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S He Forty inch Sea Island, IS* Furti' inch Q(i?i Lland I wl t i ii w ii c/vm laiuuu Forty inch Sea Island |> We also ca ^ Chene, Bakera {? Up-to=date || When in tl ^ DAYLIGHT STORE. musical" glasses. The Queer Looking "Armonica" That Franklin Devised. Bock6 have been written about the many sided Franklin. His omnivorous and practical mind seemed ready to attack any new branch of science with the same earnestness. Music did not escape him, and he actually invented a musical instru- , ment that waa sufficiently unique to tnr.oot af cnmn r%f t ho 4?l VUOV vuw lUWt^OV V*. OVU1W W4 VMV . great masters. How long "musical glasses" have i"been used for their special purposes .; mo one really knows. There is an account of an Irish performer who j played upon the musical glasses in j ] his native country as early ss 1743. J When Qluck went to England |1 (April, 1746) there is an account of ,' his playing at the little Haymarket i1 theater, which runs as follows: I "He played a concerto on twenty- I' six drinking glasses, tuned with ,1 spring water, accompanied by the i' whole band, being a new instrument i' of his own invention, upon which he 1 performs whatever may be done I upon the violin or harpsichord." i In Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wake- 1 Held" the "musical glasses" are mentioned as being fashionable. I Franklin was in London (1762} he jaw a performer upon the i glassef., who played them by wet- j ting Ids fingers and wiping them ! over the brims. Seeking to im- j prove and systematize this in- j strument and at the same time to j extend its usefulness by means of the application of mechanical appliances, Franklin devised an unusual! lockirg instrument which was described thus in Grove's Dictionary: "The bells or basins of glass were ranged or strung on an iron spindle (long rod). The largest and deep toned ones were at the left ana gradually rose in pitch according io the usual scale. The lower edges of the basins were dipped in a trough of water. The spindle or rod was made to revolve before the -performer, so that all the glass ibowls were kept continually going * a _ around and around oy means 01 a ] treadle connected with the spindle ( and operated by the foot of the per- 1 former. The sound was produced j by applying the fingers to the wet ( edges of the bowls as they revolved. Franklin called the instrument the j armonica. Mosart wrote music for this un- 1 usual musical machine, and it be- i came very popular in parts of Germany. The composer Naumann wrote sonatas for it, and at one time it was used in some of the court orchestras. Beethoven wrote a piece of twenty-four measures for the instrument. In Germany the instrument was called the harmon- : Its tone was often irritating, I penetrating and exciting, and it was said to have had a bad effect upon the nerves of the performers.? Brooklyn Eagle. Proved It. They were talking of birth and breeding, and the man who had a long line of famous ancestors aired some of his democratic ideas. "I don't plume myself on my forbears. 1 think they're a matter of slight importance," he insisted. "A man stands on his own merits with me, no matter what his lineage." "I'm afraid you're not telling the exact truth," said a teasing friend. "1 can't help thinking you care a good deal for ancestry. This is a little bit of a pose you've taken up." "1 beg your pardon," said the advocate of equality, drawing himself to his full height. "I scarcely think the great-grandson of one upright statesman and the grandson of another would be likely to descend to a 'pose,' sir."