The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 13, 1905, Image 6
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W LONG .
Wiiei, all the dreams of our life bave van- (.
ished,
When love is banished
And hope is fled, I
We turn away from bleak to-morrow,
To walk with Sorrow
Among the dead; ^
We look once more on the loving faces ___
And suuny places
We used to know; I
And lose for a time our hurt and sadness
Within the gladness
Of long ago.
The days are long, and the days are dreary;
Our hearts are weary
And in distress.
As through the blur of our tear-wet lashes 1
We see the ashes
Of happiness.
From brooding over our lives left lonely, ^
We seek the only
Escape we know,
By going back to the sweet affections (
And recollections
Of long ago.
f "HE ART'S I
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% By MARION
HERE was the constant |
J L nnooixo ^ f orwl I .
pM J? F%40C,lilfc iwiaiqw nu\* j
O O the sound of merry laugh- 4
M y ter in the halls of Mrs. 1
McCallum's rambling old- i
fashioned house; a snatch of college <
song, sung by fresh young voices, float- :
ed up from the moon-flecked road; from
the distant gymnasium came the throb r
of languorous music, but the ten young \
women iu one of the upper rooms of f
the college boarding house were ob- 1
~-^Jlvlj>.us to outside sounds. a
The little feast was over, the candles t
were burning low beneath the dainty c
pink shades, the scent of fading roses t
was heavy on the air. but still they a
sat absorbed in the recital of what c
use each had made of the ten years t
that intervened between their gradua- i
tion and this night. i:
Delight Everett sat with flushed t
cheeks and shining eyes, and as one a
and another spoke, sympathy, admira- r
tion and affectionate pride were mirrored
in her changeful face. How s
nobly the giris had lived, how well a
they had fulfilled the promise of their
college days! And through it all she a
felt the familiar influence of the dear t<
room that once she had shared with v
Lettiee Clayton, wlio now presided at t
this feast of remembrance, I
It was kir.d of Mrs. MeCallum to arrange
matters so that the reassembling v
should be in the place that had witnessed
the last gathering of their col- p
lege days: it was thoughtful of the s
present tenants to relinquish *he room "
to these returning girls of ".U. And t<
then. at that instant, she was conscious ii
of the gala sounds that proclaimed the
high tide of the college commencement, a
and for an instant she forgot the years
that separated her from that night so tl
long ago. st
Nine sighs of relieved tension greet- g
ed the conclusion of Judith Graves' ex- b
citiug story of the winning of her first si
case, and a babel of questions and con- u
gratulations rose about the table, tl
Surely Judith's triumph shed a reflect- ^
ed glory upon those intimate friends it
who had always appreciated the bril- "u
liant intellect, even in the old college a
days. Did not the waiting toast to the si
most successful belong to her? De- **
light wondered. b
But then there was Henrietta Sonle, D
already taking an important place d*
among the faculty of her aln.a mater; d<
41 ml Mary Lowell, a successful physi- il,
dan. spending every moment that she
could spare from her large practice in pi
work among: the suffering poor. The si
fcaJanoe wavered here.
^ 'And what of Lettice Claytt n, spend- si
ing her time and strength in a college d<
settlement; and Dorothy Tait, whose n
delightful kindergarten made a spot of c<
brightness in barren little lives; si
Eleanor Day, just returned from Paris. ?
fresh from the triumph her spirited o:
pictures had won; Laura Denuison c:
and Itose Abbott, happy in their mar- B
ried life and the love and care of little P
children; and Cecilia Merton, whose a
lovely voice not long since had thrilled h
them with its richness and its power? g
Delight sighed again from excess of
joy. The day had been full of the S
happiness of revisiting beloved scenes p
and renewing old friendships, for the d
daughters of 'f>4 had returned in large
numbers, and class feeling had proved ti
Itself strong to withstand the years, v
But this evening was the crown of p
all, and in a few moments they would 1
carry out the old resolve to toast the E
one or their number who naci mace me n
best use of her time and talents since p
last they had parted. But oh. how dif- b
ficult it would be to choose! h
Delight suddenly awoke from her absorption
to find laughing eyes turned e
' upon her. si
"I beg your pardon!" she stammered, ii
with a bright flush. "Did you speak k
to me?" s
"We are waiting to hear your story.
Delight." I.ottiee said, gently. "Then "
we Will put the question to vote." u
"My story!" Delight had forgotten o
that she most testify. And what could I
she s.ty? Ah. what a pitiful, meager tl
ree id beside those of these fuller, h
richer lives! None of the hopes with c
which sue had crossed the threshold tl
of college life had been fultiiled; she ii
bad made 110 name for herself, had b
done no great work for humanity; had t<
cultivated 110 talent until it hud become o
a minister to the sum of beauty. t
SLe rose, as had the others, but stood f
silently, twisting her fingers in the h
old way that the women about her re- a
meuibered tenderly. Then she looked a
appeaiingly about and laughed?a I
ti-f>niii!o:is little Inn'rli
"I>oar girls," she said, a lut unsteadily,
"I have no story to tell, for I have
just lived along in Durham, and the
record of life in Durham would not
interest you."
