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Closing the Summer Cottage "Any one would think." remarked the woman who had Jost got back to town, "that after a person of ordinary Intelligence had anna fhrmurh >?> off. ony of closing up a summer cottage every year for yeare and years she would be capable of doing K with her hands tied behind her back and blinders on her eyes, but It isnt so. There 1b something about the last few days of staying In any place that Is dlstractfhg, but the country Is the worst of all. After getting every last thing done you always need a full day to do the other things you hadn't-thought about. "I always aHow for that. Henry never can see why, If be oalculates that we can leave Thursday, I always explain to him that we will leave Friday. '"With everything done!" he roars 1 at me In protest. 'Why do you think we want to stick around here with i nothing to do and everything packed and the fireplace cleaned out so we 1 can't have a fire and the rooms full of porch furniture? It's ridiculous!' j *"We will leave Friday, Henry,' I tell htm soothli^ly. % "Th?n *? ? ?WM V ?vt J WU/ WVTKB nut) UHMl* Thursday morning Henry always comes In dragging off his work gloves and sits down with a thump. " 'Well/ he says, Tve finished up out- 1 side. I've covered the flower beds with a mulch of leaves and burlapped the honeysuckle vines and spaded up the 1 garden. I've put away the hoee and laid a board over the chimney?' 1 " *Go right up and take it off!' I tell him, severely, 'How do you suppose we're going to cook Junch and dinner and breakfast and lunch again "frith the chimney stopped upf "Henry has forgotten all about the fact that we still have to eat, so he ' sheepishly clambers up on the roof and throws thft hnnr<? Hnnm * ' split up for kindling by the cook an ' hour later. *and there never is another 1 that will exactly fit, so the next sea- 1 son -we find chipmunks and mioe and ] other wild creatures sociably rooming in the cottage when we get there, ' and are irritably disturbed at being ' turned out " 'I don't see,' Henry pursues after ' he has disposed of the chimney board, ' *why we can't take the evening train 1 tonight Tour trunks are all packed?' * "All but the curtains and soft pU- * lows and the candlestick and most of < my clothes,' 1 remind him. 'By the 1 war. -have yon -wrapped- those dishes < for packing In the barrel7* 1 "That keeps him occupied for some time. Then, too, he finds a punch bowl 1 that we borrowed from the Perklnsons 1 and forgot to return, bo he has to walk two miles with that Then hs has to ' Mieua to toe man wno comes to set out shrubs and then I tell him about : two places In the roof that leak and he 1 has to get asphalt and mess around 1 and fix them. Usually he still grumbles at supper time about the foolishness of our remaining over till next day, but I'm so busy fixing the canned fruit to ship back to town, folding away curtains and putting away lamps that I don't mind him. "In the morning I ask Henry briskly if he has remembered to take off the window screens and take down the porch screens, bring in the spade and the rake and nail up the broken place In the fence. That makes him jump hastily and cry out: 'By George! If I hadn't nearly forgot that!' "Then when he triee to turn off the water and drain the pipes he breaks a valve or something and he has to make a special trip to the village for help while the cook and I pile rugs and hricks on the leaky places and get soaked and catch awful colds. "Usually, Just as we are locking up the house I remember that I haven't emptied the tank of the kitchen stove, and that reminds Henry that he has completely neglected to empty the hot water boiler. He comes dragging in a watering can, two flower pots and a carpet beater which have been left outside. "WawouAi* tit a fl r> o 11** IaaIt loaf door and start. Half way to the launch I ask him If he put out the next door neighbor's cat, which had wandered In that morning. Henry Is peevish by now and demands to know if I think he has nothing to do but play nurse maid to a cat, so we drop the suitcases and g ack and unlock the place, lame all the window curtains and search for the animal. Sometimes we find her and sometimes we don't, and if we don't I am haunted all winter by the fear that she has (fled a lingering death. "Every little ;*hlle all the way back to the city I Jump as I remember something 1 have forgotten to do. I have heated arguments with Henry over whether I have left the matches loose on the fireplace mantel or not, or whether I emptied the pint bottle % of ink that will dr.Jp over the books If it freezes and breaks. I can't quite tell whether 1 remembered to empty all the flower vases, either, and then Henry left a box full of cigars on the writing table. \ "When we reach the city we are so exhausted from weariness and wrath and nervousness that we aren't on speaking terms. Oh, It wears off and we get back to normal eventually? and, anyhow, after you've done It over and over again for years and years you naturally get used to ltl" \ STORK'S ASSORTED WORK AT ONE HOME Leaves Baby, Fourteen Ducklins, A Calf and Pair of Kids. