Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. * A Superstition That Lives Among the French Canadians. "The northern lights are very beautiful tonight," 1 told the grandmero when I came in. "You should see thein." "The eclairon!" she gasped, and, jumping up, went out on to the galerie. I followed and found her staring blankly at the sky, her hands clasped over her breast. "Sacre bleu, it is bad?too bad," she repeated, and went in as abruptly as she came out. 1 stayed to enjoy the glory. The sky grew much brighter. The vapory shafts of delicate violet and rose now shot far down the southern sky, and the aureola had reached the zenith. The music ceased inside. The habitants caise out, and as they looked heavenward a silence fell on them. It grew profund, then in- j tense. I could hear some one's: watch tick. X7~ ??? 1-- -i * * * it. nu out; ur inovi'u unni me grandmere, stretching her withered ! liand skyward, began a low monot-; onous chant. It was weird and eerie. My scal]> seemed to move. ; The words were so indistinctly spoken I could not catch their meaning. The others joined her, and the song swelled through the village and re-echoed from the distant somber mountains. One by one the villagers began to leave, and the song gradually died away. Some, however, still sang as they went I down the road. The dance was over., As I turned into the house with Philippe, I asked him what the song ; meant. "The country is very dry, the m'sieur knows," ho answered, se-. curing the door with a heavy wood- j en bolt. "We have a drought in the country, and if the eelairon is very j bright during a drought it is that, there will be only little of harvest? i v^la! It is too bad. So we prayed' tonight that it may not come true ) this autumn. It is a superstition of the oldest. Some believe it not. I hope that it is not true, but I don't l/~r? r\rxr ? -v : ?uvn, 11V QUUVU| OII1 U^^lll^ 1113 shoulders. ? Howard E. Smith in Harper's Magazine. A Trained Baby. A clergyman known to a Philadelphia Record reporter credits a married college girl with an original and practical idea. "Recently," the clergyman said, | 4tl christened her first baby. Now, babies usually cry while they are being christened, but this one was as quiet as a lamb. Throughout the ceremony it smiled up beautifully into my face. " 'Madam,' I said to the young mother at the christening's end, T must congratulate you on 5'our little one's behavior. I have christened more than 2,000 babies, but I never before christened one that behaved flo well as yours/ " "No wonder he behaved well,' the young mother said, smiling demurely. 'His father and I, with a pail of water, have been practicing christening on him for the last ten days/ " No Hiding tho Fact Tharo. ' Church services in this country aire often punctuated by the sA nouncement of coming marriage?, but how would you liko engagement to be proclaimed in the Jiublic street for all and sundry to iear about and comment upon ? let that is what happens in Switzerland. If you are engaged to be married, you must not merely suffer it to become known by a notice pinned up in some obscure registrar's office where it is seldom seen, but you must be prepared to have it posted in the full blaze of sunlight on the front of the municipal building, where trhe thousands of people continually passing are able to see it. and stop to read it.?Wide World Magazine. A Scientific Joke. Though the late Lord Kelvin had his merry moods, he was not very much of a wit. However, lie once made a joke that was very characteristic in its completeness. While he was working at his famous doep sea sounding apparatus a brother scientist asked him the use of a big coil of piano wire he was carrying with him. <<Ti. t .1: >> iL. ? it ia iui mmuiuiii", was tn? reply. "What note ?" said the questioner. "The deep C," came the answer is quick as lightning. An Indignant Denial. The principal of a school was "talking with a father about his boy. "By the way, Mr. White, I have made a discovery about Jerry. He is ambidextrous." Mr. White, with rising indignation, replied: "I don't see how that can be. He ain't never been exposed to it. Besides, he was vaccinated last year. We bathe him regular every week, and his mother always makes him wear a little bag I of assafiddity tied around his neck. i Some of the other boys has been ft dyin* on him." ?