University of South Carolina Libraries
~ - - V . i lUDtt'T KNOW Bfl6S #.. ___________ |rs. Binks Classed Them All in < ' One Triba. v j ! ftyy&Ay, Ammai was tvicieo From thg Sacrpd Prscincts, ami Dignity of thi Home -Uphe'd. Mrs. Binks must have had a disapL jointing afterpoan at thf bargain : f Counters, for she returned to hef CapI itol home with the quick, decisive tread that fndieated a highly irritable ijsental condition to those who knew St? well. This condition. Glenn Far- j ?y writes in ttie Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was not improved by the discovery t6at her ten-year-old son Willie entertaining practictlly all of the neiglrt|orheod children in the house, and t%t pjpe Qt t?e njost effervescent of the guests was a large, wooly. j strange dog, wfcose t>o<$nirig bark as-j sajlp.U. hgr from the depths of the din- i Jog room on her arrival. Willie and hi$ guests and the dog j poured" put of the front door like an audienre from a burning theater, short- j ly after pother arrived, and it became ( aJPP#f1i9t that she was in the jack- j grouad, with i large, able-bodied ' broom. j Bfnks arrired home apd ?at down ^ to "dinner in ^reat exaltation. It ap-! peared tfiat Seattle had won a game with so^ebQdy. . ;: . l>Class is bound to te?J." fre began enthusiastically. "I predicted from the beginning of the season that the boys would?** : . j * vHe" was interrupted by a Roman how! WiUie. His mother had reached him finally, (n an unguarded moment, and she had a firm grasp on the slack of his ^trousers. Two de-1 cisive whacks ;were administered ainiilst howls that would have put a normal w#?Jn out of business. "Before you eat I want you to go oat and lose that; dog,? - slie began. "I have to!d you before that f wop't have i. these stray, wortJifess curs, shout tlie place, aafj, above aU, in my house., a boa no business with a dog. anyhow." j "Why, ma," Binks Interposed, "when I was" a l>py no family thought of rais- i l|| a hoy without a gdocT husky (jfc'g j (."1 have no dojibt of it," broke in mi Binks. - "Tour whole conduct in- i dUates that you were exposed to that; -"But the dog?" began Willie. a word from you,'Tv said his j mother. "YouVe;got to get rfd of' that ^ won't bavp hini around."! ; ;'Bnt "t?e dog?-" insisted Willie. -j'the boy^evadqd S swipe that would, out of business, but,he1 - - ' - ? i got. out of tfce dasger zone aaa a.aisbfci; 'ttie sentence. (jo^ be?ocgs fo Benzie Gunn and tie fi a St Senjartf arid; a prize tttisn^r": he shidT 'lie's wcffth more i-bciisand dollars. Bennle lias ti# uo\y." .[ *. t~ yj&iis $;as. about to smile discreetly, ytgmfcis 4^*^0gjfge> if yoy're through your dinners you may be excused." v Hfi husband looked* arouod doubt- j . , ... ;> ' j -f*',4M ? i-? ? IJ K?.' "Kntro ! I bad any dinner?** . %v Joke Rro^f Serious. . Vtsepupt Mayeda and Viscount Aok! a^'Tofeo, Japan, bofh very prominent members of Ihe house of peers, were considerably surprised,; as were Their friends, \?hen ttley received elaborate mOnrnlng cards announcing their death; The cards were gotten up in the usual formal style employed on S^ch occasions, chief mourners, among them Premier Ham, were named and et??ything was in regular shape, ex?*? ???* >*Ko* tho rioisinns ixpi lur mc !au mui | whose deaths were announced were entirely ignorant of their decease. . JFhe authorities in Japan do not t&ijje jofe&s.of this kind, however, and after a searching investigation it was s found - that the perpetrators of the hast: were members of a political origination of radical young men. The ^jfc^asi? father to the thought. Sev?