The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 21, 1898, Image 6
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Pabliahed Every Thursday
-ATCIXGSTREE,
SOUTH CAROLINA,
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LOUIS J. BRIVTOW,
Editor and Proprietor.
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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
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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
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t, > reptiles which hail swallowed a frog
too large for its constitution, "thero
jnp. may be something in it."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 <
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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