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BY E. B. MTJKKA" T$A(M$r$!CoL;UMN, J. G. CLIKKSCALES, Editor. It is indeed gratifying to notice that many county papers over the State are starting Teachers/ Columns. They will accomplish, good, if the teachers will use them. Do the teachers think they are treat? ing us exactly right when they allow us to do all the writing for this column? We expect yon to ask yourself that ques? tion and answer it honestly. Don't forget that a little taught well and learned perfectly ? better than a great deal poorly taught and imperfectly learned. A child's improvement is not . marked as in olden times by the number of pageahe goes over, bot by the amonnt of information and strength he gets from each page: The measles have broken into several of the schools as well aa into us. We regret exceedingly they cansed us to miss tho firm weather of last week. Friends and pitrons, however, keep us pretty well posted, and we are well up with the working of some schools that we have ? sot yet bad the pleasure of visiting. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. Elrod ?has been called from her school at Grange Hall, Pendleton Township, to the bedside of a sick relative in Charles? ton. Mrs, Elrod has bad a large school, and has shown Herself to be a teacher of the right stamp. We hope she may soon be permited to return to her work. ' The day we visited Miss Tallie Keown's school, Miss Tallie was at home quite sick. Her sister was bravely holding the fort, however, and presided- with a dig? nity that would have done credit to a teacher of longer experience. The house is not very inviting as it is approched, bat we found the interior somewhat above the average. We are glad to know that Miss Tallie is well again and at her post, j Miss Ellen Browne, who taught sev? eral years very successfully in this County, is now teaching in Orangeburg County. Miss Ellen, we hope, will not fall so much in love with her new home as to forsake Anderson entirely. We are grateful for the good work she has done in this County, bat are not yet ready to give her np. Of course, she will attend the Institute at Williamston this Summer. Miss Minerva Drake, who has taught. so acceptably at St. Fanl, Brushy Creek, during this session, is now in charge of a school at McCormicks. We are sorry to lose Miss Minerva from this county, but I, of course can not censure her for leaving one position for a better one. Miss Minerva will attend the Institute next Summer, and, though now not one of us, will receive a warm welcome from all her fellow-teachers in this county. L--? We are glad to know that so much in? terest is being manifested in the execu? tion and improvement of school-houses. All over the county the people are mov? ing up on that 1 in?. For the present a rented house is used at Neal's. Creek. The patrons and friends interested have decided to erect a good house and to take such other steps as will secure a permanent first-class school there. We hope Miss Harkness will consent to drive down stakes there and build up such a ?:hool as that community needs and de? serves. We found her working faithful? ly, and, to all appearances, accomplish-: ing good results. ?- The Eureka school is flourishing. The teacher is young bnt womanly and pro . greasive, combining the rare qualities^ of .sympathy for the little ones and the . ability to enforce proper discipline. Her scholars were unusually prompt in an? swering the questions we gave them, and gave evidence of a growing desire to learn something from every tbing that transpired. We noticed an organ there, bat it was boxed np, and Miss Campbell told us that the Sunday School preferred that it should not be used by the day school. We regret that. The organ can be used for a good purpose in the school and the purchasers wonld be well paid in its general elevating influence od the community, -even if the children wore - the ins trument out. If music is good for the Sunday School, it is better for the day school, where it would be used five days in the week instead, of two. Come brethren, be liberal, be liberal. Those are your children, yonr Sunday School, your day school. Don't keep the organ boxed up I Some one has said that soap is a great civilizer. We are not the least disposed to question the troth of the statement. We have learned that the presence of a wash pan with soap and towel at a school house door means something. If clean? liness-is next to Godliness, there is cer t?icly no better place to teach that lesson x than in the school-room. How a woman, or a man, of refined taste can teach a school of forty dirty boys (the girls are not so bad) we can't understand. It Is natural and right for a boy to get dirty to get his hands as black as the pots bat it is right and ought to be as natural for the teacher to make them wash them? selves. The boy who gets his hands badly soiled while playing is simply acting out the part of a boy, but there is no excuse for allowing him to remain in that condition from noon until night when, water is so plentiful and soap so cheap. Why not make soap and towel and hand basin articles of school furni? ture? The plea of cost can not be put up. In most of the schools it is just as it was when this writer was a school boy whose mother had great trouble to keep him neat?when recess is ended and the shout of "books" is heard on the play ground, every fellow breaks for the spring, some to drink, a few to wash their hands after playing "bull pen" and "roly hole," while the rest go for no other rea? son than to prolong recess as long ss pos? sible." Those who pretend to wash at all, wet the, dirt on hands and faco just I r & co. enough to make it scatter well and then wipe their hands on their breeches. That's about the way it's done. Boys can be taught neatness right here. How about the children in your school? What are you doing for them in this re? spect? Mr Petcriin's System of Preparing Land for his Cotton Crops. Preparing the land properly is laying the foundation for a crop. If you have cotton lands, it is the surest crop cultiva? ted if properly prepared and fertilized. I am satisfied that plantiog on the stalk beds continuously is wrong. This is a custom of a great many farmers. Not so in the Pee-Dee section, but in many portions cf the South. If lands are nat? urally rich it makes but little difference how they are prepared or cultivated, but on lands that have to be nurtured and fed from a silver spoon we must be careful how we handle it. Now what I wish to say is this, plane this year where the alley was last year, and near the level or below the