Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The crowds th show stores of N Quality and styl( it's quality, at a store busy. Be Best M11iner Sucl ity for becom Sbunche naugh wide a: know ping al naugh More Skirl Come and Make Brand new Panama Skirts, ri Panama, trimmed in self folds i are worth $8.50, but we are I Skirt bargain this week at a sm 50 Voile Skirts, splendid qua bands and buttons, a $10.00 ski Mimni THE GRACEFUL ANTELOPE. H. S-eems Born of Light and Nursed In the Lap of the Wind: For me there have been no fairer days than when the antelope skimmed the plain with legs nebulous with speed on"that low, gentte caniter whose deceptive motion left the best aimed bullet far behind. For the antelope is the only large animal that is wholly Bpirituelle. Graceful as he may seem when spurning the ground and swing ing high over rocks and brush. to re bound like a ball at the next touch of earth, there is still something earthly about the deer. But the antelope seems born of light and nursed in the lap of the wind. All his movements show that he was meant for the air rather than the earth. Though Nature made a slight change in giving him legs instead of wings, she made no mLstake, and her work has always been the wonder and love of the hunt er. When troubles arise the deer takes to the harbor of the hills, but the antelope steers for the open sea. The farther-the plain sweeps wide and free the more this gay rover loves its safety, and a run that to the deer would mean death is to him only a "breather-" that warms him up to the race. Whether illumining lhe horizon like a shooting star in the clear morn ing air of the great plain or Isoming high, !ike a stilted ghost in the mirage of glowing midday. he is the most charming of all things that run, and his passing has left a gr-eat void that nothing can fill. The few that are left. protected as they are, give no idea of the effect p)roduced on a lover of the open by one of the gr-eat bands of the days that wer':e. strun~g eut in a f.h almost like vapor with distance and speed. and vanishing as if in air- ov-er the land's outlying verge.-T. S. Van Dyke in Recreation. THE NUMBER SEVEN. It Rarely Occurs In the Science of Weights and Measures. How would you define "seven?' The Standard Dictionary says it is "one more than six." Webster's calls it "one more than six or one less than eight." The abridged Webster says it is "five adtwo," and the Century's definition run s "one more than six; the sum of three and four." In metrology-that is, the science of weights and measures-seven Is com paratively rare. The seven days of the week form a striking example of its use. however. Scholaris have found, too, that the Egyptian cubit contained seven hand breadths. "-Cubi" is from the Latin "culitum,." the elbow, or the distance from the elbow to the end of the mid die linger. The Loman cubit was one tind a half Roman feet or 17.4 English at iHed our coun ewberry skinnec Sis what the peo price such as thi on hand WednE r Right Here. i wealth of selection, such-qual price, such notable style and ngness was never before d for feminine choosing. Mim s Millinery is known fpr and id fanous among those who what's what " No use shop I around. Come direct to Mim for your headgear. Bargains. Your Selection. iade of splendid quality Chiffon .nd buttons. These garments oing to offer you an elegant all price, $5.98 each. ity Voile, trimmed in Salain rt for only $6-98. augh. inches. but the royal Egyptian cubit, used in the building of the pyramids of Gizeh, perhaps 3500 B. C., has been learned from measuring sticks found in the tombs to have been 20.64 Eng lish inches. The ordinary cubit was divided into six palms or handbreaths, and the use of seven in the Egyptian cubit is ascribed by some investigators to a probable custom of placing the hand behind the elbow when measur ing along walls with the forearm and leaving it on the wall until t.he. arm was laid down ag'ain. It should be added that there are'many other cubits of widely different values, both ancient and mnodern.