Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Carving Scissors. "I thought I knew all about scis sors," said the man. "I had seen tail- it ors' scissors for cutting heavy cloth, dressmakers' scissors for cutting flimsy fabrics and lace and still other scissors el for cutting paper, finger nails, grape vines, all kinds of metals and even for a shearing sheep, but in spite of that wide knowledge of scissors I was puz zled when I saw the large, peculiarly i shaped pair of scissors lying in the h showcase. t "'What are these scissors for?' I s asked the clerk. "'Carving meat,' he said. 'With scissors of this kind carving becomes mere child's play.' "'I never saw anybody use them,' said I. b "'Nobody does use them,' said the : clerk-'that is, only a very few. in Europe carving scissors are popular 0 because they cut right through meat. o gristle, bono, and all, but it takes rt N little practice to learn to manipulate n the things. and nobody in this country has patience enough for that.' "-Ex change. The Talking Pots. "Yes, these pots of mine are all right," said the potter. "They don't talk, though." "No pots do." s "Don't they? Look here." He took from the shelf a strange, r crude pot daubed yellow and blue tha t) had the shape of a duck. He filled It with water: then he poured the water h out again. "Quack, quack, quack!" said the pot distinctly. Every gurgles was a distinct quack. "There's art for you," said the potter. "Every gurgle of that duck pot is a quack. Wonder ful Aztec art! And I have an Aztec c pig pot that grunts like a pig and a dog pot that barks like a dog. Won- a derful chaps, those Aztec potter fel- 1 lows! I wish I knew their secret Im- a agine an Aztec banquet," he said aft- r er a pause. 'Tots filled, you know, with wine. And every time you pour P yourself a drink 'Quack!' go the ducks, T Bowwow!' go the dogs. Regular pan demonium!"-New York Press. The Light of the Firefly. When man will attain the perfect i vacuum, then the rude ether blush of e the electric light bulb will give forth! many times more light, purified and t heatless, soft and healing, as the light d of the stars, i6enetrating as the sun. t An examination of the firefly when s emitting flames or light shows bodily I movements that cannot be understood ' to, mean anything else than vacuum producing. The lights are always seen in the vacuum sack on the back. Im mediately before emitting light the: Insect will flatten the body, draw the legs in, droop the head, seemingly con tracting in all directions; then with the relaxation 'come the flame and light. The bodiis of the glowworm and firefly always are transparent when filled with flame. The blades of grass or other debris are seen plainly through the bodied. Here are cases of nature dealing with X rays.-Chicago c Tribune. How Marshall Field Made Money. In the early eighties, when the First National bank of Wallawalla was not as big as it is now, I pretty nearly! had my breath taken away one day by a good looking stranger hailing from Chicago. He threw a letter ofi credit for SS0g000 from a Chicago bank on my desk and quietly said, "Can you eash that?" I looked him over once or twice, made a quick estimate of all the loose. cash I1 thought we, could scrape up and said: "Yes. How do you want it?" He gave a smile,L sat down and said,. "I think I'l1 take '~It in land." In a month's time, as his authorized agent, I bought Shbout 30, 000 acres of cheap railroad land for my Chicago friend, taking the deeds In my name at his request, paying an average of $2.65 an acre. He cleared over $1,000,000 on this one deal. His name was- Mitshall Field. - Senator Ankeny's Reminiscences in Leslie's Weekly.____ ___ In Great Luck. "I have been looking over my finan clal opei-ations," said Mr. Easigo. "I must say they arg more successful 1 Zhan usual." "Have you been making large prof-t its?" "No. I don't expect anything like(C that." "But you say you were suc'cessful?" I "Comparatively successful. During' the month. I have loaned money to five friends, and only three of themI have quit speaking to me."-Washing-C tonStar.____________I The Editor's Sally. City Editor-What do you mean byt saying in this robbery story that< "Brown was knocked down and re lieved of a hundred dollars?" Were you ever robbed yourself? New Re porter-NO, sir. City Editor-That ac-, counts for it. 'If you'd been robbed you wouldn't describe the loss of a hundred dollars as a relief.-St. Louis Republic.___ ____ His Line of Study. "My boy is undecided about what collegiate course to take." "What would you advise?" "That depends. Does he want to build up his back muscles or his wind?"-TKanSas City Independent. Cheaper. Servat-Please. sir. missus wants you to send for the plumber. 'cos she's dropped her diamond ring down the bath pipe. Mr. Nuriche-Tell your mistress, not to be ridiculous. I'll buy her another diamond ring! - London Snow fell in Europe for forty days In 1434. His Kick. .Mr. Holesale-So old Pepperpot had a kick coming on that last bill of goods, eh? Wouldn't that make you1 sore? Mr. Litewate (the salesman)-It did me, sir. He kicked me out.