Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ITTLE PAUL REUTER was baay with hia herd ■ of wide horned oxen— far more baay than uau- aL The cattle wondered why on earth be did not let them wander afar, aa utuai, among the , r, Jnlder graeeee. Paul cooM not Ha was doing double duty. The cattle had to feed or loee value, but alao the had to be watched doeely leat there, eo the perplexed remoreeleeely kept to the the farm bulldinga. Aa Paul now called to an obetreper- m cow and again looked back at the there enddenljr atartled ear* an alarmed excited ary from tnaide the fanahooee: “Kun)e — verdamter! Come Wek! Thief! Robber! PaulP Paul left the oxen to their own alow I to the hodba. whence > the angry yetis, hie bare, freckled and pebbles a recklaoaneaa bora * a dlaragard Car aboe wear. Be a tone. *ne old. once grimly hghtluj. Boer waa now helplesa. ao on little Paul devolved great reeponatblllty. Wklcb his father, always proud of him. bad yielded him with a amlle. "You are head of the family now. Paul," said be. riding away. “and. re member. you are la charge—even of the well" f , And bla father would come back from Pretoria to And his eon was not fit to tnist Por a long time Paul Wept by the stream. He was roused from bis misery by a great trampling of feet of horses hi the distance and hoarse, loud voices and that peculiar jingle jangle of steel against steel which, like the rattle of the snake, Is the warning note of the approach of a cavalry command. Before Paul made up bla mind what to do-drive bla- cattle as far away as he ,could or run to the bouse to warn his grandfather — the troop came In sight at the trot from round a corner of the wood. The captain, riding ahead, ■aw Paul with a quick, all scanning eye. With a wave backward of hia gauntleted band be fell to a walk, and at once the men behind him did the eame, and then at the word "Halt!" the company remained still and mute, and the officer beckoned Peul to hia horse’s aide. Paul went with great awe and trepidation, for there la something ter rorising to even a grown peasant at the unfamiliar sight of many sabered sol diers of strange dreM and manner and speech. “Wboee cattle are these, my boy 7’ Mid the officer. “I must have some." Paul’s face lengthened so that the sol dier laughed and reached down and patted hia head. "Don’t be frightened, laddie.'* said he. art of fresh meat. teers. bat yon will i-m and cash down nr father’s7’ iweml. somewhat not at home. My be’a sick. That’s and fi»t i at tl "1 first “1 thet H your grandfather to f I sgU bj i to hive the men mself dismounted boy watched the rder aa If touched mt| A’aui •b made him cry -1 ihouted. for. Bow lr horses, be could ae column lbs big with a rope to wm Past at the eight that he . the the yard and teak aim -1 "I >o you know that ked la surprise rvaat. who ran off r a rlS* and wstrb -C nati the eoldler laugh- that got him late ipprove of armed| ■who can’t give roe. So he's el t knew hat that be heat thing for awa I forward to obey, quick ores that tluM to am what gate a juggler like naked body, the sod be dashed m sod the rattle r the stream "Mount Of •eet It to red wildly at the ind two men fol ooa came bad low running sar- ark. whoever tied _ >wled. “Let the there'a your hfle and watch, juat ae you Mid. W# took them from him., Now. let's see your grandfather about the rattle." e Oom Hendrick was sternly polite to the English soldiers, whom thirty odd years ego he bad fought end for whom t! Coma, and I’ll for yoaP Kunje looked back. Saw the rifle and, like a springbok, took to bis heals and to a moment was beyond Paul's ghost- lag skill "DM you shoot7* cried the old man. "Did you klUP “No, grandfather." said Paul puttiag away the rifle. "1 was afraid to kill a f '<-■ I At that the old Boer, who In battle had killed many men. black and white, nearly Choked with wrath and eo rail edat Panl that the boy wm daaed and frightened. “Coward!” cried Oom Hendrick "Afraid! Too are a pretty boy to.call yonreelf a Boer! Ion to defend yonr oo on try, yon