The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 02, 1907, Image 4
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Swiss Peasants Who Beat All
Flat Dwellers,
WOMEN WORK HARDEST
They Live In a Queen Valley, Have
Four or Five Houses Apiece and
Keep Going From One to Another
All Year?Hard Natural Conditions
Overcome.
The most primitive and peculiar
people In the western part of Europe
may perhaps be fouud in a little
Swiss valley leading steeply down
from the glacier of the Dent Blanche
to the Rhone River. It is known aa
the Vol d'Anniviers. It is only thirteen
miles long and its character is indicated
by the fact that in the distance
it rises 6,600 feet.
One fact distinguishes the 2,309
peasants living there from all other
inhabitants of the Swiss Alps. Every
man, woman and child accompanies
the herds and flocks wherever
t hern Ih Innit tn fill Vw,?. ?~ ?* ?
.w ...uw iv viiit uaj hp I'lli ur
grazing for the live stock, and each
group la as empty of population as a
last year's bird's nest whenever there
is work to be done In some other
part of the valley. At any season of
the year entire families may be aeon
either ascending or descending with
their herds and household utensils as
though they were quitting the country
forever.
At the head of each little caravan
is a mule carrying the father of the
family. The mother and the children
follow on foot and behind them*
oome the cattle, goats, sheep and
pigs, driven by an old woman.
This is the way they divide the
year along thirteen miles of the valley:
In December and January the
peasants and their live stock are
grouped in the lower pastures. In
February they are living in their villages
where the largest amount of
hay is stored.
Down the valley they travel In
II 4- J *
inai uu iu ttueuu 10 meir vineyards
near the Rhone and in April they are
back in their villages planting the
fields and gardens. In May and a
part of June all are gathered at the
lower pastures.
From Juim nearly to October the
peasants are separated into two
groups, one of them tending the live
stock at the various Alpine pastures
and t.he other dividing their time between
their vineyards in the Rhone
valley and the cultivation and harvesting
of their crops around their
mountain villages. Everybody goes
down to the Rhone in October and a
part of November to harvest the
grapes and make wine, and then back
they go to the lower pastures again.
The geographical conditions fully
account for the habits of the Anniviards
and the multiplicity of their
dwelling places. Their manner of life
simply responds to their economic
necessities.
They are increasing in number and
muRt. utilize every acre of their cultivated
hay and grazing lands. The
productive elements of the soil would
Boon be exhausted if the land were
not richly fertilized, and so they must
needs remove their live stock from
place to place at frequent intervals.
They prefer to have homes whereever
their labors require them to rema'n
a few weeks. Thus each family
has four or five dwelling places, and
to one or another of them they are
continually removing their modest
household equipment.
The villages proper are the largest
agglomerations of houses and the
only settlements in which they build
email churches with steeples rising
above the other structures. Around
the villages are nearly all the tillable
areas that the valley affords, and ev
ery square foot is made to yield all
the grain and vegetables it will pro
duce.
At each of the stations outlsde ol
the villages proper each family has
a house, a barn, with a stable under
it, a granary and a cellar. As the
family moves from one home to another
it takes comfort in the fact
that it will there find hay for the
beasts, grain to be crushed into
coarse flour, and wine, the product
of the vineyards. There are timber
end stone in abundance and the
primitive buildings are erected at little
or no expense.
The Anniviards do not mingle with
other people, their homes are closed
to outside influences, they import
nothing, they live in isolation, distrust
everything new and are closely,
attachod ta the lives their father*
led before them. Sufficient unto them*
selves, they buy scarcely anything a*
cepting raw ootton. Their lands sup
ply them with bread, fruit and wine,
they build their houses, make their
own furniture, spin yarn, weave the
cloth that they turn Into clothing and
provide their own footgear from the
hides of their cattle. In summer the
women participate In all the labors
of the men. In winter they weave
cloth, make garments and braid straw
hats for summer use.
A family is rich with twenty head
of cattle and the poorest has at least
two. In the Val d'Anniviers they call
a man rich who haR more roofs to
cover him ,more fields to cultivate
and more work to do than the gonerallty.
Cash is said to be derived from th^
French word "caisse," a cheat 14
vrhick moaey was kept. I
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WHBRI CHARITY WAS WASTJSO.
Vhm Yoin| Womu Found AppiM
noes Count tor Naufht.
