The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 15, 1892, Image 1
"VoL"VTI;
THREE AGAINST TENAn
Episode of The Seminole WarHound
a ft bond on the Oeklawaha,
just at sunset there appeared ft dugout
paddled by two stalwart fellows
in a sort of homespun uniform, while
a boy dressed as an oflioer sat in the
stern. Five minutes before the croco>?/.lilcs
and cranes, water turkeys, bitterns
aud herons had had the black,
oozv river all to themselves as it slim
J o
glishly made its way through the
swampy palmettos and cypress.
The boat bumped along slowly,
striking against cypress trees and fallen
tree trunks. The paddlers looked
auxious, for the chancejof finding a
comfortable camping ground was
growing slighter before young Will
Loring began to bo sick of lfs osca
pude Ho liad left the camp ei^ht.
miles nwny without orders inul oken
two of his company with hint to do
Indian scouting on his own account.
Little more than a year before he
had been a schoolboy soldier in the
streets of ?St. Augustine with other
youngsters. When tlio Seminole
War of 18)15 broke out, sweeping
with a wave of lire and massacre
across tho State, he ran away from
home and joined a company of volunteers.
I lis daring and coolness at
the battles of tlio Withlacoochee and
Alaqun, in connection with tho social
importance of his family, had
given him his epaulets at an age
when other boys of the same years
wore still in terror of the school mas
tor's birch.
"Wall, Lieutenant;" drawled one
of the men as he peered wearily into
the depths of tho dark cypress arches,
"we're in a 'orrrid fix, I reckon. If
we keep on we'll run plum into a nest
of then Injin devils, dead shore."
Hoth the soldiers were Crackers,
bred in the woods and swamps, good
shots and skillful hunters, though
thin, slouching figures were not ornaments
to a dress parade.
"Keep on paddling," said young
Coring in low tones, but with an ail
of sternness, which did not sot well
on Ins smooth face and mischievous
black eyes, -'and await my orders.
Then feeling that he had asserted
his authority, he continued with a
hurst of boyish confidence," "1 tell
you what it is, Scraggs, we'll have to
get hack to that hammock, about a
mile up the rivor, where wo can find
pine knots to cook supper; don't you
think so?"
"Bless you, Lieutenant, d'ye hanker
to lose yer skelp? No supper tonight
but a drink of swamp water,
and a chew of raw bacon. I'll bet
there's a hundred of red varmints in
two miles on us."
"You're not afraid, Scraggs, are
you?" said the youngster with a lordly
air; "a fellow who can bore a potato
tossed in the air at a hundred yards
with a rifle ball, ought to have plon
i/jr ui oiiuui\9
"A feotic more skoory than I war
. "forty year ago,*' answered the Crack*ir,
with a twinkle in his eye. "llowsomevor,
as men of my inches do, I
reckon I've get as much cl'ar grit as
as most on 'em."
This talk had gone on in a half
whispers. I"ho darkness was increasing
every mi an to. The boyish oflicer
in spite ofhis airs was evidently
uneasy, for his c . es shot continual
glances ahead and on both sides into
the swamp, as the dugout glided at a
snail's pace. They wore noaring
nnother bend in the stroam when
through the tangle of leaf and vine
there was a red gleam like a huge
firefly. Without waiting orders
Ncragg's whirled the boat back with
a powerful paddle, and turned to his
officer with eyes almost starting
" 7 from their sockets, shaking his
head in warning.
"Injuns, Injuns, Lieutenant Will,
a dozen on 'em," he whispered. "I
OOO/l l?rv Ll*?/I r.H/1 /\P I ???r?
owu uiu in uu uuu ui l*vw uiiuuca
roun' the bend. Thar must bo a
hummock whar they're camped.
They're jiss got through catin', an'
are stum pin' out the embers. Sh?
(lon't speak. I'll work the old sciw
deep into the cypress. We'll see
what tricks they're up to, see in' we're
hyar and can't get away yery easy.
But, by Jimmy, my skelp kinder
crawls as if'twould not be thar tomorrow
morninV'
Young Ix>ring nodded, and the
paddlers cautiously forced the boat
fifty foot through the mouth of a
black arch into tho heart of the
swamp, Hidden here they were nearer
the savages than before, and could
hoar their movements.
