Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, November 10, 1881, Image 1
BY KEITH, SMITH & CO.
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IO, 1881,
VOLUME XXXII.
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BIT?ERS
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ens the muscles, and ?ives n?w
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snell as tasting tho fbod. Belching,
Heat in tho Stomach, Heartburn,
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July 21,1881 80-lf
Two thotisntid doctors propose to meet
together end discuss mcdioal suhjeots
Tho bonefits tlmt will result, from thisoon
not bo CHtimntcd. While tho doctoro are
ip convention everybody will got well.
?Boston Globe.
It is said that tho intestines of flies ond
Other insecto aro blood vessels, tho smallest
brandies whereof are 200,000 limes loes
than a hair in me/
3f?er Lato than Ne vor.
j^fc ; a raco where somo succeed,
voile Otbora aro beginning; ?.
>mt hick, at times, nt others speed,
That giveB no ear'y winning. .
But if you chucee to fall behind,
Ne'er shaken your endeavor;
Just keep tin? wholc?omo truth in ujtnd
'Tia botter late than never.
If you can keep nhead, 'tis well,
But ncv.u* trip your neighbor;
'Tis noblo when you cno excel
By holest, patient labor.
But if you ure outstripped >?t l ist,
Pres'on us hold IH over;
lleuiopbcr, though you atc surpassed
'Tr* bettor Into than never.
Nebr labor foran idle boast
?f viotory o'er another;
B?t while you strive your uttermost,
Dosi fuirly with n brother, i
?Vhnt'er your station, do your best,
And hold your purpose ever;
i And if you fail to beat tho rest
'Tis batter late than never.
Chooso well tho palh in which you run,
Succeed by noble during;
Then, though tho Inst, whence once '[
won,
Your crown is worth thc wearing.
Then never fret if left behind,
Nor stuck -ii your codcavor;
But ever keep this truth in mind -
'Tie better lato limn never.
A Man of Yo Olden Time
Wo were pienso 1 to meet on (he siren
of York ville, last Thursday, Mr. l?fcone??t
W. Smith, better known to our olde Vj bili
zeus ns "Abc*' Smith, father ?of 'i i: .
Harvey Smith, of Cheater In the yen
1855, Mr. Smith emigrated from th]
county, to Brocka Oap, Jefferson COUIMJ
Alabama, where his hom! now is. Fe
twenty four consecutivo years previous t
his departure from York, he was superin
tendent of the county poor house, and i
can be truthfully said that a moro compe
tent official never served thc people.
Mr, Smith is a veritable und living lin]
between the pa?t and present g?n?rations
ns, should he live until that day, he will lu
ninety ono years of age on thc 10th of uex
December. He is still active and jovial
with memory unimpaired, in excellen
health, and gives promise to livo for man';
years to como, lie hus lived uu abstemious
life, having never, during his lifo time
draak os much at a quart of spirituous
liquor. He is of a family noted for lon
gevity. Ho informs us that ho hud a
brother to die io Georgia, about four mouthe
ago, at tho ago of 115 years. Two yena
ago, ho heard from another brother, then
living in Louisville, Ky., at the agc of 117
years, und bc may bo living yet as bo has
not been informed of his deuth.
Mr. Smith is a native, wo think, of
Chester county. Having been born io the
I st century, tho cut lier portion of his life
w N spent in a comparatively new country,
nnd consequently his experience of those
days-io the absonoe of railroad, steam
boats, thc tclograph and ot.hor modorn con
veniences, was even more typionl of fron
tier lifo tlinn tho existence of tho hunter
on thc far Western pruirie, or tho seeker of
gold on thc Pucifio slope to day.
In his day, ''wagoning" wus tho univer
sal modo of transporting commodities in
land from one section to another, and thc
owner of a fino team and wogon WOB alto
gether 08 important a personage as the
modorn manuger of a railroad or steamboat
lino. In view of tho unsettled condition
of tho country, thc occupation demanded
men of enterprise, if not of moral courage.
Naturally of au adventurous spirit, Mr.
Smith took to tho wagon, just ns if ho worn
! living hie young life over now, ho would be
at tho head of sonic publio enterprise, re(.
quiring t:crve and enorgy, and mado seve
rol "trips," which in this ago of steam and
quick transit, would, to tho youngor per
aoua of thie generation neem almost incred
ible. Among these trips, n notable one
was mado during tho war of 1812-14, when
ho hauled a loud of 3,001 pounds of cot (on
from Fish Dam in Union County, this
State, to Philadelphia, for whioh ho re?
oeived, for hauling 913 per hundred
pounds-or $300 for delivering tho ootton
in Philadelphia. With this loud he start
ed on tho 12th of October, 1814, and he
Oath to memory HOW tho blackened walls
of tho capitol, whioh ho saw as ho parsed
through Washington, thc work of tho Brit
ish undor (louerai Ross, who attomptod
to destroy the building in August pre*
vious.
