The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, January 24, 1894, Image 1
BY CLINKSGALES & LANGSTON. ANDEBSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JANUABY 24, 1894._VOLUME XXYIII.-NO. 30
SULLIVAN
HARDWARE
COMPANY'S
Special Oiler:
BLACKSMITH BELLOWS,
BLACKSMITH COMPLETE OUTFITS.
No sucii Piicee,
No such Goods,
_ Ever offered before.
BABBED WIRE--50)000 pounds.
POULTRT and GARDEN FENCING..
?GRICULTU RAL HARDWARE,
AND IMPLEMENTS.
EVERYTHING TJSEFTJL.
i&* PRICES down with any market in the United States.
THIS is to certify that Messrs. TODD & EVANS are sole Agents for
Leo's Indian Medicines for the City of Anderson, S. C.
FEED. LEO.
P. s.
WE have received a. .limited supply of DR. LEO'S RENOWNED
LINIMENT and BLOOD PURIFIER, which will be sold at the same
prices charged by Dr. Leo.
TODD & EVANS.
TO SEE US!
In our New Quarters,
15 South Main Street,
Broyles New Building.
In order to close out our Stock of
CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS,
AT ONCi; we.offer every article in this department at a SACRIFICE
Don't feil -to see the Stock. You certainly need some of our Bargains,
$mh Don't buy a pair of SHOES until you see our Stock.
Our Motto: 15Best Goods for Least Money."
TAYLOR & CRAYTOM,
LADIES' STORE !
BEGINS A GRAND CLEARANCE SALE I
OR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WE WILL SELL OUR ENTIRE
STOCK--"
AT AND BELOW COST*!
In order to be ready for a large ''Spring Stock/' We are determined to have
a clean Store to begin the Spring with, so we propose to give our Goods for
COST. All who want BARGAINS can have them by calling early with the
CASH. r /
This is a bona fide offer. We..invite all to come and see for themselves,
and be convinced that we mean just what we say. .
With thanks for the liberal patronage you have bestowed this season,
We are respectfully yours,
MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS.
OF NEWARK, N. J.
AMZI DODD, President.
Assets :
Market Values, $51,395,903.59.
Paid to Policy Holders since Organization :
$124,558,722.^6.
Surplus :
Massachusetts Standard, $3,661,250.01.
Policies Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Tear.
IN case of lapse the Policy ia continued in force as long as its value will pay for ;
or, if preferred, a Paid-up Policy for its foil value is issued in exchange.
Alter the second year Policies are incontestable, and all restrictions as to residence
and occupation are removed, v ?
Cash Loans are made to the extent of 50 per cent, of the reserve value, where
Valid assignments of the Policies can be made as collateral security.
Losses paid immediately upon completion and approval of proofs.
' WEBB & MATTISON,
Managers for South Carolina, Anderson, S. C.
SEED BARLEY AND RYE,
FLOUR,
HAMS,
LARD,
And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods,
For sale at Low Prices by
D. S. MAXWELL & SON,
NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE.
160-acre Farm to rent.
ONE MOMENT. PLEASE!
We. may be able to Save you some Money, provided you need any
kind of Groceries.
IF you ever expect to buy FLOUR CHEAP, now is the time to buy, as a man don't
usually stumble on Bargains like we are offering more than once in an ordinary
life-time.
FLOUR! FLOUR!! FLOUR!!!
Juat received a big lot of Bine Ribband Flour?the best Flour on top of dirt for
?4.00. Don't forgot the brand. Remember, too, that you can only get this Flour from
JOHN A. AUSTIN & OO. It is the nearest'approach to the $5.00 article to be had.
We have had a nice trade, indeed, for which vre return our sincere thanks to our
friends: but we wantm larger trade, and to get it we will make special inducements in
all kinds of Groceries. AUSTIN <fc CO. is the place. Call on us and we will give you
a cordial welcome,
? PALACE GROCERY.
J? At AUSTIN & CO,
BILL JLBF'S LETTER,
Arp Still la Florid* Where There are
Plenty of Visitor* and Good Fishing.
Atlanta Constitution,
I saw two fishermen unloading a
cargo of salted fish from their boat at
Tampa. The barrels were all marked
for Charleston. I interviewed these
fishermen and they told me they
caught as many as 70,000 in a week
down at Sarasota bay. Now I am
done with fish stories. I left my folks
fishing at Clearwater, but they are not
so wild about it now and will soon get
tired. I saw a girl hang an enormous
trout and she held him and played him
around until he got tired and a boat
was sent out to secure him. I guessed
he weighed fifteen pounds and others
guessed twelve and ten, but when he
was put on the scales he came down to
nine. An old fishi.-man remarked
that it was a sin to weigh a fish, for
they always fall short.