-'Roehester DemocMat and Chronicle. A Ghost In a Clock. Basingstoke provides a remarkable story of a ghost in the form of a clock. At the approach of midr,ight each night the otherwise peaceful "grand father" becomes inhabited by a spook. The ticeking changes into a deep and peculiar thumping, the clock increases in stature, while a pair of gray feet protrude from beneath its base. Pass ing through transitional stages the thumping is replaced by a spasmodic breathing, and .upon the stroke of 12 the pendulum door opens, revealing an enormous ashy gray hand with mal shaped fingers. The clock face dis appears, displaying a frightful gray head, large and round, with abnormal ly long, pale blue eyes. Beyond a quiet stroll, which causes weird tap pings along the landings during the night, the apparition is inoffensive and is said to prove of great service in sending every one.early to bed.-Lon don Tit-Bits. - One View of Saving. Ik Mairvel, author of the .-Reveries Iof a Bachelor." was all his life opposed o thc e modern~ comnmercial spirit. A young '1::(191 fr-om the west once vis ite taed wr-iiter in his New Eng ind hI' T! he yo;uth. a poet, sai!d he. thonuZu h;e would put awvay his ver-ses to a! to ,:ave mUoney'. i;m 'ir .\! itchie!i frowned and shook hi lJw::d -smi i;g." he said, "is the mania for d e;t ixin y(urself of things which you want now for fear you may not have things which you won't possibly want forty years hence." Francs and Dollars. We lik~e to read French stories, but every time francs ar-e mentioned we stop to turn~ them into dollars. "She had 17,000 francs per year in the funds," the story will say, whereupon we stop to divide seventeen by five to turn the francs into dollars and find out how much money the heroine had. ters the past weE a mile. Compe pie want. A che4 3 store supplies, Asday morning wi Up Stairs, Down S Bargains Galore A] Not a store in this section will d They will claim much, but compari. One case Cotton Towels. the 15c. 25 pieces Table Oil Cloth, the 25c One case 36 inch Blea .hing, witho 200 large white B d Spreads, the ioo large white Bed Spreads the roo full pieces standard A. F. C. ioo full pieces plain white Victori ioo full pieces Androscoggan B ea 200 Boys' Knee Pants worth $2 OC roo Boys' Knee Suits .iorth $3-00 ioo Men's fine Suits, worth $12.51 oo Men's fine Suits, worth $:o o( Special -W 200 doz Waists, big assortm( These garments are ma.,e corre matched for the price. A spler made of good Lawn. a $1.00 W Still better grade, more elab for 98c. each. Beautiful Waists, elaboratel $1.49, $1 98 to $2 50 each. Heatherblooi Such values as you never sal sizes You can't buy a Heat less than $2.50, but Mimnaugh - G UP AHEAD. Then See That You Stay There-You Can if You Work Hard. Thirty years ago in a poor school house in a' back district a boy at the foot of the class unexpectedly spelledl a word that had passed down the en tire class. "Go up ahead," said the master, "and see that you stay there. You can if you work hard." The boy hung his head. But the next day he did not miss a word in spelling. The brighter scholars linew every word! in the lesson, hoping there might be a chance to get ahead, but there was not a single one. Dave stayed ::t th:' head. He had been an indiffer'en speller before, but now he knew e'very word. "Dave. how do you get y-our lesson so wvell now?" said the master. "I learn every word in the lesson and get my mother to hear- me a: night, then I go over them in the morn' ig before I come to schocl. and I go over them at my seat b~efore the class is called up." "Good boy, Dave!" said the master. "That's the way to h'ave success; al ways work that way and you'll do." Dave 'is-today thre manager of a big lumber company, and he attributes his tstart to the words: "Go up ahead and see that you stay there. You can If you work hard." Genesee Courier. D0 HEARTS BREAK? Human Nature the Same Despite Mod ern Improvements. Broken hearts, so the Brtish Jour nal of Nursing tells us, are quite out of fashion. The disease has become obsolete, and two reasons are assigned for this. In the first plac-e, we are told that women do not fall in love as once they did. Mere children are not en couaged to think on love and matri mony, anid then women. having come to riper year-s and sounder judgment before they decide to marry, do not let themselves fall into that state which was supposed to produce cardine rupture. One ventures to express the op)inionl that the statement is not altogether accurate. Human nature does not alter from one generation to another. People "fell in love" a thousand years ago; ai thousand years hence they will be do ing the same. But they wore their rue with a difference; so will th-ee who are to succeed us. The fact is we do not now wear our hearts on our sleeves, and we have learned 11h:t if lovers p)rove untrue or unworthy