The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 08, 1908, Image 5
Hymeneal
Makkied.?On Thursday, October
8, 1908, at 10:30 a. m.
at the Methodist parsonage by
Rev James McDowell, Miss Olga
Herrington, of Clarendon county,
and Mr Thomas O Epps of
Kingstree.
TAMP PRFSSI FY RFftRfiAMZES
Old Officers Re-Elected and Other
Busines Transacted.
The members of Camp Press^
ley met Saturday and re-organized.
All the old officers were
re-elected, viz: Commandant, H
H Kinder; vice president, 1st
W Flagler, 2nd F M Britton,
3rd TV D Fitch; chaplain, Rev
E E Ervin, examining physician,
W L Wallace, M D; members of
pension board: H H Kinder, A
W Flagler, II 0 Britton and G
J Graham.
Read S Marcus' ad this week
See notice of County Teachers'
association.
Best line Case Goods in town aud
prices right, at Wilkins'.
Have you paid what you owe
for the paper? If not, why not?
Gale & Gale's new ad this
week should interest the ladies
0
Miss Lucile Barr of Greenville
is visiting Miss Lila Hammet.
Dr G L Dickson of Manning
was in Kingstree yesterday on
onsiness.
Mr R C McElveen of Hebron
spent several hours in town
yesterday.
The Kingstree Dry Goods Co
invite attention to their new
advertisement.
The office of the "Williamsburg
Insurance and Bonding Co is in
the Bank of Williamsburg.
Get your tickets forthe Morphet
and Stephenson entertainment
to be given in the school auditorium
Monday night. It's a
y good show.
( The "Devil's Auction" com^
pany, booked for Monday night,
coquetted the management of
the opera house and the show
> didn't come.
Harmony Presbytery is still
in session at the Presbyterian
church. We expected to give a
tull account of the proceedings
this week but were disappointed
in not getting the data that had
been promised us.
Please mail communications
intended for the current week
* A- ? 1 ?am ??n O tT o f
in lime iu rravii us xucsuay u.t
^noon at latest, or they will have
to be omitted. We cannot, get
up all the type for the paper in
one day.
Death notices are published
tree. Obituaries are charged
for at the rate .of one cent a
word. Poetry and extracts from
the hymn book cost one cent a
. word. By heeding this cur
friends would save us a lot of
unnecessary trouble.
Mutual Oiclik*.
Brahms and Tschaikowsky, the
famous musicians, met but twice.
On the last occasion Brahms was
nfficiently interested in Tschaikowsky's
fifth symphony to travel
expressly to Hamburg in order to
make its acquaintance. After the
performance the distinguished com,?ceers
dined together, and the contentious
Brahms frankly admitted
that he did not like the work
at all, whereupon the usually meek
Bussian plucked up sufficient courSe
to inform his ho6t that the dis:e
of each other's music was mutual.
They parted on excellent
terms nevertheless.
An Introduction.
"Long introductions when a man
has a speech to make are a bore,"
Heaid former Senator John C. SpoonHPer.
"I have had all kinds, but the
most satisfactory one in my career
I was that of a German mayor of a
f email town in my 6tate, Wisconsin.
I was to make a political address,
and the opera house was crowded.
When it came time to begin the
mayor got up. 'Mine friends/ he
said, 1 haf asked been to introduce
Senator Spooner, who is to make a
speech, yes. Veil, I haf dit so, und
he yill now do so/ "
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WASHINGTON IRVING.
He Was an Utter Failure as mm After
Dinner Speaker.
Washington Irving was not a
ready after dinner speaker. The
author of "American Bookmen"
says that he shunned public appearances.
Yet when Dickens came
to New York in 1S-12 Irving could
not escape presiding at the great
dinner in his honor. They had already
become friends through correspondence,
for lrvings delight in
Little Nell had to be expressed in
a letter to the author, and Dickens,
in his enthusiastic response, had
said:
i/lVUlilU ivuiv.n<;iuvt.i\ci i
I have worn to death in my pocket,
and yet I should show you his mutilated
carcass with a joy beyond
xpression."
