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\+y It ihc Cowntit |Ucorl KINGSTREE, S. C. C. W. WOLFE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SlMWCKirMoX 1UT&>: One oopv. one year, ? ? ? $1.00 One copy, six mouths ? ? - .5' , One copy, three months. ? ? .2H Subscription payable ii id vance. A DYERT1SI NCi KATES: One inch, first insertion, $1.00; eaeli ub?e<pient insertion, 50 c uts. Obiturics and Tribute* of Respect over l u words charged fur a* regular ad vert isruents Liberal reduction on advertising made for three, six and twelve months contracts. Communications must be accompanied by the real name ami address of writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal nature will be published except as an -advertisement. Address all letters and make all draft* pavableto t- \KT W7\. ve Vy ff . " V'tot Kiuastree, S. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 14,1907 POST OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS. Our Ealerperlslog Postmaster Purchases Up-to-Date Fixtures Postmaster Jacobs went to . Georgetown last week to purchase the set of fixtures formerly used in the Georgetown post\ office. These fixtures cast about *1 ,200 originally and were in use oniy about a year. Pending the construction of his brick building on the present site of the office (and the wooden store adjoining) the po^toffice will fee kept in the building now occupied as the furniture department of the Kingstree Hardware Co., and the new tix ? -l-i- L lores Will prouauiy 1>C luniancu there. Some idea of what these fixtures are may be gained from the fact that they include 400 lock boxes, when there are in the present outfit only forty. Of course the latter number is * * J A ?1 .. 4-V,^ wnouy inadequate luauppj mc demand now existing, but in the -new fixtures Postmaster Jacobs makes a liberal provision for future expansion based on the -marvelous growth that Kingstree has enjoyed within the past few years. In this connection we may say that Mr Jacobs has received advices from the postofflce department reducing box rents -as follows, effective April 1: Call iboxes from 30c to 20c a quarter; Jock boxes, small, from 50c to -35c, lock boxes, medium, from 75c to 45c, lock boxes, large, from 75c to 60cc. This substantial reduction ought to increase the number of lock boxes rented at least 50 per cent. . KBBBEB KILLED AT COLUMBIA. But Merchant Who Slays Him Is Himself Murdered. 'Columbia, March 10:? Au at tempt to waylay and rob Charlie B. Green, a Shandou merchant, resulted hi the death of Mr. Green and ol the would-be robber, who was identified as Edgar Marshall, son of Mr. P. G. Marshall, an eminently respectable and highly respected citizen of Columbia. The robbery and double homicide took place within .sight of Mr. Greeu's home, in the suburb of Shandou, shortly before midnight Saturday night. The bodies, lying feet to feet, were not * found for several hours, and the affair has created a tremendous sensation in Columbia, as it is possible f.hat there was another robber or robbers. Mr F P Guerry of Central was in to see us this morning-. He tells us that a new postoffice has been established called Zed ? at the store of S A Guerry & Jiro. There has teen no postoffice iu that neighborhood for some f years and we dare say that it will prove a great convenience. Record subscribers who want their papers transferred to the new office will kindly advise us and we will make the change. f.% , 1 ii- ? WOMAN'S PERFIDY. Tha Way It W3S First Disclosed to George Brandes. In his young manhood George Brando? lived almost entire!)' in ihe life of the intellect. Once lie missed keeping an engagement with a girl because he v.as absorbed in Hegel's philosophy at the time when he ought to have been at the trysting place. He tells about it in his "Recollections:*' "With a passionate desire to roach a comprehension of truth. I grappled with the system, began with the encyclopedia, read the throe volumes of '.Esthetics,' the 'Philosophy of Law.' the 'Philos? 