The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 03, 1921, Image 4
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HARD ON THE POETS
((fM SCHEDULED to recite'AnnaL
X bel Lee' at an entertainment toll;
night," confessed the retired merchant
|| Tve been repeating the poem to myself
K almost constantly for several days, and
In know every comma In It but I'm
afraid that when
?? T otand nn tn rp
1^ PPOk cite, I'll have forgotten
every word
J&jM. ?* if
"I hope so," said
the hotelkeeper.
"Such a poem as
1 'Annabel Lee' de_flH|ipKnl
8 e r v e s better
'^iM treatment than
9~* ifl you are qualified
,, Hj to give It You
have a voice like
|m a guinea hen, and
A Mi you telescope your n<
waBRSSii HH words, and you q
don't know any more about poetry
than a porcupine knows about Para- ?
dlse. If you'd stand up and recite a
' "M| few pages from a mall-order catalogue g
r horo nrt /innht von'd Dut the proper I
^ ? . _
feeling into It, and move your audi- "
ence to tears, but It's a crime for a
man like you to mangle a beautiful g
(poem, full of sentiment and melody. j|
"There ought to be a law against "
that sort of thing. Some of the best jj
poems In the country have been ruined j|
by common or garden elocutionists. j|
Nowadays people smile when you ff
mention 'Curfew Must Not Ring To
night' It has been recited so much ?j
by people with cracked voices that It j|
has become a Joke. Yet if you exam- "
lne the poem calmly and Impartially ! i
you will find that it has a great deal jj
f merit
"In the schools the pupils are per- ||
mltted to recite some of our best
poems, and the poems aren't fit for B
anything after It The school author- E
ities should prohibit this sort of thing, I
and prepare a volume of cheap asbes- fi
tos poetry that is fodl proof, that can't E
be Injured, no matter what you do to f
it There is plenty of punk poetry in i
> the world, and a collection of this g
stuff would serve the schoolboy elo- E
-- ?* -- ??./. hut, . B
cutlonists just as wen us mc u<AU , _
class poetry that Is so easily spoiled. | E
k "When I went to school, about a ! I
I hundred years ago, there was a
f freckled, gangling boy, who talked j i
| through his nose, with a sort of whine j ?
| that sounded like filing a saw. There
was to be a school entertainment, and i ?
this boy was down for a recitation.
f'' The teacher never asked him what he
1 was going to recite, but gave him the j!
right of way. Teachers continue to ??
!make the same mistake, even as we gey J J
to press. They shonld choose the J <
poems which are to be butchered to ! !
make a Roman holiday and select ; >
e " something that wont rip, ravel or run ! !
| down at the heel. !'*
i "This boy stood up before the school <?
and droned through Gray's 'Elegy.' J \
Now, that's one of the best rhymes .
ever composed. It was written by a ; j [
journeyman poet who put In seven <?
years at It, In thg time when they had )
ten-hour days. He wanted to leave
behind him a poem that would stand ['
the severest tests of the government < >
Inspectors, and he did. In my opinion \
there Is nothing better In any lan- >
guage. It Is rather melancholy, but it [
has a sort of doggone soothing qual
lty that is a balm to the bruised spirit \ \
of a landlord when he finds that the >
receipts of his hotel don't equal the ] )
expenses. ?>
"Time and again, when discouraged
M and played out, I have started to read
that poem, and as soon as I get fairly
into It, I seem to see that blamed ' j
gangling schoolboy, In his high-water ?
f garments, and hear him droning | ;
A through those verses, making a noise . .
like a sawmill on a wet day. Its |
t more than forty years since he made >
a violent asaanlt upon the Hlegy, but J
| It stems like yesterday. It's the same .
^ way with Hamlet's "Soliloquy.' Every \
Bv time I hear or see that gem I think of < >
B a fat youth who recited It In our j
B * school, and then I burst into tears.
