The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 30, 1908, Page 7, Image 7
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I The Number in Lancaster j h
I County?A Plea for Fewer raisin
I Canines and More Hogs, ingso
Sheep and Goats. no, an
Ed. The Lancaster News: This iiomu
year will soon be gone. The new
year will come bringingwith it the county
auditor taking t at returns. Tree
I wonder if Lancaster county will pev
next year return like it did this the at
year?1779 dogs?a wonderful ou ?jj<
return, and perhaps not all re propl
turned 'ben. Now to begin with, consp
a good dog in its place is a use- ne
ful animal but a trifling dog is pr0pi,
poor property. I tail to see why wiH
our people will keep so many Even
dogs. 1 know of men who have Symo
as many as six dogs and r.ot a WOrd
hog. And if there was a hog fje
among that bunch of dogs it ladde
Jfeld be a poor little fellow, this vv
There was a time when flip hi?? ~-j o
-' P ftiiu o
woods was here and Jul! ot wild the fri
game ot almost all (Jescriptiou*, ed wi
when a sporting dog would have a ladt
been usetul, but that day has caretr
passed and there is nothing for havio
the dog to do now Since the of the
country has been cleared up and 0f w<
the wild game killed and leaving upon
a few partridges and a few rab- if l
bits, the boys can catch them in lowet
boxes. My boys get one uearly consii
every morning. One ot my weatl
neighbors caught 18 rabbi's last ges I
winter iu a little skirt of piues upon
not over \ acre in size. The weatl
partridges, we need all of them, the h
and if we would quit r^isiug so tho fi
much cotton, sow more wheat be.
and oats, we would have more warn:
partridges and better ones. It's croak
not the amount of birds that is p Thi
killed with the gun that hurts, is rea
but it a bird dog is allowed to that I
run at large on a farm during some*
the spring and summer mouths gards
he will destroy five times as act8 t
many birds by breaking up uests jn
and killing young birds before amon
tfiey are able to fiv than he will vvhen
before his master's gun in the At t
hunting season. Our Represen- he s
ttttives ought to cut that bird bimsi
law dowu to two weeks, like it, is the I
in North Carolina, because they out ti
^ still slip over here and kill our Hies.
birds. No
Now Riippose our people would with<
raise 1779- hogs in p.ace of the weat
dogs?averaging 200 lbs each at rises
in Ik. : 1- ' -
?w pni iub 111 purn, wxiai a i
nice profit to our people. As able,
it is, where is the profit? tjle w
1 will venture to say there are he is
not over 200 9heep in the county 0tiuc
and not as ra*uy goa's as sheep POrro
What .is the matter with our whic
people? ''Cotton" Now, you 0f hit
can not raise an animal with less
expense and more profit than a
sheep. They will stay in the Lfl0
pasture with the cows. You t'Uo. N
r noyinf
will hardly miss the feed during ions/
the winter that one will eat, and ofth"
in 5 months the lambs are grown.
The wool from the sheep is a
nice profit. My wife sent 100 ,
lbs to the mills the other day to
have made into cloth and blankets.
We have 11 sheep now
and killed 5 last summer, keep- Co
ing one quarter each, butchering state
and selling $ of the mutton, sion
which netted us from 3 to 4 dol a rail
lars each time besides the hide 4 12
and tallow, that is a profit. But enab
the dogs got among my sheep cash
last spring and killed 3?that with
was a loss. Now there is a clear show
i profit in raising hogs, sheep and priat
I goats, but almost a clear loss in thoui
raising dogs. Last Monday, on erty
my way to my work, I saw a prop
mad4dogjust getting over.a tit. I high<
called a mah and he shot the rowe
dog before it recovered,from the by t
fit. Dogs go mad and will con- upon
tinue to do so as vlong as people sevei
will raise so many of them. Bit- paid,
ing other dogs and other animals i Th
and people, seems to be judg- from
ment sent on the people for yeste
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THE LANCASTE
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g so many of them. Our received by the Stat<
menta'.iyes ought to double 1-tnill increase to be I
^ on the dog. ^ 75. The appropriat
ope V>ur people wiU quit by the general assemt
g so many dogs, qtnt rais- for 1908 amounted to
much cotton, buy leas gua- in round numbers,
id raise their own hog aud a very large deficit,
ly at home. nately there are othc
T. W. Secrest. income that will mak
? ? ? portion of this. Th6
Frog a Weather Sharp will, according to the
... . tllrt Prtinnlrnllar nanA
v animals nave survived
tacks made by science up- hU rePor'- 8m"unt
sir reputation as weather the tux le,ied lor the
. mu t the railroad commits
lets. The green frog is a _
: .. .. 700; the income froii
icious exception.
, . . . eries commission to $
is, to be sure, a croaking .
et, but plenty ofj people i*1C(,me ,ax lo $*2,C
pin their faith to h,m. corP?r"ion license
.... . . 000. The last name
so scientific a journal as
, n. . . . . , $4,000 over that est
in s Magazine has a kind '
? ? .u- i-.ai i interest on the mon?
to say ot this little animal.
