The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 09, 1919, Image 7

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WHERE'GREAT MONARCH LIES ' i Mssqus of iajazet II Is Ons sf tht j flights of City of Constantinople. \ ?w I Constantinople hus no mosque mors attractive to natives and strangers like thau that of Bajazet II. Bajuzet. time sultan of an empire, known WB^he dreamer, raised this graceful . monument and slesps peacefully in Its Cellar. KJmtt Is not, however. In reverence, to the memory of Bajazet that so many Turks sit languidly In the corners of the mosque court They are here to profit by the visits of strangers in the city, to tempt them with real Turkish tobacco, oriental perfumes, amber and Jewelry. In short, they have set up hop fti the very shadow^ of the mosque, and that shadow Ma* insufficient. strips of awning nave beeD rigged up as further protection from the gia-ing sun. Whether Bajazet would approve of this seeming disreapect cea only he surmised. Pigeons, too. in distracting numbers, whirling, enolng. always fluttering from one spot to another, save the mosque courtyard from - the solemn silence of the thousand and one other temples of Constantinople. Rajazet's approval of the pigeons' presence Is recorded from the time when only two frequented his court By his order | they and their successors have been always fed and regard a a. sacred. The feathered inhabitants have become so numerous and so much at home that the mosque has cocue to.be popularly called the "Mosque of t Pigeons." Their cooing softens the J. sound of bargaining from the corners Of the court and blends with the splash > of the fountain. Could the dreamy Bajazet behold them now, poised on his minarets, walking sedately about ! his court, and circling like whirling clouds about the columns, he would 1 realize that they are the final touch ro ; the perfection of his temple. TRUE TO IDEALS OF HOME j Woman Conductor Would Hove No Mud Tracked Into Elevator That She Wat Running. * She fas ? fat. comfortable looking 1 Irish woman. You could see her put- | ting out a good washing or rocking a baby, but It was hard to believe your j eyes waen yon saw her running an \ elevatoi at night in an office building. There she was. Just the same. And j the little Italian who was scrubbing the main hall had left water, quite a I' puddle of It, In front of the elevator, j All proceeding* were stopped. The j elevator did not nyi. "With arm* akimbo she dressed down the hapless little man aid ordered him back wlih.hLt mop. *4Come here and clean this up!" she ordered. Til not have folks tracking water Into my elevator." He came. Memories of randdy feet on homescrubbed porches and. Immaculate j halls. It was her elevator, not her em- I ployer's when she was running It, and | , tracked It should not he. ' I Here'* a toast to home ideals in ! , public housekeeping^ May they blot I ] ut worse flaws than the mere track- j , lag of' physical dirt!?New York ( Time* - - u I , ?- 7^ -i? Ancient Knightly Order. 1 The order or Knights or i>anne- , i brog was established In W9 by Valde- j mar IT, according to Danish tradition, i as a memorial of a vletory orer the ethonions, won by the appearance in ! ^the sky of a red banner bearing a { cross. Historically the order j dates back to 167} when it was found- > ed by Christian V. It was ori|iutl>'( {eeriricted to 50 knights wid fly or court decoratifE. In 1808 It was j made an order of merit by Frederick { VI ahd is awarded. only for dlatin-i fished and meritorious services. The insignia of the knighthood is a white enameled Danish cross with red and gold borders, bearing in the i center the letter W and on the four j arms the inscription "Gud og Kon- ; gen" (for God King). The ribbon ! is white with red edging. The rank is j an honorary one and entitles the reclp* j lent to use the title "Sir." The rank ! and title are not hereditary. j ? :i Snaring Birds of Paradise. To obtain the much prised feathers 1 AV - Va .aA a.4 Ja. 4k A I lue mr?v uuiufH naurr? atfi uui lur uitr forest, knowing that the bird of para-' j dlse seeks to conceal his rainbow hues ' a in the dense foliage of the trees. If ' c they can find no haunt of the desired % birds they start calling in excellent Im-. ^ ltatlon of the shrill, ugly cay of the j bird of paradise to Its mate. This ruse , Is Usually successful, and a bird shows Itself only to be snared or shot down | with arrows, ' In itUttihg season the male bird \ f dances before the female he desires as 'a mate, to display his beautiful feath-1 ers, and at such a time so absorbed ' are the blrtis in their own affairs that ! large aumb^ are easily taken, by' the wily fig.tive/?.?Savannah Morning j _ Newa P- - m * ~ King of Poor Penmen. ^ ! 