Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' X WUOU?J- 9 VUilUMA J x v ? Uncle Walfe Siorif^j THE MQDEL GUEST CiTi/fY COUSIN James Is coming - iVI to spend a week," anounced th? landlady, "and I can't sa;, I'm overJoyed. He's the most unsatisfactory visitor I ever saw. You can hardly get a word oat of him. He isn't a bit like his brother ' JprpminTv whft is the best company opinion, James is the model visitor. If I had. my own household, with a*charmlng bride to pour the imitation coffee, and a vine ' and flgtree in a. jardp^iere, I'd send a special delivery letter " to James, asking him lo come axu^stfty for ten years er more. "There's something * restful and soothing about that gifted man. He never bothers anybody,. No one has to waste precious qg>ments entertaining him. ItjiSB^ nttfcs^yy -to discuss " the weather pj^dico^nsi or dig up a lot of statis&es ab&t< the crops, in order to malte; Jame&aiie a good time. Yoa don't lihn. the old plusb photograph album, and describe the ancestry of the melancholy effigies s whose pictures appear therein. Nearly all visitors are bores, my dear Mrs. Jiggers, because thjby have to be entertained. SoineboQy- has to sit up with them and thrtsh but last year's gossip; -: They have^po initiative or referendum. They have mi resources of their own. In order to have a pleasant visit, they need help. "Your cousffc Jd&es^is a man after my own heart.-: i'remember ms iasi visit quite well. He came in the evening, and after suppe^hetook a chair ?a the porch. Knowing he was a guest, I felt it my duty to entertain him iti the conventional way. I dragged my;r-?h,alr close up to his and remarked that it was a pleasant evening, but the presence of a cloud bank in the northwest almost convinced me . that there would be rain within twelve bourse in which- case, I proceeded, were suffering for moisture. "James listened to my remarks and thea looked at me, in a sad, reproachful way, as though he thought It a shameful thing that Imbeciles should be at large, and then he took his .chair to the opposite end of the poq?h without having said a word. I must confess that I ffelt Hke a counterfeit kopeck for a few minutes, but the more I considered the matter, the more I admired and' respected that MmaalvciklA man raiuu^auic ini "He used to go downtown every morning and buy a paper backed novel, or j& fiction magazine, and then he'd read it all day, and when he was done with his literature he left it where the boarders could get it. I didn't hear him 8ay ten words during his visit, yet you say, Mrs., Jiggers, that he is an ^unsatisfactory guest Elderly landladies, whose intellects have been warped by long years of parsimony, are bard-rto please. "Jeremiah, whom you describe as Jolly ana agreeame. snouia De suppressed. Hp- has collected all the old cheesey stories ev^r manufactured, . and insists upon telling them. He has a horrible habit of making puns, and considers blnisetf a humorist, because of It. You couldn't bribe him to sit down with a-book or magazine and behave himself. He has to be enter,taleed every minute of his time, and the only way you can entertain him is by letting him do the entertaining. "He is a genial old freak who thinks he is a privileged character, and everybody's pet. The last time he was here he went into my sumptuous apartment and used my r?zor to shave the south east quarter section . of his mnntwiance. His whiskers are full of barbed Mjtre, and the razor was ruined. When I spqke to him about It he thought it funny.- Yet you refer to such a man as an agreeable visitor. I blush for you, Mrs. Jiggers." In Moderation. "Would you advise a candidate to stay on his front porch?" "Yes," answered Senator! Sorghum; "but only part of the timeVjust long enough to take care of his voice and get together a good bunch of speeches for delivery on tour." Just It "I thought you said you had a fine ending to your automobile trip.", "So I had." "Your chauffeur told me you were arrested for speeding." "Well, wouldn't you call a windup in the police court a fine ending?" t rV Weighted With a Watch. ""? ?*<> (Torino XT nrlilph WAS 'IDC WHICH. Ui vuauw T , nuivu .. __ one of the earliest of these time-pieces, weighed twenty-seven gpounds. It was . a goad deal like a clods of the preseat ?