Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Selllns: i? Half Uie Crop. It 111:1 kes me tired to hear farmers say there is 110 sale for their produce, "when they don't even let any one know that tliry have some commodities for sal". Last summer I visited neighbor S. I noticed he had a few trees of summer Rambo apples as fine as they grow, going to waste. I asked him why he did not sell them. "Xo one wants them." he replied. I told him such apples were in big demand in York at more than SI per bushel. 'Well, John." he said, speaking to his son. "I guess you will have to take them down and sell them, and you will Lave half the money." So .lohn put the apples nicely on straw in the wagon box and covered them all up wiih blankets and started to York to sell the apples. lie drove up town about a mile.thoseapplesnicely covered up all the time, expecting. 110 doubt, that some telepathist or mind reader would divine what he had. come out 011 the street,, stop him and buy the apples, but he was not so fortunate. By mere accident, a grocer discovered that he had apples, and on sight bought them all for about half what he could have sold them for had he only let people know that he had apples for sale. Think of a merchant closing all his show windows, taking down his sign and absolutely stop all advertising. how much business do you suppose * lie would do??L. \Y. Ligiity, in Massachusetts Ploughman. To Kill Hawk?. A Louisiana reader asks how to give j Jinx vomica to chickens and how often j to give it to kill hawks, and if it is i dangerous. It undoubtedly is dangerous to the j v chickens, if our render intends to give i it to those that are alive, especially if more than one dose is given. Of course if nux vomica could be given to one chicken only, and the hawk he made to select that one and eat it. there is a bare possibility that Mr.? Hawk might die or at least become so sick of chicken that he would not return for another. Still, we think this would be an ini- I possible task, and other methods would be more effective. We have heard that arsenic or strychnine put in the ear cass of a dead chicken, which is placed in view of the hawk cut of reach of other chickens and cats.has been found to kill not only the old one. but the entire brood of young hawks to which it is carried. Scarecrows have but littie terror for hawks, especially when they have a /. brood of young ones to feed, and .we ; t doubt if there is any better way of making way with ihem than with a good shotgun. It may require a little ' patience to lie in wait and get a shot at a hawk, but if one or two are thus ] killed the others are not likely to give further trouble. Bare yards, wiih i:r. gra?s or weeds. : offer an inviting place for'the hawks, and the chickens have no way to es- 1 cape from Ihem. A marten box erected near the chick- ; mi yard will he of material aid in tight- ( ing hawks. One little marten or bine ' bird will put a big hawk to flight and will often chase him fully a mile ' away. A nest of martens and a few well- : directed shots will do more than all tthe poison that one can arrange.? Home and Farm. 1 m. * Increasing: the Fod'ler Snp^Iy. I Fine and well-rotted stable manure i will also often pay in the increase of : rowen, when spread 011 the land shortly after the first crop is secured. Another method of obtaining a good second crop as advised by Professor C. S. Phelps ; in a crop report of Massachusetts Board of Agriculture is to cut early, plow and seed at once to clover and mixed grasses, using at least fifteen pounds of clover to the acre. With seeding done early in duly, a good crop of clover should be obtained late in September or early in October, and a strong growth of grass and clover the following year. t Taking up the specific crops that can be grown to supplement the hay crop. Professor Phelps gives those that are best adapted to the purpose, time of seeding, quantity of seed per acre, time of cutting and method of use. whether for hay, silage or green fodder. The crops mentioned are corn, Hungarian grass, the millets, soy beans, eats and peas, barley and peas, winter vetch, rape and cabbage. Hungarian grass is, all things considered, probably the best crop that could be sown in July for hay, and should be cut early, even before all the heads are formed, as it tends to grow woody as it ripens. Soy beans are a valuable crop, particularly for silage. Late cabbage can often be grown to profit as a market crop, and the unmarketable portions will furnish valuable fodder. Professor Pheips says that he has found apple pomace to be a valuable feed for milch cows, and there are many sectipns where it can be obtained for the hauling. The article closes with some excellent advice as to feeding the hay crop after all possible has been done to supplement it. To obtain the best results, about ohe-lialf the dry matter of the ration should come from the grain feeds. The cheaper dry fodders, such as corn stover or oat straw, may then be fed in connection with liberal silage ami grain feeding, and good results will follow.?Massachusetts Floughman. Siackinc S'raw. I have taken tile Indiana Farmer for a number of years, and like it. Have often been impressed to answer some of your contributors, bur have delayed un.il ic-day. thinking I could not better ilie siination. Have just read in rSrii\* a recent number under caption "How to Save Straw.'