Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A WINTER DAYBREAK. b t The cock crows in the windy winter morn, Then must I rise and fling the curtain by, All d'ark! but for a strip of fiery sky Behind the ragged mountains, pal:ad and r torn. One panet g'itters in the icy cold. Poised like a hawk above tlw nozen pck; And now again the wid r.or -wester And bends the cypress, shuddering, to his fold, 5Vhi': every timber. every caseaent creaks. But still the sky:arks sing aloud and bold; Tho v:ooded hills arise; the white cascade Shakes with wild laughter all the silent shadowy glade. 0 0. R ECENT news item to the effect that several students were expelled from one of the e minor colleges of Ohio for pranks on Hallowe'en night is of more than passing interest to all who are struggling with the great problem of education. One naturally infers that these students had not done anything hopelessly bad or criminal. The coun try is not agitated over the details of their pranks. They possibly broke the college rules and were in disgrace with the faculty to be so arbitrarily eject ed, but there Is a confession of weak ness in the government of the college dictators who could not enforce their own rules. Men of experience and au thority who send boy culprits home for discipline which was lacking within the college walls are exploiting t' 3 in adequacy of their own educa-inal nethods. Where were the nrofessors on 'witches' night, when the spirits of mis chief are abroad and license is per mitted for pranks? Why were they not larking with the boys, renewing their own youth and keeping the father of the man within bounds? The revival Ist's method of salvation instruction for the "overflow" would be good for some of our educational institutions. Develop them into semi-savagery by hazing and football; goad them through their classics with whip and spur, but have pity on them when they overflow the rigid bounds prescribed by ethical laws, and think twice before you cast a boy loose on the world. History repeats itself. Here is a true story that fits this occasion. It hap pened a dozen years ago: The family of Hiram Lenox. Presi dent of the Home National Bank, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Natural Gas Company, sat at breakfast wait ing for the head of the house to ask a ~le afety a-matter of UId Mksafety, for that good man le frke It exceeingly uncomfora erfore the they transgresse 2'heefoe te oatmeal and coffee rw Id witig ad te newspaper folded Iat his plate was unread. Mr. Lenox liked his morning paper at first hand. On this momilng his selfishness was a kindness to them since they could not know the news that awaited them. The family consisted of two young daughters and Mrs. Lenox, a nervous, -fretfunl-looking woma-1, who had learned the lessons of life from a hard master. There was a boy who was at - college, who had the distinction of being the "son of Dombey" Lenox. Much was expected of him as sole heir to the honors of his house. He had seen his mother bullied and his sisters browbeate'n all his young life, and he had his own ideas of life and liberty. "Where was father last night that be should be s-e late at breakfast?" -asked one of the girls. "He attended a meeting of the Fe! loweraft Club and gave a talk on 'De velopment by Grace' last night, and - naturally is tired this morning." said the mother, fretfully adding: "I wish he would be more punctual." "Do say grace, mother, and let us eat. I shall be ferociously wicked all day if I have to wait another moment," this from the youngest daughter, a mnerry maiden of fourteen. He came in at that moment with a churlish "good morning." and the vigor with which he pulled out his chair and dumped himself into it savored strong. ly of ill temper. "For what we are about to receive." was delivered in the same wax spIrit, and was followed by a grumbling complaint because the breakfast was cold. This incident being disposed by a new supply of hot food there was the usual breakfast chorus of rattling dishes and spoons. and as Mr. Lenox fed himself with one hand he turned his paper with the other. Suddenly he gave a savage ex clamation, and, pushing the table from him, nearly overset it. when the front door opened quickly ard a tall youth entered hastily uting costume, car-i ave been expelled. It wasn't any bing bad-only some foolish tricks re played on the professors. Ther vere five others-I was not the onriy ne. I asked their pardon, and it wll ' ust be suspension, but I am as sorry s I can be, but It was not meant for arm-nothimg but a little fun. Ills mother had risen quickly with he single word, "David!" One of his isters took his valise from his tremb- t uiz hand. The other gave him a 0 hair. The