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BY CLINKSCALES& LANGSTONj ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1892,_VOLUME XXJWB| ifirttts, :f:rtjtts7 FRUITS! A FRESH STOCK QF FRUITS, including SEEDLESS RAISINS, CLEAN? ED CURRANTS, s.nd everything necessary for your Christmas Cake. Also, lota of? APPLES, ORANGES, BANANAS, PEARS, GRAPES, NUTS and FANCY CANDIES. JP&* Supply of Oat Flake, Buckwheat Flours and New Orleans Syrup just received. W. H. HARRISON & CO. No. 9 South Main Street, Anderson, S, C. AND AMMUNITION! A SUPERB LINE OF Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns. REPEATING and SINGLE SHOT ?nEo^^J' ?]?? eJEc^ ^ ?mmJ al^nJ r^^?ir^ n PISTOLS and CARTRIDGES of ALL KINDS. Our Stock Simply Immuse. Our Prices astonishingly Low. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. MACHINE SUPPLIES, AGRICULTURAL IMPLENENTS, AND MACHINERY. - Never have we been so well prepared to meet the de? mands of the Trade and satisfy our customers. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO, ANDERSON, S. C. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO;, ELBEETON, GA. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT 11 DEALERS IIV DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you ) right. Give us a call. Yours truly, E. W. BROWN & SONS. for Infants and Children. n??? I I Ml na?CHI?.? "Castoiiais bo prsH *daptod to children that 1 Caatoria cures Colic, Constipation, I lammend itas superior to a-nyprescdption I Sour Stoniach, Dlarrhcea. Eructation, ixowntome.? H. A. Arches, A. D., I ^Jgg?* glVea promoteS <U' 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. | Without injurious medication. The Ckntato Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY! CHEAP AlVE? BEAUTIFUL. THOSE who have an eye for the beautiful should take a peep at my line of MILLI? NERY. I am prepared to famish you with the? LATEST STYLES AND LOWEST PRICES. Have last opened a fnll line of FANCY FEATHERS, WINGS, RIBB0N8, and all material required to make a stylish Hat MISS 1GLEHART, a Northern Milliner, has just returned from Baltimore with fresh ideas for the Fall trade. 8'.e will be p^sed to show my Goods, and will do all in hsr power t? please her customer*. Give har ti trial and be convinced. Afy Stock of DRY GOwDS incomplete, and I invito you to call and examine them before buying. But don't forget me when you want a Hat. Those indebted to me are earnestly requested to come promptly and settle. Thankful for past patronage I solicit a continuance of same. MISS ?A T.T.TTT} BOWIE. l^A?H#$'GoLUMN, -S? All communications intended for thisiClolumn should be addressed to c. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. 0. MEMORY SEMS. "Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature." "To think we are able, is almost to be so ,* to determine upon attainment is fre? quently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence." Bead carefully the article in this col? umn from our friend, Mr. W. E. Breaz eale, who is in Paris. There is a great deal of food for thought in this article. Bead it to the children, and show them the force of education. We hope to have other articles from Mr. B. A HAPPY NEW YEAB. ?We extend to the teachers and pupils of Anderson County our sincere wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year to each one. We do wish for a year of good, solid, substantial progress in 1892. The way for us to realize such a wish is to pray for it, work for it, and if needs be make personal sacrifices for it. For? getting the things that are past, let us "press forward." No doubt we nil begin work with a strong determination to improve on the past, but we are bo apt to relax our en? ergy and determination, and lose our zeal and ardor. Make no foolish nor unreasonable resolutions, and do not make any foolish breach of the good resolutions you may form for 1892. Let the prime motive for your work be your duty to God, and wrapped up in that duty your duty to your fellow man. -May all the teachers, pupils and patrons have a happy and prosperous New Year. THOUGHTS OF A TEACHER DURING HIS RAMBLE THROUGH THE STREETS OF PARIS. Though late in November, the morn? ing is bright and the atmosphere balmy. An occasional white cloud floats in the blue sky. The biin converts the dew* drop iaio pearl, the Seine into silver, and the city into light. Paris, like a child who has dreamed of angelB, has waked with joy in its heart and a smile on iu face The busy maid in wooden Bhoes, basket in hand, hurries with a qiiickrr step to her diyswork; the cab man cracks his long whip with more energy; the gamin whistlos the Man?aillaise to u livelier air than they are wont. What has made these lively, has made me thoughtful. The busy throng follows the street, the Seine its course and my thoughts their inclination. In this mood I direct my Bteps down Boulevard Saint Germain. Here in an open space is-a Htatue recently erected to the memory of Danton, one of the cen? tral igures of the French Revolution of 1793. On one face of the pedestal which supportH a group in bronze, of which Danton is the principal figure, is in* scribed a sentence from bis speech before the National Convention of 1793. Prob? ably this is the most significant inscrip? tion to be found in this city of monu? ments. "Jpres le pain Veducation est le premier besin du peuple." (After bread