The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 11, 1907, Image 7
FLINT AND FRICTION.
Meihois by Which Primitive Man Procured
Hi# Fire.
DonMloss the production of fire J
fey sparks fro:u ilie il;nt was fallowed
tho discovery that friction
wouiu produce a flame. Iu regions
where suitable stone was not easily
found.-the inventive aborigine de- !
inscribe whirling stick, or lire drill, j
Thi" \Vas a stick of hard wood with j
its lower end set in a hole in a
Woo k of very soft, dry wood.
The stick was held upright between
tiie hands and whirled by ,
juhbing the palms first one way and
Uion the other. A moderate downward
pressure was exerted, and as
the hands worked down on the stick j
they were occasionally shifted to a
higher hold, t
An improvement on the hand
whirled drill was the application of
bow for rotating it. The first
flMm to make a bow drill is entitled
to fame as the first inventor of a
machine, for he combined several
working pieces in one apparatus for
accomplishing a desired end.
This father of inventor's must
hare conceived the idea that if he
should make a turn of his bowstring
around a stick and fix the
two ends of the stick in holes he
oould roUte the stick much more
easily and rapidly than was possible
with the hands, producing great
friction and heat much quicker and
with much less exertion. We can
imagine we see him?a great,
brawny, hairy man, with a bit of a
goatskin far clothes?sitting crowlagged
at the mouth of his cave and
rigging up the first operative machine
that was to produce fire.
He must have procured a large
piece of soft and dry dead wood and
ImUowed a spot for the lower end
of the stick. Then putting this under
a slanting rock he must have
wedged another block of soft wood
hove the stick.
Having fixed them solidly in place
by piling stones around them, he
would then take a turn of his bowstring
around the stick and draw
it back and forth rapidly, securing a
blaze in a short time.
With what triumph he must have
viewed his work when the first jet
of flame burst from the smoking,
charred mass that he had coaxed
into fiery existence! It is easy to
picture him calling his family or
followers about him to see his first
machine, perhaps half consumed in
* the fire it had made, and explaining
its operations with enthusiasm.?
Circle Magazine.
1 H?r Clever Devioe.
Two stylishly costumed young
9 women entered a "standing room
only" car. Glancing along the lines I
. of seated passengers, the prettier of
the pair bowed formally, but sweetly,
to a young man.
The young man, across whose
face a puzzled expression flitted,
iamediately raised his hat and a
moment later rose and tendered his
smit to the lady.
"Who is that?" the letter's companion
asked as he left the car
eon afterward.
"Haven't the faintest idea," was
we
"But you bowed to him."
"Certainly. That's a rule X're
adopted when I need a seat. You
tea, he believes we must hare met,
sad of course he must be polite. I
Try the scheme. It always works."
?Columbus Dispatch.
Muddied Memories.
Among the gems of a collection
of schoolboy "howlers" are the following:
Charon was a roan who fried soles
oyer the sticks.
The heart is over the ribs in the
^idst of the borax.
A thermometer is an instrument
for measuring temperance.
The snow line stretches from the
north pole to the south pole, and
here it crosses the Alps and the
Himalayas it is many thousand feet
high in the air.
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" ("Let
him be honored who thinks evil").
A toga is a sort of naval officer
usually found in China and Japan.
Contralto is a low sort of music
which only ladies sing. ? Kansas
Oifcr Jnnrnal
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St. Elmo's Light.
xSt. Elmo's light or fire is the
same which has been given a phenomenon
often seen at sea during
thunderstorms. It appears in the
shape of a brush or star, seldom
ranad or square, usually at the tip*
et the masts or, if on land, at the
potato of gables or spires. It is oc^
TMrnr?"j accompanied by a hissing
aoiao and on tins account is be
lieved'to be an electrical manifestation.
The old time mariners bettered
the light to be the spirits of
Castor and Pollux, who were suppqeod
to watch over men who "go
oewn to the sea in ships," they always
regarding the "fire" as a sign
that the foroe of the storm had J
MEDICAL SUPERSTITION.
Outlandish Practices Still Prevail la
Parts of Gsrmany.
