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. mooted lo ^jritultani, Hortirultur^, Domestic <8conomg, Jolile 3Tif^ra(iire, politics, and the (Current Hcics of the gag. 5=S_ ~J VOL. XVII? NEW SERIES. UNION C. H? SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 20,1880. NUMBERS v ... i >*:ir < . a . * CottM (Mi III Oltttl iMd Ml. ' 1 -?? Among the to-called minor discoveries, of the nineteenth century, no one is, comparatively speaking, moro far reaching in its effects, or more bencfioial in its results, than the value of ootton-eeed, and especially of the valuable qualities of the oil hidden in the cottonseed. It is literally far-reaching in its effects, for froin the ootton fields of the Sooth it stretches forth one hand towards the Northwest, touching closely the lard interest of Cincinnati and Chioagn; with the other pointing across tho oc.an to the olive orchards of Italy and Spain, which it has despoiled of their pristine glory. Beneficial in its results, it rcplaoos the hog-product?with its foul odors, its filth. aod its disease-germs?with a pare, sweet, bland nod healthful oil; and fills the wicker flasks of Spain and Italy with a limpid flaid, equal in every respect to tho olive-oil itself, and at a price wliioh places it within \ the reach of all. From the once-despised cotton-seed we ? get a pure vegetable oil, containing ninety- , five per cent of nu'riment, so cheap that its j adulteration would be folly, whilo as an adulterant it can only give added value to , the prodnot. j When properly refined, it Is olear and ] limpid, with a rich, nutty flavor aod odor, ( keeping well for long periods of time, t bearing transportation perfeotly, absolutely ( free from all possibility of disease-germs. It replaces perfeotly lard and butter and s suet in the kitchon, olive-oil on tho tablo, <] and both in the pharmacy. For salves, pomades, liniments and ointments, as an * iogredceot in tho finest toilet-soap, as a lu> f brieant?ic short, when properly refined, 8 wherever a non-drying oil -is wanted, cot- 0 ton-sccd oil is tho best oil for any and every Q purpose. a 'A study of the history of every invon- r, tioo from the remotest time, develops tho fact that whenever a close and urgent u nooesaity arises, the genius of man is equal ([ to the emergency.' nl The ory of England's multitudes for that employment that should give them bread, a -4wl*w *w?. The demand for matetials to supply the it mills, led to the invention of the cotton-gin. p, The rapidly-accumulating ootton-seed?the pi waste product of tho cotton giu?led to the i( discovery of its hidden value, proving it to ft be nature's storehouse of the fioost oil, and fittest renovator of her worn-out cotton fields. it The disoovery of cotton-seed oil thus i( forma another link in the lengthening t] ohain of grand discoveries and inventions, c each one the outgrowth of the last and, j, necessitating the next, beginning a hundred a year ago, with the 'water-frame' of Richard g Arkwright, the father of cotton-spinning. 8j About the same time, Jamos Watt, evol- a ving his great invention?the steam-power u engine?the two oombin?d oapable together of furnishing employment for countless b thousands, and clothing for the world p necessitated the discovery of the means of furnishing the raw material with which to u feed the mills. The importation of cotton t was very limited in those days, while all fa the wool and flax in Europe would not ( fluffing Ia Iroan a ilavnn mills wi?nn!n<? kv wvv|? mm uvmvm uiuio i uuuiu^. j| The rut and fertile fields of the Southern t United States were indeed capable of s furnishing all the 'upland' cotton that all f the mills of England could use, could thn fibre but be separated from tlio seed with sufficient rapidity to meet tho demand. The primitive process of separating tho fibre by hand-picking could only suffioa for home-ooosuoiptioo, a pound a day being considered an ample task for an able worker. The roller-gin of Joseph Eve, just coming into use, was only adapted to olean the Icngstaple 'sea-island' cotton, of which the sapply was restricted by narrow limits of habitat and olimate. The tenacious, short fibre of the 'upland' cotton?of which alone suoh enormous