The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 31, 1890, Image 2

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. S5.00 5.00 $5.00 . REMEMBER that we offer our usual Premium of FIVE DOLLARS for the Ijar gesi Turnip raised from our Seed and brought into our Store by 15lh November. ORR ?v SLOAN. WAGONS, WAGONS, WAGONS, AT YOUK OWN PKICE. J_ HAVE determined in the future not to handle Wagons, and for the next few weeks I will offer the Wagons I now have on hand at Manufacturer's prices. Come 'j&rly and see me. I still keep on hand a big stock of? BUGGIES, PH/ETONS, CARTS, ETC. Which can be bought at Low Prices. MY LIVERY ST Is always open and ready for business. J. L. McGEE. SULLIVAN MANUFACTURING CO. HEN MACHINERY, WEW PLANT THROUGHOUT, A FULL STOCK OF LUMBER, dressed or undressed, SHINGLES, LATHS, WOOD-WORK, and BUILDING MATERIAL of all kinds. ALL ORDERS EXECUTED PROMPTLY. Xo t>o sold at Bottom Fiffures. ??* Our Works are conveniently located near the C & G. Depot, with Mr. J. H. WEEN, Superintendent. WE GIVE YOU, ONE AND ALL, A Cordial Invitation to come and inspect our 111 Will ng be remembered for its Pretty Goods, and we have used every means to select for you only the Choicest things of the Season! Our Millinery Department We are Proud Of! Each day brings orders from the neighboring Towns of Greenville, Seneca, elton, Spartanburg and other Towns. Several orders have been received from other StateB. Why is this? Simply because we carry the largest Stock of Milli \*y'in Upper Carolina. We can fit you up with as stylish a HAT as can be built in any of the larger cities. Trimmed Hats from 25c up. Flowers, Ribbons and Laces in endless variety. Leghorn and Lace Flats are favorites for the little ones. The Famous Ribbon Hat?New York's latest fad?is our specialty. Be sure and see our French Pattern Hats. ? In this Department you will And always on haud a complete stock of Butte rick's Patterns. We are Butterick's agent for Anderson, and you can't buy them except through us. DRESS O-OOIDS This Department is replete with all the choice things of the Season. French Pattern Suits at $8.50, $10.00, $12.50 and $10.00. A Lady buying one of these will have the only one of the kind, as they are all different. Trimmings to match all shades. Mohairs in all tbe popular shades, Half wool Dress Goods at 7Jc. WHITE GrOOZDS This Department is our pet?we are always tempted to buy pretty White Goods whenever we see them. We bought a Tremendous Stock, but they are pretty and cheap. India Lawn at 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c, up to 50c. Plain India Linen at 5c, 9c, 10c, 12Ac, 15c, 19c, 20c, 22c, 25c, 30c and 50c. Full stock of the New Hemstitched Lawns. Novelties in Bordered Lawns, 42 inches wide. This- makes a big saving iu making a dress. VanDyke Flouncings and Edges are the correct thing for the season. Laces of all kinds. Drapery Nets 50c, 75c, up to $2.00. Parasoh from 25c to $10.00. Our Puritan Silk Sun Umbrella is warranted by the manufacturers not to split Gloria Parasols at 95c. Mourning Parasols." Full line of Low Cut Shoe3. Our line of Oxford Ties is complete?75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00. .Patent Leather Dongola. Glace, Kid, Goat in Common Sense and Opera Toe. We ha7e scarcely commenced to toil you of our Stock, but our space is already taken up, so wo will have to finish next week. Yours truly, Manager TEjA?HgRg'GoLUMN, -?-Sj AU communications intended fo Ibis Column should be addressed to D. II RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Andor son. S. C. EXACTNESS IN THOUGHT AND EXPRES? SION. Exactness is one of the principal points of educatlou, and never originates spon? taneously. Whether in manual execu? tion or in thought, it is an unumtakable evidence of education. How shall we teach children exactness in thought and expression in English? In other words how shall weluduce them to speak correctly?intelligently ? Edu? cators everywhere at once recognize the fact that a proper study of the mother tongue overtops and transcends any other topic that can be named in our full-packed common school course of study. A proper acquirement of this cannot be gained by the routine work of English grammar. It begins with the first lisping of the child, -but we must confine ourself to school life, and say it begins the first day be enters school, and should continue through the high school and university, looking to the true ex? pression of thought both orally and in writing. The aim of this course is to give the learner power to use this language with facility and accuracy, yet he must ever keep in view the importance of constant practice. Comparative values will aid us in giving a true estimate to this sub? ject. How much arithmetic or geome? try is required of the lawyer or physi? cian ? How much geography or chemis? try is of practical importance to the mechanic, merchant or minister? And yet to which of theso is not a thorough knowledge of the mother tongue an indis? pensable attribute. What is it that strikes us first in tho man of education, and so instantly dis? tinguishes him as one of superior culture that we cannot stand in the same retreat during a shower of rain without finding him out? Though he may convey noth? ing of uuusual interest, yet we realize the exactness of his thoughts and perceive the result. However trivial his ^abject there is method in his mind. In the whole range of knowledge, nothing is more desirable than a thor? ough acquaintance with English, though after . years of school-life how many young men and young ladies use it cor? rectly in conversation? And are our sensibilities not sometimes shocked by hearing the corruptions of slang phrases? How many can write upon current events with which they may be familiar so as to express thoughts clearly and forcibly ? This is no common acquirement, yet proper training will effect it. Look over the curriculum of study and say which of the many oubjects will be of greatest practical value to your child, and which will show supremacy of intel? lectual vigor. "The mind to be educated is a complex machinery, exposing but little of its workings, yet it posswses a reliable index which registers truo results, hence the importance oi meihod and exactness in its training. Nature teaches us to learn to do by doing. Is a boy to learn to swim? Let him do so by actual practice. He will never do so by studying tho motions and elements of water. Neither will he learn good Eng? lish by studying the theory alone. Nor will the youth vho spends the summer reading novels advance much in this high art. We, as teachers, should teach by pre? cept, being guided by the patieuce which was exemplified by that immortal mother who eaid nineteen times telling her son was not enough. Minerva Draki;. Who Wrote the Bible? Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviti cus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. JoBhua, Phineas or Eleazer wrote the bcokot Joshua, but it is not certain which of them. Samuel is the penman of the books of Judges and Ruth. He also wrote the first acts of David, and probably Nathan and Gad wrote bis last acts; and the whole was formed into two books which were uamed after Samuel as the most eminent person called the first and second book of Samuel. Jeremiah most probably compiled the two books of the Kings. Ezera compiled the two books of Chronicles. He is also the author of the book bearing his name. Nehemiah wrote Nehemiah. Elihu was most probably the penman of the book of Job. Moses may have written the first two and the last. Some think that Job wrote it himself. David wrote most of the book of Psalms. Asapb penned a few of them. Solomon wrote Proverbs, Ecclesiaste3, and the Songs of Solomon. Isaiah is the author of the prophecy of Isaiah. Jeremiah wrote the book bearing his name, and the Lamentations of Jere miah. Micha, Nahum, Habakkuk, Haggai and Zachariah wrote the prophecies bearing their names. Matthew, Mark, Luke and Johu wrote the Gospels named after them. Luko wrote the Acts of the Apostles. Paul is the a"thor of the Epietle? to Romans, Corinthians, Gaiatians, Ephe sians, Phillippiaus, Colossians, Thessalo nians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and (probably) Hebrews. James, the son of Alpheus, who whs cousin german to Christ, aud one of the Apostles, wrote the Epistle of James. Peter wrote the Epistle bearing hi.s name. The Apostle John wrote the three Epistles of John. Jude, the Apostle, brother of James, called also Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus, a near relative to our Lord, wrote the Epistle of Jude. St. John, the Divine wrote Revelation. ? The Boy's Holiday. ? A little negro about twelve years old accidentally shot another fatally on the Sth inst., at the plantation of Mr. D. C. Shell, three miles from this place. The little fellow was frightened badly and ran away, but on Monday his father surrendered him to tho Sheriff. The in? quest developed that the accident was the result of ban .ling a gun supposed to be empty.?Lnurcns Advertiser, 15th. ? On last Wednesday, Regina, daugh? ter of Mr. John P. Howell, of the Hull Swamp section, committed suicide by taking a dose of concentrated lye. Upon being questioned, she admitted f-ho had taken poison. Further investigation showed that tho poison taken was con centratfd lye. She suffered the most excruciating agony for about ten hours when death came to her reWc-f.?Oranye bury Enterprise. lnderson, s. c., t: BILL ART'S PHILOSOPHY. Atlanta Constitution. "Time and chance bappeneth to them all." In a thousand ways we have to take our chances in this sublunary life, but there is no good reason ior taking a chance in the Louisiana lottery. A man wouldent think of such a thing if he based his chance on facts and figure?. His chance to draw $5 is about one in a hundred, and to draw a ?100 about ono iu a thousand, and for the capital prize one in a half million. But he bases his hopes on good luck or fate or destiny, and all this is founded on conceit. He has no clear idea on the subject, but has a dreamy super? stition that fate baa picked him out for her favors and will give him ft prize this time. But figures don't lie, and chances can be calculated with as much certainty as the motions of the stars. The beat lec? ture I ever heard in college was from Professor McCoy on the regularity of ir? regular things. The wheel of fortune is not going to drop a prize to a man because be needs it, or because of his faith or his hope or his conceit. I was ruminating over this because I have received a letter from a good, fond, yearning mother who wishes me to invest $5 for her iu the Louisiana lottery. She had a dream that she would draw a prize and this would enable her to give her only child a first class education; She is very poor, and' the letter was written with tear3, but I knew that she would lose that money, and so I declined her request. The good spirits don't seud dreams that encourage lotteries, and bad spirits would make us believe a lie. There is a kind of gamiDg that never I gave me very deep concern. I mean professional gaming where the parties all have money and just swap it around? sometimes one has it and sometimes another, and nobody suffers; Then there is the gaming that is engaged in by .the sporting gentlemen, such"as C!ay and Webster, and Breckinridge and Andrew Jackson. I never considered that a very heinous sin. There are men who have a passion for gambling. Some men will throw dice or play crack-a loo all day for the love of it. I have known men who were so fond of betting on chance that if they saw two birds sitting on a telegraph wire they would make a bet which bird would fly away first. But.most of the sports like to mix skill and judgment with chance. A mau will bet on a horse race, and in this way back his judgment, and if he winB he feels good in two ways?one over his judgment and the other over his mouey. If he bets on cards ho has. to do some brain work. Mind and memory are exercised, and bis success is a compliment to both, and, of course, he is pleased with.himself. If he does not succeed it is easy to lay it on the cards. He never lays it on himself. It takes a smart man to play cards. Dan? iel Web?ter and Clay and Aleck Stevens were good playera, and so are most of our notable statesmen. Zeb Vance, they say, is a "skillful performer, but Joe Brown docs not play a good game. He is too slow and deliberate. These great states men never bet enough to make anybody rich or poor. I know gentlemen who play for recreation and never stake more tban a dime at a time. I say gentlemen, for they are gentlemen, and conduct themselves honorably in all the relations of life. They would scorn to cheat any? body or to fleece a lamb. Sorao good, old-fashioned people have a holy horror of cards. That is all right. To him who thinketh it a sin, I reckon it is a sin. Professor Proctor, the great astronomer and Christian gentleman was very fond of cards. He said that p. game of whist, with congenial friends, was a rest, to bis mind. There is really no more harm in playiug cards for mental recreation than in playing chess or draughts, or backgam? mon or domiuoes. The schoolboy begins with games as soon as he begins the al? phabet. He loves to take bis chances. He spits on a chip aud losses it up as