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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
A WONDERLAND.
New Zealsnd's Belt of Geysers OF
Boiling Water.

Boiling Water.
II can imagine a furious and ac-
tive volcano with a crater a thousand
miles in extent. sunk level with the
earth and thinly covered With a screen
of soil. one has some idea of the awe
inspiring wonderland of New Zea-
lands north island. You cannot poke
a stick into the ground without start
ing a boiling spring. and wherever
you urn the ground is fairly alive
with geysers of boiling water-steam
Jets and ~blowholes. with %quiyering vol
canoe and gurgling mud potts." all
colored Enthusiastically with rainbow
hues, ranging from brilliant sapphire
to vivid scarlet. Stranger still, the
entire face of this region is constantly
changing In shape and color. and there
are hot springs here stretching in a
continuous chain for 800 miles. The
ground throbs and quivers with vol
canic activity, and set In the midst Of
it all are native Maori villages of sur
passing interest, a strange race of
magnificent savages, who, although
they have been cannibals within the
memory of man, are now a highly In
telligent q and actually send rep
resentatives to the parliament In Vel
lington.
The native women, gorgeous in gar
ments of crimson, green and purple,
are forever putting stolidly at big
pipes and going hither and thither
about their household work with the
quaintest OF babies slung across their
backs. This reminds me that domes-
tic work In this strange region is
made light indeed for white house
wives as well as the Maori women.
Every garden and back yard has its
hot water provided by nature.
And when these easy going people
grow hungry the mother prepares a
meat pudding or a joint and drops
1t into a convenient pot of natural
boiling water In the earth, and in a
few minutes 1t is cooked. The same
conveniences are still more In evil
dence on washing day. Stepping care
fully through a tangle of boiling gey-
sers and gurgling mud pots, n sud
denly comes upon a great collection Of
native women and girls doing their
washing In a vast smoking lake big
enough to have steamers on it.-W.
7. Fitz-Gerald In st. Nicholas.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
LIVING PROOF OF IT.
How Marriage Develops the Best
Traits In a Man.

htSV W. a@9@ eS ~
Traits In a Man.
"By the way, Mary" said Mr.. Win
terbottom, young Ascot asked for
my advice today about getting mar
ried."
Mrs. Winterbottom looked up from
the pile of socks that she was darn
ing. "And what advice did you give
him, John?' she said.
"Er-hand me them matches, will
you? My pipes out" said Winterbot-
tom.
She transferred the mound of mend
ing from her lap to a chair, rose and,
taking @the- matches to her hia6Ha2w
quietly resumed her work again.
well" continued Mr.. Winterbottom,
wallowing In his big chair, 81 told
Ascot to go ahead and marry at once.
l told him what l have always be-
lieved-namely, that nothing develops
the best traits In a mans character
like matrimony. Nothing, l told him,
so splendidly brings into blossom
those seeds of unselishness, of self
sacrifice, that lie dormant in even the
OtoL " UdCuSiOI6. Liz DdClClOi luluhb
only Of himself. The married man
forgets himself in the protecting care
that he must eternally lavish upon
wife and babes. Coarse, selfish brutes
of bachelors I have seen transmitted
by marriage Into a fine gold of such
self fo~rgetfulness and tender consider
alton, such delicate solicltude and
contemporary
Mr.. Winterbottom had been slapping
his pockets and frowning. Now he
stopped abruptly. Heres my pipe
out" he said, land l forgot to bring
down that pouch again. Do you mind,
Mary? It's on the dressing table in
the fourth story front"
Mrs. Wlnterbottom, with pleasant
alacrity, FASTENED from the ROOM
New York Press.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
Robert Fulton.
BY ). a. ROY

