Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? ? s in m i in;!, |iv NllMMi. iimtm-r I rtv *urgcry I r^-ns Win? tert* Work mid U Very llenefteUl to V.UtU; Ire*?. Clemson College, July ?!. Practi? cally all the pruning in the orchards of South Carolina la dorn? during the late fall, winter and early sprlim months. This is the most logical sea ton 'or doing this work, especially for ?Overt pruning, yet the work of winter pruning can be greatly lessened and the trees, especially the young ones, can be kept In better condition, by light pruning during the summer months. This does not mean, of course, that any large branches should bo removed during the growing sea- j ton. Such severe pruning should al? ways be done In eold water, while the trees are dormant. When young trees are planted and preperly headed, young shoots appear all the way from the ground to the top of the small trunk, especially In the case of one-year-old trees. All such shoots should be removed ex? cept three or five, which should be left, if possible, near the top an I dis? tributed evenly around the tree to form an even head. This pruning should be done as soon as the young shr-ita are from two to three Inches In*. If there are any young trees, that have not been given this priming. It can yet bo done without any Injury to the treea If the branches that are left to form the head of the tree are let alone, they will often grow three or four feet during the summer without throwing out spy healthy lateruls. in such cases It Is always best to pinch out the tip at soon as the branch Is about eighteen Inches long. This will cause laterals to appear, which will help to form a perfect head and do away with much of the severe cut? ting which would otherwise have to be given the following winter. This summer pruning should be done every year st least until the treea begin to bear fruit and It can also be practised to advantage, though to a smaller extent, throughout the Ufa of the tree. After the first year, undealrable branches will nppear and the trees will have a tendency to be com? roo thick should such branches be rubbed off Immodlaty after th<y appear, there will be less cutting to do the following winter. It should alwnys be ones purpose to grow a tree with nn evenly oa lanced and well formed head. To do this, a tret must be pruned regularly. Ev? ery little ahoot that Is rubb#d off In summer saves cutting and scarring the tree later ' * The Doctors Cut It Out. Another blow has been dealt to al? cohol. The medical profession has abandoned it. Such at least, is the Interpretation placed on the omission of whiskey and brandy from the pending Issue of the "United States Pharmacopeia." an official reference book used by pharmtrlst* and chem? ists. It is explained that up-to-date phy? sicians are generally agreed that al? cohol isn't much good as a medicine anyway, and very few of them now prescribe either as a tonic. The com? mission In charge of the Pharmacop? eia has had difficulty too, with the terms "whiskey" und brandy." Not being satisfied with the government's authorisation of those names for va ftetjs blends instead of the chemically pure articles, they chose to play safe by ruling out everything of the sort It was felt too that drug stores would be subject to less temptation to carry on an Hielt liquor business If the med? ical eonctlon for keeping a stock of ardent spirits was dene away with. After this sclentlllc repudiation of the Demon Hum In the sphere of med? icine, a man who wants a drink 1 >n i have any good ? i'.use to offer except perhaps, one of the old familiar "Sev? en Iteasons for Taking a Drink." itecause he's hot. hecuuac he'? eold. because he's fi Msg bet MMSJ he old because he's wet because he's dry ?or any other reason why." ? 1 h>r ?nee Times. I Writes of Gov. ManitlSjg, i >>n Al< Klssir-U of Greenville Con lfHtj$gg t> the July Isjooo Ol the I'nl vers'.tv of Virginia Alumni Hullctlt a sketch of Itlchard I. Manning, gov rr.o.r or south Carolina, Mr. Mar. i bag h 'r t be Cm er .11 v of Virgil tC >?Qi as<?. lie otcu .cd room 1 West range, which a lln.e while late had for Its tenant WoodfOW WIIOOI Mr Manning was a member aj| th Delta Kapp i Pp-dlon Hat? rnlty. It that oruanlxatlon lOfJM of his frlen were Wyndham P Meredith at UL I. momf. a hose sister he afterwat seamed. DeCourcj IV Thorn of I'a tlmore. Samuel Porcher. now p : ? basing agent of the IVunsvlvan railroad Charles L Vndrcws ni D'Art \ Paid of I'altimorc and A. Mitssie of <Taailslltti llle. i the^e there were fi..m gouttl Pnrolll his friends. John II Adger. W V. V Gowsn. Thomas P Cothran, Smgl loti Moors, Earlu Slnan, Mel ?utile an Frank Hampton, Mrlsht Williams*, aud IS L A busy.?TJ* State. Horn Snake In Moore. 