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VOL XXII
FARMING ON A I/ARGF SCALE-
HOW BIG Pitot-MS ARK MADE.
The. HecipU »ml KxprmUturCH of Im
ineime Corn mul V\ heat Parma in
Iowa and Dakotai
The (ollowing *ptc'.a! article was
prepared by Mr. spearman for
the Review of Reviews :
We know what, thu t^ur jada did last
{-
year; we know what me merchants
did. In a year, then, like 1896, when
records in somao^ ai nuoi.es of Ameri
can industry were amaoned, what did
the American farmer do?
Balance sheets are tifi .applly scarce
among ‘armors ;• toe low which are ta
ken are hard to get at; for these rea
sons the ode here p-csented—is of
special interest.„ it is not from a papet
farm ; it is not a paper balance ; nor is
it a paper farmer wdo makes thisshow-,
' ing. It is what no American review has
ever before presented .to its readers—
an actual glimpse at i!ie boons and
workings of a-niouet American farm.
This 'farm, located in the State o! Iowa,
contains 6,U00 acres and its business is to
produce corn. . ,
Look first at vhuiavestinentand note
that' the land was not nought at an
early day lor a song, out witnic three
years and at the market price.
INVESTMENT-IOWA'€ORN FARM.
Land—6.000 acres at *30 an
seeders, four-foot harrows, and si*-
horse gang--plows maneuver for - six
weeks like an army,sowing small grain,
plowing and planting corn. The min
ute the small grain is sown. 31 corn
planters are thrown behind the plows,
and in this work lies largely the suc
cess or failure of the crop. Note, for
instance, the pains taken in selecting
the seed corn.
A perfect stand of corn is the first
requisite of a large yield. From a
choice piece of land previously planted
with selected seed about 2,000 bushels
of the finest ears are taicen- From
these an expert selects 600 [.bushels.
acre.
Buildings .
Stock
aebinery
t
!
.$180,000 00
. 43,021 64
. H.TOl 31
. 17,776*98
Total $253,499 83
Tte operation ol luio ii»i m _ for 1893
shows a net profit ol over #50,0007 Put
ting out of the comparisou paleuts .>hd
good will,.(.either of which contributed
to this result, what other line of busi
ness on an equal capitalization tau
jm*ke
BARNWELL,SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10,1890.
to advantage from a single central sta- While the element of foreign birth
tlon ; a larger acreage simply means and of foreign descent which has done
two dr more farihs. 'iso much to develop the Northwest ia.
About April 1 men and mu es move 1 admirable, it will still be a gratificationi
on the fields in Dattaiions". Four-horse ; to learn that this successful farmer is
house. Whatever the thermometer
registers in Iowa, the temperature in
that seod house never tails below freez
ing. All this insures the highest ger
minating power in the seed, and that
alone might, in the case o.f a cyld, wet
spring, save- the entire profit of the
season by producing a good stand.
Tbo planting'must of. necessity be
done by machinery, and to secure the
maximum yield three seed kernels
must be dropped in 'each hill, if five
drop in that hill L lost to the profit ac
count. if only one it is partially lost.
But perfect' as American farm ma
chinery is, it does not leave the factory
perfect enough 10 insure against irreg
ular planting. Patiently and by a se
nes of exhaustive teste the planter
plates are so aujusled to thesize-oi the
n.-ed kernels' for each year that they
.vill deposit an average of sixty-five
kernels 10every twenty hills, and not
more than four nor less than two Id
any oue. ad great-are the precautions
ihat before the seed is shelled the tips
and hulls of the seed ears are cut ott
These ears are placed (
building arranged especially for a seed'jand energy putTnto manufacturing anil
not of that element, but that he is
purely and distinctly American He
eomes from the atraightest New Eng
land stock and bears the .name of one
of its most famous families. His an
cestral kindled were among the mold-
ers of the Republic and represented
their country at the courts of England,
Russia and France ; sat in presidential
cabinets, in Congress, and mouc than
once in the white house. .The record
almost spells the name.
Less than 40 years of age, he never
saw a day’s work on a farm untJ he,
bought-dne after he was 21, His suc
cess rather indicates that there still
are farmers born^aixi„Ui&i..tLe..caps-tai
merchandising, if applied today to
farming, will yield equally, good re
turns.
MR. AND MRS. BILL ARP.
THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING
y.f
Humorist
Tells
Abrnir
uul the Beautiful
EXPENSE ACCOUNT OF THE IOWA FARM
FOR THE YEAR 1*98
Labor
House supplies.
Beef...'
Taxes ,
Sundries.
Freight... v ...
Twine. 7.
Hay
Insurance
OH
Repairs
Legal expensj..
Fuel'..TT-v... .•.*..
..#13 9i2 96
... 4,368 61
.... 1 284 lu
.. . I 0.3 06
.. i 7u0 00
... 500 09
... 437 25
.; *Ly 19
7. 3.10 oo
.... loy u3
... 113 80
40 05
. 7 30
Total $33,7
Less credit by Uicc^uui, #106 00
Low road tax........ 1. 43 26.
>4 04
Net expense of theTowa farm
for the tweivo moatas. 1898 #23,644 84
GROSS RETURNS FROM THE IOWA CORN
FARM.
215,OoO bushels of corn a*. 30.
cents......... .....•< .,.$64,500 00
20,000 bushels ol wheat at
50 cents rrrr... 10,000 00
28,000 Ousheis o-.a reser ved
for feed
Total
Deduct the expenses.
