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THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS. The Culture of Silk--T;ie Celery Crop --How to Work Against the fleat Trust--Other Hints. Between 1830 and 1840 the people of the South became much interested in the culture of silk. Visitors to Limestone Springs about 1845 might have seen the ragged remnant of a mulberry orchard, which good, honest visionary Reuben Perry planted out. Where he secured his plants we never learned. The trees flourished, or would have done so if they had received proper attention. Cocoons were impor ted, but no silk was ever produced. It was then supposed to be work adapted to women, and they could do that in connection with their household work. Again interest is revived in the silk culture. It would be well if men and women of means and leisure would un dertake it. It can never be made profitable in this State on account of the price of our cheapest labor. Twenty-five years ago celery was unknown by the average housekeeper. It was used in a small way as a flavoring for soups. It is now getting to be a desira ble table luxury. The greater portion used in this State is im ported from the Northwest in the fall and from Florida in the spring. The Kalamazoo celery is tolerably good when fresh. The Florida article is poor. Celery may be raised in this State and the quality is much better than even the besc that is shipped from the West. It requires a little care and patience to s'art the plants. When about three inches high transplant them to a new bed, giving cach plant 4 to 6 inches square of space. When well rootAd and stocky transplant to the rows. Thcse should be 3 to 4 feet wide and the plants 6 to 8 inches apart. With a shovel or plow throw up a ridge and manure and subsoil the trench betweeh ridges. Keep weeds and grass down. The blanching pro cess should begin three or four weeks before you wish to use it. The better and quicker way is to pull the dirt in from the ridges, taking care not to. bruise the plants. The beef trust has the right of way. Injunctions, legislation, political harangues and con demnatory resolutions are not goingto break The--pe ca ra iLl This can be done by raising cattle, and hogs and selling to the trust. They can also live on much less meat than they u,se. A fine milch cow is worth a thousand pounds of beef a year to a family. ~The vegeta ble garden should be made larger. The sorghum syrup will take the place of meat. The family that has a barrel or two of this syrup on band is not going to suffer much if meat is scarce. Let more attention be given to raising of fowls. If the people would re duce their meat consumption half the trust would fall to pieces. We would emphasize the state ment that sorghum syrup is the best and cheapest syrup for the upper part of the State. In the lower counties they can make the ribbon cane syrup, which is bet ter. But sorghum is far superior to the glucose compounds and white drips on the market. At this season of the year when farm work is pushing every one and the grass looks as if it would be boss before the middle of June, it becomes every farmer to consider his present methods and th3 too's he is using. The veterans returning from D).dla report that farmers rile whibi they prepare their laud an'd cul tivate their crops, and that o:n man with a strong acrt ve t.ai can cultiv ate 50 to 75 ace Te swveep out a row at er - re No one of these men is wi ij. i - ~ purchase the samne eu!ti vate and use them on the hi ly a. rolling land of the coun'ry lin much improvem en cani bI ma here. The two anid ih~ I eb disc plows can b). nss. i on m farms. There are~ o ,e b r - walking cu'tivators thet cani b. used to advantage. Whi'.e the ordinary plow stock, with slhov els, scooters andl heel sweeps are here to stav labor can be muchl * lightened b>y using some of the best harrows and cultivators. Some farmers are afraid of straining their land. After cut ting wheat they do not like to plant corn on the same ground for a late crop. But if they will run off their land in five foot rows and plant an early variety 4of corn with four to six peas be tween each bill they will make a1 fair corn crop andl the pea vines if left on the land will be worth liv time as much to the land as if it had b n allowed to gro- up in r;iss and wee,.ds. We would Eliminate crab grass from the fields if possible. It makes a very fair hay, if cut just as it beginning to head. But stub ble land allowcd to grow up in this grass and then mowed is in poor shape for the next crop. If it is not mowed it is a poor soil reno vator. If not turned under in thu fall it is always in the way when spring plowing begins. By clean cultivation and sowing peans, get rid of cra'b grass and you will never regret it.