Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, April 05, 1899, Image 4
What Shall We Do.
A 6erioua and dangerous disease
prevails in this county,
dangerous because so deceptive.
It conies on so slowly yet surely
that it is often firmly seated before
we are aware of it.
The name of this disease which
may be divideit into three distinct
stages, First, Kidney trouble,
indicated bv pain in the
back, rheumatism, lunihago, frequent
tleRire to urinufe, often
with a burning sensation, the
flow of urine being copious or
scant with strong odor.
If allowed to advance, this
?>/\a <1 it /in t l\ <> C.t/i/t*t / I nt fl iv/t OV
iranion i 11c ucvuuu <?i
Bladder trouble, with heayy^iairi
in the abdomen low down between
the naval and the water
passage, increasing desire to
urinate, with scalding sensation
in passing, small quantities being
passed with difficulty, sometimes
necessary to draw it with instruments.
If uric acid or graved has
formed, it will prove dangerous
if neglected.
The third stage is Bright's I)is.
ease.
Thefe is comfort in knowing
that l)r. Kilmer, the great kidney
and bladder specialist, has discovered
a Remedy famous for its
marvelous cures of the most distressing
cases and known as Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-lloot.
it is sold by all druggists.
As a proof of the wonderful
virtues of this great discovery,
Swamp-Root, a sample bottle and
hook of valuable information will
be sent absolutely free by mail
on application to Dr. Kilmer &
Co., Binghampton, N. V. When
writing kindly mention that you
read this liberal oiler in the Lan
caster Enterprise. i
JLLIAXCE DEPARTMENT.
J. F. N1SBET FAltor.
The County Alliance will meet
on the second Friday (14th) of
April, as has been announced by
President Lingle. The Sub Alliances
should see to it that they
have delegates present at that
meeting. We want a full meeting,
as some vory important questions
will come up for discussion.
We need our Alliance organization
more now?if that is possible?than
ever before. Nearly
everything is now controlled by a
trust, of some kind, and it behooves
us to keep our lamps
trimmed and burning. Some alliances
probably have not had a
meeting for some time, and have
no regularly elected delegates.
Now, don't stay away from the
meeting on that account; but appoint
yourself, and come.
AMERICA'S RICHEST FARMER.
A Missouri Patriarch Who Owns
and Manages 23,000 Acres?
Fattens More Cattle Than Any
Man in the World.
A milhonair farmer is clearly
to be reckoned a sort of latter day
miracle ; all the more if he lives
in Missouri, and farms all-round
... t
the year r$und.
Tarkio, Atchison county, is his
local habitation,David Kankinjhis
to< - ?.'To be strictly accurate,
_ _ David Kankin ; he has servore
than one term in a state
.lature. lie owns and man*
1 23,000 acres of lands in
u J^bAon county worth from $50
its fa*fifjy ait acre, and not in the
a 8rmarket even at those figures. He
ti has bought every acre of it since
1876, mostly from speculative
I ? eastern holders, who were gleeful
t '
at getting $0 to $10 an acre for
their holdings because the railway,
you see, had passed them
by.
It gives a new idea of magnificent
western distances to know
that the Rankin lands are scattered
over an area of forty odd
miles. Yet their owner visits them
all every little while. Ele lives in
a handsome house just outside
the town of Tarkio. Five o'clock
every fine morning finds him in
his buggy, whirling to his main
office as fast as a spanking span
can carry him. He finds a confidential
scretary awaiting him.- A
brief interval of talk, clear and
pointed instructions, a few notes,
mental and written, then he
whips away for a round of maybe
half a dozen of his fourteen farms
before he thinks of turning his
horses' heads home.
The farms run from 000 to 3,
000 acres. To work them requires
between 130 and 150 hands, 70C
horses, more than 100 wagons,
plows, harrows, planters, cultivators
and seeders innumerable,
Each ranch is in charge of a com
petent foreman, who gets $50 a
month and board. Farm hands
are paid $20 a month and board,
Usually the foreman's family
runs the farm boarding house
Besides the various foremen there
is a farm superintendent, at a sal
ary many a bank official might
envy. It is questionable, however
if lus best endeavors are worth a*
much as thf? PVU nf Mm maofar
All the land is arable, yet bill
little more than half goes yearlv
' under plow. Perhaps 2,000 aeref
are sown in wheat The remaindei
is planted in corn, and yields, ii:
average years, 800,000 bushels
i Not a grain of it is sold until il
has been transformed into fat
stock. In addition to his own crop
Mr. Rankin buys whatever corn
' his neighbors have to sell Hf
buys also their stalk fields, aftei
the corn in gathered, and turm
into them herds of catt le, to gather
up their rich gleanings. Hesides
all that he buys ton upon
tan ot cotton seed meal for feeding.
Small wonder that his landt
grow and increase in fertility un
uwr cuuunuous cropping.
