Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fetish worship is common. mistakes Educated anil Retlned People Often Be lieve In Charm* and Tallamaoe. “Fetish worship in not confined to the ignorant as exclusively as most people imagine,” said an Atlanta man recently to a Washington Star reporter. “For several years I have made more or less steady inquiry into the super stitions cherished by intelligent, cul tured people, and you can scarcely be lieve how widespread is the belief in charms and talismans. At the Fonce do Leon in St. Augustine, last winter, I met a young woman from away up in the frozen north. She was one of those superior girls who go to the roots of things, and her learning was some thing wonderful. She invariably wore a queer-looking locket at her neck, and one day I asked her why she wore such an incongruous thing when dressed in evening costume. She coolly told me that it contained a charm that had preserved her from impending danger a number of times, and recited several hairbreadth escapes she had made. Upon my inquiring what the charm was she told me that it was an African mooka stone that her grandfather, who was a seafaring man, had brought home from one of his voyages, and that it had exerted a protecting influence on her mother's life, as it had on her own. That woman was one of the educated women and yet she firmly pernatural properties she wore in a locket around her neck. There are hundreds of men ail over the country, college men, too, who would as soon leave their collars and ON THE WIRE, Errors Made by Tele(raph Operators transmitting Dispatches. The funny mistakes of telegraphers are as numerous as those charged up to proof-readers. Two on the former have just come in. A gentleman who has been an extensive traveler, and consequently not supposed to overlook any details, saw his wife off on a train for the slope the other day. It was supposed that eVerytbing had been ar ranged. The good-by and its accom paniment had been passed and the gen tleman returned to his home. That night his wife suddenly remembered that she had left a valuable adjunct to her happiness and wrote a message to her husband, which he received the following morning at his office. It read: “Forgot. Think conductor has tel egraphed for it.” He read it again, and it read as at first. “Forgot what?” he murmured, and he read it again and kept on read ing it until the words ran together and his temples throbbed. He sent a mes sage to his house asking the servants if Jlrs. had left anything. They made no discoveries, of course. Then he sent a message to the operator at the office from which his wife’s mes sage was sent asking him to repeat it. He waited for an answer. He lost his luncheon and his dinner waiting. „ 5o Simple. / . 2 • , - 'V / - /C Nine times out of ten whemveare out of sorts our trou bles can be removed by that re liable old medicine. TO THE Forgot telegraphed for it.” Sure enough. The word “trunk” had been made to read “think.” But , , , . , i wasn't it strange that a man who had cravats at home as to go out without a tnm .i ed b11 over the world should come rabbit foot In tbch pockets, or who to his own home to forget to check his their will not talk over a business proposition without touching their precious talis mans. And, speaking of rabbits' feet, I have been credibly Informed that the great Henry Irving once changed the bill from ‘Hamlet' to ‘The Bells’ be cause the rabbit foot he has always used in making up for the part of the melancholy Dane was mislaid, and he felt a presentiment that something dreadful would happen to him if he used anything else to give the proper lines to his stage complexion. I’ll bet there are a dozen otherwise sensible men in this hotel this minute who would wear their stockings inside out all day if they accidentally happened to get them on that way in the morn ing. The more 1 look into the interest ing matter the more I discover to prove that superstition U as strong among the educated as it is among the igno rant.” SCRUBBED HIS BROTHER. In HU Anxiety to Hrcnre a Free Dinner Took th« Skin Off. Philanthropic yonng ladies all over the city are deeply interested in the good work done for the poor at Hull house, and many of them take nn active part in the work. A number of young ladies in Kenwood have taken a small store near the institution and there they take turns at noon every day in dealing out onc-cent lunches to the ragged children of the neighborhood. The soup is bought from the Hull house and served to the hungry young sters after they have been made to wash their faces and hands. The ven ture has been very successful and scores of famished children patronize the place every day with their pennies, in spite of the washing regulations. They are so hungry for the steaming soup and coffee that they willingly use the soap and water first. OccasionaUy the young lady in charge superintends these ablutions, but oftencr the big sisters of the little tots do the work themselves. The other day a small boy came in with two pennies in one grimy hand and the pudgy fist of a baby brother in the other. Both were hun- &y- ' “Yon must wash your faces and hands before you eat,” said the young lady in charge, kindly. “Yes, ’um," said the larger boy. “I kin wash meself an’ Jimmy here, too.” The fashionable young lady, think ing to make her charges cleaner than those of "the other girls,” had brought with her a very stiff nail brush, and when she led the two youngsters into the washroom she asked the larger boy If he knew its use. “Yes, ’um,” he said, and she left them, returning to the hungry ones at the table ontside. After awhile she thought of the two boys In the washroom and wondered why they had not come out. She tip toed in to Investigate and found “Jim my” struggling in his brother's grasp. The latter had soaped the stiff nail brush thoroughly and was gradually remov ing the cuticle from “Jimmy’s” face with it, despite his struggles. The young lady went to the rescue, explain ing the use of the brush, and led the two out to dinner, to which “Jimmy” did full justice in spite of his new face. When they left the young lady said: “Tell your mamma to put cold cream or camphorated vaseline on your face, Jimmy.’’—Chicago Times. wife’s trunk? He laughed to himself, after it was all over. But It cost him lots of worry. Equally funny Is this one: A lady in this city had received a let ter from her old home In Connecticut which caused her a good deal of trouble. Her answer to it was by wire. When it was delivered in the Connec ticut home it read: “How's the weather?” What an exasperating query at such a time! The letter referred to the lady’s mother's health. The dispatch should have read: “How’s mother?” A little different is this one: A gentle man of this city sent his wife a mes sage from Washington March 4, 1893, prepaid, and it has not been delivered up to the present writing. The cor respondence between the Chicago office and the Washington and New York offices about the transaction has accu mulated until the batch looks like the papers in a long continued lawsuit.