Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|jr*" ~ r 2 ODDITIES OF FIGURfc NINfc iWriter With Spare Time on His Hands Has Discovered Some Really Interesting Facts. i There are some curious facts and fancies connected with numbers. The 'number 9 Is, perhaps, the first as re gards such experiments, although num^ her 7 Is more prominent In literature and history. When you once use It you can't get rid of it. It will turn up again, no matter what you do to put It "down and out." All through the multiplication table |the product of 9 comes 9. No mattei jwhat you multiply with or how many times you repeat or change the fig urea, the result is always the same. I Pnr <r,o??n? ...? " - " --"J I V. loiuiiv.t?, IY1 itc J CllUttlH lo; 11U(! )t and 1, and you have 9. Three times '9 equals 27; 2 and 7 make 9 again Go on until you try 11 time? 9?99 ;This seems to bring an exception. But add the digits?9 and 9 make 18; and again, 1 and 8 make 9. Go on to an lindeterminable extent and the thing continues. Take any number at random. For example. 450 times 9 equals 4,050, and the digits, added, make 9 once more. Take 6.000 times 9, equals ,54,000. and again you have 5 and 4. Take any row of figures, reverse the ,order, and subtract the less from the ^greater?the total will certainly al'ways be 9 or a multiple of 9. For example, take 5,071?1,705 plus 3.366, Add these digits and you have 18, ana 1 and 8 make familiar 9. You have the same result, no matter how you raise the numbers by squares and cubes. One more way is given by which number 9 shows its strange powers Write down any number you please, dd its digits, and then subtract the Bum ui saia digits trora the original number.?Exchange. BRAZIL A LAND OF PROMISE 'Tremendous Possibilities That the Future Holds for the Great Republic to the South. Brazil is not Spanish America. It is Portuguese America, and the republic of Brazil is distinct and separate. No one unacquainted with Brazil seems to realize what a tremendous area it represents and to confuse it with the west coast and even the River Tlate is to make a commercial mistake. In the very first place, experience with Spanish America does not necessarily carry an intimate acquaintance with Portuguese America. Brazil hy itself deserves all the time a man can give to it For instance, there is south Brazil, which includes the states of Rio Grande do Sul. Santa Catharina and Parana, and the new railroad which crosses them is opening up a good territory for future settlement. Rio Grande do Sul and Puerto Alegre do not control the whole of this in i>rlnr It must he studied with the same purpose which was given to Washington and Oregon a generation ago. The climate is not dissimilar, nor, in a broad sense, are the civilizing influences at work very dissimilar. It is not unlike parts of Peru. Ecuador and Bolivia. Roman Pottery In England. Roman pottery was recently discovered in London. When the old general post office in St. Martin's-le-Grand was demolished a large series of Roiman rubbish-pits was disclosed. The lowest portions of one hundred and itwenty of these were carefully excavated. The "finds" included a few whole pots and many thousands of fragments of Samian and coarse pottery, besides building materials, whetstones, beads, knives, coins, and other small objects. It has been possible to assign dates to most of the holes between A. D. 50 and 200. By the association in the same hole of datable and undatable pottery light has been thrown upon many types of the latter. Last summer, while the buildings 3-6, King William street, were being demolished another series of five large Roman pits was uncovered. From the fragments thus obtained nine Samlan vessels of the first century have been pieced together, and are now in the Guildhall Museum. His Good Qualities. "How do you like your new minister?" "Very much, indeed. He's the right sort. One of those 'man-among-men' ministers, you know. Comes over to the house occasionally and smokes a pipe; plays on our baseball team; good at tennis and golf and seems to believe in getting pleasure out of this life." "I see." "Yes. and he's interested In the things we laymen are interested in. He discusses the problems of the day. I tell you. he's a fine fellow." "I know, but what sort of sermons does he preach?" "Well, that 1 can't tell you. I haven't been over to hear him preach yet."