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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
THE FIRST ROCK SALT MINE.
It's Discovery Was the Result of Acct.
dent Rather Than Design.

dent Rather Than Design.
81 really believe that many of the
greatest discoveries are the result OF
pure accident, and this applies not only
to scientific facts, but also to more ma
terial matters" remarked Gen. Dudley
Avery. Accident brought the great
salt deposit on Avery island to light aft
er its groupings had teen worked for
nearly half a century. My grandfather
sold salt years before the war, and my
father in his youth followed the same
method of production, even after his
fathers time, but 1t remained for my
brother John, when boy of 16, to
really make manifest the remarkable
advantages which the island possessed
in the matter of rock salt mining. 1t
was during the war. Salt was selling
in New Orleans for $11 sack. This
was at period when the salt works
of the island were not being made use
of. You see, my grandfather manufac.
tured salt by digging wells, into which
the salt water flowed in great guam
titles, and this water he boiled, evapo.
rating the moisture and causing a resi-.
due of fine salt.
"When my brother learned of the
high price of salt in New Orleans, he
went to my father then practicing law
in Baton Rouge, and suggested that he
be given permission to work the then
abandoned wells and make pin money
for himself There was no objection,
and with the assistance of several slaves
John proceeded to open the old wells
by clearing out the accumulation OF
debris and boiling the brine, as bis
grandfather did years before him. He
opened number of new wells, and was
soon selling salt at great rate, but
the demand increased, and he decided
to open big well some ten feet square.
The work proceeded, but the usual
depth was reached with no result. The
wster did not flow. He concluded to
dig deeper, and at 16 feet came upon
what the negro diggers said was an old
stump. Failing to chop the stump
with an an, the negro concluded he had
struck bed of rock, and when my
brother descended into the excavation
he managed, with cold chisel, to cut
out piece of what he thought was
transparent rock. My father, how
ever, who happened to be on the island
at the time, knew what had been dis.
covered, and in the course of a little
while the wonder of the discovery had
been noised all over the country.
"Thus was discovered the first rock
salt deposit in the south, and a few
months after that time dozen shafts
were being worked in a crude way
and we were shipping salt to Richmond
In great quantities, at least great in
that period of the worlds history
| Work has progressed almost steadily
since that time, and we are shortly tt
begin new shaft, which will go deeper
than ever; in fact, drop beneath the ole
workings, although this is not neces
sary,- because we can tap the deposit
where we choose" - New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
:
An Odd Geuiua.

The papers are full of tales just now Of
how the late composer. Brahms, treated
pianists and singers who were eager to get
his criticism. II one of these aspirants for
his favor was fortunate enough to find him
ut home and be received, Brahms first con.
Germ was to seat himself on the lid of his
piano, position from which he rightly
deemed few would have the temerity to
Dust him. II this failed he had recourse to
the statement that the instrument was out
of tune. "0h, that does not matter" re.
marked one courageous individual "Per-
haps not to you, but it does to me, replied
the master. On one occasion he was Just
leaving his house when long haired youth,
with bundle of music under his arm, hailed
him with Can you tell me where Dr.
Brahms lives" Certainly" answered the
master, in the most amiable manner; ''in
this house up three flights" and so saying
he hurried away.-San Francisco Argonaut
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
relative Profits of Cotton and Grain.

