Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEW pearly Everything : The tired city man who turns long ingly to thoughts of "tho old farm" f bis boyish memories and is impell ed to go tbere or to some place as near ly resembling it as fray be that, like Antaeus, of the ola?sio fable, ho may recuperate his watted energies by once more touobing Mother Earth, would do well to forget all traditions of pastoral life or prepare himself for the shock of a great disappointment. Tbe man with the hoe, the sturdy jrtist of the scythe and cradle, the 6ower who went forth to sow with a bar of seed around his neck, the mus cular ploughman whoso strong hands kept the implement from turning flip flaps when its pjint struck a root, the tripping milk maid oaroling a song all these and many other familiar ob jects which the city man inseparably associates with the old farm bear about the same relation to the modern farm .lat thc traditional sailorman of the days of wind-propelling craft bears to the coal passer or the oiler in, the shaft alley of the modern steamship. The best education for the up-to date farmer is a course in mechanical engineering. His barn is no longer the barn of the poets, with great wind-swept floor spaces under fragrant mows. It more resembles a store bouse for miscellaneous maohioery. Its pervading odor is the smell of ma chine oil, and one makes his way about in it with circumspection, unless in different to torn clothing and abraded cuticle. Scythe and cradle hang rusting on pegs in out-of-the-way places; the flail, which erstwhile made merry music on the barn floor, has become bric-a-brao. tobe decorated with ribbons and stood in a corner; hoe, mattock, spade-in a word, everything familiar and typioal of man's contest with the soil-which still does, and always did, show great er aptitude for growing weeds than for raising useful and profitable crops-is relegated to disuse, and if still discov ered, only serves to remind one that even in farming the fashion of this world paBseth away. In breaking the soil for planting the familiar plough, whioh gave even a strong man plenty to do in managing it ard his team, has largely given place to the reversible sulky plough, on which the farmer rides as comfort ably as on a wagon seat, and whioh he controls by levers actuated by his foot, leaving his hands free to man ige his horses, his cob pipe, or his cigarette, if he prefers. With thia he does much better work than with the plough of ancient times, does it more quickly and with mach less energetic vocif?ration-set to speak of profanity. He is not nearly as picturesque when thus en gaged as. when holding down the plough handles, and occasionally tak ing an aerial flight over the heads of his horses when tho old furrow ripper struck a snag and turned over; but he accomplishes more and puto his im mortal sou. in lesa imminent peril. But it does not realise the ideals. ' Imagine Bums writing his "Ode to a DaiBy" while sitting cross-legged on the seat of a sulky plough 1 Even this, however, is.menanoed by the power gang plough, and perhaps with in another year or two the farmer will Bit on his veranda and control the movements of his ploughs by means of a switchboard. -His ploughing finish ed, the farmer proceeds to pulverise and smooth his land. Time was when he dragged it with ? harrow of scrap iron, his team straining every muscle to move the ponderous and ungainly construction, whioh had an inconven ient habit of ooming to pieces in mid field. If it "harrowed up" the land, it did the same to the soul of the operator. To say that it "went every* bow" was to desoribe its motions, when it went at all, in words perfectly intelligible to the farm laborer. The farmer now mounts the seat of tbe sulky harrow, flicks a fly off the flank of his off horse and away he goes. The maohine pulverizes and smooths the soil muoh better than it was formerly done. Here, toe. the horse is menaced with displacement as ? prime motor. ?s a mechanical pro position oats and ha; 'are even less economical as fuel than anthracite in .trike time. In fertilizing his land the modern farmer haa the advantage of tho work ?f the chemist who provides just what U needs in the form most convenient 'or application by machinery. The unspeakable operations connected with the hand distribution of barn I wu compost are no longer necessary. If thia material is used the labor of spreading it is performed automatical ly by a maohine which effeots a desic cation and cSeil .bution unattainable hy hand implements. The 'quarter ?ere of reeking quagmire, once known ** the bara yard, through whioh one *B6t wade ankle deep in crossing it, J FARMER. Now Being Done By linery. [ ... has ^appeared from tho modern farm, for which every one having oc casion to visit it, and who brio?) with him some respect for his shoe*, may devoutly give thanks. Composting and ensilage conserve the nitrogen ous components ' of barn yard ooie muoh better than was doue when they were left to "weather." For planting there is a machine for every kind