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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-07-18
THE sage OF
'POSSUM FORK
GIVES SOHE VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS
As TO THE RELATIONS OF FER
HlizERS and PLANT LIFE.

Editor COUNTY RECoRD:-A
bulletin from the Department OF
Agriculture, urging the import
ance of planting heavy seed
especially heavy cotton seed,
a further inquiry
whether the oil in cotton seed
acts as d fertilizer. Professors
say not, but l reckon there is
only one opinion as to a heavy
cotton seed producing healthy,
vigorous plant, and light seed
producing a weakly, sickly
plant. But light seed, tits said,
will germinate quicker than
heavy seed
A heavy seed has stored up
il it more nutriment for the sub
sistence of the young plant, un-
til its roots can grow and gath
er nouristment from the soil.
Every cotton chopper has had
trouble in trying to chop ont
the weakly plants and leave the
vigorous ones, for when light
seeds are sown with heavy
seeds, the little, weakly fellows
are right where We want to
leave 4 big one,
Just so with heavy and light
seed corn-and / always plant
two to three grains in a hill and
thin out to a stand. 1t pays to
do it, for you find a large per
centage of small, weakly plants
in the hill with the big ones and
can choose the best.
A heavy grain of corn, when
it sprouts, will swell out full Of
rich, starchv plant-food for the
young plant to thrive on until it
can take care of itself; but a
light, immature grain cannot
furnish a sufficient quantity of
the rich plant.food; hence a
weakly stalk.
But what is it found in the
corn grain that furnishes the
proper food for the baby plant?
A portion of it is oil-corn oil
which sells for good money in
the market as a by-product in
in some factories. This oil is
stored pin the grain for use in
producing the aforesaid nourish-
ment; for the moment it sprouts
to grow, natures laboratory
down in the ground produces a
combination of elements to fur
nish the proper plant-food.
Just so in the cotton seed.
The oil in the seed was not oil
in the ground, but was formed
in the plant-seed by chemical
union, with the sap of the plant,
and such gases or elements as
are needed to produce the oil.
AS an illustration, pear limb
grated in an apple tree
produces a pear out OF the very
Same tree-sap that the apple
tree uses to make an apple. The
chemical union in the pear bud
being different from that in an
apple bud produces different
article.
The castor.oil plant combines
it's sap with something to make
castor. oil-it was not oil in the
L l. L.
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that a bushel of cotton seed is
worth fifty cents for manure.
But although the oil is good
for manure, rather fear it is a
bad practice 10 make fertilizer
of such valuable material. l
reckon it should be turned into
lard, for the hogs are dying
down here IN
PoSSUM FORK.
Johnsonville, July IA, 1907,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-07-18
FROM THE Land
OF THE SKY.
K7ERETRa LETTER FROM sE'
llahssUR6ER WHO HAS LeCAT-
ED IN ASHEEILLE.

Editor COUNTY REcoRD:-To
nv friends and acquaintance
of Williams ,urg county: ! take
advantage OF this opportunity
to advise you of my location
with the view of having the
pleasure of seeing you, should
you visit cur city this summer,
or of rendering you any assist
ance should you be desirons OF
locating here for the summer or
ionger.
Asheville, said to be in the
Land OF the Sky, certainly offers
everything in the way of seen
cry and climate that one could
expect from the name.
Situated in the midst of the
-tmountaias of Western North
Carolina, on the French Broad
river. a turbulent but pictur-
esque stream, it covers noun
tain and valley, running back to
the foot Of Sunset mountain,
where from Overlook Park, its
summit, You can see miles and
miles around, into some five or
six counties, mountain rolling
on mountain in one grand, mag
nitcept mass.
AS you can we'll imagine, at
this altitude of over 5000 feet
-sboye sea.level the climate is
delightful. While the days are
hot and sultry, from four to FIVE
o'clock in the afternoon the
temperature begins falling, un-
til you yon are reminded of a
typical October evening.
Asheville is strictly a health
and pleasure resort, and for
this reason, together with the
high freight rates she is sub,
iect to, manufacturing industries
have little showing and make
slow progress. So she is main
ly dependent on her retail trade
and the hosts of visitors that
come each year with the ap-
proach of warm weather, for
her support
She can claim many advant-
ages as a health resort, for
aside from the beneficial clim-
ate and pleasing scenery, nat
ural drainage is accelerated by
well paved streets and excel
lent sewerage system.
Many of the principal streets
are now being paved with
"Bitulithic" paving, a compost
ton of crushed rock and pitch,
pnt down in successive layers
and rolled. and these streets,
as yothers, are not only swept
by tAe usual "street sweepers," )"
but are washed off every night
by water wagons.
] feel safe in saying that san
itary conditions here are away
above the average city, and the
streets are the cleanest OF any
CITY / have ever visited.
.s1 was forcibly struck with the
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-07-18