It soon become clear that the party
of Seminolos had no purpose of
leaving thoir camp that night, and
so suspicion of wliite men olosc at
hand. One by one they dropped
asleep, and their slumber chorus,
which soundod not unlike the grun.
ting of the alligators in tho swamp,
was music to the prisoners squatted
in.their gloomy covert.
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CONWA'"
Throe hours had passed, and the
growing^ight that silvered tlio lagoon
i outside of their retreat proved the
moon well up over the tops of the
trees. "fsovv is our tunc,' whispored
Scraggs, "to got outer this hole
and paddle up stream for a safe
landing place and vamouso hack to
camp."
Lieutenant Loring answered not a
worh.? i His boyish mind was deep in
thought?a daring thought which
thrilled liiin with excitement.
If he returned to camp as he left it
there was sure to he sharp repri
mand, perhaps a court marthil for
I absence without leave. The excuse
that he was an irresponsible lad would
aloi.e save him, and at that fancy his
heart had waxed hot with shame.
But to go hack as conqueror and
: hero?ah! that was worth risking his [
I scMp for.
"Are ye asleep?" whispered Scraggs
again.
O ,
"No, was the reply; "J am going
to take these redskins back to camp
v i. me. So, Scraggs, you two can
just tie your h?ir on, for it will soon
i be in peril.
The men jumped as if they heard
tlie whiz/, of Seminole lead.
"You see i; would bo a shame to
sneak hack empty handed. Wo can't
exactly take their scalps, but we can
take themselves as a present to the
General," said the ingenious youth.
"The Indians are fast asleep. We'll
paddle up and take their canoes.
Then.I'll land on the hummock, you
know and pick up their rilles. Then
in the morning wo can order them to
1 surrender on pciil of being shot
'down, for we shall have loaded guns,
I and they'll have none."
The two Crackers groaned over
1 this piece of youthful strategy, but
Scraggs responded:
"All right, i teu tenant. I s'poSe
I we've got to di> s mo time."
The du -out K ft its cos ?rt and glided
silent, as ft ; tadow into tlio open !
stream. A few rokes brought them
111 full sight oi the Indian camp.
The island where the savages lay was
well-shadowed by the trees, but their
forms could bo dimly seen stretched
on the earth. Silently the little party
detached the two canoes and towed
them to a secure position, where they
fastened them to a cypress troc fifty
yards from shore.
As the boat approached the shore
on Us second more dangerous mission
young l.oring slipped off his boots
I and stepped into tlio ooz; regardless
of moccasins and rattlers. Scraggs
and his comrade covering the ad
ranee with leveled guns, felt their
stout hearts <[ita)<c as their boy leader
crept in among those sleeping figures
i of bronze.
A stumble or the snapping of a
twig might mako the difference of
life and death. The lad moved as
if lie were a cat. The coarse bummock
grass armed around with minute
thorns, cut inLo his flesh, but he
scarcely felt them. 'I'he sleeping
redskins lav partly in the moonlight
?> I %t u
and partly in tho shade of the trees
which rose in the centre of the hummock,
each one with his rille by his
side, the fierce copper face chiseled
as if in metal.
Ilad tho Indians disposed of their
guns as the whites do, by stacking
or resting them against a tree, the
task of securing them would haye
been less risky. Hut they had kept
their arms within reach, and some
oven had their tomahawks loosened
from the belts as if for instant use.
The Indian rarely sets a guard at
night, unless in the immediate pres
eneo of an enemy. Hero in the depth
of a great cypress swamp, impassable
to troops, a surprise would seem
impossible. Yet even now the cun
ning and suspicion of the race had
no {forsaken them.
The nerves of tho young oflicor
wore strung to the highost tension.
One by one he stealthily lifted tho
rifles from the earth till ho had what
he could carry. These he oore to
the low bank and passed to the men
on guard in the dugout; No word
was exchanged. Again ho returned
to the dangorous sleepers, a distance
_ 1 A I 1 /? * " *
uj .loom a nnnureu root rrom snore,
for a second load. A brawny savage
tossing in his dreams gave a fierce
grunt and throw out a hand, which
touched the young thief's ankle as if
to clutch it. The moment thrilled
hi in with .ill the agony of uisCovory
but ho stood stool-: still v. iting for
something further. It was a false
alarm, but cold sweat poured from
bis fane. Anoth r of tno savages!
bad his hand on the stock of his gun,
and the piece had to he gently slid
from under his fingers.