— Chicagq Herald. HUMORS OF THE POOR. Fsany In ths Brown’s Iron Bitters, which for more than 20 years has been curing many people of Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Ma laria, Impure Blood, Neural gia, Headache, Liver and Kid ney troubles. It’s the peculiar combination of iron, the great strength-giver, with selected vegetable remedies of true lue that makes Brown’s Iron so good for strengthen- g and purifying the system. It is specially good for women and children—it makes them strong and rosy. Brown’s Iron Bitters Is pleasant to take, and it will not stain the teeth nor cause constipation. Steihe crossed red lines on the wrapper. Our book. 1 How to Live a Hundred Years,” tells all about it; free for *c. stamp. 60 Svowit Chemical Co., Baltimore. Mu 'he jitra. The first of American Newspapers, CHARLES A. DANA, Editor. The Anierienn Constitution, the American Idea, the American Spirit, These first, last, and all the time, forever. Daily, by mail, .... glia year j Daily and Sunday, by mall, gH a year | The Weekly, gl a year I Retail Merchants, Farmers r ' . rs THE OF Darlington County and Vicinity: VVE HAVE NOT BUILT OUR WAREHOUSE YET, But we take portunity to this op- let you know that we are still for low r and that you in ring the prices, can buy your OLD ONES ARE BEST. Are Pr*- Why It I, That Axed Violin, ferred to New Ones. Fabulous prices are sometime* paid for old violins, and many an enthusi astic musician would part with his last dollar to possess one of the master pieces of Stradivarius, or Guarnerius, or another of the famous makers of a century or two ago. The unquestioned superority of these old, and often battered, Instruments has been variously ascribed to the pe culiar quality of the varnish used in their construction, to the elasticity of the wood employed, and to the ripen ing and Improving effects of age and long use. But at last summer’s meeting of the American association for the advance ment of science reasons were shown for believing that the real cause of the superiority of the old Instrumcnta is due to a "pecnllar warping of the wood to a higher arch, a buckling caused by the position of the F holes and sound- post.” It might be thought that the same effect could be produced by giving an equal arching to a new instrument, hut the effect, if attained, la not per manent because with age the arching increases nntil too great a degree of rigidity Is the result. The substitution of aluminum for wood in the making of violins has been suggested because experiment has shown that soundboards of aluminum resemble those in tone made of wood, and that of an aluminum violin does not undergo changes of form with age, so that it can be made perfect to begin with and w ,, ’ remain in that con dition. Sayings of In fort nnatn# Lower Walks of Life. Country doctors are to be envied if all of them have experiences as amus ing as those described in Cornhill Magazine. On one occasion the doctor found an old woman toiling to his door with a heavy load of potatoes. “Take ’em, doctor, take 'em,” she said, mag nanimously. “What saith the Scrip ture? Cast thy potatoes on the doctor, and thou shalt find them after many days—maybe about Christmas time,” she added slyly, and, with obvious glee at this ingenious method of insurance against the privations of the winter, old Peggy hobbled off. This same old lady, when on her deathbed said “she didn't expect to go to Heaven, but wherever she did go she'd put in a good word for the doc tor.” Another woman lost her husband. The doctor found her tearful bnt not inconsolable. “Ah! poo- Jim!” sha said. “My good man! Eh! I’m very grateful to you, doctor, but It’s a mercy the Lord took the case into ’$ own hands.” An old couple fell 111, of old age, to gether. The husband died, hut the wife had more vitality. On the day following her husband’s death she was better, and the doctor was congratulat ing himself on the success of his treat ment. Bnt the woman’s point of view was different She complained bitter ly; for, as she forcibly pointed out: “Ef ee’d lat me alone, one funeral 'ud a’ done for us two; an' look what It ’ll cost now, berrying two of us separate ly!” APPLAUDING AN ENEMY. Bow ths Psrlslsos KeooxalMd ths Daks of Wel I In gt os. Countess Brownlow, In her “Slight Reminiscences.” tells a story of the duke of Wellington which is less commonly repeated than many con nected with him. While he was still marquis of Wellington he went to Paris from Toulouse, where he had fought and won the last battle of the Penin sular war. He went to the opera that first even ing. and though he wore plain clothes and sat In tlje back of the box, he was almost immediately recognized by some one in the pit, who cried out, “Velling- ton!” The name was taken up by others, and at last the entire pit rose, turned to the box and called, “Vive Velllng- ton!” Nor would the people be satisfied un til he had stood np and bowed to them, when he was cheered and applauded again. At the end of the performance the passage from the box was found to be crowded with people. The ladles of the party drew hack nervously, but the duke said: "Come along!” in his brusque way, and conducted them on. While they were still in the corridor a man in the crowd was heard to say to his companion: “But why are you applauding so much? He has always beaten usl” This was very true, and the question seemed a natural one; but the answer was charming: “Yes, but he has always beaten us like a gentleman!” The Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper ii the world. Price .»c. a copy. By mail, $2 a year | Address THE SUN, New York. cmmiB h ^ .4 wtSL-xm CodM M oi all Ms undertaken, and satisfaction guaranteed at and Undertakers’ supplies ways on hand at low prices. T. C. Jeffords, Jr Nov. 15—3m. COFFINS, CASKETS al- in unbroken packa ges from our store on JOHN SISKRON'S SHOPS; [The Public Square, Opposite The Bank of Darlington. Buying for CISH, we you prices the lowest, on hand a THE m-Wl THS For the city reader or the country home THE NEW-YOUK TIMES Is an uncommonly Interesting news;ieper. Its sixteen pages are brimful of news. It la handaomely printed, accurate, clean, fresh, and vigorous. 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