Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WED NFS DAY. DECEMBER 28, 1910. , Some of the Best Citizei of AbleviEle Are Usir Burriss' Mental Shingle Why not you, and help Home Industry grow I oe ine Biggest success i your State. Messrs. John T. Burriss & Son, Ami Gentlemen :?Some weeks ugo t Cbureh, Anderson, S. C., was coven covering has been teste*! by rain and We are delighted with the cover Pastor 1 Jno. T. Bu Manufacturers of BUR] / ANDERSON, " Abbeville Lumber jl>ea: DOORS, FLOO] SASH, CEIL1 BLINDS, SHL\< In fact anythii g (hat is medtd plans and figure wilh you on y plans will not cost you anytbin will make the utber man do it c Get prices on material befo business and aie making prices Ibe Eurtka Hoiel?-a few stej s f Drop iu and see our PHOXE 233 Acker Building SCHOO] Tablets I " General Sc' SDeed's I Ice Cream, 1 Ciga Paints, Oil Wholesale a Up-to-date 13 C. A. Mi] THE SODTB'S Unexcelled Dinning Car S< Through Pullman Sleep Convenient Scht Arrival and J)t No. of Trains. 110 Leaves for Gr 9:20 a ra. 112 Leaves for Gr 114 Leaves for Co 111 Arrives from i at 11:05 a.i 113 Arrives from 115 Arrives from For full information as to rates .hail way ALE> Travelling At J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pays. Agent, Atlanta. Ga. |>C IS THE ONLY CENUINE ARNICA SAL1 Anderson, S. C., May 22, 1909. lere-on, S. C. be parsonage of the St. John's Methodist ?<' with the Burrij<s Metal Shingles. The I hail, atjd it stands the test, ing. P. B. WELLS. St. John's Methodist Church, Anderson .rriss & Son, f?SS' METAL SHINGLES. South Carolina. Company local agents. ( * nn ? f f/ 1 j ill u ).. LI.ICS IX?! RING, LATHS, NG, LIME, jlLES, CEMENT. to build ahou.se. Let ub make your our work. If we do your work your g, and if we dou't get your work we heaper. re buying elsewhere. We want your to get it. You will find ua just below loni the square. slock?write or pliouc us. ABBEVILLE, S. C. I & Repair Co., Li BOOKS Pencils nk hool Supplies. )rug Store. obacco, Uigars rrettes, s and Stains ml retail at the rug- Store of Lf ord & Co I RAILWAY. GREATEST SYSTEM. ervice. iDg Cars on all Through Traits 5cules on all Local Trains. *parture of Trains. eenville and Columbia at tenville at 4:05 p.m. lumbia at 6:25 p. m. Columbia and Greenville n. Columbia at 5:20 p. m. Greenville at 7:50 r>. m. , routes, etc., confiultjnearest Southern Ticket Agent, or I. H. ACKER, ; Pas-senger Agent, jgusta, Ga. W. E. McGEE, Division Pase.'Agent, Chariwton H. ( orKING'S NEW LIFE PILLS ft The Pills That Do Cure. HE FOUND THE MAN. Id my early days I was a reporter os rhe Clarion Call. Only a dislike to own rny&ilf beaten and tlio occasional fascina tion which com^nsntod for the more fre quoDt discomfort kept mo in the office. But all this was before tho day I was sent to interview the wife and daughter of the man n lio had just disturbed soolety bj disappearing from it. Mr. Grey, bo it had been learned from the notices concerning his disappearance, had ono evening after dinner gone out for n stroll around tbe block. He had never Dome back. His family was of course prostrated after the manner of families on such sad occasions. After giving him time to come back, sending to his clubs, bis office and tho houses of his friends hli wife had finally told his lawyers, and sys tematic search was begun. The family had retired from nublio lffe and denied themselves to every one, consequently my chances for an Interview with Mr* Grey did not soe hopeful, but the city ed itor's air of granting mo the opportunity 1 had been longing for mado me loath to admit my fears. I took the train for tho Greys' -?they lived a little way out of town?and pre pared myself to meet the servants' scorn and the other attendant evils of suoh an assignment. The coach was an ordinary one, and there were several laboring men In it, evidently traveling to some suburb whero they were to work upon the roads, for they carried picknses and shovels. There fiat opposite mo and slightly for ward a peculiar typo of man to whom 1 found ray gaze wandering every few min utes. Els iron gray hair was thick and. very unevenly cut. His face was covered with a stubbly growth of gray beard. H6 looked unwashed, unkempt and generally unpleasant. His blue overalls wore stain ed with rod clay and bis rod flannel shirt oponed at the front In a way that revealed anything but a beautiful neok, burned and blistered. But