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Sainbrrg tSrralii ^ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KXIGHT. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, 50c. for each subsequent inwrtinn t .ih^ral contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tnbutes of Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects ?f general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not i?e published unless paid for. Thursday, Oct. 24,1907. A Neat Retort. "A United States senator," said a vnnner Dhvsican. ''addressed the class I was graduated from on our commencement day. He advised us in this address to be broad and generous in our veiws. He said he once saw two famous physicians introduced at a reception. They were deservedly famous, but they were of opposing schools, and the regular, as he shook the other by the hand, said softly: " *1 am glad to meet you as a gentleman, sir, though I can't admit that you are a physician.' "'And I,' said the homeopathist, smiling faintly, 'am glad to meet you ,as a physician, though I can't admit you are a gentleman.' " The Old Clerk. x P. T. Sherman, labor commissioner ?f New York, was describing- at a dinner that large class of laboring men that though faithful and industrious and unselfish, never rises, never gets'on, says an exchange. ' "Such a man," said Mr. Sherman, "was an aged clerk I used to know h* St. Louis. "TJiis thin, bowed person, with his white hair and his dim, kind, timid eyes, had worked for the same firm steadily for thirty-nine years. Nevertheless he was called to the front one morning, and the chief aid: " 'I am sorry, Henry, but times have become hard?expenses must be reduced?I regret it, but you will have to go.' "The clerk's jaw fell. " 'Why,' he stammered piteously, 'why, when I started to work here, I was told the job was regular.' " The Farmer is Blessed. \ The farmer, if he only knew it, is a little nearer the kingdom of heaven than anyone on earth. He is certain c 1 three square meals a day and is the only man who can fence himself in and live in spite of the rest of mankind. A few cattle and sheep and fowl provide him with food and *clothing, while his fields yield him flour and a source of revenue. So { generous are these provisions and so common, that hardly one farmer in ten takes any accfount of them, although the ordinary business man thinks he has done well when he reaches the end of the year and finds that he has a little more than made ends meet. ???_ * Father Spanks Grown Daughter. Pittsburg, Pa. Oct. 11?Miss Pauline Law, 35 years old, who lives with her father, William Law, 65 years of age, on Friendship avenue, went out lit night without telling her father where she was going, and remained until 1 o'clock this morning. When she reached home this morning her father, who was waiting for her, took off one of her slippers, placed her across his knee and spanked her. Miss Pauline had him arrested for assault and battery. The case was heard before Magistrate Kirby. The father was discharged and the costs, amounting to $10, were placed on the young woman. "Your father has a perfect right to spank you, so long as you remain under his roof, if you* are disobedient," ruled the court. The Girl Who Works. There are two kinds of girls in the world, the girl who works and the girls who gads. Commend us to the former. Work lends dignity to a pretty girl, is an added charm to her. The girl who works, God bless her, combines the useful and the ornamental. She might gad about, roll on sofas, gossip and read story books, but she prefers to be some account in the world and goes out stenographer, teacher, saleslady or housekeeper, bravely makes her own way. Such are the salt of the earth and of such is the kingdom of heaven.?Ex. The cotton crop last year brought the South between $700,000,000 and $800,000,000, and the prediction is being made that the crop now being nicked will briner nearlv a billion dol lars. It is to be hoped that the prediction will prove true, for the increased value of the cotton crop is a benefit to the entire people of the South. The farmer is faring much better than he has in former years, but he is getting only what he deserves. A couple were ,recently married. After the ceremony the wife began to wreep copiously. 