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r.jr [ <V ' ' ..-KvV Jt&BmS' #1 lT5* ^,-r «#.»« rir X olrfrli r/ t.xi M f ; r^ip^ *#* ■'{ | * ‘I \ \ 'iM^iii(KS^iH8i . r i ■ .._' 4'V'v-' ‘ hii ! lr \ ». .| . } BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C, FEBRUARY 1,1894. t 'C 1IJ "‘-a- ;4* ijt b>c.v ■# w h ?. .. .iA¥* .A See What They Say.. - jxujring *7. &r: Your letter asking .for. tny ' •j- experience with the use of cotton Ihd cotton seed hulls as . a cjj&Jtfe foodt came duly 'lo hand, p^snThese is no food that is as effective •t^Uand cheap an these two are. My # modtfiSf uSln|: them is as follows, via: Begin with three or four pounds of ahe meal for an average Jtefer,-increasing gradually to six mnds per drty. after six weeks .eight to ten pounds, if ^ adand ^ ember - and water, and the meal sprinkled over it; repeat thjf three times a . day; increase gradually the amount of mills, but never give more than tile animal will eat up; if- givfcn in 'C<eess the hot hulls,and meal be- "CoW offensive when allowed to stapd*in the trough. When an 'Atliinai scours, separate him from thj herd apd feed on dry hay; the should be firm and rather solid. The feeding should last three or four months; then sell the , otJverwise they degenerate, especially on the approach of warm weather. . ftO) 1U t *■ • U m It For mUofr cows give two. or three pecks of hulls, four quarts oi wheat bran, two quarts of corn meal; these nay be varied as seen fit. Milk and butter will be free from all objectionable qualities. The manure from cattle so fed js v$ry rich, containing about one half the amount of cotton seed hulls and meal consumed by the cow—about equal to good horse manure. A complete food for dairy cows is given as follows, viz: Com ensilage, five pounds; cotton seed hulls, eight pounds; wheat bran, five pounds; cotton seed meal, three pounds per day. The albumi- nods in this are 3.40; custohydrades 12,50; fats 0.60. The cost of ration per day for beef at this point has been from 7 to 10 cents. All beef cattle should be kept in stalls; if not under a shed, with a small lot attached, as the las exer cise the steer takes, the more rapidly he fattens. B Yours, etc. * W. TAYLOR, M.D. Tv Thoughts for Thinkers. V : f»' : - ■---v' • ^ LEWIEDALE, S. C As per your request, f will give you my experience on feeding cotton seed hulls and meal to work oxen. I work about ten yoke of oxen constantly, and for the last three years have fed them almost ex clusively on the hulls for their forage. It does not cost delivered at my depot, freight ipaid, more than onctthird of the price of good hay and it is fully as valuable as good hay pound for pound. Last year I fed fifty or sixty tons and would not be without it for a heavy consideration. The meal is worth at least fifty per cent, more than fine feed or corn meal to be fed with the hulls. * Yours truly, J. NEWTON FOWLES. >r: r BARNWELL A Feed and You Shall be Fed. Bill Arp and the Barnwell Oil Company talk Well. - CHARLESTON, S. C. Gentlemen: Replying to your favor of the 24th inst. I beg to say that for four or five years past I have kept five or six cows in the city for selling milk, and during that time have fed them partly with cotton seed hulls whenever I could get them. When I have been unable to procure the hulls or have neglected to renew the supply when exhausted, the yield of milk has invariably fallen off so pfeceptibly both as to quantity and quality, that I have been! forced to the conclnsion that I cannot afford to do without them. I have not round that cow peas were a satisfactory substitute, although of course, they make a fine combina tion with the hulls;. My animals are very carefully attended to, and the details closely watched by myself, so that I can speak with confidence as to the re- sult of mv observations. Yours truly , A. MIDDLETON. Farmington, White Oak P. O. S. C. Sir: I have used to a limited ex tent cotton seed hulls as feed for dairy cattle for two winters. Being in convenient shape for mixing with gloomed food it was substi tnted for hay in our mixed ration, which was during our first seasons’s trial of it; eight pounds of. cottpn seed hulls, one pound each of wheat bran, corn meal, and cotton seed meal, and about twenty pouhds ensilage. Last winter bran and corn meal were dropped from the ration and it was ten pounds cotton seed hulls, three pounds cotton seed meal and. about twenty pounds en silage. uA jfliiliW m Results in dairy products as well as in condition of cattle was en tirely satisfactory; were equal to those from the use of any hay ex cept first-class pea vine clover. I am inclined to the opinion that cotton seed hulls properly used will prove as valuable for dairy as for beef cattle. Ayershires and Guernseys were the cattle experi mented with. Yours truly, JNO. BRATTON. St«H BARNWELL A Merciful Man Is Mer .