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BY CM3STKSCALES & LANGSTON.
DD v NOT FORGET!!
HUVfkV ? THAT THE
ANDERSON MUSIC HOUSE
le HeaifiC.ua.Tt 9? for the very best makes of PI Alf OS and
; - ?'. -j vOR?EAl9S, where yon can gat Lowest Prices and heat
. ; v-i terms, under a positive guarantee.
^; i^Piree Oac Loa?ds of OarrMg^raffiBuggpies *
?rf\' ;iJrutrec^^;aAd^we WT?J^NOT be undersold.
Jewing machines.
After twenty rears ciperience I have found out which is tba very best Sewing Ma
; chine, and wo will-be-pleasod to explain the merits of the celebrated New, Horn?,
which surpasses all 'others. We also sell the Favorit?, S4. John, Unioa,
White*, Victor, and several other makes.
jsjr> It wilipay you to inspect my stock and get piioss in either department of my
business before buying." Respectfully,
& SON.
Choice Goods,
Fresh Stock,;
-Low Prices,
Courteous Attention,
Free- City Delivery,
Are fill Scoured by Buying
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NO. 5> HOTEL GHia?OLA FLACR
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TRY^ BOTTLE OF OUR
CURE
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J1 or Sick Headache,
Indigestion, Biliousness,
And all similar disorders.
It is the best Family Medicine on the market.
? We have an excellent line of?
CIGARS, TOBACCO AND PIPES,
AND THE NICEST AND FRESHEST STOCK OP
'Peitfuiaery arid Toilet A.rtides
IN THE CITY.
.There has been an Earthquake in the prices of GARDEN SEEDS; and we an at the
'bottom.- ' " '-" ?
. No. 4.Hotel Block.
TODD BROS,, Druggists,
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YOUR PRICES WERE LOW ENOUGH BEFORE !"
Of course they were, but wo are determined to placo our
? TChristmas Goods within'the reach of All!
OO with a little sacrifice of our own interest we are able to Bhow you CHRIST"
D MAS PRESENTS suitable /or both sexes and alt ages, at prices which will
satisfy even the most picayunisb.
YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG LAD1B*,
Aire you undecided what to give each other? Then come to the?
LADIES' STORE,
Where yoa cannot fail to be suited; and that, too, without running any risk of
,benDg;'lfinancially embarras.-sed" on the strength of it.
'4 ^JJSHWe give a most cordial-invitation to all to come and admire, If you do
* tiuttibg-etoe. " ; " Very truly,
MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS.
THE ALLIANCE
HAVE MADE EURTEEK
SLEEPING REDUCTIONS
OK ALL
Se?g at Cost, or Less,
WITH US MEANS SOMETHING.
All-Wool Blankets at Cost.
All Overcoats at and below Cost.
Dress Ginghams at 5c.
PREPARE FOR SPRING.
New Embroideries now in stock.
New White Goods now in stock.
New Wool Dress Goods now in stock.
Just received a fall assortment of Children's Clothing.
Men's Clothing at prices that will allow any man to dress
well
For 50c. we will sell yoa a SHIRT you have always cheerfully paid 76c.
for. It is 1800 linen bosom, linen coffij and collar band, Mansutta body, reinforced
patent stay. . In fact, as well made as a dollar Shirt.
9&* We are here to save money to the psople, and we are doing it.
3,200 Bushels Pure Spring Seed Oats Just Received,
And everything else needful on the farm constantly on hand.
Very reBpeg. fully,
sRL S. HILL*;
Manager.
Te}a?he)r$'Golumn.
All communications; intended for
this Oolnmn should be addressed to D. H.
RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander?
son, 8^0._
Miss Delia Brown has a small school
at Lone Star, but-has no . facilities for
' teaching. The house.is-ver 7 poor, and
it is still more poorly furnished. Not
even a blackboard or a desk to write on,
or any comfortable seats. She is a young
teacher just beginning, and if she suc?
ceeds will deserve great credit for
achieving success in the face of difficul?
ties. We learned of a plan on foot to
concentrate at another point and build a
better house, which, it is to be hoped,
will be carried on to a successful issue.
At Flint Hill we found Miss Alma
Elgin on deck, with about forty pupils,
but in a very unsuitable building, of
which fact, however, the patrons them?
selves are fully aware, and propose to
remedy the matter during the coming
'summer by - putting .op a comfortable
house; -There- are some bright- pupils
here, and they appear to be making Borne
progress but, of course, not as much as
they would do if the teacher had better
facilities for doing her work.
Cedar Grove colored school is taught
by J. B. Maxwell, a teacher of several
years' experience, who baa an orderly
and well kept school.- His classes ge~6
evidence of some good work being done,
especially in the primary department.
The Maddcx school is a uew location
where the people have recently built a
good, substantial bouse, and what is sei*
dorn the case, but very much to their
credit, have actually completed the
house inBide and out. Here we found
Miss Anna Grubbs with over forty pu?
pils, and we spent two very enjoyable
hours with - them. These -pupils were
quick -and ready in responses, and
showed familiarity with the subjects
in hand. We had never met the teacher
before, but were much impressed with
the evident energy and earnestneas that
has been displayed in the management
of her school, and the hold which she
seems to .have * upon bar pupils. Our
good friend, Maddox, who accompanied
us to the school, seems to be greatly inter?
ested'in its success, and says they intend
to make the house larger.
