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NEW P ,?n Interesting Paper which FruitB and News nod Clemson College, July 'J.-Some weeks ago your correspondent report ed a part of Prof. C. Lewie Newton's excellent address on plant breeding, delivered before the Clemson College Science Club. Thc following is a! summary of the neeond part of the ad dress. There are two starting points in plant breeding: First, breeding from selection of cither seedlings or bud; second, breeding by hybridization and subsequent selection. In tho first case desirable plants selected from a j large number of seedlings aro allowed to fruit, and further selection is inde finitely repeated until thc qualities desired become fixed. In the second case sexual union ?B secured between tbe established types, varieties, or species by the artificial transference of the pollen from one to another plant. This is styled cross-poleniza tion. .When the cross polonized bios Bom develops and ripens its fruit the seeds are planted. Theso seeds pro duce plants that msy olosely resemble either parent, or may possess oharao teriBtioB resembling both parents to a variable degree. From these hybrids or orosses selec tions are made of desirable types, and seeds from several generations are re peatedly seleoted. If, however, the new cross-bred plant is one that may be reproduced by division, as by cut tings, tubers, roots, otc, the type is at onoe fixed abd the new creation en tere at once upon its life of utility or pleasure. Very nearly all of our cultivated plants have been improved or bred up in one way or anothor, and it may be interesting to call attention to a few examples seleoted at random. The sugar beet by a oarefnl process of breeding has been indueed to more than double its per cent of sugar on the one hand, and on the other to adapt itself to soil and climate hither to uncongenial. The Irish potato WaB originally a wild plant, unpalatable and supposed to be poisonous from the faot that it was a member of the deadly night shade family. As high as 1,200 bush els have been produced from one aero, and the size of tho tuber inoreased trnm m\ faa. nnnnaa tn a*??*?! nnnn^i The tomato, also a member of the night-shade family, has ooma into neo within the memory of persons now liv ing. It is supposed to have been broop.ht fforo S&ntn T)nm?n?n tn phil adelphia in 1798, and grown as an or namental plant. The first reoord of the tomato's having been used as a food dates to 1812 in New Orleans. It is now one of our most common vegetables, and so much skill has been expended in its improvement that in 1905 a specimen was nroduoed weigh ing seven pounds and seven ounoos. Japan plums are another fruit that have been greatly improved, and last summer at the f armers' institute held here two dozen varieties grown on the experiment station's grounds here were on exhibition as au example of what oan.be done in thie line. In the flower world the development has been so phenomenal that the re eui ts would be considered miraculous were it not for the fact that we know these new creations to he the product of the patient but skilled hand of sotanee. When America waa settled by Eu ropeans the grains, fruits, vegetables mud flowers to which attention was w?re sftfti^Uj ?? QM World ori gin, and the native kinds were neg lected. In tho c&fce of flowers, foi' the production of which artificial condi tions arejslargely maintained, home produced Bo-ts vie in numbers with the foreign. . In cereals and vegeta bles the majority of the extensively grown sorts are of American origin; and in fruits upon whieh perhaps the xnOBt attention and skill have Jt?een brought to bear, and the greatest . stimulus given by well-organized so cieties, the native floris ^ave almost entirely taken the.place of the foreign ones. Fully 95 per cent of the ap? pies grown west of the Mississippi are of Amerioan origin; and, notwith standing the high-standing French sames given to many of the varieties of pears now offered by nurserymen, most of thom aro of Ameriean origin. , In the cultivation of grapes, rasp Tells of the Creation of Now Vegetables. Courier. berrica and blackberries no advance ol consequence was niadc until .he native species were developed. T. V. Mun son, of Denison, Texas, the world'* greatest grape producer, has bred forty odd accented varieties, many of them now standards in different lo calities. An interesting example of plant im provement is illustrated in the case of our sea island cotton-a tropical plant adapted to temperate climates. About 1785 seeds of this plant were brought from thc Bahamas to Georgia. Thc first year thc plante wcro killed down, notwithstanding a mild winter, but I they came up from the roots the fol