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4 ?s THE WILLIAMSON PLAN IN A NUTSHELL. METHOD FOR PRODUCING CORN BY THIS FORMULA REDUCED TO A FEW WORDS. The State has published fre- j quently the formula for the "Williamson plan," or the way devised by Mr hi Mclver Wii-j liamson of Darlington to make five ears of corn grow where but one grew before. The formula as given heretofore has been a little long. The following has been prepared by Mr James Henrj Rice, Jr., as the most concise form in which it can be given: Break land in winter onefourth deeper than common; lay off in six-foot rows, leaving five inch balk. When time to plant break out balk with scooter, following in same furrow on this ridge. Ridge then with same plow, going deeper; rum corn Tkla*if<?r with Dirip nlow. with wing taken of. Plant as early as possible, usually about the middle of March. Drop corn grains every five or six inches. Use no fertilizer. Give first working with harrow or any plow that will not cover plant. Second working with 10 or 12inch sweep on both sides of plant. Thin after this working. Corn should not be worked ^<rain until sufficient!v stunted. so that it will never grow large. When it is about 10 to 12 inches high put on fertilizer. Mix 200 pounds cotton seed meal, 200 pounds acid phosphate, 400 pounds kainit. Put half in old sweep furrow, on both sides of every other middle. Cover by breaking out middle with turn plow. One?week later treat the other middle in the same way, fertilizer and all. In a few days side corn in first middle with 16inch sweep. Put all your nitrate _x ?j- i.v:_ e..?;r VI MHld 111 IU1& luiivjw, 11 jcoo than 150 pounds is used; if more, put half. Cover with one furrow or turn plow, then sow peas in middle broadcast, at rate of a bushel to the acre, and finish breaking out. Lay by early. More corn is ruined by late plowing than by lack of plowing. No hoeing is necessary and middle may be kept clean Uutil time to break out by harrowing. g-r For 50 bushels to the acre leave stalks 16 inches apart; for 75 bushels, 12 inches; for 100 bushels, 8 inches apart. Do not pull fodder: do not cut tops; let peas and pea vines die on land. Value in fertilizer to land is worth more than for/ age. FIRE AT HARPFRS. Two Mercantile Establishments Destroyed Last Week. A destructive fire occurred at Harpers one night this week, ** Wrvnf O A VI /?Ancnmin(r <X UU UI ? KJ Viwn, vvuouuiiu^ tbe stores of A E Bruorton & Co and J W Poston, with all their stocks of goods, each of them having a small amount of insurance. No one can account for the orgin of the fire, which broke out in the old Har per store, wnicn was occupied by Mr Poston, and the flames quickly communicated themselves to the Bruorton store, and made short work of it. We guess the latter place, with the merchandise in it, was worth about ?7,000 or $8,000; Mr Postpn's about $4,000 or $5,000. This is a great loss totbistbrhing little village, situated about eighteen miles from Georgetown, on the G & W It R., and is especially heavy on the individual losers. The postoffice was at the Bruortion store, and was about ready to be removed to Mr Pos-i on's, where the express office was run.?Georgetown Tunes, January 5. ! THE FIRST MESSAGE. I i How a Woman Came to Send It Ove* the Morse Telegraph Line. Tn 1S44, toward the close of the session of congress, Professor Samuel Morse returned from Europe and found that though his bill for the installation of the telegraph had passed the house it still had to ap pear in the senate. He had reached the bottom of his purse. There were only two days of the session left, and the inventor found that there were over 140 bills that had precedence over his. The last night of the session Morse remained until 9 o'clock, and then, thoroughly disheartened, he I left without the slightest hope that the bill would be passed. That night he counted his money at the hotel and found that after he had paid his lodging and secured his ticket to New York he would have just 75 cents left. As he was leav ing the hotel in the morning he was told that a woman was waiting in the parlor to see him. She was Miss Annie Ellsworth, daughter of the commissioner of patents. She had been one of his warmest friends in Washington, and when he entered the room she rose, extended her hand and said, "I come to congratulate you." 