WtiQfRi the county record! KLNGSTREE, S. C. J ^QUIg BRISTOL, Ed. & Prop'r. * A Russian philologist has invented ft new language, which he fondly imagines.. will fill the bill universally. He names it "Esperanto," but it is safe to predict that it will go the same route as "Volnpuk." It has only one thing to commend it. The name seems smoother than the effort of the Volapuk crank. Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio and . North Carolina each-win reflected glory this year by supplying one of the class leaders at Annapolis. The showing is a pleasant one, remarks the New York Times, as it indicates that no single pert of the country has a monopoly of brains, though three of these bright boys do come from an Atlantic Coast State, and the fourth from what is now well in the East. Of the philanthropists who hare given at least a million dollars to the cause of higher education in this counItry President Seth Low is the only one who is a college graduate. Girard, Bockefeller. Peabody, Cornell, Cooper, Bioh, Packer, Hopkins, Clark, Drex Yanderbilt, Stanford, DePauw, Bage, Lick and all the rest were selfr-' educated men, who made their money in business and owed their success in life to their native shrewdness and in. lK' dustry. v Says the American Agriculturist^ R. Judge Baker, of Indianapolis, Ind., used vigorous language concerning the practices of certain street railway official*. "If the law does not give relief there ought to be provided by popular subscription a lot of lamp posts v. for hanging up the fellows who go into I such business. With these Napoleonic systems of highway robbery I have no sympathy. These fellows will go on until they will finally induce the peoV pie of Jkhis country to lynch them." Indianapolis is not the only city that Jt', * is suffering from this sort of oppression. _____________ I The number of children in the pub-1 lie d*y schools of Boston is now abont 72,000. For the past five years the in- j kta nomred over 2000 a rear: r . hit year it was considerably larger. This is double the annual increase ten years ago, at which time, according to Superintendent Beaver's report, the ' average annual expenditure for new achoolhouses was less than $200 for i .-V each new pupiL For the last two! this expenditure has increased j & ', to nearly $268 for each child, bringing the cost of new'schoolhouses from less than $200,000 to more than $o00,000 annually. 34V The famons Giant's Causeway, on I }- the north ooast of Ireland, has been declared by the Irish Vice Chancellor to be private property, with no public i . right-of-way, in spite of the fact that1 during living memory the canseway has been freely visited by anybody H* who wanted to go there. The decision ? is substantially a distinct wrong to BR sightseers. There will soon be nowhere that a tourist may go without paying. Nobody thought of such a thing as inclosing the Giant's Causeway until there seemed a prospect $. that pence and prosperity were coming back to Ireland and bringing the tourist with them. I v The New York "World observes; When Morse found out the possibility of s mi ding messages from one place to another by the electric telegraph his ?? invention was only the clumsy beginjP\-' ning of a system. He used two wires , ' to complete the circuit. Presently somebody discovered that only one I "wire was necessary, because by "grounding" it at each end the earth oould be made to do the rest of the work. From that hour to this?from the time when it was discovered that the earth oould be made to do half the "work?it has been the problem of electricians to make the earth do all of it It has been certain that sooner or later ore should do our telegraphing without vires. Mr. Tesla now announces that he has accomplished this. He can1 aend signals for twenty miles without the use of wires. Any system that ends signals can be made to send messages. And when signalling for .twenty miles is possible, signalling for any conceivable distance is a thing nqt far off. This aarth of ours is a great magnet,, a gigantic dynamo. We have c.v * ?. ^ . ? . WEATHER AXD CROPS. The Greater Portion of the Corn Crop Being Laid By, Greatly Improved By Rains. Section Director Bauer's Weekly Crop Bulletin for the week ending July 13th, says: The rainfall for the week came in the form of local showers, quite general on the 4th and 8th and scattered during the remainder of the week. Some few places did not receive enough rain, while some received too much, with washing rains in Fairfield, Barnwell and Edgefield, but on the whole, there is sufficient moisture for the present need of crons. Eighteen places report- I ed w eekly measurements of less thau 1 inch; 15 from 1 to 2 inches; 13 from 2 to 3 inches; 3 over 3 inches, with a maximum fall of 7.25 at Oakland. The average of these 50 measurements is-1.50 while the normal is about 1.29. Hail fell, to the injury of the cropst in Chester, Anderson, Barnwell ana Clarendon. The amount of sunshine varied greatly. The estimated percentage of the possible ranged from 14 to 83, with about a normal percentage as the average for the State. Crops are in good condition and grow ing well. This is the tenor of most of the correspondent's reports for the week. The exceptions relate mainly to excessive rains in portions of Berkeley,* Chester, Clarendon, Fairtield, Richland, Orangeburg, Horry, Hamptonand Barnwell, while in spots over the central and western counties more rain 1 1 a -.