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SENT BY WHOSE HAND? WINGED MESSENGER 8AVED 4JVB8 OF SAILORS. Bird PrioYlOklV Forced Captain to Al ter Course <ef His Vessel and Thus 1 Effect the Rescue of Drown* Ing Men. The following story was published by a sea captain In "Aftonbludet" of Stockholm recently. There uro many people still living In Arendal who re member the occurrence which Is here described. One dark night several yean ago a sailing vessel from Arendal, Norway, ?was crossing the north Atlantic, on Its :,-ar from America to England. There was ft Btrou& enol v.lnd, against which the ship was tacking. As it drew toward eight bells in the even ing, the captain was walking back and forth'on tho bridge, trying to make up his mind whether to put about or to continue on the same course for an other watch or two. As he walked he suddenly received a blow on his chest, which, ho discov ered, had been dealt by a tea bird. Then his winged assailant quickly dfs< appeared to leeward. A few moments later the captain was Just giving the command to turn the vessel when he again received a blow In the chest from the same mes senger. Then the bird disappeared as before In a southwesterly direction. After this had been repeated several more times, the bird, after each blow, flying off toward tho southwest, the captain, who thought thero must be something supernatural In tho matter, decided to follow the bird. Instead of turning back, he caused the boat's course to be sent toward the south west. This was no sooner done than the bird settled down on the ship's railing besldo the captain. The boat now sailed at a great pace before, the strong wind. Dut although a sharp watch was kept aft as well as forward, half the night passed and ?V nothing unusual was discovered. Tho crew began to Joke about the "old man's" maneuver, and the cap tain himself doubted the wisdom ol continuing to sail out of hls'course, losing distance which a great deal ol tacking would be required to regain. At 2 o'clock In the morning he was on the point of giving the order t'c turn again, when the lookout on th? foreyard sung out that he saw a glow as of a fire ahead. All the waning interest woke ngaln! Boon the vessel found Itself ap proachlng a burning ship, and It la] to as close as was practicable. A boat was lowered and found man] jpe^ floating about on hencoops, ptecei '?f wreckage and other floating article* frojn the burning ship. They wer? weak and exhausted, having choBen 8 slow death in the- ocean to being burned alive or suffocated by th< -fire. When the sufferers had been ?ared for to the best of the rescuing vessel'* .ability and the vessel's bow had been turned again toward England the sail ors found that the bird was still on board. Nor did It leave the boat again. But one day, after the vesse! had reached the English channel, on? of those who had been saved from tin burning ship kicked the bird to dealt in revenge for a bite from its! bill. True Art. "Critics had prnlsed in*, academlei bad granted me exhibition space,' said tho artist, "still I was modest enough to think I wasn't any great shakes as a painter. The thing that finally convinced me that maybe ) was no dub after all was the remark of a woman who knew a good deal more about bargain counters than she know about art. 8he studied a picture that had made critics over work their vocabulary In praising it and her only commtTht was: 'My, I'D bet the Henrietta cloth in that woman's tea gown cost every cent ol $2.SO a yard.' "Just as a matter of curiosity 1 looked up my model and found that the dress she wore had cost Just that a yard. Then I knew that I had been gifted with the divine flro. Tc depict values so faithfully that ex perienced shoppers can tell tho most of the cloth you paint Beems to b? hitting old art up at a pretty lively gait." CATARRH SUFFERERS ASTONISHED Booth's HVO.u. i, the Soothing, Heal ing, Germ Destroyin" Air (lives In stant Relief. If you already own a I1YOMEI hard rubber Inhaler you can get a bottle of IIYOMBI for only 50 cents. The com plete outfit, which Includes inhaler, is $1.00, and is sold by Laurens Drug Co. on money back plan. With every bottle of HYOMEI comes a small booklet. This book tells how easy and simple it is to kill Catarrh germs and end Catarrh by just breath ing into the lungs over the Catarrh in fected membrane the powerful yet pleasant antiseptic air of Eucalyptus from the Inland forests of Australia. This book tells about the HYOMEI vapor treatment for stubborn Catarrh, Croup, heavy Colds and Sore Throats, and other interesting facts. obedient to nature uw Constant Char q*> Qoes On, Bu? Am?i can Rao* It Not T hroator?*d With Extinction An effective argument against the theory advanced once In a while that Americans are becoming degenerate 'and are bound to die out, a complaint alto made by the English concerning ?nemselveB, is advanced by Lieut. Col. Charlet E. Woodruff, Medical corpa, U. S. army, who is now stationed In the Philippines. "There is no ground for such absurd pessimism," says Woodruff, "though as K matter of fact there is plenty of evidence that certain types in each nation (British and American) do have a higher death rate than others and that there Is u constant slow change in the general average. Doth civiliza tions have been built up by immi grants and It is a law of nature that change of racial residence is always followed by extinction or alteration of typo through the survival of tho fttteBt for the new environment. "Moreover, there has been a con stant immigration into the