quantities as were required to supply the mills of England could be raised?necessitated the discovery of some rapid and eoonotnioal method of separation from the seed. With the imperatative demand of urgent neoessity came the solution of the problem. In a rough log-cabin, on a Qoorgia plantation, in far-off Aeierioa, an unknown geniua waa weaving together hie wire, wood and briatle, working out the problem of tho eotton-gin, with whieh to eupplemoot the Uin?flnvin? and ilia mimtU I Instigated and encouraged by hia kind % friend, the widow of Geo. Nathaniel Green, Eli Whitney?tho youthful toy-maker of a little eouatry village?the boy whoee father petulantly declared that 'he would never be fit for anything bat making diddles/ but whoee genius for 'fiddle-making' nevertheless paid hia way through Yale College ?the young tutor who had never aeen growing oottoo?through thie came deepiaed me* > lenauicai genius, inaugurated a great indue trial revolution. Tho cotton-gin-in its primitive simplicity ?a revolving cylinder with bristliug rows of wire claws (soon replaced by sbarptoothed saws)?with its companion cylinder armed with rows of brushes to sweep the cotton off, the stripped seeds falling through the open bars of tho wire pi it form, solved the problem aud raised cotton to tho first place among textile fabrics. But, with growing mounds of fleecy cotton on the one hand came tne rapid accumulation of tho rofuso seed on tho other. Oo every cofto:i plantation there accumulated anuually immense heaps of black, greasy, filthy-looktng, slowly-rotting, offensive refuse from the cotton gin. As tho sharp teeth of the rapidly-revolving cylinder tore off the snowy fleece, the disposition of tho rapidly-accumulating Beeds, which wcro ' poured forth as waste, tho disposal of which furnished an ???. - recurriug problem to tho planter, who little dreamed of the uiiiie of wealth that lay be- < fore his very eyes. i It was not until the destruction of the i lenrcr forests forced upon tho sugar planter < ,he serious consideration of the fuel-prob>. ' em that the possibilities lying dormant in i he equally troublesome waste products of he sugar mill?the batja$*c?were discov- ' sred. ( So, in the forced disposition of the cotton i ecd its unexpected value as a fertiliser was < liscovorcd. 1 To ronder the tpugh-coated seed rnoro i iromptly available as a plantsfood, the seeds 1 rere rudely crushed, when lo! the rioh 1 upply of oil was rovoaled; while, by an- t ther happy accident, that which had been i ot only considered usoless, but oven feared^ ( s poisonous, and carefully kept beyond the t each of stock, was when accidentally ca- i en found to be not only harmless but act- o ally fattening, and iu the greasy chops of r jo satisfied beasts the dormant possibilities I Fcottoo.seed-oil rovealed themselves. a During an unusually severo winter, a s lutious experimental use of cotton-seed, to b te oulJihr! scant anODlv of I-Wra, nri.vnH tj s value as a food-supply. Further ?Ux- n srimeuts and coutinued use of tho oil, ? roved it to bo invaluable as a food, as a a ibricant in ihe pharmacy aud in the eoap- t< ictory. f The cotton-crop itself is also materially r loreased by the discovery of the oil, for it t I found that while the seed loses none of a value as a fertilizer by the removal of & be oil, tho yield of cotton is largely in* t reascd by the superior stimulating nnd v ivigorating properties of cotton-seed-moal a a fertilizer, over the whole seed, as at ' rat used?of which a large part either v prouts or rots, the remainder lying dead f nd inert a long time before it can be taken t p and appropriated as a crop-food. a The lint-cotton is also much increased, u eing romovod more thoroughly and per- t sctlv preparatory to the crushing process. * Greedy children are told that Ihey 'can- r ot eat their cako, and-have it, too; ' but ? ho fortunate cotton-planter can both sell i lis cotton-seed and have it also. In Sooth ? Carolina, Farmer's Oil Mills, by a move- n uent recently inaugurated, promise to re- r urn to the planters the meal from all the ^ ocd furnishod them, roady for use as a 1 ertilizer ; tho world the rioher for the oil, he farmer enriched by tho cxchaugo ; for * vhile tho wholo seed in the hull in worth, ^ a f?rtilitnr Knf Bniinnt??n J/.1I * 4 - -i -? ?v.vu?v(/u uvimrs j?cr (OU, be ground meal, separate froui tho hull, is < rortb forty-two dollars, and tho ashes from t he hulls eighteen dollars moro. ] Thus, from the position of a troublosomo 1 vaste-products?nn eye-sore cumbering the < ground?cotton-seed now takes rank as a ' valuable commercial produot; more vnlu- ? iblo to tho planter than the fibre itself, for ' while the cotton crop of 1884 was estimated it $81,413,000, the seed, of which there ' ire two tons to one of lint, was worth at ' market rates, as a fertilizer alone, $8G,? 