Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I iSoRoioeisT j! iliss Sophia Nichols was a lady of great modesty and of a very re ?ring ?^R?sttion? and as she had passed th^.ofj^'fct and forty/' waste&few meiL She had Ifwty es^litjt?d herauf in a suit of jrdorns on-the south east corner of I^nrel street, fac ing the lovely little Beech park. It vas just the phice for a quiet spia gtoi who loved nature and retire ment, rnd she enjoyed it-4ith unal loyed quiet for a few days. Opposite her new , abode was a quiet old house with four immense windows wherein were set tiny panes of glass to each room. The inhabitants seemed ve.y. quiet per sons, and she seldom saw them ex cept in the evening. After she had been domiciled about a week in her new place her attention was attracted by the very queer action of an old gentleman who lived in the quaint house. After finishing her 1 o'clock din: ner she always established herself cozily with work or book at j her front window, and the old gentle man would as regularly. appear in his yard and, drawing out of his pocket a red bandanna, raise it sol emnly high in air. He did not seem to wave it, but let it go at its own sweet will, or the wind's will. On moonlight nights, always about 10 o'clock, he repeated this mysterious rite, or whatever it was. His eyes were nearly always turned toward her window, and stared, fix edly. Sometimes he did not jise the handkerchief at all, but gazed steadfastly at her window. This performance he kept up every day until Miss Sophia began to be fearfully nervous. She was really afraid it would draw down the gossip of the neighborhood on her, so she tried in many mild, well bred ways to let the old gentleman understand that she did not like his very open attentions. She pulled down her blind, and ! on popping out to see what effect it had found it had none; he still waved. Or she would retreat to the farthest corner of the room out of his range of vision, and her mirror told her ho still gazed. Finally her nephew came to make her a week's visit. Every spinster has a favorite niece or nephew, and -Jack Browi? was Miss Sophia's. $Jte admired his youth (he was only twenty-four), his Cours?e,, his well shaped body, and even hu, impetu ous (to put it mildly) temper, He was rather good looking, too, al though his hair was auburn and his mustache, such as it was, undeni ably red. The first day of his visit Miss Sophia kept him engaged by show ing him n?r photograph albums, of which she bad half a dozen. But she couldn't keep this up a whole week, so the second-dag Jack re marked as the bandanna and its owner appeared: "What a queer old chap I What's he doing ?" To which Miss Sophia tremulous ly replied, "I don't know," which was literally true, for she had her back carefully turned to the win dow. The next day Jack observed the same performance and said: "Confound the old scoundrel! Aunt Sophia, I really believe he's trying t? flirt with you or else he's a lunatic." Jack was a senior at col lege and had taken his degree in the art of flirting. The following day Jack's ire reached a climax as th? old gentle man appeared as usual and not only waved the offending red rag (Jack was a fiery Republican), but actu ally gazed fixedly at Miss Sophia's window for fully five minutes. He grabbed up his hat and said to his aunt, 'Til know the mean ing of his confounded impudence or my name's not Jack Brown!" : He dashed downstairs, paying no attention to his aunt's pleadings: "Don't, Jack, don't ! Yo* wgi only make matters worse!"' She pulled down her curtain and peeped from behind it to see what Jack would do. He was striding angrily across the street, and in a few moments was at the old gentleman's side. tWith a wrathful face and Bternly determined manner he said: "Sir, what -is the meaning of your infernal impudence? It is.a nice thing that a quiet lady cannot sit at her window without being insulted!" The old gentleman cleared his throat, wiped his mouth with the offending handkerchief, smiled gen tly, raised his hand to his ear and said in a soft, mild voicef- "Hey! Please speak a. little louder. I'm quite deaf." Thereupon Jack, an is customary with people who are unaccustomed to talking with the deaf, roared loudly and rapidly, prefacing his former inquiry with "I say," con scious that he'was making a spec tacle of himself and that in all probability the whole neighborhood heard him. Still the old gentleman shook his head despairingly fnd said: "Come into the house. Hy dahchter will make me understand. You talk too rapidly and loudly." Juat as ho said it a door opened softly'and a girl's voice, trembling with laughter, said: "What is it father? "Does life genneminirw?nt something ?" "I think lie does. Bertha, but I cannot understand