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BY CLINKSC?LES & LANGSTON. ANDEESON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOENING, SEPTEM BEE 8, 1897. VOLUME . NO 11. - i We are now in our New Place, We thank our friends and customers for past patron ag e, and ask for a contin uance of the same. RED FRONT BAGGING AND TIES. Any kind you want. Don't fail to get our prices before buying. . . . We Have ]3cmgrht a TREMENDOUS STOCK GOODS For the Fall Trade ! And will sell you as cheap, and more often a little cheaper, than you can buy them anywhere else, and will pay you the ..... HIGHEST PRICES FOR COTTON. We have exceptional facilities for handling the staple this year, and will make it to your interest to see us before jelling, McCTJLLY BROS 11 Now the time to select your Mower and Rake. THE JOIN MB ili Ufi! Shipped in Car lots?the buyer gets the advantage in freight. We guarantee these Machines absolutely^. Unequalled, the latest, the best. THREE CAR LOADSSTE??! ENGINES IN ST0CK' ATLAS, ECLIPSE, ERIE CITY, And other standard makes. 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Atlanta, Ga., August 21.?It has been left to Adolph Kyle, an English JeWj who is now, if alive, in the Klon dyke region, to revolutionize cotton growing in the South, to change the method of production of the greatest, money crop in the world, that brings $36,000,000 annually to th,e producers aside from what accrues to the trans portation companies, the factors, deal ers in futures, manufacturers, and merchants. From a few seed brought from the heart of equatorial Africa three years ago enough cotton has been grown to prove beyond a doubt that he has been the means of solving the problem of profitable production, which has long puzzled the political economists of the country. In spite of all that has been said and written the fact is still patent to the thinking man that cotton is still king in the South., and the com mercial monarch is ruore firmly seate?l on his throne thsn ever before in the history of the world. One day in the autumn of 1894 a traveler, bronzed and bearded from the effects of th? tropical sun and a long sea voyage, about 45 years old, robust and sinewy, signed ,:Adolph Kyle, England," on the hotel register at the Kimball House and or?er6d his somewhat cumbrous luggage carried to his room. He was soon surrounded by a crowd of curious colonels, who were anxious to learn what particular brand of spirits he affected, and, inci dentally, something of his antecedents, and whether or not he had any spare cash to invest in suburban lots or min ing schemes. Partly through natural garrulity and partly through a desire to gratify the manifest curiosity of the colonels, he began to relate scraps of his adven tures among the juagles of Central Africa and of the remarkable sights and scenes that came under his obser vation. He regaled them with hunt ing stories, tales of the slave trade, which made their mouths run water, and of the wonderful vegetable pro ductions of that region of eternal sum mer. "In December, 1892,1 joined a par ty of prospectors," said he, "and we set out on a tour of exploration to the country of the Congo. It was an ard uous undertaking, full of perils and privations, but wc were all young En glishmen who had started out to seek our fortunes, and wc had all to win and little to lose, and for many months we wandered about the jungles of Central Africa, meeting with the savage tribes and passing through strange scenes innumerable, such as may be seen only in that wonderful land. "One day along in 1893 we pitched our camp on the outskirts of an Afri can village, about twenty miles south of the equator and 1,000 miles from the coast. I observed growing near the camp a thicket of enormous cot ton plants, tweuty feet and over in height, and covered from bottom to top with enowy pods and blossoms. It attracted my attention because of the abundance of the plant, which was limbless and bore its-pods at the base of the big, broad, fig-like leaves and only a few inches from the stem of the plant," which shot straight up from the ground and appeared like a young tree. "I tried to learn of the natives what use, if any, they?made of it, but they seemed utterly ignorant of its utility. I had seen cottou growing in Egypt, and the similarity of the plants caus ed me to think to myself that if this plant could be introduced into a civil ized cotton growing country, and could be made to grow as lujiuriantly an d fruit as abundantly as it did there THE WEDDING R?N Death lurks in every place in this 11 vale of tears." There is no happiness, no joy, no gaiety, no success, no, sorrow and no failure that may not secrete him. 