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;1'W ' ; THE GOUNtr RECORD. [: v x Pabliahed Every Thursday -ATCIXGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ?BI? LOUIS J. BRIVTOW, Editor and Proprietor. . i ' ? The mountain ranges of New Jersey and Pennsylvania abound in rattlesnakes, which are turned by the natives to various commercial uses, and, thnnch the rentile does not Dav verv . ' * "~~0 ' X A V V well, his residuary substances have some selling value. For instance, his akin, if a large one, is worth $1, and if sold to the summer boarder brings on an average about $2.50. It is made ioto belts, pocket-books, slippers, and other articles of like sort, and is of a delicate ornate texture, with curious M * interlacings and imbrications showing how finely the original serpent was acketed. Its oil is very costly and has Tarions uses, and its venom, still more costly, is administered in cases of scarlet fever. The market rate per ounoe of the rattlesnake venom is not precisely given, but it is high up on Vthe schedule, aud that is probably one reason, facetiously suggests the New York Tribune, why Hiram Skate, of Pike County. Penn., wants to organize a rattlesnake trust to regulate prices and oontrol Output. The scheme is in harmony with current commercial ten\ dencies. and. as was said of one of the mZ V ' t, > reptiles which hail swallowed a frog too large for its constitution, "thero jnp. may be something in it." B i > ????? I According to a r port placed on the table of President TJciunley thero are now available for military duty in the United States 10,073,576 able-bodied men, and of these 112,082 are already h in the militia, forming the nnclens of a tremendous fighting forca. This is without considering tho skeleton United States army, which conld on ' . abort notice recruit up to 100,000 men. This organized force of course does not approach the available number of National defense, but there were at the close of 1896 organized guards in a very State and territory, except Al?V? ann Indian Tarrif/irr *11 nf I whom could be used for active service in oase of necessity. Of the total force of 112,000 there 100,000 in tho infantry branch, 5000 in the cavalry, 6000 in the artillery and abont 2000 general officers. Gamps were held last year in many States, at which were present from forty-six per cent, of the State forces in Texas to ninety-six per oent in Connecticut. The total appropriation made by the United States for militia was $100,000, while the various States spent about $2,800,000. ; v It is estimated that the time required i for concentrating for service would vary from six hoars in Nevada to three h > days in Oklahoma, while the proportion that would probably tnrn out for dnty ranges from fifty per cent, in Indiana and New Jersey to ninety-five (per ceni. in l'eansyivaui*. 8TATK ITKMS Gathered From Here and There and Briefly Told. Winnsboro is to hare a telephone exchange. Colombia's third spring floral festi al takes place on the 21st inst A postoffioe has been established in * Darlington county called Cuba. The Adjutant-General has issued quite a number of commissions to military companies of late. The erection of the government telephone and telegraph line on Long Island and Sullivan's Island has been begun. Fire over in Brookland, across the Congaree river from Columbia, last week destroyed property amonnting to $10,000. I i'. At Fort Mill Memorial Day will be observed on the ?th of May. Col. J as. Armstrong, of Charleston, will deliver ' y the address. At Rock Hill G. W. Barnhill, keeper of the O. R & C. water tank, was arrested last week for passing several counterfeit silver dollars on the merchants. The Luna cotton mill at Fort Mill came very near being burned one night ? recently by some miscreant smearing kerosene on the floor of the card room, bat the night watchman discovered it before mnch damage was done. The cadets who were expelled from the Citadel have written to Lieut. Jenkins, who Lient. McDonald said warned him about the cadets who were shipped, saying they would have trouble with them. Bock Hill will soon be herself again. The plans for new Buildings are under discussion and as soon as possible work will be begun. The town at large will be no loser by the fire. ?Bock Hill correspondence News and Courier. While other nations are sending war. ships to China, this country sends one of her young men to be professor of mining engineering and geology at the University of Tientsin. Our Interposition in Chinese affairs is not dramatic, like the interference of Germany and the { rest, but who will say that the hammer of the geologist is not better, if not tnightler, than the mailed fist. _ I in their stateroom: Brown?