If it is a Bargain in pants
YOU want; We are closing out
our entire stock at unheard of
low prices; also OverallS,
Summer Underwear, etc.
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S n O z S

$500 OxfordS for $3.50,
while the present stock lasts.
Ladies and Cnildren'S Can
vas and Duck shoes, all sizes,
at low prices.
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KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY l8, 1907

SHIRTS
New line of Neg
lige Shirts just in,
latest fashionable
patterns, and a
select line OF
NECKWEAR.
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NO. %
DRIVE
ALWAYS FRESH

Try Kurnell's Blend Roast
ed Coffee five full pounds
for a dollar.
Butter and cheese in cold
storage always fresh.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
EarIy Baseball Teams.

Baseball teams existed as early as
1S43, but the first league was formed
In 1857, when the National Association
Of Baseball Players was organized
This, as the title implies, was an or
ganization Of players-ln fact, OF anna
teur players They did not remain true
amateurs for long. however, and In
1871 baseball was placed squarely on
a professional basis, when there came
into existence the National Association
Of Professional Baseball Players. II
will be noted that the players still
governed the sport, and they continued
to do so until 1876 1t was in this
period that there grew up the great
abuses which menaced the very life OF
baseball-namcly. gambling and the
buying and selling OF games. In 1876
the PLAYERS were deposed from the
government Of professional baseball
and they have never since controlled
the game. Henry Beach Needham in
Success Magazine.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
Akan Cuppov,dsr Waa New,

A curious feature about the svolu-
hon In methods of hunting was the
hesitation with which gunpowder was
taken up by the great mobiles. Not only
did 1t take quite century to familiar
lie hunters with IL, but the evidence
that has come down to us shows that
the humble classes were the first to
use 1t for shooting game. Macmillan,
ardent sportsman that he was. tells US
himself that he could shoot farther
and with greater accuracy with bis
crossbow than his keeper could with
the fire tube. To prove this be tells US
the well known story of certain
chamois standing at 200 fathoms,
which. after being pronounced as too
far Off by his henchman. who was arm
ed with one of the first sporting firearms
mentioned In print. comes tumDllng
down, pierced at the first attempt by
the emperors bolt From other SOURCES
we learn of strict measures being
adopted to prevent poachers and wood
loafers" using firearms, and this at
period when princes still used the
cumbrous crossbow and spear 1t was
only In the last quarter of the six
teenth century that firearms had GUST
ed other weapons for certain forms OF
the chase the deer battue being among
the latter Magazine.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
Oanoarous Odors.

Some smells are dangerous A sim
gle sniff of highly concentrated prus-
sic acid will kill a man as quickly as
a shot through the heart The odor
Of a bad egg is due TO the presence OF
sulphureted hydrogen. and the OBJ
jectionable perfumes Of sewers and
bone factories are attributable chiefly
% the same gas. Chemical laborato-
ries are famous for bad smells. Ber-
zelius, who discovered the element
called "selerium." once tried the ex-
pertinent of permitting bubble OF
pure hydrogen selenide gas to enter
his nostril For days afterward he
was not able to smell strong ammonia,
the olfactory nerves being temporarily
paralyzed. Selenium gas has the odor
of putrld horseradish. Tellurium is
even worse. There is story of ply
stefan whose patient, a slady, refused
to take an absolutely necessary rest
because she was 80 fond Of being al
ways in society. He gave her pill
containing a small quantity of tellu-
rum, and her breath was affected by
II to such an extent that she was not
able to appear In public for month.
She never guessed what the trouble
was. The volatillzed essential oil of
roses is supposed to cause "rose
cold" This peculiar complaint Is so
far nervous in its character that pa
per roses sometimes excite 1t.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
Why Elephants Fear Mice.

