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THE 1%NhG TIMES. Marrnrg, S. Ch S. A. NETTLES, Editor. WEDNESDAY, October 23,1889. Prize Acre Corn in Oconee. Having gathered our prize acre of corn, we beg leave to present our ex periment, the cause of success and failure, comments and deductions, for the readers of the Courier, in behalf of all concerned in the farmers' move ment of progressive tillage, etc. We have gathered and measured careful ly one hundred and five bushels and twenty-three pounds, struck measure. Though the acre has been estimated from forty bushels to over two hun - dred by different parties, and though we have fallen far short of our own expectation, it is quite refreshing to realize the fact that we have more good merchantable corn from one acre than we made on our whole farm in either of the two last years, having been submerged by the floods of 1887 and 1888. The cultivation was al most faultless. The want of a ma chine to drop the corn and a good .hand to lay off the rows was the only irregular procedure that observation could detect. While we did not make two hundred bushels on an ap proximate, we will make the follow ing statements, viz: Having manur ed .very highly, (10,000 pounds of compost of cotton seed and stable manure and land plaster, and' 3,000 pounds of guano,) the land having been deeply plowed. the spring cold and dry, the crop did not start off well until the last of May. The ground was thoroughly wet. Two heavy rains frcm this time until the last of June, impeded its growth. At this particular juncture, when "shoot ing," sulking, and tasseling, the weath er was dry until the 24th of July. During this time we experimented a little with spraying, and on Tuesday, 22d July, we turned on a branch, but on Thursday (two days later) the rain came, and our irrigation amounted to nothing, but an injury, as the land where the stream ran was made too wet, causing the corn to fall down. This is the objection to irrigation by turing on a running stream. The g n gets too wet before it will get over the, entire land. Spraying is more like natural rain and far prefer able, as the operation can better be controlled. During this drought, ten miles below in Anderson county, the -farmers were having too much rain and partial showers were frequent, which, together with a press of other woi-, deterred us from resorting to irrigation, thinking every day it - would rain. But if I had commenced irgton in the outset of the drought, - n etit up, I believe firing could have been prevented. One other canse of failure was taking in a poor sand bank for the purpose of testing the power of highly manuring such anis compared with irich land, an I betiause it was not exposed to over stal~buao c~~ery~ttIs& eas. TwA'o'er three severe winds prostrated" anid'split up the blades, preventing filling.i We think the wind destroyed twenty-five bushels, taking in the sandbank twenty-five, and the drought twenty-five or fifty, would have given ~-a yieIm of two hundred bushels or its ~approximate As it is we would have -made more if there had been less corn on the land, and, perhaps, we ~would have mnadea better yield had our rows been five feet instead of two -and one'half, and thicker in the drill, and had given the corn more sun light. Corn plqpted on the new moon grows taller, giving more foliage 'and-less grain. Hence our high corn, some ears being nearly ten feet from the~ground. It is-not a popular idea to give the. moon such an influence, =but.nesp tides are formed by the1 moon being in conjunction with the sun. sSo weshave faith enough in the1 moont'o insist on planting corn on~ the moon. This would have increas -ed our yield.-Keowee Courier. Brought Him in Debt. -The following queer story of a transaction between a farmer and butcher in one of the 'counties bordering on Sagl Francisco -bag, is told by the Butchers' and Live Stoel Gazette: Mr. Jones sold a 7bnllock:to Mr. Laarus for $16 to be taken and paid for when fat. When Mr. Lazarus came for the animal Joneis said he would like to have a forequarter for his own use. Mr. T aarus willingly accepted the order, and after the bullock was slaughtered delivered the meat. A few days later Jones went to town called on Lazarus, and as a preliminary to a settlement, asked for his bill. "Dot's all right,~ Mr. Jones; I haf the bill already made out. Here you are." Mr.] Jones read: Mr. Jones, Dr., to Jacob Lazarus To one quarter beef, 185 lbs. at 10c. $18.50 By credit, one bullock 16.00 Btalance due ~$2.50 "Good heavens, Lazarus. you get three quarters of beef, the hide, tal low and offal and bring me in debt $2.50. How's that, old man?" "Ah, Mr. Jones, that beef vas sheap at 10 cents a pound." "But, Lazarus, you only gave me $16 for the whole bullo.ck." "Ah, but Jones, dot's pizness, piz ness, do you see ?" "Well, Lazarus, next time I have a fat