Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MAKING THE SABBATH BEST DAY OF ALL. Uthal Vincent Wilcox. Thousands of mothers, and ers, too, in endeavoring to ma the sanctity pf the" Sabbath, are ing to restrain, and repress theil dren, thus making it a day of ( Such a course is likely to engen deep seated dislike for rel -when the parents ought to mak Sabbath a delight by having ? ' thing that growing boys and can do that will be interesting a the same time beneficial and in mony with the fundamental and given plan for the sacred day. One mother after thinking ove problem for a time, studying Scriptures that relate to the ob ance of the day and noting the sage in Isaiah 58:13, about "mt the Sabbath a delight," forma (a successful plan. The family was an average Father and mother were church ii hers and preserved a form of rt ence for the Sabbath and its kee ? as they had been taught to bel: There was a "form of godliness.' The plan that was chosen made Sabbath day that was looked for? to with delight by each membei the family. The day became a fa itp. It increased the love of relij and the Bible, it made better boys girls by giving all something to The tasks of the day were redu ' to a minimum. All the cooking pc r . hie was done on the day previi r After Bible School and the chu service, dinner was riot had later t 1 o'clock, and while the dishes ; things were cleared away father t ' the nap that was to him as the bre of life. Then there was an afternoon of doors. The family went for a tra to the woods, to a lake, to a river, to visit some construction going nearby ; or it was merely a hike do the long road. "Best" clothes w discarded for that which would mi the walk pleasant and easy. The hil were not meaningless either. One week, according to the seas and the weather, it would be a hi for some kind of tree of flower, mi or odd stones. Another time it woi be a study of buildings, architectu: of houses, windmills; of balance a design in the laying out of the ya and the surroundings of the house As they walked they talked abo God in nature and His great pow? the intellect and ability that men ha in making use of their God-given fs .ulties to make the world better '2ive in. It seemed to be this famils 3cey-note to look on the positive si* .of everything, to emphasize the be rather than to dwell on the bad. When the weather prevented g ing out of doors, interesting times i ways were planned f jr inside. Th< would play what they called the "'.'suggestion game." For instance, leaf might be suggested as a thu to talk about. Someone would mei tion, perhaps, the fig leaf. That won suggest the beginning of dress ar Eve's first garment. Mention woul then be made of Joseph's coat < many colors, the white raiment < -the angel visitors, the robes of tl priests, the Babylonish garments, tl gorgeous apparel of King Solomoi the strange attire that was prohibite< with its "round tires like the moon, and its "crisping pins;" the camel hair of John the Baptist; the seamles coat of Mary, the mother of Jesu; and so on. There was no end to th interesting discussions and suggei tions; the broad fields of knowledg and of history and the sciences tha was open to the family.' There was never any attempt mad to hold the talk to hard and fast linei Humor and witty comments alway were permitted. The suggestions wer not to be sermons or preachments The only rule was that th? suggestio: itself should originate from the Bi ble. The Bible came to be held ii higher esteem when its vast store house of knoiwedge was understooi better.. The parents rightly felt tha in using the Bible as the startin) point there would be little danger o going wrong. By the help of a con cordance new subjects were injectei into the talks; there was never an: lack of variety. There were house keeping topics, chariots of war, trees plants, geology, and all the sciences precious stones, rivers, seas, stun, rah and animals. Besides such games, there wen stories read aloud of the thrilling ex periences of missionery life. Ther there was the simple, yet entertaininf card games of the question-and-ans wer type, featuring Bible characters This was oftentimes used. But it is the walks that are mosi enjoyed by any normal family. Or Sabbath the car can well be left be hind. Walking will provide just as in teresting times as will the drive at a high rate of speed. Another family where the children are younger go for the Sabbath day's walk in every kind of weather when it is at ail possible to be out of doors. Some new place of interest is chosen each week. The neighbors' children are oftentimes invited to go along. This not only shows the watchful pa rent what kind- of children their own are associating with, but it soon shows how their boys and girls act when with others. Here are a'few "stunts" that were indulged in by this family on their Sabbath afternoon walks: All would he ordered to stand still for a few moments with eyes shut and told to listen intently, then tell what was heard. Another time and at another place all would look intently in all directions, close their eyes and tell what was seen. Someone would ask another to name objects such as seeds, flowers, twigs, etc., by touch, and with the eyes closed. All the ma ple 'trees, then all the pepper trees,, and other trees, according to the walk and the country. For adding human interest to a ride when going farther away, all would be requested to jick out the houses as they were passed and tell which ones were the homes of chil dren. This would mean careful ob servance of the front and badk yard; the clothes-lines, the toys left about the premises and th.e general condi tion of the property. A walk by moonlight or at sunrise is of interst to' everyone and will re veal many new things that most fam ilies never appreciate or even behold. It will help greatly in developing the sense of beauty in nature. Such oc cupations as were used by these fam ilies make Sabbath the key day of the week. It quickly becomes the best day of all. Father, mother and each child obtains something of help and benefit and real