After a good night's rest at our rela?
tive, Alien Williams, we wended our way
to the Barker's Greek school, where Miss
Lena Campbell is in charge. This ia a
small school, and does not appear to us
to have progressed any beyond what it
was when we last visited it, and this is
not chargeable to either the present or
former teacher, but is due to the fact that
the school does not run any beyond the
public term, and the work has to be done
over each.succeeding term. There is no
blackboard here, bat the teacher told us
that the people propose to enlarge the
honse and add some conveniences to it.
In a moral and religious community,
such as this is, and underneath the
shadow of a neat Church- building, an
advance forward in the shape of a good
school house in needed, and* then put a
good teacher i a it and keep her at it con*
stantly.
To go to Prof. Watkios' school at
Honea Path, is a pleasure always and at
all times, and this pleasure we enjoyed
last week for an hour or two. The peo?
ple of Honea Path appreciate this
teacher and his work, too, for tbey have
recently put up an addition to the build?
ing, and have placed seven-.y-five patent
leaks in the several rooms, and the peo?
ple from the surrounding country appre?
ciate it, too, tor. the expenses having
been reduced to a minimum cost, num?
bers have moved in and others are ex
Bxpecting to follow suit. The County,
too, will reap great benefit from it, for.
juite a number of young men and women
are here who will soon be at work in the
school houses of the County. With an
enrollment of two hundred and thirty,
and an average attendance of one hun?
dred and sixty five, the principal has his
bands full, but being ably assisted by
Prof. Oulbertson and Misse* Dargan and
Oulbertson, and the principal, withal,
baving a fund of tact, everything moves
along like clock work. Our visit was
necessarily much.shorter than we liked,
but we promise ouraelf the pleasure of a
more extended visit in the near future,
after the public schools of the County
have closed.
The Honea Path-colored' high school
is taught by Thomas Sanders and bis
wife, and the people, both white and col?
ored, speak-in.-the highest terms of the
got-d. work being done, and the good in
fli?'*r.Ci-3 being exerted by this teacher
upon bis race, and from what we saw in
bis school room we tbink it is true. His
pupils are being well taught, of wbich
we had sufficient proof.
Miss Laura Nance is the teacher this
year at Saluda, assisted by Miss Beulah
Cox. These ladies bave their school in
good shape, and their classes are pro?
gressing. We noted aubstantial progress
made since our last visit, and some good
Beed sown by Obeatham is being reaped
now, and we are glad to know that the
people appreciate these teachers. A
class in arithmetic here gave evidence of
a good degree of proficiency in fractions.
We made a second visit to the Shady
Grove school at Calhoun, but this school
being taught by our daughter, Miss May
Russell, we can only say that everything
seemed to indicate that the teacber is
trying to do her duty, and this is borne
out by the testimony of those of the
patrons with whom we talked.
One mile from Calhoun we came across
a colored school at New Hope Church,
taught by L, A. Ford. This teacher had
over sixty scholaru present the day we
called, and he seems to have them under
control, and his classes are making good
headway. A class in arithmetic made
some calculations in . interest at the
blackboard which were very creditable.
At the Centennial school Miss Lizzie
Brock holds sway over a small school of
about twenty-five scholars, but the same
ANDERSON, S. C,
j fact is patent here as at all other places
where the school runs-only during the
public term. In the very nature of
things but little, if any, progress can be
made, and the same ground has to be
gone over each succeeding term, no mat?
ter how bard the teacher may work.
Miss Lizzie is competent, -and is doing
her beBt, and would succeed if the
?patrons would keep her at it.
Counting tho Cotton Crop.
The Charleston News and Courier
offers the following premiums for the
nearest guesses of the correct number of
bales of the United States cotton crop of
1889-1890:
THE F1R8T PREMIUM.
. -tons of The Wilcox, Gibbs &
Co's Manipulated Guano.
5 tons if the winning number of guess
is recorded on or before March 81,1890.
5 tons on or before April 30,1890.
4 tons on or before May 31,1890.
3 tons on or before June 30, 1890.
2 tons on or before July 31,1890.
THE SECOND PREMIUM.
A copy of the News and Cbuuier and
the Sunday News, free for one year.
THE THIRD PREMIUM.
A copy of the News and Courier, free',
for one year.
THE FOURTH PREMIUM.
A copy of the Weekly News and Courier,
free, for one year,
The Commercial and Financial Chron
tele will bo the authority for the number
of bales of the United States cotton crop
of 1889-90. When its statement of the
,1889-90 cotton crop is published (some
time in September) the First Premium
will be given to whoever makes the best
or nearest guess on the crop. The Sec?
ond Premium will be given* to the second
nearest or second best guess on the crop.
The Third and Fourth Premiums will be
given to the third and fourth best or
nearest guesses.
The guess number, the name (or ini?
tials) and the address of the gnesser and
the date of record will be published
weekly in the Sunday News.
In the event of ties of two or more
similar numbers or guesses the one first
recorded will receive the First Premium.
The Second Premium will go to the next,
and the Third and Fourth Premium in
the same order..