Tampa is lively. The hotels are
filling up, trade is good and money
circulating jut like it used to before
the panic. M >st of this money comes
from abroad and is quickly scattered
around. Every other house is either
a hotel of a boarding house. The
StrangerB come from everywhere up
North and many from Georgia and
Tennessee. I came down with a man
,and his wife, who were from north
Michigan, and had never been South.
It'entertained me to see their amaze?
ment, for he said he had just put up
180 tons of ice before he left home.
They are delighted with the country
and with the people. He said every*
body was so kind and naborly and that
he had no idea of finding such good
people down South. I think that his
wife was almost afraid to come, but
she is in bad health and she had just
as well risk the rebels in Florida as
death at home, and so she came. She
has improved much within a week.
The Tampa Bay hotel, where the
millionaires congregate, has not yet
filled up, but will be by the middle of
the month. It is a magnificent house
and so bewilders me that I feel solemn
in its beautiful apartments and don't
dare to talk in my usual tone of voice.
Everybody else seems to feel so too,
for it is not like a hotel. While you
are walking on velvet carpets that cost
$5 a yard, or sitting ou chairs that
cost $50 apiece, and see paintings on
the \t ails that cost from $100 to $5,000,
and the whole building in a blaze of
heavenly lights and delicious music
charming the ear and delightful odors
perfuming the air and the servants all
in livery, a common man feels like the
old woman at the circus for the first
time in her life. When the grand
procession of beautiful horses, with
their riders in spangled garments,
caxie marching in, she said: "John,
John, it's more like the kingdom of
Heaven than anything I r ver expected
to see in this world." Now, with all
that, I was invited to lecture in 4he
music hall of this grand structure, and
I did it. It was just large enough for
my audience, and I am pleased to say
that I was able to conceal my embar?
rassment. Not that I was afraid of
the people who sat before me, but
somehow I never feel at ease in a
house that is so much finer than nine
own. It is art, not nature, that makes
me timid. Mr. Plant muet be a won?
derful mau to plan such a grand sys?
tem of railways and hotels and parks
and steamship lines and yet he makes
no great noise in the word. For years
and years he has been perfecting this
system, and every branoh of it moves
along like clockwork. Thousands of
men are employed by him and his en?
terprises have already added many
millions to the value of property in
Florida. This beautif uL city of Tampa
is a monument to his genius. More
than half a. century ago Richard
Henry Wilde wrote a little poem, be?
ginning "My life is like the summer
rose," and the last verse was?
"My life is like the prints that feet
Have left on Tampa's desert strand,
Soon as the rising tide shall beat,
All traces vanish from the sand,
Yet as if grieving to efface
All vestige of the human race,
On that lone shore loud moans the sea,
But none, alau 1 shall mourn for me."
Mr. Wilde was an Irishman, who
came over here after Emmet's untime?
ly death, and settled in Augusta, and
I suppose he had some reason for pen?
ning such sad, sweet verses. I wish
that he could see Tampa now. I wish
that Rev. Frank Goulding was alive
to see it, for it was here that he lo?
cated that terrible devil fish that car?
ried the boat and his children ("The
Young Marooners") far out to sea.
There is no desert strand now ; no
lone shore; no devil fish.
Lakeland is a little gem of a town
and I have not found a better hotel in
Florida than the Tremont. It is just
fine enough and good enough for any?
body. It overlooks one of the pret?
tiest lakes I have yet seen, and the
town is surrounded by many others.
This is quite a railroad center and
might have been a city if Tampa was
farther off. It will be a city yet, for j
such beautiful locations and surround?
ings are not common, even in Florida.
As old Father Dobbins used to say,
"The Creator has quit making land,
but He keeps on making people," and
Lakeland will be found out before
long.
I have been to Bartow, the center of
the phosphate region. Thirty compa?
nies have orgauized within the county
and millions of dollars invested in
land and machinery. There is capital
here from Boston, New York, Balti?
more, Richmond, Pittsburg, Charles?
ton, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta.
But all is not gold that glitters. Of
these thirty companies only sixteen
are in actual operation, Of these six
teen only seven have made any money.
There is phosphate enough, but every?
thing depends upon management and
location. I visited one plant six
miles in the country that is being op?
erated by a receiver. What a busi?
ness this has got to be I The receiv?
er ! There ought to be a book upon it
just like the books for lawyers and
dootors and other professions. It
should be made a textbook in the
schools. I think I would name it
"The Lawyers' Harvest, the Creditors'
Grave and the Stockholders' Funeral."