lowing spring, and produced a few seeds. Thc earliest of these seeds wero saved and planted each year, and each year tho ripening became earlier. Not only were selections made to so cure earliness, but also to improve the length, silkiness and strength of tho staple. Under continuous selection its qualities have been developed, un til now it is superior to any other cot ton grown anywhere in the world, and commande the highest price. By se lection year after year from plants grown nnder the peooliar conditions and environment prevailing ulong our coast, these excellent qualities have beoonie fixed. Hybrids e o our od by crossing the up land and tho sea island cotton have developod varieties superior in merit adapted to conditions farther inland. Among these might be named the Flo rodora, Sunflower, Allen's, Griffin's Blue Ribbon and others. While great progress bas been made iu tho breeding of cotton, it ie confidently believed that the work has but little more than begun, and that there ore great possibilities for the development of the ? Southern king of plants when there is the necessary adjustment of means, skill and patience for the exe cution of tho work. The eexofiHty of plants was not es tablished until proved experimentally by Cameranius in 1691, and the first hybrid of whioh there is any reeord waa produoed in 1719 by Fairohild, an Englishman, who crossed the carna tion and the sweet William. Thous ands of hybrids of various plants are now produced each year, ?nd it is probable that within the past two or three years more hybrids and new va rieos of plants have been produoed 'through design than the aggregate numbera produoed by all means in all previous yeara. And the art ia yet in ita infancy. Free of Snakes, A New York man waa stopping for a month at an inland town in Florida. This in eiunodingiy fond of swim ming, but h&s a horror of snakes, and this fear kept him from, indulging in hie favorite sport in the nearby river. He was fishing one day, and mention ed his desire and the barrier to its en joyment to his guide a lanky and sor rowful "oraokor." "Oh, I kin fix yo'-all up all right," the guide drawled, and led the way to a beautiful little lake some distance back from the river. "Ain't nary snake in hy ah," he said. The northerner enjoyed a half hour's sport in the clear water, and then, coming baok to thc white sand beach, began to dren. He then observed that what ho had taken to bc several logs floating upou tho water worein UlOliOD "?h?ih ain't logs,*' bia guide calmly replied, ohewing on a straw, "them 'gators. That's how ooma there ain't no snakes in nyah-'gators keeps 'em ct up."-Harper'a Weekly. Becalmed. Thara is a oonoert singer in the weat whose voioe ia not only of great sweetness and compass, but of snob extraordinary power that no orchestra ever drowns ita tones. Now, the huaband of thia singer fra* quently nota aa her conductor, and he ia ever anxious to impresa upon the publie tho fact of the great power of bia wife's voice. On one occasion thc lady was rehearsing for ? concert to be given io a large hall. In one o? her songs abe was to be accompanied by a trumpet obligate. Although th? per former, In obedience *JO instructions from the conductor, blew with all bia might and main? yet hts btst efforts were invariably mat wlih ft. ??1 cf, "Leude?, ?euder," fro?i i?ie ine*iiauie leader. : t i % 'm ? Finally tba performer rested' hie LIVING ON AN ACRE. DOIT It Would Hrli> the Man ot Fam ily uiitl Little Honer. A family, with n modest house sur rounded by un ucre of good H:?il. even Where th?' work has to be performed by members of the family who are oc cupied liming tl?? long bouts of the day at various occupations, will pro duce almost everything used in the family. An ?tere of ground thoroughly well cultivated, with a little chicken yard an tin adjunct, will reduce in a very materia! way the expenses of tho family. Of course acre lots are impossible In side of the city limits or even very close tu the city limits. T"ho person seeking so large a lot munt go to a considerable distance from the busi ness center, but the extension of elec tric lines enables even working people to live at a considerable distance from their pince of employment. A man who panis $2..r?() to twice that sum a day and who has.a family consisting of a number of children often linds some difficulty lu bringing them up properly and giving them the kind of au educa tion he would wish. Such an invest ment ns this, saving : .