The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 15, 1915, Page 6, Image 6
THAT UNLUCKY NUMBER
By WALLACE HORTON.
(Copyright. 1M4. by the McCluro Ncwspaper
Syndicate.)
Mrs. Garvin surveyed the dining
table with delighted eyes. Certainly
there was little to complain of in that
daintily conceived decoration for the
coming of an honored guest.
Sir John Vance, the great matinee
hero and exponent of the drama, was
coming in for high tea, together with
a notable number of well-known persons.
Sunday evening being the only
time when theatrical stars were free.
Mrs. Garvin had chosen that night for
their eutertainmcnt.
She fluttered about the table like
u small bird twittering over a resplendent
llower bed and hoped that
nothing would occur to mar the beauty
of an expected joyous evening. Mrs.
Garvin and her retinue of servants had
spent much time and thought over the
decorations suitable for an eminent
actor, and the result was gratifying
at least
The center of the table was a mass
of laurel, and around it were placed
fourteen little manikins representing
Sir John in various parts through
which he had won his fame. The
little figures s; voted to stroll about the
table.
A few moments later the doorbell
rang and the first of the twelve expected
guests arrived. Sir John Vance
followed, and soon ail save one of the
fourteen visitors were safely under the
roof of their hostess. When another
quarter ol an hour had passed Mrs.
Garvin became anxa us lest something
din fill hail happened to Drina Warden
that would prevent her coming and
thus upset the entire table arrangements.
Another moment, and the telephone
rang. Drina could not come and there
would of necessity be a vacant place
at the table.
Mrs. Garvin sighed. But since there
was no chance of getting another
guest at that late time she followed
her party into the dining room, her
lingers resting lightly on the arm of
Sir John.
"I wanted Drina Warden especially
?to meet you," she told him with
dainty flattery in her eyes. "It is her
loss, nowever, that she is unable to
be here."
ine great actor rewarded lier flattery
with his whimsical smile.
"I can assure you I will not notice the
absence of?anyone," he returned, and
Mrs. Garvin blushed prettily.
"It cuts our number down to thirteen,
though," she said laughingly. "I
hope you are not superstitious, Sir
John," she added, and was startled by
a quick glance he cast over the guests.
"But 1 am," Sir John told her
frankly, "I cannot sit down with thirteen
at table. The greatest loss I
have sustained in my life followed
such an occurrence, Do ask some one
in; it does not matter who."
Miss Gray, the children's nurse, protested
in vain. "You look as sweet as
a new-blown rose in that pink blouse,"
Airs, Garvin told her.
Enid Gray was flushed and inwardly
trembling as Mrs. Garvin pulled her
by the hand into that assemblage of
notable people, but outwardly hIio expressed
the calm of a placid lake. The
ordeal of presentation was most trying,
and only when she was seated beside
the guest, of honor did slid And
time to realize that she was not dreaming.
Ho had offered her the flower
from his lapel the moment she had
seated herself.
"That is for being a good girl," he
told her with his delightful smile. "I
would have Jvid to miss this high tea
Mrs. Garvin invited me to had you not
completed our number."
And since the ice had been broken
1
Ill JM/ ?inxu> U ?l 211 * 11A 11*1 H*?l |IIULCCUed
with nioro merriment than it would
have had Drina Warden graced the
table with her presence.
Later when the guests returned to
the drawing room, each carrying a
manikin representing Sir John. Miss
Gray would have slipped oft' to the
nursery had not Mrs. Garvin detained
her.
"No, no," she commanded, putting
a determined hand on that of Enid
Gray, "I want you to sing those sweet
little lullaby songs you do for the
kiddies. Sir John is very fond of
music, he tells me, and none of us
can sing a note."
When Enid retired to her room that
night her eyes were sparkling and her
cheeks flushed. She still felt the warm
thrill that had swept over her when
Sir John had drawn her hand close
within his own and the look in his
eyes when lie had said to her, "I have
always regretted my superstition tintil
tonight. Now?it is a most wonderful
asset."
Feared for Grandpa'.
Walter, aged three, was taken by
his grandfather to see a great factory
As they were finishing their tour of
inspection his grandfather happened
to notice that it was within a few
minutes of noon. Taking out his
watch, he said:
"Now, Walter, keep your eyes or
the hands of my watch and when both
or incm point srraigni 10 me io|
something will happen."
Walter watched eagerly and just at
the minute that the hands came to
gether the great factory whistlr
sounded a deafening blast
Walter's eyes danced for an instant
and then an awful fear overtook him
"Hut, grandpa," he gasped, "whai
v v'd 'hey de to yru if they knew voi;
d:d that?'