3OBERT FULTON'S parents were
SO poor that the future inventor
had scarcely any education,
barely learning how to read and
write. His father died when Robert
was three years old, and at an early
g the boy vas apprenticed to u
Philadelphia jeweler. In addition to
his work In the shop. young Fulton
applied himself to portrait and land
scape painting and showed such talent
that he was enabled to keep his wild
owed mother and In four years bought
a farm on which he placed her. He
then went to London to prosecute the
study of his art as a painter. So
strong a BEN had he for science, how
ever, that In his odd hours he studied
mechanics and engineering. Finally
attracting the attention of the Duke
Of Bridgewater, who was then inter
ested In an extensive canal scheme.
Fulton was Induced by that gentleman
to give up painting altogether and to
devote himself to civil engineering and
invention.
In the next few years Fulton invent
ed an incline plane for ~supplanting ca
nal locks, a mill for saving and polish
ing marble, a machine for spinning
fax and another for making ropes.
He also wrote a book on navigating
canals and another ON the application
of steam to navigation. At about this
time he attracted the notice of Edward
+. Livingston. United States minister
at Paris. In response to an invitation
Fulton went to that city, where he
soon invented a submarine boat, which
be valnly tried to have adopted by the
French. British and American govern
ments. After his failure in this at
tempt he returned to his dream of
steam navigation and invented a small
boat which successfully navigated the
Seine. Livingston was SO interested
that he advanced money to Fulton to
come to America and build a steam
boat for the Hudson. The result was
the Clermont, from whose first trip
between New York and Albany dates
the beginning of a new era in the
water transportation of the world.
The Clermont marked the high tide
of Fulton's success. He was forty-two
years old at the time and lived only
eight years longer, having been worn
out by the incessant toll of his earlier
life. He had lived long enough. how
70 become n of the immQrtals.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
SPOILED the PRAYER.

A west end mar who had been out
with a party of friends slipping from
the bowl Of Joy o than usual stag
gered home, at a loss to know how to
conduct himself to prevent his wife
knowing he was intoxicated. After
turning the question over in his mind
several times he decided that 1t would
be well for him to kneel In prayer just
before retiring, as he sometimes did.
what In the world are you doing
there, Johnr' asked his wife.
Praying"
"Well, your prayer might have more
effect II you took of that silk hat
st. Louis Republic.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
Car We Pull Anxthlnaf

Sir oliver Lodge, the eminent Eng.
fish scientist, said in a lecture that
there is NO such thing az pulling. To
speak Of a horse pulling a cart was be
said, incorrect. The horse did not pull
the cart. 1t pushed against its collar
and thereby produced motion In the
cart. Similarly the oarsman punhed
the water, and the mar drawing q
handcart had to clasp the handle, and
the driving force was caused by the
part which clasped the handle and was
therefore behind it. Even II the cart
was fastened to the mans coat tan be
did not pull 1t. he pushed against bis
clothes.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04

ed inconsistent 1t always makes me
laugh. Men are SO much more SO.
There is one well known woman nov
elist who understands the sentimental
type perfectly. Her heroines are all
like that. and, We gods, how they do
suffer through being mated to mere
men, with their coarse masculine ma
lures! They the women) might all
pose for a picture called "Misunder-
stood" They are howerlike in their
projections. and their husbands-are
just men.
There was one sentimental woman
heard Of Drawer thar the rest. She
didn't want to suffer In silence. She
wanted t. reform her husband into
what he should be. So what do you
think she did? She used to pin notes
to his pillow telling him where he fell
short. and he would find them there
when he came home from the club at
3 p. m.
Can the worship of the ideal be car-
ried further?
She kept 1t up until she found all her
time was spent In writing notes to
him.
Now she has come to her senses. She
lets him send a. few notes to- herl
There is nothing ideal about any
man. and If you force him to live on u
pedestal he will become awfully bored
and lonely besides having a perpetual
.crick" in his neck from looking down.
Take my advice and be as practical
and matter of fact as you can. In that
way you will be much surer of happi-
ness. HELEN CLIFTON.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
TWO MINUTE SKETCHES
Daniel Webster.
By }. n. e n.
When Webster
| first tried to
speak, he failed
and burst info
tears.

~ ERHAPS the crisis in Daniel
~ Webster's career was reached
just after his admission to the
bar, when he was offered a
court clerkship. At that time he was
very poor and had shown little Of the
wonderful oratorical ability which aft
erward distinguished him. The tender
OF such a place was therefore a sore
temptation. Webster, however, decid-
ed not to take II, stating that he in
tended to say things himself, not sim
ply write things that other people said.
He began practicing in a small New
Hampshire town and remained a citi-
gen of that state many years before
he was finally discovered" and in
duced to locate in Boston. When Web
ster first tried to speak, he failed and
burst into tears. This was while he
was still in school. So shy was he that
he could scarcely arise to recite. It
took will power and perseverance TO
overcome such a defect, and 1t was only
the fact that he felt his own great pow
ers that finally enabled him to succeed.
Even after he had overcome his
timidity the battle was only half won.
His first efforts were ornate and high
sounding, but contained little sub
stance. One local critic said they were
full OF emptiness" Webster heard
Of the criticism, and it cut him, but
he had enough common sense to recog-
nize the justice Of the structure and to
profit by It He resolved never again
to indulge in mere oratory for its own
sake and to speak only when he had
something to say.
AS a boy on the farm Webster did
not like to work, but when he got into
his own field he was on occasions a
prodigious worker. When In school,
he was given a hundred lines of vlr-
gil to memorize. All night he worked
and, when called upon to repeat what
he had learned, not only did SO, but
asked leave to give another hundred,
then still another hundred, after which
he stated that he was ready to repeat
800 more.
With the modern Demosthenes'
personal appearance was more than
half the battle.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
REASONABLE SUMMER HOMES
Tho Camp Style of Architecture a Fa-
vorite at Present.

The picture shows the living room
of a mountain camp. It extends up to
the very r~afters, but there is a balcony
halfway up, from which the sleeping
rooms lead. The larger camps have
this extra story and balcony on both
sides of the living DON
The kitchen Is usually In the shape
of a back wing. all by itself, with the
servants quarters overhead.
Bright colored grass mating and cot
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04

"And would you marry me II l were
a poor girl, working for a living?" ask
ed the hetress.
Darling" responded the accepted
sutton, at wouldn't be fair. You'd be
doing enough in supporting yourself
Philadelphia Ledger.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04

ton rugs are used on the floors. The
central feature Is. of course, the brick
fireplace of generous proportions.
The furniture should be rather ON the
rough or mission order to correspond
with the rough finish of the interior.
Pillows, draperies, etc., are best made
Of bright colored denim, which does
not soil easily. The floor Is pretty
stained forest green. Sometimes the
woodwork and walls are also treated
that way. R. DE LA BAUME.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
Sentimental WOMEN.
Most Unhappy Wives Will Be Found
In Their Ranks.

II is the sentimental woman with
strong ideals who suffers. II she could
only realize this and shed the ideals
the pain would go with them.
But there is not n in ten
who has the courage to do this unless
her entire nature Is changed by some
great shock.
The sentimental woman ought never
to marry, but she always does. IN
fact, men love the poetry" In her ma
ture before marriage as much as 1t
bores them afterward.
By the way. when I hear woman call
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-04
Where Soldiers Must Swim.

In the Dutch army a man must
be able to swim as well as to fight.
Moreover, if he is in the cavalry he
must have horse which will take a
river as easily as a hunter takes a
fence. Swimming maneuvers are
part of the regular drill there. Col
iapsible canvas boats manned by a
few oarsmen lead the horses so that
they do not attempt to land on
stone quays and other difficult
points. The men swim across with
their horses and on them. They do
it in swimming costume and in all
the accouterments of war. There
are few nautical emergencies in
which the Dutch army is not pre-
pared. Some of the officers have
even reached a degree Of proficiency
that not only their horses and kit
cross the river with them, but their
pet dogs sit upon their shoulders
and are borne over almost without
getting wet.-Stray Stories.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-04

he urges, ,scoldS, badgers and cavorts
around generally until he gets what
he sets ont for. Imagine his feeling.
then, when sane lam StrIng.Aalt
kind Of fellow reproaches him
because he doesn't uoom things
enough and nine times ont of ten
that same fellow has never spent on e
cent towards the support of the
paper and the paper he reads with
with marked regularity is either bor-
rowed from the next door nelghbor
or picked from counter IN the
store at which he trades. '-WH.
minqtOn Star.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-04
Winthrop College Scholarship and En-
trance Examination.