&{Qr(w?m have been arretted and ??M&utionvwHi proceed .with all the ^Vi t>\ itj :~ti?; wwld. -r*'* ->..4 \ ?" T-*-* ' j; 8hip Captu red. / Sjfe^ i^-tMeir. ship would fall victim" W'the treacherous quicksands that infest the North Carolina coast from HatttrSs to Cape Lookout, the crew 6f the schooner James E. Newsom, consisting of eight men, took to the life boats when the vessel struck the befcch. The schooner, however, refused to l?t herself be swallowed up and got off unassisted. The party in the life boat, fearing to make an attempt to rfc&Ch %hore before daybreak, saw the schooner get off the'shoals and start to sea,.. They set out after her, but was too fast. A coast guard cutter took part in the chase. After ??#ying hide and Seek with her pursuers for a whole day the Newsom was captured. Only two sails were dam\ agid. She was towed" into Norfolk, vt. Cigarette Filter. " A dew kind of cigarette has lust been ^tented. It has a piece of sponge inserted at one end. One does net light the sponge; It * itilfcht not taste good. It is to the other end that one applies the match-. The bit of sponge, cut in the shape of a short cylinder, is fitted into the end of tiie Qiggrette &? the purpose of absefbfcc moisture and to furnish grip for the teeth of the smoker.?Pittsf btttfh Dispatch. 4 *v * l ii ii 11 m, i ???? i Bf1. r c FIND SHIP IN HEART OF CITY I ' " Hull Buried in San Francisco, Recwdi j Show, If a Relic of the Gold Rush Days. San Francisco discovered ftD old J I wooden ship under the streets of its I business section recently, relates* Pop- i ular Mechanics Magazine. Contrac- : } tors, excavating a deep foundation for , a new skyscraper with steam shovels, j were hindered in their work by strange j massive timbers found SO feet below j the surface. Tliey had accidentally J 'stumbled upon the preserved remains ; of some strange buried craft. The bronze-sheathed and scopperbolted hull measured 100 feet in length by 30 feet beam, and great iu- j terest was aroused by the puzzlipg lo- j cation of the relic a mile frpm auy j water. The city's history revealed, j however, that it was the Euphemia, I a bit of whose historic and romantic j existence is as follows: In the days of '49, when the mad J stampede around the Horn to the new j California gold fields was on, numer- | ous ships were * abandoned by their ! crews at the end of the journey, and j left to rot on the mud $ats of San j I I :?~ T>iif In fnrminsr thp ! i' niliUSW UllJ . i>u() 1u Xvawouq rv?v municipal goyernmfcut of the fastgrowing city by the Golden Gate, the first town council bought the Euph^mia, and converted it into a f prison ship. Those \y?re "rough"* ; days in San Francisco and this, the . tirst jail the city could boast, was tied I to a wharf, and soon filFed up. An old sketch of the scene at this pert of the water front reveals another ship, the Apollo, converted iDto a saloon and lodging house. As the city grew and forced the waters .of i the bay back from the spot by filling j in the shallows, the novel spectacle was formed of a strange ship sticking up out of the ground in the heart of N.O. c?irrniinr]pri bv substantial IX !C V.V??, ~ f stone and brick structures. During the next 56 years, the city attained great size. Then It was suddenly Iialf leveled t>y a great tire. And had it not been for the necessity of a deep foundation for the latest edifice to rise over the spot, 72 years after the Euphemia became a jail, the old bull would have slumbered on for j another fifty or one hundred yeftrs. t As it was, the contractors experienced J considerable difficulty in removing the imid and sand-locked skeleton jfrfth j modern steam tackle, but made a stoall ; fortune out of the sale of the tie'avy copper and brass junk found 6n it. j n Revival of the British Beard. ~ L ? . A young umD auuut j.w?u , ddwn Bond street in London recently,!: and the sight so shocked the sensitive < British public that the London DaHy j Oiironicle saw fit'to run the item as ( a iiews item. He was elegantly dressed, says the J j paj>er, and cariied the familiar cine of Piccadilly, while a monocle repo&d j in his right eye. But his beard was j , the masterpiece of the outfit. It w&s i ] vj&ry dark, it