But this phosphate business is yet in
its infancy and improved methods of
mining and washing will soon be in?
vented. The Peruvian Islands are
exhausted, and now nature unlocks
another storehouse in Florida that
seems sufficient for centuries to come.
"What is it ?" I asked. "Is it ani?
mal, vegetable or mineral?" It is a
mixture of all, they say, but chiefly
mineral. I found some sharks' teeth.
They abound in all of it?sharks' teeth
from one-fourth of an inch to four
inches in length. Some of those an
tidiluvian monsters must have been as
large as young whales, but how in the
world did they all congregate on this
peninsular when the great convulsion
came that upheaved it ? Verily the
world is full of mysteries, and we know
nothing hardly. Fortunes have been
made here by the few who are shrewd
and bold and who had good judgment
and foresight. George W. Scott has
sold part of his holdings for fabulous
sums. He owned miles of phosphate
lands on Peau River. Mr. Codling1
ton, the genial, energetic Yankee
Mayor, of Boston, bought largely at
from $5 to $10 an acre and sold for ten
times that amount. I waB his guest.
"I fit again you," said he, "but have
come down from Michigan to lire with
you and I found a cordial welcome.
If the railroads would reduce trans?
portation to 1 cent a mile thousands
of good, hardy people from the North
would come down, first to see, and
then to stay, and the result in a few
years would be perfeot harmony be1
tween the sections."
What every town in the South needs
is a leader?a man of nerve and enter?
prise. Our people will follow, but
they fear to lead. Mr. Codlington is a
power in Bartow and will soon have
waterworks and an electric plant and
street cars and another railroad. He
has been a great traveler and lived
some years in Peru while Henry
Meiggs was building railroads there
for the Government. He designed
and built a gas plant near the apex of
the Andes mountains for the sole pur?
pose of lighting the tunnel that
Meiggs bored for his wonderful rail?
road?a road that cost $25,000,000.
That gas plant is 16,000 feet above the
sea level. Everything for the railroad
and the gas plant was carried un cliff
roads on the backs of mules?300
pounds to the mule. Just think of
it ! Yankee genius, yaukee pluck was
behind it all. They are a wonderful
people.
"When a Yankee is goo#he is very
good, indeed, but when he is bad he ia
horrid." And that is what they
think of us, I reckon.
I Baw a skunk yesterday as it cross?
ed the road a few miles out of town.
It was a beauty. Our dog tackled it
forthwith, and then?but you must
ask the dog for futher particulars.
_Bill Asp.
Bitten by a Battler.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 12.
?H. C. Clark, who has been seen in
the role of snake charmer, in all the
large museums of the country under
the show name of "Harry DeLong,"
was bitten this morning by a huge
rattlesnake. He came here recently
and blasted two rattlers out of the
rocks on Lookout Mountain. While
in a room in the midst of highland
moccasins, China snakes, spreading
vipers and rattlers, he attempted to
wash one of the mountain rattlera and
plunged it into a basin of hot water.
Then it buried its fangs in his hand.
One of the deadly prongs he sucked
out and then swallowed a quart of
whiskey.
Three hours afterwards he fell to
tie floor as if dead. Medical aid was
summoned and the poison extracted.
His arm was swollen to twice its or?
dinary size, and at one time the heart
ceased beating. The charmer's wife,
Cora, died from a moccosin's sting
while exhibiting in Fond du Luo,
Wis., five months ago.
Clark showed a season with Cole &
Migdleton's five museums the largest
of which is stationed at Chicago. He
will recover.
m _How's This!
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re?
ward for any case of Catarrh that can?
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co.,
Proprietors, Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have kuown F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligation made
by their firm.
West & Truah, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O. Waldino, Kinnan &
Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tole?
do, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter?
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials free.
H^Sold by Druggists, 75c.
? Two New York surgeons mistook
a case of skull fracture for drunken?
ness and refused to admit the patient
to the hospital. They must have
thought it the "pop-skull" brand of
whiskey.
THE HERO OF SOEBJtS ISLAND.
Why tbe Magazine of Battery Wagner was
not Blown Up.
Five miles from Charleston lies
Morris Island, facing the broad Atlan?
tic to the east, and divided from James
Island by a wide marsh and a winding
channel. It is a bare, desolate track
of barren land, scarcely rising above
the level of the water. The wind
sweeps over it, whirling the sea sand
into ever shifting hillocks and hol?
lows, like the deserts of Arabia, but
without the attractions ascribed to
those wildernesses by the poet Moore,
for down those slopes spring no "sil?
very-footed antelopes" and nowhere
does "the Acacia wave her yellow
hair." Only a few stunted shrubs
grow on the western side of the island,
near the creek, affording a scant
refuge to the little sea birds whioh
build their nests among the wind
tossed branches. The only inhabi?
tants are an oyster gatherer and a few
men who attend to the light house.