he says, "Wet or dry." He throws up a piece of money and says "Heads or tails." Children draw straws for first choice. All this is harmless. But when the chance is a desperate one and strains the purse to take it the siu begins. It encourages a desire to get something for nothing and that is the curse of this gen? eration. The Louisiana lottery has im? poverished thousands of youug men and kept many a workingman poor. It keeps their secrets and their money aud never publishes their disappointments. It is very kind to them. It throws a halo of rainbow colors around the few who are fortunate, and thin draws in new victims and invites the old ones to return. This lottery offers millions to the State for a renewal of its charter, and they say it will be renewed. The old maxim that "every man has his price" will be realized. The members of the Legislature are to bo bought. The lottery runs the State and the banks and the press, and some say, the pulpit. There would be no great harm in this if the patrons of the lottery could afford it, but they can't. They are in a desperate condition or they would not buck against such a tiger. Rich folks never take such chances. The moral of all this is that the lottery is a terrible drain upon the poor; that Beauregard and Early know it; that they have stifled conscience and sold their honor for money, and that Louisiana is fattening upon this iniquity. Lotteries are a mark of low civilization. There is but one left in the United States and not long ago I read an interesting letter from Brazil and it stated that al? most everything in that country was run by lotteries. If the government got cramped for money it set up a lottery. Roads and canals and churches and thea? tres and public charities were all kept up by lotteries. The people were a nation of gamblers. For many years the Freuch government derived a large income from the government lotteries, but they have been abolished and the very first year af? ter their suppression the receipts iu the savings banks were increased a million of dollars. Old England tolerated them for revenue until 1823, when public sentiment abol? ished them. Nearly every State in our union has forbidden them. But what good does that do, while Louisiana keeps on draining her sister States of millions of the poor man's money. Wanamaker may prohibit lottery letters going through the mails, but they will continue to go through under cover of some other name. The State may prohibit the sale of tickets through agents, but the sale will go on as long as the public press continues to blow the lottery horn. The bare mention of a prize drawn in a town excites the popula? tion and stimulates the sale of tickets to an alarming extent. When the monthly drawing is published at full length, showing the large amounts drawn by the fortunate few, it sets wild the ignorant and the credulous. Half a million dol? lar* goes from Georgia to Louisiana every year and nothing comes back to speak of. Tho press denounces the effort that is being made to buy tho legislature, but if the press ia opposed to this lottery why not boycott its advertisement. Just let the press be silent and never mention the lottery, then all this damage will cease. Why can't the Georgia Press As sociation take actiou on this subject, and refuse their columns to this malestrnm, and then the other States will follow. Is our press so utterly poor that it cannot live without this pittance?this sop from Dauphin <S- Co. Js it so venal that it will willingly lend its aid to this mighty fraud, (rod forbid ! The press adver? tisement is a silent endorsement. Two years ago, a poor man in Anniston drew $10,000, and it got into the papers, and it is Raid that $5,000 went from the pay rolls of tho laborers the next month. I asked EU?SDAY MOKN? a young man last night how much he had | invested in lottery tickets. "Only $15 Lhisyear," he said. "Draw anything," said I. "Not a cent," he said. If the press could get the names of the thouK onds who draw nothing, and would pub lieh them, it would kill that lottery dead, very dead. It will kill it anyhow if it refuses to publish auything. Will the press do this? Bill Ani\ Dollar Bills For Cigar Lighters. A drummer for a large wholesale clothing house has a trick which he says saves him a great deal of money. He has to go around with retailers in 6mall country towns a great deal. He finds that an amount of display and extravagance is necessary in order t? conviiice them of the standing asd generous dealing of his house. This U3ed to cost him a great deal of money in traveling expenses. He was expected to bear a great part of the expense of entertaining the men to whom he sold goods; he had to buy them drinks and cigars and take them around. In the course of this he had to drink a good deal himself. He noticed that it was not bo much the amount of money that he spent, but the show that he made with it which impressed them, and that it was more important to seem careless and generous than really to spend a great deal of money. One night he was with some retail clothiers and their friends drinking. He had several small bills in his pocket. He had been drinking a good deal himself, and in a reckhss way pulled out a bill and lit a cigar with it. Without think? ing he put out the light and stuck the burned remnatil, in his waistcoat pocket. He noticed how it impressed the men with whom he was. The bill did not amount to any more than the price of a round of drinks or cigars, but it made the eyes of his customers open to think that a man should use money in such a reckless way. The next day, when he sobered up, he found the burned bill in bis pocket, onlv one end of it had been burned. He thought that he had made a fool of himself by throwing away good money. The idea occurred to him, how? ever, that possibly he could take the bill around to the sub-treasury and get a new bill for it- So the next time he was in town he took tie burned bill to the sub treasury, whero it waB readily exchanged for a now one. The bill bad not been destroyed; it was plain what its denomi? nation, number, and issue were, and he had no trouble in having it replaced. The idea became strong in his mind that he niigh1; do the ostentation and reckless act wfchout having to pay for it. So the next time he was out with several of his customers he bought a few rounds of drinks and then began in a reckless and careless way to burn up one and two dollar blllo. He took pains to put the bills back in hid pocket, and not to burn up enough of any one bill to destroy its redeemable qualities. He also told his customers extravagant stories about the percentages his house was paying