Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V BOOB1NGLES. t&id lir. Bovblogle, glftac- »' bit paper, “I remarVtd a la daollaa la the (lock mar* thle ood^dum much longer ▼e to without your new , shall aOt, Mr. Boobingle," wife, "for the last four hate remarked the very liif ait jest this time when the spring styles commence to appear, and I hare made, unmade and remade my old bats time enough. This time I must hare a new hat.” "Bet you look so charming in that one, It becomes you so well," said Mr. Boobingle, baring as usual recourse to flattery to gain his point "I am sure you never oan And anything half so suitable for your style of beauty Mrs. Boobingle appeared touched by this delicate compliment, but remem bered, however, that she had been caught by such remarks on several i occasions, and resolved, there- i wary. r- you, my dear, for the com ullmeint,’’ she said sweetly, "but I real ly think I oan find a bonnet that will look just as well and at the same time be new. I am sick and tired of that old thing." ... „ "Bat, my love," szolaimed her hus band, M when you bought It you said It was perfectly sweet.” w ‘Bo it was at that time,'’ replied the spouse, "but we must change our Ideas with the times, and when I wns In town to-da^ 1 saw some real dears of bon- "I suppose you call that frightful monument the minister's wife wore last Sunday a real dear," said Mr. Boobingle. inrcastlonlly. "The price of it mny hnve been high enough, but It obstructed my view to such nn ex- test that I could not see the front part of the church at all." “I hope I hnve better taste than Mrs. Goodman," replied Mrs. Boobingle, modestly. "It Is really pltlfnl the way ahe dresses" "How much do you think you would need for a hat that would suit your ideas?" asked Mr. Booblagle, seem ingly submitting to the Inevitable. “X think I could get along with 135." Che reepondad, laying down her needle work and papering for the struggle, which she knew wns sore to oome. "Thirty-five dollars 1 My dear, do you think I have been up the Klondike or used to be n onehler In n bank? Thirty five dollars indeed. Why, my hats never ooet over $6." “Yes, but your hats hnve no trim ming on them, and therefore are not no expensive.” "wall, I should say not. Great Joe- apb, 136 for a hair And Mr. Boo- blagle blew a long whistle to signify his surprise. "Now, Cear, you know I paid S40 for my last bonnet, which you like so well,” replied bis belter half, thus luroing his own weapons sgstnst him, ry /^‘nad besides I must tell you whet Mr. .^h/tJelghborly, who lives just across the which .F ’lj | p S t, said about you, dear Blodgett. »ad the pw* Neighborly Mid he thought you 1t ethe best man to your family bo •.. sew." and U <nerc^ r Boobingle appeared nonplussed man in tbr a moment, bat soon asked tlmldl whole Tt* Jd perfidy of thek former ohlef, the now staid Beaedlois allowed themselves to be Induced Into jolnlug the new organi sation, which was called "The Hearty- Eetere’Olub," In honor of their presi dent, Mr. Buncombe Bowler, whoM talents la the gastronomies! line were without rival. There was one thing, however, which the members IniUted upon—end shat was that their, tress urer, who had lately returned to town, bringing with him hlo wife and the table linen, be blackballed, for, wh^le they could pardon a man for running away to get marrleC they could not overlook , his using the sacred anti marriage table linen of the "Bowlers" on his bridal table, and Mr. Qjiokaway therefore refused admittance to the new club. All these thoughts came to Mr. Boo blagle as he meditated over the ulti matum of his wife, nod he decided finally that rather than abandon the "Hearty Eaters" he would yield hit point and allow his wife to have her new bonnet. . "My dear," katd he, wishing to ap pear magnanimous rather than beaten, "while It will be quite a struggle, 1 feel that 1 mu»t keep qp the reputation of my family in all matters, therefore you may have your hat.” "Oh, you dear, good Blodgett,” cried Mrs. Boobingle, rushing Into his pudgy arms and embracing him. "I knew you would let nae have my bonnet, and 1 promise you It will be a ‘dear.'" And It was a dear, bb Mr. Boobingle learned to bis sorrow. When on tl e following Sunday he accompanied his wife to church, his breast swelled with eonsclous pride as he observed the ef fect of Mrs. Boob ogle’s "creation” on the femaTaportion of the congregation, but his pride turned to dismay when h# received the next day a bill thus worked: "For one hat, 160; paid on acoOunt, 136. Please remit balance." And that evening, after a rather stormy interview with his wife, a? Mr. Boobingle slowly wandered toward the Hearty-Eaters’ club he thought to him self that everything was costly In this world, even a "dear of a bonnet Chi cago News. JOHN PKTKIt HIGH A KDSON. 