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f- : -v i ^ VOL. LIIL WINNSBOKO. S. G, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29, 1899. NO. 34. ||jj . STREETS OF A CIT1 Dr. Talmage Contrasts Th? Splendor and Woe. SHAMS AND PRETENSION! Unlike the Democratic Princip oftheGosDel of Christ. Temp /* tations for the ^Unwary. Wr k for Christians. Ifl this discourse at Washington Su I*-. day Dr. Talmage. who has lived t most of his life in cities, draws prac X cal lessons from his own observatio text, Proverbs i, 20 r "Wisdom crie without. She utteretb her voice in t streets." ^ We are ail reaay 10 usieu tu v. .* voices of nature?the voices of t mountain, the voices of the sea, t! voices of the storm, the voices of i. >tar. As in some of the cathedrals Europe there is an organ at either ei of the building, and the one iostr iLent responds musically to the othe sa in the great cathedral of nature di responds to day, and night to nigb and flower to flower, and star to star the great harmonies of the univers The springtime is an evangelist in blc sow* preaching of God's love, and t] wiuter is- a prophet?white bearded lenouncing woe against our sins. V are all ready to listen to the voices oature. But how few of us learn an thing from the voices of the noisy ar ^ dusty street. Y_eu go to your mecha ism, and to your work, and to yoi merchandise, and you come back aga: ?and often with how different a hea > ou pass through. the streets. A nn thirds for us to learn fro i hose pavements over wiiich we pas: ^ Are there no tufts of truth .rowing i between these cobblestones, beat( with the feet of toil and pan. ..nd plea ore, the slow tread of old age and tl quick step of childhood? Aye, the ure great .harvests to be reaped, ar ?- now I thrust in the sickle because tl harvest is ripe. : 'Wisdom crieth wit' out She utteretb her voice in tl streets." In the first place the street impress lue witli the fact that this life is a scei of toil and struggle. By 10 o'clo* J iL - -J*-" in -Joiner -wif-ll whftfl ?-very uay uiecitj: ujoi^uj, ..? - ;?nd shuffling with feet and hummii with voices and covered with the-breai of smoke-stacks and a-rush with tra fickers. Once in a while you find ,)uan going along with folded arms ai vith leisurely step, as though he h; liothrng to do, but, for the most pai you find men going down the ^ streets on the way to business, the is anxiety in their faces, a~ thouj they had some errand whicn must I of. first possible momen r?xwvuwv? wV _ . You are jostled by those who h<tve ba gains to make and notes to sell. I this ladder with a hod of bricks, out f this bank with a roll of bills, on th <;r<iy with a load of goods, digging cellar, or shingling a roof, or shoeing horse, or building a wall, or mending & watch, or binding a book. Industr with her thousand arms and thousai ?*x eyes and thousand feet, goes on singii 1 e ?"-1" Tr/vrlr wTlilp. tl ' ner song ui w wa, nv^, mills it and. the steam whist! ii'Vit. All .this is not because m< 1-jve toil. Some one remarked, "Eve: man is as lazy as he can afford to be But is it because-necessity with ste: brow and with uplifted whip stan< over you ready whenever you relax yoi toil to make your shoulders sting wit the lash. Can it be that pascing up and dov these streets ou your way to work a* business you do no* learn anything ti.e world's toil antianxiety and stru ?] -? Oh, how-many drooping neari how maDy eyes on the watch, how ma: . miles travelled, how many burdens ca ried, how -many losses suffered, he many victories gained, how many d cats suffered, how many exasperatio: ; udured ?What losses, what hunge - what wretchedness, what pallor, wh disease, what agony, what despai Sometimes I stopped at the corner the street as the multitudes went hith and you, and it has seemed to be agre pantomime, and as 1 looked upon itn _ . heart broke. This great tide of hums life that goes down the street is a rap '? tossed and turned aside and daslu ahead and driven back?beaut ful in its confusion and coufused irr i beauty. In the carpeted aisles of ti forest, in the woods from which tl * ' ? *1 eternal snaaow is never VJ U CI shore of the sea ever whose iron coa tosses the tangled foam sprinkling tl cracked cliffs with a baptism of whii wind and tempest, is the best place study God, but in the rushing, swari ing, raving street is the best place study man. Going down to your place of busine and coming home again I charge you look about?see these signs 01 poveri of wretchedness,' of hunger, of sin, bereavement?and as you go chrous the streets and come back through tl streets, gather up in the arms of yoi prayer all the sorrow, all tbe losses, j the sufferings, all the bereavements * those whom you pass and present the Ifr, in prayer before an all sympathet Goc. In the great day of crerni there will be thousands of persons wi: K whom you in this world never exchan B ed one word who will rise up and ci SB you blessed, and there will be a tho Hf sand fingers pointed at you in heave V saying, 'That is the man, that is tl K woman, who helped me when I washu wL gry and sick and wandering and lo *1 i_ i ^?UiU UUd Stthe woman.'' And the blessii Rre down upon you as Chri ft '*1 was hungry, and ye f S naked, and ye clothed m jffipnd in prison, and ye visit Rnuch as ye did it to the Bk>f the streets, ye did it Hstreet impresses me wi Hi classes'and conditio ^kcommingle. We son Hoicked exclusivene: 8k ignorance. Kefir &ing to do with bo< mo the sunburn Rforehead despis ^fctrim hedger ftwith thew Bfctes Xazare ftThe astroi sta: Hkvigatic 7 The surgeon must come away from his j study of the human organism and set; outbroken bones. The chemist must come away from his laboratory, where jir he has been studying analysis and synj thesis, and help us to understand the j nature of the soils. I Bless God that J all classes of people arc compelled to i meet on the street, me