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The People's JournaL PICKENS So 0. GANTT AS A FARMER. What it. 4ost an, k-Editor to Raise Cotton- oIKililoni In the Cotton 14leid, Mr. 1. barry Gantt has rotired from journalism, but ho wields a racy pen In the Wron Lanco ovory week, and horo i- one of his latst oixpiorloncos as a farmer: All of thIs week I have hoon hard at work on my farm, and had only time to pay two little pop-callH to town. I am killing grass and cleaning my crops while the sun shines, and have now my cotton brought bo a stand and the dirt thrown hack, and my corn roplanted and worked over. The dry May has boon a blessing to the farmers, for it enabled us to catch mp with our work, and got our crops In good condition. Wo are now ready for rain, and don't care how soon it coime-S. Nothing except ;pri ng oats has su ToIrtd from the dry weather, hut there is ti me enough for them to strstci tp if wo krgt a good, soaking rain in the niext, fiw day,. Thoso moonitos prodict a down pour of water at bunas next change. I (ion't, tako) much stoik in thi .i moon husinoss, hut since' I havo shokoil it suspender, and .4port a ton unts h at find myself fast ansorhing ten o Lprsti tions of m) orother farinorW: and the other day ookod into the almanac to prognosticato rain. This wook, in having my crops hoed ovor, I had to iaco a draft on thoso town darkios to do tho work. (ccasion ally I would pick tip a hand who (id mo good and faitneul Service, but, like angel's visits, they aro fow and far ho t~woon; and I will also add that when You find an old-timo hand, born and ralisod in slavory day-4, you have an agricuitral troasure indinl. [ilt my frI nd, .elujen :ioan, 1i right ahout this y',ung4r giineration of negroes, for not one in ton is worth Killing. On;y y.stertay two coloired dudin s from tov 'n cmune out to i ongry Hfill to c(hop for rr. A\ i seen as I set nyos on tho pair, ani -saw t10O waY they d ucked thoir r n-ads and noticed tbo airs they pu, (on, I xnew that they wor-i no good. lht, I hail a 1'a%-y pi'ece of cot,tor to men 1, and mail a contract, by wii ich waIs to pay tnihrn >, ints por acre, the ut prir,. in A"oot, an hour I went over to aan how my shoiny hund treas ar'e w'r' proenilng with their work, and folnd that trhby WolidhI have no trouhiO in getting river about livO 4,.rps apIece by uliiner. Itach was carrying hor rows, givinig a lik hore and there, and lavirg rtisneio. i-rat's and an avor ago of ton stiA,,<& to a hill. Of courso airde thm start. a over again, but with 1i ttli htter -i(e '5s. When the sun hogan t.o gt wirm they adjourned to he siriring arol lnt the groator part, of the ray thor At ngiht I set tOrd 11p with (h' pair of town dudines, and dismebii.l tblim with the arimorli tier thIt t'hy had ovidently missed 0hi ir Psling. I told thorn that such fragilo, uinwk viints woro not horn to wa-to thir owler in the co'tton fild, blt th1y -1houid in grae in g some cak e-walk, for leading an A frican german. When I went to iteasuro their day's work, I f1 uil they haid h aggl1d over just, one liartor of an acro, which I will hlave to 1 got orino od-fashioned country dar key to caan rot again. Tihoese dars-htued diamsels salid they did niot Ii ke work inrg by the acre, hot prolfnrredl ulay wages. I told them that, I know of only onie man in the wholo South who 'eld pay them by thbe day, wi tdib it, grunrg into the hiarnds of a ru ('(ive r- -Mr. VarnderbilIt,, just this sid e rif Ashovl ;c that, lie haud an incomo (of aliont ten imill ion doll ars per year, arnd might possldy ho able to make two or three crops with colored town helies hefore the shnri IT cloisnd himrr out. Monday I put a dozern hands at work chopping cotton, paying therm by the day, and found it the biggest swindle ever porpetrated on a cornfidinig arnd gullible farrmir. They each averaged about onue-eighth ofh an acre (if cott<m. I very foollibly put thorn all toi woirking In one sqluaid, arii these dlarkiles evI dlontly thou ghlt that I had inivited thomr to IIlungry 111ll for the jiurgioso of or ganlai ng a dlohatlng soiciety. They(1 dI1isuss every toi un rder the sun arnd ex hausted the il uhject tori. Ahlonut eleven o'clock they struck rel igin and until the sutn wen t