The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, April 15, 1903, Page 4, Image 4
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Wednesday, April 15,1903.
Prof. W. J. Spi lmaD, agrostalogisi
of tbe department of agriculture at
'Washington, and Prof J. S. Newman,
of Ciem8on College, made capital
addresses to about 100 representative
farmers in tbe court bouse last
Monday. Tbe day was very uufavorable,
coupled with tbe fact that the
farmers are very busy at this season
of tbe year, made the meeting much
smaller in point cf numbers than it
would have been had it been held
later in the season and under more
favorable conditions- As it was, however,
they had a good and attentive
audience.
Prof. SpilJman's remarks can
properly be termed a plain practical
talk to farmers with all technical
scientific terms omitted. The morning
hours he spent in examining our
native grasses, ncticeing particularly
their growth, their development end
the nature of the sod in which they
are growing. His talk was illustrated
by maps, showing the different
regions in which the different grasses
would thrive and produce a paying
crop.
He was of the opinion that more
attention should be given to poultry
raising and recommended that the
farmers devote more time to this
industry. It would be a paying investment.
He b.lso recommended
that more attention should be given
to the cultivation Vf garden truck,
such as lettuce, parsnips and like
vegetables, all of which were healthy
food for the body and very remunerative
as money crops.
His theme, however, wae grasses
and beef cattle. He recommended
three grades of cattle for btef, but
his choice was "the short born and
butt-beaded. These be said, were
the be*t beef cattle known They
distributed tbeir fat at the places
where most needed?among the lean
?thus making the choicest and mo6t
desirable beef. He then touched
upon the grass and recommended the
Burmoda as the one best adapted to
our climatic and soil conditions. He
then give an interesting and instructive
lesson on its growth and culture.
The seed, he said did not give satisfaction,
as no stand from some cause
unknown to him, could be obtained
from them. He recommened that in
order to secure satisfactory results to
plant pieces of sod in rows like corn
and cover with a very ttin coating or
earth. "The Burmuda being a child
of the South," loved sunshine and
when it was desired to get rid of it
to use the pasture for other purposes,
all that is necessary was to sow the
laud to some plant that would shut
out the sunshine and completely
shade it, such as grain; etc. The
Kentucky blue grass would not thrive
in this section as it was out cf its
region. He had no use for the
Means or Johnstone grass on account
of the inability to get rid of it when
once it secured a growth upon the
land, but admitted that it made a
number one hay.
He extolled the virtues of the ;
cow pea, and advised their culture on I
? ? i TT _ i.13 !
a more extensive system, ne torn ui i
the soils more adapted to their !
growth, the best modes of cultiva- ;
tioo, their harvesting and caring, ail
of which was very instructive to
many of his hearers while there were
others who seemed to know more
about tbe cultivation of fcae cow pea
tbftu did Prof. SpilSman himself.
Prof. Spillman assured bis hearers
that tbe department of agriculture
would be glad to give the farmers
any information desired upon any
subject with in its work, and even in?
vited the co-operation of the farmers
in carrying on the great work which
it has undertaken in improving the
mode of cultivation of plant life indigenous
to the different sections of
this government.
We would that more of our people
A Vinrro Vioon nrofionf r>n f.his OC
V/UUIU UaiD k/&VU |/tvwvu> v?
casion as much information was given
but as it was seed were sown which
will spring up and bear important
fruit that will be of most advantage
to future generations.
The promoters of the electric railway
project left for Columbia yesterday
morning with a S10,000
bond duly executed by a Northern
security company, but we letrn that
on arriving there and consulting with
the city friends of the project it was
concluded to be to the best interest
of the road to withhold the filing of
the bond with the city clerk for the
present. It is thought that the requirement
forcing the company to
build a free bridge to be onerous and
unfair to the company. in that such
a bridge would come in direct competition
with the traffic interest of
the line and would materially affect
its revenues. Again the condition of
the franchise in this respect was
vague and indefinite, because the city
had given no cleae idea as to the kind
of structure that would be acceptable
to it, therefore the company has heretofore
been unable to make an estimate
of the cost of the bridge. The
failure to file the bond within the allowed
time does not mean the death of
the project and we feel confident that
when council fully comprehenda the
vast benefits accruing to the business
u
interest of the city, it will recede
from its burdensome requirements
and remove the obstacle which is now
hampering the construction of tl e
road.