education is the Grst need of the people). Nowhere is the truth of this been more clearly demonstrated than here in Paris. For a government to be stable, it must be the intelligent expression of an en* lightened people. Whatever wrongs exist, the people have to correct. The duration and extent of these wrongs, and consequently the severity of the correc? tion, varies inversely as the intelligence of the people. Thus the great revolution of 1793?that great wave of popular op pression, suffering and ignorance, swept everything before it with no discrimina? tion. It was impossible to resist it, and almost fatal to follow it. Such strong men as Bobespiere and Danton went down here. It made a correction, but with what havoc! The people estab? lished the fact that they have a right to be considered, but they established it by blind force. So in the terrible commune of 1871, that great mob of illiterate and dissatis? fied men, having no idea of a govern? ment, were willing to perpetrate any brutality to gain their ends. Trying to destroy the city when they saw their de? feat certain, they have left ruin on the banks of the river as a monument to their brutal power. Surely the people is the reservoir of all national force and in? telligence. In a Republican form of government, like that which exists here to-day, at every election we see these? the esprit de corps?expressed. This leads us to think of the teacher of to day as a law maker of to-morrow. We continue our promenade down the Boulevard until we come to a statue of Dolet, which stands on the spot where he was buried in the sixteenth century, be? cause he dared to oppose the teachings of the Catholic Church. This abuse was committed when the intelligence of the people was so limited, and consequently their superstition so great that there was no general sentiment against this bru? tality on the part of the Church. The great abuses that have been perpetrated in particular by the Catholic Church, and the very little progress made by civiliza? tion for a long period, are due to the fact that education was generally confined to the priesthood during that period. The reason that no such abuses are perpe? trated now is not so much that this Church is any different now from what it was four centuries -go, but more because external popular sentiment is at variance with such procedure. The only assur? ance of individual freedom is popular education?an education that teaches the duties of a citizen as a unit in the .sum of society. "Happy is a country that knows its great men." The Coiumbuses can add no new worlds unless they have support. 0 Dolet, your great crime was that you lived amon* a narrow minded people I Our fancy next leads ns to the great Cathedral, Notre Dame. Over this mas Bive pile dominate two towers. What historic records are interwoven in the architecture of these towers I For cen? turies they have listened to the chants of the! priests at their feet by day, and to the songs of the stars over their heads by night. They have watched the ebb and flow of the Seine, and the flux and reflux of revolution over Paris. They have seen corronation of monarchs under their protection, and the decapitation of rulers on the streets. Yet this structure with all its dignity of age and position haB not escaped the destroying hand of the igno? rant mob that was not under the super? stition of the Church. The commune of 1871 has left scars on the building. Yet here the priest still chants his Latin and the poor devottee has her education con? fined to making the sign of the cros3 and counting her beads. The great duty of every State is to bring her children into a higher intel? lectual life. By doing this 3he effectu? ally crushes class rule in every form, and sows seed of fraternity for her future greatness. ******* 1 walk along the river and watch the boats as they glide on the bosom of the water and send the ripples to play upon the shore. I lean over and look down on this changeful mirror and see the busy traffic of tho street come, noiselessly mix and jgo on its face ; and dream of the day when the human race will come, noise? lessly mix and go upon the river of time to the ocean of its destiny. As I cross the bridge in front of toe Institut de France tho bell on the dome strkes twelve. Thus I enter my home and the morning enters the past. W. E. Breazeale. University of Paris, Dec. 1891. Agriculture In California, 1850 and 1880. To the Editor of the Scientific Ameri can: Probably no part of the world con? tains Buch vast agricultural resources as our Pacific Coast, and none has ever displayed greater genius thau her people. Necessity during ber earlier periods gave birth to her great work. Tn 1S53, when I ?r?t visited her g.