^tumorous Department.
HG LOOKED TOO PROSPEROUS.
Two men were standing in the cool
shadow of a building. The elder was
mopping his brow and watching the
people who passed. Suddenly he
touched his companion on the arm.
"See that girl in the sailor hat?the
pretty one over there? She's going
into that pawnshop. "How do I
know? I don't know exactly; it's a
kind of instinct."
The girl looked cautiously about,
gazed at the array in the window of
the shop, and walked on.
"She'll be back in a minute," said
the man who had spoken before.
"She will look around again, and,
when she thinks no one sees her, slip
in. There, she's coming back!"
The girl had turned on the corner
and was retracing her steps. Sure
enough, she paused before the open
door, looked up and down the street,
and went in. Five minutes later she
came out and walked rapidly away. j
"I don't know how I can tell them,
but I can invariably pick them out.
Never been known to fail. Say, d'you
see that fellow coming up the street?
he in the light suit? He just came
from the poolrooms, probably, is broke
and is going in to 'hock' his watch.
Yes, he's coming up this way. There,
what did I tell you? I knew he'd go
in."
His friend nodded. "That is pretty
good, but I'll make a bet I can do the
same thing. Bet you a fiver."
"Done."
"Well, that elderly gentleman who
just got off the car will go in there, i
The one with the diamonds, I mean." i
"Never! I'd like to double that
bet."
"I take you. See, he's going right *
up to the door. There, he's going
right in. Ha! ha! what did I tell
you? Ten dollars, please;" and the ,
younger man held out his hand. The
first observer drew out a roll and gave
him two five-dollar bills.
"You are right," he remarked.
"Have a drink? Yes, don't mind if
I do. But do you mind telling me
how you knew he'd go in there ?"
"Not at all. You see, he owns the
place."
DIAGNOSING A CASE.
Helen R. Gardiner, in Harper, relates
this medical anecdote as one she
Vioord fpnm a Qiirorpon'a assistant, a
trained nurse.
It was a Japanese boy. He was as
solid as a little ox, but he told Dr. G. |
that he'd been takiug a homoeopathic
prescription for a cold. That was
enough for Dr. G. A red flag in the ,
van of a bovine animal is nothing to '
the word "homoeopathy" to Dr. G.
He questioned the little Jap, who
could not speak good English, and had
the national inclination to agree with ^
whatever you say.
"Did you ever spit blood ?" asked
Dr. G. by and by, after he could find '
nothing else wrong except the little
cold for which the homoeopathic doc- '
tor was treating the boy. 1
"Once," replied the youthful victim. [
"Aha! we are getting at the root of 1
this matter now," said Dr. G. "Now ^
tell me, truly. Be careful. Did you
spit much blood ?"
"Yes, sir, a good deal."
The doctor sniffed. He always <
knew that a homoeopathic humbug '
could not diagnose a case, and would '
be likely to get just about as near the
facts as a light cold would come to (
tuberculosis. <
"How long did this last?" he in- ,
quired of the smiling boy.
"I think?it seems to me?"
"A half-hour ?" queried the doctor,
"twenty minutes?"
"I think so. Yes, sir. About half
an hour? twenty minutes," respond- ,
ed the obliging youth.
I heard that talk. Common sense ^
told me the boy's lungs were all right; '
but it was none of my business. So I '
watched him treated, ofT and on, for 1
luncr trouble for over a month before I
got a chance to ask him any questions. '
Then I asked, incidentally : _
"What made you spit that blood <
that time, Gihi ?" 1
"I didn't know I ought to swallow i
him," he replied, wide eyed and anx- <
ious. "Dentist pull tooth. He say to
me, 'Spit blood here.' I do like he j
tell me. Your doctor say ver' bad for j
lungs spit blood. Next time I swal- ]
low him." i
(
While stopping one night at a J
farmhouse in Missouri a traveler was
astonished to see his hostess walk up <
to her husband about every 15 minutes <
and box his ears or give his hair a pull. <
In the morning the guest, seeing the i
woman alone, asked an explanation I
of her strange conduct, and her reply i
was : "You see, stranger, me and the
old man has been fightin' for ten years j
to see who shall boss this ranch, and I
have jest got him cowed, but if I j
should let up on him for a day, he
would turn on me again, and my work j
would all go for nothin'."
"I suppose there's a good deal 1
of passing here on a pleasant day ?" ]
"Tmmenao I Rv ths u-ov thprp wns f
an odd looking couple went by here 1
last Sunday ; husband and wife I suppose,
but such guys!" "What was
there peculiar about them V Was it in
themselves or their clothes?" "Oh, it
was nothing about either. The odd
thing about them was that they were
not on bicycles."