'Tor what ?" asked Morse. "On the passage of your bill," she replied. "Surely you must be mistaken," M il _ A__ UT .'1.3 i.1 saia me mvenior. i wauea in ine genate until 9 o'clock last night, and there was no prospect of its being reached/' "Then I am the first one to tell you!" she cried. "Yes, if it is so." "Father waited until the adjournment," she continued, "and heard it passed." Professor Morse was almost overcome. "Annie," he said, his voice choking with emotion, "the first message that is sent from Washington to Baltimore shall be sent from you. And it was. When the line was completed Miss Ellsworth sent the first message. It read, "What hath God wrought!" 8cored Against O'Connell. An amusing incident is told of a victory- over Daniel O'Connell by a witness whom he was cross examining. The witness was for the crown, and the case was a riot committed hv a ernwd of hecerars. O'Connell was at that time well known, and it was after he had received his sobriquet of "the big beggar man." The witness finished, and O'C'onnell began the cross examination. "Xow tell the court just how many beggars there were," he said. "Indeed, I did not stop to count them, but there was a great tribe of xl 1 W mem, your nonor. "A whole tribe of them, eh ? Will !'ou tell us to what tribe they beonged ?" "Indeed, your honor, that is more than I can do, for I never heard, but I think it must have been to the tribe of Dan." "You may go down, sir!" said O'Connell in a rage, amid the laughter of the court. A Singular Mollusk. A singular light giving creature peculiar to the waters of southern California is the phyllirhoe, a sluggish mollusk. So plentiful are these light giving denizens of the deep along the Californian coast that those who have undergone the experience say a night on these waters is awe inspiring. As the boat passes along one can see in the waters under it countless forms, passing and repassing, each giving forth its strange, weird light. But beautiful and impressive as this strange sight is to the beholder, the light giving powers of these animals are disastrous to themselves, since the light emanating from them attracts the attention of marauding fishes, which seem to relish a light meal at any time. Too Many 8l??per?. The old colored parson arose in his pulpit and addressed his flock. "Bruddahs en sistahs, come on en git on de train foh Paradise. It lehes right away." TKon ko rrlnn^orl r?vor kic ennriner *"V" ? ***?-'?* V.V.A ""ft congregation and shook his head sorrowfully. "I reckon we betteh sidetrack dat train, deacon," he sighed. "Why 60, parson?" asked the deacon in surprise. "Kase deh's altogeddeh too many sleepehs foh one trpin heah." ?Chicago News. Love Is Blind. Mrs. Xewed?And do you really a;jd truly love me, George? Xewed?Of course I do, ray dear. Mrs. Xewed ? But some people are saying that you married me just because mv uncle left me a fortune. Xewed?Xow don't let that worry you, dear, for there isn't a word of truth in it. I'd have married you just the same, even if some other relative had left you the money.? Chicago News. Real Estate for Sale1428?acres Florence Countv, 350 j cleared, balance splendidly timbered, plenty of buildings, Church & P. 0. convenient, good neighborhood. <V)2?acres Williamsburg County, 200 I acres cleared, balance in tine black and yellow pine timber; in good state of \ cultivation, clear of stumps, nine miles from Cades Depot. Convenient to Church & P. 0. 150 ? m-i-M Williamshnror / nnrit'v fiH acrec cleared, 2miles from <,ades Depot, timber sold, plantation rights reserved, this is good land and can be be bought right. ?.0o?acre* Williamsburg county, 55 cleared, balance fine pine timber, 2 four room houses, 7 miles from Kingstree. 200?acres Williamsburg, sixty acres cleared, one 8 room house, some buildings, this is a fine place, 7 miles from Kmgstree. 125-acres, Williamsburg county, 40 acres cleared, balance woodland, fairly good buildings, 3 miles from Lake City. This is good land, especially adapted to trucking, and can be bought?worth the money. 60?acre8 ( larendon county, 20 acaes cleared, timber sold 10 acres excepted, near Alderman's R. R. has R F D Mailroute, can be bought right. 