1? -i' IT i Plmnnnmnrtii. UfMlV Ul 11iv" ? m< i.wu.v...... ology of the Mind,' then the 'Philosophy of Law' again and finally the 'Logic.' the 'Natural Philosophy' and the 'Philosophy of the Mind' in a veritable intoxication of comprehension and delight. One day when a young girl toward whom I felt attracted had asked me to go and say good by to her before her departure I forgot the time, her journey and my promise to her over mv Hegel. As I walked up and down my room I chanced to pull my watch out of my pocket and realized that I had missed my appointment and that the girl must have started long yy ago. Once before in earlier days had he missed another engagement with * tt anotner young iaav, one neurreuu. For the sake of Henrietta's beautiful eyes and under those eyes he had soundly thrashed another little boy. Then Henrietta asked him if he would meet her the same evening under the old bay tree. Dr. Brandes writes: "When we met she had two long straps with her and at once asked me somewhat mockingly and dryly whether I had the courage to let myself be bound. Of course I said I had, whereupon very carefully and thoroughly she fastened my arms together with one strap. Could I move my arms? No. Then with eager haste she swung the other strap and let it fall on my back again and again. "My first 'smart jacket' was a well thrashed one. She thoroughly enjoyed exerting her strength. Naturally my boyish ideas of honor would not permit me to scream or complain. I merely stared at her with the profoundest astonishment. She gave me no explanation, released my hands, we each went our own way, and I avoided her for the rest of my stay." Then Henrietta went away and told people. "This," says Brandes, "was my first experience of woman's perfidy. This was j my first real experience of feminine nature." No Quail For Him. "Quail, villain!" He pointed his trusty shooting iron at the head of the man who had been treating the beautiful maiden to a job lot of general wickedness ever since the curtain went up. "At last I have thee! Quail!" But, contrary to the direction in act 3, scene 2, the villain stood his ground. "Quail, I tell thee! Why dost not quail ?" "Can't risk it on 30 bob a week," quoth the villain, with a defiant sneer saved over from the first act, "because, forsooth, quail is legally out of season, and I see a gamekeeper in the audience." Then he kicked over an Alp, waded through the bay of Naples, fell into the thunder and only stopped in his mad flight to remark to tilt manager that an actor with a reputation must decline to play on that stage, as there were flies on it.? Pearson's Weekly. Hit Three Thinks. 4 '-Al- - ? kirt fAr? r\Arm iaiuer iumi ui'icu mo suu to speak until he had thought three times. One day the old gentleman was standing with his back to a fireplace and his coattail dangerously near the bars. The lawabiding son was in the room and suddenly jumped off his chair. "Father," he said, with wonderful deliberation, "I think"? "Well, what do you think?" was the reply. . 'Tather," repeated the youth, "I think"? "Well, well, my son, what do you think ?" said the father. 'Tather," again the boy remarked. "I think"? "Well, well, what do you think?" said the father impatiently. "I think your coattail is on fire!" Her Compliment. "Well, goodby, Mr. Green. It was so nice of you to come. It does father such a lot of good to have some one to talk to." "I was delighted to come, Miss Brown, but I'm not much of a conversationalist." "My dear Mr. Green, don't let that trouble you. Father's ideal listener is an absolute idiot, with no conversation whatever, and I know he has enjoyed himself tremendously tonight." I BIBLICAL MYRRH. You May Buy It and Frankincense In the Drug Stores. A druggist recently gave a Sunday school teacher a shock that he is not likely soon to forget, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. While seated at the soda fountain the; teacher was delivering a lecture concerning how much the world had forgotten since ancient times and | how well it would be if we - oJ-j learn something more about the articles of everyday use, for instance. mentioned in tiie Bibie. "Now, there's gold, frankincense and myrrh," he said, "that the wise men brought from the east. Of course we all know about gold, but who knows anything about frankincense < ; myrrh "We've got 'em for sale right here," said the druggist, reaching for a bottle, which he placed on the counter before the astonished lecturer. "Here's your frankincense, and," setting