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Exzcma, Catarrh, and all BBOOD and SKIN DISEASES. AFRICANA NEVER FAILS. It is the true Remedy for all Blood Diseases. fiST For sale by Eva as Pharmacy aud Hill-Orr Drug Co. in the primeval wilds, it would make I the fortune of the man who introduced I it. "I cut off a section of the plant that had more than 3ix hundred pods on it by actual count, and was more than twenty feet in height. The section was about eighteen inches long, and had sixty-five pods open on it, and I carried it away among my lug gage as a curiosity. At first I care fully wrapped it in a piece of antelope skin and packed it among other sou venirs of our wanderings. We were then on the return journey to the coast, and on the way up we were up set in a turbulent stream by the over turning of a raft, and all our belong ings were thoroughly saturated. "In drying my cotton stalk I smok ed ili slightly, but I preserved it in a piece of dressed shark skin to protect it from the salt water and air on the voyage to the Cape. Arriving there I did not like the turnv affairs had ta ken, so I resolved to visit America. The only relative in the world that I know of is in the service of the Baffin's Bay Company, and I am now on my way to that part the country in search of him. I inherited a little money, and having no home tiee I have resolved to gratify my taste for travel. "I noticed in travelling through this country that your principal crop is cotton. Now I have carried that piece of cotton for many months, and it has travelled 6,000 miles of land and sea, so that I doubt if the seed will germinate; but I want to give it to some good fellow, who will experi ment with it and sec if it can be natu ralized in a cotton growing country, where civilized methods of cultivation are understood." "There is a man livingin this coun try who has devoted many years to the^studyof the cotton plant," said one of the colonels, who had heard the story, "and he can tell you in a few minutes whether it can be. grown in this country or not." "Send for him and I will make him a present of the cotton," said the trav eler. A note was dispatched to old Thom as A. Jackson, who lives not far from the city, and on the next day he call ed on Kyle at his rooms in the Kim ball. Farmer Jackson is an East Tennesseean, was an aid-de-camp to a Confederate general in the war, and left his native land because of the hostility of the Brownlow faction im mediately after the war; He is aman of large experience in cotton growing and has a liberal education and an en quiring turn of mind. He has been studying the history of the cotton plant for years, and as soon as he laid eyes on the withered stalk that had been carried so many ^miles he saw that it was of a different genus from the shrub cotton of South America or the annual plant of Australia. He had a long talk with Kyle and, while the other colonels made light of the story, Jackson listened very at tentively and finally carried off the di lapidated specimen to his poor little farm among the reddest of the red hills of Georgia. Carefully he picked the leaves from the silken locks of cotton, observing that many of the pods or bolls contained five cells each instead of four, which is the rule with the ordinary cotton. Out of the 265 seed secured fifty-seven germinated in the garden plot where he planted them in the spring of 1895. The sturdy plants grew rapidly, each putting forth, at first, an ordina ry pair of leaves, and immediately above them a second leaf, which grew out from the stem about two inohes. Then followed a joint, a? which a cluster of "squares" or budB appeared, the leaf stalk continuing and tormina ting in a broad, thick leaf, while the portion between the cluster of buds and the stalk thickened to the size of a lead pencil, forming a support for the heavy bolls. The plants grew to a height of twelve to fourteen feet, putting forth alternately the general leaf and the fruit bearing leaf, all the way to the top, and continuing in full foliage till the frost fell, except that the lower leaves dropped as the bolls matured, so that by the time the cot ton was open and ready to pick the leaves had disappeared, leaving only the snowy balls ready to be gathered, free from trash or plant stains. The disoovery became noised, abroad and cotton men from a long distance came to see it. Every E.eed was care fully picked out by band, and in 1896 there were enough to plant half an acre, less thirteen square feet, as measured by a cotton expert from Baltimore. The land composing Jack son's little farm is not at all adapted to cotton culture, and the farm had been conducted as a grain growing and dairy establishment for years. But from that half acre Jackson pick ed a little over 2,000 pounds of seed cotton. It was not carefully ginned but it yielded 800 pounds of the finest lint cotton ever grown in Georgia, giving 40 instead of the usual 33 1-3 pounds of lint to the 100 of seed. Experts said that it rivalled the finest of Egyptian cotton, and was su perior in many respects to the far famed sea Island product. The Clark Spool Cotton Company sent an agent here and offered to gin the cot ton on the special machinery oper ated by the company, so as to give the fibre a thorough test, but Farmer Jackson declined the offer, and saved the seed carefully, selling a few at the enormous price of 5 cents apiece in packages of one hundred to some en thusiastic planters who wished to give the seed a fair trial. Resold the lint for 15 cents a pound when other cot ton was selling at 5 and 5 1-2 cents a pound. This year he planted six acres, and he has to-day the most mag nificent field of cotton ever seen in Georgia. On account of the absence of limbs the cotton can be planted very closely, and the crop now grow ing is on poor land, with a stiff