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TO THINS OWN SELF BB TRUE AN? IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BB FALSE TO ANY MAN. ~\% BY JAYNBB, SHELOlt, SMITH & STECK. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 4, lOOl. NEW SERIES, NO. 178.-VOLUME Lil.--NO? 86. lt Pays to Since We Coi Increased SO WK WERE COMPELLED T< STRONGISH Jil NE GKOf ? CAKES OGTHGON SOUP FOR DARYING AT BILTMORE. _ Soiling the Only Method ol Groon Fooding Tho Jorseys Aro tho Only Cows Kopi. Tho writer of these notes had tho privilege recently of visiting and in specting thc dairy at Biltmoro Farms, nenr Asheville, N. ?. As our readers know, tho Bi (tm oro farms are part of the Vanderbilt estate and are run largely for tho purposo of showing what eau be dono in agricultural linea. Tho following points picked up are worthy of consid?ration : Mr. Wheeler, the Biltmoro dairy man, is a man both progressive and self-reliant, as ?H shown by Iiis origi nial methods adopted by him for the scouring of certain results. Tho feeding enpneity of each cow is care fully noted, aud her grain ration regulated accordingly. Over each cow's stall Mr. Wheeler han a little enso for holding a colored card. Tho color of tho card indicates thc amount of ground feed each cow is to receive. We will say that blue represents ten pounds of feed and green nine pounds. Thc man that is doing tho feeding has only to glance at the card above each cow to see how much feed he is to give her. There is, therefore, no particular thought necessary on the part of the feeder. Ile may lie a machine if he will, hut needs to have good eyes to distinguish one color from another. Thc ground feed is brought along in a large movable box. In this box are a number of measures with bot toms that can bo regulated to gi vu any desired capacity by moving the bottoms up and down. The one that is to hold ten pounds of feed has lite bottom moved to the point where it can bc lilied full of feed and holds ex actly ten pounds after the surplus feed has been sorapod off by moans of a "straight edge." In oae.h meas ure is a place for a colored caixl thc H?/.O of the one over the stall of each cow. As the feed truck is moved along the feeder notes the color of the card above the cow, picks out a measure with a card of tho same color and lilis it even full, using the "straight edge" mentioned. No weighing of the feed is thus required, and thc work of feeding is accurately done in a moment's time. Under such regulations "any fool can feed." Soiling is the only method of green feeding followed at Biltmoro. It was something of a surprise to lind an estate of more thou l.r>0 square miles lacking in pastures. Mr. Wheeler says that while there island that cnn he pastured, it is at such distance from the dairy barns that pasturing is not practicable. Besides, just as good results arc obtained by the soiling process. When tho writer was nt the farm a mixture of green wheat and medium clover was being fed. Thc only drawback lo thc feed ing of these soiling crops is that it is difficult to always get them just nt the stage when they aro best adapted for feeding. In a little while the wheat is too ripe or the clover too old, and to have new fields always coming on to give crops at just the proper stage of maturity is an impos sible condition, as thc quantity to be yielded by any crop on a given area cannot bc figured out beforehand even approximately. Mr. Wheeler says that as soon as they get into their new dairy establishment the Slimmer silo will become a feature, and the green crops will bo fed in conjunction with silage. It will then bo comparatively easy to regulate the green food supply so ns to always have feed at a proper stato of matu rity for the best results. In tho feeding of soiling crops it is found that feeding has to be done oftener CONVERSE An F.ndowed College fur . . Women . . Tliirly College and Univ Four hundred and twenty-seven sin scholarship oqnal to the host colleges for buildings; finn appointments in Library, Conservatory of Music; Campus .">."