Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Trials of Writers. George Eliot in one of her letters, ferring to her, novel "Daniel. Deron " writes as follows: '1y book peens to wo so unlikely ever to be tilniqlied in a way that will make It worth while giving to the world that St is a kind of glass In which I behold pny intirmities." Again of the same work. "As usual, I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I aum doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete It so a to make it a contr4tion to literature and not a p-ere addition to the heap of books." Montesquieu wrote thus to a friend: "I thought I should have killed my gett these three months to finish a anorceau (for his great work) which I (wished to Insert on the origin and lvoutions of the civil laws of France. Iou will read It In three hours, but I ido assure you that It cost me so much Raber that It has whitened my hair." The eminent modern Fr-ench writer luatave FIaubert suffered tortures in fis efforts to attain perfection. When eomposing, he would sometimes spring ito his feet, shriek aloud and call him telf "blockhead." "idiot." No sooner -was one donbt removed than another mrose. At other times he would sit at (his writing table as one magnetized, Oost In contemplation. Ills friend Tur Ogeneff declared that It was exceedingly 'touching to see his struggles with lan guage. le would work a whole day -and sometimes all night on a single page. s- A Queer Ad. "An Italian with a piano organ was turning the handle of his machine rap idly, but not a note was to be heard. I stopped at once. What on earth could be the matter?" The speaker, an advertising agent, smiled. "Finally," he said, "I went up close to the uan. "'A breakdown7' I asked. "le pointed to a small placard on the organ's front. and I read: "I'e lnterior of the Instrument has been removed. The relief that in con sequence you experience I4 as nothing eompared with that which Iinediate ly follows a dose of Sure Cure Cough Mixture.' "It was an original ad.." the expert ended, "and I followed it up. From what the Sure Cure people told me, I found that the same ingenuity and money put in legitimate newspaper advertising would have brought 50 per cent more returns." - Now Orleans Times-Democrat. A Lion Tamer's Secret. The boarbound growled, and the great yellow lion leaped back In fear. "The lion could k-ill the hound," the trainer sanid. "but he doesn't think so. He thinks the bound could easily kill him." "Why?" "When the lion was a cu) this boar hound, full grown, lived in the cage with him. The big dog could. of course, lIck the little cub. and the cub therefore feared and r'espected him. N~ow the cuh Is grown up, but ho still thinks the hound is the better. We rear a cub with a full growni hound in this way for a reason. The hound Is a pr'otctIon to us traIners afterward when the cub is grown, for then should he become rambunctious one look from the do will send him, subdued antd ashamed, slinking off to the eage's far thest corner."--Ph!l!adelphiia Bulletin. SThe Story of Zero. The!m word "zero" Is f'rom~ the Spaish andl~ me~ans "emp~ty," h''nee nothing. it was first usred for a theriometer in c 1795 i-y a Prusslain med FahrenheIt. i By experimentIng wIth Snow and saltt Fahrenihelt found that he could pr'o- t d(cn '1 degree of cold equr.1 to t hat of 1hec coldest winter day. It happened ,j that the (day on whleh he miade his final experiment was the (coldest that anyhody could remember', and, struck with the coincidence of hIis scientiie discovery, he hastily concluded that ho had found the lowest degree of tem perature, eliter natural or artificial. He called the degree "zero" and con structed a thermometer graduating up from zero to boiling point, whIch ho nlumbered 212 and the freezing point 8l2. .. li Stevenson as Ho Talked. ru l the sutoking room, ays W~alter Crane In his "An Artist's Ilem"'nisc.ences" of I Rtobert Louis Stevenson. the center of an admiring circle, andii discourse v'ery' much in the saime style as that in Whleh he wrote. It gave onie the im Tressioni of artificiality r'athuer--l mnn Ill manner of speaking and choice of )vords, as if caref'ully .,eiected and cul ~tivated. if a remnark' was offered by nOt9 of the .ompanyill lhe woui perihapsa negept it nud turn about, umuch als a .cOIR))ror does when lhe l)orriow$ a hand l5.orchilef or a hat frin some1 one0 in his n-udien'e, or per'lhaps he would worki it intQ lils next senter'e. retur'nlng it to hits .11nterlocutor liiirov'ed--wrappebtd ini 1allver' paper, mnetaphiorically SIpeakinig. ibukualI asi his spiech-a long, pale. ithin face and Iuanli hair, quick anud pen otating eyes and a rattler sardonic ~~lo. The worlid in- general, espeeial ~ n clubland, w15ro white shirts gnd *Q' n('s ie a i'uledsut Rev'oiu pgrM1 / k:':e W\e wish to thank oi liberal patronage they gi We are now replenish and we are going to offe trade with us. Watch this space. How "Tea Lead is Made Ten- lead for 1lining teni chess liasu erior at least from the standp1joint of lienptiess to any other me'tal. Aerr ig to ana article in, the 1rn~sa WVorl,1. Ie method p~ractlced b~y the C2hiner in .ie mnanufnture of tea lead !a *, prem. he ecess5 of lenad islameltedi in anm ironi ettle by a t'.Irect fire undernieth. Ri1co apmer is enrefully amoothted down over bie surface of' the stonies to supply a1 onconductor of heamt and1( thua pre ont the chilling of the lead. They tonesI aire no0w placd flamt upon the round anmd the uipper one raised1 a or itfiatnce, with onet edge resting, t r pon the lower stone. lIn other wordsa. hie stones are opened like at book. AI idle full of imelted lendc is nowv p~oured a between the stoneCs, anmd the tOp) one0 1psh scrap 3 quIckly dropped. 'rhe lead is squeez0- balanced and C d out until only a thin layer is left. en lecal usually runs from .C05 to .110 neh in thiekness. An Untamed Marquia. The father of the Marquis of Blute ind an amusing experience in the ieighborhood of Rlothesniy. He met a bockney traveler who asked to be di *ected to a certnin place. Deceived y the marquis' necent, the visitor took.. uim for a southron and took occasion to make supercilious remarks about the barbarous islanders of flute. He said, "Bflme me, I suppiose you're like me, an Englishman?" "No," responded the marquis; "i"m a native of Bute, this island," "Good graeious!" excln-imed the Lon donor, in amazement. "Then who in the dooco tamed y~or?" Lord Bute assumed na fierce expires Blon and, raising a lponderou4 cud'el he was ~arrying, said angrfly, "Who o t~e%, 1~A k ANKS. ir friends and customers for the very Lve us during the sale. ing our stock for the spring business, r you some special inducements to HE OLD TIME FISH GUANO or twenty-three years standard of the South. s used in every ton of Farmers' Bone. Properly arefully mixed, Insuring bigger yields with less acreage TRADE MARtn , REGISTERED See that this trade mark Is on every bag. F. S. Royster Guano Co~ Noffolk, Virginia