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%) . " v . v }, IMPROVING THE ATTIC. " I j Suggestions That Will Help In Making It Habitable. ? In addition to those familiar uses of attics which are so vivid when it ' f rains or when one is cynical or : \ moody or inclined to be witty at the expense of bedposts and warming j pans, there are improved uses an attic can be put to and still remain an attic. The feeling of attics?that sense they give of a friendly- aliena} tion from the world below stairs? must not, of course, be lost. If one desires no more than a place in which to tell fairy tales at twilight the lighting of a candle might be change enough in the usual unj plastered and left over space. But * that is too simple. Besides, the - taste for fairy tales is not universal, and it is.# moreover, a taste more natural in the nursery than in the i attic. But a habitable attic must be anything but dingy. A glass trapdoor, such as one too often sees, i i mi 1 l 1 l _ _ is not enougn. mere snouiu oe a i great dormer window, built low | * enough for window peats, and ample seats at that, lsrge enough to lounge in. There should be wide \ sills, too. for flower-;, for an attic ? without flowers would be unimaginable. As for the body of the room the chief thing to do where there are gables would be to insert a wainscot all around of, say, five or six feet in height. Along this could be put shelves for books or odds and ends of whatever kind. A carpet would be improper, for it is traditional that an attic is bare. Inexpensive rugs and skins suggest * i themselves mechanically, like easy jchairs, a work table and a lounge. < fhe fancy includes a piano, pictures, glorious andirons, sconces, while the imagination leaps to cr. mor and cabinets. Yet in a proper attic the furniture should be a little (>ftmmnnnlflcp with n HisnnrHpd lnnk. if you will, to be in keeping. Things half broken down are fit for a quaint utility there, and as clothes once decent on Sunday come to be so only on Saturday and then on Friday, and so on, so odds and ends s they grow familiar and worn in ther parts of the house have a last ie?as old companions in an attic. -Wallace Stevens in Indoors and ut. Diplomatic. "Mr. Gidsmore," began the young j ^'man, "when you proposed to your wife, or to the estimable lady who, < is now Mrs. Gidsmore, did she tell j y . *you to ask her father ?" < "She did, my boy," affably replied Afe. Gidsmorc. ***/^"And did vou tr? to shirk the { : job?" %i_ "Well, come to think of it, I did. ?I believe I tried to get her to dq) pe asking, 'pon my soul. Ha, ha!" "And when you did ask him?of, purse you had to speak to fcim J nally'V" "Of course I did. Of course." "And when you did ask him did pur knees shake, and was your ongue dry, and did you have stage right generally?" "I was scared to death." P^Wcll, that's the way I feel. I . '.old Gladys I knew I could find /'some mutual bond of sympathy between us when I came to tell you . that she has promised to marry me."?Life. Tock Him Down a Peg. The young doctor to whom the ^Esculapian oath was Greek looked contemptuously at the old woman . who had come to the uptown hospital where he was an interne to in' quire about her son. "He has cerebro neurosis, I told ' you once," he said. "Oh, dear," said the woman, for she was not as ornately educated as . the young physician, "is it as bad as ; I that? New?what do you call it ?" ! t "Neurosis," said -the surgeon, j . "Don't I talk plain enough for you?" "Is it anything like nervous pros- j tration?" inquired the woman.: . "You will pardon me, sir. My cd-' uc-ation was along literary rather , than scientific lines." "That's Wtiat some call it," said / the young physician as he got ready .?*, | to make a run for the ambulance at the door.?New York Telegram. Feeling Overcrowded. It was doubtless Mrs. Howe's "sympathetic nature," to which she constantly referred, that made her carry so many burdens which did not belong to her. Iler sufTerings were many, but the statement of then often roused her family to mA> . ^bw's your head this morning, my dear?" inquired Mr. Howe one morning in a properly solicitous one. "It's no better," came in a holow voice from behind the teapot. It won't be any better while 1 van't get Cousin John's lungs and Vary's china and mother's eyes and If Harriet's wisdom teeth out of it for one minute." i ( t . SOLVED IN SLUMBER. A Problem That Wat Worked Out and Written During Steep. Many persons have written while wrapped in slumber. Coleridge writing the poem of "Kubla Khan" in his sleep is a classic instance, but there are numerous others. Here is one wtiicn ijr. carpenter menuuus in his book on "Mental Physiology." A professor at Amsterdam had been given by a banking house of that city a question to solve, involving a long and difficult