what." After one glance at the girl's face Jack "sized himself up as an ass," as he would have expressed it. and he knew she bad overheard the whole interview. He really had not the courage to.tell her.outright that jfcer^iathe? was accused of flirting M{5]bls^uJi^6ophia or else he was ~ lujwt^a^ithat. neither he nor aunt approved* of -his conduct. "The girl let him flounder and get red in. the face for about ten min utes, enjoying the situation as only a; mischievous girl can, but he man aged to con-gey his meaning. ^fJh?n she said: "I understand you perfectly and can perhaps ex plain it satisfactorily to both you and your aunt. Father keeps a weather record, and he has as long as I can remember. He takes ob servations three times a day?at 2 in the afternoon, at 7 in the even ing and early in the morning, prob ably before your aunt gets up." Here two irrepressible dimples broke out and hinted that laughter was not far behind. Jack, who had recovered his equanimity, admired them immensely, but he was not to be diverted from Iiis purpose, so he said judicially: "But why does be use it hand kerchief?" "Tor the very simple reason that if there is a light wind stirring he cannot tell its direction any other way." "Well, why does he stare so at my aunt as she sits at her window ?" *T think it is not at her, but"? here she paused long enough to make impressive what should fol low?"at the smokestack from the furnace. The smoke that comes from it makes a first rate weather vane." This explanation ' 'as made so de murely and with su?;h evident en joyment at the ludicrousness of the situation that Jack was slightly pro voked at her and said rather sharply : "Well, j'ou must admit that it looks queer to a fellow not accus tomed to it." *Yve no doubt it does," she re plied with a smile, "but we have al ways lived here, and father has al ways taken observations just in this way, and everybody knows his pe culiarities, so, of course, it awakens no comment." As Jack had no reply ready, she said: "Please make my apologies to your aunt for any annoyance she may have felt." and as the: comical side came uppermost again .she S broke into a laugh and said: "Poor old father! The idea Of him being accused of flirting!0 Jack joined in the laugh, and the innocent cause of all the trouble and fun sat staring put of the- window as mild and placid as though no such charge lay at his door. As yet he did no* even know the reason of the visit of the* erstwhile' angry but now smiling young man. Jack apologized humbly, but he had no idea of letting* the story get out on him, so he tried in an ele gant manner, which turned ont a flat failure, to intimate to the girl that it should be a secret between themselves, as he said: "I hope you will not?I mean, ah, er?but you won't"-*? "Won't tell it on you?" she said with unfeeling bluntresB. "Father vould be avenged rather more than the case calls for if the students should get hold of the story." Jack asked her to call on his aunt, which she promised to do, and he took his* departure to ex plain to Miss Sophia that she had only made the same blunder that many another woman had done? jumped at a conclusion too readily. Jack visited his aunt with great regularity, but spent the major por tion of bis time at the weather prophet's across the way, so that the neighbors concluded he was taking a postgraduate course in meteorology--?or something. House of the Skull. Wardley Hall, six miles from Bolton, England, dates from about th? time of Henry VI. In the stair case was a recess Containing a skull supposed to belong to 'Roger Downes, a roisterer in Charles II.'s time, and Wardley Hall became known as the Skull House, as, ac cording to the legend, whenever the skull was removed from, its resting place trouble would befall the in mates of the dwelling. On one oc casion the relic was lost in the moat, which had to be dragged, for its re covery. fo Guro a Cold In Oes Day. Take Laxative Broroo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to" cure. E. W. Grove's signature on every box.. 25c. ? You can never make a woman understand that a crying baby in the bedroom oau break a man's rest as much as a flock of mosquitoes. ?- If some people did nothing but mind their own business they would soon become rather narrow-minded. ? Many a man would bo happy if he could only get a divorce from his mother-in-law without severing his other domestic ties. ?