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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-11-18
AnIhonu's Creek-JameS L. Rider.

Anthonu's Creek-JameS L. Rider.
OvERsEERs OF THE room.
Le,cisburg District-John Lipps Fort
| Sulphur-A. ID. Hanna Irish Corne,
j. NJ. Rodgers Meddo,c BluG-A
III. McClung Falling Springfield
Pickering Anthony's Creek--M. C.
Beard; White Sulphur. w. Harper
and WIiidmsbur0-J. NJ. ThomaSSon,
ASSESSORS
Lotcer DiStrict-EVcrett Il. Miller
Upper District-John w. Legg.
SENATE AND HOUSE OF DELEG ATEs
State Sendte-Thos. Il. Davies and
n. &. Mcneil.
House Of Delegates IL. Nc
Chung and b. +. Harlow.
County Supe Thomp-
son.
COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS.
John w. Arbuckle, James Withrow,
Is. +. Harlow and ChaS. G.. Larew.
NOTAKIES PUBLIC.
w. &. Walton, Alexis NJ. Buster,
James Z. Mcpherson, Samuel ii. Aus
tin, 5. ii. Turner. John NJ. Price,
Samuel r. Patton, John W. Arbuckle,
Perry w. Martin, Chas. l.. Davis, AL
bert G Williams, Z. IL. Dennis, Jas.
| Williams, Henry Gilmer, Il. y. San
dige, Cyrus 5. Larew, JamesC. Mccoy,
| Washington Wallace, VIM. II. Shields,
David A. Dwyer, ID. W. Weaver, John
f. Caring, William +. n elson, j. W.
y Dung, George Kirkpatrick, Nj. G.
Jamison, l.. J. Williams, ;. W. Os.
borne, b. f. Harlow, JAS. w. Goodwin,
Mason Mathews, ID. &. Rife, John n.
Blaker, LualZo Rupert, 4. G.. Handy
Quin Morton, VIM. ii. Burns, NJ. n
Humphreys. {. II. Smith, John NJ
Sammons, j. ). Wilkinson, J. \. Mil
Ter, j. NJ. Skaggs, Geo. NJ. llarrah, Il
l.. Harper, b. +. Burns, }. W. Dwyel
and f. ID. Smoot.
TIME OF HOLDING COURTS.
| Circuit Court conVencs as follows
Third Tuesday in April, fourth Tues
day in June, and the second Monday il
n Ovember.
The Commissioners Court will OC
held four times IL year, viz: On The
first Monday in January, second Mon
day in April, first Monday in July, and
first Tuesday III October, respec
lively. The Jaly Court will be The
fiscal term.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-11-18

Fort SPRING.. f. Barker Irish Cor,
ner- White Sulphur-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
SCOT Water.

Water in which SCOT has been dis
solved has always been favorite with
florists for manuring plants, and also
at the same time keeping off injurious
insects. 1t has slight smell Of sui
phur, to which doubtless its power to
repel injurious insects is due. We
have often put little SCOT in water
and used it on cucumber and melon
plants to keep off the striped bng. If
done before any eggs are laid it will
repel them. The dark color from the
SCOT on the leaves holds the heat. and
when it is washed upon the ground it
makes the soil warmer. Some am
monia in the water makes it much
more effective as fertilizer. The SCOT
is pure carbon and has considerable
power to absorb ammonia, which it
will give out only as the roots OF plants
surround the carbon thus charged and
absorb it.-Do5ton- -c,,ltiretoss
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
GAR AND KILLFlsH.
Table Manners of Fish Built on Tor.
pedo Boat Specifications.