<4 ' ir, ’ , ciful to his Beast SUMMERVILLE, S. C. Dear Sirs: Yours of the 24th re ceived. I will gladly give the benefit of my experience with cotton seed hulls during the past twp winters My milch cows were poor when I began feeding on cotton seed meal and hulls. They soon showed a marked improvement in flesh and flow of milk. I milked eleven last season. 1 gave a peck morning and evening of a mixture of one quart cotton seed meal to eight quarts hulls. Adding to the above two quarts rice flour or four quarts brau and giving the same number of pecks a day made very little ad ditional flow of milk. Cotton seed meal and hulls gave better results than meal alone, even when given a little in excess. - The calves, that were also poor, were fed on hulls, meal and rice flour, improved rapidly. The cows eat the hulls heartily even when not mixed with meal I would rather have hulls to mix with grain for cows than bay anc consider it as good in itself. ; ; Yours truly, JOHN GADSDEN, Jr. ’ frUiCT Some figures for you to Read and Think About nr V Yon can feed a cow on cotton seed hulls and meal for ten cents per day. This is three dollan per month. Say yon only get ten quarts of milk per day at seven cents per quart; you have seventy cents per day, or twenty-one dol lars per month, less three 4<dlsni for feed and you have made eigh teen dollars per month So get a cow; buy hulls and cotton seed meal and save money. Address all orders to ”? ■ t Lljiei n* llenrluK a Thruah Slav la a Moraine Walk la Jaaaarr. Sloe on. nveet tlirusb, upon the ' leafleae bough; Sing on. wweat Mai. I Uaten to thr strain; Winter, ’mid hi* surly reign, he carol clears bis furrow’d heart. l*oe«rty’« dominion drear. I Ooutent with light uaanxlous \ ”* r - lb# rapid moaaeau. bUa. thorn a ' they bring aught to hope or I thank Thee, Author of this opening day! -Then Whois bright aun how glide the - oriei Riches don MV Thaboon was purer Joya, What wealth SSSkrSttrer give nor take away! ‘ Tot come. Ihoa'AIM of Poverty and Care; The mite high Heav’n bestow’d, that mite f2 -Robert otiunw. Xj|RTf;:Trr ONE FROM THREE. • Express on the Upper Mid- t eras hourly ellmluat- las fifty miles Jwt distance between the uptro|K^.*a<LAberdeeiv^*>“h Ue “ lww Jaat gf wiHry'lrtMveting'kirf'jocta to tfipee believe that the “Proper study of Md lw raaiu” as it did passengers; unfortunately, however, for the general eoHse O# ethlofll raimme. the scope gf Mis tad of three then sat in three separate sooceeding seats in the smoking dar, 'eietofcing Ihdt privilege which frequents; ft. enforced whereabouts that his visage was only three days removed from being shaved- He was now seeking Aberdeen on banking business, or, to express it mbrs closely, on business with the bank; business, by the way, which required for its effieent execution on adjacent cellar and the latest improvement In jirnmiev, Hu was laboriously whirling away the Interval of travel by spelling ont from a tierwqpaper, Ape with anatomical illustra tions, the thrilling words of an old pall named “Border BUI,” juit previous to acquiring immortality through an assid- oous mob. \ - * Directly in the rear sat Reginald Da Veve, a youug esatlsman worthy of even s- longer name. Reginald was just tweoty- iKree, as one might have calculated from his mustache. In affecting similitude to his character, Mu hair and complexion were light His foolish mother wae a wealthy widow, and he wae her more foolUh eon. Had he possessed an imagi nation, his futurity, unrestrained by pov erty, might have taken dangerous flights; as It wae, he raveled in perfumes and found excess in haberdashery. He, too, was on his way to Aberdeen—to visit old family friends—the Bullions. Incidentally, he was te woo their neice, Eleaner Qan- lon, as a criss-cross correspondence be tween the respective matron* had ar ranged. Pending hie arrival, he was read ing M Loof1te, M in the vain hope that ju memory that did not extend to the end of a sentence might retain some emotional sentiment apt for his missaion. . Mr. Ifchriain Blodgett, the middle-aged, portly man who sat Immediately behind, whs, in bis own opinion- at least, entitled to universal respect, and hie own opinion formed axioms for him. By trade he was a lawyer, for certainly he possessed none of that unselfish Jove which is essential to a profession. And tbif trade had been “Qmi srif’ Md enabled him to atoo- so a student cessfuJly para through the maxes of lob byism—successfully and Mitring * fLa Aeaves. He find repruranted various cor porations at 4 the ride door of the State indltid- paff- Jing a third, was nursjpg.a _ , BUtny pOpUr next have boticed that lar and-hence quite nnneoessaiy mma- A blend uadis, an adroit tobgoe, a droop of the upper left eyelid, and la knowing tfairf to his Ids cigar hs Legislature, and as a oonnplttae of one, had reported unMvUrably en mac cam the second a U.