The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 22, 1908, Image 3
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CONSULTED HIS RIVAL
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The Direct Methods cf Work of John
D. Rockefeller.
Let us give a story to show John i
P. Rockefeller's fundamentally direct
mode of working:
In the early nineties he found >
himself in possession of a great deal '
of land in the iron ore country in
the Lake Superior region. To make
the land, which was purchased as an i
investment, yield any interest it |
was necessary to get this ore to mar- j
ket. His competitors controlled
th^aeans of transportation, and he
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and most effective facilities. This I
was the way he went at the task of ;
overcoming these disadvantages:
He sent, first, a representative to j
find out who knew most about ore j
transportation and the building of
ore vessels. The identity of the
man was easily discovered, and it
wa? of course, a man who was himself
a large factor in the control of
the trade into which Mr. llockefeller
purposed to enter.
Most peop'e would have concealed
their plans from the one person who
was to be the chief rival in the new
business. This is exactly the opposite
of what Mr. Uockefcller did.
He asked the gentleman to call
upon him and then explained to
this expert that he was going into
the ore business and that he wanted
him to build the !>oats. When the
ore man recovered from his amazement
he declined and explai-ned that
he had no idea of working to aid a
new rival to go into his business. I
In ten minutes Mr. Rockefeller explained
to him that he was obliged
to market his iron ore from his !
lands'to get an income from the inI
vestment, that he was willing to pay
the builder a good profit for the
... best-boats that could be built, that
he was also willing t-o give an order
then and there for $3,000,000
worth of ships, but that if he did
not care-to take this order he would
have ta go to the next best man.
f which.would deprive the ore man of
the profit to be gained from building
the boats, but that the work
would surelv be done by some one.
He had logic and common sense on
his side, and the ten minutes' talk
was sufficient. The details were
worked out at the office. The ore
man accepted the order at a price
profitable to him, and the result
was a good bargain for both. You
may be sure that the satisfaction
to Mr. Rockefeller was the personal
touch with the man?the making of
tvie trade. Even in his most active
times he was not interested in details.?F.
X. Doubleday in World's
Work.
An Old Fashioned Woman.
This is the tale of an old fashioned
woman. Her husband, who
had accumulated wealth as the years
went bv and had begun to take life
easy, worried because his wife worked
as hard as ever, lie hired a cook
and within two weeks found his wife
waiting on the cook. Then lie hired
a maid to wait on the cook and a
short time afterward found His wife
waiting on the maid. At one time
he had hired four persons, a man, a
<jonk, the maid and a scrub woman,
and found that his wife worked as
hard as ever. (This is an explanation
of why a certain man sits on I
the front porch and reads and
smokes while his wife, who has
earned equal right to rest, is scrubbing
in the kitchen. She is enjoying
herself in her way just as much
as he is in his.)?Atchison 11 lobe.
First Firearms.
The invention of gunpowder is
I generally attributed to Berthaldus
: or Michael Schwartz, a Cordelier
* monk of Goslav, in Germany, about
f 1320. It is absolutely impossible for
anybody to say just when the very
first firearm was made, but almost
immediately after the invention of
gunpowder men began to experiment
with it as a war agent, and
we know that within twenty years
from the time of the great discovery
firearms were to some extent in
use. They seem to have originated in
Italy. A high authority says: "July
and August, 1346, may be safely as- ,
snmed to be the time when gunpowder
was first brought to bear on
military operations of the Engnsh
nation."?New York American.
The Terrors of War.
A sweet young thing was being |
shown over one of the battleships.
"What is the captain's name?"
she risked incidentally of the marine
had been detailed to show her
around.
"Mitchell, Captain Mitchell," replied
the marine, and he added, by
way of historical interest, "During
the Spanish-American war it was
Converse, but now it is Mitchell."
"Oh," said the s. y. t., gazing at
him with all the animation of board
ing school intelligence, "do they
change their names on account of
war?"
The marine fell overboard, and
all of the crew within hearing
jumped in to rescue "him.?Exchange.