$74 500 00
23,644 78
' Net profit . . .......... $50,944 73
A particularly -valuable comparison
of the expense ditl jrence between run
ning a corn farm and a , w heat farm of
- '(.. equal size is afforded by the fact that
the owner of the Iowa corn farm also
owns and operates a e x thousand acre
wheat farm in the red river valley of
North Dakota.
THE DAKOTA WHEAT FARM EXPENSE
ACCOUNT.
Labor $12,632 36
House supplies.;..... . .v.i. . L713/ 34
Taxes. , 1202 90
Repairs 1,084 78
Machines..... — . 4.062 00
Twine. 7 987 25
Fuel 495 00
—Beef ... .... 462 80
Sundries 639 10
^Personal .,.2..., 354 38
Freight....! 206 09
V Oil. 135 83
Seed : 83 81
Hay.... r.. 23 50
I he Great
Loving Greetings
Presents.
The celebration of our golden wedding
Is over and my good wife and I are
still marching to the end of the,jour-
ney. The fiftieth - anniversary of ou.-
wedded life brought no change and.di.i
not for a tpomenl stop th£ ticking of
the marble clock upoit the mantle.
I he days and the wceks.aud the moqtlis-
are still erming this way. We did not
cross the Ruhlcon nor tue Jordan nor
theEtyx, but only set up^anptber mile
stone and marked It fiit). Now we
are on the iast'quarter streten nearing
the goai. kud if it was left to u& wc
would mak3 uneven race. Uirth and
Net expensi $2u,998 63
GROSS RETURNS FROM JTHE DAKOTA
WHEAT FARM.
Credits by wheat shipments. .$40,0503
Less expense ih 20,998 j63
Net profits in 1898 I. .$^9,051 37
For the wheat farm 1898 was ah ave-
rage year,“The yield being 18 busheTs
r acre and the price an average price,
t has produced, for its owner seven
teen successive crops, one of which
alone netted him $72,000.
The two expense accounts show cu
rious differences. “Tn Towa men ai&
hired for the entire crop season of
eight months at $18 and board per
month. In Dakota they are hired for
the actual see^Hpg In the spring and
the harvesting in the fall at frpta$L50
to $3 per day. -In tne end the labor, or
money-wage account, is about the same
thing, as will be seen ; but the house
supply account is much heavier on the
corn farm.
On the corn farm the item of repairs
was nominal, the plant under present
ownership being rew, while the items
of repairs and machines on the wheat
farm represent the average annual ex
penditure for replacing and keep
ing up the‘machinery. Twine is natu
rally the larger item on the wheat
farm. The Ibwa farm supplies its own
fuel. On the Dakota farm coal is re
quired. ^
Here, to<*, note that the corn farm is
f ilanted wUh 600 bushels of corn, cost-
ng $180, while to seed too wheat farm
T6Qllir£B H 000 Outitldb-O/ W fatjtfct,
In 1898, Us'ooO.^Again in Dakota five
hundred acres of oats barely feeds the
100 heads of mules, whJXe. in Iowa 250
acres of horn feeds the same number
. easily. These differences, together
with the seed difference and the twine
difference, sometimes handicap the
profit account of the wheat farm $10,-
006 a year to start with.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
The essentials of a proiltable farm
are good land, well drained, but not too
rolling, and accessibility to reasonable
transportation. Six thousand acres
being about three miles square, makes
the largest farm which can be ope rated
Even al-er-luis delicate adjustment
jf the be t maor.inery in the world,
lorenicD Ijllow the 31 pianter& and at
inlet vais open hubs lu count the need
ieposlte and make sure that each ma-
ihine'if doing its work.. In audition a
purso wf $100 is split Ip eight pntis be"
-ween tbe eight nun who do luu beat
work aud whose, teams mark tbe
slraighlcet rows. With sueu method
's it any wunder that tliu crop on this
1 arm average! $0 DusUeia per kete,"
against the average of 32 bushels as
^ivcu Iowa by toe -govorumect report
'er 1893?
Ai_ttLJ.be seeding, the harrowing;
ucd.it is uone with extraordinary en-
i rgy ami concentration.. One hundred
anu orty seetlor.o of four-loot harrow's
.-.weep the fieitts ' like a eba r ge of cav
airy, ^very tim& they move a mite to
gether 62 acres Are covered^
W aen the 3,800 acres irf "corn are up
and toady 76 iwo-horse cultivators arc-
put into it. The point in the li.dsl cu>
tivation one way apd in the si cunuthe
second the other way,’ is to get as close
as possible to tue corn ; but after the’
pains 10 place it there no plant must be
leit covered b, a clod of earth. . Toe
fi.ld hand must uncover r, and a fore
man on horseback bahir.-7each twenty
men is i elu r.spohsibie for bis crew’s
work. In ih thied <and final cu.tiva
tion tbe carta is th own up against the
plant, the siu til w^.ds in the hill being
snotbercU in and the iaigeones being
pulled by hand. It will be of in ert-sl
to merchants and tbeoljgjcal profes
sors to learb that it is not the weed in
the row, but me one in the bill, that
marsHhc beauty of the balance sheet.
The corn being now three feet high,
-he-slalks prevent further cultivation.
Into this field, approximating one mile
iu width uncj six miles in length, are
sunt in October 75 wagons and men for
for the husking. 1 his .takes fib days,
ami a row of vnh» 16 feet.'»idA»nd 16
;6et higa,Tifialf a mUe long,, rtro re
quired to hold the' crop.
