Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ItttMLL MMHB F*X, .. J--.. l mmmmmmmmmmmrnrn Maroflypftiot Stamp wf on Mi and Sivtr in 1300. >* . %M >hm< In Ktrly Day* to Pr#. IM| tka toyir la the Matter af Parity af Metal. * Wlat an the ltrann> hIpmfflvntilM i stamped m Am back of silver article* 1 In England. and what do these marks dptfyf This Is a Question which has - Qllaa pnssled the Inquisitive. A tedia?B and technical subject, 70a say. On. the contrary, a most absorbing and appealing one. -Bead here what an expart In the matter of these markings has to say, and be convinced. "Ike first hall mark was used in Parts In 1800. It was employed for both gold and silver, principally the former. Some goldsmiths had been anderselltng others and as there was no difference In labor or perfection ef detail. It was obvious that much tnfoitor metal was being used. 80 a guild was founded to protect the buyer In the matter of purity of metal. The guild specified the *Paris touch,' which meant that a certain standard of metal was to be maintained. "About 1827 a stir took place in England for a slightly different ron on. Privateering off the const was | frequent, the result being thnt silver vessels were brought back and made either Into coins or other vessels. As the product was of a lower grade than the English standard, a goldsmiths' guild was established there also, with the rather awe-inspiring title of 'Origin and Mystery of the Fellowship I of Goldsmiths.' The guild specified that standard metal must contain 025 fa^^parts of silver and 75 parts of copper. ^^Tts members had authority to travel through the provinces of the United Kingdom assaying sliver vessels, and If any specimen was not ip to standard It was confiscated or < fine of double Its value was Imposed on the maker. r "When a piece was made It was the custom to. -Send It Jjr the gulldt hall. Thermit wnsr assayed and If found of the proper proportion It With the English hall matiflHn It was then called, the 'ttt^P^rnmark,' commonly referred to as f^poig's touch.' "A leopard's bond was the first mark employed In England and the maker 'also was privileged to place his own stamp upon It, which generally con1 slated of the first two letters of his surname. As so few people were able I to read, most of the tradesmen hnd | signs which they placed on their productions, hence the modern .trade mark. Tn 1460 the guildhall a letter marking the yenr that .jgf was made, but as the full was not used, the date is verafeto determine. Later the ^ head *?s cfcatigi-d to a llnpptf ?. . which In torn gave way to a lion's head erased with a fl;mre of Brittanla. "The collector of old silver must look ont for the method of glorifying* used by unscrupulous dealers who cut the hall marks out of old spoons or forks and fit them Into a big piece ' to mislead the unwary. It Is extraordinary that so much good old English silver has survived, considering the vicissitudes through which it has passed. Tn tfe Wats of the Roses, for Instance, much plate was confiscated and melted into coins for carrying on the strife.** Stones in Form of Crosa. Stanrotlte Is a curious mineral, or stone, found only In Virginia and North Carolina, not very valuable but Interesting on account of a legend that attaches to It. The name Is from the Greek stauros. a cross. The stone is found in the form c* a cross, or sometimes a double cross. Another name for the stone is the "fairy stone." and this also relates to the lenged that the fairies living in the caves of the mountains, on hearing the sad tidings J ui nit* umui or r nnsr rasnioued these crosses as mementos of htm. Thus*-; has always heen some commerelnl de- i mond for the stones as curl on a and ; they are worn as watch charms or on j chains with lockets. Wouldn't Be Blighted. The principal of a school once had j occasion to lick a very refractory pu- i pit. Tt was very meager punishment, j hut tl.e- child complained to his father when he went home that day. Tha next day the father paid the principal a visit. "I understand." said the irnte parent, that yon licked my boy yesterday." "I did." was the reply, "but not severely." "Well," said the father. "I want yon I to know that I am one of'the 1?\ jM.