On his return from Philadelphia, ho
loaded his wogon with 3,700 pounds of
butter, consigned to Charleston, for which
ho was paid 912.50 per hundred pounds
for hauling. He rea eh ed (J har lest on in
January, 1815, and enlisting in tho United
States army, was appointed wagon master.
In this capacity ho started out accompanied
by 'soldiers, with a boggngo und supply
train en routo for White Uiver, Arkansas,
thou tho oxtremo Wcstorn boundary of tho
States. While on this trip a horso belong
ing to him diod. Thoofiioor in command
of tho train o.urned tho vu lue of tho horse
to bo assessed, and drow an order on thc
Quartermaster General in Mr. Smith's
favor for $75, thc assessed valuo of tho
animal, but up to tho\ ~"*" ' ?*' ;o tho
order has not been ?l',?lhor wfcp was eqn?..^,
howevo?, yet to . ' co?colcd weapon it must
tho amount-ji1"0" ll"u aU #0 .aro near c
ful of HU00C88, Tho J"** fottM tiie tUfchd
thorio purso t
debts, and c$ thinks thc boy living lidJ*|i
?'Southern w,*. " goocj bey has not HtfCH
Mr. Smith io QoVr a pensioner of tho U. S.
Government for his sorvioca in tho war of
1812-14.- Xorkville Enquirer.
Spoopondyke's Picture-Hang
ing
"Well, my dear," said Mr. Spoopondykc,
with a nail in his mouth, and buluuoing
I himself waveringly ou n dining room chair,
! "all you'vo got to do now is to get your
! "cturo ro;'dy. and I'll show you how to
I hang thu thing.''
lt's uwfui sweet of you, pet," said Mrs.
Spoupcndylfo.'nltcrnstoly rubbing tho frame
' ot u very hectic ohroino nnd sucking thu
: thumb sha hud been hammering for tito
j last twenty minutes. "It's awful sweet
I ui'.d thoughtful of you, my dear, to oner
j your assista ncc nt such a time, tor I do be
lieve I never would have got a nail driven
iii that t-tlipid wall "
"Of course you wouldn't, my door!"
l&nghed Mr. Spoopoukyko. "Who ever
saw a woman that could drive a unit? You
couldn't drive a galvanized onrpot-tack in
a Me.vcn-pound bladder of putty. And
speaking ul driving nails, I'd like to kuow
if you're ever going to hand up that ham
mer, or meat pounder, or whatever you've
been using Think I can drive nails with
my elbowi"'
"lt's thc stove handle, love," said Mrs.
Sponpendyke, meekly, handing him n
mysterious looking implement, with a
woodoo handle nt one end und tim undcr
jiW of a shoemaker's plyers nt the other.
"Oh, it's n stove hook, is U'r"' said Mr.
Spoopondykc, regarding thc weapon with a
.sinister rs pression. "Now, if you'd
handed n o up a dog iron, or a pair of
Heel/ards, i'd have boen right at homo;
but a Move honk'. Really, u v dear I'd
rather nu lortake to drive n nail with a
Soy the handle."
"Hut ibo wail's so soft and lonely, dear,
it really drives them beaut itu! ly-it they
Would univ slick." slid Raid Mis. Spoop'ii"
dyke, reassuringly,
"Only slick!" said Mr. Spoopelidyko
contemptuously; "now I'll bet you never
wet thc mucilage on a single tittil before you
started. Thai's why they didn't stick for
you-ouch! Bulfonu' fd oses! Aro you
going to aland serenely by and seo mc beat
my knuckles into u shapeless pulp with
this dodgostcd, measly mnrlinopikc?"
"Poor dear!" s!.;d Mra Spoopcnuykb,
consolingly. "You do ucl so (inpatient
and nt the first trial, too. Maybe it slruck
something hard in tho plaster, Try nu j
nther place-that's the way I managed
that."
"Oh, yes," said Mr. Spoopoudyko,
"that's thc way you managed it! and you
have punched enough holes io herc to piny
cribbage in. Will you gimme another
nail? Don't you seo I've knocked thia one
flat and con'' n.ipry it up again?"