1t seems incredible that so small and
harmless an animal as a mouse Is able
to frigkteS Sa elephant almost out OF
his senses. One little mouse In the
hay on which they are feeding will
stampede an entire herd. In their ma
tive land there are little animals,
known as chacanas, which feed on a
small, sour berry Of which elephants
are very fond. They live In settle
ments. something after the manner of
prairie dogs, under the berry bushes
When. feeding. the elephants trample
the little towns. and the chacanas. In
their fright, run up the tubes of the
elephants trunks. Their long. sharp
claws catch In the flesh. and they can
not be elected. The more violently the
monster blows through its colled trunk
the more firmly the hooked claws of
the little animal become imbedded la
the flesh. Inflammation and death are
the result In captivity the elephants
think they are In danger of the deadly
chacanas when they see a mouse.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
The Poisonous Black Sea.

The Black sea, which in some parts
has a depth of more than $500 feet. Is
poisoned by sulphureted hydrogen
wherever the water Is deeper than
1900 feet This accounts for the curl
GUS fact that there Is no organic life
below that depth, excepting perhaps
some bacteria Of very low order. I'M
pregnated with sulphur. The causes
for this phenomenon are explained
by the quick outflow of the fresh wa
ter through the Bosporus, while salt
water coming from the Mediterranean
enters through deeper current into
the depths of the Black sea. The wa
ters on the surface are, therefore, con-
trolled absolutely by horizontal cur
rents of considerable force. and verti-
cal currents which might carry the
noxlous gases from the bottom to the
surface and fresh oxygen from the
surface to the bottom are hardly ever
noticeable. The water at great depths
Is so saturated with sulphuric gas by
the disintegration Of organic matter
sinking to the bottom by reason OF Its
weight that no fish or other living be-
Ing which needs oxygen for its organic
system can exist beyond a stated
depth.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
A Hiaid Examination.

Colonel Alexander Gardner. In his
volume entitled Soldier and Travel
err" says that during a stay In Asia
he was once suspected of being Rus
sian spy.
This was an accusation of great
consequence, as Russians were very
unpopular at the time. but the traveller
was PROSTATE with fever and almost
Indifferent as to what might befall
him.
Application was made to the khan
of Khiva. and In a great state OF anx-
iety as to the travellers identity he
deputed three learned men who had
Travelled over half the world to ex-
anime him. This was the abstruse
and terrific examination with which
they were satisfied:
What are you" asked they.
IAN American" was the answer.
Still they were suspicious. and one
man, a very enlightened scholar, of
fered as crowning test this deep and
conclusive geographical question:
could you go by land from America
to EnglandE
mo" was the prompt reply, and the
questioner. as much delighted at his
own superior learning as at the trav-
eler's integrity. declared that he was
convinced. This was an American In
deed
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
The Badge Of Honesty

Is on every wrapper OF Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery because full
list OF the ingredients composing II Is
printed there In plain English. Forty
years OF experience has proven Its superior
worth IS Q blood purifier and invigoratr
ing tonic for the cure Of stomach disorders
and ell liver Ills. II builds up the run
down system as no other tonic can In
which alcohol Is used. The active medic
inal principles of native roots such as
Golden Saal and Queens root, Stone and
Mandrake root, Bloodroot and Black
Cherry bark are extracted and preserved
by the use of chemically pure, triple
refined glycerine. Send TO DR.. R. V. Pierce
at Buffalo, N. Y, for free booklet which
quotes extracts from well-recognized med
zeal authorities such as Drs. BarthoIow,
King. ScuddeT. Coe, Ellingwood and .
host OF otheIs, showing that these roots
can be dASended upon for their curative
action IL all weak states OF the stomach.
accomplished by indigestion or dyspepsia
as we'll Il mall bilious or liver complaints
and In 6lrwasting diseases where there
10 loesfathssh and gradual running down
OF tkeBtrength and system
The Golden Medical QiscoysrY. mtkea
rich, pQre blood and ed InvIgora tes md
fegQlates The Stomach. U1et and 6XelL
SQd. tblQVGh- hem.-tha whole iYstsn.
Thus ell skin affections, blotches, pimples
and sruptions rs we'll IS scrofulous swell
lings and old open running sores or ulcers
are cured and healed. In treating old
running sores, or ulcers, 1t Is we'll 10 In
sure their healing to apply to them DR..
SPierce's All-Heallng Salve. Ifyour drug
gist don't happen to have this Sslve In
stock, send ffty-four cents In postage
stamps TO DR.. r. V. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y, and
. large box OF the "All- Healing Salve .
will reach you by return post.
You can't afford TO accept secret nos
trum as 81 bstitut to for this non alcoholic,
medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION, not
even though the urgent dealer may
thereby make . little bigger profit.
DR.. Pisrce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorAte stomach, liver and bowels.
sugar-costsd. tiny granules, easy to take
a. candy.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
Why He Let Them Wed.