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ANTIQUITY OF THE COFFIN."
Probably a Survival of the Mummy
Case er the Dolmen.
The shapes of familiar objects of
human manufacture do not as a
rule excite our curiosity. The boxlike
form of a coffin, for instance,
suggests nothing. Even an undertaker
has no views on the raison
d'etre of coffins save that they conduce
to decency. Yet on grounds
of propriety many nations, such as
the ancient Romans and the Hindoos,
have preferred cremation to
interment, since the latter involves
the disfigurement and gradual decay
of the dead.
Coffins indeed are not explainable
on grounds of hygiene or seemliness,
for which primitive men cared
very little. Rather must we see in
the modern wooden cofiin a copy of
the prehistoric stone or chalk receptacle
which was a conventional
I reproduction of one of two things?
the mummy cases familiar to students
of Egyptology or the dolmen
(or stone house) in which prehistoric
non-Ayran races, especially
around the Mediterranean from
Egypt westward, were in the habit
I of burying their dead.
Coffins were, as Lord Avebury
points out in his "Prehistoric
Times,'' apparently unknown to
very ancient man. The dead were
buried in a sitting posture*or in the
attitude of sleep in what wore regarded
as a kind of ghost houses.
The most elaborate and fullv differ
entiated of those houses of the dead
are. as Professor Sergi maintains,
the pyramids, with their mummies
and various precautions against the
decay of the body.
A less elaborate differentiation of
the house idea is to he found in the
dolmens still remaining all over the
world from India to Great Britain.
A dolmen, built of five slabs of
stone, covered by a tumulus, crowned
by a menhir, surrounded by a
stone circle, as at Stonehenge and
Aveburv, and led up to by an avenue
of standing stones, is, in fact, a
rude adumbration of the pyramid.
Inside the dolmen the dead sat
crouched among cooking utensils,
arms, etc., put there for their use
in the spirit world. Is it too much
to suppose that the earliest stone
coffins were imitations of the dolmens?in
fact, dolmens in miniature?
Whether this be so or not, it is
verv probable that our old fashioned
standing tombstones, and especial
lv our table tombs (which are
j five sided). as well as the family
I vaults of jjreat families, with their
traditions of embalmment and their
leaden shell coffins which conventionally
outline the shapes of the
dead within, are so main relics of
the remote epoch when a torn!) was
conceived of as a house in which
the dead continue to live their former
lives.
The leaden shell coffins just mentioned
may indeed have originated
the modern coffin. The latter was
still, for no apparently sufficient
reason, to he constructed in accordance
with careful measurements
and in conventional imitation
of the human shape. The leaden
shell in the family vault sometimes
goes so far as conventionally to preserve
the outline of the lingers of
-li 1 iu:. /_,i.
nit; corpse, aiiu mis raci wuum w-cm
I to point back to a time when
corpses were' not confined. Thus
the shell, and afterward the coffin
or elaborated shell, might be regarded
as-interpolations in the dolmen
scheme of burial. ? London
Lancet. .
Real Self Possession.
Not long ago a young couple entered
a railway carriage at Sheffield
and were immediately put
down as a bridal pair. But they
were remarkably self possessed and
behaved with such sang froid that
the other passengers began to doubt
if their first surmise was correct aft
er all.
As the train moved out, however,
the young man rose to remove his
overcoat, and a shower of rice fell
out, while the passengers smiled
broadly.
But even that did not affect the
youth, who also smiled, and, turning
to his partner, remarked audibly:
"By Jove, Mav, I've stolen the
bridegroom's overcoat!" ? London
Tatler.
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Kingitree, S. C.
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Germany can now put 4,750,000
roops in the field.
Class windows are still scirce in
the City of Mexico.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are
supposed never to sleep,
i Australia's only beast of prey is
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LUC UJIJ^IS, <* "iiu
On a big oak tree there are more
; than 7,000,000 leaves.
It is believed that only 2,000
buffaloes are now in existance.
1 Holland has over 10,000 acres
devoted to the cultivation of bulbs.