Guessing open to every one.
Any one can guess as often as desired.
Sou can guess monthly, weekly, daily
or hourly if you -choose I
There are only two
RULES.
All guessea must be made on the bal?
lots printed in the Weekly News and
Courier.
Cut one out fill it up and send it to
the New8 and Courier, Charleston, S. O.
Only one guess can be made on one
ballot, and each ballot must be accompa?
nied by five cents in stamps or coin.
BALLOT EARLY AND OFTEN.
Every one registering a guess will get
a copy of the Sunday News acknowledg?
ing the ballot.
Wnar'a My Nigger 1
In the month of January, 1860, in
going down the big river from Yicksburg
to New Orleans, I happened to strike a
boat on which wore half a dozen profes?
sional gamblers. There were a large
number of other passengers, and a game
was going on in the cabin night and day.
I happened to fall in with two young
men at the start and incidentally learned
that they had been off on a speculation
which turned out disastrously, and were
returning home so close to dead broke
that they could only raise $20 between
tbem. On the second night one of them
came in the game with this money, and
in the course of an hour won $700. Then
luck shifted and he was cleaned out. As
his last dollar went the banker inquired:
"Have you anything to raise -a stake
on?"
"Yes. Whar's my nigger I" was the
reply.
"Yere, Mars John!" answered a voice,
and a "young aud likely," as ' it used to
be termed, negro boy about 20 years old
entered the cabin and bowed very hum?
bly.
"Thar-H a nigger who is worth $1,600
in gold," said the young man. "How
much will you put up against him?"
"Twelve hundred."
"Done 1"
In just forty minutes the lasl; dollar
was gone, luck and trickery being too
many for the young fellow, and as he
rose up the "banker" called out:
"Luck seems to bate some folks.
Wbar's my nigger?" ?
No one could answer, but a search for
him was at once instituted. Three or
four men looked high aud low, but he
eould not be found, aud it was finally
concluded that he bad gone overboard.
There was a great deal of "cussing
around," but it didn't help matters any,
and all finally turned in for the night.
When I went to my stateroom I found
the washbowl full of black water, and a
strange coat and hat on the floor. I was
wondering over tbeee things when one of
the young men came in?the one who
had not played.
"I came to remove these things," he
explained. "I got into you room by
mistake, you Bee."
"But what does it mean ?"
"It means that I am the 'nigger' who
was put againBt $1,200 and lost."
"What an idea 1"
"Y?b, we ought to have made $1,000
apiece, but it was no go. Hope you'll
excuse my intrusion and keep mum."
And all the rest of the way down to
New Orleans the passengers mourned the
death of that"likeiy nigger," and won?
dered whether he went right down or
died by inches.?New York Sun.
? If a man does not make new ac?
quaintances as he advances in life, he will
soon find himself alone. A man should
keep his friendship in constant repair.
?[Sam Jones says he would not give
ten cents to hear Ingersoll on "The Mis?
takes of Moses;" but he would give ten
dollars to hear Moses on the mistakes of
Iogeraoll.
? He led the German and his dudish
dress was the admiration of the assembled
fair, but his stout partner slipped on his
favorite corn. Sensation 1 Salvation
Oil to the rescue. Happiness again.
THURSDAY MORN]
BILL ARP.
Atlanta Constitution.
I saw a tramp yesterday?a genuine
tramp. There was nobody at home but
me, and I was working in the garden.
He was ragged and dirty, and when I
asked him what I could do for him he
smiled and said he would like to have
something to eat. The request surprised
me, for be was not old and looked healthy
and strong. "Where do you live ?" said
I. "I have no home," said he, "but I
hail from Michigan." "How did you
get here 7" said I. He pointed down to
his old Bhoes and said: "I walked."
"Where are yon going VI asked. "Just
traveling around generally?nowhere in
particular," he said, and smiled again?
an honest, pleasant sort of a smile. "Are
you a tramp ?" said I?"That's about the
size of it," he Baid, "though by trade I
am a tinner and I can earn my dinner in
a few minutes if you have any old tinware
you would like to have mended. "Where
are your tools/' said I. He threw back
his old coat and showed the ends of a
soldering iron sticking out of his pocket
and pulled a smaller lump of Bolder from
another pocket and smiled again. But
my wife was not at home and 1 don't
generally interfere with her department
j without orders, and so I walked with him
! to the kitchen and asked Mrs. Sicily Mims
if she had any cold victuals for a jvayfar
ing man, though a fool, and she looked at
him with undisguised disgust and said ehe
'lowed maybe she could find something.
While he was feasting I asked him why he
dident go down to Mr. Gilbert's tinshop
and ask for work. He smiled again and
said lie dident have time to stay long in
one place and he could do better by
mending tin along the road. He thanked
me very politely for his victuals, and
made a bow to Mrs. Mims and limped
away. Mrs. Mims remarked that ehe was
gwine to lock up the kitchen to-night,
that that man wasent after no good.
"He's a yankee," said 1^ "and foute for
you, I reckon." "Better go back whar he
come from," said she. "Got enough poor
white trash of our own that, won't work
for a living."
