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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
EEL lam ON THE DELAWARE.
Lively WriEElers Out of
the Water.

Feels caused a jam in the raceway
to the feeder of the Delaware and Rari-
tan canal at Scudder's Falls one day
lately. Chased by school of Della
ware creek pike, apparently the entire
June hatch of cells at the falls ran up
the swift overflow to escape death in
the~sharp jaws of the pike, and clogged
the six-foot stream until it OVERLOOKED
into the yard of Edward Harding, adj
joining the so-called raceway.
Thousands of cells were killed in the
jam. thousands were left high and dry
in Harding's yard when the pike re-
treated, and hundreds of pike were
picked up on land after having jumped
from the stream in their frantic eff
forts to cross the leaders of their school
and feed on the young cells.
The sight of millions of cells damned
in one huge, wriggling mass, struggling
to escape death from their regular July
prosecutors, the pike, while many were
being crushed to death by their fellows
because unable to advance, coupled
with the sight of thousands of shiny,
jumping, frantic, hungry pike, all
packed so tight in a swift, shallow cur
rent as to turn the waters over two
foot embankment, was one calculated
to excite the most phlegmatic follower
of the rod and reel. Harding says the
fight for life lasted half an hour.
Although almost too much overcome
by the sight to realize his opportunity
Harding gathered enough pike to pic
lle for his winters supply, besides
seven bushels to sell, and has enough
young cells in his yard to fertilize his
garden. Had he retained his presence
of mind, Harding says, he could have
caught enough pike with scoop shovel
in half hour to supply the popula-
ton of the city of Trenton.
"But I was excited, and only got a
bar'l," said Harding, sorrowfully. AN
I wouldn't ha' got them, I don't guess,
eff they hadn't ha' jumped in my yard
in their efforts to git at tn cells. Ono
what I'll do with tn cells. They're
June's, an too small fer anythin' 'cept
fertilizer, tho they're pretty good stuff
fer that" he added.
Mr.. Harding has lived beside the
raceway for a number of years, anu is
accustomed to seeing the myriads of
cells in the ra'ceway, but he had never
witnessed an attack upon them by the
pike until the other day.
"Old Jim Allerton, who tended the
bridge for a number of years." said
Harding, "once told me about fight
between the cells an the black bass
that was somethin' terrific, but you
know old Jim told some stories what
warn't like some folks would think cor
rect stories. But l thinks he war right
Jim said the bass swope down at the
outlet and sort O. formed themselves
into circuit round about the cells
afore they could get in the raceway
to protec' themsels, an the slaughter,
US Jim tells tn story, was somethin'
orful. But some folks swoped down
on the bass and driv them off afore
they could finish the feast IN. Y. Sun.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
Puxz;inr to n Stranger

Tourist in Ireland-Well, Pat, this is
a grand-looking clock; but shoot me if
1 can tell the right time by it!
Pat-Well, your honor, it's like this,
when the big hand points to sin and
the little hand to seven and it strikes
five times, then you know it's half-past
six o'clock!-Answers.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
Family Pride.

The Husband-But we can't afford to keep
a carriage.
The Wife, know we can't, but want to
show that stuck-up Mrs. Brown that we can
have things we can't afford just as we'll as
they can-N. Y. Journal
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28

Some men who claim to be the archi-
tects of their own fortunes would be
worth twice as much to-day had they
employed another architect at fai,
salary.-Chicago Daily News.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
Feminine Exh0rtaf

A Boston paper says that about 300 women
have been licensed to preach. The rest have
not taken the trouble to get icense.-St.
Louis Republic.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
What He Ha d.

=, Guest-What have you got?
Waiter-l've got liver, calf's brains, pigs
feet.
II don't want description of your phys.
zeal peculiarities. What you have got to eat
Is what | want to know."-Boston Traveller,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
Sort of "ShOrt Deck,

The boss dynamiters of Japan are PAX
HI Yank, PAX Chung Yung and PAX Yung
Hyo, and they are very bad pack.-Balti-
more Herald.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28

Huntley-"Funny thing, that elopement
Of Miss Longwaite and Young Shipper" Au-
"Elopement? That was an abduc.
Observation-Disclosures North American.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
COSTUME FOR NURSES.
Cool and Comfortable Model Which II
Being Adopted by Hospitals
and SanitaFlums.

