The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 21, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
t
> o
LIFE IN BULGARIAN VILLAGE
Watering Places the Scenes of Social
Gatherings, Where Young People
Get Together for Courting.
Ab in the Bible times, all the water
for the Bulgarian village must be
drawn from one or two wells or
springs, and these watering places or
fountains are the scene of much sociability.
Hither come all the youths
and maidens of the village to loiter.
There is coquetting and courting about
* the fountain and home gatherings in
the evenings. Marriages spring from
mutual attraction and choice, rather
than the arrangement of families, as
<lo the Armenian and Turkish alliances.
There are husking bees and
quilting bees where the young people
meet, but the most popular form of
social entertainment is the sedanka.
Here assemble the young men and
women of the village and adjoining
farms, grouped about an open fire,
singing solos and choruses. The Tlulgnrian
folk dances are danced in a
row or circle, the leader generally
waving a bright handkerchief and
turning and twisting about his line 01
followers, like a mild game of "snap
the whip." It suggests health and
abounding spirits and good-fellowship,
without the sensuality that so olten
marks the oriental dance. Occasionallv
tlin aorlanl/o oi\/lo
fashion. Some brawny fellow who
has been courting his Darka assiduously
will seize her in his arms and
carry her to his home. The next day
this "marriage by capture" is given
legal and religious sanction by the
blessing of the orthodox priest.
SLEEP IN QUILTS ON FLOOR
Japanese Have No Idea of the Modern
Bedstead?Open Window at Night
Not Thought Of.
A Japanese house hasn't a singlo
wihdow. And it's only the most stylish
of them that have a pane of glass.
A person who has a pane of glass
somewhere in the house sets the social
pace in that neighborhood. Instead
of glass they have paper pasted on
sliding frames, and through the paper
the light filters. Naturally one wonders
how they keep the rain out; this
is little trouble, for outside the paper
walls are a series of wooden doors
which also slide back and forth.
When thv time comes to retire, you
look around for the bed. but there
isn't one in sicht. It is rolled un in
a drawer, nml the Japanese wouldn't
know a bedstead from a quilting
frame. Millions of people in Japan
have grown to manhood, voted, paid
taxes and gone to their reward without
ever having clapped eyes on an
American bedstead. To make the bod
ready the servant opens the drawer
and unrolls the quilts on the floor,
putting a tomato-can-looking thing under',
one end for a pillow. Then she
shuts all the paper windows and pulls
to all the wooden slides so that not a
broath of air can get in and the bed
is ready. Money In the palm wouldn't
persuade a Japanese to sleep with
the window open.?Leslie's Weekly.
Starling Becoming a Pest.
The English starling. Introduced Into
this country some time ago. is increasing
in numbers In a manner
which puts the far-famed sparrow to
the rear in the raoe. and tt is claimed
by some that the starling will soon be
a greater pest than the sparrow. When
tho starling first came to us as a
stranger he seemed to have sonvi semblance
of a song or a mr" ious whis*
tie, nut around the citi'S where he
preferably makes his habitation this
whistle is rarely heard, the ordinary
note or conversation 01 the bird
among his fellows being a sharp rasping
sound, like the click of a fishing
reel In order to determine the status
of the starling the government is conducting
a number of experiments and
examinations of the contents of tho
birds' stomachs to determine whether
tho bird is truly insectivorous or simply
a scavenger of tho English sparrow
type One thing contended for by
some persons on behalf of the starling
is that where he appears the sparrow
Is becoming a tree nird.
Avoiding Disaster.
The parish priest had spoken seriously
to Murphy several times about
the wasteful habit of treating, and
urged him when attending market to
been his ehnnco In hia nenlrnt until h?
reached home, and then hand it over
to tils wife.
Some weeks afterward his reverence,
passing through tne market, noticed
Murphy and a few companions
leaving a public house. "Now, I saw
you In there a moment ago," began
hia reverence.
"Acta, sur% Ol cudn't hilp It, yer
rtvirlnce!" said his parishioner. "Sure
Ol Jlst foun' a hole in mo trousers
pocklt, an was afeered Oi'd lose the
change ,afore Oi'd git home!"
Birds' Slaughter Blocks.
In country districts where shelled
nn&lls are abundant a thrilling thing
It is to soe robin, goldfinch or thrush
capture a snail and hie them to a certain
smooth-topped stone, there to soar
high In the heavens and repeatedly
ilrrtn Iho imhnnnv snail until ftnnllv
tJ?t> Bheh is triumphantly cracked open
as you would a nut.