* It appears to my mind that the Vigo County farmer (though a good fellow) lacks the courage and tact of a good Jap soldier. Before blowers were heard of. any man was expected to take his place on the straw stack, If so requested. Sometimes as many as five men wrought on a stack until it was completed rightly, and would preserve itself for future use (perhaps for several years). Along with the blower came the declaration 'That all hand stacking was at an end," for the blower completed the sta^k. I discredited it from the start. I knew the declaration was a fake the first blower stack I saw. It had a shed roof from the ground up on the opposite side from l ~i. 1 -M - - * nit? luiiL-iiim-, aiiu Mjapeiess pue ui finely cut straw, from top to bottom. A perfect spring to receive and retain moisture, and thereby spoil * he good feed in it. The first blower we had on our farm, we started in with two good stackers to follow ihe rotating pipe, to tramp the middle and arrange the straw evenly over the surface. Then we gave orders to blow the straw where it was needed to complete a good self preserving top 6\\ it. We have never lost our straw, but get much good feed out of it during winter. We then tear down the residue for fall fertilizer, and put it all back on the soil in twelve months again. Am not prophet enough to divine just where American farmers will drift to. Too tony to be found 011 the blower straw stack, for love or money, afraid of little, outside dust when the Good Book says he is made of dust. We ft ay save our straw in stacks about as we for- i mei'ly did. if we go at it rightly, j My rule is to go on my neighbor's stack provided lie will work 0:1 mine, j or furnish a man. Pay stackers extra, if they desire it; j it will be money well spent. We have ; a couple of pairs of goggles to be used j on threshing days. Also furnish a j damp sponge to tie over nose and j mouth to exclude dust, if so desired. ; Blower stacks need steeper roofs on ! them, and the middle kept very solid, ! A few days after threshing and the j stacks settles a little, make the roof a little steeper ami higher, and fasten j rails or poles on the ridge against ! heavy fall winds.?J. Beebe, in Indian* j Farmer. I llfslstlnj; Potato Klijjtxt and Hot. Thorough cultivation tends to c- J serve the moisture of the soil in a di ? i season (when there is little danger 01 j rot), and in a wot season it helps to | keep the ground from becoming wet i and soggy. Ridging tin rows holds up j rite vines from the groftnd, and thus ! lids in a quicker evaporation of moisture from tiie foliage and ground, and in so doing aids in retarding the spread of thp blight. It also covers the tubers deeper in the soil, and so protect them better from the blight spores \ that fail front the leaves. Where j spraying is practiced it also makes this iperation easier. The objection to ridg- ; ing is that in a dry season it may cause i the plants to suffer for lack of mcis* j tu re. By far the most satisfactory type of ; spraying outtit for thoroughness of work is a two-wheeled cart, of suf- ! tieient reach to straddle two rows of [Potatoes, which carries an ordinary ] barrel pump and a roan to pump and ; drive. Two men follow the cart, each using a twenty-live-foot hose with a i single nozzle, and they each spray j three rows without moving from the , row. in which they travel backward, j The man drives the length of the hose j and the men spray their rows up to the 1 cart, which then moves on again. In , this way the ground can be gone over ! fairly quickly, and the spraying can i be done as thoroughly as desired. Two nozzles to a hose seem to be a little better than one. Another apparatus is a type often j used. In this case the stationary uoz- i zles are attached to the end of an or- : dinary cart carrying a barrel pump, | and the pumping is dope by hand. I This, too, has some of the objections of the geared machines. By very slow i driving, however, more spray can le j placed on the vines, but because of the stationary nozzles it wi'.l not be done 1 very thoroughly or evenly. In this particular apparatus better work would have been dene if the pu.np had been stronger. It was not powerful enough to readily supply the eight nozzles used. The results of spraying with bordeaux mixture vary with different seasons. but depend largely on 1he thoroughY.ess of tlie treatments and their application at the proper time. It is much easier to secure an increased yield of potatoes from spraying than it is to prevent rot in these afterward. This increased yield varies from almost nothing to sometimes over 100 per cent., and the rot of the tubers is usually less in tlie sprayed than in the unsprayed fields. An average gain of fifteen to twenty per cent, should be bad in order to pay for the extra eosi and trouble of spraying; any gain above that is profit.?