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THE DRAGON'S BACKBONE. uau inciocnt oi naiiroad tonstruolion In China. "When there was undertaken clip eonstruct ion ??f the railway between Klrln and Newel)wnng, the seaport of Man churia. It was proposed to make a junction at a place called Laupien. outBide the city of MuUden. For this permission bad to be obtained from the Tartar general of Mukden. This functionary at once proceeded to cull in iiis geomancers. a species of soothsayers, who gave information concerning tlie good fortune and ill fortune of sites and were supposed by the Chinese to know what demons and dragon^ inhabited the -earth under the surface. These wise men reported that the dragon whose body encircled the holy city of Mukden lay colled up In such a way that if the railway camc through Lanplen the long nails driven int?> the ties would pierce Ids backbone and In all probability set him to raging violently. to the great detriment of the people of Mukden The general consequently refused the application of the railway people and directed them to carry the road in a afnilirltt II. .r. V cliwang, avoiding jdukden. The on ginoers thereupon appealed to the viceroy, showing that, as this proposed route would go through a marshy and uninhabited country, it could not bo prolitable for their enterprise. The viceroy wrote to the general of Mukden, highly commending him for his discretion in consulting the goo j mancers, but suggesting that these sage persons ?o over the ground again and see if they could not find a place where the nails would not be likely to strike into the dragon's back. Accordingly, at the command of the viceroy, the general had his georaanccrs indicate a spot for the junction at Lanpien where they thought that, after all. thb dragon's backbone would be safe.? N'ntu Vnll: I'rnoo RICE PAPER. Shaved From the Snow White Pith of Trees In Formosa. The so called rice paper is not made from rice. as its name implies, hut from (lie snow'white pith of a small tree belonging to the genus aralia. a genus represented in this country by the common sarsaparllla and the spikenard. The tree grows in Formosa and. so far as is known, nowhere else. The stems are transported in China, and there the rice paper is made. It is used, aside from a number of other purposes, by tlie native artists for water cylor drawings, and sometimes it is dyed in various colors and made into artificial flowers. The tools of the pith worker com prise :t smooth stone about a foot square mid a largo knife or liatehet with a short wooden handle. The blade Is about a foot long, two in-hes broad and nearly half an Inch thiek at ,the back, and it is as sharp as a razor. Placing a piece of the cylindrical pith on the stone and his left hand on fbe top, the pith worker will roll die pith backward and forward for a moment until ho gets it in the required position. Then, seizing the knife with his right hand, he will hold the edge of the blade after a feint, or two close to the pith, which he will keep rolling 10 the left with his It-It hand until nothing remains lo unroll, for the pith lias, by the triplication of the knife, been pared into a square white sheet of uniform thickness. All that remains to be done is to squnrc tne edges. If one will roll up a sheet of paper, lay it on n table, place the left hand on top and gently unroll it to the left he will have a good idea ot how i Infeat is accomplished New York ller aid. Sawsr; Sawge. I Hero is i ht? ol.l Kuik Itichnril II way of -making sausage: "I'yKi-* ii> ' Hawse snwufi." or pij^s >vit!i sage ; sauce. "Take pyfrus yskaldid (scald ed> ami quarter them an.I seetli them : in water and sill; lake ihein and let i them kele (c?h?1k take parsel tparsleyi. Hawjfi- (sauei and trrynde ii wiih Itivdc and .volki's of ayren (e^icst harde ysode (ltoilt'di; temper it with vln,,-,:ir somewhat thick. and lay I Ik- pyu^s in j a vessel and so we onoward din* sauce over tlieini. and serve it forth." 