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rs c M CHM HAY Interesting Impress Grreat A.she Yorkville A large party of Clemson boys were taken to Biltmoro recently to be pres ent at a sale of Berkshire hogB, be longing to the Vanderbilt estate. The following letter descriptive of tho trip and of tho impressions hy- the way, is as writtc? by one of the boys to his mother, and it will no doubt provo of almost equal interest to most of our readers. It is datad from Clemson College : ****** It was 8 o'clook when he arrived at Asheville, and it took an hour to get straightened out and have Bupper. Tho meal carno in courses, on indi vidual dishes, served by pretty white waitresses. Tho Clemson orowd must have afforded muoh amusement for the other travelers. We are not ex actly used to hotel life, and of course, not a few blunders were made. I be lieve wo have some sort of a joke on every one who went, and the "local department" of next month's Chroni ole will be well filled. After cleaning up all the supper in sight, we went to ' the opera house, and afterward part of us went to bed and the rest stayed out an hour or so longer. The next morning Professor Bawl got us four three-seated hacks and we put out for Biltmore. . j First we went through the poultry yards, where the aristocratic White Leghorns live in state and seem to be conscious cf their superiority. Their houses and yards were almost good enough for people to live in. It was the wrong time'for hatohing, hut three or four of fifteen or twenty large incu bators were turning out chicks at the rate of several hundred per week. We then drove to the Berkshires, where the hog sale was held, and spent most of an hour there. I am sending you 8 oatalogue, giving pictures and descriptions of the hogB, that tells about them much better than I can. T have also marked the prioes for _v:_i- _& -e iu_- i J - J ;_ . nutvu uiuDU ut lucui Dum, ttuu lu a good many cases I have put the names of the buyers. Just think of the first hog bringing five hundred dollars 1 At that rate I could no.t have bought the tail. We soon got over our astonish ment, however, and did not express much surprise when shown a Jersey bull for which they had been offered $8,000, and whioh amount had been refused. Before tho sale ltinoh was served to the 300 people who were there. There were plenty of ham sandwiches, oraokers, oheeBe, coffee, bread and butter. There were also different kinds of cakes, and to finish up, buckets of milk punch wore brought in. This in my opinion, was what helped to sell the hogs. There W?r? seventy sold, and the average price was $180. When the sale was nearly over, we drove around the grounds, passing the mansion. I had never thought much about Vanderbilt's house and its mag nificence struck ixl o ??uu wonder. X have seen large buildings ?nd grounds, but this to be owned by one man is the most wonderful of all. We oould only drive through the gates of the court in front, about fifty yards from the house. No one stays there now, but those who attend to it and visitors aro uuii Biiunou iG enter. JLUS SutOiCB, magnificent in their proportions, are also unoccupied, and dosed. While I wanted to go through the buildings, still I did not care so muoh to see in side, being contented with looking at it from the outside. . Thosoonery from there is beyond description, Everywhere, stretching away for miles, arc Vanderbilt's fer tile hillsides, some in cultivation while the rest are covered with many differ ent kinds of young trees all planted, the white pines predominating. The macadamized roads wind around the hills and in and out of the groves, bordered on either side by the choic est of shrubbery and trailing and creeping vines of all sorts. There was not a leaf to be seen on the hard white surface of the drives, and the land looked as if it had been swept, so clean did everything appear, i Through the cultivated fields there was a strip of Bermuda and for ten feet on either side of the drive. ' When wc get baok to Asheville it waa aftor 5 o'clock and we just had a short time to drive over the city until dark. Thia is not a business town. Everything indicates that it is a plac? o? residences. There are some of the finest dwellings and hotels l ever Baw. What I liked best, however, was the general freshness of appearance of everything. There was something in . the atmosphere ^?at was different . from that of the lowlands and the weather waa not nearly so cold as I though tit would havo beoo. It was rather '/ate when we retired that night and we were surprised the next morning to hear the porter wake us un>UV .'S.SO la*t call for ' break AT DIT TL?nun n 1 DIL, 1 ?V1UI\D. ions at Vanderbilt's oville Estate. Enquirer. Prof. Rawl on the trolley for Biltmore in about an hour. We, tho latter ones, followed half an hour later on the next oar. When we arrived at the station the others had walked, on to thc barns. There were no hacks to meet us as Prof. Rawl had thought. Wo found out later that '.he manager had to use the hacks to carry around a party of Northern people. A drizzling rain wes