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([he Press and Banner 1 p Twelve [Pages. k By HUGH WILSON. I Wednesday, April 8, 1891. i t The Chauce of a Life Time. I There will be a grand sale of building lots ? Id oar sister town Greenwood on tbe 22 and Zi of April,and to aocommodate buyers special jj trains will be run over tbe railroads leading ] to tbat town. ( Greeu wood Is probably tbe most progressive ? and prosperous town in all of upper South Carolina, ?ud for ten years her every step ( has been forward and onward. Her growth ' has been both steady and rapid, and under e the prestige of past prosperity and In view of * a glorious future, there is no telling what for- , tune may lie betore her, aud what splendid t profits are to be realized from the sale of her H Let live and pushing speculators attend the i CT sale on tbe 22 and 26, and help to balld up the ^Loonstantly ?rowlug Granite City which will |^Afee as enduring as the everlasting hills, which ^^Turround her busy marts. HL Owing to the publication of our subicripNMtlon list, the general make up of the paper somewhat disturbed. We thought the list QjBthe most' important and tbe most Interest* ^^ng part of the paper, and hence gave it RgBke best place. It may be said that each and ^^Bvery subscriber is editor thiB week, and that j^Hn the aggregate, tbe names of more than one ^^fcousand editors appear in this issue. We ^ ^>polnted;every subscriber editor for this K week, so that they know bow It is to be an editor. I. ? I. I Tbe Dream *f the Pald-l'p Subscriber. LAboa Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase), (Awoke one night from a deep dream of c k peace. Bid naw within the moonliebt in his room-- ? Kinking It rich and like a lily in bloom? t angel writing in a book of gold. a ^ xeeeding peace had made Ben Adhem c bold, ? d to the presence in the room he said? i VWhat writest thou?" The vision raised <1 ml Its head, kd with a glance, and in a kindly manner, 1 ^Answered?" The paid-up subscribers to the Press and Banner.'* i "And is mine one?" said Aboil, ' Nay, not I so," Replied the angel?Abou spoke more low e But cheerily still, and said, " I do but pray to c thee Write me down as one that's paid to Dinty- i three." k The angel wrote and vanished?the next r | night Lit came again, and with a great wakening c W light. i ^fcnd showed the paid-up names?with visage t ^ solemu, I And, lo, Ben Adhem's led the top of the * column. K Contributed Locals. 1 Abbeville, Aprll'7,1891. a Winter still lingers with chilling winds, c frost, and ice. Overcoats and wraps are quite f comfortable. Fruit has been seriously lu- ? jured. K Very few persons were in town last Mon- ? . day (except doctors) and many of them walk- i ed to town leaving their animals at home at ? work. MaJ. Vance and daughter and Mrs. Mamie v Dorroh with Mies Marie Chiles, of Troy were f shopping in town last Wednesday. The first strawberries of the season was sold v on the 2nd by Messrs. A. M. Hill <fc Sour. Mrs.I. B. Brown and Mrs. J. F. Laney, of Monroe, N. C., paid our town a visit last week, and In company with their handsome husbands had delightful drive over the city, i We hope they were pleased and will como again and remain longer. Two straw hats ventured out last Saturday. bat looked too cool, and hid themselves. ] Mr. Julius Vlsanska Is still quite sick. Also Mr. Rosenberg's children. Mr. Arthur byfau, who was sick last week, das sufficiently recovered to be able to call on bis best girl. Mr.C.P. Hammond, of Wofford College, spent las; week at home on account of sickness; lie Is better and has returned. L Mr. H. R. Laney, who has been Express ], Messenger on the G., C. & N. has been trans- w ferred, with better salary, his run now Is a flrom Wilmington, N.C., to FloreuoeS. C. n Mr. R. O. Glover, of New York City, is here p on a visit to bis son. p Mr. J. J. Johnson, cashier of Lowndesvllle w Bank, and Mr. Tom Baskln, one of ber best |j merchants, were In town last Saturday. ii Mr. John M. Gambrell who has teen close- tl ly confined at bin books day and night for y lx months Is now suffering with bis eyes. w Mtss Ella Dorn after a protracted visit to o Atlanta Is home again. p O. P. Heath <fc Lo's "fashign palace" was n , crowded during tbelr opening days. Their p store was beautifully arranged so as to make ? < I a tempting and grand display of their many c< I novelltles. Miss Anna Jones wa? home on a visit last h r week. a Tbe stove la tbe Methodist church being d taken down for Easter, made tbe church un- it comfortably cold last Snnday. We hope it g: bwill be put up again, until the wiuter is over a at least. c< Mrs. D. H. MagiII and her sister MJss Carrie Ellis, ot Hodges, were shopping lu town last ri Monday. f< Rev. w. K. Boggs preached his farewell w sermon to the congregation at Mount Carmel &i and will leave this week for his new field of tl labor Augusta,Ga. u Preaching in the M. E. cburch at 11 o'clock fj next Saturday morning. The Second Q,uar- w lerly Conference will be held Saturday even- o ing in pastor's study at 8:30 o'clock. Rev. A. b J. Cauthen. P. E. presiding, Love-feast Sun- ti d&y morning at 9 o'clock, and communion services at 11 o'clock. Services also at night, b Mr, Jas. A. Hill Is certainly a musical genius, playing thirty-two different instru- a ment, and bus Just added auother to the li l list. v I The Woman's Missionary Society of the M. n E. church will meet next Friday afternoon in n the church at 5:i>0 o'clock. j