?Detroit Free Press. Gill, McGilt, Glliespie. The name of Gill is probably older than that of McGill as the prefix Mac signifies "son of." and the name would therefore in olden times be borne by one whose father was a Gill. It is extremely doubtful if there la any connection at all between the above names and that, of Gillespie. Ir. Gaelic this name Is Gllleasbuig, translated in Knglish by Archibald. For example, the earl of Argyll, who was famous in the wars of the seventeenth century, was known as Gillespie Grumach, or "Archibald the Grim." DEVICE FAILED TO PLEASE 1 Old Gentleman by No Means Grateful for Contrivances Meant to Save Kim Trouble. A Staten Island man named George 1 Mooro recently Invented a rocking chair rocker that never reached the patent office in Washington. The in1 ventor was discouraged by his grandfather, Samuel P. Moore, for whom he ' had constructed the rocker. Moore the younger has always been known as a tinkerer. Back of the 1 house he has a workshop and for years has whiled away many an hour putting things together that never brought him any return save the satisfaction he felt in constructing them. Grandfather Moore has always had 1 the habit of violently rocking his rock11)sr ohnlr nn ?).? 1- ">? ? ? j;ui tu. r irei urandI son Moore invented a rocker silencer, so that the old man could rock away to his heart's content and never get 1 on anybody's nerves. The elder Mr. Moore did not seem to take as much pleasure in rocking as formerly, out 1 nobody commented on the fact at the 1 time. 1 A few days ago Grandson Moore, while Grandfather Moore was down at 1 the post office, attached a small motor 1 to the rooking chair in such a way that by connecting the wires the chair ' could be set going like a seasaw. When the elder Mr. Moore returned and took his favorite seat the chair negan to pitch him back and forth without an ounce of effort on his part. Did he feel grateful? Not at all. He left the chair, kicked the motor contrivance and told his grandson what he thought of it. | "Don't ye know my pleasure is in 1 rocking myself?" he cried. I CATS AS DOMESTIC PETS Many Famous Men Have Been Fond of the Animals and Made Them Their Companions. From an esthetic point of view the Persian cat Is a perfect being. Its fine, long, silky hair might, if woven, serve to robe Queen Mab. The neekI ruff, the "feathered" ears and feet, the falling whiskers and the squirrellike tail of a milk-white Persian tabby make it a thing of ideal beauty. The hand longs to stroke it down. As it is a creature of ready sympathies, and not suspicious, it is glad to be caressed. Perhaps it is not so intelligent as the tiger-striped cat, but it is quicker to lend itself to the ways of a kind master or mistress. French men are even greater amateurs of cats than French women, who resemble them in so many things. A cat was suffered by Richelieu to nurao its kittens in his cardinal's hat. Mazarin (but he was an Italian) used to stroke down a cat that he kept tn hiB arras when dictating to his diplomatic secretaries. The only domestic animal Victor Hugo would allow in his house was a cat. because "domesticity did not curtail Its liberty." He had at Guernsey a slate-colored Maltese, with a black muzzle and a black end to its tall, which (the cat, and not the tall) used to sit on his desk when ho was writing. The black cat Is the least apt to scratch. It got a bad name when old women were burned for witchcraft, and sometimes, because suspected of being evil spirits in feline guise, shared their flery fate. B at That Vanished. A mysterious thing about tho Thames, which no uniount of police supervision will destroy, is the "ghost' boats which have been, and are. frequently seen in various parts of the river. It is a fact that river police patrols have actually given chase to such ghost ships, to find there is nothing substantial to be found on reaching the place where the ships had seemed to be. One of the most curious stories of this kind Is that of the mysterious boat which was seen making its way along the water toward London bridge one day, about a quarter of a century ago As she neared the bridge there was a tremendous explosion, a vivid burst of light, and then?nothing! Not