The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 30, 1893, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1893. VOLUME XXVIIL?NO. 9 Liver Complaint Jaundice, sick headache, vertigo, 'biliousness, and ?dyspepsia, ?cured by "la bilious attacks, and for sick hendache, to which I am subject, I find no medicine so effective as Ayer's Pills."?Chas. Gawblnl, Smith's Ranch, Sonoma Co., Cah "I was troubled with sick headache for ten years, but was finally cured by using ayer'a Pills."-P. J. Haag. Scott, Wls. Ayer's Cathartic Pills Pwparod byDr.J.C.Ayer&Co., Ld well, Maua. EvCT)' DOSO EffeCtlVO? BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS. |n the late sale of the General Stock of Goods to Brown, Osborne & Co., we reserved Buggies, Wagons, Harness, &c, which we now offer to the trade at reduced prices, and ask for a call from all wanting such articles. > The business of the old concern, and also that of Bleckley & Fretwell, for Mules and Horses, must be wound up, and we beg everybody ouring us a ?cent to come on and pay up at once. We will take Cash or Cotton in exchange jbr<debts. Remember, that settlement mtwi be made. "We want no costs or proceedings in the Courts. We have helped you. Hdp us now by paying your ihonedt debts. Very truly yours, SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. , Anderson S. C., Aug. 19,1893. BROWN, OSBORNE & CO. [EREBY respectfully inform the public that they have bought the Stock of ?Goods of Sylvester Bleckley Company, and will continue the business at the ?old stand. The new Firm is composed of Fred. G. Brown, W. R. Osborne, James T. Pearson and J. H. von Hasseln, who desire to extend thanks to their many friends and customers for the liberal patronage so generously bestowed upon ithea in the past, whilst connected with the Sylvester Bleckley Company, and (to assure them that they will do everything in their power to merit a continu *drace of the same. Our Mr. F. G. Brown will be found on the Square at all times prepared to give you the highest price for your Cotton. Our Buyer,. Mr. W. R. Osborne, has gone North to buy a large and com? plete stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes, &c. &c. , BAGGING AND TIES?We have on hand, and arriving 1200 Rolls Bagging, 1500 Bundles Ties, and will make it to the interest of Farmers and Ginnere to buy their supply from us. Yours very truly. BROWN, OSBORNE & CO. STE?A ENGINES. IE kave on hand for sale at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES?in fact, AT .COST, and less than Cost?the following Machinery. They must go: ? One 25-horse power Erie City Detached Eugiue. One 20:horse power Erie City Detached Engine. One 30-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Steam Boiler. One 20-horsc power Erie Cily Return Tubular Steam Boiler. One 20-horse power Erie City Portable Steam Boiler. Two 15-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Boilers. One 12-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Boilers. Three 12-horse Nagle Detached Engines. One 12-horse power Nagle Portable Boiler. One second-hand 5-horse power Engine. Several Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Cane Mills, Evaporators, &c. BSa- Now is the time for BARGAINS. If you mean business get our prices. I SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., JJLBERTQN, GA. ANDERSON, S. C. 1-i - ? ? 5= FRUIT JARS. T?7'B HAVE REDUCED THE PRICE WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL. LISTEN s HALF GALLON MASON JARS.90c per dozen. ONE QUART MASON JARS......76c. per dozen. ^?r* Come early and get a supply of Jars and extra Rubbers, as the price may ad? vance when we get out. WEBB & SIMPSON, Below Alliance Store, Main 8treet. FAST TIME Asheville, N. C. to Chicago, His. Lv. ASHEVTLLB, Lv. Knoxville, Ar. Harriman, Ar. Lexington, Ar. Louisville, Lv. Louisville, Ar. Indianapolis, Ar. Chicago, Through Pullman Car. 4:08 p.m. 8:co p.m. 9:50 p.m. 4:30 a.m. (R. & D. R. R:) (E. T. V. & G. Ry.) (E. T. V. & G. Ry.) (Q. & C. R. R.) (Lou. So.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. Tc. R.) 7:59 a.m. 8:15 a.m. ih40 a.m. 5:45 p.m. VIA Tho Richmond & DanviHc, 1 East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia ; Queen & Crescent and Pennsylvania Railroads, f NOTE THE Cincinnati, secured Big Four Route at Cincinnati, Louis TIME AMD A through Chicago Sleeper via at Harriman arrives at Chicago by 5:15 p.m. Stop-overs allowed at ville and Indianapolis. OAIaXj ON OIrL WRITE John L. Milam: Trav. Pass. Agt., C. W. Murphy, Ticket Agem. Knoxville, Tenn. Asheville, N. C. C. A. Benscoter, Div. Pass. Agt., B*. W. Wrenn, G. P. & T. A., knoiv3CIiIi 1:, a?anarso*. The Most convenient Trunk ever devised. . - 9 JHE THAT is arranged to roll back, leav? ing the bottom of the Trank easy of ao ? CCS*. Nothing to break or get oat of order. The Trey can be lifted oat if desired, and to bay this style is a guarantee that you will get the strongest Trunk made. If your Dealer cannot tarnish yon, notify the manufacturers, h. w. rountree 4. bro., Rir.HMONp, V*. C*'- '? '? ? , ::" f.. BOTTOM PRICES. Buckeye Milk Churn! On the Concussion priociple?a boy S year.j old can churn 8 to 10 gallons easily. Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Fly Fans, Fly Traps, At Cost. MASON'S FRUST JARS One quart 85c. per dozen, two quarts $1.10 per dozen. JL* H. SEEL. JOHN K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, - - 8. C. Pjb5,189; 81 flin BELL ART, Help the Poor In the Hour of Pestilence "The pestilence that Walketh in darkness!" Time was when God pnnished his people for their idolatry by the sword and by famine and pes? tilence. Idolatry was the chief sin of the nations?the one most abhored by the Almighty?the violation of the first commandment. "I am the Lord thy God," and for this he sent upon them the most terrible of all afflic? tions. The prophet said unto the Jews, "Because of this, one-third of thee shall die by the sword?one third by pestilence, and one-third I will scatter to the winds." That prophecy was literally fulfilled. It seems to me that a man could risk anything with less danger than infidelity or atheism or agnosticism. That is the unpardonable sin for which the Jews suffered, such awful curses. They do not suffer for it now for in the whole race is not to be found an infidel. They believe in God. But the world is getting better. Wherever there is a Christian civili? zation famine and pestilence have almost ceased to be. Just as Chris? tianity progresses so does science, and the time seems to ?e near at hand when the sword shall rust in its scab? bard and all the conflicts of nations shall be settled by arbitration, just as the Behring sea fisheries have been settled. I believe that the time is near at hand when the pestilence that walketh by night will be annihilated by scientifio remedies?when people will not have to fly for their lives to helpless will be as safe in Brunswick and Pensacola as those who have means to get away. The saddest feature in poverty's hard fate is the utter helplessness of the poor in the time of pestilence?a time when even pity sleeps and char I ity grows cold. We who live on the highlands open our doors to the refu | gees and say come and abide with us, but no message is sent to the poor who cannot come. Once I saw them tumbled into box cars by the hundred and in the dark night they were hur? ried away from Memphis to go they knew not where. Every town and city along the line was guarded and the sentinels said, "not here, don't stop, keep moving." I rode on the platform of a cab all that long and weary night and until we were stopped within a few miles of Chattanooga, where the quarantine oncers halted us, and I cpvertly hid myself in their car and got away. The train of the poor refugees was hurried through the city and on to the mountains of East Tennessee, but what became of them I never knew. It was an awful time and I hope! that such troubles will never happen again. I don't believe they will happen, for as science ad? vances so does safeguards against all kinds of danger and distress. There was a time when New York could have been destroyed by a great fire, but not now. The horrors of fire and sword and famine and pestilence are gradu? ally being ameliorated. These horrors are terrible upon the poor, and are re? lieved only by death. The rich can find refuge, but the poor make no new friends. The State or the city offi? cials may hurry them away from an infected city, but they find no open doors, no welcome, no homes for shel? ter. I was thinking last night how much better off the poor are in the country than in the cities. What a mistake for a poor man to move to a city. He had better hire out to a farmer and live in a log cabin and let his wife and children have a patch of corn and cot? ton and raise chickens and breathe pure air and drink good water. Our traveling preacher told us last night about his recent visit to the four Counties of Banks and Jackson and Franklin and Hall, where he preached to the people in country Churches and broke bread with them in their coun? try homes. How humble, how unpre? tending and yet how happily they lived. Everybody dropped everything and went to Church?men, women and children. Everbody in the neighbor? hood belonged to the Church and there was no material to work on un? til it grew up and was old enough to join. Even the babies had to go, and if they cried in the good old way no? body took on about it. When it got right bad the mother took it out and about that time another began, but nobody seemed to think it an outrage. The preacher had to preach a little louder, so as to dwwn out the child? that was all. He says the front seats are the iirst ones filled and the young men help to fill them. Nobody seemed to fancy the back seats, and they were only taken as a last resortJ by those who came late. He says he has preached in finer Churches, where the seats were more comfortable and the lights were brighter and the singing more harmonious, but he never mingled with a better people. They are all farmers and work hard and live humble and thankful, and would never have found out there was a financial panic if they hadn't read it in the weekly paper. One old man said he never found out there was a panic in 1873 until about two years after it was over. These people love to go to Church. They have nothing else to go to. They go for the instruction and entertainment, and not for dis? play. They feel as much at home in their Church as they do by their fire? sides. If a mother wants water for her child she walks up to the pulpit and takes it from the preacher's pitcher and nobody is horrified. The singing is rather ancient, but is unan? imous. Everybody sings and they like hymns and long meter. They sing every verse of "How Firm a Founda? tion," and are sorry there are but seven. If the "tune hyster" makes a mistake he tries it again, and nobody smiles or giggles. They all go there, for business and that business is to worship God. I remembered all that. ? It was just so at the old Fairview Church, where I was reared; the old Church where old Dr. Wilson used to preach and we little boys always went to sleep before his hour and a half was out; where old Brother Joel used to stand up in front of the pulpit and wrinkle his brow and raise his eyes heavenward and open his mouth, and, having read out two lines, would "hyst" the tune for the congregation. They didn't know there was any better music in the world, and I am not sure that there is any now that is more sincere. Our preacher said very truly that these country people were the very best reliance of the State for good cit? izenship. They are peaceable and in? dustrious and violate no law. They are contented?that is most of them are, but occasionally a politician comes alcng and tells them how op? pressed, and downtrodden fhey are, and Meed. Atlanta Constitution. and the poor and nnd that raises a rumpus for awhile, but they get over it. From among this humble class have come most of the great men of the nation. From among them have come the most progressive and thrifty merchants and manufacturers in our towns and cities. The country Churches are the mem? ories