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SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS Clemion College Haa Sent Boye Direction* For Strawberry Culture That Will Be Useful to Adult Farmers and Surburban Dwellers as Well.? Advice on All Steps, From Preparing Soil to Packing Crates. Eighty South Carolina corn club boys, eighty of the beBt in the State, are adding strawberry culture to their work. These are the boys who by their corn club work last year, won scholarships to Clemson College for the summer course. During the course they were promised that In iruvuoaB ior crowing strawberries I would be sent to them In the tall and the boys expressed themselves as eager to try small patches of the luscious fruit as part of their club work. F. J. Crlder, associate professor of horticulture at Clemson Colldge, has prepared avid sent tho boys a set of Instructions for strawberry culture. These instructions are simple and brief, but cover tho subject in all imf portant branches. They will be useful to any who desire to grow strawberries and this should include a large number of suburban dwellers as well as farmors. Prof. Crider's directions are as follows: Soli for Strawberries. Any kind except bottom land and stiff clay. j Preparation of Land. Break deeply, smooth tho surface well, and lay off rows as for cotton. When ready to plant, knock the bed down to a level. Fertilizing. Fertilize heavily with table manure, either broadcast or in the furrow, before planting. Each fall, Just before mulching, apply broadcast a mixture of about 250 pounds cottonseed uieal, 400 pounds k&init, and 250 pounds acid phosphate, these being the amounts por acre. Setting Plants. Set plants in straight line, 18 inches apart in row. Place plants in rather large holes with roots spread apnrt and pack soil firmly about them. Keep roots of plants moist until planting. Place name of varloty on a stake at end of row. Mulching. As soon as plants are set, cover ground all about plants with heavy coating of pine needles or oat straw. This holds moisture and keeps berries clean in spring. Apply rthis mulch each year thereafter in September. Cultivating. Begin cultivation just aupr oerries are gathered. Cultivate as for cotton, keeping a loose layer j of soil on top and all weeds and grass removed. Treatment of Runnera Flrat Summer. Let runners take root along rows so as to get plants for a new patch. Setting a New Patch. In September use new plants in setting out a new patch, following same method as before. Treatment for Second Summer. Give same treatment as first summer, except that all runners must be cut off (unions more new plants are wanted). Repeat this the third summer. Treatment for Third Fail. Plow up your old strawberry patch. Strawberry plants will not produce desirable berries after the third crop. Gathering Fruit. Pinch berrloa from stalks without bruising, leaving stems on. Go over patch every other day, sometimes every day. Pick berries when they are red, while yet firm. Gather in standard quart strawberry baskets. The basket is sold with the berries. * Sorting. While picking, place the larger berries in one basket, the second size in another, and the smallest else (which should not be marketed) In a third. This 1b very important. Naming the Qradea. Name the flrat grade "Extra Fancy" and the second grade "Fancy." Write name of grade, variety, and your own name on each basket. Use quart site strawberry baskets, 32 to the crate, and see to it that they are neat and clean. Get prices on crates and baskets from manufacturers and have supplies reach you in ample time. Arrangement of Berries In Basket. Have every basket well filled and arrango the berries on top in rows. Carry baskets to market in neatly packed crates. They will command attention and bring the highest prices. DRAGGING WITH AUTO A Western furm paper suggests that farmers keep up their roads by hitching a drag to their automobiles. The idea is to take the drag along behind the auto for a mile or two when on a trip to town, then to leave the drag: by the roadside, to pick it up on tha return trip, and to drag the other aide of the road. It baa been trie# with success. - -8ol?ntiflc Accuracy. A certain professor In a New England scientific school put this question upon the board In an examination of his class: "Whet steps would you take to ob^ tain the height of a great modern sky? scraper by use of an aneroid barometer?" One student answered: "To obtain the mast accurate results from tlie use of this instrument in the circumstances. 