Mr. M. W. Paschal, ot Mt. Carmel, has a v contract lor building a cottage in Greenwood, ti and will commence work at once. b Mrs. P.J. Lawson rested well las: night and ! e is better today. M. h d *?? h Quarterly Conference. \ Next Saturday, the Second Quarterly Con- !; ference of the Abbeville Station will be held {: | in the Methodist church. Kev. A. J. Cauth- " ? en, Presiding Elder, will preach on Saturday ? Bwdpd Su nday. , flHUr. W. M. Leftwlch, ;of Nashville, Tenn., , eH^BI conduct the meeting after Tuesday. , a kSB experienced teacher says that pupils ywM^MKhave access to newspapei-s at home, i t HKHMBl compared with those who have not, 9?B^Bgramm;iri>ins, better punctuators ami f, more understandingly. and obtain a ! u I.CUI KiiuwufUKc ui geugrupuy IU uiuiwi i t ibo time It requires the others. The j wper Is decidedly an important factor | j, dern life. This will noi bo disputed l>y | oe who has taken the trouble toinves- f. the matter for himself. publish our list as nearly correct as we p get it. If we have made a mistake in j tl ving any man proper credit, we aro | ti sorry, as we intended to do exactly : M by all. : tl iNSKKKS. ? From the estate of P. B. un to James W. Tulbert, in the town of , rmick, 8. C., four lots, to wit: Lot No. 5, ' j ock H.; Lot No. ti, in Block 11.; I.ot No. Jlock K.; Lot No. 10, in Block L. ' u vkly everybody is buying one or more i n af wire lencing. No man can alt'ord to I Ui le grass goto waste. The cattle will j ti ritgratis. . ru a few days of clear weather, the I ;rs have taken heart, and gone to work i a will. 1 \i\jw 11 mo nu|/J/lCliirui. IVOitU * it, and then looU on the last page of the paper l for odds and ?nds. There is 10 telling where you may find t editorials, totals and communications. L Mr. W. H.Dbennos of Mount Carmel Is ' Jr now with th? Press and Banner. H Y FROM OPE ATHENS, visitor*?Lawyer* ? TdfCaph I'l*? OpeneJ--?Presbytery Will Meet-? Mr. Bonner Acccptii*Ai,> Devlin ' la Better. Due West, S.ft April 7,1801. 1 The first message passed o*er the new tele;raph line between Due We?t and Donalds ast Tuesday April 7th, 1891. P Mrs. Dr. Bigbam spent a fortnight with her nother, Mrs. Dr. J. U Miller,"-'turning home iVtdnesday. 5 Many gardens are being thoroughly worked his weather In our community- li Col. Walter L. Miller paid our city a -rislt n ast week. Mr. Miller It ?;lawyer of fine P iblllty and Is holdlug his ow me bar. a At the Municlpa 1 election Monday Dr. li rames VV. Wldeman whs declared Intendant y >f Due West, and Messrs. A. Ellis, W. C. i' Brock, P. L. Grler and A. t> Kennedy were n ibosen Wardens. There wi? no opposition mil a solid vote for every miO on me ucxei < v&? a new thing in our council election. tl Warren MoAdams, a t?nn?8t on the place s >f Mrs. T. C. (Jowau met witbthe misfortune n >f having bis house burnedou last Monday, barren is a quiet inoffensi re farmer and de- F lerres the heip of the oomnionity, as he lost ^ ill of his pofseesions by thaflre. n There will be a meeting of Second Presby- Q ;ery in Due West next Friday- Preaching at b -he usual hour on that daytfd also Saturday. ' The communion service oo next Babbaih 111 be observed. a Rev, O. Y. Bonner has elven notio* that he t *111 accept the pastorship of the Due West t - ongreaKutlon, provided of course, his PreB- ' >ytery will sanction this act. ii Mrs. Dr. C. B. Cowan returned home from a d Msi t to Chappel l's on last Monday. i Mr. Bobt. Aiken, the energetic and wide c iwafce ngent for the Mutu?r Aid Loan and e investment Company, of AUauta, ua? was u n town Monday. j! f Mr. Tom Miller has signed tor regular cases v >n the A. R. P., glad to welcane you Tom to t >ur place as a permanent fix ure. Miss Lucia Held, the charodng and beauti- v ui as well as courteous and student teacher ' ?f the primary department <f the Due West 1 female College, speut Sabba.li and Monday c vlth relatives in Anderson. Mr. John a. Devlin has be?n restored to his K isual health aud is guininc bis liesh every ? luy. LARRY. 1 0 THE LIME KIL.KCHJB. J . a L Report That Brothec Gardener Sat c Down On?Increasing the Clrcula* ^ tion. t Prof. Singletree White, (chairman of the ? ommittee on finance, reported as lollows : c "Your committee hm traced de use of ? aoney back to 4,000 y'art IB. C., an'has not 8 teen able to find dat de pop' man eber had n my nio' dan he has got id-day. It ar' our e iplnyun dat sumthiu' -oruex* be dun. Ills i ;wiae around dead brokt isn't only hurtful a o feelius, but werry inconjenieut. We would v larfore recommend as iolifl|s : t - nrsi. E>xpauu me cm tucy uuui uo uus- ^ cet slops ober? i ' Second. Coin 'nuff i ver so dat ebery ^ nan will Lev to hev at) t tra an extra bind | )Ocket to curry his sharf . Third. Make a day's* >rk six hoars loug, in' de pay 80, but doau h* too many of 'tin 8 >ne week. > c "Fourth. Bring de pt 3 of whltewa^hin' J ip at least 2W per cent., Il t knock de price * >i meat an' taters downI the werry lowest g lotch. "Fifth. Fix it so dat efl ry cull'd pusson in t lis kentry who wants u* wear diamonds an' v lde in his kerrldge kin < :> so, but 11' rldin' ? iround makes bis bucki the din fix It so he .. iin open a bank, and it nk all the chaui- [ >agne be wants to." Wuyilown Bebee, Shlnfli ; Watkius, Whale- B >one Howker, Ulvedaa Jones and others poke very strongly on the question of adoptng the report, but Br?