1 340,000, leaving out of the calculation the < )ilaod the hulls. I The 101 mills in operation in 1883, ? recording to tho report of the Cotton Seed Crusher's Convention producod over nine- 1 Lecn million gallons of orude oil ; every ton afseed yielding thirtyrfvc gallons of oil. 1 i jj:.: i. ii -1 in iuuiiiuu iu me uii iuu mo uifsi, every 1 ioa of seed also yields some twenty pounds ' of fine soft lint, and a considerable quanity < of soop stook. The hulls are valuable as a fuel, yielding ashes rioh in fertilising elements; as paper look ; and also for a coarse food for sheep 1 and eattle, thus eztcndiog the live-stock industry of the country?anotbor addition to the already long list of beneficent results flowing from the apparently trivial accidental discovery of the long-unsuspected value of the wastt^produot cotton-seed. It is ostimated that the depredations of the British sparrows in England last year will reaeh 14,000,000. TTASH1NUT0X LRTTEtt (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Wabhinotoh, Feb. 10, 1880. The week has been prolific in ruuiors ol impending Cabinet changes. Tko Treas ury and attorney General's offices are particularly reforrod te, and in tho latter the stories go so far as to designate Mr. Garland's successor. These rumors are periodic, and usually havo no solid foundation, 1 took some trouble to ascertain if there were really any cause for their currency ot this time! 'Of course if the President gave the slightest intimation &*Mr. Garland that he desired to mako a change in tho office of Aitorney'Gencral bis resignation would iustantly be tondored,' sail a prominent member of the Arkansas delegation, who is ou tho most intfrTato terms with the subject of his remarks, 'but I don't believe such a thing has ever been thought of, and I know the Attorney General has had no intimation to tbnt effect. Ho is a proud man, and would not remain ooo day in a position wherein he had not iho President's Fullest confidence. lie has said as much to uic in the past week. I don't know how these stories get afloat. They usually emanate from some one with nrhoua the wish is father to tho thought. There is no doubt of one thing, however. There has been more quiet pressure brought ,o bear upon the Administration to effect ;bis change than the public knows of. Joe of the President's oldest and most inluential friends was brought here a week igo for the purpose of working upon the President to effect Garland's retirement, llo had two conversations with t!m Prcsilent, in which he intimated that though tobody really believed that tho Attorney Jeneral had auy personal interest in the elephoue suits, ete , yet it might be better f the Administration was relieved from ven tho very appearance of evil by tho etirement of its chief law officer. Tho Resident heard tho speaker to tljo end, n .hen dnly intimated that when he de? ired advice upoa matters tooching'bis own d c d squired. 'The iotiuiato friend has a wife, nd sho has friends who aro very much insrested in the telephono master. lie old his wife, and sho communicated the osult of the talk to her anxious acquaint ances,' was the reply. 'I am pleased to know that one very difcult social question has at last been sctled,' remarked a lady tho othor evening .u c ?