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Til WEEKLY iH imiQH TIMES. Quoted to ^grimlturc, horticulture, gomcstir (Btonomg, |)olitc Jitcratnrr, politics, and the (Current of the gan. VOL. XVII?New Series. UNION C. H? SOUTII CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 20, 1SS0. NUMBERS. Cotton Seed and Cotton Seed Oil. Among the so-called minor discoveries of the uinetecuth century, no one is, com parativcly speaking, more far reaching ii its effects, or more beneficial in its results than the valuo of cotton-seed, and especially of the valuable qualities of the oil bidder in the cottonseed. 11 is literally far-reach jog in its effects, for from the cotton fieldi of the South it stretches forth one banc towards the Northwest, touching closely tlx lard interest of Cincinnati and Chicago with the other pointing across the oe.an to the olivo orchards of Italy and Spain, which it has despoiled of their pristine glory. 1? c.:-i ucueuciui in iim results, it replaces the hog-pruduot?with its foul odors, its filth, and its discasc-gcrms?with a pure, sweet, bland and healthful oil ; and fills the wicker flasks rf Spain and Italy with a limpid fluid, equal in every respect to the olive-oil itself, and at a price which places it within the reach of all. l'roui the once-despiscd cottonseed we got a pure vegetable oil, containing ninety* live per ocut of nu' runout, so cheap that its adulteratiou would be folly, while as an adulterant it can only give added value to the product. Whcu properly rcliucd, it Is clear and limpid, with a rich, nutty flavor and odor, keeping well for long periods of time, beariug transportation perfectly, absolutely free from all possibility of disease-germs. It rcplacos perfectly lard and butter and suet in the kitchen, olive-oil on the tabic, and both in the pharmacy. For salves, pomades, liniments and ointments, as an ingrcdcent in the finest toilet-soap, as a lubricant?in short, when properly refined, wherever a non-drying oil is wanted, cotton-seed.oil is Mm liiwl. "il 1 ? ?w v.. iv/? uiij mm tvurv purpose. 4A study of the history of every invention from the remotest time, develops the fact tint wheuover a close and urgent necessity arises, the genius of man is equal to the emergency.' The cry of Kuglaud's multitudes for that employment that should give them bread, ted ?v/ *!?<- v?V .S.v. .J* 0 The dcuiaud for inatorials to supply the mills, led to the invention of the cotton-gin. The rapidly-accumulating cotton-seed?the waste product of the cotton gin?led to the discovery of its hidden value, proving it to be nature's storehouse of the tiuest oil, and fittest renovator of her worn-out cotton fields. The discovery of cotton-seed oil thus 1 forms auothcr link in the lengthening chain of graud discoveries and inventions, each one the outgrowth of the last and, necessitating the next, beginning a hundred HK<ir urilh fl?r> 'trntor.fr'im.i' nl'l(ii>liir.l J -n ') Ark wright, the father of cottou-spiuuing. About the same time, James Watt, evolving his great invention?the steam-power engine?the two combined capable together of furnishing employment for count less thousands, and clothing for the world necessitated the discovery of the means of furnishing the raw material with which to feed the mills. The importation of cotton was very limited in those days, while all the wool and flax in Europe would not suffice to keep a dozen mills running. The vast and fertile fields of the Southern United States were indeed capable of furnishing all the 'upland' cotton that all the mills of England could use, could the fibre hut he separated from the seed with sufficient rapidity to meet the demand. The primitive process of separating the fibre by hand-picking could only suffice for home-consumption, a pound a day being considered an ample task for an able worker. The roiler-gin of Joseph Eve, just coming into use, was only adapted to clean the longstaple 'sea-island' cotton, of which the sun 4 ' I ply was restricted by narrow limits of habitat ami climate. The tenacious, short lihrc of the 'upland' cotton?of which alone such enormous quantities as were required to supply the mills of Holland could bo raised?necessitated tbe discovery of some rapid and economical method of separation from