Again, the third time, he went
back to complete his work. The
moon was now high up in the sky,
and poured a flood of light on tlio
little island. The recumbent Indiaus
were cut out like monstrous
silhouettes against the ground. The
boy's swim trying head warned him
that his strength could't last much
longer; But he resolutely wont at
his task, though his throat felt as if
squeezed by an iron grip. He had
gathered the last armful, when one
of tho .ed men in his diearns raised
himself 011 his haunohes and sat with
chin resting on his knees. Tho moonshine
flidkered on his face through
the quivering foliage, and his sun
"ite True to Yoiii
ST, S. C. TH
ken oyos appeared half opon and following
his white enemy. The watchful
Scruggs; too, observed this move
ment, and his tanned cheeks white
as chalk, as his finger was about to
press his rifle-trigger. Hut he waited,
and the savage sleepor tuade no
fn ft liar ciirn
?U VIIVI Ol^lll
At last tho work was done. The
ten minutes had seemed a year. The
lad staggered to the boat, staggering
as if witn an ague. "1 must spoak,"
he panted, "or 1 shall yell. I thought
twice I'd have to whoop or go into a
faint. But, Scraggs, I pulled through,
didn't 1! Help me in."
'Wall! You've got the guns, shore,',
said Scraggs, "and drat my skin ef
the biggest bully in Jessup's camp
would a done it."
No time had been lost while
Scraggs was relieving his mind; the
dugout was skimming out into the
stream with lively paddle strokes.
Tho plan was boldly executed in the
morning. With the coming of light
the Seminoles discovered the robbery
of their weapons, and rushed to
the edge of 1 he swamp with frantic
yells, brandishing their tomahawks.
But tho marauders were far beyond
the throw of axo or knife, and sat
with levelled rilies.
Then came a shrill voice, demanding
in Spanish the instant surrender
of tho little Seminole band, for at
that time nearly everyone in Florida
knew something of this language.
Atter considerable parley the red
men agreed to throw their knives
and tomahawks into the Inarsh.
They wero taken aboard in pairs and
thoir right wrists tightly fastened
together with stout strips of Seragg's
homespun shire. The dugout toued
the canoes up stream, while the
young officer sat in the stern and
guarded the captives with loaded pistols.
So the daredevil returned to camp
the same afternoon, and instead of a
rowing he was covered with praise
and honor by CJeueral .lessup mid
his little army.
* * -xThis
boy afterward because a dis
tinguished General- Major General
William W. Loring?who led firmi
es in the far distant East as Tasini
in the service of the Egyptian Khedive,
as well as in this country. But
in his long career ho never did anything
more daring and heroic than
the feat planned and executed by
the hoy of fifteen, the substantial
facts of which were told me by the
General himself.?G. F. Ferris, in
St. Louis Bepublic
A Cheering SignOne
of the cheering signs of the
times is the fact that this year the
South wiImprobably grow the biggest
corn crop it ever j|grew. This
means loss cotton and loss cotton
means better prices for the smaller
crop grown. There is no use for an
agricultural country to expect permanent
prosperity so long as it buys
most of its meat, Hour, corn and
other food for man and beast when
it can grow them cheaply at home.
The last crop of cotton must 'nave
been a severe lesson to many growers;
after spending money, time, labor,
fertility, on the crop, to harvest it
and not bo able to get back what it
has cost is a discouraging state of
aftuirs.
But there is a good timo coining
when the South will produce all of
its supplies, in the way of products
of the soil and also many manufactures.
Will this injure thejprospeets
of the North and West? Not a bit;
the timo will soon come when the
limit of production in those sections
will bo reached and prices will advance
accordingly, and this is one
more reason why the South should
grow her own food, for if it Is disastrous
for her to buy at present very
low prices what will it be to buy at
very high ones? No the welfare of
the whole country is best secured
when every section is prosperous.
A. L. okosby,
Caton villi, Md.
The Lover's Lament.
