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know her. Then some Russian grand duke
was ordered 20 Barritz for the quiet
We'll, there are grand dukes and grand
dukes sighed the English lady. The first
Russians seemed an acquisition. All was
still idyllic. No railway; no cocottes: only
one Casino, very correct giving classical
concerts for the ladies. Every one came to
1T Of evenings. But with the PotockiS.
Narishkins and Dolgoroukis, the baccarat
profits became very heavy. Bertrand, the
gambling-club kink of Paris, got his eye on
1t. He came down; built rival Casino;
obtained permission for ladies to frequent
the playroom; imported professional beau
ties and impe cunious young Parisians of
high family as stool pigeons; advertised
BiarritZ enormously-and BiarritZ was
ruinedI"
But where do the Russians come in?"
Russians Made It.
'The Russian taste has latent vulgari
ties" shifted the English lady. "Barritz
society would easily have held out against
Bertrand's fast innovations had not the
Russians headed the rush to the new Ca
sino with its painted BEAUTIES around the
baccarat. The old Casino had to open its
doors TO like practices. Then the French
came rushing in, thanks to Bertrands ad-
vertsing. The French began specializing in
land. Villas ran up such as had never been
seen. And BiarritZ became suddenly the
fastest watering place in Europe! 1t is
nothing that Bertrand finally sold out to the
old Casino. The thing was doner'
We were rolling through the Garden of
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What 1 saw was lot of frumps in the
ufliest hired bathing dresses possible The
fish wives of Cancale would make better
showing! Yes. at the casinos the scene was
sometimes brilliant, but there is a vast
multitude of third-class sightseers who
swamp it all. At a certain pastry cooks it
is pure brilliance-two hundred lovely wom-
en-. dressed de!iciously, with thirty or more
supercilous young men, taking tea from
to I; but we could not even get in-no
room, not even standing room! Those folks
all live in their villas. Obviously they
spend their time visiting and dining and
lunching each other. Biarritz town is get
ting the bum
The Russian brother of the girls who
, slept too late was Disguised with the Span
ish.
II took Ciga and Maria to that pastry's
cooks" he said, fine type of the pro-
vincai young Polish nobleman. Il saw
three empty chairs near a little table.
Well. a chocolate-faced ruffian put his feet
on one chair. An ivory-tinted young bril-
gard deliberately laid his hat on a second.
\ yellow toothed Mephistopheles lolled his
elbows On the third. All three stared at the
girls with ipso!ent grins: then jumped up,
ostentatiously, to offer Olga and Maria
place.
Spanish Noblemen
'Why didn't you punch their heads."
CROWDED the American, fresh from his own
/ punching
'"rhey were band of ruffians, all gran
| dees of Spain. Last week they picked a
quarrel with two French villa proprietors
| oe mark"
| Resulting In a duel?" l asked.
| "Resulting in an ambush" answered the
| Young Russian. six laid for the two
| Frcnchmen at a dark corner and all but
| killed them. The wild, untamad grandees
| oe Spain eat pork and beans, boiled in oil
| on its lands eleven months of the year
| and simply scatter gold about Biarritz in
| September"
The English pungers mother had an
| ether explanation-Russian influence ruined
! BiarrtZ.
| .Bidrritz was simple fishing village,
she said "The Spanish, down there. swell
| terso IN the heat; came up here for the
| breez-s, and so the Empress Eugene, be-
! fore her marriage. knew Biarritz. All
| passed familie. If a sudden rain came
| up, they an into the nearest shop, sat on
the counters and sent out the shopkeeper
to fetth tie m chocolate.
I-"When Eugenie became empress of the
French she used to run down here to meet
her Spanish friends. Scotch and English
| families learned BiarrtZ from her-her
grandfather a Kirkpatrick, and Eng
fish and Spaiiish had Biarritz to them
sci, es until long after the Franco-Prussian
war. No French came: Eugene could not
brinx the old french families; they didn I
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lHESE CANAS SEES
ATTEND THE CONSUL
GENERAL