4'What's the matter?" asked the husband. "I never told you that I don't know how to cook," sobbed the bride. "Don't fret" said he, "I'll not have anything to cook; I'm an editor." I 'choice miscellany j Exploring the Upper Air. Plainly electricity has a great deal ! to do with the mechanism of storms. I For this and other reasons the storage ! of it in the atmosphere interests in . i high degree the expert meteorologist. ,! and it is not surprising that the weath! er bureau should contemplate an exj haustive investigation of the subject, i What, it would like to know to begin j with, is a lightning flash? Whence ! does it come and how is it generated? i Do storm ciouas serve as gigauue storage batteries? And does the elecj tricity have anything to do with the I making of rain? Nobody can answer any of. these ! questions. It is believed that a lightI ning flash has an extremely high voltage, with a low amperage?in other words, that it contains only a small amount of electricity at high pressure. But there is no certainty about it. The weather bureau man sends up a scientific box kite with the help of a windlass from a hilltop, using piano wire in place of a string. Storm clouds come up and electricity begins to descend the wire, throwing off formidable sparks. It is interesting? in fact, it might even be dangerous? but it conveys no information.?Rene Bache in Circle. Pretty Expensive. Under the headline "An Expensive Gooseberry Bush" an Austrian paper, prints this story: "On the boundary line of two farms near R there is a large gooseberry bush from which the two farmers have for years gathered the product. 'What grows on my side is mine and you may have the rest,' was the agreement. Three years ago the neighbors had a misunderstanding, ? ' - * A* ? nrknn fKfl I ana mis came iu a^uiuiai ?ucu gooseberries became ripe. A lawsuit followed and appeals were made to higher judicial bodies. The final decision has just been recorded. This gives to both parties the right to pick the berries which grow on their side of the line?just as it was originally? and denies the right to destroy the bush to both contestants. The costs were charged half to each litigant Each farmer had to pay 225 kronen. The yearly yield of the bush will bring about one-half krone, and the judge told the fighting farmers: '"V^ith good luck it will take you only 800 years to make the bush pay. Take good care of it/ " . "Rooter," "Bug" and "Fan." It must, indeed, be admitted in all justice that, although lexicographers have not as yet devoted their acumen , to the subject, there does exist a nice distinction among the terms "rooter," "Dug" ana "ran.-' Any one uiaj w a rooter If he attends a baseball game ' only once In a lifetime and yells. A bug, too, need not be a steady patron. Hi? chief requirement is ability to quote data and statistics dealing with averages, games and players. But the fan! He Is as far above the others as a mahatma above a" cooly. To him baseball is sleep, meat and drink. It becomes a fetich. Having passed through the stages of rooter and bug, 1 the soul of a fan frequently achieves a Nirvana that enables him to express untold passion by a mere eye glint . Again, he may elect to roar. He is the sublimation of baseball fervor, getting ' out of it all there is in it?Everybody's , Magazine. Knee Breeches at London Opera. There is no denying the fact that ^ the wearers of knee breeches for evening dress are on the increase. There were counted'no fewer than sixteen . in the foyer at Covent Garden when ; "La Boheme" was given. Most of these were black silk, but there was one pair of black velvet Braiding to dress trousers will re- J main In favor next season, either two very narrow braids or one equally nar row alone. I Soft plaited dress shirts are also growing in popularity. The popular dress tie of the moment is one of soft, hairline cambric, self tied and with the ends slightly enlarged, although not quite to the same extent as the bat's wing shape.?London Outfitter. The Lightning of Vesuvius. Among the remarkable phenomena connected with the great eruption of Vesuvius in April, 1906, Professor Matteucci In a recent report to the Italian Geological society mentions the electric discharges In the huge column of smoke, gas and steam that rose, swaying with the wind, thousands of feet above the crater. Many discharges took place between the column of i smoke and the earth, and those are i described as having been of extraor- ( dinary intensity. The greatest measured height of the column during the ' eruption was about 42,600 feet, or in 1 round numbers eight miles?Youth's ' Companion. ] 1 Money In Guam. f Fifty thousand dollars is needed to < pay certain government expenses in Guam, and the request has been made 1 that the money be sent in paper form, not coin. The natives, it has been found, on receiving money in coin bury it and go without the necessities 1 of life while having, in some instances, < a gOOdiy pot 01 treasure csevui^ij uuiied in the ground. They do not thus value paper money, and It Is hoped that the natives will now expend their wages, keep money In circulation and at the same time improve their mode of living. 