He was the first traveling beggar I
have seen in years. What a bleesed
country we live in; a country without
beggars. We can't even sustain a poor
house in Bartow county, a county con?
taining twenty-five thousand people.
Can't get enough poor people to patronize
it to make it respectable. Where can you
find a region where providence has been
as generous to the laboring man ; a region
where the toilers and bread-winners can
get a dollar a day and live well on a
fourth of it? Where is healthy labor so
well rewarded? Joe Brown works a
hundred or so at his mines?not in mines
away down in the ground?not in danger?
ous shafts, or fire damp, or. foul atmos?
phere, but in the hillsides with the heav?
ens in sight, and as most of them live in
our town and want to go to the night
meeting, and enjoy themselves, Old Joe
hauls them ont in the morning and hauls
them back at night. Talk about the
poor, oppressed negro of the south 1 I
asked a New York man about the New
York negro and he said that their condi?
tion was very miserable compared with
the negro here. In Now York city they
are confined to three streets, Sullivan,
Sleeker and Thompson, and their families
never go out of tbat quarter and white
folks never go in it. They pass through
it, of course, but they don't stop. The
negro men hire out by the day or the
week as porters or as waiters in certain
hotels. Most every occupation is abut
against them. They used to be barbers,
but the Germans have run them out of
that business and now the Italians are
running the Germans out. The negro
used to drive the cabs, and busses, but
you never see one with the reins now un?
less it be on the private carriage of a
southern gentleman?an old slave owner
of couree. You never see a negro con?
ductor of a street car or on the elevated
railway. You never see one as a guest
in the great hotels. They are avoided in
the city railroad cars. Passengers will
sit by a dirty Italian rather than by a
clean, well-dressed negro. It seems to be
a prejudice, against contact, and is uni?
versal. The broadest philanthropy will
not overcome it. When the Methodists
had their great conference two years ago
the white members were provided for in
the best private houses in the city, but
the negro bishops were sent to the negro
hotels. You never see a negro sitting
with the whites at a church or a theater
or a restaurant. Their children do not
mix with white children at the school?.
They have their own churches and their
own schools. These negroes in New York
and their ancestors have been living there
for a century, and have made no progress,
no advance in the arts or sciences, or in?
ventions, or in the higher professions or
occupations. They are good, law-abiding
citizens and give no trouble?not as much
trouble as the Italians or the Irish. Some
call this prejudice, but it is not prejudice.
It is the law of natural repulsion and af?
fects all classes. In Providence, R. I.,
there is a large population of negroes-not
black negroes, nor flat-nosed. They seem
to have come from a different tribe and
country. They are of a copper color and
good, comely specimens of manhood and
womanhood, but they live to themselves,
and have their particular part of the city.
They do not mix. Public opinion is
against it. The doors of all avocations
and professions are by law open to them,
but in fact are closed against them. In
former times they welcomed you in every
town at the sign of the red, white and
blue : but they don't now,
I was ruminating over this because
Hayne3 Milner sent me my blacksmith's
bill this morning and I paid it. For
thirteen years I have been patronizing
him because be was a good smith and a
good negro. We have whitesmiths here,
but our people do not quit the black
smiths. In fact, they have the run of
the custom. And so it is with negro car?
penters, and masons, and gardeners and
cooks., and washwomen, and barbers and
draymen. In all auch occupations the
southern negro really gets the advantage.
As tenants upon tbe farms and as team?
sters and miners be is generally preferred.
His race condition at tbe south is better
and happier than the laboring classes of
tbe Irish or German or Italian or the
Swede. None of them have been able to
:NG, MARCH 13, Ii
drive the negro from hia frienda or his
friends from the negro. I never saw a
good negro who did not have as many
friends as he wanted. They can always
get good work at good wages and are
always protected and defended against
oppression. Haynes Milner's house was
burned, and the white folks helped him
to rebuild it. Their children get their
schooling for nothing, and not a dollar of
it comes from the Slater fund, or any
other fund, but ours. Our doctors visit
their sick and hardly ever collect-their
bills. Mrs. Sicily Mime got sick and my
wife sent her her meals every day. In
fact, they do not have the^cares and fears
of the poor white people- in this coun?
try. They have an abiding faith in the
abundance of food and clothing that is
all around them, and if they can't get
their share one-way they can another.
This a fair picture of the negro as be is
in North Georgia, where there are neith?
er too many nor too few?where the rela?
tions between/tbe races are friendly and
kind, and always will be if the howling
hypocrites of the north will let us alone.
If they do not, and there should be a war
of the races, the north will be held re?
sponsible for it before God and man. The
conservative people of the north need
not tell us that they do not approve of
the utterances of Ingalls, or Chandler, or
Sherman, or Fhelps, or Cook upon the
negro question. It is the duty of all good
citizens to join issue with such men and
denounce them for their lies and slanders.
If Wanamaker don't care to appoint a
negro postmaster in Providence, why
should he in Athena or Americus ? He
asked Mr. Carlton, fn a sneering way, if
it would be safe for him to go to Athens
and investigate, and Carlton replied that
better men than him had been there and
were not molested, but the way our people
feel about the indignities and insults, and
the revenges that Wnnamaker and the
President have heaped upon them, they
had both better stay at home. We want
none of their sort to visit our section.