'Don't you think, darling, you oou get along with S10 ibis time and next year you can buy just the prettiest hat you oan find.” But his wife was resolute. Only too often had she looked forward to that fallacious "asxt year,” only to Had that whea It had at last arrived H was still tJkt year, aad did not produce one of thoee round pastboard boxes, which usually contains soms "creation” dear to the feminine heart. "What an Idea!” sbe exclaimed. "A flae hat. Indeed, 1 would have If 1 had to buy It with that sum. Wby, you, would be ashamed to be seen with nle attired la such a rig. No, sir, I •must have |35 or aothlng. But understand, Mr. Boobingle, that if I cannot have a new bonnet 1 shall Insist upon your re signing from the 'Hearty-Eaters’ club and saving your dues, which, as 1 un derstand, amount to 160 a year." This olnb was composed, of s lot of convivial spirits, who, In their younger days, had belonged to an association which rejoiced in the euphonious name of the "Bowler Bachelors.” The Bow ler Bachelors' olub had been started bf a man named Bowler, and each member before being admitted to the olub, was obliged to take a solemn oath never to marry and foreswear all later oouree with the gentle sex. Per nearly two veers the "owlers," as the town people dabbed them, thrived, and the dearest wish of each sprouting ado lescent wns to become a member of this celebrated organlaation and thus enjoy the lustre which it lent to all who be longed to It. All went well with the Bowlers until one day an awful event occurred, nn event which brought a blush of shame on the unsullied crow of every mem ber. This blow oame wrapped up in a pure white envelope and read as fol lows: "Mr. aad Mrs. Samuel Sweet- youth invite you to the marriage of their daughter, Susan Sweetyoutb, to Mr. Buncombe Bowler, February 11, 188-." Buncombe Bowler to be mar ried I Betrayed by their president! Such were the thoughts that traversed the confused minds of the bachelors, each one of whom had received one of the handsome engraved invitations, and one aad all they hurried to the house of the founder of their anti-mar riage olnb. Here a jumble of reproaches, appeals and threats fall upon the dazed head ef the HBowler" ohlef, but all in vain. Under the hypnotic spell of Susie Sweetyouth’s mystic charms, Bun combe Bowler remained steadfast and persisted In staining the fair name of the organisation which bore his name. - The Bowler-8weet^outh nuptials took place with great eclat and the dlahoaored Bachelors attended In a body. After the ceremony they betook themselves to the club rooms, where they held a soldfen autopsy over the remains of the Bowler Bachelor’s club, bow only Bn all too prominent mark for the Jokes of the village wags, and disgraced in the eyes of the world. The dab only survived the blow for a period of two weeks, whea the treas urer eloped with the deacon's daugh ter. taking with him the fnn.dt.Qf the dob, amounting to 16 75 aad all the table linen, which shortly afterward graeed the table of the happy pair. The Bowler Bachelors’ olub was no more. Gradually and without appar ent heed to the solemn vows they once i, they succumbed due by one rmsof the maldecs of Low- hts, until finally they had all r budding destinlea with of the sex which they had id to score, critical juncture that again roan to the oq- of s Family of Governors Who Bestowed Honor on South Caro lina. To tbs Editor of The State: In your obituary sketch of the late Governor John Peter Uic jardson you speak of him as " the third name in di rect descent" who filled the high office of governor of South Carolina. Tnis was a alight error, though three of the Richardson family have filled this of fice; they were James B. Richardson (granduncle), 1802-<Oi4. John Peter Richardson (father), 1S40- 42, nod John Peter R'cherdson (son), 1866-90 The family has furnished more governors to ttonth Caroi idh than any other, and is almost equal to the distinguished Wolcott fam.iy of Co^nt-cltdut, where the grandfather, Roger Wolcott, w** governor Jour years; Oliver Wolcott the son, was elected governor the year before his death, and Oliver Wolcott the grandson of Roger sod *on of the preceding Oliver, wa* governor of Con neollcut nine years. Governor Riuhart’soa was nephew to tothatremai kable lady to whom Mr.T K. Oglesby, of Alabama, alludes In hi» Interesting writings as "the only,wo- man on reooid who was the wife of governor, the mot her of a governor sad the aunt and foxter-mother of a gov.r nor.” The name of this lady was Eliza beth Peyre Manning, mm it ubatti Some account of her and n succ’r.c notice of th-' M tumog and Uicla-dsoa families wi.l be found in (hat vatu able historical monograph entitled "Chronicles of St. Mars’. ParUb, San tee Circuit and Williamsburg Town ship, South Carolina, 1731 