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An Eventful Wedding Journey By BARBARA PH1PPS IK =1 I am one of those American woinei who have married foreigners. My bus band loves me, is kind to me, but I can't help feeling that if the freedon of his people depended upon his tuk ing my life lie would uerve himself tc do the deed. There is a story connected with oui wedding Journey that 1 am going t< tell, though for twenty years whenevei I have thought of it my blood has rui cold. I am of a very sympathetic natun and impulsive, nnd Gustav?as I shal call him?was impassive. 1 presunn it was this difference between us that fascinated me with him. We an prone to admire what we cannot be He seemed at times to be made ol rr?n rhln Mfinn 0 Ul ? ? ? v*v? vuvu u ucu lUlUMIl^ UI IIIII I thought nt the same time of th< sphinx or the pyramids. "Why do not your people rise ant throw off your oppressors?" I asked. "We would be crushed." was tb< calm reply. This was all I could get out of him I could not discern from what he sale and did but tbnt his people expectet to live under foreign oppression til the crack of doom. CJustav's only hopi seomed wild to me. It was that even tually nil the sovereigns In the worlc would be killed off. I would not consent to marry Gustm unless he would leave his country ant go with me to America. This he de clined to do because he was needed bj the people of his country. How hi could be needed by those who weri sunk in a hopeless slavery to an auto crat and were mnklng no effort t< throw off the yoke I could not imagine However, while making my prepare tions to depart he came to me ant said that he would go with me. Cir cumstnnces had arisen which might enable him to help bis people by goint elsewhere. This would have made me very hap T\xr hfirl lin crh'An wrw* r j ..?v, Uw uic muse uruuiii stances that had brought about tbi change. But he did uot, nor could ] cajole him to make an explanation Did he intend to udvocate the cause 01 bis countrymen in other countries' No. lie would neither speak nor writ* a word o?t the subject. Would he re aort to diplomacy? No. lie would livi a life of seclusion. I might have been able to drive thi matter from my mind had not Gustai become more Impassive, If possible tban before. lie treated me with un usua^ tenderness. On the day of oui marriage he said to me. "Before tin ceremony 1 wish yon to forgive me foi - any Injury I may inflict upon you bj making you my wife." I naturallj took this as indicating a very tendei conscience and gave the desired for giveness. Gustav applied for a passport to g< on his wedding trip. He was delayet in getting It, and our wedding bad t< be postponed on this account. Wh] there should have been any delay hi did not explain to me. the wedding be Ing timed to tnke place an hour befori the leaving of the train on which wt were to depart. On leaving the housi my husband spoke a few words to tin driver that 1 did not hear. We weri driven to the station by a roundabou way and stopped at a house in a quie of * % - * " ..lv-.a, vj?u.imv iciniiK me mac ne wisn ed to leave something there for t friend. But when he alighted he carried noth Ing In his hand. The door was openec by a man apparently of the mlddh class. Gustav stepped inside. Thedooi was closed, but only for a second. Mj husband reappeared, and we proceedec on our way. Somehow it struck me that wher tills brief visit was over Gustav ex perlenced a great relief. He emerget from the house with the most serious look 1 hnve ever seen 011 a man's face but 011 entering the carriage he looket at me with an expression which ] could only Interpret as indicating tba there had been a great danger whlcl had now passed. Taking my hand ir his. he pressed It, which I took to ex press the same emotion as his look. A11 hour after our train left the sta tlon we had crossed the border. Then was as much change in my husbanc at this time as there was after hi! brief visit. But one thing I noticedhe seemed eager to put distance be tween us and his former home. W< had intended to stop over nlglit in t large city, but Gustav seemed eagei to get on, and I consented to proceet to a little town whero there were fev people and no telegraph. The next day we passed out of tb( country adjoining my husband's fa therland and by evening had traversec another nationality, entering Swltzer land. Here my husband bought a pa per and scanned it eagerly. Suddenly I saw a look of disappointment pasi over his