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Scott’s
Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil with Hypo
phosphites should always be
kept in the house for the
following reasons:
First—Because, if any member
of the family has a hard cold,
it will cure it.
Second—Because, if the chil
dren are delicate and sickly, it
will make them strong and well.
Third Because, if the father
or mother is losing flesh and
becoming thin and emaciated,
it will build them up and give
them flesh and strength.
Fourth— Because it is the
standard remedy in all throat
and lung affections.
No household should be with
out it.
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BREACH OF PROMISE.
Manner In Which the Law Treat* It
In Different Countries.
Englund 1h the beat place, from the
pliilntlff'H point of view, for n breach
of promise action. All other conn
tries seen) to regard with grave sus
picion tiny attempt to recover mone
tary compensation for the loss of a
prospective husband, find tinlegg the
plaintiff bus n very strong case Indeed
it Is never worth her while to curry
her grief into the law courts.
In I'rnnce breach of promise cases
uro rare, for the simple reason that
the law requires the plaintiff to prove
that she has suffered pecuniary loss.
Now, thia la not an easy thing to do
on the part of the Indy, especially In
a country where a girl without a dot—
that Is, a marriage portion has a poor
chance of finding a husband. Holland
and Austria have adopted the French
system, and the result has been about
the same. Breach of promise actions
are rare, the Injured damsels or their
relatives usually taking the law into
their own hands.
Practical Germany, as might lie ex
ported, has perhaps the best method
for solving this problem, When a
young couple la-come engaged they
have to go through n public betrothal
ceremony that ought to knock all the
shyness out of them. In the local
town hall the pair declare their affec
tion, willingness to marry, etc., eliding
by signing a collection of documents
that apparently leave no loophole for
escape. But if either party to the con
tract wishes to withdraw another Jour
ney Is undertaken to the town hall
and another collection of documents
signed, witnessed and sealed. Then
file authorities determine the question
of compensation should It be claimed,
in this connection It may be said that
the man can and often does claim a
solatium for Ills wounded feelings.
Tlio usual awanl Is one fifth of Hie
marriage dowry, it is easy to under
stand when all this Is remembered
how loath the young people of Ger
many are to break their tietrothal
oaths.
As the law of Italy affords little or
no protection whatever to Jlltcil dam
sels or swains, It Is not surprising that
the stiletto should lie the favorite mode
of deciding breach of promise cases.
The Italian law demands that the per
son suing for the breach slinl produce
a written promise to marry from the
defendant; otherwise the action caunot
proceed. This dilliculty is almost in
surmountable. and the Italian Judges
an- seldom troubled to adjudicate be
tween one time lovers.
To bring an action for breach of
promise of murlage against a reigning
monarch Is tin achievement, but It has
been done, and by an English lady.
Miss Jeuny Mlghell sued the sultan of
Johore, and as there was a doubt
whether the dusky one was actually a
reigning monarch the case was allowed
to come Into court, lint the Judge quick
ly dispose,! of the action by ruling It
Inadmissible for the reason referred to.
and Miss Mlghell was nonsuited.
It Is remarkable that one of the two
actions which have brought verdicts
for £IO,OOO each to the plaintiffs should
have had for Its defendant the editor
<jf a matrimonial paper. The second
case- w as between a well known actress
and the eldest son of an earl. London
Tit Bits.
Brave Fire Ladies
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Scalds, Wounds. Cuts and
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Consumption costs tbe United
State.- 300.0 M lives of human i
ings. double that number of eons
and live stock, and at least one
billion dollars in money every
year.
A MICROSCOPE.
How It Opens Up the Wonders of ths
World of Nature.
If you want to keep your boy out of
mischief, give him a microscope, not
one of the elaborate, Intricate, expen
sive affairs that the bacteriologists use
when hunting for germs, but a com
mon one with two or three lenses that
revolve on a pivot and fold into n
cover which protects them from in
jury when carried in the pocket.
There is no better way of Interesting
the boy in the wonders of the natural
world than this simple contrivance,
which opens to his eyes visions of a
universe of which he knew nothing.
Seen through the microscope, the most
insignificant flower become, a thing of
wonderful beauty. The interior of a
nasturtium is a fairy cavern, showing
a dozen different tints and hues of
color, with dainty white stalactites and
stalagmites almost touching each oth
er midway between floor and roof.
