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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-21
Agricultural Department.

able only to the better, farmers.
There are still certain shiftless,
careless, small farmers among
the white population, and, the
great majority of "tenanters'
who are not rigidly "overseered" !"
by owners who are responsible
for the rating given this State IN
the census returns as to yield per
acre. However, when such far
mers as Mr.. n. Shaw grow thir-
teen bales of cotton on six acres, :,
in Robenson County, and when a
bale to the acre is becoming the
common yield among the best
farmers of the real cotton coun-
ties Of the State, we must1 ac-
knowledge the increase and sput
1T down to better farming. |
said real" cotton counties; |
mean it. There is much land
west and north of Mecklenburg
county planted in cotton which
would grow tons Of good hay,
good alfalfa and good cloverjand
yield more cash at less expendi-
ture Of money for fertilizer, and
less of labor. Excuse the digres-
sion; but truth is might and
hope to see 1T prevail.
But to get back: it has been
hard lesson for our Southern
farmers to learn the difference
between the ante bellum "planta
tlon," with it's broad acres and
ancestral "mansion," (Which had
been the ambition of our people
for more than a hundred years J.,
and the farm" of to. day, with it's
home" and its few hundred acres
surrounding. In fact, the lesson
is but half learned, since the hold
ings are too large, especially
when the tendency for intensive
farming is taken into account.
That tendency to intensive
farming is another improvement
on the old methods. Why Guilt
vate thirty acres, as we did twen-
ty years ago, to harvest ten bales
)f cotton! The average farmer Is
now getting that much from ten
acres; the best farmers are get
ting that much from less than ten
acres
IMPROVED TOOLS ARE DECREASING
EXPENSES.
Still another factor in the ad
vance of our agriculture Is the
more general use of improved
farm machinery. The old meth.
DDS giving place to the new ;hand.
sowing of grain to the drill; the
sold tin horn" to the cotton plan
ter, the scythe and the cradle to
the mower and the reaper; the
"bull tongue" to the sulky pillow {;
the hoe to the scraper and the
cu!tivator; the pitch fork 20 the
hay stacker and the manure
spre"der; whole dry stover 10
sl!ago and the shreddpr--these
and many otAer labor saving de.
wees are taking the place of
hand work, thus increasing the
result Of the working hours Of
the day.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-21
S E e D
7 I NJ E

Gfe experienced farmer
has learned that some
grains require far differ
ent soil than others /,
some crops need differ
enthandling than others.
He knows that a great
deal depends upon right
planting at the right
time, and that the soil
must be kept enriched.
No use Of complaining
in summer about a mis-
take made in the spring.
Decide before the seed
is planted.
G5e best time to reme-
dy wasting conditions in
the human body is be-
fore the evil is too deep
rooted. At the first evil
dence of loss of flesh
SCOTS Emulsion
should be taken imne-
diately. There is moth
ing that will repair
wasted tissue more
quickly or replace lost
flesh more abundantly
than SCOTS Emulsion.
1t nourishes and builds
up the body when ordi-
nary foods absolutely
fail.
We 1oM send you sample free.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-02-21
Farming Methods Twenty
Years Ago and Those of
Today.

In the Progressive Farmer:
Twenty years does not seem to
he long period, as time is meas
ured, but it is, in fact, one. third
OF the average age of man. In
that sense it is a long period, and
within It's span the young come
to maturity, the mature build as
best they may-success or failure
and then the slow decline :;
with lengthening shadows falling
before /; sometimes all too short
and, perchance, lingering yet
awhile for rest and the enjoy
ment Of life, as character has
taught how best to enjoy it.
But it is of farming-that God
ordained vocation of finite man
that [ am to write. Turning
my thought in that direction
am strongly tempted to tell of
my own experience on a dearly
loved uncle's farm in old Rowan,
but as that was more than twenty
years ago, shall forego the re
miniscence. A review of condl-
tlons then existing must of ne
cessity be brief, since to tell it all
would require a book and the
progress of the science during
that period would require as
large a sequel the outlook for
the next twenty years, an appen-
dix!
Butt twenty years ago our farm
ers were still pursuing the meth
Ods handed down from father to
son for more than a hundred
years; the same methods, the
same rotation, when any was fol-
lowed at all. 1t was we'll
known "round:" corn, wheat,
pasture, wheat, corn, pasture {;
pasture wheat, corn. In the cot
ton country the wheat and pas
ture were omitted and cotton
substituted In the tobacco coun-
try the same conditions prevail.
ed.
THE "RIDGING" SYSTEM.
One of the practices ingthose
days with all farmers was the
high "ridging" of the rows be-
fore planting, not only in pota-
toe, but In corn, cotton al d
tobacco. "Hi!ing" took tie
place Of "ridgIng'' in the toha eco
fields, and this is still adhered to
in some tobacco regions of the
States. These hills or ridges
were six or more inches above
the level of the field, and the
process Of throwing them up with
INC D.oW was taxing to the mus
Gle Of both man and horse, and
when done there was a CORE
spending depression Of the same
depth in the middle Of the rows.
ihege were intended to hold the
moisture, it is supposed. Even
now, In piney woodlands, turned
out twenty or more years ago, in
walking through the forest these
by gone evidences of useless
work may be plainly seen. This
shows how thoroughly well the
work was done; with what per
slstence and patience horse and
man "worked" the soil.
But all of this has passed away,
flat cultivation has suDDlanted if
Arizona republican., 1906-11-03
a Most Valuable Agent.

