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'y ftQSSt WAT|A*E IMMCHTTM. V ?b?J *u? by Homer abont a century ftid a?half after tbo deeauction of fbe town of Troy following tbo ton | years of war that was waged In tbo eaaas of Monotone, king of Lacede4BOO, wbooe consort bad boon carried away by tbo son of tbo Trolan mon arch. The two poems see ss old ss Parld's psalms. Originally the 111 lad would appear not to hare been a single connected poem, but to hare attained at a later period Its present -complete state. About one hundred years after Bom-Cr, Lycurgua, the lawgirer of Lacedemon, brought these poems Into Greece, and two centuries and a half later Plststratus Is supposed to hare giren them their perfect form. His eoo Blpparcus Introduced the custom ef reciting rhapsodies at the Panethenala, or festlral of the tutelar goddees. A more complete edition of the Homeric poems, from which the modem ones are taken, was prepared for Alexander the Great bj Aristotle, which the former need to keep under Ida pillow In a golden case. Also Aratua. the astronomer, Arlstarchus of Samoa, and Aristophanes, librarian at Alexandria, bestowed their labor on these Immortal songs. Because of the ftne moral sentiment. Homer became the pattern of Thucydldes, the favorite author of the greatest and noblest men, and one of the best teachers of the wisdom of human life.?Detroit Hows. * MAKE THE MOST OF TODAY All That Haa Gone Before Is Past and the Future la Clouded With Uncertainty. Today la what yon have. It Is also wh|t you are. And again, Today Is what yon do. And If you haven't anything, and aren't anybody, and do nothing?why, then, for you there la no Today. For Today la music. Today Is art. Today Is literature. Today Is Joy. Today la work. Today Is play. Today Is life. Yesterday la do problem?for It la CiL Tomorrow la no problem?for It 't here. Today la supremacy. Today la the world. Today la?Opportunity I Crowd In upon It then. Today?take held upon Its faintest chance. Spread your smiles?Today. Be game?Today. Be glad and great?Today. Today la the day?your day. Today la Time and Change doing Its Job. Are yon a vital part of the play? Today yon may start out all anew. Today yon may pat to nse what yon learned a day ago. The center of your entire life may revolve about?Today. Bnt, above all things, do not fearToday. And let all worry slide. All things that do not count?let them go. too. Work and help and love?To Fer this Today will never dawn again!?George Matthew Adams In Good Housekeeping. Snake's Menace Mere Bluff. ' A really accomplished reptile recently arrived in London In the shape ef the American "hog-nosed snake." When approached by man. It acts in a most disturbing way, flattening part of Its body and Inflating an awe- | some hood like a cobra. If ever anything said: T am death," It Is the hog-nosed snake receiving a caller. As you get nearer, Its rage and menace Increase, but, one more step, and there Is an anti-climax. The hood collapses, the snake "flops" to the ground, turns on Its back and ap peers perfectly in pi ess. stir it witn stick, and It remains as limp as a piece of garden hose, but turn your back and It will crawl away. The two specimens now In the Zoological gardens. Regent's park, have gone through their "act" so often that they are too bored to repeat It for the present. The point of the joke Is that the hog nosed snake Is perfectly harmless. Cleaning Watches With Bread. Perhaps the most novel use to which bread Is put may be seen In some of the great watch factories, where more than forty loaves of fresh bread are sometimes used each day. Prom earliest times In the history of watchmaking It has been the custom to reduce fresh bread to th-> form of dough. This dough Is used for removing oil and chips that naturally adhere In course of manufacture to pieces as small as the parts of a watch. There are many parts of a watch that are so mall as to be barely risible to the naked eye. The oil Is absorbed by this docgh, and the chips stick to It and there la no other known substance which can be used as a wiper without leaving some of its particles attached ha the thing wiped. Enormous Sharks. Sharks grow to a tremendous sixe. Bondetett's shark, for Instance, which fa an Inhabitant of tropical seas, at tains a length of 40 feet. The great basking shark Is eren longer. A Bf this species, brought to I set ap. is 17 