Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r e jfcrtr I nevo^ understood the many pass ages In Scripture about stones until I went to Palestine. Readers of the lUhle will recall many passages where atones are sacred, but not everyone will have noticed how frequently in the Old and New Testament alike tfeeir commonness, cheapness, and trc someness are implied. King Solomon-made silver to be in Jerusalem “as stones.” This is a mean ingful picture of wealth when ohe has lived even a little while on the Judean ridge. Dashing one's foot against a stone Is* a-symbol of trouble; having a stony heart is a picture of impeni tence; gathering stones out of the highway or out of a vineyard is a metaphor of spiritual preparedness. The Master pictured an unreliable life as a stony ground, and described a dis dained request as asking for brea'd and receiving a stone.—Doctor Fos- dick. • prices, so there are schools which graduate their pupils to beauty par lors. Here a “facial” or a “wave” may be obtained for the modest sum of 'Jo cents. One of these schools opened In a new building, from which nil tiie building supplies had not been removed. A customer came in who wished a "white henna" treatment. Thft is a treatment used to burnish wmSe or light-.tjdored hair. They say th:« a paste ijf applied to the hair and. after a certain time, removed. The operator opened a closet.* got some material from a hag and made a paste. After it had been applied, the discovery was made that the stuff happened to be some sort of pias ter of paris left by the workmen. It hardened quickly and firmly. In fact, the customer had to he removed to a suite where an operation could be per formed with a chisel. The chipping was done as consid erately as possible, hut the hair was chipped off with *he plaster. In the end the woman laid to have her head shaved.—Exchange. Men of Thirty Beyond • Fear of Many Diseases Thirty is the critical year in the life of. the average man. a writer in the Philadelphia Record asserts. Once you have passed a score and ten, ac cording to a medical authority, you have outgrown many serious diseases. On the other hand, you become liable to many others that seldom or never attack people in the 'teens or twenties. Anemia, for instance, is practically unknown after thirty. If you have not had it by then you may never. If you have, you will have outgrown it at thirty or so. Acne, too—-that spot tiness of complexion so common among young people, has vanished by then. Thirty, too. may see you out of the reach of the gravest of all diseases, consumption. If you have sluHvn no sign of it by then, in ali probability you never will. If you have hitherto escaped rheumatic fever, you are also fairly safe from It for life. Epilepsy and goitre, too. usually do not make their first attacks on anyone who has reached thirty. “University Wits” Five pre-Shakespeurcan authors. John Lyly. George I'eele, Robert •Greene, Thomas Lodge and Thomas $fashe. all graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, were sufficiently versatile to he called university wits. Amid .various other activities^.all of them ’ were impelled by the spirit of the age to write plays. These intellectual aris- ; tocrats hurled the keen shafts of their ' wit at those dramatists who. without. • a university education, were arrogant . enough to think tlmt they could write piayft. Because Shakespeare had never attended a university, Greene called him "an upstart crow beautified with our feathers.” Thomas Lodge (ir>58- ' 3625) was author, among other things, .of the story. “Rosalymle," which Shakespeare used to such good ad vantage. Alsace Architecture Alsace, the Incomparable pro vince which two nations have often fought for, is green and lovely be tween river and mountain, with •Strasbourg its capital. Whether you direct your journey towards the south, where you can visit Col- mar and Mulhouse. or even smaller towns such as Thann and Turck- heim, or whether you m> jo the ; north, to Haguenrau, yoi£ wljl find 'towns and villages % all crowded to gether with little resemblance. : There are towers, steeples, churches with porches, wells, fountains, oriel windows, loggias with projecting corbelling and every kind of archi tecture. Remarkable Bird Species An amazing account of his visit to one of the haunts of the strange birds called hoatzins is given by Wil liam Beebe in his book, “Jungle \ Peace.” Mr. Beebe says the hoatzin is probably the most remarkable and Interesting bird living in the world today. It has successfully defied time and space. There has been less change In It thr.nr in any other form of or ganic life. Mr. Beebe says that these queer birds renew for our inspection the youth of bird life upon the earth. Gave Name to University James McGill was horn in Scot land in 1744. He came to Canada In 1770 and entered the fur trade. He accumulated a fortune as a merchant at Montreal, became a member of par liament and was a brigadier general in the War of 1812 against the Unite* States. He died in 1813, leaving a will