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^^^^^^^^______________________ t?????_??__-__??_?___|__-_p?__??-?_??????---_-??_??-?-?-?-_-?_ BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON._ANDERSON, S. C THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1892. VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 35 HAS-BEEN STRUCK. Prices CufinHalfi f Ali Winter Goods to, be Closed Out to make room for Spring stock. THESE ARE FACTS, And we want yon to come and see for yourself and get some of the WE ARE OFFERING, Don't delay, bnt come yrhile the good things are going. Money saved is money made, W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple. NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! On and after January 1,1892, all Winter Boots ans Shoes in oof EstaisH Win be Bedneed from 16 to 80 per Cent in Price. COMB early and secure a RE AL BARGAIN, for we wJU surely offer you one. We cannot and will hot carry over Winter Goods from one season to another. .Shoes aroiaotlLfce wine?tbey don ot improve with age. Hence we will not allow goods to lay upon our shelves from season to season. We need the money to buy Spring Goods, ?Md tberuom to show them. This reduction inoluden a large lot of the famous Bay 8tata Prison-made Shoes, consisting of Plow Shoes, Brogans, English Ties, and twenty Cases of Boots. ? , ' J Bamember, that all St oes bearing our Arm name, or the name of the Manufactu? rer*, ariH guaranteed to giyo a reasonable amount of wear. We will exchange 8ho?s or xefjud the full amount of money paid to all parties not satisfied with their purchases, provided Chey return them jto us immediately unsoiled. ENERGY, ) ! FIDELITY, > INSURE 8TJCCES8. ? DISCRETION, ) JAS. P. GOSS^TT & CO.? Under Hotel Chiquola, Anderson, S. 0. WANTED? BaGS, HIDES and BEESWAX by PEOPLES & BURBISS, at good prices. SECOND HAND STOVES As good or better than most of the new ones now offered yon, which we are offering at a low price. We hope you will bear in mind that1 wo deal in? En, China Crockery,' Glassware, And EVERYTHING in the House Furnishing line, and at prices that cannot be beat by any one. Price elsewhere, then come to see us and you will be convinced. TIN ROOFING. ^ GRAVEL ROOFING and ' GUTTERING, Promptly done by experienced men. Yours, very truly, ( PEOPLES & BURRISS. WW STORE! KEEPING PACE WITH THE HARD TIMES! For the next sixty days our Mammoth Stock is at the MERCY OF OUR CUSTOMERS. OoME ONE, COME ALL, and get the BARGAINS. The Stock must be re dnoad to make room for our Spring Goods. Wishing one and all a happy and prosperous New Year, Respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT 11 Ml I DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. I?* We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you right. Give ns a call. Yours truly, E. W. BROWN ? SONS. TljA?H^'GoLUMN, All communications intended for this ^oluran ebonld be addressed to 0. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. C. WAES. Roberts, S. 0., Feb. 20,1892. Mr. Editor: As my other letter es? caped yonr "waste basket" I will try to answer your questions of last week. There were eight wars: King William's war, 1689-97. Cause: War having bro? ken oat between England and France, their colonies in America soon took up the quarrel. Second. Queen Anne's war, 1702-13. Cause: England declared war against France and Spain, their colonies ifa America were soon aroused to war. Third. King George's war, 1844-48. Cause: War having broke out anew be* tween England and France, their colo? nies in the New World at once took up the quarrel. Fourth. French war, 1754-63. Cause: Both the French and English claimed the tract of land lying west of the Allegheny Mountains along the Ohio river. The French seized the English surveyor and .captured their posts; also built forts along their line of | possession, Fifth. Revolutionary war, 1775-88. Cause: The British tried to tax the colonies to pay the expenses of the recent war. Six. War of 1812-14; Cause: The impressment nf American seamen and the capture of their shipB. Seven. Mt^ican war, 1846-47. Cause: ! The annexation of Texas to the United States. Eight. Civil war, 1861-65. Cause :. The antagonism between the North and South was mainly on account of the slavery question. This difficulty was first settled by the Missouri Com? promise in 1820. The "squattsr sover? eign^-" policy, roused to fury by the trouble in Kansas, while the Dred Scott decision and the attempted execution of j the -Fugitive Slave Law, together with the John Brown raid, made it now plain that war would be the result. The Southern States, headed by South Caro? lina, seceded from the Union, so war was declared between the North and South, Respectfully, Geace Gilme'e. _ / Anderson, 8. C, Feb. 22, 1892. Mr Editor: In regard to