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MUSIC IN MEXICO. I i Every Little Hamlet Has a Band Stand of Its Own. A HELP IN THE GAME OF LOVE. ] To tho Strains of Melody the Youthe and Maidena "Play Bear,** a Peculiar J National Divereion That Is the Correct Road to Matrimony. Mnsic plays a very prominent part in ; the social life of Mexico, not alone in the capital and other larger cities, but ! all over that picturesque land. A Mexican who can play no musical iustru- ( ment is nothing less than a curiosity. There is no hamlet so insignificant that , it has no band. Eight or ten men get together and decide to form n band. , Having reached that decision, they go J to tlie jefe politico, or mayor. , "All right," he will tell them. "You are to pipy Wednesday evenings from 0 to 9 and Sunday mornings from 9 to ; 12," and a record Is made. ; And during these hours, rain or shine, hot or cold, through famine, war and pestilence, as long as those men are alive and In the town, the ( band is In the band stand playing for such as choose to linger In the plaza, or public square. About the evening concerts much of the social and domestic life of Mexico '' centers. It Is at the concerts that many a youth and maiden first meet ! and begin to "play bear." a game in- 1 dlgenous and peculiar to Mexicd, with- 1 out which no self respecting Mexican 1 couple adventures on matrimony. The general plan of every plaza Is 1 much the same. In the center Is the band stand. Immediately surrounding ! the band stand is an open paved space. * Then there are flower bordered walks with plenty of benches. 1 Round the edge of the plaza, outside the trees and flowers, is another broad < paved walk. Upon this outer walk are grouped the poorer Mexicans, the J peons. On the benches sit the fathers, the mothers, the older folk, of the bet- 3 ter classes. Itound the walk that sur- 1 rounds the band stand saunter tireless- l ly the youths aiul maidens of the same 1 class. s The women circle to the left on the i outside, the men in the opposite direc- < 11 ah nn {not/lo rpKr. ??? wwut vu 1UV xuoiwc;. xuua UYCIJ UUtf J sees every one else innumerable times 1 during the evening. And in this mclo- ,t dious circling a youth sets eyes on a j maiden who strikes his fancy?the i game of "playing bear" has begun. t He looks steadily at his charmer ev- j ery time they pass, and she, if she is < pleased, glances at him in return. Aft- ^ er they have passed each other ten or a dozen times he Is at the edge of the 1 procession in which he walks, and she f has moved to the edge of the column ] of young women. ] Then the young man, with a friend, withdraws to some cantlna, or cafe, * and writes an ardent note. On the next round his friend in passing slips It Into the hand of her companion. Then they continue their strolling un- i til the concert is at an end. t On the next concert evening the per- i .formance is repeated, only this time i the young lady is the one who presents < the note, which she has written In her home. If she rejects her suitor's ad- t vances he persists or desists, according j as he is faint hearted or not i If he meets with success he begins t the next phase of the game. Each i evening he will be seen opposite his .1 lady's house, passing back and forth t like a sentry walking his post Even < during business hours he will rise suddenly from his stool, seize his hat, i rush frantically to his accustomed boat < and for several minutes walk up and 1 down, gazing reproachfully at the bar- t red windows across the way. As time coes on. after six weeks or ? two months, say. have passed, the girl j Is at last to be seen seated In the win- < dow. Then ensues another period of < from two weeks to a month. The 1 young man's walks gradually shorten. 1 and one evening he Is to be seen under- 1 neath the window, gazing mournfully < upward for hours, much to the dlscom- i fort of passersby. But no one grumbles. .All the world loves a lover? especially In Mexico. After this stage father and son call formally on the father of the young lady and make a proposal of marriage. When all the arrangements have been made the young man for the first time calls at the home of his affianced wife and meets her face to face, but never except In the company of a third person ? mother, father or auntYouth's Companion. When Solid Iron Floats. Experiments have shown that if a ball of solid Iron be lowered Into a mass of liquid iron by means of a metal fork the ball at first sinks to the bottom with the fork, but that In a few seconds it will leave the prongs and rise to the surface, where it continues to float until It melts. The rising is explained by the expansion of the ball, due to heating, whereby It becomes, bulk for bulk, less dense than the molten metal. Friendly Criticism. |; reuiiiui)?iwo oi my laiesc poems appeared in the last issue of