TOO MUCH FAITH IN SWOROS
miion Why Many ?f Those CarrieO
v Through tha Civil War Wara
9 * Brought Ha ma WaHfaM.
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A great many swords were brought
home from the Civil war welded in
the middle because tha young officers
who owned them had bragged
about their elasticity and had broken
them in trying to demonstrate it.
The,tragedy happened in this way:
The young officer, in setting out
for the war, had been given a fine i
trwon^ by his admiring friends at
home. He waa told, and made to
believe, that his sword waa of tried
Damascus or Toledo steel, and that,
it would bend double without break- (
ing. In camp somewhere, the young
captains and lieutenants would fall
to vaunting their trusty blades and,
on a bet, one of them would stick tb?
point of his sword into a tree and
begin to bend the hilt around to
meet the point. And just as the hilt
came around the blade snapped in
two in the middle. (Very few of
these presentation swords were as
Damascus or as Toledo as they were
supposed to be.)
After that the two parts of the
sword had to be welded, and the
weapon shows the welding to this
day.
PICKED UP WRONG OBJECT
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Force of Habit Cauaad Hurry to? Commuter
to Mako Soma what Ember*
raaoiftfl Mietaka.
For years this commuter had come
down in the morning, laid his watch
beside his plate, drank off the cup
of eotfee which an attendant wife or
daughter placed ready to his hand,
picked pp his watch again and bolted
for the 8:11.
This morning he had set his watch
down and stretched out hia hand for
(he cup which hia daughter placed
l>eside him, when there was a crash
of splintering glass and a little exclamation
of dismaj from his wife,
who had gone into the next room.
He rose instantly, picked up something
from the table, stuffed it into
his pocket and went to his wife's assistance.
The accident was of no
moment, and he returned to the
breakfast table, demanding, with
.some irritation of a now somewhat
hysterical little schoolgirl that she
? give him his coffee without delay,
when a warm trickling down the side
of his leg advised him of the lengths
to which habit will lead one. He
had pocketed the coffee.
BRIDGE THAT PUZZLES DOM.
Dogs, said Mr. A. M. Nortier, the
other evening, in a lecture about the
Tower bridge, occasionally get separated
from their ownom when passing
over the bridge. Lnpvitably (lie
dog makes a holt for it as the bascules
.'.re being raised, until he loans
bis footing <m the bascule and rolls
hack.
On one occasion a fox terrier got
to the edge of the bascule and sal
there shivering until it wss lowered
sufficiently to walk down again.
Pigeons rear their young at the
very point of the haacules, the nests
being so built that the eggs do not
tumble out when (lie bascule* am
moving through an angle of 81 degrees.
The old bird* sit on the bascules
and rotate with the movement*
of the bridge.?Ixmdon Mail.
SLIGHTLY AMtlGUOUt.
She?So sorry to hear of your
motor accident.
Motorist?Oh, thanks, it's nothing.
P.xpect to live through many
more.
She?Oh, but I hope not.?Boston
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CUBIST ART.
"la the cubist fad doing yon any
good?"
"Well, I don't have to hire a model
any more. The clothea horae aahwera
very well."
OF COURSE.
Church?Do you believe in print*
labor?
ilotham?Sure; how else oould
they build 'em?
WISE.
"He it a self-made man."
"But he never brags about it as
most self-made men do?"
"No, he ia trying to live it down."
WIRELESS TELERHONS.
Sucuaas/ui wire! eat telephoning
baa been uarriad on in (ivn; ami
Aaafcran eve* a datnnan si Ml jmIsl I
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mm^?rnmmm???Mmmmmmm
PLOWSHARE BEATS BAYONET
Waata Spanish Soil Put to Excellent
Use by the American Syetem
of Dry Farming.
Sixteen years ago we were slaughtering
the blasted Spaniards. We,
were firing red-hot shot through!
their homes in Manila. We were
blowing their head a off at Santiago.
We were putting cold steel through
their hearts at San .T nan. Wherever
we could we made their blood run
and Liked it. The war taste was in^'
our mouth and we raged as legiti-'
| mate butchers of men. Whatever tbe
justification, the picture was awful
after nearly 2.000 yean of Christ's
I teachings.
I TrtfllV WP liavu a nuKlnrrpatn
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Madrid saving thai under instruc-'
tions of our agricultural department
vast tracts of semi-arid land in Spain
are proving productive through!
