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1t Costs You Nothing.

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versation nowadays, are worldwide.
They will not down. Their center
is everywhere, their circumference
nowhere. They mean disaster to
rotten institutions, the bursting of
all inflated enterprises, the expo
sure of deceits of every descrip-
ton and the trial as by fire of every
mans work. You may call it what
you will. I call it by its proper
name as written by the prophets
of Jehovah. It is judgement. It's
duration a it were a. a-"week" of
years, ano lor that matter all the
years that follow even to the mil
lenium, a duration of one thousand
years, or day of the Lord, as St.
Peter calls it, will be a period Of
Judgment to all who do unright-
eousness therein. But enough; a
word to the wise is sufficient. My
time is all occupied in close chro-
biological study. I would gladly
write the manuscript detailing
these unanswerable vindications
of the scripture in my life's blood
if that would insu ,-eir speedy
examination at the hands of those
for whom they are published. But
all this is IDLE; it seems impossi-
BILE to reach those whom I long
with unattainable anxiety to bring
into a knowledge of what now
must shortly come to pass.
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Has Its Good Points.

Pomona. COL, Progress.
In some villages in Japan rob.
bers are tried and convicted by
ballot. Whenever a robbery is
committed the ruler q the hamlet
summons the entire male popula.
tion and requests them to write
on a slip of paper tile name of The
persons they SUSPECT as having
committed the crimes. The one
receiving the larg est number of
ballots is declared duty elected
and is accodingy hung. This
system, like all others has its
peculiar advantages. 1t insures
the punishment ff somebody for
every robbey committed
whereas unde system in
vogue in most civilized ooun-
tries in nine case out of ten no
punishmon is i filtered on any
body for the cline. Of course.
they may not 'slect" the guilty
person, bul displ lse of some other
character equallI as bad. There
is much i'll the system to COM
mend it to other nations.
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Fare at Clemson.

At all boarding schools there
will be boys aud girls who will
grumble at the fare. You may
generally notice that their health is
improved when they are sent from
home and put on regular diet at
regular hours. The boarding
school, the year round, is generally
better than the fare in most of the
homes. The News and Courier
gives the following bill of fare
which will fatten the Clemson
College boys:
"About the best way to give an
idea of what the boys get is to
give the menus for the days I saw
Mr.. Galloway:
Breakfast at. 7.2O a. m Ham,
light bread, corn bread, hominy,
coffee or milk.
Dinner ats O lock. Beef, Irish
Fpetatoas nsntaI
station.
Supper at 6 o'clock. About same
as breakfast. =.
The bill of fare will be changed
with the season and the boys will
be given the benefit of the products
of the farm and station"
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New York World.
While riding over one of the
fields of New Jersey the members
of Washington's staff noticed
their chief feeling about his throat.
Hamilton asked him if his throat
was sore. "No," said Washington,
81 was only wondering how a halter
would feel around it." A grim jest
indeed, and one Of the few Wash
ington ever made. But had the
halter performed such an Office
would. the greatest of our heroes
have been glorified as he was yes
terday and as he is always glori-
iedl Yet he would have been
equally deserving.
Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason'
Why, if ii prosper none dare call it treason.
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|TheV Vdued MdneIaV Extensions as Compared PdlIp Values:

1t is the custom of many companies to provide
in their policies that upon discontinuance of
payment of Premium, paid-up policies will be
given without the option of extension. This
was the practice of the Union Mutual before
the Maine Non-F Forfeiture Law was enacted,
but it now substitutes for paid-up values the
more advantageous plan of extended insurance.
The objection to the paid-up system is that the
amount of paid-up insurance which is given
upon the discontinuance of payments upon
policy, unless it has been in force a great many
years is Insignificant, and of little or no value
as protection; and it leaves the insured who
ceases payment without adequate insurance at
the very time he needs it the most.
The great advantage of the extended insur-
ance afforded by the Maine Law over the most
liberal paid-up system is strikIngly shown by
the following comparison, and it will be OBJ
served that the paid-up value is insignificant
in comparison with the amount actually paid
by the Union Mutual. The result of two hum
dred and twelve policies was this:
If the insured had received paid-up
policies instead of extended in
surance the Company would have
claims only. sss,1975O
Whereas, in fact, it did pay under
the Maine Law $4B,S44.77
Making difference in favor of the
benefciaries under Two Hundred
and Twelve policies of........... 1920, ,1472S
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WHAT TT HAS DONE

