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"Sweets for the Sweet"

He shipped of bon-bons quite peck
Did lovelorn Billy Doo-
To wee "mamSelle" in far quebec
Named Polly Francais Woo.
The export invoice certified
The box contained but candy;
About its worth of course he lied
(The Bible wasn't handy)
That was not all that Billy did
And thousand pities this is!
He scribbled on the box lid,
One million yum-yum kisses!
The agent at the frontier town
Informed him three days after
That DER his shipment Bull & Son
Were paralyzed with laughter.
The agent also emphasized
And this made Billy wonder
That after being paralyZed
They kicked like cyclone thunder.
They fail to understand at all
The sort of reciprocity
Esta bliShed twixt yourself and Poll,
By which, with such 'audahclty,
you thus attempt to smuggle through
Your countless oscillations
Without the slightest reference to
The customs laws OF nations
Unless your invoice you amend,
To fit that box lid jolly,
I'm very much afraid, my friend,
Twill never reach your Polly"
Then rose the wrath of Billy Doc,
And by Olympus swore he
The l X l. Express he'd sue
For damages-and glory
The trial lasted twenty days,
But interest never dwindled,
His lawyers told in twenty ways
How Billy had been swindled
With pathos past what pen can do,
They pictured Polly weeping;
All candyless and kissless, too,
Her lonely vigil keeping.
The Judge at last. all quibblng past,
Declared he'd like to teach EN-,
But Bull & Son the wrong had done,
And judgments wouldn't reach 'em.
Yet the jury's verdict, strange to tell,
Gave William Doc one penny,
And saddled on the / \
The costs of court-'f any!
We specs, you see, poor, Billys' broke,
The foreman said ''and by all
Precedents the moneyed folk
| Should squar' the costs o trial.''
John w. Barr. in IIxpress-Gazette.
Cincinnati, March, 1898.
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Age of American Generals.

Although General Miles is a younger
man than most of the general Office rs
in the service at this time, he is much
older than any of the men who COM
manded in the civil war. He is 5S.
while Shafter is 62, Merritt 81, Brooke
CO. Wheeler 62, Lee 81, Otis go, Haw-
kins Go. In fact, there is not even a
under 80 years of age At the out
break of the civil war, on the other
hand, not one of the men who were
to gain distinction in it was 80 Grant
in 1861 was only 80, Sherman was A.
Sheridan 30, Schofield 50, Hancock 81,
Custer % Meade 46, Hooker II,
Thomas 49, Kearny 46. Fitzpatrick %,
Pleasonton 81, Rosecrans 42, Palmer
a. Logan 81, Howard 81, Buell. 43, Slo-
cum 3d. Burnside 81, Banks As, Butler
43, and General Miles himself was only
D.
| On the Confederate SIDE Lee and JOS
| eph E. and Albert Sidney Johnston had
passed 30, the former b=ing 81 and the
| latter 81 and 5S. respectively. but Long
street was 40. Beauregard 43, Hampton
| 43 Bragg 46, Forrest 40, Stonewall
| jackson 81, A p. Hill 36, j. E. 3.
Stuart %. Hood 80 and Joseph Wheeler
! was %. Among the Generals of the
] Union even he who came to be known
as "old" Halleck was only 46 when the
war broke out.-Boston Globe.
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of letters General Merritt testified to
his confidence in General Green as
soldier and leader by asking for ms
appointment on the expedition to the
Philippines, together with that other
literary Brigadier General, Charles
King. General Green is man of strong
characteristics and of rare discernment
He has done much for literature, and
will do much for the arms he represents
whether it be in the activities OF bat
tie or in the councils of patient ana
capable officers. His years sit lightly
on his shoulders
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GEN. FRANCIS v. GREEN.
At Present in Command of a Bri-
gade in the Philippines.

Among the Brigadier Generals ap-
pointed from civil life Francis Vinton
Green is we'll qualified for the duties of
the position. He is graduate of West
Point, and served nearly a dozen years
in the army. He is we'll known as a
literary man and has established a
warm place in the hearts OF the world
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shape, forming ample fullness on the
lower portion, with deeply pointed or
spiral revers extending to the extreme
edge of the front, and forming a broad
sailor collar at the back. The simpler
ones are of fine cloth, with a silk or
velvet collar, while more elaborate
models in repped or armure silk are
braided or embroidered and finished
with lace or chiffon trimmings.
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Safe Presumption.

