The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 17, 1907, Image 6
" Fifty Dollar* fbr a Baa.
Fifty dollara for ooa bee may Beam
an extraordinary prioe, but euob waa i
the sum paid for a quean reoenUy imported
from Switzerland by an enterprizing
aviarlst in Indian Territory. 1
This gentleman baa bean in the buei- i
neas for thirty years and ia one of the
moet extensive dealers In the oountry.
He got his start by outtlng down bee
trees and hiving their wild occupants.
Ha found, however, that these bees
oannot handle the bloom of the
alfalfa, whioh is the ohlef honey producer
of his aeotlon, they being too
weak to seoura the abundant neotar
in these plants now so widely oultivated
in the West- This dlftloulty
was obviated by crossing the common
kind on Italian bees, whioh gave a
variety of more strength. Now he
proposes to oultlvate from his Switzerland
oolony, these bees being more '
enterprising and ooverlng s wider (
range than any other bees. Our Indian
Territory friends finds beekeeping
very profitable and hss grown
prosperous In the business. He sells
from $20 to $25 worthy of honey from
each hive, has nodlfflnult* in murkAh
lng It and oould easily dispose of muoh
mora than be has been producing.
Nearly every person who Is subjsot
to attacks from the stomach suffers
from a morbid dread of a dietetic '
treatment for relief, that Is threefourths
starvation, and one-fourth
toast and milk. On the other hand
you oan eat as you please and digest
the food by the aid of a good dlgestant,
thus giving the tired stomaoh
equally as muoh rest. Eat what you
please and take a little Kodol For Indigestion
after your meals. It digests
what you eat. Sold by Oonway Drug
Oo.
It has oome. A scientist says John
D. Rockefeller Is the future American
type. Get ready 10 shave your head .
and renounce the oyster.
Mothers who give their ohlldren
Kennedy's Laxative Oough Syrup Invariably
Indorse It. Children like It
beoause the taste Is so pleasant. Contains
Iloney and Tar. It Is the
Original Laxative Oough Syrup and
Is unrivaled for the relief of oroup. 1
Drives the oold out through the '
bowels; Conforms to the National
Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by
Oonway Drug Oo.
Carrie Nation says that hugging 1b
responsible for all the Immorality in
Washington, D. C. A kind of circle
as it were, that has no end. I
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iwu uuu v uiKcati DcuauM buo
stomach lacks some one of the essential
digestants or the digestive juices ,
are not properly balanced. Then,
too, It is this undigested food that
oauses sourness and painful indigestion.
Kodol For Indigestion should
be used for relief, Kodol is a solution
of vegetable acldB. It digests what |
you eat, and corrects the deficiencies
of the digestion. Kodol oonforms to
the National Pure Food and Drug
Daw. Sold here by Oonway Drug ~
CO.
George Burnham, Jr., vice president
of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Insuranoe Company, was sentenced to
two years in Sing Sing for larceny.
When the oold winds dry and oraok
the skin a box of salve oan save muoh 1
discomfort. In buying salve look for 1
the name on the box to avoid any
imitations, and be sure vnu unt thn
original De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. I
Sold by Oonway Drug Co. J
BANK OF
CONWA
CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00
TOTAL ASSETS
OFFICE
K G. COLLINS, President.
C. P. QUATTLEBAUM, V-Pres.
Our JBank, being a local institutic
building of Horry County and for the
suing 111is policy wo take pleasure in <
accommodation when consistent with*s
With gratitude for the liberal pi
eordially solicit your future business.
Respectf uLl
D.A.SPIVEY
Robt. B. Scarborough, H. L.
President. Vico-Pr<
BANK OF
Conway
Capital Stock
DIRECT
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noDt. is. Scarborough,
Hal L. Buck,
George J. Holliday,
We will pay you 5 per cent. inter*
ish savings banks to those wishing
Try our plan for saving your nickles a
these little banks and the interest we 1
help yon.
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This brand oil a shoe means s
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Clear up the complexion, cleanse
the liver end tone the system. You
ten beet do this by e dose or two of
DeWltt's Little Early Risers. Safe,
reliable little pills with a reputation.
The pills that everyone knows. Re*
oommended by Oonway Drug Co.
The story of Atlanta's rec?uv? Cornell
meeting reads as If Mr. Roosevelt
himself might have been present.
