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PASSED THE HOUSE.
The Repeal of the Lien Law Now
Almost Certain.
Strong Argument? Made on lloth
Sidos.-Believed That tho Hill Will
Pass tho Sonnto.
An overwhelming volo in tho house
passod Mr. Richards* bill for tho re
peal of tho lion law to a third read
ing Friday morning. The hill passed
was very short, being as follows:
"Section 1. That section 3059,
voluino 1, codo of laws, South Caro
lina, 1D02, relating to lions for ad
vances, bo, and tho samo is hereby,
repealed.
Soc. 2. That all acts or parts of
acta inconsistent with this act be,
and tho sair.o aro hereby, repealed.
"Provided, This act uhall take ef
fect on the first day of January, A.
1). 1909."
When special order bills were
reached Mr. Richards at once called
for tho lien law measure. Mr. Ruck
or, who had tho floor tho day before
when tho proceedings were Intorupt
ed by (len. Loo's speech, was rcog
nlzcd. Mr. Hacker slated at the
outset that he was In a hopeless min
ority, but he thought tho gonernl as
sembly was making a mistake in
passing tho Richards bill. However,
if tho arguments made by tho major
ity were correct ho wanted tho re
peal to KO Into effect at once, and
asked Mr. Richards if he wore will
iup; for this. Mr. Richards said that
ho was not,
Mr. bl. K. Vernor, ono of the most
earnest advocates for tho repeal of
tho law, talked at length in favor of
tho pasage of tho bill. Ile was fol- ?
fowed by Mr. Harrison of Greenville, ?
who argued against tho repeal of tho,
law.
Mr. J. P. nibson stated that ho had
called a mass mooting o? farmers in
his ocunty, Marlboro, to discuss tho |
matter, bul afterwards this meeting
was called off. With present labor
conditions and tli?? fact that there
aro now In tho Heids of his county
500 bales of unpicked colton ho
thought tho repeal of the law un
wise.
Mr. Garr?s also made a vigorous
light against tho repeal of tho law,
citing labor conditions and tho need
for encouraging the small farmers.
Representatives Brantley, Wycho and
Ai G. Brice . ll speke in favor of the
ed attention to tho flghl year after
year, tho agitation by tho farmers
and urged his argument that tho re
peal of tho law would not he a hard
ship on tho tottan I farmer, as was
claimed by tho opposition. In an
swer to Mr. Ruckor ho would say that,
tho reason he did not wish the rc-|
peal to go into effect at once was bo
cause lt would work a hardship on
those holding liens. He therefore
wanted to give tho landlords or farm :
owners timo to preparo for the
change. Ho believed that tho re
peal might temporarily effect some
or tho tenants and some of tho land
owners, but in tho long run lt would
provo a blessing and would take out
of tho grasp of tho merchant-farmer,
who charged anywhere from 25 to
100 per cent, for supplies, tho poor
man who worked p small portion of
tho farm.
The Vote.
On tho motion to strike mit the
enacting words of tho hill, mudo hy
Mr. Sellers, tho vote was as follows:
Mays -Whaley, Anil, Ayer, Bal
lentlno, Bethune, lloyd, Brantley,
HriCO, A. G., Brice, T. S., Bryan, W.
I)., Bryan, F. M., Cannon, Carson,
Carwilo, Cosgrove, Cot bran, Court
ney, Croft, (hiller. DoVore, Dick,
Dingle, Dixon, Dodd, J. II. Howling,
lOpps, Frost, Gary, Cause, Gibson, W.
J., Cia: icock, Gylos, Hall, Harmon,
Harris, Hughes, Hydrhk, Johnstone,
.Iones, Knllahan, Kershaw, Klrven.
Lane, Lawson. Lester. Legare, Ma
jOr, Me.Keowii, Mann, MilOy, Miller,
Morrell, Nash, Nesbitt, Nicholson,
Nivor, Richards, Richardson, saw
yer, Sayo, Scarborough, Sharpe,
Slaughter, Smith, J. 13., Stillwell,
Stubbs, Tatum, Todd, Tomkins, Vari*
der Horst, Vernor, Wade, Wnnna
inakor, Wiggins, Wingard, Wyche,
Yeldoll 75.