to be a eoldler, of which yon have blustered eo much! When 1 was your age. already I bad fought the Zulus and shot them down I Walt till your father gets back from Pretoria, and be will thrasb yon—yea, with bis sjambok be will thrash yon—when 1 tell him yon are no Boer, bat a coward, who lets bla bouse be robbed!" Paul went back then to his stolid oxen without (for be bad been brought up to reverence age) a Word Of- reply. But be was heartbroken. In bis ears the Insects buzzed the word “Coward!” and the lowing kine booed “Coward!" and the birds flying above him Mng “CowardP so that by the bonks of the stream be lay down and wept, for now be. who bad wished to be strong and big and a good marksman, like hia grandfather and fSther, able to fight back tbs warlike Kaffir trlbM gad tbs invading English, was a “coward, cow ard. onward," whs had let his own bom# be robbed. Row. at that tipa all loath Africa was In a burly burly. The Zola war with the English was over, bat BngH««» soldiers were everywhere, especially on the Natal frontier, where bands of le vel onteer cavalry were oca- patrol Ling, lay la the Transvaal door to Natal T lag op from the grasses, mo*i grown, a circle of stones. Panl walked to them and stood over tbeuij a minute, looking down Into a deep old well, unused now, bat whose bottom was hidden by black water. Once more the boy looked all round but there was no one to see. He dlMppeared and reappeared again quickly and went back to his neglected cattle. _ . . • v Twilight In the Transvaal Is brief. The aun touches the peaks of the pur ple mountains, and yet It la day; the sun la lost behind them, and In a few minutes it is night Paul had hia oxen driven home and stalled and the cows milked, and he was very weary, for the hay had been moat exciting. He got a simple supper for Oom Hendrick and himself and ate. In spite of his bard day, poorly, for his boyish heart was Still sore and stllL When the ducks by the pond waddled to their nests, their mocking quacks said, “Coward, cow ard, coward!" He was still eating when the door opening straight fyom the yard to the living room was flung inward without any previous knock or sound of voice and two big men strode in and closed it behind them. The old Boer, with a great angry roar, like an Insulted bull, almost roee to his feet In his wrath and astonishment, but sank back, shaking and spluttering. Paul did jump to bis feet and with one leap was at the wall Where his father’s rifle hung, but at once, quick as he, one of the men was upon him and swung him far into a corner of the room. •> “None of that, my little Dutchmenr cried the man, standing over the boy threateningly. r “Mind you, my bloom Ihg little nipper, that’s tfie way to get Into trouble, ao don’t you go for to try It on. Mate, hurry up and see to the ancient one In his chair.” Paul.could not move, for the matt’g foot was at his neck, but Ue could look, and his quick eye at once noticed that the boots of the men and their trousers wen the same as those ef the soldiers who hod bought the rattle, but their faces were black'd! Paul was aston-' tsbed more than at first frightened, because the kindliness of tbe officer and some others of the M^liers* who had spoken tp him had made him feel almost grateful to them. Orandratber R^uer mi to bU chair glaring, and the other tnlffi *w‘ppe«1Aip to him drew a pistol, presented It full a< the old Boer's face and Mkt harshly “ft you want to see tomorrow morn- tog. old cock, tell me nod my mate where that Wealth of foars la stowed and teUTt quick T Oom 11 rod rick gasped and choked, and his eyes bomed. but he said noth tog “Bring tbe nipper here. Jack." Mid the man. and hia "mate'' pulled Paul to hie feet, placed him braid* his grand father and pointed another pistol at the bay’s head. Now Indeed the old Florr ' a —rvswfnl toot were sometimes harsh. etlU Paul waa the hope of hie old age. "What wealth7* be forced himself to oe un«hle to, for be bad not thought after telling theiu the secret that the soldiers would be