# er Gardener arose md said: Dat report will be sotd* >wn on an' laid on t le table indefinitely. ItVi too soon. It asks t nr too much. If we could liev all dose things t isked fur in dat report^ve'd consider ourelves so clus to Heuven dat nobody would K urn out to Thursday evening pray ertueetln's. ? shall Instruct de seekretary tosaydat ltisde t euse ol dis club dat de circulation orter to n. r/.'iu.n millunrt ilnllnrcu Ft lilUtUOCU UUV/U v HI I/cgu UlUIJ Ull UVt(Mt? M y ''ar until ebery uuli'd head of faru'ly is able u 0 tiev a rubber doah mat jo de lop step au' , 1 chuckoo clock in the parlor. De meetin' , fill now be all broke up, 10 assemble again v it the call of de seckretar/." t L WRONG TO THE DEAD AND OFFEHSE ' TO THE LIVING. a Jvll and taiHchievoatt Bisposed Per- t son* Enter Upper JLong Cane Cent- J etery and Open the Grave or Jn<l?ce t Wardlaw?Hin H?ttalle Ciwe Is t Broken?The Bod3 Lett Intact. The grave of Jud/e Wardlaw, in Upper u lOugCane Cemetery, wan opened one night 1 1st week, and the nietilic cast iu which he ' ras burled, was broken. Circumstances In- c Icate that the deed was done on Monday Ight. The (act that t he grave had the ap- b earn nee of being tampered with was re- ^ orted to his friends on Friday or Saturday, a rhen they immediately sent a man to exam- v 10 l> H? rp| urnerl at nnoA without touch- t It, and reported tbe facts which presented f lemselves. Hon. W. H.'Parker, and Messrs, r enetand A. W. Smith went to the grave u 'lthout delay. They found that It had been 1 pened, and bad been but partly refilled. r art of the fresh clay was left lying around t le grave. A piece of metal, supposed to he 0 art of a metalic case, wus found near by, the 1 Jges of which showing that it had been re- i jn tly broken. The Judge's friends were of course appre- * enslve that the body bad been either taken ' way or disturbed, and for this reason the ? lrt was thrown oul In opeulng the grave ^ iwas discovered that tbe depredators had i really widened it in throwing out the dirt, ? Dd that they had entirely uncovered the I jffin. J? When the coffla, or metalic case, was sached by the Judge's friends, the top was t >und to be broken in the middle, just above i here the bands of the deceased were folded cross his breast, buf. no signs were apparent 3at the body bad been at all disturbed. The letalic slab, which covers the glass over the ice, was removed and tbe face and body t ere found to be in a remarkably good state s f ni-ovoTuntinn tnouisli the deceased had ? eeu bai led some eighteen years?since some v me In 1873. s The large rock with which the coflln was t roken was found on tae top of the ground. t From ttie mud which was thrown out t, gainst the marble, tba hedge and surroundlgr shrubbery, It Is eflident that the deed ^ as doue during the r?n which fell Monday r iglitof last week.'ijjBe grave stones which e lark the resting Hco of the wife of the v udge, and which w H near to his own grave, u tere bespattered w; Hinup, and one of the ninor parts was bro^B), and the large mar- t le slab bore evIdencAf having been remov- p d from its proper phic b, and afterwards set ji >aek in position. The tracks of the persons loing the work werep) ainly to be seen at the t iead and foot. p Owing to the exceeding solt condition of 0 bo earth, the depredators left the clearest itn- s iressions ot their shoe tracks,?the ground tj lelngsosoft that immediately around the i rave aim in uie unjoining neiu oi pines ineir rucks were distinct -even on the piue lei'dles. The tracks of others of their numier. us they retreated in another direction .nd from their ghoulish deed, were too plainy left to leave any doubt as to the condition * >f the earth, or the size and form of the w eet. P The depredators met at the grave coming J; roro different directions, as by agreement, , nd when their sliatiu'lul work was done N bey departed by different routes. In opening the grave the monument which :-.d been erected to the memory of t lie Judge 11 .as partially undermined, and in cunse- n uence. It is now three inches out. of plumb. ? The news of this desecration of the sacred >recincts ol the dead, was a great shock to P lie friends and relatives of I he deceased, and .w ney are at a loss toat'rlbute a motive for so! J' Irange and so tinuMiai deed. Nothing like 11 lie desecration of'.lie graves of the dead is j ' [>minon in this country, and there Is not8' nown reason why his gra\e should have!'1 ten disturbed, but i' is surmised that the I" epredators hoped to find something of value,! hieh they might remove. 0 Diligent ellbrt will be imide to Uncertain the ames of the persons who have committed so " Jtrageous a crime against all our better sen- ] ^ incuts, and If found they will be severely , ealt with. y A. M. Hill * Soils' Locnh. ^ Seed pinders! n Choice picnic bams! '1' Fresh candies! v Just received by A. M. Hill <t Sons. a Our Hat Stock 1h liow complete. O. P. " cath <t Co. j ? APRIL'S BUSIEST DAYS. ALKS WITH THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL. 