Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It is a place of pilgrimage to Scotsmen all over the world, this holy place where the noblest heroes and the humblest creatures are all remembered to gether. * ^ Daughter’s Temper Not Improved by Education The Church of England high school for girls at Haifa, Palestine, is attend ed by Moslems, Jews and P.aliai, to gether with Armenian, English and Ureek Ortlmdox Christians. The school believes that all forms of education should rest on the solid foundation of religion. Scripture is given first place [n the school curriculum. The rule is »at all must assemble in the early lorning to ask God's blessing on the work of the day. Parents expect a great deal from this school. “Have I not already paid fifty piastres for Han nah’s education,” said an irate Arab father one morningii “and have I not told you that all this money was not spent only that my daughter may he clever in history and geography but that she should learn first of nil to he a good girl? How can you defend yourself, for Hannah has already been two weeks in your school and yet she is still a little she-Satan at home?”— Exchange, v ~ ' ~~ For Marital Success If two people are congenial in tastes, have mutual interests, and ap ply to their home making and mar riage contract half of the principles of good business that they do to out side Interests, success in most cases is assured. Troubles may come—and they do to every couple—but people seem equal to these real emergencies. It’s the straw that breaks the camel’s hack, you know, and it’s the little tilings of life that count for the most. I.lttle courtesies must be remembered and eacli party should endeavor to be a good sport and play falf. A woman who nags is never a beloved woman, and the man who has a perpetual grouch becomes a person to he >en- •dured. Affection may be strong but it seldom survives constant criticism, In- ■differeuce and carelessness of personal appearance.—Rachel Ann Neiswender in Household Magazine. Cricket “Alarm Clocks** A novel custom among the Japanese Is the keeping of singing crickets which they use like watch dogs—only the warning of the cricket is directly opposite from that of the dog, writes taymond L. Ditmars, naturalist, in leys’ Life. The crickets are kept in cases not unlike bird cages and sing all through the night. When some body walks across the floors, which shake because they are laid on bam boo rods, the vibration frightens the crickets and they stop singing. Then everybody wakes up—from the unusu al silence. Bees Not Wax Collectors It is a common mistake to suppose that honey bees collect wax from flow ers. Beeswax is a product of diges tion and is secreted by the workers in the form of tiny scales which ap pear between the segments on the under side of the abdomen. The no tion that bees collect wax from flow ers undoubtedly arose from the fact that they collect pollen, which is car ried to the hive in small masses at tached to the hairs of the hind legs. This pollen, often confused with wax, Is converted into bee-bread by mixing it with honey. Pope Guided by Council pope of Rome personally does inul or dissolve a marriage, there Is petition for the nunul- >f a marriage In the Roman lc church or In which a Roman ic is Involved on the ground of want of ago. waal of content tr valid reason, the matter la •red by the Rota, a on promo •f the Romsb CtlbMIf rhmirb. fca laiftli and the • 4*rt*twfiw* In v\ Typical “Row House” of Rural Iceland. (Prepared by the National Oeographle Society. Washington, D. C.l I CELAND’S celebration, this sum mer of the thousandth anniversary of the organization of her popular assembly, the Althing, finds a country that has advanced like the rest of the world in its chief city, hut has retained the simple life in its rur al districts. So simple is rural life that In many paVts of the island the villages ami farms are not connected by roads; only trails exist, and all travel is done on pony back. The island’s one sizable Qjty Is Reykjavik, the capital. Of the 104,- 000 people in Iceland, about 25,000 live in Reykjavik. Politics was responsible for the first settlement in Iceland, and fish brought about its development. Ingolf and Hjorleif, two disgruntled chiefs of Norway who refused to acknowledge Harald Haafager, the first Norwegian king, settled on the southern shore of the island in 871 A. D. When the value of the fishing grounds found by these pioneers became known, a num ber of Scandinavian settlements came into existence. For hundreds of years Reykjavik was only a small fishing village and trading post. But the village had the good fortune to be situated on one of the best available harbors. As the population of Iceland increased and .commerce grew, this spacious harbor became a popular haven for trading vessels, ami steadily tjie citv .grew. To the visitor approaching by water, Reykjavik’s commercial aspect con ceals all evidence of the fact that this city has been the capital of Ice land sjuce 1800 and its s^aTorTeafn- Ing. Scores of fishing craft and com- mercial vessels, battered by the sea and in need of paint, 'dot Hie anchor age. The quays are lined with ware houses, and Tiere and