providing for the establishment of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. This official name has given place to the name of McGill university. Joint Government The New Hebrides islands have the rare political status of a "condomin ium,” that is to say,' they are under the joint administration and sov ereignty of two countries—France and Great Britain. This situation Is in effect the po litical harmonization of century-long rivalries of explorers, missionaries and traders which were not susceptible Jo ’definitive solution to the tntage of either country. Zza. Horse Ranks High Among Nature’s Frca?;s Of all the queer combinations in tne animal kingdom, the sea horse (Hip- pocampidae) easily takes the pri/.e, points out Boys’ Life, the monthly journal of the Roy Scouts of America. It has the head of a horse, from \\1iich it takes its name; the tail of a mon key ; the tins of a fish; and the ab dominal pouch of a kangaroo, in which the male carries the eggs from the time they are laid until they are hatched. With all these borrowed trappings, the sea horse is a real fish and does not live very long out 'of water. The tail, which is somewhat longer than the head and body combined, is the only tail in the fish kingdom en dowed with the power to grasp things, and with it the sea horse clings to un derwater foliage when lie desires to rest, continues Boys’ Life. In their sportive moments these quaint little creatures wrap their tails around each other and engage in a regular tug-o*- war—or a large one will seize a small one around the neck and (hag him'fu riously around in circles in a marine version of "snap the whip.” Galapagos* Formation Nearly everywhere on the Gala pagos, one walks over fresh or weath ered lava. ‘It was natural that Dar win took for granted that the islands had been built up from the sea bot tom by their volcanoes within com paratively recent times. Wallace and other .followers of Darwin accepted this view that the islands “have been formed hy submarine eruptions” and have never been joined to continental America. According to this oceanic theory, animals and plants reached them hy various fortuitous means: by the wind, which could bring fern spores, seeds provided with pappus, spiders, insects, birds and bats, or seeds may be carried adhering to the plumage or the feet of birds, or even in their crops. Such stragglers are apparently still reaching the islands, and stand a chance of becoming resi dent if they find suitable conditions, mates, and so on.—From "To the South Seas,” by Gifford Pinchot. “Nicaragua Walker** William Walker was a San Fran cisco newspaper man who, in 1835, took advantage of an insutrection In Nicaragua. He put Rivas, a native, in the presidency, retaining command of the army himself. Rivas absconded and Walker succeeded. Known as a Southern sympathize* Walker w’as joined by adventurous southerners from the United States. He repealed all anti-slavery laws. A native insur rection overthrew him. He had ex pected support from the United States, but did not obtain it. He was captured and turned over to the Amer ican naval forces and returned to the United States. He continued his plot ting and finally, while operating in Hondiyas. was shot. He is known to history as Nicaragua Walker. a final «S>aai “Magic Carpet** Fable Brewer’s "Handbook of Phrase and Fable” says; "The magic carpet which, to all appearances, is worth less, but which, if any one sat there on, would transport him instantane ously to the place he wished to go. is one of the stock properties of eastern wondertales and romances. It is sometimes termed ’Prince Hausain’s carpet.’ because of the popularity of the story of Prince Ahmed in ‘Arabian Nights’ where it supplies one of the chief incidents; but the chief magic carpet is that of King Solomon, which, according to the Mohammedan legend related in the Koran, was of green silk.” Pioneers of Methodism The History of Methodism says: “In the Britisli Wesleyan Conference of 1770 ‘America’ appears for the first time, as a single circuit, served hy four preachers, Pilmoor. Boardman. King and Williams. America reported a total membership of 310 to the con ference of 1771. With the report came the urgent appeals of the Amer icans for more helpers. Five preach ers offered to go, and two were ac cepted. The two volunteers for Amer ica from the conference of 1771" Were Francis Anbury and Rickard Wright*■ Ey JANE OSEORII (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Service) “W HO cares for moss, anyway! Daphne had flung out at her sister four years ago—and big sister Agnes hud never forgotten it. "If you don’t care for my advice, all right,” Agnes had said. “1 am ten years older than you and l am mar ried and some people would think that my advice Would Ife worth somethkic to you. I was simply teliiilg you that 1 did not approve of Donald Scott as— as a brother-in-law. He isn’t worth a farthing and he never sticks at any thing. Now lie’s got a crazy notion that lie can make more money in the city where he doesn’t know