Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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— ASSISI IS REMARKABLE CITY IwHutmi Om Mail With an 14m Cm Ptraltt Thrtyfh tht CanturlM. ▲ mnarfcable city la AaalM, show- tec how tbs Influence of s man with sa Idea can peralat down the changing centuries. It la aereu hundred year* and more alnct St Pranoie lived and died here, and yet today Aaslat la lit tle besides the city of St. Francis. His name lends It whatever fame and Im portance It may have, and something of his kindly spirit aeems to hang about It still. Assisi la a bare little Italian hill town, built of dull atone, with narrow, winding rocky streets, looking out over one of the fairest prospects in all Italy. Here St. Francis was born of rich parents, here he led an Idle, spendthrift youth* and here he was suddenly seized with the Idea of uni versal brotherhood and the necessity for poverty. (Here he founded the Franciscan order, praying that Its dis tinctive sign might be M never to pos sess anything under the sun and to 'have no means of living save by beg ging." He carr' t his rule in strictest ^practice n aliut of reeds built 'where ds the church of St. Mar gels. Ho felt a great love gs created, so that he ho lied as his brother and preached to Ashes. All of these In cidents In hU *areer and many oth ers are set forth In noble frescoes by Giotto In the Franciscan church at BE6INNIN6 OVER By ANDREW PHKLPB. In Assisi, too, Is the tomb of St Francis, In a little chapel of the Fran ciscan monastery. The tomb Is sur- rAmded by beautiful marbles and rich work In beaten broase. The world has loved 8t Francis, bat apparent ly It has never understood him. Else It would not in all reverence havp surrounded his vault with the rich luxury of beauty against which Me whole life and all hie teachings were but one great protest. CITY IS VEILED IN SMOKE In Mane Hester, Is in serial Heart cf NlfM and Day. OLD-STYLE BLOSSOMS PASSE In Is the Industrial the heart of the Mach. North, which Is to the plea* ant Luodoo south ilk# a foreign land Under Its veil at fog sad smoke, the at Mhacheeter roar day., turning out steel sad district la thus anything at the le It Is It Is as if says that an a Hear day factory stars* from a Mil usur aa the asiitary Mt of It may be true, but It ha* ae? ar been coninuad. hecease there are an Hour days la Msachester, When all the 600 starts are pourtag forth and the fog steals down. It la at aoou On a good average day cma see for aereral Mocha, sad anly a few electric lights are aecew ■ary. The trolleys will probably bum their headlights, but that la force of habit oo the part of the Cel a re of the Rainbow. The colors of the ralnUm vary sc- cording to tbrlr site, sod the site dif fers aroirdinf to til** Mgnrss of the mindr. \>% Ijurgt- dt**|>« produce nar row rulntMiwa and bright, dearly de fined colors. The colors are general ly aa follows: When the raindrop* are in the average ona millimeter In diam eter we see a violet, pale blue, bluish green, green, yellow, orange, i»ale red and deep red rainbow; when the drops average three-tenths millimeter, the rainbow Is violet, pale blue, bluish green, green, yellow and omnge. Prop* of one-tenth millimeter produce the succession of a very pole violet, vio let, whitish blue, whitish green, bluish yellow* and pnle yellow. Drops of one- twentieth millimeter (fog) give white tinted with violet, a very vivid white, a white tinted with yell<fw and a very pale yellow. Origin of Order of Odd Fellows. Details of the origin of the Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows afe ob scure nnd probably will nhvays renin In so. From Incidents attending the exten sion of Freemasonry In England, Amer ica and elsewhere In the period be tween its arrival, in 1717, and year 1740, apd from similarity of emblems and to some extent mechanical arrange ment of ceremonials some Investigators believe that the order of Odd Fellows wm an offshoot of Freemasonry. First recorded lodge was In Englahd In 1745. Its membership consisted of mechanics and laborers. Provisions were made for comfort and recreation of members i and practices of contributing to relief of needy and unfortunate brethren be gan early.