What a pitiful spectacle it is. The
President of a great nation has made
himself so odious to a third of bis empire
that he wouldn't dare to make a tour
among bis southern subjects. We see
that the Cbautauqua,, at Albany, has
Btooped so low as to invite bim there.
Athens wouldn't do it?nor Americus. I
don't know what kind of people they
have in Albany, but in our part of the
country we have not yet got so humble as
to? m
''Lick the hand that's raised to strike the
blow,"
nor have we attained to that exalted
Christian charity, which says "if a man
smites thee on one cheek, turn the other
to him also." We are just human, and
Mr. Harrison and Mr. Wanamaker will
yet find out that they have tbe scorn snd
disgust of tbe southern people. If their
success in securing this will help to per?
petuate " their power, let it be so. A
boycott in trade is but a little thing, but
a boycott that smothers the respect of
fifteen millions of white people is a big
thing, and will live in history.
Bill Arp.
Couldn't Stand It.
An infidel young lawyer, going west to
settle fot life, made it bis boast that he
"would locate in some place where there
were uo Churches, no Sunday schools, or
Bibles." So he found a place of this
sort. Before the year was out, he wrote
for a preacher to come and bring plenty
of Bibles, to begin preaching, and start
Sunday schools, for he said : "I am con?
vinced that a neighborhood without Bi?
bles, Sunday schools and preaching is too
much like hell for any living man to
stay in." The invisible and silent influ?
ences of Churches to suppress disturbing
immoralities are not appreciated, until
one goes to those places where there are
none. Tbe moon, high up in the heav?
ens, exerts a silent influence on the sea
lifting tbe tides to roll out and refresh
tbe low lands. So tbe silent influence of
Bibles, churches and Sunday schools lifts
men to a higher plain of moral living.
Christianity gives value to material
things. A tract ol land located in a re?
gion of churches, where the people are
civil, kind and peaceable, is worth twice
as much as one located among still
houses and open grog shops where bad
men live. Business men now owning
property on the outskirts of a city, find
that it pays financially to build a church
there. Because they know a Church <vill
convert the people?reform the Leigh
borhood?build up good society?and
then men will buy lots to build upon.
"Godliness is profitable unto all
things." Who would settle all his fam?
ily among wild Indians, though the cli?
mate be ever so healthy though the land
be ever so rich and the scenery ever so
beautiful. Men advertise a piece of land
for sale, and to induce others to buy,.call
attention to the fact that said property.is
located in a region where good neighbors
live?where churches and schools are con?
venient. Yes, Christianity enhances the
worth of material things.
Negroes Back from the West.
The negro exodus from thb West con?
tinues, these deluded creatures moving
out to tbe "promised lands" of Arkansas
in pairs, tens, fifties and hundreds. But
there is another side to the matter about
which little has been said. We refer to
tbe few stragglers who manage to get
back. A reporter for the Enquirer met
one of these at Blacksburg a few days
ago. He was a miserable looking object
carrying all his wordly effects on his
back, in a bag made of bed licking, and
from bim the reporter elicited the follow?
ing experience:
"Ise been out ter Arkansas, boss, and
I's gitting back ter home, close ter
Raleigh. And if 1 gits dar, I aint gwine
ter leave no more, neithei. Dem's er
bad country out yonder. Er man makes
er about er dollar an' er quarter er dayj
an' it takes erbout er dollar fer to live,
an' he's Bick mos' all de time, at dat. I's
bin out dar two years now, and I had
enough money to briug me home, but one
of dese white gentlemen wid er twisted
moustache, went an' took it away from
me out in Alabama, and I's walked all de
way from Central. I tells you boss, if 1
gits back ter Raleigh, I's gwine ler stay
dar."-? Yorfoille Enquirer.
590.
THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD.
South Carolina Makes the Biggest Corn
Crop Ever Grown on One Acre .
From the American Agriculturist.
The acre entered by Mr. Z. J. Drake
was a sandy soil in Marlboro County,
South Carolina. The original growth
was oak, hickory and long leaf pine.
Three years ago, before the land was
improved, eight dollars per acre was a
fair valuation, while, thirty years ago
the plantation of which this acre is an
average snecimen was called by its owner
''Starvation's Empire." Ifc had a gentle
slope, with northern exposure, and was
naturally well drained. The acre was a
fair specimen of much of the poor land
in the South, and its improvement and
productiveness affords an instructive
lesson. As late as 1885, when it was in
corn, it made a poor crop?practically
nothing. In 1886 the acre yielded about
300 pounds of seed cotton, two dollars'
worth of ammoniated fertilizer being
used in the way common to ordinary
cotton culture. The fertility was so
reduced that in 1887 the yield of corn was
not over five bushels per acre. But now
Mr. Drake undertook to improve it. To
provide the vegetable matter or humus
so much needed, the land was liberally
covered with rakings of leaves, straw,
etc, from the neighboring woods. On
top of this, 25 horse-loads of stable man?
ure were evenly spread broadcast; also,
75 bushels of cotton seed, 500 pounds of
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co's manipulated guano,
250 pounds of cotton seed meal and 250
pounds of kainit. The heavy dressing
was all ploughed under with Starke's
Dixie turning plough. Il was laid off in
rows with the same plough,' two furrowB
to the row, four feet apart; 100 pojnds
of guano were applied in the furrows,
and then each pair of furrows were
thrown into a ridge with the same plough.
