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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
PALMETTO CROP CONDITIONS
Weather and Crop Conditions as View.
ed by the Department.

The week ending Monday morning,
April oath. averaged much cooler than
usual. especitlly during the first three
days. with slow rising temperatures
until Saturday when maximum above
30 degrees was recorded in the south
eastern counties The lowest for the
week was % at Greenville on the 18th.
The week closed with temperatures
considerably below normal.
There were general showers and
thunderstorms on the 21st, with hail
In the central counties, but the rainfall
was very light in the extreme western
and the southeastern counties, where
the need Of rain is indicated. There
was no damage by hail.
Full reports on the damage to fruit,
vegetables and field crops by the
freeze and frost Of the 18th and 18th,
indicate severe and extensive injury to
peaches. apples, plums and other
fruits in the western counties, especial
ly on low lands where the destruction
was practically total; in the central
counties and in the commercial peach
raising districts the damage was Sc
rious, but not total destruction at any
point: while in the eastern and south
eastern counties the damage to fruit
was slight. Garden truck was largely
destroyed in all sections. except in the
coast truck regions. where the damage
was not material, although thin ice vas
noted within about twenty mild Of tae
coast. Corn that was up was ne3Gy all
cut to the ground. but only mall
proportion Of it will need to be re-
planted. A few reports indicate that
wheat and oats were injured. The
large majority reports both grains all
right and still promising. Tobacco
that was set out was only slightly dam
aged. Watermelons, cucumbers and
like field crops were practically all de-
stroyed and will be replanted.
Many Of the correspondents state
that it is too early to determine the
extent Of the damage to peaches as me
fruit is dropping rapidly.
The weather was generally favorable
for farm work and rapid progress was
made in cotton planting. 1t was too
cold for favorable termination and
growth. Corn looks yellow and sick
ly. Early corn is being cultivated;
cut worms are numerous in many
places. Transplanting tobacco was de-
layed by the cool weather. but towards
the close of the week made fair PROF.
ress. Cotton planting is nearly fin
ished in the eastern part Of the State
and about half finished in the west
ern part, where the season is later than
usual.
7. W. BAUER. Section Director.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
GENERAL COTTON MARKET.
Union Schools.

Union, Special.-"The indications are
that the enrolment Of pupils in the
graded schools Of Union will thissyear
exceed by far the enrolment Of last
year." said Superintendent Jeffries to
! press representative one day this
week. I'm fact. including the night
schools l have reason to believe that
The enrolment will probably reaG
over 1000. AS it now is, Union holds
the record in South Carolina for the
number Of children who attend school
IN proportion to the population. Last
year the enrolment was 1883 from
population which numbers about TO-
300, which includes Monarch and Aetna,
but doesn't count in Buffalo. Accord
ing to the national superintendents d.
rectory received this week, see that
there are but three other places IN
South Carolina that have larger en-
rollment than Union, namely, Charles
ton, 8, ,161, with about go, 900 population;
Columbia 1888, with about $4,000 in
habitants, and in Spartanburg, which |
believe, claims some $4,000 people, the
enrolment is 2,29S. The figures show
that Union had 33 more enrolled than
had Greenville, 103 more than Ander-
son, and 343 more than Sumter, the
other towns Of the State falling far be-
low these figures. l have not examined
the directory very carefully yet. but an
examination showed last year that the
record held by Union for the proportion
of her population Of those who were
seeking an education through her COM
mon schools was not eXcelled by any
other town in the United States. About
our night schools, l find that the at
tendance on them is even better than
during the day, and now is something
more thane200. The work is very en-
couraging, as all the pupils seem to be
anxious and Work hard that they may
derive all the benefit possible from this
opportunity"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Do Vegetables Breed Typhoide

One Of the theories concerning the
origin of typhoid fever ascribes the in-
fection to the agency of vegetables
grown in contaminated soil. Some re-
cent experiments made in Europe to
determine the facts had interesting re-
suits. which are described in Harper's
Weekly. \ thorough test was made
with cultures of bacteria applied in va.
rious ways to peas, radishes. cress and
other vegetables. The results showed
that in only one of the. four expert.
ments could any typhoid bacilli be
found, and the final conclusion was
that "even in the event Of bacteria be-
ing present on the roots or leaves they
were not able 10 reach the interior
structures"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Mems Absurd Clothes.

