The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, November 12, 1891, Image 1
BY CLINKSCALES & LAITGSTON.
ANDERSON, 8. C, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1891.
VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 19.
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WATCH THIS ADVERTISEMENT.
WE are opening up a BARGAIN COUNTER, upon which we will always keep
a spec: al drive. Ezir Come and see it.
jAS- P. GOSSETT & CO.*
._Under Hotel Chiquola, Anderson, S. C
Ha,ve You Ever Worn a Pair of the
BROWN SHOE COMPANY'S
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SHOES?
It not we'mold insist on your giving them a trial. We
have ccftitrol of their Goods in this section, and can
assure yon that at least 50c. per pair is saved
in buying them.
CMJR TWO SPECIALS.
Their $2.50 Ladles' Dongola and Goat Button Shoe, made on Opera, Half
0<^ era and Common Sense Lasts, in point of beauty, workmanship and quality
surpasses anything offered elsewhere at $3.00 to $3.50.
Their $2.50 Gents' Calf, Bals. and Congress, made on London, French and St.
Louis Toes, widths 4, 5 and 6, must be seen to form an idea of their superiority
and worn to be properly appreciated. Don't forget that?
1st. We carry a larger Stock and sell more Shoes, perhaps,' than auy three
houses together in the City.
2nd. Handling iuch immense quantities, direct from the largest manufacturers
in the land, we can mve you 25 per cent, and guarantee satisfaction with each sale.
Yours truly,
R. S.. HILL, Manager.
A. CERTIFICATE,
ANDERSON, S. C,
September 28, 1891.
I hereby certify that the Shoes manufactured by the
ANDERSON SHOE AND LEATHER CO. are made
of first-class material, that the workmanship is second to
none, and that no pasteboard, wood, chips or scraps are
used in their manufacture. The Goods turned out by us
are as good as those made by any of the Eastern Facto?
ries and are fgjly as cheap, and guaranteed to give satis?
faction. We have appointed?
The Sylvester Bleckley Company
Our sole Agents for the City of Anderson, and hope that
the people of Anderson County will support a worthy
home industry, by buying and wearing the Shoes made
by the Anderson Shoe and Leather Company.
T. S. CRAYTON,
Secretary and Treasurer.
for Infants and Children.
" C as t o r J a is so well adapted to children that
I recommend itas superior to any prescription
iwrwn to me." H. A. Arcbeb, SI. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N, Y.
Castoria cures Coltc, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, D.arrbrpa. Eructation,
Kills Wcrnia, gives sleep, and promotes di
t restion,
I WitLout injurious medication,
Tek Ce.\tauu Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y.
FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY!
CHEAP AND BEAUTIFUL.
THOSE who have an eye for the beautiful should take a peep at my line of MILLI?
NERY. I am prepared to furnish yoti with the?
LATEST STYLES AND LOWEST PRICES.
Have just opened a full line of FANCY FEATHERS, WINGS, RIBBONS, and ail
material required to make a stylish Hat.
MISS IGLEHART, a Northern Milliner, has just returned from BsKaTiK^rith
fresh ideas for the Fall trade. She will be pleased to show my Goods, and rill do all
?in her power to please her customers. Give her a trial and be convinced.
My Stock of DRY GOODS is complete, and I invito yflu to call and examine
them before buying. But don't forget me when you want a Hat. .?_
V "Sau Those indebted to me are earnestly requested to come promptly and settle.
Thankful for past patronage I solicit a continuance ot same.
MISS SALLIE BOWIE.
BILL ART.
An Appeal to the Veterans of Half ti
dozen States.
Atlanta Constitution.
There are 1,097 Confederate soldiers
buried iD the cemetery at the University
of Virginia, near Charlottesville. Two
hundred and twenty-five of these are
Georgians. The good people who live
there have not neglected their graves and
have expended $1,500 on the enclosure
and the shrubbery. But the Old Domin?
ion is almost a universal graveyard, and
it is not right for the other States to
throw all the burden upon them. The
appeal dow comes to ub for help. There
is hardly a Georgia regiment that is not
represented in that cemetery, and every
soldier's name and company has been
carefully preserved, and every grave
carefully identified. Two years ago a
similar appeal was made from Fredericks
burg, and our people responded as patri?
ots and Christians, and every grave is
marked with a marble headstone. That
good work is done?well done?perma?
nently done, and those who gave the dol?
lar for one soldier will have a good cre?
dential when they meet these soldiers
"across the river."
Many years ago James Berry wa-j con?
victed of robbery in our Court. The
evidence was strong, but altogether cir?
cumstantial, and he was sent to the peni?
tentiary. He had served three years of
his time when another man, who was in
jail in a distant County charged with
robbery, sent for Judge Underwood and
said,."I am guilty and cannot escape. I
am also guilty of the crime for which
Berry is now in priaon. He knew noth?
ing about it and is innocent. It has
made me miserable all these years that
he is suffering for my crime, I don't
want to meet him and face him in the
penitentiary. I have now written my
confession and made plain my guilt and
his innocence, so please see the governor
and have him pardoued and sent away
before I get there. His poor, suffering
face will haunt me like a ghost."* Berry
was released and Roberts convicted, but
they never met.