All sorts of outlandish medical ,
ideas and practices are to be found ,
in active prevalence in the marsh |
lands of the Weser, north of Bre- |
merhaven, and in the Luneburg ]
heath, a barren region between the |
Elbe and Aller, in Uermany. ]
In both of these districts the ]
touch of a corpses hand is still re- ,
garded as a curative of many local ,
ills. Iu the Wesermarsch the prac- 5
tice is to steal secretly into the room |
where the dead person is laid out i
and with the dead hand stroke the ]
afflieted part. In the Luneburg i
heath the application is especially \
used as a cure for warts and for j
cramps iti the stomach. I
Less grewsome is the remedy for j
hernia still applied in the marsh
country. On the night of St. John
the Baptist's day, June 24, the patient
must be dragged through the
split of a cleft ash tree. Three men
bearing the first name of John
must perform the operation, and it
must be conducted in dead silence.
Some of the cures depend, on the
contrary, upon verbal formulas. For
hiccough the sufferer must cross
a little wooden footbridge over a
stream?an easy matter in the
marsh lands with their manv drainage
ditches. As he crosses he must
repeat the nursery rhyme:
8nlp-op on Ik ffungen ober dat steg
Snlk-op fult herln un lk gung weg.
This bit of dialectic German may |
be translated: I
Hlcoough and 1 went over the bridge;
I went on. Hiccough fell In the ditch.
For erysipelas a fire is lighted
and a pinch of ashes from it is rub- j
bed oti the skin to the accompani- j
ment of a saying to the effect that g
the ashes and the sore went over the t
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ned sea togemer, ine asii came
back, but the sore never again. Numerous
other sayings supposed to
hare the force of charms, usually
when uttered simultaneously with
9ome action, are quoted. The Luneburger,
for instance, who has warts
makes the sign of the cross on the
warts while gazing at the yescent
moon, saying, "What I see, that I
win; what I wash, that disappears."
It rhymes in the German dialect.
Sometimes the formula is not
spoken. The Wesermarsch folk
have a saying which they write on j
a slip of paper when any one ha3 j
fever. Then they bum the paper. f
The Luneburgers have no formula, j
but they write the name, year of ;
birth and birthplace of the sick per- .
son in a lonely place three nights j
running. Other remedies for fever .
consist in swallowing spiders or dust J
filed from a church bell.
When a tooth comes out the loser j
must throw it backward over his j
* 1 ? A. 1 L. '
head, uair comoings musi noi oe
thrown out of the window, because <
the birds might get them and fly
away with them. In that case the j
person who was separated from f
them would speedily become bald.? ^
Allgemeine Zeitung.
Thaophila Gautiar. *
In spite of his exceptional 1
strength and the magnitude of his .
desires, Gautier was a dreamer, 1
strayed into the midst of a restless,
implacable civilization which rushed
past him and over him and trod
him under foot, while he, uncon- (
scious of the fact, made no com- (
plaint. "Poor Theo!" he sometimes (
exclaimed, and we, his friends, knew ^
what depths of unspoken suffering j
were compressed into that cry. He <
1i in a nrA*U nt A ro a m a fa r a WAV
U'CU iU a n V* 1U V* \A4 - - ! *M? M .. -mm J J ^
so far away indeed that he was \
aware the fantastic existence he had \
imagined was not to be realized (
upon our earth and therefore made ,
the best of the indifferent circum- \
stances in which he was forced to 8
live. ? "Literary Recollections," J
Maxime di? Camp. <
B?auty Ev*r/wh?ri.
The remotest corner of the globe ,
is full of wonder and beauty. The
laziest bank in the world, away from
towns, where no artists do congregate,
upon which no farm laps,
where no vines hang their cooling i
clusters, nor flowers spring, nor
grass invites the browsing herd, is i
yet spotted and patched with moes ]
of such exquisite beauty that the
painter, who in all his life should ]
produce one such thing, would be 1
a master in art, an immortal in
fame, and it has the hair of 10,000 i
reeds combed ovei^'ts brow, and its \
shining sand and insect tribes might i
win the student's lifetime. God's
least thought is more prolific than 1
man's greatest abundance.?Henry i
Ward Beecher.
Ri!?y'? Ryt Patch.