father alone relaxed not a nuscle. b "So this comes of all we have done C or you? A disgrace that will follow 1 -ou to the end of your days: It is writ- 0 en here-here where all may read and b [now what my son has achieved:" The human document before the an ;ry man seemed to shrivel as the cold, ;arcastic tones and the scathing words ell on the air. "Forgive me this time, father. I am t 20t a thief or a murderer. I have not 1 urt any one-only played a foolish t trick that night-I helped to hoist a I alf to the lecture room of the college. n We did not hurt the dumb brute-we tied the dinner bell to its neck. I dare 3 iay the professors themselves cut up such capers when they were young-- r ind homesick-tired of being men when they were only boys. Forget it, father, r and forgive me-I'll ask-God-to-for. 3 iVre me-too:" "That will do." The cold. eutting I tones struck like a knife to the boy's soul. "I have this to say, and then I am done with the whole disgraceful subject. I shall not forgive you I I t live a hundred years. It is not thel I first of your misdemeanors, and it will . not be the last. ButTou shall not drag me down. From now on you have no home under this 'roof. You can make t your own way in the world, but expect 1 no help from me. Go: Let me never see your face again:" But the mother in Mrs. Lenox was I awakened now. She sprang to her feet. "Hiram! How dare you disown your own flesh and blood? If David goes, then you cast us out together, for I go with him!" "Mother, dearest, don't plead for me -i am not worth it. He can never take back what he has said. He is right. I am not his flesh and blood any longer-I am like him now, iron and steel: Let me go! And may God deal with him when his time comes for asking mercy as he has dealt with mue" The door closed after him, without a word-a good-bye-he was .gone, leav ing a stern and upright judge and those frightened, weeping women. This was the boy who had been named David because David was a man after God's own heart. Did they never remember el, sinned and a offla in the Indian Territory lives an outlaw of civilization He is a fe.iv less Shot, a train robb-er a ear hold-up men. He 's know as Deaeo devil Dick Farg se know s Dare-b ~ real name has never been kr .i tops sho I.,~~ mur , . He are 'gdcriminal soZ ain of being inlldren. And to oppress the !ortunate. The human document Is marred now with hard lines. Sin has Indented that once plastic surface where God's message of lore shouldt have been written. And It dated from the boyish pranks of one Walpurgis night.-Mrs. M. L. Rayne, in the Chi cago Record-Herald. Suicide in England. During the last fifty years the sul eidal tendency in England has grown into a formidable disease. The growth, too, has been continuomus. Suicide has steadily increased 200 per cent. Un happily, too, the growth has been most rapid in recent years. This Is learned from the verdicts of coroners' juries-a test whieh does not exagger ate, but allows a percentage of wast age. And especially is this iner~ease remarkable when the attempts to com mit suicide-so far as they are known to the police-are examined. For while in the decade from 1876 to 188G the attempts rose from 818 to 1116 an increase of thirty-six per cent.-be tween 1886 and 1896 the percentage increased as much as fifty-six per cent. During the last twenty-five years they have increased in .all 152 per cent. By examining the latest sta tistics I have discovered the most sui idal localities In England. And cu riously, perhaps, the highest percent- I ages-i. e., per 100,000 of population ae reached by provincial towns. As the sites of actual suicides, NorwIch, 1 Blackburn, Newcastle, Oldham and Leeds, in the order named, achieve at ismal pre-eminence. For attempted luicide, Liverpool, London, Birming ham, Manchester and Newcatstle heada the list. Of the thirty-one largest - towns in the country, Swansea and, ~ aest to it, Derby and Birkenheads showed the least tendency to suicide. [ondon MaIL. Music in a Barber Shop. c If we go from the gentleman's parlor I o the barber shop of the sixteenth K entury we find still more unmistaka ble evidences of the popularity of mu-e sie People would seem to have had " nore tinte in those days than now, and d lo not appear to have minded waiting C is much as brisker moderns, andl so - :he barber provided means to amuse :hose who were waiting their tura. EFor this purpose he had the ;-irginals n one corder-the virginals being al ~tringed Instrument, the precursor of E >ur piano, in which, by pressing keys I ike on piano keys, the strings were ~truck, not by a hammer, as In oura iano, but by a quill, or elastic piece I 'ood, of leather, or of metal. A I Elizabeth's time is still