Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MODEL EXPERIl Uncle Sam's Farm or Gen. R. E. Lee's 2? One of the most famous farms in the United States is being conducted by Unole Sam, a genuine horny-hand ed farmer, on a portion of the historio estate formerly the home of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Two hundred acres are set apart for farming operations, the remainder of the estate being the National Military Cemetery, where are buried 16,000 Union soldiers, who lost their lives during the war be tween tho States. A few of the Custi.s and Lee ancestors arc also buried in an obscure portion of Arlington. Unole Sam is not engaged in farming for his own profit, but for the benctit of the farmers of tho entire country, who will be giv^n thc rosults of the most expert agriculturists in thc country, who aro in the employ of the Government and who manage tho farm. For moro than a year laborers have been engaged in clearing the land and preparing it for crops. Modern build ings are in course of construction and within a short timo the farm will be in full operation. All branches of this important industry will be con ducted at the Arlington farm. The fin est nattle will be bred and a model dairy will be in operatio'. Butter of the best quality will be manufactured and if it is possible to do so better grades than are cow on the market will be made. Breeding of superior wheat, corn and oats will also be attempted. Diseases of cattle will be studied. New fruits will be introduced and those already grown in this country will be grown to perfection. Disea?oa of pears, peaches, plums and otha* fruit will be studied with a view to stamping out the troublesome ail ments of fruits and making fruit >gC9Wimj moro pr.djia.b>, Experiments ""fut the purpose of determining the best forage crops to grow and the most economical plans for feeding cattle will be some of the features of this interesting place. Great rosults are expeoted and Secretary Wilson is tak ing great pride in directing this work. That portion of thc Lee estate which has been set apart "or farming pur poses is about the poorest piece of land in this section of the country, having been worn out. It was entirely unfit for agricultural purposes and it tras necessary to fertilize and improve it. /The experts of the agricultural department expect to demonstrate that tho poorest land in the country can be profitably utilised for success ful farming operations. Gen. Lee's ?Grmer home is one of the most beau* tiful spots in the v?oinity of thu Na-" ttonal Capital. The mansion stands OB the brow OT S ali!, which slopes away half a mile to the Potomac, 200 feet below. The view from the porti co of the old mansion has been famed for a century. When Gen. Lafayetto vasa guest at Arlington he pronoun ced the prospect from the poroh ono of tho most beautiful ho had over looked upon. Since Gen. Lafayette's visit the view has been cha ged* new beauties being added, while some of the old ones were destroyed by the ravages of war. The completed Cap itol, with its imposing dome, the sym metrical Washington monument, the beautiful Congressional Library and other arohitootual features have taken their places in the picture, while a grove of majestic trees whioh graced the slope below the house were utter ly destroyed during the greatest civil conflict ever waged. Arlington House waB built in 1802 by George Wash ington Custis, the son of John Park Custis, whose widowed mother became Mrs. Martha Washington. When Col. John Parke Custis died, at the siege of Yorktown, Gen. George rvashingtou adopted as hid own tho two children, George Washington, Parke Custis and Eleanor Parke Cus tis, who lived to be considered ooo of the most beautiful women o? her day. Thenceforward Custis was a member of the Mount?Vernon household until after tho death of Mrs. Washington in 1802, when he removed to his Ar lington estate. The portico of the mansion, with its great Dorie columns, was modelled after that of the Temple of Theseus at Athens. At the rear of the mansion ->re the original ser vant's quarters and the stables, in whioh is one of the coaches used by Gen. Washington. Before the We like best to call SCOTTS EMULSION a food because it stands so em ? phatically for perfect nutrition, ? And yet in the matter of restor ing appetite, of giving new strength totthe tissues, especially io the ?erves, its action is that of a medicine. _Send for free rumple SCOTT & BOWNE, Chcmfett, # 40>4?s Pearl Street, NcwYcck. > 5ocaBdS?,oo; aUdrogglw^. VIENT STATION. L "What was Formerly ?state at .Arlington. war tho rooms of thc mansion were stored with a rich and valuable collection of mementos and memorials, many of whi<?h wero brought from Mount Vernon. They consisted of portraits, pictures, silver table ware, household furniture and ornaments. Some of these aro now on exhibition in the National Museum, while others have been returned to their original place at Mount Vernon. Mr. Custis was a talented man and much of his timo was employed io painting battle scenes of thc Revolution. Tho old well, from which Gen. Washington's table was supplied with sparkling water, has been preserved, and visi tors to this historic place arc permit ted to lower thc bucket and drink of tho refreshing water. After the death of George Washington Parko Custis, Gen. Leo who married tho oistcr of tl.t younger Custis,occupied thc estate. Gen. Lee left Arlington April 22, 1861, to take tho field at the begin ning of the civil war. After tho de parture of Gen. Lee and 'his family tho Federal troops took possession of Arlington and the precious mementos with which tho mansion was filled were dispersed and many of them have never been recovered. The homo of Gen. Lee is now occupied by tho superintendent of the grounds. In the room on the left of the hall, for merly tho main drawing room, is kept a register in which visitors record their names. With thc advent of the Federal troops tho mansion was con verted into headquarters for tho officers and thc grounds into a camp. As tho war progressed and tho wound ed increased in number a hospital was established. When other, cemetery grounds no longer suffioed for tho burial of the dead the level plateaus and grassy slopes of Arlington were, by order of Quartermaster Gen. Mcige, devoted to the purpose of a military cemetery. By the irony of fate the first gravo prepared was for a Confed erate prisoner. Before tho close of the war tho property was sold for de linquent taxes and thc Govcrnmeot purobased it, paying$26,100. In 1877 George Washington Lee, heir under the Custis will, instil ted suit to re cover tho estate. He succeeded in establishing his legal title to the property, but was barred by the Unit ed States Courts from further aotion to seoure possession. The claim was adjusted, however, to his satisfac tion by the payment to him' by the United States Government of $150, 000. George Washington Parke Cus tis and his wife are buried at Arling ton. A marble shaft marks their graves, whioh are in a retired spot near the limit of the southwestern plateau. Gen. Lee and Mary Custis wero married in tho drawing room of Arlington, where visitors to-day regis ter thoir names. Many of the leading Federal generals are buried at Arling ton, and one of the most interesting spots io this historio place is a mons mont to tho unknown dead. Their names, their friends, and their homos w>re all unknown. Tho simple and dramatio story is told in the letters chiselled on the monument's granito face: Beneath this Stone Reposo tho Booen of Two Thousand One Hun .red and Eleven Unknown Soldiers, Gathered After the War from the Fields of Bull Bun and thc Boutc to the Bappahannock. Thoir Remains could not be Identified, but their Names and Death are Recorded in the Archives of their Country and its Grateful Citizens Honor Thom as of their Noble Army of Martyrs. May they rest in peaoe. September, A. I)., 1866. Soldiers aro buried at Arlington every day. By far the most interest ing seotion of the cemotery is looatcd on ibo southwestern slope, lt is where are buried the "boya in blue" from the North, South, East and West, who gave their lives to their oountry during the Spanish ww, whoo the South attested its,loyalty to the Government and oemonted the Union wita blood shed on the battlefields of Cuba and made the nation a woild power. No other oountry on tho globe can boast of auch an historio farm. A short distance from the graves of dead Confederate prisoners and Fedeal officers and of the descen dants of those who wore tho blue and the grey can be heard the busy far mers at their labors, the result of whioh will be given to all alike. It is ! the hope- and wish of the Secretary of Agriculture that North and South, East and Wost, will benefit from the work being carried on within tho con duce of the historio estate which hts figured so largely in tho nation's des tiny.