Whitcomb Rilev was looking over i
a fence on his farm at a field of rye i
when a neighbor who was driving by <
stopped his horse and asked: I
"Hello, Mr. Riley! How's youi
rye doing?" 1
'Tine, fine!" renlied the poet.
"How much do you export t? <
elear to the acre ?" 1
"Oh, about four gallons," at. 1
swered Mr. Riley soberly.?Success I
OUR BIG BROWN BEARS.
They Are More Than a Match Far the
Largest African Liona.
What percentage of people, even
:>f those who fee! an interest in
wild animal life, really know that1
the largest flesh eating animals in
it It F k O !
cne worm are inunu in America.'!
People generally believe, and have
believed for ages, that the African
lion is the king of beasts. But he is
30t nearly as large or as powerful
in animal as the large brown bear
>f subartic America. The bears
ire not as ferocious or combative aa
the lions, nor are they nearly as
ricioug as they are given credit for
oeing. But tiie largest of them are
nuch larger and more powerful
:han any of the lions. It is safe to
say that the largest of the brown
bears of the north would weigh
ihree times as much aa the largest
inecimen of lion and is beyond
ill question greatly superior in
itrength.
Comparing these two powerful
inimals in action if brought together
in combat, the bear would at
list appear very clumsy. It would
lot be capable of the quick rush or
die catlike spring of the lion. It
rould not attack, but would remain
entirely on the defensive, meeting
ta adversary with blows of sucn
apidity and terrible force aa at
ince to illustrate its superiority not
inly in strength, but in action. I
lo not believe that there is an aninal
in the world that can act more
juickly or effectively or can aim its
jlows with greater certainty than
;he bear.
The large brown bears of the
\laska peninsula, south of Bering
iea, are among the largest bears of
die world, and it is evident that
:here is no part of the world outii/la
nf A mofi.io in vhink aiir>b lflr"C
VA A A 111 V1IV.U IU f? M?V?I W ... ^ - ,
lesh eating animals are found. The
>ears are flesh eaters, or carnivo ous,
yet there are none of them
;hat depend upon flesh for food,
md with most of them flesh com>rises
but a very small percentage
?f ^Uaim ^
/i uicu luioi.
The large brown bears of the
lorth and those of the Alaska pennsula
usually travel to the sea
vhen first leaving hibernation.?
\ndrew J. Stone in Soribner's.
Language of Batla.
Volume of sound is, indeed, the
x>ast of most old bells. "Although
ny waiste is small," says a Somerset
bell in its motto, "I will be
leard against you all. Sing on, my
iolly sisters!" We are not aur>rised,
knowing bells, that "this old
>ell rung the downfall of Bona*
? * * *i em i ))
>arte ana arose, April, lois. ne
>nly wish there were more Bona>artes.
The inscription on a Rutand
bell has a bitter significance
:or the enemies of church bells belides
its own sad one for most of us,
T sound not for the souls of the
lead, but for the ears of the livng."
But the inscription that delerves
to be written in gold over
;he belfry of, say, Kensington
rhurch is the beautiful old Latin
me, also on a Rutland bell: "Non
:lamor sed amor can tat in sure
Dei" ("Not noise, but love, sings
n the ears of God").?St. Jamea
Gazette.
Our Most Humiliating War.
But for Osceola there would nevsr
have been any Seminole war at
ill, and, all thingB considered, his
areer marks the most humiliating,
rar the United States ever engaged j
n. There were less than 6,000
ileminoles, men, women and chillren,
in all Florida when hostilities
)egan with the murder of General
Thompson by Osceola. That great
ihief's cunning, capacity and conr- i
tge had coot the nation no leas than
$0,000,000 and the lives of three '
oldiers for every Indian brave that j
ie led. Such an appalling record |
)f destruction stands against no
>ther fighter on all our frontiers.? ;
Lynn Tew Sprague in Outing Magizine.
She Won Out.
He?I love you!
She?But 1 have not a farthing
n the world.
He?Ah, but you did not let ma
inish. 1 was going to say, "I love
rou not."
She?Indeed! I only meant to |
put you to the test. The fact ia, I
lave a fortune of ?60,000.
He?Yes, but you again inter-,
rupted me just now. What I meant
ft say was, "I love you not for the
take of your money."