him, how cheap it was selling, and what lib? eral concessions he was making to get rid of the stoci: which his house bad on hand. He found the trick worked excel? lently. He has been carrying it on ever since to a greater or leas extent. One night he held ri card party of some of his customers at h\s rooms at the hotel, and thinking that possibly they might notice that he immediately put the bills out and put them back in his pocket, he used dollar bills for lighters during the whole evening and tben drew them in a cuspi? dor which hefcept by his chair, first put? ting them out. before he threw them in so that they might not be burned up there. After his customers had left he took the cover off the cuspidor, took the bills out, folded them all up and redeem? ed them when be next returned to New York. He has gained the reputatiou of being one of i.he most careless and ex? travagant men on the road, without its costing him an much for expenses with his customers as it costs other salesmen who do not burn up their money?New York Sun. How to Deal Will? the Fallen. Many in the church have little or no patience with the feeble and wavering. Paul says, "if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye that are spiritual restore such a one." But many who are influential in the church have little or no patience with the unsteady. No effort may be made to discipline them, and, on the other hand, no effort ib made to restore them; but they are left as rubbish in the church. In calling upon such pastori ally I have found them iu doubt whether they were church members or not. No one, not even a class leader, had been looking them up, and whether in the church o r out of it they could not tell. Jesus would have us look after the wan derers, and he would have us deal ten? derly with them. Some have none but sharp words for the unfaithful. When Jesus found one who had been "over? taken in a fault," he spoke as tenderly to him as ever did a mother to her child. Peter, in the hour of Christ's arrest, forsook him and fled. He then "follow? ed him afar off," "sat down" with his enemies, denied him, and finally "swore" that he "knew not the man." Rather a faulty Christian 1 Had Jesus possessed the spirit of many in the church, he would have said, when he found him among his disciples, "You villain! are you here among my disciples to disgrace them and ray church! Out of this!" But he did not?did not even refer specially to his sins, did not go much as say, "Peter, I am sorry you cursed and swore the other day.''* But in bis own tender, significant way, he said, "Peter, lovest thou me?" And that, it seems, was almost euough to kill Peter. The Saviour's delicacy in not referring to his fault, while he sought to win him from his sins, melted his heart while severe denunciation could only have crushed him and sunk him in the deepest despair. Some might have thought that it would not do to restore one who had dtinied his Lord and cursed and swore, but in the first revival effort after the Saviour's ascension Peter had the leadership, and three thousand were converted to God. No wonder that Jesus in the early morning along the shore of the lake took more notice of Peter than of the more faithful John, James and Andrew. He was after the one sheep that had gone astray. The "ninety and niae" were now safe in the fold. $100 Reward. The readers of the Ixtelligexcek will be pleased io learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con? stitutional disease, requires a constitu stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foun? dation of the disease, and giving the pa? tient strength bj- building up the consti? tution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curat've powers tnat they offer one hundred dollars for any cano that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimo? nials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. J*=??*Sold by Druggists, 7.r>e. ?Mr. Youngblood is an old gentleman of Coffee County, Ga., who has killed 903 deer in his time. He still uses his old Hint and steel rifle, and can cut a tur? key's head off at seventy-five yards. FG, JULY 31, 1890. BIG PROFITS IN FARSIMft 827,000 >*ct from 300 Acre? of Land Ncrir Norfolk?The Prices of Land ilint Yield Such Keturns. Norfolk. Va., July 4.?Nothing surprises .1 Northern man moro when making his first journey into the South? ern States thnn the enormous profits which some Southern farmers reap every year. He had read from his earliest youth up about the run-down appearance of Southern farm*, their bush grown fence rows, the dilapidated buildings, the laif nigger farm liand.-i, and the slouchy owners smoking their pipes on the great houso porch while the weeds grow up and all but bury them?and he cannot conceive of any profit being made by such farmers. Moreover, he has rend about the crops mortgaged in advance of the maturing and the enormous interest paid on the loans thus obtained, and so he looks upon his own neat home, his well-rolled meadows; his sleek stock, and his full grain bins and hay mows, and thanks God that his lines have been cast in pleasant places, and perhaps that he is not as other men, even as the poor devil of a typical Southern farmer. But let the dairyman from Orange County, the hay grower of the Mohawk valley, the corn grower of the Ohio val? ley, and the wheat grower of the Dakotas, not to mention the boomers of Nebraska and Kansas, and Oklaharaa aud Texas, come to Norfolk, and then, after looking over the Chesapeake Bay farms, take a ruu through North Carolina, and get knowledge if not wisdom. There are farmers and farmers, and some of the Southern farmers can make more money smoking a pipe on the porch on the shady side of the great house than others can grubbiDg roots, loading hay, husking corn, or riding a reaper in the heat of the afternoon bud; For instance, there is Farmer Ballen tine of this County. His farm is 400 acres in extent, but he has been farming only 300 acres, because the other hundred was only bought last year and it is not clear? ed up yet. It lies about a mile from the city limits. It is a level piece of grouud, although it rolls enough for good drain? age, and the soil is mixed, being partly clay and partly a sandy loam. Farmer Ballentino runs that farm not from a seat on the porch of the gfeat house, but from his office in the Ballentine block, one of the handsomest brick structures in the city, built by the farmer out of potatoes and kale and spinach and strawberries aud cabbage. The story of Farmer Bullen tine will serve to illustrate what other Southern men have done. He was a Tarheel by birth, was a na? tive of Currituck County, N. C., but has