Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Great Pacolet Flood rill cause touirh times with some folks, but. ^lf you will come to my store I will sell cheau for cash. Good Flour Best patent Chattanooga. Tenn., made, White Satin, for <2 .20 per 100 lbs. Call at once and see me. ’Phone 23. W. J.JVIANESS, JE IN THE SWIM 7 Give me your clotlies to clean, press or dye and you will always look nice and stylish. Old suits made to look like new. Experienced workmen and prompt ser vice rendered. ^ W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor. Over \V. U. Telegraph Olliee. William S. Hall, Jr. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT CAW. STAR THEATRE BLOQ. O A. ECY. ». O. Notary Public in office. Prompt attention fflven to all business. J. EMILE HARLEY, Attorney-at- Law, Gaffney, - - S. C. \Notary public. All business receives prompt and careful attention MONEY TO LOAN ONlllEAL ESTATE >r. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. A \ 'Office over NationaluBank. V -————_ .' J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. OfHce upstairs, between R. A. Jones and Davenport. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, u ic >j 'r i« r Office in Star Theatre Building. Phone No. 20. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist. Office Over?|The Battery. ’Phone 82. Ninety Per Cent of all chronic headaches are due to eye strain. Go to Dr. Griffith at the Chero kee Drug Co.’s and have the defect in vision corrected, and thus be QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY CURED. Glasses Fitted With Scientific Accu racy and all the diseases of the Eye, ^Ear, Nose and Throat treated according to the latest and most approved methods. ETHICS OF KISSING. The manager of one of the most successful furniture houses in Greater New York was asked to what one thing, in his opinion, the success of the concern was most due. He replied: “The founder of the firm was a p ^at believer in advertising, and to this fact may be ascribed the enormous business we are handling.” There is no business, however small, that cannot be increased by judicious, systematic, per sistent advertising. The giant oak does not gain its strength in a day. Magnificent buildings are not reared all at once, nor can their strength and beauty be appreciated until the finishing touches are put on. Is your business satisfactory? Are you making headway? Are you using to the best advantage the greatest of all business lev ers—advertising? If you are satisfied that you are, well and good; if not, drop in and talk it over with us. We have advertising apace to sell, and advertising is a part of our busmesa. Perhaps wa can help you. A WOMAN’S VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT OF OSCULATION. yMaMMNNaMWMWMMMMMMMMaMMMMMIMM Clifton Views Place your orders here for the best and most comprehensive views of the Clifton disaster. Six Photos in Set, full 8x10, mounted on fine large cards 11x14, suitable for framing; best Aristo finish, 50 cents each. Mail orders sent postpaid upon receipt of price. :: :: :: JUNE H. CARR, 625 Limestone St. Phone 176. Residence 171. ITor-^* Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans Shingles. Portland Cement, Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Cans, call on ava a m a_wa wwv CARROLL & CO., Lessees. Taieuhone A Season of Danger You’re wise if you have an Insurance Policy safe and sure. If you have not, you run a good deal of risk. The ex cessive heat and the dangers of travel ’ at this season all make life A Little More Uncertain I Get your Insurance arranged by the Aetna Life Insurance Company, then your work or your vacation will lie more care-free. * Jones J. Darby, Agt. GAFFNEY. S. C. M> business can possibly be successful that is twt adver tised. This is a sweeping statement, but it is true. There are lome merchants in this community whose experience apparently contradicts the statement. The contradiction, however, is only apparent. If they have attained any degree of success they have advertised. They have let people know what they had to sell, what they were here for and what they proposed to do. Just in proportion to the thorough ness with which they have done this and met the conditions of their competitors they have suc ceeded. If they have used the newspa pers they have worked with the best tools so far as getting pub licity is concerned. If they have worked without the newspapers they have been handicapped and have not attained the highest possible measure of success. A fertile seed planted in fertile ground, carefully watered, will thrive and bear fruit. A properly organized business, in any inhabited place, well advertised will succeed. The law ef growth is as certain and inexorable in one case as the othes. OUR HOUSE IS Weekly Adding the Latest Tilings IN OXFORDS * AND * SHOES ITor Men, a.client and Children • See Ue Before You Buy Th« R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Co. Next door to Cherokee Drug Co. Tlioiip Men Tpon Whom a Modest Malden May Lavish Kisses Without Compunction nnd Those Toward Whom She Should