mean enough to bind him. At last, at 'ast, lie got tjye haul loose nnd then an >ther, and he did n d mind hlsjegs. He crawled to the ed^c and by the faint light could just make out one soldier standing In the water and the other on his shoulders, strug gling with the stone. Panl gasped and struggled nnd pushed and heaved at the coping of the well until he had n great loose rock poised-”over the rob bers' heads, and then he ebeeredVatul laughed and yelled until Oom Hendrick ‘Come,’ mid the soldier coolly, “trill you tear wondered what on earth had happened at tbe well, and tbe ducks woke up and quacked. "Bravo, bravo, bravo!” “Wow!” cried Panl. .“Ton fools, the real stone Is still far stove your heads, and If you try to climb up I'll drop this •tone, bcavy enough to crush yon both to death!” And the soldier •s cursed all night, and little Paul laughed all night, until bis father rode home in the morning and made both of the robbers prtNonere. Old Ontn llcudrick took a ioug time to understand that bis grandson find actually had tbe cleverness and cour age to enirap twu of bto country's vnv- mtew. rnett«h’soldiers but when he did he called tbe household together and I with graat gravity and a lung speech 1 solemnly presented Paul with an an dent silver two potudi Lot us take recent quotations of the product^ : ‘A ton of sound cotton seed will make about 760 pounds of meal, 960 pounds of 'hulls, 26 pounds of dirt and Holers, and 276 pounds of oil. At present prices the product of one ton of seed will be aa follows : 750, pounds of meal..... M \37 850 pounds of hulls .. 2 38 26 pounds of linters. 26 275 pounds of oil (87 gallons) 14 80 Total : :$2(5 80 Now, one-third of that amount, or $8.93, would be large compensation for the oil mill, which would leave $17.87 for the farmer’s ton of seed. That ia equal to about 27 cents a bushel. The mill men will say that is too much to pay for seed. But consider how it works : When the farmer buys iu the shape of fertilizer he will pay the manufacturer $15.93 for the ammo nia in one ton of seed. Besides this he will i>ay about $4 to $b tor the pot ash and phosphoric acid in a ton. When the farmer sells his seed to the mill at $10 to $14 a ton and buys from the fertilizer manufacturer the plant- food in a ton he will pay at least $20 for it. No farmer can afford to trade that way. What can he do about H? In the first place, he is not obliged to sell bis seed. The oil m it does not injure it as a fertilizer or feed. Properly and carefully applied, nine bushels of seed is worth more to the farmer than 100 pounds of meal. It requires that amount to make 100 pounds of meal. The remedy is to demand a fair ex change in hulls and meal. Let the mill men understand at once (hat they are to receive full value for their seed or they will uot sell. At the pre-enl prices of ammonia, potash aud phos phoric acid quoted at Clemson Colleg.- oue too of seed is worth all of $20 aa a fertilizer. Thai is, the farmer will have to pay that much for the same plant-food in any fertilizer he may ppr- chase, no odds wiial u the source of these elements. Let the fanners of the Stale consider this question from a rational stand- point. Let them demand foil vain* for their seed or keep them at home. Tbe only Iom will be In the oil, but the farmer will not suffrt iu tb.it reaped, for be get* no tone lit i rum ihe«»il. Tbe figures given above are only ap- ferenre between the conditions of the soiM and farms of Kentucky and Ohio and those of ihe Carol in as and Geor gia 7 It cauuot be due to natural cau-es except so far as such cauMS tended to exaggerate certain lines of farming. It is not entirely due to for mer differences in the systems of la)K>r. The conclusion reached is that the cause is to be sought for in the char acter and kinds of crops grown and the particular lines of husbandry that have been the leading features of the two sections. <r In the South we cun grow cotton, in the North they cannot. In the South we can produce milk and butter and beef cattle, hogs