A young woman who haa bsen doing
missionary work on tho Bast
8tdo of Now York City had an experience
that came nsar ending her
charitable efforts. On one windy
oold day she met In the street three
Italian children, two girls and a boy,
who were barefooted. Bhe stopped
thorn and they told her that their
parents couldn't buy them shoes,
they were so poor.
The charitably inclined young
woman first fitted them out with
stockings and then bought them
three pairs of shoes. The children
started for home looking very happy.
The next day she met one of
the girla on the street.
"Won't you come and Tlslt ust*'
asked the girl.
"I'd be pleased to," said the missionary,
who felt that what she had
done was appreciated. "Where do
you live?"
"Oh, you'll have to go out to Englewood,
N. J., said the little girl.
"We're going to move to-morrow.
F'ipH has bought two houses out
there.?New York Sun.
Ik)til Blundered.
. ^
Spinster?Ah, I ought to have
married; that's where I made the
mistake.
Friend?And I married, and
that's where I made the mistake.?
Meggendorfer Blatter.
It Never Hove Htm.
Mlcah Jarrott was a shrewd horse
trader to the day of his death. He
I was slllfhtlv denf niid iib?H hla
ness In his business to no small degree.
One day he sold an old horHO to a
neighboring farmer, who thought he
had found a great bargain. He
chnnged hia mind, however, when,
after driving his new purchase a few
miles, the beast emitted a serieB of
explosions strongly resembling the
exhaust of a locomotive.
Straightway he drove to "dampy,"
who was sharpening a knife in his
dooryard, his son Abner turning the
grindstone. The disgruntled purchaser
began a long tirade, which
was perfectly audible to the old man,
who, however, simulated great deafness
and finally remarked. "Hey?"
"You're a skin!" howled his
neighbor.
"Hey?"
"I say you're a skin. This hoss '
got the heaves!"
"Hey?"
"He's got the heaves! Heaves,
heaves, heaves!"
The old man looked at him calmly,
then, indicating his son, he said gently,
"Never hove me. Hove Abner
once."
Wns a Horn Financier.
Bobby's father had given him a
ten cent piece and a quarter of a
dollar, telling him he might put one
or the other on the contribution
plate, says the Boston Post.
"Which did you give, Bobby?" his
father asked when the boy came
hnniA frnm nhnmti
"Well, father, I thought at first I
ought to put In the quarter," said
Bobby, "but then just In time I remombered
'The Lord loveth a cheerful
giver,' and I knew I could give
the ten cent piece a great deal more
cheerfully, so I put that In."
Knew Hlm Well.
"When you go to New Zealand, I
wish you would Inquire after my
great-grandfather, Jeremiah Thompson."
"Certainly," said the traveller,
and wherever he went Iasked for
nnuro o# * *'1
V ? X VI uin nilUOBlUr, DUl Wlinout
avail.
One day he wu Introduced to a
fine old Maori of advanced age.
"Did you ever meet with an Englishman
named Jeremiah Thompson?"
he asked.
A smile passed over the Maori's
face. "Meet hlra?" he repeated.
"Why, I ate him!"
Guessing at It.
"To-morrow's Mr. Lovvett's birthday,"
said Bobble.
"Yes," said Elsie, "and sister
Edith says she sent him a pair of
military hair brushes. Say, what are
they, anyway?"
"Give it up," replied Bobbie. "I
don't even know what 'military hair
is. Somethln' fierce and red, I
guess."?Philadelphia Press.
The Melancholy Dane.
Polonlus?What do you read, my
lord.
Hamlet (dejectedly) ? The Six
Beet Seller*.?Exchange.
11IY1 BUSINESS'
Desire for Speed a Mania
With Some People* j
i
FREAKS OF THE MIND
Mjubjt Inun? Mon Conducting Largt 1
Enterprise* One Woman 8am |
on All Subjects Except Water?
Effect* of Modern Life ? Th*
Speed Mania of Auto m obi list*, (
"Insanity," said Dr. John D.
