Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-09
4 COTTON PLANTERS SUCCESS.

cess under any condition, and brains have been
the wealth-creating factor in the case OF the
large planters, and it is by brains, and not By
the mere yastness of his farming operations,
that Edward Richardson, of Mississippi, the
greatest cotton raiser in the world, has amass-
ed his immense fortune, now estimated at
from s15, ,OOO, 900 to $20,OO0,000. The means
by which Mr.. Richardson has achieved his
phenomenal success as planter are worthy
moments study for the lesson they convey.
His business is comprehensive one, including
every thing relating to cotton. He not only
raises cotton, but gins, spins and weaves 1t, is
a large dealer, and has oil mills as well. He
was clear-sighted enough to perceive that
there was special profit in each process and
operation through which cotton passes, from
the field to the consumer of cotton goods, and
he had the capital and ability to organize a
business which makes all these profits his own.
He owns some 81, 900 acres Of land, and last
wear raised over IL, 900 bales Of cotton-a
greater number than the Khedive Of Egypt,
who is the next largest cotton-raiser in the
world. Mr.. Richardson is not 'shigh" far
mer, bale to three acres, being the average
production of his land, which is largely titled
by tenants on the share system. The $4,000
pounds of seed cotton which he annually gets
from his land are ginned by his own gins
which do public ginning also-and pressed,
baled and compressed 80 much as is shipped
as raw material, on his own plantation.
The seed, which is ordinarily worth not
more than So a ton, and is to great extent
wasted by other planters, isground and pressed
for the oil. The hulls are used for fuel in
this process, and the ashes are sold and used
for fertilizers. From ton OF seed he obtains
thirty-fye gallons Of oil worth thlrty-hve
ha Lo noinip(Y
after the oil is pressed out is worth rather
more for feed or as fertilizer than the seed
itself, selling readily for home use or shipment
to England ut S. to 81 ton. ar'
Each ton of cotton seed, therefore, nets
rather more than $20-the bulk used as fuel
being taken into account. Mr.. Richardson's
mills at Corinth receive and manufacture
large part Of his crop, and another profit is
added on the sales of yarns and sheetlng, drill
ings cottonades, etc., profit which is consid-
erably enhanced by the G. -nination OF ship
ping charges, insurance, brokers' commissions
and other tolls levied on cotton shipped to dis
tant mills.-Nep York Times. "
CONCERNING BEAUTY.-It is an admitted
fact that genius and beauty are rarely found
in the same person. The haudsomest man of
London society in the opening of the present
century was Count Dorsay, but he was IN
every other point very inferior. The chief
soldier of the age (Wellington) was deformed
by the prodigious Roman nose. Southey was
also distinguished for the same feature, which,
indeed, was of almost unparalleled extent.
Pope was partially deformed, and, of course,
was a ready object for the caricaturist. Hence
he speaks of 1.-THE libelled person and distorted
shape"
Byron had handsome face, but his club
foot was crushing blow to his pride, and the
self-consciousness of such a defect seemed
never to abate. This is illustrated by the fol-
lowing incident One night as Byron and
some friends left the theatre, one of the
sslink boys' volunteered to illuminate the
way, expecting the usual fee. ''This way,
my lord,'' exclaimed the light bearer, utter
ing the title at random, SHow does he know
you are a lord % asked one the friends
'sKnow me ~ asked the poet, "why they ak
know me; Pm deformed." Walter Scott was
a man of fine personal appearance, but he too,
was lame (having been injured in childhoOd)
and walked with peculiar limp. When
Lady Blessington first met him she exclaimed,
''sr, have you got hurt ?" eyes" was the
reply, "about fifty years ago." Campbell, the
author Of pleasures Of Hope" though a
small man, was considered handsome, bat his
life was failure and its miseries afforded a
painful contrast with personal beauty. 1t is
probable, however, that Burns was the near
est approach to manly beauty that authorship
ever produced Walter Scott, who met him
once, and once only, said that ''his eyes liter
ally glowed," and added that having seen all
the distinguished men of that age, none of
them had such eyes as Burns, ;