level rather than on a bed Then in cultivating you throw the soil down hill instead of up hill. It is not so subject to be injured by drought. Boots are never cut. It is impossible to cultivate a crop of cotton on a high bed without seriously cutting or pressing the roots. It can be done with hoe work as the sea island or long staple planters do it; byt it L expensive, and it would not pay to make cotton by sucb system. To prepare cotton land after cotton is. to run out the stalks with a four or five inch shovel or bull-tongue first. In run? ning: your furrow, if there are large Btalks, use two mules, then one will walk in each alley: but if there are small stalks and light land, one furrow with one horse will do. The horse walks on the top of the stalk bed.. Now, if you wish to plant below a level, throw back^the first fur? row, or stalk row, until the xjfey is clear? ed out. This gives a good chance for deep ploughing. Apply your fertilizer, in the alley, and plant on two furrows. This gives you an opportunity of planting any height or depth you choose, and the land that was not fertilized last year is fertilized this. If there is any fertili? zer left from last year's fertilizer, the roots get it when the plant is large and at fertilizing time. When planted in the some place continually, the middle of the row becomes very poor, and the long roots that have gone to that part have nothing to feed on when they most need it. The system of reversing the row every year is more like broadcast fertilizing, which is the popular way to fertilize lands to make them rich. Mr. Dixon was wrong when he said, plant on a bed and cultivate level with a large flat sweep. It can't be done without too much root pruning. Koots of cotton should never be cut. The only way to keep from cutting them is to plant for that purpose. Use a plan? ter that puts every seed in the bottom of the furrow, and one that does not allow the wind to blow the seed from the furrow on to one Bide. The Dow Law and all planters of that build ore worthless. For instance, the Dow Law goes in a swing? ing motion and puts part of the seed shallow and part deep, and makes an irregular stand. A perfect stand is very essential.in cultivating a crop. Many a farmer is ruined by not having his cotton come up so that it can bo worked before the grass takes possession. I will tell you later how to cultivate it on my level or low system.?J. A. Peterhin, in the Weekly News and Courier. Timely Warning. Not unfrequently great loss of life and property is prevented by some one giving notice to an approaching railroad train of a.bridge swept away, a broke rail or a slide. Occasionally the danger is bo im? minent and bo much activity and nerve are required that proper warning may be given and disaster avoided, that the per? son doing this is not only thanked, but also liberally rewarded. One who would see the danger and fail to use every effort to avert it would be looked upon as culpable. Equally proper is it and equally obligatory for those who see relatives, friends or neighbors indulging in a course of life likely to briDg shame and ruin upon themselves, to warn them of the inevitable result of what they are doing and to seek to rescue them before it is too late to effect deliverance. Examples of the beneficent effects of such timely interference are many. We Jcnow a gifted lawyer of large practice, in another State, who had re? ceived the best education that common? wealth could give, had made his mark as a law student, was surrounded at once with the best class of clients, and had a father one of the leading attorneys in that entire region, an elder in the Pres? byterian church, a man of large influence, and respected by all. The youog man seemed to have only one failing?at times he would become intoxicated. One day an old gentleman of large business con? nections, and who was in the habit of drinking a little himself but not of get? ting drunk, met him in a distant city and detected the oder of liquor *on his breath. Taking him by the hand, the old gentleman said : "Do you wish to become a lawyer of high standing and large income ? Do you wish to be a re? spectable and esteemed citizen ? Do you wish to be the worthy son of an honored father?" To each question the young man replied sincerely: "I do." "Then," said the old man, "there is but one thing for you to do. Quit drinking at once and forever. If you do not, you are gone." The young man thanked him, and from that time until now he has not tasted liquor. In the meantime he has become a member of the Presbyterian church and an elder, and has a larger law practice than any other man of bis age in that State. The warning so faithfully given was the means of checking him in his downward career and of starting him upon a career of suecess and honor.? Presbyterian Banner. ? Charleu Johnson, of Griffin, Ga., saye that he ha? a cat that turned from jet black to grav from grief at being separat? ed from bis children, to whom it was greatly attached. a: MAD SPECULATION IN LAND. How the Tide has Kisen In Birmingham. {From the Neio York Times.) Birmingham, Ala., February 21.? If there is any distinction in having been shaved by a barber worth a quarter of a million dollars, I can claim it. Ho is a black man, is this barber; he used to be a slave. Napoleon Abercrombie, that is his name, and he lives and shaves I down in Montgomery. Birmingham real estate has made him his riches. Along with another tonsorial artist of the Ala? bama State capital he "homesteaded" some of the acres on the mountains close beside Birmingham, just before the land speculating craze got under way here; a superannuated brother was given a cabin and put in charge, while the owners themselves went on barbering the good natored Montgomeryites. Two or three hundred dollars was the amount that the partners invested. Five or six years ago they were offered $1,000 apiece for their interest. A year later the offer rose to $10,000, and that was doubled a month or two after, and so on upward rose the figures till about twelve months ago $150,000 cash was put at their disposal if they would consent to hand over their land titles. Last July the $150,000 rose to $200,000, by Thanksgiving it was $300,000/ and Christmas brought along the rounded figure of $400,000. Now $500,000 is offered for the track. They still decline every proposition and talk calmly of the "million" that is sure to be offered before next summer appears. It is justice to say that the rare fortune has not yet made the gentlemen proud; my barber accepted his .dime gratuity when I bade .him good-day with about the same amiability