The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, June 12, 1914, Page 7, Image 7
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METHOD IN HER DRESS
Wise Woman Has Realized the
portance of Impressing Clerk
Who 8upoly Her Needs.
"When 1 shop I dress my best,'
^ claimed the woman who always
the most courteous attention I
-shop clerks. "It keeps ap my sp
through the ordeal and it makes
people wait upon me more inters
and kind.
"I think that It Is only hnman
tore that it should make them s<
am sure I'd rather wait on a wo
who looked well and was in i
spirits than on an ill-dressed wo
with a bored or exhausted air.
"Shop clerks have to wait upo
many dreary women, I am sorry
them and never add to the list.
"It should be fair play each sic
the counter. The woman behind
counter Is criticised If she Is not
and nicoly dressed with a brlghl
terested manner and a cheery r
ness to help you out of your dil
ties.
"Why Bbouldnt she have the
to expect brightness and cheerl
from you?
"I find that treating shopping
way I do It does not tire mo i
used to before 1 camo to my pr<
stand ao to the way it shoulc
done.
"I often wish that I could
r^TpsnuiB cti me races or w<
sapping?not only of their facei
Of their general appearance, at
dreary collection of people the
^ turoa would make, women carel
dresBod, with faces lined with w
fatigue, or the sharp, set look of
.gain seeking."
CARRIES ITS OWN ANT1D
Narcotlo Bullet, It Is Clelme<
Really a Humane Weapon for l
In War end the Chase.
Alexander F. Humphrey la th
entor of the latest thing In wa
?the narcotic bullet.
This narcotic bullet. It la cla!
will rob war of one of its gre
terrors, the pain that follows
wounds Inflicted on the battlefl'el
According to Mr. Humphrey,
bullet carries with It an antido
the pain It Inflicts on the rlctlic
war.
Experiments are being cond'
with the narcotic bullet, which la
\o dg numano m ooin wanare a]
the killing of big game.
In order to cause the bullet t
aleep-producing, Mr. Humphrey
Inserted a small particle of mo
In It. The drug Is carried In
wqIIb In the steel Jacket of the
latlon army bullet. Mr. Hum]
claims that Its presence does n<
feet the power of the bullet,
wound of the new bullet Is no
ferent from that of the regular t
and, In the case of a slight wouc
bad effectB follow the use <of
drug.
^ Fierce War on Mosquitoes.
Travelers to Atlantic City ol
have noticed that the broad met
extending from Plooaaniyille t<
shore are being laid out In ch
board squares by the digging j>t
and narrow ditches. The square
very small, and mhny have won
what the work means. ,
This Is simpler the 1st cat <le
ment of the war on 'the tnoi
whloh the state o( Ne^ Jersey
been waging for some tlma.
fount} that mosquitoes breed lit
at ail, In tide water. Their hj
breeding grounda are poo Lb of
nant water and these are man
over the meadows, where very
tides leave water In the many he
on the marshes. The new plan
ditch these many square miles so
oughly that no tide, however hlgl
leave behind It any water, all of
will be drainod off In the dltch<
v This on only part of the cam]
but It la the moat prominent,
experts employed have had extr
nary success elsewhere, but
never tackled such a large propot
They are confident that by the
they are through there will 1
breeding spot for mosquitoes fro
mainland to the breakers?a co
matlon devoutly to be wished.
Father to the Man.
John Purroy Mitchell, the fus
candidate for mayor of New Yo
very young, dui nis success as t
^ ticlan has given him unusual s
surance. Apropos of this his en
are telling a story about his boj
"Mitchell, one summer"?so
tell the tale?"decided to work d
his vacation. Accordingly he
Job In a grocery. He was then
eight years of age.
"After he had worked In the gi
a week or so. his uncle, meet In
old grocer, asked: m
'' Well, bow are you getting
with Johnny at the store?'
M1 seem to please him,' sal
eld grocer, with a grim smile. 1
to please him.'"
Knew the Combination.