calculation. Several times he tried to obtain the solution, but each time he made some mistake. At last, all wearied out, he gave the problem to some of his students, telling them that if possible he would like the answer in three days. One of them, eager to get into his teacher's good graces, took it home and worked on it for three successive nights in vain. "At last I bent myself over my figures for a third evening. It was winter, and I calculated till half past 1 in the morning, all to no purpose. The product was erroneous. Low at heart, I threw down my pencil, which already by that time had bcciphered three slates. I hesltat- J ed whether I would toil through the night, as I knew that the professor 1 wanted an answer the very same j morning. But, lol mv candle was already burning in the socket, and ( the persons with whom I lived had ( gone to rest. Then I also went to i bed, my bead filled with ciphers, ( and. tired in mind, I fell asleep. In ( the morning 1 awoke just early i enough to dress and prepare myself j to go to the lecture, vexed at heart at not having been able to solve the question and at having to disappoint my teacher. ( "Put, oh, wonder! As I approach . my writing table I find on it a paper . with figures in my own hand and < (think of ray astonishment!) the , whole problem on it solved quite ] aright and without a single blunder, j I wanted to ask my hostess whether ] any one had been in my room, but f was stopped by my own handwrit- ? ing. Thus I must have calculated f the problem in my sleep and in the | s dark to boot. And, wliat was most remarkable, the' computation was so succinct that what I saw before me on a single folio sheet had required three slatefuls, closely beciphered r on both sides, during my waking state. Professor Von Swinden was t amazed at the event and declared t to me that while calculating the 6 problem himself he had never once t thought of a solution so simple and concise/'?Exchange. E c Embarrassing. j"The sexton of a quaint old a Maryland church," said a clergyman "showed me throuerh the cool, ~ dim building one warm. afternoon and as we were departing pointed to the Bibie on the lecturn and smiled. "'A strange thing happened last Sunday in connc tion with that Bible/ he said. 'We had a strange minister preaching here, and when I he opened the book he came upon j a notice and read it out with all | due solemnity. It was a request for j the congregation's sympathy and! prayers for John Q. Griggs. who j had been deeply afhicted by the loss of his wife.' "The sexton paused and chuckled softly. "'Von >ee, sir/ he said, 'our regular minister has been using that paper as a bookmarker more than a year, and J >b.ii O- Griggs, in a naiiy gray suit, sat in a front pew with the iiev; wife ! o had taken just the week before.'" A Castle In Ireland. The name of castle for a country house is preserved in Ireland, rather curiously, for Ireland has not the vestiges of French customs so noticeable in Scotland. The dullest little villa, so it be solitary in an Irish country place, bears that name, and the smile of the Saxon when he arrives and sees the castle is cheap and r.nscholarly. Where the Celt?the female Celt, that is? does earn and deserve that slight sign of derision is in her practice with her visiting cards intended for London use. The word castle there for a second and country address does seem to suggest machicolations, if not sieges and sally ports.?London Chronicle. Got His Ancwer. An Englishman traveling in Ireland complained that he could find none of the famous Irish wits of whom he had heard. lie was advised to speak to the next farmer or teamster he met. A little later he encountered a peasant leading a horse with a load of turf. The horse had a blazed face. "What a white face your horse has, my man!" said the Englishman by way of an opening. "Sure," replied the Irishman, "your own will be as white when it has been as long in the halter."? Birmingham Post. High Priced Bumblebees. Many years ago the farmers oi Australia imported buniblebeesfrom England and set them free in theii clover fields. Defore the arrival oi the bees clover did not flourish in Australia, but after their coming the farmers had no more difficult) on that score. Mr. Darwin hail shown that bumblebees were the only insects fond of clover nectar which possessed a proboscis sufficiently long to reach the bottom of the long, tubelike flowers and at the same time a body heavy enough to bend down the clover head 60 that the pollen would fall on the insect's back and thus be carried off to fertilize other flowers of the same species. The bumblebees sent to Australia cost the farmers there about half a dollar apiece, but they proved to be worth the price. The Very Earliest Coins. I 4.1.. ?i iw uuc iviiv/wa CAat'tij w ueii ur where the original