The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, July 29, 1885, Image 4

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; Continued from Ftr*t Pace. Gen. Grant, Karl Gerhard, the Hartford sculptor* who has been making a study here of the General, was summoned tc the cottage, at the suggestion of Dr. Newman, to make a piaster mask of the dead man's face. He was - ujguis> iu? Within half an honr after the General's dccease the waiting engine at the mountain depot was on the way to Saratoga to bring an undertaker to place the remains on ice at once, to await the arrival of the New York undertaker. Details and arrangements ! touching ihe remains were pnt in charge of Joseph W. Drexel and W. J. Arkell. W. J. Arkell vacated his fine cottage near Artists' Lake and the remains of Gen. Grant will be placed there, the cottage to be sealed and guarded by a platoon of United States soldiers which will be sent by Gen. Hancock. The public will be kept at a distance, in accordance with the desire of Gen. Grant expressed a week before he died. Where Shall He be Baried? Touching the place for burial, the Gfinnrs] a month ao-o indicated three places as suiting his wishes in that direction. The choice, however, was narrowed down to two, owinjr to the natnral wish of the General that his wife should rest beside him. A strongdesire has been expressed to the family that the burial should take place in Washington, and efforts have also been put forth to make New York the last resting place of the General. Before his death, however, Gen Grant left the choice of a burial spot entirely to Col. Fred. Grant, imposing only the condition that the spot selected should be snch that Mrs. Grant might rest by his side. His remains have been re moved to New York by a special train and there prepared for burial. Col. Fred. T. Dent, Gen. Grant's brother-in-law, who is now residiyg in "Washington, was asked if he knew what place had been selected for the General's burial. He replied that he did not, although he had made iuqtwcjr on the subject when at Mount McGregor recently. From a remark then -made by a member of Gen. Grant's family he inferred that a positive selec^ tion had been made by the General, but that it was known only to himself, Mrs. Grant and Col. Fred^ Grant. He -vvas inclined to think, however, that the General had not selected Washington, bnt possibly West Point. Commissary General MacFeely telegraphed as follows: Washington;, D. C., July 23.?Cot Fred. Grant: The board of commissioners of the United States Soldiers' Home are unanimous iu their desire., that the remains of Gen. Grant may be buried within the grounds of that institution. The commissioners have selected, 1 if satyect io,-ine approval ui mc lauiuv, aa'appropriate and commanding emi nence overlooking the city and the surroundiug country as an appropriate place of sepulchre. "Letter by mail. R. MacFeely, (In absence and bv authority of LieutGen. Sheridan, Presidents Board.) President Cleveland's Action. President Cleveland was going to his breakfast on Thursday "morning when the toiiowms aisparcn, woica came over the wires of the White House, was haDded him: "Father died at S o'clock tbls moral 12. "F. D. Gkant " After this breakfast waited for the Presideut while he dictated a reply addressed to Mrs. Grant, as follows: "Accept this expression of my heartfelt sympathy in this hour of your great affliction. The people of tbe nation mourn with you and would reach if hov rvMilr? with kimllv mmfort Ike depth of sorrow which is yours alone, and which oulv the pitv of God can heal." Messengers were quickly seut to all the members of the Cabinet requesting them to assemble an hour earlier than usual on Cabinet days in oruer that steps might be taken to prepare a suitable tribute to the dead chiefiaiu. Secretary Endicott was the only ab"ittoo frnm fho f!nnn#?5l ('hftmhpr wbeu the President seated himself at the long table and greeted his counsellors. As a. result of the deliberations in the room formerly occupied by President Graut the following proclalamation to the people of the Uuited States conveying the sad intelligence was formulated and circulated through the medium of the Press: TOE PROCLAMATION. The President of the United States has just received the sad tidings of the deatn or tnat uiostnons citizen ana ex-President of the United States, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, at Mount McGregor, State of New York, to which place he had lately been removed in tm endeavor to prolong- his life. Tn jnakmg thfs announcement to the people of the United States the President is impressed with the magnitude of the public loss of a military leader, who was in the hour of victory magnanimous, amid disaster serene and self-sustained, who in every station, whether as soldier or as Chief Magistrate twice called to power by his fellow-coantrymeu, trod unswervingly the pathway of duty, - undeterred by doubts, single-minded and straightfor ward. The entire country has witnessed with deep emotion his prolonged and patient struggle with