KNEW LITTLE ABOUT POISONS
Shakespeare's Knowledge of Drug? I
Appears to Have Been an Ex- |
tremcly Limited One. c
Tho poisons mentioned in Shake- I
speare's works have boon made the
subject of a study by I>octor Cartaz, the (Cc
eminent French physician. It appears
therefrom that tho extensive medical *
Po
knowledge which Shakespeare is supposed
to have possess-d, and which cc!
has been advanced by the Macon the- tal
orists as a proof in support of their
contention was no more extensive than ,or
that of Shakespeare's contemporaries CUI
who, it further appears, labored under ?la
the same misapprehensions as he re- a '
Harding the potency of certain philtres ''?
and poisons.
When, for instance, the ghost of an.
Hamlet's father says that Claudius ,"1
poured "the juice of cursed hebenon ^
(henbane) into the porches of his
TP J
ears," it should be pointed out that
tliis juice could not possibly penetrate
tlie drum of the ear. Hut the belief in
the deadliness of poison thus introduced
into the system was so general ' .
jut the time that Ambroise I'are was 1
| accused of killing in this manner King in.
I Francis 1 of France, although it is 1_
now certain that the king died of meningitis
caused by inllammation of the :in
internal ear. ,l;
Then, again, when Friar Laurence, P''
in "Romeo and Juliet.' gives Juliet |!"
the potion that "shall make tin* body
stiff, stark and cold, appear like ? ,
death," it can only have been. Doctor
Cartaz considers. Datura stramonium ',
(.thorii apple), or mandragora root. ^
The latter enjoved. during the renais- '
i . .He
sauce, a pr' at vogue, but experiments
have shown that the awakening from
1)P<
its effects is accompanied by violent J
nausea, so that Juliet would have mot ^
her lover in a far from poetical eondi- , '
bo
tion.
Moreover, in this relation, the ^
French physician points out, the duration
of sleep induced by narcotics (rj'
never approaenes 42 hours.
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HER RECORD OF PROPOSALS mi
thi
From This It Will Be Seen That Mod- '
crn Girl Has a Variety to *i1(
Choose From. he
th;
No. 1?The indecisive kind. Hung around
nearly every night for four iei
weeks, took mo to the theater only Mi
twice, and finally wound up by asking joi
me if I would mind waiting five years. cli
No. 2?Sent me a long letter and "??
said if I wouldn't have him he would cli
kill himself. And then ho proposed th<
to my dearest friend two days after wa
I turned him down. a 1
No. 3?AVanteo me to live on a farm UP
U/v l..i,l finichA.I ??
txi u i ut: uau iiiuouuu av nai \ aiu.
No. 4?Said he had a "plan" which thi
If it matured would enable him to get
married, and In such a case he hoped as
I wouldn't forget him. nsI
No. 5?Elderly widower who wore a 110!
white bow tie and a frock coat. He ba<
informed me privately that he was a km
devil when he got started.
No. (>--Gavo mo a financial state- "n
mont of his affairs and asked me point '
blank to be his wife. co'
No. 7 ?The one I took?the only a('(
one who didn't have to to ask me.? th<
Compiled for Life by a Popular
Young Girl. as^
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Why Depiore Age (n Humanity? an
In nature, much as we rejoice in t>,.
new birthe and tender adolescences, ^
our deepest sentiment is reserved for
the things which impress ns with their
antiquity. We have woven about them tU]
a phraseology all their own. We like
to talk about the hoary ocean; the jr
gray old rocks against which its spray
is dashed; the mountains which still
stand where they stood when man jt
first opened his eyes upon the uni- ^a]
verse; the forest primeval; our prls- "o
tine mother earth. These and a thousand
other poetic figures familiar to jn
us from childhood show by the respon- sn
sive echo they never fail to awaken pn
in our hearts, how ready mankind is
to treat plentitude of years as a
synonym for steadfastness, the. one ,
quality which lies at the foundation of
all confidence and real respect. And
when we find that among inanimate
things old age, so far from being repellent,
exerts a positive attraction, ^
why are we so prone to deplore it as
soon as it threatens to touch our- '
selves? c"
so
Changing Towns' Names.