There are over 1(1,000,000 depositors
in the savings banks of
Germany.
A set of dominoes can be comIbined
in 284,528,211,^40 different)
j ways.
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Finest Display of Ladles an
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Ladies' Strictly Tailored Suits
in Fancy Mixtures. Would sell
easily at 12.00, our price, suit
j 10.00,
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! Ladies' and Misses' Tailor Made
Suits in plain Broad Cloth and ,
Mannish Mixtures. Suits that j
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The largest assortment and the
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The State Fair This Year?October
28 to 30.
The fortieth annual State Fair will
be hf-UJ at Columbia this year October
26-Stl, and it gives promise to be the
greatest State Fair ever held. No matter
how bad the crops or how hard the
times, everybody goes to the State Fair
at Columbia. It has been the custom
now for nearly half a century, and it
will ever continue so with crowds increasing
each >car.
The State Fair is the one time of the
year that work < an be put down and
everyone have a good time for a few
days. Old acquaintances and relatives
meet at the State Fair if they are not
fortunate enough to meet elsewhere
during the year. Friends meet friends
and college men meet their college
mates and renew friendships with good
stories of the good times of the past.
This year the fair holds even .more
than that for South Carolinians. It
\yiu be made up ot new exhibits that
~?b the farmers new methods
ements that mean money to
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be the best ever seen
his being th?- first year
t Association has entered
ti " 'uia Circuit. The
st g ma ' of the
cou acen The two
football g. .t iw * ousarwls of
enthusiastic ,,r?. .n both the
Carolinas.
Columbia is better 9 take care
' of her guests than ?fore, with
more hotel accommc * The railroads
will all put on .1 rates, as
usual. President John Mobley. of
the Fair Association, h rjked hard
to get everything in shit . and he
predicts the largest ci the history
of the fair.
Let us show yo 'ow to t\Kyour
broken spt or only 10
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i :! TV.-uary Srphilia, Brphllitlo Bhen* I
Srofuloue Ulcera and Bores,
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45 inch Imported Fallet Voiles
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46 inch Satin Viola, Black and
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NEW EXHIBITS AT
THE STATE FAIR
October 26 to 30?Prizes for
Successful Farmers.
One of the best attractions at the
! State Fair this year, vhlch will be
' held in Columbia beginning Monday,
j October 2Sth, and closing Friday, Octol
ber 30th, will be the Field Crop Depart!
ment. This new feature will prove of
I Interest to every farmer in the State.
It will be under the management of
j Prof. J. N. Harper, Director of the
I Ciemson Experimental Station, who is
I one of the best agricultural experts in
the South. Professor Harper has personally
solicited the exhibits for this
department, and will arrange everything
to advantage. He will be assisted
by his whole corps of expert
associates, and It will be worth the trip
to the fair Just to talk to these expert
j men and get their ideas on practical
I farming.
Clemson College will nave a oig ?-ahiblt
In this department, but will not
be allowed to compete with the Individual
exhibits. Some fine prizes will
be awarded the farmers. For instance,
S50 will be given for the largest yield
of corn to the acre, $25 for the second
best, and cotton will have the sam
amount awarded for the best yield per
acre. Dozens of other interesting contests
have been provided.
President Mobley, being a practical
stockman himself, is givirrg much attention
to this part of the fair. There
will be more thoroughbreds shown than
ever before. The stalls have all been
renovated and the pure water from the
city has been connected, so that the
cattle and stock will he well taken
care of. This will be good news to
hundreds of breeders who might otherwise
have hesitated to send their finest
to the fair. The poultry show bids fair
to-be a grand success this year. There
?? 1 s to be more interest in every dep.
.nent. The management believes
' this will be the.largest and best fair
ever h?ld here. Information as to the
prizes will be cheerfully supplied by
President John G. Mobley, or Secretary
A. W. Love, at Columbia. S. C.
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Trice 2.50,3.00,3.75 up to 25.00.
Ladies' White Linen Waists,
some plain tucked, others trimI
med with colored embroider}'
2.50 to 10.00.
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