Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Slady fe.o$*bI* 4if Ing at MeOregor, Iiia I .ot of bild lIfebreits;&Ipt'5Ml *1) teciatLion for the itews whicht fre iently appear among- the notes ,v!nd g for a wore adequate protection o1 to birdis that are such good friundseol man and particularly of the farnel ad gardener. Our friend points ou hat It I.s thounemployed "fool will the gun," young adul old, from th< towns and vilinges rather thain rel dents of the country that does the imiost damage in destroying helpful bird lirfe .and the polut Is one that in mos;t lu stances will have- to be admitted While professiug friendship for bird life in general, she in comoillo li other students draws the linet on, t!e English sparrow as an all aronii)d nul. sance, as it consumes comparatIvely few insects, destroys the eggnc and mests of other useful birds and. above all, is a spreader of diseaseg in its ca pacity as scaven r of the anim l ex cremeut in pouhry an(1 barn yards. 'The point would seem to be very well taken-one that should provkde still further argument in favor of exturni zatin'g the Iuglish sparrow, in whop favor the only thing that can be said is -that he. is a plucky chap and stays with us through the winter months. Our correspondent cites the fact that, nesting as they, do in old straw piles and sheds here, the children way find their nests and easily destroy them, * while she refers to an article in Bird I.ore Il which the writer recommends trapplug them in the co:nmon eagr rat traps, in the "out of sight" trap. and by smudging the birds with sul. phur fumes while they are at roost under . straw sheds in the winter nouths. The birds will drop and can be disposed of in a pall of water be fore they come to. The best friends of bird life recogl. the Eng!lsh spar. row as 01ne of the worst toes they have to contend with and will favor almost any method by which it can be ex. terminated. We are pleased to- pre sent the above suggestions and would be pleased to hear frmn say oth!t reader who way have discovered ef feetive means of disposing of the spar row nuisance. MONOTONY BREAKS THEM DOWN. -T1 V~T :V.. - ble which are ' !1,:%t of the in. * 1:talo farmers' v~ ft. k.u- r per cent than -': a h * ec! - -of people-li would seem to be worth while to in quire Into some of the causea which are responsible for this condition While all farmers' wives who do their share of the work have their time pret ty fully occupied, It vould not seem to be this so much as lack of change and variety that Is responsible for the men. tal depression referred to. Because- of household responsibilities which the good wife cannot well escape from she leaves the house less seldom than her husband, who goes to market with grain or stock. On this account every effort should be put forth to give hei variety and change and relief fron1 her household cares as often as Is prac ticable. Before the hair grows silver on the tempies and the shoulders arc stoopked with overwork the conalder ate husband, eon and daughter will dec all they can to relievo the mother of the heavy burdens which she hais borne so long and uncomp~lainingly, Any relief of this kind while shie can a1ppreciate it wIll be sweeter to her than hot tears and lovely flowers on -her cofidna lid. Make the lives of these tIred mother-s as bright and happy as may be, and but a poor retut'n wiUl b made them for their unselfish and lov lng ministry. _____ SOME POSSiIITIES OF ALFALFA Professaor D. II. Otis of the College -of Agriculture of the Universlty of Wisconsin has just concluded a series of exvperiments with alfalfa as a feed for dairy cows, ie finds that young cows not giving- milk can be l-.pt in1 good condition during the winter and gain from 1.23 to 1.5 pounds per day when fed nothing but alfalfa hay, Speaking further of the value of alfal fa as a ration, he states that, with art :average yield of fout tons, alfalfa will produce 880 pounds of digestible pro tein per acre, to supply which In the form of oil meal would requIre 1.2 tons, which at present prices would -cost $52.00. A summary of the feed lng