a soul and has positively no opening than lie could here in Blenheim, where he knows people who are sorry for him. I’m married and 1 knotv that a girl has simply got to have a comfortable income to he happy after she is mar ried. Thank fortune George wasn’t a rolling stone. He had sense enough to go into his father's store, and us a result we have enough—and 1 am perfectly happy.” “I didn’t say you weren't happy,” snapped Daphne. "And I didn’t say that L was going to marry Donald Scott. Donald has never asked me to marry hipi. What I did say was that 1 wasn’t going to marry Walter Reed, even if lie is your husband’s best friend, and even if lie had chosen to cramp himself hy settling right down here in Blenheim in a garage when all the time lie hated the smell of gaso line and really wants to he an artist. 1’erliaps lie. will gather a whole lot more moss than Donald—but, as I said before, who cares for moss?” "You'll sing a different song four years from now,” said Agnes. In a way Agnes was right. Four years later Daphne was quite willing to admit that what she had once light ly called “moss" had a perfectly legiti mate place in considerations of mat rimony. Walter Reed had resumed his suit from time to time, and, being the only eligible in Blenheim, there were times w hen Daphne had seriously considered accepting his proposal. There had certainly never been anything of the rolling stone about Walter. He hadn't even taken a vacation for four years. Not that there was any undue press of business. On the contrary, the state highway had been diverted away from Blenheim, though there had beeu a good chance at one time that it would run right hy Walter’s garage. “I would marry Walter,” . Daphne was saying ilS she sat with her sister Agnes on the front veranda one pleas ant summer evening, "only the idea of giving up a good Job to try and scrimp along on what lie makes just makes me terrified. You fold-me once, Agnes, that at least a comfortable in come was Accessary to happiness. I think you Were right, especially when a girl marries a man that she isn't absolutely crazy' about. Walter told me just what his income was. He even showed me a possible budget as he had figured it out. No allowance for help at all. And just one hundred and fifty dollars a yeaY for my dress allowance. He said that his mother had got along on that—” Daphne did not tell her sister that that very afternoon a tall, well-dressed young man called at the bank, that he had asked for her and that he had turned out to he Donald Scott. Daphne had talked to him for a min ute or two through the gratings of the cashier's “cage.” She told him that she still lived with her sister Agnes and that she would he at home that evening, “After supper.” Donald sat with them there on the comfortable veranda. Urged by Daphne he told them something of his life since he left Blenheim. He had gone to a big city where he worked for a time as a newspaper reporter, Jhen somehow he got to do ing theatrical press work, and that led to a brief two or three months on the stage. Then a try In the movies. Then a chance to get into the engi neering end of the pictures. He’d had a course or two in engineering when lie worked Ids way through college. But not enough. Followed a winter studying—working like a heaver to pay Ids expenses as he went. Then hack to the job he had left among motion picture engineers. That was two years ago. Since then "things had gone rather nicely,’’ Donald mod estly explained. “Then you’re really doing well?” Agnes asked. “As well as if you’d stuck here in Blenheim?” Donald laughed—but answered po litely enough that he thought he was. "I wouldn’t tell anyone else,” Donald said, “hut I must tell you.” He named a yearly income that was four times ns great ns that of Agnes’ husband— which she considered more than com fortable. “I am telling you so that Daphne will know just where I stand. You see—I came back to ask Daphne to marry me. I never dared ask her before.” Agnes faked some excuse and went into the house. Two days later when Donald went back to tiie big city it was known in Blenheim that lie had become engaged to Daphne. "I always told Daphne that even tlm best of lovers couldn't live on air.” tgnes said to her husband and any one else who wanted to listen to her. •‘Walter was very fond of her and fine n many ways, and Daphne uibrht have married him—if'it had not beer: for uiy advice.” FAMILY TRAITS Dy H. IRVING KING (© by McClure Newspaper h>.ulicate.) (WNU Service) iXT ETTIE HAVENS has got a beau at last!” Tiie news was all over the town. It was rather an im portant piece of news, too, for Nettie owned a full dozen qr more houses, was a stockholder in tiie local bank and ran tiie "Emporium,” the biggest department store in town. Nettie was all business. From the time she was sixteen until her father's death she had been ids business asso ciate, and after ids death hud gone right on managing for herself. No time for frivolity and love making had Nettie had. Her mother had died soon after her father, and Nettie