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IP' -' Bly ' t: HE COUNTY RECORD" KQIGSTREE, S. C. & ' ? frQUIS J. BBISTOW, Ed. & Prop'r. The following lines, says the Atlanta Constitution, have been carved on the tombstone of a North Carolina moonshiner: "Killed by the Government for making whisky out of corn grown from seed furnished by a Congress man." "While people in Eastern sections Imre still forming societies having their basis in the records of ancestors, people in Oregon have set out to form a State Association of Native Sons of ^ Oregon, to take part in the pioneer reg unions there, observes the New York 5 ' < t - y Sun. ______ A correspondent of a Vienna (Austria) paper demands a systematic attempt to exterminate hawks. Sparrows and pigeons usually succeed in escaping these voracious birds of prey, wherefore it is chiefly the timid song-birds that fall victims to their attacks. He has frequently seen in the Vienna parks early in the morning hawks breakfasting on these songsters. n*, c - - Englishmen introduced the labbit to IW Australia, where it mined vast areas |& of valuable land. Weasels sent to cork. Tact the mistake, found grou ad birds ^ good eating and let the rabbit alone. Sootsmen bestowed the thistle upon Kew Zealand, and then they wished they hadn't. A pretty water weed of whioh Englishmen are fond wtks transplanted to New Zealand, and throve so that it dams broad rivers. 1 he mongoose' sent to Jamaica to kit! off the SbV- cane rats, exterminated them and de. ; ' Teloped a fine liking for poultry. One of the observers who should be qualified to pronounce judgment upon the slate of the times about the couns try is the traveling circus man. Or<; 1 of these men, belonging to a show the the name of which is well-known, re-; lates the New York Sun, has said in 8^:'-' ,' Topeka, Kan., that in a journey of half way over the continent the busi I' - MM or the circus nas snown an lmyrorement orer last year, and that ir. almost every town he has noticed a *. great deal of painting and fixing over ?. <rf buildings. He says the people have nl-j,." appeared almost everywhere to be hap-* jam and in easier financial circumetances than for the past few season. Iu ~ last your, asserts the News, the . Magistrates of New York City were called upon to adjudicate upon nearly $600 thousand oases of wife desertions. Statistics show that there are now in Stealer Nee York over 15,000 men vider legal bonds to care for their families. * Twenty per cent, of the vritaes who seek magisterial aid are under the age of twenty-one. Fifty par cent of the cases occur when : Vboihof the contracting parties were atitt in their teens at the time of the marriage. When these wife-deserters CBS brought to book they invariably plead bard times as an excuse for devoting the whole of their scant reaouroea to their own requirements. . An interesting discovery from a geological point of view was recently made by a* explorer in the mountains o* WHzies Hoek, Natal, cays Le Genie Civil. On the summit of an extinct wakaao, on the edge of a lake that oc* copies the crater, soundings Tevealed a htyer of sand inclosing small diamonds. It would be interesting to R; knew whether these diamonds were MMHAMtiellv. that is. as the result of washing operations carried on by the i satires,f or "whether this diseovery oorraapends to an actual mine of dia. mends, for the hills of Witzies Hoek are not situated in regions known to be diamond bearing. On this last f byppthesis, the presence of precious atones*in the crater of a volcano would Ej doubtless throw some light on the for xnatioa of the gems in nature. Si Dr. Karl Peters, inalectureon "The fi-. Puture in Africa," before the Foreign ft Press Association, in London, said that there was in Africa a number of cool and healthy high plateaux, where he found all conditions for agricultural y hud pastoral pursuits just as in his csrn countrv. A later generation of ji' 1 colonists would be able to use throughout the entire continent iron for their f-f immediate wants, and in many districts coal required by modern industry. The native population estimated I I at about two haudred millions, only require to be orgauized by the whites in order to raise the natural wealth of the coutinent. A sound connection of justice with proper severity toward the blasts was the correct principle to act upon". Africa required railways in very part. Biaderpest must be exterminated. The whole African question *w?s the question\of cpmanmica ?