matte agent he is the guardian OF the rights
of all Americans who come to Egypt. None
of them can be arrested without his consent
and any such arrest must be made by one
OF his own policemen, who known the
consular cavasses. These cavasses attend
the consul general on all state occasions,
and act neutenants about his front door.
They are Turks Egyptians. Each wears
q feZ cap. a gorgeous uniform embroidered
with gold braid and a great sword at his
side. Thesa men ara subject to Consul
General Iddings, and they have the right to
enforce his commands.
What Egypt Sells.
In order to understand this trade one
should know what Egypt sells. The Nile
valley is almost altogether agricultural.
Egypt has 100000 people. and two thirds
of all those over ten years of age are en-
gagged in farming. The great money crops
are cotton and sugar, and just now cotton
forms nine-teaths of the exports There Is
so much money in cotton that those who
raise IT do as our planters do when cotton
Is nigh. They put all their land into that
crop. and buy their meat and corn out of
the proceeds. The Egyptian cotton sells for
much more than ours. 1t is of a peculiar
staple. ard is SO valuable for mixing with
other COttons that VIC often buy from
seven TO ten million dollars worth of 1t our
selves In 1906 the crop sold for S93 $50 coo
and the bulk of this went to England AS
1t is now Russia Is annually taking five
or six million dollars. and Germany about
the same amount of Egyptian cotton. The
cotton seed is also sold, most of it going to
Great Britain and France.
indeed cotton Is fast crowdng out sugar
and the sugar sales not as large now
as they have been in the past They
amount to about 81 10000 per annum
or late Egypt has begun to raise vega-
tables for Europe. The fast boats which 90
from Alexandria to Italy carry green stun,
and especially onions, of which the Nile
valley is now exporting several million dol
lars worth per annum. Some of these are
sent to England. and others to Austria and
Germany. The onions packed in bags
of a hundredweiSht each.
AS to tobacco, Egypt is both an exporter
and importer. Egyptian cigarettes are sold
all over the world, but Egypt does not raise
the tobacco of which they are made The
cultivation of tobacco has been forbidden by
law since 1880, and all the tobacco used is
Imported from Turkey, Greece and Bosnia !
About fbur-fifths of it comes from Turkey.
The total imports amount to about So OOO coo
a year. and it might pay our tobacco trust
to see if our best Virginia weed could not
d:splace that of Turkey
Secretary Wilson should investigate the
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putting all the blame upon the French. He
had been forced to punch a Frenchman' $
nose right on this train.
Why did he try to fiirt with my wife?
It's these Frenchmen who force men with
wives and daughters to be-
"Piggish," uttered his pretty wife eng
matically. Every ona was in bad humor
Every one was disappointed. Every one
was returning from Biarritz, most famous
OF European watering places, the most
mixed, where races clash
Surely the Partisan men maniacs on
flirting, for example: Other races cannot
understand II. They need encouraga e.
ment. This middle-aged beau had stood
around the parlor sleeping car corridor
making eyes at the pretty American wife
until l. amateur Partisan. became
ashamed % him. Profiting by the hus-
bands absence IN the restaurant car, he ac-
tually addressed her; whence the nose
punching, scandal and q proces-verbal on
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the oven crop of chickens amounts to thirty
or forty millions per ar num that number
Of little fowls being sold by the oven owners
when the baby chicks are about able to
walk.
and many are kept warm by coal oil lamps.
The incubators here are one story buildings
made OF sun-dried bricks They contain
ovens which are fired during the Matching
seasons The eggs are laid upon cut straw
in racks near the oven, and the firing is so
carefully done that the temperature Is kept
just right from week to week The heat is
not gagged by the thermometer, but by the
judgment and experience of the man who
runs the establishment. A fire Is started
eight ten days before the eggs are put
in, and from that time on it is not allowed
to go out until the Matching season is over.
The eggs are turned four times day while
Matching. Such establishments are cheaply
built, and they are arranged that it costs
almost nothing to run them. One which
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will hatch two hundred thousand chickens
year can be built for less than fifty dollars,
and an experienced man can be hired to run
the machine, tend the fires, turn the eggs
and sell the chickens for about a dollar and
half per day.
What Egypt Buys.
Egypt buys almost everything under the
sun. Her imports amount to more than one
hundred million dollars every year, and a
large part OF this money is spent for goods
which are speciality in the United States.
She buys thirteen million dollars worth of
cereals. veget tables and flour. and, of this
almost three million dollars worth come
from Great Britain, three million and a half
dollars worth from France and Algiers
one million dollars worth from Italy, and
four million dollars worth from Turkey. OF
the whole just about four hundred thou
sand dollars worth comes from the United
States, and that Notwithstanding we pro-
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EGYPTIANS LIKE Ar1ER1cAM CoTToN5

