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PIGS AND PERFUME. Pork Grease Essential to Manufacture of Milady's Scents. Why is it that some of the most delicate things are associated with the pig, who is himself far from delicate? Pigskin is as recherche as snakeskin. The pig greets us at the beginning o& the day when we slip our wallet into our coat or fasten on our wrist watch, and again when we go in to breakfast. But is it known that h'e is responsible for the most exquisite of scents of milady's boudoir? For hundreds of years ways of extracting the odor of flowers were | tried. Success never came until some one discovered that pig fat is vthe best absorbent of the bouquet of x fresh flowers. Room after room in the perfume factory is filled with tubs of pig grease. Fresh flowers are laid inside every morning for weeks, the end of the treatment coming only with the end of the season of the particular flower in question. In some cases it is continued for three months. The grease is then boiled in alcohol. The liquid, strained, is your scent. The solid substance left makes scented , soap. Immediately after cooling it is drawn off directly into wee bottles, the glass stoppers are covered with white chamois skin, and the labels pasted on.?Herbert Adams Gibbons, in Harper's Magazine. NEWS "FAKE" TRUE. "Gigantic Bird" That Caused Sneers Was First Aeroplane. About ten years ago strange, weird stories used to float into Washington from Kitty Hawk, X. C., de\ scribing a great bird, seen only at L night, hovering over the sand dunes ^ and brushwood of the locality. It was so preposterous that Kitty " \ Hawk was soon eliminated as a news N source in every metropolitan news paper office. Washington would not t accept such stories under any cirs.cumstances. The boys on Newspaper Row were too experienced to be capght by North Carolina fakers. Kitty Hawk was wiped off the news map. And yet the reports of the "great bird seen only after nightfall" were absolutely true. After some of us had exhausted our fund of Oriental cottons in Peru; a gray in India; yellow in Siam, and brown in Egypt, but Mr. Brabham has never been able to obtain any seeds of those plants. What he has accomplished has been by experimenting with the ordinary white cotton plant of the South. He States, in his judgment, that "the growing of colored cottons can be done," but the process' may take some years.?Oil City Derrick. Put your farm machinery~m the shed, and protect it from the fall and winter weather. It will last twice as long. lore about the roc?that gigantic bird that was of such use to anxious Schoherazade of the "Thousand and One Nights" in rescuing Sinbad and other unlucky travelers from danger ?and others had gone so far as to suggest a return of the fabled dodo in stupendous proportions, it was finally suggested that somebody go to Kitty Hawk and expose the faker. "Not on your life!" said I. "There are as many fakes right here in Washington every 24 hours as I care to expose." The one man who finally went with deep reluctance fathomed the mystery and literally "discovered" that two young Ohio boys, the Wright brothers, of Dayton, had solved the "impossible" problem of aerial flight.?Brooklyn Eagle. Horse in the Role of Pickpocket. A heavy draught horse enacted tne role of pickpocket in Allentown, Pa., recently. The discovery was made by the driver, who, while driving along the street, saw a gold watch and ch^in dangling from the animal's tail. The theory is that as the horse switched its ta^il to keep off the flies it dexterously extracted the timepiece from the vest pocket of a pedestrian who was passing by. The driver is looking for the owner of the watch, and in the meantime the horse is being kept under surveillance.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Colored Cotton. Something over a year ago the public was informed that A. W. Brabham, of South Carolina, had grown several plants bearing cotton' of a colored variety. At the time it was hinted at. as being a mere experiment, and much doubt expressed as to whether variegated cotton would ever be grown. The experimenter . has now sent samples to the New York Sun of his products. These are reported to be of a dark greenish gray, a light green, a tan and a light tan. The grower claims to have solved both a biological and pathological problem, "not dreamed of in the philosophy of man living or dead." It is Vn/\wn that rhpro ar& roH atari hrrawn WRITTEN BY OLXEY. Cleveland Toned Draft of Venezuela j Message. The dispute started by Collier's Weekly as to the authorship of President Cleveland's famous Venezeuela message is definitely settled. Richmond Olney, of Boston, then Cleveland's Secretary of State, wrote the original draft of that message at .Mr. Cleveland's own request, while the latter was absent from Washington. The Herald correspondent has seen a copy of .Mr. Olney's original draft, with corrections in both Mr. Olney's ^ /^i i J *~ i ana rresiaent uieveianu s uauuminings, proving beyond possible doubt that Mr. Cleveland knew of the draft and had it in his possession before sending the final message to congress. Moreover, that part of the Cleveland message which particularly aroused the fears and ire of the pacifists, among them President Eliot of Harvard, is almost word for word as it left Mr. Olney's pen. This throws into doubt the correctness of the alleged remarks of President Cleveland, quoted in Collier's Weekly, that "Olney had no more to do with that message than you have. He never knew a word of it till I read it to him the day it was sent to congress." Collier's infers from this alleged quotation that Mr. Olney's method of dealing with England was far differ-j ent from Mr. Cleveland's, and that I the United States owes solely to the J I latter the abrupt acquiescence ofj I orir?