Before any protest could be raised,
they wAe surprised by a tap at the
door, anw Delight, being upon her feet,
moved to answer it, glad of the interruption.
"O Mrs. McCallum!" they heard her
say. with sweet cordiality in her toue.
Then she stepped into the hall and
drew the door shut. No one spoke or
stirre^ until the door swung open
again and Delight stood holding the
knob.
, ?
? \
AGO.
)ur breams ot love and our golden visiona,
The fond ambitions
Of other years,
>y stern decrees "of the Real, broken,
Have left their token
Of unshed tears.
Yithout remorse are the fates that sever.
Those hopes we never
Again may know;
Jut although lost, they renew their glory
Within the story
Of long ago.
Yhen love proves false and we seem forsaken.
Our spirits shaken
With sorrow sore,
[here is one solace Time can't deny us,
Which lingers by us
For evermore.
Ye dream on our lips a soft mouth presses
The sweet caresses
IX-- 1 1
t" UfeCU KI1U>\ ,
)ur hearts jet revel amid the pleasures
And cherished treasures
Of long ago.
-J. A. Edgerton, intheNew York Times.
DELIGHT" I
DICKINSON. |
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"If you will not mind, I must leave
rou for a few minutes," she said.
'Grandma McCallum wishes to speak
;o me before she goes to sleep. Don^
vait for me, girls. If I stayed,
wouldn't decide which one has done the
uost nobly, for I wonder at you all."
She glanced about at the garlands of
oses which Eleanor had hung upon the
vails, at the twinkling candles, at the
aces turned affectionately toward her.
iVhat a wonderful evening it had been,
ind each had contributed to its perfeeion.
Through the open windows she
ould see the glimmer of lights upon
he campus, and the sound of music
tnd gay voices mingled with the sigh
if the night wind in the trees. She
reasured it all in this moment, that
ts remembrance might bring gladness
n the coming years, for when she retimed
the spell would be broken, and
II that remained would be to say good
light and good-by.
When the door closed behind the
lira, white figure, Lettice Clayton rose
bruptly at the head of the table.
The girls looked at her in surprise
nd inquiry. Would she propose the
aast at once? Not one but would have
raited indefinitely for Delight's reurn.
Nothing was complete without
)elight.
Lettice looked from one to another
rith a curious expression.
"Perhaps Delight Everett is the last
erson competent to tell her own story,"
he said, with a thrill in her voice.
If you are willing, I should like to
?11 you something of this quiet life
1 Durham."
"Do tell us, Lettice!" urged Dorothy,
nd the rest nodded.
"Perhaps you remember that it was
be desire of Delight's life to go into
ettlement work with me," Lettice be
an, "and I know of no one who would
o better fitted for the work. Besides.
he was an orphan, and seemed unusally
free to follow her wishes. But
ic summer after graduation the aunt
ho had made a home for Delight durig
vacations fell sick, and Delight
onld not leave her. It proved to be
lingering illness filled with intense
ilTering, and through it all the poor
oman clung to Delight as to her only
ope and comfort. For three years
'elight devoted herself to this mission,
oing the housework as well, for the
octor's bills were heavy and the fainy
purse was shallow."
Sh? stopped a moment, and her eyes
ew tender, while the others waited in
lenee.
"I saw Delight once in that time,"
ie said, softly. "She was the same
ear Delight?no word of complaint,
o sigh for her deferred hopes, no
mseiousness of sacrifice, just sunline
in a shady place.' It was only
hen she was listening to the stories
f my work she begged for, that I
lught a glimpse of her hope denied,
ut if you could have heard what the
oor sufferer said one morning in her
bsence! Girls"?she threw out her
ands dramatically?"what would I not
ive to have such things said of me!"
Lettice stood turning a rose in her
ngers while she waited to recover her
oise, her eyes looking beyond the
rooping petals of the flower.
"I went to Durham again," she eoniuued,
"when I heard that the poor
roman was at rest. This tiule I exected
to carry Delight away with me.
"be work needed her?I needed her.
tut I found somebody else had cstabshed
a prior claim. 'I cannot leave
oor uncle,' she said to me, with her
right, brave smile. "He is so dcsotte
and so helpless!'
"When I urged that there were othrs
who might shoulder tba^ burden,
he shook her head. "Uncle is peculir,'
she answered, 'and if one did not
now him well, one might not r.ndertand,
and might be impatient.'"
The narrator laughed out suddenly.