that shows itself in the New York saloon where the razor wielder is seldom the possessor of 250 cents instead of $250,000. This case is a fair illustration of the way in which land has been sent kiting away up above the clouds, and the way which, at the same time, colossal fortunes have bnen piled up in this town. ''The Magic City" is what the native loves to call Birmingham; it does not require the recitation of many instances to show how thoroughly the appellation is deserved. And a few of those instances. I want to give. In the business part of the city are two lots 50 feet wide. There is no special reason apparent to make them exceptionally valuable. Some of the principal business bouses are within sight. There is just one building on the entire block where they are situated. A half dozen years ago these lots sold for $60 apiece. Then with the tide of spec lation they began to rise rapidly. The man 'who paid $60 each for them sold to another purchaser for $600, and a little later was glad to buy them back at $70 a front foot, equal to $3,500 for the two. He made another trade and got $100 a foot, and then bought once more at $150 a front foot; next he sold at $250, rebought at $500, sold again at $800, bought again at $900, resold at $1,000, and now is afraid that he cannot get ^the same thing back again at a new offer of $1,250 a front foot. He Bays he knows where he can turn the property over just as soon as he gets it for $1,500 per front foot or $75,000 for 50 feet of real estate that be originally paid $120 for. Such whirls in market value are dazzling, iocomprehen8ible?yet for all that they are facts that stare one in the face at every turn here. It is needless to inquire the basis for it, the reason for it, the sense of it. Enough for every local mind it is to see that the fact is. No? where is it polite to look the gift horse in the mouth; here the simplest gloss of inquiry is rated treason, heresy the crime of all crimes rankest. It has been shown in this correspondence plainly enough, I think, that there is nowhere here any substantial warranty for the real estate values that obtain; it is bootless, how- ? ever, to elaborate on this now. Birming? ham's rare mineral wealth and her iron making advantages are indisputable; but there is yet an abundance of land available in the very heart of the city; not half?not a fourth even?of the town territory is built upon or seems likely soon to be built upon ; homes should be cheap, but?but they are not, and all the logic in the world cannot just yet avail to make them so. Wherefore, all regardless of the sense or the nonsense of it, let us consider the condition as it is. An elderly Baltimore man, named Richardson, happening to pass through Alabama six or eight years ago, invested $250 in a little strip of land, an acre or so, close beside Birmingham. Soon after he died, leaving a widow wiih one daughter and no abundance of this world's goods; yet even in this circum? stance they did not deem the bit of Alabama laud as worth attention. A fortnight ago, though, a lawyer hunted them up, with the information that they could sell out their Birmingham interest for $30,000. Mother and daughter are here now; since they arrived $10,000 has been added to their property's mar? ket value. I believe, however, they are waiting to see the sum grow to $100,000, and local adversities assure them that they won't have long to wait. A Selma citizen got entangled in his business affairs a couple of years ago and came to Birmingham, leaving a Selma bank in the lurch for $2,500. Little by little he began to get an interest in Bir? mingham real estate, and one day, a month or so ago, the Selma bank officers discovered that they could attach this property and help out their loss some whinT They took what he had, estimat? ing its value at about $1,500; before a sale could be made according to law that $1,500 value had jumped up to $8,000; it now stands for $10,000, and there is a bright prospect of a bitter lawsuit to determine to whom belongs the hand? some profits involved; the bank or the bank's debtor. A Cincinnati bank held a mortgage on a pieie of Birmingham real estate for $2,750, aod decided to foreclose. At a forced, sale they squeezed $2,000 out of the property. That was a year ago. Now the old owner of the land turns up, alleges that the bank did not treat him fairly, and proposes to sue for damage to cover the difference between the fee of that mortgage and the land's present valuation of $30,000?the advance of one year. NDEKSON, S. C, Tl George N. Gilmer, of Lownds County, a few years ago bought 120 acres of Gov? ernment land on Bed Mountain, over* looking Birmingham; he paid $2.50 an acre for it. In November, 1885, he wanted to Bell out the entire tract for $13,000 and offered a Montgomery lawyer $1,000 commission to find a pure'iiaser at that 'price. The lawyer couldn't do it, and Mr. Gilmer perforce held on. Now it has a market value estimated at from $200,000 to $300,000. Mr. Gilmer still owns it all save a small portion he let go lately at $4,000 an acre. Josiah Morris, of Montgomery, was obliged to take a quantity of Birmingham land for a debt of $10,000 in 1885, and everybody thought he had a bad bargain, and repeated offers to sell at what it cost failed to find a purchaser. Last fall he sold out at $50,000, and recently the new owner refused $75,000 for it. Three.young lawyers got an option on 200 acres of land a mile or two out of town at $1,000 au acre, organized a land company, made out a map cutting up the tract into building lots, and sold out for $450,000 before they were obliged to pay down a single penny of the original purchase money. It would be easy to go on multiplying instances of' this sort till not a line of space in the New York Times was leit to let further, description in. The Ely ton Land Company, as I have heretofore explained, paid $25 an acre for all the land that is within Birmingham's limits. It is indicative of the upward movement to cite the fact that the last land sold by the company in the town's centra went at the rate of $97,000 an acre. The Alabama Great Southern Bailroad was offered land as a gift for its shops in the early days of Birmingham and failed to take possession. The same land is mar? ketable for $500,000 now. I have seen given the names of a score of men who came here poor a half a dozen years ago who are are now reputed to be worth fortunes of $10,000,000 each, all made out of Birmingham real estate. .There is a social organization here called the Alabama Club, with a membership' of j 150 young men; a man with a lead pencil and a genius for statistics calcula? ted for me yesterday that each of the 150 members was worth, on an average, at least $40,000, all made out of real estate buying and selling. Boys who cannot raise a muajtache can raise $25, 000. Business building lots range from $500 to $1000 per front foot all over town. Residence lots are valued from $2,000 to $5,000 wiih 25 feet front in the less de? sirable parte of the town; in the "resi? dence district"?to borrow a local descriptive phrase?