enjoyment out of the day. It is truly a day of delight. Children of such families will soon think more of the church and of religion and gain a greater respect for the Bible after several afternoons talking over its varied contents. One of the fathers after discussing the keeping of the Sabbath in the new style, remarked: "It is rather a busy day, but it's ever so much better than attempting to make the children 'keep quiet.' " It is quite needless to say that his wife most heartily agreed with him. They Speak Well of lt. "I frequently hear Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised by friends and acquaintances which only tends to strengthen my good opinion of it" writes Mrs. Fred Arter, Zanesville, Ohio. Try it*when you have a cough or cold and see for yourself what an excellent medicine it is. Abbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Asso ciation. ORGANIZED 1892. Property Insured $8,875,360 WRITE OR CALL on the under signed for any information you may desire about our plan of insurance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM, or LIGHT NING and do so cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the safest and cheapest^ plan of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCormick, Edgefield, Laurens, Saluda, Rich land, Lexington, Calhoun and Spar tanburg. t The officers are: Gen. J. Fraser Lyon, President, Columbia, S. C., J. R. Blake, Gen. Agent, Secretary and Treasurer, Greenwood, S. C. -DIRECTORS A. 0. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. J. R. Blake, Greenwood, S. C. A. W. Youngblood, Dodges, S. C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. J Fraser Lyon, Columbia, S. C. W. C. Bates, Batesburg, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, General Agent. Greenwood, S. C. January 1, 1921. Notice to Stockholders. There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Johnston Devel opment Co., at the Bank of Western Carolina, Johnston, S. C., at Five o'clock p. m., April 21, 1921. The object of this meeting will be to pe tition the Secretary of State for a Dissolution of charter of the said corporation. H. G. EIDSON, President. G. G. WATERS, Secretary. March 28, 1921. Tom Fisher's Bargain By CLARISSA MACKIE (? 1921. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) It was the large advertisement In Brown's window that was Tom Fish er's undoing. He was a young man with large ambitions and small in come and he lived In confident hope that some day the Income would equal the ambition, but for a while it seemed Impossible for the Income to keep pace with his ambition and his appetite. "A man must eat," he told himself ruefully as he finished his breakfast and went down the street toward his little laboratory where his wonderful invention was taking form. "A man must eat and sleep and wear clothes and have socks!" At this moment he saw the sign in Brown's window. "Silk Socks-specially priced, 59 cents pair" .-"Lisle Socks-bargain, 29 cents pair." "The invention will be set back by 29 cents," he decided, entering the shop. He found the socks presided over by a very demure damsel in a dark blue dress. There was a "little white frill about her throat that made her look very young and she had delightful shining hair that wanted to curl and almost didn't. "Socks? Silk or lisle-fifty-nine or twenty-nine?" she asked In a birdlike voice. "Why do bargains always run in nines?" he asked irreverently. She flushed. "I'm sure I don't know, but they do-and sevens and threes and ones." "Nine Is a magic number," he said. .Til take a pair of nines." "Fifty-nine or twenty-nine?" she In quired again. . "Which are the cheapest?" Tom, the Inventor, the man of science, was los ing his wits, just because a girl bad "Nine Is a Magic Number." such tender blue eyes and hair that al most did not curl. "Twenty-nine," she said patiently, without smiling. "These are lisle thread." "I'll take two-two pairs," he said, Idiotically. "Color?" "Oh-anything-anything, just as long as it's black," and the wretched youth flung himself out of the store without walting for his change. He told himself afterward that he heeded that forty-two cents change-he might have bought another pair! 'That night he tried on the socks and found they were too small. He was a pblg young man and generously propor tioned. The socks must go back again. He wondered If the girl would be there -hoped she would and hoped she wouldn't, nnd she was. She looked quite blankly at Tom, just as If her heart hadn't quickened at sight of him-he did not recognize her but she had gone to public school with him three years go; she secret ly admired him. "I'm sorry, but these socks are too small," said Tom, as he stopped be fore her. "You said nines," she remarked, as she pulled out a red b?x. "I meant teas," he explained. "You also forgot your change," rthe said, taking some money out of a stunning little box. "Forty-two cents." "Thanks," said Tom, dropping It Into his pocket. She took down another box, picked out two pair of black socks and wrapped them up. "Thank you," said Tom dizzily, and walked out of the store. At his labora tory he opened his bundle and found two pairs of black silk socks, fl? smiled rapturously. 'TH have to take those back," he muttered with a mis erable attempt at vexation. It was? lunch time then, and he stopped at a nearby cafeteria for a* bite. Tom's appetite was robust and he picked up various plates of delecta ble viands on his way to a vacant table. As he set down his tray he saw that a girl he? sat down. The Girl, with a tray containing crackers, a bowl of milk and a small cake. "Bless her dear hean; sneV starving norseiry' he ivor [ried as.he hasti?y sv;allowed his mea'i. After a day or two he went back to tue store. The girl was there. She was wearing a little blue ruffle around her throat, and one strand of her bright hair had really managed to curl. She blushed a little when she saw him. "I'm sorry," he declared mendacious ly. "But these socks are silk-I bought lisle, you know."' - "I made that mistake," she admit ted, as she substituted another pair for the silk ones. "It is too bad you had fo come again." , "I did not mind-not at all," he said emphatically, and this time she smiled at him, and when she smiled as she turned around to put the red box back on the shelf he was reminded of school boy days and a little curly-haired girl facing the blackboard, reaching up to write soraethi" g. The chalk had dropped from .'