guttering j coach wheel clashes against the scaven- j ger's cart. Fine robes run against the ! peddler's pack. Robust health meets I? wan sickness. Honesty confronts fraud. Every class of people meets every other class. Impudence and modesty, pride and humility, purity and beastliness, frankness and hypocrisy, meeting on the same block, in the same street, in the same city. Oh, that is n. what Solomon meant whea he said; he ''The rich and the poor meet together, ti- j The Lord is the Maker of them all. n; j I like this democratic principle of the th i gospel of Jesus Christ which recognizes I the fact that we stand before God on one and the same platform. Do not I he take on any airs, whatever position you he bave gained in society; you are nothing I he but man born of the same parent, re- j he generated by the Same Spi rit, cleansed in in the same blood, to lie down in the 3d same dust, to get up in the sime resuru rection. It is high time that we all ac>r, knowledge not only the Fatherhood of iy God, but the brotherhood cf man. Lt, Again, the street impresses me with in the fact that it is a very hard thing for " I-->/i>-> ricrhf onH tft 6. a. mau IU mo >aw? s- get to heaven. Infinite temptations ae spring upon us from these places of pub? lie concourse. Amid so much affluence ,*e how much temptation to covetcusness of and to he discontented with our humy blelot! Amid so many opportunities id for over reaching, what temptan tion to extortion! Amid so much disar play, what temptation to vanity! Amid in so many saloons of strong drink, what it allurement to' dissipation! In the re maelstroms and hell gates of the street, in how many make quick and eternal 3? shipwreck! If a man of-war comes lp back from a battle and is towed into the m nav}* yard, we go down and look at the ,s- splintered spars and count the bullet ie holes and look with patriotic admirare tiou on the flag that floated in victory id from the masthead. But that man is ie more of' a curiosity who has gone h- through 30 years of the sharpshooting ie of busintss life and yet sails on, victor oVer the temptations of the streets. Oh, es how many have gone down under the ie pressure, leaving not so much as the ;k patch of canvas to tell where they perls ished! They never Vad any peace, ig- Their dishonesties kept tolling in their .v T-f T Vi?rJ or> it onrl r>nnld snlit Llll C<?13* XX JL XIO.11 AU Ct-x ?*uv* ~ r .f- open the beams of that fine house, pera haps I would find in the very heart of id it a skeleton. In his very best wine id there is a smack of poor man's sweat. *t. Oh, is it strange that when a man has se devoured widow's houses tie is disturbre ed with indigestion? -All the forces of ;h nature are against him. The floods are. be ready to drown him and the earthquake L. to swallow him and the fires to conr sume him and the lightning te smite Jp him. But the children of God are on of every street, and in the day when the is crowns of heaven are distributed some a of the brightest of them will be- given * *. a.i. /_i x . n ^ j I a to those men who were iauniui tuvxuu a and faithful to the souls of others amid y, the marts of business, proving themid selves the heroes of the street. Mighty )g were their temptations, mighty- was le their deliverance, and mighty shall be es their triumph. 'n Again, "the street impresses me with the fact that life is full of pretension and sham. What subterfuge, what double dealing, what two facedness! ar Do all people who wish you good morn^ ing really hope for you a happy day? Do all the people who shake hands love each other? Are all those anxious about \ your health who inquire concerning it? ? Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as I" much as it pretends to know? Is there "}. not many a wretched stock of goods - with a brilliant show window? Passing r" un and do .rn the streets to your busi' ncss and your work, are you not ime" pressed with the fact that society is 3S hollow and that there are subterfuges r' and pretensions? Oh, how many there a, who swagger a^d strut and howfew peoXe pie who are natural and walk! While 0l fop's simperand fools chuckle and sime? pletons giggle, how few people are natural and laugh! The courtesan and the ^ iibertiue go down the street in beauti j ful apparel, while within the heart there are volcanoes of passion consum mg their lite away, i say tnese tnmgs 1" not to create in you incredulity or miss anthropy, nor do I forget there are ie thousands of people a great deal better than they seem, but I do not think any *e roan is prepared for the conflict of this st life until he knows this particular peril. V* Ehud comes pretending to pay his tax to King Eglon. and while he stands in 0 fiont of the king stabs him through ~ with a dagger until the haft went in 0 after the biade. Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. Again the street impresses me with the fact that it is a ereat field for Christian charity. There are hunger and suffering and want and wretched*e ness in the country, but these evils ar congregate in our great cities. On every j] street crime prowls and drunkenness 0? staggers and shame winks and pauperism thrusts out its hand asking for c alms. Here want is most squalid and t hunger is most lean. A Christian man going along a street in Xew York saw a poor lad, and he stooped and said, "My ill D07' ^"ou kROW t0 rea^ aD<* write?" The boy made no answer. The man asked the question twice and Ijg thrice. "Can you read and write?" and n_ then the boy answered with a tear gt plashing on the back of his hand. He said in defiance; aNo, sir; I can't read ' nor write neither. God, sir, don't s? want me to read and write. Didn't he a(j take away nay father so long ago I never "e. remember to have seen him, and have not I had to go along the streets to get ge something to fetch home to eat for the folks, and didn'tl, as soon as I could