Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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An Engl-sh paper »*vb “Qticen Vic toria now rules 4(57,000,000 peaple,” | Cb.cat'o has at last resorted to a I city ordinauce to supproas the big theatre hat. Londoners drink 1400 tons of liquid mud a year,according to recent expert testimony before the Connty Council. There are many conditions at the present time which suggest great pros perity in the near future, maintains the American Cultivator. A Denver printing honse has just booked an order for 350 placards bear- J ng the words "Don’t blow out the gas. The Colorado Legislature ari- dently is about to convene, comments the Chicago Times-Herald. In the last fiscal year the receipts of New Zealand railroads, which are owned and operated by the Govern, menl, were $5,757,466, and the run ning expenses $3,656,709, leaving over two millions profit to the Govern ment. A Brussels paper relates that not long ago the Prince of Monaco killed a whale on the coast of Africa, and made a present of it to some fisher men, who, on catting open the whale’s body, fonnd a large amount of amber gris, which they sold for $‘20,000. Forty-twoof the 150 members of the present New York Assembly are law yers, and four more hope to be, desig nating themselves in the clerk’s man ual as "law students.’’ The farmers number twenty, there are six workers at trades, and thirty-eight mannfao- tnrers or merchaots. The remainder are managers, agents, contractors, etc. Paris has found it necessary to pat a cheek to the haphazard decoration of her public places. The Prefect of the Seine haa appointed a technical committee of artists, architects and other competent judges, to which all plans afleoting the outward appear ance of the city must be submitted for approval before the Administration officers take them up. When Congressman Dingley, of Maine, was graduated from Dartmonth College, the enit he wore on the aus picious occasion was a black broad- oloth suit, and the trousers were al most more than skin tight. It oamo *!»• faehioiMkble tailor V shop in the little town of Hanover, and the fashionable tailor waa Levi P. Morton, since Vice-President of the United States. The decadence of the American merchant marine of late years is strik ingly illustrated by the fact that while from July, 1895, to July, 1896, 16,884 thips of various nationalities uassed through the uew Kiel caual, not one of these, so far as foported, was an American vessel. And yet, exclaims the New York Observer, once the Stars and Stripes were a familiar sight upon the high seas, and in the harbors and estuaries of Europe. Very few people, probably, ever think of Sitka as au ancient town, and yet it is 151 years since the first white residents of Alaska settled there. They were Russian hunters, who ar rived fonr years after Vitus Bering took possession of all that part of America in the Russian Czar’s uame. The hunters ruled themselves and a few Indians until 1799, when some Muscovite nobles formed a company on the same Hues as those followed by the Hudson Bay Company, and were intrnt-ted with control of as mnch of the region as they chose to claim. Their local representative was a Gen eral BaranolT, who governed the land and all itspcople for thirty years. He exercised the poser of life and death over his subjects, or slave*, rather, and was a drunken ruffian of consider able shrewdness and ability. There are sixteen States in the Union, according to the Railway Age, which hare no officers or boards specially constituted to supervise the railways within their respective limits and equalize the rates of transporta tion. These States are Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Louisi ana, Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Utah. In six of these States no reports whatever aie required tr.»;n railroad com pan tee. In the others there are certain State officers who take the matter in charge. The State of Arkansas, for example, has a board, eonaisting of the Governor, Anditor and Secretary of State, which is styled a railroad eommmion, bat it hardly eomea op to the idea of a commission as understood in Georgia and other States. In Colorado and Florida the experiment of having a commission haa been tried and abandoned. H* " " J ARMY AND NEW. A COSTUME ADAPTED FOR Cil'.V KRAL UTILITY WEAR. arrrn<o milk. A bulletin of the Perdue (Ind.) ex periment station contains some useful information in regard to the setting of milk. The poorest method is consid ered to be the setting of it in shallow tin pans or crocks on pautry shelves, or in cellar, the reason being that milk thus set is exposed to