, "There's no sense In such a bust- |
IBf ness, and congress ought to do same- ? >
ffiVi thing, doggone ltM j] J
Freak of Aooustloa,
WM In the whispering gallery sf 8t ??
Paul's cathedral in London the faint- \
Bft est sound Is faithfully conveyed from < >
one side of the dome to the other, but 1 !
r'*' can not be heard at any intermediate jj
point. !!
i Accounting for the Blue. i!
p?Mn?Thpv do sav that a 1'
iZU O. ? w ?
single grain of Indigo will color a ton I
of water. j
Mr. Bacon?Do yon suppose that is
why the milk Is so bine this morning, 1 '
dear? !!
Cigarette Smoking. ,
Cigarette smoking is on the Increase ] |
all over the world, according to a . !
census of the Industry. In 1919 89,- ; |
* 000,000 "coffin nails" were smoked In ! !
^ the United States and more than 18,- J |
' 000,000,000 were exported. ? \
Just Fancy.
"Whatcber figuring out, Jlmmlef* J |
Tm thinking what a fortune it ?
would be for someone If I could fig' )'
ure out how to harness the energy ?>
that Is wasted in shimmy dances."? ) |
Florida Times-Union.
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Do you
know
why
it's toasted
To seal in the
delicious Burley
tobacoo flavor.
LUCKY
STRIKE
CIGARETTE
The County Record in the only
iwspaper published in Williamsburg
ounty.
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We Have It
We have on 1
full stock of Floo
ings and Plain D:
attractive prices
If in need of'
in our line it will
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Office at
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Go Fc
It matters not wh<
or the times good, we 1
The farmers must dc
is hard or easy. The
Doctors and Bankers :
take their various tasl
world must go on. . TH
with a faint heart wil
and face the storm, mi
wind blows and the s
the end.
Beautiful line Dress C
Yard wide Sea Island
27 inch wide Bleach H<
Yard wide Sea Island 1
Check Homespun, nic<
The best Cheviot Shii
the yard,
Best Blue Denims, th<
Best Dress Ginghams,
yard,
Best Bleach Homespi
yard,
Good Leather Work
Colgate's Toilet Soaps
the cake to
Colgate's Talcum Pow
Colgate's Face Powd*
Five hundred pairs .
Shoes, reduced fr<
We are always on
ious to serve you wit]
| dise.
Jy. e. jei
gstree,
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To Assist Income Ta^ayers
Acting collector W. R. Bradley an
nounces that the chief field deputy fo;
the district of South Carolina will as
I sign all deputies under his charge t<
: the work of assisting Income Tax
' payers who desire assistance in mak
I ing their returns, on February 1, 19
121, and continuously thereafter unti
the 15th of March.
It is expected that these deputies
will visit every county at in th<
state, and as many of the larger town:
as possible.
The chief field deputy will make
announcements through these deputies
each week just where the deputies
will be found.
In order to facilitate this work, th(
chief field dputy rqustsETAOINE^
chief field deputy requests that tax
payers watch the announcements, ir
order that they may take advantage
of the deputies' assistance when ir
their community.
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Phone 179 for 10 or more lbs. of Ice
D. & B. Ice Co.
666 quickly relieves a cold.
The County Record Is $1.60
year in advance
[BER
of All Kinds I
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inof riAUT O- f2
IdllU J U.CL 1IW vv cc
ring, Ceiling, Casressed
Lumber at
in any quantity.
building material
be to your advance
with us.
amber Co.
: the Mill, 1-13-tf
DN, Manager.
IllliIII!1 Illllllllll lllllj
>rward! |
?
jther the times are hard :
lave to go forward. \
) their tasks, whether it :
Merchants, Lawyers, ;
must all go and under- :
ks. .The work .of .the \
e fellow who lays down ;
I fail, those who go in :
itters not how hard the ;
borm rages will win in ;
ringhams, 15c yd. :
Homespun 15c yd. |
Dmespun, the yard.. 10c ;
Etomespun, the yard 15c :
b line, the yard, 10c ;
iings, very heavy, ?
