The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, June 12, 1901, Image 4

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Mo oOOo c?OoOCOf ? ? '?? 00 ?' OQ ' 1 A MOUNTAIN | SIREN \j By Joho Wirj :')rop Greco O ?.<- . ? \j 0 Copyright, 1U0I, by ? o jvhu Winthrop II recn g OOooOOooOOooOOooOOooOOo^C-.". When u maii has it story to toll, I bo< Hove be should ho permitted lo loll it in his own way ami that the render should not StlOOf und criticise because the teller tutist uso the personal pro noun and perhaps refer lo his porcop tlotl or his prowess. If it is his ad venture, how ?an he avoid Baying, "i did thus or so':" If his courage pulled htlll out of ll tight plaee, why seid? lo demean It? A man is what he Is. If things have happened to Ii 1 in which may 00 of Interest to others, let htm write them as they took plaee, wheth er he was n hero or a eraveii. Your atlas will . how you that the eastern Carpathian mountains form a portion of the boundary lino between Bervla and Bulgarin, If yon cross any where to the north of IMrot, you must cross the inugo. In my wanderings afoot 1 had planned to cross the range by the public load between Pirol and Nlssn, but for three days I was n guest nt a pom- little wnyshle Inn in the shad ow of the foothills. This inn differed III 110 llegroo fr< 111 a hundred others, be ing only a wretched apology lor a house of entertainment, but I had made a long tramp and wanted a breathing ?peil before the long and rugged as cent. The landlord was a silent, morose man, giving me little attention, ami his wife was a sloven w ith a face which a man would look at twice only for its wickedness. The beds and the tare were of the meatiest, but as I had ex pected nothing better I was not disap pointed. On tho second day of my nrrlvnl a ? I was walking along tho hanks of n stream half n mile from the inn an English podestrinn came along. Thai Is, lie wns a pedestrian In the sense thnt lit' was afoot. As SOOII as ho learned who I was ho told ino Ihftt 11 cousin of Iiis had Journeyed Hint wny three months hefore, hut had my.storh onsly disappeared. The missing man hod been traced as far as Plrot. Ho was Known to have set out for the mountain road, hut ho could not ho traced Into Bulgaria. Somewhere on the mountain trail he lia>l vnnlshed from sight. The story did not Interest me overmuch. Vmerlcnn nnd Ungllsh pedestrians abroad have a hahll of dis appearing from the world now and then, nnd it is learned later on that they were tucked away In some oh pen re inn or camped amid some old ruin. Tho searcher passed on to my Inn and made Inquiries nnd two hours later Informed mo that ho had secured no news. That evening a second searcher ar rived. 114? was a native Servian, living at I.eskovntZ, and had been hin d l>y a frenchman to prosecute Inquiries re garding tho disappearance of a young man of 20 who was making a pedestri an lour. Indeed 1 soon recalled the fact of meeting the young man at Si meildrln two months previously. lie had headed for the Carpathians nnd Bulgaria, and ho had also disappeared on the mountains. Even when tho two disappearances woro coupled ( ??.ret her I saw nothing alarming. It was not Ulltll the third day that I foil I had cause for speculation. Then a police official who had been sent out from Novlhazar hy the widowed mother of a young man who had dlsappenred as mysteriously as the other two reached the Inn. This young man. who simply Ret out for a two weeks' tramp in oi'dei to honst of having crossed the (,'arpa thlnns, had been traced to within five miles of the Inn, but the landlord nnd his wife stoutly denied that he had ever reached It. There were roads hy which he could have branched ofl nnd continued Ids way, but yet the nfll elal was not satisfied. lie frankly told lue that he believed young 11 nil had come to the inn nnd been nuido nwnj with for the money he carried. I had m en nothing suspicious, nnd ho had in real grounds for an accusation, but In went away, saying that he would tin vi the place watched. I was ready to take my departure on the fourth day, when there was n sud den ?hange In the demeanor of tin landlord and his wife. All at once the} became obsequious and smiling und Solicitous. A nice lunch was put up foi nie, ami they refused pay for it. I wns Riven the clearest directions and was told that almost as soon us 1 had begun the ascent of the mountain I would find an Interesting ruin a little off tin road. It was something 1 ought not b ndss. and they kept extolling it until I promised to turn aside. I set off III good spirits, though wondering a bit a to the sudden and singular i hange in the people of the inn. ami by nooX) I had covered a distance of 12 mllna. I passed two Inns without stopping am! likewise three or four peasants' htils nnd when 1 sat down to rest it wan on a large stone by the roadside and cAos< beside one of the branches of the iXan uhe. I nibbled at lunch as 1 retted and I had been sitting perhaps 20 snln UtOfl when a young woman with a fis! pole In her hand suddenly appeared. 1 gave her good day as (| matter ol course ami was not much surprised w hen she laid down her pole and catm And sat. beside me and begat) to as) questions. She was a peasant girl o i about 24, heller dressed and bette looking than the average, and In ml dressing a ?trnnger she broke no rid of conventionality according to th peasant code. I invited her to shno my lunch, and presently we were chat ting away like old acquaintances. In many instances the peasants o' Servln had displayed more curioslt* than a horn S'ankoe, but this girl wen deeper than any of them. Some of lie questions were answered and sonn turned aside, bllt she certainly came |i know a good deal about inc. I was I) single man, and I had not ootnmunl rated with my friends for months. 