pre- ~ outh Kensington Mu- t ippincott's Maga- E ~A1~ lif URDBN, t 1 roxatoes h. Food For Cattle. e When potatoes. are cheap they may Ii e ecoked and fed with advantage to s' ttle, sheep and swine, not because f: ie potatoes contain a large proportion I: f nutritious matter. for they do not, u cing mostly composcd of water, but p ecause when fed in connection with a >rn or oats, ground, the potatoes pro iote digestion and increase the value o f the grain, the combination giving I. etter results than either food alone. v To Keep 31i1k. c Caring for milk in the home is dis- r ussed in a publication of the New a ersey Experiment Station. Among b te topics treated are "What causes f iilk to sour," "How germs get into f he milk," "The rapidity of.the sour- t 2g of milk," "How cooking affects t ,ilk," "Pasteurizing and sterilizing." i t will be seen from the list of sub- f cts treated-that the scope of the bul- I tin is broad and that it deals with c ractical questions. It seems that with L i1 the valuable literature which has c ecently been furnished upon the sub- C ect of milk and its production and t are, some distinct advance should ave been made in dairying, and we elleve that the advance has come. To keep milk sweet for a long time n the absence of fee It should be rela tyly pure to start with, and must be t iatteurized or 'sterilized as soon as re eived, and this heating should be re eated at intervals of six to twelve .ours, according to the temperature of he-Air in which fhe milk Is kept. The varmer the air the'sooner should the scalding" of the milk be repeated. By he use of a good refrigerator only one icating is usually necessary. Need of Warm Hen.Houses. Practical poultry keepers have long nown the necessity and value of .eeping hens in warm houses in order to get the best results in winter egg >roduction. It has been left for the West Virgiria experimental station to etermine just how much difference there would be in egg production be tween similar flocks kept in warm and old houses. Two houses, built exact ly alike. and situated side by side, were elected for the experiment, in each >f 'vhich were placed twelve pullets. ne house had previously been sheathed on the inside and covered with paper to make it perfectly tight.' Both were boared with matched sid in:: and single roofs. The fowls were fed alike In e eb case. The morning - cOgised of cornmeal, ground.lidlings and ground oats, and at uight -whole''grain was 'atter the litter. They'also had resl iter, grit and bone and granu bone. The experiment started ovember 24 and continued for five nonths. The following shows the1 iumber of eggs laid during each pe First month, warm house, Si eggs; old house, 39 eggs. Second month, ~varm house. 130 eggs; cold house, 106 ~ggs. Thind month, waim house, 138 ~ggs; cold house, 103 eggs. Fourth onth, warm house, 120 eggs; cold ouse, 124 eggs. Fifth month, warm ouse, 154 eggs; cold house, 114 eggs. otal, warm house, 629 eggs; cold ouse, 49G1 eggs. This experiment ainly shows that it is important tc uildl warm houses for hens if you rant them to lay a large number of ggs during the cold weather when 1 ggs are high in price. Keeping Out the Cold. Where manure Is thrown or' of ( mall barn windows that have a wood n slide shutter, there is much entrancet f cold wind during the winter. Much] if this trouble can be avoided by plac g over such windows a quickly. mader hood" such as is shown in the illus ation. The bottom is open, permit- t t ro -cla bearage'frbeo s an r the manure toflldw onow h hesepile o udressn froms thetweatld e c raised a foot or so, or a couple of C eet of the soil beneath removed, when I good manure cellar would result. t 'he wise farmer knows well that the I ressing from the stable is the main- e pring of the farm operations, and I aat the leeching In open barnyards a ir out at least half of the value. I: e need a crusade on this subject of c areful handling of stable dressing, I r the success of the farm depends t pon saving all the fertilizer possible > apply to the soiL. With a manure c ellar or a manure shed the dressing oud not only be saved, but the win- im ows could be fitted t'ghtly in the tie- s ;ps, keeping the cattle much warmer. f -New York Tribune.e ---- s Suppress1n~r Swine Fevep. c The Board off Agriculture has circu- fi ted a leafiet appealing for the co-op-. 