In harvesting tbo small grain it Is
.hrtcbed/directly from the suoek^ sav-
ing the Cost of stacking and rehand
ling. ^levators provide -rgainst heat
ing. A further saving'' of 5 to U per
cent./hver the operations of the small
[uruier Js e Hected 4D"»ar4vpieg te-termi-
eial points instead of selling to local
grain buyers. Future options may also
c# sold against the giow.ug crop on
market bulges at a season When tue
mail farm* r could uot ordinarily de
ver His cre,o.
rue soil is aept in a high state of
fertility by a rotation of crops so ar
ranged that each piece of land bears
ee crops of corn, next of wheat, in
hie events in this life, the most png
caul with fate and destiny, of happi
ness or m sery, and it becomes us to
pause occasionally and ponder them,
if we can do this with teronity ai.el
gratitude it is wodi, for tht 1 ! c is no com
fort in melancholy.
And so wo were made happy on our
wedding day, and are'happy yet a- wo
recall the kind loving ^ rcetifigs/ of
cbtidren and kindred" anu friaueL.— A
'shtrfcrrf-^dmr?s cnm 1 Tir r ip (M a<s;i~
as wo thought of the r .iseir.g on . tht
ypuiTgest boy. afar off in Me xico, but b
will come some <*f tuese sHiomec davsr
given ur -everytblog that came to her
except the children She claims all
of them and still specks' of them as
“ My children—my boys and my girls.'’
Evan Howell, my old iriend, came to
our wedding and brought his good wife
with him. You see I was at his
father’s weeding long before be was
born and I wanted him Here : but when
he waT called upon to rcspoEd'to Judge
Akin’s beautiful-speech, I thought he
went a little out of his way to .say that
every man was made oetter by his wifi‘
and that he hr.dTeasbn to believe Chat
bis friend. Bill Asp, was imkihtcdto
,Mrs, Arp.for lus fame and pame and
good repute—that she was tbe power
.behind the thrope—the guiding star—
the pilot at tiie helmy-the inspiration
and. ail that -or; of Ihiog. My wif
was standing meekly py’ my -id’o and
hv ard i.t all, and itsecUKd 4o-4»tf the
straightened up a little and teemed
taller,as he.spoke; H contlnu id on
that line unjil 1 began to feel like I
was U'ltblog but an old ship that my
wife was steering through the break-
ere. I saw that h i s TV in a r tftT wc eev e Fy*
gratetul to . Mrs. Howfell, for she'
stretched up aflltiie, tOo, and ds l look-
ed°arouni upon the matrons they wore,
all stretching up, and u.y fear 1s t a y
will stay so. I d n’t think T wnl invito
Evan to oUr next wedding ' ,
And now corn s the aftermath—tH«
second reaping of tins harvest of love.
We inii't anewv r all these'kind letters.
JkCjI .SC-taqst-tfXaiikl t-tui demurs log al'•
these bcautifnl g fig It will take
time, but.I.t mm be a labor of love.
Many of the 1< tl-rs are in verse, and
what is remarkabie, most of tue per art
are-from our ag- d friends. Ju*-t. tak-'
note Of this from Dr. Alexander,-ihc
v te -an pbysD.iao of. Atlanta. Wnb
vould" have thought’ jhat he wpuld
bifVe turned bard' in his seventy lift’*'
year? He; sent mu a beautiful ca«7.
ii’-l the following verses, wera wraaped
around it May the. good Lord .-lead
't~
which clover is sown, next one of clo
ver plowed under ; then follow again
the three cropijof coru.. _ ^—
The clover is simply a fertilizer, a
portion of the first crop being cut for
hky, aud the remainder ploweu under
to maintain the ^vitality of the soil
Tbe large routs act as a subsoiler and
the decomposing vegetable matter re
stores the nitrogen taken by the grain
In order that the maximum amount
of field work may be obtained, no
’•chores ' are required of the men other
than the cleaning of - their teams.
These are fed, beaded, and tbe barns
cleaned by barn men. Tbe results on
this farm ere therefore secured by
painstaking care and thorough me
thuds. • ' . , -r-
The question Is often asked, what
does it cost to produce a bushel of corn
On tj^is farm, the size of 35 ordinary
farms, with a 60-tushel crop the cost
was 9 cents per bushel to the crib
For sbeiHng, shipping and commissions
W cents in
alt. It is evi'.ent, however, that had
thie farm been divided into 35 farms,
with 35 cooks ana 35 families, 35 door-
yards and waste lands, tue expense of
raising a bushel of com would have
been nearer 16 to 18 cents;
In any event the cist varies from
year to year with tbe yield. The only
fixed estimate which the farmer can
give is’the cost per acre for producing
tbe crop. This remains always practi
cally tho same and is, roughly speak
ing, $4.50 for small grain and $5 for
corn. • w -
The 1898 acreage of tbe corn farm
was approximately as shown in the fol
lowing brief table :
Corn . 3.760
Wheat ^VTSOO
Oats tooI
It >ads and trees..'.7 ... — ■ ! ‘400
Some interest naturally attaches to
the man behind the gun—the man who,
in this instance, has demonstrated that
polhiog pays~ better than
aoi brings his'sunshine witjj h:m.\
always brings it-and b.<* a ays s -'iji
in his Idlers. Tcefe is no pjtter s
of a buy tbau for biin to '.vihu. ha
jf te h and reg u i a r i y, a u d CarTUu.ua Uiat
Mr. Craig, of Maebo, sepi OS by /ex
press prepa d a pretty iiyt-' doubly seat
for the verandah or/the -dix^n. an
wrote, “1 made thYs -w^th my (•.a;
hands fory.ur golacp 'Wooding. -My
wife aud I wan ed to show imr Iuv« loT
your son Ctrl w b# Jvkj> gi. d 'a d kii
to our dear boy whiA lie, was sivk in
Mexico.—(_hir boy camV borur bi d d f 1
but we have pot forgimn C^v], Go ,
bless him.^/ Wf.ai aco.n\)i'Cvi»a p . out
are tho/U-Uers from' trv’ cuililr,n
Wnat ylimfort are good, kinU leil-ts
from friends know* ap;i unknown and-
we have baa them by tile hun reu
during the past two weeks, and t- le-
grauis, too, from Naf A ork to Texas—
and Irom the islands of 'our..new
domain. We .were amuz dJL ov. r-
whelmed and wondered what we .hao
done to provoke such- interest in our.
