Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"IX THE LOVE OF NATURE." What a Woman Found in the Conn- 1 try. T* trao mv ir?t in mv vrtnnc WO 14. "?s> HJ.J AVV, AAA.. j ? ? ? O - manhood, to make my home on a < farm in a secluded neighborhood, says t Mrs. F. L. Townsend in Raleigh Pro- i gressive Farmer and Gazette. Few e girls are situated so unpleasantly if i one considers the purely social side t . of things. We were four miles from ? a village, no church near, very few t neighbors, and those we rarely saw. 1 The first winter, life occasionally seemed to narrow down to waiting for the mail and that didn't always turn a up at the right time. We had no free c delivery then. There were no 'phones then in the country. The nearby 1 river had an unmannerly habit of t getting out of its banks so that days ^ would sometimes pass before the post i office could be visited. One time that t winter we were ten days without a t sign from the outside world. Perhaps I moped a bit, though I don't t remember doing so, but the people ^ were so new to me?the few that I a saw?the old house was full of in- i teresting memories (to say nothing c of the "ha'nt" that climbed the stairs c and rattled ghostly chains in the still a night hours) and somewhere, some- 1 how, I had acquired a strong love for nature which stood me in good stead. I had never loved a catbird before, , had never taken pains to notice what a flood-of rich music they pour forth T when the mood is on them. But after listening to them during those spring months I grew into a great love for them and resent any slight put upon them. r ? . I secured an old.botany because I couldn't afford the handsome new ones, with their ' many-colored pic tures showing how -to know wild flowers. Armed with this, an insufficient bird book, and a mighty desire , to ask questions of everybody I met, v I learned something of that page of * God's creation which opened out be- ; fore me. And that page, girls, young 1 women, is one that appeals to us. Gathering light and wisdom from it now while youth is yours, you will 2 never find the long summer days entirely uninteresting. After you have 1 watched the parent birds feed their ^ o ffor vftll * young ones uav auci Via..', ai^i have seen the wonderful care and * forethought the brave little mother takes in order to protect her helpless fledgelings, you will more fully recognize that, in God's great plan, 'a 1 deep and mighty love stirs ceaselessly and that in the nurturing and ex- ^ pressing of that love no power is so great, so patient, so marvelous, as the mother-heart. Learning this you may easily learn to honor your own mother more profoundly and to look with wider sympathy, truer in- t sight, upon woman's common lot, c common though divine?motherhood. 1 Fired Into Passing Train. t 1 Yorkville, Oct. 14.?As the early t morning train from Rock Hill on the t ^Southern raliway was about a mile ( from this station this morning, com- ( Ing through a deep cut, some one \ ? . fired into the first class coach. i The bullet crashed through the ( i window glass and passed between i Henry Massey, of Tirzah, and A. M. ] ivp- Haddon, of Sharon. As soon as pos- i sible, Superintendent Lindsay, of the \ chaingang brought in his blood- s t -a'ith Denutv Sheriff < iiuuuua, uuu uV| - r , Quinn, Chief of Police Love, Con- ? stable Sanders and a posse, made a i dilligent search lor the offender, but ( could get no trail of him. Sheriff s Brown had gone up to Stroup's store ] to investigate a burglary of that | building last night, of which #artic- } ulars are not yet obtainable. , Just a few nights ago, as the train ? on the Southern due here at 9 o'clock ; from Marion and Blacksburg, was about two or three miles west of this , place, some one threw a rock through an open window of the first class coach at which J. W. Kirkpatrick, a j merchant of this place was sitting., < The rock struck him on the^shoulder, inflicting a painful bruise. He saw , the man who threw the rock, but he ? escaped. i Investigations are going on. 1 ( The Proof. ( : ' . I ' Allan A. Ryan, the well known or- ( ganizer of flying meets, said at a recent aviation banquet in New York: , "Such objections indicate an ig- . norance of flying and flying machines. , They recall the little boy who desired to be confirmed. " 'You have been christened, you ( tell me, my lad,' said the clergyman, . 