- It is l.rjBt like a woman to be mad with her husband for wanting to sruoko in a room with lace curtains, and yet to be proud of him for being ab.? to do what it would nearly, kill her to try. BUTTERMILK. -j? Somo of the Ways In Which It Pro motes Good Health. Buttermilk as a remedial agent cannot be praised too highly. The lactic acid, the sour of the butter milk, attacks and dissolves ever)* sort of earthy deposit in the blooci .vessels. Thus it keeps the veins and arte ries bo supple and free running there can be.no clogging up, hence no deposit of irritating calcareous matter around the joints nor of poisonous waste ?in j the muscles. It is the stiffening and harrow ing of the blood vessels which bring on senile decay. Buttermilk is likely to postpone it ten or twenty years if ?reeiy drunk. A quart a day should be the min imum, the maximum according to taste<and opportunity. Inasmuch as gouty difficulties usually arise from sluggiih excre tion, buttermilk is a blessing to all gouty . subjects. It gently stimu lates all the excretories, liver, skin and kidneys. It also tones the stomach and furnishes it the material from which to make rich, red, healthy blood If troubled with gout, avoid meat, sweets, pastry, wines, spices, hot rolls, bread of all sorts, and every thing belonging to the tribe of fer ments. Eggs* game, fresh fruit, vege tables, especially salads, may be eaten with impunity. If any one nos a creaky joint or a swollen and aching one, he should drink all tho buttermilk he can relish whenever and wherever he can, but it should bo fresh churned and wholesome.?NewYorkFarmer. Don't Hurry. Any one can hold out a dumbbell for a few seconds, but in a few more seconds the arm sags; it is only tho trained athlete who can endure even to-the minute's end. For Hawthorne to hold the people of "The Scar let Letter" steadily in focus from November to February, to say noth ing of six years' preliminary brood ing, is surely more of an artistic feat than to write a short story be tween Tuesday and Friday. The three years and nine months of un remitting labor devoted to "Middle march" does not in itself afford any criterion of the value of the book, but given George Eliot's brain power and artistic instinct to be gin with, and then concentrate them for that period upon a single theme, and it is no wonder that the result is a masterpiece. "Jan van Eyck was never in a hurry"?says Charles Beade of the great Flemish painter in "The Cloister and the Hearth"? "Jan van Eyck was never in a hurry, and therefore the world will not forget him in a hurry."?Atlantic. Bluestockings. Once upon a time a particular kind of stocking became the badge of a certain learned clique. It was a blue stocking, and the society that sported it come into existence in Venice in the year 1400. Kearly two centuries elapsed before the craze spread, but then a highly in flammable nation?the French? took it up, and no one with any pre tensions to erudition rested -content without the Bas Bleu club distinc tion. The same space of time passed by and the fad spread to England, where bluestockings existed until 1840, when, in the person of the Countess of Cork, the last seion of an ancient coterie expired. This is how we get the modern ap pellation "fuestocking," usually tacked on as a term of opprobrium to some one more learned than the generality of people, especially if that some one be a young girl and if she be careless about her clothes and personal appearance. Chinese Widows. In China, that land of contradic tions, it is not considered to be good form in good society for wid ows, however young, to.inarry again. By way of compensation, however, the estate of widowhood is held in the highest esteem, and widows are more honored as they advance in years. A widow of mature age, in fact, is 'regarded somewhat in the style of the finest port wine very old in bottle. If the lady reaches the age of fifty, she can obtain an imperial certificate of her age and virtues, and this tablet is put-up Erominently over the door of her ouse so that all may read?Lon don Times. * , Better Pies Than Moths'* Mads. Fond Mother?Well, how do you like married life by this time? ton?Oh, first rate, ond Mother?Is your wife amia ble? Son---Extremely so. Fond Mother/?Economical ? Hon?\fery. "fond Mother-^And does her cook ing equal mine? Son?Mother, I cannot tell p lie. When it comes to culinary art work, she's got you beat a block.?Chieago N,ews. . to- ? ? When a woman ' hears about a man being ruined in business she sets like it was something thst ought not to be talked about before the children. ?