feet la I grown, this shark may reet and rival the whales age- beep killed 30 fget In ft* not for a moment to that we have secured the ? fact Is that the natural s eras Is still vary largely k, and that surprises era tor future genera tleaa. ip|i 4$V TREASURES OF BUPOWIST ART 0g|fg0Hm f#r CiRturlw In Dm Twupls of * DalgeJI In Japan. - Delgoji. the Mid temple of the Ono school of (M Bhlsiw stct of Baidhlam Id Jipu, situated not for from Kyoto. in the UJ1 district, Suggests by Its nuns Is rolstlon to Emperor Dalgo, who reigned from 898 to 800. Its nemo originated from us fact that Its founder. Abbot Shoho, came to this village and exclaimed after he drank from an old farmer's spring: "The water was as good as dalgo t" It Is a Buddhist word meaning an unctuous rich liquor. The posthumous title of ?<? vuiynvr uiuoi OBTC OnflDtUQ from his devotion to the temple and Its founder, as well as from hla burial In the temple grounds. Rare specimens of Buddhist art and literature, carefully preserved as the temple treasures of Dalgojl, and exhibited recently at Toklo, through the efforts of Dr. Katsuml Korolta of the editorial staff of hlatorlo graphical materials In Toklo Imperial university, bring the story of the temple down to 800 years ago. Among the peculiar paintings In the temple are the flower viewing screens," pictures of horse training and a collection of fan paintings said to be rare treasures. In the literary collection there Is an Illustrated copy of the third roll of "Scripture of Cause and Effect of the Past and the Present." It was made nearly 1,200 years ago, but the colors In the picture are as fresh as I the present day pigments. This scroll Is considered the oldest thing extant In Japan of colored art on paper. TREES GIVE MILKLIKE JUICE Tropics Provide Pretty Fair Substitute for the Animal Product in Use in Northern Climes. In British Guiana and the West Indies, particularly on the hanks of the River Demerara, there grows a tree known to the natives as the hyahya, which yields from Its bark and pith a Juice slightly richer and thicker than cow's rallk. The tree Is about forty feet high and eighteen Inches In circumference when full grown, and the natives use Its Juice as we use milk, It being perfectly harmless and mixing well with water. The Cingalese have a tree?they call It klrlaghuma?which yields # fluid In all respects like milk; while In the forests of Para grows a tree called the massenodendron, which gives a milklike Juice. It can be kept for an indefinite time and shows bo tendency to become sour. On the other hand, certain trees In the valleys of Aragua and In Cauagua yield a similar flnld, which, when ex posed to the air, begins to form Into a kind of cheese, which very soon becomes soar. In the Canary Islands there is a tree ealled tabaya dolce, of which the milk, thickened Into a jelly, Is considered a delicacy. Unpleasant Dreams. A London chemist, dreaming that he had swallowed poison by mistake, rose from the chair In which he had fallen asleep and, so vivid had the dream been, he went to the shop and took an antidote. But this, In the absence of real poison, began to poison him, and before he realized the mistake the error was beyond repair. In another case a man, after a heated argument with a visiting friend, dreamed that his guest was in his room molesting him. He actually "felt" rough hands on his body, Jumped out of bed, and ran to hla friend's room. There he attacked his Innocent "assailant" so violently that the latter was confined to bed for several weeks. Bachelor to the Rescue. In a street car the other day I sat alrectly behind a woman who was trying desperately to untie a face veil. I was fascinated by her persistent but fruitless attempts to untie the veil witn one hand while with the other site clutched her nose glasses, which were helplessly entangled In It. I was Just wondering why some woman passenger did not offer assistance, when she turned to me and said: "Pardon me, but would you be kind enough to see If you can unfasten this veil." After frantic efforts, amid the suppressed merriment of the passengers I caine out victor. But I was a much embarrassed bachelor.?Exchange. Ostrich Plumes. Ostrich plumes are not actually plucked, bj the way. They are cut? pruned with no damage or pain to the bird. When the feathers are "ripe" the ostriches are driven into a Vshaped enclosure. Their