clay soil, thirty-inch rows and the stalks thirty inches apart. It stood a pro tracted drought of eight weeks,vand the hard clods turned up by the plough in cultivation arc still tumbled about the water furrows. But in spite of all that the stalks will average about six feet in height, and are heavily fruited from the ground up. On one were sixty fine bolls, of which forty seven had five cells each. Three rows selected at random in . different parts of the patch showed fifty-three plants in the three sections of ten feet each or an average of eighteen to the ten fect in distance. The fruit on one of these sections showed that there are nearly four and a half bales of cotton to the acre now on the ground, and the crop is not nearly .nade, as it is still growing vig orously. The best stalk in a field of common cotton, growing nearby, was plucked up by the roots and set in a row with the mid-African exotic. The comparison was ridiculous, and the disparity in the appearance of the two plants was enough to dishearten the moat inveterate mortgage broker in Georgia. The cotton is creating a great sensa tion, and planters and mill men are coming from miles around to view the wonderful field of cotton that has the appearance of a bit of jungle trans planted from some tropical clime to its present location among the red hills of Georgia. It is probablo that the Lowell mills in New England will purchase the entire crop and give it a thorough test in the manufacture of the finer grades of goods, for which it seems pre-eminently adapted. Farmer Jackson planted with the expectation of gathering eighteen bales, and his neighbors laughed at him. It now looks as if he were good for twenty-four bales, and if the pres ent crop at harvest time fulfills half the promise of the growing plants and turns out half what its admirers hope for, this legacy of the wandering Jew will revolutionize cotton growing in the South. Adolph Kyle left here with the ex pressed intention of visiting Baffin's Bay and Alaska. He has not been heard of for more than a year, al though during his stay hero he made the acquaintance of many influen tial citizens, to whom he promised to write. Farmer Jaokson is not saying much about his future intentions, but he enjoys a rush of distinguished visi tors, cotton growers, export cotton buyers and mill men from all over the country during these summer days, and more than one exhaustive maga zine article is in-the course of prepa ration, with elaborate illustrations, discussing tho peculiarities of the won derful cotton plant from the Congo jungles. Seme idea of this prolific cotton, as oompared with the old sort, may be had from the fact that ten bolls to the stalk is regarded as a fair crop of the old cotton on the Georgia uplands, and these will yield 1,100 pounds of seed cotton to the acre, generally two and a half to three acres being requir ed to produce a 500-pound bale. The ! new cotton, on the other hand, promi ses to yield from three to four bales to the acre with careful cultivation, and a a very simple calculation will show the difference between planting 22,000, 000 acres to get a 9,000,000-bale crop and the planting of 4,000,000 to se cure the same result. One of" the stalks grown in 1895 was fourteen and a half feet high, and bore 185 bolls. Speoultuion is wild in regard io the possibilities of the new cotton, and Jackson's little patch of ground is the most fascinating spot in Georgia these summer days. A Great Society. Members of the^Society of Hogs, we are told, now haue a code which they are expected to adhere to under all circumstances. It is as follows: Be sure and keep on the left side of the walk, and always go at lightning speed in crowded places,, and elbow and push as much as possible. Be thoughtless of the comfort of others in carrying parasol, cane or umbrella, thrust these articles in the eyes and ribs of passers-by. Always point with the finger, cane, fan or other article at persons and ob jects. Always smoke, especially cigarettes or pipe, upon a crowded street, or plat form or cars, or wherever it may be offensive. Always occupy more space than is necessary in waiting-rooms, railway stations, ferry-boats, etc. Drum with the fingers and feet, whistle, hold conversation with your friends in reading-rooms, concerts, etc., where those wishing to hear woula be prevented from doing so. Always expectorate when in view of others, as upon the sidewalks, in street cars, boat cabin, etc. Never restore a dropped article to a lady?allow her to reach for it herself. Never raise your hat in greeting or as a parting salutation to a lady. Always enter a place of amusement after the performance has begun, and leave before its finish with as much noise as possible. Always rustle programme, fan or garments so as to disturb those near you. Never apologize to those who are obliged to permit you to pass. Always eat in the places of amuse ment, so as to annoy those seated near you. . a: Be sure, if you are sound and healthy, to seat yourself while a lady or aged man stands. Don't fail to stare a pretty girl out of countenance at every opportunity. Make it a practice to read your neigh bor's paper over his shoulder when on the cars. Of course you will go ou a bit of a spree once a week or so, and devote a part of your carousal to a public per formance on the cars. * If you are in doubt as, to whether or no a person is a "member in good standing"?that is, has taken degrees in ill-manners and insolence?just present him or her this code and ask if it is correct. ? Visitor: "Does mamma give you anything for being a good boy ?" Tommy: "No ; she gives it to me when I ain't." ? The United States census gives the number of deaths from alcoholism in 1880 as 1,592 ; in 1890, 2,657, an increase of 67 per cent. 