-.1 T ;? u.. wouia prove ueneixuiBi. uavmg vj ui crops was hindered by heavy rains, and grass is threatening many fields, although no harm has as yet been done. On the whole, crop prospects are decidedly better than at any time during the season, except for such as are matured or ripening, including peaches, which are rotting badly, and melons which are inferior. The greater portion of the corn crop is being laid by, greatly improved by the recent rains. Borne fields that were badly parched by the previous hot, dry weather are revived and look promising. Early corn is about all in silk and tassel, but the stalks are low and generally small. It is firing in Berkeley, due to excess of moisture, and aUo in Darlington. Chinch bugs continue to damage it in Chester and York. Late corn without exception is in fine condition. Cotton continues to improve in most sections. The exceptions are portions of Berkeley, Bumter and Hampton where it is too wet and the plant has begun to shed it' fruit. It is vellow in Barnwell. Cotton made rapia growth and fruited heavily during the week. Half-grown bolls are numerous in the eastern counties, fields are oeginning to show up grassy in places and some will be laid by in foul condition. Somo cotton has already been laid by. The condition of the plant is verj promising over the entire State and in portions of Orangeburg as fine as ever seen. Sea-Island cotton is growing vigorously, fruiting heavily and no adverse conditions whatever noted. Tobacco cutting and curing making favorable progress. The reports on tobacco vary greatly, indicating a lack of uniformity in condition. Many report it poor, some about an average, and a few an excellent crop both as to yield and Quality. Bice continues to maintain its excellent oondition, but sustained some inS* try from caterpillars in Hampton. pland rice not doing well in WilliamsI bur8- , . Sweet potato draws still being transplanted and are doing well everywhere. Pastures revived and afford good grazing generally. Qrass for hay, making rapid growth. Melons are ripening and shipments are heavy. The size and quality of early melons are somewhat inferior, DUt later growiu are inure Grapes continue to rot badly. They are ripening ml being shipped ?rom the Southeastern counties. Scuppernong vines are heavily fruited and the fruit in healthy condition. LIVELY DEMAND FOR COTTON. Mills Throughout the State Are Buying the Staple. There is a lively demand for spot cot| ton for home consumption in this State. Orders have been placed at all the centers and it has been hard to fill them. Daring the last few days two agents for Spartanburg mills have purchased 2,250 bales in Charleston alone, the stock in the smaller towns being practically exhausted. The stock in a number of mills of the State has reached a low stage and it is said that not a few of the mills are experiencing trouble in consequence. It appears that the mills were iu doubt as to whether they would remain open all through the summer and for this reason they did not take on their usual stock. The demand for cotton goods has kept up, however, and them Ills have a sufficient number of orders to keep them going for some time. They now have to replenish their stock and find trouble in so doing. The Boston Watchman publishes Interesting Information regarding Formosa from the Rev. John L. Dearing: Among other Improvements proposed are those with refereno to the condition of the cities. Chinese cities are proverbial for their uncleanliness. Within a few weeks the government has had the condition of most of the larger towns examined ?/ foreign and native experts with reference to providing a water supply and sewerage system, and the report has been most favorable, and it is likely that at once steps are to be taken to make the conditions more healthful and cleanly. In one case they propose nothing less than to build a new city of Taiwan in South Formosa. The new city has been properly laid out and water supply and drainage arranged for, and now It is intended that the old city, with Its crumbling mud walls, its filth and abominations, shall be left If Japan succeeds In removing from her Chinese cities in Formosa those features which are a disgrace to every city of China, Pekin and Tien-tsin not excepted, she will deserve praise. An interesting problem is at least on her teDds. . .1 J >. y; :: ~'v " HOUSEHOLD~MATT?RS. Charcoal for Disinfecting. No good housewife is without her own special and favorite disinfectant. A simple and effective one may be made of charcoal, mixed with clear water. Speaking of charcoal, it is well to remark that a little of it sprinkled in water containing cut flowers will keep the water fresh for some time. Cleaning the Bread Pan. A woman hates worse than anything else the cleansing of the bread pan or bowl after having made up a "batch" of bread. Unless absolutely necessary to put the bowl away at once, fill it with cold water and let it stand for an hour. By