If human vision could reach so far
one might stand on the beach and look
across the intervening space to the
continent of Europe, but as this is
impossible, and we can only gaze at
the waBte of waters, there is nothing
to awaken fancy or enlist anyone's
attention, and a stranger would merely
consider this low-lying island to be a
Lopelessly desolate and utterly insig?
nificant part of the surface of the
earth.
Yet the waves that break heavily
along the shores seem to murmur the
sad refrain of the prophet of old,. "Is
it nothing to you, all ye that pasB
by ?" while the wind replies mourn^
fully, "Nothing," for, strange as the
statement may appear to be, during
the months of July and August in
1863 that parched and sterile island
was the most impoitant spot of ground
in the State of South Carolina, and
was the point of interest to which all
our hearts turned. This was the out?
post of Charleston, and under the
burning rays of the Bummer sun our
best and bravest soldiers were fight?
ing in defence of this old city. When
.friends met in those days the first
question asked was: "What is the
latest news from Morris Island?"
The shells could bo plainly heard in
town, of course, an for weeks they
oontinually swept like a hail storm
over that inland, while on our side
the artilleriuts at Battery Wagner and
Battery Gregg replied loudly, and the
guns of Sumter andMoultrie joined in
the awful concert, keeping up and un?
remitting fire, day and night, upon
the enemy'b camps, assaulting col?
umns, working parties and the fleet.
The fighting for Charleston, which
was to continue . without cessation
until *he evacuation of the city,
almost at the close of the war, began
at the southern point of Morris Island
July 10. Then Bcttery Wagner was
repeatedly assaulted by infantry until
the enemy wa3 obliged to abandon the
hope of ever captujing this work by
force of arms, and their engineers un?
dertook the task of obtaining possession
of the much coveted fort. This they
did by steadily advancing their lines
of earthworks closer and closer to ours
until they effected by their skill
what the infantry and artillery com?
bined had not been able to do by
valor.
The canon of the enemy were of
much heavier calibre than ours, and
tore down our parapets, which could
not even be repaired by night towards
the end of the struggle, because the
Yankees mounted a calcium light
which threw an illumination almost as
bright as day upon our defenoes.
On the 8th of September an attack
was made upon Battery Gregg by bar?
ges from Vincent's Creek, but our
signal officers had been clever enough
to read the enemy's signals, and we
were therefore prepared to meet their
advance, our entire force at Battery
Wagner, except the artillerists, having
been temporarily transferred to the
point where the assault was expected ;
so when the barges approached they
were surprised, instead of our men,
who received them so warmly that they
soon withdrew in confusion.
Col. Keith, the Confederate com?
mander on Morris Island, having re?
ported Battery Wagner to be no longer
tenable, a council of general officers
was held, and it was decided that
Morris Island must be evacuated.
Battery Wagner had held out fifty
eight days, but the end had now came,
and this fort was, at last, to be aban?
doned. The evacuation began at 9
o'clock on the evening of the 7th of
September, the wounded being taken
to Comming's Point, and embarked
first. After their departure the infan?
try was taken across to Fort Johnson,
on James Island, next followed the
artillerists, then the rear guard, which
was composed of a small detachment
of regulars from Battery Gregg and
Battery Wagner, and, last of all,
three officers and a sergeant, who re?
mained to deceive the enemy up to
the moment when Major Huguenin lit
the fuse which was expected to blow
up the powder magazine. They moved
about from ang|j^to angle firing off
rifles as fast as.they could load them,
so that the Yankees might not be
aware that our troops had departed,
and that all they had to do was now to
walk in and take possession. This
was a very trying ordeal to the three
remaining Confederates, for at any
moment an attack on our shattered
lines might have been made and this
minute garrison have been captured or
killed. One o'clock had now come
and the moon had risen.
The doors of the powder magazine
were opened and the fuse ignited;
then they hastened down to the beach
to take their places in pur last boat.
