A Card from Miss Sallie McCants.--To Whom it May Concern: The engagement
which existed between Miss Sallie McCants and R.N. Jordan, of
Cottageville, has been mutually dissolved, it being their aim to
disappoint those who reported the news of their marriage. This will allow
anxious mothers with marriageable daughters the chance of opening their
doors again to this esteemed young man. Respectfully, S.
McCants.--_Walterboro (South Carolina) Press and Standard._

AN AGGRIEVED SUBSCRIBER.

The following letter was received recently:

"DEAR SIR: I hereby offer my resignashun as a subscribber to your papier,
it being a pamphlet of such small konsequenc as not to benefit my family
by takin it. What you need in your shete is branes & some one to russel up
news and rite edytorials on live topics. No menshun has bin made in your
shete of me butcherin a polen china pig weighin 369 pounds or the gapes in
the chickens out this way. You ignor the fact that i bot a bran new bob
sled and that I traded my blind mule and say nothin about Hi Simpkins
jersey calf breaking his two front legs fallin in a well. 2 important
chiverees have bin utterly ignored by your shete & a 3 column obitchury
notice writ by me on the death of grandpa Henery was left out of your
shete to say nothin of the alfabetical poem beginning 'A is for And and
also for Ark,' writ by me darter. This is the reason why your paper is so
unpopular here. If you don't want edytorials from this place and ain't
goin to put up no news in your shete we don't want said shete.

"P.S.--If you print obitchury in your next i may sine again fur yure
shete."--_Holdenville (Indian Territory) Tribune._

THE PROFESSION OF THE FOOL.

The Term Which Is Now Used to Describe Persons Who Are Lacking in Mental
Capacity Once Was the Acknowledged Title of Men of Extraordinary
Wit and Understanding.

Every man "in his time plays many parts," and it often has happened that
the wise man's fate has required him to play the fool. In our day, the
word "fool" is used to describe a person who is wanting in judgment or
general mental capacity, and when we see a representation of an old-time
fool, wearing his fool's cap and bells, we are likely to regard the
original as having had the characteristics of a modern circus clown.

The fact, however, is that the professional fool of two centuries ago was
an altogether different sort of person. He held his position by reason of
his ready wi