1 was Strolling from point to point to Study the pcoplo and see the country and was not expected at any particular point in Bulgarin. Peasant though she was, niie had the gift <>f a lawyer In extracting Information. An hour slip ped away, and then n man appearejl. lie wns also (Ishlllg or pretending (o, Und ?h he eame in ?igln ?he called him, nnd he joined oh und was Introduced n? her in-other, a glance from face t<> face nindo me doubt tho? relationship. In my own mind 1 figured (hut he was her husband. He tried to smile und show ii pleasant face, hut I Instinctive, ly fell Hint he wns- n ntsenl. lie bad fl furtive eye ?iml it had month, nnd 1 thought i caught signals between the pair, Buch n thing us fear, however, hud no place In my heart. I had no weapon aside from my stout stick, hut i I was afraid of no man by daylight on | a rmbllc hlghwny. I was ready to move on when (lit- wo man Bpoke of the enstlo ruins. They woro only a step away, aho said, und If I missed them I wouhl$jf aorrju fore vor ^^^J^h^Mu^n^to^n^MmN^ ?nation, bot a* I v*ss ready to ^o with thorn ho claimed to hovo loft his Unlfo a hundred rods away and Bot <?ut after il mid loft tin* two of us to wull; on to gether, from tho moment wo Btartod 1 noticed a change Iii her. Sho looked lib nit upprohensivoty, her laughter was forcodi und her demeanor put mo on my guard, it was as if sin- expected Uio to ho Shot down from ambush. Had Iii en ii a I in it ri ? V>\ 1 imt In-i ll ublo t<> si i- (In- old ruins ah most as soon as wo started I should have doubled that they existed. As It was I fount! myself wondering If this pair was in any manner connected with the disappearance of the tourists. 1 was mi my guard for what might happen, and yet 1 did not betray my s. Ii. I kept up the conversation as wo walked along, and I am sure she took mo for an easy victim. 1 rather ex peeled lo ho tired <>n from behind BOtuo rock as soon as wo wore off tho road, hut by am! by wo hoard Ibo man call big from Iho ruins, und I realized Ihut tho ninhush would 1??- there If any win re. as we halt? d ? > tho plateau It was t as,; n> mnke out tliat a vast building ha I sit >d there once 1 shouhl have said a monastery, but the woman Insisted that it was a great castle he? longing to some mighty prince and tbnt ll had been d< .troyod by an earth* quake, We wandered among tho acre of ruins as wo talked a? wo nenred what must have been thu rear of tho building I found Hint the walls stood almost on the brink of a precipice. He fore us was what had been a large room, with three of tho walls yet standing. There were 110 less than live window openings, and as 1 advanced to one of them the woman said: "No; iahe this one. My brother has hull! a platform from which you can look up and down the valley for Hilles." A peculiar something in her voice caused me to glance at her face, and 1 found it pale and her features working In a nervous way. It was the window, Iben, which was the ambush. My heart heal against my ribs, but 1 meant to see the thin;: to a finish. Tho man had called to us. Put we had not -..?en him since arriving at the ruins With a laugh which sounded more llk< a croak toe woman pulled herself to g, ilier and preceded me lo the window. Tu reach the opening we had to climb up three stone steps, and she stood for D moment looking out and clinging tc lite w all for support. "You will see a line view?a flno \ i w." she said as she made room foi mo. "Step out and look up nnd down." I did not step out. There was some thing so modern about that platform ami it nnd been built so deftly that 1 feared it. 1 simply clung to the wall and thrust my head out, and I was looking up the valley when the woman gave me a push with all her strength. I tor hands did not strike me fair or my hold would have been broken. 1 was whirled half way round and part I-. thrown down, but as 1 recovered my footing I swept her aside with my arm. and ehe wont to the ground, with a scream. Next instant the man came dashing through the doorway In the wall. He had a knife in his hand, and hi savant murder. I leaped down to i.KMffii him that 1 might have free play fu4T ?,y staff, and I believe wo battled Ujt ten minutes. Still lying on the g.;*3Ua?.l. the woman seized my legs ami tt'ieAPo pull me down, but 1 kicked her aurs?y und gave all my attention to the mat. Aye, but that fellow was crafty n j4 t II . ,nous and determined. lind 1 f<j*agtW him with a knife he would soon lujfe (< ttled me. It was the stout stafl wtilcS kept him off. and It was the staff Which finally dealt him a blow that Inld him out unconscious. I look ed for tho woman as I stopped to breathe, but she had disappeared. I went over to the w indow and examin ed the platform ami found that It wns sustained by a lever which could be pulled out and allow the bottom to drop. As the man began to return to ?b I lifted up my staff and beat him till 1 was weary, and then I went my Way up the mountain road. That am bush had gathered at least three vic tims, but It was not for mo to carry a mystery to the police and be detained In a lllthy jail for months or yearr while they took their time to solve it. Gntnptlon About Covra. Farm Journal folks figure that a cow giving 5,000 pounds of 1 per cent milk will produce only $50 worth of butter, while one that will produce? 8,000 pounds of B per rent milk will produce $100 worth Of butter, and her calf Is worth three times as much as that of the first. There will he little difference In the !0Sl of keeping the two cows, so that where the fust gives a profit of $;$0 the 'alter will net the owner $100, If W0 count the first cow's calf at $10 and the other at $.10. Some people do not think there is much difference in cows, but some cows forged to pay tholr hoard hills, while others lake great pleasure In supplying the table With luxuries, pay ing tin Interest, clothing tho baby and paying Iho hired girl. In tlcorgin, on account ot tno itaoin ty of excessive rains during Juno Of filly, il would appear advisable in the present stale of our know ledge to make al least four sprayings to Insure the greatest freedom from peach rot. Pro fessor A. I,. Qtllllfnnco recommends the following c alendar: ? First.