Yeas Hailey, Beattie, Carey, Car
rigan, Clary, Clinkscales, Borham,
Hoar, Douglass, .1. P., Gibson, Good
win, Harley, Harrison, Hinton, Lit
tle, McMrtstor, Nickols, Norien, Par
ker, Bat lei son, ReaVOS, Bucker, Sel
ler.;, K. P. Smith, Thomas, VoilKob
nil/, Wallace, SVlmberly 29.
Pairs-Fraser, aye, Loilricr, no;
Waiker, aye, Arnold, rio j Rollinson,
no, Splvoy, aye; ('.arris, aye, Vmi
inans, no; Crier, aye, Cox, no.
Amendments Voted Down.
The house, voted down tho propo
sition by ?U to 2*1 lo make tho law
effective at once ami by a vote of SI
to 2.'t voled down Mr. McMastor's
proposition to extend tho tinto for tho
enforcement of tho repeal until 1910,
Mr, Billiards believes that tho act
will pass tho senate by a majority of
nt least, four and possibly live. He
has canvassed that body thoroughly
and tho repeal is certain. Ho will
nov/ support, tho hill offered by Mr.
II yd rick, which will protect tho farm
ers and tommin, tn that a mortgage
on a crop liefere lt begins to grow ls
forbidden, Mr. Ilydrlck's bill is as
SHEARS & SAWBUCK.
The Pathetic Tale of Two Far
mers Who Bought Away
From Homo Things That They Should
Have Bought at Hom?; From tho
Country Merchant?
Shears & Sawbuck kopi a store
Sack UH never was before.
City folks they wouldn't soil,
Wouldn't lot them kavo a smell.
Fetched their money--but by jing!
Couldn't buy a blessed thin?!
Couldn't meet 'oin fuco to face
An' then sell 'em with good grace.
Country trado was what they sought; '
FolkB would pay for what they bought
'Foro they saw lt, hide or tall,
Thoy sent catalogues by mall
Out to ov'ry blessed ono
Gittin' mall at Possum Run.
Wo sot up nights and read
When we'd ortor been In bed.
Hook was 'bout as big as sin
Had a lot of pictures tn,
And a list of merchandise,
Bv'ry kktnd and overy sl/.o-?
divin' l?ricos that they swore
Knocked out ov'ry country store,
Looked so straight and seemed so true
I blt at it-and Jim did, too.
Jim's my neighbor, cross tho way
Host, man ever worked in hay,
Just let him top off a slack
Sheds rain Uko a turtle's back.
Pleasure jest to soo him work,
Never knew ol' jim to shirk;
Swings a scythe Uko it was play&
Love to watch him in thc way.
Well; wo,Uko a pair of fools,
Sent off got some hnyiu' tools.
Jim got harness and a plow,
I. a range, I see it now;
Drat tho thing, lt was so light
U ted it for a torch at night ;
Throw'd tho darn (bing in tho yard -
Uso lt now for rendering lard.
'Fore Jim used tho plow an hour
Found thohlamothing couldn't scour;
Tried his harness- broke a lug
Sought for solace In his jug
111 tho cooler all that night
Jim rofloctod on his plight ;
In the morning, Richard Stent,
Hardware morchant, bailed him out.
Jim said after that he'd stick
Close as brick to good ol' Dick.
SltlCO he loft the Possum juli
Says he won't buy goods by mail;
Q .,,.,< nlnl.'" "1.. .
...Ill , ll C 1(111 I .-'1 11 III, ll . I I l\
To such folks ns Shoars-Sawbuck.
They'll take all our cash away,
Hut won't buy our corn or hay."
That seemed party strange lo mo
So *I wrote them that night.
,Tist. lo see if Jim was right.
Ast 'em what they'd pay for oats? |
Ast 'cm what they'd pay for goats?
Could they use soino likely shoats?
Had about four tons of hay
I could ship 'cm right away.
Could I furnish Mr. Shears
With hin family roasting oars,
Also would my friend Sawbuck
Uuy some of my garden truck?
