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CROPS INJURED BY LIGHTNING ( Matter of Importance to Which Too Little General Attention Haa Been Given. While everybody is familiar with the damage done by Hghtuintr to trees, little attention baa heretofore been paid to the effects of lightningstroke upoa herbaceous plants. A recent paper by Messrs. L. R. Jones and W. W. Gilbert reveals the fact that lightning injtfry is-rather common in certain crops, especially cotton and potatoes. Grass, small grains ' and maize seem less liable to such damage. The lightning damage to cotton and potatoes frequently extends over roundish spots, one to throe rods in diameter, or groups'of 4. smaller spots. Although there may he no disturbance of the soil or vis ir,ie rupture oi me plant tissues, the plants near the center of the spot wilt, blacken and die promptly, while those near the mnrgin may live day? or weeks. The injury for the most part appcnrs first and worst helnw ground. All these facta seem to show that, after a period of dry weather, the lightning discharge occurring in a thunder shower spreads horizontally over the moist surface layer of soil. The different liability of different species appears to depend upon difference in tissue resistance or different distribution of the aerial or root systems of the plant within the zone of the discharge.?Scientific American. GOLD MINE IN CLAY ROAD! Boy Dug It Out Vflth His Team of ' Mules at the Expense of Auto Riders. Benjamin Joseph, son of State Senator Harland M. Joseph of Midway, Del., docs not have to go to Alaska to got gold. He has found it on the clay roads that run through Midway into Hohoboth Beach and which at this time of the year are traveled by many automobiles j Young Joseph waits until a thunderstorm is over, hitches up a pair oi mules and awaits developments. The first automobile that corner along generally strikes the clay and skids over into the ditch. The owuei of the machine gets out.. Both wheels are buried in mud. Then .Joseph uppoars. The owner of the nutomohih smiles as he sees the hoy and the mules. Joseph smiles as he sees the automobile, and in a few minutes both smile together, for the machine is hack on the road and tlie owner has slipped Joseph some "clay gold.'* Young Joseph makes no charge, but it is a poor sport that doesn't slip him several dollars. In one day. after a particularly heavy rain, Joseph cleaned up about $20, whib almost any heavy rain is worth fron $10 to $15. SURE THING. Crimsonheak?1 see Austria is to have bakeries under government con trol. Yeast?Well, believe mo, people who carry round "buna" need watching. COMING DOWN, ALL RIGHT. "Is my hair coining down, Katie?" asked the lady, with her hand to her head. "Yes, ma'am," replied the girl; I'm going right upstairs to got it now." ACCOMPLISHED. "Your daughter seems to be an accomplished musician." "Yea, indeed, she can play any sort of a one-step her friends want to ? dance." QUITE LIKELY. "I have a new theory about auto J tirds." "A theory very likely in the nature of things to lie exploded." I HIS POSITION. "Is he manager still in the matrimonial firm ?" "Not much. Since the baby came he's merely the floorwalker." IMPOSSIBLE. "Tell the plumber to charge these new registers to my account." "He can't <lo it, sir. These are caah registers." THE WAY OF IT. "She actually supported herself making tea for social functions." ''Then she literally uraed her lir . . J - TURTLES WERE DUCK BUND In Barrel Below Snappers Were Concealed Birds Being Shipped In Violation of Law. ? There are persons who take a snapping turtle seriously, and, despite his ill nature and tendency to remove pink little fingers, learn his peculiarities afid rend his innermost appetites. One o? the latter is John B. Thompson, federal inspector under the migratory bird law, and lie knows mighty well that no turtle will eat ice in anv circumstances, *aya a St. Ixiuis (Mo.) dispatch to N'rw York Herald. Recently fire barrels of live snap ping turtles arrived at the Union station, consigned to purveyors to the restaurant trade. Now, a turtle is not a migratory hird. The barrels were filled in with ice, and Inspector Thompson could see the turtles stamping their feet, blowing into their hands, throwing their shells up around their necks, and making every possible effort to keep comfortable in the intense cold. "There is something in those barrels," said Inspector Thompson, addressing no one, "besides turtles. I shall forthwith look into this matter, barrel by hnrrel." This he did while the snappers whistled through their teeth to indicate that the heating arrangements were not as advertised. In the bottom of the barrels 8? wild ducks, hound and gagged, were going whither they knew not. It is the closed season on migratory birds, and the ducks ceased to migrate immediately. INFINITELY VAST AND LITTLE They Baffle Understanding and Cause Apparent Contradictions in Scientific Facts. The Jnflnitidv litiln and infinifolv J ",,x* vast alike battle tho understanding, developed as it is by our concrete finite life. Creation is typitied bv ihe sphere. A eirele is a straight line that at every point ceases to be a straight line, anil the earth's surface is a plane that every moment ceases to be a