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Catching Crow* and Hawks.
It is most easily doue with the eomfcion
steel trap used for woodchucks.
etc. Watch for some particular spot
where crows arc frequenting for
something they like in the way of
food, and as quietly as possible place
one. or more if you have theui, of the
traps, somewhat concealed by a little
earth, securely anchored by a strong
chain or rope. Sprinkle n few kernels
of com about for bait. Then retire a
little way and watcn the result. An
oc tlio liiivltf rntnrn x-/xii will atire.
ly get one or more. Hang on a pole
at any point you wish to protect and
you will not sec any crows about there
the rest of the season.
Hawks are not so easily caught, but
with a little trouble some may bo obt.Fix
a little platform upon a
pesi : et firmly in the ground and
place a w.re box with a few chickens
in it on top. Place the traps around
the wire cage, and if the birds are
plentiful and hungry some will be
caught. Hawks have the habit of
alighting upon objects near what they
.wish to devour, and an extra post a
little way from the chicken cage with
a trap ingeniously fixed at the top so
the bird will not suspect danger might
be the means of securing some.?A. A.
Southwiek, in New Lngland Homestead.
A Strong Hay Derrick.
The base of this derrick should be
made of 0x12 stuff, fourteen feet long,
the centre crossplece of 3x8 and the
outside crossplece of 2x8. nil mortised
in as show in cut and securely bolted,
one bolt at each corner passing
through foot of brace, which should
be made of 4x4 stuff. The post (e)
may be either round or square (if
square SxS is none too large), and
should be nine or ten feet high.
The pole (a) should be thirty-five or
forty feet long, depending upon the
size of stack or rick to De maae, ana
>2^1"
THE DEBBICK COMPLETED.
" should be of good stiff timber. White
oak Is good, aud seasoned elm first
class. Slab off butt end to save handling
unnecessary weight. Have your
blacksmith make a fork (b), and fit
In old buggy spindle on top of post
for fork to work in. The piece (c) is
made of straight grained 2x5, hinged
to post aud bolted to pole. The two
hooks for pulleys are made as illustrated
to bolt through pole and short
end to enter shallow hole to prevent
pulley jumping off.
The derick should be set to the
windward of the Stack, and if it docs
not swing over stack when load is
clear of ground tilt the far corner a
little by putting block under it. If
properly made and used it will be a
valuable addition to the haying machinery
for those who stack their hay
In the meadow. The writer stacked
ten acres of good clover last year In a
little over half a day, with no one else
on the stack from beginning to finish.
You would never dream there was so
much hay in the stack, it was so well
well packed by the dropping of the
heavy loads.?Orange Judd Farmer.
Thinning Fruit to Kill Insects.
In thinning out the fruit in the orchard
during summer growth the fo
nage ana mm ten on xne tree? are
cot only benefited, but the general
health of the trees also. In my own
experience I have found that this
practice when judiciously followed
has a distinct benefit upon the health
of the trees, and hence enables theni
to withstand the ravages from insects.
This is a point that has not been em
phasized much, hut if you go into any
orchard whore thinning out is practiced
you will iind tliut insects are
less destructive than in another where
the let-alone method is adopted. The
insects are destroyed by this process
in two ways. When you make trees
grow vigorously and thriftily you
make them less susceptible to disease.
Thus the yellows will rarely attack a
peach tree in good condition, nor the
blight and rot appear on apple and
cherry trees that have an iron-like constitution.
One way recommended for
combating fruit tree diseases is to fertilize
aud cultivate the trees so they
will be strong and healthy. The more
important effect that thinning out
fruits has upon the tree diseases and
insects is In the destruction of the
larvae of the insects in the wormy
and immature fruit. Now the larvae
of the codling motli produces the
wormy fruit on apple trees, and if
these deformed apples are pulled off
in the thinning out process scores of
would-lte codling moths will be killed.
The plum curculio produces the wormy
plums and cherries, and by destroying
this immature fruit we kill them.
mere are many orner injurious worms
and insects that are killed in this immature
fruit, and thus the season's
crop of destructive insects is limited
by just that number. Usually this Immature
fruit never amounts to much,
but eventually drops on the ground
and dries up. The insects and worms
then emerge forth and breed a new
crop.
In thinning out the fruit from any
trees all the undersized, worm-eaten,
deformed and unshapely fruits should
first be selected when very joung.