chicken industry of Egypt. These people
have been famous egg producers since the
time Of the Pyramids, and the helpful hen
1t brings in hundreds of thousands of dol
lars a year. and its eggs form one Of the
items of the national exports. During the
past twelve months enough eggs have been
shipped across the Mediterranean to Eng
land and other parts of Europe to have
given one to every man, woman and child
in the United States. The amount was in
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the neighborhood Of 100000, 600, and the
most Of them went to Great Britain.
The Egyptians have an excellent climate
for fowl raising. and they had incubating
establishments long before artificial egs
Matching was known to the rest Of the
world. There Is hatchery near the Pyra
mids where the farmers trade fresh eggs
for young chicks at two eggs per chic, and
there Is another, farther down the Nile
valley. which produces a half million little
chickens every season. It is estimated that
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PARIS September n, 1907.
a y Enghshman annexed the bath
~ room OF the BiarritZ-London train
- de luxe at Z a. AT 1;30 men of
y five nations listened to him waste
the water. At six ladies had
banged on the door. AT SIS he came out.
bathed. shaved. curled. staring down the
murmUrers with icy nerve.
Its the English who force others to be
hoggish in sen-defense, observed a
thoughtful German.
Il say. Ethel, haven't those Germans done
wallowing in the restaurant car" an Eng
lishman had grumbled last evening NO.
they're ordering champagne to hold the ia
bles. Wen do IL tomorrow; it's the Ger
mans who force others TO be piggish in
self-defensei'
An hour later an excited American was
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Copyright. 1907. by Frank C. carpenter)

TCLE SAM ought TO food the val
lev Of the Nile with Ama rican
drummers. Business here is on
the boom and trade IS advancing
at eleEraphic speed The Esyp- |
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the train. Unless the American quits Paris
he will have $50 fine and 500 expenses-and
lucky not to go to Jail for assault and bat
terry.
Contact With Cynics.
On the train of luxury" whose extra tar
If more than doubles the first-class railway
fare-itseIf double the third class-we are
thrown in contact with cynical European
living. All on board are delighted with a
runaway couple, muffied in Chinese silk ul-
sters, Panamas pulled over their eyes.
But 1t nice and romantic!' protested
the American wife. Until some one whis-
pered to her the true, necessary situation:
They are French; they are running off;
therefore 1t can't he to get married-it is
legally impossible for runaway couple to
get married in France.
Surely the English make themselves OBJ
1ectonable. The sleeping cars are cut into
little parlor compartments by day, all CIV
Ing on side corridor. Well, two such hap
pened not to be rented on leaving Biarritz.
Both were Immediately overrun, without
pay, by the English, who left their heavier
luggage in their own more cramped quar-
tiers, and even the naughty employees wilted
beneath their nervy bluff.
The English are known to spend much
money in Biarritz steadily. American me-
teors fash by in midsummer, but the En-
gliSh practically make the BiarritZ late au-
tumn and winter season. Because of the
golf-playing English trade the vast white
marble Hotel Regina has just been built on
the downs, mile out OF BfarritZ Probably
the English are the steadiest heavy gam
blers at the two Casinos "Cahn't gamble
at home. YOU know There Is a long-leg-
ged young specimen in a loud Norfolk suit
on the train who is credited with having
dropped $4,000 at baccarat in September
his gentle. white haired lady mother having
helped him to do it, l think she is the
worst gambler of the two.
Americans Disappointed.
The Americans are outspoken in their dis
appointment.
Il can't imagine why folks go there.'
complained the young wife. There are no
| trees. The automobiles are always stirring
| up horrid dust that ruins clothes. It's
| either sweltering hot or stickily oppressive.
| We paid $40 day apiece for two small rooms
| at the Hotel du Palais. Never ate a meal
| that cost less than IS for the two OF US
| and were so far from the after-dinner gay
| ETY. that we saw and heard nothing. A car
| riaee to the Bayonne bull fights cost $50.
] Every trip to San Sebastian took 500 And
| all that to mix in frumpy multitude that
| swamps the few real swells who show
| themselves"
| IL went down to the Grande PLACE at IL
l IN. five times to the duchesses and
/ inarquisfs taking their sea baths in their
corssts," said her husband, regretfully.
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Claim Agents st7ry.