lived iu this Couuty so long that people here count him a good enough Virginian. As a young man, having no rich inheri? tance, he went North and learned the machinist trado, remaining there for eight years, the greater part of that time being passed in Albany. Then he went back to North Carolina, and a short time before the war moved to this County. He brought here, including farm imple? ments, household utensils, aud cash, a capital of about $1,500, if a liberal value be allowed to the outfit. Ho bought a part'of the land which he now owns and set some colored hands to Work. They were slaves, of course, and therefore less profitable than free help, as everybody down here now admits; but Mr. Ballen tine prospered so that when President Lincoln treed the slaves he took $27,000 worth of human chattels from Mr. Ball entine. The war left Mr. Ballentine with nothing but land ; still he might have beeu much worse off. He kept on cultivating the land, hiriDg the darkies, where he had previously owned them, and making money faster than ever. It is commonly said by so? cialistic speakers that no man can make a million of money iu the 3pau of a lifetime save my speculation that is tainted with unrighteousness, but if Mr. Ballentine lives ten years longer he will have the million,- having made it out. of the soil and by investing the profits in Bush real estate as was offered to bim at what seemed a reasonable price, and in improvement on the land. He is ne,r* worth $500,000, and his income this year from 300 acres of land alone is about $27,000 according to his books, which he willingly showed to a Sun reporter. The process by which $1,500 has swol? len to $500,000 is as simple as pulling weeds. Mr. Ballentine confines his crops to round or Irish potatoes, kale, spinach, cabbages, and strawberries. These crops, are chosen because found well timed to the soil. They are rotated thus: Be? ginning say with spinach, a crop that matures late iu the full, he cuts and ships it along through the winter as the market (New York aud Boston) will take it uutil April. In tho spinach fields he plants potatoes in rows four and one half feet apart, with rows of strawberries between the rows of potatoes. The potatoes are ready for the market the last of June and are dug and shipped, leaving the field to the strawberries until the next year, when in May the strawberry crop comes on and is picked. When picked the field is ploughed up aud kale follows, the intention being to put in another crop of something as soon as one crop has been garnered. The idea of allowing a field to lie fallow i3 considered ridiculous in this country. In the matter of fertilizers Mr. Ballen? tine is a liberal but close buyer?liberal to the land and close with the dealer. This last year he paid $G,702 02 for guano and $492 for fish scrap. In Norfolk guano sells for $50 a ton cash down, or $55 to be paid after the crop Is sold. Mr. Ballentine buys in such a large quantity that by paying cash with the order he gets a fair per cent, off the $50. The amount purchased was spread over 100 acres of potatoes, 50 acres of kale, 90 acres of spinach, 20 acres of cabbages, and 30 acres of strawberries. Just to show what he could do he gave a little extra attention to one four acre bed of spinach, aud iu consequence gathered and sold 1,119 barrels from one patch, making the neat sum of $300 an acre. That, so far as learned by the reporter, was the large3t profit made by any far? mer from similar extent of land about Norfolk. The chief advantages which Mr. Bal? lentine fiuds in this vicinity as a location for a farm are its convenience to the markets of New York and Boston, the abundauce of good cheap labor, and the kindly climate. Spiuach cut on Mon? day morniug is on the market Tuesday night in good condition. It is shipped either by the Old Dominion line of steamers, the Boston lice, or the Cape Charle3 route of the Pennsylvania Rail? road, a road not long since built dowu the length of the Virginia peninsula for the express purpose of catching the truck trade of the Chesapeake Bay country. Kalo, cabbages, and spinach are carried for 17 cents a barrel. Strawberries 3re carried for 1 cent a basket. Mr. Ballon tine, who has been on Long Island to look at the competing truck farm3 there, says he gels his crops to market at a much less expense than Suffolk County farmers do, and that he can, in fact, compete in that respect with farms lying so near to Brooklyn that they are worth $1,000 an acre. Because of low freights the farmers about Norfolk ship thousands of barrels and crates of string beans, peas, radishes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and in fact, all Forts of vegetables anil berries to New York with immense profit. The la; orers arc all ncgrncs, and Mr. Ballentine praises them highly. The men work for $12.50 a month or 72 cents a day. The women., who are about as /rood field hands as tho men, get GO cents a day. They board themselves as these prices. The hands hired by the month have neat, whitewashed cottages furnished t.hcm. Mr. Ballentine keeps about fif teen hands employed by the month. The reCTt come from the city find work by the day. Ue employs two white men as foremen or superintendents, and they have great houses, to use the Vir? ginia term, to live in. The negroes-have to he looked after constantly, but; a gang of negroes at 75 cents a day, with a white foreman, arc much cheaper laborers, Mr. Ballentine says, than the same number of white men at New York prices, for farm help. /is to the climate, it need only be uotcd that this is the sunny South, r.nJ that the sun is tempered by the sea and the bay. The climate is such that If Jho wild wesleru boomers could only get hold of it the vocabulary as laid down in modern dictionaries would be insufficient to sound its praise. The crops of this region are all brought to the piers in Norfolk, for even those bound North by the railroad must cross the bay in a steamer. Mr. Ballentine carries his tr* the piers iu the market wagons, but hundreds of farmers on the western shore of the bay use sloops of about the size of the oyster sloops of New York harbor. When the groat steamers lie on one side of the pier and a fleet of little sloops on the other, the scene is one of intense animation, and the sounds are beyond description. The pier shed becomes a bedlam, peo? pled with scurvy black imps, and re? sounding with such cries and yells and shouts and songs and laughter as can be heard nowhere else. Barrels and crates are tossed up from the sloops by the negro crews, grabbed by the negro rouat abouls, and carried on the run across the pier and tossed through ports in the