(i. P. Clinton, I."" vi'krrimont St";itinn \'pw W'lllirvi.vill Haven. A Short Sporly Career. For many years a certain doctor practiced medicine in a little country town in Wyandotte County. He was careless of his dress. Half the time, perhaps, his socks were not mates. Finally the doctor moved his family to Kansas City. Kan., and began to spruce up. He insisted on wearing socks that were mates. This made his wife suspicious. S..e thought he was getting spor.y. The doctor has moved back to the country.?Kansas City Journal. WHAT TOTEMISM 'S Some Kxtraonllnary SuperOil Joiih ItsC.trdiujr Tliem Prevail In Samoa. It is interesting to note that toteism is found, not only in Alaska, hut among the North American Indians, the aborigines of Australia, the Hottentots of Africa, and even the hill tribes of India. Totems are also common among the Samoans. P.roadly. the totem is the badge of a clan or tribe: but it signilies a great deal more than mere political or a Ilianee. It is not only a tribal cmIdem. but also a family signal; not merely n symbol of nationality, but also an expression of religion: not simply a bond of union anions: primitive peoples, but also a regulator of the marriage laws, and of other social institutions. says a writer in the June Housekeeper. A totem has been delined as "a class of material objects, which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and special relation." Among the Ojibwny Indians, there are no fewer than twenty-three different totems. Nine of these are quadrupeds, marking out the wolf, the bear, the beaver, and other clans, eight are birds, five are fishes, and one | is the snake. Some extraordinary superstitions regarding totems prevail in Samoa. Thus, it is believed that if a Turtleman eats of a turtle, he will grow i very ill. and the voice of the turtle will | be heard in his inside saying: '"He ate ; me: I am killing him.'' If a Banann; man uses a banana leaf for a cap, he ; becomes bald. If a Butterfly-man j eatclies a butterfly, it strike bim dead. I If a Fowl-man eats a fowl, delirium and death result. And so on?all going to show that the totem has something of the quality of a fetich as well as i the significance of a family emblem. Regarding totemism, it is to be noted that the relation of mutual help and protection includes also the totem itself; that is to say, if a man takes care of his totem, lie expects the totem to return the compliment. If the totem is a dangerous animal, it must not hurt his clansmen. The "Scorpionmen of Senegambia declare that the most deadly scorpions will run over their bodies without hurting them. There is a Snake clan in Australia, which holds to a similar belief. Among the Crocodile clan of the Bechuanas, if a man is bitten by a crocodile, or even has water splashed on him by one, he is expelled from the clan as one esteemed unworthy by the totem. ?Housekeeper. i Corrupt Givln?r. One of the effects of the generosity of the unjust, which deserves more consideration that it gets, is this: It closes the mouths of critics whose voices might otherwise be heard in effW.+nol Twntoct nf.oinst nnhlip WrOllCTS "uul" -- I -J or defects which cry for change in economic conditions. Limitation of space confines the writer to one illustration. There was a public agitation some years ago concerning a certain bill. Involving a franchise of great value, which was being* heavily lobbied through the New York Legislature. A movement was at once begun against the measure, .and during its progress a gentleman standing justly high in public esteem, a man of unquestionable probity and of great influence was asked to take part in this protest. He remained in doubt for a few days and then declined. He was the president of an important charitable institution dependent largely for its support on the generosity of a particular donor, who was also the real sponsor for the grab bill. With what he conceived to be the prosperity of his institution at stake;. he could not reel it to be his duty personally to antagonize the corrupt scheme of the generous supporter of his institution.?George W. Alger, in the Atlantic. Forgot What Electricity Waa. A Denver newspaper devotes a large space in an unavailing effort to answer a correspondent's question. '"Does anybody know what electricity is?" A.3 somebody has observed, that reminds us of a story. '"There is now in Prineville, Ore., a lawyer who, some years ago. was a college student back East. One day in the classroom the subject of.disI cp.ssion was electricity. This student j had read all he could find in his textbook about electricity, and considered | himself primed for the occasion. The ; professor opened the ball with this j direct question, flashed peremptorily at this particular student: "Mr. Blank, can you tell us what I electricity is?" Mr. Blank squirmed in his seat, j hemmed and hawed for a time, and finally admitted: "I did know, professor, but I've forj gotten." The professor gazed at the student I with an expression of unspeakable i sorrow. Then he said sadly: "Mr. Blank, you ?do not know what ! yon have done. Alas! what a sad loss i to science! You are-tlie only man that ! ever lived who has known what elec! tricity is?and you have forgotten."