Qu&ckenbos, a recognized authority
on brain dlbeuscs and especially on
abnormal mental manifestations,
"Implies n brain defect which shows
Itself In discordant language or con- .
duct. The causes of insanity may be
horoditary taint, or the strain on the
brain or nervous system due to grief, '
worry, disappointed love, fright, '
shock, Injuries, .excessses, poison, I
drugs or alcohol. Alcohol is said to
be the most prolific cause of insanity,
for it causes about 20 per cent,
of all cases in the insane hospl- ,
t&ls ,
"There Is much in the life of to- |
day which contributes to insanity,
for now the human brain is undergoing
a strain which It was never intended
that it should meet. Had air,
bad food, are large factors. Much of
the food which we obtain has been
robbed of its elements by adultera- 1
tlon. The flat life, the noise, the dust
in the air, the strain on the eyes from 1
electric lights, which finds a reflox 1
action on the nervous system?all I
Hw.u/l ?hl.^n ~ 1. ~ ?
iiiiviiu minion muitu UIU I1B1 > e L"131 IS 11II ?
stable and lower the nerve tone. The
tear and rush of modern life has so
Increased that in order to meet It j
business man may have to reduce ,
their working days to four or five
a wool; and seek repose and mental
refreshment on farms or In other
Unlet places outside the metropolis.
"Among the symptoms of Insanity
usually given are slowness and dlfil- '
culty In thought processes, peculiar 1
restlessness, insomnia and fixed do- (
Undone. One of the most common de- '
luslons In this age is that of persecu- 1
tlon, which fills the sufferer from It 1
with the Idea that all the world Is i
plotting against him. Another Is the *
delusion of grandeur, manifest In j
self-exaltation, in a desire to become 1
'i I,orenzo the Magnificent, and an 1
uncontrollable tendency for extravagant
expenditure. Meaningless ex- (
cravagance Is nearly always assocla- |
ted with a tendency to Insanity. William
E. Gladstone furnished examples
of this In his Inter years when
his splendid powers wore undergoing
decay. 1
"I happened to he travelling in the '
same railroad carriage with him only 1
a frtw mnnf hu Ixofnm Arm* K ?* *
n ? ...WUVIIU UU1W IV, HID ucnill tlllll 1 1
had an opportunity of observing
torno of those symptoms. Ho wont i
to a store in Edinburgh, I recollect, 1
and purchased a hat which he said (
suited him so well that he ordered \
fifty more like it to ho sent to his j
hotel. They wers sent back by Mrs. {
Gladstone. ' t
"Loquacity and continued chatter- j
Ing on unimportant subjects, which ^
have no apparent connection, aro
frequently observed In the earlier
stages of Insanity.
"Delusions aro not confined to the
insane, however, for the sane may
have them as well. The person who 1
Is still of pound mind is able to rec- t
ognlze that his delusion is unreal, 1
while the lunntic lives it. The crea- <
tlons of his disordered brain take
such possession of him that they
gradually shut out nil other lmpres- (
sions which come to him from the j
outside world. Yet there are many j
*r.en In active work who on some
subjects aro insane, for their delusions
have become fixed.
Restlessness, insomnia, mental disturbance
indicate insanity. If the (
Btriet interpretation of the symptoms *
wero applied many a man who goes (
through the country In an automo- 1
bile at a mile a minute, more or less,
would be locked up as stark madv It <
was only a few months ago that an
aiitomoblllst dashed through the i
large towns of Massachusetts In
search of a record. ,
"I know," said he, "that they will
have gates down at SnrinirflAM hut
I'll go around that town, I will. I
know a way where, If I do run down
anybody, I won't have to atop." ,
"Insane restlessness. Yet he was
the director of a great business enterprise,
and when seatod at his
desk was the acme of orderly perfection.
Speed mania Is a form of
the restless activity, the desire for '
motion and rapid change that accompanies
Insanity.
"I hare In mind a woman who
owns and manages three large laundries
who bolWes that she Is a hu- ]
man telephone und that from time to
time persons are talking through j
her brain, to her great Inconvenl- i
anna T \r ? ?" *
vu. *. a miun amniinr woman wno j
believes that a relative In a distant
pa t of the world Is sending emissaries
to this city who are constantly
poisoning the whole Croton water h<
1 in order to kill her and her
ch. dren. Yet In other respecte ehe
it entirely normal."
If the chattering test or that of
loquacity were generally employed 1
the asylums of the country would be 1
filled with loquacious captains of In- 1
dustry and financiers who on some
subjects cannot be restrained from ?
continual conversation. (
1
A man should advertise as he (
would court a maiden?boldly and '
audaciously, yet judiciously and hon- (
estly, without too much stringency :
In the matter oi expense. I
MI8TAKE8 IN MEMORIALS.
rh? Slack Prince le Called thi
Prince of Whalee."
Some remarkable mistakes la memorials^
have totally escaped notice
until It waa too late to rectify them.