14 ration of pig owners in their effor-ts > eadlate swine fever-. After many c 'ears off fntile but costly action the n torities are at last begnng to a cognize that all attempts to extir- b ate the troublesome plague th~a..o- d ot include the e-nergetic and co'nselen- t ous support of owners of pi's must t nd in failure. hence the prese~ ciren- o )mmend to the serious attention Of trmers and all who keep or deal in i gs. There can be no doubt, after tese years of apparently fruitless ef )rts, that the board have a heavy task thand in the suppression of this dis 1se, but if they receive the assitance. i the shape of timely information of 2spected eases and in the isolation of esh purchases. that they are perfect - entitled to expect from owners, the ndertaking should be materially sim lified and the prospect of successful :hievement correspondingly improved. The authorities lay particular stress a the Importance of seclusion or iso ttion from contact or communication -ith affected herds-the disease never aving a spontaneous origin - and leanliness about the sties, crates, ets, ropes; etc., used in the convey nce of swine. That the disease might e suppressed if proper care were uni :rmly taken to avoid or to cheek in ction is shown by the significant fact iat an outbreak in a pedigree herd, t 2ough it may have sent specimens to 11 the leading shows of the year )r a series of years, is rarely heard of. t Is sincerely to be hoped that the cir ular referred to will have some effect I inducing owners and traders in gen ral to render the assistance and to ex reise the care that are reasxably to e expected of them.-London- Mo.n Ig Post. A Convenient Kettle Snpvort. There are many farmers in need of omething convenient to hang a large ettle on. Many support the kettle on iree stones, which is unsatisfactory, THE KETTLE PRorEnLY sUsrENDED. spcially if the heat cracks one stone ind the kettle tips over. The accom panying cut is drawn from a photo gaph I took rece-itly on a neighbor ng farm. The cut comes very near :o explainin tself. The device con sists of thrg- - .rately heavy pieces f wood fcfWhich are attached t , a h e a v y b olt. some six or eight inches below the omeio of heihr gs a heavy clevis inion of the three '7 1dl e.Fo s secured to the iddle leg. From his clevis two cha ns extend down yard to proper dist n e and do ackward to fasten tongs csupof he kettle, which then hangslsuspend d. The length of the wil theped n convenienee and the eshw le they are to support. Tho egthond i the cut a eleven feet'ln 1ngh d vere made rom medium-sized well easoned fence rails. When the der ick Is not in use It can be lowered, olded together and laid away.-C. P. ei nolds. In New England Homestead. iod of thirty days: The Tainting of Milk. The most unpleasant taste of tainted ailk which appears In a good deal hat Is shipped to market in the fal .nd early winter Is due to a large itent to the condition of the pasture elds and the carelessness of the milk 's. Nothing probably prejudices city ieople more against drinking milt han to taste this disagreeable flavor.. )airymen who are careless In their ethods do a great deal to condemn silk as a daily diet More and more eople are coming to the. conclusion hat milk forms the best diet provided >y nature, but people will not drink tso long as they have their sense of leanliness and healthfulness offended iy this disagreeable odor which comes rom careless milking and feeding. If' be trouble could not be remedied there. rould be some excuse for its existence. 1 ut It can, and very easily at that. Most of the odor and tainted flavor omes from weeds allowed to grow up the pasture field. These weeds are nored by the cows when the pasture good, but when fall comes, and there little else to cat in the fields, they rill1 eat weeds. Now these weeds ab olutely produce no good at all. They o not nourish the cows nor make 2i1k. They simply taint the milk, ream and butter, and spoil its chances f sale. Therefore, the dairyman who ermits the weeds to grow in the pas are fields In the autumn Is practical ijuring his own Interests at bo nds. The weeds which are syste yally rooted out and cut down e ummer and fall cannot long p t growing, and the combat w' e ome easier and easier every ar. ut one season's crop that is ved produce seeds will count the ood work of several years o part f the dairyman. The. matter of cleanlin milk ig is one that should not empha :zng, and yet the dirty, ' methods llowed on so many far sufficient vidence that careless hods are till followed. The mi hat has a owy lavor is tainted b he dirt and ith that drops in the m3 pail. Care ss mikers are respond le for it, and iy should receive ti eir lesscn In leaniiness by those o handle the iik. If we would bu remember that Ii such tainted milkz urts the whee usiness, and in mo t cases ruins the airyman who prac ices the methods. lere might be-les poor milk shipped market, anid le- a poor butter made ir the arm or e eamery.