-nt of say $20 a mouth and yielding eggn and all kinds of vegetables un well as considerable of the fruit that goes to make up tho daily ration of each member of tito family, will make his struggle lu life much lighter. A man who hus such a stake in the country will be lu every way a better citizen than the one who spends his week's earnings us soon as they come into bis hand, if not u week before they are earned. Varied occupation exceeds all other processes In drawing out whatever of ability a man possesses. Here lies the advantage to the community-one su perior to nil economic gain-of the sub urban acre lot for thc home of the city wago earner. The cultivation of that acre in alternation with bis other em ployment will bring bim Intellectual and spiritual enlargement, while It gives him a healthier body and whole some surroundings in which to bring up bis family.-Maxwell's Talisman. THE GROWTH OF TROUT. Age? Food MA Ttnperotnn Seem tm Mo*? Ko B?ar9na> oa Sis?. The Salvolinus fontlualls, which la currently bat Inaccurately called brook trout, waa supposed for many years to be a small fish. Aga eels was largely lustra mental In exploding this fallacy. It ia not an uncommon thing for an angler with ordinary luck to get a a.x or seven pound trout of this variety. It ia known that a trout may grow to weigh eleven or twelve pounds. There ia, however, great difficulty In accounting for Its variation in size. In northeastern Canada there are large streama and lakes m which only flngerllngs have ever been found. In the imm?diats vicinity of such waters three and four pound trout sra quite common and seven and eight pounders aro not phenomenal. Ip all these wa ters crustacea do not abound; there are no small fish of any kind except small troct AU the flBh aro pure fly feeders. At Borne places, lt ls true, frogs abound, but taken as a whole the difference in food supply ls not an adequate ex planation for the difference In growth. There 1B no substantial difference In the waters as to temperature, size, origin and course. Climatic conditions are the same. The small trout taken to virgin lakes In which there are no fish have somotlmes grown to a great Hitf?. 2iave sometimes remained small and sometimes have not thriven. The anglers who haunt these waters have not yet found a satisfactory explana tion of this peculiar condition of things. It la one of tho mysteries which lends fascination to the art "You never eau tell what ls going to happen when you go Anhing."-St. Paul Dispatch. Lon ar Vordi or Shorst Which shall wo prefer lu speech and writing? Almost everybody will vote j? for the short word, and almost every? body will bo voting for the best can didate. The short words are usually the strong words. They make np in muscle and liveliness what they lack lo size, Boya the Manchester Union. And they are readily In the eyes of men who have thoughts that they wish tc lodge in other minds. A man who should run out Into tho street and yell "Conflagration! Conflagration! Con flagration!" when his house waa burn ing would be thought to be making a jest of tho affair. And so in all mat ter s where ideas are to be handed oui quickly and clearly-the short word hos first choice. Taking ao Chuce?. An old Pennsylvania farmer, while od a visit to Philadelphia, lays fl writer in the Publio Ledger, wa? taken with a violent toothache, and calling on a dentist, was informed that the tooth must be extracted, and that be had better take gas for tve opera* tion. * "Tho patient agreed to this? and then started to ooant bia money. The dentist remarked: ?'Oh, yon Geed not pay until I have finished." "I reckon not," replied tho farmer, "but if you are going to maka nae un ooo scion s I thought i'd jest like to see how I stand." ? ' mm i Mm '. ? : ' v'>'.' ' - Oaly a fool seeks temptation in Order to prove hit strength. k>? Josiah B. Rials, a merchant of Gladstone, Mo., who weighed abbat 350 pounds, hanged himself with a trace chalis. "y - Aa a rule worthless people have) the best dispositions* '\ . j - Some women work for their hue-j banda ?hil? fib me oihe-a work them, j '???AKys?y kaook caa maa si*?** Wa4 other- is intended aa a boost for him, *m : :.v>; --'11?9P ?l ' A popttlw young man is ono Mhb knows bow lo drop a compliment ito tfie slot and get aoms t??