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The age-herald., 1898-05-19


 protect. that are fleet and absolutely foot loose. On to Havanal
 -- Even German writers say this country has right In war times to cut cables lead ing from and to the enemy's territory. Ca bles are contraband of war If they carry aid and comfort to the enemy. They are not to be trusted.
 If Ruff Harrison and young MT. FToraker and Assistant Adjutant General John Jacob Astor should aspire to the strategy board all would be we'll The people would not feel the swap.
 Pacific biockades and boards of strategy and politicel bosses should be driven Into one coop and that coop should be lowed out to sea and anchored within range of Dew eys guns
 The end of the Manila cable is said to be on one of Deweys ships. He is in a posi- tion to demand prepayment of charges on Madrid dispatches.
  When Admiral Cervera turned westward from the Oregon's course, he practically ad- mltted that he would take up the hide-and- seek game.
 When the hero of Manila comes home, there will be in nearly every town a street and many boy babies to remind him of his new honors.
 Spain must pay for every bit of damage her skulking cruisers may do-n islands. If she has no money.
 Pacific blocl1ades in war times are fully as foolish and wicked as war blockades would be in times>or peace.
 Admiral Dewey is attending to details in the Philippines. regardless of presidential booms boy babies.
 Give the bulletin boards rest until you place your backwards in a state of defense against microbes.
 Let the war strategy board plan a sharp decisive campaign against Havana. and all will be forgiven.
 Capt. sgsby is steaming in the St. Paul toward Havana again. His memory at least is impaired
 The funny men across the water call it the Yanko-Spanko war. That is just about the size of it.
 Every time the skulfSing cruisers stop. for coal they get orders from new minister of marine.
 Many people in this neck of the woods are hoping Capt schley will have an inning soon. Throw out of the flags Remember the boys at the front. Their cause is your cause.
 There will be no better day than this to give your backyard a thorough cleansing. The crowds about the bulletins are known in some towns as strategy boards. Hanna Is forgotten. These are forgetful times.
 The Oregon should fall into line, ready for business, about next Saturday.
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The pouItice and the mold in the tropical rains are joys compared with the ins scts. which are on the rampage, and on you. A swarm of flying beetles once announced the advent in the east, and having settled thickly on the dinner table. the army pro- ceeded to walk upstairs literally. and oc- cupy the beds! Never will one forget the night; when armed with slippers sticks, and various inappropriate missiles, the family assisted by its dependents, mangled and squashed 5.G00,000 of these scrtnching, sickeping invaders; and then-at least it can be vouched for one member of the household-sought it's couch, arrayed in a hat veil. gloves, short boots and all its clothes through the horrid darkness. It was perhaps not as thoroughly nauseating detail-as the journey for health of this same family on a tugboat that had once run to Abyssinia for cargoes of sugar. Decks cabins, saloon, ones self. the cap tain and crew were six inches with cock reaches, which had been in ambush until we set sail, and then darkened the air like Iocusts. And for each hundred killed, seven thousand sprang. full armed, from the hold to take their places
 Yet the vegetation and the verdure at this season-no words can describe their 1eafy glories. Trees growing to reach the sky. and throwing out arms below as we'll as above and on all sides- Ivies covering the trees, grass of the richest emerald and thick as velvet shrubs and ferns in abso- lute profusion, the difficulty being to re- strain them from growing, instead of coax ing them to grow: as one does here. The beauties. of the tropics in the rains are be- yond conception. Who minds a tarantusa or two on the towel horse or spiders weigh ing an ounce? Who objects to slight daily coating of mildew, or a fungus growing out of the hat he has not worn for a week, if he can see bamboos waving their dell cate traceries like rare old lace against the
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03

