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Poetry Wortli Reading. > . 1 80 the Old Folks Ray. The old folks say, Tho times are ohanglng, The bygone years wore eurely best; O'er land and sea, for ever ranging, Men wander now In vague unrest; jLnd faded -are the green romances, The morning light has died awav, The world lias lost Its golden chances! So tlvo old folks say. Tho old folks say, The days are duller, The sweetest songs are left unsung, The spring was full of scent and color, Long, long ago, when wo were > young. Above our heads the slty was clearer, j And warmer was the sunlight ray; Yet Heaven 1r now a little nearer, So tho old folks say. Tho old folks Bay, 'Tts May time weather, Play, children, to your heart's doBiro, But lenvc us hand In hand together, Beside the swiftly falling fire. For earthly chains are near their breaking, And eyes aro dim, and locks are gray, But Love's a dream that knows no waking, So the old folks say. Hack to the Land. I fully agree with economists wise 'Tis wrong In the city to hand; Just find mo o spot where the speckled trout bite, And I will go back to tho land. The florce cote petition debases tho soul And smother* all sentiments grand; 'Just find me a spot with an oil well or two, And I will go back to tho land. The smoke and tho struggle, the rush and the noise Prevent a philosophy bland; Just find me a spot with a gold mine beneath, And I will go back to tho land. I long for simplicity, q-uiot and hopo; In proof of the same, understand, Just find me tho spot where tho rainhows touch earth, And 1 will go back to the land. ?McLandburgh Wilson. Blithe Heart. I face the sun and cannot soo My shadow on the grass; Tho hours are all too sweet for me To count them as they puss. A little older day by day I grow, but It 1b truth That age has never found the way To touch my heart's glad youth. If I could live a thousand years I should ho the boy Taught early to forget the tears And to hold fast to joy. And if I read the world aright While Journeying along, God put us hero to find delight In life and love and song. The bird that sings, the bud that blows And I like, each one Heeds not bow far the shadow goes So long as shines the sun. -?Frank Dempster Sherman. Cornish Wind. -There is a wind in Cornwall that I know From any other wind because it smells Of the warm honey breath of heather hells And of the sea's salt; and these meet and ilow "With such sweet sa*or in such sharpness met That the astonished mmo to ** stasy Tastes the ripe earth and the unvlntaged sea. Wind of Cornwall, wind, if I forget; Not in the tunnelled streets where scarce men breathe The air they live by, hut wherever seas Blossom in foam, wher'ver merchant bees 'Volubly traffic upon any heath; If I forget, shame me I or if I find A wind in England liko my Cornish wind. The Bast Survivor. Twas tho last word of English Deft blooming alone, All its lovely companions Were faded and gone. ' "For tho President's ukaso ' Had blighted the fruit, ' And h ad with or A<1 lu.nnnV,.. Destroyed every root. j Words from Saxon and Norman Were killed by the crime, Leaving thlR solo survivor Last darling of time. Though the flowers of Shakespeare Ilad vanished from view, All alone In its glory Still nourished "skiddoo"! ?McLandburgh Wilson. A Problem, While inuslng on the rights of niun And wealth of nations, I think upon niy boyhood plan; No decorations Bado me a doubtful claim assert To legal tender; 1 needed Just my "pants," a shirt And one suspender? Why now do kings bewail the price Of gilded splendor, .And Croesus win with loaded dice More legal tender? Why does me envy of them hurt When theso could render iiy life content?Just "yanU,M a shirt And one suspender? Ji Processions of the Seasons. Skiddoo, melon; Beat It blossom; Welcome, autumn; Welcome. 