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ANTA(iONI8M TO CAPI TOL,
(lov. Tillman Knter&u Vigorous
Denial of tlio <,oi'r(,?t!?e88 ?f
the Iinpcueliinent The
Antugonl?*m is against
llini.
The situation in South t'a olina
is being closly watched and capitalists!
are inquiring into the situation
here. A prospective investor writes
a party here, and as far as the
subject matter is concerned, says:
x^overal prospectness of cotton
mill enterprises in your State" have
been placed in my hands by some
New York friends recently, and 1
have been invited to take s'ock in
same. I have not determined the
matter in my mind, although inclined
to take *50,000 in these mills,
out can hardly get my full consent
to do so, as a few of my friends will
take a similar amount if I will. Recent
legislation and litigation in
your State relative to cotton mills
and railroads, together with threatened
legislation of more stringent
l/ys in regard to same, compel me
to withhold placing any capital in
these enterprises. And not being
willing to invest my capital, of course
1 can't advise my friends to do so, (at
least not for the present) and therefore
prefer holding off until I see
some signs of legislation that will
warrant me in doing so. I havegiv
en you my views in a vory unreserve
way and await yours, wishing them
to be equally as unreserved. Candor
and friendship compel me to go
a step further on this subject and
ask you a few questions; What is
the actual trouble in South Carolina?
Why is legislation antagonistic to
capital? Is there a spirit of communism
existing that demands it?
Loud and oft repeated rumors in
moneyed oiroles'in New York; Bos
ton and Philadelphia say it is so:''
The correspondence was submitted
to Governor Tillman and he
gave the press his views in which ho
said:
"The most abominable feature of
this whole business is that ;n trying
to hurt mo my enemies are every day
injuring the State. These stories
are a good deal like an electric current
which goes out and must come
hack, and comes back in greatly exaggerated
condition. The stories of
attacks by my Administration on the
railroads and on corporations have
boon industriously circulated for the
specific purpose of creating a false
impression abroad q^bout me and the
people who support me. It is the
old fable of the wolf and the lamb.
Gey tain men and interests interested
in corporations are resolved to destroy
my influence, and, failing in
that, to blacken my reputation
abroad. They cannot be appeased
for the loss or power, and it is bo
damned if you do and be damned
if you don't. The slander mill is
grinding. What it grinds out for
/consumption outside the State is sent
back here an l is republished by the
newspapers of this State when the
editors know them to be lies, and
know also that they told them.
"I know that this feeling about
South Carolina exists; but instead of
being a result of the communistic or
agrarair. tendences of the Legislature
is a result of the lies sent out.
These stories are a refinance, and tho
people who aro circulating them
will wish some day that they hadn't
d?ie it. Truth can never overtake
li/ie, and in their mad desire to destroy
me they are injuring the State
and blackening its good name.
"As a matter of fact there has
never been, and is not now, the
slightest intention on tho part of any
of tho ofTicers of this State to be
unjust to or to discriminate against
corporations or capital.
"The factory law, of which the
writer of tho letter has probably ob
uiiuuu unrroneous impressions, gives
tho factories more working time
than is allowed in ni%ny of the larg
est cotton manufacturing State.
Georgia for instance. In reality the
factories are all paying dividends,
wjiich proves the stories about the
ana the fight 011 corporations of
this kind to be a lot of rot. New factories
are going up all over the State
and our own people do not seem to
mistrust tho Legislature or fear tho
laws.
"The railroad commission has 110
more [>ower in this State than elsewhere.
The members of the commission
are sensible and conservative
men. They have no desire or pur
pose to wreck or hurt the railroads,
and other department of tho Government
of the State has such a desire.
' In the railroad fight the only contention
waj that there should not be
favored class of taxpayers and
%^that there should bo no taxpayers
who conld cloak themselves under
the ermine of a Federal Judge when
all could not obtain that privilege.
"I pronounce as a lie any statements
that/this State is making a
flglit on capital. If this man,
or anybody else, is deterred from
coming here by these statements,
he is simply standing in his own
light. If he waits for any change
in the polioy of the State Government
in the matters he mentions he
will wait a long time. Nobody
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wants him under those conditions.
