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Snow White Icr Cream Booth, Blue
Dyed Blondes in charge, Elks' Fair.
1i.i33t.
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Take your prescriptions 70 Hulrs
Cut Rate Drug Store. II 12 CT
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Rcd Cross Booth. Elks' Fair.
f1-I3-3t.
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Take your prescriptions to Huils
Cut Rate Drug Store ll.i2.6t.
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Sleeping Beauty. Wa-path. Elks'
Fair 11.1s-3t.
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The Most Popular Woman on Earth
Warpath Elks Fair II 13-3t
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F1AMI2TON, PHOEBUS AND OLD p

or DO things by halves and the fair
committee is looking forward to thelI
visit with pleasure.
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Pot Luck. Ellss' Fair. 1i-i3-st.
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Wild Animal Exhibit. Elks' Fair
Warpati, ii,1S-st.
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HARRIS BARRETT. Secretary.
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Dublin Castle.

The name of Dublin castle is more
formidable than its appearance. When
1t was built in the thirteenth century
1t was, doubtless, with its four great
towers and its deep moat. a thing Of
beauty compared with the present
miscellaneous welter Of buildings
gathered round two ugly squares.
Supposed to have been begun by a
grandson of Henry L., Meyler Fitz
Henry, 1t was completed by Henry De
Loundres in 1923. In those days-the
days Of its life as real castle de-
Tending city-a river ran past the
building. The Poddle still runs. but
it keeps its obscure course under the
pavement of the lower castle yard.
1t was not until well into the reign
Of Elizabeth that the castle was first
used as the official residence of the
lord lieutenant, then described as the
"lord deputy" Although it has ever
since retained that exalted function.
Dublin castle was so neglected about
two centuries ago as to need rebuild
ing. Very little of the original struc-
ture remains.-Dundee Advertiser.
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He passed long gentlemanly hand
gently over it's soiled ribbon as he
said:
II picked this up in the Pamela front
yard little while back, and as it is
not likely shall be going back to MI.
Bixby's perhaps you will be so good as
to leave it on his counter so that the
owner may find it,"
The baG.ed knight errant fell into the
trap. "Then it was you that fired all
those shots?" he asked
A demure smile wrinkled the corners
of the fellows" lips. II? No, ! am
afraid I cannot claim the laurels Of
this occasion. suspect it was my
cousin Maude." he said
The jaws of his hearer dropped dis
consolately. Your whaty'
'AIy cousin and, as it will be genet-
ally known by tomorrow night. my
fiancee."
"The devil! A ST. John Dalton marry
a drummer?''
CAS- to that she might and never re-
gret it. In point of. fact, she is not"
''But those three big sample trunks:"
Contain Miss Dalton's trousseau.
am treating you with great confidence
ask of you. In some mysterious way
have lost the box containing the we'd
ding ring. Girls are SO superstitious
about such things that l did not care
to let Miss Dalton know of my arrival
until the ring I have telegraphed for
on Bixby's gallery just after my cous-
ms had driven away, and the talk
there going on made me uneasy. so as
had to ride out to the landing to send
my telegram I came back by way Of
Panola."
"And was there when p
This time the fellow permitted
himself a well bred laugh.
mo, 'pon honor, the girls did it all
before / got there. But it was mat
ter of some speculation while I was
there as to why you did not answer
when you We're spoken to. You see. the
name i'll your hat gave You away
''Oh. dear. And went there to pro-
| tect them against you.''
/ "Really? That was tremendously
| kind of YOU"
/ The little bookkeeper was red and
writing. "But You said you had IA
vor to ask of me-" he stammered.
"Yes. The ring ought to come up by
boat at dayhreak. 1t will come to Rix-
by's care. Would you be so good as f.
see that l get it by o'clock in the
morning?"
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The Triumph of Titus,

