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I, VOL. IX.
Problem of Better Living.
i IJY DUANK DOTY.
American Farmer Chicago.
For Hevoral years the writer
has susteined such relationship to
a large community ot working
people, aB has enabled him to
make a thorough study of their
raode3 of living, and he feels ful
ly warranted in making what ho
deems a conservative statement,
to the effect that a largo majority
of these people, probably from a
want of knowledge of what is for
their highest good, not only pro j
vide themselves with unnecessarily
costly food, but have the nutritive
value of their food much
lessened by improper cooking. Is
not the food question, to day, the
most important one with which
the working man has to deal?
^ Science can bring him invaluable
assistance. Students of social
science and economics cannot
render civil society so valuable a
service, at this particular junct
ore, as to teach the working man
and his wife how to select and
prepare wholesome and nutritious
food at a much lessened cost to
them than that to which they are
now subject. The aggregate of the
money value of small economies
on the part of an entire popula
tion is something stupendous. It
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u?u ue oMHiiy hiiuwii inai ai least
fifty dollars a year could not only
be saved on the cost of food for
every one of the fifteen millions
* \ of families of our country, but
that these families at the time,
could be furnished with better
fT nourisment than they now get.
\ The whole sum that might be saved
on this conservative estimate
would be $750,000,000. What
would be the results, with such a
sum which might be expended in
books and other means of culture?
Certainly a better and more enjoyable
social life would be one
result. But this particular phase
of the food question must be deferred
for future consideration.
Before food can be prepared
for man's consumption it must be
produced, and it is this matter of
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pruuueuou wiui which we snail
first briefly deal. The observation
of Dean Swift that, "He who
causes two blades of grass to grow
where but one grew before, is
worth more to the world than all
the politicians in it," is an im1
pressive statement which cannot
7^ be too seriously pondered. A century
ago the economist Malthus
expressed his corvviction that the
popu[ation of the earth would
certainly increase beyond a point
where food could be produced to
support it, and as a consequence,
famine must result. We now
know that Maithus used incorrect
data, and that the results he
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LANCASTER,
| predicted are in all probability,'
beyond the domain of possibility.!
j Sir Williams (Jonkes, president. ^
jot' the British AflROciation for thoj
I advancement of science. in his re ,
cent annual address, also pictures:
a somewhat gloomy outlook rela (
tive to our future food supp'v..
and expresses a fear that the in|
crease ot popalation will outrun!
the increase ot food production,
urr --
ii ui<in iiwill n in H II K(l t'OIIspilMI
our are carfullv read and thought
fully considered by all 8rudem~ <?l
economic science. It is no difficult
matter to show th?t Pp>sess?>r
Orookes is wholly in error hi ttie
matter of th?^ world's resuircep in
wheat production upon wmcIi i ? ;
lays special Mress. In our own
country our wheat crop i* pr?>
duced upon an acreage no I art." r
than the stare of Illinois. The
writer has no hesitation m allum
ing, and the sffirmation is i?*ved
upon extended nhicrviiiiiii
travel in North Amerov*. th.rj
this continen. easily h >s
times the area adapted whet
raising thai is now devot* it to ft. .
cereal, and, further, that twice r?o
average crop per acre now grown
could he produced. That wh?crop
of the U tilted States lor 1808
ia 650,000,000 bushels. When tin
grain is required, five times t'opresent
wheat crop of the world
can be grown in North America
alone. Professor Crookes has been
oauij misMiiormea in regard to
the extent of wheat lands in th?*
Western Hemisphere
It is now well established that
as people become enlightened
fewer children are born. A care
ful study of the question of the
growth of populations, and an in
vestigatiou extending over sever
al years convince that by the time
the world has four times its pres
ent population or 6,500,000,000
people, the number of human b*
ings will remain about stationery,
and that by the improved methods
of agriculture, which w.ll then
be universal, the food supply will
not only be ample for the susten
ance of this vaRt number of toe
world's inhabitants, but if will be
of a tnuch better than now. Mai
thus, in whose time families with
from eight to fifteen children
were not uncommon, jumped i<?
the conclusion that human beings
increased in a geometrical ra io
and would continue to do ho. II*
was wholly mistaken in tin*, and,
further, he did not, take into a
count the i inpi wvetuei.i.s wind;
were to come. not nnlv in loo t
production, out in merh unc-al
dustries, in transport;!*) >.i t i I i
easy and universal inter counn i
nication.
In the subjnuaiiou ?>' m itur ? ? '
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A Narrow Escape.
