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"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thon Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's.
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 186*,
SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1883.
New Series-Vol. II. No. 85.
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? ^OlfSSi^RO&rtD TRIP TICKETS are
KjtM U aa* ?ros? ?il Station? at ooo firet etas?
E^^" iVl^M^^Urf^Xon rah? to ?nd
^^JCoi?H TICKRT8 to all points, can he
6 - aavaSaas?i to awpiying t? Jan?* Jon*?*. Agent
r^aWri - . D. C. ALLEN,
H*?iia&?a?s^^ 1
Cbarlast H?, S. C
Wm AW HABNSSS,
ItW|&T LRATHER ON HAND Read r
? ...-J? fe a* worked op at thereat Using
SAJS^B8-of the Jateat style und of m j
?ft* ?nnj^?i mil ip, at mj shop to sell.
> SSEBm?? to ?o all kin*? of Joh* in
CjpiS ?ftWiKtV. Ail Orders receired
Vitt W|?*ii?p^?4too<kd to, and with the
J^^^g^ foii lise of
PP - SADDLES, BRIDLES,
|?j ".- GALES, and
fW??* , ?"A: J^VTOTTHIKO ,?LSS ? .
^^?rtolnfloa Fin Klaas Harness? Shop.
ji^^SAsUfSSS Baad? to look at good
sad REPAIRING Old TRUNKS
mHZZ^A ^SCIALTY.
a>r line GUARANTEED
BS nos* TE?RT coori.
XB too.iu?r-time how fair it shoved-*
My garden by the village road,
; "VV'itb ariLT* spire? Jin d garlands white,
' * v Ana odor? that perfumed the ui^ht
Wherever the ?oath ?find rushed.' -
There aolemd j?urpl? pansies ?toed,
Gay tulips red with floral blood,
And wild things fresh from fifcid and wooS,
Deep heaven-bine bails of columbine,
I . Tba dark?y-myp?c pasi?n vine,
?ad clematis thatjoves to U ine,
Bedecked tttat happy place.
Beneath the strong, unclouded blaze .
. -O? Joig ?lid icry?nt ?tenier dsy*
Their co^oraantoie-UMtw?sing gaze,
Axt4,d,-gcz'cd eveqr eye. .
Their cvp* at scented hoi ;ey-<lew
Chzru.ed aE the b?-e?lh-.t o'er th?ai Csv,
'* ?ad bettertEe* cf radiant Una
Paused as they floated by.
Kew falls a cloud jaf sailing snow,
W Ko Mo- ?ni "teres ??s cup?o *h >w- ' ? " "
Earth ?oidx thsm in her brecht ;
A abroad of -white, a virg:n pall,
4^iy,^fwN^a:i^ :'TTf:;
^T? ^'??uin a?> sweat wiSac?l "
To break their *iient rset.
^^?^f?^?ni^dr^^J |?
T- ? ?jjc^?t^weiu^?oo?^cbid'beanw '
C.e?r. icicles, abo ve it % ? cain ;
. And yuk-I know not h;?w-- .
?y fioV*irs win heir the dropping raia'
Hhes i-pring reco^th bili a^d plain,
And then it sha'] be niiue agaiu ;
it is GocT* gard'en'now.
DIFEIVlibTlES OF A WIT?
LESS.
"You must get around early in the.
morning, my dear," said Mr. Spoopen?
dyke, **because Fm going to ba a -wit
Spo^peu^j^ r'^wliat have y?n been dc?
mg ?? if?v? s
'^What-tFye e?poee : Fve been doing ?
Fve h?^r&scm? thingBm s law case, and
F ve gol to ; swear to them.. Yon can't
have a 4aw case without witnesses, and
Fve got td be-one fco-mqrrow ; so yon
hustie out in the. morning 'and get my
*^^ey>c?3a't' d? a?ryt?iing toiyou, can
they $n?pm?r Bm. Spoopendyke,
' oemi&y? ~;TV^^? -
"If ? ain't there in Sine they can send
me'l^j?i^^i^o?deiU!^ S^f^dyke,
ominously; "andyou'd better, get me
rea/Sy in tmi? if you don't vant to lose
Eie/vjuid i?r. Spoopendyko hopped into
^jfc^P^?^^%j^tj??ed fifo clock
a??d ?wo honra, anam^ed her hair, and
?l^n tor^pecolaie oa the chances of
waking at thej>roper moment At first
?hpv coacl^?e^t?j^ylop^.?11 night,, but
-he t?egan to get steepy; and, reflecting
vhat rf she nied lier mind on the hour
she wanted to rise she'd be sure to wake
up, she- went to bed and to sleep sunni
tancously.
Ai half-past ?- si?a roused np wich a
terrified ?tait-- ?
^.Wakenp^vJa^dearv*' ?^ exclaimed
to hex h^band. ' - You?ve got to go a
witnessing in a case this morning. Hur?
ry np, or they'll put yon in jail."
"Wah?* resi*>:*udirMr. Spoopen?
dyke! ^Wh^d?dithe|he^^amixe?
theWwfth-ftw?-?h !"?and jfeSboop
endyke was sound asleep again.