"Hurry I" shouted the sailors who
manned this barge, for the enemy had
discovered that something unusual was
taking place and had sent their barges
forward either to make another attack
on Battery Gregg or to discover our
movements. They had intercepted
two of our boats and captured forty
nine men. In obedience to the Warn?
ing summons the little squad of offi?
cers hastened on, but Major Hugucnin
had been twice struck that day by
fragments of shells, which had explod?
ed near him, and was so lame that he
could not advance rapidly. "Go on,"
he said t,o his comrades, "and I will
overtake you." But when lie reached
the beach he found, to his dismay,
that in the darkness and confusion
they had gone off and left him, sup?
posing him to be on board. His posi?
tion was now truly a melancholy and
precarious one, for the guns of the
enemy's batteries and those of the
fleet swept the open beach, as the tide
was out, and if he returned to Battery
Wagner he would find no refuge there,
as he hoped every instanj, to hear the
explosion of the magazine, and Moul
trie and all of our batteries had been
instructed to ooncentrate their fire
upon that work as soon as the signal
of our having evacuated Morris Island
was given. To surrender himself a
prisoner was also dreadful. ?Just as
these fearful alternatives presented
themselves to his mind a boat, which
was apparently going out to sea, swept
by. He hailed it and was informed to
his joy that it was a ten-oared Confed?
erate barge which had turned back to
escape capture, and was going round
by Sullivan's Island. The officer in
charge, in reply u Huguenin's earnest
appeal, "For God's sake, take me with
you," replied, "The Yankees arc too
near to stop, but wade out and we will
take you in."
So the last Confederate soldier who
ieft Morris Island waded out breast
high in the water, and was hauled
aboard as the boat shot by.
They reached Fort Johnson at about
3 o'clock in the morning, and found
that Col. Yates and a detachment of
the 1st South Carolina regular artillery
were about to set off for Morris Island
to make an attempt to rescue him, but
the effort would probably have been
vain.
A report that Major Huguenin had
been killed preceded him to the city,
and when he reported himself at about
8 o'clock at Gen. Ripley's headquar?
ters the greeting given him by the
General was very characteristic. In
his bluff military manner he said:
"Is that you ? Why, I thought you
were dead. I am glad to see you."
It appears, therefore, that in South
Carolina, as well as in Scotland,
"short greeting serves in times of
war."
Gen. Beauregard was much disap?
pointed at Batteries Gregg and Wag?
ner not having been blown up. Why
the zealous and reliable officers who
were deputed to do this failed to ac?
complish their design was because the
fuses they were ordered to use were
defective.
As soon as Major Huguenin was
told that the duty of blowing up Bat?
tery Wagner was assigned to him he
cut off several pieces of the fuse and
touched them off to ascertain if this
important factor was in good order,
but he soon found that it was worth
nothing. In some parts the fire died
out after being kindled and in others
the powder flared up so quickly that it
was anything but a slow match. He,
therefore, went to Col. Keitt, and said:
"This fuse will never explode the
magazine. It was brought here in an
open rowboat, and probably got wet,
for it is useless ; but, if you will allow
me to use my discretion, I will guaran?
tee such an explosion that where Bat?
tery Wagner now stands there will
soon be a creek. We have two barrels
of resin here. I will put them into
the hospital, which adjoins the pow?
der magazine, set them on fire, and
open the doors of the magazine, so
that the flames may soon ignite the
powder, and if the Yankees take pos?
session of the fort one minute after I
leave it, no mau will be found bold
enough to venture to go in to try to
extinguish the fire."
Col. Keitt called a couucilof officers
to consider the question, but they
decided that, as the commanding gen?
eral had said "a fuse," nothing else
could be used. So the letter of the
order was obeyed, while the important
object in view was lost sight of.
The fuse was accordingly lighted
the night of the evacuation, and after
burning awhile the fire died out.
Neither Battery Wagner nor Battery
Gregg consequently were blown up,
and the enemy quietly took possession
of them uext morning, and mounting
their guns upon our parapets, proceed?
ed to batter down Furt Sumterat their
leisure. . Claudine Riiett.
Bucklens Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hauds,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund?
ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale
by Hill Bros.
? A 22-year-old man of Bangor,
Me., learned for the first time, a few
days ago, that he has a twin sister,
alive and well, in Providence, R. I.,
where she is married and has a family.
Their mother died when the twins
were five months old. Two Bangor
families adopted them, and the oue
taking the girl moved out of the State
shortly thereafter. The boy's father
and fiie brothers and sisters kept
track of the boy but never told him of
his twin sister, and it was only hy
accident he learned of hqr existence.
Some Bit? of the History of Cotton Cul?
ture in Sonth Carolina.
Cotton wag early sold in Charleston.
The packages in which it was put up
varied in weight from one to thirty
pounds. In 1787 the fleecy staple was
taken to the City by the Sea from
Orangeburg, Newberry, and, perhaps,
from Union, and sold at two pence a
pound to the merchants, who resold it.
mainly to the ladies to make "^patch?
work bed quilts." About the year
named two or three bags, each weigh?
ing near a hundred pounds of seed
cotton, were packed in the store of
Wadsworth & Turpin by Samuel Mav?
erick and Jeffrey, a half-blood Indian.