- J-.;--- * ruv naa rpcn*iug ui lUI] gmu&lions 111 IDO ggregato of humanity called society, fas, wo need no loager wonder who is rbo. Washington has at last had a longelt want filled. We have an Elite Direcory, an invaluable volume, which wo are ssured is a safe guide as regards tho soial tlatus of people. The thing, however, hat puzzles me is, how this information ras obtained, and from whom ? What ule has been followed in writing down imith in the Elite Directory and excludng Jones 1 They hold precisely the same tation in the community, yet ono is token nd the other left. By whom was their olative position decided ? It is about as lifficult an undertaking as can be imagined, flow was it done ? I am unable to answer any of these perinert questions. While the average American professes to caie very littlo about luch matters, yet there could be no piompt>r way to excite his wrath than to intimate hat ho is not "as good as anybody." Especially is this true of the gentle creatures irho make up so important a part of modern society. It would be Interesting to (Dow how these matters were determined ind upon whose say so. But that authority would have an awfully uuhappy time. The House voted last week to allow national bank* to change their names and ooations, and to increas) their capital, under certain conditions. On a rising vote khe bill was carried by a large majority, but a demand for the yeas and nays frightsned some of the members who have to kread gently on national bank legislation, 10 that the bill narrowly escaped defeat. Nor is it safe yet, as a motion to reconsider is pending. The vote shows, however, how much more popular the national banking systom is now than formerly. A few years ago a bill of this sort would hate been overwhelmingly defeated in the Houae. Bat experience has demonstrated the safety and convenience of the system so elearly that it is up-hill work to sntagoniao it on politioal grounds. It is a stacking illustration of the pool business methods of Congress to find th< House setting aside a week in the buej part.of a session to go all over the Fiti John Porter business again. Lknox. A one-legged man will sever be troublet with wet fiot. A Lkttkr from Gov. R. F. Perky ?Grocsviile, S. C., February 12, 1886 ? Fierce Rutler was an Irishman, sold hit F commission as Colonel in the English arm) . for fiftoon hundred p uudt and came to South Carolina, where he married Miss Middleton, the aunt of Governor Middleton. He was elected our first United States Senator. In the latter part of his life ho tuovd to Phil, adelphia, and there died. lie left two i daughters, but no son. His grandchildren took the name of Duller, and one of them married Fanuy Kcinble, tho actress, and they figured in Court for divorce, alimony, &c. f i Ralph Izard was a native of South Carolina and representor the American States during the Revolutionary war in Italy. Ho fell out with Dr. 13odj. Franks lin in Paris because tho Dr. would not furnish bim with public uiouey to defray his oxpenscs abroad and slandered bim grossly. Jacob Reed was a citizen of Georgetown and a man of literary attainments. His grandson was a member of tho Legislature wheu I served iu that body and was a Union man, opposed to nullification, &c. John Iluntcr was a citizen of Laurens District and died soou after his election to tho United States Sonata. Johu Ewing Clohouu was the cousin of John C. Calhouu's father. ITc was the first graduate of a college in the upper country. John C. Calhoun married his daughter, Floride Colhoun. They were second cousins. His son, John Kwiug Colhoun, Jr., lived and died at the old homestead, near Pendloton Village. He married the sister of tho Hon. Warren It. Davis, a representative to Congress from this District. Ycurs truly, &c., B. F. Perry, to Edgefield Advertiser. How to Raise Cotton.?Editor Dispatch: I ask farmers to try my plau iu | raising cotton : Break your laud deep in January or February in rows with a turn plow. Let the rain fall on it and draw all tho sediments in the furrow where you will plant your cotton. Heap up your lot and stably 0 Vut aTayer of lot 1 maOnre, a layer of slablo manure, alight layer of cotton seed, and a layer of salt; 200 lbs. of salt and 24 bushels of cot'on seed I to four acres is plenty. 