of seed, cunningly design ed, well bnilt and perfectly adapted to the work for which it is intended. It makes no mistakes, never skips an inoh, BOWS no more thioker in one plaoe than in another, and does its "stunt" with an intelligenoo which even the impossible Jonas of the Rol lo books could not have displayed. For grain and grass the "broadcast Boeder" is used. This is attached to an ordinary wagon, and the only hu man op-operation it requires is keeping its hopper full. It will distribute all kinds of dry commercial fertilizers and will put them just where they will do most good. A mechanical grain drill is provided for such grains as need to be planted systematically in rows or hills. It is infallible in its operations and would plant corn, for example, in the middle of a me cad am voad if* this was required of it. Among other attachments it has a land measure, something like a cyclometer, wnioh records the acreage planted and would calculate the yield if it were not for the elemento! uncer tainty introduced by weather vicissi tudes and the variable industry of erop destroying birds and insects. To oover the seed it has planted it is provided with a system pf hoes which are adjusted to work straight cr zig zag. A variant of this apparatus weeds BB well as sows. Still another is the bean planter, which is quite remarka ble in its intelligence, soto speak. It drills the hole in the ground, plants the beans, covers them, and marks the position of the next row at one opera tion. It will even alternate oom and beans, turn and turn about, or plant oom or beans, distribute fertilizer and oover everything impartially. In fact, it will do anything for which the far mer has the intelligence to adjust it. The potato planter would make a farmer of a generation ago sit up and rub his eyes. It requires that the potatoes be supplied, but will do all the rest of its own initiative. It pioks the potato up-or seems to-cuts it into halves, quarters, or any desired number of parts, separates the eyes and removes the seed ends. It plants whole potatoes or parts thereof as de as near together or as far apart as the judgment of the farmer on the driving seat suggests. Having dropped'the seed it covers it, fertilizers it, tuoks itin like a child put to bed, and paces off the next row with, mathematical aeeuraoy. With a phonograph attachment it might even repeat? the familiar invocation, "Now I lay me," etc., if any advantage was discoverable'therefrom in the oase of a tuber. Certain vegetables, notably toma toes, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, let tuce and some others, need to be start ed in oold frames, and transplanted for the practical business of growing. For this purpose there is a plant-set ting machine, which will handle a sprout as if it loved it, establish it in its new environment, gather the earth tenderly about its roots, give it a co pious drink of- water from a tank it carries, and oover from four to six acres in a day. The transplanting is done so quickly that the plant is said to be established in its new position before it realizes the fact that it has boen moved or has time to become homesick. The various operations generically known as "cultivating" were once the bane of the farmer's existence. For them he needed a hickory baok with sole leather hinges and frequent stim ulation from the awitchel jog. The hoe wrs his implement of greatest encrai utility. With it he destroyed the weeds, loosened the soil, shaped up the hills, and did many other laborious and extremely monotonous tasks. It waa, moreover, discouraging work. He could only ric it by day light, whereas the weeds kept growing night and day, and by the time he had finished the last row of his field, behold, the weeds wem a foot high at the point where he had begun and he must do it all over again. Now he has a maohino for each and every operation of crop tending, with a driver's seat as comfortable as that of a backboard. These machines seem to know a weed from a crop plant intuitively, and while they will snake the former out by the roots without compunction, they pass the plant un harmed-provided, of course, it is i growing in its proper place. Some of these machines will do almost . any thing ezeept entertain the farmer while at work with agreeable and in structive conversation; but they have been highly apo o i ali zed, and for every operation connected with the tending of every kind of crop there is some one raaohine whioh performs it a little botter than any other. When the crop is ready for gather ing mechanism is seen at its ti st. The perfection of the modern reaper and binder is illustrated by an acci dent which occurred this year in Illi nois. A farmer had driven his reap er into the edge of a field ready - for outting and dismounted from his seat to got a drink of oider. While thus oooupied the horses took fright at something and ran away. They tore round and round the field, cutting a full swath with every jump, gathering up the grain, binding it with twine and tossing the bundles