carry a basket, have to go out and pick up cinders and never have no schooling, sir? God don't want me to read, sir. ns I can't read nor write neither." Oh, [e" these poor wanderers! They have no >S. r?V* > v* s\vr\ 1T> O P + wxu xll uti.iauauuu, cto u ie~ get up form their hands and knees to }r" walk, they take their first step on the e(* road to despair. Let us go forth in ;e? ! the name of the Lord Je^us Christ to S rescue them. Let us ministers not be j afraid of soiliog our black clothes while we go d.owa on that mission. While 10* we are tying an elaborate knot in our 'T$ cravat or while we are in the study rounding off some period rhetorically we might be saving a soul from death and hiding a multitude of sins. Oh. Christian laymen, go out on this work. If you are not willing to go forth yourself, then give of your means, and if you are too lazy to go and if you are too % * * n , * stingy to help, tnen get out or tee way and hide yourself in the dens and caves of the earth, lest when Christ's chariot omes along the horses' hoofs trample you into the mire. Beware lest the thousands of the destitute of your city, in the last great day, rise up and cuise your stupidity and your neglect. Down to work! Lift them up! One cold winter's day, as a ChriFtian man was going along the Battery in New York, he saw a little girl seated at the gate, shivering in the cold. He said to her, ''My child, what do you sit a.? i.v:? "AV> " ckn Lucre 1U1 LUIS WUiu uajr . vu, uuv replied, ''I am waiting?I am waiting for somebody to come and take care of me." "Why," said the man, "what makes you think anybody will come and take c*re of you?" "Oh.?\she said,, "my mother died last week, and I was crying very much, and she said: 'Don't cry, dear. Though I am gone and your father is gone, the Lord will send somebody to take care of you.' My mother never told a lie. She said some one Prtnid and take care of me. and I aoi waiting for them to come."' Oh. yes, they are waiting for you. Men who hav"e money, men who have influence, men of churches, men of great hearts, gather them in, gather them in. It is not the will of your Heavenly Father that one of these little ones should perish. Lastly, the street impresses me with the fact that all the people are looking forward, I see expectancy written on almost every face I meet. Where you find a thousand people walking straight on, you only find one man stopping and looking back. The fact is, God made us all to look ahead, because we are immortal. In this tramp of the multitude on the streets I hear the tramp of a * "* 1-!__ P great Jtiost marcnmg ana macmug iur eternity. Beyond the office, the store, the shop, the street, there is a world, populous and tremendous. Through God's grace, may you reach that blessed place. A great throng fills those boulevards, and the streets are a-rush with the chariots of conquerors. The inhabitants go up and down, but they never weep and they never toil. A river flows through that city, with rounded and luxurious banks, and the trees, of life, laden with everlasting fruitage, bend their branches into the crystal. No plumed hearse rattles, over.that pavement, for they are never sick. With immortal health glowing in every vein, they know how to die. Those towers of strength, those palaces of beauty, gleam in the light of a sun that never sets. Oh, heaven, beautiful heaven! Heaven, where our friends ?rA> Thp.v take no census in. that city, for it is inhabited by i{a multitude which no man can number." Rank above ranks. Host above host. Gallery above gallery sweeping all around the heavens. Thousands of thousands, millions of millions. Blessed are they who enter in through the gate into that city. Oh, skirt for it today! Through the blood of the great sacrifice of the Son of God take up your march to heaven. '"The Spirit and the bride say, Come and whosoever will let him come and take the water of life freely." Join this great throng marching heavenward. A1J the doors of invitation are open. "And I saw twelve gates, ana tne twelve gates were twelve pearls/' BRYAN'S IDEAS. He Will Talk of the Party Policy in the Next Campaign. The Jefferson banquet of the Chicago Platform Democrats of New York will take place on the night of April 19. Col. W. J. Bryan has given positive assurances that he will be present. It is ejected that he will make a notable speech stating the stand which he believes the Democratic party should take in the national campaign of next year. It is planned to have the labor unions take a verj prominent part in the dinner. Eugene V. Brewster, who is managing the Bryan dinner, said: "Some confusion has arisen over the name of the dinner. It was decided at first not to call it a dinner of Chicago Platform Democrats because of Gov. Pingree and others who are Republicans. We arranged that matter in committee all right, however, and sent the invitation in the name of the Chicago platform people. "We have such financial backing that we will be able to give a dollar dinner such as has never been held be rore Applications have come irom places in Florida, from Duluth and from Boston. I wired to the Grand Central palace as soon as I heard from Mr. Bryan Wednesday night and engaged it. "Because of the confusion no invitations were sent to anybody but Mr. Bryan. We have learned, however, from Gov. Pingree, 31r. Altgeld and Chairman Jones that they would come aDy day after April 15." "Richard Croker said: "I don't care to say anything about Mr. Bryan's let ter of declination. I am sorry he cannot understand a difference of opinion. As to the fact that he will go to the one dollar dinner?well. I hope he will help the cause of Democracy. The more big dinners there are in New York the better for the working people." The promoters of the Bryan dinner take it for granted that Gov. Pingrce will be one of the guests. Ex-Senator Gorman, it is understood, will attend the Croker banquet. A Remarkable Incident. A remarkable incident in connection with the Seventh Day Adventist conference now in session at Battle Creek, Mich., is being related. Among those in attendance is Elder F. H. Westphal, who has charge of tfceir mission in Buenos Ayres, South America. He came from'Southhampton on the Hamburg Line because it was the cheapest, and * i r% .j. xr met on ooara snip a uapt. x>oriuau. reported to be a several times million?'