The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 16, 1908, Image 5
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SUPERSTITIONS OF NINE.
A Number Conspicuous In Ancient and
Modern Speech.
. Of all odd numbers the one which
would seem to be the most conspicuous
in ancient lore and modern
speech and in allusions of all sorts,
whether classic or vulvar, is ??.
iWhether this is because it is a multiple
of 3, a triple trinity, or not
we need not stop to inquire. The
connections in which f injures are
yerv numerous and extraordinarily
Iiraried. Ut old tiiere were nine
muses and also nine rivers in the
Infernal regions. In classical mythology
we read of nine heavens
8md nine world3, and the hydra 1 ad
pine heads.
I In mediaeval times there wore
pine "worthies of the world." ti
places in this select assembly 1
differently allotted by different authorities,
the usual division ! ring
three gentiles, or paynims, three
Jews and three Christians. Cue of
the oldest English games is nine
men's morris. It could he played
either indoors or outdoors, on o
folding hoard marked with the necessary
lines and squares or on a
"board marked out on field or down
by stones or by cuts in the turf. Ir.
Dorset they still play the game under
the name of marnull.
Nine appears frequently in popular
medicine. A Sussex collector
referring to the verv common rurai
belief in the efficacy of passing a
ruptured child through a cleft ash
tree says that the patient mu6t be
attended by nine persons, each of
whom should pass it through the
h cleft from west to cast. A Perth
session record of 1623 refers
to the preparation of three calces
' for some medicinal purpose from
nine portions of meal contributed
*^4>y nine maidens and nine married
^TWoraen. Threads with nine knots
^pand straws with nine joints are used
r*or various healing purposes, while
I nine Buoces6ive mornings are often
vjpreacribed ior the performance of
folklore ceremonies.
f* The great Lambton worm, one of
4 yihe best known of English dragon
vXmytha. had nine eyes and was fed
from the milk of nine cows.
Again, the same number is prominent
in various common phrase*
and proverbs. Nine tailors make a
man. Queen Elizabeth is alleged te
have once addressed a deputation of
eighteen tailors with m ""Good morning,
gentlemen bothT
Even' one knows that a cat has
nine lives, while the "cat'' that is
\*d need for the castigation of evil-doers
has nine tails.
03??* When Mercutio insults Tybalt
r v .and the latter inquires, "What
+hnn Trrfh me?" the
"volatile but fierj partisan replies,
"Good king of cats, nothing but one
of your nine livea." Beywood, the
proverb monger, has the saying, ""A
* woman hath nine lives, like a cat,"
which will be news to most folkThree
more examples may be giv en
from a collection <of applications
.of this remarkable number 9 which
is not easily exhausted. Possession,
>we often hear, is ""nine points of the
law." A person wfc? has paid aorae
.attention to his or h?r .attire i6 said
ior some inscrutable reason te be
dressed "up to the nines," while the
. most startling event as but a ^nine
^days' wonder." The last phrase,
though truer now than ever, was familiarly
used, with many other still
.current forms of popular speech, in
the days of Chancer. London
Globe.
UnftMwibli
Sot long ago in a -western market
down I chanced to observe an Irisb'
.man with a lire turkey under Kk
saxm. The turkey was squawking
end gobbling in a distressed way, a
racket to which the Irishman did
sot art first pay any particular notice.
Finally, however, the disturbance
got on the Celt's nerves. Giviing
the bird a poke in the side, he
-exclaimed:
"Be -quiet! What's the matther
wid ye annvhow ? Why should yez
;want to wa'k whin I'm willin' to
carry ye?"?Harper's Monthly.
At* It All.
A wife had occasion to go out ta
women's rotes meeting, so left t
Cdding in the saucepan for her hu?>
nd. When she arrived home she
g^vent on with her washing and in|H?red
how he'd got on.
Very well," said he. "I thor^^loughly
enjoyed the padding."
"Good!" said the wife. "What
did you do with the cloth it wee
A^mled in
HMB?lloth. my gal?" said hubby as he
HHRactedly continued reading hie
"Was there a cloth?"?LonH
kllustrated Bits.
