Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1i 1111 in i iJ m i M n i n rii THE SHEPHERD. ;; Give the sheep a chance to \ walk around some every day. You can not keep them healthy * unless you do. " Be sure there are no narrow " doors for the ewes to crowd ! I through. One jam may cause * ;; the loss of a lamb or both ewe and lamb. ! Be sure there Is perfect ventl- ; *! lation in the sheep barn with no ;; drafts. They are dangerous. [ Sheep furnish the richest ma \ nure on the farm. Keep It under * .. cover and save every bit of It, .. lor 11 is a vniuHDie asset. Worrying upsets a sheep, and It can be noted In lack of thrift *) Noise and confusion will so dls turb a flock that they will not '' thrive. ! I Sheep should have access to I! ' clean water at all times. Rinse . I out the water tubs every day. I! A sheep will object to straw and " .. chaff, etc.. In the drinking wa- I! terGenerous feeding now means .. 1) lots of wool and big lambs next *" spring. Feed evenly. A feast and a famine can be detected In || the wool.?Farm Journal. EWES IN COLD WEATHER. Shatter and Grain Keep Them In Thrifty Condition. The average man is apt to neglect his breeding owes at the beginning of winter. Usually they are kept out too long. Their ability to pick close permits them to fill up on the frozen. In nutritious herbage, and thesy look well when they really are losing flesh every day, writes K. P. Snyder in the National Stockman. They especially need shelter at this time. It often takes weeks to repair the loss of flesh and condition caused by one cold rain that soaks them to the skin, especially if the rain is fol lowed by a bij,rh wind as it Is quite apt to be at this inclement season. Hay this season is scarce and unusually high in price. Sheep will be largely wintered on straw, stalks and a range where one is available, supplemented with a liberal allowance of grain, for hay is now selling at about the same price per ton as ear corn. But it is mistaken economy to withhold hay from the breeding ewes at the beginning of winter. A little good clover or mixed hay should be fed every day till they become accustomed to dry feed. They can much better be made to live on coarser and cheaper roughness later In the winter, when accustomed to dry feed. Many feed no grain to their breed Ing ewes till well toward spring. Thl9 Is a mistake unless only a few are kept together and they have consider. ' able range or extra care and plenty of , good hay. Kept in flocks of considerable size there are usually some that are not as thrifty as they should be. They get thin in flesh and as soon as they get grain they begin to thrive and at the same time shed their wool This gives the flock a disreputable appearance nnd the wool a weak fiber that makes it what buyers call "undesirable." I believe ewes can be as cheaply wintered if a little grain Is fed every day right from the start every year, and I know they can this year, taking Into consideration the high price of hay. No stock seems to appreciate a varletv of feed as much as the sheep. Frequent changes of both grain and roughness seem to Interest them. It stimulates their appetites and hence induces to thrift. For grain we feed corn and oats of about equal bulk, salt regularly twice a week and have.water accessible all the time. Keep thb Animal* Thrifty, If the supply of corn will permit the milk cows should have a feed twice a day. The amount fed will depend upon the supply also. It is wonderful how just a little grain daily will make up for a scarcity of roughage. As the feeding season progresses and the young stock tire of the roughage ration a small feed of grain night and morning two or three days a week will help wonderfully. To feed wheat straw put it through a cutting box. dampen and mix just a little grain therewith. This makes the straw more palatable, and wheat straw has some feeding value?a great value when there is nothing else?If it can be prepared in such a way that the animals will eat It. Danger In Frosted Feeds. Horses, as well as other animals, are liable to be affected by eating frosted grasses and cornstalks. In the horse these are likely to cause indigestion, sad the food undergoes fermentation, causing gas to form, which results In wind colic, frequently causing death. The treatment for horses so affected is to give each one quart of raw Unseed oil and two drams fluid extract of bellador"' it a dose and also to give one ounce aromatic spirits of ammonia iii u pint of cold water at a dose every half hour until the animal is relieved Injections of warm water and