> acres: number of scholarships. Next session Cataloguo to 81?57 Buy For ( nmenced Our Cash Very Milch. ) PUT IN A OF STM'LE AND FANCY OERIES TO MEET THE DEM AN; OUR PATRONS. WIIE1 ANYTHING IN COME 25 GENIS. Best Oil 15 cei _C. W than with dry hay and grain. Tho clover, wheat, oats and ryo aro bulky and tho paunch of thc cow will not hold enough at two feedings to do the work required. Noon feeding is therefore practiced. Wo cannot help thinking that the system of greon feeding in voguo at Hiltmoro is a thing that can bo to somo extent adopted by our farmers with profit. Certainly Hiltmoro cares nothing for a summer drouth, for on all sides aro great supplies of greon forage that make a summer drouth of no conse quence. Mr. Weston, who bas chargo of the farming operations at Hiltmorc, is opposed to tho removal of tho horns of his cows. This is probably due to tho fact that tho horn counts ono in the make-up of points on Jer sey cattle. Thc presence of tho horns, however, is to some extent a detriment there ns elsewhore. Wo noticed that tho horns of tho most valued bull had been removed, this act having been rendered necessary by the growing irritability of tho animal. What is true of tho bull is true to some extent of other animals. A choice heifer placed in a yard with .smaller heifers was constantly using her horns on tho other animals, and at one time threatened to do serious injury. It was decided that she must bo removed from tho yard in which she was placed. Wo hope to seo the time when the Jersey horn will count on the score card ono less than it does now. It would ho in the interest of the animals to remove it. While at the farm tho writer had the pleasure of witnessing a churn test of one day's milk of ono of tho cows. The cream churned out ex actly three pounds of unsalted butter. Three ounces of salt were then ad ded and the butter worked very slightly for less than a minuto. The salting resulted in focing out a good deal of water, as is always the case. Tho sailed butter weighed two pounds and 1 U ounces. This illus trates the fact that adding salt decreases the total weight of butter. Nearly all of the cows arc Jerseys. The few others that have been pur chased aro to be kept only tempora rily to help meet the demand for milk till more Jersey? of high breed ing can be secured. The prejudice seems to bo entirely in favor of Jer sey cattle as against all other breeds. When one looks over the fine ani mals that make up the Jersey herd, one is impressed with the reason that makes these cows popular. The linc udders and immense milk veins are a striking object lesson in successful dairying. One cannot stand and watch throe pounds of bright-colored butter granules roll out from the milk of one cow without feeling an enthusiasm worthy of the cow lover. The thought makes itself recognized that with proper selection and breed ing a whole herd of such cows is pos sible. Individuality, however, counts there as nt every other place. Near sonu! of tho very best milkers were standing the (laughters of Bitch milk ers. They had long ago como into the milking period, but somo of them had proved so utterly worthless that they were about to go to the butcher. It illustrates tho truth that thc weed ing-out process must be carried on even among the high-bred heards, if we are to get improvement. A good milker is more, likely to produce a good milker than is a poor milker, but there are many eulin even among the offspring of good milkers.-Home and Farm. ??<4>fc. . - Tu F. Cou Kl titi and tho Atlanta Consti tution and tho Homo and farm one yoar for tho sum of $2. COLLEGE. I itu i id lines mid Property . . $250,000 . . orsMy Trained Teachers donts from twenty States; standard of men; A. lb and A. M. courses; modern Laboratorios, Gymnasium, Society Halls: , inlluone.es religious and refining; limited begins September 25th, 1001. Write for ?EN J AM IN WILSON, President. Sl'AIITAMtUlUI, S. C. DASH. System, Our Gro< 17 POUNDS 61 DS OF ff YOU WANT THE GROCERY LINE TO SEE US, OR CALI. US UP OVER THE PHONE A PRICKS. ? SERVE tits per Gallon. . & J. E. BAUKNIGHT IMMENSE POULTRY FARM. Incubators Holding 20,000 Eyas Kettles that Cook Ono Thousand Gallons. A correspondent of tho Kansas City Star, writing from Dallas, Penn., says : This little villago has what is probably tho largest poultry farm in tho world. Tho Meadow Brook Farm, situated a short half mile from tho railway station, covers eighty two acres of ground. The building and yards of this . immense plant cover over thirty-five acres, and tho amount of lloor space under roof amounts to a little moro than 112, 000 square- feet. It is lighted by electricity, heated by steam and watered by,n system of pipes, which arc fed by an immenso Hying woll on tho premises. Tho business of tho plant consists of supplying young ducks and chick ens to Bummer hotels, dubs, restau rants, steamship lineB and market dealers who cater to tho best trade of tho big cities. EggB aro also fur nished in largo quantities for the tabiC and hatching purposes. Tho plan of conducting such an immense business is an interesting ono. The iucubator building contains fifty large incubators, each holding 400 eggs. Tho total capacity of tho incubators in usc is '20,000 eggs. It takes twenty-one days for a chicken to hatch in these machines and twenty-eight days for