The Peterkin cotton was plantad with a
Leytch cotton planter, and made^ the
great crop of 917 pounds of lint cotton
on the acre, showing conclusively the
result of the improvement.
PREPARING FOR THE BrGGEST CROP ON
RECORD.
Mr. Drake decided that this acre was
the one for him to enter in the corn con*
test, and be determined to make the
biggest crop on record, season permit?
ting. The last of February, therefore,
he hauled upcn the contest acre 50 one
horse wagon-loads of stable manure,
averaging 20 bushels to the load, or
1,000 bushels of manure in all, worth
$50, to which should be added $4 for
hauling and spreading. This was the
droppings of horses and mules fed on
corn and fodder and was not moved until
hauled to the acre. At the same time
500 pounds each of manipulated guano,
cotton seed meal and kainit were also
broadcasted, and the whole was then
ploughed under. Following the plough
whole cotton seed was liberally Btrewed
in each furrow, 600 bushels being applied
to the acre. A subsoil plough came
after, breaking the soil to a total depth
of 12 inches and also burying the whole
cotton seed deeper than the other man?
ure. Thus the decaying seed would back
up the crop later in^the season, when its
roots had penetrated below the first layer
of manure. One horse and a man did
the ploughing, and also the oubsoiling;
both jobs being completed in one day,
(March 1,) at a total expense of two
dollars. The acre was harrowed on the
same day with a Thomas smoothing
harrow, one man and two horses doing
the work in about one hour. The next
day, March 2, the acre was laid off, with
the Starke plough, in two furrows to the
row, followed by the subsoil plough* in
each row. The rows were alternately
three and six feet apart?that is, there
were sis feet between two rows, then
three feet, then six feet, and so on.
THE VABIETY AND CULTURE.
The seed planted was one bushel of
the common gourd variety of the South?
ern white Dent corn, but it was a strain
that bad been improved by twenty years
of careful selection from the best of corn
grown on this plantation. The planting
was done in half a day by four hands, on
March 2, the weather being warm and
the land moist! Five or six kernels were
dropped to each foot of the row. The
latter were five inches deep, but the seed
was only covered lightly an inch deep by
raking in the sides of the furrow. Rain,
the next day, washed in more soil, and
covered the seed rather deeply. There
were good rains March 10 and 15, the
plants began to show on the 16th, and'
by the 25th there was a tolerably good
stand. On April 8 the crop was hoed
for the first time, thinned to one stock
every five or six inches, and the few
missing places replanted. On the 20th
the wide spaces (six feet) between the
alternate rows were ploughed out with
the subsoil plough. Then a mixture
composed of two hundred pounds each of
manipulated guano, kainit, cotton seed
meal, acid phosphate and animal bone,
was evenly applied by -sowing in each
furrow (thus confining this application
of plant food to the wide spaces,) after
which the whole acre was gone over with
a ThomaB harrow. There was-rain on
the 24tb, and two days later the crop
was again harrowed with the Thomas
harrow. Now, on May 15, the narrow
or three-foot rows were ploughed out
with the Eubsoiler, and 300 pounds of
nitrate of 3oda was sowed in these rows,
and worked in with a hand-harrow or
cultivator. On the 25th the Thomas
harrow was run through the wide rows to
break the crust. It will be seen that by
this time the soil was not only well filled
with plant-food, but had been thorough?
ly cultivated on the surface, and also
well worked underneath by the subsoil
plough, so that the whole soil was not
only full of fertility, but was in
that light and open condition that beat
facilitates root growth.
ROOT DEVELOPMENT.
To stimulate a still further root devel?
opment, especially in the wide spaces
between the alternate rows, where there
was more room for this purpose, three
furrows were run, side by side, in the
middle of the wide rows, with the sub?
soil plough, and 200 pounds of manipu?
lated guano was app lied in these fur?
rows, the rows being then worked by a
Thomas harrow. The next ^ay there
was about an inch of rain, about six
inches of rain fell four days later, and,
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on Jone 2, the land was lightly stirred
with a hoe. A little earth was hoed in
to the corn, making the land about
level. There was more rain June 4 and
5, and, on the 8th, three furrows were
again turned in the middle of the wide
rows, this time with a 20 inch Campbell
sweep. Now. 500 pounds of a mixture
composed of equal parts of manipulated
guano, cotton-seed meal, and kainit was
strewn in the wide spaces, and the corn
on the entire field was hoed. Rain came
the next day, but, on June 11,100 pounds
of nitrate of soda was sowed in the narrow
rows and hoed in.
THE WONDERS OF THE CBOP.
The crop was now a wonderful si;hr.
It soon became'necessary to put up posts
and nail'slatsjto them, on both sides of
each row, to prevent;;the corn falling.
No hilling was done, but the whole acre
was kept perfectly level. Arrangemuntu
for irrigating bad been made, but the
I season was early and wet, as compared
with other years; rain followed frequent
i ly, and no irrigation was necessary. In
fact, as Mr. Drake says, "the season was
the most favorable for corn I ever saw."