-Kan sas City Independent. An Odd Coincidence. "Do you know that nature and schoi arship both agree on one thing?" "What is that?" "In the fall both begin to turn the leaves."-Baltimore American. A straight line is the shortest in' morals as in mathematics. - Edge worth. . Revolts at Cold Steel. "Your only hope." said three doctors to Mrs. M. E. Fisher, Detroit. Mich., suffe'ring from severe rectal trouble.1 lies in an otneration' "then I used Dr. King's Ne w Life Pills," she writes. "tilli wholiy cured." They prevent Appendi-I citis, cure Constipation, Headache. 25c. at Dr. W. E. Brown & Co., and JT. E: EFFORT BY PROXY. ivoluntary AtterApts to Help Athletes at Exciting Moments. In pictures of athletic competitions, liefly hurdle races and high jumps. a occasional spectator is seen In a aeer posture. If it is a picture of an athlete leap ig, ten chances to one the spectator 3s involuntarily raised his right leg, visting his body in automatic expres on of a desire to help the jumper. oith hurdle race photographs this of m may be noticed, too, and in the ise of sprinters not a few men stand -ith faces twisted up and holding the reath in correct'imitation of the ath to actually competing. So, too. with football views. In nre C a big game there was a photograph E a man on the side line watching a tekle who was crouching down in al tost exact imitation of a waiting de se man who was shown at the mo ient making ready for his leap at the inner. Men who follow athletics know how ivoluntary this is. One athletic train - has appeared id hundreds of pic ires as watching some one of his arges high jumping, with his leg wung out just as if he were making ie leap himself. There is a sort of Klief for the feeling of trying to help ie jumper in swinging the leg up so. ad almost any person is likely to find imself doing it instinctively. It may be noticed ar prizefights th t )me men go through the entire battle unch for punch. crossing and counter 1g an imaginary opponent as they ratch the struggle before them. Men rive and ride horses in races from the tand, making the effort in the stretch long with the jockey of their fancy. 'his is one of the well known features mong the race crowd where there are iany "grand stand riders." In wres Ing matches almost any one will try, urely by instinct, to help the athlete rho is down and who is bridging des erately to avoid the fall. And yet there is rarely enough tele athic suggestion in the air surcharged ith desire to bring about a result dif erent from what naturally might be xpected at the moment when the reatest wish for something else is orn-that is to say, the high jumper esn't necessarily clear the bar, nor e sprinter squeeze out the inch or o that he needs, nor the jockey whip is mount in for the head that means lctory.-Washington Post. Selling "Carlyle." Here is Whistier's story of how he old his famous picture of Carlyle, to e Glasgow corporation: I received them, well, you know, harrAngly. of course, and one who poke for the rest asked me if I did ot think I was putting a large price n the picture-1.000 guineas-and I aid, "Yes, perhaps, if you will have : so!', And he said that it seemed to the ouncil excessive. "Why, the figure as not even life size." And I agreed. "But, you know," I said, "few men re life size." 'And that was all. It was an official casion, and I respected it. Then ey asked me to think over the mat er until th'e next day, and they would ome again. And they came. And they aid, "Have you thought of the thou and guineas and what we said about b, Mr. Whistler?" And -I said, "Why, gentlemen, why rell, you know, how could I think of nything but the pleasure of seeing -ou again?" And naturally, being gentlemen, they tnderstood. and they gave me a check or the thousand guineas. The Southern Art of Conversation. The north may think it knows some hing of co'nversation, but the north, as ompared with the south, may be said ever to have enjoyed a conversation. Lbout the village courthouse, within he hospitable doors of some central tore, in the office of the local daily or reekly paper or, above all, in the lei urely and genial intercourse around he roside or on the inviting porch a summer of friend with friends here will be heard a conversation -hich in wit, in the charm and force f its llustrgtions and in the direct tess and freedom of its criticism Is tot surpassed in American life today. It Is the product of leisure, of a vorld without haste, without ruthless >reoccupations, without those resources >f expression and interest which be ong to the crowded and overweighted ristence -of the commercial city. It s, moreover, part of the tradition of he cavalier. It is part of. the genius f climate and soil and social habit. . G. Murphy in "The Present South." .Sour Milk Cow. The woman was new to the country, tnd her host took great pains to ex >lain to her whatever she didn't un erstand about the farm. He-had little egard f-or the truth, this farmer; he lelighted to test her gullibility to the itmost. The cows seemed to literest her nore than any other domestic animal. )ne of the cows had lost her tail ;omehow, and this fact led the woman o ask why it was. "That's the sour milk cow," the farm er explained, with a straight face. 