He will find monsters, too, for the
head of an ant seen through a micro
scope Is a terrible object, and he can
not help thinking what an awful as
pect such a creature would present if
It were as big ns a horse. He has
beard about the creatures that are to
be found In water from a stagnant
pool. lie will find them for himself
und sliow them to other boys, and all
his crowd will become Interested and
bring In things to look nt and
about. He may not develop Into a Dar
win, but If he bus any faculty of ob
servation at all It will be sharpened
by what In • and he will learn that
there Is n ■ In nature than what we
discern on the surface.— St Louis
Globe Democrat.
SILENT CRANES.
A Nat ure Story by One of the Mount
Taurus Climbers.
The mountaineer glanced compla
cently nt his hard calves.
"We climbers,” he said, "up there on
the white heights see lots of things
worth seeing. I tel) you we could if
we wanted to outdo the nature fakirs
without deviating from the truth. For
Instance, take the Mount Taurus
cranes. Do you know the cranes of
Mount Taurus?
“Well, these birds are great chatter
ers. They chatter, chatter, chatter, as
they fly. Hanged If they’re not worse
Hum women! Up on the heights the
eagles lie in wait for them, hidden be
hind crags or ice blocks. They don’t
have to show themselves nt all. Their
ears, not their eyes, tell them of the
cranes’ approach, and. swooping down
on those bundles of feathers and noise,
they take home a mess of crane for
dinner.
“With their chatter and babble and
gossip the cranes of Mount Taurus
give themselves away In that still air
to the eagles, and in all eagle house
holds crane is the staple dish.
"But the old cranes fly without a
sound never a word out of them as
they sail and wheel In the blue air.
That seems against nature, and it is
against nature. The old cranes to re
strain their innate love of talk fly with
large stones in their mouths.
“Shoot one of these crafty and silent
birds and you will find his beak tight
ly (dosed upon a large stone.”—Ex
change.
Hit Plan Was Simplt.
Frederick tbe Great once requested
bls generals to submit to him plans of
campaign for a supposititious case.
Hans Joachim von Ziethen, the famous
cavalry general, produced a queer dia
gram In black ink. It represented a
big blot In the center, Intersected by
two black lines, whose four terminals
ended each In a smaller blot. The king
was furious and upbraided his old com
rade in arms bitterly for what he con
sidered disrespect.
In explanation Von Ziethen said:
"Why, your majesty. I am tbe large
blot In the center. The enemy Is any
one of tbe four smaller blots. He can
march upon me from the right or left
from the front or rear. If he does I
simply advance upon any of the four
lines nnd lick him where I find him."
Frederick was satisfied.
Statistics.
In al! probability the first administra
tive act of tlie first regular government
was to number Its fighting men nnd to
ascertain as nearly as was possible
what amount of taxation could be
levied on the rest of the community.
As human society grew more highly
organized there can be no doubt that a
very considerable body of official sta
tistics must have come Into existence.
We know that such was the case In
Greece, Borne and Egypt, but It was
not until within the last two or three
centuries that systematic use of the In
formation available began for purposes
of investigation rather than mere ad
ministration. New York American.
Businesslike England.
The English are not a revengeful
Ik'ople. They forget everything after a
fight In their eagerness to trade with
their late enemy. It Is not so much the
spirit of forgiveness of sins which
I .-ompts them ns the spirit of pushing
trade. That is tha central Impulse in
their being Dublin Irish Homestead.
Where He Was Siow.
“Alexander the Great conquered the
entire world.”
“Yes,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "He
conquered it. but some of us moderns ‘
could have si'-wu him a thing or two ’
sl«out making It pay dividends.”— I
Washington Star
Her Adored One.
l ather Y n can’t have him! Daugh
ter Oh. papa, omv said you could
dei y me m ;’.dng! Father Well, he
ecu cs as near l-cliig "nothing” as any
thing 1 know of.
The Summerville News, Thursday, January 28, 1909.
TRAPS FOR MARINERS
' *
Some Points of Peril That Are
Dreaded by Seamen.
MERCILESS KENTISH KNOCK.
This Real Davy Jone*’ Locker I* a
Vast Cemetery For All Ship* That
Are Gripped by Ita Relentless Sands.
Sable Island's Fingers of Death.
The exact location of Davy Jones’
locker is not shown on any ocean chart
extant, principally because It Is a state
and not a place, but If any one ocean
death trap deserves the title It is the
Thames estuary. The British naval
department has a chart upon which
it marks the position of wrecks with
a black dot. On this chart the Thames
mouth tract Is a solid black spot So
numerous have been the wrecks that
the dots run together. The point
’ where the black dots actually pile one
1 on top of another is the Kentish Knock,
> and this is the place among all of the
: ocean’s danger spots that deserves the
’ title of Davy Jones’ locker.