1 The palm for illegibility Is. generally * awarded to the late Horn/* Greeley, but?In our own land probably Lecky | was king of impossible penmen. There are veteran compositors alive I who rememher setting up his "History ! ?f Morals.". Those v*ho could decipher 5 the manuscript were more prized than j their rlrate who took Arabic an! Hla- J dusta il in their stride. ' TO master Lecky the men -were! allowed to take home dubious folios; ;: and pander them la privaey. They say j 'that author was, la prtatlBs circle ' the beat cursed mas a* the cegtury.?! 'Wadoa.Chraaida. / . I . . - '.I | BLUE UMBRELIA By LIZZIE M. PEABOOY. A tear slowly coursed its way down ttlleen's smooth, round -cheek and splashed upon ibe sewing inacbiue as bar Aunt Polly s voice shrilled monotonously on and oa. With a sudden tian^e of mood the girl stopped the ui*ion of the machine and faced about " "Tls blue umbrella all day loug, and 1 dream of it at uighL" she cried out impatiently. "1 hated to carry the faded old thing anyway, and now there ha* Oeen so mucn irouoie bouui it I'll never carry it again, even if you And it." Then she returned to her stitching with a sob in her throat, while Aunt Polly resumed her monologue. "If Annette ,returned the umbrella, where is it?" she asked with an air of triumph. The thin, trembling lips tightened as she continued: "Those Plumbs! They're such a careless, happy go-lucky, shiftless let I have deter.j.ned that neither Annette nor Itei '>io;her Stacy, shall come here ^ :n vwh inj consent until that ma?>:i> found." worry!" Eileen returned quiet iy. "I don't think they want to evuuv" ' When lending the umbrella to Annette Eileen had whispered: "Return it as swti as possible, dearie; Aunt Polly values It for the sake ef bygone .associations." And careless little Annette, their neighbor, had proceed with a sweet little giggle to retura it within 24 hours. Ever sine* that time she had stoutly maintained that she brought back the umbrella the night of Eileen's candy party, and that she had set It In the corner of. the little entry at the foot of the stairway. That was three months ago, and Stacy and Annette had ceased to visit the Waveriys; for Aunt Polly, although constantly forgetting things of greater importance, always remembered to ask each time she saw them if the umbrella had been found yet. and fair-minded Eileen could not blame them for remaining away, although she missed them terribly. When spring came the mystery was as fqr from being solved as ever. Eileen* had gr.iwn pale and thin, Stacy had g??ne 10 a distant city to work. Annette now greeted EUeeu vary coldly, and Auni Polly, tiresome ly insistent, still asked dally: ~ii Annette brought back that umbrella, where Is"lt?M Then, one particularly bright and warm morning. Aunt Polly told Eileen that It would be a tine time to pot things to rights in the attic, and KUe^p gathered palls.* brooms, brashes and soap, and sang at her work. She Jerked cp the cover of the large box la wh.i-.Ji they kept the extra bedding, Hec brawn eyea widened la surprise is something went crashing to the, loor, and with a little scream of joy the seised the old blue umbrella-and ' lugged It closely. No one could jcow- i plain of lack of color &Ween's i cheeks now as, clutching tlgfttfy the | imbrella. she ran swiftly dowp the,' itairs to the sitting room, where hgr > iant rocked slowly back and forth by ' hp window. ?- J "S?* whW J^tte bedding j mx," she shouted Joyously, and Aunt j >o!ly's face turned Slowly to an ashy , fray, while It la turn expressed jut , irise, pleasure und?yes?j unbralteJ1 8he cried faintly. "But, Eileen, where did you find ttT ihe asked, breathlessly. And than,; igaln, with a slight wrinkling of her forehead. "Who could hare placed it | n the box!" "I wonder," was all that j Eileen said. It happened that Stacy came heme ! me uexi u*,y iwr a suwi '??i. ifter Eileen had told her atory he rerained silent for a moment "Eileen!" he cried at last, "don't1 rou remember that we clea'red^ont the ' ower bedroom the night of the candy I >arty to make room for playing games? Lnd don't yon remember that as I' eached the entry I struck the pile >J quilts I was carrying against the *11 at the foot of the stairway? I Iropped some of theft hhd had to itoop to pick tbem up again. "You called out to me to hurry and ;et the bedding in the box np to the ittic, as the guests were beginning t0 ome. "I hurried ^ \ have first mocked <jowq the umbrella, and then t itfUst have picked It np among the ! [UlltS." 