Your face is like a drooping (lower,
Swoetheart!
? BUU )UU IH(U?^r iioiu wy uour,
Sweetheart!
Your rounded outlines waste away,
In vain I weep, in Tain 1 pray,
What power Death's cruel hand
can stay?
Sweetheart, Sweetheart!
Why, nothing but Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. It imparts
strength to the falling system, cures
organic troubles, and for debilitated
and feeble women generally, is unqualed.
It dispels melancholy and
nervousness, and builds up both
fleehjand strength. Guaranteed*ojgive
satisfaction in every case, or money
paid for it refunded.
A woman might as well propose;
her husband never admits after marriage
that he was the one who did it.
r Word, Your Work a ml V
UR8DA Y.
WEAVER ON THE SOUTH
Some of the Abuse He Has
Heaped on This SectionThe
rcord of (Jen. J. H. Weaver,
the Presidential candidate of the
People's party, as a slanderer of the
South aril her people, has fortunately
been preserved in a form which
leaves no doubt of its accuracy. It
is given in u speech by Gen. Henderson,
of Iowa, in the House
of Representatives, on the 10th of
July, 1888. Extracts from this
spoeeh, as officially reported in the
Congressional Record, are given below.
I'ho expressions of Gen. Weaver
should condemn him in the eyes of
nil true Southern men and loyal
Democrats, and of every Granger
j and Alliance man in tho Union who
! believes in the ilootrino of fraternity
i and opposes sectionalism.
what w havku sato.
The following is an extract from
tlio ('on lif.ccv:! of July
j 1 ltb, 1888:
The clerk read as follows:
He said at Albia on July 18th,
8GG:
U1 want to congratulate you first,
fellow-citizens, on the suppression of
purely Democrats for the Democratic
! purpose ofdisseving this Union and
perpetually establishing human slavery.
Now and forever it is estab
lishing as an eternal truth that, the
Democracy in no place or State can
ever be trusted with government,
j As a party it should dbband, just
as a section of it did at Aj p -nattox '
He said at Centroville, i 18<?t;
"Again has the Democ.; ic party
of Iowa spoken. Why, i., 1 am
; astonished beyond tnea u that a
party with a record so utterly vile
and wretched and wicked should he
so lost to all shame and decency as
to make an appearance before the
loyal peoplo of Iowa.
"They should be trampling in the
; wilderness of oblivion and never
more return." (Laughter on the
IVHJJllUIIUlVli DIUVi J
He said in a joint debate with Colli*
II. Trimble at Bloonifioid on September
4, 1898;
"Ilero we have the old light over
again. The Confederate Democracy
North and South, in which the infamous
copperhead division of Iowa
appears, are again contesting with
Grant for the safety of the Union.
As at Donelson, he proposes to
move on their works at once,' and
thero is no escapt except in another
surreder. Charge on them, fellow Republicans,
and spare not one, not
even ajdeputy road supervisor from total
political annihilation." 11 -aughter
011 the Republican side.]
lie said in Bloomficld, on September
20,1809:
"What is the use of futhcr arratollincr
the defunct Democrncv
CJ O " ^
with all its hoary crimes, at the bar
of public opinion? Wo know that
its acts comprise mudcr, treason,
thoft, aison, fraud, porjury, and all
crimes possible for an organization
to connive at." [Renewed laugh tor
on the Republican side.]
"It would be a morcy to put its
record a million miles deep in tho
pit that is mentioned in Holy Writ,
and 1 may aud that if a largo and
distinguished assortment of itsalleg
od statesmen were sent along it would
only bo common justice." [Applause
ou the Republican side.)
He said in Fairfield September 18,
1870:
"The Democracy, as usual, are
loud in their opposition, but what
did they ever do when they had a
chance? Hero in Iowa they -lole
' r .../I i ? -.11 .t ..
tin; duiiuvi iiiiiu uiiu iiaituiiiiM in y
stoic tho arsenals, the navy, tho
treasury, overthing that wa not reel
i hot, and cheated the very devil's
' rebellion. And these men appear
and ash for your support. They
should come on bended knees asking
your forgiveness for the uuspeak
able crimes they have committed
and tho wretched miseries inflicted
upon our common counry." ( Loud
applause on tho Republican Hide,j
lie said in Kooknk, September 10,
1871:
The record of the Republican party
appears to tho candid judgement
of^all men as unimpeachable, save,
perhaps that it was too lenient with
the leading Democratic conspirrators.