face. Looking over his shoul der. I read that on the night followinj our wedding an attempt had beer made to assassinate the governor 01 the province in which we were mar rled. lie had been badly wounded, bu not killed. All was now plain to me. Gus hat probably made and certainly deliveret the bomb used In the attempted as sassinatlon. indeed, I Anally learnet that he had it under his arm when w< were married and when we were driv Ing to the station. All this was a great shock to me ant has cast a gloom over my life since 1 occurred. But I forgave my husbant the Injury ho had done me before w< were married. EXPLORING A RIVER The Niger, the Mystery of Africa, Was Long a Puzzle. SOLVED IN A CURIOUS WAY. i I Two "Armchair" Scientists, Who Never i Set Foot In the Dark Continent, Worked Out the Problem of Where > the Great Stream Entered the Sea. The Niger Is the third {greatest river r lu Africa and the eleventh In rank In > the world. A century ago nobody had r found where the Niger river reached 1 the sea, and as the mystery grew the theory became popular that the Kongo 1 or Zaire river was the lower part of the Niger. The most impressive fact known ^ about the Kongo was that the majestic tlood it poured into the Atlantic fresh ^ ened the sea several miles from the 4 shore. It certainly was a great river. s Mungo Park, the splendid and intrepid young Scotchman who lnaugu j rated the modern eru of African exploration. was largely responsible for ? the theory that the Kongo might be the outlet of tho Niger. He was enthusiastic over the idea. He wrote that if the theory turned out to be true the fact, lu a commercial sense, would be second in Importance only to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope. The German geographer Iteiehard became interested hi the problem of the Niger, and. gathering all data r available with regard to the waters 1 in the equatorial regions of West Af. rica, he came to the conclusion that j the Niger must find its way to the > ocean through the streams of a delta > and that this delta was probably on . the coast of the bight of Benin, where , a large number of small streams were known to enter the Atlantic. The eminent geographer hit the nail I on tho head. His theory told the truth. . The problem was solved In an arm. chair, but the English gentlemen, who , at that time were organizing the Tuckey (Kongo i expedition, laughed to scorn the German hypothesis, declared that Itelchard's deductions were "eni titled to very little attention" and that | his data were "wholly gratuitous." James McQueen was another arm1 chair investigator, but the books he j read were hundreds of black slaves j luaL-ii iu me )?cai mines nuiu me i>l* ger river region. He Lad read Mungo 4 Park's fascinating story of his Journey down the Niger for hundreds of 4 miles and thought it very strange that no explorer had ever found where the great river reached the sea. McQueen * began to question every native of the r lower Niger he could Qnd and kept ac3 cumulating this testimony for Ave "r years before he was ready to publish 7 his results. T In 1821, when he had solved the puz. zle to his satisfaction, he issued a book in which he announced as a fact and not as a theory that the Niger reached j the sea through a wide spreading delta j In the region of the "oil rivers." As a j fact, the delta front is exactly where McQueen said it was. The oil rivers 4 are the delta streams of the Niger. * McQueen's book made more fun for % the learned geographers than any ^ comic newspaper. The idea that an j obscure trader in the West Indies * should dream that his confabs with ignorant slaves had solved the Niger | mystery was a most amusing joke. t McQueen lived to see the day when his joke was recognized as a solemn geo( graphical fact The Niger delta, one of the largest in me worm, stretcnes zoo miles along I the coast. Most of Its streams are ? small, and. skirting the coast, one can 'r hardly observe them, so completely 7 are they hidden in the dense region of j mangrove swamps. Explorers soon found that they might struggle (?