the man's twitching llpsand convulsive movements of the Jaws attracted my attention, and his doep art, steely blue eyes that burned In cavernous sockets fascinated me. He did not talk to the other men, but Rat with his head sunk upon blB breast, onl> occasionally raising It to cast a look about hi*n He, with tht other laborers, loft the train wt. ""orestville, where the Greys lived, an/l 1 soon taw them, under the direction of a foreman, assigned to make various road repairs. Of course Mrs. Grey would not see ma I Bat in the library while the servant took my card to her, for there were other callers In the drawing room. Over the mantel hung a picture, presumably Mrs. Grey, done in oil. She was as beautiful as a cameo and as hard. Opposite her was the portrait of a clean shaven man, with fine iron gray hair brushed oft his forehead?a more pleboian cast of countenanoe, but strong and Interesting. The faoe seemed familiar. I 6tared at it until the servant returned. "Mrs. Grey is sorry, mlsB, but she can see no one, and has nothibg to say for publication." "Very well," said I. Thon I rose to go. "Is that Mr. Grey?" I asked, nodding toward the pioture. '' wrftfl and ond. ICO) UJIOO, nuo VUU I UtiU uuu denly it flashed upon me where I had seen (hose deep set, curiously shaped, keen blue eyes. My heart leaped almost into my mouth. I took one long look at the por trait and left the house. The men were repairing the road, and 1 noticed one of the workmen whose face startled me. Tho rceomblanoe to. the por trait I had eeen of Mr. Grey was remarka ble. He worked with a florce delight In She severe labor. His face seemed more mad than ever, with the exaltation of mo* tion and strength deepening the gleam In his eyea. Thero was a telegraph ofSce at tho end of the street. I sent a message to the oltj editor. "Sond a man to Forestville at once," was my command. Then while I paced tho street and walked about the square I reflected upon tho welcome I would receive if I had mode a mistake. Every minute I became mo e and more convinced that I had made the most oolos sal blunder on record. By the time Mr. Ellington Ellsworth, the only man who happened to bo available when my tele gram was receded. bad arrived I wa? noarly hysterica L I told Mr. Ellsworth my theory, and he was properly skeptical He discouraged me thoroughly in about two minutes, but I suddenly ralllod. "Well," I remarked, taking command, *'I want you to keep that man In 6ight I shall go to town anc\ get bis lawyer. Find oat what train they go in on, and I'll meet you." Mr. Ellsworth didn't wish to aat upon that suggestion, but he Anally consented to do so. I went in, summoned Mr. Grey's lawyer and with him met the worklngmen'a train. Mr. Ellsworth, look* ing bored and unhappy, got out and point ed out our suspected "disappearance" to his lawyer. My heart stood in my mouth. Was I to be forever disgraood or made fa mous forever? "Mr. Grey," said the lawyer, stepping forward, ' 'what does thla mean?" And when I 6?w the man start wildly I knew that I was not forever disgraced. + "Well," Bald the city editor Jovially, "what did they say?" ''They didn't cay anything. They didn't seo me." "So you didn't get the interviewf" Mid cue city editor anorxiy. "No," I replied meekly, "bal I found the missing man." And now, Buoh la tbe Irony of fate, the olty editor, Instead of letting me rest on my laurels, is always exhorting me to live up to'tho reputation I made in tha Grey case, when I found the missing man, learned how overwork had worn out hi* brain and how in his half orazed condi tion be wandered away and returned to his original occupation In life, to the hor ror of bis wife with the comoollke faoe. If only 1 bad never been so brilliant 1?Ex change. He Preferred Death. Baron de MaWMo, a German who had erved in Mexico with Maximilian, told te Bir M. Grant Duff, who records It In hi* "Diary," the following story of an In dian's devotion to his leader: General Mejla was a full blood Indian In the service of Maximilian and was tak en prisoner along with him. Two hours before their execution was to take place General Alatorre came to him and Baid: "General Mejia, I have been three times your prisoner, and three times you have spared my life. My aid-de-oamp Is at the doer with a horse, and yon are free to go whore yon please." "And the emperor?" asked Mejia. "Will be shot In two hours," answered Aiatorre. "And yon dart to come to me with snob ? proposition I Leave the room I" rejoined fee prisoner, Alatorre did so, and Mftiis ' *MMMnr*Uto?