The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 12, 1917, Image 6
A Race For a
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He Got His Answer In Lapland
Fashion.
By ELEANOR L BRITTON
Spitzburger was a great traveler.
He had visited every country on the
globe, and I verily believe that if
aviation had come up in his day he
would have sailed up beyond the
clouds to find others. When I made
his acquaintance he had settled
down in a place he called by a jawbreaking
name signifying "dwelling"
that he had picked up among
the Eskimos or some other benighted
people.
Spitzburger was a widower, with
one child, a daughter. She was
twenty years old and for half her
life had traveled during half of
each year?the summer season?
with her father. Heredity and travel
had made her as odd as he. Bather
she was unique. She was of medium
height, lithe, wiry?indeed, a femiline
athlete of the featherweight
type. Her hair was black and
straight as an Indian's; her eyes
large black ones, with lashes of the
Spanish type. I wondered if her
mother had not been some dusky
semicivilized creature her father
had picked up on the underside of
the world. But he told me his wife
had been an American Creole.
The reason for my making the
Spitzburgers' acquaintance was this:
I was taking a postgraduate course
at the time, studying the customs
of different races of men, the causes
and effects which shape them and
their relationship. Desiring some
information as to the people of Tibet,
a land forbidden to foreigners
and therefore little known, I was
recommended to Spitzburger as one
who had penetrated to the interior
of that country. I went to see him,
and my visit led to my studying
with him.
How long I remained there
doesn't matter, "but it was sufficient
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XVI ill J cutiiiauui\;uv uj tuu w ubiiv ,
savage/' as I called his daughter,
Irene.
\ The only thing to indicate that
Irqpe and I were drifting together
as lovers was that we took long
walks together. I made an excuse
for this that in her company I could
both exercise and study. This was
true. I could get from her certain
information of the domestic habits
of the people she had visited that I
could not get from her father. One
day while we were on one of these
walks I said to her:
"Your father tells me that in
Lapland to marry a girl without
her parents' consent is punished as
a crime. Please tell me how a man
in that country does his courting."
"He goes to her parents and asks
for her. If he is refused there is
no hope for him. If they approve
of his suit they tell the girl of it
She may or may not have seen the
lover, but the process is the same
in either case. Her parents give a
feast at which they, the girl, her
suitor and mutual friends are present
The two orincioals are Dlaced
opposite each other at table, where
they can observe and talk with each
other all they like.
"After the feast all go to an open
space suitable for running a race. A
eourse is marked off?a quarter of
a mile usually?and the girl is given
a handicap of a third of the distance.
The handicap is intended to ,
enable her to win the race easily if :
she wishes, and if she wins that in- \
dicates her refusal of the offer. But j
if, on the contrary, she purposely
lags and her suitor catches her, that
indicates that she accepts him for i
her husband."
It was a month after this that, I
having got all out of Spitzburger
in the line of my studies that I desired,
I went to him and asked him
for his daughter.
"I will inform her of the honor
yon do her," he said.
I waited a day for a reply, and as
I received none the suspense threw
me into an awful fret. At the end
of the second day, the situation being
the same, I was almost demented.
On the morning of the third,
determined to have the matter out
with Irene, I asked her to go for a
walk with me, the last we would
take together before my departure.
She assented and went up to her
room for her wraps. She was some
time getting them, and when she
came down what was my surprise to
see that ^he had put on a skirt
reaching but little below the knees,
and instead ot a nat sne nad wrapped
a veil about her head.
I didn't dream for awhile what
this meant, but when she led me
along a paih and across a stile to a
apace used in season for pasture I
inspected at once ihat she proposed
to satisfy a whim liv giving me an
answer to mv proposal after the
^3 ? '
Lapland custom. I was too hungry j
for it to object to the terras and i
was quite ready to run for my answer.
Indeed, so impatient was I
that I opened the subject myself.
"A good place for a race," I remarked.
"I will race you to that;
oak tree yonder. What handicap :
do you want?"
"I wish no handicap," she said. J
"I think I can beat you on equal
terms. I will go over to that
stump, which is about the same distance
from the tree as we are here.
One race would be little fun. Let
us make it the best two in three.
You give the signal."
"Agreed," I said, and she went
off to the stump.
"One, two, three?go!" I cried.
She ran like a deer; but, spurred
by love, I kept an equal pace with
her. I won that race.
The second race was very different.
Irene permitted me at first to
gain a few yards on her, but before
we had traversed two-thirds of the
distance she forged ahead and reachthe
tree full ten feet ahead of me.