the need. With the impcratativc demand of urgent necessity came the solution of the problem. In a rough log-cabin, on a Georgia plantation, in far-off America, an unknown genius was weaving together his wire, wood and bristle, working out the problem of the cotton-gin, with which to supplement tin Btcaimcngirie and the spindle. Instigated and encouraged hy his kin< friend, the widow of Gen. Nathaniel Green Kli Whitney?the youthful toy-maker of i little country village?the boy whose fathc petulantly declared that 'he would never b tit lor anything but making fiiddles,' bu whoso genius for diddle-making' never thcless paid his way through Yale Colleg ?the young tutor who had never seen grow ing cotton?through this sanio despised m< v . ; M N ? * ichanienl genius, .'nnugurated a groat iudus > trial revolution. The cotton-gin in its primitive simplicity 1 --a revolving cylinder with bristling rows ? of wire claws (soon replaced by sharptoothed f saws)?with its omptnion cylinder armed 1 with rows of brushes to sweep the cotton - rvfF ((..> ! 1- A? ' vu, >u? kmi|>|>v<i laniug mrr.ugii too 1 open bars of the 'tire pi it form, solved tho ' problem and rai>cd cotton to the first place 1 among textile fabrics. ? lint, with growing uiounds of fleecy cot1 ton ou the one hand cauic tne rapid accumulation of the refuse seed ou the other. On every cotton j flotation there accumulated annually immense heaps of black, greasy, filthy-look *ng, slowly rotting, offensive refuse from the cotton gin. As the sharp teeth of the rapidly-revolving cylinder tore c tf the ; nowy fleece, the disposition of tho rapidly-accumulating seeds, which were poured forth as waste, the disposal of which furnished an evcrrecurriug problem to the planter, who little dreamed of the mine of wealth that lay before his very eves. It was not uutil the destruction of the nearer forests forced upon tho sugar planter the serious consideration nf ih<? i'n..L^.r.tw lcm that the possibilities lying dormant in the equally troublesome waste products of the sugar mill?the bayitssc?were discovered. So, in the forced disposition of the cotton seed its unexpected value as a fertilizer was discovered. To render the tough-coated s^cd more promptly available us a plantsfood, the seeds were rudely crushed, when lo! the rich supply of oil was r. voalod ; while, by another happy accident, that which had been not only considered useless, but even feared as poisouous, and carefully kept beyond the reach of stock, was when accidentally eaten found to be not only harmless but act- 1 ually fattening, and in the greasy chops of i the satisfied boasts the dormant possibilities of cotton_seed-oil revealed themselves. : During an unusually severe winter, a ! cautious experimental use of cottou-seed, to 1 ko out? i ho scant sunnlv of Idroire nr ivcd I its value as a food-supply, l'urthcr cx norinicnts ami cnnfiiiiio.l n-" ' proved it to be invaluable as a food, as a i lubricant in tlie pharmacy and in the soap- I factory. The cottou-crop itself is also materially increased by the discovery of the oil, for it is found that while the seed loses none of its value as a fertilizer by the removal of the oil, the yield of cottou is lirgely in> creased by the superior stimulating and invigorating properties of coilon-secd-meal as a fertilizer, over the whole seed, as at ' first used?of which a large part either; sprouts or rots, the remainder lying dead [ aud inert a long lime before it can be taken i up and appropriated as a crop-food. The lint-cotton is also much increased, i , . .1 . . i neing remove i more morougmy ami per- I fectly preparatory to the crushing process. ! CI reedy children are told that they 'can- j not eat their cako, and - have it, too-. ' but i the fortunate cotton-planter can both sell j his cotton-seed and have it also. In South i Carolina, Farmer's Oil Mills, by a uu?vonicut recently inaugurated, promise to return to the planters the meal Irom all the seed furnished them, ready for use as a ; fertilizer; the wi.rld the richer t"?r the oil, j ilie farmer enriched by the exchange . fur while the whole seed in the hull i- woith, as a fertilizer, hut seventeen dollars per ton, the ground meal, separate Irom the hull, is worth forty-two dollars, and the ashes Irom the hulls eighteen dollars more. Thus, front the position of a troublesome waste products?an eye-sore cumbering the ground?cotton-seed now takes rank as a valuable cuuimercial product ; more valui able to the planter than the fibre itself, for ! j while the cotton crop of 1SS I was estimated ! at S^l, 1111. 