The glycerine employed in DR.. Piercs's
medicines greatly enhances the medicinal
properties which it extracts from native
medicinal roots and holds IN solution
much better than alcohol would. 1t also
possesses medicinal properties of its own,
being a valuable demulcent, nutritlve,
antiSeptlc and antiferment 1t adds
greatly to the efficacy of the Black Cherry
bark, BlOodrOOt, Golden Seal root, Stone
root and Queens root, contained in
VGOlden Medical Discovery " in subduinu
chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial,
throat and lung affections, for all of which
these agents are recommended by stand
ard medical authorities.
In all cases where there IS a wasting
away Of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak
stom9ch, as in the early stages of con-
SUMPTION, there can be no doubt that gly-
cerine facts as valuable nutritiYe and
aids the Golden Seal root, Stone root,
QueelsS ropt and Black Cherrybark in
promoting digestion and building up the
flesh anSjstrength, controlling the cough
and bringing about healthy condition
OF the whole system. OF course, it must
not be eHUected to work miracles. It will
not cure consumption except In its earlier
stages. II will cure very severe. -Qbsti-
nate. hang-0n, CHRONIC coughs. bIonchiaI
and IaryngeaI trOuhleS.aQd chronic sore
tGLQat Win hOarseneSS. In acute coughs
e 1 I
hang-on coughs, or those of long standing,
even when accompanied by bleeding from
lungs, that it has performed its most
marvellous cures.
Prof. Finley EllingwoOd, NJ. D., Of Ben
nett Med. College, Chicago, says of gly-
cerine:
Yin dyspepsia it serves an excellent purpose.
Holding fixed quantity of the peroxide of
hydrogen IN solution, it IS one of the best
manufactured products of the present time in
Its action upon enfeebled, diSOrdered stOm-
achs, especially If there is liberation or ca
tarrhal gastritis catarrhal inflammation Of
stomach, it is q most efficient preparation.
Giycerine viii relieve many cases of pyrOsis
(heartburnl and excessive gastric (stOmach)
acidity."
Golden Medical Discovery" enriches and
purihes the blood curing blOtches. pimples,
eruptions. scrofulous swellings and old sores.
OF ulcers.
Send to DR.. r. V. Pierce. of Buffalo. n. Y.
for free booklet telling ali about the native
medicinal roots composing this wonderful
medicine. There IS no alcohol il it
Arizona republican., 1906-11-03

The benefits we are to derive from the
national reclamation act are already
assured. Not so though with any
other county in the territory. Else
where than i'm this county agricultural
development is largely in the future
but is being brought nearer by the un-
folding purpose of the government to
make the arid regions habitable. With
The public domain no longer within
the grasp of the settler. the actual
homeseeker, the work of national
reclamation is brought to an end.
No proposition ever before submit
ted to an intelligent people was SO
pregnant with curses and so barren
of any possible blessing as joint state
hood.
Arizona republican., 1906-11-03
TO LOYAL ARIZONIANS.