Freddy's Blessino.?Freddy, the
small son of a well-known minister,
had misbehaved, and to punish him he
was not allowed to eat at the family
table. A small table was set for him
in the corner of the dining room.
When his dinner was placed before
him Freddy said very solemnly:
"Lord, I thank thee that thou hast
spread a table before me in the presence
of my enemies,"
His Limited Information.?A
countryman who had lost his wife ask- I
ed an editor to write her obituary, i
"Gentle and lovable, was she?" asked
the editor. "Well, tol'able?'ceptin'
when she wuz riled.'" "What was
her age?" "She never did tell it.
All I know is, she wuz purty lively i
fer her age." i
-Wayside (featherings.
t&P Eve did not shout "murder" the
first time she saw a snake.
W3T It is said that locomotives use a
third of the coal mined in England.
The largest mammoth tusk yet
discovered-was 16 feet in length.
W&F Some people are always getting
into a box, and asking you to lift the
lid.
Five counties in Illinois have
chosen women as superintendents of
schools.
16P" There will be two sizes in the
new postal card?both smaller than
the present card.
gfir The president of the Republic of
Andorra, in the Pyrenees, receives a
salary of $15 a year.
AST The Massachusetts census shows
that the women outnumber the men
by more than 70,000.
?ar /-OOiOglSLS say Witt an
species of wild animals are gradually
diminishing in size.
ISP" There are very few men who
are homeless, but there are a good
many who are home less than they
ought to be.
8As often as the oldest Yale graduate
or the oldest Mason dies, the
most beautiful woman in the south gets
married.
B@F All the chickens in the western
part of French Guiana are perfectly
white. It is impossible to find one
with a colored feather.
BSP The king of Italy is said to be
the only soverign in Europe who abstains
from alcoholic liquors. This he
does for the benefit of his health.
86P" It is estimated that gold and
jewels worth $4,000,000,000 are strewn
along the bottom of the sea on the
route between England and India.
83T One of the public schools of
Germany, the Nan Ruppin gymnasium,
has made it obligatory on all its pupils
to learn to ride the bicycle.
t&F Until Prince Charles, of Denmark,
put the engagement ring on her
finger, Princess Maud, of Wales, is
said never to have worn a ring of any
kind.
86P" A North sea codfisher carries a
set of lines 720 fathoms in length, and
having the amazing number of 4,680
hooks, every one of which must be
baited.
6A clergyman of the Church of
England, who gave his fortune of
$100,000 to charity, died in tne wornhouse.
He had once been curate of
the parish.
S8F On the eastern coast of Ireland
it rains on an average 208 days in the
year ; in England about 150 days; at
Kazan about 90 days, and in Siberia
only 60 days.
86T" In an article on "Health, Vacation
Piety," Zion's Herald says Christ
himself favored the vacation when he
iaid to his disciples, "Come out into a
desert place and rest,awhile."
W3P Every guest at a Norwegian wedding
brings the bride a present. In
many parts a keg of butter is the usual
gift, and, if the marriage takes place
n winter, salted or frozen meat is offered.
Waff" A queer pig story is told by the
London Telegraph. A sow that lost
her tail by an accident had a litter of
ten pigs, but seeing that they all had
tails placed them in a row and bit oil'
their tails one by one.
8ST" Coal mining is paying one party
of miners in the Yukon better than
;old mining paid them. A find of excellent
coal was made recently in the
Forty Mile Creek district, and, with
wood at $12 to $14 a cord, the coal
vein is an excellent pay streak.
8?" A new use has been discovered
For hops, uamely, the curing of bacon,
[t is found that a sprinking of hops in
the brine when bacon and hams are
put in pickle adds greatly to the flavor
of both, and enables them to be kept
in indefinte period.
Waff" A French chemist has made a
iolue soap which will render unnecessary
the bluing in the laundry. In
ordinary soap he incorporates a solution
of aniline green in strong arctic
acid. The alkali of the soap converts
the green into blue.
W3T Mr. Moody is cultivating optimism.
He concludes that "New York
is not as bad as Babylon," Boston is
- "1 t? x 1 Tn i. ?1
not "naruer tnau r-igypt wueu ooanjm
went there," and Chicago is not
'worse than Samaria in the days of
Blijah," so he will still labor on.
86?" The London General Omnibus
jompany has entered into a contract
with an American firm for the supply
jf 6,000 horses for 'bus work in the
metropolis, which does not seem as
:hough they were much afraid of the
new motor car.