of successful men and of women who make good wives and good moth? ers. Long may they live and prosper. Long may they love to sing "How Firm a Foundation" and "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," and may all their people "read their title clear to mansions in the skies." Bill Akp. A Texas Tragedy. Waco, Texas, Aug. 22.?A special to the Evening News from Palo Pinto, Texas, an obscure part of the State, says: "The most horrible and bloody crime ev'?r perpetrated in this County occurred last night about 10 o'clock near Pleasant Valley, six miles to the southeast of this place. Miss Ida Beatty and James Bly were returning home from Church together from Pleasant Valley when they were sud? denly confronted by Ed. Nail, Win? chester in hand. Without warning, Nail shot young Bly through the heart, killing him instantly. At the firing of the first fatal shot, Miss Beut ty's horse became frightened and made a break for the woods, followed by Nail. After running about four hun? dred yards, Nail succeeded in overtak? ing her, and with one blow of his gun knocked her from her horse, crushing her head. He then placed the muzzle of the gun to her forehead and fired, shooting a part of the skull off and scattering her brains all over the ground. When he had destroyed be? yond all doubts, the life of the girl, he then placed the gun to his own head and sent his own soul into eter? nity. The top of his head was blown off. At the time the first shot was fired, Captain J. M. Bly, father of young Bly, was a few hundred yards in the advance of the couple. On hearing the report of the gun, he turned back and soon found his son lying in the road dead. But Miss Beatty had.dis? appeared. Assistance was immedi? ately summoned. The neighborhood was aroused and a messenger dispatch? ed to Palo Pinto for medical aid and officers. Sheriff Maddox and Dr. Warren repaired to the scene and found the whole community thorough? ly aroused. Search was made for the unfortunate girl, and both Nail aud his victim were found within a few feet of each other, about four hundred yards from where young Bly was mur? dered. Jealouey was the cause of the hor? rible deed. Nail and Miss Beatty were to be married about three weeks ago, but it seems jealousy caused her I to break the engagement. Yesterday young Bly was in her company the greater part of the day and accompa? nied her to Church last night. Nail was angered at seeing her in the com? pany of another and this is supposed to have prompted him to the murder. James Bly was the son of J. M. Bly, an old and respected citizen of this county, and was a young man of more than ordinary ability, and well liked by all who knew him. He was vice president of the Young Men's Chris? tian Association at Wetherford. Miss Beatty was the daughter of James Beatty, and was universally liked and respected,. Nail was a resident of Santo in this County, and stood well in the community. Solved at Last. To the Editor of the State: Much has been said about the financial situ? ation of the country, and many have been the suggestions offered as a solu? tion for the ills which are upon us. I wish to offer one, which I think de? cidedly preferable to anything yet ad? vanced, including the calling in and redemption of all United States bonds, the sub-treasury, the free coinage of silver, the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax 'on State banks of issue, or the graduated income tax. It is this: I propose a graduated title tax. Amer? icans are wild for titles, the men for those of .1 military class, while the wo? men, some of them, will throw them? selves away upon any foreigner who can boast of a title, however hollow it may be. Now, I propose that those who aspire to military titles (save in the good old way of fighting for them) ouly be allowed to use them upon the payment of a tax for the privilege, the tax to be graded accorded to the rank desired. Begin with the lowest, and tax a man $5 a year for the privilege of being addressed as corporal; $10 for sergeaat; $25 for lieutenant; $50 for captain ; $100 for major; $200 for lieutenant-colonel; $500 for colonel; $1,000 for brigadier-general; $5,000 for major-general; $10,000 for lieutenant general. This to apply to all persons who allow themselves to be addressed by any title of a military character who did not attain the same in actual war. Should this plan be adopted, and the t;ix collected from even a small per cent, of those who pose under j military titles, all other taxes, Federal and State, could be dispensed with, ! disabled soldiers, North and South, could be pensioned, all charities ad? ministered by the general government, and yet quite a surplus would he left for a pro ratio distribution to the peo? ple, to say nothing of wiping out the public debt. And yet another good feature of this plan would be that, should it fail of success through want of patronage, it would at once and forever relieve that excessive feeling of fatigue that conies over the old veteran when he hears a soldier's title bestowed upon one who never smelt gunpowder. Yours for the title tax. Old Reb. SmoJcey Hollow, Aug. 19. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with Local Applications, as they cannot reach ihe seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular pre? scription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combi? nation of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Scud for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. BQuSold by druggists, price 75c. ? It is the troubles of to-morrow that make people heavy laden, to-day. THE SOUTH'S NEW ERA. What Has Been Accomplished Since the Late War. From the New York Times. New Orleans, La., July 23.? ^Though the change in the nation's social and political system since 1860 has been startling beyond anything in the country's history, yet in all this boulcversement there has been a cer? tain degree of advantage, until the South, which some of its old-time statesmen and publicists would have had us believe could not exist without slavery, has really become richer