20c and 25c :
b yard 25 c j
32 inches wide, the :
25c :
in, yard wide, the J
20c and 25c ;
Gloves, the pair, ;
75c and $1.00 I
; reduced from 15c ;
10c I
der, 25c ?
>r 25c ;
Men's Best Work :
Dm $9.00 the pair to $5. \
the job ready and anx- ;
1 dependable merchan- :
VIKINSON, !
So. Oar. i
w>i 11' i? n i n i
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Uncle Walfe
;| Sior^yS g
BALMY PEACE
4?TN THE sylvan solitudes," said the
1 wild man of the woods, "a man
* doesn't see any magazines and doesn't
" receive any bulletins from the health
" authorities, so he enjoys a peace that
is never known in the busy haunts.
; _ "There a man
simply has to subscribe
for a lot of
i Bp"-s" - magazlnes, as a
matter of self-de MK
p6P^B| fense. Canvassers
m 4-,-^. are after him all
_ tbe ^me* Some of
| || ^ M I the canvassers are
i iff! ,one w,d?ws with
/S; ^||| many children to
support, and others
are energetic young
men who are try.
^ lng to work their
way through the
veterinary college.
Tliey are deservjng people, and you
feel It a duty to help them along, so
r the first thing you know your mall box
j is jammed full of literature. Having
j paid for it, you feel that you ought to
| read It, and your life Is ruined thereby.
1 "When I was young, the magazines
i tried to entertain people, xney Qfia
j good stories and a Poet's Corner, and a
| department devoted to timely Jokes,
I and another to household hints and do|
mestlc recipes. There was some sense
i In reading a magazine then, for it
j soothed and sustained you. But now1
adays the magazine editors consider it
! their duty to harrow your soul and
| make your hair stand on end like
j quills upon the porkful fretcuplne, or
| words to that effect They are always
viewing with alarm, and trying to convince
you that you take your life In
your hand every five minutes.
"They have a lot of health specialists
writing for them, and these health
sharps point out that pretty near everything
you eat and drink Is a deadly
poison. They didn't scare me to any
great extent for I am a most Intrepid
man, but they sood had my wife so
rattled she didn't know whether she
was going or coming.
"I always was passionately fond of a
? - -? A
good cup oi conee, aim my wuw tvu>u
make the best coffee, you ever heard
of. She weut to work at It like a
learned apothecary compounding a
prescription. There was no guess
I work about It She took an honest
pride In it and her coffee was a revelation
to every consumer. I used to lie
> awake at night wishing it was break'
fast time, so I could have my morning
>, cup of coffee.
* "But one morning when I went to
J the table the coffee was missing. In
its place there was a sickly beverage I
> had never seen before. I asked an ex*
planatlon, and my wife said that no
b more coffee would be made In our
J bouse. The wonder is,' said she, that
. we still live and move and have our be'
lng, for coffee is a rank poison. If you
i? read Dr. Zlnkfoogle's article In the
J Junkopolltan Magazine, you will see
that coffee contains a large percentage
| of tannin, which is so deadly that If
' you place a drop on the tongue of an
J alligator, It will roll over, dead."
; "I told her that t had no alligators
f on the premises, and consequently could
J not try the experiment, but I assured
b her that I didn't care anything about
J the poison. I wanted my coffee at
regular hours. She said Fd have to
J keep on wanting. She thought too
h much of me to send me to an untimely
? grave. And, anyhow, she explained
h Dr. Zlnkfoogle had told how to make a
b substitute for coffee that was perfectly
ly wholesome. She had followed his
^ Instructions, and the result was before
jy me. Perhaps it didn't taste as good as
t coffee, but it was wholesome. It would
fill my veins with red corpuscles and
restore hair to my bald head. It was
made of marrowfat peas which had
? been carefully /oasted in a hot oven.
