The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 17, 1898, Image 6
Published Every Thursday
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KJNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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. ..
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sXrfaction.
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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
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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
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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
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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- ~
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were for the
RVIS, Otsego.
namend it as a desirable
Ruin its natural color."
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lat my hair was getting m
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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