recalled the pictures oil the Stuart kings, and created a sen-! sftitofi wherever it was seen. The young man, except for 'his! beard, was unmistakably English. V < "I don't think that beards for'young! < men are likely to be popular outside, j the West end," a hairdresser in the yeigliborhood of Bond street told a Chronicle representative. "D"t fAHIlff Tlipn fthniTt totvn ! I JL7UI V-t* UlUi jvunj rrr,-?:- ^ , appear tt> be tired of looking like j stage heroes, and have jde&cleU to ] grow beards. A beard makes sonip, 1 men Jook younger, and a man who Uasj , a weak mouth and a chin which slight-1 |y recedes shouM wear both mustaciin 1 and beard.*' " 1 - ' 1 1 ; . \ . Sailing by Signa. 1 Silence never has been considered & : characteristic of the deep sea captolti, < but a 60-day voyage was recently cons- < p!eted~ during which the ship's captain might just as well have J>een deaf and dumb. Capt. Darwin E>. Steveus, who has just returned to this country, took the new steamer Josepba from Duluth to Barcelona, there delivering her to her new owners; His ( crew was made up of Spaniards,;none , ' *_ - ?- -> ?--1- - 01 WH0I11 COUIU sptfUK a wvru lfsb. Tlie result .was that &i>la~Ui Stevens iiad to do his talking with.'his lftinls, giving orders by signs. Afteir (hk 60 4ays were at an end the; ski per fo.uuQ himself so in the liabit'fCHf fSakilig signs tiiat when lie finailf-arrived among people who eotild -strait a language, that he understood lYe hfed -to make unusual effort to refrain from using the sign language.?New York World. | Airplanes Sold for 60 Cents. The British government recently! sold a number of airplanes for 60 ( cents apiece at the Lincoln airdrome disposal sale in London. ; The machines had become out of j date after several years of service and hod been junked, the wings And the engines being removed. Nevertheless, the purchasers who paid 60 cents for an airplane received the body of the machine with the copper fittings and pipes, which In all originally cost several hundred dollars. The purchasers, for the greater part, were anxious to buy the planes to break up for firewood during the coal shortage. Small boys dragged their fathers along to buy a plane so that they might get the wheels to use on scooters and home-made automobiles. ?? i Lover'* Quarrel. I Betty (turning at door)?"! thinfc you are perfectly bnteful, and I'm never goirjg to speak to y<ui again, so there"? no use coming into the music room after me?because I shall b? In the hammock at the far en<! <>f piazza."?Boston Evening TratKrtfit, % f ALWAYS HER OWN Pathetic Piehire of Mother Love of the East. Poverty and Sorrow Nothing Before Thought of Claiming Her Lfttle Son in Paradise. I had not seen Fatma Om-Ahmed for six months. Fatma had been our washerwoman for a few years before her third wedlock Mo Ali, who became Abou-Ahmed after the birth of his male child. She visitecj us occasionally and enter tained us for many pi en sunt hours with her native tales and small talk. She was, like all her race, a woman with a merry heart, contented with her lot, and happy in the worship of ! her only son, who fulfilled all fhe ex-! pectalions of a poor, working mother. 1 met her the other day as I was mounting the flight of stairs leading to the house of a mutual acquaintance. 1 could hardly recognize the features, once so familiar to me, under the dense borka that covered her face, in the gloom of a covered staircase built some 50 years ago. She Jocularly barred my way with Uer portly person and, looking at me with a pair of merry, twinkling black eyes, she said, "Good mori^pg. You ABwlnntli' lio fai?imrton nip I am r* iUUii U J I1U ?,V ivi^vivvti 1MV* - Fatma Om-Alimed." "Goo:i morning, Fatma," I replied, after a long, scrutinizing look, "Surely time and your black borko ha veN altered you much these last few months?" "And sorrow,^too, alas!" she added,; with a d^ep sigh, as she slowly raised j tier arms to her head and undid lien ' veil. - "You remember my son, Ahmed? My! little bright boy?" ' "Yes, I do," said I. "How is he get- ' , ting on? tje must be a big. boy now!" j She clasped her bands together, crushing her borko between them. "He is dead?dead! it is five months since a tramway car ran over him. My husband is dead, tny loved Eta.