IMay the Miser. There are still occasions, however rare, when inactivity, much as it has fallen into disfavor, continues to be masterly. When a modest maiden is in doubt as to whether or no she should kiss or allow herself to be kissed by any man not related to her by close ties of consanguinity, she best Bisplays her wisdom by giving herself, not him, the benefit of the doubt and so refrain ing from osculation. An absolutely safe list of men whom it is allowable to kiss might be com piled from the list given in the Book of Common Prayer of persons whom it is forbidden to marry. There can be no possible Impropriety In any woman’s being kissed by her father, grandfather, brother, uncles, etc., whenever occa sion may offer. Still, public opinion is much less in favor of kissing than of yore, and affectionate greetings are no longer considered good form in mar ket places or what answers for them In the present generation. To the prayer book may be added cousins within the degrees forbidden In marriage by the Roman Catholic church, but these in moderation. The young man cousin who is greedy in the matter of kisses from his pretty cousin is not to be trusted. He Should be denied And set aside and mortified. Kisses of greeting or parting, of good night, good morning and of congratu lation are still general, although by no means so frequent as they were for merly. Indeed, kissing as a practice is much less popular than It once was. Between doctors and tlie moralists It Is constantly falling more and more Into disfavor, while, still more fatal, Fash ion, with a big F, sets her face as a Hint against all demonstrations of feel ing as ill bred. All the same, the man who becomes engaged to he married, as a usual thing, expects a kiss from his fiancee to seal the bargain, not for publication, so to say, but as a guarantee of good faith on her part. If she Is willing to promise to marry him, he reasons, she ought to be willing to let blm kiss her. Moreover, he desires a kiss or kisses upon general principles as something to which he is entitled by the unwrit ten law of tradition. On the other hand, the party of the second part has herself to consider in the matter. A woman should be sure of her own bona fide Intentions of matrimony and dou bly sure of those of her lover before she sets such a sign and seal to the contract. Engagements of marriage are by no means irrefragible, and she who kisses least Is likely to have least cause for future regret. At all events a prudent woman will wait until the engagement is announced before she permits any kissing. There are men who have serious objections to marry ing any woman who has boon engaged to another man, for the simple reason that they do not choose that any man shall be able to say of the woman whom they take to wife that he has kissed her as her lover. It matters lit tle, rather more, that the kisses have been given in good faith to an affianced husband. It’s a way men have. Sir, she's yours! You have brushed from the grape its soft blue; From the rosebud you’ve shaken the deli cate dew. What you’ve touched you may take— A noted “lady killer” of a past gener ation who had been engaged many times and who boasted to his intimates that no woman had ever refused an of fer of his hand in marriage was once asked why In that case he was still a bachelor. “Because I am waiting until I can find a woman who will not per mit me to kiss her before we are mar- vied,” he replied. Even tbougli a woman be fully as sured of the iucvitableness lu due time of her marriage she will be wise not to be too liberal of her caresses. Most things in this wor'd are rated us valua ble in direct proportion to their rarity. Were diamonds as common as pebbles they would he worth no more commer cially than the common stones of the beach and highway. Moreover, one may have too much of a good thing. King Midas’ story is an old one. “Too much water drowned the miller.” It is a com mon practice with confectioners to al low a new apprentice all the candy which he or she can eat, cer-Jn that in a little while the surfeit of w’ *t will destroy all taste for sugar ii> any form. It ts human nature essentially to tire of what we have much of and to prize most the fruit which hangs highest and is most difficult to obtain. Consequently the woman who is chary of her favors, who is niggardly even with her caresses, will find that ber lover values them all the more, and that his respect, as well as bis affec tion, for ber becomes the greater in proportion as be hopes rather than is sure of ber. It has long been a maxim that no man shall kiss and tell; never* tbeless, the woman la safest by far of whom there Is nothing which It were better it were left untold.