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POINTS A BOU!
^Pedigree ^Vlone DOGS !
of th.e Ste
To the JOditor of the News and Cou- f
ncr: AH waa pointed out in a previous |
artiole, we have io South Carolina all j
tho natural conditions Decenary for
the development of a succcbhful live
stock industry. What wc need above
every thing else to plsoe thio industry
upon a good paying basis is an im
provement in the quality of our live
stock. Wo submit herewith a few
pointers as to how improvements may
be most readily effected'.
Hero, as elsewhere, tho safest and
most economical means of bettoring
the quality of live stock is to grade up
?our common stook by the use of care
fully selected, puro bred eirnn. By
this method we do not get stock that
can be registered, but wo do get stook
which, iu-practical utility, very dose
ur approaches our registered stook.
Too many of our farmers aro labor
ing under the delusion that good re
sults can be scoured from registered
or pedigreed live stock only. The
prevailing bolief seems to be that all
registered stook possesses somo de
gree of excellence over common nni
mals, and that ouch a thing as a
"sorub" has no existence outside of
the common or graded olaBses. Far
mers should not forget the faot, how
ever, that while the'irght kind of
pedigreed stock ?B of first importance,
there is plenty of this olasB of stook
that is not worth the purchasing.
This emphasises the ?need of using
the utmost caution in tho selection of
pure bred sires to head our herds and
flocks?
We should not allow oursolves to be
deceived by long pedigrees. A pedi
gree is simply a recorded statement of
the ancestry of an animal, and its
value depends primarily upon the
merit of thelanimals represented in it.
ID selecting a pure bred dairy bull,
for example, our first and most im
portant duty is to inqiure rigidly into
the milking capacity of his dam, his
eire's dam and so on dowa the line.
Unfortunately most of us are content
ed to find ia his pedigree simply a
long list of "high sounding" names
of animals, and there are those who
Mtnally go so far SB to vsloe sn uni
asl solely on the length of his pedi
gr??
As already atatt*?, many worthless
animals sra continually being regis1
tared because their eligibility to regis
trallon ?B solely .determined by their
purity of brooding. Suoh animals w's
are wont to designate aa pnrs brod
sorobB and such in reality thoy ara.
Knowing, th oe, that there are plenty
of pure bred Boraba in existence, it
behooves na to be especially careful
not only to iee that the animal we are
after ia deaconded from atook of
great excellence, but that the indi
vidual itself possesses that quality
ead perfection so essential in all ani
m?la.
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For Thin
Fat is of great account
to a baby; tbat is why
babies are fat. If your
baby is scrawny, Scott's
Emulsion is what he
wants* The healthy baby
stores as fat what it does
not ne?d immediately for
hone and muscle. Fat
babies are happy; they do
not cry; they are rich;
their fat is laid up for
time of need. They are
Jfctappy because t bi?y are
comfortable. The fat $uK
zounds their little nerves
and cushions them. When
they are scrawny those
nerves are hurt, at every
ungentle touch. They
d!eli^;in Scott's Emul
; ?flnK i 'It' ' is : TBS ?. sweet as ?
?pltesome to them.
'ySond. for from sample. . / !
?. Bu ra that tMs Pie*"* la
tho form of a labal ts oaths
wrapper of a vc ry boula of
sTmaUloo yea buje
Ckomfa/X'
?09*4rs P*ari Jtoswi
? //?afe*>ITer?:
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' LIVE STOCK.
IST ot .Assure the Alaine
)ck .A-nirnal.
One great mistake ot" purchasers o
j>urc bred Block is that they expect
too much for too little money. In
stead of trying to purchase a bull and
a few heifers of connnou turrit for a
small sum of money, it is int better
policy to out out the hoifera aud in
vest the cutir? sum in a bull of out
standing merit. It is thc evident
wisdom of this policy that leads us to
odvogate the grading up of rclati^?ly
obcap, unregistered females with
registered males of a high degree of
excellence.
