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THE EOPLE JOURNAL VOL 12.-NO. 29. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902 (nNl' niT~r Al) A VUADr THE STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE ANN UAl4 SESSION AT CI4,M SON COLI,ECC. * AddreH by Prof. W. J. Spill 1n1t, Agroatologist of t114 Unuited StateN. Clemson College is the Mecca of thi South Carolina farmers, and during thi month of August in each year the; make a pilgrimage to the old home stead of John C. Calhoun am for one week are inspired by the great worl now being done by this institution in the interest of agriculture. The State farmers' institute of South Carolina, held under the faculty of thq college, met in the college chapel lasi night, Professor J. S. Newman presid ing. The exercises wore opened with prayer by Dr. J. B. Ilunnicutt, editor of The Southern Cultivator. P'rofessor Newman gladly welcomed the farmers and pointed out the iany benefits to be derived from such a gathering of the tillers of the soil. Here farmers can both teach and learn, and such interchange of ideas is edu cating and.very profitable. During the past decade there has been an advance in agriculture in the South and this section should become the greatest agricultural region on the globe. Here is found an unexcelled climate, and here can be grown not only the crops common at the North, but also those that belong peculiarly to this section. Here the wheat overlaps the cane, and during most months of the year the farmer can furnish his table with fresh vegetables aud truits grown in his own garden and fields. Let the farmers improve their methods and thus aid in the development of our common country. The purpose of the experimental work at Clemson College is simply to ask questions of nature and then by bulletins give her answers and report results. T. U. Hamer responded in behalf of the farmers and voiced their apprecia tion of benefits derived from these in stitutes. Prosperity will come to the farmer when he avails himself of scien title investigations and adopts approv ed, up-to-date agricultural methods. The first regular lecture of the in stitute was delivered by Professor W. J. Spillman, agrostologist (or grass man) of the United States department of agriculture. Professor Spillman is a native of Missouri, where he was edu cated and where he taught for four years. He then taught two years in Indiana, three years in Oregon, seven and one-half years in the State of Washington, and since January 1, last, has been with the department of agri culture. Professor Spillman's subject was " Improvement in Southern Agricul ture." He sai.d that there was really but one industry in America, and that was agriculture. In comparison all other enterprises were more side shows. The invoice of agriculture footed up 4wcity billion dollars. .oultry raising, t mere feature of farming, was conm pared with railroads. In 1897 poultry and its products aggregated in value $th7,000,000 ; in the same year rail roads were valued at $273,000,000 showing an advantage of $24,000,000 in favor of tire lhen. In tire South farmers endeavor to produce an exclusive crop, and hence fail of attaining pernmanent success and profit. Here cotton is an almost uni versal crop and has proven to a large extent a curse. No country can prosper on a one-crop system. This was illus trated by exclusive wheat growing ini Oregon in the past and at present by cotton growing in a portion of Texas. Thre results were the same in each State -ruination to tire farmer. To improve conditions in tire South we mrust encourage inmigration to this section. Tire nog~ wave shopid argd pijp coque to tire Soa$h and not go to WQrds thue Papiilc, as that section offers up longer such inducements as this Southland. In South Carolina the far mers must feed the operatives in the mrills, and to do this must engage in trucking and gordening. Tire Southern farmer must diversify is crops and engage in feeding live stock. Other than live stock farming no system of agriculture is possible foi apy great length of time. i@veryt.hing gr0vyn should be fed back to the land1 either~ dlrp3ctly or indlireetly, through: live stock, and thereby land can b< permanently Improved. Qn every farn one acre In ten should be0 planted in Bermuda grass. This is tihe best grasi known iend is better in tis section o1 thne South than bl4e grass is in Ken taclcy. qne acre in lierimuda grass it Worth rpore thran three acres in cotton 'The Sou;thrern farmer has $he ires live stock