—Helen Old- Veld in Chicago Tribune. A BIASED SON OF ERIN. Ilia Orlsrlnal Nniorratlnn For Ea- lurKinK O'Sullivan Cuncade. In his “Recollections” Aubrey de Vere tells of an Irishman he met in Switzerland with whom patriotism was so truly a mania that every word in praise of the scenery about him seemed a distinct aspersion on the land of his birth. "What can you compare here,” lie demanded, “with the mountains of Wicklow?” “Perhaps,” said a traveler, “one might name the mountains of the Mont Blanc range.” “Oh,” he replied scornfully, “they’re out of all reason! I am after walking along the Charnouni valley for three days and I saw only four of those mountains. Sure, in Wicklow I’d have counted as many as eight of them in three hours.” “Have you seen this wonderful wa terfall within half a mi>e of us?” “I have not seen it, and I am not go ing to see it. Didn’t I see the O’Sulli van cascade at Klllarney? Down it comes from such a height that you don’t know, where it comes from. Down It plunges, thundering and bellowing, sometimes black as ink and sometimes white as milk, dashing itself against the right hand rocks and smashing it self against the left hand ones. What Is your Handeck fall compared to that?” “Some persons would say,” was the reply, “that the waterfall here is about ten times as high and six times as broad.” “Ah, then,” said he, with an added note of scorn, “then the O’Sullivan cas cade is not big enough for you? And iell me this now: Couldn’t you take a magnifying glass to it?” Chlnt-Me KnKHKenieutM. A Chinese engagement dates its be ginning from the exchange of red cards between the parents of the contracting parties. These cards in many districts are immense documents, almost the size of u horse blanket. They are im portant for the reason that they are used as evidence in case of disagree ments in the future. We seldom hear in China of broken engagements. Yet if a quarrel cannot he settled peaceful ly recourse is had to the law, and the judge usually imposes a fine upon the party who has broken the contract The chief incident in a Chinese mar riage is the arrival of the bride in her bridal clothes before the house of her chosen one. That is a de facto fulfill ment of the contract. The wedding day is determined by the parents of the groom. The imperial calendar names the lucky days, and on such days the so called red celebrations take place, both in the cities and country. ’ Privileged Person. Caller—Well, the nerve of thatl Merchant—What’z that? Caller—Why, didn’t you bear that snip of a boy referring to you at “Bill?” Merchant—Sb! Tbafa our office boy. So long as I can pretend I didn’t bear blm ifa all right—Catbollc Standard and Times. At twenty love is a rosy dream, thirty It is a thrilling reality, a' it is a calm contentment at fifty reminiscence. at INGENIOUS TORTURES. Cruelties of Panlnhment Inflicted on Offender* In Morocco. In Morocco the torture ot offenders, real and suspected, has been and is still much practiced. Much Ingenuity Is shown in the infliction of pain—such devices as the rubbing of red pepper in to the eyeballs, tying up the wrists at a height from the ground, etc. At the death of the late sultan a pre tender proclaimed himself the rightful heir to the throne’ and hafl a certain success. When presently overcome by the legitimate authorities, he was poized, thrown down, when chillies were applied to the inside of his mouth till it swelled with pain, and he was desired to shout out his titles and qual ities as much as he pleased, being of course unable to utter a word. After that he was thrown into jail to rot there till he died. A refinement of cruelty is the torture of the “iron glove,” as it is called. A lump of quicklime is placed In a man’s hand, which is closed up into a fist. Then the fist is tightly bound with leather thongs and plunged into a tub of cold water. The agony soon becomes extreme. The torture is continued for eight or ten days until In the end mortification ensues and probably death. Again, a form of “lying up” is to chain or fasten a man to a wall, with his arms extend ed so that he can only escape strangu lation by standing on tiptoe.—Kansas City Independent. The Leverage lu a Screwdriver. It Is sometimes supposed by persons imperfectly informed in mechanics that a loug screwdriver gives greater lev erage than a short one. This, how ever, is incorrect. The action of a screwdriver, the pressure on which is direct, is not in any way analogous to Hurt of a lever. The superiority of a long screwdriver rests simply on two facts—first, you can generally get a better grip on u long screwdriver than on a short one and can bring the whole weight of the body and strength of the arms to bear on it, and, second, the tftr- siou of the iron in a long screwdriver comes in to supplement the force em ployed. The only way in which lever age can come in is in connection with the breadth of the point of the screw driver, and even this counts for noth ing beyond the breadth of the head of the screw. An Irish Squire’* Advice. An upstart Irish squire went to an old squire for advice as to sending a challenge. “Healy of Loughlinstown,” said be, “has threatened to pull me by the nose whenever be meets me. What would you advise me to do?” “Has he really used that threat?” asked the squire. “He has.” “Well,” said the squire, “I’ll tell you what to do—soap your nose well and it will slip through his fingers.” Perhaps the most contemptuous dec lination of a challenge was that of an Irish gentleman of the old scbool. “Fight with him!” be exclaimed. “I would rather go to my grave without a fight!”