When a woman" replied the philoso-
pher, says that she really believes she
is getting stout. and her husband re-
torts that it is because she eats too
much and doesn't do enough work, II
is safe to presume that the honeymoon
has ceased to be'-Tit-B Bits
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The record-union., 1898-08-21

Ladies fine kid shoes for S1.25, worth
So 30, at the Bee Hive, 41S X street.
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The largest piano house in Northern
California carrying the most complete
and extensive stock, is the Wiley B. AL
len Co, 415 K. Jobbers and retailers :
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no CURE-NO PAY.

That "a the way all druggists sell GROVES
TASTELE ESS CHILL TONIC for Malaria, Chills
and Fever It is simply Iron and Quinine In q
tasteless form. Children love it, Adults prefer 1t
10 bitter nauseatnz Tonics. Price. Soc
The record-union., 1898-08-21

Save money by buying your tea and
coffee Of ]. McMorry, 5S1 NJ.
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You needn't pack up any worries.
You can get them anywhere you go
along A. d. T. Whitney.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Fall Planting of Fruit Trees.

The majority OF fruit trees can be
set out in the fall with good results.
After the summers work is done the
soil intended for the orchard should
be put in the best possible condition
for trees by careful and thorough
plowing, narrowing, fertilizing and, if
necessary, draining. Every hour
spent in preparation OF the soil before
the trees are set will count so much
more toward future success of the
orchard. In the selection of varieties
the planter should be largely guided
by successes of other planters on
similar soils in the same climate, as
we'll as on the demands of the market
chat he intends to supply. AS a rule,
it is not safe to set largely Of new
varieties unless they have been tested
under conditions similar to those sur
rounding you and fonnd valuable.
As an illustration of the loss that
may follow from setting largely ofnew
sorts Of any kind OF fruit without a
test, there have been tested at Edge
wood, n. J., during the past five
years, under field culture, ever sixty
new varieties Of strawberries, all OF
them highly lauded and of that num-
Der but O half dozen were found OF
value for general planting in that To-
cality. 1t is but fair to say, however,
that on other soils many that were al
most worthless at Edgewood have
been found decided acquisitions. De-
pend upon the best of the varieties
that have been found OF value and you
will find the orchard q profitable por,
ton of the farm when it has reason
ably good care.-Atlanta Journal.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Caught in an Arctic Crevasse.

On more than one occasion We
nearly lost our pony down crevasses,
when toiling over the high glacier
land, writes Frederick G. Jackson,
The Arctic explorer, in Harper's
Magazine:
One day last spring I was leading
as usual with her, and Mr.. ArmitaGe
was following in my tracks with the
dog team. On the even surface OF
the snow there is nothing whatever
to indicate the yawning dark chasms,
hundreds of feet in depth, which lie
concealed around us by light bridges
of snow, only few inches in thick
ness. The snow-covered surface OF
the glacier looks as firm and stable
as Picadilly, not even a slight de-
preston in the snow marks the hid
eous pitfall below, and the inexper-
fenced traveller would probably tramp
on with feeling of perfect security.
We, however, had been on glaciers
many times before. Suddenly, with
out moments warning, Brownie"
dropped down through the snow crust
with all four legs, and hung suspend
ed by light bridge of snow over a
gaping abyss, the black depths OF
which the eye could not fathom.
Fortunately she was too much fright
ened and too much exhausted to move
muscle, otherwise she would have
disappeared at once, taking her
sledges with her. Ny companion,
seeing what had happened, at once
came to my help, but unwisely stepped
off his ski-which are G great protec-
ton in such cases - and at once
dropped through into the crevasse up
to his arms. / must confess that the
next few seconds were anxious ones
as [ endeavored TO hold up the pony
with one hand. and to render assis-
tance to Mr.. Armitage with the other.
However, he fortunately managed to
scramble out into safety, and by pass
ing line round the pony's neck we
succeeded in extricating her from her
periIous position.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Race For Lille With n Shark.