*ba; "^r~"znL CHRISTMAS LONG AGO. The Bananet In Old England Wm u Event of Great Ceremony. The Christmas banquet of mediae val times was a very brilliant affair, followed by spectacular performances, particularly at court, where proces sions, dancing and the acting of alle gories were favorite amusements. Be iictes t. representations, the ballet frequency acted tome simple story. A favorite allegory represented Prom* theus stealing th? spark from heaven and making his escape, Vulcan and Venus forging the bolts of Jove, the fall of Phaeton, the love of Semele and its fatal catastrophe, and Love and Beauty setting the universe on fire with their united power. From the time of Henry VIII until nearly the close of the seventeenth cen tury boar's head was a favorite dish on Christmas day. This was an event of great pomp and ceremony. After the quests had assembled around the fes tive board the procession of retainer! ippeared. Then? Was brought the lusty brawn By old blue coated serving man; Then the grim boar's head frowned on high. Crested with bays and rosemary. While round the merry wassail bowl Garnished with ribbons blithe did trowl. At Queen's college, Oxford, the bringing In of the boar's head was at tended with processional honors. The boar's head was carried In by the strongest of the guardsmen, singing a merry stave. The turkey as a Christmas dish was Introduced into England in the six teepth century and is therefore of lesi antiquity than the huge sirloin of beef or the mince pie. Mince pies were first shaped like a manger, as were ths Tule cakes given out by the bakers to their customers. Mince pie was also long ago accepted as typical of the riches and spices brought by the three wise men to the Child in the manger. The plum porridge later developed Into the plum pudding, which dates from 1675. At the old Christmas feasts peacocks and cranes formed 3ome of the dishes. Before belnjj,roast ed the peacock was carefully skinned, and after leaving the oven the bird was reclothed with Its old plumage.? Boston Herald. A Christina* Tree Feature. Dancing Christmas fairies always en hance the children's delight In the Christmas tree and, once made, can be used year after year. Buy up a dozen or more of 5 and 10 cent dolls, 'and to add to the variety have among thv number some Japanese and colored dolls. Dress these to represent fairies In bright hues of spangled gauze, tar latan or tissue paper and liberally Bprinkle their hair and garments with diamond dust powder. Each doll should be provided with a dainty pair of fair? wings made from spangled tissue pa per and fastened to the body by means of concealed wires. These wires should be coiled to obtain motion In the win^s, and nothing better can be used than the fine spiral coils that come out ol wornout wire stitched brooms. The least motion will set this spiral to quivering, causing the wings to move as if in Sight. In like manner use the spiral wire to attach the dolls in hover" ing positions over and around the tree. The effect is magical. Every footstep causes jar enough to start the dolla dancing and circling abovp and around the tree, as if the invisible fairies or the air had come down to join the Christmas glee?Woman's Home Com panion. Giblet Dressing. To make a giblet dressing for roast turkey put the giblets and neck in a saucepan with cold water and add an onion, salt and pepper and a slice of dry bread that has been made very brown in the oven. Boil until the gib lets are done. Theu strain and stock.' Chop the giblets fine and put them and the stock back into the saucepan, dredge with a little flour and add the brown gravy from the bottom of the pan In which the fowl was cooked aft er skimming off the fat. Serve in a hot fravy boat.?Selected. A Christmas Carol. Bethlehem's plains are still as green, Bethlehem's harvest fields as whit* As when angel bands were seen Making luminous the night. But (or long has ceased the lay Sung by that seraphic choir, And for long has passed away That apocalypse of fire. Yet that ancient Christmas son; SM11 <a mine hv f?ithhil hearts. Still to Faith's divining eye Lustrous forms the expanse fill, And to Love's quick ear the sky Throbs with heavenly music still. While the ages come and go Hymns of praise