*? ,v. son also, i have joining to nve ior. i She paused and sighed, nibbing her | palms nervously, while I stured atj ' b<?r in blank; surprise. | "But surely." I said, "the company j bas paid you an ample indemnity^?j ] enough' to maintain you. it cannot i 1 possibly be otherwise. If they ho&g j not, I advise you to appeal to ttf'el 1 justice of the courts." J 1 'Tatma Orb-Ahmed forgot her gvief,1 1 and all of a sudden anger and terrors blamed in her ejes. She drew her taU?i figure to its full height and moved a ' few paces away from rue. "An Indemnity?" "Why not?" I said, soothingly,! ' "What is iFrong iii my suggestion? j 1 That is justice, nnd everybody, itiei highest and {he lowest lu the land, de-1 sires justice!" I ''Do you reailv wish rue to sell my | ( son to the infidels? >'ever! Why, tlie ^ Christians will claim him in the next world; they will own him by right of purchase; and I shall not be allowed fo gaze on his face, nor draw him CJUSt) ip Illy UCill I III l iliuuiw:. ; She drew on her borUo and rolled her tnelayah round her body, saying softly, "Sell ipy own son,; inv adored one. to the Christians! Never! I. will not commit such a sin against him. MftalesU! 'Tis die will of God whirl) no man can niter and no jjower can evade. Good mornmg. May you keep in perfect health."?Alice Shamouv in the Continental Edition of the London; Mail. ? v :\.\l . < 1 Sugar From Corn Stalks. , Investigating the sugar production yf corn stalks. P. Vlellflnd, a French chemist, has-.found that the stem of :he maire4 plant normally contains no Micros, or cftfce sugar, flhd vCry little I lextrose, or-'grope sugfir. ;If~ the cars i *re Amoved .when the grajh begins J to be-' rtiilky, however,Vigors . dcA- < nonldtev in the vstein, and* iu :7: to .84 1 lavs aft?'r remoml-Qf the ear's the i *Stractab1e'atnotititfe may re^civ 7 to J 10 per cebr of' ^ierose and 1 to 8 i per cent of dextrose. While not more than one-^hird (?f the sucrose can j ] :>e obtained in crystaliizable form, this is immaterial in the production of nlco-j ' hoi. If is calculated that 130 gallons j ' nf alcohol p??r acre of maize crop can j 1 be produced. The' growth of the j ? plants is fairly rnpid, and the period 1 between planting and the .gathering i if the steins would be about 4(N> days, j 1 \ I < Forestry in the Canal Zone. The co-operation of the boys of the Cnnai zone is requested in protecting I trees aud shrubbery from damage. A few days ago some children used I ? a hatchet on a lime tree on the prad?M | at Balboa, and nearly killed the tree. I Some oth^r children hnve broken < limbs of the wild almond trees on i Cruces avenue and yet others hnve < damaged the mango trees near the i < cable ottice on the Balboa road. i i Every boy fn the Canal zone is re-! 1 quested to use his influence in stop- { 1 ping such practices. The trees belong j to the boys as-much as to any one; : and the boys should help to protect 1 their own property.?Panama Canal 1 Record. j | A T <vin Grand Piano. . 1 { A nnisi":il iiow?uy r<?r Hi. conotrt! SfflfI?Is !' *? * !?i ly ?mii I in I.p!p- ' zig?n {vein grand piano, said to the first of its kind ev<*r mftde. Th<? ihstmment is !!ke two grand pianos' placed end to end and inclosed in one, framfc, few with a single sonndboircL ?he U*-yfc6ar<ls are at opposite ends acid the jilaj-srs face eich otfcer.? DENSEST OF KNOWN WOODS [j! "Lignum Vitae" Without a Rival for ja Many Purposes?Makes the Finest 9 Tenpin Balls. They are making tenpin balls of a I "composition," but the classic bnlN are still turned from the h^art of that wood called lignum vitn?