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AN ABSTRACT OF THE ADDRESS DELIVERED BY HON. JAS. 31. LIPSCO31B, 31ASTER OF THE STATE GRANGE, At the Fourteenth Annual Session, Held in Charleston, S. C., on Febru ary 3rd and 4th, 1886. To you the representative legisla tive body for the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in this State, now assem bled and sitting in annual session, to devise and provide measures and plans for its welfare and promotion, it is my official duty to make such suggestions as may be deemed proper a for your consideration and "for the good of the Order." From the Annual Reports of the Worthy Secretary and Worthy Trea surer, you will get exact, detailed in formation of the financial condition and numerical strength of the Order in this State. From the number of new Granges organized, and dormant ones reorgrized, it will be seen that the Order is not retrograding or weakening, or its prospect for the fu ture discouraging. It is most aston ishing that an association for which some work has been done, to which so little time devoted, and on which so little money has been spent, should have grown and prospered in spite of the groundless antagonism of most of the organized interests and classes of the community and country. It has been sustained by its inherent and intrinsic principle and vitality, with but little if any fostering care, canvassing, labor or pecuniary expenditure. This benign Order should have zealous care, diligent canvassing, and * liberal expenditure. It is an Order that, while pre-eminently caring for and representing the interests of the fa-mners as a class, conduces to, and premotes the interests of all other classes, and of the country generally. Fairly and truly viewed, it conflicts with none and antagonizes none. Properly used, it harms no one, but confers untold and immense benefits upon all and every one. Many er -roneous ideas prevail, creating false impressions as to the objects and >mission of this Order, bringing upon it enmity and opposition, as aggres ~Sive and destructive, from sources it sehould receive approval and cordial support, as progressive and co-oper stive. It should be your duty to correct chi erroneous impressions, remove mch enmity and opposition, and se assfr it approval and cordial sup rt. To this much needed and de fred end, allow me to most earnestly d emphatically invoke your deep tconsideration and most zealous orts. This opens too wide a field *he canvassed or discussed on such occasion as this; and I can only t it here and there without detailed cussion, with such bare "-sugges ns for the good of the Order". as y form a b~asis, or ground-work m which and upon which, you may r mature deliberation and tho ugh consideration, formulate and ~ild such measures and take such tion as may seem to you wise and cticable; promoting the true in ests of the Order you represent of the whole people. * * 1As to '-hat I shall say to you un r the head of agriculture, I don't k I can do better than adopt, as of this address, the rep'ort made Ne ational Grange: This is pre-eminently an agricul ral nation. Agriculture is the eatest interest, creating the annual alues, which when capitalized,~ is wj',ah and supports all the other 3~" of the country, er,,ce ov oad expanse of . - ry to compute v1 . existent prop Is, buildings, . reeus, factories f : .implements, cattle and stock, railroads, turnpikes and shipping, government buildings -Federal, State and county-churches and school houses; add to all this the billions of dollars covered up and in. vested in bonds and stocks--National, State, county, municipal and indi vidual-and then think that all this wonderiul mass of values is the ac cumulation and capitalized profits from agriculture. "Glance again over the agricultu ral records of this nation, and what do we see and learn? "In thirty years, from 1850 to 1880, he crops increase: Wheat, from 100,488,944 bushels to 459,483,137 bushels; corn, from 592,071.104 to 1,754,591,676 bushels; and cotton, from 2,469,093 to 6,539,021 bales. The estimates for 1885 being: wheat, 376,000,000 bushels; corn, 2, )00,000,000 bushels; and cotton, 6, )00.000 bales; these three alone ag gregating in value $1,132,000,000. "An analysis would startingly 3how how little of this immense ac Mumulated profits and wealth has re mained with the agricultural pro lucers, and how many billions of lollars have gone to support and en ich other classes and interests. It ould also show how agriculture as in art, science and pursuit has ad ranced and progressed with rapid ind gigantic strides. "Think for a moment of the radi :al changes in modes and implements )f agriculture within the experience )f your own generation, and it looks lmost miraculous. "From the foregoing, it would seem Jat the problem of successful agri ulture was solved, and the wealth of he agricultural classes clearly as ured. But is this so? No, alas! hile