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THE CHINESE CODE.
It Is Older Than Any Other That Is
Now In Use.
It may not be generally known j
that China ha? an ancient and clab- j
orate, not to say voluminous, code i
of written laws. In point of an- I
tiquity it is by far the oldest of al! !
codes now in force. t)nly such in- !
gtruments as the Decalogue or the j
rode of Hammurabi seem ancient 1
beside it. If the code of Justinian
had been continuously operative j
since its promulgation it would still
be youthful as compared with this |
Chinese product. Intrinsiiall;, it
^? ctttsists of some twenty-four vol- J
^umes, in the literary language of the :
vempire, and it not only covers the 1
general field of substantive civil and
crinjinal jurisprudence, but it also
touches upon nearly every phase of
human interest and duty, for tin- i
Chinese conception of law is broader
than the occidental and includes
many subjects which western jurists !
would regard as belonging to i!:c |
domain of ethics or etiquette.
Independently of its contents the j
external character of this code af- |
fords a guarantee of it> permanence. I
It is said to consist of the accutmt- j
lated decrees of the emperors, dat- ]
* ing back twenty centuries, collected, j
revised and arranged in logical or- ;
der, and is thus an application upon j
an elaborate scale of the system of'
adjudicated precedents which forms J
the foundation of our Anglo-Saxon j
jurisprudence. But in China the ;
respect for precedent and written j
authority is much greater than with I
us. "A quotation from Confucius I
has settled many a quarrel, arhitrat-1
ed many a dispute."
The only class at ail correspond- j
ing to our lawyers is that known \
as "searchers," whose business it is
to find a precedent according to
winch a litigated question may he
~u?ded. With such notions thus 1
deeply rooted a code containing the '
precedents of ages and embodying ,
the sum of Chinese juridical philos- 1
ophy is not apt to be seriously dis- 1
turbed even by the mighty upheaval 1
now taking place in the Celestial
empire.?Charles Sumner Lobingier 1
in American Review of Reviews.
Where Four State* Meet. ! i
It is odd to reflect that it is pos- j
ible for one to be in four states at j
the same time. Vet there is one
such spot in the United States. <
Glancing at a map of the United <
States, one finds an intersection be
tween two straight lines, where1
Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona meet. The place is not j
Soften visited, as it is not easily j
Reached. The stone erected by gov
w ? j
ernment surveyors is on ?the top of j
a spur in the Carriso mountains.
The nearest railway town is Man-;'
cos, Co!o., nearly a hundred miles' 1
from the "four corners." The re
gion about was once densely popu-, '
lated by cliff dwellers, but there are \
now no human beings within miles.! '
Some years ago the Indians destroy-'
ed the boundary shaft. It was not, ]
replaced until 1904, probably be- 1
cause a long time elapsed before the <
authorities knew the old one bad j
been wrecked. ' <
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Heart Power.
The weight of the blood expelled ; <
- - A ? I- "4 > 4V?yy 1 nff T*AT\_ ' 1
av eucn iwiiac'iiuii ui mc itit y^u.tric-le
of the heart is about four i
ounces. The multiplication of this 1
number gives us two and a quarter ]
foot pounds?that is, a force capa-!
ble of raising that number of :
pounds one foot high?as the work
performed at each contraction of
the left ventricle. In an adult person
in good health there are per- j
formed some seventy-five such con-.
tractions per minute. Adding the ]
work done by the right ventricle, 1
which is about one-third that of the
left, we lind that the force expend- :
ed by the human heart in twenty- j
four hours Mould suffice to raise 120 1
tons weight one foot high.?New 1
York American.
A TT??1
n ? G??vi . ,
Smith?Oh, you've never found
any difficulty in saying catchy sentences
without getting muddled.
I'll give you a teaser. i
Jones?I bet 1 can say it. Try :
me. . ]
Smith?Repeat "What am I do-;
ing*" very quickly a dozen times;
endHsee if you can get through all
right.
Jones (very quickly)?What am 1
doing? What am I doing? What j
am I doing?