. . , . , , this year, however, '
re is a picture of the frog's
, . . . , , . to about $10,000, so
r which is provided lor .
., i . . is a chance for the fc
eather propliel in Germany
, , r , out about even and a
witzerland. Iu many homes
ogis keptin a bottle half fid a deficit.
th water and provided with ^ie ,ola^ taxable
Ier, and the little fellow is South Carolina this y
illy watched as to his be? ^67,956 and an incr
r in uncertain conditions 929,819.
i atmosphere. A number ? ? ?
jather maxims are based Mistakes Drunken
his posture and activity. a Bear and Sho
le remains on one of the ... rn
, . Chattanooga, Teni
it steps ot the ladder it is .....
4 , , ?Mistaking a dru
dered a sure sign that bad , , . ,. ? ,
, clad in a Buffalo <
ier is coming. It he emer- u i i* i
b a bear, Thomas Deck
rora the water and recta known Ur Uj(.
the steps above it hue an(J jnstalltly
ier may be expected, and . . r .
1 , Andrews near Lafa^
igher he sits on the steps . , . , .
? r Andrews had beeu
ner the weather is sure to , , . ..
ri , . wa" paroled by the
Lie is also supposed to give , : , . . ,
. , /r , , he might go home foi
mg of bad weather by . a , f .
Instead of going ho
ing loudly before a storm. ... .
. , , drunk and sat down
9 magazine says that there ... . .
b J ... the doorwav of a hoi
,lly some reason to believe , . , ...
. ny a winow. ueckn
ihe green tree frog is j . ,,
. . ed, the family think]
what experienced as re- , ~ ,
. ... , was a bear. Deckn
climatic conditions and ,|i? form witli his gu,
iccordingly. no respouse fired.
fine weather he skips about jury rendered a vert
g the brauches of trees fiabl? homicide.
i at liberty, catching fties.
- . Every case of backache. ^
ll0 approach ol Win tor cier inflammation and rln
eeks the water and finds oangeronsif ntgiectod, fc
viw o v.. ?? wv.* are nearly always duo to
ell abed in the Oilld until Take DeWitt's Kidney an
. .1 i They are antiseptic an
lollowing spring calls him quickly. Insist upon I]
n rfisnniA hia war on the Hl?dder 1'ilU. For w<
0 resume nis war on tne inflaillH1Ation of tho bladd
equaled. Regular size 60
J. F. Mackev * 'o.
w, the trog on the ladder '
>ut doubt watcher the
her conditions keenly and ^ ^ 1
to look out for flies when
circumstauces seem favor ...
> v We aro again ready
On the other hand, when prices : tooo to 4000 at !
, . , , . . 10,000 to 20,000 at 90 eer
'ealher is cold and damp those who will net as on
reminded ot winter and in- ( * (>- !' S?tisfa? tion, ?
varieties?the Parly Jon
tivoly retires 10 bury llis Succession and Flat Dut
.... , frostproof. It interest?
ws in the imaginary mud, u? us. Our personal att<
h he seeks at the bottom 22-31 Till4) CAItll
1 prison.
This Is Worth Reading.
F. Zelinski. of 68 Gibson .St., Huf- I
f. V., says: "1 cured the most an- I IfjA Ii fJ1
? oold sore I ever had, with lluck- I IM
irnica Salve. I applied this salve "ETYAf
day for two days, when every trace m lUI
sore was gone." Heals all sores CARE
inder guarantee at J. T. Mackoy *
d Funderburk Pharmacy. 25c. w t7..??. ...
livery year
can find thoro
State's Finances?Common- This is true
tiun 11 hh (sorrowed lleavi- H First, because
ly This Year. || Second, becauf
lumbia State: Despite the II Inater'a's ever Pul
ment made at the last sea H Third, because
. . . ^ It comfort of the foe
of the general assembly that ;
?i a? . i t N burely you can'
? ... the State tax levy tron. fl shoe ,han (hi$|
i milla to 5 1.8 mills would U Comc in and sc
le the State to get nearer a h
basis and possibly do awav D A I C
borrowing money, it is I **
n this year that the appro- | Lance
ions overlap the income, al- I
Rh the assessments of prop- fj
have been increased and I
erty values raised much I
^r. The Stato ban nlun Kt.p
...