?Youth's Companion. Millinery! Millinery!?The lat-1 est styles in hats and trimmings.. It will pay you to see our line. B F Patrick, j Academy St. next to Hardware Co.: 9-29-IU i re We 3pen Your Ey< , the best rry the best line ol Serge, Kaishi Silk Stock Ladies' Coa ie City make our s STACKI PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. | Discarded Ones Make Business For tha Old Negative Man. There are people in every large j city who make a business of buying up old used photographic plates, cleaning and reselling them. They get their supply mostly from the photographer! who make a specialty of commercial or newspaper illustration No one knows how many thousands of these squares of glass | are sold e' ery week, but the num- ; ber must bo enormous in the aggre- j gate. While it is the custom for pho- J tographers to preserve carefully all plates that they think may be of future value, they discard a great many more thun they keep. A firm of newspaper photographers, for in- ? stance, will send out several men to jet pictures of snow scenes or of spring in the suburbs or of summer [ it the seaside. Each will bring beck ! l-i* _ j [mil a UU?t"U IICHJ. VUlj UJUVC VI four will be selected as being worth j preserving. The other twentv or thirty plates will be dumped in.o a Dig box with the other discards to iwait t je coming of the glass man. The average selling price for the plate of ordinary size is $3 a thooland. These plates coat the photographer originally about 80 cents i dozen. By means of an acid bath the dark covering is quickly removed, and the glass becomes as dear is though it had never been used. Some of these plates are sold to nanufacturera to be recoated with the sensitive film and to be used )nce more in photography. A far greater number, however, are disposed of to dealers, who sell them to people who are fond of making navlnnt niniilTM Stilt mAn> [/UVUU IMi wwt K/ ind their way to greenhouse men ind l.hose gardeners vho hare acres ){ "cold frames," where vegetables ire propagated under glass. A few ire used as decorative or protective features around flower beds in suburban estates.?Harper's Weeklj. THo Structure of Pino. When flowering plants usuallj make seed, that is generally the last effort for plant life. The seed is the beginning of the life of the new plant. Ferns, however, only produce spores for reproductive purposes. These spores germinate and go through the same process subsequently that flowers go through in the production of seeds. The ipores expand when the germ mating time comes and form a flat, green membrane. What are then really the flowers appear on this membrane. As a general rale after these fern flowers have matured the membrane dries up and disappears. ? S M S * 1 _ _ _ in one lamny 01 ierns, xiowerer, ua- i tivea of New Holland, named platy- | cerium, this green blade is perma- i ncnt and continues to enlarge, becoming really a portion of the plant. Every year a new blade is formed which spreads over the old ones. The large plant is of a totally different character, having the frond* of ordinary ferns. Antiquity of Gold Leaf. The origin of the gold leaf, like the first use of gold itself, is lost in the mists of antiquity. It is found, ? I ^ -r, ,..\nm>ntiAn a-ith the IUI CAttuipic, iu wuuwwvu tfiwu iuv most ancient known mummies, having been used for covering teeth, tongue, skin, etc. Sometimes it is also found ou the cotlius. Gold leaf was also used on the tombs and monuments of ancient Egypt. The process of making goid leaf has thus been known since the eighth century B. C. In the eleventh centurv it seems to have attained i as high a degree of perfection as today. The gold leaf on some an- ! cient Grecian pottery indeed is as thin as that now used.?Magazine j of Commerce. I Before ordering Magazines get our big clubbing catalogue and special offers and save Money. Southern Subscription Agency. Raleigh. N C (A postal card will do.) 9-22-13t I Are N es and Take IN 9c yd 7c yd 4 l-2c yd f Dress Goods, sucl , Messaline Silk, S t Sweaters. ;tore your headqua LEYS DRY ON A CATTLE SHIP. Wording One's Passage to Europe lu a Mighty Hard Jobi A writer