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THE BARD KNEW MEDICINE. It May Be That Shakespeare's Sonin-law Coached Him. How Shakespeare acquired so profound a knowledge of medicine is explained in a new light by Dr. Walter Lindley in the Medical Record, in which he gives much credit Tk_ II..II Clnl-Aonnnra'a I IU JL/i. t/UIlII llillly O i ?tl i\tc | ?c?ti v o son-in-law. The physician had a "large and gainful practice." He attended the families of Lord Say, the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Northampton and was held In high regard by many prominent and aristocratic persons. A deeply learned man and given to original research, he made a mark in the medical profession. Shakespeare's daughter, Susana, married Dr. Hall in 1 GOT, she being twenty-four and he thirty-one. As the dramatist was only twelve years older than his son-in-law, they were on close terms and often discussed medicine and philosophy. While Shakespeare had often spoken in cynical fashion of physicians, it has been discovered that after one mar ried into the family he took the profession most seriously. Dr. Lindley, who has made an extensive study recently of Shakespeare's work from a medical point of view, lavs stress on what he con- j siders the modernity of the medical ' lore of the playwright. The alienist, he says, can find nowhere a more ' agonizing appeal for help than the lines from "Macbeth," beginning, J "Canst thou minister to a mind dis- i eased ?" Again, Shakespeare forestalls Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, and his motto, "Similia Similibus Curantur," in the lines from "Borneo and Juliet," where he ; makes Benvolio say: Take thou some new infection to the eye, I And the rank poison of the old will die. A passage especially showing the ' influence of Dr. Hall upon the poet i is ouoted bv Dr. Lindlev from > ' 1 f V "Pericles," where the physician, Cerimon, opens the chest containing the body of Thasia and attempts to bring her back to life. The writer gives much evidence , to show that Dr. Hall was a man of such deep learning and culture and social standing that his influence upon the life and work of a man of so comprehensive a mind as Shakepeare must have been a strong one. Thackeray on the Hustings. Talking of Thackeray and his efforts to get into parliament, Grant Duff in his diary under the year ; 1875 notes the predicament of the , novelist when he faced the electors. "He (J. R. Green) gave me the most remarkable account of canvassing Oxford with Thackeray, whose i- t ?1.1: _ ??u:..,. warn 01 power oi puuxie ?pcu&.xug seems to have been perfectly extraordinary. On the hustings he utterly broke down, and Green heard him say to himself, 'If I could only go into the mayor's parlor for five minutes I could write this out quite well'" The High See*. High seas means the open sea or ocean. The claims of various nations to exclusive rights and superiority over extensive tracts of the ocean highway have been settled after much controversy by a general international law. The principle now accepted is that the jurisdiction of maritime states extends only for three miles off their own coasts, the remainder of the seas being high seas, accessible on equal terms to all nations. Inland seas and estuaries, of course, are excepted. Old Cities of Western Asia. The maps of the Koman empire oKaw n*octnrn Acin Hnttnrl with I Oil V ? n VOVViU &AW1U \?v?vvv* ? I cities, and Byzantium was of course i standing where Constantinople is j today, at the tip of Europe on the j western side of the Bosporus, in | Thrace. On the eastern side of the Bosporus was Chalccdon. South of the Dardanelles the citv of Illium or Troy, marked on the maps of the time of the Persian empire, had disappeared and was not on maps of the times of the Caesars. Natural Viaduct. In Argentina there is a natural bridge that is one of the most wonderful in the world. It spans the T? i /-v A f r*-r? rl Avo on/1 10 L*nntt*n no f lin J.IXV i.U^llUV?<U UliU miv i> 11 uu vt*v Inca bridge. But it is the work of nature, and not, as was popularly supposed, of the Incas. The road on which it occurs was probably a colonial highway made by the Peruvian Incas, who took advantage of the phenomenon by leading their Toad over this natural viaduct. Origin of an Insult. The expression "blackguard" originally indicated the scullions, kitchen boys and potwashers who brought tip the rear when a great man's household was moved from place to place. As these persons were by no means choice in their language or elegant in their deportment the word was soon applied to those who in speech of action resembled them. ?Chicago Journal. [ HOW TO PRODUCE C Rape (56 Days After Sowing) on th< Rape is one of the I The cheapest pork, beef, mutton, or pasture in addition to some grain (c feeding experiment at Clemson Collet and four-tenths cents (4.4) to six cents used with the grain rations, while ga nine (9)-to twelve (12) cents per poi comparative feeding experiments, thei gains with and without suitable forag growing pigs, feed in addition to forag< for each one hundred pounds of live would be getting from two to three p< fattened heavier feeding is advisable also essential. Fall and winter pasture should be in September, preferably before the m and well-prepared soil. Top-dress w sible. Use only the Dwarf Esex rape per acre; liberal seeding pays. Other Abruzzi rye. oats and wheat. Remen axe not possible unless seeding is do are splendid legumes for grazing and early spring grazing. FFFMNfi MIRY HOWS FOR MFLK AND PROFIT Cow Should Be Fed Sufficient Balanced Ration to Produce Maximum Amount of Milk Clemsoc. College, S. C. Lrberal feeding of dairy cows is necessary for profitable production. Co we are feed for two purposes; body maintenance and milk production. A great many farmers In South Carolina keep cows which are fed only sufficient feed to enable them to perform their own functions, such as heating the body, pumping the blood, digesting the feed and moving about. Cows fed only such "maintenance rations" are necessarily money losers or 'boarders." The cow can produce milk without loss of body weight only after she has been fed a sufficient amount to maintain her body functions, and a surplus from which to manufacture the milk. The maintenance ration is a fixed charge, and the more feed a cow can consume above that required for maintenance, the greater the amount of feed