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Six months have passed since the swelling and pain disappeared, and I will state that . . B. has effected a permanent cure, for which I am very grateful. W. G. WiiiDBV. Atlanta, Ga. For sale by druggists. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Arp Writes of the Marriages with Sav age Redskins. Atlanta Constitution. Not long ago some writer from the west told us that white people were marrying Indian girls more frequently than ever before. "Indeed," he said, "the dusky maidens seem to prefer the pr.le faces to their own race and color. 1 f 1 This provokes mc to write a letter about Indians for the special pleasure and benefitof our young people. Boys and girls like to read about them, I know, but most of the stories that ap pear are more romantic than true. Dur ing the war our brigade camped one night on the Chickahominy River,about thirty miles from Richmond, and we were shown the very stone on which Captain John Smith laid his head for Powha.ttan's club when the beautiful Pocahontas rushed wildly in the circle and threw herself upon his bosom and saved his life. About the stone I have my doubts, but it is historically true that Powhattan lived there, and that his daughter, a lovely lass of fourteen, did save John Smith's life, as he in his letter to the queen of England says, "at the minute of my execution she hazzarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine.' She afterwards married John Rolfe, with her father's consent, and from that union came the Randolphs of Virginia, and a little strain of that same Pocahontas blood flows in my wife's veins, and she is proud of it, and loves to tell the story to her num erous and lovely offspring. That lit tle strain isn't bigger than a cambric needle, but it has never lost its strength. She would make a right good Pocahontas now if anybody that she loved was in danger. In fact, she has some Indian traits still lingering in her bosom, and should have been named Indiana when she was chris tened. But it seems that ever since Poca hontas married a white man the In dian maidens of all the civilized tribes have been willing to do the same thing. It is well known that the daughters Of the Creeks and Cherokees in Georgia always said yes when a good-looking white man proposed mar riage ; but such unions were not hasty nor deceitful, they had to be in earnest and from honorable motives. If an Indian maid was betrayed by a design ing white man, he could hardly escape, for the whole tribe became avengers of blood. Her virtue was her deareFt ornament, and if she lost il the third finger of her left hand was dismem bered at the second joint, and that left her shame always'visible. Now it seems to be settled by the men of science that the Indian be longs to the Cauoassian or white race, or else he is aboriginal and is a race of his own. He is neither Mongolian, Malay nor negro. He was first foiind here on this.continent, just as the negro was first found in Africa. As the elephant was found in Asia, the kangaroo in Australia and the llama in Peru, so the Indian may be a native of the markor born, for geologists say that this continent is the oldest by several thousand years. But where he came from or how he got here is a question too deep for me. The exis tence of Aztecs in Mexico is still an unsolved problem and who were the mound builders it matter of doubt and speculation. One thing, how ever, seems certain, that the race is doomed to extinction. The command "be fruitful and multiply" does not belong to them. According to the United States census reports, t in 1853 there were in the United Statesand territories 400,765 ; in 1860, 339,421 ;' in 1870, 313,712 ; in 1880, 306,543 ; in 1890, 248,253. Of these 58,806 are classed as civilized. The Cherokees and Creeks were sent from Georgia to the Indian Territory about sixty years ago. The former then numbered near J00 ; they number less than that now. "What is the matter with them? They have fine lands, both for pastur age and cultivation, and the bounty of the government would nearly sup port them. They have good framed houses to live in and have as good schoolhoases and Churches as our country people have in Georgia. They are classed as civilized, and dress just like white folks, and cook and eat as nourishing food as we do. What is the matter ? I asked of one of their educated ministers. "God knows," said he. I mingled with their people and talked with them. They did not seem to be sad or distressed about anything It was not that the chil dren died before maturity, but that the mature died faster than children were born to take their places. The exception to this decline of the race seemed to be in the families where white men