>r j weeks up a stream only to prove It a blind alley, for a peculiarity of the I Niger is that not a few Independent } rivers form between tthe delta branches and hav? no connections with the j Niger Itself. Most of the delta Is a [ network, difficult to enter or to retreat t from. , All nature Is hideous there?the j brown waters lazily coursing, the evil . odors of the sliine and ooze, the repulsive animal life from crocodile to . pythons, lurking in the shadow for 3 their prey, and a choice collection of 1 Insect plagues, including the anopheles 3 mosquito, with its poisonous sting. . These terrible conditions, persisting . for about forty miles inland, ate then ? succeeded by solid earth, noble trees i and sweet air. but the swamp region r of the lower delta is one of the most | forbidding parts of Africa. 7 Richard Lander at last, in 1830. floating down the Niger, was taken by ? natives into the Nun branch of the . delta and descended it to the sea. The j Niger problem was solved, u England gave the Niger a wide . berth till after 18">0. It was thought 7 to be a plague stricken region from i which no good would ever come. Its - terrors have fled today before the ad j vance in knowledge. Large vessels i ascend the Forcados branch, carry f ing commerce to and from the for In terlor of Africa, nod Nigeria, n comt Ing empire of industry, with its great cattle, cotton, tin mines and other re1 sources, is Joined to the sea l>oth by 1 rail and river.?Cyrus C. Adams In - American iteview of Reviews. s Diplomacy. "Pa. what Is diplomacy?" "Diplomacy, my boy. Is the art of be* Ing disagreeable pleasantly."?Detroit j Kree Press. Cleanse the fountain if you would | purlfv tile streams. -Alcott. EARLY ADVERTISING. Bafor? and Aftar th? Advent of the Printing Pre?*. Advertising hns now become a custom so extensive In Its application and of Btich vital Importance that It Is difficult to realize that It was ever possible to do any trading without It. Yet before the advent of the printing press and the newspaper there were many hundreds of years when there was no such a thing us advertising as It Is known today. In ancient times merchants In Rome and Athens employed criers to go about the streets shouting out the quality and prices of their goods. Written notices serving ns advertisements to call attention to an auction sale or a meeting were displayed on walls only occasionally. In the old days of London shopkeepers' clerks stood in front of their stores and called out their wares to pnssersby. prefacing their announcements with "What do you lack? What do you lack?" One of the first newspaper advertisements of which there Is authentic record was printed In the Mercurius Politicus, London, in January. 1G1>2. It was n publisher's announcement and read as follows: '* 'Irenodia Gratulatorla. an Ilerolck Poem.' being n congratulatory pnnegyriek for my Lord General's late return. summing up his successes In an exquisite manner. To be sold hv John Holdcn. In the New Exchange, Lon- | don. Printed by Tlin. Newcourt. 1G52." I Here is another example of early London advertising: "Two men bee to acquaint the public in general that they keep the cleanest bnrber shop in nil London, where the j people can have their hair cut for , two pence, dressed for three pence and be shaved for one penny. One of these ! men can bleed and draw teeth very well. lie bleeds both in the English and German method and la exceedingly 1 careful."-New York Sun. < BLAMED THE DEMONS. I 8tory of the Physical Reformation of a City In Korea. I In Pyongyang, a city In Korea, surrounded by a river and resembling a _ boat In shape, it was believed that If any one should venture to dig a well the water would rush in. sinking the boat and drowning all the city's In- S habitants. Needless to say. no wells were dug. The streams washed the filth of the city down into the river. Then the s watermen filled their buckets at the tl river and sold "drinking water" g throughout the city. t Constantly recurring epidemics were u the result But the neonle did not - 4 Jj blame the dirt. They blamed the devils, g It was the duty of every Korean n doctor to know the 300 places where 0 the human body could be pierced with -s a red hot needle without causing death ^ The needles were from three to twebM.%^ Inches In length, and the doctor was ( supposed to know how deep they should a be thrust The purpose of the probing v was to let out the devils which caused the disease. q When Christianity came to Korea it brought hygiene and medicine along with It. A hospital or dispensary was not known In Koren until founded by ^ a Christian missionary. The Japanese government Is now splendidly following suit with the establishment of hospitals and medical j schools. s Fine waterworks systems have been 1 Installed, ami the sort of water that 1 gushes from the hydrants in Pyeng- t yang Is stated to have reduced the I death rate by 70 per cent The "old boat city of Pyengyang Is ^ now underlaid- with a network of j Rowers.?Willard Price In World Out- c look. ^ Facilitating Payment of Bills. 