"You must get right np and go to
court," said Mrs. Spoopendyke firmly.
''Yon know something about a law court
and yon most wake np right off. "
"What's i 4he matter V- propounded
?Mr.'Spoopendyke, sitting np and glar?
ing around him. "What rlay of the
month is this? Who called Spoopen?
dyke? I ain't-slept a wink," and Mr.
Spoopendyke fell back on his pillow.
" You k?r>w you must go td the"case,"
continued Mrs. S;?oopendyke. " You've
been appointed a witness and you must
go and swear about "it. "Wake np, or
they will arrest you."
"Whatcase?" demanded Mr. Spoop?
endyke. * ' Who's arrested ? Can't you
let a man alone j ns? as he's getting in a
doze? What's the matter with you,
anyway ?"
** You wanted to' get up early about
some court : fX>a?i, - get1 np. ho^r, or
they'll ?end JQXL ibo ?ail," and ?Mra.
bpoopeiid} ?<o g<?t1up and lighted the
gas and began dropping on her skirts.
"Who agoing to court?" asked Mr.
8poopendyke, sitting up in the bed.
"Where's the court? Think any court
wants me at 5 o'clock in the morning?*
"It's about a. law case," said Mrs.
Spoopendyke, cheerfully. " You know
you are a witness. To think that I
should to be 'the wi fe of a witness !"
and Mrs. Spoopendyke, firmly impressed
that it was something in the nature of a
foreign mission, gazed admiringly upon
her husband, i J5
"j>od gast ihe law case !" hb-?ed Mr."
Spoopendyke, now thoroughly mad.
" D'ye think a law case goes prowling
around ail night like a policeman ? Got
au idea that a Judge is going to strap the
Court House on his back and fetch it up
here at davlight to try a law case ?"
"But you said you wanted to get np
early," reasoned Mrs. Spoopendyke,
" and it's pretty early DO W. **
**D*ye s*pose I wanted to get up at
midrrighh to practice ?" propounded Mr.
Spo?p?ndyk?.' "Think a law case is
like a church-sociable, the first man
there gets the best supper? P'raps you
were afraid if I didn't start early I
wouldn't get a seat. The measly court
don't meet till 10 o'clock, dod gast it ;
and here you wake me up at .41 WI mt
d'ye suppose a witness ?3, anyhow?"
shouted Mr. Spoopendyke, getting mad?
der and madder. "Think he's a dark
lantern, and goes around with his slide
turned and the smoke coming out of the
top? D'ye know what a court is?"
"Why; yes," said Mrs. Spoopendyke,
"a court is a place where they hang
people, Mrs? Meterhof-"
"That?? it ! You struck it first clip,"
.pattered Mr. Spoopendyke. "With
that information, all you want is a plug
hat and aa adjournment to be a lawyer.
If I had your intelligence and a bald
head, Fd hire out for Judge at board
wage?. * I tell ye ft court is a place where
they try oases about land, and licking
ptopk, and antautf, tad and-di
vorce cases. Yes, indeed," continued
Mr. Spoopendyke, solemnly,. " they try.
divorce cases about women waking their
husbands'up in the dead of night. "
" What kind of a law case are yon go?
ing to witness ?" inquired Mrs. Spoopen?
dyke.
" A daylight.^case i You understand,,
that ? AtM of clock, and not 5. Got.
that through: ytfur? head? Think you
can remember 10 o'clock ? If you can't
can you remember ll, or noon ?"
" Bo they h^e cases every hour ?"
queried Mrs. Spoopendyke.
" Of ^ome^rfbej "do. They leave
every fifteen minutes, like a ferryboat,
and if I can't catch one case 111 be wit?
ness in another. Got it now? Only
they don't run as often from midnight to
& Begin to see into it?"
"I think I do," said Mrs. Spoopen?
dyke, ruminating. " I was thinking that
if one started at 3 o'clock, I'd go and
witness with you."
"Oh, you'd make a witness !" pro?
claimed Mr. Spoopendyke. . "With
your capacity for observing arid ability
. to recollect, you would only want to
appear twice to absorb the whole wit?
ness business," and, with this reflection,
Afr. Spoopendyke went bock to his
! slumbers.
At 10 o'clock sharp: his wife called
him and notified him of the hour. .
" How'm I going to get there in time ?
Why didn't you call me before? Want
me sent to State prison for contempt?
Want to get rid of me, don't you?'
and Mr. Spoopendyke darted into his -
clothes. . .
:f* Don't you want some breakfast, my
dear?" inquired Mrs Spoopendyke,
tenderly.
" No, I don't want any measly break?
fast," he shouted. "Didn't I tell ye I
was a witness at 10, and now it's half
past Think a man is appointed witness
during good behavior ? S'pose I hold;
theoffice till my successor is appointed ?"
and Mr. Spoopendyke plunged down
stairs and out of the house.