We are striving for equality under
the law for citizens and corporations
alike, and if we are to permit capita!
to shirk taxation and corporations
to dictate to the State in order
to havfc money come here for investment
we don't want it."
Columbian Letter.
(Regular Correspondent.)
We should bo glad to speak thusen
couragingly of the throngs who have
attended the fair, but if wo did we
would bo handling the truth very
carelessly. The reason is inefficient
and improper management; the effect
people staying at home, tho remedy
harmony between the directors, less
autocratic notions among department
chiefs, and the entire management
putting their shoulder to tho wheel,
coupled with the watchword "com
pletion" inscribed on their banner.
It is safe to say that now as the llrst
month is closing, the fair has been
anything but a success. No doubt,
the well-paid executive officials, are
laughingTn their sleeve, at the public,
whom they are gulling and at
whose crib they are feeding.
How very much Wft are oftentimes
in debt to inlluenco, in place of merit,
and how a little brief authority
and power makes inighty men of
us?"iu our own estimation!" Major
Handy, the high chief magistrate
of the department of publicity and
promotion, is a man of much importance
in his own mind, but that's
about where it ends. The newspapers
fraternity will doubtless rejoice,
if his head falls in the basket, as
there is now a strong probability.
The position ho occupies should be
filled hy a ma\ with broad views
and courteous manner, and above
all by one who would bo over mindful
of and grateful for what the
press (especially outside of Chicago)
have done and aro doing for that
department.
Nature is seen in all its beauty
both on the grounds and in horticultural
hall. If everything else was
in so forward a state, there would
be little occasion for the remark
heard recently. "It's not so much
what we can see as what we can't
see." No necessity of going to the
World's Fair to see packing cases
the wholesale drygoods district af?
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lorus rnai signr any uay.
Many will bo surprised to soo the
unique display made by tho different
provitices of Canada in the agricul
iurnl buttTTfng arranged under the
supervision of \V. II. Hoy and A. J.
Veale. This Canadian court builded
from samples taken from all
the experimental farms in the dominion,
presents a novel sight. Cereals
(wheat, corn, oats and barley) pota
toes, tobaco and furs, show what our
neighbors can do. Tho vast northwest
territories are ably represented
herein by Senator W. lb Perley. who
exiemis a nearty welcome to all.
Across the aisle an the west is the
exhibit of this same dominion, of
manuficturcd products growing out
of the agricultural department proper.
As "good wine needs no bush,"
so with the famous Canadian club
whiskey on exhibit here. Jb S,
Hodgins is surperintodciul in chargo,
and ho is surrounded with praminds
of ale and porter, cheese, biscuit,
ham and bacon. The word of installation
in this building is inquito
a forward state, as compared with
many others.
If it were only a question of time,
there is 110 doubt but what machinery
hail, when that time arrives, will
be alive with interest, but just at
present active operations seem to bo
confined to the whirl of the marvelous
printing presses.
The Pino Tree state building was
opened by Gov. Cleaves and staff,
assisted by several notables, and to
judge from the hospitality displayed
no room was left for guesswork as
to its being genuine and hearty.
And not far distant in Victoria
house on the same day, the sons and
daughters of good Queen Victoria's
realm, held nigh cittnival in honor
of the seventy-fourth anniversary
of her birth, and put tho finishing
torches on, by a banquet held in tho
evening in the Virginia hotel which
was attended by many distinguished
foreigners and Americans.
Germany not to bo outdone, invited
many to assist in her house
warming, and as tho material used
in the construction of her house of
rifany gables was brought from her
domain, that itself will form an interesting
exhibit, as it is so intended.
Tho imperial commissioner, Harry
Wermnth, was kept busy receiving
friends in his new house.
Wolcomo news for many paronts,
and the boys and girls between the
ages of 6 and 12 years, is tho fact,
that the admission fee for them has
been reduced to 25 cents.
The weather in general dur'ng
last week, was cool and pleasant,
making sight seeing enjoyable, but
don't forget extra underwear and
outside wraps. ,
How" many of us have longed for
a peep at gay Paris. The French
building opened last week affords
suoh an opportunity.