MM BDM17 nan giren mue
etmpte problem In addition th
tilted to work ort "Nombei
dry," sbo reaoomed with hereel:
dotei mined to make the teeson
Interesting. "Suppose," aha 1
engagingly, "foar mamma aant 3
tha atora to hay thraa pound
lamb, two pounds of potatoes,
pound each of carrota and ta
and ona pound of tomatoeewoald
you hare than?" Tim
hla head, bat Marybell, only a
older, raised an eager hand.
Mary bell?" aald the teacher, i
sorrowful glance at little
"Stew!" aald Mary-ball, sweetly
TE
IMG MACE UP OF SMALL THINGS FORI
No Oi
lm- Even the Most Insignificant Words ^
' and Acta May Be Productive of
Jov or the Rtv*??
' ?x- [ A wild bird's song Is a little thing
has | ?lost In the deeps of a frowning sky. .
from And yet as It falls on a listening ,
ilrlts ear and leaves Its message of melody,j
the I earth's green seems brighter and life .
isted Is sweeter, all through an autumn day. RB?'
The coo of a babe Is a little thing??| ?vern
i na-! meaningless sound from a vacant . .
? 1 . i ?.aBk
x 1 mlnd ttwak
'man But 'tis the only sound that all na- pQI
good tions heed; the one clear language all S|iroJ
'man races know. reguli
| A mother's love Is a little thing?too about
n ?o soon, alas, forgot. >' and 1
'or But it typifies to blind humaniyfjd rjC(j
the love anil trust and hope di/ine whicl
le of t|jat bear with patience culm "and out c
the fcWoet the wilful wrongs In these lives 0ffom
tr!m of ours. f shoul
t, In- ^ passing smile is a little thmg? \yi
endi- , . ? - * '
lost in a worm or ion auu care. struc
nciil- Amj yot tjje gf)Uj gloom op- i,ut
pressed and the life grown wearied wa8
right with burdens^liard will happier be In iParn
IneBS tho afterglow of a smile that Is Dn bi
warmly kind. I nap
A kindly word is a little thing?a enipi,
18 breath that goes and a sound that ioav^
-aent dies. J abou
* IJut tho^feart that gives and the
heart that hears may know that it
take sings and sings and Binge till at last
amen blends with the wild bird's song, "
1 and the coo of babes in what men call U8e(*
'd the celestial choir.?Utica Saturday P?Bet
Pio: Globe. len8
essly __________ doub
ba? j MARCH STRAIGHT TO THE SEA ancle
were
No Obstacle Able to Make Army of systc
OTE- w#,t Indian Crabs Swerve roum
From Its Course. actly
j-' in the rlvere and fresh-water eta;
streams of the West Indian mouw eclip
tains are quantities of crabs that culta
scuttle away when anyone comes tlona
'? near, juBt like any ordinary crabs, natlc
ridLTA
nut, as crabs go, tnsse are very queer umei
i crabs indeed.
Imed, When . an American lady crab them
latest w|8heB to lay her eggs, she lays them tllng
t*ie without more ado and Keeps them at- year,
tached to her body until they are they
j hatched. But not so her West Indian their
to cousin. 8he lives In the mountains,
138 ?' but she feels that she must lay her
eggs In the sand of the seashore. Nou<jted
where else will do. .