t here are better and more dignified ways of lamenting them than souring our tem pers, wasting away and allowing our friends and relations to treat us as 1k- is the best evi tition "fades awe 3p goods made tc that fills the pop -en the city bell S tairs, Everywhere I Over the Store. re touch the Mimnaugh price;. ;on will show you who's who. kind, at only|each 9. kii.d, at only 12y2c. yd. at dressing, ec. kind, 5c. yd. $ 50 kind, at 89c. each. 52.oo kin.1, at $1-39 each. inghams, the 12%2c. kind, at 8fsc. a Lawn, 8c. kind, at 5C. yd. ching, ioc. kind, at 83c. yard. , to go at only 98c. each. ,to go at only $1.98 each. , special $9.98 suit. , special $15 oo suit. aist Sales. ,Mt Lawn and Lingerie Waists. ct as to style, fit, and can't be [did Waist, embroidefe.d front, aist elsewhere, sale price 59c. oratelv trimmed, $2 00 Waist y trimmed, the latest styles, m Petticoats. w before. Re iular and extra herbloom. Skirt elsewhere for says take your choice for $1.49. LINCOLN'S HOUSE. Ara Occasion When He Did Not Recog nize It at First Sight., "Mrs. Lincoln p)layed a good joke on' her husband wh:m hie was practicing law and journeyed : Ibout fr:om curt to court on horseback." salys Majoir Bittinger. "Those trips often took everal weeks at a time. "On one of these trips Lincoln was gone for about four wveeks. Hie re turned late one ui.2ht N:o.pping his horse, he dismounted :at the usual place. He turned to go ito the house and then stopp:'d. Alth:1h he was a man of temnperance, he thought he must have been imibihin~g on the sly~ some time that day. for before him stood a building he had never seen before. He thought it over for a min ute and then went ar ross the street and knocked at a friend's door. They; were in bed. and some onte sang out: "'Who is it?' " 'Abe Lincoln,' was the reply. TI'e been looking for my house. Can you tell me where it is? Guess I must have been lost. I thought it was just across the way. When 1 went away the building was one story high, and now it is two.' "It was explained to him that dur ing his absence Mrs. Lineo!n had add ed another story. He laughed , and vent back to the strange house." He used t.o tell the joke on himself many times. according to th]e major. National Magazine. Nature's Armor. Lobsters and crabs are familiar ex amples of armor benring creatures. The lobsters have wonderful coats of mail suggestive of those devised by human warriors in the age of chiv alry. They combine perfect security with ease of movement, owing to their jointed structure. The manner in which crabs when at rest tuck their legs beneath them so as to bring themi under the shelter of the hard carapace is interesting. The crab is doubly pro tected, for it resembles a water worn pebble, and thus looks to large. fishes which like to eat the crustacean-so long as it keeps still-very similar to the objects with which it is sur rounded. Cutting the Finger Nails. Cutting the finger nails appears to have been the most indispensable serv Ice the ancient Roman barber rendered: to his patrons. Martial, chaffing a fop who had trie.d to dodge the barber by using plasters to remove his beard, asks triumphantly, "How are you go ing to manage about your nails?" And the miser in Plautus collects the par ings of his nails from the barber to make something out of them, appar' ently never dreaming that he could save money by cuteng- them himself. denc--h that .y II lkeF, t h I W > sell che i S ulia- d. M - trikes nine : Ready-to-Wear Th- only hou e 4 h-it .-.amrr. a c -- n> adi sij V -,V A/ I l in b: i Lb Jumnp p Silkand hi >ig variety t 6 OUME! Handsome .3pi There is not a house in this s. 5elect stock of Spring Oxforls. a o give you the prices that we ;. 500 pairs of the famous Drew $1.49 pair. 300 pairs of the famous Drew $1.98. 200 pairs of the famous Lrew $2 49 pair. Come every day. Be.wiih th WE LEAD THE PRO,S - Mimn, CONTINUOUS SHOWS. "hey Were Started by a. P. Keith In a Boston Store. It was in the month of January, 1883, that ~Mr. B. F. Keith, who had been studying the show business with far seeing eyes for many years, presented, in a store that he had leased in Bos ton, the first Continuous show ever seen on any stage. He paid his per formers $20 a week for a single turn and $40) for double and required them to give eight or nine turns a day. His "top liner" or chief attraction .was a pound and a half baby. The doors of his -playhouse were thrown open at noon, and from that time until half past 