that time all the hard particles will have become softened and fallen to the bottom of the bow!. The practice of putting the bowl aacl molding board away unwashed, in the flour bin, as so many do, is most reprehensible. The tiny particles will work off into the next lot of dough and ferment in the raising, and often spoils a whole baking of bread, while the baker is wondering what possesses the stuff. Absolute cleanliness shoo Id always be observed in attending to bread, cake or p istry cooking to obtain the best results. To Exterminate Insect*. Cleanliness is the best safeguard against insects, fresh air, soap and water being all powerful, if no scrap or refuse be left to decay unnoticed. Floor and shelves of pantries should be wiped with a damp cloth daily. The outside of all utensils kept perfectly clean, the slightest carelessness in thjs particular being sufficient to bring a whole army of pests. Covered utensils not in daily use should have their covers left slightly ajar to admit air and prevent mustiness, and ofttimes rust. The refrigerator should, be kept near a window, so that it may be frequently flooded with air and light. In no place is more apparent the housewife's thrift, painstaking and untiring energy. Camphor will prevent the ravages of mice. For waterbugs fill cracks and crevices with a paste made of two tablespoons of plaster of paris, one teaspoon of sugar and one tablespoon of green tea. To guard against buffalo bugs the floors should be wiped with water in which spirits of turpentine have been mixed?to a large pailful of hot water add a pint of turpentine. This is a perfect preventive against this pest, so much dreaded bj the best housekeep ers, and is well worth trying by those whose closets and pantries have been infested by these dreadful vermin. Outdoor Breakfast Rooms. At one magnificent summer cottage on Long Island the summer breakfast room lias been erected in the form of a nympheum ?literally translating this means a resort or playground of nymphs, and it cost a very handsome sum of money, indeed. The chief nymph of this Greek bower gave carte blanche to her architect, who first covered sixty square feet of level turf, overlooking the blue Sound's waters, , with a charming mosaic floor, in polished tiles, of white, blue and green. From this spring up a series of thirty white marble Greek columns, to support a roof of glass, so arranged as to slide and fold back, and thus open this lovely room without walls to the blue bearens. Directly in ths centre of the tiled floor a sunk basin, eight feet square, holds ornamental fish and water lilies, and out of the centre - ? m arVil a springs a vei v uua> miuS ...... ? nymph, who stands in a perpetual shower of sparkling water. Water plants 8-nd blooming flowers are banked about the edge of the fountain, here and there ia bronze tubs stand palms and ferns, and on carved perches are a snow-white cockatoo, with a rose topknot, and a dazzling red and green African parrot. A home-made nympheum may be built of wire. A dry floor is the prime requisite for one of these fairy apartments, and for that reason a place is selected in the garden, and the first thing is to lay the space with tiles, or have it covered with a beautiful gravel of selected little colored pebbles and snowy sand. Around or over this the wire framework is placed, climbing rose branches and grape vine tendrils wound in and out of the wire mesh, and there the delicate furniture, breakfast tables and chairs are placed.? Boston Herald. * Kecipe*. Strawberry Foam?Wash, hull and cut, or mash slightly, one cupfal of strawberries. Beat the whites of two eggs till stiff, add two heaping tablespoonfule of powdered sugar and the berries, and beat until very thick and stiff, use a nroaa dowi buu a wub egg-be iter. Pile it lightly on a glass dish, and serve with sponge cake. | Deviled Fingers?Cat bread, free from crust, into slices four inches long by one and a half inches in width. Plaoe two of these slices together, with the following mixture spread between: To each fi aely chopped hard-boiled egg add a tablespoonful of finely minced cold boiled ham and a tablespoonful of lemon juice, a teaspoonful of grated cheese and ahalf-teaspoonful of French mustard. Sheep's Kidneys en ifrochetto?From three kidneys remove the ihin membrane that covers each kidney and split without cutting the cords. Sprinkle each piece with a pinch each of salt and pepper, dip in melted butter and broil over a good fire. Have ready on a heated serving platter a sauce made as follows: Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add a tablespoonful of minced parsley and the juice of a lemon. Mix well together, lay the kidneys in the seasoning,sturaing them once. Then ' V " 7jT ' ?' ' v 1MMM BARTOW PHILOSOPHER REGISTERS A LARGE, HEALTHY KICK. MUCH WATER, BUT LITTLE LIGHT. Hot Weather of the Past Month Reminds Him of the Prediction That the World 1? Drying up. I wonder if there is a town or city in the world whose gaslight and waterworks satisfy the people. I know that it is chronic to complain of corporations, but I am obliged to consider myself an injured person. Almost every night I have to go down town to help nurse and comfort a