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o THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JULY 29, 1897. LATEST COTTON HILL NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS I North and South Carolina Mills, Their Improvments and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. Southern and >Vi »u rn Textile Excelsior. A textile club huu been organized at Pdzer, S. C. The new lieuufort (.S. C.) Knitting Mills are being operated with negro labor. Overseer T. A. Si/emore, atl’acolet (S. (’.) Cotton Mills, gave an i^e cream festival July 15. The Randleman (N. C.) Mfg. Co., have liaished building a new nailing house al their plaid mill. L. F. Kelly, overseer of the twist ing at the I'elhutii {r>. C.) Colton Mills, has been made Asst. Supt. It. W. Campton has gone from the Clinton, S. C. Cotton Mills to the J.aureus, S. C. Cotton Mills. The (standard Cotton Mills, Hock Hill, S. C., it is reported, are running out their stock, preparatory to shut ting down the mill. A. E. Host, formerly of the Southern Railway has be n selected us engineer ' of the \V. R. Kindley Cotton Mill, Mt. Pleasant, X. C. The i>. A. Tompkins Co., of Char- 1 Jotte, N. C., have been engaged this j week cutting gears for the Rock Hill Mfg. Co., Rock Hill, S. C. Henjamin Chandler, formerly of Piedmont, S. C., has become cloth room overseer at the new Crendel Cot ton Mill, Greenwood, S. C. The Millforu Cotton Mills, Fort Mill, S. C.. were shut down for two days r>r the purpose of repairing their boilers and a general overhaul ing. C. T. McDade, of Clifton, S. C., went to the Swift Creek Cotton Mills. Petersburg, Va., as boss weaver, but we understand that the mill is now idle. E. .1. Steed, formerly Superintendent of the Empire Plaid Mills, hut lately with the Erwin Cotton Mills, Dur ham, N. C., has changad to Cornelius Mills, Davidson, X. C. The new Grendel Cotton Mills, Greenwood, 8. C.. hud their engine fired up last week to test the machin ery, and are now getting ready to start up in full. Win. C. Heath, treasurer of Monroe (X. C.) Cotton Mills, judge in the fire companies’ everything the was races in that town on July ID Mr. Heath is very popular citizen there. Supt. Geo. A. Gray, of Gastonia Colton Mills, and President of the Avon Mills, Gastonia, X. C., lost a little child by death a week ago. Jt was buried Sunday. Mrs. P. S. Raker, the wife of the Treasurer of Crowders Mtn. Mill, Kings Mtn.. X. C., had an encounter with a burglar last Tuesday night, who choked her down, after he was Jr ghtened away. The Southern Card Clothing Co., Charlotte. X. C., have all their reed departments going steady, and are now receiving orders every day for card clothing. Things are looking up, says the above company. The Dilling Cotton Mill, Kings Mtn., X. C., with 11 DIG spindles and 553 looms did $(142,175 worth of business for the past fiscal year. Their employes were paid $1100,000, and $10,l>00 was spent for wood. Eugene Smith, age 17, and Clara Davis, age 14. both in the spinning room at Knoree (S. C.) Cotton Mills were married last week. They had slipped out and hack to their work almost before they were missed. W. K. Parker, formerly manager of the f umh.-rlund (N. ('.j Cotton Mills, has been elected general manager of the Wayne Cotton .Mills. Goldsboro, X. C.. A’hich will start upaguln In the fall, 'i'he mill has 5,000 spindles and 110 looms. A news report from Switzer. S. C., says The Switzer Enterprise Co. will begin work this week and push it as fast us possible. Dr. J. 11. Steppe is the right man to lie at the head of this work, and will make our mill a success. The smokestack of the new Ark- wright Cotton Mills, Spartanburg, S C., JG!I feet high, lias been finished up. The machinery in the mill is u'l being arranged, while the engines and boilers are ready to start. It is ex pected to be manufacturing cotton goods in two weeks. The re-organized Salisbury (X. C.) Hosiery Mills started up again this week, and inansgerS. H. Wiley states that they will hereafter run on full time. The new machinery put in was 10 new knitting machines and 2 ribbors. They have now 40 knitting machines producing hosiery. William Hooper, age Id, for Rl years muchinest at Me Aden Colton Mills, MeAdensvllle. N. C., died on Friday, July 10. His death was sud den ; he hud u carbuncle on his hand which caused blood poisoning. The d' ceuaed was buried ul Gastonia, and He leaves u wife and live children, If you want to see first class work, take u peep at (lie new Whitin spin ning frames that have just been put in on the basement door of Mill No. J, Piedmont, S. C. Rates and Rrostcr, the men who • uine from the shops to put them up. understand their busi ness and have certainly done a good job.