4 The Head of the Family. Mrs. Hoyle?Mrs. Boyle is looking for a horse that a woman can drive. Mrs. Doyle?That's a fad of hers? getting things she can drive; her husband is that kind of a man.?New York Press. Woman'sWorld NONAH NINAH KAMAJOEH. The Japanese rrima uonna wno is Singing In Europe. Lovers of music in Europe are being regaled these days by the superb singing of Nonah Ninah Kamajoeh, a full blooded Japanese girl, though her facial lineaments have more of a Caucasian than Mongolian aspect. She is small of stature, but her soprano voice astounds admirers by its remarkable volume. Only nineteen years old is Nonah. She is the daughter of a hotel proprietor in Bandjermasin, on the island of Borneo, where she was born. Borneo being a Dutch possession, it was but natural that her parents sent her to Amsterdam to perfect the mu NONAH XINAH KAMAJOEH. Bical talent which she betrayed at a tender age. The Dutch composer, Coster, trained her In technique, and she graduated with high honors from the Amsterdam Academy of Music. She became the protegee of Queen Wilhelmina and of her mother, Queen Emma, and was enabled to continue her studies in France, Italy and Germany till she Is now recognized as a soprano, of great promise. Just, now she is singing to vast audiences in the Riviera and middle Europe. Care of Clothes. The woman who knows how to put away her belongings is not only neat, but economical, and generally smart In appearance. When she comes in from a walk she never hangs up her coat by the loop inside the collar. If Bhe puts it away In the cupboard she uses a coat hanger; if she leaves it around the room, knowing that she may need it soon, she disposes it over the back of a chair, that will keep it in shape. The skirts of her gowns never have a stringy look, because they are always hooked and then hung up by two loops. For a tailor made skirt she uses a small coat hanger, with the ends bent down a little. This keeps the skirt in excellent shape and causes It to hang in even folds. The strings of her underskirt are tied, and the garment is hung by the loops, thus never showing a hump where it has rested on the hook. For the same reason her blouses are always hung by the arm holes unless they have hanging loops. Handsome ones are stuffed with tissue paper and are then laid in drawers or boxes. Shoes are easily kept in shape by slipping a pair of trees in them as soon as they are removed from the feet. If trees are not available, newspaper will lo if it is stuffed in tight. It is well to roll each veil on a stiff piece of pa-' a Kin Hp fold will often sDoil the set of a veil and sometimes even mar the expression of a face. Gloves should always be removed by turning them wrong side out They should then be turned back again, blown into 3hape and each finger smoothed out Hats of course should be kept out of the dust and placed so that the trimming will not be disarranged. Furs also should be protected from dust, and a muff should always be stood on ?nd. If women realized that most of their belongings are lying idle more than they are being worn, they would perhaps be more attentive to these little aiceties, which are small things in themselves, but go far towar^ keeping Ihem looking trim. The perfection of ?ach detail is noticeable in the woman who has mastered the art of putting things away. How to Wash Colored Hosiery. TT,,xV ?in vnmio a a at Willi kcuiureu iiv/oicxj ? present the matter of washing it withput having it fade presents a problem. A. common mistake is made in using rery hot water and rubbing with soap, rhe latter especially should never be lone. Turn the stockings wrong side put. Have the water lukewarm only. Put a little borax into it, with a suds of pure laundry soap, preferably the white kind. Let the stockings remain in this for ten minutes, then rub briskly with the hands. From this water put the n into clear water with only tporax and after that into other clear water of the same temperature for rinsing. Do not wring at any time, trat squeeze in the hands, for stockings to keep their color best should not be ironed. Pressing will not be necessary either if they have not been pulled awry to taking from the water. After squeezing take each hose carefully and pull into shape, putting the hand inside down to the toes and > bringing it up with the fingers out-1 spread to smooth away wrinkles. Pin each one on the line as soon as wrin-1 ItIps are out hnviner the toe un. In this way the water will drip out whereas if the toe is down the water is held longer. Black pepper in the water will help to set the color before the first washing. and a little salt