1 would tie the aneroid barometer to a string, tower it from I the root and thon measure the string." i / .... . ....... V i DUG ITSELF OUT OF PI Remarkable Piece of Work That Hi Been Credited to Steam-Shovel at New York. When a steam-shovel had excavate a pit In connection with some grad crossing work near New York, it e tricated itself by burrowing down sti further until it reached a conveniei subway and then trundled itself 01 on the rails. The story is told i Engineering News, which calls it tale of "resourcefulness in operating steam-shovel." We read: "The shovel . . . was used 1 making the second cut in a Bnctinn < the grade-crossing elimination woi which the Long Island railroad hi had under way for the last thrc years In East New York. When th section of the second cut had bet finished, the disposition of the shov presented something of a problem, would not do to lift it out of the cu because the slopes might slide, n< could it be backed out by the way had entered, bpcause of the timberir in the rear. . . . The tour tubes < the tunnel had been completed to point where the second cut on this se tion began. It was decided that tl simplest way of movmg the shovel i the surface was to have it dig its ow way down to one of the concre tubes, the lloor of which was 22 fei below the floor of the second cut, ai then to run the shovel out to the po tal on the track laid inside the tub The spoil handled by the shov was lifted out of the cut by crane equipped with a bucket. 1 order to keep the water distribute uniformly in the bcller and the fli ourning properly, the rear truck of tl shovel was removed and the shov skidded on timbers down an 18 pi cent grade Waltc ^ (lahagan, ti contractor, states ** entire o eration war, perform*, 't ar particular difficulty." SOLDIERS DRILL AT GOLGOTH And Armed Aircraft Hover Ovi Sacred Bethlehem and the Mount of Olives. Armed airships and aeroplanes a continually Hying over the hirthplai of the Prince of Peace, at Bethlehei according to the Mote aus Zion (Tl Messenger from Zion), a newspap published in Palestine by a Swiss ml sionary. Nearly the entire Holy Lai hoa 1 ionr? ironof/\i?me?l ? ? ? WWII tiauoiui iu?:u II11U a nil tary camp. Soldiers are maneuvering every di on the Mount of Olives, at (lolgotl and Jerusalem. The English, Fren< and Russian convents have be< turned into barracks and between J dea and Jericho, where transportatk was by mule pack in the days wh< Christ came to bring "peace on earth a rond is being constructed armored motor cars. Long columns of huffaloes, driven I Arab peasants, are hauling carts loa ed with powder, projectiles and oth> supplies for the Turkish army, aloi the favorite routes of pilgrims in Pi ostine. Fast dromedaries of the cam corps maintnin communication h tween the camps in Palestine and tl Turkish headquarters. It is suppose that the concentration of the yout recruits in the Holy Land is with view to another attack upon Egypt. Light in Modern War. From what has been said it appea that the new art of fighting with ligl is both offensive and defensive. Ligli under up-to-date military conditions, in a way a weapon of war?Just i much as the rifle or the machine gu If. once drawn into international co flict wo are not to be beaten, we mu learn how to use It. Which, In a wor represents exactly the problem thi Uncle Sam Is now trying to solve. Invisibility is the keynote of mo ern warfare. To win, the fighting me must not be seen by his adversar Hence the development of nlght-flgh ing. Never in the history of war hi the surprise attack cut so large a fl ure as in the present conflict. Dar ness. for such purposes, is the be help. Advantage is taken of the cov< of night for the advance of large bo les of troops, for flank movements, ft the emplacing of artillery, for tl construction of cover, for the bringir up of munitions. The Zeppelins ai night-birds. Can't Find Ugly Woman. Of course, there are no homely gir in Pittsburgh, so this item will n interest the fair sex of the steel cit It is merely written to show how co ceited are the New York girls, theatrical manager offers the chani of a lifetime for the most home woman in existence, but so far n one has come to the front to proi she is a perfect bear. If this frightf example of reverse beautv in ev< found there Is awaiting her a big pa 'In a costly production, fame, room and a theatrical future. The autb< who wrote this homely woman pa knew his New York all right and I assumed there would be no dlfllcul finding such a person for the rol But he failed to reckon with the atari ing lookers, for they have passed tl buck to their sisters of still ugli facial construction. In the meantin the theatrical manager has reach* the stage where he does not ca: whether the ugly woman has ev< had any stage experience before. t will accept for the part only one wl can produce a warty proboscis, tl knock knees, the straight hair, tl absent chin, the flapping oars, tl spear elbows, the ham hands and tl steeplechase smile.?New York Cc