Answer came ono summer day.
3aid they couldn't use our hay;
Couldn't uso our oats und shoats,
Mdn't Uko our billy goats.
A7hen thoy needed truck to eat
lought lt down on Water street
Jorry, but thoy must refuso
Anything but cash to uso.
sat down and wrote 'oin then;
'Hate to trouble you again,
tut I want to thank you, sirs,
.'or your bunch of cocklo burs,
1' you love your feller man,
)o him good, sirs, when you can
A hile our merchants sweetly sleep
Shears & Sawbuck shear your sheep.*'
Thousands of men and women In i
ill walks of lifo aro suffering from
(Idney and bladder troubles. Don't!
teglect your kidneys. Delays are
langerons. Dewitt's Kidney and !
tln'Mer Hills alTord quick relief for
ill forms of kidney and bladder t ron
de. A week's treatment, 25c. Sold by
Conway Drug Co.. Conway, s. c.
ollows: . .
"No mortgage of any crop or
rops shall be good and offocl.ivo to
.envoy lo the mortgngoo any Inter*
.st In any crop or crops lo be raised
luring the year in which said mort
gage is. given, and unless the land
iVhOrCOn said crop or crops are to
?e raised shall be described or men
lo u ed in said mortgage, and un' >ss
he crop or crops liomin referred to
jliall be lip and growing ai Die lime
ii ibo execution of the mortgage.
That said amendment shall not
(ike effect until (he Hr Hi day of .hill
iary, 1000." t
Just a little Case.aswoot la all
hat is necessary lo give your baby
ivhen it ls cross, and peevish. Cnsca
iweet contains no opiates nor harm*
'ul drugs and ls highly recommended
.y mothers everywhere. Conforms to
he National Pure Food Law. Sold by
Conway Drug (Jo., Conway, S. C.
Whoa women borrow trouble they
isually pay back double
liKUINLATIVK KL130TION8.
Tho Joint Assembly Choose OUlcors
to Fill Vaneando?.
In Joint assembly Wodnosday tho
sonato and houso balloted for sov
ornl boors on tho elections to fill tho
valions vacancies. Tho follow ia.,
woro ol ec tod:
Assoclato justice-Fasgouo H. Qarj
of Abbovlllo.
J migo of second circuit-Robert
Aldrich of Barnwell.
Slato librarian -Miss Lavinia IL
La Horde of Columbia.
Directors of Stato penitentiary -
I). H. Pourlfoy of Saluda and B. P.
Thomas of Barnwell.
Trasteo South Carolina Military
academy-Orlando Sheppard of Eilge
flold.
Trustees University of South Car
olina-Robert McPnrlano of Darling
ton and Julius ll. Walker of Colum
bia.
Trustees Winthrop college-Wilie
Jones of Columbia and J. E. Brea
zoalo of Anderson.
Trustees Colored Normal and In
dustrial college -Daniel Klblor of
Newberry and A. L. Dukos of Or
angeburg.
Trustees of Clemson collogo
John Q. Richards, Jr., of Korshaw,
Coko D. Mann of Oconoo and Jessi;
II. Harden of Chester.
Tho race bot ween Col. Aldrich and
Capt. Sawyer for circuit judge was
close, tho former beating tho latter
hy only thirteen votes.
Will Bo Bitter Fight.
Tito general impression in Wash
ington is that Senator Knox will be
the man upon whom till the anti
Roosevelt interests will combine, and
that when the ultimate show down
in the convention comos Knox and
Taft will be I he loading candidates,
It is probable that the rase will he ;i
close one between them on tne final
ballot and it is possible that if some
other candidate ?ike Fairbanks, or
La Follette, sticks to the last that
there will be a deadlock. The con
trol of tho National Committee by
the anti-Roosevelt faction, with its
power to decide which of the con
testing delegations shall bc placed
upon the roll of delegates may turn
thc scale against Mr. Roosevelt and
his candidate.
All the power and money of tho
corporations and the tariff protected
intererts will be used to prevent
President Roosevelt from rounding
up thc Southern deletratc-s into tho
present condition in the Republican
camp, but with "practical" politic
ians involved with both factions,
there may be lightening changes in
tho program when found neeessarry
to achieve their ends.