'nr>oo?m. V. V A CURIOUS BOULDER. Odd Hits of Hock. Which Puzzles the Scientists. In the mysterious Ice Age, when groat glaciers advanced from the North over the northern part of the United States, many strange rocks woro brought from tho regions of the St. Lawrence and tho Qroat Lakes and left far from their place of origin, scattered among the hills find plains of New England and the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. One of these rocks, states an official of tho Geological Survey, Is particularly Interesting and curious. It Is not more than a foot and a half In diameter, hut It Is plainly a relic of glaciul times, and nobody can tell with certainty whence It oamo. There Is no rock resembling it within hundreds of miles. The supposition is that tho Ice carried it from n point north of Lake Huron to the place whore is was found. Its composition shows that It was of volcanic origin. Km press Eugenie's Gift. The Kmpress Eugenie 1ms given to the Swiss canton of Thwrgau tho castle of Arenenberg, where Napoleon III. passed several years of his youth. Queen Ilortense, on the fall of the first Empire, fled to Switzerland, and In IS 17 purchased the ensile, which is dolightfully situated on the shore of Lake Constance. In tho castle are the Empress Josephine's harp, Queen Hortonse's harpsichord "*<1 a camp bedstead of Napoleon III. Origin of "Cub." Infant lions and bears aro now generally spoken of as "cubs," but in former times tho word "whelps" would havo been used. Every edition of tho English Bible front Wylif's time to 1611 gives "whelp" for tho young of the lion or bear. K 'ctili" meant originally, in English, only a young fox. But by Shakespeare's time it was possible to talk of the "young stickling cubs" of a she bear, and Waller even applied "rub" to a young whalo, now known as a "calf." Panama's Death Date. Tit 1882, the second year of tho rrenelt occupancy of Panama, says Country l.ifo in America, the death rate was 112 per 1,000, and the French had a force of only 1,900 men. In August, 1 905, tl ? second year of our occupancy, in a force of 12.000 men there were eight ueaths, or two-thirds of a man to every 1,000. We have sent the death rate down from 112 to 8 by vigilant sanitary precautions. An Optical Illusion. When anyone with normal eyesight stands at right angles to a ray of sunlight it. Ik easy to see floating dust particles which are not discoverable with tho tild of the strongest microscope. What is seen hv the nn. a Id (><1 eye Is not the particle of solid matter, but tho cone of light reflected from It uiul occupying a much greater space. Distribution of Population. Of every 1,000 Inhabitants of the globe, 558 live In Asia, 2-12 in Europe, ill In Africa, 22 In America, 6 In Oeeanlea and the polar regions, and only 2 In Australia. Asia contains more than one-half of the total population of the earth, and Europe nearly one-fourth.?Exchange. Effects of Altitude. According to French and Swiss physicians, it Is dangerous f ?r elderly and weak persons to visit tho higher altitudes of the Alps. They assort that for such persons to ilo so 1r to Invite cerebral apoplexy, cardiac lesions and pulmonary embolism. I low Files Multiply. Tn all the larvae of tbo common fly came to maturity and nothing happened to cut down the maximum natural rate of Increase, one pair of the Insects might multiply to 100,000,000, according to eminent scientific authorities, in a si agio half year of warm weather. Trams as Water Gaits. Tn Milan they water tie streets from the electric tram cars. On those watering cars reservoirs have been adapted to tbo platforms and these reservoirs aro emptied as the car runs by means of performed tube placed fan shape ut the front and back of the car. A Lengthy Explanuti n. One of the Labor party's members of the new Houso of Common lately received from a constitv. ml who thought ho had a griovaud*? to which the Government should give attention a letter of no loss t "tan 1,700 closely written pages. Ants Acts as a Compass. Tn the trnnlcnl nnrttiovn i > of South Australia travellers reed not carry a compass. The district abounds with the nests of the mas;n; tic, or meridian, ant. The lonj.er axes of