-' j Portland Oregonian. Jn*nrince Up-lo-l)atp. j The drop a nickel in the slot machine ! has been adapted to various and divers j purposes from selling collar buttons to ' dispensing gum and fortune, but an I enterprising bathing pavilion manager at Coney Island has brought in a new idea by providing au insurance policy for the nickel. The policy is for $500 for the day issued, the date beiug registered by an automatic stamp. It insures the bather against uearn uy drowning. The proprietor reports that the machine has been showing a handsome profit 011 the investment. Thus far there have been no claimants for insurant i ~ THE HEW HOI - ft*0 V^WI - m The revolt of Norway has naturally tional flag. As is shown above, wild own distinct flag, Xos. 1 and 2, resp 3, a somewhat unlovely combination o the fighting flag of each country in th est the truck of the mast. No. 4 shows before the action of the Storthing. Th the fighting flag, which will appear as THE BIGGEST ELEPHANT TUSKS - EVER FOUND. I This is a picture of one of the two largest tusks that ever came into the ivory trade. .Both came from the same animal. The specimen here supported by four ivory carriers weighs 247 pounds. Think of carrying around to a very venerable age a weight of nearly 500 pounds in tusks aione! No wonder that an elephant's neck is so thick and muscular. One day about eight years ago a party of black elephant hunters on a slope of Mount Kilimanjaro saw the animal that was carrying these wonderful tusks around aiul killed it. The villagers down below were much astonished when they saw four men carrying the ivory down the mountain. They had never seen a tusk before that was more than a one-man load. TIfe tusks were taken to Zanzibar, [T i i i J - ? 1 1 1 ONE OF THE TWO LARGEST E ; -where they were the talk of the town, j The bidding for tliem was spirited, and I naturally enough, they were purchased for the American trade. Both of them eame to- New York, ?>ut one crossed the ocean again and is now in the , British 3Iuseuut. j The heaviest Asiatic tasks that are known to have come into the market weighed 100,10C and 100 pounds. The largest tusk of a mammoth yet dug out of the soil weighed 173 pounds. So the-old animal which was caught on the side of Kilimanjaro takes the palm, as far as the records go, in ancient or modern times. MMKIH6S 0? THE SAW. An invention pertaining to compound tools of the saw type has for its object a design as simple and efficient as the ordinary saw and almost, if not quite, as cheap, provides means by which the mti u saves much calculation. various angular cuts resorted to in carpentry may be expeditiously and easily found and marked. The blade is similar in type to the ordinary hand-saw, except that it must have a straight back and carries a number of inscribed Salting: Nevr-liof-n Babiea. In some parts of Europe and Asia there is a peculiar custom of salting new-born babies. When a baby is born among the Armenians of Russia the nurse takes the infant and covers the entire skin with very tine salt This salt is left on the baby for three hours or more, and then the child i? washed with warm water. In Asia Minor there is a tribe ol people living in the mountains who dc even worse than this. They salt theh IWEGIAF PLAS" I- ff I ^ Owl " <?tuew resulted in a modification of the nae Norway and Sweden have each Ita ectively, there is also a Union flag, No. f Nos. 1 and 2. This last is borne on e 4 canton," or corner, of the "big n^arthe fighting flag of Norway as it was e Union is now by edict banished from No. 5. lines to _ 'rk different angles, such as fifteen degrees, twenty-two and onehalf degrees, thirty degrees, forty-five degrees, sixty degrees, etc. Other correlated information, such as the nmnnnt ?f rluo rtAr fnnt of run nf hnri zontal measurement for any of the angles within the scope of the saw is added. These marks considerably increase the sphere of the tool and render it unnecessary to employ the usual miter when an angle cut is to be found and marked, without in any way rendering the tool cumbersome or interfering with its ordinary use. Moreover, j the improvement dots not add appreciably to its cost.?Philadelphia Record. GUTS THE THREAD. One of those impressive little inventions that makes everyone with any mechanical talent laugh at his own o_>tuseness and lack of observation is a tliread cutter for sewing machines that LEPHAXT TUSKS OS RECORD. has just appeared to- the credit of a man hailing from Waltliairu. Mass. Anyone who is at all familiar with a sewI lng machine must have been impressed with the multiplicity- of attachments and conveniences that go with a modern up-to-date machine,, and yet despite the seeming abundance of contrivances this fundamental attachment has long been overlooked. On the work support |.