I like to feel clean, and my great
idea of clothes is that they should be
clean and comfortable, as far as such
a thing is possible in London. This, OF
course, excludes starch. I couldn't
wear thing which, after having been
made clean and sweet, Is then filled
with nasty white mud, ironed into a
hard paste, and made altogether dis.
gusting. To put such garment on my
person, wear it, move in it, perspire in
it-horrible!
The shiny white tubes on the wrist,
the shiny black cylinder on the head
the shiny white front to the shirt, the
shiny black boot, the rain-pipe trouser
leg, the japanned-zinc sleeve-that Is
your fashionably dressed man, looking
like a cold blackleaded stove with as
bestos fuel. The great tragedy OF the
average mans life is that nature re-
fuses to conform to the cylindrical
ideal. and when the marks Of his knees
and elbows begin to appear in his cyl
inders he is filed with shame.-George
Bernard Shaw, in The World of Dress.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Human Interrogation Point.

It was refreshing, too, when young
child travelling eastward from the far
West held a conversation close beside
me with pallid mother. never saw
a woman more utterly exhausted, while
the child seemed as fresh at sunset as
at dawn. It was when the through
train on the Boston and Albany still
stopped at West Newton, and the con-
ductor had just called with vigorous
confidence the name Of that station.
After pause the child exclaimed as
vigorously, "Motherw to which the
mother responded, perhaps for the two
hundredth time that day, in feeble
voice, "Wbat, dear?" when the follow
ing conversation ensued:
What did that man say, mother?'
"He said West Newton" A pause
for reflection, then again: "Mother?'
"WhatT what did that man say
West Newton for, mother?' To this
the mother, with an evasiveness indi'
Gated by despair, could only murmur,
81 don't know"
This was too well-tried an evasion. and
the unfiinching answer came: Don't
YOU know what he said West Newton
for, motherT Thus demanded came
the vague answer: "Said it for fur OF
1t. I guess" By this time al the oc'
cupants Of the car were listening
breathlessly to the cross-examination:
Then came the inevitable Mother,
and the more and more hopeless
"What?' did that man say West
Newton for the fun Of it, mother:
"Yes," said the poor sufferer, with an
ever increasing audience listening to
her vain evasion. ;.
The child paused an atom longer; ana
then continued, still inexhaustible, Dut
as If she had forced her victim into
the very last corner. as she had. "What
was the fun of it, mother?'-Atlantic.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
"A nj. In Convent Fire.

Montreal, Special.-The little village
of st. Genevieve is in mourning over
the loss Of IA lives in a fire, which
destroyed the convent Of st. Anne
there early today. One nun, nine chill
dren, ranging in age from 10 to IL
years, and four old women perished
in the flames. Two nuns were so Sc
yerely burned that it is feared that
they will die. In their grief over the
catastrophe, the villagers find some
comfort in relating the heroism dis
played by Sister Marie Adjuteur, wne
gave up her life, and Sisters Marie
Therese and Marie Robertine. VINO
were perhaps fatally burned In theil
effort to save. the lives of the children
and helpless old women in theil
charge.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
The Iron in the Blood.

"Iron in the blood" expresses, no
ioubt, a chemical fact as well as a
figure of speech, but probably not one
in a thousand, even among chemists,
ever saw ferrum sanguinis material
lied to visible metals. This feat, how
ever. has been performed by NJ. Bar
ruel. head of the chemical laboratories
of Paris. NJ. Barruel. who has, III
time. practiced much phlebotomy on
the human subject, has systemati-
cally extracted chemically the ferrum
from the other constituents. This he
transformed into minute globuies or
pearls" of iron. At last the idea oc-
CURED to him to haveJhem all welded
together. and the result is an iron ring
made from human blood, which he
wears on his finger.-American lnYen'
tor.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
PAY TO BE LONELY.
Instances Of Persons in Whom the Gre
Rarious Instinct 10 Missing.

