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? # ' % &V . ^ (I II II ' I 1 THE COUNTY BEBORD, Published Every Thursday BTXGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, -BTLOUI9 J. BRISTOW, Kdlfor and Proprietor. '. The Boston Transcript observes: To ? . take pride in ancestry that was lion- ] est, clean and industrious, in men who hewed and plowed and paid their debts and prayed, aud loved their ?;. , wives and children, is one thing; but this indiscriminate anil silly worship of ancestry is quite another and seems about the most ridiculous vag ? nry of this fad-pestered age. *Y' ________ The term "bordereau," used in the Y Zola trial to designate the incrimiuar\jng paper alleged to have been written j S. by-|)tejfus, has puzzled a good many I *- people not familiar with French idi? oms. The New York Times has the > , grace to add the English equivalent (memorandum*, very mnch to the re; * lief and gratification of its readers as well as that of the public a. largo. ; Near Ho?brook, in Apache County, Atbobx, is the iavgest forest of petria* wood in the world and Laud Oodtamissioue:* Hermann is preparing P* a special report to the Secretary of the Interior recommending that it be I a fores: reserve and placed under the ' ? protect ion of the Government. The material is rapidly being used up foe commercia' purposes. and unless steps are taken for its preservation will soon =? i diaappca. - Aowrdiag to a cable corresponded f the New York Tribune, ''the tone of " the English press toward the crisis ;Y, brought on by the destruction of the . .Maine ,at Haraua is -sympathetic and I * cardial, and its just admiration for the 1 aelf-restraint. moderation and coaserDM. ; ' i vatism of JVcsident McKinley and the \r' . American press is unbounded. Tho \ ' American people are*credited v. ith a L snfootiit! exhibition of one of the best traits of tae Anglo-Saxon character, I ' o? coolness aval =.- fusion . : alaomei-.toits crisis-, which is an unanf.\. : V 'Araeialoproof of tuei?capacity for selijgpverxneu:. Y.:e c >.?: .l"-:: :.iruen'. , jtt Eu:;i.:-: I Y ; ha: Americans can stand j on t h v ergo of a precipice and not Ipso j J/'jJ their hca < shorn :y .rnunotn of ^ , giddier ss. / JTho C'-ica,'.- !'?' ; :?ay.?: On the ilr>t thai the Jar* iu'the case of Luetgeri \ y," stood nine for conviction to three for i }k- ; acquittal. although in one ballot the 1;Y number for conviction rose to ten. jarr on his second trial brought | r :-.i t in a oaiuimoas verdict of guilty. It also stcotl l1 to 1 .'or the death penalty, final.'v cjo'n. oTiisiag r.u irnpris- I aasttcn: for '.ifv. 0 :: of ir.entj-four /' * 4 imat^ehcseti vrUh infinite pains who Bj heard all .h;? eridencn, ttvemy-oao A. v, have been ronxiaccil bcvourl a reasondonbi of Lnelgert'f guilt, one *' ' * mtmrn in f ro Tfnllt have nc BjgtiWP. T?T . ; ? ... A, quitted bin. The final verdict is a j grateful relief tb the community and the chamber of the penalty saves to all those vrlio cherish any doubt as to Mrs. Lue tgert's having been murdered at ail, an anticipation of unl\ availing amorse should she reappear. ' Bear-ldmiral Jam?" K. Jouett. of i ttic United States Navy, declares his belief in the Xew York World thai ' the " . heavy eoast-defcmse monitors are tho r ' * . -* most powerful and best righting ships T.i in the navy, and^ beiieve that one of ,there could whip any two of tiiehoaviest r v* battleships afloat. If war was declared ' ^ I would guarantee to take the Puritan and the Terror and defend New York Harbor against all comer?, and : am confident that I snould win. While they would afford me an excellent target. with their lofty sides and heavy | npper work?, my vessels would offer them, as di.i the Monitor at Hampton Eoads. practically no target at all. I think the United States should have many more heavily armored cruisers, 51 the most efficient vessels for attack, I and next to the monitors the mcst reliable for defense. The fact that battleships, owing to their size aud weight, are ponderous affairs and difficult iff move mates mem uu easj jncj nu iwpedoes and torpedo boats. The Uuited States should, in inj opinion, confine itself to a fleet of heavy monitors, a powerful flying squadron of heavily armored cruisers, enough light cruisers to represent our country and carry our flag into the ports of foreign Nations, and a large number of torpedo , boats and torpedo catchers to operato in con;4nction with the monitors. We \ c. can do better without the battleships in pursuing on/ course of abstaining from f tangling foreign alliances and minding our own business than with tayo -her class of vessels. Give ns j low free-board monitors and torpedo boats for coast defense and cruisers for operations abroad." ' , v ;yv - ma 4 . Cht Wormii. Those are often troublesome in the spring. They come out of the soil and cut the little seedlinc plants oS* close to the ground, then burrow. They may be unearthed in the morning and destroyed. It is better, however, to spade the soil up in time, and let the pests die from the effect of frost during winter. This is perhaps the best means of ridding the soil of these "worms."