down the lbattle raged warm and hitteor. Miy srluad of hands wore equnal ly div ided liotwoon I laptists and MethodIsts, anid (lach faction upheld the dorctrine of its oh urclh arid qluotced Scripturo to suis. taln their positIons. Sometimes thn whole force would rest (in theIr hoet half an hour, while one of the leaders would deliver a religIous ex hortation I dil] my best to break op this religIoun controversy by such lii hlIcal nquotationsu as "man must earn hIs bread by the sweat oif hIs brow," and not by wag ging hIs tongue ; that ''all flesh ls grass," and thornfore It, becomes thc duty of human heolh to extormInato grass, ete, etc. But It was no good. Junet as soon as my back wats turned thbe warry contest continued hotter than ever; and I gave uip in deospair, It took twoi water toters to suppjly those hands and I would as soon try toi fill a locomotive as one, of thorn. ut, oif the sqluad of twelve, at least ,th roe hands were absent from the field all the time. That night I dismnissod my Cotton P'atch )ebating Society, and made ui my mind that it ls a losing businss for a farmer to try andi mnix IHaptiste MethodIsts and cotton-horirs In tho same field. .1 have only planted about five acret of eottoin to the plow, but to get backn my expenditures, the staple will have to bring somethIng like 201 cents per pound next fall. I have my cropsocleari at last, and hope that suffering times are about, over. I ame devoting mry greatest attention to com i and1 p~rovi 'o rops. TI. li.(). Til in 1Rl~'i T1 ~I RIA I~ll'H OIR. - may riot ho known that, the gentlemrii who sold the piolos whiich were used ia erecting the first telegraph linio I the world lIves In Greoonwood Uount~y Uo was at, tuo tIme living In Washing ton city, ie came south before the war broke out and was among the hi r to shoulder hiIs mutsket and rrarch ti the front, flo lIves at New Marke three ilies from (3reenwoodi, whor he is engaged In farming. TIhe ger tleman to whom we refer Is Mr. Jobi it, Moore, S3r. Tholiro Is not a botter c a mere substautlal citlzelln the Statn Weo1( hpe to Induce lIn.' to writo a article for use on t hIs sulijoot.-Groon wood Journal. -Admiral Bohley was br.ouighit upl 0 a farm, and his inelinatione have al ways boen toward such a life. At on time he bought a ranoh In Wyomin and seriously thought of giving up) th EX-GOV. EVANS ON CUBA. His Views as to the Fitness and Char Acter of the People en the Island. Ex-Gov. Evans, of South Carolina, who recently went home, after spend ing several months here as a major, says the Havana correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, made some pertin ont oboervations on the situation here, Ho said : " There is only a sprinkling of the people In Cuba who are fitted to take part In the government of the island. The majority are like children. An independent government would hardly stand twenty-four hours. There would be two parties at the start, the milita ry and the property owners. The for mor would control, because of their ig norant following. The first thing that they would do would be to lesue bonds to pay the vast millions, which they assert Is due to the Cuban soldiers., " Sanguilly and Juan Gualberto Go moz were among those who wanted au thority from the United States to bor row $20,000,000 to pay the Cuban sol diors. Once in control of the govern ment, the bonds would be sold for that purpose. The army doubled in size after the war was over, and by the time the Cubans get control of the gov ernment, the army on paper will pro bably bb trebled. Bonds would have to ho sold at a discount and it would require an issue of probably $50,000, 00) to pay the allogzd Gu'oan soldkers. " Then the soldiers would be pension od. That would require the issue of more bonds. The franchises and con ccsions which Congress has unwisely saved up for the Cubans, thus prevent ing the development of the island now, would be disposed of in quick order by the Cuban government, to secure money and enrich the members who would vote away the concessions. " The valuable franchises would pro bably all go to ' promoters' and speou lators. That would make the end of the Cuban ability to secure money and the government would collapse. The United States