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THE QUEER HINDUS, They Rival the Chinese In Their Odd Ideas and Customs. CASTE RULES THE SERVANT. H? Doesn't Like Work, Anyhow, and Generally Fends a Way to Dodge It. Playing the Stringed Vina Is a Species of Unmusical Torture. I had 11irlit China was it queer place and that the Chinese had queer customs, hut China can't entertain on the same afternoon with India. It some one had told me about their man iters and customs hel'ore I Rot to India 1 would have laughed courteously ami set him down In my little hook. There are some ihin&t that a Hindu will do and some that he will not do. Work is placed prominently on the latter list One tbiiiK that a Hindu will not do to play on a Unit' Lie wouM rather go to the flogging post than dash olT a se lection on a time, lint lie will play a st ringed instrument. ealled a vinn. sim liar to the Instrument played hy David in the tent <>r Saul. This Instrument looks as tf it had originally t>een in tended for a earpet streteher. tail had fallen Into the hands of a musically In clincd person who hud liorrowed a eon pie of piano wires and was determined to lower rents. After hearing an able bodied Hindu pick on an Instrument of this kind one can't help wishing that they would put It in the same class with the tluto A Hindu's idea of music Is to make all the noise he can. He doesn't care anything about rime or rhythm. All his energy is expended in volume Hindu musicians are all large, splen didly muscled fellows, who play us if they were going to a gymnasium regularly. When one hears them playing on a vinn one can't help wondering how David ever came to make such an impression on Saul. As soon as I got to India I hired n valet. It sounds mighty big?until you know what you have to pay a "hoy" in India. A servant is called a "boy" | oven though lie has whiskers and grandchildren lie said tliat his name was Tbumbo llama llngum. or words to " that effect, I couldn't remember the ( last consignment, so I chilled him 1 Thumb, and for days I longed to 09k 1 if there was a Finger in his family. ' lie wore a skirt and a sheet twisted 1 around his bead. Qo was to be my waiter, for in India you have to fur nlsh your own table boy. When yon go to spend u day or two with a friend you always take your own boy along to wait on you. My boy was to mend my clothes, black my shoes, get my bath water ready and hold my shirt The way he talked I wasn't to do anything except open my mail, put my feet 011 the table and enjoy life. But I ' soon found out that Ills idea and mine differed quite widely as to what enjoyment of life was. A. few minutes before the flrst meal he suddenly appeared, a bit bushed, mid explained that he was of too high caste to wait on table. I tried to show lilm that it was an honor to be a good nud erticlent table waiter, but he wouldn't budge a step ? he'd rather starve than wait on table. So I had to look around and bustle up another boy to do that mirt of tlio work Kvorv 1 lime I wante<l him to do anything it ' wan against his caste. Ills caste seeui ] ed to have a special enmity toward all l work. When I wanted him to carry j my hags he boosted leave to be ex eased, as his caste didn't allow him i to do such menial work, and when 1 ?. cavo him my shoes to be blacked he j. looked at me in horror. It was ex s pressly against his caste to touch | leatlier?a product of the sacred cow | One day when I told him to pick the i hairs out of my brush be looked at me | sadly and then began to tell me about a nephew that had suddenly departed this tie.-ill and would J be so kind as to give half a rupee to the grief strick j en father and the other half to the in- j consolable uncle. That was more tbun j 1 could stand, and on the spot I told { hiui that be was discharged, tired, and j to get out as fast as be could. , "Thank you, sahib, thank you," said f Thumb with a profound salute. j 1 told him ttiat he needn't thank me , for tiring him. but he only hewed bis . head (Mid tfcatffced me more profusely ^ ( ban ever. Ills gratitude wns ns pro- ^ noiMiced as If I had given him a rupee. ( "Will you give me a recommendation j kindly for the good boy I have been, sahib?" After what a poor servant he had t?een, that