answers the same j purpose. A weak alum water is also good for black. Children's white stockings require most careful washing, for they become very dirty about the knees, yet soap should not be nibbed on. The small boy who gets dirt on his stockings presents a problem wherein kerosene had best be used. Put hosiery thus soiled by itself in a basin and pour over kerosene. Let the stockings stand in this for twenty minutes. Into a jug put very hot water and enough ammonia or washing soda to make it slippery. Pour off the oil and pour over the water, stirring the strvkincs in it with a snnnn T,pt stand for a moment and toss into suds. All the dirt will by this time have been taken out, and - the rest of the washing is simple. How to Toil Cut Glass. This valuable note was given by a man working in one of the best known glass houses in the country: Many women have beautiful pieces of glassware which they think genuine cut glass, yet there are many hundreds of pieces which are only clever imitations, and there is only one known means whereby even an expert can detect the genuine from the imitation. If you will move your fingers along the inside of a piece of cut glass you will observe that the surface is perfectly smooth, while little indentations will be found in the blown glass. This is caused by the shrinkage of, the glass after the pieces are blown. The rpughness is noticeable not from looks, but the slight indentations over the surface. Heavy glass and glass with cut edges are no indication of the ware %_ f i. _1- M IX I Deing genuine cut glass, iur it is nuw possible to blow glass several Inches thick, while the deceptive cut edge Is done with powerful chemicals. In purchasing any cut glass if you will remember to carefully examine the inside as herein mentioned you can satisfy yourself that you are not. paying for something which Is not genuine, and there are more imitations on the market than one might suppose. * c Your Husband's People. Be as courteous and considerate to your husband's people as you would be to your own. Do not think that every fault found, every disagreeable word uttered, is directed at you. Don't gossip to your husband about his people. Tell him of the pleasant things they do and not of the unpleasant things. Do not try to keep him from them. Encourage his devotion to those of his own kin and you dan be very certain it will not be greater than, it is for you. Be helpful if you can to them. Be hospitable, but do not overflow with confidences that you had better keep to yourself. When you married your husband you married his family, in a way, and you can show no greater love and tenderness to him than by giving and inviting love and respect from his people. A Finish For Underwear. i favorite finish for the neck of nightgowns, chemise and corset covers is to work a row of small buttonholed scallops all around the edge, afterward ruffling a piece of val lace underneath the scallops. The combination of lace and embroidery is carried out still further by a series of lace motifs set at regular intervals apart a few simple sprays of French embroidery surrounding each motif. The scallops which finish the neck outline should not be stamped until after the shoulder seams are stitched. * / An ingenious Device. An ingenious woman, who does a great deal of home sewing, has discovered that little bags of sand are most helpful in her work. The tiny bags are only about 3 by 4 Inches in size, being made from all sorts of heavy, nonporous scraps of material. Rendered quite heavy by their sand filling, these bags are used to hold down patterns when one is cutting out, thus avoiding much of the more laborious pinning process. Besides, the odd little wAiflrhta are useful to keep parts of un made dresses from blowing or slipping off the sewing table. A Big Fraud. Talk about your fraudulent advertisements! A certain thin woman sent 50 cents in stamps the other day to an advertiser who in large type had promised to impart a sure way to get fat? for incredible as it may seem there are women who want to be fat. She received in reply this message on a post card: "Buy it at the butcher's." A, useful kitchen apron is made by taking two widths of gingham the required length; gore side widths, adding a seven inch full flounce to the center width. An apron made in this manner will be found a great protection for the bottom of skirts, as the flounce receives all .the dirt. At night -when setting bread if the crock containing the batter is placed on a feather pillow it will aid toward raising, there being so much heat in feathers. A little pillow kept for thla purpose will always prove useful. 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