eyes," said the railway claim agent
"we run across queer things some
times. The queerest thing in my ex-
perience was the case of a minister.
"This man vas hurt in a rear end
collision and we gave him $1,000 dam
ages. At the end of the year we got
a letter from him that a something
like this:
"My salary is $4,000, and the acct
dent caused me to lose it for twelve
months. Ny medical expenses were
$3.50. My board at a mountain sani-
tarium for six months was $3.50. Other
expenses due to this accident we're,
in round numbers, $1,000; total, "a 800.
You gave me $1,000. Now I am back
in the pulpit again, as well and strong
as ever, and.I have $500 of your
money on my hands. Not being en-
titled to that sum, I do what any
other minister would do in my place
Il return the money to you as per
check enclosed"
Chow was that for honesty?" said
the claim agent. The ministers are a
wonderful lot. We sent the $500 back
to this honest minister and he gave it
to charity in our New Or
leans Times-Union.
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Unclaimed Mail.

List of letters remaining uncaIled
for in this Office for the week ending
June II, 1907:
Males:
Bacon, John S.
Brown, Oker.
Mitchell, Sam.
Females:
Hartman, Meta Lee.
King, Miss Bitty.
These letters will be sent to the
dead letter Office June 81, 1907, if
not delivered before. In calling for
the above, please say "advertised,"
giving date of list.
S. j. Leaphart, Postmaster.
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When some people tell US they did
their best we wonder what their worst
is like.
A man loves a woman because he
wants to. If he marries her it is be-
cause she wants him to-.
In order to size Up the average man
correctly, get his estimate of himself
and knock off so per cent.
Usually a man who boasts of his
bravery hasn't got nerve enough to
push a sitting hen off her nest.
Every time a woman makes a fool
of a wise man he simply charges it up
to experience and lets it 60 at that.
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Drowned With Handouts On.

Joe Townsend, a big burly fellow,
who was under arrest ON a warrant
from W~aynesville, N. c., on the
charge of hitting a woman with a
rock, attempted to escape from the
constable at Pelzer, S. c.. last week.
He a to the river and jumped in
just above the dam, where the water
was very deep, and attempted to
swim across, but sank about mid
stream and was drowned. lie was
about 30 years of age, and had been
working in the Pelzer mill a year.
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We Guarantee Satisfaction.

J.. A. Brogdon, Of the National Sign
Co., Dayton, O., writes under date OF
Oct. IL, 1906: "Nosena is the onlyprep-
aration I have ever used that relieves
my affection SO speedily and pleasantly.
I am getting the first real pleasure out
of breathing that I have experienced
since I contracted catarrh six years
ago. Money wonld not buy my tube Of
Nosena if I could not get another.
Buy Nosena from Derrick's Drug
Store and G. E. Corley and get your
money back if not satisfied. Sample
tube and booklet by mail 10 cents.
BROWN MANUFACTURING Co.,
st. Louis, Mo. and Greenville, Tenn.
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TILE honest APOLOGY.
A Man Should Never be Ashamed to
Saw He is Sorry He Did Wronq.