government, if it then came back in control, would find the island mortgagod to an enormous ex tent, in proportion to its population, with all valuable franchises in the hands of speculators. As this would he done by at govornment established by the United States, we could hardly repudiato its obligations. The situa tion then would he vastly worse than it is today. No one will Invest money in Cuba under the menace of an Indc pendent government, and while it is throatoned or lasts the island will not he developed, nor will it become pros porous." Major KIvans was detailed because of his knowledge of the law to preside over the court in havana that tried prisoners charged with minor offences. Hie was asked if the Spanish laws need. od to ho changed much. " No," was the reply. " ft Is the code Napoloon somewhat modified and is something the samo as the code in f,oulsiana. The trouhle Is with the procedure. That Is abominable and shoiuld be wiped out. I think it is a mistake to begin to reform at the top by establishing a supreme court first. That is a court for lawyers. What Is needed is reformed courts for the peo plo. My own opinion is that there would be rnore satisfactory work (Ions if fhe chief men In control were more exporner!eed in civil affairs." G(R A-T Sor,Inbies GRtow OUT DooRS. --Nearly all of the men who have dis tinguished themselves In the recent wars are Southern men or men of Southern blood. This fact is so patent tbhat It haIs attracted the attentLion of some of the Northern papers ar'(d they aro try ig to account for it. The cause is to ha fouind, no doubt, partly in cli mratic Infl uecos, but mainly in the condltons of life peculiar to the South andi in the habits and associations I necessarIly engendered by those condi- I tionis. in the South, physicax courage has always been honored by public sentiment, and youths have been taught by precept and example to bravo personal Injury and even death rathier than submit to injustice and ' dishonor. Moreover, Southern life has I largely hoern an out-door life given to rnanly sportsa and athletic exercises. The men who fought the Civil War may he said to have bson bought up on horse hack with guns in their hands, and~ their superiority to Northern troops vas demonstrated at, the start andI~ maintained to the finish. We dIoulbt if .thbe conditions now being evolved will bo so favorable to the do volopmoent of physlual courage as they have been in the past, notwithstand ig all the attention that is being given In the schools to so called physi cal culture.-Gaffnoy Ledger. -Th Hat~ioreSun says "'The Alexndra mableworks have just boon awardedl the contract for a Con federate soldier's mnonu mont to be erected at E'dgefleld, S. C., by the ladies of that cilty. The shaft will be granite, 2. feet in height, and will be surmounted by a bronz~e figure of a Confederate soldier with lhis qun in the position to 'resist cavalry. The stone work will be executed at the quarry and the figure will be cast at one of the most noted foundries in the United] States. The front of the monu mernt will bear the mnrp tien :'Erect ed by noe women of Ed ge flid, S. C., to the memory of their Confederate dead.' The work will be completedi arnd the monument unveiled early next autumn." -Horry county, lying next to George town on the coast, boasts of more artesian wells than any other two coun ties in the State. in the town of Con way, the county seat, there are thirtsy of those wells ranging from 175 to 250 root and~ flowing the year round. All the wells have boen dug with hand mrachlnery. Conway ls on the Wa~cca maw river just above the rice field bolt and Is In thbe heart, of the malarial distrIct. Since the use of artesian water has become common the health of the community has shown a marked hnpilrovurment. Th'broughout the whole lower bolt, good flows of water are ob tained readily. Irarmers have these wells on theIr lands for stock and they a (re used by railroads to suppl~y Water tanks. S -Trho sanitary re port in havana for -April shows only (117 deaths for that Smonths. iFor the four months of 1899, Sthe total of deaths is a little over two thousand, lndIicating a total for the9 year of, perhaps, seven thousand. Thik o etImate Ignores, of