$100 or $600 a front foot is not considered in any sense excessive. But there is after all?and I do not know why there should be any need for disguising it?a vast deal of humbuggery in all this rampant furor of speculation. Do not, dear Northern reader of conserv? ative ideas, do not deceive yourself into the supposition that when a man talks about $1,000 or $1,000,000 down in this burg that he necessarily means that much cash or any other certain amount of cash* He means nothing of the sort. It would be an overestimate, indeed, to claim that as much as 10 per cent, is paid on the average. Against the land that origi? nally cost $100,000 the Elyton Land Company to day holds $5,000,000 of | mortgages. Notes pay for land. Men with no substantial collateral whatever give their notes and have them accepted here for fabulous sums. John buys a lot with $100 cash and his note for $900. He sells to Joe for $200 cash and notes for $1,300, scoops in the $100 cash profit, and figures out that his real profit is $500 Andrew comes along, takes the property, pays iu the same way, and so the merry go-round makes everybody happy and rich. But, ah, what a future there is here for the lawyer. Birmingham's real estate transactions could stop right here and there would be litigation enough ahead to last a century tbrongb, so tan? gled are titles here already. Cash value is a myth. Only the greenhorn pays out dollars when he knows the market value ot the promissory note. The whirlwind cometh sure; we won't have to wait long for it; mark that prediction. Men buy and sell land of whose location and ap? pearance they have not the faintest idea. And far over on the mountains outside of the city limits, three, four, six, even a dozen miles from town, the "boomers" have marked up "values" till there is nothing akin to anything but shame in it. Away out in the woods, where na? tives are still hunting bear and deer and shooti?g wild geese, tame geeae are ''in? vesting" in building lots?"choice sites," as the poetical prospectus names them. I have learned of very many instances of where farmers have mortgaged their farms, where merchants in neighboring towus have quit business, and (by scores: on scores) where clerks and young men managing plantations have run away from this legitimate business to come here and take part in the hurly-burly speculation that has the promise, they imagine, of panning out millions for every, sixpence invested. And iu every instance, according to the local chronicle, has been fruitful so far of handsome profits. Here is a true Btory : Three years ago a New Yorker came here with $1,000. He bought an acre and a half of land. He sold out for $2,000, and a little later bought an acre of it back for the same sum that he had sold the acre and a half for. On up it went, and he got $4,000 for his acre. He bought back afterwards one-half of it for $6,000, and so went on through half a dozen transactions till now he owns but a wee bit of a strip of . that original acre and a half, and for that he has paid $80,000. He counts his for? tune at just that amount, and though as yet scarce a single building is on that ground that was not there when he orig? inally paid $1,000 for it, be believes that he has made a profit of $79,000. As a fact he has but a few lumps of clay where he used to have a field full of it. Yes, he has some notes; but?but?but?well, there is a time that the prophets tell about when there may be a weeping and a wailing and a gnashing of teeth. And the gentleman may find that in the end he can raise more potatoes on an acre and a half than he can on a 25 by 50 IUESDAY MOENIN< foot strip ; and there will be a generation or two, I reckon, who will have the chance to do the potato act before any thiog like residences jam up against one another here. Still, if Birmingham goes right on growing in population as she has in the last half dozen years, there may be a need for building lots out where our New Yorker is in about Anno Domini 2844?or soon after. My Boyhood. If I were a boy again, endowed with the same wild passion for plucking watermelons in the dark of the moon. I ffould, no doubt, fall a victim to that overmastering passion as I did before; but, looking at it as I do now, I would be wiser. Boys can not, however, have the mature judgment of manhood without the experience and the rheumatism that go with it. So it is better than in our childhood we may be able to eat a raw turnip with safety, and know something later on in life. I notice a great change in myself while comparing my present condition with that of joyous boyhood. Then I had no sense, bot I had good digestion. Now I haven't even the digestion. The hurrying years have cavorted over my sunny head till they have worn it smooth, but they have left a good deal yet for me to learn. I am still on gaged in learning during the day and putting arnica on my experience at night. Childhood is said to be the most glad? some period in our lives, and in some respects this statement may be regarded as reliable, but it is not all joy. I have had just as much fun in later years as I did in boyhood, though the people with whom I have been thrown in contact claim that their experience has been different. I hope they do not mean any? thing personal by that. I do sometimes wish that I could be a boy again, but I smother that wish on account of my parents. What they need most is rest and change of scene. They still enjoy children, but they would like a chance to select "the children with whom tbey associate. My parents were blest with five bright eyed and beautiful little boys, three of whom grew up and by that; meanB became adults. I am in that condition myself. I was the eldest of the family, with the exception of my parents. I am still that way. My early life was rather tempestuous in places, occasionally flecked with sunshine, but more frequent? ly with retribution. I was not a very good roadstei: when young, and so retri? bution was most always just in the act of overtaking toe. While outraged justice was getting in its work on me, the other boys escaped through a small aperture in the fence. That is another reason why I do not yearn