J Tn order to get a cup of coffee after
h thai I had to make a sneak to the
| chop house, an& the kind dished up
1 there made old before my time. My
wife cut out all my favorite dishes be'
cause Dr. Zlnkfoogle or some other
! magazine writer denounced them, and
' finally I was living on roasted peas
! coffee and boiled spinach,'and I con|
eluded that If I had to feed like the
! cows Td live like them, so I came to
I the forest fastnesses."
) "Marriage Breaker" Busy.
' One of the deplorable results of bol)
shevlk misrule In Russia is the in?
stalling of a "breaker of marriages"
! In Petrograd, who Is said to be grant'
lng more than 500 divorces a week.
! No investigation is necessary, the
I. ? Vainer thp RlcnatUI?
J oniy rcquireuiciji. uviuB ? ??
of the person desiring freedom from
\ marriage.
i
A Helpful Hint.
? "Ar-r-r-r!" growled a hypercritical
i' customer In the rapid Are restaurant
"This confounded piece of meat Is so
tough I can hardly eat It!"
"Get It down on the floor where you
can put your foot on It when you gnaw
It" briskly returned Helolse. the wait
{I ress."?Kansas City Star.
? The Difference.
? "A good housewife is very dllferenl
j. from a good husbandman."
j "How so 7"
"She is always sewing teart,"
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: cutTrTces on meats
Round Steak, Beef, .. .. 30c
Loin Steak . .. .. .. 30c
Roast .. .. .. 25c
Stew 18c
Pork Hams 32c
Pork Loin 32c
Fork Shoulder 30c
Pork Ribs .. .. .. 25c
Hog Head .. .. .. 15c
Sausage 35c
CHICKENS, EGGS and VEGETABLES at All Times
The above meats are in first class
I condition and are handled in a
sanitary manner. l-13-4t I
SNIPE'S MARKET, I
Phone No. 260 East Main St |
-H"I' 4' -M1 'l"!1 'I' 'I' 'I' 'I1 I"!'
I P. S. COURTNEY ij
;; FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER i:
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;; I keep on hand a large assortment of ;;
:: Lomns,basnets ana Vaults ::
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of all kinds, and will gladly deliver them to
i ?i
| I any place in the county on short notice. |J
|| I can furnish all kinds of shrouds?Ladies', ||
;; Gents', Boys' and Girls'. . ;;
|; I also have a nice motor hearse. | |
|| In connection with my funeral business, I ||
j | represent three floral houses and can fur- j j
|| nish cut flowers and funeral designs ||
<' . on short notice. ' ?'
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i: PHONE No. 91. KINGSTREE, S. C. ::
M ! M H I' I?1 WWW 1 Minn 111I I H I 'll Hltf'lHA I I H-I'
| The People's Market I
i and I
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I Cold Storage Plant f
I H. A. MILLER, Prop. 1
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1 On account of hard times we are reduc- '
| ing our prices on meats as follows:
| Old New I
ss Price Price |
I Pork Hams, 40c 35c |
| Pork Chops, 40c 35c |
1 Pork Shoulder, 35c 30c e
I Pork Ribs 35c 30c **
I Hog Head 20c 15c |
1
I We emarantee our meats to be tender and 1
I in first class condition and our cold storage ?
| plant is always open to public inspection. |
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_ Free ice water at all times to our customers. 3
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>* PE-RU-NA!
FOR CATARRH OF THE HEAD AND NOSEj
*' I began using NO using five boxes be- 2
PE-BU-NA Tablets RETURN lieve I am cured as a
three years ago for Of there has been no ?
catarrh of the head THE return of the dis- 2
E and nose. Was un- DISEASE ease in two years." E
S Rr. Fnt Pafcy able to do anything. IN Fifty years of use- g
5 tnH, In II, I saw a decided TWO fulness is the best 2
2 Mnstt improvement after TEARS guarantee of Pe-ru- 2
iB uan one box and after na merit. 2
Tablets or Liqvld Sold Everywhere 5j
When in need of Good Printing call on The
Record.
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