Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m® Bible Wall C®a»tBK®*’* ••And behold if the plague be in the walls the boose with hollow streaks, greenish r reddish, then the priest shall go out of the i to the door of the house and shut up > house seven days. • • * And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall poor out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an un clean place.” This matter of looking to the sanitary na ture of wall coatings seems to be considered of much importance of late. A supplement to the Michigan State Board of Health con demns wall paper and kalsomine for walls, and recommends Alabastine as being sani tary, pure, porous, permanent, economical and beautiful. To each of the first five persons in every city and town, who write the Alabastine Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, giv ing the chapter containing the above pass age of scripture, will be sent an order on the Alabastine dealer in the town for a package of Alabastine, enough to cover fifty square yards of wall two coats, tinted or white. To test a wall coating, take a small quan tity of it, mix in equal quantity of boiling water, and if it does not set, when left in the dish over night, and finally f ^rm a stone like cement, without shrinking, it is a kalso mine, and dependent upon glue to hold it tc the wall, the feature so strongly Objected to by sanitarians. Continuing this sanitary wall-coating re form the Tribune offices bave been nicely decorated with Alabastine. The effect is pleasing, and the rooms are very sweet and clean.—Detroit Tribune. Strange Story of a Dream. It was some time in the spring of 1866 that Jethro Jackson went to Resaca to ; look for the grave of his son, who was killed in battle. Like many others, he wished to find the remains, and to take them to Griffin and inter them in the family burying ground. The comrades who laid young Jackson to rest £ave the father a description of the spot where they had buried him, tell ing him about the rude pine coffin made from the boards taken from the bridge. After many days of tireless search Mr. Jackson failed to locate his son’s grave, and returned to his home in Griffin. A few nights after his return he dreamed that his son came to him and pointed out the spot where he was buried. The dream was like a vision. He saw his son standing beside his bed,and heard him say: ‘•Father, I am buried under a mound which was thrown up after 1 was killed. You will know the mound when you sea it by the pokeberry bushes growing upon it. Go and take me up and carry me home to mother.” So strong an impression did this dream make upon Mr. Jackson, that he returned at once to Resaca, taking with him one of the comrades who had buried his son. The mound was found just as de scribed in the dream,and the pokeberries were growing upon it. An excavation was made, and a few feet below the earth the rough pine coffin was found, and in it were the remains of young Jackson. He was fully identified, not only by the coffin and the shoes, which were a present from the father, but by the name which was on the clothing.—At lanta Journal. More light*fcolored clothes will be worn as the season advances for evening visit ing. FOR FARM AND GARDEN. FERTILIZERS FOR POTATOES. As superphosphate of lime is largely soluble and is rapidly spread through the soil by diffusion, it is better to spread it, or other fertilizers,broadcast immediately after harrowing and be fore planting. But this fertilizer has only a partial effect as being only one element of plant food required by this crop. Potash is a dominant or most necessary fertilizer for this crop, and hence the complete preparation known as special potato manure, which con. tains five per cent, of ammonia, thir teen per cent, of phosphoric acid, and seven per cent, of potash, is most profitably used.— [New York Times. GRINDING GRAIN ON THE FARM. There is no good reason why much of the expense and loss in grinding grain should not be saved by the farmer getting engines and mills and doing the work at home. It is one of the complaints of farmers that in win ter they have no profitable work t# do, while manufacturers work the entire year. If the mill is eight or ten miles distant, as it is in many places, there is more labor involved in taking the grist to the mill and returning than it would require to grind it at home. Horses standing idle ir. ‘he barn could furnish the power av.d be all the better for the exercise. If the farmer thinks the miller takes too much toll, what is to hinder him from becoming miller himself? Or, what is still better, let each neighborhood own a mill, to be operated by any one who has con tributed to its purchase, and kept in, order at the common expense.