-Spiny With bordeaux mixture, just before blossoming. Second.?Spray with bordeaux mix ture ns soon us bloom hits entirely dropped, adding two ounces of purls green for o.ieh ?o gallons of water. Third. ? Spray with bordeaux mix ture ten days or two weeks before time of ctdorlng. fourth.- Spiny with copper ucotato when fruit begins to color. -1 ?*? A fine promise for wheat nnd a gen I orally good hay outlook was American Agriculturist's summary at the begin ning of May. A miniature Louisiana rlcefleld, with canal, pumps and thrashing machine, Just ns found in I he < 'row ley district, is ono of tho unlquo features devised for AN UNOFFICIAL COHRESPONDKNCU. ! Senator Tillman and Governor McSwceney ivxehanging Com pliments. ?tua or Tdlmiu tent the followiug reply to Govtrnor Mcdvtuiey'b letter relative lo ihc resignations. 11 u opens a new pbaso <>f the questions involved by BUggtsiiig i 't tuo Senate Itself Diigbt lake up the mailer lbs letter >? as follows : Tuknton.H 0.. June 5 1001 Iii? r-xcelhncy, Alika b. McSweeLoy, Columbia, s c Dear t>ir: I am in rtcelpt of your telegram ?u which ? you say '1 under I Bland Senator MoLauriu's letter to bo a withdrawal of bin resignation,' aud I have read ibat worthy's conununieation in which he gmciously consents, 'tit your r*o?l" st lo bold on to his commis bIou hb United states .Senator aud con tinue to serve the State u-< he -has done in the pant to the heal of his ability.' This leaves me our of Ihreen ternativca: To appeal to the Democratic executive couiiniUee lo take the mailer up and determine what the hett Interests < f ino parlv u quire to be done ; lo appeal to the Senate itself to determine the ques tion as to whether a resignation from that body to take i Meet at Home fuluic time is binding ; or withdraw my own roBtgi. itto!? There are no prec.udeuts ou this subject, because iu the hundred aud twenty livo ycaia of our national life, with more than two hundred resig nations from the Senate, no Senator has hitherto been willing to occupy the despicable attitude now assumed by Sen ator McLmuin aud forced ou me. 1 am curtain of one thing, that the executive of a ?tatc liikH no authority to dccliuu >i resignation Unit has been tendered, aud I am iquilly certain that bad your ox coilency couflntd your actiou within legal hounds that your appointees would be seated in the Bcuato wheu that body meets in December, and bold their scala until ilo- Legislature should act in Janu ary. My chief regtet is that 1 am forced, by your action to engage in what tho oulbidu world will consider a gatno of opera bouffo by withdrawing my own resignation after Senator McLaurin's mi dignified and puerile action, hut tho pur pose fo?* which it was tendered has been thwarted by Senator McLaurin'B pre olpltOUB acceptance of executive advice Bob Acres has been outdone for once. Ab 1 have already said, 1 had no motive or purpose in resigning except to force McLaurin, and there is nothing for me to do but accept tho situation aud with draw my resignation, if it be lawful to do so. Yours respectfully, 11 R TlLI.MAN. Governor McSwccney made the fol lowing reply to HUman's previous letter, and says he will accept an unconditional resignation from Tillman, if he desires to resign: COLUMMA, S. 0 , June 5. Sh : Your litter of Juue 1st has been received. 1 have carefully noted its o in tents and the niost charilab e view which 1 can take of it is that it whs written in the heal of passion and without due consideration. 1 note that you siy that I have " transcended " my authority and that the Governor "cannot compel a mem ber of the United SlatcB Senate to hold tiis commission and exercise the func lions of that olliee," if lie cIiooscb to sur render it. My sole purpose in returning the resignations was to aek you gentle men to consider calmly and thoroughly the consequences for the people of what I judged to be a hasty act, and what you aomit lo have been a hasty act, and 1 must confess that I am somewhat sur prised at the I ne of your answer to my request. 1 eoiibidertd the course which I took in this matter to be for Hie best interests of the people of South Carolina, and 1 am responsible to them alone for my action. And furthermore I still believe ibat my course has met tho approval of a majority of the citizens of the State Nor do I consider them " unthinking citizens," but men who know and recog also as fully as any people on earth the rights aud duties and responsibilities ot Citizenship and do not need the Bor Vices of any one to tell them their duty Your insinuate u that 1 have been " im portuned to await the convenience " of any present or would-be aspirants who are " not just yot ready, for various rea sons, to enter the conloBt brought on so unexpectedly," and that for this reaBou my actions have taken the direction they have, is unworthy of a man holding the high commission which has been given you by the people ot South Caro lina, and deserves uolico in this connec tion. However, I may say for your benefit that 1 alone am responsible for my reply and will give account for the course I have taken to the people who have honored mo, and not to any one individual. In iiiis matter I have douo what I thought best calculated tC promote the present prosperity and conlcutment of ihe people of my Stale and shall continue to do bo regardless of whai any one man may say or think of my course 1 did not think that a political campaign this summer could do any good. However had the resignations been unconditional and unrestricted, my action might have been otherwise. With due respect foi your opinion, I think I have, as high " conception of tho