"They like the taste as well as
maple sugar" Is what one mother
wrote of Kennedy's Laxative Cough
Syrup. This modern cough syrup Is
absolutely free from any opiate or
narootlo. Contains Honey Tar. Conforms
to the National Pure Food and
Drug Law. Sold by Conway Drug Co.
The Horry lerald
COHWAY, S. C.
Thursday, January 17, 1907.
Professional Cards.
McCord & McCord,
SURGEON DENTISTS,1
Conway, s. c.
Ift^Over Bank of ^ Horry.
Attorney andCCounselor at Law,
NWAY, S. C.
B. Wofford Wait,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Conway, S. C.
Office in Spivey Building.
Conway Market ;
Fresh Meats and]JSau- l
sago always on hand.
Orders are taken and ,
prom ptly .., deli vered
every day. \
Geo. L. Marsh, ;
Propretor. \
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Physician and Surgeon,
Conwei^, S? C 1
J. B. SCARBROUGH.
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Robert* and the Wish Bird,
"Robert! Have you done your
home work yet?"
"No, not yet," he answered.
Every night this conversation took
place between Robert and his mother,
for Robert waa one of those boys
who never did anything that he could
possibly put off.
The next day at school his teacher
said to him:
"Robert, you have two great
faults, Indecision and Procrastination."
"It's the same old story," said lie
to himself. "Everybody tries to
hurry me. It's 'Robert, do this at
once,' and 'Robert why don't you go
immediately,' from morning till
night.' I wish people would let mo
alone. I can do things as well as any
boy if they would only givo me time
and not be nagging me all day."
As ho passed on his way home
along a path leading through a piece
(Cohort sat down on a rock.
af woods, lie came to a place where
the way divided, one path going up
aver the hill and ouo down through
Lhe meadow.
Both came out on the highway at
oqunl distances from his home and.
is usual, Robert hesitated which
path to take.
"What's the hurry, anyhow?" said
^he boy to himself, uud sat down oa
i rock. *
By and bye he saw a particularly
Oig bluejay hopping across the carpet
of fallen leaves come up and
Rand some distance from him. This
rather surprised Robert for, as a
;uie, biuejays are shy blrda. The
iluejay put its head 011 one side and
ooked up at him with a funny expression
In its little head-like eyes.
Then, to the boy's utter astonishment
,the creature spoke in a thin,
-eedy voice, saying: "Well, Hob, how
goes it?"
At first Bob was too surprised to
reply, and, to tell the truth, he was
i little frightened too, for ono must
idmit that it is calculated to mak?
inybody a trifle nervous to have a
aluejay speak in man's language.
"Come, come, don't be all day,"
said the bird sharply. "Speak up."
"You are Just like everybody
ilse," said Robert, "wanting me to
lurry!"
"Well, yes, but the point is, you
iee," replied the bluejay, "that you
lon't hurry. Now what do you think
if me?"
"Well, said Robert slowly, "1
think I never heard a bluejay talk
before."
"Of course you didn't," said tin
bird, with a little toss of its little
bead, "ami you probably never will
r.gain; so you'd better make the moat
if this conversation."
"What sort of a bird are you anysva.v?"
a?ked Robert.
said the bluejay. "Oh, I
mi the Wishing Bird."
"The .Wishing Bird!" repeated the
boy.
"Don't laugh," said the bird," it
Is had enough to be afflicted with
i'roi:ruFMnr.tlon and Indecision with
3ut adding Impoliteness to your
faults."
The boy assured the Wishing
Bird that ho hud not meant to be Impolite
and asked the bluejay how it
jot its funny name.
"Oh," replied the bird, "I was
born that way. It Is my duty to go
around and give people a chance to
wish. And, what's moro to the purpose,
what they wish for they get.
Vow I will give you Just oho wish.
\ird remember this is your only
dianco. I never speak to a persou
but once during his lifetime. Now
vish. Give it a name. Do not be
aashful. No trouble to oblige."
It honned On one lee nnrt thftn r\n
:lie other, and Anally said petuantly:"Oh,
come now, don't be aM
light about it! Hurry up!"
"I wish you wouldn't hurry me,"
mid Robert?right out before ho
thought.
"Ha, Ha!" screamed the bird,
'You have got your wish!"