When I ruminate upon the hard, long
service of these soldiers and their suffer?
ings and death afar from home and kin?
dred, their worried burial in Baal low
graves with no one to weep a tear or send
a last message to those who loved them,
and when I ponder upon their neglected
graves and the indifference of our people
it makes me shudder at the thought of
meeting them on the other side. I believe
in that. We will all meet. I believe
that wo will have to face every one we
have wronged or neglected. There is no
excuse for this neglect of our soldier
dead. One dollar for each grave will
mark it and keep it green and there are
thousands of our people who can spare
that much and be no poorer. Until this
is done it will not do for us to boast of
our patriotism or our gratitude.
The exposition is a big thing, and so is
King Solomon and the cyclorama, ar.d
Atlanta is a wonderful city, acd we see
thousands and thousands of dollars pour
ing into her hoppers every day and from
every train and as I looked upon the
burryirg crowds I wished that every mp.u
and every woman would leave a dime
somewhere to spend on our dead soldiers'
graves. I wonder if there are not 225
good, big-hearted people in Georgia who
will send me a dollar, or send it to Mrs.
W. B. Harris, at Charlottesville. I won?
der if there are not a few who would send
$5. I wouder if there are not eighty-two
in Alabama who can spare a dollar fr??
her eoldiere, and eighty-four ia Louisi?
ana, and sixty-nine in Mississippi, and
two hundred in North Carolina, and thir?
teen in Florida, and 161 in South Caroli?
na and one hundred and ninety-two in
Virginia. I looked over the list of our
Georgia boys who are sleeping there, and
wondered if their kindred knew where
they were buried. I saw some familiar
names from the old Eighth, to which I
was attached,, and I wondered if the
friends of Funderburk and Huckaby and
Dunn knew of their buried place, and
that woman's loving bands did every
year place flowers on their graves. I knew
those- boys and it pleased me that their
bones are thus honored. They went at
the first call and did what they could.
General Lee did no more.
Friends, countrymenj good people, send
in your miteci as the Lord hath blessed
you and let us preserve the homes of our
dead. I believe in churching and culti?
vating our emotions, our spiritual nature,
love, pity, gratitude; those virtues that
refine us here and will be a passport over
there. I believe in happy homes and
cheerful firesides and obedient children,
and in the faces that bring sunshine when
they come. This is my creed. Of course
there are ups and downs and losses and
crosses, and big troubles and little trou?
bles in every household, but they don't
last long and we anticipate a sight of
trouble that never comes. I am in a lit?
tle domestic trouble right now. but it
won't last long, I reckon. I've been let?
ting the Jersey calf run in the grove in
front of the house and my wife told me
that calf would come up the steps and
eat up the flowers, but I ?aid uo; that
cows bad less sense than any other ani?
mal, and calves dident have any, and no?
body ever heard of a calf climbing up
five steps to get into a flower garden. She
had bordered the front yard with chry?
santhemums thftv were just beginning to
bloom, and sure enough when I looked
out the front door this morning there
wasent a flower Jelt on one side of the
yard. They were all eaten down, aud
the plagued calf had begun on the rosea.
The front yard looked like a man with
one side of his whiskers shaved off. My
first impulse was to rush forth frantically
and kill the calf. My next was to drive
her gently over to the other side and let
her eat that down, so as to restore the
equilibrium. Then I wondered if they
were not thick enough for me to take
some ol them up and replant the side
that was desolate, but the ground was too
hard anJ dry, and so I drove the aggra?
vating beast to the lot and shut her up.
My comfort is that I bought that calf to
please Mrs. Arp, aud Captain Peacock
never tcld me that she was foud of chry?
santhemums. I called my wife to the
door and pointed to the pitiful spectacle.
She never said a word. She never paid
"I told you so," but she looked sad, very
sad, like somebody,wis dead. For a lit?
tle while Bhe poeecl as a martyr, and then
resumed her household dutieB; The trou?
ble is that every time we go to the front
piazza (W see it and it mars the pleasant
prospect. It keeps us from feeling calm
and serene. But by and by the flowers
will fade and leaves will fall, and then wo
will forget it. Old Father Time is a good
doctor.
Well, I iiaveut been to see King Solo?
mon, and I am not going until the con?
troversy is settled. The Baptists say it
is a good thing aud the Methodists say it
is a very bad thing, and so I will wait
until the Presbyteriaus have their say.
Our preacher hasent said a word. Heard
a man Bay that the Baptists were increas?
ing more rapidly than he ever knew them,
for there were 12,000 rew ones in the
show every night. Maybe they were the
same old ones who keep on going. But
it is well for us that the preachers stand
like sentinels on the watch towers and
warn the people. They may sometimes
cry danger when there is no danger, but
they are, nevertheless, the best sentinels
we have got. There may be extremists
and fanaticB among them, but I had rath?
er risk them for good advice and good
example than any other profession. They
are the leaven that leavens Bociety. They
are the salt that preserves morality.