(This Maverick, by the way, claimed
to he the first person that made sugar
in South Carolina. About the year
1800 he planted some ribbon cane,
purchased in the Havanna, in his lot
to the cast of the present orphan
house. It yielded 300 pounds. The
cane was pounded in a mortar and the
juice boiled in iron pots.)
These bags were sent to England as
a sample and an experiment. The
parties to whom they were sent wrote
that the article was not worth produc-.
ing, as it could not he separated from
the seed.
In 1794 Dr. James Otis Prentiss
planted cotton for market near Orange
burg Court House. Either in that
year or the next Col. William Thomas,
the Revolutionary soldier, planted
cotton to sell at Bellville, in St. Mat?
thew's parish. In 1796 cultivators of
this crop appeared in several parts of
the State. Among them was Sam?
uel Felder, of Orangeburg. John May
rant and Asbury Sylvester first grew
cotton in the high hills of Santce in
the year 1798. A year later Gen.
Wade Hampton introduced the plant
into Richland District, gathering over
600 bags from 600 acres.
Gen. Hampton was the first man in
South Carolina to use water as the
propelling power of Whitney's cotton
gin. Fifty years ago Col. Wade
Hampton wrote Whitemarsh B. Serr
brook: ?'When Whitney's gin was
exhibited in Georgia none but women
were permitted to enter the room.
An ingenious young mechanic at
length introduced himself into the
apartment iu woman's apparel, and,
by a minute examination of the ma?
chine, satisfied himself that he could
not only imitate but improve on its
construction by making it more effi?
cient. This discovery was communi?
cated to my father by Gen. Gun, who
spoke so confidently of the capacity
of this individual that my father was
induced to visit him at his residence
in Georgia. This visit resulted in a
contract for three gins, applicable to
a large scale of operations and they
were unquestionably the first ever
driven by water power."
It has been written that Gen.
Hampton's gins were furnished by an
ingenious artisan of Georgia, assisted
by William Munso'n, -of Richland.
These gins were roughly constructed,
still they were models for others made
in 1801 by William Munson and James
Boatwright, of Columbia. These were
the first of the new machines of home
manufacture. Gen. Hampton was
not, however, the first to use the
Whitney gin in South Carolina. Capt.
James Kinkaid, of Fairficld, put up
one near Monticello in 1795.
How to dispose of the cotton seed
was a perplexing problem to some of
the early spinners. It was considered
worthless and carelessly thrown on
the ground like sawdust. The hogs
ate the seed and died. Then it was
put up in pens like shucks. The pigs
got the seed out through the cracks
and soon went the way of their elders.
As a last resort and hoping to get rid
of the "nuisance," the seed was
dumped into the creeks, but in time
of low water an odor was generated
which was so offensive as to create a
strong feeling of prejudice against the
further culture of the crop.
The fear of "overproduction" is no
new tiling. Ninety years ago an opin?
ion prevailed that the supply of cotton
would soon exceed the demand. A
planter of St. John's, Collcton, look?
ing at his first crop, the produce of a
few acres, after it had been housed,
exclaimed: "Well, well, I am done
with the cultivation of cotton ! Here
is enough to make stockings for all
the people in America."
These items. Mr. Editor and kind
reader, are taken from an essay on the
cotton plant, written two score and
ten years ago, by an Edisto Island
plauter, "Whitmarsh TJ. Seabrook,
afterwards Governor of our State,
whose very words and sentences have
been freely used. W. S. M.
Clan son College. S. C.
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Farming for a LlTing.
? Secretary Morton reminds the croak- j
! crs that only about three per cent, of .
j all the merchants escape failure;
j whereas, hardly three per cent, of the j
fanners fail. The statistics really
show that agriculture is safer than
banking, manufacturing or railroad?
ing, taking all things into account.
There is no fanner of good sense and
good health anywhere iu the West,
Mr. Morton declares, who cannot make
a good living for himself and family,
and that is as well as the majority of
men are doing in any other pursuit.
The man who owns a farm and sticks
to it is certain to profit by it in the
future. There is practically no more
land to be added to tlu? area of culti?
vation. The supply of agricultural
products has reached its limit in the
United States, and must now remain
stationary, while the demand will go
on increasing every year. This im?
plies a gradual improvement in prices
and a steady appreciation of the value
i of farming huiu.*,?Selected.
Profitable Pork Making.
Pig-growing formed tho subject of
some recent questions and answers be?
tween a Tennessee man and Waldo
Brown, in the New York Tribune.
