Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY WINNSBORO, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1906. ESTABLISHED 1844 SOUTr CAROLINA FARMING. Twenty Years Ago and Twenty Years Hence; A Review and a Prospect. (Chas. Petty in Proyrcssicc Farer.) During the last twenty-five S Years Piedmont South Carolina a has moved forward in all her a industries. This is especially the case on farms. The ideal farmer t is the one who makes his own h supplies, improves his land, every ' year, has a comfortable and at- a tractive home, with good work animals, good schools and good 1 neighbors. Very few have reached a point where they can say they S have done their best. But com- h paring present conditions with P the past, there is room for con- . gratulation. The first marked difference in the- present and past is the increased intelligence of the farmers and their families. 1 Twenty-five years ago the average t farmer knew little about plant r food and its application. He 9 bought blindly and applied it in s the same way. So it was guano s with a popular brand on it he u would by regardless of the cost b -or value. He has also learned s how to judge agricultural imple- b anents. It is pretty difficult for h an agent, although 'a hypnotist, n to unload a lot of cultivators and C lights to make a fence and 8100 b lightning rods (on $75 houses) on t the farmers as they did a quarter 9 of a century ago. They under- r stood the elements of plant food f in the soil and the kind of fertili zer to apply to t' is field or that. a Another great improvement is i harmony existing between all of r our business people. Formerly the farmers were taught to con sider manufacturers, middlemen and bankers as their enemies. That was the day of the cheap I politician. Some of the same a sort are left. But the farmers n have been at school. They have e Do enemies now except themselves. I They feel and know that general and lasting prosperity rust de- w pend upon good fellowship and a harmony amongst all business u .classes. Every one who produces ti anything or handles the products of the soil adds to the wealth of* -the country, is the farmer's friend n :and he knows it. C Great progress has been made a in the soil. Men are now usiu I brains instead of brute force. 3 "They have been seeking reasons $ for doing this or that thing. They are working intelligently. They have better farm implements and use them more skillfully than ever 7before. They are learning how f, to deepen the soil and bring into available condition the vast stores a of potash and phosphoric acid a llocked up in the red clay. They I , bei ounderstand how to catch I and hold the nitrogen in the air ~ and turn it into plant food. With ~ improved implements they are doing as much work now in one day as they did in two in formere days. Another great improvement a is the increase in yield of various r, crops. Only a few years ago the b yield. of lint cotton was about 133 e pounds to the acre. They have increased that about 40 per cent, e even the yield of corn, which re ceives too little attention, has a been slowly increased. Another step forward is the t Kraising of better cattle for beef t and dairy. Almost any farmer ~ now can own a cow that will make a pound of butter a day, and y many of them make two pounds a a day. This comes from proper selection of cows and proper y feeding. Then beef cattle are j attracting thae attention cf some of our farmers, and they areb ginning to raise the heavy cattle. A good crop for a year or two c is a good thing, but it may not be the best thing. We consider theC :greatest improvement made by i farmers in the increase of knowl- e edge. They beginning to understand a li' le about their t, business and. th e are anxious to ( hlearn more. They are giving up i their prejudices against "book 3 farming" and they seek the aid of 3 ehemists and other experts. Tlhey read agricultural papers as they never did be fore. Bu2t our farmers are picking up only a few pebbles on the shore. t The great sea of knowledge has! to be explored yet. They are far r below their highest ideals and t they need the guiding hand of d wisest men to point out the way s for them. We verily believe that d this is to be the farmer's centary. s It will be, if he will only use well a the brains his Maker has given t 1im. I'aiid, inaLctive liver can produce ~orebtdily ills than almost anytlinug 1 .Iti. goc d to clean the syst em out sionally. Stir the liver up. and nto shape generally. The be-st i are derived from the use of De- f Little Early Risers. Reliable e epleasant pills with a reputa- r ever :rime RonM by 8.11 drugt- ] here is riore in the lari Than in the Land. Sidney