They are our comfort in trouble and in
sickuess and ot the open grave. Good
people honor them everywhere. There
is not a college in onr State, male or fe?
male, but has a preacher at its head, and
their high moral tone and Christian in?
fluence over the youth of the land inspires
them to noble conduct and goe3 down
from generation to generation.
Blessings on the preachers.
Bill Arp.
They Out Run Horses.
One of the problems of the soldiers in
the West is to overtake the Indian when
that fellow wants to get away. Let a
band of IndianB commit a depredation
and etart to run it is one of the greatest
of difficulties to catch them. No one
who remembers tbo account of the
Geronimo band can forget the trials of
the army men who were sent to capture
and punish the redskins. Once they
had reached the mountains it was almost
impossible to get near them. They not
only knew the land thoroughly, but they
could run eo rapidly that you might have
them safely located iu one place, briog
your detachment up, ouly to find they
hfid gone, bag and baggage, hours and
hours before. On a straight cbaso it
was almost equally impoBBible to catch
tbem, Even cavalry is uselcBB against
them. The human after all is the better
animal, and when an Indiun band ran in
the lead of cavalry horses the latter lost.
The only hope w?3in numbers that could
iu time surround and turn back the lino
of retreat ao often and at such unexpec?
ted places that the Indian would surren?
der more from confusion than from fear.
It is no difficult thing for one oF the
mountain Indiana to run one hundred
miles within ten hours. Couriers have
carried messages for army officers in
that time very often. A single mile in
three minutes has been made time aud
again.
So proud are the Indians of their prow?
ess as runners that on a recent occasion
when Commissioner Morgan, of the In?
dian bureau, was in the territories look?
ing after his wards, the Navojoes brought
a runner to the headquarters of the
government men and wanted to pit him
against a horse. Lieutenant Baker, of
the Seventh Infantry, and Lieutenant
Pierson, of the engineer corps, slipped
away from the commissioner and went
down to where the Indians were camp?
ing. Baker said ho thought the Navajo
couldn't run. They were very much of
feuded and offered to bet he could out
run a horse.
"Baker," said Pearson, "you bet them
I can beat their man."
The lieutenant made the proposition,
and theIndiansswiftly gathered up their
valuables and offered to stake them.
They came in groups and clamored for
a bet. He covered everything they of?
fered, even down to their ponies. He
had about a peck of the most beautiful
garnets heaped upon a blanket before him
and all the silver girdles they had in
camp. Tho Iudian racer stripped to
the Bkin and Pierson took off his heavier
garments. Indiana and whites agreed
upon a course and the runnera started.
Piersou is a sprinter who could probably
beat any man in the army and he ran
away from the Navajo. But the Indians
were game. They were sadly disap?
pointed in their man, but the beta th6y
never gave a second thought. The army
man rounded up their herd of ponies,
loaded a burro with pelts and valuables,
hired a boy to carry the lighter winnings
and alaned away. The Indians broke
camp aud got ready to lc-ave. As 3?on
as the two lieuleuauis had shown their
plunder to the other officers, they sent
for the lo?cr3 and gave everything back.
But so game were the latter that they
did not want to take their thing-) back.
Commissioner Morgan had thought a
great, deal of Lieutenant Baker, and he
was t-orely grieved when he learned of
tho bating. Baker was very careful to
keep from him tbe knowledge that the
wiunings had been restored, and he
probably went back to Washington with
a .-hocked sc-use o!' the state of the army,
lie is an Indian lover and thinks the
Leatherstocking talcs aro veritiei-.?
Chicago Herald,
Catarrh Can't Be Cured,
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they
cannot reach tho seal of tho disease. Ca?
tarrh is a blood or constitutional disease,
and in order to euro it yuu have to taku
internal remedies. Hull's Catarrh Cure
is taken internally, and acts directly on
tho blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is no quack medicine. It
was proscribed by one of tho best physi?
cians in this country for years, and is a
regular prescription. Jt is composed of
tho best tonics known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly
on tho mucous surfaces. Tho perfect
combination of the (wo ingredients is
what produces such wonderful results in
curing catarrh. Sund for testimonials,
free.
V. J. CHENEY it CO., Crops..
Toledo, (K
.Sold by Druggists, price, 75c.
Wo are Orphans ana FatlierlcBs.
Lamentations V: 3.
Is there a hen.rt no hard that it cannot
be touched by the plea of a fatherless,
motherless child for protection and help?
We cannot think of you as other than
a frieud to the orphans. Their unpro?
tected, helpless condition appeals to you
so tenderly, that you are more apt to give
beyond your ability than under it.
Here, at the Thomwell Orphanage are
a hundred (think of it), whose sole
help ia tho God of the fatherless.
They are here, gathered in from the
ten different States of our Southland,
from Maryland to Texas, and from eight
different religious denominations. Many
of them would be literally alone in the
world, but that they have you and God's
servants here, to love, to comfort and to
care for them.
