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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
To the County school fund...........s 200
To the County current expenses. 3eO
Total annual tax..............

Total annual tax-....-........."...Sl,OO 900
Let the people of Oconee see that they get
their share Of his taxes. The poor children
ty deserve relief to the extent Of $500 year.
How long has Mr.. Clemson been tax.
delinquent?
viii the County Auditor and the Comptrol.
ler.General see TO 1t that back taxes are paid
Will the County Commissioners and the
School Commissioner be willing for Mr.. Glenn
son to escape taxation?
Will the Auditor add the penalty on MT;
Cemson's estate for failure to return? VIII
the Auditor run back for the yeals 8, and for
the amount, which escaped taxation?
Will the State and county officers do their
duty as against this rich citizenS tie, we pre-,
whether they are made to pay7
Let Mr.. CIemson's estate be made to pay It's
full share of taxes, before any thought Is CIV
en- Of daeIGepng I 6s g sha he be w9
rifled by conditionalIy surrendering what he
justly owed to the State? .,
Letter from the Auditor Of Cconee.
The following letter, we think, will startle
at least R%SI,1n Of .nf 4 speeOPsih CO. April 1885,
Hugh wilson, Jr, Abbeutue, s.. O.,
DEAR SIR-Yours In regard to the Clemson
estate received. Real estate assessed, 800 acres
at 5,loO. No return made for personal proper
ty this year. '
I will give you the appraise value OF the es-
tate rs made by the appraisers.
Fort Hill real estate, 814 acres $4,000 90
Personal. property at Fort Hill not to o, -
PersenaI Se nropertv TO- be- soid sss IS
Real estate in Maryland (Bladenburg 10000 %
Silver plate and table silver ... 1900 90
80 oil paintings, no means
family portraits, Sof value
Maps and books In house library ing.
Face value. Appraise value.
Stocks and Bonds. s39,S7O 52,82S 90
estate 24,ss1 5S
Notes found among Mr.. C's papers,. 1928 IS
slO6,179 81
Through the kindness of one of the apprais.
ers am enabled to give you the above infor.
nation. Respectfully,
We will notice II the Ners and Courier
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Begin Fattening Early.

There are advantages and disadvan-
tages in beginning the fattening of
swine or other animals early in the fall.
If the process is not begun until late,
it must be carried into the extreme cold
weather, when a considerable percent
age of the food is required to produce
bodily heat. By fattening the animals
earlier, the percentage of food required
for bodily heat is reduced. During Sc
we're weather the appetite of the animal
is less vigorous and its digestion less
nearly complete, due to the effect of
the rigor of the weather upon its body
in general. AS the profit is increased
by rapid fattening and good digestion,
we increase the profit by fattening while
the weather is mild. Also, the work of
attending to the animals can oe more
economically done In mild than in Sc
we're weather. But, on the other hand,
we incur greater risk of disease, espec-
tally among swine, by fatteniDg in
warm weather. This, however, is not
great when the animals are given va
riety of Wholesome food, pure drink,
and clean quarters, and these produce
the cheapest flesh as well In the ear
ly partsof the season the animals will
get some food from the pastures; but
as this food is dry and often scant, the
animals will frequently expend as much
energy in roaming about the pastures,
as could be produced from the good
they get, making the only advantage
the greater variety in their food. New
ertheless, there is a net gain in fatten-
ing early; and animals put upon the
market earlier than is the bulk of the
product, usually command a better
price than those prevailing later, when
the market is wsll-nigh glutted.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Improving Seed Wheat.