"Can't un) ry it up again!" ejaculated
Mrs. Spoopoudyko, in n very gentle voice,
handing him another nail. Can't utipry
it up ogain!'' Well, if that ain't gram
mar!"
"Oh, ain't il?'* said Mr. Spoopondykc
with n most horriffio smile. "Of course it
ain't, you old female seminary with a cracked
boll in your cu palo! Am I going to sMiool
to you or am 1 driving nails?"
"Well, dear," nighed Mrs. Spoopondykc
"you're surely not driving nails."
'.No, you can just bet I'm not driviu'
nails, and you can just bet I ain't a-going
to drive no moro nails neither! And yu
can bet," continued Mr. Spoupendyke, with
still densifying intensely, und a war dnn.-o
flourish ns ho le;.ped to the floor, "and you
can just bet your high uiuok-a-muck, if
you'll set that measly old chromo of yours
on thc fiido table I'll throw this duitunstcd
thing so fur through it that it won't get
back in a century!"-Brooklyn Eagle.
Uncle Sam's Balanco Sheet
A STRIKING EXHIBIT OP THE COUNTRY'8
FINANCIAL STRENGTH.
WASHINGTON, November 3.-Tho nu?
nnul repoit of the United States Treasurer
Gilfillan, showing tho operations of tho
Treasury for the fisoal year onding Juno 30
1881, was submitted to tho Seoretary of
tho Treasury to day. Tho transactions of
thc Treasurer's oflicc for tho your muy bo
summarized us follows:
Tho receipts of tho Government show un
increase over those of 1880 from every
souroo Tho increase in receipts from cus
toms is SI 1.037,011, from internal revenue
811,265,011, ?alu of public lands 81,185,-.
350, luUoollnneoue $.'1,177,702. The total
i ne rea sc is 827,255,080, which added to a
? net reduction in expenditures of 80,930,
O7O, makes nn in?renlo in surplus revenue
of 834,180,751.
Tho not revenues wero 8300,782,202
and net expenditures 8200,712,887. Tue
exocfls of rcoelpts over payments was$100,
000,405, of which 890,872,201 was
oxpondod it) tho redemption of tho publie
debt.
Tho receipts from tho posloflioo were
889,757,004, expenditures 838,514,935,
of which ntnounts 824,702,703 wore
reooivod nod cxponded directly by post
masters.
During tho yonr fifty four Nntionul bunks
wcro organized nnd twenty wont into vol
untary . liquidation, leaving 2,130 doing
busincGO nt tho oloso of tho your. No Nn~
tional bank fnilod during tho year. The
scmi?unnual duty nourning from National
banks was 88,493,552 oil of which has
";n collected and paid into thc Treasury,
t">'w-' ,\ho total amount collcotod by tho
*no tho establishment of thc
.N???V#ki?8tom io 1809, 8108,855,"
t'l?ll I 'irfl>rA-M Manir ' ? ?
Rfcmnfis, I'of-iW
Vf am*?^,CKStates currency outstanding
ot tho oloso of tho ye.ir was 8802,039,437.
There was redeemed during tho your 871,
009.974, making tho totai rodomptiou
since tho first issuo of ourrcuoy 82,300,
141,073.
United States bonds amounting to 885,
804,050 wero retired duriug tho yeur. Thc
oggrcfmto amount retired by purchase, ro?
demption, conversion and exohango from
?Mureil 11,1809, to tho oloso of fiscal year
is81,983 344,800.
Oom pu ri ug the condition of tho TVODS ?
ury .September 30, 1881, with ita conditiou
on thc sumo day inst year tho most striking
j changes arc thc inore iso in g.ild coin ar.d
j bullion und standard silver dollars on hand
and tn silver cortiGoatOSoutstanding. ?More
than $23,000,000 in gold has been depos
! iud with tho Assistant Treasurer in New
I York for thc purolnse of exchango on the
West and Soul li payable in silver ocrtifi
oates during thc last fiftecu months.
Tho gross amount of gold and silver
coin and bullion hold by tho Treasury in
1881 was 8209,700,000. Thc inore.se
within tho lust year Ime boen $5,5500.000,
ot whioh nuioant over 839,000,000 was in
gold.