lived alone with a couple of old servants in a great Colonial house on tiie hill, a fine old mansion—but it needed painting. At sixteen Nettie had come back from the school on a vacation, out wardly all that her mother could wish. She was not exactly what you would call a beauty, but she was comely/enough and art and cultiva tion had rendered her a being of whom her mother said: “She could shine in any drawing-room. A few years more and she will he perfect.” But Nettie announced that she was not going hack to school. She had had enough of it. She wanted to learn her father’s business so that she would be able to handle it when, in the course of time—which she gra ciously said she hoped would lie a long time—it came into her hands. Her mother had wept. Just ajs Net tie had aroused in her tiie only am bition she ever had in her life she now caused her to experience tiie only grief that she had ever known. What Jonathan thought about it did not count. He was ratiier disappoint ed on account of his wife; but he was secretly satisfied on his own account. So that is how Nettie Havens came to go into busihess. She dressed plainly, almost shabbily; wore her iiair in an unbecoming manner, seemed to delight in making herself look as plain as she could—and succeeded admirably. She laid her little, pleas ing airs and graces away in moth halls and became a sharp, decisive young persons; no nonsense, all busi ness. And now Nettie at thirty—and looking forty—was a rich woman. But in spite of her wealth the young men of the town would no more have thought of making love to her than they would have thought of making love to an adding machine. There was tiie goggle-eyed, an anemic, young man with adenoids, to he sure, who officiated as her chief clerk and who, allured by Nettie’s hank account, often wished in secret that he eouM muster up enough courage to a»k her to he his bride. But shucks T Philan der Liseomb could not muster up enough courage to say boo to a goose; much less enough to propose to Net tie Havens. On her thirtieth birthday Nettie, coming into her store and walking slowly down the main aisle and look ing about with keen business scrutiny, was suddenly aware of a young man. about thirty-five yearsr old, well dressed and bearing every mark od breeding, standing at the glove eourc ter. Passing through the town he had accidentally lost one of his driv ing gloves out of his ear, a bright blue roadster which stood outside, and stopped to get a new pair. Nettie gasped—then stood stock still and stared. He turned and saw her. A look of recognition gradually came into his eyes. Nettie was tiie first to speak. “Basil.” said she, “come Into my of fice—I want to speak to you.” He bowed and followed her. “Take » seat.’’ she commanded. "Yon haven't changed much. Basil,'' she said, look ing at him intently; “a little older looking, of course—but to me you look just the same as you did fourteen years ago.” “There is one tiling, Nettie,” he re plied. “in which l have not changed and never shall; my love for you.” “It is pleasant, of course.” she re plied. “to hear you say so; hut four teen years is a long time, and I have changed. Can you not see it?” "In appearance, yes,” he answered. “You look old. and worn, and tired—- and lonely. Oh Nettle, why did you throw me over the way you did? You know there was nothing in tiie absurd story to excite your jealousy.” "I have found ft out since.” said she slowly. “But I was young and foolish then, only sixteen. And now it is too late. But we shall he friends just tiie same, shall we not?” "Friends?” lie cried; “we sliatl he more than friends.” “Philander,” said Nettie to her adc- • oid head clerk a few days later, "do on think you could run tins shop if I gave you full charge of it?’’ Phil- tider mustered enough spunk to re- ••ly In the affirmative. "Weli,” she went on, “I am going away for two Months. Do the best you can.” For two months Nettie was seen j •o more hy her wondering townsmen, j Then she reappeared as Mrs. Basil j l.angton. sold out the simp to a syn- J •Urate, rehabilitated the old mansion •nd brought the good old days hack there. she reappeared in society j leoking ten years younger than she had as a business woman, took on again the grac*» and tiie high breed ing of her mot he*, and was the hesr gowned woman to be met with any where. I - - - ' . t ■ gJlFetu M Little 'W s •One Public Sale 1 Made Mandav POINT OF VIEW “TouriSts- in England want n cheap pound. Natives want a dear one/ It all depends on the [mint of view.” Fownes Rigden was discussing the gold standard. “The point of view is everything,” .Mr. Rigden went ou. "A tramp said as he boiled a tomato can of coffee over a lire in a vacant lot: ** *1 certainly am in favor of these new crepe rubber soles and heels, all right, all right.’ “’Yeah? How ^coine?’ said another tramp. ** They’re so much easier on cigars and cigarettes.’’’