so much as a splinter of wood remained of the boat which had been, and the story of it lingers from that day to this as one of the hundreds of tragic unknown things which form the secrets of the river ot mystery. River of Tragedy Just as no other river has quite the same wonder as belongs to the Thames, so no other river is wrapped in mystery, so surrounded with stories of tragedy and crime, London Answers says. Many of the old waterside nouses, which rise sheer with the river, contain rooms In which the floor is built directly over the water?floors upon which one could stand in apparently perfect safety while someone in an mijuueui room worKea a lever which caused tbo floor to open and tbelr victim to drop Into tbe river. I A gambling clnb Is said to bave met I in such a room once a year to play tor tremendous staKes. The party played on until one of their members was ruined. Then the rest of the men went away in rilence, while the ruined man went down into the dark waters. Cruel Deception. "What caused the rift In the lute?" "She's a flrst-ciass cook." "What aid that nave to do with ft?" "She'd been making fcltn think *1! I along that she couldn't :.oii water." THE LANCASTER NEWS. GET FRESH WATER FROM SEA I I Only 8ource of Supply Available to ' the Inhabitants of Island in Persian Gulf. Quite often one hears a foolish person compared to Larabee's calf, which ' it is said swam the river to get a ' drink. It is not always so, however. 1 for there ts a land where people dive 1 deep in the ocean to get water. 0 Sounds funny, doesn't it? f In the Persian gulf, about twenty * miles from the Arabian coast, is a 8 group of islands, the largest of which * is called Bahrein. This island, which ' is 20 miles in length and 10 in width. e is low and sandy in most places, but 8 here and there an oasis rich in date * palms dots the island with spots of ^ green. "The Mountain of the Mist" 1 iu wuu kcniur hbcb 10 me neigni or 4UU l'eet. The 8,000 people who live In ! Manamoh, its largest town, are most- ? ly Arabs of the fanatical Wahabl sect. Fish and seaweed are their chief food : and the only fresh water they have to drink is. brought from springs at the J1 bottom of the sea The natives, with goat skin bags, dive to the nottom, " and holding the opening down upon the bubbling spring, swim to the surface with their bags tilled with sweet water The extensive pearl fisheries y for which the islands have always J1 been famous is their one great industry. The Dutch Reformed church has . long maintained a mission station upon the island and that has been J? possible because Bahrein is under Brit- . ish protection. 1 HARD WORK BRINGS SUCCESS n a Few Achieve Anything Really Worth While Without a Struggle for Us Possession. c A T1 vt llillf vmi "? ? * - ^<U?; scv wuuoui a tJ struggle is worth little. d Keep this in mind when you are en- tl gaged in some difllcult task and see ( If It doesn't help you to stick. v Things easy to do are the things d sought by the easy-going kind of man who never climbs to any height. Per- ? haps he puts up a good bluff of doing hard work, but the deception hurts -j. himself the most, and sooner or later he has to pay the piper. Natural ability helps some folk to gain prominence, but without hard h work it will not go far. It is not the a pupil who learns his lesson the easiest o or in the shortest time who amounts v to the most in after life. The quick d to learn often have to work the hard- 1: est to retain it. t< When you think of the different v members of your class in school you tl know now that it is mostly the "grind" r< who has made the great and real success, not the boy who could recite on n a minute's notice and spent the rest n nf H1 ci llfv. I" - ? w. ..iw iuu 111 aiistuit'i i in* rt'ai t( "smart boy" you used to Know is gen- tl erally working under the man who n was once known as "dense" or "slow." p Stick to your job. c Common Kind of Desert. 11 A fond mother was assisting her lit- c tie hoy the other evening In the mas- e tery of his geography lesson, and com- ^ lng to the description of a desert, which formed part of the lesson to c be memorized, she quoted the words of the textbook to the effect that it v was "a barren tract." 