Whichever faction succeeds and
whoever is nominated hy the Re
publicans, will leave gaping wounds
that will be hard to heal before
election time, especially in Ohio and
New York. Thoa the chances of
the Democrats aro apparently im
proved, but so much depends upon
whether tho party can unite upon a
candidate, who will not drive away
neccessary votes to win in tho
doubtful states, makes it impossi
ble to look forward to the result of
the election until, at least the nom
inations of both parties have boen
made.
They F.vado the Law.
From the first of .Inly to thc first
i)f January 18,787 whiskey prescrip
tions were filled by the drug stores
;>f Charlotte, and yet some people
^ay they have prohibition over there.
Putting thc average charge of the
doctors for writing prescriptions at
ten cents each, this will show that
tho abolition of the barrooms ha.
added to their income during a pe
riod of less than six months just $7.
>28r80, or a yearly average of $1?>,
937.60.
Placing the amount purchased on
each prescription at eighty cents,
this will show that the drug stores
have done a weekly business in the
same length of time of $15,037.(50 or
an annual trade of $30, o75.20. Com
bining these amounts paid to tho
iloctors and the drug stores, it will
show that $45,112.80 is spent annu
ally for w hiskey in lhe drug stores
alone.
Such farces in thc way of prohibi
tion as they have over in Charlotte
makes a great many people oppose
that disposition of the whiskey ques
tion. If we are to have prohibit ion
we must, have it in the drug stores,
and everywhere else, or it will
amount to nothing. To shut up the
barrooms and make tippling places
:>f the drug store is a backward step,
Prohibition to bo successful must
prob it in tho drugstore as well as in
tia; bart oom.
Women who own cut glass should
tot throw stone?.
Reduce th? Acxeatfo.
The Rock Hill Herald calls atten
tion to the efforts that are now be
ing made to depress the price of cot
ton. The South Carolina spinners
in their Columbia ?meting decided
io curt-ail nrodootion, it >avs. The
Now E..&i?i.d spinners nave done
the same. They say they have no
demand for goods and there ia no
use piling them up in warehouses.
They claim that cotton is too high
for the spinner to get any profit out
of it. The English spinner at a re
cent meeting passed a resolution
looking to the establishment of an
inunense cotton farm in no South
so that they might teach people how
to make, take care of and halo cot
ton. This all shows that spinners
are anxious to get back to six-cent
cotton and that they will unite their
efforts and great capital to accom
plish their purpose
In view of this, what should the
cotton growers do? asks the Augus
ta Herald. In the first place, as to
the cotton grown last year, they
should continue to hold it. The
crop last year was a short one, at
least two million bales short of meet
ing the ordinary requirements. The
little curtailing of manufacture that
may be done here and there will
have little effect. The new mills
will more than sullicc- to make the
demand for the raw material as
great as it was last year. So far as
I he cotton now on hand is concern
ed, it is hound to advance in price
as the season advances.
As to next year the Southern
farmer should pr?pare to meet the
organized efforts of the manufact
urers to bear the price by planting
more corn, peas and small grain.
That will surely lead up to raising
colts, hogs and cattle. That will
cut down guano bills. Prepare land
throughly and plant two-third the
usual acreage in cotton. That may
give less cotton hut more mon
ey. If it was known that the
South would make only ten million
hales this year, the crop would he
bought for future delivery at 15
cents if possible,Then let Un; acreage
ho cut down. This is the only de
fense the farmers can make. With
an abundance of corn, hay, hogs
and cattle on hand the farmer wil
be in a condition to hold his cotton
consideration now than ever. The
high price for which colton has sold
all this season, and the still higher
price which those will get who shall
bo able to hold it, will serve as an
incentive to planting a larger acre
age If this ho done, it will play
to the hands of the manufacturers,
as they have stacked the cards, The
price next season would be low.
So the safe plan will be to devote
a larger acreage to corn, small grain
and other crops, and less to cotton.
This will insure a high price for cot
ton and at the same time have the
farms better stocked with food sup
plies. It would mean prosperity for
the farmers, and for the entire
South.