bullock, I'll kill it myself, use one quarter and throw away the rest, and then I'will save $2.50. You see ?" "As! ah! but dot's not pizness; farmers should not be butchersdot's] bad," . HIE SHOWED HIS GOOD SENSE. Our traveling men as a rule are men of lively disposition. They make a good im pression on the public by their engaging manners, but when the true gentleman with kind and sympathetic impulses and that feeling of t'enderness, known only to men of the highest order is to be shown, the "drummer" is not behind his fellows. Capt. C. F. Hoke, one of the most widely bnown traveling men in the South writes: "I got from you a bottle of Dr. Westmore land's Calisaya Tonic for my little daugh, ter, who had been prostrated with fever and was very weak and had no appetite. She had not used more than half the bottle before she had an excellent appetite and re gained her strength with astonishing rapid ity. I believe it to be an excellent tonic." This great tonic is sold by Dr. L. W. Net-I tiesforeston, S. C.; .1. G. Dinkins & Co., Manning S.C. BILL ARP'S TALK. He Want Industrial Schools for Girls. Oh, I am so grad-I'm so glad, that is what my folks said when I told them the industrial school bill for girls had passed. I expect a thousand women said the same thing. Poor things. That is about all they can do when any great moral measure is tri umphant. They can just be glad, that's all. They cannot take any part in the great reforms. Can't even cast a vote in a prohibition election. Thir teen hundred negroes can go to the polls in our town and vote for saloons, and all that the mothers and wives and sisters can do is to weep and plead and listen to the beatings of their hearts that are throbbing with hope and fear. If I was a law make f would vote for a bill that would let them vote on that question if no oth er-yes, vote-vote at a separate place for women only. In fact, they ought to have two votes, for they have a double interest at stake, one vote for themselves and one for their little children. In all moral questions that affect the home, the fireside, the wife or the mother should have at least an equal voice. She is the queen of the home and ought to be. If she is not then it is not a home but is simply a house, and sometimes a prison. It is the place where she stays and bears the children and nurses them, and where she loses her beauty and grows old and dies. She lives mainly for those children, and when temptation and vice rob her of them she is rob bed indeed. With some it is a help less, pitiful grief; with others it is a lioness robbed of her whelps. I knew an aged mother in my own town whose sons and grandsons were enticed away, and in her desperation she seiz ed the sword cane of her dead hus band and went to the barroom of the town and walked behind the counter and broke up every glass and bottle and mirror and when the owner tried to stop her she drew the dirk from the cane and ran him from the house and then completed her work. The love for her offspring armed her with a wild frenzy, and this is the same feeling that every mother has though they do not show it that way. Oh,; the good mothers of this land, what a blessed world we would have if they could have their way about these things. But the christian world is-making pro gress in the right direction. The time was when a married woman could own nothing, not even her watch or her clothing. Everythiag was her lord's. But now she can have her own property without a trustee, and can make her will. But this is not enough. They should have a voice and a vote in the protection of their children. Now, here are hundreds, yes thous ands, of our girls who want to earn their own living and the door is shut. For a century the poor women could do nothing but sew. It has been less than half a century since Thomas Hood wrote: Oh, men with sisters dear, Oh, men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives. But now our girls are waking up' to the consciousness of 'their fitness for other things, and all they ask is a trial and a chance. I am more cea cerned for my girls than for my- boys. & isty~tbever, and I have a sus picion that those who voted against the bill were not fathers, or, if fathers they have no girls who are likely to become dependent on their own labor1 for a support. I know of some wo men and some girls who are doing men's work and are doing it well and are getting about half pay for it--just because they are females. Is there no remedy for this? What our girls want is a wider field--more occa pations-more independence. When a girl goes to an- industrial school she1 means business--and the State's mon ey is not wasted. 