These slaughter blocks, anvils of
stone are to be found almost anywhere
that birds and snails are common. It
is, to be sure, no easy matter, to catch
the resourceful birds in the act; but
even if your patience goes unrewarded
the crushed and broken houses of
shell scattered near tech stones tell
Cfce tale.
HER PART OF THE OUTPU
.
AIK That Girl Really Had to Do 1
the Gloves Was to Put on the
Finishing Touch.
"I've got a new place." said Gerti
"Where?" asked Sadie.
"In the Right & Left glove factory
"Isn't that nice?" said Sadie. "Mak
me a pair of gloves some time, wl
you?"
"Yes, maybe, after a while. I 111
thn work nwfullv wall "
"But isn't there a lot to it?"
"No, not much. It's real simpl
And we glrlB have lots of fun."
"But how do you ever get those II
tie pieces sewed in between tt
fingers ?"
"Oh, you mean the?the?well, I'x
forgotten what they call them; but
don't do that."
"Oh, you Just do the rest of it?"
"N-no, not exactly. You see, tb
cloth 1b woven in one departmentit's
just like silk gloves, you knowand
the gloves are cut out in anothe
Then they send them to another di
part men t. where they put in these li
tie pieces you spoke of. And the
someone elso puts on the tips of tli
fingers, and someone else does fane
stitches on the bac k, and someone els
closes them ?sews they up, you knov
and someone else puts the buttons 01
anH orifl Oh Hi^rn'o Into Mine.c t/v i*
And it's so interesting. And the
they all have to he looked over, an
the mean old thing that inspects i
always sending them back to the girl
to be done over."
"And what part do you do?" Sadi
asked.
"Oh. me? When you buy a pair c
gloves they are always stitched t(
gether in pairs. Well, that's what
do."?Wheeling Register.
ESCORT COULDN'T SEE JOKI
Incident at Coney Island That Prol
ably Taught Confetti Thrower a
Lesson He Needed.
A large well-dressed man and
handsome woman were In the Mard
Gras crowd at Coney island. Ne\
York. They had been waiting som
time for the parade and the womai
began to yawn. Now yawning is
verv unladylike norfnrmanco in mil
lie, and rather a dangerous one in
Coney island crowd, for while th
woman had her mouth wide open an
was getting all the worth there is t
he had out of a good healthy yawn
young man bent on mischief threw
handful of confetti right plump into th
orifice. The woman coughed and splui
tered. and the hoodlum shrieked wit
delight. Those about him thought i
was a grand joke, too?all but th
woman's escort. He reached out oo
powerful arm and grabbed the skylarl
ing youth by the shoulder. Then h
brought his list down on the youn
man's straw hat, crushing it and drii
ing his head through the crown an
partly over his ears. Next he turne
the young man around and kicked hir
with all the force and swiftness tha
outraged dignity and fierce anger t<
gether with great strength affordec
If that youth recovers from that kic
and throws confetti again he will b
careful in picking his target. Am
maybe, the handsome woman if sh
yawns again in a hurry will not do s
in such a mob as turns out to see
Coney island celebration.
With the Essayists.
Of all the displays of art the essa
is the most indefinable, the most sul
tie, because it has no scheme, no pr<
gram.
It does not set out to narrate or t
prove; it has no dramatic purpose, n
imaginative theme; its essence is
sympathetic self-revelation, just as i
talk a man may speak frankly of hi
own experiences and feelings, and y<
avoid any suspicion of egotism, if hi
confidences are designed to illustrat
the thoughts 04 others rather than t
provide a contrast and a self-gloriflci
tion.
The essayist gives rather tha
claims; he compares rather than pi
rades. He is led by his interest i
others to be interested in himself, an
it Is as a man rather than as an ind
vidual that he takes the stage.
He must he surprised at the disco
eries he makes about himself, rath<
than complacent; he must condone h
own discrepancies rather than exu
in them.
Trained CraDS Catch Rabbit*.
Crabs are put to a curious use <
certain parts of the Devonshire foi
shore. They are used to catch ra
bits. Having located a promising bt
row, the snarer takes a crab and i
fixes a short length of lighted cand
to the back of its shell. The behavi
of a crab which finds Itself in a narrc
lnclosure is well known. It oeglns
run. It therefore starts away np tl
burrow at top rate, and presently tl
rabbit Is horrified at the sight of a Jr
trotting flame coming to his sanctuai
OCT he goes for the other exit, only
tlnd himself, when he emerges. In
trap.