'We always cut the tail off one cow the herd so as to get sour milk 'resh every day." The woman looked her doubt. "It's perfectly true," the farmer in ;isted. "You see, when the cow's tal s gone the sun shines continually on :he cow's udder, and the constant heat sours the milk." But the woman still doubted.-New york Sun. Counting Postal Cards. Of the many interesting machines employed by' the government in its iaily work there may be mentioned :hose used for counting and tying ostal cards into small bundles. These machines are capable of counting 500, )00 cards in ten hours and wrapping and tying them in packages of twen t-tive each. In this operation the pa per is pulled off a drum by two long angers which emerge from below, and another finger dips in a vat of mu ilage and applies itself to the wrap ping paper in precisely the right spot. Other parts of the machine twine the paper round the pack of cards, and then a thumb presses over the spot vhereon the'mucilage has been ap plied, whereupon the package is thrown on a carrying belt ready for elivery.-Minneapolis Journal. Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air >assages, stops the irritation in the hroat. soothes the inflamed memb-rn sand the most obstinate cough disap ears. Sore and inflamed lungs are aled and str-engthened, and the cold s expelled from the system. Refose any >ut the genuine in the yellow package. THE WORD "WINTER." Said to Have Originally Indicated h Wetness, Not Coldness. There is a prevailing impressiou that t there is something in the word "win- s ter" that signifies cold, and the sea son is usually associated with the idea of low temperature. but where the tl word originated there was little of tl winter as we understand it, while there was a great deal of moisture at e the time the earth was nearest to the sun, so that it is not the temperature t but the atmospheric condition that has d given us the word. t b The word -winter," as we use it, -isb found with but slight modifications in j all the branches of the Aryan lan guages, for the idea of wetness asso- cl ciated with the season was given to it 0 before the Aryan family was divided. s If we go to the root of the word we find "wad," with the signification of to well, to wash out, to moisten or make T wet. Our Aryan ancestors used that f root to apply to all conditions of b moisture, and many words besides V winter have grown out of it, wet aind fi water being among them. This root "wad" is in the Sanskrit as "udan," water. Anglo-Saxon has "wae ter," and in Latin we have "unda." wave, from which we get our "inun- V date." h Our Danish and Swedish cousins oi changed the "w" into a "v and have V "vinter." In Icelandic it is "retir," g and the old high German has "win- e tar." and it is "winter" in German. C, These' four words are all from the N Teutonic base -wata." which means n wet. So it has been moisture that has I been indicated from the birth of the fl root on which all of the different words in a dozen languages have grown.- e New York Herald. c CURIOUS FLORIDA HERB. P h Red Plant Which Feeds Upon, Ants and Other Insects. Almost everybody knows there are a such thinge, as insectivorous or carniv orous plants, but it is doubtful if many know we have any such plants grow- e Ing right here in southern Florida. Nevertheless there is a plant, or, ratL er, herb, growing here which is really Insectivorous. It is likely that on account of its be ing extremely small it has escaped t attention. In fact, it seems to have been overlooked by the botanists also, t as we are unable to find it classed among the sensitive plants. t This is an annual herb, and the en tire plant, including the flowers, is of a deep rich red color. It rarely reach ed a height of more than three inches and is never so broad. The leaves are spatulate when undisturbed and pre sent many small fibrillae and secrete at their tips a tenacious fluid which is capable'of holding the very small in sects, such as ants and the like. upon which it feeds. When any of these get lodged In the fluid and disturb these fibrillae the leaves slowly acquire a deep cut shape and sometimes curl completely up over their victim. When they have absorbed the insect they slowly recover their original shape, leaving only the skeleton of the insect 0 remaining. These plants grow on the ver' low, fat, poor and sandy lands. They ap pear in the late winter and early spring months-Punta Gorda (Fla.) Herald. ____ ___ GOT HIS MONEY.'