home affairs. And then the pros* ‘‘ar
Showered its benedictions so lavishly
that I .was constrained to whisp< r
when will this thing stop—where wi'll
this biyd light. We are prbud of all-
tbis, bnVyiot vain and we aru more
gratified 1 than proud, but the query i-
still with us, “ What have wo uone anu
is not this all a dream ? ’-
And then tliere are the beautituT
gifts and souvenirs that keplon comine
trom Jriends near home and frir-oa~4 v yy.^--j-r 1
abroad. They crowded our tables anu
adorned-the walls. These golden
ents gladdened our golden
fft*ed the golden we'd,ding-8ri ^R’xu-
priately, and the flowers diil, t.*—
beautiful flowers from Brooklyn uina
Atlanta and Rome aud Mobile and
Marietta and all. lau> n with pretty
sentiments aud som j with the ever liv-
ling lines from Mrs Heiimus :
“ bring flowers, fresh flowers, for the bride
to wear ;
They were ^orn- to blush in her shining
I n’ever c;i i foroet it--addueva>«, tiihe
destroys— -
The dear old nme in youth's sweet
. prinif.
When * Hill 1 and I werc boys. ^
It is the one bright ineili'iry no earthly
dross alloys, ■ »*'
For sweet bells chime of that dear time
When ‘ Hill and 1 were bo)si
" 1 kas d+ere’when '■ Hill ’ was married, in
tin; pieaainu T irTnyay,— r—-
Tothe fair-aod noble woman
Wl om he weds again today.
Hi' olden murnage tune it is. 'h.tiine
For they
When
lio e eadi
HtH- and
oilier better Uian
I wrrtr wnTw* •
■ Well, here's a-gryaliiK to t, ■ H
Ami hles'tny-djriwsiaiiHne. *■ —
Ami h(Vft junlyuyli'jure.vtw L_ 4
To yuiir jewel o| A.wih' I
To meypa.re both g incmord.' ,.
No;earUii; •di ■ , •
rh ink'(iod we’re stitllnsdiappy as
\t fTeii ■ Hill ’ and 1 were bov-s I
Tills came from Mrs. Ward, of Bir
mingham, a ‘dear old family friend,
who was a school, girt in pantalettes
when wo moved to Romo in 51 She,
tpo, had to floe from the foql’lnvader
in:’64. .the same night my
children did, and .when the
together i tell ^you they
Yankee fur lly and the Yan
to burn,1f ears do “burn w
who wear them are talked a
you ever try to drive an old
a brood of right young chicbe
ttoel 'garden. WoM* that s
thesatww-uiotbers flsd and d
raised their feathers, and
around'ail over the country t
vain to find gome place where tkie foul
invader could not come. Hut ipl that
pass. After flTty years let all sail me
mories be smothered, aud all-rvoSent -
ment buried. We have many _dea !
frie nds among those Yankees anil on
this glad event they bave all been
kind, very kind. Thu lawyers tell us
of a statute of limitations which is
eaUdd a statute o! repose, and which
quitts title to Und and cuts off punish
describe those who declared In 1896
that your election to the presidency on
the Chicago platform “ would en
danger the nation's welfare,” as " the
Republican allies who masquerade as
Democrats between campaigns in order
to give more potency to their betrayal
of DemocraticXprinciples on election
day.” :—.
Sir. Belmont then goes on to say
that before answering "the unwar
ranted letter ” he had instituted a suit
against a New York newspaper on
account of an alleged libel, in which
he was Characterized as "a higher
priced man than the floater who sells
his votes for $2 on election day,” and
continues :
"Your purpose to be. equally defama
tory Is obvious. Your skill in the use
of words fori ids the plea that in your
letter you misused them through Igno
rance. The design is plain, and were
it not that you havu interwoven in
y mr'..abuse reference to my opinions
upon public question* as opposed to
your own, to the Democratic olub of
which I am president, and to its pro-
erlme. The Jews mdde a’-posed celebration of Jefferson’s birth-
wife and
two get
ake the
ees’ eiy;s
h Those
u.. Did
en with
s but qf
h 1 } way
ged and
pranced
lying lu*
ihe
jubileeW every fiftieth year, and pro
claimed,Liberty throughout the land
aud caodeiled all debts aud gave tbe
Tand and'the cattle rest. ^Ani so'nqw
let us have rest and peace both in body
and ih mind. That is- ail very sweet
and very pretty,' says my wife, but we
must work on. She made up, her bed
this morning as u-ual. and is now sow
ing new buttons on mya'd vest Hut I
enn’t help seeing the new rfrfgson
her lingers and the golden -hair pin
that Major McCollum gave her in
her hair. As for me, 1 have my orders,
ior t*. has long been r y habit, when i
get a new suit of clothes, to keep them
op as .Ioug as she will let me, arid some
times when she is. not watching. I work
in th- m. Already she has put my
wedding suit away, and I will not get-
it agatu until Sunday morning. Tne
— -between how and then, between the
past and tbe present. 1 am strtTtb
boy. She wants me to bring in some
ioat-right now.
