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.' I } JONG Trouble Lung troubles, each as * pleurisy or acuto inflammation of the lungs, should bo carefully treated to avoid serious consequences. These ailments are quickly overcome by the prompt use of Dr. Bull's Couch syrup, a wonderful remedy, which always Rives relief at once, ejises coughing, allays all inflammation, and by its healing influence soon.cfl'ecls a thqjpongh cure. Dr.Btslr? Cough Syrup Cures all LuWtJ and Throat Trouble. Doses are sinall and pleasant to take. 1 >octor? recommend it. l'rice js cents. At all *1 ruagists. LANCASTER ENTERPRISE Published Every Wednesday and Saturday HY The - Enterprise - Publishing - Company A. J. CUARK K<litor, One ^eaV{ . $ 1.00 Six Months, 50 cts Three Months 25 cts In Advance. (Saturday, January 21, 18JM). TOO MUCH COTTON IS BEING RAISED. Commissioner of Agriculture <1. 1). Stevens Issues Circular Letter to Farmers. Uommisioner of Agriculture < >. B. Stewons has sent out to the farmers of the State a letter fni; to the brim with advice ami suggestions as to the conduct of their affairs during the year 18hlh He savs: "The beginning of the new year is upon us and 181)8, with all ithopes and disappointments, is a thing ol the past. It will be weii for each of us at this time, befnrwo commence our woik for tinyear, to take a calm and thought ful view of the situation and then * - ^ to act as become sensible m.-n. What, then, do we lind to tie the i con lition of the average tieorgi i firmer at this time? After woi i.e'State ng twelve months' to make an i of thexather a large cotton erop, has I:.' 1'W any money left from its sale* ! say emphatically no." With this hrief introduction 3 the commissioner proceeds v.ith ,?aTe a rovibW ?f fhc lato year in acnssed-h culture, and he paints a picture ire aillithat is by no means cheerful, 'Those farmers are fortunate in!r k'dn eed," he says, "who have been i p rolor. y ina\ bl? to pay the debt* incurreu by from slehem in making ttio last cotton Igi i, hraiiop, the vast majority having ?m and -jnpaiil accounts against them either for guano, meat, corn m r goods of other kinds." He aUo saya that the average fJeorgia l.nrner has not a proper supply ? ! is it , i. corn, oats, hay and Indoor to i?ed / his cattle during the win'.-i ; i,?t he lacks home made meat, lloui and syrup to feed himself, ami that he is, generally speaking, in a pretty* bad wa.v^ut the start ?>l the new year. 0* ? TUE COMMISSIONER'S AliVICK. 71 fiesardini; the future, .Mr. St" ven* takes .t more optimistic ' .view, and he writes at length hi* (111 III<1 nderfi advice to the farmers. Moiled *y, S down into a few words, if is to <tre?? grow less cotton and borrow ! '!?n' monev. IlnSaya: ?hit '"Shall we continue to prow and sell cottoryd>elo?v tho cost of pro notion to the great delight of ha', " , e of mankink, whocare K for onr sufferings) until uin overtakes us, or shall e a united and determin in abundance, and thus make our sc I cotton crop an absolute surplus? p I see no hope for our farmers save tl to adopt the latter nlnn and stick hi to it regardless of the price of u< j cotton. Don't delude yourself tr with the idea that you:* neighbors tc will diminish their cotton acre- tl age and th erefore you will in-jp crease yours in Ihe hope of get- hi ting a good price. There could 'at I be no greater mistake of judg j 01 ment than this, ns the selfiish far- j rc j mer so acting will find to his cost! n ! at the end of the season. p "For thirty three years we have P' relied on cotton alone with which to purchase everything else. Dnr- 11 ing that time we have made not w less than '20,000,000 bales, worth j ata moderate estimate fully $800,- D :000,000. What has become of this, I vast amount of monev, which, if i * i I kept at home would have made I R( ' us one of the richest states in the i n union I It has all gone to pay the K farmers and manufacturers of the north and east for supplies of various kinds, every item of which ^ we could and should have produced within our own borders. g Suppose wo