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IjrsRm wg W*r? the Biggest Record. ? matter of perplexity to boys whether they shall ant- or downs. There .* of downs today, but ..ill probably never again be i formidable giants as Og, Cog ltd Magog. Og, we are told in Deuteronomy, was the last real giant. He was that king of Bashan whom the Israelites slew, and his bedstead was nine cubits long, or .1 i it * i f CtM I 1 i . _ 1 aoout ininmi leer. i ms oeasrcau theory inav be based upon the huge sarcophagi which the Phoenician kings had made in imitation of the Egyptian custom. ^Gog and Magog are mentioned [isereral times in the Bible with wore or less indefiniteness. In the they represent a barbarous eople inhabiting Central Asia, and lev were probably born out of the rror inspired by the Scythian Jlrdes that overthrew the Assyrian Jfcipire. Wooden statues of Gog pd Magog fourteen feet high have occupied pedestals in the London guild hall for ecntJries and were formerly carried through the streets in the lord mavor's shows. They welcomed Henry V. on London bridge in 1415. According to Caxton, Gog and Magog were the survivors of a race of giants found in Britain by Brute, son of Antenor of Troy, and brought by him as prisoners to London, where they were chained to the gates of a palace on the site of the guild hall and kept as porters. All primitive races seem to possess legends of giants, as did the Greeks, Romans and Arab6, but nine feet seems to be almost the highest authentic stature recorded. Topinard's Finlander exceeded this by four inches. Winkelmaier, an Austrian giant, who died in 1887, was eight feet seven inches in height. Charles Byrne, the Irish giant, attained the stature of eight feet four inches. The tallest race in the world is the Scotch of Galloway, who average five feet eleven inches in height. Next come the inhabitants of the rest of Scotland and then the Livonians, Irish, Xorse, English, Po lynesians. Sikh?, Fulahs of the Sudan, Kaffir?, Cheyenne? and Fatagonians. It i?, however, possible.to become a pant with a little perseverance. There is in the brain a mysterious organ known as the pituitary body, >rSa}^y to which, some think, produces the disease known as acromegaly, in which the head, hands and feet become enormously en enlarged. But this form of giant* ism is not commended.?Harper's Weekly. | How Bock Beer Got Its Name. Maximilian of Bavaria, the first elector, consulted an English physician regarding his consort's sickness, who prescribed for her 6ome "'"Buckingham double (strong) beer." After importing some several times at great expense Maximilian decided to send his court brewer to Buckingham to become familiar wiih the production and manipulation. of said unexcelled brew. Upon the brewer's return to Munich the Buckingham beer (then abbreviated in name to Buck, later Bock, beer) was henceforth brewed there and was for the first time served at the electoral family's table on Maximilian's day, (7?t. 12, 1623. At first only used as a medicinal potion, it soon became generally introduced as a food and was ordered to be brewed hereafter two weeks before the two weeks after Corpus (Shristi day. Washington Streets. Said a Washington man: "While ho noiiiinir of f]<n streets in W:i>h ington is simple and easy to follow to residents, to the stranger it is most confusing, owing to the way in which the avenues cut diagonally across the numbered and lettered streets and these streets calmly move half a block away before again taking up their line of march. If a stranger, say, was going up Fifteenth street, when he got to K, although the street swings there +/\ 4-tio ri.rtif anil lvrrra>Mlfl on VKJ IUV, 14qUV *? a different angle. ho would undoubtedly continue along it with serene confidence that he was still in Fifteenth street, whereas he in reality would be in Vermont avenue, while the real Fifteenth street is half a block northward. That's as plain as I can make it. and about the only thing it really seems to explain is how very confusing our streets really are." A Great Faiiing. Visitor?So you've got a dog and a cat for pets. They must be splendid companions for you. Tommy?Oh, not very! They don't eat cake or jam. Visitor?Well, what has that to do with it ? Tommy?Well, when there's any cake and jam missing they don't get Warned for it.?Philadelphia FAKIRS OF WP1JL On* Who Tortured Himself Upon a Bed of Spikee. In India there are numerous penitents of different sects, called "Fakeers," "Vogees," '''Tadins," "TanI daroons," etc., who make a vow to live at the exj>ense of the public and travel about begging, says the New York Press. The Fa beers are Mussulmans, cunning, hypocritical and impudent. They do all sorts of silly stunts and are altogether a disgusting lot. Sometimes they assemble in troops of 8,000 or 10,000, , levying contributions wherever they l go. The total number of Fakeers ! in British India is about 900,000. Among the various brands or ; breeds of Fakeers you will find the j "Dundee," the "Brumhucharee," the "Ramatu," the "Yoishnuvu" and the genuine Mussulman Fakeer. Many of the more enlightened Hindoos, especially the Brahmans, hold these mendicants in the utmost contempt and have assisted the British government as far as they dared in putting them to work. On the other hand, some rich property owners treat the frauds with the greatest reverence. A /am. maama a ma /Kama n*a9 a T?rt f a icn jcoia a^u mcic ?ao a i ukeer who lay on a bed of spikes and took the name of Purrum Soatuntre, which means "self possession" or "independence." At the age of ten this