to be e, boy again. When we "ran away from school to catch chubs, and when we built a fire to cook them, and the fire got into the tall, dry grass and burned four miles of fence and sixteen tons of hay for a gentleman for whom I had a high regard, and I went back to put out the fire, the other boys escaped and have so remained ever since. A just retribution has never had any difficulty in overtaking me and walking up and down over my wishbone. When a party of us had been engaged in gathering Easter eggs in the barn of a gentleman who was away from home at the time, and he returned just as we had filled our pockets with the choicest vin? tage of his 3un-kissed hens, the other boys escaped while I was occupying the attention of the dog, and I had to slide out of the second story of the barn. It is still fresh in my mind as I write. I wore my father's vest at that time, and it was larger than was necessary. My father was larger than I at that time, for I was only niue years of age and bad not arrived at my full stature. In sliding down the batten I discovered that the upper end of it was loose, and that my dowing vest had slipped over it, so that when I got down about four feet I bung with the board buttoned inside my bosom, and the scrambled eggs oozing out of my knickerbockers. The batten had sprung back against the bam in such a way as to preveut my unbuttoning my vest, and while I hung there on the Ride of the barn like a coon skin, the proprietor came around and accused me of prematurely gathering his eggs. I had beard truth very highly spoken of by people who had dabbled in it more or less, and bo I resolved to try it in this instance. So I admitted that such was the case, and it was the best thing I could have done, for the man said, as I had been so frank with him, he would take me down as soon as he got his other work done, and he was as good as his word. After he had milked nine cows and fed nine calves he came around with a ladder and took me down. He also spanked me and set the dog on me, but I did not mind that, for I was accustom? ed to it. To bang on the side of a barn, however, like an autumn leaf, trying to kick large holes in the atmosphere, is disagreeable. This incident cast a gloom over my whole life. It has also reconciled me to the awful decree that I can never be a boy again.?Bill Nye. An Absent-Minded Groom. Not a thousand years ago a gentlemen from a distant city wedded a fair daugh? ter of Athens. He had been considered by bis friends as a confirmed bachelor until he fell a victim to the charms of this fair maid. He was also noted for his absent-mindedness. This was dis? played when the minister was perform? ing the marriage ceremony. When it became his duty to place the ring on her finger he drew a silver quarter from his pocket and handed it to the bride, to the consternation and confusion of all par? ties. That afternoon, when he embark? ed on the train with his bride for a tour, and the conductor came around for tick? ets, the groom found that he had bought only one ticket, forgetting that he had, doubled his expenses and responsibilities that day.?Savannah News, ? It 1b said that women dress extrava? gantly to worry other women. A man who dresses extravagantly generally wor? ries his tailor. 3, MAECH 10, 1887. SOUTH CAROLINA TOBACCO. Result of the. Examination by an Export of the Sampled of Tobacco Raised In the State Submitted for a Prize?A Good Ex? hibit?Hints for the Futnre. From the Columbia Register. The Semite Chamber in the Agricultu? ral Building looked like a tobacco warehouse yesterday; filled as it was with open boxes of more or less fragrant sam? ples of th3 leaf, all grown within the limits of South Carolina, and entered in competition for the prize of $100 offered for the best tobacco grown in the State. All day yesterday Mr. E, M. Pace, of the Banner Tobacco Warehouse, Dan? ville, Va., an expert in all relating to tobacco and as good a judge of its quality as can be found, was busy inspecting the thirty-seven samples submitted and in making up his report as to the merits or demerits of each, and deciding which was entitled to the prize offered. His report is given below in full, and contains, in the answers and suggestions given on matters in the reports accompa? nying the exhibits, much valuable information: Rev. Benjamin Allston, Plantersville, Georgetown County?Cuba seed very unsuitable to soil; result very poor. T. J. Moore, Spartanburg County?If this is a fair trial would abandon the project. Jefferson Stokes, Midway?Sorry stock. T. J. Duckett, Clinton?Orinoco peed ; should have made better results, but should been cured in barn; very common. Louis BradwelS, Aiken?Color good enough, but evidently spoiled by air curing. Hester seed is susceptible of good lemon color, if allowed to mature on the hill and properly cured by coal or flues. W. P. Baker, Hornsboro?Some of the leaf shows rich color, but very badly assorted. John F. Hightower, Lima?The general character of the folio shows bright color, but mixed in assorting. Alexander G. Clarkson, Wateree?The Hester seed shows up well, and result good as to quality. We awarded this the second best tobacco exhibited. Cuba seed very unsuitable, being coarse and bony. J. J. Davis, Seneca City?Thin, poor and without body. Mark it very well sold at fifteen cents. L. C. Thompson, Liberty Hill?Better results might have been made if properly cured by flues or coal. Hester seed is susceptible of bright lemon color, but not by process you indicate. E. S. Horry, Grahamville?Without substance, and would advise the Bale to Beaufort cigar-makers at best prices. It would not pay freight to ship to a tobacco market. E. R. McTeer, Green Pond?Result from Orinoco seed should have been good, being in the shade will do for Burley, but no other tobacco ; light and chaffy. Sell where you can. It will not pay freight to ship to a tobacco market. Ed. B. Smith, Marion?Hester and Hyer are good seed aud good results should follow proper cultivation, but must be cured by flues or coal fire. Hanging in open air wo a't do, except for Burley, and that can't be successfully raised in this section. There is no value to any tobacco used, it's bought by fancy. Take any offer you can get, and unless you have some assurance to improve, discontinue the raising. This tobacco will not pay freight charges to a tobacco market. J. D. FooBhe, Coronaca?Orinoco is a good seed. Color undesirable; body fair but coarse and bony; tie in bundle six to eight leaves. Should class this as common, and will bring $3 to $4 per hundred in a tobacco market. Jas. McCutchen, Church?You should be satisfied. Cuba best don't suit your soil; very inferior; Bell at any offer; it will not pay freight to ship. J. A. BurnB, Sumter?White Btem Orinoco is a good variety, and from your report was cured by flues; that was proper, but the tobacco shows the want of the all thing necessary, that is body and color. Has sufficient length and size of leaf, but the color is cloudy and dingy. E. T. Avery, Rock Hill?Orinoco: good seed and susceptible of good leaf and color, but must have missed the mark after cutting. Is badly assorted ; color only fair; body good. George J. Sheppard, Longmire's?Any Havana seed is unsuited to this, section. Orinoco should show better results. The sample exhibited has the appearance of Burley and very common. Make best disposition of it you can. It would not pay to ship. 