Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i ' i LAN I VOL. IX. v <M L Bloody t Your heart heats over one hundred thousand times each day. k One hundred thousand suppliesof good or bad blood to your brain. ? Which is it? f If bad, impure blood, then your brain aches. You are troubled with drowsiness yet cannot sleep. You are as tired in the morning tas at night. You have no nerve \ 'power. Your food does you but little good. Stimulants, tonics, hcadacheV powders, cannot cure you; but fl ? i # [will. It makes the liver, kidneys, [ 'skin and bowels perform their proper work. It removes all impurities from the blood. And it makes the blood rich in its lifegiving properties. , To Hasten ' Recovery. "f You will be more rapidly cured if you will take a laxative dose of Ayer's pills each night. They 'j arouse the sluggish liver and thus cure biliousness. \ I WrMm to our Doctor*. ^ k W* haro tlie oxcluilve (errtre* of r ' enroe of tho moit eminent pliydclana In /A the United State*. Write freely all the . particular* lu your caee. I 1 W Addr*.., 1>U. J. O. ATF.R. ' A , Lowell, Maaa. ^ :n x a Registration Notice. rnilK PUBLIC will take notice that X the Registration Books will be opfen, at the Courthouse, for the registration of parties entitled to register I under the constitution, on the. 1st Monday in each month, until 30 days preceding the next general election. W b. A. PORTKH, j-vTS1 Chairman Board Registration, Lancaster Coiinty, S. C., Dec 6, 189S . PL CIO n T Ati n o 1ACIO. LJ. JSJllOOj ATTORNEY AT LAW, 1 LANCASTER. 8. C. Office In the Courthouse. Will \ practice In all theCourts. Prompt ft -^attention will be given all business entrusted. Collections a specialty. jy ir. r\ ' A new lot of New * ' f' : J ? i ? fy tiome sewing machines on hand at this t I consider it no only a pleasure but " a duty I owe to my neighbors to tell about the wonderful cure elFeeted in my case by the timely use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and I)iarrhoeft * Remedy. I was taken very badly with Iflux and procured a bottle of tills remedy. A few doses of it effected a permanent cure. 1 take pleasure in reefy ommending it to others suffering from , that dreaeful disease?J. YV. Lynch, Wl\*?^orr, VV. Va. This remedy is sold by J F. Mac key & Co. OASTORXA. M Bean the * KM Vm Have Aiwa) . Bought rr ja Suicide by poinon is not more cen| surable than by refusal to cure yourS aelf of Female Troubles with Simmons ; Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets. OABTORXA. k Bears Ue y? TM Kin# You Haie Umt Bought ,, ^ f s? ff, ^ ' c . , Jh "4C *. . jV*sV * iASTE ' LANCASTER Thousands of Dollars Made by Cultivation. T. 11 Terry, in l'ructieul Farmer. The time, lias about arrived i when Northern farmers will be[ gin the cultivation of their corn, i potatoes, etc. It is well for us it 1 I ways to remember just what we I are cultivating for. You might J say, to keep the weeds down, ami prevent a crust from forming that would keep air out of the soil, and perhaps to make more plant food available for the crops. That is all right, and still there is another important reason for cultivating, or stirring the surface, that many farmers perhaps do not think much about. In the spring usually the soil and subsoil have in them several hundred tons of water per acre. The earth is well saturated by the rains of winter and spring and the water from melting snow. In the aggregate there is an enormous amount of this. When drying weat her conies ihis water is rapidly evaporated from the soil. If the field is left 'in sod or in stubble unstirred, hundreds of tons of water per acre will soon leave it. As the sun and wind take this away ua iuid nitfH vu neip me crops that I should be on the surface by ( bringing up more water from the subsoil to take the place of that which has evaporated. And soon I this escapes iu a dry time, and more comes up, and so on until the soil is so dry that nothiug can thrive until soaking rains come. | But there is no need of letting this spring moisture escape like this. We can hold much ot it for our crops, it wo care to take the trouble. In fact we can grow pretty fair crops on soil that is in good condition without much regard to the rainfall in the sum| mer, in many cases. The way to go tojwork is to stop the evaporation of this spring moisture as soon as the cultivated land gets drv enouch to nlow in th? anrin?? -r-i ? ? J ?" You know how fast the ground will dry in the spring winds. Soon you can plow. Then unless it rains it gets pretty dry for plow ing. Plow just as fast as possible and harrow land down promptly after plowing. This unnecessary evaporation should be stopped promptly after the land becomes dry enough for plowing. Don't leave the turned furrows to dry out. If a storm comes, harrow the ground that is plowed