and sheep ; but we do not to any great extent. In the North they can produce small grain, hay, cat tle and sheep, hogs and horses and they do it on a large scsle. “ More stock, wounded. All the other British offi cer had already been either killed or wounded, and the whole British line began a hasty retieat. The Americans drove them across the river into Spai^ tanburg. The British took thu^qld Buncombe road toward the Americans made tains and on imp--Virginia with tlretr prisoners. The Aiuericana lost only four killed and nine wounded. Sixty-three of Uu HyWfysville^ the njuuu- Trginia proximal«ly correct, xrniru l-nui whb aa au- i v * «atrb which weighs about * ooa f^ to txacturaa troy. • tiK-unog - “•*' THE COTTON SUED PROBLEM bu they a r> form a ba*i« ittle oo the problem I. log farmers coaid even call ami-c and Mk reprraeutntive mill hmu i< !.• ..r prvneot and in n be \ ^ ♦ Farmers Advised to Pair Exchange for Their Cotton* ; rot>lrni over, it he mill men bavi uald JO* ' > bar To a \m this lair are I*. more manure ; more manure, more grass ; more grass, more stock ” has been the general practice iu Kentucky and Ohio, while in Georgia and South Carolina it has been and is still to a con siderable extent the rule to “ plant more land, to make more-cotton, to buy more mules, to buy more land, to make more cotton.” The results are evident. An hun dred years and more'of such divergent lines of farm policy and practice has hud a wonderful effect in changing and d'fferentiatmg the agricultural conditions. In Ohio and New York the soils are much better than they used to be a hundred years ago ; in Georgia, as a rule, they ara much worse than they ever were. Of course there are some botorablc and noteworthy exceptions. There are some as weU managed and as produc live firms in Georgia and other adja cent Stales as any in Ohio. 1 did not see a field of oats in the latter State that would yield as much its we makc erery year at the experiment station. I did not see a wheat field in either New York or Ohio that would yield as much, as Jones Bridges and W. P. Walker and Mrs. M. K. Wilson made this year, and last year, and the.yuaj! befoie last. We are certain!v imp^dv- ,, ing * 4 about in spots,” as old IVier Cartwright ’vpited wm n 'Bishop Houle reproved i-im for bis levity and a*kfd him :* ** Brother Cartwright, do you think yon am growing n Queen Anne’a men were left dead on the field, and one hundred and sixty wounded were taken. Some, if not all, of these aixty-seveu men were buried on the ban ks of the Enoree* Will some one inform ue as to whether or not the four Americaus are buried there, and if their graves can be located ? Value of Crops.—Some unrea sonable statements are occasionally made in regard to the value of Crops, /oloncl Newmau stated that an acre of ’ line oats or wheat cut and cured as hay would sell for more mouey than if the xrain were allowed to mature. The ime to cut it is when the stalk is green and succulent to the ground and the grain in full bloom and not beyond the dough state. I f an acre of land would make 20 bushels of wheat, the same cut for hay would .make one or two tons and it will bring $18 or $20 a ton. A Georgia farmer stated to a neighbor some time ago that it would pay him to plow up aline stand of cotton,level his field and let crab grass take it. The hay would bring more than the cotton. These statameuts seem rather unrea sonable, but a little thiukiug may con vince you that they are correct.