a duckling to como through. If all the machines discharged their chicks and duck lings at thc sanio timo they could not be handled to advantage, BO to overcome this difficulty some of the machines aro loaded with eggs each day, so that some of them discharge their young broods daily. By this system tho ago of the stock is gradu ated, so that thc number required for market maturoB daily, and is cooped and shipped without being kept on thc premises an hour longer than is necessary. When tho little chicks come from tho incubators they arc herded into pens. They ad vaneo from stall to stall through theso pens from day to day until they aro ninety days of age, when they arc driven into the coops and neut to market. The squad that leaves tho machines to day arc supposed to keep each other company from thc incubators to the frying pan, barring those that aro puny and have to bo put back a few days, or those that are particularly hardy and can stand to be moved up a pen or two, consequently there must be thousands of birds on hand constantly to enable tho proprietor to fill bis daily orders. The sale of eggs for tho table is another largo sourco of revenue Two thousand hens will lay from 1,000 to 1,200 eggs a day. These aro gathered, the date stamped upon them, wrapped nicely in tissue paper, packed in boxes holding a do/.cn each, and in from six to twenty-four hours all aro on the cook's tablo in the different Kastern cities. The killing house, where tho poul try is dressed for tho market, is de serving of especial mention. In the height of thc season the mon go to work at 8 o'clock in tho morning. A little tramway traverses the entire plant, and tho live birds aro brought to the killing house in cars. It has long picking benches, which extend the entire length of one side of thc building. Knob oporator has a win dow to liffOrd him plenty of light. There are scalding vats, feather bins, cooling troughs, dripping racks, packing benches, feather presses, billing dcBks, ico breakers, platform and hanging scales, and numerous othor contrivances, so that thousands of birds can be turned out with speed that seems incredible Everything about the place is con ducted on a large scale. Thcro is a root and vegetable store house where thousands of bushels of beets, onrrots, turnips, cabbage, etc., are stored away every fall for winter use. This liOUSC is built below the. level of tho ground to protect its contents from frost. ?ery Business Has lillie SUGAR FOR $1.00. ND GET OUR rVE FEEL SURE WE CAN YOU TO YOUR ADVANTAGE. , Cash Merchants. In ono of thc buildings there is an immense food cooker which will hold a thousand gallons. It ocoupios two stories, being loaded from abovo and emptied from below. Soveral bar rels of fresh meat and bono aro dumped in hero at once, tho door is bolted down and a pressuro of seventy pounds of Btoam is turned into it for thirty minutes, nt the end of whioh timo tho entire substnnco, moat, bono and all, is reduced to soup. Mule meat is used almost exclusively in making this broth. Tho soup made from tho flesh of tho mules is used to mix with tho food of the young fowls. Water is never mixed with their food. They aro given plonty to drink. Great quantities of bread aro fed to the growing fowls. They consume from GOO to 1,000 loves daily. Shell is purchased by tho car load and ground by steam machinery on tho premises. Tho food is carted about the place on tho cars of tho little tramway. When tho track runs through tho yards, as it must in somo places, it is built on trestles so ns not to inj uro or disturb tho young fowls. Thoro are many curious facts in connection with the business. Little flucks do not get along as well SB little chickens. They aro tho great est cowards in tho world. When a stranger enters their pen thoy rush pellmell to tho opposite side and pilo upon each other several feet deep. As a result of .such a scare thoro will xl way? be several dead ducks and a number of crippled ones. It is esti mated that a duck loses in woight avery time he is frightened, so it is a matter of good business to keep strangers away from tho duck pens, nod few visitors aro allowed to go lhere. Ono ot thc best ways to got a Hock of young ducks to venturo rind forage for themselves is to put a young chicken among them. Thoy ire great to follow a leader, and when young Mister Chicken, who ?B not so cowardly, leads off tho ducks ire right after him. But they aro a Limid folk ; a light has to bo kept burning in their pens all night. If Lhey are left alone in tho dark it is iot long until tho vivid imagination of. one of them will conjure up some Lhing to get scared at. Ile will sound thc alarm, and tho panic that follows is