The night of the public dinner
came, and Irving's dread of the introductory
speech kept him murmuring
throughout the repast, "I
shall certainly break down."
At the proper time he rose to his
feet, began bravely, but could utter
only a few sentences, and ended by
talcing refuge in the announcement
of the toast:
"Charles Dickens, the guest of
the nation."
The applause was generous, and
Irving took his seat.
"There," he said, "I told you I
should break down, and I have done
it!"
Later, while on his way to Madrid,
he found himself called upon
at the dinner of the literary fund
in London to respond to the toast,
"Washington Irving and American
literature." All he could say in acknowledgment
of an enthusiastic j
reception was:
4-/% vaii nir vnrr cm.
x ncg IV Ii-iu.u wu "V -v..
cerc thanks."
One Englishman at the table was
heard to make the laconic comment,
"Brief!"
"Yes," said another beside him,
"but you can tell the gentleman in
the very tone of his voice."
Painfully Polite.
The people of Dresden are very,
polite, so very polite that they not
infrequently bring down ridicule
upon themselves. It used to be told
in that city that a stranger was one
day crossing the great bridge that
spans the Elbe and asked a native
to direct him to a certain church ;
which he wished to find.
"Keallv, my dear sir," said the
Dresdener, bowing low, "I grieve
greatly to say it, but I cannot tell
you."
The stranger passed on, a little
surprised at this voluble answer to
a simple question. He had proceed i
? i * v i ? i - V -
eel but a snort distance wnen ne
heard hurried footsteps behind him
and, turning round, saw the same
man running to catch up with him.
In a moment his pursuer was by
his side, his breath nearly gone, but
enough left to 6ay hurriedly: "My
dear sir, you asked me how you
could find the church, and it pained
me to have to say that I did not
know. Just now I met my brother,
but I grieve to say that he did not
know either."
Rapidly Americanized.
An Englishman temporarily living
in Boston took his small son to
the top of Banker Hill and prepared
to give him the British version
of_the historic fight at that
point. His story, however, remained
untold, the following question
and answer alone being exchanged
between the loyal subject of the
British crown and his youthful offspring,
who had been a resident of
tnis country less than six months:
"Now, my son, do you know
what event took place a hundred
years ago where we are now standing?"
asked the fond parent.
'You bet I do!" was the prompt
reply. "This is where we licked the
6tuffin' out of the English!"?Boston
Post.
Secret of "Ntrvout Balance."
The secret of mental health and
nervous balance is to be found in
obedience to a few rules. Here they
are: 1. Cultivate sound, health creating
emotions?love, joy, peace,
faith and hope. 2. Allow yourself
sufficient time in which to do your
work. 3. Hold in reserve a surplus
tore of nervous energy by keeping
within the limits of your organization,
says Bev. Samuel McComb in
Harper's Bazar. 4. Do one thing at
a time. 5. Prepare yourself in good
season for sleep. 6. Trust in the infinite
goodness of God, who loves
every creature he has made.
Whoat Fields Follow Civilization.
From the Atlantic coast the
progress of grain production has
advanced westward with settlement
until it now has reached the bank3
of the North Saskatchewan river
and the foothills of the Rocky
mountains. In the days of our fathers
the Richelieu valley was the
great wheat field. It bore forty
crops in succession.?Calgary (Canada)
Albertan.
INSISTED ON JUSTICE.
tome One Had to Suffer to Satisfy the
Judge's Conscience.
As a burglar was trying to break
into a house of a citizen of an
oriental city the framework of the
second story window to which he
clung gave way, and he fell and
broke his leg. Limping before the
iustiee the next daw be indignantly
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demanded that the owner of the
house be punished.
"You shall have justice," said the
judge.
