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Every Thursday w ? at? I- f*?G3j*EE, SOUTH CAROLINA, r / r ?B T? LOUIS J. BRIVTOW, L Editor and Proprietor. ,- The number of school children 111 Connecticut showed a greater increase last year than in any other year in the history of the state. The census gave * total of 184,855. Men who are thinking of going to China for the purpose of seeking railway employment are warned bv *. United States Consul-Generhl Good bo* to keep away, as mere are oniy 235 miles of road in the whole empire. yw. ? " ' According to the Chicago Tribune, the legal hangings in the Unite! \ States for the year 1837 aggregated 128?an increase of six over 1888. The executions were distributed as to -sections and races as follows: ,o lathe South, 82; in the North, -lf>; whites, 72; colored, 51; Indians, 3; ? Chinese, 2. ? ' ? It is a little hard, after all the pic _ tunes and all the panegyric in England on the brave piper at Darg.il ridge, to have it come out that the man who EgtgTy.' played "Cock o* the North" andstini - ' " 1 ? - ? A ulateu ine nigmauuers iu utrcuo ui $ valor was a German. His nationality fjj should have been fixed np before the ; reports were sent out. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, the Alaska V expert, says that there is so much re ^old in Alaska that persops w ho go there ten years hence will have as good a chance as those who go next Ippring.* He advises every gold-seeker to take his wife along with him, as he can do mnch better work with the aid of a good woman than without it. Some of the younger Wall street :operatora seem determined to retire Bnsaell Sage. The old man has $50,000,000 in cold cash and wears a $9 overcoat. The combination, in the opinion of the St. Louis Star, is a difficult one to overthrow, aud perhaps before they get through with it they will wish they hain't undera , That the Swedes are preparing for erioos trouble is shown by the budget just submitted, which asks for nearly 10,000,000 kroner for fortifications and warships. The Norwegian* having reduced their contriStid rt ullnir. VUUUUO VV IUC V/IVHU A llllvv o wiiVH knee by 50,000 kroner, the Riksdag has been asked to increase its grant accordingly. This will undoubtedly $5 be done, but it increases popular irri. tation in Sweden against Norwav. B|Kf S " 1 ; According to the New York Herald, 4fce "social promoter" is carrying y things with a high hand in WashingIreSp Aon. For a cash consideration it is quite possible for anybody to bccjiao V " 'introduced." The only requisite is efficient money to make your eutiy r:: worth while to some Washi igton y . society woman who will take you Wilder ber wing. Women of nat o ial repute hare adopted the profe^oi, i s . nod one of them ha) eveu gone so far ' v as to advertise in the newspapers fui ^ "clients." Ar '* fnrmfttinn nf laW "nninn in ? *, Tokio,^ Japan, and the issuance of a mingle tax paper there accent the > change that has come over the coun4ry since the war. The fifteen-cent "wage rate appears to be a thing of the past and a seventy-cent rate is enforced at some of the treaty ports. "There are, however,fco inauy laborers y-v - in Japan -to sustain western wage mcalea, and any great general o gmiration of workers would probably be frewoed down by the authorities. Nevertheless the movement is an interesting sign of the times. ' > Representstive Johnson of North Dakota does not favor the proposition of Senator Jones of Arkansas, to appropriate $150 for a portrait of Sitting Ball. Mr. Johnson says: '"His fame rests on the reputation got without .merit in connection with the Custer massacre in Jane, 1876. He was a man anil irorvinr Tinr. ; j luruiwuu iu?u auu uv%? ??*??* x^m? ing the fight he was with the squaws, out of harm's way, ia the rear, cook: ing mysterious herbs, dancing and -chanting incantations ^o the devil. Call Grass, Running Antelope and Ptaiu-in-the-Face did the fighting and Sitting Bull got the glory." Mr, Johnson thinks a portrait of Custer or Porter would bo preferable. Dr. Porter carried the wounded of Reno's -command tweuty-five miles on stretch?ers to the steamboats cud a thousand miles to Bismarck, the nearest place that shelter and medicine were procurable. ' V ' I w j "agricultural topics. Grooming the Horse. The farm liorse ought to have plenty of grooming, but the curry-comb 1 ought not to do very much. The most ! work in grooming should bo after the | day's work is done. His legs and feet ought to have special care. Clean his ! feet out thoroughly each evening. An i old broom will do good work in this. Give a good rubbing over the whole body with a wisp of straw, working briskly on his legs and feet. Keep the fetlocks trimmed closely and perfectly free from mud and dust when in the stable. Bran For Poultry." Bran [is excellent for poultry and ; one