'but how are you sure that you have been christened?' "The little boy turned back his sleeve. " 'Here's the marks on my arm,' he said." i Kills a Murderer. A merciless murderer is appendicitis with many victims. But Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate ? stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, curing constipation, headache, billiousness, chills. 25c at People's Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. ^ :-L SiS&k - Y-i' . . - . , . BUILD CHURCH IN A DAY. Irtisans Working Under Woman Pastor's Direction do Quick Job. Gary, Ind.. Oct. 12.?Working unier the direction of their pastor, he Rev. Martha Stout Trimble, the nembers of the Christian church rected and completed a church buildng here in one afternoon. Preparaions began some days ago and early Saturday afternoon the building maerial, which had been given was unoaded on the ground. Carpenters, dectricians, cement workers and oth>r journeymen gave their labor and it 1:30 o'clock the first stake was Iriven. Before 2 o'clock the floor was being aid and as soon as the walls were up he electricians began stringing the vires. By 4 o'clock the roof was beng shingled and at the same time he cement workers began moulding a >aptistry inside the chancel rail. With the rapidity of a moving picure the steps, doors and windows vere placed in position and the construction of the spire began. The finshing touches were added by 8 >'clock, when chairs and the organ )n the lawn wer'e moved in. Soon Lfter 8 o'clock Mrs. Trimble began lolding services. When Last Seen. One of the good fellows of Broadvay is really a good fellow?except hat he sometimes inclines an ear to he tempting of the demon rum, says he New York correspondent of the 'Mnoinnati Times-Star. When that lappens his wife sends out a hurry all for him, claps him in a Turkish >ath, and takes his stewed remains lome a day or so later full of renorse and echoes. The other night le failed to appear at the domestic learth at his usual hour. Some time ater his wife began making queries >y telephone. Eventually she got rtaclyn Arbuckle on the wire, khowng that gentleman to be a friend of he periodical souse. "Have you seen Harry lately?" she isked. Mr. Arbuckle assured her that he lad just parted from her spouse, fes, Harry had been drinking a little, dr. Arbuckle very reluctantly admit :ed it. "Is Harry drunk?" asked the wife. "Oh, no ma'am," said Mr. Ar)uckle in tones of horror. "Oh, no, lot at all. By no means. When I eft him he was able to get along :ery nicely?on his hands and cnees." Origin of Cottonseed Oil It has recently been discovered hat the Chinese were the first to dis:over the uses of cottonseed oil. These ingenious people, centuries igo, learned to crush the seed and lurned the oil obtained in their land lamps. The phlegmatic celes;ial, however, makes little of inven;ions and discoveries, and is not so eager to let the world know of hi? accomplishments as he might be, so, :or a great many years after cotton aising had become a great world inlustry, the seed was considered j worthless, except to produce its kind, [n fact, it was considered injurious, i 50th to feed animals and to scatter! apon the land. This is shown by1 some of the early laws in many of ;he Southern States. The natural result .of these laws and superstitions vas the piling up of huge mounds if seed on tracts of worthless land, surrounded by fences, which were aorse high, bull strong, and pig :ight, as it v.as against the law to run the seed into the streams, for it 3-oc iniurious to the fish 2s even. The goat was exempted. Nothing could injure the goat and he was allowed to winter at his pleasure on cotton seed. So it happened the 'Billy" became the discoverer of the wonderful feeding value of cotton seed as a flesh and fat producer. It was also discovered that cotton seed was a most valuable fertilizing agent, Bqual to the best Peruvian guano and the dump