?Floral World. Care In Watering. . If soils are not fully porous naturally, or if they are well filled with roots, it is qnite common at this season for plants to fail wheu good care seems to be given. The trouble, too often, is that the water given rushes through some fissure, or else does not pass through at all; and, iu either case, the plant does not receive the root watering which the owner apparently gives. The motions are gone through, without the proper result. This state of things is especially bad for decorative stuff like aspidistras, palms nud ferns. One severe drying at the root may destroy lite usefulness of such plants. For this reason let the grower be sure the water applied reaches its destination and does its work. It may be a good idea toplriuge the pot in a tab of water.?Floral \Vr>rl.l Griuilin; Grain on the Tarm. One of the farm economies which we hop? to see in every neighborhood, if not on every farm, are small portable mills ran by two or three-horse power engiues,with which all the coarse graiu needed for feeding to stock may be ground. This will provide profitable winter work on farms, of which t'ndre is now far too little. It will also save much expense, not only in millers' tolls, but also in the cost of making a trip to mill with horses or wagons or sleighs, and probably waiting several hours while the grist was being ground. Many a day wo have spent thus, with no profit except to the miller, while it" we had a farm mill, nud even n horse power, we eonld have inado the horses grind their own feed without much-more labor thau is required to draw a grist of graiu to the mill and return, and perhaps in a stormy day at thsr. All o-rain i* miicb better'ior stock after it is ground: ft can then bo mixed with cut hay of straw, all of which should also be cat by horse or steam power rather than by hand. The larui mill is now sold at very reasonable rates, nud one of suitable size to do all the grinding required on the farm ought to b^iu the possession of every farmer.?Boston Cultivator. ? TUr FUi Cro;?. . It wu~ not without good reason that Eastern farmers 'abandoned flax growing. Its d9om was sealed when the cottou gin and successive improvements ia Cotton-spinning machinery mad9 cotton goods so cheap that they have almost entirely superseded for common wear those of tlax. in winter even a good part of the clothing is made of cotton, though wooleu may be worn next the skiu and in the outer garments. Flax is an expensive crop for the farmer to grow. If the most possible is to be made from it, the flax must bo palled, nud the entire plant immersed in water uutil it3 woody fibre has rotted. It is expensive in still another way, also. No crop takes so much nitrogen from the soil, and, as usually managed, makes no return. The seed is sold at very low prices to the oil mills, which extract the oil ami dispose of tlio meal ttir.t is leic afrer grinding the 3a*; as a hy product. Whoever bays this lius?ed meal siud feeds it gels a double benefit. The moal is worth more than its co?t price if fed to stoek. and excrement made from it is worth nearly as mnch as the meal costs. For this reason the Eastern farmer is often an extensive buyer ot oil meal, but he very seldom, in these days, grows the flax from which it is made. Spinniug and weoviug flax, ouce so common among New England housewives, have become really lost arcs since the increasing popularity of cottou. The cotton has also been so greatly reduced in pritfe tuat il is very unlikely that the days will ever return when flax %v.-iil be as extensively used for clothing as it was within the memory of elderly people. And yet fof summer wear and for durability liueo garments are so much snperior to cotton goods that they will always be used. But tbe work of mauaging the flax from the "field to the loom is now largely left to machinery driven by Rfceam o'.