Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BRAINS COUI Many Millionaires -AJ the ! New Yoi These are the days of big things because we are getting down to busi ness more and nore. In other words, we are realizing that so much can be accomplished by observing labor-sav ing, therefore time-saving, methods. Perhaps the farmers have been among thc moBt recent to realize it, as is indicated by the actual revolution in agriculture in America which is taking place. Tb? work cf the farmer has been called an industry, but with the man of to-day, who depends on the soil for a livelihood, it is also a business to become more productive to the extent that each phase of it is carried out on progressive and systematic lines, and that is why the expression "cue horse" is regarded as contemptuous, since the one-horse farmer is usually among those who cannot make ends meet at the year's end, and come out with a balance on the debt rather than the credit side of his account-if ho keeps an account, though he may be too negligent even to keep one. Under this heading is not to be placed the small land owner, for he may get as muoh net value out of fifty or 100 acres by economical and at the same time methodical agriculture as his neighbor who pays taxes on double the area, but who has not appreciated the profit which comes from progress. The same rule applies to thc farmer as to the merchant, the manufacturer, even the banker-it rests with the man himself to apply judgment ind method, as already stated, in making a hnsine6s out of ( agriculture, or plc . ning and sowing haphazard, trusting to nature to repay him with the harvest. But nature helps those who help themselves by taking advantage of mechanical invention and applying processes which experience or pos sibly the farm college has taught them. The best proof of this fact is what appears to be the wonderful re sults which have attended agriculture on a large scale in the great grain belt beyond the Mississippi as well as in the Central West. Hero the corn or wheat field may he calculated by the square mile-not the acre. Instead of the one horse you hear of four, six, even a dozen, hauling the apparatus. The bushels of grain are reckoned in 50,000 lots, and ono man may own what would be called a township in the older States. Yes, there are one man farms, not one-horse, farms, but, with this difference-the man may not put his hand to the plough or toss a bundle of hay from year's end to the other. Ho devotes his ability and experience to getting the best re sults out of the men he employs snd the machinery he owns, and wherever it is a question whether the man or the machine will do the most he takes the maohine every time. Twenty-five jc^ri ago the man sin bitfoss enough to attempt to oulti vfite 1,000 sores would probably have toen thought idiotic, hat such hos bean our agricultural progress that ro ley one can find farms in the West ranging as high ss 10,000 acree. In a cinglo year the owner of one contain ing 6,000 acres in Iowa has placed in tho bank $50,000-the profits of that period after taking ont all expenses. In other words, every sore of the farm netted him over $8, counting JO. 400 aeres of woodland, roads and ?oil on whioh nothing productive was. culti vated. It may be needless to cay that thia farmer kept on tic count; and a minute account, of every item of income and outlay. An. Analysis of this account is cf interest, for it ex plains in part how be succeeded where others woald have fsiled. The farm in question is called , a "oom farm." This till?is somewhat misleading. In addition to oom, no lees than 1,000 sores are planted in wheat each year and about 600 aores in oats. Corn is relied apon fdr the priLcipal money return-the cash crop -hut if all tbs available soil were devoted io it annually far more ferti? lizer would bo required than if another cereal * were occaejonally plante?, so the crop is rotated by raising three successive harvests of dorn from a field? then "putting" it in wheat or oats and following ibis harvest frith: thtte more of corn. Tho land io valued at $30 cfc ?ore? representng an investment in tho soi] of $180,000. Tho improvements, which include houses, barns an? buildings of all kinds, fences, sewerage* maohine?y soil Uve stock, swell the total to $258, 500.'' If the 'farmer had this capital placed where it paid him 5 per cent interest his income from ic would be about $13,000-at G per sent a little over $15,000. Here .is the.problem for him to solve : Can ho make his soil yield auffioiedi in ?. quantity and Quality to paj him $?5j0OO snnually after meat-' *~ -ll expenses? If svlis mowy is MT ON