sorts as we'll as excellent for stock
feeding.
Good culture and liberal fertiliza-
ton are prime essentials in securing
large crops of turnips. Well rotted
barnyard manure is very good for this
crop and should be employed freely,
spreading it broadcast and thoroughly
mixing it with the soil to the depth of
three or four inches. The only objec-
ton to farm manures is that they are
very prone to encourage the presence
of worms in the soil, which eat the
growing roots, rendering them un-
slightly in appearance and as a conse-
quencc unstable. Also these organic
manures are favorable to the growth
Of scab, which works large injury to
both tnrnips and potatoes. For these
reasons good chemical fertilizer is
often to be preferred. Phosphoric
acids seem to be the element most
needful to stimulate large crop.
One very good fertilizer for turnips
may be found by mixing together
thoroughly 100 pounds sulphate am
monia, 20Opounds tankage, 200 pounds
sulphate potash and 500 pounds dis
solved bone black. This amount in
total makes a liberal dressing for an
acre sown to turnips. This matter of
smooth, handsome roots is to be very
zealously striven for, since no other
kinds are at all salable in the markets.
Another item to be remembered is
that no two successive crops of turnips
should be sown upon the same land.
The turnip is quite exhaustive and
the ground must be changed each sea-
son.-American Agriculturist.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
How to Grow Round Turnips.

Varieties ofround turnips $50 called)
may be sown as late as August with
assurance Of good crops. In favorable
seasons seed put in even as late as
the month of September often gives
satisfactory results, but to be sure of
crop SOW by the middle of August.
Some farmers always SOW their turnips
broadcast. When seeding down land
to grass, it is good plan to mix tur-
nip seed with the grass seed, using
not over one pound of the turnip seed
per acre. In this way considerable
crop of turnip comes up among the
new grass seeding and is so much
Gear gain. Care is to be exercised
rot to use too much of the turnip seed
aad to distribute it uniformly over the
area to be laid down to grass.
But the really scientific way Of
growing turnips for crop of best and
most marketable roots is to SOW seed
in drills, say from twenty inches to
twenty-four inches apart, thinning
the plants so that they finally stand
two to three inches apart in the row.
This prevents overcrowding and
allows each individual plant plenty
OF space. The two most satisfactory
varieties are white egg and red top
white globe. These are both fine table
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Patriotic STYLES in Tattooing.

The barbaric old custom of tattoo
ing has lately taken a patriotic turn,
in keeping with the times, among the
inmates of the Jasper County Jail.
This time last year nearly every long
term prisoner came out of jail with a
heart, ring, his sweetheart's picture
or name, or some symbol of his occu-
patton neatly tattooed on his breast,
arms or hands. But now the fortunes
of war have even affected the convict,
though dead to the world, and he
evinces his patriotism by submitting
to the pricking of the needle which
works in red and blue the outlines of
shields, flags, American eagles, guns
and soldiers under the cuticle. Charles
Little, Joplin boy, awaiting trial
for burglary and grand larceny, is the
tattoo artist. He does the work with
common sewing needles and India
ink. Nearly every fellow prisoner in
his corridor has asked to have SYM
Dol of war worked in his skin, chiefly
flags, banners and eagles, and one
young convict adroitly displayed the
shift of his fancy from love to war by
having the face of his sweetheart,
which had been over his heart for five
years, worked into that of soldier
wearing a regulation cap and row of
brass buttons and shoulder straps
Carthage NO. Press.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Pumpkins as Stock Feed.

Raw pumpkins will fatten cows very
fast, if some grain meal is fed with
them. Coarse, unground grain does
not do so well, rs the pumpkin is laxa-
tive and will open the stomach so much
that the grain will go through whole.
Feeding grain meal with cut hay neu-
trallzes this effect, and the full benefit
both of the meal and oi the pumpkin
is secured But we always preferred
to use what pumpkins we egrew as feed
for hogs, once a week so long as they
lasted, filling the large kettle used OF
hog-killing time with sliced pumpkin
and keeping hot fire under it until
the pumpkins were soft. Then we put
in while still hot enough corn and oat
meal and wheat middlings to make it
into thick mush. This was fed with
what skimmilk we could spare, to-
gether with the dishwater and refuse
from the table. On such diet as this
hogs never get off their feed as they
will do on corn alone. We think that
not only are pumpkins worth more to
feed in this way than in any other,
but that they may be proftably grown
for this use. On farms where fruit is
a specially, the fallen fruit even when
unripe may be proftably put to the
same use. The cooking corrects what
injurious properties it may have had.
American Cultiyator.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Wasted Growth of Melons.