a painful disease, and has watched by his couch of suffering with tearful sympathy. The des mieu euu lias uuuie hl ihm, ?uu iub spirit has returned to-the Creator who sent it forth. The great heart of the nation, that followed him when living with love and pride, bows now in sorrow above him dead, tenderly mindfol of his virtues, of his great patriotic services and of the loss occasioned by bis death. In testimonv of respect to the mem ory of Gen. Grant, it is ordered that the Executive Mansion and the several departments at Washington be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days, and that all public business shall', cm the day of the funeral, be suspended and the secretaries of war and of the navy-wiH cause orders to be issned for appropriate military and naval honors to be rendered on that dav. Iu witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afBxed. Done at the City of Washington this twentythird day of Jnly, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and tenth. Gkovek Cleveland. By the President: T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State. President Cleveland has instructed Adjutant General Drum to go to New York to represent him, and to consult with Mrs. Grant relative to the faner&I of the ex-President. THE USUAL HONORS were paid to the memory of the departed ex-President, in "tbe shape of the customary orders to the army and navy, the closing of the departments, the draping1 of the public buildings, etc. At the White House the tall columns, by dusk in the evening, were swathed* from base to capital in black bunting, and over the main door of the north entrance was a heavy pall of the same material, held in position by large black rosettes. . The treasury, interior and postoffice departments ( were similarly decorated, and a novel I effect was produced by a small portion j of the marble or granite columns be- j r o I ing exposed to view half way up, between the broad and narrow folds of the black cloth. The war, State and navy departments were also the scene' of activity in this direction. The department of justice, opposite the treasury, was attended to the next morning. JOE JOHNSTON'S TRIBUTE. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston on being questioned concerning his estimate of General Grant said: "Hisappointment as general-ill-chief of the armies of thn United States certainly brought the civil war to a close sooner than it otherwise could have been accomplished. After he assumed full command of the Federal forces he organized two armies, against which we were unable to contend with any degree of success." In all portions of the country the press and those officially authorized to speak for the people have been prompt and earnest in paving tribute to the character of the dead soldier, and in making -preparations to do further honor to his memory. The Southern papers unite in saying all the good thov ?in am? ns little as nossible of those acts in General Grant's career . which were most distateful to the Southern people, because most disastrous to their peace and progress. BACK FROM LIBERIA. What a Georgia Colonist Has to Say About the I<and of Ham. (trom. the Atlanta Con&tittuion.) Jnna Hudson, colored, has returned to Atlanta after a residence of seventeen years in Liberia as a colonist. When*asked by a Constitution reporter, what she thought of that country, she said: "I never liked it. It is a remarkably rich country, and the climate is generally agreeable. I don't know >vhen I have felt a day as hot as this. The trouble is with the fever, which never &Hs attack settlers, and^.^r fata}. It takes two years at ;Je?st to heoameJ^cnma.ted, and I doo? jp&tk the c!?^ te ever agrees weil ^jUi auyissdj' %t the natives." "No natives increasing btrfj&ese are fewer -American negroes there saw thfteCtbere ttfefst&'be. Nearly aH of tiie fifty, that p^eir in oar party^died. Some cath8 hiafcfc. On the vessel that brought me'.^fo. Jrew York jrjaea twenty-one emigrants returning to' this country. TPtuiW^haMllir orof dfrftrrOrh of Liberia " ^ rt infec^meiits iare offered to L is given 25 acres of -law!, an& theycstn bey as much more as'tbev want for 50 cents an acre. It is the* richest laud I ever saw, too. I had a beautiful place with inany improvements. There were 12,000 bearing coffee trees on it, besides thousands of bananas and plantains. It was valued a few years a^o at $8,000. ' Yet when I sold it to get inoiiey to come back on all I realized was about $600. Onp vpasnn of this was the trouble with the currency. Very little raoney is circulated. People are afraid of the ! money because it is constantly being depreciated. Trading is done almost altogether by barter. I could take my coffee and get anything I wanted. So : with syrup or fruit. But when my property was offered for sale for gold i could hardly get anything for it. The Legislature is trying "now to. make the money of the country good. Crops are bountiful, but every necessary of life is high. Pork is SO cents a pound, beef 20 cents, ham 50 cents and irood floor