Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IIII II II III III Mill II I HI I This Is' ^ For Wedding Ann I have a nice sele( N. ions. My stock of Friendship Links1 Bring me your'W; Repairs. Work done'1 T. E. BAG King FINE PLEA! ? ~ - < n. TBe uxtora nuggy uaiu? in the South for the manufacture sign of good taste in Dixie Lana dealers who handle the Oxford lii tion, for they have something guarantee. For the year 1916 they have in tradewinners. Their buggies ai their business from beginning to Selected material is used through the Oxford. Chase and Stud bug pendable. embracing three cardin iort and Service. M. F. HELLER, Sole A Afl Fresh Meats and V : THE PEOPI f H. H. MILI m3 Agsmw S\J TrtlCTk f - North Floric A passenger sen and comfort,equipp Dining, Sleeping ar For rates, schedt tion, write to WM. 1 ^ J > - >- ? There Is In every c; Vvv?< vjai vui kjl t Teas. Ha\ R. W. "Good 1 Phone No. 143 it maMummmmmawBsgaamammmmma Hie Month j iversaries and Birthdays ;tion of Gifts for thesefoccasvelry is always complete. = engraved ajt 25c each. ^ atches, Clocks and | Jewelry for same day received.; GETT, ^Jeweler I stree, S. C. I 5URE3VEHICLES I, N. C., has long enjoyed the* reputation I of superior pleasure vehicles, it being a for one to ride in an Oxford vehicle. The ie find it an easy matter to meet competithat they can back up with the strongest troduced new styles, many of which are re built by skilled mechanics who know end, having made this their life work, tout, so that as hundreds of dealers testify, gies are thoroughly satisfactory and de* al points of vehicledom. viz: Style, Comgent for Williamsburg County ill TTo Ynnr PqKIp i ill Ufl 1UU1 UUU1U i Best Market] Price Paid egetables on daod in Season. LE'S MARKET LER, Proprietor. I jrinc(?isrl!p| RpUGHFAREoPlRm/E!U men ffee? ^ jind-SOUTH la?Cuba. rice unexcelled for luxury ed with the latest Pullman id Thoroughfare Cars. ilet maps or any informs* J. CRAIQ, General Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. Satisfaction an of our Lord and Coffees and . re you usedjjit? LEWIS Tiings to Eat" X l! HINDU ETIQUETTE. husband and Wife Never Mention 1 Each Other to Friends. 'You can never tell what is manners and what isn't in India. When a woman wants to be very polite to a man she turns her back on him. It flatters any Hindu man to have a pretty woman plainly and ostentatiously turn her back on him. Between husband and wife there is a queer system of etiquette. Whatever happens, a Hindu wife ; must never mention her husband by name. When she goes to call on her _-:_i-1 ii. _ _ri ueigiiuur iijjuuv uiuunig iuc iuicinoon through, comparing notes on the latest nose rings and the best way to 6tain the fingers with the fashionable henna, she mqst never let the conversation swing around so that she will have to mention her husband. If she should go 60 far as to forget herself and mention her lord and master to her shocked j companion her hostess would soon j yawn and explain that 6he had toj i go and put the bread in. However, she can talk about her 1 children all 6he wants to; there is j nothing in the Hindu etiquette j j book against that She can tell ; what a funny thing Jamjiji said the | other night at the supper table, j i how much he helps her around the! house and delicately hint how much i brighter he is than the other chil-; dren in the neighborhood, but 6he must never under any circumstances mention his father. Even stricter social rules govern the men. One Hindu man must never ask another Hindu man how his wife is getting along. That would brand the man as not having xv- _i:_v'x-.x :j? I llie BilglUCbt lui'a ltutu Uiawiug i room usage was. All the men at j the club would shun him. No one would dare to ask him to come over to the table and have a grape juice for fear right before everybody he might ask how his wife was. When a Hindu goes to call it is not good manners to leave until the host gets up and tells him to go.? Homer Croy in Leslie's Weekly. Wheels. The earliest mention of wheels in the Bible is in Exodus xiv. 25, when the chariot wheels of the Egyptians were taken off by the Lord. But 1 chariots are mentioned in Genesis j xii, 43. But there were older na- i tions than the Egyptians. The ] j Chaldeans used chariots, and the ] ' Greeks?Homer's poems date from ] I about 900 B. C.?had chariots at j | the siege of Troy, 1500 B. C. Prob- j ably in reality the wheel is about j oc nnrlr o r>ior?o r?f mnrhinArv ns anv 1 ?.?