falling and a three mile walk under such circum stances was no pleasant prospect, and quite a contrast to our traveling the day before. Sovoral who wore not feeling well turned buck at tho gate, while six of us started to evartake the first party, and I for one am not sorry I went. It rained harder by the time wo had gotten half way, and wo saw that wo were in for it and made tho best speed we could and caught up with them at the cowbaro. Wo did not get very muddy, however, for at every low place there is a drain Bank in tho road that carries off tho water as fast as it oolleots. We were wet and the big coal fire at the offioo of the Berkshires was very comfortable The manager had luncheon fer us whioh oonsisted of plenty of coffee and the remains of the previous dap's re past. Before thia wo inspected the dairy barns and evervthiog seems like a dream to me now. During our hur ried glance at the cows and their sur roundings I could just look and that was all. Papa saw oar new bara hore. If I used to think it was a big thing, now compared to Biltmore, it is less than a needle would look iv a hay stack. Then all tho floors are made of as phalt and the stalls of steel bars. How many cows are there? I don't pretend to know, but I do know we saw over two hundred. The man in charge said that there were twa other barns one larger than this. Nearly all the cows were imported. There are a number of ;holden Lad" bio jil, a famous English sire in the herd. Ooo of his daughters, "Golden Rosebay," cost $2,775 in England. This seems almost prepos terous, but I am giving it to yon, as it was given to me. This one did not give as much milk as several o? the others, bat her color, marking and general form are so oharaoteriBtio of the breed . that they make her very valuable. We were also shown the ball for whioh Vanderbilt had laen offered $8,000 ; but had refnsed it. They were all Jerseys. Plenty of the fine, sleek looking bovines produced over 10,000 pounds of milk-some 11,000 and 12,000 per year. This is an average of over turee galleas per day. A good many now milk forty and forty-five pounds per day. One gallon weighs nine pounds, while one that we saw that made the record for a single day produoed sixty-four pounds on seven gallons. Then we saw the dairy and the butter malting. The milk is carried on a trolley wire from the barn about a hundred feet to the building. Here it is cooled by sterilized air pnmped from the highest point on the farm, theo separated and the eream chained. The batter is sold in Asheville and now brings 30 eents per pound while in sumiocr it sells for 40 oents. \* The floor is of marble and every im plement ased in handling tho milk and ore?m ie thoroughly sterilised. It seems impossible for the o rn aile et harmful germ to find a pk?o to infect the milk. Prof. Bawls 'phoned to Biltmore for hacks to tako as back so we did not get wet on the retara trip. When we reaohed the hotel it had stopped raining. We were just in time for a 2 o'clock dinner, the best meal that had been given us. . I was sorry that I could not do it fall jus tice, as I had saten heartily at the "Berkshires." I did my beat, low ever, as I was paying for it, and it was well that I did, for we did nat get anything more until breakfast the next morning. - One an John Kernen. The late John Ker nell, the Irish comedian, liked in bis prime togo back to Ireland, whence he- would of ten bring material, gathered ia ale houses and on the highroads, that af terward served him well in dialogue apon the stage. Kernell once Bald at a little supper party in BOS?OD that be had met on a summer day in Galway an Irishman driving a,horse so thia that ii stagger ed as it walked. ; . VWhy don't you put more fle^n ou that nag?" Kernell exclaimed indig nantly. "More, is it ?" the Irishman an swered. "Why, by the powers, don't yea see that tho poor creature ?an jbfrffly carry what little there Ison now?1* Colton Worm as Dad as Weevil. Washington, D. C.. Feb. 27.-Tho specialists of the Department of Ag rioulturo are giving almost as much attention to thc ravages of the cotton boll worm us to the injuries that have resulted and may result from the cot ton boll weevil. It ia declared today by eminent scientists of thc depart ment that the ootton boll worm, al though an old and well known insect, ir. responsible for the loss o? millions of dollars each year to thc cotton plan I i.ers of th? South. As early as lSil it was found in the eotton fields around Tallahassee, Florida, and in the course of a few years became quite destructive. It is tho principal inseot oeemy of ootton unless tho cotton boll weevil should take first place. Al though culled tho cotton boll worm tho insect likes nothing better than young corn, and when it can obtain corn does not bother cotton. Nearly every farmer, amateur or professional, re calls thc inseot lying in thc top of ears of young corn and gorging itself on the juiciest part of ?he corn. Thc cotton boll worm did so much injury in Texas a few years ago that Congress provided for a careful inves tigation of the pest, and experts are