trial, which were conducted show ed that alfalf* could be made to take the place of at Ileast one-half of the grain usually fed to dairy cows. The .cash returns from feeding alfalfa at the different experiment stations range from $10 to $20 per ton. Professo. OtIs states in cldsing his report that, with a yield of four tons per acre, ai conservative estimate would indicate that the Wisconsin dairy farmer would be abie to igcrease his profits from GC4 to 75 per oent by the liberal yet judi, cious use of aifalf* grown upon hi. own farm. SHOUL.D BE MORE HEDGEROWS, -it is a firm conviction of the writei thAt there ought te b)e more hedgerow. - (e1 western na. -en o>-r to'.'. not only v 'f h m turn live sal a i. L .,.a go La ' n ttion dur ing the summer season. Of all hi. frietids in the animal kingdom outside -of the farm Animals none render the lRmueZ mme 'ranlesrvien than thz r~eaigover hisa 0 Is not only doing them a kin seek but helping himself in a Vei definite fashion, it he so manag things that they can have as mat nesting places as possible. A Lessen In GArammar. In a certain mountainous region tI teachers are appointed with little que tion concerning their gramimatie orthodoxy. Occasionally, however, wave of school reform sweepi4.tbrong the valleys, and undesired exaini tions are thrust upon embarrassed pei agogues. It was during one of these periods 4 intellectual discomfort that the folio% Ing sentence was given: "The bli flow over the bous." Accompanyli It was the query, "Is 'few' a r'gul or an Irregular verb?" One teocher after another shook h head hopelessly despite the sloi thought Inspiring fashion in which tI examiner repeated the perplexing fa that "The - bird - flew - over - the house." Finally a man rose In the rear, an with the assurance of one who pa his trust In logic and.a practical know edge of natural history, he volunteere k solution. Said be: "If that bird which flew over tt house was a wild goose, it went in straight, regular line, so the verb regular. But If It was a peckwoc that few over the house, then it wei in a crooked, zigzag line, and so tt verb is irregular." All but the grammar bound exari iner were satisfied with this senaib and rational explanation. - Youth Companion. Artistic Slips. It is a frequent matter of lament tion on the part of artists that one 4 ,their number may spend genius av time on a piece of work, only to fa Sconspeuously In small detail. There is a story that one Royal acad miclan gave hand five fingers and thumb and that another painted a Ii1 lobster bright red. The clever Goodall had been engagi In painting a number of laborers dra ging a huge stone across the dese when a man of science entering t studio said to him: "I say, Goodall, you want those fellows to pull th stone you must double their numbe It would require just twice as mqt for the task." But it Is not modern painters alo who slip up on points of accurac Even Albrecht Durer in a scene repr senting Peter denying Christ palut one of the Itoman soldiers In the act < smoking. Turner put a rainbow b side the sun. und in another pleture I got fearfully tangled in the ship's rli gin.-Chieago tecord-lerald. Fixing a Photografter. Senator Stone of MItsourl once mai *himself unpaiopubimr with a certain ph Itographer. Thelv htter lndivid~ual a yaredc' ait the 2sen~ator's room at ti capitol and announc'ed that he w.' thec:'e to take a picture. Stone expost lated, buta uvan A few days lat< the photographer again appeared ar ptresented the pictures and also a b! for $10. Rlememberin.x how hopele: was his argument against having tl picture tahzen, Senator Stone decided would be still more useless for him decline to pay for thenm. So lhe wrote check. After the man's name was< the check be wrote the word "Phot grafter." When the, man presented the che< at the senate disbursing ofice for pa; ment, he was required to indiorse ti check find write after h!s name, juo as It was written on the taco of ti check, the word "Photo-grafter."