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?fr i. /The Lancaster news LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. 2. MO. 98. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C? SEPTEMBER 16. 1907 PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPV. The County Line Contention ?Views ot a IFormer Resident of Kershaw County. Editor The News : I am not personally or selfishly intereeted in the dispute or the contention now iroing on botween Lancaster and Kershaw counties over the b >undary line dividing the two. Bat it does seem to me passing 8! range that a* this late day anything of the kind should be sprung upon the people. In my own opinion, the town of Kershaw is the bone of contention, for, you see, prior to the buildincr un of - O * "" Kershaw there wa? (or se* med to be) no dissatisfaction concerning the county line. The couu y ^ commissioners under the Harper regime wore the tiret to agitate the question of establishing s new line. They employed Mr. C. H. Ragsdale, D. IS., aud-did survey a new and different one to what has always been recognized as the dividing line. (Note that was not until alter the town of Kershaw matured) The Ragsdale survey started $ mile above I'eav's terry on the Wateree river (a mistake b> nearly 1 mile), and as might be suppose I, had to deflect a' Hammond Spring tomakeGrier Hill So we might say if all the line was wrong, why recognize the corner stone on Grit*r Lltil. Take any map of South Carolina and you will readily see a straightjline from the river to Gner Hill. 1 was reared near Liberty Hill, and alter the war lor 12 or 15 years was overseer and warner on Peay's Ferry road. The coun* ty line cut this road at what was then known a* Sow Pit bridge. Mr. W. R Daren, D.S.,in 1806, I believe, or '67, in surveying the Perry lands had to find the county line, which he did, and I believe to be the correct one. This line starts | to # ol a mile below Peay ferty I was always told when a boy that Mr. James Summerville's house on Itiver oi f i:i?" > vnu, *j uinco it"iu Liiurrty lllll, was the line. The JDuren line would stride the house. (Pre sent residence ol Mr. F. G. Per ry.) 1 give you a diagram showinetheiwo lines,Ragsdale's and Duron's to Grior Hill. Beyond that arose a dispute over the corner at Miller's (for Kershaw is on that part ol the line.) I am not prepared to say much between Miller's and LynchVRiver, bu1 do say 'hero is no use in pending county funds for what proliis might accrue from it either way, il both parties receive jus 'ice. You may publish it von see lit. j. W. Denton. R tck Hill, Sept?16, 1907. 1000 Miles in 1000 Hours. Cincinnati O., Se^>t. 15. ? Dsn O'Leary, who is undertaking t?? walk a thousand miles in a thowsind hoars, finished his 114' h mile at nine this morning, physicians pronounce the walker in good condition, lie has not been in bed sjuce he commenced his task, only securing a little sleep by leaning his heal on ft table. Woman and Girl Burned to Death near Union. Columbia, 8. 0., Sept. 16.?' A special to The State from Union, S. C., 8aya : Early yester day morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock, the home ot IsabelaGist was completely destroyed by fire and she and her 11-year-old niece v... 1 ?_ s - ' nvir uuiiicii l?? lieaill. The house was situated near the corporate limits on the road to West Springs. The fact that the burning was done so quietly and mysteriously as to fail to attract the attention of any one until the building was ready to tall in, and also because the bones of the woman and girl were found beneath the bed springs, instead ot on top of it. has caused considerable talk to the effect tliat the woman and child may have been killed and the fire followed to hide the crime. A young negro is under arrest on suspicion. Consecration of Bishop Coadjutor Guerry?The Bishops Present. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 15.? Rev. W. A. Guerry was today consecrated bishop coadjutor of mo onutu \jaronna I!i9p]i00pil dioctse, the services taking place in Trinity church, this city, in the presence of a distinguished gathering, representing all sec* tions of the State. The commission of bishops taking part in the ceremony was as follows : The Rt. Rev. Daniel S. Tut tie, D. D., presiding bishop; the Rt. Rev. Edwin G. Weed, I>. D., bishop of Florida; thi Rt. Rev. Joseph B. Cheshire, D. D., bishop of North Carolina The presenters : The Rev Rt Rev. Theodore D. Brat!on, D. D., bishop of Mississippi; the lit. Rev. Robert Strange, D.J I)., bishop of eastern North Carolina. The preacher: the Rt. Rev. Thomas F. (Jailor, I). I)., bishop of Tennessee. Broker in Trouble. Spartanburg Herald : Henry W. Thompson, a well-known stock and bond broker of thin city, w 18 brought in irom Atlanta on passenger No. 40 last night, and taken in charge by United States Deputy Marshal J. H. Mr' Lane, on a warrant sworn out by United State* Commissioner At I i ison charging kini wi'h using ^ I? 11 * * - ? I tut? in hi i s ior rrauuuion: purpos- | | en. Gee, What Rent! New York, S> pt. 1(J.?New.r has reached hero thai J Pierpont ' Morgan ha15 leaded a fashionable home in Richmond, Va., and will occupy it with his family and guests during the triennial session of (he Episcopal council, 'beginning October 1st. He will pay $.r>,000 a month I rent. Birds the Farmers' Friends An Interesting Article on our Feathered Friends by the York County Game YYarden. The Yorkville Enquirer: I would like very much to have taught in all of our echooU econo-1 mic ornithology?that of birds and bird values. Up to 1850 very little study was giv< n to the value of birds, and then only by a tew individuals. Since 1880, some of the states in the United States have made an appropriation for the investigation of the value of birds, and since 1885 very much has been done, especially by the United States. Out ot 1,125 sj ecies of birds, only about six or seven species have been found to bereailv injurious to the farmers. Immense quantities of bird stomachs have been collected for investigation. Many ot our oird8 were supposed to be injurious to the farmer, and farmers for generations have tried to destroy them, which is a mis take. From 1,000 stomachs of the common black crow, examined by the government, 3 per cent, of all their food consisted of corn in the milk, that is, in roasting ear ones. A trivial portion of their foo<l consisted of frust uud eggs, while moat of the iood was injurious insects and mice; therelore crows should he protected, although crow* do pull up corn and eat the kernel to some extent. But this can be prevented by taking seed corn, pouring kerosene oil on it, stirring until each grain is greasy with oil, then put'ing in flour of sulphur until each grain has had a coit of sulphur. This should be done just before planting. The oil and sulphur applied in this way will make it distasteful to the crow, and he will abandon a field planted in seed corn treated in this way. The corn 'reated with snlnlmr and k^rftBonn ...;n _i... J- .. V ..X A WOVIIU **1*1 21151) be protected from the worms. Another bird that hap been supposed to be injurious is the king bird, or bee martm, which the boys were laugh* to shoot, because they ate bee*. On the investigation of many bee martins' stomachs, it was found that a email per cent of tho bee martin's food was bees, and most of (he?e were drones, because, the honey making bee sings, and nat ne provided the ben martin wi'h eyes to enable h'rn to d is jtinguish between a drone and (t We honeymaking bee lor at least 100 feet distant. Tho majority t of the beo martins' food consists I of mosquitoes, robber flies and 'injurious insects. The robber Avis a bee hawk, that is, a large fly thai catches the bees when tin y go to and fiom the h'vo and sucks tlie blood from them. In studying bird food,dependence is chiefly placed upon ex I omination of the stomachs of the birds at different seasons. It has been discovered tha' birds preler wild fruits and wild cher ^ ries, and grape vines have been ^ planted near orchards and found j to be a great, protection to the v cultivated fruit. r Birds are used in a variety of a ways, for food, pleasure, for t sportsmen, for plumage, lor rail- 8 linery purposes, and for guano, j United Slates bulletins on Ec?n- a omic urnitnotogy and other liter- _ ature on the value of birds may j be obtained by any one who wishes them, ut Washington, by g applying to the congressmen and (] senators from his or her district, j or perhaps just as well to T. S. Palmer, department