Trained nurses will hail with delight
the comfortable new costume which is
here illustrated. It is close-fitting
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28
Con,t Sncceed.

Some men are so deficient in the elements
of success that they would never set the
wor on fire even if the world were insured
in their favor.-Detroit Journal.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-09-28

Tommy-"Who was that lady you spoke
to-" Willie-"That's the lady that lets my
ma so out any afternoon but Thursdays and
Sundays" boston Transcript.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

synopsis would occupy "a column Of
your paper. A list Of the experiments
under way will be given in the annual
report to the Governor of the State
next year, and bulletins will be pub
lished from time to time setting forth
results.
The South Carolina Experiment Sta
ton is working earnestly, m%ethodically
and intelligently to improve the agri-
cultural interests of the State. The
visiting inspector from Washington
last year III a published interview said
that he saw many evidences of con
tinued growth and Improvement. No
reasonable man expects the station to
work an industrial revolution in q dec
AIDE. Our station measures up in most
respects to the stations in other States.
When we reflect that the Federal
Government has 557 learned expert.
ment station workers attacking with
vigor and in a systematic and thorough
way, the many problems of agriculture
and when we reflect that $3.50 900 i,
expended annually on this work, VIZ
must believe that within a compare
lively short time good results of prac
tical utility will be obtained from thit
gigantic scheme of experimentation
that will attract the favorable attention
of farmers.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

the clover seed fell into the ground
and took root, and so he had corn and
wheat and clover following Ia rotation
and made a fine r OF each.
But in this region our farmers have
learned the value of peas as q fertilizer
and stock food, and the harvest of hay
this year will no doubt double all pre-
vious records. One of my friends has
a small farm near town and last year
harvested q fair crop OF wheas from q
twenty-acre field. After the wheat
was off he sowed ten acres Of the
ground In COW peas. Last fall he sowed
1t all down In wheat and this spring
| you could tell just where the line Of
peas came to. There was no difference
in the quality OF the land. 1t was all
level and all alike and yet no harvest
ed this year ten bushels per acre on
one half and eighteen on the other.
Now, what caused this great diff.
ference? 1t was the shade OF the pea
vines, the shade that produces nitro
gen, and nitrogen is the best OF all
plant food. The denser the shade the
more nitrogen goes down into the soil,
A ~canebrake, a briar patch, a clover
covering, an old house in a field-re-
move it and plant the ground that was
under 1T and see how ~luxuriant vegeta.
" Sio"o. L lhhb q RIopO Nlu0 uCdT
your house and the roots will all run
under the house to feed-to feed or
nitrogen. My wife has q wisteria vine
at the end Of the veranda, and in three
years time its roots had travelled un
derDeath the loor and sent up sprout,
twenty feet away, and for a time We
did not know where they came from
A good farmer will shade everything
he can. He will cover the thin anC
gaided spots In his field with whea
straw. There Is no virtue In whea
straw, but it makes shade, and tina
makes nitrogen. There Ia no virtue II
a stone or in rocks, but they maxi
shade, and notice how plants will grow
; near to rocks or a rock wall. NV lon,
lamented friend, Dr.. Berckman, TOLD
me tina "rocks were Gods blessing t,
the land" and he purchased ten acre
, OF very stony lane for his vineyard ant
: his flower garden.
1 1t reJoices me to seen how our mid
} die Georgia farmers are looming up o.
i, wheat culture. Forty bushels to tn,
= acre. Ten years ago it would hav
l been declared impossible. This re
minds me OF my old English neighbor
John Allan, who asserted that hi
father was never content in old Hene
land with less than sixty bushels G
, "hSoV u 1he acre, anu sometimes n
made seventy. Sow wheat in dus
and rye in mortar" was his motto
Good old John Allan. | shot his co,
in my c%ornield, for it was her thir
o%ifenss, and the old man was grievet
r He never got mad, but only said Z"
! know me coow worried we, but-but-
major, wouldent have shot your coow
| love You too we'll for that"
How true it is tt t "kind word
take away wrath" BILL ARP.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