-S Lauis Republic. A Limit to His Power. A curious hiatorIcal anecdote is han od cdown fromi the thme of .James James, being in want of 120.000, a plied to the corporation for a loan. TI corporation refused. The king insa ed. "Blut, sire, you cinunot compei us said the lord mayor. "No," exclaii ed James, "but I'll ruin you and ii city forever. I'll remove my courts law, my court itself and my parli ment to Winchester or to Oxford at make a desert of Westminstet', at then think whint will become of you "May it please your majesty," replik the lord mayor, "you are at liberty remov, yourself and your courts1 wherever you please; but, mire, thel will always be one consolation to ti merchants of Londou-your mnajesl cannot take the Thames along wil lyoul" Garriok's Wit. David Garrick on one occasion paUSs Tyburn as a huge crowd wake asset) blng to witness the execution of criminaL. "Who Is he?" asked i great actor of a friend who accomp ied him. "I believe his name is Vowel," wi the reply. "Ah," said Garrick, "I wonder whi< of the vowels he is, for there are se erali. At ali events it is certain that is neither U nodr iP'-London..aturdi Review. v-v H 0 0'OF HOMER. Anifent idea of the Earth and its Ma a gin of Water. ly Let us conalder for one momet wh the iden of the world was-not, Indee at the earliest period of whikb v have any knowledge,'but at the davi of written history or of written blsto among that Indo-Germanic poop whose descendnuts hove overspread # much of the eartb. The world of H mer was a small. tlt surface. ki wbk civilization wias hemined in by foreh to races, who ngaln were surrounded h a great ocean 'or river over which r man had ever passed. The world < a which [oiner had any definite notk was Ureeve-a Greece which hard extended as far as the Balkans on ti north and which seargely Inclnied tt Levant and the Islands in the Aeges sea. No doubt he had some general a quaintance with a world beyond the narrow limits. IlIe knew, at any rat some of the leading features of norti ern Africa. lie bad beard, as was o61 natural, of Egypt. whose civiHatik had mado such marked advancea ar awas exerelaing so mucih Induuces. I-1 ' had some knowklodge of the great riv( on whose recurring ttlab lCgypt d1 pends for her prosperity. ie had eve heard of the py gmile and of the tIthi plans who dwielt hiher up its strear Some reports had reached him ( southern Italy. Ibit It is hopeless attempt to fit the geography of lomt d to the actual facts. If a nian were I search today for the preelse spot o e which Captain I'muel ItullIver wa a wrecked in the tirst of his fatous To Is ages he would find that the .illiput i d Swift was in, the heart of Australi It and much ln/the'snim way. to quo Me ir. Gladstone's language. "the key tite great contrast between the outt ' geography (of Homer) and the facts l4 nature Ilex in the bellef of Homer thi 's a great sea occupled the Ppace who we know the heart of the Europec continent to lie." It is another Indiention of the sma - ness of [lomer's world that the tc )f years' war, of whieh he has iien 1 d the concluding episode, was not. i 1i even Ilerodotuas has described it, 01 of the opening chapters of the gre e- struggle whleh has endured througho a historic tines between east anl wei Pe but a contest between men of (xmm or-igIn. It IS 110t It mere poetkien cd eoe whieh makes Greeks and it V. mans address one another in the san rt language. Yet the world of Ilonv ke small as it se4imR to us, seeied hir if to him. Compared with the migh it oceans which men now traverse ti r. Mediterranenn is but a little landlock< ly sea. The Mediterranean of the "lhai was only the Aegean. yet for- Iomer te had terrors which the Atlantie ba n y. for us.