"I only did what he told me to,"?ghed
Mrs. Spoopendyke, wetting a piece of
c?urt-phistrr and patching up a hole in
\xf\r tiilk diVKfi- ** Thondi T dnn*fc BAA
any use pf a man; being a witness if he
*Airt be a witness when he wants to. If
I were a mau," she continued, as she
flopped down on the floor to change her
t>oots, "Td get appointed by the Presi?
dent, and then I could attend to business
or not, as I liked," with which sage re?
flection Mrs. Spoopendyke pulled out
her husband's socks and began to sew
wens three inches in diameter on the
hecis.
HOW IS DZ ANS JUSTURN C ALLS*
A party of Sioux Indians were guests
at a Iru?iug . Milwaukee hotel, says
Peck*? ??un, and the ladies had a great
deal of amusement with tJiem, studying
their customs. That is, they all did ex?
cept one lady. Tue ladies called upon
the Indians and tl:e savages returned
the calls almost before the ladies got to
their rooms. One lady called on a
chiof? ard then went to her room and
jetired, and pretty soon there was a
knock at her door, and she found that it
was the chief. She told him to come in
the. mondng. The lady unlocks her
door in tho morning so the porter can
come in and build a fire before she gets
up. : She heard a knock in the morning,
and supposing it was tho porter, she
said. "Come in." : The door opened and
lu walked Mr. Indian. She took one
look at lum and pulled the bed clothes
over her head. He sat down on the side
of ihe bed-and said "'"ow 1" Well, she
WHS so scared that she didn't know
" How " from Adam. She said to him
in the best Sioux that she could com?
mand, "Please, good Mr. Indian, go
away, until I get up," but he didn't
seem to be in a hurry. He picked up
??eces of her wearing apparel from the
floor, different ar: ides that he didn't
seem to know anything about where they
were worn, and made comments on them
in the Sioux tongue. Tho stockings
seemed to paralyze his untutored mind
the most. They were these long, 90 de?
grees in the shade stockings, and they
were too much for his feeble intellect.
Hu held them up by the toes and said
" Ugh !" The lady trembled and wished
he would go away. He seemed to take
great delight in examining the hair on
the bureau, and looked at the lady as
much as to say, " Poor girl, some hostile
tribe has made war on the pale face and
taken many scalps.*' He critically , ex?
amined all the crockery, the wash bowl
and pitcher, but he was struck the worst
at a corset?that he found on a chair. He
tried to put it on himself, and was so
handy about it that it occurred to the
lady that he was not so fresh a delegate
as he seemed to be. Finally she hap?
pened to think of the bell, and she rung
it as though the house was on fire, and
pretty soon the porter came and invited
the Indian to go down stairs and take a
drink. Thc? Ia4y locked that door too
quick, and she will never leave it open
again when there are Indians in town.
She says her hair, on the bureau, fairly
turned crav from frieht.
MUTTON.
In an economical point of viow mut- j
ton is the cheapest meat used ; it is also ,
the healthiest, at least, it i? claimed so ]
by physicians who have studied the i
workings of various meats upon the hu- <
man system. The very poor, JUS well as i
the rich, can afford the choicest parts of
the mutton carcass. Farmers weil un- '
derstand the profits of early lambs of \
the best quality for the butcher. It is J
one of the most interesting and profita- 1
ble branches of sheep husbandry in lo?
cations accessible to market. At twelve j
or fifteen weeks, properly fed, they will .
weigh ten to twelve pounds per quarter, |
and readily bring from $6 to $8 each. ^
The amount of lamb in the market,
however, is sometimes very liberal-in <
fact, more liberal than the conditions 1
would seem to warrant. But when a f
customer at the restaurant calls for j i
" roast spring lamb," and gets mutton, 1
and don't know the difference, why, it's
ail the tame, you know. 1e
That Bad Boy
HTS PA PLAYS JOKES-AND HAS TO BE
CARRIED HOME IX A HACK.
I 'Say, do y?n think a little practical
joke does any hurt V asked the bad
boy. of the grocery man, as he came
in with his Sunday suit on, and a bo?
quet in his button-hole, and pried off
a couple of figs from a new box that
had just been opened.
'No, sir,1 said the grocery man, as
be licked off the syrup that dripped
from a quart measure, from which he
had been filling a jug. 'I hold that a
man that gets mad at a practical joke,
that is, one that does not injure him,
is a fool, and be ought to be shunned
by all decent people. That's a: nice
boquet you have in your coat. What
is it, pansies ? 'Let me smell of it/
and the grocery man bent over iu front
of the boy to take a whiff at the bou?
quet. AB he did so a stream of water
shot out of the innocent looking bou?
quet and struck bim full in the face,
and run down over his shirt, and the
grocery man. yelled murder, and fell
over a barrel of axe helves and scythe
snaths, and then grouped around for
a to wel to wipe his face.
'Yon condun* skunk/ said the gro?
cery man to the boy, as he tool up an
axe helve and started for him, 'what
kind of a golblasted squirt gun you
got there? I will maul you by thun?
der/ and he rolled up his shirt sleeves.