there along the shore are cod-drying grounds, white with slabs of fish. Anchored vessels may be seen filling their holds with alternate layers of fresh fish and salt, thus preserving the fish for a quick trip to northern European ports. Scenes in Reykjavik. After one lands, however, and enters the city, commerce is no longer domi nant. Broad streets are lined with rather gaudily painted wooden and corrugated iron houses. Along the streets American automobiles dart. The Asturvollura, the city square, is the center of Interest in Reykjavik. Facing it is the great stone house in which the thousand-year-old Althing meets every two years. On another side is the cathedral, built of stone, but with a tower of wood. It was built In 1847. In the center of the square is a statue of Thorvaldsen, fa mous sculptor of Iceland. This statue was a gift from the city of Copen hagen in 1874. In another part of the city are the buildings of the Iceland university, which was only recently established— 1911. In the same section are the mu seum and library, the latter housing 80,000 hooks and manuscripts. In the museum is a collection of Icelandic antiquities, geological specimens, and objects of industrial art. A unique ^feature of the capital city Is its public laundry of naturally heat ed water from hot springs that were once geysers. Because of the lack of roads in many parts of the island all the travel is done on pony back. But out from Reykjavik, Akureyri, and even smaller townp, roads are reaching farther and farther; afid Icelanders vision the day —many of them not without sadness— when the pony will lose his all impor tant place in the Icelandic transpor tation system, and when automobiles will bowl along over a network of highways that penetrates even the seared volcanic wastes of the interior. Farming and fishing are the chief industries. Forty-seven thousand Shet land ponies are raised, chiefly for ex port, and the sheep number about 900.- 000. During the short summer season many vegetables can be raised, but the pocatoea grow only to the size of walnuts. TW grass la usaaily cat by hand hseaaae tt la as short, and the abate feast!jr tabes pact la the heytac The language in use today is the same as the ancient language of all Scandinavian countries, the Icelanders alone having preserved it, chiefly due to the remoteness of their island. Since December 1, 1918, Iceland has been recognized as an independent state, united with Denmark only through the identity of the sovereign. The island is about 310 miles long from east to west and 190 miles wide from north to south, with an area of 40,000 square^ miles. • More than one-eighth of the island is covered with glaciers, and an equal area is covered with old lava fields. An automobile trip over one of these fields of desolation shows a picture of destruction ditflcult to describe. In the small country villages the meals are excellent. But the hosts are very apologetic for being unable to provide what they think the visitor would like to eat. Naturally the tinned food which is a luxury to them, and to which travelers are more than accustomed, can very well he omitted in favor of their fresh chicken, excel lent haddock, and fresh-water salmon. In Iceland, as In Norway, many plants and flowers are grown Indoors, and seme especially large geranium blooms are to be seen. •r *» •*« # • • >*>%'** m ffegNpRau IP Hill fpppi bp«* tMP bPPPfl IP apaMp tftp pliHPWf ptpry Ip bpR4 He pwp J^hap^^Pl^ft. Ip RmpUi Africm. km wp bp»w, mm ay pf ppv H—llPe IP* •tnppepta had their prigtp Ip far-«dl refit urtr*. hot aurprlringly epopgh thp teleoeope does not aeem to have been developed until the Seventeenth cen tury. Although the famous traveler. Sir Richard Burton, claimed that the telescope was know n to Arabian scien tists many years before this time, the father of the modern Instrument was produced In 1G08 by Haos Llppershlem of Mlddleburg. At once the Import ance of the Invention was realized, and telescopes were on sale ,ln Paris within a year. Galileo, the famous astronomer, heard of the Dutchman’s invention, and immediately made a telescope himself, and on the first night that he used it, in 1G10, discov ered three of Jupiter’s moons. A year later Kepler invented the astronomical telescope. UMi rf «• rnn have In 4b Ip iSfcUui imw w«n «• to wash ibal thorvmghir with Liquid Bnrnannr th* nvwWn antiwp. tic You can g* LmiukI Boroaocw, in a rise to fit your needs and purse, from Epps* Pharmacy, Blackville, S. C. R. A. Deaton, Barnwell, S. C. far . Clemenceau’s Mind Saw Beauty in Nothingness Shortly before his death, “Tiger’’ Clemeneeau spoke quite freely on his philosophy of life. “Men do not amuse me any more,” he said. “I find that they attach too much Importance to themselves. A man consecrates his entire life to beetles and in the end never sees any thing in the world hut beetles.” Asked what he thought about life after death he said: “I don’t know who had the first idea .of Paradise. He must have found life too short, that fellow. Happy man! He wanted it to go on, with a less stupid government and with more amusing di versions. “But nothingness is really superior to Paradise. Paradise is an improve ment—nothingness is perfection. With nothingness, everything arranges It self perfectly.” „ V • : T. B. Ellla J. B. Elite in if a «aa*- •f lipiMiaHIfuu a lira to ahute by th# ruin and iwfuteUena af lb* Democratic primary atectlofi and to •upper! the nomineea of the party. R. C. HOLMAN. ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Land Surveying a Specialty. < Lyndhurst, 8. C t Candidates’ Cards For Congress. Beaufoit, S. C., June 3, 1930. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for election to Congress from the Second Congressional District of South Carolina, pledging myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. ^ CLAUDE M. AMAN. Williston, S. C, June 18, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Representative in the General Assembly from Barn* well County, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of tha Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. JAS. ARTHUR KENNEDY. Historic House Rebuilt For Iceland's millennial celebration an early Icelander'a house that was burned 819 years ago was reconstruct- ^ Tli£ u^w house duplicates, as nearly as p5>*ibTe, tTie fiUtoric home of one of Iceland's greatest lawyers— Njal. He was learned la the volumi nous and technical law of Viking Ice land before William the Conqueror Brought the F.ngllsh Jury system to England on the end of a Norman sp?tr. Iceland has rebuilt Njal's home be cause the fame of his legal skill, to gether with the story of his death amid melodramatic scenes, has been preserved In one of the mo».t cher ished of Iceland’s sagas. “The Story of Burnt Njal.” The saga came into being eleven years after Lief Eric- son’s Journey from Greenland to Amer ican shores, which was In the year 1000 A. D. The appearance of many Viking Jiousos resembled a atreet of modern row houses in easteru L’uited State* and seaboard citi«*M. The triangular Viking gable ends ranging in a line suggested a series of cottages shoul der to shoulder, but each Viking gable roof usually sheltered a single room. The whole sprawling Viking house of many gables was connected hy a nar row hall that linked the rooms in the same way that covered passages link up the many buildings of a New Eng land farmhouse. Turf often roofed the Viking’s house, and in spring he lived beneath a carpet of wild flowers. I Interior of the Residence. Leading men of the island, such as Njal, usually had one high-roofed, large hall in their houses. This hall had three divisions lengthwise; a nave and two low side aisles separated by low stonfc walls. The high roof of the nave was supported hy two lines of W'ooden pillars brought over stormy seas from Norway in the small Viking ships. This hail was a sleeping, eat ing and living room for the chief and ids detainers. Some of these halls, which served as eating, living and sleeping rooms, were very large. One in Iceland was 200 feet long and 00 feet wide. Down the center of the hall was one long fireplace. The smoke from the fire found its way out through holes cut high up in the roof. Benches for the family, servants and retainers ran along eacli side of the long fireplace. In the low-roofed aisles parallel to the long axis of the hall were bunks for sleeping. These hunks usually had swinging doors which locked on the Inside so that the sleeper could lock himself In his comoamnent. Such a house was burned down over Njal* bead. Njal had been too socceatfal In the Iceland courts. He knew Icelandic law so well be could repeat It all from memory. So be. bte •mm. aad bte frWads and aenaots wort attacked by a rival c*a& tetcb flpoara aad battle auaa (bay beat atf tflm ettarW* wfce flmaitf am iaa ta a ■M dMNtew mam saamflrimfl To an “Amiable Child’* There is a monument near Grant’s tomb in New York, the inscription on which reads: “Erected to the memory of an amiable child, St. Clair Bollock, died July 15,1797, fifth year of his age. Man that is boj;n of woman is of few* years, and full of trouble. He cometh fortli like a flower and is cuj dow n. He Ueeth also as a shadow and continueth not.” The child was the nephew of George Bollock, a New York merchant who at one time owned Claremont. In this conveyance of the property in 1800 he stat^j: “There is a small inclosure near your boundary fence within which lies the remains of a favorite cMTil, covered by a marble monument. You will convey a pecu- liqr and Interesting favor upon me allowing me to convey . . . keeping It, however, always enclosed and sacred. There Is a white marble funeral urn prepared to place on the monument which will not lessen Its beauty.” I hereby- announce myself as a camRdate for reelection to Congress from the 2nd District of South Caro lina, pledging myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. BUTLER B. HARE. ( Stories by the Yard A literary man, or rather a waiter of best-sellers, is iu the habit of typing several thousand words of fiction every day. He always noticed, how’- ever, that every time he had to change the paper in his machine, be broke his train of thought and thus caused him self considerable annoyance and loss of time. So now he has lilt upon the device of using a roll of perforated typing paper which unwinds itself onto the