—Sun. Hon. Samuel Dibble, president of the Enterprise Cotton Mills. Orange burg. S. C., has returneiP from a busi ness trip Xorth, where he placed or ders for the necessary machinery. This is destined for a 10,OW hpindle :Mid !5<K) loom mill for sheetings, though all that machinery will not be put in at first. The stockholders of the Walhalla (S. C.) Cotton Mill held a special meeting a few days ago and decided to increase their capital stock and fill up their present mill building, which will give them something like 0.500 spindles and 240 looms. J. I). Yerm-r is President and Treasurer; C. W. Pitchford is Secretaty. J. X. Williamson & Sons have re cently made great improvements in ; their Ossipee Cotton Mills, Elon Col lege, X. C., having bored out all their spindle rails to 1? in.; also furnished their cards with licker-ins, together with general repairing all around; also going to put in raw stock dyeing machines, likely Klauder-Weldon. The Southern Mfg. Co., Walhalla, S. C., which is composed of Weick- ing Rros, now have their plant in full operation, making a superior grade of picker sticks and pick levers. They have abandoned their first idea of making spokes and handles and will confine their business 1o picker sticks, pick levers and mill supplies of this nature. It is now stated that the Bamford Rros. Co., of Paterson, X. J., will es tablish their Southern silk mill at Greensboro, X. C., and have already started some of their machinery for that print. The old Crown Cotton Mill building is to be used. The ma sons are already preparing the power house for the boilers, which have ar rived for the new factory. The McColl (S. C.) Mfg. Co. have decided to iill their mill up, and their Superintendent. Clias. Iceman, and Secretary, T. R. Gibson, are in the North buying the equipment. They will probably buy Potter and Ather ton pickers—cards. Woonsocket slub bers and speeders, and Whitin spin ning frames. They wfill also put in another boiler and engine. The Cleveland Cotton Mfg. Co., Lawndale, X. 0.. have recenly added 40 feet to their dye house, and put therein five vats. Also ex f ' nded their drying room 20 feet, thereby can now dry 15.000 to 8.000 lbs. of cot ton stock per day. Also erected ten tenement houses, so as to provide sufficient accommodation for their operatives. Their mills will run night and day. The Ada Cotton Mill, Charlotte, is as quiet ulul as silent as the grave, if one omit hearing in some far corner of the mill the tap of a hammer. The Company is overhauling things, and making general repairs, together with adjusting a steam heating plant to the mill. We notice that the D. A. Tompkins Co., of Charlotte, has that contract. 'The firm is also changing over their spinning from single to double roving, and have also given the Southern Card Clothing Co. an order for card clothing to cover 40 lickerins. W. R. Kindley, Secretary and Treasurer of the W. R. Kindley Cot ton Mill, Mt. Pleasant, X'. C., and President of the G.W. Patterson Mfg. Co., Concord X. C., lives at the for mer place, where no has a large mer cantile establishment. Mr. Kindley is about 75 years of age. yet he is active in both mind and body as a young man of 25. In addition to his official duties to the two cotton mills, he manages his store, and also his many farms situated all around Mt. Pleasant. To these farms he walks, and goes among them many a long mile, to an extent that would tire out the young fellows of today. Mr. Kindley. at, 75, seems to be in tiie oeyday of his physical vigor. — - ——- ■ ■ Ezell Etchings. (CorreHyorulence of The Ledger.) Exku., July 27.—The public school at New Pleasant commenced lust week with Mulchi Cash as teacher. The people should send their chil dren to him. He is u good instructor. Joseph, u son of T. H. Watson is on the sick list. A large number of our planters at tended the meeting at Cowpens Sun day. Mrs. Mary Turner, of State Line, is visiting her father, J. W. Martin, of this place. Mrs. Dollie Lamb and Sarah E. Roberts visited Miss Maggie Lawson, of Martinsville, last Sunday. Farmers have about finished laying by their crops. We hail a line shower yesterday which greatly increased the prospects for corn in this section. J.T. Scruggs and family, of Cow- pens, spent Saturday night with Mr. Scrugg's sister, at Henrietta. They returned Sunday. The new church