Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Prof. Massey's Letter. Special Cor. Home ami Farm : The letter in a Into nunibei from Mr. 8. M. Jolloy, of Clove land county,in this State, (\. C.) sets me to thinking. Why should any one want to emigrate fron the beautiful county of Cleveland, with its healthy climate and beau tiful scent ry, and a soil that if easily made .is good a the b v*t tr hi> found t -i whpr" ' "Why 'c t that it take? four .. res of tin land to make a hale of cotton in lean some fertilizer is appli 1 ? Is it not evident that tin re i- some thin r wrnmr in the methods ol farming, when the lovely piedmont country of the south side 01 North Carolina will not do hotter than ' hat ? A d t , ; vm man at least, in <h?- v.,me kind <>\ soil and no' many mil* s away T >t_ ? It * . . \ .i . . .nr. I. V..\ , vk I. .l.\y bale of cotton j or acre and thirtyfive bushels of w heat per nrt-- ii: a fair season, aiul Joes not put any fertilizer en bis wheat either Why is it that arid regions of the of the Southwest should be at traeting emigrants from such 51 country as we have here in the 1'iedmont section of North Carolina? Right out in that sanx country, at a farmers' institute : week ago, I met a man fresh frou Arizona, who was thanking < *<>?: that he had at last reached a country where grass and trees grow green, and where the blessed rair falls on the roof. You could no! hire that man to go back tc Arizona. And yet light in the country to which ho has tied foi refuge, men tell us they are con templating emigration to thai same country from which lie wa: glad to escape. At another farm ers* institute in ihe l'iodmont country we met another man who with It is wife and son hat moved all the way from Wyoming to .North Carolina, in wagons making the trip in about simonths, lie did this in order tr observe the whole country ei route. He says that over th< whole trip he found no sectini tli.it lie thought so favorably o i< he does of North (hi roll mi, an< he has invested his money her" whore there are no hl'/zards, noi hot winds, nor tornadoe* ain where ?'io[?s can he grown will plenty of natural rainfall. And yet. towards the setting ? iiii. are men looking from this land that flows with milk am honey lor sensible farming. am; want in;: to leave the nmiiimherei blessings here for the miserie and duiiculties of a new and tin tri d seet'on I ho man v ho vaiie here from Wyoming I ?l*l me that .a . go oeti >ns of W stern Kan s t- lie found mnnv farni? iitferH deserted and those with mhahi tants ii!i<i only women and eliil (1 r? j). as iho men had gone else where lo earn-money to get theii families away from that arid re gion. lie said too that in Kasferr Kansas, where they ronld grow good croj?,hti noticed dial it tooli five hnshclfl of corn to I my what two bushels will buy here, and there is much land here that will grow as much, and all can he made to do it with good farming, Ho came through Indiana and Kentucky, and in his opinion, wc can grow as good crops as jn the Bluegrass region, if we farm as well, and on land that can he bought for less than the annual rent of farm lands in the Middle Western States. Men are ever inclined to lly from the blessings r they have, to troubles they know nothing of. We have been all i over the West and Southwest, I from Minnesota to the Rio i Grande, and we have seen no . country where a man practices the same economy, and who ; farms decently can do better than in the Piedmont country of North Carolina. I am daily getting let tors from men all over the u est I who want to oonio to North t'arc linn 4o l etter themselves. <>wr farmers, even under fhe si nek system of farming lu re, are' lutfer ofl'tlian the farmers of t ! r groat West. So I wou'd earnest ! ly idri.se Mr. .loPev : nd hif friends to think a long thin Ik fore they move away from ihe old Yorth State. You have hf-en . f;?i general! ">us scratching o?et t wornout farm, and dosing it with : fertilizers *o got a crop, wh'lo right under the scratch of your . little plow lies virgin soil, wailing' l??r the man who lias energy enough to take a subsoil plow i and get into it and grow good crops. All over that lovely Piedmont country tillage and suhsoil ing will do more for the land i than fertilizers. And yet the i farmers of North Carolina ha\o ! tho present year paid between . .w oon nnn nn.i nnnnnn mr I t 'I V, V/ ,UV?\f IWI commercial fertilizers. Will the i land be advanced in value anyt where near that amount' What ) a big slice of the cotton crop will ) be taken to pay the fertilizer bill, r when half the amount judiciously - used to promote the growth of t peas and clover would have done s moro for the material wealth of the fanners of the State, and t would have started the improve, ment of the land towards the 1 point of practical independence ; of the fertiliser mixer. Said a . good farmer up in that serf ion to k IIIU lilHt Wt'fK . ) "I carved this farm out of the 1 woods after the war. 1 know the land is rough and hilly, hut it is ' good, and I have tine society, and 1 though I have often heon tempted ' to sell and huy i ? a smoother country, i have hesitated to leave the associations here, where I can ' send my children to good schools, 1 and try some other place where j the surroundings may not he ><? '' iileasnnt." 