/? > V?j ??rr' A wo?ao who U only happy wheo] s\? ia miserable is A fine thing to bav? Natural Chemistry. Sonator Butt of tho Arkansas Senate had just finished one of his droll stories shout feeding morphine to a pointer pup and watching him as he indulged in the ensuing pipe-dream occasioned byjthe opium, when Rep resentative De RoBsit, known at- one of the most veracious men in the State, said: ''Senator, your dog reminds me of my hen. Needing quinine one day, as we often do in the bottoms, I mix ed up an ounce of the drug with mo lasses and rolled it out into pills. Leaving the stuff to dry on the front porch, I went into the house. "Returning I saw the last of my pills swallowed by my hen. "Of course I thought her silly head would burst wide opon. She simply commenced cackling, and has been laying two eggs per day ever since. And do you know, Senator, those eggs are the best ohill tonio on the market. One of them taken internally will knock tho spots trom any ease of ma laria in tho State, and shaking ague can't stand before'em an hour after, they ? are eaten. I keep that ben dosed; Ido, and-"-Memphis Com mercial Appeal. John Boyle's Battle Bon. John A. Boyle, a Massachusetts man, took part in the civil ivar and liked to tell about his experiences. At a meeting one evening he told about the I experience he had at the battle of Boll Run as follows: "I saw the men drop their guns and run, so I dropped mine and ran, too, but I was ohased by one of- tho enemy who had his gun in his hand. I ran i tho fellow a good race for two miles, and then I stumbled and fell and was expecting him to come up and shoot me. He didn't come up, so I looked around to see where he was, and to my surprise saw him eprawled out on the ground about two yards from me. I got up and looked at him and saw that he had died from apo plexy." Q Boyle's hearers asked what ho did next, and he replied, "I wept for the man that I had run to death." 'Lige Goudy's Corn. 'Lige Goody, a well-known and pop ular passenger engineer, who lives at Seymour, is raising some corn this year.? A few days sgo a gentleman called at Mr. Goody's house to see him, and was informed that he had gone out to look at his oom. The gentleman went down to the oom field, which he found grown over with weeds of a gigantic growth, with a siekly looking stalk of oom peeping forth hero and there. The gentleman looked across tho field, but gould not DUV VUQ |U.yii>?IV? ...W* WW?. Finally the man olimbad upon - the fenoe and shouted : "Oh, 'Lige I" To his surprise, a reply oame from among the weeds near by, in the fa miliar voioe of Mr. Goudy. The gentleman took a second lookj but could not quite locate 'Lige, and ofter a moment's h?sitation said : -. "Shake a weed, BO I can tell where you ere !"-Exchango. i i- i. a* ? ' " - Even thc man who .expects the uuexpected ie apt to be surprised when it happens. t- Marrying an heiress ie often as unsatisfactory as any other, get-rioh quiok s?beme. - , v* When a woman is said to have seen better days it mean? that she knowe out glass when sha sees it. ' There is only one sacr?? ? woman oan keep, and that is the agonies ol n^ h?a^; ^ ? ??(& - ??. ^?%m?%mt% aV aVeV?VA ??MsWJsM? j Clearam i $3 50 Ba?S ; J Concerned about Her Sister. Some Oklahoma people in Washing ton were low in their minds recently about an outrage or two perpetrated on that territory by the statehood bill. Ooo of them was making quite a fusa about it, olaiming that tilings would be all wrong when the territory becomes a State, says a speoial to the New York World. "Reminds me," said Raconteur Oulahan, "of a thing that happened in my school days. We ur ed to have a lecture every Friday afternoon, and one day the lecturer was a geological sharp and chose 'Niagara Falla' for his topic. "He told us all about tho geol?gica) ! formatian of the falls, described the different periods that could be traced in the gorge and then wont on to say that the falls were slowly wearing back toward Buffalo and that within the course of some -00,000 years they would be worn back to Erb, Pa., and that town would be left high and dry. "Just tben one of the girls in the elass began to sob wildly. 'What's the matter Casked the teacher in alarm. 11 'Oh,' she wailed, 'I've got a Bie ter living in Erie.' "' Season Enough. Benevolent Old Gentleman (rescu ing one small boy from the pummel ing of two others): "What aro you hurting this. boy for?" "Beoause he made so many mis takes in his arithmetic this morn in? " xng. "But what business was that of yours?" "Why, he let us copy our answers from his." - Remember, Cordelia, that devo tion during courtship doesn't always j mean devotion after the parson says his say. A Happy Home To nave a happy home you should. have children* j They are great happy-home makers. If a weak woman, you can he made strong enough to hear healthy chil drenp with little pain or dis comfort to yourself^hy taking tamil nine i - nm OF lt wm ease all your pain, reduce iaflamnsaticn, cure leucorrh?e, (whites), faffing I womb,- ovarian trouble, disordered menses, back ache, neadacne, etc.? ana make childbirth natural and easy. Try it; At all dealers in medicines, in ?1.00 bottles. >^v ?DUE TO CARDU1 is my . baby, girl, now two weeks oM," writes Mrs. J. Priest, of Web-, ster Qty, iowa.- **She IS ? fine healthy babe and we are both doing nicely: : I am still taking Cartful, Sad would not .be. ?without it in. the house."