'Take pypus" i> pl'ettj jjotid. Size or niinilier seems of no consequence. N\ w York Press To Singe Cliickc:*is. ^ To sinjjt* iliicUcn - hold thorn over a 80 IK'CI' Of lilU'llillU alcohol. It (lot's liot leave soot on the tlitsh. Do Vou Believe Made l>v home, pooping It' you dn auvnt for a line of remedies call* "'IfeKGJlZ ^ That, an; guaranteed to give sat is no questions. I* I case ask about, I about, them. Thorn is one for ev< os ?rl< - and Koimt. lin Tens. I 'lease hear us in mind - * *?i < < TOKENS. >i8*ri!utora of Ilalluin'tt Bao DEATH BOARDS. Curious Custom That Provails In Eastern Bavaria. lu the eastern halt' of Bavaria, says a writer lu the Wide World Magazine, ol. j.he borders of Bohemia, lies the so called Bavarian forest. This part- of ; tho country, although it boasts beantli ful scenery, is seldom visited by tourists, probably for the reason that the charms of the region are little known j even In Germany. Thfc part of lluvnI rla has been in many ways imtnm-l>?'tl I by civilization, and uwlng to lis seeluj sion from the outer world some very I Strailire ?>iiNtniii? nrii Mtill lii I ------ ? ' J strongly reminding one of the middle j ages. One of these strange customs, stricti ly observed by the population, is i he way in which they keep alive the memory of their dead by the erect inn of what are called "totenbrctter." or "death boards." These are wooden planks cut in the shape of tombstones and roughly painted- Sometimes they bear also the image of a saint. They are erected?often in a row of thirty and more?on the roadside, in fields i and meadows, near chapels and cruel fixes. In the village streets?In short, everywhere; they are even nailed to houses and barns. They tlo not mark burial places, as might be supposed. As soon as a person has died the corpse Is put on a board, and there it lies in state until it Is put into the cottin shortly before the funeral. These boards, then, are the so called "death boards," and after the funeral they are cut into a suitable shape and decorated with an inscription containing the name of the deceased. his age and in most cases some lines of poetry. These short poems, which are. of course, meant in sober earnest, are occasionally very amusing. The boards are men siuck somewhere near the road or in the fields, where they some times accumulate to an alarming number. In the poorer districts these boards are not always cut into shape and painted, but are simply deposited just as they are at the foot of some crucifix, where they remain untouched until they inolder away. A REAL POISON PERIL Venom of the Moot Deadly Creature In This Country. One venomous creature there is in this COIIIltlV will.-Il 111.1%. liinll.t I... - , ?mi,? JUOIIJ UK.* termed a public peril in the wildest sense. Proportionately to population 1 more victims fall to it yearly in the United States than to the dreaded cobra in India. Some 12.000 Americans an* killed every year by its bite. Three hundred thousand more are made seriously 111 from the after effects. Unfortunately the virus works so slowly that alarm is stilled. The victims do not sicken at once. The bite is forgotten, but ten days or two Wooks nftor flu* nuliln/.f .. .. v.. .??? V. v??v- ? i u 1 1.1 IIIUI ?l fever. Ilis blood is poisoned within < him. Eventually in extreme eases he becomes delirious, succumbs to it stupor and dies. Yet because there is nothing horrillc to ti?e sensation loving imagination In the malaria bearing mosquito public inertia or Ignorance tolerates it with a ' grin and permits it to breed in city and country alike throughout the length and breadth of the nation. Compared with it as a