country in the world, an< principally because the stock can b)1 fed on cheap feeds. It is not profitabli to gasa feed costing more than $20 pe - ton, as does potton seed meal. 4 r et, the fai'mer grow grass on i sgwp fargm at a cost of $ to $1 pe ton feed tis sqa hay ant sefl cattle - Beef cettle today is higher than eve known ibefore, and there Is no reaso , ever again to expect cheap beef. Y'eax ago tihe lNorthwest was stocked u with cattle, but not so today. Capita ,is.te.begarp to grage cattle on the plain gud bpef was produceed cheap, becaus *of unlimitetd range. Thle live st.ool r setions of thre N~orthrwest have eon sequently been reduce I 50 per con The. Western range on the plains ndw' being exhausted, and it takes tt dlay 50O acres, where a few years ago tooli but 10 acres, to graze a cow for year. The Southern farmor can evi -find sale for his beef cattle and .profQtable- prices. To grow beef su cessfully, two ting a.eseni first, never let the steer get hungry, and, second, the steer must be f(ul cheap feed. Dairying is most certain to bring profit, but requires constant work and " study. Dairying around the cotton mills, which are springing up all over the South, should become very profit . able. For dairying in the South the breeds should be the Jersey, crosses between Jerseys and native scrubs (Which latter are really akin to the 3 Jerseys,) the Ilostens and the Guern ) aoys (which are equally good with Jer seys, but not so popular.) For beef purposes the breeds recommended are: Shorthorn or Durham, Iieresford and Poll Angus. The dairy animal is not a beef animal, and vice versa. Fat on the beef animal, when the animal is dlaughterod, can be aold as beef, whilo on the dairy animal it must be cut off as tallQw. In starting in the live stock business the farmer should buy the breed most plentiful in his section, thereby getting his stock cheap. lie should not buy rare breeds. In live stock farming one should buy as little machinery as possible. As a feed there is nothing better than pe.a vine hay. To succeed in the live stock industry one must familarize himself with its details and requirements i dairying especially requires much woik, much study, great care, good local market. For pastures in spring and summer Bermuda supplies the demand, im win ter grain, rescue grass, hairy vetch and burr clover. As a rotation of crops on a stock farm Professor Spillman recommended the following : (1.) Corn and peas sown at laying-by. (2.) Winter grain, followed by peas. (3.) Cotton, and (4) sorghum and peas. One-fourth of farm each year sown in each of these crops. CLEMSON AOIICULTUIRAL COLLEIiF. The Clemson Agricultural college of ] South Carolina is located on the divid ing line between Oconee and Pickens i counties and within one mile of Cal houn, a station on the main line of the Southern railway. The college build ings have been erected on the old Fort Hill homestead of John C. Calhoun. rhis is an ideal site, on a high ridge in a grove of magnificent native oaks, having an elevation of 900 feet above sea level, and commanding on all sides inspiring views of nearby plantation scenery and to the North and the West the picturesque Blue Ridge mountains. here and amid such surroundings a 1 half century ago lived the great ex pounder of the constitution. [lore today are gathered more than 500 young men from all parts of South Carolina, who are taking courses in scientific agricul. 1 ture, in the mechanic arts, and in theo retical and practical textile processes. Year after year much valuable in formation of a practical character is furnished to the farmers of the State. The State experiment station, which is maintained and operated un,der the pro visions of the act of Congress known as the Hatch act, occupies a portion of the college farm, and the ofillcers in charge gladly furnish free of all cost advice and iformation on any topic pertain ing to general agriculture, horticulture, botany, entomology, veterinary science, dairying, stock breeding, feeding, etc.; also, analyses of fertilizere, mails, wat ers and other substances, assays of ores, determination of rocks and minerals, tests of bricks, cements, building stones, illuminating oils, calibration of electrical instruments, etc. Further, the oflcers of the experi ment station have already prepared and published seventy-two bulletins, andl these are sent free to all citizens of the State reqjuestin)g them. Many of these bulletins are very valuable and should be in the hands of every farmer in South