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A SENSE OF HUMOR. IT IS A POTENT FACTOR IN KEEPING LIFE SWEET TO THE END. Onr Xeril Not Co fi Yoitnnr?ter In M^ro Yearn to Have ami rtajay Fun, Aixv .May Itp Jlndi* 11 'i (irccn, ii.i Jolly anil nn (inr nn (ilnfflliiK Yiinlh. "Take .your fun while you may; you'll never bo young but ouco," Is n popular fallacy. It presupposes two things ?that the young, because of youth, must have fun ami that as soon as It Is passed the capacity for enjoying It Is over. Some never grow old, and some are never young. Age lies In the Indivldu- J nl and is not a question of dates. Herause a person ceases to be able to 1 | giggle at every remark, to bubble over with glecfulness at the slightest prov- j oration. Is no criterion that real mirth- | fulness has tied. The delicate sense of humor that may take the place of this j showy buoyancy is far more to bo prized. A sense of humor is a potent factor in keeping life sweet to the end. A green and Jolly old ape is as jolly ns a pay youth. A sense of humor can bo cultivated, and it should be as assiduously as forbearance, kindness or any of the cardinal virtues. With the slipping away of youth despair assorts itself only when It Is thought Joy and mirth must fieo also. Are we sure that youth is so positively happy as it is supposed to be? Is there not a restlessness, an uncertainty, in the steps of a young girl that causes anxiety to be mingled with every move? She is full of theories, is Imbued with ideals, but how to obtain the desired ends is a mooted question. She can never be as securely happy as Is the married woman, or unmarried, who has, as it were, found her feet surely and knows how to get what she wants, or, at least, knows what she wants to get. There is a restless looking forward for pleasures each day, an unhappy killing of time before some promised joy arrives in tlie young that all who have passed it can painfully remember. (Jirls are so imbued by tlie thoughtless, with the idea that all joy ceases with youth, that they have a feeling of commiseration for those who have bid farewell to this ephemeral period. Little do they realize how the study of all life, the enlarged power to feel, to see. to bear, to live, to enjoy, is the priceless gift of every added year. There Is something pitiful in watching the nervous grasp at joy in youth. We see constantly young girls literally afraid to loosen their hold on one day or one pleasure to fulfill an act of simple duty. There is a not unfamiliar story of a young girl In a ballroom who was stopped as she walked about the floor on the arm of one of her partners byj an old family friend, who inquired, with Interest, for her mother. .My dear. I'm glad 1 saw you," ho repeated. "IIow's your mother?" No reply. She only clung to the arm on which she leaned and was hastening by when the old gentleman, seeing her fear lest her escort should slip away, laid his hand on the young man's coat collar. "My dear. I'll hold him," he cried, twinkling Ids eye wickedly. "IIow's your mother?" He was not a very nice old gentleman. perhaps, lint that he get a full share of fun out of life none could douht. and the attitude of the young girl, holding fast to her prir.e lest lie should escape, is exactly 11st* attitude of youth that looks to the early days for all its share of joy. I was in a group of young unmarried women, some Hearing thirty, others who had just overstepped this critical date. They were expressing In graphic language their sensitiveness uhout their age. 1 have taken some pains to hunt up statistics about the attractions and accomplishments ?. ' women who were past this age which I commend to their perusal. In the first place novelists are taking women between thirty nun forty for their heroines. It is the woman who dares to have thoughts and lias cultivated herself to the point of expressing them who commands friends and lovers who are worth while. Helen of Troy was over forty when she perpetrated the most famous elopement on record, and as (lie siege of Troy lasted twenty years she could not have been very juvenile when the ill fortune of Paris restored ! *t to her husband, who, it is said, received her with love and gratitud \ Cleopatra was past thirty when Antony fell under her spell, and her fascinations for Idin had not lessened | when she died ten venrs later. I'erleles wedded