So, once a year, all the WobI Indian an'
nd In crah8 gather In a great army, which
sometimes stretches 40 yards wide a"
0 and more than a mile long. Then ev
they set out for the sea, the males B
Thiu leading and the females behind. covt
tiny Nothing can turn this tierce little w ^
reRU" army from Its course. If a house
phrey etands In Its way, or a wall, or a cliff,
Dt af- over n goes. Sometimes hundreds of , e |
The crabs aro killed In their trucks, but
t dlf- host keeps straight on, turning 8 n
>ullet, neither to the right nor to the left
id, no When tho army arrives upon the .jj
seashore, tho females settle down con- ^ 1
tentedly in the Band and deposit their .j1 ^
eggs. And when the laying season
is over, the old crabs turn around and
march serenely home,
idowg
> me
ocker Made Government See Point,
deep Lieutenant Waghorn found It dlfflis
are cu,t to convince the Uritish postolfice
j,,rod of the v&luo of the iathmua of Suez
aa a means of shortening the letter
velop-. route to India. He guaranteed to
iquito transmit a bag of letters to India and
j has" return -with othera to England In tho
It in same time that It then took the letters
tie, If to K?- Ho was granted permission to
itoral mako the attempt, and difficulties at
stag-1 once cropped up. Coal at Port Said
y, all was a t?n, at Suez $100, so he loadhigh
r(l camels with coal and took them
>Uow8 across the isthmus. When he reached
Is to Suez with the letters tho steamer
thor- which ho had arranged to meet him
was not there. This difficulty he sur
which mounted by chartering an open Arab
0?. boat and forcing the crew at the pistol j
palgn, point to take him the 600 miles down
The the Red sea to Jeddah, where he found
aordl- & steamer to take him to Hombay, and
hare the return journey he completed well:
sltlon. within the time. Thenceforward the
time isthmus route became the overland
>e no route, for Waghorn was able to conm
the rlnce the Arabs that the protection of
Qflum- the malls was better than looting
them. English gold being his strongest
argument.
lanlst Nettles Proof of Man's Presence.
r*? Jj, Nottlea are said to be an almost,
i poll- rArtflln nrrw?# fhot men Koa 11 xt
?lf-a?- the ?pot. One British species, the soemles
called Roman nettle, is said to be
'hood, found only where the Romans have
they been. Coles, the seventeenth century
luring herbalist, explains: "It grows both
got a ; at the town of Lldde, by Romney, and
about jn gtreets of the town of Romney,
In Kent, where Julius Caesar landed
?cery with his soldiers and abode there a
S the i certain time; and for the growing of
It In that place It la reported that the
along aouldlers brought some of the aeede
with them and sowed It there, for
d tb* 1 their use to rub and chafe their limbs,
aa*? | when through extream cold they
should be stiff and benumbed; being
I told before tbey came from home that
the climate of Britain was sr. extream
a cold it was not to be endured wlthat
he 0ut some friction."
rs are
f more ,n Lov* Wlth Uv,n?_
"It Is better to lose health like a
routo P"ndthrift." said Robert Louis Steven^
son, "than to waste it like a miser."
Stevenson took care of his health, of
trains his hody. But he did not hoard his
-what i health. He did not make It the domlshook
i nant thought with him. "The Joy of
t year living" was with him the great thing.
"Well "Wo do not'" "aid, having In mind
vith a norma' no<!n an<* women, "we do not,
Tim properly speaking, love life ail all. but
living."
I
IK LANCASTER NEWS,
:ed to hear sermon cflt
rie Was Allowed to "Take a Few
Vinks" In English Churches Pussy's
300 Years Ago. pent
>ee who hare a habit of slooph
rough the minister's sermon Storl
d thank their stara that they eoansno
not living In England 300 yoars opposlt
!or they would have been rapped may e
the head every tlmo they dozed over a
ten especially appointed to the It of &1
of keeping the congregation a gei
0- yonrs, i
instance. In' one parish in a write
>shtre, 25 shyiings a year was ||fe hat
arly paid to -'a poor man to go occasio
. the church during the sermon the ver
teep the peoplo awake, lie car- \ trod or
a thin, long wand In his hand, ready 4
l he could conveniently stretch stunt t<
>ver considerable space and rap J the del
ders on the head or about the glancin
ders. | crouchl
th women he was always In- reptile
ted to be gentler, to tap softly, seemed
persistently, until the slumber BO that
broken. For women, it was j Anot
ed, were not so amiablo as men j cot on
elng aroused from a comfortable |-on one
anu, ir genuu means were uui with hi
oyed, were likely to get up anil ^is cut
>, causing no little commotion
t them. out 0j
even p
Wisdom of the Ancients. remain
Is now believed that the ancients ; speclm
telescopes for astronomical pur- j nomem
j. In excavations in ttabylonia a of the
has been found which was un- Bnake
tedly used in a telescope cen- life an
s before the birth of Christ. The was re
mta, both Chaldean and Egyptian, merle
acquainted with the planetary killed,
im, knew that the earth was Gran
d. could calculate merldlanB ex- the eft
, calculate the orbits of the plan- notlsm
In fact, paid great attention to fear oi
ses of the sun and moon, to oc- ' it forg
tions of the planets, to the mo- lntens*
i of the planets, and the determi- danger
in of their periodic and synodlo
8, to the construction of tables of
fixed stars and the mapping of
l Into constellations and to set- Excl
the exact length of the true Bolar 1'ro?