Carolina. The duties of the professors of Clem son College do not enid with the cor loge term, but for the past two or three years, during the suipmer months, far mers' institutes, embragmng usually ta two-days' course of lectures, lhave been hpld by membiers of the facult,y in those. counties of the State desiring same. The purpose of those count,y institutes is to bring practical information to the farmers and to give them the results of scientific investigation In the int,erest, of agriculture. Further, a special State farmers' in stitute of one week's duration is held in the college chapel dluring the month of August, in each year, and, beside the faculty of the collegg, many promi nynt speakors and agriculturists from other States participate in the pro gra'm. BILL ARP ROASTS MR. SLEDD). IIIC MUST IJAVE 4 l)I81%.810) iMAGINATIOIN. Thec Crentor Mnde the Neg~ro In ferior and1( So lie Wihll Remnin. A tlanta Constitut,Ion. Little things fret us more than big ones. If I writ,e that Nept,une is six~ m tflen hundred millions of miles from r the sun and l$ comes out, In print six teen millions it worries mo. If I write r that the dloctor sewed up hare lips i andl it comes out hair lips, I don't s like it. The typo didn't know that p the rabbit had a slt under its nose. - It I writ,e that I, walked out into the s garden to let my choler down, meang p my anger, the typio thinks 4 meant my a shirt collar, and so changes th6 spell l-uig to sui his own idea. But since 1 b. readan editor's defense in a New York .5 paper I feel heLter1 for lie says It is >- amasilng how few of these nstakes It are mad4e in the groat (ladies that a have to be rushed through with light ir ning spee.. The constant pressure oni it type setterg anE proof readers Is tre a- mendous, but they rarely make any L, serious hines. -ad th Intelien reader can generally correct them i his mind. And so I will not worr any more about it. There are seine other little thing that are of more consequence jue now. Our cook has quit, and so ha the house iaid---gone oil to Iltockmar for a week or two-gone to a house party, I think. That is all right, fo the cook has been faithful a long timi and needed rest. She is i good ser vant and keeps a clean kitchen, an we have had a house party ourselvei for several months. I have been sick but now we are reduced to the regulh1 family of livo and have but little to cook and can get along on two meals 1 day. My wife arranged it for me to lire up the stove and fill up the kettlea and grind the coffee and put on the hoininy, and then ring the bell foi the girls to got up and finish up the breakfast. She said that if I felt like it I might sweep out the hall and the front veranda and settle up the front room. Well, of course, I had to split up some kindling and bring ini the stove wood, but I am getting along fairly well and my wife thinks the exercise is doing mne good. Last night she hint ed that the veranda was badly tracked up since the rain and needed ta good washing. So this morning I turned loose the hose pipe on it and she prais 3d me right smart, and I brought her some roses from my garden. We let her sleep until breakfast, is roady, for she 3leans up her room and makes up two beds and then sews all day for the randclildren. But I want that col )red house party to break up as soon is possible, for I don't hanker after his morning busness as a regular job. SIrs. Mimms says she likes it, and I hink she does. She has a good room n the back yard and good furniture md a good lamp to read by, and her ittle grandson lives with her, and I lon't know of any colored woman ,hat has a better time. in fact, I now of lots of good negroes in town vhio are contented with their situation Lnd will continue so if they are let dione by the Northern fanatics and southern cranks. What craze has coic over that man ledd to cause him to write such a fool )iece for the Boston magazine? What ood can it possibly do, even if it was rue? But it is not true and only the roduct of a diseased imagination. I would write hard things about him, ut for his family connections. For heir sake ho had better have smothered is feelings and his pen. The Atlan ic Monthly has never shown any love or the South, and why lie should se act that as liia organ passeth compre iension. Professor Sledd says the ne ;ro is an inferior race. Then why dos to insist that we give him a space in ur own churches and hotels and rail oad cars? It was the work of the Creator that nade him inferior, and lie will remain o-and neither education nor mis. egenation will ever change it so fai is social equality is concerned. Mosef riolated the law of God when he mar. 