'There, keep your temper. I took a
test vote of you on the subject of
practical jokes, before the machine
began to play upon the conflagration
that was raging on your whiskey
nose, and you said a man that would
get mad at a joke was a fool, and now
1 know it Here, let me show it to
you. There is a rubber hose from
the boque? inside my coat to my pants
pocket, and there is a bulb of rubber
that holds about half a piut, and when
a feller smells of the posy, I squeeze
the bulb, and you see fhe result, lt's
tun, where you don't squirt it on a
person that gets mad.'
The grocery man said he would
give the boy half a pound of figs if he
would lend the boquet to him for half
an hour to play it on a customer, and
the boy fixed it on the grocery man
and turned the nozzle so it would
?quirt right back into the grocery
man's face.. He tried it on the first
customer that came in, and got it
right in his own face, and then the
bulb in his pocket got to leaking and
the rest of the water ran down the
grocery man's leg, and he gave it up
in disgust, and handed it back to the
boy. 'How was it that your pa had
to be carried home from the social in
a hack the other night/ asked the
grocery man as he stood close to the
stove so bis pants leg would dry, 'He
has not got to drinking again, has
he?'
'0, no/ said the boy as he filled the
bulb with vinegar, to practice ou bis
chum, 'It was the boquet that got pa
into trouble. You see I got pa to
smell of it, and 1 just filled him chuck
full of water. He got mad and called*
me all kinds of names, and said I was
no good on earth, and I would fetch j
up in state's prison, and then he j
wanted to borrow it to wear to the j
sociable. He said he would have
more fun than you could shake a stick
at, and I asked him if he didn't think
he would fetch up at state's prison,
and be said it was different with a
man. He said when a man played
a joke there was a certain dignity
about it that was lacking in a boy.
So 1 lent it to him, and. we all went to
the sociable in the basement of the
church. I never see pa more kitteny
thau he was that night. He filled
the bulb with ice water, and the first
one he got to smell of his button-hole
boquet was an old maid who thinks
pa is a heathen, but she likes to be
made something of by everybody that
wears pants, and when pa sidled up
to her and began talking about what
a great work the christian women of
the land ?vere doing in educating the
heathen, she felt real good, and then
she noticed pa's posy in his button?
hole and she touched it, and then
reached over her beak to .smell of it.
Pa he squeezed the bulb, and about
half a teacupful of water struck her
right in the nose, and some cfit went
into her strange place, and 0, my
didn't she yell. The sisters gathered
around her and they said her face
was all perspiration, and the paint
was coming off, and they took her
into the kitchen, and she told them
pa had slapped her with a dish of ice
cream, and the w im men told the
minister, and the deacons, and they
went to pa for an explanation, and pa
told them it was not so, and the min?
ister got interested and got near pa, ,
and pa let the water go at him, and
hit him in the eye, and then the dea?
con got a dose, and pa laughed, and 1
then the minister, who used to go to
college and be a hazer, and box, he 1
got mad and squared off and hit pa
on the eye, and one of the deacons
kicked pa, and pa got mad and said
he could clean out the whole shebang, ?
and began to pull off his coat, when 1
they bundled him out of doors, and
ma got mad to see pa abused, and she
left the sociable, and I had to stay and
eat ice cream and things for the whole
family. Pa says that settles it with <
him. He says they haven't got any '
more christian charity in that church i
than they have got in a tannery. His 1
eyes were just getting over being t
black from the sparring lessons, and > I
now he has got to go through the i
yy&ter and beafsteak cure agaiu. He i
3ay8 its all owing to me.' ' .
'Well, what has all this got to do ?
with your putting up signs in frout of t
my store, 'Rotten Eggs' and 'Frowy (
Butter a speciality/ said the grocery (
nan as he took the boy by the ear i
ind pulled him around. 'You have ? i
rot an idea you are smart, and I want j t
pou to keep away from here. The j ?
iext time I catch you here I shall call j i
ihe police and have you pulled. Now j a
?it!' ' t
The boy pushed his year back on j a
;he side of his head where it be
onged, took out a cigarette and lit it,
md after putting smoke in the face of 1
;he grocery cat that was sleeping on . *
;he cover of the sugar barrel, he said, j *
If I was a provision pirate, that never jc
told anything but what was spoiled 11
so it could not be sold in a first-class
store, who cheated in weights and
measures, who. bought only wormy
figs, and decayed codfish, who got his
butter from .-a fat rendering establish?
ment, bis? cider from a vinegar fac?
tory, and his sugar from a glucose
factory, I would not insult the son of
one of the first families. Why, sir,
I could get out on the corner and
when I saw customers coming here I
could tell a story that would turn
their stomachs, and send them to the
grocery on the next corner. Suppose
1 should tell them that the cat sleeps
in the dried apple barrel, that the
mice made nests in the prune box,
and rats run riot through the raisins,
that you. never wash your hands ex?
cept on- Decoration day and Christ?
mas, that you wipe your nose on your
shirt sleeves, and that you have the
itch, do you think your business
would be improved ? Suppose I
should tell the customers that you
?ny sour kraut of wo?den-shoe Polack?
er, who makes it ofpiec?s of cabbage
that he gets by gathering swill, and
you sell the stuff to respectable peo?
ple, could you pay your rent ? If I
should tell them that you put lozen?
ges in the collection plate at church
and charge the minister forty cents
per pound for oleomargarine, you
would have to close np. Old man, I
am onto you, and now you apologize
for pulling my ear.'