Aspasia at the ago of thirty-six. and she wielded undisputed Inllnence over men for thirty years afterward. I.ivla was thirty-three wlien she won the love of Augustus, over when slip maintained her aseendoney to the last. l<ouis XIV. wedded M:ue. Mnintenon when she was forty-three years of age. Ninon, a eelehratetl beauty and wit of her day in I'm nee. e.iptivnted the love of the Alihe do l'erias at the ago of seventy-three. Anna of Austria was thirty-eight when Buckingham and llieheliett were fc-r devoted and jealous admirers. There are women ready to die of senile debility tit forty and women who first begin to taste the full perfection of womanhood's development at that age. It may he noted in passing that old age must be full of mortification If the ghosts of wickedly spent time haunt the mind.?Kuenn \V. Ball In Torre Ilaute Gazette. P^DR, M O l rtor. J. W. Berry fof Arkansas Mcthodht Confmnce.wri twopaelciyres of'-TEETillNA " Wo wonder how wo hart carl rent ui a package and it camo at a most or>porton? t!i been in l>ad condition for dars. and nothlnir that wo paro i p~rfo~t r licf'and he baa had no further troublo. Other m a perfect ancc?sa. OYSTER CULTURE. - ^ Bivalve* Arc IMnnted, ralitrntcd ?:i?l llnrvratcd I.Ike Other Crop*. The average citizen may not know mat oysters are planted, cultivated and harvested like any other crop, a person who engages in this industry being known as an oyster planter. Thousands of acres of oysters are under cultivation in Hampton Roads, which during the harvesting season is often literally alive with the reaping machines of the oyster men. When the oysters are front one and a half to two years old they are usually largo enough to be sold, and as a rule part of theni are sold at this ago and tho balance in the third or fourth year, after which time the ground is j allowed to rcpt a year before being j planted again. fJreat care must be ex- j erciscd in the selection of bottoms for i oyster planting if the planter would j be financially successful. Tho largest packer in Hampton opens I front 100,000 to 200,000 bushels of oys- j tors in a year. In this house as the ' men open tho oysters they drop the J shells on an inclined plane, from which they slide into a trough and are carried along l?y scrapers attached to an endless chain, called a "shell conveyor," which takes them without further labor to the shell pile in the yard. When a shucker has tilled his gallon measure he carries it to the strainer, where the 1 oysters are strained and measured. : They are then emptied into large casks kept full of fresh water, by means of which any loose shell or grit is washed out. From these casks tlie oysters are dipped into a second strainer and when separated from the water are again measured and packed. Tho shells are sold for from 1 to 3 cents a bushel and are used extensively by oyster planters for the propagation of oysters. They are placed in small piles on grounds found suitable for the nurnoso. where the sunt or small oyster will attach itself to the shells. They are also used for making shell lime and for building the excellent shell roads found in some parts of the Virginia peninsula.?Philadelphia North American. TOLD IN A DREAM. The NosinRp Tlint ?v Dylnpr Girl Conveyed t<? Her llrotlicr. Here is an interesting, ii somewhat "creepy," story which reaches us from a correspondent upon whose good faith we can rely: A certain young lady, whom we will call Mary A., was recovering from illness. The doctor had declared her to be out of danger, and her friends and relatives were rejoicing in the fu<t. Nevertheless, Miss A., reeeiving a visit one day from a sister, gravely assured her that she was going to die. The sister poolipoohed the idea and treated it as an invalid's fancy. Miss A., however, with the utmost calmness, repeated her statement. She was certain tha: :-e would die that night and hogged ?? sister to fetch her parents and other ?"