000, the seed. of which there j are two tons to one of lint, was worth at i market rates, as a fertilizer alone, 88l>.8 10,000, leaving out of the calculation the' oil and the hulls. Tim till mills: in /\r*r? ? % ! ? 100*? . j. . "j'vnmim III IOC'?| , according to the report of the Cotton Seed Crusher's Convention produced over nine, teen niillir.n gallons ol" crude oil ; every ton of seed yielding thirty-live gallons of oil. In addition to the oil and the meal, every i ton of seed also yields some twenty pounds I j of line soft lint, and a considerable quanily j j of soap stock. > I The hulls arc valuable as a fuel, yielding ' ashes rich in fertilizing elements; as paper j ' stock . and also for a coarse food for sheep and cattle, thus extending the live-stock industry of the country?another addition to the already long list of beneficent results flowing from the apparently trivial acci^ j dental discovery of the long-unsuspected value of the waste-product coitor.-sccd. ? e It is estimated that the depredations of r- the Ilritish sparrows in Knglaud last year ; will reach ? 1,00(1.011(1, ? . WASHINGTON LETTER {From Our lirt/iifur Corrrspoivhnt.} Wasiiixoton, Feb. 1?*>, 1NS(>. The week has becu prolific in ruuiors o ' impending Cabinet changes. TI:o Treas ury and attorney General's office.; arc particularly referred to, and in the latter tin stories go so far as to designate Mr. (jar laud's successor. These rumors are peri odic, and usually have uo soliu louudalion I took some trouble to ascertain if then I were really any cause for their currency at J this tiuici 'Of course if the President gavi the slightest iutimation Mr. Garland (hat he desired to make a change it the ofiiec of Attorney*General his resignation would instantly he tendered,' sail n prominent member of tho Arkansas delegation, who is on the most iutif .ate terms with the subject of his remarks, 'hut 1 don't believe such a thing has ever been thought of. aud L know the Attorney General has had no intimation to that effect. He is a proud man, and would not remain one day in a position whereiu he had not the President's fullest confidence, lie has said as much to me in the past week. 1 don't know how these stories got afloat. They usually emanate from some one with whom tho wish is father to the thought. There is uo doubt of ouc thing, however. There has been more quiet pressure brought to bear upon the Administration to effect this change than the public kuows of. One of the President's oldest and most influential friends was brought here a week ago for the purpose of working upon the President to effect Garland's retirement. Ho had two conversations with t!.e Prcsi lout, in which he intimated that though nobody really believed that the Attorney (General had any personal iotcrost in the telephone suits, etc , vet it miyht he better it' the Administration was relieved from even the very appearanco of evil by the retirement of its chief law officer. The President heard the speaker to the end. and then duly intimated that when lie desired advice upon matters touching'his own business he would ask for it. This ended [tow tfilTij get out1 "hiS SW iVdr hWura'll^ inquired. 'The intimate fricud has a wife, and she has friends who arc very much interested in the telephone matter. lie told his wife, and she communicated the result of the talk to her anxious acquaintances.' was the reply. 'I ain pleased to know that one very difficult social question has at last been settled,' remarked a lady the other evening who was speaking of the gradations in the aggregate of humanity called society. 