just now completing their reports. The experts estimate that in 1903 the boll worm caused the losa of approxi mately 90,000 bales of cotton in Texas alone. At a valuation of $50 a bale this would mean a total los? of $4, 500,000. If to thia amount should be added the value of the cottonseed the total loss would easily exceed $5,000, 000. Tho losa in 1902 was equally as great. Should tho losses throughout the ootton regions of tho South be added the number of millions would be larger. Gould anyone estimate the loaa sustained by corn and other crops from the aame wgrm the total would be something enormous. The worm is found in many other countries of the world, in faot, practically all of them. The boll worm eggs are easily de tected on the fresh silk of corn. They are oval in snipe, whitish or yellow ish in color. The next stage is the larvae. AB the larvae grow they be come most voracious, and, when well fed, grow rapidly. A full grown larvae measures from 1] to li inches long, as every farmer knows. Tho body is stout and tapers slightly toward the head and caudal extremities. When full grown the worm leaves its food, burrows below the surface 2 to 5 inohes and constructs a cell, ready to allow the exit of tho moth. The adult worm is the moth, whioh every ohild sees withe Mt knowing. The trans formation from egg to adult may be accomplished in about thirty days, BO that the pests multiply fast enough. The worm, as stated, is omnivorous and feeds upon many plants. Its first ohoioe is corn and its next the eotton boll. Beoauso of its existence in so many parts of the world it is probably the most destructive inseot known. So soon as corn begins to harden the worm turns to the young bolls of cot ton, and material injury to oot ton occurs only after the corn has be come too old to furnish suitable food. Owing to their habits of burrowing into the ears of young corn and cotton bolla the worms enjoy considerable freedom from the attack of parasitic, predaoeous insects and other natural cheeks. The worms oat eaoh other in their younger stages and that accounts tor the fact that only a few ?n> found io thc same car uf silked corn. Many methods are resorted to by farmers to control the worm, but they have been ineffectual and expensive. Thc uso of lights for attracting aud destroying the worms is declared by exports to bo without tho slightest benefits. Numerous moths of other spooies arc caught by tho lights, but there arc few boll worms in the number. Poisoned baits, Buch as vinegar and molasses poisoned with cobalt, is said to have nothing about it to recom mend. Hauling burning sulphur through the cotton fields has been tried but is advised against. The de partment makes these recommenda tions that may bo beneficial: 1. Plant early matuiing variety of cot ton, giving five cr six plowiogs, with three or four choppings, so as to bring to maturity before the time of thc year when tho boll worms become so destructive. 2. Plant corn as a trap crop for the worms. The suggestion is that in planting cotton leave vacant strips throughout thc field and put oom in this. By planting it so that the corn will be in silking oou^jtiou about the time the cotton is maturing tho worms will turn to the oom, which they prefer. Cowpeas Bown in thc worm will also divert the attention of the worms. 3. Experiments in poi sons show that they oan bo employed at times. The spraying of Paris green at the rate of one pound to one hun dred gallons of water is advised, and it is stated that the best timo todo this is about August 1st, when there is a maximum number of young larvae on cotton. The poisons may be used again about September 1st if oondi ditions are favorable for the worm. If there is no machinery for spraying the ordinary method ef dusting Paris green may be employed. If the dust ing method is used from 2 to 3 pounds of Paris green will bo required to the aore of ground of cotton. Two Religious Fanatics. Norfolk, Va, February 26.-Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Ford were in Edeuion,(N. C., some time last week, ostensibly engaged in missionary work. C. They announced their inten tion of building an ark, and with sun dry wheelbarrow loads of timber of various kinds they finally succeeded in constructing ?. ?trange lnnkine craft, 12 feet long by 3} feet wide. It was straight on the Bides and with no timbers. With a '"w provisions tho couple had gathered together they set out to sea Thursday afternoon about 5 o'clock in a strong east wind, and when last seen they were making John's Island, where it is supposed they camped for the night. A telegram from Eden ton late to night states that Major J. G. Bond, fearing something would happen to Mr. and Mrs. Ford sent a boat out after them. They were found aground about 212 miles from Edenton, and had abandoned their boat and gone np into the marsh. An oil stove and a sheet, supplied their external oom foi ts. The couple had barely enough food for another meal, and if they had not been found as soon as they were thev probably would have been dead by morning, as they were suffer ing terribly from the cold. - When a married man loses any thing he suspects his wife of taking it. S?pvCm?lsui ?il ?Mt'allllg. 