thoso point due north and south Taxes in London. The taxpayers of Eastern T.ondon are complaining bitterly of the rigor of their assessment. The case is ited of a man who had his assessment raised because ho erected a cucumber frame in his back garden. Porous Glass In France. In porous glass, which is made In France, the holes are so small that neither dust nor draught can enter, and yet the ventilation is said to be excellent. HOW THEY WERE SERVED. Th? Old Ladle's Whisky Left an Uncomfortable Aftertaste. Dallas Welford, the English comedian whose American success has so phenomenal, described at the Players' Club in New York the difficulties that beset a provincial actor trying to get on the London stage. "All the great London managers," he said, 'say to you; 'If I could only eo you act.' It Is rather mean of them to say that, for you are In tho presenco solely to get a chance to bo soon acting, nnd you desire In your disgust to play somo such trick on them as tho painters played on tho old lady; but you have the painters' luck; and so you refrain. "Once, In tho early summer, threo ( painters wero painting the Inside of , a house In the country. Toward tea time those painters began to wish for something to drink. Accordingly they put their heads together and tho result of their conference was that their leader went to tho mlstresH of the house nnd said: " 'The frames of your oil paintings aro very dingy, ma'am. We'll clean them for you if you've got any whisky.' " 'How much whisky will lie neoded?' the guileless old lady asked. " 'About a quart, ma'am,' said tho painter. "So the old lady brought to tho three painters a quart of whisky, and they cleaned the picture frauioa with water. "On toward sunset the old lady, coming to Inspect the frames, expressed herself as delighted with them. " 'Oh,' she said, 'they look beautiful. And who'd have thought a quart of whisky would clean so many? It was lucky I saved it. It was what I washed Fido in last Sun day.' " Hounding lliui Up. Wooden?Will you marry mo? No reply. Wooden?Mildred, I offer you my heart, my hand, my love, my devotion, my wholo life. No reply. Wooden?T lay my proudest, ambitions, my brightest hopes at your feet. Will you not speak, Mildred? Mildred?Who owns the grocory shop at the corner?you or your brother? Wooden?I do. Mildred?Well, why didn't you say that at first.?London Tlt-Blts. Willie Olive nn Example. A teacher In n public school was endeavoring to impress upon her fmull charges the necessity and desirability of good behavior. She used many illustrations, such as a story of a boy who had disobeyed his mother and eaten jam, which niado htm sick, while another did as he was told and was given as much as he wished at supper, and finally said: "Now, I am sure that each of you can toll a little story or give an incident where good behavior was rewarded." "Well, Willie?" she smiled in response to a frantically waved hand. "Sure, Miss Alice," Willie said, "1 can. Mo father got home iast nlfllt t to orrO Ci'an * ? tv ftvn t i w iuuiic n uu. lor good behavior!" A Care for It. /m 4oSn V/^V. S3" >Wlk /K| ('all | f Xy ' * Hicks?He doesn't spend inuoh time at home, you sny? Wicks?No; riho has become so crabbed so late that he has Joined a club and puts in his time there. Hicks?Why, he used to dot# on her. Wicks?Yes, but now he's using the club as an antl-dote.-^Philadelphia Ledger. CELEI1RATB MOSKSE8 BIRFDAY. All Others Paid Fitting Tribute to the Ocaaskm. A prominent Southern statesman ays that he was making a horseback trip through the northern part of Alabama when he same upon a negro cabia, the sounds Issuing from which gars s rid ease of an extraordinary commotion within. Shouts and yells of terror succeeded each other ?o rapidly that the traveller hastened to ascertain the cause or the trouble. As the rider drewr rein before the door half a dozen rugged pickaninnies ran out. All but one of thein wers screaming and crying at the topa of their voices, while the odd one, us rnorry as the others