An Exo?ption Not*d.
|HHgUyer?Your nncle's will seems
a perfectly legal document
UhUh - will stand in any court I
hEHBS! i no grounds on which to
it.
HBQK pointed Nephew?But you
HMgBa id some grounds. Where
BHMm a will there's a way, ybu
BSHSra Lippincotfs.
Barnato Won tha Bat.
There Is a legend of an amusing
competition in connection with a dlscushion
regarding the financial value
of literary genius. Barney Barnato.
who was a genius, but not literary,
began to chaff some financial journalists.
"You bloom in* fellers don't '
know nothin' about literature. I'll
back myself to write a little piece ;
against nnv of yer."
The challenge was laughingly ac- |
cepfed. and a refer* e appointed. The |
! pajH'-s wci'o ilir.iwn into a bat. and I
the referee, after analyzing tin in. said: i
j "O ntlemcn. I am bound t> say that !
! the palm must '.e awar \1 to Mr. !
I Barnato. His pie-e is terse, faultless
j in form. irreprom hahle in matter. ;
Yon you-selvts shall j.p.lge." And he
| read < : ; the f?;!lowf?:g ? s'-ry:
T f.r er.'se * ? pay to Mr. X. !v.c ?*?ro of
?: for ],' *! ess in acting :.s referee ;
la t!?i.s i.-t'-r-s.' o< ::?-.e'l:'v..
a. i. i:at:::ato. ,
v m '.r.::r.i <>'.; 'y < *!f.r.:e:l
i>y t! .* < ;p; r<. and tlio
cheek was - !; ;. i red. London i
-? p. t,
"A f ..." '.i.i ;i banker,
his r..: :. : ;? ! v nlepb.i. e suit!: .
"'I rt:' v. > > 1 iif*Tin ytiti. sir. that i
your !: u.-e - < n !*:*?* and fa t bunting 1
down.'
"'Oh.* ?>i"'. the master, 'what a ter- ;
rible it:isfijv: ;;ie! Hv.t r.y wife-is she \
safe:'
" 'C'.'tp sefe. s r. She pat ort among .
the lirst.'
*"Ar?* itiy dau .liters arc they all
right V*
"'All r!.;' t. sir. .ey's with their
mother.'
"There was a p.;u-c. Then:
" 'Ami v.! ;.t a'.out ir?y mother-in-law.
Jame~V
"'That, sir.' said the footuiRu suave
ly, 'was what 1 wished to speak to you
about. s!r. particularly. Your motherin-law
t? lyin" asleep lu the third story
back, r.rnl kiiowin* your regard for her
comfort, sir. I wasn't sure whether I
ought t"> disturb her or not sir.' "
Lot Angeles T.mes.
1* Vnur Mm !?? Hour?
"What is your shortest hour lu the
day?" *?ked n business miu of an acquaintance.
"Don't say you have none.
Too have. although you may not
know It. Everybody has. Of course,
reckcrK-3 by actual measurement, each
hour is com ironed -of sixty minutes, yet
notwithstanding that chronological exactaef^s
the hours vary In length. Mj i
| shorter! hour is from 2 to 3 o'clock la i
the uile.noon. I find uj>on Inquiry j
that this is the fleetest i>eriod for many <
. peopV. li my case so swiftly do ;
those -sixty minutes hurry by that 1
try t crowd Into them as many -or j
the d' ;agreeable. yet inevitable, things
of life as l possibly can. If I "have
to interview a l>on;, I see him then;
if I have to visit the dentist, I 'do It
then. That hour Is bound to slip away
quickly, no matter what happens;
therefore the agony of disagreeable
scenes seems of shorter <boration." I
"New York Sun.
Naked Truth.
As encounter of wits once took place '
between the late Eugene Field and a j
Neft York woman. It was at dinner,
and the woman was in evening dress,
which was rather decollete. After a
6kirxnlsh between the twc relative to
the respective merits of * well known
author it would seem that Field came
off second best v
*>Qh, Mr. Field." exclaimed the woman
exultantly, "you must admit that
yon are fairly beatea sat your own
game:"
Field bowed politely mid. with a
smile, promptly rejoined, "At any rate.