course, the possi -blliity of an epidemnic of yellow fever "during the later rainy season. Only two dleaths from this disease are re portedl for April, whereas tuberculoas was the cause of 103. The death-rate -of i189 is, no far, less than half that of 189)8. This is a striking tribute to Amierican methods of surface sanita n tioni, for so far, littlilo or no sanitary w tork lhas really gone on beneath the surface. S --Satan loves hypoorites because o they serve him best and require no wagres. THEI DEFEAT OF YOUNG LEE. Virginia Account of the Election by the Sons of Veterans for Com iander-in-Chief. The Richmond Dispatch publishes 'he following in regard to the defeat )f I. E. Lo, Jr., for mmander-in. )hlef of the Sons of Confederate vote !ans: "'Mr. ft-)bert E. Lee, Jr., was not a member of the Sons of Veterans when 3o came to Charleston to the reunion,' laid a Richmond Son last night, 'and )f course we did not want to see him )romuoted over the heads of men who lad been for years identified with the )rganization. "'The whole matter has been great y exaggerated,' he continued. 'It ias been stated that there was among ihe Virginians very stroeg feeling bgainst Lee. It has even been stated ihat we hissed his name while it was mder consideration for the offilce of ommander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans. "'Not a Virginian hissed Li3e. 'here was some hissing at one point. As well as I could tell, it came from ihe South Carolinians. All the Pal netto boys were not united upon him. " 'But no Virginians voted for Lue or the reason I have given. A mem ber of Moultrie camp came to us before 1he session began and wanted us to )lect Bob Lee a member of our camp, knd then allow him to be transferred o Moultrie camp. We informed him ihat this could not be done, as all ap Alicationd for membership had to be )assed upon by Loc Camp of Vote rans. Furthermore, wo informed the tentleman that Mr. Lee was not a re ddent of Virginia, having lived in Washington for the past several years. "'Later Lee was elected a member )f Camp Moultrie, and when the elec ilon of a grand commander of the Sons ame up his name was put in nomina. Aion. Afterwards it was withdrawn knd Commander Smythe was eloted inanimously. He then declined to ierve, arI Mr. fee's name and that of qr. Colquitt of Georgia were pre iented. Colquitt had been a Son for hron years, and Is active In tho or fanization. We were glad to voto for ilm. The man who nominated Bob Faco, at one point in his speech, turned o the sponsors and asked them to rise nd second the nomination. Three roung ladles arose. Not one of these Ras a sponsor ; all came from Charles ion. "'To the credit of Mr. feo,' said the Centioman, 'f wish to say that he tried to withdraw his name when he found ihere was opposition to him, but the iouth Carolinians would not allow him io do so. "'Bob lice is all right ; great big ellow, that he Is-big in form and big .n heart. Zealous friends overstepped hemselves. They caused all the trou )te. When Lee shall have been in ,he organization .R long as Culquitt, nd has been as active, and asks the ions of Veterans to honor him, or his rledes make such a request for him, ou will find the Virginia Sons ready "o listen.' " Young Colquitt is a son of the late B3rigadier General Co'cultt, governor )f Georgia and United States senator. Fle has been very active In the work of ,he organization. A ItArMOAED WRfci.--The new -allroad editor was describing a wreck, mnd said: ' The engineer perceived ~he other train coming about twenty ~ardls distant and immediately re rorsed his injection and slapped the lamper over the top (of the smoke itack, but the force of the smoke and team coming out so fast pushed the ~ngine ahead. When the two big en ~ines hit, they madle a great racket. 