as soon as ! it gets dry enough again. The | plowed soil and freshly stirred , surface make a sort of mulch that keeps large quantities of water from escaping in the air. Keep watch of this point until ready to plant, and then after planting, until crops come up, use smoothing harrow, or weeder, and stir the surface as soon as dry enough aftor every shower, ar wet spell. | And later use weeders and cultivators with small teeth that 6tir the soil and let it fall back level again. Don't let a crust form. Don't let the ground remain unstirred and get hard and dry after a rain. t*. - ? ? iv in t* Boriuui loss oiienumes. Don't be afraid to work ; that is what brings the profits. If a shower comes to-day, and to-morrow morning the surface is dry enough to stir with weeder or cultivator, stir it promptly, no matter if you did go over it the day before the showsr. If it doesn't rain after v . "f R EN SEIBI-WEEKIaY. Sr'cT.^SATU RDAY, yon have been over a field do not consider your work done until the next shower conies, but stir it again any way within a week. The .surface will settle witin a week, usually, 8'i it does not form so perfect a mulch as when freshly stirred. No matter if the top is all dust, keep at work from the beginning of the season to the end. Incidentally, don't you see you will surely keep weeds down and let in the air and liberate plant food? But you might easily cultivate so as to keep all weeds down and not check evaporation well at ali. This latter work must be done as told of above. Water gradually rises in the soil to take the place of that drawn out by the growing plants and by the sun. It rises through the little spaces between the particles of settled soil, just as it rises in a piece of hard sugar when you dip one end in water. It will not rise much, if any, through soil that is loosened up or stirred by harrow, weeder or cultivator, until it becomes somewhat settled again. And the liner you can make this stirred surface mulch, the more good it will do. Soil stirred up in chunks and ridges will dry out much deeper than soil that is about level and very line like sand. So in a dry time we have used a board attached in rear of cultivator so as to rub down the surface, makingit all line and level. Now such thorough cultivation will pay under good management, whatever the season, because it. Keeps down weeds and helps the crop anyway. In the line of checking evaporation alone it would not always pay, because once in a while we have rain enough, and then there are Rome places, like New .Jersey, where the rainfall is very evenly distributed. In most of the northern states, however, this is not the case. Our crops often suffer for weeks at a time for water, or for plant food that they can only get through water. Attention to this matter may be made to keep them growing and thriving quite steadily. This is no idle theory, my dear frinds. Eighteen years ago by careful attention to these points we had crops that were the surprise of the country, although we were sur rounded with failure. Ohio farmeis and many others suffered terribly that dry season. We juot coined money in the potato field, and our wheat crop brought more money per acre ($57) than it ever did before or ever has since. This was on account of the high price caused by short crops, while we had about as large a yield as ever. The wheat crop came from carrying out a little further the same point brought before you in this article. During the past twenty years we have made several thousand dollars by attention to this matter. With ordinary tillage, not understanding or thinking just what we were working for, we should not have got this money. There isn't much luck about crop growing, as a rule. If we do our part thoroughly well from beginning to end in every single particular, according to the best that is known, we may have large crops without much regard to the season. This is written with the hope of encouraging very many to do their best in tillage this season. I We will talk about the depth of ^ 0 ? Pf ERF MAY <3, 1899. RoY4 Absolutely ! ' . ' ; * : > - -{ 1 Mokes the food more d ?ov*i ??mworc = this tillage nevt week. , Spreading Manure as Made.? J. P. Morgan. Niantic, Conn., writes: "My land has a black sandy loam sol), with a gravelly subsoil. It is practically level, with no rocks and scarcely any loose stones. With 12 or 14 2 horse loads of manure plowed under it will bring 50 bushels of shelled corn per acre. Would ymi, uu mis Kilid oi land, Cart out all kinds of manure as made through tlio winter and spread it where wanted for crops the following spring, or put it in rail pens through the winter, as 1 now do? There is no covering over the pons. L'igs are kept on the manure. Would not manure put on say December 1 leach out of the reach of crops and potatoes