Smith (interrupting)?Making a
fool of yourself, my dear fellow.? 11
Lqndon Tatler. 1
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^Strong Language by Proxy.
"XVicar?John, do you?er?ever i
use strong language?
John (guardedly)?Well, sir, I?I
may be a little bit keerless-like in
my speech at times. <
Vicar?Ah, I'm sorry, John. But
we will converse about that some
other time. Just now I want you
to go to the plumber's and settle
this bill. And you might just talk
to the man in a careless sort of
way, as if it were your own bill!?
London Punch.
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STYLES IN WRITING.
Various Ways of Telling the
an Accident.
THE PLAIN STYL
A ladv slipped
}>cel in .School streo*
broke her lei?.
THE S'fciCC
It was a job for
Orange peel did .
There was a slide,
a dull thud.
J lie atmospnerc wa? iun 01
gerie, frou frou, hairpins and brica-brac.
It >?* '.'liable.
1' a few.
n rushed gallantly to
t
man who had fallen.
1 nether limb broken.
S rony. j
A u>e of somebody
carele
Saul M_. thousands.
Oran *s slain its ten
thousands.
THE FL. "I.E.
Tripping lightly ? ^bool
street yesterday aftei ^
all aglow with healtu
muscle, nerve, vein and ai
harmony with the invigorat
mosphcre, a reprosentative^o.
softer sex was seen suddenly to defleet
from tlie perpendicular, and in
another instant this one of heaven's
last and bc?t gifts to man came
I,i'>>rr in linrrt lin
yielding pavement. The immediate
cau?e of the unfortunate lady's
downfall was the greasy envelope of
that tropical fruit, the orange,
which some thoughtless, if not malicious.
individual had cast upon the
public pavement. The victim of
this carelessness or worse had sustained
a fracture of a limb, and it
will be many weary weeks ere she
will again ik? able to walk erect and
state!v as heretofore.
tiie facetious style.
She will he careful how she treads
on orange peel hereafter. She
diuu't know it was loaded. But it
shot her oJT. It is only a broken
leg. Not much comfort to her. but
a good thing for the surgeon.
There's money in it. People who
Mire.v- flivsv nmnrrp neel should be
M .' c i /
earef.:l to throw it so that it will
lanl with the slippery side down,
link- they are in league with the
bono >etting profession. In that
case, of course, it is different.?London
Tit-Bits.
English Legend of Tailed Men.
When a Hollander wants to show
his contempt for an Englishman
he refers to him as a "steert man"
?in other words, "the man with a
tail." The old legend says that
Thomas a Becket cursed the Kentislunen
who spitefully cut off his
horse's tail and that the entire generation
of Kent which followed
wore tails like horses. John Bale,
Edward VI.'s bishop of Ossorv,
mentions the legend, but gives some
variations as to the cause of tho
punishment. lie- says on the authority
of John C'apgrave that "for
rastyne yshe tayles at St. Augustine
Dorsetshire men had tayles
ever after that." Polydorus, however,
applies the legend to the
Kentish men of Stroud "forecutting
off Tomas Becket's horse's tavle."
One account says that only those
living in Kent at the time the curse
was pronounced "were afflicted with
large drooping tayles like brutes,
their posterity beying not so affected."
Might Hav* Been Worse.
In a foursome competition at
Maciiriliamish one Scotchman of
the party, a man of optimistic temperament,
always remarked, "It
might have been waur," whenever
he*put the ball into a peculiarly difficult
bunker.
His irritated partner determined
to rouse Macnab from his imperturbable
serenity and said to him
when next they played, "Macnab, 1
dreamed last night you were in
hade*."
"It might have been waur," came
the reply, pat.
"How waur?" said the Englishman.
"It might have been true," re-v
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pneu aiacnao. i mijjut aut? wcu
there."
The Scotchman ended at least
"one up."?London Globe.
The Size of Alaska.