point iu favor of bran i3 that it i contains a much larger proportion of ! lime than any other cheap food derived j from grain, and as the shells of eggs are composed of lime it is essential that food rich in lime be provided. It may be urged that the use of oystershells will provide lime, but it will bo found that it is the lime in the food tiiat is mosi serviceable, oecauso it i? in a form that can be better digested and assimilated than carbonate of lime. Clover is also rich in lime, and when a mass of cut clover and bran is given the fowls they will need no oystershells or other mineral matter as a source from which to provide lim9 for the shells of eggs. Do not forget that in summer, however, the use of all kinds of foods should be made with judgment. If the hens have a free range give no food at all as long as they are laying, but if they begin to fall off let bran be a leading ingredient of the foods allowed. In winter the bran and clover is even more essential, as the fowls cannot then securo green food on the range.?Farm News. An;or? Goats. The following wa3 written for the Breeders' Gazette by ". B. Standley, of Taylor County, Iowa: Fcre-bred Angora goats are scarce. For killing brash and weeds the grade goat is as good as pure-breds. Grados are procured by using pure-bred bucks on common goats. The first cross makes but little hair?about three-quarters of a pound; the second cross about one land a half to two pounds; the third (cross about two to three pounds while 'tho fourth or fifth cross is for hair about as good as pure-breds. Anyone (desiring to make goat-breeding a business for profit should buy grade does and pure-bred bucks aud continue to 'breed to pure-bred bucks. The Angora goat-breeding business is much the same as the cattle or hog business las regards blood. High-grade cows !or sows, if bred to full-blooded sires, are about as good [as pure-breds for beef or pork, but to breed to grade sires is to go backward instead of on and up. I The pure-bred Angora varies much in weight of fleeoe, running all the way from two and a half to ten pounds per head. Of course these are ex tremes. A good average fleece is four to live pounds. The hair is at this time worth about fifteen cents to forty [cents per pound?this is grade hair; ipure-bred h^ir is worth from twentyflvo to forty cents. j Angora goats mature about the same time as sheep and require much the same treatment. They breed about [the same?the time of gestation is the isame. The weight for grown does is 'about seventy to eighty ponnds?some weigh more and some less. Highgrade wethers attain a weight of 160 'pounds often and a bunch of choice ones will dip seven to ten ponnds of hair on an average each. The Angora goat in fleece pays about twenty per cent, m >re than sheep, and for giei iiog qualities there is no com, pa-ison betvesn thsw. I Angoras a :d s leep do well together i aid u<fvor cross br^ed. They do not , d ? well togetaer yi winter (the goats I light too 8aeq>), but when at pasture thev are all righ\ The goats eat haves an l weeds in preference to i gra-52, thus removing the shade and improving the pastures. Angora goats ore grown largely in Southwestern Texas, in New Mexico, California and Oregon. There have been abont 10,000 distributed in Iowa this season. The meat of the Angora is by many thought to be nioer than mutton. The wethers or does if fat sell better than ?heep, for the reason that the meat is I 1 J 11.. ll _ iV. V. equal uuu ui? pen us nunu uiuvju inore. Angora goat pelts taken in November or December are worth from G1 to $2.50 each and ore being worth Laore every year as people learn their hses. Corn That Catches Coons. Eight or ten years or so ago thero was a lake near Morrilton covering about 10,000 acres. When the big floods came two years ago an opening Wa3 made by the surging waters which carried off all the water of this lake *when the floods subsided. The bed of the lake dried up and left the riohest i*oil the world ever saw. It is ten feet deep, and nothing the Biver Nile ever produced could exoel it. < This year Mills and Hallev have a prop of corn on about 1,000 acres of this laud. They sowed the corn broadcast like wheat, and scores cf *'shoots" are also loaded down. "It is the most remarkable corn crop ever produced in the world," declared Professor Cox, and to make the istory even more interesting, he ended it by declaring that a "coon" was taught between the stalks, and, being unable to extricate itself because they were so thick, was killed by those who came upon it.?Little Bock (Ark.) Democrat. A Worklncman't Hotel. ; Another large hotel is to be erected in London. It is proposed to put up ja workingman's hotel that will accompodate 800 boarders at two cents a night. It is expected to pay five per bent, to the shareholders.?Chicago Chronicle. i i ' V * y 7 ?T? ?mmmmmm?m^ > i i?i?? ! 