- tu. —i watarcraa’issr. make mtr iot rgam men* be«re qaalL fied fur Ms tiraue, perhaps, that is, more, by nnknowa. Having had to large a part In a-tlires •harsa. khorn iamb, and out his famous “familiar talk” entitled rains of Sand” before the “Help Your- Eleemosynary Society. As incident to the journey and to bis mood he was perusing (for be never read), “Gems from Tupper’s Proverbial Philosophy.” Meanwhile the special express kept speeding along with somewhat of the in solence of a favored life—that insolence which, because nothing happens, boasts, “How eagy this ail ia,” until something does happen. And something did happen: A broken rail, a fractured wheel—what matters the sort of blade, since fate does the cutting?—and of an instant the ir resistible force, which had been a guid- intr familiar, was changed into a legion of rending devils. Out from a miring, crackling, smoking mass, exuding blood, emitting steam, the life of man and of bis works, crept a few shivering, torn, and dased wretches, who huddled together more terrified by being than by extinc tion. At length tho rescuers oame and acted, for vicarious grief is practical. Tho fires were quenched, the tracks were cleared the awful harvest was garnered, and the grain of the wounded separated from the chaff of the dead. A little apart, in a hoLk«w, were found three prostrate forms, hideously com mingled. The first and the second were dead; awfully dead, too, for the tops of thsir heeds bad been tom away and the braius hod oaed out The third lay un derneath, and his bead and face were crusted with this horrid, mottled mass. But whea the surgeons had washed it away and examined him, they pronounced bhn alive ami with a fair chance of iiv- ing, despite the fact that his skull was fractoted. The two dead bodies were ex amined for identification, from which it was determined that one was the corpse of Jack Mackey, a notorious ex-convict, and toe ofiber the remains of Kphriam Blodgett, toe celebrated philanthropist. As the third, the young man who sur bearing * |£k§ vived, continued unconscious, he, too, was and thus it was learned that he was Reginald De Vera Taylor, on his way to visit the family of Peter Bullion of Abardeau. Immediately their expected guest received reflected consideration. Tbs news of bib condition was tefo- graphed to them, and the first train ^yem aocidsat bore him unto their care, igdles were plenteous with tears, and Prior himself emitted gruff grunts of sympathy. Melton, the celebrated surgeon, ysss sought fit every direction of Ms la- boss, sad caught at the dub eastaHeting adurtira cocktail Soon his keen eye* and ware at wort over the ng thr door BalUoa. With her eyas cover- through her fingers. At os passed satisfied, and Bo fcsfi ssld; “Lot there be light,” and the fight was slowly return- %r fr* .?*» ell stood i drew near, and ». Little by little De the face of toe iy»- Vere wae tohif of Mrs. Bullion screamed, she whose qnab ifications as a nurse had been proved by long Kne of sickly relatives. But she couhln’t help K—one doesn’t expect thun der from an aeolian harp. The surgeon soothed her hand. Sah!” he whispered. “He’ll be better soon.” “Ther's room for It,” gasped the poor woman. Again the young man looked up, but no longer surtHy. His face was broadened by a bland smile, which shrunk hie mus tache into a thread. “Let us &U unite in singing Hymn 244 —244—ahem!” he announced with precis ion, and then, as if foliowing a precedent, hs slept, and even snored. “Thera there,” sold the surgeon. “He will be quite natural and rational when he awakes.” “I hope so," faltered Mrs. BuHioti, “but he can’t very well be both,” and she went down stairw to confide her perturbations to her niece. Eleanor Ganeon wae a young woman of prudence and sound sense. She enjoyed the good things of this life, and they thor oughly agreed with her. She realized that her position as a pednilera orphan reduced her right to them to a mere sufferance, and she wae firmly resolved that no act of her’s should make this