available for milk production. Prom the standpoint of eoonomical production, one can afford to give a cow all the feed she will consume without gaining in weight, and nd more. A good cow will generally lose in weight in the early part of the lactation period and gain in the latter part. Such cows should be fed liberally with the assurance that they will pay for the extra feed during the next lactation period. The most common mistake made in this state is that of not feeding the cows in summer when on pasture. Even with the very best pasture a cow cannot give her maximum production on pasture alone. Cows giving 20 pounds or more of milk should have at least 3 pounds of grain feed even when on the best pastures. When pasture is poor and flies are bad the cows will return a profit 'on more grain feed than the above, and should receive it. The best dairymen in the state are beginning to realize the value of summer silage, and are building silos of small diameter for summer feeding. When the grass is short and flies worry the cows so that they cannot feed as they should on grass, a silo for summer feeding is good insurance. If it is found unnecessary to use the silo during the summer, it can be sealed up and the silage fed the following winter. The best roughage feeds to be fed with silage in this state are alfalfa, crimson clover, vetch, cowpea hay and soy bean hay. All of the above feeds are legumes, avid contain a high percentage of protein, a very necessary element in milk production. Cotonseed meal, peanut meal, wheat bran and corn meal are the most common grain feeds used in the South. Of these, the value of wheat bran used with cottonseed meal is probably the least appreciated. This is a bulky feed, has a laxative effect (the opposite of the cotton seed meal), and contain* lime, potash and phosphorous which go to build up the cow's body. None of the above grain feeds should be fed alone. They should be mixed in order to get a balanced ration. Cows should receive 1 pound of the grain mixture to 3 pounds of milk produced dally, or approximately 3 pounds of grain feed to a gallon of milk. This, with all the good roughage they will consume will give a cow sufficient feed nutrients for maximum economic production. IHEAP PORK IN S. C. ! experimental lot of Clemson College 3est forage for Swine. and milk are produced by use of foragi %ncentrates). For example, in a recen ;e pork was produced at a cost of fou ; (6) per pound when forage crops wen his produced on grain alone cost fron ind. Such results are not uncommon ii efore it is a fair comparison of cost o e. Forage alone is not sufficient. Fo 5 from two to three pounds of grain dail; weight, in which case a 100-pound pij iund3 of grain daily. If hogs are beini Good water and abundant shade an arranged for without delay. Sow rapi iddle of the month. Rape demands ric] ith well-rotted barnyard manure if po< and sow at rate of seven to nine pound' good fall and winter grazing crops an iber that fall and winter grazing crop ne at once. Burr and Crimson clover can be depended on for late winter am GROW GOOD STRAWBERRIES ? Portion of Every Home Garden Shouli Be Devoted to Strawberries to Supply Freeh Fruit for Table. Clemson College, S. C. A portion of every home gardei should be devoted to strawberies. The; ' are easy to grow, do well on practical ly every kind of soil, and a very smal area is sufficient to supply the family By planting varieties that ripen ii succession, fresh fruit may be hai from early spring until late in th summer. In the early fall, until th first of November, is the best time t set the plants. Delighting in coo weather, if set at this time they wil become well established by spring, am will be able to resist droughts whicl often occur at this season. In selecting plants for the new bed only the strongest of the presen j year's runners should be used. Th ! roots of new plants are always whitf which distinguishes them from olde plants whose roots are always black Previous to planting, remove a pot tion of the leaf surface to .lessen evai oration, and shear the roots to abou one-half if they are very long. A com mon mistake in planting is to scoo1 out a shallow hole and thrust th plant into it, leaving the roots crumpled mass with their tips nea j the surface where they quickly dr; I out. To avoid this .make a deep hoi with a spade or long-pointed trowel, ir ; eert the roots and spread them out fa; shape, allowing them to hang dow; i full length. In this way, every par j of the root system will be in direc contact with the soil and kept cor stantly moist. Place the crown. o bud, just at the surface. If it Is belov j the level of the ground, after the soi I settles it is smothered; if niu vh above the roots will dry out. Of the various methods of trainini strawberry runners, the hill system i; ; without doubt the most satisfactor; ; for he home grower. The plants an 1 placed 14 to IS inches apart in th< row. and all runners kept removed, ej cept a few trained with the row U ' produce new plants. Not quite so man; berries will be produced as with somi of the matted row systems, but the; will be much larger and of superio quality. It is well during the first sea j son to pinch off all the fruiting stem: as they appear in order that the en tire strength of the plant may be di J 4 /^arolAnmnnf S\f t Vl i j recnn tu iiic j crown and leaves. Dv the end of th< j season, the plants should have thlcl broad crowns, each holding the rudi j ments of several stalks of berries an< j containing plaint food in sufficien ; quantity to produce a maximum cro] the second season. A strawberry bed may bear fron three to five crops if given careful at tention, but it is better to allow thi ; plants to fruit only twice. As th< j bed gets older, the plants become I weakened and often diseased. For th< I very highest grade berries, the plant: j should be allowed to fruit only onc< and a new bed set annually. If you had a farm so poor, and w candy, and so run down that It wouldn' produce a hundred pounds of cottoi ' to the acre, what would you do wltl I it? Plant cover crops. j Write the Extension DIvisien o J Clemson College for bulletin No. 18 "Forage Crops for South Carolina." I , contains au.li valuable information. i I A i | I i Grand 1 Wednesday " Th Willi I dialb ; semi I 'j and ?j dies' ? spec! ? and : Wea 3 ?i > i\ | j ! 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