McDufTs 1 Magazine. Inkerton?Yes; I noticed 1 them. Pennlbs?Would you mind gly- 1 Ing me your opinion of them? Inkerton?Well, to be candid, I thought the ' one was awfully simple and the other simply awful.?Indianapolis Star. Method makes men win. Thus Is success reduced to the science of correct calculation. * / 9 ...... i THE STYLE. Dame Fashion is a fickle jade, Of every passing fancy made, We are used to flowers and fluff, When all at once a sharp rebuff! The style becomes severely plain; Dame Fashion with her might and main Pronounces every furbelow Beneath contempt. Oh, far below. I And scarcely are we all like saints, Costumes and face devoid of paints, When swift there is another turn, And then the bitter truth we learn. f Frills and colors are de rigeu, Don them quick and wear with vigor, Or, you'll be one that's counted out, Left in the lurch of fashion's rout. Skirts once were long; 'Twas years ago, They swept the streets and made a show, Mow are they short? For love of Mike! The sight they make upon the pike! It is enough to make one weep! No time for tears, just take a peep! 'Ti's indeed fine looking weather When kid and calf are laced together. ?Zella Armstrong, in The Outlook. STORY 30 YEARS OLD? AND STILL TOO TRUE. A friend of ours told the other day ibout hearing Col. L. L. Polk, the founder of The Progressive Farmer, make a speech thirty years ago. "And ne told one story I have never forgotten," our friend said. "He told about seeing a farmer with a wagonload of meat, hay and flour about this sime of year. "Col. Polk said to the farmer: 'Why ire you buying all this meat, hay and Hour?' " 'So I can make cotton,' was the 'eply. " 'And why do you want to make :otton?' " 'So I can pay for the meat, hay ind flour,' the farmer answered." And the pity of it is that after 30 ?rearS of agitation and education, shere are still so many of our farmers guilty of the self-evident folly which ;he story illustrates?binding themselves to a sort of industrial bondage n order to pay freights, middlemen's :harges, commercial profits, etc., on products grown a thousand miles from lome but which should be grown at heir own doors. Nor does the evil stop here, because this-excess acreige in cotton (the part grown on land ;hat should be devoted to food and 'eed crops) beats down the price of :otton on all the normal acreage as veil. Whatever others may or may not do, VIr. Farmer, you may see that this 'oily is not perpetual on your farm. Liet's look to that.?The Progressive farmer. :reamery of great value to the farmers. The Spartanburg Creamery made ts first butter on April 19 and since ,hat date the production has graduilly increased as the farmers have jotten into shape to furnish their :ream. The creamery is intended to serve ;he farmers of Spartanburg county ind the counties immediately surrounding it. Farmers in that territory should take hold of it at once md get the same benefits of this narket that have been derived by hose farmers who have patronized Dlemson College Creamery. The farmers should place full conidence in the new creamery as it was started for their benefit by the busiless men under direction of the ex;ension division of Clemson College. Unless a farmer has a market for sweet milk, sweet cream or an extra food butter market, he will find the :reamery a profitable" outlet for his :ream. Farmers who, in the past lave not kept cattle because the marset for farm butter was bad, will now )e justified in keeping a few cows, ship the cream to the creamery, feed ;he skim milk to the calves and hops ind another spring find a good many oads of compost in their lot with which to grow cotton or to fertilize the unproductive spots on the farm, rhe farmer's wife will not be with>ut her benefit of the creamery, for shipping cream entirely does away with the hard work of churning, working and printing the butter. Farmers with five or more cows in milk can ship their own cream in shipping cans which will be furnished ay the creamery. In any small aeighborhood where several farmers milking two or more cows each, are interested in shipping to the creamery, the neighbors can arrange to ship together, taking times carrying it to the shipping point. When enough farmers have become interested in any community to subscribe Bixty or more cows that can be reached on a twenty mile trip, a man t>e engaged to collect the cream regularly and ship it to the creamery, thus saving the farmers the trouble ui taking it to town. The territory to be covered by the creamery is so large that representatives of the creamery or demonstration agents cannot person *llj canvass every locality to see who is inter e?ted. Every farmer in this territory , that is interested in disposing rtf his rrpfltn tn tho /*roQmor\r qKahI/I write to the "Spartanburg Creamery," stating the number of cows lu has and the distance he lives from