And It flew away, squeaking out a
horribly discordant laugh as it went.
From that day his parent* and his
teacher noticed a great improvement
In Robert, who came to do
things as promptly as any other boy
nnd, though he has never been able
to find the Wishing Bird In any work
on ornithology, he fs convinced thai!
he lost a great opportunity by hid
Indecision and procrastination when
the bluejay met him coining home
from eehooL
FATTENING UP OYSTKIIS.
Government Experiment* In Virginia
Promise Good Results.
The oyster eating public Is already
familiar with the process of fattening
adopted by some unscrupuolus
dealers In oysters, says Country Life
In Amer'cn. This consists merely In
throwing tac o^sivrv Into frcch \vator,
which they absorb In large quantities
and become plump. The flavor
Is thereby Injured and there Is clanger
of Infecting the oysters with typhoid.
At Lynnhaven, Va., the United
States Bureau of Fisheries has been
working for several years on a plan
to establish an artificial fattening
bed for oysters. The oyster llve6
chiefly on diatoms and other microscoplo
marine plants. These plants
require for their growth a large Bupply
of Inorganic salts In the water.
The necessary plant food Is supplied
by putting commercial fertilizers
Into the water.
The fattening bed must be In shallow
water so as to have a relatively
high temperature. A wall Is maintained
around the fattening ground
so as to retain the fertilizer and diatoms.
Even after the diatoms have
multiplied enormously the oysters
receive no benefit from them unless
a current Is maintain in the water to
carry the food to the oysters.
Salt water is pumped in to prevent
the fattening beds from becoming
too fresh, and a little lime is added
to the water to prevent tho growth
of algae and other plants which
would give a disagreeable flavor to
tho oysters. Too much lime, on the
other hand, will destroy the food
plants of the oyster.
The process seems somewhat complicated,
but it has been demonstrated
to be feasible and to yield results
in the number and quality of oysters.
Monument to a IHig.
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Our illustration shows a memorial
fountain to a dog erected in Hattersea,
London, which bears the fdllowing
inscription "In memory of the
brown terrier dog done to death in
the laboratories of the University
College In February, 1906, after having
endured vivisection extending
over more than two months and havincr
been handed ever from one vivt- i
sector to another until death came to
his release." The fountain stands
fifteen feet high and was erected by
the anti-vivisection society.
Popples from Ancient Seeds.
The extraordinary resuscitating
power of light received a curious Illustration
a few yeurs ago in the silver
mines of Layrlum. The mines
wore abandoned more than 2,000
years ago as unworkable and were
filled for the most part with the slag
from the workings of the miners.
it was discovered that this slag
contained plenty of Bilver, which
could be easily rendered available by
modern appliances. Accordingly It
was removed to the furnace, and
when next the mine was visited a
wonderful transformation was found
to have taken place.
Instead of a heap of rubbish, the
mine had become a gorgeous llower
garden. The entire space was covered
with a brilliant show of poppics.
This profuse vegetable life belonged
to the same age in which the
mines were worked. Twenty cen
11 rirtvj nl/1 ureiin 1-* /*?/ ? ?w
vwi IV O oiu vcic nmno JHJ| 'JJJ? BOtJll'J,
yet when the removal of (he slag allowed
the light to fall upon them
they sprang Into life and bloom under
Us inlluence.
How Long Ostriches Live.
Nothing Is positively know as to
how long an ostrich will live. Some
w. tors claim that it will llvo 100
years. Ostriches which are known to
have been in captivity for forty
years are still breeding and producing
feathers.
It is the experience of Arizona farmers,
that among birds having good
nutritious green feed death* seldom
occur, except as the result of accident.
A dog or other small animal
will sometimes frighten ostriches
and cause them to run into the
fence, which may result in a broken
"leg. When this happens, the bird
maj,- as well be killed as few ever reC.OVAP
from fliirh tin (nliirv
Pen for Captured lints.
As the Hindu population object to
the killing of rats, a>. Influential native
banker proposes to provide a
"rat ruksha" or sort of pen in which
tho captured rats may be confined as
pensioners for the natural term of
their lives, the male and female animals
being kept apart.
To the homestaying Europeans
this appears too "Gllbertian" for
grave consideration, but the proposal
jwas most gratefully received by Mo?
IJor Buchanan, I. M. S., who Is in
charge of the plague operation!.