1 The Moore County, N. C, New?, ?ays: Mr. A. C. Kelly killed a horn snake last Sunday ufternoon in the old field buck of the Christian Kelly old home place Several have been killed in this community In the past few years. Thoso who have seen the snake light say that the horn snuke will roll up llko a hoop and strike as It unrols with Its tail. Mr. Sam Muse told us Monday that he had seen them strike and thut when In the attitude of striking they held their heud from the object they wished to hit and would curl their tail up ovey their back forming a hoop shape and strike back. The horn on their tail is ubout an inch long and as hard us a bone. 11 is said that they aa% among the most poisonous snakes known and wi?l heard old people say thut they have kill anything they strike. We huvi been known to strike a sapling when mud und that the sapling would with? er in a few minutes and dio outright, i_ MY MOTH EH?A I'll AY Ell. An article with this title appear? ed recently In the Seattle Post-lntel llgencer and so impressed Hon. William K. Humphrey of Wushlng ton that he asked Its publication in the Congressional Record. It was written by Tom Dillon, one of the most talented and popular writ? ers on the Pacific coast, and should be read by every human being who hus a mother. We commend It to every reader for u place in their scrap book it they have one, and if not for a place In their memory to be repeated and pondered during life to come: * "For the body you gave me, the bones and the sinew, the heart and brain that are yours, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for the light In my eyes, the blood in my veins, for my speech, for my life, for being. All that 1 urn is for you that bore me. "For all the love you gave mo, unmeasured from the beginning, my mother, 1 thank you. I thank you for the hand that led me, the breast that nestled me, the arm that shielded me, I the lap that rested me. All that I am is by you who nursed me. "For your smiles In the morning and your kiss ut night, my mother I thank you. 1 thank you for the tears you shed over me, the song that you sung to me, the prayers that you said to mo, for your vigils and mlnlsterings. All I am is by iyou who reared me. "For the faith you had in me, the hope you had In me, for your trust and your pride, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for your praise and your chiding, for the justice you bred into me, and the honor you made mine. All that 1 am you taught. "For the sore travail that 1 caused you, for the visions and despairs, my mother, forgive me. Forgive me the peril 1 brought you to, the sobs and moans I wrung from you, and the strength I took from you, mother, forgive me. "For the tear 1 gave you, for the alarms and dreads, my mother forgive me. Forgive me the Joy I deprived you, the toils 1 made for you, for the hours, the duys, and the years 1 claimed from you, mother, forgive me. ' For the times that 1 hurt you, the times I had no smile for you, the caress I did not give you, my moth? er, forgive me. Forgive me for my angers and revolts, for my deceit ami evasions, for all the pangs and sorrows 1 brought you, mother, for? give me. "For your lessons 1 did not learn, for your wishes 1 did not heed, for the counsel I did not obey, my mother, forgive me. Forgive mo my neglect, my selfishness, nil the great debts of your love that 1 have not puld, sweet mother forgive me. "And may the peace and Joy that pusseth all understanding be yours, my mother, forever and ever." Wheat Have* County g 1,100. Over Its bushels of Anderson coun? ty gVOWS what has been made into Hour at tin- l.urriss Milling Company ftaCS operation* begun a short time iK". This means that people III this coun'y have been supplied with over Ten barrels of Mom- and at per aii? I, it means a saving to the coun? ty el approximately $4,200, Mr. 1'ur rlsg stated yesterday that there wni; enough erhol at tin- mill In keep i running for the next ten days and thai more was corning In every day. He estimates the amount on hand now as 2,L'Of) bushela Anderson IntSlll ieneer< Tall torn. That was a tall corn stallt Mr. J, T. Ma yes had on exhibition at the store last