be fore 1 plow, early in April V If you do not put on more than .S or 10 tons of good manure per acre, and if it is spread evenly and finely on a heavy sod, it is not likely that your following crops will fail to get any to speak of, This sod may he grass, clover, rye, etc. Unless there is an excess of manure the roots of the sood will take up the soluble portions that leach down and prevent loss practically. You see in frozen weather when the roots are dormant there would be no leaching. I feel sure that you will get decidedly better returns from yuur manure put on in this way than you will where it is put on in the spring. Of course there may be land so sandy and gravelly that there would be some leaching, but yours produces too good crops to be of that character. But I would not advise you to spread the manure on bare land. There might not bo much loss in your latitude, but it is no! the safest and best way. We spread much of our best manure on sod in the fall to be plowed the following spring, and feel no fear of loss. The packed manure is from 3 to 4 feet deep over most of the lloor of our manure shed now. It is kept over simply be cause it is better for us, on account of rolling land and absence of help in the winter, to put it all on at once in the fhll, rather than from day to day the winter be fore. But the shelter from rair and packing by stock and use ol I land plaster prevent any Iorb You see we hold our manure ovei a year nearly for our own con venience, but put it on a gooc while ahead of plowing, just as 1 advise you to do. We could no 1 got as good results putting it or ' in the spring, and it would cost a much more, as time is more val ' uable. I have seen and heard o numerous experiments along thi line and almost invariably tin 1 corn and potatoes are best when ' the manure was applied to sot i I some months ahead of plowing 1 It geta distributed through th 1 soil in better shape for the root 1 to feed on than when it ia turne* under fresh. Science says so, an* practice has proyen it correct. y? fc: *t *<tv?.<' f NO 16 lgtame ; ^ Powder pure ; eltcious and wholesome rwpFW CO., NEW YORK. PICKPOCKETS IN JAIL. Another Arrest Made by the Police Yesterday Morn inc. The suspected pickpocket, who was arrested Tuesday afternoon was brought before Mayor pro tem Earle yesterday morn log. The young fellow swaggered into court with a Bowery air and a sullen look 011 his face. The major pro tem ordered him to take ~ir i.:_ u?. __ 1? L--I i- * wu iii* ii.iu i?r uti neiu in concern pi. The prisoner did so with evident had grace, saying that he wanted to get justice, etc. When the fellow's lawyer, Col P. II. Nelson, arrived, he was arraigned for disorderly conduct, at the depot when arrested. This charge was not proven, and Mr. Earle fined the prisoner $o0 or 40 days in jail for contempt of court. The pickpocket, who gives his name as E. Kent, was arraigned before Magistrate Clarkson on the charge of larceny from the person.. Mayor Earle withdrew his fine for contempt in order that the county authorities could i dispose of the case. The fact that Kent was able to employ a lawyer, or that he had friends who could do so in secret looked ugly, and yesterday morn$17 was found secreted on his person. The express package which he had shipped the day before was directed to II. Wright, Boston. It was shown in the evi, dence that Kent was chased out of the car, letters in his pocket , is, Edward Cornell, from St. Paul , Minn. lie had robbed, and that he had been seen to throw away the nnckethonk. , Upon this evidence he waH re( mauded to jail to await trial. Sergeant Sweringen and Oflicer > M acDonald arrested another pick, pocket^yesterday morning. The I name he gave, which wassubstan( tiated by letters from St. Paul, , Minn. lie had $37.15 in his pocket when arrested. I Cornell was caught with his . hand in the pocket of Mr. Z. S. . Gibson, of Gibson, Lee county, # Virginia. Mr. Gibson grabbed I this thief's hand and throttled him until the officers arrived. The extreme penalty of the law x will probably be visited upon ^ those rascals.?State. Hearing-Down Pains indicate disf placement ot tbe Womb. Curable . quickly by using Simmans Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets. [! oastohia. 1 Bear* the j* ^8 Kind You Have Always Bought ; rr <2?*jf$gS55' P Humiliating KxaminatiotiH by physicians are avoided by the use of sim8 inons 8(iuaw Vine Wine or Tablets, which cures 09 out of every KM) cases 0 of Female Disorders. 1 If "Out of Sorts," Cross and Peevish, take I)r. M. A. Simmins Liver Medicine. Cheerfulness will return and life 0 squires new zest. 1 Heath, Strength and nerve Force folj low the use of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine, which insures good I Digestion aau Assimilation. ' ' ' I ' & %+ * V, * .