With active hands, day by day, they
try to help themselves. Were you to
visit them, how busy you would find
them, working industriously in the
kitchen and laundry, in sewing-room or
work shop, in the farm or in the printing
office. Because they are busy both in
school and out of it, they are happy.
But they would not be so, if you were
to fail them, for then all this work must
needs stop. It cannot go on without
money or supplies, .and there is none of
it here, to give them. We are just as
poor as you would be, if you had a hun?
dred children to feed and clothe, and not
a dollar in the world to do it with.
Our help does not come from any other
source than God's own Presbyterian peo?
ple. Once in awhile, a few others con?
tribute, but it is those who own these
houses, that must provide for their in?
mates, and you own them. Would you
like to know how to help us:
Wo need five dollars every month to
provide food and raiment for each child
under our care; or tight dollars to meet
every possible pro rata expense.' But
then if you cannot support ono child, the
smallest gift, if only a dime, will help. D
We Deed provisions! Boxes of all
kinds of groceries, barrels of flour, joints
of meat, pea3 and rice, and sugar and
molasses. Have you any of these thiDgs
to send?
We ueed clothing and shoes, sheets
and pillow cases, towels and handker?
chiefs, and soap to wash them and thread
and buttons wherewith to mend them.
Very soon we are to opea our new
Library building. We would so like to
have some Dice aew books for our shelves,
or some real good pictures or adornments
for our walls.
But what it shall be, what kind of help
you will give, you shall decide. Only
remember this, that these are your little
brothers and sisters, for you are the
Lord's ov/n, and these are His fatherless
little ODes.
If you send mooey address it to Rev.
Wm. P. Jacobs, Clinton, S. C. If you
eend boxes or barrels, ship to "Thorn
well Orphanage," ClintoD, S. C.
A Few Words to Farmers.
The questions ofconimercial fertilizers
is a very important one for farmers to
coasider carefully. When one is maki?g
bareley two-thirds of an average cotton
crop, it takes a large part of the cotton to
pay off the guano notes. Then when the
average price of cotton is only eight
cents, it seems to be a losing business.
For instance, if a one horse farmer makes
only five 500-pound bales of cotton,
which is a fair average for this year, that
will bring him only $2fi0. If he has to
pay for two tons of g?a?o out of that, it
will take one fith of his crop.
Then what is the Spartanburg farmer
to do? Will he give up guano and cot?
ton? If so, where will his money come
from ? Making corn and wheat is a slow
way in this section to make money.
Even on the rich prairies of the West,
where corn and wheat can be raised at
10 to 1? cents per bushell, the farmers
are burdened with mortgages and the cry
of hard times is never out of their mouths.
The farmer of the Piedmont is about
as well off aa his brethren in any section
of the country. In addition to his fine
climate and good soil, he needs a liberal
application of brains, backed by a strong
will. The most of them know that
nearly all cotton, with a pittance of corn
and long forage, barely keeps a man out
of the poor house. Ic docs not require a
Solomon to nee that. Empty corn cribs,
decayed and useless smoko houses, wheat
boxes filled with cotton eeed, all pro?
claim that our farmers have been pursu?
ing a ruiuou3 policy.
The best thing now*in the close of the
year, is for each one to make up his
mind to do what he knows will bring
about better times. The hope of our far?
mers is a gradual adoption of the inten?
sive system. That means fewer acres,
more manure, less grass killing, bigger
crops, fatter mules and horses, fine cattle,
largo hogs, home made flour and grits}
large barns, paiured houses, better furni?
ture, happier homes and increased
knowledge and contentment. Wise is
that farmer who cuts down his acreage to
what he can manure and cultivate well.
Ten acres in corn and peas and ten acres
in cotton, with teu acres iu wheat and
oats, is about right.
Id order that a gradual improvement
of land may be made and an increased
production be realized, heavy manuring
is required. A good stand of peas on
corn land, whether planted between the
hills or sown broad cast at laying by
time, ia worth ?3.00 to $5 00 per acre
Good lot manure, carefully manipulated,
is worth a dollar for a two horse-load.
Pea vines, lot and stable manure and cot
ton need raised on the place should be
ihe principal sources of manure. When
a farmer bus these in abundance he can
afford to buy commercial fertilizers lib?
erally, lie should study the needs of
hid soil aud buy such as produce best
results. Two hundred pouuds of acid
phosphate, or ammoniated fertilizer, will
not be *.oo much when one is beginning
the intensive system. As he increases
the quantity of pea viues, cotton seed and
lot manure, he can increase his commer?
cial fertilizer.i. His land will gradually
be brought up to a high slate of produc?
tion and much less labor will be required
to make a crop.?Spartanburg Spartan,
? Thc-wurld uses 3,1500,000steel pens
everyday.
Progress of Irrigation.