Peculiar!" she cried. "He was a
rlzened little creature, but possessed
f a cantankerous spirit quite gigantic,
ndeed. if Delight had not stayed at
lie helm, I doubt if anybody could
nve been found who would take
barge of that terribie old man. And
here our dear Delight has stayed, car:ig
for him as tenderly as if he had
een her father, and finding time, too,
o spend her love and sympathy uvon
very needy creature in that little
own. And now, at last, Delight is
rce. for her uncle died this spring,
cavimr her the Door little farm as
token that?somewhere in his gnarled
il l twisted soul?he acknowledged her
oving service. And this is why Deiglit
has no story to tell of the past
en years."
Judith Craves looked across at the
inrrator with eyes that were sus(iciously
bright. " 'She hath chosen
he better part,'" she murmured.
"I have so often wondered that Deight
did not marry," sighed.Rose Ab>ott.
"She would make a wonderful
vlfe and mother."
Lettice opened her lips impulsively,
hen closed them again. Not even to
ler had Delight couflded the full evictions
of her duty. But she remem>ered
the day when her cousin, Dr.
Philip Clayton, had come to tell her
hat he must go alone to complete the
reparation in Vienna which should
' make him more skilful In bis beloved '
profession.
"And she used to sing so charmingly, j
not a brilliant voice, but -wonderfully j
touching," mused Cecilia Morton.
"Oh, Delight still sings," said Lettice, I
whimsically. "She leads and trains ^Jie j
village choir, and every week she goes
to sing to the forlorn souls at the poor- j
farm?not a trained voice, but they (
enjoy it." \
"And now what will Delight do?" j
asked Eleanor Day. ,
lattice thought of the letter with n '
foreign postmark, which had reached j >
her that day. "She goes to Russell j \
House with me until somebody else !
puts in a claim." she answered, with j ^
inward wonder whether Delight would 11
recognize her right to listen to the i
call to happiness. I a:
Mary Lowell looked thoughtfully up !
at her. "It seems to me that we shall | 0
have no difficulty in deciding who Is | a
worthy of our toast." she said, gravely. , 11
"There is but one of our number who P
has put aside her own hopes for the '
good of others. No matter what the I n
rest of us have accomplished, it was (1
all in the line of our personal plans, i ^
ambitions, pleasures. Girls" ? she
looked about at the assenting circle? 11
"I propose that we wait a little longer P
before drinking the toast. Undoubt- 01
edly Grandma McCallum has sent for
Defight to quiet her with a hymn, as s'
she used to do in the old days. Sup- j
pose we frustrate this little sacrifice? 1
for it is a real one?by delaying until
her return."
A chorus of acclaim greeted the pro- P
posal, and in the midst of the clamor ;
ktbe door opened, and Delight paused in | 11
V . - x%- xl A-1-1 UVA..
murprise on me tnrcMJuiu. iuu i
girls," she cried, "did you really wait 1
for me?" .'
"Wo really did," and Henrietta Sonle 1
beckoned her to her place. As she
reached it, the girls rose; Lettice lifted (
her glass of lemonade. "To the one .
who 'secketh not her own,'" she said,
clearly?"our Heart's Delight!"
Across the brimming glasses affectionate
eyes were turned upon the girl,
so self-forgetful, so generous, so swift
in loving service, so slow to claim reward.
so well-beloved.
"Why. girls," gasped Delight, grow- ^
ing very pale. "Why, girls!"?Youth's
Companion. j.
Recent travelers in Tibet have noticed
that while effects of the rarefied ^
air are severely felt at altitudes of be- S)
tween 14,000 and 10,000 feet, on going ^
yet higher all disagreeable sensations p
pass off. a
h
A Carlsruhe engineer is sfid to have n,
invented a contrivance by means of p
which, in the event of lire, the audi- r(
tei-inm nf n thentre Mn he detached lw
hydraulic power from the stage and t,
pushed, audience and all, into the Pj
street. n
a<
A gigantic lily, the phormium tenax, w
is a valuable plant peculiar to New
Zealand. Its leaves are nine or ten
feet long, and arc so tough that, by s.
splitting one into narrow ribbons and ?,
joining the ends, the New Zealander
has a tirst-class rope ready to baud. p,
For the purpose of glass melting anil ^
glass blowing, water is used to great Av
advantage in Bohemia and Stockholm,
resulting in a considerable reduction in f.
the cost of fuel. At an incandescent
lamp factory making from 3000 to 7000 tj
lamps a day, whore coal gas was pre- C)
vionsly used, the introduction of the
Dollwik gas reduced the cost of fuel jr
about eighty per cent, in soldering the
glass bulbs and in heating the lamp n
during the vacuum pumping. g
a]
A great improvement is said to have f(
been recently made in woodworking P(
machinery by a resident of Marinette, j,
Mich., who by a simple attachment to c,
the existing machinery makes it possi
Die to luflliuiaciure square sj?iuu?es iur p;
stair balustrades and store shelving as
rapidly if not faster than the round t
ones can be made on wood-turning machinery.