very high." " What about the Government ?" "It is modelled after ours. All the officers are negroes, and there are a good many politicians." "Do the people generally seem to be happv?" - .... "Well, I suppose to. The natives are happy in their way, hut 1 don't think the country would satisf) those who had been reared in Georgia." "What is the religion of the people?" Among the emigrants there arc the various denominations we have here. The natives worship idols." "Why don't they send missioi. ries among "them?" "They do, bnt it is a hopeless task, I think Among the thousands of natives I saw while there only three had been civilized and Christianized. Missionaries are scattered all over the country and they find no trouble in getting crowds of the natives into their churches and schools. Many of these profess conversion and are enrolled as Christians, but almost invariably they go back to idolatry when they return i fvthpc Th#? rrifcsinnarv work in Liberia seems to be making no progress." "You don't think the future of the country looks bright?" "No, sir; the emigrants who have gone there from this country as a rule are not contented. Many* of them come back, and many snore would come if they had the means. The country is not going to fill up with intelligent Africau negroe?, and I don't believe the natives will ever be made ! into good citizens. They are ignorant and brutal. They are "happy when they can come down from tne forests loaded with fruits to sell iu the towns, aud then go back to their miserable hut?." *" A Stubborn Cm of Scrofula. I have been afflicted with Scrofula from my infancy, and in consequence have alway* been a frail and delicate creature. I might truthfully say that I was raised chiefly on mercury and potash. These remedies for the time bciug would dry up the fearful ulcers, .with which I suffered, but they would return with greater violence. I was the merest shadow as to form and person. My digestion was all deranged, and my existence was most wretched. Everything that could be done for me was done, but no permanent benefit was derived. At last a great tumor came on my neck below the left ear. It increased in size until : head was forced to the right shoulder and in this ungainly and uncomfort&^: ble position, I was compelled to carry my head. The doctors decided that it was there to stay as long as life continued, and for many years it did remain. In March, 18847 at the suggestion of Colonel John Taylor I was induced to try Swift's "Specific. My grslem responded lo the medicine promptly and I began to improve from. .i a. li._ JZ i. mu-i. r f_? almost uie ui#i uotue. xm ieanui tum#r has all disappeared, and every appearance of the disease has left my person except a small hard lamp on the right side of my neck, and that 13 disappearing. From a fragile little girl 1 have developed into as healthy and robust a yoong lady as there i* in the neighl>orbood. Swift's Specific is the only remedy that has ever given mi> anv T\prmsn#?nt rPiJiff and T ?m in better health and weigh more than i ever did in my life before. My old frieBds scarcely recognize me since this wonderful change has been wrought in my appearance. My gratitude is unbounded for what this medicine has done for me. Tnvrvrrp PMBPV LaGran?e, Ga, May 14, 1885. Treatise on Blood and SkiD Diseases mailed free. . Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. ' * rr*?. _ r? _ o 1 T " ? iiie iter. jjt. oamaei iransens Prime, one of the best known of American clergymen, is dead. He was born in New York State in 1812. He was a peeacher, editor and author. \ AX KXT-U>'lO>" SOLDIER SPEAKS. J An Appeaff fo^Government Help for Needy i * Soldiers of the Confederate Artriy. (trum. tioc Hertford, Flu., Jovrnal.) After being about tour months hid away (as it were) iu the wild and beaiitilul conntrv about Okeechobce, I have once more comc for a day or two i?? communication with the people of the world and glad was I to pick up the papers, and once more read the news. But my gladness soon changed to sorrow when I read of marrs inhumanity toman. O, Americans! how long will' you aTTow the curse and shame to taint your otherwise glorious name of not caring for the poor crippled Confederates? I ask every man who is opposed to this just and humane yea, and'righteous measure, to put himself iu the place of that soldier who fought, suffered and spent his youpg manhood for the lost cause tnncrhr fWwn infanev to the belief in State right*, when the alarm sounded, how his young soul moved him when the ballets flow thick and fast, where tbe ranks were thinned, and uncles, brothers and fathers fell to rise no more! At last when the negroes were gone, when tbe rafters of the beantiful and once happy home had tumbled in, when starved, shattered and bleeding in the last ditch they surrendered up their arms to our victorious army, they returned to the desolate spot or ground where once was a happy home, sat down among the rains aud rubbish and viewed the lone chimney, and thought ot those who had fallen in battle and those who bad sickened