The fame of the contest acre spread far
and wide, farmers and planters came
from all parts of Marlboro and adjoining
counties to behold it. P. L. Breeder, a
great cotton planter, and one of the most
progressive farmers in the State, savs it
was "a wonder to behold." S. A. Bro wo,
editor of the Marlboro Democrat, writes:
"The harvest was indeed a curiosity.
One laborer told us that tbe corn, when
pulled, was knee deep on tbe ground.
The yield was not much of a surprisn to
those who visited the crop while grow?
ing, and some Marion County farmers
put the estimate at 300 bushels."
THE HARVEST AND ITS CORRECTNESS.
The acre was surveyed June 29 by Wm#
C. Alford, a legal surveyor, and also a
trial justice, who takes oath that the plot
was measured by an accurate Guntsr's
chain, and was 296 48-147 feet long and
147 feet wide, containing 43,560 equare
feet, or precisely one acre. The boun?
daries were marked by stakes firmly
driven in the ground, but this precaution
was hardly necessary, as no other corn
was grown in the vicinity, tbe acre stand?
ing alone by itself. The harvesting was
done in the presence of a large num?
ber of gentlemen?representative farmers
?including'J. C. Campbell, as the offi?
cial representative of the American Agri?
culturist, and G. B. W. Dunn, J. W.
Reynolds and John T. Tart, as .Air.
Drake's three witnesses. The acre was
first remeasured and found to be of tbe
dimensions just noted. In order that
tbe harvest might be completed in tbe
presence of the witnesses in one day,
about thirty hands were employed to
pluck and shuck the ears and weigh
them. Mr. Dunn personally attended to
the gathering, the weighing was done by
Mr. Reynolds on Fairbanks's tested scales
and the tally was kept by Mr. Tart. .Mr.
Reynolds also kept a tally, which cor?
responded with Mr. Tart's record. Mr.
Campbell supervised the whole affair.
In addition to all these precautions, the
number and character of the specta :ors
made any cheating impossible, bad it
been thought of, and the fact that no
other corn grew in the neighborhood
rendered impossible the addition of any
grown outside the contest acre. Mr.
Drake and his witnesses certified before
Justice Alford that the crop, as harveuted
November 25, was 17,407 pounds of corn
in the ear, of which 140 pounds was soft
or poor corn. Each witness selected,
from different parts of the field, an aver?
age lot of ears, and from 100 pounds of
ears so gathered Mr. Tart obtained 80}
pounds of kernels and 19} pounds of
cobs. Mr. Beynolds obtained 82 pounds
of kernels and 18 pounds of cobs, und
Mr. Dunn got 83} pounds of kernels
and 16} pounds of cobs. Averaging
these tests shows that 82 per cent of the
total crop was kernels, or 14,273 pounds
of shelled corn, equal to 254 bushels, 49
pounds of shelled corn at 56 pounds to
tbe bushel. This, if kiln-dried until it
contained only 10 per cent of water,
would shrink to 239 bushels, and if the
water is all allowed for tho crop would
be 217 bushels of actual dry matter in
tbe shelled corn grown on one acre.
VERIFYING THE RECORD.
In addition to all the safeguards nar?
rated to insure faithful accuracy, we
have made several independent investi?
gations, all of which fully confirm the
honor and integrity of the parties con?
cerned. Not only Mr. Drake, but the
surveyor, justices and witnesses are men
of unimpeachable standing in their com?
munities. While the American Agricul?
turist is fully convinced of the correctness
of Mr. Drake's report from beginning to
end, we have deemed it wise to explain
the basis of our opinion, so that every
farmer may be equally convinced*of the
absolute fact that within a fraction of
255 bushels of shelled corn have been
actually grown on one acre, in a single
crop, in one season. This being the lar?
gest crop of corn ever made on one acre
in the history of tbe world's agricul ture
the American Agriculturist deems i'self
fortunate in having made it a matiei: of
record beyond dispute.
THE COST OF THE CROP.
This was heavy. Look at the items of
manure, and fertilizer alone, to which
are appended Mr. Drake's other state?
ment of expenses:
1000 bushels stable manure.$ 5D 00
867 pounds Geiman kainit. 7 80
867 pounds cotton seed meal. 10 80
200 pounds acid phosphate. 2 00
10C6 pounds manipulated guano. J3 32
200 pounds animal bone. 4 00
400 peunds nitrate of soda. 12 00
600 bushels cotton seed. 120 00
Total cost of 50 loads manure, 5,600
pounds of fertilizers and 600 bush?
els of whole cotton seed.$21D f?2
Applying the same. 7 00
Total cost ofplautfood applied to the
contest acre.$226 92
Interest on value of land, at C per
cent. 1 50
The ploughing represented labor
worth. 1 00
The harrowing cost. 2 00
Other preparation of the soil. I 00
Cost of the seed. I 00
Tho cultivating represented labor
worth. ') 00
Other work of caring for the crop.... 11 00
The cost of harvesting. -3 00
Total cost of culture, aside from
E XXIV.- -NO. 36.
