The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 13, 1910, Page TWO, Image 2
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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
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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
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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 !
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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>
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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,
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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.
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our big clubbing catalogue and special
offers and save Money.
Southern Subscription Agency.
Raleigh. N C
(A postal card will do.) 9-22-13t
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Are N
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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
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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-!
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advertise in The Kecord and
mention the paper.
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Red, ranging fro
Men's Fine Hats, s
Fine Dress Shirts
IllliCi Swift's Pre mi
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ply which we are sc
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TRISTRAM T. HYIE, President.
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JULIUS M. VISANSKA,
G. B. BUELL,
E. MITCHELL SEABROOK,
AUG. R. RUGHEIMER,
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Dining, Sleeping and
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ollowing Value
Best Bleach
ras, worth 12 l-2c
Percale
*ted Poplins. Pong
of Black and Check
to show goods.
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ial Bargains j
Sweaters, White and j
mi S2LaO in !
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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 |
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fieese, 25c per pound.
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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.
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'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.
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with the latest Pullman
Thoroughfare Cars.
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Wilmington, N. C.
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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
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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
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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!
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: 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
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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.
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