The total number Of those who per-
ished in the siege and capture of Jeru-
salem is estimated by Josephus at
100000 persons; $4,000 were taken
captive by the Romans. OF these 100
of the finest and strongest were select
ed to grace the triumphal procession
Of Titus. The old and the weak. who
could not be used, the Romans had
butchered in cold blood. Those over
seventeen years of age were part of
them sent into the Egyptian mines,
part of them forced to appear in bat
tie with wild beasts and be torn to
pieces by them or to fight as gladiators
Of the heather populace. In Caesarea
Phlippi alone, at the celebration of
the birthday Of Domitian, more than
$500 Jews shed their blood in the
arena. The males under seventeen
years Of age and the women were
sold directly into slavery. Titus, with
all his prisoners and all his booty,
marched to Rome, where he had bril-
liant triumph In the year II A. D..
The sacred vessels of the temple were
carried before the ''imperator," and
Simon and John, for the first time
shoulder to shoulder, were obliged to
march before the chariot of the victor
with the 100 chosen captives. Simon,
being the real leader, was first scourged
and then throttled at the stake, in ac-
cordnnce with Roman cnsfom 1ohn
finished his career in prison.
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Bamboo Pole Pals,

The Moros, who live in the thatched
houses built along the shore of Il lake
or river, have a curious way of con-
veying water from the lake or river
to their Filipino kitchens. They use
large bamboo sticks from which have
been removed all the partitions char
acterstc of the bamboo. leaving only
one at the bottom. The bamboo trunk
is thus made to serve the purpose of a
bucket. 1t is like a long narrow pail
and holds several gallons of water, for
the bamboo trunk is quite thick The
Moro women are the water carriers,
as this is Il part of the household du-
ties which naturally fall to them. They
grind the rice and other grain in a
large followed out log. using Il heavy
pole to crush the kernels.-New York
Herald
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Severe Rehuke.

! Constable, the famous painter, once
gave remarkable instance of the
sweetness OF his temper. which scarce
ly anything could rufiie. The story
was told by Julian Charles Young.
whose uncle had witnessed the Incl
dent.
He called on Constable one day and
was received by him in his front room.
After half an hours chat the artist
proposed to repair to the back room
to show him large picture on which
he was engaged. On walking up to
his easel he found that one OF his little
boys in his absence had dashed the
handle of the hearth broom through
the canvas and made so large rent
in lit as to render It's restoration inn
possible. He called the child up to
him and asked him gently if he had
done it. When the boy admitted his
act Constable took him Oh his knee
and rebuked him in these mmeasured
terms:
"Oh, my dear pet! See what we
have done! Dear, dear! What shall
we do to mend it? I can't think-can
you?"
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SOUND SIGNALS.
Their UnreIlability Under Certain At
mospheric Conditions.

V0oIT OUF0HdOIIty OUOCT SeTtdlO SAts
mospherie Conditions.
At practically every lighthouse Of
Importance on the coasts of this coun-
try Is some sort of signaling apparatus
to be used when weather conditions
prevent the lights from being seen.
Sometimes it is bell, sometimes a
whistle, sometimes Daboll trumpet,
sometimes steam siren. The idea fs
to make noise which will be heard
where ordinarily the light would be
seen, to give the mariner warning
which a fog prevents the light from
giving. OF course, In the case of a
first order light, which may be seen
twenty miles, the signal is, in part, a
failure, only the best and most favor
able of conditions carrying a siren
sound so far. The signals, of course,
have certain characteristics to prevent
the hearer from mistaking one signal
for another.
At certain times, in certain wealth
ers, and more particularly in certain
localities, these sound signals behave,
as far as their hearers are concerned,
in a most erratic manner. In some
cases the lighthouse board gets indig-
nant complaints that on n certain date
a certain fog signal was silent when
1t should have sounded. Investigation
shows that the signal was sounding
ut the time, but was, for some mex
plicable reason, inaudible to the very
ship it was meant to reach. Naturally,
such instances have been very care
fully investigated, and certain facts
have come to light as result.
It has been found that sound, like
light, is sometimes affected by at
mospheric conditions and that it will
| skip about In a most bewildering way.
| Thus, fog signal may be heard with
| ear splitting force mile from its
source and 500 yards farther on may
disappear entirely Yet another 500
yards and it again sounds as strongly
as before. The theory in such q case
as this is that the sound hits the wa
ter and is echoed back from it into
the air, to return in curve of more
or less magnitude and again strike the
water. The sound, in other words,
skips like stone skillfully thrown in
to the water, the points of arGibility
corresponding to the places the water
| is hit and the areas of silence to the
| flights of the stone
This is a simple case. In others the
sound forms circle, a ring of audi
bility, outside of which there is a ST
lence and inside of which nothing in
the nature of signal can be heard.
And to make the matter more puzzling
the conditions sometimes do not APP
pear and the signal acts as 1t should,
while at other and rarer occasions 1t
takes these freaks and fails in its pur-
pose.
AS yet no laws have been deduced
to cover the cases in point.-Scientific
American.
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AN ITALIAN BALL GAME.
A Statuesque Beauty In PalIone Seen
In No Other Game.

