Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?CATER TO FOWLS' APPETITE .Feeding of Only One Grain Soon Dis? gusts Layer With Her Boarding House-Variety Is Best. I Palatability is an important factor ?In the feeding of chickens. Many [people think the hen has no sense of ?taste. To satisfy oneself regarding ?this it is only necessary to watch the j bird at feeding time and note her keen ?sense of discrimination as she selects I the kernels of wheat from among the }rye and barley and the freshly sprout i ed, tender shoots from among the "dried, less succulent green feed. In (the feeding of grain mashes and green ?feed the hen has a varied preference. rSuch feeds as she likes best are best for her. ; I# never "pays to try to force any feed upou the hen that she docs not like or want. The feeding of only one grain soon djfgusts the layer with her boarding house. Variety is essential to obtain palatability. An occasional feeding of wet mash is readily appre ciated in preference to the customary dry form. Sprouted oats will taste . much better than the steady diet of dried alfalfa or clover, and a hot feed on a cold day makes the hens sing with delight. It pays to cater to the hen's appetite. WATER VESSELS FOR CHICKS Protection of Some Kind Should Bs Arranged to Keep Dirt Out Dur ing Summer' Months. The drinking fountains which will do for chicks during the cool spring months, when germ life is less abun dant, will need watching, scalding and cleansing by sunning, during the hot months. If they are the kind into which the chicks climb with their feet, put a brick in, if nothing better of fers. Shallow milk pans or deep pie tins make good drinking fountains, if protected fronf the chicks. Some breed ers have a wire platform, on wire legs, which they put over the pan, and the chicks drink between the wires. Oth ers use slat or cover the center of the pan. In the house where chicks are large enough to reach up or fly up, put the drinking vessel on a shelf. Whenever the vessel is filled, rinse it thoroughly. Fine dust settles in the bottom of any vessel, and this in time becomes slimy and germ-laden. Atten tion to the cleanliness and the placing of the drinking vessels is a great help towards keeping the chicks well. CHICKEN COOP IS PORTABLE Sidos of Covered Portion Are Remov able, as ls Front-Hinged Cover for Trap Nest. To one accustomed to the care of chickens, the accompanying cut will be most suggestive. The cut away portion of the side of the coop proper shows the direction of the roosts, while the trap nest is con Coop for Few Hens. fained in the small extension at the back of the covered portion, writes I C. J. Lynde in Farmers Mail and Breeze. Dry food is supplied in the box at the back. Wet food is put in the trough at the opposite end. The ?sides of the covered portion are re ?movable, as ts the front, and the trap ?nest has a hinged cover. The roof is : double with an air space between. LOSS OF CHICKEN FEATHERS Trouble ls Usually Caused by Presence of Depluming Mites-Ointment for Control. I -. _ The loss of feathers from chickens ?is usually caused by the depluming mites. These mites feed on the base ' of the feathers and the epidermis sur rounding them. The mites also cause an irritation and frequently cause the ?chickens to pull their feathers in their endeavor to allay this irritation. These mites cannot be cont roi ted by .'dusting, but are usually kept in check by the use of the following ointment: One dram of flowers of sulphur; 20 grains of carbonate of potash, and one half ounce of lard or vaseline. Tills ointment should be applied to the af fected parts. SHADE FOR GROWING CHICKS Ample Shelter Afforded in Orchard or Corn Field-Fowls Destroy Bugs and W*tms. Plenty of shade sl.OUld be provided for growing chicks. When allowed to range in an orchard or cornfield they will not only find ample shade and green feed but will benefit tin; trees or corn as well ns themselves by destroy ing bugs and worms. Sometimes .sun flowers are grown for shade. Artificial protection against the sun's rays may be obtained by supporting frames cov ered with burlap a few feet above th?? ground. Ra 'Rsi PSI ra isa m ia Pars ia ^ S WINNING OF CLARAS ia _ isa Ps te fe By H. L. STERRET. m ^ Ra Pa Pa Ra pa Pa te ita Pa te Pa W "Dear nie, Will, why will you be so annoying? When you're nice, Tm sure you are very nice, but when you begin to talk that way-" "What do you expect a chap to do?" asked Will Sinclair, as