1 GOOD EOADS NOTES. 1! S / ? i ^ Vv'AiAf AJ.'V/V' /V^'A '^'^' 'i. i HoriU Need Constant Care. . A road is miserable just after ordinary repairs are made on it; then it becomes passable, and, tinuliy, perhaps, good for a time. After that it deteriorates till it is wretched again, and the* process is repeated. By re- \ pairing a road annually, or at long periods, it is strictly good at no time. It needs a system of constant care and repair. .. . I Settinc the Tramp# at Work. The good roads of New Jersey, and AI ai._ ci.i. u_* *1.^ J lilt) posiuuu ui nit: oiuit) uri n ecu iuc great cities of New York and Philadelphia, make it a favorite stampiuggroaml for tramps, and it is over-ruu , with them. The freeholders of Cam-; den Couuty propose to set them at : work breaking stones for the roads, j If all other connties would do likewise, j an insufferable nuisance and source of many assaults and thefts would bo . abated.?L. A. W. Bulletin. Good Road* and Public Spirit. A town's streets should be the pub- ; lie lawns and public parks. They ! should be to the corporation asawholo what the grass plot in front of the j house is to the individual resident, i There is no higher evidence of the i taste and refinement, enterprise and . 1 intelligence of a community, than ; ' well-naved streets, bordered with fine i ! boulevards and handsome shade trees, j I Ill-kept, badly-laid-out streets speak of public poverty and narrowness, an j utter absenco of that spirit which , should possess every citizen loyal to j his town's interests and wisely atten- j tive to his own. Fublic streets, substantially paved and boulevarded, j will in tarn encourage a similar treat- i , ment of the private property adjoin- ] ing them. There is no departure ! ; which would so instill patriotism and i I love of home and country as perfecting j j our streets and highwaye. These | j sentiments of the Ontario (Canada) 1 i Commissioner of Boads, are as good ' ! in the States as in the Dominion. Good Combination Road*. At a dinner given to General Stone, in St. Louis, at the time of the recent Good Boads Convention, the general spoke, as follows, concerning what is a good road for general purposes: "The scidhce of road-building is steadily developing and, so far, experience has shown that the very best road ia the world, in good weather, is the dirt road. "When it is either dry or frozen it makes the best road known. For this reason it is the rule on the most modern roadways to have a dirt road running alongside of the paved roadway, and in some instances the paved roadway has a dirt road on each side of it, to be used in good weather. It is remarkable, on roads built in this fashion, how many days in the year the dirt roads do the best possible service, and the wear and tear on the paved portion of the road is thus saved. Besides this, wet weather is the time when travel over the paved road does it the least harm, for the vehicles then press down the rock and stone into.place, instead of scattering them, and by being used only in bad weather, it lasts much longer. "There is another argument in favor of building roads in this way, and that is that instead of a paved or graveled roadway, sixteen or more feet in width, it is only necessary to build it eight feet wide. This reduces the original cost of building the roads just onehalf, and it has been found to answer the purpose just as well, if not better than a road twice its width. How about wagons passing each other? That is a natural question and simply answered. One wagon turns out on jthe dirt road where two wagons meet; but, as two wagons seldom or never meet in exactly the same place, there is no danger of wearing a deep hole or rut in the dirt road. "The cost of building a first-class road of this kind recently, in Philadelphia, with inexperienced hands, and other unfavorable conditions, was $1200 a mile. The same kind of road has been built for $900, and even as low as $800 a mile. The railroads everywhere appreciate the direct benefit that good roads are to the freight traffic on their lines, and have, in nearly every instance, when called upon, given the movement their hearty aid and co-operatien. The Southern Bailroad Company assured me that it would be glad to haul the rock needed for constructing the roadways, to stations along its lines, at the bare cost of hauling the cars. "In collecting data on the $600, 000,000 annually, which bad roads cost this country, I sent out ten thousand letters, both in this country and abroad, and the figures are given only after a very careful estimate. In the State of Iowa the farmer hauls thirty bushels in a load when, if the ! roads were good, he ought to haul 100 i in one load. That single instance j tells the story in a greater or less de- j gree of the bad roads throughout the | country. That $600,000,000 loss every j year, through bad roads, is a tax, not j only on the farmer, but on everybody, j I find, in my experience, that one of i the most difficult things which the , promoters of good roads have to do, j and especially those who live in the cities, is to prove to the farmers that j their interest in good roads in the i country is a real and personal one. j The farmer has paid the tax of bad ' roads, and has suffered from it so long I that ho finds it difficult to believe that j he is to receive aid from people whom 1 he has formerly believed had very lit- : tie real interest in them." Pari*' Ulsgeat Woman. A woman in Paris is said to be tho largest specimen of her sex in tho world. Being unable to enter the iloor of a railway carriage she takes [ her train journeys in thp luggage van. i t . / i * \ > t " \ / ' ih >h ^ A ^; ^ I ..II I J A ... r . i uavc auiu n> ci > where it has failed tc ^ 4* For five years I ] . would produce hair c had one bottle returr ^ it did not do all that 4 4 " For some years i 4 was covered with da ^ now, and I could hai 4 started. It is much t ^ and my scalp seems 4 "Some time ago, i 4 after a time the hair ^ falling and made the ? 1 KCMU1 ( i 0! ^ " I think there i3 n ^ three years old and i * the Vigor, but the ap glossy." * "After Svc years'( ^ toilet article. It kee WAKE 4 t 44 For al>out five y 4 Hampshire friends a< ^ used it during that i . continued to use it st ^ a head of hair as one 4 "I am well pleased t thin, I commenced tc 4 out, but a new growt 4 TTTTTT* CLEANING POSTALS. Process to Bestore Priiiting from Uncanceled Cards. As advertisement has appeared in some of the daily papers, in which a cash payment has been offered for uncanceled printed postal cards. This was all that was stated, and as it seemed to be oat of the general ran of advertisements, a call was made on the advertiser to find oat the object of this ofTer. It seems that many business booses have occasion to have a large number of postal cards printed, to advertise some special line of goods or for the use of some traveling man. For some reason or other the conditions may change, so that perhaps only half of the cards are used. Being printed, they cannot be used in any other way, and the result is that In nine cases oat of ten they are consigned to the waste basket, as the Government does not redeem uncanceled postal cards as it does stamped envelopes. A process has been discovered by which all of the printed matter may be removed from the card, leaving It in the same condition as when bought at the postoffice. A charge of % cent per card is made for this work, or in other words, a man sends 500 cards to be "made over." The man who does the work charges $2.50 for his services, and the customer saves $2.50, as-the printed cards were of no use to him. The process by which this work is accomplished is not patented, as the inventor is fearful that after the ingredients become known, some one else may change them enough to escape an infringement, but at the same time obtain the same result. The solution is made at night, after the factory hands have gone home, and is given them the next day to use. The scheme has been in operation for six months only, but the ipventor has letters from all parts of the country from prominent business houses, that have taken advantage of this offer to save 60 cents on the dollar, and he feels sure he has got a business that, after It has become known, will prove a good paying investmentBoston Transcript. Spiking of China, will German 4 nibble be followed by England's bltt? 1 ? V ft v T^mTT v v y AAA ^ W A A A iu A V A/ *s Hair Vigor for the past thirteen years and h > give satisfaction. 1 sell more of it than of J. P. 13RISC have been selling Ayer's Hair Vigor under a po: in a ba'.d head and restore gray hair to its natu led, nor has there been a single case where the i was claimed for it." 11. M. ivcsDai my hair had been coming out. It had become ndrutf. I have applied Ayer'a Hair Vigor reg rdly trust my senses when I first found that a n hicker than formerly and of good color. The da to be in a perfectly healthy condition." Miss R. \VF my head became full of dandruff, which caused began to fall out. The use of Ayer's Hair Vigoi scalp clean and healthy." Mrs. C. M. AYIif :s to Gray 1 riginal Cole o toilet article in the world so good as Ayer's I my hair would have been all white now if it w iplication of that dressing has preserved its colo Mrs. W. H. ise of Ayer's Hair Vigor, I can cheerfulljfrecou ps the hair soft and glossy and helps if to ret I>. WARN) iS MIR I ears my hair kept falling cut until I was alm< iked me to try Ayer's Hair Vigor and insisted 01 summer and fall and found that a new growth. < eadily for about four months, and at the end of could wish." ' HOWARD M?L1 ! with Ayer's Hair Vigor. When