There is no sign of rest for me
In this ifur year of jubilee.
Hill A up.
THE BRYAN-^ELMONT FIGHT
A SPICY COHRI18PQN DENOK»
'lain and
Bo ill Mid
Teisonlap
iloq. I’ irr-
tiair.
Yes, all is fir the. bride. 'She lets
me look at the beautiful things and
even to handle them, but they are aU-
hera exu-o/ Lie golden UeaJtd pauc
and the French cicfck that ray dear old-
college mate, Jrrn Warren, sent me.
And she has given me one of ti.e goitt-
fountain pens-acd a pair of the cj|T
buttons and tiie new Tangled carving
fork that l thought was curling tmrgw
lor my scattered hair. It seems to m
that I am a little humbler than l wa
before the wedding, forshe claims a!!
the -pretty • things, from the massive
cold ladle of Mrs. Akin and the. beauti
ful gpiden’cnatices of Tho Guortliuli^n
and the lovely spoon 'sbs* l »'ree of Tht
Home and Farm anti the gold mmioted
•ufii-jrella from Kat as (jitj,*dowu * ■
the golden -b,>okma: a and the gql leu
toothpicks. There are scores of otOv r
beautiful things in glass and,gold, an-!
they are all hers. 1 am no longer .th-
eashier-of this bank, for tbe bricL i«as
put away the golden cojp^j,hough sh*
says she only wants to kcejTTt a while
and will then give it t-ack to me. 1
rctnemb'-r when my father got a pen
sion of $700 fora poor old man who
owed him $90 and had owed it for
years. Father counted out.the told
and gave it to him, ihicktjg that pi
coursi ho would pay the de A,’ but he
wrapped it up can-fu iy and put i
away down in his pocket and stip-ted
for his fiorse, who was iiite-iit d to the
rack near by. As*ho—was anont to get
up father said to tnria^>Mr, .lepklnv; 1
thought you tuIu^Rie you wee.. ^ La.,
me when you got Jour pension ?" ’W7i’,
I did, Asa,”'«aid he, "..r.-lim giin--
to do it tomorrow shore,,. I jast wal
tp lakh it all home tttvd let the old Xu
man
it, an
an
' Y la need iH« (I tan
l-'rir lu.ve s your staff anfi guide,
An3 love Ladled Vuu i t e thus lar, _
lUli ItpT- i» by vour S«le : *
Hutflake sins siafi; old cm-rade,
vVitb your golden wedding joys—
And lean upon it fur those days'
When ‘ Hill' and, I were buys!
, ‘ • ‘ JaVKS Ai.kXA.VUKU.
' March 7, I'd j, "
Oh, the ch-ar mcmoriis that thee'
ines' crowded on me—the branchc
worre we ti-died ,for riKniiiiwo- and'
perch and horny heads, ■ Tie shoaiy
creek where, we seined and the mill
p.ji.d wuere vie jumpeiTfrotn thespring-
•Krird -amf'-tbo water seemed a utile
deep, and the 'trees we oiimOed for
chestnuts tbat sermed a '^die high
What a tine coon dog was Rover, *nd
w-hat a good rub art dog waa Tag. ^Hjt
die lung red bills hisve shrunk and the
min pond is ' but a iiu c po d and the
trees have b^tHTCut down aniHiie. dog*
we fauPH j’wirh a-e d adr.; A.a-! how
cru* i i- t tht.
And hdre before me are some tender
pes from old Colonel Gibbons, who
el -'nxi. Tuu J r"pi5Xs7"y ears. -- l ie
addw.. ot i r verse tQ—iJobd Andersbu,'
My Jo.’ Sj tux'B my dear old pm turr
Judg Hranifam, anvTIilV says that Dr,
DceiUs wrote it. And an old lady fcbm
'vVashiaglou, D. C.,'t :;us still another
vers - and saysR was critteh by. a in*h
n Ohio. H-'i'e are ttiroe dili rent ad
oit.ion; tip the poem and' ail are beadtl
ful. And Eori/are sl-vora ffovlng ver
sus Jro n our cherished fro nu, Ga[)tain-
Calhoun, whoTs no [i ing /.rdbr.bard,
but i old 'enough Up v.-.ite poetry,
i’uer.. is a man who a -vaxs-brings »uu
shine. His li'o' is a struggle and a
strair'. put-1 liko Uid c m ot Alknotnok,
h'e oevgr' coiapuioa.'*
- -Thui there .1' the double hearted'
gem h .ulOux . .ktu •.. feu-nit, .•-'Duan
Hrin , i .»grt p.T. ; i stratioris
Notijing prettier or more appropriate
”wa.- t ver aj^tycn or designed. ii-,is
Doth a p* et agjan artist, ana the- ge*
is to be eneat* d tff a golden frame* ano
placed upon the gohir-n papered waii.-
Ao-J dear, good Giiarh y Liu bn r never
forgets or u. gVoia'to write the right
tiling in the right Way ana at the rjgnt
time. And then thejrt! wen. the golttea
wedding's gokieiLbeils that w«Jie rung
|a sweet musfe hji Gyhti- , and Mis
Roy M^son, of lUubJifocd,-Yt,-..