your ques? tions of last week, my answer is this, there were four wars: Revolutionary in 1775, the war with England in 1812, the Mexican in 1845 and the Civil in 1861. The cause of the Revolutionary was that England wanted to rule us, and we did not want to be ruled by her, no we re? belled. The war with England was because England claimed the rights of j stopping American vessels, the British aroused the Indians against the Ameri? cans, so war was declared against Great Britain June 19, 1812. The Mexican war was about the boundary line between Texas and Mexico. The Civil war was whether wc should have slaves or not. Bettie Erskine. Broadaway School. THE TWO CRABS. Neva, 8. C, Feb. 16, 1892. Mr,'Editor: My opinion of the fable of the "Two Grabs" is this: If she had wanted the young one to walk right she should have walked right herself. It is just like a school with large pupils and small ones. The larger ones generally want the younger ones to behave well, and don't behave themselves, and they are the ones to set the examples for the little ones. If the larger pupils would always behave well, the teacher would have very little trouble with the little ones. I go to bchool at Long Branch to Mies Bettie Earlo. Very respectfully, Henry Milford. Belton, S. 0., Feb 23, 1892. Mr. Editor: Seeing that there was a prize offered in the Anderson paper for the best composition on the fable of the "Two Crabs," I thought I would try for it, although I do not know much about writing compositions. I think it shows that parents should set good examples for their children, as a child will gener? ally notice what parents do and will try to imitate them. I am a little girl 12 years old, and I am now going to school to Mr. J. T. Smith. Virginia Bigby. Neva, S. G, Feb. 16,1892. Mr. Editor: My opinion of the fable of the "Two Crabs," is this: The older Crab should have walked straight herself if she wanted the younger one to do so. And so it is with people who have chil? dren, if they want their children to walk the straight road they must walk that road before them. Then I am Bure they will gladly follow. I go to school at Long Branch to Miss Bettie Earle. Respectfully, Mary Milford. Belton, S. C, Feb. 22,1892. Mr Editor: I saw the offer of a prize iu reference to tbe fable of the "Two Crabs." I thought I would write a few lines. It teaches that mothers should set good examples for their children to go by. They ought not to find fault with others beiore tbey do with them? selves. I go to school at Belton, and Mr. Smith is my teacher. I am 11 years old. Jessie Geer. Neva, S. C, Feb. 17,1892. Mr. Editor: Mr. Smith was trying to teach Henry and James how to plow. He showed them both how and then went away. When he came back Henry was holding his plow right, and James wan holdiog hih plow wrong. Mr. Smith said James you are not holding your plow the way I Bfoowed you. "Why I thought 1 was holding it tho way yoo showed me. You show me again and I will try to hold it like you." The way to teach others how to do right is to first do right yourself. This is my opinion about tbe fable of the "Two Crabs." Miss Betttc-i Earle is my teacher. Very respectfully, Lois Milford. Friendship, S. C, Feb. 16,1892. Mr. Editor: In regard to the "Two Crabs" my version is this: We have no right to accuse others of doiog evil if we indulge in the same habits.' First cast the beam out of our own eyes, and then we can see more clearly to pnll the mote out of our neighbor's eye. If we would have others to do right we must first do right ourselves, aod some one will be sure to follow. Parents need not think or expect their children to be something great if they wallow in the mud them? selves. As a rule children will be just about what their parents are in morals. They will generally come up to the ex* ample their parents set them. Parents need not give their children advice j unless they live up to the advice they 1 give themselves. Precept upon precept will b*3 worthless, unless a good example accompanies them. Not only are parents, responsible, but we, as scholars, are re? sponsible for the example we set before the smaller scholars. There is never a. time but what somebody is following onr example. Actions speak louder than words. One example is worth a dozen precepts. I go to school at Friendship to Mr. J. B. Spearman. Yours 'respectfully, j Oscar Callaham. Belton, S. 0., Feb. 20,1892. Mr. Editor : I am going to try for the prize about the fable of the "Two Crabs." I (hink it teaches that mothers ought to set a good example for their children, as children generally follow the example of their parents. / It also teaches that teach? ers ought to sec a good example for their pupils, and that older pupils should set a good example for younger ones. I go to school at Dorchester to my sis? ter Anna. I am 12 years old. I Very truly, Jessie Grubbs. Belton, 8. C, Feb. 20, 1892. Mr. Editor: I am going to try for the prize. The "Two Crabs" teaches that parents and teachers should set a good example for the.younger ones to go by, and tbat they should not find fault with others before themselves. 