PUzzLNGsLETTERs.-A traveller on
the st. Paul railroad was much puz-
zled by the little signposts along the
track having the single letter "R" or
wv" He asked the porter, who re-
piled, Why, sir, denis whistle and
ring posts for de engineer" The trav.
eler pondered and became only the
more perplexed. la despair he re-
peated his question to the conductor.
Those signs are for the informa-
tion OF the engineer" replied the con-
ouclor. He Is TO whistle or ring at
certain points as indicated by these
initial letters"
Yes" said the traveller, 80 | un.
derstood the porGer; but | thought he
must be mistaken. l knew w" stand,
for wiring but how in the thunder dt
you spell whistle with an "R ?"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

velopment 10 necessarily slow. Its
foundation rests upon an accurate rec
ord of facts. From the immense accu-
mutation OF facts made by station
workers during the past decade we
may reasonably expect the discovery
of principles of incalculable value in
the near future. The time element
should not be forgotten. There are
single experiments that cannot be
completed in the short space of twelve
years. AT Rothamsted, England, one
wheat experiment has been running
fifty years. This statement is not
made by way of apology for the past
work of the experiment stations, for
they nave already discovered many
new things of great economic value,
and the work is but IN its infancy.
a short sketch of the South Caro-
lima station at Clemson College may
not be inappropriate. This station
began its life at Columbia under the
direction of the University of South
Carolina in 1887. Sub-stations were
established in Darlington and Spartan
burg counties. In 1890 the station
was transferred to Clemson College.
Every change in a station staff breaks
into the continuity Of tho experiments.
In this respect the South Carolina sta.
ton has been peculiarly unfortunate.
On account of death and designations
five changes were made in the admin,
lstration of the station in the short
space of nine years. This has some
what retarded the progress of the STA
, ton. Within recent years the worl
has been moving forward smoothly
and prosperously. The Staff at pres
I ent is as follows F.:
Henry S. Iiartzog, director j. S
Newman, vice director and agrlcultur
: list !; Nj. b. Hardin, chief chemist +
S. Shiver, assistant chemist II. N
Bracket, assistant chemist G.. L
!: Ne5om, veterinarian /; G.. c.. Melon
nell, assistant chemist {; p. II. Rolls
botanlst and bacteriologlst {; c.. M
Conner, animal husbandry; f. Walker
s Eutomologist G.. G. Newman, assis
tant horticultural !; b. f. Robertson
assistant chemist.
AS the duties of the dlrectoi are c
l. a financial nature the immedia N
y agement of the experiment work
entrusted to the vice director. Sout
n Carolina is fortunate in having for thi
a important position a man of such rio
and varied experience as Col. Newman
Is Since the establishment of the st;
ton the following bulletins have bee
n published
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH Your
Nearly every one you know or meet
has some eccentricity you could point
out, no doubt. They entertain certain
views or have a peculiar way of doing
things that the generality of mankind
think nonsensical, and perhaps absurd.
We often think of the remark of the
old Quaker to his wife who said to her
Everybody is a little quecr, Mary,
but thee and me, and sometimes !
think thee a little queer also" We
see a great many people who are con-
sidcred queer because they get into
some sort of a groove in farming and
nothing a induce them to try to pull
out and adopt up-to-date methods. In
passing around through the country
we still see an occasional farmer who
wastes his time trying to save fodder
by topping his corn, or in c%ultivating a
crop still thinks it absolutely necessary
that the bar pillow should first be used,
throwing the dirt away from the corn,
and after ward c%lltiyating up to it. Not
a few do their planting and seeding
Sin the moon," and no amount of ar
gument would ever convince them that
good crops could be grown if started
when the "sign" wasn't right. One
of your neighbors doesn't get along as
well as he ought because he works
without any sort of plan or system.
Another fails for the reason that he is
always behind with his work. While
others spend too much time at cross
road stores or dabble IN politics in
which there is no pay. If all the fell
lows round about you have their short
comings, have you ever stopped to
consider that you too may be a "littLc
queer2" It's a good thing TO know
just where II weak places are and
then use some effort to strengthen
them as we go along.-Farmers'
Guide.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
BIRTHSTONE CURES DIPHTIERIA