The name old gang, save those who
our Country"
8El>rrEM
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wero shot or hung, uro tigtiin eonspiring
to got possession of tho govorntnent
next year. Woo to them!
for tho loyal hosts will crush them j
j anil crush them forever out of all
possible danger of such a misfortune
to our common country.v
lie said at Qskaloosa, September
25,1872; %
"No Republican can evor, under
any circumstances, have any part or
lot with the hungry, rebellious, man
hating, woman selling gang corporated
under tne name of Democracy, a
name so full of stench and poison that j
it should be blotted from tho vocabulary
of civilized man and handed
i over to tho barbarism that it so fitly
j now and in all the past has represented."
| I'rolongod applause on
tho Republican side.]
I lo said at Stiles, September* 11,
IS?-', n reforring to the financial
p >licy of the Democratic party;
; Hut then, what could you expect
4\v-. , tl -i: 1 >-- '
| ui'j |"?wi lining uindlBt'U) uu* j
crepi . dismal, darned old 1 )omncnitic 1
party? ' | Prolonged laughter on tho
; Republican siilc. j
Ho said at Monona, September,
1874:
"Tin* < can be no doubt about the
question at all. V. it It greenbacks
and national bank notes our husincs
needs are well met. There can he
no bettor unity of tho paper currency
than these. Hilt the assault of a j
party which, through its financial J
legislation, inflicted untold wrongs
and robberies upon tho people by
permitting hunks without a solid
basis to issue a circulating note. * * *
The fact is, gontlemon, tho I)emocraoy
has never been able tocomprehond
the tinuncial question. Between its I
| inherent dishonesty and apparent
sen ility it makes a pretty hut not
unusual exhibition of its corporate,
consolidated idiocy.'' | Renewed
laughter on the Republican side.]
Mr. Aondorson, of Iowa: "How
have the mighty fallen?" My colleague,
Mr. Weaver, confesses that
the utterances just read were made
by him, hut he pleads the "baby act,"
because t hey were made in the days
of his adolesotice. They wero made!
as late as 1S7I. I wish to ask inv I
^ I
colleague, and would like hint to
answer now, whether when he made
those charges against the Democracy
he believed thoy were true?
Mr. Mason: lie said so.
Mr. Henderson, of Iowa; The
gentleman said so, they tell me, and
he is silent, though in hia seat now.
Very well. Now ho says that he
changed his position because the Ro,
publican party foil from grace.
Ah! Mr. Chairman, I have lived
in Iowa since P was a child, and
have been an old observer of the records
of our public men. In 1875 I
was a member of the same Republican
State convention with my colleague
when he was a candidate for
nomination for Governor.
It was the judgment of the Republican
party of Iowa, that the old
wur Governor, old Sam Kirkwood,
should be nominatsd instead of my
ambitious friend. Ho was nominated.
and my friend was defeated in
that Republican convention. Up to
tihis linn he stood among foremost
champions of every Republican proposition
that had been laid before
the country?financial propositions
and all.
In public and in private he stood
forth as a gladiator defending Republican
ideas and Republican politics.
Rut he was beaten as a candidate
for Governor in that conven
tion. Matured man as he was a J
man of we'1..formed judgment, well
equipped in knowledge of public affairs,
lio was beaten on tho lirst ballot
in that convention. [Applause
on tho Republican side.j Then,
suddenly, within two short years,
the grumbling commencing co inutanfi
this revolution too place; and
the convictions which followed his
blade at Uonclson, thut had led him
up to matured manhood, suddenly
f/>, ! II J I lu.iwrl) j! iM.ol'nn Ktr a f
; IV H ?17 VHVUI^II OH I' 1\UII I/J (% Wll Ill/Ill
! (Joel.
All at once my colleage finds the
Republican party not good enough
for him, (laughter] and lie .suddenly
jumps into the ranks jof the rotton
Democracy, as lie has just described
thorn.