Miss Blank. I have one consolation
yon oan't laugh at me la your -sleeee."
Upplncott's.
Legend m* the VrcUt.
Latin poem of the sixteenth century
has a pretty legend df a violet
that, lo mythological da ye, was a
maiden called Ianthls, one df Diana'a
nymphs. She attracted the :attention
of Apollo, whose admiration she did
not return, and. flying from 'his pursuit.
Abe Implored Diana to destroy the
beauty which occasioned her ?o much
trouble. Diana granted her request
and tucned her face te a dnll purple.
Ianthia, however, soon regretted the
loss' of :her beauty and was pining
away with grief, when the goddess
had pity on her and changed her into
a flower, which still shrinks from Apollo
(the sue) and hides ber modest (bead
j in the shade.
At Regular Rates.
Miss Matilda Owens hnng on Che
arm of the editor of the Lanevllle Bofie,
to whom the had been engaged
for three yeara, and endeavored to turn
his fast toward the sky.
"Jnst notice the moon, WlKamP* she
said la a melting voice.
"At the nsoal rates, Matilda, I shall
be happy to do so," be replied.
Tooth's Companion.
Tee gtrenweus.
"My son tells me you've discharged
him." ssld the office boy's mother,
"sod I think that's strange. Too ad
rertistd for a strong Doy, ana ne certainly"
"He's too strong, madam,"
interrupted the employer. "In the
single day be was here be broke all
the rales of this office and some of the
furniture." Catholic Standard and
Times.
Eitduranoe.
Btbd How long can a human being
lire without food?
Jack I don't know about human beings,
but I know poets who hare been
writing for years. Judge.
It has become necessary to modify
the old saying, "Lift la what we make
it" Lift ti what we make ba It Los
Angela* Times.
A Myitirjr of Indo-China.
The great mystery about IcdoCblna
and one which must ever t?e Insoluble
Is the story of Hie lost race and the
vanished eiviliy.: Jion of that strange
country. The lirghty walls of Angkor- I
Wat. ri.-iivr i:i the midst of sparsely
settled jr.:.remain as the nieuiorial
of . -'ve.it empire which has utterly
; eer-d a-.':d is altogether lost
to I: ; .""o one will ever know
who | ; :! :< gigantic temple or i
what : .* h a '<'-1 on his myriads
of r> . ?:;> those immense
h!.?f! s of j < ?v r thorn with
the i o>t ..f s?-tt i?tnre?. Angkor-Wat
was o,:e -f the mosf astor.- I
Idling ironuineiits In ti.e w.'?;\:I. ant
this f -? ?t*u let: v-" "v: ' ! nil? so as
to ? :* :::<? long :! . e h itself
were it :t-1 f t t.V 's <!e i
t vo (''T1'* t ,%f 1 i* ! !lf(? oil 1^10 :
strei/r .- t w. ti ? ; can nt!?e j
Only a ' "y . .-ml very
real thy peon'p ; . vo (;
Angkor-Wat. a very til "ret from
the Anriiuife of u: da* The
wh !o n '.:! >:! has dis ;'toil as utterly
as the httsy myriads who once j.oj*ulat"!
the wast"- on! solitudes of
Memphis. fi>.:r:. : !':ee ric<^k
He Grt the T.-cut.
A story dealing with a large trout i
tVi-it v.-os ' r. / l'-M-'r nii'l frooiient- !
I.v told In "Ii"'.v to Fi-h: A Treatise :
on Tront and Trout Fishers." This Is j
the stnrj*
"He vv jS ct hi: up and down, up anil
doWI!. up a:.*: <\ v { ; ,-cts
offered themselvi . hut r~ 't suited his
composure that he should . ke a midge
from the abundant-. One .- nth was
casting at the trout; another was looking
on. Sold "'a :;r-'? *, 'I'll have that
fish whether lie takes It or not*
'How?' his friend askeu. "I'll throw
the fly Into his mouth.' The l.out
went on rising; the ang'cr wcr.t on
casting. I perct'lved the r.ugier's notion.