I knew now that she could beat
me if she wished. Nevertheless I
deemed it my proper part to do the
best I could in the third and decid
ing race. Burning to know my late,
I wished to start at once. But she
declined to go until she got her
breath. While we waited I endeavored
to see something encouraging
in her eyes?something to indicate
that these races were the answer I
was expecting. But there was nothing
in her expression to indicate
that we were running for any purpose
except pastime. She studiously
ignored every other consideration.
Finally, when my patience was
nearly exhausted, she signified a
willingness to start I gave the signal,
and for the first half the distance
she seemed determined to
win. Surely she could have put
forth greater effort. I saw her
glance aside to 6ee where I was, and
she dashed on, seemingly bound to
reach the goal jefore me. But
i when within ten yards of it, my dis!
tance being twenty, she tripped and
: *-11 T 4- 4-U- 4?- 4-,,-U^l
I iv 11. l rail un iu inu nee, iuuv,iicu
I it and then back to her. Raising
her, I said impatiently:
| ''I suppose we must try this one
I over."
i "Xo," 6he said; "I couldn't run
again."
I still held her in my arms, and,
taking this for the answer I craved,
I wound them about her, covering
her face with kisses.
Supposing that my love had been
injured bv her fall, I proposed to
! carry her home, but she stepped out
! quite readily.
"How about that tripping?" I
asked.
She looked at the ground, but
made no reply, and I knew she had
1 tripped on purpose.
When we returned to the house
| Spitzburger looked at us both curiously.
I knew at once that he was
aware that his daughter had given
me my answer and that she had giv
en it in accordance with the Lapland
custom. He first scanned her
face, but receiving no satisfaction
there bent his gaze upon mine.
He did not require a long examination
of my features to know
that I had been made very happy,
and the cause was evident. I took
Irene by the hand and, leading her
to her father, told him the story.
When I came to the part where
Irene stumbled and fell he burst
into a laugh, saying that she could
run for hours without a stumble or
a misstep.
8p*ct?cl?s For Cow*.
The idea of cows wearing spectacles
may seem ridiculous, but
more than 10,000 bossies on the
steppes of Russia wear dark glasses
to protect their eyes from the glare
of the rays of the sun on the snow.
The cows subsist on the blades of
> grass that crop above the snow, and
the sun shining on the 6now is so
dazzling as to cause snow blindness
and great suffering among the animals.
An enterprising and kind
hearted man designed for the animals
smoked glasses which could be
worn with comfort and safety.?
American Boy.
A Mattar of Thrift.
Two Scottish women were arguing
as to which was the thriftier.
First Woman ? Do you see that
purse? Weel, that's my first ane,
an' it's as guid as the day I got it
Ye cannot beat that, noo, can you?
Second Woman ? Michty me!
What a poor boast 1 Ye ken Dugal,
my husband ?
"Oh, aye. What aboot him?"
"Weel, he's my first man, an' noo
you've got yer third. So dinna
preach thrift to me again."
Little Left.
"What's the matter here?" asked
the caller, noticing the barren ap
| pearance of the house. "Sent your
goods away to be stored?"
i "No," replied the hostess; "not;
at all. My daughter was married
last week and she has merely taken
away the things that she thought
belonged to her."?Detroit Frw
Press.
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MAKING A SOLDIER. ]
Modern Military Training Producaa an i
Anavi \j Pvnarfa j
Military training, a* now understood
and practiced, i- no longer the
simple thing it was in other days,
or, if it be objected that even tin
soldier of old received, or at len.>t
needed to receive, rather complicated
instruction before he became a
really efficient swordsman, his science
had the simplicity of being
useful only for the purpose of wu>
That is not true at present. Tin*
modern army requires the service c>!
men in great numbers who are expert
in half a hundred or more occupations
formerly considered distinctly
and exclusively civilian, and
the military training of the future
will doubtless ineludc as many
kinds of teaching that will help to
earn a living in times of peace.
Once, when armies wanted to
move, they marched. That is too
slow for modern operations, and the
soldier, though an infantryman, usually
rides from wherever he may
chance to be to the front. That
change has made the problem of
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iransponuuuii a vu&uj xuipuitaui
one, and those who solve it as drivers
of the various kinds of motored
vehicles, from locomotives to the
big and little automobiles, are considered
as essential to victory?
must have as much skill and courage?as
those who hold the trenches
or charge across "No Man's Land."