'ied that Ethiopian woman, and ht lad to discard her, and Aaron and Iiriam chided him for it long after vards. Numbers, xii. The story goes; iccording to Josephus, that the Egyp ians were at war with the Ethiopiai.f nd had suffered defeat in every bat. Ie until Pharaoh was advised that inc ne could command his army success ull1y but Moses. So Moses was giver ommand aiid he marched with t.he ~rmy to the borders of Ethiopia and net the enemy and defeated them and narched on to Saba, the royal city, and ittacked the walls, and Tharbis, the laughter of the king, saw Moses fron he windlow of her tower, and lhe was mo handaome she fell desperately in ove with him andl sent I' messengei ,o him to saiy that, if he woulid marry ier she wolid surrender the city an(: mrmy to him. Moses agreed to this md their marriage was at once consuim nated. Then Moses rel,urned with lus victorious army to Egypt. He did uot take with him his Ethiopian wife, but not long after lie married Zipporah, the dlaughter of Jethro, the Midianite. So we must suppose that Moses mar ried the Ethiopian princess as a wal measure and with no idea of keoping his promise. At any rate it causet trouble and shartpe itn the family, ani so it has (lone ever since whenever white person mates with a negro. What a monstrous falsehood to sa' that the Southern negro is dehumnan ized. Right here in our town evers negro mechanic is employed at goo wages. Blacksmiths, carpenters, ma sons, painters, draymeni are alt busy Cooks, nurses and wsasherwomen flnu constant employment-and they ar not contented, but sometimes dar to be merry .and laugh. Where di< Sledd get all that rot about kickin, and cursing and beating the negroes We never hear of such treatment i this region. Mr. Milam, a truthful ger tleman, whose business keeps him o the street, told me the other day the he had heaird but one oath uttere by anybody within a year, and thu was by a Northern man towards a n< gro who asked him a civil questior Dehumanized, indeed! Ask T1ribb] and Brown who give their shops thi most patronage. What ri'hculou folly to dematnd seats in our churcht for the negroes, They have churches < their own that were built mainly by i1) charity of the white fotJs. They (don want seats In our churches. They hai schools of their own that we suppor and-they have excursions and basebr andI watermelons and funerals ar Daughters of Zion. Oh, for shame on Sledd I I pity h~ family and his kindred, lie thinks I has found a mare's nest, and for la< of something fresh has raked up Sa Hose ngain, lHe laments the hync n ings, but not the outrages, and he pro y poaes a remedy. Mr. Sledd can set this down that the lyuchings will not stop s until the outrages do. When a negro t dehumanizs himself and becomes a s beast he ought to be lynched, whether t it is Sunday or Monday. Let the lynch 3 ing go on. This is the sentiment of r our people, and let Boston and The 3 Atlantic Monthly and Sledd howl. We are used to that. Not long ago we I had a lynching in Rome that was to my notion. The beast was strung up in Broad street in the daytime and shot to pieces and nobody was disguised. The judge lived there and the sheriff and the town marshal and policemen and a military company, and the Gov ernor wasn't far away, but not a soul said nay. That suits me exactly. BILL Anp. TIHE CULTIVATION OF RICE. Census Report I)escrlben Irriga tion Methold' in South Car olinna. The census bulletin on agriculture in South Carolina has the following on rice culture: The beginning of irrigation in South Carolina was contemporaneous with the introduction of rice growing, the irrigation systems being similar to those now in use. Rice was first planted in 1700, and from that time until 1861 South Carolina ranked first among the States in its production. Changed labor conditions since the war, and the great expense of main tenance, due to the deR!ructive dikes, and the total loss of crops by floods, which are frequent since the defores tation of the mountain slopes, which operated against the growth of this in dustry and rice culture has not made the progress here that it has in a few other States. Rice is irrigated in South Carolina by manipulating rivor waters through trunks built in the dikes which protect the low marsh lands from the rivers The delta lands are selected with ref erence to the possibility of flooding from the rivers with fresh