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Published Every Thursday ?at? KJNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ?B T? LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Editor and Proprietor. * A Kansas City woman who speaks feelingly on the subject says that the heaviest work any woman ever undertook was light housekeeping. The remarkable way in which civilization is increasingly coming to interfere with paganism is illustrated bv the fact that the car of Juggernut cannot pass through the streets c*f Colombo owing to the interference of the overhead telegraph wires. But that paganism is not yet dead is cvi dent to the New York Observer's satisfaction, by the circumstances that petitions have been sent to the Governor by the Ceylonese, requesting that the celebration might proceed, as twenty-five persons desired to throw themselves under the idol's car. There appears to the New York Commercial Advertiser "to be no reason for the assertion that the Cuban insurgents have violated the rules of war in the reported execution of Colonel Ruiz. That officer of the enemy was given every opportunity to avoid a fate upon which he rushed with blind foolhardi. ness. His correspondence with ki3 Cuban friend, Colonel Arangurea, whose reported execution is now denied, carried to him exact 'knowledge of the general order condemning tj death all emissaries bearing the proposal to accept autonomy. When Ruiz persisted, his friend sent back to him the order of General Rodriguez, 'If he offers autonomy, do your duty,'accompanied by the "warning that if the proposed interview was confined to s friendly chat, or to the independence of Cuba, all would be well; but 'if not? *or Gods sake do not come.' Still * Buiz persisted, and when he met his friend and pronounced the fatal word 'autonomy,' he condemned himself to death. There was no way to evade his execution, else the discipline of the entire Cuban array would have been -V destroyed." However Mr. John Fox, Jr., may teem to maintain that Kentucky?barring some counties in the mountains ?-is very much like other civilized districts, with differences in favor of Kentucky, things do happen down there that surprise persons who are not oentcars or lineal descendant? 01 Daniel Boone, writes ?. S. Martin, in Harper's Weekly. The ardor with which eminent Kentuckians enter into disputes is always somewhat astonishing to effete Americans in other States. Where else coold have developed such a difference as lately obtained as to whioh of two Kentucky ladies shonld christen the battleship Kentucky? It was settled finally, bat not until the din of it had penetrated the extreme confines of the Union. How painful it all was; Miss Richardson claiming, f .'under a patent from Secretary Herbert; that gentleman's embarrassed .disclaimer; and Major Baruk Thomas's lamentation over the loss of a quart of Dan Swiggert 1855 whisky, consecrated by him to patriotio uses, and ~ ?believed to have been absorbed by the Cleveland administratien! Eheu! Alas! Why has Kentucky no Hans Ereitmann to put its epics into verse? Within the last few years the putting up of canned goods has become one of the most important industries of the United States. Scattered throughout this country at the pres. ent time there are not less than 2000 canneries, representing the enormous capital of $75,000,000. The industry is divided into four main branches. First oomes the canning of food preparations, such as meats, cereals, souns and the like, in which branch some 5000 persons are employed and capital amounting to 07,000,000 is represented. Next comes the canning of fruits and vegetables. Ir this im* portant branch of the industry not less than 60,000 persons are employed, while the capital represented amounts to $30,000,000. This branch of the industry is carried on mainly in Maryland and New York. Still another branch is concerned with the canning of preserves and pickles. In this branch of the industry several thousand persons are employed. As to the capital represented, it olosely approx imates $25,000,000. Last comes the canning of oysters, salmon and othei kinds pf fish, which employs some 15,000 persons, and repre sents a capita! of $13,000,000. The hardships occasioned by the late war between the 'States greatly stimulated the canning industry in-tkis country, but without the least interruption since thi.t time the industry has Bteadily grown' into its present extraordinary proportions. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. [ The average weight of the brain of a Scotchman is larger than that of any other race on the globe. A Russian admiral has invented an ice plow capable of breaking through ice from twelve tcutwenty inches thick. A German professor reports that he has found living bacteria in wine which had been bottled twenty-five or thirty years. Berlin is to have a combination electric street railway, part of the system being underground and part run on the American elevated method. Artesian wells have proved successful in New South Wales, the area within which underground water is found extending 62,000 square miles. The Japanese cite 269 color varieties of the chrysanthemum of which sixty-three are yellow, eighty-seven white, thirty-two purple, thirty red, thirty-one pale pink, twelve russet a r ?x r ?: 3 ana iouneeu ui umcu tuiwo. Munich used to be notorious for its excessive typhoid-fever death rate, it being twenty-nine per 10,000 in 1856. With the introduction of a pure water supply and improved sewer system it has fallen to less than two per 10,000. The Berlin Post says that the establishment having exclusive rights to manufacture Berlin's anti-toxin pays him a monthly royalty of $17,500. The Paris Figaro quotes these figures, and observes that L'r. Roux, assistant director of the Pasteur institute in Paris, does not profit at all from his discovery. Plague bacilli, it appears from the elaborate report of the German government commission to Bombay, in most cases enter the system through small wounds or scratches, and the disease is mostly confined to dwellers in poor and insanitary localities. The bacilli are very quickly killed by ordinary antiseptics, and heating serum inoculations gave little protection in the Bombay epidemic, but Haffkine's method proved very successful. This consists in inoculation with the products of bacilli culture. Jo a virulent growth of plague bacilli was added ! carbolic acid solution or essence of I i i : ?1 : Knt | musiaru, uehuvjiu^ wo wioiuuco, uu? I leaving products having remarkable protective power. An even better vaccine resulted from heating the plague cultures to 150 degrees Fahrnheit for an hour. The Mystery of Sleep. The sleep of a human being, if we are not too busy to attend to the matter, always evokes a certain feeling of awe. Go into a room where a person is sleepiug, and it is difficult to resist the sense that one is in the presence of the central mystery of existence. People who remember how constantly they see old Jones asleep in the club library will smile at this; but look quietly and alone at even old Jones, and the sonse of mystery wiUsoon develop. It is no good to say* that sleep is only ''moving" because it looks like death^ The person who is breathing | so loudly as to take away all thought j I -t a TV a nTlitfl I UI UCKIU uuoco luv ovuov V* It ?T v ^?..w as easily as the silent sleeper who hardly seems to breathe. We see death seldom, but were it more familiar we donbt if a corpse wonld inspire so much awe as the unconscious and sleeping figure?a smiling, irresponsible doll of flesh and blood, but a doll {to whom in a second may be reoalled a proud, active,. controlling consciousness which will ride his bodily and his mental horse with a hand of iron, which will force that body to endure toil and misery,, and will make that mind, now wandering in paths of fantastic folly/ grapple with some great problem, or throw all its force into the ruling, the saving, or the destruction of mankind. The oorpse is only so much bone, muscle and tissue. The sleeping body is the bouse which a quick and eager master has only left for an hour or so. Let any one who thinks sleep is no mystery, try to observe in himself the process by which sleep comes, and to notice how and when and under what conditions he loses consciousness. He will,. of course, utterly fail to put his finger on the moment of sleep coming, but in striving to get as close as he can to the phenomena of sleep, he will realize how great is the mystery which he is trying to fathom.?London Spectator. How to Tell a Good Banana. When you are buying bananas never purchase the long thin ones unless you want fruit that will pucker your mouth. No matter how well ripened these thin bananas may appear to be, they will always be found both sour and acrid. This is because the bunch which contained them was picked too soon. The banana grows faster at first in length. When it has reached its full development in that direction,it suddenly begins to swell, and in a few days will double in girth. It is at the end of this time that it begins to ripen naturally, and the effort of the banana importer is to have the fruit gathered at the last possible moment, and yet be, fore the ripening has progressed even enough to tinge the bright green "of the fruit with yellow. A difference