out
of the melee so many wounds, cuts
and bruises thut he had to be sent
to the hospital. The article in its orig?
inal form was too long and not in
keeping with the style of the paper.
Accordingly Blythe started to rewrite
it. This is the form in which it ap
psjafsd In the paper the next morning:
"John Smith, wearing a high silk hat,
went down to the docks last night?
Emergeucy hospital."?Popular Maga?
zine.
Wagner's Last Words,
There have been so many and con?
flicting stories published as to the last
hours of Hichard Wagner that the
chapter devoted to this i>olnt In Ola
fenapp's biography of the composer will
be read with Interest. The master was
not really sick at the time, but tired
out from the work and worry over the
"Parsifal" rehearsals. On the morning
of Feb. IS he said to his valet, "l mus*
be careful today." After breakfast he
went to his study us usual and worked
on un essay on "The Feminine In the
Human." He asked to be excused at
the noon meal, and the family and an
Intimate friend were enjoying it when
a woman servant rushed in und said
that the great man wus ill. He was
I>la<-od on u cot In his study, and while
removing some of his clothes a watch
which his wife had given to him fell
to the floor. He gasped, "My watch!"
And these were the last words he ut?
tered.
A Raes of Tenors.
1 Generally speaking, races living at
high altitudes have weaker and more
highly pitched voices than those living
In regions where the supply of oxygen
Is more plentiful. Thus, in South
America, amoug the Indians living on
the plateaus between the ranges of the
Andes, at an elevation of from 10,000
to 14,000 feet, the men have voices like
women and the women like children,
their singing being a shrill monotone.
The Australian native has a weak
voice, but a knuck of sending it a long
distance, and the lowest tribes of
African bushmen would come into the
same category; but, it is said, of all
human beings the pygmies of Central
Africa have, in |>oint of volume and
compass, the weakest of human voices.
?Harper's Weekly.
Wellington an Simplicity.
When Sir Edwin Landseer was paint?
ing the duke's portrait, hoping to save
him the trouble of much sitting, he
wrote and asked if he could let him
have the trousers belonging to the uni?
form. The duke wrote back in all
solemnity:
"Ficid Marital the Duke of Welling?
ton presents his compliments to Sir
Edwin Landseer and regrets that he
cannot send him the trousers as he
hus but one pair."?London Nation.
Wanted sn Even Start.
"Pa, you know you told ma to count
twenty before 1 punched another boy?"
"Yes."
"Well, In order to make it work out
right you have got to go around the
nelghltorhood and make the other boys
promise to count twenty l?efore they
take a punch at me."- Houston P<xst
The Largest Restaurant.
In the Berlin aoologlcal garden roe
tuunint. the largest In tbe world, 10,
000 persona can sit down simultane?
ously beneath the same roof. Open air
terraces for ose in summer will accom?
modate another 10,000 diners. There
are l.um waiters, and the kitchen staff
exceeds fiOO.
Candid.
Maud- Would you call Getty <?oid
bags a l?eauty? May- Well, p'r'aps I
might If I were a young man, awfully
DOOF, In debt and utterly conscience?
less. Vanity Fair
At the Restaurant.
"Walter, why do you recommend
everybody to take beef a In mode to
day?'
"Because, sir, if It Isn't all eaten we
shall have It for dinner ourselves."
Notice to Subscribers.
We are mailing statements to sub?
scribers and we request tbat prompt
settlement be made, either by check,
postofllce money order or by calling
at this office in person. The amount
that oach subscriber owes is small,
but the aggregate due is is a large
sum and we need the money. A few"
subscribers owe for more than one
year and those who receive bills for
more than one year are urged to re?
mit at <?nce. We exercise every pos?
sible care to avoid t-rrors in our sub
[ scription accounts, but mistakes will
occur, especially when there are so
large a number of accounts to han?
dle. If any subscriber receiving a
statement thinks it is incorrect in
any particular he should write us
Immediately or call at the office and
adjust the matter. If we have made
a mistake we want to know it. Short
settlements make long friends and a
misunderstanding quickly rectified
prevents future trouble.
Sale of Unclaimed Express Matter.
On Saturday. Nov. 11th 1911. the
Southern Express Co, will sell at
Public Auction to the highest bidder
for cash all unclaimed Express mat?
ter that has been on hand six months
or longer.
H. ll. LUCAS, Agent.
Reoovered Her Speech.
After being speechless two years, as
a result of a long illness, Miss Jessls
Flshel. of New Orleans. Instantly re*
covered her voice the other day when
startled by a vivid flash of lightning
and a loud peal of thunder. Seven?
teen specialists in several cities had
tried to restore her voice but with no
success. Her father declares the re?
covery is the result of prayers offered
constantly by the family. A big fam?
ily celebration has been planned. .
Hint for Housewife.
Said tbe head of tbe crockery and
chinaware department: **Every day
we have to test pitchers with water
to prove that liquids will not run back
from the pitcher's mouth, if the
housewife will only make sure to get
a pitcher whose mouth curves down
?Mghtly she will have no trouble."
Bootless Opposition.
The surest way fo prevail on a
young coup.e to get u arricq is to op?
pose them Te! them you "would
rather see 'nein In their g-aves,"
and twelve u.ouihV al'er their baby
will pass you twice a Cay in a willow
wagon ? Kxchent'?
Cautious.
Mr. Willis?"Hut shy don't you
take your bank hook i:i and have U
balanced t" Mrs. Willis?"I don't
want tbat snoopydooklng cashier to
know how nrict money I've got
there!'?Puck.
Or a Catcher's Mask.
The Chicago man wbo got a divorce
because hia wife's Jolt on the jaw laid
him up for 22 daya didn't really need
a divorce?he needed a policeman!?
Washington Poet
Petroleum in China.
Petroleum Abound! in China, and
even Shanghai has its quota of mil?
lionaires made rich overnight, as it
were, by the marvelous wells.
A Woman's L^ook.
A woman can say more in a look
than a man can in a book?Boston
Transcript.
All in a Nutshell.
"Pa. why does love make the world
go round?' "Because every lover
is a crank, my son '?Judge.
It Is So Easy.
Most people who begin at the bot?
tom stay there.
EASILY DECIDED.
This Question Should Be Answered
Easily by Sumtcr People*
Which is wiser?to have conlldence
in the opinions of your fellow-citi?
zens, of people you know. -or depend
on statements made by utter stran?
gers residing In far-away places?
Head tbe following:
k. w. Vogel, 401 Hami?ton avenue.
Sumtcr, S. C, says: "For several
years 1 .Tiered from pains through
the smah of my back and whenever I
stooped. 1 was in misery. My back
became very weak and several times
1 bad tO give up work. A physician
treated me but his medlclnd brought
no relief and I then tried several well
known kidney remedies but was not
helped. One day 1 read a statement
in the local paper given by a party
who had used Dean's Kidney Pills
and the remedy had acted so benefi?
cially in that case that 1 got a sup?
ply at China's Drug Store. After us?
ing one box, my aches and pains dis?
appeared and the contents of six
boxea completely cured me." (State?
ment given February 1908.)
The Cure Lasted.
On January i?, 1911, Mr. Vogel said:
"I take pleasure In confirming my
for. er endorsement of Dosn'a Kid?
ney Pills and making the fact known
that they effected a permanent cure
In my case. You ma) continue to
publish my endorsement of this prep?
aration."
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