The improvement is also ap- ti
plicable to other kinds of woodwork, p,
The knives made by Mr. Jewett are 0]
capable of cutting across the grain of ^
the wood without tearing and splitting, P(
an achievement which has been aimed jr
at for some time. a:
al
In a recent number of the Bulletin t(
of the Italian Aeronautical Society Dr. Ci
C. Palazzo, director of the Italian Meteorological
Service, gives a very in- e(
teresting account of the scientific experiments
being conducted in Italy ir
with unmanned balloons. The place g:
chosen for the aeronautical station is n:
Paira, principally owing to its geogra- o.
pliical suitability and its d^tance from ri
mountains and sea. The balloons used ai
are made of a preparation of India
rubber. They are sent up in tandem
fashion, and are spherical and closed,
and have the faculty of expanding to a
about seventy times their original vol- n
tunc, rising rapidly to an altitude of p
20.000 metres and upward, where a y
temperature of sixty degrees <h below r
zero may be recorded. s' r<
"Metntlizotl" Laces. .
According to the Paris Cosmos, a r
French company has been formed to ^
"metallize" embroideries, and wonder- "
ful effects hare been produced. Experi- 1
ments have long been under way with "
a number of articles, such as flowers,
leaves and branches, but practical results
with laces were only recently secured.
Tho laces are made conductors of an
electric current and placed in a galvanic
bath. There they become coated ,v,
f]
with an exceedingly delicate surface,
the colors of which can be regulated
at will. >
The coating is so fine that not the 11
slightest irregularity can be noticed, p.
and the laces remain perfectly soft and
flexible. It makes no difference :
whether gold, sttver, copper, bronze or ?
other metals ar#employed.
The assertion^ made that the metallized
points, m spite of the thinness of (
the metal eolting, can be united as if a
soldered togetl^t so that all sorts of
combinations are possible, l These
metallic goods are used for table ornaments,
decorating furniture coverings, f(
wainscoting in parlors, and for in- u
crustation of fine woods, and the metal- 0
lized laces can even be polished.?New fl
York World. I
Colonel Pope'* View*.
PERSONALLY I believe la
^ ^ an extensive development
|3 of both State and Federal
^ roads, -writes Colonel Albert
r?P?? in Harper's
Weekly. For many years
e have expended liberal sums of
loney for the betterment of rivers and
arbors, and the results accomplished
re commendable, but we must not lose
Ijrlit of the fact that a groat majority
f the people live away from the coasts
nd waterways, in regions where the
eeessity for good highways is imerative.
In many cases these people need the
ppropriations and National aid a great
eal more than those dwelling nearer
ie 8eal>oard or on streams that teem
ith industry. The highways are the
aturni to railways. and im
roveinents on theui materially inrensc
both interstate and international
Dmmerce. If our Government has
eon fit to be liberal in river and haror
work, "it is reasonable to expect
iat the building and maintenance of
ublic highways must demand the
ame attention. There is an interdeendency
here which cannot be ovcr>oked
by those who analyze this ques.011
ar^ht.
It havlong been a mooted question as
> wpit is the best method of raising
1111^ for the construction of public
ighways. but I know of 110 better way
mn for State and Federal Government
) issue special bonds for the purpose,
hree per cent, fifty year bonds of this
ind would find an immediate market,
nd they could be paid by a sinking
nnd of two per cent, per annum,
hich would mean that there would be
harged against this indebtedness
vc per cent, per annum to be proided
for by taxation. Such bonds
ould be issued from time to time as
le work progressed, so that funds
ould always be available up to the
mit of the bonded indebtedness agreed
pon.
There is a trait in American charac?r
which makes us ultra conservative
11 some issues, especially where long
stublished custom causes us to travel
1 ruts so deep that it is difficult to
ave them.
For years the inhabitants of the rural
istricts of our country deceived them?lves
in believing that the best, and
y that is meant the cheapest, way to
ay a rrdul tax was to work it out by
definite quota of day's labor ou the
iglnvays. It took a far reaching and
ggressive educational campaign to
ersuade them that the old method of
>ad building and repair was unneces
idly costly and thoroughly ineffeci:J.
Xor was this reformation well
tarted mit*l some communities had
ia<lo a practical demonstration of the
ctual value of good highways to those
ho depend on the soil for a living.
In working out his road tax the
inner clung to the idea that a dollar
ived was as good as a dollar earned,
nd at the same time be lost sight of
le truism that it is good business
oliey to invest a do'.lar which will
ring back two. Once the farmer was
mwn by object lessons that good highays,
passable the year round, were
isential to a profitable handling of
irm products, he freely expressed asmislnnent
at having been fooled by
le methods inherited from his an?stors.