10 at night the performance went, on without interruption. Patrons were allowed to spend the entire day in the theater, and at first so many availed themselves of this op portunity to get a substantial filling of amusement a,t a small cost that Mr. Keith realized that he must either abandon the idea of a continuous en tertainment or else invent some methi od by which the audience could be driven out of the building and phice made for those outside who were waih ing for admittance. Necessity is the mother of invention, especially when it is mated with sharp Yankee wit, and it was thus that what is known as "the chaser" came into the world.. James L. Ford in McClure's Magazinie nou3sn on tne MrcruItect. "When I got the order to design a big wholesale house for a firm that has stores in five cities besides New York naturally I was elated," said an architect. "'I'll plhm a, building that is bound to be satisfactory.' I said to myself, 'and then they will give mle the commission for those new stores they expect to put up in those other five cities.' "Well. I did turn out a splendid store -a store that was admired by every body in the wholesale trade. My pa trons were pleased,. too, but instead of giving me .alu order for those other buildings they simply used the same )lanLs over and over ag~ain and built all their houses alike. That's what I call playing a low down trick on a fel low."-New York Globe. Perfectly Recklsss. The members of the church voted that their dearly beloved and devoted pastor should have a vacation, and so he decided that he would visit a broth er worker in the neighboring village. This good brother, recognizing his fel low worker in the Lord way back. among the congregation on Sunday morning and wishing to show every courtesy, asked him to lead in prayer. But the visitor calmly replied: "You'll have to excuse me, dear brother. I'm the side t he morning." 0 satisfy, but eps this big DWepartment. f A n. ing Oxfords. ctjoi that has a larger or more id n:lither is any concern able .-e.byOxfords, the $1.98 kinG, Selby Oxfords, the $2.50 kind, Selby Oxfords, the $3.00 kind, t crowds at Mimnaugh's. 'ON. a ugh. CAME ON THE JUMP. A Signal -That* Brought the Busy Waiters In a Body. To get a waiter quickly in a big cafe is at times very difficult, but 'a Ger mantown man recently-learned a meth od from a New York friend which is guaranteed instantly to bring not one but several waiters. This Germantown man was giving a dinner In one of Philadelphia's swellest cafes, with the New Yorker and two women as his guests. After a long delay a waiter ame and took the order. Then one of the women decided that she must make a change In her order. The host sig naled one waiter after another without - avail. After about ten minutes of vio lent gesticulating on his part the New Yorker said:* "You don't -know how to attract their attention. P'll bet you $5 I 'can bring a waiter to this table within thirty seconds.'' -"I'll take the bet," said the Philadel phian, drawing out his watch. The New Yorker reached over Into the middle of the table, picked up a thin, delicate glass and deliberately dashed It to the floor. Instantly every waiter In the room came rushing up to see what was the trouble. "Charge one tumbler up~ on the bill," said the New Yorker laconically, "and change one of those oyster orders to Blue Points." As the waiters dispersed he added, "I guess you owe -me a five spot, old man."-Philadelphia Record. Fishing Snakes. While fishing in the Fort St. George moat, ait .1adras. a correspondent of Country Life saw a snake fifteen inches long come out of the water with a fish in its mouth. On catching sight of the writer it dropped the fish and bolted. leaving the fish on the bank alive. On another occasion, while fishin in a reservoir near Gha ziabad. he again saw a snake emerg inz frem: the waiter with a fish in its meith. This snake was about twenty four inches long, and on killing it he was able to identify the fish as a com mon species of Indian fresh water fish. Later on he saw a viper, nearly four feet long, lying in shallow water. The writer hooked it ashore with his tackle, upon which the snake attacked' him, leaving a large yellow fang in his fishing rod. including Nerself. Arthur Askem-How did you like Europe? Bertha Binthare-Not very ell. Why, actually every place we isited was overrun with foreigners. hicago News. Wipe out the past, trust the future, mnd live in a glorious now.-Towne.