FARM. mongThose Who Till Soil. ?k Times. a G per cent in ;estmeut. As already stated, he has cleared as high as $50,000 in one year, and in a period of ten years his profits have never been less than $19,000 at eaoh year's end. The expense account would stagger many a man who calculates on 100 or 500 acres. It would buy what would be considered a good-sized farm in some parts of the United States, for it amounts to $25,000 a year, but it includes everything, even the de preciation in value each year of build ings and machinery, which tho owner estimates at 10 per cent. Therefore every harvest must yield him at least $44,000 in order to make the smallest profit recorded, but, as already inti mated, this kind of farmer estimates by the 50,000 and 100,000 bushels, as he calculates hts outlay io tens of thousands of dollars. Hero is what was put into hiB granaries in one season : 215,000 bushels of corn. v 20,500 bushels of wheat. 28,000 bushels of oats. He sold tho corn for $64,500, the wheat for $10,000 and by feeding the oats to his animals reduced his year's feed bill to $200. The expert corn grower who reads this article will doubtless be surprised at the harvest to the aore-over fifty bushels-but this farmer,?who makes it his business, does not waste sn an acre of cultivated soil, and after it is ploughed gives one part the p?me attention and care he gives to all through his machinery and the men behind it. . In the preparation of the ground the gang ploughs come into play, each drawn by six sturdy horses. If the soil is heavy even the seeders aro drawn by four horses, never less than two. You do not see the "man with the hoe" walking over the field and wasting a half dozen kernels where he plants one; then another man fol lowing him to bury the seed in the earth. These machines drop just three grains in every space allotted for a hill because they can be adjust ed to do it, and cover the grain auto matically. In planting time you oan count thirty of them in operation, so the thousands of acres are seeded as quickly, if not more quickly, than a hundred. To harrow the surface the farmer starts out a hundred harrows in a morning. If they were placed side by side they would cover a strip 1,000 feet in width GB they move along. "He keeps the weeds from choking the young corn with seventy-five culti vators, eaoh drawn by two burses. The ''man with the hoe" exists only in poetry on this plaoe. Time and apace are too precious for him. When the orop is gathered seventy-five four horse wagons haul the piles of ears to the barns, placed here and there at convenient points to save time. Throughout it nil the idea is to keep every man, every animal and every machine doing what can be done to the best advantage, eaoh form ing a part of a system of which the farmer ie director. Consequently the same thoroughness is noted io one part as io aoother, and the farm is BB carefully divided into departments as aa up-to-date factory or store, eaoh i ono knowing what -he has to do and how and when to do it. I It is not strange that this man may ."make" his corn crop for 10 conta a bushel where it costo his neighbor, who does not believe in "ncv-faugled" methods, nearly twioe this amount. When ?i farm eau bo eonduoted as a business and the cost of ploughing, planting, cultivating and every other especse suss up less than $5 for every acre, while the corn from every aore sells for two or three times this amount, tho br si ness of agriculture is worth thinking over. The part which mechanical ' appli ances play in aiding the modern hus bandman is one lof the' most interest ing features of this eubject. Ingenu ity has been displayed in few inven tions more notable than tboBe which concern the ooil and its products. |?ie inventor has 60 reduced actual human labor in field and garden thai a man can perform about every opera tion requited hy merely the turn of a wheal: here. and the pull of ? lerer there with one hand, while ho guides his burses ?nth tho other. He can ??ti ily plough, 'cultivate and seed ltK)ac?*s without with hie two or four horses and ma chine will accomplish aa much? as a doten or score of men wita hand tools, Even when the corn is ready for cut ting, no longer is it necessary .to swing the sioklo blade aud get the backache gathering and binding the stalks. One reason why the Western ^r^ . "patch" may extend a mile or more In length is beoauso it can be eat and grasped by fingers of steel and bound like a bunch of wheat without a touch of the hand^^?