1 If we were In a business where we sent out hills to customers the first of every month, we should make It a point always to Inclose a self addressed envelope for the return remittance. This practice Involves amnll expense to the I creditor, and It makes It a little harder for the debtor to find an excuse for lay- j lng aside the bill for a few days. We notice In our own small affairs a ten- ^ dency to pay first the bills whose pay ment requires the least trouble, and we suppose other people are correspond- * lngly lazy. Paying bills Is hard enough work at best, and ought to be made as easy as possible.?Ohio State Journal. ! A King's Library. ' Frederick the Oreat employed architects to build a library, but they fought with true professional etiquette over their designs. The monnrch who had braved the might of Europe was not to he defeated by a parcel of nagging professional men. "Confound you," i said the king, "don't waste any more ' time! This cupboard opposite me Is of a very good design; copy that." They did as they were ordered. Won't Lot You Forgot It. "Is he a real friend?" "1 don't think so. lie's always will- " lng to lend money to you if you need It hut he isn't nfrald to ask you to pay If linnL if TfAii ok/* . ??? * m ? .'..v ? ?? JVU vawaa t nilUff H liy MKIIN OI ever going to do so."?Detroit Free Tress. Looking Ahead. "Here's my I. O. U. for $10." "Rut you only borrowed $5." "Ob. that's nil right! If I don't bor ~ row the difference by next week re mind me!"?Puck. Probably. "My barber told me a wonderful ste ry this morning." "Illustrated with cuts, I presume?"? St Louis Post-Dispatch. Historic Sci " 'kfhti* Ql.tr ' , |^|y. r/ fr" ' ^HE. n&h Scene of The In passing through South Peerfi name derived from the freightful mi In those days King Philip, saclx terrified the settlers of the Connects were ordered abandoned. In abandoning Deerficld the sett these needed stores that Captain Ja the town of Hadley, twenty miles s< Bix miles out of the settlement of 1 by thick woods, and tradition relatf tered to gather the wild grapes wl whelmed by the hordes of Indians < or more men in Captain Lathrop's ci Two other scouting squads of El battle, but could do nothing except cently buried. A monument now marks the see f- ? ? '* - ib Known to tnia day as Bloody Broo CHERAW MAN HURT. Ithooting Affray at Seaboard Passenger Station. Cheraw, Nov. 7.?Yesterday as the outhbound Seaboard train was in he station here, May Gregory was hot by William E. Ingram. Both are ransfer men. It seems that on Satrday they had some words about a assenger and Gregory beat up In:ram. The same thing occurred this doming and Gregory again jumped n Ingram and the latter fired two hots from a .32 calibre revolver, but nly one took effect ,that one going '?to the abdomen on the left side. Jhief of Police Pegues separated them nd took the weapon from Ingram, /ho is now in the Chesterfield jail waiting the result of the wound. ?his afternoon Gregory is resting ery comfortably and his chances for ecovery seem favorable, though comdications may set in in the next few lays. WACO "TONIC tfever fails to prove its merits in uch complains as Indigestion, Maaria, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, That !*ired Feeling. Neuralgia, Constipaion, Heart Trouble, Eczema, Sick leadache, Catarrh and Nervousness. This Special Offer Good Only While Advertising Stock Lasts. The $1.00 iottles for 60 cents, 3 for $1.25, at dilhous Drug Co., Union, S. C., Main It. 41-tf Wanted! U1 kinds of scrap Iron. We >ay the hignest price by he ton or car loads. llninn lunl/ Pn UIIIUII UUIIIX uu. / UNION, S. C. 41-4 3R. I. MURRAY HAIR DENTIST Office: 507 Chapman Building Phone 1569 SPARTANBURG, S. C. T. H. MUNRO ATTORNEY AT LAW OVER MILHOUS DRUG CO. UNION,S. C. DR. R. R. POPE DENTIST Office Over Express Office PHONE enes in Old Ne - <\juHBS^K|HB|^^^^^HflH|^^HHsX?f fl^K* Battle at Bloody Brook in Dec eld, Mass., autoists cross the historic ussacre by Indians which occurred tlicr ;m of the Pokanoket tribe of Indians, cut ltiver Valley that the northernmost lers had left large stores of newly ban ithrop, with a picked troop of eighty :>uth. The grain had been successful^ Jeerfield when it prepared to ford a s 's that the men imprudently placed th< hich abounded. Tims