4 man-eating shark charged party
OF bathers in Princes Bay recently,
relates the New York World, and
seized one of them by the thigh He
is Charles Z. Broom, student at
Mount Loretto, Pleasant Plains. He
escaped death by miracle. and now
lies in the Smith Tnfirmary, seriously
wounded.
For q week a school OF sharks had
been seen i'll the bay. Fishermen'S
nets have been ravaged frequently by
the monsters.
This afternoon Princes Bay was
filed with bathers. In the midst of
the pleasure-seekers' gayety there
was q sudden cry of alarm. Some
one on the beach had seen tri-
angular lin cleaving the water and
gradually drawing in toward the
sands. The bathers, startled by the
alarm, looked about, saw the ominous
signal of danger and fled to the shore.
Far from the beach Broom was
floating when the cry reached him.
His head came up and he cast star-
tied look behind him. Then furiously
he began to beat his way ashore.
The shark turned and Broom swan
as he had never swan before. The
shark gained rapidly. 1t flashed
through the water with incredible
swiftness, and then circled around the
swimmer
"Help" shrieked Broom. "Save
me."
The shark turned again. The
knife-like fin disappeared.
cts gone!" yelled the crowd.
"Swim Swim for your life!"
But the shark had not gone. 1t had
turned on its side for the last dash
upon its prey. Broom struggled fierce
". The shore was almost within
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Care of Milk in Autumn.

have seen a great deal of good
milk spoiled in the fall, because the
dairy rooms in which it was kept over
night were closed as soon as the milk
was set away at evening. Shutting
off ventilation now, while it will not
spoil the milk as quickly as in hot
weather, results in the impairment Of
it's quality. Milk designed for the
cheese factory or creamery is better
left outside in the free cool air, than
in any building where the circulation
is shut off or is imperfect. A great
deal of second grade butter and cheese
of autumn manufacture is due to the
tendency of dairymen to leave their
milk cans in the barn at night as soon
as frosty weather appears.
Milk kept on the farm for twelve
hours before deliTery should be aerat
ed as thoroughly now as in July. 1t
is not high temperature that always
plays havoc with it, but the retained
heat when it stands in bulk. This
danger can be obviated by making
the summer care OF milk criterion
for the whole year.
On the cheese factory patron who
delivers milk once n day, an impor-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Did 1t Like an American.

When the attack was Eiade on
Sidon, in the war with Syria, it be-
came necessary for the British troops
to advance across a long, unprotected
bridge in the face of battery OF six
guns, which completely commanded
the approach. The men were unwill-
ing to expose themselves to certain
death, when Arthur Cumming, care
fully dressed in full uniform, stepped
forward to the middle of the bridge.
1t was Immediately swept by the fire
of the battery. When the smoke had
rolled away there stood Cumming in
tact, carefully brushing the dust from
his boots, after which he stood erect,
fixed a single glass in his eye, and
looked back to the men. This was too
much, and they captured that bridge
and battery with a whoop.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Rode Unhurt Into an Engine.

Mrs. L. E. Blount, of Wilmette,
ILL.,, narrowly escaped death while
crossing the Northwestern tracks on
her bicycle in front of mail train.
She was riding parallel with the tracks
on Ridge avenue on her way south, and
had turned to cross the tracks, when
she noticed the train only few rods
from the crossing running at full
speed. In her excitement Mrs.
Blount turned her wheel down the
track toward the engine. The pilot
caught the front wheel of the bicycle,
rolling it up to the number plate on
the boiler, and then threw the wheel
aud rider aside. Mrs. Blount escaped
with few scratches, and the bicycle
was unbroken. She rode it home.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
C,eapipc Carved Furniture.