man began a life of I self mortification. He would lie on thorns and pebbles. This torture he kept up until he was twenty, and then he wandered about as a Fakeer, going from one holy place to another. At one town he shut himself up in a cell, vowing to do penance for twelve years. There he remained until vermin gnawed his flesh and left marks which lasted through life. The rajah, taking pity on him, opened the door of his cell and bade him step forth. The poor wretch was furious at this act of sympathy and heaped curses upon the rajah's head for breaking in on him. Torture was nothing to Purrum Soatuntre. "Give me a bed of spikes," lie cried, and the rajah, j frightened lest the curses of the i ferocious Fakeer should blight his j reign, complied. And this bed of ' gpikes became a sort ot tnumpnai : far for Purrum. He set out ininic- ; diately 011 long journeys and was ; drawn on this awful bed all around the country for thousands of miles, the poor Hindoos worshiping him as a god. He traveled in this way for thirty-five years. Purrum was, however, not con- j tent with the supposed merit of his self torture on the bed of spikes. He tried to put himself to greater pain by causing water to fall on his head day and night in the cold season, drop by drop, from a pot with holes in it placed over him, so that he might be constantly uneasy, and when the hot weather came he mortified himself in an opposite manner by causing log3 of wood to be kept burning around him to make his sufferings from the heat greater. This wretch never earned a rupee. Praoun Poury was the most remarkable of all Fakeers. He held his arms over his head until the circu lation of the blood stopped. His nails grew to be talons, and his skin seemed to grow to the bone, so that the joints refused to work, and he coufcl never take his arms down again. He sat with his leg3 tucked under him till they became useless. Every day he was brought out to a public place and seated upon a leopard's skin. The people came and supplied him with the most delicate food. Women of Today. At a "coming out" ball in a metropolitan city a few years ago the debutante and her grandmother both danced in the cotillon. They were both slender and graceful, both beautiful dancers. To the casual observer they differed in these respects: The debutante had auburn hair, the unlined face of the "unideaed girl" and talked haltingly. The grandmother had white hair, lines in her face and talked fluently. That they should both be dancing aroused no particular comment. Today numerous American women play tennis until forty ?play golf and quieter games until sixty. Not long ago a New York society woman who is close upon sixty was told by her physician that she must not hereafter walk over twenty mile3 in a day. Plenty of English sportswomen "follow the hounds" until past fifty years of A rv?la!a*>^o \forro7inn | iipplClUU O iUOg??iUV? " Here Is Relief for Women, If you have pains in the back, Urinary, Bladder or Kidney trouble, and want a certain, pleasant herb relief from Women's ills, try Mother Grays "Australian-Leaf." It is a safe, reliable regulator, and relieves all Female Weaknesses, including inflammations aud ulcerations. Mother Gray's Australian Leaf is sold by Druggists or sent by mail for 50 cts, Sample sent free. Address, The Mother Gray Co*'' Le Roy, NY. 2 i, \ V 1 :i J"** . I GUARDING PAPER MONEY. Checks Against Thefts While In the Process 01 Printing. The paper money of the government is brought in iron bound chests, locked and sealed, from the bureau of engraving and printing to the cash room of the treasury and there delivered upon receipt to At 1 # r il f * * _i ' tne ciuei 01 me division 01 issue in , sheets of four bills each. They are complete, with signature and numbers, except for the seal, which is printed upon them w>th power presses in a small apartment under the cash room. These presses are worked by two ! people, usually a man pressman and : aswoman feeder or assistant. When | the seal has been imprinted upon | the bills they are counted automat- j ically, bound in packages of equal j numbers by bands of paper, mark- j ed, signed by the persons who have handled them and passed into the adjoining room, where the sheets are cut and the bills are recounted and inspected, so that the imperfect ones may be thrown out. They are then bound into packages of equal amounts and taken to the drying vault'Obere they lie upon the :?wXc:s for several weeks until the ' ink has become perfectly dry. Every safeguard that ingenuity : can contrive is placed around these j transactions, and the chief of di- j vision can tell which of his hun- , dred or more subordinates have ; touched the different bills in the vaults. He knows who received ! them, who printed the seal, who j wrapped and who cut them, for every package is numbered and its history is recorded in an enormous book. The combination of checks is so j complete that the chief of division i would know within twenty minutes J if a single bill was missing, but he J has never had occasion to test this i knowledge except twice within fif- J teen years. Only two attempts have ! ever been made to steal the money of the government while it is in ' this stage of its history. On one occasion many years ago a pressman passing a pile of notes upon the table of his neighbor slipped the top sheet under his blouse without being observed and carried it with him into the lavatory, where he successful in concealing it. The theft was discovered within five j minutes, and it was clearly appar-, ent that he alone could be