Hc» - dc s aTr-tm-i--- -thy-irr •t'l-rr-drratrt:'
ful. y>r’>sC p./ ilis fly IJuclci Jf-liiiis,
Frank Sta iiou, Wallace- Roed and
Frank Richardson, and Mr. KudU, of
Tne U mie and Farm, and Mr. Ernsteiji.
of The New York Ibe-*; anu Alba*.!
Si aw. of Tne Rjvie-x.of R yfess, that
have been i !»•■ d careful,y amodgtwir
giddun vveddii.,; treasures. Whatshaii
Ve render to o^y fri n ail thetr
bahtfit- ar.d reuedmHdns. .Why/ here
. a massive'ng ring ir.aj Dr.
H oIiaiu, th^-ofuuet * , i nob.i.rt U uiiad
nt to n-;. vifa-ip be piac-d
brr ,v ^
T inphaiic Langiiutce on
tiie .Meaning of'«fef-
Deinncracy.
- Belmont, president of tbe
Democratic club-in New York, who
v h against the Democratic
pTaTIorm aid no pitMoy in 1896. rerf-nt
iy sjKut an Invftation to Hon. VY. J.
H-rya.i, dated Now York, March 9th,
as T7.huws : ' * ’ ; , 1
din arranging t H e toiSt-F and
ihUJU - i.'. t ig banqiinT of th i D;ino-.
i rath: club on Jefferson’* birthday,
April. 13. Uni committee are most de-.
siriwis, if your engagements will per
mit y our attendance, to l ave you select'
such subj -etas you prefer to discuss In
your own wav 'wjthl.i the limit set for
'■hf"* of 20 minutes. Please
can lAisuJv t**.<ui yr • cm'-x ao
took at it and feel of it an^Cuutit here, baoging on tL^..
id we would sleep wilh/fV-ix t a! ho lutifui u
.oBam, tne
of them .wTT i
by ip<s'Upon
rc*e a- d the promise- ilruidt
years ago.. And h&r IS aujyV'rer'T
oir dear goOc frtcDdT.Io^Hrt; v ,._s^i(i
it ’is-ryqui’-tlV'-ty-r ; tf-Vtur G i.! >
IL.-ai k and h > • tter
day, 1 should have left your offensive
statements unanswered.
“ The Democratic ciuixof New Ydrk
has a membership of nearly 3,060
Democrats, who all hol’d to the main
principles of Democracy, while their
opinions may vary in regard to such
political-qut »lions as are not funda
mental, but merely local : or transitory,
like many of the vain conceits you have
yuirFsTll espoused. But none of those
3,006 members is a R.-publidanf-, As
for myself, I -have never voted (or a
R-pUblican candidate, ei.ther for a
great or small office.
“ The board of governors and the
president of so large a Democratic or
ganization endeavored to represent
officially tbe wishes of the majority,
which was that the coming anniver
sary of the binti.day of Jefferson
gfrrdwMJT- rj i n, “ L * T«t r~i>r*afr N* ifVannfj. - The
' 1 organ as i* previous years. To next period of inmimrity wa* compara-
rcail those prlnctptcs and traditions lively brief, viz, seven- years, or to
De. ember, 1894. Within two months
of the last named date, a seooad dis
astrous freeze occurred and there have
been a number of dangerously low
temperatures since.
“ The impression that the climate is
changing is partly due to the fact that
in recent times an account of every
severe .Tost and freeze that occurs in
the South is sect broadcast to all parte
of the country, whereas, during earlier
times no record was preserved except
of the very severe freezes. This very
lack of information respecting the
earlier minor freezes prevents us m a
measure from asserting in a more posi
tive manner a rale of climate that ap
pears to be common to all parts of the
United States, viz, that periods ol
great refrigeration generally extend
over several years. In support of this
assertion, as affecting Florida, re
ference is made to the fact that the
great freeze of 1835 was preceded by
two severe winters, 1830-31 and 1831-32,
and was immediately followed by a
V
with which his name is t>o indelibly as-
soOiatrd tends to bring about a revival
of Demqpratic coatiol based on public
question^, the conditions of which are
not transitory., -
“To the ixplunution made to you
’that individual opinions Lave not been
consider#],’ you replied that ‘you do
not understand how any individual
opinions can be ignored in a political
gakhinug.’ '- v
“ Then you proceeded to contrast
your opinions with mine, to emphasize
their antagonism and finally declared
that ‘you and 1 cannot with.'propriety
join in a political banquet given in
honor of- Democracy'* patron saint.’
" Your conti ntion is that the Chica
go platform applies Jeffersonian prin
ciples to 'present conditions’ and that
.begahse l criticised that platform in
itk a pplication to conditions existing
hreo years ago and then resisted your
cantirdaey for the presidency, - thcre-
fore my’ yy^ssWco at tho"propo*ed din
ner wom^y-iot honor the world's
greatest D^-mcci at. '
" The course of events will probably
pVove vour underrtaoulng of the rela
tions of Individual opinions to D.-mo-
cratic gatherings and it is therefore
not required of me now to indulge In a
long discourse on the celutions in your
politics of temporary to permanent
qttc^’oifhvx.
public address to my constituents and
justified my protest on the ground
that legislation and ex cutive action
in enforcing the Chicago platform
would be an assault on wages and sav
ings, bring on silver monometallism
and impair the dbligations of ccniracts.
I thereafter contended wherever 1 bad
opportunity, that insistence. by the
United States on the coining ratio of
16 to 1 would be the grave of interna
tional bimctallsm and that if Europe
opened its mints at 45 12 and this
government persisted in the ratio of
United States would bo left with only
16 the result would he as in 1834 and the
a subsidiary currency.