—[Bos - ton Cultivator. WOOD ASHES FOR GARDENS. A great deal of potash is exhausted from the soil by garden vegetables, and even in land naturally rich in this substance it is apt to set into insoluble and unavailable forms for use by growing crops. In gardens always well manured in other respects, a lack of potash may make them less pro- ducive than their condition otherwise will warrant. Wood ashes mixed with soil aid powerfully in keeping it moist The potash then becomes a solvent, and by keeping soil moist it generally increases the value of any manures that have been applied. It is often remarked that gardeus dry up quickly despite good cultivation. This j$ often caused by an excessive amount of coarse stable manure. It needs wet summers to enable crops to grow without injury over so much coarse manure. When it becomes dry it is au injury rather than a help to plant rowth. Wood ashes are a more ef- birds did not get it- There is no fertilizer better than pigeon dung, in deed, for some crops, nothing can equal it. And pigeon pie, is it not a good dish? And squabs, taken about the time they are ready to leave the nest—are they not as rich as anything that flies? Many a farmer’s boy owes his skates, his sled, and a great many other things to tlic squabs he found in the barn, and sold for a “good bit of money.” The cost of keeping is not worth reckoning—they “pick up” nearly ail they have on many farms, except, perhaps in midwinter, and yet they stay. When the bottom of a hay mow is reached let the pigeons have the seeds collected there. Better that the pigeons eat them than that they go into the manure to spring up in the cornfield next season. There is pleas ure and profit in keeping pigeons, or in providing a place for them, and letting them, as they will nearly, keep themselves.—[American Agriculturist. PEARLS OF THpUC MATURITY OF WOOD IN FRUIT TREES. But little attention is commonly given to the subject of the seasonable maturity of wood in fruit trees; still it must be apparent that where the yearly season’s growth of wood tissue is not well matured before the advent of freezing weather the vitality of the tree will be injured by the cold and its power of resistance less than in the case of fully ripened wood. The amount of cold that a tree can endure without causing a failure in the crop must of necessity remain an uncertain quantity, varied by circumstances; but the sudden checking of a late suc culent growth by frost will always be damaging. While no rules can be laid down for regulating the ripening of the wood in all cases, it is well to note the conditions under which it is often retarded. Thus a season exception ally warm and rainy throughout, and especially when these conditions pre vail late into the fall, when the moist plant tissues should be hardened into wood and at rest, is quite likely to be followed by an unfruitful year. Lux uriant late growth is the cause of a great many puzzling fruit failures. Whatever tyiH tend to reduce humidity iu the plaut tissue and hasten rather than prolong the conversion of fluids into mature wood will clearly be fa vorable. These conditions can be best attained by planting those varieties of fruit trees most liable to injury from cold on dry, elevated situations aud on soils of only moderate fertility. Manuring and cultivating should only be done in early spring, and every thing tending to excite growth near the close of the season should be id rich al and a Self-sacrifice is many a woman’s be setting sin! ) Neither wisdom, virtue nor honor was ever achieved by chance. A little less censure should be given •lie spider; flies are so wiljing. Luck is no more related to pluck than is a will o’ the wisp to the polar star. If you want to be quite sure of the bread cast upou the waters, tie a firing to it. Who, stead of knitting, fain would ravel, with sockless feet must shortly travel. Who is prepared to deny that the world is better today than it was yes terday ? The woman who returns a kiss for a blow may be either au angel—or a coward. One bird in the bush has more % charms for the natural man than two in the hand. A woman will forgive anything sooner than being told that she has nothing to .forgive. The heart of a wise man will get him into more serious trouble than the head of a foolish one. There are two things which we never fail to recognize—our worth and our neighbor’s worthlessness. No man is allowed all he longs for, because iu that event there would be nothing left for other people. A woman may gain something by praying for a man, but she wastes time if she attempts to pray with him. How good it makes a man feel to sfcash things up when he gets mad, and what a funny feeling he has on the inside of him when, after the mad fit is over, he is called upon to pay for the things he smashed when he was mad. You Jieed a Gun for These Lobsters. “Once upon a time,” said an expert in matters crustacean to a Star report er, “there were crabs and lobsters in existence for which the modern fisher man would have gone a-hunting with the most approved weapons aud cau tion. For example, in times ante diluvian there was a lobster which had a body eight feet long and could stretch twelve feet with its formidable arms. Positive knowledge of this giant of long ago is conveyed by geo logical