something terrible Tho keepers go through at regular inter vals during thc night. Tho ducks become very fond of tho men who feed them and . care for thom, but my other breathing thing frightens them. Tho machinc-mado fowls that aro raised so ?ystcmatioally lack i good many of tho characteristics :>f tho ordinary bird? and have Borne way? not common to others. The keepers have a peculiar call, which never fails to attract tho fowl? from all portions of tho placo. Thoy il?o have another Hound, which is intended to imitate tho whirring noise of a hawk'? wings. In event of a Htorm coming up suddenly they uan clear the pon yard? quicker than it takes to tell it by sounding this ilarm. Tho natural enemy of the young ohiokons and ducklings is tho rat, but several ferrets aro kopt on tho place constantly, and tho loss from l he depredation! of the rodent? is small. Thoro is moro catarrh in this section of i hf country than all other disoasos put together, and until tho last fow voars it was supposed to bo incurable. For a great many voars doctors pronounced it a local disoaso, and proscribed local rom edies, and by constantly failing bi euro with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Science has proven catarrh to ho a constitutional disease, and it thoro foro requires constitutional troatniont. Hall's Catarrh (Juro, manufactured by F. J, Cheney St Co., Toledo, Ohio, is tho only constitutional euro oil tho market. lt is taken internally in dosos from ton drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. They offor ono hundred dollars for any case it fails to euro. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address \<\ J, CHUNKY St Co., Toledo, ohio. Sold by druggists, 7f> couts. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. Schwab Rofusos Arbitration. Indianapolis, Ind., August 20. Simon Bums, bend of tho GlnsB Blowers' union, announced to-day that I'resident Schwab, of tho stool trust, had rejected bia proposal of arbitration for tho ?ted workors' ?trike. "1800 AND STARVE TO DEATH." The Yoar Without a Summer-Barring What LilUe There Was in December. Thoro aro fow persona now living who recollect tho yoar 1816 ; but European and American data repre sent it as having been phenomenal in almost every partioular. In Now England tho year wont by tho name of "eightoon-hundrod-and-starvo-to doatb," and tho summer months aro known in history as "tho cold sum mor of 1810," so remarkable was tbo temperature. Tho Bun's rays seemed to"bo dosti tuto of boat and all naturo was olad in a sable huo. Mon and women became frightened and imagined that tho fire in the sun was hoing rapidly extinguished, and tbat the world would soon come to an end. Minis ters took tho phenomenon for tho text of their sormous, and pBoudo soiontifio men talked of things thoy know not of, while the fanatics took advantago of tho occasions to form religious organizations. Tho wintor of 1815-10 was very cold in Europe, but comparatively mild in this country, and did not in any way iudioato tho severo weather that soon provailod. Evon tho alma nacs wero silent, and although the usual indications, "about now look out for cold woatber," or ''this is a good time for snow" wore entered in tho regular portions of tho book devoted to tho winter predictions, those used for chronicling tho pleas anter months had no such alarming warnings. January was mild, so much so that for days tho people allowed their fires to go out, as artificial heat made tho buildings uncomfortably warm. This pleasant weather was broken by a severo cold Bnap in February ; but this low temperature passed in a fow days and a warmer condition, similar to tho months previous set in. March "came in like a lion, but went out like a lamb." Thoro was nothing unusual in tho climatic conditions of thc month which differed from those generally found in thc windy season. April was tho ndvanco guard of this strango freak in temperature. Tho early days wero warm and bright ; but ns tho month drew to a closo tho cold increased until it ended in ice and snow and a very low tempera ture. To thoBC who delighted in balmy May days and loved to watch tho budding flowers, the May of 1810 was a bitter disappointment. True buds came, but so did the frost, and one night laid all vegetation a black ened waste. Corn was killed, and tho field 1? nd to be m ad o ready for another planting ; but tho people's astonishment was complote whoo they found ico formed to tho thick ness of half an inch in tho pools. Juno, tho "month of roses," was this year a month of ico and desolation. Tho "oldest inhabitant" was surprised, for never boforo ltad tito mercury sunk so low in tho tube in tboso lati tudes in the last month of spring. Frost, ice and snow were common. Almost every green thing, that had taken advantage of a fow warm days to develop, was killed and various kinds of fruit wero nearly all des troyed. Ono day tho beautiful snow foll to a dopth of ten inches in Ver mont, seven incites in Maino and threo incites in Massachusetts and Contra! Now York. Matters wore beginning to bo interesting. 