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MAKING RICE PAPER. It la 8hav#d From tha Whit# Pith of Troao In Formosa. The so called rice paper is not made from rice, as its name implies, but from the snow white pith of a email tree belonging to the genus aralia. a genus represented in this country by the common sars^parilla and the spikenard. The tree grows in Formosa and, so far as is known, nowhere else. The stems are transported to China, and there the rice naner is made. It is used, aside A * from a number of other purposes, by the native artists for water color drawings and sometimes is dyed in various colors and made into artificial flowers/ The tools of the pith worker comprise a smooth stone about a foot square and a large knife or hatchet with a short wooden handle. The blade is about a foot long, two inches broad and nearly half an inch thick at the back, and it is as sharp as a razor. Placing a piece of the cylindrical pith on the stone and his left hand on the top, the pith worker will roll the pith backward and forward for a moment until he gets it in the Teqnired position. Then, seizing the knife with his right hand, he will hold the edge of the blade after a feint or two close to the pith, which he will keep rolling to the left with his left hand until nothing remains to unroll, for the pith has, by the application of the knife, been pared into a square white sheet of uniform thickness. All that remains to be done is to square the edges. If one will roll up a sheet of paper, lay it on a table, place the left hand on top and gently unroll it to the left he will hare a good idea of how the feat is accomplished.?New York Herald. A Whittling Oyster. The proprietor of a London chophouse some years ago made fame and fortune by the discovery of a musical oyster. A distinct whistling sound came from a newly opened * * i rrr.'iL _ Darrei 01 oysiers. wim eagerness he hunted for the cause and found an oyster which seemed to amuse itself by whistling. The innkeeper advertised it, and hundreds came daily to his hostelry to listen to the musical ^oyster. In due time the oyster died, and its secret died with it. It is supposed that the sound was caused by the inspiration and expiration of air through a tiny hole in the shell. To this day the inn is known as the Whistling Oyster. His Cynical Point of Viow. There is a politician in Chicago , who, though of rather a cynical turn, tries hard to refrain from the expression of his pessimistic sentiments while at home or with his friends. Now and then, however, his cynicism gets the better of him. One day his twelve-year-old son, who had been reading, suddenly put down his book and, looking up at it _ 3 ni8 iainer, asaea: "Dad, is it really true that there is honor among thieves V* "No, my son/' said dad, "thieves are just as bad as other people."? Everybody's. The 8*a('s Marvelous I net! net. The instinct of the seal is marvelous. It will leave its young on the ice in the morning and, going down through a hole, remain away all day swimming in search of food. Beturning in the evening, it will locate its offspring in the same "patch" among hundreds of thousands of other baby seals notwithstanding that the ice may have wheeled or drifted fifty or sixty miles during the day from wind and tide and notwithstanding that the patch may extend thirty or forty miles from one end to the other. Had Enough. "Having satisfied you, sir," went on the book agent, "that you are in constant need of our superb dictionary, permit me to show you also ite greatly enlarged appendix, wnicn no family should be without." "Nothing doing!" gasped the prospective victim. "It's cost me $500 to have one of those things cut out, and I want no more."?Browning's Magazine. Misfortunes. If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock in order that they might be equally distributed among the whole species those who now look upon themselves as the most unhappy oi mortals would prefer the share thej are already possessed of before thai share which would fall to them bj such division.?Socrates. Not a Jelly Roll. A sick little girl was ministered to by her aunt, who administered e pilL In order to have her swallow it easily she covered the pill with jelly. The little one swallowed the jelly and, taking the pill from her mouth said, "Auntie, here's the seed."? Christian Herald. r FOOLED HIM BADLY. i Now Ho Kicks on Lettors Written In tho Third Person. In one of the Paris restaurants a ; party of literary men were discuss- or ing the merits of various epistolary en styles. One of them. Monsieur A.,: cu made a fierce attack on letters writ- er ten in the third person, such a- i "Monsieur X. has the honor to in- ga form," and so on. Another of the th< party defended them, maintaining In that they were not only more cere-'ve: monious, but that they were more i ju< polite. lat "That's a good idea!" replied Monsieur A. "The foundation of ho all politeness in letter writing is to go express clearly what you mean to say. Now, nothing can be more it ambiguous than these confounded ho ? ? T TXT 111 fit, UUIC6 XJJ U1C kliliu J/CtOUM. 1. nil, | Ml, jnst tell you what happened to my- | otl self. I received from my friend D., hit the chief of division, a billet doux. 1 which I will show you." tei Taking the note from his pocket, ga: Monsieur A. read as follows: lat "Monsieur D., chief of division at sui the war office, hastens to inform his hit friend, Monsieur A., that he has ga just been named chevalier of the im Legion of Honor." ca; "You can fancy my delight at reading this note," continued Mon- rm sieur A. "I was the happiest man pit in the world. I ran to an engraver ini and ordered him to make the flat- ca: tering addition to my cards, 'Mon- cu sieur A., Chevalier of the Legion in< of Honor/ I ran to a mercer's and dr bought a piece of the richest red ag ribbon for my buttonhole. I ran cu to the houses of my friends for the pleasure of receiving their con- ea( gratulations. At last I ran to my rc< friend D.'s. As soon as I caught sei sight of him I threw myself into his lui arms. 'Ah, my dear fellow,' I ex- m< claimed, 'you have no idea what th< pleasure you have given. How shall to: I ever thank you sufficiently ?' " *You are an excellent fellow, my pu worthy A., to sympathize thus with an my happiness.* th " Thank you for that expression; pa the decoration is mine, and the hap- ar? piness is yours/ nu "'How is that? Have you re- fr< ceived the order ?