little sick child who is very dear to me, and although the street has a gaslight, I collide with something or somebody or fall into a ditch every dark night I travel. I ran against a big fat negro woman the other night, and she used disrespectful language at me. Last night I had in my hand a bucket of blackberries that my daughter gave me, and I fell over a stepping stone and spilled them all and skinned my aged shins and dropped my cane, and, it took me some time to find it. I've a good notion to bring suit for damages and have a receiver appointed. That so-c8lled gaslight does not throw its effulgent rays a hundred feet, and is not lighted more than half the time, and now that lightning bugs have come again, I think the company ought to catch some and put them in a bottle and do away with the gas. But I don't see any sense in having gas with the lamp posts a quarter of a mile apart. We don't want to carry lanterns and pay for gas, too. That's all I have got to say about this gas business, and my folks have hinted mat ine iauit is more in my eyes ana my legs than in the dim, religions light, but I know better. I am not on the superannuated list by a good deal. I work every day in my garden and get all in a sweat of perspiration, and then clean up and feel good and honest. The long drought hurt me pretty bad, but the garden survived it, and now we have vegetables abundant. The waterworks man never caught me stealing more than my share of water but once, and he didn't make much fuss about it. He is a very considerate man. Up north the companies put meters at every customer's residence, and he pays for what he uses, but we have got more water here than the town can use, and don't have to be stingy. What a blessed thing it is! Water, plenty of water! Water in the kitchen and at the back door and in the front yard and the garden, beside a bathtub upstairs and downstairs. Pure water, fresh from a big spring that gushes from the hillside. No river nor pond nor reservoir nor filtering machines nor microbes nor bacilli. No well rope to break nor windlass to get loose and knock one of the children in the head. No cleaning ont and finding dead chickens that we had been drinking on. The fact is, I never knew the comfort of water, abundant water, until we planted our waterworks in Cartersville. Strange to say, they never came until we abolished whisky?that is, the saloons. A great English poet and jurist says: "Its cool refreshment drained by fevered lips gives pleasure more exquisite than nectarean juice," and Coleridge's sum of human agony was to have? "Water, water everywhere, But not a drop to drink." During the late long heated term in June it was alarming to read from the weather bureau that the world was slowly but surely drying up, and the rainfall was decreasing every year. What an awfnl calamity is to come to somebody some timet God grant that it may not come in our day, nor our children's nor children's children! God grant that it may not come at alll But the scriptures do say that this world shall be burned np, and I heard Professor Proctor, the great .astronomer, deliver a lecture on the "Birth, Growth, Maturity, Decay and Destruction of a World" that made the hair almost stand on end, for he proved that the world had passed its meridian and was now on a rapid down grade of decay. "Kapid, rapid, did I say? Yes, rapid for a planet, but it may be a million years distant." That lets us down easy, and that night the young people danced and the sports played poker as usual. Just postpone the judgment out of sight and human nature will take the chances. But the blessed seals that hold the rain in the heavens have at last been opened, and once more man and beast and nature reioice in a temperate at mospbere and a moistened earth. It was distressing to read of the sunstrokes ar d the suffering in the great cities, and to think of the little innocent children and the invalids in the garrets and crowded "rooms of the tenement honses. Oh, when will the good things of this world be equally apportioned? Many of us have far more than our share, but we are still ungrateful and long for more. My opinion is that, independent of all revelation, there is obliged to be another life in another world just to equalize things. "Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst good things and Lazarus evil things, but now Lazarus is comforted and thou art tormented." That is a good text I for us all to ruminate about once or twice or thrice in a while. I tell you, [ my friends, it is a fearful thing to be I rich and selfish. I'm afraid to risk it But sometimes I do Cfttch myself wishing that I had a rich * ' 4 ". )' " : - ' , old bachelor to die and leave me a pile 1 of money to frolic with in my old age. t Or that Mrs. Arp would realize her part of that Holt estate in England. Good gracious! She should have a car- -2 riage and a pair of Kentucky bays before * *1 next Sunday to ride to church. But it ie ; an old proverb that if wishes were tjjS horses we would all take a ride. And there is an old Persian fable that telle 1 ' -V? how an old man was always wishing JOf for something and one night as he and his old wife were brooding over their poverty and