American dry-farming method*. Today
we are shooting fiotahies, corn
and carrots into the poor homes of
Spain. We are blowing hojte into
the heads of the hungry of Spain;
We are (toeing the ftoor of Spain eat
as they previously did not. It is
a picture to illustrate the teachings
of Christ after nearly 2,0tX) years.
(ireat is our war department,
which can kill two foes where one
waa killed before. Ureater is our
agricultural department, which can
till two stomachs where one was filled
before.?Cleveland Press.
TOUGH ON THE PUP
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The Pup?Wow, ihe "Heart of the
Wilderness*' bonks far boys ha* made
ihings strenuous for us!
AMERICAN NAVAL TRIUMPH.
One hundred years ago the I'nited
States aloop-of-war Peacock, in command
of Captain Warrington. captured
t.lte British slnnp-of-war Fpervier.
after a sharp action, off the
coast of Florida. The British lost
V killed and M wounded in tlae engagement.
The Americana suffered
but little, only two men being ini
ill red and these hut diohtlv Tl.o
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allot of the enemy ha<] passed
through the rigging of the Peacock,
while the British sloop had been
hulled nearly fifty times. The Kpervier
proved to !* a valuable prize.
In her hold specie to the amount
of $118,000 was found. In addition,
when the vessel was sold to the United
States government, slie brought
$.15,000. So thai each of the Ififi
j men comprising the crew of the Peaoock
received enough prize money to
keep him in good humor for many
months to come.
HONORED CUSTOM.
"You admire the custom of saving
graoe at table?"
"Yea. In addition u> its helpful
religious sentiment it has tiie advantage
of being about the only formal
| dinner speech you can make without
danger of starting an argument."
Y WAY OF DEMONSTRATION.
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"So you are goinp: to adopt the
fashion of wearing colored wigs?"
"No," replied Mm. I.eedwell. "I
I shall give a party at which they are
worn, merely for the sake of demonstrating
that they are too absurd to
heroine fashionable."
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
"Mr. Kliggins talks a great deal
about his family pride."
"Yes," replied .Miss Cayenne:
"only he it content to feel proud of
Ilia family without considering
whether hia family lias reason to be
proud of hiin."
WARLIKE ACTIVITY.
"How does the battle go?" asked
the Mexican general.
"Fiercely," replied the press agent.
uWe have just had three devastating
paragraphs, and we're now advancing
several oalaiaaa vf tierce 4*??
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HAD MORE THAN THEIR SHARE |
Class of Englishmen Who Rivaled in
the Number of Their Wives
"Blusbearos" of History.
X.
It was formerly no uncommon
thing, when journeying through the
Essex marshes, to meet with fathers
of families to whom the epithet
"Bluebeard" might, without any im?
propriety, be applied* retnarks London
Tit-Bits. To bare married half
a dozen wives was no unusual experience
with these raeb, many of
whom, indeed, had gone through the
marriage ceremony with thrice that
number. Even that total had on occasion
been exceeded, as in the case
of a native of Caudv island, who had
espoused twenty-five different women,
while his son. who was but
thirty-five, had already been wedded
fourteen times.
Yet for the moat part these excessively
connubial men were very respectable
fellows, whose sole mistake
was in choosiug wivea from the
neighboring uplands instead of wooing
those who had become acclimatized
from having been born and
bred among the marshes. Consequently
the uewlv wedded brides,
who had been accustomed to fresh
and bracing air. on taking un their
abode among the fogs and mists of
the unhealthy Hats, soon succumbed
to ague or fever, which generally carried
them off within the year, leaving
their husbands to console themselves
with fresh partners, who in
their turn rapidly gave place to successors.
DEAD DOG
.Josh?What's become of our doer?
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I haven't seen him for a long time.
Bosh?You notice what a cold i've
got?
Josh?Yea, but whaX'a that?
Bosh?Well, a lot of people told
me things to do fur my cold, and l
was wise enough to try 'em ou him
lirst.
ALREADY INFORMED.
Two ladies made a formal call on
a distant acquaintance. The maid
asked theiu to wait until she ascertained
whether the person inquired
for was in. Presently she tripped
downstairs and announced that "the
lady was not at home." One of the
ladies, finding that she had forgotten
her cards, said to her friend:
"l.et me write mv name on your
card ?"
''Oh, it isn't necessary, miss," put
in the maid cheerfully. "I told her
who it was!"?New York Globe.
