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Each Race Has Its Own Customs
and Ceremonials.
KING IN SILVER CANOE.
There are 463 Method* of Interment.
People That Rejoice When the End
Come*?Shohoes Beggars Even In
Death?Fan* Eat Their DeadDesire
to be Buried at Home.
There are 4G3 different ways in
which the people of the world bury
their dead. Scarcely any two tribes
of people in all the world dispose of
the bodies of those who pass away iu
the same manner. A man can take
his choice of a great number of ceremonies.
S. I^ewis Tillotson, a Baltimore
undertnker, has made a study of
the burial customs of the world with
a view of improving, if possible, the
means of disposing of bodies used
in most civilized countries and to
discover behind the ceremonials and
the rites of burial and the methods of
disposing of the bodies the odd beliefs
of the people.
His discoveries and investigations
have shown many strange things, but
as yet he has made no recommendations
looking toward Improvement of
present systems.
One thing he has found, says the
Phinil Trihnnn I c? V? o 4
a > IMIIIIV. , 10 t IICVI CYOI J I HUU
of people In the world except two?
the Veddas of India and the Bantus
of Africa?shows aome mark of reverence
to the dead?even those that eat
them?and that every one except
those same two shows from its treatment
of the dead some belief In a
future existence.
About three-fourths of tlie people of
the world are sorry, or pretend they
are sorry, when a death happens
among their friends or relatives, and
the other fourth are glad. About fourfifths
object to death and the other
fifth welcome It.
"Among 'he Karens of Burma there
1b a close relation between the burial
and the wedding ceremonies, and a
death Is made the occasion of a wholerale
cour.ing " said Mr. Tillotson. |
"The body Is placed on a bamboo
platform and girls gather there, singing
and laughing. The men seat
themselves on one side of the body
and the gi"'o on the other and there,
as if made happy by the presence of
death, thev oarrv on their rnnrtoidna
?and the men select their wives.
Th" Kirghiz-Kazaks nre stong In their
remembrance of the dead?and here
may be food for religious thought
for Blgle students In their customs.
After death the body is hastily burled,
arrayed in white clothes, and every
day for forty days after the death
the mourners visit the tomb. The
forty day period apparently is counted
for no special reason as yet discovered.
"The Shans give the dead a good
send off, putting money into the mouth
to pay passage to the other world.
The souls are supposed to go into
butterfles that flit away and the body
must, wait and pay its fare. The
coffins are highly colored tinsel and
paper under a gaudy canopy. The
wives parade with the body and the
eldest son walks ahead w'th a sword,
clearing the evil spirits from the way.
The bodies of chiefs and priests are
burned.
"The Bantu and the Veddas, alone
of all tribes, have no ceremonies and
appear to care nothing whatever
about death. In both tribes the bodies
arc thrown into the bushes, covered
with leaves anb brush, and left.
"A Nlam-Nlam corpse is handsomer
than a live Niam-Niam. The body is
dyed a bright rod and decorated with
feathers. The men are buried facing
the east and the women facing the
west and no earth is thrown on the
bodies.
"The ruling passion strong in death
is exemplified by tho Shoho?a tribe
of inveterate beggars?for the dead
are buried with their left hands extending
above earth, still asking alms.
Every good Arab is buried with his
face toward Mecca, his sword and
girdle and turban beside him. The
women only mourn and hired female
mourners howl for days.
Probably the most economical funeral
of all is among the Fans, who
have no cemeteries. They eat their
dead. Out of respect they do not eat
their own relatives, but trade them
off to some other bereaved family.
The question of weight is not considered.
The desire of every civilized person
?to be buried 'at home'?is shown by
the Mumias, who are Nilotic negroes.
They first bury the body in the floor
or the hut with the head above ground
and watch It for months. Then they
disinter the bones, wash and polish
them, and carry them scores of miles
to the old home of the tribe, where
they are buried in sacred ground.
This same 'homing' desire is shown
by the Sakalava of Madagascar. There
the bodies are buried in canoe Rhaped
coffins?possibly so they can cross the
Madagascar Styx?and the funerals
are accompanied by human sacrifices.