to one side. Before the team was caught it had covered sir and a half acres, leaving only patches here and there to be gone over. This was accomplished in something less than twenty-four minutes. With a team of New York fire de partment horses a farmer could do wonderful things in the harvesting line. Mowing by ? machinery is no longer a novelty, and the old-time champion mower who onoe led the gang disposed in eohelon, and whose compensation was gauged by the "lick" he could maintain, now bangs over the fence and makes sarcastic re ferences to "new-fangled methods bf farming." $R In the hay field sweet Maud Muller and her oongeners are seen no more raking or tossing. The sulky rake and tender will turn and spread the hay crop of four acres in an hour. Maud Muller bas become a. typical summer girl whom no right-minded Judge j would consider interesting. Even loading hay on the wagon is non done by machinery. With these accessories at the far mer s command, the oity man who fol lows him afield to see him perform tue familiar functions of his oraft would do wei) to go in a buggy. If he goee afoot he will not be able to keep up. Nothing ir as it used to be in thegooc old days. It may be better, but thai depends on the point of view. ?i, Indoors the city man misses ali that made the farm house a museun of treasures. The sewing maohim has usurped the place of the erstwhile spinning wheel, the brick oven ha i given plaoe to the portable range, and I the old blue churn has' made way fo I the patent device which likes every element of romauoe or of interest. If be goes to the milking not even the hired girl goes with him. He finds a farm hand performing the operation by artificially induced vacuum and pouring the warm milk into a whirli gig spinster where that ia removed from it which gives him an uneasy sensation in the region of the adomi nal diophragm if he recalls how, in guileless infancy, he was wont to drink the fluid dipped at about 90 Fahrenheit from the milkmaid's pail. Should he wander to the well to ex* pl?re its crystal depths, look for the great frog which should be there, and contemplate sentimentally the o?d oaken buoket, he finds nothing more interesting than a flat stone surmount* ed by a cast-iron lift pump with an anti-freezing attachment, and realises that the aforesaid buoket has been metamorphosed into a lead pipe lead ing down to the sunless depths where surface water high in nitrates and ni trites, aud not free from a well-defin ed trace of albuminoid ammonia, is stored. Probably he will not feel thirsty for water. Of a truth the old farm is no place for a city man who cherishes memor ies of a boyhood rubrioated by annual vaoation visits to the homestead of his grandfather.-James G. Bayles, in New York Sun. Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh-Medi ?las sent Free. Send no money-simply write and try Botanio Blood Balm at our ex pense. Botanio Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills or destroys the poison in the blood whioh oauses the awful aches in baok and shoulder blades, shifting pains, difficulty in moving fingers, toes or legs, bone pains, swollen muscles and joints of rheumatism, or the foul breath, hawking, spitting, droppings in throat, bad hearing, spooks flying before the eyes, all played out feeling of catarrh. Botanio Blood Balm has oared hundred of cases of 30 or 40 years standing after doctors, hot opringB and patent medicines had all failed. Most of these oured patients had taken Blood Balm as a last resort. It is especially advised for chronic, deep* seated cases. Impossible for any one to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheumatism or catarrh while or after taking Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and rich, thereby giv ing', a healthy blood supply. Cures are p armament and not a patching up. Soldi at drng stores, $1 per large bot tle. Sample of Botanio Blood Balm freo and prepaid, also special medical j advice by describing your trou ble and writing Blood Balm Co., ! Atlanta, Ga. A personal trial of Blood Balm is better than a thousand printed testimonials, so write at once. Sold tu Anderson by Orr Gray Drug Co., Wilhite & Willi i to and Evans Pharmacy. .... Splendid Values Tte. Mm ? '. ' Nothing gives ni such genuine pleasure as to offer to our Customers One Hundred Gents worth d^^ue^ for every Dollar ! WE make just as good a profit on an artiole thatfs worth the money as we do on one that is not worth carrying home. The first makes ns friends, and now customers, while the last keepB ns continually in hot water. For this reason, in huying our NSW STOCK OF DRESS GOODS and SHOES, We left off the usual side line of '-shoddies" and bought only the very best quality of Goods for the price. For instance, our long experience in Shoe Buying and Shoe Selling taught us just what our best trade demanded in Shoes, and we bought accord ingly, so that we are enabled* to offer the Newest, Best, most Substantial and Shapely line of Ladies and Gentlemen s Shoes Ever brought to thia market. Wo