* ,;|r; '-Mm. k | MAN'S CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Writer Denounces the "LCfe Imprisonment" Which Confinement in Zoological Garden Means. "Purely a.o a matter of ethics, abolii tion the ultimate lopic of all zooI logical gardens." Such is the opinion | of a writer in the Nation of London, i "Animals have committed no crimes j ; against the community," he says, "and ! therefore the community has no right i whatever to give them life sentences j of imprisonment." A very few of the ' l larger animals, he admits, may affect i human Hfe injuriously, but they form an infinitesimal portion of the inhablr tants of a zoological garden. On the other hand, it is argued that we never thought of confining those animals be1 i lieved to be the most injurious, namely I insects?and therefore it is plain that i "the punishment does not fit the j crime." Even if it were granted that animals j are happier,in captivity than in their native wilds, this can only be meant i relatively, for though protected and t eared for, animals in captivity are deI nied the primal joys of liberty and fitness to environment, among such jobs being their power of exercising their suppleness of body or strength of whig in graceful movements, and not least of all joys, the power of satisfying ! their continual curiosity. Much has been done for animals, and much more might be done for the wjld birds. For the eagles, hawks, condors and vultures the writer feels that nothing can be done. He quotes from that great lover of birds, W. W. Hudson, to whom the sight of any bird in a cage, be it robin redbreast or bird unknown to William Blake, literally sets him in a rage. He has somewhere described a sermon he heard on genius, in which the preacher likened the life of the ordinary person to that i:. of the canary in its cage. But of the i genius?"A cloud came over his (the preacher^) majestic features, he drew wn or*/I Mt?otrn/1 Me hrtHtt fr/im auu O >? UJ V UiO UVV4J side to side, and shook his black gown and lifted his arras as a great bird lifts its plumed homologues, and let them fall again two or three times, arwd then said in deep measured tones ^ which seemed to express rage and despair?'But did you ever see the eagle , in his cage?'" " The brooding hopeless gaze of those stern eyes offers only one solution to the aquiline problem, the keys of the ' city of. the air. i / $ - Every Man to t-iis Trade. : A devoted couple, married a short ? time ago, took up* their abode in a , dainty cottage in a suburban quarter. Everything in the house was the latest and gave unmixed satisfaction. ] But one evening when the husband ] ' returned, he found, to his disgust, that a water pipe had burst. The rooms . were flooded and the carpets, which ] were the husband's special pride,- were ,< in danger "of "being spoiled. \ "Well, well," said he impatiently to j his wife, "why on earth didn't you ? hammer the pipe up! Here, give me a hammer and Til do it in a twinkling." He got the hammer and pounded aWay at a pipe down in the cellar. !' When he had finished he paused to examine the result of his labor. Then, X- t-1- 1 1 'j ' -1 JX ' 10 ais complete cnagrui, we ueo.ru uits sweetly chiding voice of his wife at the top of the stairs. "Howard!" said she, "the gas has ' gone out, and the water is still running." ' Then he sent for a plumber.?Answers. j Unfortunate Apology. A certain editor of a country newspaper in Kansas was asked to leave the community a* *he result of a typo graphical error in his report of the wedding of the mayor's daughter, relates Pep. After exhausting his sup- ( ply of large words about the "blushing bride," he had said: "The large elaborate bouquets of roses were punk." The mayor demanded* a correction and apology in the next week's issue, all of which the editor was glad to promise. The next issue contained: - ~ * * xl. I "We wisn to apologize ior me manner In which we disgraced the beautl- ,J ful wedding last week. Through an e,rror of the typesetter we were made to say "the roses were 'punk.' What ( we wanted to say was the 'noses were pink.' "?Philadelphia Bulletin. Gorilla Fond of Music. A gorilla beating a drum astonished Marseilles. The animal had been 1 taken to the Frencli port rrom Ainea by a colonel. One day the gorilla was seen walking down the boulevard hold-' ing a negress by the hand. The woman entered a toy shop and bought a trumpet and drum. Delighted, the gorilla beat the drum and blew the trumpet lustily. A hard blow broke the dram, whereupon the gorilla looked worried, scratched his head perplexedly and. re-entering the 'Shop, seized another ' drum and ran down the street, beating ! ! it triumphantly. The negress followed. I ' hnoct nlliiihaH frt a hfjlf-ftnv j UUl liic UCUOl ViUUWVU ?,V and remained there half an hour, beating a militar/ march in perfect rhythm. Crops ofrHt?wail. The two main crops of Hawaii are sugar and pineapples. The greater part of the land best suited to agriculture is in parts of thex territory deficient in rainfall. This has made a, large irrigation necessary. The imports for the fiscal year of 3919 were $50,743,793. The exports amounted to $88,250,021. Most of Hawaii's com- ' merce if with the United Stares. Other products of the Island are coffe^ fruits, cuts, rice and hide* 1 DREW CHARACTER FROM LIFE Thackeray's "Beatrice" Said to Have Been Modeled on Career of Profligate Duchess. One of the few feminine characters of