The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 18, 1909, Image 5
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? 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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