A prominent seed firm in England is
reported to be making s'important ex-
perimentsn in crossing varieties of
wheat. This is done with view to
obtain kinds Of wheat which shall be
kstter suited to the PARTICULAR condl-
tions of soil aid climate of various sec
tions Of England. than any varieties
now grown. The most experienced
wheat growers OF this country have
long been convinced that our varieties
are better than our culture, and that
our farmers need better preparation of
the soil rather than new varieties of
wheat. Every farmer can greatly inn
prove the variety he is growing, by Civ
ing proper attention to his seed. Let
him devote d patch or part Of q. field
to raising seed. This should have
special fertilizing, and The seed should
be in rows far enough apart TO allow OF
cultivating between them. Thin the
plants in the rows SO as to give each
one abundant room, and pull out al In
ferior and badly developed plants. Be
fore harvesting 90 through and remove
all that have gaors and poor ears.
Thrash this wheat by Itself, and in win
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Phil Armour and the Pastor.

A clergyman, who is pastor OF a
small church somewhere in the out]y-
ing sections of the city, went to Ar
mour one day asking for contribution
for poor girl who, he said, was sick
and suffering for the necessaries oflife.
She was SO destitute that she had been
unable to buy clothing for her new born
babe, and was even unable to buv the
medicine which kind hearted DOCTOR
had prescribed. Mr.. Armour gave him
$50 and sent HIM on bis way rejoicing,
but was much surprised few hours
later when the clergyman returned and
handed him his money, saying that he
had found, to his regret, that the child
had been born out of wedlock, and the
case was, therefore, unworthy of his
charity. Mr.. Armour was at first sur
prised, and then nearly lost his temper.
He called one of his clerks and told
him to see that the clergyman left his
Office and never returned. He then
sent to his own house and directed that
everything which woman in this poor
woman's condition needed should be
sent her at once, and that the supply
shonld be continued till she was able to
look out for herself. My informan,
says that Mrs. Armour took the case in
hand and looked after it until no fur.
Their assistance was needed Chicago
Mail.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Interesting Facts Concerning the Manu-
facture of Tobacco.

Very few users of the weed realize
the magnitude of the tobacco business.
The following figures will, we think,
surprise as well as interest many ofou
readers:
In 1856, according to the report of
the U. S. Internal Revenue Department
there were 966 Tobacco factories in the
United States. These 966 factories
manufactured 1911, 592 240 lbs. of chew
ing and smoking Tobaccos and Snuffs,
on each pound of which tax Of 8 cents
was paid to the U. S. Government. o:
this total the house of z. Lorlllard &
Co. alone manufactured the enormous
quantity of 27,S92,2S0 lbs, about IA
900 tons, or one-seventh of what il
took 966 factories to make.
This tobacco was sold by 503, Ala
dealers, every one of whom, with
scarcely an exception, sold more OF
less of Lorillard Climax Plug Tobac.
co. which is the acknowledged stand.
ard for goods of this class.
The Loriilards began manufacturing
Tobacao as long ago as 1860 and have
for many years owned and operated
the largest factory in the world. II
the last 81 years they have helped sup
port the United States Government tt
the extent of $44, 10000 90 paid into
the United States Treasury in Interna
Revenue taxes. Is it to be wondered
at that there is so large a surplus il
the United States Treasuryp Tht
weekly pay roll of Loriliard's factor,
amounts to 500, 000.00-a small for
tune.
These figures 60 to prove how muel
of necessity to mankind tobacco ha
become and how the real merit of tn
goods has made Lorillard's Tobacco
the favored above all others, and Gil
max, 1.-THE old relisble," especially
- ToBACCo"-New York;
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Whittier's First Verses.