1886.’’by the late Dr. J. M. Burgess, of William* burg County. Not only was Mrs. Man nlng the wifi of Governor U'cbard S Manning, but the wa* also his half first cousin, Dding the graoduaughtt r of Gen. Richard Richardson by nis second marriage, while her husband was Gen Richardson's graudson by his first mar rlage. Not only was Gen. R chardsoa the ancester of five governors of South Carolina (fhe late Richardsons and two Mannings), but he was also the an cestor-ln-law, If I may be permitted to use such a term, of two governors Governor George McDuffie married i great-granddaughter (In the female line) of the general’s first marriage, and Governor Wade Hampton's second wife was Governor McDuffle'z daugh ter. -In his " History of the South Caro lina Military Academy,” Col. John Peyre Thoofiae gives a likeness and a beautifully written sketch of the elder Governor John Peter Richardson, who was thesfounder of that distinguished Institution of learning. Anyone who Is food of the biographical history- of South Carolina will be amply paid by reading this sketch, for not only was its subject the chief executive of this commonwealth and the founder of toe State Mllltarv Academy, but be served in Congress, declined to become a can didate for a Mat in the National Sen ate, was one of the leaders of the Union party during the old nullification times, and was a member of two of the most momentous political conventions that have ever assembled on Carolina soil—the nullifioatlon and secession conventions. The late Governor Richardson and his father were a striking instance where history Las repeated Itself. Both bore the same name, both were governors of the same State, both suc ceeded governors who were not elected to that office, but were only filling out unexpired terms—the first governor John Peter Richardson, succeeded B. R. Hennevan, who was filling' out; toe term of Patrick Noble; the second John Pet^r succeeded John C. Shep pard, who was filling out the second term of Hugh S. Thompson. These are remarkable coincidences, but there are others perhaps equally as remarkable connected with these two Governors Richardson; the lieutenant governors under each were from the Carolina up- country, and the first name of both lieutenant governors was William : In the first instance the gentleman who filled this position was William J. Clowney, of Union; In the second in stance the efifiee was filled by William L. Mauldin, of Greenville. As mentioned in your obituary sketch, Judges Charles H. Simon ton d W. H. Wallace and Gen. James mnor were members of the same graduating class at the South Carolina college with the l»te Governor Rich- arlson. It Is a remarkable fact that these four gentlemen were members ?U hti r -Powtitutlona'. convention of 18#5. It is probably not often that four members of a graduating class are afterwards members of constitutional conventions, aad probably more rarely still that they all should be members of the same convention. _ o McDonald Furman. Ramsey, S. C. ENERGY. Yorkvills Enquirer. In spite of all that can be said to the contrary, there are numerous op portunities in every line of industry, which for development, depend upon the energy and intelligence of the in dividual rather than .upon any shifting vagary cf chance. This observalion is noi intended-to except any legitimate pursuit, and along with (he rest it In cludes agriculture. - The readers df The Enquirer have been advised from time to lime of dif ferent important achievements of Mr. C. H. Smith, who lives sl^ miles south of Yorkville. Mr. Smith has been mentioned in connection with success ful pork raising, he is known all over this section as a producer of large quantities of fine celery, and although an unusually good farmer generally,- he has of late been giving his especial attention to truck gardening, with which there is reason to believe he will make a success. On the assurance that there would be found something of interest to write about, the reporter, a few days ago, took occasion to visit Mr. Smith’s farm. The trip was both pleasant and profitable, for Mr. Smith is able to show some lines of progressive devel opment, the equal of which is proba bly not to be found ou another farm in this section of the Slate. The reporter saw a great deal in the space of three or four hours; but will confine his story principally to a recital of what good common sense, energy and perse verance has done in the way of re claiming a worthless piece of bottom land and making it a productive gar den. Mr. Smith’s‘plantation consists of about 380 acres. He got possession of it about 1883. Much of it bad been worked for years before that time ; but like all df the Turkey creek country, it is fearfully broken, and for lack of proper mauagement it had been butch ered into a desert. There