They should all be destroyed by fire
or some other way so that the larvae
of the insects will not escape. Throw
my; mini iJ u liui > JII^ I nviu ill?I XZly
gives tho insects another ohnnee to
grow and mature. It is only after the
poo:* fruit Ins been destroyed that the
thinning process should be extended
to the better class. Usual.y it is better
to thin only a little at a. time, for
sometimes the fruit with worms in
them do not show any defect until
quite large. If the tliinaibg out is all
done cne does not feel like pulling off
more fruit toward the end. By leavon
time m.\ro fmif Son
111^ UII mtr uuvr iiiuin muiv nuic
you intend to let mature you have a
chance to "destroy those in which defects
appear very late in the season.?
S. W. Chambers, in American Cultivator.
THE CELESTIAL TIME SYSTEM.
Odd Thine* About the Chinese Calendar.
Many perplexing problems were presented
to Americans in the messages
from Minister Conger recently forwnrded
hv the Chinese officials to the
administration in Washington, but
none is a greater Chinese puzzle to
the average system than the problem
of determining time according to the
Celestial system.
The Chinese have no use for the
generally accepted calendar. This resulted
in the to us odd expression
which appears in the message sent
by the Tsung-li-Yamen to Wu Ting
Fang, the Chinese Minister in Washington.
This message began: "Your
telegram of the fifteenth day of this
moon." Experts in the use of the
Chinese calendar readily understood
what was meant by the "fifteenth day
of this moon," but they could become
Anlv nftop Inne nnrl p.nrnpst.
CAJ/Cl lO Vi-?J U^fcV4 IVug v. ?v. - ?
study.
The Chinese month is the lunar
month, consisting of twenty-nine or
thirty days. A year may have twelve
months, and consist of 354 or 355 days,
or it may have thirteen months and
consist of 383 or 3S4 days. To bring
the calendar year into accord with the
solar year, the Chinese provide for an
extra month every second or third
year. This they call the "second third
month" or the "second sixth month,"
as the case may he. With them an
hour consists of 120 minutes. They
have no weeks and are content to divide
the months into thirds. Thus,
where the more modern nations lind
weeks very convenient In the division
of time, ihe Celestials are satisfied if
they can keep within a third of a
month of the actual time of any given
event.
That there should be many odd features
of tlio Chinese calendar is not
siirprlstiip: when one rememners xnai
the yellow race still adheres to the
system adopted in the year 2300 B. C.
Yoa. who was counted a wise ruler
by his race, revised the calendar in
that year, decreeing that thereafter
time should be measured by the moon.
In order to make the calendar accurate
he further provided that there
should be seven extra months in the
course of every nineteen years. As a
result Chinese time varies little more
than an hour every nineteen years
from the true time.
In a general way. time is counted in
China by two methods?first, by cycles
of sixty years each. and. second, by
the reigns of the successive Emperors.
A Chinaman, in giving his age,
may report that he was born on the
tenth day of the third month, in the
fifth year of Hien Fung, or in the fiftysecond
year of the cycle. That year
corresponds to our own year 1855. As
the third lunar month in that year
bepan on April 10. the English equivalent
for the tenth day of that month
was April 25. 1S55.
Another illustration of the oddity of
the Chinese calendar is broupht out
in the despatch from the Tsunp-liYamen.
By our calculation the day
to which he referred as "the fifteenth
day of this moon" was the eleventh
day of the month.
Chinese Comfort For Hot 'Weather.
There are no pillows in Chinese beds.
They have instead hollow square
frames of rattan or bamboo or blocks
of wood fashioned so that they tit the
nape of the neck and support the head
when lying on the side. People who
have used these substitutes for pillows
say they are much more comfortable
than soft, hot feather or hair
pillows, especially in warm weather.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Among some remarkable lunar photographs
made by Messrs. Loewy and
Puiseaux. of the University of Paris,
is a stereoscopic image of the whole
| hemisphere of the moon, the direction
of light giving relief and showing
rery strikingly the details of craters
and mountainous regions. The picture
was obtained by taking a plate of the
moon at ton days and another at twenty
days, enlarging these sixty times,
and carefully placing side by side.
The atmosphere is divided into
sharply marked layers, generally two,
sometimes three, between the ground
and 10,000 feet elevation, the upper
layer potentially warmer than the
lower. Two borders of these layers
are marked by sudden changes in temperature
and moisture (absolute as
well as relative!, and in wind direction;
they also indicate the places of
maximum wind velocity, and are generally
recognized by cloud formation.