had intcr-married with In dian maidens. These unions were prolific of children who were healthy and handsome, and always bred after the mother, having her cinnamon color, her straight black hair and high cheek bones. There is no apparent mixture of blood as that which ap pears in the mulatto who is the half breed of whites and blacks. But these Indian types weaken in succeeding generations of quadroons and octo roons, and if ever the tribes are saved from extinction, it will be by this in creasing amalgamation with the white race. These unions do not seem to shock the sentiment of manici.;} as do the unions of whites with ncg-'p^. Even Vassar College would not be horror stricken at the discovery of an octoroon among her pupils. Indian students may be found in many of our colleges and are not rejected at hotels or boarding houses or theaters or Churches or on railroads. In some of the tribes, as in the Creeks and Chero kees, their features, their beauty and their traits of character approximate the Anglo-Saxon. Schoolcraft, who is the highest authority, says their features are regular, their expression noble ; they arc taciturn and stoical to the last degree, cunning and watch ful, persevering in the pursuit and revengeful in the destruction of their enemies, hospitable and grateful for favors, a close observer of natural phe nomena, his temperament poetic and imagination and his simple eloquence of great dignity and beauty of expres sion. Many of the women arc really handsome, and their skin is thinner, softer and smoother than is the white race's. Boudinot was a very handsome, im pressive man eveu in hrs old age. I met hint at Fort Smith some years ago. lie was educated at Princeton. He was a Cherokee and was born in Vann's Valley, near Rome, mother was buried on looks Cave Spring, he was taken west 1837. Not long aft to Philadelphia adopted by Elias Boudinot, a wealthy philanthropist, and took his name. While he lived he stood high as a learned and eloquent advocate, and was the agent and ambassador of the tribe in all matters connected with the United States government. But now these tribes d? not have to send their children so far away to get an educa tion. What our government does is always well done, and handsome school houses are found all over the territories. In 1877 the policy of educating them was organized and $20,000 appropriated. Tn 1880 it was increased to $75,000. In 1885 $992, 000, and in 1890 to $1,364,568. I reckon it is two or three millions by this time. And, besides this large amount, the different religious socie ties of the United States give largely to the cause, the Roman Catholic Church giving near half a million an nually and having charge of more schools than all the other denomina tions put together. Then, rgain, just think of the land they have got?160 acres to each head of a family, 80 acres to each child eighteen years old and 40 to those younger. Just think of all thej old and decrepid ones being supported by .the government and all the young ones educated free. Why, it would seem that .with all this fra ternalism and private benefactions a child is fortunate to be born an In dian. The wards of the nation, wheth er red or black, are having a good time. There was an old song that was sung by a lazy vagabond, and it said : Ob, I wish I was a goose All forlorn, all forlorn, Oh. I wieh I was a goose Eating corn !" But now the song for our thousands of tramps to sing is : . "Ob, I wish I was an Indian !" It used to be that in our college text-books that population increar "d in proportion to the comfo-ts of life that the common people enjoyed. This theory fits the Southern negro pretty'well, for they continue to mul tiply like rabbits, in spite of all the barbarity tlfat the Boston Transcript accuses us of, but it does not fit the Indian, nor docs it fit the average Boston family, that never has more than two children and wouldn't have any but for somebody to inherit the estate. But that Hartford, Conn., Times knocks the black* out, and goes further in defense of the South than our own papers or preachers. Verily there are many men-of many minds. Bill Arp. What an Ocean Steamship Carries. The famous steamship Great Eastern, historically associated with the first efforts to lay Atlantic telegraph cables, has hitherto been regarded as the largest vessel ever launched. Its laurels as a sea leviathan, however, are of late endangeredj The new ocean freighter Pennsylvania, although scarcely attaining the external meas urements of the former celebrated ship, will carry far more cargo. The capacity, indeed, of these new freight ships is a matter for astonishment to a landsman. The Pennsylvania, for example, is rated at twenty thousand tons burden, and will carry loads such as may be briefly itemized thus : 160,000 bushels of wheat in bulk, equal to three hundred and twenty carloads, or sixteen trains of twenty cars each. 1,000 tons of flour, eighty carloads. 4,000 boxes of bacon, seventy-five car-loads. 3,000 tierces of lard, forty-eight car-loads. 1,300 bales of cotton, forty car loads. 1,200 head of live cattle, eighty car-loads. 