-confound you, you're using my toothbrush!" Sonderhausen?"I beg your pardon. I tinked it vos xe ship's."? rick-Me-Up. -ii v if iv Clover For Siut<ly Soil. On all kinds of soil clover, wheu fully grown, is a benefit. Its roots break up the heavy clay soils and make them permeable to air aud raois-1 tare. But on sandy soils a clover growth as often as every two or three . years is a necessity. It is only thus +liaf vorrotfthlp niftttor it fOIltftillS , can be kept from being washed or 1 burned awry and wasted. It is often J difficult to get a clover patch on sandy Roil. Clover needs mineral fertility, i both potash and phosphate of Jime. j In both these sandy soil is generally , deficient. There is no better single j manure for sandy soil than wood ! ashes. If from hard wood these will also furnish some lime and phosphate, i ?Bostsn Cultivator. Codling Moths in Cellar*. Wherever the codling moth is prevalent something may be done to de| stroy it by keeping close watch of eel-! lar windows where apples are kept. Apples in the cellar are usually kept, much too warm, and this causes the . worm to hatch out much earlier thau it would if they were buried under the snow. We have often found these j moths at cellar windows in MArch, and sometimes as early as February. There ! can be no doubt that the moth lives j until the apples are set, and then de-; posit their eggs in them, even when they have been hatched unusuallyi earlj. All tne moms ruai can ue j trapped before they escape help by so much to free the fruit of this pest. Iu fact, it is believed by most that very few codling worms will survive the winter unless the apples iu which they j are encased are protected from freez- i ing. ?American Cultivator. Plant Snrar Maple*. Should we plant maple groves? 1 There can hardly be two opinions on | this subject. The beet-sugar indus- ' try is a problem; but the maple sugar ;, industry never was a problem. It 1 pays better than three-fourths of our ( farm work. At eight cents a pouud : maple sugar finds ready market, while ( much of the better product sells at , ten cents and twelve cents. The svrup j is sold by producers directly to con- \ snmers at $1 a gallon?very rarely at j less than eighty cents. Throughout < New York, Pennsylvania and other j States this direct sale to consnmers ( takes up a large part of the product, ( excepting only two or three counties \ of Northern New York. But it is not, | just now. as a market product that the 1 subject should be mainly considered, j Every family is a sugar consumer and ( a sugar buyer. Most farmers can , make the larger part of this sugar sup- i ? 1? ^.:i. 4ha. Aan vaiaA thoir yij ?0 twuj mo iucj vau imov ?mvm own potatoes. A family of six or seven will consume from one to two barrels of sugar a year. Grannlated sugar will cost such a family from $15 to $30 a year. A grove of fifty trees will produce 200 to 250 pounds of maple sugar. That is, where the trees stand in the open. The product is less where the sugar is made from trees in the forest. This is equivalent to at least half the family's requirements for sugar. But the sales of syrup will make an aggregate value per tree even higher. A grove of fifty treos, standing in the open, will oc- : cupy not more than a quarter of an acre. Besides the sugar product, the grove is advantageous for shade, also for an enormous product of humus , each fall, and for windbreaks and shelter and as an equalizer of temper- j atnreand moisture. Maple trees should i grow in a grove. They do not thrive i well as street trees, where they arc j subject to ranch abuse of the saw aud , exposure of the trunk to hot sunshine. A grove might well be given place on every farm of twenty acres. Why shall there not be a general planting of maple groves during the spring of 1898??E. P. P., in New York Tribune, j Rorirl of the Near Future. There seems to be what we think a !, mistaken idea among horse raisers, j and especially among farmers in gen- j eral in regard to the fntnre position of the horse. When electricity was } introduced for street car transporta- j tion, it was said that now fine carriage , horses would be no longer in demand j at paying rates, and that the farmer ( could not afford to raise them for the fntnre market; but what has really j taken'place? The mules aud low j , grade horses used for the road have I j been driven off; but the demand for j y fine carriages horses has steadily in- ( creased, and although the prices were 1 at first somewhat modified by the Tow ; j prices of horses in general, a reactiou i 1 has taken place because the supply is ' ^ no longer equal to the demand. This is due to two causes. First, the number of carriages in tho cities , j has not decreased as was expected ex-1 j cept with those to whom a carriage j t was a burdensome expense, which , could not well be afforded; even these I were loth to give up their carriages and in mo9t cases will resume them [ again when times are a little more i prosperous; so that there are now qnite as many carriages on the streets | ' in cities where electric cars run as be- ; fore tha introduction of electricity. : The demand is therefore, as great for j ( this class of horses as ever before, j ( Let any one attempt to buy a first. j class coach horse or an ordinary safe j \ driving horse for a family carriage, ( and he will find how scarce the article has become in the market. The allaround unsightly and unsafe horse may easily be found, and is sometimes < sold as first class to the credulous and < "r^T-13 'L ? unsuspecting;, who is only undeceived when, in the midst of a runaway, his own life aud the lives of his family are in the utmost peril. Therefore, the horses put upon the market for safe coach or family horses must be better trained and horse jockeying must cease in the market for such horses. Such horses are in great de? maud now, and would command high ! 'r 1_ xl 11 1 3 J.J I prices 11 oniy iney coma ue uepeuuea upon as meeting the needs of the buyer. Good, well trained trusty horses for drivers, will always be in demand at remunerative prices. But there will soon be a demand for a saddle horse for ladies. Bicycles have largely taken the place of mere sprinting jaunts through the country, which in early days used to be done so neatly on horseback; but it will be many years before the bicycle can be elevated to the honored individuality of the noble horse. Bicycles may give a taste for country air, and country scenery, but these can only be enjoyed to their fall extent by a ride through the country and over the farmer's fields on horse back. Many lailies who have commenced on the bicycle will not be satisfied until they enjoy the luxury of cutting the fresh country air on the backs of the noble steeds trained for the purpose. Here is another department for the horse breeder and trainer which must prove piotitable in the near future. If farmers will only raise and train the right kind of horses, the horse market will be always good.?Farm X ews. Food and Care of Farm Hormea. It is not every farmer who is the fortunate owner of a stable of good horses but improvement in feeding might be employed to advantage for the well-being of his stock and to his own interests. The feed for the horses on the average farm consist of a rack filled with hay, morning and night, with ten or a dozen ears of corn at each feed, or perhaps a gallon of 3ats occasionally for variety, and a filling up with water two or three times a day. This kind of feeding is generally the rule, and it is not much ileviated from daring the months of the year that the horses are worked md kept in the stable, and while a good condition of flesh may be maintained by the practice, it is not the t>est for insuring good healthy digestion and longevity to the animals. In the first place, the farm horse is deserving of the best that the farm prolaces, saitable for his food; this in the end is cheapest. A variety of provender should be mixed together, ind the qnantity of each kind so adjusted that the mass shall contain as much of the elements of nutrition and litrogen as possible. In England it is the custom to feed farm horses, when it fall work, on vetch seed and beans jthe latter