agriculture as a science and a vealth-creator has advanced, and is ;till advancing at electric speed, sup )rting and enriching the govern nent and aggregate people, still un lisputed statistical records, facts and ,our own experience show with pain 'ul plainness that the strictly pure griculturists are not, either as indi riduals, or on the aggregate, growing ich. "They, of all classes, still remain nore under Eden's curse, 'In the weat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy Ialy bread;' and being made to do he extra sweating to provide bread nd wealth and luxury for thousands nA thousands who, during long lives arn nothing, and do nothing, but ppropriate, . and in riotous livin.g, onsume the capitalized profits and ealth squeezed from the sweating races and 'horny hands' of the 'sons )f toil.' An increase of production d crops by increased toil and pro. ;ress in science, intelligence and kill, will not change the status or elieve the difficulty; for, as from rear to year, from decade to decade, e profits and values from agricultu al operations are increased and mag aified, in still greater ratio is the roportion of the agriculturists de reased in the distribution thereof. Why is this so, and shall it continue? [t would fill volumes to tell in mi nte detail, the nuaierous causes that sontribute to establish the foregoing onditions. Fee bly formulated it is : that by statute laws and operations of governments-Federal1 State, county and municipal; that by the rules and customs of boards of trade and commerce; by corporations and syndicates; by associations and or ders; and by numberless and divers classes and interests; there has been a long, determined, systematically constructed and combined arrange ment for each and all to estimatc wht, and how much, of these agricul tural profits and wealth they respec tively needed, or desired; then re morselessly and summarily to appro priate the same, regardless of thn equity or justice of the division; o what would be left for the class tha with anxious study and earnest labo. produced it all. Agriculture must be so uniloade of these onerous burdens that nov encumber it as to render it possibli for those engaged in it to mak money and acquire wealth. This cal never be done till the agriculturist who grow and produce the crops con trol the first sales of the same, an< have them made in their interest. I cannot be till it is so arranged t< take less wheat, corn, cotton au< other agricultural products, or th money they sell for, to maintain an; supply the governments of variou grades, the railroads, the manufa< tories, the banks and all other inst tutions and interests, both p)ubli and private, and thus leave a largc surplus as a support and dividendt the agriculturist upon his labor an capita]. "Agriculturists, to save themselve and their interests, must be tI: strnget and ruling class in the n: tion, and strongly intrench and pro tect themselves ngainst the weaken ing encroachments that depress and exhaust. and, sooner and later. ruin those engaged in it. "As it must supply the revenue, it must coitrol its expenditure. -No government can long retain its power; no people its happiness and comfort without a proFperous ag riculture, and agriculture will not and cannot prosper unless it pays, and pays well those engaged in it. "Here is the key note to the whole situation. Let agriculture be the source of profit and wealth, or rather secure the profits and wealth right fully belonging to the agriculturists to them, and then no longer will be heard the doleful voice of the moan ing farmer depicting the misery of his class; of th3 vain efforts to induce thenm to join the organizations and associations of their class; to induce the children to follow the avocation of the parents, instead of overcrowd ing the professions and other avoca tions, and flockibg in countless herds to cities and towns. * * "Unless you do this, agriculture must continue to languish and de cline-the avoidance and contempt of the world-and you and your class must for generations to come remain the contemned serfs of any and all who, seeing your supineness, simply combine to use you. "Farmers, awake to the exigencies of the situation, and sleep no more till your task is finished and your duty done." Having become convinced that a continuance of Summer Meetings upon the present plan will not best subserve and promote the objects and iuterests of the Order and agricul ture; I have obtained all the inform ation I could as to the system and plan of the State and inter-State pic nic, held for the last twelve years at Williais Grove, Penn., and will at the proper time submit it for your consideration, along with a short re port of my five days' attendance there last August, and the observations I made cn it, and the impression it made on me. Starting twelve years ago as a lo cal Pomona Grange picnic of three hours duration, two speeches