And now he gets up and tries to
make this house and the country believe
that lie changed his position
because the Republican party had
become politically so corrupt. Did
it become corrupt between 1875 and
1877? What monstrous political
revolution had taken place in the
Republican party in those two brief
years? Ah, "Consistency thou art a
jewel!" Hut that does not describe
my colleage.
Again, in 1880, ho suddenly broke
looso from the Democracy and became
the I'residential candidate of
the Green back party. At that time,
in his speeches in the South and in
i other parts of the country, ho drew
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an indictment against tho Demooracy
showing how terribly they had!
fallen, describing the outrages in
the South, their ballot box stuffing;!
and hUovo all things ho appealed to
the Grcwnbackcrs to oppose going
into any combination with tho Dom- <
ocraoy. | Applause and laughter on i
the Republican aide.) Some are i
even mean enough to claim that ho
ran in 1880 on tho tail of Garfield's <
kite to keep fusion from taking <
placo between the National Greenback
party and the National J)emo- 1
eratio party. I do not say tnnt wns
the motive; but he did ua lota of
good in that campaign. God bless j
him for that! | Laughter and ap. 1
plause.) We "downed the Demo- <
cracy. i
After that campaign of 1880, before
he had time to lot tho blood re- i
tiro from his beautiful countenance
after the exertion* of that campaign, <
he chiuo back into Iowa and roared
for fusion with Democracy, and got |
it, tot>; for he is an able man; wo all
concede and admire his ability. After
denouncing fusion in 1880, hoi
lias since boon working for it, com-1
mencing immediately after that J
campaign, and having obtained his
seat in this House on that doctrine, j
he is now enjoying the fruits of his
latest Hop as a Democratic member |
of Congress.
I Here the hammer fell. J
Needed Changes
It is to be hoped that tho crisis
through which we are passing will
have a permanent beneficial olTect
on the future of the South. Tho
first ami main lesson taught is that
every Southern farmor as a matter
of individual duty ami interest should
raise all food crops his land will produce
necessary to the sustenance of
man and boast on his farm. This
policy universally persued would
soon make the South the mistress,
not tho slave, of the commercial and
manufacturing world; would enable
her to get as much or more for a
small crop of cotton as she now gets
for a very large one; would enable
her to draw from the world for internal
use and investment at home
all the money she could desire, and
would soon bring her people to a condition
of true independence. Wo
ftrn tn lilnmn far Am* itrmimH naitJi .
!?? V UHIIIIU tvi V/VI I I O V> I V IvV/ilVi 1
tion. Nothing injures us so much
us our unwise policy of making our
cotton crop on crodit, and heuco
making an overproduction from tho
voluntary strain we place upon ourselves.
"Tis not in our stars but in
ourselves that wo are underlings."
As a necessary element in roforin
wo must abandon all disadvantageous
farming methods. What we
want is a broad, rapid, yet sure systern
of preparation of land, and culture
afterwards, suitable with slight
modification for all crops and all
crops and all classos of land. The
first essential is the diauso of the
corn and cotton. Provided the land
can be so ploughed as to carry off
surplus water, there is no reason for
planting corn on a high narrow
ridge. Of course no land can
be considered tillable unless tfcc surplus
water is carried off by surface
v* u!iuv;i uinui wi jnvjivi jnuugiiing.
The final suggestion I wish to
arrive at is the laying oft and ploughing
of farms and plantations in
broad twelve or fifteen foot lands,
always taking the inclination that
will give drainage. After a farm is
laid off in this way it can be turned
over by lrrgc turnplows and subsoilod
at the same time cheaper and
quicker than most farms having the
superficial beds now thrown up for
corn and cotton, besides all manure
and littorare completely burned to
the benefit of the land and subsequent
culture, and the broad water
furrows between the lands can be
further deepened by subsoil plows
until in inoHt cases perfect drainage
and prevention of washing are socured.
Land thus ploughed,
say from eight to twelve
inches deep any time after the lirst
of January, will, if proporly cultivated,
afterwards make all the crop
it is capable of producing. By keeping
ono or two inches of the surfaco
pulverized and stirred, tho roots of
plants will permeate all the earth
that has beon turned over by the
plow, and go down to the very hard
pan without anv further breaking.
