Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Seasons Have We used to plant corn the mHdle j of February, had red, luscious apples Ja Jane> Pe8?,> '^ams; dewberries ?nd blackiorries-H\\ thean and more Ve need tp have early in J uno. The seajsonshuva changed this much gil in the memory of many now living, bot then |wo had trees hanging with ioioles byl the first of November, and DU ibo lets v?istcr ;.'cgu?stc? ibu laie n?es of spring and the dago's fruit stand, with tho railroad facilities, now furnish us with what we lost by the changes in nature. But tho changes in'the seasons of fruit and vegetables are not all the changes nor the most important-the change in human nature and in hu man method Is 'greater than these, and the dago, from across the ocean nor railroads nor nothing that may come will supply the place cf what we had nor rotaiu to- us an imitation of character or a feeling of heart that art acd fiction has so well supplied in the fruit and vegetable kingdom. Boys fifty years ago rejoiced over finding a hornet's nest and they had a royal battle for every, one they did find, but a "y aller jacket's" nest gave the greatest pleasure to these boys, and whatever boy has not been stung bj one of the little "yaller" flyers knov. n nothing of pain. A baseball may break a finger or a rib, but there is no suoh glory in this as was brought by tho sting of "yaller jackets,3' and there were preoious few boys raised in Georgia before the war but what have felt the pleasure of this sting and re ceived the plaudits of the other boys for some gallant rush with a brush on the little hole in the ground that went to their nest. Biding the colts fifty years ago was not so subjeot to wholesale killing and mangling os the automobile runaways, bot they were quito.as foolish, for the colts could have been broke and man .?ed in su.oh QQ intelligent way ai ifould have brought no danger, but there was better excuse, at least, more romance in wrestling with a thing of life, and taking tho chances that they aid take than oan. ever be felt or understood by those whirled to danger ?rough the turning of a screw or the pressing of a button scientifically per fected by soma genius expert. And now thoy Ba* that a son of the great Edison htB perfected a machin? or something that will develop brain into greatness. It won't be - long till greatness will bo oil owing to the mar ?hine, just as speed on the raes track that receives as much, homage is the living thoroughbred Used to receive* by turning the crank invented by Bomo fellow an export in mechanics. Sentiment, reverence, affeotion has about gone through the worship of the. commercial idea and now greatness viii be simple meohanism-there will p h no greatness. I have said this little as a hinton the lineB that have been and are still drifting us away from things that once lost oan never be reclaimed, and from things that brought the best results tod greatest blessings to these United States of ours. I received a ' letter rrorn a "orank" yeBter^p^, wherein ho lays that in twenty more years one half the people of the world will live io towns and in this connection he shows the speed of this trend. My own observations makes me think this bas been true, but I am hopeful and believe that this trend has already called ? halt, and of this satisfied spirit in country life is what I liko tho most to write about. . Just DB boys took up tho notion that it was better tc develop muscio by athletics than by labor, so the girls ook up the notion that the excellen eies of their sex lay in wearing fine clothes and having smooth skin. A boy would refuse to out stove wood or fo work the gardon because it was too Wd work, go to the baseball field and struggle and sweat almost to ex haustion. Tho girls went to dieting and bleaching for a complexion that ley could have had easier b . going mtin tho morning and xaiitu g and amping. Such health comes with ie that their cheeks would bloom nth any sort of diet, with the other there comes % day of fade, for surely hose who hold their beauty from fol ding these fads will find a day of [ading and, besides, they go through fe without doing a tulzg to make thc .orld better. As for the dressing, We should bo no objection to any [ne drying aa fino as they are able dress, but when ono goes beyond (heir means in the mattor then it ia oolish and ridiculous. A girl able to 'ear silk and satin[dqes not seem ridi pious by wcaring;tho same, but ono Joly able to woar homespun is sure jidioulous and a thing of pity to wear ich. , The oountry people aro coming to ?ia idea on dress and the boys and lo girls have decided that they can LUNKETT. jed, j?Llso the ?People. institution, V ?ccuro muscle, healtt and good looks just about as easy by doing some good in the -rorld as they ern by following tho fads that puts mosey into some fellow's pooket who has a "scheme" and nothing.but a "soheme" to re commend him. The farmers strong enough to survive through "the schemes" of the past thirty years hare at last got .tho young folks to guessing, if the old farmer's ways are not the best. So the trend seems to mc and I rejoice that it is so, and I would.bo more than glad if I could help along on this line. Thousands of poor girls have been raised in re cent years who could no more perform the dutiea necessary to a housekeeper than they could fly. It is not the rich girls who suffer from this. If a rich girl be sensible enough to become imbued with economic and industrious ideas suitable to the poor, then that rion girl only gets the rioher, but where a poor girl beoomes imbued with rich notions she only gets ?bo poorer and wilf curse the home that she enters or the man that she marries. This ap plies to boys and girls/and here in our Country it is plain that they haye awakened to it. I have never been one to belieVe that girls should work in the fioldo, but they should work in the home and they should be sensible enough t.* ;void such ideas of life as will discourage the men who should and will work for them if they only will bo sensible. We have already had some dewberry pies and the blackberries will soon be ripe. I never saw such a crop of these berries as there is this year. Nature is kind to us people in Georgia; if we desert the fields they grow up in ber ries first and then the pines take possession and in a few years they are as well timbered as in the original fotest-no oonntry but the South, I think, can claim this, at least in so short a period. A field that I saw in oom ten years ago is now covered with a growth of pines that I am sure would turn oat as mach wood as the original forest, while there tte spots here and there co vere tj with briars and literally covered with berries. And the "redbugs" have returned to us, not in such abundance as they used to be, bat enough to make' us scratch and feel good at scratching. Brown has always said that the itoh gave him the greatest pleasure that ho felt during the war, and to understand that you only have toc?me out and get covered with these "redbugs"-it is splendid, as far as the boys are oon ?e?nsd, and I ezpeot, the giris would say so too, for it is.fashion here now and whatever is the fashion is hard io disagree with. I Can't see why country people should not have some fashions of their own without going to town for the tip, and I think we have in these "redbugs." , Sarge Plunkett. Be Not Deceived. "0,1 take it to aid digestion.' I suffer so from dyspepsia," was the reply pf an army officor when caution ed against tho uso of aleoholio drink. What folly i Why, men put dead flesh into alophol to prevent it from corrup tion, To take drink to allay fever or reduoe an inflammation ia like putting oil on fire. Injuries and gunshot wounds fare far worse in a drinking man than in a sober one. "But for the alcohol in him," says the doctor; "or the bad blood caused by the beer, there might be hope." A man's motive in taking the drink may bo good, but liq?c?? never stop to ask you what you want of them; they go in and do their work of death. But it IB said that liquor is needful pud useful in fatigue duty. It is? Why does the soldier need it? Is it to give him warmth? This it never .does. Aloobol produces a sudden ex citement and glow, but it abstracts heat, and the man is colder after it than he was before it. o Does he need it for nourishment when exhausted? j This if does not give. Tho idea that alcohol is consumed ia the system, and is properly food, is exploded? ; It is never digested, more than a stroke of lightning. It remains in che sys tem, disturbing every part until it l is expelled through tho lungs and liver. It goes to the brain and produoaa brain fever and madness, and the man I who drinks it on fatigue duty is but ?he moro fatigued and the more dis qualified for his arduous duties.-Na tional Advocate. . -.- " ? ? f . I -->-'.- . - An earthquake in Asiatic Turkey destroyed a whole villas near Emoom and killed practically all its 2,000 in habitants. Driak Water Freely, Few people realise the importare* ol free water drinking. Yet the large proportion of wator, not only ?in the body, but elsewhere throughout tho earth, would of itself indicate tho im portance cf water. Tho hum au body contains about ?hreo-fourihs water, while most of the articles used as food contain from three-fourths to nine tenths water. Is the human system there is no e true turo or organ whioh decs net contain water. 