and died and when he knew all that were left were poor, is it a wonder that the brave man's head Jell and he said, "My Lord and my God, is there.no help for the 'widows' sons'?" Lincoln said, when speaking of emancipation, words to about this effect: "We are handling a new case or cause and we must think anew and act -auew." Now, if the South had no constitutional grounds for seceding, then they were rebels. But if they did have constitutional MHAHX/I */v WTO O ft glUUHU IV 9UIUU UI1, UICU it ntu a. war of States and not Rebellion. If it was a war of States and now all States acquiesce in the decision of arms, it does not require a man with more than common sense and a very common vision to see that the soldiers of one State who pay the same national tax have just as good a right to a pension as the soldiers of an another State. All are equal and should be used equally, but if, on the other hand, it was Rebellion, then let us, as Lincoln said, "think and act anew." and in God Almighty's name, let us do justice to the men who fought in the Southern army. Let them have the little pittance "the Government doles out to her cripples. It is but little they'd get, but it would lighten them a little on their dreary way to that river where all are nearing. Many are now looking across at the skir inishers who line the other shore, they move biavely forward, though in poverty and rags, they regret nothing they've done, for they've fought for what their conscience said was right, home and fireside. But as they look back to the wife 01 their bosom in destitution, and their little uneducated children in rags. The tears dampens the cheek that, never paled in the hour of danger. O! Americans, cease your inhumanity; let me (a poor crippled Union soldier and one that draws no pension at that), let me say right here, that if I was a member of Congress I ' ? r? l . - i I weuiil aSK ijroa 10 wuuer my anil ueiu:e i I'd allow it to write the vote, paralyze my tongue before I would pronounce ' the vote for the Mexican Pension Bill until all Confederate soldiers were made equal in that bill with Northern soldiers. If they will include all soldiers of the "war of States, regardless of what army or side they fought on, then 1 say vote for it in the name of the Lord and humanity. God speed the clay?let peace in triumph reign; Le\ humanity siug her song a sweet and j lovely strain; Let Sacred Truth our guiding star iorever be; And charity guide our ship of liberty; . Arise, 0! lofty patriotism, arise once more; This act will forever bridge the bloody chasm o'er. Truly for the right, Rev. Samuel I). Huklbut*. Ex-Member of Co. G, 9th Regt., I<Wa Infantry, Veteran Volunteers. ^ The B?nnett?ville Meeting. Secretary Holloway gives the following additional information about the Bennettsville meeting: Arrangements have been made by the Marlborough Agricultural Society, just organized, to have an exhibitionjduring the joint meeting. Col. A. P. Butler, commissioner of agriculture, will deliver an address 011 the "Agriculture of South Carolina." The Hon. E. M. Rucker, of Audcrson, will address the meeting on "Our Agricultural population; their part in our Southern Life." Dr. D. L. DeSatissurc, of Kershaw, will discuss,"Cotton culture or grasses" The subiects heretofore published and those above given, with others which will be named before and during the meeting, will present a stimulus to thoughtful and earnest work. The meeting will be largely attended. Nearly every county has reported a delegation, and quite a number of agriculturists who are not delegates will attend. The town of Bennettsville will be full to overflowing. 1 Meanefct Sneak In Town. Malarial gases sneaked up through the poorly constructed drains and made baby very sick with malarial fever. i5aby would have died but for timely use of Brown's Iron Bitters. There is nothing meaner in its way of coming, nor worse in its effects, than this malaria from the underground regions. Mrs. McDonald, of New Haven, Conn., says, "For six years I suffered from the" effects of malaria, but Brown's Iron Bitters cured me "entirely.Try -it when malaria steals iw -?rwI undermines- your constitution. It wilf give relief. * ?The Bertha Zinc Company, of Pulaski county, Va., received au order last week from a North firm for 324,000 pounds of zinc, the order aggregating about $31,000. The zinc company is about to blow in another furnace. ? .... i hi ?W. G. Sears, a well-known engineer, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has perfected a new cotton picker, which, it is expected, will revolutionize the methods now in vogne. The invention is expected to do the work of thirtyfive pickers and will cost about SoOO. Unlimited capital is said to be ready for the practical tests of Mr. Sear's invention. k* r < Rheumatism. , 'Althonph a practitioner of near twenty years, n?y mother influenced me to procure B. B. B. 