-Caro lina Spartan. Of what does a b1ad taste in your mou'tith remind vou? It inIlicates that your stonich is in ba<d condition and will remind you that there is nothing so good for such a disor<der as Chamber lain's Stomach & Liver Tablets after having once used thei. Tht cleanse and invigorate the stomach and regu late the bowels. For sale at :5 cents per box by MeMaster Co. A Court Scene. Greenwood is an unique city in some respects. Her citizens take more interest in the trial of cases in court than those of any other city or town with a court house. Everybody knows all about the law and facts in each case and the verdict of a jury is discussed and fixed in their minds before court meets, cven. This state of affairs possibly is due to the fact that the county is in its childhood and the Common Peas a novelty. The officials and attachees of the court, however, have become ac customed to the dry details of cases that possess no personal interest to them, as a scene in the court room last week evinces. During the progress of a long ease against a railway company, while one of the attorneys, with very grave face, was earnestly arguing the dry points of his case, the clerk, deputy clerk, deputy sheriff, two jurymen not engaged, two bailiffs, the jury boy and the porter were sound asleep-resting in the arms of morpheus - forgetful of t h e struggles of the litigants and their attorneys for the mastery, they capitulated to the god of sleep. Court crier McKinney's stentorian voice, calling an ab sent witness, released the prison ers from sleep's embrace, and each sat erect and glanced around s if to say, "Who, me? No, I wasn't 'sleep."-Greenwood Jour nal. ~irulent Cancer Cured. Startling proof of a wonderful advance in medicine is gi -,en by Druggist G. W. Roberts, of E liza beth, W. Va. An old man there had long suffered with what good doctors pronounced incurable can er. They believed his case hope less till he used Electric Bitters and applied Bucklen's Aruica Salve, which treatment completely ured him. When Electric Bit ters are ut e 1 to expel bilious, kidney .and microbe poisons at the same time this salve exerts ts matchless healing power,blood iseases, skin eruptions, ulcers and soras vanish. Bitters 50c, Salve 25c at McMaster Co 's. A Neglected Industry. On January 1, I901, there wvere 07,261 farms in the United States keeping bees. These farms eported 4,100,625 swarms or olonies, vatlued at 810,186,5 13. During the year 1899 theie were roduced 61,196,160 pounds of1 ,ax, of an aggregate value of $,64,904. Of this value 35 per ent. is from the North Central,4 R pe cent, from the Siuth At lntie, 2:3 per cent. from the .outhi Central, 14 per cent, from ha Wstern States and 1 per ent from liawaii. Of the Stales reporting honey, I Fe us reports tI e largest quan ia reports the secCond laLrgest I la nt i ty, :, 6,73pounds; Ne w ~om.ds.1 Filthy Te n;-les in India. Eci cows~(y~ often deli'e Indian eps, but worse yet is a body5 hiut 4 pollute,l 1 y constipation. Don't permLit it. C'eanse your vsysem wvithi Dr. King's New Life l!s anid avoid untold misery. l'ey give lively livers, active bwels, good digestion, tine appe it~e. Only 25e at McMastor Co.'s rug stoi e. Previous to appointing Gen. Joe" Wheeler to a command in the war with Spain, President McKinley consulted the late Senator Davis, of Minnesota, bout the matter. "I think it would be a splendid appoint ment," said Senator Davis. "I am a iving witness of Joe Wheeler's grit and persistenc(e. During the civil war he chased me like the Poultry Raising. City housekeepers are giving it to Mr. Kennedy for putting up the price of poultry; but the farmers look upon him as a pub lic benefactor. Farmers ought to raise more poultry than they do raise, and ought to have eggs to sell in large quantities. Perhaps they will now that prices are so much better. Mr. Kennedy says the southern people don't know how fortunate they are in this respect. They can r ise poultry "out of doors"-that is they do not re quire much housing; while in the north they have to be housed in buildings much warmer and closer than many that people live con fortably in down here. He says.i the soil here suits pultry better than the northern soil. Here we have the natural gravel every where; up there poultry-raisers have to buy gravel and have it shipped and scattered over their p!aecs for the poultry. With the increase of cotton mills and the rapid growth of city population the business of poultry raising promises to be a profitable one in the south and opens the way to diversifying our industries.