\ tarnayers In this place and my bo^a j entitled to as good a licking as any ; other boy gets. If you slight him again, j you'll hear from me In no uncertain ' terms." ? Rope Making. V rope industry Is largely depend- ; |^^pon Russian. Italian. American I ^l.tinlin hemp, the hitter being far j ^^^Tnore used than any other. With the _ exception of Manila, all these hemps : tf^^re of rhe best fiber?that Is, they are ^^^fetalned from the berk of the plant. hemp Is cut, dried, and en j ^^^^Vkod in bundles. Later, It Is ? ,aln ; I Bread out and exposed, to dew, frost ^^^^Wsun, a process that rots the gums the filaments. The dry inner part of the stem then falls off ^^^^Hler.-;es the fibrous strips In con-, ^Hj^Kn to be cleaned and baled for S^^HTusportaUon. WHEW mjgttlP FIRST IMW* Anther of Many Bangs aa a VaagMir Qflww LwIM H*a Boa* Baby ta Sleep. la the hidden recesses of Paradise alley yon may aea a service flag with I one star. But how are yon to see Para- | dlse alley T It Is In Greenwich village. | The entrance Is through a hole In the | wall In Sixth avenue, between Jeffer- , son Market Jail and Eleventh street, recnlls a writer In the New York Moll In Paradise alley there is a row of qunint dwellings that Beem to slant In outrageous fashion. In fact, everything 1 in Paradise alley Is strange to the point ; of queerness. But once within the alley j you foraet the wnHd nil ! Kn?? You are in a land far away. Around the corner from Paradise alley is Patchln place. If memory does not serve ill it was in this queer track water spot that John Mnsefleld ate and slept and rocked the cradle of a man J child In the days when he "tended bar" , in New York town. A queer lad was John Mnnsefleld. A thousand songs struggled for birth in his brain. The world knows many of these songs today, for he ranks in the second flight of living poets. But when John Masefield "tended bar" in Greenwich village and ate and slept at the boss' home in Patchin place, the only part of the public that got the benefit of his poems was the boss' baby, for Masefield, while he waited for the boss' wife to cook a meal or "set" the table, had to rock the cradle and slug to keep the child from raising the roof with his walls. The babe never cried when John Masefield sang. It is the testimony of that good wife of the boss that she never could make head or tall out of the songs the queer youth sang?they neither had rhyme, nor reason, nor things that songs should have. They were like chants, she says. But the Baby seemed to make them out, even if his mother could not. j Never a wall came from him while [ John Masefield sang. ~ Value of a Good Look-Out. Speaking of the value of a careful ! lookout as a protection against the submarine, the first lord of the admiralty, Sir Eric Geddes, said that if a submarine is sighted by the lookout on a vessel?whether the vessel is armed or not makes no difference?it i Is seven to three on the ship In favor | of Its getting away. Out of every ten attacks, when the submarine Is sight- ! ed by the ship, seven of them fail, but j of every ten attacks when the subma- | rlne is not sighted eight ships go j down. In this connection we note that Sir Alfred Yarrow offered, some months ago, a monetary reward to the first seaman on any merchant vessel to detect the presence of a submarine. In the case of the American destroyer, recently sunk. It will be noted that the presence of a submarine was not known until the ship was torpedoed. Will some American offer a similar honns for the seamen on our ships?? i Scientific American. War Beer In Germany. Reports from Berlin recently received In London show that the kaiser's subjects are facing a further reduction In the supply of beer, says the New York Times. The amount of malt avntlable for brewing has just been fixed, and, whereas the amount for the last year was 25 per cent of the peace quota, the amount for the next year Is to be only 10 per cent In North Qer- , many, ana 15 per cent in Bavaria. When the requirements of the army i and of the munitions factories?which In Germany get precedence?have been met, there will be enough malt to provide the civil population with about j one-third of Its consumption in peace ; time, but the beer Is only the thin \ "war beer." The barley harvest in the i rest of Germany has been bad, and j there Is now a great Increase in the proportion of barley that Is used for ! food. 1 After the War. T shall want some money today, ' dear," said George Pipwhlstle to hlR wife before the latter set out for business one morning in 