was (lie last straw. It { would lie underhanded to foist him off on somebody else, and then suddenly I saw a way out. "Yes," I agreed en j tliiurlastically, and 1 wrote for dim. "The hearer of this note wit It the unpronounceable name has been in my ^ employ for two weeks. During this ( rime I have aged perceptibly He is a t servant of caste, tint lie never lets ( work Interfere with lil? fiivite When lie came to me fie was a man of family, tint at the rate which his family lias been depleted I doubt if lie has t left more than enough children to last out a week. Von will find him especial . ly good at getting your ahlrt studs In j backward and at pulling off the tips j <4 your shoestrings." j Thumb, who made pretense of being j an ICngllsb scholar, read the recom mendatiou carefully, hut Ids mastery of words was such that he could not <pilte follow the meaning. j "Thank you, sahib, thank you," he said, too proud to admit that It was not clear to him. "It will be af great | .help to me." "And to the other fellow, too," I said as he salaamed and passed out of my life.?Homer Crow in i^eslie'a. A FORGOTTEN GREAT MAN. 3en?ral Timothy Ruggles and What He Might Have Been. How many readers have ever heard he name of General Timothy Haggles? Probably very few indeed, and yet it vas believed in his own day?which was the era of our Revolution?that tad General liuggles remained true to he patriot cause lie would have had it least as good a chance as Washingon to he chosen the commander of the olonial armies. He was a natural leader in the civil iml military afTairs of the colonies. He was president of the stamp act congress. which assembled in New York ity in lido, and at that very time lie was chief justice of the court of cotnnon pleas of Worcester county. Mass.. laving been promoted from the bar. where he had one worthy rival, .lames Mis. General Ruggles was also the chief liiiitary figure of the northern colonies, lie served four years in the French and Indian war and rose to the rank of irlgadier general. He was a colonel at ,'rown Point and second in command it the battle of Lake George. He com jimiiuim u Iirnnuc ill 1,111(1 .MUlierslH ?xpoditi<m against Montreal. lie was famous for his daring and skill, especially in the command of InMan troops, and for his ability as a lrill master. The very men who 'ought at Lexington and Hunker 11 i 11 jud been trained by I Juggles 011 nortliT11 lields. I11 the events of that stormy period I Higgles remained a patriot up to the ictuul scene of the stamp net congress. \t the end of the third day's deliberaions, when the protest to his majesty ioorge 111. had been drawn up. he refused to sign and. laying down his javel of otHee, left the hall. That was >ne of the dramatic events of the pe iod, and for it he was reprimanded by he general court of Massachusetts. Kuggles was several times mobbed >n his way home to Ilardwiek, Mass., ivlie.re lie had a great estate, but he svas not a man to he frightened by lemonstrations of that sort. Ilis faith'ulness to the crown was soon rewarded with his appointment as a member ?f the king's mandamus council. When Roston was taken by the colonists in 770 he decided to leave Massachusetts, ind he received a grant of 10.000 acres >f the best land in Nova Scotia. lie removed to that colony and started a model farm 011 the site of what is now :he town of Wilniot. He lived to the ripe old age of eighty-four.?Youth's Companion. Anaesthetic For the Teeth Wanted. There is 110 local anaesthetic that ,vill penetrate deifttne, which forms he principal part of a tooth. That Is vhy dentists hurt teeth so much when Irilling holes in them for tllllngs or wlien grinding them down for gold Towns. Any one who will invent iomething thut can be put on a tooth :o render it insensitive for ten minutes without injuring it has a fortune (waiting him. Cocaine and novocaine, which a?e ised as local anaesthetics in other >arts of the body, have no effect upon lie teeth, as they cannot penetrute the lurd tissue of which these are comlosed.?New York World. A Carlyle Snub. Carlyle had an inveterate hatred for Darwinism, which lie described as the gorilla damnification of humanity." Leonard Huxley in his life of ills father recalls an incident that haplened shortly before Cnrlyle's death. 