The Sunday opening question has
stircd up quito a tempest between
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3 ON WAY. S. ~C.
the national ami the local directories
and up to date, or.e of tho coinmis
sioners has resigned his position on
the judiciary comiuitee. It looks
now us if the courts would have to
take a hai^l in the matter before it
is finally adjusted.
Itovalt.v will havo ht>nn Ai'lrnmcd
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I within Chicane's hospitable ?ute&,
before this letter is read by many,
in the person of Princess Eulalie of
Spain. It's mighty nice to travel
in such royal style, and mostly at
the expense of "Uncle Sam." Iler
royal highness has been wined and
dined in Washington and Gotham,
now Chicago will do herself proud
in the way of entertaining.
The bureau of public comfort
have done good work in the placing
of benches where they are most
needed, and tho people are not slow
to appreciate this long wished for
necessity. Hut the grounds are so
large, that oven the thousands scattered
about are like policemen?not
to he found when wanted.
Imagine if you can the effect last
Saturday evening, of myriads of electric
lights, fountains of overflowing
water, coupled with a chorus of
1,400 voices, lifted up in song,
appealing not only to the sense of
sight, but also of the ear.
Many noted men and wo.ncn at
tended and addressed the press con
gross hold in the memorial art palace
last week. The newspaper
world and all its possibilities wore
discussed by able representatives of
the fraternity.
A rk'.e behind four spanking
horses, seated in and on top of the
ever popular tally-ho, is vory much
enjoyed by many, and regular trips
are made, front the business centre
of Chicago, out to the white city,
giving ono an opportunity to bowl
along the well kept boulevards.
An entertainment of much inter
est is giving by the Arabs, in the
stealing of a fair bride at the wedding
foast, and her subsequent recapture
by friends. The poor mother-in
law is left in the possession of
the ferocious Bedouins.
Unless a speedy remedy is applied
to increase the attendance of thro
people, the financial committee and
treasurer will have hard work to
make both ends moot. The 111 anagemerit
counted on an average of at
least 200,000 paid daily admissions.
Thus far the paid admissions have
not exceeded 1,500,000. There
should have been over 5,000,000 -a
big margin to make up.
The womans building . is full of
interest oven in its incomplete con
dition as regards exhibits. Many
of us men, who do not appreciate
what our mothers, wives and daugh
tors can do, will have the chance of
our lifetime. There are some mighty,
energetic, pushing women connected
with this department, redacting
great credit on tho judgement of
those who sent them, and whose
state-hood they ropresent.
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Weekly Weather craji lSiillitin
of South Carolina for the
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May 120, 181)15.
Cotton atul all crops have improved
greatly during the past seven
days of sunshine and warm nights.
I The temperature seldom wen t lower
than GG and reached as high as 9G
| in some localities. One or two ben*
j eficial showers occured up to the
27th, but were only a tempoary relaxation
qf the drought, which again
threatened and which was begining
to have an injurious effect on gardens,
when the heavy storm of the
night of the 28th, occurred. ^
While this storm in certain sections
was ot decided bonefit it was
accompanied by high winds and
hail, and proved of grot damage to
cotton.
The previous hot dry weathor
stopped tho ravages being made by
cut and bud worms, and prospects
are more promising than for several
weeks.
ti BORGIA BOHDKIl COUNTIES.
Cotton lias improved greatly and
all worked over. Corn is growing
nicely. Wheat turning and in some
places being cut Potatoes and melons
doing well, Oats being housed,
but yield generally small. Crops
free of grass.
COST COUNTIICS.
Early oats are being harvested.
Cotton improved, of good color but
small. Potatoes show the largest
yield for yews. Fruit not so well.
Rice doing finely and an increased
acreage.
NORTH CAltOr.lNA HOKOKu COUNT IKS.
All crops have improved immensely,
especially cotton, which is all
chopped out and swept. Wheat good,
some being harvested. Corn being
plowed the Second time. Somo ntso
cat, will run half a crop.
MIDDf.K COUNTIKS. '
Wheat and oats rapidly approaching
maturity, and will do to cut in
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a week's time. Wheat fairly good
heads. Spring oats, fair. Fruit good
some dropping oft reperted. Worms
have quit killing corn. Some peas
planted in corn. Farmers well up;
with work. Crops free of grass.