~ t 'The New Depositor Made Quick Work With His Check 2Ecok. During a financial stringency a Swedish farmer in .one of the middle e west states -had sold some hogs on the local market and upon receiving his check in payment immediately went to the local bank to realize on his sale Upon presentment, of the check the banker said to him, "Do you wish the( money on this check?" t "'Vell,-I tank I yust so veil take him," was the quick reply. "You really want the money?" t "Yah; I tank 1 take the mon-e." t "But do you really need the money?" asked the banker. "Vell, no; I don't exactly need him, but I tank 1 take the mon-c." "Well," said the banker, "if you real ly want the money of course I will give it to you, but I tho-ught if you did not need it perhaps you might open 'an account and deposit the money and then check against it as you needed "Den yen I send my shecks here you vill refuse to pay dem." "Oh, no, we won't. If you open the account, we will pay your checks whenever they come in." This seemed assuring to the Swede, and he said. "Vell, if you pays my shecks, den I open de account." And the account was opened and passbook and check book handed to the new cus tomer. Half an hour later a close friend of the new depositor appeared atX the cashier's window and 'presented a check signed by his friend for the full amount of the deposit, which was promptly paid by the banker without comment. In about an hour the Swede appear ed and, walking tip to the cashier's window, handed the banker his check book minus only one check, with the remark, "Vell. I don't tank I needs him any more."-Youthi's Companion. AN ISLAND IN THE AIR. One of the Wonders of Prehistoric Pueblo Architecture. Three miles south of the Mesa En cantada, in Mexico, is a splendid speci men of fantastic erosioin-an "island" In the air, a rock with overhanging sides nearly 400 feet high, seventy acres in area on the fairly level top, indented with countless great bays, notched with dizzy chasms. The great er part of the island overhangs the sea like a huge mushroom, and on the top stands a town which for artistic charm, ethnological interest and romantic his tory has no peer. This little town of Ancoma is one of the most perfect types of the prehis toric Pueblo architecture. Most of the houses remain of the type invented when every house must be a fort. One climbed a ladder to his first roof and pulled up the ladder at night. living on the second and third floors and using the ground floor as a cellar. Against enemies armed only with bows and arrows this was a fair defense. Comfort had to be sacrificed to safety. Nothing except the eagle sought such inaccessible eyrics as these victims of their own civilization. Because they were farmers instead of freebooters, because they had homes instead of being vagrants, they were easy to find, and they- were the prey of a hundred nomad tribes. With incon ceivable labor this island town in the air was built and fortified. It was reached only by a mere trail of toe h'les up the stem of the "mushroom." Te age of the island is not known, excpt that it was already old in 1540, whenc1 the first explorer visited it and A Viheat Hospitail. "This wheat has been through the >spital," said a miller. "I can tell v the fine polish on the grains. Wheat int has been through the hospital for nut disease comes out better than ell wheat." The wheat grains, In truth, shone so at one could almost see one's face in iem. "You can see your face in them, mn't you?" said the miller. "And no -onder. They've been through drastic eatment-drastic. Smut is a nasty isease, a kind of mold, that changes ie starch and gluten in wheat to a lack powder. When you see flour ill of black specks it is a sign that me of the whedt was smutted. The ire is first to wash the wheat thor 2ghly. Then you dry it. Then you our it. Then you dry it again. inally you brush it. Wheat hospitals -they are found in most grain ele itors nowadays-have big machines >r washing, drying, scouring and shing the grain, and wheat on its ry last legs comes out of those in maries as spruce and blooming as a >otball girl."-Buffalo Express. An Astrologer's Letter. An astrologer's letter to President an Buren forecasting the results of is election in 1840 is in the library con 'Tess and perhaps gives a crudc lea of some of thl' fallacies of our candfathers. Tbe wing are some Etracts: "In t- -ope the as mdant directeG -u -bisquare o [ars would be i n about the iddle of the year, October, '85. and might .. sickness. * * ux or hurt by wounds," etc. * * [ bave opened the horoscope for Gen :1 Harrison. which accords with the ef events of his past life and which right he will not fill the office of resident during t-he next term even elected. And: the danger I appre end to yourself Is not from your pub c opponents, but from those on whom ou repose confidence." Those whc re superstitious may be inclined tc redit this star gazer with some meas re of wisdom, for Harrison, althougi ected, died. a month after his inau iration.