—Car olina Spartan. an»w it at bi Uw t tt , we are improving, * about iu ” mal 1 aui hopeful that these, will toco uni JED; 'tv numeiou* and latger and at last becoora coo- i. amj so cover the whole face of ountiy, hiding tfte *ety Vice-President Roosevelt aud Mark Twain have beeu invited to deliver ad dresses in Kansas City at the celebra tion on August 10 of tbe eightieth an- nivin»u;y of Missouri'* admission U> th’i Union. >ti ( l’ Al* •Hli nak* dm d- aod | ora- I ■ ■ BATTLE op musgrovb mill oo PaaL for. If "No pressed for Ul Hah aotdlera. How An you todayT >n. now. raoar we re ter Mid oo* of the Eng “We know all a tout IL suppoer that KaffU *•■ '< auee aw and my mate more it lirrrsi led ia the « Xtoa *eril , 1 ARMIN'. No ItTII AND H/l qacaikia i than the. S' t IS Ih * Tillman sod Mcl IsDUMI i wraagk • M lO the parity tt r left S .list its a. • K 1 *j|'| (tt* Hi of their l* BH xrrary an '•1 lh# ilritrDrrmi % | loclading wr rea and * | _ j. „ of thou r mat) ihuud. Tbsse two Q>CO, | Gworgta l*n ^ae Ass*>< kDtloa and ini j* .t < at as i they see* n to to • Wilt 1 as 1 • isorata w re hJy |*rss ■ A #N*t*MI* MK pDM i h* f 1 W B orgoltsa , but Ct Itloo •eftl th* ctctllbg ol Julv IUlh v foe a Is here 1 mti* vaud p lay so IID|M»rtDDl days' slay at tba V*ls Aiacraan I part id | $*ra 1 •ueineas pr.-bie ■is of the siiioo al Bt . If mi io m IDtf TUI t tl famsti. ooogs, Clor IDIkDil ktk J t lrvslaod 11 An Uistoru Hpot ia Mpartaabarg Coanty oa the Eaorce River of the f< •utd Th large had blai tot wen os If we gave bias a rhaaan to r put us In tbe way of a good tbi |-f .11*. * rtm 1*. lit told ua that you etow your g you’re afraid of banks ttoer rough tinwe. We’re nwn of honor and let him ran for It. Now. d’you sue. 'to nlggrr couldn’t t*U us just ytorr. but if s tore. Spit it out. band over or go to glory, yon and tbe boy! That's the long of It and tbe abort of IL Wbat d’you ray 7* Tbe old men looked defiantly at them. ‘The money la here. If you can find It" ha Mid. "It Is not mine: It Is not the boy’s If Its owner, my eon. were here, he’d dash yonr brains out ngainst tbe wail, as I would do or this boy- would If he were older or 1 younger: I by lb I Cutape tbe the Ug| t'hrnm rchase off most of n this and ad jut til V irginia-Ckuoliaa may not lead U business, but it that direction. Even before .ration ratre into existence ere certain com hi nations is not expuei to moi V r- <*». P accu rfri si ■ hjr ided. at h < Mtl. v ig to •loll.* I i monopoly ns n sort of nocount en that endeavored to I tb»» n I there wei smooget m fix the price of sard. It stands l •on that the VirgiutoCaroHaa i I cal Company will keep That to rea ’hcou- up the mnie yimu. m umi leaves the farmer to Uic condition that be has to sail at the her potul S 0 f interest My lodit tl V arty of •even took Hi Xiagi all •. Albany and Hud* >u river, N ork mod W aahloftjo, returmog ia toathern railway thriaieb Vtrgu id lbs G an diuaa to Aliaata oo ! ra 11 -»! th lefrated by ka, which, deep giojm | d the dark- 1 dlliiancv of Coughing 1 wax given to die eitb quick consumption. I then began to use Ayer’* Cherry Pccinral. I impro.cd at oner, and am now in perfect health ’’—Chit Gibtotown, E. Hart- n. r. It’s too risky, pitying with your cough. The first thing you know it will be down deep in y< Ml! $tJ ngs tnd the plav util be over. Be* gin early *Rh Ayer’* Cherry Pectoral and stop the cough. AffiMtat. $• MJMpia Will If km .AW OH, * THE YOUN3BLODD w :> i. T tu« i 20th instilnt, having been eleven dajs. We traveled the greater » dunug daylight. part I WI II The next instant he would have dropped the Kaffir when his heart failed him. be bad bis radal antipathy, but the English officer was young and jovial, aud not yet had tbe Boors and English come to actual warfare, ao a fair price waa paid down, and the soldiers rode off, driving their cattle, to the camp where their tAgiment - lay, not many mllM off. Then Oom Hendrick took tbo few goldpiecM left with him and laid hia recovered heirloom, an enor mous heavy silver watch, which one would have to carry, one would think m an overcoat aide pocket; carefully bmlde them. "No thanks to you," Mid he to poor Paul, "1 have my grandfather's gift •gain. Some day I will give tt to you. If you grow up a true Boor and net a coward. Your father told yon. as yon know, where to place these things that ■either Kaffir nor Englander can find Paul's head hung low; his face waa He did not answer at all, but bitter words of tbe old warrior- beroie to the boy among n> ; sorely to bla soul. Is W«at out and looked carefully Everything was