Not many people would pay $500
year for the privilege Of never seeing
a human being. But this is what
John Farren, notorious hermit, who
resides on the coast Of Sutherland
does. He is perfecting an invention
which he firmly believes will bring
him undying fame, though what the
nature of his discovery in no one
knows. His house is entered by climb
ing up a staircase to the second hoor,
and at the foot a retainer Is always
on duty to keep away strangers, while
seventeen other servants are similar
ly employed all the year round in
various parts Of the grounds.
Many will remember the case Of DIR.
Borthwick, the wealthy hermit of Ath-
erly Edge. He owned fortune Of
$5OO,0OO in all, but some time before
his death he purchased $4,000 worth
Of jewels and tapestries from Lopdon
merchants, and then threw the whole
lot into the sea off the coast Of Angel
sey. With the $4,000 remaining. he
built himself house, sheltered by a
high wall, SO that no one could over
look him, and then engaged six watch
men at handsome salaries to keep the
inquisitive at q distance. After paying
several hundred a year for the privi-
lege of being lonely, he died seven
years ago, and left the balance of his
fortune to his two nephews.
Probably no man ever went to more
trouble and expense to be lonely than
did Josiah West, retired woolen man.
Ifacturer, who resided In the Mid
Gands. Being an extremely ugly man,
he became impressed with the idea
late in life that it was trial to his
fellow mortals to look upon him. SO
he laid out his fortune in cutting him.
self off from the world.
The first thing he did was to pur-
chase large area Of land. in the mid
die of which he built himself house,
in the shape Of square, with all the
windows facing on a quadrangle in
the centre. Then, although he had a
small army of keepers to guard him
from the curiosity of strangers, he
bought up Il neighboring village, con-
sisting of sixty-twQ houses, and razed
it to the ground to still further insure
his solitude. From that time forward
until the day Of his death he never set
eyes on a human being, all his food
being delivered TO him through trap
door built in the side Of the house for
the purpose.
Saurier, the eminent French novel;
ist. also laid out a large sum of mon
ey in order to be lonely. He had
perfect aversion to human beings of
both sexes, and declared that he could
not work with any one in the same
house as himself. Eventually he spent
$4,000 in building room beneath
the lake in his grounds, which was
approached by subterranean passage,
and had a plate glass roof. 1t was in
this room that he wrote several OF his
finest novels, and here he lived for
number of years without hearing the
sound of a human voice.-Tit-Bits.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Prominent Man Arrested.

Laurens, Special.-As the result OF
the inquest conducted by Magistrate
w. w. Campbell. Of Waterloo, acting
coroner, over the body Of Abe McDan-
iel, the negro farmer and land owner
who was killed late Saturday nigA in
his home fourteen miles southwest oi
Laurens, brief mention Of which was
made by The State, Powell H. Baldwin
a young farmer. Of the same section
was arrested at his home Monday night
by Sheriff Duckett's deputies, A. R.
Sullivan and w. D. Glenn. on a war
rant issued by Magistrate Campbell
charging Baldwin with being a mem
Der Of the alleged mob that killed the
negro. The deputies arrived here some
time after midnight and committed
Baldwin to jail. He is now in the
custody Of the sheriff. Application fol
bail will be made in Columbia by Col
J. w. Ferguson, Of the law firm OF
Ferguson and Featherstone, who have
been employed to represent the ac'
cused.
According to the evidence given al
the inquest, a party Of men went to
McDaniels house late Saturday night
and attempted to enter the negro's
house through the door, which some
member Of the crowd opened by un.
locking With a key in his possession
Instantly the crowd was fired upon by
Mcdaniel, who used a shotgun. The
fire was promptly returned with fatal
effect. The negro was shot only one
time, the charge taking effect in the
right side. He lived about an hour
After shooting the old man the crowd
went upstairs and took McDaniers two
single daughters, Mary Jane and Evil
lima, from the house to nearby wood
where a severe whipping was given
each Of the women.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Fire at Union,

Union, Special.-Within twenty-four
hours after the storm Of Wednesday
afternoon struck the city and laid low
$4,000 worth of property. Union was
again visited by destructive fire,
which started in the stables Of Craw,
ford, Aycock and Deaver. completely
destroying the stables. with five other
buildings adjoining, and but for a
change of wind $4,000 worth Of prop
erty would have been swept away. The
total loss is estimated at $1,000. with
some insurance. The fire originated In
the second story Of the stables among
hay and other infammable feed and
within two minutes had spread over
the entire building. This Is the third
destructive fire the city has passed
through this year. the total loss OF all
three being near 100000.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Working for Wide Tires.