unceasing rise, And with songs by saints below Angels join their symphonies. Glory still to God Is given. Peace on earth is still made known. And the Heir of earth and heaven Claims the kingdoms for His own. Christinas joyfully returns On the wings of this new mora. Gratefully our spirit yearns, Wonhlplng the Christ once bora! flimin Bona In Illustrated London Sm II il II llll'i IIIMH1 NEW YEAR'S IN SCOTLAND. Orlntrlns: la the N'ew Year at Troa Clinrch, Edinburgh. New Year's is the great Scottish hol iday. Christmas is of course an offi cial holiday, and in the -large towns, despite old prejudices, its observance Is becoming more recognized among the better I business houses. But for the general population of the country ftie New Year Is the great holiday festl /al. and, though temperance sentiment Is making Its way, there Is still a great deal of bard drinking at this season. It Is none the less a fact, however, that the spread of temperance education and the better amusement of the peo ple are gradually having their Influence In making New Year's less of a satur nalia than It was wont to be. Bringing In the New Year at the Tron church, Edinburgh, Is a time honored custom which does not seem to be fall ing Into disuse. On the last night of 1898 thousands of young people, with a sprinkling of older persons, congre gated as usual at the Tron church, which Is In the heart of old Edinburgh, to speed the passing year. When the church clock showed midnight, a loud cheer was raised, handshaking became general, the old salutation, "A happy New Yearl" was heard on all sides, and, bottles of the national beverage having Deen produced from topcoat pockets, healths were generously pledged. Aft er this bad been done bands of roister ing youths and maidens set off to "first foot" their friends.?Chicago Record. ROMAN NEW YEAR'S. rarloui Dates Celebrated at Differ* cat Periods. The good old Romans, who bad some bard common sense in spite of tbelr Belf conceit, believed thoroughly in New Year's day. They were charac teristically careless as to when it should be celebrated, and sometimes it was held at various dates of the year by communities living at no greater distance from each other than a rail road train would take them in these days in a few hours. But so long as they got the full number of high days and holidays into the 12 months the good old Romans cared little whether they adhered strictly, to the almanac or not ' Even when Christianity became an established institution in the land and the Christian leaders began to sys tematize the days for celebrations in which the church participated there was still a difference of opinion as to they day on which New Year's could properly be celebrated. is even on record that New Year's day has been kept on the date set apart for Christ mas. while it cot so mixed Ud with the other divisions of time at another pe riod that It was kept on Easter day one year and on the 1st of Ma*ch on another. It Is necessary to trace the celebration of the first New Year's day clear down to the sixteenth century be fore any definite understanding of the proper day for the celebration can be found.?Brooklyn Citizen. New Year's Gift* In Spain. In Spain, as well as In Portugal, the luxury to which a pretty woman de rotes the most care and attention is the lace used in the fashioning of her fbn and, above all, of her mantilla. Few men have any idea until they at tempt to make a New Year's offering of this kind of the amount of money that can be lavished on "fcven the tlnl est piece of lace, particularly If it hap pens to be old Italian or Spanish point, dating from the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Ignorant as the Spanish woman is on most subjects, she is conspicuous for her profound and extensive knowledge of the dif ferent kinds of lace, and her talent for distinguishing point d'alencon from point d'argentan, and point de venise from that old Italian Dolnt known by the name of Greek lace, Is only equal ed by the grace with which she wears the national mantilla and maneuvers her fan.?Chicago- Times-Herald. Footprint! In the Aibei. Sweetened ale or egg flip Is the pre scribed beverage for the drinking of healths on New Year's. In Scotland the housewife takes care before retir ing the last night of the year to spread the ashes smoothly on the hearth. If In the morning the print of a foot can be detected, with