1927. And Mrs. Pi I* whistle, gninih!irih the while, bended out the chips and waved her hand from the garden gate ns she made a ; dash for the eight-nineteen. Three hours after Mrs. P. had returned from the city, George Pipwlds-. tie came in. He had a mountain of j parcels in his arms and the light of i triumph in his eyes. "Yes," he paiiieu, as he untied the parcels and disclosed four corkscrews, a stuffed owl, an assortment of paint brushes, a remnant of a eloth-bound "Uncle Tom's Cabin," six walking sticks, a toasting fork, a brace of tin openers, and a roasting jack. "Such a scramble! tt's Just about the best bargain sale that ever was I" America Now Leads in Toys. "American manufacturers are making 90 per cent of the toys being sold in this country today, and they are never going to let this wonderful and profitable Industry which has been developed since the war to slip out of their bands." That statement was mad > by William G. Whlttemore. manager of the ntntlnnerv nrwl nnvoltv rl?r>nrtmont the American News Company, says the New York Journal of Commerce. Mr. Whlttemore was In Germany when war was declared, buying toys for his cun- j cern. This was before the war. one of h!s duties, hut it is doubtful If such a ??*ip will ever be necessary after peace Is declared because of the feet that tl)r American toy manufacturer has tftkee hnM of hi ? roblom with wueh aptitudo and facility. ? 4 -.W-.. ^ HE WANTED ONLY BIG QAM? hfllah Warrior Bravely Describes Numerous gncounters With tho Ferocious African Beasts. Once I was talking with one of those gentleman rankers of the old England, who by this time Is probably somewhere In France, for he was always looking for trouble where It was thickest, wHtes a New York Sun war correspondent. He had been nway for boot three years In the Jungles of Africa ut that time und was giving a little account of himself. Among his frank admissions was the story of holding off a hnnd of Aslinnteea for six days single-handed, while he kept busy with two rifles and a revolver. Also he hud got away with a few tons of Illicit ivory In the African Jangles and had slain six more bull elephants than the lnw allows. Incidentally he had shot a lion which was charging him and had a hand-to-hand clinch with a gorilla. He had done things like that before, this harum sea rum offscouring. There was nothing at which he ever stopped, being mostly composed of Iron nerve and steel muscles. He had a soft, caressing way when he talked, and when he dropped back into civilization he continued to wear the wrist watch with its grimy leather band which he had taken with him through so many adventures in the equatorlnl wilds. "Bally effeminate," he observed, "this tlckhug, eh? Maybe wrong, old man, but deucedly convenient to squint down at and time the two-horned rhino that happens to he charging a chap, eh, what?" WAR BREAD CAUSES TROUBLE 8a!d to Be Responsible for Digestive Disorders Which Are Followed by Eruptions. Reports of Illness through eating wnr bread are being received from all over the country, nnd the news that I^ord Rhonddn hns instituted nn inquiry Into the cause will come as a relief to many, snyH the Dundee Advertiser. The brend Is snld to have given rise to digestive troubles and then eruptions In mnny districts. This Is said to be due to the fact that some bakers are using Imported flour, which contains beans and rlee?Ingredients which are quite unfit for brendmnklng. The Inclusion of the germ sets free a large percentage ot fat which Is unsuitable for weak digestions. Then, of course, regulation flour does not possess the keeping properties which whenten flour does, and this fnct again gives rise to disorders. The gray loaf can never be as palatable as the white one, but It can be mnde equally digestible and nourishing If the necessary precautions are taken. Still, our brend of today, with all Its defects. Is not as had as that which the Parisians had to satisfy their hunger at the time of the siege of Pnris, when a quantity of straw was mixed with the flour In order to help eke out the supplies of grain. Coons and Turkeys. They are hunting coons In Massachusetts and eating them. They are said to be a fine substitute for turkey ?more than a substitute, better. That Is all right?tliey cun eat them. Our Pilgrim Fathers can eat all the coon I hey want. We will (uke a second helping to turkey, declares a writer