Labor abundant
Control Office. J. II. Harmon. I
Columbia, S. U. , Director.
POLITICAL PHASES.
The Situation Today iN State,
Affiars, as Concisely Summed
Up.
The Columbia Journal, May, 27th.
Politics everywhere luis many
phases, but in this State now phases
are of almost daily occurence* Recent
discussion of some of them
have been culled by the Journal re
porter for the readers of tho paper.
For two years or more the ambition
of Governor T'llman to succeed Senator
Butler has been the most interesting
feature of State polities and
one that has had numerous phases.
Two years ago there was hardly a
man in the State who would have bet
on the re-election of Senator Butler,
and there weiea great many who
thought lie would not run again, so
certain did defeat seem under existing
conditions. This feeling was
strengthened by tho election of
President Cleveland, for then it was
folt bv nearlv ovnrv mm in Mii? Sitntf*
tlmt Senator Butler could secure a
handsome appointment, which would
bo mure preferable than the Senate,
especially when the fact of a hard and
bitter political campaign stared him
in the face, but to tho suprisc of all
he has chosen to make tho tight
with 11. It. Tillman. What motive
can inspire him thus is hard to conceive.
It was an administration idea to
make tho nomination of Senate a
primary one. This plan, it is alleged,
was for the reason that it was
thought that the Governor would
ho stronger with tho people, and
that there would be less bkelhood
of tampering with tho populace; but
even there Butler seems not to fear,
and persists in bis determination to
make the light. This fact, many
believe, has had tho effect of making
the Governor doubt, and there i?
now some talk of altering the con
sti Lotion of the party so far as it relates
to this point.
The reason given for this is that
Governor Tillman can then
inako the race for the third term,
putting his first lieutenant, John
Gary Evans (who is recognized as
next in line of promotion), second
on the ticket. This will give the
I Governor the benefit of being in
command when the next Senatorial
contest comes up before the General
Assembly, and increase his clianoos
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j ui outucao* nictuy iiiiiik inih 18 li
sign of weakness on his part, but his
followers and largo numbers of his
opponents do not doubt his ability
to cary everything before him for
the Senate.
Theft] is one thing admitted by
all. If the fight is made before the
people it will be the bittorest political
battle that has over been known
in this State.
t11e 0 uk e un a tor ia l contest.
The contest for Governor is one
that is likely to assume grenter proportions
than in past years if straws
indicate at all which way the wind
blows.
It is now pretty generally admitted
that Governor Tillman no Ion
[gor has the support of Congressman
Shell, as well as Donaldson, B. F.
Perry, Cal. Caughman and others
who have heretofore been his warmest
admirers, and it is suggested
that if the Straightouts or Conservatives
do not interfere in the fight
at the primary, Shell will very like ly
be put up as a reform candidate
in opposition to Tillman, with a
strong show of success, for he has
a strong following among tho reformers,
could command the support
of Perry, Donaldson and others, and
it is believed that bis conservative
course in Congress would give him
many votes from that faction, thus
making his election possible.
This is about the situation as it
stands today.
"Urneo Up"
Is a tantali/.ing admonition to those
who at this season feel all tired out,
weak, without nppetito and discouraged.
Hut the way Hood's Sarsaparilla
builds up tht tired frame and
gives a good appetite, is really wonderful.
Ho wo say, "Tako Hood's
and it will brace you up '
For a general family cathartic we
recommend Hood'fc Pills.
An occasional bottle of Ayer's
Sarsaparilla does more to correct the
tcndoncy of tho blood to acumulate
humors, and the organs sound and
healthy, than any other treatment
we know of. "Prevention is better
than cure." Try it this month.
LADIES
Needing atonic, or children who wantbufl<|>
Ing up. should tako
BROWN'S lllON BITTERS.
It la ploaaant to tako, cure* Malaria, IimU>
eeUon, BlUoamteas and Liver Complaint*
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four Country."
JUNE 8, 1893;
Farm Life.