crashed), these containing in excessive proportion of nitrogen, nixed with bran. This alternated with )ats, either crushed or whole, makes ilmost an ideal horse feed. except :he bulky parts which consist of hay in<l straw cnt and thoroughly mixed; it is then called "chaff." To every forty pounds of this chaff mixture, lixteeu pounds crushed oats and four lotfuds crushed beans are added, and :hirty-six pounds of the compound is ised for a daily ration for the horse svhen at work. English farm horses ire proverbially sleek, fat aud well onnded oat. The stomach of the horse is very small in proportion teg the size of his jody, aud to secure the best all round results, he should never be without food for any great length of time, yet formers' horses often work eight or aine hours without a break; the stornich becomes empty and the intestines ire tilled, more or less, with gas, and when the animal conies to the stable water aud food are at once given him, which he consumes voraeiously to hi^ injury, often followed by an attack ol jripes or colic. Whenever a term of work of unisual length is in prospect, aud along fast to be expected, the nose bag should be used, and the horse given lis regular ration at the customary :ime. Good hay stands probably first in mportance in the list of horse foods, so far as rough provender is cou;erued. Many wiuter their horses, vhen standing idle, upon hay alone, ithers again on corn-fodder and straw, md if these materials are sound, iriglit, free from dust, and iu every vay of the highest quality, a degree of r TTTTT T ^ \ ^ ?^ ^ >- ^ < :: A Vi 4 4 \ PER] 4 ^ so far as perfection c \ progress. To many they don't consider < , > has a very moving e L* that follow arc apt ^ dynamite and as dan \ Perfee i Perfee 4 4 and their use is not f 4 a watch. You don't 3* mechanism going aj and wonderfully mac ^ dealing with it. Ay bowels into healthy give a healthy tone 4 headache, heartburn, * the disordered condil < ^ 44 Aycr's Pilto are tl 4 "I don't know of a ^ dyspepsia as Ayer's 1' ^ 44 Ayer's Pills do th< other pills." ^ 44 Although mild in 4 thorough in operation ^ > bowels." 4 44 After twenty yean ^ ague, bilious fever, sic < J. ^ 44 We always used A always have them in t 4 LAWLESSNESS IN ALASKA. ~j The Rowdy Element Seize Bennett's Road ?The Country in Terror. Information has reached the War De pnrtment, Washington, that the rowdy element of Alaska has seised Bennett's road, leading to and over White Pasa, and have placed the country in a state of terror. Instructions were telegraphed to Oeneral Merriam, commanding the Department of the Columbia at Vancouver, Wash., to j order the Infantry garrison at Skaguay to take proper steps for the protection of persons and property in tne disturbed < region, regardless of the expense attending such a movement of troops. Labor World. England has 637,0f J coal miners. Colorado claims 45,090 unionists. America has 10,000 uoion barbers. Boston cigar makers gave $250 to tho striking textile workers. Most workers in Switzerland are employed about eleven hours a day. Detroit (Mich.) barbers ask clergymen to aid them in keeping their shops closed on Sundays. The Kentucky Legislature lias made the : first Monday in September ^Labor Day) a I legal holiday. Proprietors of Bnitimoro (Md.) tailor shops were arrested for using otl^toves in overcrowded houses. Washington (D. C.) Chinese labor union pays its walking delegate $2.50 a week. Governor Voorhees, of New Jersey, has issued a new law to protect uniou labels. A ten-hour day for railroad employes will be secured by a bill before the Massachusetts Legislature. Canadian Government Railway has discharged all colored porters employed between Halifax and Montreal. There are 75,000 railroad and telegraph workers in Illinois who can vote, and the Railway and Telegraph Employes' Political League has been organized. The Goodell Company, of Antrim. N. H.. which makes cutlery, is said to have a profit-sharing system that enlists the enthusiasm of the best workmen and yet enables the concern to compete with energetic rivals In trade. The report of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen for the month of January shows the receipts to have been $45,196.50, and disbursements by claims $18,500, leaving a surplns of (26,696.50. The Board of