in the Philadelphia Kec- j ord, telling of working one's pas- ' 6age to Europe on a cattle ship, j says: The food is the worst part of the trip. It is nauseating, and but few can stand it. The bulk of it is serv J _ .l - J:_I u:_u eu id uie uimipau, ?ujuu i3~ i iuu i to the galley, and the mainstay is ! "scouse," a sort of watery beef atew. This is varied with corn beef and cabbage, beans, potatoes and a few other staple articles, all of poor quality. Tea and coffee are ^rawn from huge caldrons directly to the kettles, with milk and sugar added in the galley. The first duties of the men were* , to tie the cattle up. It is no small! matter to secure and control a thoroughly frightened 1,600 poundl steer, but as we moved down the* i Delaware all became more quiet;.] and by 1 o'-clock all were securely fastened, and' we want to our first' meal. Sunday the real work began, which was to be the routine until the end of the voyage. Each morn* ing we were awakened at 4 o'clock. From 4 to 6 we engaged in the wet and back breaking work of watering the cattle. Each steer drank from three to seven bccketfuls, and as we had only eight pails the problem became how to keep them filled and yet not overflow without shutting off the hoae. It was made harder by the faot that the steers fought for the watey. From 6 o'clock to 8 we hauled up from the lower decks by means of block and tackle thirty-two bundles of hay and twenty bags ol corn, each weighing. 1.00 pounds. Under the hatches it was stifling work; above the hands-grew blistered from: the ropes. Then a third of the hay was fed out Breakfast followed. After a short rest the troughs were cleared, corn fed and the aisles swept Inspection began at 10:30*. and the captain, purser and doctor < passed en tour of the vessel, looking into every nook and cranny. Work finished at uoon, after which there was a respite until 3, when, more hay was given, and again at 7.. We were usually ready for bed at 9,. although a few times we remained up until 10. i The cattlemen had the entire-run of the great broad open steerage ! deck aft and the portion of the bow 1 forward assigned to the crew. Here we met many of the cabin passengers and had jolly good times and talks with them. On the quiet several of the higher officers had pleasant words for us. To our amusement ihj menials took delight in making things as unpleasant as possible when opportunity offered. Th? Ostrich. That ostriches hide their heads in the sanu and think that their j bodies are thereby hidden seems to be pure myth, says the London Times. Old birds on the nest and young birds when seeking to evade notice squat close to the ground and stretch their necks out Hat on the sand. In the case of the young, which harmonizes as perfectly with their sandy surroundings as young j ringed plover do with the stones on a beach, the ruse is said to render them almost invisible, and on the wide expanses of the desert it is evident that the upright neck of a sitting bird would render it unnecessarily conspicuous to a marauding enemy. But there is no more ground for accusing the ostrich of ! "self illusion" than there is for1 bringing the same charge against the partridge chick, which by mere-1 ly sitting still among the grass prac-! A rc frnm cicrht ULttUjr u ioa^|>\.uio By helping us you help your-j self. Buy from the houses wlioj advertise in The Kecord and mention the paper. FOLEYSHONETHCAR Cures Colds; Prevents Pneumonia mm&mmmms Vith T fotice of the F Thirty-six fnch Forty inch Madi Thirty-six inch h us Hacar. Imooi C7 ' atins, a good line rters. No trouble GOODS OC Some Spec I Ladies' All Wool i Red, ranging fro Men's Fine Hats, s Fine Dress Shirts IllliCi Swift's Pre mi VlAHKOi Band at National Biscuit Comp ply which we are sc around, ALL KINDS ; Antrim's Full Cream CI I n Rnri ' 1 a. X~ Commercial Charlei N. E. Corner King i CAPITAL r ; We c General and Sa A Q\ allowed in Sav ^ quarterly:Janu OUT-OF-TOWN A< TRISTRAM T. HYIE, President. i. S. PINKUSS Du M. H. LAZARUS, JULIUS M. VISANSKA, G. B. BUELL, E. MITCHELL SEABROOK, AUG. R. RUGHEIMER, W. A. MOORE, T. J. HAMLIN, X JPiHtmH' IIKXOAST)!)