To this the Farmers Union and
Southern Cotton Association should
address themselves. As to the last
seasons crop, they can do nothing
moro. Each individual holder of
cotton must nov/ determine when he
shall sell his remaining bales. But
through the Union and the Southern
Cotton Association with their mem -
bership including the majority of
cotton planters, the urgent need of
reducing the acerage to bc given to
cotton should be set forth and an ac
tual reduction of not less than
wenty-five per cent effected.
Official Statistics.
The figures given out, from the
White House, that Taft is certain
of 521 votes in the Republican Con
vention, with moic to come, may
be found after all to be colored by
the enthusiastic statisticians of the
"tennis cabinet". It would be
rather extraordinary for a Repub
lican Convention to nominate a can
didate for President airainst the
protest sf New York. Fennslyvania,
Indiana, Illinois and other impor
tant slates. The nomination of Taft
can only he brought about hy the
votes controlled hy tho federal of
ficials in tho South and West, and
such an endorsement of "my poli
cies" and "my candidate" would
hardly bo a recommendation to In
dependent voters arni civil sei vier
reformers in the doubtful states.
The Republican factional light thus
seems to be drifting in favor of the
Democrats, if they eau get to^el hel
en a candidate upon whom tho Bry
an anti-Bryan factions can agree.
Ric i rr under tee nose of Uncle
Sam at the Nationai Capital the pro
hibitionists declare there are 100
speak-casies, which if true shows
how impossible is real prohibition.
But that that does not exonerate
the Republican officials which al
low such evasions of the license law,
IN A MARRIAGE MARKET.
Odd Custom In a Prominent Russian
Mart for Wive.
Perhaps tlio best known of thee?
Ru: ians marriage markets ls th .. :
that lakes placo annul l'y al Kl . v a
Moscow, and which has just ho a ? o
v. I'I ile usn ni Buccof". It oc'.-urs il
' .- tho WOO! Ol' i'p.phati) (Mu?! '
t.: '"), and all tho yo mg women '
ii lo got married In tho com- o
' >. year aro mustered in u loin* r >
. e iuoi| rd streets ol' thal i<
"gl lng country town. In 'iv 'or I
. UM iisolvcs attractive to ;.
; in who com ? to seo and a
t Hiern tiley woar no'irly .'di t :
ll s on their bricks. Their bi.
?< : not. con: 1st only ol' their I et;
... hut it Incl?n! >a a lol of <? <
Hy trinkets, sometimes valuabl
I'l's, cloaks and furs, heavy sllvoi
ry and necklncos.jackcts show nv
.-. ol' prettily clsolated or ti', re
r buttons, and many of the giri
r ng oven their linen and oilier do
tic property along with them in
:'.tidily painted chests and trunks, sit
.ii": on them Uko dragons watching a
treasure.
\ftor exposing themselves for
fi .rs lf> ike closo scrutiny of th
w- 'ld be benedicts tho girls inarch ofl
In ? procession to church, there to per
form at tho shrine of some saint par
Uciilnrly potent in procuring connubial
bibs, such as St. Chrysostom and Si
X/.itan/.en, worshipful prayers. On
way to church lt ls not on ly perm ls
...Ido hut good form for tho young men
. follow and accost ono or the other
.:' the girls in tho way of conversation.
If any two of tho young people
think they suit ono another tl forma1
visit is paid by tho intended groom to
ihn parents. Hut before the actual
i: J -riane is arranged a number of in
d'views takes place between the re
f peet Ivo parents, every Item of th
trousseau being exacted boforohani
id noted down as part of tin bride's
dowry.- harper's Weekly.
A Robin nod a fiat.