The galloping orderly of the past,
too, has been almost entirely replaced
in these times of enormously far
flung lines by telephone and wireless
corps, and the members of
these bodies are not mere operators
of mechanisms constructed and
maintained by others ? they must
themselves be both constructors and
repairers, able to overcome all sorts
of mechanical difficulties, and it is a
part of their day's work to do what
their civilian colleagues would call |
impossible. Also they are expected
to get killed when occasion arises, i
?19 it 11U t IIllIUV|UCUiijr uvvu. * .'W
men who handle the big guns of
today handle machines, the complexity
of which would be utterly
bewildering to the artillerists of
fifty years ago, to say nothing of
those who worked the stone throwing
catapults of Roman times.
This list could be continued almost
indefinitely?through most of
the trades and not a few of the arts
and professions.?Xew York Times.
Goldsmith's Obituary Notics.
It would be difficult to find a
more quaint announcement of death ;
than that published in an old newspaper
in 1774, at the time of Oliver
Goldsmith's demise.
"1774, April 4, Died. Dr. Oliver
Goldsmith. Deserted is the village.
The traveler hath laid him down to
rest; the good natured man is no
more; he stoops but to conquer; the
vicar hath performed his sad office,
it is a mournful task from which
tha hprmit mav essav to meet the
dread tyrant with more than Grecian
or Roman fortitude." ? Exchange.
Bad Tamper Made Wore#.
A well known judge tells the story
of a cross examination of a bad tempered
woman in his court. She was
an Amazonian person. Her husband,
obviously the weaker vessel,
sat sheepishly listening. The opposing
counsel pressed a question rather
urgently, and she said angrily:
"You needn't think to catch me.
You tried that once befdre."
The barrister replied, "Madam, I
haven't the slightest desire to catch
you, and your husband looks as if
he was sorry he did."
A Reacting Test.
A visitor was testing the class.
"Now, children," she said, "I had
$5 the other day and went shopT
1_ Li _ U_i. / SO a
ping. I DOUglU H uat iui <P<J auu u i
pair of gloves for $1. Then I spent
50 cents for some handkerchiefs.
How much had I left?"
A little sharp eyed girl said quickly
: "Mamma always tells us to count
our change before we leave the
store. If you did that you'd know."
?Christian Herald.
Why Snow Is Whits.
The white color of snow results
from the fact that the snow crystals
are so minute that each cell of the
retina receives a general impression
produced by the combination
of different wave lengths reflected
from innumerable minute facets.
An analogous case is the white
light produced by reflection from
pounded glass or any foaming liquid
or from a surface covered witn hoarfrost.
Hs Was Thsir Man.
A pleasant little story is told of
Dr. Boyd Carpenter in the days before
he was bishop of Ripon. To
him came one day a young man and
maiden, both bashful and on a very
obvious errand.
"Are you Mr. Carpenter ?" began
the swain timidly.
"Yes," was the reassuring reply;
"C-irnenter?and joiner."?London
Tit-Bits.
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! SUNDAY SCHOOL!
Lesson III.?Second Quarter, For
April 15, 1917.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES,
Text of the Lesson, John x, 1-18?Memory
Verses, 11, 12?Golden Text, John
x, 11?Commentary Prepared by Rev.
D. M. Stearns.
The Golden Text seems tb be the
heart of the lesson this time if not always.
While in onr lesson He is the
Good Shepherd laying down His life
for the sheep and giving unto them
eternal life, with the assurance that
they can never perish nor any power
take them from Him (verses 11, 15.
27, 29), In Heb. xiil, 20, 21, He Is the
Great Shepherd risen from the dead,
living His life in us and working in
us that which is well pleasing in the
sicht of the God of Peace. In I Pet.
v, 4, He is the Chief Shepherd who
shall give rewards to His faithful followers
at His appearing. In Gen.
xlix, 24; Ps. lxxx, 1, He Is the Shepherd
of IsraeL This last shall be fullj
seen when Ezek. xxxiv, 11-10, and
verse 31 shall be fulfilled, and then
shall be seen the significance of Ps.
xxill as never before in the history of
the world. In our lesson chapter He is
talking to Israel, but He spoke of other
sheep whom He must bring (verse
16), and some of those we are now
gathering to complete His body, the
church, but the full gathering of the
nations to Him shall be after Israel '
has learned to say, "The Lord is my
Shepherd," according to Zech. ii, 10-13;
"Many nations shall be Joined to the
Lord in that day and shall be my people."