week marly IB feet. The curs, tew tu number, were about a foot and a half long. Herald and News. The War? Tweh? Months' 4>itiiiii&iii^ . I'p. On the Hrst anniversary of the great I war there is an inevitable temptation to estimate in ttl'tni of achievement I and result the meaning uf twelve months of world war. Ill this period Hot less than 10,000,nun men have i been killed, wounded, or have gone into foreign prisons; a territory ex seeding In area Ohio or Pennsylvania has been ravaged. Cities known i know n through the. centuries as the treasure-houses of art or in the last I century become the centers of mod? em industrial life have been destroy? ed. Written history has no record to compare with the tale of recent months of suffering, slaughter, de? struction, human misery, and human grandeur. But what now is the re I suit ? i The simplest answer to make to ! this question is 'to take the 1 premise that peace would come to l morrow on the basis of things as they are. Such a settlement it is instantly ? apparent would mean that Germany helped rather by her use of the re? sources of her two sillies than by any ! capacity of theirs, has won more Eu j ropean territory than any state has 'acquired by a single war since the Treaty of Westphalia, a more com? plete victory than any people since the Napoleonic episode. Today her ' armies occupy practically all of Bel? gium and 8000 square miles in France, that region which before the war was 'the center of French industry and French mineral production. In the ; East victorious forces have pushed deep into Poland and approached Warsaw, Riga, and Brcst-Utowsk. On the Held of battle Germany has won mighty and memorable triumphs. He defeats have been repulses, when I her foe was In his last ditch. They ' have resulted In the Interruption of Ian advance, the recoil from the ex? treme point of progress. Hut at the close of a year German armies are lighting on French, Belgian, Russian soil; only in a tiny corner of Alsace has the foe retained a foothold in the Fatherland. Allled offensives in the west, after terrible losses, have in? variably 'been beaten down within sight of their starting places. Since Von Kluck re-crossed Alsne In Sep? tember, Germany has suffered no ma? terial loss; despite the masses she has I sent to the east. The "Spring Drire" I of the AllicR has dwindled to a gallant ? but only locally succ* ssful push of 'the French at the edge of the Eorette hills. In the east the amazing victories of Tannenberg, I-odz, the Mazurian Lakes, and in the recent territlc cam? paign in Qallcls have checked, re? pulsed, routed Russian advances and today (late in July) Russian hoat,s are clinging desperately to the pcr jmancnt line of fortllications about I Warsaw aguinst which Germun mass? es are steadily driving with still un? checked vigor. The greatest battles of modern warfare have been won be? tween the Baltic and the Rumanian i boundary by generalship and military j efficiency in men as in commanders (that has only the Napoleonic parallel. At the Dardanelles German-led Turkish troops have for months held back Allied fleets and army corps. Around the GalllpOll peninsula the troops that lost Lulc Burgas and Kumanovo are making a light unsur? passed at Plevna, unrivalled in the long history of Osmanli power in Eu? ro,.e. More English and French troops than perished in the long Cri? mean campaign have found their graves in the few weeks of lighting graves in the few weeks of lighting north of the Dardanelles, and five I Allied battle hips have been sunk In the narrow w .-rwavs. I I Serbian efforts have "declined to mere passivity. Italy, bringing new and eager masses into the field against the shaken regiments of Austria, di? rected by German offloors, has, as yet, made hut small progress In emerging from the constricted Held in which the Austrian fortified mountains con? fine her. To hold France. England, ami Belgium at ba\ in the west, to sweep Russia back oxer hundreds of miles In swift defeat, to give Austria and Turkey the necessary support to! withstand tremendous attacks?this i has been within the resources of Ger? man genius in the past months. I Only on the water has she suffered real defeat. There her tew tree ships have been sunk; her commercial lleete have been scattered, sent to priZ" courts, or interned. Beyond the seas' Klaoehau, Southwest Africa, Togo land, Kamerun, and Samoa have been conquered. Pea power has dealt with lor