Police Commissioners of Toronto, Canada, has decided that hereafter livery hack drivers shall only work twelve hours a day, but they have the privilege of doing six hours' extra work, providing they are paid extra for it. The several hundred granite cotters and qu&rrymen at the Hallowell Granite Works, who have been idle since March 1, owing to a disagreement with the manufacturers over the price list, have returned to work. A new contract whieh covers two years bos been signed by the union and the oomnaay, hrift and health will he maintained ;hat cannot be improved upon. Straw if fed alone, however, and free access to it is given when the iorse is doing no work, is not exactly :fca thing to insure best results; it is laid to digest, and there is danger of :he horRe eating more of it, while he s at rest and doing nothing, than the organs of digestion can dispose of, and hen more trouble ensues.?Farm, Field and Fireside. A Baronet's Expenses. It costs money to be created a barmet in England. Sir John W. Manure, for instance, says he spent $350 n replying to telegrams of congratnlaion when the announcement of hia deration was made. , Queen Victoria's Garden Patch. Great Britain controls twenty-one rat of every one hundred square milea >f the earth's surface. '' -V' iwVj.'i y l.j V . ; ' ' i 4 ' v v t AA A A A A A A A i / are FECT F :an be attained. They mark th people, any pill is a fit pill, ai whether there's any recoil in t ffect, and so has an earthquake, to be disastrous. There are gerous as an earthquake. Dr. in Pr/*ni a in 11 vya :t in Open "ollowed by violent reaction. I use blasting powder to eject th jain. The. machinery of the b le than a watch, and needs eve er's Pills give just the necessan action. They correct the ill-< to the stomam. Thus they constipatic piles, and all disc tion of the liver, stomach, or bo ie best cathartic I ever used in my "practice." ' J. T. SPARKS, nything that will so quickly relieve and cure t! ills." JOHN C. PRITCHARD, Brodie, eir work edicicntly and do not gripe nor make JOHN M. S) action and less liable to gripe than other purg and can always be relied on to cure disc a PETER J. DUF i' experience, I know that Ayer's Pills are an a' :k headache, flux, dyspepsia, constipation and , O. WILSON, Contractor and Builder, Sulp Lyer's Pills in my father's family. I am now 1 he house because I have found no better pill t MARY JACOBUS, 711 E. Chestnut St. rrrr tttyt; A A A A ^ 4 * * - " *n ?? ' Mormons In Xortli.Cterollnn. So many stories have been heard of the growth of Mormonism in North Carolina' that a thorough investigation has been in' stituted. The result so far demonstrates that there are more Mormon missionaries at work in the State than there are Presbyterian ministers, and that at the present rate of increase the Mormon communicants and churches will soon outnumber those of the Presbyterian Churcb. Chaplain Chldwlck Promoted. Father Chidwick, Chaplain of tho Maine, ' who has been promoted to the rank of ! lieutenant, has received orders assigning ! him to the Cincinnati. Cycling Notes. I One of the distinguished rider* of a ehalnless safety in England is "Field- [ Marshal Lord Roberts, V. C." Two thousand five hundred wheelmen j have joined an association in Flint, Mich., j to build a tbirty-milo cycle path. Cycling, in moderation, will not have a had effect on a weak heart, but violent riding will often produce heart disease. Anderson, of tit. Louis, and Charlie Murphy desire to ride against u locomotive in an'nttempt to beat the record of a mile u minute. The Chief of Polieo of Oswego. N. V., has i | issued a general order to the patrolmen to | arrest all riders who have not taken out a > bicycle license. ' ! A cycldpath is being built frcm Daven- ; port to Clinton, Iowa. There are about 650 cycle manufacturers! in England, and it is computed that they j are turning out no less tnau 2050 different brands of wheels. If your foot slips on your pedals try a lit- | tie powdered resin on the sole of the shoe, j Better still, endeavor to improve your ankle j | action in pedalling. Beforo riding your new mount do not fail j J to thoroughly overhaul it. Attention I I should always be paid to see if the handle- i I bur clip is tight and the back adjustments j | screwed up taut. Beware of "bargaias" in bicycles. Often