disarmed, they ;stimated at TOO strong, by whom they ommand not more than eight escaped a aglishmen which were in the vicinity drive the Indiuns away 60 that the hod ine of this horrible massacre, and the k. SERMON TO JUNIOR ORDER. ( Magnolia Council, No. 25, J. O. U. A. M., will have a sermon Sunday af- ] ternoon at 3 o'clock at Green Street Methodist church by Rev. W. F. Gault, the pastor. All Junior Orders are requested to be at the hall at 2 p. m., and march in a body to the church. The public is cordially invited to attend the services. This is also the last sermon Rev. Mr. Gault will preach before the conference meets. C. C. Broderick, C. C. I Don't Fail to See 1 Is for Stoves and Ranges. : : : We have Just Received a Car Load. ; Our Goods and Prices are the Best : : : : See Us Before You Buy, We will Save You Money Complete Line ot Paints and Oils on Hand at all Timpe maaBBVkT Union Plumbing & Electric Co. Phone 205-J 0 w England ?? ??^ :rfield. Mass. old stream called Bloody Brook, a e <'ii llie I sili <>l Sejiteiniier, ltd~> , was on the warpath, lie had so t towns of Northlield and Dccri'eld rested grain, and it was in que--? ' men, proceoded to Deerlield it- t r procured and the party was - > n itream. The stream was bordered ?ir weapons in the wagons and seat were quickly and completely <?\ r had been ambushed. Of the eight v live. hurried to the scene upon hearing 163 of their comrades might he destreara where the disaster occurred CIGARS TO COST MORE AT RETAIL European War Makes Acute Situation for Manufacturer to Meet?Good Havana I>eaf is Scarce. For the first time in the history of his country, with the possible excep;ion of the civil war period, retail iricees of cipars are poinp up. That cipar smokers have enjoyed a naif century of respite from price fluctuation is not because the cost of proluction has remained stationary durng ?.U these years. Operating expenses and the prices of raw materials nave pone up and down, mostly up, n the cipar business, the same as in iny other business. But there are two thinps which have tended to keep the etail prices of cipars uniform; first, necause of the fixed habit of payinp a nickel, six-for-a-quarter, three-for-a"juarter, ten cents straipht. and so on jp, for cipars. without any intermcdiite plices; and, in second, because tonacco is generally classified as a luxirv ami not a necessity. These two circumstances have made ioth manufacturers and cipar store ceepers loath to disturb the equanimtv of the smoker durinp all these irears, even thouph there have been uanv occasions when the ciprar manufacturinp trade prenerally has found its yearly balance to be on the wronp side of the ledprer. As far back as ten years apo the profit in eiirar manufacturinpr had been reduced to such an extent that only the most sapracious operators found !he business profitable. These conditions continued proprressively. and when the European war bepan, two ind one-half years apo, the situation became even more acute. It is true that the preat war has not materially increased the exportation of either Cuban or American leaf tobacco to Europe, but it has advanced the cost of virtually every element enterinp into cipar manufacturinp. Increased activity in other industries has made labor in the tobacco prowinp districts scarce, and the price of labor unprecedentedly hiph. The wooden cases in which domestic tobacco is packed, the cheesecloth under which shadeprown tobacco is prown. fertilizers necessary to the soil, implements used in cultivation, etc.. all have ad\anced. And in Cuba the proa' boon in supar has diverted nprionlturists to that industry and created a shortape of pood Havana leaf. Tl,o iU-i. _ii * i.c mult i?> mai ail Kinds oi lent tobacco used for cipar nurposo* in this country have pone skyward. Cipar manufacturers, therefore, are ^avinp more for leaf tobacco than ever in the history of the industry, and in addition to this, the price of cipar boxes, labels, workmanship and all other details of operatinp have incrensed tremendously. The upshof of it is that, while even before the war bepan a larpe proportion of manufacturers were, at the best just about breakinp even on thei" investment, now they find themselves actually ami almost without exception playinp a losinp pame. YOU CAN HAVE beautiful hair if you keen the scalp clean and healthy. Neplect results in baldness. We recommend JlVaajuur KADI MAAH Sold by us; f>0c and $1.00. Glymph's Pharmacy, Union, S. C.