\ Latin j|| words moaning stoue of lift, and j l which we rentier as "living stone." '? Many persons believe flint lignum <? vitae l.< not a botanical name, bur, I merely a trade name covering numor- j ous variaties of very hard, compact H and heavy wood. This is not the fact. I The lignum vitae tree grows in Flor- i ida, on the Florida keys, in the Ba- j I hama islands and various islands of jl the West Indies*. The supply of this!I wood is negligible from {.he Florhki !j key?, the trade being mainly supplied j by the Bahamas, though Hayti is a g large producer. The tree is a low, |B ffnn'ilert. round-headed crowth an<l it ' ' sometimes attains a height of or jl 30 feet, but its short trunk is fre-iB quently two and one-half or three f**ft |fl thick. It has a thin bark, rarely more B thau one-eighth of un inch thick and g the surface is separated into sina|l, thin, while-scales very much like those I covering the bark of the white oak i g tree. n It is the densest wood knowu, a i cubic foot of dry and woll-seasoned | lignum vitne weighing a trille more ; fg than 71 pounds. It is very close- 0 grained and varies iu color frotn dark gre^n to yellowish brown. It has been* I used for sheathing ships- and is now 9 extensively used in making blocks, jfl pulleys, cogs and- oth??r bearings in ;g certain forms of machinery and in making mortars 'and pestles. MEDICINE MAN NOT A FAKER 8 According to English Scientist, He jl Deals in the Occult, and With High Moral Intent. The medicine man, as knoun to the jB ancients and to the aborigines of ; America, Africa and other lands, was ! no faker or humbug or quack, accord- fi ing 10 ur. jiarreu <jl uie uimn.-'K.i of Oxford (England). In a book on > Psychology and Folk-lore he describes T Hie Australian bu^lunan's incnntations 8 ! to drive out of a man's head the crys- IB j fal that has caused his disease, after ' wljich he produces in his. baud a piece S of crystal, apparently out of the suf- M l ferer's head. Neither he nor the patient nor the parent's friends is deceived; they all know that he has had the crystal jl iii his hand or up his sleeve all thejl time, and that he has been acting jl ritualistic-ally or symbolically through- .'I mit the' fricantation. The crystal is I a symbol of the mischief within the head. What the medicine maD really I Joes is to set the good magic fnfluptfee H i>r "nama" within himself to combat jl the bad. "nama" afflicting his patient. jg nC? in ^IClf ueitis in mt: uutuu, uui *1^ h joes so with high moral intent, and I has attained :o the power of so deal* I ing only after severe training, involv- B log fasting:, isofttion and all iiie other I miseries of a special initiation. ; . Psychology of Laughter. In the psychology of laughter one I traces the development of humor jB through its many stages, showing the B close relation between the Tfppreci- I Uion of the tribe and the enjoyment B )f the nursery. Children laugh some- gg ivhat iri the manner of savages,'not fl >eing able, because of their limited fl ixperience, to see the subtle shades of B i foke that are only discernible in a | filgh type of 'mental development. ]B* Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" has much ! satire in it which the girl and boy I uckjly cannot fathom; it* takes a | sophisticated mjnd to understand it. I But the adventures among the Lilli- I jutinns and Brobdingnagians are class- I cs in ihe nursery. So it is in the lare- I ?r aspects of laughter. The crowds f will respond to a coarser type of hu I nor than the Individual.?Exchange, a Flute Highly Esteemed. I Among the ancient Greeks, flute IJ laying was looked upon as the fash- I onafele pastime of the elite, and, con- I lequehtly, the instrument was consid- I drably improved by various players M ft*dm time to. time, and flutes of the jfl otiri rl!r??tworkman- Ik,! iljurM *.ai C4 