has an Ignorant would-be cyclist purchased i a worthless machine at u low figure with! out ascertaining its merits, chiefly because it "looked all right." It is proposed to build a cycle path ten feet wide in St. Louis, Mo., encircling the city. This will connect all the ridable roads in the Mound City. Cyclists in England complain that the rate charged by the railways for transportation of their wheels is exorbitant, sometimes exceeding the rider's own fare, while to this they have to add their tips to the baggageman. An elevated cycle path, nine miles in length. Is being constructed between Pasadena and Los Angeles, Cal. The riding surface, which Is to De of wood, will be at a height of from eighteen to fifty feet from the ground. The path will be lighted by electricity, and a cyclists' pavilion will be erected half-way 'between the termini. |< | The toll is to be Ave cents each way. I lil r < m' s r - 4 ILLS I 4 e highest point in pill * id so long as it acts * ? he action. Dynamite 4 but the consequences 4 pills as. damaging as ^ Ayer's Pills are * 4 ration, \ ition, 4 i grain of sand stops * e jjrain and start the ? 4 ody is more fearfully ? n greater delicacy in / * stimulus to start the * :onditioned liver and * cure dyspepsia, sick 4 ases that grow out of 4 wels. \ 4 M. D., Yeddo, Ind. j he terrible suffering of Warren Co., N. C. ^ . Jf ! one sick like so many dlTH, Atlanta, Ga. A atives, Ayer's Pills are ^ les of the stomach or FY, Rock port, Tea. ^ bsolute cure for tertian hard colds." 4 ihur Springs, Texas. ^ ^ fifty-tive years old and ^ lhan Ayer's." ^ , Mt. Vernon, Ohio. A 4 . r^T^TtT>TATATiT^ Kiw OHtaac ai ? ?.*... Hiuriz, Nora Scotia (By Cable).?The United Statee ships New Orleans and Ban Francisco, from London, put in here Monday morning, short of coal, after a stormy, passage of fourteen days The San Francisco exchanged salutes with the Citadel. They sailed as soon as they coaled. ir..la?lAv? Twnmnet Said. The trumpet upon which Trumpet Major Joy, of the Seventeenth Lancers, sounded the order for the charts of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, with Joy's four medals, was sold at auction in London recently for 93750. ' Prominent People. The wife of Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, died a few nights ago in Washington. President McKinley wi l deliver the oration ut the un vei'ing of the statue of Francis Scott Key at Frederick, Md., on August 9 next. General Dabncy H. Maury, a Virginian, who served through both the Mexican and Civil Wars, is now eighty years old and in feeble health. Harvey J. Be?, known as "Jubilee Bee," who died not long ago in California, was the oldest living pioneer of the Pacific coast, and though lie made several fortunes ho died a poor man. In spite of his sixty-eight years Count Tolstoi is a man of great physical vigor. During the-past winter ho was frequently seen on skates. King Humbert, of Italy, is tho most heavily insured man in Europe, the amount carried > being over *7,500,000. The late Cxar Alexander III. was insured for 95,000,000. Queen Victoria is a member of tho Anglican Church, but also attends the Presbyterian church at Crathle, when she is at her Balmoral home. She has taken communion at that church every autumn since 1373. It has been Anally settled that Emperor William's pilgrimage to Jerusalem will take place early next November. On his return journey His Majesty will visit Yiidiz Kiosk, where the Sultan is already making preporiHnna fnr his reeention. Captain Weiss, of the Paritan line steamship Belgian King, has a record of haTinjr saved 979 lives at sea. To be sure, modtof them were on disabled ships that Captain picked up and towed into port. w ** It is said that Speiker Beed's partiality; ? to school-teachers who visit the Capitol la' .> due to the fact that he once taught a class in a Portland school. Hr. Reed's biography in "The Congressional Directory" makes .1 no mention of bis experience as a teacher. $ Colonel Allen D. Candler, an aspirant ' fopthe Democratic nomination for Go - .- ' ernor of Georgia, declines to meet his competitors for the nomination on the stump, saying that there are now no principles for: them to discuss In which the people are in-j <J terested, and, besides, such debate* always . engender bitterness. . ,*A ^ v . - Ha