'F. M. Rogers, Jr., Florence?Your tobacco speaks for itself; rich lemon color; awarded?firetpremium. Samples well classed and show good handling. J. H. Counts, Selwood?Hester seed, good, but no good can result from curing under shade. This sample makes a poor show, being very sorry and would not pay freight if shipped to any market. J. F. Bolton, Bennettsville?Better result should have been made from Hester seed. Samples are green and sorry. Won't pay freight to ship. J. M. Muirhes-d, Mt. Pleasant?Thio sample was so damaged by being packed up in high order, it was coated with, green mould and almost rotten ; had no color, being very common. Would not pay to ship. Dr. John J. Ingram, Manning?Color and character enough to stimulate you to try again. Body fair, but bruised in handling while in the green state before curing. W. R. Davis, Chester?You have much to encourage you to try again. Body and color fair, but not assorted as to length and color, as it might have been. Calvin Price, Woodward?It would be a reflection upon the Hester and Yellow Orinoco seed to say this sample was the result of their offspring. Should say this was not tobacco. It won't pay freight charges to any market. R. S. Thomas, Sr., San tue?Better results should have come from the Yellow Orinoco seed. It should have been cured by flues and coal fires. The tobacco shows some body, but color is what is wanted. Sell at best offer; don't ship to a tobacco market, or you will be dis? appointed in your returns. B. F. Perry, Jr., Greenville?Better results should have followed so good a seed and the flue curing. It is coarse and heavy. You can afford to take several years in selling it if you can realize your price, twenty ceDts. Any market can duplicate that or better for one fourth the money. H. G. Smith, Blythewood?Don't hesitate to sell at any price you can get. Sample poor and lifeless, and won't pay freight charges to any tobacco market. Thomas J. Hamlin, James Island? This section is not adapted to Cuba seed, and no market in any State I know of would pay freight charges for it. My advice is to raise no more, as I am sure you will when you put this on the market* G. P. Hartsoe, Wedgefield?(No report). Very common, coarse and bony, not worth its freight. F. E. Thomas, Wedgefield?Very common, greenish and bitter; won't pay freight. J. 0. Foster, Lancaster?Your tobacco shows good handling and is well cured ; fair body and color, and stands third on the list of tobacco exhibits. The topping should be decreased instead of increasing as the season advances. Try topping higher and eecure brighter color. It will pay you better. Unless you make it fine you are left as to prices. J. W. Earle, Holland's Store?Never ship your tobacco when you can realize such prices for your stock as indicated in your report. No market I know of will pay you one fifth of 25 cents for it. It's common. E. N. Cbisolm, Rowesville?Common, coarse and green. Unless you have hopes of improvement my advice is to discontinue the raising. This wont pay to ship. Ben. S. Williams, Bruuson?Better results should have followed from Hester seed. The sample was so rotten it was hard to tell what it was; saw enongh to say it was very common and won't pay you to ship. J. C. Griffiin, Pickens?Leaf, thin, papery and poor, no body nor substance. Don't hesitate to Bell to those pronounc? ing it fine. There is no market of my' knowing which will pay warehouse charges and freight. John E. Spearman, Silver Street.?* Better results should have followed planting Hester seed. If this is a fair trial, my advice is to discontinue raising* You lose money by continuing the business. Samuel S. Sarvis, Socauter?Sample exhibited is very common, and of a non? descript sort, neither fiah,fle?h or fowl? that is to say, neither a filler, smoker or wrapper. Very common; not worth freight to any tobacco market. We close this report by stating the prevailing low prices of common and nondescripts tobacco, raised by tbe plant? ers of Virginia and North Carolina the past year, and now being marketed, is our reason to discourage rather than encourage (he raising of tbe commoner sorts in this State. Tbe markets of the country are filled with Buch, and prices are now low, and a large portion of the tobaccos exhibited here to day would not pay freight and warehouse charges on any of the tobacco markets in Vir? ginia or North Carolina. $50,000 in an old log Hut. Keypokt, N. J., February 19.?John I. Schenck, the old Monmouth County hermit, is slowly dying at the home of his brother, to whom he was taken about nine months ago. The hermit is nearly 80 years of age, and for nearly fifty years lived in seclusion, allowing no one to cross his threshold. Just before bis re? moval to his brother's home he bad been suffering from a stroke of paralysis, and bad it not been for the timely visit of bis brother he would certainly have died at tbe time for want of nourishment and care. The near neighbors had noticed that he had not been out for several days, and, suspecting that be was sick, sent for his brother, who found him very low. After his removal an investigation of his hut was made. In a little shanty which was built in a thicket was found an iron box containing papers worth $10,000. In other corners of the tumble down building was found quite a large quantity of gold and silver coins. Under one of the beds in his two story rookery which answered for a home was found an old woolen stocking filled with money.' The interior of the building very much resembled a museum, there being many curious articles hung upon the walls. In all about thirty muskets and guns were counted. On attempting to Hake one down Mr. Schenck was astonished at its weight. Upon examination he was rather surprised to find it filled up with $10 gold pieces. In all nearly $50,000 in money and valuable papers wore