The individual may go under an
alias at small expense, but the village
or town that wants to change its name
must pay. Kugeloy once wanted fo be ar]
called something else to dissociate it- ar
1 self from a notorious murder. Slough
has unsuccessfully tried to turn Itself RJ|
into Upton Royal. Rut the great tri- j9
umph was that of Milton?one of .lie nc
many?which disliked being called Gf
Milton-next-Sittingbourne. It acquired m
a privy council order that it should be j8|
Konn/.t'oft I. " !>..* ln,ll
J 'iviivciuiiu iuuiuii-iUT^in. nui uiuir
vicinal or town you need not change W)
your name unless you have disgraced ar
? it. Your name need never disgrace e(]
I you.?London Chronicle. a(
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i Midsummer Fire. te
The old Midsummer Fire festival, of In
i Druidical origin, is still celebrated on el
i tiie continent, but there is probably sr
> only one spot in Great Hritain where th
it is still observed, and that Is Tar- in
t bolton, in Ayrshire. ar
For days before the festival the vtl- vc
) lage lads collect materials for the ai
great bonfire. The fuel is built upon la
. an altar of turf, and a match is applied 01
at sunset, after which the folk solemn- je
t ly march around the blaze and the gr
i daring youngsters vie; with one anoth- wi
er iii ii ; !.ii: through 'he j"h
POLLY PERKINS
By CATHERINE COOPE.
pyrlght, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
one would have stigmatized
lly Perkins as being insane. Ecltric,
mentally unbalanced, she cernly
was and another couple of
ars might possible see her comtably
ensconsed in a home for inrables.
For the present she was
ppily if whimsically domiciled in
tiny cottage on Long Island. Miss
lly s mental state was the cause
rude jests from village children
d one of amused interest to older
nds. Week-end guests were sure
he taken past the abode of Polly
rkins just as they were invariably
?alod by the story of the haunted
use on the old farm road.
'She's dippy on the subject of
ik."' said Jimmy Rogers as he
oiled past Miss Perkins' cottage
tli Hob Hawthorne after a swim
me bouiiu.
1 wouldn't have believed it,"
ighed Hawthorne as he eyed with
nised glance the pink-painted cot- !
;e. the pink flower gardens, pink ?
to posts and outbuildings. "I sup- _
so she has pink bows on all the
e stock," he commented. i ^
'She surely has," chuckled Jimmy, V
very living chicken in the barnyard ,
s a pink bow on his neck."
it was net until a few days later
it Hawthorne, lolling in Jimmy
igers' hammock, looked up to see
lone chicken chicking away and ri
eking contentedly for vermin in j
igers* well-kept lawn. The chicken
d a more or less bedraggled pink !
w on its neck that sadly interfered j
times with the capturing of dains
from the soft sod. j t
And because Hob Hawthorne was a
tlo bored with his own society and
ire or les curious regarding the \
centric Miss Perkins, he decided to j
ike a martyr of himself and take
3 straying bird home. ! t
He had little didiculty in catching f
3 chicken. Evidently Miss Perkins' t,
ns were more in the nature of pets c
m tablo delicacies.
After a few moments of reconnol ing
ho discovered that a wing of
ss Perkins* property practically ad- c
ned that of Jimmy Rogers. He ^
mbed the latter's fence and found u
uself facing the back c? a pink f
icken coop. A sharp turn around j
i fence brought him into the awk- :
rd position of having tripped over ,
r>ink-clad figure. She was lying flat ?
on her back in the tall grasses. '
'You'vo no right to bo snoring In ^
it wet grass," he said. # i u
'I was not snoring, and the
dry as a bone," the girl said with t
icrity. She had arisen to a sitting jsture
and was endeavoring to coax j.
;k the frightened chicken. "I don't
ow why?all men think that every
ice of grass in the universe Is conually
wet,"
5he had got the chicken back by j.
itinucd coaxing, the while she was ..
dressing her remarks to Haw- I
)rne. g
'Are you Miss Polly Perkins?" he i
<ed, when her wide open eyes again
imed toward his face, \
'Yes, I am," she said. "Is there
ything else you would like to know,
de Person?" she inquired. "You
ow," she continued, "I am not
i Miss Polly Perkins you think I ?
i. I am her niece." With that she (
med swiftly on her heels and left ,
b Hawthorne standing beside the *
ik chicken coop. >
"You know," she confided to him (
o nights later when they left the
ib house after a most delightful
igo evening, "I have a dreadful
nfession to make." Since Bob's
es were anything but fear inspir- ]
?, Polly continued: "I saw you
eaking down to Aunt Polly's chirkcoop
and deliberately put that bird
er the fence so that you might
o it."
"Are you engaged?" asked Bob [
.intly.
"No?Rude Person." laughed Polly.
"Then prepare for the worst soon,"
id Bob, possessing himself of the
Im fingers that he had watched
alously caressing the pink-bowed
licken.
"For the best," contradicted Polly
ftly.
The Futurist Painter.
Painting to the Futurist is no pretty
id soothing art to be hung in a room
id discussed at discreet dinner par's.