Tho oilier day, while a gentleman
of Portliollow, St. Keverne, was walk
int: pas) a farm in the neighborhood,
ie? was attracted by a robin, wi,.ch
Hew a bott I him, Hupped its v. Inga in
?i:s fric? some i wo or Hii ee times and
ipponrod greatly excited and dis
tressed. The gentleman's ettrlovtty
being ar rou ? od, lie watched Die robin
for some iii e. lt Mew towards him
and then back imo ibo hedge a short
distance away, ul lei ing ap.?aro? '!}
.lies of distress all tlio lim'. The
?en loman walked toward tho hodge
v iler tho bird se -med lo wish him to
.'ine, ?ad creoping ni? ?lose he dis
. vor?i! a medium si/.ed rai. which
had got. into the robin's neal and was
!. vein ing one of Hie little young
i rds. A' Ut o ;?g'at ol' the gentleman
'.o rai jumped out ami was knocked
?Otis les ; on Hie road. Winn Hie roi,ii.
>?ur yo?hit birds In the ii st. Ono waa
;;. !, but nu- other iii roo wore free
:\)?ll .njiay. London Clo'.:e.
The MnrHan "Canals."
v or experimenting on Ute cracks
ii i sures Cia1 appear in cylinder:
.. I spheres subjected to pressure M.
'.. Hauniann, an engineer of Zurich,
'.v. it/.orland, has proposed the follow
ag explanation of tho markings on thc
linnet .Mars, ordinarily known ns
t'anals." Says tho Revue Sclontiflqtio
.i a notice of M. Mau m an n's hypolh
. is: Mars may have a brittle, solid
?rust, with a more drastic nucleus,
b's difference of rigidity, depending
dmply on differences of temperature
n tho varios strata. When Hu? planet
;ools contraction takes place, and thc
utter layers yields little by little to
ho pressure. In places where tho
iressuro is greatest, cracks- always
loublo, as shown hy .M. Daumann in
Hs experiments-appear, lt is pos
ilble H.a! afterwards, by the Inten'on
ion of living beings, the edge.? o'
.heso craCks may have been removed
os to form canals. Mut tho sam.
.esult may follow from tho progros
dvo enlargement of small fissures,
rho rectilinear canals indicate a
loniogenous constitution of soil. Fin
illy, the outer crust, now solid, muy
lave remained long in a plastic state,
which would have prevented Ibo form*
dion of mountains.- -Literary Digest.
As to Pronunciation.
As a general thing, :ay;, th<- Mobile
Ionisier, tho Fngllsh tongue is moro
nrroclly lisod in tho South 'han iv
i."ej pari of lal) country, , i . .
> ison lhat there ls a predo.ninene
il lOnglish stock in Hie South, and
tot the admixturo of continental blood
nell as corrupts tho language of tie
n! al itants ol' tho Fast.-rn, Middle
.IIil Wes!ern States. lOvon that for
viiich we aro most rivaled in langland
Hu; soft, almost Inaudible r tlnal
rbi? Som heritor says Sir" us if it
i*ero written S r. and thal is tho long
ish way. The Yankee says "Sirur r,"
?in a liold twist of tiic ll ital r. unlike
:ie pronunciation of Knglish by thc
all,.red in any part of Hie world.
Thc King Sets Fashions.
It was not uti with mingled a wo and
foliRht by allott!Ivo Finnish reporters
i ;.t King I'kiward, on lils recent ? isit
. [roland wore his liai slightly "tilted
> the right." Al! loyal lints "ill now
. v om sb ditly lilied to the right.
The Chinaman and Telephone.
Wah Lee, an Amorlcnnlx.od China?
nan from Sail Francisco visiting in
halford, Conn , expressed surprise
oil ho learned Dial not one of his
al ry .ion in Hartford has a tole
.ono.
Pasteboard From Peat.
Pasteboard made of li? pen ? nt peat
iber and GO percent wood s laving?
H a standard product both in Germany
nd Sweden, being stronger, lightet
ad cheaper than pasteboard made lr.
.ho ordinary way.
BABV8 OUTDOOR QARMENT8
Hyyionlc Petticoiit Has Hep.ecori th?