Thc following oro tho important recom
mendations contained in the report: Thc
Treasurer regard? tho requirement of thc
Act of 1849 that public moneys shall he
deposited in the Treasury without diminu
tion io any way, us most salutary und im
portant, and believes thcro is no BU dicion t
reason for excepting from it public moneys
collected by the I'ostollico .Department. To
correct this, and to secure efficient control
nod uniform accountability, lie recommends
u ohaugo in tho td* tu tea sp aa to require thc
revenues of tho l'ostolliec Depart ment to
bo deposited like all other roveuuefl ?o the
credit of tho Treasurer's regular, account,
and lo bo drawn out only on tho warr nt ol
Secretary of I lin Treasury based upon tho
requisition of tho Postmiister-ticnerul.
notorio g to thu redemption of National
hnuk notes, Ti ensurer Gilfillan soya. Aside
from the morn difficulty ot properly up
I portioning redemption expenses, J am
firmly convinced that the power now pos
sessed bv National banks of throwing up
their circulation at will is wrong in princi
ple, unnecessary und dangerous. Under
tho present system issuers can suddenly and
arbitrarily contract, tho currency to any
extent, ?ind it may he for their interest to
do this when llicro is a legitimate demand
for all the currency in circulation or even
moro. A bank haviug issued circulating
notes should be held responsible for them
until they aro redeemed and it goes out of
business, und there is no obligation resting
upon tho United Sutes to tam me lite
responsibility for their promissory notes.
The priviligo of surrendering circula.ion
by deposit!nrt lawful money lorita redemp
tion io i ..sHi'.ry to coircct redundancy
io it.? ci> v um. If a bunk finds thal us
issues hrc being redeemed so rapidly ns lo
destiny profit Inc obvious remedy is
refrain from reissuing tho redeemed notes
and retire them according to law. Not
would tho withdrawal of thc privilege pre
vent thc hanks from winding up business
and going into liquidation, inasmuch as thc
surrender of circulation by liquidating
banks is made under u prior and distinct
provision of law.
A Mailor of Busmesac
'?Were you out lust night, dear?" pi?id
Mrs. Breezy, taking her seat ut the break
fast table and fumbling nervously with hot
fork.
'.Oh. no!'' said Mr. Breezy, it wasn't
lalo. You see, darling, you wero oslcof,
when 1 carno in and-"
"No Mr. Breezy, I wm not asleep, bul
U8 you say, it was not late fur you. Not ll?
ing would oonvinoo you that tho clock
struck 3 as you closed tho hall door. Ol
course business detained you, my dear ll
is wonderful how mush business a man
will find to transaot after midnight, but, ol
course, we wooton know nothing about sucii
things. We can naver understand you
men, c.?n wc deo ri" Wc aro always imagin
ing nil sorts of horrid things when you
happen to sloy away a day or two withoul
sending us even II linc Women ?ri
so nervous, aro they not den? Wh?t sill]
ercittu'cs we are, to lm sum. If we would
only go to bed und go tit sleep, it would siv,
a world of trouble, would't it. dent? Wi
might know that you great strong mon mn
take caro of yourselves. If you uri
obliged to sit up until 2 or 8 o'clock in lin
rau/ning talking business with your custo
mers, it is rou I ly ungrateful in us to com
plain, for, of ooutto, you have (bo wornt ol
it, don't you, darling? Now it mud ha vi
bothered you ard how tired you must get
and think '.hat it is all for our sakes
When you oomc tottering homo and thro?
yourself on tho bcd without even tin
strength to remove your boots, we shnnli
appreciate your dovotioo in thus laboring li
support us. Now, lust night, deaf, whet
stumbling over the rocking chair ont
found yourself obliged to oling to lin
he.albo.i rd to support your weary form, yoi
presented a redly sad example of tho over
worked husband and father When you
shattered nerves oa?sod you to upset in]
frosh bottle of cologne and so titer tho eon
tonta of my work- basket over the fluor
you really looked the ty picul martyr n
married lifo. Of course you do nut remem
ber it, dear, You wero too tired und won
out with timi horrid customer to romcmbc
anything What a dry, stupid timo yoi
must havo talking business up to 3 o'oloel
in tho morning, and you looked so sleep;
and used up this morning. I would ron ll;
imagino you had experienced a severo ill
noes if I didn't know it was ono of thoa
terrible racking business oares whioh pul
you down. 1 soo that you havo quito los
your appetite, dcor. You haven't touche
your ntct>k. Now, dear, this will uot do.
You must not apply yourself so closely to
busiucss. It is killing you," onaVMrs.
Breczy's mouth curled with n decided
I sneer ns she dug a tablespoon into tho fried
1 potatoes.
