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THE NEWS AND HERALD. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY -BY 9 E g S AND hIERA.LD COMPANY, cgac, IN ADVANCE: Oae Year, - - - 83.oo sit Months. - - - 1.50 WINNSBORO, S. C. Saturday, July 2, - - - 1898. THE MERCHANTS AND REVENUE STANPS. The number of merchants afl',cted by the War Revenue Act are much greater in this section than many people suspect. Of coarse, they will haye to affir stamps to their bank checks and other evidences of business transactions just as other people. The following extract from Schedule B of the Act may be of special interest to many of our merchant readers: "Medicinal proprietary articles and preparations: For and upon every packet, box, bottle, pot, or phial, or other inclosure, containing any pills, powders, tinctures, troches or lozenges, irups, cordials, bitters, anodynes, tonics, plasters, drops, waters, (except natural spring waters), essences, spirits, oils, and lall medicinal prepa rations or compositions whatsoever, made and sold, or removed for sale, by any person or pers )ns wha=ever, wherein the person making or pre paring the same has or claims to have any private formals, secret or occult art for the making or preparing the same, or has or claims to have any ex clusive right or title to the making or preparing the same, or which are pre - pared, uttered, vended, or exposed for sale under letters patent, or trade _ mark, or which, if prepared by any formula, published or unpublished, are held out or recommended to the public by the makers, venders,. or proprietors thereof as proprietary .medicined, or medicinal proprietary articles or preparations, or as remedies or specifics for any disease, diseases or affection whatever affecting the human or animal body, as follows: Where such packet, box, bottle, pot, phial or other inclosure, with its c ,n tents, shall not exceed, at retail price or value, the sum of five cents, one eighth of one cent." When the retail .price or value ex coeds five and not over ten cents, two. eighths of one cent is the tax; exceed ing ten cents and not ovar fifteen cents, three-eighths of one cent; ex ceeding fifteen cents and not exceed twenty-five cents of retail price or value or fractional part thereof in ex cess of. twenty-five cents, ~five eighths of one cent. For instance if any of the above article sells for twenty-six cents, the tax would be lHe or ten one-eighths revenue stamps. "Perfumery and cosmetics and other similar articles: For and upon every packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other inclcsure containing any es sence, extract, toilet water. cosmetic, vaseline, petrolatum, hair oil, pomade, hir drersing, hair restorative, hair dye, tooth was, dentrifice, tooth paste, aromatic caohons, or any similar sub stance or artiCle, by whatsoever ns;me the same heretofore have been, now are, or may hereafter be cal'ed, known, or distinguished, used or applied. or to be used or applied as perfumes or as applications to the hair, month, or skin, or otherwise used, made, pre pared, and sold or removed for -con sumption land sale" **when the retail priee or value does not exceed five cents, one-eighth of one cent. The rates are the same on the-e articles as in the case of proprietar~ 'medicines. Chewing gum or subst : t. s~ there for come inftor a share of the war taxes. "For and upon each box, cartoon, jar, or othei package contain ing chewing gum of not more than one dollar of actual retail value, four cents; if exceeding one dollar of re tail value, for each additional dollar or fractional part thereof, four cents, under such regulations as the commis sioner of Internal Revenue" &r. The tax on the articles abo've men tioned will be paid'- by the manufac turers. Of course, only those drug gists, for instance, who have their special formula for the hair, the teeth, &c., will have the tax to pay. But they will have to pay a tax on all these articles now in their hands. The language of the Act is: "That all articles and preparations provided for in tnis schedule which are in the hands of manufacturers or of wholesale or -retail dealers on the first day of July, eighteen hand:-ed and ninety-eigh, shall be subject to the payment of the stamp taxes." Retail dealers may affix the stamps at the time the packet, bor, bottle or phial is sold. Bobbed the Grave. A startling incident of which Mlr John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: "I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain contin ually in back and sides, no appette gradually growing weaker day oy day. Three physicians had given m.e up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying 'Electric Bitters,' and to my great joy and Burprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well msn. I know they saved my life and robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cents per bottle at McMaster Co.'s drug store. 