It Is fair to presume, then, that rjrowtl
had telescopes to aid them In
work. roal an
There
I'd tha
Expression Is Old One. I
e expression "the devil to pay ' n 1
ao pitch hot" Is of nautical origin, sfamPe
rdtng to Brewer's "Dictionary of su<
e and Fable," which says: "The today.
1* Is a seam between the garboard- of adv
le and the keel, and thu'pay' is to pliealh
r It with pitch. In former times, great i
a vessels were often careened for Words
Irs, It was difficult to calk and pay Thi
seam before the tide turned.
:e the locution, the ship is car- MKs-n,>
d. the devil is exposed, but there under
o hot pitch ready, and the tide won't I
turn before the work can be done, on his
nch payer, from paix, poix, pitch). Your <
e's the very devil to pay,' is used s<hem<
uite another sense, meaning: won't
e's a pretty kottle of lish," 'I'm vou ..
pretty mess,' etc."?A. T. C.
The f.len
SOUTH CAROL
One of the Largestsand ]
Acres of Land. Vah*^
Number of Students,
gree Courses. Fiv
NEX1^
VALUE OF A TECHI
EDUCAT
A young man can make no better :
education. Viewed merely as a mat
to borrow the money at interest, h'
earning capacity will perhaps even t
be sufficient to repay the loan. It
wait to earn the money necessary i
an earning capacity only one-half
cated man. Every year of untrained
a direct financial loss. Every boy c
parents are unable to pay for his
friends to indorse his note at the
that will make for greater earnini
There is no time to lose. The worl
power men and is willing to pay fi
surplus of the one horsepower varit
A College education is no longer j
a necessity of the poor boy whose i
nothing to start on. In earning <
represents at the outset a capital of
pending upon the energy, character
sor, and the capital increases with <
A College diploma has come to
world not so much as an evidence c
the graduate possesses and is traine
Industry, ambition and character
success.
There never was a time in the his
knowledge was so much in demand,
success, and so highly compensated,
positions of low wages, long hours i
Clemson College brings within th
Carolina tt*e benefits and posslbllit
He Is here offered an opportunity to
of life. The way ie provided whet
and capacity for knowledge, he ne<
Here, at a cost lower than at any el
man obtain an education second to ;
cation that will prepare him for i
citizenship
For Catalogue, etc.,
Do not delay, you may be cr<
TE 12, 1914.
A3 A SliAKE CHARMER
i Fascination of Deadly Sen:
Proved But Not Absolutely
Accounted For.
ea of fascination by snakes are
n, bat from India comes the
e In an account of how a cat
xe^cise such hypnotic power
deadly serpent as to deprive
1/Power of action,
ntleman who has lived fort^eix
as he Bays, in India, relates to
;r in the Field that twice his
i been saved by a cat. On one
n. he sayB, he walked on to
anda of hie house arid actually
1 a cobra that was sitting up
to strike. Expecting every In3
feel its fangs, he wondered at
ay in the deadly stroke, when,
g' behind him, he saw his cat
ing and gazing intently at the
with a mesmeric effect, which
I to render it unable to move,
. he killed it easily,
her time, when sleeping in a
this veranda, he awoke to find
side of the bed a huge cobra,
sad erect, and on the other side
, its glistening green eyes blazthe
snake. The man crawled ?
his covering, got a gun, and Tl
ioked at the cobra, which had
ed as immovable as a stuffed |,
en. Wishing to test the pheon,
he placed his hand in front
eyes of the cat, whereupon the b?