a greater air contact, and is, therefore, more liable to be aflected by injnrious odors, by disease tran-mitted through the atmos phere, and by heat and cold. Milk so set often sours rapidly and in cold weather may freeze. If it sours rap idly in snimner curds get into the cream and remain more or less in the butter, forming white spots and affect ing the quality; or if the milk or cream freezes au kferior grade of butter will be made from it. Where cream is to bo secured by setting, the best plan is to set the milk in round tin cans about eighteen inches deep and eight inches in diame ter. The separation of the cream is greatly improved if such can is placed in ice water or in cold spring water to the height ot the milk in the can. This keeps the milk in a uniform tem perature and enables thecream to rise to the best advantage. This is what is commonlv known as the shotgun can, which is sold by dairy supply honse?, or can be made by any tinner. The deep cans are ak<mmed either with a conical skimmer from the sur face, or by means of a faucet or vaive at the bottom through which the skim milk is drawn olf. Experiments show that the latter is much the better method, the loss of butter fat being only about one-half that which takes place when the skimming is on the top. Tin vessels should be used for setting milk, and they should be made of tin plate of good qnslity, as cheap tin is so thinly washed that it really cor rodes and the nuder metal of this gives a rninons flavor to the batter if there is any souring in the vessels at all SUOOKSTIONS FOB THCCK OROWER3. The following suggestions from the Lonisiana Experiment Station are to the point for the farmer, trucker or one who plants a family garden: Truck farming means intensive high farming. Lands dedicated to truck must be heavily fertilized, not with commercial fertilizers only, but with such home-made manures as will insure large supplies of organic matter. The frequent incorporation of vegetable matte* by the growing end turning un der of some leguminous crop—prefer ably cow peas (clover at the North will answer the same purpose.—Ed.) —supplemented by mineral manures, will in a few years render these soils adapted to truck growing. If -table manures be used, they should first be thoroughly composted and several times piled and cut down, iu order to bring thorn into a most available condition as plant food. A compost of stable manure, cotton seed, acid phosphate and kainit, mixed in each proportions as will suit the crop to be grown, will be found a very ef fective fertilizer, perhaps superior to any other mixture. When the snpply of home manures i« inadequate for the demands of your crop, these may be supplemented by eotton seed meal, acid phosphate and kainit, mixed to suit the kind of vege table grown. Proper rotation must be observed in truck growing ns in general farming, if the fertility of the soil bo maintained and maximum resalts desired. A slight knowledge of botany, yea, even of the character of vegetables grown, will greatly assist the farmer in deter mining the rotation to be adopted. Me'ons, encumbers and squashea be long to one family, and should not succeed each other. Egg plants, to matoes and Irish potatoes form an other, and beans and peas another. Always follow a crop by another of a different family. Expressed in a simpler manner, roots should not fol low roots. A tap-rooted plant will follow well a fibrous-rooted one. Af ter a heavy manuring, 3 cabbages, onions, Irish potatoes and fgg plants should be planted, since these require excessive fertility for best results. Follow these crops with tomatoes, squash, etc., and these m turn by beans, peas, etc. A farmer will soon have a suitable rotation of both crops and fertilizers. VEW POTATOES IN WINTER. Genuine new potatoes, fresh from the soil, as in July or August, will doubtless be considered a remarkable delicacy in midwinter. Yet just such potatoes are now on the market in Milwaukee, and are meeting with a ready sale, although the novelty of uew winter potatoes is one of the very latest things known among produce commission men here. "If yon want to inspect really new potatoes, drop in and ate ns,” was the reques‘ which floated into the Wis- eonsiu office yesterday over the tele phone wire from a well-known com mission house on lower Broadway. Taking the sender of this message at his word, the potato editor of this great family journal was sent out to investigate. He did so, and found several barrels of new potatoes of the Early Rose variety, with every appear ance of being fresh from their native soil. That they were as youthful as they looked was soou demonstrated, and the