She?Bo glad to hear you say
that! It was all a joke about the
M>0,000!?London Mail.
Suspicious.
"I am in terror," said Mrs. Goodion.
"Every time I hear the bell i
ring I know 111 hear something
Lreadful about Jack. I'm sure he's
teen in some mischief."
"What makes you think so?" askid
her husband.
"Oh, he came straight home from
ichool this afternoon, sat down and
ifodiad his lesson for tomorrow for
aaarly two hours and has been as
pod as an angel ever since."
IHt OLD riM? PUNTER.
?xp?nui of a Sovontoonth Contury
American Swolt.
"An account book of 1679," said
an antiquary, flourishing a stout little
volume bound in gray leather.
"The account book of a rich planter.
Listen."
And the antiquary read at random
these items from the accounts
of a seventeenth century American
swell:
"Item: Paid to Peg Ransome for
head of haire, which I got of her
toward making me a periwigg, but
it is too short, 2 shillings, 6 pence;
paid to Mr. Fair.e for a new periW'""
fir r.1 vcnl f ItOdirlpfl A head of
"W m -haire
Which I bought that cost me
half a guinay, and he added more
haire to it, so that I paid him 1
pound, 17 shillings, 6 pence.
"To Mr. Delaroach, the Frenchman,
for drawing out the stump of
a tooth, 5 shillings.
"Item: Two yards and a half of
tine broad miit gold coloured Spanish
cloth at 20 shillings a yard for a
coate; the trimming, lining, ribbin,
silk and buttons cost 5 pounds, 18
shillings, and the making upp 1
pound, 10 shillings, and to the
tailor's men to drinks 2 shillings.
"New milk under the cowe, 2
pence.
"A skye coloured tabby waistcoat,
2 shillings, 3 pence; coloured silk
stockings, 22 shillings; suit and
cloke of gray satin, pearl trimmed
with 36 yards of silver ribbin, 10
pounds 4 shillings.
"Item: 2 pounds of fine haire
powder, 3 shillings.
"Paid for 4 yards of stayned Ind:an
calibre for a morning gowne
for my wife, 11 shillings; paid more
for some of the same Indian callicoe
to finish morning gowne, 8 shillings,
making 19 shillings in all.
" 4 ' ? ^ a :.L
":\ coat oi nne opauisn ciuui,
lined with flowered silk, 9 pounds,
9 shillings.
"To a blackamoor, 2 pence.
"A paire of worsted stockings
for my wife, 2 shillings.
' A paire of scarlet silk stirrup
stockings, 24 shillings; black siik
stockings for Sundays, 28 shillings;
three paires white silk stockings, 4
pounds.
"For two pieces of taffety ribbin
for fancves for my suit, 1 pound, 15
shillings.
"Bunnit for my wife, 3 shillings."
?New Orleans Times:I)emocrat.
Much Broken by Misfortune.
Mrs. Cartwright, in search of a
painter to touch up her kitchen
walls, was directed to Napoleon Lamere.
"Do you think," asked Mrs.
Cartwright, eying tottering Napoleon
doubtfully, "that you could
paint the side walls of my kitchen?"
"D-.i. ?? \T?.
Out J liuiuaiiij % l^bUiuvvi A i mm
poleon, "eef dose appartment eet
ees not of a too large highness. Eef
you ave som w't you call low down
job, me, I can do heem de mos'
bes' of hannybody else.
"But, madam! Helas! No more
can I do dose up high ceiling, dose
steep roof, dose*so elevate church
steep', dose sky* crape. Me, I 'ate
hon mn two foot too great of de
shake. Behol'! Already, madam,
me, I 'ave de large misfortune to
broke seex of ma laig."
Schnapps Tobacco
Tobacco Gn
^ The Imi
Qua
Hundreds of imitation
on sale that look like S
bacco. The outside of t
plugs of tobacco is flue cu:
as Schnapps, but the ins
with cheap, flimsy, heavil
air cured tobacco. Or
Schnapps will satisfy tob
longer than two chews
bacco. The color, size
of the tags, plugs and .
certain imitation brands
have been made so
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Schnapps that they have
accepted by buyers und<
that they were getting
Sufficient proof nas bi
to establish the fact
brands are infringements
lation of the trade mark I
trade will continue to
upon by these infringers
already entered and nov
protect Schnapps is <
great many of these in
R. J. Reynolds T
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PFTITIMI FOB RFTTFB
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! PASSENGER SERVICE.
