Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EFFECTS -OF FASTING. After Ten Days If No Water Be Taken-Some Benefits. very living body requires a quan ity of food that is commensurate with the tissues' it consumes in the performance of its functions. When nourishment is withheld, says the Youth's Companion, the body Is forced to subsist on its own tissues. The fat is first appropriated, then the muscles and other structures. The emaciation and loss of strength are so rapid that life has rarely been maintained longer than ten days if neither food nor drink was taken. If, however an abundance of water is drunk, the wasting is greatly retard ed and life can be supported for a much longer time provided that the body is kept at complete rest. Thus restricted, fasting is often made a valuable adjunct to other measures in the treatment of disease. A lim itation of the diet is more frequently resorted to than an entire withdraw al of nourishment. Restriction of diet is often valuable also as a means of preventing illness. Most persons are employed in manual labor eat more than is requisite for their support. Overeating seldom yields an increase of nutrition. The excess of food, on the contrary, im poses a burden upon the liver, kid neys and other organs whose offcc is to free the blood of effete matter. When this burden becomes excessive, illness is induced. Headache, loss of appetite, lassitude, and all the other symptoms commionly assembled un der the term "billiusness" are the usual manifestations of it. The ac cumulation of poisons is further fav ored by neglect of drink, when too little water is taken into the system to maintain the secretions and carry off the waste. The waste products which result from an overindulgence in meat are more acutely poisonous than those from vegetables. They belong to the uric acid group of poisonous sub stances, which are regarded as par ticularly active in the production of gout, rheumatism and neuralgia. Or if the quantity of animal food taken be so excessive and remain so long in the intestines as to undergo de composition through the action of bacteria ptomaine-poisoning is pro duced, and it.may be so severe as to be distinguished with difficulty fronm typhoid fever. In the less severe cases relief is promptly secured. by abstaining fronm meat for a few days, hastening the removal of the toxic matter by the drinking of as much pure water as the stomach will tolerate, or by means of laxative mineral water. Muscular exercise and bathing are -also advantageous for prevention. Primitive Paper Making. Youth's Companion. In Madagascar a kind of writing paper used by the native notables and the fetish priests is made from the bark of a shrub named paper used by some of the native hahova. The bark fiber is boiled~ and macerated until a thin paste is obtained. Then a leaf of the plant called ravinla, or traveller's tea, is coated with pulp, formed from a par ticular- kind of rice, and over this is spread the hahova paste, on both~ sides of the leaf. After the coating has thoroughly dried and adhered, it is polised with a smoth shell, and the paper is ready for use in writing. The manufacture of the ink employed, like that of the paper itself, is a monopoly of the notables and priests who use it. This paper may be bought by European travellers at about a cent and a half per sheet, but only a few hundred sheets are produced in a month. The great duke of Argyll was visit ing his son, then governor-general o: Canada, and met Longfellow in the American poet's ancient colonial mansion at Cambridge, Mass., says the Criterion. As they sat together on the veranda the duke persistently asked the names of the various birds he saw and heard singing in the poet's trees as well as of the flowers anc bushes growing in his extensive and beautiful garden. Longfellow was was neither botanist nor ornitholo gist, and did not know. "I was surprised to find your said the duke consequently to an American acquaintance. "Indeed! Pray on what subject?" "Why he could not tell me the names of the birds and the flowers to be heard and seen in his own garden." May I ask how many languages you speak?" the American asked. "Certainly, but one." Mr. Long fellow," was the answer, "speaks six and translates freely almost all the languages of Europe." Vernon Harcourt Funeral. The remains of the late Sir William Vernon Harcourt will be buried at Nunehan on Thursday. King Edward has telegraphed as follows from Balmoral to the widow of the dead statesman "Allow me to express my deepest sympathy in the sad loss you have sustained. I have lost an old and valued friend in your dear husband. (Signed) "Edward." Melville W. Fuller, chief justice of the United States supreme court, sent the following from Washington: "Deep sorrow and sympathy." The family is overwhelmed with letters and telegrams of condolence. As late as last Friday Sir William wrote a long letter to his son on va rious topics, showing an unabated in terest in public affairs. Cigarettes or success. A School Journal devoted to physi ology tells of a boy who wished to be a doctor. His uncle, who was an