86?" Some able-bodied burglars broke
nto a blacksmith shop in Alpena,
Mich., and carried off two big anvils
llong with everything of value in the
Mace. The owner of the shop says
:he stuff with which the burglars got
safely away weighed about two tons.
8?" The still-unsatisfied longing for
Mcycles was strikingly illustrated in
Presque Isle, Maine. A man adver:ised
in the local papers to exchange a
sicycle for a buggy. When he arose
:he next morning he found the whole
* /*n 1 ?.1 1! .1 /? _ 11
iooryara nuea wun venicies 01 an
dnds, from doctor's gigs to farm wag)ns,
brought there by the prospect of
securing a bike.
8ST Man is said to be the only creatire
that, shaves. But this is not so.
\ South American bird called the
'motmot" actually begins shaving on
irrivin at maturity. Naturally adornjd
with long blue tail feathers, it is
aot satisfied with them in their natural
state, but vith its beak nips off
the web on each side for space of about
two inches, leaving a neat little oval
tuft at the end of each.
WaT The marriage ceremony practiced
bj' the people of Borneo is short
and simple. Bride and groom are
brought before the assembled tribe
with great solemnity, and seated side
by side. A betelnut is then cut in
two by the medicine woman of the
tribe, and one-half is given to the
bride and the other half to the groom.
The3r begin to chew the nut, and then
the old woman, after some sort of incantation,
knocks their heads together,
and they are declared man and wife.
international Wessons.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
1
LESSON IX, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL
SERIES, AUG. 29.
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I
Text of the Leftfion, Acts xlx, 21-34 ?Mem- j
ory Verses, 24-20?Golden Text, Lnlce (
xil, 15?Commentary by the Rev. D. M. \
Stearns. S
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21. "Aftwr these things wero ended, k
Paul purposed in tho spirit to go to Jerusalem,
saying, 'After I have been there 1
I must also sec Rome.' " Our last lesson 1
in the Acts left Paul at Corinth, where he s
continued a year and six months tenching I
the word of God. He then returned to (
Antloch in Syria, taking Ephesus, Cresa- (
rea and Jerusalem on his way. After ,
some time spent at Antioch Paul started J
on his thlrtl missionary roxir, going through
Gulatla and Phrygin till ho cnmo
to Ephesus, whero he had left Aquiln and
Priscllla, and to which city ho had promised
to return, God willing (chapter xvlii,
21). He tarried at Ephesus over two years
(xix, 10; xx, 31), and all the province of
Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, so
that many believed, the name of the
Lord Jesus was magnified, the word of
God grew mightily and prevailed, and
thousands of dollars' worth of bad books
were burned.\ Here begins our lesson.
22. "His purpose was to go through
Macedonia and Achaia, where ho had been
on his previous tour, but he still turries
in Asia a season while ho sends Timothcus
and Erastus ahead of him into Macedonia.
In a future lesson we shall have his testimony
as to his labors in Asia. Whether
sojourning or journeying his one ambition
was that Christ should be magnified in
him and thut he might better know Him
(Phil, i, 20; ill, 10).
28. "And about that time there arose
no small stir concerning tho way" (R. V.).
In the margin of chapter ix, 2, this way is
called "Tho Way." See also in the R.
V. chapters xlx, 9; xxli, 4; xxlv, 14, 22.
Jesus Himsolf said, "I am tho Way" (Jas.
xiv, 6). In Ps. cxlx, 1, we read, "Blessed
aro tho undcfilcd in the way who wdlk in
the law of tho Lord. It is a heavenly
way, but very narrow, and few there bo
that find it. It is in Him, and with Him
and excludes all that is not of Him.
24, 25. "Sirs, ye know that by this craft
we have our wealth." This is the beginning
of tho address of Demetrius, a silversmith,
to his fellow workmen, whom he
had called together. His theme was their
craft or trade or manner of making
money, a subject which will get an interested
audience almost any time. Witness
the labor organizations and the strikes
often associated therewith in our own j
day. Whatever will scorn to turn more t
money into people's pockets is apt to bo
an interesting subject.
26. "Not alone at Ephesus, but almost ?
throughout all Asia, this Paul hath per- 1
suaded and turned away much people." t
What a good testimony to Paul, or rather *
to'tho Spirit's work through Paul, in tho (
name of tho ix>ra .lesusi a no Jjora,
through him, had turned many from idols
unto God (I Thcss. i, 9), so many that tho
idol business was suffering severely, and
thoso interested were greatly stirred.