-Newberry Observer. Read It in His Newspaper. George Schaub, a well known Ger manl citizen of New Lebanon, Ohio, is a constant reader of the Dayton Volks zeitung. He knows that this paper aims to advertise only the best in its olunns, and when he saw Chamber lain's Pain Balm advertised therein for laime back, he did not hesitate in buy in,, a bottle of it for his wife, who for eight weeks had suffered with the noEt terrible pains in her back and could get no relief. He says: "After using the Pain Balm for a few days my wife said to me, 'I feel as though born anew,' and before using the entire con tents of the bottle the unbearable pains had entirely vanished and she could again take up her household duti?s." He is very thankful and hopes that all suffering likewise will hear of her won derful recovery. This valuable liniment is for sale by McMaster Co. Why They Ring Two Bells. 1From the Boston Hlerald. An elevated conducter recently, during his luncheon hour. ex plainedl the practice of ringing two bells to star.t a street-car, which is now universal in this country, and, if not entirely trustworthy, it is ingenious. He declared that when horse cars were fist used one bell was used to start the car and one to stop soon brke down. They beceme sprung in the knees or tI eir shoulders gave way. Every de vice that could be thought of to ease the strain of starting was tried. Spiral springs were put nn the traces but no good re suted. Finally a countryman who had only been employed a week as a :lriver suggested that two bells be used to start the car, and he iverred that when the horses got ased to it ther would set them-' selves at the 'first ring, and be ready to pull at the second. The plan was tried, and was so suc :essful that it has been in use aver since. Saved from an Awful Fate. "Everybody said I had conC ;uption," writes Mrs. A. M. shields, of Chambersburg, Pa., 'I was so low after six months of ;evere sickness, caused by Hay 'ever and Asthma, that few hought I could get wpell, but I earned of the marvelous merit of r. King's New Discovery for Jonsumption, used it, and was ~ompletely cured." For desper Lte Tl,roat and Lung Diseases it s the safest cure in the world, nd is infallible for Coughs, Colds nd Bronchial Affections. Guar nteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial >ottles free at McMaster Co.'s. The mine owners have turned heir mules out to pasture. The nule is about the only thing that' ill profit by the strike.-Wash ngton Post. F'or b)ilioJsne(5s USe Chamiberlai's ' stomach(~ & Liver Tablets. They cleanse he stomiach and regulate the liver and owels, effecting a quick and permia it cure. For sale by McMaster Co. A week-old New Year's resolu :on ceases to be an ailment that vil <ure itself; it is a disease hat must be got rid of. IN CUBA whe~'re it is hot all the ye- round Scott's Emulsion sell1s better than any where else in the worl.d. So don't stop taking it in summer, or you will lose v:'hat you havc .gained. send for afree sam ple. SCoTTi & DOwNE, Chemists, 409-4, iPe r1 street New York. T N r - - i-f iaCc tJ C:.-:e 3L J ne t L t wtars tw:i aslong 1 by th .~ - us.e of Iureka - Sold every-u here in CaL all sizcs. Made by Standard OIl Company Reduced 1(ats via -a r AL r .JAl Ikailway. Low excursion rates wi l i given by the Sea1lmr.rl A' iil:i. Railway to the folh>wing .int on the dates nanl: San Francisco. (':d. erb:1 Council-Nobles of M ihrti: Biennial Meetin.: K. of P., M.v 26 Ju:le 7th, August 1-7. M;iCon, Ca.--. EilH ti efii:i Farmer's Nation:l Co:gres., October 6-7. Mountain Lake Park, Md. Y. M. C. A. Secretarit-s of North. Anerica Bie:iuial Conference, June 11-15. Call on nearest ageint for in formation as to rates, dates of sale and schedules or address J. J. Puller, Trav. Pass. Agt., Columbia, S. C. Leads Them All. "One Minute Cough Cur, Iheats all other iedicines I Iver t ft.; ('tg hA1 colds, eroup :mdl( thlr":t :u,:l 1U!;"- troun bles," says 1) Sco t ('urr:, of Sott tonl, Pa. On Minut c(" ("tr't" is th( only abs,.oltt :"1 t':: remedy wvhichl netsi immt: l; i: \'. _r E the(r: ever ywher t..ir'y to ? t. it iI (lone th;eir itl on.. -. ('rnl, i S , - den in its att.i.!: that ti . a oft(.n arrives too l:t(. I t l- a. nce it, One- Minlutt (Co,l-h (',re. Iin ntto take. (hi!biren li it. for grip,b , Dyspepsi Cre Digests what yo~ cat. .Thi..pepaira.'s contaIin 2.1l of the digestants and digts n!! kmds of food. Itgives inst ant. ecian d never fails to cure. It allmvs you to eat all the food yoiuwant. Thela,1ta senisitive stomachs can take it. fly it use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed. It prevents formation of gas on ihe stom ach, relieving all dist:essahfter eat ing, Dieting unnecessary. Picasa ut to take. It can)t helpj Prepared only by E. 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