Thackeray ttfat was not de ciarea msipia uy critics, was ms Beatrice. She was drawn from real life, and the original was the daughter of Col. Thomas Chudleigh, afterward to become Elizabeth, duchess of Kingston. She married Augustus Hervey, earl of Bristol, after setting all London by the ears with her beauty, spirit and pranks. He was a member of the naval forces, and shortly after their secret wedding was called to sea, and when he returned found his wife the reigning beauty of the court nnrl hand nvnr in hfilf a rlozen affairs, the one with the duke of Kingston being so notorious that even the street gamins knew of it. She managed to bring a suit for a jactitation, and her husband was subject to heavy penalties should he say she was his wife. She then married the duke. Her great beauty was a storm signal wherever she went in London and Paris, and a long list of duels, ruin and trouble followed her wake. Al though she lost a part of her fortune 1 she continued to be received at continental courts up to her death at the age of sixty-eight, as wicked in her final years as in her youth. She got drunk, swore, had a dozen lovers, ruined as many more, and in fact did , everything that should have brought , her shame and sorrow, but Hved a riotous life to the end. MEDALLION HELD AS CURIO ! Only One of a Number Struck in 1825 I* Believed to Be in Existence Today. To defray the expenses Incident to the inauguration of John Quincy Adams as this sixth President of the , United States in 1826, the inaugural i committee sold medallions at $5 each. , Five dollars was considerable money in 1 those days, and the owner of a medal- < lion was entitled to special considera- ' tion at the inaugural ceremonies. As much as the medallions were prized 95 years ago, it is believed that only one exists today, the property of i J, A. Larrick, a policeman detailed to ; Washington police headquarters. The Adams medallion was given to Larrick 15 years ago by Edward Mur- 1 phy, who is now dead. Murphy's fa- : ther, who witnessed the inauguration of President Adams, was the original, j purchaser of the medal At the time he was presented with ] the medallion. Larrick was a police- , 4-1-* ^ T?X vwi/v/kinAf AftitmKtr J Lui4.ii in uuc r jiat. inui{/uj was an aged bookkeeper. Larrick on , several occasions assisted the old fel- < low and the medallion was his reward. ' Probably the moet 'striking thing 1 about the medallion is its inscription, 1 "Science Brings Peace and*America j Plenty." < J Chose Wife by Her Feet 1 Reading persons' characters from ' thefr feet 'is the method Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the chief scout, has ad tnitted he employed in choosing his wife?"The best wife I ever had." The secretary of a boy scouts' troop gives these examples of foot reading: "Short steps denote a fussy, swaggering little person. s "Hurried, jerky steps, a nervous person. ? "A slow slouch, a lazy man, a loafer. J "Smooth, quick steps, an intelligent, j observant person."* A boy scout observed that a stolid person often walks flatfooted. H. V. L. Ross, the walker, said: 1 "The walker I most distrust, especial- I ly where a woman is concerned, is the ' one who comes down hard on the heels. 1 I believe this is a sign of a bad-tempered person."?From the Continental ( Edition of the London Mail. l ( All Dressed Up. < "The seashore jokes about short ^ bathing costumes are back numbers," j said Cortlandt Bleecker, the society j leader at a Newport ball. "All the ^ same?'* Mr. Bleecker chackied merrily. "Here's a good one, all the same. Two Newport girls were Jazzing In their 'hjaillots' the other morning on 1 the bea^h. You know the 'maillot' rig < ?no skiVt, no stockings, no sleeves, and hardly any legs. Well, the first girl said as she jazzed: i 44 'It's jolly to have a little dance ] after your bath, isn't it?' ] "'Vos' said the second girl: 'only ] you feel so dressed up in these ,inail- J ] lots after last winter's ball gowns.'" | ] Growth of Y. W. C. A. The present membership of the Y. W. C. A. in the United States is 559,315, an increase of approximately 300,000 in the last five years. There are 1,212 association centers in the 1 country, 351 of them in 234 cities of j more than 25,000 population. 111 in smaller communities and 750 in colleges. This is exclusive of work being carried on by the American as- ] sociation in eight European countries, ] and in India, Japan, China, South J America and Honolulu. ] I An Important Decision. ( "This celebrated novelist says he L frequently sits at his typewriter all c ?/?.?<?