a railroad shipping point. We imagine there are a lot of halof in heaven that won't be called for. INTERURBAN LINES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. It is Believed That Aim is to Go From Spartanburg to Pee Dee. Columbia Special to Charlotte Observer. Further extension of the Interurban Electric Railway system in this State is forecasted by the application to the secretary of state today for a charter for the Carolina Rapid Transit company to connect the towns of Spartanburg, Union, Woodruff, Enoree, Laurens and Clinton. The road will have a minimum capital of $50,000, with the right to increase this to $3,500,000. The petitioners for a charter are J. F. Jacobs, W. L. Gray, W. H. Gray, W. B. Patton, R. P. Morgan, T. B. Thackston, A. M. Law, J. W. Copeland, P. V. Moore?all of the territory which would be served by this road. The present interurban ends at Spartanburg, and the building of this extension will loop-up another prosperous section. It is thought that in time this line will be extended through Union by Broad river and Chester to Great Falls and possibly through Lancaster and Chesterfield to the Pee Dee section of the State. A 1?1i - - ' ?--!< ' n nuinoii ton uciievi; uniy nan sne hears when she so chooses. PREVENTING WASTE OF ROAI) MONEY. We recenMy quoted Secretary of Agriculture Houston as saying: "The nation today is spending annually the equivalent of more than $200,000,000 Tor roads, sn en^-"ious increase in the iast decade. Much of and it is estimated hv experts that of the amount so directed anywhere from 30 to 40 per cent is, relatively speaking, wasted or misdirected. The first requisite, therefore, is for efficient expenditure and administration." In the face of this fact it is discouraging to find that of the four State in the Union without State highway commissions, or agencies otherwise named for giving counties expert aid and supervision in road expenditures, three are Southern States ?Texas, South Carolina and Georgia. Indiana alone among all the other States now stands with them. The new Bankhead bill making Federal appropriations for road-building provides that after three years from date no appropriations shall be given to States that have not by that time esand the provision is a good one. tablished State highway departments; and the provision is a good one. Our Texas, South Carolina and ueorgia readers should look into this matter. a I Worn Oul? ll \ No doubt you are, i! II you suffer from any of the IB numerous ailments to II which ail women are sub- E.I , Ject. Headache, backache, sideache, nervous- BO ness, weak, tired feeling, are some of the symptoms, and you must rid m H B yourself of them in order I IB to feel well. Thousands B IB of women, who have I 11 been benefited by this I remedy, urge you to B II TAKE I j Carduis ! The Woman's Tonic I Mrs. Sylvania Woods, R of Clifton Mills, Ky., says: I "Before taking Cardui, I 1 was, at times, so weak I ^ could hardly walk, and jjjm the pain in my back and head nearly killed me. ^ After taking three bottles @1 r?f Parriii! fh#? iviinc rlin- mm B appeared. Now I feel as 9 i well as lever did. Every | g suffering woman should I | try Cardul." Get a bottle II today. E-68 6 I Bailey Undertaking Company ANNOUNCEMENT 1 With our new arrangements we are giving our patrons in the , county the same quick profes' sional service as in the city. ( A phone call will bring our undertaker and embalmer to ,any nuirie in ine county, wnere his services are desired, in less than an hour after we receive the message, without extra . charge for either services or de> livering casket. S. J. HARRIS, T. E. BAILEY, F. D. & L. E. Pres. & Treas. i Phone 106 GF CLE^ We are preparin of our store. ( makes this ne( stock of Dry ( Notions, we are tractive values: One lot Men's Shirts One lot Hosiery, woi une lot Hosiery, wor One lot Hosiery, wor Lawns, Percales and One lot Ladies' Wais All Dress Goods to g< Millinery to be close* We have determir department in a cl; in the county. We the Grocery busin* to do likewise in tl pose conducting a which Low Prices uur Grocery Uepartmt and Low F Slick Coil Mutilated W.B. con The Hoi Townsend Block //* - /\ ?. k tEAl n a \Ti LKAfNI yj g to remodel the 3ur expanding t pessary. To mo joods, Dress Goo offering some v< , 50c values, to go at rth 10c, to go at . . th 15c, to go at . . th 25c, to go at . . Ginghams, to go at . its to-go at cost. 0 at cost. 1 out regardless of pric led to place our Dr ass with the best < ; have established a sss in Union, and we le Dry Goods line, i real Department will prevail tnt Cannot Be Excelled 'r/ce. Stock Complete is at Face Value. Ones Not Acceptei Trnni I LIYIYI flPANY use of Low Prices Ur -?I CE interior msiness ve our ?ds and . erv at*/ . 39c 7c 10c 15c 7l/zc :e. y Goods :oncerns name in propose We purStore in | in Quality s i !LL I lion, S. C. I