1 made four b ties of cottcn on four acres of laod by this plan. I left six rows in the field without anything under it and it would have taken five acres of it to make one bale. Don't run any furrow when you put down the manure, let the sediment remain unbroken. Some peoplo believo in guano, I don't. Ten pounds to an acre is all I ever used, that I rolled inv COttOIi need with nnd I believe it paid aa much as 100 lbs. would. But some peoplo are like tho old woman who took one pill; she said if one did so much good sho would take a dozen ; so she did and she had enough of pills, and I think some ofiour farmers have enough of guano. ?P. J. RuCKER, in Lexington Dispatch The Ferguson Case Again.?Abbe" ville, S. C., February 20.?John C. Fcrguson was brought before His Honor, Judgo I. D. Witherspoon, this morning, on a writ of habeas corpus, for tho purpose of securing bail. Solicitor Orr cauie down from Grccnvillo last night in order to attcud to this matter. The fact that there had been three trials of this case was relied on strongly as a ground for bail. The woak condition of Fercuson was also nlendcd. Hesidps this, tho dcfouse claimed that lie had had an opportunity to escape and had not tnkon advantage of it. The State claimed that if couscl for the accused relied upon tho facts in the case they would not claim bail, as the facts showed murder pure and simple, and that if he was crazy, it would bo wrong for Ilis Honor to turn him loose upon the coram us nity, as there was no telling when he might kill another mao; and that, in that caso, ho should be kept in jail or sent to the asylum. The State deniod that ho had had an op* portunity to escape. Judge Witherspoou promptly rofused bail. ?.? Legal Notice.?Major Gassaway, a prominent San Antonio lawyer, sucooeded in obtaining tho acquittal of a horse thief, who was tried ia the District Court in and for the county of Hexar. i Major, said tho Acquitted man, I don't I know how to pay you for your kindness. , I haven't got any money just now. Well,now that you are foot^loosj again you will toon have some money, or horses, which is just as good, but in the meantime yc j mention my name to other membe' f the gang and friends, in caso they r 5 serrioee of an attorney in any of tier oouoties, said the lawyer. 1*11, do it, Major. Yo?our business.? Ttxcu f 1 A high old tiir X Jift -? Tho I'llk TlIXMAN UaiI).?'This is a farm. era' State, nu<l faruiers should govern it.' i This is the slogan and battle cry of Mr. ' Tiltuian. Wi do not question his motives, i and ho is doubtless perfeotly sincere in his , every utterance. Hut will Mr. Tillman tell i us who gor.iu.0 South Carolina to-day ? The faruiers" uiost assuredly, for they havo a numerical majority in tho General Assembly, and so far as wo have boon able to learu such ha.?, ever been tho fnct. If, then, unfortunate laws have been enacted, and ** % if, under thc*o laws, the pcoplo's money have becu improperly disbursed, whose the fault? Thajjrincrs have the nsceudcncy in the Legislature, and it has been in their power all the while to remedy these wrongs. Will Mr. Tillman tell us that the farmers are so worgvo" in common sense as not to appreciate their many and great wrongs until ho poiutod out these wrongs to them, 1 and called upou thorn to 'come out of tho wilderness?!^ If so, then, wo beg leavo to , differ, for naioog no class of our pcoplo do , wc fiud so much of strong common sense i prevailing a? among oar farmers. Dy the 1 way, Mr. Tillman, who of their 'masters' 1 has said of them, 'they are such fools V No, no, Mr. Tilluian, they arc not fools, . for among Them arc to bo found some of | our strongest and ablest men. Such lan- I I guagc can only awaken passim and stir I their pride, but take care, Mr. Tillman, c that you do not prove only so much of a 0 Moses as to lead them into tho wilderness. a Every man ts more or less a 'crank,' and t] almost every man has his 'hobby.' You tl aro honost in what you say, and you aro C unselfish in what you do, but can you say as much for your followers ? Again, vie hear oi 'masters,' aud of 'lu?