It was Ihut if he kept casting
accurately and the trout continued to
rlne In the tegular manner mentioned,
the fly wouW ere long fall at the very
moment when a midge was being
taken. This reckoning was justified.
I'M large trout was uooaea ana iudued
by a By that had iwen cast Into bis
WKHitK""
Old Fashioned Oratory.
"We don't have no si eh forensic oratory
as we used to have." said the old
arttJer. "Lawyer* nowadays dou't
orate. They only jost talk.
"Take old Bill K. Simmons of Enu
Clair. If Bill was defendln* n lowly
chicken thief be'd sjK?ak with the
tongue of angels. I'll never forg'.t the
(peroration of his Impassioned philippic
In the Clay Bull case ahout the jtolsoned
cat. It runs like this here."
The little, thin old man rose, reared
back In a defiant attitude and shouted
in me cracsea ireuie ui age;
" 'Restirf upon the couch of republican
liberty as I <lo. covered with the
blanket of constitutional panoply ns I
am and protected by the aegis of
American equality as I feel myself to
be, I despise the buzzin' of the professional
inseck who has just sot down
and defy his attempt to penetrate with
pony sting the interstices of me impervious
coverlnV " New Y-ork Tress
The Log Dr'rwvr.
The lire of a river Jog driver is a life
that seems to get ht.,1 of one after a
year or two. Yon are generally wet
through for twelve boors out of the
twenty-four. Ten of you sleep In a
12 i>y 15 foot shanty; yon live
on fried everything, "black strap,"
treacle and stewed tea. You go to bed
at 10 and g?t up at 3. You are everlastingly
cursed and never praised by
the foreman. Your Iff* is Id danger
more or less all day Jong, and you
never get more than $38 a month for
work that Is worth $300. "Then why
stick at it?" you say, and all I can
answer Is, "Just give It a fair trial
for a year, and then you'll know."
jHd* World Magazine.
Superlatives.
Or Johnson says in his "Grammar of
.the English Tongue," "The comparison
of adjectives Is very uncertain and,
being much regulated by com mod loudness
of utterance, Is not easily reduced
to rules."
Then he quotes passages from "Paradise
Lost" in which file words "vlrtuouseat"
and "powerfnilest" are fonnd
and a passage from "Samson AgonIstes"
which contains the word "famonsest."
Surely Milton bad an oar. Notes and
Queries.
Tough Fans.
In n New Zealand town one of the
municipal candidates, a pronounced
Scotsman, had received a present of a
huge Scotch thistle, which at the moment
happened to be lying on the table
of his committee room. A friend,
A saw ^ COW tK/v
entering, wauuim buuucui3, mui uid
remark: MI beg jour pardon. I didn't
know yon were at luncheon.**
Too, Too Much.
"Thank you, son," aaid old Tightflst
to the boy who bad run several blocks
on an errand for him. "Here's a penny
fnr ye."
"Don't tempt me, guv'ner," said the
bright boy. "If I was ter take all dat
money I might buy a auto wid It an'
git pinched for scorchln'." Philadelphia
Press.
Ingenious.
Servant (to artist returning from a
holiday) There have been so many
callers slnoe you left that I have been
obliged to wash the names from the
slate twice to make room for others.
Pearson's Weekly.
What Is the Answer?
She That Is a woman whom I envy,
and, curious as it may seem, she envies
me. He How ean that bef She
We were both after the same man
and I married you. Illustrated Bite.
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HOW VENEER IS MADE.
An Interesting Industry Found l?
Lumber Centers.
How veneer is manufactured is a
mystery to the majority of people.
The industry is not only one of the
chief occupations of Mattoon, Wis.,
but an exceptionally interesting one
also.
