The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 21, 1907, Image 2
i THE FARMERS' |
I UNION BUREAU.
Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union.
Address all communications intended for this .
column to J. C. Striblinp. Pendleton .S. C.
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Here are some good rules to paste ,
up in your books to be read out the
first thing at the beginning of the I
busiuess feature of your meetings:
1st. Are we Uniou men?
2nd. Do we know that to be
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good Union men we must sunum to
the will of the majority?
3rd, Have we come together for
the purpose of combining our
strength for the good of the fraternity
as a whole, or have any of ui
* as-enabled for self aggrandisement
or pecuniary interest of iudivid uals
or cliques?
4th Have we come together for
the purpose of huuting up good
ft thiugs to talk of for our benefit, or
we are hunting for more trouble by
talking over the mean things that
others have done?
5th. When you want a thing
ijLVl done be sure to get very busy men
to do it for you; never think ot
of appointing men to do important
work for the Union that are not
now, uor never were, worth a cuss
for anything
Gth. Ifyouareout looking for
good yon will be sure to find someI
thing good, and if ycu are out lookiug
for bad things you will find
more of this than you want very
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I Local Farmers' Unions are something
like good crops; they thrive
best when planted on good soil in
the country and where well caltivatOne
reason for this is that when
local Unions meet in the towns
there is more or less business and
-other attractions that draw members
away fiom the meetings in town
while there is usually no other than
Union business that come before
local meetings iu the country.
I*. No doubt you are getting sorter
"fasbed out" ou so much cotton talk
?ad need a change. Better get up
a hog and hominy talk at your next
V . docai meeting. We had one in the
Pendleton Farmers' Hall last Saturday
and some of the boys got right
e ' hungry before we got half through
& with the sausage and liver pudding
subject. Mr 3 Harris stated that
he had grown grown pork at lees
I (pan three and a half cents per
pounds and Bra Richardson vouched
for the fact that he knew of a farm:
^ -er that had raised a large family off
of the products of a hog farm where
the common citron, grown m among
the corn, were the chief or principal
tog food need in growing hogs. As
many know that the^e common
citrons may b-> housed and ft 1
v through the winter with better re*
\4aite than the common pumpkin
^ < and are many times more abundant
, and a sure crop.
It was the general consensus of
opinion among the farmers at this
tf>g and hominy meeting that it
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hogs on graiu. Turnips, sorghum,
clovers, barley, rye, cautelopes,
.melons, vegetables and bermuda
pastures were used to grow the pigs
and the run of cow pea or soga bean
aud-small graiu fields and sweet
potato crops were all used to advantage
under different circumstances
for fatteruing the hog in the fall.
Hogs will gather cow peas or soga
beans very much eleaner and cheaper
than little niggers will do it, uod
besides your hogs are always ready
for the job aud will keep at it
That Diversified Farming Talk.
All this talk about diversified
farming is now getting rather 6tale
talk to roost close observers. We
. note that many otherwise clever
farmers do a good deal of talk away
from home along the line of diversified
farming. ) But they do not
* rite it out on their farms iu a way
F ' that he that runs by may read it out
on the ground of these men's farms
as plainly as it can be read in their
papers and talk. This thing of all
talk and no work to back it up is
<00 much like rot to go down a
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practical man's throat without!
straining a little. 1 believe it was:
B Harris that made the snggest'on
at our hog and hominy meetiug that
it would pay the owner of the farm
best to do the hog and hominy and
other diversified farming stunts and
sell these farm supplies to his fool
all-cotton-growing renters who will i
persist in working themselves and
families down to rags and tags every
year trying to get rich growing cotton |
while the other mati out in the shade
makes the price and takes the profits
Cotton Mill Man Squeals.
"We have before our Farmers'
Union Bureau a letter to our Bureau i
from a cotton mill man that would
astonish uiauy of our Fanners'
Union men. Beyond doubt mam of
our Southern cotton mills are in a
much worse tied up condition than
our cotton growers who spend a lot
of tneir time cussing these same mill
men that are in ten times worse fix
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and tied up subjects to their selling;
agents than cotton growers are borne t
dowu upon by Gew York Excbauge
men. Cotton growers can pull
themselves out from nnder the harness
of cotton bears by growing
their own foodstuffs. But these
Southern mill men who own the
minority of their mill stocks are
uuder tfie complete control of their
selling agents in Philadelphia, New
York or other places, who not only
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dictate ine prices iuai> tucac mmo
shall pay for the raw cotton, bat
they also name the prices for the
mills products, the quantity and
qoality of goods made and even
name the brands in many cases that
go on the bales of goods and at the
same time these selling agents are
said to get a good rake off in the j
way of commissions both going and
coming.