* * miuaries' circling the State llousc. If rofercnce is made to our State officers, are 01 not our nomiuatiug conventions under the ^ eontrol of tho farming element ? Do not tho farmers form the groat body of these nominating conventions ? Is reference pi mado to cortaiu officers elected by the Gen' tl eral Assembly ? Here again we find far- m mers in position to_ rule and to command. ** ' 'State A^riuulturari Society ? This Society w is composed of farmers from all parts of ti tho State, and they elect their own officers, el Who compose the 'luminaries' that circle a the State House ? Do wo anywhere find " a 'lawyer' or a 'merchant?' Do wc not find several farmers among these 'luminarics' alias State officers ? Are not all the officers of tho State Agricultural So- s cicty farmers? What mote would Mr. 8 Tillman have ? Whut greater power would v, ho bestow on tho farmers ? Wo find farm- 1 I ers within every fortress, aud every fortress officered by farmers, and yet Mr. Tillman is not happy ! y But Mr. Tillmau admits thai there are many farmers who arc not to be found j, among his followers. So Mr. Tillman c admits that thero are farmers who think b and act for themselves. Has ho any right r to question their motives ; their honesty of * purpose ? Is it an evidence of corruption to differ with Mr. Tillman ? How com'cs it that Mr. Tillman and his followers have d a monopoly of all that is honest and pure ? Fcstina leutc, Mr. Tillman, is a good maxim b which may bo freely rendered 'go slow.' Tho 'lawyer and merchant' seem to havo fallen under tho displeasure of Mr. Till-* man. Who of them is in office, or oirclcs " in hia orbit around the State House, or 0 fills a high scat in the State Agricultural f( ?*?;? ?*? Or ;r ?.. uvv?v?; . v. ? v/.iu mw iuuuu UIU UUfc IUU f, (armors fill the offioc ? Does ho know that n many lawyers and merchants aro owners of h land aod engaged in farming? We think v Mr. Tillmau is unfortunate when he would ^ array one class of his fellow-.citizcns against r other elasscs.. Ho is certainly mistaken if ? ho imagines for a moment that all of virtue i and all of patriotism ccntro in any one < class of men. To think so may be the 1 bantling of'presumption,'but it is neither 1 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 * it?ho would join the State A?* Society. So Mr. Tillman ad* farmers have horotoforo F and that they will cod' and yet Mr. Til!mar a had thought that: bition to seek * commendat' . inue to have por" a 1? not ^ cannr' was an hon fo?" *>romotion and I r ? .on. Bat Mr. Tillar .ition. He Wants no /t 80 'debase his inanho .oid.' We read thatacerte wellknown Eastern city said . '< 'a thee that I am not as other m tt of -??r? *eed the Atlanta eight sat dbwi the fVon- B*01? P?kcr Saturday nif ate room. Before tho ga ball hare all ^un,3ay morning $1,400 hi ingt, Ooo actor lost $200 and am I $250. Thrco drummer bo; town clock. 1 all the moooy. Plain Truth for Farmicus.?In our judgment it is a n ietake to attribute the present dulucss in trade, which pervades every section of our country, to the change in the lien law. That much abused law had about run its cour e, and we arc now suffering from the effects of tho indiscriminate credit that it engendered and fostered. If we had never had alien law. we would be better off, tut our farmers then would have practiced economy, nnd most of them would bo to-day out of debt. As is well known, the credit system cngetuics extravagance, and in this way people buy what they could do without, forgetting for the time that it has to be paid for. Besides this, it makes the farmer dependent on the merchant, thus completely reversing the- natural order of things. These and many other evils may be laid at tlie door of the lien law, and unless the voko tlint it has placed upon the necks of (ho farmers of South Carolinais speedily lifted, we will have a bankrupt and desolate country. No country enn prosper whose farmers have to mortgage their homes from year to year to run Iheir farms. This fact has been amply demonstrated in South Carolina during (lie past ten pears. Under the operations of this system >ur farmers have steadily grown poorer and poorer, and many of them have become disgused with farming. This is the condition of hings that confrouts us to-day, and as we look wound we inquire what is the remedy ? We inswer, thrill and economy. Let him then ako tho money he gets for his crop ami buy lis supplies for the next year on a cash basis, t will take nerve and determination to do this, tut it will pay in the end. -If all of our farm rs were out of debt, what a grand and