Lanier, our great Geor ia poet, tells a pleasing and in trictive story of a man, who was lways grumbling about his land, nd who, after selling it and go ig West, found upon his return aat another had taken the same Lnd and made it a thing of beauty rith its crops of fleecy cotton nd waving corn. It is not the gambler and the tggard who wins in the battle of fe, but the diligent and progres ive man who proves himself a ero in the strife and who has the atience "to labor and wait," nowing that to persevering and atelligent toil final victory is are. Many a man who starts with o experience, but goes to work : carefully learn from the expe ence of others making a dili ent study of the conditions that arround him and adjusting him elf to those conditions, making se of scientific principles and usiness methods, will attain a access which will put to the lush the man who has farmed all is life without learning anything ew or improving in any way the :ndition of his fields exhausted y the old methods of farming at would produce g6ond results a virgin soil, but fail of desired 3sults on that already wornout 6rm implements. Every business must be kept breast of the times, and that of ie farmer is no exception to this ile.-Georgia Department of griculture. Fortunate Missourians. "When I was a druggist at ivonia, Mo.," writes T. J. Dwyer, nw of Gravsville, Mo., "three of y customers were permanently ired of consumption by Dr. :ing's New Discovery, and are eli and strohg to-day. One as trying to sell his property ad move to Arizona, but after sing New Discovery a short me he found it unnecessary to r so. I regard .Dr. King's Ne w iscovery as the most wonderful Ledicine in existence." surest ough and Cold cure and Throat ad Lung healer. Guaranteed by [cMaster Co. and Jno. H. Mc [aster & Co., druggists. 50c and 1. Trial bottle free. Piant Cow Peas. Plaut cow peas, young man. nd you will not have to go west >r rich lands. Plant cow peas, yonne man, ud pay back to natur'e's God the ebt that your forefathers owe >r the crime of robbing the lanel f its life-giving powers to all the ora and fauna of our lovely outhand. Plant cow peas, young mani, aat you may grow cotton more eaply and double the yield per cre, thus bringing in double the turns for your labor or that igh priced labor that you are ampelled to use. Plant, cow peas, young~ man, yn if you have to pay $1.:00 per eck for seed. This will drill in iore than one acre, which will: ake a ton of hay'; at the same me improve the land and double 1e yield of oatts to follow, andi ill "permit your oat crop to b)e lanted early in the fall, whichi is ry important in order to insure stand that will resist winter eezing. Plant oats and peae, oung man. and quit sowing wild ats andi skinning the land like -me fathers have done. A Mountain of Gold auld not bring as much happi ess to Mrs. Lucie. Wilke, of aroine, Wis., as did one 25e ox of Buck len's Arnica Salve,' 'hen it complietely cured a run ng sore on her leg, which had >rtured her 23 long years 'reatest antiseptic healer of iles, Wounds and Sores. 25c at fe~aster Co.'s and Jno. H IcMaster & Co.'s drug stores A Thought for tac Wgek. Neer ask a man whatheknows, ut what he can do. A fellow ay know everything that's hap-' ened since the Lord started t.he all to rolling, and not be able to' o anything to help keep it from topping. But when a man can o anything, he's bound to know oething worth while. Books re all right, but dead men'. rains are no good uinless you mix live one's with them.-Old ~organ Graham. For a painful b r hr is nothin.r keDkt' WVic Haz'elI av here aire ai host of imixt;'tin of IX itt's W\itch Hazel Salva on the l r et-se that vou gzet the genuine. A >r DeWitt's. GoIod, too), for sunbu drn, uts, bruises, and e~peiaily recom .ended for piles. The name E. C. )eWitt & Co., Cuiicago, is on every -. Sold by all rugist. Emerson's Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not profess that which thou dost not believe. Thou shalt not heed the voice of a man when it doos not agree with the voice of God in thine own soul. Thou shalt study and obey the laws of the universe, and they shall be thy fellow servants. Thou shalt speak the truth as thou seest it, without fear, in the spirit of kindness to all thy fel lo;w-creatures, dealing with the manifold interests of life and the typical characters of history. Nature shall be to thee a sym bol. The life of the soul, in con scious union with the Infinite, shall be for thee the only real existence. Let thine eyes be open and thine eyes will reveal to thee beauty everywhere. Go forth with thy message among thy fellow-creatures. Teach them that they must be guided by that inner light which dwells with