--Nows and Courier. - The dirkor a piazza itf the easier li is to find a girl sitting there. Justice Jones' Ont Crop. finn yield? of oats thia year have been noted recently io this correspondence. In this connection the result of an experiment made by Mr. Geo. \V~. Jones, manager of Judge Ira B. Jone's farms, is weli worth mention ing. Judge Jones made a practical test of a theory in regard to oat plant ing that Col. Redding, of the Georgia experiment station, bas been exploit ing for several years, a leading feature of whioh is the non-covering of the seed by ploughing or barrowiog, as is usually done. For tho purpose of the experiment Mr. Jones selected ten acres pf very oridinary upland. The ground was first broken up with ploughs and then Harrowed. The breaking was done diagonally across tho terraces and the harrowing parallel with them. Then, ?vith a four-inch grab, furrows eighteen incb^o apart were run, along with the terraces, throughout thc field. Thus prepared, seventeen bushels of oats were sown broadcast over the ten acres. Noth ing whatever was done to cover the seed. Tho preparation of tho soil and tho sowing were done in the month of October. Judge Jones himself was sceptical as to results, but his manager was so confident ti success that he volunteered to pay all expenses in-case thc experiment proved to be a failure. Some two or three weeks ago tho oats on the land were cut and harvest ed; and, notwithstanding the fact that this has beeu a very unfavorable year for small, grain, the yield turned out to bc 523 dozen bundles. The total expense, cost of seed, ploughing, harrowing and harvesting, was $39.85, leaving, at present price of oats, a net profit of over ten dollars per aero. No fertilizers of any kind were used. Similar land planted in the ordinary way did not make a third as much. One of the advantages of the fur rows referred to was tho protection they afforded the oats from the dam aging effects of freezes. Every freeze, io fact, Judgo Jones says, instead of doing injury, acted as a "working" to tho crop.-News and Courier. Cotton and the Negro. Now Orleans, La., Juno 26.-The Chroniclo says: "It is notorious that nearly all tho cotton ?B the pro duct of negro labor now, as it was in the days of slavery. If it is true, then, as the Southern whites allege, that tho employment of negroes are now more diversified than they for merly were, the inference regarding their comparative efficiency as free men is obvious." The Chronicle is wrong in its facts and mistaken in its conclusion, as you j will find, if you turn to the United States census or inquire of the United States department of agriculture. The biggeBt cotton produoing coun ty of the South is Williamson County, Texas, whioh produced 89,237 baleo, according to the oensus. Its popula tion ls 33,755 white and 4,392 ne groes/ The negroes constitute only 15 per cent of its farm kbor and raise less than 15 per cent of thee t* 3. Tho sec ond biggest cotton pro. nc .* is Ellis County, also in Texas, with 86,639 bales; population, 42,216 whites, 4,841 negroes. The negroes furnish 12 per cent of the farm labor and shout the same,percentage of the cotton orop. And so on down the list. Of the nineteen biggest cotton Counties in the South sixteen aro overwhelmingly white and nearly all the farm work is done by whites. This tendency has been marked for years and the production of cotton in most ot the Southern States is shift ing away from the black belt to the white sections. The increase io the ootton produc tion of tho South in the last two do cades is due mainly to tho labor of tho whites. The crop of ante bellum days was tho produot almost wholly of negro labor. The Chronicle is mistaken in supposing this to be tho case toda j. The negro Counties gen erally produoe less cotton than in slavery days.-Chicago Chronicle. Horses Scarce and High. "I have not known a period when horses were so soaioe or so high/' said T. E. Gilbort, of Cincinnati,, at the Hotel Barton. "I am in the bus iness and havo of late been scouring Kentucky and Ohio with a view of purchasing a good-sized bunch, but had very poor ?ueooss. More people want to buy than sell and prices aro at a point where it is im^rsiblo for deal ers to make any profits. The oountry was drained of horse flesh during our war with Spain, and further depletion was caused by the Boer war. It will take soveral years to make, up the de ficiency and high prices will continue Tho automobile orase has had no per ceptive effect on the demand for high class animals, and I do not believe that it will ever get so violent as to make people indifferent to tho delight of sitting behind a pair of high step pers." Stops Cough and Wert? efl" los Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets euro a ocld in ona day. No Cur*N No Pay. Prioo 25 cents. ^ Colton Mil! Loss. Spartaoburg, June '?'i.