"1 answer you as an individual and
hot as committing the organization of
which I was president.-
' •' No copy of your letter or this
reply has been seen by any member of
the Democratic club and will not
until alter the reply has been mailed
to you.
“ It is not practical for me to recall
in this letter the substance of what I
have written or spoken during or since
tbe last presidential campaign in ra-
gard to the Cnicago platform and its
many phases, altnougn I do not in any
wav feeogn-Z’} your right to question
my Demoeraqy. I am sanding you by
this mad^*'velum j wuiuh correctly
gives the list of everything which has
been published, and you are at liberty
to indicate and expose any portion
that is'unpatriotic, undemocratic, un-
Hinerican er in conflict wivh theDemo-
cratic creed, as set forth in Jefferson’s
first inaugural address.
. , * PERRYWBELMONT.-
is - exqm
Ycafo, GoideU
as SKiotlicr pr^r'po .a*
AVjrlfe t g to my
ahi not-* Wmajt.''' A d uar-y-^'*
di/eOrUggi V'sent fr /aj- h >ri. nd
ye^in Trfe farffkjf FttaV of- Was
To-.-jmd Is/ojw iiijra ,i
jar ior w;,.
»h A,r.d
-all t-p-eenrs
wire reply.” . »
-To which Mr. Bryan, on ills return
Nebraska several days afterward, sent
Hiti foi.owing reply :
Invitation received. Rjmember-
ih
Democratic platform in tbe last cam
paign, i d sire to know, before an-
-wiring invitation, whether y<»u have
since tue • lecvifln. publicly announced
your conversion to the principles set
forth in that platform.”
Mr. Be.mont thereupon made the
following explanation:
" The invitation extended to you is
on behalf of the Democratic club, ^in
dividual opialonehave not been c»n-
sidercu in issuing tbe invitations to
celebrate the birt.iday of Thomas Jef-
n." ' .....1 ,
Mr. Bryan replied to this teiegram
at length from Chattanooga. Tenn.,
where he gave the correspondence to
the Associated PreoS."04 follows :
L might pu ad a previous engage-
m -nt as a rea-on- for declining, but
that would be iquivalent to saying
that 1 would dome save the eugage-
iiieut, but frankness compels me to add
aniitiier. reason. 1 appreciate the
'compliment which tbe D.mocratid
club pays mu in extending an invita
tion, butl do not understand how in-
diviuual oolnious can be ignor.ed' at a
-political gathering..' You arc the pres-
sideht of the dab and represent the.
ell by be fore the public. Your position
upon. t. e .public questions wa well
known in 1*^96 and yOUf rCTe6 r ram inui-
cates that your position Las not been
changed. My posilioB .upon public
questions is also well known.' The
antagoolshs between par opinions is so
great' that we cannot with propriety
l-.m tn a T^trtTcat bacquet given in
iiOnor cf Doraocraey’s patrou Haint v
Jefferson stopd for a^iain well d--
lined principles, “if your views are a
yorreev reflection'of mis ideas, I fear
that my-Vpice would souhlTa discord
ant no.. at _.our banqj t.
If, eu the other hand^ the Cnicago
pi at form applies: (rs l b 1-eve it doeb)
Jt ffersouiau pr.ripu;des t*j present eon
ditiens, Then yodr c tnsp.icuous presence
at the J iTSrsonian banquet would not
houor the memory ol the world's
greatest I) mocrat. «
I D j not m/s underst and me. Yca. x tnay
he right and 1 may be wrong, bbt 1
take it for granted that we are equally.
COpscioBtious^ami I truit that I may
not ehow myself courageous than,
you. .Yhu pvojdjjuaed to your fellow
citizens in :L89o that my electron up >n
- -- » -y
best -thought of to-day the climate!
not perceptibly changing. The mean
temperatures obtained by the earliest
instrumental observations, both in thie
country and abroad, show no dlf-
ferenct ■ greater than might reasonably
be due to the character of the instru
ments used and their environment.
The yearly meani for a single station
do not show a steady increase In heat
culminating in a period of high tem
perature and then gradually receding
toward a period of diminished heat,
but rather an irregularity in the dis
tribution of warih and coltj year* that ,
suggests at once the absence of any
system of compensation or any gradual
progression from one extreme to the
other. Studies of annual meads,
when broadened to include those from
a number of stations scattered over the
globe are not devoid of interest,
though perhaps they have not ae yet
yielded results of immediate practical
Importance. '
‘J/pr the States bordering the gulf
and south Atlantic coasts continuous
instrumental records of tbs' the tem
perature previous to 1870 are lacking,
although a number of broken series
are available. The degree of cold ex
perienced before that date is naturally
a matter of considerable uncertainty,
and while we may' form a general Idea
of the relative severtty-of the winters,
we arc prevented from making as full
an examination of the matter as Its
importance dtmAnds.
" Taking Florida as a concrete illus
tration, we find that at least four very
distastrous freezes have occurred with
in the 100 years ending with 1898. We
are inclined to the opinion that the
first one, viz, that of 1835, was tbe
most severe.- The State then escaped ^
further visitation lor a period of fifty-
winter of more than average severity,
1836. The freeze of 1886 was preceded
by a cold spelt in January 1884 (mini
mum at Jo< ksonviilo 21 degree?), and
the temperature fen to 22 degrees at
Jacksonville in January of 1887. The
two freezes of the winter of 1894 95
were preceded by a cold Wave in 1893,
In which the temperature feii to 24 de
grees at Jacksonville. All of this
would seem to Indicate, as above
stated, that cold years are likely to be
followed by years of simlllar character,
’separated by one or more warm years)
the complete cycle of events extending
over from four to seven years; but we
should not forget that this conclusion
Is cot based On sufficient date to esta
blish R firmly.”