For Over Sixty Tears.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
has been in use for over sixty years
by millions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect
success. It soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
colic, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor
little sufferer immediately. Sold by
Druggist in every part of the world.
Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure
to ask for Mrs. "Winslow's Soothing
Syrup," and take no other kind, tf
Unclaimed Mail.
The following is a list of unclaim*
' ? .t < i # * /r i
ea letters tor tne montn 01 Marco:
males:
H. J. Grant, (package.)
Simon P. Corley.
Wm. Gotham, (poBtal.)
M. C. Long.
J. Edward Arbuckie, (package.)
Henry McGrifoth.
Dave Red
Leroy Spyers.
Izens Bulls, (care J. S. Huffman.)
females.
Miss Lelar Clark.
Miss Sarah Fouse.
Mrs. Dellia Lowman. (care Rubin
Barr.)
Mrs. Emma Sanders.
S. J. Leaphart,
Post Master, Lexington, S. C.
Fine Watermelon Seed.
We 8re now offering Jones, Triumph,
Br. Joe Herman's Mammoth,
Eclipse, Dr. Blue Mountain Joe's
Choice watermelon seed, as well as a
full line of Cauntelope seed for sale.
These seed have been acclimated and
improved upon and selected with
great care by Mr. Joe Qarman and
has for the first time been placed upon
the market. They are recom
mended for tneir duiciouB flavor, red I
meat, size and shipping qualities. !
Give them a trial and you will be |
pleased with the results. For sale
only at Harman;s Bazaar.
?
Hon. H. Chas. Bailey, the popular i
editor of the Carolina News, web !
over from Chapin Monday taking j
lessons in the science of nising j
grasses. Charley wears his newly
acquired aldermatic honors with becoming
dignity.
Elcndiko's Notes.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Its with a heart fu'l of gratitude
and eggs that we ask space ia your
paper to express our thanks to the
many little folks who so kindly remembered
us on Monday after
Easter. The rabbitc made their nest
in the Uoited States boxes and our
hearts run over with joy just like
they did when we made the famous
rabbit nests with our own little
hand9. There were eggs here and
eggs there and eggs everywhere, in
fact there were more eggs than there
tL. tiTX7u:<.? ? I
are coons ili tut? *?uho uuuoc.
The Hon. B. R. Tillman and Hon.
John Bell Toweil passed through
our town one day last week.
Miss Mattie Suits is spending
awhile with friends and relatives
here.
We are glad to welcome home
again Miss Ellen Hall after a long
stay with brothers in Columbia.
It was our good pleasure last Sunday
evening to meet Rev. A. R. Taylor,
one of God's sweetest servants.
There is at least one statement in
the Bible that is not hard to believe
these days: ''He 89ndeth his rain
on the just and UDjust." Honesty is
the best policy and we think its up
to the weather man to open up his
heart and confess that he don't
know.
We adviBe all preachers Dot to
drive Texas ponies in wet weather.
Most of our little folks are haviDg
a time with whooping cough.
Oar town is now supplied on Saturdays
with nice fresh beef by
Messrs Koon & Smith.
. None of our dogs that were recently
bitten have gone mad and the
poor man still owns his dog.
Now comes along a man and invents
a stove to burn water. You
put on your beans and bacon?its a
pity he didn't invent some bacon?
pour up a bucket of water push a
button and begin to cook. Pour up
another bucket of water, push another
button and you have ice for
your tea. We advise some men not
to put their heads too close to the
stove.
Well I guess there's where the
inventor got the idea: "Water on
the brain and and the brain on fire. |
I predict, the next thing we will
hear of, will be an invention to keep
the stopper from flying out of a
molasses barrel.
Klondike.
Ton Know What You Ara
Taking
When you take Grove's Tasteless
Chill Tonic because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle showing
that it is simply Iron and Quinine
in a tasteless form, No Cure, No Pay.