water at high tide, and of draining them at low tide. The reclamation of these lands necessitates the building, parallel with the river, of costly dikes, capable of resisting the force of the flood tide, and also that of the river in time of fresh ets. After the dikes are built, the field is divided into sections and squares by similar banks, called "check" banks. These squares con tain from 5 to 30 acres each, and in turn are subdivided by ditches into bed, usually about thirty-five feet wide and extending the length of the square. Each of these squares%as a wooden trunk with a door at each end, through which the water is admitted to the field. The trunks are from :0 to 40 feet long, from 3 to 12 feet wide, and about sixteen inches deep and are built under the dikes on a level with the beds of the ditches. In flooding the field the outer door is raised and the inner closed. As the tide rises the water comes in through the trunk, pushes the field door open, and passes through the ditches to the field. When the tide falls in the river, the pressure of the water in the field closes the inner swinging door against the muzzle of the trunk, thus holding the wat,er. In draining the field this method is reversed, the field door be ing raised at low tide and the outer door dropped. The unlimited supply of fresh water and its perfect control by this system of flooding and draining, account for the superior quality of rice for which South Carolina is famous. The practice of dumping the harbor dredgings into the river above Savan nah has injured the system of drain age, causing the abandonment of a number of rice plantations along the Savannah River. On man.y planta tions, which formerly were readily drained at low tide, pumping is now resorted to when the rivers are high, as the fields can not properly be drained. The pumps, which are mounted on flats or lighters, are operated by steam and shifted on the river from field to fiehl. The suction pipo is dropped over the dike into any desired field and the water pumped into the river. Rice is grown inland on low, Iswampy lands, which are flooded from reservoirs or small streams. Thec cul tivation of upland or "Providence" irice is attempted in many of the in -terior counties, but owing to the low r yield and an occasional total failure I the results are not satisfactory. - Orangeburg County has the harges. .crop of upland rice, and in 1899 pro I duced 2,266,102 pounds, an average s yield of 309 pounds per acre. The o irrigated crop is sure as compared with :1 that of the uplands, the average yield 2; per acre being much higher, and the ? qjuality of rice far superior. a Tide water irrigation is generally -practiced in Beaufort, Berkeley, Colle ii ton, Charleston, Georgetown, and t Ilampton counties. In 1899 the rice d acreage of these counties, irrigated .t and upland, was 70.0 p)er cent, of the itotal, while the production, 40,651,004 l. pounds, was 80.0 per cent, of the total e rice crop of the State. The average e yield per acre was 748 pounds. The s total product of all other counties was '5 0,708,464 pounds, an average of 288 f pounds per acre. e It Is impossible to ascertain the.ex. '1 act cost of reclaiming these delta lands ~e Rice irrigation was reported on 646 1, plantations; the average was 29,690 11 and the yield, 8,407,191 pounds Ld The average first cost per acre foi preparing rice lands for Irrigation, in is elusive of cost of construction of dikes e trunks, cheek banks and ditches, Is es 3k timated1 to be $28.68, and the system mn in use represent a total Investment o hi- nefr 851,59.' FACTS AS TO C1111411 LARO1t. How the Conditionw in ThiH State 'Have Heen Exnggernted by Northern Writers. 'T'he Columbia l)ily Jecord has re ceived an advance sheet from The 'radesuatn, Chattanooga, on the sub ject of child labor im the cotton mills of the South, in which this journal un dertakes to tell the truth about exist ing conditions in a specific and not a general way. In so far as South Carolina is con. corned it will be no doubt a great sur prise to people to learn how few child ren under twelve years of age are em ployed in the mills. The Tradesman's facts were obtained this summer, When none of the children of mill operatives are at school, hence their number in the mills is greater at this season than at any other. The following are some of the facts: Lewis W. Parker, president of the Victor Manufacturing company, says that there are 380 operatives in the mill, of whom there are twenty-seven children under twelve