heaps soon disappeared, as theknowledege became current among the cotton planters. The beginning of the oil industry may be said to date in the year 1851, when cotton 3eed oil was awarded a prize at an sYhihition that year and people be ?an to look into its uses. From that time the growth was rapid until now, according to latest statistics, there are nearly 1,000 cotton seed mills in the United Staes alone, and there is a demand for every pound of cotton seed meal produced by these mills. A Little Mixed. The following notes from parents were recetnly brought by two pupils of a certain school. "Dear Teacher: Kindly excuse John's absence from school yesterday afternoon, as he fell in the mud. By doing the same you will kindly oblige his mother..." The other read: "Dear Teacher: Please excuse Willie's absence last Friday, as he had to go to the hospital after his nose."?School. '' ' "'-v.'. - .'.J .. . - A COWARDLY RUFFIAN. Used Body of Boy to Check Bullets, Commits Suicide. New York, Oct. 12.?Chas. Fischer, a boy of 12 years, was swung writhing and screaming from the sidewalk last night by a man brute who used the little fellow's body to check a bullet fired by Harry Greenwald, an expugilist. The missile pierced the ohllH'a hrain and ha Hiad within an hour. Greenwald, terror stricken, and pursued by citizens and police, dashed into a hallway and committed suicide. The man who used the boy as a screen escaped. His name is not known to the police. Greenwald was about 25 years old and was known to his sporting friends as "Biz Clark." He was at one time a sparring partner of Harry "Biff" Stone, of Baltimore, but of late had been working as ticket taker at a moving picture theatre in Harlem. Young Fischer was returning from an errand for his mother about dusk. As he turned from 103rd street into Madison avenue, he saw Greenwald and the unidentified man engaged in a heated argument. The frightened boy attempted to pass between them when the unknown man grasped him and held him before his face just as the former prize fighter whipped out a revolver and fired. The bullet en terea tne dov s neaa ana uie uunuuwu coward dropped him and fled. Seeing his mistake, Greenwald still with the revolver in his hand, broke and ran. A policeman gave chase and a thousand men and women who had heard of or witnessed the tragedy, joined in the pursuit. The hunted man once turned as if to fire on his pursuers, then hard pressed, he sprang past a group of startled children and attempted to force his way into a cellar. Failing in this he placed the pistol to his temple and blew out his brains. The murdered child lived with his widowed mother, Mrs. Madeline Fischer, and was one of five sons, the eldest of whom is 19. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. ~ A *- - 3 ? *?? -3 VA?*A IT n Atm we, tne unaersigueu, nave nuwnu F. J. Cheney for the past 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken ini ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Strange Burial Custom. A custom that must seem very strange to many of us, is the meth od of disposing of the dead which obtains in Mexico, Filipino, and othei Roman Catholic Spanish cemeteries The bodies are not deposited in th? ground,, but in niches in a wall, the openings being then sealed witt stone slabs lettered with the names of the deceased. * These niches are let by the chruch at a yearly fee and the body reposes peacefully therein so long as the rent is paid When it ceases to be paid, however the remains are ousted for nonpayment. The bodies which are "evicted" for nonpayment of sepulchei rent are turned into mummies by the mild, dry climate of that region These mummified bodies are kept foi a year, and if at the end of that tim< the relatives of the deceased have noi paid another year's rent to reinstafo the corpse, the remains are throwi unceremoniously into a great underground vault 50 feet deep and aboui 300 feet in length.?Wide World. Battleships* Tour. "1 A ?Hot, vv a. suingtuu, uli. jl *x.?m?