Demopra+'- jjIatfo-m would eudangBr
locator.' WHifar'c-; youwitl pardon
^juusd. It is et
ITOUs^pne night, Asa—ju«Y one night, : Joe, naff bk-ioViO)
:A*a. ‘■'And. Sure enotfgh he aid bring e^ffd in an t- qa.. u goitW* frame eke
it back'aexiAiay and paid the debt a'.d--'acd nothing cap- b : more T luierly pa-
put the rest in my lather’s safe.. ; IhStiC than thui skelCtuVvbt re the good :
I know- that-my Ofile will dsajhat, o d mu: ton i* kmotfiine tne th.u und!
too. Fifty years ago she Droms»edi'.nt s v v -ry hair of her i.fc-ioug com pan •'
everything she had or was-gOlngTa Ton ae she .-itNow, we must toJtcr ?
farming, have and so I wilt wait. She has always 1 doyvo, John, out uand ln LuL7 wu'irgo.”
if I sug .-ost that a banquet, pre
'ided over "/y you, will injure ratber
if.an th- Democratic party. I.bo
"TTeve m oa in-raizing personal* diff r-
necs, b'.rv~il tT v ereuccs in principle can
dhYtrie | uarmofl 1
I m ‘ p trty ad vantage.is cot to Oe_ue-
-. K-.ou- lyiv-fji from political ooiomuaibn ’be-
». iAt l i-w, on Jqjl rsoh an ‘'Democrats who
’S-.a-.d -ijjiqi. th ejUh; c ago. pi attain an d
A'- '..W: .» .pui I an allies Who ma qTeraile
Jjmi^ ‘between campaigns in
order, to giv more potency to tbrfetr be
AUK THE WINTERS COLDER?
WORKING THE ROADS,
tn Regard to
the Different
Road
Com*
tcaya) of Dem:*cratic prioCtplos on
n day. Yoms Uiqly,
Wm.L Bryan.
y Tiie answer og, msiAtoNT-
New York, March 20/
Dear Sjrj Oavs; iiiai rccciYed your
lettenof the 16th inst., in which you
Tin- Kecortls Show That the SeaMons
are Not Changing.
U-has become quite common to hear
it remarked that the seasons are
changing. With every cold spell that
comes either in the spring or fall there
are maqy old-tUners who will regale
you with personal recollections of bow
the staraus used to he along in tne
furties or fifties, but unfortunately
the records do not bear the old-timers
out. •<: .
The void^ w.nters experienced in the
South during tho past few years have
led many to believe that the winters
are becoming mere severe, but the
weather ollijials do not believe such Is
tiie case, judging from ail tbe records
that they have at hand. \
Alfred J. Henry has a very interest-
in my judjf - Log article in the December number of
The Monthly Weather Review, discus
sing this subject. He says : V;;
'• Tae frequency and severity of the
cold Tjvave!' tnat have visited the
Southern portion of the United States
m late years,, and the fact that the
-present (winter season began much
e.'tfdier than usual, have led a number
of people to make inquiry as to what
are the reasonable expectations (or the
future? Is it probable that a more or
less permanent change in the charac
ter of tbe winters has taken place?
This, problem is important since it in
volves a possible readjustment/of pre-
The New Law
Working In
tie*.
The following Act was passed at tfaa
recent session of the Legislature:
That ali male persons able to per
form or caused to be performed the
Idbor herein required, between the
ages of elgbj^ n and fifty years, ex
cept in Horry, Spartanburg, Greenville,
Cherokee and Union counties, where
the ages shall be from twenty-one tp
fifty, and also except ministers of
the gospel in actual charge of a con
gregation, and person permnent^y
disabled in the military service of thia.
State, and persons who served In tl
late war between the States, shall be
quired annually to perform or.caus?
be performed four days labor on
highways, under tie directions of th*
overseer of the road district In which
be shall reelde, except in the counliee
of Spartanburg, Anderson, Greenville,
Pickens and Darlington, wherein the
number of working days shall be three,
and in Pickens county the commuta
tion tax shall be one dollar, and in
Greenville county ten hours shall con
stitute a day’s work for all hired hands,
and in Pickens county ten hours shall
constitute a day’s work for all hands;
and the counties of Orangeburg*
Saluda, Edgefield. Colleton,
Barnwell, Newberry, Greenwood,
liamsburg, Dorchester, Sue
York, wherein the n
‘ ^
" *
U
.-r*
-j
- >
ing days shall be folufmto York;
the counties qf Berkeley, Oharh
Gt orgetowc, Hampton, Beaufort,
ion and Florence, wherein the ni
of working days shall be eight;
Bamberg county, the number^of
ing days shall be six, and in
county, where the number
days shall be changed to four,
commutation tax shall be one
Provided, that the county
county commissioners of
may cause to be levied
tax. not to exceed one
taxable property of any
their county, when so
written petition signed
of the freeholders of s
except in Pickens co
shall not be necessar
.written petition. Such,
lected as the other
pended on the roads
such township: Pi
slons of this bill
county of Fairfield,
that in Oconee c
days work be four,
mutation.
Tfhe provisions
apply to Pickana.
ties until the.
v