fouud concealed around tbe hut and outbuild? ings. The old hut is daily visited by many sightseers. This ancient, tumble? down building is hardly two stories high, with an old-style roof slanting nearly to the ground. There are four rooms, the largest being eight by fifteen feet. The staircase is made from an enormous oak log, with deep notches cut in it. Much of the furniture was made from oak trees cut on tbe farm. Not Sharp Enongh For Cliurc' People. It is related of a well-known Macon man that be recently went to Griffin and attended church with a young lady on whom he was very sweet. When the contribution box started out on its re nds the young man took a five dollar gold piece out of bis vest pocket and displayed it in such a way that the young lady saw it. She mildly rebuked his extravagance, but be said he often contributed that much especially when instrange churches. Watching his chance he slipped tbe gold coin into his pocket and slyly took out a silver quarter which he slyly dropped into the box when it reached him. This fixed the impression on the young lady that her beau was generous and held the church in high esteem. At the close of the services, as was the custom of the church, the amount in the box was an? nounced. The total was $8.75. Griffin has no charm for the young man now. - k \ VOLUM] Stick to the Farm. Had we the ear of every young farmer in the Southern States, we would say to him, aud repeat it over and over again, "stick to the farm." Ennoble your call? ing. Educate yourself for it, and by judicious experiments, close observations and untiring labor and pains taking make it the source of mental improve? ment, pleasure and profit. When we say educate yourself for it, we do not mean education in the schools and colleges, though we think that in these far more attention should be given to the branches connected with agriculture. We mean that the young farmer should, by a judicious course of reading and thinking in the intervals of labor, acquire the in? telligence that is indispensable in his calling. Let him read attentively short elementary works in gftology, chemistry and plant physiology. The necessary books can be got for not more than two dollars. Having laid the foundation in these, let him continue the course through life by subscribing for one or two good newspapers. We don't mean agricultu? ral papers which treat of nothing but the one subject, but good weekly newspa? pers, from which he can store'his mind with information on all topics. Nearly all the leading weeklies have a depart? ment devoted to agriculture, conducted by a competent editor. A society of young farmers in each neighborhood would be a most valuable adjunct. Let him make experiments of his own, cautiously, and daily learn something by observation. It is a certain fact that every acre of land, if it baa a medium subsoil and is pretty well drained, can, by careful tillage and judicious use of home m?de fertilizers, be made to yield twice the quantity of cotton or corn that it yields with the ordinary tillage. A careful selection of seed alone will always increase the crop, and if persevered in may double the yield and give a perma? nent variety, valuable not only to the producer, but to bis fellow farmers. Let the young farmer give his attention to these things, adding daily to his knowl? edge, adding yearly to bis profits. It is undeniable that agriculture is the civil izer of mankind and the ultimate source of the wealth of all nations. Let every young farmer, then, be proud of his call? ing, and seek to adorn it. We are aware that a spirit of unrest is abroad among the young farmers of the South. For some years their labors have been hard, and their profits small and slow to accumulate. Many of them fancy that a surer, shorter, less laborious road to competence may be found in the professions, in trade, or in other kinds of labor. In this they are mistaken. The depression is widespread?wide as the civilized world; it permeates every avo? cation, every rank of society. The pro? fessions are overcrowded. Here and there is a professional man who acquires competence and fame; but for every one of these there are scores who eke out a meager subsistence, very many of them not knowing how they are to pay their board or bouse rent at the end of the month no.- their grocer's and butcher's bills at the end of the week. One reads and hears of the successful ones, but not of the others; just as one reads of the few who draw the big lottery prizes among the news items of the public prints, but the names of the thousands who draw the blanks?never! And in the mercantile business?few young farmers can form a conception of the physical and mental labor the merchant and his clerks and other em? ployees must undergo. For the former, days of toil and sleepless nights of anxious thought! For the latter, days of unremitting slavish work, uneasy doubts as to what the future, with the vicissitudes of trade, may bring I Home? less and without means or employment j Can our young farmer friends fancy the full meaning of these words ? Aud how many merchants succeed in their busi? ness ? We have seen it stated, by good authority, that not more than five out of a hundred retire from business with a competence. The other ninety-five see their capital slowly melt to nothingness, or is swept away at one fell swoop that brings bankruptcy and ruin to the mer? chant and loss of position to his em? ployees. And what of the other forms of labor in which millions are engaged ? What of the great army of wage-workers?is peace, plenty and contentment found in their ranks? Is there no unrest there? What of the privation they and their families have endured for years? And remember that most of them are without homes of their own. What of the ex? actions of which they complain (whether justly or unjustly we shall not stop-to inquire) ? Consider the strike and lock? outs of the present decade, the thousands throwu out of employment, the days, weeks, months and years of euforced idleness. And remember that every strike and lockout is a sharp two-edged sword that cuts both ways. Employers and employees alike suffer. Let the young farmer compare lots with all these?the professional men, the merchants and their employees, the wage workers and their employers. His homestead is bis own, safe to him and his beyond peradventure. It is his cap? ital, that can not pass from him by slow degrees nor lost by one calamitous stroke. For him there are no strikes nor lock outs; he may always find employment. He has always a roof to shelter him and his, and food and raiment for both. For every farmer