are 50. acres of creek bottom ”on the place. This had been cut to pieces by freshets, and- so over grpwn with canes, briars, vines and shrubs as not to leave as much as a single unbroken acre in one body. It was just such a prospect as many an other has found on his plantation 25 years ago,'and which he has left in the same shape unlH Lo-J ly. In fact, how these acres looked then can best be judged liy the appcaiaucc of the acres on the same creek for miles aliovc and below now. Almost the whole length of the creek—McClure’s —is a wild jungle, with only an oc casional small patch uudet cultivation. But on Ibe Smith bottoms, energy and intelligent have told another stcry. Onu of the first thiogs that Mr. Smith did was to cut a straight channel for the creek through the bot tom, a distance of more than half a mile. Then one by one he dammed- the sluices with poles, so that each freshet would help to fill them up. Next he constructed brakes of poles across the low places, and gradually, year after year, the numerous gullies and boles were filled to an even surface, in which for hundreds of yards there is hardly depression enough to hide a rabbit. Ami there is no more washing or tear ing of the land by freshets. When the creek gets out of its hanks the water spreads over the long wide bottoms, and the carefully arranged system of brakes controls the current to A placidity that can best he com- jtared to that of au-qrdinary mill pond. It -is ou this beautiful garden spot, created after so many years of patient perseverance, that Mr. Smith is now making his most successful agricultural ex|>enments, and developitfg the same, year after year, to more important proportions. At the highest point at the head of the.^pltoms, some years back, Mr. Smith made a fish pond. After that he constructed another. Later on, the leveling up of the bot toms and the fall that could be secured from the fish ponds, suggested the idea of irrigation. The logical develop ment of ibis idea was a truck to clear more than would reasonably be expected from 16 or 20 acree of cot ton. The entire patch, however, con sists of less than an acre. But along these lines, Mr. Smith is evidently joet beginning. His garden, as indicated, may be extended over the entire bot tom, and he is just the man to keep pace with a developing market, what ever may. be its repuirements. . During his visit to Mr. Smith, the reporter, of course, had a good dimmer. There was on the table more than * dozen different dishes of well prepared food, including meats, vegetables and .breads, rice, pies, etc. There was a much greater variety than is often seen even at a city hotel, and every thing in the list was raised on the place, except black pepper, salt and coffee. Speaking qf rice, Mr. Smith said that he had only purchased a single 26 cents worth since 1890. He uses it all the time and raises all he uses. It yields more to the acre, ho says, than any other crop he knows. He only bows about Mie-svxteenth: of an acre, and sows tha£ only every other year. With facilities for quick and econom ical cleaning, he could easily produce enough on his fifty acres to supply the piesent consumption of York County. As indicated at the outset, this story is necessarily incomplete. It gives i good idea though what one man of re source and energy will accomplish with advantages that are only sufficient to make another jmnn bewail the hard ness of his lot. It also furnishes rea sonable assurance that those 50 acres will vet be the source of a comfortable income to the man who has developed them. Among good farmers generally there is a wide difference of opinion as to whether Means grass is a profitable in stitution or a nuisance. Some con sider the grass as a most welcome vol unteer, and others have as little pa tience with it as they have with wire grass. Mr. Smith considers Means grass as one of his best friends, and so treats it. If left uncultivated, his entire bottoms would be covered with this grass by the time early corn is ex pected to be up. It grows everywhere most luxuriantly; but Mr. Smith keeps it thoroughly under control. He seldom sends a hoe into his corn crop ; but does Ins cultivation almost entirely with an adaptation of the Boy Dixie plow, that is an invention of his own. In all hi-> 40 acres of corn there is hardly to be seen a blade of Means or otber grass. Hot along the creek Dank, on either side, there is a strip of from 40 to 50 feet. This has alteady been mowed twiic this season, and is nearly ready for another mowing. Each mowing yields a large quantity of hay, and in Mr.'Smith's opinion there i-> no better hay to be had from any other grass in this country. Means grass, he says, may be converted into good hay at almost any stage, provided it is not allowed to glow too oil and tough. He says