Dean Pigon had a quaint old verger
whose name was Sugar. Imagine hun,
a venerable figure with gray hair,
skullcap, gown and verger's staff. In
ignorance they had married man to
his deceased wife's sister. Sugar,
whose business It was to settle the
matter about the banns. was at once
cross examined. "Oh. yes. vicar said
he. 81 knowed right well! I knowed
parties" But why did you not tell
me? I should have forbidden them"
swell, vicar. It was Just this way. do
you see. One of the parties was eighty
four and t'other eighty-six. ! says to
myself: Lord, 1t can't last long. Let
'em wed, and bother the laws! -
London News.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
Station QereIiets.

In every station one may find those
who do not take trains or meet them,
nor attend those who do. Some come
to the waiting room only to wait-re-
spectacle derelicts still hoping that
something will turn up. and wrecks
who have given up hope. 1t Is a
warm place In winter, the seats are
comfortable, and thoughtless passen-
gers often obligingly leave newspapers
behind them. 1t makes good waiting.
There are 80 few other places to walt
so cruelty few for women adrift. but
not yet foundered. Sometimes, to de-
ceive that meddlesome busybody. the
station detective. they carry in travel
ing bags and pretend to be pulled
down with their burdens. emptied
long since at the pawnshops.-Jesse
Lynch Williams In Century.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
Listeners Seldom Hear" Etc.

Two elderly maiden sisters had long
lived together-one gentle and sweet
the other aerid In temper and forbid
ding In appearance. The former was
taken suddenly III, and the other, anx
ious to know whether the doctors
thought her sister would llye-as she
was DESTROYS of acquiring the money
she knew her gentle sister had willed
her-hid behind screen In the morn
ing room, where the doctors soon after
came down to consult.
We'll" asked Or, Harris, what do
you think of herr"
Think of her?' cried DR.. Brown
"Of all the antiquated, yinaigrette
old bags ever created | think she
the very worst, What Is Providence
thinking of to inhict pain on that gen
tie soul upstairs and leave untouche !
a gaunt, withered cNricature OF hn
mainly such as this other? Jump into
my motor With me. and We'll chat
about our patient as we 60"
And they COED" leaTing the caves
dropper to come from her hiding place
as they retreated. -Ilustrpte Bits.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22

there. Her friends are very anxious
to hear from her.
Mr.. George T. Tibbetts and daugh-
ter, Clara, attended the funeral OF Mr.,
Tibbetts' sister, Mrs. Clara Kinds OF
Fairfield, Sunday.
Mrs. Paul s. Tooker OF Westheld,
N. j., accompanied by her sister, Mrs
Glen Harville of East Madison, spent
the day with Mrs. Melvin Palmer
Tuesday.
Earle NJ. s. Palmer took the train
for Clinton Wednesday morning
where he was joined by Mr.. and Mrs
w. B. Tracy and Miss Mildred Tracy
and proceeded to Unity pond. Miss
Josie Bremner, a sister Of Mrs. Tracy,
is also one OF the party and Harold
Bremner will soon join them.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
IitArarN Stone.

The struggling author boldly entered
the editorial sanctum.
II have come with my latest story
he announced.
THAT SOP" CALCULATED the busy edi-
tor. Let US hear how 1t runs"
"Well. this is from the first chapter:
Casper had been standing as motion
less as a block OF granite. Suddenl.
he dropped on his knees before the
beautiful girl with the alabaster brow
and boldly proposed. 1t was then that
she answered with stony stare and
handed him the marble heart. Then y
But the busy editor reached for the
clipping shears.
Young man." he Numbered, you
have made a mistake. Take that story
down to the nearest stoneyard. This
Is an editorial office" Chicago News.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22

The canoe was one Of the earliest Of
boats, but 1t is not In line with the
later growth. The ancestry Of the
modern boat begins with the log and
Is traced through the raft rather than
through the canoe. By flashing togeth-
err several logs 1t was found that lar
ger burdens could be carried. There
fore the boat of a single log grew into
one of several logs-a raft. BY the
time man had learned 10 make raft
we see he had learned something else
he had learned TO row his boat along
by pulling ut an oar Instead of push
ing It along with paddle. Rats were
used by nearly all the nations of an
tlquity. Herodotus. the father Of hs-
tory, tells US that they were In use in
ancient Chaldea.-S. f. Forman In st.
Nicholas.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
LACkMAN.