3,600 quarters of dressed beef. In addition there will probably be a thousand tons of miscellaneous mer chandise, say eighty car-loads more ; in all not less than seven hundred and eighty car-loads, or thirty-nine long trains of twenty cars each, j Nor is the above by any means the entire load of this modern ark. The Pennsylvania will have accommoda tions for from eight hundred to one thousand steerage passengers, as also for a crew of one hundred and fifty cattlemen, with food and fodder for all. In the fuel bins, too, there will be carried a burden of 1,300 tons of coal, or more than one hundred car-loads. If we were to say that the entire agricultural product of sixty New England towns, or twenty Western counties, could all be stowed away in this mammoth ship, we should not exceed the facts. Lee in the Mexican War. The deeds of valor by which Robert E. Lee revealed himself to the world were also performed in an unobtrusive way. That was in Mexico, too. Lee was then a captain in the engineer corps, where there is little chance for the display of personal heroism, but when sent out to reconnoitre the ene my's position he stopped at no risk if he saw a chance to learn more than he was called Upon to do by his orders. At Buena Vista Capt. Lee volun teered to go into the enemy's terri tory and verify a report about the po sition of Santa Ana's army. A cav alry escort sent to protect him failed to be at the rendezvous, and his native Mexican guide showed himselt' so cowardly and incompetent thaii he east him adrift and made the trip of forty miles alone. He brought to the American camp news about Santa Ana, which gave Taylor's army ita brilliant victory at Buena Vista. Another feat that has been rehear sed a thousand times around American camp fires was the perilous passage across volcanic rockbeds of Pedrigal, near the City of Mexico, to carry vital dispatches between the divided wings of Scott's army. The rocks were pointed so sharp as to cut the shoes, the night was dark and stormy, and Santa Ana's pickets lined the way on either side. After seven aids had given it up, Lee set out alone and suc ceeded. Scott declared that it was "the greatest feat of physical and moral courage performed by any indi vidual during the campaign.''?Buffalo Enquirer. ? Many a man who talks nice in church will go right home and find fault with his wife. How's This. Wc oiler One HiiDtlreil Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by li all'i Catarrh Cure. Wo, tho undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, aad believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and finan daily able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West A Trita x, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O Waldiso. K?NNAK A Marvin, win I.sale Dru? giste, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is takon uierually, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces at too Mot?n!. Tasftfjunui-ila sent free. Price *5c pef bottle Sola by al! druggiits. there's millions im it. Sharp Raising as an Incident to Cotton Farming. News and Courier. In these sharp times of competition and small margins of profit it becomes necessary to look well after small economies and utilize fully every op portunity that may contribute to suc cess ; otherwise the remorseless opera tion of the stern law of :tthe survival of the fittest" is likely to leave those who ignore its condition behind in the struggle for success. The condi tions confronting the cotton farmers of the South Atlantic States, at least, are such as to demand a change of their methods, or to render hopeless the struggle for industrial prosperity, hitherto unsuccessfully waged by them. Josh Billings once sagely re marked that "the last sis inches wine all races," and doubtless many busi ness failures are justly attributable to a failure of the managers to fully ap preciate and utilize all of the oppor tunities involved. A careful consideration of climate, soil, population and industrial condi tions would seem to render it safe to assume that cotton growing is to con tinue indefinitely as the chief agricul tural pursuit in all of the States south of latitude 37 degrees, Florida except ed. The purpose of this article is to invite attention to som? important facts heretofore not -generally under stood or largely ignored in practice, and to indicate a more rational system for utilizing the opportunities and ad vantages possessed by the cotton farmers of the South. jCareful com piled statistics show that of the cotton crop of the United States for 1894 60 per cent, was produced by Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, and 36 per cent, by North Carolina South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, the small balance by Florida and Ten nessee. The average annual produc tion per acre of the first named four States from 1874 to 1894, inclusive, was 223 pounds, while that of the last named four States was only J.60 pounds. The field for extension of this business in the first group of States is largely in excess'of that of the last group. The fact that the four States producing 60 per cent, of the crop give-an average annual yield per acre 50 per cent, greater than that of the four producing 36 per' cent of the crop, taken in connection with the probable greater extention in the for mer, wuld appear to justify the fol lowing conclusions, viz : First, the