The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 05, 1913, Page SIX, Image 6
SEA FIRES IN THE TROPICS.
Marvelous Beauty of the Gleaming Water*
at Night
The beautiful effect of the sea's
phosphorescence is vividly .described
by P. Walton Harrison in the Selborne
Magazine:
"inr nno u-Vinm business or nleas
lire has caused to be at sea at night
can scarcely have failed to note, especially
in the summer time, the
number and brilliancy of what seem
to be glowworms shining under
water. If the traveler has extended
his travels further a-s^a and has
watched the sea fires within the
tropics?in the Red sea, Arabian
sea, about the Indian coasts or in
midoeean?he will have seen a sight
he never can forget, the sea one
sheet of flame, in parts of a green*-V
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the heads of the waves one blaze of
light as they tumbled and rolled
their foamy "diamonds about in
great profusion.
"Over the bow. where the water
is cloven bv the sharp cutwater, all
is aglow. Along the sides, which
fling back the waters neglected by
the forepart, the crest falling waves
glare with angry eyes as the ship
tumbles them over, acting toward
them as flint acts toward stool. All
around the sea seems on fire, and
the sickly pale light shining wit at
a time when 'night makes a weird
sound of its own stillness' and the
imagination Ts prone to conjure up
fantastic shapes and creatures, when
Tke water, like a witch's oils.
Burns green and blue and white,
I* wiVvr> tlmt tbo do
IV Ull^uv WV tuvw^iiv
Hions of whom Columbus' crew feared
the malevolence were holding
their revels on the bosom of the sea
and that this pale light which shone
around was the lantern guiding them
to their orgies. Here and there a
patch more brilliant than the rest,
now and again a dark, unilluminat?d
piece of water, relieves the sameness
of the general incandescence,
and where the sea is troubled bv the
movements of its inhabitants, or,
fltill more, by the passage of ships,
it shows its sense of the intrusion by
a more than wonted display of brilliancy
and hurls its harmless lightning
with much magnificence.
"The wake of the ship is one sea
of liquid fire. Unless one has seen it
he is apt to think the language deaeribing
it extravagant and exaggerated,
but any one who has sailed the
intertropical seas will know that
words cannot adequately tell the
glory of the sight which there meets
Me eye, when the conditions of the
weather most favor the display of
tiie sea'B phosphorescence."
On Lif?'? Road.
All our weariness of suffering is
without avail to leave even a little
memory among those for whom the
work ie done. All that is wrought
in despair, all that is loveless and
mechanical, falls to the ground. We
live for even so much as a brief life
only in that which carries the
breath ofour being, the love of our
heart. It is not in ceaseless routine
and grinding that we live, nor in
what is small and anxious. Machines
will continue the tale of that
forever. No cog will ever be missed
in that endless chain. But we shall
not wholly die in the song we carry
V?/**a4 V? ** lnro tvi4 Vi wVllpVl WA I
1U V/UJT liVdl V, VilV IV'V * 1VM ? ? V
love the being of another, the smile
we give another wayfarer at dusty
noonday.?Collier's Weekly.
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f When Dogs Were Cooks.
"There was a time," said the antiquarian,
"when dogs did our roasting
for us?at least they kept the
meat turning so it would not burn.
'Spit dogs' they were called, and we
call their descendants 'spitz' to this
day. Spit dogs were trained to turn
the spits on which roasted chickens,
beef, ducks and turkeys. The little
fellows did their work well. They
were never known to let a fowl burn
or to snatch a mouthful or two from
it. As late as 181G spit dogs were
employed in the old Philadelphia
inns on Second and Third streets."
Helped In the Robbery.
The Earl of Balcarres had a field
of turnips upon which he prided
himself a good deal. He once surprised
an old woman busily employed
in filling a sack with his favorites.
After giving her a hearty
scolding, to which she replied only
bv the silent eloquence of repeated
courtesies, he was walking awav,
when the woman called after him:
"Eh. mv lord, the hair's unco' heavy.
Would ye he sae kind as to help me
on to mv hack wi' it?"?which he
did forthwith, when the culprit decamped
with profuse thanks.
All It Needed.
"I made this potato salad for you
myself/' smiled she. "Isn't it delicious
?"
"It would be," assented her husband,
"if you had put a little more
oil and vinegar and pepper and mustard
seed and horseradish in the
dressing and introduced a sliced egff
or two and a few white onions ana
left half of the potatoes t."
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Didn't Want Nothin' Nohow.
Joseph Bucklin Bishop, secretary of
the Panama canal commission, tells
this story to show how difficult it is
at times to extend hospitality iu the
canal zone:
Maurice H. Thatcher arrived one
Saturday evening to take up his duties
as civil governor of the zone His
house was next to that of Mr. Bishop.