Also Jer. ill, 17, "At that time
they shall call Jerusalem the Throne of
the Lord, and all the nations shall be
gathered unto it, to the name of the
Lord to Jerusalem."
He bad been dealing with and was
in the midst of thieves and robbers.
I who sought to enter the fold, but not
j by the door. They were persistently
robbing God and making His house a
den of thieves (Mai. ill. 8; Matt xxi.
18). He is the door as well as the
Shepherd, the only way of access to
God. God's own appointed way, and
it is not possible to come to God but
by Him (verses 7-9; chapter xiv, C).
But by Him, the door, any man may
enter in and be saved and in Him find
pastures green and waters of quietness
(verse 9), peace as a river and
righteousness as the waves of the sea
(Isa. xlviii, 17). All who are not
Christ's are in the employ of the leader
of all thieves and robbers and liars
and murderers, the devil, of whom He
said in a recent lesson that these re- i
ligious hypocrites were his children (
(verse 10; vtll, 44). With righteous
wrath He denounced them in these
words: "Ye serpents, ye generation of
vipers, how can ye escape the damns- '
uon or neu t piatt. xxui, &i.)
The Spirit through Paul said to Ely- ,
mas, who tried to turn a man away i
from the door to life, "0 full of all subtllity
ant! all mischief, child of the dev- ?
II, enemy of all righteousness, wilt
thou not cease to pervert the right (
ways of the Lord?' (Acts xiil, 7-lOt)
Contrast the Good Shepherd, who by
laying down His life for us has provided
life, and life abundantly, for all
who will receive Him. He gives freely
that which He has purchased at so
great a price, even the sacrifice of
Himself. Life eternal, the water of
life, eternal redemption and all that
Is included in such expressions become
the sure and everlasting possession
of all who receive Him, and there
is nothing in the Bible that In any way
conflicts wltn tne positive assurances \
of verses 27-30. See Heb. 1, 3; Ix, 12. i
20; Horn. vl, 23; ill. 24; Rev. nil, 17. J
piers can be no contradictions in tbe (
Bible, for tbe same Holy Spirit wrote >
tbe whole book.
As to life abundantly, compare par
don abundantly and an abundant entrance
into His kingdom dsa. lv, 7; II ,
Pet. i, 11). The Lord gives not only freely,
but? folly, all that He has purchased
for us, and He desires to be
able to give full rewards for service
in that day (II John 8) which He c
certainly will do if we have been faith- ?
foL Salvation is wholly of grace and 1
the same to all. but the rewards will ^
be according to our works (Rev. xxii,
12). Note the wonderful statement in
verses 17. 18. that no man could take j His
life from Him. but that He laid it '
down of Himself, having power to do
this, and to take it again. His was the
only life that could not be taken from
Him. It is true that they killed Him
but It was because He allowed them
to do It He willingly suffered all that
was put upon Him, leaving us an ex-!
ample that we might follow His steps,
who, when he was reviled, reviled not
again; when He suffered He threat- .
eaed not but committed Himself to c
Him who Judgeth righteously. Then, ,
having left us a perfect example and i
baring' no a in or tils own. ror tie was
withont guile, He took the sinner's
place and suffered In our stead. His
own self bearing our sins in His own
body on the tree (I Pet ii, 21-24).
Hirelings seek their own welfare
rather than that of the flock, but true
followers of the Good Shepherd seek j j
the welfare of the sheep, not consld- j t
ering themselves. .JQavid took his life I?
in bis hand when he uCMjered part of c
fliv-V fmm fVin llnr, (iil4 the lw#r. ^
but the Sod of David actually laid <
down Ills Hfo for His flock. Wfcen He <
patteth forth His sheep He goeth be- t
fore them and He only asks that we t
keep <-l? se to Him and follow Film ]
folly (1 ten! S?. 1
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HANDS, ARMS,
LIMK ASLEEP
And Was Run-Down, Weak and
u c rn i ? t
nervous, jays norma Laay.
Five Bottles of Cardui
Made Her WelL
Kathleen, Fla.?Mrs. Dallas Prine,
of this place, says: "After the birth
of my last child...I got very much
run-down and weakened, so much
that I could hardly do anything at
all I was so awfully nervous that
I could scarcely endure tho least
noise. My condition was getting
worse all the time...