The Company Has Paid Over
Two Hundred Death Claims, in
consequence of this law, aggregating
in sums insured more than Four Hun
dred Thousand Dollars.
In every case there had been de-,
fault in the payment of premium, and,
except for this law, the policies would
have been of little or no value. Instead
of this, the insurance in each case was
extended to the time of death, and the
Company was required to pay to the
beneficiaries under the policies the
sum of s41S,335.77.
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LITTLE GIRLS.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Where have they gone to-the little
girls,
With natural manners and natural
cnrls?
Who love their dollies and like their
toys,
And talk of something besides the
boys?
Little old women in plenty I find,
Mature in manners and old in mind;
Little old firts who talk oftheir @beaus"
And wish each other in stylish clothes.
Little old bellies, who, at nine and ten,
Are sick of pleasure and tired of men,
Weary of travel, ,of balls, of fun
And find no new thing under the sun.
Once, in the beautiful long ago,
Some dear little children 1 used to
know;
Girls who were merry as lambs at play,
:
And laughed and rollicked the livelong
day.
They thought not of the "style" of
their clothes,
They never imagined that boys were
"beaus"-
Other girls brothers and "mates" were
they,
Splendid fellows to help them play.
Where have they gone to? If you see
One of them anywhere, send her to me.
I would give medal of purest gold
To one of those dear little girls of old,
With an innocent heart and open smile,
Who knows not the meaning of ''flirt"
or "style"
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LoiYElFRANKLY APPROVED,

Journal of Education. 81
Ifsnature deigns to charm the eye
With flowers of every hue;.
Rejoicing, though at night they die,
Whynot be happy too9
Why not, why not,
why not be happy too?
a thousand creatures frisk and fly,
And seek, and spend, and WOO;
Shall we the common law deny?
Why not be happy too?
Why not, why not,
Why not be happy too2
Squirrel and bee with rapture ply
The arts their fathers knew;
If these rejoice, why, SO may I!
Why not be happy too?
Why not, why not,
Why not be happy too?
I The beady brooks go laughing by,
The birds sing in the blue,
The very heavens exult, and cry:
Why not be happy too?
Why not, why not,
Why not be happy too?
Dora READ sGooDALE.
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T. S. LEAGUE,
w. F. CUNNINGHAM.

Colonel Shaw was at my house
on Wednesday and invited me and
my wife down TO spend the next
day. When we came Mr.. Shaw
informed me that he had written a
note to Captain Shell to come
kown that day, and told him that
4 was glad 10. see Captain Shell
fos he was an old friend and neigh.
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TEN YARDS0F SNAKE.
The Monster Does Seem Startling.
Things on the Weston FARM