'n the passenger engine's boiler the cerflu mix was twisted and jammed into he kerilibber, so that the spiral that cept the boiler stiff let go with an iwful whang and smashed the klam odle, and the engineer in jumping ras hit by the prison valve, which had >ecome tangled in the hand of the iccentric spout, and his rIght leg was Iroken above the left knee. The Ireman jumped over the sand squirter )n the left side and fell violently on ils kidneys, but escaped with serIous njury. The other engino got her front md battered in, hut as all the smoke mnd steam got out when the front lampor back of the number-plate was urstod she could not blow up, but her inumnps kept on going and she coughed )ut a great deal of lire and red-hot 3inders through the safety valves, until the fire became wasted and she got cold. Both the engineer and fire man jumped, after throwing out the all can, coal shovel and a big monkey wrench, and their prompt actIon saved the company a great, loss in engine cm ploments, as the oil can and monkey wrench would have been smashed to smithereens." A MooTsa lPOIIT.-OGne of the re suIts of the cyclone of AprIl, 27 at KirksvIllo, Mo., will be a long and alttor inheritance contest, involving cnotty points. Two of the victimb of ho storm were Mr. and Mrs. A. J. flalzo, who lived alone. Togother hey were worth at least $100,000 in onds, stocks and notes. Each kept separate estate and transacted agfairs eparately. They left no will, but ach had agreed with the other that he one surviving should be sole heir o the other's property. The point at asue is, did the two die at the same noment? 'rho heirs of Mrs. O.lalze essert she breathed a few tImos after he was removed from the wreck of he horne, and that consequently they nherit the entire $100,000. M r. Olaize', 'elatives afeert, that both died at the lame time. Eminent connael wIll be ngaged on both sIdes, and the fight will be a long and expensive one. --A b'odoral judge in Indiana has rondered a decision in a civil cas,.j rvhich is In lIne with the recent rud ings in this Stato regaring damages !or lynchings. Thp heirs of a man who was lynched sued the sheriff and his bolodsen for $26,000 damages and ms a a resuit of this civIl suit the State hope to procur9 evidence to convict the lyncher.. 'he court stated its po-,ion ase followis: " if, the law im poses a duty of care in respect to ani mals and goods which he has taken into his posessoion by virtuo of his office why should not the law impose the duty of care upon him i11 respect to human beings who are -in his cus tody by virtue of his oflco ? Is a help. less prisoner, In the custody of a sheriff lcep ontitled to' his care than a blofgdsr.adumb beast ? The law is not subject to any such re proach." --Colorado Springs, Col.,. boasts of being the quietest town in the coun try. No church bells are rung there, and no whistles are blown. A local paper admits that dlogs bark at night in Colorado Springs, as they do every where else, but it adds : " when the run about they make no noise witl their foot in the sandy soil." THE CULTURE OF TOBACCO. Some ten years ago, says the Raleigh Post, if our memory as to time serves us well, after a very careful investi gation by Col. John D. Cameron at the instance of the State agricultural de partient, the total production of to bacco in North Carolina was placed at about 49,000,000 pounds. Then its culture had scarcely ex tended east of Warren, Nash and Wake counties. It had extended west to the French Broad Valley, even goodly amounts being produced in Haywood and Swain counties. Now it is produced, in rapidly in creasing quantities throughout almost the entire eastern section, Craven, Jones, Lenoir, Duplin, Onslow, Pitt, Greene, Edgecombe, Wilson, Wayne, Johnston, Sampson, specially devoting large areas thereto. Twenty-flye or thirty years ago the finest tobacco, that which commanded the fancy prices, was produced in Granville, Person, Orange, Caswell, Hockingham counties. Ten or fifteen years later this quality was produced, comparatively almost exclusively be yond the Blue tidge. Moderate but very comfortable fortunes were made by planters in both sections during the period when their particular section furnished the better quality. And what is strange about this is the tinest quality as to quantity seems to run in sections and for limited periods of time. Now the finest tobacco, judging by the prices-and of course this i the determining feature--is produced in the eastern counties, counties east of Wake, Warren and those nearby. As much tobacco, we learn, is raised in the other sections as formerly, but our eastern friends certainly seem to be enjoying