beads are covered with a hood like a stocking, which renders them tractable. The wings are spread by the man doing the "plucking" and the feathers are clipped off fairly close to the flesh. This does not hurt the bird In the least and within sixty days the dead t|uui cuub ur^p uui ox meir own accord. The tall feathers are also dipped. Kept Fish Alive. During the recent storm several automobiles got Into such deep water at Pennsylvania and Twenty-second streets that they had to stop until the flood abated. On*i member of a Ashing party climbed out on the running board of his car and carefully tied a net of live Ash to a spoke and calmly dropped it Into the water.?fir fan ape!Is News. k/fM*, 4 - xVlr.e t J) %/ ".. "" ir'"B"" , <XPWC??ED VWul ?f HttPl* 1 *1 if Fwlll/ <fifSS ) tlM WHh eiMMmc The tana Tint 4<w<nt Owitttattoo" to ftmiaUy ipyM by irrttm ti what * better Mm J4? 1 I tnicill7 m tto TaadaiMital Order* of Connecticut," Many people la Massachusetts baring become dlasstlsfled with a law that none bat church members should rote or hold office, st length determined te form other settlements. Other town organiseMrtne mVes>Ajl? * " * ???? UIIIHIIU iiuuvl DQU11J irom | Massachusetts to what was then the | wilderness. These were Newton, j Watertown and Dorchester, which had < their names changed, respectively, to Hartford. Wethersfleld and Windsor. I Along with them went their govern- < Ing organisations and a general court for the three towns was afterward formed. Jan. 14, 1839, this little community formed the first written American Constitution at Hartford. This Constitution springs directly from the will of the people, and neither English king nor parliament, nor Colonial council, nor governor had anything to do with It. The orders provided for two general representative assemblies each year, composed of delegates from each town, one for the election of governor and magistrates, the other for making the laws. These fundamental orders as they were called, were the beginnings of democratic ?vtviuuicuv iu Ailifl icu. j KEY TO ANCIENT HISTORY Greek Papyri Have Revealed Practl. cally All That Is Known of r Greco-Roman World. ] Greek papyri were documents for c ancient history which supplied a per- s sonal view of things. They described r classes not represented in history as t usually written and helped In the study * of popular psychology of the Greco- c Roman Egypt, and by analogy, also, c to some extent, the Greco-Roman j] world. y The papyri illustrated the history r of administration, showing it in ao- ? tual working, and not in theory. There A was not much in the papyri on mys- i tery cults, but there were Interesting I religious documents, such as the hymn ' to Isls. The papyri mostly illustrated 1 the popular attitude to religion, popu- 8 lar piety and impiety. They were also useful for early Christianity, Egypt being the native country of monaatlclsm. The economic decay of the Roman ^ empire, popular education, and the t history of the Greek language, were j also Illustrated by papyri. The bor- 1 rowings of Christianity could bo traced ( from older paganism from the papyri, t and the Christian and pagan attitudes 1 could thns be contrasted. Historic Lisa. << Two of the most famous lies relate { to the last hours of Nelson. Everyone c knows that the real signal at Trafal- 1 gar which he ordered was "Nelson ex- i pects every man to do his duty." The < other He Is about the coat he wore * on his quarter deck. He Is reported ( to have sllehced the affectionate lm- 1 portunity of his officers, entreating * him to conceal the stars on his breast, by caylng, "In honor I gained them, < and in honor I will die with them." This Is the great style, but It is untrue. Dr. Arnold heard the facts from Sir Thomas Hardy. Nelson wore on ^ the day of battle the same coat which he had worn for weeks, having the order of the bath embroidered upon It; and when his friend expressed some apprehension of the badge, he answered that he was aware of the ( danger, but that It was "too late then , to shift his coat." The fabricated , saying is magnificent: why destroy \ it? < Stirring Things Up. I Gertrude Is 4 years of age. She < faces the world fearlessly, looks It ' squarely In the eye, and If It doesn't { track exactly to suit her she tells * It things. Her mamma had gone away the other day and left Ger- ] trude In the care of her grandma, ' and, after a clash of wills, Gertrude t had been put Into a room to remain j for a specified length of time. "If ^ you stir out of that room before I , tell you you may," cautioned grandma t severely, "I am going to spank you." i Gertrude stood with arras akimbo for t a moment and then retorted In a tone of finality: "Well I When you spank I me you will find that business Is cer- ' [ tafnly beginning ts pick up In this 1 neighborhood."