respondent of Pittsburgh Dtspatoto. THE LANCASTER NEWS T | ELDER NOT ALWAYS THE BEST is Modern Science Has Thoroughly Disproved a Belief That Was Held for Many Centuries. id There was a time when the eldest e- son was supposed to he superior in x- all respects to his younger brothers.i 11 i That time is past. Modern science it has proved that when there is any it | difference the eldest son averages in I somewhat behind later-born children a in mental strength and ofttimes in a physical endurance. Does this, perchance, help to ex In plain why hereditary government is 3f bo unsatisfactory; why the direct k royal line so frequently runs out and is the crown shifts to the descendants >e of some younger brother; why the is first prince of a new line Is so often sn superior to any of his successors? i el Under the royal rule the eldest son ?t of the eldest son takeB the crown. If it, there is evm a trifling handicap in 3r being the first born the constant mul- i It tiplication of this handicap would [g raise it to considerable proportions in ^ a few generations, a The Turks avoided whatever evils c- j may lurk in the law of primogeniie ture. They allowed the sultan to to 1 name his successor, hut provided that m this successor must he the son of a te slave. In practice he was usually one ct of the younger sons of the monarch, id and always the child of a woman who ,r- had wit or beauty enough to make e. | herself the leader of the harem. As ol a result Turkey had the most wondera ful succession of able sovereigns j [n known in history, but the palace in>d trigues and fratricidal wars to which re j tho custom gave* rise proved intolerable. el 1 ? er ERA OF THE SLANG PHRASE p Common Speech of Modern Day Has Become a Curiosity, to Old Fogies' Regret. IA At this time the* p<*opl% call n man a ' "guy." a woman a "skirt." and a dog a sr "mutt." Other samples of the speech of the people are not essential. The truth is that few can say anything in the old fashioned direct way. savs the re New York Sun. AH have become so ce accustomed to tli" use of slang that n, the common speech is no longer comie mon; it is become a curiosity, releer gated to the obscure haunts of the is- "highbrows" and treuted with scorn by id the workers of the world. While this 11- undoubtedly gives much joy to Prof. Brander Matthews, it saddens some ?v old fogies, who mourn the departure is of earlier and more elegant ways of -h speaking, as they mourn the decadence in of earlier and better manners. Peru* haps the two were unrelated, but they >n wore at least companions. ?n Is it not probable that if the young it" , ceased to call their elders "old guys" 3r or "geezers." to refer to other people's mothers as "skirts" or "rags," and geniy erally began to lift their terminology d- toward levels of a decorum less tigurapr tlve, if more prosaic, they might also iR improve their manners? At any rate is there any overwhelming reason why *d the youth of this time should be allC" most unacquainted with the plain Englfi lish tongue and unable to say the slmid plcst thing except in slang? It is a 'R matter wqrthy of the consideration of a those teachers and professors who may perhaps not agree with tho Columbia sage that "everything goes." , i His Business There. Champ Clark once told of a case 1 ' brought up in Missouri in which one 8 of the lawyers engaged tried to serve 18 his client by throwing suspicion on a n" certain witness during the course of n" his cross-examination. 8 The first question put was: ' | "You admit that you were at the | prisoner's home every evening during this period?" * ; "Yes, sir," replied the witness. in "State whether you and he were iny' terested in any Bpecial transaction, such as, for instance, business or oth18 I erwise.' cr. "Yes, sir, we were." ~ ! "Oh. ho!" exclaimed the wily attorj ney. "Then you will, no doubt, be 7" good enough to inform us how and : to what extent, also the nature of the 3r business in which you were jointly j interested." !,* "I haven't the least objection in the ,e world," cheerfully answered the I obliging witness. "If you want to know?I was courting his daughter!" | ; 18 Submarine Attack. ? 1 Submarines are not afraid to at5' tack a hostile warship from a favor^ able position, but owing to their very ^ small power of resistance to gun tiro, , . and that their only offensive weapon against warships is the torpedo, the ^ guns they carry being of such small ul caliber as to be of no avail against a | nr vessel protected In any way, they can- !' rt not attack them boldly on the surface of the water. Hence they are obliged or to maneuver until they reach a post- ! rt ttoo whence they can effectively die charae a<tornado, and a* ?hi? are necessarily submerged. e The periscope Is one thing that tnn. dlcates the position of a submarine; ie another, when completely submersed, [ nr Is the line she makes which Is visible ' ie on the surface ot the water. *1 re Lublin an Old City, er Lublin, now In the occupation of the lo Austro-Qerman forces, may escape 10 something of the fate which came In te an earlier day, for it was once plum le dored by the Mongols. It is a very ie old city?Its cathedral dates from the >? thirteenth century?and at one time j it wa? great commercial center. The treaty of union between Lithuania and PolAnd was signed there in 1569. . IIKCK.MBKR 28. 