* \ CATARRH YIELDS. To Healing Air of Hyomei. Sold Under Guarantee by the Palmetto Drug Co. Catarrh is the most prevalent disease ( known to humanity, Probably ninety per cent, of the people in this country sutler at one time or another with this common disease. i It is a germ disease ami hence can l>e ; cured only by some method that will reach and destroy the germs. | [ This is best found in Hyomei, which may be called the direct method of treating catarrh, as its medication, taken in with the air you hreathe, goes directly to every air cell in the nose, throat and lungs; kills all catarrhal germs; heals 1 the irritutei mucous membrane and vitalizes the tissues so as to render catarrh ( no longer possible. The unique way in which Hyomei is t sold should dispel all doubt as to its curative properties, for the Palmetto j ' Drug Co. gives their absolute guarantee to refund the price to any catarrh sutFerj er that Hyomei fails to lienefit. You do not risk a cent in testing its healing ' powers. What oiler could be more fair) 1 to you than this, where a leading drug- | i gisi takes all the risk of Hyomei giving satisfaction, and leaves you to be the _ ... ; The New York World says strangers who stop at the hig hotels are always interested in the stunt of M "paging" in hotels. Homebody j will nsk for n miost -it tlio rh?;L- ??orl : the clerk says, "I'll page him." Then he calls a boy and tells him to find Mr. So and So. The boy] goes around the hotel calling out the name every few steps. Every-1 < body stops, turns around and thinks 1 he is the person called, no matter what his name may be. The boy is besieged by all sorts of people, 1 who ask him what name he is call- i ing. But lie keeps right on calling the name. By the time the boy has covered his rounds the name he is calling is known to thousands. PREPARE THE MIXTURE YOURSELF AS ADVISED l Recipe Is Easily Prepared at Small Cost, and i : Many People Hera Now Swear By It. Mix the following by shaking well in a bottle, and take in teaspoonful doses after meals and at bedtime: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. A local druggist is the authority j that these simple, harmless ingredients | can be obtained at nominal cost from our home druggists. The mixture is said to cleanse and strengthen the clogged and inactive kidneys, overcoming backache, bladder weakness and urinary trouble of all kinds, if taken la'fore the stage of I Bright's disease. Those who have tried this say it pos- J itively overcomes pain in the hack, clears t the urine of sediment and regulates urination, especially at night, curing even i the worst forms of bladner weakness. J Every man or woman here who feels j that the kidneys are not strong or act- j ing in a healthy manner should mix this | prescription at home ami give it a trial, I as it is said to do wonders tor many persons. The Scranton (Pa.) Times was first to; print this remarkable prescription, in, October, of 15)0t>, since when all the i leading newspapers of New York, Bos-) ton, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other cities have made many announcements j of it to their readers. The State says the house of representatives, shortly after the death of Senator Latimer, decided to have a suitable portrait of the senator painted and hung in the hall of the house of representatives. An appropriation of 8100 was made and the work will commence shortly. The resolution was introduced by K. P. Smith, of Anderson. Rank Foolishness. "When attacked by a cough or a cold, or when your throat is sore, it is rank foolishness to take any other med icilie man nr. King s i>ew mscovery, says C. 0. Eldndge, of Empire, (ia. "1 have used New Discovery seven years and I know it is the best remedy on earth for OOUghs and colds, croup, I and all throat ami lung troubles. My | children are subject to croup, but New I Discovery quickly cures every attack." I Known the world over as the King of throat and lung remedies. Sold under guarantee at all drug stores. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Mr. John Lee Hydrick, a mem-1 Iter of the senior class of Vofiford ! College, has won the Rhodes schol-' i arship to Oxford University, Kng-j ! land. The Spartanburg Herald says, "Mr. Hydrick is one of j WofTord's hardest and most suc: cessful students and is to be congratulated. as only two scholarships are given in a state." 1 _ ^ it Does The Business. Mr. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton. Maine, says of Hucklen's Arnica balve. "It does the business; I have used it for piles and cured them. Used it for chapped hands and it cured them. Applied it to an old sore and it healed it without leaving a scar behind." 25c. at all drug stores. i ney nave a novel way ol selling dress goods in the pushcart market on the far east side of New York. Instead of measuring off the yards they put a piece into the scales and sell the Stuff by the pound. Of ? course it takes some calculation to find how many pounds are needed for o dress, but they arrive at it by laborious process, and an easier method never occurs to merchant or customer. GASLIGHT EFFECTS. Orve of tho Won of tho Modern Apartment House Owner. "There is no end to the troubles I of the modern landlord," said the man with pronounced wrinkles, j "What with the gas company and, prospective tenants, his days and nights are filled with woe. I believe! those two forces of evil?the gas' company and the possible tenants? are leagued against me. Anyhow,. the situation is peculiar. One day' a woman came to look at one of my 1 most expensive apartments. " 'The rooms seem verv nice bv i " 7 i 1 J ' 1/ \ A ROUGH DIAMOND. To the Touch It Qreatly Resembles a Lump of Alum. I asked a dealer: "How is it possible to distinguish a diamond in , the rough from ordinary pebbles of quartz, jasper, carnelian, heliotrope find other similar stones? ,Are not many valuable stones lost in the sorting?" "Millions of dollars' worth annually," he replied. "Here ( is a rough diamond. It weighs fif- , teen carats. Shut your eyes and put it in your poeket. There. Now , feel of it, and remember exactly how it feels. You notice a smooth soapiness? Of course. That soapi- , ness or oiliness is shared by no other mineral, or at all events by no other white stone. Now hand it , to me, still keeping your eyes shut. , Thanks. Put this in your pocket. It is another fifteen carat stone. I ( have only two of that kind. How ilons it fool ? You find the same oiliness or soapiness, do you not? Of course. "Give it back to me. Open your eyes. Hero are the two diamonds, side bv side. One is a real diamond. ( the other is a piece of alum. Alum is the only substance that can be mistaken by the feel for a diamond. If you had not been so anxious about your sense of touch you would have noticed that the alum diamond is much lighter than the genuine. Play this trick on some of your expert friends who think they can tell a diamond as far as they can see or feel it." I recollect a Boer who, having heard that the diamond is the hardest material in nature, placed a good sized one on the tire of his wagon wheel and gave it a mighty crack with his sledge hammer. This naturally splintered it to atoms, for the diamond, singularly enough, is not a homogeneous substance, but is laminated, or in layers.* In some diamonds these lavers mav be oasilv V " J separated, especially in the so called ' plate glass" ones. Cutters always take advantage of the layers in their operations. "Plate glass" diamonds are always white and peculiarly clear. They are so brittle that they often splinter of themselves on being disemboweled from the earth , and introduced to the light. It is the practice now to wrap them in cotton wool and let them receive the light and air very gradually.?New York Press. Did This Dog Reason? Here is a simple incident which perhaps the experts can explain: I am a clergyman. My study is in the church. On the side of the building at right angles from the door and distant from it is a window. One summer evening I was at work in my study. Our dog, a young Airedale terrier, was with me. A large moth, attracted by the light, flew against the wire window