—Kansas City Independent. CHINESE FESTIVALS. Ma*k* and Face*. Masks are of very ancient origin. In a tomb 3,000 years old at Mycenae, Dr. Schliemanu found two bodies with faces covered by masks of gold. One of the masks represented the head of a Uou. Among ancient Greeks the lion mask was a sign of distinction. With the Peruvians of old It was a mark of royal lineage. In a grave of considera ble antiquity In Peru a silver mask was found on the bead of a mummy. The mummy of a prince who lived in the reign of Rameses II., discovered in a small vault at Memphis, in Egypt, bad a mask of gold leaf over the face. Quickly Arranged. A Chicago mother, on hearing that ber sister had received a new little girl, said to Lillian, ber little daughter: “Lillian, auntie has a new baby, and now mamma la the baby's aunt Papa Is the baby’s uncle, and you are her lit tle cousin.’’ “Well,” said Lillian wonderlngly, “wasn’t that arranged quick?” He Wee. “What’a the matter, Bill? You look kind of weather beaten this morning.” “Tbafa exactly what I am. I bet f5 It would rain yesterday, and it didn’t” -Chicago Tribune. Relieved. Spartacns—Has Cumso that same old Itching after office? Smartacua—No. He was a candidate and everyboly scratched him.—Balti more American. Where Ganneta Swarm. One of the most remarkable sights in the world Is Bird Island, in South Afri ca, for the reason that during some months of the year it is literally cov ered with gannets. Not a foot of ground la to be seen anywhere. Day after day thousands of gannets strut around, and they are so close to each other that the whole island seems actually alive. Those who have seen this sight say that It Is one which can never be for gotten. An Engaging Yonng Persan. Father—So Filmy Luhrlng is engaged to young Rattles? Let me see; wasn’t ■be engaged to somebody else a little while ago? Daughter — Somebody else, father? Why, in our set no engagement is con sidered complete without her.—Brook lyn Life. ■crabbing the Landscape. Hubbub—How bright and clean ev erything looks out here! Subbub—Yes; ,we bad a couple of de tectives scouring the country last week. —Philadelphia Record. The |aw of the shark furnishes the beat watchmaker's oil. In each shark la found about half a pint Sin baa many tools, but a lie is the handle that am them alL—Holmes. 81x Cnrion* Fca*t Day* That Usher In the New Year. The first day of the Cii.nese New Year’s feasts is called Bird’s day (Kay- Yat) and is supposed to bring to mind the utility of the feathered tribes as food. On this day all orthodox Chinese abstain from eating flesh, and they sometimes observe it as a day of fast ing. The second day is Dog's day (Kn- Yat). This day is especially held sa cred to the canine hosts of the Flowery Kingdom. The Chinese, notwithstand ing the fact that they eat the flesh of the dog and esteem it a great delicacy, honor their dogs more highly and take better care of them than any other race of people. In every large Chinese city there is a workman whose sole trade is that of making coffins for departed canines. The third day, Hog’s day (Chen-Yat), is celebrated in honor of a hog that once drew a valuable manuscript out of a bonfire of trash. The fourth feast, Sheep’s day (Y'aong-Yat), is honored in memory of Pun Koon Venga, a shep herd who clothed himself in leaves, grass and bark of tret , refusing to make use of any part of the sheep, ei ther for food or clothing. The fifth day is Cow's day (New-Yat). Tbir day is consecrated to the cow that suck d the orphan who afterward became rici' and built the celebrated Temple of (. rs. The sixth day is Ma-Yat, or Horse day, and is set apart to call to mind the use fulness of that noble animal. A Hat’* Teeth. The rat is remarkably well equipped for the peculiar life he is ordained to lead. He has strong weapons In the shape of four long and very sharp teeth—two In the.upper jaw and two In the lower. These teeth are wedge shaped and by a wonderful provision of nature have always a fine, sharp cutting edge. On examining them care fully the inner part is found to be of a soft, ivorylike composition, which can easily be /worn away, and the outside is composed of a glasslike enamel which is exceedingly hard. The upper teetli work into the under so that the centers of the opposed teeth meet perfectly in the act of gnawing; hence the soft part is being continually worn away, while the bard part keeps a hard, ehisel-like edge all the time, and at the same, time the teeth are con stantly growing up from ttie bottom, so that as they wear away a fresh supply is ready. Should, one of these teetli be removed accident or otherwise, the opposing tooth will continue to grow, nnd there being nothing to wear it away it will project from the mouth nnd be turned upon itself, and if it be an under tooth it will often grow so long ns to penetrate the skull. Notable Painting*. Probably the smallest painting < ver made was the work of the wife of a Flemish artist. It depicted a mill with the sails bent, the