tenure more insecure. Therefore, she was quite pre pared to accept one poor thing, if thereby she could retain them. Now, it was her habit to think of Regi nald De Vere Taylor as « “po3? thing.” Sbe (fid not dislike him, for there wae nothing to dislike. Hod there been, sbe might have loved him; foy. really, there was quite a little to love; He was gentle and good-natured and generous; 1 but, oh! why didn't he sometimes think and see and do? But, then, the feast may prove delicious, even if toe soup happens tu be lukewarm. Since the Bullions, who were her fates, allotted Reginald to her, she was willing to become “two souls with but a single thought” with him, if only she might furnish tost thought. Eleanor was more surprised than shocked when Mrs. Bullion by discreet indirection indicated- Reginald's speech to her. “I didn't think it vms hi him.” aim cried. “I didn’t think he would say ‘Boa’ to a goose.” “My dear,” said to* old lady, solemnly, ‘he could drive a whole flock of them. *001 of the mouth, the heart spesketh.' That’s right, isn’t R? tf Reginald isn’t good, what is he?” ‘T won’t give bhn’ up, aunt,” replied the •M. dtoBSMT. T ; : • ... . And after this she awaited hie recovery with singular impatience. And Reginald tod liapretog with a rapid ity that pooled the surgeon, who had not expected much vitality from such a lym phatic source. He grew artreog and yigow oos, and ocA day, good Mis. BoBion frit certain that he could stood the nrild moonl poultice she hod prepared for vzz to son? I “Forgive me," he pleaded. "I was fevsr- tah, delirious. Even now it is difficult for me to realize my own identity. I am glad you spoke, for now I dare tell you all about it. Do you know, a moment agot I was afioot to yell out for a gtas^ of hot nun, with a little syrup in it. something I’m sure I would loathe; and this morn ing I asked the maid- for some raspberry shrub, whatever that may be. Why do I alternately crave for a chew of tobacco, and for long-sleeved flannels? Why do!l think ungrammatically, and then like a Methodist's long prayer? Why, oh, why, did I drink tea out of the saucer, the oth er night, and then tuck my napkin in my collar? No, Mrs. Bullion, what there is left of me isn’t right, and Tm not joking, either. I never did make a pun, did I? Fin not myself yet, or, rather, I am only socnerming more. Instead of being a first person singular, I feel as if I were a third person plural.” “Well, weU, Reginald,” said the matron kindly, “I won’t scoM you any more. If such s crash makes one who even thinks of it see stars, 1 suppose It’s sot strange that you should imagine things. Only you never did imagine, you know,” and she gave him a soothing draught; After this Reghnid slept a great deal, and when awake kept silent. Had there been no othar thing to worn him. this new habit alone would have convinced hhn of a surprising inward change, for he had always talked ia inverse propor tion to his meditations; that is, he bod been on incessant talker. Now, hi these quiet hours, hs strove to marshal and d e ctpiine his new attributes, and a certain new tense of order enabled him to do so. Ho perdtved, then, that be was full of life, despite fau loss of blood, and. Indeed, perhaps, on acqpuut of it, Ha was filjsd with wild impulses, which would have torn him like so many devils, had not a certain new caution restrained them and a certain new hypocrisy kept them hid. Yet, in its turn, his own natural ingenu ousness coerced there qualities whan they had done their wort, sad tons prevented their supremacy,, He had always pos sessed a oonsdeooe, mild and timorous, in nature, fitted both to set sod to en dure. The future was po longer a pleas ant. garden through which be might idly, wander. He yearned to possess it and to receive the Increase of its fruits Wbgn formerly had been s rajless gloom, now burned s steady guiding light, and this light was purpose; purpose to get well, to exert bis strength, to take his place in toe world and hold It through courage and persistence. In one respect did his old nature pre dominate unaffected, sad that was » Us thought of Eleanor. And this was natural, for he saw her through toe pictures of Ms memory. He pa* hnr. as she had been to him, evret when as little children they -.'