—Exchange. v Aft Unexpected Thrust Ho—It seems we have to economise on our wool, my dear. BBo—Then. you had better begin with the lot of It that pebple are al ways polling over your eyes. 1 didn't knew golf was a That was 'surely- a love match be tween Ned Richards and Dorothy White. Ned was s book ko*per and twenty years old,; and Dorothy was twenty-two sod "Just a girl" living at home. Once a year Ned had a vaca tion, but he generally spent it at the seashore. What he didn't know about the country and agriculture would have filled a big book. What he knew about bookkeeping would have fille^ another. As for Miss Dorothy, she knew that hay came from grass, and that milk came from cows, but those facts had neven interested her much and she bad never gone beyond them. They loved. It doesn't make any difference whether they fell in love at first slghtf or waited for three months, and when Miss Dorothy had promised to be Ned's wife, they talked. En gaged couples generally talk, but very few of them tdlk as Ned and Dorothy did. There should be a lawn In front of the cottage. There should be room for a big garden behind It They should beep hens; they should keep «t least two pigs; they should raise their own vegetables, and you know what else Is needed to complete the happy plans. By and by, Ned and Dorothy were married and after a brief wedding tour, they returned home to look for the cottage. They found It It Just the cottage they had pictured-a thousand times over. They had re pairs made and moved In. That town I It was a lawn, or their landlord said It waa, but the grass was s foot high and was matted together like a Bah net It most be ssowed, however, and It waa to this mowing that the first shadow fall. Ned knew how to buy a la *r sod to ride home proudly In the wagon with It but he did not know how the thing worked. He waa drag- glng It after him laatead of pushing It la front when Dorothy came to the door and laughed, to |ia hundUal They were to keep chickeua. Ned got a half day off and went to ate a I farmer to buy eome fowls. A car penter cum* with laaRwr and nails 1 and made a chicken honaa. They had planned to hoop Ned bought a couple. The carpenter rame egaio and a pan was built, the grunts of the pigo eouaded Uke. It woe In July end for past planting time, but Nod oruoo with daylight and planted corn seeds of n»ar ; around with a la mo hank aa a eoewre. but he leaked terwarg to n bountiful ha reset. Hell n the reef tree H>ed. and all weald have bed either aa murk about agriculture aa they dM 1 tag pin urea. Everything, the wife ondertook brought k penfont; from her huabund. and vice When the bene were brought there was no food and water ter and they began tu die o#. It waa only when a neighbor laid them that fowls must be fed and watered that they gave theca rare. Toe ought to have known better," repmerhfeily said the wife. “Mo had you.** waa the reply. And a ben the pigs had been three days without care and were giving vent to their disgust at such carelsao lie** the bride suddenly remembered that pigs a anted care the same aa foals, and she hurried to-beat some water and to carry out some Huh l •ones. When Nad waa told of this 1q- Hdmt he replied that anybody would have ktu’uo better. The potatoes did not sprout and the corn showed never a stalk, and each Mild the other ought to have known Miter than to plant two months too late, A few cucumber seeds sprout ed and a few vines wandered over the ground, but they died from despair after a few weeks. Never an egg did the hens lay; never an ounce of fat did those pigs take on. One day Miss Dorothy went homo to her mother, and she cried nnd told her nil about it. One day Ned went to see his father, and he looked very solemn aa he told his story. Dorothy told her mother that she nnd Ned must separ ate. Ned told his father that he could not stand this thing longer. The result was that Dorothy’s mother and Ned’s father made a visit to the woodbine cottage that evening. "There will be no separation,” (wild Ned's father, when all particulars had been related. "Even an Idiot can fall In love, but you have got to have com mon sense to retain that love.” "Rut, Ned says I never do anything right!” protested Dorothy. "And she says the same thing about me!” retorted Ned. "You had the good sense to marry each other, but you didn’t have the’ gense to make a farm of this place,” said the father.. Ton let the failure Irritate you, and your Irritation caused you to blame each other. Stop It right h«re! Ned, you lore your wife dearly, don’t youf* T-e-s.” “And you, Dorothy, love Nedf “Y-e-s” —? “Then kiss each other and begin all ever, and /on will come out all right. When you don’t know a thing, ask some one who doea.” (Caprrlaht Iftt. by tha McCluro N to.) Wort Valuable for Homo R Days of Dor Grandmothers add Herb Doctors. • With the exception of some of the daintier spring blossoms, our wild flowers are passed by without com ment. Violets, hepatlcas, bluebells, trlUlui^s are still sought after and picked, the fall asters are gathered by some and the goldenrod is admired, but passing into disrepute on account of its hay-fever aggravations. There waa a time, however, when grandmoth er was young, relates the Ohio State Journal, when moat of our common field