Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-04-11
LEARN AlL THAT YOU CAN.
Arp Tries to Add to His knowledge
Daily.
HAS MANY CORRESPONDENTS.
Each Letter Contains Something lie
Had Not Known Before-Instructs
Others.


Store away knowledge: get all you
can. There is comfort in it. Gold
smith says Of the village schoolmaster
and his pupils:
And still they gazed and still the won
der grew,
That one small head could carry all It
knew
l remember how used to wonder
how our Professor Charles Mccoy
lealred all that ne knew a6Gut mlathe-
matics and astronomy some years
ago | heard Professor Proctor. who
was then the greatest living astrono-
lner. lecture for three nights at Lake
Weir chatauQua in Florida. and he
llited me up TO the seventh heavcn
as IL were, and ] had to strain my
mind to soar with him amongst tha
stars, but he magnitied the creation and
the universe and The Creator in such a
way that have not forgotten it ana
my reverence and awe and love for the
supreme Beng has been greatly in.
creased.
was Illuminating about this because
j nave received letter from a learn
ed friend who thinks should have told
little more about leap year and how
the Julian calendar got behind time
NSA' 49, - ''' r"NH NN.ilN ANU IOiR tire
CORY astronomer, Clavius. made "A
new ono called the Gregorian calen-
d3r. And now III says that all years
whose date number is divis.ble by four
without \ remainder are lean years
unless they arc century years. These
are not century years unless they are
ulVlslhle by 400 without 4 remainder
therefore, the year 1000 will be a lean
ear. But even thiS allowance VIII
not exactly even up the march Of time
ana wo Will lose another day i'm 3.52t
years Sir John HCrschcl cOrrectel
this by making every i00Oth year q
leap year und this would keep old
Father Time all right for $4,000 years
-- nuf scd-wc Will no, ngure beyond
that
Br, tho trouble is that the ances-
trail blood becomes crossed and re-
crossed 30 often that il is apt to lose
its virtue and becomes contaminated
with the blood Of some vicious anccs-
tors. This could only be prey by
what is called in and in breeding" as
marrying cousins or second cousins.
but the doctors say that produces
physical dcSenerlcy in the offSring ana
50 what can 4 man DO but Try to elc-
vate himself and not bank on his an
ceStors. Colonel Campbell Wallace
was 4 noble man and made his own
fame and fortune ana he told me that
when he was i young man nc took .
notion tina, maVbc he Was Il desce.l-
Gant o: Sir William Wallace. the great
Scottish chief. and as his father died
when Campbell was boy and told him
nothing about IL; he rode hundred
miles over the mountains Of TcnneS-
see - see a great uncle vino was Oh
enough 10 know about his ancestors
and the old uncle said: Now. Cam
You had better lec that pedigree bust
ness alone. for Your great-granifathcr
was powerful sorry man, and one
day he stole some taters often a fiat
boat and they Cctcaed him ana took
him down 10 the cnnebrake and whip
ped him they did shore" Since
then" said Colonel Wallace Il have
taken Popa'a ccuplet for my pcM-
gree"
Homer and shame from no condition
rise
Act well your part There all the honor
lies"
I was rumnatinS how little VIC
know OF what is going on in many
PARIS CT this great country. Here Is =
Litter from an Alablml friend who has
been living iii TeylS for twenty years
and has Charge C3 a cattle ranch i'm tn"
pana1ndle, the s,aEed plains region.
and he saws he has 5000 head Of cattle
10 look 7t,er ana their grazing ground
c"Fcts i.O.OO0 acres. A&cpt half OF il
~ infested by prairie dogs ana tlipv
have become destructive and omni-
verou5 and are multiplying like the
rabbits OF Australia. and so this ce;j
the owners declared war upon them
they mixed 500 bushels OF w-hO.t VIII
100 pounds Of strychuine and sca,terei
1t around their little funnel-shlucc
ground holes ana il efrcctu1lly de
Stroyed them. Just think OF it-s.ry.
chnine costs $i.75 an ounce. or about
$25 a pound. and that made g. 500 be.
sides TIE cost Of the wheat. These cat
tie kings DO things on n big scllo. Hgi
1t does look cruel and selfish to ext -
inmate such pretty innocen, Itle
creatures. wish the children couli
see them. Ihey arc about rs large rs
fox SQUIRRELS and lcok like them OK
ceptng the lack OF a long tail They
bnrrow in the ground and make tua-
ne'S that communicate with their d e
ferent homes. They throw UP lit'lo
circular rims or banks around their
holes Like the ants do. and you cin sec
them from the trains perGhed upon the
tops OF the rims like little sentinel
and suddenly they pitch down In the
funnel Ike boys jumping off n spring.
board into mill pond There were
some clever, good-n7tured Michigan.
ders and Mlchigeese at my house not
long ago. and we were asking conua-
drums and no one was TO ask a cues
tion that he or she cou'1nT answer
when 1t was given up by the res, of
the party. and so | asked lady how
ground squirrel dug his hole in tAo