- water nnwer. instead of be ing operate;! by human baud labor.? American Cultivator. (irsai Value of Mannrc. Do we farmers valne manure a9 we Vaould? I am.afraid we do not. The older 1 grow the more I value manure. I have a saying that every load of mauure has a gold dollar in if. My farm is three-quarters of a mile from a little town, and every load of country produce 1 see going into town I say to myself there is a gold dollar's worth of manure in that load, and I must keep an eye on it. I keep one farm hand, aad we have an understanding that any part or part of a day that we are Dot busy the team must haul manure, and many and many a time I wonder where the team is, and I soon see it coming with a load of manure, and I can get the gold dollar out of each load the first year, and the ground will show the effects for many ? *i . ' | years thereafter. Farmers bare many an opportunity to bring home n !oa?i of manure from town which they tlo not improve. For instance, when tho | team goes to t'ue blacksmith shop, | while the smith is doing the work j there can nearly always be a load of I manure got at the shop that the smith is glad to get rid of. I notice year ; after year some fnrmer3 living out of town some three miles who for years have hauled wood into town occasionally, and never- a load of manure has any one of them hauled home, and j their farms have got poorer and poorer j nntil they get bnt little more than ! their seed back for their work. But j just think; if I would give a gold dolI lar to any oue of those farmers for : each load of manure, no donbt there ' would soon bo u value set on manure j in the town, and each farm wagon i wonld return loaded. For an object lesson I scatter a load of mauure on a piece of land twenty feet wide and two hundred feet long, and when I gather the crop I note the difference with the same amonnt of land adjoining that is not mannred, and I always find I have got my gold dollar out of each load of manure the first year.?Horace F. Wileor, Julian, San Diego County, | C^l., in New York Tribune. Fattening Old Cow#. ' ? iv" 'Inanrno/] nArvTllttf 1 UCIC Ai"? i? u vau pv|/ projudice against cow beef, and we suspect that the doctors are very largely responsible for it. Yet we have ho often eaten tender and sweet cow beef that our experience long ago taught us that its quality was much more dependent on the way it had been fattened than it was on the age of the cow. But it is, nevertheless, true it is more difficult to fatten an old cow, or an old animal of any kind, than it is to fatten young animals. As the teeth begin to fail the food is not so well masticated as it nsed to be, and as a consequence digestion is retarded. The presence of nudigc3ted food in the stomach creates fever, and in this diseased condition not only docs the animal fatten less rapidly, i bnt what flesh is put on is less tender J and sweet than it should be. The ! common practice of fattening cows i with corn and milkingriiem so long as j they can be milked helps to make poor i beef. The water and fat that go into ' - " * tue miiK are iioui mucn uxe uct?n in the beef to nuke it as good as it should be. i A cor.* properly fattened should be j given as runcii succulent food as she I will eat, and at first fed with grain or i meal rather sparingly. If she is very ! thin in flesh her beef may be made all I the better, provided this condition 1 does not show the impairment of her [ digestive organs. When a cow is fatI tailed that when you be^iti feeding her J is little more than skin aud bones, with enough flesh to hold them together, it stands to reason that most of the flesh aud fat you euti pnt on her by three or four months'good feeding will be new flesh and fat and jnst as good as'if put on a two-year-old heifer. The bodily system is being constantly changed by the small veins which run through the Hesh, and which are always cftvryiug ofl' waste matter and replacing it with new. The old saying used to bo that the living,body is wholly renewed every seven years. But scientists are now agreed that most parts of it are renewed much j quicker thau this, as any one may see I by the rapid healiug of a cut or bruise j when air and the germs it contains arc excluded from i:. Old cows sel! at ridiculously low prices, as may be seen each week iu I the market reports. One weighing 083 pounds was during a recent week sold for only 818. This cow may have been thin in tlesh, but if she was in good.health she would well repay! proper fattening. Siuce ensilage is