* v?.v - r-?? -? j j , now existing. Of course it lias been developed, but the wheel of today is a lineal descendant of the section of a log of wood used by the agricultural peoples thousands of years ago. ^ Death Valley. Death valley is a narrow valley between the Panamint and Funeral mountains in California. It is traversed by the Amargosa river, which is usually a dry channel, though probably it was formerly full of water. The level of the valley is cov- j ered with salt, supposed to have been brought by the torrents from ( the surrounding desert and left on 1 the evaporation of the water. Death valley is considered to be the hot- 1 test and driest place in the United States. A temperature of 122 de- | greos has been observed. -r?? n;.? The author of ''Leaves From a Garden" tells a story which is at once a study in feminine revenge and a warning against the keeping of diaries. A girl had made at the instigation of her parents what seemed to he a happy match. But she died, and her diary, found after her death, contained a record of such suffering that her mother's mind was unbalanced bv the read ing. The husband married again, and by way of a wedding present to < the second bride the mother of the first sent?the diary! Suspicious. i Ann Eliza, a dusky washerwo- J man in Mobile, was being courted ] by a swain who approached her as i she was at her washtub. After a 1 few preliminary greetings she turn- i ed to him with, '*Is yo' all shore yo' 1 loves muh?" "Co'se I's shore!" ; was the indignant response. There followed a moment of silence, dur- > ing which the washerwoman attack- 1 ed her wash with renewed vigor. Then, pausing an instant in her work, she added suspiciously, "You i -ii i?i. ?> i \ HiJ am t iubi j u juu, uaa )u i i Age of a Whale. 1 The age of a whale is told by the j size and number of laminae of or- < gans in the mouth, formed of a \ horny substance known as whale- < bone. These laminae increase in , size and number each year. Accord- i ing to scientists who compute the 1 age in this manner, many whales 1 have been captured which were < more than 400 years old.?St. Louis < Globe-Democrat I j MYSTERIES OF EXISTENCE. ; Consider the Case of the Apple, the Potato and the Sponge. There is life hero on this earth that i> immortal, that never dies, so biologists tell us. A hook by l'rofesscr C. M. Child of the University of Chicago tells of observations and experiments of the immortal life of sponges, potatoes and apples. Take the potato, for instance. You wish to grow a new crop of do tatoes, and you do not plant a seed; you simply split the living potato, you divide its substance and place the different pieces of itself into different holes in the earth, and the living potato becomes its own ancestor. The potato you eat today at dinner may be a part of the very potato your great-grandfather ate 100 years ago. And so with the apple. It is perpetuated by grafting a piece of the tree upon a seedling, and that grafted twig, a part of the very body of the parent tree, grows on into a large tree, and a limb of it, again, is grafted on to another seedling, and so on and on for limitless thousands of years, the original tree living always. The sponge cell splits itself in two and grows two sponges instead of one, and those two red!vide again and produce four sponges. ; The biologists scraped a small sponge from a wooden pile of Nar- < ragansett Pier, cut it into small j pieces, squeezed the sponge cells i from each piece, strained them ] through fine cloth and put them all into a basin of water. Within an < hour the minute cells had collected ! themselves together again and be- j gan immediately to build an entire- i ly new sponge like the mother \ sponge, of which they were original- j ly a part. These and kindred facts, as they I are accumulated, may throw light j on the great mysteries of life and i death. Just how it is impossible to j see. But the great discoveries have j followed the painstaking collecting ] and comparing of