** The captain became interested in Adventist faith and came to the meetings here. As a climax he has given the munificent sum of 8400,000. The Adventists believe that the coming of Elder Westphal when he could not really a3ord the expense and meeting Captain Norman was an act of Providence. I I TON A LARGE SCALE Unu> Ri<y PrrvfitQ Afp P/fldft ?, Wholesale Farming. SOME BALANCE SHEETS 4 | Showing the Receipts and Ex [ penses of Immense Wheat and Corn Farms in Iowa and Dakota. The following special article was pre pared by Mr. Frank Spearman for th Review of Reviews: We know what the railroads did las vear: we know what the manufacturer c did; we know what the merchants diO In a year." then, like 1S9S, when re cords in so many branches of America industry were smashed, what did th: American fanner do? Balance sheets are unhappily scar<; among farmers: the fe^ which are take: are hard to get at; for these reasons .tli one here presented is of especial inter est. it is not from a paper farm; it i riAt ?> nonor hfllanr***: nnr is it/a oaDfc farmer who makes this showing. It i what no American review has ever be fore presented to its readers?an actua glimpse at the books and workings of model American farm. This farm, 1c cated in the State of Iowa, contain 6.000 acres and its business is to pro duce corn. Look first at the investment and not that the laud w:?s not bought in a; early day for a song, but within thre years and at the market price. INVESTMENT? IOWA CORN FARM Land?G.OflO acres at $30 an . ... .$180.000.0* Buildings 43.021. CPStock. 17,701.2 Machinery 17,773.9' Total ?258,496. & The operation of this farm for 189i shows a net profit of over $50,000 Putting out of the comparison patent: and good-will, neither of which contrib nted to this result, what other line 0 -business on an equal capitalization cai make a better showing? EXPENSE ACCOUNT OF THE IOWA PAR5 FOR THE YEAR 1S98. Labor $13,912.96 House supplies.... 4,368.SI Beef 1,384.10 Taxes 1,553.06 Sundries 760.00 Freight 500.00 437.25 HayT."!339.10 Insurance ... 200.00 Oil 169.62 Repairs 112.80 Legal expense 40.05 Fuel 7.20 Total $23,794.0Less credit by discount$106.00 Less road tax 43.26 149.21 Net expense of the Iowa farm for the twelve months of 189S $23,644.7: GROSS RETURNS FROM THE IOWA COR' FARM. 215,000 bushels of corn at 30 cents $64,500.01 20,000 bushels of wheat at '\i\ nanto 1fr.00(l.0( XJ\J -t - 28,000 bushels of oats reserved for feed. Total $74,500.01 Deduct tlie expenses 23,644.71 Net profit ?50,(544.7} A particularly valuable comparisoi of the expense difference between run ning a corn farm and a wheat farm o equal size is afforded by the fact tha the owner of the Iowa corn farm als< nwri; and migrates a six-thousand-acr< "wheat farm in the Red River valley o North Dakota THE DAKOTA WHEAT FARM EXPENS1 ACCOUNT. Labor $12,632.31 House supplies 1.718.3" Taxes 1,202.9( Repairs 1,0S4.7J Machines 1,062.0( Twine 987.2; Fuel .. 495.9( Beef 462,8( Sundries 649.1( Personal ... 254.3$ Freight 206.6! Oil 135.8: O..J * QQ ,Q' oeeu -. Hay 22.51 Net expense $20,998.6! GROSS RETURNS FROM THE DAKOTA WHEAT FARM. Credits by wheat shipments.$40,050.01 Less expense 20,998.6! Net profits in 1893 $19,051.3' For the wheat farm 1898 was an aver age year, the yield being 18 bushels pe acre and the price an average price. I has produced for its owner seventeei successive crops, one of which alon< netted him 872,000. The two expense accounts show curi ous differences. In Iowa men are hirct for the entire crfop season of eigh months at $18 -and board per month In Dakota they arc hired for the actua seeding in the spring and the harvest ing the fall at from $1.50 to $3 per day In the. end the lauor, or money-wagi account, is about the same thing, as wil be seen; but the house supply accoun is much heavier on the corn farm. On the corn farm the item of repair was nominal, the plant, under presen ownership being new, while the item of repairs and machines on the whea farm represent the average annual ex penditure for replacing and keeping u] the machinery. Twine is naturaily th< loTi-rn-r it-am nn flip whpflt, farm. Till 4WV/JULA VW V4*w , . Iowa farm supplies its own fuel. Oi the Dakota farm coal is required. Here, too. note that the corn farm i planted with GOO bushels of corn, cost ing $1S0, while to seed the wheat farn requires S,000 bushels of wheat, wort! in 1898 $S.000. Again in Dakota fivi hundred acres of oats barely feeds thj 160 head of mules, while in Iowa 251 acres of corn feeds the same numbe easily. These differences, togethe with the seed difference and the twin* difference, sometimes handicap tb profit account of the wheat farm ?10, 000 a year to start with. IIOW IT WAS DONE. About April 1 men and mules movi on the fields in battalions. Four-horsi feeders, four-horse harrows, and six j horse gang-plows maneuvre for six i weeks like an army, sowing small grain, j plowing and planting corn. The min! ute the small grain is sown 31 corn i it ; planters are thrown behind the plows, I and in this work lies largely the sucI cess or failure of the crop. Note, for j for instance, the pains taken in selecting the seed corn. A perfect stand of corn is the first requisite of a large yield. From a choice piece of land previously planted with - selected seed about li.UUU bushels ot the finest ears are taken. From these an expert selects 600 bushels. 