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ROSE ABOVE HUMBLE STATION Thomas Britton a Curious Anomaly In English Social Life of Tims , of Queen Anne. One of the most curious anomalies Of the social life of London during the time of Queen Anne?called the Augustan age because of its great literary men?was a retail dealer in coal, named Thomas Rritton. who was buried in Clerkenwell churchyard.? London, on October 1. 1714. He exercised a humble craft, and occupied a habitation and wore a garb corresponding in plainness to his trade, and yet this singular man contrived by bis various talents, and more especially his musical tastes, to assemble around him <the most aristocratic company in London, and to be admitted into their society on equal terms. According to the practice of the time, he sold coal in small quantities, delivering it himself each morning. It is related that having finished his rounds, he joined a distinguished company that met each Saturday at one of the booksellers to discuss literature and exchange opinions respecting the latest books. This company contained such distinguished and powerful persons as the duke of Devonshire and the earls of Oxford. Pembroke, Sunderland and Winchelsea. Britton's house in Aylesbury street, Clerkenwell, was the meeting place of leaders In the fashionable society of London. On the ground floor was the warehouse for coal, and above, reached by breakneck stairs from the outside, was a low narrow room, in which the musical coalman entertained his grand and elegant guests. A portrait of this remarkable man is in the British museum. NOTHING UNREAL ABOUT THIS Only an Idealist Would Have Expected Anything Else ^rom the Modern Gilded Youth. Editor Georere Horace Lorimer was talking in a Philadelphia club about realism. "I've got no time for rea(jsts," he said, "because they paint human na- j ture worse than it is. Here's a tyjh | leal realist story for you: ^ "A pretty girl was engaged to two young men simultaneously, and one 1 evening the parlor maid came to her and said in a scared voice: " 'Oh, Miss Bessie, them two gents what you're engaged to has called together, and somehow they've found out about both engagements.' "The pretty girl threw her cigarette , into the fire pettishly. X " 'What the dickens shall I do?' she exclaimed. i "But the parlor maid smiled joy- , fully. "'I'll tell you what to do. Miss Bes- i sie,' she said. 'I'll go downstairs and , say you're crying in your room because your pop has. lost all his money. Then you can be engaged for keeps to the gent what stays.' " That seems a good plan," said the ^ pretty girl, and she lit another cigarette and waited. ( "The maid was gone about three ' minutes. Then she returned with a ^ frightened look on her white face. "'Miss Bessie, both on 'em has gone,' she said." i I A Preacher Fisherman. : , He couldn't get rich preaching, so he , gave it up and went fishing. After a season's work with a salmon fishing ^ crew he had enough money to buy tiekets to Norway for his wife, their four children and himself. Now Rev. H. B.' Nyoen. former pastor of the Norwegian Baptist church of Tacoma, Wash., is on his way to Norway where he says preaching is more lucrative than in America. His desire for money was due entirely to his longing to return to Norway. When his earnings as a fisherman were sufficient to buy the tickets he was willing to quit fishing. He will go to Harstad. Norway, where he will receive as pastor about $1,500 a year, with house and fuel. He received only $S00 from his little church in Tacoma. ' Expenses Low in Australia. It is hard to imagine in this country, but, according to Mark Sheldon, Australian trade representative, his country is in a class by itself, so far as the cost of living is concerned. Living costs have increased but SO per cent, and a four-room cottage rents for from $20 to $25 a month. There is ' no I. W. W. and employers and labor unions are lorcea oy iaw ro arruirare. i There is no new tax to pay the war j debt, and the country has three crops , of wheat to put on the market, ac- j cording to Mr. Sheldon. Soldiers are j paid $10 a week by the government until they secure jobs. Admonishing Them. "Looky here, now!" sternly said 1 Constable Sam T.*Slackputter, the re- j doubtable sleuth of Petunia. "This diabolical practice of matching pen- ? nies on the sidewalk has got to stop! Why, dod-blast it, every few* days when I come along walking my beat, with my head high like an officer of the law ort to carry his'n, I fall over a bunch of you infernal young cusses j and get my uniform all dusty!"?Kan- j sap City Star. i Ain't It the Truth? Mr. Skepp (with newspaper)?Says j here that the man who threw the ; bomb at the premier of Egypt Is a divinity student. Mrs. Skepp?Oh, you're always digging uj sometljjng like that becauM I insist on dragging you to church MK andv then CANADA INVADED BY EAuLE Bird Was Seemingly Tired After Long Trip, and Was Easily Captured; Given Name. The American eagle recently spread his wines majestically over Canadian soil. The eagle?a real one by the way?soared from somewhere and landed in Sandwich. Ont. Whence he came, nobody knows. But it was from j a long way off, as he was manifestly ! exhausted when he alighted on the roof of a new house at the corner of Lot and Peter streets. It was just about noon, and children coming from school espied .him, says the Detroit News. The bird stayed on his