screen from the outside. Sandy, very much excited, jumped up and tried to get at the moth. Of course he could not do it, as he was inside and the moth outside. After a few efforts he seemed to realize the state of affairs. He left the window, came to me, whined, pawed me and asked plainly as a dog could to be let out. I rose and opened the door. He rushed out and bolted around the buildiner and tried to reach that moth from the outside. Did the dog reason??X. X. in New York Times. At the Flood. Hearing of a rising river at the headwaters of the Euphrates, with a falling barometer and indications of a flood in the valley, the Pithecanthropus changed his mind and frankly admitted it to Noah. His manner was that of a chastened and j softened person. "You monkeyed too long," said the patriarch. "We gave you a i chance to come in with us, and you ' wouldn't take it. Now we have arranged for all the stock we care about trying to float." , The general liquidation which followed had the usual effect upon all but the insiders.?Puck. An Easy Task. In his day Ilerr Lauterstein had been a busy instructor of many music students. Promptness and econ- ' omy were two of his watchwords. | Now that he had grown old and i taught but sparingly his habit of i speech often caused a smile. I "What time shall I come for my 1 lesson tomorrow ?" asked one of bid few pupils. "\ou come ven you get reatty," | said the music master, "but be 1 brompt, so as not to vaste my time ] nor your own. Understand?" , Not Loot. ' A bus conductor was shouting ( "This way for 'Olloway! 'Olloway! j when a would be witty jester on the , pavement called out: "Stop, con- 1 ductor! You've dropped one of J your W There waa a titter 1 inside and outside the bus, but the 1 conductor quickly retorted, with a j broad grin: "Never mind, sir. I'll pick it up again when we get to the Hangel. ?-London Answers. daylight/ she said, 'but I couldn't! think of taking the place until I find out how it looks at night. I'll) conic back this evening and see the decorations by gaslight.' "'But the gas isn't turned on,' I explained. 'I'll bring in a few lamps. Won't that do just as well?', "'Not at all,' said mv possible tenant. 'There is no comparison be-' twecn the two kinds of light. 1 entertain a great deal, and I couldn't possibly sign a lease for a place that doesn't look well when illuminated. Couldn't you get the gas turned on before night?' "I explained that it was an unheard of thing to keep the gas meter at work in an unoccupied Hat,' but rather than lose such a good; tenant as that woman promised to be I moved heaven and earth and i the gas company and got the illu-i niinating power turned on. Since then I have learned that most people who rent expensive apartments i ~ ?:? tt? ? Illiliob iljiuil OCL'lllj^ II1U I'OIMIIS uy j night as well as by day before they will sign a lease. Consequently I have to keep the gas going in all my ( vacant flats. Such fastidiousness on the part of my tenants plays right into the hands of the gas company. Xo wonder I suspect that they may be working a partnership game."? New York Press. Eighty Degrees of Frost. It is difficult for us to form any conception of the degree of cold represented by the 80 degrees of frost recorded from certain parts of Russia. Sir Leopold McClintock tells how in one of his arctic expeditions a sailor was foolish enough to do some outdoor work at precisely this temperature. His hands froze, and when he rushed into the cabin ahd plunged one of them into a ba-1 sin of water so cold was the hand ! that the water was instantly con- i verted~Tnto a block of icc. At 251 degrees, Dr. Kane says, "the mustache and under lip form pendulous beads of dangling ice. Put out your tongue and it instantly freezes to this icy crusting. Y'our chin has j a trick of freezing to your upper! jaw bv the kindly aid of your beard, j My eyes have often been so glued as i to show that even a wink was un- j safe."?Dundee Advertiser. While staying in the north of England a commercial traveler contracted a severe cold, which obliged him to remain in bed. Ilis landlady, a sympathetic widow, was most attentive and made the sufferer j some special onion porridge, which she placed beside him, remarking,: "There; that will shift your cold!"