have an excellent combina tion Brogan and Dress Shoe for men that we offer for $1.75 that can't be duplicated elsewhere for $2.00. We have a Lace Wa ter Proof Calf, half boot, for $2.00 that makes us friends every N day. We have a most comfortable heavy Kangaroo Man's Calf lined, that is as full of value at $1.50 as it is full of solid leath er. Our Stock of Womvu's Shoes \a equally as varied and com plete as the men's, and we confidently offer them to the trade as hones ?, well-made gnnds. We have rect^y added to our Stook a handsome line of From a cheap packer to *he best$5.00 Trunk. Prospective brides and grooms, and young la.lies and gentlemen starting to College, will observe that goods-loxas have gone out of date since our new prices on Trunks went into efteot, and that the style now is one of Dean & Kati i ff e's Trunks. . Speaking of style, there never was a time since the foundation of the world when DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR Wasn't in style. It is still in style, abd the people just cry for it. Anyone who doubts it can aee for himself by watching where all the wagons load. . The .people will have our stuff, and that's what makes us the b.qsiest Store in town. DEAN & RATUFFE, THE HOTTEST OF THE HOT. WHEAT GROWERS. Anderson, S. C., Aug. 1, 1902. To the contestants for the prizes offered by the Anderson Fertilizer Company for orop of 1901-1902 : We find thatT. M. Welborn, of Pen dleton, S. C., has won the first prize fer the yield of 108.937 bushels from six sores, and the first prize for yield of 54.266 bushels from three aeres, and the first prize for the yield of 183 bushels from one sore. This orop was grown on land previ ously planted in cotton ; was prepared by turning with a two-horse plow, fol lowed by a two-horse subsoil plow. One bushel of Bluo Stem wheat was sown per nero with a wheat drill, ap plying at the same time 800 pounds of Anderson Phosphate and Oil Company 10-2 aoid and 200 lbs. cotton seed meal per acre This toBt is duly signed by tho three judges, and dated July 1st, 1902 The second prize for ?* e best yield on six acres is won by AT. Allen J. Sullivan, of Sullivan, S. C., for tho yield of bushels. This crop was grown ou land previ ously planted in cotton ; was turned by a two-horse Oliver Chilled Plow to an average depth of eight to ten inch es, then harrowed with Tarrant's har row, thon sown with Farmer's Favorito seed drill, applying one bushel Ken tucky Red Wheat per acre, at the samo time applying 340 pounds of Standard Fertilizer per acre, manufactured by the Anderson Phosphate and Oil Co. Mr. Sullivan says that ho used acid on another piece of ground, but got better results where he used Ammoni ated Fertilizers. This ie dated July 9,1902, and prop erly signed by th? judges. . The second prize for the best yield on one acre is won by Mr. M. B. Rich ardson, of Pendleton, S. C., being 161 bushels. Mr. Richardson grew this orop where he previously had cotton. He plowed up the stalks, and ran over the land with a cutaway harrow ; then j turned deep with a two-horse plow, I applied 600 pounds of Anderson Phos I phate and Oil Co's. 16 per cent aoid I to an aore, and ran the smoothing har row over it : then sowed three-quarter bushel of Blue Straw Wheat to the acre, applied 200 pounds of meal to the aore, and plowed in with side har row, fellowed with smoothing harrow. This communication is dated July 7th, 1902, and properly signed by the judges. Mr. L. O. Dean, of Dean, S. C., ?B the winner of the third prize for the best yield on one acre, having thresh ed 15} bushels from one aore. He is also the winner of the second prize for the three aore contest, having raised 48 bushels. Mr. Dean is also the winner of the third prize for the best yield on six acres, having threshed 96* bushels, Mr. Dean raised this crop where he had oats and peas sown tho year before. The land was turned with a two-horse turn plow five or six inches deep, then harrowed with a 20-inoh solid diso har row. This was followed with an Acme harrow, which was followed by a plank drag. He then applied 200 pounds of Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company's 16 per cent. Aoid Phosphate and 150 pounds of cotton seed meal and 15 lbs of Muriate of Potash through a Farm ers' Favorite Grain Drill on Nov. 5th; the same application was made on Nov. 6th. and then on Nov. 12th he sowed lt bushels of Blue Straw Wheat to the acre through a Farmers' Favorite Grain Drill. This rr ^munioation is dated July 1, 1902,and pi operly signed by the judges. Yours truly, ANDERSON PHOSPHATE &? OIL CO. U WAGONS? Gar load of the celebrated Studeba ! ker Wagons just arrived. Car load of Tennessee and Old Hickory and Piedmont Wagons also on hand. Prices right, ume and see un. JOS. J. FRET WELL.? Oct 1. 1902 16 4 FAIR NOTICE. COLLECTING time is at baud, and I take this method of notifying all parties owing roe that I ^must make all collections in full, and un less you arrange same soon I will send a collector to see you. J. a FOWLER. Sept 24, 1902. ? 