All land not under plow is laid
down in clover, timothy and blu<
grass pastures. After standing
four years they are fallowed and
put in grain, the grain fields
meantime going back into grass
Thus part of the soil, originallv
as rich as any in the world, is al
ways resting.
Once, at least, his iron-clac
rule against the sale of corn lei
him into a funny mistake. It is
of course, quite impossible for t
man who owns so many teams
and hires so many drivers to keej
all of them accurately in mind
Hut there is an infallible Itankir
oar mark?at least Mr. Kankn
himself thought so for a gooc
while. It is tho wagon harness
' He uses the old fashioned traci
! chains, as being both cheaper
handier and more lasting that
the new fancied outfits of stram
and leather. 80 whenever h<
meets a team so accoutred he nut
j urally sets it down as part of hii
property. Some little time bad
he met a four-horse team, bravi
in chain-harness, drawing a bi|
load of corn through Tarkii
streets. The sight of it set hin
wild. "Thou shalt. not sell corn !'
was a sort of eleventh command
ment with him.
' A favorite expression with hin
and one that he uses to givo vent
to his feelings is "Set Fire," re
peated two or three times quite
rapidly. On this occasion he
commenced with "Set Fire, Sel
Fire ! What are you doing here
1 with that corn!" The driv
calmly replied that he h
i brought it to town to well. T!
gave rise to a renewed form
4,8et Fires," but fortunately som
one who knew the man came fr
ward and explained matters. 1
was a farmer who had adopt
Mr. Rankin's style of harness, ai
it was his own corn that he hi
brought to town to sell.
Mr Rankin fattens more cat)
than any other man in the worl
Every year he buys and fatt"
n 1 ?V h t A tan fltnnaa n/1 kaarl TP
vi^u v iv ivii iuvuoaiiu urnu* m
bulk of them come from Texi
though Kansaa, Nebraska, Io\
and Missouri are fair sources
, supply. He has been known
i. buy 8,000 head in a bunch ai
pay on them a freight bill
$25,000. He.has just now boug
i 5,000 head of Texas cattle to
delivered next November, payi
for them $.'10 a head. His shi
i meets of fat cattle begin in Jur
> From the 1st of dune to the 1st
, September he ships two or thr
train loads each week.
lie keeps 10,000 to 12,000 he
of hogs all the time, and sells f
i ones to the value of $SO,000 yet
i ly. AH these he raises. In fa<
. he never buys a pig except for t
' infusion of new blood into I
. breeding stock. Some yea
> back, while there was money
horses, he undertook thebreedi
t of draught beast..-, and built up
, his home farm, just outside
' Tarkio, a horse barn v<-ry niu
up to date. It cost $10,000, a
t is an octagonal brick buildii
' four stories high. It is light
' with electricity. Each stall h
* its own incandescent lamp, a
> the cupalo an arc light, whi
turns midnight into day all ov
t the barnyard.
t It is worth while to look a lit
into the genesis of this man a
his fortune. I'hysically, he
tall, rawboned, "inewy, with ke
eyes, a weather-beaten face, gr
hair and beard. Primitive to
degree, yet without roughne
lie knows life, knows men, y
has never got far from the st
It does not astonish you to (i
that he was as a young man a f
lower and ardent admirer
Abraham. lie grew up in II
I nois, though he was born in Si
j livan county, Indiana, May !
; 1885. The Kankins were of Scott
I Irish strain. David's father,
, poor farmer, must have be
. something of a nomad. He mt
r ed many times between the I
. diana home and the final settli
! in what is now Henderson coun
I ! lllinn,. 1"^ i it 1 /I n at i f t l\
I Auiiiwin* xyniiu v^u I t tuo ntuui
1 at the age of 11, and set to wo
, for his living.
i Doubtless ho earned somethi
i more, but it all went in the fa
) ily fund. When he was free 1
father gave him a colt, the fi
i thing he ever owned. Most ami
i youngsters would have seen in
hi a prospective saddle horse. Da\
was another sort. He sold t
3 colt for $52 and put the mon
, in calves, to grow while he work
i for more, l'retty soon he h
? the chance to buy an 80-at
) farm. It took grit to go in dt
- for it, with wheat at 25 centi
3 bushel and firewood $1 the co
c Thoao wero the prices Davi
8 father had got for what he h
? to sell. Still David bough? t
> farm.
1 Inside of four years he h id ps
for it, with money earned mosi
by breaking prarie. The virp
sod in too rough for horses
i mules. It must be turned wi
t the slow, steady draught of ox<
David Kankin managed to buj
) pair. His breaking plough,
> special implement, he made hii
t self by help of a local blacksmil
> He had no money to buy the n<
J
er easary iron, but a friend sto
ad security, so he got it, and th
lis was enabled literally to set I
of hand to the plough.
ie- It is no wonder he loves lat
>r- and prefers it to all other inve
He menta. From the first it fa
ed prospered him amazingly, thou
rid from the first he has seldom sc
ad crude products. That first 80 ac
farm had a herd of cattle on
de even before it was paid for.