LIST QF JURORS.
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For Term of Court to Courier Here
Monday March 25.
Grand Jury.
L P Kinder, Kingstree
R B McClary, "
J A Bradham Jr, "
C C Burgess, "'
G B Browder, Greelyville
R C Marshall, Trio
J M Godwin, Rhems
P B Thorn, Kingstree
S W McConnell, Taft
W I Nexsen, Kingstree
S L Courtney, Lake City
S T Godwin, 44
T S Kelly, Gourdin
J A Feagin, Harper
L McGee, Scranton
Hugh McCutcken, v Kingstree
W E Nettles. Lake City
R W McCutchen Benson
N. 3. The first six names are
the bold-overs from last year.
Petit Jury.
L A Parsons, Harper
T M Kellahan, Benson
J W Stone, Vox
W B McCollough, Taft
J E Baker, Kingstree
A A Brown, Leo
D I Johnson, Lake City
J E Davis, Salters Depot
E A Cook, Lake City
H D Shaw. Kingstree
J F Rodgers, Epps
J H Bellflower, Scranton
W S Brockinton, Indiantown
W W Boyd, Trio
G II Smith, Morrisville |
J P Eaddy, Cades,
T B Gourdin, Kingstree !
Bartow Smith, Hebron
J H Burgess, Mouzon:
E I Montgomery, Greelyville l
J J McCollough, Trio i
G C Parsons, Harper |
S W Jennings, Cades
T J Hogan, Greelyville
W J Singletary, Single
A McD Burgess, Greelyville1
S T McCrea, Benson
II 0 Pipkin, Bloomingvale
W W Burrows, Leo
W W Fulmore, Cades
J H Pearce, Cades
G W Gist, Greelyville
J SThomas, Lake City
J.K Hayneswortli, Foreston
T A McCrea, Kingstre |
S D Hair, Taft. |
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NATURE'S SECRETS.
Problem* of Life Over Which Ms*
Can Only Theorize.
"You hear a great deal of talk
about a woman not being able to
keep a secret," said an agnostic who
dabbles in a dilettante way in nearly
all branches of human knowledge,
"but a glance at the record of old
Mother Nature will readily disprove
this time honored axiom. The mind
of man since'the first faint dawn of
iima has anntrhf. tn irrAst frnm her
gome of the things she knows, yet
her lips have remained as closely
sealed as those of the sphinx. In
many things she is as garrulous as
any other of her sex, but in many
of her moods no amount of flattery
or cajolery suffices to get even
the faintest glimpse into her real
thoughts.
"We might go back into the remotest
period of history for examples,
but a few that are well known
of all men will suffice to illustrate
what I mean.
"Perhaps the greatest secret nature
holds is the mystery of life and
death. Apparently there is no reason
why a man who lives a well regulated
life should not continue to
live indefinitely, but the 6tern fact
is that his time is certainly allotted.
Men have sought in vain to
solve this problem. But not one
year has been added to the sum total
of human life by all the researches
of the scientists. Ponce de
Leon sought in vain the fountain of
external youth and Brown-Sequard's
elixir, that was to arrest the
ravages of decay, proved as unavailing
as De Leon's search for the
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iountam.
"Alchemists of old devoted their
lives to discover a chemical process
that would transmute the baser
metals intc gold, but after centuries
of research only old Mother
Nature holds the secret of the formation
of this precious metal. Newton
worked out the correct theory
of the law of gravitation from the
incident of seeing an overripe apple
fall from a tree, but all the aeronauts
of all time have been unable
to discover a way to overcome thi3
law, and we are still bound to the
earth as by iron chains as far as
practical purposes are concerned, as
airships and balloons are only dangerous
toys and bid fair to remain
so to the end of time.