The male is by far tho most impor
tant animal in the herd, Hook or
stud. The familiar expression. "The
bull is half the herd," dooB not do
justice to the part which the bull
plays in the ranking cr unmaking of a
herd. It ia a matter of common
knowledge that pore bred animals
will transmit their characteristics
with muoh greater certainty than do
common or grade animals. . It ia evi
dent, therefore, that the offspring
from common or grade females and
pare bred malos will possoss more of
the characteristics of tho malo than of
the female. From this it will bo
seen that if the puro bred male is an
exooptional merit, ho will bo able to
bring the herd or flock of common
animals to a state of perfection ap
proaching his own in a vory few gen
erations. If the pure bred malo bo
one of tho scrub or inferior kind he is
juBt OJ certain to drag tue herd or
flock dowu in a similarly short period
of time. John Michels,
Associate Professor Animal Hus
bandry and Dairying.
Clemson College, January 21).
Nancy Hart of Edgefield.
In the News-Leader of Jan. 18 last,
a contributor writes, of Nancy Hart,
the famous Georgia character of Revo
lutionary days.
Nancy Hart ij by no means mythi
cal but was a very real personsge.
Notwithstanding her gigantic frame,
red hair, freckles and crossed eyes,
her memory is kept greener among
the people of her native State than
that of many a more prepossessing
heroine.
She ?as what is familiarly known aa
a Georgia "cranker," a poor thungo,
intelligent white, who lived among
the sand hills or in the isolated die
triots of the State.
Shat Nancy was possessed of more
than ordinary intelligence is conced
ed!.
Her eccentricities and homelineis
made her a conspicuous and familiar
figure for miles sround, and her ac
quaintance was not confined to those
in ber own sphere in life.
Her osptnre of the ten Tories while
they were devouring the tempting
viands she had been, compelled to
prepare for them is recognized as an
historical faot.
Boring Andrew Jackson's presi
dency representatives from Georgia,
desiring to bring that State to the no
tice of the president, decided to pre
sent a painting for one of tho niches
in the rotunda of the United States
sspitol building. At length it was
eompleted-a portrait of Nancy Hart?
bare-headedi! bare-footed, her skirts
to her kiees, crossing a shallow
stream driving ?ten ? Tories before ber
at point of one of their own guns.
The president,.who was redheaded
and oame of a hardy pioneer stock
himself, is said to have been very
much pleased with the piotnre, and it
is to be hoped that Georgia profited
by the diplomscy of her representa*
tivee.
The idea that Naney Hart followed
her husband to Florida and died there
is erroneous. After the fierce dis
turbances of the Revolution had gone
down as history, she buckled np her
yoke of oxen, and with her children
and grandchildren emigrated to South
Carolina.
' At one of the stops on the route
her son-in-law became engaged in a
drunken brawl '?and was tsken in ess
tody by an officer. Ever quick to
meet an emergency, Nanoy went to
the reson?. Bestowing a few pugil
istic hamps on the detainer of her
son-in-law, she seised the latter and
lifted him bodily into the bed of the
wagon ana UIOTO UU? ?.? wnut
?Nancy Bart located near Edge
field, a smalt town not far from the
Georgia lino. . Her fsme preceded her
there, and sha was welcomed and re*
ipeeted by her neighbors. My grand
rather'e grandfather ?.lived in Edge
leld and was one of the early Baptist
preachers. D Stye ^tfe^-|risV. were
almost universally Presbyterian, bot
?nee ?ghated, there was soon a large
sprinkling of Baptiste and M?thodiste
throughout the South. The ministers
sjere for the most part itinerant, and
Jones in enthusiasm were bold under
huge open tabernacles and men rode
on horseback a hundred miles to bc in
attendance.'
Tradition savs that Nancy Hart was
converted at ono of these meeting?.
It would be reasonable to suppose
that time and hardships would have
touched the red hair with grey and
curbed the old dauntless spirit, but
she was as strcnuou? In religion as in
politic*. There are mystical Btorics
in my mind of a ?aunt old woman
embracing my dignified ancestor and
disarranging his stock and dragging
sluggard sinners by their queues and
coattails to the penance sest, but
these are traditions repeated from
generation to generation, and I would
not vouch for their authenticity.