he dug lils heels into the soft earth beside the fallen tree on which they were sitting. "I simply love you, and I must say so." "That's just it," said Clara English, pouting. "There's no doubt you say it often enough. For two weeks you have said hardly anything else. Frankly, I'm weary of your swan song. Please don't begin all over again." "You are a heartless flirt," said the young man coldly, as he rose to his feet. "You have accepted my atten tions, well knowing your power, have led me on, and when I admit my love, scorn me." "I like you very much, Will," said the girl, lifting her shy eyes. "That is, I when you are good. But love is not everything. Oh, I know you have j money, but what I want is somebody who will be my master, who will rule i me. I want to be run away with; ! elope, or do something. This thing of loving and wedding just like ordi- i nary folks is revolting to my soul. Now I when you do something grand, or smash a record somewhere, come back ? and we'li talk it all over. I'm going . in to tea now, so goodby." Will gazed after the lithe, supple \ figure of his sweetheart as she walked away toward the distant farmhouse where they were putting in their vaca- . tion. He was filled with moodiness and disgust. He jumped up, and striking his cane wrathfully against an unoffending , stump, was about to follow In the wake of the disappearing girl, when he heard a low chuckle beside him. Turn- ! ing, he saw the wrinkled and whis kered face of the farmer grinning cheerfully. Jasper Stebbins, farmer and horse swapper, had a keen sense of the absurd, but also a heart big enough for two men. "I heard you makin' love to the gal," he suid. "An' I heard what she said back to you. Now don't git mad, 1 young feller. I'm- twice your age an' j I've bin through it all. Land sakes, I mind when I was courtin' Mandy, how she kept me a guessin'. That j girl's a likely colt, but she needs to be broke. Want to try?" "What do you mean by spying on , me?" demanded the youth angrily. j "Wouldn't git huffy, if I was you," ? calmly responded the old man. "That's ; a gal wuth saving, an' she kin be had. | You know she's goin' down to Miss Berry's past the bend in the lane to night arter supper, an' you oughter set out an' keep her company. There's . a lot of tramps nungin' about these ? days, an' t'ain't no proper place for a gal to trail all alone. If I was you I'd be kinder handy down to the beud in case there's any racket there." "Good heavens!" ejaculated the young man excitedly, as he acted on the hint and started off at a run. After supper Clara loitered about I the porch a while in the hope that Will j would appear and escort her down the j country lane. Finally she started alone, determined to lindie her call and get back,before it was too late in spite of him. She strode on her way. glancing now and then at the new moon, lt was a beautiful country lane with rail fences on both sides, and huge elms, dropping with foliage, fringing the path. "Hold on a minuit, lady," suddenly exclaimed a rough voice at her elbow. "In a big hurry, ain't you? Guess you can find time to talk to a pore man as hasn't had a bite to eat fur two days." The girl turned in terror, and saw a startling ligure, clad in garments too j ragged to hide the powerful muscles of arms and legs. "All I want Is a qurirter and a kiss," said the intruder. "No, you don't git off that way." As she whirled about to run the man caught her wrist in an iron grip and drew her towards him. A shrill, de spairing cry for help burst from the girl's Ups. Then over the fence leaped a young man, his eyes ablaze with wrath. He dashed the tramp to the ground, and tiie latter, arising, sprang swiftly away. "My brave Will," sobbed Clara ns she clung to him, "how frightened I was. You won't let him come near me again, will you?" "It's all right. Clara," he returned. "You are safe with me, darling." "I am so glad." "Are you? Then will you let me be your protector always?" "Always.", As the lovers walked away together Uncles Jasper lifted a grinning face above the fence. "There's different ways of breakln' fillies. Some takes it easy and some is shy. but they all learn to travel in double harness if they ain't spiled by too much coaxin'. Beckon I'd better git home now, or Mandy'll be scared fur me." (Copyright, 1917, by.W. G. Chapman.) Snake-Charmer's Powers. The Hindu snake-charmer has some extraordinary influence over these rep tiles. They are carried