-Thc direc tors of the Cliftou mills have issued a ciroular to the stockholders betting forth the losses and present condition at these mill towns in concise, accu rate manner. The loss on mills Nos. 1 and 2 is estimated at $300,000, and when these factories are again put in shape for operation, the company will have 50,000 spindles and necessary loom accompaniment at work. At Mill No. 2 four warehouses, along with 1,794 bales of cotton were total ly destroyed. Sixty cottagca and a number of lives were also lost at this mill. An inspection of tho property of the Clifton company entire, on Paoolet river as it now stands, places au estimate of its value at $1,000,000 by the directora. This will provena solid basis on which to reestablish the mills. About 9,000 bales of cotton were also saved from the flood and no manufactured goods lost; so with quick assets in hand to convert into cash, au amount moro than sufficient to cover all indebtedness is realized. At a recent meeting of tho direc tors of the D. E. Converse Co.-the Glendale mills-the coming semi an nual dividend duo on July 1, wa"? re scinded. Tho loss at Glendale Nos. 1 and 2, is estimated at from $60,000 to $65,000. The capital stock is $300, 000, which will be increased** to $500, 000 in July. A meeting of the central relief com mittee was hold this morning at whioh reports from sub-committees at tho Cliftons and at Paoolet were heard, and various matters discussed. There aro a number of sick people at Clifton who are being oarred for by the com mittee, through the sub committees. A number of flood sufferers in the county have been aided by the com mittee. ? At Paoolet mills the com pany and the sub-committees have taken the matter of oaring for the de serving in hand, with knowledge of the amount of tho relief fund, and they have, as yet, made no report. As near as praotioable in the future the central relief committee aims to have an itemized statement published of all moneys received and disbursed. $145,000,000 Worth of Eggs. * George Fayette Thompson, of tho Agricultural department, has written a treatise upon the modern hen which contains information of interest. In tho first plaoe Mr. Thompson declares that the average get-rich-quick: con cern stands in about the same relation to an up-to dato hen aa docB an ioe wagon to an automobile. As a rapid accumulator of financial resources the hen is in the same class as oil wells and gold mines. The thoroughly : modern hen no longer wastes her time hatching eggs. She leaves that work entirely to the inoubalor, while ehe devotes the time thus gained to the more profitable labor of producing eggs. f Consequently, Prof. Thompson has discovered that there is a proportion ately smaller number of fowls, but by the adoption of labor and time saving machines the lesser number has been ablo to produce a constantly increas ing output of eggs. . The treatise con tains so much interesting information about the hen and her product that Seorotary Wilson has determined to inoorpo-ate it in the forthcoming year book ok the department of agriculture. Prof. Thompson, who is also a sta tistician of reputation, has discovered that in the oity of New York each family of five persons consumes on an average four eggs a day. In Chicago, if it is accepted that the city has ?reached a population of 2,000,000, the ratio of egg consuming is higher and every person in the oily manages to consume on', whole egg each day in the year. The production of poultry abd eggs is the most profitable of all industries. Mr. Thompson estimates that a thor oughly modernized bin can realize 400 per cont, "profit for her owner. In thirty-three states and territories tho value of eggs exceeds the value of tho poultry product. Thc egg product in the United States amounts to more, when measured by dollars and cents, than the combined gold and sihror pro duction. This does not take tho poul try into account, at all. The value of the combined poultry and egg product would be nearly 'dou ble that of the precious metals. The value of the industry is just six times that of the wool pvoduot. Still, eggs have taken only an inconspicuous plaee in tariff debates. Protectionists and tariff reformers aro in a perpetual row over vrool, but the hon makes no olamor for protection from congress. Neither baa there been any - protest against,the introduction of maohinery. J Prices did not fall with the introduc tion of the incubator. Instead, the poultry raisers of tue country devoted themselves to the education of the hen i so that she-would lay eggs during the time the old-fashioned fowl spent in sitting and tending to her brood! of chickens. - Tho grand total value of tho annual output of eggs is =cr ??45^~0.OC-i?, while that of poultry aggregate? $139, 000,000. Iowa leads the states in the production of eggs, tho yearly .product of that ?Ute being 100,000,000 dozou. Ohio comes next with 91,000,000 doz OU.