'ood! for Thongbt, Whereby They Nay Earn Food for the Body, and JIake the Farm Blossom as ;the liose. Southern Cultivator. In the South there are more acres planted 3 therseveral farm crops than durlngany one jooth In the year. Corn planting is still rogresBlng, cotton planting Is at high tide nd wll 'Iconllnue throughout the month. It t emphatically the planting mouth of the ear, while at the sauie lime It Is the month [1 WUlUIi UUIllVUUUU uiuov WMIU.VUW iU w?. est. Early planted corn will soon be ready for be plow, yet we would not plow It before be plants are large enough to permit the Iding to be done in the most thorough mailer without too much stopping to uncover. Thin leads me to remark that Jones' Plant 'ender is a very excellent appliance for proectlng small plants from covering, and pei;aittiue close and deep plowing. It can be ulckly attached to any plowstock, and costs ut|oue dollar. (Thin advertisement being ree and all the more reliable). The first plowing may; and should be, deep nd close ou all soils that are Btlft'or inolined 0 run together, and we know of nothing beter for the sidiug furrow than a moderately ong square or diamond pointed scooter. It 1 not necessary to pjvw out the whole midlie at once ; on the contrary, we buve found t generally expedient to run round the entire rop, or as much as may be ready for the opration, and then return and plow the midlies out. On mellow, soft, clean lands deep (lowing is not at at all necessary if theground has well plowed before planting. Indeed, in >ur own pracuoe we aaopteu me gcuomi ale that wherever a sweep, scrape or other plde expendlug cultivator will do good work, 10 other implement, or deeper plowing Is retired. It is pretty safe role all through the ultlvatlon ot any crop, thus always giving he preference to the Implement that will do atlsfactory work at the time and the largest .mount:(acre8 per day) with the least labor. )avid Dickson, the apostle of practical farm peratlonn, used to plow out a seven loot corn ow with four furrows, lucluding the first as Fell as the second and third plowlugB. We an do still better with one or the Improved, ill steel cultivators. Mr. Dickson was a pro lounced advocate of the tue of the wide weep, a .costly Implement, comparatively, nd difficult to keep In proper shape. The leel scrape followed, and has nearly supeice;ert the sweep, and It will in turn give way "* " ~L * AvriAnHim* ctnnl O me strong, iiKnt-i uiiiiiuu, ulilvators, that will clean out a hve foot row ,t one round trip. Tills first plowing of corn uouid be done so carefully as to obviate tt c lecesslty for hand hoe work, which may be aslly done on smooth, well prepared land, t is not a bad rule to require every plowman n such land to stop and remove, or cover t'itb his hands, or a paddle kept at band for he purpose, every bunch or sprig of grass hat might have been destroyed by the plow. Jnder such a rule greater care and skill will >e exercised by the plowman, for no man ikes to slop to uncovcr, or cover anyblng. It Is only by enforced attention to these mall details that perfect work can beaccomillshed. He who overlooks them and reardsthem as no consequence, will always lave slipshod work and untidy looking lelds. If the plants are healthy and vigorous, und be land not specially Infested by bud worms, re greatly prefer thinning out by hand or by neans ol a narrow paddle. In advance of the lows. It may bfefdoim when the ground is oo wet to plow or hoe, each hand being imed with a paddle three or four feet long, ind carrying two rows at a-'tlme. COTTON PLANTING. Horn nlowlne over, and fertilizers dlstrlbn ed ott the cotton laud, cotlou piauting Is lext in order. When Is the proper time to ilaut cotton? Our old readers are aware that we do not ro:ard temperature, or tbe ordinary, but very ulsleaillng "signs," In deciding when u> ilaut corn, cotton or anything else. Tbe time >l" the year and tbo condition of the ground ,s to preparation aud moisture are theonlyuldes thai are of any value. Plant when he grouud is In good condition, not too wet o plow, aod when the date has arlved vhicti past experience tells us in the best line. The important thiugiu planting cot011 is to plant so as to secure and afterwards nalntaln a good stand. The condition most Ikeiy to secure these objects are a mellw, utKomewbat compacted soil, a fresh made, callow furrow, a covering ol fresh soil, modirately compressed by block or board and tbe ime after which we do not usually have oold, vet weather. Of course perfectly sound seed, kUd plenty of them are understood. Somelines the ground Is so dry that the teed can?ot he covered deep enough to secure gcrmilation without danger oi becoming too deep y buried to cotne up if a heavy rain nboiild ccur. In such Case it Is well to cover with a Ightdouble toothed barrow aud knock oil u live or six days, or Just as tbe llrst plants mmmence t ; appear. We can coulideniiy recommend, from peronal expei'ment, the broadcast harrowing >f cotton flf ids theflrst timcjust as tbeplauta ,re commeroing to break through, but not if o ruTwt inrrnini? on I ill 1.1 ug 1 \JI bum *? ? VI V.W, ? he surface, as will be llikely wtieoover a ram kllBon a newly planted field. The first barowing may be either directly across the beds ,t right angles, or diagonally. Perhaps the utter plan.is better, been use the second burowing may be diagonally In the other dlreclon. But we would not run parallel with or ilong the rows. A light slanting steel oothed harrow is the kind for the purpose, .'he effect of harrowing thus is 10 save an ramense amount of labor oi both of plow and ioe. and to postpone the necessity for both rom a week to three weeks, according to the xlgencies of tbe situation. Justtbluk of it: good mule can e.isily 'pull a light sinoothog barrow that will spread five feet, thus ;oing over ten to twelve acres in one day. t will not do to wait until the grass is up acd [rowing. Don't wait until something must be done, >ut only wait until a light crust is about to orm two or three days al