Two Babies.
Mrs. Newma?O, I wish you cob
see Mrs. Winkler's baby. It's perfe
ly lovely. Such a delicate little cr<
ture as it Is! It's a perfect lit)
cherub, with the loveliest eyes, t
sweetest little mouth, the cunning*
little nose, and eyes of heavenly bli
It looks as If It Just dropped frc
heaven and every tiny feature h
i been fashioned by the angels.
v??rma?Is It as nice as o
THE LANCASTER I
T GREAT THINKERS LIKED PI
I ?_
Noted Philosophers Celebrated fi
Their Fondness for Commonplace
Dessert.
Commenting on the inconsistench
'1 of longevity, a writer recently cltt
? I the fact that, though a lifelong dev
tee to aDDle Die. Emerson lived to t
k? over seventy-eight years old. Tha
howover. Is not the Important fac
Many persons have lived to even
10 greater age. The distinctive featui
of Emerson's pie-eating career is tt
wholesome, cheerful and thought-cor
?' polling system of philosophy whic
it brought forth.
To demonstrate that apple pie ha
10 j much to do with Emersonian optlmisi
is no task at all.
0 Thomas Carlyle, whose disciple an
friend Emerson was, never ate pi
! and although as great a lover of mai
kind as was the sage of Concord, Ca
ie lyle was a victim all his llfo of me
~~ ancholia and dyspepsia and har
worus. uy uueneciuai descent nn
r* association Carlyle was a Germai
c* his thought being fed by Goethe, Schi
*" tier and others of that great group. Bi
n he adhered to the Scottish diet, whlc
c does not harmonize with Teuton!
y philosophy, and so he became phy
ie letilly and mentally dyspeptic. Fi
v' might have saved him had he taken
1* in time.
?
Further to emphasize the point thf
11 pie, or apple pie, at any rate, is th
optimistic factor of philosophy, it i
8 necessary to cite the fact that Niet
8 -che, who. in his unspoiled years, ws
a devout and cheerful disciple of Kn
6 erson, became the materialistic "si
perman" of Nietzsche's later pioles
,f years.
5' All bmlding philosophers who rea
* these solemn words should be warne
in time.
E HOW DOGS GOT THEIR NAME
Substantial Reasons in All Cases ft
Dividing the Canine Species Into
Breeds Well Known.
a With dog shows everywhere to tti
" left of us and to the right, at nation:
v shows and the side shows, at outdo*
e fetes, many women will be glad l
n learn the origin of several popult
a breeds of the canine family.
It is probable that few lovers of tt
a most popular dog of today?the bul
? dog?know whence he obtained h:
d name. He is called a bull" for tl
? reason that formerly his services we:
a employed in the driving of cattle. Tl
a dog was trained to meet the rushes <
6 the bull by the simple expedient <
i* seizing its charge by the most sei
h sitive part, the nose.
It The spaniel, formerly one of tt
e most popular species of dogs, gets it
e name from Spain, from which cout
c* try the first breeds were sent to En
e land, where for a long time they wei
K called "Spanish dogs."
T' Some have thought that the fox te
d rier derived his name from the to
d by reason of his pointed fox-like rnu
a zle, but as a matter of fact the dc
it was not so nnnieri on amoiint of ar
>* fancied resemblance to Reynard. C
' the contrary the fox terrier is i
k named because in the days when t
e was much larger in size and of grea
* er strength than now, he was et
e ployed by English sportsmen to dra
? and kill the fox, being sent down inl
a Reynard's burrow for that purpose.
"Ma's" Good Example.
y We visited at the home of a farm<
0. friend last summer, says Farm Lit
> It was a rambling house, hut ever
window was either closed or screenei
Every door, likewise, was protecte
G against the entrance of insects Thei
a was one lonesome fly in the din in
n room, and the housewife was after hu
ls with a swatter. The children laughc
,, and the farmer looked at her with a
l8 indulgent smile.
".Ma won't rest till she gets him
() said one of the girls, and her prophec
was ii good one. Ma finally landed c
Mr. Fly with her weapon. Then st
n picked up his lifeless body and carrit
him to the stove and cremated him.
n How much more comfortable thi
1(j family is than in those occasion
i< country homes where they still sh<
the. flies away from the dinner tab
v. with a sassafras bush!
sr
j8 Sing "Aloha" to Pacific Mall.