On September 15, a notable gathering
of notable men took place at Salt Lake
City, being the first meeting of tho Irri?
gation Congress. The membership com?
prised many eminent pernsous, chiefly
from States west of the Mississippi, their
object for meeting being the interchange
of views and discussion of the best meth?
ods of redeeming to useful purposes the
millions of acres of arid lands which now
lie drear and abandoned in various sec?
tions of the great West.
Of the success of irrigation wherever
it has been properly carried out, all the
speakers bore enthusiastic testimony.
The driest lands are made to blossom as
the rose, and wherever the blessed water
spreads there is soon bound a contented,
happy and prosperous people.
The place selected for the assembly
was especially appropriate, Salt Lake
City being the first and perhapa the
noblest example to be found in the
country of the wonderful results gained
by irrigation. Here in the midst of
verdure and the music of running wa?
ter in every street the congress began its
sessions. Among the speakers was Wil
ford Woodruff, President of tho Mormons.
He said:
"Fifty-one years ago the 24th of last
July, I entered this valley with 413 em?
igrants, or in other words; pioneers. We
were led by President Young. This
country that we arrived upon was call?
ed the Great American Desert, and cer?
tainly as far as we could see it did not
deviate from that in the least. We
found a barren desert here. There was
no mark of the Anglo-Saxon race, no
mark of the white man?everything was
barren, dry and desert.
"We pitched our camp a little to the
southeast from hereabout 11 o'clock in
the day. Whe had a desire to try the
soil to know what it could produce. Of
course all this company?nearly the
whole of us?were born and raised in
the New England States, Vermont,
Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut?had
no experience in irrigation.
"You geutlemen came here to-day ;
you see the city, you go through the
country. Here are a thousand miles, I
might say, through these mountains, fill?
ed with cities, towns, villages, gardens,
and orchards, and the produce of the
earth that sustains the people. Without
this water, this irrigation for which you
have met here to-day, this country would
be as barren as we found it."
He was followed.by President Cannon^
one of the early settlers, who said: "I
took my first lessons in irrigation when
a boy, in 1848. I have had but compar?
atively little practical experience in the
business since then, biu it ha? become
very familiar to ug. We have not had
muoh time to theorise upon it, but prac?
tically we have carried out this system
throughout the length and breadth of our
Territory.
"There is one point that I think of
great importance, and I think it worthy
the consideration of this body. We have
refrained, I was going to say, religiously
from forming great corporations to take
possession of the water; we have not been
taxed for our water in Utah, but settle?
ments have combined together and by
their own labor have taken the water
out and have contributed by their labor
in forming dams and digging ditches to
obtain the neccessary supply for 'heir
acreage. I think this is a very impor?
tant feature in this Territory. We have
not had to pay for our water; poor men
could take land and obtain water by their
own labor,
"Another feature of our systen\ has been
that we have had small holdings,
When we settled this city, the lots were
divided out; each lot waa an acre and a
quarter. The lots were laid out in such
a way that th Bfront of one lot faced the
aide of another. It was designed to be
a city of villas and to have plenty of
room. You see the breadth of our streets
and the amplitude of our lots ; this was
the original design. Then, next to our
City, a tier of five-acre lota were laid
out, then a tier of ten acre lots, then a
tier of twenty-acre lots. There were no
lots laid out of larger extent than twen?
ty acres. That there might be perfect
fairness, we cast lots for these. The me?
chanics were expected to want five acres;
thoae who are in a better condition it was
thought would require teu acres, while
the farmers received twenty acres.
My distinguished friend, President
Woodruff, lived and sustained his fami?
ly upon twenty acres of land, and I may
say to his credit there is no better farm?
er iu this country than ho has been.
Ho has been noted throughout all our
community for hi? indefatigable indus?
try.
"We have kept from monopolizing the
land and been willing to have it distrib?
uted in small holdings, so that every
man might have a foothold. I believe
that I do not overstate the truth when I
say that in no part of the United States
io there a population containing so many
people living on their own lauds and
owning their own houses as in Utah
Territory.
"I believe in the artesian system. I
have been a believer iu it always and
for a great many years. I believe that
we can get large supplies of water from
subterranean sources. I have experi?
mented with this, and I believe I have
the honor of being the first person to
own an artesian well in thi3 valley or in
ali our valleys. I had sunk a good many
wells, and I find them very excellent.
I havo ouo now with which I water
seveial acres?a well four huudred feet
deep. I think when we got experienced
well drivers in this country, we shall find
that we can bring large supplies of water
to the surface that will aid us in cultiva
ting our land ; for all that we have in
this country is water.
"There is no part of Nevada which
you travel through, no country, which
looked any worse than this valley did
nor any more unlikely to be productive
than this valley did when it was first set?
tled ; but industry and skin have chang?
ed this valley into fruitful fields and or?
chards and there is uo limit."
Many most excellent speeches follow?
ed, but our limited space prevents quota?
tions therefrom. A great variety of rj^g
olutions were offered, some contaiK^np
financial projects for building dams and
canab, others for the acquisition or leas?
ing of arid lands, others calling upon
the geueral government to Issue millions
of dollars' worth of bonds and bore the
arid earth for wells, and make the lands
fit for people to live in. It was stated
there are eii hundred and fifty millions
of acres of arid land* still held by the
general government, of which five
hundred millions of- acres require to
be irrigated by artesian wells, no other
eource of water supply being available.