Every year when frosts cuts the ten
der leaves of melons and stops further
growth, the cultivator finds a great
number of melons unripe, and there
fore worthless. For an unripe melon,
being mostly water, and having very
little substance, isn't worth much as
feed for stock, and is not, indeed, as
good as green pumpkin Of the same
weight. Ofcourse all this extra growth
of vine and the unrlpe melons on it is
wasted plant food. If concentrated on
the melons earlier started, it would
make them larger and also make them
ripen earlier. With a small amount of
trouble both the number and value OF
ripe melons may be thus increased.
There are other ways to increase the
size of melons, pumpkins and squashes
when extra large size is desired. If
one of the joints of the vine is buried
two inches deep it will usually put
forth roots after one or two weeks. If
Joint is selected close to a melon Or
pumpkin, as the case may be, and be-
tween that and the root, new and
vigorous vine may be produced. This
may be fed by putting little nitrate
of soda or potash in water, and liber-
ally watering the root that is close to
the fruit. If then the end of the vine
is pinched and all further blossoms or
fruit are removed, all the plant food
the roots can take up will be concen-
trated in the single specimen that will
grow so fast that any one can almost
see it grow from one day to another.
In most cases where very large pump
kins or squashes are grown it will be
found that the vine has rooted near
the large specimen.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Poultry Notes.

Are your hens moulting? If so. you
ought to see that they get plenty of
mineral food.
If you have never used green bone
cut fine for your poultry it is high
time yon were doing so if you expect
to be up with the times.
For winter provide q good supply
of green food, such as cabbage, sugar
beets and mangels, grit and plenty of
dry earth for busting bath.
If you are inexperienced in the
poultry business and undertake to
breed a number of varieties, you are
almost sure to make failure.
You will find it very difficult to fat,
ten young growing chicks unless you
give very fattening foods to them.
What they eat is used in growth in
stead of fat.
Wood ashes should not be thrown
in the poultry yard. The alkali which
comes from them destroys the color of
the legs, and often makes them sore,
and also Injuries the luster of the plum
age. Statements to the contray are
misleading.
There is great difference between
mongrel and a scrub fowl, says
poultry writer. The mongrel may be
large composite fowl of pure blood
that is, may be made by cross of
pure bloods or cross of pure bloods
upon common stock. In either case
it is removed from scrub, which is a
measley, little, common fowl, with
out trace of good blood in Its com.
position.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Handling Bees.

Manipulating bees to the best ad-
vantage requires frequent handling
during the honey season. A colony
of bees may be equipped with all the
modern improvements at the outset of
the honey season, but it is but short
time until they need attention of some
kind. All the workings of comb
building must be done perfectly or we
lose the advantage of the use of ex-
pensive appliances. The let-go-as-
you-please plan, and the old method
of hives will 10 with little or no at
tention. but if it is profit we are after,
or even pleasure, we cannot afford to
keep them thus.
Many persons would like very well
to give the bees more care, but are
prevented by fear of stings. This is
very much mistaken idea with them,
and when they once get into the way
of handling bees they will wonder at
themselves for having been SO foolish.
Usually, those who have such fear of
bees always put themselves iR~~the'
most dangerous position when around
bees.
The safest place from stings about
the apiary, is right over the hive, not
some distance from it. Either at the
side or back of the hive, but not di-
rectly in front of it. Bees do not like,
to have an obstruction in their way
out and into the hive, hence we
should not place ourselves in front of
The entrance Hives in general use
open from the top, that is a lid is
placed on top, and when the bees are
to be examined we remove the lid
from the top. This exposes the cloth
covering over ssthe frames. In these
two acts. greatly depends the behavior
OF the bees. The lid must be removed
slowly and carefully so as not to jar
the hive, and the cloth covering which
is always waxed down with propolis
also carefully pealed of. This lays
the frame bare, and before lifting one
out slide the frames on each side of it
away from the one to be taken out, so
that it will come up without crowding
the other combs and pinching bees.
1t is always in order to smoke the
bees little when the covering is be-
ing removed, and at any time after
wards that they show disposition to
sting. Although bees may be handled
without smoke all through the honey
season, no beginner should be with
out a good bee-smoker, as in this sole
ly depends the mastership.-A. II.
Duff. in Farm, Field and Fireside.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03