However, I have always understood
that Nancy Hort lived to a good old
ago, died sod wai) buried in the old
Edgcfield district-?OW Edge?eld
Couoty, S. C.
. A sketch of Nancy Uart can be
found in Joel Chandler Harris*
"Stories of Georgia."-Louis Rey
nolds in Richmond News-Loader.
A Hew Yorker's Adventure In
Southern Waters;
A Now Yorker who bas just return
ed from a visit to the South tells of a
thrilling adventure he had in Louisi
ana with tro black desperadoes.
While exploring the oonntry along
the Mississippi river oouth of Now
OrloanB, be heard many weird tales of
flying devilfish, and, although he felt
eure they were chiefly due to negro
superstition, he thought it possible
they might havo some slight basis in
fact, and he determined to investigate.
As it turned out the "flying devil
fish" proved to be a peouliar kind of
skate that leaps out of thc water-but
that is aside from the story.
Tho point is that when tu. New
Yorker expressed o wish one day io a
little general atoro to see the devil
fish, two stalwart negroes at once
volunteered to guide him to the spot
whero they could be found. The
New Yorker oepted their offer and
they proenred a small sailboat, in
whieh the party set ont on a bayon
one morning when a heavy fog hong
over the water. The Now Yorker
wished to wait for a clearer day, bot
the negroes asonred him that the fog
was just what they wanted, as it
would enable them to creep up elose
to the 4'devilfish."
The New Yorker was also inclined
to demur at the apperance of the
boat, which was nothing more than
an old rowboat, with a pole set into
tba front seat for a mast. The shell
looked as if it were rapidly disinteg
rating, but tba New Yorker, knowing
tbat they wera not likely to encounter,
any norms, decided io kssp bis fears
to himself, .
As tba boat sailed out into tba
thiok of tba fog, the New Yorker ob
served that tba negroes were eyeing
bim in a way tbat seemed snsnioious.
One, especially, appeared to be fasci
nated by theggold watch ohain that
dangled in the New Yorker's waist
coat. The New Yorker began to get
uneasy and bis fears oausing bim to
examine bis companions mora olosely
he saw that he bad to deal witb men
not likely to hesitate at murder if it
were necessary to aooomplisb their
purpose. A little later his worst
fears were confirmed.
Letting down the sail, one of the
negroes seised a olub that had been
concealed undera seat, and iud:
"Say, boss, we shore don't want no
trouble, but we'se gwine to. ask you
to let us have your money and
Watch."
The New Yorker, who sat in tba
stern, was ready for them. Witb a
rapid movement his band sough? bis
bip pocket, and tba next second tba
thuga wera confronted by a highly
polished revolver. They did not stop
to admir? tba weapon. Instantly tba
negro that ?was at tba bow arose,,
seized a huge stone ?hat evidently bad
been used as an anchor, burled it
at tba New Ycrker and plunged over
board. Ea was immediately followed
by his companion. { "
Now,: so quick was tho negro*?
movement with tba stone that the
New-Yorker bad nob time to fire before
it came "flying in bis direction. In
stinctively ha dodged, but thc negro
in hie excitement had forgotten tbat
tba rook waa attached to tba bow with
a rope, and when tba length of tba
rope bad been played out the progress
of tba reek ebrspity wa* choked ?nd
lt fell to the bottom, ornsbiog through
the frail shell.
? Immediately tho boat began to sink.
Tbefnegroes by ibis time bad baan
swallowed up ia Jibe f og. The predic
ament of tho New Yorker w*ex now'
gtttvcrVvbin vT?r. Ha could satiftt
a stroke. \ /
Aa tba water poured over tba sides
of the boat and it disappeared from
View tho New Yorker in his despera
tion ol ung to the aasi i?d p??^
himself up to the tcp. Tobie joy iba
top remained above ike water, but ha
f caa began to feet tbat he had gained
only a ?hort respite from doath.
mast with ever-inoreaBing despeir.