The owner. being summoned,
claimed that the accident was due
to the poor woodwork and that the
carpenter, not he, was to blame.
"That sounds reasonable," said
the judge. "Let the carpenter be
called."
The carpenter admitted that the
window was defective. "But how
could I do better," said he, "when
the mason work was out of plumb?"
"To be sure," replied the judge,
and he sent for the mason.
The mason could not deny that
the coping was crooked. He explained
t -it while lib was placing
! it in posit nhis attention was distracted
frm.^is work bv a pretty
girl in a blue in.ic who passed on
the other side o nhe street.
"TIT--**^ homeless," said
the judge, and trie girl was sent
for.
"I admit," said she, "that I am
pretty, but that's not my fault, and
if the blue tunic attracted the mason's
attention the dyer, not I, is
responsible."
"That's good logic," said the
I juupit". VIJ^ U ? tl W vuttvu.
The dyer came and pleaded
guilty.
"Take the wretch," Raid the
judge to the thief, "and hang hira
from his own doorpost."
The people applauded this wise
sentence and hurried of! to carry it
out. Soon they returned and reported
that the dyer was too tall to
be hung from his doorpost.
"Find a short dyer and hang hira
instead," said the judge, with a
vawn. "Let justice be done at anv
cost."
His Bright Idea.
Fat was digging a ditch. On the
first day of tlie job he dug and dug,
but made small progress. He went
back next morning only to find that
what he had done the day before
was entirely wiped out by a cave-in.
Then a brilliant idea occurred to
Pat. Half burying his pick and
shovel in the earth, leaving only
the ends sticking out, he carefully
threw his coat and dinner pail over
the edge of the cave-in and then
hid. In a short time people came
along, took in the situation at a
glance, jumped at the conclusion
that the laborer had been caught in
the fall of the bank and went to
work hastily, trying to uncover his
bodv. Half an hour later three
sweating and puzzled men 6tood by
the nearly completed ditch and wondered
where the buried man was.
Then Pat came out from liis .retirement
and 6aid: "Thank ye, gentlemen.
I knowed you'd bite on that."
Ready With the Answer.
Miss Baxter, feeling the effects
of a torrid afternoon in June, was
attempting to arouse the interest
of her languid class by giving, as
she supposed, an interesting talk on
i the obelisk. After speaking for
| half an hour she fouDd that her efforts
were wasted. Feeling utterly
( provoked, she cried: "Every word
that I have 6aid you have let in at
one ear and out of the other. You"
?pointing to a girl whom 6he noticed
had been particularly inattentive
throughout the entire lesson?
"tell me, what i6 an obelisk ?"
The pupil, grasping the teacher's
last words,, rose and promptly answered
:
"An obelisk is something that
goes in one ear and out the other."
?Success Magazine.
His Dwp Concern.
The kind old lady noticed a small
lad entering a cobbler's with a small
package.
"What have you there, sonny?"
she asked kindly.
"Ma's slipper," replied the lad.
"You see, there is a tack out of
place in it, and I want to have it
fixed before ma notices it."
"Ah, what a considerate little
boy! I suppose you are afraid the
tack might hurt your mother's
.foot?"
"Well, it isn't exactly that. You
see, the tack is sticking out on the
sole, and this is the slipper ma
6panks me with."?Chicago News.
Prepared For the Worst.
Aunt Matilda, who was favored
with a visit from her favorite
nephew, told the youngster to soak
his feet in a tub of salt water if he
wanted to toughen them. She knew
he loved to go barefoot. He soaked
his hands too.
Then, after thinking about it for
a few moments, he said to himself:
"It's pretty near time for me to get
a licking. Tomorrow I'm going to
eit in it."?Ladies' Home Journal.
NOTES OF ANIMALS.
.
The Theory of One Writer About the
Origin of Music.
i Music did not have its birth
j "when Jubal struck the corded
| shell," as ignorant humanity has
( been led to suppose.