glorius country this would be. We would then be n the road to wealth and prosperity, in truth, nd the cry of hard times would not be heard in lie land. God grant that such a condition of liings may be realized before many years.? )raii'jeburg Tom*. Tiik Prosperous Farmers.?One of the leadig mcrchauts of Andersou, in conversation ith us a few days ago, upou the condition of le farmers of this couuty, told us that an oxmination of his books shows that the men who ad bought corn from him on a credit, had Imost invariably failed to pay off their accounts, bile the men who bought other things but did ot have to buy their corn, have been able to ny oil their debts in full. This statement tells le whole story of this country's trouble. No an who has to buy his provisions and food for is stock, can raise cotton enough to pay him- ? **"'~ri*'"*dfiU*w?*Tahe end of the year.. .T1-7 orks hardor forntl?pA-i , w - ..'..g-pojFii*. tan any man In the country. It may be safely [aimed that the men who rriso their own corn ud meat at home, are fairly prosperous in pite of the hard times. To be independent, he farmer must raise his supplies and raise otton for his surplus crop.?Awlrrson Inldlitncer. He Proved IIis Personal Identity.?Col. lumpier Mcllridc, of Austin, has been spending cvcral weeks in New York. A few days ago, eing in need of some money, he applied to a (roadway bank to cash a draft. 4 What is you name?" asked the paying-teller. 4 Col. Sumpter McBride, sir, of Austin, Trais county, Tex.' 4 You will have to be identified, Colonel.' This was something theColouel had not taken ato consideration. He knew of nobody who ould identify him, and was about to leave the ank, when a happy thought struck him. lie cached into his breast pocket and brought out photograph of himself, and holding it under lie nose of the bunk official, said : 4 There, sir ; I guess that settles it.' Of course, that s your photograph ; but how oes that identify you ?' Woll, sir, will you please tell ine how I could avc my photograph lakeu if I wasn't myself?' -Trias SiJ'tinys. ? A IIahii Wohkino Man.?Kvery year every Deal paper gives from $100 to $5,000 in free lues to the vicinity in which it is located. No ther agency can or will do this. Tho loco' ditor, in proportion to his means, does i>or his town thau any ten men, and sirnoss, man to man, he ought to bo s ol because you happen to like h! is writing, but because a local r 111 ? k n vestment a community can jppottofl e brilliant nor crowded .<n of attta?rc iut financially it is uw ^apef ^CHt nunity than the pre make- ^ not land ns, now, v great thoughts. ntellectually. ' re 0-| ? benefit to a com. .. rn.lcr norm ques> ocul p?' sober or Ifcacner. ?u. ,<o do not mean morally or M' out financially, and yet on (he .ion you will find the majority of the ^ers are on the right side of the quesTo-day the editors of local papers do tlie ^et work for the least money of any men on earth. oat Cotton Poor.?In making an annual balance jTnntod *kwtr k?w """>7 C?ll?n planters can say they . . are not ' cotton poor?' Are not a majority of TICU them in that unsatisfactory condition? It is 1 that the cer|a-m tj,at the present system of devoting every the offices, energy to cotton is not the best for the land fill thorn, owners. With good cotton years they manage ippv. We t0 l'Te> l',Rt a"'1: an^ t,,e failure of the cotton ornblo nm*. crop' from wor,D, brought or any other causo, ?-v*ld nearly bankrupt all of them. What are -r.o* ? pi,e Worthy of ,j,e c?u8es, and'what are cue tan will not 08U8C8 ftre the labor and the over-production. office. lie The labor is such thai cotton cannot be raised lod/ 'God at a profit with it'. The way to improve it is to in roan in a make the place' self sustaining by raining corn, God; I thank m<al ?nd #UM,k of ftl1 kiod"' Such a place ' , would not need half the labor necessary on a | place devoted exclusively to cotton raising, and n t<J a quiet " the 7>tein prevailed to any great extent labor rht in a Dri- woo'd plentiful and reliable. ? Vickibmrf , , Herald. ? me woundup ad been lost. The Department of Agrioulturo at Mher showman Washington reports the cotton crop of fa scooped in 1 last year a* up to the estimate of 6,&00,'OOO. '