The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 03, 1898, Image 2
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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.
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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.
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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
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played "Cock o* the North" andstini
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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.
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; 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.
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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
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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.
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! 1 GOOD EOADS NOTES. 1!
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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
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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
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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?
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*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.
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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
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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<
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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.
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me great annoyancej
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Hair its
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not for the use of
and kept it soft and
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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