now so common it is much easier to properly fatten old cows than it used to be when they were mainly fattened on dry hay, cornstalks and corn, neither of them the best material for making sweet and tender beef. If those whs fatten old cows would make au effort to do this properly, cow beef .might be made much better thau it is, ami the unreasonable prejudice against it wcnld disappear. Derivation of tbe Word Klondike. , From Dawson the trail to the miues leads over a steep hill to the creek made so famous by its tributaries; for there is not a single mine 011 i'ae principal stream, which in the ; miners' slang is called Klondike. And : yet this stream does in reality bear a ! characteristic name given it by the : Indians, which ?is utterly murdered b}- this pronunciation, now so com i moo. I The Indians name the creeks , throughout the country from some , characteristic in connection with the 'stream itself; and as this one is so j swift that in order to set their salmon 1 traps or nets they were obliged to use a hammer to drive the stakes to auchor them, the creek was named by them Haramor Creek, or, in their language, phonetically, Troan Dik. The spelling Klondike means absolutely nothing, but bas been accepted, so I learn, by the Board of Geograph| ical Names' of the United States.? ! John Sidney Webb, in the Century. A newly discovered Spanish stone lias proved so well adapted to lithographic work that a large company has been formed* which threatens to overthrow the Bavarian monopoly in lithographio stones. ' ' V!; \ V \' - ,v - TTTTT^TTTT S ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ < \ The Co: i is Ch K r< > and it's a cure that s 4 better idea about coi * - i 4 instead ol titting the ^ that makes ! ^ I Cher THE I 4 *4 in the land; It is a si ^ Bronchitis, Croup, V ? Grippe; and it so si ^ many cases of diseas 4 * have been absolutely \ now be had in hall-s \ At l 4 ^ "We tried almost e Pectoral and the relie 4 a " When I had almc | 4 most excellent results WA I "1 " There were six tee W have never, .-inre I ca I ^ had a case of cold or K ^ " My wife was sick 4 of them said that she ^ I bought one bottle o ^ ' dozen bottles. Befo ^ strong and well." ^ " For more than a } great soreness of the < 4 ment with Ayer's Che ^ as the other remedies 4 - * fTfVVYVT' A A A A A "OLP MORTALITY.""" House Where Proto*ji?e of One ot Scs'tt'ii Characters Was Born. Tht? Hawick Archr.elojjlcal Society has preserved a literary landmark deat to every lover of Sir Walter Scott's writings. This Is the house in which the prototype of "Old Mortality" was born. EVery reader of that admirable novel, in which Scott touches with so firm a grip tlie conflicting tastes ami interests of Covenanters and Royalists. will remember that tho story was made to revolve round the reminiscences of a famous old man, who was a repairer of tombs in Scottish churchyards. The original of "Old .Mortality." whom Scott bad met only once. ' OI.il MORTALITY'S" lUKTnri.ACK. and then at his occupation, was a certain Robert I'nterson. who. as this stone commemorates, was born at Ilaggicsha.inl712. Paterson was little more than a beggar, receiving such charity as was given to lifm from day to day by the kindly people among whom he He traveled about with Ills little pony from churchyard to churchyard. interesting himself in taking away the dirt and moss which accumulated on the other toiuhs. many of which were those of famous Covenanters. It was the knowledge of this man which, undoubtedly, inspired Seott tc tell the story which common assent has placed in the very front of Ids great works. According to a tobacco manufacturer,' the consumption of chewing tobacco in the United States Is falling ofT. People are eschewing It, In other words. Down in Oklahoma, where the set-' tiers burn Indians, the redskins think there is a lire lssne at stake. ^ ./ . ' . / IF ^ .-'r-.-v;.' ' - ' ; ; . * a7A ^ ^ ^ 9. ^ A 9 stlicst Coug ange of Cli: not often possible and not alw; lghs and cures: Why not fit the climate to the lungs? It is tl ry Pec JEST COUGH Lire cure for colds and coughs; a 7hooping Cough; it prevents P trengthens the lungs and heals :e marked by all the signs of In< y cured by its use. Dr. AyePs ize bottles ialf Price, 50 veryihing for asthma without success At las f was immediate." S. A. EU ist despaired of ever finding a cure for chronic from Aver's Cherry Pectoral. 