This is perhaps the last issue of The
Republican which viii reach many of
its readers in the more remote parts OF
the territory before the verdict shall
be pronounced upon the joint state
hood question. We do not know
whether anything can be added to the
nurnberless reasons which have been
presented against jointure, any one OF
a dozen of which would have been
sufficient.
We Eesire, though. in the closing
hours of the struggle upon which so
much depends to recall a part of what
has been said in behalf of Arizona.
In the first place we Will again in
vite a comparison of the motives and
the methods Of the partisans of joint
ure and anti-jointure Opposed to
jointure are men whose hope is in the
prosperity and the development of the
territory and who might reasonably be
expected to favor any project which
might accelerate it's development.
Their ranks include the farmers, of this
merchants, the home-owners, working
men whose prosperity must depend
upon the prosperity of the country,
mine owners and mining men gener-
ally. railroad owners and managers
stockmen, and we may say, the rep
resentatives of every interest in Arr
iona. It cannot be imagined that all
these men are mistaken in their esti-
mate of the effect of joint statehood
upon them.
In this connection we shall speak of
a statement frequently made by the
jointists that the opposition consists
n part of the federal officials 1t is
true that from Governor Kibbey down
most, though not all. the federal APP
pointees in Arizona are opposed &c
jointure. That fact is a tribute tC
their fearlessness. their spirit of indie
pendence in the face of the. president
who holds their official fate in his
hands. They know that their posi-
tions are endangered by their opposi-
ton to his wishes and they know that
if jointure should become a fac
their opportunities for official prefer
ment at the hands of grateful Ari-
zonians would be greater than the
chances of those who are conspiring
for the ruin of the territory. The atti-
tude of these federal officials is in
glorious contrast to those federal lick
spittles who seek to curry favor with
the national administration by sacri-
ficing their territory Their counter
part in history is found in the tories
of the American revolution.
Now, the men and the motives be-
hind the jointure movement in Arizona
Judge AinswOrth, at the head of it, is
well known throughout the territory
Is there anything in his record thai
suggests that he is engaged in thi.
crusade for the good of the territory
Men do not become disinterested and
phiIanthropic in the twinkling of an
eye. Various suggestions have been
made as to the personal interest he has
in this matter. 1t has been charged
that he is the representative of John
Arizona republican., 1906-11-03
PReFEsaIoNHk
NOTARY PusLIC.

=. e. PASCOE, Notary Public. Convey
ancinE a speciality. Acknowledgement
Arizona republican., 1906-11-03
MASSAGE

G. A. Roberts, the Masseur. is now
associated with the Arizona Santa
rum, and viii be pleased to meet any
one wishing Massage Treatment. We
also have competent masseuse who
VIII give sNillful. courteous attention
TO ladies. Separate apartments for
ladies' Treatments given at the SAN
ttarium, or in your room. Phone Red
1888 The Arizona Sanitarium. SD
Center Street.
Arizona republican., 1906-11-03

VISITING IN THE CITY-Miss Eva
Scott of Falls City, Neb., daughter of
Judge A. r. Scott. arrived in the city
yesterday morning over the Santa Fe
and is the guest of Elder J. Cronen-
berger and family
Arizona republican., 1906-11-03
For Delegate to Congress
VIM. F. Cooper
Republican Ticket
MdriCOpd County

Councilman
WATSON PIcKRELL.
Members Legislative Assembly
ELLIOTT EVANS
WINFIELD SCOTT
J. c. REED
FREDERICK WEBB.
Sheriff
JOHN G. HARDIN.
Treasurer
RICARDO E. MINER.
District Attorney
ERNEST w. LEWIS.
Probate Judge
J. C. PHILLIPS.
County Recorder
A. E. EGLEY.
County School Superintendent.
w. II. LEE.
Surveyor
HARRY HANCOCK.
Members Board of Supervisors.
o. II. CHRISTY
w. A. EVANS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-21

a church. The human animal is a dar-
ing brute, after all.
1t is a saying in the Vesuvian region
that Naples sins and Tore del Greco
pays the penalty" The smaller city
is Il sort of buffer against the divine
wrath. Yet through the ages has per-
sisted a prophecy that at last Naples
would have to pay her own debts. for
she herself would fail victim TO the
ire of the mountain.
Millions Lost 10 Money.
The great loss from the recent erup-
ton, the total destruction OF Bosco-
trecase, city of nearly 10000; the
partial destruction of Ottajano, SarnO
and many other cities and villages.
the wiping out of little farms and
vineyards, the hundreds killed and the
tens of thousands driven from their
homes, the terrors and discomforts of
the half million people living in the
vicinity-of these things it is impossi-
BILE for cold type to tell The money
loss alone is estimated at over $20,000.-
900. There are over $4,000 homeless.
The falling of the roof of the great
market at Naples, killing or injuring
nearly 200 people, caused the citizens
to shovel the ashes from their roofs to
prevent other like catastrophes. AS
the ashes sifted down the necks of the
pedestrians the language grew quite
as lurid and volcanic as the mountain
itself The fights that resulted rather
relieved the tense strain.
There have been few greater exam
pies of modern heroism than that OF
Professor Mattucci. in charge of the
observatory of Mount Eesuvius. The
loss of life would undoubtedly have
been much greater had il not been for
the timely warnings sent out by this
soldier of science. Through all the
frightful days of the eruption he re-
manned at his post dispatching mes
sages of cheer TO the distracted in
habitants, taking records and observ-
ing the phenomena of the terrifying
upheaval that constantly threatened
his own life. Associated with Profess
or Mattucci is an American, Frank A.
Perret. formerly of Brooklyn.
Vesuvius has been in state of more
than wanted agitation for a year. but
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-21