?The Argonaut. 1 i 3,000-Year-Old Story. , Do you know which Is tho oldest work of fiction? i It Is the "Tale of Two Brothers." 1 wniien over inree tneusand years ago by the librarian to King Merenptnh, the supposed Pharaoh of the Exodus. The story was written for the amusement of the king's son, who afterward reigned as Sett the Second. He has signed his name In two places on the manuscript, and these are probably the only surviving autographs of a king of Egypt. The "Tale of Two Brothers" Is writ ten on nineteen sheets of papyrus In a bold hieratic hand. It was purchased In 1857 by the British museum from a Uma il'Opklnou , 1 Their Business. "I read about a meeting of deaf and i dumb painters. How do you think they | got a*eag T" It ought to be eauy for painter* t* < get along with the sign language." I ri | eitaln - " * ?>' 4.- * V*.. . . ? ?i > ' 5^^*eJ2?5Sli^*^lieIe^ea!ee aaammunm tajlwbm* umoam nu wbhl Columbia, Ju. 11.? The mackmwMid tut Inheritance tax U trovided la a bill to bo introduced bio wook ta tbo House of Reproooaatives by Reprsssntatlvss J. K. Attinsoa, of Spartan bare, and Buckifluup. of Aikea. Tbo Mil hao ?boon mgroesed and may bo prooontod to ho Hoooo whoa It reconvene? tonight. Tbo bill will provide for a tax on nheritancea received by huobanda, rives, children and grand children iccordlng to the(bOowlng schedule: >n inheritances up Re $20,000 above he exemption, one per cent, up to (40,000, two per cent; np to $80,000, hree per cent; up to $160,000, four >ei cent; up to $300,00, five per ent; over $300,000, six per cent. For an inheritance left to a hue Htna or wire the exemption Is $10,-. 100. The tax is applicable to the amount above the exemption. For ninors the exemption 18 $5,000; for idult children, father or mother, the ixemptlon la $3,600. On property inherited by brothers, listen, uncles, aunts, nieces or ne>kews, the tax would be one per rent higher than that on inheritance >f husbands, wives or children, in ill other cases the tax would be ;wice that against inheritances of; >rothers sisters, uncles, aunts, nieces ind nephews. For each of these two rlasses there 1b also a schedule of exemptions. The bill would provide for the aslessment of this tax by the state tax >ommission, the tax executed through he probate judges in the counties. o DOMINIOK SLATTD ' FOR COMMITTEE. Washington, Jan., 31?That South Carolina will have a member of the vays and means committee in the lext congress for the first time since L895, when John McLaurin served >n that committee in the fifty fourth rongress, now seems practically aslured. The member will be Congressnan Fred H. Doninick, o f Newberry, hjrd district, unless all signs fail. During the past week there has been considerable activity among Democratic members of the house in regard to selectiona for desirable comnittee posts. Among the other mem>ers talked of for the ways and neans committee are Representatives Jtagall, of Alabama, and Moore, of Virginia, both prominent southern nembers. It is thought that the Remblicans will permit ten members rom the Democratic minority, which ticreases Mr. Domlnick's chances of iucce88. o FIFTY MILLION POUNDS TOBACCO WILL BE SOLD Winston-Salem, Jan. 29?Local) varehousemen are now predicting! hat the market will sell over fifty nillion pounds of tobacco this season. Today's report Bhows that 43,930,>00 pounds have already been sold at in average of $23 per hundred. More han two and a quarter millions pounds were sold this week despite nclement weather. Pitcher Ernie Shore, of the New fork Americans motored through ;he snow from his home in Yadkin | :ounty this morning and spent the day Here chatting with friends. He heH lothing to say regarding a reported leal by which he has traded with wo other Tanks to the Vernon club jf the Pacific Coast League for a promising young infielder named rohnnie Mitchell, a crack shortstop. Shore was a member of the Greensboro team in the old Carolina League before