black sides of the ship to negro deck hands in waiting, who instantly disap? pear in what seems a yawning cavern. By G o'clock the ship is loaded?often crammed so full of tbe stuff that ouly the spaces reserved for working the machinery remain empty between decks. With that the darkies on the mosquito fleet rush for the halliards and get on jib and mainsail and cast off the lines that hold them to the pier, and away they go, by the score, in such a race down the river as would stir the soul of the most ennuied spectator. No more enthusias? tic or capable sailors of sloops than these darkies cao be found, and with their sweethearts perched on the littlo cabins to urge them on, the negro pilots send their little yachts driving down or beat? ing up to windward, with a relish for victory and a disregard for the rights of competition that are stunning to be? hold. Leaving Norfolk after an examination of the truck farmers the Northern agri? culturist should go to Durham or to Ox? ford, North Carolina, and look at the tobacco plantations. It is in the regions roundabout those towns that the very finest tobacco in the world is grown. North Carolina has a few gold mines, and on a certain occasion last fall down in Montgomery County, a pocket was found in the placer diggins on Tobe Saunders'8 farm than panned out $150, 000 in a week. But Tebe . Saunders is nowhere in luck compared with the man who owns and knows how to cultivate a stretch of the white sand of Durham or Granville Counties. For instance, there is Farmer F. R. Knott, who lives near Oxford. Farmer K. came out of the war without a cent, and what was worse he had no education. But he was a shrewd man in one respect, and he is now able to draw a check for ?100,000. He got hold of some of the Granyille sand, and began to raise tobacco. For a time the iobacco he and others of the section raised was market? ed at a very small profit. It went to Richmond, and it was of the light golden yellow, not then very well known as in great demand in the market. But it was as fine as silk?literally as fine as silk? and it made a demand that is now world wide. The market has shifted to the towns in the section where it grows, and railroads have been built to transport the crop. On tho market day the planters bring in the stuff by the hogshead and roll it off the wagons to wide floors to warehouses built for the purpose. The hogsheads are opened, the tobacco dump? ed out and assorted, and an auctioneer gets up and wants to know how much he is offered, and buyers from New York and all other manufacturing centres tum? ble over each other in their anxiety to answer the questiou. Forty cents a pound is a common price for tho leaf, and seventy is often reached for choice lots. Last year Mr. Knott had some choice lots and so many of them that be cleared $600 an acre from ten acres. There were several other planters in Granville County who did as well, whi'e a plenty of them made $300 an acre? the top profit made by Mr. Ballentire on his choice lot of spinach on his truck farm near Norfolk. The tobacco crop requires intelligent care, but there is no Yankee farmer worth a forkful of daisies who couldn't learn to grow the crop in one season. The seed is sown in a specially prepared bed in February. The plants are transplanted to the field in May. From 4,500 to 4,800 plants are put on an acre, and a darky, who costs the planter about $14 a month all told, keeps two and a half acres in prime order if he is looked after properly. The yield is from 700 to 1,200 pouncU an acre, and the money for it should be in the planter's pocket within ninety days from the day the plant.3 were set out, after which he can go a fishing or eee his poor or rich relation or do anj' thing else that pleases him. Itj after looking over such farms and such profits aa are actually made hen?, the man who has been fighting potato bugs about the headwaters of the Hudson or dosing the hog cholera in the Missis? sippi valley or wilting under the hot winds of the Western country doesn't think there is money in some kinds of farming he is a curious sort of a farmer. Not all farms nor all planters make such profits, but there are grades in farms and farmers in the North as well as in tho South. Trobably the first thing a Northern farmer would ask about these Southern lands is the price. Around Norfolk farms that are well located C03t $200 an acre. That will buy a farm of good truck land with good buildings, and if properly managed it would yield $100 an acre in profits. The best kind of farms for tobacco culture in the golden tobacco belt are to be had at $25 an acre. This price is for land which should yield, under proper cultivation, from four to ten times its cost iu profits every year (depending on the weather at certain stages of the growth of the crop,) and in rare case3 $500 an acre. The buildings are of a kind Lbat would not meet the approval of a thrifty Yankee, nor would the condi? tion of the fences please him. But tho land is all right for tobacco. There are plantations of from 500 to 000 acres in North Carolina which the owners try to manage, but no plantation of that size, of which the reporter could learn, was profitable. The small planta? tions carefully planted and well fertilized and cultivated were the ones that made their owners rich, if incomes of from $3,000 to $10,000 year a net be counted the incomes of rich men. As on the truck farms around Norfolk, tho labor is and must be done by negroes. The white man cannot afford to work for the price of a negro, and the Northerner who goes South will make a mistake if he does not dovotc his time to "encouraging the niggers" instead of tho hoe. It is apparent, therefore, that the South is not tho place for a man with no capital at all, but a very good place for a man of small means and thrift. It is better to go South than West. ? A fool is always self-pos?esscd. VOLTJ] Mr. Fogg on Matrimony, My namo ia Pbincas Fogg, and I have becu a married man for nearly twenty years. Yes, nearly twenty years of unal? loyed misery have roiled over my head, and, for a wonder, f &till live to teil tho talc. To mc there ia no interest in the discussion nf the question, "Is Marriage a Failure ?" Marriage may or may not be a failure; but, in any event, it ia more than either. It ia Fate. That's what it is; nothing more, nothing less. I don't say that it is inevitable fate, for there are a few lucky dogs that somehow or other manage to escape it; but to nine out of every ten it is fate; like death and taxes, it ia the common lot of hu? manity. I can look back now .c.nd see just how it is. I can also appreciate to the fullest extent just what a