soap are useful Frosted or musty feeds are In jurious to horses even if they do not cause indigestion and colic and should never be fed. Renewed Interest In Sheep. The interest in sheep growing seems to be general throughout the country. These animals are easily kept and very useful in consuming much of what would otherwise be waste material on the farm. They are great enriehers of the sojl, and they afford sources of revenue in mutton, produce and wool. r PRINTING IN CHINA. ! Often No PriHi Are Uood, Palp of Brushes Doing tho Work. The Chinese assert that the art ol printing was discovered In China abont fifty years before the Christian era. Until the discovery of the art of pa Derm a kin?. A. D. 06. thev nrtnted on silk or cloth cat In the form of leaves. The method employed to this day by many native Chinese printers Is as follows: No printing press Is used. The- delicate nature of the Chinese paper would not admit of it. When the blocks are engraved, the paper cut and tbe ink ready one man with his brush will , print a large number of sheets In a day. The block to be printed must be placed perfectly level and secured firmly. The printer has two brushes, one of them stlffer than the other, which he can hold in bis hand and use at either end. He dips It into the Ink and rubs tbe block with it, taking care not to moisten It too much or leave It too dry. If it were wetted too much the characters would be blurred; if too little, they would not print. When once the block Is got Into the proper condition he can print three or four impressions without dipping his brush into tbo ink again. The second brush is used to rub over the paper with a small degree of pressure, that it may take the impression. This it does easily, for, uot being sized with alum, it receives the ink the in stant it comes In contact with it. it is only necessary that the brush should be passed over every part of the sheet with a greater or smaller degree of pressure and repented in proportion as the printer finds there is more or less ink upon the block?Harper's | Weekly MIXED RELATIONS. A Family Problem a Lawyer Did Not Care to Tackle. A lawyer received a call from a new client, a man bent upon recovering a sum of money advanced upon a note and not repaid. "Who is the debtor?" asked the law yer. "Oh, she's a relative of mine." "How nearly related?" "Very nearly." "But, my dear sir," persisted the lawyer, "you must be more explicit." "Well, she may be my mother-inlaw." "May be? Then you are likely to marry her daughter." "I've already married the daughter." "Then, of course, the defendant Is your mother-in-law." "Perhaps you'd better hear the whole story," returned the client. "You see, a year ago we lived together, my son and I. Across the way lived the Widow Poster and her daughter Mary. I married Mary, and my t son married the widow. Now perhaps you can tell me whether my son's wife Is my mother-in-law or my daughter-in-law." The lawyer did not answer. The problem was unfamiliar. He was not ready. "I don't think I can take your caste," he said. "It presents too many complications." "Very well," returned the man, taking his bat despondently. "But there's one thing I forgot Since our double wedding a child has been born to each of us. What relation are those two children to each other?" ' Bagpipes. Bagpipes, mentioned in Jeremiah xlvlll, 86. "Mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, like pipes for the men of Klr-heres." and elsewhere In Scripture were used also by the early Egypn n uauo, uuiu uice&? uiju nuuinua anew the instrument, for n coin of Nero shows upon one side the tibia utricularis, a bag with two reeds and nine pipes. Proeopius also, who wrote about 650 A. D., asserts that Roman soldiers sometimes marched to the sound of the bagpipes, and it is not impossible that they Introduced them into the British islands. The earliest, more modern reference to them is in an Irish MS. of 1150, and an Irish illuminated MS. of 1390 depicts a pig playing on the bagpipes. The Scottish highlanders were the first and only people to use the great war pipe, as the highland regiments still do. Supply on tho Way. Rufus Qrogan in one of the managers of the biggest store In his town. The slogan of the store Is. "We Sell Everything." When Rufns Is asked for anything the store doesn't happen to have on band he always says, "We are out of that Just now, but we have a carload coming." And "Rufus' carload" Is a local Joke. "Rufus," asked a customer one day, "do you know where 1 can get a hired girl 7 "Well," said Rufus, "we haven't any now, bnt