NATURAL DETECTIVE) PORCH.
Whjr Man Who Commit* Clime In
Alaska Cannot Escape.
"We have a better detective force
In the oold country than there Is In
the States," says Gov. H. P. Hoggart
of Alaska. In the Washington Post.
"That defective force Is nature
Wlu .1 ?> 11..tti commits a crime in (lie
States he has many places to hide,
and he often manages to evade the
authorities forever. If one of our
people who does something wrong
believes the climate of some other
country will better suit his health
and he makes for that country he
I undertakes the Impossible. All we
have to do is to sit and wait. There
Is only one way out of Alaska, and
that Is by coming to the coast, and
when the criminal comes to the coast
he Is sure to be caught.
"So well has the United States
Signal Corps done Its work In Alaska
that wo have a telegraph lino to
every mining camp of importance,
and when a man takes leg ball all
there Is to do Is to telegraph to the
coast towns, and the authorities wait
for the man. It would be Impossible
for the poor fellow to try to get away
by any other route thun the coast,
because he would never live to relate
his experience.
"On the other side of the const
range of mountains are vast, plains,
stretching for many hundreds of
miles, wholly uninhabited. On account
of the haste with which criminals
generally leavo there Is no time
In which to provide an adequate outfit,
If such a thing were possible.
"But it Is seldom that it Is necessary
to make use of this natural detective
force to track wrongdoers. I
win venture to Bay that there Is no
country In the world where the people
are as orderly an they are In
Alaska. All the tales of lawlessness
of the mining camps of the forty- i
nlners are not repeated In Alaska.
From tho very first the people have
been orderly, and they make It so
uncomfortable for tho criminal who
comes among them that ho is glad to
leave.
To Avoid Nearsightedness.
Theoretically, the guard for the
eyes shown In the illustration proBents
a very good idea. Whether its
ubo is practical is an open question.
It is well known that children as a
rule are inclined, while reading, to
hold the book too close to tho eyes.
This habit is still more marked in
writing than reading, and, in time,
undoubtedly is responsible for nearsightedness.
Statisticians claim that
the poor oyeslght prevalent among
children of all countries can bo at- ]
irlbuted to tills cause. A German has
designed this guard especially to prevent
holding the head too low while
reading or writing. It Is simply a
wire framework which can be readily
clamped to the book. The position
of the upper bar does not obscure
the vlow In the least, but a
child would experience difficulty In
Inserting the head In the frame. The
Idea Is at all events a commendable
one, and, If not practical In this
form, Is certainly so In another.
A Fruitarian Diet.
A fruitarian diet consists of the
ju-uita 01 trees cnae apples, oranges,
bananas unci olives), the fruits of
plants (like strawberries and melons J
lentils unci beans and cucumbers),
the fruits of grussos (like wheat and
burley and maize and oats), the
fruits of nut trees (from filbert to
cocoanut), together with some earth
fruits (like potatoes), and a modicum
of vegetables and salads. To
these may bo added butter, milk,
honey and cheese, although their
production Is not so free from risk
of contamination and animal infection
as is the case with the products
of the vegetable kingdom and the
world of fruits. Grown under healthy
conditions, with diseased specimens
easy to detect and remove, it is far
more possible to live healthily and
well upon a fruitarian dietary than
upon the products of the slaughter
house.?Westminster Review. 1
Average Speed of Clouds.
A member of the staff of the Blue
Hill Observatory, near Boston, has 1
reported that observations made c
there show that the average speed 1
with which clouds, between 8,000 1
and 9,000 foot high, move is sixty <
miles an hour in midsummer and ]
one hundred and ten miles an hour ]
In midwinter. The swiftest flight of (
a cloud yet measured was 220 miles j
an hour.
China's Mania for Railroads. I
Hardly a province of China has es- 1
caped the recent mania for railways,
and If all the lines projected are
earrled out some of the remotest
parts of the Empire will be rendered
easy, of access by the iron rood, '
TESTING THE SILVER DOLLAR.
Six Taken From Every Mintage^ and
Carefully Examined.
When the phrase "ju6t like coining
money" Is used, the speaker uauany
refers to something which yields large
returns for comparatively little effort. f .
Yet coining money is nVrut ar? i 't J
au undertaking as any tnai engages ?
the attention of men. and a/ter the
work Is done it may not be right.