'for her. She had been confined to her bed several months "with Rheumatism which had stubbornly resisted all 'he usual remedies. >v ltnm twenty-four hours alter commencing B. B. B. I "observed marked relief. She has ju?t commenced her third bottle and is nearly as active as ever, and has been hi the front vard with "rake in hand," cleaning up. Her improvement is trulv -wonderful and immensely gratifying. " C. H. MONTGOMERY, M. D". * Jacksonville, Ala., June G, 1S84. ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Mrs. WciSLOW's Soothing Syrcp should al- -' ways be used tor children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and Is the best remedy lor diarrhoea. Twenty-live cents a bottle. Julyl4Ltly i ROTATION OF CROPS. 1 ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE FARMERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. An Essay Delivered by Mr. li. R. Tillman, of Hamburg:, before tbe Farmers' Club of Edgefield County. (Confinedfrom La.it Issue.") i>lll mti jjruuitiix ?veure trying iusuivc is not only how to keep rich lands rich but also how to improve our worn out lands while deriving some income from them. The last is afar harder thing to do than the first. Neither can ever be accomplished by any other method than a rotatiog of crops and liberal manuring, or by pasturing the poorer fields. Any land owner who can annually increase the fertility of his farm and clear expenses, is making money; while one whose land is yearly j orrnwincr nnnrer./is losino- monev. even I &- v r y ?o ? i though he ha^a surplus after paying expenses. If we change out* practice so as to be classed in the first category instead of the latter, we certainly ought to be satisfied; though I have hopes that our consulting together will eventuate in our so ordering our farming as will enable us to improve our lands and at the same time clear a reasonable interest on the investment. But if we cannot succeed in either of these undertakings, in Heaven's name let us cease our' itchervand try to keep them from getting poorer. I will now proceed to outline, as best I may, a system of rotation adapted to 1--11-. a AtirJ ? ?? f/\ A our miiy cuuuu)', auu m wuti w so intelligibly will have to touch on the subject of general farm management. First. There should be established a permanent pasture of greater or less extent, according to the size of the farm. And if the farmer means business he will set this in Bermuda grass to be used for summer pasturage. This grass grows best?as do all grasses?on stiff land. And perhaps the best thing we can do with our crcek and branch bottoms would be to put I T??f tra trill rlic/?ncQ fhflf tUCIU ill It* l^Ul t? V IVIU wiovuoo iMM? I subject hereafter, if the Club shall so desire. This Bermuda pasture could ! be sown in oats once in four years and make a good crop, while the grass would be all the better for the plowing noccssary to sow them. If half the country was sodded in this grass now the lands would be worth double what they are at present. There is an old saying, "No grass, no stock; no stock, no manure; no manure, no crops." If we are ever Lo improve our lands it must be by stock raising; for many of us have "thoroughly tried buying guanos, and know it wiil not even keep them from growing poorer?at lease as we now iaruj. Our neverfailing springs and streams ?so numerous that it would be difficult to lind a square area of two hundred acres without neverfailing water ? would seem to indicate that as our proper line of farming; while the fact of these lands washing so badly, when under the plow, speaks in thundertones to tell us that if we will not raise stock we shall soon raise nothing else. It is true that rotation and terracing would be a vast improvement on our present methods, but stock raising is the only basis upon which to lonud a tplf-susfaininy and land-improving , agriculturture.; No manure equal stable manure; and a cow pen or sheep lot ( has been known to show the effects of t a thorough dunging more than thirty j years. If we were to devote al! our worn and poorest laud to pasturage it . would slowly but gradually improve, while the stock would not only give US an incumc from their sale, but the manure they would enable us to make would go far towards keeping up the fertility" of our arable lands. Having this stock to winter would necessitate the raising of such crops as would enable us to feed them the most economically. From having been the most bitter and deadly foes to grass we would become grass growers, and the more we could get the better we would like it. Devoting most of our lands to pasturage and the cultivation of the grains, we would be enabled to do with loee lalinr emitlYll if lv?IJpr. l'flise all our supplies at home' and some to i sell; while cotton?relegated to its proper place on the farm as a purelysurplus and money crop?would occupy a small area compared to the presnt acreage, be highly manured with homemade~manure, and our farms surely if slowly improve, instead of rapidly and surely deterioratingas at present. Such a life would be worth living. Is it purely au imaginary picture never to be realized? Is Ephraim wedded to his idols? "^Second. All land which will not? with good culture