and a basket dinner, it has grown to its present mammoth dimensions of five days duration, one hundred thousand people attending, averaging twenty thousand& per day~; corning from twenty-five different States; densely covering fifty odd acres with build ings, machinery, stock and people, all working with perfect system and order; instituted, conducted and con trolled entirely by farmers, striking ly illustrating what intelligent com bination, cordial co-operation and zealous effort can accomplish, when resorted to even by farmers. In any sound agricultural policy education should hold high rank and be liberally provided for. Thbat edu cation which will best train and make proficient for intelligent, progressive and successful agriculture, and con - sequently efficient and useful citizen ship. This training or education cannot be acquired in a short time or from any one agency or institution. It must start very early in life-in the home, the house and the farm. There, and there alone can the eye, the hand and the head obtain economically, purely and correctly the knowledge and skill that is esse.ntial to the prac tical farmer. No one institution un der the name of school or college could cover, within any reasonable time, term. course. corriculumn or cost the wide sphere and scope that is neces sarv to bestow a complete agricultu ral education. -A complete agricultural education includes almost all that is requisite in each and every specific profession or avocation, and but few things that arc sp)ecifically taught and useful tc the lawyer, doctor, merchant, engin eer, architect, mechanic, chemist, ge olagist, botanist, linguist or scientis1 but is. in almost an equal degree, useful and advantageous to the ac tive, inteligent, progressive and suc cessful farmer. Instead of contract ing the scope of agricultural educa tion it should be expanded to the fullest possible extent. I most hear tily wish that there was a first clas: aricultural college or institute il this State, thoroughly organized am and fully equipped, to confer upoi its pupils all that it is possible fo such an institution to bestow. shall at all times gladly and cordiall, support and advoce.te any feasibl and practicable proposition or pla that will fully attain this much d~ isired end, or make material althoug partial progress towards it. As your offBcer, I am e.c offcio trustee of the State University, an while I miust candidly say to you, does not completely furnish such an educational institution as would be n best for the agricultural educational t interests of the State; yet, in justice ri to the trustees and faculty. it must ri be admitted, that they have done all h1 that could be done for agricultural a education in a literary university of very limited means; and in whose or- si ganization, agricultural education is ti an annex only. Whenever the legis- a lature can be induced to establish an a educational institution, purely agri- b cultural; turn over to it the Federal sl land scrip educational fund, together ft with that under the Cullen bill and t< others, then supplement all this with liberal appropriations out of the a! treasury, sufficient to establish and 11 support such an institution, to be ei conducted and administered in con- t( junction with the Agricultural De- w partment, by a board of trustees com- s posed of farmers, I shall hail its ad- p, vent with joy ! But don't throw si away your half loaf, till you are as- lo sured of the whole one. * * * * p If you decIde that you will have a a policy that will undertake to influ- c: ence the opinions and platforms of tI political parties and the votes and4 tc actions of Federal and State Legis- p latures, then hasten to determine and p] defme it so that it can be at once di p, )mulgated and disseminated among C the masses of the people. and be B thoroughly digested and understood cl before the usual biennial reorganiza- it tion of political parties flor the coin- in ing campaign. Prior to that you en ny freely discuss any and all questions o of political policy or economy. sub- p sequently nothing can be entertained R or advocated except such as are ap- fr proved by your party platform and ol conventions. So say now what you e: think for the greatest interest of i yourselves and the whole people. ri The laws governing national banks a and currency discriminate against you in every way. Demand a change el in this, and a law preventing sudden bi reduction and contractions in the a currency. There is more need of a el law to prohibit national banks re- C1 ducing their issue below an estab- 0 lished minimum than from increas- d ing it above a fixed maximum. It u is- the sudden and arbitrary with- S< drawal of money from circulation in a the fall that depresses the market 1 value of your products while still in t; your h..ds unsold, while later undue 14 expansion immensely enhances the s profits of speculators and mnanufac- tl