IF you should ever pass the
Weston farm near Delphi. Ind"
said John Gilbert to a New York
Sun man, ''youcouldn't help but
notice shepherd dog lying on one
endof the front porch with his
head on his fotepaws, apparently
asleep, He went to sleep, accord
ing to the story that Farmer Wes-
ton tells, one night in February
last, and he has never wakened
since. When that dog went to
sleep he weighed about fifty pounds
He now weighs more than one
hundred and fifty pounds, for he
is petrifed. Some folks declare
that is simply a-sdog carved
from stone, but that is before they
have heard Farmer Wsston's story.
after they hear that they have
nothing more to say. They can't
say anything. They simply marvel.
Farmer Weston is a member of
the Baptist church and only has
one arm, SO it is hardly likely
that he wonld lie about a little
thing like petrified shepherd dog.
And, more than that, the change
in the dogs status is really not
the most surprising thing about
the farmers story. I was never
any nearer the Weston farm than
Richmond. Ind, and consequently
I never saw the dog, but man
who saw it not long ago told me
the story Farmer Weston told him
about the dog, and the amazing
manner in which it was pertifed.
"Just after dark one night early
in February the farmer left the
house, he said, 70 gohis barn to at
tend to his horses for the hight.
The weather was cold, but there
was no wind astir, 50 the farmer
was surprised to hear noise like
the soughing of heavy wind
thr ugh the branches of the trees.
This sound was all the more sur
prising because there was no trees
anywhere around for the wind to
sough in. A public road passes
the house a hundred yards or so
distant, and the noise seemed to be
from the direction of the road.
Farmer Weston stopped and
Listened to the singular noise, and
as he listenen he saw a sight no
Hoosier farmer ever gazed on be-
fore; and he says he is willing to
bet his farm on it.
"And what do you think it was?
said the man, who said thathe was
saying just what Farmer Weston
had said to him. ga snake; not
only a snake, but fire. regular
fiery serpent came suddenly from
the road and wound wiggled, and
zigzagged its way, toward Weston,
travelling as fast as a steam
engine"
According to the farmers data
this fiery snake was thirty feet
long and a foot and half in
diameter. Now, naturally, one
would suppose that snake carry
ing as much fire sthat along with
it would quickly raise the tenn
perature of the weather in any
district it was travelling through,
but things worked just the con-
trary with this snake. AS it ar-
preached Farmer Weston he could
feel the temperature getting ra-
pidly loves, until he was sure it
fell away below zero. This alarmed
the farmer for he hadn't things
| just fixed around the premises for
lsuch a sudden and unprecedented
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We, the undersigned, were
present at the residence of Colonel
Shaw in Laurens county at the
time of the difficulty between
Senator Irby and Congressman
Shell. We were invited there by
Colonel Shaw during his distress
on account of the Davenport. mat
ter. Colonel Shaw being a nephew
of Mr.. Davenport. On this oc-
casion there we're present in the
~rMr league, ". r. r.
Cunningham, o. G. cunning CHAM;
Sanator Irby, and Congressman
!, II. Colonel Shaw was out at
The ,.,te holding Senator Irby,s
horses. lie came into the parlor,
walked up to Captain Shall and
said:
Did you have anything to do
with the writing of Farley's letter
when he was at your house few
days before its publications."
Shell replied II did not, but
it was read over to me in my
presence at my house, %
Ir6y said: "Did you endorse
~"
Z Shell replied: 81 endorsed a
part of it,
Irby then slappedhim in the face
with his hand, and w. F. Cunning
ham asked them not to have any
fuss there.
Shell said: aLet me explain; /;
let me explain
She'll did not Graw a chair OF
show any disposition to resent the
blow in any way. Senator Irby
had his pocket knife in his hand,
small knife, with but one blade,
and he did not make any use of
it.
o. G.. Cunningham did not draw
a pistol; had no weapon with him.
He remarked that he was a friend
tof both Irby and Shell but he
didn't want Irby to stick knife
in him. There wasn't a high word
spoken during the whole affair.
and when Irby saw that Shell did
not intend to resent the blow he
did not press the fight upon him
Shell then said he endorsed that
part of Farley's letter that he
(shell) did not disrupt the reform
movement.
During Shells explanation
Shaw came in the house most dis.
tressed that there had been any
difference. Irby said to Shaw: "sc
far as you are concerned, [ an
sorry that there should have been
any trouble" After some little
talk, Senator Irby entered his
buggy and drove off home.
We are friends and neighbors Of
Colonel Shaw and know him to BIZ
incapable of planning or helping
to take the life Of, or toeyen wrong
any one.
T. S. league,
w. f. CuNNINGHAM.
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FACTS OF THE FRACAS.
Official Report of The Irby-shen
Difficulty.