-Ohicago Daily News. Ono Way to Gu??ocato a Frog. A frog cannot breathe with hi* mou Lb open. The conformation of his breathing apparatus is such, that when his mouth is open bia nostrils will be closed, and, paradoxical os ; it may seem, all you have to do to jj suffocate a frog is to put a stick in his mouth po he cannot shut bis jawe. lt is a strange phenomenon, probably unparalleled in animal his tory, but nevertheless any one who pleases may maka th? experiment, though it certainly will bo disas trous to the frog. The Meadow Lark. Most meadow larks migrate to the south. A few remain in the New England and middle states during the winter. This bird and our bob olink are the best two singers of tho lowlands. "Tho bobolink mood IB one of care free happiness; the meadow lark's-suggests the fervent joy that is akin to pain," says Flor ee ce Merriam Bailey. The meadow lark's song has been well translated as "a clear, piercing whistle, spring o' the y-e-a-r, spring o' thc year I" St. Nicholas. ?% - -_ ^? Beyond Endurance. An Englishman, walking down a London street, met. another, to whom ho said: "Sir, but three days ago you ship ped my face. Yesterday you caned me in ihe street and spat in my face. Only last night you pulled my nose .and thrashed me in a ballroom in the presence of ladies. Now, sir, I wish to say that if this thing contin ues much longer you will arouse* the sleeping lion in my. bosom, and-I will not answer for thc conse quences." .... - The best capital t J begiu life cn is a capital wife. - Tf we knew at forty what we thought we knew at twenty this would ' be a wise generation. - The world judges us by our achievements; God judges us by the earnestness of our efforts. rri The woman who wears feathers on lief " hat won t let her little boy rob birds' nests baauusu it is cruel. ;- If you hide your ??us in the cel lar they will bo sure to mako thena belves known in the parlor.-Ram's Roto. - The person who says the best things about a dead man is the one who nevor could say anytnlng;go?d of him when ho was alive. - When a woman goes into a room and doesn't walk up to the looking glass to gaze at? herself it js a sign that there isn't ono there. - The man who says he does not oare what the world thinks of him may want you to believe it, but he does not believe it himself. . - The ohuroh member who wears a face long enough to eat oats out of a churn has yet to learn the first lesson in Christian living. - Ohanoes come to every man, bot nearly every man asks them to tit down and wait till he is ready to take them, and they move ou to the next. - So remarkably perverse is tho nature of maa thai he despises those that court him, aod admires whoever will not bead before h i m.-Thucydi des. - Woman is the genius of compro mise: she begins by wanting her son to bo president, she euds by being Sat' isfied to have him pass the plate in church. - Did you ever ntniae that the mun who is most ready , to advise I others to 4 "arise with the lark" is usually the man who will not do it himself? ' - "I thdught Dolly had decided tc embrace the profession of law?" "She had, but a profession of love came her way and she deci '. to em brace that." x y .- He-"What!. Another dress! Gracious, woman! Don't you eve; think of anything but new dresses?'1 Sho-"Ohl yes; often I think ol those diamonds you promised me." - Just as children arc fooled int? believing thct the drumstick is th? best part of the turkey, so that thej will cry for it, grown-up people ari taught that two perseus oau get mor out of an income than one. V ;- *'I suppose that ir" you marry raj daughter you will expect me to p?? yoar^ debts?" "Shouldu't think o putting you to so much troobli," an swered Earlie Byrd; "you eau giv< me tho money and I'll pay 'om my self.1' - What is probably the biggest lc ?omotive in the world has just beei completed at Schenectady for hauling freight over the Rocky Mountains. I measures seventy feet and on a love track can haul a train of oars a mil and a half long. - A curious medical fact was eliot ted lately st an inquest on a man wh died from injuries received from fall log oct of bed in Hoxton House Lu hallo Asylum, London. The boneo o a lunatic, stated a doctor, afc fa moro brittle ?han those of a person o strong mind. - In New Holland ?ac women co themselves with shell*, and, keepiu the wounds ouch a long time? fori *or.r? ir. the flesh, which they deei highly ornamental. Another mark c \ bounty consists of having finger nail 1 so loog ?.hatfoaning* of bamboo ai ncoeasary to protuci them from ic jury. Faeces, S.O, Aug. ?ABir^<?0ir,e.C.,Aua'.19?lt?lsei I ; j ? Gentlemen i-I beses tc saSse?rors qoat:?