wishing for different things, a genus came iu and told them they might have three wishes, and he Jj would grant them. Of course,they were happy beyond expression,and as theoid -xi man was hungry he wished right away :-\l for a plum pudding. Immediately it waa S set before him in a silver platter, and [ vft this foolish wish made the old woman so mad that she exclaimed: "I wish, that it was hung on your nose." Prea> to, quick the pudding jumped up aad v was fastened to the old man's nose. ; They had but one wish left, and the old jd man had to use that in wishing th? M\ pudding loose again. And so the good genus left them as poor as they were before he came. I suppose thai . \ fable was designed to teach us that it is better to trust the Lord and he content with our lot. Nevertheless, most of us would try the genus if he would come. Once more let me write of Johu *. '.j? Quincy Adams and his beautiful poem. -s..s I have received it from just a score of . Vj good friends, but only two of them ? have the full poem of twenty stanzasof eight lines each. Some of them ; have fourteen, some twelve, and on* JgJ only eleven. One from Mrs. Hollo- . man, of Eatonton, has not the laststanza, beginning? "These are the wants o! mortal man, 3 I cannot need them long." - /gS Bnt has instead a stanza that I do not find in any other copy. Which is the revised version I do not know. The poem is remarkable not only for its thought and felicity of expression, bnt because its author, "the old man eloquent," was the only president who- <28 ever wrote a poem or even a verse, ao ;;Jj far as we know. As some of these lady correspondents have suggested that Goldsmith. ^ was the author of the lines, "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long." Let me say that Young preceded1 Goldsmith forty-four years, and hisexpression is, "Man wants but little^ nor that little long." Goldsmith onlyadded a word or two to make the measure fit his ballid.?Bill Arp, in ' Atlanta Constitution. OF*L?BANON. Cnrfrraa Foreinf Process to Fattem Them for Slaschter. Harry Fenn, the artist, has written ' j9 for St Nicholas an account of hla visit 4 to the famous cedars of Lebanon, : which place la also noted for ks silk. ;j?R Mr. Fenn says: Wherever a handful of earth can be made to rest upon a ^ ledge, there a mulberry plant grows. It is a picturesque and thrilling sight ? to see a boy lowered by a rope over the- y^j precipice, carrying a big basket of earth and cuttings of mulberry twigs to plant k^g In bis banging garden. The crop of leaves, fodder for the worms, Is gath- -uj ered in the same way. By such patient * ^ and dangerous industry have these- -f; hardy mountaineers been able to make their wilderness of rock blossom into [5 brightly colored silks. Not a single 4 i leaf Is left on the trees by the time the yj voracious worms get ready to spin their jl cocoons, but a second crop comes on '] later, and a curious use is made of .f t*\at The tree owner purchases one of ' M those queer big-tailed Syrian sheep, the tail of which weighs twenty pound* when at the full maturity of its fatness, and then a strange stuffing process begins, not unlike the fattening of the"Strasburg geese. When the sheep can eat no more the women of the ;J| house feed it, and it is no uncommon sight to see a woman going out to make 13 au afternoon call leading her sheep by a string and carrying a basket of mul-. berry leaves on her arm. Having arrived at her friend's house, she squat* on the ground, rolls a ball of mulberry , ?j! leaves In her right hand, and slips it . ,-j into the sheep's mouth, then works the- . it sheep's Jaws up and down with the other hand till she thinks the mouthful ^ -U has been chewed enough, when she thrusts it down the throat of the unfor- : ^ tunate animal. The funny part of the business is that probably half a dozen gossips of the village are seated around the yard, all engaged at the same operation. Of course, the sheep get lm- V mensely fat, and that Is the object, for \ at the killing time the fat Is fried out and put into Jars, as meat for the win- ' . ter. _ A very curious point has been'sub-," mltted to the Derbyshire Football Assoclation for decision. It Is as to whether artificial limbs are to be permitted in the play. It seems that the Burton . } Football Club had several members of its team severely Injured In consequence of a member of the Matlock /vlrttrnn liorlnn wIotta^ wlfh on Vicvcu uai vu TTJUU au aitiuviai arm. It .was reported that Id Derbyshire alone there are a number of foot- ' ball players who, owing to the loss of \ an arm, use artiticlal limbs. They are described as "regular terrors" on the football field, since when once they get "on" to the ball they swing their dnm- * my arms around with such force as to either fracture slculls or cause concussion of the brain. It has now been determined by the association that artificial limbs are henceforth to be barred Jn all football games. The Alabama statesman who has brought In a bill forbidding women to wear any article resembling masculine . X clothing, Including bloomers, tights, divided skirts and shirt waists, is rather: , an Iconoclast than an old fogy, so much Ji have times and fashions changed, J