at htute Line is complete, except one tiling—that is painting. If it hud u tout of paint it would indeed he u pretty house. J. W. Martin is on the sick list. Mrs. R. D. Scruggs, of this place, contemplates \isiting relatives and friends ut Henrietta at an early date. There was no service at Now Plea sant Sunday, on account of the revi val at Grassy Pond. Rev. It. J. Pate is pastor of botli these churches. Ri.t k Hawk. - *- —- Di) yeti feel tlull uinl nillimift a heavy tlreii ferllie/, luitl tiiMe III the iiitiuth mill mi tiver- shm In fisxlr These are Hyinutoiim of a toi- hhl liver .uni need promut attention to pre vent the <|e veloprnent. of serious kidney ills- eane. I‘MI< si.V Ami HittkMm will ..et thlnjrs iiuhl. It drlvei* out all foul matler and tin- purltjeh In the ImiwmU, htlinnl.ile'* the liver mid dltfe-Moii.eleunsei* Ihesyateui of lillltoili* jnllnenees. anil linpurtk u«eneinl feelliia of mid i lieerfulnekk. Mold hy t'lieroliie (►nig Co. Friday August traded meeting will Grover Locals. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ghovek. July 27.—This section was visited on yesterday evening by a good rein, which was very much needed as the scorching rays\f old Sol for the last few days was be^-<- ning to make things wither. 1 am sorry to report the death of Walker Love, whose sickness svas re ported last week. He died on Sat urday and was buried Sunday at An tioch. His brother Roland is down with the same disease, typhoid fever. His widowe 1 mother and the bereav ed family have our heart-fell sympa thy A revival meeting was commenced at State Line church, Grover, on last Saturday. May muebgood he accom- lisbed. The three deacons elected John McSwain, J. A. Randoll and J. R. Roberts will beordainedat Antioch on the Gth, and a pro- con tinue from this date. Jn my solution of J. L. S.’s problem last week by a typographical error I am made to state it by instead of plus. Iti.«<u question of addition and not multiplication. Whut has become of all the good road advocates of lute? Have they given up the question, or are they studying modes and methods by which tiie road question can he solved. The road problem is one that should he of vital interest to every citizen and the quicker they realize this and take hold of it the quicker it will be solved. This question con fronts them and they cant get around it. In the excitement and boom of railroad building since the war, the cause of public road construction lias been almost entirely overlooked; hut now since that is over there is a very Jive interest everywhere in road con struction and if Cherokee expects to tank as one of the progressive coun ties she must go to work to improve the condition of her public roads, as the condition of the roads of a country denote very clearly the progress of its people. They can’t get around that. Now as to methods. As yet i have seen no suggestion from anyone by which this question is to be solved in Cherokee. In the first place, and as a preliminary, before any work is done, the roads should lie surveyed by a competent road engineer, one that is thoroughly conversant with road construction and understands his business, as there are many uiaces where grades should be changed and many places the road could be very much improved by a little change of route without ma terially lengthening the distance, and the drainage should be well provided for, us it is impossile to have u good road without good drainage. The next step should be procure the very best and latest improved road roller, rock crusher, grade machinery, etc. Now the next thing to do is to go to work, and every lick of work done should be done with an eye to permanency, and not as it is done now, to last until the next big rain, but so it will he there for the use of future generations. The machinery, hands and everything else, should be placed in charge of a competant road over seer and some road should he selec ted running across the county by the county seat (as this will give the greatest good to the greasiest num ber of people) and this road should he gone over and all the bad places should he mecudumized, us rock is plentiful and in most places near ut hand in this county (the most of this labor could be done by the county chain gang), and when this road done another should be selected, and so on until all the roads are gone over and all the bad places put in good fix, then begin at the starting point again and finish up. Now the next ques tion that arises is how’ to meet the expense of this, as it is going