! Later in the evening the good ladyi eame to inquire how the patient! was progressing. "So you've eaten it," she said, picking up the empty porridge dish. "Eaten a poultice!" exclaimed the invalid. "I've?I've got it on my chest!"?London Answers. Women Who Wear Well. It is astonishing how great a change a few years of married life often make in | the appearance and disposition of many ; women. The freshness, the charm, the i brilliance vanish like the bloom from a , peach which is rudely handled. The matron is only a dim shadow, a faint echo I of the charming maiden. There are two reasons for this change, ignoranco and neglect. Few young women appreciate tlin shock to tho system through the change which comes with marriage and motherhood. Many neglect to deal with the unpleasant pelvic drains and weak- ! nesscs which too often eomo with mar- ( riage and motherhood, not understanding that this secret drain is robbing tho cheek of its freshness and tho form of its fairness. As surely as the general health suffers j when there Is di>?njgement of tho health jf the delicate womat*^organs. so surely whe/Ptkcse organs VrtNMtablished in i Koq l\b ??u i v.i, aii\| mi iimv imoj witness lo the Tact in rfetaefafd comclTnee*^ Nearly | million women have found health and happiness in the use of Dr. Pierre's Pa- j yorito Prescription. It makes weak woni"jn strong and sick women well. Ingredi- . snts on label?contains no alcohol or harmful habit - forming drugs. Made | wholly of thoso native, American, medic- i Inal roots most highly recommended by j leading medical authorities of all the several schools of practice for the cure of j woman's peculiar ailments. For nursing mothers.or for those brokenlown In health by too frequent bearing of shlldren, also for the expectant mothers, to prepare the system for the coming of baby and making Its advent easy and almost painless, there Is no medicine quite jo good as "Favorite Prescription." It :an do no harm In any condition of the jystcm. It is a most potent invigorating tonic and strengthening nervine nicely adapted to woman's delicate system by a physician of large experience In the treatment of woman's peculiar ailments. Dr. Pierce may be consulted by letter free of charae. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce^ Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute Buffalo, N. Y. " WORDS FROM THOSE COMPETENT TO I JUDGE. STRONG WORDS FROM THE GOVERNOR. Atlanta, (?a., Jan. 27, liKV?. At the invitation of the faculty of your school. I availed myself of an opportunity to test the Byrne system of stenography. ami the skill and inefficiency of their pupils. I picked up at random two letters from a pile of unanswered letters on my desk, and dictated lengthy replies 1 to one of their pupils, Mrs. \V. R. McDonnell. I dictated much more rapidly than is my custom, in order to test her speed. She took the dictation with ease, and wrote the letters from her notes in K'">d, clear language, without a single ! error in a word or a mark of punctua-! tion. .Mrs. McConnell informed me that' she had only throe months tuition in shorthand, and I found her more proficient than many stenographers who have had as many years' tuition and practice. A. I>. Caniu.kk, r.x-ttovernor of (la. Athens, Ga., July 1J0, 1 fw?7. A few weeks ago, our bookkeeper was taken suddenly ill ami remained out of the hank about a month, whieh forced us to get some one to keep our individual j ledger. We take pleasure in stating! that Mr. T. II. Kaireloth, a student of | the Athens Business College, whom you | were kind enough to lend us, did elegant \ work for one who had no practical ex- ] perienee other than in your school. This | sliow3 clearly to our minds the high elans work you are doing in your school. This is just the kind of school we want, one that turns out students that can actually do the work. Wo want to congratulate you 011 the splendid success you are having. Citizkns Bank, W. II. Shelton, Pres. Mr. Kaireloth finished our Bookkeeping, Banking, and Business Training, course in seven weeks. Ambitious young