and wayside flowers were of prime Importance In the household, In the shape of family bitters, physics and curealls. • ‘ Yarrow, a pest to'the fanner and of doubtful beauty*even to the wild flower lover, was at one time a moat useful herb from which a tea was made that cured all aorta of ailments, from toothache to typhoid fever. From the boneset plant, so common along our streams now, a tea was also made which was a prime favorite in the coring of that common malady, "breakstone fever”—do not laugh— probably^ what we know today aa grippe. Camomile, we call It dog fen nel, waa brewed into a tea aa well, and was used as a tonic and blood purifier. Jlmsonweed, a corruption of James town weed, was valued by the settlers of that early village aa a narcotic, and is still so used, for that matter. Self heal, the little doee-growlog purple- flowered peet of our lawns, was used to relieve sufferers with quinsy and other throat afflictions. This plant be longs to the mint family, and most of the mints were of nee medicinally Pennyroyal, bergaasot, catnip were all ef value to the simpler of a century or more ago. CASTE WIELDS AN INFLUENCE u *au natives by taherit a that tha dlverfflea of to has beea task coafhentlag the British government the NaPenal bor to lad eat rial permit* ef agricultural labor constantly tbs itxaaaC tens ksepiag tea lav. Chet# also pr« vents yogis from leaving crewdsd iTsfrtett and ftoag to sparedj Inhab ited regtonn ef wMch tears are amny. to time ef dMtveaa tee toafstek la a peculiar tenet ef their faith them to tench feed by Brahmins. It was aloe dto> that skilled weavers wenM net fa to the ardlaary relief work camps that tee hard labor would to leee tee delicacy of they ▼aloe so Mghly. * The Aft World Magazine le wilting to admit teat tee pubBc h prefer on coo la art le net le he sad It tMaks artists ehoald | those preferences. It says: “Aa artist only honors himself when he never inert for one moment the thought of pleasing that great world- public. He should seek forever to captivate It, not merely hp pleasing it. but by pleasing It oo much that It will be delighted to take off his hot to him, thank the giver of all good things for having created him, and honor Itself by nailing hla name high up !o the temple of fame. Thus he will win a niche In the heart of mankind, which means the Immortal love of the race. . . . The truly wise and great artist digs down deep Into the hesrt and soul of man, there to sense if he can what the race Is feeling, thinking nnd longing to have expressed for Itself—In the hope of being enraptured by the nobility of the fhrms in which the artist expresses the things which he finds there.” Buttons a By-Product of Bear. The spent yeast which collects In breweries and distilleries is put through a process which turns It out in the form of buttons, door-bell plates and knife handles. Formerly this left over material was considered to be a bothersome waste; now it Is utilized, every bit of it. As it Is gathered from the vats the yeast is of a dirty, gray- brown color. The first operation is to dye it and then to work it over until it assumes the form of powder and can be hot-pressed into any form. In this stage it la called “eraolith.” It may be sawed, scraped, filed, drilled, engraved, turned to an edge and polished.—Popu lar Science Monthly. Aa electrically Raised Her Own Curia. Elisabeth had ^ accompanied her mother down town on a shopping trip. While mother was busy selecting her goods Elisabeth wandered over,to tha oQce quarters, which were on that floor, and stood looking into the win dow of tha cashier** cage. Noticing the pretty golden curia of the child, tha cashier stead; little girl, where did you get thou* pretty curler and tea te a teaalug way: The R. A. Griffin Farm a Located on the A. C. L. R. R., between Meyers Mill and Robbins Station, in Barnwell County, S. C., to be sub-divided into 40 to 50 acre tracts and . _ sold (or the high dollar, on easy terms, regardless of price and without reservation : : * : : # Saturday, Oct 27 10*30 A. M t T £ T T T T f T J ❖ This Farm ia all level land, in fair atate of cultivation, find can be made to produce a bale of cotton to the acre; baa good acboola and chiirchea in neighborhood, for both white and colored; is well watered, and has some good saw timber and plenty of wood for farm use. \ Water Mill and Gin ^ e A valuable Water Power is located on this property, and is now driving a very profitable Mill and Gin, and has sufficient power tor drive a large amount of additional machinery. The Mill property, including the Pond, will be put) in a tract to it self. This,is one*>f the few farms that can be bought at a price so cheap that the rents will pay for it. - , ~ EASY TERMS, BRASS BAND,