to cost something. J will say the only way I knov. to meet the expense is by taxa tion, and I will say further that J am opposed to the issueing of bonds and running the county in debt, but with the levy of a very small tax so small that none would feel it but very lit tle, u good size force could be kept go ing alt the year, and in a few years we would see the result and when the work was done it would be “paid for and we would not have it to pay for but once; but if we should issue bonds we would have it to pay two or three times in principal and interest together. I offer these suggestions for what they are worth. I would be glad to hear from others on this sub ject; for in a county like this where the people are supposed to rub , ft they don’t express their wishes the ones they elect to represent them don’t know what they want. a. h. — Ttiey Destroy ttllcrobva. A French woman says Unit thyme, lemon, mint, lavender, eucalyptus and many other scents and poriumes are a great aid to health by destroying the mierolicH in tin* air. Hoyt’s new furee will be culled “A Run for the Train.” — - -saw . Did You Ever Try Electric Ritters us a remedy for j your troubles? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine bus been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a won derful direct infiuence in giving strength iwul tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipa* | lion, Headache, Fainting Spells, or ! are Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, ' Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Ritters is the medi cine you need. Health and Strength are guaranteed hy its use. Large bottles only fifty cents utDuFre Drug Oo.’s Store. From Allgood. (Correspondence ol The Ledger.) Ai.i/jOOD, S. C., July 27.—Messrs. J. L. Clary, J. V. i'rice. Thos. Harrell, and others, went to Cherryville, and other places in the Old North State, lust week on business. Of course they had a fine time. J. L. Clary went to the county seat Saturday, on important business. Your correspondent went over to Cowpens Saturday, on business. \V. L. Young went to Spartunb irg yesterday on business. E. L. Gardner and family, visited relatives at Clifton last week. Messrs. James and Adolphus Phil lips of Mill’s springs, X. C., accom panied by their sister, Miss Sallie, are visiting relatives here. H. D. Holland and family visited T. \Y. Price and family Saturday. Wm. Gardner and family, visited J. R. Moore's, Sunday. L. A. Turner and wife visited rela tives here Saturday and Sunday. H. D. Smith went over toCowpen's Saturday on business. He carried u load of fine watermelons. \Ye had a shower of rain yesterday evening, which was greatly needed. Many of our citizens are attending the revival meeting at Cowpens, which is being conducted by Rev. P. G. Elsom, of Danville, Va. Mr. El- soni is a good preacher, “but there are others.’’ Overseer .1. A. Harris is working our roads. All our schools are now running on full time. Acum Stacy is teaching at Macedo nia, Richmond Stacy, at Love Springs, and J. Gardner, at Thiekety Moun tain. All who are interested in the grave yard at Macedonia, are requested to meet there on Wednesday before the 2nd Sunday in August, for the pur pose of cleaning oil said grave-yard, and to finish putting up the wire fence. Crops look somewhat revived after the rain of yesterday, but are still needing more rain. A boat sails 15 miles an hour down stream, and 10 miles an hour up stream. How far will it go and re turn in 9 hours. Cokncka* kkb. •**■... « - — SPONGE GATHERERS. A TEN CENT WORLD. WHEN WORKING A TEAM. They Souietline* Turn Wreckers or Worse, It Is Hinted. Everybody connected with the sponge trade, until it gets into the hands of the brokers and shippers, is “colored”—any shade between jet black and the hue of West India molasses, says the Phila delphia Recprd. T he hands employed in washing, shipping, packing and preparing for shipment abroad are generally paid fifty cents a day for ten hours’ work. As for the men who do the dangerous part of it—those who go down to the sea in ships and wrest the sponges from the bottom—they are never hired by the day or month or promised a definite sura, but their earnings depend entire ly upon luck and circumstances. The owner of a vessel fits her ofit at his own expense and the profits of the voyage are divided up in <. .r**s be tween himself, the sailing master and the men. Each ship earries a crew of from eight to twelve men, and while the owners, as a rule, find considerable profit in the business, it