silent. Tbe driven bird and beast film IB* ’loldTer “You’re a bully old swaegerer. ain't you? Rat we've no time to waste. Come. I'll give yon aH>u% two three and fire. Will you tell 7’ "Nor' cried tbe old man. "Paul, If you are not a cqxvartl, say no!” And Paul Mid. "NoP “One. two"— cried the soldier, now growing angry. * “No!” Mid the old man grimly, “(jod will deal with you for this murderT’ “NoP Mid Paul, - white, but with a sadden brightness In bis eyes. “Last chance, old plgheed! Th”— ’ “Tea, I’ll telir cried poor Paul, un able to stand the.strain. Oom Hen drick turned on him a reproachful eye, and with pale face aud trembling legs the Boer boy was led out and took his guards straight to the old well. “It Is hidden In the stonework down the side. Two men can reach it—ope standing in the water and the other •n the first's shoulders. The water is only a foot deep.” “Chaw!” cried the soldier. “This is a Jeucc of a place. How much is there?” About £500,” said Paul, shak'ng. And a late duck on the pond suddenly cackled, “Coward, coward, coward!” Get a lantern,” said one of the meh. and Paul got a lantern, hnd then at their command he showed them how to go down, by niches aud craek§ In tbe old stone walls. He showed-them a stone which could swing iu hs place, leaving a crevice big enough lor « Mg bag of mouey. He went down hinisi if and explained that he was not tall enough to reach the stone. Ho l lmv- ed like an arrant sneak and coward In- ; deed, but what could be expected 1 i< m" a little boy of 13 with Hi pistol nt l:: i head? Then the men whispered to gether, apparently satisfied with Paul’s story, and one of them said? “You me rank, blooming sneak to give nv.ny yonr own-father, but 1 believe you're telling the truth, -you’re so scared. Anyhow, aa we’ve both got to go dow i. I’ll have to bind you. There's ti.o many guns irhout the tousc.” Ho they' bound him, arms and legs, with a bale and then Paul sbed tears and im ploded them to let him run back Jo t . e to his grandfather, but they wq^id him with their tolls and tod hinttduwu by the well, wbiah the) *; fixed price or bold bis seed. 8ted is worth as much for manure when not crashed ss when crushed At the Mufias>ppi experiment statioo actual-experience and chtmica! Analy sis demonstrate that tbe raw seed fed piupuy w wait sq—tj P* Nt get full value. | Mills generally charge toil for grind ing products of the farm. They charge one-tenth or one-twelfth for grinding wheat and corn. Even the roller flour mills, that exchange flour and bran fori wheat, place the exchange on the bMis ol one tenth for toll. In grinding sor ghum and making srrup the toll ia one- fourth or perhaps one-third in ’some How is it with crushing cotton seed? TALL CORN p li r doesn’t come by accident A fertile s-vt and careful cultiva tion are necessary to produce the towering stems and heavy ears. Yet the farmer who under stands that- he can't have a healthy corn crop without feeding and weeding, seems to think that he can have a healthy body without either care or culture. But the body is built up just as the corn is. by tbe assimilation of the several chemical elements on which vitality depends. And whi-t weeds are to the corn, diseases of tbe stomach and nutritive systems are to tbe body ; they divert the neces sary food supply from tbe pr. aer channels, and the body becomes lean, and til-nourished. The proper digestion and assimilation of food is a pri mary essential of health. By healing diseases of the stom ach and organs of digestion sad nutrition, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovary increases the digestive and assimilative powers, stimulates the action of tbe blood m .iking glands, and sends to every organ of tbe body the rich red-corpoaded sickly blood on which physical vigor * * rD< £ and vitality deper h Si f ^ • v. •I took two bottles of Doctor Pierce's Golden Medics' Discov ery, for stomach trouble,’ 1 writes Clarence Carnes, Kaq . of Taytors- town, Loudoun Co.. Va "R did me so much good that I didn’t take any