'Yes, wc need no loagcr wonder who is who. Washington has at last had a longfelt want filled. Wc have an Elite Direc tory, an mvaiuaoie voiuaic. wnicn we arc assured is a sale guide as regards the social flatus of people. The thing, however, that puzzles me is. how this information was obtained, and from whom ? What rule has been followed in writing down Smith in the Elitr Directory and excluding Jones ? They hold precisely the same station in the community, yet one is taken and the other left. Hy whom was their relative position decided ? It is about as difficult an undertaking as can be imagined. How was it done ? I am unable to answer any of these portincrt questions. While the average American professes locate very little about such matters, yet there could be no prompter way to excite his wrath than to intimate that he is not "as good as anybody." Especially is this true of the gentle creatures who make up so important a part of modern society. It irmtUl be :nteresting to know how these matters were determined nnd upon whose say so. Hut that authorit v would liar.- an awfnllv iinhannv limn "J - - J I'l'J The House voted last week to aUow national banks to change their names and locations, and to incroas; their capital under certain conditions. On a rising volt the bill was carried by a large majority but a demand for the yeas and nays fright ened some of the members who have t< J tread gently on national bank legislation so that the bill narrowly escaped defeat Nor is it safe yet. as a motion to recon siilcr is pending. The vote shows, bow ever, bow much more popular the nationn banking system is now than formerly. / few years ago a bill of this sort woul linve been overwhelmingly defeated in th House. Hut experience has demonstrate | the safety and convenience of the systci I so clearly that it is up-hill work to nutag onize it on political grounds. It is a striking illustration of the poc business methods of Congress to find tli House setting aside a week in the bus part ol a session to go all over the Kil | John Porter business again. Lknox. ? ? A onc-lcggcd man will never be trouble with wet f.-ct. A Lkttku kuom liiiv. II. F. I'ntntY ?Grectjviilc. S. t\, February 12, 1SS0 ? Fierce Fuller was an Irishman, sold hi f eounnission as Colonel in Fie Kuglinh ante - forfiftceu hundred p uods and came to Soutl Carolina, where he married Miss Middleton 2 (ho auut of Governor Middleton. lie wa: - elected our first Cnitcd States Senator. Ii - the latter part of his life ho moved to 1*1)il. adolphia, u::d there died. He left iw< j daughters, but no son. His grundchildrct t took the name of Fuller, and one of then t married Fanny Kemble, the act res'. and i- r.- --- i mvj u^uitu 111 \ umi iui uivurce, aiunoi uv, &C. Ralph Izard was a native ?>f South i Carolina and represented the American . States during the Revolutionary war in i Italy, lie loll out with Dr. Renj Frank* lin in Paris because the Dr. would not furnish him with public money to defray his expenses abroad and slandered him grossly. da cob Reed was a citizcu of (ieorgetown and a man of literary attainments. IIis grandson was a member of the Legislature when I served in that body and was a Union man, opposed to uuliilieaiiou, &e. John Hunter was a citizen of Laurens District and died soon after bis election to the United States Senate. John Kwing Clolumn was the cousin of John 0. Calhoun's father. He was the first graduate of a college in the tipper country. John C. Calhoun married bis daughter, Floride Colliouu. They were second eonsins. His son, John Kwing ('olhonn, Jr., lived and died at the old homestead, near Pendleton Village. He married the sister of the 1 lot). Warren R. Davis, a represen-j lauve (o uoogress irmn this I'istriot. Yours truly, <fco., B. F. I'kkuy. to hthjtjirhl Ath'i rti*i r. . How to 11ai.se Cotton.? Kill to,- /),'. <patch : I ask farmers to try my plan in raising cotton : Break your hud deep in January or February in rows with a turn plow, hot the rain fall on it and draw all the sediments in the furrow where y >u will plant your cotton. Heap up your lot and r-sl j ni-p. - nb'v put a fnyi:r 0j- fol uiannre, a layer of stable manure, alight layer of cotton seed, and a layer of salt; 200 lbs. of salt and 24 bushels of eol'on seed to four acres is plenty. I made lour b ties of cotton on four acres of land by this plan. L left six rows in the lield without anything under it and it would have taken live acres of it to tuako one bale. Bon't run any furrow when you put down the manure, let the sediment remain unbroken. Some people believe in guano, I don't. Ten pounds to an acre is all 1 ever used, that I rolled my cotton seed with, and 1 believe it paid as much as 100 lbs. would. jjui some people are like tiio old woman who took one pill; she mid if one did so much good she would take a dozen ; so she did and she had enough of pills, and I think some oHour farmers have enough of guano. ?P. ?J. RUCK Kit, in ]j<'xin</tun 1fisjxitr/i - Tiib Fkk(it;son ('ask A?;.