olllco of Senator aud its powers " as you or any other citizen of the Stato, and you must have known that tho brief interview to which you refer meant that I would simply meet the responsibility and perform my duly under the conditions If you still wish to rcBign your commission and will send to this olllco an unconditional resigna lion, I will exercise tho authority and power vested in me by the people. Respectfully, M. B. McSwkknky, Governor. A Gloomy Picture.?Tim follow ing from the Eldorado (Kas.) Republi can, a Ilepub'lcan paper, does not read ,:ke a prosperity argument: "When tho cold wave comes?ind it will come; when financial dhtress hits every business man in the land?and it will hit; when the seven lean kmc arc turned loose?and they will ho turned ?all the blooming idiots who nave blown llicir millions and billions into licsc balloon trusts will he annihilated as quickly as a doll paper houso in a Texas tornado; while tho disttess to no brought upon Iho country will cause ?if not a revolution?something vory nearly approaching one. Judgment day will come to ail theso billion dol lar hot air schemes and it will come, with a force and power that will shake the financial world from end to end; ind the fortunes that will he swallowed up will ho counted by billions. Wi i" vc bad panics before, but all of thcru combined will not ho a patching com pared lo the one that is hound to fol low this criminal inflation of every thing on iho earth; and it will call out all the cold storage patriotism in the country to save it from destruction. ?A Sunday school class of ovor 4,000 was present at tho Dunkard National <'onferon.ee at Lincoln, Nob ,on Sunday. Tao meeting was in chargo of a com mittoo of throe oldors, who nerved more in the capacity of suporlntondonts than us teachers Following tho Sunday school cawo preaching services in tho hig tabernacle, making an almost c >n tinuous services throughout tho day and evening. ?The Japaneso now manufactnro largo quantities of boots and shots and send abroad to Southern Kuropo and Africa some .'10,000 yen ($15 000) worth annually. Those boots and shoes avor ago about 75 conts a pair. Ttaoy are beginning to do an oxport trado In gloves, bats, caps and bonnets, colti n aUi/^^dstocklngB^j^_ 1 THIS WIDOW OF WADDY THOMPSON. A Victim of the Great and Diaas troua Fire in Jacksonville, Fin. J The Jacks- uviile Times Uuiou has ' the following sketch of Ueu. Waddy Thompson, a brilliant anc" distinguished lawyer In (Jrceuville for miaiy years, WliOSti widow fella victim to the tlamcs in the recent destructive tire in that city: lire dods Hpl Illustration in Hie fact that many incidents connected with i'. which ordinarily would have excited widespread attention and comment, were forgotten or ignored in the pre sence of the vital and urgeut emergen cies a Inch the people of the city were Compelled to face, and face promptly. Tno tragic death of Mis Thompson, widow ol Oca Waddy Thompson, in the Home for the Aged, was duly noted in the press, together with the pathetic OilCUIUBtaucCB of the finding oT her re mains hy one of the old servants of the family. What man or woman then In Jacksonville paused to impure who this lady was or what watt her history? Of course those who knew her or in one way or another were connected with her, manifested their Interest, hut, to the public mind ho much wuh it engross ed with the larger and nearer results of tno conflagration, even the statement that Bho was the "widow of (tonend Thompson" failed to cause the slightest show of curiosity, And yet the lime was when the husband of this lady was one t f the dUluiguished actors in the nubile affairs of the nation, a leader in Congress, au bUtinout d plomalist and the author of a book that hail much to do in Hhaniuu the nolicv of the Unilcd Stales in ti critical time, and,consequent ly ia moulding its later history. Mrs Thompson wus a Miss Cornelia Jones the daughter of a prominent clti ?/.en of Wlllniinglou,N C. Dor husband, Gen. Waddy Thompson, was a son of a | lawyer of note of tlie same name at I'll kens courthouse, the oounty site of Pirkons County, one of the extreme northwestern, lfiuo Hid go mountain counties of South Carolina General Thompson was horn in l'iekens in 17?S, graduated at the South Carolina College I in 1814, practiced law at Greenville, S C, was a hri liant lawyer and orator, and was a member of the Legislature of South Carolina from lH'ill to 1MIM, during the troublous days of nullification He was also about that time, appointed a brigadier general of militia, and in that period of intonBo political excitement such a position meant more than it docs now. General Thompson was, politically, a staunch Whig, and in 1885 was elected a member of the national llouso of liopro BOUtattveS, when: he served until 1842, for a part of the time as chairman of the committee on military affairs. There his Hplendid forensic talents and legal attainments at once brought him into a position of commanding lufluonce, und in all the important debates of tin: day he waB one of the conspicuous figures. At that period of American history Hie Mexican question was acute, the war with Mexico following a lilt e later In IH42 General Thompson was sent to that country as American Minister, and in licit position his ability again found opportunity for display. During Iiis term of three or four years he negotiated two important treaties, through one of which two hundred Texan prisoners in Mexico were liberated. Ituturning in 184(1, he published Recollections of Mexico, a work which tound instant and witle circulation, especially among public men Newspapers were scarce in those days, the Mexican war was im minent, ami the hook gave the Amcri can people* a clearer ami more compre hensive viewof Mexican conditions than could possibly have heen obtained through any oilier source It still re tains a rccoirni/.ed historical value Five- miles from Iho city of Grccnvil e, 8. 