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CHINESE FARMER. Willie Lee Sing's Work in Connect icut. Hartford Courant. . Bristol boasts of the only genuine Chinese garden in the state. It is owned by Willie Lee Sing. who came to Bristol thirteen years ago and es tablished a laundry on North Main street. He landed in this country twenty-six years ago, so that he has become pretty well Americanized. He is industrious and, besides making a success of his laundry, has made money raising Chinese vegetables. Willie is married, his wife being German, and the couple have two bright-eyed children who bid fair to be as good business men as the elder Willie. There is not much of a market for Chinese vegetables here. but in Hart ford, New Haven and Waterbury he finds a good market. The Chinese gardens which is visited by a good many people each season. occupies what was intended to be a building lot on Jacobs street. Seven years ago a New York land improvement com pany came to Bristol. bought up a tract of land and sold off the building lots. Willie purchased one of about one-third of an acre. on which he de cided to raise vegetables for the mar ket. He tended the garden nights and odd times. The second year he branched out a little. and now he has the whole tract arranged almost as -one would have a flower bed, so far -as neatness and economy of space are - concerned. Willie was bothered with people who helped themselves to vegetables at night. andl he built a fence, with barbed wire attachments. and is not annoyed by night visitors now. He built up a part of the yard which was too low. and it is irrigated artificially. so that the crops are well supplied by water which is carried to each bed. The vegetables he raises he calls Chinese squashes and they bear some resemblance to our summer squashes. Early in May he plants seeds in a small flower pot. When the sprouts appear he transplants them to beds ar ranged for the n in the garden. He -usually ha- several thousand of these. and beside each one he sticks a pole in the ground much as the American farmer prepares for raising lima beans. The vegetable follows the pole until it is a good sized plant and bears fruit. The squashes are about the shape of a cucumber. but much larger and .iniger. They are picked about the middle of August and then Willie visits the .cities to dispose of his crop. As it is -rather late before the Chinese vege tables are ready to plant. Willie de cided last year to use the garden for other vegetables while he was waiting. and the result is that he has become a producer of lettuce. .ast season he took in $150 from a small patch. so that when he commenced operations this year he went into it on a larger scale. Now he has growving in his garden 15,ooo lettuce plants which will be ready for the market in a few weeks. As soon as the lettuce is dis posed of it will be time for the Chin ese vegetable crop. so) he has the gar den working all the time. Around the edges of the garden he raises a sort of Chinese greens which is in great favor wvith his fellow countrymen. He keeps one man work ing in the garden all the time. and usually works there himself every af ternoon. KISSING IS FORBIDDEN But March of True Love Can't Be Stopped by Law. Philadelphia Inquirer. Neenah, Wis.. is about the saddest place in the world for the sentimental to reside in at present. It were pleas anter to be a Russian on the run for Mukden than a sweet young girl in the public schools of that city. while there is no earthly comparison that we can use to express the condition of the young men. In Neenah the board of education has issued a ukase that any scholar over the age of twelve years caught in the act or os culation will be sent home for good, while those under the age who indulge in this monstrous offence wvill be soundly spanked. An this is an age of alleged civilization and in a na tion declared in liberty! O Venus! 0 Cupid! where are your laurels now. The alleged basis of the act is that kissing is dangerous in that it conveys nicr(,bts which may be of deadly character. and thus inflict unumbered wocz (o the community. This is the trouble with science. It is alvays wt,rked for more thal, it is worth. We believe in science aid respect the great good that it has accomplished. but it is a cold. formal sort of thing. destitute of sentiment and utterly un productive. If it thinks with all its accumulated knowledge that it is go ing to be able to control the human affections it might as well shut up shop and take vacation. It may be that disease is communicated by kiss ing. but if there is a sane person who thinks that anyone is going to give it up on that account he is the more de ceived. \\'e do ni,,t wish to be understood as saving that the promiscuous kiss !ng. palticularly in the schools. i a good thing. We have serious views In that subject. but we do not think that restrictive measures of the kind proposed are going to be beneficial. On the contrary. they are going to make the matter worse. if so it can be considered. There is not a boy of spunk who will not risk expulsion or a 'licking" to kiss the girl of his choice. There is not a sensible girl who will not permit this infraction Cf the rules., provided he be an affin ity. Mark Antony is said to have thrown away the world for one of Cleopatra's kisses. and considered that he made a good bargain. The same spirit still survives in the Amer ican boy. and. we judge, in the Amer ican girl. Let come