is rarely in deed that a sponge fisherman does more than make a tolerable living. it is darkly hinted that on favorable oc asions when the “sponge catch” has not been good these men tarn wreck ers, an occupation verging closely upon piracy, and sometimes when no profit able wreck has turned up for months they are even tempted to decoy a ship from her proper course and lead her upon t,hc rocks by a display of false lights. The intricate navigation of th e waters, dotted by thousands of small reefs and islets, w hich can be traversed with comparative safety only by three channels, has always fur nished a demoralizing lot of flotsam and jetsam in the way of shipwrecked merchandise to Nassau. THE BADY ALARM. A New Electrical iio'isctiold ApjUlaneo ana Its I'ncu. The newest electrical household ap pliance, and in future no nursery will be complete without it, is the "baby alarm.” It often happens that in a large house, where the infant is sleep ing in a room on the upper story, the nurse cannot retire to the servants’ room, which may be on a different floor and loo far distant fur tiny to hear the child’s signal that h is awake. The in tention of t!)o baby alarm is to give warning to any required distance w hen t’he child cries. A sensitive microphone, placed near the cot. is connected to a battery and un induction coil, and thence by wires to a small electro-mag net at the end where the sound Li to bo received. When the child cries the mi crophone will set up uu undulutory cir cuit, the eleotro-maga*t will be actu ated, its oscillation will cloaks a bell cir cuit, and a bell will continue to ring as long its the sound of the baby’s voice ib sustained. As the device is at. present constructed the adjustment of the bal ance lever which is set in motion by the electro magnet U so delicate that the apparatus has to be handled with extreme care, and any bungling by uu inexperienced person is likely to de range it. Suggest 1 >ns have been made for lessening the complexity <>f the in strument, and making it a practical and durable means of enabling infants to unconsciously signal to a distance, and thus save much anxious watching on the part of those in charge. Seeds. Hill louMncHH uml coii )>t I put ton arc seeds out of wliieti sprliiif ninny of the serious dis eases tlnit utlftet the liuiiiuii tsidy. Sound judKeiuoiii would deuiund the immodlute re moval of this condition before il develops siiiiielhlnjf more trnuhleNOme und difficult to cure. I’uicKi.r Asm lirrrtnts Isa rellublecuru for cnnsUpuiiitii und disorders of similur I'humetor. Il not only thorouxhly empties mid purities Ihe bowels, but streimlheiiN the Isiwel I'hiUinels und rnxulutcw the liver Mild stomit 'b. lienee It performs n radlcul cure. Sold hy Cherokuti f)ruj( Co. HOW A JERSEYMAN EXPLAINED HIS IDEAS OF THIS GLOBE. He Made a Globe by Meltiug a Sliver Idine and Then us It Cooled Showed How the Earth, Which Was Once a Molten Mass, Cot Its Mountains and .Seas. “If any tine doubts that the earth was once a molten mas?; and that it.-i moun tain chains, its great table] Mid* and tfio recesse* for the seas were tin; results of the cooling and settling ol the surface and then it. shriveling to fit the ev» r shrinking center, let him -<•( a world made,” said the < liscrvniq J< >> ynum. “That sounds simple, ” s^id one of his hejjvrs, “but I haven’t noticed that there were any worlds 1 < ing made jr<t now upon which progress was any faster than ripht here, and I can't say that I have observed much change in this old globe since I began to watch it.” “I have in tale many globes, ” declared the Jersey man, “not nr roly insensate things to r< present what w. know of the natural and political divisions of the earth, but miniature worlds of the days of chaos, witli eve ry particle in them aglow with heat and all in motion. And then 1 have watched them be, ouie cold, immobile and dead, with black- tut d, roughened surfaces, sari it r- quir- cd no great stretch of imagination to feel that within the f, \v moments which the whole operation required one had bridged over millions of years in the history of a planet and seen it pass through every stage of its existence, from that of a light giving body to that of our own dead and desolate moon. Come with me,” he continued, “and I will show (von the history of our world since it first took form.” With that he led his little audience to a workbench and dre w forth a chunk of charcoal covered on all but one side 1 w ith plaster of paris, a blowpipe and a jeweb r’s soldering lamp. “I