had made only 10,000,000 hales in tho past thirty- ' three years, and in addition had J j produced all the supplies that we i 7' f ' have bought, from other states, i? , I c it not self evident that we would j bo better oil' by $400,000,000 than j j we are at present? The entire 0 property of the state, cities in-ir j eluded, i* nnvv hut a little iivor ,l I $400,000,000, and flit* farmers of r ! Georgia ought to h ivo 'men richer '' i hy thn vast amount, had they not 1 heen deluded hy the all-cotton ' I i a 1 lacy. ^ P | VAl.t'K OK IUVKKSII1IM CHOI'S. |r "iiMok around von in votir dif-'o ! itl ! ferent cornnmn:ti??s and note the v j successfuI farmer-; ??f your ar- 1 n I <|iiiunfa tiev ; invariably yon will! v | find them to he the men who d I have diversified their crops and a j raised 'heir own supplies. No o i state of section can prosper that f relies entirely on one crop. Kan-!c l sas tried it with wheat, until |, most of h"r farm* were mort-1 ! sr9ir<Mi, and sh?? was onlv saved ? I from utter ruin, it is said, hy tho ^ "hen and the cow." Now with di-!p v< rsitied farming. she is again on () 1 t he road to i>t?. r11y- ll * I w t< :i? v f>? t ruer to farmers, j ^ ' know it: ; and appreciating the* a ' c!ifficiilti???i in the way, hut I he- n lieve they cur :t!! he overcome hv )i a persistent am! dermined efl'ort t hi the riirht direction. I hy no j t!ie 11,advise ??*"* abandonment v 1 of notion ciilfnr , for we have no ' h of her v. o-.ev ,,r >p ' put which we' ? ' 'a:, wit!) ?!>-(.' ,< .<>>rt:tintv de- ( ' pea 1 ; !. |1 ! ! . urge nihil) and I] ' I '[plead with eaen iu ! I'Vcrv tdrnnT r ! if, tj... >?.?. ,, ;,! (. nl no s,r i cot- h : ? n 'i . ) ! 1 o'attted -neh an ?| at. ' end) '.') ! every <?!h r ? eron rli<* will crow on his Ian ! h that, i ' '*!> " j tie drv or wet. e ro> v111 I ' Mr. 1 -d* aah i:i 1 j 'sin) and * ! ;? I provision crop-. . n addition ' > let pr .per at a fention l?" 'j i v n ft... rai< ing of 'd all 1.1 >! ', ;>;jrtii"j!ar!v a <M" I ! '. hog' ' <: ; ! t r v. With ^ j>r<i! i inanity 11. ?i if is *?;iir ^ :iti 1 cheap -i Jor.ti*" a pound of pork or a ?> -ni r? f of any kind of poultry than ir ?- r raise a pound of cotton, an ! ya j> >nii<I of pork i'i worth as much an I a i pound o*' poultry from two to j three times as much : a pound ? of cotton. The papers stated fhat Atlanta alone u?od |(t,ttOh turkeys on Thankngiving Day, and ! von| ture to nay ttiat nine-tenths of 's them came from TenneMoe and r Kentucky. What a commentary ? ' on jour method of farming ! p J ''A good beginning ha? been n AU ' ' ' motion in the p >wing of the lament wheat crop robably in the late history of io State. A fair crop of fall oata an also been planted, but the :*reago should be doubled or ebled without delay. Prepare > plant a good corn crop, not lens lan ten to twelve acres to the low; and be sure to either| roadcast field peas in your corn r tbe last plowing, or drop them a, or by Uie side of tbe corn! nvs at the second. Then prepare nt less than five acres to the; low for such crops as ground pas. potatoes, sugar cane, millet, fc. After that, put ten acres and o more in cotton, regardless of ho may advise you to the con-1 ary. A crop like this will give you venty-five acres to the plow, nd that is enough for north leorgia, though in middle and mth Georgia a few more acres | light be cultivated in corn or j roundpeas." KKK1* OUT OF DEBT. After citing other instances of he name sort or in the game line | 'ommufiioner Stevens concludes ( h follows : "Buy as little guano as possible, j ut use all ihe home-made fertili- ' ers that you can get together be- J ween this and planting tirno'i top buying hoehandles, ax helves, ames and other things that you \ an and should make at home on , ainy days. Never go to town with ' n empty wagon, but always car-1 v something to sell, if only a >ad of wood* Buy nothing on redit if you can posi'olv avoid it. I let tar sufF??r some privations than 1 o in debt. If we would be inde-! endent and prosperous, we must arm on the lines suggested. No ther road will lead us out of the ' foods io which we are now al ^ % aoat hopelessly lost?but if wo 1 fill follow the course I have eneavored to bla/e out, we will in; short time be a happy, prosper- : us ?ud contented people. "In the laudable effort to be-. ,.