This educational work, which in its
iception called for great energy and
le liberal expenditure of time and
ioneyf was later 011 helped by both
fate and Federal Government. An
[ipropriation was made by Congress
ir the purpose of collecting and disMiiinating
information 011 road buildig
and repair, road materials and
tber kindred topics. As a result the
irmers learned that to build roads
roperly, though apparently expensive,
as in reality an economic measure,
hey were led to see that the highways
ere natural feeders of railways, and
lat it was as much of a detriment to
ave produce snowbound or mudbound
a the farm as to have freight congest1
on the railroad. They eomprehend.1
the difference in cost between haulig
a ton a mile on good and bad roads,
nd they realized, too, that with pass
*1- ?Ann/l V./v VionHnrr
uiu run us uit* juai ivuuu iuc
> station and other shipping points
mid be done to advantage out of seaMi
when draft animals were not need1
for plowing or harvesting.
These few paragraphs will indicate
i outline the manner in which the
reat reform was started by agitation
nd fostered by education until the
uestion is not. "Shall we have good
>ads?" but "How can we best secure
tid maintain them?"
^Take a Rest at Noon.
Get into the practice of taking a rest
t noon. Lie down If only for ten'mintes,
oi five minutes. If you cannot
e down lean back in a chair and close
our eyes. Just forget everything,
est; relax. Even if you do not sleep,
?st.
This practice will make you live
>nger. It "will make you healthier
bile you do live. It will probably
lake people want you to live longer.
l ??ii a-i-~ onf r\f vmir
[ Will IU tit? Hit" liiu^itr uui v.k .
orves, the irritability out of your
Mnper, the wrinkles out of your face,
t will make your eyes brighter, your
ice fuller. Try it.?Medical Talk.
When Kuropatklii Was Young.
When General Kuropatkin was a
oung man h*. was asked to undertake
tie editing of a military newspaper,
[o declined with the words, "Fighting
attics is much less dangerous." Fightig
battles may not really be less danerous,
but it is certainly less vexaous
than conducting a newspaper in
ie Czar's dominions. The editor must
ly hhr elf out to please, firstly, the
nperi; -ourt; secondly, a dozen minders
< state, individually and col?ctivel.
thirdly, half a dozen censors,
nd four ;ily, the public.
Bee That Workg at Night.
A bee that works only at night is
)und in the jungles of India. It is an
nusually large insect, the combs being
ften six feet long, four feet wide and
rom four incnes to six inches thick,?
>ahore Tribune.
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! SOUTHERN f
-C -D-d
I TOPICS OP IS TEREST TO THE PLANTl
!k
The Family Garden.
There is no adjunct to a home that
affords as much pleasure and profit as
i a well planned, a well planted anil a
| well cultivated garden, and I use the
word in its broadest sense.
The family garden should be conveniently
located to the residence; it
should consist of about one acre of
land, and enclosed with a well constructed
and substantial poultry fence.
The plot should be liberally fertilized
with cow or horse manure, and it
should be broken early and deep, and
' harrowed several times to make the
j soil tine and to thoroughly incorporate
| the manure herorc tne oariy punning
I begins. The garden should be divided
| into four plots by making walks both
ways through the middle of the garI
den. crossing in the centre. These
j walks should be laid off with a line,
i about *hree feet wide, with little gutters
or drains on each side next to the
beds or squares, and should be ovalshaped
so that even in wet weather
, there would be a high and dryer place
j to walk.
The selection of seed, the varieties
j and when and how to plant are very
1 important. It is also important to lay
I all rows with a line and equi-distant.
i Nothing adds more to appearances if
j not to results than order and system in
| the garden, and where this is practiced
! you may make sure there will be reI
suits.
! The garden should have a four-year
! system of rotation, just as the fields
I should have, in order to obtain best rei
suits from your plants. The plots
| should be numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 and
should rotate around once in four years.
For instance. I would take plot No. 1
. and plant soring turnips, radishes, lettuce.
onions or any other early matur!
iug crop you may fancy, and as these
came off I would plant a late corn and
bean patch by planting every other
row.
On plot ixo. 'i i wouiu nave two
I planting of Irish potatoes, and just
: before these mature I would plant corn
! and beans in every other row, or it
| might be devoted to a late cabbage
i patch or some other late crop, and
I whatever crop was selected to follow
the potatoes could be worked as the
: potatoes were removed.
I On plot No. 3 I would have two
plantings of corn for roasting ears,
j and when the corn was waist high
I put in white crowder peas. As the
| ears were pulled from the stalks I
| would cut out for the corn and give
; the peas more room.
On plot No. 4 I would plant all the
! later varieties of vegetables, such as
I tomatoes, beets, cuciltnbers, squashes.
; or other varieties the fancy dictated,
j that come on in the summer,
i L would rotate these crops so that.
to illustrate, the potatoes would not
j be planted on the same spot but once
| in four years.