in material wealth than it was before the disruption. And all this, too, in a quarter of a century. Before the war the South was purely agricultural. Its wonderful deposits of iron and coal were absolutely un? touched, except in two sections of Kentucky and Tennessee. The coal fields along the Black Warrior in Alabama were known, but there was no adequate idea as to their extent or value or that here nature had worked one of her matchless marvels ; that in Alabama's hills iron ore, coal as good as any known and limestone (an indis? pensable in the reduction of iron ore) were laid in endless quantities side by side. Providence seems to have (Jone more for the South than for any other section of the country. The climate is milder, life is not so grindingly hard as in the blizzard-swept West, where between drought, grasshoppers and Colorado bugs in summer and blizzards and awful cold in winter the people become as coarse, common and hard as the life is among them. Hum? boldt truthfully says: "The people of a country partake in their personal traits of the peculiarities of the cli? mate they live in." The close of the war in some res? pects was the beginning of Southern development. And be it known that this very development has been begun by Southern-born men and continued by them until its success has been assured. Take, for example, the his? tory of Birmingham, Ala. In 1868 there lived in Washington County, Mississippi, the banner cot? ton growing country of ^hc United States and the world, a planter named J. R. Powell. The County mentioned has two river fronts, one on the Mis? sissippi and the other on the Yazoo. Old Colonel Powell had two fine plan? tations, Pluck and Daybreak, of about 2,500 acres each, on the Yazoo front of Washington County. With some peculiarities?a firm belief in the code duello being among them?the old gentleman was something of a scientist and an indefatigable student. He had a very excellent knowledge of practical geology among his other ac? complishments, and dufing his annual hunting trips in and about what is now Birmingham, he became convinced that there was a most remarkable de? posit of coal and iron right there together, with limestone as a close neighbor. To make sure, however, he got the best practical coal and iron expert New York could furnish to come down and examine the great deposit that he?Powell?had found. He did so, and fully confirmed the j gentleman in his views. Col. Powell thereupon established what is now Birmingham and bought it for $1,200. Birmingham and the coal towns in Alabama have been made by Southern genius and energy and the ability to conduct practical affairs of great magnitude. The three great? est mine owners at Birmingham are Colonel Powell, John C. Sloss and Colonel Johnston. They pay every Saturday night 6,000 workmen?black and white alike?who are employed in their mighty furnaces and rolling mills. These three men are all South? erners?were in the Confederate army ?and in their works men, black and white, are wage earners, a thing one' never sees in a Pennsylvania iron mill or mine. In fact, a "nigger" can't get a job at any factory or furnace in Pittsburg, not even in the great and good Carnegie's stupendous* coke works. Birmingham was incubated and made what it is by Southern brains and wealth. Did ever the agricultural part of any country produce such a shower of J gold as the cotton and sugar sections of the South do now ? Seven States? headed by Mississippi, the banner cot? ton State, when average is considered ?have poured into them $350,000,000 every year. No wonder the South is rich. This money comes- each year, J and it will continue, for God has j blessed that region with an almost matchless climate and the most pro? ductive soil under the sun. The question may be asked : "How is it that the South has so speedily recovered from the ravage and shock of war and is getting on so well ?" [ A most natural and proper question, and one which can be answered. When the war closed, all enterprises in the South were, of course, dead. In the gulf States a little cotton had been grown every year, but the main labor had been expended in raising something to cat. Cotton would always bring gold, so it was a very poor sort of household that had not a few bales hidden away against a time ! of great need. When the war was over cotton was very high in price. Men from the North swarmed into the rich cotton growing sections of Arkansas, Missis? sippi, Alabama and Louisiana. They knew a thousand-bale crop was nothing on such plantations as they found in these States, which, on places like Dumbarton, (bclonginging to the Dun? cans.) the Hampton estates, the Cabin Tecl plantation, (owned by the Mar shalls,) in Mississippi, and many in Texas, were good for 3,000 bales any average year. They saw fortunes in one good twelve month. Now, all this would have been true, but for one or two reasons. These reasons the South? ern man understood very well, while the other never thought of them. The first thing, therefore, the South? ern old-time planter did when he came home from the war was to rent his estates for as high a cash price as could be obtained, half of it in ad? vance. He fixed up his residence, repaired the outhouse, planted an abundant crop of corn and vegetables for his own needs, put the rent money in the nearest solvent bank, and wait? ed. The two evils he foresaw happened. In the first place, the Northern white man did not understand how to manage the Southern negro. Here was trou? ble number one. The negro would not obey him and did not respect him. The Massachusetts man brought clown enormous lots of what he called "labor-saving machinery'' to make cotton with. The old planter looked on and said nothing. His place was beautifully stocked by the well-mean? ing "yankce," who was going to make two bales where the old planter had made one.. 1{ canie about just as the South cm man foresaw. In the first place, ! the levees were all down and none had been rebuilt. The year 1865 was not good for cotton, because the war ended too late for "pitching" a crop in