<. hoinrr o hla tf? writ A fl I LUU1 1J111& UllUUUb ? word." ( "I know Just how that is," said the debutante. "I once set for two hours I at my writing table before I could * write the one word, 'No,' "?Birmingham Agfr-Her&ld. ^ - MASTER'S SALE. By authority of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas, in the case ' of Dottie R. Hawkins and others |l against Mrs. Lois Merchant and oth-ifl ers, dated November 23, 1920; I will sell at public auction in front of the j I court house, at Newberry, within theifl loo-al hmirs nf sale, on salesdav in IB January, 192i, that certain tract of IB land in Township No. 9, Newberry H county, containing four and forty jl hundredths acres, more or less, andjB bounded by lands of A. A. Kibler, J. ' B. Simpson and Mrs. Harriet S. Les-j* ter, The purchaser will be required tor pay the purchase price in cash, and; to pay for papers, revenue stamps, and-recording.* ^ II. H. RIKARD, Master for Newberry County. State of South Carolina, County of Newberry, Court of Common Pleas. Richard I). Davenport, plaintiff, against a Joshua D. Davenport, defendant. i Pursuant to an order of the Court E in the a-bove entitled action I will sell at public auction 011 the first '.a Monday (salesday) in January, 1921, S within the legal hours of sales, the 8 following described three- t V ts of H land all of which are situate in the County of Newberry, in the State of: a South Carolina, viz: & (1) All that tract of land con-jfl taming one hundred and four and 11 one-half acres, more or less, known [ as the "Davenport Place," bounded [I by a public road known as the Stony jH Battery Road; by a tract of land I ' T ?.I-.*?. D vmnrt / ) | | owned uy UUI1X1 X\. opcaiiiiaii) tjiM uiiu John R. Spearman, Jr., and by land of the said Richard D. Davenport. The same being the tract of land which was conveyed to the said Richard D. Davenport and Joshua D. Dav- , enport, by Silas Johnstone, Master, by deed bearing date November 2, 1885-, recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions, for said j County and State, in Book 4, Record of Real Estate Conveyances at pages. 524 and 525. (2) All that tract or plantation) ?. ? i ii of land containing one hundred anaj? thirteen acres, more or less, known jfl as the "Leavell Place," bounded by I land of or formerly of the estate of Jesse D. Hornsby, deceased, by land fl of David Shelton, by land of or for merly of the estate of G. Burt E Reagin, deceased,. and by land of I Boozer. The same being the 1 tract of land which Was conveyed to the said Richard D.:., Davenport and Joshua D. Davenport,by Z. F. Wright, K by deed bearing date February 12, B 1901, recorded in the office of the h rlerk of said Courts at Newberry, in B J ovi^ Cfofa . in Rnnl' I bell Li KsVUiluy anu uwabvy 11, at. page 216. , ?/M (3) All that tract or plantation of land containing eighty acres, more or| [ess, known as. the '^Adams 'Place," j bounded by a public road, by lands of Mrs. Rebecca L. Paysinger, estate of Frederick Werber, deceased, James R. Bovfdsoa^ and . perhaps others. "%?<?' J J Terms-of sale:~T!ash. The purchaser or -^purchasers to pay for all Gapers, revenue stamps and record-, ing fees. If the purchaser or purchasers Pail to comply with the terms of said sale withn two days thereafter, the Master will resell sad premises at the! risk of the purchaser or purchasers, >n the next salesday thereafter, on ;ne same Terms. i ,? H. H. Rikard, d' .i A.s Master for Newberry County,f South Carolina. December 13th, 1920. TAX NOTICE. The books for the collection of ; state and county tax for the year 1920 will open from October 15th, 1920, to December 31st, 1920. Those svho prefer to do so can pay in January, 1921, with 1 per cent.; in February, 1921, with 2 per cent, and from March 1st, 1921, to March 15th, 1921, with 7 per cent. The County Auditor has made up books by School Districts and it will be necessary for taxpayers to give I ;ach school disrict in which their property is located. The levy for 1920 is as follows: , Mills State 12 Constitutional School 3 Ordinary County 6 % Sood Roads : .... 2 Road and Bridges 1 Deficit 1919 % Bonded Indebtedness of County 14 Court House V& i*a*~rw Tail Bonds % Total .!... ' !.. ......27 The following school districts have evied the following levies for spie?ial school purposes: Mills District No. 1, No. 52 15 District No. 14 18 District No. 19 14 District No. 20 13 District No. 30 ...... 12 District No. 58 '1 Districts No. 22, No. 39 10 District No. 2, No. 7, No. 13, No. 15, No. 1C, No. 17, No. 18, No. 20, No. 23, No. 25, No. 27, No. 31, No. 33, JNO. K 36, No. 41, No. 42, No. 43, No. 44, No. 45, No. 47, No. 48, No. 49, No. 50, No. 55, No. 5G 8 District No. 5 6 Districts No. 38, No. 57 5 Districts No. 4, No. 8, No. 9, No. 11, No. 12, No. 34, No. 35, No. 40, No. 53, No. 59, No. 60 4 District No. 6 3 districts No. 3, No. ?1, inio. u So. 28, No. 29, No. 32, No. 37, IftNo. i6. No. 51, No. 54 2 fl District No. 10 1 I A poll tax of $1 i*xs l?een levied .< >n all male citizens ueiween the fliges-of 21 and 60 years, except those I ixempt by law. 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