The grocery man turned pale du?
ring the recital, and finally said the
bad boy was one of the best little fel?
lows in this town, and the boy went
out and hung up a sign in front, 'Girl
wanted to cook.1
Two Romances.
The son of a leading lawyer in New
York, some years ago, wa9 attracted
by the innocent face and quick wit of
a Welsh chambermaid in his father's
house, and declared that be preferred
her to all the fashionable beauties who
had courted his notice.
His family protested, hut to uo pur?
pose. The only concession be would
make was to consent to go to Europe
for three years before marrying the
girl. In the meantime, having an in?
dependent fortune, tbe lover placed
her at one of the best schools in New
York.
The girl was ambitious and devoted
in her affection to the man wbo had
chosen her. He returned and found her
more lovely than ever. They were
married, and the lady is now one of the
leaders of society in the city where they
live-a noble, refined, charming wo?
man.
'An eminent jurist, well-known in
Pennsylvania in the early part of this !
century, was 'making the circuit,' on
horseback, aud stopped for dinner at
the house of a farmer. The daughter of j
the farmer waited on them, and the ?
judge-who had been a cynic about
women-observed the peculiar gentle- !
ness of her voice and a certain sweet !
candor in her face. After dinner the j
farmer said :
'Mary, bring the judge's horse.'
Mary started to the field which was !
inclosed by a barred fence. Laying her
hand on the topmost rail she vaulted
lightly over.
'I saw,' said the judge afterwards,
'for the first time, a woman with a
mind and body I should require in my
wife. I called again and again at farm?
er C's. At last I sent Mary to school
for a couple of years, and here she is,'
nodding to the stately matron who pre?
sided at his table.
The sons of the Judge and this real
Maude Muller all attained distinction ; |
one, like his father, at the bar: another ?
was an eminent divine, and the third j
was a Southern candidate for the Presi?
dency. All were noted for their fiery
eloquence, their h'igh sense of honor
aud a certain appetite for fighting,
which was well sustained by strong
physical health. The Judge had not
been mistaken in Mary's qualities of
mind or body. - Youth's Companion.
*mm * * pi
Naming a Lake.
Years ago, it was discovered that a !
certain lake which had long been con?
sidered the head of the Mississippi, had
no claim to that honor. The explorers
found a new and smaller lake from
which the great river took its rise. A
discussion arose as to what would be
appropriate for it. The story is that it
was decided in this way :
'Let's make a oew name by coining a
word,' said an old voyager. 'Some of
you lamed ones tell me what is tbe
Latin for true ?1
* Veritas,1 answered a scholar.
'Well, now, what is the Latin for
head?
'Caput:
'Now write the two words together
by syllables.'
The scholar wrote on a strip o4 birch- j
bark, 'ver-i-tas-ca-put.'
'Read it out.'
The five syllables were read.
'Now drop the first and last syllables,
md you'll have a good name of this j
lake.' And 'Itasca' it was.
Be Saving.
With au economical wife at the head
)f a house much can bc accomplished.
The idea of saving is a pleasant one ; !
ind if wives imbibed it once, they j
Evouid cultivate it and adhere to it ; aud i
bus, when they are not aware of it,
;hey would be laying the foundation of
i competent security in a stormy time, j1
ind shelter in a rainy day. The wife j :
itho sees to her own house has a large I
ield to save in. Thc best way for her j !
;o comprehend it is to keep an account '
)f all current expenses. Probably not i 1
me woman in ten has an idea how j <
nuchare the expenditures of herself j
md family. Let the house-wife take j
he idea, act upon it, and she will save ; '
lomething where before she thought ; i
t impossible. This is a duty, yet not ? 1
i sordid avarice, but a moral obliga- j '
ion that rests upon the women as well ! <
is the men. j '
?i - j i
A little three-year-old girl, while her \ \
notber was trying to get her to sleep, j -
)ecame interestedjiu some outside noise, j,
She was told that it was caused by a ;
Ticket, when she sagely observed s j <
Mama, I think he ought to be oiled.' 11
Silos and Ensilage.
INTERESTING PRACTICAL TEST8.
Correspondence Southern Cultivator.
KEOWEE, OCONEE CO., S. C. 1883.
The neighborhood Farmers' Club of
Pendleton met at the farm ot Mr. J.
C. Stribling to day, the special matter
of consideration was the subject of
Silos and ensilage. The Club in?
spected Mr. Stabling's silo. His
barn-yard incloses a very steep hill?
side. His silo is built close to the
line where the hill begins its sudden
decline, wheieby he secures not only
the best surface drainage, but also an
outlet for an underground tile drain,
which leads fi om'the bottom of the
pit, and is intended to discharge any
carbonic acid gas that might form du?
ring the consumption of the ensilage
and otherwise aid the ventilation.