A small portion of the body is cut
off, placed in the hollow tooth of a
crocodile, and the tooth is deposited
In the sacred house at Mojanga.
The latest popular method the women
have of wasting time seems to be
In the making of French knots, a sort
97 speck in embroidery.
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ACHIEVEMENTS OF INVALIDS* 1
Many Distinguished Workers In Llts*
ature and Music.
Ill health and infirmity do not al* J
way8 prevent the accomplishment 'f |
great th ngs, and the list of invalid*
who have been luiuous for excelling j
in their chosen field is long and brll- ,
liaut. Naturally 8uch persons iiBually
have been restricted to the quieter j
pursuits. Literature seems to have
been the field wherein most of them ,
have found congenial occupation, ,
though there have been great invalids i
in other professions, also.
The long battle of Robert Louis
Stetonson against the malady which
fiuittly conquered him, is well known
to every one. He traveled about from
place to place, searching for tlie si>ot
where he could hope to live ht least
long enough to do some of the work
which it lay in him to do, until at last,
iu the Samoan Inlands, in the South
Seas, he found the haven for which
he had been searching. There the
heroic struggle went on for the four
last years of his life, and there ho
was buried high on the peak\of Mount
Vaea, above his island home.
Probably no famous writer suffered
for a longer period than did Alexander
Pope, who was stricken, when only a
child of ten, with a malady which deformed
his body and robbed him of
health and comeliness, leaving him to
forty-six years of invalidism. His
constant, study and work, combined
with his physical infirmity, made hlo
life "one long disease."
Thomas Carlyle was a chronic dyspeptic,
and suffered, all his life, tho
torments which only those unfortunates,
who are victims of this disease,
can comprehend. The bitterness of
some of his writings which were published
after his death may surely be
excused when this is considered, for
the chronic dyspeptic Is generally understood
to develop, In spite of himself,
a gloomy view of life.
Heinrich Heine, the great German
lyric poet, was the victim, during the
last twelve years of his life, of relentless
disease. He bore his dreadful
sufferings so patiently that he appears
in a nobler light than evor before
during his life. His hearing was
bad, his sight was dim, and his logs
were paralyzed, yet he wrote some of
his most wonderful songs during the
long watches of sleepless nights, lying
on his "mattress-grave." Ho described
his condition as "a grave
without rent, death without the privileges
of the departed," yet he was
never so many-sided as during tills
period. He produced humorous pieces,
political songs, and the tenaerest
poems. He kept at his work as
long as he could hear and speak, ills
last words being "paper and pencil."
John Keats, while 011 a tour of tho
English Lakes, contracted a throat
trouble, which developed into consumption.
He continued to write,
though he failed rapidly in health,
and his last volume contains sotpe of
his best poems.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was
confined to her room for seven years,
but was restored to something like a
normal state of health before her marriage.
The long period of illness was
partly caused by the death of her
brother, of whom she was extremely
fond, and many times her life was
despaired of. She wrote in spite
of sickness, however, and produced
some excellent verse. All her life she
struggled against a naturally weak
constitution and she worked under
difficulties.
Chopin, the great modern master of
pianoforte composition, was nnable,
because of lack of physical strength,
to play some of his own works as he
would have them played. A trip to
England, of only eleven days' duration,
was enough to develop the fatont
consumption which was in his family,
and from this time on he worked under
the advancing ravages of the disease.
though he lived twelve years
hnfftrn flnnllv Hiiccnmhtne' to its on
slaught. Many* times during this
period he was reported at death's
door.
Color Invisibility.
At no time in the history of war
has the question of color received so
much attention from military men as
within the past ten years. That the
value of approximate invisibility has
been fully recognized by our powers
that be is fully shown in the passing
of the blue uniform and the advent
of the olive-drab and khaki. A writer
in Harper's Weekly makes some very
interesting observations on the question
of color invisibility as it concerns
uniforms. Accumulations of clear atmosphere
are blue, he points out, and
the brighter the sun and the greater
the distance of the object the bluer
it appears; also, the blueness is in
proportion to the density of the object.