that with proper means no other grass is more easily controlled, and it is with the greatest confidence he looks upon it as a beneficent bless- Mng rather than as an unruly master. A TALK . FA1 WOOL-GROWING in the south. ' — 1/ * — ^ITjOST The Wool Record, considered aa the Every section of our count-* -organ of those engaged iir the shoe far as we have -learned, ■ industry nod an authority ou all ques- visited with bountiful rains, lug to sheep and wool, having improvement in the c and one who now sees the place can not fail to be impressed with theWon- derful work that lias been accom plished. Taking a birdseye view of the spot as seen by the reporter from a hillside a few days ago, there are first the fish ponds, or more properly speaking now, the irrigation ponds. Immediately be low the first it l igation pond there is a patch of rice of only about one-six- teenlh of an acre in extent. Then comes a two-acre garden, including a celery patch in which there are be tween sixteen and twenty thousand plants, and after that there are 40 acres of corn which, notwithstanding the dry season, seem to promise, with absolute certainty, a yield of not less than 1,200 bushels. But it is only the garden that lias yet been made subject to irrigation. 3 The lower bottoms are level enough ; )ut the creek hardly furnishes suffi cient water. Mr. Smith is still work ing on the problenCpresented bore, and'iti tinrSVno doubt, will work it out. But the irrigation arrangement for the garden is liltle short of wonderful. For ihstance, the edge of the celerj latch is fully 200 yards from the water reservoir, and the rows are between 70 and 80 )&rds in leifgih. The whole system does not yet include a single iron pipe. But by means of a simple ditch, cut from the fish pond along the lillside, the water is brought all that distance and so introduced into the celery patch as to fill from end to end single furrow, not more than three inches deep, without pouring a drop over into the next row. The flow of BERMUDA AM) NUT GRASS. We are all apt to sometimes t ike our opinions at second hand, audio keep making statements as facts when we have not investigated as we shouk have done. This is wellillustralcd by the letter recently printed from one of our Virginia corrospondents id regard to the seeding of Bermuda grass. _ It lias !»ecn stand time and again that this grass does not in ike seed north of the Gulf iroast, and the ststement has Iteen generally accepted b\ al!. But Mr. Horner, of Virginia, mae not sat isfied. He found that the grass came up on his place under circumslancee that could only seem to show that they were seedlings. Being of an inquir ing turn, he investigated for himself aud gathered and sowed in a tub some of the seeds and grew the plants from them. This at once settles the fact that the Bermuda grass dots make garden, ; viable seed in the tide-water section of ustry nod aa authority on all ques tions relating to sheep and wool, having improvement „ ,— rtudiid the opiiortanMee of Western magical., Many a North Carolina aa a sheep country, aays: surprised and dellgh "The blue nbbon and gold medal at' of corn, which he the World’s Colombian Exposition at Chicago, for the beet wool wa*awarded to Maj. R. 8. Tucker, of North Carol ina. When the compnratively little prominence that State enjoys as a wool producing section is considered, this re ward is somewhat surprising to the general reader* However, itls doubt ful if there Is in fhe United States a be ter section for the raising of sheep than North Carolina. The climate, sou and other couditions are admirably adapted to sheep husbandry.. The wihtera are not so severe that the sheep require shelter much of the time. And there sie but a fow days tv hen they are j worms and qpei of the contingenci.. unable to gain a living on the filed or to which his:rope are exposed, forest ranges. With the exception of | A few me have demonstrated excessive winter weather, such as was this can be one, .hot too many of our experienced during January of 1893, farmers appar to be utterly indifferent they wiU keep in good^condition with f to the possillities that lie before them, what they will find in the fields and They act aaf they had reached the woods without prepared forage. Where . limit of achjvement in their avoca ion, will one find a more ideal sheep range and move uffrora year to ye& in the than the Piedmont region or the lower ' crops is farmer ^ hted to see fii bad- considei all hofe, come out and make jr good crop. Providenae is ’Ing better tare of the fartners they ate takbg of themselves. It is safe to say that there is li enterprise manifested in fanning than in anj other line of bu tineas. Theie has been some improvement in tools and methods, but the im provement d-es not at aU keep pace with the e man da of