The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 18, 1912, Page SIX, Image 6
ANTICS OF AN ACTOR.
The Prank the Elder Sothern Played In
a London Shop.
One day the elder Sothern. the creator
of Lord Dundreary, went into an
ironmonger's shop in London and asked
for Macauiay's "History of England."
"We do not sell books, sir."
aid the assistant. "This is an ironmonger's
shop." "Wei!. I'm not par
tieular," said Sothern. pretending to be
deaf. "I don't care whether it is bound
in calf or russia." "But this is not a
bookseller's!" shouted the assistant.
"All right," said Sothern; "wrap it up
neatly. I want to have it sent down
to the hotel. It's for a present I wish
to make to a relative." "We don't keep
It!" shouted the assistant, getting red
in the face. "Do it up as if it were for
your own mother. I don't want any
"CEBTAINLY, 8IH!"
tiling better than that" said Sothern.
"I would like to write my name on the
flyleaf." "Sir." bawled the assistant
at the top of his voice, "don't you see
we do not keep books?" "Very well,"
replied Sothern, quite undisturbed; "I
will wait for It" The assistant ran
Into the next room and api>ealed to his
master, saying he thought the customer
must be off his head. "What is
It, sir? What do you desire?" asked
the Ironmonger of Sothern as he and
h:.s flustered salesman came into the
shop. "I want to buy a file," said the
a?rtoi>-"a plain file, four or five Inches
long." "Certainly, sir," said the master,
casting a withering glance at his
assistant.
Swarming With Them.
Mrs. C. W. Earle's recent contribution
to the history of English life of
the first half of the last century, entitled
"Memoirs and Memories," includes
a fresh blossom In the apparently
fadeless wreath of Sydney Smith's
wit
Mrs. isane s moiner impaneu me information
to Sydney Smith that she
was going to Bath to see an old aunt
"What" he exclaimed, "you've got
an aunt at Bath? I have an aunt at
Bath. Every one has an aunt at Bath.
It's a perfect ant heap."
An International Comedy.
Some years ago at a house party at
Hatfield in honor of the kaiser the invited
guests included the Prince of
Wales?afterward Edward VII.?the
Portuguese minister and M. Waddington,
the French ambassador, and his
wife. During the evening Mme. Waddlngton's
diamond necklace became unfastened.
After vainly attempting to
refasten it she called the Portuguese
minister to her assistance, but he was
not more successful. Every one was
, Interested in the little mishap, and
then the kaiser remarked, amid laughter:
"There is Portugal trying to strangle
France!"
The Prince of Wales rose to assist
Hue. Waddington, and then the kaiser
in a grave tone added:
"It is really a serious matter. England
is mixed up in it!"
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A Browning Anecdote.
In an English magazine a writer tells
an amusing story of the poet Browning
and how he received certain flowers
from a lady, who, on being pressed
to give their English names, shyly confessed
they were called "bloody
noses." I happened many years ago
to be staying In a country bouse when
Browning told the story In his Inimitable
way. and he ended with the following
lines, which I then and there
committed to memory and which will,
I think. Interest your readers:
1*11 deck my love with posies.
I'll cover her with roses.
Should she protest
sv I'll do my best
- To give her bloody noses.
A Haitian Glass Eys.
Some years ago a Haitian general
wrote to a Paris optician to supply
him with a glass eye. The optician,
flattering himself that a successful eye
would secure for him a Haitian decoration,
devoted his utmost Intelligence
to the production of a splendid glass
optic. Six months elapsed. A small
box reached him from Haiti. A cross
glittered in his Imagination; but, to his
horror, within folds of cotton was his j
original eye, accompanied by the following
note: "Sir?The eye you for
iraraea to mo is ot a. uui iimh. iwruibles
that of the Spanish flag, and I
am too patriotic to wear any but the
coloir of my country."
The optician proceeded at once to
the admiralty, there ascertained the
eolors of the Haitian flag and then
manufactured a scarlet and green eye,
which he forwarded.
'r if""1 A .j "
regain their liber- ! : C:JiM FiKlIlMI I
ty from the AsSyrian
yoke. Crg- I
ed by his people, HiSaKSJ^^
Hezekiab Joined .
... . , UesekiatH Prayer.
this confederacy
and stopped the tribute money?contrary
to the Lord's admonition through
the Prophet Isaiah. The measure was
popular, and the king did not seem to
realize how fully the Prophet repre-1
sented the Lord in the matter. He
should have remembered that Israel
was under a special Covenant with the
Almighty by which He was their Sovereign.
their King, and the Arbiter of
their destiny. The error was allowed
to work out a serious penalty for the
disobedient but when the king and the
people repented and gave evidence that,
the lesson hHd beeu learned Divine
mercy came miraculously 1:0 their assistance.
as we shall see.
8ennacherib the Conqueror
The King of Assyria, with a large
army, took the held. Krowing the
difficulties of a siege of Jerusalem, he
did not begin with it but p issed down
the Mediterranean coast, overthrowing
the Sldoulans and Philistines, to J oppa
and farther south; and then eastward
to Lachlsb, a fortified city of
Judah. The whole country was filled
with fear, as nearly forty cities of
Judah, one after the other, fell. King
Hezeklah and his counselors resolved
to avoid, if i>o8sible, a siege of war,
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and sent amoassaaors iu dcunacherlb
apologizing for their temerity
In refusing the tribute money and
asking what compensation would satisfy
him.
The penalty was a heavy one,
amounting to nearly one million dollars.
which at that time was a much
larger sum than it would be today.
The payment of It required the removal
of much ornamental gold from
the temple, but It was paid over and
the release granted.