^; The corn4>iuder and ihookei motea along as rapidly as tho horses drawing it can walk, cutting every stalk of the hill close to tho roots. Held in thc shock former the stalks arc wrapped into compact bundles ready to bo car ried to the barn or stacked amid the hilla, When it is time to separate the cars from the husk tho farmer does not call in his neighbor. One of the hands pitches thc stalks and ears into a machine that strips every piece of covering from the ears and piles them into the wagon or on the ground. Then it takes the husks and blows them through a pipe into the barn loft to be stored for fodder. Here again a steam engine having the power of two or three horses will do as muon in a day as forty or more human huskers, and the only wages are water, oil and fuel. The ''husking bee" has gone like the man with the hoe, and even the haymaker is rapidly becoming a mern ory. We are all familiar with the horse rake which gathers the hay into long swaths. At last apparatus has been designed that gathers up the swath as it moves along, raises it to the top of a wagon, where thc man with the pitchfork adjuats the load. As the vehicle moves forward it ie ulled by this hay elevator attached to its rear and the hay adjusted, ready to be hauled to the market without another touch. The grain field at harvest time prc sents an animated scene, especial!] when the wheat is thrasn?d on th? spot where it is grown. The old-time thrasher with its horses in the tread mill was considered a little shor of marvellous, but it was long sinoi discarded for the one driven by thi traction engine whioh hauled it fron place to place, and now the visitor t a California wheat field can soo th? olimax of the agricultural engineer' effort-a mechanical giant, whioh, ai it passes through the mass of waviuj stalks, outs them, separates tho kei nels from the sheaf and binds th straw. Actually the only manna labor performed with the wheat itsel ia to removo the bags of grain as fas as the machine fills them, and to Ioa< the straw bundles on the wagon to b hauled away, yet the outting, raking binding and thrashing are continual! being done from the timo the man a the lever starts his motor until h stops it. In faot, steam power i utilized in Pacific coast farming mor extensively than elsewhere - iu th world. Tractors representing th power of fifty horses are substitute* for animals in ploughing a field, mak ing a series ot furrows twenty fee wide and dragging from, twelve t twenty ploughs after them. Who the earth is ready for harrowing, the are attached to harrows fifty feet wid specially built for them. The steal harvester ?B in common use. With i 150 aereo of grain can be out, thrasl ed and Backed in twelve hours, for i mowB a srvitoh twenty-two feet wid< The traotor draws its ploughs ovt fifty to sixty aores in a day, acoordin to the character of the soil. When one staps to consider whs these figures mean he can get son oonoeption of how maohinery is ait ing in the revolution we have ref erre to. The invention of it has bec stimulated by the demand for labi and -time saving appliances, but th demand has originated from the desii of the agriculturist to apply method cal ideas, as in other channels > haman activity. As he has studit hts vocation he has realized the gre; opportunities of whioh he - can tal advantage if he has adequate faoil ties. If a man believes, he can mal a thousand or five thousand dolla more by adding to his aoreage he strongly tempted to make the add tion especially when modern methoi will give h$m the desired results wit out overwork. This is the seoret the expansion of many of the Weste; farms to their present sise. Not i their owners have succeeded, as the instance we havo cited, but mai have done so, and the stories of tl rural capitalists who dire ot o per at ip from their automobiles and drive ov their placeo behind te? , JB of thorong breds have more thsn a grain of tm in theta, as the camera proves. B they are of the cl s BS who use th < heads more, than their hands, beari the same relation to their propel that the president of a cotton mill of a foundery does to his industry. Soldier's Sens? ef Huer. The late Bear Admiral Henry T^Ior ut iou ci se ? ss an example I ghastly ?humor an incident that 1 felt a young woman during the Ci War? aays ihe Baltimore Herald. ' "She was good and kind," he wot say, "and during the war she visit the hospitals daily, distributing fra and flowers and tracts. > VOn* - morning on her rounds young soldier immediately after f had passed him, set up a loud )ao| "She turned end looked at him surprise;. / He seemed a pitiful es Nothing of him but his face was vi ble on thc little white bed, and t young face was sadly thin and pi Nevertheless ho laughed like. < pc8s0?s?d. His mirth resonnt through the gruesome room. 1 "The visitor returned to Lim. '?