>ideu hills,' agricul? ture wan in but s wad ling c!o:.Iioh. All of tia sought hc-r muunuiiaa of gold, and not her ytst aud rich fertile valley?, then rich with guuno where sea fowl bad swarmed for ages, and wild cattle and other wild animals had roamed over them. The men who went there then, and onh remained a abort time till they "got their pile," as they culled it, never stopped to investigate her agricultural possibilities. A few, however, engaged I in agriculture in a very small way, and soon discovered that to supply the grow? ing cities, villages, aud mining camps wa3 very profitable, and safer really than prospecting for yellow metal. Pota | toes soon became so abundant that hun? dreds of tons rotted in sacks or were emptied to save them for another year's sacking. It only cost the plowing and sowing to get a good crop of wheat, but the straw was so enormous, and grew so even in height, that instead of the old reaper the beading machine was substi? tuted. Thea came the attachment of the thrasher and winnower, and before I left in 1859,1 saw sixteen horses to one ma? chine going through these vast fields, clipping off the heads, which fell into a hopper and were thrashed, winnowed and bagged and dropped along the field, a team following to pick them up. During the summer droughts, as the ground shrank in drying it became full of cracks. Into these would fall sufficient of the grain in harvesting, ao that when the rainy weather came, and the. crackB partially closed up, a "volunteer" crop followed, which often was quite produc? tive for the third year before a second cultivation was necessary. But the wheat fields then contained considerabte oats, scattered by cattle fed on wild oats, that was a spontaneous and natural product of the foot hills. About two years ago I visited the Pa? cific coast again, and spent several weeks at Paraiso Springs. In Spanish Paraiso means Paradise, and in these hot springs the old Spanish monkB bathed for their health. One day while there a gentle? man invited three of us to take a ride with him. The day was beautiful, and behind two flying horses we soon rode about fifteen miles, and came to the edge of a wheat field. "This is my place," said our friend. As we rode on a mile or two I could see no end and I asked : "How long is this wheat field, air ?" He replied : "About nine miles, and a mile wide." "How much will it average to the acre?" "Oh, about sixty bushels," said he. I saw nothing but clear wheat, without a Bpear of oats, although I had seen oats in other fields which we passed ou tho road. "How do you keep out the oats ?" I aaked "Well," said he, "I work about four hundred horses and mules to net in my crops, and I am very careful never to allow them to eat whole oats, for if I do, then they drop them along as I cultivate the fields." "Where do you nell all this wheat ?" aaid I. "Oh, I ship it all to Europe, as I can do better with it there than here." After changing our team and taking another fast pair, we rode over the re? mainder of his vast estate, which actually contained thirty equare miles. In one ! section was his forest for wild deer, and t in another an extensive field for grazing cattle and horses, where I waB shown one fat cow that he told me weighed 1,890 pounds. We were Boon on the way back to our "Paradise," which we reach? ed about sundown, after one of the most interesting rides that I ever had the pleasure of enjoying. I afterward learn? ed that this gentleman's property waa valued at over $5,000,000. J. E. Emerson. How's This? Wo offer one hundred dollars for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by talcing Hall'sCatarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY cc CO., Props., Toledo, 0. Wo, tho undersigned, have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and bo lieve hint perfectly honorable in nil busi iticss transactions:, and financially able to carry out any obligations mudo by thoir firm*. West & Titunx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Waldi.vo, Kinxaxit Makm.v, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Kail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actiug directly upon tho blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Testimo? nials sent free. Prico 7;"ic. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. A SECOND BETSEY HAMILTON. "Pansy's" Description of Aunt Margaret's Wedding. From the Oconec News. Sand Ridge, S. 0., Nov. 27, 1891.? My Deer Cozen: I no in resin youns' all thick I never am er going to rite you a nuther line, but we has bin so busy, fust one thing an then er nuther, till I raly hain't had the time ter wast. I reckin youns is beam of the big weddin whaLi bin at our house, but I'll j ist rite the par ticulers any how. I knowed all the time that aunt Mar git would marry again ef she got what she thot wood bo a good chance (her idees and mine differ mighty er long that line.) Well you doubtless remember of me a tellin' you about that old feller in Georgy a ritin to her and a axin of her to be his wife; and how as soon as she got his letter she went and bowght her a new black Sheoritty dress and give 75 cents a yard fur it, and hired a dress? maker to fit it on her, and got her fine hat the same day. I never wood of knowed what was up, but I went to the P. 0., and the woman thar knowed it, and she up and lowed as how aunt Margit had bin giltin sum luv lelers. I tell you the old mother Eve in me riz at that, but I never let on; but when I went back horn I made her own up to it all. She wus a lookin for him a Christmas times and she was in a powerful flurry to git her new frock dun so as to wear it when he cum. I told her hit wus bad luck to marry in black, but she sod she could rite to the Alliance store at Anderson and get sam? ples and hit woodn't take long to order her a nuther one if he wus in a hurry to have the knot tied. Well, you know that Christmas cum and went but no man frum Georgy never put in appear? ance. January passed away and winter