*, tion. Kg utuM'Y ","'v ; \ 1 " ' ' ' r- ' > BICYCLIST WITHOUT LECS. j The Legless Son of a Kansas Minister Hides a Wheel. Bicyclists with but one leg are becoming quite common, but a no-lagged bicyclist is indeed a novelty. Such a one is James Jump, the son of the Rev. Albert Jump, of Independence, Kan. Twelve years ago the boy lost both of his legs in a railway accident. One of his legs was cut off close to the thigh and the other only a little lower down. On tha stump of the latter he was able to fasten an artificial leg. Recently Mr. Jump became seized with a desire to ride a bicycle. He had witnessed venturesome feats of one-legged cyclists, but he was in doubt about the ability of a boy with no legs at all to speak of to sit half astride a wheel and make it go. He bought a wheel, however, and set about learning to ride. Leading his rubber-tired steed to the curbstone, he balanced himself on his crutches and, with a side motion made BIDES WITHOUT LEGS. easy by the absence ol his leg, slipped ? ? JJi- n?A?: k: into me sauuie. r?sicmu^ mo umvu j in a spring catch on the side where his ; legs ought to be and putting his arti- | ficial foot on the pedal, he was off. He. soon mastered the art of balancing and can now ride at almost any common speed he desires and can ascend and descend any ordinary-sized hill. BET SMALLEST HUMAN ATOM. Weighed But Twenty Ounce? and Was Only a Foot High. The smallest human being that ever eTi?tp.l is believed to have been a little girl named Catherine Elliott The Coroner of Liverpool, England, was called upon to hold an inquest on her diminutive body. This human atom was born in Glasgow, Scotland, about three weeks ago. Her parents were poor, and were easily induoed by man SMALLEST BABY IV THE WORLD. agers to place their daughter on exhibition as a freak. She was being exhibited in Liverpool, the parents receiving ?3 10s. for showing and attending her. The child weighed only twenty ounces at the time of her death and was just a foot high. The palm of her hand was not as large as a silver twenty-five-cent piece. Her feet were no larger than an ordinary man's thumb. The parents disclaimed any desire to limit the growth of the midget. The little one had been guarded from cold, was well-nurtured and had never had a day's illness until the day it died. The jury returned a verdict that the child-died from natural causes. Strange Sit for a Temple. One of the most strangely situated buildings in the world is a Hindoo temple. It is built upon a huge rock ~1 THE TEMPLE OH THE ROCK. that is balanced very nicely upon a seemingly insecure base. The great mechanical difficulty of getting the building materials to the top of this rock must have been vastly increased by the peril of overbalancing the huge mass and bringing it crashing down upon the plain like an avalanche. There is another temple in Burmah similarly situated. The Value of Electrical Plants. Few persons realize the enormous amount of money which is invested in electrical plants of various sorts. Over 100,000,000 of dollars are invested in i electrical machinery used in mining. Electric elevators employ about fifteen millions more. Electric railways represent about one btilion dollars. This does not {pelade the money now being used in the\ manufacture of electrical machinery. V ? > . V ' ~fvf?7 T*m Strong Colonies. ( Strong colonies is the key to large V/iT.dT /.vnrto oTifl nt, no time are weak | UWUVJ ? - colonies desirable. A rapid increase of strength preceding the honey flow is necessary to obtain the best results in honey, and at this time we can not Swell their numbers too rapidly. If the bees are allowed to swarm at will but little surplus honey will be the result. Colonies may be kept reasonably strong, and a fair crop of honey obtained, by allowing them to cast one swarm each, bat no mora. Natural swarming in this respect is better than dividing. It should not be overlooked that bees must have plenty oi' storage room if we expect the honey stored. Two thousand cubic inches of storage room is little enough at all times for strong colonies, and in many cases this can be doubled, and, besides, the honey should be removed as fast as completed. Hedge Plants. Hedges for protection are not as common as they might be. They are not only beautiful in themselves, but, if properly managed, are cheaper than any fence?except a stone wall. There are numberless instances of well cared for osage orange and honey locust hedges being kept in first rnte condition for half a century, and there is no reason to believe they might not last for nearly as long again. They have to be annually trimmed, and,indeed, are the better for two trimmings a year; but ore who understands this ? A OA vomillv f li ttt Will get UYCr luc w Ui JX ov AC??* ? it takes little more time than it would to give the annual whitewashing to an ordinary fence. When the expression "well cared for" is used, it simply means that the cutting must always be of such a character that the bottom of the hedge is left the widest part.? Meehan's Monthly. Training the Calf. The young calves should not be turned out before the middle of June. When ready to turn them out, have a strong head halter for each one, and lead them out to and from the pasture. They will soon learn to follow and become very docile with such training. In selling Jerseys, we always say that the cow can be led, and it adds several dollars to her value. Near the city where family cows are in demand, at good prices, a cow that can be led out and tethered on the lawn is worth a