VIM. Fl. Rideing in st. Nicholas:
Whittier began to rhyme very early
and kept his gift secret from all, ex-
cept his Oldest sister, fearing that his
father, who was a prosaic man, would
think that he was wasting time. He
wrote under the fence, in the attic, in
the barn-whcrever he could escape
observation; and as pen and ink were
not always available, he sometimes
used chalk, and even charcoal. Great
was the surprise of the family when
some of his verses were unear;hed, lit
orally unearthad, from under heap
of rubbish in a garrett, but his father
frowned upon these evidences of the
bent of his mind, not out of unkindness
but because he doubted the sufficiency
of the boys education for literary
life. and did not wish to inspire him
with hopes which might never be full
filled. His sister had faith in him
nevertheless, and, without his knowl-
edge, she sent one of his poems to the
editor of the Free Press, a newspaper
published in Newburyport. Whittier
was helping his father to repair a
stone wall by the roadside when the
carrier flung copy of the paper to him,
and unconscious that anything of his
was in it ke opened it and glanced up
and down the columns. His eyes fell on
some verses called '.The Exile's Depar-
ture:"--
Fond scenes, which delighted my youthful er
istence,
With feelings Of sorrow bid ye adieu--
a lasting adieu; for now, DIN in the distance,
The chores Of Hibernia reoede from my
view. g
Farewellto the cliffs, tempest-beaten and gray,
Which guard the loved shores Of my OWE
native land;
Farewell to the village and sail Swallowed bay
The forestcrownsd hill and the water
washed strand.
His eyes swan; it was his own poem,
| the first he ever had in print. 4sWhai
| is the matter with theeP" his father de-
manded, seeing how dazed he was, but,
though he resumed his work on the
wall, he could not speak, and be had
to steal glance at the paper again
and again before he could convince
himself that he was not dreaming.
Sure enough, the poem was there with
bis initial at the foot of it-s.W.,
Haverhill, June LIST, 1885, and. better
still, this editorial notice: IF W., al
Hayerhill, viii continue to favor ii
with pieces beautiful as the one in.
serted in our poetical department of to
day, we shall esteem it favor"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Keeping a Husband in Love.

Bah, in New York Star: The we'd
dings have made me rather gloomy, as
so many weddings end wretchedly, and
nine times out Ct ten, Dolly, | believe
it is the fault of the woman. A wo-
man nowadays ought to have sense
enough to know that to hold her hus-
band she has to be just as attractive,
in every respect, as are the other wo-
men who are trying to draw her hus-
band from her They have got to be
just as wise as the married firt, who
recognizes as eligible prey married
men; as wise as the girl over 80, who,
charaling, if pasee, knows perfectly
well that her gayest larks will be in
the companionship of married men.
The young wife has to learn all this.
and it is very well when she does, OF
rather when she is willing to learn,
but mae times out of ten she pursues
her own way, and in time she is fright
fully tired of the man she marries
while he, long before. has made up his
mind that ignorant nonsense and ig
norance Synonymous terms) are
rather boring.
sometimes think / would Ike tC
open school for the education of mar
ried women--teach them how to keeE
their husbands. / think American wo
men, more than any others in this
world, need this school. The English
woman. when she keeps her husband
does it because she is fine animal; thu
French woman is clever enough te
combine the material aud the intellec
tual, but the American woman, having
been petted until she is quite spoiled
thinks the man, once gained, is always
owned, and does not believe the CO
quettish wiles used by the maiden a
all necessary for the wife. Poor little
donkey! What hard lesson she ha'
to learn, or else what a bard life there
is before her.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
THE FARM.
Bran and Malt sprouts--Early Failowsng
--seed Wheat.
whea. Bran and Nal. Sprouts.