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 24.?E. A. Chase, night agent for a taxicab company, didn't mind it at all when the stork made occasional visits to his home at Fifty-seventh street and Virginia avenue, but when the old bird began to make daily trips Chase thought it was time to call a halt. Wednesday night an excited voice over the telephone told Chase that the bird had just arrived and left a fine boy for the family. Chase was happy as could hp_ Thursday morning as he hurried from the garage to the house to see the new arrival he heard the family cow bellowing. He turned aside a moment and found that the bovine stork had been around and left a lusty young calf. "Good enough," said Chase. Friday evening as he started to work, Spec, the pride of the egg-producing plant in the Chase backyard, trotted proudly across his path with a fine young family of fourteen, which the hen stork had brought around that day. Chase began to get worried. Frolicking around in the barnyard was Nanny, the children's pet goat, and with her were a pair of kids that just had arrived. "What next " he exclaimed. Now Chase always comes In from the front. He fears to look into the back yard. JUDGE CHANGED HIS MIND Chloe Kid of New Mexleo DM Not Prepoee to Have a Fine lev pose*. Broadway beard with soma surprise that H. A. Du Souchet, the author of "The Man From Mexico," is a candidate for justice of the peace in the hamlet in which he pays taxes In New Jersey. Why he should want to be a Jersey justice has the big street guessing. The obverse of the proposition is the wonder why Jersey should want him to be a justice. "Away back In 1878," said one of the Dld-timers, "Du Souchet was a justice of the peace down on the New Mexico line. In those days tarantulas and Indians wens the chief native produots of that region. Residents wore their guns handy, and train robbery was considered a profitable and not dlsTfiHUtthlfl fnrm " ? va opwumviuiL uilO lay the Chlco Kid, being very drunk, Insisted on bstag arrested. J^jWur" 'I wanna plead guilty to drunkenness and dlsturbln' thuh peace,' said the Kid to Justice Du Souchet. " '1 wlU have to fine?' began Du Souchet. '"What?' bowled the Kid. Tine me? Why, you pin eared, yaller llvered, pigeon toed ole maverick, there ain't enough justices In New Mexico to make me pay a fine. I?' "But Justice Du Souchet Interrupted him urbanely. " *1 was about to say,' said he, 'that I will have to find time to get real well acquainted with you, Mr. Kid. In the meantime, suppose we go and have a drink.'"?New York Letter to the Cincinnati Times-Star. HE HAD TO STRIKE BACKWARD Darkey Bound to Yield to Labor Movement But Was Getting Enough Wages. "I keep a colored man around the house who waits on the table and does various things," said the lawyer. "Up to a year ago he was getting $25 a month. Then he came to me one day and said ho must have more money or he would strike. We talked It over and settled on $28 a month. Ha hflfl Pftt nlnnc at that ftmira ovar since until the other day, when he walked In on me and said: " 'Mlstah Blank, I'se sure got to go on strike dig time.' "'But I thought you were satisfied, Robert,' I replied. " 'No, sah?no, sah. I hain't dun satisfied.' " 'Well, how much do you want?' " 'I don't want any mo*, sah.' " 'Then, what's the trouble?' " 'De trouble am, sah, dat de strike business am in de air all 'round me, an' I's got to strike or bust.' " 'Are you going to leave?' " 'No, Bah.' " 'But you want more money t " 'No, sah.' "'Well, what then?* "'A year ago, sah, I struck ford's fur $28. Now I'se gwlne to strike backwards fur de nnmn old *?r> Sorry, sah( but I must dun strike or dene white folks 'round yere will think I'm jest common trash, and bev no respect for me!'" Ladies Object to Profanity. The woman golfers of New Tork have made objections to swearing on the links and have discussed the matter In their clubs. The men who play over the links are all supposed to be gentlemen, but sometimes they are not oareful of their language, and ladlee have been made very Indignant by some speeches. It has been aug gested that notices be placed in the clubhouses, but the fact that the ladles have discussed the subject will, no doubt, be all that la neces sary. ALLENS HAVE COST THE STATE OF VIRGINIA $12,500 Settlement with W. G. Baldwin?Governor Pays $2,300, the Reward for Capture of Wesley Edwards and Sidna Allen. Richmodn, Va., Sept. 20.?The State of Virginia settled today with detectives who were employed to capture members of the Allen outlaw band which "shot up" the Carroll county court on March 14. Including previous settlements, about $12,500 has been paid by the Commonwealth. Governor Mann today gave W. G. Baldwin a warrant on the State auditor for $2,300, the amount of the rewards offered for the capture of Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards. Detective Baldwin stated that Miss Maude Iroler, who went to Des Moines to marry Edwards, and who unwittingly led to his arrest, did not betray him and would receive no part of the reward. The real information which the detectives wanted, according to Baldwin, was given by her father, Fran Iroler, who will be offered $500 for his services. There has been no intimation from Iroler as to whether or not he will accept it. Mrs. J. N. Hill, Homer, Ga., haqfused Foley's Honey and Tar Comr pound for