27. "Not only this our craft is in danger
to be set at nought, but also that the templo
of tho great goddess Diana should be
despisod." It would nover do to hove
such mngniflccnco that all tho world worshiped,
despised, for what would all tho
world ever do without Diana? Yet three
men dared to despiso Nebuchadnezzar's
imago, which all the world worshiped, and
the timo will conio when many will daro
to despise another image, which all tho
world will worship (Rev. xiii, 8, 15),
ohoosing death rather than such favor.
28. "And when they heard they were
full of wrath and cried out, saying, 'Great
is Diana of the Ephesians.' " Thendas
boasted himself to bo somebody; Simon
the sorcerer gave out that himself wag
Bonio great ono; tho coming antichrist 1
will proclaim that ho himself is God, and j
muny will bclievo it, and great will be hig ^
wrath against all who oppose him. Tho ,
devil will gather tho armies of earth J
against God both at the beginning and '
end of tho next thousand years, but all J
will bo overcomo by the Lamb, for He is i
King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. ]
xlx, 10; xx, 8; xvii, 14; II Thoss. ii, 4, 8).
29. "And tho whole city was filled with
confusion." Confusion and chaos are not r
the work of God, but of tho dovil, whether
in an individual or in a household or in
tho world, and therefore 6omo think that c
tho work of the devil may bo seen as far t
back in tho Bible story as Gen. i, 2; that
in the beginning God must havo created f
all things good and that an enemy was re- s
sponsible for the chaos of verso 2. r
80, 31. Paul would willingly have stood
by his friends, who for his sake and for 8
Christ's 6ako wcro in danger, but his
friends would not suffer him. Ho hud al- t
ready been stoned and loft for dead, and s
ho was roady at any time to die for Christ s
(xiv, 19; xxi, 18). It was never with him
a thought of personal comfort, but only of j.
how ho could mugnify Christ. Sometimes r
wo are compolled by circumstances to go
forward when wo would fain keep back J
and sometimes to keep back when we
would fain go forward. The way of rest v
is to do what you can?go forward if tho r
wuy opens, and, if not, stay. "Do as oo- r
casion servo thee, for God is with thee" e
(I Sam. x, 7). Trust Him to manage ov- r
erything, and believe that Ho does, and I
be quiet and confident.
82. "Some therefore cried one thing,
and some unother, for tho assembly was t
confused, and tho more part know not
wherefore they were come together." This
wus not an assembly of believers, but of f
the world's people, tho enemies of God, r
and yet it is a fair description of the so ^
called church of toduy, for tho preachers j.
ure crying ono thing and another, and it
might bo said that tho most of those who 1
go to church once u week know not why I
they go or what thoy really do believe. v
83. "And they drew Alexander out of ?
the multitude, the Jews putting him for- i
ward." If this was the saiuc Alexander \
as ho of II Tim. iv, 14, Alexander the (
coppersmith, then tho smiths were right j
in this squabble, silversmiths and coppersmiths
(verse 24), or, in other words, it a
was business and idolatry versus Christ. c
It certainly should not be so that business I
should bo against Christ, but it is too I:
much tho case, and will bo very decidedly g
so ut tho time of His coming in power and s
glory (Rev. xiii, 17; xviii, 11-10).
04. "When thoy knew that be was u
Jew, all with one voico, about the space of c
two hours, cried out, Greut is Diana of tho ^
Ephosians." How fow cry out, "Great is c
Jesus of Nazareth!" yet "Him hath God f
exalted" (Acts v, 31), and Him alone, giving
Him a name which is nbovo every
name, that at His name every kneo should c
bow (Phil, ii, ?, 10). The time will como f
when all who exalt themselves against j
Him shall be brought down, and tho Lord
alono exalted in that. Therefore it is wiso
to cease from man whose breath is In bis ?
nostrils und to behold tho Lord (Isa. ii, 17, 1
81; iii, 1). 0
The rattlesnake gives warning ^
before it staikes ; the sianderer strikes
before he gives warning; the snake,
therefore, is thu best of the two.
B*a?" The thirst for knowledge once c
aroused in a young man's bosom is a Ii
potent force for the suppression of base (1
passions. o
Jttiocrltoncou.o iicatling.
WOUNDED SOLDIERS' FALL.
rhe Location of the Wound Makes Them
Take DliTcrent Attitudes.
"I had the good fortune or the bad,
ust as you choose to view it, to visit a
jattlefield in Cuba the day after a
ight, and I observed some curious
hings about the effects of death
.vounds on men which I have never
seen mentioned in the books," said J.