can make, with reasonable care and industry, a supply of everything be and bis family need for food, except sugar and coffee. After home supplies for man or beast, which every farmer can and should make, there comes his money crop. For :hc farmer in the South that mon? ey crop is, and for an indefinite time it must be, cotton. We, of course, except localities like that contiguous to our "Magic City." We say it is and must be cotton. And, spite of all that has been said and written derogatory to our great staple, it is the best and surest money crop in the world. Either in the form in which it comes from the farm or as manufactured goods, we send our cot? ton to every part of the globe. The de maud for it is universal, constant, insatiable. Compare cotton "with the E XXII. -NO. 35. staple money crops of the North. T wJisa^fbr. instance. Two acres of .fj average land yield thirty bushel wheat. Two acres of like land ii South yield one bale of cotton, cotton weighs 450 pounds, the & 1,800 pounds, or four times as in? still, the cotton will bring consid more at its ultimate destination than 1 wheat will. Discrimination and compc tition may modify the economic law, bu? the law itself is exiomatic. That is the best crop wbich comprises tbe greatesij value in the least bulk and weight Moreover, a considerable per cent,.q{ tbe mineral constituents of the soil L exported in the wheat, and to preserve its average fertility, the farmer miiatj replace these by the use of bought ferti zers. Cotton exported takes nothii from the soil, and to preserve its avera fertility, it is only necessary that farmer restore to the soil tbe seed take from it?either the raw seed or the dror pings of animals fed on it. Again, Eogland and the Continent groi wheat, some of the European natic raising large quantities for export. ??. dia, Australia and British Columbia bat become formidable competitors of or. wheat growing regions, and new fiety are being opened up every year. Ye may come when tbe flush supply wheat abroad will reduce the price] low as to stop its exportation from oj country. But the exportation of cot will never be stopped. As a produc tbe cotton tbe world wants, the South:) no rival on tbe globe and never have. In presenting tbe merits of our staple as a money crop, we would': dissuade Southern farmers ic favc localities from producing other things instead of cotton for market. Dairyi gardening, fruitraising, and the'groi and fattening of beeves, sheep and hogs': for tbe butcher, are, in many places, more profitable than the rainicg of cot But, except in such places, cotton ?i our best money crop, and for the reasons we have stated, tbe best money cop iu tbe world.?The New South, Scripture Names of Heaven. m Heaven is called a "bouse." A father's house is a home. God's house is to be the eternal home of his children, hence all tbe hallowed sentiments that cluster j around the home may enter into our 1 conception of heaven. It is a home whose inmates will not be separated, and through whose portals death will never : pass. It is a home that will never be clouded by discord or by jealouey. It is a beautiful home, by tbe river and tree of i life. It is a spacious home, a house, of many mansions. It is called a "city." Cities when well! built and well governed are places of greater security than the isolated hemes of the open country. In heaven no rob? ber nor assassin can molest tbe inhabi? tants. A city is a place of peculiar privileges. In them gather ihe-weaUL^ and the learned, by whose presencer^SB employments all are benefited. In heaven are to be gathered the spirits of just men 1 made perfect. There can xba no better society than that. A city is more stable than a villa or a hamlet. There a single fire to tornado may destroy while a city , will survive thousand of disasters and grow continually in beauty and in strength. Heaven, the New Jerusalem., is "a city which hath foundations, whose maker and builder is God." It is called an "inheritance"; and it is said to be "incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away". No selftishness, no dishonesty, no legal technicality will_ ever deprive the children of God of this promised inheritance. Heaven is termed "the holiest;". To the Hebrews, this reference to the sunctam sanctorum of their temple was very signi? ficant. Heaven is the holiest place in the universe, a place where we may enjoy the blessedness of exemption fiom all sinful influences. It is called a "kingdom". It is a place~~ where the will of God will be done promptly and perfectly. It is a mo n archjz of love. Heaven is.'called "a better country". In the human heart there is a i estless longing for something better. The Israe? lites in Egypt longed for a freer andj better home; the Huguenots of France fled to lands of greater liberty; the Puri? tans of England thought that in America they should find a better home, and East? ern people still follow "the Star of Empire", seeking a better country. We are proud to think of this great republic as the grandest country beneath the circle of the sun, but there is a "better country, that is, a heavenly", where imperfections and failures are unknown, where all tbe inhabitants dwell in prosperity and con? tentment. Here we are strangers and pilgrims, there we shall be citizens, and shall reighn eternally with Christ the King. Heaven is called a "paradise", or park or garden of pleasure. It is "a land of pure delight". In tbe vision of Pat mos, John saw rivers, fruits and luxuriant foliage. There the redeemed shall dwell forever, "plucking fruit from trees peren? nial, while God* himself shall bend tbe bough." How to Keep o?t of Debt, One of our merchants who was out. on a collecting tour a few days ago, tells us that he saw a practical exemplification of living hard to make ends meet without going in debt. The gentleman with whom he stopped for dinner, just over the line in Chesterfield county, S. C, owned several hundred acres of unen? cumbered land, but, owing to a bad crop year, bad gotten in debt a hundred or two dollars, and he and his wife know? ing how soon a mortgage will eat op land, bad resolved to "live hard" untti they could retrieve their wasted fortunes and get out of debt. Tbe gentleman's wife told him they had not bought a yard of cloth of any kind in over two years, and that they were living on plain bread and meat and rye coffee, and all growing fat on it. This is a great deal better than to "mortgage the homestead" and then live high on long credit prices until the land is all gone, and wife and children without a home. A good many are rlbingthis.?Monroe {N.'tC.) Enquirer.