50c.
L?LiA^I WSi
!
DeWitt's ? Salve
For Piles, Bums, Sores.
.1. H. FRICK,
ATTORNEY AX LAW,
Will practice in all the Courts.
Office: Hotel Marion, 4th room, second
floor.
CHAPIN, - - - - - - S. C,
A?uusx 6. ly.
Hilton's Life for the
Liver and Kidneys
overcomes constipation.
0R- U,J' ULIVtRUS,
8peciali8t on
EAR, XOSE
Tliroat and Lungs
GUARANTEE Office and Residence, J
FIT OF GLASSES 1424 and 142G Marion. St, I
March 15?ly. COLOMBIA, S. C.
Money to Loan.
WE ARE PREPARED TO NEGOTIate
loans promptly in sums of $300
and upward j on improved iarming lands in
Lexington county. Long time and easy
terms. No commissions. Borrower pays
actual expenses of preparation ot papers.
THOMAS & GIBBES.
Columbia, S. C,
|
Hilton's Life for the
Liver and Kidneys aids
digestion.
THE FIRST TAILOR.
HE MONOPOLIZED THE SARTORIAL
TRADE OF THE WORLD.
His Method* Were Crude, and Ills
Materials Were Rather Grotesque,
but He Turned Out Good, Honest
Work, Hand Stitched Throughout.
The first industry of the \yorld was
tailoring. The first maker of clothes
and the first wearer was Adam. Of
this strange character who appears on
the pages of history in the dual role of
the first tailor and the first customer
we have but a brief biography. The
I meager details require sympathetic in!
terpretation to make up a complete
story. Of his father and mother 110
[ mention is made, but the record shows
he was destined to be a clothier of
some sort, for he was put into Eden to
"dress" the garden. We do not know
if he obeyed this command, as his
I biographers do not so state, for, it
I seems, instead of "dressing" the garj
den he "dressed" himself.
His early marriage and the trouble
relating to the theft of some fruit with
I sundry other unpleasant details preceded
his work as a tailor. He began
in a humble way; just himself and
j one assistant. He was one of the early
I settlers in a newly opened country, a
| land of natural advantages which must
| soon attract other inhabitants. With
j a large and increasing population he
I foresaw that there must come a grow
I ing demand for clothing if he could in|
troduee them and make popular his
I new invention. He was a pioneer. He
J had no competition. He controlled the
j tailoring trade of the world. Thus
j with the first industry came the first
trust
As he busily plied his needle we
know not what visions of future business
and wealth filled his ambitious
mind. But never in his wildest dreams
did he conceive that his little tailoring
establishment, employing only four
hands, doing only a local trade and
turning out the first custom made garment,
would be the beginning of a
ready made clothing business that in
the United States alone gives labor to
hundreds of thousands of hands and
covers an investment of a great many
million dollars.
But of the great wealth that has
come from his invention Adam, like
most pioneers, made no money whatever
and died leaving his family with
out a penny. Even his name is not associated
with his wonderful discovery,
but?such is the sarcasm of time?it appears
only in the word Adam's apple,
in memory not of his virtues, but of an
j escapade of his wife.
Though even Carlyle has not recognized
Adam's sartorial genius, there
are some capital points in the work of
this first tailor.
He originated the style himself. He
was not a petty trader on the reputation
of others and imitating their fashions.
Even in the names for the garments
he was original. The first suit
of clothes, in reality only a girdle or
belt, he humorously termed an "apron."
It is difficult to determine the season
of the year. Judging from the coolness
of the suit, it might have been a sumV\n
4- of if TI'OC ilicf fl littlp
LliCl OIJ 1C, kllll CIO i K iitta j?kiw n ..vv.?
after the fall it was probably early in
the winter.
They were hand stitched throughout.
They contained no machine work or
cheap labor. The workshop was in the
open air. and, although tailored in the
sweat of his brow, no sweatshop work
was possible.