41 1 When men from n'l over the j West and North art coining to, I help us htiiM up the old State,; . l 1.1 . . : . I I n 11 1 Nllllim <>141 JlflipiO t'llll^rai ?' ito the land from which they are tlooing ' My tdvice hen to Mr. i.lolloy and all like him is to stay! ; 1>\ the ? )<! land, and try to Sarinj , so that a halo wiP ho hk easy t | grow on your lar.d a> a fourth of a . halo. It can ho lone if you farm, land get out of the old ruts, hut it cannot ho done so lone as you ] depend on somebody's hag of fer tili/.er. and nogleot the growing of 1 j forage and the feeding of stock and the saving of manure at I homo. It is absolutely painful to me to hear of men wishing to II abandon a country where a little systematic etl'ort will give them wealth and wanting to try a new ' country where there are not, near the advantages wo have here. ? > The Woman's Exposition of the ('arolinas, which was held at Charlotte. N.C.,cleared $1,782.22. Chautauqua Literary nn<l Scientific Circle. For the Enterprise. At about this time every year for the last three or four years I have had something to say about the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle?of what it is, what it has done, and what it is doing mow?of the great influence it is having in various ways on American life Whether those articles have <l<.iiie any good or not 1 do not know: but I am going to keep on writing thorn ! knew what the Chautauqua Ciicle is. and J know it to be ? good thing ?know its course of study would be of incalculable benefit to any who would take he course and oonsoiontiou'*!" do th" "'o-v manned out?and that's mv apologv, if any apology were needed, for ihout it This year's course is called the (Jertrian- Ivoiuan year.which menus lh.it the couino <?t reading is for ho most, part concerning (iormany and ancient Koine. The books on Germany are "Imperial (lor many", bv Sidney Whitman, a well known Knglislnnan of letters, and "A Short History of Medieval Knrope", by Prof. Thatcher, of Chicago, who tells how modern life and civilization were gradually formed out of the struggles of the dark time specified in the title of his hook. The books on Home are "Roman Life in Pliny's Time", by Maurice l'ellison,a distinguished French writer and scholar, who describes the life, customs, habits, and so on, of the Romans ; and "Roman and Medieval Art", bv Prof. Goodyear,one of the leading art critics of the country. The work on science takes up a branch that is comparatively now?the science of human institutions?sociology. It is entitled "The Social Spirit in America'', by l'r<?f Henderson,ot Chicago, and is, as its title indicates, a study of the spirit and tendency and progress of the times?in our own country. These books are all by special ist on the subject they treat, and they are all written in plain, unci ?rstandable,and entertaining Ian guage. 1 ney aro won printed, from large 'ype, on first class pa])or, beautifully illustratod whore illustrations are needed, and splendidly and artistically hound in maroon cloth stamped in hlack and gold. Merely to look at thorn creates a d.-^iro to read them? which desire loos not end with the first i ?str you t k of tlieir content" The reading course described above is supplemented l?y that contained in the twelve numbers of the ('haiitainpian magazine, each of which is itself a hook? about half of which follows along the lines laid down in the hooks. Anyone who would liko to know more about the ('. L. S. ('. can apply tor information to John 11. Vincent, Bulfalo. N. Y. .1 October, 1S07. 'J he laying of the corner alone of Anderson's new Court House will take place on Oct. 20th. Klaborate ceremonies are bein^ prepared for this event. The Graded School of Anderson opened with dr?0 pupils. A FARMER'S SAD FATE. Prominent Citizen of York Dies of Heart Failure Trying to Safe His Property From Fire. Yorkville, October 4.?Special; The gin house, flour ami corn mills, nud other machinery helonging to the Hon. L. K. Armstrong, of Hethol Township, in this county, were destroyed by ! tiro early this morning, entailing I a ioss ol about $1,500. j The lire occured shortly after j the machinery, which was pio jailed by steam, was put in operation. Mr. Armstrong and his | employees worked mailt ally to | extinguish the flames, ard shortly l alter the buildings had been con j jsumed Mr. Armstrong died 01 j | heart failure, brought on by ox- j citemeni and over-exertion. Uej j was a prominent man 111 h<s| j neighborhood, u successful tar.n-| j er, a leading Reformer and a I member ol the Legislature. Mr. | J Armstrong was about f?0 years old, and leaves a wife, but no children. Sunshine. Learn to laugh. A good laugh is hotter than medicine. Loam how to tell a story. A ] good story is as wholesome as a sunbeam in a sick room. Learn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to or 10 lor your ills and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you can't seo any good in this world, keep the bad to yourself. Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. No one cares to hear whether you have the earache, headache or rheumatism. Don't cry. Tears do well enough in novels, hut they are out of place in real life A Story of Hamlin. Frank Sanborn recall* the following amusing anecdote in hi* Boston letter to the Springfield Republican: I llannibal Hamlin in his own Maine town, half a century ago, was a gold Democrat, and his party was at almost as low an obb ! <i x# ?: ? it ? i it* urn aUcmiio i stMiiuc.racy now is. He called a caucustochoose delegate* to tho Maine conventions, h!count v, and congressional, j two persons came, Hannibal him | sell' anddolm Smith, l imy elected a lull hst of delegatus; but when lit came to their credentials a difficulty arose. Hamlin was chair man of the caucus, and Smith secretary; but how was the gath jering to be described? Hamlin I said: '-Mr. Smith, write,'At a t largo and respectahlo caucus of the Democrats of II., so-and so were chosen delegates to Ihe state convention.' and then put the names." "Hut. S?|uire Hamlin, can we call thin caucus large and resnoctaide, onlv von and ino?" k - - ? ' s y 'Why not, Mr. Smith? You are lar^o and I am respectable; what's the difficulty?,' And the credentials were so made out. Yellow Jark Hilled. CnMcft'oU Candy Cathartic kill* Yellow Jack whl r< vit they find film. 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