typewriter. Not only is this simple and effective, but It gives him the novel sensation of being able to measure his outpqt, hot in the num ber of words, but In yards! Operation Saved Gull** Life If seagulls are like people there Is one gull fiying around somewhere over Lake Michigan braggiQg to his fellow gulls about his “operation.” He swal lowed a tasty bit and found It had a fish hook in it with a boy on the other end of the line. The boy hauled the gull in, but could not remove the hook. An employee of a hospital was pass ing. He carried the gull to the hos pital, where two doctors removed the hook, using au anesthetic. The gull soon regained consciousness, wabbled about drunkealy for a while, marched toward a window, and flew out over the lake. Unsatisfactory In Orange county, divorce court & woman was suing because she said her husband had received kisses over a telephone. The husband, while ad mitting the charge, claimed that it was no cause for divorce. “My goodness, your honor!” he re monstrated, “do you know what a kiss over the telephone Is like?” His honor protested his ignorance. “Wall,” said the defendant, “It s like dreaming about something to eat w hen you go to bed hungry.”—Loa Angeles Times. Aiken, S. C., June 21, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to Congress from the Second Congressional District of South Carolina, pledging myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. JOHN F. WILLIAMS. For Judge of Probate. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Judge of Probate for Barnwell Coun ty, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. JOHN K. SNELLING. For County Treasurer. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of treasurer for Barnwell County, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. J. J. BELL. * 1 For Auditor. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Auditor for Barnwell County, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, and to support the nominees of the party. W. H. MANNING. For Superintendent of Education. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Superintendent of Education for Barn well County, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. HORACE J. CROUCH. ,Barnwell, S. C., June 17, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of County Superin tendent of Education, pleding myself to abide by the rules and regulations cf the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the ; party. B. S. MOORE, JR. Arkansas Breathing Ids mild protest agaiast * great Aatrrtraa game of bluff and rag. a ttertg tail aibtru—a tha Ar- Csl “Da tea bat fl For House of Representatives. Blackville, May 26, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Representative in the Genertl Assembly from Barn well County, pledging myself to abide by the rules sad regulations of the Democratic primary election aad to •apport the aaaataeae of the party W W rus Williston, May 14, 1930. J hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Representative in the General Assembly from Barn well County, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. WINCHESTER C. SMITH, JR. For Magistrate at Barnwell. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Barnwell, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary election and to support the nominees of the paity. W. P. SANDERS. - I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Barnwell, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. DALLIS CREIGHTON I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Barnwell, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. J. M. DIAMOND. 4 For Ma/istrate at Hilda. I hereby announce. myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Hilda, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary elec tion, pledging myself to abide by the results and support the nominee* of the party. . ‘ ' W. R. BLACK. ^ I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Hilda, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic .primary election and to support the ncmintos of the party. . W. L. HARLEY. I hereby announce tnyself A candi date for reelection to the office of Magistrate at Hilda, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. ^ PAUL H. SANDERS. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the office of Magistrate at Hilda, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulationi of the Democratic primary and to support the nominees of the party. LAURIS BLACK. For Magistrate at Dunbarton. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Dunbarton, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. J. LEE ALL. For Magistrate, Red Oak Township. Snelling, May 14, 1930. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate, Red Oak Township, pledging myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election and to support the nominees of the party. J. ALLEN HILL. For Magistrate at Blackvflte. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Blackville, pledging myself to ahide hy the rales and regulations of At Democratic primary election and In support the nomlneoe of the party. P. t ALLEN. m le • 1 1 hereby dosa for the efftee of M a a c I by the flUf so -