'When a boy goes to college he does not always mean business. Most generally he means to have a good time and he has it. Of course there are exceptions, but that is the rule. Money spent on our girls in training them to practical pursuits is well spent. It has proved so in Mississippi. It will be no experiment and Georgia can, with safety, follow the lead of a State that has always honored women with a peculiar chiv alry. Georgia is three times as rich as Mississippi, and certainly ought to spend as much for our girls. If the women could vote our legislature would not dare to~ hesitate. -I wonder what is the matter with our people, anyhow. Not long ago the good ladies of Fredericksburg asked .us for a little money with which to fix up the graves of the Georgians, and only thirty-four have responded -only thirty-four, and twenty of them are non-residents. Just think of it only fourteen Georgians have shown enough regard for our dead to give one dollar to put a head board to a grave. What shall I say to those ladies who for twenty-five years have cared! for those graves? Oh, shame for Georgia! Here I have a letter from them thanking me for what I wrote and telling how many Virginia papers have copied it and how the ladies are getting up a concert in Fredericks burg to raise some money and how the recent floods washed away their bridges and ruined their crops and destroyed their water works, and made them feel so poor that it is hard to get money for these graves. But I have not given up, and I ex pect to keep pegging away on this line. until the money comes, if it takes all winter. My wife, Mrs. Arp, says she believes the good people would have sent the money long ago, but they thought the legislature would send it, as the appeal was made to them. But the legislature is absorbed in such great living issu-es, they seem to have forgotten the dead. Maybe they will think of these graves after while. One old soldier, who is 78 years of age, sent me five dollars and wrote that when he read the appeal he1 didn't have a cent, and so he hurried up a bale of cotton and took it to Columbus and sold it on purpose to; pay his part of that debt. A friend near Macon did likewise, and sQ I have received fifty-three dollars in all.! Friends, please send me a dollar or' two to send to those ladies. Twvelve Confederate veterans from Ocala, Florida, sent twelve dollars. A gen tleman sends a dollar all the way from Massachusetts, and another camne from New York city. You needn't wait on the legislature. Just send it alon. ANw York man want ton know if it- will be safe to remit tc "Bill Arp," or has he got another name; says he saw in a paper that Bill Arp's son had stolen a horse and es caped from the sheriff, and that thi has made him dubious about the fam ily, and he wants to know about it. My boys are worried about that. Ev ery now and then some devilish fellow asks them which one of the boys stole that horse, and that is what I get for stealing a name. The chickens wi'J come home to roost. My friend, that horse thief is no kin to me, and I'm sorry he is kin to anybody. But if you will send the money to the under signed the ladies of Fredericksburg will get it. There will be a big circus here next Monday, and I wish the sol dier's graves had all the money that will be laughed away that day. But the folks must laugh, I reckon-and the children do enjoy a circus so much and there has not been one here in three years. So I reckon we must let them go and see the animals. My first great grief was because my good father wouldn't let me go to the cir cus. He said it was wrong. The tent was near to our house and there was a great rock not far away and my good mother let me get upon it where I could see a little bit between the up per and lower curtains and I was happy. The other boys were all in side and I couldn't understand exact ly why it was right for them and wrong for me. My father saw me on the rock and relented. He would not take me in but let me go in with my uncle and my happiness was complete. And so I voted to give holiday to all the pupils of our public schools and so did a majority of our board, and there are two or three hundred happy children in Cartersville. I don't be lieve it is a sin to go one time in three years, but if it is I am sure there is no malice in it. Evil be to him who evil thinks. I shall not go myself nor do I think that preachers ought to go, for there is a fitness in things, and there is a time for everything, and my circus time is out. I would like to study natural history awhile and see the animals, and Mrs. Arp has inti mated that she wants to see them and would like the pleasure of my com pany and so-well, I don't know yet what will happen. I heard a dignified Judge say that he never knew wheth er he would go or not until the music began. BI.L AR. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Files, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. G. Dinkins & Co. THEIR BUSINESS BOOMING. Probably no one thing has caused such a general reviyal of trade at Dinkins & Co.'s Drug Store as their giving away to their customers of so many free trial bottles of Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption. Their trade is simply enormous in this very valuable article from the fact that it always cures and never disappoints. Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, and all throat and lungr diseases quickly cured. You can test it before buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size S1. Every bot tie warranted. EPOCH. The transition from long, lingering and painful sickness to robust health marks an epoch in the life of the individual. Such a remarkable event is treasured in the memo ry and the agency whereby the good health has been attained 'is gratefully blessed. Hence it is that so much is heard in praise of Electric Bitters. So many feel they owe their restoration to health, to the use of the Great Alterative and Tonic. If you are troubled with any disease of Kidneys, Liv er or Stomach, of long or short standing you will surely find relief by use of Electric Bit ters. Sold at 50c. and $1 per bottle at Din kins & Co.'s Drugstore. FOR DYSPEPSIA Use Brown's Iron Bitters. All dealers kepi.$10 e bottie. Genuine hatademarkadrodredsleonrapper. Manning Shaving Parlor. HAIR cUTTING ARTISTICALLY EXECUTED. and Shaving done with best Razors. Spec ial attention paid to shampooing ladies heads. I have had considerable experience in several large cities, and guarantee satisfac tion to my customers. Parlor next door to MANNING TIMEs. E. D. HAMILTON. DR. CHARCOT'S LIFE ELIXIR, PLEASANTLY E xh ilarating CURES NERVOUSNESS and SLEEPLESSNESS RIGHT AWAY. Free by Mail, 50 cents and $1.00. SEND FR~, CmcUI.AR. Life Elixir Co., 30 Vesey St., N. Y. H. BULWINKLE & CO,, --DEALERS IN Grain, Hay, i Mill Feed. Southern Seed Rye, Southern Seed Barley, Western and Texas Red Rust Proof Oats a Specialty. No. 162 East Bay, and 15 and 17 Elizabeth Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. G.S. Hacker & Son, MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, -AND - Building Material. ESTABLISHED 1842. CHARLESTON, S. C. CHARLES C. LESLIE, Wholesale & Ratail Commission Dealer in Fish, Oysters, Game and Poultry, Stalls Nos. 1 and 2 Fish Market. Office, 18 & 20J Market Street, East of East Bay. Coun try orders solicited. CH A R L-STO S . C. THE TRUST BROKENI WHAT TRUST? The Trust on High Prices. WE DID IT! GOODS YELL BOUGHT IRE HALF SOLD. We have always had the reputation of being The Lowest Priced House in Sumter. We are better prepared than ever before to sustain this rep utation, having opened a LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK, which for variety, styles, quality and cheapness cannot be it excelled. WE HAVE GOT THE "PULL" ON L OW PRICES, and competitors are left behind. We offer the best goods for the least money. Come and see. JOHN REID, Surnter, S. C. st7MTzu, s. C. The leading house in the State invites the people of Claren don County to visit their stores. A few of the reasons why it will pay you to do so. Because our Stock is the Largest. Because our Goods are the Newest. Because our Prices are the Lowest. We make no special leaders, as all our goods are leaders. Our line of Dress Goods, Trimmiings, &c. are unequalled in style and quality', embracing all the season's novelties. A handsome line of the latest styles in Ladies' and Misses Cloaks. In our SHOE DEPARTMENT will be found a cheap selection of the best makes. Sole agents for Hough & Ford's Ladies' and Misses' Shoes, the celebrated Hess Shoes for men, the W. L. Douglas Shoes, and several oth er leading makes. In our Clothing and Furnishing Department we are winning new trade every day with our rightly made Clothing, made this season better than ever before. Sole agents for Strouse & Bro.'s patent square shoulder garnments, eqnal to the finest custom make. See our line of Boys' and Children's Clothing. Sole agents for the celebrated Knockabout Suit. A nobby line of HATS in all the leading Blocks. CARPETS, OLt CLOTH, MATTINOS, AND RUGS at New York pr1ices. An immense line of Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, CorsesS, &c, SOLE AGENTS FOR THE MATHER LACING KID GLOVES, Every pair warranted. A conmplete line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Crockery and Hardware. Jobbing Department. In tis dpartentwe oner special inducements to miereiants and dealers, and are prepared to -ompilete with anyv market. All orders by mail will receive prompt attention., J. IRYTTENBERG & SONS. WE lEAN BS11 Everything in the furniture line from a $1.50 Be DURANT& BELl1 SUMTER, S. C PRIZE PARLOR S Every $10's bought entitlesti i ticket at our magnificent | ROSEWOOD PARLOR SUIT it $100 and consisting of 6 pi D. J. WINN Desires to call the attention of friends, customers, and the public gener Ily in Clarendon to his complete line of medium, fine, and low priced - CLOTHING, elected with care to meet