Gen. Herbert Kitchener has sug-
gested the establishment OF an unsec-
tartan college and medical mission
in khartonI il memo:y OF General
Gordon. No more appropriate inauS-
uration OF the blessings of peace and
civilization in the newly reclaimed
Soudan could be imagined, thinks the
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The British government and public
are in mood to listen to Kitchener,
and the name OF Gordon is a talisman
to attract support to any practical OBJ
iect linked with it. The college will
be conducted under British manage
mcnt, and will be mainly for the sons
of sheikhs. Probably some of the
sons of the deryiSh enemies recently
slain will be trained i'll this college to
appreciate the beneticeut changes
wrought and to share in Their further
splea.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03

The figures of the patent o!lice for
1897, when contras ed with tae report
of that Office even or eight Years ago,
ere doubly interesting. In 1890 only
tweaty-seyen factories were engaged
in cycle making. aud less than 1000
worimen were eppl we'd. The out
put was valued at = little over -, 5O0,- =
000 In 1885 the number of bicycle
factories in this country exceeded 200,
an aggregate capital of more than
800, 00o, 900 was invested, upward of
$1,000 workmen were employed, and
at least 500, 600 wheels were turned
out. Last year the production of
machines is estimated at considerably
over 1000, coo. lin 1889, says the
report, "a large proportion Of the cy-
cles used were imported mainly from
England Iu 1897 the export of cy-
cles and parts of cycles to England
amounted in value TO 2.12S, 491, and
the total exports amounted to SIS, 902, =
<736 !"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Women in Old Egypt.

The religious Egyptian believed his
ulterior happiness and his everlasting
union with the divinities in the eter-
nal world to 5e wholly dependent upon
his preparations beforehand, and with
these the wife had much to do. She
was, in fact, as the mother of his chill
dren, his savior and liberator, for none
but son could pray for the fathers
soul on its way to paradise, and she
was entitled to and received his hon.
age and loyal obedience. In those
days the "gray mare was the better
horse" and she was treated accord.
ingly.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03

As it is impossible to believe that
the entire population of the Upper
Nile region is composed of medicant
priests. there is some difficulty in ex-
planning why it is that the foes whom
the Si"dac has Just encountered with
results 50 satisfactory to himself are
always spoken OF as "dervisaes. -
That wo"d, of course, is not a tribe
or race name; it means any Moham-
medan who has vowed himself TO life
OF poverty and crime, explains the
New York Times. Poorer material
for an army than the dervish properly
so called, could not be imagined, and
vet we hear OF thousands anl thou
sands of. them fighting with much
vigor aud determination, and making
it necessary for one of the ablest gen
erals now alive to devote two years to
advancing few hundred miles across
desert. There is something wrong
here Either these men are not "der-
vishes'' OF else travellers and dictiona-
rles have misiuformed US stay at home
people in regard to the meaning OF
that term.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
A VlRTUOSQ'

they wondered and ALL
he u his country's call.
hanblng and his small and dim,
And depredaions always traced to him.
But the its climax till one night,
When,be accordion, he yaiIy hove in sight;
md dana
himself beneath the stars to play.
the harsh and shri
that had uttered wrath STILL
n
eyeids TO the twilight shadowng.
That Lady" would hoQsey tell them all,
And Whcn Begin to
had dsmayd
In listened old accordion played
org builder, If the devise
Can thoe de
IL nauditS win
As urestvo faithful violn
gentle with soft and low
chorus those dear OF long
Aud their musician will forever be the scamp
Whofo he and brought it into camp!
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Eatteninc Stock.