ter a ralu. FORAGE CHOPS. Dou'.t fail to put in a liberal area to one or noreof the well approved green forage crop*, itch ax cat tail millet, sorghums, common uru. They are immensely productive, and eill prove Immensely convenient as theshort uppIy of dry forage commences to run low, >exides being very wholesome and palatable 0(>d. But they each and all require rich land o succeed well. Try a patch or two of colloids, common xeorsrla eollards. Plaut on good land, the icher the better, in three feet rows, one plant tvcry twelve Inches. Cultivate well, and our vord lor it you will uotreijret the small ventire. Commence thlnniDgwhen the plants grow o touch e;tch other, by pulling up every tnird ilant, and feed to every animul that must be cd. hogs particularly. When the patch has been gone over once, hen go over again, pulilng up "every other'' ilatit; then commence running or stripping ill the lower leaves onoor two at a time, and o on throughout the summer and fall. We ielleve collards are about the best preventve of hog cholera ex tun t. THE AIIKA OK TUB COMING COTTON CHOI*. Before the end of tills mouth, the greater lartof the area of the coming coltou crop rill have been planted; in the cotton belt roper, quite all of it. It is tberelore high irue to make the calculations, and tour-, lve at :i final conclusion us to what that area hall be. The secular papers of laic, have contained j Bveral well wntieu articles ou the subject, j lie object, of which, was to convince the lar-1 lersof the impolicy of planting a large crop | 1' cotton. itlseasey to show by figures, and past ex-I erience und observation of the markets, as j ell a* by a consideration of the well known iw of supply anu demand,as it ell'ects prices,1 lint a larger crop will command a lower price | or pound than a smaller one; and that Itj Dllic-tlmes Happen* umi me iissn-gim: 1 inount.of money realized in gross irom a! ir^u crop, is actually less Hum the amount j i:fivc(i iroiu a niueli smaller number ol I ales. Wn<*rcupoti, it is urged upon the farmers,! s a class, and upon Ihe Alllaucc as au or-j ituizulion of farmers and producers, that | icy should co operate to reduce the area of lie crop, and thereby reduce the aggregate! ield, as a means of securing better prices, i bey are told that a large crop means low rices per pound, a smaller aggregate return to ixch farm, and a smaller graud aggregate of eturnsto the cotton producers, as a class. I his is all very well, as far as It goes. But rill not the adoption of such counsels, based lone on the arguments presented, involve a e?reo of self-denial, aurt.of confidence in ine tithful adherence of other farmers to.tbe plan f reduction of areaB, that patst experience, teactaei us cannot be relied In? Have we not yearn ago. ana repeaieaiy .oearu wu ??uic tuguuaents, biLsed upon precisely the same facts? Was there ever a material reduction of the area of a cotton crop by such argument* and appeals? Wedoupt It. Moreover, are not these arguments an appeal to wrong principles and motives T Does not tbe suggestion of combination to reduce areas, smack of a combination to put up prices? Farmers have not been slow or late years to strongly condemn and denounce all efforts to put up the prices of articles they must buy, by trusts, combinations, and other forms of monopolies. Shall we "flgbt the devil wifch flreT'? return evil for evil?wrong for wrong?meet trusts with truaU? After all, are high prices an unmixed good I Don't somebody have to pay these prices? The cotton buyer and the cotton manufacture do puy them. They lall at last, on the people who consume the cotton goods. These thoughts are suggestive. Maybe we are working at the wrong end of the line. Tneeftortbaa been to intlaence market prices, that are to rule six months, or a year hence. Would it not be better to rive more intelligent attention and .effort at this end ol the line? What we want is a wider margin between the cost of maKlmr cotton, and the price which ??itl AnmmanM 4r\ tho mar. keU All are agreed upon that proposition, So a merchant wants a wider margin between tbe coht of tbe goods be buys, and the price at wblcb he must sell them. Bat be cannob-iD the lace of active competition?fix an arbitrary price on which ho sells. What tbeu? He >?oe8 to work at the other end; he tries lo buy in a cheaper market; he reduces exEenses by more systematizing his business; e is more careful about giving credit; he employs more skill and Judgment in selecting and buying. In a hundred ways, here a a little and there a little, he reduces the coet of the goods down to the moment they are banded over the counter, and thus Is enabled to undersell his less enterprising aod skillful neighbor, and still make a satisfactory profThe application is easy. Tbe farmer should work at this end of the line; It is tbe eud he holds in bis hand. His aim should be to make the lareest amount of cotton at the smallest possible cos( but bis main effort should be to reduce the cost. To do this, he must first reduce the area next he must concentrate on the smaller, his skill and Judgment (which cost him no money), concentrate the preparation. Intensify the selection of seed, use none but tbe best Implements, lu perfect working order. Then turn off some or tbe expensive laborors, sell some of the poor out-lying land. This Is Intensive farming in Its analysis. It Is to make every acre of land, every mule, every laborer, every plow and machine, everything on the place, as