The examination for the award
of vacant scholarships in Winthrop
College and for the admission of
new students will be held at the
county conrt house on Friday, July
3, at 9 4 m. Applicants must not
be less than fifteen years Of age.
When scholarships are vacant after
July 3 they will be awarded to those
making the highest average at this
examination, provided they meet the
conditions governing the award.
Applicants for scholarships shsuld
write to President johnson before
the examination for examination
blanks.
Scholarships are worth 500 and
free tuition. The next session will
open September 16, 1908. For fur
ther information and catalogue, ad-
dress President D B Johnson, Rock
Hill, S G. 5.1-ot
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Something For Her Neck.

A ludicrous story is told Of a
young japanese engineering appren-
tice in connection with the Christ
mas custom of kissing. He was
serving his time in the north OF
England and was astonished when
a waitress at the dining rooms which
he regularly frequented kissed him
under the mistletoe. On its being
explained to him that present was
expected in return, he suggested a
pair of gloves. The damsel, how
ever, had heard that he was i'm
mensely wealthy and gently hinted
that something for her neck would
be more acceptable. When the pres
ent arrived next day she conjured
up visions of a pearl necklace as she
tremblingly undid the parcel. Then
was disclosed to her disappointed
gaze a Jap's idea Of something for
her neck" 1t took the shape of a
bar of soap!-London Standard.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-04

That languid, lifeless feeling that
comes with spring and early sum-
mer, can be quickly changed to a
feeling of buoyancy and energy by
the judicious use of DR. Shops Re-
storative. The Restorative is a
genuine tonic to tired, rundown
nerves.and but a fewdoses are needed
to satisfy the user that DIR Shops
Restorative is actually reaching that
tired spot. The indoor life of win
ter nearly always leads to sluggish
bowels, and to sluggish circulation
in general. The customary lack of
exercise and outdoor air ties up the
liver, stagnates the kidneys, and Oft
times weakens the Hearts action.
Use DR. Shops Restorative fe W
weeks and all will be changed. A
few days test will tell you that YOU
are using the right remedy. You
will easily and surely note the
chang cfrom day to day. Sold by
D G Scott.
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John Smith.

Transferred to other languages,
the plain name "John Smith" seems
to climb the ladder of respectability.
In Latin it is Johannes Smithus; the
Italians smooth it off into Giovanni
Smith; the Spaniards render 1t
Juan Smihus; the Dutchman adopts
it as Hans Schmid; the French fiat
ten it into Jean Smeets; the Rus
sian turns it into Jonloff Smittow-
ski; at Canton John Smith becomes
Jahon Shimmit; the Icelanders say
he is Jon Snithson; among the Tus-
caroras he becomes Tom Ga Smit-
tia; in Poland he is known as Ivan
Schmittiweiski; among the Welsh
mountains they call him Jihon
Schmidd; at Mexico his name is
written Jontli F'Smitri; in Greece
he turns to Ion Sinikton, and in
Turkey be is almost lost in VOC
Seef.
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Reflections Of a BaCht....

Freckles make lots of girls very
happy by not having them.
The average man would rather run
for office than make a decent living.
A man can afford to be fool
when it's the way he spends the
income of large fortune.
No matter how sorry woman can
be that she married man, she can
be a lot gladder that she kept some
other girl from getting him.
The fact that some men are self
made is stamped or the wrapper.
Some people are always looking
for an excuse to make an excuse.
A woman considers any man nice
looking who saws she is good look
ing.
A stout widow taas to be awfully
rich in order to avoid being called
fat.
1t isn't the amount of money a
man earns. but the amount he gets,
that counts.
Clothes may not make the man
but paying for his wife's clothes may
break him.
Religion that doesn't abide with
a man twenty-four hours day and
seven days aweek isn't worth bav-
ing.
A girl always expects a man to
think her hair curls of its own ac-
cord even when she knows that he
knows that 1t doesn't.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-04
UP IN A BALLOON.
The Exhilaration That Comes With Q
Trip Through tho Air.