5. McSorley of New Orleans.
"It was in Picar del Rio province,
ind the insurgents had put to flight a
arge body of Weyler's troops after a
ihort but sanguinary conflict. Seven
joyish looking soldiers were scattered
>ver the blood soaked ground. None
>f them had been macheted. Thebulets
of the patriots had laid them low.
some of them were shot almost to
sieces, though a few had only one or
wo wounds.
"inose woo were snot tnrougn tne
leart bad doubled up like jackknives,
hose who died from intestinal wounds
vere stretched out in a natural posiion
on their backs and the poor felows
who received bullets in their
oreheads were lying on their backs
vith the right arm extended above the
lead and the left arm resting naturally
>v the side as in sleep. There were
ive who had died from this wound,
ind everyone of them was in the same
losition. The uniformity of their portions
was so marked that I called
be attention of a surgeon to it who
lad accompanied me to the field. He
laid that he had observed the pecuiarity
frequently before on other fields,
>ut was unable to account for it. I
iave asked old soldiers in this country
f they had ever noticed similar posiions
assumed by comrades killed in
>attle by a shot in the forehead, and
he invariable answer was that they
lad. It would seem that if the shock
>f the bullet would send the right arm
ibove the head, as I have described,
he left arm would also be extended in
he same way, but in all such cases
,he left arm is stretched at full length
>y the side, with the fingers of that
land open and the fingers of the right
land closed, as if clutching desperatey
at something."?St. Louis Republic.
FOR BETTER ROADS.
Good Roads.?Good roads are growng
cheaper to build every year. Nar ow
roads are found to better thaD
vide oues. Co-operation of the towns
ind cities is becoming general. Connet
labor is being used to good advan,age
iu the preparation of road materiils.
Some successful experiments have
>een made with brick roads in the
sountry and even with steel tracks.
better feeling is growing up between
he wheelmen and the farmers.
State aid, if rightly understood,
>ugbt to be popular with the farmers,
^rom one-half to three-fourths of the
axes in the United States are paid by
he cities. Therefore any state road
und collected from all the property ol
he state would come largely from the
:ities.
Money Thrown Away.?At a
;ood roads meeting of the property
iwners of Monteomerv township, Pa.,
t was stated that the township had
ixpended $23,311 in the maintenance
>f dirt roads since 1879, and instead
>f improving them they were getting
vorse every year.
It Pays Better.?The matter of
>etter roads is an important one, and
t is the coming problem to be solved
>y the county government. It pays
>etter to have good roads than to
;eep on patching up poor roads with
jieces of sod, old roots and stones as
>ig as a man's head.?Wilmington
yews.
Concerning Farm Values.?How
nuch would you give for a farm locatid
1,000 miles from a railroad, a wagm
road and every other means of comnunication
with the rest of the world ?
How much would you give for a
arm within four miles of a railroad,
md the wagon roads for those four
niles filled with mud, stones, sand
md trying grades ?
And wouldn't you give more for
hat farm if the road to town or to
everal market points were hard and
mooth and level, so that vehicles of
ill kinds, including bicycles, would
lappily convey many people to and
ro, and so you could market the farm
troduce quickly and cheaply?
The value of a farm depends almost
vholly on the railroads and wagon
oads about it Good roads are worth
nore to the farmer than to any one
ilse. The more easily, quickly and
ileasantly he can get to and from his
arm the more it is worth an acre.
The distance to market depends on
he character of the road.
Aprons In Favor.? Word comes
fom London that the apron is once
nore in fashion. There was a time in
his country when a woman would not
lave though of appearing without her
ipron on. Men like aprons, so it is
>retty safe to say that the fashion of
vearing them will soon take hold here,
some of the shops are already importug
them, and the managers say they
vill go like hot cakes when chafingIicjK
firnoa ftnmncQrnnn/1 nrrnin ftTnt.h
lOU H.UW VVUiVO ?. vuu?
ng domesticates a woman in appearince
like an apron, and a frivolous girl
:an sometimes decoy a very clever
>aehelor with one, if she only knows
iow to wear it, or at least that is what
ome of the clever bachelors say themelves.
There is a great deal in knowng
how to wear an apron. The most
ostly apron ever made was worn by
he Duchess of Queensberry in the last
entury. It was made entirely of
>oiut lace, and was valued at $3,000.