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Wheat bran, and the husks OF grain
generally, are Of great value for feed
ing. chiefly for their heterogeneous ele-
ments and the manurial value of their
mineral constituents. OF these waste
products, brewers grams, and starch
or glucose meal, are worth special note
because of the severe denunciations
made against them BY some persons.
No doubt ia some cases the objections
have been well founded, and there has
been fault on the part of dairymen,
who have used them in an improper
manner. These moist and highly nj
trogenous substances soon ferment and
putrefy, and when putrefactive decom-
position begins, the odor exhaled is
exceedingly strong and offensive, chief.
ly on account of the sulphur compounds
formed. II these foods are used in
this condition in a dairy, this odor
would almost certainly affect the milk,
and would be found concentrated in
condensed milk and 10 butter. But if
used in fresh and sweet condition,
there is no reason whatever for an OBJ
lection to them. 1t is not the use of
these foods, but the abuse of them,
which is Objectionable. Hence no dali
ryman need hesitate to use any of these
foods, if pains are taken to keep them
sweet. They may be preserved in a
silo perfectly well during the winter,
and for short time in casks or tight
boxes, if well rammed down, to ex-
clude air.
Malt sprouts are the roots and sprouts
of barley terminated i'll The process of
mailing. The nitrogen is in the form
of albumen and gluten, and the carbo-
hydrates consist chiefly OF sugar. They
are seen to be exceedingly rich in al
buminoids, and hence are a very valu-
able food for the production of milk.
They are sold for much less than their
food value. We have fed many tons
of them to COWS for milk alone, but do
not favor them for use in butter dali
ry. The milk made from them has a
rich, sweet taste, and the sugar in it
is in excess of the average. Hence it
is apt to sour quickly, unless very care
fully cooled and kept. The market
price of them is much less than the
actual feeding value. We have bought
them for eight dollars per ton, while
the estimated feeding value is twenty
six dollars per ton. The practice while
feeding them was to steep them in
water for twelve hours, and pour the
thick slop thus made upon the cut hay,
and then mix the ration of meal with
the feed. The sweetness of the sprouts
makes this feed exceedingly palatable,
and cows thus fed consumed consider
ably more, with corresponding yield
of milk of the best quality, than with
the same food without this addition.
As the sprouts are light and very dry
"a bushel weighing-onIy eight pounds
and are. quite sweet, and consequent
" are greedily eaten, they should new
er be fed alone and dry, as they absorb
q very large quantity of water and
swell proportionate!y; hence malt
sprouts may be injurious to COWS eat
ing them in this condition.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
misunderstood.

Youths Companion: The import
ance of distinct enunciation in singing
was well illustrated in a Sunday school
recently. The scholars frequently
sing:
.Pass along the watchword, shout it
as you go. Victory, victory, over
every foe!''
A little girl of five years, coming for
the first time to Sunday school, was
greatly pleased with the singing of this
hymn. When she reached home she
said:
Mamma, they sang such funny
song at Sunday school to-dayr
what was ite" asked her mother.
oh, they sang. Pass along the wash
rag and they kept saying it over and
over"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
OUT OF STAMPS.
Running PostofHce in the wild and

Running Postofice in the wild and
Wooiiy West.
"Giye me five 2-cent stamps"
said, as presented myself at the gem
eral delivery of the postoffice in a small
Wyoming town. The postmaster laid
aside q large jackknife and pine stick
and said:
1 .Heyp'
"Two-cent stamps-five of iem.'
1--WE amt had 2-cent stamp in the
house for month, z he replied.
"Give me Is, them
"Soid the last one week ago
Anything that will stick, then; s.
cent. 1-cent, anythingp"
"We never KEEP nothin' but is and
rs since been runnin' the Office
Got any postal cardsp"
mo; sold the last one to Hank Reed
last night
..Your stock hardly seems as COM
plete as it might be-"
"No; the layout is all run down. /
low I'll have to order some
postofice truck fore long. / got
three kinds plug terbacker, some big
hats, A an As cartridges, spurs with
jinglers on m, an all that kind o. stuff,
If you should want anything of thar
kind. AN say, hold Cd, l can fix this
mail business. too! / got a slough of
cent wrappers--sell you dozen of 'em
for a short bit, an you can write on the
wrong side of 'em and sorter fold 'em
up, an they'll go all right, reckon. y
told him that didn't want to write
so badly as l did, and started out, when
he called me back and added:
'.Say. Bill Somers is cir'latin' per-
tition round town to have me removed
and himself appointed to this ere office;
but don't you sign it--don't you have
nothin' to do with it. The peril
ton goes on to say / don't tend to the
bus ness of the Office properly. an it's
burned lie, sir, that's what it is! If
it said | was offensive partisan, l
wouldn't cared. cause do git perty
jealous at territorial conventions some
times; but when it says don't do my
duty by the Office, it hits my business
stsndIn', an I'm goin' to fight it!'--
Exchange.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
At Peace.