^ /->nr- HomonHi T-Tnw far ! ill uui .. - ? this comes from the truth can be judged from a comparison of Mr. 01ney's original draft with the message as it finally reached congress. Though j the order of the wording is changed in places, the essential substance is the same and perhaps a shade more emphatic in .Mr. Olney's draft.?Boston Hergld. Snow Will Fly, Says Houseal. Columbia, Oct. 23.?The recent forecast of the "Dutch weather I prophet," W. P. Houseal, called for killing frost with October 18 as the I central date. Distinct periods of cold waves, he says, will follow on November 7 and December 5. Snow, he thinks, will certainly occur in the Piedmont section about the winter solstice, December 21. The Dutch weather prophet has published only once a distinct forecast for snow, but he has decided to do so again and says: "Snow will occur south and east of the Blue Ridge between Decern-1 ber 2S and January 4. It is even probable that snow will occur before that period, but it is the most difficult matter to forecast in weather predictions, and no system of meteorology is yet perfect enough to make a snow forecast with accuracy. "It is an opportune moment that the Dutch weather prophet takes again to explain that when a certain date is predicted for any weather changes he means such a date is the central period which indicates the character of weather thus predicted. For instance, he has been bombarded with personal inquiries as to the whereabouts of the frost predicted for October IS. This date is the central period for what will have happened by the time this explanation shall have oeen puDiisnea. a yenuu is seven days?four days before or three days after the central date of October 18 brings the frost on October 22. "It should likewise be borne in mind that the prediction for October 18 said killing frost would occur along the 34th parallel, which is north of Columbia and central in Fairfield county. "The Associated Press reported new low records for temperature throughout the Southwest, and the Middle West for this early in October. This is exactly what the Dutch weather prophet predicted months ago when he said it would be the earliest killing frost within 40 years. "Some people did not understand why the temperature should have risen Thursday after the cold rain Wednesday. Such an occurrence was absolutely necessary in order to bring about the lower temperatures of October 21-22 in this sectfon. "The first general killing frost never comes on an east wind and a cold rain from the east is almost invariably followed by clear and warmer wind from the southwest and west. In this case on Thursday the warm weather was sure to be superseded by a decided drop in the temperature. Thus when the Dutch weather prophet was asked to produce the frost at once, he only smiled and replied, 'Wait.' "The storm was also on the schedule in order that favorable weather for the Harvest Jubilee would occur as predicted. So far as the Dutch weather prophet knows weather, his entire schedule has worked like clockwork." The tallest people in the world are the Fororos, of southwestern Brazil. The average height is 6 feet, 5 inches. A PIFFLING CAMPAIGN. Mr. Hughes is Hard Put to it to Find Issues. An interesting issue of veracity has arisen between Secretary of War Baker and a New York newspaper. The newspaper quotes the secretary as saying in a recent speech that! "Washington's continental soldiers were like the Mexican, revolutionists of today. They stole everything they! could law their hands on, and drove j ministers from their churches on their way to Valley Forge. They1' were just as bad characters as the' Mexicans." Secretary Baker flatly denies the authenticity of the quotation, and states that "he never thought nor said anything so fool*.sh." The incident would be too trivial and childish for notice were it not for the illuminating light it sheds upon the character of that eminent jurist, Charles Evans Hughes. .Mr. Hughes, going through the newspapers with a fine-tooth comb, as is his wont, in search of a paramount issue, pounced upon this questionable item with rather unjudicial avidity. On its face it bore all the evidences of palpable falsehood. But the fair-minded ex'-justice did not wait to ascertain whether the secretary had been truthfully quoted. On the contrary, he hastened to incorporate the alleged remarks of Secretary Baker in his next speech before there should UtJ UPPUILUIIXLN U1 ueillitl, (1X1U LU use the ridiculous canard as a fresh proof of the general incompetence and rascality of the Wilson administration. Secretary Baker never uttered the statement attributed to him. Even if he had one so, the asinity of his remarks would furnish no argument for the Hughes candidacy. The Grand Old Party and its chief spokesman are hard put to it for spellbinding material. It is doubtful if the Republicans in their worst extremity ever before conducted such a piffling campaign.?Philadelphia Record. Insured Parcel Post Packages. The postmaster requests it stated that hereafter the patrons of the postoffice who wish to mail insured parcel post packages must fill out the insured tag and attach same to the package. This is a requirement of the postoffice laws that has not been adhered to in the past. The postoffice force is glad to accommodate the people by filling out and attaching tags, but the work of the office has become so heavy that it is not possible to continue to do so. It is important, too, that these tags should be filled out by the sender, as this prevents errors in addresses that might occur if some one else does it. Patrons should remember hereafter, when they desire to forward insured packages, to call^or the insured tags, fill out same carefully, and attach to the packages securely. This will prevent confusion, and make long explanations unnecessary. Matches Made There. In the days when Rowland Hill was Bishop of the Isle of Man, one of his clergymen, bearing the name of Tears, came to say adieu to his bishop on getting preferment. The parson said: "Good-bv, my lord! I hope we may meet again; but if not here, in some ' better place." The bishop replied: "I fear the latter is unlikely, as there are no Tears in heaven." "No doubt," wittily answered the parson, "you are right that our chance of meeting is small, as one reads of the plains of Paradise, but never of jany Hills there."?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Perfume makers in Italy use an-! nually 1 ,S 60 tons of orange blossoms and 1,000 tons of roses. According to statistics just issued, j the total volume of national advertising carried by newspapers last j year amounted to over $55,000,000. D > 1 mLTLl "MATS' j \ JLXXCj yyv EH^GREATES' F NJDAR^ [BAMBERG Telephone 49 UNTIL FURTHER N Gin Cotton on Tuesdays, OF EACH r armers Bamberg, Sou ^ ^ HI The Weather Man Bllfl Makes Mistakes HRfV He may mix a January day in a \ XT November week, and the furI nace man may have an Esq I qutmo's idea of comfort V I But the weather man's mistakes, ^ V I and the furnace man's shortcom ? ?1_ ings won't intenere wun yvui I comfort if you have a Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater. / Clean. Inexpensive to buy, inexpensive I to use. Handsome. 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