\i.\.?Abbeville, S. C., February -<>.?.John ('. Ferguson was brought before His Honor, Judge L. I). Withcrspoon. this morning, on a writ of hufmis corjntSy lbr the purpose of sccu:ing bail. Solicitor <>rr came down from Greenville last night in order to attend to this matter. The fact that there had been three trials of this case was relied on strongly as a ground for bail. The weak condition of Ferguson was also pleaded. Resides this, the defense claimed that he had had an opportunity to escape and had not taken ' advantage of it. The State claimed that if couscl for the 1 accused relied upon the facts in the case they would not claim bail, as the facts showed murder pure and simple, and that " i if he was crazy, it would be wrong for His . Honor to turn Itim loose upon the coinaiu^ ' ! nity, as there was no telling when he might ' I kill another man: and that, in that ease, he 5 I should be kept in jail or sent to the asylum. ' I The State denied that he had had an op* ' porlunity to escape. 5' Judge Witherspoon promptly refused ' I bail. . ~ * * . ! IjKhMj Noth k. ? Major tiassaway. i . 1 prominent San Antonio lawyer, succccdei 1 I in obtaining the acquittal of a horse thief k . who was tried i i the Histrict Court in and j ; for the county of Hexar. c | Major, said the acquitted man. 1 don' ,j j know how to pay you for your kindness ,, I haven't got any money just now. . j Well,now that you are f.iotHoos again yoi will soon have s une money, or horses, whiel j is just as good, hut in the meantime ye lC mention my nanie to other ineuibc v . the gang and friends, in ca-e they r >z services of an attorney ?n any of , tier counties, srud the lawyer I'll, do it, Major. Vo?i our busino.ts.? '/>.<<?>. .r 111 . . I A high old tiir ? Th< Tiik Tim \n 1?.\ii>.?'This is a fartn. cvs' State, an 1 farmers should govern it.' s This is the >' >^111 and battle cry of Mr. Tilltnun. \W do not tjuestion his tuotivos. t aud ho is d? : tit loss perfectly sincere in his . every utterance. Itut will Mr. Tillman tell s us who go; i'.u South Carolina to-day? . The farmer* in ><t assuredly, for they have * a numerical majority in the (leneral A4 ) scuibly, and ? far ns wo have boon ablo to i learn Mich has over boon the fact. If, then, I i unfortunate i.iv- have boon enacted, aud I it, under :hi '< laws, the people's money have been improperly disbursed, whose the fault Ti. * Tinners have the nseendoucy in the ijOgVlatiire, and it has boon in their power all the wi.ilo to remedy those wrongs. Will Mr. '1 iIIman toll us that the fanners arc so WitrJ.i" i*t I'Mititiinn sense ns not to appreciate their many and great wrongs until he p ruled out those wrongs to them, and called up m them to come out of the wilderness . It" so, then, we beg leave to difl'er, for ng no class of our people do wo find so much of strong common sense prevailing is among our farmers. By the way, Mr. Tillman, who of their Ministers' h is said of llieni, 'they are such fools V Xo. uo, Mr. Tillman, they arc not fools, for among 'T.eni arc to be found some of our strongest and ablest men. Such language can only awaken passim and stir their pride, but take cure, Mr. Tillman, that you u > not prove only so much of a Moses as to lead theui into the wilderness. Every man is more or less a 'crank,' and almost every man has his 'hobby.' You are houost in what you say, and you arc unselfish in what you do, but can vou sav * us uiuch lor your followers ? Again, we hear ol 'masters,' ami of 'luuiiuarics' circling the State House. If reference i; made to our State officers, arc not our nominating conventions under the c uitrol of the farming element? J>o nut the farm vs form the great hody of these nominating conventions ? Is reference made to certain offi vrs elected by the (Soneral Assembly ? Mere again we find farmers in position to. sole and to enmjiiatid. State Agricultural Society ? This Society is composed