about for ex hibition purposes in large baskets made for tbot purpose, ami. while he plays his "tubri," these serpents are Made to perform in various ways. In performing some of those feats the charmer repeatedly breathes into the face of +ne .serpent, and occasionally jlow.s spittle, or some medicated com position, upon them. GREAT LAND 13 ARGENTINA People and Resources Will Place lt in the Front Rank of South Amer ican Republics. The great landowners come to Buenos Aires and spend their money upon the glittering boulevards, and this makes the city an abnormal one, and in a sense a false guide to the characteristics of the people and the country, says u writer in the Christian Herald. Argentina, however, is slow ly, hut-surely gathering to herself, out of the polyglot nations of Europe, which compose her, a spirit and in dividuality of her own as free and unique as ls the air of her boundless prairies. At present she resembles more truly tho Old World than does the United States, which has had much longer time to develop to a par ticular civilization all her own; yet you can hardly insult an Argentino more readily than to suggest Buenos Aires ns merely a copy or tinseled im itation of a European capital. He sees In it his own expression, and although he will tell you that to know the country correctly the North American must read the history ol' the United States 50 years ago, he is nevertheless deeply confident that Argentina has a future quite differ ent from either the United States or a European nation, or any other South American state. The longer one re mains in the country, the more surely he will be inclined to agree with the inhabitant of this great land, where are being gathered forces of popula tion in an agricultural area nearly half as big as the Unit?d States, pos sessing resources in many seuses more uniform and prolific than are to be found in any other one commonwealth on the face of the earth. MAY BE CLUB-FOOTED RACE Humanity Said to Be Tending Toward a Condition by No Means to Be Desired. j That the human race Is slowly evolving toward a condition of club footedness is suggested by Dr. Truman Abbe of Washington in the Medical Record. Doctor Abbe points to the horse's hoof and its evolution from the five-toed foot of the prehistoric horses, by the dropping of one toe after an other and the consolidation of tho bones from the knee down. "When we look at the human skele ton and compare the hone of the tibia and fihula and the digits beyond each of them," he continues, "it does not take much imagination to se? suggest ed in the slender fibula and the dimin utive little toes an early stage in the reduction process, which if carried further would lend to a diminution of the number of toes on man's foot." And he closes his article with these words: "We come thus to the sug gestion of club-foot as a tendency to ward the dropping of the post-axial digit group of the lower limb. And this dropping of a digit group would seem to be due to restricted develop ment in the central nervous system a factor that has been nt work since before the days of the five-toed horse." That there is hound to be ambiguity in the terms of a will is almost as well known among lawyers of this city as j is the way to the Hall of Records in Chambers street, where the wills are I probated. But the queer kinks which some individuals witli more guile than conscience put into the aforesaid tes taments furnish frosh entertainment every day for the profession, j Recently it was the executor of a i small estate who entered the office of I a lawyer to get an opinion. His j friend had died without close kin, he \ said, and had made him executor. In ! the terms of the will there had been j provision made for a monument to he j erected for the dead man at a cost not to excec ! $500. "That's what I wanted to see you about," confided the client. "You see, the will provided for a 'stone to his memory.' I've already gotten the stone ned I want to see if you think the whole thing's legal." And turning his right hnnd over upon the table the executor flashed be fore the eyes of the lawyer the stone in question-a beautiful $500 blue white diamond.