we have a carload coming." ?Saturday Evening Post Justly Impatient. In a Newark factory two workmen were shouting at each other up and down an elevator shaft "Haud on." cried one. "Can ye na understand th' English language? I'm tellln' ye to haud on, ye loon 1"?Newark News. Nothing Wasted. The Customer?Aren't you wasting a good deal of that steak In trimming it? The Butcher-No. ma'am. I weighed It first?London Sketch. The habit of doing little hard thing, promptly and bravely Is the best prep aratlon for the crises of life. THE KITCHEN DRESSftFL It Was Originally a Baneh on^hleh ) Meat Was Dressed. Dr. Johnson Mill as that the ltcben dresser was a bench In (be Utcen on 1 wbicb moat wa# dressed or pfpared for table and givc>s the followin, lines In support of bis view: Tie burnt, and so ie all the meat. What docs are theUeT Where la tb raa- , cal cook? .3 How durst you. villains, brin* It fam the Grosser And serr? thus to itt? that lore It fct? w ?Shakespxre A maple dresser In her hall she had On which full many a slender me' she made. ' 7/ ?Dry en Wright In bis "Domestic Manors of I the Middle Ages" "ays: "One o the | grent objects of ostentation in srich 1 man's bouse was his 'plate. whin at J dinner time be brought forth and spread on the table In sight o his guests Afterward to exhibit the! late to more advantage the table was bade | with shelves or steps, oq which tkdif- | ferent articles could J>e arrange in i rows, one above another It wastlled ' in French, or Anglo-Norman, ay'ces- I 8oir, because on it the different apples | were *_rexsed or arranged.' It is this to which the1 moden^ -oet ' refers: The pewter plates on the drosser Caught and reflected the flame as fields j of armies the sunshine PRESENCE OF II/IINd] The Way Two Engliahmerl* Capb red ' Fntir HunHrffH PpisnrMrr Toward the close of the peninfclar war 400 prisoners were captured by John Colborne. afterward Field IMir sbal Lord Seaton Colborne. who <as wounded at Talavera, bad beends abled for some time, but lu IS18 In was In active service again. and wtcn Wellington's army crossed the-frouter into France he performed what wnfcin deed the most amazing feat of hi* a reer. When riding, with no comrade tat the famous Sir nenry Smith, s^parttfd from his column, he saw 100 Fretrb soldiers passing along a ravine1 'tadcw him. "The only way was to put a gjood face on the mntter." he wrote. l"8o I went up to them, desiring them to sixrender. The officer, thinking, of coufse. the column was behind me. surrendered bis s\ford. saying theatrically, rJo vous rends cette epee. qui n bien Jfiit sou devoir ' (1 surrender this swiri. which has done its duty well.) Tjlc 400 followed his example." Sir Henry Smith used to declare tlkat he had never seen such cool presetirt of mind as Colborne displayed on tbh occasion.?London Spectator. Sanger's White Elephant. "I was exhibiting "the only whit? elephant ever seen In the western world,'" relates Lord George Sauger In his book, "Seventy Years a Showman," "when I was honored by a. King Edward, tben Prince of After the performance I conducted tlje prince through the stables and showed him all there was to sec. When we came to the 'white elephant' stall his royal highness suddenly turned to me and said, 'Sanger, is this really one of the sacred white elephants?' "To this 1 replied: 'Well, your royal highness, a showman Is entitled to practice a little deception on the crowd, but 1 should never think of deceiving my future king. It Is certainly a 'white* elephant?In fact, a very white elephant, but only because we give him a coat of special whitewash twice a day!'" The Backteriologist. A Richmond negro chanced to meet on the street a friend who compluiutd of much "mlsTy." Indeed, the nUlicted one was In despair, so "tuckered out" was he. "Wot seems to be de matter?" asked the first negro. "Jim." said the other with a moan and a gesture Indicating the portion of his anatomy that was giving him so much trouble. "I's got sech awful pains In mah back heab!" Jim assumed an air of great solemnity and wisdom. "In dat case." said he, "dere's only one thing fo' yo' to do. Jes' yo put yo's'f In de hands o' dat Dootah Blank. I hears dat he's Uc Ulit'ai LNU tVlCl lUJU^JDl Ui UC W UWiO souf."?New York Press. Buddhism. Buddhism started with Gautama Buddha about 000 years before the Christian era. and it numbers among Its adherents more than a third of the human race Buddhism is confined mainly to Asia?Manchuria, Mongolia. Korea. Tibet. China, Japan and the large islands off the Asiatic coast. Though born In India, Buddhism is not strong in that country today, being driven out by the old Hinduism of which it is the offshoot. Distraction Naedad. "You don't hoc in to be making much progress lu golf." "No." replied Mr. Cum^px. "It worrier*. Do you know 1 sometimes wish that I was bnek in bnslnes" ?? as to have something to take my mind off the game."