'My father," he writes, "saw him walkng slowly and alone down the opposite side of the street and. touched by bis solitary api>eurunce. crossed over and spoke to him. The old man looked at lim and. merely remarking. 'You're Huxley, aren't you. the man that says we are all descended from the inonceysV went on his way." Lowell on His Own Writings. James Russell Lowell was not the vind of writer to take his own productions seriously. He was not like Tenlyson, who could be made wretched by i disparaging remark about his poetry >y a young girl. That is perhaps tho way a poet ought to feel, however ddllful he may be in concealing It. Lowell told me that a young EnglishHan. on being introduced to him in Madrid, said, "I never read your works," to which he had replied. "Well, [ never regarded them as necessary to i liberal education."?E. S. Nadal iu Harper's Magazine. Happy Family. "f shall never marry." announced he sixteen-year-old daughter. "I said the very same thing at your ige," sighed her mother, "and goodness cnows I've often wished I'd kept my >roinise." "And you're not the only one who's wished it, either," barked dad. who iad entered the room unobserved by he other two ?St. Louis Post-Distal eh. When Man Proposes. "Have women a sense of humor?" iviknil tlm mnttur (if file*- mmi "Oil, yes." replied Miss Cayenne. Rut tliey have to curb it. If women auglwsl at everything they saw that's 'unuy they would spoil efforts to pro>ose by some really nice men."?Washngton Star. The Papers! Villain?Where nro those papers? First Assistant Villain?In the lilaekunith shop. Villain?Fla, ha?I sui>>ose being forged. First Assistant? S'o, being filed!?Gargoyle. Things that do not profit us In ehangng It is best not to change at all.? Kenko. SAVED HER FAMILY. Climax to the Fearless Fight of a Plucky Spider. Crossing n Hold one day, I cauoe upon a large female spider of the hunter family carrying a round white sack of eggs half the size of a cherry attached to her spinnerets. Plucking a long stem of herd's grass. I detached the sack of eggs without bruising it. Instantly the spider turned and sprang at the grass stem, fighting and biting until she got to the sack, which she seized in her strong Jaws and made off with it as fast as her rapid legs would carry her. I laid the stem across her back and again took tlie sack away. She came on for it again, lighting more fiercely than before. Once more she seized it. once more I forced it from her Jaws, while she sprang and bit at the grass otvui iu u ii 1111111?i nr 11. The light must have been on for two minutes when by a regrettable move on my part one of her legs was injured. She did not falter in her light. On she rushed for the sack jls fast as I pulled it away. The mother in her was rampant. She would have fought for that sack. I believe, until she had not one of her eight legs to stand on had I been cruel enough to compel her. It did not come to this, for suddenly the sack burst, and out poured a myriad of tiny brown spiderlings. Ilefore I could think that mother bad rushed among (liem and caused them to swarm upon I or, covering her many deep, even to the outer joints of her long legs?so deep that I could not now have touched Iter with a needle except at the risk of crushing the voung. I stood by and watched her slowly move off with her incrusting family to a place of safety.?Dallas Lore Sharp in Atlantic Monthly. FORSAKEN ENKHUIZEN. At One Time One of Holland's Richest and Greatest Cities. Of all the so called "dead cities" of the Zuider Zee. Knkhui7.cn has most completely lost her former prosperity. One who wanders about her silent and empty streets can impossibly realize that this shrunken and depopulated city was once one of the wealthiest and most important in Holland. Enkhuizen dates from the ninth century or even earlier. In the zenith of its greatness, the seventeenth century, it possessed 40,001) inhabitants and a fishing fleet of 400 boats engaged in the herring trade. Enkhuizen sailors were well known for their courage and seafaring ability. Hut less than a hundred years later the harbor of Knkliulzen was silting up, and her commerce had already declined. Since then whole streets have been pulled