and seasons?make four hundred pounds of seed cotton or eight bushels of corn per acre, with _i 1. out manure, snoniu oe vr suwn m vaa> to be followed by rest. I think this is the minimum yield to clear expenses, and that cannot be done in an unfavora bis year. No money can be made on such land by cultivating it, no matter how you guano it, and it is best to let it alone. * If such land can be fenced it could be brought up to a good state of fertility, in a few years, by sowing in peas and then in rye?allowing hogs or sheep to eat off both and turning under all the vines and straw. The meat made would go far in paying for the seed and plowing, and without the fencing it would impiove rapidly under such treatment, but would be finite p.Ynensive without thti hoys Or I sheep. If a movable hurdle fence was provided it could be grazed cheaper than to fence the whole. A good set of hurdles to fence an acre would cost about fifty dollars, and could be moved and set up in a short while. After leaving off a few acres arouud 1 the house for grazing lots, patches, etc., the rest of the farm not in pasture should be divided into as many equal divisions as there shall be crops in the rotation. And, notwithanding the stock law, this land would yield a toi-frflv itifftmo if ffinpnd thftn fr> Ha ' open. But,, without discussing that ; question, after considerable thought I have concluded perhaps the best rotation?or at least the one most likely to be adopted by our people?is that recommended by Mr. David Dickson, ' viz: First year, cotton; second year, corn and peas; third year, small grain; ( fourth year rest in weeds. If the ! land is thoroughly and systematically terraced, gullies filled with pine brush ; every winter and this system rigidly adhered to, it would be such an im- ; provement on our {present haphazard j way devoted almost exclusively to cot- , ton'.that in a few vears a traveler would hardly recognize the country. The land ! thus treated would be bound to im? ; prove, if the present amount of guano was used. If peas were sown after the small grain third year, followed by j small grain fourth year and then rest j I know it would improve very fast. ! Perhaps it would be best to confine the : peas to those poorer fields which I have ; mentioned, and of which there are an j abundance to keep ns all busy. When 1 those same impoverished fields have J been brought up so as to yield good 1 crops, the steeper and thinner parts of ' the laud under cultivation could be allowed to rest two years instead of one. It will only be a return of the dog to his vomit to get more negroes i to enlarge the operations, and "com- ] mence anew the old downward course. < The system I have outlined is adapt- 1 ed to those farmers who will manage *1 and control their labor, whether for shares or wages; bnt for various reasons I prefer the latter, as one can thus devote all rainy or surplus time to stopping gullies, digging stumps and making other improvements. There is only one course left open to those large land owners who are land poor, and who?from the very nature of the case?cannot carry out this system in its entirely. Either to sell, or for such land as they desire to rent select the best and most industrious tenants, and get rid of the lazy, trifling ones. Then, after terracing and in sistiug on guuics oeing urusnea every year, arrange to have sixty acres to the horse; and nndcr no consideration allow more than thirty acres of this to be cultivated in corn and cotton. Let the other thirty acres be sown in oats or rest, as the case may. be, and alternate between the two. The oats can be sown on .shares, and only rent charged for the land in cultivation; and if the tenant is too poor a manager to run himself and buy guanos to fertilize his crop, turn him off and iet the laud rest, or fence it and pasture it. It would be the best thing to do this, any way, but I don't hope to see it done; aua oniy suggest 1111s pian uecause it seems the only one left to retard or pnt off the evil day?which, nevertheless, is sure to come sooner or later?when all land rented to treedraen, as it is now done, will be too poor to pay rent and ration bill both. I speak from bitter experience; for the longer they stay with vcq the less you '' will like it, and it is "no use sending y good money after bad in trying to get \ even with them. "*I am thoroughly well ? satisfied that any land owner who continues to rent land and advance to ! negroes, as we are now doing, will as j inevitably become a bankrupt as that I } .1 ? - Tl? L- ?.:?UAa.i J sianu ueiore you. 11 ue rums wiuwui ( advancing-, lie is merely selling bis land $ without perhaps realizing if. 1 have ( thus sold many scores of acres, but did not know it till it was too late. As I advanced for tenants, however, and the bad crops of 1881-83 put them 1 all behind, I fear I have sold some for j L!.L T Ml T ( wuiuu i never win get uiiy . x uu not suppose I am alone in this pre- ! dicamc-nt. And in saying I have sold ( it, I mean simply this: The land I ] have rented out is nearly all so