the times. More study, note science, and more enterprise «e needed. The farmer must, in a seasure, make himself in dependent oldroughts, storms, frosts, kbahrM from its i hearted. i«y< S It1*asdinde«Al V 1 southeastern slope of the Bine Ri hsvi; one ng the dge, Ml tO same old rut They need to catch the spirit of process, and they can <l» this in do betteray than by coming in con tact with ptqressire farmeis. There is a man hot aud there who is making the farm p, and pay handsomely. He baffles 0 droughts aud the floods, he outlwits ie worms and the bugs, and he fillsns bams with generous au altitude of .five huudret ousand feet above the sea, a! region extending from Northern Vir ginia to Northern Alabama ? • "Here the mountain range breaks the. force of the cold stonns from the ! northwest, and the air is sufficiently „ _ cool, dry and rarefied to prevent the | crope, whilpis neighbors’ fields are debilitating and unhealthy effects of blighted an their barns are empty. | warm weather. Here in a belt twenty , He dressee Is wife aud daughters like 1 to forty miles wide and nearly a thous- princesses, iys his debts, educates his ' aud milea long (hat will in time be children, at lives the life of a king in ! famous as s pastoial region. i his rural dAinions. "With regard to mutton as food, the ' He does| this with the same geo- South needs more than is supplied at eral opportnties that his neighbors present. More mutton sod less pork have had, ah the same seasons, in should be used, and in lime—aud noka the same c}>ate, oa the same quality Ycbia neighbors struturle on SSSTi fitted by t It U ua] kindly fault and Natch licit the ceP' _ A CO jkville, 8 that in a lenity Ues ia son "SrZZZX tad sacred a su aay bat a serinoi lensibU spirit 1 itade ana a desk themselves shs that pi following lettr lion that they h ,Ssn Virginia. So far the seed have not been found in the. interior of Virginia . or North Carolina, and it maydie that the conditions near the salt water were more favorable to the seeding of the grass. But it is an important fact to demonstrate that it does make seed there. * . There is another plant common in the South as a troublesome weed,"'the coco or nut grass as it is called. This is one of U)e true sedges and is not a grass proper. Its botanical name is Cyperus Rotundas, variety Hydra. The generally received notion in the South is that this sedge is reproduced mainly from its underground tubers While doubtless it does grow largely fiom these, its rapid spread is due more to the profusion of seed which it makes than from its tubers. If the tops of the nut grass are persistently cut away all summer and no greea leaf allowed to show above the ground, the tubers will soon die out. But the fact is that the nut grass is allowed to have its own sweet way after the crops are laid by, and.late in fall it ripens an abundant harvest of seeds for a repro duction of a host the following season. The* old practice once common in the cotton country of letting the land "rest” in alternate years, by allowing it to grow up in all sorts of grass and weeds, is responsible for a large part of the spread of the nut grass. But where a short rotaition is followed, and the small grain crop is at once followed by n smothering crop of peas, and these, ate made into hay and followed by a soil cover crop foi the winter, the nut grass has small chance to get a start, water is controlled entirely by means , for th© tel© plowing after the smother of dams of mud, thrown up or taken down with the hands, and the whole garden, or u single row of' it, may be overflowed at will... ?. ' As yet Mr. Smith has not under taken to produce garden except celery, on a very large Last year and thrs year his tomato patch was confined to a bed of not more than 30 by CO feet. He had a cabbage patch somewhat large, and a cucumber patch one-fourth the size. Off the cucumber patch ho sold $5 worth. Off the tomato patch he has been averaging something like 50 cents a day for two weeks or more, and off the celery patch, of course, he expects crop catches it at a season when frost soon stops its furtber spread. We would say that to th-ise who are trou bled with nut grass and similar pests that there is nothing so effective in/eld. very long time—its beneficial effects would be manifested in the improved general health of the people, and in their greater ability to resist the nat ural conditions of a warm climate. As a summer or warn: weather meat food, mutton is excellent. It is very digesti ble, highly. Brittitious, contains slarge proportion bf protein, very little car- bohydratee, and as a universal food for Southern as well as Northern latitudes has few equals and no superiors. "NorthCarolina enjoys n home field for her mutton products, has easy access to Washington, Bsltimote, Philsdel