I WOUIU plant atOUg me ooriitrrs ui
| the walks a few sage bushes, thyme,
j asparagus and other such useful gar:
den plants, but I would have no fruit
trees, currants, strawberries, raspberries
or grape vines in the garden, but
would have all these and other fruit
in an orchard set apart for the purpose.
Such things in a garden not
only interferes ,with the proper rotation
system, but they shade and draw
fro:;: the vegetables and prevent their
full development.
Such a 1 garden as" I have planned,
planted and worked would be a thing
! of beauty and a joy forever, and when
you come in 011 a hot summer's day
1 nr-1 sit down to the mid-day meal, contemplating
with a ravished eye and
an aching void in the region of the
stomach the many tempting dishes
i that the good wife (not a slothful servant)
lias prepared, you will feel like
! ''praising God from whom all bless!
ings flow."?S. H. Christopher, Bueua
! Vista. Ga., Southern Cultivator.
Troper Place to Select Seed.
With cotton, as with corn, the place
i to select seed for the next year's plantIn?
is in the field, selecting with referI
euce to total yield of seed cotton, per!
rentage of lint, date "of maturity, vigor,
; hardness, form and size of bolls,leaves,
i stalks, limbs and resistance to disease
j and insect ravages. By selecting from
' stalks that bear a large number of bolls
I per stalk, the tendency will be iu the
! progeny to give an increased yield over
' the average of the patch, which is the
seed obtained when one waits to secure
his seed at random from the gin.
Another objection to securing seed
from the gin in the usual way is that
I it is ustfally deferred until late in the
fall and thereby, generally, seed from
: th last picking are obtained which
are not the best seed. The .best seed,
I as a rule, are from the middle picki
in?!
In selecting a variety one must not
I be guided entirely by total yield of
; seed cotton, for often between two vaI
rieties producing about the same quani
titv per acre, the one with the smaller
I yield should be chosen because of its
I production of a larger amount of lint
News of the Day.
Wholesale arrests are being made in
I Russian Poland, all the prisons being
crowaeu.
Near Lodz Cossacks surprised a
j meeting of socialists In a forest and a
number of persons were killed or
wounded.
i China wishes to be represented at
the meeting of the Russo-Japanese
peace plenipotentiaries.
The boycott against American goods
in China is said to be spreading steadily.
,
Joseph L. Herwig, four times president
of the New Orleans stock exchange
and director in a number of
banks and other institutions, died
Wednesday, aged 61. He was bora in
Port au Prince while his father, then
of Baltimore, was United States consul
there.
John W. Hill, ex-chief engineer of
the Philadelphia filtration bureau
was held under bail, charged with
falclfying papers, and the $700,000
contract for filtration-plant work,,
held by D. J. McNichol & Co., was reroked.
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ARM j L
D'C -fr j |
"/?, STOCKMAH AND TRUCK GROWER. I J
' Sf
and higher selling price of total pro- I
ducts (lint and seed). J'.emeinber that , Te
lint sells for from eight to fifteen times : |
as much per pound a? seed.
Other things being equal, preference 4
should be given to the larger boiled va- <
rioties, as they are much easier picked j
and hence are popular with pickers. j
A few hours spent In the fall in se- <
looting and gathering separately tins ! IE<
seed cotton from stalks that have a j thj
large number of bolls per stalk and j be:
other desirable characters, will pay as jjej
well, or better, than any other form of me
farm work. The seed cotton thus
gathered should be ginned separately
and the seed carefully saved in som* t rej
secure piace for nertt year's planting. Pei
Everyone who has been through a cot- ' tei
ton field In the fall has surely noticed cn
the great differences in the same field '
in the form, shape and number of bolls p
on different stalks, as well as in the i *
characteristics of the stalks them-* A c
selves. Now. rememberiug that the ! ?