'The teeth, the hardest ead densest tissue ia the body, contains IO per cent of wster; the muioles are three-quarters water; the bones are 13 per cent water and the blood is four-flf the water. Gae trio juico is 94 per oent perspiration, 98 per cent saliva and 90 per cent water. The blood stream, consisting of about seven quarts of fluid, circulates through its tubular conduits, the ar teries, capillaries and veins, at the speed of about seven miles au hour, 168 miles per d-.y. The blood is in reality only a solu tion in water of certain matters out of whioh by a complex system of filters all. the other Fluids of the body are formed. In other words the blood holds, in solution, all the elements out of whioh the gastrio juice, the sal iva, the intestinal fluids, the synovial fluid and a dozen other fluids are pro duced. When it ie mentioned that during twenty-four hours these wonderful little filter o ell a secrete from the blood about from four to eight quarts of gas trio juioe, about one quart of saliva, about two quarts of intestinal and pancreatic juice, as well as smaller quantities of many other fluids-when this is understood some idea may be gathered of tho immense j importance of water, whioh is, aa has been said, the real fluid of i the body, A great authority on physiology has said: "Water is a very important f jod ele ment, as all physiologic ohanges take place in a wate?, y solution. Water is the medium through whioh the body i 3 Douri shed," Water is constantly leaving the body-through four avenues, the skin, the lungs, the bowels and the kidneys. Of the total amount of water leaving the body about 5 per cent, or one twentieth, is excreted through the ali mentary tube. One-fifth,, or 20 pei cent, is oarried off by the lungs in the form of aqueous vapor. About one third leaves by way of the skin, thc fluid known as perspiration, while nearly one-half is voided by the kid neys. The water thus carried out ol the body is heavily laden with vari ons poisonous mat. ers, the retentioi of whioh would be not merely injuri ons, but fatal. For instance, the per spiration contains about one-half of " per cent of urea, besides other pois ons, lactates, sudoratos and iporganl salts. The urine contains about ' per cent of urea, also urie acid, orea tin, Creatinin, exanthin, tyrosin, hyp purio aoid, leuoin, oystin and taufin besides many other exorementitiou poisons. V \ As one Of the greatest pathologist now living said: "The body is a fae tory of poisons." And upon th ability to relieve itself of these poi( ons-upon the incessant activity . : the organs intrusted with ouch wor of elimination depends not only th health, but the very life of the indiv: dual. There is a story to the eSEee that somewhere a great pageant wt given, a feature cf whioh was a beat tiful little boy who was to pose as oherub. Somebody thought it woul be a good idea to GO ver the little bo with gold paint, and in less than s hour the little boy was a real oherul that is to say, he was dead. Tl story may or may not be true. Tl point is that it might have oeon tru For to paint the skin and thus ob s tru the pores of the skin would mean tl retention of a quantity of poison sui , cient to cause death in a very sho time. Now from the foregoing we see th all the vital processes take place ic watery solution, and that tho exoi tion of tho waste poisons of the bo? is accomplished by a process of was ing ont with water through the fo avenues of elimination known as ski lungs, bowels and kidneys. From what has been said it c readily be understood why it is thi although a man can live for from sis to eighty days without food, as t ".??cen proved on several occasions, j if deprived of fluids for six or eij days he dies a terrible death, these cases death would result fr two cause; first, the retention of po ons for the elimination of whioh wa in the forms of sweat,. vapor from i lungs, urine, cte., was necessary, ai eocond, from a stoppage of those vi functions in whioh water is used. Tho most striving and distinct peculiarity of watPv is that it is af VP?t- a clean ter. Tho function water in the body as elsewhere ia loosen, dissolve and carry off si matters as can be detached from tl environment-in other words, dirt t impurities. The water taken into human system has peculiarly t [ effect; it goes in olean; it comes < j dirty. j In tho prevention and treatment disease t.iis elimination of wast? the moat important fr.otor. An on of prevention ?B worth * ton of medi cation. Aud in scouring thia eUmi nation the most important measure is the free drinking of pure water-wa* ter which shall flush the system of those poisons the retention of whioh is so deadly.