Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BACK TO NATURE Agricultural Department Renews : Faith in Old Maxims. Experts Have Come to the Conclusion That There Is Much More Than Superstition in "Signs" Our Forefathers Noted. The problem of making agricultural superstitions into agricultural data is being studied by experts of the department of agriculture, who declare that many old maxims handed down from father to son for generations are not maollTT cnnn?i.?t!nnc of oil hill >1 cl nf 111 ACailjr oupciouiiviio U L uii, Information discovered by keenly observant persons. Everybody has heard some of the old maxims. They deal with every variety of agricultural operation. Bean planting, for instance, never was done by the forefathers of the present generation at the time of the blossoming of the blackberry bushes. When the catkins had formed, on maple trees It was a sign from nature that early gardening might commence. And toward the close of the season warning of frost was given by the maturing of cockleburs. N6w the department of agriculture declares that there is a best time for every farm and garden operation, and that some tree or shrub or plant indicates that time more accurately than all the scientific Instruments can register it. It is those signs which were noted by the pioneers who laid the foundation of this country and recorded in the simple sayings handed down to posterity. Soon they will be dignified with the scientific name of "phenology," which is the science of nhenomena. Collection of natural signs into the science of phenology probably was begun with a campaign against the Hessian fly. Experts were endeavoring to determine the best time for planting wheat so that the sowing would be late enough to prevent ruin by the pest and yet early enough for the grain to get a start before cold weather. It was easy enough to work out the general rule that the season varies four days for each one degree of latitude, five degrees of longitude and 400 feet of altitude, but as no two seasons are just the same the rule could tell only approximately when the farmer should do his sowing. . In seeking for a more exact guide, Dr. A. D. Hopkins of the department forsook the cold realm of scientific formulae for "back-to-nature" information. As plants respond to climatic conditions and not to dates, it was decided that some natural indication would give the information desired. It is now claimed that observation has proved that the best time for sowing wheat is that period between the full blooming of tall late goldenrod and the time when the white, common Japanese clematis flowers are nearly all gone or the leaves are distinctly colored on the dogwood and hickories. What has been done for wheat will be done for other crops, but the working out of the signs will be a slow process. Meanwhile every farmer and even the city gardener have their own guides at hand, if they have eyes to see. Thus has the superstition and folklore of days called primitive been justified by the advanced science of the twentieth century. Dangers of City Streets. Apparently the time is not ripe for the solution of the problem created by excessive speed in driving motor cars, although the mortality is truly termed . terrifying. The annual toll in the city ' of New York alone of dead and wounded far surpasses some of the casualty totals of the Civil war. In Cincinnati since January 1 there have been forty-eight fatalities. Satirical humorists have laughingly said that a city resident who succeeds in safely crossing j a car crowded thoroughfare should not thereby become unduly exalted, because he has gained only a reprieve, and in the end surely will be run down. It is appalling to think that the mere Journey from one side of a street to another in municipalities is really dangerous and that a risk of life and limb is taken by the pedestrian.?Cincinnati Enquirer. Puzzle Over Musk's Loss of Scent. For many years now, the remark has gone the rounds among flower lovers that it is next to impossible to get a sweet-scented musk. More than one grumble at the nurserymen for raising the larger nowerea ana scentless variety, but now it turns out that the nurserymen are blameless in the matter. The musk has deliberately lost its scent; that is the plain fact, and , nobody knows the wherefore of this strange occurrence. The Field calls attention to the fact, and says that no other case of the kind has been recorded. It adds that old colonies of the musk plant which were powerfully fragrant have now become quite odorless. Kew, it appears, is as puzzled as anyone over it. He Knew Who Hired Him. The jury was evidently getting od che judge's nerves, and at last he an