the benefits as to prices for the "ruund crop" that blessed our cen tral frie.nds first and the western peo ple later. The yield in pounds in the State must be very largely inreased, and if 49 millions of pounds was the product at the time Col. Cameron pre pared his statement, certainly the amount now must he millions more, if not fully doublo. But we would really like to have an explnation of the change of base of the high priced ta bacco, first from the central to the western part of the State and now to the eastern section. Cf course we do not mean that good crops of tobacco that still fetch high prices are not pro. (luced in all sections ; but speaking of the crop as a whole, by sections, the facts are certainly as we have stated. But not only has the production very largely increased in this State, branch ing out into new territory, but our n9ighbor, South Carolina, has caught on, and is going int.o the cultivation of the weed heavily. So far the success of those people has corresponded with that of our people, and ig profits seern to have prevailed, so much so that the tendency to increase the acreage amounts to a fever. The Columbia Mtate gives us the following : ''South Carolina, it is estimated, pro dluced 1i,000,000 pounds of tobacco last year. The Darlington News, with other newepapers in the tobacco region, holds that the area this year is twice as great as last. This is hardly possi ble, but if the increase in yieldl should be eveii 50 pier cent. the crop of 1899 would be 27,000,000) poundls, a quantity b~etter unidei stootd if redluced to 1:3,500 tonfs, or to 2,700 carloads of 10,000 pounds each. When it is considered that this crop is only ini its beginning in South Carolina and is geiierally grown only in one forth or one-fifth of the helt adapted to its prodiuction, its p)ossibilitics for the future are seen to be very great. It will not take South Carolina many years to rank both North Carolina and Virginia as a to bacco producing State." Unless the elements prove unpropl tioua, the prospects are for an enor miously increased crop, to be increased year by year possibly, just as cotton is increased. Necessarily this riiust, have some effect upon prices in general; but, (if one thin or farmer~ friends miay be assureud, that the greater the crop in general, the more important, it become, so far as profit is conicerned, for the piroduictioin of the best quality. To'(baecco may be tobacco, but still, when we come to sell, or even to use it, we (incover that there is a vast, dif ferenice in the quality, andl it is this difference that fixes the prcs There is some dlifference in the value of cot, ton, according to the gradles but a far greater dlifference in the value of to bacco, based oni the same inequality. A crop of tobacco that will average 10 cents per pound1( or over, "round, pays better than cotton at 0 or 8 cents per pound. But it is the good tobacco --good1 ini texture, color anid quality that is profitable, af ter all. 'This par titular feature should receive the most earniest care of the tobiacco planter. The forest area of American British poss5essionms is estimated at about eight hundred rmillion acres. The settler has cut, his way into thbe fringe of this vast woodland, but Ils dlepredlationis aire nothing as compared with the ter rifle scourge of fire which has ram juaged through it at dhifferent times. Thle United Stiates has about four hun drad and fifty million acres of forest, and this is being rapidly depletedl by the axe andI also by destructive fires, which tihe government, however, is no0w investigating means to prevent or control. The tarmer has to meet such sharp competition that he must economize in dvery detail. lie must bring product.. ion to tihe lowest cost and promote It to the highest ofliemeney in its employ menit, lie must avoid all unnecessary waste and return to the soil the ele muents of fertility absorbed b~y his crops. All this lie can (10 by rotation of crops, biy production of feeding crops, by feedl mig all thme live stock his farm will sus tain and by appllyinlg to his fIelds all the manure that his live stock supply. Tihie American goldilinch or wild canary is as beautiful as it Is useful, and1( as a wveed destroyer