wore Had, bogan tumbling cartwheels end standing on his head. At this moment a man, evidently the head of tho household, appeared la the doorway. In answer to the traveller's Inquiries the darky vouchsafed the following explanation of the mystery: "Yo' see, Sah, die is Moseses blrfday," Indicating the pickaninny whose joyful antles have been referred to. "Now, I'ss powerful hard up Jes' at present, an' ain't got no money to celebrate. As' It Jos' bruk me all up to eos de res' hablu' Jes' as much fun on Moseses blrfday as Moses was h?? ilssof. Times bein' hard, do or ning I could see was to giro ull ..s> res' a llckln' an' dat kinder raises Moses up over de others." In the Same Line. J' If*-? wi "My wlfn is a lecturer and I am an entertainer," said Hobba. "Tndecd? I knew your wife appeared in public, but I did not know that you ever did." "Oh, I don't; I stay at home and entertain the baby."?London TitBlta. A Kentucky Testimonial. An amusing incident occurred In the Court House of a Kentucky town recently. The lawyer for a prisoner who never was la trouble before wished to prove the previous good character of his client, and tendered the Judge a letter, which ho said would show the standing and honorable character of the prisoner at the bar. The Judge took the letter, and as ha ran H I o i ? %-?1 ~ ~ i ??v vuu ?w u ui uavi iDiiiu^ jmi) over his countenance. "Did i -nderstand you to say," he asked of t' 9 lawyer, "that this lettor wan a certificate of character?" "You die, your Ilouor," replied the lawyer with a happy smile. "Well," remarked the Judge, "I don't know but what it Is, but I hardly think It Is the letter you thought It was?read It." He handed It back and the lawyer glanced orer It. It mas a letter from a firm of distiller*, slating that they had Just shipped so many gallons of whisky to a member of hit family, and they wore confident they would find the liquor excellent. Ho Considerate. "Ah, dearie me!" sighed the woman, when Mrs. Pipkins, the sympathetic parishioner, called upon her, "yes, thore was worse men than my poor Dill. But there, *os took now? gone. 'E 'ad his good points, 'ad Bill." "I am Indeed glnd to hear It," said Mrs. Pipkins. "Poor Bill." went on the bereaved woman, "'e?well 'e weren't exactly 'andsome, but 'e were soft-'eartod to smoke like a chlmbly whenever "e left the 'ouse." "Indeed," broke In the visitor, "hut I fail to see the connection between smoking and?" "That's b*eos you never seed my poor Bill," put In the widow. "Bill woren't pretty, and ' knowed It ? hut thrro, sooner than scare hlnnrir cent nttio children into ft fit, Bill '.ways '1<! that terrible mug o' Ms In n cloud o' smoke. Y'>s, 'o was soft'cuir'1 end thoughtful for others, was Bill," No Wod Over flis Kyos. Uncle Abe, a grizzh d oi l negro, I sited a zoological garden. IIo stood fascinated before a cage containing u chimpanzee, and could not bo Induced to move. After ft while the animal came to the front of the cage, and IJnclo Abo spoke to him. "Howdy?" he ?aid;-"ho\vdy?" The chimpanzee not making any rnoi\AnoA TT?A1/V A h ? - 1 * ? - * vn^uimo, uuum auo cnuciiiea And winked at htm knowingly. "Dat's right, dat de way ter do! Doan you nebbcr gin ter talk. Ef you does, white man put er hoe In yer han', en meek yer wuk!" ho said. ?Harper's Weekly. Poor No. 2. Mrs. Brown?She seems to have got over the death of her first husband. Mr.. Brown?Tes, but her seconds husband hasnt.?Judge Stranger Than Fiction. A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis., says bustard and wife, separated since the San Francisco eartl quake and each, until a few days ago, bellevirg the otbtr daad, will be reunited as soon as a train new beariug Mrs, Pel It z westward can rat oh Stockton, Cal. List summer Mrs. Polltz brought from California to Oabkosh, Wis., the charred body of a man and tuMrd it in Everslde ry, in the babef that the tody was ibat of bar hubtard. Recently bhe learned that bar husband was living cr> a ranch in California. A long distance