1 hese ears are placed on racks in a building arranged especially for a seed house. Whatever the thermometer registers in Iowa, the temperature in that seedhouse never falls below freezing. All !" this insures the highest germinating e power in the seed, and that alone might, in case of cold, wet spring, save ,t the entire profit of the season by pros ducing a good stand. The planting must of necessity be J t-~ T uuue uy mauuiut;! v, uuu tu scuuic unc p. maximum yield three seed kernels o must be dropped in each hill. If' five drop in, that hill is-lost to the profit aco count. If only one. it is partially lost, a But perfect as American farming mae chinery is, it does not leave the factory - perfect enough to insure against irregs ular planting. Patiently and by a ser ries of exhaustive tests the planter ? plates are.so adjusted to the size or tne seed kernels for each year that they de! posit an average of sixty-five kernels to a' every twenty hills, and not more than - four nor less than two in anv one. So 3 great are the precautions that before > the seed is shelled the tips and butts of the seed ears are cut off to secure c kernels of an even size. a Even after this delicate adjustment 6 of the best machinery in the world, foremen follow the 31 planters and at intervals open hills to count the seed deposits and make sure that each mdrr chine is doing its work. In addition, a i purse of $100 is split in eight prizes be ' 1 ? 1 T xl. t tween tne eignt men wno ao tne Desi ? work and whose teams mark the straigh test rows. With such method is it any 3 wonder that the crop on this farm aver3 aged 60 bushels per acre, against the . average of 32 bushels as given Iowa s by the gevernment report for 1898? After the seeding, the harrowing and i it i3 done with extraordinary energy i and concentration. One hundred and forty jections of four-foot harrows r sweeD the fields like a charge of caval ry. Every time they move a mile together 62 acres are covered. When the 3,800 acres of corn are up and ready 76 two-horse cultivators are put into it. The point in the first cultivation one way ->and in tne second the other way, is to get as close as possible to the corn; but after the pains to place it there no plant must be left covered by a clod of earth. The field * . i/> I nana must uncover it, ana a ioreman on horseback behind each twenty men is held responsible for his eiew.'s work. In the third and final cultivation the- earth is thrown up against the plant, I the small weeds in the hill beiDg smothered and the large ones beir.g pulled by hand. It will be of interest 5 to merchants and to theological profesi ii-.i :.L : i. J - sors io learn uiai 11 is uui uiu weuu m in the row, but the one in the hiil, that mars the beauty of the balance 5 sheet. s" The corn being now three feet high, the stalks prevent further cultivation. Into this field, approximating one mile in width and six miles in length, are sent in October 75 wagons and men for ^ the husking. This takes GO davs, and a row of cribs 10 feet wide and 16 .feet " high, half a mile long, arc require# to ^ hold the crop. * t y . Ai n J in narvescmg tne smaii gram 11 is 3 threshed directly from the shojk, sav1 ing the cost of stacking and rehand" ing. Elevators provide against heating * A further saving of 5 to 8 per cent over the operations of the small- farmer is 5 effected in shipping to terminal points 2 instead of selling to local grain-buyers. * Future options may also be sold against lne growing crop uu marxta uuigva ai 2 a season when the small farmer could not ordinarily deliver his crop. I The soil is kept in a high state of f fertility by a rotation of crops so ar^ ranged that each piece of land bears ' three crops of corn, ' nest of wheat, in . which clover is sown, next one of clo* ver plowed under, then follow again the | three crops of corn. J mi.. ?i.. ? ? j -LIIC UlUVCl is 3iLL!yi\ a icuiiuu, ? 5 portion only of the first crop being cut j for nay, and the remainder plowed un> der to maintain the vitality of the soil. J" The large roots act as a subsoiler and -) the decomposing vegetable matter restores the nitrogen taken by the 3 graiu. ^ In order that the maximum amount field work may be obtained,- no 'chores' ) are required of the men other than the 3 cleaning of their teams. These are fed . bedded, and the barns cleaned by barn f men. The results ou this txrm are' . therefore secured by paiustaking care r and thorough methods. 1 The question is often asked, what ! does it cost to produce a bushel of corn? 2 On this farm, the size of 35 ordinary farms, with a GO-bushel crop the cost . was 9 cents per bushel to the crib. For 1 shelling, shipping and commissions add t another cent, making 10 cents in all. It is evident, however, that had this 1 farm been divided into 35 farms, with . 35 cooks and 35 families. 35 dooryards and waste lands, the expense of raising 2 a bushel of corn would nave Deen near1 or 16 to IS cents. t Iu any event, the cost varies from year to year with the yield. The only s iixed estimate which the farmer can t give is the cost per acre for producing s the crop. This remains always practit c illy the same and is, roughly speaking . S4.DU tor small grain ana nveaonars ior p corn. e The 1S98 acreage of the corn farm 2 was approximately as shown in the foli lowing brief tabic: Corn 3.700 s Wheat 1,200 Oats 700 a Roads aud trees 400 1 Some interest naturally attaches to 2 the man behind the gun?the man who e in this iustance. has demonstrated that 3 nothing pays better than farming, r While the element of foreign birth and r of foreign descent which has done so e much to develop the northwest is ade mirable it will still be a gratification to - learn that this successful farmer is not of that element, but that he is purely and distinctly American. He comes e from the straightest New England stock u and bears the name of one of its most - famous families. His ancestral kin dred were among the molders of the republic and represented their country at the courts of England, Russia, and France; sat in presidential cabinets, in congerss. and more than once in the i white house. The record almost spells the name. Less than 40 years of age. he never saw a day's work on a farm uatil he' bought one after he was 21. His suc ii? f.