assurance of the oommission man that the visitor coaid have all the new Murphies he might want at the rate of 8'1 per bushel rather staggered the potato editor, who has long been accustomed to meeting, interviewing and writing np freaks in the potato family. There they were, a large snpply of fresh young, potatoes, tender and new in everv sense, on the last day of the year, when "old” potatoes are usually found to be somewhat decrepit anil insipid from age and the general wear since potato digging time in the fall. Those who had partaken of the novelty potatoes pronounce them jnst us de licious as any July product. Inquiry brought out the fact that these new potatoes are now being pro duced by means, it is said, of some secret process, by Frank Dalzell, an extensive potato grower at Genesee, Wis., where he has a farm of 160 acres. On the farm is a large building which no one but Dalzell himself enters, and heie, it is said, he is prodacing the early sntnmer potato in all its glory. He has made the Milwaukee commis sion firm of Thomas k Shins his agents for Wisconsin, and they positively state that they are daily in receipt of a sufficient quantity of these new pota toes to snpply an average market for such a vegetable novelty in midwinter. They are also assured by the grower, Mr. Dalzell, that by another winter ho exnectsto be able to snpply the en tire Milwankee market with the winter grown article, hia intention being to put genuine new potatoes on the mar ket here months before the Southern growers can have any of their very earliest potatoes ready for the North, which is during the latter part of Feb ruary or in March. First, he guaran tees to tarnish fresh, new potatoes during any and every winter month, and to have them in sufficient quanti ties foi all by another seaeon. It has been suggested that this new potato wonder is the result of the dis covery of some process for preserving uew potatoes from early snmmer until midwinter, in suebamannerastokeep them absolutely fresh, plump aud "Dew” iu every sense. But this is de clared to be an erroneous idea, aud, ou the contrary, Mr. Dalzell’s most inti mate friends insist that he produces in the natural way, without hothouse aid or other artificial means, except that the secret process, discovered by him* self, is used in their growth and pro tection from frost. It is claimed, also, th«t he can grow new potatoes in large quantities with the ground covered with snow and things frozen np gen erally, just as easily as at the present time, when the weather haSfeeen muob milder than the season calls for. What ever is the secret of this new move, it in quite certain that "new” or "early” potatoes are now on the market in Milwaukee, and that they are delicious and in every way as edible as those taken from the average garden when the robins and the early snmmer zeuhyrs are singing carols to contented nature.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. Made of All-Wool Cheviot and Useful for Traveling, Shopping or liusl- ness Purposes—Pretty Flan nel W r rapper. HIS jaunty costume, depicted in the large illustra.ion and described by May Mc.t.ton, is particularly adapted to travel ing, shopping, business or general utility wear. As represented it is made of all-wool cheviot and the free edges This very serviceable negligee gown is simply fitted by shoulder and under arm seams, small tucks are laid to yoke depth on the fronts and back which cause it to fit smoothly across''the shoulders and the fulness thns cam eel falls to the lower edge of the gown, being laid in back and front and ar ranged over a round yoke underfacing. A box plait finishes the overlapping right front, which closes in the centre with button holes. The neck is fin ished with a neat rolling collar. The sleeves, in modified Bishop shape, are extended to form a frill at the lower edge, the fulness being held at the wrists by a cluster of plaits at the back. Flannelette, outing or other woolen fabrics make useful and com* FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. If your hens are too fat to lay, put them on short rations for a few days. Give the hens lime and grit. Found up old crockery and see how soon they will put it out of sight. Sunlight is a great tonic and health- giver. No stable should be without a window on the sunny side. Feed your whole grain in the morn ing among litter. It will make the hens work for it. The warm mash should be fed in the afternoou, as it will help keep them warm aud com fortable through the night. The German potash salts are not caustic potash, hence they do not dis sipate ammonia by hastening fermenta tion when applied to manure. Iu- atead, they