In the Oolumhus Stute Journal. Wc try to imagine the eutlntr of coon. We can't do It any more than we can think cf eating cat. But hunting coons Is different. Here Is the process: Take an automobile. Put in guns. dogs, and a companion or two, and then, when far Into the country and near a forest, unloose the dogs and sbnd them Into the woods. Soon they start to barking vigorously and there is a coon. The naners tell of one nnrtv of four starting out after dark, returning at midnight with nine coons. Tin. couldn't be done in Ohio, which Is m. :t primitive state, like Massachusetts Our coon crop is pone. We are sorry. The coon is a fine animal for coon, but not for meat John Aldcn and his merry men are welcome to It. Gear Wheels Made of Cotton. Gears arc now being made of ordinary cotton which outwear those made from the finest steel. It seems incredible, hut It Is true, suys Popular Science Monthly. The very hardness of the metul pears causes the teeth surfaces to scrape over each other when they mesh, producing hideous screeches and groans. Everyone of these scrapings means a certain amount of wear. Teeth made out of compressed cotton yield. They are, therefore, noiseless. Compressed with the metal gears, they are Indestructible. To make these fiber gears a large cylinder built up of cotton disks is compressed to but one-sixteenth of its former length! Cold Comfort. "I was arguing with a fellow about politics the other day and Pm blest if he didn't advise me to consult an alienist!" exclaimed the contentious man. "Well! Well!" Mf I. .. AU ikmA - A l su|l|n Iif IIIOUKII1 llllll H IlIItT piece of sarcasm?" "Oh, I don't know. Maybe he n? *.rt It." Always Unusual. "How do you account for the reniarkuhle weather." "Haven't tried. To be perfectly frank, I don't believe 1 recall more than n tcw months In the past ten or fifteen years when the weather wvr't being described as remarkable.' "PUSKIN" PIE IS BEST OF ALL Man's Mouth Still Waters When He' Thinks of the Kind That Mother { Used to Make. To n man still young enough to re-J member sufficiently far hack Into his boyhood years to the time when he had never had enough dessert In his life, there is no word In the HngMsh language so suggestive of toothsome, lickerish Joy as pie. plain pie?particularly "punkin." Ion can't spell punkin pie with an "in" nnd a "p." declares a writer In the Milwaukee Journal. rtiiupkin pie t.-s the kind one gets In restaurants, flavored with cloves and allspice. "Punkin" pie has cinnamon and ginger In It, and sometimes a hint of an unmentionable heady fluid about which one would not dare ask mother. And of all the smacking. ambrosial delicacies catalogued under the genus "pie," the best Is "punkin." There are other kinds of mnwm? apple, peach, cherry, squash, blueberry, custard, lemon, nilnce?and every one probably has Its value In the world. Some people even may prefer them. One never can account for different persons' tastes. But for boys, young men and elderly men whose stomachs have not yet grown old, there Is none that will approach "punkln," the kluikl-colored queen of pastries. One grows hungry at the thought of "punkln" pie?the crisp, crinkly crust; the thick, rich pungent tilling, with the dic?t of cinnamon tarnishing Its tawny top; the creamy, dreamy, velvety, faraway taste as one's mouth closes on Its prize. Some appetizing joys there are, but none that exceeds capturing n pic<*?. of punkln pie, getting It Into one's hands, contrary to all social usage, biting Into It, until one almost nil res up to one's nose, until one can scarce see over the top of the upstanding crust, and beginning the un| equaled delight of devouring the first [ mouthful. To taste it Is to love It. love It and love forever. THIRTY YEARS' WAR PLAGUES 8weeping Away of Lives Was Frightful, Combatants Themselves Being Mown Down. In the famous Thirty Years' war. It i | I Is estimated, the population of central ana wpsiern tiiurope was reuueea irom thirty millions to less than fifteen millions. nnd yet during the whole of that time there were only forty Important battles fought, and their totnl death casualties did not reach half a million. All the rest of the frightful sweeping away of life was from plapue and famine, which not only followed In the wake of the armies, hut mowed down the combatants themselves. Nor was the deadly work of these fierce partners of war?the