< .? ::-'W^m0M S. C. Office over Feat Office Building, Money lb lend on Beal Estate ?0??J^mmim%^ WM? Mt MM - I; THE - - ? ' j hoe Store, . . * - ?i fe i r ;,iiii.iriii, r, III ''l^^P^^?p^m m at,'..$^OOi >;, The Octopus Spirit. Samuel Gompers, the re-elected chief of the American federation of ( labor, is quoted by the New York T'-? \ , ?? ?. ty mo . ..Mi; WM V MW ?vtivnii - "Many a rich and powerful man is ' inclined to treat the poor and helpless man as the bully treated the little Loy. "A little boy was peaceably making s H M ow man one winter morning when a tall lad, a bully, rushed up, kioked down tho snow man and gave the little fellow a thump on the head. "A benevolent man saw this out rageous bullying from a distanoe. He drew near, shook his fist at thc big boy, and gave the little one a Cime to comfort him. "There, there," he said. "Here is a dime for you. Now dry your eyes." "Then he departed. "But he was no sooner gone than the bully oame up and demanded half the money. > " 'I'll be satisfied with half,' he said, virtuously, 'but I ought to have all by rights, for if I hadn't walloped ye, ye wouldn't have got a cent.' " I Elgin and Waltham Watches Are the standard of the world. Our gold-filled cases are warranted for 20 years, engraved or plain, fitted with Elgin or Waltham movement, Hunting or Opei- fsoa. Pricer, from$10 to $15, sent by registered mail.. Our Agent at Durham, N. C., writes: "Our jewelers bave confessed they don't know how you can furnish snob work for the money." Our Agent at Heath Springs, S. C., writes: * ? "Your watches take at sight. The gentleman who got thc last watoh said thethe examined end priced jewell er'? watches ia Lancaster that were no better than yours, but the price w?a?$40." Qur Agent at Po G DI og ton, Tex., v/rite?: "Am in receipt of the *atoh, and am pleased without measure. AU who have seen it say it would be cheap at $40." y.. Our new illustrated catalogue ses? fice. MAIL 8UPPLY CO., Box 1409, New York. A Traveling Pain. There ie no disease quite so peculiar ia rheumatism. The pain which ia in? the little finger today maybe in one of the toee tomorrow. And so it travels all over the system, seeking ar* outlet, and finding none it settles per manently in one place, and from itj .ionic other pains start out, abd cottle lown and multiply. Dr. Drummond's* Lightning Remedies for rheumatism' tttcok the diBcaso from all points at moe, and their work is always sue sessf ul. If your druggist has not got these remedies, write to the Drum nond Medicine Co., New York andi iescribe your caoo. Agents wauted. - Some people get married because heir friends want to eeo them disoip- , ined._' ' ( THE STATE OF SCUTH CAROLINA, County of Andersen. COURT OF COMMON PINEAS. foo. N. Fickler, rialntiff, against Elijah Pa/ton. Fctcr I'ftyton, Joe Payton, Georgia jfayton anet' | Waddy Payton, Pefendunu.-Saunnona for ?le- 1 lief-Complaint Served. . -.. ? , ro the D?fendante, Elijah Payton, Petar Payton, Joe Fayton, Georgia Payton and Waddy Payton t ?0U are hereby summoned eud required to an swer the Complaint In thia aotlon, of Thlch i copy la herewith tarred upon y ou, and to serre a 2opy of your answer to aald Complaint on the subneribora at their office, at Anderson, H. C., with in twenty day? after the larrie* hereof, exclusive of the day of such service i and if yon fall ia an swer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the* plaintiff in this action will apply to tho Court for Ute relief demanded In the Complaint._ BOI?HAM A WATKINS, . - . Plaintiff's Attorneys. Anderson, 8. C" Hay SS, 18u6. Anderson, S. C., Mar SS. 1903. ' So Joe Pay ton, Georgia Payror- and Waddy Fay? . ton, absent Oefendanta, whose places of resi dence ta unknown :. Tako Holloa: That the 8 ara cs cia B and Com plaint in thin action were this day flied lathe? office of the-Clerk of the Court for An danoo County.at Anderson, 8. C. ? _ . , ? , BONHAfi A WATKINS, Plaintiff s Attorney. MayS0,l!>06 SO S and WNieXEV HABIT? cured nt home with out pata, Book of uar jlara Sent gttBB? Pryor ?tats??. Cottero of Charkst?ns Ohrtttestoiy S. O. Entrance osamioaUono will bf held ins the County Court Haoeeon Friday, Julr 6; at 81 a. m. Ono Free Tuition shinto each county of South X^ltaa\? awarded by the County^Supfc of ^??a* tlon and .Judge of Probate.^J?a*d, ant? furnish ed room io Dormitory, Sn a? mor tb. All , candidates for adm lesion, are permitted to oompet? for vacant; Boyeo Scbolarahipa, whiob leay *1(2J** year. For catalogue and l>s?ormattom Armour's year ro? Staple groceries at prices Ito please sad with ._ th? ??ailty ts ?REGUL?R CUSTOMER* S VaM)IVER B???, lilli We insuro against loss by Hail Storms. tow. Office over AtMnson^ Drag Stow,.; O?gaa Alicea