The Bureau Of Road Inquiry Of the
United States Government has been
making a study of the width Of tres
prescribed by local and national au-
thorities in various parts Of the world.
In France every freighting and mar
ket cart, instead Of injuring the high
way, improves 1t. Many Of the tires
are ten inches wide. In the four
wheeled vehicles in that country the
rear axle is fourteen inches longer
than the fore, and as a result the
rear wheels run in line about an
inch outside the level rolled by the
front wheel. After a few loaded
wagons have passed over a road tine
highway looks as if a steam roller had
been at work. A national law In Ger
many prescribes that wagons heavily
loaded must have tires not less than
four inches wide. In Austria the min
imum for similar vehicles Is six and
one-half inches; in Switzerland, SIX
inches.
In a number of States in this coun-
try laws have been passed granting
rebate of highway taxes to citizens
who use on lumber wagons tires not
less than three inches wide. On toll
roads in Kentucky and several other
States farmers hauling loads IN wide-
tired wagons are entitled to lower
rates than those paid by the owners OF
narrow-tired vehicles.
At an experiment station 1t was DEM
onstrated that it requires forty per
cent. more power to draw a load on
q wagon drawn with one-and-one-haif-
inch tires than on one with a three
inch tire: With q Baldwin dyna-
mometer careful tests were made with
loaded wagons drawn over blue grass
sward. In a wagon weighing lOOO
pounds it was found that load OF
342s pounds could be drawn on wide
tires with the same force required to
move 1000 pounds on narrow tlres.
Moreover, the wide tires did not in1ure
tho turf. while the narrow ones cut
through It. In some parts OF the coun-
try pioneers in the use Of wide tires
have had to stand a good deal OF ridi-
Guile. The manifest benefit to roads,
however. soon changes public senti-
ment. The president Of "a leading
wagon manufacturing company states
that the demand for wide tires is IN
creasing every year. Another company
in the same line of business conducted
a series Of tests, using a FAIRBANKS
dypamometer carefully calibrated, and
was convinced that on very hard roads
the preference, so far as draft Is con-
cerned. is for narrow tires. In the ef-
feet upon the roads, rowever, wide
tires have the advantage.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Severe Storm at Union.

Union, Special.-About 6 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon terrific storm
ragged here for ten minutes and in that
time great damage was wrought, and
that many lives were not lost is mirac-
ulous. The only person injured was
John Campbell, aged 20, an operative
Of Union cotton mills, who was badly
bruised about the forehead and hurt
internally by the falling walls. The
greatest damage was done to the spin
ming room on the fourth floor of Union
mill No. 2, the southern end of which
was blown in for over 100 feet and a
big strip of the roof torn of. The many
children working there only escaped
with their lives by fleeing when they
saw the windows beginning to fall in.
Eight spinning frames were injured.
The damage is estimated at $4,000.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
A Cheerful Giver.

Bobby's father had given him ten.
cent piece and a quarter of dollar,
telling him he might put one or the
other on the contribution plate.
(which did you give. Bobby:" his
father asked, when the boy came from
church.
"Wen. father, 1 thought at first ]
ought to put in the quarter" said Bob
by. but then just in time l remem'
bered, The Lord loveth a cheerful Civ.
er.' and 1 knew l could give the tan
cent piece Il great deal more cheerfully,
50 put that in."-Youth's Companion
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Five Housebreakers Arrested.

Greenville, Special.-Five men COM
posing a gang Of housebreakers, CIV
ing their names as Walter Sheldon,
Earle C. Hurdts, Samuel Levy, T. G.
Barber and John Patera, were arrest
ed by two police officers: The men, who
are charged with burglarizing the
fouchstone residence at Westminster
Sunday night, were found cleverly con-
cealed in a car of Lumbar on a siding
In the Southern yards.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
charued with Lynching.