Tho Austro-Italian system of cannon
firing for preventing hail was recently
put to a severe test, with results ttyat
exceeded expectations. Threatening
clouds collected in the neighborhood:
of Rogeno, in the province of Como,
three times in succession on one afternoon,
and each time they were
bombarded by fourteen special cannon.
The clouds were scattered, only
n little sleet falling. In the vicinity
of Alessandria great damage was
done by hail, which in some places
piled up to a depth of twenty inches.
In low-pressure areas the air of the
upper layer is cold and very dry, while
over high-pressure areas it is always
wnrm ?ml fnnernllv moist. In one of
the cyclones recently observed there
were three different systems, of wind
circulation. The surface cyclone had
a height of but 2G00 feet, over which
was a cyclone with a warm centre
G500 feet high, accompanied by clouds
and rain, and above this another moving
about an area of low pressure with
a cold centre. When the wind in the
middle cyclone was north that in tho
upper was south. ^
It has been seriously asserted by
manv neonle that we are naturally
lighter after a meal, and they have
even gone the length of explaining this
by the amount of gas that Is developed
from the food. Average observations,
however, show that we lose
three pounds six ounces between night
and morning; that we gain one pound
twelve ounces by breakfast; that we
again lose about fourteen ounces before
lunch; that lunch puts on an av
erage 01 one puuuu, iuui. u6m-a
lose du-mg the afternoon an average
of ten ounces, hut that an ordinary
dinner to healthy persons adds two
pounds two ounces to their weight
La Nature reports the following curious
origin of an epidemic of tuberculosis
at Karkow, a city in Russia;
an unusual number of cases of cja
sumption were noticed among tho
municipal officers and clerks. S:m;c
accidental suggestion finally led to a
bacteriological examination of the library
where the city records were
kept. It was found that the departmental
archives were literally covered
With tubercle uaciin. runner rnvesuRation
traced them to a consumptive
employe, whose work led him to consult
the archives very frequently, and
who had the common habit of wetting
his lingers with saliva to facilitate
the turning of the pages, on each one
of which lie thus deposited a colony
of bacilli.
Elopers at the Barge Office.
"Of runaways there are scores
every year at the Barge Office. Id
seems that whenever a married man
has deserted a wife and children for
| a comely young girl, or a married
woman iorsaKeu an eiueriy uuauuuu
for a younger lover, they make
straightway for New York, as if it
were the universal haven of refuge.
In most eases the officials of the Barge
Office manage to get at the exacl
truth, for, having no marriage papers,
'husband' and *wlfe* are separately
questioned as to the time and the place
the ceremony was solemnized. As
both are lying, their stories frequently
do not agree. It is usually the man
who Is first to confess to the runaway.
This is because the woman has
everything to lose and the man everything
to gain, for he can desert her
at will, even as he deserted wife and
children abroad, and with even less
compunction of conscience. The woman.
and sometimes the man, suffer deportation.
If the later has money, he
is allowed to remain, since there is 110
law to prevent him, unless, of course,
the wife across the water has caused
her husband's arrest through the foreign
Consul here. There is usually a
property as well as a personal crime
in these runaway events."?AInslec's
Magazine.
Cause of Lessened Mortality of Late Wars
The lessened mortality in recent
wars is due especially to the "first-aid"
package with which the combatants
are supplied. Without this, the results
now would be practically the same as
during the times before the packet
was used.?Toledo Medical and Surgical
Reporter. - - - '
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Late English criminal statistics sbo\i 1
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UKll UlilUlUleill't iutu .'luiiuiuuin, i?
the blackest county in the island fot
the number of crimes in proportion tc
the population. The drunkards' may
shows Glamorgan in a bad light atso.
Northumberland is much the worst
county for drunkenness. London and
Lancashire have hardly half the proportion
of inebriety found in Northumberland.
BUELL & ROBERTS'
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?Ye continue offering inducements to close
out our Summer Goods. We can mention
only a few of the oiauy goods deduced:
Ladies' 8c Uudervests for 5c.
10c Ties and Bows for 3o.
25c 'i ics and Bows f. r 15c.
Initial Handkerchiefs, H. S., embroidered,
3 in alios, for 19o;25cgoods.
15o Men's Black initial bi.k Handkerchiefs
for 10c.
Men's large White Figured, Drawn-Stitch,
Japonet Handkerchief for 15c; worth 25c.
Six Large White Fine H. S. Handkerchiefs
for 00c. in fancy b< x; cheap at 75c.
Three large White Fine H. 8. Handkerchiefs,
in fancy box, for4i)o* worth 5oc.