years of age. Mr. Parker regrets that the number is unusually large at this time, which is due to the fact that the school closed July 1. This mill operates a school nine months in the year, paying three teachers and the expenses of the school generally out of its own funds. John A. Law, president of the Saxon mills, Spartanburg, says lie has 275 people on his pay roll. Of these, nine are children under twelve years old, and they will be put out as soon as school begins, he says. There is a free school in the village running eight months in the year. Arthur T. Smith, of the Langley Manufacturing company, says that mill has 900 employees at work, of whom fourteen are under twelve years old. This corporation runs a free school four months of the year and the county live months, making nine in all. Mr. Smith states that every one of these children will go to school on the reopening. James L. Orr, president of the Piedmont Manufacturing company, says that there are 1,423 names on his pay roll, of which lifty-six are between the ages of ten and twelve years. All of these are sweepers and jackers and are children of small families who are dependent upon them for a living. There is not one under 10 and only thirteen under eleven. There is a regular graded school, with a principal and seven teachers, and running ton months in the year, and all of it is paid for by the company. Ellison A. Smyth, of the l'elzer an(d Belton mills, says in the Pelzur mill there are 2,541 operatives, of whom twenty-six are under twelve years old, annd in the Belton mill there are 5.11 operatives, of whom thirteen are less than twelve years Old. le says: " At both Pelzer and lielton we have a contract book, which id signed by the head of every family we employ, and in which it is agreed that all children under twelve years of age are to go to schools provided by the mills every day the schools are open and children over twelve are to be em ployed in the mill. Our school rutis for nine or ten months and will re open on the 1st of September. 1 find that during this holiday time some of the children under twelve years of age do get into the mill to work, through they are not wanted and their employ ment, forbidden, but often the children want to work and make t,heir wages. Of course, there are special exceptions made to our twelve year rule ini in dividual cases, owing to the p)overty and needs of the widowed mother or inivaIlid father, or, in the case of orphans, to the con dition of want in which the grandparents are found to be." J. I. Westervelt, of the Brandon mills, Greenville, says there are 207 employees in the mill. Nine are maleb under twelve and three are females uder twelve, although they are just a few months removed from that age. These are more than usual on account of the school being closed, which is run ten months. Thomas F. Parker, president of the Monaghan mills, Greenville, says there are 388 operatives ill the mill, of whom twenty-three are under twelve years. There is a school open for nine months. P. C. Poag, superintendlent of the GoIlville Manufacturing company, Lost Hair " My hair came out by the hand ful, and the gray hairs began to creep in. I tried Ayer's HairVigor, and it stopped the hair from com ing out and restored the color." Mrs. M. D.Gray, N o. Salem, Mass. There's a pleasure in offering such a prep ara tion as Ayer's H air Vigor. It gives to all who use it such satisfaction. The hair becomes thicker, longer, softer, and more glossy. And you feel so secure in using such an old and reliable prepara -tion. *l... l. Al.. n..w..ls - Iiou druggist cannot su,pply you, send is one donar andwwneprs you a bottle. 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T1. l"ewell, president of the Ar cade mills, IRock lill , reports that 1 there are one hundred aml eighty-nine operatives, of whom twenty are uiner twelve years. lie declares that there is not a mill manl ill the State who wants to employ children under twelvo, but it is sometimes done from kindness of heart and sympatly. This is the record for South Caro. lina so far as it goes, as it shows a surprising state of alfairs when one considers the nany "investigat.ions" made of conditions by Northern writers. They have greatly exagger at,ed the situation, with an object inl view, and sucse e led in arousing the indigniation oif many of our' own peo pIe who have acceplted their statOeents as truthi. Accor'ding to the shlOWing' made1, says t,hen Columbiiia )la med there' is 110 needc for any legislation