ThanK*nt words wrtu no, Mr-, i
Ada E. Halt, ot Gi'oton. ,S. 1). j
|"WlO .Hi V11 i i i... 1 . I ?n i; i
settled o i my lungs; .o ; .
and iinm 11v ternuone i n ?'
sumption. Koiir I) n-mr* g v?
saying 1 could live hi a en
time. 1 i?hve nivse'i o;> ;> in
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stay Willi rnv friends o?\ irth, Ij
J would meet niv absent one? a ti >v- ,
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SBMI:WEEKLY.
S. C., WEDNESDAY
man's uses, grerter progress has
been made in the past threeecore-years-and
ten than in all
preceding time. Advancement
along agricultural lines has been
far from keeping pace with that
on mechanical lines. As mechanics
has largely become applied
mathematics, so must agriculture
in a uiiv Hoi uisiani, ueconie applied
chemistry. While we must ^
admit that sen nee is today more ,
than ever before, popularized and j
ulaced within reaeh of the tillers
of the soil, we are obliged to ac- '
knowledge that most of the farm 1
work of our couutry is still an '
unintelligent expenditure of me- j
ehatncai and brute force.
Science is only classified knowl- '
edge; this knowledge in printed ,
from is no more nor less than a ,
record of the best experiences of ,
capable men, and as such it ought 1
?o be studied by farmers tor its 1
inestimable value. If Farmer Al- 1
Vn makes a success in raising
\%hite bonus his neighbors nave ,
no hesitation in looking into and t
i.(opting his methods of produc- 1
nig that crop. Science telles what
hundreds of Aliens have done in
nil departments of farming indus- j
try. The writer, brought up on a i
farm, and later an owner of farms
and farm stock, has had experi
Mice enough in those lines to
make him something more than
a theorist ; he feels that he can
talk as a farmer to farmers.
Let us tor a moment look at the
overages per acre, in the United
States, of our leading farm products:
()f corn we have au aver
age of 27 bushels ; of barley 24;
of oats 29; buckwheat 14; wheat
13; rye 14' potatatoes 100; of cotton
two-fifths of a bale, and of
hay one and a quarter tons to the
acre. Is not this average yield of
products so small as to be almost
pitiful? There is enough knowledge
to day in accessible form
and which can be had at a very
small cost, that farmers might apply
with the result of producing
twice the average yield per acre
which they now get, and their
work would not be very largely
increased.
1 recently had an opportunity
to studv an object lesson in which
1 became profoundly interisted.
In.July last a gentleman named
Air. Charles Wallace, who has devoted
a hle-tnue to the study of
agriculture and, incidentally to
naiiiiary questions, took a quarter
oi an acre of land on G3d
street, Chicago, and began transforming
the s-pot, uninviting at
(be time, into a garden. On the
occasion ol my visit, in the latter
pail oi September, 1 found about
Inly varieties ot vegetation, all
growing luxurniitly there. Two
piles o! manure stood in the gard
ii, and vegetation of several '
:orui8 and of vigorous growth fuliv
covered their sides, but there;
> as not ibn faintest trace of any I
..li ens, vo odors arising therefrom. J
.\ lew I ii in a | o plants were so la !
e-n w. li iruit that I computed,
*1 their rate of yield, an acre of j
.( acre ol land would produce not
ess than GOO bushels. Began late I
in the season (.Inly), hero was a
garden probably unmatched for
A Frightful blunder
Will ottfii cause a horrible
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Absolutely 1
Makes the food more de
its productiveness in the state. I
could but acknowledge as I realized
it tliat the adoption of Mr.
\Va' h's methods would revolu
ti?> arket gardening in the
abui. ce and quality of garden
products.
While our Agricultural department
in Washington is doing
wonderful work, it seems somehow
to be too remote from the
vast body of( farmers. If every
State had an Agricultural Bureau,
with a subordinate bureau in every
congressional district, and
later on, a branch department in
every county, there could not fail
to be an awakening and a forward
impulse in all agricultural
and cognate industries. Such
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ritituw uepariuunis uugui Decouie I
the agencies for the distribution
of circulars and bulletins from <
the department at Washington,
and very farmer of the land would
at once be placed within easy
reach of intelligent aid in ell his
etrorts.
Any railroad which has lands
to sell could have no better way
of calling attention to them than
by operating a small farm at some
easily accessible point on those
lands. Such farms, when once
started, would more than defray
the expenses of their operatiou.
No philanthropist could render
his fellow-men better service than
to send such men as Mr. Wallace
when they cau be found, into agricultural
regions to lecture to
meetings of farmers and directly
interest them in the higher and
scientific phases of their avocation.