. fingers, and he re called the frightened look on her face as it dropped. But his deft hand caught it In midair, and her bird-like voice had whispered a thank you. Now he leaned across the counter with glowing face. "Say," he said, "you're Nannie Lane, aren't you?" She gave him a startled look, but she nodded. "Nancy Lane, now," she said. "Bemember me?" "Yes." "Remember the chalk?" , She dimpled a little and nodded again. "Live In the same house?" "Yes." "I'm coming to see you ! I know your brother Sam." "All right," she said in quivering voice, and he shot out of the store, nearly upsetting a rigidly smiling floor walked, and at the same time apologiz ing to a wax figure wearing a palm beach suit and minus a head. Of course you want to know how it turned out. Tom mnrrled Nancy Lane, and of course the invention was a suc cess, and Tom's Income expanded to meet every expense that came along. The Fishers trade exclusively in Brown's department store, for Tom says jovially: "Wonderful bargains there-got ray wife there; yes, siree!" MOUNTAIN GOAT WAS READY And Eagle Knew Setter Than to Force the Issue With Such an Adversary. . "The writer once witnessed a fight between a golden eagle and a full grown mountain goat. This fight took place on a high divide in the Bull river country in British Columbia," says Charles S. Smith in an article in Boys' Life, entitled "The Bocky Moun tain Sheep at Home." "I was stalking the goat at the time for the purposfts of taking some photo graphs as rifts? up as I could get, and was v nrklng my way cautiously from rock'to rock, keeping-concealed from' the goat, who was feeding on a little fiat space on the top of the mountain. As I peered ?round the projecting point of a crag I saw the goat sudden ly wheel and look toward a small point sticking up on top of the ridge and there, coming over the top of the point was a very large golden eagle, flying just above the surface of the ground and coming directly at the goat. The goat stood with head low ered and when the eagle came within about ten feet of him, It suddenly swooped Into th* air about fifteen or twenty feet high, turned completely over and dropped like a plummet at the goat. I Wondered what the goat would do, but evidently he had lt all figured out, for us the eagle descended he reared on his hind feet, stood straight up and slashed his head from side to side, his horns describing a circle In the air, their sharp joints up ward; the old eagle evidently knew better than to try to drop on a thing of that sort or to try to seize It, so he caught himself In his swift descent and volplaned over the side of the ridge; here over a deep, dark canyon he circled several times, the goat standing watching until he disappeared over the shoulder of the mountain." j Use for Knot Hole?. That a use has been found for the knot hole, which is regarded generally by hinibermen ns of about as much value as the squeal of the hog, is vouched for In a story published by the American Lumberman. Chicago packing houses are said to use all of the hog but the squeal, but n Yankee has gone this one better Taking a piece of board one inch thick which has been cut off in some fac tory because of the knot hole which the piece contains, the Yankee squares the pieces with the knot hole centered, sets it upon a one-half Inch wooden base, glues the two together, smooths the surfaces of the piece and gives lt a bath of varnish. tBehold, the piece ls a wooden novelty suitable for the desk as a receptacle for paper clips, fasteners, pins, or the like! Even Tempered. She was well advanced In years, and had always been a fretful soul never happy except when she had something to 'worry about. Notwith standing, she was well liked by all who knew her. One day, to a niece who was a fre quent visitor at her home, she said: "Berta, do you know that I believe I am the most even-tempered woman In the world." "Why, Aunt Manda," said the niece In unfeigned surprise, "how you do talk !" "Yes," said she, "I believe I am the most irwn-tempered woman In the world, 'cause Tm as mad as the derril all the time." We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. Woodward Lumber Co. QUALITY-SERVICE ; Corner Roberts and Dugas Sts., Augusta, Ga, Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tile. Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Etc. Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telphone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA , THE FARMERS BANK OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Capital and Surplus Profits ... $190,000.00 Total Resources Over.$800,000.00 SAFETY AND SERVICE IS WHAT WE OFFER TO THE PUBLIC Open vour account with us for the year 1920. Invest your savings in one of our Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit. Lock boxes for rent in which to keep your valuable pa pers, etc. All business matters referred to us pleasantly and carefully handled. We Solicit Your Business. IT S NOT WHAT OU MAKE UT WHAT OU SAVE THAT COUNTS Copjrrixht 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co. -No. 66 EVERY DOLLAR that you spend foolishly, every proportion ate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to save and do not, is only money that you have to work foi- again. On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money that is going to constantly work for you. Which is the best; money always working for you, or you always working for your money. Come in and start that bank account Don't put it off another day. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; A. S. Tompkins, vice-President; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins, J..G. Holland, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen.