Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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III! Ill m I "THAT SIMPLE ROOF THAT DON'T LEAK, We .have a large stock oh hand, with an other car load coming in, with 5-V and 2-V Lock. Also galvanized and corrugated roof ing of all kinds. A metal (galvanized) cov ered roof or siding gives the utmost resis tance to destructive elements? rain, snow, frost, sulphurous cinders from locomotives, or anything that ordinarily attacks or des troys a roof. I ?WE INVITE? your attention to our new method of money saving for the economical Housewife. Wei will carry a complete stock of GROCERIES " at all time's that we sell by the package or case, at wholesale pHces. Practice economy by buying your Gro series from us. nnucnoun nAnu;*Atit Ml. "Anderson, S. C. STRAIGHT TALKS WITH THE FARMERS each plant may occupy one square foot cr a little more space. You will find it easier to r^ray or sprinkle with paris green when they are crow ded. Remember that yon will have toi (By Capt. Charles Petty) 1 .fight the bugs off if you have potatoes,.,' Spartanburg Her*ld- _| Cabbage plants set out this month What can the industrious farmer do these February days? He finds thkt they are increasing in length and by the last of the week there will be about an hour o! daylight more than ho had at the flret. week in January. The recent rains have made the ground so wet that there will be no plowing done this week. Then, if the cold wave reaches us the freezes will keep the ground wet Jt Is probable that there will be a few days in the month suitable for plpwing. But there is other work that Is needed. Prepare firewood enough for the spring months. Get In plenty of good wood for the cook stoves. The pas ture fence needs attention. New posts should take the place of the weak and decayed ones. Fill the lot and stables with litter from the woods. Look after tools and see that they are in good order and have a full supply on hand. If a faw d?ys should sell able for plowing, get about the work. Over land broken in January run the cutawav Hfipi-n~ thzi t?? ow?fwC? may be pulverised. Thero Is enough work to keep you buoy if you will 'get about it and do t;. The February Gax?vU When the temperature rises above 60 degrees and does not drop below 45 at eight the garden fever begins to rise. One feels like digging or scrat ching the ground. . .There are aonie handy tools need ed. A pronged hoe; an ordinary cot ton hoe; 'a. narrow digging hoe, for merly called the "sprouting , hoe," a light hoe with a small digger to it, for making trenches and storing the soil near te* der plantai a small trowe. made of steel. That comes in handy in taking-out'grass and weeds from small plants and transplanting. Then there I* a five-fingered iron digget which is made like the human hand, handy for cultivating plants too small, for the larger hoes or im p?.'meatn; a strong Iron-tooth rake can be used for many purposes. This outlay will cost little and will last nli summer. An hpur'e work in the mor?lng and two hours work in the afternoon win be worth more than quarts of-these specific dopes which cure everything. If you have rot planted before, put out. onion sets, lettuce and spinach seed should go In. Curl leaf .mustard Beet seed and salsify should be plant will give greens 10 April and Way. ed this month, also carrots and par snips, if you raise them. Sow your asparagus, pepper tbell and bot kinds) and celery seed this month Cauliflower seed should also be sown. When the ground is In good condition this will be a busy time for gardeusrs. Plant yr.ur potatoes and English peas the ?rat time when the ground ?t ?rjr. ?? your ground la scarce, you may plr.nt your potatoes thick so that will give you early cabbage. By bow Ing seed now you will have plants for the lat crop. The egg plant grows well here, but yon will have to keep the potato bugs from it Culti vate the peas-and other things plant ed In the fall when' the ground is dry enough to stir. If you have fine manure from lot or yard, top dreis the ground with it after planting seed. Plant tomato seed in boxes or where you can protect them. Remember Remember.that clear hot water sets dirt of-tho ordinary variety whereas soapy hot water loosens it Remember, that although clear, hot Water Bets ordinary dirt, It removes coffee and fruit stains; but clear, cold water removes chocolate and cocoa. Remember that Anything in which soda and cream r.t tartar are ubu? must be cooked Immediately, as the carbonic acid generated by the soda and acid esoan?* nnicMy. Anything made with light baking powder can safely stand for a tew momenta, as heat is needed to make hakims powder expand. Remember never to us? hot water for china or. gas* on which gold is J used. Glass decorated with gold should be left In water as little as possible. Remember that a little cornstarch mixed with salt will .keep it from logging with damoness, A few grants of rice can be mixed With ?alt in shakers for the same purpose. Remember that grease Is absorbed very quickly by wood. Always have sheets of blotting paper in the kitch en. If grease la spilled on the floor or tables, it Should be quickly taken up before it has a chance to sink into the wood. iVemoroner that if yon deaf re smoot*'-uixed mustard it should be mixed .th a little boiled milk, in stead or water. It will be much creamier and smoother and will keep; molat longer than that mixed wtlh wat?r. Remember that if a little too much salt Is put in soup or gravy a pinchi of brow sugar will take away the] salty jaet?. Remember that clothes mend** be fore they are washed wear longer than thos? mended afterward. For i washing lfterea?** the site of holes I and rents. Columbia, Feb. 8.?The House dur ing its morning session. passed a number of uncontested local bills to the Senate. A message was received from the Governor in which it was said that the newspapers misrepre sented hint When they foiled to print all of his volpmlnous testimony be-%} < fore the State Hospital inveatlgattag/ coinmittec, MATHETICi 'By Frederick J. MATHEMATICAL FREAKS When a baby, three years old and Bcarcely able to talk, reols off the cor rect answer to a complex arithmetical question with Innocent unconcern and when the opening-mouthed father, Wito has been painfully working over the problem with pencil and paper, roes over his figures again and finds that his baby is right and he hi wrong, this proud father is perfectly justified In believing In the doctrine of inher ent genius, or In any one of a num ber of soperratural things. Such an uncanny experience would probably leave the father with feel mgs of uncertainty and forebodings besides pride in his child's geniality. His first thought would likely be of the family physician, and. his sec end, cm of uncommon, uncomfortable respect lor >?s precocious heir. CausB, tho famous German mathe matician and. probably, the last enco in every brunch of this science of his day, began his career as an un usual individual at the early age of three and in the manner indicated. His father was paying off his work men one day for part time In propor tion to their regular daily wages and Baby Gauss "was playing nearby on the floor, engaged, perhaps in nothing more weighty than a. baby's natural attempt to swallow a tabio leg and wondering whv' the thing would not go down. When tbe elder Gauss had finished casting up the amounts which be was to pay, bis three-year old called out: "But that 1b not right, father. It makes so much," naming the correct amount The father went ove- his figures and found that the child's answer was indeed the cor rect one. Gauss, tho mathematician, however, can hardly be classed with justice among mathematical freaks. He de. veloped into the greatest mathemati cian of his day. His wonderful abil ity for montai calculation was re tained throughout his life. Perhaps, the most remarkable cal culator produced among: a western people was Dase, a German. Johann Martin Zacharias Dase, was born in north Germany in 1834. He began bis school life at two and one-half years of age. Although of low general ability, he was an arithmetical wizard and figures were, slaves of his en chantment At IS years of age, Dase went upon the stage, giving exhibi tions as a mental calculator. Later, be employed his gift in the service of science, and was engaged in the com putation of logarithms and factors at the time of his death at the age of 37. Dase had but slight education. He was dull in everything but calculation even, in mathematics. It is taid that professors,whom he served In comput ing valuable tables, tried in vain to hammer the simplest theories of mathematics into' his head. In the processes of arithmetic, howeber, his power was practically unlimited. One stupendous accomplishment of Dase was the multiplication of two numbers of 100 figures each, which feat he performed In elj?ht acd three quarter hours. Few people could re member one . number of 100 figures, much' less remember two such num bers, make successfully 100 multipli cations, and, in conclusion, remember and sdd the 100 products. It takes one's breath away to think of the 10, 000 figures in the grand total. Many instances are given of almost instantaneous solutions by Dase of vexing arithmetical problems of ev eryday' experience. , In him figures had a master, and fraction and Inte ger fell into any of their infinite combinations required with precision, speed and docility of willing slaves. As on all-round calculator, Dase sur passed even modern calculating ma chines. His intimate knowledge of the qual ities of figures and constant practice In their handling equipped him with many buort-cuca tor tnelr manipula tion. His memory for figures was wonderful ; This memory probably evnlaina the facility With which ho could give the roots of large numbers. He would aive square roots of num bers of 100 figures in 5? minutes. Air bo Dase had nearly as unusual ability to count by sight as In mental calcu lation. It is recorded that he could count sheep, people, or articles before bim In masses thirty at n glance, whereas, most of us count by ones. Tom* Fuller was one of nature's freaks. .He was brought from Africa to this county as a slave at the age pf 14. An illiterate negro, scarce half a atop removed from savagery, sprung from a people whoso ability to count ends with their tenth Anger and to whom all higher numbers are "many" or "many-many." Puller, neverthe less, -developed an ability to handle ?sum tuenwiy far snore vast pos- i B?sead by the average highly educated man. In everything but calculation Fuller was heavy, stupid. The mystery of his ability is heightened by the fact that the first record of it occurs when Fuller is 79. By. it ho earned tbe name of the Virginia Calculator. He was able among other weird arithme tical performances to reduce years to seconds. Further, he could multi ply mentally a niae-Agure number by s nine-figure number. To understand tbe magnitude of this, task, ono may Imagine ; how many of- bis acuaiat snces wotdd care to multiply without help or pencil and peper, 458,097,263 by 68M50,tft?. Alt conditions of freak calculators arc Included Ji. the -?-arld's history of prodigies. Sem? of them have been all-round gealui of low int incapable or lily of counting. CJth- >f eulturo and J AL FREAKS Hatkin many Interests, but of no morked genius except in calculation. Varions theories have been ad vanced to explain array the marvelous in the arithmetical prodigy. Arith metic, it is pointed out, Is the inost self-contained of all sciences. One need have little or no education to be master of Its operations. Its proc?s, ses are essentially processes of count, ing. Once an interest in calculation has been aroused and a good memory for. figures has been'developed, dex terity in handling tedious arithmetical problems 1b natural. Modern psychologists, therefore, are inclined to believe that abnormal ability to handle figures mentally is the necessary outcome of interest in arithmetic, coupled with unusual op portunity to practice. Many of the famous calculators have been children unable on account of sickness or oth er causes to romp with playmates. One was born without arms or legs. Study of records of calculating pro digies shows that mental keenness is MATH FREAKS GAL 2 not a requisite. Some of them have been too stupid to grasp the elements of mathematical theory. Their werk has been purely counting, shortening by practice and memory. Such a man was Jedediab Buxton. who developed his remarkable talent for reckoning by keeping a mental free beer record. He was a man of no education an dof no ideas. His calculations were made slowly and painfully, nevertheless; he could han dle immense numbers, and once men tally squared a number of 36 figures in two and one-half minutes. The latter-day psychologist does not want to see a proof of the doctrine of genius in the arithmetical freak. He treats to feel that these cases ad mit of natural explanations. Yet. in the case of Dase, the degree of ability is unnatural ,even making liberal al lowance for the effect constant prac tice. Two 39-ligure numbers multl nlled together stands s. record for all other mathematical prodigies. Dase, master magician, handled thus two 10-Sgure numbers in forty minutes. This Is how such a task looks on pa per. Multiply mentally without aid of writing the numbers, 4785,456.657. 859,907,967,864,863.367,987,876. 98*J,876 by r*,687,967.845,?97, 4O(860.988.767, 070,005.756,987.876. Ho could multiply two eigbuflgurc numbers in one min ute. In view of his -wonderful feats, it would seem thai Date had been born with n genius for handling fig ures. SUPREME COURT IN FRANK CASE Decision to Decide Fate of Ac cused Man In Phagan Case Atlanta, Feb. 9.?The supremo court decision that will mean a new trial or the" gallows for Leo. M. Frank is expected this we*?V. and nie y come tomorrow afternoon as soon as the court has formally resumed Its sitting. It a new trial is granted, it is taken us a matter of course, that a chnnge of venue will be asked on account of alleged local prejudice, and that the next trial will take place (n some other Georgia town. If a new trial is refused nothing will stand between Frank and thd gallows but the hope of executive clemency on the one hand the possi bility of an appeal to tho United States supreme court on the other. There has been a great deal of talk about the grounds and possibilities of an appeal to the. U. S. supreme court, and many Atlantians think the case will surely be taken to that tribunal in the event that the State is against Frank. The normal expectation is, of course, that if the present appeal is refused. Frank trill hang, but his at torneys and friends will never bow to the inevitable until they hare ex hausted every possibility of an appeal that state and federal laws hold ont ta ?hont Frank was convicted a?rerai months ago in the Fulton superior court for the murder of Mary Pha gan, a young girl who worked in the pencil factory ot which he was sup erintendent. OLDEST BANXBB PASSES OVER. (By Associated Press.) Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 9.?Pres ton HuBsey, aged 88 years, dean of local bankers and said to bo the old est banker in the United States/died at his home here this afternoon. Quality! Quality! /V._1'?_ V^uamy You get the Quality when you get Gowans. Webster defines Quality as follows: "Distinctive' or Peculiar char acter or kind; d'stinctive irait, power or capacity or virtue; distinction or individuality." kinds of Inflammation, and all That describes Gowans, King of Externals. For ail kinds of colds are caused by inflammation Gowans is what yon want. Gowans scatters rnfJamniation. No dangerous fumes to inhale. No danger ous drue -s to take inside. Voii just rub it on the outside. Buy a bottia TODAY* AH druggists. M\/r?nti mun?tL sAJ i Concortl, N. C j AN ANDERSON BILL HAS BECOME A LAW To Permit the People to Vote on Taxing Abutting Property The house of repr?sentatives Mon day gave final favorablo action to the senate bill by Senator Sullivan, to permit Anderson to assess abutting prcpertyto raise money In part pay ment for municipal improvements. Tills now becomes a law when the governor signs it. Two other Anderson bills were tabled and withdrawn. Ono was to permit Anderson to increase her bonded Indebtedness. Mr. Scott's bill to regulato traction engines passing over county bridges was passed and sent to the senate. ABTfC EXPLOREK DEAD. (By'Associated Press.) Washington, Fob. 9.?William Bell lived through the hardships and pri vations of the Oreely Artie expedi tion in 1882 to die in bed at his home, here today. He was ono of tho two living survivors of that gallant party. Jim Woodward Will Run Again Atlanta, Feb. 9.?With Orvllle H. Hall's hat in the ring. Uncle Jim Woodward, a candidate to succeed himself as mayor, and other prospec tive candidates offering, it appears that the mayoralty campaign this year will be an interesting affair. As things are at present believed to be lined up. It will be almost im possiblo for any man to defeat Mayor Woodward, so strongly Is ho en trenched with tho "Woodward crcivd," who have a way of sticking to him against anybody and every body. But many things are stirring in city politics. New line" are fcrni ing, and by the time the primary ac tually comes off things may have a different complexion. If the race ing, however. It si conceded by ex were to take place tomorrow morn pert politicians that there Isn't a man in the city of ItAanta who would have the slightest hope of defeating Wood ward. ONVICT CAMPS IN GEORGIA Atlanta, Fob.' 9.?Investigation Into convict camp conditions In Atlanta have aroused Interest in the general situation all over the state, and the meiwbors of the prison commission, always vigilant in their inspection and business tours, are redoubling