productive of result* as possible. This will, as we have said, Involve a larger reduction In the area, and a greater or leas degree in the aggregate yield; butlt will involve a still greater reduction in the costol making the crop. Which is the better result ?to produce titty bales of cotton and sell it for 82,000, or, to make forty bales and sell It for $2,400 ? In the first case you get eight cents, and in the second case twel ve cents per poun d. Without hesitation we say that tbo forty! bale crop Is by far the most profitable. Now, If every farmer could be induced to curtail his production in the same proportion (one fifth less), we believe tbe price would be one-hall higher from eight to twelve cents. Can such aceneral reduction be effected? We wish it could. But suppose anot.hsr case: Instead of an individual crop of fifty bales, that soils at eight cents, suppose the farmer makes only forty bales at eight cents. The difference In the gross returns would be $2,000?$1,600, or 8100, But suppose the reduction to have been caused by reducing the area one-third or onehalf, reducing the number of laborers and the uumber of mules by one-third, and adding a third to the amount invested in fertilizers He now makes a greater plenty of com, oats, bacon and lurd. There are more of these to 6elt, and less tc buy. How far would you gro In the reduction of expenses before the $400 would be more than saved? These reductions are largely, II not wholly, within the farmer's control, If he controls anything. The enhancement in tin market price next fall, under tbe plan so frequently advocated of reducing tbe urea alone, depends on tbe faltbfa! co-operation of every other larmer in tbla broad land. What we want to impress is, that tbefarmer should reduce the area in cotton because be may then produce cheaper cotton. If he still makes as uiucb as before it Is all riybt?It biu cost blm lese, and bis profits will be greater If be makes less, It will have cost blin pro poriionately less to make It. and he will be safe, with probably more of foe>d supplies on band. So In any event named lie will be In as good condition, if not better, than that ol bis neighbors. Now, suppose every farmer or a very large number of them, Joiu in tbe re duction and concentration plan?tbe inten slve system. Is it not plain that In genera! all will fare as well as the one Individual whr 'goes it alone." And If tbe result be a very material decrease in the aggregntfe production KHt;b and all will set the additional beueflto: a greatly enhanced market price. It is no part of oar desire to antagonize the policy of a general reduction of area, Noi can It be wild that we have endeavored to ex pose the essential weakness of the argument, urged by others in support of the policj when such weakness is so well understood b> every wide-awake farmer. In the face of 11 general effort to combine the mam of cotton irmers in the adoption of such a policy, how many thousands?especially among the blf planters?would secretly take counsel of t.beii own selfishness and resolve to plant ail crea lion lu oolton > expectation oI high prices. Solar from combatting the movement, wc only seek to add additional, and we think more effective arguments, addressed directly to each man's self lnterest,and aiming to ln> duce him to pursue a plan which will be bet ter for him in any event, and all the more better, If everbody adopt* the same plan. Il is a sort of covert plea for Intensive farming by extensive numbers. It is a plan that does not nccessarlly 01 primarily tax consumers for the benefit ol producers. It levies the tax for the payment of increased profits on the sunshine, the alt and the soil?upon tbeskill and Judgment and sound practical sense, that cost less in constant nse, than in disuse. Toreduceareasimply is to rednce'productlon, is but a temporary expedient. Its first success would be followed by such a general d<?moral!zatloD, as no Sat could again control, The plan we suggest is nothing new, nor is It a temporary expedient, depending for its Individual successful results on the co-operation and good fallb of others. Merchants had better see our White Goods wbo? in need. u. l*. xieain oc v^o. 61 nelmme?choice styles?<i 1 4c per yard, nt 0. l\ lieutli Jfc Co.'s Whbt Free Coinage in. While several gentlemen were talking :it the Markham, one of them asked concerning the meaning of the term "free coinage" as it is often heard uowadays. An experienced mining man explained as follows : "Free coinage means that the government should coin silver as it coins go.'d, free of charge. There are now four coinage mints in the United States. They are located at San Francisco, New Orleans, Carson City and Philadelphia. Any man who will take gold to any of these mints may receive thegold in shape of coin, Silver is not recognized on the same basis, and this is what the silver men demand. ''There are two facts I can learn when J look at $20 gold pieces," continued the gentle man, "and those are the mint where the coin was turned out and the initials of the man who made the die. If you don't know where to look for the marks it is a hopeless task, but the persoh who penetrates the secret must have a new coin and a good pair of eyes." "The teacher of English," says the Journal of Education, "lias two tilings to ilo?to teach his pupils to read and to write their native tongue. This is true of all grades, from the primary school to the university." This may seem like a very