?:itivc3 to say goodhy. Thinking to i...??ior her, the sister complied. One person was absent from | this strange family gathering?a broth- J or, who was at sea and was expected I horde ia a week or two. "P.ut it does ' not matter," Miss A. quietly observed. ' "I raw him hist night in a dream and said goodhy to him In his cabin." Bo- ' fore the sun rose again Miss A.'s pre- i diction had come true; she was dead. 1 That, however, is not the strangest part of this weird story. When in due time the sailor brother reached port he was met by his other sister who began to tell him the sad news. "Ah," ho interrupted, "you need not tell me! Mary is dead. I knew it, for she canio to me on"> night in my dreams and told mo she was going to ilic and wanted to say gaodby." On comparing dates it was found that Itlie dreams were dreamed on the selfsame night.?London News. The Human Interrogation I'oJnt. i "Mamma," said the human interrogation point, "who knows the most? teacher or papa?" "Why, on general topics your father is better informed. Johnny." "Well, does papa know more than the minister?*' "Of ihings worldly, yes. Your father, Johnny, is a very well informed man, | .13 I hop? you will be some day." "Does papa know more than you. mamma ?" "Johnny, when will you ever get over the habit of asking n long string of i foolish questions? Itun nwey and have j your tea at once."?Now York Tress. I'nareessar7 Worry, "What's the matter with you?" asked the political boss. | "Tin worrying about what my constituents will say to me about my vote on that 1:111 you made me put through last night." "Say, when did you become rosponsl- j hie to your constituents? I want you to understand that I'm the one who is expected to do the explaining when there's nnv to tie done"?Cliifncn Record-Herald. The Tonrli of Klnnhlp. Clarice?Why docs all the world love n lover? | riiircneo?Oil. because he makes r.3 bit; a fool of himself r.s all other men have made of themselves. ? Detroit Free i'res?. RETT'S POWDERS)fjJ | Black Sraixaa, Ark.. Fcpt 1% 1901. I tea:) "Enclosed fln?l flft? cents for which pica?email me t raised children without IL Tbeolher day t. Iad7 Is Misno; our babo was In a serious conditions bis botvils bad | did any Rood; the second dose of TEfcTIIINA" care embers of the family bare usod It and orcry dose boa THE ABUSE OF SOCIETY. A Tided bntly Makes a Few Pertinent Remnrlis on tlie Subject. The abuse of society Is n favorite occupation with most people who cannot force an entrance into it. It is not even new. Cynics ami satirists, preachers ami writers have waged war on social amenities all down the ages. We know how Daniel denounced the Babylonian court and how Horace revealed the profligacy of Augustan Homo. Every leader of a regenerating movement. whether it be St. Bernard exhorting to crusades, St. Francis teaching Utopian poverty or John Knox preaching reformation, has denounced the easy morals and the easier standard of the toleration of current society. The reformers of every age denounce their own contemporaries i:i accents of varying degrees of violence, ltousseau and Voltaire poured out diatribes from dllTereent points of view against the frivolous society which was cut off so abruptly by the guillotine. but their denunciations fell on deaf ears. "Nobody," said Talleyrand, "could have any conception of how pleasant society could he who had not lived before 'the French revolution.'* To rbform those who will not lie reformed is diilicult. The grandmother of Ainbrosine, holding a scented pocket handkerchief to her nose to keep ofT tho odor of the crowd us she tripped to the guillotine, and Mary, queen of Scots, yawning in the face of Knox, exactly typify the attitude of all ages toward the Jeremiahs hammering at tlie portals of society.?A Countess in I.on don Outlook. 31 tmk. Musk In the raw looks a good deal like axle grease and smells worse. The popular notion that the musk of commerce is obtained from the inuskVat is n mistake. There is obtained a somewhat similar perfume from the muskrat. but most of the supply comes from the musk deer, a creature that is carefully reared in India for the sake of the secretion. The secretion is shipped in the crude state and Is used not only in the manufacture of the liquid perfume sold as musk, but also lu very small quantities to give strength and staying power to many perfumes made from the essential oils of flowers. Curiously enough, the blossoms of two native plants have a noticenbly musky odor. One is the small yellow blossom of a creeping vine known as the musk plant. Its odor,".is marked and is counterfeited in the commercial perfume called musk. The other is the bloodroot. The pure white blossom of that early spring plant has a distlnct'though delicate musky odor. A beau known as the musk bean is a cheap substitute