J ? But, my deer,2'' suid Mr. Breezy, mak
I i ti g a hcroio effort to swallow a little of tho
j steak, "lt was u most important business
engage-?
"Of course it wus'' said Mrs. Breezy, cs
she poured out a cup of coffee with tremb
I ling hand. "CM course it was, love Your
! engagements ire always important. They
will ?ever keep over until morning, never
What if ther-c engagements-theso very
j important engagements-do occur fivo or
? six nights out of tho we.ck. Is it a sigu cf
! your prosperity? Should I complain if
I you find yourself obliged to meet your
customers, ut thc I li cut res, und concert Itu) lb,
and ut poker parties in out of thc wpy ol'
I hotels';' No, dear, you otc obliged to ad;ipt
j yourself to your custom ors' mode of lifo.
; It is till in thc way of business, and wo
short-sighted wives ure very unreasonable
to suppose for a moment that you frequent
I sueh places out of choice, when even in
I stinct should tench us (hat you would much
I prefer being home in thc bosoms of your
families. You denr abused husbands!
How patient you arc, to be sure, with us
fidgety uurc?sonublc creatures," und Mrs.
Breezy pus'icd buck her chair with a jerk
und loft tho room.- Fruin thc Brooklyn
Foyle.
Gottiug Married in North Caro
lina.
A couple from Virginia landed in Milton
I the other morning, n local paper says, to bo
I married bv 'Squire Lewis. They walked
hand-in-hnnd np Main street ond took a
scat upon thc front step of tho 'Squire's
office and tho man asked for a license. AB
tho 'Squire was preparing to moke it out,
liiii buxom girl began to inch oil nnd
hesito lcd, and dually said to the young man
in a half whisper:
"John," said she, "I don't behove 1 will
- I never did feel so Austraten'-lnwdl 1
wonder what poppy's doing uow-I feel
right tremb otnc - lots go back; oomo on,
John."
"Well yr.u don't want tho license, then?''
said thc 'Squire.
"Hold on thar, Mister; yes wc do," said
thc man; and ho moved closer up and set
his chin to earnest work. "Now, Solly,"
?aid he, "don't go on thaler way: what 'ud
tho folks siy? It 'ud bo awful hard on
mc. An' thar's thc oaody stew at Bob
Brown's to-night, an* nllcr that; And
ou.."-; Jones would jest dio a giinnin' over
yo;? :.bnut it. She was mad o? pizen yis
lerday when wc heard wo wis coinin'-"
"1 don't mind her no mur'u thc dust off
my feet, but I feel so skittish like, John;
wish'crmydio if I hain't sorry wc como. I
don't want'er get married, John."
' Say, Mister, fix on your popers," said
John. .?Marry i n's nolhin'; no mor'n
standiu' up in a r'pellin' class at Oldfield
School."
"Well, stand up," eaid thc 'Squire. "I'm
ready "
But as tho ceremony was under way tho
girl jerked back, exclaiming: "I'll bc
John-dinged cf I do!"
Thc V quito suggested that the license
had been given, nod that they had geno
most too tar to back ont now.
"That's so!" 8?id John. "Stand fast,
Sully! Don't git oil in'er quiver now,"
gontly Inking her arm. "Oonie'r 'long in
place; it's most over with;" aad she
sidled back.
As tlio'Squire said, "I now pronounce
you lunn and wile!"
"Lud'amercy!" cried thc bride, "cn' it
ia done?''
"You bot 'tis-easy as spelling; and now
we'll yo," Bair] tho min; and they mounted
tho horse double and rode out of town.
Tho following lines from tho London
Notes and Queries aro commended to
writers for tho pref s generally:
PREPARATION >V MANUSCRIPT. FOR TUE
PRLSS.
' Write upon pagoi of o singlo siz?.
dross your l's and neatly dot your ?'
On one sido only lot your linen bo seen
Hntti sides lilied op nnnouuco a verdant
green.
C< licet, yes rc-corrcct, all that you write,
And iel ymir ink bc black und your paper
white.
Kur spongy foolsoap, of a muddy blue,
Betrays u mind of thc samo dismal Imo.
Punctuate e/irefully, for on this sooro
Nothing proclaims a praotiood writer moro.
Then send it off, and, lest it merit laok,
Endoso a stamp with which to ccud it
bu ol;;
Hut firs* pay all the postage on it too,
lwrr editor's look blank on "six cents duo,"
And murmur, as thoy run tho effusion o'er,
?A shuhby follow and a wrotchod bore!1
Yet, ero it goes, tako of it a oopy olenn
Writers should own o copying inaohino, ?