A Statuesque Beauty In Pallone Seen
In No Other Game.
Pallone is the king of ball games, re-
quiring not merely great strength and
alertness in the player, but offering
also such succession of noble plastic
game Goethe, who saw his first match
with delight at Verona in September,
17SG, wrote that such attitudes were
worthy of being put into marble"
Our more enlightened. archaeology
would probably declare for the nobler
bronze if the pundits could be persuad-
ed to follow Goethe and occasionally
exchange the library for the pallone
court
Be that as it may, the gist of the
game is almost as readily grasped as
its statuesque beauty. Pallone is
merely the perfected and titanic form
of the jeu de paume that is played
from end to end of Europe. You see
it in its incipiency when two urchins
VIII ltluOOu1luCo USdl a AupuCA DAiA W
and fro in the open or against a side
wall. In Spain the thing is done with
a wicker racket i'll court and Is
called pelota. But pallone, the ancient
game, which is the parent of tennis,
rackets and half a dozen other wall
games, is as far superior to its ru-
dimentary forms as baseball is to
FOUNDERS.
One look at the big ball, the pallone
itself, would convince you that here
The pallone looks like huge baseball,
but has twice the diameter and
weighs two-thirds Of pound. I have
seen it's like in Columbia county, n.
Y, where, years ago, the old Dutch
game Of wicket was played. Imagine
twelve pound shell or an enlarged
croquet ball soaring from end to end
of a 300. foot court or ricochetting
treacherously off the side wall as the
agile player gives this or that turn OF
the bristling wooden cestus. This bat
is as noteworthy as the ball. A wood.
en- cylinder, about eight inches long
and six in diameter, with an outer ar
ray Of inserted wooden spikes and an
interior cross grip shaped to the play
ers hand-such is the arm piece. OF
pracciale. 1t is SO heayy-weighing al
least four rounds-that one may rath
er say it sways the bearer than he it
Once it swings at the hurtling ball
| the whole body must follow the ges
ture: hence the remarkable plastic
| quality of all the attitudes of play
And the contestants are dressed in :
| fashion to give value to these momen
! tary poses. A trim jacket, the righ
| sleeve short, tight knickerbockers
stockings and canvas slippers, all spot
less white, make up costume tha
| admits touch of color only in til.
/ gold fringed sash-gift of an admircr
generally-which marks the player al
belonging to the reds and blues. Re
turning to the pracciale, it is not I
comfortable thing to wear. At ever.
pause the players rap it sharpl!
against the wall to drive. the bandaget
wrist home, and they often breathe OF
the hot and half exposed knuckles II
vain attempt to cool them.-Frank J
| Mather in Century.
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Florentine table She glanced at the
weapon frowningly.
81 must take it to pieces tomorrow.
1t is getting hard on trigger. Rusty
from disuse, l suppose"
The oldest Miss Dalton picked the
weapon up and wiped off the Floren-
tine table caressingly with the sleeve
of the wrapper she had drawn over her
nightgown.
'Maudie, you show our Gear old table
no more respect than if it We're kitchen
deal"
Miss Maude followed her sisters
movements abstractedly. Il do wish
we knew who it was" she said.
The five st. John Daltons laughed
contemporaneously and contemptuous-
ly.
"Some one who has yet to find out
that women can protect themselves in
the hour of need. Mamma, Gear, do
hope this untiinely disturbance will not
give you one .of your bad headaches"
said the eldesa
Bixby's clerk stopped in at Brents
tavern on his way back to the store.
He really felt the need Of something to
quiet his nerves. Moreover, he might
incidentally learn something about the
movements Of that fellow Agitation,
disappointment and perplexity strug-
gled for the supremacy in his knightly
bosom. The night clerk at Brent's bar
must have made the toddy Jonas or
dcrcd unusually strong, or perhaps fa-
tigue did it. He fell asleep Oh the cane
settee soon after imbibing it.
When he awoke it was midnight, and
the inquisitive villain was giving an or
der to the night clerk. Bixby's book
keeper was intensely wide awake in
half a second. His tired eyes opened
to their fullest capacity when he dis
covered in the fellows hand the straw
hat which he was last conscious of as
it had dropped from his fleeing head.
The fellow came over and seated
himself hy the daZed owner OF the hat
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A Maenolia EIysium.