6 MECKLENBRG CO TY WHE AT. History of Mr. Oliver's 250 Acres---He Finds that the Same Land that He has in the Past Raised Cotton on Pays Far Better la Wheat. WVihmington Star. The New York Journal of Co.n merce and Commercial Bulletin of Tuesday contains and interesting let ter from Mr. Fred Oliver, of Char lotte, ou the subject of whoat culture, showing what had been done on his farm in Mecklentburg county in the way of grawing wheat. The letter is written in reply to an editorial which bad appeared in the Journal of Com merce and Commercial Bulletin, warn ing Southern farmers against rushing into wheat growing as a substitute for cotton, with the expectation of getting high prices and making money. One of the reasons given was that Southern farmers could not compete with the farmers of the best wheat growing sections of the Northwest. This is a feature of the editorial to answer which the letter is mainly in tended. As it tells of what has been actually accomplished on a North Car olir.a farm we produce it as a matter of public interest and an object lesson to other farmers. It reads: "Sir: Your editorial entitled 'South ern Cotton, Corn and Wheat,' pub lished Wadnesdav, March 30th, con tains several statements that I believe can and will be proven incorrect. "First, you claim wheat cannot be grown South in competition with th productive wheat fields in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Seond, that the present incentive to grow wheat Soutb, viz.: present high price, will not con tinne, or at least is not likely to con tinue very long. It% answer to the first will state the writer has charge of 250 acres of land, on which, for the past five years, cotton has been culti vated on 200 acres, raising from three quarters to one bale per acre; 175 bales of 500 pounds each having been pro ducd last season from 200 acres of land. The balance of the lacd was i' corn, fifty ,cres, producing twenty five bushels per acre. To produce a bale of co; on per acre requires fer tilizing very heavilr, abont $10 worth per acre. To produce cotton, only one crop per year can be grown, and the expensa for labor to cultivate, pick, gin and market is et least two times as great as it is to cultivate and harvest a crop of wheat "If wheat is grown the same land will produce another crop the same year of any of the following: corn,. cow peas, Irish and sweet potatoes and peanuts, and these crops can be harvested in ample time to piow and sow the land in wheat again the same fall, and a continuation of a crop of wheat and one of any of the above named crops can be -grown each year on each acre for an indefinite period of time. "If the same amount of fertilizer per year be used on the two crops as is necessary to grow a bale of cott per acre, you can produce a of wheat equal to, if not a = yield per acre than can be p cd on the~ world famed Minne and Dakota farms, and a second crop of any of the before mentione ducts will bring enough cas pay all expenses of growi two crops, leaving the w Qp as the net profit. ..ae whole 250 acres of land men ned is now in winter wheat, and as .tO0 acres were last season in cotton, the wheat was very late in being sown. Fertilizer to the amount of $5 per acre was used and drilled in with the wheat. The present condition of this 250 acres is -Lhe wonder of the whole farming element of this country, and the present estitaates of the yield per acre, provided there is no disas trous weather, is from "30 to 50 bushels; probably 40 bushels will be harvested on the avearage. "This wheat crop wlli produce at least two tons of straw per acre, which will bring $5 to $8 per ton. "The wheat will be followed by a crop of cow peas to make cow pea hay, and by the use of $5 worth of fertilizer per acre, at least three tons of bay can be gathered, which will sell from $12.30 to $23 per ton. "There will be raised on each acre 40 bushels of wheat at $1 per bushel, $40; 2 tons straw, $10; 3 tons cow pea hay, $35; total, $85; expense of frtilizer, $10 per acre for the t wo crops, same as to raise a bale of