immediately showed signs of cs
d activity, but when the hand w
moved, fell Instantly into mev j
fixity of attitude. Then it was (
itlng the facta, how much was ' 1
ect upon the snake due to hyp,
and how much to paralyzing G
f an ancient enemy, rendering M
etful of everything else La its h
> watchfulness of a recognized 0;
T
w
USE YOUR HEAD. j
lange. I
a i
;ress in a fact, not an ideal.
ci
1 and evolution are just as
id just as certain as man lives. ^
have been ages where it seem- D
I the activities of mankind sj
?aralyzed, when progress was It
sded, and stagnation reigned;
:h is not the way of industry of ti
The forefront, is only for those tl
anced ideas, and earnest ap- ei
3n. Herbert Kauffman spoke a s<
ndustrail sermon in a few fi
when he said: c<
e man who taught you your ti
ss couldcn't survive a year
present conditions, and you el
last much longer if you rely up- ti
system for your progress, n
ild dreams won't produce new f?
8s. Use your head, or you w
keep ahead of the man behind T
n
A
fison Agi
INA'S SCOOL OF ENG1
Jest Equipped Agricultui
of Plant Over $1,300,000.
^834. Every County in I
rp/Short Courses. Twent
and Modern Buildings,
SESSION OPENS WED!
hCAL COLLEGE
IOW
Investment than in a technical
ter of musiness, even if he has
e willltind that his increased
:he firsYyear after graduation
is a p(\r business policy to
to pay fo\ an education with
or one-thild that of an edul,
uneducafed labor represents
>f abllltyaml ambition whose
educjJ^on, should get some
bank find begin preparation
g capacity and a fuller life.
Id is locking for 1,000 horseor
them\ Already there Is a
sty.
i luxury of ^ie rich, but more
parents can Ave him little or
'apacity, a College education
from $16,000 to $30,000, deand
personality of the posHeaBvery
year of its efficient use.
be regarded by the busineee
if knowledge as evidence that
d in those qualities of ability,
that are likely to make for
tory of the world when expert
so lndlapeas&Dle to individual
For the untrained await the
inu poverty.
e reach of every boy In South
Lies of a technical education,
enjoy some of the good things
eby, If he have the ambition
Bd not continne In ignorance,
milar Institution, can a young
none, if he be Reeking an edutelf-suRtaining,
self-respecting
write at once to W. M. R!
iwded out.
| The^Fact -
JNo amount of misre
peddlers oFalunk baking
gling with chemicals, or
or cooked-up certificate
any kind, can change th
Royal Bikini
has been foiHid
clal examinations
highest leavenin
free from alum, ai
purity and whc
Royal Baking Powt
for making finest and mo
i.
hjrty Years of Prohibitum in ' per
Kansas. Jul)
rogressive Farmer. wer<
Governor Woodrow Wilson has "? '
? , , coui
sen frequently quoted in the recent
impaign as being opposed to state
ide prohibition. The utterance, f {*.
. . , . . , half
Dwever, in which he was supposed ^
> take this position was not very
eur. while he was very clear in a
itter he wrote last year to Mr. B. W. ?
IIV6
rogan, of Byers, Texas: "I belie/e
lat for some states state-wide pro- ^
ibition is possible and desirable be- the
luse of their relative homogeneity, full
hile for others I think that state
ide prohibition is uot practicable. NO
have no rea'Min to doubt, from what
know of the circumstances, that ^
Late-wide prohibition is both practiible
and desirable in Texas."
It is also interesting to note, in
lis connection, what Mr. Jonn S. _
awson, attorney general of Kansas, gjgj,
lys as to the results of a generat'on- iy
>ng trial of prohibition there: teec
"The test of the value of prohibi- and
will
on Is the net result for Kansas in
lirty years. Almost a third of the Ratj
ntire population is enrolled in E
?hool. Illiteracy has been reduced taki
om 4 9 per cent to less than 2 per
ant and that trifling amount is en- <-/.