"Laplace mapped out the
courses of the stare and outlined
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nearly an we Know 01 tne soiar system,
but not a single fact of real
benefit has ever resulted from our
little knowledge. We theorize, but
cannot prove, and nature only
smiles at our defeat. These examples
might be multiplied indefinitely,
but these few of the bigger
problems of life show that natura's
6ccrets are safely guarded from the
prying eyes of man. We are but an
atom in the universe. We know
not whence we come nor whither
we go. All we know is that we live
and that our little life is ended with
a sleep."?Birmingham Age-Herald.
Von Bulow and the Players.
An amusing glimpse of Hans von
Bulow is afforded in this extract
from one of his letters: "There
were two bassoonists in the orchestra
? imagine, amateurs! They
were my dread and kept me constantly
on tenterhooks. If they
had nothing to play, then I was in
a state of terror that they might:
come in, and I was constantly warn- j
ing theni 'Not yet/ but if they real-;
ly had to come in, then I had not i
the courage to give them the sign, j
and I warned them as before. An!
amateur kettledrum player, on the
contrary, who received honorable
mention, must have been a perfect
marvel of a timekeeper, for when he
had very long pauses lie counted
them inwardly and used to pay lit-1
tie visits to an adjoining cafe with- i
out endangering the ensemble, as
he always got back punctually to
his post in time for his next entry."
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point about Scott's jf
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a fretful baby happy, X
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drugs and no alcohoL A
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ODD OLD BELIEFS.
Superstitions Which Deal With the
Pasting of Life.
Ttm oiiT^irctitinns whirli hflVP
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clustered about the closing scenes
of human life are almost innumerable.
Some, perhaps the greater
portion, now seem to be meaningless,
but a few had in early days a
significance which they have since
lost. The stopping of the clock at
the moment a death occurs in the
house is still practiced in many
families in this country and Europe
and originated in the fact that
according to the laws of several European
states it was necessary to
have evidence of the exact moment
of births and deaths occurring in
the royal family. When a king
died an attendant was always present
whose duty it was to stop the
clock in the royal apartment at the
moment when death occurred, and
the timepiece was thus a mute record
of the event. From royal families
the desceat of this practice to
aristocratic and finally to families
of low degree was easy, and many
persons adopted it as a mere superstition
without knowing anything of
its former significance.
Turning the looking glass to the
wall is a superstition which is said
to have originated m the country
districts of Germany during the
days when mirrors were novelties.
Mirrors of glass with quicksilver
backs are said to have been made
at Venice in 1300 A. D. and were
first made in England in 1673, but
did not come into common use
among the middle classes until the
beginning of the last century. At
first they were regarded with superstitious
awe, the idea being that the
reflection of the face in the mirror
was a sort of specter,5 or second
soul, of the individual.
When a death occurred the looking
glass which the person was accustomed
to use wtis turned to the
wall, lest his ghost should be disturbed
by others using the mirror
before his spirit had finally departed
from the neighborhood, there being
an idea that the spirit of the
departed lingered about tfie vicinity
for several hours or perhaps days
after it had separated from the
body.
Gold Beating.
The process of preparing gold unfil
if te f rt a f aoa a/
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1-280,000 of an inch is necessarily
elaborate. The gold is first cast
into ingots four inches in length
and one inch in width, which
weigh -from ten to seventeen
ounces, according to thickness. It
is then passed between polished
rollers, worked by steam, until it
forms a ribbon twenty-eight yards
long and 1-800 inch thick. These
ribbons are then cut into 180
pieces an inch square and placed
between vellum, and then the real
business of the gold beater is begun
He beats for half an hour with a
twenty pound hammer, making the
inch square into three inches
square. Then these pieces are quartered,
becoming one and a half
inches square. He beats again for
one and a quarter hours until the
one and a half inch square becomes
.four inches square. The four pieces
are again quartered and beaten and
finally cut to proper size?viz,
squares of three and three-eighth
inches, of a thickness (or rather
'thinness") of 1-280,000 of an inch,
and in this shape the leaf is lifted
into books of tissue paper.
Took It For Truth.
"Why deny it?" he insisted. "It J
is because some gossip intimates i
that I am not true to you that you;
have broken our engagement."
"Oh, no," she replied; "it is be-j
cause I believe you truthful that I;
am breaking it."
"How do you mean?"
"Well, you remember you have
frequently told me that you were
not worthy of me." ? Catholic,
Standard and Times.
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