miller mounting Uie stairs with a sack of grain on his back. Upon the terrace where the mill stood was a cart and horse, and on the roi-d leading to it several peasants were shown. The_ picture was beautifully finished, and every object was very dis tinct, yet it was so amazingly smal' that its surface, so the story goes could be covered with a grain of corn. In contradistinction fb this the lar gest painting, exclusive of frescoes and panoramas, is Tintoretto's “Paradise.” It is hung in the grand saloon of the doges’ palace at Venice and is 84 feet wide and 34 feet high. Michael Angelo's fresco in the Sistine chapel of the Vatican completely cov ers the vaulted roof, which measures 133 feet in length and 43 feet In width. This painting delineates the creation of man, his fall and the early history of the world, with a reference to man’s final redemption and salvation. Undertaker*. In England in 1614 uialertakers were men of influence who undertook for a consideration to get such persons re turned to parliament as would prove submissive to the royal will of. King Janies I. The three chief undertakers of 1(514 were Lords Bacon, Somerset and Neville. They undertook to bribe the chief speakers and men of influ ence in parliament that year over to the side of the king, with but partial success. Then tliere were undertakers in Ireland In 1008. They were English nnd Scotch colonists sent to north Ire land and were each allotted 2,000 acres of land. They were men of capital and undertook to pay a mark a year for every six acres and to admit no recu sant for tenants. Hence the name us applied to them. But neither the his tories nor the dictionaries give any rea son for calling the men who bury our dead undertakers. Reannurlng. “Oh, Harold,” wailed the lovely maid en, in whose expressive features grief and indignation seemed to be strug gling for the mastery, “how can I be lieve yon in tiie face of all this evidence of your perfidy and double dealing? The letter to Blanche, in your own handwriting; her photograph, found in your possession; the fact, as told me by a dozen witnesses and tacitly con fessed by you, that you kissed her the other evening when you were together in the conservatory—how can you rec oncile these things with your contin ued professions of love for me?” “All these things, darling,” said the hero of the story, the light of truth shining in ins dark brown eyes and tbe Impress of sincerity stamped upon bis noble forehead, “will be satisfactorily explained in the next chapter!”—Chi cago Tribune. Almont Lived There. During a burglary epidemic in the country an inspector of tbe police force one night made a tour through the bur glarized district. Considerably after midnight he saw a young man emerge noiselessly from a substantial home stead and made after him. “Did you just come out of that cor ner house?” the inspector asked, over hauling him. The young man, while of respectable appearance, was plainly ill at ease and confused. “I did,” he said. "Do you live there?” demanded tbe Inspector. “Well, almost,” was the embarrassed answer. “But I can’t see that It’s any of your hu^iuesb us loug as ber futber doesn’t object”—London Tlt-Blts. No Time to Read. “Bause, () youth or maiden,” wrote Andrew Lung in the Windsor Maga zine, “before you accustom your lips to this fatal formula, T have no time to read!’ You have all the.time which for you exists, and it is abundant What arc you doing with it—with your leisure? Mainly, gossiping. Our mod ern malady is grogariousness. We must be in company chattering. “To be always with others, always gregarious, always chattering, like monkeys in treetops, is our ruling vice, and this Is the reason why we have no time to read and why you see so many people pass their leisure when alone in whistling or whittling. They have time to whittle.” Leonardo du Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci, the celebrated Italian painter, sculptor and architect, died in 1519. He was born in 1452 and became well versed lu all tbe sciences and arts of his time. His most famous picture is “The Last Supper,” painted on the Avail of a convent at Milan. He Is said to have anticipated Galilei, Kepler. Copernicus and others In their astronomical theories and also some of the discoveries of recent geologists, though bis views are expressed in somewhat vague language. A 9uccc**ful Teat. At a small town in Kent a gentle man employed a carpenter to put up a partition and had it filled with sawdust to deaden the sound. When it was completed, the gentleman called from one side to the carpenter on the other: “Smith, can you bear me?” Smith immediately answered, "No, ■lr.”—London Tlt-Blts. Happy. Mrs. Nextdoor—I suppose your daugh ter is happily married. Mrs. Naggsby—Indeed she is. Why, ber husband Is actually afraid to open his mouth In ber presence. Better Oat. “What’s this sketch?” “Ob, that’s a Iktle thing I got out of my own bead!” “Great Scott! What a lucky thing you got it out!” Tbe hardest known wood Is said to be cocus wood. It turns tbe edge of any ax, however well tempered, so It Is claimed. V J|