? ? ai it
rely among the foreign element. fact
"With 105 counties in the .'tate, dea
ighty-seven of them have no insane;
veg
fty-four have no feeble-minded; ^ar
inety-six have no inebriates, and the effe
jw we do have come from the cities ' rail
hich defied the law to the very last |)Ul
hirty-eight county fionr farms hu'-e J'
o inmates. There is only one p iu- ai,o
Cultural (
[NEERING AND AGRICU
al and Mechanical Colleges in
Over 90 Teachers, Officers
South Carolina Represented.
,y-Six Departments of Instrui
Equipment and Sanitation.
tfESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 19]
RELIGIOUS INF1
The College contributes to the salan
who conduct divine services and do
cadets in barracks. There is a flour
Y. M. C. A. with a salaried Y. M. C. A.
barracks. A $75,000 Y. M. C. A. hi
uary, 1915.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND 1
The College maintains 168 four-yea
cultural and Textile Courses, and 51 in
Course (October 1 to June 1.) Each
and free tuition.
Scholarships and entrance examiuati
court houses at 9 a. m., July 10. Wi
regard to the scholarships open to you
the laws governing their award. It I
for one of these scholarships.
Those who are not seeking to enter <
to stand examinations on July 10, re
coma to College in the fall. Credit w
nations passed at the county seat.
COST
The cost for any of the twelve regul
Two-year Textile Courses is $133.40
covers uniforms, board, room, heat,
all fees, except tuition. Tuition is :
who are able to pay.
Tho cost of the One-Year Agrlcull
This amount covers the same items as
The cost of the Pour-Weeks' Course
Weeks' Course in Cotton Grading is $
board, heat, light, water. No uniforn
IGGS, President, Box C, Clems
(Preserve tt
7
Remains
presentation by thev
j powders, no jugpretended
analysis,
s, or falsehoods of
e fact that
g Powder
by the offi?
to be of the
g efficiency,
nd of absolute
desomeness.
ler is indispensnble
>st economical food.
to every 3,000 population. In
1911, fifty-three county Jaiis
? empty, sixty-five counties had
msouers serviug sentences. Some
ities have not called a jury to
a criminal case in ten years, and
rand jury is so uncommon that
of our people wouldn't know
it it is. in my homo county in
tern Kansas, there has been but
grand jury, and that was twentyyears
ago.''
here is no such thing as a girl of
period, for she never comes to a
stop.
' DISCOMFORT FROM
DODSON'S LIVER TONE
lent Purgative* Need No Longer
be Used for Constipation, 80
Why Hun Kisks of Their
Disagreeable Aftereffect*.
"o overcome constipation and slug1
liver pleasantly, easily and safeDodson's
Liver Tone is guaran1
by the Standard Drug Company
the Lancaster Pharmacy, who
cheerfully refund purchase price
c) at once if you are not entirely
sfled with it.
iodson's Liver Tone is made to
e the place of calomel and other
>ng purgatives. it has none of
disagreeable and often dangerous
sr-effects of calomel, which is in
; a poison, a mineral, a form of
dly mercury.
iodnson's Liver Tone is a strictly
etable liquid, containing nothing
mful. It not only leaves no bad
cis, uui wotks easily nuu naiuy.
without pain or gripe and withinterfering
at all with your reguhabits,
diet or occupation. A trial
y benefit you greatly, why not seo
ut it today?
College
LTURE.
the South. 1,544
and Assistants.
Twelve Dejtion.
New
l4.
[jUENCES
r of four resident ministers
noaf Aral wnrl/ amnno f hn
at nuia uuivug tuv?
ishing Sunday school and
secretary, who lives in the
lilding will be begun JanCXAMINATIONS
r scholarships in the Agrithe
One-Year Agricultural
scholarship is worth $100
ons are held at the county
ite for full information in
ir county next session, and
is worth your while to try
an scholarships are advised
ither than wait until they
111 bo given for any examlar
four-year courses or the
per session. This amount
light, water, laundry and
$40.oo additional to those
tural Courses is $117.91.
a ra linfoH .aaoo
w. V aSKSW*** allUTV.
for Farmers, and the Four10.00.
This amount covers
as are required.
on College, S. C.
lis Ad. for Reference.)