= u |
I Greenyille News.
H1aH POINT, S. c., July "a. To
the Editor of The Greenville News.
On Sunday last aThe State pub
lished an article giving an account
of a meeting at my house between
Senator Irby and Congressman
sshel1in which there are several
misstatments Of facts, the correc-
tions of which as below l ask
you to give the benefit of your cir
culation.
Respectfully,
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had-no pistol about me and am not
in the habit of carrying them.
Shell did not attempt to draw a
chair on Irby nor make any al
tempt to resent the blow.
o. C. CUNNINGHAM.
i saw in aThe State" an article
which does me great injury and 1
write the following statement:
Wednesday, week ago, I wrote a
note to Captain Shell to come to
my house, intending for him to
come the next day. / wanted to
see him in reference to All in
dignation meeting held no far
from his house in the Davenport
matter. He came about 10 o'clock
the Eext morning. A. short time
afterward Senator Irby came in his
buggy and I went out to meet him
and asked him not to go into the
parlor on account Of Shell being
there. He went, however, and a
difficulty took place. but I did not
see it. I make this statement to
correct the infamous falsehood at
once. Captain Shell will not dare
to say that he was threatened with
assassination by me or Senator
Irby, and I know he will correct it
at once.
J. d. M. SHAW.
As contradictory to malicious
statement published in Columbia
State last Sunday, July %, the.
following statement from Captain
Shell was furnished The State
for publication in tomorrow's
issue
Nothing is more distasteful to
me than the nee cessity. Of appearing
IMPRINT but 4 observe IN your II:
issue of the 23rd inst, an mac
curate account of formal diff
ficulty that occurred at Colonel
Shaw's between Senator Irby and
myself, and in order that the pub
lie may know the truth of the oc-
I will state briefly, that
I was at Colonel Shaw's as an
invited guest on Thursday, the
1th inst, together with O. G.
G Cunningham, w. F. Cunningham,
and T. S. league. Sometime af-
ter my arrival there, and whilst
being entertained in the parlor,
Senator Irby suddenly made his
and in an excited
manner inquired Of me if General
Farley had read to me the COM
munication published against him
and also demanded TO know if I
endorsed said article. l replied
in the affirmative, and said I en-
dorsed so much of it as was contra
dictory to the statement by "Crad-
DOCK" thereupon, Colonel Irby
struck me whilst sitting in my
chair. w. F.Cunningham caught
Irby and pulled him back, when
Irby drew his knife but was pre-
vented from using it by being
held by w. F. Cunningham. Af-
ter some unimportant chickering's
Senator Irbt left and thus ended
the affair.
I would state in justice to
Colonel Shaw.that he was in no
way responsible for this indecent
occurrence, and none regretted it
more than him. The statement
that Colonel Shaw had invited me
to come to his house after night
Is utterly false, and any insinua-
tion that there was q conspiracy
to assassinate me is without
foundation. If I have a friend
and I have many-Colonel Shaw
must be numbered first among
them.
o. C. Cunningham had no pistol
nor was one even mentioned
throughout the affair, and no such
information was furnished by me,
as one of the interested parties, to
any one.
G. w. SHELL.
One of Waslfington's Jests.
New York World.
While riding over one of the
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THREE II KISSES.

~ y 8 The purest kiss
s. sfS5 81 In the world is this
! II kiss that a mother lays
sss & e On her child's fresh lips
g As he blithly tries
6meetthe world and its ways.
The sweetest kiss
Insthe world is this
he dirsr long kiss of love,
When time,is not
s And the'earth is forgot,
a Eden drops from above.
The saddest kiss
In the world is this
has on unanswering clay
~ hen dead lips tell
e must sob farewell
ilEthe dawn Of the Judgment Day
.N - =. Y
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with extreme disgust. They go down
there. expecting to find ten months
of summer and two. months of
early fall weather to revel in the
glad sunshine and to inhale the
unctuous perfume of magnolia
buds all the year. They get into
their picnic clothes and send
their heavy weights to friends
back home to be given to the poor
or packed away in camphor. Just
about that time a norther arrives,
and for three days, they long to go
to Manitoba to get warm.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-03
81 Fhat a Texas Norther is.
saGsobe-D Democrat.
bet is a Texas northern" The
oI,swas put to Major B. M.