: 80 pedo Boat Specifications.
= The gar may be described as fish
built on torpedo boat lines considera-
bly drawn out. There is one now ut
the Aquarium which came from Lake
Erie, is three feet long, and doesn't
look to be three inches through amid
ships. It's snout is long, slender, and
tapering, and its mouth opens back
six or-seven inches, SO that in general
appearance its jaws are much like
pair of shears.
When the gar Is under one bell, SO
to speak; it moves through the water
very smoothly, making no commotion
whatever, and that is the way it tmoves
when it sets about capturing kill
fish. 1t swims along very quietly and
gently, with its mouth closed, in the
direction of the killie, and keeps NOV
ing until it has overrun the killie by
three or four inches; the gar then
lying quietly In the wake with the
unsuspecting killie close by.
Suddenly the gar opens its motith
slightly and swings its head sidewise
and closes its jaws. The chances are
that the little killie is then between
the gar's long jaws crosswise, its head
projecting on one side and its tail on
the otherj it may be that it is paral:
yzed at once by the gdrs sharp teeth,
or it may wriggle little:
The gar is in no hurry; not the
slightest; it knows very we'll that the
killie can't get away. Pretty soon it
begins to shift the killie back toward
its throat, so it can swallow it. The
gar doesn't work the killie back in its
jaws, but it opens its jaws just enough
to clear the killie, and then it bitches
forward itself with movement so
slight and quick as to be scarcely per-
ceptible, setting its jaws together
again with the killie still lying across
the upper side of the under jaw, head
on one side and tail on the other, but
q little nearer the gar's throat.
Still not in the slightest hurry about
it, the gar repeats this two or three
times, until it has got the killie pretty
we'll back in its jaws; then it sets
about Slowing the killie round length
wise, so as to take it in and swallow
it. Most fishes prefer to swallow
fish head first, so that the fins won't
spread out and stick in the swallow
er's throat, but it doesn't appear to
make much difference to the gar
which way it takes the killie; if the
killie should still retain some life, and
1t manages to wriggle itself around in
the gar's shifting Of it SO that its tail
is toward the gar's tail, the gar
does not undertake to slew it clear
around again with its tail forward,
but when it gets the killie we'll along
side it's mouth it opens it long jaws q
little wider and takes the killie i'll
bodily, closes it's jaws, and moves gen.
tly on.-New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
The Sleep of Plants.

Like animals all plants require in
tervals of repose, during which the Vi
tai functions are slowed down, and the
organic structures Undergo repair.
Some plants repose Turing the rainy
season; others during periods of
drought; but while some plants sleep
during the cold OF the comparatively
cold season of the year; others again
take their rcst.when the average tenn
peratufe is high: 1t occurred to
Norwegian observer to investigate the
sleep of plants, more particularly with
the object of shortening the period OF
repose, and this lie claims to have ut
tanned by subjecting tbs bulbs or buds
to the action of cloroform vapor. He
asserts, indeed, that plants thus treat
ed subsequently develop more rapidly
-tlruu Ghuae nhooo ropose Inns not been
Intensified by the narcotic action of
this drug, and the observation is not
without considerable interest.
If his observations are trustworthy,
it follows that sleep in plants is not
strictly comparable to that of animal
life, for we do not suppose that the
period allotted to sleep by animals
could advantageously be shortened by
the administration of all anesthetic.
Sleep, on the other hand, is relative
rather than an absolute condition. Its
value rs a restorative depends i'll q
very marked degree on its intensity,
and certain individuals derive more
benefit and recuperate their iaded en-
ergies more effectually in five or six
hours than others do after twice as
long. This recuperative energy is as
serted to be an indication of high
standard of vitality, and common Oh
servation certainly lends color to the
view that diminished recuperative
power is indicative Of physiological
Observation-Disclosures Medical Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03