- Washington Star. Riok )>..? M?? nuulllhl Bacon?She wasn't around when they were giving out good looks, was ahel Egbert?No: she was at the other place where they were giving out money?? Yonkers Statesman. Foot Notes. "There is nothing in this book bat footnotes. "Strange: What is the title?" " 'Every Man His Own Chiropodist.'" Heaven takes care that no man 4* cures happiness by crime.?Alflerl. Reduce Y Improve < Wessoi Has gone far towards s healthful. It replaces bu Imported oils for salads. Wesson 1 snwmift 2 OIL STOMACH TROUBLES. Cured by Vinol?Here Is Proof. j ( Seymour, Ind.?"I was troubled i with a chronic stomach trouble, and five weeks ago it got so bad I had to ' give up work. I had tried various i medicines without relief, and waB fl- i ] nally induced to try Vinol. After | talcing tne urst Dottie i was greauy | , benefited. Am now on the third hot- . tie and ready to resume work. Am rapidly gaining in weight and 1 strength." Edw. Nieman. It is the curative medicinal elements of the cod's livers, combined with the strengthening properties of tonic iron contained in Vinol which i makes it so successful in restoring perfect digestion and at the same it builds up the tired, overworked i^C^'ruir-dflwn syataco. J * Try a bottle of Vinol with the un- | derstanding that your money will be j returned if it does not help you. | THE RICE DRUG COMPANY. Tho Potomac Quardc. At a re<ent meeting of some Washington veterans a white hnlred old man referred laughingly to the Potomac . guards and explained that when the war broke out a body of prospective soldiers, believing that they would never have to see real service in the field, formed themselves Into an organiza- J tion In what was then Georgetown and adopted the name "Potomac guards." ' Later, however, when the fighting pot 1 pretty hot, a great number of them faded Into obscurity. As the story ended another old war dog rose to his feet and gave this toast, "To the Potomac guards?Invincible In | peace. Invisible lu war."?Washington \ Star. The Men Who Succeed. as heads of large enterprises are men of great energy. Success, today, de-1 mands health. To all Is to fail. It's | utter folly for a man to endure a^ weak, run-down, half alive condition when Electric Bitters will put him right on his feet In short order. "Pour bottles did me more real good than any other medicine I ever took," writes Chas. B. 1 Allen, Sylvania, Ga. > "After years of suffering with rheu- i matlsm. liver trouble, stomach disor- J uers ann ocrangea Kiaueys, i am again. thanks to Electric Bitters, J sound and well." Try them. Only 50 ! cents at The Rice Drug Co. Sugar In India. The cane sugar Industry of India yields 4.000.0TH) tons a year. Most of it '.s used unrefined What We Never Forget. According to science, are the things associated with our early home life, such as Bucklen's Arnica Salve, that mother or grandmother used to cure our burns, bolls scalds, sores, skin eruptions, cuts, sprains or bruises, forty years of cures prove its merit. IT"I 1 - J #? ~!1nnM >11 nvnicu I?'I 'Mir-?., 1,UI uo Ul WIU I sores. Only 2f> cents at The Rice Drug Co. Deed UH*r OWm. Little Elsie?What Is the dead letter oflloe. ronromf!? Mother?Yonr father's J i F, A Olosener *>4 Ontario 8t . Ro! theater. V. V.. has recovered from a , ,on?? and severe attack of lcldney ronhle. hfo cere he!"" due to Foley Kidney PIUs. \fter detailing his case, he says: 'T am onlv Rorrv T did not Varn sooner of Fnlev Rldnev Pills. ' In a few dav's time mv hachache comnletelv left me and T felt ereatlv lm nrovad. Mv Kioncvs Mrame HTronirpr. 