>?? "Will yon tell me what amu you?' she said.. .. "Why, wa'm, said he, 'here J have given me a tract on the sin dancing, when I've got both legs s oft?' .. Hats Start Fires. Thc Kock Hill Herald no longer doubts that a rat eau burn down a house-it has a minister', testimony that the thing is possible. Say* Tho Herald: "We have often doubted whether fires that have been attributed to matches and rats ever occurred for that reason, but we are DO longer a skeptic, as Rev. W. P. Meadows has furnished the proof that rats do light matches. On Thursday night while he was lying in bcd and before slum ber's chain had bound him, ho saw a light on the floor and heard thc scratch of a match. The light waB under his bureau, and jumpiug out of bed, he hastened to that point, pulled the bu reau out, when a big rat ran out be hind it. Pushing it back, he secured a light and found a matoh with its head charred, lying on thc floor, just where he had seen the flash. This proof convinces us that matches ^re a good thing to put away carefully, lest it may bo expected that a conflagra tion may result at any time." - Some men would have no excuse for living if their wives didn't take in I-BTB. The Klehost (ilrl in Europe. A very popular young girl ia Miss Krupp, who sinco the death of her father has been the chief proprietor of tho Krupp works, at Hsscu, Ger many, and is said to bo the richest girl in the world. Young though she is, she holds the fate of nations in her keeping, for if tho Krupp works re fused to supply a country with arms, that country would indeed be in a bad way. Miss Krupp, when she makes her debut in Berliu, will do so under the protection of the Kaiser andKaisetin, who take great interest in her, an in terest which is duo not only to her own charms, though they arc many, but to the fact that her father was an intimate personal friend of the em peror. In Essen Miss Krupp is like a little sovereign. The town, with La 100, 000 inhabitants, is practically her pri vate property, and the power she wields so wisely and kindly over 23, 000 employees and their families is very great-Home Notes. - If the man has the check to ask a girl to marry him she seldom has tho I face to refuse. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN FIELD AND HOG FENCE S8TNCTt.~ ?mi* Bk ta ;r> INCH. Regular Style Stays ta in. or 6 In. apart gre* .Tl ? i1* V SH 3? 32 ?3. IN. LLB, R Special Hog-, Horse and Cattle Style Stays ia In. or 6 in. apart Made of large, strong, high -grade steel wires, heavily galvanized. Amply provides for expansion and contradi." i. Is practically ever lasting. Never goes wrong, no matter how great a strain is put on it. Does not mutilate, but does, efficiently, turn cattle, horses, hogs and pigs. EVERY ROD OF AMERICAN FENCE GUARANTEED by the manufacturers and by us. Call and see it. Can show you how it will save you money and fence your fields so they will stay fenced? TWO THINGS IJL'1 I 1 CONSIDERED. 1 1A.1U DON'T Buy cheap Goods because the price is low. Nor pay high prices because the quality ia good, but BUY Good Goods where you can get them at reasonabl? prices. We give one hundred cents in value for every dollar you pay us. OUR HARDWARE LINE Is the moat complete in the State, and the Goods are sold etrictly on their merits. OUR REPUTATION For HIGH QUALITY AND LOW PRICE is well established. 11?T_ A-^Xm. Our Advertisements ! W 2itCH 0ur *&ow Windows.! Our Store ! S?llivan Hardware Co. Hew Booms South Main St., Formerly Alliance Store. FOR FALL PLANTING ! Barley. Bye, Winter Vetch, Crimson Clover, Rad Clover, White Clover, Bur Clover. Evans9 IPharmaov. D. S. VANDIVER. J. J. MAJOR. E. P. VANDIVER. VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR, -. DEALFB8IN BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS. ^We have a splendid line of BUGGIES and HARNESS cheap, and want to nell yon. We have some good WAGONS cheap. - ALSO,-> ?A FEW FINE HAY RAKES, At Special Price. '?ST? COME TP SEE US. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. HEALTH AND VITALITir HHB-IWUL? HIB X>X*. MOTT'S Tho great remedy for nervous prostration ami all diseases of tho generative) organs of either ses, such ag Nervous Prostration, Failing or Lost, Manhood, Impotency, Nightly Emissions, Youthful Errors, Mental Worry, excesslre use of Tobacco or Opium, which lead to Consumption and Insanity. Wlthevtrjh ACTCR HCIlie $S order wo punrantco to euro or refund tho money. Sold at 91.00 p'.-r t.or, Rr I tn UaiROi G boxes for $6.00. OH.iWri 'S CHEOUCAIi CO., Cleveland? 