TRAIN BETWEEN LANE AND FLORENCE
WOULD MEAN MUCH FOR
WILLIAMSBURG.
The fallowing petition will be circulated
in Kitigstree, Lake City and
I Scran ton with a view to obtaining
! better passenger facilities for points
j north of Lane oil the North-easteru
; railroad and along the Central road.
When signed by a sufficient number
of the people interested the petitions
will be forwarded to the proper
authorities for their consideration:
i State :?f South Carolina,!
County of Williamsburg.)
To Mr W N Royall, General Manager
of the Atlantic Coast I.ine Rail|
road Company.
The petition of the undersigned citi- j
zens <*f Kingstree, in the county of i
Williamsburg and State of South Car- j
olina, respectfully represent!:
1. That the section of country locat- j
ed upon the North Eastern Railroad
between Lane and Florence is very
rapidly developing in its business resources.
and the traveling public are in
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neeu 01 greater accuiui.iuuai.ii/ij? ?twet-n
the various point? on said road
between Lane and Florence, and, in
our opinion, the present passenger accommodations
are totally inadequate
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tation Brands Have !
lity Only On the On
Of the Plug
brands are claimed to
chnapps to- Schnapps, 1
he imitation uine Schna
red the same on the tag,
,J- i unHftr the fc
ilUC lb linen
y sweetened and then
le chew of wholesome
acco hunger just enoug]
of such to- the mild, jt
and shape the leaf tob
packages of that this _fl
; of tobacco in the fam
much like quires and
} often been any other
;r the belief stimulati
Schnapps. chewers.
een secured If the tc
that certain don't satisf
; and in vio? habit of ei
laws, yet the yourself an
be imposed Schnapps i
until the suit formerly b
v pending to to $1.00
decided. a sold at 50
litations are strictly io<
obacco Company, Wj
to the demands, and the connections to
points on the Georgetown and Western
and the Central Railroad cannot
now be m ide without great delay to
persons traveling between the points
above named.
11. That y<>ur petitioners are informed
and believe that the daily passenger
traiii now running from Orangeburg
to Lane remains at Lane from about
11 o'clock in the morning until ahout
o'clock in the afternoon, which
train your petitioners think could easily
be run from Lane to Florence with
very little expense, and which would
afford much greater accommodation to
the traveling public, and your petitioners,
believing that you have the interest
of our country and its people at
heart, prefer to present their grievance
direct to you instead of to the
Railroad commissioners.
Wherefore your petitioners respectfully
pray that you will arrange to
have the above mentioned train run
on through to Florence and return,
thereby the grievance above referred
to will be relieved.
And your petitioners will ever pray,
etc.
Call at our store, please, for a free
sample packageof Dr. Shoep's "Health
Coffee." If real coffee disturbs your
stomach, your heart or your kidneys,
then try this clever Coffee imitation.
While Dr. Shoop has very closely
matched Old Java and Mocha coffee
iu flavor and taste, yet he has not a
even a single grain of real coffee in it
Dr Shoop s Health Coffee Imitation ia
made from pure toasted grains or ce
?- ?-1- VT.,.? V/U1 will
real3, who auuw, xiuu?, ?
surely like Health Coffee. Sold by
People's Mercantile Company.
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out Country. I
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Schnapps
itside _'
be "just as good" as i
out tnere is omy unc gcupps.
Be sure the letters
and stamped on the plug j
ag spell S-C-H-N-A-P-P-S ;
you have it?the most
tobacco produced, with
h sweetening to preserve
licy, stimulating quality of j
acco. Expert tests prove ;
ue cured tobacco, grown
ous Piedmont region, re*
takes less sweetening than ;
and has a wholesome,
ng, satisfying effect on
>bacco you are chewing ,
y you more than the mere
cpectorating, stop fooling i
d chew Schnapps tobacco. !
s like the tobacco chewers
ought costing from 75c. ;
per pound; Schnapps is j
c. per pound, in 5c cuts, j
c. and 15c. plugs.
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