The silo has an area of 16 by 12 feet
and is 12 feet deep, lt is cut into
solid red clay, but for greater secu?
rity against wet weather, it has walls
of concrete of several inches in thick?
ness, as high as the surface of the
ground. The floor is also concrete.
Above is the room for the cutting
machine furnished with a movable
floor, and covered by a roof with pro?
jecting eaves. The door of the pit is
in the wall of the lower end, and as it
is below the surface, the approach is
dug out. The club were invited to
enter. Mr. Stribling began using his
ensilage on the 8th of November, has
fed continually eleven head of stock
cattle, horses and colts indiscrimi?
nately, and the ensliage is now per?
haps a little more than half consumed.
His pit was scarcely half full to begin
with. He exhibited chopped pea
vines, chopped fodder and corn, and
also peavines put in whole. All were
perfectly preserved. The peavines
were appearently in better condition
than when they were put in, as the
tough, unavailable part of the stem
had become softer and more succu?
lent, and they seemed tobe decidedly
more valuable than dried or cured
vines, both for the reasons just men
tined, and because the leaves, which
dry crisp and shatter in sun-curing
were here found entire. The green
pods were also perfect. One of the
party cut into a pod with his pen?
knife and dissected some peas, and
called attention to their perfect con?
dition. There was no sign of mold
or decomposition about any of the en?
silage. The mass was dug into at
random.
It seems superfluous to say that a !
necessary point of a silo is the exclu?
sion of the air from the forage. This
is done by pressure, and a simple
way to secure the pressure is by cov?
ering the forage in the pit with heavy
boards and piling rock or other I
weighty material upon these. When
the silo ia opened, the rocks are re?
moved at one end, one plank is taken
up and the forage is cut square down
to the bottom of the pit the width of
the plank. So it is gone through
with, one plank at a time, the pres?
sure on the rest being not disturbed.
For this reason the pit should not be
too wide, for while the forage will
last in cold weather ten days, or per?
haps longer, after exposure to the
air, as the spring season advances and
warm weather comes on it would be
well to expose only such quantities as
can be used more rapidly. Mr. Sta?
bling's pit is twelve feet wide and be
feeds a cut ol a plank's width in
something like ten days, with no ap?
pearance of his forage souring ; but
next season he expects to save more
material and intends dividing his pit
by a middle wall running through its
length, so that he will take up for
each cut a board six feet long instead
of twelve. This year his pit is not
full and will not carry him far into
the spring. The writer asked him if
there was no sign of decomposition
or souring immediately under the
planks. He replied that he had at first
supposed there must be, and had
feared to give it to his stock, and so
had begun by throwing away a layer
of an inch or so. But it happened
that his stock got hold of some re?
jected stuff lying out in his lot, and
ate it readily, without detriment, so
that cow he feeds it all from the
very top. There is no evidence at all
of spoiling on the sides or floor.
" At the last meeting of the club a
report had been mace on the opening
of Dr. Adger's pit. Dr. Adger is a
member of the club ; his pit is also
dug in hard clay and is under his
barn roof and always thoroughly dry,
but they found a la}rer of forage of
lour or five inches all around the sides
spoiled and lost. The JOSS was agreed
to be due to the fact that the Doctor's
pit has walls constructed of closely
fitted logs faced with boards, from
which it is impossible to exclude a
certain amount of air, however the
interstices between and behind the
boards may be filled and packed.
The concrete wall has a clear advan?
tage.
Mr. Stribling is a decided advocate
of ensilage. We have permission to
quote his opinions. Ile considers it
the surest and cheapest way of saving
forage. One is independent of the
weather; no auushine is needed to
save it ; the forage is stored just as it
is mowed, and one can calculate on !
saving all that he can grow ; there is
no risk of lire after housing, there is
no waste in the use, and the feeding
can be made perfectly accurate and
systematic ; it occupies only about
one-fifth storage room required for the
same amount of ordinary farm "rough?
ness." Well preserved ensilage is
better feed than any kind of hay or
dried fodder, and stock like it better.
As to the crops fit for ensilage,
Mr. Scribling has no doubt that any
forage which stock will eat green,
eau be ensilaged 'if cutline, weighted ;
heavily, and protected from water.' j
Ihe peavine has some advantages j
[>ver other crops. It is excellent food |
rery prolific, and exhausts the laud less j
than other annuals. Fodder corn !
thickly drilled and cultivated is
liso very valuable and greatly pro
3uctive.
In regard to the cutting up of j
irops, Mr. Stabling's experience j ;
ihows that the forage may beprefeerv-j
ed whole. But the chopping is al?
ways to be preferred when one has
conveniences for it. The finer the
forage is cut the more easily it is
pressed down to an air tight condition
and the more readily is it taken from
the pit. If one does not cut he must
apply heavier weight.
Mr. Stripling has been making some
interesting figures on the subject of
ensilage. He finds that in South
Carolina there are nearly 600,000 for?
age-eating animals, to which ie fed
annually about 350,000 tons of dry
forage, including shucks and straw.