*v tieships comprising the Atlantic See will assemble in Hampton Road* about November 1 for a Europeai cruise. Two English and two Frencl ports will be visited. The navy de partment has decided not to send anj cruisers or torpedo boat destroyer.' on the cruise, as originally planned. Each of the four divisions of th< fleet wil spend three weeks at on< English and one French port. Th< visiting will begin November 14 anc will end December 28. The flagship Connecticut, the Dela ware, the Michigan and the Nortl Dakota will go first to Portland har bor (Weymouth), England, and fron there to Cherbourg, Prance. Th< I Louisiana, the Kansas, the Nev Hampshire and the South Caroline will go first to Cherbourg and fron there to Portland. The Missisippi, the Idaho, the Min nesota and the Vermont will go firs to Gravesend, England, and fron there to Brest, France. The Georgia the Nebraska, the Rhode Island anc the Virginia will go first to Brest anc from there to Gravesend. The new itinerary was arranged bj Rear Admiral Schroder, in commanc of the fleet following the abandon ment of the Mediterranean cruise ow ing to the prevalence of cholera ai several ports in Southern Europe. / ?? -V \ - - ' ' BRIDE OF THE SEA. 1 \ , Body of Girl Sealed in Steel Coffin and Sunk in Gulf of Mexico. , New Orleans, Oct. 12.?Miss Marjorie Miller, 18 years old, daughter of Dean Walter Miller, of Tulane University, was buried in the Gulf of Mexico by her own fixed choice. She was drowned several weeks ago while bathing near Tallulah Falls, Ga., where she was spending the summer. Her body was held until her father's return from Europe. Miss Miller loved the water from i childhood. She made repeated requests that her parents give her body to the ocean. Accordingly, after the family had ?l >L _ 1: - J i. I ~ ; given me question cuusiuuiauuu ) for a week, the body was removed from the receiving vault, sealed in a steel coffin, heavily weighted, and carried far out into the Gulf of Mexico. There it was lowered into the bosom of the ocean with a simple ceremony. TO PREVENT A NT HRACNOSE. Loss to Cotton $4,000,000 During Year in This State. i \ Rotation of crops and careful seed i selection is given by experts as a pre: ventive for anthracnose, the disease which has damaged the cotton crop of South Carolina during the present year to the extent of $4,000,000. The Clemson experiment station, under i the direction of H. W. Barre, has ) made a careful study of anthracnose during the past year and the above conclusion has been reached. Prof. Barre was among the visitors in the city yesterday. He said that the disi ease had appeared in almost every county in the State and that great ' damage had been wrought in several ! sections. He has been studying the 1 disease for more than a year and .is an expert on the subject. ' - -a j i "'me selection 01 seea auu ruiauuu of crops is a sure preventive," said Prof. Barre. While here Prof. Barre conferred with Ira W. Williams, the State agent of the farm demonstration work.' During the past several weeks Mr. Williams has received cotton affected with the disease and recently a bulletin was issued telling the farmers how to prevent the disease. The esf timated damage to the crop by Mr. I Wiliams is $4,000,000. This estimate was confirmed by Prof. Barre. "We find that the anthracnose sit, uation is getting to be very serious in ' some sections of the State," said | Prof. Barre. "We are glad to report, 1 iniT^ati ffa. XIU W C V j 1>11CIL 11 U 111 C11V/ in v vw vigw ' tions which have been conducted at Clemson during the past few years, it is evident that the anthracnose can be controlled. When the investigations were started there nearly r two years ago, there was very little - known about this disease During the first year of our work we found that the fungus grows into the seed . and remains alive there as long as the ; seed are in a dormant condition. We i found, further, that where seed which 1 contained the * disease were planted, > they produced diseased plants. This ? led us to believe that the seed are , the principle source of infection. r The results of this year's experl. ment in the field have borne this out. , Where we picked cotton for seed only - from healthy stalks, or healthy bolls, - and planted these seed on land which - had not been in cotton for one year, r we had no disease. Where we . planted seed from diseased bolls, or r seed from cotton fields where the disi ease was bad, we have an abundance t of the disease. We have also met i with a large number of cases of ani thracnose over the State which have - originated through seed sent in from t certain seed houses. 