81 The little fellow repeated the phrase ^ after her, but his air of mystification P showed that he hadn't the slightest '' idea of the meaning conveyed by the w group of words, and the better to 11 reach his understanding, she endeav- g orod to simplify the description by defining it as "a place where nothing w would grow." " The hoy's face brightened with the a light of awakened intelligence, and the mother, proud and expectant, put the question: "Now, Johnny, what is a desert?" tl Prompt came the response: K "Pa's bald head." w The Successful Wife. It is becoming more or less rare to ? hear of an ideally happy marriage, and this state of things "gives one furiously to think," as they say In * France. It may be due to the fact that, although love Is easy to gain, it * requires tact and care on a woman's v part to retain It. So many girls think that, directly j3 the wedding ring is actually their own j3 they need no longer trouble themselves to be as charming to their hus- n bands as they were in courting time. c The girl who wants to become a thoroughly happy wife, loving and beloved, must tax her strength and patience to attract and please her hus- * band, regardless of the worries of everyday life, to show a smiling face in trouble, to be a real "pal," and to * bear and forbear. These efforts must inevitably be crowned with success, 0 and the effort is well worth while.? 13 ExcMmae )j Work Requires Skill. One of the spectacular features of the work on the modern steel build- fc ing which always attracts the inter- t est of the spectators Is the adeptness ? of the man at the forge, whose job c consists of heating the rivets to the f ootnt of redness and then tossing the t glowing metal to a workman some- c where in the vicinity. He catches It and drives It into a hole awaiting its ? reception. In its heated condition s the two ends are then clinched by a r tew blows of the hammer. Occasion- t; atty these meteorlike missilea go { astray, and are likely to do some dam- I age. unless they are looked aftst. * uas bean found that a better way of accomplishing the practice t* las j means of a chuts. '? *6 r *fk JANUARY, 14. 1!UC. HAVE SYSTEM IN EXERCISI 'roper State of Health Impossible I This Important Matter Is Ignored. Without exercise no woman cai teep her good looks. She fades as i lower without sunshine, as foliag vlthout rain. And yet, in spite of th lecesslty of eTercise, few women tak i sufficient an. _nt?those who can al ord It prefernng to ride rather thai o walk, and those whose circum tan COS force them ?n moll, ? vv TTutn dciuvu indlng time to indulge In this form o eauty treatment. Exercise to be ben ificlal should bo taken out of doore ind walking, within the reach of th >oor as well as the rich, Ib one of th> est of exercises, says a writer In tb< Mttsburgh Dispatch. The average woman is, alas! a sad!; ndoor animal, and does not seek witl ufHciont ardor or zeal the outdoo Ife, which is one of the greatest se reta of lasting beauty. It is Interest ng to note here thut the vast majority if groat singers have In their youtl nd an open-air life under the canop; if hoavon, or have sprung from faml ies whero such a life had been le< or centuries. It seems as if the pure resh oxygen of the hills and plaini ras distilled In the secret laboratorlei if their bodies into the liquid notei hat so move and thrill us. So It In mill' ....... U.HUIJ, I lit! uruil loauties of history have, one and all t some period of their lives livet roely and unrestrainedly tho quick nvigorating life of tho opon. Perhaps you may say that in a cit: t is next to impossible to get fresl Ir or to find tho time to exercise. Tht irst may be true, for alas! city air h ar from fresh. The second is false or every person, no matter how busy an find the time if he or she will, t( ake at least an hour's exercise eact ay. Health demands it, and unlesi his demand is heeded, sooner or latei and it is usually sooner) the foolist ictim of too little time will break own Just from lack of exercise. IAVE THEM THE WRONG IDE/1 eacher's Power Over Children Evl dently Was Not as Great as She Had Imaained. An inuianapoiis young woman whc as been taking a Normal course at n institution for deaf children, told n ner return to tno city for a Bhort iBit of her experience the first few aye. She knew little about the sign tnguage, but the children she was