the gulf States, but there was a fine corn and vegetable yield all over the coun? try. In 1806 the entire North seemed to be South planting cotton. These gentlemen in many instances were most charming and agreeable neigh? bors. Such, for example, wore Gen? eral Frank Blair, who leased three places in Madison parish, La. : Gen? eral F. J. Herron and Whitelaw Heid, who were in Concordia parish, lower down than Blair, and General An? drews, of Massachusetts, who planted one of: the Hampton places. Another Union General was in partnership with the ex-Confederate General For? rest, planting on the Yazoo, and many others could be mmicd. The firm of Hoyt, Sprague & Co., of Providence, R. I., and New York city, leased twelve immense plantations, paying a rental of from $10.000 to $15.000 a year for each, and spent nearly $1,000, 000 in this way and in purchasing supplies, farming implements, live stock, etc. Their investment was a total loss. The crop was planted. Had the crop matured on the scale intended it would have been about 6,000,000 bales. But just as it began to come up there came the "first rise," as old planters call it, on the Mississippi river, which did the work. In a week, a beautiful crop was ten feet under a yellow, muddy, swirling flood. When the river did go down there might have been a crop planted in the mud, just as there was this year, but the supply of seed was exhausted. No more could be had until it grew. So ended the first year. The levees were patched up. Carpetbag Legislatures in Louisiana and Mississippi made big appropriations for rebuilding those of importance. In a few instances, where the land was so high that the floods did not overflow it, a superb crop was made. As cotton was worth about 60 cents per pound, a bale was worth $300, and 500 bales meant the snug sum of $150,000. The few big crops stimulated the New Engl?nders and others who had come "down South" te make fortunes. At such prices for cotton, anything like a good yield meant a profit that was seeming? ly stupendous. So try it again they would. It could not be that the Mis? sissippi and other rivers always over? flowed. For years the fields had not been in cultivation and under the sod lay an enemy more dangerous to the"cotton than any flood. In 1867 it did look as though a great cotton crop would be made. L'hommc propose, et Dieu dispose. About the 1st of July of that year an acquaintance was in the parish of Madison, La., staying a few days with an old-time friend who had left one of his legs among the cedars at Stone River. One afternoon Gen? eral Frank Blair asked this gentleman, an experienced planter, and his visitor to ride out and take a look at his cot? ton field. Just before sundown they rode over to "Wynn Forest." A finer stand of cotton was never seen. There it stood, a field of something over 1,000 acres, gracefully waving in the rising night breeze from the dis? tant sea. It was just beginning to blossom and there was not a weed or a tuft of grass to be seen. "Your crop will be worth $150,000, general," said the old planter to Frank Blair, "and, believe me, I am sincerely glad of your good fortune." This was a little after 6 o'clock p. m. The next morning at about 10 o'clock the overseer came in greatly excited. ;!Thc worms have eaten up General Blair's entire crop of cotton," said he. "My Lord," groaned his friend and neighbor. "I expected this!" He and his visitor rode over to the field. It looked as though a fire had swept it. Where the cotton had waved so before, there was nothing but the bare earth to be seen, with now and then a standing stalk of cotton stripped of its leaves and covered with myriads of little active caterpillars from three quarters of an inch to an inch long. This was the cotton worm. And in one night these worms had come, where from no one could tell, and were from two inches to a foot deep all over the field. When you walked among them your foot sunk down into something soft, as though you had stepped upon a lot of very young kit? tens. And it was this way all over the cotton regions of Louisiana, Mis? sissippi, Arkansas and Texas. The result was that the cotton crop "ailed again the second year. By this time the old resident plan? ter was ready to take hold. He saw that money could be made growing cotton. He determined to make it* The lessees of the plantations were ready to quitr so the old owner pur? chased their improvements?such of them as he wanted?and went at it. The levees were rebuilt and he knew how to extinguish the cotton worm. The largest crop of cotton made under the best conditions of slavery was something above 4,500,000 bales. The crop of 1892-3 was over 8,000,000 bales. There arc no more negroes there now than there were when 4,' 500,000 bales were made in 1860-61. Who, then, is doing this-great work? The Southern white man. The South has grown enormously in other respects. It will always be a producing and agricultural country rather than one for manufacturing. The Louisiana sugar planter made three times as much sugar to the acre this year as he ever made before the war. The rice planters arc thriving. There was no great panic in the South this year, and in New Orleans but one failure of any importance, which was caused by the senior partner of the firm getting caught in a New York coffee '"pool." There was a fear years ago among conservative planters that the cotton region might be "ovcrplantcdthat is, more made than could be profita? bly used. But this is not so. The great crop of the past season will all be profitably disposed of at good prices. Cotton can be grown for 6 cents: Fully fair middling is worth now 8 8-4 cents. So the profit is evi? dent. Mr. Greeley made the West when he said: "Young man, go West." "'Young man, go South." Get into a young, thrifty, vigorous cotton-grow? ing State, like Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana. Get hold of some land and never let go. In a few years you will have a great cotton plantation, with an income of from $20,000 to $500,000 a year, with leisure for study and travel and money to do both. And you