will make the globe of a dime,” he said. And he placed a silver 10 cent piece on the charcoal. Then lie lit the ! lump, and with the blow pip** directed the flame upon the dime. Soon the char- ! coal lx gau to glow and burn away about ) the dime in a broad hollow, and then the dime turned first black and then rod, and as it approached a whit** heat it drew itself tog* th**r until presently it was a globule of molten silver. ff you have never s* *>n such a ball of glowing, melted silver, you have missed ! one of the prettiest of sights. On the outside there forms a very thin skin of black oxide, which S'*rves, like a worn- i an s veil, to heighten tin* charms lx*- j Heath it. With the blowpipe still adding heat to tiie globe, the silver became as j liquid as water, and the gases emitted by the heat 'd charcoal made it roll , about in the hollow as mobile as quick silver, while w ithin the globe the metal could lx* seen agitated hy iptense cur rents. These currents changed their di rection us the point of flame from the blowpipe was moved from ixiint to point, and every moment th** su’-face agitation was >;o great that the rest of the oxide would break and disclose the dazzling metal beneath. All know the beauty of quieksilver, ■and many have seen the glow of melted lead or tin or the red glare of iron as it was jxiured in th** foundry or furnace, but none of these compares with the beauty of molten silver. Melted gold has u beauty of its own, but not like that of silver. The light which comes from the melted silver seems as brilliant as that from an are electric light, but not dazzling; it is white, with u tinge of heavenly violet, and the swirling metul seems translucent like a pearl of the finest water. “Now we will let it cool, ” said the Jerseyman, removing tiie blowpipe from his lips and letting ids inflated cheeks resume their natural condition. The charcoal was placed on the bench. Soon the agitation of the surface of the tiny globe of silver ceased, and the quiescence of the dull outer coating showed that a skin of metal hud coo’ed and set in place. “Now watch the mountains and val leys form and see* tiie mighty earth quakes shake th** crust,” exclaimed the Jerseyman, and as bespoke the crust, which had been smooth und even, b«g;m to wrinkle. Soim'times the wrinkles would form long continuous lines across half tin; globe. Then in spots the whole surface would pucker up and again all of these would straighten out only to form new scricsof puckers and wrinkles in other places. It was all over in half a minute, and the globe was s*4 enough to drop into u gloss of water to cook “Now look at it,” said (lx* Jcrscy- nian, handing the globe to hi* visitors und with it * strong magnifying glass. “There is a skimmer of water on it, caught in the interstices of th** rough cued surface. That is three or four times a** much water in propoiAiou as our earth has on it, so you have before you all the fcat ins <f sea and laud, mountain and valley. ” It was indeed so, and, although the* glas-'i revealed only »!m* more proiuiirf-nt of the feature-, there was no difficulty in sc* ing ai! the others with tlx mind's eye.—New York Sun. IjivIhIi With Trlt-gritiiiM. "Sending a telegram," says a Phila delphia telegraph man, "is serious busi ness for the ordinary man or woman. They think it’s expensive and only use the wires wh* n thev have to. There’s one exception, however, and a kind of complimentary business that iieist jxmi- ple would never suspect. Whenever there's a Hebrew wedding—that is, on** of any importance—w<* handle scores of congratulations, hundreds sometimes, from all parts of the country. They are sent with directions to deliver at it cer tain hour, iiiid we generally send them all to the house or the place when* the reception is held in one bunch. It’s a good thing fur the company, for the senders don’t count the words und tile (heir telegrams without, any revision. Sometime* they run up to 100 or 160 words. ” W li*-r«- to Eoliitcli, Wlirtlirr on Flow, Ear- row or Hrill. It is n f ivoriti* habit with many farm ers ami farmhands when working a team, whether on plow, harrow, drill or any other implement, to turn urcund and start on a m w track or furrow be fore unhitching at noon or at night. I have also noticed tins same prartioo* whi n one bore tools art: u *1, such <w cultivators, shovel plows, markers and the like. The reason for tins is, as one plowman explains it, to be ready to go to work again. This nv.