-It is little children that lead our feet up the heavenly, stairs. ? Half the world'falls into temp tation and the other half is tempted into falling. ? The only time most people can save money by not spending it is when they haven't got any. THE NEEDLE. j One of the Most Ancient Implements of Which We Havfi Hecord. The needle is one of tho most ancient implements or instruments of which we have any record. Tho old time needles were unlike tho modern luxury, they having been made of wood, bronzo, bone, etc., and without eyes, a circular depres I sion at the blunt end-having been I so fashioned as to enable them to ' j carry tho thread. Pliny describes the I needles of bronze which were used by the ancient Greeks and Kornaus, and since his day similar instru ments have been found in compar ative abundance both at Hercula j ncum and Pompeii. I The first account of the manu facture of "whito iron" or steel needles says that they were mado at Nuremberg in 1460, and while the exact date is in doubt they are said to have been made in Britain as early as 1545. The account fur ther adds that tho first needles man- J ufactured in England were made by a Spanish negro, who died without having taught any one his art. During the reign of Elizabeth the industry was revived, and, strange to say, also by a foreigner, a native of India. The forerunner. of the present great Kcdditch needle man ufactory was established by Chris topher Greening and a Mr. Darner in 1650. Many unsuccessful at tempts, were made to bring out the "drilled eye" needle before it was finally introduced in 1826. Two years later the burnishing ma chine," with which the eyes of needles aro highly polished, was completed. In this machine, which is very simple, tho needles are all strung on a wire, which revolves rapidly, thereby imparting a beau tiful finish to the eye. All In the Pronunciation. A young lady was onco talking with a very young and very smart man who was inclined to air his knowledge of the languages a little beyond what she felt that modesty required. She therefore said to him, with an air of deference to his su perior attainments: "You are a Latin scholar. I wish you would tell me how to pronounce the word 'so-met-i-mes/ The youth, with an air of kindly patronage, replied, "I have not met the word in my Latin reading, but I should have no hesitation in say ing that it should be pronounced 'so-met-i-mes* " (giving it in four syllables, the accent on tho second). "Thank you for telling me," re plied the girl demurely. "I have always heard it pronounced some times, but if you say the other way that must be right." This is similar to the perhaps fa miliar cawii of the pronunciation of "bac-kac-he," which will often sur prise the uninitiated by proving to be only backache. A Rae? of Warlike Dwarfs. The inhabitants of the Andaman islands are the -smallest race of known human beings?that is, taken as an average. The height of a full grown Andamandi seldom exceeds three and a half feet, and few weigh over sixty-five pounds. They are said to be msrvelously swift on foot s s well as being possessed with ex traordinary powers of endurance. The few travelers who occasionally visit the islands avoid contact with the dwarfs as far as possible, par tially on account of their extreme filthines8, but principally on ac count of their warlike dispositions and their hnndiness with poisoned spears. _ Sour Cranberries. A gentleman wishing to send to a friend in England a present choso a barrel of cranberries as his gift. It was in the early days before they had become well known in that country. To his surprise he re ceived a letter from his friend in which he said: "Your present of a barrel of berries arrived safely, but we were obliged to throw them all away, as they had soured upon the journey."?Lippincottfs. Beating the Law. In Arkansas there once lived a certain judge strongly opposed to the game laws who presided at the trial of a man against whom it was proved, first, that ho had been in a field with a gun and two pointers ; secondly i> that he had fired his gun at a covey of partridges, and, third ly, that two oi the covey had fallen. The judge told the jury that, in absence of direct evidence as to the cause of death, it was its duty to assume that the birds died of fright. The Very Best Kind of Pills. A story is told that Thackeray left on the mantelpiece of an indi gent and invalid friend a little round box full of sovereigns, with the inscription, "These pills ore to be taken when required. It was a plagiarism from Goldsmith perhaps, out you cannot be wrong if you imitate good things. We should never be tired of plagiarizing from the good Samaritan.?Exchange. ? It isn't until after a boy has oelebratcd his 8th birthday anniver sary that he begins to notice his fath er's ignorance. ? The eavesdropper never heard any good of himself or anybody else. ? It takes a woman to wish she oould hear the disagreeable things other women are $aying about her. ? Somehow a woman, witS short hair always makes a man wondsr tow bad he would looV in petticat*. HUSTLING TO THE GRAVE. A New Yorker'o Defense of the Meth ods of the Metropolis. Travelers between" New York and Philadelphia who do not -road or Bleep during the run may not