{•t'i ■ J-V had played together, s of fire and ether, reverence, and fere. creation pset snd she had been to him, when to evrey one ripe she hod an unruly child, with uni child. ’ pigtails and flaxen with yrers tnese He had reK . se email sad with untidy down her bseft. quite contemned the beautiful raiment in which he bad taken such pride. He had always realised that his forehead was narrow, and his neck weasen, and that his left knee turned in; attributes which bis mirror had never candidly snuousoed, and which his fond mamma would have termed base libels. Hs had often shad tears at night in hie bed chamber,“liefora he had bad time to forget her coldness and his vacuity, and thus to regain hie moral torpor. But he bad never reviled; ae well might he revile a star because it was invincible to storm and cold. And now, while he hoped, and with s fervor which then would have been as impossi ble as fiery heat from tinder, still he hoped with the humanity of a devotee. But while with strength Reginald gain ed in self-control, still ones and again did it Jail him. One day Moris, the acid, with s very rad face, declared to her tress that never, never, would she enter that room again. And that same evening. Peter Bulliop, after a short call on the patient, ooma down stairs mush dis gruntled. “I did, say, ‘Brace up, my ftae fellow,’ and some such encouragements,” be ex plained, “when that young jackanapes pressed my hand and sold, ‘How is the state of your soul, dear brother?’ ” Mrs. Bullion sighed, “Who* did I tell you?” she exclaimed. “Hs Is not right here,” and sbe tapped her brow. “I think it is right there.” growled Peter. But Eleanor smiled, thinking how by a single glance toe would calm and cower such Utile eccentricities, and finding much pride and pleasure in the anticipa tion. ' - - \ . u Reginald too wed remarkable adroitness in explaining away such outbreaks, so that when the time came for him to emerge Into active life they were merely remembered as laughable vagaries inci dent to the accident. Hs could not, how ever, explain sresy Ms manly Increase in girth and stator*, for his clothing bore wit ness against Mm. All the treasures ef his trunk. Which hs himself hod packed with such luring carte were os useless as the velveteen# of hla boyhood, and. what \ more extraordinary. Its didn’t cork remained contentedly in bed until deficiencies could bs supplied, again and arion ejecting a hoarse chuckle of satis faction, sad then hs descended to Aft drawing room, where Eleanor was await tag Mm. - Yee, Eleanor was aantiting the sp ot fler svala ;‘grito dread. It cSuld not be true, this wondoma board so tiiuoh; Welland Reginald! just as paste always < eh, if he bad and masterful that little opart ways been ia her j radiate into j MMT she had; fectionatte. eouM have deed, hare taH. Hs Eleanor raised her eyes A stalwart young man stood os t old. For a moment he savveyed Mr wim burning scrutiny, or resplsodret M * dem igod. Then he sprang forward, he caught her In bis arms; in his impetoority he swung her off her feet and high In tfc* air, as if she were an Infs at, myriad of kisses on her fipte sad ing her to bis broad chest “My d* my darling,” he Cried. “I cannot to how I love your’ Then g cold wave of motion i through Reginald's brain. He rehemed of Me passion, sad ashamed of his unconditional He released the girt, disheveled, gasping, and indignant, and. standing a Mtti* sport; with folded hands, he tons eddre—ed her: “My deer young lady,” he begao. ”1 am unable to find words of my OteO that Will fittingly stigmatise my untoward coodbct that greet writer, and. what Is mart to the point, that sound student of to* seal, Martin B. Tapper, admirably--” ’Nonsense, Reginald," said Blearer, drawing near. ’Don’t makeme rimagrmy mind when I was Just beftoMaf to Mko you so. Be yonrold self again, or, rather' your new old est!, and not tola new, new self. Oh. I don’t know what I moan. But eo ia ns harm dons; ws ore going to be married, yon know " And so. indeed, they were married, and Shared , that happhure which levs Baked with respect can produce. Reginald kept the star of purpose in view, red ottolred the success of vigor qualified by prodrecs Only twice thereafter did tbs reoarihriri ty arising from the accident dtefitoff lb- self. Once he wandered into n called a “boosing kerf’ nod m joyed «i evening with its tin. be surprise impossible experiences at a Bat to* inherent ewsttnere ef Mi prevented there vngnrire from itiers either for oonnnMal censure. From til of winch it VBI soft bred ia not a detyisMrt in a mil- way a oddest, especially if two hard are cracked immediately above it \ wfckh she had rw Reginald so I Reginald, past*. But i wMeh had al and rid. . 4" • San Antoni*, Texas., Jri Howell, a yanchsnan oi l arrived here today and the killing if kl lean -* of M n&nts of Santo JMrrefs to Southwoet business there Me left ware t 'rikz r