Notwithstanding that there is di-
versity of opinion as to the relative
profits of cotton and grain in the black
land counties, will attempt to give
what l have found to be the concensus
of opinion among the leading farmers
in Collin county. At the outset it
would be we'll to concede that a
fair estimate can only be made by
taking the average Of the ruling low
prices of cotton and grain for tina past
four years of depression" for all must
know that the present abnormal high
price Of wheat, caused no doubt from
total loss of the crop from two years
drought in India and Australia, can
not be fair criterion to go by. AS Col
lin county is near the center of the
black lands, its productions may be re-
garded as fair sample for the other
sections. Cot Jon under favorable cul-
ture, and proper care in selection Of
seed, will average in cycle OF seven
years threefourths of bale per acre;
oats, go bushels; wheat, is bushels;
corn, 40 bushels; barley and rye from
80 to 40 bushels. but the area sown in
the latter two cereals is yet too small
TO be considered in this estimate Of
relative prices Cotton is more re-
munerative at six cents per pound. with
cotton seed at $3.50 to $3.50 per ton,
than corn, where hauled to market in
wagons and sold at 20 to 20 cents per
bushel, wheat at As to 80 cents per
bushel, oats at Is to 20 cents; provided
the cotton grower raises his necessary
home supplies, viz: mules, horses,
mich cows. corn and hogs, vegetables,
poultry, fruit, etc. There would nc
profit accrue at six cents If the old time
custom of raising "all cotton" was
pursued. But corn, judiciously fed to
hogs, in connection with plenty Of nu.
tritious sorghum cane, proper pastur-
age of alfalfa or Bermuda, at 20 cents
per bushel, would pay a small profit II
| pork should continue to bring the
present prices of $3.50 to S3.4O in oul
local markets. and would pay, unde,
economical feeding, more than cotton
II The price Of pork would average -four
cents gross
| Az 1t Is no longer : theory but 81
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Wasps have grown to be such Q
plague in Cambridgeshire that farmers
are paying shilling dozen for queen
wasps.
Elections to the reichstag in the
duchy of Brunswick this summer turn
on the attitude of the candidates toward
the taxation of bicycles.
Diamond jubilee cattery" is the
term used for the "ladics' homes" that
apply for subscriptions by persons in
terested in other forms of charity.
When Dongola fell into the hands
of the dervishes, commerce with the
outer world came to an end and smok-
ing and the use of alcohol were forbid
den. In consequence, the English, who
are trying to revive the town, find that
the chief want of Dongola is an adult
male population.
Gen. Poilloue de Saint-Mars, who
was noted throughout the French army
for the eccentric ways in which he
showed his interest in his men, was in
directly victim of the Paris fire. He
died of congestion of the brain soon
after learning that cousin of his had
been burned to death.
The Hindoo prince, X. S. Ranjitsin-
jhi, who last year led the batting list of
English cricketers, has written book
on cricket which will be published soon.
The prince began this season well, hav-
ing an average of so for the six innings
he has played and having already beaten
his own record by an inning of 260.
st. Petersburg's population is 1851
O23, according to the Russian census
taken this spring; that of Moscow is
bss, 1910, of Warsaw 614,752, and Of Odessa
i04,651. Out of total Russian popula-
ton of 1921, 900 there are 64,616,s20
men. An unexpected discovery is that
Of an increase in the population of the
new provinces in central Asia.
In writing history of the Third
republic member of the French acade-
my is said to have settled on the follow
ing epithets for the president: Theirs
lie bref 1.-THE short), MacMahon lie preux
(the brave), Grevy lie gaigneur (the eco
nomicaD, Carnot lie taciturne (the
silent), Casimr-Perier lie sage (the pur'
dent, Faure lie bel 1.-THE beautifully.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
The Melon Louise.

Whenever a few vines become badly
infested with the melon louise pull mp
the plants and destroy or burn them;
kerosene emulsion will, of course, kill
all the lice it reaches, but, as the in
sect confines itself TO the underside OF
the leaves, it is for that reason difficult
to reach. In any case do not allow
the pest to gain a foothold, for that
will mean the end of the crop. As
soon as the louise is noticed, and il
good spray pump is not at hand, try
busting thoroughly ON the underside OF
the leaves, as far as possible, with pure
hardwood ashes and fresh air-slaked
lime, two parts of the former to one OF
the latter, well mixed together; dust
on in the morning while the dew is
present on the leaves. This Is also an
excellent remedy for many soft insects,
as the cabbage and cauliflower worm
and others.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
SATAN ON A BEER KEG.
Commotion Caused by a Hungry Ape
I'm a Dutchman's Household.