He thought of hie friends ia New
York, and in bia delirium piotaros
on the gay scenes on upper broadway
at night passed through his brain like
a panorama. It was horrible to die
thus-to Wait for death *.0 creep upon
him as if be were a rat ia a trap. At
last his streugth beeara utterly ex
hausted. Ho wis forced to release
his grip on tho rna6t, and with a last
cry of denpair dropped into tho wa
ter.
His feet struck something soft. It
'.vas mud! Ho had touched bottom!
Ile stood up straight. The water
came up to his waist linc! Ho
started to walk and two minutes later
gained tho shoro.
- UM m-avmt -
Borges Not Abolished by Steam.
The following from Rural New
Yorker tells accurately the resulta cf
the chang?e thai wore prophesied to
be the ruin of thc horse-raising busi
ness!
"Some of those men who told us a
dozen years ago that horses were dead
property, and that 'horse-breeding was
doomed, ahould go oat and try to buy
a good horse today. Such animals
never were higher or harder to find.
Just why this io so is a great mys
tery. The theory of a dosen years
ago wsB perfect. Automobiles, trol
ley oars, eleotrio trucks and bicycles,
have all taken up work that was for
merly dono by the horse.
"Yet in spite of the vast inorease
of those things, good horses and good
hay are higher than over. Hero is a
case where faot has destroyed theory
and who will say today that horse or
mule-breeding is not one of the most
promising branohes of farming?
"That thc opinion expressed is cor
rect will be doubted by no one who
has found it necoBsary to go into the
market to buy horaeo during the past
year. Tho installation of eleotricity
on the street and urban railways, the
coming of the bicycle and later of the
automobile, has only had the effect of
taking some of the drudgery from the
horse. As a companion, as a source
of pleasure sud as s faithful servant,
he seems to have as large, if aa easier
field of ase, BB formerly."
. mum u u\ ? i
A Cautious Depositor.
An old negro went to the bank ie
which ho kept his hard earned savings,
says Harper's Weekly, snd ssked thc
paying teller to give him all the mon
ey he had deposited. He offered nc
explanation of his sudden desire tc
withdraw hil' funds, and after voit
argument with him the teller course
out the bills sod delivered them to thc
old man. He eyed the paper mons]
0 moment, sud said:
, /-Kin ! git dst ic silver, boss?"
The teller assured him he eould, sac
forthwith mad? the exchange Thc
old negro retired to a neighboring desk
remained oTOUohed over it a loag time
and then, to the teller's great surprise
returned to the window and gleeful)]
thrust his money back through thi
pigeonhole. Before he could speak
the old man said, grinning widely
"Thanks, boss, you kin take it back
1 jes wanted t* see cfit was all there.'
The Key To The Situation..
Mark Twain has told many goo?
stories of himself, and the ciro um
stances make it likely that he was th
original teller of the following. Hi
panse of humor would ?give the inci
dent its full value.
While st his summer residence L
prepared one evening to take ? drive
and expecting to remain ont until late
told his hostler that he need not wei
for him. He instructed the msc
however, wn?? . li? had finished th
work to lock the stable and p?acc th
key under a stone, the location o
which Mr. C?emeos described wit!
muoh. exactness. ,f; v
When the humorist reached hom
after MB drive, ho was surprised t
find that the key was not1 in the pl ac
selected. Ho was obliged to arouse th
hostler, who explained, ss he atarte
for the missing key, "Mr. Clemons,
found a batter plaoe to hide iii''
Washed Ker Feat.