The Lord was waiting to be gracious,
as Be always is to those who are His ,
true people. He
jfg delayed, however,
* t0 ?ive the word
WrfWl comfort, until ;
?necessItlefl of
\ t^e case had J
rtPs&A humbled the peopie
and taught j
them a lesson of !
faith and dependence
upon their ;
God. Then came ;
the answer of
TU Oftroytmt AtvtL the Lor<, thfi
prophecy that the King of Assyria j
should not come into the city nor shoot I
an arrow there, nor even come before
It with shields, nor cast op embank-'
meats of siege, but that the Lord
would defend the city as His own.
Doubtless the prophecy seemed strange
to the peop e. By what miracle this
could be accomplished they could not
think. The lesson to ub Is that:
"God moves In a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea, {
And rides upon the storm."
A Hundred and Eighty-five Thousand
Slain In a Night
Isaiah briefly and poetically declares
that the angel of the Lord smote the
camp of the Assyrians, without explaining
In what manner. We remembar
the statement of the Scriptures
that wind and Are and lightning may
be the Lord's messengers or "angels." I
Quite probably. In this Instance, the
messenger of death may have been a
malignant form of fever said to pre- i
vail at times to the northeast of
Egypt; but it matters not to us what j
messenger the Lord used to turn back
the Assyrian hosts.
The lesson for us is to note the Dl-1
vine power which overrules, orders
ani directs, so that all things shall
work together In harmony with His
will. It was not His will that Assyria
should become the first Universal Em
pile. That honor was reserved for the
kingdom of Babylon, a century later?
at exactly the proper time when God
wr.s prepared to withdraw His own
typical kingdom, of the line of David,
from the earth?to be "overturned,
overturned, overturned" until The Mesi
siah should come.
' The lesson to the Christian is that
wt should keep right with God, abiding
under the shadow of the Almighty;
1 and that so doing, all things shall
work together for our good.
J ^BLE-STOJIES-'
SENNACHERIB TURNED BACK
isaiah 37:14-38
"OoC it our refuge and strength, a very p e?ent
help in trouble."?PicIS
A previous study our attention
was drawn to the good King
Hezeklab of Juduh. bis zeal for ;
the Lord and the notable Pass- i
over celebration which be brought
about and the overthrow of idolatry j
following. Our present study relates
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10 mm at a laier periou iu um ivifcu.
The Assyrian empire to the north and
east, with its capital at Nineveh, bad
become great and powerful and throat- j
ened to become the tirst Universal Empire.
Before Hezeklah came to the throne
of Judah his father entered into a
treaty whereby peace was secured by
the payment of _
an annual tribute. 1)1
Egyptians. Phiiis- ji|.,
tines and SIdoni- : uEV'ty' 'JH
I ans urged Judah Sgi: <!
to Join them in feajteW
the confederacy h'tyW] [fax
by which they --JA (A ' '
hoped all might ijMljVi ? I'/Vi.'tl
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is vain. Occasions cannot make
spurs. If you expect to make spun
you must win them. If you wira
to use them you must buckle thorn
to ycur heels before you go into
the fight.
As a Critic Saw Browning.
There was marked vulgarity about
Browning/ particularly in his accent
and in the tone of his voice and a certain
indescribable savor of sycophancy j
of a man eager to be of a grade to
which he did not belong, but the poet
was there?the poet's keen eye, the
poet's heart obvious in his remarks I
and descriptions.?Memoirs of John (
Cburton Oallins. '
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ever shod could talk they would
all say that they liked our way
of shoeing the best. We pay
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The cilice of the Supervisor of K?>
loirniion will he open on the Is; Monday
in each month for the purpose of
registering any persou who is quali- i
>, follows :
Who shall have been a resident o?
the State for two years, and of th< i
county one year, and of the polling pre- '
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vole four months before the day of
elation. and shall have paid, sh '
m<mths before, any poll tax then dm j
ai d payable, and who can both read
and write any section of the constitu- j
tioii of 1396.submitted to him by the
Supervisors of Registration, or wht
can show that he owns, and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, pioperty in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. J. Y. McGILL, i
Clerk of Board.;
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Auditor's Notice.
I will be at the following places, on
dates named below, for the purpose of j
taking tax returns for 1912:
January.
Greelyville, 10 and ll
Gourdins, 12
Suttons. 13
Andrews. 15
rrio, 16
Benson, 22 ~
Bloomingvale, 23: y
Morrisville, 24 jj
R D Gamble's store, zo
W C Wilson's store, 26
Cades, 27
J L Gowdy's store, 30
Mouzons, 31
February.
Salters, 1 i
Walter Poston's store, 10
Church, 12
Rome, 13;
Lambert, 14 i
Ard's X Roads, 15 >
Johnsonville, , 16!
Vox, ' 17 j
Kingstree from January 1 to February
20, inclusive, except on above dates. 1
All males between the ages of 21 and j
50 years,not exempted by law,are liable
to poll and commutation road tax and
must return same. All transfers of real !
estate should be reported by both seller
and purchaser.
All parties making returns should1 J
bear in mind that number or name of !
school district as well as township in i
which they reside or property being re-'
turned, must be given. Parties liable to j ;
income tax will return same while other '
returns are made. A penalty of 50 per j
cent will be added to all returns made
after February 20, 1912.
J J B Montgomery,
12-7-t2-15 County Auditor.
Administrator's Notice j
All persons having claims against the ^
estate of William W Wilson, deceased, __
will present the same, duly attested, to ~~
the undersigned,and all persons indebted ^
to the said estate will make Dayment to J"
J S Fi lmore, f
Administrator Estnte of William W I
Wilson, deceased. JL-u-Aipa
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Parents who intend enterii
will please do so during tne firs
Patrons and friends of the
to visit the school at an/ J me.
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applying to
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Kingstrc
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