group of States, by vir tue of its preponderance in product, will regulate the price by which all must sell, second, they will produoe cotton at a less cost per pound than the other four, and third, that they can survive at a price destructive to their less fortunate sisters, unless the latter overcome the natural disadvan tages under which they labor by the exercise of greater economy in the production and utilization of their crops. It is, therefore, chiefly in the inter est of the cotton farmers of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, and especially those of South Carolina, that the labor involved in the preparation of this paper has been assumed. It has long been known that cotton seed contained valuable animal food and fertilizing constituents, but those who produce them have been slow to appreciate their value and indifferent to the large annual waste involved in their failure to use them primarily as a fertilizer for their, lands. The seed from a five hundred pound bale of cotton averages 1,000 pounds, consisting of 500 pounds of hulls, 350 pounds of meal and 150 pounds of oil, each a valuable animal food constitu ent, but not in proper combination as furnished us by nature to supply a healthy ration for any of our domestic animals if "fed alone. While the oil is not a fertilizer it is a valuable animal food, estimated by Wolff, a celebrated German authority, at nearly four cents per pound as com pared with corn at 60 cents a bushel. If all the seed is used as a fertilizer the oil is a total loss ; if the seed are exchanged with the mills for the meal or sold for cash at current rates the farmer only receives an equivalenr.'?oi meal and hulls contained in his seed. It may be, therefore, stated as a broad proposition that the only way the cot ton farmer can secure to himself the full value, potential and commercial, of his cotton seed is to feed to ani mals on his land and plough under the droppings, liquid and solid. After careful consideration of all the factors involved sheep have been selected as the best animal machiner; for the purposes in view, for the fol lowing reasons : First, they seem to be capable ol consuming to advantage larger quan tities of cotton seed in. proportion tc size than any other of our domestic animals. There is probably no bette] authority in matters of this kind thai Col. J. Washington Watts, the veterat sheep raiser of Laurens County, S. C It is, therefore, a . great pleasure t< publish his testimony on this point as given in the following letter : MouNTViLLE, S. C, June 12,1897. Mr. V.kP. Clayton-Dear Sir: Youi letter of the 6th instant was receivec two days ago, having been forwardec from Laurens, my former postoffice, ir which you request me to give you th< result of my experience in feeding rav cotton seed to sheep, which I will trj to do as concisely as possible.1 I hav< been feeding sheep with cotton seec for over forty years, and have neve: seen bad effects from over-feeding while the cow must be confined t< short feed or she will eat too mucl and get sick, the sheep will satisfy hunger and leave the balance, if over fed. I have fed all winter on then without other feed, but prefer to giv< them hay, fodder or straw, and when the forage is added they will eat mor< cotton seed ; they relish cotton seed and eat them with avidity during win ter. As to quantity, that is mucl owing to the kind of sheep ; of cours< a large sheep requires more than j small one, ours are Merinces, a smal breed. We give each grown sheep ai much as you can grasp in one hand which is about half a pound. Thej will soon consume this and turn to th< forage, which they will eat more leis urcly, until it is consumed or they ge enough, when they will lie down unti turned out. In this way our shec] arc fed four or five months, and thcr turned out to grass. I know of n< cheaper feed for sheep thaji raw cot ton seed, and it is a pity that wc"hav< not sheep enough to consume our sur plus cotton seed. Hoping that thi: will answer your purpose, I am res pcctfully yours. J Washington Watts. Please send me a copy of your arti ele. Second, the field for a large, profi table increase in their numbers seems jj& to be better than that of any other in- rjT dustry now open to Southern farmers,A j The estimated number now in the-' United States is 37,000;000, while the estimated number necessary to pro- y duce the wool consumed by her peo ple is 120,000,000. Of the 37,000,000 now in this country only 4,536,071 are in the eight cotton States named. Texas alone has 2,911,991 of this number, while North Carolina, South. Carolina, Georgia and Alabama com bined have less than 1,000,000. South Carolina making the miserable exhibit of 70,000. If the entire seed from an 8,0 0,000 bale crop, deducting one fifth for planting, were fed to sheep . at the rate of one pound per head each day they could be consumed within a year by less than 20,000,000 sheep ; so that the. question of over-produc tion need not trouble us for come time to come. Third, sheep return in their excre ment a larger part of the fertilizing matter contained in their food than any other domestic animal, estimated by competent authorities at as high as 95 per cent, and in best possible me chanical condition for uniform distri