A stomach In revolt is an obdura.e rebel
its dissensions with the food introd ced
Into it Il unwary moments OF appetite
ceases. Then it is at peace. Then dyspep-
sia abandons its grip. Then such fra tious
sation In the pit of the abdomen between
M ais and unnatural fulln ess afterwards
fatuience. acid gulpi gs, biiiouseess. &C.
of the national toni Ind alternative, the
liver and bowels, always more or less dis
ordered during PROLONGED attack OF indl-
gestion, resume theif fusctions and
become regular. Thus not only dyspepsia
but It's concomitante. constipation and bill
ieusness. ara ee"Huered ht the nedici"e
ness of the orgabs Of digestion. The cpl
gastric nerve, cellular tissue. in short, ey-
cry org n that bears part in the digestive
processes acquires vigor and regularity
from the benjgni fiueuce
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Washington's Bedchamber.

The November Century opens with
two illustrated articles on ''The Home
and the Haunts of Washington and
ssMount Vernon As 1t Is" From them
we quote the following: "The interest
of the whole house centers in the room
where Washington died,-'The gen'al's
room, the room I likes de bes' in de
house, as the servitor called it, in a
tone of genuine and reverent affection.
just where the great man lay a-dying
Lightweight years ago, the bed now
stands. and beside 1t the light stasd on
which are the rings left by bis medicine
glasses, unchanged since that day. The
secretary at which he wrote, the hair
covered trunk in which he carried his
possessions, the surveyors tripod he
had used, the cloak he threw about his
shoulders when he went over the farm,
the leathern chair in which he sat, the
covering cut away by yandal hands,
are all there. There was something,
in spite of these few disoordant
notes, that seemed peculiar to
that room. I could not feel
that thousands of eyes had looked up
on it with idle curiosity, but as though
it had been kept sacred all these years,
and was yet redolent of the memories
which have set it apart forever.
"'Many wonders said our guide,
why Mrs. Wash'n'ton died up in de
attic, an rot in de gen'rs room. IL
was de custom in de family to shut up
a room for two years after death had
happened in it. an dis room was shut
up. Mrs. Wash ton went up in de
attic an dere she staid for eighteen
mons till she died dere. She never
had no fire IN de winter, an in de sum-
mer it was very hot,-but dere she
staid wifi only her cat fur comp'ny.
"The corners cut off from the lower
part of the door he showed US was for
easy egress and ingress of this familiar
friend. The attic room is pretty and
attractive-lookipg, but has in it now
only one piece of furniture used by
Mrs. Westinghouse little three.cor-
nered washstand."
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Struck II Rich.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 81, 1S5T.-The
undersigned certiies that he held for
collection for account of Mrs. Chas. A.
Scott, Springfield, Brown county,
Minnesota, through Merchants Bank
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, one tenth OF
ticket No. 1866, in the Louisiana
State Lottery, which drew the first
capital prize of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, on Tuesday, October
IL, 1887, and that the amount was
promptly paid by check on the New
Orleans National Bank. on presenta-
ton of the ticket at the Office of the
company.
L. Z. SANTANA. Runner.
State National Bank, New Orleans.
Louisiona.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-01-18
Save FertiIizing Material.

II sz
III Is becoming more and more evi-
dent that the making, saving and APP
plying of all the manure possible on the
farm, is very important matter. Soil
tillers are beginning to realize the fact
that, once the supply Of plant food is
exhausted, they cannot restore it with
out adding considerably to the expense
of the crop. Yet with many sufficient
care is not taken to save material that,
if properly managed, can be made into
first-class fertilizers. There are many
things wasted-much refuse matter
thrown away-which, if added to the
manure or compost heap, would even
tually pay good dividends in the way
of increased crop production.