*;u ucss ramer IliUil-'itiea cu<ic mciv svui aic .( farmers born, and that the capital and energy put into manufacturing and merchandising, if applied today to farming, will yield equally good returns. ABDUCTED CHILD FOUND. An Interesting Sequel to a Crime Committed Last May. A startling sequel to the abduction of Gerald Lapiner, the three-year-old *on of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lapiner, which occurred in Chicago May 30, 1S98, developed at Panesville, O., on Tuesday of last week, in the recovery and restoration of the child to his mother, and the arrest of Mrs. Ann Ingersoll and John C. Collins, who live about a mile west of Painesville, at whose place the child was found and where he had been keptsince last June. On May 30 Gerald Lapiner was abducted by a mysterious woman from in front of his parent's home, 4835 Prairie avenue, Chicago. The woman and child weie traced for a short time and then all track of them was lost. A large reward was offered for the recovery of ihe child k pi. auu auuuu^u vuivauu yv?iw **n?v*v every effort to bring the kidnappers to justice, nothing further could be learned. Two months ago a newspaper account of the abduction and the reward offered came under the notice of Mr. F. E. Ferris, and his sister, Miss 0. C. Ferris, neighbors of the Ingersolls. Mr. and Miss Ferris suspected that the little boy who had been at the residence of Mrs. Ingersoll since last June might be the missing child, and they entered into correspondence with fche Chicago police. After about two months investigation and correspondence, it was determined that the child was the missing Gerald Lapiner. Mrs. Lapinerwas not satisfied and arrived at Panesville Wednesday morning. She was met at the station by Deputy Sheriff A. T. May, who has been in charge of the ease and was taken to the Ingersoll place, while Sheriff St. John went on ahead to prevent the escape of the abductors. Access to the house was gained through - the rear door, and there, tied in a high chair, half dressed, the boy was feund. Both Mrs. Ingersoll and Collins' were placed under arrest. Mrs. Ingersoll denies the charge of abduction and could not be induced to say nothing about the case. Fatal College Hazing. , James T. .Mount, the victim of the hazing at .the Chicago College-of Dental Surgery, is dead. Friends and relatives of Mount at Petersburg, Ind., his-, home, will begin at once to prosecute the students who are said to be responsible for his death. Mount was a relative of Governor Mount, of Indiana. When it was discovered that Mount had been injured seriouly by hazing last Wednesday, he was taken to the Presbyterian hospital for treatment. He had apparently recovered sufficiently Thursday, morning to justify the hospital authorities in a&o ./ing him to go to his home. On the way home he h(>p.nmp. suddenly ill on the train and died before lie reached his destination. Mount's dea& was due to internal injuries caused by being "passed up" in k the dental college amphitheatre and then "passed down" by his fellow students. "Passing" consists in pulling a student over the backs of the seats to the top tier and then down again. Mount, it is said, was thrown heavily to the floor when "passed down.17 Three in Mississippi. Three Negroes were lynched by a mob near Silver City in Yazo county, Miss., last Saturday morning. After being shot to death, the bodies of the victims were weighted with bundles of cotton bale ties and thrown into ths Yazo 3 river. The Negroes were Minor Wilson, C. C. 'Reed and. Willis Boyd. They were the ringleaders of the Negroes in a race encounter on the Midnight plantation early last week. They were arrested and taken to Yazoo City jail. The offence with which they were charged having been committed in Sharkey county, the Sharkey authorities were notified. Last Friday evening Deputy Constable Sylvester arrived, and the prisoners were turned over to him. The constable boarded the steameT Rescue with the Negroes Saiurday morning and reached Silver City with them. The Negroes fell into thr hands of the mob near Silver City, wpr/i slint-. t.A and thrown into the river. The feeling against these Negroes had been vero bitte, .on account of a disturbance at the Midnight plantation last week, in which thep, with two other comrades, had fired sn two whites on the public roads, A horse belonging to ooe of the white men was wounded, but the men were not harmed. Starvation in Bussia. The newspapers of St. Petersburg, Russia, published pitiable accounts of the so-called famine districts of Russia* especially Jbamara, in tne eastern pari of European Russia. The efforts of the Red Cross society have staved off the horrors of actual starvation, but the so ciety's funds are almost exhausted, and. the dire distress, compelling the consumption of all kinds of garbage, has produced an epidemic of terrible mortality, with typhus, scurvy and other pestilential diseases. The peasants are compelled to sell everything, and are living in cold, damp and filthy cabins. Weakened by hunger, they fall ready ?