phia, New York,Cincinnati, Louisville, and numerous smaller cities, all of which are within easy reach of the field of production, aud Would consume large quantities of her mutton, if it could be supplied promptly, in good condition, when moat needed. "The wool side of sheep husbandry is too frequently passed over with indiffer ence by farmers in ihfise days. Wool has been ou the under aide in this fight for so long that mutton has Iteen allow ed to obscure its importance to the sheep farmer. The new wool tariff, small foieign supplies, the inadequacy of stock on hand, the insufficiency of the present clip, the unusually large de mands foi woolens, the prosperity of the people and the steady growib of the nation, are all factors contributing to ward higher prices for wool and toward a larger wool consumption in Um nation. Those sectioon which increase their flocks most rapidly, enlarge their wool products most appreciably, and pay most attention to sbeep husbandry, will gather most quickly the largest returns from this prosperity. —— “North Carolina ia so well adapted to sheep-breeding that it cannot bo more than a few years before wool-growing will be one of her leading live-stock in dustries, and she will be leaping mat erial benefits trom her wool and mutton. Her natural advantages, physical and climatic, entitle her to a prom ineot position as a wool-growing State. She enjoys a special advantage in her steamer liuee, which place hei principal seaport, Wilmington, within sixty hours by sea of New York, thus giving her the advantage oi the very latest and most improved methods of selling wool either at private ur-auetion sale, which arc afforded by the Wool Exchange.” TllE HOUSE IN BATTLE. of land. Ycbis neighbors, struggle on from year tyear, with no improve ment in theutlook; gathering scanty crops, strand to make ends meet, un able to edote their children, and per- hape to payheir debts, always in a strain, aiws behind. What pleasure is there in rh a life? What chance ! is there to tlivate the social virtues, or devi l >o Dee intellectual and moral qualities wbh dignify and ennoble j human lifsS ... > | It needs i argument to prove that 1 the differen-ltetween the two pictures which we he drawn, is to be found in { the men ih<v4v«e, and not in Ineir surrounding The one in a large measure cne* his surroundings; the 1 other, is limered and circumscribed oy the preting conditions. Now, wHpue man does, another man may m We repeat that a major- 1 ity of our ben need to come into cloeer coot^w of their clfian order, that they may •crlption coatii inaed I mature this last date U until li *11.-1 law In cout’** enks. Next loeipal; B*d Trurto JR. Presic ■Excellence. ' , Met* Ucml __ EfSptember 18. HU . and friend* mtawitli the progreesite men whyrtcUoF f" r j'JVasTfn.- cilia n order, that they may rreKTipttou' 4aa core i: ti it bear their tvs. profit by their exper ience, aitd|ye all, catch a portion of their “l* I Yet so itent are our farmers 1 with the ytenl conditions, th*4 it is 'difficult convince them that there is anwtter way of doing than j that which ey are praetidug ami which their hers before them prac ticed. ThRper exerted itaelf both editorially ffilocally to prevail oa the farmers of p-okee to send represen tative. to I coovenlion of wheat growers, 4ti assembles today at Greenwood; iut the appeal elicited no responso.1d.4bo far as we know failed to afim the slighteet interest. There soemfbe no hope of any rapid or immedialtlvance towards higher agricultural fils. Nothing but stern necessity soAnIoW evolutions will m a^ .Gaffney Ledger. 1 «Vs male complaint thaa all .V eombiaed. It U the oalj pp . •dy derUsd for this express pi accomplished, scientific physic When yon ask yenr drnsi Fierce’s Favorite PrracrtptMn. •-"let me sell yon somethin* rood" ask him gently bet f Jest as good ” 'medicine has fiood" record as Dr. FiereeV physician behiad H t ' with it "jam as Dr remedy for by * graduated tic* aid sold th: bring them < RIC cultu*;. —fr „ ;**■», rltw-d physician ia through drag isa would be knowledge of _ which ahe would obtain Common Sense Medical Aov thousand • page volume, Uhl near seven hundred engrsviagsY colored piste*. More than ha* copies of this valuable bm* fii 30 cash; but a be 1 A veteran cavalry horse partakes of the hopes and fears of battle just the same aa bis rider. As the column sw logs into line and waits, the horse grows nervous over the wailing. If the wait ie spun out be will tremble and sweat and grow apprehensive. If he has been six months in seivice he knows every bugle cal). As the call comes^to ad vance the rider can feel him working at the bit with his tongue to get it be tween his teeth. As he moves out he will either seek to get on faster than he should or bolt. *He cannot bolt, how ever. The lines