From 2200 to about 1200 yards,
khaki in close formation gives exactly
the effect of the blue uniform, be
cause of the banked-up atmosphere
before It "Moreover, given a distance
greater than 1200 yards and a
clear day, and it is all one whether
massed troops wear green, blue, olivedrab,
yellow, khaki or black. Red
and white are about the only colors
to remain unconquered by the atmosphere
against a green or earth background,
and when against the sky,
red still flaunts, but white goes out
like the blowing of a candle. This is
probably the reason for the cavalry
guidon having the red on top, and Jor
signal-survey stations using red and
white flags againRt a ground background
and red and green against the
sky."
It Is said that $30,000 Is spent in
cab hire In London every day.
MEASURING HAY IN THE STACK.
Allowance to be Made for Shape ot
Stark and Quality of Hay.
The rules for measuring hay In the
Btack vary according to the length of
time the hay has been stacked, the
kind n.ul quality of the hay, and also
[recording to the character of th s
jtack. With alfalfa or prairie hay
which has been stacked for thirty
dnvs, it Is usual to compute an eight
foot cube or 612 cubic feot us a ton.
When the hay has been stacked five
ar six months, usually a 7 Vfc foot cube
!>r 4 22 cubic feet Is calculated for a
ton. In old stacks which have stood
for a yeai or more a 7 foot cube or
34 2 cubic feet is nllowed for a tou.
There are different methods of
measuring stacks, depending upon it3
size. For a long stack or rlcV: the
us,.:il method is to throw a line over
the stack, measuring the distance
over from the botton on one side to
the bottom on the other; add to thia
the average width of the stack, divide
this sum by four?which equals
one side of the square?and mutiply
the quc^lent by Itself and this product
by the length of the stuck. Thla
will give the number of cubic feet In
the stack, which may he divided by
6 12, 4 22 or 34 3 in order to Ilnd the
number of tons.
For small, low ricks, the rule is to
subtract the width from the over, divide
by two, multiply by tlie width
and multiply the product by the
length, dividing the result by the
number of cubic feet In a ton. There
Is no established rule for measuring
round stacks, but this one will approximate
the contents of a stark of
the ordinary conical form; Find the
biiviiiiiiciuiiuu ai ??r uuuve inr ease
of bulge at a height that will avorage
the base from there to the ground,
find the vertical height of the measured
circumference from the ground
and tho slant height from the circumference
to the top of the stack.
Multiply the circumference by itself,
divide by 100 and multiply by
eight, then multiply the result by the
height of tlie base plus one-third of
the slant, height of the top. The hay
In a round stuck is necessarily lest
compact than In a rectangular stack,
hence a greater number of feet
should be allowed for a ton, v !th
well-settled hay probably 0 12 cubic
feet. The rules given may also bo
used for measuring any kind o.J hay,
straw, cane or kafflr-foddor only approximate
results can be procured by
3tack measurements, because the
fodder is apt to vary greatly In
weight according to the moisture
which it contains.
Wagon Loading Chute.
The accompanying illustration
shows a cheap and convenient loading
chute for handling any kind of
clock that must he londod into a
wagon. A great many farmers never
have any means of loading stock and
claim that the storing and handling
of u heavy loading chute is not worth
> ft i i .. " i r-nrnicjfcja^
Movable Wagon IxiadiiiK Chute.
its convenience. This chute is light
and easy to handle and besides does
not require but very little space to
shelter. v?
The chute is seven foot long. The
bottom is made of two-inch plank
ono foot wide and sufficient in
width to fit inside the wagon box. so
that it is unnecessary to have legs to
support the chute.
Across the bottom two by four
pie ces are spiked to hold the
chute in shape. The side panels are
made of five-inch strips and fastened
to the vertical pieces, which are held
in place by being bolted to the cro3S
pieces on the bottom. The chute is
held in place during loading by
strong hooka.
The cost of construction of this
chute need not exceed one dollar,
and servo useful purpose on farms
when considerable handling of stock
Is constantly going on.
Against Horse Hlinders.
It would seem that blinders on
j bridles for driving and work horse
are worse than worthless. The hie .
of blinders Is to prevent horses from
seeing objects at which they might
scare. A horse writer says that
blinders have proven more disas
trous than beneficial. If a horse
passes some object that is not fully
understood by him, and causes
fright, the shutting off from view of
this scarecrow by blinders only increases
the fear.