When all the speechc". had been made
and all the resolutions discussed the fol
lowing reasonable platform was agreed
upon and the congress adjourned:
Rcsoh-cd, That this congress is in favor
of granting in trust to the States and
Territories needful of irrigation, all lands
now a part of the public domain within
such States and Territories, excepting
mineral lands, for the purpose of devel?
oping irrigation to render the lauds now
arid, fertile and capable of supporting a
population.?Scientific American.
Where Women Have a Say,
The first Governor of the State of Wy?
oming, Amos W. Barber* was in the city
yesterday and chatted pleasantly with a
Press reporter, The doctor's winning
ways placed him on the right side of the
fair sex of Wyoming, for soon after its
admission as a State in 1890, be was
elected its first Governor by a creditable
majority of men, old maidens, and blush?
ing young ladies just reaching their ma?
jority.
"How about politics in Wyoming?"
said the Governor in reply to a query.
"You know we are voting under the
Australian ballot system, and to be can?
did I must say it has improved the purity
of politics wonderfully. No. We have
no women heelers or strikers or rounders
as they are sometimes called. Such char?
acters are unknown to us. The women,
and particularly thoi'e whose husbands
have means, usually have carriages on
election day and drive to the polls and
vote and take many of their friends with
them.
"Do I believe that woman suffrage de?
grades her? No; on the contrary, I
believe it enobles and brings out all the
strong attributes of true womanhood.
"The women do not draw the political
lines nearly as closely as the men. They
elect each other superintendents of pub?
lic schools and make the cause of educa?
tion their firm aim.
"The voting is carried on much like
the system of depositing in bank. Voters
of both sexes come and deposit their
ballots after passing in a closed avenue,
one at a time, and return again in a quiet
and business like way to their homes.
To their credit be it said the women are
almost a unit for ability, honesty and
integrity wherever found, in high life or
low."
"Are the women voters bittet parti?
sans, and do they oppose each other and
have factional differences?"
"No, not all. Usually the wives or
daughters vote the politics of their
fathers. But to this there are exceptions.
There ia a wonderful unanimity in senti?
ment among the women, and they make
the best and highest types of citizens,
and in many instances their judgment is
better than their husbands or brothers."
"Do they ever sit on juries?"
"Yes, we have had several women
jurors in the courts of Cheyenne, the
capital of Wyomiug, where I reside. It
would be rather dangerous for husbands
that beat their wives; make love to the
girls, stay out all night, commit petty
misdemeanors and tho like, if they were
hauled up in a court before a jury. They
would get women's women justice.
"You know our total population ia
70,000, one fourth of which is females.
So a man must walk straight in Wyom?
ing, for the women hold the balance of
power, and they are using it wisely and
judiciously. They are making our
schools the models' of the country, and,
too, can make a dollar go much further
than their 'hubbies.' "?Philadelphia
Press.
A Salt Cnre.
Here is a simple thing that is worthy
of attention. It may be the means of
doing much good, and, at any rate, can
do no harm:
John Bland, an Englishman, writes to
the New York Herald of a discovery he |
claims to have made in disease and its
prevention. The letter treals of the
theory of disease germs, their develop?
ment, and a new treatment for their de?
struction. The germ theory of disease
admitted, common salt is tho universal
panacea and antidote of germ poison.
Salt kills both vegetable and animal
germs, and the vegetables and animals,
too, administered in quantities large
enough. Farmers sometimes steep their
seed grain in briue to kill the vegetable
germs which would destroy its growth;
the salting process of fish and meat per?
forms the same office in their preserva?
tion. People who eat little salt are more
liable to contract and develop disease
thau those who take man's allotted three
quarters of an ounce daily portion of the
chloride of sodium. Bland's conviction
is that salt eating is the thing to kill the
germs of cholera, yellow fever, small pox
or any infectious or contagious disease,
when epidemics are around. Salt is
cheap and accessible. Two or three
ounces a day, in time of danger from
disease germs, will not injure anybody,
evea if it does no good.
Bncklen's Arnica Salvo
The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcera, Suit Rheum, Fe?
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil?
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give per?
fect satisfaction, or mo:aey refuuded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Hill Bros.
? "The accident, madam," taid the
young turgeon encouragingly, aa he made
preparations to sew up the wound iu the
lip the infant had received by falling
down a stairway, "will leave a scar, but
twenty years from now, when the little
fellow has grown to be a man and raised
a mustache, it won't show a bit." "It's
not a baby of that kind, doctor," replied
the anxious but entirely self-possessed
mother.
Country and City Incomes,
Nobody who understands the facts can
doubt that farmers in this country deserve
the good will and help of men of all
otner occupations. The foundations of
all our business enterprise-* are built on
our own agriculture. It is particularly
so under the operations of the protec.':'*e
tariff which prevents us from engaging
extensively in foreign commerce or doing
business on the high seas. No sound or
safe structure can be built on rotteu
fouudations. If the farmers are poor or
oppressed or working at a ioss it will be
only a matter of time when there must
be a general crash.