^i*u?-?bOiifc two roora ago I ? H 8 rh3umatt?n about three yew? ago. and bad?.very ?5^^ totov?a, g jg B e yetr ago. Mr. Geor^o Wilapa, a? en?l- reUcf., Cent. H&rker, * conductor ea B ? B neer os tb? Coaat HY1EC la Flor* tho Atlaafio Oom ?ae beard ?f tay fl Efl ?ace, tola me tba* MSEntratAon>aM condition and svnt me two bottles et B SS S oared bim. I get ? bottle and lt bene- ?H*^CieV^J^5 Jfc B H ffl fitted me. X took fire bottles and ata ^V*hLWEA?A?2wn2^ ?I I now es weil aa I ever was In my Ute. tr^^dVXiot^^S^ ^u^?* fi S m I regard *EHamtiiOimflw aa a great went^cliiomTta?iBestt7 B fi fi medtoln*. I know of other? lt bas wz p-^Sai^Kola number </? B S I cored. other bad canee that vero onred by ta? B 'Bf 8. T. BUSCH. 'X4Tjly, J. S?8KB0M. H ? N 8otd by Druggists. Will be tent expresa paid on receipt of ?x .ca. B BL Bobbitt Chemical go., ? .? Baltimore, fid., U. 5. ?? if B@- For pal? bv ?vana Pharmacy, Ore-Gray Drug &>., Cbiquola Drue B G?. and Wiihite <fc Wil-ite m s ffi J HAVE JUST RECEIVED . ? CArt LOAD OF -CORN? Slightly damaged, and can sell you at 50c. per bushel. Will have a lot of it cracked for hog and chicken feed at same price. See me for OLD DOMINION CEMENT^ AND ZBIESO? LIME. O. .>. ANDERSON. 200,000 Pounds of Towers & Sullivan Mfg. Co's. Celebrated Steel Plows. The Shapes are "perfect, and tho quality of ateei the highest. These IPlows aie CHEAPEST because they are BEST. You can select joBt wha you waut from our tremendous Stock. FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTORS We have the best Distributors ever put on the market. They are per [fectly made, of very beet naterial. With these Distributors you will save one man's time, and euough Guano to pay for the Distributor in a very short time. Plow Stocks, Single Trees, Trace Chains^ . Hames, Back Bands, &c. &c. &c. EVERYTHING nftded by the Farmer for the cultivation of his crop can be found iu our Stock: * - ' Tbis Establishment ba? been Selliug IN ANDERDON for more that? forty years. Daring all tbat time competitors Im vu-como and gone, but wo have remained right here. We have always sold Cheaper than any othero, and during those long years we have hot had ono die satisfied oustomer. Mistakes will sometimes . occur, and if at any- time we found that a customer wak dissatisfied we did npt rest until we had wn?v him satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ng, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that we have tho'oonfi iecca of the peoplu of this section. We have a larger Stook of Goods this mason than we bavo ?*.ver lind, nnd we pledge you our Word that we have never sold Furniture at OH close a margin of proi't as wo are doing nov.'. This is proven by the fact-thi.two.are selling Furniture not only aU over Anderson i'eunty but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Como and eec us. Your parents saved money by buying from us, and you and your children can save money by buyiug her?, mo. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture lino, C. F. TOLLY & SON. ?Ppot Street The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers m BEHEB Pianos Made in the world, and no lowe* prices. Abs lutely the highest grado tba; can be founds Jvr.ri the surpriss is how t an ruch high grade Pianos ha had so reasonable'? .Well, it'e, this way: Pianos are being sold at too great a profit I save you from 25 to 40 per cent in the cost. I am roy own book-keeper, salesman and collector -tho whole .?Show/' ?ee? Ko worked-ov?r, second-hand repoesBs?? stock. I do not sell that kind. If yon are alright y our credit ?a good wi th me. Th* heil Reyd Orgasj inthe world is: the "Carpenter." Will move to Eipr**? office D?c?n?ber 1st. . M. 1* WILLIS. PERTEST. OFFICE-Frost Rooms ov*r Farm era and Marchall ts Baals* Tim op?-cit a ?et Illustr?t ea Con ti unoua O nm Teeth. Th? l??el JR'>te-more o?eanlv than tho ?ata tai viv-th. No bad taste or breaih i rom Plates ot thia 3? lrsd.