Said the former: "I have a farm of
two hundred acres, keep from forty to
sixty acres in grass, and a fine brook
runs through it. There is always a
ready sale for hogs on foot, and they
arc about the only thing we can pro?
duce for which we do not have to look
for a market. We wish to improve
our stock. What shall wc buy, Berk?
shire or Poland China ? AVe think of
buying a sow in pig, and a boar not
akin, registered stock, for a start.
What would I have to pay for a pure?
bred stock, and on what terms is it
sold ?"
The answer came thus : For several
years past I have been impressed with
the fact that to the man who would
manage intelligently a money-making
business could be established in the
production of pig pork. The best
success would be attained by keeping
a dairy and selling butter or cream
and feeding the milk to the pigs> but
I have proved by repeated experiment
that fine, thrifty pigs can be put on
the market at six months old without
milk by feeding on slop made of bran
and oatmeal. I sold pigs in 1892 at
months old, averaging 110 pounds,
that had been raised on this food.
The brook running through the pas?
ture is an advantage, providing it does
not become a source of contagion ; but
if cholera prevails in the locality the
virus is likely to be carried by the
water to farms below.
As to breeds, I have been familiar
with most of the leading kinds and
have lived for forty-five years in the
Miami Valley, where the famous Po?
land China hogs originated and proba?
bly no other station in Ohio has ship?
ped so many breeding hogs as Oxford.
I believe that as now perfected there
is no better breed of hogs than this in
Ohio or in the United States, and if I
was starting in the business of pig
pork production I should certainly use
thoroughbred Poland China sows, but
would use a Berkshire sire. These
crossbred pigs must not. however, be
used as breeders, as their offspring
will not be uniform in character; but
brood sows can be kept for five years
or more, and thus a new lot procured.
For early maturity use old sows and
young sires. Teach the pigs to eat by
the time they are four weeks old,'and
wean at eight weeks, by which time
they will be eating so that they will
not miss the mother's milk. Breed
the sows for two litters a year, and
feed them well so as to keep them in
good flesh, but never winter brood
-sows on corn. Feed roots largely if
you can grow them. Beets are best,
but turnips will answer, and I believe
sweet potatoes could be profitably
grown in Tennessee for this purpose,
feeding the culTs and selling the better
ones, but if roots cannot be had feed
bran mostly. If a sow is bred for her
first litter to be dropped at one year j
old, do not breed her soon again, but
let her have that year for growth and
drop her second litter at two years old. j
After that breed regularly for iwo
litters each year as long as she does
well. You must have good fences to
control these old sows, for there is no
animal more likely to break through a
fence than an old sow in heat.
I hardly know what the cost would
be of registered pigs, but think good
ones could ba bought at from $20 to
$25 each?this for pigs six months
old. There would be a saving in ex?
press, as well as first cost, to ship
pigs socn after weaning?say at ten
weeks old.
Headlight of the Future.
Baltimore, Jan. 11.?While sev?
eral railway companies are experi?
menting with improved headlights,
the Georgia Southern and Florida is
one of the first, if not the first line in
the country, to use electric light reg?
ularly in operating its trains. In a
letter to the Manufacturers' Record
Receiver W. B. Sparks writes as fol?
lows :
"We have eight electric headlights.
They cost about $375 each in place on
the locomotive. The co$t of main?
tenance is not greater than the oil
light. An old headlight will not throw
its light on a very dark 'night more
than 150 feet, and it is impossible for
an engineer to slow up his train in
that distance, even with the emer?
gency brake. The electric light
throws its light from a half to three
quarters of a mile. Obstructions can
be easily seen at that distance, and
some uf our engineers claim that a
switch disc can be more easily de
; teeted by it at night than in the day
! time. These lights do away with
l switch lights, which is quite a saving
j to roads that use them ?.o any great
extent.
"Railroads, such as ours, running
through the pine lands of the South,
kill a great many cows. During on.*
rainy season the lauds along the line
of road become very wet; iu places
they are entirely covered with water
and the cattle come upon the track
seeking some dry spot on which to
sleep. Wc have killed, when we used
the old headlight, as many as thirteen
at one time, and our claims for stock
killed per month have sometimes
amounted to over $1,000. The engines
using the electric headlight have never
killed a cow, and I am confident that
the saving in stock claims alone will
more than pay for the lights within
the next two years.
? Chronic coughers arc stupid
bores and should be forced to use Dr.
Hulls Cough Syrup, the only infallia
blc remedy.
AH Sorts of Paragraphs.
? St. Augustine is the oldest city
in the United States.
? Every thousand years the human
race grows an inch taller.
? Spain has more daily papers tha
any country in Europe.