sap-headed chump I was in the days when I was spooniDg around the girla, My old father, peace to his ashes, used to tell me how it would be, ho begged me to go slow, and not be in such a hurry to get married. "Phin, my boy," he would say, "gals are nice enough to go a courlin' with, b'.'t when it comes to marryin' of 'em, why. ray advice is, don't, that's all." Like most boys who have just reached their twenties, I thought that pap was a fool, so I sailed in and got married in less than a week after I had arrived at my twenty-first birthday. When I brought ray wife home, father didn't say much, but he looked as though he'd about as soon seen me buried. When we went to the barn to put up the horses, he observed : "Well, Phin, if you've got burnt, you'll have to sit on the blister. I hope you have not made a mistake. If you have, it's a thunderin' sight more serious a matter than you think it is." I laughed at the old fellow and told him I was the proudest and happiest man in tho world. "Pap," said I, "can't you think back and remember just how you felt when you were first married? Have you forgotten your own courting days ?" "Not by ? blame sight?" he answered, and it is the memory of them, contrasted with the life I have led since I wa3 mar? ried, that makes me anxious about you." Well, I kuow that he and mother had not always got along just as well as they [ might, but I felt sure that nothing like that could ever come between me and Barbara. But I was wofuily mistaken. I had not been married a year, either, before I discovered that my wife was bent on ruling the roost. Naturally I kicked, and kicked vigorously, but I must say that, after all, it was to little purpose. You see, a woman has so many ways of doing a thing that you are never fully prepared to combat her. Sometimes she tries a tongue-lashing, then again she will come the weeping act, and another time, when you are wholly unsuspecting that she has any ulterior designs, she comes around you, all smiles and ; good words, and you aro floored before you know it. I suppose every married man baa, at some time or other, tried to reason with his wife; in other words, to argue a question with her; but I have yet to hear of a single instance where he ever accomplished anything. It sometimes, as in my own case, takes a man a long time to learn these things, but sooner or later he gets it through his cranium. When a fellow enters into the married state he doesn't realize that he is surren? dering forever a great many privileges that as a single man he has always enjoy? ed. For instance, before I married Bar? bara, I was unaccustomed to being asked every time I went out of an evening where I was going, what for, when I would be back, etc. Nor, when I did return, was there anyone sitting up in tears, and iu a night-gown, waiting for me, apd then to give me a blowing up that lasted till almost daylight. I tell you, yonng men, mo3t any woman makes a nice sort of sweetheart, but be very careful about choosing for a wife. In my experience I have wished a thousand times that I had never been born, although being born, like getting mar? ried is, as I have already said, a part of the lot of humanity; but if a man can go through this world and escape matrimo? ny he is to be congratulated. I know ouly a few old bachelors, but they are the jolliest fellows I ever met. There's my friend Flanders; he is five years my senior, but be looks ten years younger. We were boys together, and for a time he went with my wife's sister, but she jilted him and that saved him. Barbara accepted me, and was glad of the chance, I found out afterwards, and here I am wrinkled, bald-headed, weak-eyed and stoop shouldered, while Flanders is fat and hearty, contented and prosperous, not a gray hair in his head, aud the jol? liest old dog that ever cracked a bottle or told a story. He has even had the effrontery to frequently joke mo about my matrimonial venture; and at 3uch times he always winds up by saying, "Fogg, old boy, I narrowly missed becoming a brother-in-law of yours, but luck was w^h me and I escaped." At such times I am angry enough with him to wish that he had a wife for awhile just to bring him to his senses, but, after all, Flanders means well; be? sides, he has good reasons for feeling jolly. So who can blame him?Phincai Fogy. No Fatis Wanted iu Church, Springfield, Ohio, July 7.?Old Nick, with joyous face, is just now para? ding in the Methodist Protestant Church at Mechanicsburg, a town of 1,500 in? habitants, twelve miles north of here. The minister, the Rev. A. L. Reynolds, is of a very irritable disposition, and some? times says things he regrets. He has vig? orously opposed the use of fan3 in his Church during the hot weather, claiming that the power of the sermon was lost in their use aud in the flirting with them. One night last week be delivered a special sermon on a topic of great profoundity. A large audience was present, and he stalled out to make one of the great ef? forts of his life. The ceaseless move? ments of the fans annoyed him, and he cast nervous glances around every now and then. Finally he stopped and broke forth : "I want you to quit using those fans. It is impossible to preach with any effect while they are iu operatiou. Think of the North polo and icebergs aud look at me." This enraged several of those present, who immediately left the Church. This started others, and soon half of the con? gregation was out. The trouble caused will probably lead the Rev. Mr. Reynolds to resign. He Prayed For Help. An Augusta boy who had committed some misdemeanor was about to receive chastisement at the hands of his mother. He asked to go his room. The mother assented, and curious as to his errand followed aud listened at the door. She heard her son praying inside. This is what he said: "Lord, if you love little boys, and want to help one out, now is your time." The prayer was granted. The grown up public might learn from this to know their wants. They stumble along, weary, over-worked, billious aud dyspeptic, when a bottle of Or. West? moreland's Calisaya Tonic would free them from worry and pain. Those de? pressed by over-work, or enervated by climato or recent illness, have an unfail? ing remedy in Calisaya Tonic. No home should bo without it. In malarial sec? tions it is worth its weight in gold. You can gel a bottle from all druggists. ? A letter is wiser than simo people. It never attempts to givo information till after it has been posted. ME XXV.-- NO. 4 ALL SORTS Or PARAGRAPHS. ? There are only two blind editor.! in the United Stales. ? Honesty never has to crowd anybody in order to get room to make a living. ? A Georgia man b;id to sell his lu.'