for animal musk. Instinctive Fenr In Dirtlx. The Instinctive fear of death manifested by birds is shown by the following: A canary died, was buried, the nesting place broken up, the surviving mate removed to a new cage and the old cage thoroughly cleaned and put aside till the following spring. Never, however, could any bird afterward endure being placed in that cage. They fought and struggled to got out. and If all in vain tludr efforts they moped, huddling dose together, thoroughly unhappy. refusing to ho comforted by any amount of sunshine, companionship or dainty food. The experiment was tried with foreign birds that had not been in the house when the death occurred and could not therefore have known of the event by observation. But the rdftult was always the same. For the future that cage was haunted.?Popular Science. Mow It r.callv Happen*. "Johnny."cautiously inquired Mr. Sixaweek of her little brother when lie called the other evening? she" was putting the finishing touches to lier toilet upstairs ? "have you ? or does you ?er ?do yen ? or ? ever hear your sister speak of me?" "You can't pump u:e." promptly replied Johnny. "I don't butt into my sister's business." Then Johnny picked up a shinney stick out of the hall rack and went out Tills is tlie way it happens in 900 eases out of 1,000. hut tlie funnyists could never he clubbed into believing it.--Washington Tost. Sleepy rtnllwny Trnrelcra. To sleep at any moment is undoubtedly a sign of physical soundness and Philistine sanity, especially in (lie matter of tlio brain and its functions. A physician would have little anxiety about the general condition of a patient who could Sleep at will on a railway Journey. In these days of hurry nod hustle there could he no more encouraging sight to the philosopher tlinn n railway carriage nt noonday full of sleepy passengers.? Medical Press nml Circular. The Rimtun Hoy. Utile Tommy-Can I eat another piece of pie? Mamma (wltherlngly) - I suppose you can. Tommy - Well, may IV Mamma ?No. dear, yon may not. Tommy - I'arn grammar, anyway! J.lpplneotf s. A flat footed refusal is not well brad Nothing la-tokens breeding like tilt arched instep.--Puck, - / ;> . < Making- a Hit. "All my achievements," Raid the preat race horse, "arc due to the fact that I always put my best foot forward." "I find," replied the wicked mulo, "that I aceouiplish more by putting my best toot backward."?Exchange. Hla Annamptlon. "Scribbler's such a queer fellow." "Is he?" "Yes. lie sent the manuscript of his new book by express and labeled It Valuable.'" Hot Pickle. Mrs. Lakeside?Is she fickle? Mrs. La Salle?It seems not. She has been married to the same man three times in succession. ? Philadelphia Ledger. Wealth Is something that enables n millionaire to stand up In meeting nnd say it is no disgrace to be poor.?Chicago News. Kodol Gives Strength I?y enabling the digestive organs to digest, assimilate and transform am. c.f tlio wliosesome food that may be. eaten into the kind of blood that nourishes the nerves, feeds tho tirsues, hardens the muscles, and recupcrntes tho organt of the entire body. Kodol Dyspepsia C"re cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Cntarih of the stomach and all stomach disorders, h'old by P. C. Duke. WfArlflome Topic*. Rodrick?Did you enjoy Mrs. Ticker's reception? Van Albert?No, Indeed. The men talked shop and tlio women shopping. ?Chicago News. Too Attractive. "And here," said the salesman, "is a very fine umbrella. The handle, yon w|ll observe. Is especially attractive." "That's just what I want to avoid. Every umbrella I ever owned has been entirely too attractive." One llcnnon AVhy. "She is very bright for one who has just lost her husband." "That's so; but you must remember that she is In the honeymoon of her widowhood." After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.?Franklin. Do You Enjoy What You Eat? If you don't, your food docs not do you much good. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the remedy that every one should tnkc when there is anything wrong with the stomach. There is no way to maintain the health and strength of mind and body ccept by nourishment, There is no way to nourish except through the stomach. The stomach must he kept healthy, pure and sweet or the strength will letdown and disease will set up. No appetite, less of strength, nervousness, headache, constipation. had breath, sour risings, rifting, Indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles are quickly cured by the use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cures Sold by F. C. Duke. Sticky Onion J nice. A very convenient mucilage can be made out of onion Juice by any one who wishes to hre it. A good sized Spanish onion, after being boiled a short time, will yield on being pressed qnlte a large quantity of very adhesive fluid. This is used quite extensively In various trades for pasting paper on to tin or zinc or even glass, and the tenacity with which it holds would sur ?l)IJ UilVJ I'll limiting lllU Ill'Sl altcmpt. It is tlio cheapest and best mucilage for such purposes and answers just as well as many of the more costly and patent cements. Sonic of the cements sold hy strcot fakirs at 10 cents a bottle consist of nothing but onion juice and water, and the bottle and cork cost a great deal more than the contents. A Serious Mistake, 1C. C. Dewitt & Co. is the name of the firm who m.ike the geniune Witch Hazel Salve. Hewitt's is the Witch Hazel Salve that Heals without lonvin; a scar. It is a ser'n us mistake to use any other Do Witt's Witch Hazel Salve cu?es blind, bleeding, itching and protruding piles, burns, bruises, eczema and all <ki i diseases. Sol 1 by F. (J. Duke. Shnrlns III* Rod. A Grub street friend cf Dr. Johnson's was Derrick, of whom he wrote. "I honor Derrick for Ids strength of mind." One night when Floyd, nn other poor author, was wandering about I lie streets lie found Derrick asleep upon a bulk. T'pon being suddenly awakened Derrick started up "My dear Floyd." said be. "I am sorry to see you in Ibis destitute state. Will you go borne with me to my lodgings'/' And they turned In on the bulk In gether like the good fellows they wore Why Ilerry Wast!*! I*roa?I. Little Harry's oldest sister has Just presented her husbr.n 1 with a new bahy. "Well. Harry." sabl I !:? father, vol', reel proud or belli;; ail illicit*V" "No." replied the urcMn. *\YI:y not?" asked Ids father. "('nine I ain't do uncle; I'r.i an aunt i'he new hab.v's a fclrl!" ?New York i^reaa. T,nrtl<* and Children Invite.I. Ail Lidics nnd Children who cannot dnn-1 the shocking strain of laxntiv* svrnp?, cathartic*, etc., are invited t<* rv the fiimoug liti!o Knriy Risers t'hey nre different from nil other pills l ey do not Purge the system. Even i do:ih!c dose will not crip**, weaken 01 d.k? n; manv people cnl' them the Easy Pill. \V. II. IIowcl', Ihnston Tex., -ays mthitg hotter cm he used fur ' nsti| ii'ion, r'u k head el e, etc., JV?I. Mo ie, J.afnvcitc. Indiftna., says nil ?lh r- er'p * n?d ;?i? I en, while DeWitiV Little Early Risers do their work wel and easy. Sold by F. C. Duke. I -4DR. I. M. ] ?m-vDENT Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty. r? iiiiSliyil ail cooks Are us r( ' (fi^ticeTriedAlwaysl ^ A MOINE'^VSA1 * 1 N v Gives Perfect Satisfal FOB INF0RMAfl<$l?AD3RESS ^ \ The SoulfiefpoftM (I - \^V. GAVANNAH, < mmmmmwmr. rr rjmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Pleased to Hake t Of laundry Who would ( IHaa/551 J 0\ ho-e who do (I , not 80?-k to ?pr?nrr igiir?? THE U=NEED-A 5' Surpassing It has won the approval of goo who like well laundcrc MILLING done at th 18-41 JACOB Vnl*c of Recreation. There are wisdom and strength jn genulne pastime. One often accomplishes more by spending a pleasant evening In some innocent games or other amusement than he would by poring over books with tired brain and exhausted ? body, lie may have had qualms of f conscience about it and thought that evenings given to Hocini enjoyment ' were practically lost out of his life, i Far from it! To better purpose ttian he dreamed of was the time employed. | Hotly and nil nil wore strengthening ami, unconsciously, without eirort, he- I lug lilted for better work in the future.?Success. Tnklnc II Out mi the Fnmllr, Mrs. Ferguson?(Soorge, what pnrtlc- , ular failing of yours iliil the preacher j touch on in his sermon this morning? Mr. Ferguson?What do you ask mo " that question for? Mrs. Ferguson ? Reenuse you have been as cross as a bear over since you . J came home from church. ? Chicago Tribune. I Pride goes before destruction, and ro does everything else if it has any sense. ?Town anil Country. GOOD GAUDY, Pure Candy and Sweet Candy. 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