where they are most available for this
purpose. Everyone who has killed
old COWS knows that very large part
of their fat is on the intestines, show
ing that nature has for years adsptes
this method of storing fat as being the
best resource to supply milk when the
food given was insufficient. When
corn begins to ear, some of this is
likely to be fed to milch COWS. But
corn grain is more likely to fatten
than to increase the milk flow, espe-
cially where the first flow has been
lessened by insufficient feeding.
1t is not usually so much:'' fats ms
in nitrogenous nutrition that pastures
fail. Far better than corn or other
grains for feeding COWS at pasture is
wheat bran. There is also less dan
ger of cloying the appetite. Grain is
too hearty and cannot be disested
alone in hot weather. Much more
grain can be eaten if it is mixed with
bran. This is itself quite as good for
increasing milk flow as is bran. But
as oats cost more the bran is usually
preferred where 1t is only needed for
that purpose.
There is more advantage in feeding
bran to COWS in summer than the i'm
mediate gain from keeping up the
milk flow at the time. If the COW IS
kept to her best in summer she will
give more in fall and winter also, pro-
vided the summer milk product has
not been allowed to decrease her flesh
and vitality to too great an extent. In
other words, if iudicious feeding OF
cows while at pasture is practiced
they will give more and better milk
all the year, and can be profitably
milked nearer to the time of calving.
This has very great effect on the
milking character of the calf which
the COW is then bearing. 1t has al
ways been noted that no deep milking
breed of COWS has ever been developed
except where there was warm and
moist weather during most of the
year, causing the production at all
times of succulent feed. Undoubtedly
the increased use of ensilage in this
country will improve the milking
qualities of dairy stock, or will at least
prevent it from deteriorating. But
with improved milking caracity must
also be developed tho ability to eat q
greater amount of nutritious food at
all seasons of the year. The breeder
of good stock, especially for the dairy,
must always be good feeder, by
which we mean not only that he must
give enough, but he must have skill
to select the kinds of feed best adapted
to his purposes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Land Too Rich for Winter Grain.

It is not Mt ali uncommon to have
land that if sown with small grain
would produce heavy growth of
straw without grain. The straw
growth always kills all clover and
grass seeding sown with it, obliging
the owner of the land to keep it under
the plow until its excess of nitro
genous fertility has been used up. In
such case, we should advise sowing
crimson clover as early as possible,
and any kind of grain crop that you
think will make the best protection
for it. This will use up part of the
available fertility, but if the clover is
plowed under for some hoed crop, as
it should be, this fertility will be just
in time to help a potato crop in the
following July or August. A green
lhanuring plowed under in spring,
even only in winter rye, makes q c -eat
difference in the yield of potatoes over
land not so fertilized. A growth of
crimson clover, even if it were winter
killed is worth much more than rye
on like soil and conditions. This
cropping of very rich land every sea-
son sowing crimson clover in the fall,
helps free the land of weeds. 1t also
to some extent exhausts fertility. But
a potato or corn crop usually pays so
much better than any small grain crop
that you should be glad if you can
cultivate land two or three years in
succession before seeding it. When
you do seed it SOW grain rather thinly
and seed heavily with both grass and
clover seed, for which two or three
years cultivation will be good prepara-
tion.-American Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Liberal Grass Seeding.

There may be reason for lightly
seeding of grains which will often
from single kernel produce two,
three or even more stalks and pro-
portionate increase Of yield. But in
grass seeding this rule does not hold;
each seed can produce but one stalk.
This, under the most favoring circum-
stances, may spread, so as to cover a
wide space. But in grass seeding
everything is at firstagainst the young
plant. It's seed is small, while the
grain is comparatively large. Natu-
rally the grass plant is corresponding
ly small and wholly unable to COM
pete with the more vigorous weeds
which are always ready to smother it.
The only way in weedy ground, as
most long-cultivated sell is, must
therefore be to seed SO heavily that
the grass crop must from the first
have the advantage. This is the sea-
son for fall seeding. We therefore
advise to seed heavily, andin addition
SOW some clover seed in the spring,
which will fill in the vacant spaces
which the fall seeding has not occu-
pied. It is an old saying that nature
abhors a vacuum. 1t is never more
true than when grass or clover and
weeds are growing together. There
is no better way to exclude weeds than
to seed heavily with grass OF clover,
either of which, if seeded so as to
cover the whole ground, is the best
weed exterminator known.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Hatching Sanaries.

