Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WTUGGSQj Picking Out O Authorities state timt shortly after the publication of The Arabian Nights the genii became extinct. What bosh. I know for a certainty thnt one of that superhuman race makes his appearance every Sunday morning at 8 o'clock, weather permitting, at the corner of 13th and Jefferson streets, writes I. K. Friedman In tho Chlcngo News. Here for a minute, though Invisible, he takes his stand, clups his hand9 and then ? presto 1 ? what a transformation lius been worked I The windows of the little dyeing and cleaning shops that hug Jefferson street are Hung open and piles of second hand clothing?"fixed" and "unfixed," us the Yiddish signboards proclaim?come sailing down on the sidewalks and the pavement of the rood. One-horse wagons laden with old clothes push their way slowly eastward from llalsted street, wheelbarrows freighted with cast off garments compete for pluco with pushcarts piled high with the same merchandise, while other enterprising hands have fashioned crude vehicles out of soap boxes and discarded pairs of bicycle wheels to trundle more of these old wares hither. j.ne loss rortunate, white and blnck bearded men and stout youths, whose lefts are the only machines granted them to overcome the Inertia of matter, totter along, bent double by tho lienvy packs of discarded wearing apparel they carry on their backs. Here and there a sou or a wife, coming to tho assistance of the breadwinner of the family, drags along the surplus of tho goods In crippled valises, hags and jjj . -: .% v.v Sunday Marke V.y telescopes. Mom beginners nt tiie ' business, ?'*?i^??r for a foothold on the road that sonc day may load to hand- I cart or a wagon, tiro not deterred 1 from joining the throng by the fact that their entire stock In trade is limited to a single suit. Why should they he? Tho one suit If sold to advantage may help to gain a working capital for the purchase of two or three more and these two and three more?but all whose business It is to buy and sell. In small quantities or stupendous amounts, know the process by which tho wealth of the world Is Increased. The hands of our genio?to revert to him?were clapped nt 8 o'clock and the procession of old clothes men summoned by that signal has taken perhaps a half hour to reach Its destination. Now look along Kith street see what has happened to it In those thirty minutes. It has been transformed Into u second band clothes market which, so far sis the writer knows, has only one competitor in the world ? Commercial road, in Whitechapel, London. Submerged In Sea of Clothes. Old clothes tind shoes are lying In piles on gunny sacks spread on the street and the sidewalks. Pushcarts, wagons and boxes have been converted Into shops. Fence rails have been pre-empt'*'! !'.v the first comers for the display of their merchandise, stoops and steps of the householder have been pressed Into service by these perambulating shopkeepers. In fact, the long but crooked line of one and two story cottages, twisted awry by their own poverty arid the years, no longer engage your attention, which at first they arrested. They have been submerged under this sea of old clothes, gathered garment hy garment through the week In all parts of t'hlcago hy these thrifty, energetic residents of the Ghetto and contributed in so many waves as it were to this mighty mingling of old woolens. Nor Is tlii ; once-n-wook market, which has coneentrnted here out of the necessity of ti:o case and largely beW \ ye MARKCT "J! ' Jll : - > j *0% ^<X"WvAr^/.v?.. ^. .V4 .. >.. V*X?V?W/w Y^V.Y..V/.'v Id Clothes. cause It could go nowhere else, altogether to the liking of the occupants of the cottuges aforesaid. I noticed, for Instance, as I Jostled ray way from spot to spot, an old fellow, stoopshouldered, hollow-chested and whitebearded as his patriarchal forebears, who had squatted with his packs on the front steps of a freshly-painted cottage. He symbolized the eternal wanderer Inured to his lot by a wise acceptance of the utter impossibility of escape from It and who Is content If he can snatch but a moment between whiles of the long rest that is both the reward and the Just portion of old age. But even this scant tarrying by the way Is denied him. From the window of the second story the head of u vigorous old woman protrudes and she shrills down at him: "Is It for trash like you thut I pay $25 for painting my cottage? "Must I 8weep up tbo old shoes and paper and dirt you leave behind, oh, impudent one? Why don't you sell your filthy rags In the swell neighborhoods whero VOll l.liv thorn *> flat nnt t Ten curses rest on you for everyone of your years I Will you go or shull I send for the police." Solemnly he shakes his white head. By the written laws that govern real estate the cottage Is hers; by the unwritten laws established by the market the steps are his for the day. He stands on his rights, turning n deaf