0., iB Iho UUO of Fiiris Mountain, n picturesquely isolaleii spur of ihe Blue Hidgc, some 2,f>U0 feet high. Two miles j up the mouutaiu side the road leads hy an abaudoued held of two or three acres eurrouudcd hy a rude wall made of un- I hewu rocks loosely thrown together. There are tho traces of the chimneys of a house long since gone, and hero and ! there stand a few ancient and uukept ! fruit and ornamental trees From the Bite of tho house a glorious view of Held and valley, hill and farm, extending for Bixty miles, with the cily of Urocuvillo rcsplcudcul in the bunlight just beneath, greets and charms the eye, while, break iug the tkylino at different purls of the panorama, are curling columns of smoke from many great cotton mills. To the north and west some twenty miles did taut rise, tier upon tier, the azure, forest c ad peaks of the Blue Hidge, and to the visitor, at their foot, is pointed out the "Dark Corner" of Greenville County, where thv moonshiner, even in these latter days, still finds a fastness in the dales, where tho mountain vendetta has not lost its vogue, and where the rill hall sometimes liada a rcaling place in the heart of the unwary revenue olliccr This former mansion on tin. mountain's brow was the home of Geu. Waddy Thompson, a homo where for years and tens of years the leader and the makers of political thought in the always militant Palmetto Blate were wont lo onjoy a princely hospitality, aud which had for its welcome guests scores of the brightest minds that illumed Am r can pub ic lifo of that period. Could the gray stones of the old wall hut speak, what stories they could tell of a Slates manship whoso skeleton only survives in tho cold vaults of r? corded history - what sparklo of wit and repartee would Hash down to us from the gatherings of brilliant intellects met and wedded in good fellowship I Of this mountain homo, Mrs. Cornelia Thompson, the agod lady ,'ho mot her sad fate in tht Harnes that consumed tho Home for the Agod during the great Jacksonville con tlagration, iu a last effort to save a few mementoes of her distinguished bus band, was tho noble matron and mis tress. General Thompson owned a winter home in Florida, and spent the iatoi years of his lifo in the. Btato. lie died in Tallahassee in 1H0S. A tobacco company contributed foi the comfort of tho Confederate vete rans during their reunion at Memphis, Teun., 2,00(1 pounds of smoking to bacco, 10,000 pipes nnd 10,000 boxes of matches. Tho tobacco alone was worth 00 cents a pound, jobbing rales. The 2,000 pounds was divided into 10,000 rations. Another company gave tho veterans 14,000 rations of chewing tobacco. Gray Hair u I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for over thirty years. It has kept my scalp free from dandruff and has prevented my hair from turn ing gray." ? Mrs. F. A. Sonic, Hillings, Mont. There is this peculiar thing about Ayer's Hair Vigor?it is a hair food, not a dye. Your hair does not suddenly turn black, look dead and lifeless. But gradually the old color comes back,?all the rich, dark color it used to have. The hair stops falling, too. tl.N ? bottle. All ?rafftet?. If your druftjtUt cannot supply you, Hnd ua on* dollar and we will exprcaa you a bottl?. Ho aar? and pi vo the nimo of your nearm ?-pr<>aa office. Addrca, J.V.A Vit CO., Lowell, Hau No crop in he 'grown without Potash. Supply enough Pot ' "\^^;?',A\T'; 1 a y?ur ^ ^???* large; without ?<3ri? Potash your crop will be "scrubby." TO Our books, lelliltg nltoul r?mi|Hi n ion <>l l<n lirori ix>ji adapted !<>i .ill < ru|?, lire Iruu >?? nil luruiur*. GERMAN K M l \V< ?HKS, Ol N.i .s.iii Si., \ ii!i. TR U Ii R U It AI, IN D I? Pli N DI; NC E The Greatest Revolution in Farm ing Since the Days ol Abraham. In the World's Work for May Is (he description of u typ > id, well orgnniz d, small hirm in Hie Central Wesl, whore electricity, modern machinery and good management have winked a Wondrous levoluti >n, and it is herewith given to OUi readers lor their en ighteuineul as in ihu progress being made in farming in i Ins age of improvement : To show the modern urbanization of agriculture under the best conditions in a well-leveloped e ?mmunitv in one f the central Stales, 1 take the actual in-t. nee ol Air. Itu-sell, a furnier who I owns eighty acr ? ol' land and make- a xpi ciahy of daiiying and trim rai.-ing Of course he hires a man and his wile by the year ; gives ihein a neat, BO pill' ale tenant house, and pass the in $.'100 I a year in cash for their services. An electric car line runs pasl the hu m i > \ a good market town, about four mile-; away. A creamery an I canning lac 'lory is reached by this same trolley route. I At ? o'clock n the morning, wldr-r, wlur-r goes an am. malic < I? clrie alarm in the it nant h use. 't he hired man L*ets up and hurries to ihu hig barn. Ho feeds and glOotllS b e c.ws lilt I cleans out. the stal's. 'J'hen tin pro prietor arrives in time id help ii the milking. Ilotn men wash ihei n tuds ami put on elei n u lute ill ? k miiI- used onlv when ihev mi k. The milk goes to a nod mi k-rooin adjoining the ham and is led it. I o a cen trifugal cream separator operated hy elcctiic power derivi d from the trolley line. A touch i n a lever and (be little motor hums moirily. Almost before you know it the scparatoi has whirled all of the cream tail of ihu fresh milk into the shipping cans ; while ihu skim milk -till warm and appetizing?-is ready for feeding to calves and pigs. The tilled cream cans aie booked lo a wire earlier, which .