terrible triple alliance of the prayer book, plapue. pestilence and famine?confined to the civil populations. They played equal havoc in the ranks of the armies themselves. Even as recently as the days of Gustavus Adolphus that prent captain Is said to have broken up his winter quarters and begun his summer campaign nearly two months earlier than he had Intended. because at the rate at whirl) his soldiers were dying from disease in their huts nnd barracks he would soon have had no army left to campaign with. Kicked Himself to Freedom. Prisoners of war have had mnnv thrilling adventures In their attempts to escape across the German frontier, hyt It would be hard to find a more remark able story than the following, told In a Dutch paper: Four British escaped prisoners of war. one Frenchman and seven Russians arrived at Oldenzaal, besides two German deserters. An amusing Incident took place In the case of one of the Russians, lie was seized by the German sentry when 'n the act of crossing the frontier. nnd In the course of the ensuing struggle throw himself on the ground. He fell half way on Dutch and half ??>nt? d\y\ P.orni<1 t.?rrllnrv Tlu? Ttliti'fl sentry cane to his rescue and tried to pull him across by the shoulders. The j Gorman nulled at the other end. When the Russian found that the Dutchman was helping him lie started kicking * with all his might, with the happy result that he was safely pulled onto Dutch territory. Sausage Makers' Repartee. An old story which Is being revived nowadays concerns two rival sausage makers. They lived on opposite sides of a certain street in London, and one day one of them placed over his shop the legend. "We sell sausages to the gentry and nobility of the country." The next day. over the way. appeared the sign, "We sell sausages to the gentry and nobility of the whole conn- W try." Not to be outdone, the rival put up what he evidently regarded us a , final statement, namely: "We sell sausages to the king." Next day there anneared over the door of the first sausage maker the simple expression of loyalty. Mf!nd save the king." Hailstorm Insurance In Germany. Hailstorm insurance is more extensively carried on In Germany than in any other country. During the last 4.r? years the German hall insurance companies have collec* 1 the enormous E^irks (mark ? ?<s. and have 'is in indenml' >in r of 7.0!?.t.n7* \ in excess of and the hnsl(1 an increase OOO.OtiO marks. i with 5Tcentsand 7 in 50 wseks I Vo-'^ ' V > Vn^ < 1 Just one little uirkel will start you in our 5 rent club; or you ran start with It) rents, 2 cents or 1 rent ami increase your deposit the same unmunt each week. in Fifty Weeks: 10-CENT CLUB PAYS $127.50 5-CENT CLUB PAYS 63.75 2-CENT CLUB PAYS 25.50 1-CENT CLUB pAYS 12.75 f>r you can iuak<> the largest |u:vment. first and decreaMe your deposits each week. pill If you wish to deposit the same amount each week. Join our BO cents, Sjtl.OO or $.">.04) club.. We have to fit your pocketbook. ^ ^ The BANK of DILLON V How To Use The TELEPHONE : M I Did it ever occur to you that you might not be using the telephone in the right way? Do you speak sideways, above, be- J low, or six inches away from the trans- ^^^^B1 mitter of your telephone? ^^^BKm You should talk directly into the ^Ifl transmitter?not simply at it. Keep your lips about one inch from the mouthpiece, Speak in an even tone. It is not necessary to shout. There is much that can be said aboutB^BB^B^ the proper way to telephone, but these^^^^^^^H little rules will helo. IVh'n you Telephone?Smile SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY i K. N. PFAFF, Manager, MARION, I J i An Ambition and a Record i || / J ' | 'H F, nerds of the South identical with the needs { a1* / Railway: the rrowth and aucccH of one meana 1 '?> t JH yf 1 ur Southern Railway i no favora?no special privilege not J ,f L to others. >. f T:i- i >e South-rn Railway- Company la to are .hat i V interest that co-operation bet wren the public and i *1? f the t?. <?di; cied t?.* ntheaannpe- < ?? 1 meat rovernmrntal JBk I aeencietj to liberality which win enable it , >V / to obtaia laoital needed the acquisition of briftr and JBB } to the demand increaaed and better iMB I finally? j^gZ J To rake Ita in the body politic ibe South alonrside of ^^gf f other induatriea. no with equal liberties, equal ^g^R | lights opportunities. ^g^g " The Southern Serves the South."