more 1 can eat anything now I am so well pirated with it I hardly know how to thank you tar your l ind infer matioa ' 1 triad a whole lot of things before I wrote to you. There waa a gentleman told aw atsatt you* medicine how It had I hia' " ticutoly dea.rou* to sea Ohio aifl \ ork- As might bavs basu cxpt*r*t| 1 endeavored to observe as closely possible from a car window the a^nJ jural conditions of those Hialcs J compare the same with the appears^ rpftHSffC. TTTWnim It Was uutVuii trtF iu the details, but only to catcb a gen end view and reach some general cou elutions. • To judge from ihe heavy a beat crops still in the shocks all along the way fiom Highbndge^Ky., through aomaii part of the Miami valley and the higher rolling prarie soils on the route through Dayton, Springfield and Cleveluud there must be, either better soils or better farmers tfaau we bad left bebuu in Georgia. Doubtless tbe difference in the appearance of things was due partly to bolh. But we traveled through the best poriious of Kentucky ant' Ohio—the “blue grass region” of each based on “blue limestone'’ foundation. system. Presbyterian College of South Carolina. The wheat cropa, as already intimated, seemed to actually burden the soil upon which they had grown. The corn also, was particulariy line in both these States. We saw but little tobacco, not much clover, a good deal of rather in ferior timothy and lots of very ordi nary oats. Along the route from Buf falo by way of the New York Central to Albany, touching Rochester. S\ ra cu"c, Utica and other points, I was im pressed with the backwardness of tin corn (as it appeared to us, who ha ' left it in “ roasting ear ” iu Georgia, being but little more than kuee-high in New York.) The wheat was good “ about in spots ” and oats very infe- riofr The surface of the country in this part of New York is peculiarly broken. Many hills Were as steep on tbe sides and sharp at the lops and as round as a potato hill. But every nook and corner, every' steep hillside, eye a where it seemed almost impossible for a horse or a vehicle to’ pass, was oc cupied in some paying c-op. On many kill top* that were shaped much like an inverted boy’s spinnintr top, there seemed to be a bunch of wheat stand, ing, or but recently cut away, where it wm so sharp that there was hardly loom for a wagon to stand still. 1 looked closely everywhere for a gully or a washed away “ galled ” sp< t. They weie not to be seen. If any they were hidden from the railroau ▼iew. I bejoil* In New York and northern OKib wefe not originally tqual to tbo* ajiri rflirr-pyuijuni laxiomwf adjaaan* fltotos But as a general if not almost umverrifl. nflej they are now to a far mors prodocuve| VV| thv At’ W j >t§r %, At *7 »« rure i! Y A ’ l • r Mu* Alt*! tit* % IDf D in the morn _ nd*. When ttoy ware yard* of the Tory cam t.,rated them that Col. hundred red men, had Tones, tt ill tarn* aud tired and broken down Till.tiTitoliifli D>s,r». 8a* iU4sv*e :c«n>wi LUMBEK COMPANY Wifi OO «s“^»m— 111 "■ ■ oaoo, lie painuto under, *&t!l iti dIIjMvIl ill#. WuIUmm I Musgrove early i i hard ui^ht's in two butxired I* *001# one iu- j Innee, with sts just joinad the bis men were from the ioug , -p* ♦ II11 mis and Hardware. x BatlTc", ~*i Ciey Had aTrrkdy k tff a •lirmish with a patrol party ifi which seven or eight Tones were killed. Ho jhty hastily constructed a rude breastwork of old logs aud brush. When this was completed, Capt. In man, with a fe«i men, wus sent out U>| skirmish with the enemy as soon as i hey crossed the river. Inman's plan was to draw the enemy out and then retreat to the breastworks. His p!an worked well. Tbe British, thinking they bad routed th ***■***■■ . cruftrti m cum "fsi-SCMOl-’SHORTHAMO ■I'ntsiY G:t. | ^olrTytiTuaTion* sreusto. I i MONEY JO LOAN On (artelng Ivd e whole party, rush- commissions chary**!. B<*ri ed on after Inman. When they were in about seventy-live yards of the American lines a most deadly fire was poured upon them. 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