1 Then with a cheerful grin he reemarkedc'v-Your Aunt Pollyil say, 'I old you sol Just Plumb carelessress,'* Aunt Polly received the fejypla>fctfon very quietly and not at aff as she was expected to. Afterward Bfr* lee.n found her crying softly. "Forgive me, Eily," shq Sobbed. "Oh, I have teen so hateruk i remember now that I placed tht umbrella among the folds of the comforters, Intending to take it upstairs myself, and then I forgot all about It And, Elly, I thought perhaps you knew where it "was ami wouldn't tell me. We'fl g-g^give th$ umbrella, to the junkman," she said, still subbing* "Don't cry, dear," Eileen said softly, as she gathered the little trembllrfg old woman ft, to her young, strong arms. "I, too, have been at fault and we'll keep theyUmbrella to remind me thai It is now my turn to he kind, (patient, torhag and unselfish, even as $<o* wtPfe to me al?'m rough Use years when tSrext was no one else to care for me.* <Cojcrirnt. tan, ay the ifcciurs sjrwMc?jM WONDERFUL ANIMAL, THE GNU And Voice Would Seem to Be Net the Least of His Remarkable Qualities. Few people ksi???\ what h ??>t tory animal is the gull. Quite ti nutn- , i , her of hoofed animals. like the ibex I | and the snored ox. are more tiresome j t . combinations of r.urhankism. hut the gnu has qualities all his own. Ills head i? homely as an tmpalnted ham i ?flat nose and very hmad rnoiith and ears misshapen and iiltcoiitli. His body . Is That of an exeeedlngl* powerful ponv. with si rung neek and rakish tall, j His galvanic energy puts to shame the j glorious abandon of a eat on a tin roof. I When I arrive before his inelosnre ! he has usually retired to the sped in wnHMI Of U'l ?1HIIIIS lit mc duorw;iv with far-away eyes. KiTnrts I lo eiitb-p him forth are futile. I turn I at lust ?? If to zo. and ms I move Hp hursi? forth with the most heathenish cry that ever clattered from an animal throat. If It resembles aoythinz. It la the trench klaxon that warns .of an Impending gas attack?a series of staccato shrieks which would shake tha teeth from a band saw. I don't see how he can stand the noise he makes. Arm a rabbit with the voice of a gnu and Hons will slink from his path. Reaching the bars of his Inclosore ] In three or four astounding leaps, the i gnu halts, with head averted and foet t wide apart. Ignoring rae literally. : When I move to right or left he re- ' mains motionless until 15 feet are be- I tween ns; then he closes the distance with a bound, shrieks terribly twice or thrice, and once more affects to be utterly oblivions of my presence. When Anally I leave htm the clatter of his fearful vole# pursues me for hundreds of feet, drowning sli other sounds.? Atlantic Monthly. HONOR HELD BY QUAKER CITY j First American Edition ef ths HebfORW Scriptures Was Put In Type in Philadelphia. I The first Americap edition of the He- ( ; brew Scriptures was put In type ?t i | Philadelphia by William Kry. The first translation of the ScripI tares Into English by a Jewish scholar i In America was that of Isaac Leeser . of Philadelphia in 1S53, and the first English version prepared by s group of Jewish scholars is that of the Jewish Publication society of America, i Philadelphia. 1917. One of the most important and wldeI ly used revisions of the Rhelras-Douay ' version was that pf Archbishop Ken! drlck of Philadelphia, 1*51-62. Ben Franklin didn't nunc rue ibd- > I guage of the King J a mat version snffi j dently up to date to salt the literati I of his time, and be tried hi* Improving hand on the Book of Job with thiR result: "And It being levee day In heaven, | all God's nobility mut^ ty court to pre* sent themselves before him; and Satan also appeared in I be circle, as one of the ministry. And Ood said to Satan: Ton have been a long time absent; where were yon? And Satan answered: . I have been at. my country ' seat, and In different places visiting mj friends." - - "fr ^ ! J a She Philippines. la 1917?tbe