ear to her stream of obloquy. So she adopts more effective measures and drenches him and his precious stores with buckets of water, tossed forth with swift und unerring hands. Ills t in Ghetto. week's work?sustenance perhaps for family, homo and himself?are gone. It is too much for even his stoical spirit and ho weeps. All Nationalities In Throng. You are deeply sorry for him, but In this kaleidoscopic scene which appeals to so many emotions none can abide for long. Curiosity captures you and you are tugged on against your will to see how and to whom ure disposed all the clothes that Chicago casts off. Greek, Italian, Slav?members of the various clans that make Ilalsted street so cosmopolitan and picturesque? move through the clamoring hosts that would thrust bargains on them. The color of a particular suit strikes the fancy of a blond Norseman. lie takes off his own coat and tries on the proffered garment. Does it lit? The plaster, says the salesman, tits the wall no better. Now the price remains for consideration. At $1.75 for a suit which ho Is assured he could buy nowhere else for $12 this possiblo customer balks. Tho lining Is torn too badly for all the king's thread and all tho king's needles ever to put It back Into shape. Your salesman grants this willingly, lie swears he Is no liar and has not time to deny the obvious. But, after all, what does one want with lining in such hot weather? It Is a suit made for the Zephyrs of summer and not the blasts of winter. Tear out the lining ? look on It as If It were not?and the suit may bo had for $1.25. Thus the bargain is concluded and you have an insight into manners and methods. You wander onward through the ever thickening crowds, refusing tc, seize time by the forelock and purchase winter coats at summer prices. But others, and especially second-hand dealers, whoso stores nro scattered throughout tho city, are more alert than yourself nn<l snap up these bargains. Time Will Tell. However, the man who thinks he 1? point? to 'nave his own way after marriage Is apt to have another think coinlug iu after years.?Exchunge. ran wr; LOCKHART JUNCTION Lockhart Junction, Jan. 29.?Well January is a long winter month and will soon be gone, only a few more days and it has been cold and icy nearly every day. It has been very cold for the last six weeks as we all have witnessed and the weather proohets say we are to have snow till the middle of March, so we will see. News is scarce to the readers this week. The public roads are getting very bad and those that go will sure have a tough time going, but we need not complain for they have been good up until now. The auto will be put out of business as they cannot go on the bad roads. I have been kept in doors for a few days and have not heard any news. We hear only of the same old story?the war; we can only imagine what might be, for none of us li'tlAUt M'Vl/in 4lin tiro** *??' .?..vr?v ' vii t>i^ nai ?m CIIU UUt WC aro in hopes it will not last much lonper. There has been no peace | proposition settled on yet and I am ! fearful that there will not be any I time soon. There is a little politics kindlinp all I ready as I read between the lines. The Bible tells us there will be fearful times and so it is cominp. The t t une are perilous and many things are confronting us today?the food question, it seems is poinp to be i limited and is already to a certain ex| lent. T fear that the flour will fret so scarce that we cannot pet it afI ter a while. We read of the scarcity of wheat in seme places an i then there will he several months until harvest time comes apain. We learn a preat deal in a time like th:s; the povernment is tryinp to repulate I thinps the best they can and the people should help and stand by the povernment. Now listen what I am poinp to tell you. My father had plenty of wheat in his prarner in time of the Civil War. I heard him say he never had to buy any flour and nothing else hut suprar, so you see they were hotter prepared for the war in those days than we are now and that war lasted four years. Now if the food inspector was to 'to around to see how much wheat he would find in the prarner in Union county, T don't expect he would find the prarner let alone the wheat for he old prarner is not used any more. Don't need it?took it for somethinpr else, put somethinpr else in it. Well, here is plenty of corn in the country which is a prreat hlessinpr. Let is eat more corn bread. I eat some -" very meal, not because we have no 'our it is because I like it?it is healthier and better for the dipres'on. f used to be troubled with bidiirestion and f quit eatinpr flour bread altoprether for I found out the corn bread was the best for me, you i can take a piece of corn bread and! vou can crumble it back to meal but j the cake bread you cannot. Try it! vou see it is best for the diprestiov. j We can save a prreat deal by iishi'-Ti ' orn meal the prond home raised bome ir round, baked by some