Of this about 170,000 tons iscorn fod?
der, hay and other annuals, which re?
quire good w eather for their success?
ful curing, and the average loss on
these crops alone each year is estima?
ted at nearly 123,000 tons, worth
?2,000,000. This sum would be
sufficient to build earth silos good
enough for all practical purposes, ca?
pable of holding all the forage needed
in this State. Or to state the propo?
sition differently, the damage to our
forage crops in one year costs a sum
which would build all the silos need?
ed to preserve them. On this head
Mr. Stribling invites further com?
ment. Let us hear from other States
also.
As respects : the cost of silo - pits,
Mr. Stripling's pit (which has been
described), may be stated as costing
under ?80 ; but concrete walls may
not always be necessary, earth walls
with a good, wide shelter and a good
surface ditch around, may be suffi
cient ; or the silo might be made
above ground, each man must judge
by his surroundings what would be
economical and practical for him.
The subject ought not to be left with?
out remarking this also on the point
of dividing a pit by a middle wall viz :
that one is thereby better able to fill
and press a compartment in a single
day. In this climate it seems to be
safe to leave the chopped forage un?
pressed over a night certainly, so
that one may have two days to fill his
pit, but there may be climatic or at?
mospheric conditions under which it
would be more prudent to complete
the whole operation while a single suu
shines.
Canning Factory.
[From the Greenville News.]
The gentleman who proposes to
start a canning factory for putting up
fruits and vegetables is now in this
city, and there is no doubt that the
factory will be established if assur?
ance is given of supplies of material.
VV. T. ?h?mate, with characteristic
enterprise, has offered to furnish the
necessary buildings and grounds, the
capital required-?2,000 to $3,000
is so small that there is no doubt of
its being readily obtained, and there
will bc no difficulty about the labor.
What is wanted, however, is some
idea of what can be supplied of the
following quantities of fruits needed :
9,000 bushels tomatoes.
1,000 bushels blackberries.
1,000 bushels huckleberries.
3,000 bushels large white and yel?
low peaches.
3,000 bushels mellow and juicy ap?
ples.
Smaller quantities of quinces, cur?
rants, raspberries, etc.
The machinery for the canning of
corn, beans, peas etc. is more ex?
pensive, and such work will not be
undertaken until the experiment has
been tried on other things.
All persons who can promise to
supply any of the above fruits in quan?
tities of from one bushel up at fair
prices, are urgently requested to im?
mediately send their address and the
quantity they can probably furnish to
the News, or to R. R. Asbury or W.
T. Shumate. Of course they will not
be bound to anything or asked to sell
unless the prices are satisfactory.
The present object is to get an idea
of what can be had.
The advantage of such a factory to
the cit)7 and country can be readily
seen. What fruit it would take would
be over and above the usual consump?
tion and just so much clear money
paid out to our farmers for what is
now wasted and rotted, bringing
nothing. The quantities above called
for would put probably from ?5,000
to $7,000 in cash among the farmers
more than they now receive. This
factory will utilize the ditches and
old fields and surplus product of gar?
dens and orchards, and create a new
method of money making and a new
branch of industry.
The gentleman who is interested is
from Harford county, Maryland,
where the ennning factories have
grown up and scattered in every di?
rection until the business has become
an immense one. The}' have in?
creased the value of farm lauds a hun?
dred per cent., and added vast sums
to the property of the people and the
resources of farmers. They have
made the plaining of tomatoes a regu- \
lar business, and farmers rind it much
more profitable than wheat or corn,
the production of good land being
from 250 to 400 bushels an acre and
the average price 20 cents a bushel.
The cost of cultivation and picking is
ver)' little, and the profits considera?
bly above those of cotton raising at 9
cents.
250 bushels of tomatoes at 20 cents
is ?50; 500 pounds of cotton at 9
cents ?45.
All who can furnish tomatoes,
blackberries, whortleberries, peaches,
apples, quinces, currants or pears
will send in their names as above as
quickly as possible.
If no satisfactory answers are re-1
ceived, the project will probably be |
dropped for the time, but it will bc
revived next year when sufficient no- j
tice can be given to allow the plant- j
ing of tomatoes which will be the j
most important feature of thc fae- j
tory. j
- i m -
.This is a nico time of night for you
to be coming in,? said a mothejr to her j
daughter, who returued from a walk at
10 o'clock. 'When I was like you,' j
continued she, 'my mother would not ;
allow me out later than 7 o'clock.' j
'Ob, you Lad a uice ?ort of a mother,'
murmured the girl. 'I had, you young
jade, a nicer mother than ever you j
had/ said the mother. [
News and Gossip.
The Aileen Recorder publishes a list
cf the visitors at that health resort. It
fills two columns and a half.
It is now generally conceded that the
cotton crop will reach 7,000,000 bales.
The Agricultural Bureau puts it at
6,835,000.
Miss Chatnberlin, thc American
beauty in Ec g laud, has captured Sir
Maisy Thompson, and bis income of
?100,000 a year.