great deal more than one that cannot be thus managed. With bulls,especially Jersey bulls, put a ring into his nose, when four months old, and lead him with a stout hickory staff. The bull can be early taught to lead, and he should be gradually made to cut the feed and pump the water for the stock. A bull so managed is safer and makes a better brewL?The American. Iircp or Shallow Culture of Corn. The Ohio experiment station began studying the comparative effect of deep and shallow culture of corn in 1888. At that time the implements available for shallow culture were imperfect, and for two years the results were negative or slightly in favor of deep culture. During recent years general attention has been drawn to this subject, especially by the results ' of the Illinois experiment station, and manufacturers have produced implements better adapted to shallow culture. With some of these implements the work has been continued in Ohio a.nce 1891, with results uniformly in favor of the shallower culture, the average yield from cultivating one inch and a half deep with the springtooth culivator being sLx bushels per acre greater than from cultivating four inches with the double snovei. The same problem has also been taken up at thirteen other stations, besides the two named, with results generally favoring shallow culture. Counting each season's experiments at each station as a single test, fortyfive such tests have been reported up to the close of 1895. Of these,twentyseven showed larger yields from shallow cultivation, seven were inconclusive and eleven showed larger yields from deep culture. Of these latter, however, cultivating only three inches deep was in some cases called "deep culture." Judging from these tests there seems to be little doubt that the average yield of corn in Ohio may be very considerably increased by the use of shallow working cultivators. Knles for Shipping Hay. Hxying time being here makes the following from William Shortlidge, one of the largest shippers and buyers in Central Pennsylvania, seasonable and worth the attention of farmers everywhere. Mr. Shortlidge says: "In shipping baled hay and straw, farmers who do not load the minimnm quantity of ten tons required by railroad companies are the losers in freight. Freight is charged on a minimum of ten tons, whether the quantity is in the car or not, hence the importance of seeing that the full quantity is there. Railroad agents .tj 3 '1 i , v "'is * "GARDEN are not as particular as they ought to be in famishing cars at all times the proper size to hold ten tons of baled hay, and farmers are not as particular in packing the same as they should be. The car capacity of sixty thousand pounds is very often misleading. It requires a space of 180 cubic feet to hold a ton of baled hay. To make sure of the proper size, a car, inside measurement, must be thirty-four feet long, eight feet wide and seven feet high, which will hold from t-en and a half to eleven tons of baled hay, if properly packed. If the car is less than the above size the farmer should refuse to load it, and notify the agent that the car is too small to hold the minimum quantity and wait for another car to be placed for him." Another important feature is thet 1 ?M i the car must be clean, it snouia nut be loaded if there is dirt and filth on the floor. If a car is not thoroughly clean it trill taint the hay, a very important consideration when shipping the same for animal food. This latter condition is very often neglected, to the loss of the merchant who buys and ships the hay,and not infrequently makes controversy in nettling for the hay with the farmer who ships it. So that it is only justness to all parties to exercise due care as to the full capacity and condition of the car.?C. L. Gates in New York Tribune. Controlling the Army Worm. This pest has already appeared in a few localities and may become numerous this year. The worms occur al-. most every season in grass lands, but unless present in large numbers the damage is not noticeable. Where they have taken possession of a field, very little can be done. If the surface be smooth and hard enough, the drawing of a heavy roller over the field will crush many, but this process is not so successful a% it might seem. About the only way to prevent injury is to keep them from entering new fields. In some cases, especially with corn, an advance army may be ouan in hri middle of the field and the crop thus saved. The surest method is to dig a smooth walled ditch, or plow several deep furrows in front of the worms. They will not be able to scale the perpendicular wall but will drop back into the furrows and crawl along in the bottom, where they can be trapped in holes. For this purpose, a ditch properly prepared with holes makes an almost impassable barrier. A strip of coal tar has effectually stopped worms, but unless renewed very frefuently it will become so hardened as to be of little value. Some farmers report that a strip of salt has been tried successfully. When the worms can be confined to a small area by a ditch prepared as above, it may be practicable to spray the vegetation vrithin this confined space with paris green. Sometimes drenching the plants just ahead of ti e army will kill great numbers. A* bran mash to which enough paris green has been' added to give it a distinct greenish " J -1 A ? 