will ever be thankful that you took the advice given you. ? The cotton caterpillars arc put? ting in effectual work on the farms around For;, Motte and St, Matthews. gracefully the night Silo and Silage. The silo is simply an air-tight, wa? ter-tight box for preserving green food for winter use. It must not only protect against air, but against frost. The pits and stone silos that were first used have disappeared, and the wooden silo have taken their places. With the wooden silo it is not neces? sary to place it underground. It can be placed in the barnyard if there is room for it. In selecting a place for your siio remember that silage is hea? vy to handle and feeding is done twice a day, so place it as near your stock as possible. There is no ob? jection to a silo as small as ten feet square, provided it is sixteen or eight? een feet deep, so as to overcome the friction of the sides, which is as great in a small silo as a large one. The deeper the silo, the better the silage will settle, and the better it will keep. The damp silage will soon rot the lining unless it is well painted with gas tar. Put a good roof on and board up the gables, leaving a window with shutter for ventilation. This should be closed in very cold weather and opened on pleasant days, or the steam from the silage will decay the roof. At first it was thought that drilled corn was better for silage than hilled corn, but as drilled corn does not ma? ture many cars, it docs not make as good silage as hilled corn. The crop should be cut when most of the ears are glazed, run throv^h an ensilage or hay cutter, and tramped into the silo. Have a good man in the silo to do the packing, for if this is half done the silage will damage around the walls. It is only necessary to tramp a space about four feet around the sides, as the middle will settle of its own weight. Beyond question corn is the most profitable crop for silage. It is a very sure crop. It grows very rap? idly and we get a large yield per acre. From twelve to thirty tons have been grown on an acre. Clover makes the best silage, but the land of this sec? tion is too poor to give a heavy crop, and some years it is a complete failure. As peas are a very sure crop and give a large yield per acre, they would be a good substitute for clover. Corn is a carbonaceous food and peas are ni? trogenous, so the two combined in the silo would form a balanced ration and he better than either corn or peas alone. To feed silage successfully we must have a good warm stable, for it is a green succulent food and will not give success if fed in the open lot. Neither should it be fed without some dry fodder, but if there are plenty of ears in the silage do not feed corn meal, but give some cotton seed of cotton seed meal. Cows fed upon this ration, will look as sleek and fat as if on June pasture. The cost of producing a ton of si? lage should not exceed 50 cents, and ! by using labor-saving tools it can be made much cheaper. By experiments it has been found that the stalk contains as much food as the leaves and ear. If this is so, look what an enormous quantity of food has been wasted for so many years on almost all Southern farms ; but until the discovery of the silo these stalks could not be used for feed for when dry they are so hard that stock will not cat them. This is where the silo comes in and saves this enormous waste and enables you to feed more stock and do it better. Any farmer handy with tools can construct his silo himself, and it will not cost him over 50 cents per ton ca? pacity. Silage is no experiment. It is in general use throughout the North and West, and where it has been tried intelligently in the South, it has prov? ed successful.?YorJcville Enquirer. John Doe and Richard Roe. Some time ago John Doc had $400 in a savings fund. Becoming alarmed at the financial depression he with? drew his money and now has it in his stocking. Some time ago Richard Roe had $15,000 in bank. Becoming alarmed he withdrew the currency and hired a vault in the rear of the bank and the money lies there to-day. John Doe and Richard Roc congrat? ulate themselves that they are pretty smart?that they know a thing or two more than their fellows?and they are not slow to insinuate the same by sun? dry sly looks and mysterious expres? sions. At least they are safe from the storm. John Doe and Riehard Roe are fools. Money is not made to be hoarded. There is only $23.50 per head of the population and every per? son who hoards more than that robs the public of that much of its share. Take care of your property and get all you can honestly, but don't hoard money. There is barely enough now. Suppose there was a bread famine because a certain number of John Does and Richard Roes had bought up more than they could eat and stored away. Suppose there was available only an average of twenty-four loaves apiece, which was just enough if each got his quota, and that John Doe had secreted 400 loaves in his cellar and Richard Roe had locked 15,000 in his warehouse, would not public indigna? tion be kindled against them ? Neither money nor bread is of any value until used and no man has a moral right to place cither beyond the reach of those who need them and are willing to give compensation for them. Of course a man should be cautious and husband his resources. But the man who thinks the proper way is to put his currency in a stocking or a vault is a fool and a public enemy. If there were a few more thousand John Does and Richard Roes, the na? tion would quickly go on the rocks. Currency is the life blood of trade. The man who hoards it is a business vampire, Don't be.fools. Don't wreck this country. Take your money and put it in the bank, for if our banks all fail every other business will fail also and we will be in a maelstrom of bank? ruptcy. Don't be scared. Daylight is at hand-?Pit iladclph t? In q >i irer. Bncklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup? tions and positively cures Piles, or ng pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. _ ?? The largest p!c ever made was baked at Denly Dale, England, for