the wants of all our people. The stock consists if all the leading styles, and as good a line of medium and low priced goods s ever brought by me to this market, Piece Goods, Shirts, Fine and Medi im Underwear, Hats, Caps, Umbrellas, Socks, Neckwear, Suspenders, Gloves, [andkerchiefs and all kinds of Overcoats for Men, Youths, and Boys. We call speciai attention of our lady friends to the number one line of Boys', Youths', and Children's Clothing or every day and dress wear. We propose to sell the goods at ex remely low figures, and when you come to Sumter don't fail to come nd see us. "Sell Them is Our Motto." Thankful for past patronage, I remain very truly yours. D. J. WINN, Main Street, SUMTER, S. C. T. C. SCAFFE, Sumter, S..C. STOVES AND TINWARE. Largest Line of Goods Ever Carried. HARDWARE! R. W. DURANT & SON, Ciin A. A. sO S oe and see us We an ho yon one ofN toread Handsomest Hardware Stores nthe State. We sell everything in the HARDWARE LINE, from a nail to anything ou need, and at PRICES TO SUIT. STOVES! STOVES! STOVES! Best Makes and Cheap. Crockery, Glass and Tinware, and Har ness. Fine Line Table and Pocket Cutlery, Scissors, &c. Guns' and Pistols I Gr eat Yar'iety. Cartridcs, Shsells, &c. IN BELTING! We can give you bargin WB stare Headqiat fr P aci i Rber and sl heaper than you can order it. Comie and s-ee us, we'll do you good. Respectfully, RI.. W. DURANT & SON. WVETHERHORN & FISCHER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS 1N General Building Material. ash, Doors, Blinds, Moulding, Scroll Sawing, Turning, Door and Window Frames, Lumber, Flooring, Ceiling, Weather-boarding, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lime, &c. Office, Salesroomn, Factory and Yards, Smith, Near Queen Street, Char'lStOI, S- C iarWrite for prices, or send a list of your wants for an.estimate.ME haest and Rest Grneries. at FERDINAND LEVI'S. Sumfer. S. L' . ESS. d to a $150.00 Suit at ZER'S, UIT. he purchaser to 7ILK PLUSH prize, valued ices. A. McCOBB, Jr. General Commission Merchant, AND DEALER IN me, Cemeat, Plaster Pads, Hair, Fire Bdcks and Fire Clay. Land Plaster and Eastern Hay. agent for White's English Portland )ement. NO. 198 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. 0. [GRo. E. Toire. HE=N OLTER.] leo, E, Toale & Co. AA UFACTURIRS AND WEOLESALE -3 A.T IE.B X )oors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Mantels, Grates, etc. Scroll Work, Turning and nside Finish. Builder's Hard rare, and General Building Material. OFFICE AND SALESROOMS, 10 and 12 Hayne Street, EAR CA:LESTON HOTEL, Charleston, S. C. All Work Guaranteed. sWrite for estimates. National House, 177 MEETING STREET, 5 Doors South of Market Street, DIRECTLY ON LINE CITY RALWAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. irs. H. U. BAKlR, Proprietress. Rates Per Day, $1.00. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTO~N, S. C. First Class in dl its Appointments. go ien is eaodern Improvments~,. Otis Passenger Elvator, Elec tric Bells and Lights, Heat ed Rotunda. BATES, $2.00, $250 AND $3.00. Rooms Reserved by Mail or Telegraph. HowinD FLEzxrsG. JNo. H. Dzysazzx, Jr - New York. Charleston, S. C. FLMmhG&DEVERE~UZ, -IMPORTERS OF Eglish Por'tlandt Cement, L.ime, Plaster, Hlair, &c. 276 EAST BAY CHARLESTON, S. C. Write for our special prices on full or mixed car load lots. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. Northeastern Railroad. September 8th, 1889. GoING soUTH.. GOING N~oRTE. M AM AM PM '135 *9 30 Lv Florence Ar *4 20 *7 55 2 29 10 55 Lv Kingstree Lv 3 17 6 46 2 50 11 20 Lv Lanes Lv 3 00 6 28 5 00 1 30 Ar Charl'ton Lv 1 30 4 30 M PM AM PM -0-o central Railroad of S. C. Dated February 11, 1889. SOUTH ROUND. Passenger 'Freight v Colbia *520pmx $7 40 A .v Sumter 6 35PM 9 25 A x v Harvins 6 55 ex 10 30A X v Manning 704P lx112OAMx .v Foreston 7 19 PM 1215pM r Lanes 7 42PM l 1 5PM tr Charlestoni 9 30p m 5 00ix NORTH ROUND. Passenger Freight av Charleston '7 30 A M vLanes 915Ax 240Px v Foreston 9 39 AM 3 25pex v Manning 9 568AM 4l10 p v Harvins 10 06 AM 4 30pM r Sumter 10 30 AM 6 30pgx r Columbia 11 55 A 2900PM $Passengers trains that conneet with mlgton Colrmbit & Augusta Railroad. September 8th, 1889. GOING WEsT GOING EAsT M PM AM PM '625 *10 10 Lv Wilmgtn Ar *8 35 *1150 9 56 *12 40 Lv Marion Lv 5 20 *'865 .0 40* 2OAr Florence Lv 4 35'*815 3 20 t 920 Lv Florence Ar 115 t 750 4 40 t10O28Ar Sumter Lv 1158 t6 37 4 4010 33 Lv Sumter Arl11 8'*6 32 6 15 *11 55 Ar Colum Lv 10 35 * 5 2 M AM -PM PM Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Train on Florence R~ B leaves Pee Dee Laily except Sunday 4 40 p x arrive Row and. 7 00M. Returning leave Bowland S30 A x, arrive Pee Dee 850 A xf. Train on Manchesterct AugustaBR leaves sumter daily except Sunday 1050 AM, arrive Richardson 12 01 p x. Returning leave sichardson 12 15p i , arrive Sumterl130 .R. KENE.Y, J. F. Dzvism,