as with Napoleon. Bui as Napoleon conquered the continent. German) ha>: successfully defeated llussla, France, Great Britain, Bel -mm. The victory for the Hrsl year Is then hers, Such difference of opin? ion as exists must he over the extenl uf the victory, which, however groat, is nowhere yel decisive. -From "One Vear of War," by Krank n. sinmnds, .n tin American Bevies of Reviews lor Aunual. i \\ km to i ts' union meeting. To Du Held Willi Salem Local on Iii (lay. July 7tli. The Count) Farmers' Union will meet with the Salem local union Fri? day oi' this week, July 7. A report uf Iwhat was done at the State Union ; meeting held In Columbia will be made by the delegates that attended the State meeting. There are other important matters to be taken up at this meeting and we trust that a tull delegation from each local will attend. Before another meeting we shall be up against the cotton mar kiting problem and it is very neces? sary to make our plans and to And out what plans are being made else w here. J. Frank Williams, President Sumter County Farmers' Union. USING THE BP It PLUS GRAPES, simple Direction* for Making Univr men ted Juice at Home. I ClentflOn College, Aug. 2.?Grape juice has become one of America's most popular beverages and there is no longer any excuse for letting sur? plus grapes go to waste. It' Is not hard to preserve the unfermented j juice at home and it can very well be .done by the housewife wdiile she is I engaged In her other canning and j preserving operations. To preserve the unlermented juice of grapes, heat the juice nearly to the boiling temperature (200 degrees Fah? renheit), strain through a hne cheese cloth and pour immediately into bot? tles that have been sterilized in boil? ing water. Cork the bottles at once with tightly fitting corks, pushing the cork a little below the top of the bot? tle. Soul with wax or paarlfin. If desired, the juice may be sweetened to taste before bottling. This and other preserving opera? tions are described In Circular 2 7 of the South Caroling Experiment Sta? tion, "Home Canning of Fruits and i Vegetables." Write to the experi? ment station, at Clemson College, for this circular. SEASON FOR SILO WILDING. All Indications are That This Will bo South Carolina's Hanncr Silo Year. _ Clemson College, Aug. 2.?This is jthe rush season for silo building in I South Carolina and many new silos Uvill go up in the State during the next j three w eeks. The dairy experts at Clemson College are confident that this will he the State's banner year for silo building and, since the silo is one of the marks of progressive agri? culture, the increased interest in silos in South Carolina is most encourag? ing. The Extension Division Of Clemson College now has fi\e experts?two in beef cattle and three in dairying? working over the State with farmers who are building silos. The experts stay with a farmer until the begin? nings Of the silo have been success? fully made and the problems of labor and materials attended to and the> then move on to other farms where the work is to be done. For a man who has ten or more head of cattle, a silo is almost a ne? cessity. It provides for him the most economical form of feeding, especially I during w inter and during the dry spi lls of summer when pasturage is scarce. As a result of the silo campaign begun by the extension division of Clemson College ibis year, many ap? plications for help In silo building have been received, and it is certain that more silos will be built this year titan In any other year before am. possibly more than in all former year? put together. At the same time. South Carolina's place as a silo State is yet a lowly one. as can be seen from a comparison with Wisconsin which has about (?0,000 silos, while this State has only a few hundred. Phillips-Wells. Relatives in the city were notified last week of the marriage at Hender sonville, N. C, at 8.30 o'clock last Monday evening of Miss Nell Phillips and Mr. Clifton Wells, both of this city. The news of the marriage cam< as quite a surprise to the relatives and friends of these popular young 1 eople. as they had given no previous Intimation Ol their intended marriage. Miss Phillips left Sumter Monday morning ostensibly to visit he;- aunt in Columbila. However, she did not stay long there for that afternoon titic was mel at llendersonville by Mr Weils und tiny were at once united in marriage. Mrs. Wells is the granddaughter of Mr. A. H. Weeks of this city. Mr. Wells is a native of Sumnwrton. but has made Ids home In Sumter for several years until about a year ago. lie is now employed at the Franklin Hotel si MrevAI'd, N. c. Both have many friends in Sumter, who wish them much happiness. Cabbage Snakes. Mr. B. L. Johnson of Borne brought to The Record office yesterday morn? ing somewhat of a curiosity in the form of reptiles, it was a pair of I Cabbage snakes, one he said was 18 jand the other 1 ?