At the Kentish Knock It is not keel
I shattering rocks of piercing points of
• coral that wreck the ocean travelers.
It Is sand, treacherous, clinging sand,
that grasps the doomed ship with a
grip of steel and holds it firmly while
: the angry sea beats it to fragments.
Many a vessel posted at Lloyd’s as
missing would be duly accounted for
If the Knock sand would give up its
booty. There is no hope for ship or
man when Father Neptune asks toll at
the Kentish Knock, for the nearest
land is twenty miles away and the
nearest lifeboat at Margate, thirty
miles away.
The sands of the ocean are far more
dangerous than the rocks. The sand
1 banks extend over more space, there
! fore offer more points of contact than
! the rocks, which usually rise In one
' slender pinnacle. The waters flow over
( theu> In smooth waves, and there are
, no warning breakers.
Next to the Thames mouth tract in
point of danger is the Hugli, the salt
water river on which Calcutta stands.
1 The most trying part of a large vessel’s
J voyage from New York to Calcutta is
' the last few miles of this calm river.
In this strange river In windless weath
' er and flat, calm water vessels have
( been lost, dashed to pieces on the ever
' shifting sand banks by the force of
the tides. The sands grasp the keel of
1 the marked vessel, and she stops, but
the tide moves on with relentless force,
and the helpless ship Is carried over
’ on her beam ends. She careens over
and founders with nil on board. One
of the worst shoals In the Hugli bears
the name James and Mary. It was
the name of a great Indian merchant
, shipwrecked on the sunken sand banks.
Another danger point dreaded by the
master mariner has neither sand nor
rocks, but a great submarine waterfall.
In tbe English channel there Is a point
just beyond the Shambles banks where
there is a sudden drop In the sea bot
tom. The channel tides sweep over
the banks and down this sudden drop,
creating rapids equal In fury to those
of Niagara. The American ship Georgian
foundered In Portland race, the name
by which this danger point Is known,
and all hands went down with her.
Ships bound to New Y’ork from Eu
rope pass quite near a deadly bidden
shoal which runs out from Sable Is
land, lying off Sable cape, In Nova
Scotia. The shoal runs out for miles in
five directions like the fingers of a
great hand reaching out for what It
can destroy. When the gnles blow,
heavy seas boom upon the shoals with
sufficient force to shatter the stanchest
vessel afloat, and when the wind ceases
the benches are strewn with wreckage
nnd the bodies of those who have per
ished. The distance from the shore Is
too great and the surf too heavy for
the life savers to reach a struggling
vessel, nnd few lives are saved at this
point. Ten vessels have been wrecked
In this trap in n single day.
The rocky danger points In the ocean
have nearly all been tagged, and light
houses have been erected on the most
dangerous—all except one. There is no
lighthouse on the Virgin rock, and
there never will be. Out hi the mM-At
lantle a giant pinnacle rears its head
up from the ocean floor and endeavors
vainly to reach the surface of the sea.
It Is too short by about eighteen feet
There it stands with its sharp point
hidden by the ocean waves, waiting to
pierce the bottom of some unsuspecting
vessel and send it down to join the pile
of ships’ ribs and dead men’s bones
that litter the floor around its base.
The waves seem to be In league with
the rock, for If a vessel of light draft
tries to pass over its head the waves
shoot It dowu Into a trough at the bot
tom of which'the point of the rock Is
Walting to rip out her keel.
These danger spots, however, are but
annexes to the real Davy Jones’ locker,
the Kentish Knock, that cemetery of
ships and men where dripping ghosts
of master mariners and their men flit
over the ruins of their vessels.—B. R.
Winslow In Los Angeles Times.
Bridge Builder*.
We read of the heroes of the battle
field. the ocean and various other call
ings, but there is another class of men
i whose work is also heroic, but who
l are seldom heard of—men who face
, J :itb high In the air. They are what
I the engineer calls "riggel's" and are
i the creators of the world’s big bridges
and the huge skyscrapers of American
• cities Without their bravery and skill
tlie towering structures which span
ttie world’s great rivers aud gorges
CHild not be put together.—Wide World
Magarine.
The Action of a Spinet
The spinet Instrument was an im
provement upon what was known as
the clavichord, the tone of which, al
though weak, was capable, unlike that
of the harpsichord or spinet, of In
crease or decrease, reflecting the finest
gradations of tbe touch of the player.