their care to see that everywhere the law Is carried out as Intelligently as circumstances will permit. There are now in Georgia between 175 and 200 convict camps, and about 6,000 convicts, practically all em ployed on the roads of the state. There are about six hundred convicts at tho state farm, including the 200 at the state reformatory. Among the chief duties of the three members of the state prison commis sion is the inspection of these camps. Of the three commissioners, R. K. Davison. T. E. Patterson, and E. h. Rainey, ono is always on the road, and sometimes two Of them, looking after the business of! the state. The state farm Is a pretty big In stitution. There are. eighty ploughs to be looked after and the farm raises enough oates, hayn cor, and vege tables and fresh meat to supply all the inmates, and during last two years under, the efficient direction and sup ervision of the prison board, it made a profit of $47,000, that went directly Into tho state treasury. In addition to Inspecting prison farm and camps, the prison commis sion has to pass on applications for pardon and parole. During 1912.. 195 pardon applications were considered and recommendations made. Green Haired Girls Visions in Atlanta Atlanta, Feb. 9.?If on your next trip to Atlanta, gentle friend and reader, you beheld on the sunshiny sidewalk or Peachtree street some blonde vision of girlish loveliness with eea-grcen hair or cerise curls, pause before yougiv e yourself Into the hands of a policemena. Hesitate Eefore you. decide that Reason bas eon dethroned and that you may next be seeing pink ?l?phants with patent leather shoes. You may really be seeing what you think you see. for the fad of wearing your hair of color to match your dress has come over from Paris. The advanced hairdressers say that women will soon not only be wearing green hair, but any other color that happens to harmonize with their gowns. The novelty, they say, is al ready raging In Paris, as a result at an Innovation by. the Russian bal let When Pavlona, who is later this teaser coming to Atlanta theatre by the way, danced at the Odeon In Paris > doxen or moremembers of her corpr. le ballet entered singly,'each clad la i l?tht robe of different color, and he dancer's hair was In each Instance die same color as her gown. One had icn-greon hair, another maroon, an chor helotrope. another blue. Before a week had passed, exquis tely gowned women were appearing tn the streets and in the fashlouabio -estauranta, with their hair colored is those of the dancers, in prefect larmeny with their customs. An Atlanta hairdresser says that he'transformations can be made, pro dded one baa blonde hair to begin vtth, with pomades and. tlstnmewltb Hth pomades and tints that do not tormunently injure or change the ne ural color. Colored arUflc^LJtau s also used. : GILT EDGE Fsrtilizcr THE ANDERSON PHOSPHATE ft OIL GO. Are making a Fish, Blood and Bone goods this year that probably has no equal on the mar ket. When all the Fertilizer is at the same price, why not get the Best? There is nothing better than this Fish, Blood and Bone goods and we are not at all sure there is any as good. It will not pay you to take any chances on your Fertilizer, for by the time you find you have practically lost a crop, it is too late to repair the damage. , When you lose a crop you lose a years work and that is a serious matter with all of us. Our Fish, Blood and Bone is used in our 8-3-3 and higher grades?not in the lower grades. Fish, Blood and Bone costs more than die lower grade sell for. No better crops , were made in Anderson, Ab beville, Greenwood, Neweberry, Oconee and Pickens Counties last year than where our goods were used. i I i The Piedmont Insurance Agency Second fleer of Brown Buiiulug North Main Street Gives prompt and careful attention to all kinds of Insurance, including Fire, Tornado, Health and Accident, Burglary and Liability. Also, Fidelity, Official, Judicial and Con tract Bonds. Let our solicitor beat the Fire Engine to your property. M. M. MATTIS?N, Pres. J/W. LINLEY. V Pres. C. EUGENE TR?BBLE, Mgr. & Treasurer JAMES L. FARMER, Ass;t Mgr. Oar Motto It "SERVICE." Phone 305 1 at I Our Buyer Wired us this morning that we might expect an other Car of those FAN v* ivunu mines oy Friday morning* 6th inst. They are all TOP PY, SMOOTH, WELL BROKE and you will miss a treat if you fail to see them before you buy, COME and take a LOOK. Terms and Prices always right. The Fretwell Company