1 can testify as I R. G. PROCTOR, M. D.f n children in mv father's family and there are s? n remember, been without Ayer's Cherry Pect< a cough that this remedv did not cure." HON. WM. E. MA in bed for ten months and was attended by six c K-./1 rnntnmntinn. and some of them said she C( f Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It seemed to help h< re Jiese were all used, she was completely J. \V. EWING, < ear my wife suffered with lung trouble. She chest, and experienced difficulty in lyeathing. , rry Pectoral effected a complete cure. Werega she had tried had failed to even give relief." C. H. BURKIS, 3 f T 7 T 'V V V "V ^ A ^ Bank Notes in Bibles. It has happened, not infrequently, ; that wealthy people rf eccentric character have chosen to conceal a portion j of their money in the family Bible, i where it has been discovered by j chance long after their decease. J A young nobleman. who was in ; financial difficulties some time since. , had occasion to reier to tne ramwy j Bible for a date there recorded. In so j doing he came across a number of Bank of England notes, amounting collectively to a considerable sum. which more than met his liabilities. Then he recalled his mother's dying words j that ' 'help might oe found in the ! Bible when all other ?ourct3 failed.' j But he had paid small heed to the in-' junc tion, and certainly never-dreamed of so practical a fulfilment of the words referred to. A needy student purchased an interesting old Bible .at a secondhand bookseller's recently, and was delighted to discover bank notes to the vaiue of ?1,000 folded between the sacred pages. Another ancient Bible was found to contain notes to the extent of ?7t?>. This was owned by a prodigal son. who lived for many years unconscious of j Ihe wealth in his possession.?London j Tit-Bits. The Pretoria. The Pretoria is the crowning tri- j umph of the extensive shipbuilding es- j tablishznent of Rlohm & Voss, at Ham- j burg, Germany, and adds aftother success to the mauy already achieved by ] years. She has a length over all of feet, a breadth of <Ki feet, a depth of J2, and a displacement of ?'?,"?00 cons. No steamship in this world has a greater carrying capacity. The Pretoria, measured as buildings are. is seven stories high, and above her seven decks, and seventy feet above the surface of the water, is the captain's bridge, from which the commander of i this monster ship can control her movements by the most comprehensive system of modern electrical signals, reaching to all departments of the vessel. The Pretoria has capacity for 20,000 tons of freight, an amount which tt would take twenty-five railroad trains of twenty-five cars each to transport by rail v.'r 'w.t '?.v??l ^ A 4 Ai ^ A -f ^ ^ 4 fl Cure :; F 4 mate, H h 4 iys sure. There's a < lun<js to the climate > O 4 ie power to do this 4 S ' 4 4 toral CURE ? I 4 specific for Asthma, neumonia, cures La * ^ "J the torn tissues that < :ipient Consumption ^ Cherry Pectoral can ' - x cts. : 4 \ l we jised yoor Cherry ' i"' LIS, KeeAe, N. H. 4 bronchitis, I derived 4 jM to its efficacy." p Oakland City, Ind. 4 iven in my own. We * >ral, and have never ^ .SOX, Chicago, 111. 4 liflferent doctors. All 4 4 >uld not live a month. ^ er, so I secured one ^ cured and to-day is ^ Camden Point, Mo. ^ had a severe cough, ^ \ three monttxs' treat- ^ rded it as remarkable, ?Iarine Mills, Minn. ? <4 i fm m m +m * A A A A A A A SON OF KOSSUTH. A Prom incut Fijjnrc iu the Hungarian Parliament Riots. Frauz Kossuth, son of the immortal Hungarian patriot, was a prominent ^ tigure in the recent riotous scenes in the Hungariair Parliament. Kossuth KRAXZ KOSSCTH. demanded that the ausJelch?agreement of union?between Austria and Hungary be not renewed, and aroused the >V wildest enthusiasm among those who J are eager to see Hungary absolutely independent. . A Cartons Bequest. The conditions attached to bequests 'of money are often curious. An interesting Illustration of this is afforded by an annual custom which takes -:% place in one of the cemeteries of New- #41 castle-on-Tyue. Some years ago a gen- -i|j tleman left a sum of money for the Is lief of the rates on condition that tain members of the corporation shodikl every year place a wreath of flowers on his tomb. So, annually, as the an- ^9 nlversary of his death comes round, vt'H the mayor and other members of the corporation attend and hang a wreath -*3 on the granite obelisk which marks bin ':JJ resting place. Thus bis memory !* fj kept green among bis fellow-citlxens. \ ?Goldon Penny. Jfl Life seems bat a dreary ex-pants to -49 the boy who has to wear his dad's j made-over tronaeo. .