I knew I must have some relief or
I would soon be in the bed and In a
6erious condition for I felt so badly
and was so nervou3 and weak I could
hardly live. My husband asked Dr.
about my taking Cardui. He
said, 'It's a good medicine, and good
for that trouble', so he got me 5 bottles...
After about the second bottle I
felt greatly improved.. .before taking
it my limbs and hands and arms
would go to sleep. After taking it,
however, this poor circulation disappeared.
My strength came back to
me and I was soon on the road to
health. After, the use of about 5 bottles,
I could do all my house-work
and attend to my six children besides."
You can feel safe in giving Cardui
a thorough trial for your troubles. It
contains no harmful or habit-forming
drugs, but is' composed of mild, vegetable,
medicinal ingredients with no
bad after-effects. Thousands of women
have voluntarily written, telling of
the good Cardui has done them. It
should help you, too. Try it E 74
LMTHERtlORN&SON
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CHARLESTONS. S.C.
Sole Distributors of
xni * n i fir II n lit
Black ttock wan coara
Moisture resisting and special
manufacture makes it the best
SVrite us for samples and prices.
If you need Glasses, come
to me. Single and double
' n j i i 11 A 1
lenses nrcea correcuy at lowest
prices. Broken lenses duplicated.
r. E. BAG6ETT, Jeweler
Undressed Lumber1
always have on hand a lot of unIressed
lumber (board and framing) at
ny mill near Kingatree for sale at the
owest price for good material. See or
irrite me for further information, etc.
F. H. HODGE.
WHAT IS
LAX-FOS
LAX-FOS IS AM IMPROVED CASCARA
A Digestive Laxative
CATHARTIC AND UVER TOMS
.ax-Fos is not a Secret or Patent Medline
but is composed of the following
rid-fashioned roots and herbs:
cascara bark
blue flag root
rhubarb root
( black root
may apple root
senna leaves
and pepsin
n Lax-Fos the Casca&a is improved by
he addition of these digestive ingredients
making it better than ordinary Cas:ara,
and thus the combination acts not
>nlv as a stimulating laxative and catharic
but also as a digestive and liver tonic,
syrup laxatives are weak, but Lax-Fos
eombines strength with palatable/ aro
natic taste and does not gripe or distnrb
he stomach. One bottle will prove
uAX-Fos is invalnable for Constipation,
indigestion or Torpid Liver. Price 50c.
["professional Cards. |
MISS EULA HERRING,
KINGSTREE, S. C.
Trained Nurse,
Prepared to answer emergency j
calls night or day. 'Phone 115.
Dr. D. Zed RoweH ^
Dental Surgeon
Kelly Building; First Room in Front j
Andrews, - South Carolina
DR. R. CLAUDE McCABE,
Dental Surgeon,
Office in Hirsch building, over Kingstree
Drug Co's. 8-28-tf
DR ROBERT J. McCABET
DENTIST,
KINGSTREE, / S. C
Office inNexsen Building, 3 doors fron
Postoffice. Phone 78.
M.D. NESMITH,
DENTIST,
Lake City. S. C.
W. L. TAYLOR
DENTIST,
Office in N?xi?n Baildiag
KING9TRCE, - 9. C.
5-21-tf.
1866 1918*
A. M. SNIDER,
SURGEON DENTIST.
Office at Residence, Railroad Ayenne.
J. DeS. Gilland
Attorney-at-Law
Second Floor Masonic Temple
Florence, S. G
General practicioner in all State and
Federal Courts.
Benj. M-'NNES, M. R. C. V. S.
B. Kater MclNNES, M. D., V. M. D
VETERINARIANS.
One of us will be at Kingstree the
first Monday in each month, at Heller's
Stables. 9-28-tf
KIN6STREE 1
Lodge, No. 46
A. F.M.
meets Thursday before full moon each
month. Visiting brethren are cordially
invited. S P Harper, W M.
J D Brixton. Sec. 2-27-lv
Kingstree
camp no- 27.
i . iMrui uun?M
!(*gt - t'^ "Ji ' V. The Thl rd Monday ^ '
I Pv-C3^' ! Night in ^e??h
*8k5wBBw>^V/!' Vlairing chopper* roi
llally Invited to com#
?P 1111(1 8lt 00 a stomp
Vx/ or hang about on the
^ limb*.
P H Stoll,
J M Brown, Clerk. Con Com
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We are the largest and
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are in a position to give you
the best service.
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*
The senior class of Winthrop college
went to Charleston Saturday to
visit Magnolia Gardens. The.v received
many social attentions *hile
in the city.