d the full amount allowed ,
he legislature?$500,000? _Q_^Vi I
which interest totaling up 1
al thousand dollars must be ill
ie official figures obtained I ijl
the comptroller general I
irday 3how the total taxes m
R NEWS DECEMBER 3Q. I3Q8
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11,492,523- ;
,i;";.."t I Are You 11 _
Sr.:I Regular? ||T
but fortu- 11 i? "* a9U u ta * s,fn ol 1 i| I
disease, a sign ol some hidden Hi |
T sources ol H fema]e trooHe, that may be under- H I D
6 up a good H mining and wcakeniag your con- H I
license fees M ?nd laying up lor yon |
. H mack latare suffering. H fl
eBtimate ol M ^ lhollMI1j, ol w?k> U- I HI
ral, made in jfl regular, suffering women have, in ^ u M 1
to $20,000; n tbe past s# j*"*' been ?rc#t,y | I I
......... - H benefited or cared by the nse ol H HI I
support Ol I ,h?i .ell-known, amcoslul. purely H 8 U
don to $10, vegetable, female toalc and cura- H H
t\ the fish- H tivc remedy |
loo Td tile WINE 0 A D 0111 I
r*. : of UAnUUII
iymborrowede WOMAN'S RELIEF 1 V
IVill amount I APPk a- Barnes, el Alto, Tex? H 9 V\
writes: MI caught cold, which jl V *
that theer made me irregular and gavo me ^m | '
m:n,. pains in my shoulders and sides. M /
6 coming ?of a]inost 2 wcek# , couli not 1 7
l chance for ES lift a chair. Cardai brought roe B3 ( \
ITJ all right again; 1 have no more mQ Njj
pains and am in very good H <J
health." H /
property id K
ear is $271,- I At All Druggists (
ease of $3,- 9j WRITE FOR FREE ADVICE, iji
H| stating age and describlnc symp- Bs
KjB toms, to Ladies Advisory Dept., ^|
J5l The Chattanooga Medicine Co., By
Chattanooga. Tenn. B 3tB
Man For
ots Him.
Dec, 26. , Money 0 Loan.
1 uui now pre} area to negotiate loans of
.liken man from $3('0.tlti and upward* on improved
.. cotton farms, repayable in annual install- t
avercoat lor monts, at 8 per cent inteiest. No com- Tv<'1'*7*
imar a well lui8Ri?DR I ; only a reasonable fee (MmRME
' lor almtruct of title
night shot 96-R6 II E WYLIE, Mtorney-at-L?w.
ed Thomas
yette, Tenn. Notice of Application for Dis- f
in jail but charge. g
sheriff that Notice is hereby given that the un- mum
flhristmau dersigned, as executor ot the estate of
naiuitts. ja croxton, deceased, will on the
me, he got 4th day of January, 1909, make his
. . final return and settlement as such ox- txt_
tO sleep in ecutor and apply to the Probate Court W
186 occunie I Lancaster County for his final dis- "
F charge. E. C. CKOXTON, I
lar was call- Executor estate Eliza J. Croxton, do- I UUl
ing Andrew, 1908. I
nar prodded ^ will
a and getting . . . . , . , c , i _
a comer s Administrator s Sale. due
licl ol jus (J- Under and by authority of the Judge
of Probate for Lancaster county, I will
sell at public out-cry at Van Wyck, S. 6*
C., on the 6th day of January, 1909, all
veak back, blud- Df Uie personal property belonging to
aumatic pains is the estate of E. W. Nisbet, late ol the
?r snob troubles county and State aforesaid, consisting
weak kidneys jn j)ar{ as follows, to wit: 2 good mules, *
d bladder ills, j ^orse, 1 buggy, 1 wagon, 1 practically
, v T'1111 new rake, 1 mower, 5 Jersey cows,shop
'eW.tPs Kidney I toolg gears and complete line of farm- !
?'- T? s ? -?" tha
c. Sold hero by J. E. NISBET, |
w?s | Dec. 19, 1909. Administrator. I the
bsLge Plants 1
0 wa
to fill all your orders for cabbage plants at the following
^1.25 per thousand ; 5000 to 9000 at >1.00 per thousand; I mi:
ts per thousand. Special prices to largo dealers or to
r agents. Cash with order, or if preferred we will ship 4*1 YY
ount and safe delivery guaranteed. Wo have all leading 0A.J-L
sey and Charleston Wakefield, both early varieties; and
ch in later varieties. Plants are tough and hardy and are
d in growing or selling cabbage plants, mail your orders ?
sntion given to all orders. ^ V
l-0AHI.ro> CO., Mi'ggetls, S. 0., Itox 26.
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1MEN WHO^ T
TO DRESS WELL" T| I
an army of men is discovering that they 3.111
ugh satisfaction in the Barry Shoe. th.?
for the following reasons:
it is always thoroughly up-to-date in style. Got
?e it is well made by Union labor, of the finest TY1/i
: into a shoe. H1C
! it is designed for the perfect 1 ed.
\ (V
't look for anything more in a / 1 ,
e for yourself. \ *
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EN DAYSl
liOTHING SALE
t"Fine
Words
Butter
x cu aiapo
> have simply decided'to close '
i our entire line of clothing, t
1 in order to do so, have re* :
3ed prices on j
rOOD O
lothes I
it will make [ < \S J'-'Vi I
;m GO. I'Vj
f you really J A ? KIjl' U
,nt to econo- II j Lfl. ' ' J (1 I
zenowisthe fjffjjtl j! j | fllll
ret Busy" ^ |] j; ujr '
We have no I
Dddy goods \lnl || 1/
offer vou. * ?t\\ll.JII
?rices guar- \
beed lower \ ;w|L
m the low- \
or your \ mj|?
>ney refund- ^ ?
nil ulxwjjqt pu/kctioit
c .
Yours truly,
I
ILLIAMS - HUGHES CO.
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