U&T One of the best cosmetics for bidders
or persons upon the water, is
resh cucumber juice. This will aid
11 keeping the.skin of the face soft and
mooth. To extract the juice from a
ucumber, first peel it and then cut it
nto thick slices and press the juice
mt with a lemon squeezer. A simple
nd harmless remedy for sunburn is to
iathe the face in buttermilk.
AS?" Some idea of the vast extent of
he surface of the earth may be obained
when it is noted that if a lofty
hurch steeple is ascended, and the
*ndscape visible from it look at, 900,'00
such landscapes must be viewed in
rder that the whole earth may be seen.
4rarm anil .fireside.
HOW TO CURE PEA VINE HAY.
In a letter to The Watchman and
and Southron, Mr. E. Dabbs, formerly
of Sumter county, but now of Alabama,
gives the following points on
curing peavine hay:
The first thing to consider is the
proper stage for cutting, and this is
determined by the proportion of grass
among the vines. If all peas or very
little grass, not enougn to oe 01 any
consequence, the best time to cut is
after blooming when about one-third oi
the pods are turning yellow, but before
the leaves begin to fall. You then
have some ripe peas that cure without
shelling and the balance in the state
for table use, and snaps. Cut at this
stage, peavine hay comes nearer to
being a balanced ration than any other
one stock food. Experience has proven
this and it is backed by chemical
analysis made by Dr. W. B. Burney,
as shown in the South Carolina state
chemist's reports of three or four years
ago. On the other hand the grasses
and clovers should be cut when in
bloom for the best hay. So we must
keep the difference in view in deciding
when to cut a held of hay; il all,
or nearly all grass, cut when in bloom,
if all, or nearly all peas cut at the
time indicated above; and if nearly
equally mixed with grass and peas,
cut at the stage that will insure the
largest amount of good hay from
both.
Having determined upon the stage
of growth when the hay should be cut,
the next thing is to watch the weather
and trv to hit on eood, hot sunshine
for the curing. Sometimes you may
have to wait until the best stage is
passed, but this is better than to have
a week's rain on a field of mown hay.
A hard shower, or even a heavy rain
if followed by clear weather, rarely
injures hay more than to discolor it
slightly, if it is properly handled afterward.
The stage of maturity, the
rankness of growth, and whether it is
cloudy or fair, must be considered in
determining when to rake after cutting.
The finest hay that I ever cured
was cut between 8 o'clock a. m.,
and 4 o'clock p. m. Rake started just
as the mowers were leaving the field,
and wagons started next morning
about 10 o'clock when thoroughly dry
of dew. Although no more than wilted
it was packed away on the barn
loft, (rails being laid two feet apart
across the joists) and salted down.
One man was kept on the hay all the
lime, and packed it down as tight as
possible, filling up to the comb before
starting another section. (This hay
was just at the right stage for putting
in ventilated stacks in the field which
I will describe later.)
The lower floor was then filled with
bay that was cured in the field as follow
: Raked up in the morning after
it was mowed and that evening piled
iu cocks five or six feet in diameter and
six or seven feet high, being careful
not to pack, rounding up nicely and
putting a big forklul on top for a cap.
Some of these cocks stood in the fields
two weeks and had two hard rains on
them and none were damaged except
where toppled over by the wind.
These rains were not continuous, and
bright sunshine followed soon after,
Where one has plenty of house room,
but cannot give it ventilation as on
lofts, this is the best way to cure hay.
Sometimes it may be necessary to open
the cocks for a few hours, but always
recock it before night to keep out the
dew. When ready to pack away, it is
not necessary to wait for the dew to
dry off the cocks, but the wagons may
start at sunrise. If there is no grass
among the vines, I would not like to
risk a big rain on the cocks, but would
want it stacked permanently or put on
a barn loft.
To cure in stacks : Build a pen six
or eight rails high, or put four strong
crotches in the ground, so that the
floor will be 18 inches to 2 feet high
clear, floor with rails or poles 12 inches
apart. In the center of the pen put
up a 16-foot pole, and around pole nail
eight braces 10 feet long, spread them
at bottom so there will be a flue three
feet in diameter at the floor. On this
pen and around the flue, pack the hay,
keeping inside a little higher and
packing it closer than outside. When
above where the braces are nailed to
pole, pack around pole to top. I usually
carried the sides nearly perpendicular
to a level with top of flue and
then draw in to top. Make a rope of
gras3 and vines and tie up a big cap,
force this over the top of the pole,
which should be clear of knots and
sharp to allow the cap to settle as the
hay cures, force it down as tight as
possible, and in a week or two, if the
cap does not settle with stack, force it
down again.