Chester, S. c., Special.-Messrs
Stewart w. Heath. John T. Stevens
Stephen Welsh and S. Frank Hough
of Kershaw, were arrested here Tues
day night by Sheriff Peden on war
rants charging them with participat
ing in the lynching of the white man.
John Morrison, at Kershaw last Octo
ber. The party was detained at the
Nicholson Hotel until this morning
when they left for Chester in charge
OF Deputy Sheriff Carroll. Two white
men and a negro were committed tc
Jail in Lancaster county, Saturday, on
the same charge.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
The Beer Dispensarles.

The dispensary directors have not
yet decided upon their action in re-
gard to the beer dispensaries. The
questions submitted to the attorney
general, and upon which an opinion
will be given some time this week, are
as follows:
l. Whether the State board can, un-
der the law. give each beer dispenser
a royal instead Of fixed compen-
sation?
2. Whether bottling plants are lille
gal?
8. What constitutes drinking on the
"premises?"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Key West octoeenarian Dead.

Key West, Fla. Spccial.-James u.
Jones, SS years of age, United States
commissioner and deputy collector foT
the United States Court, died here
Sunday. He had held the offices OF
mayor Of Key West, sheriff and tax col
Iector Of the county and justice Of the
peace and United States marshal. he
was. born in Canada Of French de-
scent and had a varied experience
travelling around the world prior to
1850.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Russian Royalty.

GATHERINGS husband, the HOlsteiner,
was q blbulous boor streaked with in
sanity; Catherine herself wa clever,
coarse, jovial virago, absolutely lack
ing in moral sense; and from their
wretched son Paul down to the present
generation their descendants have par
taken Of their qualitiA in various
blends. Such qualities, from no per-
sonal fault of their own, prevent the
Holstein- -Romanoffs from being either
successful autocrats or good constitu-
tional princes.-Sergeant's Catherine
the Great"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
VISIT TO ME o..p FARM.

you ind the spring in the pasture-lot
here the sweet-fag used to grow,
ND the garrulous, laughing little brook
Where trout flashed to and fro!
you show me once more the broken
&c blackberries ripened first,
flaAis
To qucneh our childish thirst?
Oh. take me gain to the spicy grove
On the western slope of the hill,
Where we never knew that the day was
done
Till told by the whip-poor will.
All. here is the same smooth. rounded stone
That locked the lips OF the WE'LL;
How many a sweet and homely tale
That sentinel gray might tell!
!, Look, through the low and crumbling wall
The old-time berries shine:
Where else but in this sunny lane
Was ever found such wine!
But the hollyhock path to the old farm
door,
Once smooth to feet unshod.
Is thorny now with the br,er-bush,
And choken by the golden-rod.
And out of the windows where love looked
forth
Peer only eyes Of the dead.
Though | thought l heard the spinning
wheel
That stood by the trundle-hed.
1t was only the south wind stirring
dream
In the heart OF the lilac-tree,
While INV soul grew faint at the old per-
fume
And the lazy drone of the bee.
Now the sun has set; we must both turn
back
From the land of the long ago.
Where b'osSomed the reddest rose OF all
And fell the whtest snow.
For if we wait till night shall fall,
Our hearts may break to see
Two children's faces that smile in sleep,
Dreaming of years to be-
Mary Minerva Barrows.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Noted Stake Winner Sold.

New York, SPECIALIZATION danger
field, the winner of many famous races
and the holder of the three-ycar-old
championship in 1902. was sold to P. ].
Dwyer, in the Fasig-Typton auction
sale of the horses of William B. Leeds
and Andrew Miller, at the Aqueduct
race fo. s2 1000. The stakes won by Ma
jor Daingr, Sold in the past four sea-
sons were woi;.. S91 .905.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Death of Senator O. H. PIatt

Washington, Conn.,, Special.-United
States Senator Orville Hitchcock Plat
Of Connecticut, died at his summer
home in this, his native town, at 1886
Friday night from pneumonia, aged 7S.
The end came almost Unexpectedly
the immediate cause being the break
ing OF an abcess which had formed In
the right lung, and which produced
strangulation. The funeral will prob
ably be held Tuesday.