-Sir Spencer Walpole In Co e.. temporary' Review. Jack's Lucky Bag. D- The annual Iublinittlon of the b1 ie gade of midshipmen at AnnapollA go - by the name of "The Lucky Bag." evc as that of the corps of endets at We Point bears the military appellation 4 "The Ilowitzer." On honrd ship le kept what Is called a lucky bmg. in, o. this are put all sorts of artick's thm II. are left around the decks or out a their proper places by the men. is the end of each month the lucky bag ui- opened. and the men wvho have It w different articles gather around it ad the hope that they have been luel tII enough to ha ve had their possessio ~s find their way into the lucky bag. le the end of -the month the bag general it is tilled with a great variety of artilj to In it are jaekknives, pairs of shoc a plugs of (chewing tobacco, sewing kil an caps, photographs, witing materin o. and so in through prac'ticnlly the e tiro list of the sailor's poseseloois, *k New Yor'k Tribune. me Deplorable Levity. it "We students can stand a good mali me things." sai the college gIrl, "but til t. last nimsonairy Was too much for lie preached oni tile glories of the m slonary enlling for women. lie told we ought all of us to go and help 1' '1- heathen. That was all right. I "But thwn he worked uip to a gilo p. lug finisha 'Notv. I appeal to you. me college women, how muich better tha t-. mere loarnin-g and mere books it is "go forth into the worlt .and becot] >. fishern of menl' ue "That was too much. Of course s .smiled. In fact, some of~uas pk0ker< ar uudibly. T[hen the mIssionary cot d .plained to 'proxy' that he coulidn't he d noticing a deplorabie spirIt of levi -" apparent among the students."-Phil ad dolphin Ledger. to toWar on Electrie Light gens. eBerlIn's poliee department has deta memined to get rid ofthmosrue< tri'i light signs and advertisemer which to the artist make night hidec In many of the principal streets a open places of the German capital. ad"During the day it is bad enougi a- says the president of the' Berlin 2 aacademy. "to see otherwise handsoa me buildings with huge roof signs ady, a- tising cigarettes and dog cake and c tain Infalliblo noetrums for stoma ac nhe and nerves. But at night it is tolerable to see In every direction tha bh blinkiug. Insistent lights high in I v-air at the end of every romantic a it beautiful street vista tellIng their us monotonous. maddenig tale of cho late and biscuit..". it ro Ot Fo b U HIS is the time of - there is not much iO T r do 'not know dull U prices are two things tha Our goods are the very n all, and our prices are as can be legitimately sold - i OUR entire line is c< d and we can, supply Clothing, Shoes, H Hardware, Furniture, B n Ain fact anything you neei at the right prices. r OME to see us, ani n with us, you will fi ter goods for less j paying. Another car of Majesti( t $5-50 per barrel. Thanking our friends an 'I we hope to merit a conti it ,t C Gaines & G( r. Centr It rt FOR SAFE %S DEPOSIT -r st P^ a Thenwi Saf. ht:s been tried an~d fcund] CY This Banik l.as Burglar Insuirance, Fl Slose your nonely. y Liberal b te ,ri-t allowed on Time I 8 you 12p sattifacorily, THlE LIBEl H1. C. SH IR LEY. Cashier. S. SouthrnShor aiiad Busi *O Atlanta, Ga., also Over i 5,oo0 Grad SIcecwves I!:.060 ~elientn every year for lite. .\n averaye of tw o op~enlings for every itt " 70 typewriting machin . The sontieern atso 'ondt et the ATLANTA SCHOC i'pni bleh insatitution the railroads and teles tors. Main Line Wires 1 *ts Wrlie for cataloguie. Enter now. The Sol ug in the South. A ddlresse, ad A. C. BRISCOE, Pres., or 4Atlar rt ne ch in Printing c ly= Except the Vear when trade is dullind buying aad selling, but we days. Our goods and our t help to keep our trade up. best that can-be bought at low as these same good. It. )mplete- no broken lots your wants at all times, in its, Dry Goods, Groceries, uggies, Wagons, etc., etc., :1 can be procured here and' i it you have never traded id that we can sell you bet ntoney than you have been Flour, the best made, at I customers for past favors. nuance of the same. issaway Bros. Ed, S. C. KEEPING YOUR, MONEY! TH E Y BANK. Jurglar Proof, e Irwurance, Cadhier Bonded, so you can't utI Bits. See H. C. Shirley and he wHil fix 2TY BANK. thand lless University Albany, Ga. Branch uates in Positions ik okkeei-ern, Stenographers. Telegraph Operator. dent that attends the Southern.. CS the lerget eleetion oftypewriter. owned L OF TELEGRAPHY rajah comp'anIes are constantly calling for opera un into This School. athern is the Oildest and largest liusiness Cohieg$ WV. L. ARNOLD, Vice-Pres. ta, Ga. fall Kincds Shoddy Kind.