COmmOttOn Caused Dy hungry ape
I'm a Dutchman's Household.
A short time ago the police station at
Apcldoorn, in Holland, was telephon-
ically informed by maiden lady of the
name of Spran.s that she, her two sis
tiers, all the maids, and the stranger
within her gate had locked themselves
up each in her own room, and were at
present in terror of their lives by reason
of "a man in the Kitchen" The tele-
phone went on to say that the bur-
glar in question had emptied the con-
tents of the plate basket with crash
upon the ground, and that he seemed at
present to be cooking something at the
family stove.
In consequence of this message three
trustworthy agents of the Apeldoorn
police took their revolvers and sabers
and marched to the assistance of the
Misses Sprank. They found, after fore
ing a shutter and getting into the kitch-
en-, that something was certainly cook
ing on the stove, for certain meats mad
been burned to a cinder, These, how
ever, were merely the fragments of the
servants supper, which had been pre-
pairing when the domestics fled before
the footsteps of the unseen invader.
On the ground they also discovered the
forks and spoons and the emptied plate
basket, but the kitchen itself was void
Of any burglarious body.
Then the Apeldoorn agents drew
their swords, prepared their lanterns
and descended into the beer cellar.
Here they caught the malefactor.
Looming out in the darkness was a
large beer barrel, and seated solemnly
on the beer barrel was very small ape,
with the fragments of loaf of bread
by its side, its attitude suggestive OF
peace at last and blissful repose. He
had not tapped the beer. AS the bur
glar entirely refused to leave the bar
rel OF his own free will, he was carried
upstairs, and, after being securely
strapped down, wheeled off to the po-
lice station. The appearance of small
ape in child's carriage, surrounded by
armed guards, is an unusual one for a
peaceful country town, but the hood
was kept down and the station safely
reached. The ape was eventually re.
stored to its homc-a small travelling
menagerie.- philadelphia Record.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
danger. Nowt,

you Will nuNe
to undergo the operation OF ovariotomy,
the cutting out OF the ovary.
Yes, you will recover, at least l hope
you will; but you will never be quite
the same woman again. Congestion OF
the ovaries is fatal to health. II you
have any such symptoms be advised
in time; take n medicine OF specific
powcrsl You can find none better
than Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, prepared especially to meet
the needs of woman's sexual system.
You can get it at any good druggists.
Following we publish letter from
a woman in Milwaukee, which relates
how she was cured of ovarian trouble:
dear Mrs. Pinkham:-I suffered with
congestion of the ovaries and infiamma-
ton Of the womb. Ihad been troubled
with suppressed and painful menstrua-
ton from girl. The doctors told me
the ovaries would have to be removed.
l took treatment two years to escape
an operation, but still remained in mis-
cradle health ia both body and mind, ex'
pecting to part with my reason each
coming month. After using one bottle
of Lydia Z. Pinlsham's Vegetable Com
pound and package of Sanative Wash
l was very much relieved. / continued
TO use your remedies until cured. The
last nine months have been passed in
perfect good health. This, l know, / owe
entirely to the Vegetable Compound.
My gratitude is great, indeed, to the
one to whom so many women owe their
health and happiness. "-MRs. +. M.
KNAPP, 500 Wentworth Ave-, Milwau.
kee, Wis.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
HERE AND THERE.


Glover should be cut just when the
bloom turns brown.
The farmer certainly should be as
shrewd and well informed on matters
pertaining to his business, as the mil.
Ter or professional man.
"A good many cows are ruined while
lying in the stable, by having their
neighbors step upon their teats.
1t will pay any farmer to read
about his business; no matter how ex.
perienced he may be, there are many
things he will never know from his
own ventures.
1t is not good policy to allow Q
colony of bees to swarm more than
once. Second swarms are not profita
BILE, and they cripple the old parent
stock so that it will do but little all
summer.
I'm shipping vegetables bear in
mind that quality counts first of all In
these days of big supplies in the city
markets.
"A professional strawberry grower
says: For the very best results, the
strawberry should be repeatedly and
literally manured-before planting,
while growing and before making
fruit"
Fruit is a necessary and natural
food. Insects, animals, children hun.
ger for it,. The small boy in early sum-
mer, in his Impotence, will not wait
for it to ripen, but will run the risk OF
collie pangs, not to mention maternal
punishment, in his eagerness to obtain
it. The food of this wise man is fruit
in plenty, with milk, rice and eggs.
Stock is property which grows the
year round, whereas, perennial plants
and all productive growths from the
soil are dead property during consid.
cradle portion of the year.
Bury the dead animals deep under
ground, covered with lime or carbolic
acid before the soil is thrown ovel
them, that no contagion or bacteria
may infest the air or drain away into
the water.
DO not fail to be sure that your
stock is supplied with an abundance Of
good, pure water. Some people make
the mistake Of thinking that any kind
of water is good enough for stock. 1t
is serious and cruel mistake.
Anybody can raise horse nov
with curbs, ringbones, spavins, veal
eyes, ungainly hooks, short necks, pis
eyes, twisted heels, eve necks, ETC.
but it does take practical horsemar
to raise fine up-headed, good, sub
stantial, useful horse.
| AN exchange says the stomachs o
about 5000 crows have been examined
and the percentage Of food therein re
veals the satisfactory fact that tn
crow, instead of being the bandit SOM
suppose him to be, cunningly fattenini
on the grain Of the husbandmen, is
benevolent scavenger, clearing fields
orchards, ETC., Of all manner Of mis-
Ghievous wormA mice end insects
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
Corn Growing In tho south.