of twenty-four hours on the trees at this time will make a difference in the weight of the fruit of,perhaps,twentyfive per cent., and all the difference in its final flavor,between apuckery sour and the sweetness and smoothness which are characteristic of the ripe fruit.? To get the bananas to our market ih good condition requires fast steamers, which must be provided with ventilation'and other ' means of koeping the.fruit from ripening too fast in the hold. Much of the finest fruit does ripen in a few days of passage, and this is sold to hucksters for street sale. Blackfish have not been seen in Massachusetts bay for thirteen years. ? \ ' ' ; } AGRICULTURAL^ TOPICS. J Selling Off Poor Stock. As winter approaches every farmer should look over his farm stock and consider what of it will pay best for keeping through until spring. If all that does not come up to the standard is sold to the butcher or otherwise disposed of, the money for it and the hay or grain required for its winter sustenance will leave the farmer richer in the spring than if he fed it. Don't try to get high prices for the poor stock. There is less loss in disposing of it than in keeping it. The farmers' profit, injthese'days, depends more on the kind of stock he keeps than on any other factor. KaUlng Fall Cairn. There is a great unwillingness on the part of most dairymen to allow calves dropped in the fall to reach maturity. It is really the greatest objection to the extension of winter < dairying. That in all cases takes the best cows, as no one would think of keeping poor milkers through the winter, with all the extra trouble that winter dairying involves. But if all V.> of theaa winter cows are sent to the batcher it mast mean a great deterioration of average dairy stock. No one should begin winter dairying unless he has a warm barn, which frost will not enter, in which to keep his cows, and succulent feed of some kind to feed them. These are just the conditions for successfully rearing f^ll farrowed calves. The Apple Majtcot. The furrows which you see in apples aro dnc to the presence of a worm in the apple, which is the product of an egg laid very early in the growth of the apple by the apple maggot. As the mature insect does not eat the apple, but only stings it to deposit her egg beneath the skin, it is not likely that the maggot can be killed by a poisonous insecticide. Some success has been had by using an emulsiou which I is applied before the tree is leaved oat. The maggot hatches early in spring and waits without eating aotil her work in reproducing her species is done. The orchard should be kept as a hog pasture wherever this pest becomes numerous. There are many of these pests in the fallen fruit, and a good lot of hogs will eat this fruit as fast as it falls to the ground. The increase of the pest may thus be prevented if it capnot be exterminated.? Boston Cultivator. I Successful Grape Grafting. J. L Porter, of Ohio, writes: An old Clinton vine stood at the corner of the woodhouse which was so vigorous that its branches spread over everything within re^ch, but boro no frtfit. In April, 1896, I cut both branches off close to the ground and grafted a Delaware grape into one and an Iona | into the other. T used no wax; simply wrapped carefally with strings of oloth, pasted a little mud over the wound and covered all with earth exI cept the top buds of the grafts. Those grafts made a wonderful growth the | first season, owing to the far-reaching ! roots of the Clinton vine. At clpse of the first season the Iona vine was [ about 18 feet long and the Delaware about 12. This season, with the vines one year old, the Delaware branch bore twenty-four as fine bunches of Delaware grapes as I ever saw." The bunches and berries were slightly larger than the Delaware generally grows and so compact on the stems that they could not be picked off easily without beginning at the end of the stem. The Iona branch bore about forty bunches of Iona grapes of the finest quality. This is a quick way of getting a grapevine into bearing. I tried the same experiment on a wild grapevine down in -the pasture. It grew just as vigorously, but an inquisitive Jersey cow spoiled the experiment. Largest Canal la the World. " The Chenab irrigation canal, in the northwest provinces, India, is 200 feet broad. 'It is donbtless the largest canal in the world. Ite main ohannel is 450 miles long, while the principal branches hare an aggregate length of 2000 miles, and the village branches will extend, when completed, for an additional 4000 miles. Apart from irrigation, the longest canal in the world is that which extends from tho frontier o| Qjinato St. Petersburg, and is 447$,mUcs in length. Another Bussisn canal, from Astracban to St. - * ! - t 1, Petersburg, is 143* mnes long; doju the last-named canals were began by Peter the Great. The Bengal Canal, connecting with the River Ganges, completed in 1854, is 900 miles in length, and cost ?