what will. no law, nor pun ishment will irn>ede the march of true love. Ii it can be stopped in the boys and girls it can he stopped in the (-der on's. and then the country is done f. r. War Correspondents. Atlanta Journal. The perils that beset the war cor respondent in his labors for the en lightenment of mankind are well illus trated in the incident whi'ch took place between Shwan-Tai-Tse and Erdiko this week. Lewis Etzel. of the London Daily Telegraph. was slain outright by Chinese soldiers and Ernest Brindle. of the London Daily Mail. was wounded. It was not in battle that the shots were ired which struck these men. Had it been in battle perhaps the in cident would have been classed as one of the un-xpected incidents of war. But te, be killed and wounded away from the smoke and the roar of the fght: to be shot down by hands not engaged in the war but merely itching for human blood seems a fate al together unsuited for the active and courageous war correspondent. While the incident seems incon gruouis to the average newspaper reader. it wvill not strike the 'corre spondents generally as anything out of the ordinary. Such things as being assassinated when safev seems as sired are expected by them. They take their life in their hands the mo mnt they approach the war zone and from that time tuntil they leave it is a game of hide and seek for they must be in all places at once and ex posed to dangers unknown to the ac 'al belligerents. The life of the war correspondent is cloaked in romance so far as the pttb lic can see. vet beneath the cloak there is ever the rough garment of hardship and stuffering that must be worn in silence and kept from view. Seldom do the readers of war news know at what cost the descriptions of battles were gathered. Perhaps the well rounded sentences and the graphic details were written as the correspondent's sight grew dim with hunger or thirst or fatigue. Nothing of the labor spent in getting at the news or in shaping it up for the cables to transmit is permitted to creep into the story. Only the 6ght, the charge. the repulse, the slaughter must be hown' there. W\hat doe= tne pub!ic care for one man's trials whlen there is a story of a thousand men slain? t is only when his labors are ened by' a btullet or death in some other form that the co:rcspondent co,er. t or his share of tie pu1bl'e attention. Even then his share is usually a paragraph or a sentence or two -on the inside page. IWhat Becomes of Lawyers? Champe S. Andrews, a New York lawyer. found waiting.in his office fo.r him a client naire Hulett, from Og Ad.ens,g says PhelNw York Times. .According to Mr. Hulett*s previous account of some tangles which he wanted Andrews to straighten out. he had been victimized by shrewd and unscrupulous lawyers in the vicinity of his home town. Therefore he had small regard for members of the bar as a class. am sorry to keep you waiting. Mr. Hulett." said Mr. Andrews. "I've just returned from the funeral of a lawyer." "What! Do you bury lawyers down here?" exclaimed Hulett. "NWhy. certainly." said Mr. An. drews. "What do you do with them in Ogdensburg?" "When one dies up there," was the solemn reply, "we lay him out and leave the body all alone in a room with the door locked and the windows wide open. \nd when we go in the next morning he is gone." "What becomes of him? Who car ries him away" Don't know." answered Hulett "but invariably there is a strong odor of brimstone left in the room." As an Intoxicant Only. San Francisco Bulletin. They are telling a good one on a young fellow who has recently under gone an examination for the street car ;ervice. "Do you use whiskey as a beve age?" he was asked. "No." he answered innocently. "as an intoxicant." DOES THIS SUIT YOU? Mayes' Pharmacy, the enterprising druggists of Newberry are having such a large run on "Hindipo," the new Kidney Cure and Nerve Tonic. and hear it so highly praised that they now offer to guarantee it in every case to cure all forms of Kid ney Troubles and Nervous Disorders. They pay for it if it does not give you entire satisfaction. If you use it, it is their risk not yours. A :o cent box sent by mail under positive guarantee. TEACHER WANTED. We will elect a teacher for the Bethel school. Pomaria, S. C.. on Friday July 8th. i9o4. Salary $30-oo per month-for term of 5 or 6 months. Applications may be sent to trus tees. 3. P. Setzler. John C. Aull. E. P. Lake. Trustees. TEACHER WANTED. The trustees of Long Lane school will elect a teacher on Friday, July i. 1904. Applications may be filed with the undersigned who will give any in formation desired. T. D. Ramage, Chairman Board. TEACHER WANTED. WXe will elect a teacher for the Ja lapa school July 2.-Salary $30.oo per month: board $8.oo or $9.oo. Term of eight months. Apply to trustees. T. H. Chalmers. Geo. C. Glasgow, WV. Ernest Merchant, Trustees. TEACHER WANTED. Teacher wanted for Mabinton School. Address Trustees Maybin ton, S. C. A S EASNABLE U GEST ION Soda watex is always'"in season" Whether taken hot or cold it is a wholesome beverage, unless ren dered deleterious to health by be ing loaded with impure artificial flavorings and poor syrups. Cold Soda drawn from Our Sanitary fountain Lacks nothing that could be Desired by the most Sensitive palats. We use Only pure juices made Direct from fresh fruits And can give any flavor. Our "Cold Soda" is always cold. THE PROSPERITY DRUG CO., Prorerity, S. C. 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