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IMPROVING THE ATTIC. " I
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Suggestions That Will Help In Making
It Habitable.
? In addition to those familiar uses
of attics which are so vivid when it '
f rains or when one is cynical or :
\ moody or inclined to be witty at the
expense of bedposts and warming j
pans, there are improved uses an attic
can be put to and still remain an
attic. The feeling of attics?that
sense they give of a friendly- aliena}
tion from the world below stairs?
must not, of course, be lost. If one
desires no more than a place in
which to tell fairy tales at twilight
the lighting of a candle might
be change enough in the usual unj
plastered and left over space. But
* that is too simple. Besides, the
- taste for fairy tales is not universal,
and it is.# moreover, a taste more
natural in the nursery than in the
i attic. But a habitable attic must
be anything but dingy. A glass
trapdoor, such as one too often sees,
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is not enougn. mere snouiu oe a i
great dormer window, built low |
* enough for window peats, and ample
seats at that, lsrge enough to
lounge in. There should be wide
\ sills, too. for flower-;, for an attic
? without flowers would be unimaginable.
As for the body of the room
the chief thing to do where there
are gables would be to insert a
wainscot all around of, say, five or
six feet in height. Along this could
be put shelves for books or odds
and ends of whatever kind. A carpet
would be improper, for it is traditional
that an attic is bare. Inexpensive
rugs and skins suggest
* i themselves mechanically, like easy
jchairs, a work table and a lounge.
< fhe fancy includes a piano, pictures,
glorious andirons, sconces,
while the imagination leaps to cr.
mor and cabinets. Yet in a proper
attic the furniture should be a little
(>ftmmnnnlflcp with n HisnnrHpd lnnk.
if you will, to be in keeping. Things
half broken down are fit for a
quaint utility there, and as clothes
once decent on Sunday come to be
so only on Saturday and then on
Friday, and so on, so odds and ends
s they grow familiar and worn in
ther parts of the house have a last
ie?as old companions in an attic.
-Wallace Stevens in Indoors and
ut.
Diplomatic.
"Mr. Gidsmore," began the young j
^'man, "when you proposed to your
wife, or to the estimable lady who,
< is now Mrs. Gidsmore, did she tell j
y . *you to ask her father ?"
< "She did, my boy," affably replied
Afe. Gidsmorc.
***/^"And did vou tr? to shirk the {
: job?"
%i_ "Well, come to think of it, I did.
?I believe I tried to get her to dq)
pe asking, 'pon my soul. Ha, ha!"
"And when you did ask him?of,
purse you had to speak to fcim J
nally'V"
"Of course I did. Of course."
"And when you did ask him did
pur knees shake, and was your
ongue dry, and did you have stage
right generally?"
"I was scared to death."
P^Wcll, that's the way I feel. I
. '.old Gladys I knew I could find
/'some mutual bond of sympathy between
us when I came to tell you
. that she has promised to marry
me."?Life.
Tock Him Down a Peg.
The young doctor to whom the
^Esculapian oath was Greek looked
contemptuously at the old woman
. who had come to the uptown hospital
where he was an interne to in'
quire about her son.
"He has cerebro neurosis, I told
' you once," he said.
"Oh, dear," said the woman, for
she was not as ornately educated as
. the young physician, "is it as bad as ;
I that? New?what do you call it ?" !
t "Neurosis," said -the surgeon, j
. "Don't I talk plain enough for
you?"
"Is it anything like nervous pros- j
tration?" inquired the woman.:
. "You will pardon me, sir. My cd-'
uc-ation was along literary rather
, than scientific lines."
"That's Wtiat some call it," said
/ the young physician as he got ready
.?*, | to make a run for the ambulance at
the door.?New York Telegram.
Feeling Overcrowded.
It was doubtless Mrs. Howe's
"sympathetic nature," to which she
constantly referred, that made her
carry so many burdens which did
not belong to her. Iler sufTerings
were many, but the statement of
then often roused her family to
mA> .
^bw's your head this morning,
my dear?" inquired Mr. Howe one
morning in a properly solicitous
one.