When good Charlestonians die, their
bodies, it is said, go to Magnolia ceme
terry and their souls to the Magnolia
gardens. Indeed, it were quite ex-
cusable in wandering spirit II,
CHANGING on these gardens when thu
azaleas were in their radiant perfec-
ton, he should mistake the place for
Elysium, especially if looking for such
a gardenlike Elysium as Herrick's.
Although widely known and visited
yearly by hundreds, Magnolia Is not
public garden, but noble old estate
on the Ashley river, belonging now.
as it has belonged for 200 years. to the
Drayton family of South Carolina.
Very much as the folk Of Tokyo go
out to worship the beauty of the cher
ry blossoms. SO Ill March and April
Charleston people and any strangers
fortunate enough to be within their
gates make a pilgrimage to Magnolia.
During the season the little steamer
plies between Charleston and Mag
nolia, making the trip twice daily
Francis Duncan in Century.
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John Daltons it's time for the cows to
come home with butter on their horns.
Come to your dinner, Reuben"
She had found him comforting affa-
bly, with Il strange man. From Mrs.
Bixby's point of view measureless pos
sibilties Of iniquity attached to ev-
cry strange man.
Ladies from top to toe" Bixby was
saying. but in fair way to come
to actual want with silver and gold
enough tucked away in jewelry and
tableware to keep them in comfort all
the rest of their days."
.How about the men of the family?''
the strange man asked with what Mrs.
Bixby declared vicious alestness."
'.Got none. Father and two boys
picked off at Chickamauga. Mother
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Had Confidence In Him.

'Mind, now." said the judge, ''you
are sworn to tell the truth, and if YOU
do not the penitentiary will be your
portion
The man took the oath and then
whispered to his friend:
"John, Pm feared it's all up with
you. The judge says I've got to tell the
truth
'That's all right, Jim," said his
friend. with confidence. 81 amt a-wor-
ryin' bout that, kaze you can't do it,
Atlanta Constitution.
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LIZ fduOii people are exclusive.
So are the mountain peaks.
Both are lonely. Also both in
spire awe in the beholder
There are five of the Pamela people
to share the exclusiveness and the lone
lincss they have elected to maintain. Il
mother and four daughters. The moth
er looks as young as the youngest
daughter. and the youngest daughter
looks as old as the oldest. The entire
group has contemporaneous appear
ance. They talk contemporaneously
and they think in batch They have
the effect of being preserved in amber
for the consideration of future students
of their kind. They would we'll repay
the cost of the amber and the labor of
preservation. They are the peculiar
product of Il day that is done.
Locally they are always spoken of as
1.-The Pamela ladies'" Pamela is the IN
dian word for cotton. AS their lands
are given over to the exclusive cultiva-
ton of that staple the name stands
justified. Even in their Industries, you
will perceive, they We're exclusive
Whenever the demands of the lartler
render it imperative that provisions
shall be conveyed from the store to the
plantation two of the young ladies go
for them. 1t is not at all easy to de-
eide whether it is the youngest two or
the Oldest
It was on one such occasion that Blk
by, the storekeeper, bubbling over with
the best intentions, gave some advice
and invited his doom. Few people ever
ventured to advise the ST John Dal-
tons. No one ever did it successfully.
In a spirit of veiled apology for the
meagerness of the purchases he was
slowing under the seat of their Old
buggy, one of the young ladies thus
plaintiycly alluded to the stringency OF
the money market:
What with our cabins out of repair
and the restlessness of tenants it is
impossible to keep such 4 large estate
as ours in proper condition at the pres
ent price Of cotton"
Bixby beamed benevolently upon the
two pinched aristocrats, blundered anI
fell from grace: Fright you are, III!
| dear young ladies. But, say, why Nc,
cut the blarsted old place up into small
| farms and sell 'em off to darkies? Yor
could keep enough right around the
house to do for garden and n corr
| patch for old Highfiyer here and live
| in clover on the proceeds of the rest"
The stiff leathern reins were gatherc.
more tightly by the small, thin hand ol
| the driver. Her finger tips showed
through the frayed fingers of hel
| gloves. The fash of diamond rins
pierced the third finger of the olt
gloves. Its wearer looked vaguely
over Bixby's head:
did you put up 10 cents worth o.
laundry soap, Mr.. Bixby?'
Bixby quailed before her frigid glare
but answered meekly, "Yessum.'
"And package Of cooking soda!'
.Rest bi-carb. Soda's all right
''Thank you. That is all this morn
ing. Get up, Highfier"
After the manner of a woman prac
ticed in rubbing things in, the store
keepers wife added last drop to hi:
cup of bitterness:
Maybe some of these days, BiNby
you'll know enough to save you
breath to cool your porridge. Whe1
folks gets to giving advice to them ST
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A Seasonable Wish.