-pins ih m, by force of gravity, direct to the trolley platform on the road. In a lew min utes a trolley car comes along, with a freight C.ir attached, stops at the plat i hum, takes (ho can Si oil ho.ltd, and Hun whirls away with ihein to (he creamery. The freight charges arc hui a lew cciiis (which arc collected week ly) und till) empty cans arc returned later in the day free of charge. Mr. IliiMsell is credited hy the erenmery wiih sn inueh cream and en Hcltletncni day he receives a check in payment. Thus the milking is done and the cream is en its way to market before Mis. IliHsell is out of bed. She d >cs not have t> hoi her with " setting " tin milk in pans, or with ripening or churn ing the cream. She is no longer a slave to milk pans and ( burns ; and the old unsatisfactory way ol " trading out " the butler at a local grocery store is done away with entirely. Duller or cream now means cash. The cows, instead of picking a pi or living from uncertain pastures, are. stabled in clean stalls, cool in summer, warm in winter, nnd always well vi 11? lilated. Instead ol 14 guess-wotk feed ing," they are given a scientific ration exactly adapted to their n oils. A windmill, a lubiilar Well, ami a tank 811 pp ies pure water for barn, bouse, lawn and milk-room. The wind mill baa an automatic governor which stops ol stalls pumping according to the. needs of the big storage tank. There is fresh water before each cow constantly, regulated by at: au'omalic watering device. The stable lloor is of cement, and is Hushed clean wiih the hose twice a day. The slab'c walls glh-lon with whitewash, aud eviry. thing is as neat and clean as it once was dirty and untidy. Dairying is now a science. Tho cows arc led Various grains and large quantities of ensilage ?tho latter from a big round silo holding ?Jill) or more Ions of succulent, preserved corn foddo*. Corn is planted and fertilized with the aid of special machinery, worked with a " riding " cultivator, and cut with horse-powor. Nol a single clip from an old-fashioned hoi; is required) and tho operator i Uli a comfortably at his work wiih a 8UII iwnmg rigged up over his head. One : nan and team can now do the work of many men, and do it bettor. The man ! with the hoe has become the man with j the horses. Aud it is much the saun; with fruit or other farm products. The ground is plowed With a sulky plow, or lorn I lo pieces with a sharp disc hai r iw. Whether plowing or hariowing, the operator rides or walks as be chooses ? machine and loam do the work. The trees arc systematically sprayed by a system of compressed air operated by power obtained from a wagon's moving wheels. One man driven Iho team, and two other men hold the ne/./.les and send Iho line spiny ex netly where needed. The proportions i and ingredients of the various spraying j mixtures have been exactly di tcrmined j hy scientific experiment. Injurious in sects and fungous diseases are tnus oombalted rapidly und suchest fill I v, Win ii the I roil is ready In market it is taken to Mr. Itusscll's packing .?muse, aid I hero " sorted " by an in genii us machine grader into three or lour (grades or si/.cs. After being care fully pinked, tho vaiious iriadcs are stenciled for shipment. Toward nighl i Indies-car takes the d.iy'a gathering direct to its destination canning fac iory, steamboat dock, or CO i mission man. ('hecks for sales come, back promptly hy mail. There is a telephone in the burn and in both houses, connecting the farm with town Mid neighbors. Mr. lins soil, like any other merchant, has an >? oltlce" of his own at his place of business?the farm. lie. lakes ono or two daily newspapers, which icncli him promptly hy rural mail carriei, and he keeps constantly informed on market conditions. Kverydny he tele phones to his commission man, or to privalo cuslomors, or to the canning laeiory* and he makes definito ar* ^wgn^^b^^mtB^np^nentoi^ -?-?r?r-W-fl EaOh day'? business la regulated u<.' cording to tbo prevailing comhth us s not a Blnglc consignment is sent off blindly, You will Und no suspicion <>r " pig in a poke " about Mr. Hus-cll's methods lie keeps a simple sei of hooks, and he knows nt I lie end of each year just how In- st mil'. He works hard, but not in the way his lather worked. He directs iho machinery, whereas Ins father was the machinery it sol I ; lie farms with brains instead of hands; he rides a good saddle ll km" about his place, whereat us father was ridden by his woi k. Now take a look into the snug farm house arid w hat do you ?-? ? V There arc new hook-; mid magazines, pictures and dainty furnishings. Theic Is a piano in the parlor, and o bicycle or two on the hack porch. Everything looks comfortable, eosy and uttractivu, without ulltcmpl at st}lu nr show. The i hairs are intended to sit < n, and the old haircloth sola is now a gell? I nine louuging plnc< . In winter Iho house is heated by II hol water furnace in the cellar ; a.id \ t ui iluiion is im ured by o|m u llreplace), In ibu kilclien liiere is a modern range ; and in ibu cellar you will lind a i cfi iterator, Klootric lights uro every where- in ibo house, on ibe porch in the barn The trolley lino furnishes the current of c urse. Thanks lo the wiudtuill and tank, good water is on tap win rever needed hot or cold. Ale'. || you 'aiiey II llUlll, )'OU Will ll 11(1 tin' l(us>ell hathr min as convenient us yoie own in ibu fliy. Tin boys and girls of the family I allen.I ibu high i-eln ol in the to-vn, the ! Irolley lino making n special school-rale I oi two cents for tho round trip. 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Everything is pre sented in clean, conciso fashion, so that tho busiest may take time to read and comprehend. Tho seientilie and industrial progress of tho age is accur ately mirrored in tho columns of The Patent Record, ami it is tho onlj publication in the country that prints tho ollicial news of tho U. S. Patent Ollico and the latest dcvolopcmcnts in tllO held of invention without fear or favor. SUUSCUIPTION PRICK ONUS 1)01.1.Alt PGR YEAR. ? THE PATENT l&EQORB* Baltimore, Md. ho ilncs Ii tie. errands for people wie ? a r to pay for Uie favor. I). Uh< boy mil ._'ii!