Dritish Is lands from the beginning of things hu man, and the lnfldx of hew blood has always kept civilisation bumming, even if each invasion in olden times did do roy part of what it found. The same phenomenon is being re peated in America with the solo dif ference that the invaders, except in Mexico and Peru, have not destroyed, but are constantly building up. The process of decay of certain types is also quicker in Amorlca and the new blood comes into prominence sooner thnn in England. "Very few of the descendants of the signers of our 'Declaration of Inde pendence are in public life and most of them are nonentities, while Immi grants and sons of Immigrants are in the seats of the mighty. The descend ants of the signers of Magna Charta controlled England for many centuries, though none of that stock is in evi dence now, while the present control ling elements date back somo cen turies and very few are recent arrivals from the continent. "It Is high time that we find out who are tho fittest in each part of America. Every bit of evidence is of some value and that is the reason why the tre mendous victories of the American Olympic athletes have such a scientific and popular interest." We want you to call and see the beautiful China we are displaying for holiday trade, our line is larger and better this season than ever. S. M. & E. H. WILKES & CO. Puritan Varan, Among the offenses of the Puritans, for the most part left behind them when they came to this country, was that of tcrnlng bits of the Bible and parts of the New Testament into Eng lish verse. They were much given to the printing of objurgatory and de famatory pamphlets, for which from time to time a scribbling offender would not find repose at "mlno inn," but In the stocks to the amusement of all tho Idlers of the town. It was soon after the Reformation that this spirit of versifying the Psalms and other parte of Scripture ?Vegan, and - most of the collections published with quaint titles are now worth several times their weight In gold to gatherers of curios. Allitera tion's artful aid was much In evidence in such titles as "Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin," which com prised tho seven penitential Psalms In meter, and a "Handful of Honey suckles," in which were collated vari ous blessings out of the book of Don teronomy. William Hunnls, chapel master to Queen Elizabeth, turned the entire book of Genesis '.nto rhymo un der tho title of "A Hlveful of Honey," and Christopher Tye, a contemporary of. Hunnls," rendered the Acts of the Apostles In English verse. Put these were before the Puritans, tho chief offenders, especially in pamphlets, had arrived. Depraved Benevolence. "One of the queerest old human freaks In New York shows up around tho pollco station whenever thero is a report of runaway boys in town," said a policeman. "His purpose would not be exactly approved by the Hlblo so cieties. Ho docs not want to lecture the boys or send them home or im prove their morals in any way. He simply wantB to gratify their thwart ed ambition and show them Coney iBlnnd nnd tho Bowery before they are yanked back home by- angry parents. That is what most of th^m run away for?to boo Coney island and tho Bow cry?and this old codger argues that any boy who has grit enough to stand tho hardships of a stolen ride to New York ought to bo allowed to see those places. His benevolence Isn't all wind, either. He is willing to foot the bills If the boys will be allowed to go; but very few of them are. That is what breaks tho old gentleman*! heart. He lays aside a small sum of money each year for this peculiar charity." Mr. Poultryman: If you are not get ting eggs, don't blame the chickens; help them along by feeding Conkey's Laying Tonic. Palmetto Drug Com pany has It. 11-Ot Shortchange Dog. Charley Ellison, la up on horaes, but was not up on dogs. At one time In Hot Springs he paid for a bird dog, partly through a fanciful notion and partly because the dog was a hand some animal. He sought tho seller the next day and said: "I thought you claimed this was a bird dog. Ho was gone for three hours yesterday and didn't bring back a single bird." Passing up the hunters and golug In for trick animals, Ellison had a dog to which he would give a smell of a $5 bill and later send it to bring the money homo. A visiting horseman located tho plant beforo the dog did and substituted a $1 bill. When tho retriever showed up, Ellison said: "Prlnco. what havo you done with the other $4?"?Chicago Evening Post Rue Oullbeur Raett. The municipal councillors of L<e Mann recently decided to name oue of the streets In that town after Wil bur Wright. This decision appears to have been very popular, but mauy of the inhabitants, according to s French contemporary, aro experienc ing great difficulties In regard to the correct pronunciation; but the name Is now being horribly mangled, espe cially by the younger generation, and 1 "Vllbure Vrlght" appears to bo about the nearest popular approach to {he real thing. Our contemporary, by the way, informs its readers that "Oull beur Raett" Ib tho correct rendering. Wo are not sure whether "Raett" la right.?London Globe. ? Well Described. The other day a young woman teachor took eight of her pupils through the Museum of Natural His tory. "Well, my boy, where did you go with your teacher this afternoon?" asked the mother of ono of them on his return. With Joyous promptness, he an swered: "She took us to a dctd cir cus."?Youth's Companion. Flagged Train with Shirt. 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