the pure heart, to whom it was promised of old that they should see God. Teach that each generation be gin3 the world afresh with perfect freedom; that the present is not prisoner of the past, but that to day holds in captivity all yester days, to compare, to judge, to accept, to reject their teachings, as these are shown by its morn ing sun. To thy fellow-countryinen thou shalt preach the gospel of the New World, that here, here in America is the home of man, that here is the promise of a new and more.excellent social state than history has recorded. Thy life shall be as thy teach ings, brave, pure, truthful, benefi cent, hopeful, cheerful, hospitable to all honest belief, all sincere thinkers, and active according to thy gifts and opportunities. Not if as Rich as Rockefeller. If you had all the wealth of Rockc feller, the Standard Oil magnate, you could not buy a better medicine for bowel complaints than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The most eminent physician can not presei ibe a better preparation for colic and diarrhoea, both for children and adults. The uniform success of this remedy has shown it to be superior to all others. It never fails, and when reduced with water and sweetened, is pleasant to take. Every family should be supplied with it. Sold by Obear Drug Co. and all medicine dealers. The Country Correspondent. Again at night when the work is done, N ou pick up the country weekly from the old home. You look over the town news, scan the blazing half-page ads and turn over to the country correspon dence. Not that you were ac quainted in every neighborhood from all over the county, nor do 'iou know the present generation spoken of in the news items. But here and there is an old family name that makes you think and takes you back to the good old days gone by. An item abont the o'd church or the school, and as you sit there the recollection Irngs back memories all but for gotten. You wander out on the big road through the valley and woodland to the big farm-house. Thna hundred faces of boyhood cmpanions are all before you as you picture the revival at the crossroads church or the spelling bee at the old red school. house, and~ wvonder what has become of all the' boys and girls you left when you started west. The old tourist printer has been relegated to the junk pile by the linotype, the city man takes his notes in' short hand, the editor dictates his to amanuensis and from the ty pewriter it goes down the tube-the revolution is corn plete, yet t!here is one god, old, fashioned feature holding over the weekly copy of the country correspoudent. Nothing can take his place. May he be with us forever because the paper needs him and the readers appreciate hi and we want him. It Is Dangerous to Neglect a Cold, How oltenl do we hear it rcmarked: "It's onlyV a cold," and a few <4ays h:' harn that the man is on his back .. pneumonia. This is of such coImon occurr!ence that a cold, how ever slight, should not'be disregarded. Carmberain's Cough Remedy counter sts any tendency of a pok1 to result in uenumona an has gaiied its great popularity and extensive sale by its prompt eus of this most common ailmeent. It always cures and is pcosant to take. For sale by Obear Drug Co. and all medicine dealers. Seek Good Roads. Schools? By all means. Churchee? , yes. But first seek ye good roids and all these things shall be added unto you.-Good Roads See tha:t your druggist gives you no imlitationU when you ask for Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar, the original Laxative cough syrup. Sold by all ROYAL EPICURES. Mo.archs Who Were Famous For Their Culinary Learning. Royilty in times past has had inany an aoomplisied epicure as learned in culinary lore as in the practice of the cuisine. It was Henry de Valos who brought into fashion aromatic sauces and various spice dainties, inheriting his taste for cooking from Catherine de' Medici, who introduced into France not only ices. but muoh of the culinary art from Italy. Louis XIV. was devoted to gastron omy, and for his use liquors were in Tented in his old age, when, It is said, .he could scarcely endure existence -without a succession of artificial stim -ulants. But the pertinacity with -which Charles V. of Spain gratified his appetite under all circumstances rival -ed even that of Frederiek the Great. Before rising in the morning potted -capons were usually served to him. R prepared with sugar, milk and spiees, iced beer being one of his favorite .drinks. Fish, too, of every kind was to his taste, eels, frogs and oysters occu pying a prominent place in the royal bill of fare. Frederick the Great was fond of highly seasoned meats and had a strong predilection