> inches lung when Straightened out. Mr. Johnson bad his ''reptiles," if they may be so I classed, in a small bottle of wafcr 'and they were perfectly alive but so I twined and intertwined about each other that they resembled a badly jtangled mass of No. white sewing thread. -Mr. Johnson said if the I "snakes" wore taken out of the bot? tle and placed on a smooth surface jthey would soon untuglc and Straight? en themselves out, as he had found by experimenting with them. Wo have frequently heard of cabbage ; snakes, but never jaw one before. I We were never very strong on cab |bage as an article of food and since we are informed that this peculiar looking snake is poisonous and an habitue of the globular vegetable we are decidedly less favorably impress? ed with its dietetic properties than e\er.?The Kingstree Record. SPECIAL? EXCURSION RATES Crom Sunder Via the Atlantic Coast Line, The Standard Railroad of the South. ; Black Mountain and IUdgecrost, N. C. U.M. Account of Various Meetings. Tick? ets on sale June 14. 15, 24, and 25, !i July 1, 2, 6, 7, 15, 16, 22, 23 and 29th, 1915, August 2, 3, 10, 16 and 24th, ; 1915. Tickets will be void aft ex tne (seventeenth day following date of sale. Also summer excursion fares to most of the Western North Carolina points, South Carolina points and sea shore resorts. For theso rates call ! Pone 247 or see me at the Atlantic Coast Une Ticket Office. ? . ORVILLE.V. PLAYER, Ticket Agejit, Atlantic Coast Line. Through Sleeping dan to and From AshevlIIc. The Atlantic Coast Line, in connec? tion with the Southern Railway, has inaugurated through Pullman sleep? ing car service from Florence to Ash ville, westbound, and from Ashevillo to Wilmington, eastbound, 'tri-veekly, by the route and on the days and schedules shown below: ? Westbound. Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays: Lv. Florence, 8. C. 8.10 P. M. Lv. Sumter. S. C, 9.30 P. M. Ar. Columbia, 8. C, 10:50 P. M. Lv. Columbia, S. C, 11:40 P. if. Ar. Asheville, N. C, 7.40 A. M. Easthonnd Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: Lv. Ashevillo, N. C, 7.30 A. M. Ar. Columbia, S. C, 2:30 P. M. Lv. Columbia, 8. C. 4:10 P. M. Ar. Sumter, S. C, 5.50 P. M. Ar. Florence, S. C, 7:20 P. M. Lv. Florence, s! C, 8.40 P. M. Ar. Wilmington, N. C, 12.25 night. These cars are run one way in the daytime to give passengers an oppor? tunity to view the beauties of the North Carolina mountain scenery. For detailed schedules and summer excursion fares to Ashevillo and all Western North Carolina resorts, apply O. V. PLAYER, Sumter, S. C. Ticket Agent. Something Dlnfrent. With a view to letting nothing e* I cape her vigilance, ufrs. Muggins irossexamined the prospective house Jioid. "You are quite certain ycu know your duties thoroughly?" s*ie mid, after deciding tC engage bar. 'You will answer the door to visitors, and wait at table, arM?" "Oh, :-es, mum," said Mary Jato. "I am quite sure I will know hoe to go about them." Mrs. Muggi?3 was on v.he point of turning away, when a thought struck her, and she suddenly swung round to the girl. "*h, by the way, do you know your war to announce ?" "Well, mum." replied Mary Jane, in? nocently, "I'm not sure about t^at; but I think I know my weight to a pound or so!" Rer*?rd in Hard Work, kord GeC+ge Bentlnck's record of />o)ttlcal wcr.k, as sot out by his Wog ra finer, Bo-cms even more strDing the.n that accomplished by Wellington in 1834. Mfl Is very difficult," \u*.tes Didraeli, "td convey a complete pic? ture of the: laborious life of Lord George Benflnck during the sitting of parliament. At 9:30 began his elab? orate and Cethodlcal correspondence, all of whieb. he carried on himself in a handwriting clear as print, and never employing a secretary; at twelve or one o'clock he was *t a committee, and he only quitted the commlttce-j^om to take his seat In the house, which ho never left cntil it adjourned, always long past xnkl night and often at 2 a. m. His prln clple was that a member should ntfver be absent from his scat. . . . Al though he breakfasted only on jrr; toast, he took no sustenance all l*ils time, dining at .White's at 2:30 in the j jjjoji^g."