c )tton that may bring 5c. per pound, or $25, or perhaps only 4c. or $20, and per haps at most., 8c. or $40. The two crops of wheat and cow peas hay can be grown, harvested and sold at no greater expecse than necessary to raise a bale of cotton per acre. "As to the price wheat wili bring, te South certainly has the best chance to get the top of the market. Why? Because any shortage wil! usually make prices higher for May, June and July than for August and September and October. The con:dition this year will be on an average the condition every year and the greatest scarcity from previous crops will make hiehest prices during May, June and July, tbe three months that the Southern wheat can be placed on the market. The lowest prics will generally be i August,'September and October, when Northern wheat comes on the market, unless it is shown during these months that the .vorld's harvest is short, in which case August, September and October would be higher months then May, June and July preceding, but the Soth would he the gainer in the end as the new crop woald be sold at still higer prices on account of the shortage develoed in the crop previously har vested. "I claim the Southerd States will in the future he able to not only raise all the wheat they need, but beoome sell ers of more dollars worth than the last crop of cotton brought them. 'Yours truly, Fred O:iver. P. S. -The above answer to your editorial of March 30th was written April 2d, but was not sent then as I concluded to wait till the wneat was harvested. The crop has been cut, and enongh threshed to show the yield will be at lcast 33 bushels per ecre and nerhap; 4:). I will be able to sell, the entire crop for sed a; the farmers are determined to do whct others hare shown can he dure, viz : grow whea.t to use and to -ell. The editor t' w hom this is addressed, publihes it cheerifully but answrers it; in a lengthy editorial, in Ewhich he: freey- concedes all that Mr. Oliver says in reference to his succss and| congrat lates him on it, but contends that if it were practicable tcr the ! farmers of the South to succeeda well as Mr. OlIver has and to raise 40 . bushels of wheat to the acre, and I many of them we t iengage in whe.at| culture, the pr::e woulV be so low th=.t I they would find themselves nto better| off than when they were growing 0: cent cotton. B>t as tere i~ little! AegeEgblePrep prationforAs siaating theFoodandRegula tinig t tnmacs sandWowels of romoteSTh estion,Cheerful ness _-1 s oFais eith er Opium;M i swrligeral. NOT NARCOTIC. A fet for Constipa to S, uf' O1Dach,Diarrhdea/ Worms,Convulsions.feverish ness aIdLOSS OF SLEEP. TacSimile Signatue of NEW YORK. EXACT COP''OF WRAPPFR, South engaging so <xtensively in wheat culture, at least for some sears to come, the farmer who thinks of growing wheat need not be deterred by the fear of low prices. He can surely count on a home market at a fair price for all the wheat he may grow even if he exceeds Mr. Oliver's 35 to 40 bushels to the acre. Heretofore the bulk of wheat ground by Southern mills, and also the bulk of the flour used, came from States north of us, not for the sole reasa that they were cheaper than Seattfern grain or flour, but because~'tbe mills could not co a full supply of outhe - grown wheat. Whether ay be seductive profit in wheat culture in the South or not there is certainly no question that it will be as profitable on any farm adapted to s culture as cotton has been for some ears past, and if the methods Ipursued y Mr. Oliver be generally pursued, nd anything like tbe same results be chieved, growers can afford to sell heat at 60 cents or less a bushel and ten make more money than they have ade for several years in growing oton. That such resuits are practicable is stablished by the. success of others efore Mr. Ollver, and by other farm rs in otber partsy of the State. Mio. lier 1s simnply doing by his method hat other North Carolina farmers ho practice thorough culture have one by their methods, :and every one f them has given, as Mr. Oliver is ow doing, a striking object lesson, sowing what can be done by proper ethods, and showing also that North arolina might become a great wheat rowing State. Mr. Oliver's farm is on the suburbs f Charlotte and there are other farms ot far from Charlotte, which not any years ago were so poor as to be cosidered practically worthless, which y judicious cultute have been brought o such a state of fertility that they annot be surpassed in productiveness y the best