NOT UP TO DATE.
Miss Fanny?Do you like apollinaris,
Mr. Swarnley?
Mr. Swandey?1 must confess
Fanny, 1 never read huu.
OBVIOUSLY.
Gehang?What is the plural of
brandy and soda? Brandies and
soda or brandy and sodas?
Uperdek?Neither. Plain drunk.
A SURE PROOF.
"Do you really Ijelieve the world
is getting better?"
Certainly 1 do. liaveu't they
stopped killing umpires?"
LIKE BENEFIT.
"Why do stars and singers inaka
so many farewell toure-;"'
"Because they fare well on them,
stupid."
THE PROOF.
"Do they adulterate ewn the dry
goods
"Certainly. Dou't th?v sell watered
silk?"
MIXED TERMS.
"if I engage you aa a salesman,
1 want you to understand that this
machine must be pushed."
"Dm* ?kt|wi wvMtsft* ah*rar/*
' HOBBIES OF CROWNED HEADS |
Mania for Making Collection* of Various
Object* Seem* to Have Been
the Chief of Them.
The award to the king of Italv of
a prize from the French Academic j
des Inscriptions et Belles Lett res in
connection with his numismatic work
suggests some other hobbies . of.
crowned heads.
King 'George is an ardent stamp
collector, and his sister,' the queen
of Norway, is said to derive much
amusement from her collection of
press clippings giving inaccurate ae!
counts of her own doings.
King F.dward had a most curious !
hobby, the collection of the avoirdupois
of his friends, all of whom had
to undergo the ordeal of the Sandringham
scales, the host himself
keeping the records. *
Queen Victoria's hobhv in collections
was a rather melancholy one,
taking the form of sepulchral memorials
of her friends and relations.
The kaiser, of course, has innumerable
hobbies in art, music and
letters, and ifi addition he has the ,
finest collection of imifnpmu in tl>.?
world. Louis X V1 'a tastes ran in
the direction of docks, and iloorgo ^
IV made one of the finest collec-! ^
tions of snulT boxes ever assembled,
in addition to ."><)<> whips and 500 *
poeketbonks, which were found at his *
death. 4
LONDONERS HAVE LONG LIFE 1
Recent Figures Show That British
Capital Is a Healthy Place In
Which to Live. <
The assertion of its admirers that i
London. Knglund. is I lie healthiest <
city in the whole world is evidently
not without some justification.
Once it used to he said and he-?
lieved that the true Londoner, the I
"Cockney.*' died out in three generations.
This may have been true 4
once, but it is not the case now. In- *
deed, a report of the London county <
council proves that Londoners are <
living longer, while statistics of old <
folks indicate that the capital is ri- <
valine Brighton in the longevity of
many of its inhabitants. ,
Last year, for example, there were
deaths'of Londoners who lutd
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11vi*(i Mir over seveniy-nve years. \
mean future life lalile has'ed <fu modern
statistirs shows that the lamdonor
who is seventy-live is due to
live for another five or six years and
that those who have reaehed eightyfive
ean rely on an average of another
three years of life.
The man of thirtv-five has an average
future of twenty-six years, hut
the woman of the same age will live
for another twentv-niue years; for
in all the age groups the women hold
to existenee with a greater tenacity.
Hut the notable point is that Londoners
do not in these davs automatically
die otT at the third generation.
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Particular Mechanics
are always pleased when they '
goon a job to find that the Linn
her to be used came from our (
Lumber Yard.
It makes work easier if good ,
material is used, and the work is
better, too. Let us figure with
t you on your next bill.
Fort Mill Lumber Company,
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t There is a great clean-up movement paf ingover the en
f tire Country. Civic Leagues, Women's Clubs, and other or
f ganizations are pleading for a ( :u i'p ai i Paint-Up Cam- *
paign. Andther fight is being made for the extermination T
^ of flies and other perm-carrying insects. I
Join in the Clean-Up Campaign ;
You can aid in buiuling a city-beautiful by first making *
' your home beautiful. We can ail you by supplying the
t Housecleaning Paints. Disinfectants, (ieinticides. Etc. Also ^
Paints, Wall Finishes, Furniture Polish. Etc.
Healtli protection is another important factor in favor of *
^ a clean up movement. .
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Massey's Drug Store.
"Get It at Masscy's?There's a Reason." '
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