Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 14, 1915, Image 4
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.
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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
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LIFE INSU1
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Under present c
ule the net secondare
as follows
0 FOR $1,000.00 Lit
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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.
Bailes&Li
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VERY LOW RATF
Panama Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO,
Opened February 20th, Clos<
Panama-Califoi
SAN DIEGO. CA
Opened January 1st, 1915, Clc
VIA
Southern ]
Premier Carrier c
Tickets on sale daily and limit
Good Roing via one route and r<
Stop-overs allowed.
From Round-Trip Fares
Columbia, S. C .$82.45.
Charleston, S. C. 85.15.
Orangeburg, S. C 82.16.
Sumter, S. C. 84.15.
Camden, S. C. 84.14 ,
Aiken, S. C 79.15.
Chester, S. C 82.90.
Rock Hill, S. C._ 82.90.
Spartanburg, S. C. M.f^
Greenville, S. C 80.00.
Green'v >od, S. C. ... 79.20.
Newt ry, S, C 81.10.
P portionately low rates from othe
trv rates to Seattle, Wash.; Portland
ir :*ny other western points.
Full information regarding the varii
f uednles, etc., gladly furnished. Ah
.nnuct I "t no k/?l?? ?/*?! * -
vjA.v uv. tiv *, uo nrij/ ,yuu |ii?u )UUI IX
Why pay tourist agencies, when oui
S. H. McLEAN, Division Pasf
W. H. Tayloe, P. T. M.. H. F. Cary, C
Washington, D,C. Washingtoi
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barn, or outhouce, or the remodt
present buildings, DO IT NOW.
if you act at once, for you can d
now than you can possibly do it j
30 or 60 day?, we verily believe t
have passed. Labor will becom
Building Material market is alrea
know say that prices will be back
We will supply you at close figuri
nish you estimates on what your
Take advantage of conditions a
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irilVj Fort Mill, S. C.
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IS ACCOUNT
: Exposition,
CALIFORNIA.
;s December 4th, 1915?
rnia Expos'n
LIFORNIA. *
>ses December 31st 1915.
Railway,
>f the South.
ed 90 days for returning;.
iturniiitf via another.
8ct wiy wa PaitUnd. On joo
$104.24
106.85
V 104.79
105.56
105.Q5
102.45
? * 102.82
102.32
101 .(H)
101.00
101.00
- 102.81 ,
r points. Also very low rounri,
Ore.; Vancouver, B. C , and
i us routes, points of interest,
o descriptive literature upon
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services are free? Address- .
Agt., Columbia. S. C.
I.P.A., W. E. McGee, AG.PA
o,I).C. Columbia, S. C.
NOW
Iding's good
ig is great.
i of a new home, tenement,
ding or repairing of your 4
You will be the winner
lo the work cheaper right
a little later. If you wait
he golden opportunity will
le higher, the Lumber and
idy firmer, and people who
; to normal in. a short while,
es ai d will cheerfully furwork
will require,
nd
Now.
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