Any horse of ordinary good sense
can soon be taught not to scare at
flags, cars, covered wagons, umbrellas,
etc., by letting him see them and
understand them.
Give the horse the full power of
his senses; let him see, hear and
smell, If need be, to satisfy his fears.
^ -Indiana Farmer.
Alfalfa as Poultry Pood.
Alfalfa meal has great value as o
poultry food. The best alfalfa meal
contains more than 18 per cent, ot
protein, while wheat bran contains a
little more than 12 percent, and clover
meal from 6 to 7 per cent. As
protein is the most costly and most
valuable part of any feed stuff, It
follows that alfalfa meal Is more
valuable than any other single vegetable
feed, pound for pound
PREFERS CHARGES.
Another Sensation Created in the
Wal bulla Methodl.st Church.
A letter from Wulhalla to The
State says It will be recalled that
Boine weeks ago there was an unusual
and sensational service at the
Wallialla Methodist church, when its
pastor, Rev. J. C. Younge, made most
humble apologies for certain articles
written derogatory to certain ofllcers
in the Methodist church.
On that day Rev. Coke D. Mann,
who is a resident there and a member
of the house of representatives
and former pastor of Walhalla church
arose and said that there wore evil
men in the Methodist church and if
some 0110 did not check their work
the church was going to tho bad in
South Carolina.
Things had quieted down; nothing
more was scarcely heard of the
events of that day. Hut on Sunday
after the pastor's sermon, Mr. Mann
asked that he bo allowed to make a
statement. This he did in language
most scathing and denunciatory. He
narrated briefly the various efforts he
had made to prefer charges against a
presiding elder, and all without success.
He told of the manner of his own
trial, where the presiding elder was
the presiding oflicer, prosecutor and
chief witness and after a trial lasting
several hours, with only the witI
nesses for the prosecution sworn,
'that he (Mr. Mann) was exonerated.
He made an unmerciful attack upon
the veracity of the presiding elder,
saying that he had as much confidence
in his veracity as he did in
that of Lemerick Gadsden of Christopher
Williams, two well known
negro characters of the town.
Mr. Mann sain ho was very anxious
to prove his charges and that he
stood ready to fight, these alleged
falsifiers in the church at any time
and in any way they chose to come at
him.
GAMHLEH KILLS (JAMBLER.
Loser at Cards Murders Winner and
Takes Money From Pockets.
Henry Manigault and James Lewis
played cards in Savannah, Ga., on
Sunday. Luck was with Lewis and
he soon won $50, all the money Manigault
had. Manigault accused him
of cheating, got a repeating rifle aifd
went hunting for him.
Manigault learned that Lewis had
hid on a train that was about to pull
out. He moved up the track about
3 00 yards and as the train came on
slowly. Manigault covered the engineer
and ordered him to stop. The
engineer paid no attention and Manigault
sent a bullet through the cab.
The engineer then stopped.
Meanwhile Lewis leaped from the
train and ran. Manigault sent three
bullets after him, all of which took
effect. Manigault then ran to the
dying man and took from his pockets
the $50 he had loss at cards. He
then held a Crowd at oay with his
rifle and escaped.
REVIVED 15Y RELATIVES.
A Man Who Was Hanged Drought
Rack To Life.
It is reported that John Arm
strong, tne negro nangeu at coiumbus,
Texas, Friday, April 19, for wife
murder, revived after being placed
in the coflln, and when delivered to
his brother at Scaly for burial was
given medical attention.
It Is declared that Armstrong is
now living, and that friends and relatives
are keeping the fact quiet,
fearing the state may again step in.
The fact that the negro's feet touched
the ground when he was hanged
lends credence to the report.
If Armstrong is living, he will be
the only living man who has paid
the death penalty. The fact that he
was pronounced dead at the hanging
renders the state powerless to enforce
the death penalty, it is said.
MOSTLY IN THE PAPERS.
County People Not Interested in
Proposed New County.
The St. Matthews correspondent of
The State says more aggitation on
the subject of a new county has been
conducted by the various county papers
and their correspondents than
by the peoplo who are most interested.