merged into spring, and still she never hearn frum the Georgyite I could see she was badly disappointed, but she bore up amazin well, considerin' as how she had sot her hart so strong on movin' to Georgy. So or long in May she got er notofrom a Mr. Williums down in Anderson Coun? ty a telling of her as how she h?:d bin most highly recommended to him as a woman who wood make hfmagood com panion and all sich stuff as that. And then he went on to state that he was a widower with five children, but they wus all grown and married but one and that he never staid at home, and that he was a member of the Baptist Church in "good and reg'lar standin," and that he had a good farm * and er comfortable house; besides he wuz a tanner by trade and had a lot of leather on hand that would clear him a right smart pile of money. At the mention of the money, I riz up and voted in favor of the wedding; and that set? tled it. She rote and appointed the fourth of July fur him to cum and talk the matter over. His son got the letter and red hit, and then sent it on to his paw, and he an uwered her back that he be'd thar sure and sartin and fur her to keep her lamp trimmed and burnin. (I don't know what he wanted sich a bright light fer, I allers prefer a rather dim one myself, when my feller is talkin' sweet.) She wanted it kept a great secret about his coming; you no a burnt child dreds the fire; and she was a feared he wood do like the Georgy feller?not cum. But before the day arrived, aunt Cansada and her daughter Betsy cum over from town to stay awhile. Now aunt Margit wus afeared to let Betsy no anything about it, but I knowed Betsy could keep a secret all right, so I told 'em all er bout it jest to tease aunt Margit. Aunt Cansada is a widder herself, and I knowed she woodn't raise no objections, for fear when she tuck a notion to do likewise aunt Margit mite retaliate and pay her back in the same coin. The fourth of July cum on Saturday, and that suited mity well. Betsy, like all town gals, wus powerful fond of wading in the creek, so as soon as we had et dinner we struck out for the branch. We had cooked sum cake and pies and things, so if he got thar fur din? ner we wood not have much to do. We knowed there would be no gittin aunt Margit to help us while he wus aroun. We'uns hadn't got no further than the spring when we hearn aunt Cansada a hollerin' fur us to cum back ; we knowed that he had got thar. We went back and aunt Cansada met us at the top of the hill, and she lowed laws gals tha'a cum and thars two of em and he is in a fine top buggy and drivin' the purtiest hoss, aud he has got on a Prince Albert aud a white straw hat. He hadn't bin in the house then, but she hadseeii him by a peepin through the winder. Betsoy and me whirled in and fixed dinner. I made up sum fresh biskits and put in a lots of lard and soda and bakin' pow? ders both, fur I wanted them to be unus? ually good. Aunt Margit was marchin round in her checked cheiot frock and white sack a trying to hurry us, she thought tha' wood be so hungry. I told her folks told me that a person in luv never got hun? gry, but she gin me a look as much as to tell me that I new nuthin of luv, so I held my peace. We sot the table out in the hall, but me and Bets wus bound to hav our fun out before we dressed up and went in to be made er quainted with him. Altho' we wus mity nigh crazy to see him, we wouldn't go out; so I jest knelt down on the floor and peeped threw the cat hole at the bottom of the door. We could see his face right plain aad we already new huw he wus dressed, so we rested easy fur awhile. Tha' kept a callin' fur us to cum in and play the nr gin fur him, ro at last we went in, and 3ot down to play. Now aunt Margit had bin goin around all day bummin', "Come, and thy luv confessing thou shalt receivo a blossiu', I'll reject the luv he freely offers me." So whon I begun ou, "Only a Step to Jesus," Betsy "snickered" right out and I just looked every miait to see her dart out the door, and I made sure if Rbe did I'd have to follow suit. But we got through that piece nil right, and started on another one. He wus a settin' up close to the orgin and Aunt Margit was off a good pieco from him and she kept a talkin' to him, bo he let on as how he couldn't un? derstand what she wus a sayin' and he jumped up as quick as a "sixteen-year old-boy" and moved hi3 cheer over clost to horn. That nearly killed us, but I kept my face straight, and made tho orgin sound as loud as I could to dround out Betsy's laffin; and the louder tha' wood talk the louder I'd play. I no in resun you could of beam us a half mile. We didn't sing much more before we excused ourselves and went out to give 'em a chance to fix things up. We couldn't hardly keep aunt Easter out of the room ; she didn't know his business, but she caught on and stayed in the cook room with the rest of us. Aunt Margit wood set back in the rockin' cheer an' smoke her old clay pipe as big as if she wus kin to the President, and he sot off and admired her indepen? dence. Every few minits he wood take out his red cotton handkerchief and wipe his face. I reckin he thot we wood think it wus a silk one, but if we did live in the mountains wo warn't green enough to think that. Arter supper tha' got off to themselves and I knowed tha' wood set the day then. When bed time cum we wus on top of our heads to no when