*2,000,000 sterling, or ?2200 per mile. The total length of canals in India for irrigating 8,000,000 acres^a calculated at 14,000 miles. The Canal da Midi, connecting the Atlantic with the Mediterranean, is 148 miles long. The Caledonian Canal' in Sootland has a length of sixty miles. The Suez Canal is eighty-eight mile* long, and the Erie 360; the Ohia Canal, 332; the Miami and Erie, 374; the Manchester ship canal, 35} miles. The Word of an Indian. While Indian Commissioner Pray was at one of the agencies a number of young men drank whisky and became unruly. They disturbed the peace. They were tried and convicted and sentenced to do a certain number 1 of days' work on the highways. I * The next morning kfco Indians under ! sentence, without gaord ml any kind, went to the place designated and did their day's work. The next day they j did the same, and so on until the terms of their sentences had been fulfilled. They never shirked, and nothing was reqnired from them except their word that they would fulfill tha conditions of the sentence. Is the word of an Indian worth mora than the word of a white man??Jowa , State Registeri 1HH J^Bl i Hii : jliuj 4 ^ "I have sold Ayer' ^ where it has failed to ^ 14 For five years I h . would produce hair or had one bottle returni ^ it did not do all that \ \ Reinc 4 "For some years it 4 was covered with dar ^ now, and I could hari 4 started. It is much th and my scalp seems ti 4 u Some time ago, n 4 after a time the hair b ^ falling and made the 4 \ Restore 01 4 ^ ? "I think there is n< ^ three years old and n 4 the Vigor, but. the apj glossy." ^ ' " At,.. ?... m ?"* '"* J*?- ^ toilet article. It keef i ME ^ " For about fire y< 4 Hampshire friends as. ^ used it during that s . continued to use it su ^ a head of hair as one 4 "lam well pleased pt thin, I commenced to 4 out, but a new growtl i A 11 A AA A A COASTERS WITH A NEW USE. Berre as Footreats for the Wheelman and Hojd the Bicycle Upright. August Zlntgraff of New York bus patented a bicycle attachment which serves as a footrest for the wheelman while coasting and for holding the bicycle upright when it is not in use. On the two rods of each frame slides a bracket with teeth as on the usual foot restq, eyes on the inner ends of the bracket braces being adapted to engage a clamp adjustable at any desired height to Drmg toe Dracaets id pruper position to suit the eonvehience of the rider. The eyes are also adapted to J t 1 ^ I coasters that serve as supports. engage notches in the rods near their free ends when the frame is down, to prevent the brackets then slipping upward. At the other ends of the frame are transverse rods with right and left hand-screw threads, engaged by a turnbuckle, to permit of moving the frames toward or from each other, according to the thickness of the tire extending between them, and these transverse rods have upward extensions adapicu to be connected with each other by a bar passing between adjacent spores of the wheel, the bar being connected at its free ends with a padlock, to fasten" the frames and the wheel togeiner, thus preventing unauthorized persons from riding off with the wheel. . A man in Utah says he saw a hat which looked as large as an eagle the other day. The safest plan Is to eschew such "bats" as that. Otherwise they usually tprn Into snakes. .. i s Han^ig^r for sXrfaction. ave nor has .vas for kTT/^ni^H^HH iy hair had been coming out. It idruff. I have applied Ayer's Hair dly trust my senses when 1 first found icker than formerly and of good color. o be in a perfectly healthy condition." Mi-ssfl iv head became full of dandruff, whic^^^H iegan to fall out. The use of Ayer's Hai^^fl scalp clean and healthy." Mas. Z. M. :s to Gray A A ? ? riginai ton > toilet article in the world so good as Ayer's iv hair would have beer all white now if it 1 alication of that dressing has preserved its col . Mrs. W. II. JA se of Ayer's Hair Vigor, I can cheerfully reco >s the hair soft and glossy and helps it to it D. WARM S HAIR i iars my hair kept falling rut until I was air ked me to try Ayer's Hair Vigor and insisted umtner and fall and found that a new growth eadtlv for about four months, and at the endo could wish." HOWARD ME1 ?A tie!