One meeting was held in that
portion of Lexington county that was
to be Included in the new county,
but results were not so satisfactory
In fact no definite steps toward the
formation of a new county have been
taken, such as suveying the lines,
etc., and these lines must be estab1
L.V, IUa TM
USUtUI UUIUIU LIH3 I t3ttl ll&Ill IJ^Kllia. All
the meantime friends holding each
vlow of the subject are lining up for
the fight.
The Philadelphia Record suggests
that President Roosevelt direct Secretary
Cortelvou and Treasurer Bliss
to publish a detailed account of the
receipts and expenditures of the republican
national campaign committee.
This is calculated to make Mr.
Cortelyou wriggle if not to talk.
Over in London recently a man
slew a prominent citizen, and there
was supposed to be a tremendous
social sensation back of the affair.
The murderer has just been sentenced
to death, after a trial which
lasted one day and at which he entered
a plea of insanity. In certain
ways the English are not so slow.
Washington political gossips now
say that President Roosevelt has decided
on Cortelyou as his successor,
and that all the power of the administration
is to be exerted to force
his nomination by the Republican
party.
PROFESSIONAL. CARPS. I
W. K. McCORD,
SURGEON DENTIST.
OONWAT, S. O.
Ortr Buk of Horry
H. II. WOODWARD (
Attorney and Councolor At Law. 1
OONWAT. 8. O. i
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D. WOFFORD WAIT. I
Attorney at Law.
OONWAY, 8. C. 1
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Office In Spirey Building.
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OONWAT MARKET.
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Fresh Meats and San- 1
sage always on hand.
Orders are taken and
promptly delivered
every day.
GEO. L MARSH.
Proprietor.
H. H. BURROUGH9
Physician and Surgeon.
CONWAY, 8. C.
R. B. SCARBKOUGH
CONWAY, B. C.
Attorney at Iaw.
The Chicago Record-Herald says
that Abraham Lincoln would not feel
flattered by the claims of many people
that they look like him. Rut ,
if Lincoln were sensitive he would
have been heart-broken long ago
over the claims of republican newspapers
that they thought like him.
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LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS.
SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS
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Robert B. Scarborough,
H. L. Buck,
Oeorgo J. Holiday,
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The Horry lerald
CONWAY. S. C.
Thursday, May 16, 1907.
Rest is the greet restorer. We tire
jur muscles by exercise end then rest
to restore them; yet a greet 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 giva signs of
distress to whleh 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 normal
activity and usefullness. Kodol is
sold on a guarantee relief plan. It is
sold here by Conway Drug Co.
A Boston woman filed a petition
In bankruptcy in the forenoon and
was married in the evening. Her
husband may file a petition in bankruptcy
a little later.
What Is it that tastes as pleasant aa
maple sugar and quickly relieves
coughs and colds? Mothers who hnvo
used it will quickly answer: "Kennedy's
Laxative Cough Syrup." Tho
pleasant cold remedy that expels the
cold through Its laxative action on
the bowels. Conforms strictly to the
pure Food and Drugs Law. Contains
no opiates. Sold by Conway Drug
Company.
When a man is In 100 great a hur'ie
is apt to make a
fool of himself. \
Either you hate your relatives for
having money or you despise them
for not having it.
Use Kennedy's Laxative Cough
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
continuity to the Pure Food and
Drugs Law. Recommended and sold
by Conway Drug Co. ,,
CONWAY.
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|It? axcalknt Mtfafaction. It I* a well w?d 1
nation, far superior to the decoctions and mixble
mail order whiskey bounce at $3.00 to $3.50
pecial price on CAROLINA WHISKEY to show
any kind of competition Our plants eovcr four
largest mail order whiskey house in tho world.
I.FS FREE. Cut out this advertisement and
? ? return It with $2.95 and we
ess 6 fall quarts ol Carolina Whiskey and we
?ox, complimentary, a sample bottto of each,
md" and Casper's 12 Year Old White Corn.
e deliver the aoove express prepaid anywhr#
erlnla and West Virginia. Unit customers li\J
T by Adams or Southern Express Compatf
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