plant food.$ 37 50
Grand total, including all expenses
for entire crop.$264 42
Corn is valued at seventy five cents
per bushel in South Carolina, or $19116
for the crop, to which may be added
$15 for one and one half tonB of cured
top stalks, making the total receipts
?206 16. Assuming that the plant food
in the stalks will be all returned to the
land, the soil is robbed,wonly of the
nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid'in
the kernels and cobs, amounting in value
to $50 or $60. There would, therefore,
be left in the soil at least $150 worth of
the manurial elements put on in the
spring. Crediting only half of this bal?
ance to the crop% makes the receipts
exceed expenses. On the most practi
cal basis, therefore, it must be,"'admitted
that the improvement to the land will
fully make up for the deficiency in the
value of the crop.^The financial show?
ing of the largest corn crop on record is
therefore on the right side.?_Contrary to
the prevailingimpression, also, the
quality of the Southern white corn is
quite on a par with the best average
Eastern or Northern corn. The expe?
rience of the best feeders in the South
shows that practice fully confirms the
theoretical equality between],the Eastern
(or Northern) and Southern corns, es?
pecially for fattening purposes. This is
another great argument for home pro?
duction of the meats and dairy, products
consumed in the South. It is notable
that Mr. Drake's corn bad from twenty.'
to thirty-six rows per ear.
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
? A planter at Monticello, Fla., has
already shipped this season 40,000 pounds
of watermelon seeds.
? It is said of the eixty thousand
Hebrews in New York city not one is
keeping a liquor saloon.
? In Italy, the influenza has thrown
people into a long, deep sleep and they
cannot be aroused. They nr a kept alive
with liquid food.
? Edward Atkinson declares that the
annual production of eggs in this country
equals in money value the country's an?
nual total production of iron.
? Siberia is said to have a spot of
ground about thirty miles square that has
not thawed cut for a hundred years, and
is frozen to a'depth of sixty feet.
? In the Edgefield court of sessions,
Monday, the case of R. T. Jones?already
tried five times?for the murder of the
tbree Presaleys, was continued until next
August term.
; ? Charleston has had two noted visi?
tors within tbe'past few days in the per-,
sous of Claus Spreckles,'.the great Ha?
waiian sugar King and Vice-President. >
Morton. The latter arrived last Sunday r j
on bis way to Florida.
? An Atlanta man says: "Talking
about trusts, the South ought to form a
trunt not to buy from any house or firm
in the north or west which lies about and
villifiea the Southern people." That
Atlanta man's bead is level.
? The yield of corn iu Illinois la*V||?
year was 247,980,000 bushels, and from . ':?
an investigation made by the Illinois -.1
State Board of Agriculture it turns out .':
that the farmers have received for their
corn ?10,000,000 less than the cost of$K
production.
?A Kentuckian believes he has struck
it rich. He says he can produce a rain -?;
storm which will cover a whole county v
and last for hours at an expense of $11,. ^
from'cer' An chemicals, and he is now im
patier.ly waiting for next summer and a
dry spell to try it.
? A Kansas City family mimed Frost,
consists of five brothers whoso names are
Jack Frost, Winter Frost, White Froat,
Cold Frost and Snow Frost. As there
doesn't appear to he a Late Frost, it is
inferred that the peach crop in that_
neighborhood is safe.
? A good rule for the guidance of :a> &
girl through the years when she is the ~
object of admiration and fl?tl;ery is to do
nothing which ehe/would not be willing
to tell now to her mother and hereafter^-/,
to her hnsband. Life may be made tamer
for her by observing that rule, but it
will assuredly be more pure, womanly
and safe.
? A man from Bare Butte Valley,
South Dakota, lost his pocket-book con?
taining $250, which was found by a man
of Elk Creek. A month later, upon
learning who was the owner, he returned
the same, and the owner was very thank?
ful?but demanded interest for the use of.~;
the money for that time. Judgment was .
given for ?1.45 and cost.
? The conversation had turned on the
healthfulness of two localities. "In our
village," said one, "we don't average
over a death a year." "Why, that's a -
terrible .mortality," replied the other;
"in our town we only had one death in
five years, and that was the doctor."
"Couldn't he cure himself?" "No, pocr
man ; he died of starvation."
? A peculiarity about the blind ia that
there is seldom one of them who smokes.
Soldiers and sailor accustomed to smok?
ing, and who have lost thsir sight in ac?
tion, continue to smoke for a short while,
but soon give up the habit. They say
that it gives them no pleasure when they
cannot see the smoke, and some have
said they cannot taste the smok unless
they see it.
? In tbe Oconee Court of Sessions,
last week, Thomas O. Parker was tried
for tbe murder of Jesse Horn, in January
1880, over ten years ago. During this
time most of the witnesses have either
died or left the State, but those who were
sworn gave details of the killing fully and
accurately. The defense set up was thai
of killing in self-defence of his father,/:?
Cap!. W. F. Parker, who was being as?
saulted by the deceased. The son ehot.
and killed Horn just in time to save his
father grievously bodily harm?bo the
jury found a verdict of not guilty, after
deliberating four hours%
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Its Excellent Qualities.
Commend to public approval the Cali?
fornia liquid fiuit remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It is pleasing to the eye, and to the taste, -
and by gently acting oh the kidneys,
liver and bowels, it cleanses the Bystem
effectually, thereby promoting the health '
and comfort of all who^nse ik
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