*y Ik- very com. na ndable in the itdivid; il, but it is; a expensive notion, and, when < irenm- stuuees are just right, it ruy become very expensive. A ease of this kind is brought to notice, with the aid of an il lustration, in Farm and Fir* side: A, li, C, D represent a partly plowed field. The land, E, is buck furrowed and WHKN AM) WltKIti*: Vo t'NHITCH. ready to leave for the land, F, to be plowed by going around it or turning to tiie left. R*for* turning .-ut, incoming down the last furrow, th** t* am turns the corner a, travels across the hack fur row land, E, which js about 10 paces wide, turns tlx* corner a* h. travels up the furrow until the plow is started and is here stopped and unhitched. It is then turned clear around, comes down around the plow, turns the corner at b, travels back across tix* same land and is then ready to start for the stable, the direc tion indicated by the arrow. After din ner, when the team arrives at a, it trav els across the same land xnd makes the various turns a third time, ail for the purpose of “being ready to goto work. ” The proper way w ould be, as shown ut G, to step and unhitch at cus soon as the plow is thrown out, follow tlx* di- r< etiou marked by the arrow, and, afte r taking our nooning, come back to c. hitch to the plow and go to work. In comparing the two methods we notice that all the travel marked by the dotted lines at u and b is entirely useless. All that is necessary to accomplish the same object is the travel indicated by tbo full lines at *• and d. This may seem like a small matter, but when work is crowding time is money, and these daily rep ated wastes amount to something in time and help. Srm Island Cotton. t It is told in a monograph on t!x/cot ton plant by Professor Dabney that at present the sea island cotton is chiefly in the hands of small farmers of the colored race, who an* wholly occupied in securing a hare sub fist* nee. He says: “It is doubtful if there is any local monopoly of tlx* production of long sta ple cotton. It has been grown sucee?*- fully in tiie up country, more than 1< o niihs from the doust, und all of ti e seed from which the finest seu Islam 1 cotton has been derived came in : < seed planted in the interior of South Carolina for several years during the late war. When in Florida, the culture of this flue staple is restored to the in telligent class that originally practiced it—that is, the present orange growers— there is good reason for believing that not only may the texture and quality of the fiber be much improved, but that the business of growing it may be made much more profitable.” Exj*»-ri«‘uce lu fcubiiuiliug. All farmers cun subsoil, while com paratively few can irrigate. The ma jority will perhaps then be interested in the following remarks made by a Kansas Farmer correspondent: All land except that w ith a sandy or gravelly subsoil will pay to subsoil. Subsoiliug, as practiced and understood at tlx* pres ent, does not consist in turning tlx* sub soil upon tix* surface, but simply break ing up and itM/M ning the, subsoil as deep us possible, and the deeper tlx* better, so that the water will readily pa-s from the surface to tliis loose subsoil that acts us a reservoir, retaining tlx* water for the future use of the plant* on the sur- faee above. With the sn! soil thorough ly loosened Hi to 20 inches de* p the heaviest rainfall we ordinarily have, non*- will run off or remain eit the sur face very long after tlx* rain is over, but will, as above stated, lx: held for tho use of the plants on the surface. Id the Cottmi Field. At tlx* Georgia station IX vari* ties of cotton wen* t<. r< d. Tlx* largest yield of lint‘(611 pounds per acre) was made by King Improved, which stood fourtli in the yield of Hi*< d cotton and seed, thir- t< eiitli in size of boll and second in earli- fn a comparative trial of Jones Improved and King Improved tiie latter yielded J,75tt pounds of si* *1 cotton per acre, surpassing Jones Improved by 108 pounds und in money value of yield by $0.27 per acre. Nrws aud Notes. It appears to have been conclusively proved that electricity hunt*'us the dis semination of seeds. Thrifty growth, frequent transplant ing anil careful hardening are the se crets of strong, tough, eu’iy vegetable plants. Professor Bailey has suorecdod in grafting tiie tomato upon potato stems. A contributor to The Orange Judd Farmer says that club root follows whm hog manure i* put upon cabbage grouini. LJOOD’S Sarsaparilla has ove*-^iud over again proved by Its etiivs, when all other preparations failed, that il U tiie One True BLOOD Purifier, UL .