for Italian or .French made dishes. It was his habit during dinner to make pencil marks against the different items of the bill of fare, to which he referred when conversing afterward with the maitre d'hotel. When the Due d'Escars and his royal master, Louis XVIII., were closeted to gether to talk over a dish the ministers were kept waiting in the antechamber, and the next day this notice regularly appeared in the official journals: 'M. le I Duc d'Escars a travaille dans le cab inet." It may be added that Louis XVIIL had invented the "truffles a la puree d'ortolans," and, reluctant to disclose the secret, he invariably pre pared the dish with his own hands, assisted by the duke. Another epicu rean of the first order was the Polish King Stanislaus Leszinski, who invent ed many a .ew dish and vastly im proved the style of cooking, astonish ing the Lorrainers, among other things, a by having served up at his table dishes 3 of meat with fruits, both of which had been cooked together. Geese which had been plucked when alive, then whipped to death, and marinees were set down in his bill of fare as foreign birds, and after a somewhat similar fashion turkeys were transformed into "coqs de bruyeres" and were served at d the table burled under tike strong smelling herbs of Lorraine. One year was remarkable for the entire failure of the fruit crop, but Stanislaus would not be deprived of his dessert, for, a turning his attention to confectionery, he substituted compositions of sugared vegetables, especially o: turnips.-Lon don Standard. L CASUAL PHILOSOPHY. What one goes into debt for nine e times out of ten is a luxury. t A man always making excuses leaves C himself no time to make anything else.a Business based upon friendship threatens both; friendship based upon business strengthens both. That man can best Ignore the enmity 8 of tho~se who don't understand him who goes home to a wife who does:. b It is a good deal easier to pray for a men's souls than to pour balm Into j] their wounds, not to mention that It costs less. The supreme court has not yet decid ed which is the weaker man-he who is not able to see his own weakness or he who has no faith In himself. t] From an intellectual point of view p that time of one's life Is most wasted when he tries, in a spirit of dumb loy- C alty, to admire all those things that are popularly considered admirable.-Suc cess. The Wo14 "SlaTe?' Tie wqrg "slavp," whlic4 ts happily used seldom unless metaphorically in this country, is a word of brilliant his- 1 torical antecedents. Its original, thea Russian "slava," means glorious and - is the title of that race which sub sumes the Russian people. But when the Germans reduced hosts of the Slays at to servItude their name, from malice b or accident, as Gibbon says, became n synonymous with "servile." It retains no more suggestion of Its racial origin? now than does "ogre," which is really "Hiungarian," from a confusion of the Magyars with the Huns, and pf both th the terrible T'artapg. Relaware's Names. Delaware has been called the Dia mond State, for, though small in size, it formerly was of great political im- I portance. It also enjoys the nickname of the Blue Hen State, this having been bestowed on account of a gentle man named Caldwell, who made the state famous in sporting annals by the quality of his gamecocks, whIch he al ways bred from the eggs of a blue hen, believing that this was the best color for the mother of a gamecock. Joy.L ,oy is the mainspring In the wholep runid of evgrlasting pature; jo moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the worl4; sheg it is that loosens fiowers from their buds, suns from their firma ments, rolling spheres In distant space seen not by the glass of the astrono-0 mer-Schiller.. F Too Smooth. The Fiancee-There's just one thing that worries me a little. The Fiance- fl What is that? The Fiancee - There seems to be no opposition on the part of any of our relatives,. Confession.t Often confession is owning up when you are sure to be caught.