A young andi accomplished Ohles
go lady recently eloped, and a you na
er sister wasquestioned by her ?ngr,
? a th e whom he suspected cf k no win,
more About the matter tuan she wa
willing to admit. ^ Were you awsir
that your sisier was going to elope?'
inquired tho o?? man. t^o1[ father
she never told mo any 'thing about it.5
"Did you suspect anything?" "Noth
ing y whsJks?r," ; ? VepUea ike 'i' girl
"Did she make any piaparadan for thi
fehiag about." "Did you not seo ne
flasks; ?ny arraogements for goio?
away?" "None, : except to wash hr,
''-^V n-^', ^?'-;- ^ V' V '
;'?~Fura??UTO dealers aro advocate
orbrlof^urubip?. ' ' ^
i;: s??
and' not seguir? ita craft, ; ^||?|
--A bachelor'hardly etei has at
bad s temper as he would hare if hi
. !Tm 'M??i ;t*l6? : ia' th?. %?rt?
is to find an es?y wa/ cf making i
The Fick le Fair.
"My heart's broken."
"What's the matter?"
"I was making luve to my sweet
heart last night, and her father came
suddenly into the room."
"Well, that was awkward, but hard
ly heartbreaking."
"Wasn't it? The old man merely
roinarkcd tbat it waa a pity she
couldn't stick to the samo follow
two eveuing? in succession"
Dried Milk.
Australia has adopted the system of
drying milk wbioh is Haid to have been
very successful in London, England.
The milk in dried between steam rollers
and sold as a powder, from which noth
ing tut water has been extracted and
to w'aioh nothing but water requires to
he added to make wholesome, clean and
H tonie milk. A leading medical oinoer
is reported to have said that the
asylums for consumptive patients and
general hospitals has proved the suc
cess.
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Born That Way.
A member of the House from New
England tells of an occasion whoo he
overheard an amusing colloquy be?
tween the lato Thomas B. Beed and a
darky barber.
"The "tonsorial artist" was in
olined to be talkative, but to all his
efforts at conversation the big man
from Maine returned only a monosyl
lable or a grunt.
Finally the barber patted the cran
ium of the Speaker, whereon reposed
one or two stray looks, saying*.
"De hair's gittin' pretty thin, sah.
Been that way long?'
"I was born that way," dryly re
turned Reed.
Could Not Trust Him.
After a wordy argument in which
neither scored, two meu decided to
fight it out. It was agreed that when
either said, "I've enough" the fight
should cooBo.
After they had been at it about
ten minutes one of them fell, and
immediately yelled, "Enough! I've
enough!"
But his opponent kept on pounding
him until a man who was watching
them Baid:
"Why don't you let him up? Ho
says he's got enough,"
"I know he says sp," cajd tho vic
tor, between ponche?, "but he's o ooh
a liar you oan't believe a4 word ?a ?
cayo I"-Washington Post. .. '
Household Hints.
To make bisoaits light-drench with
gasoline and ?gnita before serving,
How to keep servants--chloroform
theta arsd iooktbemiotho ?d???, .[ j
Quickest way to ?et rid of paddlers
-buy ail thoy have. ,; .?..;.;
To keep rata out " of the pantry
pitee ail food. in the cellar. <
To entertain women visitors-lei
them inspect your private letters. |
. To entertain nun visitors-feed tho
brutes. .
To keep children at home-look np
all their clothes, v
Tb keep hubby at home-hide bis
toupee.
To test the freshness of eggs-drop
them on some herd substance.
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Why He Stayed Home.
. He was one of the happiest "kids",
in town. Ko stood in front o? hk
home and grinned enthusiastically os
he saw the others unwillingly wena
iagtheir way toward school.
''pome on, Harold," shouted sov
eral bf the boys. . V l\
. 'Not on your I life.". ? answered '' ibo
rcjoioing Harold. "No school for me
today. Tm going to stay home.*'
?What'aab*matter? eiekte
"No."; -r" ';
"Xonr nta siok?"; ' MmMm
:';"No.W;.-v :
"Well, why?"