it wus to be, so as soon as their door closed ; we made sure he wood tell his cozen what wus with him all about it, and we listened with all our ears to hear; but he never sed a word. We could'nt stand it any longer, and we lit out of bed and run into aunt Margits room to hear it, and she told us tha' bad set the 22nd of July a? the day. The next mornin' a sick woman in the naborhood sent fur aunt Margit to cum to see her, but she coodn't go?she had a more serious case at home to see after?a tryin to cure a broken hart. She sent me and Bets. I didn't mind goin one bit, fur the doctor what was tendin on her wus a young man; and thot may be I'd git to see him. Well, the wedding was not but two weeks off, so we had to git a hustle on ub. That evening arter tha' left we sot down and counted up how many we wood in vile, t told her we must be shore to invite the Editor of mir County paper so ha wood gin them a big pull (ho is a powerful good hand at fixin up such things.) Aunt Margit had promised to rite to the preacher, so I rit off a note fur her and she copied it and I added a P. S. and told him to cum by and bring the Editor with him. Now what do you think? that preacher actually went and telephoned to tho Editor about it. The telephone betweeu them two towns wus a right new thing and tha' are so proud of it tha' use it every time tha' can think of anything to say. We invited about fifty guests. We thought it wood never do to invite our Editor and lawyer and not invite our physician, so I rit to him to cum, too. We had a lime fixin up the weddin dinner. We baked I don't know how many different kinds of cakes, and killed a pig. I was so afeared we wood not hav enuff fur tho crowd. By and by the 22nd rolled around. The evening before our kinnery frum Oeorgy cum drivin in. Tha' wus in a fine two boss carriage (one tha' had borrowed for the occasion,) and looked powerful stylish. And arter sup? per Bet's bow from town cum over, he is a readin medicine to be a doctor. She wus mity glad to see him and tha' kept sich a talkin till we coodn't go to sleep. We five gr.U !-ad made us down pallets in the dining room, and the company wus a sleepin in the adjinin room; aud every time we wood git nearly to sleep the boys wood set in to whistlin* and singin' to wake us up. Away before daylight tha* was up a fixin about brekfus, the wedding wna to be at 11 o'clock, and we had a lots to do. Long before we got primped the bug? gies begun cummin in. We had a negro man thar to take the horses, and I give him particular instructions about how to do wheu my feller driv up. As soon as we saw the Anderson delegation enm in site, I let in to singin, "Behold the bride? groom for he comes," that wus to let aunt Margit no he wua on band. He was scared purty nigh to death, he wanted to see what time it wus, but he coodn't find his watch?if he had one?and he had cum off and forgot hia gloves. The preacher walked in and tuck his place in the floor, and then the couple marched in and stood in front of him, and in a few minutes the two was made one ; and by the way, that is a mathematical puzzle to me yet, how you can take two and make one. Directly dinner was announced, but I woodn't eat at tho fust table fer I wanted to talk to mj bow some then. That night the Hereu.'iders cum, and buch a shooti: g of guns and ringin of bei Is, bio win of horn- and bugles aud bolltrin you uever beam. Tha' wood stick the old bugle in the winder at our heads and blow it loud enough to make the mounlins quake. Every time tha' wood fire the guns the old negro we had to help us wo; d ^roan aud say, "0 Latvd have mercy on us, aiu'c tha' got no sense? Oh, Lawd, make 'em hush." It sctred the folks from An dersoii, tha' waun't used to the like; and nub woman sed she didu't kno' whether it wus the judgment day or an earth qui.ke. Arter a while when we thought tha' had all gone, somebody fired three guns under the house. At that aunt Candida riz and poked her head out of the winder Rnd lowed as how enulf of a thing wus enuff, and if tha' didu't leave that she had a pistol and she wood jine in their fun. That was the last of the ;iercnadcrs.' There U h lota of funny things what aunt Margit wf/tt't lei me rite you, bul you just cum to i-ee and I'll fell you all about it. Yours lovingly, Pansey. Buckleu's Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cuts' Bruges, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sorea, Teller, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay require*!. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by , Hill Bros. REDUCE COTTON* ACREAGE. Only one Wny to Secure Bettor Pi Ices. Savannah, Ga., December 24.?The following letter has been received by Messrs. W. W. Gordon & Co., from Mr. Alfred R. Shepperson: 87 Cotton Exchange, mEW York, December 21,1891. Messrs. W. W. Gordon & Co., Savannah, Georgia. Dear Sirs :?Middling uplands cot? ton is quoted to day at 7 15-16c. in this market and 4jd in Liverpool. These are the lowest prices of this season. The Liverpool quotation is 4J lower than dur? ing the depression of last season, while the New York figures are at the lowest price of that season. Upon the basis of these prices the re? turn made to the planter is undoubted? ly lees than the average cost of produc? tion. The depression now existing and which has characterized the cotton market for many months is caused