birthstone CURES DIPHTuERIA. -
a few years ago, when diptheria was
raging in England, a gentleman accom-
panied the celebrated Doctor Field on
his rounds to witness the sc. called
"wonderful cures" which he perform
ed, while the patients of others were
dropping Oh all stiles. All he took with
HIM was powder of sulphur and a quill,
and with these he cured every case
without exception that is, he put a
teaspoonful into a wine-glass of water,
and stirred 1t with his finger instead of
a spoon, as sulphur does not readily
amalgamate with water, and On the
sulphur becoming well mixed he gave
it as a garglc, and in ten minutes the
patient was out of danger, as brim-
stone kills every species of fungus IN
man, beast and plant in a few minutes.
Instead of splitting out the gargle, and,
in extreme cases, in which he had been
called inst in the nick Of time, when
the fungus was too nearly closing to
allow the gargling, he blow the sui
phur through a quill into tho throat,
and after the fungus had shrunk to al
low it, then the gargling. He never
lost a patient from diphtheria. Or if
the patient cannot gargle, take a live
coal, put it on a shovel and sprinkle a
spoonful or two of the birthstone at q
time upon it, let the sufferer inhale it,
holding the head over it, and the fun
gus will die.-London Lancet.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
plumbers markcd with stars are exhausted

The law requires us to issue -four
bulletins annually. At present VIC
have eve thousand and five hundred
names on the mailing list. These bull.
letins are sent free to all who ask for
them.
In addition to the issuing of the
regular bulletins hundreds of letters of
inquiry are written every year to the
various members of the staff asking
for advice upon special lines, These
letters receive prompt and courteous
attention, though at times the clerical
work becomes 80 heavy that it Is almost
burdensome.
The various departments of the
furnish, free of charge, advice and IN
formation on any topic pertaining to
general agriculture, horticulture, bot
any, entomology, veterinary science,
dairying, stock breeding, feeding, etc. ;
also analyses of fertilizers, marls,
clays, waters, and other substances,
assays of ores, determinations of rocks
and minerals, tests of bricks, cements,
building stones, Illuminating oils, cali
bration of electrical Instruments, etc.
The departments can not undertake
to analyze soils, stomachs or other
parts of poisoned animals, nor to make
archaeological examinations.
All inquiries and requests should be
addressed to the President, giving ex-
plicit account of conditions, Difficult
ties, ETC., as far as possible, and the
matter will be referred promptly to
the proper department for further COR
respondence. Before sending sam
plos of any kind for examination or
analysis, it is best to write for instruc-
lions, and thus avoid trouble and
delay.
1t will require many years to COM
pletely equip our station. The build
ings consist of q wooden structure,
a library with 1900 vol
umes, an office and q working room ;
a two story barn for storing products ;
veterinary hospital o greenhouse
and thirty acres of land for horticul-
tural experiments +; good working lab
o~ratories for the botanist and the ento-
nologist a well equipped chemical de-
Dartment, and forty acres of land, en-
five of river bottom and thirty
I've Of upland for agriculture proper.
Lack of space prevents us from
irving even an outline of the many
nteresting experiments now In prog
ess iR the various divisions. A mere
IN
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

SEED CORN Sci ECTION.-Many
farmers owning both bottom and upland
corntields make the mistake of using
the same seed ON both kinds of soils.
Corn which is adapted to the soil and
moisture conditions of the valleys will
not do 81 well on the upland as will
some variety that has, by several years
of cultivation and selection, become
adapted to the conditions there. 1t is
for the same reason that thelargc Color
ado potatoes that have been grown for
years under irrigation will do so poorly
when used for seed in Kansas without
the accustomed supply of water. II is
generally the case on the farm that the
corn from all the fields, both upland
and bottom, is cribbed together. When
the time for selection comes the largest
ears are picked out irrespective of the
kind of soil that grew them. AS the
bottom land produces the large ears il
is more than likely that the bulk Of the
seed will be from the lower and moistel
portions of the fatYn. This is the proper
seed for the lowland, but it is not 50
well adapted to the dryer and poorer
upland as is seed that has been raised
there. 1t is advisable to select the seet
either before or al husking time, wher
not only the quality of the ground blu
the character of the individual stall
and ear can be taken into consideration
AS has been suggested before, a small
box attached to the side of the Wagon
bed into which the desirable ears cal
be thrown is the most practical dcvic,
that a be recommended. BY a littl,
judicious selection for a series of year
a strain can be established on the up
land portion of any farm which will b
well adapted to that or any other soil
similar to location and composition. Al
eight inch ear from the upland will or
dinarily prove better for planting Of
the upland than a twelvc-inch ear fror
a draw in the lower portions of the farm
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