1 <)!:-). DISCOUNT ON CZAR'S CHECK ???_ ( Painter Learned Something About | ^p How Business Is Conducted in the Realm of Nicholas. When Professor Tuxen, the Danish artist, had finished his great work, ; "The Coronation of Edward VII," he received, it appears, an order from the al)) Russian emperor for a copy of this -ph painting, for which the czar was to | i?j pay 12,000 rubles. j the In due course the professor repaired Co to Petrograd to deliver the painting, i Jal He was granted an audience with the i ?' czar, who expressed his satisfaction <st with the picture and who handed the professor an order for the sum agreed .1 il_ upon. I q"k When the professor presented the , jlul check for payment he was told that (i>. an order from the emperor waB sub- on Ject to a discount, and he had, there- nei fore, to accept a sum considerably Bi< smaller than the face value of the I ll! check. | 'l' Before his departure from Russia the professor had a farewell audience . with the czar, who, in the course of' f,?n conversation, asked him: "Did you i,, get your money, professor?" tw< Professor Tuxen replied that he had ing not intended to mention the matter, a< 1 but sinco his majesty himself raised ' the question, he would say that he had received only part of the money, j At this the czar seemed not at all surprised, but calmly made out another order for the sum which had been deducted from the original amount, and thus Tuxen got his money.? Washington Star. i at | sui War Upon Pain! Pain is a visitor to every home! and usually it comes quite unexpectedly. Hut you are prepared for every ? emergency if you keep a small bot-i tie of Sloan's Liniment handy. It is the greatest pain killer ever discovered. Simply laid on the skin no f rubbing required it drives the pain away. It Is really wonderful. Mervin II Soister, IJerkelcy, Pal., writes: "Last Saturday, after tramping around the Panama Imposition with wet feet, I eatne home with my neck so stiff that 1 couldn't turn. I applied Sloan's Liniment freely and w nt to bod. To my surprise, next morning the stiffness had almost disappeared, four hours after the second application I was as good as new." E March, 1015. At Druggists, 25c. 1 ft CLERK'S SALE. ETTA'I K 1)1- SOliTII CAKUI,I.\.\, County of Lancaster, in <'omuioii Picas. Jane I. Plyler, et al, Plaintiffs, vs. (i. S. Plyler, et al. Defendants. Pursuant to a decree made in the above stated case by Judge Ernest Moore, dated Dec. 4th, 1!?15. I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Lancaster Court House on the first Monday in January next, within the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate, towit: ! All those two (2) several pieces,I parcels or tracts of land lying and being situate in the county of Lancaster, state of South Carolina, in. Ituford township, described as fol-j lows: One tract containing forty (401 ) acres, more or less, and hounded north by lands of W. II. Sapp; east by lands of S. P. Plyler and the; Hooky Kiver road: south and west by lands of A. P. Plyler. Another tract containing one bun- __ dred and fortv-two l 14 21 acres. more or less, and bounded north by I lands of A. I'. Plyler; east by lands { of H. S. Plyler and Rocky River road; south by lands of Mrs. L. V. j Neill and west by lands of I). S. Funderburk. Terms of sale, one-half cash, the! balance payable in one year from date of sale, to be secured by tliej bond and mortgage of the purchaser, the bond to bear interest at eight (8) per cent per annum front date of sale, interest to be due and payable annually, with provision for ten per cent of the principal as attorney's fees in case of collection by at- i torney after maturity. The purchaser or purchasers to have option of paying all cash. Purchaser to pay for all papers and revenue stamps. PAUL MOORK. C. C. C. L. C. It. E. WYLIE, I'luiniiu * Auunicy. Doc. 14, 1915. 