The spurs on the boots of Cromwell's
statue at Westminster Abbsy, London,
*re the most Interesting feature
Df the monument, although they generally
get no attention at all from
slghtseerB. They are worn upside
down. In a painted window on the
staircase which leads from the floor
of Westminster palace to the committee
rooms an inscription on a
sword wielded by tho "Black Prince"
has the words "Prince of Whales."
Again, In the fresco depicting the embarkation
of the Pilgrim Fathers in
the corridor leading from the outer
lobby at St. Stephen's to the House of
Lords the Mayflower is shown to be
hoisting the union juck?a flag which
did not come into existence until over
250 years after the days of tho Mayflower.
The Hexagonal Cells of Honeycomb.
Honeybees ars generally credited
with instinctive skill in making tho
.jells of the comb hexagonal in shape,
Out it is probable that this construction
is merely the ordinary result of
mechanical laws. Solitary bees alwayB
make circular cells, and the bees In a
hive no doubt make them circular
ilso, but mechanical pressure forces
them into a hexagonal form. A well
known naturalist, in speaking of tne
natter says that all cylinders made of
soft, pliable substances become hexagonal
under such circumstances.
The Bore of Guns.
To the word "bore," when used to
Lei 1 the gauge of u shotgun, there attaches
an interesting bit of history.
In tlie days when rifle balls were
spherical and long, cylindrical, conical-beaded
bullets and rifle barrels 1
were undreamed of, the gunsmith 1
idoyted u curious but convenient
net hod of designating the gauge or
liameter of the bore. He expressed it
by stating how many bullets of the
size that would lit. a particular mus- i
tet would go to make a pound. Thua 1
i 10-bore musket would be one of such
i bore that 10 of its bullets would
;o to make a pound, weignt; a 10jore
gun would be one whose bullets
would run 10 to a pound, and so on.
Hence, the anomaly that the larger
denomination musket has the smaller
jo re.
Printing in Thibet.
Great printing works are established
at Nartang, in Thibet. A travsler
says: "There are thousands and
thousands of blocks at Nartang, comprising
matter in type equivalent to
numerous different volumes. Each
wooden block Is nhrnit 9d innhaa l,?r.rr
by 12 inches wide, one face having <
curved ijpon it a complete page of lettering.
The method of printing i3
primitive in the extreme and consists
t)f laying the paper on a Hat surl'acs
ind levering the block upon it with a
ong handle, much as the village
blacksmith works his bellows."
Carl Schurz Memorial.
A "Carl Schurz memorial professorship"
is to be established at the University
of Wisconsin as a result of j
.he movement recently started In Milwaukee
by a number of prominent
Clerman-Americans. The plan is to
raise an endowment of $50,000, the
income of which will be used for tho
establishment of an annual course of
lectures to be given by prominent
professors of German universities.
Evolution of the Bath.
In a guide to etiquette published
jarly in the last century the writer
jays that "soap does not irritate the
complexion; some of the finest complexions
we have known have been
regularly washed with soap every
day." The same authority remarks
that "the daily bath is now the rule
rather than the exception, and com- ,
mon sense has triumphed over the decision
that washing was injurious."
Fastidious Bridegrooms.
The natives of the Sandwich Is
i mi no catuuHie women uy meir weigllt.
The Chinese require them to have deformed
feet and black teeth. A girl
must be tottooed sky-blue and wear a
none ring to satisfy a South Sea
Islander. Certain African princes require
their brides to have their teeth
filed in*p the semblance of a saw.
Pianos Will Be Pink.
A newly imported wood, for ufie la
high-class cabinet and piano work, is
the Tasnmnian myrtle, described by
he Timber Trades Journal ol Londan.
It is of a rich pink color, moderately
hard and very close grained, taking
i good finish and working well and
3mooothly.
Trousers Won.
General Von Pitreich, who will take
the place of Count Beck at the head of
the general stafT of Austria, is the
second war minister on whom this
honor has been conferred. The first
svas General von John, who is remembered
in Austrian military circles bemuse
of the remark which he made
it a meeting of the Equipment Board.
Be said: "I cannot be successful with
>ne pair of trousers." The question
under discussion was whether the
unlisted men should be supplied with
)ne or two pairs, and he won for the
greater number by bis short speech, j
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PROFK88IONAL CARDS.
MC CORD A MC CORD
BUROBON DENTISTB.
OONWAT, I. a
y
Over Bank of Horry
H. H. WOODWARD
Attorney and Councilor At Law.
OONWAT, 8. C.
B. WOFFORD WAIT.
Attorney at Law.
CONWAY, 8. C.