Old Style Unw.
iViotners U?U not IUUIK it possible
HJU4U >oai'a u,jO to UiOori tU^iX* Uu ulOS*
.?ib.?oui a earrowcoai.
lo-riay Un.j ure seldom used, doc
'.K>i'i ..??>.I... u0*"-0v* .v .. . l>
V i Up l liO . H > 'a .COI aU ?fatu , it-1 .iii
...?>o tue Hot) oi tuuui, un K.cKiiig a KI ii
lu Oui in growing.
i..?J nygiuitu petticoat bas about
taken mo piaco oi tuc- o, l-styio ono.,
wiitcu had H uroati Du.ni i rawn Ugat
ly . round mo emili uni.er tao amii.. So
aiany bunns aro uncomfortable, und
aro, tlioi oiore, to bo avoided. Ti.eso
now skirts are made to open on ....u
suouldor scams and it wiri bo sion
that thoy cun be taken ott without un
dressing lue ba. y. Tiio iront oi tue
petticoat is a straight piece, slightly
gored at the bottom, and tho top hail
tiio neck and armholes cut into lu
The buck is cut with a small amount'
ol fullness.
Royalty's Love of Pearls.
Queen Alexandra, as most people
know, bas a love of pearls and shu I?
very fond of wearing an exquisite dog
col'ar necklet of those precious gems.
Which ure alao tb? favorito jewels of
tho queen-dowager of Italy, herself
known as tho "Pearl of Savoy." Since
her widowhood the queen dowagor ha?
no longer taken pleasure in her jewels
as formerly, and her famous ropes of
pearls, tu which her devoted husband
always added another on each of her
birthdays, have now passed Into the
possession of her beautiful daughter
in-law. Queen Hiena.
On Waterloo's Dattlcfield.
Mine. ve Dupnis, nearly 104
years old, who was a guest of honor at
the unveiling of Heroine's monument,
"thc Wounded Ungle," on tho scene
of tho ?tm epic of giants, had her wisli
to travel to t!:e Waterloo battlefield
iii a motor car gratified. Kho did not.
howover, remain long away from her
residence nt Chapelle les-Horlainoourt,
as she did not now how her "bovs"
aged so and TS. would get on without
ber.
Book and Music Cabinet.
The disposition of sheet music so
thai it will bo accesible and yet bo
preserved front dust is something of a
pu/./.le in lh(> homo where space ls at
a premium. Music cabinets of vary
ing si; i s ?ind designs have boon
brought ont in recent years ami a sat?
Isfnetor; ono for ordinary service ls
here pictured, lt is of mahogany tull
enough to serve as a pedestal on which
to display a specimen of pottery or
bric-a-brac, while tho compartments
for shoot music aro sufficient to ac
commodate a goodly supply. Under
neath the drawers, music books eau
ht slowed away conveniently and.
If desired be screened from view and
from dust by curtains of silk.
The Art of Drinking.
Every child should be taught that
thirst quenching does not depend so
greatly on the quantity of fluid swal
lowed as on the length of time during
which liquid is kept in contact with
lh(i tissues of the mouth and throat
A small quantity of water used as a
mouth and throat wash will relieve
thirst inore than a pint swallowed has
tily. A child should never be allowed
to drink iced water, or for that mat
ter any kind of iced drinks.
Questions for Engaged Girls.
Do you really know the man whose
wile you hiive promised to be?
Are .eu acquainted with his ideas
and id< als of lifo?
Do yon find that his tastes and
yours are congenial?
Have you heard what his men ac
qmi int anees say about him?
Have you ever seen him in any but
conventional surround in gs?
I io you know how he spends hie
time when he is. not with you?
A Cure for Warts,
Vinegar and cooking soda in solu
tion are said to make a capital cure
for wart... If the wart is kent moisi,
with il for ten minutes several timos
.i day il will disappear in the course
of a week or so in ordinary cases. An
other cure i;; to touch frequently with
acetic or nitric acid, hut one must bo
careful md ld Irritate the surrounding
-dun by dropping either acid.
Saving the Hair.
Many women lose quantities evorr
summer, and as soon as tho cold
weather comes tho shedding ceases
lt might bi' avoided entirely If they
wei" careful and ?is a woman grow?
ildor it is more than ever Important
.o save what she bas, for new hair
loos not grow (prickly or often on au
old scalp.
An Invalid's desire for ornngOB, figs
>r grapes may usually be hooded.
White china silk washes like .>
haadkorchiof.

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