0h.Ux, FOR HALE BY EVANS PHARMACY. I>. S. VAX DIVER. E. P. VANDiY?,K, VAN DIV ER BROS. General Merchants. tr COME TO SEE US! On anything in our line ami we will make PRICES SPECIALLY INTER ESTING. We have a limited amount of Sound, Cheap Flour for Hog* Feed, At 83.50 jn?r barrel. Yours for Prarie, VANDIV?R BROS. Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Framing, Shingles, Lime, Cement, Lathes, Brick, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mantels, Turned and Scroll Work, Devoe's Paint, Lead, Oil, Turpentine, Hard Oil, Glass, Putty, Etc. EVERYTHING THU: BUILDER. IMPORTANT INVESTIGATE when isa need of any kind of BUILDING MATERIAL. See me. If I don't sell yoi?. I'll make the other fellow SELL YOU RIGHT. "W- Hi. B]R,ISS?EX, ANDERSON. S. C. FOR TUE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. We offer for sale the following desirable property, situ ated in this and surrounding Counties. Nearly all of these places have good improvements on them. For full partier ulara as to terms, location, &c, call at my office. 50 acros, two miles from city, un improved. House and Lot, G acres, near city limits, very desirable. 1 aore, with new dwelling, in city limits. lld acre;;, near city limits, cleared, no improvements. 200 acres in Fork township, on Tug aloo River, two dwellings. 400 acres in Oaklawn township, io Greenville Co., half in cultivation, 5 tenant dwellings, 50 acres of this is in bottom laud. 700 acres in Hopewell township, on Six and Twenty Creek, 3?0 acres in oultivation, 2 good residences, 6 ten ant dwellings, 40 acres in bottom land. Bl acres in Garvin township, on Three-and-Twenty Creek, good dwell ing, barn, &o. 200 acres in Center township, Coo nee County, 100 cleared, balance well timbered, well watered, good mill site with ample water power. 133 acres, in Pendleton township, well improved. Berry plaoe, Varcnnes, 87? acres. 437 aores, Pondlcton township, ter? ant houses and dwelling. 145 acres, Evergreen place, Savar> nah township. 150 aores in Savannah township*, well timbered, no improvements. GOO acres in Hopewell township. 130 acres in Broadway townships improved. 230 aeres in Fork township, oa ?ct-< eea River, good dwellings, dre. 800 acres in Anderson County, ext Savannah River. 96 aores in Lowndesville township Abbeville County. 84 aores in Corner township. 75 aores in Oconee County. 75 acroB in Piokens County. 152 aores in Rock Mills township on Seneoa River, 2 dwellings. 700 aeren in Fork township. 56 aores in Macon Co., N. C.,'"25* miles above Walhalla, on road kUh Highlands. 162 acres Broadway Township, on Rocky River. Good improvements,, two tenant settlements, pastures, &c. 40 acres bottom, 40 acres woodland,, 80 acres in cultivation. All the above are desirable Lands, and parties wanting good horneo, -a!* low pri?es, can seleotfrom lae above and call for further particulars. Nen*, j is tho time to Beear e J ?er homes for another year. JOS. J. FRET WELL, ANDERSON, Bc O. C-4 8 w 0 ag li* g-Ba 0 td ? > M W . S 0 < b ? OG Q 0 ? H M Q H 00 < W M W 0 A S % z Q s OU, BM This Establishment nae been Sellins IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring ell that time oom pe ti tor* have come and gone, but we have remained right here. We have always sold.. Cheaper than any others, and during those long years WK have not had one die- . satisfied ouBtomer. Mistakes will sometimes ooour, and if at any t/ssa? a v found that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made hin.: satisfied. This polioy, rigidly adhered to, hes made ns friends, true and lead - ing, and we cen say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the confi dence of the people of this section. We have A larger Stock of Goods fhrer* season than we have ever had, and we pledge yon oar word that we have neverr sold Furniture at as clops a margin of profit as we are doing now. Thia ii" proven by the feet that we are selling Furniture not only all over Anders?*/ County bat in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come end see us. You* parents saved money by baying from us, and yon and your ohildren can save money by buying hore too. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture lins-,. Ce F* TOLLY & SON. Depot Street. The O ld.-Re li able;F ur n i tur elD e/ilers?. WE have moved our Shop and office below Peoples' Bank, ftp trout ejf Mr. J. J. Fretwell'a Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need any Hoofing done, or any kind of Benair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporatorsy or ?ny kind of Tin or Gravel Booting to call on ne, ae we are prepped to ?? it promptly and in best manner. Soliciting your patronage, we are. Respectfully, BURRIS8 A DI WER.