worn and washed as to be worthless to culli- j vate; and it would take more money < than I have received as rent to restore ^ it. If I turn it out, as has been the rale in this country since its settle- , tnent, it will be ten or fifteen years before nature would restore it so as to yield remunerative crops. Much of it 1 ?t - _ x? f ir 1 win require iweiuy-nve years, very few of us would be willing to pay for j land all we conld expect to clear "on it ( in ten year?; and I think "sell" and j not "rent" is the right word to apply ? to it. Much ot the land in this country, which lias never been rented, is nearly as bad off; and it is because of \ constant clean culture in cotton with- . out any attention to rotation of crops. None of us will deny this. Can it be possible we will continue to pursue this ignis infatuus, and hope against eighteen years bitter experience to yet make money by it? Gentlemen, our country is too broken to be plowed triiifih and nof. wash awitv. Lowiiijf herds and tinkling sheep bells should be the music our fields ought to re sound with, and not the song of the cotton. Do not misunderstand me, and think I advocate the total abandonment of col ton culture. ?ueti is not the case. Cotton can be planted on any of our lands once in five \ears without injury, and will always occupy the first place without injury, a.-ul is the money crop. The seed, ton, aie a most excellent feed for sheep in the winter. When we make all our supplies at hoine and have our cotton money clear, we shall prosper?not before. When that time conies, if ever tl does, you wltt see more acrea* of ontfrnn vinMiiur ;i h;il<> i>:icli limn miller ^vvv,i i o - 7" it, and our people will clear more money on one-fifth the present area than they now do on the whole. I have thus outlined what i would regard as improved farm management, in a general way. The details minutiae or what kinds of slock most economically how to secure ihe largest amount of homemade manure; what improved implements will pay, etc.. I shall leave a* future subjects of disfuiss in our Club. 1 have misgivings that I shall be accused of egotism in attempting to solve a problem which has baffled so many older and wiser heads, and told that I have not make it any the less good doctrine. It is.a foible of human nature. "To know the right and prove it, too; to know the wrong and still the wrong pursue." Few of us try to do as well as we kuow how?none of us succeed. We i allow this obstacle or that to deter us from taking a new departure in farm- ; lug; ana, aner an occasional auu spas- i modic effort at change, drop back into i the old ruts of habit. Habit! Aye, j there is the "hook of steel" which ' binds ns to old ways because they are old. A hundred years has demonstrated that our systefh of farming is erroneous, and impoverishes the land If it was natural, and best once, when the country was new, it is both foolish and criminal now. -4 But new departures require thought. It is eo much easier to go on in the old < way. Aud besides, Cuffee lias learned that way, aud can "run" him. Thus i we sit supinely and drift with the tide. It is time we were awaking from our legarthy. Brains should control muscle instead of muscle controlling brains. And as the road we are traveling leads to ruin, we should try to find a ?ew one though we failIn conclusion. I feel impelled to auower an argurae?t I have heard ad. j vanced as being- the only solntion to j onr difBcnlties, viz: t4To move away ; and hunt a level country." I can only ! say this would be cutting the Gordian i knot, and not untying it. Those who can sell their land to their satisfaction j had perhaps better do this. They j ^ * 1 * 3 ?iuU ! will i?a an levei jauu, wuicu iuc , same time healthy, poor. If it is rich it is always badly drained aud sickly. But if all'try to sell, who will bay? And even if we should all find pur^ ! chasers, which we could only to do at { a ruinous sacrifice, those purchasers would be confronted by the same difwhich snrrnnnded us. The problem is not to be solved in that j way. The large majority of oar land i>w'uers arc here to stay. They ca?K uot get away if they would; and most of them would not if they could. I dislike to prophesy such, and hope for better things, but' candor compels me to assert that if we continue in onr present ways?if we keep up for a few years longer this "running" business, getting the commission merchant to "run" the nigger and allow him to Uimii" i\f? tho ninntaliAn whioli hf>is doing evervtime it rains?it will not be long ere we will be forced to leave, or remain as the tenants of our homes. When the carcass shall have been picked, and only the bones left, "Coffee" can migrate without casting even one ''long, lingering look behind." Not so with those of us whose fathers lie buried among these hills. Let us nanse bofore it is too late ami make at least a manly effort to transmit to our :hildren, without farther impairment, the fair inheritance left us by our an-,/ cestors. ?Co!. A. ?. 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