has few equals. it conifines its attention very largely to one family of plants, the Compositae, and is especially fond of wild lettuce, thistles, wild sunflower and rag wee. it Is so oftei seen gracefully poised upon thistles that It is commonly called the thistle bird. It is also very toad of l ultivated sa~awar seed.. THE ADVANTAGE OF PEAS. The remarks recently make by Mr. Terry in regard to the advantages pos sesed by the Southern farmer over his Northern neighbor in the diversity of crops that can be grown in a single season are not a whit exaggerated. The fact that clover does not as a rule thrive well in the South has been time and again shown by Prof. Massey to be far less of a disanvantage than would be supposed by the farmers of the North, who would. go South and continue the same kind of cropping they have been accustomed to at home. In fact we have almost come to the conclusion that it is one of the mis takes of Southern agriculture to ever sow a clover seed south of Vii ginia. In our progress southward just to the extent that clover becomes more and more uncertain and troublesome, the cow pea increases in value, until all over the cotton belt it is the king of forage and soil improving crops. Now and then a competitor appears only to disappear after a little while. Over all of them the cow pea has advan tages. Among its numerous varieties there can be found those suited to al most, any condition. No clover can produce at, much forage per acre on the same quality of land, and no clover will make better hay if properly cured. No clover will make even an appear ance in the space of time during which the cow pea gets in its whole work. No clover will gat her from the air any more- nitrogen Lhan the cow pea. Then why does the Southern fatrmer need clover at all ? When he can get an early crop like j~cas (Canada peas) and oats ofT his land by the first of June an(d can then sow a crop of peas and gather another heavy crop of hay in time to prepare the land for a crop of winter grain, where is the need for clover ? Ife has accomplished in two short months all ehat clover would do for him in twelve months if it was a success and he has (done it with a cer tainty that never attends his efforts to grow clover. Hence we are comng rapidly to the conclusion that clover growing or at tempts to grow clover should be aban (aned in the cotton belt, and the clover of the South he given full sway. We must learn that 0he farmiing of one section cannot be the best for all see tions, and that we must adapt our methors to the crops that are the best ones for the sections where we arc farming. Just as the fruit growers going South soon realize that they can not grow currants, gooseberries, sweet cherries or red raspberries there, while they can grow other things that do not thrive in the North, so the general farmer must realize that he has left some of the farm crops behind hini and conie among others better adapted to his new conditions. Nearly all Northern men going South to farm have a preju (lice against cotton and tobacco, and resolve that they will not grow the crops that have ruined the South. Iferein they make a great error. Cot tor and tobacco in its many forms are the money crops in the South, and no farmer cai afford to ignore the money crop of his section. T1he impoverish ment of Southern lands is not the fault of these crops, for high farming can as easily be done with cotton and tobacco as with any other staple crops. The fault lies in the method and not in the crops, and there is just, as much room for improvedl farming and stock rais ing with tobacco and cotton as special ties as with any other crops. The great need of the South is specialization in farming as distinct from single cropping. Every farmer, North or South, should have a special crop in his rotation, to the perfection of which the whole rotation is arrang ed, and~ to which all the other crops grown are in their turn subsidiary, thoug'h each giving some profit in its place, and all tending~ to the building up of the land to the greater and more economical produiction of the specialty. For this kind of farming the long sea sons of the South give the Southern farmer a great advantage over his Northern brother, for his recuperative crop can come in during the samne sea son that he has taken off a graini crop, andl prepares the land for another, and the more frequent rep~etition of the renovating forage crop enables him to sho' ten the rotation, and more rapidly increase the prodluctiveness of his soil for his speccialty.