The Pacific liner Manchuria sail
for San Francisco festooned wl
wreaths bearing the legend. "Aloha F
- clflc Mall."
All Honolulu assembled to see t
>n departure of the last F?aciflc mall v<
>e" sel. On her arrival at San Francis
b" the Manchuria will be turned over
,r* the International Mercantile Marii
which has already taken possession
1? the other Ave steamships which, wl
or the Persia, sold to tho Toyo Kis
,w Kalsba. constituted the Pacific M
to company's transpacific fleet?Hot
h? lulu Dispatch Portland Oregon tan.
he
>K- Seems to Disprove Old Belief.
T- In one of the ancient chimney piec
10 in Cawdor castle. Scotland, there Is
* rude carving In stone of a fox smokh
A IaKq r?orv nlnn nrlth Kn Haf a 1 K1
? , wnaa lun uavc ?ui
.a As it is generally believed that tobi
co was first Introduced into the mot
ild cr country by Sir Walter Raleig
ct- about the year 1585, it is singular
>a. find the common short tobacco pip
He thus represented on a stone bearii
he date so much earlier.
at There can be no mistake as to tl
ie. date or the nature of the represent
>m tlon. The fox holds the fragrant tu
ad In his mouth exactly as it is held I
its human admirers, and is such
ur may be seen every day with tho
who patronixe the cutty pipe.
TEWS, JANUARY 21, 1916.
E ORIGIN OF FAMlLlAR SAYINGS
>r Phrases That Have Become Household
Words Have Been Traoed to
Their Place of Birth.
is "Kicking the bucket" Is an Irrever*
>d ent way of expressing a pore or *a
o- death. The expression originated M
>e the time when a man named l*?Uo
t. ever tried to commlv. suicide by hang
t. lng himself from a beam. He stood
a on a high bucket which he kicked
e away from him when he had adjusted
ie the rope. A neighbor rescued him
a- and In his disappointment he said:
:h "What's the mattev? I thought 1
kicked the bucket."
d The origin of "O. K." Is ascribed to
m President Andrew Jackson, who was
noted for his bad spelling. He Ind
dorsed his papers "O. K.," thinking
e. those were the proper Initials for "all
n- correct."
r- In "that's the ticket," ticket is cor1
rupted from the French word ctld
quotte, meaning that which Is In good
d form or right.
n. ; "He's a brick" is a complimentary
1- expression, but few know why. When
?t Lycurpus was king of Sparta, over two
h thousand vmipu no" "" "
uu vHoiri ti aui*
ic bassador fisited him and was astons
ished to find no walls around the city,
le When he questioned Lycurgus about
It thlB, the latter took him out to a plain
where the Spartan army stood In orit
der of battle. "There." said LyourguB.
ie "are the walls of Sparta, and every
is man a brick."
The celling of the old Drury Lane
'3 theater of London was painted to repn
resent Olympus, with gods sitting
u- among the clouds. The upper gallery
iS came so close to the roof that tho
people who sat there were spoken of
(I 11 u alttlnir omnni. *??1 T **- ?
* OI our "XAUijJli 1ALA" 111 wood.. ^
n ;
< i
n o
is
ss S!
I I!
II BENNETT-TERRY CO. 1 |
| 11
PURE FOOD STORE. i
H
i ?)? l?l*^
j^jflF jSjr- . .' i^BP:^gK-.'. .JBra&
v.iv.MR urnuuft tuc ftUUO. IIH'
d occupants themselves wore called the
"gallery gods."
S APPEAL THAT GOT RESULTS
>r Humorously Written "Dun" Had the
Effect of Bringing Check to Settle
Long-Standing Debt.
10 A well-known business man in Lawrence,
Mass.. once had a customer who
)r contracted a debt that ran along un?
paid for a year or more, and even sovLr
eral letters failed to bring about a
settlement.
10 One day, while glancing over the
religious notices in a local paper, the
business man saw something that cave
ie him a new idea. He went to his deBk
*? and wrote the following note to the
ie debtor:
"My Dear Sir: 1 see in the local
^ press that you are to deliver an adll*
dress 011 Friday evening before the
Y. M. C. A. 011 'The Sinner's Dalanced
16 Account.' I inclose yours, as yet unts
balanced, and trust that I may have
n* the pleasure of attending your lec5"
turo."
"e A check came by the next mail.?