n Woit Saooio NSvS' w HSioUtSu W
Say He is Sorry He Did Wrong.
Don't be afraid or ashamed to say
that you are sorry.
It may be hard, but remember that
it takes two to make a quarrel, and
the chances are that you were as
much in the wrong as the other per-
SOD.
OF course it would be better not to
quarrel in the first place, but after all
we are only human, and sometimes
our temper gets the best of US.
But the false pride that keeps US
from acknowledging ourselves in the
wrong is even more deplorable than
the unruly tongue that gets US into
trouble in the first instance.
A quarrel that does, not amount to
much in the first place can grow into
a perfect mountain of trouble through
brooding.
Don't wait for the other person to
express regret. Come right out like
q man or woman and say: s1'm sorry
for my share of the ofense. Let US
forgive and forget"
Never part from any n with
hard feelings between you.
Remember that 'smany go forth in
the morning who never come back at
night" Don't run the risk of hav-
ing to GO through life with an agony
of remorse in yohr heart.
And remember also that every quar-
rel leaves a scar. If you would pre-
vent those scars from being ugly
wounds, do not hesitate to do your
share Of making up"
Sweethearts will quarrel over need
less trifes as much for the pleasure
of reconciliation as anything else, but
it is a foolish pastime and often gets
you into the habit of dispute.
If you are a wife, never let your
husband go away in the morning with
an unforgiven quarrel between you.
It will rankle in your heart all day,
and nothing will seem right or sweet.
1t is twice as easy to express sorrow
Immediately after the quarrel as it
will be if you wait a day.
1t is usually a sulky person who
finds it hardest to express contrition.
The quick tempered person is as
ready to make up as he was to take
offence, but the sulky person, even
though he may feel desperately sorry,
cannot bring himself to say so, and
the result is that he goes through a
great deal Of unnecessary suffering.
Don't be the kind that won't ae-
knowledge the blame. Say you are
sorry and ssy it sincerely. There is
no.disgrace in an honest avowal of
having been in the wrong.-st. Louis
Republic.
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Aren't Merritt Housekeeping.

Mr.. j. Albert Merritt, our new, eff
cient and very popular railroad agent,
has gone to housekeeping in Mrs. joe
Cantelon's house on Main street.
Mrs. Merritt and her children reached
Edgefeld a week ago. Mrs. Merritt,
who is a lovely and very widely be-
loved lady, is a daughter Of that noble
man and citizen, Superintendent
Griffith of the State Penitentiary.-
Edgefeld Chronicle.
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Hanged Herself.

At Jasper, Ca, last week Miss
Queen Thompson, about 25 years old,
daughter of Elijah Thompson, one of
the most prominent and wellthough5
of men in that community, committed
suicide by hanging herself at the home
of her father. Miss Thompson was
a very popular young woman. No
cause is known for the suicide.
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When a mar starts to blow in his
money his friends like to get wind of
it.
Probably the last thought of most
persons is of their mother.
The average man thinks he is good
if he keeps out of jail.
A girl can support herself and a
large family by marrying.
A woman's idea of tight lacing is
when somebody else does it.
The more brains a man has the less
chance there is of his head swelling.
The worst feature about losing ones
temper is that it refuses to stay lost.
Some men are unable to distinguish
between good advice and a mild insult.
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A Lesson in Health.

Healthy kidneys filter the Impurities
from the blood, and unless they 10 this
good health is impossible. Foley's Kid
ney Cure makes sound kidneys and will
positively cure all forms of kidney and
bladder disease. It strengthens the
whole system. Kaufman Drug Co.
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letter Cured.

A lady customer Of ours had suffered
with letter for two or three years. It
got so bad on her hands that she could
not attend to her. household duties. One
box of Chamberlain's Salve cured her.
~Chamberlain's medicines give splendid
satisfaction in this community.-M. H.
Rodney & Co., Almond, Ala. Cham
berlain's medicines are for sale by Kauf-
mann Drug Co.
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Rock Chops Train in Twc.

Louisville, Ky.-Last week a pas
senger train on the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern was cut in two by a
falling rock in the tunnel near Mitch
ell, Ind.
Seventeen persons are reported in
jured, four seriously. There was no
loss of life.
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Coming eventsthat are calculated
to separate people from their coin are
always heralded by an advance agent.
When a banana peel takes a fall
out of a man and there isn't anything
broken but one Of the commandments
he gets off lucky.
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Groom Kills himself.

John Steel, aged %, a trolly con-
ductor living in Atlanta, Ga, shot
himself through the heart last week,
dying instantly. Steel was married
but two weeks before to Miss Matte
Lindsay. so reason is assigned for
the young mans suicide. His bride
is Frustrated.
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Poor Organ.

Dam(s) the bile. That's what your
liver does if it's torpid. Then the bile
oyerfows into the blood-poisons your
system, causing sick headache, bilious
ness, sallow skin, coated tongue, slck
stomach, dizziness, fainting spells, etc;
Ramon's treatment Of Liver Pills and
Tonic Pellets strengthens the liver and
makes it do its own work. Prevents
and cures these troubles. 1t aids
doesn't force. Entire treatment Zoe,
Derrick's Drug Store and G. E. Corlay.