of farmers from all parts ol the State, and they elect their own officers. Who compose the 'luminaries' that circle the State House? Howe anywhere find a -lawyer' or a 'merchant?' Ho we not find several farmers among these 'luminaries' ii/nis State officers? Are not all the officers of the State Agricultural So cioty limners . W hat liioie would Mr. Tillman have ? What greater power would lie bestow oil the farmers ? We find farmers within every fortress, and every fortress officered by farmers, and yet Mr. Tillman is not happy ! l>ut Mr. Tillman admits that there are many farmers who arc not to be found anions his followers. So Mr. Tillman admits that there are farmers who think an 1 act for themselves, lias lie any right to question their motives: their honesty of purpose ' Is it an evidence of corruption to differ with Mr. Tillman? How comes it that Mr. Tillman and his followers have a monopoly of' all that is honest and pure ? Frstimi fi'itfc, Mr. Tillman, is a good maxim which may be freely rendered 'go slow.' The -lawyer and merchant' seem to have fallen under the displeasure of Mr. Tillman. Who of them is in office, or circles in his orbit around the State House, or tills a high seat in the State Agricultural Society? Or if one be found did not the fanners li!! the office ? hoes he know that many lawyers ami merchants are owners of laud ami engaged in farming? We think Mr. Tilltnati is unfortunate when he would array one class of his fellow-citizens against other classes. I!c is certainly mistaken if lie imagines for a moment that all of virtue and all of patriotism centre in any one class of men. To think so may be the bantling of presumptionbut it is neither the offspring of common sense nor the child of experience. Mr. Tillman is not an office.seeker. [ | he knows how to get an office if he lit?he would join the State A" Society. So Mr. Tillman ad1 farmers have heretofore f 1 and that they will con' ? and yet Mr. Tilluin* ' had thought that -0 bition to seek ' cointnendat' .uotto t ' have por .1 is canni" .c was an " I fir 1 promotion am .on. But Mr. Til >ilion, 1 io wants n /t so 'debase bis man . oid.' We read that a cm wellknown Knstcrn city said thee that T am not as otlier .8 of .eed the ^ cljrht sat dc tho fron- Samo poker Saturday i vatc room. Before the } a shall hare ail Monday morning Si,100 'hiri'/s. One actor lost *-00 and a ? S'JoO. Three drummer b i town clock. all the money. i'i.ain Tim tii tow Farmkhs.? In our judgment it in :i ii isinke to attribute tlio pro-cut dillncns in trade, winch pervades every section of our country, to the change in tlie lien law. That much abused law had about run iis cour e, and we arc now suffering from the itl'ecis of the indiscriminate credit that it (iigctidcrcd and fostered. If wc had mver had a lien law. we would he better oil', a* our farmers then would have practiced economy, and ino-t i f them would he to-day out 01' debt. \? is well known, the credit system engenders extravagance. and in this way people buy what they could do without, forget I in.; for the lime that it has la he paid for. Hcsidre this, it makes the farmer dependent on the merchant, thus completely revers'iiu* th.< naiur.il ..r things. These a11<T many ether evils may l>e hiiil at the door of the lien law, ami unless the yoke that it lias placed up< 11 the necks of tlie farmers ol Sot t It Carolina r speedily lifted, we will have a bankrupt ait', desolate country. No country can prosper whose farmers have to mortgage their homes front year to year to inn their farms. This fact has been amply demonstrated in South Carolina tlttring the past ten years. Ciider the operations of this system one farmers have steadily grown poorer ami poorer, and many of them have become disgusted with farming. This is the condition of tilings that confronts its to-day, and as wo look around wo inquire what is the remedy '.' Wo answer, thrift and economy, hot bint then take the money lie gets for bis crop ami buy bis supplier for the next year on a cash basis. It will take nerve and determination to do this, but it will pay in the end. If all of our fanners were out of debt, what a grand and glorious country this would ho. We would then he on the roiul to wealth ami prosperity, in truth, and the cry