"It's no better," came in a holow
voice from behind the teapot.
It won't be any better while 1
van't get Cousin John's lungs and
Vary's china and mother's eyes and
If Harriet's wisdom teeth out of it for
one minute."
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SOLVED IN SLUMBER.
A Problem That Wat Worked Out and
Written During Steep.
Many persons have written while
wrapped in slumber. Coleridge
writing the poem of "Kubla Khan"
in his sleep is a classic instance, but
there are numerous others. Here is
one wtiicn ijr. carpenter menuuus
in his book on "Mental Physiology."
A professor at Amsterdam had
been given by a banking house of
that city a question to solve, involving
a long and difficult calculation.
Several times he tried to obtain the
solution, but each time he made
some mistake. At last, all wearied
out, he gave the problem to some
of his students, telling them that
if possible he would like the answer
in three days. One of them, eager
to get into his teacher's good graces,
took it home and worked on it for
three successive nights in vain.
"At last I bent myself over my
figures for a third evening. It was
winter, and I calculated till half
past 1 in the morning, all to no purpose.
The product was erroneous.
Low at heart, I threw down my pencil,
which already by that time had
bcciphered three slates. I hesltat- J
ed whether I would toil through the
night, as I knew that the professor 1
wanted an answer the very same j
morning. But, lol mv candle was
already burning in the socket, and (
the persons with whom I lived had (
gone to rest. Then I also went to i
bed, my bead filled with ciphers, (
and. tired in mind, I fell asleep. In (
the morning 1 awoke just early i
enough to dress and prepare myself j
to go to the lecture, vexed at
heart at not having been able to
solve the question and at having to
disappoint my teacher. (
"Put, oh, wonder! As I approach .
my writing table I find on it a paper .
with figures in my own hand and <
(think of ray astonishment!) the ,
whole problem on it solved quite ]
aright and without a single blunder, j
I wanted to ask my hostess whether ]
any one had been in my room, but f
was stopped by my own handwrit- ?
ing. Thus I must have calculated f
the problem in my sleep and in the | s
dark to boot. And, wliat was most
remarkable, the' computation was so
succinct that what I saw before me
on a single folio sheet had required
three slatefuls, closely beciphered r
on both sides, during my waking
state. Professor Von Swinden was t
amazed at the event and declared t
to me that while calculating the 6
problem himself he had never once t
thought of a solution so simple and
concise/'?Exchange. E
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Embarrassing. j"The
sexton of a quaint old a
Maryland church," said a clergyman
"showed me throuerh the cool, ~
dim building one warm. afternoon
and as we were departing pointed
to the Bibie on the lecturn and
smiled.
"'A strange thing happened last
Sunday in connc tion with that Bible/
he said. 'We had a strange
minister preaching here, and when I
he opened the book he came upon j
a notice and read it out with all |
due solemnity. It was a request for j
the congregation's sympathy and!
prayers for John Q. Griggs. who j
had been deeply afhicted by the
loss of his wife.'
"The sexton paused and chuckled
softly.
"'Von >ee, sir/ he said, 'our
regular minister has been using
that paper as a bookmarker more
than a year, and J >b.ii O- Griggs, in
a naiiy gray suit, sat in a front pew
with the iiev; wife ! o had taken just
the week before.'"
A Castle In Ireland.
The name of castle for a country
house is preserved in Ireland, rather
curiously, for Ireland has not the
vestiges of French customs so noticeable
in Scotland. The dullest
little villa, so it be solitary in an
Irish country place, bears that
name, and the smile of the Saxon
when he arrives and sees the castle
is cheap and r.nscholarly. Where
the Celt?the female Celt, that is?
does earn and deserve that slight
sign of derision is in her practice
with her visiting cards intended for
London use. The word castle there
for a second and country address
does seem to suggest machicolations,
if not sieges and sally ports.?London
Chronicle.
Got His Ancwer.
An Englishman traveling in Ireland
complained that he could find
none of the famous Irish wits of
whom he had heard. lie was advised
to speak to the next farmer or
teamster he met. A little later he
encountered a peasant leading a
horse with a load of turf. The
horse had a blazed face.