Clean carved furniture every week
by thoroughly busting it with new
paint brush. If the mahogany table
shows stains, drop on them mixture
of six parts of spirits of salt, and one
of salts of lemon OF few drops OF Ok
alic acid and water, rubbing until the
stain disappears, and then wash with
water and polish as usual. If ma
hogany only needs cleaning, rub 1t
with flannel dipped in sweet oil or
cold drawn linseed OIL in rubbing
wood follow the grain, and do not rub
against it any more than you would
against people if wishing a happy
result.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Farm and Garden Notes,

If your stock does not have access
to running water see to it that their
tank is kept full.
The milk cow and the growing heifer
must be supplied with ration that is
suitable to the needs of each.
Never give the COWS reason to let up
on their milk-giving for a single day,
and then they will always be at their
best.
Corn contains nearly sixty-three per
cent. of starch and oats about forty
five per cent. Having more than pro-
tein than corn and less starch, oats are
therefore more suitable for horses.
Scab in the heads Of wheat cannot
be controlled when it once appears in
the field. The only way to avoid it
seems to be by sowing early varieties,
the work being done as early as posi-.
BILE and followed by thorough cultiytlS
ton. -
''Make hay while the sun shines and
plow while It's COOL" is an old saying
that should be observed. If the cul-
tiyator is kept going while the dew is
on the grass in the mornings and no
grass cut until it is dry, it is much
easier to cure it evenly and make .
good quality of hay.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Low Grade Fertilizers.

In buying fertilizers it is always
good policy to get the bes5 that can
be had rather than to pay lower
price for what is so deficient that it
can be sold at that price with profit.
The cheaper fertilizer. as it is called,
consists very largely OF material that
has no value whatever, and of course
all the labor required to apply it is
wasted, and so also is that needed to
transport the worthless material from
the fertilizer factory to the farm. Ii
the mineral fertilizer is too concen-
trated to be applied economically,
what inert material it required to
make greater bulk can be better APP
piled on the farm than anywhere else.
But to say that the highest priced
fertilizer is always best for every crop
would be great mistake. The dear
est of all kinds of fertilizers, available
nitrogen, is not adopted to some
crops, even in small amounts, and if
used might do injury rather than
good. Of the minerals, phosphate
is next dearest, and potash closely
following it. If the crop needs either
or both of these, economy is to be
found in getting each in'ss0concenS1
trated form as possible. The low
grade, cheap phosphate, that mas
little of each ingredient in it, is
usually delusion. 1t is sure'to run
mostly to the least expensive ma
terials, whether these are the ones
needed or not, and to have too little OF
the more expensive ingredients to do
any good whatever.
When fertilizers are to be mixed
for the purpose OF making them go
farther, 1t is important that what is
used as q divisor shall not be some
thing that will neutralize the mineral
or ut least make it i0soluble. This
most often done in mixing superphos-
phate with land plaster, which is sui
phate of lime. The result of this is
that the excess of lime converts still
more of the lime into sulphate, and
greatly lessons the effect of the phos-
phate. If the season after be dry, so
as to have little fermentation in the
soil, the phosphate will revert to an
entirely insoluble condition. No
more lime in any form should be ap-
piled to land where superphosphate
has been used. It's only effect is to
undo what the sulphuric acid has
done to make the phosphate avail
able.
If nitrogenous manure is needed
with potash or phosphate, it can be
best used in the form of poultry ez.
crement that has been thoroughly fer
mented and sifted. Only small,
proportion Of the hen manure should
be mixed with the fertilizer, as it will
make it too light to go well through
the dill tubes. But it will make
whatever it is applied to grow rapid
ly, and it will also greatly increase
the effectiveness of any mineral fertil-
izer that is applied with it.-Ameri-
can Agricul turiSt.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13

The band on a British warship
played 'FIhe Star-Spangled Banner"
when General Merritt's men marched
against the Manila trenches. II
sounds like an echo from the Trenton's S
decks when she was tossing in the
breakers of Apia in the terrific hurri-
cane. It will be remembered that
when the British cruiser Calliope, the
only ship in the harbor that had engine
power sufficient to escape, was forging
slowly through the surge to the open
sea, the Trenton's crew, who expected
to 60 down every minute. gave the
Calliope three cheers of congratula-
ton. This was nine years ago. And
now British ship salutes an Ameri'
can force going into action with
similar heartiness and spontaneity.
These outbreaks of fellow-feeling be-
tween the two navies whenever they
meet in time of stress indicates a
warmth OF sympathy that does honor
to both. 1t shows how the Anglo
Saxon everywhere appreciates courage
and daring.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
To Heautify Your Window.