When a rich Chinaman wants a wife
he buys one. Rich men in Chiua ap?
pear to have just as many privileges as
rich widowers in America.
In this State the number of cotton
mills has increased in the past two
years from eighteen to twenty-seven,
and the number of spindles from 96,000*
to 180,000. The increase is steady.
Work will soon be resumed on the
Hudson River Tunnel between Jersey
City and New York. One million dei
lars have already been expended on it,
and it will take three millions more to
complete the work.
Augusta Chronicle : Thc peach crop
is reported killed, but we expect confi?
dently to eat all the fruit of that kind
necessary for our health this summer.
The peach crop is as bard to annihilate
as the Democratic party.
The Democratic party has a list of
prospective Presidental candidates for
1884, of exceptional wealth and social
position. Included in the number are
Senators Pendleton, Bayard and David
Davis, Justice Field, Gen. George B.
McClellan, Gen. Ben. Butler and Sen?
ator Fair.
The Memphis Avalanche would have
Southern planters raise but half the
crop of cotton they are wont to produce
and devote the rest of their cultivated
land to grain, grasses and stock. In
such a course it sees the only meaos of
achieving Southern independence and
thrift.
A youug man who undertook to trace
his family back two centuries, struck
the penitentiary before he had exhaust?
ed a century, and concluded to stop.
He feared he would collide with a gal?
lows before reaching the objective
point.
The Langtry^ seem to be a bad lot.
Agnes Langtry, sister-in-law to the
Jersey Lily, was brought to this coun?
try to act as chaperone, being a maiden
lady of mature years. She soon picked
up a beau of her own to offset Gebhard,
and OD Sunday disappeared with her
friend at Niagara Falls. Nothing bas
been heard from her except a telegram
demanding her baggage which Mrs.
Langtry refused to send ber.
Tom Marshal's last words, as he
turned bis face towards a window,
were : 'This is the end ! I am dying
on a borrowed bed, under a borrowed
blanket and in a house built by public
charity ! Bury me under that oak tree
yonder, where there is plenty of room.
I have been crowded all my life.' Such
were the dying utterances of one of the
most brilliant aud eloquent lawyers in
the annals of Kentucky jurisprudence.
Arizona and New Mexico are agitated
by the continued operations of the Indian
hostiles who have committed, from three
to ten murders every day for the last two
weeks. They are making for old Mexico
closely followed by U. S. troops Mexi?
can troops are also after them with orders
to give no mercy to buck, squaw or child
and the raogers, are out in force. It
is stated that a secret society has been
formed among the whites, members of
which swear to hunt and kill every
j male Apache Indian wherever he may
; be found. The White Mountian Ute
Indians threaten to go on the war path
next month unless the government gives
them relief.
On the day before the reception ten
dered her at St. George's Bermuda, the
Priocess Louise weat on a sketching
expedition aloDg the shore, all alone,
and after a time becoming thirsty, went
for a drink to the cottage of a negra
fisherman. No one was there but
'auntie,' and sh ? was as busy as could
be i ron i ii g a shirt for her 'ole man' ta
wear at the reception. The Princess
asked for a drink. Tse no time to
bodder getting water fo* you,' was the
reply ; Tse fearful busy, for I'sc bound
to see the queen's chile to-morrow.'
.But, if you'll get me a drink, TH iron
while you do,' said the thirsty Princess.
The offer was accepted, the Princess
finished the shirt and got her drink, and
then revealed her identity. 'Fo'deLo'd,
honey !* exclaimed 'auntie,' when she
recovered from her surprise, 'ole man
no* no one else ever wear dat shirt
agaiu nohow !'
^- 11 -
Counting the Money.
The task of counting one thousand
millions of dollars is difficult, even for
the best experts, but the retireinent
of Treasurer Gilfillan makes it neces?
sary. His old assistant and friend,
the new Treasurer. Mr. Wyman, may
not feel much solicitude to have the
accounts of his predecessor verified,
and it ie understood that he will waive
the right to have a secoud count of
Uncle Sam's money made by his own
assistants, but it is well for tlie gov?
ernment to have experts search
through the Treasury. Great frauds
sometimes grow out of the neglect to
make thorough investigations of ac?
counts which are regarded as without
a taint of corruption. Chief Daskam,
of the division of public moneys ; Mr.
Upton, who as Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, is familiar with the
books, and Mr. Middleton, a Wash?
ington banker, are the committee iu
charge of the work, and at 4 o'clock
Saturday afternoon they took the
keys and books from the retiring
Treasurer and put their force of clerks
into the vaults resolved to count
enough packages before Monday to
allow the tellers of thc Treasury to
make their payments without inter*
rnptiou during the present week.
Having placed enough money behind
them to do the business of the gov?
ernment, the counters can now com?
plete their work at leisure. Tho
funds consist of about ?306,000,000
in cash, about ?250,000,000 in Trea?
sury notes ready for issue, and $400,
000,000 iu bonds of national banks, vu
all more than $1,000,000,000.