of hard times would not he heard in the laud. t!o I grant that such a condition of things tuny be realized before many years.? Or<iti</ctmr</ Tain*. Tin: l'toiM-i tiers l'.utMMts.?One of the leading merchants of Anderson, in conversation with us a few days ago, upon the condition of the farmers of this county, told us that an c\ ?l lllill.lt Mill U1 IIM IKJUHS ttlKJWS lll.il I he 1111*11 WHO had bought torn I'rom liiui on a credit. Iiml illmo^t invariably failed to pny ull'their accounts, while the men who bought oilier things hut )i<l not have to hoy their corn, have hcen able to pay oil their ilehtH in full. This statement tells the whole story of this country s trouhle. No man who has to buy his provisions ami food for his stock, can raise cotton enough to pay himyjiih'.iJt'Wi -oil of tlie year. '''' , works hard, r lonitOfinvilegc of g?*ifiiig-p?.,n'M\ than any man in the country. It may be safely claimed that the men who raise their own corn and meat at home, are fairly prosperous in spite of the hard >imcs. To be independent, the farmer must raise bis supplies and raiso cotton for his surplus crop.?Aii'lrrxon /nl-lltli'no r. III'. I'ltOVI II Ills I'KKSON VI, InKMTfY.?t'ul. Suuiptcr Mcllridc, of Austin, bns been spending several weeks in New York. \ few days ago, being in need of sonic money, lie applied to a llroadway bank to cash a draft. What is von name"' asked the liavincr-leller. Col. Sumptcr McDridc. sir, of Austin, Travis county, Tex. ' You will have to l>c identified. Colonel.' This was something the Colonel had not taken into consideration, lie knew of nobody who could identifv him. mid was about to leave the bank, when a happy thought struck him. lie reached into his breast pocket and brought out a photograph of himself, and holding it under the nose of the bank ollicial. said : There, sir : 1 guess that settles it.' Of course, that's your photograph : but how does that identify you '!' ' Woll, sir. will you please tell me how 1 coul l have my photograph taken if 1 wasn t myself ." ? T'/as Sijiin . A II\nn \Voi:kim; Man.?livery year every local paper gives from 1<?U to ST.Omt in free lines to the vicinity in which it is located. No other agency can or will do this. The loco' editor, in proportion to his means, does r for his town than any ten men. and fairness, man to man, lie ought to he s not because you happen to like h! his writing, hut because a local * A" investment a community can upper he brilliant nor crowded .in c? a'Armr but financially it is iiu ^apsr ;3 the best fnunity than the pre .nako 1* nvay not stand us, now, ? \v?th grer.t thoughts , intellectually, rc a benefit to a ^f)1" moral que*' Ac\?er or Itachcr. 1 i?i ? . mMn morally or I 'Oil. fC <10 II M ... out financially. and ye? on I lie ion you will find the majority of the ^.crs are on the right stile of the <|iiesTo-dny the e?litors of local papers dotho j?t work for the least money of any men on earth. out C?>Tf''N Poo it.?In making an annual balance wanted ',ow ",riny planters can say they arc not cotton poor?' Are not a majority of oricu ura them in that unsatisfactory condition It is its that the cer|;l|n that the present ay-lcut of devoting every the offices, energy to cotton is not tlie best for the land ;o fill them, owners With good cotton years they manage happv. We 1 to '1VC- 's un^ l'u' failure ?f ''# cotton onora'blo am uroP< w?r,n'- drought or any other causo, * . would nearly bankrupt all of them. What are I -.vorthv of , , ' , .... the causes, and what arc the remedies; ihe Itnan will not caugM ftrc the labor and the over-production. o ofiicc. lie The labor is such that cotton cannot lie raised hood.' 'CJod at a protit with it. The way to improve it is to lain man in a make the plr.co self sustaining by raising corn, " rat and stock of all kinds. Such a place ,,K'" necessary on a '< od, I thank . , would not need halt ino men are. place devoted exclusively to cotton raising, and iwii to a ouiet if the system prevailed to any great extent labor ... . would be plentiful and reliable. ? Vicksbuni tight hi a nri- ,, ,, ? J //. rtil'l. 'ntiie wound tip had been lost. Tho Department of Agriculturo at nothcr showman Washington reports tho cotton crop of oys scooped in last year as up to the estimate of t?,500,? 000.