By some the increase in corn culture
in the southern states since 1890 Is as
cribed to a competition begun eight
years ago in one of the agricultural
papers, which offered cash prize to
the American farmer who raised the
largest crop to the acre of any cereal.
The prize for wheat went to Utah, for
oats to New York, for barley to Ohio,
and for corn, strange to relate, to
South Carolina. One farmer in MARI
borough county, in that state, estab-
lished his claim to have raised crop
from one acre of $3.50 bushels, and the
awarding of the prize was a revelation
to many Southern farmers who had
uniformly regarded cotton rs the sta
pie agricultural product of the south,
and have seen neither reason nor profit
in the cultivation of corn. Since then,
whatever the reason of the develop.
ment of the corn crop in the south may
have been, it is a fact that it has been
enormously increased, and that the
western states no longer hold their
relative prominence as corn-growers.
BY the official census of 1880 there
were produced in the United States in
that year 1,750, 900, 900 bushels of corn,
and by figures of the department OF
agriculture in 1895, Is years later, the
corn crop Of the United. States was
9, $50, 900, 900 bushels. The increase,
however, not uniform; it was great
est in the southern states. Alabama
increased from $4,000, 900 to as, 900, 900
bushels. Arkansas increased from a.
600, 900 to 10000 900 bushels, more than
double. Louisiana increased from 10
900, 900 to $4,000. 900 bushels. Georgia
from 23. 900, 900 to $4,000, 900. Florida
from 1000, 1000 to 100000, and Texas,
most remarkable of all, from 20, 900, 900
to 100000 900. Mississippi increased
from 81, 900, 900 to 85, 100000 bushels,
and South Carolina from H.
100000 to 10000, 900. While the
southern states have been increas-
ing their corn product, the farmer corn
states have either made no gain or
have been falling off. From 1880 to
1870 Iowa increased only from 10000,
900 to 29s, 900, 900 bushels, Indiana from
t15, 0O0, 900 to 121, 10000 and Michigan
from 32OO0,O to $4,000 900 bushels.
Wisconsin fell off from S4,OOO,O 900
to SS,0OO,0OO bushels, Ohio from
Ill, 100000 to 92,OO0,O 900, and Illinois,
once the chief corn-producing state in
the corn belt, from S25, 10000 to 1885,
0OO, 900 bushels. In the same period
New York declined from $4,000, 900 to
100000 bushels. The corn product
of Pennsylvania fell off from Al, 900, O0O
to 100000 bushels, and other states
Of the east or middle west the proper
tionate decline was practically the
same. The south is the region in
which there has been material in
crease in corn product.-Farmers' Re
view,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
NO SAINT PATRICK.
According to An oxford Scholar No
Such Person Ever Existed.