The material was not of the best but
Adam found no better at hand. Some
of the modern tailors, making shoddy
garments at shoddy prices, imitate
Adam, who used "leavings."
As to Adam, the first customer, when
he was alone in the world he never
thought of dress, but when he came to
the realization of himself as an indi[
vidunl and in relation to others he be|
gan to spruce up. Courtship led him
to beautify himself, to appear well in
the eyeb of "the only woman lie ever
| loved." Human nature has not changed
I much.
With the entry of society dress began.
Perhaps this is why dress forms
so prominent a feature in society today.
After eating the apple of knowledge
the mind of Adam was suddenly illuminated
as if by a thousand electric
lights. A great thought of large, practical,
worldly wisdom flashed before
him. He realized that to amount to
anything in the world he must make a
good appearance. In this he struck a
keynote of business success.
Surely he needed to keep up appearances.
He reflected over his actions
for the two weeks prior and then
looked at his future. He had been in
bad society and had been seen with a
disreputable serpent, he had been led
into temptation, he had broken the law,
he was implicated in an apple theft as i
accessory after the fact, he had some
of the stolen goods in ms possession
and he was a fugitive from justice, for
he was then in "hiding." Discovery
was certain. He was to be evicted
from his home and in disgrace had to
face the awfulness of actually earning
his own living by work. Then, after a
mild attack of remorse, he was equal
to the situation and in a manly way accepted
it. made himself a suit of clothes
in which he could make a decent appearance
and began life anew with the
courage, hope, pride and confidence that !
comes from the consciousness of being |
well dressed.?William George Jordan j
in Fashioner. i
TliOfte Troublesome Question*.
Little Willie?I say. pa?
Fa?What is it. mv son?
Little Willie?What did moths live on
before Adam and Eve wore clothes??
Stray Stories.
The more truth you bring into an argument
with a fool the harder he will
cotabat it.?Atcbison Globe.
CONGRESSMAN
[To The Pe-ru-aa Medici
" Pe=ru=na^ is AIM
Congressman D. F. Wilber, of Oneoi
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, (
Gentlemen?" Persuaded by a trie
almost fully recovered after the use oi
that Peruna is all you claim for it, and
to all who are afflicted with catarrhal 1
Peruna a Preventive and Cure for Colds.
Mr. C. F. Given, Sussex, N. B., Vice
President of "The Past-time Boating
Club, " writes:
" Whenever the cold weather sets in 1
have for years past been very sure to
catch a severe cold which was hard to
throw off, and which would leave aftereffects
on my constitution the most of
the winter.
" Last winter I was advised to try
Peruna, and within five days the cold
was broken up and in five days more I
was a well man. I recommended it to
several of my friends and all speak the
highest praise for it. There is nothing
like Peruna for catarrhal afflictions.
It is well nigh infallible as a cure, and
I gladly endorse it."?C. F. Given,
Prominent Singer Saved From Loss of
C T oice.
Mr. Julian Weisslitz, 175 Seneca street,
Buffalo, N. Y., is corresponding secretary
of The Sangerlust, of New York;
Is the leading second bass of the Sangerlust,
the largest German singing society
of New York and also the oldest.
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Special Factor*
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ne Co., of Columbus, 0.]
For It.w
ita, N. Y., writes:
Ohio,:
nd I have tried your remedy and I have
r a few bottles. 1 am fully convinced
1 cheerfully recommend your medicine
ti ouble.''?Da vid F. Wilber.
In 1899 The Sangerlust celebrated ita
fiftieth anniversary with a large celebration
in New York City. The following
is his testimony:
"Abont two years ago I canght a
severe cold while traveling and which
settled into catarrh of the bronchial
tubes, and so affected my voice that I
was obliged to cancel my engagements.
In distress I was advised to try Peruna, (
and althongh I had never used a patent
medicine before, I sent for a bottle.
" Words but illy describe my surprise
to find that within a few days I was
greatly relieved, and within three weeks
I was entirely recovered. I am never
without it now, and take an occasional
dose when I feel run down."?Julian
Weisslitz.
If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory
results from the use of Peruna, *
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case' and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable advi^r>
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,0
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