down, as the population diminished, for only a few thousand Inhabitants remain. Hut the ancient gate, the Dromedurls, that guards its now empty harbor still stands, a monument of the past greatness of Enkhulzen. The noble Wester kerk Is built of the deep red, narrow bricks often used In Netherlands architecture. In Its choir are some sixteenth century wood carvings. Its unlovely wooden belfry Is detached, but connected with the church by a minute but attractive old house. The small, old, red tiled houses, each with a different facade, form an irregular line that is singularly charming. The streets of the little town are very quiet and empty. Their stillness is almost unbroken except by some beautiful chimes.?Argonaut. A Street In Moscow. One street in Moscow. Miasnitskaya Ulitza, is devoted almost entirely to stores selling machinery. The windows of these shops are large and of plate glass and display the various wares to good advantage. Many windows are devoted to large exhibits of various mechanisms, and at a certain hour in the afternoon these machines are, so far as possible, set in motion to give practical illustration of their workings. Indians and the Franchise. Indians who have not severed tribal relations nre specifically denied the franchise in fhe states of Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Indians who do not pay taxes are excluded from suffrage in Mississippi. Indians cannot vote in Alaska.?New York Times. Overheard Under the Sea. "Hypocrite!" cried the sword fish to the clam. "Why hypocrite?" retorted the clam. "You consider yourself the emblem of pacificism, and yet all the time you and your tribe are engaged In the making of shells!" sneered the swordtlsh.? New York Times. Consoling. "What did you say your age was?" he remarked, between dances. "Well, I didn't say," smartly returned the girl, "but I've Just reached cweniy-one. ' "Is thnt so?" he returned consolingly. "What detained you ?"? Pennsylvania Punch Howl. His Merits. "We object to the young man who la courting our daughter because he Is a shoemaker." "Why. a shoemaker is the best sort of a man, because he Is usually wholesoled and well heeled."?Baltimore American. Hs Pro posse. "But I don't love you, Ingomar." "In these days that Is no reason for not being engaged to a man."?Loulavllle Courier-Journal. Slip a few Prin smokes into ygi You've heard i jrjy patented process /y smoke your fill with My it proves out every Zy Prince Albert has a My without coupons or / / prefer to give quality! There's sport smoking /j your own, but you kno\ f;f to have the right tobacc Prince Albert will bang t open for you to come in |v firing up every little so o "S.- O. S." RESPONSES. W. Rev. The following responses to our re- O. I tent "S. O. S." call have come in: B. ( A D. Sims, Union R 1 $1.00 C. A J. N. Hall, Union R 4 .50 Mrs, Mrs. N. A. Fowler, Kelton R 2 1.00 Mrs I Mrs. D. N. Fowler, Converse 1.00 R. S A. D. Plexico, Jonesville 1.00 R. J J. E. K. Smith, Jonesville R 1 1.00 Mrs, liobt. Hunter, Blair 2.00 R. < Henry Tinsley, Pacolet 2.00 J. S H. H. Willard, Union. 1.00 J. I J. E. Minter, Sedalia 3.00 Mrs Geo. W. Going, Union 1.00 C. ( W. F. Going, Columbia 2.00 Mrs Mrs. W. W. Cobb, Union R 3___ .25 W. Robt. Wilburn, Kelton, R 2 1.00 Cha: John Lipsey, Clinton 1.00 Miss Mrs. Will Dye. Shelton 2.00 = J. R. Harris, Pacolet R 1 .50 Geo. M. Fowler, Jonesville 1.00 ? R. C. Davis, Jonesville 1.00 ? R. M. Jones, Augusta 2.00 : 0. P. Bryson, Sunburst, N. C? .50 I C. P. Burnett, Smyrna 1.00 ; H. B. Robinson, Pacolet 1.00 i J. A. Wood, Union R 3 1.00 j Mrs. Rufus P. Holsell, Chari'n. 1.00 3 W. T. Levister, Carlisle 1.00 ? T. F. Eison, Trough 1.00 | S. A. Lawson, Jonesville, R 2 1.00 t W. S. Vaughan, Union R 2 1.00 5 J. M. Arnold, Union 1.00 \ Dollie Humphries, Union .25 S. B. Sims, Union 1.00 \ Mrs. R. M. Lee, Greenwood 1.00 3 Mrs. E. J. Foster, Pacolet, R 1.. 