"What a white face your horse
has, my man!" said the Englishman
by way of an opening.
"Sure," replied the Irishman,
"your own will be as white when it
has been as long in the halter."?
Birmingham Post.
High Priced Bumblebees.
Many years ago the farmers oi
Australia imported buniblebeesfrom
England and set them free in theii
clover fields. Defore the arrival oi
the bees clover did not flourish in
Australia, but after their coming
the farmers had no more difficult)
on that score. Mr. Darwin hail
shown that bumblebees were the
only insects fond of clover nectar
which possessed a proboscis sufficiently
long to reach the bottom of
the long, tubelike flowers and at
the same time a body heavy enough
to bend down the clover head 60
that the pollen would fall on the insect's
back and thus be carried off
to fertilize other flowers of the
same species. The bumblebees sent
to Australia cost the farmers there
about half a dollar apiece, but they
proved to be worth the price.
The Very Earliest Coins.
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iw uuc iviiv/wa CAat'tij w ueii ur
where the original coin was
"struck" or what metal was used.
Certain passages in Homer would
lead to the inference that brass was
coined as early as the year 1184
B. C. Tradition affirms that the
Chinese had bronze coins as early
as the year 1120 B. C., but Herodotus,
the acknowledged "father of
history," is of the opinion that the
Lvdians "invented" coins some time
luring the ninth century B. C. One
af the oldest coins now known is
i gold daric, coined by the Persians
luring the reign of Darius. On
anc side of this coin is a bust of
Darius and on the other side a
Igure of a kneeling archer.
Mugwump.
"Mugwump" was un old Algonquin
word for a chief, which was
ised in a seventeenth century iulian
Bible to translate "centurion,"
'captain" or "duke" in the English
.ersion. It was borrowed by the
S'ew Englanders as a nickname for
nost superior persons, very like the
English "great panjandrum," and
irst applied in its special political
;ense to Republicans who deserted
heir party on grounds of principle
it the presidential election of 1884.
Gum 8hoo Work.
"James!" she said severely. .
The butler looked up with a
juilty flush.
"James," she asked, ^how is it
hat whenever I come into the panry
I find your work at sixes and
evens and you sprawled out reading
he news?"
"Well, ma'am," the butler anwered,
"I should say it was on acount
of them old rubber soled tenlis
shoes you're always wearin*
bout the house."
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(Prickly Ash, Poke I
MAKES POSITIVE CURES OF
Physiclnng endorse P. P. P. as a splen- B
did combination, mid prescribe it with 5 BfBS
ft reat satisfaction tor the core* of all R
f.?ms and stage* of Primary, Secondary B VBE
iinJ Terliary Syphilis, Syphilitic J1 ^ ^
matitm. Scrofulous Ulcers and S {v~
Glandular Swellings, Rheumatism, i
n?y Complaints, Old Chronic Ulcers tl i
SYPH!' ^
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hare resisted all tre.AU.. ... rrh, Skin i
Disease*, Eczema, Chronic F e m a 1 e I A
Complaints, Mercurial Poison, Tetter, I
ScaMkead, etc., etc.
P. P. P. is a powerful tonic and an Ej
excellent sppitizer, Imlldim; op the?j
sjstem rapidly. If you are weak and g '*L^i
feeble, and feel badly try P. P. P., and I
RHEUM
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t? to change my line of men
5^ next thirty days exception
5? i''8"
Boys Suits, Shoes, Rubbi
4t
Ladies'Gloves, a few piei
4^ three pieces of nice Whit
J> and Boys' Leggings.
This is a genuine ciosn
?i above listed must go rega
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t Schnapps Tobacco
Tobacco Gr<
^ The Imi!
i Qual
Hundreds of imitation
, on sale that look like Sc
bacco. The outside of tl
, plugs of tobacco is lluecur
as Schnapps, but the insi
with cheap, flimsy, heavili
air cured tobacco. 0n<
Schnapps will satisfy tobs
longer than two chews c
bacco. The color, size
of the tags, plugs and j
certain imitation brands
have been made so
Schnapps that they have
! accepted by buyers undei
that they were getting
Sufficient proof has be
to establish the fact tl
brands are infringements
lation of the trade mark h
trade will continue to 1
upon by th<sse infringers i
already entered and now
protect Schnapps is d
! great many of these imi
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Fire Insurance.