It is, therefore, a matter of serious and
practical interest for people of all sec?
tions, occupations and positions whether
the busiues? of farming is so poor in
promise or rewards that it cannot be
continued profitably and whether farmers
will be forced from their farms to seek
Borne other meaus of living in such num?
bers as to diminish the agricultural pro?
ductions of the country.
It is a matter very hard to decide. The
farmer is told that bis business is the
most poorly paid of all, that the oppres?
sion and hardships of our whole commer?
cial system is concentrated against him,
that all other occupations are more hope?
ful and generally better than bis, until
he comes to believe it. This is one of
the facts explaining the Bteady drift of
population from the rural districts to the
cities.
The truth is, the average farmer thinks
he is poorly off because he takes compar?
atively little account of the matters of
house rent and food for himself and
family, which with people in the cities
are of first importance. The farmer who
make ten bales of cotton, for instance,
sells them and finds that their entire
proceeds are used in paying what be owes
j for supplies and clothing thinks he has
j lost a year's work. He has handled only
about four hundred dollars and has seen
it all go; and he is supposed to envy the
mechanic, who earns two or three dollars
a day and to regard the clerk, book
keeper or lawyer who receives from a
thousand to two thousand dollars a year
in clear cash as a rich man. He does not
stop to reflect that each of these people
has really done only what he did?sup?
port his family and come out even or
nearly even at the end of the year. The
rent of a very modest city house?the
mere roof to cover a man and his family
from the weather?is nearly as much as
the total living expenses of the small
farmer, representing from three to* five
bales of cotton. The food of an ordinary
city family compelled to live from the
store is as much more. Clothes cost
more because in town more of them are
needed; fuel is a large item in town
while in the country it is virtually noth?
ing. A servant hired and boarded rep?
resents easily three bales of cottan,
When all is figured out and paid, thecity
man, working every day in the year and
bound down to minutes by the clock, at
a hundred dollars a month usually con
gratulatcs himself if he comes out free of
debt after spending every cent he has
made. Yet he docs not regard himself
as having been oppressed, degraded or
spoiled. Nine-tenths of men in the
towns who can support their families in
decency and comfort and carry life insur?
ance enough to prevent want in case of
death think themselves lucky. In cities
as in the country, those who accumulate
Borne money and have more of it than
they actually need are the few.
We believe if the average farmer would
estimate the value of the support of him
self and his family as the average town
resident does, hd would find himself not
so badly off after all?that if he would
count bis time and labor and the practi?
cal results from them as mechanics,
clerks, merchants and professional men
are forced to do, and weigh advantages
and disadvantages, losses and gains he
would be less discontented with bis own
lot than he is generally disposed to be.?
Greenville News.
Saving Seed Corn.
The great value of seed corn is my ex?
cuse for once more, and now, just in the
nick of time, referring to this subject. It
is a very easy matter for the practiced
eye and skillful hand to pick out a good
seed ear while husking corn. As you go
through the rows with a wagon eave a
few shucks on every good seed ear and
throw these in a pile in one end of the
wagon, to be braided up when the day's
work is done.
Good seed should be of one color, the
rows on the cob should be perfect and
should be of tho same number; the ends
8h d be well filled out with plump
seeds.
It is well enough to save plenty of ears,
even more than you may need for your
own use. It may sell at a good price, or
you can do ft neighbor a good turn;
or, if rightly haudled, it will keep for
years.
The great value of corn for so many
uses, especially for feeding and fattening
all kinds of live stock, seems to be right?
ly estimated by cur experimental sta?
tions,
We do not at this moment recall any
domestic animal that will not eat it and j
thrive on it. Even cats will eat i: when
cooked, aud a farm dog will go to the
crib and get an ear of hard corn and eat
it with much relish.
While it has been often proved and by
the press set forth, that with the proper
culture and on a good soil, from 80 to 100
bushels can be grown on an acre, the
great corn States of Iowa, Illinois and
Nebraska, will not average over thirty
live bushels per acre, and Missouri even
less.
Now is the time, and the be?t time, to
"ave your seed corn.
After it isssved, keep the rodents away
from it, and do not hang it up in a gran?
ary where oats, or other small grain is
stored. Such a course is fatal to its per
initiation.?Charles IF. Murlfeldt, in Re?
public.
To Dispel Colds.
Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the
system effectually, yet gently, when
costive or bilious, or when the blood is
impure or sluggish, to permanently cure
habitual constipation, to awaken the kid?
neys and liver to a healthy activity,
without irritating or weakening them,
use Syrup of Tigs.
All Sorts of Paragraphs,
? We have 10,000,000 people who
seldom get a good square meal.
? Ajpan may be lantern-jawed and
yet bis face may never light up.
? Squashes weighing from 250 to 300
pounds are common in Southern Califor?
nia.