Milwaukee supplies the United States
yith the bulk of the Hartz Mountain
canaries, and there is no great crime
in the deception, for the Milwaukee
bird is really an improvement on the
imported article, having just as fine
voice and being much harder.
Experience has shown that the I'M
ported singer loses the power of trans
hitting his voice to the young after
passing through an American winter.
This is the case, also, it is said, with
the Tyrolean singers who come to this
country, their voices losing the pecu-
liar yodling quality when they have
been here a year. The native canary
is harder than the imported ones, and,
with proper training, is every bit as
good singer.
Before they are mated the hen birds
are kept in separate cages in the music
room, carefully fed and made to listen
to the music Of the singers and the
machine used in training their voices.
In this way the hen is enabled to
transmit the best musical quality to
it's offspring. The music room is
large one with south exposure, and
is kept with the same scrupulous neat
ness as the breeding room. In the cor
ner of this room is a bird organ, and
with it the little birds are given their
, vocal training.
When. the machine is started the
notes emitted are wonderfully like the
song of the untutored canary. These
notes are known to bird trainers by
the term pfei&en. Gradually the
whistle strikes on to different line.
1t is an improvement over the pfeiffen,
and is called klirgei role. A higher
step still is called the klingel,. and a
still higher step hohl klingcl. Lastly
comes what is called hohl rollen, and
a bird whose voice has been developed
up to that point is worth $50 in the
market any day.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Cabbage Worms.

TO keep the cabbage worm off the
late cabbage, soak some dry corn cobs
in kerosene for few days, then place
an old pan in the patch on box or
other support two or three feet high.
Two or more of these would be better
than one if the patch is large. Just
at dusk drop two or three ofthe soaked
cobs into the pan and apply the
match; throw on fresh cobs as needed
to keep bright blaze going for an
hour or more, and large numbers Of
the moths which lay the eggs which
hatch the "worms" which destroy our
crops will be destroyed.-The Epito-
mist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Mayor of the Smallest City.

John De Saline bears the unique
distinction of being mayor of the
smallest city in the world. He is the
chief executive of Fenton, beautiful
little hamlet on the picturesque
Meramec river, fifteen miles to the
south and west of ST. Louis.
The fame of Fenton has probably
never extended beyond the confines
of st. Louis county, and it can not be
said TO have created great furore in
the commercial or manufacturing
world, but it is great place for oil
that. It is the only city of its size,
in all probability, in the world
that is incorporated and has mayor
and full quota of city officials.
There are less than 100 people in
Fenton, yet it has been an incor-
porated city for more than twenty
years. And during that time it has
grown considerably. When it was
first incorporated there were less than
forty-five inhabitants in the place.
ST, Louis Republic.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Donble-YOlked Eggs,

When double-yolked eggs arc found
it is to be regretted, as they invari.
ably indicate that the hens are out of
condition-too fat. A hen in good
laying condition will never produce
an egg other than of the normal size
peculiar to her breed, spd if fat she is
entirely untitled for laying. If fat
hen is killed she will be found full of
eggs, so to speak, but they will be
noticed to be of all sizes, and the
poultryman will be amazed over the
fact she did not lay, but examination
will show that Instructions Of fat were
the cause, and that the hen is then
more profitable dead than when alive.
The Progressive South.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Punish Criminals by Eating Their Bodies.