by the excessive supply and is clue to over production in this country. Most people have a theory that when any commodity is selling below its actual coat, an advance must necessarily and speedily follow. Confronted with the condition of over? stocked markets in America, Europe and India, and the immense receipts from our present crop, this theory has not been of the least avail to stem the tide of depression. Important staples often sell below their cost, and corn has been so cheap at the West, aa to be used by the farmers for fuel. The price of cotton, as of every other commodity, is regulated by supply and demand. Combinations of speculations may temporarily affect or impede its op? eration, but in the end the law of eupply and demand in its relation to values is inexorable. The cultivation of cotton is the greatest interest in the South. The price realized for the crop affects eery business and industry in the South whose success depends in any degree upon home support. Unremunerative prices for cotton mean scarcity of money, re? stricted trade, and financial embarrass? ment in every branch of business throughout the cotton belt. To securo any marked improvement in the price of cotton, the chief essential will be to give to the world some certain assurance that the present large stocks will be diminished in the near future and not again augumented by another large crop in 1892. If such action should be taken at the South as to induce the b 'lief that the acreage of the next cotton crop would certainly be materially reduced a liberal advance iu prices would almost certainly ensue. Spiuners and mer? chants ivould not wait for the stocks to be actually largely diminished by reason of a reduced crop, but would discount the fact months in advance of its actual accomplishment. For years past many of the best men of the South have urged the policy of planting less cotton and more corn. It has usually resulted in a general acqui? escence in the soundness of the advice, while each individual planter has actu? ally put in a little more cotton and a lit? tle less corn, thinking his neighbor would do just the opposite and bring about, the result of making cotton high and corn cheap. Nearly every planter thought it would be a shrewd thing to have a full crop of a dear commodity and a small crop of a cheap one. The last season resulted in giving them a very big crop of very cheap cotton, and a very small crop of very dear corn. The present crisis is so grave, involving as it does, many interests besides cotton planting, that decided measures seem to me to be imperatively demanded to avert impend? ing financial disaster to the South. A reduction of cotton acreage coupled with an increased acreage in grain would be of such incalcuab'.e advantage to the planters, merchants and manufacturers that all should heartily unite to bring about this result. An indefinite agreement to reduce cot? ton acreage will not begin to meet the case. I beg to suggest that a practical plan, and one almost certain of successful re? sults, would be for the factors and mer? chants of each place to agree with each other not to make advances to any plan? ter upon the next crop unless upon the positive understanding that such planter would plant 10 per cent, less cotton and devote the decreased acreage to coro in addition to his previous acreage in grain. Then have the planters of each election precinct form "Ten Per Cent. Clubs," agreeing with each other to put 10 per cent. leas acreage in cotton and to put in corn every acre thus toksn from cotton, for the next season. With only a fair season, a crop of 8, 000. 000 bales of cotton can be grow.! on the present acreage. A reduction of 10 per cent, would probably reduce the next crop to about 7,200,000 bales or less, and the markets of the world would be reliev? ed of the pressure of the immense stocks. A large reduction of acreage would not be advisable, as it would tend to stimu? late production in other countries, while a smaller reduction would not be suffi? ciently radical to accomplish the desired results. I have no pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, in cotton, and have had none for many years. My friends in the cotton trade here are all well aware of this fact, and it is perhaps scarcely neces? sary that I should assure you of it. I have not thought it necessary to give any statistics of the presont stoc!: of cot? ton in America and Europe compared with previous years, for you are familiar with the subject. The visible supply 'if the world is to-day 1,125,000 bale- great? er than for the corresponding time last year, 1,320,000 more than in 1SS9, and 1, (315,000 more than in 18SS. This letter is prompted by my sense of the gravity of the situation and an ear? nest desire to suggest some practical plan of relief, which, with tho weight of your approval, would meet with acceptance by the merchants and planter* of the South. Very truly your.", Alfred B, Shepperson. ? What measures are you taking to slop that cough ? hot us suggest Do Witt's ('ongh and Consumption Cure. It is infallible. Wilhite & Wilhitu. TEN TEARS TYITII TOBACCO. Results of] tho Experience of a Practical Planter. To the Editor of the News and Courier : Since my connection with the tobacco trade press some six years ago I have written much for many leading papers on the subject of tobacco