14_ MILBURN WAGONS. I have just received a Car Load of j the Celebrated, High Grade MIL BURN WAGONS. If you need a Wagon call and see them. They are built right, and will please you. J. 8. FOWLER. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM ClMnnca ?nd beautifier the nair. Promote? a luxuriant growth. Haver Fall? to Bettore O ray Hal* to itu Youthful Color. Cur? ?filp altea?*? j^halr inJUcg. 00f* W00ll81f8|a2r7oMnorphlne! Biim BAA opium, laudanum, t?AI Wl^gg>_ leflilr of opium, co 1% BIBBS ?.?as or whiskey, a BB BBB flfl l-W book ot par BBS ESS tlculara on home or B 9 BB BBB u-natorlutn treat 9 ?^??? tsent. Address, B. AND M. WOOLLEY CO., Whisks; Cure K?FttSS: Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned, Administratrix of Estate of James K. Robinson, dee'd, here by gives nottce that she will on Friday, 31>t day of October, 1902, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, M. C., for a Final Settlement of said Es tate, and a discbarge from her office aa Administratrix. CYNTHIA. A. ROBINSON, Adm'x. Oct 1. 1902_15_5_ JNotice ot Final Settlement. THE undersigned. Administratrix ol Estate of Calhoun Newton, deo'd, here bv gives notice that she will on the 10th day of October, 1902, apply to the Judge of Probate of Anderson County, 8. C., for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from her oftlco as Ad ministratrix. MARY ALICE NEWTON, Extr*x. Sept 10,1902 12 6* o "^^l^^^^^ ZV?*. 0*?*T r\ trat? fit UfWraSetcr Ch,?d *?.<t ^ki^* ?fcrfH? . 7 at Unigg?St?* TEETHING EASY. gg?a^yfy^a?aBOr ?0*11 ?& CCBU t? C. ?J. MOPPSTT. M. D., OT. LOUIS. MO. ATHtiTA. Ott., Nor 19. 13?0. We h?vo handled Br. Moffatt'- TEKTHIM A (Toethlns Powder? ) erer ilnco Ita Ont Introduction to Ul? pobUo td tr*do M a proprietary madlcln?, en d ?.tr trod o in lt bu et? ?dil y I nc rewed from yeer to yt ar until oar ords? >w usotAtto two or tare? hundred ?TOS? ?xv year, which ti ? Terr (troux evidence ot 1U merit ?nd th? sall ifs ctioo it gi rina to the asoU-.r. al tho coutii y, for th? jr uy nothing lo effectually counwrtcu tho effect* of tho ?ummcr'e Mian or ororoomM M Quickly tb? UOOMM Undent to tee&lnj. _T Hi LAM AK it RANKIN DRUG CO.. Wholeeel? D.-J g ?i'la. WE have prepared for Hard Times by buying the LARGEST Stock of FURNITURE Ever in Anderson, and have bought at Hard Times Prices. There will be uo Hard Times for you when you buy from us, for we have thc prices lower than you have ever heard of them be fore, and you can now buy two dol lars worth of Furniture for one. Come to see us and we will convince you of the fact that vou can SAVE monoy by buying any price of Furni ture from us. LAUGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS. C. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street. UNDERTAKING and EMBALMING. Bcd Boom Suiter, Side Boards. Lounges. Ti ? rd robes, Baby Carriages, Co Carts, Rockers, Chairs, Safes, Bugs, Mattings, Etc., Etc,, Can be found at a Cheaper Price at the PEOPLES FURNITURE CO Than anywhere else. COFFINS and CASKETS. Why Not Give Your House a Coat of i You can put it on yourself-it is already mixed-and to paint your house .would not cost you more than. Five or ?ix Dollars! SOLD BY Orr-Gray & Co. HOME SEEKER EXCURSION RATES The Western and Atlantic Railway and Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis Railway, To points in Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Missouri. Solid vesti buled trains between Atlante and Memphis. Only one change of cars to piincipal western cities. Vary lc ,v rates to all points North, Northwest and West Best service and quickest time via the Scenic TU-ttlefield Route. For schedules, rates, maps or any information, writ? JOHN E. SATTERFI ELD, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 1 Brown Building*, Atlanta, Ga. Sept 10, 1902 13 6m BLACKSMITH AHE WOODWORK SHOPS ! THE undersigned, having succeeded to the business of Frank Johnson & Co., will continue it at the old stand, and solicits the patronage of the publia Repairing and Repainting promptly executed. We make a specialty of "Goodyear," Rubber and Steel Horse Shoeing General Blacksmith and Woodwork. Only experienced and skilled workmen employed. We have now ready for sale Home-made, Hand-made Farm Wagon that we especially invite your attention to. We put on Goodyear Rubber Tires. Yours for business Church Street, Opposite Jail. J. P. TODD. NOW is the time to make a selec tion of a PIANO ? The "Kroeger" is the perfection o? mechanical construction, and for artis tic tone quality has no equal. Don't be talked into paying a fancy price for a cheap instrument, but see me about prices. I can sell you the very best at an exceedingly low price. Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines. Machine Needles 20c. per dozen. Sf. li. WILLIS, Next to Dour Peoples Hunk. co . o o 4 m S i ta W a 0 hj a a ts CELEBRATED Acme Paint and Cernent Cure, Specially used on Tin Roofs and Iron Work of any kind. For sale by ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO. Reference : F. B. GR AYTON & CO., Druggists, Anderson, S. C.