'Ono o? thc nio^t remark . *? cases of specialism ia thievery carno under my observation recently," said the policeman, "and while I havu for a long time understood that thieves specialize their business just as other men do, I was not prepared for tho case in question. Some men steal watches, some steal hats, some over coats, and to on, and, as a rule, a a thief who has the habit of stealing one particular kind of thing has but little respect for tho men who dovoto their time and talont to some other kind of thievery. ''I onco heard a bat thief remark that any man that would steal another man's watch or his overcoat, was simply two mean for anything and ought to bc sent up for life. That's the way tho spe cialist in thievery feels about thc matter, aud yet the man in question, I suppose, had stolen during his ca reer as a "hall visitor" as manyas a thousand hats. But I was thinking of a recent case of specialism, lt was that of a negro who would steal nothing but ladders and wheelbarrows. On one occasion to my certain know ledge, he dumped a valuablo set of tools out of a wheelbarrow just to get tho barrow. The tools were left ly ing in the street by a heap of rub bish. The tools were worth any where from $25 to $30. The wheel barrow was worth probably $1.25 to $1.50. On other occasions ho took ladders when he might have taken other things of more value. In faot, ho would steal nothing but wheel barrows and ladders. "Why should ho take theso things? Of what use were they to him? Did ho profit by his pilfering? I do not know. I only know the faots are that way; and the negro was otherwise an honest negro. Honestly, I believe he would have refused to steal a ham ora watermelon. But when it came to wheelbarrows and ladders he simply could not resist the temptation to tuko them. It was the strongest case of speoialism in thievery that ever came under my observation.' New Orleans Times-Democrat. A I?1idiop's Itebuko. Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, could administer a rebuke delicately, but on occasions bc took caro to see that tho point was plain. Ono of the wealthiest members of his church as well as one of the closest told him he was going abroad. "I have never been on the ocean," he said to the bishop, "and I would like to know something that will keep me from getting seasick." "You might swallow a nickel," re plied the bishop. "You'll never give that up." ~ OABVORXA. * Bean th? >?Ths Kind Yoa Haw Always Bongtt - The labor unions have invaded Sumter and within the past few weeks the electrical workers, . peaters and brickmasons have organized unions, and other trades aro expected to or ganize at an early day. The negro mechanics as well as the whites have been organized, there being separate and distinct unions for whites and col ored. - One trouble with a great many people who don't know good mu-ic from bad is that they dou't know it. -Chicago News. A STRONG STATEMENT FROM A PROMINENT LAWYER OF MEXICO, MO., ENDORSING FOERG'S REMEDY The Great Blood Purifier. CAPT. O. T. ALLEM, Mexico, Mo. Lawyer, Soldier, Legislator, Lecturer. MEXICO, MO., Aug. 25, 1908. I knew Philip Foerg, of Princeton, Ky., for thirty years. He was my neighbor and friend. I knew that he originated and, after many years of per sistent effort, perfected "Foerg's Remedy." So highly did I appreciate it as a perfect and complete remedy for all kinds and degrees of blood impurities that I endeavored, twenty years or more ago, to organize a joint-stock company to place this wonderful remedy on the world's market. Mr. Foerg very properly declined to surrender the formula for making the remedy unless a sufficient amount of paid-up stock was raised, etc., and this I failed to do. Then Mr. Foerg himself, in a limited way, made and sold it for twenty years before his death. By his will he left the formula for making this remedy to Mr. Hugh Mayes, of Princeton, Ky., now Secretary and Treasurer of "The Foerg Remedy Company," Evansville, Ind. I knbw it to be a fact that Mr. Foerg for twenty years offered $1,000 spot cash (he was amply able to make such an offer) for any case based on blood impurity which his remedy would not cure, and I know that he was often challenged to the contest, and he never lost a case. C. T. ALLEN. With the above information before you. if you go on suffering from the curse of poisoned blood, either primary, constitutional or as a result of mercurial treatment, don't rail at fate bnt simply blame yourself, for here <? a cure-absolute and sure. Tainted blood manifests itself in the form of Scrofula, Eczema, Rheumatic Pains, Stiff or Swollen Joints, Eruptions or Copper-colored Spots on the Face or Body, Little Ulcers tn the Mouth or on the Tongue, Sore Throat, Swollen Tonsils, Falling out of the Hair or Eyebrows, and finally a Leprous-Like Decay of the Flesh and Bones. If you have any one of these symptoms don't delay till too late, but go to yonr druggist and get a bottle of FOERG'S REMEDY, The Great