I noticed tha > use the Vigor, with the result that the hair no h of hair started. It certainly is an excellent t< CHAS. C. GRAVE T i At Dr. MTosh'i Expense. The l&te Dr. McCosh, of Princeton University, was an excellent hand at J securing donations for that institution, and yet it was always his boast that tie never asked any man for a cent In connection with this well-known trait of President McCosh's character, : a prominent educator of this city tells how one of the doctor's friends and Ghauncey M. Depew once conspired to ! mortify the good old Princetonian at ' a Tale dinner. It was arranged that the friend should accuse the doctor of begging, and that Mr. Depew should follow with a vigorous denial. In the first speech it was asserted that Dr. McCosh made a practice of calling upon brokers in their offices and remaining until in sheer desperation, the brokers i gave him contributions to get rid of j him; also, that he attended meetings | of various kinds for the purpose of tak-1 tng up a collection for Princeton at the ' end. v During the address Dr. McCosh turn* wfcitA with anger, and started to re ply, when the chairman recognized Mr. Depew. "I believe that all the accusations made against oar Prlncetonlan guest ere entirely without foundation," said Mr, Depew. "I have never heard of his begging from a broker." "Never! Never;" cried Dr. McCosh. i "And I never heard of his attending meetings called for othdr purposes and begging for his university." i "Never!" again echoed the doctor. ' "The only time I ever heard of any- ' thing of that kind implied," contln- , bed Mr. Depew. "was when I was told that he stood on a New York street corher with a monkey and a hand organ, Wearing a placard on which wao print- ' ed: 'I am poor and blind, so please help Princeton.'" Dr. McCosh never attended another Yale dinner.?Phlladelbhia Record. Hall?"What are you doing nowf Gall?"Oh, I'm making a house-to^ house canvass to ascertain why people!] don't want to buy a new patent clothes* "J wginger."?Chicago News. -j Ex-Consul General Iasigl Is to ke^r books during bis term in prison. That j is hard labor, for those who And it difficult. . . 1 ' : - V ... v: ??????i?? T T T TTTTj^BB ^ ^ i\ i ^ ave known no any guarantee was used that Va. very dry and my scalp ularly for some weeks ew had ndrutf has disappeared ^ H me great annoyancej - stopped the hair from Mount Airy, Ga. Hair its I am fiftyere not for the use of and kept it soft and IVIS, Otsego, Mich. m9tM^3s a desirable ,/HfV^H ain its natural color." ^ iROff. H J sst hald. Some Npr 4 n getting it (or me. I i >f hair had started. I that time had as good /IN, Carlisle, Mass. it my hair was getting t only ceased to come S, ISrookton, N. Y. M >WM ':0 y vyyyTTT IW From the subversion of the Roman empire to the fourteenth or flfteenth^Hj century women spent moat of thefr^Q the joys of social life; tjiey seldom -went abroad, bat to be spectators of such public diversions and ' amusemeats as the fashions of the tftna^^H countenanced. Francis I. was the first "HI who introduced women on public days to court; before his time nothing wuH to be seen at any of the courts rope but gray-haired politicians, ting th^deatructkm of the rights^^^^^^ liberties of mankind, and wanH^^H clad In complete armor, ready to their plots In execution. In the t!^^H teenth and fourteenth centuries gance had scarcely any existence, iH^H even cleanliness was hardly coocldte^^MH as laudable. The use of linen waa^^^H known, and the most delicate of fair sex wore woolen shifts. In they had meat only three times week, and one hundred Urrea (abot^^H twenty-five dollars) was a large portlo^^H for a young lady. The better sort o^^H citizens used splinters of wood arx^^Hj rags dipped In oil Instead of candles^^H which, in those days, were hardly ts^^H be met with. Wine was only to had at the shops of the apothecaries,^^m where it was sold as a cordial; and ride in a two-wheeled cart along tbJ^^H dirty, rugged streets was reckoned grandeur of so enviable a nature that^^H Philip the Fair prohibited the wives of citizens from enjoying it In the time ^B of Henry VIII. of England the peer* ^B of the realm carried their wives behind ^B them on ho repack when they went to ^B London, and in the same manner took ^fl them back to their country seats, wltf> ^B hoods of waxed linen over their beads, ^B and wrapped in mantles of cloth to so- ^B cure them from the cold. . H| As They All Do. I "Of course, the bride's father gava HI her away, but didn't any one give away ^B the groom?" "Oh, the groom gave himself, away. Asked her at the very first dinner at .1 the hotel If she took cream and sngar j in her coffee."?Indianapolis Journal. 1 Johnny?"Papa, what Is a faction T* I ' Papa?"It is a term osed to descrlbo I | that section of the party to which yoa I i do not belong."?ruck. I