the toe pointing to ward the door, It Is thought to fore tell a death In the family during the year, but If the toe points In an oppo site direction there will be a marriage soon.?Atlanta Constitution. An Bngllih Cmtom. Carrying branches of evergreens hung with apples, oranges and gayly colored ribbons, the children still pa rade the streets of some old English towns, "agganowing," as it is called, from the words of the ditty they eingt We're come to give 70U warning It's New Year's day a-moming, With a hey and a bow And an aggan agganow. ?Atlanta Constltntion. The Cloilng Tear. With mistletoe and holly Upon your bier Make room for youth and folly, Thtfu sad Old Year! Tou've felt the pains and Borrows That mortals know; We long for new tomorrows, So bid you go. We'll give the Joys you've brought m A last goodby And failures that you'v* taught at A passing sigh. When sunshine frllds your coffin With hope *2d cheer, The world's hard heart will soften And shed a tear. But, a new year discerning Beyond your tomb, All mortals will be turning From grief and gloom. They'll place a wreath of holly Upon your grave And baate to greet the folly Thai awe 70a gar*. There's a Shoe This same shoe in our "Autograph' 'Brand. $2.50 -$3.00 is Goodyear Welt Sewed; in our College Woman's Walking Shoe. $3.00-$3.50-$4.00. it equals the best custom make. is made in all leathc broad, easy lasts, on n with high, low and n arch, etc., etc. We ir nobDy patterns, ana ; along plain and simpl best of leather, honest line at our dealers' stor Look for the CRADDOCK-TERR SPLENDII J NRW YORK. And Other E SEAB AIR LINE Pullman Observation and D Equipped with Ele< (Individual Ligl ,v (( Leave Atlanta .. Arrive Washing Arrive New Yor All through sleeping cars ovei sylvania Railroad Station in the h All meals enroute served in D ,For reservations or other info address C. B. Ryan, Q. P. A. Portsmouth, Va. KggUi METAL! Laid 20 years ago are as good < repairs. Think of it! What other roofing will last as 1< They're fireproof, stormproof, ar They can be laid right over wooi ating dirt or inconvenience. For prices and other detailed ini Acker Building and ' ABBEVI The Peoples ABBEVIJ OFFICERS. S. G. THOMSON, President. G. A. NEUFFER, Vice-President. R. E. COX, Cashier. 1 1 Christmas Holida ... \ Southern On account Christmas K 4 sell excursion tickets Decen 25 and 31, 1910, and January Detailed information furr est ticket agent, or address Jno. L. Meek, A.G.P.A., Atlanta, Ga. The L. W. White Co. offei long Cloaks and Ladies Coal Suits at greatly reduced prices. The L. W. White Co When In doubt go to Millord's Boo! Store. You may be iut your foot re a real hard aps you t or some pet s to be favored J vent, go to the nearest Craddock dealer and let him fit your foot" THE OUTHERN i.oo?SHOE-0f ?rs, all widths and. sizes, on arrow lasts with high insteps,* oedium heels, hign arch, low lclude the best styles in oijij; ilso make a number of shoes e lines. With each goeS "the ] making, long wear. See the e in your town. 3 ! Red Bell on the Box \ r ? ? Y CO, Lynchburg, Va. I ? rQ .... WASHINGTON Eastern Cities. OAR Of RAILWAY' I'ii -fHiy >3 4 iV rawing Room Sleeping Oars? j jtrjc Lights and Fang.": its in the Berths.) C. D. Wayne, A. Q. P. A., Atlanta, <3*. w>i. v. i i n ii IGHTi SHINGLES is new to-day and have never needed >ng and look aa well ? . id very easily laid. J if n?M?arV witHotrt en* 11:45 a. m. ton 8:48 a. m. k... 251 p.m. r Seaboard now enter the New Peri eart of New York City. : v r" : ining Cars. Service a la carte, rmation, call on Seaboard,agentn or ""'"b*'") " . "JF formation apply to Repair Company, LLE, S. 0. . i7 '. -fc r~-v~T*? LLE, S. C. DIRECTORS. S. G. Thomson, JEJ. G. Anderson G. A. Neufler, C. C. Gambrell, W. E. Owens. F. B. J. 8. Stark, R. E. Coy, Jonn A. Harris iy Excursion Rates IA ... t Railway (olidays. Southern Railway will iber 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, ' 1st, 1911. lished upon application to near Alex. H. Acker, T.P.A,, Augusta, Ga. Take Caret Remember that when your kidneys are a/* fected, yonr Hie 1b In danger. M. Moyer.Roch' ester, N. Y.. sayc: "My trouble started w"w ~ sharp shooting pain ofer my. [ grew worse dally. I felt (loggia., my kidney action was Irregular _ quent. I started using Foley Eldffi Each dose seemed to pot,new ' strength into me, and now I aM cured ana leel better and stronger years." C. A. Mllford * Co?"