I have just had a lengthy interview
with u prominent mombor of
tho bar in this city, who owns an ob
egant farm in Middle Georgia. His I
farm is about sixteen miles from I
market, iiy dirt road, yet he suys it i
is not for sale, nor will it be. It is I
his fixed purpose to return to bis 1
farm at some day in tho future and
spend upon it the remainder of bis |
life. 1
This purpose conies of two rea- |
sons: lirst the pleasure bo finds in i
agriculture; second, its profits.
The pleasure is in the removal '
from strife and contention and dis- <
appointments that are found in the <
professions, and what is known as i
business, and especially the absolute <
independent living. !
f'Ke\v people who have tried it, i
understand the wear and tear upon '
the phiysioal and nervous systoni,"
said bo, -'by the professions and by
business. The man who follows successfully,
the practice of law, or cor- i
tainly the practice of medicine, has i
demands upon bis physical endurance
entirely unknown lo tho farmer.
"Again, ii.professional man is en- l
tirely subject to the control and call
of his clients and patrons, while the
farmer is master of his own time, and
his own business. Profits are to he
measured by cost and expenses," <
said he. "The expenses for personal
preparation for the farmer, as against i
preparation for the professions, is
largely in favor of the farm. The
outlay for necessary investments for
the business is equally so. The professional
man must live in an expensive
town or city, where taxes are
high and the necessities of life costly,
because they always come at soeond
hands. The farmer lives in the
country, where ho has no town tax to
pay, and receivers his necessities at
first hand, because thoy are his own
products, and without the pcrcetitum
of prolits put upon them for the
man in the town or city."
These statements made by the gen
uemnn or mo law acscrvo consitloration.
tt may bo, as in the days of
the ancient poet, every man thinks
his own business tho most subjectto
criticism. This, however, is not
the proper consideration. No pursuit
ought to be determined upon
until duo investigation has determined
it to be the business in perfect
harmony with the tastes and inclinations.
When that is done we
should trust for tho pleasant features
connected w.ith it, and enlarge upon
and develop thorn. It is quite an
easy matter to find difficulties and
annoyances in my business in life.
If we get our consent to magnify
them and nurse them, however attractive
otherwise, we can soon become
morose, sour and unsuccessful.
Tho happy man hunts far sunshine
and not for shadow; for pleasant
aspects and not for unfriendly
ones. The best man undertakes business,
whatever it may be, with the
full understanding that it has difficulties
and defeats; while he does
not look for these things, ho prepares
for thoio, and when tliey come to
him he is ready with a break-water,
so to speak, and he then, holds them
in check, instead of sitting down to
be resistlessly overwhelmed by their
force.
There aro many attractions in farm
life?quite a good many moro than
told by my lawyer friend; many of
these are found in health fulness and
character.
Talking with another resident of
this city, who has attained to wealth
and retirement, 1 was astonished to
find how many of Atlanta's most
prominent and worthy citizens were
trained upon tho farms of this and
otner States. 1 tie country, free
from temptations to vice, immorality,
is the place where sturdy men grow;
tho place where the State makes its
best citizens.
The income from the farm, then,
is not to bo counted in the amount
of money received in the sale of cotton,
corn, oats, peas, butter and pigs,
but in the freedom and pleasures of
its life; the balmy, invigorating atmosphere,
the absence of noise and
contention and strife, and, above all,
the strong moral influences upon
character and life.
Very many troubles havo come to
the farmers in late years. Time and
time again after hard struggles, defeat
has fallen on their industry and
they have been almost driven to despair.
hot us aoccpt, bravely, the condi|
tion, recognizing its embarrassments,
and^o to work inteligently to remove
them. By all means let us keep good
cheer and determined courago, and
remember there is still a star of hope
in the bosom of the storm.
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tot felling ronmory, Dr. Mil**' NmtiM.
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1IY C. M. SANDHItH.
.luue is the month, "par oxccK ,
lenco,v fur planting peas* liyo and
bnrley lots nuiy luivo been planted
jomo time during tho month of May,
but the regular grain fields cannot bo
had fur this purpose much beforo the
1 Oth of Juno. Whore I intend to
plant peas for rny fattening hogs, I
leave the land especially for this purpose,
and this 1 plant at any convenient
season, after tho 15th of May,
Planted earlier than this they require
ir. extra amount of work, without an
equal advantage to the crop. The
Dat crop is, in mv opinion, one of tho
most exhaustive that is grown to any
considerable extent by the average
Southern farmer, and for this reason,
whenever practicable, it should
Ijo followed by some crop of a renovating
nature.