Like all Futurist work, it is inlired
by adventure and discovery. It
a violent stimulant, to be taken only
iw and then, deadly as whisky, if too'
ten repeated; but never an opiate,
sver narcotic with sleep. The Puturt
destroys everything soft, gracious,
feminate, subdued and moribund. He
orks with brilliant colors and sharp
igleB. He strives to find plastic
[uivalonts for all appearances of our'
itual life?its noises, smells, music
ills, factories, trains and harbors. Ho
lis us that noises and smells may be
form concave or convex, triangular,'
liptical, oblong, conical, spherical,
dral; and as for their color, he says
e smell of machinery and sport, for
stance, is nearly always red; the
nell of restaurants and cafes is sil>ry,
yellow or violet; the smell of
limals yellow or blue. Let us not
ugh too soon. Noises and smells are
ily states of mind, and we talk of,
alousy (which is a state of mtnd) as
eon or green-eyed; in anger we say
e "see red;" in melaiirholy we
tave the blues."?Atlantic Monthly ;
HOTOR;
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Reckless Fellow. FIRES j
A small henpecked little man was MAR
about to take an examination for life
insurance. "You don't dissipate, do ~
you?" asked the physician as he made . ,re?m
ready for tests. "Not a fast liver, or V}g.J}
anything of that sort?" The little i' '!J,.
man hesitated a moment, looked a bit ( '"J?/
frightened, then replied in a small, . ' .
piping voice: "I sometimes chew a ,or. e%
little gum."Collier's Weekly. ^
How's This? destroyei
gether v
We offer One Hundred Dollors Re- fjre depa
ward for any case of Catarrh that the two
: cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh time. T
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
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and believe him perfectly honorable fort in
, in all business transactions and finanriallv
able to earrv out anv obli- -r-.
Rations made by his firm. tor^
National Bank of Commerce, Profit
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Ilall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood nejo.hb0,
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Testimonials sent free. Price 75 Wiii .
cents per bottle. Sold by all Drug- Here
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Take Hall's Family Pills for cons- gf.
| tipation. tion of
Efficiency in Saving were in
my bac
Grubbs?What do you consider the sa'(J
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Stubbs?I haven't found it yet, but * IV ^
old Mr. Closofists tells me the most 5? ~7*
effective plan is to become affiliated f.?aniji
with partial blindness and total deaf- 'V- i1
ness.?Richmond Times Dispatch. or so {
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Of many pestilential types * ?*? ^r(
This planet I would rid;
But first, I think, I'd lose the gink
Who calls his wife "the kid." \
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We have a large lathe, al- aJj?^s'
i so a brazing and welding county
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ouuii. we can nraze ca?>t notue i
iron so it will hold tight.
We ask you to give us r? COL
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KLEY BUILDING AND
COTTAGES.
rille, Jan. 10?Fil-e this morn4:45
o'clock destroyed the
building, opposite The News
entailing a loss of some $10,e
building has been vacent
past year or more, and was
upied by a hardware store.
;ame time five cottages were
d at the Carolina mill, tovith
three small stores. The
irtment was split in two and
fires attended to at the same
he last loss was about $5,000.
DON'T GIVE UP.
iged Citizens Will Find Comi
the Experience of a Union
Man.
ience is the modern instrucby
the experience of others,
y save your life,
experience of friends and
rs?
esumony 01 union people
>ring renewed encouragement,
is a case in point:
O'Shields, 8 South Enterprise
on, says: "I had inflammathe
bladder and my kidneys
awful shape. The pains in
k were terrific. The doctor
ad gravel and during one atur
physicians sat up with me
t ;they thought I was going
A doctor advised me to try
Kidney Pills and I got a box
e Palmetto Drug Co. I was
after I had taken them a day
ind before long, I passed a
itone. One box of Doan's Kids
cured me and that cure has
'or eight years."
50c, at all dealers. Don't
ask for a kidney remedy?get
Kidney Pills the same that
Shields had. Foster-Milburn
>ps., Buffalo, N. Y.
reachers' Examination.
icial teachers' examination for
lite and colored teachers J'ill
in Union court house at 9
Friday, Jan. 16, 1915. All
* who have not conformed to
must take this examination,
those who intend to teach, and
> have not received a teacher's
ite must also take the examiH.
C. LITTIiE,
JSupt. Kdueation.
Risky Traveling
rist (to chauffeur)?Be careful
-unning over anybody hereJames.
This is a prohibition
and most everybody has a
n his pocket.?Atlanta ConsDS
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o. IT- n_tj.
'C ?.ji vjiuiis ex. i cvcr, v^uius
}rippe; it acis on the liver
han Calomel and does not
ir sicken. Price 25c.
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