-t cow to pay the expense of a lawsuit about ?'orac chicken?. ? At a bear and bull fight at San Die? go, the bear had everything his own way aud three bulls were killed. ? The Georgia watcunclou trust was of short duration and succeeded in sink? ing over $40,000 for the farmer.* of lower Georgia. I ? The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, deliberately declares that in thtj city of I New York there arc not more than 75,000 i Protestant Christian?. ? Dr. Pepper, provost of the Univer? sity of Pennsylvania, gets $5,000 a year salary, and gives the college $10,000 a year from his own pocket. ? Several petitions have been present? ed to the United Stales Senate praying for an amendment to the constitution acknowledging God and the Chrlstiau re? ligion. ? It is easy enough to tell on Sunday who belongs to the church and who to the world, but it is not so easy to distin? guish Church members during the week. ? Experts now nlace the actual wealth of the United States at $(11,450,000,000. This i3 said to be great&r than the entire wealth of the world one hundred and fifty years ago. ? There are five thousand insane peo? ple iu the city of New York, and experts on insanity say that the ratio of lunatics is increasing much faster than that of the population. ? The census will not disclose the fact, but twice as many youug men and young women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight arc obliged to wear glasses as wore them ten years ago. ? President Harrison has dismissed Hawkins, the colored coachman who has driven the White House carriage twenty'-?ve years without an accident and employed a white mau in his place. ? The iflaeon (Ga.) Telegraph esti? mates that "the South h.?i paid a larger part of her State debt during the last ten years than any other section?more than a fourth of the total of $107,000,000? but her debt is still far the largest." ? Edisou i3 said to be at work on his far sighted machine, which he hopes to have perfect in time for the World's Fair in 1892. By its aid, the inventor says it will be possible for a man in New York to see the feature.3 of a friend in Boston. ? A funeral was in progresj in Hick ing Grove Church, near Dushviile, Mo., the other day, when lightning struck a barbed-wire fence to which many horses were tied. Twenty-one were knocked to the ground, and four killed. ? There are now four State tickets in the field in Alabama?Democratic, Re? publican, Prohibition and Greenback. The outcome is fraught with grave un? certainty, since the Democrats imve had a family fight that is difficult to recon? cile. ? During the eighty-seven ye?.rs end? ing in 1SS7, Missouri, according to the United States Signal Service, lost $34, 325,000 by tornadoes. There were 156 of these storms iu the State during that time. Missouri is "the banner'..ornado State." ?A remarkable clock has just been set up in the municipal library of Rouen, France. A single winding keeps it run? ning for fourteen years. It was construct? ed in 1S02; underwent alterations in 1816; was bought by the city of Rouen in 1838, and has been recently repaired and set going. ? Dr. John H. Douglas, of New York, who was General Grant's physician in his last illness, is dying in a New York hos? pital in poverty. The six months atten? dance on General Grant broke down his health and destroyed his practice and ho has spent all of the $7,500 fee and $5,000 legacy he received vainly tryiug to regain his health. ? A man named Roth, who worked at the Scales Mound, uear Galena, Illinois, was attacked by progressive paralysis two months ago, which incapacitated him from work and also made it impossible for him to eat. After a week of fasting he was brought to the county Asylum on the 23rd of May, and there lingered for fifty three days without food, finally dying last Wednesday. ? The new postal cards, which will shortly be printed are of two sizes?an idea of the postmaster general?the big? ger ones, which have twice the area of the present postal cards, being intended for business communications that cannot very well be crowded and. for other pur? poses demanding space. Both kinds have in the right hand upper corner, in? stead of the representation of a atamp, a small portrait of Gen. Grant. ? A Mexican parrot which has just died in New York at the age of 2(1 spoke French and English, as well as Spanish, with noticeable fluency. She sang Eng? lish and Spanish sentimental songa. Her favorite ditty was, "How Can We Ever Meet as Strangers ?" This she could sing all through, without skipping a word or making a falee note. She could call by name every member of a large family and every article of food on the table that she saw aud desired. ? In a letter to the Farmers of North Carolina Senator Vance, in speaking of making the Farmers' Alliance a political organization, says : "In the South it could only destroy the Democratic party and leave in undisputed control that other party whic!: i3 the author and upholder of the evils by which we are afflicted." Oh that these words may be heard and heeded throughout the South! How much are such words needed?words of counsel and of warning?at this particu? lar juncture. ? The present condition of the wheat crop iu northern Minnesota and North Dakota i3 the best, with the possible ex? ception of 1SSG, that it has been in ten years. Special reports from three hun? dred points covering the large wheat pro? ducing Counties in Northern Minnesota and North Dakota indicate that all the wheat will grade No. 1 Hard aud No. 1 Northern. These counties last year shipped over 02,000,000 bushels. If the present outlook continues, this year's crop can hardly be less than 100,000,000, and it is estimated as high as 115,000,000. ? In au Omaha Church, recently, Sam Jones shouted : "Is there a mau present who never spoke a cross word to his wife?" The silence was becoming oppressive. People looked here and there. Every husband present wanted to get up, but he did not dare to. But the saduess that had possession of Jones's face vanished a moment later when a round faced, good natured man rose from his seat. "Thank God !" exclaimed Sam, "there is one man who never spoke acro33 word to his wife!" The good natured man smil? ed a biand smile, and said, "No, sir, I never did. I'm a bachelor." Then he put on his hat and calmly walked out at the door. Commendable. Alt claims not consistent with the high character of Syrup of Figs arc purposely avoided by the California Fig Syrup Company. It acts gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the system effectually, but it is not a care all and makes no pretensions that cveiy bottle will not aib.r.antiato.