Alaska contains 550,000 square
miles of mainland, 7,000 square
miles of the Aleutian islands and
22,000 square miles of other islands,
a total of 579,000 square miles, or
one-fifth of the area of the rest of
the United States. It requires the
areas of California, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana and New
York to equal this. The area of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Virginia and West
Virginia equals only one-half of
Alaska. It equals the combined
area of Great Britain and Ireland,
France, Germany, Belgium and the
Netherlands. It stretches from latitude
51 degrees to 71 degrees and
from longitude 130 degrees to 188
degrees.
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thaniel Li
regard to his p. eKS
i joined Greeks t g of
war," which raor iOt is
misquoted as " meets
Greek then coines i var."
i "Money is the ro< vil" is
a travesty of th^i e first
I Epistle of S' nothy,
! 'The love of m. Dot of
' all evil." Anot' 1 pasI
sage which is rectly
quoted is the sentence Proverbs,
"Pride goeth befo itruction
and an haughty spir. ore a
fall." The popular vc is,
"Pride goes before a fall."
That fine phrase from
' poem, "The Burial of S
i Moore," which runs, "BuJ
! him alone with his glory,'
i badly treated by people whv
| "Alone in his glory," while the cor
| rect words, as written Dy L.ongrei
; low, of the phrase so often used,
1 "All things come to him who waits/'"
j are, "All things come around to
; him who will but wait."?London
; Tit-Bits.
"For Short."
The names bestowed upon some
: of the small southern negroes rei
mind one of those of the old
Roundhead days?Hope Above Williams,
Have Faith to Be Saved John
Mitchell, and so on. Not long ago
a visitor in Richmond was having
his shoes polished by a little coal
black specimen about eighteen
inches in height, but possessed of
gleaming white teeth and rolling
eyes.
"What is your name.' me visji!
or idly asked. "Gen, sal)/' was the
j reply, accompanied by a grin of
! startling proportions.
| "'Gen?' i suppose that is an
abbreviation of general ?" the visitor,
who had some idea of the fondness
of negroes for. titles, inquired.
"Xo, sah; don't know as 'tis," was
the reply, "abbreviation" evidently
being too much for him. "Mali sho'
'nough name am Genc.-is XXX 33 i
So Shall My llighteousness Answer;
For Me In Tune to Come Wash-j
ington Carter, an' dey des calls me j
Gen for short!"?IJohcmian.
Vogue of Old Novels.
It is not uncommon to K->ar oldori
ly people lament that no one now
. reads the books which were popular
! lin.n vAiiitif il.M'C .(Uil flint' Will
Ill lU^Jl Utur, I.I U lliwj u 111 |
probably ad J that no living writer!
can for a moment compare with the
generation of authors that ha3 passed
away, bv which they generally j
j mean Dickens, Thackeray, George
j Eliot, Bulwer, Trollope, Bronte,
j Hawthorne, etc. We have, however,
every now and then a report from
; librarians of large libraries which
; goes far to disprove the correctness
! of the complaints of these "old
, souls," 6ince they show that many
j of the authors named are still in
! great demand by the public and hold
: their own very well alongside of the
! books which are in favor for the
! moment, and it was not a little sur
i prising to tind that in a table based
! on those reports "David Copperfield''
headed the list with a percentage
of 92 and that "Ivanhoe'"
followed closely with 88.?Charlesj
ton News and Courier.
Illustrious Bachelors.
Among the illustrious of the land
| who passed through life in single
i blessedness may be mentioned Sir
Isaac Newton, Thomas Hobbes, author
of the "Leviathan;" Adam
Smith, the father of political economy;
Chamfort, the greatest of
French talkers; Gassendi, Galileo,
Descartes, Locke, Spinoga, Kant,
| Bishop Butler, the author of the
' "Analog} ;" Bayle, Leibnitz, Hume,
Gibbon, Macaulay, Buckle, Pitt,
; Charles James Fox, Leonardo da
j Vinci, Raphael, Michael Angelo,
J Sir Joshua Reynolds, the artist Tur1
ner, Handel, Beethoven, Rossini,
Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,)
Williamsburg County. i
PERSONALLY APPEARED J. L.
Dispensary Board, who being each duly i
correct.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
veby's chance.