> leave iliN mil i I l.i in ? N ! ill' \ roiii,i;i'i I lie i r Ii .no CnlMfoits, Min! llieir |'im n s' sue. ii-s.^iill, peacetui life, With what they sen in I ho low n, ami uro contented. To .-um up, Mr. L'usscll is the most in lepctuient man in llie world. lie lias really achieved (lie. independence tli.it lias >o long been talked about in eon me'urn with farming. A CKLKIIIIATKI) 1)<m;. Miss I .nil III (J nger, daughter of K. II. Conger, I'tilled Slates minister to China, ba il, e most celebrated dog in the world. The. li'.lle fellow bears the name ol Tain r. which is the Chinese word for peach. W hen tho empress dowager lied from lu r castle in IVkin before the re cent uprising, members ol the Itutsian minister's stuff went into her apart ments ami in her bed chamber an aide caught Tauer. lie presented the dog to M iss i longer. 'lb- little fellow was only a few months old nl thai time and was so small that in her baste fogel to a place <t mfety lb'- empress dowager over looked bun lie has grown into a line black ami while spaniel, with a square body ami a nosu so ll il thai he. holds a d liar on ii will ton I any effort. Taller was brought along when Mr. Conger ami his family came lo the United Sales lor a Visit a few weeks ngo. Mi-s Congoi prizes bim highly, lie has been latlgllt many ll'icks, but the words of command his mistress has lo give in (ihincse. A Conkkdkuatk IIomk. A Cm federate home \i no poor bouse. In Ins speech ai the opening of the Gcor gin institution on Monday Gov. Can dier said iho Slate had not endowed the iiislltutiotl as a paupeTs retreat. '?Cod I'oibul it shall ever be looked on in that light," he said, addressing Iho veterans. " It is a home thai Georgia has given you and to which you are i nlllled, for you pai l lor it Ion? ago." That is the view to lake. Il is iho sane ami just view. A in in who faith fully served his Slate ? u armies of the Confodorncy has > used all the homos his State can .. i-h. Lot us not lake, many years to build our home lor the veterans. Lot us have it ready in the, shortest time consistent With proper caul ion and provision for the Iulinc. There is no lime to Waste. Souib Carolina is already a d<, 11 yoars behind Georgia in planning f< 1 , and new wo should rotriove our honor by completing the project within twelve nioiifhs instead of twelve years. -Co lllliibia Slate. IIaitkni i> Ilm at in tiik Family The cross examiner was a Smart man, whose object waslo disconccrl (he witness und (liscrodil his tCSli moiiy, o'A'hal did y ou Pay3Olir name was?" was the fust question. o Mi. had Onhcrly." ' Mit Inn I I) du rly, ell ? Now, I lohorly,answer this question carolullv. Aro yi?u n mm i*ic?l man?*' il ? i lliink so. < >j was n arricd." ?? So you lliink because you aol niar i ic<l Unit von arc a man led man. do von? Now, lull me whom you mar? ricd." 1 Who ()i m uriud? I married a wo mau." ? No'v. don't you . low heller Ihan 10 (rillo With Iho court? Of course you married n woman; did you ever henr of any one marrying a n an'."' ? Y> s, mol sistc: did.1' London Spare Momcnl-i. The county commissioners of Flor. Ida have foimcd an association to aid in tin' w >i k of eslahllrhilW uniform method*' for w >rk upon (ho public road* of the StnlO. OA8TOX1IA. Bwm tho 11,8 VOjjllayfl Bought Blgnatnro PIEDMONT REGION'S NAME What Doch it Mean ? - An Alleged Curious Fact in History. Mrs. T. M. Green, of Wash ir gl on, (in., gi\ca tho following explanation ol tin: term I'iodmonl in a reeent issue of the. Atlanta Journal : We all have a vague soil of idea that wo live in Hie great ?' I'iodmonl lie igion," hut exactly what thai means, I what its houndariea are, or why so called, not one of us can tell. Then ! i- no Piedmont river nor mountain not i Indian tradition upon which to found the. name, in fact, it is not mi Indian name, hut Kreuch. We hear people in Virginia ami North Carolina say lIn-y live ill 111) ?? Piedmont region." We hear South Carolinians ami Alahamians say tin same thing, and as for (?corgians, you would ihiiiK the whole State ought to he called Piedmont, since people from every coiner claim to inhabit thai mys'erious region whose center is no* whoro and whose houndaries every w 11 e re. It puzzled mo a long time. 1 used to ask common mortals, like myself about it, but they could not tell. Then 1 asked those who were authority 01 nomenclature, with tho same result Then 1 watched for some mention 0 it in all the Southern histories that I read, an I only once did 1 lind any lb Uli* I'd-" a clew. Thai was in Log in's His. lory of South Carolina, a hook, by tin Way, as rare and as valuable as (iov ei nor (iilman'a (ioorgians. Hero I saw it staled that upper South Carolina around Abb.vdle?was Milled in pari by l'icdinonlC8C. This seemed a clue. Iltll was not satisfactory, for the region called Piedmont extends from the Chesapeake bay to central AI id) inia. la the life of Alexander Stephens, b)' I \ ich a id Malcom Johnston, mention is made that Mr. Stephens on one oe sion away back in the follies, wen over to Washington, (in., to take tin ?? Piedmont stage line," and this sen tence, coupled with local traditions, explains the whole thing. The Pied mont legion is simply the. region trav ersed by a line of stage coaches run \>y a Frenchman of the name of Piedmont. The line originally ran from Iticlimotld, Va., to Columbus, On., but later wai cxtendod to Montgomery, Ala. I'os sihly ii changed horcus at Marthasvillo, ami for this ro.ison Atlanta claims to be the bead coaler of the I'iedmoui re gion. Whether the Kreuch man's name was I'iodmonl or whether ho w.u. a refugee from the province of thai name in Italy, I cannot say, but ho and his stage com lies gave the name, to ihe. re gion through which they passed. The line, followed the. Indian tiails and the Indian trails followed the natural wealth of the count r>. Ihe Indians selectod tllOSO places lor building iheir villages inosi favored by nature. They nought puie water lo drink, go< ? sire.uns lo llsh in and goou forests to hunt in. Tho best hunting ground was always where vegetation was most luxuriant, for wild animals fed on nuts, finils, cane and urusrt. Ii is curious lo look buck a lillll Ircd years ami sec. how civilization has inarched In Iho footprinia of euvngoty. First came Iho India!)