No one has any idea how artistic a
window can be made until she has
tried the following plan. Curtain the
window with rather a coarse mesh Of
net-the fish net is just the thing.
Then invest in an asparagus fern and
allow it to travel upward on this cur
tain, weaving itself in and out and all
over at its own sweet will. 1t will
cross over to the over curtain, reach u
tendril over to a picture cord or wire,
climb over the picture hook, down on
the other side, or along the moldinS,
or both.
In fact, there is nothing so beauti'
full as a white lace curtain of which
such feathery mass Of green is the
most important part. OF course,
either the curtain must remain up un-
til it falls to pieces or the fern must
be sacrificed. Use curtain which
need not be of such value as to make
it necessary to destroy the fern.
The festoons of this beautiful vine
cannot be eQualed by any other style
of decoration, and being natural and
growing rapidly adds greatly to its
charm. New York Herald.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
Ingenious Woman.

No one is more prolific of clever
ideas in aiding the escape Of prisoners
than an ingenious woman. The story
is told of some criminals who were
handcuhied and with their escorts stood
waiting for the train to convey them
to jail. Suddenly a woman rushed
through the crowd and looking through
heavy tears, cried out: "Kiss me good
bye, Nedw The escort good-naturedly
allowed the process of osculation" 30
be performed, and the sheriff smile |
feelingly. The train had not gone far
when the favored prisoner unlocked
his bracelets and escaped. The woman
had passeda small key from her mouth
to his during the fond farewell.-De-
troit Free Press.
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tant responsibility rests. The reputa-
ton of the factory is largely in his
hands, and also the amount of his own
dairy returns. He is only earning
money for his own pocket by taking
the most scrupulous care of his milk.
First. being aerated, if it stands in the
delivery can over night, the cream
should be separated from the edges
of the vessel III. the morning and gent
Iy reincorporated with the milk.
Mornings milk should not be mixed
with the night, but should be carried
to the factory in a separate can.
Whey, whether sour or sweet, should
not be carried from the factory to the
farm in cans that have just conveyed
the milk.
Dairymen who patronize creamer-
, les should observe just as much eau
ton in not using their milk cans for
swill barrels. II the skinned milk
was always stored in clean recepta-
Gle at the creamery the case would be
different, but like the whey vat at the
cheese factory it is more often filthy.
The only safe and proper way is to
keep milk cans, and milk utensils
generally, for nothing but milk. l
enioin thus earnestly about the fall
care of milk, because, through lack
OF vigilance, due to the advent of cool
weather, I have as a manufacturer en-
countered o vast amount of unneces-
sary poor milk in autumn. George E.
Newell, in New England Homestead.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13

Discussing the quietly growing but
highly important change in agricUl-
tural communities near cities, as the
result of the invasion of the trolley,
the American Agriculturist says that
q farming lands thus favored have ad-
= yanced from FIVE to twenty-five per
; cent in value. Thus far this is due,
{ the paper says, not so much to the
relative nearness of market as to the
- increased demand from city residents
who wish to enjoy country life. This
=, is expected to mean much ultimately
~ to agriculture. The city people
~ gradually stay longer at their country
summer homes, and when there are
y. good schools in the vicinity the sum-
>r mer soiourners often become per-
manent residents. All this enables
the country town to afford the better
nents which make life worth the liv-
ing, and this Improvement, socially
and financially, may, IN certain re-
stricted regions, restore to farming
some OF It's lost favor.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-10-13
EuckwIeat in Orchards.

Perhaps as good a crop as any TO
grow in the orchard is buckwheat.
It's seed is so cheap, and the mulch
its growth makes it so effective, that
it more than Offsets the poverty of
bucfwheas in fertilizing material.
Where buckwhcat is sown in orchards,
the land will be made extremely light
and moist, especially if the last crop
of bucl,whcat in the season is plowed
under. The only drawback to this is
that growing buckwheat leaves the
soil bare, and III p severe winter frost
may penetrate deeply enough to in
iure the roots of fruit trees. The
peach tree is especially apt to be in
iured by winter freezing OF the soil
near The tree.