/ 1^-.? fTflopo ?__befwe North jii Florida A passenger servic< and comfort,equipped1 Dining, Sleeping and For rates, schedule tion. write to WM. J. Gen / immmmssgmmas he Qoc ollowing Value Best Bleach ras, worth 12 l-2c Percale *ted Poplins. Pong of Black and Check to show goods. >MPANY KEEP YOUR EYES I ial Bargains j Sweaters, White and j mi S2LaO in ! "" V ~ " V my Shape and Style $1.00 to ?3.00 $1.00 to $1.50 lum and Armour's Gold 22c per pound. any's Crackers, big sup- y illing at 20c per pound | 1 OF FRUIT. fieese, 25c per pound. orprs Rr flO I 6 1 Savings Bank iton, S. C. ind Wentworth Streets $100,000 onduct a ? vings Department ings Department, computed \ ary, April, July and October. < XOUNTS SOUCITED ; CIORTENAY OLNEY, Cashier. 10HN, Viet Pns. i a 'ectors: j R. G. RHETT. ? J. S. PINKUSSOHN, J. ALWYN BALL, 8 LELAND MOORE, A. J. BUIST, M. D., R. S. WHALEY, T. T. HYDE. ==xi r f t c nC@iSTllNE jj UGHFA^EoFjfyVEL * en ffce? I nd South : .?Cuba. s unexcelled for luxury with the latest Pullman Thoroughfare Cars. , maps or any informa* rn A 1/1 V^IU, eral Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. >ds 1' j ette, Crepe de uMJk Silks. M 1 ON OUR WINDOWS g HFOR THE BCST ^ jFRUITS |J Come to Otir Store | j We have Apples, 0range3, k j Bananas, Peaches, Large ? j Plums, Watermelons, and ? ?! other fruit in season. r '* If | H B U Y YOU R ? ! H GROCERIES ? ?| where you can get the most fc <4 good things to eat for the ? j least money. Have you ? 1 vj tried our store? g I *J A nd?r?nn * If jar A Co.. L I 7-1J-3m Opposite Post Office. ? | | Remember I 1 We are now in the large 1 building formerly occupied I by Wilkins Wholesale Groc- \^k B ery Co., where we are glad to welcome oar old customers as well as new ones.. We keep All Kinds ofMeatt flH in season at living prices, also a choice Kne of Fruits, Vegetables and Canned! Cpps* MarKet > I Cr. Acldtay A Mill Stat | ?gMf - - - ? * - *iA-A^A. ' ., V ^ W W W W W W W W W W W W ^ W : WANTED) t , to assign first mortgage if or gk J $2325.70 due January 1, 1911 wn$h^_ ^ ^ * interest at 'i% per annum aftek*9V4^fttf maturity, ?ecured bv reality col J lateral consisting of 96 acres of J ? laud on Lenud's Ferry road, join- ' f iug farms of E. T. Hamer and J J. C. Everett. Discounted at ? f 8% per annum for each. Reason * ot assignment necessitated by * need of funds. Title to land I -f ? guaranteed. I J Apply to I J. D. GILLAND, j .j Attorn?y-at*Law I KINQSTREE, - - 8- O. V WM vweeevvveeeeeeeeefevv , . J > Final Discharge- I Notice is hereby given that on the I Kah a n lot a r ~:n I ;*iiu uajr ui v/uwucj, n u i9iut i win ipply to P >! Brockinton, Judge of Probate of Williamsburg county, for , etters dismissory as guardian of the state of L D B Mims. J L Gowdy, '-2"j-4t Guardian. Begistration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Reg. stration will be open on the 1st Monlay in each month for the purpose of egiatering any person who is quali- led as follows: Who shall have been a resident of he State for two years, and of the ounty one year, and of the polling pre* inct in which the elector offers to ote four months before the day of lection, and shall have paid, six nonths before, any poll tax then due nil payable, and who can both read nd write any section of the constituion of 1895.submitted to him by the mpervisors of Registration, or who an show that he owns, and has paid 11 taxes collectable on during the (resent year, property in this State ssessed at three hundred dollars or nore. J. T. McGILL, Clerk of Board. /;($<>/ / \%%i- i "v " i ?... S ? r> V' " 7 ' 1 .' ..! ** ' * i... t . u :-A r : % , . , , v - ? : ; : 1 ..* -L :? -. < .? ? - 'V I I