1 *1. ? color, scauereu aouuv wuwc uc worms are at work, will poison many of them. In flighting army worms, it is necessary to act quickly (Mark V. Slingerland, bulletin 133, Cornel l experiment station), for a day's delay often means the destruction of an acre or more of promising rye, corn, outs or hay. Stop i:he onward progiese of the worms or confine them within a limited area. Army worms are preyed upon by a large number of insects and for this reason are prevented from developing rapidly in most seasons. They are also attacked by a sort of insect cholera which is very fatal. Birds,including chickens and turkeys, do much toward lessening the numbers of the worms. If large flocks of fowls can be turned in where they are at work, many worms will be destroyed.?American Agriculturist. Farm and Garden Notes. Keep the very best of the hay for the work teams. A bad disposition is a poor recommendation in a horse. Hogs will keep healthier if too many are not kept together. With all growing stock increase the feed as the animal requires it. The careful farmer can always breed a better quality of beast than he can buy. The object of mulching during the summer is to maintain moisture in the soil. Good wheat bran is a good flesh grower and milk making material to feed to stock. By not allowing the weeds to grow there will be no necessity for killing them later on. Be on the lookout for the white caterpillar. They are the parent of the cabbage worm. ? More horses are injured by hard driving on an empty stomach than in any other way. in mailinacs art liavo AAA AVHU.UVWW that the harvesting can be done as soon as the crops are fully ready. As a general rule the earlier varieties of grain, fruits or vegetables fire not as productive as the later ones. The oftener the grass is cut the greater the injury to the weeds, as they are thus prevented from seeding. \ I ' r . \ ,* v f r\/\ U0H gossip has grown out of the reports that severJ\ J J /*\f al members of the M \ Fifty-fourth ConvVI lx\ ? / gress had mortCS^2b / gaged their salaries MM VirfjL to make good bets If'jbtMA* lost at Washin?~ Wmk \ ton gambling ta' Col. Cole Martin, In commenting an this to a Washington correspondent, said It brought to his mind some of the statesmen with gambling propensities who served In Congress before and just after the war. "The statesman," said Col. Martin, "of to-day does not begin to compare with his brothers of ante-bellum days in this respect Back In the Ws and '50'a, when Dave Prlndle kept the leading faro bank, It was not an unusual thing j to find a quorum of the United States _ Senate under his roof on an afternoon ' or evening. | "Dave Prindle ran one of the most I genteel and elaborate gambling estab lishments In the country on Pennsylvania avenue, between Four-and-a-half and Slrth streets. Thaddeus Stevens, Senators Green of Missouri, Rusk of Texas, Pierce of Maryland, Bob Toombs of Georgia, Yancey of Alabama, Hannegan of Indiana, and C-orwin of Ohio, were among the most frequent habitues of Prindle's bouse. Others Included Congressman Herbert of California, Gen. Joe McKibben of the same State, who acted as second for Broderick In the famous BroderlckTerry duel; Jim Lane of Kansas, Hen "the senatobs walked in in single file." ry A. Wise of Virginia, Lawrence Keitt of South Carolina, Marshall of Kentucky, Sergeant 8. Prentiss of Mississippi, Savage of Tennessee, Whitely of Delaware, and Edmonston of Virginia, besides dozens of others. "Prentiss strolled Into Prindle's one day and remarked: 'Dave, I am lucky j enough to-night to win the stars from heaven. Please don't limit me.' " There is no limit for you, Mr. Prentiss,' ftald Prhidle. "Prentiss started in by making $100 bets on a card. Luck was with him, and he began to increase nis bets, ana before closing up time he had beaten the bank out of $50,000. Prentiss thought his luck would stay with him, and a few days, after this winning he returned to Mississippi where he ran up against a snag, losing $200,000 in half a dozen plays. "Senator Green, taken all around, however, probably went against the bank heavier than any other man In his set. One day he remarked to a group of Senatorial friends In the cloak room of the Senate that he was burning up with luck, and asked them to chip In $1,000 each. He felt certain that If he were allowed to make the play Dave Prindle would turn his deal box upside down. A combination was then made to force an adjournment of the Senate, $15,000 was put in the pool, and a dozen or so Senators walked into the bank In single file, headed by Green, all singing a verse, which they had composed on the way down, about 'ace to lose and king to win,' etc., and sung to the