eminent surgeon, said to him: "If you want to be a successful special ist in surgery, you will have to give up your baseball, for it is hardening and stiffening your hands and de stroying the delicate touch you will need in surgery." The boy, who would rather play a game of ball than eat his dinner any day, decided that to be a surgeon was better than to be a good ball player and he gave up the the good for the best. Not every boy would be compell ed to take such a choice, but as the paper goes on to say the choice comes in other ways. With hundreds of boys it is be tween cigarettes and success. School work in physiology shows boysthat whatever enjoyment a boy may get out of sucking narcotic fumes from a paper tube, he has to pay for in failures in business when he rubs against the boy or man whose brain is clear whose heart is not weakened by the cigarette. Mrs. Cleveland's Joke. This is a true story. When Mrs. Grover Cleveland was Miss Frankie Folsom, the prettiest girl in Wells college, she had as teacher in English composition Miss Myra Reynolds, now a professor at the University of Chicago. Miss Folsom handed in an essay one day in which occurred the repre hensible word "pants." Miss Reynolds promptly crossed out the offending term and wrote in the margin, "Gents wear pants, gentlemen wear pantaloons." The correction was obviously ab sorbed by the fair pupil. A few years later, when Miss Folsom. as Mrs. Cleveland, has become the first lady in the land, her former teacher received one day an imposing-looking letter from the Executive Mansion, Washington. On opening it a sheet oi beautiful note-paper, bearing the monogram and crest of the presi dent's wife, appeared, together with Mrs. Cleveland's card. On the cen ter of the sheet was pinned simply a newspaper clipping which read, "Mamma." said little Emerson Highlife, of Boston, "are the Gordon Brownes and the De Whitneys and the Burne-Smithsons all gone away for the summer?" "Yes, dear. And why?" "Then, please, may I say 'pants' till they get. home?" Lippincott's Magazi'e. Tax Notice. The tax books for Newberry coun ty will be open for the collection of taxes for fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1904, the 15th day of October, 1904, and will remain open without penalty until the 31st day of December, 1904. Upon all taxes paid after the 31st day of December, 1904 and before the 1st day of Feb ruary, 1905, a penalty of one per cent. will bea dded; uponn all taxe paid during the m'onth of February, 19o5, a penalty of one per cent. addi tional will be added, and upon ali taxes paid from the 1st to the 15th day of March, 1905, inclusive, an ad ditional penalty of five per cent will be added. Following is the levy: For State purposes . . . . 5 mills For Ordinary Co. Purposes 3 mills For Special Co. purposes .. 1-2 mills For School purposes . . . .3 mills Total ... ... ... ..1 1-2 mills Except in the following localities, where an additional railroad tax has been levied, viz: Towns'hip No. i . . . . . .2 mills Township No. 8 . . .. . ..2 1-2 mills Township No. 9 . . . . . .3 mills And except in the following school districts where special school tax has been levied, viz: Newberry -School Dis. No. 1,.. 3 m. Chappells School Dis. No. 39, ..2 m. St. Lukes School Dis. No. 13,. . 2 m. Big Creek School Dis. No. 20, . .2 m. Utopia School Dis. No. io, . . 2 m. Whitmire School Dis. No. 52, .2 m. Prosperity School Dis. No. 14. 3 I-2M Little Mt. School Dis No. 30, 3 m. Excelsior School Dis. No. 35,. .2 m. Zion School Dis. No. 56, . . . 2 m. A poll tax of one dollar has been levied on all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 6o years, except those exempt by law. Persons liable to road duty may pay a commutation tax of three dollarsfrom the 15th day of October, 1904, until the ith day of March 1905. Jno. L. Epps, County Treasurer. AN ORDINANCE. Fixing the Rate and Prescribing the Time For the Payment of Town Taxes for the Year i9o4. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Newberry, in the State of South Carolina, in council assembled, and by authority of the same: That for the purpose of raising a revenue and in the exer cise of the taxing power of said Town the following taxes are hereby im posed for the fiscal year ending De cember 31st, 1904, upon all real and personal property within the corpor ate limits of said Town (except such as is exempt from taxation under the Constitution and laws of this State) upon the valuation thereof as assess ed for taxation for County and State poses, viz.: Section 1. That a tax of sixt cents on each one hundred dollars worth of real and personal property within the corporate limits of the Town of Newberry, in the State of South Carolina (except such as is exempt from taxation under the con stitution and laws of this State), is hereby levied for the purpose of rais ing a rev.enue to defray the ordinary expenses of said Town for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1904. Section 2. That a tax of three fourths of a mill on each dollar's worth of real and personal property within the corporate limits of the Town of Newberry (except such as is exempt from taxation under the constitution and laws of this State), is hereby levied for the purpose of raising a revenue to defray the bonded indebtedness of said Town for the Opera House. Section 3. That a tax of two and a half mills on each dollar's worth of real and personal property within the corporate limits of th.e Town of Newberry (except such as is exempt from taxation under the constitution and laws of this State), is -hereby levied for the purpose of raising a revenue to pay the interest on and create a sinking fund for the bonded indebtedness of said Town for the Water Works and Electric Light plant. Section 4. That a tax of one mill on each dollar's worth of real and the purpose of raising a revenue tc personal property within the corpor ate limits of the Towvn of Newberry (except such as is exempt from tax ation under the constitution and laws of this State), is hereby levied for pay the interest on the create a sink ing fund for the bonded indebtedness of said Town for the Sewerage sys tem. Section 5. That all taxes herei imposed or levied shall be paid to said Town in lawful money of the United States between the 15th day of October, mn0 and the rath day of November, 1904, and that after the I5th day of November, 1904, a penalty of ten per cent. is hereby imposed upon and shall be added to all taxes in arrears. Section 6. That execution issue ac cording to law for the collection of all taxes, fines and penalties past due and unpaid for 15 days, and the cost of said execution. Done and ratified under the Corpo rate Seal of said Town this (Seal) the 25th day of September, A. D. I904. J. W. EARHARDT, Mayor of the Town of Newberry, S. C. Thos. 0. Stewart, Clerk and Treasurer 9 9 6t 0 W. Important Notice. The Farmers Oil Mill Offers The Following Exchange Rates Per Ton of Seed. 115o pounds of No. I meal and 900 pounds of hulls, or 1400 pounds of No. 2 meal and goo pounds of hulls. We will not make the No. 2 meal (that is, meal with hulls in it) but we have just perfected arrangements whereby we can furnish it at that rate to persons desiring a low grade arti cle. To further prove that our mill is run in the interest of the producers, we now announce that at the end of the season we will substract from our gross income the legitimate rnnning expenses of the mill together with 10 per cent. on the capital stock and pay the. rest to the people who have either exchanged or sold us seed and that in the proportion to the amount of seed furnished us. This is your op portunity to make the mill pay and to share in the profits. All we ask is seed enough to run 8 months. Fur nish them and we will pay a hand some profit to you. You get your share if you bring us but one load of seed. Beginning today we will pay 25 cents for seed at our gin. Next week we hope' to be able to have room for all the seed offered us. We want to express our apprcia tion of the large business already given us and we regret that we have not had the room to take all the seed offered. Farmers Oil Mill Newberry, S. C., Sept. 2,3 1904. HTTIE IcIYER LEAVELL. (B. I. WOniaR'S Collce, RiholiDll, V8. PDalof The Virgil Piano School oi Wiev York, K. 1.) PIANOFORT STUDIO OVER Mower Co's Store. School Opens September 1st, 1904. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO EaINNERS. Tornis-$3.OO I8r Eight J888son. OF Newberry, S. C. Ox*rgaxiisir.c 1896. Capital - - - $50,000 Surplus - - - 19,500 Paid Stockholders since organization 21,000 id Depositors in Savings depart ment since or ganization - - $9,200 A man working by the day is paid or the time he puts in at work, but 'when that man saves a dollar for his day's labor it works for him nights, as well as days; never lays off on account of bad weather and never gets sick, but goes right on earn ing him an income. It's a nice thing to work for money, but it's much nicer to have money working for you. Try it-open a savings account with us and get some money working for you. Make a deposit in the Savings department today and let it begin to work for you. Interest computed at 4 per cent January i and July x of each year. Miss Bessie L. Simmons, Music Studio (Over Pelham's Drug Store.) Piano and Voice. Term beginning Monday, Sept. 5, 1904 $3.00 Per. Eight Lessons. Brick! Brick!! For Sale by C. H. CANNON. Southern Railway. WorlTs F& ---- St. Ids.i Best Line, Choice of Routes,, Through Pullman Sleepers, Dining Cars. Stop-overs allowed at Western North Carolina Summer Re sorts and other points. Low Excursion Tickets. For full information or World's Fair literature apply to any agent Southern Railway, or R. W. HUNT, Div. Pass. Agent Charleston, S, C.. Cotton Ginning We are pre pared to gin 125 bales per day at 50 Cents a baIe. Wil furnish bag ging and ties at rnarket prices. We invite your patronage. Will buy your seed. Souuhemn Cotton Seea Oil Ga, L. W. F LOYD, Manager. MOWERS, QAKES, AND Grain Drills. Do not place your order for these ma chines untill you get our PRICES, we have the BEST MADE. Iewden hdwMr iqaa., F. A. SCHUMPERT, Sec'y and Trees $5000 AN DEPOSIT Board at Cost. Wrtte(~d SEORGIAALABAMA BUSIESSCOLEGE.os,a.