-C. S. Wal ler, hAin eri Cultivator. H I1AS TiE GRIP ays ie is Busy Taking Medicine Th e Ie Days. E SNEEZES AND ViP!EEZES. irs. Arp Gives Him Everything Good for a Cold, Including Large Doses of Castor OiL "I knew him well, Horatio. A man f infinite jest and most excellent. ancy." It has been years since I met my riend, Mark Blanford. I see by the >ress dispatches that he Is dead-died n Columbus last week. It grieved me or a time, although he was old enough o die. Eighty years is a good old ge if the man is good. Every time one f these old trecs falls it shocks me. Jeorge barnes died not long ago in Augusta, and I was grieved, for I loved iim and I unconsciously whispered, 'Next!" Only three of us left of the Senate of 1.806. There were forty our, but t.ie old reaper has cut down ill but our Chief Justice Simmons, our :haplain, Brother Yarborough, and my olf-ond I am sick But I was ruminating about Judge Blanford-men called him Mark-we ho knew him best. Hie was, as Ham let said of Yorick. a man of infinite jest and most excellent fancy. When the spirit moved him he could enter tain his friends most pleasantly and it was our delight to get him and Judge Underwood and Judge Buchanan to gether with Evan Howell as a teaser and spend the evening howrs during the session of the supreme court when Mark was one of the judge s. During the court hours Chief Justice Warner was sitting there as serious and solemn as a Presbyterian preacher d-inking in the record and digesting the law of the case, while Mark took 'in the surround ings and abscebed e humorous side of everything. He was a good lawyer, but jumped to conclusions Lh.e a wo man and never saw much difference between the plaintiff and defendant unless one of them was a woman or a widow. One night we visited Mark in his room and he regarded us with his exper'enc-es in justices' courts when he was young and devilish. The old tim justice court was a good sc I young lawyer. He not only law in It, but the arts cf o could use big words with imp neither the cld squire nor knew their nleaning., but we. sed with their learned lengt ering sound. I still remem man case that Mark rehe right. A yankee school te, the Nutmeg stt i had sued J for $18 worth oe schooling boys. Troup and Calhoun. wouldn't pay it because the nulifers hadn't learned anyth ly and they told him that gave powerful long recesses ried on with the big girls especially with Sally Amanda Fretman was a good-looking yan with pink cheeks and winning wa and was popular with the girl schol Sometimes Salamander, as they cafl her, didn't go out at recess, but pre tended she had some sum~s to do, and wanted the teacher to show her how. Sheard her squeal one through the craek and day, and pee ng of her saw Fretman s was a red-headed gal-~ justic' Old Phil Davis was t m court, Mark's plea was that Fr wasn't a scholar, and not fittin' to teach. and that he couldn't read writin'' nor write eadin' nor spell all the words in Daniel Webster's blue-back spellin' book, and he made a motion to put bim on the stand and spell him. Fret man's lawyer fought It, but the old squre said he must spell. Fretman was scared. He trembled all over like a old, wet dog. "Spell Phthisic," said 4ark, and he spelt it correctly. He hen spelt him right alon~g on all sorts f big words and little words and long words, and afterwards, but Fretman ever missed until finally Mark says. "Now spell Ompoimpynusuk." Fret nan drew a long preath and said it wasn't in the boolg But Mark proved >y an old preachdr that it was in the ook, and so ol Phil spoke up and aid: "Mr. Fret an, you must spell it. ir." He was tl n sweatin' Mke a run lown filly. Hec took one pass at it and nissed. "You can comes down, sir," said Mark, "jou'vo lost your case." na sure e ugh old Phil gave judig net agal him and he had the cost o pay. he was good grit, for he tuck to school and his Salaman At t ext court Mark moved to ~osui doctor who had sued a feller, nd h ed a plea of mal-practice and em d a pr-ofert of his diploma. The ..tor said he had one at home, nd gged for time to go after, Old y e him time, and he rode 6 ii and baek as hard as he could it, and shook it In Mark's face mpbantly. Mark smiled and said: ow, dcctor, please take the stand~ d translate this furrin' language into nglish, so that his honor may know whether it is a diploma or not. It oeks to me like an old revolutionary rant of land." Of course the doctor ouldn't translate it. and lost his case in a jiffy. I don't believe we have as ood anecdotes now as we use to have. don't know anybody who has taken the place of Howell Cobb and Charles 1. McDonald and Cincinnatus Peoples and Hope Hull and the others I have lrealy named. I am writing about them now because I am aick and It eheers me to think of them. If it were not for the bright little grand children who come to see me I