'I go to school at Dorchester to my'sis? ter Anna. I am 10 years old. - 'Very respectfully, Bertha Grubbs. Bound for Liberia. New York, February 22.?A party of colored menr. numbering about 100, ar rived here to-day with their families from the Indian Territory, on their way to Liberia. Africa. They were a curious looking lot of people, dressed in all sorts of fashion. The police took them to Stephen Merritt's Mission to give them shelter from the drizzing rain and some thing to eat. One of the number, a venerable darkey named George Washington, told the story of their wanderings. . He said they came from Redland Territory, in the Cherokee Nation, sixtoen miles from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Most of them owned property and raised cotton, bat last summer the crop was a failure and they became dissatisfied. The trip to Liberia had been discussed last Jnne. Rev. Mr. Hill, their paiitor, favored the project and consented to go with tbem as their leader. Mr. Hill told them tbat it would cost $1,500 to get to this city and that the steamship company would give them free passage to Africa. His proposition was accepted. Many of them sold their homes for al? most nothing to raise the amonnt. The money was given to Rev. Mr. Hill. The pastor started out to find accommodations for his people when they arrived and got lost for a time. He left his family in the ferry house, but could not tell where it was. He went to the police headquarters and asked if the police would not try and find them. Rev. Mr. Hill tells a sad story of his people's experiences. He said that some time ego be received a circular from a man named Coppinger of Washington, manager of the American Colonization Society. The circular stated that negroes could go to Africa free of charge after taking the oath of allegiance to the Afri can ,gcv?rnment administered here at the custom house. This they found was un? true. The pastor and his people are left here without means, and all of them be? reft of home and farms. An Exciting Wedding In Georgia. A runaway couple pursued by an an? gry father rushed into .he bedroom of a sleeping justice and demanded an imme diate marriage, Arrayed in a flowing gown of white, the startled justice leaped from his couch, and, seeing a woman present, aa quickly leaped behind the bed. I "What do you want?" he thundered, peering wildly over the headboard. "Want to get married I" shouted the man. "Take her and go, and God help you!" cried the justice. And the nuptial knot was tied?Atlanta Constitution. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County, j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the Cry of Toledo, County and State afore slid, and tbat said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that can? not be cured by the use of Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. ~?, A. W. GLEASON, j seal j Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly aud acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for list of testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Hb__-Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? A thing of beauty is a joy until you marry it. LENGTH OF LIFE. The Changes Constantly Going on In the Human Body. Among the many differences between not living and living things is the fact that changes are constantly going on in those parts of the body which are alive and occur in certain definite times; and the amount of time allowed for these changes depends largely on the proper? ties of the living matter itself. The time required to hatch an egg depends upon what sort of an egg it is; it is the same in a chicken hatching oven as it is under the setting hen. Growth, decay end death have each their allotted times and sea? sons?the little mass of living matter which produces a hair can form just so much length of hair and no more, and when it has done its work it shrivels and dies; when another little mass of cells {takes its place and begins to push out a ' new hair. The life of a single hair in a I grown man in from two to six years; ev? ery day he loses from thirty to fifty dead j hairs and begins to produce nearly as ? many new ones. So, also, each animal has a certain time which it can live; it is like a ma? chine constructed to run bo long and no longer. For most animal this time is j about five times that required for the an ?mal to obtain its full growth and devel ipment, which in man occnrs when he is rora 20 to 22 years old, so that he ought 0 live from 100 