-Saturday/ Evning Post. "Just An Old Soldier." (When Teteran Boon, of Ker shaw's Brigade, became ill during he Confederate reuniou recently held in the city, somebodv en guired the causo of the commo bion, and this reply was made: "Jt.st an old soldier-he's sick.") Just an old soldier, Tired and worn, Sick by the wayside Far from his home. See how he weakens; Steady his hand Call up his comrades, Those of the band, Who fought with Kershaw For Dixie's land. Eandle him gently, Pillow his head, Softly, boys, softly He's dead-he's dead! Just an old soldier, Gone to his rest Who died with the cross Pinned on his breast The "Cross of Honor" That love has blest. The love of women, Who always pray, For those old heroes Wearing the gray. --L. T. Levin. Columbia, S. C., May 21, 1906. ;tag Brand--The Only Paint for Out - side Use. Harrisonburg, Va. dessrs. Hirshberg, Hollander & Co.: Gentlemen-I consider a com >Osition of Lead and Zinc, as in tour Stag Brand Paint, the only hing for the outside, as the car >onic gases can not affect them s pure lead, and the covering >ower is certainly satisfactory. Mr. F. E. Staling. The next time you want paint, sk for the best-Stag Semi-Paste airt. "One gallon makes Two." For sale by Jno. H. McMaster Co., Winnsboro, S. C. Have Fun at.Home. Don't be afraid of a little fun t home. Don't shut your house est the sun should fade your car ets.. and your hearts, lest a hearty iugh shake down some of the iusty old cobwebs there. If you rant to ruin your sons, let them bink that all mirth and social njorment' must be left on the breshold without when they omet home at night. When once house is regarded as only a lace to eat, drink and sleep in, lie work is begun that ends in ambling houses and reckless egradation. Young people must ave fun and relaxatiod some rher3; if they do not find it at 2eir own hearthstones it will be :>ught at other and less profita le places. TJherefore, let the fire urn brightly at night and make ie homesteAd delightful with all hose little arts that parents so erfectly understand. Don't re ress the buoyant spirits of your bildren; half an hour's merri ient round the lamp and #reside f home blots Qut the remem rance of many a care and annoy noe during the day, and the best afeguard they can take with them 1to the world is the influence of bright little domestic sanctum. -Chicago Journal. Have you weakuess of any kind omach, back, or any organs of the dy? Don't dope yourself with ordi ary medicine. Hollister's Rocky [ountain Tea is the supreme curative wer :35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Jno [. McMaster & Co. Big iDargains m--IN -- - n 5 and 1O=Cent Goods. Come and see them. 3 yards of 2%/-inlch Em= roidery for roc while it ists. Other things in roportion, Toilet Soap roc a box. A good line of Tobacco. Ladies', Men's and Chil ren's Hose. Lamp Chimneys and ixtures. Come and hear the band lay1 If you buy or not, you re welcome. Another lot of goods on hie road. Yours to please, H. Langley. SEND YOUR( FOR Commencemen TO The Callahai Shoe Con City Shoe Store, 1sog Main St., COLITM 3 White Kid Theo Ties, Blue Kid The( Two Dollars. Two Dolia Black and Gray Suede Miller Ties, I Pato Three Dollars and Fifty Cents. I T) Blue Canvas Ties, White Canvas Two and Two Fifty. Ties, Si.So to Express Charges. Pre Money Accompanies Satisfaction Guaranteed. C. B. FRIPP, B The World Wil THAT Experience * B Years of experience enabl< our customers a line of Furl by any other in the city. F highest=-anything and ever Furniture for making the h< attractive. We know your stock just what you need; a is at prices that make yot most: Experience teaches that w ing Furniture, it is best to t enced dealer, one who has your wants. That's just < our ability to supply your eN Come to see -us. Exceptionm buyers these days. R. W. PI trUNDERTAKING A SPi Harn4 and... Bridhi Several sets Buggy Harnes Will be sold rig A full .stock at close prices. Come here f< Farm Supplies. SA.- B. Cat Organized BANK OF FA] WINNSBORo, CAPITAL., $50, We want your account and will apprc ing ansy and pleasant for you. If you hi account with us, come and tell us why; see us anyhow. In our Savings Departmieni interest is rate of 4 per cent per annum, payable July and October. OFIES W. R. Rabb, President. T. W. Traylor, Vice-President. DIRECTORE WV. R. Rabb, T. W. Traylor, .. B uchanan, ID. V. Walker, J. W. Hlanahan, IR. Y. Turner, S.C Cathea~rt. )RDERS. t ! i 'ppers 1=Dobson ipany City Shoe Store, k, S. C.. 1509 Main St. iTies, I Pink Kid Theo Ties, rs.I Two Dollars. nt Colt Slippers, Latest Ideas. vo Dollars up to Five Dollars. Ribbon Pink Canvas Ties, $3.00 Two and Two Fifty. paid When Order. Satisfaction Guaranteed. lanager. I Tell You est Teacher i us to place before liture not surpassed rom the lowest to the ything in the way of >me comfortable and needs and so keep in nd what we sell you ir money count the hen it comes to buy iy from an experi studied and knows ur position. Hence rery Furniture want. LI bargains for cash 1111ips. ECIALTY. -s. extra good ;s just in. rht. of Bridles >r all your :heart. 906 IRFIELD iate it and make your bank re not already opened your if you have, then come and cheerfully allowed at the quarterly, January, April, J. M Jennings, Cashier. Hugh S. Wylie, Teller. F. R. McMeekin, T. W. Ruff, J. R. Curlee, J. J. Robertson. L eroy S-prir;.:, _T \T .Tennings.