~ir ..11 ' nillir -Mil!*'<l I III ll|?, ?tl| III 11H I end a hand. Tlit' merchants and ho landlords can greatly aid in ho good work by out insisting hat their customers and tenants; hall plant a large cotton crop in rder to get supplies. This course, ithorto pursued, has resulted in reatlv increasing the cotton ' relive, to the serious injury ? 1 nav even say almost ruin?of all lands concerned. If they would rv the Oj-.pobite course, exten 1ng aid and credit only to those /ho make their food, supplies, iow lifr??rent and how gratifying /mild be the result. 1 appeal pariculnrl." merchant'', who, iy 'heir insistence on a large c.ot n acreag ? before cr.oli? w mid ie extended, have practic illy killod t!i" irooso tint i a i < 1 t 'i o ?'js.r.* I.r?t tlK'tn'I'mMi ahmit' il l ret'uso rro lit t'<th>?ii ciatoni' ro who I'juv fontomplnte pin it' tu" n I ir .<- rott'T, :?.Tvi*yo. If n-'h :i < inr^f slioul>o h il op t oi 1 m 1 fsrri" I out, it :ioo?Ij mo :tift t roptiocv to forot??I! flint >1 vn-! oioiirit itr pi.v.-rtv mill ?11 fTorit?ir ,* :iM to* I hiii-Ii 1 from our tato."?< 'oust Itiition. Allowed Drunken Judge. I J;iloi_'ii. N. <.I.umiiirv 1>.? 1 n oiiutiioi was toda> iiitro iiii'il into tin' 111 iii *0 o! tin* <1011 r.il A~-? ; n I?!v ol Nor ill ' ;iin!ina hiking t?? iIk* imjmmi'limcnt ot V. .1. Norwood, .1 initio o| the u;?orior < 'oiirl in tin* lL'tli jinli i:iI district, on a olurire oMrunk nnos?. A ronimiltoo will bonp oinfed f11 jn\estisiato t lie ad vis bilifv of impoaehrnon' md ? ? ort back to t be I louse. ~ r V i A J * To Disqualify Lynchers. Mr. Dargan, of Darlington, as reported. introduced in the House on Tuesday, a hill aimed at the , lynching evil, the terms of which are as follows : i! That after the approval of this j v Act, in addition to the oath re | <|uired hy Section 2t>, Article! * III. of the Constitution, members I' of the General Assembly, all ofli I, cers, whether State, county or J , municipal, before they enter upon J the duties of their offices, and all ! | members of the Bar, before they! 1 enter upon the practice of their;', profession, shall take and sub scribe the following: "I do fur- . ther solemnly swear (or affirm} that I have not. since the 1st day J of January, in the year of our t Lord one thousand, eight hundred f and ninety-nine, engaged in any ' lynching of any human being ( where death ensued therefrom, i as accessory before the fact, as ' principal, or was present aiding, ' abetting or counselling the same.1 and that 1 will not so engage in ' any such lynching during the' term of ofliee to which I have been elected (or appointed. 1 So i help me God." Mrrthiff of the fount if Alt inner. There will he a meeting of thp i eountv Alliance, at. the Court! House Fridav, January, 27th. Delegate* who were elected to a previous meeting will serve as delegates to this one. K. R. LiNt;l.K, J. M. Kmuht. Pres. Secv. Wastkp?Horse Hides, Cow ! Hiees. Mule 11 ides. < lout 1 lidos and Sheep Hides. Highest market price paid. Call at tlioj Young market. Capkus Cantiikn. Jan. 11. 1SW). It. !fo*To-ltar for Fifty frutii. ?Suar;iiitr<*?1 to*?a?vo haM? < ?mv tduUcs I HK'U NiruUk'i blood Dure. Ail - i Smallpox in Sumter County Virtually Coded. Dr. Kvans savs that whole fatn- : ilies have been sick with the smallpox, and in one house lie j found <ix cases. At another house where ho wont the door , Was opened bv a negro WO 111 Mil . who had the disease and inside j was being eonducted a (jutltiug party, mam ??:" the ailendants on , which had th * Siliaii|>o\ li.it did not seem to ,?o at all alarmed about it. The negroes, al ter their lirst sickness, did not mind the disease and went around with the lumps," as they called t lie J eruption I'liose who have re I covered are (dainty "pitied." atel tie l"e l- it it the !"ii| loulP f t i|e genuineness oi the smallpox al though its term, is mild ai d no deitlis have lioeo reported, but so lit e ol ! lie ca>??