I believe such work as these
qualified and practical men could
do, would return a thousand fold
more than its cost to society, in
increased and better food proif
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VI14 u i n. 11 irii poi UUUl. Ul lilt)
money expended in political campaigns
to determine whether a
set of Democratic tax-eaters or
Republican tax-eaters should live
upon their country for the next
two or four years, could he given
to the direct instruction or farmers,
the results for good would be
incalculable. On every hand we
hear the cry for aid in living well
and economically. With bettor
food, and that in greater abundance,
we have the problem of
economical living half solved.
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UAKKK KIVEK.
(ioveriiniPiit's Work to llegiiioiii
September First.
It is not. going to bo vory long
beforo tlio work of dor polling the
chillinel of t ho Congaroe river will bo
niidor way and when once started it
is likely to be pushed to the earliest
possible completion.
The condom nation proceedings in
the matter of the property desired on
the Lexington side of the river arc to
be begun immediately, it is stated.
By some it is thought?and all hope
?that H. S. Engineer Iteid Whitford,
who is now in charge of the government
work at Ueorgetown will be
placed in charge of the work. It is
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likely that this will be done, but there
has as yet been no definite announcement.
It is stated upon reliable authority that tho
nttro work will be under way by Sept 1 next
and in- completed in less than ihrec years, including
the removal of the two sands below
Urunby. It is believed by the engineers that
the appropriation will be sulhoient for the com
i>letion of the work and will insure the desired
tepth of water at the foot of tiervais street.
This will mean the securing of the long detired
water rales to Columbia und another
neans ol keeping up the city's onward move
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for Confederate soldiers durimr the civil war,
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island lies in Sandusky Hay, a few milts from
the city of that name.
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OUR LOSSES AT MANILA.
Nearly Eire Thousand Men Al
ready Dead and Diseased.
The Philadelphia Times which has editorially
supported the administration in the effort to
subdue tho Filipino rebellion, a few days ago
published a dispatch from Washington?its
information coming, it is said from an administration
official which announces the practical
failure of *he campaign In the Philippines, says
in substance.
"General Otis, with -2,u00 men, began an aggressive
warfare on February 5, near Manila,
drove the insurgents many miles into the interior.
and finally returned to Manila on June
10, with his forces depleted and his arm? disheartened.
He is now defending Manila with
the aid of the navy.
"In this campaign of four mouths 41 men
wero killed and 1,1*5 men wounded. The total
casualties were 1.416. I'he list of sick soldiers
and those dying from disease lias not yet been
obtained, except approximately. Upward of
It.OOJ men have been disabled by sickness and
about ROD bave died of disease.
"The cost of the campaign his been 'I 'll),
two each day, so that the total cost bar i-een
approximately i 120.000,001 Thus it appears
that General Otis marched up the hill an t then
marched down again, at terrible eost of blood
and treasure, and accomplished nothing, save
to achieve his own belouguermeni and leave
the insurgents masters oi the greater portion
of the Island
"Tho plain fact of the matter is that tie- situ
ation of the American forces on tins Island of
Luzon is deplorable, and the condition of the
soldiers is pitiable. The campaign of General
litis has ended in failuro.
"President Mclviiiley li is n > competent military
advisers. The war has tieen manured by
men incompetent to manage it, and s<>mc of
them are unworthy of high places.
"President Mclvlnley's advisers have ven
a secretary of war who never conducted a in Hilary
campaign and whose disli ni irahle disin ssal
from the army was recommended by Generals
Custer, Merritt and sn- ri I in: an n-?s stunt
secretary of war who is honorable and up*
right, hut without military experience, n t an
adjutant-general who was ofllciailv declared ui
ttie civil war to bo uniii to c nutn in t l> avo
men.
"Tlie authority of the American fo -ces ja the
Philippine islands is being contested bv up
ward of IW.OtK) troops thoroughly acclim.ied
anil believing in tle-ir independence. M ireover,
there are approximately .'?)i)01*) ddiers
In the Philippine is' mils r ow preparing f r offensive
operations.
"The Filipinos ate working their farms lor
eight conseeutivi days a:: l hen y-tetii i ieallv
drilling tin ler poo I officers f -r t vo I iy< Thus
two days out of ewry tea are devoted t > drill*
ng.
"There \\ i 1 soon lie a volunteer Filipino
foree which in ty be nncomiuoruble Aga.nst
this military front the president has decide t to
send two negro regiments of regulars. Their
lives are also to bo needlessly sacrificed. "
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creates a good Appetite, Tones and
Strengthens the Stomach, aud builds
up the Health.