bution to the soil. What would be the gain to the cot ton farmers under the eysteia, suggest ed, as compared with the present prac tice of manuring with whole seed, ex changing with the mills for meaj or selliog them for cash ? . Four-fifths of the seed fromjte* eight-million bale crop of cotton wouM^^ give 3,200,000 tons. Tiie manureaP? value, at the present? price of $20 per ton f?r meal, would be $22,400,000. This the farmer would receive if he used whole seed as a fertiliser, if he < exohanged with the mills for meal, or c 1 sell to them for cash at current rates he would receive in cash or its com mercial equivalent $32,000,000; if fed to 20,000,000 sheep upon his farm he could reasonably calmiate upon the following returns, t3 wit: Ninety per cent, of fertilizing value returned in manure, $20,000,000; sixteen mil lion pounds of wool, at 15 cents. $J2, 000,000. Total, $64,160,000, or a - margin of $41,560,000 over usinggreon as manure, and $32,160,000, as against selling-'the mills. Against these gross profits it would be proper to charge in terest on investment in and pasture and care of sheep, but inasmuch as* the two latter items would consist of eush portion of'each as is not now utilized to any advantage, it is fair to state that the system advocated would re sult in a substantial gain of $30,000, .000 annually to the cotton farmers of eight States. When we reflect that such a sum is equal to 12 per cent.-on the gross in come from the annual crop of lint cotton in recent years, the importance of saving it becomes apparent. It qujte likely represents the entire pos sible profits of a mammoth .industry, and if annually accumulated and com pounded, . would soon add immense wealth to a region where poverty is now a curse, if not a crime. Under such a system we could fully appreciate the significance of the Spanish proverb : "The foot of the sheep isj;olden." "Now, a few words as to the relation and importance of this subject to the fanners oi! this State. South Carolina produces about one-tenth of thecotton ' crop of the eight States, which pro duce 95 per eent. of the total, but she only possesses one-tenth of the total number of sheep credited to these eight. Sti.tes for 1896. (Statistical Abstract, 1892.) Ohio has' an area . one-fourth larger than South Carolina, ; with land values ranging about $50 per acre, while here they are about $5 per acre. Ohio is snow-bound about one-third of the year, and all , live stock are stabled and fed, while sheep thrive in our open fields the year round, browsing on the waste of the fields and spontaneous-, grass and herbage which everywhere abound. Yet South Carolina has 70,000 sheep, as against Ohio's 2,000,000. "Would it not seem that here might be found , [ the key that will unlock the door of prosperity to our worthy farmers who have so long been in search of "re- 1 form." , ' Seamen, your ship floats in whole some water; lower your buckets, and 1 draw from a boundless source. V. P. Clayton. ! Shelton, S. C. j ; All Sorts ?l Paragraphs. > ? Others see our faults as plainly as we see theirs. ' - ? If you wish others to love you ; and be friendly to you, you must be I so to them. 1 t ? Dolly Swift: "Miss Oldgal holds r her age wonderfully, doesn't she?" . Sally Gay: "Oh, yes ! She has been holding it at 26 ever since I can re-Jgg ! member." i C?"He has broken- my heart!" ? wailed the beautiful'girl. "Therej $ don't take on so," said her friend, in r tones of pity; "it might have been your bicycle." -mm 1 ? A German farmer disputed his > tax bill. He said, "I pays the State > tax,'the county tax,.and the school tax ; but I pays no total tar. s got no total, and never had any." ? "How much sugar will you have?*' I inquired the hostess as she held a f lump over the coffee cup. And Sena tor Sorghum gazed thoughtfully ahead I of him and replied: "Oh, a couple of 3 thousand shares." ' 7 7 ?"Oh," twittered the swebtgirl, ? "I Lave just been reading that two ?3 [ also an unlucky number, same as ' thirteen. I wonder' if it is true ?" , "Two is an unlucky number," said ) the hateful bachelor, "when it is made one." 7 ? The average weight of a brain of - an adult person is three pounds and four ounces. The nerves are all con ? nected with it directly or by the spinal marrow. These nerves, witn their } branches, and minute ramificatians, j probably exceed 10,000,000 in number. " ' ? "How did Slims happen to marry ' 4 his landlady, professor ?" "I am not ' conversant with all the facts, but from" . what I have gathered incidentally I am under an impression?I might say \ i conviction?that a board bill had ' some direct bearing upon the unex , pected union." I ? The leading religions are repre t, scnted by the following figures : Pr?r. 1 testant Christians, 200,000,000; Ron?H ? i Catholic Christians, 195,000,000; Greek Catholic Christians, 105,000, , 000; total Christians, 500,000,000, ? . Hebrews, 8,000,000; total non-Chris ? tians, 1,000,000,000. . &jj ? "You sec it was this way: They' 3 were all three so dead in love with her % - and all so eligible that to settle the matter she agreed to marry the one who should guess the nearest to her - age," "And did she?" "I don't ' know. I know that she married the - one who guessed th'3 jqwest," " * _ -AetcSSnBB&IaS