on theo subjct inl this State, for tihe ill owni era themselves do4 not wanlt to cmpldoy chijldren under01 twolve year's of age, and they (do not (10 50 except when they believe they are dinrg good to the children themiselves and( thecir famihles. The nutmecg tree and1( the miann ter of preparing t,he famous nut for miar ket, are little und(erstood, says ihe1 Grocer, but, we give a few int:rostinlg fact.s on the suibject from remiarks made by a grocer who( hals lately visi it.ed tihe ECast, Ind(ies and( witneOssed the handling of the nut: " The nultmieg tree,'' said the grocer, "is found inl t.he East andl West Ind(ies; also ini tihe P1 hilippines, Singapore and( MauWritius Islands. It, b)ears all tihe year round, but most pleintifullly in May anId J)e cemnber. When ripe thle outer shiell splits open on one sideC ; tile podi is removedl,after which tile mace is care fully strlppeti from tile inner shell. The nutmnegs are then drlied Cor about t,wo months withl artificial hleat. They are turned every (lay iuntif driied, when the kernels will rattle in tile shell. The shells are t henl cracked with wooden mallets. Thie impljerfect or Worm-eaten ones are casIt away, and the good onesM rubbhed ill slackedl lime, to give them a helter appIlearanice. They are ready now for saile. Theiie best nutmegs average 70 to 8() to tile pound(. Only one characteristic dlistinguishes the little village of Strong, Me,. from the thousands (of othlers that, are scattered all over New iEngland. That is tile pleculiar industry which serves to supplort tbe entire community. St,rong is famous for nlothling but toothpjicks, bult it is known iln tihe trade as the pla1ce from which come tile majority of the toothpicks that are used in the United States. Th'ie Hygela hotel at Old Pomnt Com fort is onI tile government reservation. The owners of t,he hotel have been notified that the b)uildlng must be0 re moved within a specifled time. It is nuot regarded as any thing out of theC ordinary to move a big building several squares, but in this ease the hotel will be transported eight miles across tile water. t Fever Medicine. 44 OIIIId and I]VER TONIC. oea in a ei.glo day what slow qul cures are in striking contrast to the - IF IT CUR ES. D'D) SCHOOL ? WIHY NOT TRY Colnege, -..E7 S. 0.? 'le ('blriytian Ilome. L surpaimed by any collego in the I "aK, Stia llHeat, Bath Iooms, nrolledI from Six States. wlupefrior advaltages offered. Sepl1etubfer ^43rd . , aflresR RESTON, President. ..Afor GL LEGE, e for Women. sic. Elocution. lent, Spartanburg, S. 0 iale College. Iligh Grado. Thorough Courses. Execient Equipmentt. Rest( Climato. W rile for catalog;io and terms. E. C. J A M ES, l.itt.I)., Pree., Greenville, 8. 0. CASTORIA For Inf inta and Children. he Kind You Have Always Bought 3oars the CAESA1R'S I A 1) 1IOTEL. Open Iron(f Ji une ist. to Oct. 1st 'l,(0 feet abn'ye sea levol. Popular re ort. Room for 20o guests . 30 mids from Ireenville, 16 from lirevard, N. l. Desira ,ie cottagesn for families. Rtesident. phyi :ian. TeClpone andi daily mails. Hot Lid cco111 bathis. En~,chantinjg scenery, llowv 9I; sprinlgs. Temperature from 60t to 75 leGr"ces. lRcason,able rates. All ministers @ ioer week. Write .I. I. iHramiett, Atarl uiformation add(ress. J. IC (1 WINN, MANAoll:R. . (hsar's H ead.8t. U Pianos & Organs. We are solling lots of them and say ng every purchaser much money. The Kindergart,en Organ is the prot lost and best organ made for the price, nd no other organ has the new seven ~olor keys--which make It possible to earn in a few minutes. Leot no one provent your buying this organ. The Mcl'hail l'iano is unsurpassed ror tone andi bea&uty. Terms right. Send for prIcbs, l)on t delay. L. A. McCord, Mf'g., Oillco, Laurens, S. C WIL LIAMSTON,.. ....FEMALE COLLEGE, Williamston, S. C. The Fall Session of this well known [nstitution will open on Thursday, Sep Lomber 11, 19)02. As we have room for >nly about fifty boarding pupils, those ]esiring to enter then will do well to !ivo timely notice of their purpose. I"or full information, address REV. S. L.ANDER, President. [Medical College of Virginia. ....Estab1a1aea .1888.... Departments of Medicine, Dentists, and Pharmacy. For part,iculars and catalogue address, Christopher Tomp kins, M. D., Dean, Richmond, Va. DR. J. P. CARLIsLE D1ENTIST, Greenville, S. 0. Office over Addisons Drug Store. ap12-19tf. respectfully announce myself as a ' canididate for re-election as Railroad Commissioner. Conscious of duty well performed, I request support. J. O. ILBo4N