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Brown from
Springfield, Mass, are visiting MRS.
Browns parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Elliott.
Mrs. Pat McKenney has gone to
Willimantic, Mass, with her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Fred Wheeler. She will re-
main there until fall.
Mrs. Nancy Colby has returned from
a long visit to friends in Shawmut
and Waterville.
Rev. d. L. Pettengill, pastor at the
Conpl. church will will take his vaca-
ton this week. He will go to his
home at Lewiston.
Rev. VIM. Salad and wife FRO :
Berlin, N. H., are at Mrs. Saladps
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Newton
for short vacation.
Blueberrying Is the pastime for the
ladies at present.
Some of the young folks made a
visit to Head Pond last week.
Olive Newton Is staying with her
niece, Mrs. Linda Wilson.
The A. B. 8. will take a trip to
Kineo Aug. %. A goodly number
from the lodge will go and many In
vited friends leave Jackman at noon
Friday, returning at midnight.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
EAST SHOWN EGAN.

Decidedly cold Sunday and Monday
and II we do not have frost on the
full of the moon we shall be lucky.
Wallace Ireland has two acres of
nice stout corn; some stalks are
eight feet high and will need another
month to make good sound corn. 1t
is the only piece in the neighborhood
Some pieces of grain will be cut
this week. Haying still fingers with
some but will finish up in few days
If good weather. Blueberries are
plenty and nice and farmers wives
have canned a nice lot for winter.
Frank Pooler made his sister, Mrs.
Fred Nye visit, last week and one
day with her daughter Effie went up
to Hayden Lake to an entertainment
and all enjoyed themselves nicely.
Frank also visited Fred Richardson at
Will Hill's and the boys had nice
time.
Mrs. Lora Webster made her par
ents John L. Burrill and wife a short
visit one day last week,
Mrs. Abel Written and Beulah Ire
land, her niece, made Wallace
Ireland, her brother, short visit
sunday.
Sullivan Thurston and his daughter
Daisy, who taught the school at
Dudley Corner made us pleasant
call Saturday.
Mrs. Kellum and her husband who
were here on visit the first OF
the winter and visiting many southern
states and the west took the overland
route for their home in Fairbanks,
Alaska; arrived home all right but
Mrs. Kellum was sick a number OF
weeks after reaching home. She is
the daughter of Elbridge Richardson.
Your correspondent was unexpect-
eddy called away last week and failed
to send in the items of East Show
hogan.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
Almost Prehistoric.

Her voice in the midsummer gloam-
ing had a plaintive sound
II haven't anything new to sing to
you tonight Cyril" she faltered.
Then sing me one of the old songs
love-" said the man tenderly.
High, thin and little cracked, her
soprano rose in quaint, sweet melo1'
of "Over the Gar6en Wall" WheI
the song was ended her lover laughed
and said:
THAT was indeed an old one, Clara. .
Two hard lines formed about the cor
ners of her mouth.
Yes. Cyril" she said quietly: 81
sang that song to you the night we be
came engaged New Orleans Times
Democrat.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
500 Reward 500.

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medical fraternity. Catarrh being . oonstitu'
tional disease, requires 4 constitutional treat
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acting directly upon the blood and mucous
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foundation Of the disease, and giving the
patient strength BY building up the constitution
and assisting nature In doing its work, The
proprietors have 80 much faith In its
curative powers, that they offer One Hundred
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for list Of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo O
Sold BY druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-22
a Contrast.

Mr.. Dapper u one of that class OF
men who are scrupulously neat In their
personal appearance. but who never
fail to leave chaos behind them In the
scene OF their preparations. A neigh
Dor recently called on Mrs. Dapper
and remarked:
Zone rarely sees a more we'll kept
man than your husband. He always
looks as II he had just come out of a
handbook"
Every true" returned Mrs. Dapper,
"but"-with a sigh-''you ought to SEE
the bandbox "--Pearson's Weekly.