form a compound with the ammonia, thus helping to keep it from washing. The nitrate of potash thus formed ia the most powerful fertilizer known, and it is one that can bo ap plied to nearly every kind of crop or fruit with benefit. The American Sheep Breeder says: Keep the sheep’s feet dry and clean while they are in the stable. It is quite unnecessary to disturb the mannre ou the floor if it is kept dry and well lit tered. The packing of it under the feet will prevent decomposition, and keep the floor better in every way for the sheep than if it were cleaned every day. Plenty of common land plaster shonld be sprinkled or scattered over the litter. This will prevent all bad odor. Nearly all farmers are coming to realize that in general their farms are too large for the intense and oarefnl farming now necessary to meet the de mands of the market and to secure profitable returns. The pioneers who first settled these broad, fertile valleys were not satisfied nnless their farms were large enough to consume a fall day in interviewing their crops and their live stock scattered over their broad acres. To them quality was not of so much account as quantity. If a cow has a tendency to be con stipated increase the production of oil meal in her ration. If her bowels be come to loose decrease the oil meal and increase the bran. If the cows have a tendency to pnt on too much flesh decrease the oornmeal or discard it altogether. If she gets too thin give her more cornmeal and less ot the other foods. If straw and fodder are high limit the feed to eight or ten pounds a day. If those rough foods are cheap give twenty to twenty-five pounds a day to each cow, and use what is nneaten for bedding. ire finished with machine stitching. Ihe neck opens upon a linen chemisette tnd smart tie, and a leather belt with fancy hackle encircles the waist. The shaping of the basque is accomplished by single bast darts, while the back and side seams extend to the shoulder; the nsnal nnder-arm gores separating the fronts from the back. The close- fitting double-breasted frontsjlap wide ly and close on the left-front with handsome pearl buttons and bntton- holes. The upper edges are reversed to form pointed lapels that meet the rolling coat collar in nneven notches. At each side of the front and back wide plaits are applied that are carried below the waist line where they term inate in points. The stylish sleeves, of moderate fulness, fit closely below the elbow, the top being gathered in gigot style and the wrists are finished with pointed tabs. The skirt emphasizes the latest cut of modified skirts. It fits smoothly at the top across the fronts and sides, with the back laid in close plaits that turn toward the centre-back, where the placket is finished, the lower edge having the fashionable flare is finished with machine stitching to the depth of a wide hem. To make this basque for a lady in the medinm size will require two and one-half yards of forty-four-inch wide material. A PRETTT RADIES’ WRAPPER. Fancy figured French flannel in mixed wool tones is here decorated fortable wrappers in this style, percale, India silk or muslin being adopted if a lighter weight garment is desired. To make this wrapper for a lady in the medinm size will require nine yards of twenty-one inch wide mate rial. A DAINTY APRON FOR A OIRL. Dotted Swiss, lace and insertion were selected for this dainty apron. The skirt consists of three sections, misses’ fancy apbon. A PRETTY LADIES’ WRAPPER. with fancy (-’itching in leaf-green silk and bows of jolden-brown satin rib bon. that are extended above the waist line, the centre section at the waist line collected in alternate rows of gathers. The seams joining the side sections to the centre section are well carved, forming a trim adjustment to the figure. The extension above the waist line, falling well over the shoulders, is carried down in the back, terminat ing in a deep, sqnare collar. The free edges are decorated with lace, and wide ribbons of mink-pink are fastened at each side of the front beneath the side sections, and are carried about the waist to to centreback, where they are bowed and fall in long graceful ends. The model is adapted to muslin in plain, striped or crossbar pattern, also Swiss, sheer lawn, nainsook and similar fabrics, with trimmings of em broidery, lace, insertion, etc. Black or changeable taffeta may also be em ployed in making with narrow satin bebis ribbon or ribbon velvet ontlining the free edges. For school wear the design is both attractive and practical. LOVE'S MESSENGERS. The rose shall bt> my messenger, The herald of devotion; Each petal sweet shall be the seat Of tenderest emotion ; And in the heart of each fair rose. Deep hidden in the core. There rests my soul, my inner self, To love hue you e’ermore. Each rose will die. each petal fade And wither fast away; Each freighted heart that speaks my lovo Will anguish and decay; Not so with love—my soul that’s hi.l Within each rose’s core; That love will breathe and speak aud live Forever, evermore. ’Twill live for you and speak to you When roses cease to be; ’Twill breathe the rose’s fragrance r.