After a tree has been cut in the
woods and brought to the mill on
fiat cars it i< rolled into a pond
near the mill. Logs arc hoisted
from the ] ond to a drag saw. whe^?
ti.ty are cut in to various lengt
They are then put into a steatjf
for at h^.-t twt 1,'iur- in <t >r to
11 the tiu.ix r. 'i ?:? stcaru box
is a large iiox d : t!y b< l.iml the
drug saw. into wl.a .i the t.r.h'T is
piled. A two im U pipe containing
hoi. s through which the -teaui can
?... 'I'". t m 1 i P i'i.? ?'ea.!n
vv"i 1 I " ;
box. At tin* end of twelve hour?
ihe timber is remo\el ' r >:n the
steam box. ai!' 1 then e ihe pToce?s
(alb i i tvbng. Wit.i ~p i?Is ami
axes tiie ' . rk is removed easily, for
the timber is soft now and red hot.
Tf is ikes: ready to enter the mill
( .id be out into veneer.
The peeled log is hoisted on a
onr e to the veneer lathe, and that
is the last one sees of the log. When
it onee passes this lathe it comes
oat on the other side in long, thin
sheets of veneer. According to
thickness desired, it is cut from
one one-hundredth of an inch to
one-half inch thick and sixty-four
inches long.
As the veneer leaves the machine
it slides along a table thirty feet in
length. Ten feet from the end is
the clipper, where it is clipped into
different widths, an inch being allowed
for drying. It is now ready
to enter the drying process.
The drier is eight feet wide and
100 feet long. It is a chain driven
machine throughout, having four
sets of rollers. In order to heat
this drier there are 20,000 feet of
one inch pipes passing through it
aliove and below each set of rollers.
The temperature must always l>e
from 200 to 250 degrees. Veneer
is put into the drier at one end, or,
n other words, fed to the drier.
While the veneer slowly moves
through the machine it is also dried,
so that it is smooth and dry, but
very hot. The men in charge of
the veneer at that end always wear
canvas gloves to prevent their hands
V ,1 l.l.o+n
iron! OCCOmillg uurnru rtuu uiii-iv.
ed, while the perspiration runs freely
from their faces. It takes from
fifteen minutes to two hours foi
veneer to work through this drier
one way.
The second story of the local mill
is known as the glue room. Here
vrvi-or is glued together for f::mit.
re fa iories, bordering pane.s foi
dr?- M-rs and glass hacking.
'l i e machine known as the hv.
dr.- lie veneer press is ten feet hi
The veneer that has been glued for
pant Is or glass backing is placed in
this machine, and by pressure ot
water in a tank beneath it slowly
forces the veneer together until 11
is finr. and dry. Then it is rrmoved,
packed a. d Shipped. Milwaukee
Sentinel. .
The Dwl Was Off.
A Geiman university profeesoi
received a large package containing
six boxes of cigars, with a lettei
saying: "Permit us to send you
these six boies of cigars. We believe
that they will give you everj
satisfaction and trust that you will
recommend them to your friends,
Kindly send the amount, 6 marks,
by poatoffice order/'
The professor replied: "I hav?
liAiin? ir, romit tr? VOll twflvf
WS^< liWiivi w V j ? - dissertations,
which will no doubl
afford you the utmost satisfaction.
Should you wish for more X am a1
your command. The cost i6 3 marke
each."
By return of po^t came the reply:
"Be good enough to return the cigars.
We send herewith the cost oi
carriage and package. We are returning
your dissertations/'
On the Wrong Man.
Bret Harte wa6 so frequently
complimented on being the author
of "Little Breeches" that he was
almost sorry it was ever written, as
was Secretary J in Hay, who would
prefer his fame to rest on more ambitious
work. A gushing lady who
prided herself upon her literary
tastes said to him once: "Mr. Harte,
I am so delighted to meet you. I
have read everything you ever
wrote, but of all your dialect verse
iii
there is none tnat compares witn
your 'Little Breeches/" "I quite
agree with you, madam," said Mr.
Harte, "but you have put the little
breeches on the wrong man." Harrisburg
Telegraph.
To Eaoymon'o Diooomfituro.
Mrs. Scraphard (after a tilt in
which Mr. was not without honors)
Mrs. Easyman, across the way,
has got a bargain of a husband.
Mr. Scraphard So? Well, then,
Mrs. Easyman is proving to the
world that there is at least one woman
who can drive a baigajaw
N orris town Timea.
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