research. It must have con tained meat enough to make a salad for a regiment of soldiers. Iu those days of long ago everything grew to enormous dimensions, whether animal or vegetable. Froga were big and ac tive enough to leap At hop from the Treasury’’buTuliuj and other creature; .destructive A Spoo^^^ieti. And now the mania ^ spoons has broken out la Ameri< late years it has been the custom foi Americans traveling abroad to pick up a spoon patterned so as to be Emblematic of each city they visited—a spoon with a bear on it in Byrn, one with a liver (a nonescript bird) in Liverpool, and so on. This year New York silversmiths have produced spoons to remember this city by, and and there are alrerdy em blematic spoons for Salem, for Boston, and for other cities.—New York Sun. Refined Punishment. In the valise of an English tourist to Greenland was a big red apple, and the Custom House men, having never seen one before, and being unable to find any one who had, took it for a bomb and made the Englishman sit down and eat it. They were quite put out when he •didn’t explode and shatter things.—Bos ton Globe. For 24 years Dobbins’s Electric Soap has been imitated by unscrupulous soap makers. Why T Because it is bext of a I and has an im mense sale. Be sure and get Dobbins's and taka no other. Your grocer has it, or will get it. The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies may nse the liquid fruit laxative. Syrup of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effec tual in acting on the kidneys.liver and bowels. A King in the Family. Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure for colds, coughs, croup and pneumonia has no rival. Cures without nausea or any disarrangement. Sold by druggists or mailed on receipt of SO cts. Address A. Jr*. Hoxie, Buffalo, N. Y. The Convenience ot (solid '1'rnlns. The Erie is the only railway running solid trains over its own tracks between New York- and Chicago. No change of ears for any class of passengers. Rates lower than via. any other first-class line. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kune’s Great Nerve Restorer. No tits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 631 Arch St., Phila,, Pa. Partent medicines differ— One has reasonableness, an other has not. One has repu tation—another has not. One has confidence, bom of suc cess — another has only “ hopes.” Don’t take it for granted that all patent medicines are alike. They are not. Let the years of uninter rupted success and the tens of thousands of cured and happy men and women, place Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription on the side of the comparison they belong. And there isn’t a state or territory, no — nor hardly a country in the world, whether its people realize it or not, but have men and women in them that’re happier be- cause of their discovery and . iun of G deafne [edies. L. edition of n Tube. flamed you have a feet hearing, and \_ deafness is the resul.,- mation can be taken’ — stored to its normal conul^,__^_^_ destroyed forever; nine casesom^HI caused by catarrh, which is nothing hut - flamed condition of the mucous surfaces!! We will give One Hundred Dollars ton case of deafness (caused by catarrh) thal_ cannot cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cul Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, lac. Chicago has 70U0 miles of wire placed under ground. For a disordered liver try Beecham’s Pills. From Father to Scrofula is a blood poison which descends from parent to child, taint It is which must be eradicated from the system be fore a cure can be made. Swift’s Specific, S. S. S., drives out the virus through the pores of the skin and AFFLICTED FROM CHILDHOOD. Mrs. N. Ritchey, of Mackey, Ind., says: “Justice com pels me to say *hat S. S. 8. has worked little snort of a miracle in my case, in curing me of aggravated Scrofu la, which afflicted me from childhood. It attacked my throat aud nose, and threatened my lungs. My throat was so sore that I was compelled to subsist on liquid food. When I began S. 8. 8. I was in a wretched condi tion but commenced to improve at once, and am now entirely welL” thus relieves the blood of the poison. BOOKS ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES FREE. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. v Atlanta, Ca. RTH$1 - PAINT requires ADorno* PI a Kir I equal part ofoilai rU l\ VIM A KING COSTfe<WL^l Has only to be used to be appreciated, warranted superior to any other article, or no pay. In Pint Bottles, at 90 Cents. FOR THE CURE OK Lnuienrnn, Sprains, Galls, Slipping Still®. Scratches, Bruises, Cuts, Over-Heat ing. Sore Throat, Colic, Nail in th® Foot, Wiud Galls, Splints, dec. All who own or employ horses are nssured that this Liniment will do all and more than la- stated in curing the above-named complaint*. DURING FORTY YEARS IT HAS Never Failed to Give Satisfaction in m SINGLE INSTANCE. Sold by Druggists, Saddlers and Storekeeper* throughout the United States. DEPOTi 40 Mi; It It AY 8T„ \E\V YOitK.