1'eoplo wero undecided whothor to spend tho winter in tho South, or at tho soashoro and mountains. Ono day tito lattor resorts wero desirablo and tho next would decido in favor of tho former ; but on the whole the Southern climate was preferred. July was accompanied by frost and ice, and tboso who celebrated tho glorious Forth, "not wisely but too well," found an abundance of ico handy for immediate uso tho next morning. Jt was not very thick, not more than ono-seventecnth of an inch ; but it-was icc, and it caused tho good people of New England, New York and some sections of Pennsylvania to look grave. That month Indian corn was destroyed in all but tlio most favored locations, and but a small quantity escaped. Surely August would put an end to suoii cold woathor ; but tho farmers and hotol proprietors wore doomed to disappointment. Tho midsummer month was, if possible, moro cheerless than tho days al road y passed. leo formed even thicker than it had done tho month boforo and corn was BO badly frozen that it was cut for fodder and almost every green plant in this country, as well as Europe, was frozen. Papers received from England stated that tho yoar 1810 would bo remembered hy tho generation thon living ns a year in which thoro was no summor. I What little corn riponed in tho unexposed States was worth almoBt itB woighc in silver, and farmers wore compelled to provide them selves with corn grown in 1816 for tho sood they used in tho spring of 1817. This seed novor oestsomuoh, being difficult to got oven at $5 per bushel. The last month of Hummer was ushered in bright and warra, and for two weeks tho now almost frozen people began to thaw out. It was tho mildest weather of tho year, and just ns tho inhabitants got fairly to appreciate it bid Boreas and Jaok Frost carno along aud whitened and hardoned ovorything in thoir path. On tho 16th, ioo formed a quartor of an inch thick and winter clothing, that had boon laid away for a few days, was again brought forth and wrapped around shivering humanity. By this time tho peoplo had given up all hope of again seeing the flowers bloom or hoaring the birds sing, and bogan to preparo for a hard wintor. October kept up the reputation of itB predecessors, as there was scarcely a day that tho thermometer regis tered higher than 30 degrees. No vember was also extremely cold, and sleighing waa good tho first week of the month ; but Btrango to relato, December was tho mildest and most comfortable month of the entire year, a condition which led many people to boliovo that tho seasons had changed about. Of course, tho cold spell sent breadstuff s to an uu-hoard-of prioe, and it was impossible to obtain, for table uso many of tho common vege tables, as thoy woro ? required for seed. Flour sold in 1817 in the oitics for $15 per barrel, and tho averago price of wheat in "England was 97 shillings per quarter. Goo. W. kane, Powanio, Mioh., writes; "Your Kodol Dyspopsia Curo is tho host remedy for indigestion and stomach trouble t bat I ever used. For years I sufforod from dyspepsia, at timos corn polling mo to stay in bod and causing mo untold agony. I am completely cured by Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. In recom mending it to friouds who suffor from indigent ion I always offor to pay for it if it fails. Thus far I havo novor paid." J. W. Boll. Now and Thun. In days long ago (in the six- a t i o s you know) when grand m a w c n t walking she held her skirts just so. W h a/t would sho say if sho saw girls to-day with ski r t s clutch o d so tight ly they a 1 1 look this way. Educate Your Bowels With Citsonret*. Gandy C&thnrtto. oure constipation forover. 10o, 26c. If 0.0.0. fall, druggists refund money. t . ?? Mrs. Nation in New York. New York, August 28.-Mrs. Carrie Nation arrived this morning and visited Polico Commissioner Murphy, who disliked her talk and ejected her from his oftico, threaten ing her with arrest. Sho attompted to lecture Murphy. "# Advise AH woman who suffor from ohronlo gfisoasos io writo io Dr. PloroOm" That advice is based upon practical experience. After .suffering for months, and finding no benefit result from the treatment of the local physician, Miss Helle Hedrick wrote to Dr. Pierce for advice She SCled on t'ne advice, regained ber appe tite, recovered her strength, and gain ed several pounds in weight. ?Write to Doctor Pierce " is good ad vice for ever>. woman to follow. U It costs nothing. * Dr, Pierce invites sick women to con sult him, by letter, /ree. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, In valids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. In a little over thirty years, Dr. Pierce, I'assisted by his stnfT of nearly a seore of ?iliyslclnns, has treated and cured over taff r. million women. ?I suffered from female weakness for five month?." writ?? Min? Helle Hedrick of Nye. Putnam Co., W. VS. "I was treated by n good physician, bul he never ?cerned to do me ney good. I wrote to Dr. H. V. Tierce lor advice, which I received, telling me U> take hin ' favorite Prescription 1 and 'Ooldea Medical Wwcovety.' I look thirteen bottle? ol ' Favorite Prescription ' and eight of'Ooldea Medlenl DUcovery.' when I had med the medicine a mouth wv health wat much Improved, lt lia? continued to Improve \miil now I can work at altuoat all kind? of housework. 1 had scarcely any appetite, bul lt In all right now. Have gained several pounds In weight. 1 advlw all wno suffer from chronic diseases to write to Dr. Pierce." Dr. Piercc'n Pleasant Pollets regulate thc liowcls, 0EN8ITY OF POPULATION. Oconee County Has Thlriy-Soven Inhabitants to the Square Mile. Tho Charleston Nows and Courior has compiled a table showing tho number of inhabitants to tho squaro milo in the different counties in tho State. The figures aro interesting. Charleston county heads tho list with 128, while Berkeley with 23 and Horry with 22 como last. Ooonoo county has 37. Tho full tablo is as follows : Abbovillo.40 Aikon.80 Anderson. .7*1 Hamborg..48 Barnwell.41 . Boaufort. 37 Borkeloy.23 Cbarl08ton .128 Cborokoo. 50 Chester. 48 Chostorflold..... 25 Claroudon.30 Colloton. 25 Darlington.50 DorohoBtor.20 Kdgoflold.30 Fairfield.88 Floronco.45 Goorgotown.28 Groouvillo. 72 Groonwood.67 Hampton.25 Horry. 22 Korsbaw.35 J .ancaster.48 Laurens.;.55 Lexington.31 Marion.35 Marlboro.54 Newberry. 51 Oconeo. 37 Orangoburg.44 PiokotiB.....30 Richland. 75 Saluda.-.. 43 Spartanburg. 80 Su m tor.00 Union. 51 Williamsburg.32 York.02 The Bost Kinds ol Wheat. Clemson College has not sent out their wheat Bulletin for tho year Wo wrote to tho college a few days ago asking what they considered tho best varieties. Thc following is thc roply of Col. J. S. Newman : "Alabama wheat gives uniformly best reBults, closely followed by Dendy, Purplo Straw and Golden Chaff. Tho Alabama has been planted in tho neighborhood by Mr. Aaron Boggs for 30 years."-Spar tanburg Spartan. In limo. Sold br druRRlBt CONSUMPTION ?? Horse Killed by Electric Wire. A horse belonging to Mr. Alex. Ivestcr, of the Anderson Cotton Milh', was killed in a peculiar man ner yesterday afternoon. Mr. Ivcs ter's fifteen-year-old son, Lee, was riding tho horse, and in some way tho animal came in contact with a guy wiro on an electric light polo near tho cotton mill. Tho pole, it seems, had become somewhat sagged by thc wet weather, and tho guy wiro was brought very near to the current wire, though not touching it, and, on account of tho wet weather, a current of somo GOO volts was pass ing down tho guy wiro into tho ground. This current is of sufficient forco to kill a horse, but will not hurt a man. Naturally when thc horse rubbed against the wiro in passing, tho animal was thrown to tho ground and killed. An elcctri cian says that if tho horse could havo been moved immediately after being thrown to tho ground it would have recovered from tho shock, but as it was not moved it was killed. Tho boy riding tho horso was slightly bruised on tho leg by tho animal falling on him, but was not othorwise injured.-Anderson Mail, August 28 Many physicians aro now prescribing Kodol Dyspepsia Curo regularly, having found that it is tho best prescription thoy cnn write, booauso it is tho ono preparation which contains tho olemonta necessary to digest not only somo kinds of food, but all kinds, and it, thoroforo cmos indigestion and dyspepsia, no mat tor what its causo. J. W. Boll. Tho New Bluo Ridge Tho Columbia State of August 27 says : "Tho Secretary of State has issued a commission to B. L, Abney, of Columbia ; Fairfax Harrison, of Washington, and E. M. Tompson, of Columbia, as corporators of the new Bluo Kidgo Railway Company. The application sots forth that tho capi tal stook is to bo ?M00,000, and that tho road is to bo continued from Walhalla, a distance of soventoen miles to tho Georgia line, whence it is proposed to continue it to Kahlin Gap, Georgia. Tho present length of tho road is thirty-four miles. It is proposed, it is understood, to push the oxtonsion of the road through as rapidly as possible." - Don't wait until you become chroni cally constipated, but tako DoWitt's Littlo Karly HiBors now and thou. They will koop your livor and bowols in good ordor. Kasy to tako. Safo pills. Steamor Blows Up-Eleven Killed. Philadelphia, August 20.