The pea is probably the host crop
for this purpose that is easily within
the reach of all. Three crops of peas
can be crrowu as cheanlv as a throe
n i /
yours' crop of olovor, and I beliove
with tho sumo benefit to tlio land.
Some sort, of n crop of peas cm be
grown on any grade of lund, while
yon cannot grow clovor unless your
land is fairly good to start with, and
I had rather undert ake to cure a crop
of pea vines t han a crop of clover
bay. For while the pea vines requiro
a longer time to cure, they are
not nearly so easily injured by unfavorable
weather.
Now get ready for sowing your
stubble land in peas, haul tho grain
off from a portion of the hold as soon
as possible after the grain is cut.
This can bo done at once if the grain
is allowed to lie in the swartli for
six or eight hours before tying up
into bundles. I would not, however
advise this course, as it toughens the
sfi'nw nn<l Mtnpk ivill not nit if tuiiir
so nvoil; besulcs it will cost more to
have tlicin taken up. Four good
bands will keep well up with a team
cutting in oats that will make thirty
to thirty live bushels per acre, while
if you start them six hours behind
the reaper and run thrco days, tlio
same hands would be one and onehalf
or two days behind. When a
portion of the lield has been cleared
of its oats, and you have had a rain,
go right in with everything that can
plow. Sow from three fourths to
one and one-fourth bushels of the
Unknown peas and 200 pounds of
acid phosphato per acre. Plow in
with a six-inch Diamond roofer and
harrow with the Acme harrow, the
driver riding. If things move up
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lively you can put m unu uiiu u
fourth acres por ilny to eacli plow,
if speckled peas or crowders arc
used, the quantity per acre should be
increased one-half bushel. So also
should the quantity bo increased as
the sowing is done later in the season.
This program should bo followed
after every rain, continuing
In the stubble land until the cultivated
fields* are dry enough to plow.
Komotimes the stubble and bo
too wet for the plow, just alter a
rain, but you can get in there at
least a day sooner after a thoroughly
wetting rain than it would bo profitable
to go into your corn or cotton.
J understand that June is the busy
month 011 the farm, and that the farmer
thinks he hasn't time for anything
except to attend as closely as
possible to work that is alrwudy messing,
but I think if my plan is closely
followed out every farmer will be
able to get in at least three or four
acres to the plow, and that without
detriment to his other crops. These
sowings may continue up to the middle
of July, the latter sowings, however,
not yielding quite so heavily us
tho earlier ones.
Peas may also be planted in drills
very rapidly in tho following way:
llun off rows three feet apart with a
six-inch rooter (this is better than a
shovel-plow), drop eight or ten peas
overy two feet in the row, and finish i
by tunning two furrows with a turnplow,
tho bar side to the row. Three
furrows with tho plow and one booing
will finish the ouhivation and lay
tho peas by clean, For renovation
and for hay the broadest plan is preferable.
All corn land should bo
planted in peas. When the rows are
wide enough, peas should go in the
middles, otherwise between tho hills
of com, but never before tho second
plowing. Those will make as many
as tho farmer will Iiavo timoto nick.
Last year [ planted three gallons of
Unknown peas on two acres of
branch bottoms, after the corn was
laid by. The time consumed by the
boy and mule in planting was two
hours, at a nominal oost of twenty
cents and thirty cents; for tho sum
total, fifty cents* I gathered fourteen
and one half bushols of peas, at
a cost of twenty cents per bushel for
picking, making tho whole cost loss i
than twenty-four cents per bushel; i
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NO; 47.
could they have been gathered by
hogs they would have cost loss than
four cents por bushel. The Unknown
pea seems to be one of the
surest crops wo have, but they are
I it 11 i i ? i
tougn, ana nogs will not eat tnorn
while there arc speckled peas, black
peas or crowdcrs in the same field.
Still they do eat them after tho
others are gono and so fai' as I can
see do well on them.