*, ringle Die, silently mulching one behind the other. Then came Iho Iraiiers, with their pack horses, fo.l iWlllg the paths of the In diaiia and silling I hell! rum and peltry for skins and furs. Then came the white settlers, with their families. When the settlers came Iho paths or trails were widened lo admit wheels. Then came the siagocoach. Thin iho>loam engine, plunging, plowing and hlirat ing Wido open the bidden treasons ol stream and l'oie-1. Ii h a fact that the rail toads aro huili, for the mo l pail, along the dues of the old stage mules, ho that III looking hackward we .see that the Indians suivoyed m my of tin; lines now covered by steel rails, tele graph and telephone wires. To my mind, the romance nil clings to the days of Binges. There is a fn-y i nation aboAit thaUsj^odo of travel tfmt nothing elm; can touch. Whether it is the painted coach, the prancing horses, the winding horn, the social inter, course or what not, it savors of a mystery and romance that nothing else has supplied. What a part ilphus in the Writings Of Dickens and Til ck eray I The lallyho is hut u yearning alter the old days oft tage coach travel. I am glad Atlanta is going hi cull I her grand new hotel the 1'ieduuout. The name means something. Naturalists in (lei ninny are much in terested in a Wi'tnh rful old tree which has been discovered near 11 union w, says the ATcto Vork lleruhl. Ii is an oak, and is notable not only on ac count ol its great bu'k, but ideo for the fact that at the base ol the trunk it is entirely hollow. The trunk, in deed, is not mole than ei{ht or nine feet high, hot it is more than twenty feel in cireuinleience. Some idea of the. size of its interior may be gathered from the fact that four persons re ccully I on ml ample room in it. In winter the old oak looks very bare and gaunt, hut, UCCOrJillg to pcasanus in the neighborhood, who have known il for many years, il regularly puts hirlh new twigs and foliage every spring, so that, ancient and decayed though Us trunk may be, il >< nevertheless crow li ed und hui rounded with masses of green leuvos, jusi as it wan in tbu dny? of its youth. Rev. .lohn McNeill was recently holding a revival service at Cardiff, Wales, an I announced lliat he would answer any ipie.-tion ah nit the liiblc. At onco a noie. was sent up lo him reading as follow.-: " Dear Mr. Mc Neill: If )oii are Seeking lo help young men kindly tell me who was Cain's wile." That seemed a poser, and the audience wailed with intense interest, tempuied with atuuicinoui, to see how the great in in would cxirnato himself. Aller a pause he said: "1 lovo young men, (specially young in ipniiers for light, and I would give this lOling man a word of advice, li is hi-: Don't lose your bouI'h sal vat ku looking alter other people's wives." Mrs. laic'nd i Simpson, one of the v ry lew women who 11Veil lo see ihren ? eiuurics, died oll Moud iV last al the home ol her sou in Clliubildgu, Mass. She was 104 years of age, and remark ably clear in mind ami nn moiy even up lo the hour of her death. Mrs. Sampson was born in NeWpor', It. I , duly lo, 1700, and was the gr.uwt d'liightor of ,| ibii Fowh r, ehiel ol the l'cquol tribe of Lillian*. Among the Illings plainly remembered b, M s. Sampson was the burial of C niiinod ire I'orry, whose body w.ih brought lo Ithodo Island from Like lOiie. Mr-. Sampson is survived by one son, David A. Sampson, Heven grandchildren ami four great-grandchildren Mrs. Klizahcth llutr Hamilton, said lo he the last member of the seventh generation of (be burr family, who died at Bridgeport, Colin., last week, at the age of ninety, was iho tilth cousin ol Am on llurr, the third Vice l'rcsidcnl of the United Stales, who killed Alexander Hamilton, the law\er and statesman, in a duel in 1804. Hi r death recalls the fact that, though the. families of burr and lluinilt ?Ii wem the most bitter enemies at the beginn ing of the last century, love found a way thirty-two years nfier I he famous duel lo bring the families together again by the mairiage of ICI Xabeth Hurr and Alexander Hamilton in is.'bi. Lord Overloun, the millionaire peer of Glasgow, lias conducted a lilhlu class of about f>(M) young men in that city for more than thirty years, ami as a preacher and evangelist he is much in demand. He is specially mit rested in everything that has lo do with the well being of young men, and, among olln r things, he pays a well known Scotch minister t'l ,000 a year in tlevoto himself to the. work of an evangelist. He is a keen fisherman, is mOr.t than a fair shot and is not be tlespiiod at golf. The party of Ttiskcgee students so. Iccied \,y the German government to direct and oxporimentin cot*i.ii cull uro on the west coast of Africa h ivu reach ad their destination, and wild ihe aid of 160 natives have prepared Mixiy acres for cultivation. We need educated men on the farm. There is work for the educated and in telligent tanner. Our advice to the young bojS is to educate IhcmselfC* mid slick to the i 'd plant ilion. The farmer is the backbone of Hie coUUtry. MONKY TO LOAN On farmlr g landa. Kaay payment*. No comuiisnionB charged. H?nower paya ao lmil coat o( perfaclinK loan. Inicreai 7 |>er cent, up, according to ?wearily. j no. m. I'Al.m Kit a dON, ColnmMa H POSITION? I POSITIONS 11 NO OHJKCT. Mnm ohIIh limn we can |x>sali>ly an. Uum<* ?ntooul' PMltlOllt backad by Wft CouriKia. unuxcoiluU. Kilter any tlino. OutaloKuw lrot> ^?Jilrcaa, nii.i Mttl a HUtllNKHS '.oi.i.ko k