- ? ArtJ O/infA OA1ir?TTT V1UL1ULS Ui tJ'J^UUO UUU avuig ^uu;< Unless the government gives prompt aid, the provinces appear doomed to a repetition of the horrors of 1891 and 1S92. . Fatal Bide to a FuneralFive persons were injured, two probably fatally in a runaway during a funeral at Evansville. Ind., Wednesday. The injured are: Mrs. <jaroline Frey ser, 60, rigiit shoulder dislocated and internally injured. Mrs. Suan 'Smock, internally injured. Three others, unknown, badlv injured. The five persons were in a hack and the team became frightened at a street car. The hack was completely demolished and the funeral proccssion was stopped an hour, i ! OTTE BOYS COMING HOME. i Senator Tillman's Party Visits the I- Second Regiment in Cuba. A letter from Cuba to The State under date of March iy says the Second r? ^ T? J 2 J 4. Juegimenj. nau receneu. uruers uj ictuiu to the I'nited States and be mustered out of service. The correspondent says: The place the Carolina boys will be mustered out depends on whether they leave here on a transport or a Ward Liner: if on the former Savannah will be the place, the Ward Liners only running to Charleston. The soldiers would be taken by rail from Charleston to Augusta. This latter is a circuitous route, but it may be to pay Charleston a little toll. The Louisiana regiment is expected to get away tomorrow, while the First Texas is next 'on the list. South' and North Carolina and Virginia soldiers are to follow in the order named. 1 1 P - 1L.1 it it is tne wisn or tne meu mat tuey strike a transport. They do not know anything about Augusta, but the memory of Savannah is sufficiently pleasant to make them wish to go there without taking chances elsewhere. Col. Jones has tried to get his command taken to Columbia to be mustered out, getting Senator Tillman to cable to the war department from here, but thejsenator had little expectation of having'his request complied with. The news of the. order to move was received in camp without a ripple of excitement. There was no demonstration and the usual routine of the morning was carried out. Later in the day, they had an. opportunity to cheer and used their lungs freer* Senator Tillman's congressional party, with the ladies, reached Habana yesterday morning. The South Carolinians were the senator and Congressmen Norton and Latimer with their families. They were met by ex-Governor John G-ary Evans, who is officiating in Habana as something on the order of a police recorder, and taken to a hotel. Later in the day Col. Jones, who, in the absence of the ranking colonel and brigadier general, is acting brigadier eeeeral. drove to the city and brought the members of congress to camp. Here a stand had been erected and there was speechmaking, the congressman from Illinois receiving the most liberal applause of the day when he referred to the" closer relations brought about between the north and south by this war. We are brigaded with two Illinois regiments, and the westerners think there are none like South Carolinians. An event of the day was the present-iJl-'.T___ o mm ^1? J taciOQ cy senator xmman ui a swuru uj Maj. Julias J. "Wagener. This sword was said to have been the property of a Spanish colonel. Tlie previous evening;#^ ;ef the handsomest swords in the-brigade was, at evening parade, presented by Col. Thompson to Capt. 4ohn Jj. Perrin, Co. M. The sword was purchased by Capt. Perrin's company, who are devoted to an officer who has in many ways endeared himself to them, at the same time commanding the respect and friendship of his Hrother officers. Friday night a meeting of the officers of the army corps was held in the Y. M. C. A. tent of the Fourth Illinois to organize an association of the Seventh army corps. Capes. Sirrine and Gonzales and Lieut. Cox were sent to represent the South Carolina regiment. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was elected per-: panent chairman by acclamation and a dozen colonels sent to notify him. Gen. Douglas or Virginia was first called to the chair. A formidable committee was appointed to draft a constitution and is to report to an adjourned meeting to be held Tuesday night. The chief <iuestion to decide will be as to whether the association is to be open to enlisted men or to officers only. It is probable the privates will come in. The health of the men has improved very much in the past week. For a few days there was an epidemic of fevers anrl mnrninp- rftnorts beean to ' "" ? O W look as they did last fall at Jacksonville. But tha attacks were light and many men are now returning to duty. There are no serious cases in the hospitals. The wives of officers in this regiment will leave here this week and many of the other "army ladies" are flying northward. OXCE MOREIX THE STATES. The latest news from the Second Regiment is to the effect that the whole regiment has sailed from Cuba and by this time are safely landed once more on American soil. In a few weeks the boys will come marching home. A Vvrtnt TVinoa BnW AWVUV MlAViAl In speaking of Senator Tillman's arrival in Columbia from his trip to Cuba the Columbia State says the Senator was looking rather tired and not communicative. He was waiting for the train to come so that he could ask the secretary of war to send the Second regiment to Columbia. However the newspaper man could not refrain from asking: "Senator, hate you been keeping in touch with the penitentiary investigation ?" "No, I haven't seen the papers much lately," he replied. "WaII T eniinnw vnn have heard " v"j ? ^ ~ ~ ? about that carload of brick they say you got?" "Yes, I have heard something about it, but I will have to wait until I get home before l ean tell you whether or not I have paid for them. I must look through my papers. This thing happened four or five years ago. I never could.get Neal to sead me bills for anything. As for h^ms, I didn't get any. I didn't need them! ' I had hams of my own." Left them Destitute. The twenty-seven colored families numbering 104 persons in all, who, are stranded in Jersey "City after, having come from the'west to go to* Liberia, as is alleged, under a contract* with the International Migration society, were notified Wednesday by the -Central Railroad of New Jersey that they would have, to leave the railroad cars in which they have remained since their arrival in Jersey City. It is