ui uiiy w f ship have been discovered and prove 11 this tn have been the case. r From Greece, the instrument ap- I pears to have been adopted by the 5 Romans who, indeed, borrowed rI^ I rhat wns beautiful in Greek art: and a we learn from Tacitus tbar evpn theiB Emperor Nero himself, did not dis- jl lain the drudgery of practice. With jl Roman conquests came also the ad op. I ( ion of Roman manners and art. jg Henre the instrument spread thwiffh-Jo :>ut tli<=? civilized world and its use be* I ?ame common. r> l-.UU fnr- r.Altifi. rcem?u ivrtutc i_vi.ii v< ? Many are the stories told of oolijps' II sagacity, one of the most remarkable jl being the record of one shepherd in ; I Ettrick, Scotland. What was once the ' [Treat forest of Kttriek w?s this ni^rht [ only a d?nse sea of mist and fog. The a shepherd in despair exclaimed to hl>!fi| log, "Sirrah, my man, they're a' away !" He gave no command to the dog. in I fact he only spoke f<?r sympathy. Hut I the sheep dog dashed off" into tiv? mist, ! and the next morning the ."><>< niissing|B ?heep were gathered in and Sirrah I was mounting guard over them. How ra the animal got them in thp dark was a Kovnnd thp comnrehpnsion of the shop- g herd, and hp adds: "If all the sh^p- j j| hfrd* i? rlip forest had hp^n there they jfl could n<>t have effected it v.*ith greater1? propriety." i I AN OPPOR The Herald and News has just c with The State company of- Columbia, supply your home and library table wi the next twelve months at a reduced n county and state paper. Neither The News need introduction. Full associati ering not only South Carolina and tht whole world. Markets, sports, finance, and all state news, while it is news. . 1 1 "1 ^ n/\il V4 /"3 nllYYinfn A ]? cldcipi/fciU. IU UilS JSUll tlllU. JTX. 1< styles, patterns, housekeeping, in faet our lady folks. A literary monthly thai the entire household. The propositior Simply select your club offer from the remittance at once. If your subscripti need not wait for it to expire. Take ac fers and your subscription will extend expiration. . OFFER NO. The Herald and News The State, Daily and Sunday McCalls Magazine Progressive Farmer American Magazine > t - - w All for only V , ? " OFFERNO. The Herald and News ....r.a The State, Daily and Sunday n .Progressive f armer MeCalls Magazine . * ' All for only it-'-'OFFER NO. r,11- ? TT XVMO 1/] n v-1 rl \TnTITC? Jl lit? JTLtJlcUU. <anu. I^iuyvo The State, Daily and Sunday Womans Home Companion Progressive Farmer All for only nFFFp pin , JL M. Mil A V The Herald and News The State, Daily and Sunday Progressive Farmer AH for only OFFER NO. The Herald and News : /N i J S. VV. btate Progresisve Farmer ! McCalls All for only OFFER NO. ? ? ft 1 IT The Herald ana wews S. W. State Progressive Farmer I All for only Those who wish to take advantage of ? ? Ji- Ciiv<rlntr r\n rlotr n"P call l gtfl tilCII uunuaj un KA.COJ VJ. the Sunday State an ddeduct $2.00 froi orders today addressing The Herald an mBSBaBSBSSBBBaSSBBSBBSaSSBSSBSBBSBm 4 TIIRJITV I JL yiu A & onsumated arrangements S. C., that will enable us to th your reading matter for ite. All should take their State or The Herald and ed press news service cov- 8 3 United States, but the I , social, political, religious I ft. iariII paper especially idies magazine, fashions, 1 everything of interest to 1 t will brighten and interest I i is simple and inexpensive. I following and send in your on is paid in advance you Ivantage of one of these of- | for one year from present 4 2.00 I 9.00 I 1.50 1 1.00 1 2.50 I ,f I $16.00 I $13.00 || 2 J $ 2.00 9.00 i.oo : 1.50 ~ i . $14.50 I ' $12.00 ? v 3 $ 2.00 9.00 $ 2.00 -t A A l.UU IB $14.00 I $12.00 I 2.00 I 9.00 I 1.00 | $12.00 I <M 1 AA I 91X.UU | 5 ' $2.00 1.50 1.00 1.50 ' $6.00 $4.00 i $2.00 I 1.50 1 LOO I $4-50 1 $3.75 I any of these offers but I publication may leavq off ; n prices quoted. Send your I d News, Newberry, a. (J.