20-22-24 CLERK'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster. In Common Pleas. Annie V. (Jregory, Plaintiff. vs. Mamie MeColiough, et al. Defendants. Pursuant to a decree made In the; above stated case by Judge Ernest j Moore, dated December 9th, 191.r?,i I will sell at public auction to theI highest bidder at Lancaster Court i House, on trie first Monday in January next, within the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate, to-wit: All that piece, parcel or lot of land situated in the town of iancaster, in said county, and state, containing one-half acre, more or less, and bounded as follows: On the north by estate lands of I. C. Clinton; on the east by lands of Malinda Hudson, on the south by Barr street of said town, and on the west by estate lands of Joseph Knox, being the tract of land conveyed to J. H. McCollough by I. C. Clinton, by deed dated October 26th, 1909, and recorded In the office of Ft. M. C., for said county in Deed Book "K," page 536. Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. PAUL MOORE, C. C. C. L. C. WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS, Plaintiff's Attorneys. Dec. 14, 1915. 20-22-24 , .. . ??% V?V CLERK'S SALE. ATB OK* SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Lancaster. In ('opinion Ulcus, nest Moore, Plaintiff. vs. F. Williams, et al. Defendants. Pursuant to a decree made in the >ve stated case by Special Judge os. F. McDow, dated March 15th. 15, I will sell at public auction to ( highest bidder, at Lancaster urt House, on the first Monday in inary, next, within the legal hours sale, the following described real I ate, to-wit: All that certain niece, narcel nr ct of land, lying, situate and be; in the county of Lancaster, state , South Carolina, containing two ndred, forty and three-fourths j 10% ) acres, more or less, hounded the north by lands of P. M. Stog ; on the east by lands of John Idle and estate of P. P. Giles; on _ ! south by estate lands of P. I'. es, and on the west by H. J. Heckm, and being the same lands con ed to J. P. Williams by P. M. . igner by deed recorded in It. M. C. j t re for said county in Deed Rook , page 490, and there described as,' ? parcels of adjoining lands con- J ' ; one hundred and ninety and fifty ' es respectively. j ( Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser I 1 pay for papers. PAUL MOORE, I C. ('. L. <\ i E. WYLIE. 1 Plaintiff's Attorney. Dec. 14, 1915. 20-22-24 ' TAX NOTICE. Town Taxes are due and payable the o111ce of the Clerk and I'rea er. without penalty, from Dec 1st. Dec. :?lst.. l!?ir>, inclusive. JOHN CRAWFORD. Cleark and Treas. MWgMWMWMB??BnftTIIIBW M I ? w?)Oad(30tii! p Every Housewife or Mother is ever under that Nervous Strain^ which so often result: in Headaches, Dizzi Sensations, Faintness Depression and othe Nervous Disorders. Dr. Miles* NERVINE C< a D j - J v is i nguiy i\ccumnicnaea i> in Such Cases. ? IF FIRST DOTTLE FAILS TO \< BENEFIT, YOUR MONEY WILL " DE REFUNDED. W^TAeCA Chewin ever CI Chew^^Ni 5c. the packet or t cent at all the better Adaint; che\* delight?pe] with the pep top and gurr to the flavor. Everybody's che' *? The Latest Composition. I Mr Flatto?"That was the best piece ol ragtime I have hoard on our i player, dear" Mrs. ITutte? "Well, that was one of those porous platters I got in there by mistake."? Yonkcrs 'Statesman. uVaporize" Croup or Cold Troubles Vapor treatments for cold troubles oro better than internal medicines, as the vapors carry tlio medication direct to tho lungs aud air passages without disturbing the stomach. - ^ When Vick's "Vi?n.n.P.nl>" Salv** 5u ?? ?_ plied over tho throat and chest, these va[M>rs, released by tho heat of the body, ar<? nhakd with each breath. 25c. to $1.00. VICKS^SALVE Administratrix Salt*. By virtue of an order from the Judge of Probate of Lancaster couny, I will sell at public out cry at tho ate residence of R. A. Love, deceas;d, on Tuesday, the 28th day of Dec. I:?15. within the legal hours of sale. ho following personal property beongitig to said estate, to-wit: Two wagons and harness,, one ituggy and harness, one mower and rake, one disc harrow, one stalk cutter, two-horse plows, plow stocks md plows, hoes, gears, guano distributor. corn and cotton planters, -addle, middle buster, three milk rows, three yearlings, three horses, our mules, one brood sow and pigs, rerms of sale cash. ESTHER LOVE. Administratrix Estate of R. A. Love, Deceased. Kershaw, S. Route 5, Dec. 10, 1015. =n tiltTh ^nPrrnlTTrTt I il J -1 SJ U IJ 'J 'J 'J ytt.&RV" X \i r BADLY RUN DOWN. "I had boi-nmo greatly nm down nd my norvos were In terrible | andltion. I had frequent headeJu-s ;-*nd became very weak and wis unable to do anything. I ought a bottle of L>r. Miles' NorT10. I soon began to feel bettor, ly nerves w>*re quieted. 1 ronverod my strength, and have since ooommi tided Ur. Miles' Nervine i many of my friends who have sod it with satisfactory results." MRS. I UAXCKS WHITLOOK. 1 71) I'ro:iilwayt Schenectady, >7. Y. I s'.VMt ewiest *jm ? Gum JP hewed^^ W "BODS" :wo "Bobs" for a stands and stores. y heart of dng gum pperminty i?candy on t within?all wing lt-?"Bobs,>