-Health Culture Maga zine ?.. ' ' Sometimes Happens. The weary oily man wandered back to his boyhood home after almost a half century of happiness. He took great delight in talking over the old days with the people. "What ever beoame of Percy Pierce?" he asked of the grissled old village blacksmith. "The little red-headed feller that was always playin' hooky?" "Yes." . "Gone t* congress." "And how did Jaok Turner do?" "Little Jaok that wus allua fiahin' when he should a been stadyiu'?" "Yes." "One of our jedges of the supreme co ort." "Of course you remember Tim Hooly, the Freckled boy who was al ways pulling the wings off of flies and shooting birdp. What's beoome of him?" "Tim's president of the state so ciety fur proventin' eruelty t' ani mals." "Bomember Walt Webster, the boy who could recito 'Spartacus to tho Gladiators' and 'the Seminole's Defiance' with such dramatic effect that your Hair fairly stood on end?" "feller that allus took the prize for oratin'?" . "Yes." "He'a breakin' on a passenger train between Stub Junction and Cohos set." "1 suppose Tommy Timson is one of the big men of the state now?" "You mean the little feller that waz allua too busy studying t' jineour games?" "Yes." "Drivin* delivery wagon fur Sells, the grooer." "There was one boy in school whose name I can't recall. He was the worst boy in the whole lot. Wouldn't study; always fighting; could oheat better at marbles than any other boy and none of us dare trade knives with him." "You mean Sam Swiggiers, d m't you?" "Yes, Sam Swiggiers. What beoome of him?" "Sam's in politics and dead sure of bein' elected governor next trip." "And what beoame of Skinny Ho gan, the laziest boy in Behool?" "He's gettin' $4,000 a year pitehin' fur a baseball club baok East." "Good for Skinny 1 And, of course, Billy Boles made a success in life?" "You mean that little fellow that alias kept himself thin workin' so Hard far an eddioation?" "Yes." "He's preaohin' over iu Slimville an' gettin' $350 a year, when every* body pays up."-Exchange. "Keep your Top Cool." It is reported of Artemas Ward that he once offered his flask of whisky to the driver of the stage on whioh he was riding through a moun tainous seotion. The stage driver re* fused the flask inmost decided to nea. He said: "I don't drink; I won't drink; I don't like to see anybody else drink. I am of the opinion of those moun tains-keep your topoool! They've got snow, and I've got brains; that's all the difference." There is a deal of wisdom in his re mark-"Keep your top cool." With out a sound brain man is not of muoh use in the world. Alcohol, whethei in beer, cider, wine, brandy or whisky, is a foe of tho brain; and when it geti there inflamos it, and renders it unfit for use. Be like the veteran stag( driver, and resolve to "keep your to* cool." _ _ _ To Care a Gold io One Day Tako Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tablets AU druggists refund the money if i fails to eure. E. W. Grove's aigna ture is on eaoh box. Price 25o. - Some men get fulsome praise oi t ir tombstones because they neve gtv'e their friends a chance to praia them while alive. -- It's not tbe shirt waist, but th shape of it, that makes a fool of man. The following inquiry has been re ceived from H. P. Briden of Bremer County, Iowa: "Would like to ask about feeding coal to hogs. Is it of benefit? Ie it not injurious to little pigs, from 4 to 8 weeks old?" Mr. Theo. Lewis, a man who has been eminently suooessful in raising hogs gives the following advice: "Take six bushels of this cob char coal, or three bushels of common ohar ooal; eight pounds of salt, two quarto of air-8laoked lime; one bushel of wood ashes. Break the oharooal well down, with sb o vol or other imple ment, and thoroughly mix. Then take ono and a quarter pounds of cop peras and dissolve in hot water, and with an ordinary watering pot sprinkle over the whole mass and then again mix thoroughly. Put this mixture into the self-feeding boxes, and plaoe thom where hogs of all ages can eat of thoir contents with pleasure." Judging by tho success that Mr. Lewis has had in the hog business wo would infer that tho above mixture is in no way injurious to hogs of any ago. Tho manner of reducing corn oohs to charcoal as praotioed b v Mr. Lewis, is to dig s hole in thc ground five feet deep, ono foot in diameter at the bottom and five feet at tho top, for tho charcoal pit. Take tho corn oohs, whioh havo been saved in a dry plaoe, and, starting a fire in the bot tom of this pit, keep adding oohs BO that the flame is gradually drawn to tho top of tho pit, which will bo thus filled with oohs. Then take a sheet iron cover, similar to a pot lid in form, and over five feet in diameter, so ss to amply cover the hole and dose up the burning mass, sealing the edges of this lid in turn with earth. At the end of twelve hours you may uncover, and tako out a fino sample of oorn-oob oharooal.