plane. Following the surface of the earth does not carry us to the under side, because there is no more an under side than there is an upper side?there is only a boundless surface. But if it were possible for us to build a globe on the globe, as large as the one we inhabit, would it not have an upj?er and an under aide? The rain causes tho grass to grow, and the sun causes the snow to melt, but. we cannot apply the idea of cause, in this sense, to nature as a whole, but only to parts of nature. Oravifation caused Newton's apple to fall, l?Ht what causes the earth to fall forever and ever, and never to fnll iinnn tlm lwrwl,> Omi Ill* ?Mni ? liifll IS SillU IU attract it??John Burroughs, in Atlantic Monthly. PRAISING VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS. Vocational schools were praised by Mayor Curley of Boston at a state conference of teachers. The city executive said: "Any institution that prepares hoys and girls for good citizenship and equips them with all that is needed to increase their earning capacity cannot be too highly commended. Such institutions lift men and women to a higher plane of living and solve many of the problems that confront the community." NEEDED ONE. "What caution was that your father gave you with your bundle of fireworks ?" "He told me to remember that fingers are something one should always keep on hand." THE RESULT. .incob? You know, Esau, you asked me for my pottage. Esau?Yea, and I made a fine mesa of it. ITS KIND. "Will there be any profit on this beauty show?" "Well, there ought to he a handsome one." INTERESTED DECISION. "The suffragist* are beginning to embark on a silent course." "That so? Then I'm going to urge Maria to join 'em." CARRVINQ OUT THE IDEA. "What kind of a hat would you get if you ware I, to go with this awning-stripe dross?" "I should suggest a shade hat." PHONOGRAPH IN THE KITCHEN 8ome Suggestion* That May Be of More or Less Interest to the Modern Cook. The New York Sun gives the following amusing receipt to illustrate uow popular Uukiug-uiaculue record* may he utilized in correctly timing I all culinary operations, while at the same time adding pleasure to labort German Coffee Cake?Set the in, strument going, and cream onefourth of a cupful of butter, threefourths of a cupful of sugnr and a pinch of salt while the instrument is rendering Siegmund's song from "Die Walkureadd one-half of a j cupful of Hour and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Work to a smooth consistency during the playing of the "Tnnnhauser" overture. This will Inst just long enough to get the mix ture ready to be poured into the baking pan. Put into a quick oven and bake as long as it takes GadsM to sing "Mild und Leise" from "Tristan und Isolde." Italian Currv of Mushrooms?Stir one can of button mushrooms as long as it takes Caruso to sing the "Lament" from "1 l'agliacci." Add a tablespoonful of butter and curry powder, and boil slowly while the sextet from "Lucia" is being sung. That will bring it up to a beating consistency. Add a cupful of cream at the last note, and heat in strict time until Tetrazzini has finished singing "Ah, fors* e lui." Serve with spaghetti. French Rabbit?Put a record of a Farrar singing the "Carmen" "Habanera" on the instrument, and at the first note begin heating one-third of a cupful of milk. Remove at the last note. Stir in the fiuely chopped Gruyere or Parmesan cheese, salt and cayenne. Stir briskly to the enthusiastic strums of the Metropolitan , singers doing the "Soldiers' Chorus" from "Liii.t " Ttw.n a,1,1 ? m. ... ?. ..... ?. a I iv. 11 UUU 11IV ? Uino of two eggs and cook as long as it takes Ysaye to play the "Meditation" in "Thais." Serve hot to the singing of Segnrola's air from "Me* phisto."?Youth's Companion. SHE KNEW PAPA ppw " -L > "Well, now, what does your papa do?" "Oh! whatever mamma says." CAMC Ai r> -rn/M ? vnmfc. Vki/ I HUUDLC. "Darling," said the melancholy wife, "if you should die first, you'll wait for me on the other shore, won't you ?" "Oh, I suppose so," rejoined the weary husband, "I've always had to wait for you every time we went anywhere." A REAL 8URPRI8E. "I was much impressed by Professor Diggers' discourse on Egyptology" "What seemed to strike you most forcibly." "The fact that I expected to fall asleep and didn't." Try a 2.r,c adv. in The Times. i CALOMEL WHEN Bll HII/rA If All AIAI IVIASltS TUU m\ "Godson's Liner Tone" Is Harmless To Clean Your Sluggish Uver and Bowels. i Ugh! Calomel make* you airk. It'aj horrible! Take a done of the danperous I (Imp tonipht and tomorrow you may lose I a day's work. Calomel is mercury or nuicksilver ! which causes necrosis of tne bones. | Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into it, hreakinp it up. This is when you feel that awful UAiiseu nnd cramping. If you are ship pish and "all knocked out." if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizxi ma*. coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, just try a spoonful of harmless l>odson's , Civet Ton* tonight on my guarantor. b BIG CIRCUS Coming This Way Soon. The Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth will exhibit at Charlotte on Tuesday, October 26, and this good news is being heralded everywhere by the many agents of this, the