real menace all the combined brood of snakes, scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas and other pet bugaboos of our childish romanticism are utterly negligible, are as IIkmcnt to reality, as shadow to substance. It is perhaps characteristic of | our wryly humorous American tein perament that we should have invested the unimportant danger with all the shuddering attributes of horror j and have made of the real peril a jointo be perennially hailed with laughter j in a thousand thoughtless prints. Everybody's Magazine. I The Drummer. Drummers seldom pray much, pay their bills, usually hate shams, d'dge touches, have warm hearts, quick wilt-, much nerve and more courage, but are b?>rn scoffers. They have good iiu-m ' ories. much humor and a fund of stolio- I' 111it( ?I uiily by tiino. Tlioy run profti-li a ormon. load in prayor. timo J :i lioiv-o r.'ico, nmpiro a hall came. ina'.o a stump s11 och nail havo an opinion upon ovory known snbjoot from pri'/o lights to ilio li.'br.Inr liypoihosis Coin mon-i.il Tra volor s Ma^a/.iuo A vorico. 11 <?w < - Vcs; ; snppono I am prott.v Well oil, lillt tlol so well oil' lis I should liko to bo. Hnrnos?Did yon ovor hoar of tho pi>; who roj;rotiod thai lie had only four foot to put into tho trough at feeding tinn?V ? I'.osion Transcript. in a (iuanmlco i of do not , listen Jo us. We are . d ( Mn>edictt?y faction or your inoih-y hack and hem and for the hook (hat talks >ry disease. Also Koxall W atcli >in- to >-e.- us. DRUG CO. ca?2* Store mmummmm, k;i<";. <i kidney Pills. p m&iiiJi ua i Greenville Tho lie tail Merchant's As* railr >ad faro to and from Green1 to out. of town customers. ~r L-Jszr d/ /\ s\s Ill I I L-./?XH V 1-Conie to Greenv ille to tra 2-Buy $25.00 worth of goodi from members of the Merchant' buy all from one store. 3-Have merchant to sign re purchase. (Hooks can be secun ry.) 4-When rebate book shows or send the book to the secretary Cleveland Building, Greenville, refunded for trip to and frorti Gi over fortv (40) miles. TRADE WITH TH CHINA, GLASSWARE, ETC. Gilroath-Durbani Co. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. ETC. J. Thos. Arnold, Co. Burr's Dry Goods. C. I). Stradloy & Co. Scott Co. Hobbs-I lendcrson. MILLINERY, COAT SUITS. Hobbs-I lenderson Co. J. Thos. Arnold Co. k/v/vtu v\j. SHOES. Pride-Patton-Tilman. ,T. Thomas Arnold Co. J. O. Jones Co. Stewart, Anderson, Merritt Co. Hobbs-Henderson Co. Ask your merchant before I) Merchants Association. Rebate of members can be secured at oil Greenville Retail HI E. B. Adam Cleveland A Squa 2f you \vaut a sijiui wit h us. Kriu<? us y have always <lon<?. The women lis pendent si rice Or* I Pickens, They i hoi v chickens an< do not ha.ve to s {lie -old man's'' did when they away at (>< ., a no cdvickens 8 l=3c. < to crow. ( 'ome a \Y o are yon r Iriei you i>n a oro(lit. \v :t!) <jock1 nioiri [ ihie prices. Von One-price Ca: Cold Wcatlic h , and we have the; jjoods to kee| ever known in Pickens at this sell you men's heavy lleece li suit; boys at 50 cents the suit we will ^ivt; you men's heavy C SI I ( )1< S WIt' lirn'c mcf t-f? fall shoes and are prepared tc saving to you of 25 to 50 cents goods and groceries at the lo and let 11s show you W. B. Fi "At tll<> (! d Fare ro and Return =?ociation of Greenville will pay ville within a radius of (40) miles r b m de. s for cash within three (H) months s Association. Not necessary to bate book and record amount of jd from merchants or theSecretathat $25.00 have been spent brin^ l of the Merchants Association, S. C., and get your railroad faro eenviile, provided distance is not ESE MERCHANTS FUltNITURFl. E. S. Poolo CLOTHING. J. O. Jones &. Co. I j. Rothschild. H. Fin del. Stewart, Anderson, Merritt. Smith & Rristow. AUTOMOBILES. R. N. Tannahill Co. LUMBER ETC. Oregon Lumber