Blood Purifier ALL DRUGGISTS GUARANTEE IT li your druggist does not handle this remedy send us $L 00 for one bot tie or ?5.00 for six bottles, ?nd absolute guarantee. All packages sent in plain wrappers. All correspondence strictly confidential. FOERG REMEDY Cu., - EVANSVILLE, IND. MAKES THE HAIR GROW A WONDERFUL HAIR 15 GENTS A BOTTLE AT ALL DRUGGISTS Roxbury, Mas ;., April 15th. 1903. Deal-Streit Co.. 7V-8I Cort Intuit St.. New York City. C5entloini>n-I was persuaded by a f rlnml to buy a bottle ot ii AI u INK. and to my surprise it woruetl wonders. My hair had been cominis out and no tonio I could pet would stop it; hut, one small bottle of HAIRINBdid the work. I writo this, und you hay? my permission to publish samo, hoping that it will help some young girl that has ti> work for ?.*. living as I do toilet the best hair tunic in the worid lor the least money. Wishing you success, 1 nm, Very truly yours. MHS. M. S. DEXTER. No. 7 Bartlett St.. Roxuury. Muss. AT AL. I. DRUGGISTS. THREE SIZES-15, 40 and 75 cents. By mail f> cents extra a bottle. YOUR DRUGGIST WILL SECURE IT Ft-lt YOU WITHIN 24 HOURS IE YOE DEPOSIT TUE PRICE WITH YOUR ORDER. BEAL-STREIT CO., 79-81 Cortland! Street, New York. Drug Sales Co., General Sales Agent, 35 Randolph St., Chicago. For sale locally by :E"VJOISTS ^HZ^.?^nvr^.c"^"" inf o *8 'viawmoo 'JiMVcIWOO ?>miCI ?VHHillV 3HJi A ti (iHMvaaad m 'j ct?? qa j nd XI*AO ?.J H< psjsncv pooiutustv) -jtniorf ono'o-qij ? o.ii i>ti nf ! 'T.tir JM "?nli'j I> ' J noun IV j.ippu^i put; X.mppi ?i?Ait u| |llJiiBfl ' 310 'dtlli? 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For full] part ic u ulars as to terms, location, &c, call at my office. 50 acres, two miles from city, un improved, i House and Lot, G aoros, near city limits, very desirable. Half acre City Lot, front on Main Street, no improvements. 1 acre, with new dwelling, in city limits. llj acres, near city limits, cleared, no improvements. 2U0 acres in Fork township, on Tug aioo i\iv?"-r, two dwellings. 100 acres in Williamston township, improved, on Beaverdam creek. 400 acres in Oaklawn township, in Greenville Co., half in cultivation, 5 tenant dwellings, 50 acres of this is in bottom land. 700 sores in Hopewell township, on Six and Twenty Ojeek, 300 norco in oultivation, 2 good residences, 6 ten ant dwelling- 40 norco in bottom land. 91 acres in Garvin township, on Threo-and-Twonty Greek, good dwell ing, barn, &o. 56 aorea in Macon Co., N. C., 29 miles above vVnlhnlla, on road to Highlands. Berry place, Varenncs, 87J aores. 437 acres, Pendleton township, ten ant houses and dwelling. 145 acres, Evergreen place, Savan nah township. 00 acres in Fork township. 150 acres in Savannah township, well timbered, no improvements. 400 aores in Center township, Oco oco County, 100 cleared, balance well timbered, well watered, good mill Bite with ample WQICT nnwer. 05 acres iu Pickens County. 174 acres in Hopewell township. 130 aores in Broadway township, improved. 230 acres in Fork township, on Sen eca River, good dwellings, &o. 800 aores in Anderson County, OK . Savannah River. 96 aores in Lowndesvillo township,. Abbeville County. 84 neron in Corner township. 75 aorea in Ooonee County. 75 nor os in Piokens County. 152 aores in Rook Mills township on Senooa River, 2 dwellings. 700 aores in Fork township. All the above are desirable Lands, and parties wanting good homos, at low prices, oan select from the abovo and cali for further particulars. Now is the timo to secure your homos for another year. JOS. J. FRET WELL. ANDERSON, S. C. CH ? H K td > > v _? sj gg ia 8 <m? Sw 2 2* ? * S s i H-, B* OD p DH Ml Cheapest, Bi! This Establisbment has been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. During all that time competitor have como and gone, but wc have remained right here. We havo always B.???i Cheaper than any others, and during those long years wt> have not had one di - satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any timo found that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until wo had made bim satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and lac ing, and weean say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the confi dence of the people of this section. Wc have a larger Stock of Goods tlf* season than wc have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we have n?v, r sold Furniture at as closo a margin of profit as wo are doing now. This- - proven by (he fact that wo aro selling Furniture not only all over Andere-?? County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Como and seo us. Yent parents saved money by buy inp, from us, and you and your ohildren can ea''1 money by buying hero, too. We carry EVERYTHING in tho Furniture line, G. P. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street. . Tho Old Reliable Furniture Dealero 1 HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF CORN, Slight ly [d amaged, and can sell you at 50c. per Lbushel.il Will have a lot of it cracked for hog and] chicken feed at same price. See me for OLD DOMINION! ^CEMENT, AND BEST JLiTMLJE. Oi Q. ANDERSON.