--LurjUoii Daily <JUr?uloa%. 1 SHADING STARTS IN MONTH. Columbia Information About New Charleston-Savannah Hoad. Columbia, July 29.?From Informa? tion received from a reliable source it is learned that the work of actual grading lor the Bonsai road from Charleston to Savannah will begin within the next thirty days. It has been stated by parties who know that ! the construction forces were paid on l ist Saturday night, one week ago, and were given passes to their homos lor one month, and told they would be needed in that time and certainly within six weeks. At the longest, then, the work of actual construction Will begin by the 1st of September. The road to he built from Charles? ton to Savannah is ?5 miles long. !The engineers and surveyors of the jroad are said at present to be looking , over the rivers between Charleston and Savannah, which will have to be crossed and which will require that the trestles td be built, be equipped with drawbridges for the passage of boats, this being especially true of several of the rivers which flow through Beaufort County. There is much speculation here as to when this road will get its charter from the Secretary of State. It ob Itained a commission for a charter on June i, giving its initial capital as $40,000. The petitioners were James i D. Evans, who is editor of the Flor? ence Times; Bright Williamson and George E. Dargan, both of Darlington. The name of W. H. Bonsai does not appear among the petitioners. The road is known as the Charleston Southern Railway Company. LIVESTOCK SITE CHOSEN. I Florence Market Soon Heady to Han? dle Cattle. Florence, July 29.?A site for the new livestock market, which Florence recently obtained, has been selected and within the next few days new buildings will be well under way of construction. Messrs. Calvin and Williams, ex? pert cattle men of Clemson College, were here Monday and after visiting with Mayor W. R. Barringer, the va? rious sites offered, selected a portion of the new Pee Dee Agricultural Fair Grounds in northwest Florence, which adjoins both the Atlantic Coast Line (Wadesboro Line.) and the Carolina, Atlantic and Western Rail? road main line tracks. The Florence district embraces all of that territory east of the Wateree. north of the Santee River and south and west of the North Carolina State line. The stock raisers of this dis? trict will, as soon as the market is ready for business, assemble their cattle here and they will he bought by the leading packing cpmpanies of this country and shipped to the vari? ous slaughter pens. , WOULD PERFECT WAREHOUSE ACT. Governor Manning Addresses State Farmers' Union. Columbia, July 30.?An optimistio note sounded in the address of Gov. Manning yesterday at the annual meeting of the South Carolina State Farmers' union, held in the chapel of the University of South Carolina. The governor indorsed the idea of a State warehouse system, but added that the wearehouse act in this State needed certain amendments. He ex? pressed the opinion that the agricul? tural outlook is brighter Jn South Carolina than at the same time last 'year. The governor believes that the farmers are better prepared now than they were last year. An invitation for the next meeting was received from the management of the Isle of Palms. The meeting place will be decided upon at a later date by the State executive committee. Other addresses of the day were by F. If. Dwight. M. D., of Wedge held; M. W. G amling of Orange burg and J. G. L. White of Columbia, State deputy warehouse commission? er. Mr. White explained the State Cotton warehouse system. John L. McLaurin, state warehouse commis mJaslon, was prevented from attend? ing by illness in his family. -? / rsflssatr Average crop. Washington. Aug. 2.?The govern? ment estimates cotton crop condi? tion on July 2T.th at 75.3 of a normal crop. -i , Ha it la us Attack Mission. Washington. Aug. 2.?The Wcsleyan Mission at Port-au-Prince was mobbed Saturday night by Hattteaa seeking a murderer who had taken refuge there. Admiral Capetton's re? ports gave no further details. Atonement. "I hate the smell of mothballs and there's the woman next door hanging up the clothes she has had put away with them." *'Why object to that? She's doing you a neighborly kindness in airing your grievances."