—Springfield Union. The only public sale marie hem Monday was that made by J. Talbert, acting Master, in the case of Sfcta S. Henry, Individually, plaintiff, vs. Etta S. Henry, as eic- ecutrix of D. H. Henry, John Calvert, personally, and as admin istrator of estate of W. a. Calvert* Mrs. Lucy Ramey et al, 87 acres more or less, in school district 7, to James H. Hill, attorney for $500.00. rxr- NO TROUBLE TO HIM Wrestler—I’m having a hard time to get a living out of my game. Can you make both ends meet? Acrobat—Without tiie least trouble. Bill. Consistency "Charley, dear,” said Young Mrs. Torkins, “did you forget to bring tiie things I told you to bring from the store?” “No. This is one time I. carried out instructions to the letter. Here’s the whole bundle.’’ “Oli, I'm so sorry. I’ve changed my mind about wanting thorn. 1 was sure you’d forget as usval. It’s so hard, to depend on a man!” Ladies To Have Prayer For Meeting The ladies of the McCocnoicic Methpdist Church will hold a meet ing of prayer at the church at 3:30) tomorrow afternoon and attain afc 3:30 Sunday afternoon, fci” the- series of meetings which begin ot. the church on Sunday. AH the ladies of the church are urged to* attend these meetings of pcatver,. and the public in general is eord- irJIy invited to the series of meet ings. The Rev. J. F. Lupo of Nevrterryr will assist the pastor in th:-; meet ings. , No Hot Kisses From It “But. Bridget,” said the mistress, “this electric refrigerator is so much better than having an ice man trail ing in every day.” - "Mabbe so, ma’am”' snapped Brid get, "but, faith, and who wants to be kissed by an ioe tray?”—Cincinnati Enquirer. No Bait* “I see where lots of: firms are- cut ting down their advertising.” "Yeah, doing iL in times like- these rs on a par with taking the worm off the hook and fishing with a. safety- pin>!"—Pathfinder Magazine. License Plant Delivers 75. COLUMBIA, Oct. 1.—Apprc?d- mately 75,000 automobile license plates for use in South Carolina in 1933 will be delivered to the 'Sta.fce highway department today from the manufacturing plant at the state penitentiary, it was announc ed yesterday by W. V. Sutherland, director of the motor vehicle divi sion of the highway department-. Today’s shipment will include all the “A” and “B” licenses. The contract specifies that the ethers arfe to be delivered on or before October 15. The new licenses will be stored away in a warehouse until ready for distribution, that is, during the months of November and Decem ber. The law specifies that owners are not to use the new plates until December 15. Starting today automobile own ers will be allowed to purchase plates for the last quarter of the present year at one-fourth the. reg ular rate. WANT ADV. ONE OF THE FAMILY V? “My dog is like one of the family.” "AYlicb* one of; the family is he like?’! Wrong Store- “We’re making a. .special reduction on our ‘R eliminators-,’ ” said,the*radio shop clerk. T in not interested ■ in them,” said tiie woman, “hut what do you have for ants?” FOR SALE—Appier Oats, 40 cents: i Beardless Barley, 85 cents; CoL- 1 er*s Red Heart Wheat, 90 cents per bushel at White Hardware Co., or the farm. W. L. White, McCormick, S. C. Itpo. FOI| SALE—2 males and 1 female Terrier Pups, 8 weeks old, $1.50) for males, $1.00 for female; beau tifully marked. Mr$. H. O. Thomas; Willington, S. C. Itpo. ■*r FOR SALE—Pure Beardless Barley at 85 cents per bushel; Pedigreed Appier Oats at. 40 cents per bushel; Red May Wheat, 90 cents per bushel. T. A. Dowtin, Rt. 1„ - -any, C. • * NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR LOST TIME CERTIFICATE: Well' Supplied' Teacher—We are all alike,- are we not? We have each two arras, two legs, two eyes, one nose, one mouth; one chin— Tommy—Please, my papa’s got . two chins. Glassy- “I never saw a better-managed debut.**' • We hired - a motion picture director to stage it.”—Louisville Courier-Jour-* nail And' Thera" Are-Others Aunt Anna—Your wife is- a dear, Wiiliaiu: site has such engaged ways. Mr. Stubbs—Right; aunt—she lias engaged two dozen different: cooks in> the Inst six months. Notice is hereby given that Time Certificate No. 2712, issued to the undersigned by The Farmers Bank oil McCormick, S. C^ orr the 23rd lay of April, 1930, for the sum of Forty-Five ($45.00) Dollars, has xen lost or destroyed. The same* cannot now be found, and I will make application to the Receivers: of The Farmers Bank: of McCor mick, S. C., on the 18th day of No vember, 1932, for a new Certificate, as provided by law. JOE MORTON. McCormick, S. C., October 5, 1932.—6t. Indication* - •’Bli'ggihs- says lii<; youngest boy i® goina to make a- diplomat.” “Whnt makes him think so?”" “He asks all-kinds of questions, but never* undertakes In answer any***' Petticoat v*. Petticoat “My wife told me to demand a raise from you.” “All right. 1’ilt ask tny wife If 1 can give it to you.”^-Judge. McCormick Dry 90.. Clfeaiiem Goldr Street, just off Main; —Phbite 72q~ Good.Work Guaranteed Men's Suits cleaned and pressed, 50c; Ladies’* Dresses and Long Coats, 50c. We altering and : repair work eff any kind, also Hat work. Work called for and deliv ered same day in town. 4 W. E. CAMPBELL, Prop. / L i /