-Practical Fermer. Always remember that "there's more in the man than there is in the land." Nearly all women limob forward to the ordeai of mnotherhood with so much dread and analetyr that only after the baby han, safely arrived and nuade a warm little place (or hiine.f in the mother's heart, does she fairly realise that it was indeed a good angel who , brought this wee mestling to hrighten and sweeten her lifr. Wounwho are approaching snotherhood with a sense of fear and solieitudq, or in a weakened physical condition, ased the help of that .inalus "1Pavorite Prest -i tion," invented b Dr. R. V(. Pierce~b~ consuilting physioistt of the invalid# Hotel and Surgical Institute, Isaalo, N. Y., and designed expressly to restore healthy vigor to the delicate feonine strudture involved in motherhood. It takes away all of the danger and most of the pain attendant qp on motherhood and eonfe on the baby that lusty h'ardihood whieh is' a joy to a mnother's heart. An Ohio lady, Mrs. Lefa Hloflive or Claring. to, Monroe Co., In a letter to Dr. ilerce, says; "I had atlways bees healthy until four yeas ago0. nlefore the birth of my ci ld i suffered alnmost death a doxenm times. Had what we call tulik leg for four years. Conld not stand it to be on my feet lon g t al tme wIthout SwellIng dread flly. Blefore may last baby was born, I had ev ery sytuptomn of a return of the trouble. My leg ewelted badly. I read of Dr. Pierce's Favorite PrescriptIon, and thought I would try it. I took six bottles, and when my baby was born I was 'not slek at all after I was out of labor whicH eted only short time. In tinac. pralous, Ia, I)r had lasted twelve to fteedi hours. I aan u well woman to-day, and Iia~ve been sInce I go Out of bed, whep my little boy was nine d asold. j we the credit all to Dr. lPi1erees Favoe og. wvill never der9ihout itdug The Kind You Have Always Bc in use for over 30 years, ha and has sonal su:1 Allow n AMl Countert'eits, Timitations au perinients that trifle with an Infants aid Chikdren-Experi, What is C1 Oastorla is a siubstItute for Ca., and Soothing Syrips. It Is H contains neitier Opiun, Mlfor substance. Its age is its guar and allays Feverishness. It ci Colic. It relieves Teething Ti and Platiulency. It assimilate Stomach and Rowels, giving I The Children's Panacea-The CENUINE CAST Bears the Si 'I The Kind You Har in Use For Ov( surfaces. 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A paint for Furniture, for Floors, for Bath Tubs, for Houses, in fact anything paintable, not one slap-dash mixture for all kinds of ie right paint in the right place We will tel you the right pain Greenville, Be 0s SOUTHERN RAILWAY. madensed Schedste of Wasseegew Tren _ _l~a infect Mtay let, 189. Ii ee. xaIla8E'tMA Worthbound. lze Irw. 31. N. 56 Dalif Dai- 1,1a. Daiij. .Atlanta, . T?4 V 20 adl U54 1 Norerosa t.* : a j 1 a Buford . .J320 a 1 Gaiesvle.'10 a g p TLula.. 105SBa 3* g 3 U a Cornelia.. ?Q - a w ps , .. MeM. Airy . 1l80 a e4 Wmnr81Central . 146p ..8 GB a Spartanburg 1i37 6 10 .. 6i Blackhuorg .. ptl 6'?_P .... e 0 King Mt 500 .. ... 8G Norfolk . r.Washingtou ...ge ..a Sadelphia. ...10 16a ... Se S.wYork . 1248_ ... # Dail . Dall PkI eelphla 3 60 aG ~6 1 . Balt more . 422 a03 p9 .. Wasniaon. P11 110 pfW6. r. Dan vlle 02 6 a1. v.Gastonia.... 1110ffa er ..,, 's Mt ... I yir....... .,.. ornel.a a ,..,,, a tr as l. l- .. ~ . .. .. . . ul s .. . 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R., being cttioual of baggage r and coaebes, t.hroua.h withotut a-bnrnge for eengers of all cla'ae. i Puaman draw ing om sleeping cars betwaenn New Y'ork and iw Orleans, --Ia Atlanta and Monatgomary aaat tween Charlntte and irmaingama. lAemvoag aahigtoneachWedonesday and Mait rday, a urtlpn gr will run tharotugha betwona suingbon and San Franciso 'without oa ou S~ ye a 1 meal eirn e r wentoh #af and Charlotte via Javiile. d . 1 and 86, norhbenad kios. N 1 .wvN 5.V 8 LIIkWeC