«r* For thee, my sweet, for thee! Then haste, my messengers of kiw Tell her my each emotion. Oh, petals sweet, at her dear feet, Despeak my fond devotion. —William Jlaaley. HUMOR OF THE DAT. "What do you mean by being en gaged to three men at once?” “Noth ing.”—Yale Record. She—"Doesn’t he make a fine clergy man?” Ho--"He’a great! I counted five men asleep.”—Fuck. Jones—"The play is said to be an artistic success.” Smith—"Are they losing much money on it?”—Truth. Lon Ion Native —"That is quite a high building.” Foreigner—“Yes, indeed; that’s a regular fog-scraper.” —Puck. Bobby—"Pop, what does premoni tion mean?” Fond Parent—"Premoni tion, Bobby, means *1 told yon sol’ ” —Puck. You can buy wearing apparel for a song nowadays, but, unfortunately, a great many people can’t sing.”—Bos ton Budget. Mamma—"Mrs. Brown says her lit tle boy looks very much like ours.” Papa—"Then oars must bo better looking.”—Puck. "Let’s see,” remarked the youth and the damsel; and then they turned down the gas till nobody else coaid see a thing.—Detroit Tribune. Spatter—"Do you suppose it’s snob a very bad thing to be sareastio?” Cutter—"Not nearly as bad as to think yon are and not be so.”—Truth. The young man who is anxious to lav the world at the feet of the girl he adoYe?, three months after he marries her isn’t willing even to lay the ear- pet. "Are you angry, Miss Spitely?” "I’m enraged. I’m going to make that man’s life miserable if I have to marry him to do it.”—Detroit Free Press. “The good dio young, you know,” said Bilger to Sadboy, the pessimist. "Yes,” said Sadboy, "that’s becanse it’s the only time people are good.”— Box bury Gazette. The Conntess—"Do show me the coronet!” The Earl—"My dear, I’ll show yon the ticket for the coronet. It was hypothecated to pay for the engagement ring.’’--Pack. Paterfamilias (walking the floor with son and heir)—"Babies, they say, are such helpless things! But what <1o they think of me? Talk abont helplessness!—Boston Transcript. "Do you mean to say, Chumloy, that you spend less money since yon were married than you did before?” That’s what it amounts to. 1 have much less to spend.”—Detroit Fres Press. “You think Briggs is crazy bccanse he stole $10? I should say that such au act would make a criminal rather than a lunatic of him.” "But he had a chance to take $500.” "Oh!”— Cleveland Leader. "George, this paper says there’s a sermon in every blade of grass.” "That so?” Well, you don’t get me to goto church any more! I’ll bet ten dollars that’s where I got this blamed old hay-fever.”—Puck. Mr. Cumso—“This is a very bad re port to bring me from school, Tommy.” Tommy—"I know, papa; but you said if I’d bring you a good report you’d give me a quarter, and I wanted to save you money.”—De troit Free Press. “Well,” said the sarcastic man at the theatre, “I’m ever ko much obliged to that girl who sits iu front of me; the one with the frightfully big hat.” “1 don’t see what you’re obliged to her for.” “For not raising her para- eo!.*'—Washington Star. Mi<s De Luine—“You seem 1o bo very land of your friend, Miss Hair. You never tire of kissing her.” Miss Da Silk—"Well, I do not care much for her personality; but did you notice what a sweet little mustache she has?”—New York Weekly. She —“Isn’t it wonderful to think of the achievements of science? So many things have been brought with in the reach of the masses.” He— “Yes, indeed! Some years ago golden hair was the boast of a favored few; now, anybody can have it that wants it. ’’-Pack. Bat-Traps lor an Farlliquakc. In connection with the late earth quake, a funny story is told of a well- known Conservative Memberof Parlia ment. Ho lives in au ancient and rat- infested mansion, near what scums to have been the centre of the disturb ance. When the earthquake disturbed his slumbers, he jumped out of bed, exclaiming that he would stand this sort of thing no longer. With tha resolutions of a desperate man, h« then procured and set two large rat- traps, and retired to rest, feeling that he was prepared for the worst. Traps h*ve been set before now to eateh sunbeams; bat this is the first time ob record of their being employed agaiast eai thqaakes. —London Truth. 'Sly )J