of agricul- f] ture. e Now, I love birds and wish to j have them protected, and tor j this reason have tried to enourCJ age the boys in Rock llill aud t York coun'v to build houses lor ^ birds1 ues's rather than fight them away. Many of ti'.e boys e report to me that they have blue ^ hiids and Jenny wrens building ^ in thrir houses. Bluebirds and wrens are my favorites, and 1 sometimes think that the biue- ^ bird should be our national bird, t not that the eagle is not a grand ^ bird, but that the bluebird comes j nearer having red, white and blue j Besid* s, he is an inhabitant of a | greater part of America than the j eaele and he is a verv utetul bird a " ' J ' for the protection of gardens and orchards. I will mentiou some of the books thut are devoted to birds, that is, those that will interest children : "The Citizen Bird," J "Birds That Hunt and Are Hunt- ( ed," and "Bird-Crab," also a t pharaple' called "Birds and Na- I ture." 1 wish every man, wo- ' man and child would read the Educational Leaflet No. 7., is- 1 Jsuedbv the national committee of Audubon societies. I am sure if the Indies who thought they were fortunate in being able to buy aigrettes for their ha's would regret having i worn them or any kind of tenthers on their hats. i nope m nave a collection of i bird houses to exhibit at Hie i summer school, which I hope vill hold il? meeting at Win throp n? xt summer. W. H. Wylie. Former Lancastrian Show- , ing Rock Hillians How to Farm. Rock Hill Herald: Mr J. K. 1 G'.mes, who runs :? farm neur; the Highland Park Mill, brought i sla'k of cotton into this ollice Thursday that- measured 58 inch es in height and contained 150 bolls, matured and unmatured, 15 blooms and lJl squares. Mr. Gobies Iims about ail acre ol this cotton and says that the stalk he brought, us is only a lair sample. * Miss Alice Beckham, ot the Van Wyek section, is visiting the Misses Stewart.?Kock 11:11 . Her 11. News in Brief. The new depot at Enoree has een destroyed by fire. . . . R. Lee lunter, a wei -to-do farmer of <aurens cou'?tv, !ins benn evicted of violating the dispensary law.... Mrs. E hel W. Blair, handsome young woman, was ried in Columbia Saturday for hooting and killing her hu-band, AcCulle.v W. Biair, who was railroad mn/tnot 1 5 ? ) tLIU 11 UIII 1* ide occurring last January, 'he jury tendered a verdict iuu day morning ot manlaughter Erskine College pened last Wednesday with the argest enrollment in its history ...David M. JelTcoat, a white nan charged with the rape of an light-year old negro ^irl in May ast, was arrested Saturday and odged in the Aiken jail. . . .The issessment ot property for taxaiou in Georgia is higher this ear than last by $05,000,000 ...Several persons are reportid killed by the premature exilosin ot dynamite in the Columlus gold mine, in Washington jounty, Ga Calvis Gillis, of Veheville, N C., was drowned in vater only waist deep at Atlanic City Several hundred gallons of alleged blind tiger iquor were sized in Charleston 1- \ir ? " 0.-.k ween .... vy alter well man )?s abandoned until next year lis 6 'arch tor the North Pole. A Fearful Wreck?25 Killed White R.ver Junction, Vt., Sept. 15.?A fearhil h*ad-on collision between the southbound Quebec express and a northbound freight train on the Concord division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, four nnleR north of Canaan station early today, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's orders and from a demolished passenger coach there were taken 24 dead and dying and 27 other passengers, most of them feriously wounded. Nearly all those who were in the death car were reluming from a fair at Sherbrooke, Quebec, 100 miles north. Sentenced to 55 Years. Meadville, Pa., Sept. 16.? Uen;y Lehna, who confessed to robbery and three assaults on 14- year old Anna Whitehead at Furneisville, Pa., near here, about a month ago, was today sentenced by Judge Prank J. Thomas, to serve 55 years in solitary confinement in the Western Penitentiary. This is the maximum penalty f. r the crime, being 15 years lor each assault * and 10 years lor robbery. Mr. IJ. J. Lowrv, Mr. and Mr*. W. T. Lowry, Mr. and Mru. J. L. Hunter anil Mr. Robert Rowry returned Saturday from a visit to tho Jamestown Exposition. L)o you take The News?