Co. BUGGIES, WAGONS. ETC. B. N. Tannahill Co. GBAPHOPHONES, ETC Gilreath-Durbam Co. B. N. Tannahill (Jo. ME A TS A N1) G B( )CEBI ES. J as. M. Ferguson. uying if be is a member of the s given by members only. List fice of Secretary. oreViont'c Aoanoiotinn igiUlIUlll 0 flOOVUlUllUU s. Secretary. Greenville, S. ire Deal re coiim1 <ni<le our produce <is you lvo become iiidelig Bros, come to get so much for 1 og-crs that they dip change from pocket like they ga v e 1 h e i i eg gs I liens 15c., and each, big enough nd 1rade \vill) us ids it we don't sol 1! ( 1u r si oto ili l ]o( i! : mi is(> at I rs lor i>us i.n? teoa* 8 Otv.ir 'W a I sh Merchants r Almost I lore ) you warm at the lowest prices , season of the year. We wi'l ' ned underwear at 75 cents the) and it you think this too hi^h lanton Flannel Drawers at 25cts. 1 . / urivcu our seconci snipmcnt 01 > lit you and all the: family at a ; the pair. Also full lino of dry west possible prices. Drop in reeman, >1(1 Stand!' -?-"X ? -M -* I Did You liver Thin I About I )rugs?Thir Its a serious subjec Drug's recklessly. G Store" to get your 1 of II rl i n/1 I \ 'V. r-. . 4- T - *? 4- ? ? Ol/UU LOU .L/I I; we have no side Lin yon see our label on < may rest assured it's The State ot\Sou4h ( us responsible for it, i Think about that, goods, now it's up to ; Kcnwnn Plu ?- ? - vx ? ? vy * * V CI.NCO CI (JAMS P Xext Door to Postollicc PAR Greenville Boutl Certain names in the business \vorl< MORGAN stands for banking, LL A. K. Park Stii Reliable Merchandise at th mate Price Our stock of dry goods, undervv Quilts, men's furnishings and Shoes i: guarantee our prices the lowest com] and squar dealing. If our yoocls si representation, bring them back ant with you. Idded a line, of men's and boys pa iro n the way they are selling, we mns pie want. Come and see us at the n jcv l A. K . |-V vv #<:*??!. <C3*-x*og:i " vlcre Goods For Le; niln wntsiTJ Fsiffn Mi Miii ill Ull It's n mistake to suppose that becai used lor drinks put up i>\ uillercnt i ^oods ar<'. itleutic.il, cither in llaAor or drinks known as ( linger Ale, Lemon ! Root Beer, Cream Soda, and other I soil drink manulat Hirers, is no standa quality. One may be lar superior in We know our drinks are equal in sire upon the market of today and lar belt O indix" thi? mi'i \? < cW ll < /? _< K?> ' ) ?1~. ' ' w | ' "* ''N esting them, but by ii.al.iug a COM I' Knowing that our flavors are "all.w< invite comparison with others. We i can, without regard to standard of co we change a formula unless we find a We believe that all things bein ec orders and correspondence and lair QUALHY is sure to win success; n those lair-minded men who handle out i . ? <? ' > > 1' ...... iiv-ii. pnn Ull li l(l I uanili. Pickens B:'-ii;r i t* ? * r r?. . , I V. jL L+p V ? w ? 4 V/ ^ Stop and! ik Seriously'/* I t. i )on't buy lo to a "I )i,ug' I )L'ugs. We've I our business; I es, and when i package you H Davolina holds I r? . i i a. ri s not pure. We have the I irniiicy, I fUNNAI.Lv's CANDIES I I'ickens, S. C. K x Carolina1 are at once recognizee!: oyds lor insurance, and lids For I ie Lowest Legiti- I (S. rear I losiery, Blankets * now complete. We patible for good goods lionlcl lail to come up to I v\e will make it right iHs to my business, and t have the kind the peoold stand >1 ^7"ii Tin 3s Money" It Mill. ilsc the same names are nanutaeturers tii.it the strength. Ihe lact that Sour, Strawberry. I'each, iavors, art put up by all rd by which to jud^e. ever)' way t<> th others. njLj'tU 10 tin: i> si placed er tli.in some. I'he way i.istiujr them, not only in AkATIVK test. lol and a yard wide,'' we nake the best (roods we r> "" mpetitors, and iiL'ver do way to improve it[ual. (carel'u 1 handling oi dealing with custo ;iers) ot only for us but lor all * goods alsc* ;"'.d we soA A I \z Works, net .r