of the "ond ladies for they know how to ook it as most of them do. Say let me prive you a receipt? mix one half flour with your meal I ....i ?t- ? i- - i11111 i?iit it in ino oven 10 ikikc, iurn it over if you wish if brown, it looks pood, oats pood and then it won't take much lard to season for it will not bo touph bread any way. Good corn muffin bread is all ripht. Wo have boon livinp too fast it may be; T hoard and knew some peoTilo that did not pot any supar before Christmas and they had to do without. so they had to do without cake? no one was hurt and no one pot sick because they pot no pound cake. Now apain lonp swootoninp can take the tdaoo of supar that is molasses as the 'onp swootoninp was the ripht name durinp the cold time for it sure took a lonp time to pour out of the vessel. T hoard my mother say there was not so much wheat flour used in time of the war, only has this and cake broad on Sundays or when company came in but she said nearly every one was used to eat in r corn meal I heard her say that prid? and sty.e would some day take a faM sal she was not proud and had plenty, she wore homespun cloth and the rest of he family and others did the same thinp. Refore T leave this subject, let us stand by Wilson and hs plans for he is doinp the best he can for the people. I think President Wilson is the best president since Washington's time and T have no kick to make; I am not a kicker hut a booster. Rev. .T. S. Thrasher and myself were invited to the hospitable home of Mr. and M/s. J. O. Oarner last Sunday. There was an elepant dinner prepared for us?all kinds of pood thint's to eat and the occasion was most enjoyable and this was in i celebration of Dr. Thrasher's 73rd birthday. lie was born in Atlanta, Ca. in IR'iri, lonp before there was a town and he says hs father owned ; a preat deal of the property at that place and helped to build the town. Dr. Thrasher is one of the pioneers. CHRISTIAN J. PEOPLES v:< A y tt^^r.... hw?M.. f Bjk Ijm Christian J. Peoples, newest rear admiral In the navy, has a distinction enjoyed by few of his brother admirals, that of promotion from commander to all but the highest rank. He entered the navy in 1895 at $2 per day in the construction and repair department, ! His most recent assignment after con- j spicuous service has been as assistant to Paymaster General McGowan. Mr. Perry Vinson one of the Coast Artillery boys of Jonesvalle stationed at Fort Moultrie is home to see his mother and other relatives and friends for a few days. Dr. Thrasher and 1 attended Sunday school at Elford Grove Sunday afternoon an dthere was a pood attendance. The election of officers was held and R. J. Black was elected superintendent and Mr. Georpe Fos r assistant. Mr. Joe Parks was elected secretary end Mrs. J. G. Gar- ' ner assistant. Maxy Food Situation Growing Worse Stockholm, January 31.?The food situation in Sweden is rapidly growing worse. Pork cards will bo introduced and the extra cards, which formerly were provided for foreign diplomats have been withdrawn, except one for each head of a mission. The export of foodstuff has almost Entirely stopped, with the exception of meat, owing to the necessity of slaughtering stock because of the lack of fodder. Even meats show a large decrease. In November last 21.2 tons of pork were exported against 1,517 tons in November 11)1(5, and 151 tons of all other meat against 972. The statistics of Swedish imports j for the first eleven months of the past: year, which are now available, de- ; inoiistrnte upon what short rations j 1 the kingdom has been put. The to- \ tal imports t,f all cereals and flour | i were 1-13,010 tons, against .'531,187 I for the first eleven months of 101(5. | CofTee imports were 8,19-1 tons against 1 37,113, tea 93 tons against '180, all kinds of animal fodder, chiefly oilj cakes, 33,002 tons against 77,272 and hard coal 11,300,000 tons against 34,500,000 tons in the first eleven months of 1910. Cadiz Older Than Rome. Cadiz, Spain, was founded about four centuries earlier than Koine and about :Ck> years later than Athens. It Is quite generally conceded that the founders were Phoenician adventurers from Tyre and that the settlement was made about ll(K) K. Six hundred years after the city was in the posses* slon of the Carthaginians and was one of the great market places of the world. At the end of the second Punic war the city became Roman and advanced to great prosperity and civic dignity, and at one time ranked scconf to Home in influence. Fables and Parables. Of the fable as distinguished from the parable there are but two examples In the Itible. The first of these Is that of the trees choosing their king (Judges 9:8-15); the second that of the cedar of Lebanon and the thistle (II Kings 14 :9). No Alcohol In This You may wisely hesitate to talco medicine containing alcohol. Scientists agree that alcohol is injurious. 