the Queen's jubilee. It spoiled, however, I so that when it was opened the stench I was awful. ( The next week another j was made, of 672 pounds of flour, 1,300 J pounds of potatoes, one heifer, two I calves and two sheep, Concerning Stock, In these days when the dollar is skittish and prone to seek the cool sequestered nooks of bank and safe deposit vaults, we the people are impressed with what a dear de? lightful thing is credit. In some respects it is surpassed with personal appearance by cash, of the hot and spot varieties, but the fact lingers that for a boon companion to chum with, in season and out, at home and abroad, credit is altogether agree? able. Credit does not inhabit the Southern States in flocks. It is a rare bird. It settles here, once in a while there, but as a general thing it dwells in Northern lattitudes. There is no reason in the nature of things why credit should not be found in large quantities in these parts but the explanation of its absence is plain. Credit docs not thrive where there isn't plenty of collateral and that's what's the matter with the Hannah's in Dixie. The capitalistic chappies in the North despise to lend money on land and they don't do it. It takes time to sell land, it is troublesome to dis? pose of, it can't be handled fast. It is too unwieldy a lever to attempt to raise money with except with "great deliberation." Land ownership has been a curions, and perplexing thing since Adam's title to that handsome place of real estate betwixt the Tigris and Euphrates becames clouded. Therefore your yankee Crajsus es? chews mortgages if there is a certifi? cate of stock waiting to be pledged. "When he wants money he wants it quick and that is why he seldom lends it unless on some security that is available as an asset at a moment's no? tice. Southern people should accumulate "collateral." Farmers ought to make it a point to take stock in manufacturing enterprises. They should buy shares in banks too, but more banks are not so badly needed as are more factories. If the man who succeeds in paying for a two horse farm would then buy a few hundred dollars worth of good fac? tory stock before trying to purchase all the land adjoining his place he wonld be gloriously independent. When the pinch came, he would step up to the cashier, turn over his secu? rities, get the desired accommodation, and escape the humiliation of hay? ing a dozen friends decline to endorse his note. Our people are rich in land. The Advertiser believes that the time is coming when land will pass by assign? ment just as does building and loan or railroad or other stock and that titles will be universally cleared. To effect such a reform in the laws will require the tearing away of the prejudice of a hundred generations but it is coming for the reason that there is nothing grounded in common sense to prevent it. But it is a weary way off. For the present, stocks must remain the basis of credit and every man should have a supply. In periods of finan? cial depression they are the life pre? servers or business. The idea of hardworking farmers buying stocks may be laughed at but it is not ridiculous. Hundreds of far? mers do save money and make invest? ments but the notion among them is that there is nothing to buy except land. If that notion could be rooted out. it would be easier to build cotton mills, our industries would be diver? sified and the country's wealth would be multiplied.?Laurcns Advertiser. Helps to Patience. A woman whose life has been long and checkered with many reverses, said lately: "Nothing has given me more courage to face every day's du? ties and troubles than a few words spoken to me when I was a child by my old father. He was a village doc? tor. I came into his office, where he was compounding medicine, one day, looking cross and ready to cry. " 'What is the matter, Mary ?" " 'I'm tired ! I've been making beds and washing dishes all day, and every day, and what good does it do ? To-morrow the beds will be to make and the dishes to wash over again.' '? 'Look, my child,' he said, 'doyou see these little empty vials ? They are all insignificant, cheap things, of no value in themselves; but in one I put a deadly poison, another sweet perfume, in a third a healing medi? cine.' " 'Nobody cares for the vials; it is that which they carry that kills or cures. Your daily work, the dishes washed or the floor swept, are homely things, and count for nothing in them? selves ; but L is the anger, or the sweet patience, or zeal, or high thoughts that you put into them that shall last. These make your life.' " No strain is harder upon the young than to be forced to do work which they feel is beneath their faculties, yet no discipline is more helpful. "The wise builder " says Bolton, "watches, not the bricks which his journeyman lays, but the manner in which he lays them." The man who is halfrhearted and lagging as a private soldier will be half-hearted and lagging as a comman? der. Even in this world, he who uses his talents rightly as a servant is often given the control of many cities. "They ako serve," said John Mil? ton, "who only stand and wait." "Even Buddha," says a Hindu pro? verb, "was once a cart-horse and car? ried the loads of other men." We should remember, above all, that the greatest of all men spent thirty years of his earthly life waiting the appointed time to fulfill his mis? sion. ?Youth's Compnnion. Irish Wit. A few weeks since, an Irishman, direct from the old country, called upon a well-known Bostonian, pre? senting letters of introduction from mutual friends in England. The Bostonian received him very cordially and proffered a glass of brandy, which the Irishman drank with a relish. After some further conversation, the foreigner said: . "Well, Misther X., O'm very much pleased wid the new counthry. It's a foine place. When I go back I'll tell me friends what a foine land it is, and what foine gentlemen ye have in it. I'll tell them how foincly ye have treated me; and how you gave me two classes of foine old bran? dy-" "But," broke in the amused host, "I have not given you but one." "Oh, well, you wouldn't make a liar of me to me friends. That Oi know." Another glass was forthcoming at once. ? The cotton caterpillar is destroy? ing the cotton in the fields around i\j}cndajc, .';il-. - ' . All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Bad people never enjoy good company. _?A friend is worth more than a kinsman. ? Queen Victoria has just passed?l her 74th birthday. 