law of heredity is strong and constant
in plants as in animals, will emphasize
the importance of selecting seed of the ; trj
short staple cotton only from those I ^
stalks that bear the largest amount of
lint cotton per stalk. Of course this g^,
latter statement does not apply to long >j0,
staple cotton in comparison with the
short staple ones, for a long staple cot- , in
ton may produce less lint per acre than 1 ^
a short staple one, yet this smaller j ,
r^.9 r?Aimr1o r?ior caI 1 for mAro All
II U 111 UC1 Ul JIUUIIUO UiUJ CVI4 v. v.. ,
the market, on ?iccount of its higher j
selling price per pound. ? By C. B. Cfl]
Williams and B. W. Ivilgore. of the | T.j,
North Carolina Department of Agricul- , yo
ture. ; olc
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Cotton Seed Meal For Dairy Cow*. W<
E. R. C., Carterton, Va., writes: I |
woiild like to try cotton seed meal , tQ
with my cows, as wheat bran is too g0]
high to buy now. and would like some oa,
information on the subject. a ]
You will find cotton seed meal an m(
excellent food for dairy cows, but you wh
should not feed more than three to of
five pounds per day. and the former tb<
amount is better than the latter, be- Sb
cause cotton seed meal is a very concentrated
foocfstuflf. Pound for pound
cotton seed meal contains about three jn
and a quarter times as much protein j gtr
as wheat bran. Therefore, when you fi*a
feed three pounds of cotton seed meal ha
you are practically feeding an equiva- 1 so
lent of ten pounds of wheat bran. It in
is the failure to realize the very con- Po
centrated nature of cotton seed meal on'
that has led many persons to suppose
it was not satisfactory food for cows J ^ 1
and other classes of farm live stock, j ^
While wheat bran is an. excellent food
COI
for the cow and by reason of its ex- ce]
cedent physiological effect and its fav- , fe^
orable action on the coat and diges- th<
tive organs, generally speaking it is tw
too high to feed at S25 per ton when ' ha:
"one can purchase cotton seed meal at th<
about the same price. Of course, a rai
little wheat bran, corn meal or ship jas
stuff should be fed with the cotton , *ro
seed meal to obtain the best results, i j
If you hare good clover hay and plen- bu
ty of corn fodder, however, cotton seed ^h(
in an l h-r itcnlf will nrnvo satisfactory. ! wn
?Knoiville Tribune. lnj
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Water on the Farm* CS]
' Some of the older readers of the Frogressive
Farmer may remember a, ln
time when water for domestic purposes
had to be brought from the spring:
which was generally 200 to 300 yards th(
from the house. Stock had to be car- rjg
ried to the nearest branch or creek to an
be watered. Both people and stock ma
suffered for water at times. A well in th<
the yard saves much labor and insures th<
an abundant supply of water. If a
farmer has several head of stock to ric
water it will pay him in one year to j or
dig a well In his horse lot and get an
old-fashioned trough that will hold fifty tnJ
to seventy-five gallons. That will save eTj
much time. If the farmer has two or ^in
three hundred acres, it may be incon-1 c0]
venient to carry plow animals somedis-, set
tance for water (luring the long hot j mc
days. A well dug in a convenient place ' *>ri
will save much time and give water J
to stock when needed. But better than
wells, is a hydraulic ram, if a fanner j ha
has a spring or clear branch near his j
house with fall enough to use one. The be
ram, piping and tank will cost only j In
two or three bales of cotton, and water res
Will be furnished to house, kitchen and ani
horse lot. Any farmer who runs four un
or five plows could afford that, and after
using this water system awhile, he nQ!
would never give it up. The well could mc
be kept in pood order for drinking fai
water.?Charles Petty, Spartanburg nei
County, S. C. mi
in*
Hint Abont Transplanting. ou,
1 evi
In transplanting a tree or plant the !
point aimed at is to get the roots in ! me
... i
tno P<1 Fill 115 nearly as jji/j-oilmc iu i ??v.
same condition as that in which they \ so
were before removal. In order to do '
this the soil should be made very line !
and well worked in with the hands mi
anions all the roots, which should be :
spread out in their natural positions. j tai
~ I ed
Jets and Flashes. ; se<
Upon the question whether the hus- j
band or the wife died ?rst depends ; ? '
the outcome of the contest over the i ? '
will of Wallace Andrews, which gives i
$2,300,000 to found an institute for ; .
girls in New York.
The Canadian Supreme Court granted Gc
a motion to quash the appeal of Greene it
and Gaynor against extradition. sti
rei
Some of us never know our own fam- t^,
ilics until we have to look up to Heaven th<
to count them all in. 0;
Germany has refused to agree upon frt
the subject matter to be discussed at wl
the proposed Moroccan ccmference un- inj
til France accepts the conference itself, sci
v W
Mrs. Shepherd K. Smith was put on j
trial in Manchester, Va.. charged with th(
causing the death of her 7-year-old son. fQ]
Fire destroyed the Baltimore and tic
Ohio shops at Yeyser, together with 38 Or
cars. ?j?j
Constable Mann, of Appomattox, who trt
went to Lynchburg to arrest a negro, tu
was himself arrested on a charge of So
ring drunk. 1
The "wets" carried Woodstock In th?
I local-option contest. .
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I
ivernor Glenn,
Delivers Leadin^Oralio^^H^^^H
IEECH RECEIVED MUCtf APPLjQHj
lis New Yorkers cf the Political j^H
Perils Which This Country Faces
md Urges That the Trusts be Curb*
New York, Special.?Chief of the
lependence Day celebrations -was~wB
it held at Tammany Hall. Long *
fore the hour for the exercise to
gin the old wigwam was filled witfL
imhers of that organization, and af
the usual patriotic songs and the
iding of the Declaration of Indendence
by Alfred J. Talley and let's
of reply from the various Demoits
of prominence invited to attend
i celebration were read by Thomas
Smith, Governor R. B. Glenn, of
irth Carolina, delivered the first of
i "long talks," always a feature of
j event. Governor Glenn first told
the political perils which the eoun
r now faces. He declared that the
aflict between capital and labor
Duld be solved by arbitration, that
5 corporate interests- of the nation
suld be protected, and asserted that
th as a nation and as individual#
i are living too fast a life. He spoke
part as folllows:
GOVERNOR GLENN'S ADDRESS.