turers. Demand the repeal of the lien law, and demand thke passage of a seven ri per cent. usury law. tl It is safe to say that the average L rate at which goods are obtained e under the lien law, is no less than i fifty per cent. It is equally safe to , say that no farmer who does not buy y, and sell, or in some other way sup- o plement his farming operations, cana pay safely more than seven per cent. r for borrowed money. The only safe e rule is to make your dollar before t you spend it, and not to spend it be-i fore you make it, and all attempts to farm on fictitious credit under exist ing laws must prove delusive andt disastrous. * * * *j * I again most emphatically repeat, it is not enough to merely asser-t our principles. It is not enough for ust to believe that -the first law of ne.ture( is to protect ourselves," but to de monstrate beyond the possibility of doubt our determination and ab ility to do it. Not at the expense of other legitimate callings, hut we should understand what relation our avocation bears to the other avoca: tions; what interests legitimate an:1 proper the one has in the other, arnd the one owes the other and zealously see to it that we are not carrying burdens which are not ours by inter est, or by right to bear. We owe this to ourselves and our calling from ce-y standpoint; but especially in -view of the magnitude of the interest in which~ we are engaged and the disposition on the part of other in terests to lay burdens upon if should -we be zealous of our own interests -and our own rights. * -Patrons, this is the time not only -to think deeply, but to act wisely. Study well political 'economy. Study -deeply and intelligently the relations existing between our calling and the general welfare, not forgetting what we owe ourselves and posterity, and having determined where we hu stand, banishing all prejudice, prac tically act out our honest convictions. SI do not want to be an alarmist, eor a croaker, but feel it my duty to warn you that in the near future, if not at the next session of your State hLegislature, it will be seriously ad vocated to remove taxation from all avarieties of personal property, and dconcentrate and impose it upon Ltans* 4~ * * * * It is seriously urgett to repeal al iost all the State Law that now pro acts the individual citizen from the iinous extortions of public car ers and leaves him to contend opelessly with the power. influence, nd monev of soulless :nonopolists. It is seriously contemplated to de .roy such institutions and associa ons as have been established and re being operated for the benefit of riculture---their usefulness has een already impaired, and most ;rangely these attacks are led and Lvored by men claiming to be and > represent farmers. The farmers should have a policy i to the public affairs of the State. ; should be simple, fair, true, hon st, and just; doing injustice or wrong >none, and claiming or asking only hat is right and proper for them lves. The starting point of that >licy should be to insist upon the mplification and cheapening of the .ws of the State. Let them be so lain and simple that the citizens of merage education and intelligence in understand and safely construe em. Let the cost be so reduced as place them within the reach of the >or man. Now our law is so com ex that even the Supreme Court ides upon its construction-the ircuit Judges are at sea, and the ar has as many constructions as ients may need and pay for. And s enormous cost precludes the poor an from its benefits or protection. rually making the law a privilege the rich instead of a right of the wr. In a Democratic State and epublic. law and justice should be e( to all, "without money and with it price." But, to the contrary, tLch Congress and each LegYislature creases the tyrannical power of the ch and helpless slavery of the poor. 4- - W :11k, * Brothers, it is always painful and nbarrassing to any man of sensi lity, to discuss his claims to merit good record. I hope you will ex ise my presuming upon our long, ose and cordial association in this rder, and your oft repeated evi ences of respect and hoi.or conferred pon me, to make a very few per )nal remarks. Born and reared in family that, though numerous, ever had, until the present genera on, a professional member; I, fol )wing the bent of my breeding; have ent my life, and, until the last iree years, gained my entire sup ort as a farmer. Before the war I ras a life-member of your State Ag cultural Society and chairman of ie committee on agriculture in your .egislature. Since the war, I was lected by y ou in 1874 lecturer, and 1876 Master; serving, as you know, ithout a salary or pay. For three ears I was chairman of committee agriculture in the State Senate, nd a life-..ember of your State Ag icultural Society. This is my re ord as a representative of agricul re, and all I have officially done is n print. On your estimate of me .nd this record, I