I had hay put up in this way that
took the weather for eighteen months
and was as bright ana sounu as me
day it was stacked. And the peas in
it did not have a sign of a weavil
about thera. The loss from exposure
on outside to weather was about 200
pounds to the stack of 1,000 to 2,000
pounds each.
Put up this way there is very little
dauger of fire. It is not in the way ;
you can haul in a stack whenever
needed. If the sides are carried up
nearly vertical for seven or eight feet,
cattle may eat a great deal out around
the bottom without dauger of the inside
being damaged by the weather.
And I will guarantee a bale of cotton
per acre the next season where
one of these stacks has stood six or
eight months.
I never lost any hay put up this
way except in 1888. Then the peas
were sown as late as the lGtli of July,
and after being badly nipped by frost,
were cut while still in bloom. It all
rotted in spite of all I could do to
save it.
Last year I tried curing in ricks instead
of stacks. Put up a pole on
forks five feet high ; on this laid other
poles two feet apurt, one end resting
on the ground about 12 feet on each
side of the center pole.
My best lot of hay, 14 acres, I tried
to stack on a rick of this sort 50 feet
long. But one of the forks gave way
and threw the whole rick out of shape,
and I was too busy to tear it down
and rebuild, and the consequence was
a total loss of the hay. Another large
one that I put up, the hay was dam
aged before being put on the rick, and j
I do not know how it turned out. i
This is a cheaper way to handle it
than in stacks, but with me cost more
I in the end. However, if I had a crop
. of hay would try it this way again.
Never stack peavines after they are
cured. You can not put them up
1 when cured so as to turn water, and
the first rain will soak them. Stacked
when half cured, and cured out in the
i stack, they hold the leaves; and in <
i settling the ouside forms a roof imper
vious to rain.
My observation is that most farmers
cut peas too early for the best results, j
I and grass too late. With a mixture of 1
the two, as I said at the first, you must j
cut when you get the best results from i
whatever predominates. And if about j
equal parts peas and grass, try to ,
strike the "happy medium" that will :
cause the least loss from each.
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System to you. The Mutual Reserve is
the largest and strongest natural premium
company in the world, and the fourth _
largest of ANY KIND. It has paid
about ?550,000 to the widows and orphans
of deceased policy-holders in South Carlina
alone, during the past twelve years,
and if all the insurance now carried in
old lino companies in the state was in the
Mutual Reserve, not lass than ?400,000,
which now annually goes into the coffers
of the former, would be left in the state
to help relieve the hard times about which we
hear so much.
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General Agents, Yorkville, S. C. ?]
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TIIK undersigned oilers for sale, the
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known as the "Meek House," occupied
by Mr. O. K. Grist and situated opposite *
the 0. R. A C. R. R., depot. The house
contains six large rooms and a basement.
The house is in good repair, and
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]HIO RIVER 4KB CHAELESTOI R.R.
TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and
Cliarleston Railway company, to take
affect Monday, May 5th, at 7.30 a. m.
STANDARD EASTERN TIME.
QOINQ 80PTH NO. 12. |
Leave Marlon 4 45 pm;
Leave Rutherford ton (I 20 pm)
Leave Forest City - fl 50 pm|
Leave Henrietta 7 10pm
Leave Mooresboro 7 25 pm
Leave Shelby 8 25 pm
Leave Patterson Springs.. 8 40 pm
Leave Earls 8 45 pm
Vrrlveat Blacksburg 9 00 pm
No. 32. | No. 84.
Daily I Dally
Except | Except
Sunday. i Sunday.
Leave Shelby 7 30 am
Leave Patterson's Springs. 7 42 am
Leave Earle's 7 48 am
Leave Blacksburg 8 30 ami 8 40 am
Leave Smyrna 8 50 am 9 05 am
Leave Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am
Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am
Leave Yorkvllle 9 85 ami 10 20 am
Leave Tlrzah 9 47 am! 10 45 am
Leave Newport 9 51 ami 10 55 am
Leave Rock Hill 10 20 am 12 55 pm
Leave Leslies 10 35 am 115 pm *
Leave Catawba Junction.. 10 40 am1 1 50 pm
Leave Lancaster 11 22 am 3 55 pm
Leave Kershaw 12 05 pml 5 30 pm
Arrive at Camden 1 00 pirn 6 50 pm
OOIWO WORTH. | No. 38. | No. 85.
Daily I Daily
Except Except
Sunday. Sunday.