grain-growing lands in the est. We have seen both and know hereof we speak. There are farm ers in Guilford and Randolph counties ho would not be satisfied with thirty ushels of wheat to the acre, and oldn't think they had done anything very extraordinary with forty bushels o the acre, and we have known in stances wherc on small tracts of land s high as fifty bushels to the acre have been produced in other counties. hese are .exceptions, of course, but ey are proof of the possibilities of oth Carolina soil under good, sys matic culture and show what a comn bination of such laud and the intelli gent, industrious and persevering man an do. One man might accomplish some fat of skill, strength or endurance that not ene other man in a thousand might accomplish, but in farming with the same character of land, nine undred and nInety-nine men out of a houeand can do what the one does by ursing the same methods and -:xer cising the same intelligence, industry, and perseverance. We congratulate Mr. Oliver on his fne object lesson and his splendid ad vertisement of North Carolina as a heat-growing State. For Over Fif ty Years. MS. WIN~SLow's SOOTHIN~G SYRUP as been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. ~ soothes the child, softens the gums, alays all pain, cures wind colic, and is e best rem.edy for diarrhos. It will rlieve the po~or little sufferer imme iately. S3old by druggists in every part of the world. 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Through Pulhlman drawing room buffet sleeping cars be tws-tn Jacksonvillo and New Yorkc and Pnll man ske-.ping ears between Augusta and Char Mite. Pullman sleeping cars between JTack sonvil.- and Columbia. en route daily bet ween *( .Tack.wa :ville and eincinnati. via Asheville. FRANK S. t.ANNON, J. M. CULP, Third V-P. & Gen. Mgr. T. MI., Washington. W. A. TURK. S. H. HARDWICK, ANNOUNCEMENTS. [Candidat' cards $5 cash, without ny exception whatsoever.] FOR PROBATE JUDGE. I hereby announce myself as a can idate for re-election to the office of udge of Probate; subject to the Dem cratic primary. S. R. JOHNSTON. 1 hereby announce myself a ca%di ate for the office of Probate Judge ar Fairfield County, subject to the ction of the Democratic primaries. JNO. J. NEIL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I hereby announce myself a candi late for re-election to a seat in the louse of Representatives from Fair ield County; subject to the actio : of he Democratic primaries. J. G. WOLING I offer for re-election to the Gener. assembly, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. R. A. MEARIES. The friends of Mr. E. B. RAGSDALE espectfully nominate him for the House of Representatives, subject to he Democratic primary. I hereby announce myself a ca,di late for election to the General As sembly, subject to the primary. J. B. MORRISON. The friends of Capt. W. J. JoIx sox respectfully place him in nomina tion for the House of Representa+ives, subject to the result of the Democratic primaries. ' The friends of Hon. R. Y. LEMMON cnnounce him for re-election to the General Assembly, subject to the Dem ocratic primaries. COUNTY TREASURER. I hereby announce myself-a candi date forTreasurerof Fairfield County, subject to the -iction of the Demor:atic primaries. W. W. CROSLY. I hereby announce myself a candi date for Treasurerof Fairfleld County, subject to the action of the Demo cratic primary e primaries. HUGH S. WYLIE. P1e friends of Mr. J. R. CURLEE present his name to the voters of Fair field Count.y as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject the result cf the Democratic primaries. COUNTY SUPERVISOR. I hereby announce myself a candi date for County Supervisor of Fair field; subject to the action of the Democratic primaries. JNO. A. STEWART. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office -of County Supervisor of Fairfield County, subject to the action of the D)emocratic primaies. B. G. TENNANT. For the office of Supervisor of Fair field County, I hereby announce my self a candidate, subject to the action of the Democratic party as expressed through the primary election or elec tions. . S. B. CRAWFORD. I he:eby announce myself a candi date for the apce of County Supervisor for Fairfield,- sdineLaet-e-e the Democratic prmary election. G.Y. LANGFORD. For the offie of Supervisor of Fair field County, I hereby announce my self a candidate, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries. J. B. BURLY. I hereby annonce myself as a can didate for the offce of Supervisor for Fairfield County, subject to the action of the Democratic primary or prima ries. T. C. LEITNER. COUNTY AUDITOR. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the off:e of County Auditor, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries. J. L. RICHMiOND. The many friends of J. A. BALLEE TflE announce him as a candidate for the office of Auditor for Fairfield County, believing that he will su.cess fully fill the same if he is elected. COUNTY SUPT. EDUCATION. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of County Suiperin tendent of Education for Fairfield County, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries. T. MI. BOULWA RE. The many friends of Mr. D. L. STEVENSON respectfully nominate him for re-election to the office of Supe-in tendent of Education, believing t.hat the improved condition of the puElic schools is conclusive proof that he is le right man in the right place; sub ject to the action of the Democra'ic party. The friends of Mr. WV. LEON ios IRoROUGH present his name to the Demi ocratic voters of Fairfield County as a candidate for the office of County Superintendent of Education. Mir. Rosborough is an experienced teacher and his friends believe that his nomi nation would be a wise selection. --WE SELL 1BUGGIES, SURREYS, L ADIES' PH'ET ON'S FLOORING, CEILING ri EAT1IER-BOARDING(4, SHINVGLES, LLIE, mnd GROCERIES of every1 kind. M. W D)OTV & CO We F C4 ~ Fr.w Y anpruv ponden 3omething :o Please You. When you cannot decide what to drink, TRY Red dhceina range. Cberqy 1Ripe, Cherrv lice. 'tangerine. JOSIAH4JTEE loI .OBE FOUNTAIN. PtCla -CALL QN~4 BLE TO UY EST GBARGAINS. HAINI,ESS1 AND OLUMBIAS HEAP FOR JASH. ON'T ELAY. FHE POPE MANUFACTURING CO. are prepared to furnish Bicycles this season at prices --TO SUIT ALL. b Celebrated Chainles - $125 0t Lhe .5 per cent Nickle, 1898 models, are "Standard of the World," -- - - -75- 0. *c!umbia models, No. 44, - - 60 00 lart ford, 1853 patterne, 7 an~d 8 50 00 Jait ford, 1898 Vedet tes, 15k 16 40 00 iartford, 1898 Vedettes, 17 &18 8500C airtford, 1898, Jack and Gill, 30 06 Svrybody knows what the 5 per ent Nickel Columbias are. Many Hr.rtfords are ridden in Winns oro. Ask the riders what their record . We iit rest our claims on what hey say. They stay out of ;epair hops anid run1 ''so easy." All of the abovc are made by the ope Manufacturing Co., which is a naranitee of rood w orkma8nship. If sou want a cbcap s-cound-hand ?he, we can furnish you one from 0 up, but these wheels are not r,nte d. "You take what you ORDAN & UAVIS AGENTS. 19, J WINNSBORO, S. C. urnish Estimates, )struct Entire Exchanges, Private Lines, and Other Electrical Works. you think a Telephone connection would e your business, write to us. Corres e;solicited. Oar advice for the asking TiE EAY RUIIN&l "hO SEHOL" . Ho THE MOST MODERN SEWING MACHINE OF THE AGE, EM L BRACING ALL OF THE LATEST IMPROVE ' IMENTS. Unequaled for - Durability, Range of Work, andSinplicitv Old Sewing Machines taken in ex change. - Telere wanted in uO texri tory. Correspondence solictd Address J. IL1) BRBM8IIRmm GENEEL AGENT~ EBEL BUILDING~ 6 ~and Mules 10 GOOD YOUNG MULES. 5 COM1MON AGED *O OD D_ WORK MULES, all brdken, sound and straight. 12 GOOD SADDLE HORSES. .* -; 12 GOOD MA RES, young and well 9 Ibroken. Also a few PLUG HORSES and.... a Jew PLUG MULES. - I will sell the above stock cheap for - cash or on time until fatll on good paer; or I will exchardge any of them for broken down stock. One good, heavy team of mules. MILCH COWS,.-I still have a few on hand and will sell them or exchange them for dry cattle. I will pay the hghest cash price for a lot of young, poor cattle, that will do to pastiare, at Winnsboro. IA. WILLIFORD. IPROPRIETOE. - DR, J. B, BRO OKS, Late phy sician in charge of the Keeley Institute at Hot 'Springs, Ark. and the Tri-Elixiria Remedy Co., Memphis, Tenn.,!has opened a private insti tute at Hot Springs for the treat Iment of CoI Mo'hi W i t,Oinn~ i And all diseases that come to this great health resort, such as rheumatism, neuralaia, in somnia, nervous, blood, liver, kidney and stomach c o m-. plaints. His home treatment for thie whiskey and drug habit can be sent' to-any address. Cor respondience solicited and con fidential. igleferences: A ny banker or city oficial of Hot Sprir.gs. 12-1-97 SENT FREE to housekeepers Lifluig COIPAI'8 Extrat of BeIf' COOK BOOK telling how to prepare many.dell cate and delicious dishes. Addrss, Liebig Co., P. 0. Box, 2718