perch for some time, when the mob gathered below. The eagle surveyed the crowd in a bored manner during the minutes when he was not engaged in searching with his beak for something or things under his feathers. The crowd became larger and more threatening. Finally one braver than the rest, evidently a Briton without guile, cast the first stone. The American eagle spread his wings to their full extent and, waiting not for the year of parley between disputant nations, fluttered to the ground. Down the streets of Sandwich the proud bird trotted with unhurried but dangerous steps. Through a gauntlet of citizens he ran. Indian like, turning his beak from right to left with each new step to peck at some venturesome bystander or over-ardent pursuer. It looked for a time as if the bird would not be captured. But he finely came to a man whose attitude was not hostile. With scarcely a struggle the eagle gave in. His captor was Clyde Thornton, 31 Peters street, an American citizen. During the remainder of the day the Sandwich residents made tentative peace offerings in the form of pieces of meat. The bird accepted them ungraciously. His name is Roosevelt, Thornton insists. GODDESS HAS MANY STATUES Sekhmett, or Mut, Egyptian War Divinity, Seems to Have Been a Favorite With Sculptors. ^ The arrival at the Aietropuuiau iuu- . ?eum or Art in New York, of seven itatues of Sokhmett. or Mut, the an-' dent Egyptian goddess of war, purchased in England in 1914, reminds one of the beginning* of modern intereat in. archeology, for the seven statue^ although their history over the \stst century seetns difficult to trace in all its details, were probably among the earliest results of Egyptian excavation that came to England. Something over thirty centuries ago Egyptian sculptors were carving such statues out of solid blocks of black granite for the decoration of temples; and then in 1700, as the record goes, an Arab sheik, working at the instigation of a Venetian priest, found a statue of Mut in the sand that had accumulated over the ruins of Karnac. Since then a good many statues of Mut have been recovered, and the strange goddess of strife, part animal and part human, as the sculptors imagined her, dwells in many a museum. Don't Blame Mosquito. We have lately been taught that the xiosquito was the only disseminator of malaria, and that we should be safe if we should get rid of mosquitoes. But Doctor Roux, farraerly chief physician 3f the St. Louis hospital at Jerusalem, asserts as the result of his own experience of 20 years and that of many colonial physicians, that malaria often exists where there are no mosquitoes. He points out that everywhere in malarial countries the disease breaks nut just at the time when the soil is broken for planting. He does not deny that the anopheles mosquito spreads malaria, but he says this is evidently not the only means of infection. The old theory that malaria was caused by the h;;d air of swampy districts or by certain emanations from the soil may be correct after all. ! Beliefs About World's End. The Mohammedans believe the time of the end of the world to be a perfect secret to all save God alone; the angel Gabriel himself acknowledged his ignorance 011 this point when Mohammed asked him about it. Christianity of all is the least certain about the precise time of the event. Jesus, telling his disciples of the precursory signs of the great catastrophe, said: "Verily, this generation will not pass before my words shall be accomplished." The first Christians, accordingly, looked to im- . mediate fulfillment of the prediction | and believed the end of the world near at hand. Although the advent failed to come to pass, they claimed to believe in its near realization. StiU, centuries followed centuries and the world continued to live. Royal Grapes at Low Prlcoo. The vine which belonged to the k,ings of France still exists at Fontainebleau and bears fruit. One day in September the administration of the demesnes, according to established j ' in-onac hv ownrrt ! CUSIOIII. X'lU ttlC glUt'V.0 UJ v. .. ? , There were 600 k*os of grapes, and ! the astonishing thing is that they sold j for 525 francs! Yet the little com- ! mon grapes to be bought on the Paris j street barrows fetch from 20 to 25 sous the pound. Royal grapes grow i eh ?ap these days in France, it would seem. Those purchasers must have thought: themselves fortunate; cheap and good is not a combination often f be met with in France nowadays. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. ! DR. J. T. CARTER All persons having claims against Office Hours: 9 to 10 a. m.; 2:30 to the estate of J. B. Hunter, deceas- 3:30 p. m. ed, will file the same, duly itemized ; Office in The Herald Building, and verified, with the undersigned executors; and all persons indebted BAMBERG, S. C. to said estate i 11 likewise make paj- \faYT,ov?r__rrvia (rtmrontood */-? ? meat to said executors. ! MAXTONE?'The guaranteed tonB. D. CARTER. j *c for chills, fever and malaria. 25c GEO. W. HUNTER, j and 50c bottle. Executors Estate of J. B. Hunter,; ???? Deceased. E. P. BELLINGER Bamberg, S. C., Nov. 19, 1919 3t; ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ? I General Practice in All Courts. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Office Work and Civil Business a Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails i Specialty. 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