^ . ' j THREAD CUTTER ON SEWING 3IACHIN) table, and extending from the needlehole. there is a thread slot with converging edges, leading to a thread-cutting device. The arrangement of the needle-hole and slot is such that the shuttle is securely gripped to facilitate the ready cutting of the thread. When it is remembered that the snipping shears are not always at hand, and that it is not always convenient to reach the under thread to sever it, the | value of an attachment that is never ( misplaced may be appreciated.?Pliila. delphia Record. The cotton factories in Lancashire ! : spin enough thread in six seconds to go | I round ftie world. ; new-born babies and leave the salt on them for twenty-four hours. The mod; *-?n Greeks sprinkle salt on their ; babies. t This practice of salting babies is an i j ancient custom. It has its rise in su. | perstition. of course. The mothers k | think that salting insures their children ;W:ealth and strength, and that it will keep evil spirits away from them. F Even in some parts of Germany salt >*is still used on the child at birth.?Med: ical Talk For the Home. - - 4. 'ilk-?'/*: 0 NO DESIRE TO BE G06t>.'~ "Grandpa, do you have to be awful good to get to heaven?" ? "Yes. civ boy." "Well, I've made up mv mind to try for the booby prize."?New York Life. _ Posiliva, Casparative, Siipsrfali?8., | " I h2ve usad om of vov:f P*?h Rm-H Slickers for five years, ar.d now want a new car, atao one for a friend. I . would r.vt be without one for twice the cost. They are just as far ahead of a common cc-.t C3 a common one is ahead of nothing." (Name or, application.) HIGHEST AWARD mm FAIR, WW. Ce sura you don't got one of the com* mon kind?this Is the erffWFfrto mark of excellence. > # A. J. TOWER CO., ******* BOSTON. U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LiMiTCO, TORONTO, CANADA. 35* ' r*! Makers of Wet Weather Clothing <? Mats. Malsby & Co. 41 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. Portable and Stationary Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills AND ALL KINDS OF M Complete line Carried in >i<tck for & 1MMEDIA TE DELI VEii Y. B?wt Machinery. I.yw?i I'rk-e-J and Best Term? Wii;e us lor catalogue, prices* etc.. before buvine. 235 Capitol Ave., ATLANTA. OA. ? An Accident* On tire whole Johnny Ralston was a '##8 very good boy; but he had one fault which it seemed impossible for hl3 . mother to overcome?he would fight with other boys. Times out of nam- . a?J|H ber be had been reproved for this -;^||?S and the last time he promised faith- \ fully that he would battle no more. \7^1?b But that evening he returned from .A-j$S? tchool with a cut cheek and a nose .'vyjjjB like a swollen beetroot. "Johnny," said his mother sadly, didn't you promise me ycu wouldn't fight any more?" "But I haven't been fighting, mx TTiis is the result of an accident. "An accident?"?doubtfully. "Yes, ma. I was sitting cn Tommy Biggs, and I forgot to hold his feat!" ' .?American Cultivator. ON HIS TRAIl?. "Pa," asked the .Senator's little hoy. '' what's a nemsis?" "A "nemesis," my son," rejlied the Senator, wearily. "f? a female office '-jM seeker whom, in a moment of foolir^i klndheartedness. you promised to is sist?Catholic Standard and Times. An Austrian army officer cut himself under the chin in shaving, the Jggj green collar of his tunic rubbed against the cut and he died of blood poisoning. , -i OUST THE DEMON. A Tosfle With Coffee. .} ' There is something fairly demonla- ' ||1 cal in the way coffee sometimes wreaks its fiendish malice on those who use It." A lady writing from Calif: says: "My husband and I, both lovers of coffee, suffered for some time from a * very annoying form of nervousness, accompanied by most frightful head- || aches. In my own case there was !-i|| eventually developed some sort of af- ' yfl fection of fie nerves leading from tie . i | spine to the head. "I was unable to hold my head up ; -J straight, the tension of the nerves drew it to one side, causing me the 'v . : most intense pain. We got no relief from medicine, and were puzzled as to | what caused the trouble, till a friend Jj* suggested that possibly the coffee we drank had something to do with it. and advised that we quit it and try Pos- t turn Coffee. * "We followed his advice, and from the day that we b?gan to use Postum W'e OOIJI IW'ZMIl lO nuu iu ? ,,, very short lime both of us were entirely relieved. The nerves became " ^ steady onee more, the headaches c-ased. the muscles in the back of my N & neck relaxed, my head straightened up and the dreadful paiu that had sox ^ : punished me while I used the old kind ' ^ of coffee vanished. 4"We have never resumed the use of -^r[ the old coffee, but relish our Postum every day as well as we did the former beverage. And we are delighted to find'that we can give it freely to our children also, something we never dared to do with the eld kind of coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. yf Postum Coffee contains absolutely no drugs of any kind, but relieves the .. coffee drinker from the old drug poison, .-'0 There's a reason.