to 110 years. Ab a mat pr of fact, the average life of ail the ba? nes that come into the world is only .boat 88 years; very few live to be over 0, and not more than one out of 2,000 sea his hundredth birthday. Is this due > original differences in the babies lemseives, or in the way they are (ought up, in the places in which they be, in the air they breathe and in their ode of life after they become fall? gown ? To answer these questions one c the first things we want to know is nether people die equally fast every nere, and, if not, where is it that they d soonest or live longest? The answer Uhis is that people die much more rap uy in some countries than in others; ft instance, they die twice as fast in Bngary as they do in Sweden. In the ylr 1889, out of every 1,000 persons liv 1 in in the following countries there died, ir?ngland, 18; in Norway, 17; in Swe de, 16; in Austria, 28; in Hungary, 82; infJermany, 23; in France 21, and in It?, 25 How many died in the United St as we do not know, because no accnt of them was kept in the greater pajof the country ; but it was probably 17 [ 18 out of each 1,000 living. We do knhowever, that they died faster in son cities than in others. For example, oubf each 1,000 people living there die.during the year ending May 31, 189 in Now York city, 27; in Brooklyn, 25,n Boston, 24; in Philadelphia, 22; in ricago, 21; in Detroit, 20; in St. Lot, 19; in Minneapolis, 15, while in theountry districts the loss was only 11 or !ont of each 1,000. Ig, we know that they died faster in son parts of the same city,than they didn others; thus, the death rate per thoand in Boston in the eighth ward waihirty-three, while in the twenty foui ward it was eighteen. In Brook? lyns the fifth ward, it was thirty-three, andi the twenty-fourth ward eighteen ; andn Philadelphia it was 34 in ward fon.nd 14 in ward thirty-three. What aree causes of these great differences ? In i first place, they depend upon the nuier of little children present in these difent places. The baby's grasp of ezince is at first feeble; the little flai of life in it flickers and trembles, anc doeB not require much to nut it oufltogether. The heavy death rates occamorjg the children. Thus, in the fuu ward in Philadelphia out of each thand white children under five years oldlo died ; while in the thirty-third waonly 53 died, which accounts for a larpart of the difference in the death rattf the two wards, and at the same timjtows that there must be some great difhce between them in their influence on'd life. L not quite correct to say that in thotlaces where the fewest number per thond die the people live the longest, butfs true in most cases, and we may theire say that people live longer in smtowns than in large cities. This h truot only in the United States, but all r the world. Ins now see where the greatest nun* of old people, in proportion to theal population, are to be found liv ingthe Uaited States. An examina? tion the records of the tenth census shothat in 1880 this was in New Eog lanOf each 100,000 white persons the/ere then living and over 80 years, oldi Connecticut^ 996; in Maine, 1, 147i Massachusetts, 809; in New Hahire, 1,478; in Rhode Island, 827 and Vermont, 1,222. These are high? er ?es than are shown for any other Sta In New York the corresponding proion was 563; in Pennsylvania, 411) Maryland, 347, and in Delaware 409a Ohio, it was 412; in Indiana, 261 Illinois, 215 in Iowa, 218; in Mian 319; in kinnesota, 139; in Keiky, 328; in Tennessee, 347; in Vira, 501; in North Carolina, 507 ; in th Carolina, 441; in Florida, 204; in rgia, 301; in Alabama, 341; in Misppi, 345; in Louisiana, 161; and in %, 111. In Montana, it was only 27 Nevada, 26 ; in Wyoming 35; in Ida'.O; in Dakota, 57; in Arizona, 53, in Colorado, 81. F a study of these figures it is very plabat the fact that thete are more old)ie in one State than in another, depi very much on how long the Stats been settled. lie movement from the eastern Stalo take possession of the broad prai the fertile valleys and the gold ander threaded mountains of the greaeet, those who went were the you:the energetic and the strong, leavbehind them the fathers and the grathers in the New England home* And movement has been been bo re cenlas been so comparatively short a timihe history of the nation since the Stafeet of the Mississippi have beec fille? and pierced with the railroads' ho^ssary to supply large groups ol I peojhat there has not been time for any large number of grandfathers and grandmothers to grow up and get their hairs properly whitened and their backs bent to the carve which belongs to 80 years of age. When another hundred years have gone we may be sure that there will not be nearly so great a difference in the number of old people in the different States, but we may also be quite sure that