coin was "struck" or what metal was used. Certain passages in Homer would lead to the inference that brass was coined as early as the year 1184 B. C. Tradition affirms that the Chinese had bronze coins as early as the year 1120 B. C., but Herodotus, the acknowledged "father of history," is of the opinion that the Lvdians "invented" coins some time luring the ninth century B. C. One af the oldest coins now known is i gold daric, coined by the Persians luring the reign of Darius. On anc side of this coin is a bust of Darius and on the other side a Igure of a kneeling archer. Mugwump. "Mugwump" was un old Algonquin word for a chief, which was ised in a seventeenth century iulian Bible to translate "centurion," 'captain" or "duke" in the English .ersion. It was borrowed by the S'ew Englanders as a nickname for nost superior persons, very like the English "great panjandrum," and irst applied in its special political ;ense to Republicans who deserted heir party on grounds of principle it the presidential election of 1884. Gum 8hoo Work. "James!" she said severely. . The butler looked up with a juilty flush. "James," she asked, ^how is it hat whenever I come into the panry I find your work at sixes and evens and you sprawled out reading he news?" "Well, ma'am," the butler anwered, "I should say it was on acount of them old rubber soled tenlis shoes you're always wearin* bout the house." p. r (Prickly Ash, Poke I MAKES POSITIVE CURES OF Physiclnng endorse P. P. P. as a splen- B did combination, mid prescribe it with 5 BfBS ft reat satisfaction tor the core* of all R f.?ms and stage* of Primary, Secondary B VBE iinJ Terliary Syphilis, Syphilitic J1 ^ ^ matitm. Scrofulous Ulcers and S {v~ Glandular Swellings, Rheumatism, i n?y Complaints, Old Chronic Ulcers tl i SYPH!' ^ j hare resisted all tre.AU.. ... rrh, Skin i Disease*, Eczema, Chronic F e m a 1 e I A Complaints, Mercurial Poison, Tetter, I ScaMkead, etc., etc. P. P. P. is a powerful tonic and an Ej excellent sppitizer, Imlldim; op the?j sjstem rapidly. If you are weak and g '*L^i feeble, and feel badly try P. P. 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IATISM AAAAAA* ' > .1,- c t3? *?> O) A tit ^5 j Decided | chandise I will offer for the ?? tal bargains in the follow? b* :r Over-Shoes, Boys' Sox, cv ces of Dry Goods, Linings, e Flannel, fine line Men's ? b* b* tig out sale and the goods rdless of price. & >urtney, | -ee, S. C. ? ; V ; iZi, i, . " .J ^ Jj i2a is Made ENTIRELY from Hue Cured | )we in the Piedmont Country. | Ri?A? Jci CAI**! A MMr . I aiiiim ill cuius myc jtuiiapp iity Only On the Outside | Of the Plug v II ' % brands are claimed to be "just as good" as yhnapps to- Schnapps, but there is only oiie genie imitation uine Schnapps. Be sure the letters ed the same on the tag, and stamped on the plug ide is filled under the tag spell S-fc-H-N-A-P-P-S / sweetened and then you have it?the most ^8 2 chew of wholesome tobacco produced, with icco hunger just enough sweetening to preserve >f such to- the mild, juicy, stimulating quality of and shape the leaf tobacco. Expert tests prove jackages of that this flue cured tobacco, grown of tobacco in the famous Piedmont region, remuch like quires and takes less sweetening than .- J often been any other and has a wholesome, r the belief stimulating, satisfying effect on Schnapps. chewers. > .Jm en secured If the tobacco you are chewing hat certain don't satisfy you more than the mere and in vio- habit of expectorating, stop fooling iws, yet the yourself and chew Schnapps tobacco. t>e imposed Schnapps is like the tobacco chewers (ntil the suit formerly bought costing from 75c. M pending to to $1.00 per pound; Schnapps is ecided. A sold at 50c per pound, in 5c. cuts, V itations are strictly 10c. and 15c. plugs. )bacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. | 1 Mid Winter Offerings. ? ? 4 ? 2 I INVITE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO MY i* ?; LINE OF?*^??t? | TxoxaBed. ?tends 5. ;-p | ZL?s.ttxe?ses I ? Cexrfcxe Tables ? | ? ' Sid.? Boards. j? J ? ALS0 g I keep on hand i\\ the time a complete line of ^^3 | Coffins, Caskets and Undertakers' Supplies ? and render services day and night. & 3j I L. J. STACKLBY, I~?I J? THE FURNITURE MAN, ** ?S KINGSTREE, - - S. C. . : ^S^SSSSSSSS36S?S6S?S 8?9 .ij 8 Water f *es!dences 2 \ a - o ,s.torr i J 8 Light I p?m'\ * 8 1 , " Public buildings (?5 - | Wfoderate Cost. 8 S ^Perfect Mctimi. I 8- : J f J f) Gasoline Engine fcr any purpose. C# o o /r *r> e/? S W O. O. <Jnffman, Florence, v. ^ J*SBj IT!" Pallor Market! <i &? ^ l??????? ??^ << Dressed Meats. Fish, Game. Poultry ? J' Oysters, Eggs and Full Line ? | ZE^a-xiCTr Q-xocexies j? ? hides wanted highest market ? j| prices paid. c :C * ? Tlie Faxlor Iv?a,rlset? ? | T. ES. Arrowsmith, Agent., | ?? kingstree s. c. i? '-"'VhH