--The number killed by tho explosion of tho boiler of the steamer City of Trenton on tho Dolnwaro river yes terday afternoon may bo increased to thirteen, tho kuown number now being olovon. Of tho ten remaining victims in tho hospital of the houso of correc tion, at Holmesburg, tw o women are in suoh critical condition that the doctor havo given up any hope of Having them and havo notified their relatives to hauten to Ilohnosburg to thoir death beds. John Chow, second ougineor of the ill-fated craft, when ho bade his wife goodby yesterday preparatory to tak ing his laut trip said : "Lizzie, I have a prosontment that tho boat will blow up. They aro run ning tho boilers at too high a prop 3ure." Ile wss killed. A grewsomo circumstance of tho catastrophe was the fact that tho learner's freight consisted only of an 3 m pty collin. Norris Silver, North Stratford, N. IL: 'I purchased a bottlo of Ono Minuto Jough Curo whou suffering with a cough loctors told mo was incurable. Ono jottlo rolioved mo ; tho Bccond and third drnost cured. To-day I am a woll man." J. W. Boll. -- m + * About Clemson Collogo. Col. T. Larry Gantt, writing in a .ccent issue of tho Spartanburg Herald, says : I soo that this year tho special tax )n commercial fertilizers amounts to >vor $85,000, which money IISB boen inrightcously taken from farmers ,ho hardest worked and most indus irions! class of our population and ;ivcn to tho support of an cduoa ,ional institution to which not ono 'armer in several hundred is able to icnd his son. Clemson Collogo has nore money than it knows what to lo with. They aro overstocked with nrofessors, and in order to spend his surplus cash aro every year u'ccting needless buildings and in mrring unnecessary expenses. I lave always opposed this fertilizer .ax, for it is a Special tax levied upon mr farmers, which is as unjust as mlawful. But if farmers aro forced ,o pay this money, why not givo it ,o the maintenance of our country ichools, where the poorer olass of ?hildren can reap its benefits, and lot dump it into the overflowing ?offers of a college that only tho sons >f a few well-to-do men aro able to ittend. $85,000 is an onormous ium, in a single special tax, to col ed from one class of our people a fear, No such special tax as this is evied on articles used principally by .he rich, for tho maintenance of tho South Carolina College and Citadel \cademy. Then where is tho justice md reason in taxing our farraors to maintain a so-called farmers' college? Henry Braydon, Harris, N. (J., says: '1 took medicino 20 years for asthma, nit one bottlo of Ono Minuto Cough juro did mo moro good than anything >lso during that timo, Bost couch ouro." J. W. Boll. Carry tho Nows to Tribble. Snipe li unters in this section of ,he State may find an interesting irticlo on tho subject of tho double .rack back-action Black Diamond Railroad. Carry tho nows to Trib ile !-Abbeville Press and Banner. .Sid Darling, 1012 Howard Stroot, Tort Huron, Mich., writes: "I havo tried nany pills and laxatives, but DoWitt's [iittlo Karly Risers aro far tho host pills I havo ever used." Thoy novor gripe. J. W. Boll. In the lower part of Colleton county farmers feed horses and mulos in Bweet potatoes, and find tho ration as healthy aa corn or oats, in uldition to being cheap. Tho pota toes are not fed until mature-after frost has fallen and they aro dug and soused. Thoy tiro washed and diced or chopped up. At first only i small quantity is givon, sprinkled with salt. Tlic amount is gradually increased, until they aro allowed all they want. Some combino rico dour 0Y cotton seed meal with the pota loes. A TEXAS WONDER, HALL'S GI?EAT DISCOVERY* Ono small bottlo of Hall's Groat Dis covery cures all kidnoy and bladdor trou bles, removes gravel, cures diabetes, seminal emissions, weak and lamo backs, rheumatism and all irregularities of tho kidneys and bladdor in both mon and women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist, will bo sont by mail on rocoipt of $1.00. Ono small bottlo is two months' treat ment, ami will euro any caso abovo mon tinned. Dr, K. W. Hall, solo manufac turer, 1*. O, Box ?20, St. Louis, Mo. Komi for testimonials. Sold by all ilruggists._ .Jackson, Tenn., .Inno t, 1001.-This is lo certify that ono bottlo of tho Toxaa Wonder, Hall's Croat DiRcovory, baa cured my wifo and mysolf of kidnoy, bladder and rhouinatic tronidos, and wo most cheerfully recommend lt to tho public K. Ch Hicks and Wifo,