* V!nrsT Wkart T nnhrA/1 fj wimi njci .1 A mil ? ? MV?. ? ?. use the Vigor, with the result that the hair r i of hair started. It certainly is an excellent CI IAS. C. GRAV f TTTTTTTT* Bovlhe^ame^otel As every one knows, "Lady Audley'i Secret" was tbe novel which lifted Mlsc Braddon Into fame. It may not be sc generally known that the anthor had ?-o little confidence in her work &\ to bring it out In an obscnre serial, Robin Goodfellow. The story of tbe story Is a romance in itself. Mr. Maxwell had started, In more or less rivalry to Dickens' firsl periodical, the magazine called Robin Goodfellow. Dr. Mackey was Its editor and Lascelles Wraxall was his second In command. There had been some difficulty in regard to the opening novel, in consequence of which the new periodical was on the eve of postponement, a serious contretemps in tbe face of its extensively advertised date ol publication. The day before a decision was necessary Miss Braddon heard .ol the difficulty and offered to write the story. "But even If you were strong enough tc fill the position," was the publisher's reply, "there Js no time." "How long could you give me?' ask I a/1 tka nenli^nff nutlmrouc * tu IUC UO|/UlU() "Until to-morrow morning." "At what time to-morrow morning?" "If the first Installment were on mj breakfast table to-morrow morning," ho replied, indicating by his tone and manner the utter Impossibility of tht thing, "it would be in time." The next morning the publisher found upon his breakfast table the opening chapters of "Lady Audley's Secret." Robin Goodfellow did not hit the pub lie. It did not live to finish "Lady Audley," which, Indeed, would have re mained "forgotten, buried, dead," had Miss Brnddon not been able to prevail upon a publisher to bring it out In three volume form. It then sprang into ar instantaneous popularity. The success of the novel was amazing, and proba bly the critics did no harm to the salt by describing the work as "sensation al." More than 1,000,000 copies havt l>een sold.. Motor cars were one of the features o( the lord mayor's parade recently held In London. An accumulator carriage represented the progress of 1897, following the famous "Rocket" engine of 1837- ~ \ t" > - were for the RVIS, Otsego. namend it as a desirable Ruin its natural color." ER, Dunqviile, Ont. GROfll L lost bald. Some New | 4 on getting it for me. I > uL of hair had started. I j 4 [ that time had as good L .VIN, Carlisle, Mass. . P< lat my hair was getting m tot only ceased to come | 4 tonic." A . ES, Brooktoo, N. Y. I 4 ~ ? T V-? ? f f ?4 % A A A A A A A A,1 1 C UTEN ES8~0F~THE~POYOTET"I 1 Do* Drawn Into Ambush?Tricka to 1 Make Away with a Bkdger. ' No cuter animal is found In the West L than the coyote. The coyote is to the >; * plainsman what a fox is to an Eastern 1 j farmer, only the coyote is more in eriI dence. Forest and Stream tells a host !' a dog that had its principal spottfChas-i 4ng and otherwise worrying coyotes. : and was led into ambush by one coyote i and then set upon by several other of the prairie wolves and almost done to death. V"About 9 o'clock one night," the pa* per says, "one of the coyotes came to the kitchen door and bowled aggra. vatingly at the dog, wUch thereupon > set after the coyote full tilt The coy> ote fled around the house, down to the t corral and around the blacksmith shan; ty, the dog yelping after. Bebiud the , shanty were other coyotes; six or seven of them, and all of them made for the r , dog in a way that made it feel lonely. , The ranchman heard the fight and the dog's howls of pain, and, grasping a J rifle, started that way on tb*rnn, veiling as be went. The coyotes each took a farewell nip and fled, leaving a sore fl dog behind. Since then the dog has not been so mar a interested as on foriner oceasio??i in coyotes. It follows H I single coyotes vigorously, bnt the ap- H pea ranee of another sends it back as H fast as it can run." H . The coyote likes badger flesh very fl| much, but oue Coyote is not equal to-n^^H ; badger in a fight; consequently, tho coyote, when it meets a badger, has to " resort to strategem till aid arrives. The manner in which it does this, according J '? *V>~ .nnirfoman'a nnTinr la IntfilVKt ^ IV liiC O^viwuittu o ?- ?.? ??w ' "A few weeks ago," the writer says, J "as I was riding along I saw a coyote A ' and a badger. The coyote seemed , to 1 be playing with the badger. He would prance around it, first as If to bite then run off a little ways, the badg^^^H following, evidently very angry. Whea^^H the badger, saw me It ran into its hdle,flH| while the coyote went off forty ?r fifty^^H yards and lay down, evidently knowing I bad no gun with me. The coyote's device'was evidently to tease, and so JH keep the badger interested till another coyote happened along, when the badger would have been kUJed."?New York Sun