facts that in themselves seemed unrelated and j i j oiren inviai. v Hugo's Practical Side. It may not be generally known ? that Victor Hugo used to draft the advertisements of his own books, in- j stead of leaving the task to his pub- i lisbers. His correspondence with * his Belgian publishers gives the fol- 5 lowing example of the great novel- ) ist's advertising style: "After the 5 middle ages, the present time: Such i s the subject of Victor Hugo's dou- ? ale study. What he did for Gothic ; irt in 'Notre Dame de Paris' that i ? tie has done for the modern world j j In Tes Miserables.' The two books , j igure in his scheme of work as two' 5 mirrors reflecting the whole human | C ife." An encouraging example to i r those young authors who cannot j ? make up their minds how- much! i modesty is enjoyed by the best lit- $ ?rary traditions.?London Globe. j Teak wood. Teakwood is used in India for c general pur;- - in house and ship f building, for nudges, railway sleep- I ?rs, furniture and shingles. It is J ilso used much for carving, the i Burmese carved teak being especial- 5 !y noted. Teak has in the past been used 1 to some extent for gun carriages, but it is not at present considered well adapted for this purpose, as it uas wen iouna iiiui u apms iuu readily to be thoroughly valuable in J irtillery work. Teak is 6trongly and characteristically scented, is of oily texture, md the surface feels greasy to the touch. Teak logs when first cut srill not float. The wood darkens ivith age. and after a number of i'ears becoures almost black. Language Puzzles. Not alone are the so called Maya ascriptions, found on the ruins in " Yueatan, a puzzle to scientists, for I ? those two great nations, the Etruscans end the Ilittites, went out of j the world leaving archaeologists in ? * maze. The Etruscans occupied a jj part of Italy corresponding roughly } to what is now known as Tuscany. The Hittites at one time occupied | i part of Palestine and united with !j the Canaanites to resist the inva- ;i sion by the Israelites under Joshua. { The Etruscan and Hittite inscrip- j| tions have thus far resisted the at- J tempos of scholars to decipher them. j The Storage Battery. I The correct technical term for > the fluid in a storage battery, which | is often called acid, is electrolyte. 3 This fluid is a mixture of four and ) i half parts by volume of distilled 1 svater to one part of pure concen- j trated sulphuric acid. Should it be- ? come necessary to replace it on ac- J count of loss by spilling or leakage 2 the strength above indicated should j be used, but evaporation loss should j be made up with a more dilute acid, j consisting of ten parts of water to j cne of pure concentrated sulphuric i acid. j * STIFF Ill C f & sJMJ ^ Why bear 5^3 I ^\\ A sin^< * m Nft conv !/ Slo i ' Linii W J Arrests Injla Prevents sevei H | cations. Just V I drops on tht m \ spot and the ^ J appears. SPRING IS But Without an Eas You Miss Half I* We are local agents for this w I chine and have just received a new designs. See our Mr. Carter and Eastman. Buy it and then go out season in all of its picturesquesnes The Kingstree Dr Kintfstree, 5 THE WAR I .BUT I J. L. STU I HAS BC 1 ! HnfQPs anr I For Sale or Eb I J. L. STU ^ Livery, Feed and S | Lake City, - S e The Bailey-L Machinery, Mill and Ph Automobils Tires ar Aapnts for The IL S. Tire Co. s ( **3" Charleston, H We are prepared to tak g every want in any line of I trial Will convince )uu uia quarters for Flour, Rice, Grits, J Lard, Canned G Highest Prices Paid For CI SPRING C Kingstree, IftKHHMHMMJai those pains? | 5 bottle will J ince you * an's US mentisa mmation. jfl (Jpl | re compli- || fl put a few 9 dffife I ? painful I ^59^ n pain ais- | BU5_WJM | > here! tman RodaK s measures! <9, orld famous picture ma- 2! assortment of the latest : 2! let him show you the 'Si ' and enjoy Jthe glorious j1; ug Company 1 | South Carolina 5i 8SS8888853888?ffiI: I IS ON CKEYl >TH I , 1 Mules 1 tchange. | creyI ale Stable 8? 3jj ?bby Co. imbinglSupplies id Accessories ]eIebrated]G.-& J. Tires -j South Carolina mrmrnmrnm?. mi "? e care of your gj eatables. One g; ,t we are head- g VIeal, Meat, J; | ioods, Etc. 1; rickens and Eggs 1; a GEE | J South Carolina J' ,