culture, but never before have I addressed a people so near my heart as those who will peruse the papers in this series of articles in the News and Courier. Ten years ago the writer left his fgther's cotton plantation in Lexington County to seek his own fortune among strangers. On that old farm he learned fully the cost of cotton making?and know-?, further, "'it at the present prices cotton growing does not pay. The people of the Palmetto State are looking for something better and the only substitute known to the writer is tobacco growing. I have watched close? ly and studied carefully the tobacco crop aod know that it leads all others as a money crop to day. I have gone further and made a careful study of the South Carolina soil and know that it is highly adapted to the growth of the very finest grades of bright tobacco. This truth has been demonstrated inside of the State already. There are ten Counties in South Carolina growing to? bacco at present and next year there will be twenty at least. The little tobacco colony around Florence has grown rap? idly. I have seen the tobacco grown there come in direct competition on the warehouse floors with the best tobacco grown in North Carolina and Virgiuia, and I have proudly seen the Palmetto State product lead all others in high prices. It is a fact beyond dispute that tobacco growing as a whole in South Carolina has paid better, so far as it has been carried, than it har, ever paid* in either Virgiuia or North Carolina. Such men as Rogers, Brunson, McCoIlough, Dargan, Whipple, Edwards, Gregg, Haynesworth, Harllee and scores of oth? ers in the Florence section can show larger returns than the same number of men can show in the name size territory in any other tobacco State. This is proof of what tcb:icco will do in South Caroli? na. The entire State, with the exception of the Coast Couuiie-', is highly adapted to the growth of tobacco. There are thou? sands of acres of old field pine land in the State now lying idle, which would grow the finest types of yellow leaf. There are thousands of acres more, now yielding one bale of cotton per acre, which would easily yield $100 worth of tobacco per acre. Many men wbo are well posted on the tobacco outlook now declare that within ten years at latest South Carolina will be the leading tobac? co growing State iu this country. Geor? gia is now getting ready to plant large crops of tobacco next year, but in many respects South Carolina has the advan? tage. It will only be a matter of a few years when warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco will be established in many of the leading towns of the State. Some persons claim that the large in? crease in acreage will grpatly reduce the price of tobacco. It is true that there may be soma decline, but the large in? crease in the consumption of tobacco from year to year will keep up high prices for twenty years to come j-.t least. England and Germany are now taking large quantities of just the kind of leaf which South Carolina grows and will in? crease their import of this tobacco every year. The high quality of our tobacco ha3 attracted attention all over the world, aud the planter who grows fine tobacco ca&always depend on getting high prices fork To those who do not know the value of the tobacco crop as a money-getter I would like to note a few examples which come up at random as I write. Two years ago Mr. R. H. Hicks, of Rocky Mount, this State, sold a twenty five acre crop at forty cents per pound, realizing a clear profit of over $8,000. In 1SS9 Mr. Runion, of Madison County, grew 1G,232 pounds of leaf, which brought him $6, 587.50. After paying all expenses he had a neat sum of $4,597.50 left. At Lucama, in the eastern part of the State, Mr. Lucas made $500 worth of tobacco on a single acre last year. Near the same place Mr. Armstrong cleared $10,000 on a single crop. If we stop to take a sin? gle example from South Carolina we can select Mr. F. M. Rogers, Jr., of Florence County, who cleared $9,400 on two crops of bright tobacco. I could cite dozens of large yields from South Carolina planters, but the want of space forbids. Iu the outset I wish to sound a note of warning to the reader. To grow tobacco requires close and tedious attention to de? tails. You can't grow it in the slipshod way you grow a crop of cotton. If you are a careless planter, one who half plants and half cultivate. I advise you to let to? bacco alone; of nil crops it is the most fastidious. You must give itclose and un? divided attention or Jet it alone altogether. If you will undertake to plant it and will bend every energy to make it a success you will find the golden weed pouriug golden dollars into your pocket. But unless you give it the closest attention let it alono. It costs something to get ready for the crop. Good barns cost money, but they soon pay for themselves. If you intend planting tobacco count on making some outlay before you get returns for your in? vestment. From a careful study of the tobacco crop, and from a life long acquaintance with the soil and climate of South Caro? lina, I know that tobacco is the only remedy which South Carolina planters oan apply to their present diseased finan? cial condition. If you will go to the Florence section aud see what the weed has done there you will open your eyes. Tobocco is distinctively ;i money crop, and that is