'We find also that some of the people who are growing seed for sale in this State have been distributing " the disease through their seed. As stated aiove, it is an easy matter to 3 get rid of cotton anthracnose when 1 the people will take the trouble to do 1 it. All that is necessary is to secure " seed that is free from the disease and J plant these on land which has notj 3 been in cotton for one year. The best way to secure fresh seed is to pick 3 them in your own field. In such 3 cases, where the disease occurs, it is 3 well to be very careful not to pick * cotton for seed from bolls which show ... ? - J J ? {f I any sign at an 01 tne ui&ettoe. u is still safer if you will pick cotton j 1 for seed from stalks which are free j from the disease. j 1 "It is hoped that the people will J take an interest in this matter and J ; make an effort to get rid of the dis1 ease, which is now causing millions 1 of dollars loss to the cotton farmers annually. For further information on this subject, address the botanist t of the South Carolina experiment sta1 tion."?News and Courier. Tt'o Wni?We Rpsf. | AC ^ 111V ? 1 No one has ever made a salve, ointment or balm to compare with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the one ' perfect healer of cut9, corns, burns, 1 bruises, sores, scalds, boils, ulcers, - eczema, salt rheum. For sore eyes, . cold sores, chapped hands, or sprains, it's supreme. Infallible for 1 piles. Only 25c at People's Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. 1 ? ....OUR SHO I Fall Millinery, 1 | IS COM! 1 i . it ni 1 Let US M I Mrs. E. P. ? Ehrhardt : WE ARE FULL To take care o: Our great var Dress Goods, Ladii Or any other ladles' garmei just what you want at the paring favorably with the s section. Before you go to bi self or for your boys, it will I as ours to look over our I mm -^SHC Did you say Shoes? We 1 Shoes In this county. We now, but we have plenty n your pocket. Anything el* It will be our pleasure to s H. KA EHRHAR iKEEP COOL! Kg DRINK TETLEY'S TEAS. If "PERFECTION" JS, IS Lunch Tongue, Chippet | e Fine for Auf 11 "GET THE HABIT." |! J N O . W. 11 "The Quality Store." 'P | No More with that automobile, bicy< (A, have me to put it in flrst-cli T prepared to do your work a< B* cities, and my prices are ab< Jk, also have in stock a well sel J AUTOMOBILE & B which I will sell to you at cl what you need I will get it 1 jk the next one. When in nee< J don't forget me. \11 work |j. B. B1 2 The Bepair Man ^? ??? \| Cjfn^HTSMOAK'S SALE AN I J. J. SMOAK, Proprietor WING OF 9 Jats, & Cloaks I jj PLETE J9| low iou s I Copelandf j : : South Carolina A Y PREPARED I f your^needs. es'Goaks,SlrirtelJ| it will enable you to pick very lowest price, com- jj hort crop of cotton in our uy your fall suit for your- '^8 be to your benefit, as well -;|| ense selection in that line. lave the largest Stock of ?j|S are selling lots of Shoes iiore to fit your feet and |? t? Yes. Come and see. - . D 17 Q14 W KEEP COOLli? DELICIOUS WHEN ICED. g| M Flour that makes the bread like X r made. 24 pound sack for 85c. Kg 1 Beef, Fresh Crackers y RINO 'PHONE 32 8 " V'|S McCUEll hone 32. Bamberg, S. **Trouble| Jj ?le, gun or pistol II you will "P vMr:|8 ass repair. I am just as well i anyone outside the larger F /M 3ut twice as reasonable. 1 ICYCLE SUPPLIES f I lowest prices,, If I haven't J J ror you just as prompt as J of anything in my line ,L Jj| RICKLEf 1 Bamberg, S. C. ?|J|S 1 Horses Lack Noting ?|||jj I that will improve their -a ^j condition and appearance. r; They are as carefully looked ,1 after as those of any priy OUR LIVERY SERVICE VjS ' is at your command for any , : kind of rig you require. f Say the word and the buggy, -I phaeton, coach or any other ^ carriage will be at your dis posal at and for any time * ' D LIVERY STABLE ? Telephone 68 , '."^8