ST Logiss COB Democrat.
hstlis a Texas northern" The
quesf fionswas put to Major B. M
Var lhurst of Texas. "a Texas
mort tfief my inquiring friend, is an
fextmely damp and disagreeble
;Wetass that crawls up out of the
hole where the North Pole used tc
be and swoops down upon the
sonse6Haes sunny southland at q
Name Hanks gait catching you
with our mosquito bar under,
clos on and your over coat
in sosk. 1t is more penetrating
than fammonia and requires but
tensss ssconds to work its way to the
most tgseret recesses of a fat mans
souEand cause him to regard the
orthodox hell of fire as the one
thingaH the world most to be de-
sired
spna a norther has a victim in
its gIsp he feels that he has a COM
binatsen Of buck ague and ceuges-
tive sehills. It is the cu ON in
Texa# mot to make re until
somer erSdy freezes 70 death. It
woul@e.a a slam on me most de-
lightttl climate on earth. Few
housea built prior to the war had
any poyision for heating. The
custom was, when a norther
annotMced ITSELF, to keep piling
on coSts until it got discouraged
and give up the contest. That
custoH sstil generally followed.
NortE opleS regard this
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The Union Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
OF PORTLAND, MAINE-
incorporated, 1913.
Its Policies are The Most Liberal Now Offered to The Public.

only existing Company whose policies can be subject
MAINE NON-FORFEITURE LAW.
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One of wasliington's Jests.

G. w. SHELL.
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THOS. j. AID DA-Ms, PROPRIETOR


Dor. In a short time Captain
Shell came and we were sitting in
the>parlor.
Senator Irby came and said to
Shell aDid you endorse Farley's
letter2n
Shell replied: sI did to a Ger
tain extent y
Then Senator Irby slapped him.
W. F. Cunningham caught Senator
Irby and I rose then between Shell
and Irby and said thatI was a
friend of both of them, and @don't
you stick that knife in She'll" 1
had:no pistol about me and am not
in the habit of carrying them.
Shell did not attempt to draw a
chair on Irby nor make any az.
tempt to resent the blow.
O.C. CUNNINGHAM.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1893-08-24
Naissance
En-, cette vile, le IA Aont, Nine
Ozias Laferriere, un garcon.

Mourir d hem0rrhagie Isl une
de nos arteres SO rompt ct 81 i'm
m6diat. ment PROCUREMENT du sang
nest ar1etA, nous oous affaiblis-
sons graduellement ct, personne ne
la mort s'ensuit 3 BRET de-
lai. Oest la ralson pour laquelle
un accident de cette nature est g6-
n6ralement rsdout6. N6anmoins 10
sang peut contrlbuer . nous afai.
blir sans efusion directe ct r6dui-
re la dur6e de notre existence. s.
notre sang est impur, 6pais on
boueux. CO fat sc signale force
ment dams le systemic organique
general.
Les organes vitaux go refusent .
remplir leurs fonctions rsspecti-
YES 4 cause da manque de nourri-
turv appropriate . chacun d'eux
respectlvement; alors nous per-
dona Ia sant6 ct nos forces.
LIE Novoro du DR.. Pierre rend
an sang ses conditions normales ct
le systAme enter. Depuis
plus de cent ans il est en- usage ct
pendant IN steele il q sontenu ga
reputation m6rjt6e. Ancun phar-
.mecien re lie vend. Ecrivtz an DR..
Pierre Fahrney. l2-l14S. Hoyne
Ave. Chicago. III.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1893-08-24
damn4, ft nm signe 4 ses aides ct
lanea ainsi son propre pers dams
|l'eternitA.

Paris. -Un socialists bien con-
no, nomm6 Moore, q tire an coup
de revolver hier sur N. Lockroy.
|L'anclen ministre montait lesca-
lier dune m6ison de Ia rue de
Charopne, Oh cont sitn5s les bu-
reaux de sop comit6 electoral.
Moore. qui lui Atait do reste par
faitement inconnu. Parreta ct lnl
10 francs. N. Lockroy
refusa, ct rhomme, Sc preclpitant
sur lui avec furie, fit fen, pressure
q bout portant, avec an revolver
quill await sorti de 90 poche. Lam
Glen ministre tomba. Des amis DC
.courus d son secours, constaterent
que la bale await d6vi6 sur IN os,
.ocoasionnant supplement une con
douloureuse. Le blesse q
.et6 immediatement transports 81
son domicile. Moore q 6t6 arret6
.C'est I'M socialiste que ses decla-
nations dams les reunions politi-
ques ont rendu c6lAbre. ii colpor-
to des chansons de ga composition
quill vend dams les rues.