Of course all additional pulverization
is desirable provided it is done before
planting or before the roots
reach out to the middles. At planting
time 1 would run across these
lands with such an implements as
Drader's spado harrow, or the Acme
harrow, or some other kind. How
ever heavy the rains which may have
fallen this implement, or one like it,
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will, chpu.tho earth to piecoa and
make it dod send bod. Then
run and cotton planters
across the lands, planting the corn
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planters may throw a alight li'lgo
over them in covering. In tho early
stages of growth harrows can ho run
across tho rows parallel with tho
water furrows, thus avoiding a great
ileal of hoc labor in cultivating both
corn and cotton. Afterwards the
Dixon sweep and olhor Hat culture
iuipib'iiicnta can be put in with their
rapid and effective work, cultivating
without breaking or exposing roots,
giving tho full strength of the land
to tho plants, and enabling them to ,
defy drouth. I have carried but the
above idoas in my crop this year
with the greatest satisfaction and
imeouragment, using itching but the
Dixson sweep in cultivation. 1 have
com not excelled in who neighborhood
planted as above, by following
the Drader harrow with my corn '
planters and giving af erwards two
workings with he Dickson sweep.
The above broken ideas, already too
tedious I fear, can only give aglimse
of a largo and comprehensive -yatom
which wo must adopt in some
form in order to become an independent
people. Oscar K. Bi.kosoi:.
,S'lull \[ounily
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Cleveland's PluckIf
thero be one trait in a man's
character more than another which
calls forth tho admiration of his fellowmcn,
that trait is courage. Courage
in its most exalted state is soon
upon tho battlefield but thero arc
occasions in the every day affairs of
life where its exorcise, although not
to such an exalted degree as in the
other case, calls forth the admiration
of men. Wo have in I'resident
Cleveland an example of this moral
courage which bus, in a marked degree,
arrested the attention of his
fellow-citizens and called forth their
admiration for the pluck and nerve
with which he has administered the
duties of the presidential office.
That he lias administered those
duties conscientiously goes without
saying, lie has scrutinized every
measure that has come before him
for his action and they have been
considered more in the interests of %
the public good rather than in the
spirit of partisanship; and thus com
sulered ho has affixed his signature
or returned the bills disapproved.
The direction in which he has most
signally displayed his moral courage
in ill that of pensions. Hero a less
couragoous man would have faltered;
and being1 a candidate for re-election
would have weighed the chances
of advancing his own interests at
tho expense of those people, knowing
that tho opposition were straining
every 'norve to capturo the soldier's
vote hy making it appear that
they alono were their only friends.
But he unflinchingly and unhesitatingly
remainod true to his convictions
of right and interposed his
veto in the interost of tho honest
upright soldior and protected the
treasury from dospoliation. Kveiy
honest soldier can but commend this
action as it must strengthen their
cases now pending before the pension
boreau. Were it any othor than
presidential year these acts of J'rcsidont
Cleveland would have recived
praise even from tho opposition, and
been justified by all honest men irrespective
of party. But tho exigency
of party makes i. i necessity
for the republicans to distort, misrepresent
and malign tho President ,>
for these acts. But the people who
bcliovo in justice and right uphold,
and sustain him.
^
Things Worth Knowing'
That lish may be scaled much easier
by dipping into boiling water
about a minute.
That fish may as well be scaled, if
desired, before packing down in salt
though in that case do not scald them.
Salt fish are quickest and best
freshened by soaking in sour milk.
That milk which is turned or
changed) may bo sweetened and rendered
lit for use again by stirring in
a little soda. "
That salt will curdle new milk;
hence, in preparing milk porridge,
gravies, etc., the salt should not bo
addod until the dish is prepared.
That fresh meat, after begining
to sour, will sweeten if placed out of
doors in tho cool over night.
That clear boiling water will romove
tea stains and many fruit stains.
Pour the water through the stain,
and thusjprevent its spreading over
the fabric.
That ripe tomatoes will remove
ink and other stains from white cloth
also from the hands.
That a tablespoonful of turpentine
boiled with your white clothes will
aid the whitening process.
The law of the harvest is to reap
more than you sow. Sow an act and
you reap a habit; sow a habit and
you reap a oharacter; sow a character
and yon reap a lestiny.