propose to stand, ithout condescending to notice, in he papers or otherwise, the unjust md basely false insinuations, wheth r emanating from wild fanaticism, enseless blather-skiting, or menda ~ios malice. In 1878 the Legislu ire made the Master of the State grange ex officio a member of the state Board of Agriculture, and in 184 a trustee of the State University. In 1882, I was elected by the peo le and as a Democrat, Secretary of tat; the many and very diverse| lutes acrolved upon this latter oflice [ hav tried to discharge zealously, althflIy, and~ honestly, and this I eieve my bitterest enemies admit. Vor this service I receive the same ay that was given to my predeces sor without comp)laint by any one, ud will doubtless, be given to my successor. There is no connection whatever, between the office of Secretary of State and that of Master of the State Grange; and underhanded attempts to falsely confound the two to my detriment cannot be considered fair, truthful or honest. But, friends, enough, and too much of this. Whenever charges are pre ferred against me to you, you will try them and a true verdict give. Till then, I shall continue the even tenor of my way with silent disregard for all maligners. "In comfortable circumstances" two lovers occupying one arm-chair. Diamonds are always regarded as vulgar by persons of refined tastes and limited means. The office should seek the man, it is true, but as a general thing it doesnt. Indeed, it doesnt have to. The r.ma saves it the trouble. Columbl:Cs Opportunity. With the railroad tide sweeping on all around us, it is not as we will, but as we must. Let us look at the ailroad situation all around us. Let us berin with Charleston. Whilst the old city seems asleep, there is somebody moving on the board for ier, and we are glad .o see it, for it is not a comfortable thing to see the ild city die like a rat in a corner. What does the Eutawville Road mean for a new and important con iection for Charleston ? With this road at Eloree in Orangeburg Coun y, it taps a most fruitful country, itherto without any railroad facili ies. At this point the new road, as measured on the State map. i.s fif een miles from lie Congaree. cross ng between Fort Motte and King -ille, and just twenty miles from a lirect connection with the Camden branch at Wateree Junction. From the Wateree Junction to the forty >ne mile station is exactly fifty miles drawing through a splendid :ountry. From' the Congaree trestle o the forty-one mile station is forty. seven miles. From Wateree Junc ion by the present route via King -ille and Orangeburg to the forty ne mile station is sixty-eight and a alf miles. Here, then, would be a saving of eighteen and a alf miles to Camden and a good country opened up the whole way. But from the forty-one mile station by the present route to Congaree, it is 6GN miles; the new route is 47 miles, showing about 14 miles saved without a stick of trestle to build. But at Camden by this valuahe connection, Charleston sits ready to make connection with the Monroe, N. C., route, or the Shelby, route pointing for Camden. If it be omes the interest of Kershaw and Lancaster County-as it undoubtedly will be-to go to Monroe, N. C., as that line may swing on through Chester and Abbeville to Atlanta, we see the new Charleston Camden line is ready to strike for Monroe, 50 miles distant, with the counties of Kershaw and Lancaster behind the link. Iere, then, we find a new Charleston line tapping the Robin. son system at Monoe, all to the ad vantage of the North Carolina-Vir inia system, and very greatly to the advantage of Charleston. ' But this line would pass twenty-five miles ast of Columbia. Charleston has another string to er bow, and one looking to taking he wind out of the sails of the Col umbia, Newberry and Laurens char er. This scheme is a road running from Orangeburg to Gilbert Hollow, ointing directly ior Prosperity and ewberry. The road will undoubt dly be built. Orangeburg very properly takes a great interest in it. The Lexington townships are fully alive Li, ltz importance to them. The South Carolin1a Railroad engineers surveyed the road for the part.s at interest and it is generally under stood that the road is going to he pressed right through. Should we fail to stand up to the Lexington Fork, Prosperity, New berry and Laurens people in the Columbia, Newb)erry and Laurens charter, the Gilbert IHollow line will immediately hold out proposals to the Prosperity and the Newberry people and press right on for Lau rens. T1hat is the meaning of the Gilbert Hollow connecton through and through. Here is another Char. leston line, then, threatening Colum bia twenty miles West of her. So far as the Chester-Abb2ville link is concerned, we see another air line road sweeping across the State fifty miles north of us. The Register pointed out two years ago the feast bilty of this Abbeville-Atlanta route Trhere is much in it for