'-.-J ? Qb, f ? 'cause. ';: ..You ^see;' 'my^vgraa'?
inVe opine to -spend the da>*Witli
I m amma and ; grah'm? ? eh o' s 'awful b ax d '
o' neerin*. MammaVgbt a. cold oh
her ohoat, and in ber neck, and Bbs
can't talk loud enough for gran'ma to
home to tell gren*ra* what mamma
says* ?/' Sesr^adiena^
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^iA'?iyty?war^
Tlie Kind You Have Always Bought? and which baa been,
in use for over 30 years? lias borne the signature cf .
and lias been made under his per
sonal supervision since Its Infancy*
Allow no one to deceive you in this*
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ?? Just-as-good" are but?
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment
What is CASTO RIA
Caatoria ls st- harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Patf-B*
Serie. Drops und Soothing Syrups? It is Pleasant* It?
contabas neither Opium* Morphine nor other Narcotic?
substance? Its age ls its guarantee? It destroys "Warana
and allays Feverishness* It cures Diarrhoea and Windi
Colic? It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation*
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the*
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep*
The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend*
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears tho Signatare of
The Kind You Have Always Fougbt
In Use For Over 30 Years.
TH* CKHTAUR OOM FAN Vi *J ?USUUV OTRSCT. KCW TOUR OTTV.
How is Your Liver,
IF NOT RIGHT TAKE
EVANS' " LIVER AND KIDNEY
They right the wrong caused by overheating.
Evans' Pllarmaoy.
To afford yon tm opportunity to have- : ? ' i
DEM6HTrlJL''0HBIS!L^s^;'MtlS?G.
And pleasure for Ute ?atof the yeer tr? nave made- .
SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICER
Good until flew Year's Bayvsn new
. $125, $160, $176, $200. i ? j
Handsome cases, best quality tone and material, fully war?
ranted. , ;.fp . |\ . ^-(fr^'w-w' * 1
V : Two Car la??^^LM m*y btv
yours on terms j*t lowest possible pri?es. ^ \
Oraphaphones,6,Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Bte.
Come to sse ?r?write us fdr these sp?cial prices. ?
TEE C. ? ?EEE?) ? HOUSE. \
AHDEBSON, H. C.
LOOKOVERTHIS LIST,
HOME,:
CITY 0? AN DERSON, f < ? BROAUWAT. !TOWW8HIP.
".. 8 vacant I/Ota on Greenville street :: : : ?? acres, in cultivation,
l Houca ana Lot on North Fant ?t. S^sereei^g^
1 House and Lot on Franklin et. improved, In Ano stole ofonltivstion-&
? ^1 veepmjlioj^ .ipoabsTgeln^ ?
; HOC?: MTI^TOW?SHIP. :*^??M^?^^? ?&>?' ? . ?
:'-ilo^:?ere*,rbnproyed; ?? 'V^-: ? . I :,
250e^ improved. A ' ?AJ&VIN TOWNSHIP.
. . ;; PK.HDLr?OK^QWNBmKV-: l6d<wre*,laprov?at \V&?'-; .
? 88 aerea, with 5-room dwelSing end ont? A:-^7#s^r^,.l?pio^^ y-'". .. .. ?
?S<a^,P^4tor^d1i?]U&, barns v 22? wros, 5^K?m dweilii^," 5 tenu*
? ?? serse, Improved, '"? : * ; : , ; ... >" ABBETO#B?OOOTtlJ*?^'
k lo? toreen Improved; ; a? sere?, in cultivation.
IM acres, Improved. : ? % , . 400 aerea, in good state ?oltivation.
^^?ttes, Improved, good atete of onM- ^ Cto|er!52-^*~
:&?B?^.]2^^ . . - 17tf e>r*iV g tenant dwelllog*; V
174 acree, improved._ 1 100 sereu, two3roonu dwellings.
**-'7*- / 1 'J ' ; ; "". .. ? ,'i.'-t- )f, --I'I \ ; "' ' r '' ?' ' ''" ''r'i'j '" Vii iliVn'i'
F(W >W;?I?*M^ new settler, esd io fa?lp ??OS? tfW *&ofc to sV
ctsre homes in the beet cooniry oa earth.