tune of 'The Arkansas J Traveler.' "Green started In with the $15,000. He won the first bet. Then he began to play the ace and king, according to the song, ace to lose, and king to win, until the end of the deal, without winning another bet. On the next deal he kent to his combination, as he did on I "the planter strolled into hall's bank." all succeeding deals, and It is an actual fact that he did not win more than three times before his $15,000 went into the box. The other men In the combine with Green refused to stake him farther, but, still having faith In his combination. Green played $5,000 more mm/mm I*? )i ;J1 yCVffR'ftT j|! f| m of his own money through and than quit the game. "Another celebrated Senatorial hangout at that time was that of Joe Hall, ,'|j He never permitted a person to play against his bank unless he knew thjtf the player could afford to lose. I recall \ ' -^j| once when a Southern planter, who hap just disposed of a pack of sieves, realizing thereon some $30,000, came hex* by appointment to meet some Northern ? capitalists, who held a mortgage o? <*jj his plantation. Filled with wine one night, and with the entire proceeds of , "PRENTISS STARTED IN BY MAKING $108 BETS ON A CARD." .Jw the slave sale In his pocket, the planter I /a& strolled into Hall's bank, and before morning had parted with the last pen- ^ ny of his 130,000. Bankrupt, the plant- ' \w| er became disconsolate, and talked of \ suicide so seriously that he won Hall's compassion. The planter explained to -* Hall that the money he had sunk wan to be used in lifting the mortgage, and that his loss ruined him. After hearing the man's story Hall said, quick as a 'M flash: 'I'll tell you what I'll do, friend. - I I'll return two-thirds of your money MW under one condition, and that is th?j you shall accompany me to a magist trate and take oath that you will never touch another card so long as you live.* The planter agreed, and, after he bhd taken the oath in Hall's presence, Joe handed him a bag containing $20,000 ta ?J gold. jMH "In point of Intellectual attalxv , "3 meats," continued Col. Martin, "the old-time gamblers were far ahead of the modern sports. They were for the , --1$ most part well read and thoroughly educated men." ^ Skates Made of Glass. . I think the death-knell of woodea and metal skates has been rung, said "'Sj one of the largest skate manufacturers , dl to an English reporter. Sereral practtcal inventors have been experimenting on these articles for years past, and the latest result is a skate made of glam" hardened by a recently discovered process to the consistency of steeL The .wjjfi entire skate is made of this substance, , -<31 the upper part resembling a slipper, open behind with split leather lace-upheel-cap. - .?B Among several advantages stated $ are, that they are much faster than steel blades and so slipi>ery that they J will run almost equally well over rough, snow-covered ice as upon JaM smooth, and also glide easily over Inequalities, twigs and other obstructions. They are made very sharp, and, . owing to their extreme hardness, It la B? impossible to blunt them; and, unlike ^ steel skates, they never want grinding and cannot rust The crystal skates are really beautfc ful in appearance, being nearly trana-, jj parent; the substance has also, while J in the fluid state, been variously colored. They have already been privately y'vJ tested. A famous skating champion ; tried a pair at the Niagara Ice rink, using mahogany-colored ones to avoid attracting notice, the time being hardly. ' ^ jjj ripe for exhibition. A private trial haa ? also been made In Paris at an Ice rink exclusively hired for the occasion, several ladles?among them a celebrated > lady continental skater?taking part; their skates were colored brown, bloe^ '?.? . crimson, and so forth, to match their ' ;1 costumes. . |l What's the Hatter? "Why, Tommy, what's the matter?* asked the indulgent mamma of her sonl .' \ 'J& "John won't give me a pretty thing in the pail of water," said Tommy, sob- (y/J "Tell him If he doesn't give It to you / | tills minute I will tell papa," replied his indulgent mamma. Tommy soon returned, saying; 'Vjffij "He won't give it to me." "John, how dare you refuse to give cionr liftlp Trvmmv what he wants?* said inamma, appearing on the scene. ' .M "Here is your master; perhaps you will obey him." "What is It my Tommy wants? Give f;'| it him instantly, sir, or depart from the house," said papa. "I am very sorry, sir," said John, coolly, "to have annoyed yon, 'but I Va cannot give him what he wants, for , m how can I give him the moon that Is shining in the pail?" Papa and mamma returned to the 'X house dejectedly. Soap Producing Trees. In the West India islands and Ixj South Amer.ca grows a tree whose i frutt makes an excellent lather and} % is used to wash clothes. The bark o? a tree which grows In Peru and of an* other which grows In the Malay islands yields a fine soap. , It takes an awfully young girl to look A well in short skirts on & bicycle. ?