just what the South Carolina planters want. In tho following series of articles the writer has laid down plain rules tor the management of the crop, which can easily be understood by every intelligent planter. Follow these rules carefully and you cannot go amiss. H. E, Harman. Winsion, N. C. ? A trial convinces the most skeptical: Carefully prepared, pleasant to the taste, Do Witt s Cough and Consumption t'nrc is a valuable remedy. WilhitD-A; Wilhitc. All ? It than to be ? Most the privileg? ? More th? petroleum was-1 -Of the only twenty-seven "?Good looks go a ly the paint wears off aj ? Never expect a law} own business. He'd starve* did. ? Every ms.n in trouble",: friends aro not as indigr should be. ? At ;he present rate of 'increase the* population of the earth will double itself - in 260 years. ? The pin factories of the United States manufacture about 18,000,000,000 pins a year. ? California's wine crop this year will s equal a quart for every man, woman and child in the United States. ? Try your horse without blind< and, if he drives just as well, do him? kindness to leave them off entirely hi after. ? It is noticeable that the man n\ prospers and stands high in his comt nity settles down once a year and settles up. ? You may cough and cough and cough and cough and cough, but you will not if you take Do "Witt's Cough and Consump? tion Cure. Wilhito & W?hlte. ? A farmer in Missouri grafted a1 mato vino into a potato vine and go! two cropa, one from the top and the oth? er from the roots. ? A bag of gold dust was found in St. Louis a few days ago. It was about 14 inches long, and weighed about"'tv pounds, and valued at $5,000. ? A pcistoffice haa been established^ Jabel Katerin, on top of Mount Si$ That historic old mountain is kn<j throughout the east as the "Mount Moses." ? "An honest pill is the noblest] of the apothecary." Do Witt's Early Risers cure constipation, .bij ness'aud sick headache. WilhiteF hite. ? A little girl was trying to mother how beautiful a certain lad] trill in singing, and eaid : "Oh, mi You.ought to hear her gargle ! "Si it so sweetly." ? Limp burners which -ne in cons use should be boiled occasional! pearline or soda suds, then scrubbed polished in brick dust, then they will as good service as new ones.. It is an established fact that Do Wj Little Early Riser's have, sale, and why ? SimpJy-because t_. plesant in taking and happy in resui pill for the multitude. Wilhite&WJ ? It is estimated that there ar paid church quartettes in New within a radius of five miles of that! This means ths 1 1,000 singers and or} ists earn their living, ora part of it, Church-chcir work, ? Twelve thousand tilkworms, uewly hatched scarcely weigh one quar? ter of an ounce, yet in the course of i life, which lasts unly about thirty five^ days, they will consume between S0O 400 pounds of leaves. ? Our experience covers many ills, mauy pills and many bills. Our ills are.; smaller, our pills arc smaller and ourbillo arc smaller when wo uslo De Witt's Littls . Early Risers. Wilhito Ifc ",! ? "I understand that Bellows, beats his wife i "He does? The old scoundrel! What makes him do it?" "Hje says when he goes into a euchre gaiqe he'd beat his grandmother if he coulc. ? A Missouri farmer jar of peach preserves tr^at have^kept in perfect condition for more thaqjfoirty^, ; years. They were recently tested and/*" found to have retained ^heir flavor W well as their looks. ? You don't want a torpid liver.\ You don't want a bad complexion. Youldon't want a bad breath. Y<ai] don't want a headache. Then uso De I Witt's ? JLittlo Early Risers, the iamou*. littlo ftills. Wilhite cfc Wilhite. r ? "What's the matter with yd fellows ?" said a rmtra!man,to two tral "Why don't fcpK wash yoursel " We's too busy," explained one. ' at what?" "Scourin' the country," the other with a broad grin. ? "No," said an old countrywo "no, I can't bear this fashion o; sleeves. And besides the Bible's ag it." And, sure enough, in Ezekiel 18, are to be found the words: "Woi the women who sew pillows to all a holes." ? When you take into considera the fact that the famine in Russia volves 40,000,000 human beings to nearly two-thirds of the population the United States?you get a com hensive idea of the extent of the Bu?en attendant upon the crop's shortage. ? Ignorance of the merits of De Wi Little Early Risers is a misfortune. Thee little pills regulate the liver, cure bead ache, dyspepsia, bad breath, constip and biliousness. Wilhito & WiUiite. ? A widower married a sifter of late wife, a few weeks afief-the the latter. An acquaintance wi just returned from a long journej pathetically inquired whom he] mourning for. "'For my sister-j was the hesitating reply. ? Owing to the failure of th bean crop of the State ofj Mexico, a large portion o are suffering for want of foo sands of them flock to the to feed upon the cactus fj tbeir only means of sustai ? Miss Tomax?"Oh, bad boy. What shall I you don't mind ?" Fre ; Mr. Van Jay did to si ; would kiss her if she dj ; guess she didn't, for h j ? They are now m , sugar, mineral aoid3 ? '.astos iiud smalls lik to be wholesale i ooming when they j cles of food 'out j instead of being I door of the labor to the kitchen Chij The plr.ia.sant southing.olI'ec| in need of a If mother bo gratifying r is thoj/est i'ariJJ ery family i-J* Wilhite. tbat brute, old nd daughters?" has a half gallon