commonplace remark, but It is not. In view of certain recent movements in this country, the utterance is full of significance. Pittsburg and Alleghany are in the grip of La Grippe, the deaths numhp>rinc nearly 5.000. t \ : fwf* '' \ It Is Hard to Waste It, Some advertisers have an idea that only copies going to paid up subscribers are useful to them. This is not quite so. For example, suppose a journal has 25,000 actual subscribers to whom the paper goes regularly. Suppose it prints 5,000 extra copies a week, which are S6ut i as specimens to good parties, whose addresses are supplied by its agents and onil moik K nnfl wppV to one ' set of persons, the next week to another set of 5,000 and so on. In this way 260,000 extra persons are reached during the year, while if the extra 5,000 were sent every week to 5,000 paying subscribers only that number could be reached. In 1 the former case 285,000 persons are | reached- In the latter case only 80,000 all told. A person receiving a copy of a journal which he has not seen before, with a request to examine it, will usually look all through it, advertisements and all. Such a course is as useful to .the yearly advertiser as if his card were sent to the whole 285,000 persons, or even more so, for liis single loose card receives far less attention than would be found in the columns of a reputable journal. ?Orange Judd Farmer. Tbe Art or Advertising. , Advertising seems to be an art yet to be discovered by some people. That is, the practical part of it. A constant stream of water from ore or more fire engines will soon extinguish or get ; tinder control a very large tire, while a few buckets of water, dashed on here and there, have little or no effect The modern fire department is practical, and has outgrown tbe old bucket system; and so with modern advertising?plenty of it, used in a practical, common sense , and judicious manner, pays. If you want to catch a certain kind ol fish you use a certain kind of bait; not ' all fish bite at all kinds of bait. Not all " people respond to every advertisement. The newspaper is a medium indispen[ sable to the majority of advertisers, be! cause of its wide and repeating circula , tion. As a promoter of trade and profil s newspaper, advertising is no longer an ' open question; that is, when done in s ' practical and intelligent manner, and pays because of ita effectiveness and i cheapness.?Beatrice (Neb.) Democrat, i Spasmodic Advertising. We all recognize that as between the i fellow who works "by fits and starts' | and the chap who plods along and keepi at it steadily, the plodder gets there every time. The spasmodic fellow maj [ create an occasional impression, but the ; results of his fitful labors are dissipated , in the intervals. r The occasional display of fireworkf , only serves the purpose of preventing hit being forgotten altogether; while the man who works, and keeps working, con ^ stantly improves his position and pros ' pecta. i So it is with advertising. It is the re\ pea ted "ad" and the sustained effort that telL We don't mean the "ad" that is never changed, but the one that is ever ( changing, but never omitted! The wise advertiser keeps always before the people to whom he deeLres to sell his wares. When you want to quit doing business : stop advertising, or advertise only "once ; in a while." 11 Be Brief! Be Pointed! ; In preparing tneir announcements aa[ vertisers will usually do well to confine their statements to one, or at most, a very few points. Few persona can do ' well more than one thing at a time, and it is much the same with the memory; ! but one or two points in any statement make an impression and are retained. As the number of points is increased the probability of any of them making an impression and bringing returns is proportionately reduced. "Too Much Is Plenty." An advertisement for a wife in a Col, orado paper brought such a heavy mail to the advertiser, Mr. Paul White, a prosperous ranchman at Rocky Ford, Colo., that he had to convey it from the postoffice to his ranch in barrels in his farm waffon. For a month he has spent ! his evenings perusing his correspond| ence, and he has not yet made a choice. ?New York Weekly. A Common Sense View. Nearly every business has its "dull | season," during which a good advertdsej ment will do faithful work day and i night, rain or shine, in familiarizing , consumers with the name, location and ; specialties or advantages of the adveri tiser. so that when the time to buy corncs ! he reaps the benefit of his seed sowing. I ?Azro GofFs Circular. It All Takes Time. Don't be prejudiced. Because at one ; timo you put a short local in your town newspaper for one week, and "car| tooned" all the fence boards in the vicinj ity, don't give up, get discouraged and say tliat you have tried advertising, resolved that it didn't pay and decided not I to do Jiny more of it.?Warren (Ills.) Sentinel. Expect Good Returns. Give your "ads" a sanguine, optimistic I hue. Convey, in a subtle bat unmistak! able way, the impression that you expect success, and the results will mnch more surely come. Never advertise your doubts or fears. Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.?Gladstone. No MfXllnin Like the Newspaper. The advertising man of a well known New York clothing house says: "We .were the first to use the sails of vessels as an advertising medium. Then we got np the 'alphabet puzzle,' and gave away 600,000 puszlea while the erase lasted. Afterward we invented . the Waterbury watch idea. We had to do something, because three of our principal competitors had failed, and their stockB were being sold for next to nothing by assignees; so we decided to give a Waterbury watch with every twelve dollars' worth of goods pur- , chased. We advertised the watches 'wound and set' To wind them fast enough we had to rig up a little machine worked like a sewing machine that would do the winding, and we kept several boys at work winding and settingthem. Before we quit we had gives away 40,000 of the watches. "But nothing ever pays us like the ordinary newspaper advertising. The fact ia thera has come to be in this city u class of advertisement readers just as there is of news readers. They read the advertisements every day, and of course the man who wants to attract them has to get up an advertisement that will do it. The day of standing advertisements in the paper, 'Go to So-and-So's for clothing,' or 'Go to Thia-and-That's for shoes,* has passed, just as the day for painting signs on rocks and fences or on the sails of boats has passed. You must have something interesting and fresh in every advertisement, and it will be read. A Place for Talent. ?rf nearly all regelated lines of industry at present the advertising man is one of the most important adjuncts of * business. And on the the other hand the advertising department of a first class newspaper is not what it used to be, but is instead fast becoming an interesting feature of all enterprising journals. Formerly the prevailing idea among the uninitiated was that the talented, the best, most versatile and most ingenious writers and artists were all employed in the news department. How nearly correct this idea may have I been need not be stated, but that such is | not the case now may be seen by a ( pernaal of the "ads" of any flourishing papfer. The competitions between the merchants and between the papers' ! agents have become so great that the , great wholesale and retail houses of the large cities employ talented men at big r salaries to attend to their advertising , alone, and the men who want the best. positions in the counting rooms of newspapers must combine fine business qualifications with the talent that wins sue *? nl V on ATO1H o'fl C 83 ID tUO CUilAJi ictL uau. 4vuwi?*i*vx News, a Advertising Necessary to Success* ' The merchant or manufacturer who 1 does not advertise liis goods cannot suo ' ceed. Of late newspaper advertising has ' become a distinct trade in itself, and all over the country leading concerns pay fabulous prices for men who are skillful in writing catchy advertisements. In * many large cities there are men earning from $3,000 to $10,000 a yearto write ad' vertisements. This fact in itself shows f advertising pays. ' If people interested in this subject i will investigate it for themselves they' ' will find that the leading advertisers in- ' The Plain Dealer are the merchants who' ' have the best stores, the beet assort5 ments of goods and who sell at the most * reasonable prices. Such merchants do a mnch larirer business than merchants who do not advertise; consequently they turn their goods over more quickly and can afford to give better prices. Close ' buyers appreciate this. What is the 1 moral? He who advertises the most ' judiciously succeeds the best, and the > buyers who seek the best bargain? patronize such merchants.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. i ! Never Be Commonplace. "Bring your feet with yon and have them fitted to a pair of our common sense shoes," is the way a Pittsburg dealer advertises. It is a good phrase 1 and one which attracts attention. The ' man who succeeds in advertising in such 1 a way that people read his advertisement is the one who draws trade to his store as sure as a magnet ifraws a needle to itself. Study np quaint, pithy or witty phrases to head your advertisements, and be not too modest in the space they occupy.?Brockton Shoe. Regular Publications Best. No one takes up a regular publication without the expectation of finding something of interest. The simple act of turning the pages is as positive an example of expectation as is the opening of a closet if one is in search of a coat ! Hence an announcement in a regular publication has an advantage over any other form of business solicitation?that of meeting the sought for eye at a time Uiar it is in a mooa rur sutn greHirag,? A. C. Ladd Fulfill Every Promise. The merchant who desires the confidence and custom of intelligent peopb should never make a promise that h? Joes not fulfill, or hold out, either by express statement or inference, any inducements that are not fully substantiated by the facts. There is no enduring success where confidence is lacking on the part of customers. Any success not founded on square and liberal deaJ- , ing is sure to be short lived. Use Common Sense. That people should use tue same prac: tical common sense in advertising that | is necessary to transac t ;ny other business would seem to he an indisputableproposition. Yet there are gentlemen* i who aro extremely good business men. I in all other respects who will make* I grievous errors in this direction.?Kncxvillo Sentinel. Must Have Genius. The simplest advertisements sometimes require the most '-are and thought: I - ? Til \1 rifli I) PAlnmnl IX! UL1UU UVllOU UUWVii. i w *? \ a vv (? v"iu4MW| is a matter of time, but to edit it down; into a sentence is something more.?< Printer's Ink. I