Id. driving and thriving, the masl
ns of it came to own 3,000 acres
he the time the Civil war began.
*s, 'I hat era of inflation sent pru
?a teo high for his judgment. 1
of kept on buying until he had 8,0
to acres, then went west. Atcbis
nd county has much more than ji
of tified his choice of a new re
ht deuce. It is no longer a region
be one railway. A new one, the Ti
ng kia Valley, runs right through t
p- middle of it, and Tarkio town,
in. beautiful and thrivinc villa
of has crown up migically in it*
ee years of life Naturally Ilanki
interests predominate. Dai
ad Rankin is president and prin
at pal shareholder in the towi
ir- First National bank as well
ct, president of the Electric Lij;
he and Power company, the Wal
lis company, theKankiu Auditorii
us company and the Tarkio Bri
in and Tile company. These va
njr ous enterprises represent the i
on vestment of over $1,000,000
of Rankin money. In addition
eh them Mr. Rankin has trade re
nd tions with most of the trade c?
ijr, ttrs and is in touch with moni
ed men all over the country.
iaR Surprisingly rich he has x
nd f?rpotten what it is to he po
ch As becomes his blood he is
er Presbyterian and strives to H
his religion as well as to belie
it. Liberal in pupport of
n(j church and its works, he can
j8 depended on to be as liberal
en H'iy tp?nfl cause, especially t
ay cause of education. Tarkie c
( a lege alone has received from h
88> nearly $100,000. lie had given
. f hn inafifnfinn a luivn 40?* n?
,jj the lire destroyed the main bui
ntj ing. lie at once offered $25,(
0j. toward rebuilding if as mi
Gf could be raised elsewhere. Su
[|j_ then he has had a standing of
ul. to give to the college a dollar
every dollar contributed outsi
By his help the college has put
a its present magnificent buildii
eu and holds its place among hi
)V class western institutions of lea
n ing. Needless to add, Mr. Ri
kin's picture appears upon I
j college button, or that his uniq
jg and original objurgation, "I
. Fire," make an important part
the college yell.
lie has been liberal to oft
? schools than his home, to otl
* churches thau his own Unil
18 Presbyterian.
r8t .
Perhaps that is how a corti
art
man and brother of African <
" scent camo to rely so confiden
rid upon Mr. Rankin as ' the Lor
he almoner. The brother lived ii
ey Tennessee town, and combined
ed his own person the offices of p
a,l tor of a church, and principal
,re a School. Church and school w<
^ in desperate need of money. 'I
pastor told his brethren if oi
they would raise money enow
* to send him to Tarkie, the Ia
8 and Mr. Rankin would do the rt
a<^ So to 'I'arkie ho came, saw, and
h? firct <l?ll ?Wvf rxie M f
heard him with patient kimlm
lid ?he even sent courteous answi
tjy to the most barefaced begging 1
ters?but answered with e
' phasis, which no doubt seemed
the trustful listener harsh, tl
help was out of the question ;
Jn* had all he could do to furnish i
' a to his homo college, his chur
a and his church's school socio
m- The black man looked at h
th. aghast. Pale he could not gro
jc- hut no words came?he tried
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. move lo go away, but tottered,
and fell fainting, utterly stricken
by the shattering of his trust. In
5ep the end his trusting conquered
When he went home a little later
*00 he had in his pocket the necessary
?n $300. David Rankin had given
Js- two hundred of it. The rest came
si- from his son and the employes of
of his office.
ar. "Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy," is a living law
upon every foot of Rankin land.
By way of helping his men to
^.e' keep it Mr. Rankin stipulated in .
? the beginning that Monday shall
n 8 be pay da v. As they are paid off
fid weekly, lie thinks it wise to niinci
iint/.e. Sunday temptation*. He jjfi
n's does not relish the thought that ml
as a man may waste his earnings in
?ht an hour, and leave his family in
ter want before .next week's money
im comes in. r
ck Though lie 110 longer sits in
ri legislative halls, Mr. Iiankin is
jn> keenly interested in polities, and
( in his day. lias been 'the friend of
many noted political leaders.
Every way be is a mail of force,
impetuous but sagacious, keen,
M1 discerning, kindlv shrewd, mukit?d
jug up by the culture of contact
all lie lacks of (lie culture of
ln* schools, unique in character and
or. in judgment, altogether and reft
tnarkably, an American of the
ve very tinest type.?Omaha Bee.
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1C? I raised 011 my farm 3085 pounds of
Fer lint from one bushel of seed, purfor
chased b# me last year, at a co-t of
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the African Limbless Cotton
up the best ever grown in the South. The
lint is so much better than the ordi**
nary cotton that it will bring a much
igh better price. The stalk grows from 8
to 13 feet high.
Address,
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