Black-bordered Linen Haadkercbiofs torI2c;
cheap at 15c.
Good Mourning Handkerchiefs for 4c.
Handkerchiefs for lc.
Handkerchiefs for 2 l-2c.
Handkerchiefs for Sc.
33-inch Madras for 7 l-2o; worth lOo.
36-in h Madras for 6 l-2c; worth 8c.
LAWNS AND ORGANDIES FOB
LESS THAN COST.
Shirt Waists for much less than it coat to
make them.
BIG REDUCTION ON SKIRTS.
40c Pique Skirts for 25a.
98c Crash Skirts for 81c.
All Summer Goods are being sold at r??
duced price?.
NEW GOODS.
One case Lonecloth 5o; no starch.
Fine Black Henrietta at 50c.
TINSEL DliAPERY SILK ALINE,
BALL FRINGE.
Black Duck at 8 and 10c.
FURNITURE DEPARTMENT.
in n<?r>A Walnut Suits ?76 to ?100.
10 piece Solid Oak suits 9 18, 922, 925, 930,
935. 940. 950. 9:6.
Oak Hall Racks, French Plate Glass, 97,
{8.50, 93.60.
\Vardrobe9 98 to 925.
Bed Loungos 99 to 916.
Bedsteads 92.25 to 910.
Iron Beds. Iron Orlba.
Parlor Suits 936 to 950.
Baby Carriages 96.60, 97, 97.50.
Kloor Oilcloth 80c.
Matting 10; 12, 14. 15, 18, 20, 23, 26, 27 and
50c.
10-plece Chamber Sets 92.19 to 93.
Window Shades 11, 15,30, 35, 40c to 91-2&
Stoves 96.50. 97.50, 910to 9l&
Trunks 92.60 to 96.50.
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Skin Diseases.
For the speedy and permanent cnre oil
tetter, salt rheuin and eczema, Chamberlain's
Eye and Skin Ointment is
svithout an equal. It relieves the itchinar
and smartine almost instantly and
its continued use effects a permanent
cure. It also cures itch, barber's itch,
scald head, sere nipples, itching piles,
chapped hands, chronic sore eyes and
granulated lids.
Dr. Cndy's Condition Powders for
horses are the best tonic, blood purifier
and vermifuge Price. ?-r? cents. Sold by
so. s. irani,
MANUFACTUREKS OF
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, M0ULD1N8S
AND
Building Material.
Dealers in Sash Weig hta/
Cord, Hardware, Window glaei,
etc.
We guarautee our work
superior to any sold in this city,
all being of our own manufacture.
E.n.HACKER, Proprietor*
CHARLESTON, - 5. C.
Atlantic Coast Line.
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Condensed Schedule.
Dated April 15th, 1900.
SOUTHBOUND. No.31' Xo.23" No.53" No.51"
AM PM P 51 AM
Lv. Florence 2 34 713 9 40
Lv. Seranton 8 21 10 27
Lv. Lake City 8 27 10 33
Lv. KLngstree 8 54 10 59
Lv. Lanes 3 38 9 14 6 43 1120
P M
Ar. Charleston 5 04 10 53 8 30 1 00
NORTHBOUND.No.781"No.32" No.52" No.50?
A M PM AM PM
Lv. C harleston 633 4 04 7 00 4 00
Ar. Laues 8 32
Lv. Lanes 8 05 6 15 6 39
Lv. Kir.fjstree 8 23 5 56
Lv. Lake City 8 46 6
Lv. Scranton 8 51 6 20
Ar. Florence 9 25 7 25 7 05
AM PM AM PM
Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run via Wilson and
Fayettevilie?Short Line?and make close
connection for all points North.
JNO. Jr. DIVINE. Oeu'L Sup't. .
Registration Notice.
The office of the Supervisor of Registration
Will be opened on the first
Afrvnilaw in ftprv m?nth for tho Dur
poee of the registering of aDy person
who is qualified as follows:
WJio shall have been a rcgdent of
tho State for two years, and of the
county one year and of the polling
preciut in which the elector offers to
vote four mouths bofore theday otelect
on,and shall have paid,six months before
any poll tax thea due and payable,
and who can both rend and write any
section of tho Constitution of 1895
submitted to him by the snperviscrs,
of registration, or can show that he
owns, end has paid ull t xes collectable
during the present year on property in
this .Statu sss-ssed at three hundred
dollars or ruore. J. ). 13ADDY,
Cleik of Board.
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