then, as now, those people will live long? est who live among the wind-swept hills of the northern and middle States of this country. Perhaps I ought to say not "people," but "white people/' for the negro lives longer in the South than he does in the North. One of the best means of measuring the relative length of life in the different States is that afforded by the experience of the thirty principal life insurance companies of this country previous to 1874, including the records of over a mil? lion of lives, insured for over twenty-six hundred millions of dollars. From these records we learn that the States and Territories in which the insu? rance companies had the least loss by be? ing compelled to pay the money they had agreed to pay in case of the death of the persons insured in them, or, in other words, where healthy, full-grown white men and women, sufficiently well-off to pay insurance premiums, lived the long? est were the following: Nebraska, 61; Iowa, 76; Wisconsin, 77; Vermont, 80; West Virginia, 81; Maine, 83; Massa? chusetts, 86; Kansas, 86; Oregon, 86; Illinois, 87; Colorado, 87; Delaware, 88; New Hampshire, 89; Rhode Island, 89 ; and Michigan, 89. In this list the figures following the names of the States show the proportion of the loss by death, if the average loss is considered to be 100, so that the smaller the figure the greater is the average length of life indicated. On the other hand, stated in the same way, the States where the loss was great? est, and the length of life least, were : Louisiana, 176; Texas, 175; Arkansas, 172; Florida, 167; Mississippi, 164; Tennessee, 163; Alabama, 134; and Maryland, 129. The corresponding fig? ures for some of the other States are: California, 97; Connecticut, 94; Georgia, 96; Kentucky, 103; Minnesota, 107; Missouri, 111; New York, 95; Ohio, 93; Pennsylvania, 92; South Carolina, 115; Virginia, 104. These figures also show that life is shorter in the South than in the North, and in the flat, low lying grounds than among the hills and mountains. Thus far I have been speaking of the length of life as measured by ordinary time?by days and weeks and years. But there is another way of measuring the life of a man, or of a boy, and that is by the number of new things that he sees and hears, the number of thoughts that he has, the amount of work that he does. There have been men who for several years slept twenty-four hours out of the twenty four each day, and in one sense such a life, though extended many years, is but a short one. It is not only how long a man lives but how much he lives that is to be consider? ed. Every boy krjows that a week of one part of his life is worth a month of another part. Where, then, do men live the moat ? You can easily tell the places where men think they live the most, for they are the placea where there are the ! most men, that is, the great cities. There is where a man lives not only his own life, but a p*rt of a dozen, a hundred, a thousand other lives as well; where he has the strongest inducements to make the most of every hour he can spare from sleep, either for work or for play. What almost all boys desire is to have mach life and many kinds of it; to see the entire show and not to have to wait too long for something new. And you all know that the more life you get in a giv? en time, the more sensations and changes you perceive, f be more you do, the short? er seems the time. When the same things and the same people are Been day after day, a man's day may not only seem long to him, but actually be long in the Scripture sense?that is, increased in number and yet give him less life. It is the instinctive recognition of this fact that make3 the farmers' boys dissat? isfied with mending country life, and leads the young men and women to seek the cities. And hence, it is that our cities are growing so fast, although in many parts of them the people are.dying so fast. But is this shortening of life in the cities a necessity ? It is not possible to obtain many days as well as full days, to have most of the opportunities, the ex? citements, the society, and the pleasures of 'city life, or at least all that are really worth having, without giving up the prospect of a peaceful and pleasant old age? Certainly it is; and people are begin? ning to understand this, and to ask that it shall be made possible for them to do it. This is a piece of work that the boys all over the States, country boys as well as city boys, will have to undertake, and they will have full lives in doing it. How it is to be done?that, as Kipling says, is another etory, which may be told hereafter. "How delicious ia the winning Of a kiss, at love's beginning," sings the poet, and bis sentiment is true with one possible exception. If either party has the Catarrh, even love's kies loses its sweetness. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is a sure cure for this repulsive and distressing affliction. By its mild, soothing, antiseptic, cleansing and dealing properties it cures the worst cases. $500 reward offered for an incu? rable case. ? Ponnington, 'lie inventor of tbo air? ship, says that in about a year he will have an airship capable of carrying fifty passengers across tho Atlantic. It will travel at the rato of UOO miles an hour. A man can go to sleep in New York and wake up in London. The mails can go from New York to Chicago in five hours. Tho ship will bo built of alumi? num, and will bo nearly as litrht as water. It will fly against the wind, and wyll bo safer than railway or steamship locomotion. Mr. Ponnington's compa? ny has a capital of ?30,000,000. The com? pany's workshops nro located M Mount Cannol, 111. SAEGE FLUNKETT. The Southern Farmer's Belief Must Come in a Bountiful Production.' A "progress" that increases bread aud meat is what is wanted. You might as weli tell young folks not to marry or a woman not to follow tbe fashions as to tell farmers not to raise cotton. A way to raise it cheaper iu these Southern United States than in any other portion of tbe world is the best thing to find out. All will agree that in the pro? ducing of crops the improvement of ma? chinery cannot be overdone, The farmer's increase in production did not keep pace with the spirit of ex? travagance that was growing. The old spinning wheels and the hanks of thread; the old looms with shuttles a flying; the warping bars and quilt frames and the old reel that cracked with a snap that made us jump at one huudred turns, these things were put aside, for tha ma? chines of the towns done such work so cheap. The farmer father, though, kept right along iu his old way of producing. At night around the fireside there ceased* to be the walking back and forth of the young girls at the spinning wheels, draw? ing out the white thread between their fingers as the spindle twirled into thread, this passed away the old father kept along in his simple way. Bight in the cultivation of crops is where progress is needed?and no where else. Let the mothers educate the chil? dren back into the old-time ways and simple customs, while the father reaches out for everything that will give an in* crease of yield. The liip Van Winkle sleep has passed over with most of the "old clod hoppers" and will soon be gone from all of them. The farmer is on top, in other words, and the "problem" now is for the town folks to save themselves. There are a few farmers yet who are sliding around watching their neighbors to see how the crops are to be pitched and hoping that no other fellow will plant any cotton but himself, but a greater number have fig* ured it out that the speculation on fictitious quantities has more to do with prices than does acreage. If Jay Gould buys 20,000 bales of futures it makes them real to the extent of his backing and affects the price, is the way it is thought. If a short acreage is really the thing, then stir up the belief that everybody is going to plant a heap of it. But it in my notion that we don't want to reduce acreage and we want to raise a great quantity more over the present produc? tion. The world must know that we can raise better cotton than anywhere else and at such figures as to shut off compe? tition. How to do this is the question. Use machinery, is what I say. Stimulate the invention of Southern agricultural implements. We want chopping machines, picking machines, planting machines and culti? vators. Machines that will enable one man to do as much work as three or four is what the farmers want. I am not crawfishing from my position on the evils of progress. Such things as cause the soil to yield more abundant is nothing to compare with "modern pro? gress" in its general acceptation. And then, too, the matter of invention has been out of proportion in the interest of other industries as compared with South? ern farm implements. I say "Southern" for the reason that Southern farmers have opt bestired themselves to stimulate inventions suitable for the section as have the farmers of the North. Look at Brown now as he walks behind "old Kit" and slashes her side with the plow line and yells "gee," "haw," "whoa fool, come here." He grits his teeth and fairly foams at the mouth as the plow hits a root and the handle gives him a diff in the side. Poor "old Kit;" she gets jerked and cussed and Brown fairly tiptoes as he tries to 80UZ8 the plow deeper in the ground, but it jostles him up and makes him mader as it jumps and bumps over roots and bard places, while "old Kit9' is humped like a camel iu the strain, wondering all the time what makes her master so mad. Brown is a fool. He worries along and manages to scratch over about