flounced: "I discharge the jury!" A tall, lean member of the 12 theD rose. "Say, judge, you can't discharge roe!" "Can't discharge you? Why not?' thundered the judge. "War!,'* replied the juryman, pointing to counsel for the defense, "I was hired by that guy over there 1" MORE THAN USUALLY WARM I j Sailors Declare the Qulf Stream la , Outdoing Itself at This Season, ] > for Some Reason. , Marine men blame the Gulf stream for the summer weather prevailing along the Atlantic coast. They say the i water of the Gulf stream is almost boiliDg. In Norfolk, Va., the temperature was 86 degrees. A hundred miles oat to sea just before the Gulf stream Is I reached the temperature was 101, ac[ cording to information brought there by marine men. Within one day's run I from Norfolk by water there was a i difference of nearly 40 degrees in the , temperature. It was so hot in the Gulf stream, marine men said, it was almost unbearable to remain on deck , during the day. Vessels passing through the peculiar water during the day say the weather is hotter than they have ever experienced before. A difference in the temperature of the water dipped from the Gulf stream with buckets from ships . with that of the ocean itself is the difference, marine men report, between moderately cool water and that warm enough almost to poach an egg. < The Gulf stream water is lighter than < the remainder of the ocean and when 1 first dipped foams and bubbles like t water just on the point of boiling. It was reported that an American j destroyer would go out to the Gulf stream with a party of experts for the i purpose of making observations for \ use by the government and to ascer- 1 tain if reports brought in by merchant i ships are authentic. { < COULD FEEL FOR AFFLICTION j ( Man Had Not Forgotten How It Felt 1 to Be Deprived of the Biessing t of Sight i He looked as if he owned a bank, -j And he was talking to a man who t looked as if he owned two. ! And while they confabbed in front } of a hotel a wrinkled woman came up to them leading a wrinkled man. She 1 was selling matches?5 cents a box, t three for? c The one-bank man waved aside the s matches, but put some money in the woman's hands, and asked her un lucky companion how he came to lose his sight. The blind man said that he had never had any sight to lose. He was born that way. The man of the two banks chipped in with a donation, then the couple moved on, the blind man, philosoph- , ically serene and the woman shrilling her slogan?"Matches! Five cents a box. three for?" And the one-bank man said to the one who owned two: "I had my eyes bandaged for a week once. Blindness is a tragic thing." Which showed that, in his case anyhow, a little knowledge was not a dan- ! gerous thing.?Washington Star. Dolls in Literature. A London writer has recently introduced the subject of dolls in literature. Almost anyone, who will trouble to search his memory, can dis cover a doll somewhere between the covers of many a book which he has read. Beginning with a "slighting reference to them under the name oi babies," in Sydney's "Arcadia," and noting the mention of a doll by Char lotte Bronte, this writer concludes that, until the nineteenth century dolls were neglected by English authors and that th?y appear more fre quently in French than in English fiction. Dickens seems to have had mors to say about dolls than any other English author; but the doll Nobby is an important personage in Mr. Wells "Peter and Joan," and the dolls' house in "Tono-Bungay" contained 85 dolls although with none of them does th? ^ reader become personally acquainted. 3 Jerry and Rosa, in "The Golden Age,' T are also remembered. * t German Farming Methods. t Germany may have led the world In c some branches of technical skill but her farming methods left much to be r desired if the bitter contempt poured upon them by a Bunyip soldier can ~ serve as a standard. Bunyip, Victoria, Australia, is proud of its knowledge of soil culture, and 17 months spent as a prisoner of war at threepence a day on a farm in Silesia, Germany, made one of its finest citizens more convinced than ever that Bunyip is always best. When he returned to Australia and applied for a farm he was asked, as a joke, if he could give a reference from his previous employer. His reply would have been gall and wormwood to the Silesian. r united outcs oca statistics. The census of 1910 showed 2,691,978 more males than females in the United States. In all but Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and the District of Columbia, the males are in excess. In all the world females are a little in excess. The reverse in America is evidently due to the excess in male immigration. Breaking It Gently. "You were discharged?" "No, indeed!" "But you lost your job." "It happened this way: The boss informed me in the kindest possible manner that there would be no limit set for tny vacation this year." Airplane Service in Australia. A company has been formed in Australia t~ conduct an airplane passenger and freight service among the principal I cities of the commonwealth. I Colds Cause Grip and Infineon LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the saose. There is only one "Bromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S ?igoatnre on box. 30c. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines awestock LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works Supply Store. AUGUSTA. GA. A. B. UTSEY INSURANCE Bamberg, S. C. You Do More Work, f ifou are more ambitious and you get more jnjoyment out of everything when your blood is in good condition. Impurities in :he blood have a very depressing effect on :he system, causing weakness, laziness, lervousness and sickness. 3ROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC :estores Energy and Vitality by Purifying ind Enriching the Blood. When you feel ts strengthening, invigorating effect, see low it brings color to the cheeks and how t improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. 3ROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC s not a patent - medicine, it is simply EON and QUININE suspended in Syrup. >o pleasant even children like it. The ilood needs Quinine to Purify it and IRON :o Enrich it These reliable tonic propirties never fail to drive out impurities in he blood. rhe Strength-Creating Power of GROVE'S rASTELESS Chill TONIC has made it he favorite tonic in thousands of homes, dore than thirty-five years ago, folks vould ride a long distance to get GROVE'S rASTELESS Chill TONIC when a nember of their family had Malaria or leeded a body-building, strength-giving onic. The formula is just the same tolay, and you can get it from any drug itore. 60c per bottle. RILEY & COPE LAND I Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copland's Store 3AMBERG. 8. C. BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS *? av #* /i priaiia - II IS StKIUUS I Some Bamberg People Fail to Realize the Seriousness of a Bad Back. The constant aching of a bad hack, The weariness, the tired feeling, The pains and aches of kidney lLls | May result seriously if neglected. Dangerous urinary troubles often lollow. A Bamberg citizen shows you what x> do. Mrs. J. A. Miller, Main St., Bam. >erg, says: "I know from experience hat Doan's Kidney Bills are a right ' rood remedy and I am only too glad o endorse them. One of the first lymptoms of kidney trouble in my :ase was sharp, digging pains In the imall of my back. Every day the rouble became more and more agrravating until I could hardly stand t. I felt miserable. I could hardly ret around to attend to miy housework, is I always telt weak and irritable, dy kidneys needed attention in the vorst way and when Doan's Kidney >ills were recommended to me I ised them. I only took about three >oxes of Doan's Kidney Pills, but hev got down to the seat of the rouble and put my kidneys In good londitlon again." 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Mirbnna !o., Mfgra. Buffalo, N. Y. TITEHOLD Cedar Sbiogle 100 Per Cent Heart Sash, Doors, Mantels, Lime and Brick JL ...Call At... BRICKLES GARAGE i L.B. FOWLER | i 1 he* ** I L>?<r k ^afieMostBe The average man today a good automobile is a sc He readily recognizes tb work accomplished, ener The size of these dividen Paige cars offer a most price field is there a m< greater assurance of dep PAIGE-DETROIT MOTC THOM a A set for i Ail efficient dependable g ?simple in construction?i in operation and selling foi Here is the TRACTOR e^ and we are now ready to b< January 1st. We want one live agent us and the right man can s< sive selling rights. If You are that ma: AUTO MOTI CORP. OF Oin Pnor>l S+rooi" _L can uwv/vi This ad will n< ^** ^^J'wF"S iiri^ ^afflfflfffl^B^lr ^H|h iaa does not need to be convinced that ^ >und investment in a practical utility. at the dividends are in time saved, gy conserved and health promoted. .ds depends on the car and its maker, attractive investment because in no Die. generous measure of quality, a jendable service. ; )R CAR CO., DETROIT, MICHIGAN - ; \ # V \ AS BLACK CO. 1MBERG, 8. O. r ?< i isation 1920 N I liaranteed FARM TRACTOR \ ' remarkable in action?skillful * less than $500.00. perybody has been waiting for ook orders for deliverey after i \ in this territory to represent ecure a contract giving exclu- J I! n write or wire today. f VE TRACTOR AMERICA | Buffalo, N. Y. r t 3t appear again _ ! I ^ j.