Office tn Splvey Building.
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OONWAY MARKET.
Fresh Meats and Ransage
always on hand.
Orders are taken and
promptly delivered
every day.
G1DO. L. MARSH.
Proprietor.
H. H. BURROUGHS
Physician and Rnrgeon.
CONWAY, 8. C.
R. B. 8CARBROUGH
CONWAY, 8. C.
Attorney at Law.
Rio About Same Time,
At Lock port, N. Y., while members
of the family were mourning the
death of the father, Hugh Garner
iviurnan , a telegram was received
that Chase Marshall had died in the
St. Francis hospital in Pittsburg, Pa.
Miss Laura Marshall, a daughter, was
in the telegraph ofllce, sending a message
to the son in Pittsburg, announcing
his father's death when the
wires began ticking the son's death.
RUDY TO
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The Horry lerald
CONWAY. A C.
Thursday, May 2, 1907.
- Rest
la the great restorer. We tiro
our muscles by exercise sod then rest
to restore them; yet a great many of
us do not stop to think how little
rest we give to our stomachs. As a
usual thing no part of our bodies Is
so generally overworked as our digestive
organs. A tired and overworked
stomach will giro signs of
distress to which we pay no heed until
at last dyspepsia takes hold. Indigestion
is just a warning, and if we
heed the warning we can easily
avoid further consequences. Kodol
is a most through stohach relief. It
digests what you eat and gives the
stomach the needed rest and greatly
assists in restoring it to its noquial
activity and usefullness. Kodc/1 Is
sold on a guarantee relief plan. It Is
sold here by Conway Drug Co.
s{ 11 OAOjioq BG^uni oqs su si oas tiOiC
}0[ oqs j{ aupsojaini os jp?q oq iou
pinoM u JO}IO[ ? sjoa iaj? u uaqAV
What Is it that taBtes as pleasant as
maple sugar and quickly relieves
coughs and colds? Mothers who havo
used It will quickly answer: "Kennedy's
Laxative Cough Syrup." The
pleasant cold remedy that expels the
cold through Its laxative action on
the bowels. Conforms strictly to the
puro Food and Drugs Law. Contains
no opiates. Sold by Conway Drug.
Company.
One mother-in-law Is enough to
convince the average man that polygamy
is all wrong.
Use Kennedy's Laxative Ctougfc
Syrup. The children like its pleasant
taste, and mothers give it their
hearty endosement. Contains no
opiates, but drives out the cold
through the bowels. Made in strict
conflrmity to the Pure Food and
Drugs Law. Recommended and sold
by Conway Drug Co. ,,
~Sliot~lui(l?Killed.
Maggie Lowe, a negro woman, was
shot and killed at Pee Dee Marion
county on Tuesday by a young negro
who had been loafing about the place
some time. No reason is given for
the killing except "just for fun."
GASOLINE ENGII^g
ffiBpX NEW HQLLANA FEED MILL 1
\* Thin I* the only outfit that will m
4* \n zrltid Ear Corn sstlnfitrtoiliy
Ivwl with mail power. The eurtno snn Itt1
? \m alao be used #<?r i>uinnli>r, flaw. la
- Ina wood, sliellli.K corn, euttirc si
fodder, ru 11 nI utcresin uopsr.itor, K .
churu or washing machine. Bic?? F
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Ihiskey '-"Vt.Su
ire excellent satisfaction. It Is a Well aired
ation, far Buperior to the decoctions and mlx>le
moil order whiskey houses at $3.90 to $3.50
>ecLxl prico on CAROLINA WH13K.EY to Bhow
any kind of competition Our plants cover fouri
lurgcbt mail order whiskoy houao in the world.
.ES FREE. Cut out tills advertisement and
return It with $2.05 and we
>ss 6 full quarts of Carolina Whiskey and we
ox, complimentary, a suinple bottle of each,
id" and Casper's 12 Year Old White Corn.
i deliver the aoovc express prepaid anywhere
i.-.ia and West Virginia, but customers living
by Adams or Southern Express Companion,
Buyers east of Mississippi liiver residing on
i must send $3.9" for the fi quarts and 3 sample
y ex p.-ess. Komit cash with order and addressJ
X CO., 2nc., Ro.molle, Va,
wtiert of p. R. Kfglatered plitllltrjr No. JOS, 6th Dial., Vs.
rr?l?li>n of U S. OflWrra and gturanloM pur* under lb* .
tonal Pure Vood and |)i ii* law.
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