should go to bed and give up the ship. For two weeks I have had the griD and ami a nuisance-blowin'- and coughing and sneezing and whea:ing, my head a fountain and r.ine e~ es rivers of tears and nobody cares very much, but they dose me with quinine and bromine and calomel. and, at last, p:oscribed castor 0:1 and turpentine. I rebelled, but th y brought me something In a cup that they said was the white of an egg and sherry wine, and so I gulped 4t down and found it was castor oil. My hearl aches, I want a dozen holes bored in It and a dozen cor-kscrews to pull the stuff out. Sick a:: I am, my wife laughs at me and says if I expect to rate as a icw I cxpcctorate and she made me an >ld-fashioned honey stew and I'm try ng that~now. Its the weather-the .orrid ol weather that has flopped ov :c on us from yankee land. Every old vetcran who has the grip n bad weather ought tc have some iody to tell him stories or some chil Iren to play around and cheer him up ith their merriment. The old Persian onarch, Harun al Raschid, was kept :live by listening to the beautiful sto ries in the Arabian Nights. Certain it is I don't hanker after serious or mournful company. I've coughed until [ am almost a coffin. I'm like that bad boy who got to saying damn it and hds lather whipped him for it and so -Bill Arp in Atlanta Constltlon. SPORTNG BR.VliES. Atlantic City. N. J., Is to have a mod ern coliseum cycle track. J. F. Cameron, a linen importer, will enter the airship contest at St. Louis. An international chess tournament, with twenty-two entries, has opened at Monte Carlo. Captain Barr, of the Columbia, will sail Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.'s, Rain bow next summer. Negotiations are on for a revolver match between police teams of St. Louis and Chicago. Johnny Reiff, the jockey, has signed an agreement to ride in France for M. Cailloult this year. Manager Frank Dwyer has si Pitcher Jack Cronin for the Dee American League team. Peter Sinnirud has won the l O amateur skating chaimpio.._, America at Verona Lake, N. The Game Conmissicner state that $5,O0,JU is that State every year b Michael F. Dwyer own name this year will show thb "all The New York has purchased di cult and annoi aggregating $ The Pit day is the Nat est co. At No nes ueof1900. ..,ryland labor organizations will bto abolish child labor in sweatshops through State legIslation. Striking dyers at the Hartford Car pet Mills, Thompsonville, Conn., have voted to remain, out indefinitely. The Sarta Fe Railroad has dis charged about 200 whIte laborers and employed Japanese ID their stead. Every craft in .Gloucester, the fa mous fishing port of New England, has oranzed either a labor or trade un The Cigarmakers' International Un ion Is devoting a good deal of time and money In the hunt for counterfeit labels. Organised laborers to the number of 7000 are employed by the diamond dealers and jewelers of Amstedig Holland. Careful Investigation shows that New England leads the tailoring trade of the world so far as clean workshops and fair working condItions go. A $3,000,000 shoe factory has just been completed at Torren, Mexico. Workmen from Brockton, Mass, will teach the natives how to operate ma chines. Union carpenters of Spokane, Wash., demand forty-five cents an hour for eight hours' work after May 1. The new scale Is an advance of :&ve cents an hour, - Mrs. Stanford's Gift. ';E N~ To head off the possibility of litiga tion after haer death, Mrs. Stanford has executed and delivered deeds of grant and gift to the trustees of Stanford University, which convey or confirm previous conveyance of property valu ed at abou~t thirty mIllion dollars. The nw deeds do not affect her control of the property during her life. Stanford will be richest of all the American universities. The management of its properties and the improvement of its opportunities are going to be a work of vast Importance and heavy respon siblty. One wonders about its fN ture; whether its field is big enough both for It and the other gres t Califor nia university near by; whether it will really earn Its living and prove itself important enough as a civilizing force to justify Its enormous endowment. There Is no unIversity in the world whose problems seem more remark able and, Its future better worth watch ing. Being only ten 'years old. Stan fo'd has as yet only a small body of alumni (1,200), and of course lacks the element of strength which the old universities find In their older grad nates. But Stanford will have graduates enough In time, and probably they will have due voice in her manage ment. The college (so-called) nearest her !n wealth seems to be GIrard, with an estimated endowment of -twenty* re millions.-Harper's Weekly,