-New York Post. Home Loving Montenegrins. Nowhere is love of eountry more in. mse than among the Montenegrins ) whom exile is the greatest of pun ;hments. When W. J. Stillman was ere in the seventies.all the free mei rere away fighting. and he observe at when a messenger was wante( Le official took a man out of the pris a and sent !m off, with no fear tha e would not return. One such mes enger was sent to Cattaro, in Aus iyn territory, with a large sum o: lony for the bank, and he duly cam( ac. Another asked a Russian a attaro to intercede with Prince Nich las for his release from prison. "Bu ou are not in prison," said the Rus Lan "Oh," said the man, "I hav ly come down for a load of skin: or So-and-so, but I must go Into pris n again when I get back to Cettinje. one prison guard watched all the pris ners when they sunned themselve ut of doors, and if he was calle way a prisoner would take his rifl nd act as sentry for the time. Abroad. Abroad is a locality entirely- sul ounded by seasickness. In anothe: -lew It is a bourne more or less mys Inious, bounded on its farther side b: our income and on its hither side b: ustom houses where you have to de lare everything you bring back witi 'on except a foreign accent and oni hange. of hosiery. Abroad is where 1. They put a. Labels all over your luggage and b. It all over you. 2. You' are almost always goin; Lown from Jerusalem to Jericho, an< e good Samaritan invariably want Abroad is the stage of history. bu hat is only because history made th' 0 common mistake of not seeini Lmerica first.-Puck. Keeping Up the Limit. In J. Comyns Carr's reminiscence a characteristic anecdote of Burnt 'ones, who had consulted his docto .bout certain symptoms which seeme Jarming. "How many cigars do you smoke I day?" the doctor inqiuired of his ps lent, to which Burne-Jones had cart essly replied, "Oh, I think about six. 'Well," replied his adviser, "for thi >resent you had better limit yoursel three." And in detailing the inc Lent to me afterward Burne-Jones adi 1, with a chuckle. "You know. m tear Garr, I never did smoke mor han three." iciotinle. "If excessive smoking alone coul ause heart degeneration," writes a co: 'espondent of- the London Mail. "suc "ases would be common Instead of a remely rare. The fact is that only a ilmost infinitesimal amount of nicotir s absorbed in smoking. An ordinar dized cigar or an ounce of smoking t< yacco contains enough of this viruler yoison to ill two men. The only res son all smokers are not killed at onc s that the nicotine is destroyed in tli tombustion of the leaf." Procrastination. "Why is procrastination said to I :he thief of time?" asked the teacher. "'Cause it takes a fellow so long 1 sa y it," answered the bright boy -he foot of the class.-Chicago News. Either Way. ' Psmh-I'd invite you home to di aer with me, but we have no0 cool Ines-Ad Pd invite you home wit one, but we have one.-Cleveland Leat Drawing the Line. I don't mind listening to a man wI is paying for my dinner tell me tl story of his life," said the woma "Men's lives are generally interestin but I won't stand to hear a woman t< everything' she kno'ws. even if she do pay for my dinner. I'd rather pay f my own dinner and get ani occasion shy at the- conversation."-New Yo: A Hard Shot. Husband (angrily) - What! MO money? When I'm dead you''l pro ably have to beg for all the mon you get! Wife (calmly)-Well, I'll better off than some poor woman w. nevr had any practice. C R. Klufzer. the Jeweler. 1060 V rinia Ave.. Indianapolis. Ind.. writ' 'I wwas so weak from kidney trouble thi [coould walk a hundred feet. Four b< :les of Foley's Kidney emedy~ clear' :nv complexion, cured my backache al the irregularities disappeared, and ::an now attendi to busmness every dai end recommend Foley's Kidney Remne to all suerers, as it cured me after ti :lotors and other remedies had failed mmmmmm~mmmm1mmnnmnununn ICn Untouched Vru and sme fne divin just receiired. Come and get your wants supplied. . OmaS.w/ esese eseses ese BANK OF LARENDON MannngS C - rs00nl . --ss a rn b 1 or n ett : BNK OF LAR EMnigS.. Will somnyce fidney drBadergD justn heeirech omend et~a your.wantsROupplied. Vlan. uano I by the Chemist or the canufacturer TOB.LACCOp TTON, TRUCK an Guano C orporation. CHARLESTON,. S. C. iiiV .-V. Lower Prices than we quote mean but one thing the goods are of inferior quality Remember, "The best is none too g ood.' And the best is the cheapest, I be it Dry Goods or Grocenes. 0BRING YO R TO UTHERTIN OIC G .1 BRING. YOUICOR Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right TO TOWN CA LL A T WE LUS ManZan Pile Remedy HfN SLO ANDWhich is fitted up with ani stops the cough and heals langs eye to the comfort of his Cures Backache HI UT~ Corrects I L TLS ~~ .4 Irregularities ~ HA *A~ Dco vot risk having SAPON ~ease not Eritht'sDisease.Dn ihnans n do more. or Diabetesdiath. .... etne. .. -disatc . L. . L 9 Manning Times Bloek. - %tGeS.Hacker&Son MAZfUFACTUaRR Oi* - Amanom= Sash Weihts and Cos W oing an andGas SBuialty. W.LESO, S. C Woodmen of the World. V Meets on fourth Monday nights at Visiting Sovereigns invited. ~~' FOLEYSHlORIIaTAR