men and women who entered the Athens Business College, Ateons, Ga., last Spring, for a course of Bookkeeping ami Business Training, or Shorthand ami Typewriting, are now holding excellent positions at good salaries. What will you he doing a year hence? Nothing that you are not prepared to do. Will you let us prepare you to do something well and then get j you that something to do? Tear OUtl this article, till in your name and address, ' send it to us, and receive Iti'J-page catal< g full of convincing facts. Name Address NOTICE! All persons indebted to the Kstate of F. P. O'Shields will please make prompt payment to the undersigned. All persons having claims against said estate will please present, projwrly attested, to either of the undersigned. II. B. O'Shields, attorney-in-fact, I'll ion, S. ('. Mrs. K. C. O'Shields, Jonesville, S. ('. !Mt. * ' AMENDED SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. (Complaint Smvil.) State of South Carolina, ) Court of CoinCounty of Cuion. j mon Pleas. Tin- Cnion Building and Loan Association, Plaintiff, against Benjamin Thomas, Singleton Thomas, and Rosa Dogun, Defendants. To the Defendants, Benjamin Thomas, Singleton Thomas, and liosa Dogau: Von are hereby summoned and requir-1 ?'d to answer the complaint in this action | of which a copy is herewith served upon you; and to serve a copy of your answer | to said complaint on the subscrilier at ' their otlice, Room 12, Foster Building, | at Cnion, S. C., within twenty days af- i ter the service hereof, exclusive of the j day of such service; and if you fail to i answer the complaint within the time I aforesaid, the pluintitr in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demand- j ed in the complaint. Dated August 9th, A. D. 1907. Wallace ik Barron, Pluintitrs Attorney. | To the Defendant, Rosa Dogun: Take j Notice; That the summons and eompaint j in this action were tiled in the office of! the Clerk of the Court for Cnion County, | at Cnion, South Carolina, on the 12>th day of August, A. D. Nineteen hundred j and seven; and the amended summons j and complaint at the same place on Oc- j tolier 22, F.HJ7. Wallace Si Barrron, 9-ttt. Plaintill's Attorneys, j WASH DAY Madam?I have on hand ; Pine Wash Boards for 15c i Indestructible) Boards 4<)e! (> Bars Octagon Soap 25e, 1 (H> Bars Octagon Soap 83 75| (lold 1 Hist 5c lVarline 5c Nine O'clock Tea 5c ( n t .ve 1 . ',yj I 2") Clothes Pins 5c j Box or Stick Blue 5c I W. NEWELL SMITH, j M PORATABLr AND STATIONARY j Engines AND BOILERS aw, Lath and Shlngl* Mill*. I*)**tor*, Pump* and Pitting*, wood taw*, dpi it tar*. Shaft*, Pall*jr*. Belting, Uaiollit KngUta*. "??? ? LOMBARD, Ftu4jy, HmMm u4 Mb WmM mN hm\ DR. T. F. LITTLEJOHN DENTIST orncet townsend block. OITICC hours 8>30 . m. to 0 ?. m. rhone 117. Staple Gk*^| W. Newell I Cream Cheese 20c Sauer Kraut, G pounds for 25c Ix>ose Pickles 7 for 5c I Medium and Coarse Grits 3c wj Coffee 12&c, 15c, 20c and 10c w No. 1 Sugar Corn 10c Early June Peas 10c 1 Grape Nut 15c | Postum, 16c and 25c ' \ ] Lowney's Cocoa 10c I Canned Beets 15c I Great Western Hominy 15c 1 Grated Cocoa nut 5c 3 Glasses Jelly for * 25c 2 Packages Kvaporated Apples . 25c WE ARE SURE TO Save You Money and Time \ f When you buy your Drugs and have your Prescriptions filled j at the Palmetto \ Drug Co. The Money Savers. PICTURE . . FRAMING Let us do it for you. We are quick We are neat We are very low in price. WALL PAPER, CALCIMO AND PAINT AT CUT PRICES m. ^ m m m. niLLIfNUo, The Paper Man. No Time Like the Present For Colds and Grip. No Remedies so Sure and Safe as Lorenz's Cough Cure and Lawson's Grip 1 Capsules. Combined with proper care !J on your part they furnish | ideal insurance against these < winter ills. We do not ask you to take any chances, but we would like for you to give them a fair trial with the assurance that if you should not fully agree with us, the loss shall be ours. We have sold them for years on this plan, and the results have fully warranted us in continuing it. The Price is 25 cents each. DUKE DRUG CO. J. A. BROWN, DEALER IN REAL ESTATE, STOCKS AND BONDS. 1 HOUSE RENTING AND COLLECTING ^ A SPECIALTY. OFFICE ON BACHELOR STREET* H ! m m