biggest and foremost amusement Institution in the world. The Barnum and Bailey Circus has always been the largest that ] travels and this season the management has found it necessary to add many more cars to its trains in order to provide for the great equipment. It requires 85 double length railroad cars to transport the big show, 1280 people arf? employed, there arc 700 horses, 40 elephants and a menagerie of 110 cages, 480 world-famed artists take part in the greatest circus program this world has ever known. A fitting introduction to the wonderful performance this year is the presentation of the new, magnificent spectacular pageant, "Lalla Rookh," in which nearly 1000 characters take part. In the circus proper, which is presented in three rings, four stages, the hippodrome, and in the dome of the largest tent ever erected, 480 performers from every nation in the world take pate aim pitatriiL a vHsiurruy ui loreif^n features entirely new to America. A wonderful trained animal exhibition is given by the Marvellous War Elephants Wallenberg's Wonder Bears, Madam Bradna's Angel Horses, Thalero's Dogs Ponies and Moukeys, and Barnum and Bailey Statue florses. Great interest is already being shown in this neighborhood and gteat crowds | no doubt will go to Charlotte for the biggest and most enjoyable holiday of the year. Everyone is advised to get in early start in order to be there in time for the parade which starts promptly at 10 a. m., and which is said to eclipse anything of its kind ever before attempted in the history of the circus ] business. ?Adv. TAX NOTICE -1915. Office of the County Treasurer of York County. York, S. C., Sept. 15, 1915. Notice is hereby given that the Tax Books for York County will be opened on Friday, the 15th day of October, 1915, and remain open until the Mist day of December, 1915, for the collection of State, County, School and Local Taxes, for the fiscal year 1915, without penalty: after which day one per cent, penalty will be added to all payments made in the month of January, 1916, and two per cent, penalty for all payments made in the month of February, 1916, and seven per cent, penalty will be added to all payments made from the 1st day of March, 1916, to the 15th day of March, 1916, and after this date all unpaid taxes will go into executions and all unpaid Single Polls will be tumid over to the several Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, I will attend the following places on the ) days named: At Yorkville, Friday. October 15. At Smyrna, Thursday, October 28. At Hickory Grove, Friday and Saturday, October 29 and 30. At Sharon, Monday, November 1. At McConnellsville, Tuesday, November 2. At Tirzah, Wednesday, November 3. At Clover Thursday and Friday, November 4 and 5. At Yorkville from Saturday, November <). to Tuesday, November 9. At Coates's Tavprn, from 8 o'clock a. m.. Wednesday, November 10, to 8 o'clock p. m. At Yorkville, Thursday, November 11. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, November 12 and 13 At Rock Hill, from Monday, November 15th, to Saturday, November 20th. At Yorkville from Monday November 22d, until Friday, the 31st day of December, 1915, after which date the penalties will attach as stated above. Note.?The Tax Books are made up by Townships, and parties writing about taxes will always expedite matters if they will mention the TownshiD or Townshins in which their property or properties are located. HARRY E. NEIL, Treasurer of York County. SANITARY TAX DUE. Notice that sanitary tax of $I.t)0 is due and payable without penalty on each privy within the corporate limits of the town of Fort Mill on or before October 1st, 1915. A. R. McELHANEY, Attest: Mayor. C. S. LINK. Clerk. "MONEY" The mint makes it and under the terms of the CONTINENTAL MORTGAGE COMPANY you can secure it at 6'< for any lepal purpose on approved real estate. Terms easy, tell us your wants and we will cooperate with you. 908-9 Muniey Bldg., Baltimore, M. D. JOUS? NO!STOP! K AND SALIVATES Here's my guarantee?Go to any drug store ami pet a 50 cent bottle of Godson's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten vou right uo and make you feel fine and vigorous I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel because it ia real liver me'dieine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or ; make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put yonr sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of thnt sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system nnd making you foel miserable. T guarantee that a bottle of Hudson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. (Jive it to your children. It is harraleaa; doesa't gripo and they like itr ? r v " [|====iT========ir =if=i i = LIFE INSU1 Look at Tb Under present c ule the net secondare as follows 0 FOR $1,000.00 Lit -AGELI 21 years n 23"" 25 44 28 14 30 44 . H 35 " LI 40 44 1 45 44 50 44 60 " We will be plad to quote yc shown above. These are 01(1 Line rates i Ameriea? The Union Central Your life is insured from tl Q] delivered to you. These policies may be convei surance written by the Con without medical examination. No cost to you for medical < W else, except the premium. 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