to aach knew nothing ubout it. She I as expected to learn faster than hey, and to teach them through lip oading. The supervisor had instructed her ot to "sign" to the children. She was ot to show what she wanted them 3 do, but tell them and make it plain hat they wero to read her lips. This lethod was irksome, and when the suorvlsor was out of the room she signed" with her hands what the hildren were to do. She was movlg her hands upward as she told the hildren to stand, and the supervisor ntered the room. The children stood, ut the supervisor said that was not tie proper method of instructing the hildren. "Watch me." she said. The superisor stood before the children and aid "Sit down," being carerul to make er lips show the words as clearly as ossible. The children were astonihed, and were slow to determine 'hat was being asked of them, but two 1 the front row figured It. They bean to run around the room. Two or hree others saw that the first two rere wrong, and they jumped up and own, while several others turned so 8 to face the rear of the room. Boyhood Memories. "The kids of today have better play tiings than when I was a boy," said a Tizzled old fellow today who wat ratc-hing some boys flying kites Take, for Instance, kites. You see hese kites they are dying aro made f cloth, box shaped and without tails. 'hat's a big change from tho 'house ites and 'cod-fish' kites that I made ;hen a kid. When I was a boy everj oy made his own kites and mended hem. if they needed mending. He whittled out his own kite sticks tc lake the form of the kite, and then e covered the kite with paper, which e panted on. And he made the paste imself; he got some flour of hii aother and mixed it with water and ooked it enough on the kitchen stove o make it sticky. And when he had be kite made he was ready for the all. He would go to mother and she roold cut out a nice piece of old cot on cloth for the tall. What a change hose cloth-covered, box-shaped kite* re, and made to fly without a tall fy, what a change that is from the hMlmo kites." And the old fellow'i uemorlee still lingered with his boy lood days as he watched the kldi raisin#" their kites. War Fatal to Ostriches. Ostriches in South Africa a ft dyjni >y scores because their food has beej nL/... In # I n.lll.L. 1 ?- ' ?ncu iu loou i>rit.iBii mvttiry nurses lesidee the withdrawal of thousand! >f tons of alfalfa, which is the nude ood of the ostriches during the Winer, drought has added to the scarcity if food. It is estimated that the farms In >outh Africa which aro the principal ouroea of the supply of ostrich feath' rs. have lost 30 per cent of their aduli ilrds. Among young birds the mortal ty has been still heavier. Formerly markets Tor the buying ol fathers v/ere open daily in Cape prov nee. but with the advent of war there .as a complete cessation of trade. Ei - i ; Iflhooi? wMk . The constant strain of W111'1I1P\^ J::! i- factory work very often jSgMDS' jL ! 1 ? results in Headaches, S 1 Backaches and other } I Aches, and also weak- I \ ANT^PAIN^ILLS ||f * will quickly relieve the i I Nerves, or Pain, while __ 7 2 n v,.. t SEVERE PAIN. I ' 1 UF? "llCS ..j usoj to suffer a great deal F with lumbago In my shoulders K iaicart 1 reailUCllt and back. A friend Induced1 rno fl | ? to try Dr. Miles Antl-Paln , t i r t t PUIS 0nil I am only too Kia<l to V f is very helpml when bo abi* to attest to the relief i f , r r . . that I prnt from these splendid I L the Heart is overtaxed, pm*. They form a valuable i B medicine and do all that it is 0 I IF FIRST BOX, OR BOTTLE, clrimed they will do." 5 B FAILS TO BENEFIT YOU, YOUR LEWIS J. CUTTER, , | MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED. Marietta, Ohio. j I That is the story of scores of the BIG BUSINESS ENTERPRISES i L of this country ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS ON YOUR LETTERHEADS AND BILLHEADS fiivA I k a f.nll VlfV I/O U VUII OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT " . | He. .jH^Luj^^^HM <^H' ,* '^InSb I^K^v , v^|H^ -'^Sw 5c. the packet or two "Bobs" for a cent at all the better stands and stores. START your Heart aBobbing merrily with | "Bobs"?the heart-shaped l peppermint candy with an j inside of chummy chew- I ing gum. The choice chew that ^IJ Bob for "Bobs" fQ . 'v itt" )tt' . ? ; 9 ..