Mrs. Outatown-Jack. dear, they say
that new neighbor of ours is fright
f,ll somnambulist Last night he got
up in his sleep and milked his cow
Mr.. Outatown-Is that so? I wish
bed wander over here and NOW orr
lawn.-Houston Post.
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Piavino Railroad,

Irate rarent-Iiere. What is all
this racket? Bobby-Please, papa. we
are playing train of cars. and | am
the locomotive Irate Parent-You are
the locomotive, eh? Well, think I'll
just switch you
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Horse Sense.

Mr.. Jogtrot-I don't want this horse
He hasn't any sense at all. Every time
he sees an automobile he wants to
climb tree. Dealer-Well, that's
good horse sense, it seems to me-Chl-
cagO News.
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a Good Point

Prospective Purchaser-I like the
looks of this automobile, but suppose /
should run over some one and Sales
man-The springs are so easy, sir,
you'd scarcely be Jared at all.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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Disappointed.

Tommy. you've get Il new little
brother. Aren't you glad?"
a brother? l thought it would he
horse. Papa promised me one for
such long time" e."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
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Easy. but HEAVY,

Il suppose it was hard work to fol-
low my argument?" said the lawyer.
NO. answered the judge: ''it was
easy to follow it, but it was difficult to
keep awake until the destination was
reached
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
of little minds. adored by little states
men and philosophers and divines.-
Emerson.
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GETTING Down to Particulars.

Mrs. Slimson-Shall | read you this
animal story, Willie?
Willie-With or without?
with or without what?'
"Afiidavits."-New York Life.
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The
Night Errand
Of a Knight
Errant.
By JEANETTE H. wALwORTH.
Copyright, 1906, by James Schreiber.

fN lie Pamela people are exclusive.
So are the mountain peaks
Both are lonely. Also both in
Snira ayyn i'm tho haIolIar
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-07-27

Otis Skinner is off for England md
Scotland to spend his vacation time.
Anna Held is spending the sum-
mer in Paris, but will return to the
United States in September
A new theatre is to be built in Jop
lin. Mo-, to cost one hundred thous-
and dollars. 1t will be seventy-6ve
feet wide and one hundred and fifteen
feet deep and three stories high.
Teddy Webb, who has been engag
ed by John Cort for the leading COM
edy role in his forthcoming musical
production. The Alaskan, is a ,ro-
duct of California, having appeared
in the comedy roles of San Francis
co.'s Tivoli Opera productions for til"
last seven or eight years.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-07-27

Jimmy Flynn put Dave Barry to
the bad in the seventh round of what
was to have been a twenty round
bout at Pueblo. After Flynn had
his second threw up the sponge and
ended the agony