have noticed that a large number of cem eteriea are to bo Been from the train. There arc probably more "cities of the dead" along that lino than arc to be found during any other jour ney of the length in this country. A New Yorker, a Philadelphian and an Englishman made the trip to the Quaker City in company. The Englishman commented on tho I astonishing number of places of I burial along the route, whereupon the Philadelphian gravely explained that the frantic rush and excessive strain of S w York lifo broke up its victims with little warning, and that the sacred Gothamites escap ing, but with mortal injuries, suc cumbed soon after quitting the deadly city nnd were buried by the way. Some of them, he added, die within sight of the Calm City (Phil adelphia) itself. Banter gave place to a spirited discussion on the relative output of work of the two cities, Philadel phia's representative urging that the deliberatencss that charac terized its natives mndo for better workmanship and in the long run for a greater output. The outstand ing features of New York business life were, he declared, scurry and superficiality. ^ho Gothamitc wound up his de fense thus: "Well, if we do hustle ourselves into premature graves, wo get there early and secure the choice lots."? i New York Mail and Express. America's Grandest Peak. Of our thousands of high moun I tains the loftiest, so far as known, J is Mount McKinley, in Alaska, I which reaches an altitude of 20,4G1 } feet. Asia, with Mount Everest, in I the Himalayas, 29,002 feet high, I and South America, with Aconca I gua, in the Andes, 22,900 feet, alone J exceed this continent of ours in ex I tremc altitude, according to Every I body's Magazine. ' From this mass great glaciers j flow down to the low country, one j of them stretching from the central I peak down to the Sushitna, a length j of forty miles. No attempt has yet I been made upon this great moun I tain; indeed no on<- has yet ap I proached it nearer than forty miles, I the height having been determined j by partial angles taken at that dis I tance. Even the camera fiend has I not succeeded in stealing its por ! trait. But the fact that hero stands, j unclimbed, the highest .peak in j North America, overtopping St. I Elias by half a vertical mile, is a j standing challenge to adventurous I spirits to whom labor, exposure and I danger are trifles when there is a I prospect of reaching its summit. The Msn and ths Notes. I Two men went into the world to I seek their fortunes. While one was I singing with his eyes upturned the I other was looking on the ground j for what he might find, and was I fortunate enough to discover a ten I dollar bill. Mis first delight was I turned to disappointment when he I thought that it might as well have I been a hundred dollars. Then, ac ! tuated by avarice, he dexterously J changed the usures, pasted a "C" I over the "X" and raised the note I tenfold. I His companion continued to sing I and endeavored to raise his Kgh I note to C, and, after persistent ef I fort, succeeded. Both men were dis { covered, and while the former is I behind bars without a note, the I other is in front of bars cashing his I notes as fast as he can utter them. J Moral.?It makes a difference I what sort of notes are raised.?New York Herald. Reparation. A gentleman in London called on I the celebrated editor of a well I known newspaper and saidy "Sir, I your paper has announced that I I am dead." "If it is in our paper, it mu?t be I true," replied the editor. "But it is not true, for, as you I see, I am alive." "Well, then, it cannot be helped." "But I expect you to correct the j misstatement," said the gentleman, j The editor answered: "I can I not do that, for we never recall what is in our paper. I will, how ever, do everything to bring you I back to life. Tomorrow I will place your name in tho list of births." Korean English. This item is from a Korean news paper, published in English, at Seoul : "Lately tho Police Headquarters ordered to forbid the servants &o to run the horses fastly on the big streets as they sometimes pressed the children down and hurted them on the ground and th** police stopped a mapoo running a horse hardly on his back, but a number of soldiers came along quickly and captured the police away. The best physio?Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver -Tablets. Essy to take. Pleasant in effect. For salo by Orr-Grsy & Co. ? Wise is the man who can give a woman advice without incurring her enmity. ? Talk is cheap; yet some people will give up a dollar to hear, a tire somo lecture. ? One way t > teac't children to be good is to set an example. WOMAN AND DIRECTION. A Reflection Upon the Feminine Bump of Locality. Why is it that a woman's bump of locality is so much more- feebly developed than a man's? asks the Baltimore News. Put a man down on a country road and the proba-) bilitios are that he will find his way, wherever he wishes to,go with out having to ask at nearby farm-! houses for directions. Instinct I seems to guide him. Put a woman ! in the samo position and she twill J irretrievably lose herself in ten minutes and, have to be sought'for by*resolute men for hours before she is finally brought back to civili zation. Perhaps it is that the weaker sex is unobservant. Even in cities many of its members do not notice buildings closely enough to permit them to find their way about, and certainly they would not notice.in the country the big gum tree that they pass hero or the haw bush' that marks tho intersection of the two roads there. With the sun low in the west there are numbers of women who can't tell the points of the compass, and if they could would not know in what direction their homes lay. When it comes to noting tho de tail? of a costume, few feminines fail to observe even the tiniest bit of braid or the smallest bow, but trees and houses are different and less interesting things, and so in a strange town or in the woods the fair travelers lose themselves in no time and have to be rescued and set again upon the path by some one with a better sense of location than they can boast. A Maori Legend. The Maoris believed in the im mortality of tho soul long before tho arrhal of the missionaries, but the spiritland to which they im agined all men journeyed aftei death was as grossly material a? the "happy hunting grounds" oJ the North American Indians. Sucli a legend as the following, whicl contains an instance of singularly determined parental interference, if sufficient evidence of this : A young chief of high rank fell in love witl a Maori maiden of great 'beauty but of low degree. His father "for bade the banns," thereupon th< usual results followed. Tho younj chief refused to eat and died o hunger. The beautiful maiden heartbroken at the death of he lover, leaped down from the cliff into the sea in order that she migh follow him. Now comes the ex traordinary part of the story. Th< obdurato father, hearing of th< girl's leap into the sea, rushed ti the spot, battleax in-hand. TJsinj terrible language, he declared tha he would prevent the union of thi pair in spiritland, and forthwitl himself leaped down to follow them Discouraging. William E. Chandler and Henry W Blair, the New Hampshire statesmen were bitter enemies for a time, bu have become reconciled in a measur since the former's defeat for re-elec tion to the United Ststes Senate Meeting recently Chandler said t Blair: "I'm not feeling well this morning Awful pain in my back?lumbago o something, I fear!" "Too bad! "said Blair. "Whendii it come on?*' "Ls6t night," he replied?"just a I kneeled down to nay my pray ers." "Must be awful," said Blair, "t have such a thing happen the firs time you ever tried it."?Philadelphi Times. - r ? If a pessimist happens to bi born with a silver spoon in his moutl be naturally expeots it to choke bin sooner or later. STORK to woman Is a terra of much1 anxiety,serious thought and sweet anticipation. Pain and dread, love and joy, coma ver changingly. With the cessation of pain necessary to childbirth there come* calm nerves, steep, recuperation. MOTHER'S FRIEND **4^ diminishes the nain accompanying matern* ity. With I ta aid mothers can bringhcalthv babies, sweet dispositionell babies and ideal babies into the world. Takeaway the pain of childbirth and you have bliss and ccstacy. Morning sickness, sore breasts and excru ciating pains caused by the gradually ex panding organs, are relieved by this re markable soothing balm. Among the manifold aids to childbirth Btathaf'a Felond has grown in popular ity and gained a prestige among rich women as well as poor ; it is found and welcomed in the mansion as well as the cabin. Children, strong intellectually and physic ally is a duty every pregnant woman owes society. By lessening the mother's agony of mind anu diminishing pain a beautiful influence is wroughtuponthechild, and instead of peev ish, ill-tempered and sickly forms you have laughing humanity that remains a blessing ever after to you and its country. Try a $1 bottle. Druggists everywhere sell Mother's Friend. Write us for onr frma book "Motherhood," TUE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Oa. 7 Is Yellow Poison In your blood? Physicians call it malarial germ. It can be seen chang ing red blood yellow under a micro scope. It works day and night. First, w turna your complexion yellow. Chili?, achiog sensations creep, down your back bone. You feel weak and worthless. 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