he went to major company. o AN EDITOR 51 YEARS. IV. D. Grist Successor of Father and Grandfather as Newspaper Man. The Publishers Auxiliary, of Chicago says: On January 1st Wood Davidson Srist entered upon his thirty second pear as editor of the Yorkville Enquirer, York, S. C., a record of editorial longevity in the game perhaps anequaled by the service of any other editor in South Carolina. He besan his new year as the director of the Enquirer at the age of 55 in the best- of health and with every indication that he is good for another three decades in the same capacity. The Yorkville Enquirer Is known, throughout the Carolinas and the South as one of the leading semi-! weeklies. It has been printed under the present name for sixty-five years having been founded by the late Capt. [iewis M. Grist, father of the present editor, in 1855 as successor to newspaper published there previous to that year by Captain Grist's father, the late John E. Grist. W. D. Grist, the present editor, is |otnt owner of the business with his irnthor llhor* u v -- ~i ? f ^avvt w Ml. VJ1 1DI, UUB1UOSO manager of the establishment and superintendent of the composing room. Their children are associated irlth them in the conduct of the.EJnjuirer, editorially and mechanically. The following is taken from a sketch of Editor Grist and the Yorkrille Enquirer which appeared in a recerit issue of the City Editor and Reporter, Chicago. % "For thirty years, day*after day, From early morning until late at night, he has been sitting at his leak?a typical newspaper man's lesk, editing bis newspaper, the forkville, (S. C.) Enquirer. About' >Dce every three years friends will pursuade him to take a trip for a week or two, winning out with the irgnment that it will do him good. I wayDo wunin rour aays, or six at most .he will be back at hla desk. I "Every dollar he haa ever made In addition to his charities, the education of his children and the expenses of hi? family haa gone bark Into the pavegr?to make it better und a stronger power for good and for progress. "The Enonlrer has the Wrest 5t*enlatl?n of any eonntv newanaper In Routh Carolina. They call it the "Bible of the Piedmont." | , MMMtAW a, uati Tfe? following Is taken from Ik* News and Odtritt'i files of IN years m *The steamboat Poo Deo. which or- n rived bote m Bunday, bos completed 7 ber seventh trip from tbls tows to * Cberaw sad back, staee sbe ha* been 0 under tbo superinteadericy of ber U present active sad enterprising com- b mander. . >' The average time la which she has I performed tbe trip (Including the r' passage both up and down). Is eight b days; sbe has taken up each time a R full freight of merchandise and re- * turned with between four and fire n hundred bales of cotton, etc. ' Th? distance, by water, from Che- M raw to Georgetown, is estimated at * 220 miles; the Pee Dee usually de-!8' seen da the river in two days and as she does not perform any part of the! voyage in the night, she of course makes her passage down In about twenty working hours, which with- 1 out allowing for detention In taking in fuel and for accidental delays, gives an average of eleven miles an hour.?Charleston Courier, Jan. 26, n 1821. e (This Is not so bad after all. Two c or three years ago several Dillon ^ men started to Georgetown in a mo- 0 tor boat on the Little Pee Dee and j, haven't reached there yet.) a o " Home of Solicitor Spears Burned The Darlington News and Press J says that the handsome home of So-1 llcltor J. Monroe Spears was destroy-',11 ed by fire last Thursday. It had n been sold to A. D. Flowers, but Soli- P citor Spears was occupying it till he n could arrange for another place. He h was In Columbia when the house caught fire in the roof, and reached Darlington in his car in two and a half hours. Most of his furniture e and law library were destroyed. r o d NOT OUR J. K. BREWER. n p Mr. J. K. Brewer of Kemper wants The Herald's readers to know that ~ he is not the J. K. Brewer who was A sentenced to four month's imprisonment in the Dillon county jail for violation of the prohibition laws. The J. K. Brewer mentioned is last T week's Herald is a colored man 11 whose home is in Georgia. Mr. Brew- ^ er says there are lots of mean things z. a man could be guilty of doing but ? in his opinion the meanest of all is ? the making of liquor. # a A government report says the av- 1; erage wages paid on