1.00 j C. J. Parks, Jonesville 1.00 t 1. W. White, Jonesville .50 ; H. D. Fowler, Jonesville 1.00 ; R. J. Foster, Pacolet R 1 1.00 3 N. B. Eison, Jonesville 1.00 j T. L. Whitlock, Pacolet 1.00 2 J. A. Lancaster. Jonesville .50 : W. S. Ashe, Spartanburg 2.00 f Zilthia Littlejohn, Union R 4 .25 (( A. D. Gregory, Union .25 S C. N. West, Pauline R 2 1.00 I T. H. Brock, Whitmire 2.00 z J. G. Hughes, Union R 5 1.00 ? C. J. Ivey, Union R 4 1.00 [ W. T. Toney, Union .50 | Mrs. J. T. Bailey, Drayton 1.00 i Robt. Barnett, Buffalo 1.00 i W. A. Moorehead, Goldville 2.00 j O. F. Roux, Floral City, Fla 3.00 \ John B. Smith, Buffalo 1.00 : Mrs. Sam McCaskill, Camden 2.00 J. D. S. Plaxico, Kelton R 2 .50 \ T tir T,11 ?? ~ ~ o. *v. jouy, union K 3 1.00 { Adolphus Tmsley, Kelton R 2 1.00 5 J. S. McKissick, Jonesvflle .25 ? Toney Middlebrook, Union R 3__ 1.00 j J. M. Smith, Union .25 s Miss Julia Smith, Jonesville 1.00 ' Mrs. Mollie Hawkins, Union R 3_ 2.00 ? Rev. G. G. Wilbanks, Clinton 1.00 \ J. S .Hunter, Blairs R 1 1.00 ^ J. W. Humphries, Sedalia 1.00 W. N. Brock, Whitmire 2.00 | J. E. Meyers, Enoree 1.00 | G. A. Lancaster, Jonesville 1.00 5 J. PL Johnson, Jonesville 1.00 ! J. G. Ross, Union R 3 .50 | R. T. Lawson, Cherokee .50 \ Mrs. Lester White, Union 1.00 f B. F. Mabry, Pacolet R 1 2.00 I Jane Bookman, Union R 5 1.00 I E. A. Stokes, Carlisle 1.00 | J. F. Alman, Jr., Pacolet 1.00 5 W. M. Paj?e, Lowreysville 1.00 I | J. S. K. Alexander, Whitmi're 1.00 = W. A. Moorehead, Union R 5 1.00 | P. P. Hamilton, Carlisle 1.00 ? R. C. Fincher, Sedalia, R 1 1.00 | L. B. Lee, Jonesville R 2 1.00 i C. F. Scales, Union R 4 .25 f J. M. Huskey, Buffalo 1.00 ?(! Mrs. Corrie Harris, Union .25 ce Albert ^ or system! many an earful about the Princ that cuts out bite and parch ar lout a comeback! Stake your bs hour of the day. Iways been sold |^V%1 premiums. We I a pipe or rolling A v that you've got A 1 o! We tell you I the doors wide on a good time nai ften, without a regret! You'll feel like has been wasted and will 1 back up for a fresh start. You swing on this say-so lik .1 i J ? ? ujuubaiiu-uoiiar Dill I it s wc ness and contentment to yo who knows &otten out i <5 jimmy PiPe cp? S a r ejr M ^ % "packi -ro m r j reynoldstob >Uio?LW' en\H 1 WiniloD-SaUm, iri iliyytesj afegjfctv, gHfi W. Finley, Union .50 Ben J. M. Trogdon, Union 1.00 Johi . Inman, Wilki'nsville .50 W. 3. West, Pauline R 2 .50 J. 1 i. Betsill, Buffalo 2.00 W. . Myrtle Foister, Mars Hill .50 Dr. , same Vanderford, Leeds 1.00 M. >. Harris, Santuc 3.00 Rev r. Black, Jonesville .25 Mi'ss . Mary McBride, Union R 1 1.00 3. Lee, Monarch 1.00 T< tokes Henderson, Santuc 1.00 J. Young, Union 4.50 U . E. Spear, Chattanooga 1.00 enK' \ Fowler, Jonesville 2.00 ^nei . E. Prioleau, Union 1.00 T( T. Johns, Monarch 1.00 unp; rner Dawkins, Carlisle 1.00 to 1 5 Minnie Walker, Union 1.00 sciei (mi ?i i mi i M _AyjO /eel Stupi.?|S J his 11 ^ Brigh ten "Vo u! You can get your Chero "In a Bottle-Through a 1 at Soda Fountains and Refreshment Stands. Everybody know a ii by ita name Giji'iiMinnn'mumnHiiiiniu' hi n> nn'iiiiiiiiimi'iiiihiiiiiii Jjpp^ DRINi ? * Cvpyrlchtimby B. J. brwUa Tebeew Oa> e Albert^V id lets you ink roll that INGE\ LBERT1 tional joy smoke pi your smoke past IJ De sorry you cannot i| e it was a tip to a /if >rth that in happiu, to every man Ifj what can be /# of a chummy // or a makin's f?ji t e with Af Ibert for /ijf n g " ! /y JTtjr 'T'HE Prince 1 Albert tidy ACCOCO. red tin. and in N. C. t.-ict, every Prince Albert package, line t a real mcssagc-to-you on its reverse side. You'll read Process Patented July 30th. 1907." Tliat means ^ that the United States Government bus granted Patent on the process by which Prince Albert is made. And by which tonfSue bite and throat parch are cut out! Everywhere tobacco is sold you'll find Prince Albert uwaiting you in toppy red bags, 5c: tidy red tins, 10c; handsome pound and half-pound iSjyy \ tin humidors and in ijMwfi \ that clever crystal'^WL'v \ glass humidor, with \ sponge - moistener V top. that Weeps the ik eWwV.w \ tobacco In such \ ^ne cond'll??? Ivey, Murphreesboro, Tenn. .50 i Henry May, Union .50 I. McKissick, Americus, Ga._ 3.00 [*. Byers, Union 1.00 T. Trail, Union .50 F. P. Salley, Buffalo 1.00 D. Eison, Union .50 . E. A. Fuller, Union .25 i Annie Bentley, Union 1.00 otal ? ,$123.50 sing a chemical process a Moscow ineer claims to have produced a r linen yarn than the finest spun, o make a map of the world on the recedented scale of sixteen miles ;he inch is a project of British utists. -Cola lr"^ 3ttar" A mam T iffkBest HUHlf hOP'HH M 3233209^11 I , j HMllV