the localities interested, and we cant blame peo pIe for looking after their own in terests, even though it should cut th dirt from under our feet. We har got to take care of our ourselves, o~ nobody will do it for us. Again, Greenville is pressing for route to the sea by her new narrov gauge road, and is already at wor upon it. All the roads that hav been undertaken in the State thu far have gone through to completion with the exception r the Spartan burg and Asheville road, which i now being pressed to completion. Augusta is putting out anothe narrow gauge feeler for Carolin: trade, p)assing through Edgefid t< s~berry and on. We see, then. oi 1stry hand how it is that everythini ilooking to sapping the trade tha we must (depend upon for an exisi ence. Fortunately for us, we have got charter covering all that was in th Carolina Midland, if we will onl make the most of it. But Charlesto is pushing from Orange Iurg to Gilbert Hollow to take the whole scheme out of our hands if we balk in the furrow. This Gilbert Hollow route is the very route by which Maor Courte nay proposed to llan: Co um1bia two years ago. But we have got the Lexington Fork and Prosperity and Newberry and Laurens people on our side. We have got a ch-rt.: that will carry us within twc-niy miles of Franklin. Tennesse., riahtk t!rough the Fork. Prosperity. Newberry C. II., Laurens C. II.. Pie ol.t. EaIey. Pickens C. II., to the Norlwe*ern corner of the State. on t Airtct route to Franklin, N. C.. the strategic point for the Nor: we an Southwest connections. i of the way from the bo_nd of the Keowee. three miles above the mouth of the Big Estatoe. to Franklin. sona thirty-two miles. is river course r: - ning directly on an air line for Franklin. From Columbia to the North western corner where the course of the Chatanooga leads up to the Sugar Town branch to the Tennessee just 137 miles. Thence to Frank lin twenty-three miles. There is no reason why this distance should be increased to 10 per cent-. for practica. route. The rou.e from Columbia to Franklin 176 miles. At Franklin we would be sixty-two miles by air line from Knoxville, and eighty-three from Cleveland, Tennessee. Follow ing the bend of the Tennessee by the Maryville route to Knoxville, we have some ninety-five miles to Knoxville. But by taking a more direct route from Franklin to Charleston, N. C.. and on to the head waters of the Little River, we f15d a route of seventv five miles. From Franklin to Clevek, nd. Tennessee, by the iawassee and its Northern branch, the practical route would be possibly one hundred miles, The people of Bradley and Polk Countics of Tennessee, and of Cherokee, Graham and Clay, in the Northwestern corner of North Caro lina, are already alive to this Cleve land connection. With the road finished to Frank lin, there could be little doubt that the counties of Knox anrBlount in Tennessee, and Swain and Macon in North Carolina, with a present popu lation between them of 76,000, and an assessed property valuation of $11,000,000, coul, in county and in dividual subscriptions. raise 8500, 000. Now, from Columbia to Frank lin, we see ti at everything hinges on Richland county. This county has no debt, andl if we propoose to la) hold of this matter in earnest we should put our shoulder to; the collar at once and lead off wit b a 6 per cent. county subscription on our assessed valuation of t;.;UJ,000. This would raise $3G0.000. To this should be added 840,000 individual subscription. We should t1:us s:ep in the arena with $400,000. Tho~~ Fork, in township and indi vidual subscriptions, should give $100000; Newberry, $130,000; Lau rens, $150,000; the four interested townships in Greenville and Ander son, $40,000, and Pickens. $G0,000I. This foots up, including individual subscriptions. $900,000 to an assessed valuation of $20.000,000 in the coun ties and townships interested. This would give, for the 175 miles to Franklin, $3,173 per mile. It is con idently believed that SS,000 per mile will build, iron and equip the road, thus showing a shortage of $500,000, and should the people of the rest of the route between Frank in and Knoxville do their share in subscribing S500,003. there would possibly be s500,000' ~shortage o that part of the route, in the i:ands of a large corporation the ro~ad couild evidentic~ carry that much of mort gage debUt. if it was worth building -at all. So far as we, in South Caro lina, are concerned, if we put up the .money to carry the road to Franklin, there is no trouble about getting powerful corporation to take up the scheme and carry it to Knoxville, s' that we will have a South Caro ina truk line from Knoxville to the0 sea under one management. If the peo ple of Columbia and Richland sec things as we do they must sec that this is the biggest thing. ever offered Combia. andl throuzl her to Richland county. Seize this opportunity, and v:e no lon;rer occu pr a second-han'i peition. but