In this power of expression It was
without a rival until the piano was In
vented. The early history of the clavi
chord previous to the fifteenth century
rests In profound obscurity, but It Is
said that there Is one bearing the date
1520 having four octaves without the
D sharp and G sharp notes. The spinet
was the invention of the Venetian Spi
netta. The action Is unique. The in
strument is similar to a small harpsi
chord, with one string to each note.
The strings are set In vibration by
points of quills elevated on wooden
uprights known as jacks, and the de
pression of the keys causes the points
to pass upward, producing a tone sim
ilar to that of a harp. Springs are used
to draw the quills back into position.
The keyboard is arranged In a manner
after the present modern piano.
Apartment House Life.
I know you say you can’t help living
In a flat, but you could help it if you
weren’t too lazy to live In the suburbs.
There is no real home life possible
without children —not one, but two or
three—enough to keep the young moth
er too busy to make believe she be
longs to the smart set. And apart
ments are either too small for that or
the landlords won’t tolerate children
at all. And then there is no neighbor
hood life. It’s a good thing to have
gossipy ne’ghbors. You're more apt
to be careful of the way you live.
I always think of apartment house
life as a sort of joke on socialism—a
lot of strangers under one roof with
just two mutual interests, a dumb
waiter shaft and an artificial palm.
And I’m bound to say that I think It
is responsible for a heathen race with
no children. Children mean sacrifice,
and it’s sacrifice that make good men
and women.—Amelia E. Barr in New
York World.
A Scoop.
John L. Toole, the famous English
comedian nnd practical Joker, and Mr.
Justice Hawkins, who was afterward
Lord Brampton, were great friends.
They were at supper together one even
ing discussing the events of the day.
The judge incidentally mentioned that
be Intended on the morrow giving the
man he had been trying fifteen years
because he deserved It.
As Toole was leaving he blandly in
quired:
“Oh, would you mind my calling at
the newspaper offices and telling them
about that fifteen years? It will be a
tip for them exclusive Information,
you know—and will do me no end of
good with the press.”
“Good gracious! No, sir!” exclaimed
the judge, who took the precaution of
accompanying Toole to his hotel and
seeing him safely to bed.
Woman’s Spur.
*' *lllO scent was excellent that frosty
morning. She walked across the field,
holding her riding skirt free of her
patent leather boots and silver spurs.’ ”
"Spurs?” shouted the editor. "What
nils you, man?”
“Spurs?” the puzzled author repeat
ed. “Don’t they wear spurs nowadays?
I know they used to.”
“Women never wear spurs unless
they ride astride. They wear one spur
—one only. What good would a second
bo, except to tear the clothes?"
"I see.” said the other. “A natural
error, wasn’t It?”
"Only a natural error for an Igno
ramus. But the usual writer of sport
ing stories Is an Ignoramus. I rarely
read a sporting story but I come across
some error quite as blatant as this of
yours."—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat
Forced Draft Realism.
“How Is It that Scribbler’s novels
thrill with such vital, gripping, realis
tic portrayal of human passions?” ask
ed Danks.
"Well,” said Hanks, "when be gets
ready to write a novel be orders a gen
eral house cleaning, sends for the
plumber to fix the gas jets and for the
tinner to fix the stovepipes, bids bls
little daughter to stay at home to
practice five finger exercises, hires a
street piano to play German, Irish and
Italian national airs In front of the
house and tells his wife that her fam
ily Is not as good as his own. Then he
sits and takes notes of what happens.”
—Brooklyn Life.
Adam’s Apple.
The projection In the front of the
throat In men, denoting the position
of the thyroid cartilage, Is styled
"Adam’s apple.” It develops rapidly
usually when the voice “breaks,” be
ing comparatively small in both chil
dren and women. The name arose
from the tradition that when Adam
attempted to swallow the apple In
paradise It stuck In his throat, giving
rise to the swelling since seen in all
hfs adult male descendants.
A Great Man.
“Father," said little BoUo, "what Is
a great man?”
“A great man. my son. Is one who
manages to gather about him a whole
lot of assistants who will take the
blame for his mistakes while he gets
the credit for their good Ideas!"
Not Wholly Personal.
A.—You have need the word “donkey"
several times tn the last ten minutes.
Am I to understand that you mean
anything of a personal nature? B. —
Certainly not. There are lots of don
keys In the world besides you.
To learn obeying is the fundamolstal
art of governingOcrljda.
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The negro mortality from tur
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is about 150 per cent greater
than that of white people.
A Religious Author’s Statement.
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Figures gathered by the government
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