.e F *" . art| Bringing
cd Ills mo\.?er with a large sized *
shock the other day. It was a ease J
of sov. ing a milil little breeze and 1
reaping a fall grown whirlwind. (
Robert i< .Mrs. H.'s first and has (
always had a large front seat in her ?
affections. Kven when Mrs. B. at- }
tended parties she remembered I
Robert and would slip a bit of can- (
dy into her handkerchief to carry ?
home to him. , '
Not that Robert did not have a- (
much candy of his own as was good I
for him?and more, too? h ;t lie 1
: an awed delight in anything f
! v. V h came from a party. So his!1
n.-v.'cr alwavs produce*! .>ot:ie <>y
. . * 1 * . . \
VC*M' 01 IKT IV'M?i I ?<>( :ii ?
t! with which to. satisfy Ib*'.jt
A few weeks ago l'o! ert himself 1
went to a party, hi? very ':rst. A , 1
maid brought him ho- " and left '
him, toother with a !.ir o paper i
bag. in the eager arm* of his wel- f
eomii.g o'her. Tl;a f!r t rapture I
of dc- r.'pt::>n had senrcc!. begun <
wlicn Mr-, it. I; ..;n<e con oaa of s
the bulk bag. s
"Why. I'obcrt, what's this?" *
"It's for vou. I brought it to von ^
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from the party. s
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nun some* misgiving jus. u. ?
ojicnod the bag. It contained a t
large orange, nuts, candy, grapes,' i
cakes?in fac t, a verv respectable' (
assortment of refreshment* suited; f
to the juvenile taste. J >
Robert had supposed it was quite I
the usual tiling to take little con- f
soling items to the uninvited mem- t
bers of one's family, and he had 1
taken a generous delight in securing )
[ a truly noble collection for his t
mother. {
| That lady faced the double prob- c
i lem of explaining the situation toll
Robert's hostess and of presenting \ <
to Robert a clear reason why what t
was sauce for the goose, so to speak,! c
; was a totally different thing for the t
gander. The explanation, which \ i
{simmered down, of course, to at
?uestion of size or quantity was far ^
rom being clear to Robert, who is \
low in his mind and thinks he does <
not care for society at all.?New {
York Sun. ! i
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What David Said. ]
A country clergyman kept a j (
vnnnnr spruanf lml OllP SundaV ! <
morning before service he gave him
his orders about the dinner and
said:
"Go to neighbor David and ask j
him for me to let you have some | ,
tripe on credit, and then prepare ^
me a nice plateful."
The lad did as he was told, and
the clergyman went to conduct the !
service. As he stood in the pulpit .
he called out in the middle of his
sermon:
"And on this subject, brethren,
what does David say ?"
At that moment hia little valet [
stepped into the church, and, in the i
belief that his master was address- J
ing him, he replied:
"Please, sir, he says, *No money,
no tripe!'"?London Answers.
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of the Dispensaries in H
rHE MONTH OF APRIL,
II Stock is Given at Consumers' Prises.
Total Invoice Including Opera
Stock on Hand First Total Sales
of Mouth L
St. 6,128.10 2,773.27
>. 5,726.59 2,569.40
. 2,009.20 753.66
$13,863.89 $6,096.33 ~j
Bass, W. E. Snowden and J. M. Parker,
and severally sworn, deposes and says tl
this eleventh day of May, 1908.
J. B. ST
JELLYFISH.
One of tho Peculiar Forme of the Ani- |
mal Life of the Sea.