Little they know thc timo that's spent, and
caro,
In hunting 'copy' vanished-who knows
whore?
Bear lhi? in mind, obaorvn it to tho end,'
And you shull make the editor your friend."
.? ? ---
AIIOUT COTTON.-Tho first colton
plumed in this country waa in 1521 in
South Corolin? Tho plant was discovered
growing wild on tho Islnnd of IlinpaDiols
?Iso as fir Mot th oh tho Miosi&jippi ns Mu.
thirtieth parallel of latitude, and it hu?
been proved to bo indigenous ti tho soil o:
tho lower latitudes of Not th Auiorictn W.
Elliot, in 1700, gathered the first sAwoss
ful cotton orop in South Carolina, ni"*
within a fow yenra cotton oulfn Minn bc
OQtno gc ne iv. I in extreme Soutlurn States,
II). Ad vised ControVraoionl 10
-j- . 'ollowing
Mr. R.G. Ingersoll, wo flf?n8?u
is allowed to occupy a grea?:. '
pages in the latest number o'i
North American Review v9'
what is called a rejoinder to Judg
Black's reply, contained in a for
mer number. If Mr. ThorndikoV,
Rice finds t his kind of controversy "
acceptable to tho readers of rt
once influential publication,- that
is his business altogether; but in
the interest not only of religion
but of common sense, it is to bo
hoped that Mr. Ingersoll may bo
allowed to have the field entirely
to himself.
Nothing has given this man's
foolish diatribes any popular suc
cess or any power to harm tho
Christian faith but the mistaken
zeal with which ministers and
others have hastened to assail him,
and Judgo Black, by entering tho
lists to dispute with him,has given
a dignity to scofling unbelief that
it never would have attained other
wise.
It is foolish to undertake an
argument with a man of this kind*
who insists upon measuring tho
infinite with his two foot rule.
No one with even the faintest con
ception of religion can possibly
bring himself to Ingersoll's mental
plane, much less Ingersoll to his.
lie doc.-, not know what faith
means, a td his opponents never
can meet on common ground.
If they did he would simply resort
to burlesque, and of what possible
use is it to argue with that kind of
thing?
Ingersoll's whole capital is thc
cheapest kind of s/nart burlesque,
and nobody over would have
dreamed of dignifying lt with a
place in a prominent review, or
oven in thc daily newspapers,} if
religious men had treated it .with
the little consideration it was en
titled to. Thc best thing to do
with men ol' this kind is to let them
alone. Controversy has given'
Ingersoll all his prominence. If
he found nobody to reply to him
ho would soon drop out of sight^
Doos tho Drought Do Any Good?^*
Thc effect of a season of long
continued drought is to improve
the fertility of the ''oil. During
such a season t ho wat or in the soil
is continually rising to thc surface
by capillary attraction and is there
evaporated. It is precisely the
reverse of tho leaching 'process.
Too much rain passing down
through an open soil luis the effect
of leaching out thc inorganic eic?,
monts and carrying them down
beyond tho reach of thc roots of
plants. This of course has tho
effect of impoverishing the soil by
depriving it of thoso clements
necessary to tho growth and ma
turity of plants. On tho other
hand when a drought sets in tire
moisture from bclow^ which bolos
in solution small portions of ppt
ash.soda, magnesia and phosphoric
acid commences to risc, and as it
evaporates from tho surface it
leaves behind it in tho soil near
(he surface those inorganic
elements, just as the salt \yater
when cxaporated will leave , the
salt behind. In both cases only
the pure water escapes. Alhnat
ter held in solution remains. ?THo
effect of drought therefore is, to
bring up from thc subsoil the ele
ments mentioned and to deposit
thetn near the surface for tho usc
of plants. It follows from this,
that soils are improved by drought,
provided, tho amount of watfcr
necessary to tho growth of a crop,
is forthcoming. All of this goes
to provo that tho soils of tho
drought stricken sections aro now
in a goo(. condition to re?oive tho
fall sowii.g of rye, oa"ts and wheat
with tho promiso of a remunera
tive return. Sow ryo op^<?n.,i,
land and oats or/wheat stif
lands. Tho rye- will -afford-^.. ?
lent pasture for cotilo- or %^
i?i^aft will ?ave you-mtg*
peinture for com,.and $P<*
fU$M convenio^ next/ may
^Tw?vIion, Pf ha ps/ barrel.
m?^?t?t ten dollar?