stan( boldly out as one .f the most impor taut centres of the trade in the wholc South. This of itself wi make imn meiate use of our great water powei and assure Colk.nia's :rture for all time. ~But we must move, we must no1 haggle. We 'must take. the lead ir this thing not to wat for othe-rs t< do it. W e must act now o take: back set, and take it for ali time Let our people saiy whan they will do and sa it quickly before th oppor tunity is gone.j A Prontale intustry. A correspoident of the Wilming ton Star give some f:gures as to the pronlts in fruit canning. He shows that the small outlay of $500 will grive a respectable start in the busi ness. A partnership can easiTy be formed w'th a skilled person who will set his work against the money invested and await sales. Even be- - fore sales many commission mer chants stand ready to advance ready MAoney, enough to operate the facto ris. The profits are very great. There ia a constant demand for the goods. ad another _dvantage is that tyv will a ways keep fresh and pure. S eld over from one year to aTher will nt spoil and there is no js s in this way. The work is easy andl suited to delic:,te persons and femAu!es. It is simple and no long years of training are reqaired. South Carolina is well suited to the business. We have the climate for an abundance of fruit, and cheap labor is at hand. There is certainly more money in it than in cotton at present prices. Suppose we take the canning of corn as an example as there is always a demand for it and there would be no trouble in buvinz at our own doors. Say we could make ten bushels to the acre, and, counting waste and loss, we could can twenty-five quarts to each bushel or 250 quarts to the acre. Five dollars wnuld cover the cost of raisinz the corn and ten dollars the cost of getting it to market. We would have twenty dozen cans at $1.25 per dozen, as it now sells' at wholesale, which would give $25, or a clear profit of $10 for the acre or $1.00 per bushel. In the calculation it will be observed that we estimate the cost at the highest -figure and make a large allowance for waste and loss. The cans of corn now on se do not hold a quart by any means. They weigh about 1- pounds while there are 56 pounds of shelled corn to the bushel. So we have inade due allowance. Corn is not the only product in which there is a large rofit-. garden vegetables and all fruits and berries can be counted. Neither need the factories be idle in winter for beef and meats of all kinds cbuld be bad, on which the profits are even greater. In New Jersey and Delaware the business is so remunerative that nearly every farmer gives it attention. They buy cans, already prepared, at - wholesale. and travelling tinners malke the rounds when engaged and every household realizes a big profit from what we waste. To get material no outlay of cash would be required but could be paid for in toll. It will prove a paying indtustry to any one who undertakes - it in time. We have agitated it many years but could g'et no farmer whiose ambition extends cnly to a tag on a sack of guano to give heed to our word s.-Abhbeville Medium. . A Farmer Splkm. meeting last Monday, was called to appoint delegates to the Farmers' State Convention, to meet in Colum bia to perfect a farmers' organiza tion. 'The object of which organization is to perfect, and advance the farm ers' interests. The character or kind of protection that we will likely re ceive from this organization will de pend on the character of the organi- - zation itself. If it is allowed to be made a polit ical machine, then we do not want it, because we do not need it. The Dem >cratic party is good enough for us andI we have it already to hand. ILet this farmers' State organiza tion secure for its btnefit, the very best talent available, and let this talent be so used as to lead, direct and, consolidate our forces. When this is accomplished then we will be ready to consider any subject that may present itself and we are not ready until this is accomplished. IOur d~anger lies in allowing our selves, to l)e drawn into politics. Let our delegates be on their guard and let them give their attention Iwholly to perfecting the farmers' or .ani zation.- B. in Carolina Spartan. Noter1Men who Wrote and Fiddled. We dont know that we ever had in this country a great sailor who fid dled. But we have one who.writes nov els. History will record that Admi ral Porter's naval work was as good as his literary work was bad. Jefferson w.as an. excellent fiddler. It was re corded of him that it was by the ex cellence of his fiddling that he won his wife from two formidable rivals. But he was, in reality, a many-sided man; there were few branches of knowledge with which he had not some acquaintance. The great Conde 1wrote very fair poetry, and Julius -Cimsar, as everybody knows, thought he was greater as an orator than as a soldier,' though his speeches were eally poor stunlT