Youth's Companion,
r
x
Redwood Thousands of Centuries Old.
z|g
While one of the professors of the
1V University of California was studying
rock formations about twenty miles
|Q from San Francisco he discovered a
ie quantity of California redwood spllnt.
tors which had undergone no change
n. in texture. They were neither petrtw
fled nor decayed.
Lo The splinters could be shaved and
cut with a knife and retained their distinctive
markings of redwood.
The strata in which these were
found embedded in the sandy base of
?r the rock showed they had at one time
e. been sunk under the sea and at a later
y date had been raised and tilted over,
tl so that the position of tlie trees was
d horizontal instead of vertical,
e It is estimated the age of these
ig ' trees is in the millions of years. The
tn discovery was made at Mussel Rock,
A, Cal.
.n ??_____
To Each Hio Place.
Men have died of homesickness for
the narrow fields and elm-shaded Uolm
lows in tho hills of old Now England
10 in the same spirit that sends others
!(* tolling painfully back to the brown
sand dunes about San Francisco bBy.
Some have lost their hearts to the
a' deep pine woods of ihe North and
50 others to tho stately moss-hung live
*e oaks that lino tho shell road to Mobile.
Some would come to the city of their
souls through the low. warm mists
that overhang Chesapeake bay, and
others prefer to see the lights of home
^ shining clear in a rise of the great
plains 30 miles away as the crow
flies. The truest thing Kipling ever
h? said is thai "God gave all men all
^ earth to love. hut. etnee their heart*
co are small, ordained for each one place
to should prove beloved over all." That
ie- place is home, and they have lived
?' who find It.?Collier's Weekly.
Ith
en Life on Falkland Islands.
Whatever other attractions exist In
10" the Falkland islands, two great drawbacks
are continually met with. fj>e
climate is never really *arm, add fires
hare to be kept up all tt?o year round.
es Servants are procured with difficulty.
Most people Import tbem from England;
but as English girls are freLW*
mmnllo - - . 1 J -
^ 4uuuii/ nuayjitju uy aim iaurnoa
h most as sood il8 they land, they have
,h i to sign an agreement to remain In
t(J service three years. If they break It
eg In order to marry, the husband has
to pay the passage out from England
of another servant to fill the place left
ve "ant by his wife.
iaPOLICE
TO PATROL UEPTHS
by
New York Wants s Detachment of Its
80 Cops Who Can Use Diving
Helmets.
" n m n m. HI i i i, .T.
I |
?6WQQag tfGa? fb(?a5(fl 1 t%
1 gftagftg frfo? G>gj8ro 1H
Over-work, worry and j
the constant strain of a ME. E
business life are often /i
a cause of much trouble. \fW
Dr. Miles' Nervine
is highly recommended
for all Nervous disor- 1 Sct
ders. It is particularly '
_ -1 L 1 . *
Iinvaiuaoie to Dusiness r nervous attacks.
, "I Buffered with nervous atwomcn.
Kegulate your I tacks and headaches. Then my I *
* liver got out of order and It
hv ficitid seemed as though my whole
DOW Lib Dy UbllJg system was upset. I commenced
using Dr. Miles' NcrvDR.
MILES' I 1 le and also took Dr. MtK*s' I II
Liver Kills and now I feel per?
T\7?i*D T ^ fectly well In every way. My |
LI V LA X li/I/O bowels also are lh good shape
now." >
Iff FIRST BOTTLE. OR BOX, MRS. AUGUSTA KKISKR,
FAILS TO BENEFIT YOU. YOUR Rochester."N. Y. I
MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED. I I
, Jj
w MiiiewwwasE-SMwna??????EEEB??????????^r . ^
I
WE WANT TO TELL YOU
<?
*
5 5 ?
?? sE
55 o
IS
5 ??
s **
o
9 E
55 \\
it
. "
5 5 Now is the time to buy your flour. ??
Kxport trade is taking quantities at
IS till* price now.
t
* ('nine to see us anil get a barrel
II The Chewiest jjjf
IjjkL Chewing Gum Jjp y
^jkever CA^erfjpF
tnew "^fF" "BODS"
5c. the packet or two "Bobs** for a
cent at all the better stands and stores.
FLIP a "Bobs" into your
mouth and smack
your lips. The fresh tingle
of peppy peppermint?
the chewiest chewing
gum heart coated with
candy.
Try "Bobs" and Keep It Up ^
Mm* -J