What becomes of all the pennies ?
a superficial answer might be that we
spend them, as in truth we do; but did
you ever stop to consider the enormous
quantities of the little copper coins
turned out by the Philadelphia Mint
every year9 The figures are really
appalling in their magnitude. There
are at present about 1000, 200, 900
cents IN circulation, and yet the Mint
Is compelled to turn out nearly 4,OO0,~
600 q month to keep up the supply. 1t
seems as though this most common
coin must in some mysterious fashion
vanish in thin air, for surely nobody
boards them.
Secretary Holloway informs us that
tho prospect for o fine exhibit and large
a;tendnuce is very fiattering.
S..-S ~ 40 ia. Il
gs.ls.ho Tho Kind yss Have s!ssys Bought
e. q NHMlz&
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

AT least once a year it is in order
to ask what becomes OF the pins. The
annual returns show that 28O, Oo0, 900
were made in England last year.
Where are they? IL is estimated that
Great Britain wastes ST. DOC 600 annu-
ally by losing pins instead Of sticking
them neatly in q cushion, or man-fash-
ion in q coat lapel. The Baltimore an.
swer to the old conundrum should agair
be cited. They fall to the earth and
become terra pins.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

The widow OF former Governor A.
klnson, OF Georgia, has Great d some
thing OF a sensation In business and
social circles by going into The field a,
general State agent for fire aud life in,
a companies. She says her pur.
pose 10 to make a living and educate
ner hVe children. She ls already do.
ing well and has received letters of
women
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

a a. m. p p. m. n noon. IN" night
Trains leave Kingyille, daily except Sunday,
Ing Ea'VeS Camden nUitS for m M shn iiH p daily Ihi N exeept
-neoti9n at Kingyiiie with trains botWesn %.
Trains leave spartanburg Vial j. {. divis,
lon daily for Glendale, Johesville, Union and
Columbia and intermediate points ia a. m.
Trainsieavs ToGooa, Ga, for Elberten, Go,
tion at Tooooa with trains between Atlanta.
Chesapeake Limo Steamers In daily servce
between Norfolk and BALTIMORE.
Nos; 81 end ssnDetly: Washington and South.
sleeping cars between Now York AID Now Or
leans, via Washington Atlanta aud Montgom
s25s@assh,RP{g122RG;AAailEsP'' H eRa hh1l1a'aq BsshsR W.
FIrstolass thoroughfaro coaches between Wash.
ington and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals
on rorte. Pullman drawing.room sleeping cars
1 oesG I at t NorfolG for e BID S PofaT o o!GfS isf.
Also at Atlanta with Pullman D.. r. sleeper for
Chattanooga and Cincinnati.
Nos. 85 and 8o-United States Fast Mail
runs solid between Washington and New Or
SoaoSos being tshro o0%P0's alt Of asAss oSsns car r fo1
passengers OF ali GLASSES, Pullman. drawing
t9oln sleeping care bstweo9 New York and
between Charlotte and birmingham. Leaving
Washington each Tuesday and Friday, . tourist
Washington and San francisco without change.
Dining cara serve all meals cnroute.
Nos. II, 80, "a and l2-Pullman sleeping cars
between Richmond and Charlotte, Via Danville,
s9uthb9und Nos. Il and 80. northbound Nos
Pullman u. r. sleeping car for Jacksonvilie;
al9o Pullman s~,eeping car for Brunswick.
Connection made at .~Spartanburg with
Vile and Cincinnati; also at Columbia for Sa-
vannah and Jacksonville.
FRANKS CANNON, JIM CULp,
Third V.P. ~ Con. Mgr, Traffic Mgr,
Washington, L. O. W~sshingtoH. D. G.
w. A. TURK, n, II, RABUW1CR,
2epl Pass. Ag't., Ass'tQopn Pass, Aga,
Washington, 20 Atlanta, Cha
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

Lao p IN train makes uose conrooo,
at II un Falls for all points on S'H"JT"
Close connection at Greenwood for al
points on s.. a: L.. and G g. G. Railwav
way. lN'l-
For any information relaive 10. uoA
rates, schedules. etc, address "ohoS
w. CRAIG. Gen. Pass. Agent.
nm. NORTH, Sol. Agt. Ingnsta 40
I'm. EHRRsoN. Traic M.n.n,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

The most curious papar-weight in
the world Is said to belong to the Prince
of Wales. 1t is the mummied hand of
IL of the daughters of Pharaoh.