the farms of the ii South during the past twelve months t waB 951.75 per month. That may be p tiue so far as the day laborers were b concerned, but it 1b far above what 1 regular or monthly laborers received. I The farmers of this section could not ? pay such wages If they wanted to c do so. The average farm laborer Is ) the poorest paid and the hardest worked man In every country. They live very little better than the beasts of the field and receive lees consid cuiiion, eitner rrom their employers t or the public at large.?Edgefield c Chronicle. j o 1 If the government will remove the < tax on the poorer grades of tobacco ? it will permit at least 25 per cent < of the 1920 crop to be manufactured into fertiliser. Of our virgin forests one-sixth remains. * FARMER'S 1 I, County of do certify that I am a farmer and c *_emnly promise and agreq on my sacr year 1921 I will not plant in cotto lands cultivated by me during the J And I further promise that I will may have with my friends and neig obligation and to co-operate with t ganization and the work of the said * * Witness Sign and s SOUTH CAROLINA < 809 LIBERTY I COLUMB1 I I YOI I M\k m We are opening a Dillon, S. C. At the will be at the Hotel 1 cond and fourth Mond ing Tuesday in each m and fit glasses. Call L. A. WOODR Eyesight J HSSBSSSHSS38S89k*is^ ^ ^ ' v ^ t '1 .1 ^ ^ # V BORf Oi?, ilTWIT. ?. s. ^5!!*wto* "1 got your letter ukla teritlaoC 17 Asseto mmI Liabilities new I tela on when i lent is that order that t as kef la a reeterrant and not n eneral Store and i doa't keep etch lingft as- Ijeaiti and Hahltltiee on 3d besides IX 1 did it ain't none of our d?m blrnsss how mains hare i ot no how, they was a feller noelng snnd here yesterday wot said Sg how fk is name was r. g. dun and Company nd he asted me how much money did hare and i kicked him clear into the liddle of next sunday. 1 tall you i ront hare no medlin in my blsness i I as good as any man and a d m Ite bettern some if you don't want to ell me goods wy go to he- U. please nser by next male. Your fren, ft o VHEN FOLKS PAY MB I'LL PAY YOU THEN The following letter Is provoking * iuch merriment on the part of veryone that has happened to see a opy of It in the last few days. It ras sent to a fertiliser company by 1 ne of its customers and was printed a the News and Obserrer. Its ad rice nd word of warning come in very ood at the present time. "I received your letter about what owes you. Now be pachent. I ain't orgot you and as soon as folks pay ne I'll pay you, but if this was Judglent day and you were no more prepared to meet your Ood than lam to aeet your account then you sho going 0 hell. "Good-bye." o One of our dentists was about to xtract a tooth a short time ago. The patient was a young woman, ' rives a car. "Shall I give you w ladam? "Why yes, five galll Wf lease, and charge it to my husbani W 1 FINE HORSE FOR DILLON COUNTY. Judge Joe Cabell Davis has just eceived from Mr. Roy Miller of Lexngton, Kentucky, the well bred oung stallion Henry Putney for reeding purposes. His sire is San 'rancisco 2.07 3-4 and his Dam is (endoceta. He is a full brother to lary Putney 2.04 3-4, Abbie Putney .03 3-4 and Montovals 2.10 1-4 and full brother that went the past year a 2.10 over a half mile track. He n a beautiful brown horse and will >e kept at the Pair Grounds track lurely for breeding purposes. We hould pay more attention to the ralsng of horses than we do, as it is a >aying investment. They can be raisd in Dillon county cheaper than you an buy them, so get busy and raise ^ ou a horse this year.?2 3 It. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby forbidden o hunt, fish or enter upon the lands >f the undersigned without written >er mission from the undersigned. Tox hunting, fishing or hunting of anything strictly forbidden. All parens violating this notice will be lealt with_ according to law. a. JL). uraham, Mrs. S. E. Page, Mra. Bettle P. Jones. 5 3 3tp. u A 'LEDGE. ' a > J h ? of the otton grower and hereby sol ed word of honor that during the * n more than one-third of the * ear 1920. use whatever influence that I bbors to have them sign a like * he county committee in the or cotton reduction. : * CUU IV. ^ xtton association jank bldo. i [a, s. o. JR I ^ ' n Optical Office at * i present time we Wheeler every se- I ' lays' and the follow- I i lonth. We examine I 4 and see us. I . UFF, D-Opt. I 'm f