down another bottle, "here's your myrrh. Now, while I think of it," bringing a third bottle, "here's your manna too. They ate all gums. .Myrrh is the dried sap of a genus of trees and shrubs growing in Arabia, Persia and India; incense is composed in great part of the olibanum gum, the sap of a tree which grows in Arabia all along the Red sea coast, on the east coast of Africa and in great abundance in India. "To make the incense used in the churches the olibanum is sometimes mixed with mvrrh, cascarilla and storax, also an oriental gum. The shrubs producing myrrh are found all around the Mediterranean, the best qualities coming from Sicily. The manna of the drug store is also a kind of gum, an exudation from several varieties of small trees and shrubs growing in Arabia and here and there through southern Asia. The monks of Mount Sinai pack 600 or 800 pounds of manna every season. "Both myrrh and manna are often used in compounding prescriptions, and incense, of course, is in constant demand in the churches. It is rather curious, however, that during all the r nturies from the time when the Jews marched out of Egypt myrrh, incense and manna have year by \ir been collected and sent to Europe from the same countries in wh'^h they are first mentioned and that the incense burned in our chuivnes today is of the same kind and comes from the same places as that which smoked in Aaron's censer." He wasn't Excited. In Sulli\ ountv, X. Y., a story is told which '-.^d to do with a man who was pieaing blackberries when he saw a hi.. .. jear coming *his way, nose to ground and, as he thought, to ing his trail. He put the bucket down hurriedly and, selecting a handy tree, made for it with the intention of shinning up to a nice ;.^ng limb, prepared to stand a siege. Along came the bear, head down. It passed the half filled berry bucket without seeing it, passed the tree without taking notice of the man's scent and wen-: on down the path until it was out of sight. "Now," thought the man, "is the time for me to beat it for home," but when he moved as if to climb down from his lofty perch he found that in reality he was 6it;ing on the ground with his arms and legs wrapped around the tree trunk. Eicited? Next!?Forest andStream. Origin of the Rothschilds. The founder of the Rothschild family, Amschel Moses Rothschild, kept a coin store at 153 Judengt sse, of Jewish quarter, Frankfort on the Main. Before this shop was displayed a red shield; hence the name Rothschild. Amschel dealt in curiosities, art goods and old gold and silver. His son, Mayer Amschel, was born in 1743 and died in 11112. He, like his father, continued in the coin business. In the course of his coin business he met a collector, the court banker to the landgrave of Hesse. This banker was so impressed by Mayer's business ability that he loaned him money for investment, and it was in this way that the great banking firm of Rothschild was established.?Elder Monthly. His Compliment. Praise from a husband's lips is always pleasant to the wife, but the praise may be too discriminating to suit her. "I thought it was nice of you to tell that carpenter, who seemed to think women know nothing, that I could 'hammer nails like lightning,' " said Mrs. Morse to her husband. "But I'm arfraid, dear, you are not an unprejudiced judge. I really don't think I'm such a very good hammerer." "Oh, he knew what I meant," said Mr. Morse cheerfully. "You know lightning never strikes twice in the same place, they say." I ft AUTHORS.' HANDWRITING. Jules Janin Would Rather Rewrite Than Read His Manuscript. Charlotte Bronte's handwriting seemed to have been traced with a needle, and the penmanship of Bryant was aggressive, well formed and decidedly pleasing to the eye. Thackeray's writing was marvelously neat and precise, but it was so small that microscopic eyes were needed to read it. Longfellow wrote a bold, open backhand which was the delight of printers. The handwriting of Captain Marryat was so microscopic that when he rested from his labors he was obliged to mark the place where he left off by sticking a pin in the paper. Napoleon's handwriting was worse than illegible. It is said that his letters from Germany to the Empress Josephine were at first taken for