-New York Herald. London Coffee-House Founder Dead. In the death of Sir Joseph Lyons there passes away the man who did more than anybody else to revolution ize the catering business of Loudon. Before the time when he threw down the brush and easel in favor of a business career the "coffee-house" as now constituted was unknown in Lon don. City workers had either to lunch at one of the numerous bars or pay the exorbitant prices charged at the hotels. To the thousands of women workers the establishment of the mod ern tea shop has come as a great hoon, for before that time there was no ac commodation for this class of .society. In his later days Sir Joseph spent a good deal of his time at Brighton, and was often to be seen on the front wearing the uniform of an honorary colonel of the Territorial force.-Dun dee Advertiser. Distressing Sight. ~ "You meet with some pathetic fig ures in this world." "I saw one yesterday." "Of what type?" "A man with a weakness for Kelly pool vms escorting his wife to a high brow lecture under compulsion."-* Birmingham Age-Herald. "A Stone to His Memory.1 if The Prudential Life insurance Co. writes more Life Insurance than any company in America except one. They have lowest rates with dividends and free disability clause of all companies in the United States. E. J. NORRIS, Agt. TheE Ins is one hu years old. surance t company i You wi! a Hartforc E. J. Telephone Courtesy The people who get the greatest amount of good out of their telephone are those who talk over it as though face to face. Courtesy smooths out dif?culties and promotes the promptest possible connec tions. The operators of the BELL System are trained to be patient and polite under all circumstances, but they will do better work if they meet with patience and politeness on the part of the telephone users. The fact that you cannot see the operator or the other party should not cause you to overlook this. The best results come through the practice of mutual courtesy. The voice with the smile wins SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY J. J. Roach, Manager, Aiken, 8. C. GARRETTS CALHOUN Augusta, Georgia COTTON We Solicit Your Business Call, write or wire when desirous of information of cotton market of country. Dr. William Brady in an article about calomel in the Atlanta Constitution re cently said: "Calomel is a cathartic and a very crude and superfluous one. It pro duces no special effect upon thc liver or upon thc secretion of bile. It has no more influence over biliousness than any other active physic. It is just thc ancient standby, cheaper than most other physics and retained in usc because old dogs seldom learn new tricks." As a substitute for a poison like calomel modern physicians prescribe purely vegetable cathartics. Mar tin's Liver Medicine does all the good calomel docs without produc ing calomel's injurious effects. Mar tin's Liver Medicine is a standard proprietary preparation for constipa tion, sick headache and other stom ach and liver troubles. Purely vege table as to ingredients, pleasant in taste, mild in action and fully guar anteed. If not satisfied with it, take the empty bottle to your druggist and get your 50c back. Try a dose or so of Martin's Liver Medicine when you feel that you need a liver regulator or a dose of physic. All good druggists sell Martin's Liver Medicine. ?artford Fire urance Co. mdred and seven (107) Writes more Fire lil lian any fire insurance n America. 1 be perfectly safe with 1 Fire Policy. NORRIS, Agt. I Kein]) Repair Shop. I have purchased the interest of ray brother, Calhson Kemp, in our repair shop and hereafter the busi ness will be conducted in ray name. I have employed Mr. R. N. May son to do roy boree shoeing and as he is an expert workman we want you to give him a trial. Bring your horse or mule to our shop when it again needs shoeing and be con vinced as to Mr. Mayson's expert shoeing. Weare prepared to do all kinds of repair work on short notice. A large supply of first-class material always on hand. J. D. KEMP. Ed&efield, S. C. Notice to the Public. I have installed a FEED MILL for grinding meal, corn on stalk, velvet beans in pod or on vine, oats in sheaf, or any way you want ground. Your Patronage Solicited W. A. Pardue For Sale by G. W. WISE, Trenton, S. C. And All Good Dealers ' Trespass Notice. AU persons are hereby notified not to hunt or trespass in any manner whatsoever on my lands. Tho law will be enforced against all persons who fail to heed this notice. This means everybody, without exception. L. G. Q naries. ^ DR J. S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. Notice. All persons are wained not to hunt or trespass on lands owned or controlled by me. This means stay oil. G. T. S wea rin ger,