So far as we can seo the indications
all point to low priced cotton in
tho future. The United StatC3 government
cannot regulate it to any appreciable
extont. The only remedy
is for tho producer to lessen tho cost
of production, and the only way to
lessen this very materially is to plant
better land. This can only ho done
by improving and bringing up to a
better state of fertility the lands wo
already cultivate. The pea seems to
he the best thing wo have at our
command for this purpose. Therefore
lot us plant peas at ovcry opportunity,
and if we haven't stock to
consume the hay, wo can let it make
humus on tho land, or we niay soli
the hay and invest in fertilizers to
bo returned to the land. Tbo process
of renovation, without manure,
is slow and tedious, so let us begin
at once, and keep it up without ces sation,
otherwise this country is
doomed to poverty and want, or tho
people will have to get f ay from it,
for the most part, and the remainder
devote themselves to stock raising.
This is the twenty third year 1 have
been farming here, I am familiar
with the country around me. 1 say
without hesitation that my own farm
is the only one in my knowledge
that will m vko as good a crop to-day
as it did twenty years ago. I know
farmers who could not make a living
if they were confined to the samo
lands they cultivated twenty years
ago.
A great deal has been said from
time to time about the way Col. Jas.
M. Smith has brought up his extensive
farm. IIow has he done it? llv
improving his old lands? No, but
by cutting away his forests and clearing
up his swamps, and bringing into
cultivation lands made rich by the
slow process of natural laws. I do
not believe that outside of two or
three hundred acres, contiguous to
Iuh barns, Col. Smith has an acre of
land as good as it was live
years ago. You need not toll me a
man can bring up a live or six thousand
aero farm by sowing each year *
three or four hundred acres of rye as
a renovator, and that ryo all taken olY
the land, and that land planted to
cotton the same year. Yon could
not chuck that into my head. Col.
Smith is a brainy man and a successful
farmer, and when the convicts
arc put upon the public highways or
upon a great farm belonging to the
1 Stiiln Ik* nnirli Ia lm n t flirt linml /if if
Ho would make thorn self-sustaining;
but nevertheless, he is not improving
his lands, and there are few who
arc doing it.
Ptnfhldy (ia.
?
Tirc<l Oi Tillman.
To the Kditor of The News and
Courier: I havo been a constant
Tillmanito in the past, and believed
that ho would do, us good in some
w v, but since reading tho recent
decision of the railroad commission
making rates on the shipment of
whiskey I am compelled to acknowledge
myself a backslider from his
policy and purposes. Why has he
not used his great influrence with his
commissioners to get lower rates on
our plantation tools, wagons and supplies
that we are often compelled to
havo shipped? (let lower rates on our
cotton, lumber, turpentine, etc? Why
does he so quickly seek low rates on
whiskey?
1 am now convinced that in voting
for li. R. Tillman wc have been serveing
a partisan self-seeker. I now
suggest to the farmers that wo vote
for no man for the Legislature who
is committed or admits that he is for
any particular man for any office to
he o'ccten l>y the vote of the Legislature.
Let's sidetrack the coat tail
| brigade and select tho best men for
| all positions to be tilled?if we have
! to go to the plough handles or tho
work benth to get them?and not
vote for professional office seekers.
?. s|
Gaston, Lexington Couuty, May 39.
To prevent tho hardening of tho
i subcutaneous tissues of the sealn
! and tho obliteration of tbo hair folficles
which cause baldness, use
! hall's hair Kenewer.
Guaranteed Cure.
1 Wo authorize our advertised druggist
j to soil Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, upon this
condition. If you are afflicted with a
Cough, Cold or unv Lung, Throat or Cheat
trouble, and will use this remedy as directed,
giving it a fair trial, and experience
no benefit, you may return the l>ottle and
have your money refunded. We could
not make this offer did we not know that
Dr. Kings New Discovery could bo relied
on. It never disappoints. Trial bottle free
at E. Norton's Drugstore. Largo size 50c
and sf 1.00.
* '
Tho Paris revolutionary socialists
celebrated the anniversary thre \>?* nlv
week. There were no disturbances.
St, vuo*' I)?nr? ?or*l by Dr. Ksrrlaw