'I esteem it both an honor and a
iasure to meet and greet you and.
appreciate more than mere words
a express the invitation to your
gwam to address the warriors of
ur tribe, as you are perhaps the
lest political organization in our .
antry, and your name and fame
3 co-extensive with that of our great is
tion. That you have made mistakes
no will deny; that you have elevated
office and put in positions of trust
me who have been untrue to their
ths, unworthy of your order and
menace to society and gopd governsnt
you yourselves will admit; but
tile this is true, under the leadership '
such sache""> as Daniel Tompkins,
3 great Jofc Kelly, Richard Croker, ;*
eehan, Mur^y and others, with a yj
v interruptions, you have controlled, J
ected and governed lesser and
eater New York, until today It has
wonders, wealth and power outipped
every city under the sun, and
inds first of all. The subject you
ve assigned me, "Our Country," Is
vast that it can scarcely be touched
my short space of forty-five minutes,
litical clouds now no larger than >
b's hand, are arising on the political
rizon. What are these dangers?
rst, the conflict between capital and
tor, for there is this conflict, and <
should be settled by the law in
irts of arbitration. Second, the conization
of wealth in the hands of a
v, the few controlling the many;
a establishment of combines and
ists, putting all power in their
ads, thus crippling the weak and
i small; the policy that wants one
lway instead of many; one concern
itead of a hundred to produce our
n and steel, our oil and gas and
furnish beef and bread for hungry v
llicns. Is this for cur nation'c up- *
ilding? Was Russell Sage telling ..
) truth when be said that industries
>rth fifty million dollars were bc;
capitalized at two hundred tr.:.ns.
and that one concern had
pitaiized for a billion dollars, cr
out half the entire volume of money
America, that such things will
Duse the people, and that when
Jused they are more powerful than
mbines, and will tear and destroy
;m? Or are J. J. Hill and others.
;ht when they say these combines .
d trusts are for the benefit of hu.tnity,
the upbuilding of society and'
i glory of God? Are they making
5 people poorer or are they giving
?m more work and making them
her? Do they feed hungry mouths
bring more sorrow and >
at? Are they doing good?
so, we should have combines and
ists everywhere, but if they are doing
11 m.ict ha pnntrnlled. Has the
11 LUC/ UiUOb WV VVM?.
ie come when the old doctrine that
npetitlon is the life of trade is to be
at naught and our people taught that *
>nopoly is the only thing which -?
ngs hope and success to our country? j
t us call a halt and right-about-face, '"
honesty Is the best policy, and we
1 live within our means and still be
ppy. Fourth, the danger of the great
ies, which were long ago declared to
the greatest perils to our republic,
the country Sunday is the day of
it. God is there, the people ahe happy
d contented, while in cities there is
rest, anxiety, a never-ending and
iseless strain on body, mind and soul,
th no time for Sunday and rest, God
t in the heavens, but in business, in
mey, In a nervous anxiety to grow
nous and rich; saloons at every corr
destroying the body, blighting the
nd. blackening the soul; vice stalk;
abroad in the day and shame witht
fear walking at night For all these
ils there is a great and mighty reme,
simple, but divine, and this is the
issage of Christ the King, 'As you
*iiQf men chonid do unto you.
do ye also unto them.'
A PICTURE OF THE SOUTH.
'There is one section of this fair land,.
ich talked about, little understood
d often misrepresented, treated by
ly politicians as though the inhabllts
were alien-born and to bo despisand
hated. In that section the sun
:ms to shine brighter, the water
;ms purer and the flowers bloom
autifully and give forth the most trainee.
That section is 'Dixieland,' our
n Sunny South?your South as well
mine.' The Governor then drew a
:ture of the South before the war
d of the war itself, and said: "Oh,
d! blot it out and let us remember
no more in its show! The recon- ^
uction period that followed the surider
was worse than the war, for In
3 war we fought brave men, but now
3 vampires of the creation, the scum
the earth, deserters, tho negro enmchised
and given a responslbllty for
tich he was not prepared, thus mak- \
5 him the tool of the vicious, the N
ilawag and carpet-bagger?these
re our rulers?the men who governus.
We begged them for bread and
ey gave us a stone. We asked them
r fish, they gave us a serpent. Desola>n
and poverty were over our section,
ir State capitols turned into saloons,
[me at a premium, law and order
impled under foot?this is a faint picre
of reconstruction days in the
nth.
The Governor discussed many other
oblems that confront the South, and
the close received a tremendous ora>n.
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