-Homestead. - The Government is making a sys tematic effort to rid the formers of the West and Southwest of tho prairie dog pest. There is a great colony of the little animals in Texas, covering a territory 125 ipUes one way by 250 miles the other. It is estimated that there are 400,000,000 prairie dogs in this colony, and that they consume enough grass every year to support 7,500,000 head of cattle. Stops Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinino Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents. Notice of Eleotion. AS required by law the County will Eppolnt Trustee* for the different Behool districts of tbU County on the first Tues day in July. In order that the people may nominate men for appointment, the present Boards of Trustees are requested to hold an oleo? lion in their respective districts on Sat urday, the 26th inst. from one to six p. m. The Trustees will please report the re sult of said elections to the undersigned on or bv Jnlv Where no action ls taken by the resi dents of a district, appointments will be made by the County ; Board without further notice. By order County Board. B. E. NICHOLSON, June 8, 1603. County Supt. Notice to Teachers. THE County Normal will open at An derson on Monday, June 22nd, and re main in session four weeks. This Echool ls held for the benefit of teachers and those expecting to become teachers and ie absolutely free. We want to make this tho largest and best Normal ever held here. Will you help us by coming and influencing others to come? i The course of study ls not completed but will be announced iater. K. E. NICHOLSON, June 8, 1903. County Supt. Notice to Creditors. ALL persons having demands against the Estate of Sarah Pullen, de ceased, are hereby notified to present them, properlv proven, to the under signed, within" the time proscribed by law, and those Indebted to make pay ment' J. H. PULLEN, Executor. Juno 10, 1003_51_3* Here is our New Tire Setter We worked so successfully last season. Sets 'em cold, right on tho wheel, and keeps the dish right, too. With plenty good seasoned lumber, improved machinery, well seleotea stook of different sizes, shapes and parts, we giy e you the service you ex pect in shore time. Overhauling Car riages and Buggies from start to finish is our specialty. PAUL E. STEPHENS. CRAY'S LIVER PILLS -~ CURES Constipation, Torpid Liver, Indigestion, Biliousness, Malarial Poison, Pains in the Back, Dizziness, Headache, And all Liver Complaints. Bgk, For that sallow complexion there is no better Pill made. t@T These Pills act directly on the liver, but do not gripe or sicken. IPr-ioe 35c. Box. *&- Guaranteed to help you. Orr^Gray & Go. The largest Cow In the wo rld. Weighs at six years of age 297C lbs. Shs was fed on INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD. It makes Cattle vigorous, ^troag and healthy. It makes Cattle grow very rapidly, and It makes the hair Swft, smooth and glossy. t?- Its uss will not cost you ONE CENT unless EXACTLY as REP RESENTED. EY ANS PHARMACY, Ageute for International Stock Food. asSk T*0AL?25^&tDFFL^1S? .TSSWGSSH ^H^fiWftaaSgOr cull S5 eeaU to C. ?I. MOPPETS', M. D" GT. LOUIS. MO. _ _ ? --.?.- ' .' _ _ Columbus, G<u, Atta;J34.1879,^ lill. C. JT. NOFWETT-Bcar Doctor: Wo aaro your STIliSTHISAATccthina JFotpdera) Co ot f Uttl? arana chita %citH ?fte happiest results. Th? effecte teere almost magical, ana certainly mora satiojactoru than front anything eroccer asctf. Voura vcrtf truly, JOsA ?. JKJGF, t tftotp Bishop Southern Methodist cintren') f?etor of BU Saul Church} Special attention is invited to a new shipment of ACORN STOVES AND RANGES 1 Which we have just received, and which includes the very latest patterns, both coal or wood, adapted to the requirements of this market. If you require anything in the Stove or Range line we solicit an oppor tunity to explain the merits of THE ACORN. We also carrv a complete and up-to-date line of TINWARE, ^OOD ENWARE and HOU8E FURNISHINGS. 8?? Guttering, Plumbing and Electric Wiring executed on sboctmotiea, Yours truly, ARCHER & NORRflfe. ARMING TOOLS! NOTHING ia more gratifying to an up-to date Farmer than to have a well-equipped outfit to begin his Spring work, and this he is sure to get whem he does hisjrading with us. Wo can sell you - PLOWS, PLOW STOCKS, SINGLE TREES, HEEL? BOLTS. CLEVICES, HAMES, TRACES, COLLARS, $(\ COLLAR PADS. BACK BANDS, PLOW LINES, BRIDLES? And everything necessary to begin plowing, except the Mule, and we'[oao "sight" you to a Mule trade. We still have a few Syracuse Turn Plows that we are closing out 'at ? very low price, and can furnish you with the Terracing Wing. Come in and let us show you our 7-foot Perfection Trace Chain at 50? pair./'Nothing in the Trace line compares with this Chain. Don't you need a hog pasture ? We have the Wire Fence for you. BROCK HARDWARE COMPANY. 8-4 8 ? ?Sa 0 w 5 ?5 W & 0 < Ki g on < O ? d M M _ H O Q ? M H3 ssa ag M w H ? ? ta il H co . o o -J fe fl TAKE NOTICE. 1 Do not Fail to try our Spec ally Prepared 8 1-2 2-2 Petrified Bone Fertilizers for Gram. We have all grades of Ammoniated Fertil izers and Acid Phosphates, also Kainit, Ni trate of Soda and Muriate of Potash; all put up in new bags; thoroughly pulverized, and no better can be found in the market. We shall be pJLeased to have your order. ANDERSON PHOSPHATE AND OIL CO.