three* quarters of an acre a day, while George Truitt sets up and rides on a machine as i big as life to pulverize five to six acres. Brown makes a bale to five acres; Trnitt makes five bales to the acre. Brown makes about two bales to the hand; Truitt makes about thirty bales. Truitt's is the kind of overproduction thac we want in the South?a production that says to the world "you can't compete, you'll lose your money if you try." There is lots of Browns, but they will grow fewer mighty fast from now on. Iu tbe meantime it is poor town folks who are to be pitied. Nature is plum out of joint in the towns. All night long the machinery must be kept running?an unnatural life for the operatives. The women are uneexing themselves; in Church and State they are conspicuous and you can't combat 'em. If it was only in auch things that the sex was un sexing I woulden't say a word, for all you've got to do is to give that kind rope, but there is an innocent great majority of girls "working girls," they are called, who, in the goodness of their pure hearts, wish to help the fathers and the brothers support the family. They are making loafers out of men. It is no use in saying that it's a sorry man that whine over woman competition, and I want the girls to understand that I love them for the spirit of their inten- j tions, but it's a mistake. Five thousand idle men in Atlanta to? day are walking the streets and standing in groups upon the corners for the reason that women competition has made a sur? plus?the working men tell me this. To the country, boys, is the remedy. And take the girls with you. What could be nicer than to see the fields cultivated by fine young white men ? But one tbing, I will answer, and tbat would be to see the young white women doing the domestic work tbat is now be? ing done by the "sister in black." Where is the compromise to dignity in hiring out to "be keepers of the honse," as against keeping books in the stores, measuring calico, acting as agents, or any other of the pursuits of women. I don't want to be harsh about this matter?I mean it for good. Do as I say. Get back to old ways of economy and in* dustiy, and aB you Bit by the blazing fires of winter nights chat and sing and remember me. Sargk Plunkett. Plant Rice. In giving this ad vice, we do not premi? se a fortune the first year, nor in several years, to every one who adopts this ad? vice. Neither do we advise anyone to drop all other crops to turn his attention exclusively to rice culture. We do offer it, however, after mature consideration and study, as a partial substitute for cot? ton, which all admit is a profitless crop at current and prospective prices. For some months we have been casting about for something we could recom? mend the farmers of South Carolina to try in place of cotton. We say to try, I because it would be nowise for any far? mer to begin the planting of an unac? customed crop upon a large, or upon a small scale for that matter, in theezpec tstion of large and immediate returns. The only safe course is the wise course, and wisdom dictates tbat the change from cotton be made gradually, carefully fully feeling tho way at each step. In this way alone can the risk of further loss be reduced to a minimum. The ptincipal requirements to be ful? filled in a crop that proposes to sup? plant cotton are two: 1. A marketa? ble crop at good figures ; and 2, a crop tbat can be raised upon a large propor? tion of South Carolioa soil. Both con? ditions are fulfilled in rice, we think, in measures sufficient to warrant the trial at least. 1. As to the first condition, it is only necceasary to state that the production of rice in the United States is far below the requirements of the people for con? sumption. This fact should insure a ready market and a good price. That clean rice does bear a good price, needs no proof with the farmers who buy the article for table use. They know that every peck they buy at the store costs them from 80 to 100 cents. As good rice turns out half in the beating, this means that they are paying at the rate of two dollars per bushel for rough rice ; and when it is understood that the yield varies from fifteen to seventy-five bush? els per acre, it is not hard to see that there is a considerable margin for profit after paying for the beating and the mar? keting. It should be stated, however, iu tbe connection, that the higher yield refer* red to above, is rarely if ever realized upon uplands, and then only when soil, cultivation and season are in conjunction. Iu this section of the State, where no at? tention is given to fertilization and the crop is limited to wet soils that have been planted in rice for a long time, the yield is about twenty bushels. 