years, and says she" alwayf recommends it to her friends. "lit never fails to cure our coughs anjn colds and prevents croup. We havu five children and always give their Foley's Honey and Tar Compound fo*1 a cold, and they are all soon wel|ei We would not be without it in ou|a house." The Rice Drug Company. j, ? ^ vn an ?vcmne, me cscoicn are thf tallest men in Great Britain, the Irisl?1 next, the English third, and the Welsl last. J( ui U. A. Smith, Bridgeton, Ind., ha<^J kidney trouble for years, and was s< crippled with rheumatism he coul^l not dress without help. He starters using Foley Kidney Pills, and says-p "I began to get better at once, an? now ail my trouble has left me and ie do not feel that I ever had rheuma?x tism. I rest well all night and thougl 59 years old, can now do the work o: a man of 35 years. I would like tc be the means of others getting benefit from Foley Kidney Pills." Refuse^ substitutes.?The Rice Drug Co. ii u A street sprinkling wagon from, whch the water issues in flat sheets, ^ striking the ground without splashing,, ing, is a recent invention. Glorious News, comes from Dr. J. T. Curtiss, Dight. Kan. Hp. writno 44t I , - ' - - --?- M. WWW WIHJT have cured bad cases of ec%ema in my |jU.nU ^Electric BittL&h^^U of eczema." This shows what thouB-"1 ands have proved, that Electric Bitters is a most effective blood purifier. Its an excellent remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils ana .running sores. It stimulates liver, kidney and bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength Price 50 cts. Satisfaction guaranteed by The Rice Drug Company. Germany holds the record for the first daily paper. It was printed in 1524. England's first daily paper did not appear until 1622. Repels Attack of Death. "Five years ago two doctors tA me I had only two years to live." Tfe startling statement was made by Sti man Green, Malachite. Col. "Th told me I would die with consult tion. It was up to me then to try t best lung medicine and I began use Dr. King's New Discovery, was well I did, for today I am woi ing and I believe I owe my life to t great throat and lung cure that 1 cheated the grave of another victir Its folly to suffer with coughs, co or other throat and lung troubles n< Take the cure that's safest. Price cents and $1.00. Trial bottle free The Rice Drug Company. , For each dollar that New York c ^ receives in taxes two cents goes public charities. I " * Nineteen Miles a Second 1 without a jar, shock or disturbs is the awful speed of our earth t S space. 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About 8,000 new species of insects are named annually. Qold can be beaten so thin that it would take 282,000 gold leaves to product the thickness of a single inch. The life of a steel rail on a main railroad line is twelve years. The average weight of a man's brain is three pounds eight ounces, and of a woman's brains two pounds eleven ounces. By failing to do things you don't like to do you will never accomplish much. A cat may have nine lives, but a cow can kick the bucket a dozen times and contintlja to hold her job. T. L. Parks, Murrayville, Ga., Route 1, is in his 73rd year, and was recently cured of a bad kidney and bladder trouble. He says himself: "I have suffered with my kidneys. My back ached and I was annoyed with bladder irregularities. I can truthfully say, one 50c bottle of Foley Kidney Pills cured me entirely." Thev contain no . habit-forming drugs. The Rice p'j ?. Company ie rain has been bountiful and IB do good in many ways, but if it only come "earlier it would have I* trding to ouf view, it would have i I e much more good. n have beeh out of the state for the three weeks and have had no ' munication in the Times, but I . back to my home again, old as m and as many times as I have ||J i away, I have always gotten back la >n- 77" i my trip over into Georgia I visI Atlanta, Newman. Marietta, jdstock, Tate, Canton and Roswell many neighborhoods, and I saw h of the growing crops and 1 nd th4. CJftPs all along the way }_ ;e sorry^ I saw" hundreds of acres builom ttiwl Umtr - dtdm; 1iave a d k, *1 carman:4t, all .destroyed by <j ihet? In the spring. ! ? 2 he fourth quarterly conference for 1 Jonesville circuit will be held here t Saturday. I 1 Gone to Hopkins. ? FO Ir. W. W. Cooper and family left ion this week for Hopkins, S. C. ; ?re they will make their home in : 1 future. Mr. Cooper will have v rge of the mech'"Sal department w the Hopkins 1, School. For 1 mty years Mr. V i Mrs. Cooper ! ' ' ?si?I In inn andJ^J. The Purest, Best Cheapest CraiipT You can have in your home is a bottle of HUIET'S ALL-HEALING LINIMENT Every Bottle Guaranteed at the PALM ETTO DRUG CO. THE MONEY SAVERS Union, S. C. $109 Reward vll! be given to the one _ showing that we use I inything else than the | test leathei in our shoe hop. We take your measire and make your hoes to order. Any tyle. Best workmanhip and Best Material. ioldstein & Foster 2nd Door From Tinsley's Jewelry Store. I PHONE 35-L. I [CTURE FRAMING AND I : : WALL PAPER : : I Furniture Repaired and Polished I 11 n coo ? ' ?0?, aim v^nairs covered. I H ittresses made over Church Cush- I lb to order. B MILLINGS I WEST MAIN STREET! 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