Leave Camden 2 00 pm 9 00 am
I<eave Kershaw 2 45 pm 11 10 am
Leave Lancaster 3 25 pm 12 40 pm
Leave Catawba Junction 4 00 pm 2 00 pm '
Leave Leslies 4 10 pm 2 10 pm
Leave Rock Hill 4 80 pm 4 40 pm
Leave Newport 4 45 pm 5 00 pm
Leave Tlrzah 4 50 pm 5 20 pro
Leave Yorkvllle'. 5 05 pm 6 00 pra
Leave Sharon 5 20 pm 6 20 pm
Leave Hickory Grove.... 5 40 pm 6 40 pm
Leave Hmyrna 5 50 pm 6 55 pm
Leave Blacksburg 6 20 pmj 7 30 pro
Leave Earle's ' ? 85 pm
Leave Patterson's Spring. 6 40 pm|
Arrive at Shelby 0 50 pml
No. 11. |
Leave Blacksburg 8 10 am
Leave Earls 8 30 am
Leave Patterson Springs 8 40 am
i^eaveaneiDy a iu am
Leave Mooresboro 9 50 am
Leave Henrietta 10 00 am
Leave Forest City 10 20 am
Leave Rutherfordton 10 50 am
Arrive at Marlon 12 20 pm
CONNECTIONS.
No. 32 has connection with Southern
Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at
[latawba Junction.
Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers.
Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion
with Southern Railway.
At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek
ind London, trains stop only on signal.
S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A.
A. TRIPP, Superintendent.
SAM'L HUNT, General Manager.
uuiu i limmfn
G. W. F. HARPER, President.
Schedules in Effect from and After
May 2, 1897.
CENTRAL TIME STANDARD.
GOING WORTH. | " No 10. | No UP.
Lea\e Chester 0 20 am 830am
Leave Lowrysvllle 0 43 am 8 05 am
Leave McConnellsvllle 6 58 am 9 39am
Leave Guthriesvllle.... 7 05am9 56am
Leave Yorkvllle 7 23 a m 10 50 a m
Leave Clover 7 53 am 11 33 am
Leave Gastonla 8 25 am | 120pm
Leave Llncolnton ; 9 20 am ) 2 40 pm
Leave Newton 10 05 am i 4 20 pm
Leave Hickory 10 50 am ; H 15 pm
Arrive Lenoir I 1155 am 8 00 pm
GOING SOUTH. | NO. 9. | No 81.
Leave Lenoir 3 10 pm 6 00am
Leave Hickory 4 15 pm 7 50am
Leave Newton 510pm 900 am '
Leave Llncolnton 5 50 p m 10 30 am
Leave Gastonla 6 57 p m 1 00 p m
Leave Clover 7 42 pm 2 02pm
Leave Yorkvllle 8 11 pm 3 10 pm
Leave Guthriesvllle ... 8 34 pm 3 40 pm
Leave McConnellsvllle 8 43 pm . 8 55 pm
Leave Lowrysviue i ? vi pm i a pm
Arrive Chester I 9 30 pm I 5 10 pm ?
Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Non.
50 and 61 cariw passengers and also run
daily except Sunday. There is good connection
at Chester with the G. C. & N.
tnd the C. C. <fc A., also L & C. R. R.; at
Sastonia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Lin'olhton
with C. C.; and at Hickory and
Newton with W. N. C.
G. F. HARPER,
Acting G. P. A.,
Lenoir, N. C.
ESTABLISHED 1891.
L. GEO. GRIST,
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY,
Yorkville, S. C.
[REPRESENT over $27,000,000.00
of assets in my fire insurance agency,
ind I am prepared to write FIRE and
rORNAPO INSURANCE on short noice
at the lowest prevailing rates. Each
ire policy carries with it, without extra
iharge, a "lightning clause," which proects
the insured against loss or damage
>y lightning. I represent the Norwich
Jnion Fire Office of England, which is
m absolutely fire tested companj', havng
been "dragged oyej^ the coals" since
797. Then I have the .Etna of Hartford,
vhich has been doing business at the
'old stand" since 1819; the Pennsylvana
is by no means a "squatter or experinent,"
having been "hgbtin' fire in all
ts fury" since 1825. The Delaware Inurance
company has been pretty severey
burned several times, but has mainained
its motto?"Just, Prompt, Certain"
ince 18:15. The Old Continental, which is
iving in exile from the South-Eastern
ariff association, thinks she can stand
lone and work in "single harness," and
ince 1853 the "old lady" has helped her
hildren to something over $35,000,000 and
he is always "at home." Insurance left
villi my agency will always receive
irompt and careful attention.
L. GEO. GRIST, Resident Agent.
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