Music originated in the cry of 1
, the peacock, the bleat of the goat
j and the croak of the frog. Accord- j
ing to an interesting article on the j
i relationship between music and [
emotion, which appears in the An- I
nals of Psychical Science, Dr. Henry
Fotherby, the writer, also sug|
gests that the appreciation of timn
| and rhythm in music may be due t >
the rhythmic shock of the heart'- I
beat on the circulation. ,
The nerves, he says, may play an
i important part in the appreciation
of musical sounds, and he points !
out the connection between the
nerves and music by the tendency 1
I to express music when heard by j
movements of the head and arms :
and sometimes by the trunk and
legs.
I Dr. Fotherby gives a feasible
j reason for the fact that the lower !
j notes of the scale have always been j
: employed to describe anger, fear1
and reverence, while the treble
notes have been associated with
sunshine, light heartedness, sociability
and love. The lower notes
associate themselves with the
growls of wild beasts, the moan of
the wind in the forest, the roar of
thunder. The upper notes imitate
the songs of birds, the chirp of the
( grasshopper, the hum of insect life.
"The Hindoo note Sa, corresponding
with our C," says Dr.
Fothjjrhv. the note of the peacock:
D, wasjthe note of
the It jin o^^These were
iilwflvs a icd m wonder and
terror.
"Ga, or E, , a, or F, were the
erics of the goft and the crane respectively
and were associated with
compassion and love.
"Xi, or B, Dhn, or A, were the
notes of the elephant and the frog,
the former associated with compassion
and the latter with disgust or
alarm/' .
Aunt Hepz. ?h'j Explanation.
Aunt Ilepzibah was usually a
careful housewife, and things seldom
went wrong under her management,
but one evening she left
tl\e lid off the big canister in which
she kept her best oolong tea, and a
half grown cat crept inside of it
and slept on the fragrant contents.
Aunt Jlepzibah's horror on discovering
it the next morning was
'heightened bv the fact that she
was entertaining a friend who was
particularly fond of tea and always
used it for breakfast. The nearest
grocery store was half a mile awav,
and nothing could be done to repair
the mischief.
"I'm awfully sorry, Mrs. Wyckoff."
she said to her guest at
breakfast time, "but something
happened to my oolong last night,
and I've nothing to offer you to
take its place but?cat-nap tea.
You'd rather have coffee than that,
I'm sure."
The guest preferred the coffee,
and the story never leaked out until
Aunt Hepzibah told it herself.?
Youth's Companion.
8acrod Geeto of Romo.
The tradition of the "sacred
geese of old Borne" is that when
the Gauls invaded Home a detachment,
in single file, climbed up the
hill of the capital so silently that
the foremost man reached the top
without being challenged. But
? ' ? -!- i; it.
Willie ne was Binning over uie ruiapart
6ome sacrec. geese, disturbed
by the noise, began to cackle and
thus awoke the garrison. Marcus
Manlius rushed to the wall and
hurled the fellow over the precipice.
To commemorate the event
the Romans carried a golden goose
in procession to the capitol every
year.?New York American.
Har Newspaper Acquaintance.
Among the guests at a fashionable
New York reception was a recently
appointed young editor of
one of the dailies, who thought extremely
well of himself. He received
an introduction to the thirj
teen-year-old daughter of his host1
ess.
"And how do you like newspaper
men?" he asked the little maid in
| a most condescending tone of voice.
I "I don't know." she replied art
lessly. "The only one I know is
the man who brings our paper
every morning."?Lippincottfs.
New York the American Venice.
It is a surprising thing to know
that New York city, although not
known as the American Venice,
contains more islands than any city
but Venice, for within its boundaries
are thirty-one separate and distinct
islands, most of which, encircled
bv deep water, will afford unlimited
shipping accommodations
and dockage for the commerce of
future years to reach undreamed
of proportions, judging from past
and present growth. ? National
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