The largest and most liberal companies
in thd world, Mich as/
Insurance Company of North America
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.,
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
The best is none too good when it
comes to Fire Insurance. You have to
pay for it, see that your ris< is carried
in a company of unquestionable reputation.
For rates call on or write to
L. H. FAIREY
At Bank of Kingstree.
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loot and Potassium.)
ALL FORMS AND STAGES OF
Ijou will regain flesh and strength.
Waste of energy and all diseases resulting J i
from overtaxing the system are cored by
the use ol P. P. P.
Ladles whose systems are poisoned and
jjJ 3 whose blood is in an impure condition due '
tu. G to menstrual irregularities are peculiarly
yjEy I benefited by the wonderful tonic and
g SCROFULA
I blood cleansing properties of P. P. P.,
B Prickly Asb, Poke Root and Potassium.
I Sold by all Druggists.
J F. V. LlPPMAN, Proprietor.
<j Savannah, Ga.
IATISM
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chandise I will offer for the ??
tal bargains in the follow?
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:r Over-Shoes, Boys' Sox,
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ces of Dry Goods, Linings,
e Flannel, fine line Men's
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tig out sale and the goods
rdless of price. &
>urtney, |
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is Made ENTIRELY from Hue Cured |
)we in the Piedmont Country. |
Ri?A? Jci CAI**! A MMr . I
aiiiim ill cuius myc jtuiiapp
iity Only On the Outside |
Of the Plug v II
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brands are claimed to be "just as good" as yhnapps
to- Schnapps, but there is only oiie genie
imitation uine Schnapps. Be sure the letters
ed the same on the tag, and stamped on the plug
ide is filled under the tag spell S-fc-H-N-A-P-P-S
/ sweetened and then you have it?the most ^8
2 chew of wholesome tobacco produced, with
icco hunger just enough sweetening to preserve
>f such to- the mild, juicy, stimulating quality of
and shape the leaf tobacco. Expert tests prove
jackages of that this flue cured tobacco, grown
of tobacco in the famous Piedmont region, remuch
like quires and takes less sweetening than .- J
often been any other and has a wholesome,
r the belief stimulating, satisfying effect on
Schnapps. chewers. > .Jm
en secured If the tobacco you are chewing
hat certain don't satisfy you more than the mere
and in vio- habit of expectorating, stop fooling
iws, yet the yourself and chew Schnapps tobacco.
t>e imposed Schnapps is like the tobacco chewers
(ntil the suit formerly bought costing from 75c. M
pending to to $1.00 per pound; Schnapps is
ecided. A sold at 50c per pound, in 5c. cuts, V
itations are strictly 10c. and 15c. plugs.
)bacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. |
1 Mid Winter Offerings. ?
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2 I INVITE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO MY i*
?; LINE OF?*^??t?
| TxoxaBed. ?tends 5. ;-p
| ZL?s.ttxe?ses I
? Cexrfcxe Tables ? |
? ' Sid.? Boards. j? J
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I keep on hand i\\ the time a complete line of ^^3
| Coffins, Caskets and Undertakers' Supplies ?
and render services day and night. & 3j
I L. J. STACKLBY, I~?I
J? THE FURNITURE MAN, **
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8 Water f *es!dences 2 \
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8 Light I p?m'\ * 8 1
, " Public buildings
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| Wfoderate Cost. 8
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f) Gasoline Engine fcr any purpose. C#
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W O. O. <Jnffman, Florence, v. ^
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IT!" Pallor Market!
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<< Dressed Meats. Fish, Game. Poultry ?
J' Oysters, Eggs and Full Line ?
| ZE^a-xiCTr Q-xocexies j?
? hides wanted highest market ?
j| prices paid. c :C *
? Tlie Faxlor Iv?a,rlset? ?
| T. ES. Arrowsmith, Agent., |
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