Bishop called him up on the telephone
and said:
"Governor. I know it is hard to get
provisions here Saturday evening when
| all the stores are closed. I cheerfully
put my larder at your disposal. I
think I have enough meat to provide
for both of us over Sunday."
"I thank you." replied Thatcher, "but
I eat neither flesh, flsh nor fowl."
"Well," suggested Bishop again, "1
have a cellaret here, and if there are
any wineR you would like I should be
glad to give them to you."
"I neither drink, smoke nor chew."
said Thatcher politely.
Mr. Bishop, not at all discouraged,
returned to the fray. "You will probably
have nothing to do tomorrow. I'm
going to church, and i should like to
i hare you accompany me."
'Thanks," answered Thatcher, "but
I'm a Christian Scientist"?New York
Tribune.
Black Butterflies.
When pride of the meadow and goldenrod
Are decking the bayou's bank
And the still, brown water that glides between
Reflects their verdure rank.
Then day after day, through the sunlit
hours,
The flutter of velvet wings,
Like the trappings of fairy funerals,
Jl flickering shadow flinga
mwrift *nA *11 In hUpk
Like motes la the clear sunlight
Or like shades of their slater butterflies,
They cover the blossoms bright.
So our lives are dappled with flecks of
shade '
That often obscure the flowers,
Yet see how the purple and gold shine
through
The horertng, black winged hours.
?Clara Boise Bush.
Good Witnesses.
On his eighty-fourth birthday Paul
Smith, the veteran Adirondack hotel
keeper, who started life as a guide and
died owning a million dollars' worth
of forest land, was talking about
boundary disputes with an old friend.
"Didn't you hear of the lawsuit over
a title that I had with Jones down in
Malone last summer?" asked Paul.
with a twinicie id nis eyes.
The friend bad not beard.
"Well," said Paul, "it was this way.
I sat In the courtroom, before the case
opened, with my witnesses around me.
Jones bustled In, stopped, looked my
witnesses over carefully and said.
'Paul, are those your witnesses?'
" "They are.' said I.
" 'Then you win,' said he. 'I've had
them witnesses twice myself.' "?Every,
body's.
Cheerfulness.
Wondrous Is the strength of cheerfulness
and Its power of endurance.
The cheerful man will do more In the
same time, will do It better, will persevere
la it longer than the sad or sullen.?Carly
le.
Drew at Sight.
Mart Hoover years ago, when Kansas
was not the cultivated commonwealth
it has since become, had sent a
consignment of corn to a commission >
merchant In Kansas City. The merchant
telegraphed, telling the consign- "
or: "Your credit is $27.40. Draw on
me at 6ight"
But Hoover was mad. He had expected
his money, and none came. He
felt he had been duped, and he treasured
up the grievance. One time,
about six weeks later, the commission
man came to Hoover's town, got out
of the bus and started to walk down
the street Hoover saw him and instantly
drew his revolver and fired.
His eye was fairly good. Tiie nunet
cut away the merchant's necktie and
unfastened his collar.
Then Hoover put up his gun.
"That's expensive shootin'." said he. ,
"but I reckon you're as sorry as I am."
"What do you mean?" demanded the j
town constable, arresting the gun man.
"He told me to." said Hoover, sur- :
prised.
"Told you to?" demanded the white
cheeked city man. "I never did any- !
thing of the kind!" j
"You did." said Hoover, and. drawing
out the telegram, he read:
" 'Draw on me at sight'
"I done it." said he.
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A Midnight Sundial. ?
If some benevolent vandal will in- (
vade the Barnard college campus some
night and wreck, shatter, demolish and I
otherwise destroy a certain harmless I
looking ornamental sundial in front of
Brooks hall the entire freshman class
will combine to raise funds for retaining
counsel in case he is caught and
prosecuted, for the harmless looking
sundial is an instrument of torture.
When alarm clocks run down at dead
o* night In the Brooks hall dormitory
the young women In the freshman
class are wont to rap at the door of
some upper class man and ask, "Please,
what Is the right time?" To which
the Invariable reply Is: "Go out and
consult the dial, freshman. It keeps
perfect time."
And?but you wont believe this?
nine out of ten freshmen follow the
upper class men's advice.?New York
Post
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' ?to insure comp
! t along a case of
Cbed.
cr ^orest> at
liNlf As pure and
|aw| Delicious
Thirst-1
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this Spring or
not ready to tal
place your order
future delivery,
vide for your wj
| have a complete
lowing in stock I
of Firestone Ca
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Parts, &c.
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2s. Dust the hens with
Powdered Lice Killer
25c and 60c
mlnate the body lice, and paint
r the roosts and nests with
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lid br. dealers everywhere. or
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