Philippine Islands experTe^f^ I^ typhooas. while ooe hundr?ji ftfir fwtfcroWej reported Irona dl*aceq?' pafte. *-The damage done mas "sHght and the vCaeualtlea few. They were not so fortunate in Forwoan. where two destructive typhi sue ware experienced In July aat August and two in Japan in Oc> tober. appearance of the water hyacinth is reported from sevaral places in the Philippines, and the secretary of agriculture reports that, unlaw jegisiatiop "provided for its destruction pher^ygr foMfJ, 8tiu or sluggish wptcr? Will soon be able tc craft ar logs and even river } I steamert, The necessity far Increasing the working establishment !n the forests of the PfctlipptoeMf forest produce Is to ba preserved, is becoming an argent necessity, and It is pointed out that in Java, Japan and British India forest officers are employed to a much larger extent than in the Philippines. Keap Up the. Morale. The big thing m life's Wr^es is the morale. Yqu may haVe the men and the guns, but If ttje "men lack the ginger they are impediments to attainment It is easy to do things when you i i are on the vanning side. The trouble j begins to brew when things go wrottg. j Anybody ctn go with the current. It's j breasting the tide that shows where j strength Ilea, and muscular strength is I the least side of it. When the bruin | is right and nerve control dependable you can make machines do muscular tasks. There are few things that mart's ingenuity has not submitted to mechanical control. So the problem of today is to keep the head right. It means more than keen thinking. There are men of the keenest Intellect who need the constant urge of right morale. ' 1' # I Plant AM Animals Hate. A most interesting plant is the VIr- j ginia wild ginger. There are several other species, as far south as Florida and northward to Connecticut. The. plrnt grovs In very hilly and wooded places, says the American Forestry Magazine, and is easily recognized by Its kidney-shaped leaves and curious. , prirplish brown flowers. These flowers >; ffrow one to a stem. N? IIting thing >( wtll eat the bitter leaves, and joo ; rarely s?-e tba flower dniess yon hpnt >{ for It, for it hides itself out W'alfbf v ttpowbta. . 'tinlilhfil On Toads. "Many stories are extant tending to show that toads have been found alive In rocks or In soil deep In the earth; yet so far as Investigated by the writer In no case has the evidence been at all conclnsive." says A. H. Klrkland In an article on "The Oarden Toad" in Roys' y Life. "On the other hand experiments ? have shown that toads tuny he kept alive at least 18 months sealed np In plaster or limestone. There 1? little doubt that the toad may live to be 20 years old, or more. 'Though it lives alone In summer, toads often hibernate In colonies, of half a dozen or more. In feeding, usually bv night, the toad patrols a fairly well-defined beat; garden and flower beds are frequented. and particularly the ground under arc lights. where numerous insect* fall fluttering from the lamps above. When food Is abundant, as shown by experiments on toads in cages, the animal eats an equivalent of four *onare meals daily, consisting of caterpillars, cut-worms, beetles, ants, etc." First Clocks Simple Affairs. The first clocks were simple affairs which showed the hour alone; then followed the addition of the mlnnte hand, and later came clocks which recorded the day of the month, the phase* of the moon, and many other pieces of information, generally of a more or less astronomical character. Daring the sixteenth century, the Italian and German clockmakers, notably those of Nuremberg and Angsburg, made great progress in their art There are those who claim that one Richard Harris, aa Englishman, invented and set up the earliesjt pendulum clock some time during the first four decades of the seventeenth century; but this story does not appear to be. well authenticated, and the honor of Introducing the pendulum seems to belong to the Dutchman, Huygens. o Schedule Of Arrival And Departure Of Trains At Kingatree South Bound No. 83 11:07 a. m. No. 79 11:28 a. m. j No. 47* 6:57 p. m. j No. 89 ? 9:20 p. m. | North Bound I No. "80 7:16 a. m. j No. 46* 11:28 a. m. j No. 78 6:11 p. m. I * Daily Except Sunday | o | is the leading county paper. ' Subscribe now for The Record. It T* r~" GEORGETOWN, WIL i And Wednesdc Octofo . 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