1 ? The lazier a man is, the more he claims to be sick. ? American bicycles are being sold on the island of Java. ? The rich man who never gives is the poorest of poor men. A foolish friend is at times a greater annoyance than a wise enemy. ? Governor Tillman and family are visiting the World's Fair. ? Three prisoners escaped from the Spartanburg jail August 13. ? The injured students of Clemson College are getting along well. ? Better live in a house without windows than in a house without books. ? No man's work, says Bishop Howe, is a failure unless he himself is - ?] a failure. ? An average of five feet of rain is estimated to fall annually over the whole earth. ? Whenever we vary from the highest rule of right, just so far we do an injury to the world. ? The open animosity of hatred often injures us less than the apparent kindness of friendship. ? Two post offices in Burke County, North Carolina, are respectively nam- - ed "Joy" and^Worry." ? Man is never so unhappy as when he hates his brother, and never so happy as when he loves him. 5*8 ? The trouble with a man covering up his tracks is that he makes new ones in doing it. ? Charles T. O'Ferral has received the Democratic nomination for Gover- \ nor of Virginia. ? The Port Royal Railroad has ordered a considerable increase in its rolling stock in anticipation of the new steamship line. ? There are 400,000 more pension? ers on the government pension rolls than there ever were soldiers in the v Confederate service. ? The man who does not know how . to relieve the financial stringency, and ? owns up to it, would be a paying in? vestment for a dime museum. ? A Western geologist says thai Kansas can raise wheat for another \ thousand years before exhausting the necessary properties of the soil. ? There are lots of people who mix their religion with business, but forget - to stir it up well. Asa result the business invariably rises to the top. ? A recent investigation has devel? oped the fact that the Italians in America send home to their relatives in Italy about $20.000,000 annually. ? A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world, will always keep their eyes on the spot, where the crack was.?Joxh Billings. ? The reunion of Confederate vet? erans will take place at Birmingham^ ? Ala., September 15. Mrs. Grant has been invited to attend, but will not be able to be present. ? God can overlook 10,000 mistakes ?? on the part of any man who is trying , his best to do right, but he has sworn that he will never forget the sins of those who are dishonest with their fellow men. ? A carpet that had been in use for seven years in San Francisco brought' $5,500 recently after it had been burn? ed. It had accumulated that much gold while on the floor in the coiner's room in the mint. ? In the manufactures of Great Britain alone, the power which steam exerts is estimated to be equal to the manual labor of 4,000,000,000 of men, or more than double the number of males supposed to inhabit the globe: ? The Imperial Canal of China is the longest in the world and greatest in point of traffic. Its length is 2100 miles, and it connects forty-one cities situated on its banks. It was com? pleted in 1350, after 600 years spent on its construction. ? You can never have a really good complexion until the impurity is cleansed from your blood. What you need is a thorough course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which is absolutely free from all harmful ingredients, and therefore, perfectly safe. ? In 1820 a pair of rubber shoes was seen for the first time in the United States. They were covered with gilding, and resembled in shape . the shoes of a chinaman. The rubber was in some parts of the shoe from an eighth to a quarter of an inch thick. ? The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility, until men are firmly convinced that consci? ence, honor and credit are all in one interest, and that with the conscience of the former, the latter are but impo? sitions upon ourselves and others. ? Be not ashamed of an humble parentage or an humble occupation ; be not ashamed of poverty, or even of a small amount of natural endowments, lest you should thereby reproach the King of kings, but be ashamed of misspent time and misdirected talents. ' ? A cancer ate away a part of the upper lip of a man in Shelbyvillc, Ind. A bright surgeon has supplied him with a rubber lip, adorned with an artistic moustache, which seems so natural that only a close observer would note that the whole thing is artificial. ?? Arsenic and quinine are danger? ous drugs to accumulate in one's sys? tem, and it is to be hoped that these poisons, as a remedy for ague, have had their day. Ayer's Ague Cure is a sure antidote for the ague, is per? fectly safe to take, and is warranted to cure. ? Many years ago a beekeeper named Wildman surprised all Europe with the ease with which he handled bees, compelling a swarm to settle where he pleased. His secret was to get possession of tk) queen bee, when-" the others would follow wherever she was placed. ? The origin of the terms "six pennj," "ten-penny," etc.,.as applied to nails, though not commonly known, is involved in no mystery whatever. Nails have been made a certain num? ber of pounds to the thousand f?f*^ many years, and are still reckoned in that way in England, a ten-penny being 1,000 nails to 10 pounds, a six pean.V 1,000 to six pounds, a twenty-penny weighing 20 pounds to the thousand; and, in order? ing, buyers call for the three-pound, six-pound, or ten-pound variety, etc., until] by the Englishmen's abbrevia? tion cjf "pun" for "pound," the abbre viatiqn has been made to stand for pennfr, instead of pound as originally intenjded.