1 <\\77v anplla lpft trip and T was no lonsrar annnvpd at nl<*ht. T feci 100 npr cent bettar slnrp nalrt" FoIpv KJdnpv P11K" TonparPlp Pnifc Pn. Olymph'B Pharmacy. rour Groce Quality Of i Snowdi olving this problem. Its tter in all cooking and rival Costs a great deal less th Wesson Snowdrift Oil is absolu [n cooking it is 100 per cent fa lsed over and over. It neither nunicates flavor. It is refined Process and is positively odorle [*he oil takes 150 degrees higher temper n fat but less in price. It takes 100 d< ard, and is far more wholesome. Requ looking. Rivals best imported oils in qi RECIPE BOOK FREE Ve have issued a beautiful book which Ui ontains many excellent recipes. A M opy will be sent, postage prepaid upon equett. Kindly mention your gn>- 1 er's name. * h? ^1. I... ? U - rvt OOIC ujr 111 ?J*WUl9 Mnltary cmns only. If yours car rhe Southern C< Now 24 Broad Street, ^HewOMsM O WESTMINSTER HALL. Its Bargain Counters, State Trials and Coronation Banquets. Westminster hall, whose old pray walls have seen coronation banquets and state trials, used to echo with the bargains driven at shops or stalls which at one time fringed Its walls like a modern buzaar. These were kept by booksellers, toy dealers, sempstresses and milliners. The rents and profits went by right to the warden of the I fleet. An engraving of the busy scene was made by Mosely and prints taken I therefrom by Gravelot before 1773 showing how? t In hall of Westminster Sleek sempstress vends amidst the courts her ware. In 'Tom Browtt'a?Amusements' . (1770) we read: "We enter into a great hall where we are surprised to see in < the same place men on one side with baubles and toys and on the other taken up with fear of judgment In this shop are to be sold ribbons and gloves, towers, headdresses, etc. On the left hand we hear a nimble tongued painted sempstress with her charming treble Invite you to buy some of her knickknacks."?London Mail. A Fair Offer.' It was a political meeting in the east end of London, and the M. P., an exceptionally popular man, was addressing his constituents. The politician in question rejoices in a luxuriant crop of hair. The audience was sympathetic for the most part, but there was one man in the front row of the audience who made numerous interruptions. He w4h a coal beaver, appar enuy, ana naa dui recenuy Deen neavlng coals. "Get your hair cut!" he shouted during a most pathetic passage In the candidate's speech. The well known catch phrase seemed particularly applicable, so a good many of the audience laughed. But the M. P. was equal to the occasion. ' "1 will make a bargain with that1 gentleman," be said- "I will get my hair cut If he will get his face washed." There were no more interruptions.? London Express. Her Resignation. "Papa," she said. "I am very angry with Geraldlne." "What's Geraldlne done?" asked her father. "Why, I told her a secret last summer," said the little girl indignantly, "and she has Just told me she's going to tell It" "That's very wrong of Geraldlne. Has she any excuse?' "Why, 1 told her it was wicked to i tell a secret, and what do you think she said? She said, 'Oh, I know, but ! I've resigned from that secret' ''Papa," she concluded earnestly, I "you can't resign from a secret, can you?" The mental processes of children are past finding out?Philadelphia Ledger. Made Him Cautious. Mr. White?I understand, Smathers, that your church Is about to go into court to sue certain delinquent worshipers for pew rent Brudder Smathers Yassah, only I doesn't call folks dat won't pay de Lawd der honest dcbtedneas wuhsblpahs. Mr. White? What do yon call them? Bnidder Smathers?Ne'm mind, aah; ne'm mind what 1 calls 'em. I called one of 'em what I called, him die mawnln', and he knocked me In de head wld a rock. ?National Monthly. t's BillCooking 1ft Oil i use is economy, and s the more expenoive an either. ' ' ji K ' ttely pure and vegetable. t, as each drop can be . * ekcArke rvt* auoui uo uuv/i iiv/i i^uiir* by our exclusive Wesson ss. I ;> -ature than butter, and is richer jgrees higher temperature than ires one-third less than either hi iiality, but is much less expenstafc OUR GUARANTEE . 1 M the oil according to our illi ni tlnes id if it doee not do all we clalai for , write to ui and we will arnuaga IS ire purchase price refunded. 40-cent and larger dag w t't supply yoo write Mb [)tton Oil Co. New York, N. Y. \ ^ a ? I ? VETER1NA1Y SURGEON 1 will be in Union SATURDAY, MARCH 10, AT AYCOCK'S STABLE. If you need my professional services call on that date at Aycock's Stable. ' WALTER SORRELL Veterinary Surgeon. DR. D. H. Martin, DENTIST Room No. 2, Nicholson Building, Union, S. C. Office Hours : 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. ; 2 to 6 p. m. UK. I m. HAIR DENTIST A Office Over Mutuil Dry Goods Company. " ' Picture Framing and Wall Paper Furniture Repaired and Polished. Lounges* Sofas and Chairs covered. Mattresses made over. Church Cushions to order. MILLINGS Townsend Block. The People's Stock Remedy Guaranteed to keep your stock in a healthier condition . The People's POULTRY REMEDY Guaranteed the BfcST Figg Producer and Disease Pieventative. Ever/ Package of the aboye Remedies sold on a Personal Guar i f fl anicc, uacKCU oy * V. fafi Dickert Grocery Co.