2. Can rice be grown upon a considera ble portion of the area now devoted to cotton culture? This is a more diffi? cult question to answer, so as to not mis lead anyone, Our conviction is that it can be grown. We have observed vol? unteer hills of rice very frequently in our corn and cotton fields, and they have invariably made good heavy heads. A neighbor's field that has been run iu cot ton for a long time, and that is more? over distinctly high-land, well adapted to cotton, was successfully cultivated in rice long ago?indeed, we have frequent? ly heard of tbe wonderful rice made on that field. These observations lead us to conclude that rice may be successfully grown upon a very large portion of the lands of the State heretofore run in cot ton. At any rate we were sufficiently impressed with the probability of success to set apart for that purpose, some time ago, a portion of tbe area originally in tended for cotton this year. While a moist soil is the natural habitant of the rice plant, there can be no doubt that it grows, though with less luxuriance, upon uplands. Our own observations point to the conclusion that the most critical period of growth for up-land rice is at the stage of heading out. A drought at that stage is fully as fatal to a large yield of rice as a wet July is to a full yield of cotton. In our judgment, it is at this point that the chief superiority of Ion lands or bottoms shows itself, more than in any peculiar quality of soil, or in any extraordinary degree of moisture con? stantly in tbe soil. Candor compels us to state that our past experience iu raising upland rice has not been successful. It was limited to a very few acres of low-land that has been run in tice for many years, and with the exception of a few rows, no effort was made at fertilization. The difference between the fertilized and the unfertilized rows are sufficiently mark? ed, however, to warrant the conclusion that it will respond to intelligent fertili? zation and cultivation. Our conclusion is therefore, with the light before us, that a large proportion of land now planted in cotton may be turned into rice with profit; and tbat a market may be readily had at good prices; but we do not advise any farmer to plant enough to cripple him in case of failure?and in case of success the first year, it would be unsafe to stake all on one crop, for the possibilities and probabilities in the case cannot be developed in one year nor in two years. As to the time and method of plant? ing. Select the land, giving preference to low lying lands and bottoms. Pre pare it as if for cotton. The planting should begin about the same time at corn or a little later. Having selected the seed carefully, open the bed with an old bull tongue or the plow foot, Ther drop three to six grains of rice at inter? vals of fifteen to eighteen inches. B'usl' over lightly with a board fastened tr plow. Be careful not to cover too deep; and if packiag rains come, it may be necessary to run a light harrow or hand rake over the beds when the plants begin to come up. There is more danger in hav ingtoo many stalks than too few in the bill. Subsequent culture is very similar to that of cotton. For instructions about selecting seed, planting, cultivation, bar vesting or marketing, we re'er our readers to a small pamphlet prepared by the Dan Talmage's Sons & Co., Charleston, S.C., New Orleans or New York. On appli* [ cation to them at either place, a copy will be sent you free of charge.?Cotton Plant. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? It doesn't take many pints of whis? key to make a peck of trouble. ? Thirteen tons of pontage stamps sre said to have been sold iu New York city last year. ? We cannot be wise in everything, : but we can at least be punctual to our engagements.. ? There is more than sadness in some | of the sacrifices made by our American j girls to a title. ? 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The life, fortune and happiness of everyone depends on his knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and com? plicated than chess. ? If dull, spiritless and stupid; if your blood is thick and sluggish; if yoi'r ap-: petite is capricious and uncertain, you need a Sarsaparilla. For best results take De Witt's.?W?hlte and Wilhito. 3 <4 ? Mr. George W. Sheridan, who lives on Rose Hill, owns one of the most truly'; patriotic hens in the United States. Sat? urday morning the bird laid an egg which was different from an ordinary egg, in that it bad a little cup on one end of it, and in the center of the cup was a beautifully formed C. It was evident tbat the fowl wished to show its marked j preference for Cleveland, and could find/ no other way of making itself understood. Mr. Sheridan now firmly believes that ". Cleveland will be the next president,?. ; Columbus [Ga ) Enquirer Sun, ? 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