> have been ot a more malignant type than the majority. i lie people have heell vaccinated almost entirely and lne epidemic is under conti'd. Hotter than we can ask or think H what will ?>e ^lNcri to it w<? mo love < io'l that wo trn^t Mini wli??r?? wf cannot trace Him Tin* man who ha* I?in 1 If our nod t!io ln*a vio if !? ? r i n i * t he oiio who i' rciilie*' at, 1 .1J?! -1 t help other I:<-:?vv-1 :< ! n -oiiM. < >ne who can :;iv?' th?> imprest* ion of quietiiii'le lias hIwhv* m certain power over other*. ' R?r? the yf hit Kind You Haw Always Bwgtit i l< * m The New Administrator. Governor Willi iin I J. Kllerbo _ ? ind Lieutenant (Jnvernur .M. K. jflB VlcSweeney were inducted into^^^ >iIico Wednesday. The ceremoues attending the chalice of Ad- _ niuistrutinn were brief, not lastng over twenty minutes altojetlier. There was nothing unexpected or remarkable about the -xerrises. It would have been liliicult to have made the ceremony more formal or brief. Sev- ~ ?ral hundred visitors, at most, jit .vitnossed the swearing in of the tovernor. The young ladies from he colleges were present in a >ndy, also u number of Governor filler he's friends in the city. One ?f the interested spectators was Mrs. KMerbe, who was accompaned bv her children and members ^ >f the household. The procession was not over ive minutes behind the hour appointed for the exercises. Serjeant-at-arms Gaston, of the Sen?te, with Sergeant-at arms Stansell, headed the line of march. Governor Kllerbe, who came in on he arm of Senator Mower, came next. He wore a black frock coat a ?w4 KI u eL' <? r u t* u f u ml 1 rw?Ir quite well. Following came Lieu- ^ tenant Governor McSweeney with Mr. Magill, .ludce Ernest Gary with Senator Graydon, the Ilev. \V. R. Richardson wuli Mr. Montcomerv, Comptroller General Derhani witli Superintendent of Education McMahan, former Adjt. General Watts with Adjt. General elect Floyd, former Attorney General Barber with Attorney General Hillinger and Mr. Sim- / kins with State Treasurer Timmerman?Now?and (Courier. Dr. Hull'* Cough Syrup curea coughs and colds. Don't go to church or public meeting and disturb the audience bv incessant coughing; but use this wonderful remedy at once. The House resolution to appro- \r\ priate tor "an emergency fund" to be u?ed by the State . board of health in protecting the Kj people of the State from epidemic dead'v disease, :?? reported, "was passed on Tuesday and ordered Rent to the Senate without a word." It should have been accomp niieil at least with a word g of for the scantiness of a the >um proposed for the State's consideration. It ? about enough for one countv, when an epidemic appear^. r^Mothers! 1 rpnRdiscom- , I (orts and I clangers of cbild-birtbcan be almost in-W* tiroly avoided. Witicof Cardui""^|LJ^^^^^^ pectant mothtoncto tliegenitulorgans.and puts the in in ^ condition to do their work perfectly. That makes prepnancy less painful, shortens .w labor and hastens recovery after ',#lk child-birth. It helps a woman bear strong healthy children. rut m$eui?c* j..; ?ne?fGtf*nI Ins also brought happiness to thousands of homes barren for ycais. A few dosesoftcn brings joy t<> loving hearts that long for a d.u ling baby. No woman idiould neglect to try it for this trouble. It cures nine cases out of ten. All druggists sell Wine ^ of Cardui. ii.oo t>er bottle. I?? F-r advice In -uses r?<nilrlnp special directions. address. clvinc symptom*. ?> ? ! j At/lsory Department." Tr.e C .a: ar.jjga Medicine Co., CluatUr.jcca. Ter.n. Mrs. L0J1SA HALE. v( JofTferton, Ga., sayt: When I first took Wine of Cardul 1 we had hetiit married threo years, but ? could not have any rhlldreo. Nine j 1 months lator I had a flne girl baby." 4 Don't Diliacro Spit and Sim.k tout I lie tna|, ^ To r, i t t I I CO i ' I . I ;|JT ' net if. lull of l f? . ii' \ t-he ,*.r>'|'o Jljie. lliu wondci t . .1 .... s vw.tlt tutn Strong. All <V t f u"ir? tcpd llooliici ... A .ircfc b'.urliuf i!t in- Jy (u . . 0 J . .a-, ' <*b