telephone err venation scon ccr tirmi d the fact, ai d Mrs Pelitz at (nca piegartd to leave for Strcktrn. Xliiw ldral Woaihor. The wiatler man lb c ntributing vary largely these days lo tbe Joy of the season. Tie bright, e up dfya are bringing out tbcusnndH of shoppers on the Ktreetb and causing tlum to linger long r ver the brilisnt arrays displayed by the merchant Our Northera conic mpor&i lee tell every c?y of the bltiug cold lu more Northern sections. Few can resist the temptation of these delightful days, aid why should the) ? Come out ard do your shopping now for the crovd grows greater e-*r<? d?y. Open the towel* and get the cold out of yeur system Kennedy's Laxative Cr ugn Pyrup opcLS the bowels and at the san e time allays the inllamatlrn of the mooous membranes. Contairs Honey and Tar. Drives out the cold and steps tht cough. Absolutely free from any opiates. Conforms to the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Pieaaant to take. Sold by Couway Drug Company. Dr. J. S. Moffatt of Chester has accepted the presidency of Eiaklne college, to which he w&j elected some UIOAIZ J orvc It is noticeable & cold seldom cornea on when tie bowels arc freely opor. Neither can It Btay If tl ev are open. Kennedy s Laxative Cough Syrup tastes as pleaannt aa napli sugar. Free from all opiates. Contains Honey and Tar. Conforms to the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Ccnw&y Drug Co. It Isn't what we want to kuaw that worries ne sc much as what we would rather Dot know. A man. with a sprained a.^kla will use s crutch, rest the ar k'e and let it get v.all. A man or wcrrrn with an overworked stomach can't use a crutch, but the stomach m ust have rest just the crmo. It en be rested too without starvation. K del will do It. Kodcl performs the digestion work of the tired stcmaoh rnri corrects the digestive appwrates. Koeol fully con| foTnos to the provipJons of the NaUona1 Pure Food and Drug Lews. Conway Drug Co. The people e' Grcrrvilir ^ve subscribed #2.000 f< r \ &< t hall ' he coming season, aid rI < lint h re? rrmplete. E C. DeWitt & ;o.. of Ch'cago, at ' wl (6R lab'T?trr\ K dol is i>rfp*red, Ef fure us that this rirr Rikxble digns put. and corrective for the stomach ",r forms fally to all previous of the N ti r.al Pure Food and Drug Law. Tie Krdol labratory is a vcy large ere. bnt if all the sufferers fmm in dlj/SRtlcn sr d Rtoirp-ch trouble * could I know ti e virtues of K( do) It would be frrpcfelbl* for th? munufacturers j to keep up with the denrand. Kodol) 1 fold hrro Vy Oonwsv D^ug Co. BANK OF OO N W A CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSET! OFFIO B. G. COLLINS, President. C. P. QUATTLEBALM, V-Prrs. Our Bask, being a local instituti building of Horry County and for the suing this policy we take pleasure in aoeemmodation wben consistent with With gratitude for tbe liberal ] cordially solicit your future business. Reaper if u D.A.SPI VEV Robt. B. Scarborough, II. I. President. Vice-P D A \ri7 ni7 Conwa; Capital Stock D1REC Robt. B. Scarborough, Hal L. Buck, j George J. Holliday, We will pay you 5 per cent, into: i?h be* \h to thoeo wishing Try our plan \>r saving your nickles these little banks and the interest vo help yon. THE "HU jrQiASjjJ 1 I SHOE fO This brand on a shoe means Tbeste or ynor money ..t.. 01 J. EJ.ro It la at mistake to use a violent cathartic to open the bowels. A gentle movement will accomplish the same results without causing distress or serif us const qu^-roes later. DeWitt's Little E<ui> R serf aie recommended by Oonwav Druar Co. It takes u girl to know she can do anything she wants with a man by how brave he is. For chapped and^v-cked hards nothing is quite aw srood aw an application of DeWitt's WHoh Hszel Palvs. Put it cr before gcirg to ted, u?e an old pair cr girvr?- snd see what r. dlflercrre the morr'rjr *?ni brirg. Sold by Oorway D'ug O nopr.ny. The H orry Herald CONWAY, S. C. Thtimdsy, rccejrber 20, IOCS. Profession! Cards. 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