? There are considerably over a hun?
dred thousand acres devoted to tobacco
in Virginia.
? The man who has neither character
nor honor to wound is usually sensitive
in the region of the pocketbook.
? A Harlem widow has had three hus?
bands, each of whom was over six feet
tall. She is a favorite with high men.
? It is premature to tell any woman
that she is an angel until it is seen how
she can cook a steak and boil a potato.
? The history of Iceland as a nation
extends back more than 1,000 yearn, yet
the records show but two thefts in all that
time.
? The limited amount of rosewood
now used comes from South America and
costs about $750 per thousand feet, board
measure.
? The happiest man in existence is he
who is in good health, out of debt, has
a clear conscience and loves his wife and
children.
? The following States have no State
motto: Indiana, Mississippi, New Hamp?
shire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio
and Texas.
? Very popular, very small, very good.
De Witt's Little Early Risers, the pill for
constipation, billiousness, sick headache.
For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. f.
? He: A penDy for your thoughts.
She: You'd find them dear at that
price. He: What were you thinking
about? She: You.
? The word of God will stand a thou?
sand readings, and he who has gone over
it moi.t frequently is the surest of finding
new wonders there.
? Purifies the blood, increases the
circulation, expels poisonous humors and
builds up the system. What more do you
want a medicine to perform ? DoWitt'e
Sareaparilla is reliable. For sale by Wil-.
hite and Wilhite. f
? In Kansan, the other day, a justice
of the peace being unable to decide a
case, allowed the lawyers to settle it with
a game of checkers.
? The first thing a Japanese doett in
the morning is to take down the entire
front of his building, leaving the ?hole
interior open to v'ew.
? Catarrh, neuralgia, rheumatism and
most diseases- originate from impure
blond. Cleanse it, improve it, purify it
with De Witt's Sarsaparillaand health is
restored, strength regained. Sold by
Wilhite & Wilhite. f
? Teacher: Can you explain what is
meant by viracious punishment? John?
ny : Yes, sir. When ma gets angry at pa
she spanks me.
? It ia said that enough cider has
been made in Eastern Pennsylvania this
year to fill the Schuylkill to its brim were
that river to run dry.
? Constipation, blood poison, fever,
Doctors' bills and funeral expenses cost
about two hundred dollars; De Witt's
Little Early Risers cost a quarter. Take
your choice. For sale by Wilhite & WiP
bite. t
? He (bitterly)?"Pshaw, all women
are alike." She?"Then why in the
world do you spend so much time trying
td find the one you want to marry."
? He?"Why do you move away from
me ?'! She?"I thought you were going
to kits me." He?"I wasn't. Bless you,
I wouldn't kiss you for the world."
? It is quite the fashion now to take
De Witt's Little Early Risers for liver,
stomach and bowel disorders. They are
email pills, but mighty good ones. Wil?
hite and Wilhite sells them. t
? At Sharen, Ga., recently, a lot of
fodder was sold that was gathered in
1859 by a slave. It was as bright and
sound as on the day it was put up,^
? The manufacture of buttons from
blood is a great industry at Bridgeport,
near Chicago. They also turn out ear?
rings, breastpins, and trinkets from the
same material.
? A beautiful slan,Jbright eyes, sweet
breath, good appetite, vigorous body,
pure blood and good health result from
the use of De Witt's Sarsaparilla. It is
sold by Wilhite and Wilhite. t
? There was a goat race at Houston,
Texas, not long ago, in which sixty-three
goats were entered. Some of them made
two hundred yards in thirty-two sec?
onds.
? The following is a cocoanut in a
nut shell: "There are two kinds of fools
in the world; one set are always chang?
ing and the other ect never change at
all."
? If food sours on the stomach, diges?
tion is defective. De Witt's Little Early?
Ptisers will remedy this. The famous^
little pills, that never gripe and never
disappoint. For sale by Wilhite & Wil?
hite. ti
? Two young Jadies named |Peer, in
Milwaukee, are said to be nearly .ready
for admission to the bar, at which their
father, mother and sisters are already in
practice.
? To have two cities in one State is
uothiug uncommon, but to have one city
in two States is. Texarkana, is both in
Miller County, Ark., and Bowie County
Tex.
? De Witt's Little Early Risers
gripe or cause nausea. Mild but sure"
assist rather than force. Best little pil
for sick headacbe; chronic constipation,'1
dyspepsia. For sale by Wilhite & WiL-:
hiie.
? South Jackson, Mich., is afilictej
with a plague of yellow jackets, T
swarm around residences thicker than
horse Hies, and South* Jackson people
resemble small-pox patients, v
? Wife?"Such a dream as I ha4Jast
uight, dear." Husband?"May
about it ?" "Well, yea. I dreamf
I was in a great establishment
they sold husbauds. There
ties; some iu glass cases and
fearful prices, and others were
figures. Girls were paying out
and getting the handsomest
saw. It was wonderful." "
any like me there, dear."
as I was leaving I saw a w5?6
men just like you lying on the**?
counter."
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