The hay crop this year is large, but
so much OF it was got in after being
wet that most of the nutrition was
washed or leached out of it. Hence
there must be less dependence on hay
and more on grain the coming winter
for fattening or indeed for wintering
stock. If the weather should be dry
in corn harvest this year, the corn
stalks will in many places be worth
more as feed than the hay. But this
will not all be loss. We have always
noted that when hay was scarce and
grain had to be substituted, stock
came through in better condition than
where all the dependence is on hay as
feed. Really, Judging by its effect
grain is the cheap est as well as the
best feed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03

In Switzerland, where the railroad
system is controlled by the govern
ment, passenger rates have been re-
duced to basis that seems incredibly
low to an American. There railway
tickets are sold by time and not by
mileage. On application a nontrans-
ferabie ticket, good for fifteen days,
will be issued to person. The cost
is S1l,5S. During these fifteen days
the holder may travel as much and as
long as he likes over the entire rail-
wav system. The lake steamers are
also available, a secOndclass railway
ticket giving the right to tirst-class
passage on any one of the steamers.
One NAV travel for an entire year for
S115. These tickets are vigorously
personal, and each has the photo
graph Of its holder attached. No
baggage, however, is carried free. No
allowance is made for tickets unused.
On the Franco-Swiss frontier all vex-
atious questions, demands and delays
have been done away with for mem
bers of the French touring club.
Their bicycles are admitted free of
charge. There is no longer a charge
for permit of entrance. The wheel
is treated simply as ordinary baggage.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
The Lady Apple.

1t is probably the small size of this
variety, as we'll as its bright color and
good flavor, that make it such favorite
on the parlor table. A plateful will
give taste of apple to great many
people, each taking a specimen. II
has q small core. and is easily peeled,
though many like the aromatic flavor
of apple skin, and prefer to eat it with
out peeling. Though a small variety,
it is a very productive apple, and
always brings a good price in the mar,
ket.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03

According to advices received in
Washing ,on. tue governor of Sierra
Leone, Africa. has offered reward of
$50 for tue arrest of the persons who
murdered three American mission
aries in that province last May. The
governors extravaganza i'll this matter
is positively reckless.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
Published Every Thursday

"a tiago de Cuba is becoming 50 clean
and American-like that the Spaniards
remaining there already feel as if they
were in foreign country. If they stay
much longer they won't be able to
recognize themselves except by the
sound of their own voices.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-11-03
STRANGE STORY OF
CELESTIAL 1ELEGRAPHY.
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HERE was a little
old fashioned safe
in the depot at
Dumphy's Glen,
but Everybody knew
that it never con-
tanned anything of
special value. 1t
served we'll enough
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-08
The PopuIists at the Capitol.

Senator Jelks sends to his paper from
Montgomery these words of wisdom and
observation:
believe my people want constitutional
convention and 1 will insist that we have
one. l believe this is true of most of my
people, including the populists. And do you
know that almost every populist in the
senate favors constitutional convention?
They may not vote for one, but they tell
me they want one, and think the sooner II
is had the better They have exhausted
all the possibilities OF the present law,
They now say give us constitutional con-
vention. Eliminate the unworthy voter
give US two parties and q perfectly fatr
vote. They are right-dead right There is
nothing else for the popuiists to do. They
may not vote for It. Their campaign
against the proposition b too recent, hut
they do favor such q convention, and the
populist senators believe the more thought.
full Of their constituents feel a. they DO.
! The popuiists could render a renewal of
q consolidated vote very gratifying anu