1 5-4 acres, in Lake City, with one 5 j room house, barn, stables, poultry yard, artesian well. 1?one acre lot in Residential part of Lake City. All of the above property will be sold at bargain prices, write me for prices and all particulars. C. F. Flowers, Lake City, S. C. Real Estate, 10?18-tr. A Vuln*rabl* Point Mr. Lapham knew that his wife was a treasure. He heard it on j every hand, and he appreciated his ! possession. But he sometimes made a mild protest when the summer I boarders grew too fulsome in their j praise. "I never saw such a beautiful dis- j position in my life," said one tear- ; ful enthusiast, whose baby had ' played with Mrs. Lapham's Sunday bonnet with disastrous results. "She always makes you feel as if nothing mattered, no matter how bad it is. I don't suppose she's ever lost her temper in all her life, has she, Mr. Lapham?" The husband of the peerless one : surveyed the landscape with his lips ( drawn up and out in a complicated puoker. "Well, now, I don't know as she ever has to the extent you mean," he said slowly, "but I recollect one hot day, when she had turned and darned the foreroom carpet for company coming and found our boy Sam had throwed the paper of tacki , down the well, that I stood from under for an hour or so. now I tell yel"?Youth's Companion. BEE'S LAXATIVE HONEY m TAR muivks couoht and cold9 OUR CLUBBING RATES. We offer cheap clubbing rates with a number of popular newspapers and periodicals. Read carefully the following list and select the one or more that you fancy and we shall be pleased to send in your order. These rates are of course all cash in advance, which means that both The Record and the paper ordered must be paid for, not 1, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, but twelve months ahead. Below is the list of our best clubbing offers. The Record and News & Courier (Semi-weekly,) $1.60. The Record and Home & Farm (twice a month,) $1.35. 'ptict pd/inon arwl vour ynrlf wnrlil X a Cm iV?.V>VX>i' uuw v. ?? a w* m ? (3 times a week,-) $1.75. The Record and Atlanta Constitution (3 times a week) $1 85. The Record and Atlanta Constitution (weekly $1.50. The Record and Bryan's Commoner, $1.75. The Record and Cosmopoliton Magazine $1.75. Thi Record and Youth's Com '*r n i i \ n ea panion (isew ouoscrioere; $?.oo. The Record Semi-Weekly State, $2.50. The Hecord and Lippiacott's Magazine 1 year each $2.75. The Record and National Magazine, 1 year each, $1 60. N. B. We do not club with any daily papers. The first issue you receive of the paper or periodical is evidence that the money for same has been forwarded by us. We are not responsible after that. THE COUNTY RECORD, Kingstree, S. C. CROWN OF THE HOOPOE. Ltgend of tho Origin of tho Bird's Golden Croat. The hoopoe is found in Europe, Asia and Africa. It continually utters in soft, rapid tones a peculiar note resembling ''hoop, hoop, hoop," whence its name hoopoe. It is really a harmless, useful bird, but it is the subject of many superstitions, being regarded as ominous of evil. It is about the size of a thrush, is very elegant in appear aiii'U ciiiu 19 git'atijf auiiiii^u utv^auov of its handsome crown or crest This crown is composed of gold colored feathers of unequal lengths, having a white bar and black tips, which it can expand and depress at pleasure. According to a pretty legend, the hoopoe received its crown as a reward for a kindly service. One very hot day, the story runs, King Solomon was journeying from one part of his vast domain to another. He had no covering over his head, and the sun's scorching rays became unbearable. At length he came up with a flock of vultures and said to them: "Vultures, do me a kindness. Fly very close together above my head and shield me from the sun for time as I journey." The vultures refused outright to thus favor the king, and he then said to them: "Vultures, because of your selfishness your heads and necks and the heads and necks of all your descendants shall from this time to the end of time be bare of feathers, and thus you will be exposed to both heat and cold." Solomon went a little farther and overtook a flock of hoopoes, and thus addressed them: "Little hoopoes, my head aches from having been exposed to the sun's fierce ravs for several hours. Won't you hover above my head in a body to shield me from the sun and fly along with me to the end of my journey?" The hoopoes readily consented, and so they hovered above the king's head, dovetailed themselves together and made an admirable sun shield. Thus they flew along until the end of the journey was reached, i m it. . i ? : j x _ xi ana men me King saiu 10 mew. "Little hoopoes, what favor may I confer upon you for your great kindness to me?" One hoopoe, acting as a spokesman for the others, answered: "If you wish to favor us, 0 King Solomon, ornament our necks with a circlet of beautiful golden feathers." "Would you not rather have your heads ornamented with a beautiful golden crown ?" the king asked. "Much rather, much rather!" exclaimed the hoopoes in chorus. "Then," said King Solomon, "your heads and the heads of all your descendants shall to the end of time be ornamented with a crown of golden feathers that shall ever be remarkable for its beauty." Why H? Haaitatad. Why does this man stand upon the pavement trembling with terror, afraid to enter his own home ? Listen and I will tell you: This afternoon at 3 o'clock he received a letter from his bank asking him to step around and pay a note that was due. He scribbled the following :nswer upon a slip of paper: "Can't possibly do it. Got to meet another little thing this afternoon that won't be put off." About the same time a messenger boy brought him a note from nis wife ask ng him to meet her at his office at 4 to go with her to the dentist's. Of course he got the answers mixed, and he is wondering whether he had better attempt an explanation or set out for Australia.? Strand Magazine. Helping Out Mamma. About a dozen people dropped in unexpectedly at a country house in the evening, and the fluttered hostess did her best in the limited time at her disposal to make a good show at the supper table. But she had only just begun to flatter herself that things were passing off swimmingly wnen her youngest daughter, aged six, remarked to the gentleman next to her: "Aren't these nice tumblers we've got, Mr. Brown? They all came from the grocer's full of marmalade. Didn't they, ma?"?London Express. A. ** A gentleman talking to a friend about the antiquity of his family, which he carried up to Noah, was told that he was a mere mushroom. "Ah!" said he. "How so, pray ?" "Why," replied the other, "when I was in Wales a pedigree of a particular family was shown to me. It filled about five large skins of parchment, and near to the middle of it was a note in the margin, 'About this time the world was created.'' "?London Tit-Bits. - ' ;i tsss - { 1 A Square DeaK^I 1? IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU DEAL WITH USA ? Jo WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERY~THIN<jlZ ( 49 YOU NEED IN THE BUILDING LINE AND PRETTY i . 49 NEARLY EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN THE HARD- &? ' 49 WARE LINE. ? $ MERE ARE A FEW ITEMS: $ J Farming Implements, Disc Harrows, Cotton Stalk 43 Choppers, Oliver'* Chilled Plows, Sash, Doors, ^ 49 Blinds. Lime, Cement, etc. <9 ' GIVE US A CHANCE AT YOUR ORDER. >. 2 BUZZARD HARDWARE CO. S LAKE CITY,SC. g TOOTJI5 Fill ill Ciliri. s We have just closed our third year's business, and take this opportunity to thank our triends for their generous patronage. Our stock is larger and more varied, and we feel sure we can ' save you money. Don't forgot we have a nice assortment of reliable "FAVORITE" Ranges and uO K" stoves. When in need of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Turned Work, etc., we would appreciate the privilege of giving you prices; from our increased sales of this material our prices Must be Right. Remember where you buy "Anchor" Lime you get the best. If it is good paint you want, buy "Benj. Moore A Co. 's"? pure house Colore. Yours for Business, Lake City Hardware Co., i T.attk CITY, 8. C Si ri I ? n jr. Ten PerCent f r [ # above cost CASH will buy any of my f BUGGIES OR WAGONS. M all standard makes. I have a large . lot on hand that must be soid. This offer is bona fide and will save you money. y " f J. L. Stuckey, | Lake City, S. C. | f J V II D 1? C C.11 ****** 0" MINI *VW?uy ?W * ?U ?*?* That Tells The Whole Story 1TIXS FROM TEE NEW STOCK SILYBR CRAY CALICOES, in brand new FOR KIMONAS-"lfoleskin." a fleeced Ncselty P'tidi.6c a yard. Alto sturdy Cotton fabric, in a variety of suitable Percales, in the popelar Nary and Garnet patterns, 28 inches vide. 10c a yard, grounds, prettily Figured In White-yard AT |g CESTK-Faafcy Dress Gocda, i? wide. lOc.,^ yard. numerous pleasing patterns. 3d, inches 54-I.NO* LEBANON SUITINGS, in rich w,de- Usually priced at Me. Black and the ner shadee of Blue and F0R 10c A YARD?New Voiica for i Brown, 4?t a yard. At 2Sc a yard 28-Inch Suits and Skirts. Excellent fabrie In the Suiting*, in the wanted Mixtures of wanted Ai.tnmn shades. 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