? Latin is used all over the world
for physician's prescriptions.
? Some mahogany trees in Hondu
ras are worth from $5,500 to $6,000
e:.ich.
? Last crop year Minneapolis flour
ing mills ground 9,347,615 barrels of
flour.
? Over 3,000,000 women in the
United States earn independent in?
comes.
? A baby always helps to make
home happy?particularly when the
baby is asleep.
? "Woman is a powerful weak crea?
ture, but she can move the biggest
kind of man without touching him.
? All our city fathers say: Use
Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on
earth for pain, for rheumatism nnd
neuralgia. 25 cts.
? Workmen boring an artesian well
in Louisiana struck a maple log in a
sound state of preservation 540 feet
below the surface.'
? Mrs. Kenneth McLeo<", of Cross- ,
well, Mich., has celebrated her cen?
tennial. She was 20 years a maid, 40
years a wif?, and 40 years a widow.
? Tommy : Paw, what does it mean
when a man runs on a ticket as a
laboring man ? Mr. Figg: It means-'
that he has got tired of working for a
living.
? An eastern doctor says too many
people die from sleeping^ with their
mouths open. There may be a good
many, but it would be hard to prove
that there are too many. /
? "Is it true that a woman always .
has the last word in a quarrei ?" "My
wife always has it; but then, there is
nothing mean about her. She is
always willing to give it to me."
? Timothy : Say, Ma, did our baby *
come from heaven ? Ma: Av coorse
he did. Timothy: Well, he was a
dum fool to leave heaven for a place
like this, and then run the risk of
never gitten back again.
? "Paw, is there any difference
between a cold and a mfluenzy ?" "EF
the doctor calls it a cold the bill is .
about $4 ; if he calls it influenza, i
about $18. The difference is $14, m
son.''' N
? In the four years endint
the re were 15,947 murders in the Hi
ted States. But only 1,050of the mur?
derers were ever called to account for"
their crimes, and of these 410 were
hanged and 640 lynche^. j
? A family named Walkejr, livingj
in .Mitchell County, North Ciirolina^
consists of seven brothers jknd fl?
sisters, all of whom arc over 6 ft&^L^
height. One of. the brothers is said
to be 7 feet 9 inches tall.
? His Mother: Why don't you
play with your Christmas toys^Tom^
my ? They're just as good as new, and
you've had them 10 days. Tommy:
That's just it. They're no good.
Willy Nabors got some that he bust'in
no time.
? She : I am so worried about my
auut. She is at the point of death.
He: Is that your wealthy aunt ?
She: Yes. He: Well, never mind,
dearest. You have my love, which is
greater than ever.
? It had been over four months
since they were engaged, and as they
read the evening paper together he
said: "See, my dear, only $20 for a
suit." "Is it a wedding suit?" sue
asked, sweetly. "No, abusinesa^uh."
"Well, I meant business," she an
swered.
? Some co-educationalist young
man is clamoring for admission to
Vassar College. \Yhy not ? The wo- f
men are now admitted to Harvard,
Cornell, Columbia and other colleges
for men, and it's a poor rcJe^hjit^
won't work both ways. But Vassar
says she won't., and if a woman won't
she won't and there's an end on't.
? Less than 125 years ago the little
plant known to the botanists as Lepa
chy's Columnaris, was onLy known to
inhabit a small section of country in
the very southern portion of Lou?
isiana. Some time later it was report?
ed as occurring sparingly along the
Canadian River; and, later still, on
the Arkansas. Since that time it hau
slowly spread north, west and east,
even to the very source of the Mis?
souri, over into the British posses?
sions, and is now said to be creeping
along the Saskatchewan towards Hud?
son Bay. How a plant which origin?
ated in a warm climate could accustom
itself to such changes is another of
nature's mysteries.
? Some three hundred and odd cats
arc maintained by the United States
Government, the cost of their support
being carried as a regular item on the
accounts of the Post Office Depart?
ment. These cats are distributed
among about 50 post offices, and their
duty is to^keep rats and mice from
eating and destroying postal matter
and canvas mail sacks. Their work
is of the utmost importance wherever
large quantities of mail are collected,
as, for example, at the New York
Post Office, where from 2,000 to 3,000
bags of mail matter are commonly
stored away in the basement. For?
merly great damage was done by the
mischievous rodents, which chewed
holes in the sacks and thought nothing
of boring clear through bags of letters
iu a night. Troubles of this sort no
longer occur since the official pussies
keep watch. Each of the Postmasters
in the larger cities is allowed from $8
to 'fiO a year for the keep of his feline
staff, sending his estimate for "cat
meat" to Washington at the beginning
of each quarter.