* ba " 'Certainly; have I not?* m< " 'No, my good friend; Jtis I who on am now made chevalier/ th '"You r '"Yes. You deserve the honor rei more than I do, but, nevertheless, bo it has been conferred on me/ pr " *But you wrote me word that I fo< had received the cross/ I took his of letter out of my pocket and showed ea it him. Alas! I now understood wc clearly what meaning I ought to as- L? cirm +r> nmVncmnnfl T?hrnae_ The deuce take you and your note/ I said to D. ^Instead of your affected and formal announcement in the he ' third person, why could you not pil 1 write to me simply and plainly, "My dear friend, I have the pleasure of E< ; informing you that I now am decore ' chevalier T* *" gi] The Mohammedan Judgment Day. as! The Koran has this to say concerning the general "judgment day," El which nearly all religions teach in common: "When the sun shall be folded up, and when the stars shall fall, and when the mountain shall El be made to pass away, and when the M< , wild beasts shall be gathered together, and when the seas shall boil, and when souls shall again be joined to their bodies, and when the girl who hath be'en buried alive shall we ask for what crime she was put to death, and when the books shall be laid open, and when the heavens , shall be removed, and when hell W1 shall burn fiercely, and when para- se' disc shall be brought near, then m< | shall every soul know what it hath wrought." of! Drawing With Cloaad Eyes. Charlet had seen Napoleon sev; eral times in his youth, and the image of the emperor was so strong- na , ly impressed upon his mind that he .th , could draw him with his eyes clos- bo ed. He has frequently done this for th me, once asking me where he should th i begin. "At the heel of the right to . boot/' I said. He did so and drew fe1 ; the whole figure perfectly well.? ly , Nolte's "Fifty Years/' co! Window Mirrors. in conuneuiui towns une irc[ quently sees a mirror at the side of inj . a window so placed that people in du . the room may see reflected therein co i the view up or down the street. In m? . some bygone periods of English soi | street architecture it was customary wc r to bay almost all the windows at wl ; least enough to enable the occu- fle r pants of the houses to look along to the streets. Going Some. I The New Hat Tree?And you're tai i a centenarian? By George! Aside wa r from a few cracks in your face, you all i hold your age mighty well. What's rei [ the secret? ? r! The Grandfather's Clock (serene- m< , | ly)?I keep regular hours and al- per i ways find something for my bar.'?- do i to "do.?Puck. G i ; INVESTING MONEY. ithods by Which Fortunes Havs Been Made In Wall Street. Some persons iike to throw dice play poker for money, while oth} buy real estate, Wall street serities, wheat, cotton, wool or othproduce. In the former class you find the mblers. They do not bank on eir judgment, but on their luck, the latter class you find the instors, who buy because in their igment they can make money ? ? t... ..-l'l: *ZL Uil UV BCllillg. A man who buys a house with the pe of selling it at a better price es and looks at it. He finds where it is located, how is built, whether the neighbored is improving, what it rents for, e taxes it must pay and all the ler incidentals on which to base ? best judgment. This man, in nine cases out of l, will make money, while the mbler will just as surely lose. The ;ter may have a little temporary ccesa, but the chances are against n, as they always are against the mbler. On the other hand, the vestor wins out in the majority of ses. The fortunes that have been ide in Wall street?and there are mtv of them?have been made by restors, seldom by gamblers. How n one determine the value of serities before he buys them? By quiring into their earnings, their ridonds, the character of the manement and other matters not diffilt to ascertain. Because so many persons are ger to make money in stocks, proit ers of questionable enterprises ad out circulars of the most airing character, promising enor)us returns to those who will buy e shares of securities that invesrs never touch. ^ In these davs the corporations blish their earnings more freely d accurately than ever before. On e financial pages of any leading per these reports appear. They e the best barometer of the stock irket, much better than the tips >m brokers' offices and even from nkers, for both are sometimes jre interested in selling securities a good commission than in anying else. A man who would buy a piece of il estate in an undesirable neighrhood and where property was deeciating would be looked upon as olish, but men will buy the shares securities that show declining rnings and bad management and | tnder why they lose.?Jasper in 1 tslie's Weekly. Historical. Miss Smith, the teacher, was aring the history class. The puis seemed unusually dull "Now," she said, "Mary followed Iward VI., didn't she?" "Yes, ma'am," replied a little rL "And now who followed Mary?" ked the teacher hopefully. All sre silent for a moment, then sie raised her hand. "Yes, Elsie?" queried the teacher. Vho followed Mary ?" "Her little lamb, teacher," said sie triumphantly. ? Harper's onthly. The Thirsty Elm. It has been computed that if the ives of an elm tree sixty feet high ire spread out on the ground go to edge they would cover five res of land. These leaves, averagI 7,000,000 to a full grown tree, II absorb water to the amount of ren tons during the normal sum?r day. Were it not for the inthering by the stomata during the *ht a few elms would soon draw : all the water from a district Growing Bodies. Growing bodies have the most inte heat, they therefore require e most food, for otherwise their dies are wasted. In old persons e heat is feeble and therefore ey require little fuel, as it were, the flame. On this account, also, rers in old persons are not equalacute, because their bodies are Id.?Health Culture. WnAlaatharina. "For one's wits to go woolgatherf' is an allusion to a pitiful instrv sometimes seen in older untries. In parts of France, Geriny and Spain very old people are metimes employed in gathering >ol from bushes in sheep pastures, lere it has been plucked from the ece as the animals pass too close , the branches. "The Fourth Estate." The expression "the fourth es- 1 te" as applied to the public press is first used by Edmund Burke in usion to the three estates of the ilm?lords, clergy and commons constituting the British parlia?nt. 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