Upon the sand at the water's j
there lies a particle of jellyike
substance, inconspicuous and
ilmost invisible. But in early spring
>ne moves in such a world of won- J
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iers, UK* merest aiuuis u 1 ussuc .
tre seen to be informed with such
raried and vivid life, that I lift the
>articlo carefully upon a shell and
Irop it into a jar of water to see
i strange unfoldment, a beautiful
ransfonnation. The centra! ma^s
'xpunds into a double chambered
)ell of pure and transparent ves:ure,
and these gossamer globes bejin
to contract with regular rhythnie
motion, lifting the creature up-;
vard and softly urging it forward
)y their quickly repeated pulsaions,
while from below four grad j
lally lengtliening tentacles trail
>|ckward with graceful undulations, i
rhis beautiful medusa, the Sarsia '
nirabilis, is the earliest of our jellyishes
to appear in spring. By its
deasing and graceful form, by its
?ager and tireless movements, it
leems to visit our shores at this sea
1 1 1 - ~ ? *> 4 /v f f b A ilnnn
ton ciiiuuaL nr.c 2111 mici ui tuc j/, (
roieeless, it is true, but throbbing
vith its message that the ocean's
lubmerged shores and its dark abysnal
chasm? are all alike awakening
o the spirit that transforms the I
ipper world. One is at a loss to 1
lompivhend these creatures, so difercnt
in form from any that we are
vont to associate with animal life,
'or, although without a head, they
ire yet capable of sensing the light '
tnd auditory vibrations. Without !
iamb, arms or antennae, they are 1
et responsive to tactile impressions
ind, although of such fragile and i
fossjiincr texture, are yet the vchi-1
rle of vivid nrd intensive life. The J
novemcnts ol' the body and the
,'ontaincd imnul-vs that prompt j
hem seein one and indivisible. The i,
lesires of its being seem themselves :'
;o urge it forward. Like a thought 1
t seems momentarily embodied or
in emotion precipitated into the
risible as it impulsively mounts upvard
in eager quest or in apparent
lisappointment relaxes its efforts
tnd subsides with all its drifting
ippendages a-stream, only after a
noment to palpitate again with refreshed
intention and slowly pulse
"> its cnftlr insistent wav.?H. J.
Shannon in Harper's Magazine.
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The Scot's Gratitude.
An old farmer coming homo from
the Paisley market lost his pocketbook,
containing a considerable sura
of money, in the station. He looked
for it, but could not find it, and
had given up all hopes when a newsboy
said to him: "Here, mon. A've
fun' yer book.*
The gnidman was overflowing
with gratitude and expressed himself
thus: "Thank ye, ma lad. If
ye happen tae be passin' oor farm- j
house, step in, an' AH gie ye a guid
drink o* aoor milk."?Dundee Ad-;
rertiser.
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1908.
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>f Each Hi oak a go Last
ii?pensar>- Pay of Month
338.25 7.41 3,303.55
321.02 5.25 3.164.90
118.72 2.68 1,190.50 >
5778.59 li^sT 47,658.95'
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members of the Williamsburg County
tat the foregoing statement is true and
eele, Notary Public. [L. s.]
Playing School.
"Ilow many seed compartments
are there in an apple?" he queried.
No one knew/
"And yet," 6aid the school inono/.f
ai? "all nf vam no f manv an.
pies in the course of a year and see
the fruit every day probably. You
must learn to notice the little
things in nature."
*f he talk of the inspector impressed
the children, and they earnestly
d'scMssed the matter at recesa timeThe
teacher the next day overheard
this conversation. A little
girl, getting some of her companions
around her, gravely said:
"Xow, children, jusfc s'pose that
I'm Mr. Inspector. You've got toknow
more about common things.
If you don't, you'll all grow ?p to
be fools. Now tell me," she said,
looking sternly at a playmate, "how
many feathers has a hen ?"
The Ruth of the Amazon.
The tide has a great influence on
the Amazon, extending many hundreds
of miles from its mouth. At
the northern part of the mouth occurs
a curious phenomenon, called
by the natives "pororoca." During
the full and the dark of the moon
tho tide reaches its highest point
for f; few minutes only. As soon
as this tide begins to come in a
rumbling roar can be heard iar
away, a distance of five or six miles.
It is the pororoca approaching. This
roar increases with the coming of
the wave, which is from thirteen to
thirtv feet in height and covers the
entire width of the channel. Another
wave follows immediately,
then a third and sometimes a
fourth. After these waves have
passed, the impetuosity and force of
which nothing can resist, the tide
resumes its nfrulnr course.
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