6uch ttNroh A2NSh AfAA't>Us
Evidently this is destructive age.
The ideals of our fathers are not ours,
and we may thank our stars II any OF
our own ideals are allowed to remain
for any length of time on their lofty
pedestals. The modern investigator is
at work, and no figure, however heroic
or noble is sacred in his eyes. He has
stripped William Tell of the romance
that has glorified him for centuries; he
has striyen hard to transform the ru-
bust William Shakespeare, of Stratford-
on-Avon, into q shadowy mysterious
eidolon of Lord Bacon; he has white
washed many an apparent scoundrel
md besmlrched many an apparent
saint, and now he comes forward and,
with an assurance born of the convic-
ton that his statement cannot be con-
troverted, tells us that one of the most
popular heroes of Christendom never
existed, and that consequently all the
homage paid to him through so many
centuries has been utterly wasted.
The popular hero is st. Patrick, and
the amiable gentleman who processes
to show him to us in his true light Is
Rev. Charles Plummer, a distinguished
graduate of Oxford university and a
well-known authority on ancient Eng
fish and Irish history.
According to Mr.. Pnmmer, st. Pat
rick would never have existed if a
careless scribe had not made an error in
translation. The belief in st. Patrick
dates from the publication of Bede's
Ecclesiastical History" in which
these words occur: "Qui ct patricius
fuit."
Now, the translator assumed that
"patricius" was proper name, though
in the original manuscript the initial
letter is a small &" and he translated it
accordingly. According to him the
Latin words mean. "Whose name wns
Patricius" or Patrick.
Mr.. Plummer, however, shows that
the word "pntricius" is an adjective,
and simply means that the gentleman
referred to was nobly born and held a
high rank in the society of that time
But he goes further; he points out
that the name of the patrician gentle
man was Eatius.
OF the existence of st. Patrick he finds
not the slightest trace, and he insists
that Erin's favoritc hero would never
have existed had not careless or ig'
norant scribe wrongly assumed that
"patricius" with small "p," mini
you) meant "Patrick" or "Patricius,
which is the Latin form of the word.
But Mr.. Plummer is not heartles:
iconoclast. He admits that this is {
grave matter, but he shows that a sim
liar mistake has been made more thar
once.
"Some of our saints" he says, "ar'
due to quite as trivial causes as this ore
For example, had not translator
Numbered, Saint Amphibalus and Sain
Pontiolus would never have existed, anc
there is little doubt that close exam
lnation of the history of Saint George
England's patron saint, would shov
that he, too, is largely mythical"
Mr.. Plummer dwells on this subjec
at length in his commentary on Bede'
great work, and, owing to his wild
reputation as scholar and investiga
tor, his remarks have caused consider
able stir, not only in Great Britain ant
Ireland, but also on the continent of Eu
rope.-N. Y. Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
hummer Yncntinna.

Interesting illustrated booklets pertain
ing to Massachusetts Seashorc, Ocean, Island
and Inland Resorts, are issued by the pas.
the famous route between New York and
Boston. Newport, Cape Cod, Martha's Vine.
yard, Nantucket, Bar Harbor, the White
Mountains, etc, etc., etc. List of the book.
let's will be mailed upon receipt OF one.
cent stamp. Address 0. II. Taylor, Genl
Pass'r Agent, Fall River Line, New York.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
Summer Tours Via nIu Four Rant.

10 the Mountains, Lakes and Seashore
Special Low Rates will be in effect to Put.
in,Bay, Islands. of Lake Erie, Lake Chautau.
qua, Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, 81.
Lawrence River, Adirondacks, Lake George,
New England Resorts, New York and Eos
ton; To the Great Lakes, Cleveland. San.
dusky, Toledo. Detroit, Benton IIarbor. Mt.
clemens, Macknac and Michigan Resorts.
40 me Northwest and West via st. Louis
ana Chicago,. FOR rates, routes, time OF
agent "Big Four" or address t. 8. Mcc'or.
nick, Passenger Traffic Manager 'Bie
Four" Cincinnati, 0.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
The CheerfuI Idiot.

$50 you say" began the moderately
new boarder, that he specialized on a
large scale exclusively. May ] inquire
what was the use of this large scale?"
'.Glad to answer you" replied the
Cheerful Idiot. HE has to have it for
weighing the consequence Indian
apclis Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16

accepted fact that il we have deep va
ter at Galveston and Sabine, there is
every reason to anticipate that our
grain crops, cattle and hog products
will bring far better prices, by thus
affording cheaper rates to the open
markets of the world.--An Old Texas
Cotton Planter.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
ShnIxe Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot Ease, powder for the feet,
It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery
of the age. Aliens Foot.Ease makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. 1t is certain cure for
sweating, callous. hot, tired, aching feet.
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and
shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE,
Write to Allen S. 0lmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16

Mrs. Slogan lat an L station) Don't
you ever trust man as long as you
live. They are all frauds, every one of
'em.
Daughter-Why, ma! All?
"Every one, no exception at all. Look
at that man near the news stand. The
brute!"
"Why, he looks the very picture OF
gentleness and refinement"
ooh, yes; but he's standing there gaz-
ing at rat poison poster, all the same,
Ill bet his wife has pet poodle."-N,
Y. Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-07-16
Daughter-Why, ma! All?


He-Well, what are you sullking about
now?
She (severely)-Why was you so cool
to Mrs. Masham this evening?
IIe-Was 1? didn't know it.
She--Oh yes, you did, wretch! You
we're afraid of arousing my suspicious
by showing your real feelings. oh, you
dissembler! IN. Y. Truth.