claimed that the International Migration society promised to send these people to Liberia. and that they have failed to carry out their promise. Most of them are destitute and their condition is pitiable. A RACE WAR NIPPED v| ' Seven Arkansas Negroes Victims cf the Wrath of the Whites. AGITATORS WERE LYNCHHEO^ ' The Whole Thing Started With the Lynching of an Assassin, Who Was the Ringleader. A dispatch from Texarkana. Arkan ssas, says a race' war is is on in Little River county, and during the last 48 hours an indefinite number of Negroe* have met their death 'at the hands of an infuriated white population. Seven are known to have been lynched, and the work is not yet done. The bodies of the victims of the mob's vengeance are hanging to the limbs %i trees in various parts of the county, _ _I_1 ? suruug up wnerever overtaken. "lae ! country is in a state of intense exsitement. White men are collecting in mobs,-heavily armed and determined. Negroes are fleeing for their live3, and the community is in an uproar. The . exact number of Negroes who have been summarily dealt with or those who may yet fall into the hands of the mob before order is restored may never be known" Seven bodies have been found, and other victims are being hunted and will meet a similar fate when run to earth. The known dead-to date are: Gen. ~-M Dackett Edwin Goodwin, Adam King, Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones, Moses Jones, unknown man. Joe King and John Johnson, were also taken in hand by mobs and whipped. They were afterwards turned loose and". ' h ave d isannAjr<?^ - - Little River county is in the extreme southwest corner of the State, bordered on the west by the Indian Territory . . and on the south by Texas. The Negro population is large, and has for a long time proved very troublesome to the whites. Frequent murders have occurred, and thefts and fights have . ^ become common affairs, One or two negroes have previously been severely dealt with when the peopie found it nccessary to take the law . ~ into their own hands, but it was not , * / . until today that the trouble took on a serious aspect. It then developed that * carefully laid plans had. been mad$by a number.of negroes to- precipitate a race war, and that manywhite men bad been marked-for victims. It is learned '? ?'?? that 23 negroes were implicated in this . plot, and the whiteg"3re?aow bent on ' " " meting out summary punisHine^t to the . . entire coterie of conspirators.' NSeveh' .* . Uhave been kilted, and the workof: ing out the entire list continues witfl*r out relaxation. All implicated in -the plot are known, and parties of white . '[% men, varying in numbers from 25 to 50, ? are scouring the country for them. Wherever one is found he i3 quickly strung up and his body perforated with bullets. The work of dispatching the first two or three was an easy matter. D..A *T ? - 3 i'L - .uuii we news auuu spreaa among me negroes, who instead of making the resistance and offering the battle that they had threatened, became panie stricked and began getting out of the community as quickly as possible. Two whose names were on - the list of conspirators got a good start and succeeded in reaching the Texas State line before being captured. They were swung up without ceremony. The trouble arose over the killing of James Stockton by Duckett. Just prior to the lynching of Daekett, the negroes had planned the inauguration of a race j '_ war. Buckett was the leader, and at his death the negroes let the matter out. The citizens-became greatly enraged, Joe King and John Johnson were taken to the woods agd whipped. Other negroes made threats, but nothing occurred until yesterday, when the wholesale Ivnchihff hec-in. o ? "O t In the gang that was plotting for a race war there were 23 Negroes, and it is likely the entire number have been strung up in the thickets. It is known ^ to a certainty that the seven ringleaders are doad. The negroes are fleeing from ; the district. Today three wagons full arrived at Texarkana, having crossed Red river at Index last midnight. Three Lives Crushed Oat. ? - - ??* The bodies of three white miners now lie 125 feet under; ground beneath great volume of water and tons"of dirt < and 'debris in a manganese mine nine miles from Cartersville, Ga., where they , met death by being mashed and smotherde b> the great mass above where they Traits nviaiu^ i>aviug iu vu vuciu* xug dead men are Frank McEver. a son of one of the lessees, and the Messrs. Chastain. McEver leaves a wife and two children. He was 26 years of age. The mine is on the Canton road aoG is known as the Clumber Hill mine. It has recently been leased by Messrs. Whif\P A" M(>F,cor on/} Tr-Arlr<w1 urit-.li fl force of from three to five hands. It may take several days to recover the bodies of the men, as the water in the shaft is 80 feet deep and will have to j be pumped out before other work to- j ward rescuing them can proceed. \tr\ Four Lives LostIn a fire Friday morning at Mrs. E. R. Nolen's boarding house, 104 Court street, Memphis. Ten., four lives were lost and six people were more or less seriously injured. At the time of the fire there were 21 people in the house. A fire fropx the grate ignited the cuitains inihe early part of the night, and the fire department succeeded in extin i f ,i rr , i guisnmg^tne names witnout damage. The guests retired at the usual hoar. At an early hour Friday morning flames were seen truing from the Vouse, and the inmates'^fehecbout. ia an effort to escape. . ; : - -1| Lost on. the River. A special to The Commercial-Appeal from Chattanooga says:" Two raftsmen one named Devoney and the other un- ~ known, iost^their lives in the river 80 miles above ^Memphis, Tuesday. They were, with a.'Sit of a million feet of logs, coming " down the river, and their raft went to pieces on"one of the swift shoals with which the upper rive abounds* " ' "