Floating softly up into the blue
ocean of air, watching the earth
sink slowly away beneath lis and
fade and change quietly 10 an i'm
mense map spread before cur Won
lering eyes-such are the first lr-
pressions of balloon voyagerS. The
noisy shouts Of those who come to
wish us "Bon voyage" become
fainter and fainter until absolute
quiet reigns about us. 1t is so still
that the ticking Of the clock in the
barosraph is heard noisily counting
the seconds as it traces the line OF
our upward flight across the sheet.
Meanwhile the earth map down
below us stretches out larger and
larger, but its details are fading
and becoming blurred. High hills
have changed to fiat surfaces. A
river winds and bends its way
through the duller colors like u tam
.gled ribbon of silver. A small lake
Sparkles in the sunshine, giving life
and fire to the sober shades about
it. A railway train creeps slowly
along, its trail Of smoke streaming
back over it. But as We look it sud-
denly disappears from sight, ap-
parently swallowed up before our
ewes. Then we realize that it has
plunged into the tunnel through a
hill which to US seems only flat
surface. Now it appears again.
coming ont on the other side.
So the wonderful scenes come and
60, ever changing, but ever grand
and inspiring-scenes that come
back to us real and vivid, that we
NAV live them over again in later
DAYS. The cloud effects are at times
the most beautiful of all. After hav-
ing sailed up through these into the
dazzling sunlight we see the snowy
billows just below our car, the shad-
ow of our balloon falling upon their
white surface. This shadow is often
surrounded by halo of rainbow
colors of fare beauty. At such
times one has the feeling of having
left the earth completely and to
have reached some other planet
The white masses just below seem
to be quite solid and look as though
one might step out of the balloon
and take a stroll over them if one
only had snowshoes. The air is
wonderfully clear and pure and
gives one a feeling of e1hilaration
much greater than that enjoyed in
mountain climbing.-Henry B. Her
sey in Century.
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The Knocking of The Beast.

There is whole heap of truth
in the following article on the
newspaper man and the chronic
kicker. Every newspaper man has
characters of the kind to contend
with and they are the bane Of his
life, The article which is from the
Chapel Hill News, says:
"Did you ever think of it: Sup
pose every businessman in the town
took as much interest in the up
building of the town as the news
paper man. He works for railroads
churches, schools, good streets, en-
forcement of the law and hundred
other things for the general goo |;
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Bucklen's ArniCa SaIvo
The Best SaIve In The World.
Registration Notice.

Theoffice OF the Supervisor Of Reg.
istration will be opened on the first
Monday in every month for the pur-
pose Of the registering Of any person
who is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been a resident Of
the State for two years, and of the
county one year, and Of the polling pre-
cinct in which the elector offers to
vote four months before the day Of
election, and shall have paid, six
months before, any poll tax then due
and payable, and who can both read
and write any section of the constitu-
tion of 1896 submitted to him by the
Supervisors of Registration, or who
can show that he owns. and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, property in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. j. Y. McGILL,
Clerk of Board.
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"Dixie," beginning: ~
Oh Dixie land is the la. ::
The land of cherished : -. i
story"
In thinking of that the old words
-"ciunamon seed and sandy bot
TOM and the rest-are not good
enough the ladies are mistaken
What set Dixie going, what made
Lincoln call it the best song of the
war, what makes New York's thea,
tire and restaurant audiences thrill
with it, though they may never
have been further South than At
lantic City, is its spirit. The words
have "go.' BY the memory of the
lips that have sung them they
should be protected from change.
Only so can the song retain its his
tory and its sentiment.
Old words fit old songs. "Ameri-
ca" is poor stuff, but no attempt &c
fit new words to the tune has sue
ceeded. Custom will not have it. "God
Save the King is no better. There
is not much poetry in
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Confound their politics! -
But that is the way it goes and will
60. The attempt to suppress some
of the fighting words of THE Star.
Spangled Banner" deserves to fail.
There are lmpolite expressions 'Lil.
libullero" and "a Health to King
Charles" but they can i'll be spared.
Could auv new words fit the "Mar-
sellalse" so we'll as do those that de
rIsle dashed off in one nights few
erish excitement? What German
would tamper with "Koerner's
Hymn" or the "WatcE on the
Rhine"'
If the old songs could speak fol
themselves they would all say, "Let
us alone!"-New York World.
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Read the Farmers & Merchants
Banks ad. this issue.

Hereafter we positively re-
fuse to publish any communica-
ton received at this office later
than Tuesday, noon, except To-
cal and personal items, which
will.,not be available later than
Wednesday, noon, for the cur.
rent week. BY trying to be ac-
commodating we are thr own late
every week and we are tired OF
it. This notice applies to
EVERY BODY.
4.25.tf.