rough maps of the seat of war. Much of Carlyie's temperament may be read in lii> linndwritirig. He wrote a patient, crabbed, oddly emphasized hand. The chiroerraphy of Walter Scott, Leigh Hunt, Moore and Gray was easy to read and ran smoothly. It was not expressive of any especial individuality, however. The writing of Dickens was minute, and the author's habit of writing with blue ink upon blue paper, with frequent erasures and interlineations, made his copy a burden to his publishers. Byron's handwriting was a mere scrawl. His additions in his proofs often exceeded in volume the original copy. To one of his poems which contained only 400 lines in the original 1,000 lines were added in the proofs. One day a distressed compositor appeared at the house of Jules Janin and besought him to decipher some pages of his own manuscript. Janin replied that he would rather rewrite than attempt to read over what he had once written. Few printers could read the copy of Balzac, and those who could invariably made a strict agreement with their employen^jat they would be required to woriBu it only one hour at a time. Even after the hieroglyphics had been translated into print the proof sheets came back more illegible than the orig inal copy. While having his house repaired Rufus Choate had promised to send to the builder the model for a carved mantelpiece. Failing to obtain exactly the kind of mantelpiece that he wanted, Choate wrote to hi3 workman to that effect. The carpenter eyed the missive from all sides and finally decided that it must be the promised plan. Forthwith he set to work to fashion what would have been the most original mantelpiece ever made.?New York Tribune. Tho Gypsie* of Hungary. Hungary is the home of the Tziganes in so far as they have any home. In all other European countries they were persecuted for centuries, but in the fifteenth century the Hungarians took pity on them. There are about 150,000 Tziganes in Hungary, and, with few exceptions, they are musicians. The typical Tziganes may best be seen near the Croatian frontier in the district of Nagy-Karped. Their camps are always set up at some distance from the town or village and if possible near a forest. Their huts have but one room and are devoid of furniture. Tziganes take their meala and sleep on the bare boards. Many unsuccessful attempts have been made to restrain the Tziganes. The Emperor Joseph II. once allotted land and ordered them to cultivate their acres. They turned theii houses into stables, set up tents near by for their own use, and to prevent the corn given them foi seed from sprouting they boiled it. Method In Her Submission. "I'd like a transfer for Fourteenth street," she said meekly to the conductor. "I can't give you one now, madam," he returned fiercely. "You should have asked for it whoa you paid your fare." "Oh, very well," said she. "He's a hateful old thing," declared her friend, who sat by her. "I wonder you took his sauce so quietly. Now you'll have to pay another fare. Why didn't you ask for it when you paid your fare anyway ?" "Because," she answered, "I have not paid my fare." ? New York Press. Gcod Service. "Was that a serious call?" asked the nervous citizen. "No," answered the driver of the ambulance that had dashed madlj> down the street. "The case was not serious, but our trip was not in vain. We did good service on the return trip, picking up the pedestrians we had run into and people who had been thrown out by horses we scared."?Washington Star. ?.?::@:?.?:?:@:??:?;?:@.?:?:??:?::@:?@:@; I Go the new 11 I Daylight Store. J 1 '? ? <?j FOR YOUR SPRING GOODS. WE HAVE A ? ! @ NICE LINE OF | Embroidories Laces, All Overs White Goods, Rib- J ^ bons, Silks, Millinery and Dress Goods. ? ? WE CARRY THE BEST LINE OF LADIES ? ? AND GENTS' SHOES IN TOWN. PRICES ? ? AS CHEAP AS ELSEWHERE. NO TROUBLE ? ? TO SHOW GOODS. COHE AROUND. @ I Stackley's Cash Store. | j jgj KINGSTREE, S. C. <?j | ?:@:@:?:@:?:@:@:?:@:?:@@:?::@:@:?:?.?:@@ :?:?'?:?:?:?:?:?:?:???:?:?:?@:?:@:?:.?:?:? ? ? | ?NEW YEAR'S!? g Greetings. ! ? (Si IS ? 2 We are fully prepared to fur-& ? nlsh you with Hardware for the ? | year 1907. | ? Latest and best improved? | Agricultural Implements. J ' .? 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