The precautions taken to test and
insure perfection in the coins which
Uncle Sam turns out are really a?
complete in their workings as the
original process of minting the bullion
into the coin.
Out of every fresh batch of silver
dollars made at the United States
mints half a dozen are sent to the
treasury at Washington to be tested
as samples. If they turn out to be
of the requisite fineness and weight
it is taken for granted that the wbMe
edition is correct. Vr
For the test, the coin, after being
weighed, is rolled out in a thin flat
strip more than a foot in leng'h.
Then the stip is placed beneath a row
of punches, which punch holes in it,
so that {titer passing beneath the instrument
it has the look of a colander.
A great many little silver disks are?
iuus out amed, and of those a dozen or
bo are taken and assayed, to find out
how much silver they contain. Being
obtained from various parts of thecoin,
they represent fairly the averago
fineness of the dollar throughout
If the weight is too little, beyond a
very tiny fraction, the whole batch*"' f
coins must be melted over again,'quid
the same thing must be done if the
fineness is not up to standard. Otherwise
the assayer indorses the mintage
and the dollars go into circulation.
Properties of Gla>r?s.
Glass is one of the most interesting:
as well as one of the most peculiar
things In the world. It has curious
and contradictory qualities, and many
astonishing phenomena are connected
with It. Brittle and breakable as it
is, yet it exceeds almost all other
uouies ill elasticity.
If two glass balls are made (o strike
uaeli other at a given force, the re-v
:oil, by virtue of their elasticity, will,
be nearly equal to their original impetus.
Connected with its brittlenesE.
ire some very singular facts.
Take a hollow sphere, with a hole,
ind stop the whole with the finger, so
is to prevent the external and internal
air from communicating, and
the sphere will fly to pieces by the
mere heat of the hand. Vessels made
of glass that has been suddenly
moled possess the curious property of
being able to resist hard blows given
to them from without, but will be instantly
shivered by a small particle ot
tint dropped into their cavities. This
property seems to depend upon theiomparative
thickness of the uottom;
the thicker the bottom is, the more
certainty of breakage by this experiment.
Some of these \essels, it is
stated have resisted the stroke of a
mallet given with sufficient force to
Jrivo a nail into wood; and heavy
bodies, such as musket-balls, pieces
if iron, bits of wood, jasper, stone,
Jtc., have been cast into them frok.lv.
height of two or three feet withcrot
iny effect, yet a fragment of flint not
larger than a pea dropped from a.
leight of three inches has made them.
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UJf.
Early Balloon Ascensions.
The first balloon ascension wae
made in 1783 in France, by Stephen
uid Joseph Montgolfer, two paper
nakere. They succeeded in reaching,
,n a small balloon, the height of fifed!
thousand feet. Before this date,
aowever, Cavendish, who had discovered
hydrogen gas in 1766, and Black,
ivho had the following year discovered
that this gas would cause a light
mvelop filled with it to rise of its
>wn accord, had laid the foundation
)f aeronautics. \\
In the samo year that the Me.ivfjolfer
brothers made their assent,
Professor Charles made an ascension
n a balloon of his own construction
jefore half the population or Paris,
tialloon ascensions were not wholly
uiccessful, however, until Green oi
America Introduced coal gas instead
)f hydrogen with which to inilate tha
bag of the ballon.
The highest balloon ascension on
ecord was made by Glalsher and
joxwell from Wolverhampton in Sep.ember,
1862. They reached the ant
.utle of seven miles, of thirty-seven
.housand feet. The cold at this height
vas about twelve degrees below zero.
31aisher became insensible, and Coxveil's
hands were frozen, but by the>
lid of his teeth he managed to open
he valve in the balloon and descend,
a safety. *
In Case of Emergency.
Another new and useful contrivance!
Is soon to be installed in the street?
>f Paris?an apparatus for rendering:
irst aid to the injured. A model of
.he device was recently tested. According
to renorto -
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eceived from Paris, the contrivance
-esembles a lamp-post letter-box and
contains a small medicine chest, fold,ng
stretcher, and is equipped with a
telephone apparatus for communication
with the nearest ambulance station.
In order to obtain access to tha
box, a glass panel is broken, as la
some fire alarm systems.
A big reputation can be built out of
a mighty small character. j