guilty,: although the evidence was pure-! ly circumstantial. No one saw him j take the money. Therefore he was 1 not arrested and was never publicly charged with the crime. But he was dismissed from the service, and he knew the reason why. The bills were never recovered. lie prob-' ably destroyed them, as they did not appe' -in circulation. On ar :r occasion eight or ten years a Colored nu senger whose business . il the money about on a ( ^slippe a loose sheet into his pocket urn oserved while passing between^.' c printing and the counting rooms. This theft was also unseen, but the responsibility was fastened upon him. The pile of notes was complete when it left the printer, for it was counted and registered automatically in the ttn - - ?i_ 1 l* _ A. I press, wnen it reacneu ine couiuing room one sheet was missing, and the package had not been out of the possession of the colored messenger in the meantime. Therefore ho alone was responsible, and as he could not offer any satisfactory explanation he, too, was dismissed from the service, but was not prosecuted because there was no direct proof of his guilt.?Chicago Rccord-IIcrald. Th; Critic*. Newitt?Yes, he's getting out a book of his poems. Calls the thing "Autumn Leaves," I believe. Crittiek?You don't say! Newitt?Yes; rather commonplace, don't you think? Crittiek?Yes, and very inappropriate. Autumn leaves are frequently red!?Philadelphia Press. iiiw-jmiEi sin so AT KINGSTREE, S. . $ WATTS & WATT! 40 42 We have opened up with 42 extra fine stock of Watch< 42 Diamonds, Clocks, Silverwa and Novelties, Wedding1 Rin{ ? Wedding and Christmas preser 4? of all kinds in the Jewelrylii j* We are also prepared to do ; kinds of WATCH, CLOCK and JEWELRY WOH Jj ALL WORK WARRANTED |T77"sctts Sz 40 4c Give us a call bcfo r. \ 1 ??? Th? Blizzard of 1888. i "I was lining iu O'Neill, Neb., at the time of the great blizzard in 1888." said a Nebraskan, "and bad just left the office to go home for dinner when the blizzard struck. I started to cross the street to a drug store, but wkeu I reached the other side I found myself halfway down the block from ray destination. The fine wind driven snowflakes filled the air so ttuft I couldn't i see my band before me. 1 finally worked my way back to the drug store, where a number of other men had ] taken refuge from the storm. School had just been dismissed for the noon focnoa on/1 tvo L* non- that noorlr Q/lft ?VV.V. nuu " v nut n IUUI uvaii/ wv children were out in the storm. Securing long ropes, the crowd started out to rescue them. We found them huddled in doorways and by the sides of buildings. The children caught bold ! of the ropes and were led to shelter by their rescuers, whose sense of direction gradually returned to them. Every one of the 300 school children in the town was got home in safety. But seven schoolteachers were frozen to death in the country during the blizzard and thousands of<_ lie died. The thermometer fell from about the freezing point at noon to 20 degrees below zero that night. It was the worst blizzard I ever saw, and I never want to experience another like it." ? Des Moines Register and Leader. Compensation For Poachers. A gamekeeper on a northern estate tells an amusing story of the latest thing in the compensation line. When he was escorting the gentlemen round the coverts one day the party were alarmed to hear a loud cry Just after shots had been fired. Running to the spot, a thick bush growth, the keeper found a man lying groaning on the gronnd. "Some of them gents 'ave shot me in the leg," groaned, the man. Examination proved that the sufferer had indeed received a bird shot pellet in his left calf. It was a trivial injury, but was handsomely compensat ed for by_the gentlemen in the party, who pre? ted the victim with quite a . good sui i gold. That Sh^je evening the gamekeeper came upon two men in a quiet lane engaged in a hot dispute about the sharing of some money. One of the men had a shotgun, and, tapping It significantly, he said threateningly: '"Alf shares, or I'll go straight to the p'lice and split on us both. I'll give the game away. I'll tell 'em 'ow I put that pill In yer leg to knock money out o* the shooters." Then the gamekeeper disclosed himself. aud the two conspirators decamped.?London Opinion. Gold. An assayer waved his hand toward the ingots lying in a corner VI VliV I Will. I "A good assayer," he said, "can I tell at a glance whence a piece of | gold came, as a good wool sorter can tell what country's soil gave his fleece its color. It is a matter of color. California gold is yellow, Australia gold is red, and the gold of the Ural is the reddest found anywhere. Piacer gold is yellower than that obtained from the quartz, and behind you is an Alaskan placer ingot, the yellowest gold in the world." Naturo study. In the village of H there was much interest in nature study, and through the efforts of the local secretary of the Audubon society the teacher of the primary school took her pupils out for a bird walk. Little Edward, aged three and a half, returned from the walk much excited. "What birds did you see?" asked his mother. He thought deeply for a moment and then answered proudly, "I saw a robin?and a bluebird?and a horse chestnut!"?Lippincott's. Th* Reason. m Pheeder?I'm always sorry when the shad season is over. It's the only fish I like. I wonder why Provdenee gives it to us only in the spring? Crabbe (a rabid pessimist)?I'll bet it's because that's the only season when it has all its bones.?Philadelphia Press. ik ? 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