The most cruel form of criminal
punishment is that found i'll vogue
among the Battaks or Battas, who in
habit that part of the island of Sumatra
south of Atcheen. DR.. Van der Tunk,
q German discoyerer, was astonlshed
to learn how civilized the Battaks are
in every respect except in their treat
ment OF their prisoners.
There hanging and electrocuting
have not the ghost of show Both
these methods and that suggested by
the recently famed Society for the
Bettcrment of the Httmal Species,
would all be voted inadequate for the
proper punishment Of criminals guilty
of capital offences, which offences by
tho way, are much more nume-
rous than in the United States, thiev-
ing being looked upon by the Battaks
as one of the most heinous of capital
crimes.
'rThe Battaks no sooner convict q
criminal" says DR.. Van der Tunk,
ethan the sentence is carried out.
The convict is placed face downward
on a large fat stone, and the body is
then chopped into pieces by small
stone axes. The authorities then dis
tribute these pieces among the fam
lilies of tho village where the crime has
been committed, and the villagers eat
these pieces with the greatest relish,
there being belief current among the
Battaks that if the body of criminal
is merely buried the soul may come
back to the body and resurrect it.
The enemies of the Battaks cap
tured in war receive the same fate rs
do their criminals. Women are sell
dom or never executed among them.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
Farm and Garden Notes.

Because ;he level valley is richer
than the hillside it is quite common
for farmers to suppose that there must
be each year heavy deposit from the
hillside in the valley below. But if
any one manures hillside with the
expectation that it will appreciably
fertilize the soil farther down the hill
he will learn his mistake.
The old saying, choice articles are
put up in small packages, applies
equally rs we'll to hogs as to anything
else, The nice, hlocky pig is always
sought after. The large, raw=boned;
elm, peeiet-llu4s Lido seen his hest-d"s.,
and what the people want now is as
near perfect hog rs possible, one
that will fatten easily and sell rapidly.
The small ridges left by the drill
should remain. They protect the
young plants from the wind and from
heaying in the winter, for the same
agency that pulls the plants up by the
roots molders the ridges down at the
same time. In dry weather the plants
find more moisture in the valleys than
if the surface were level plain to be
swept in the wind, rs floor is swept
with broom.
IF heavy rain occurs about seeding
time, it is an excellent plan for those
who have not sown to go Mt it soon as
the ground is dry enough to work
well, for it is much better to SOW just
after rather than just before rain.
We have seen fields part of which
were drilled just before and the rest
just after rain, and have noticed that
the after-seedings made the better
growth and yield as rule.
A good clover sod is a most excel.
lent preparation for wheat, as,indeed,
for most any crop. Even when n crop
of hay is taken off in June md the
ground plowed as soon as possible
thereafter, the clover stubble and
roots are very beneficial i'll improving
the mechanical texture of most soils
and in providing available food for the
wheat plants. We never knew sod
ground plowcd in July or early August
to be rolled, narrowed, and dragged
too much for best results.
Did you ever see q cab;uetmaker
finish fine piece of furniture? When
the material comes from the saw it is
simply rough lumber. When planed,
it is reasonably smooth, but far from
being finished; much sandpapering,
rubbing and lolishing must follow be.
fore tue job is complete. The more
work he puts on, the better price he
will receive for the article. So with
the wheat field; the pillow leaves the
ground rough, and there must follow
much planning, rubbing and polishing.
The better tinish.we put on, the more
profit in the crop. .
Crude and careless methods crop
out il the application of manure as
elsewhere. TO secure the best returns
from farm manures they must be fined
and distributed evenly. The manure
spreader does both to perfection,
though if q man is careful and doesn't
get in too much of hurry, he can do
a very good job with fork. Unload
ing in heaps may be out of date, but
we believe better job spreading can
be done from heap than from wagon.
But the heaps must be spread before
rains wash the soluble portions into
the ground where the heaps lay. .,..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-11-03
New Diving Bell Invented.

An improved diving bell of great
capacity, moving along the sea bottom
by means of screws moved by electrici-
ty, is on -','bition in Paris. 1t is the
invention of an Italian named Patti
del Pozzo. He states that it can be
worked at very great depths and holds
air enough to supply the crew for for
ty-eight hours without renewal. 1t is
lighted by electricity, which also fur
nishes motive power for any tools that
may be used On tipping over the
cases of ballast the bell rises to the
surface itself.