will carry him forward, and after a minute he will grip, lay back his ears, and one can feel hir sudden resolve to brave the worst, a*J have done with it as soon as possible. A man seldom cries out jvhen hit in*.h© turmoil of battle. It is the same**th a horse. Five troopep out of 8i.n when struck with a bullet are out of ■ad* dies within a minute'. If *'i the breast or shoulder, up go -bauds, and they get a heavy fall " * n the leg or foot or arm, they fV forward and rolloff. Eveu willvp 0 ^ cut by a jagged piece of shel) a horse will not drop. It is only wf® • hot trough the head or heart th/* le comes down. He may be fatall»7 0u “ ded » but hobbles out of the fiifc!' ? nght or left, and stands withW” 0 * &ead until the loss oi blood ^ . hlni d ° wn ' The horse that loekv, r . r aud 18 unwoundod himsJv 1 CODt,n “ e 40 r un with his fours until some movement urn tmt- Then he goes gallop- ere and there, neighing with fear alarm, but he wUl not leave the * bou ‘.»« »*j r* Col. T. .7.Joore, of tpartanburg 1 County, has In testing ire culture | away up afog the foshills of the Blue Ridgt^od the ipertanburg Herald quot lim 1 never condt d a experiment, hat part o(tbe expert ment upon 1 :h I used later i* sim ply magnifies without alck of work with plow shoe. The ice is now waist high, fi where itrove, three feet wide, fithick ‘as it can siaud, each grain hfog six or a dozen stems, with from 2+o 360 grains to a head. That sown lodcast is as fine as it gets to be. 'e unwatered nee ia not so good, butarring a bad stand, it very fair, anfrith rain it will make a fine crop. Of a few heads are yet to be seen. It 11 probably be five or six feet high. If rice can be grown with such paults in Spartanburg County, it c|well be made a promi nent crop imery part of Sooth Car olina, with owithout water culture. Soms weekfigo we presented testl- mooy to shoilbat upland rice grown on old cottofiolfis in this county and Nrr Grass.—M. L. say it’: "I have bein, N. C.,says he has 1 more satisfactory loam land infested with which he finds impossible tbtr "Please tell me Ibrnogb the I to treat it.” The so called is not a true grass at fill, bnftp of sedge, Cyperus Hydra, an M- i-ltUv* to the Chufa, which s»l monly culL -rfatlhere for bog oo* underground tut kill, if any of th** ’"givt show abm iy 1 bulled in a D’hborhood mill had sold ir 1 f° r * dollaft bushel in Columbia, proving a vet profitable crop. Much more rice haibeen planted in the in terior of- Sots Carolina this year than I ever before, id it is to be hoped that I next year tharea in this grain will be greatly enhigei—Exchange. Neill’s Cotton Prediction.— Henry M. Kill, the Cotton crop proph et, is at it afm, and in the face ol his failure last ear, io put a crop of 12,- 000,000 hah upon the market, he is out in a pretetion for the coming crop, remarks tin Charlotte Observer. He missed it lat year by over 1,000,000 bales, and th chances are that he will miss it by aarlr 2,000,000 bales this year. Hia ‘prediction” just issued for the crop now maturing will reach 12 - the coma ses more If kept ci > bloom nn- killed out. difficult of co constantly to with smotb small grain, cut for hay at pared and sov even to rye foi is better, seedo oats heavily, at off sown again followed up smother it om kept down by he trouble is that the common p grass alone nn< season and fills Keep it choppe> . froet, and folio ’small grain an peas, and you nnt grass.—ff 1 l k —Trouble d than drink dr vegetables, ©leaning l ind lt nywhere-ts a short lota-among the dead and wounded, hi he urge scale. tloa tl.Akeeps thesoil at all ttn^ill dodge them, if possible, and, in . . omrAKxl u il I. smnfhAmnar nmn. H «nC ] eg p OVM ’— * * U covered with smothering crops tween the hoed ones. 'Look after seeding of weeds, and ke from making tops by smothe and weeds will soon cease to bear.—Practical Farmer. m, tig the foot :Ail J-gypt i^nfected^j ha* been and mouth disease, /jnly 18. 1827 cases reported ^ When he upon three or four riderless steeds, they fall in and ~ siesas, tney fall in and keep together, «P©culAtors have and the worst protec ^? n > *"d the "ral- the cotton producers have ever knows', 1 k® bugle ma\ bring the whole of ** the Observer em* 000,000 bales, aid despite Ids bad break last year, them^kot manipulators will E > to work upoqthe Neill cue, and rega te prices s iWXlingly. How trne this is, is evideiced by the feet that since Neill’s praiktion was published two days ago, cotton has dropped off 45 points, which represents a loss of ♦2.25 per bale. Neill may mean well bat he is the best friend the cotton may bring the whole of. Bulletin** * body.—i\a»*wrf ' The finest shops uT a Chinese dtr are those devoted to the sals of coffins. Observer endeavored to show some months ago. Theie is the fist chahoe In the •rop will but Neill