14 in vioct ioiilofltf hormfnl f o erc/oirinil " fprls and boys. Of the remedies for iver and stomnch troubles, (! ranger Liver Regulator is recognized ag a standard preparation, free from poisonous drugs like calomel audit eontains no alcohol. This medicine has been on the market for years. It is the "stand-by" in thousands of homes thru out the country. It is freely used by all the family whenever one of them feels headachy or in r.erd of a physic. Granger Liver Medicine is purely vegetable, and it may be taken without fear of griping or any other unpleasant after efTeets. Price, 2f>c for large box. Ask your druggist for it and refuse all substitutes. It Is Our To please the particular h forts are directed to th< meats and vegetables the r your wants We are alwa iuicv beef steak is our "lor E. R. G0DSHA1 PHONE 52 : An Ambition and f j '"J'HE needs of the South are idei f J of the Southern Railway: the growth / the upbuilding of the other. Jf J The Southern Railway asks no farort f / t accorded to others. |I j The ambition of the Southern Rallwa \j J unity of interest that is born of co-operati< f t the railroads; to see perfected that fair and f I ' inent of railroads which invites the coi | agencies; to realize that liberality of treat V f to obtain the additional capital needed for tl enlarged facilities incident to the demand I service; and, tinally? To take its niche In the body politic j other great industries, with no more, but 1 rights and ctjual opportunities. ^ "The Southern Servet SERVIG an lie used as ail Anihuianeo, for (ieli inns. Ksneeially adapted tor long disl a*ho re within thirty miles of Union I'll BA5LEY UNDE Office Phono I0(> HANDS. ARMS, UM^ ASLEEP | And Was Ron-Down, Weak and Nervous, Says Florida Lady. Five Bottles of Cardui Made Her Well. Kathleen, Fla.?Mrs. Dallas Prlne, of this place. Bays: "After the birth of my last child...I got very much 1 run-down and weakened, bo much that I could hardly do anything at ( all. I was bo awfully nervous that I could scarcely enduro the least noise. My condition was getting worso all the time... I knew I must havo some relief or I would eoon he In the bed and In a serious condition for I felt so badly and was bo nervous and weak I could hardly live. My husband asked Dr. about my taking Cardui. He Bald, 'It's a good medicine, and good for that frnlililn' on ?. a trn*- ~ r 1?? -- w p MX/ AA\J iUO U UUl* ties...After about the Becond bottle I felt greatly Improved.. .before taking It my limbs and bands and arms would go to sleep. After taking It, however, this poor circulation dlsappeared. My strength came back to me and I was soon on the road to health. After the use of about 6 bottles, I could do all my house-work and attend to my six children besides." You can feel safe In giving Cardnl a thorough trial for your troubles. It contains no harmful or habit-forming drugs, but Is composed of mild, vegetable, medicinal ingredients with no bad after-effects. Thousands of women have voluntarily written, telling of the good Cardul has done them. It should help you, too. Try It H 74 Dr. Virgil R. Hawkins DENTIST OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ITn:rvn C C* FOSTER RDII.DINC ?JIIH*II? ?3. V><. Delight ousekeeper. Our best ef3 marketing of the best narket affords. Phone us ys "en the job." Tender, ig suit." LL'S MARKET [ a Record j V, ntical with the needs \ and tucccM of one mean* J \ / : \/ ?no tpeclal prlrilere not I if i y\ y Company li to ?ee that J in between the public and J rank policy In the manace- , ""'V itfidence of rovemmental i J ment which will enable it I J re acquisition of better and I for lncrcaaed and better f I of the South alontaide of J with eq.ial libertiea. equal f \ the South." WKsmam E CAR vorinj? Caskets am! on IV.t.ci'a! occaLance calls. We deliver < kets any EE OK CIIAIiCE. RTAKING CO. Residence Rhone <SS Whenever You Need n General Tonic Take Cirove's. The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable us a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 60 cents. A rudder has been patented, normally within the hull of a vessel, but which can be projuected through the bow to aid in steering. No. 666 This it a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS &. FEVER. Five or aix doses feill break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25a Government scientists in India have succeeded in making paper from three new materials, leaves of a west Australian plant, timber from East Africa and bark of a tree found in Rhodesia. RUB-MY-TISM Will cure Rheumatism. Neu-f ralgin, Headaches, Cramps, Colic n...: i? ^vi ? upi <11110, in uiaco, v/iiis, minis, Wia Sores, Tetter, Ring-Worm, Eczema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally or externally. 2Sc IF YOU are troubled with dandruff, itching scalp, and your hair coming out, we ask you t" try JlWOBQECW IIAIR TONIC on our guarantee that it will give you relief and satisfaction or money refunded. Sold only by us, 50c and $1.00. Glymph's Pharmacy, Union, S. C.