barn this summer. The foundation is
almost completed, and the lumber is
on the ground ready TO begin work.
Ralph Beal. VINO has been quite sick
with the measles. is able to be out
again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Ekstrom were
in the tri-cities last Tuesday.
Ben Rah and Jack Schane of Water.
town were in this community Monday
buying horses They depart this week
for South Dakota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bensonbers
and daughter. Ruby, of Watertown,
spent Sunday with Grant Miller
John Devinney of Rapids City. who
has been quite sick all winter, is able
TO be around again. He visited with
James Scarf Monday.
Jesse Nicholson spent Sunday in
Rock Island with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Nicholson.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Coder of Bar
stow visited in this community last
Monday
A few from here attended the w. c.
T. L. meeting at Port Byron Sunday
night
Mrs. Eunice Luce is visiting this
week with Mrs. James McRoberts of
Port Byron
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-21

w yHEN q mountain goes to roar
NA/ ing and believing, splitting
w its sides, blowing its top off
and destroying all the cities
and towns i'm its vicinity mere man
takes TO the woods. Ordinary catas-
trophies he may receive with criticisms,
with revilings. even with blasphemy,
but when the earth goes to doing
thiags he has not a word to say. That
IS too appalling for comment. Cy-
clones, floods, fires, famines and pesti-
lences are everyday Affections. When
man Is assailed by them he is not en-
tireIy swept Off his feet. He can show
fight But when the earth quivers with
pain or bowls with agony there is moth
ing left for the human animal but to
lie down and die or slide for the tall
timber Talk is entirely outclassed. 1t
IS not at home in the volcanic atmoS-
phere If the voice is used at all it Is
only for inarticulate sounds. Words
are too artificial for such elemental
surroundings.
Vesuvius has been called ''the CHM
ney OF the world" likewise natures
ash heap" also several other names
that fall a million miles short of being
as horrible as the thing they seek to
describe. There is no word or COM
bination of words that comes within
speaking distance of that. All of them
arc not only Inadequate. but III legal
phraseOlOgy are '.immaterial. incOnI-
petent, irrelevant and have no bear
ing ON the case" after Goethe had
been 10 see NeSuvius he said some
thing about hell hanging over para
disc. which as description of the con
trast between the old mountain demon
and sunny Italy round about is per
haps as near TO the thing as human
language can come: so il is just as
we'll To let il go at that.
Ii seven battles and seventeen thun-
derstorms could be combined in one
the resultant noise would be some
thing like that of Vesuvius when
working" 1t hOwis, whistles. screams.
thunders. toots. bellows and rips up
the universe generally. In other words,
IL makes a noise like the day of judg-
meIft. If you have never heard a
mountain whoOp and carry on when il
gets ready TO shoot up the tOwn-and
country alsO-then get your life insur-
worth the money. If you get back
alive you will be able to say. as did
Artemus Ward after visiting the tomb
of Shakespeare, 1T was a success"
Over 500 wears ago EeSuViuS came
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-21

the inmates beneath, over the roads
and streets till vehicles are foundered
and people fleeing on foot fall exhaust
ed and are unable TO rise again; then
as they lie half buried in the ashen
waste the volcanic snow sifts softly
over them until they are buried from
sight forever. In the ruins of POmpeii
figures were found where they had
been overcome nearly twenty centu-
ries ago, mothers and little children TO-
gether, men and women clasping each
other in love- Rather the molds in the
ashes were found, for the bodies long
since had crumbled away. And as they
fell so others fell but yesterday.
Even If one escapes the ashes and
the lava he may yet be suffOcated by
the poisonous gases, for these, too, roll
out of the great chimney and scatter
death about the country side. The
grooming and reverberating hill is an
outpost of death, and many forms have
the forces of destruction that issue 70
do its commands. 1t is a section of the
inferno whose actual horrors almost
equal those of Dante's Imagination. II
is fountain of fire playing upward
from the central court of hadeS. 1t is
-VesuviuS. for there is no figure OF
speech that conveys so dire meaning
as its own dread name.
Thousands of Victims.
No one can tell the numbers of its
dead. There is no exact record or
those who persisted ut Herculaneum
and Pompeii nor in the centuries since.
1t is impossible even to number those
who fell in the last fearful eruption.
the greatest that the mountain has
given forth since that initial one in
the days of Titus. Thousands OF tour
lists have lost their lives seeking only
To look upon Nesuvius in its queter
moods. Hundreds of thousands have
paid the penalty for daring to till its
fertile slopes. One city, Tore del Gre
eco, has been swallowed up over and
over again. and each time n new town
has arisen on the lava and ashes that
had buried the old, thus making sort
Of municipal layer cake, as it were.
When an earthquake once opened
seam through the town a man descend
ing into the chasm found himself in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-21

without doing any especial damage, ex-
eept to the railroad that leads to the
cone. 1t is as though the ancient noun
tain was not entirely devoid OF SYM
patty for the human ants that swarm
about its base and had given a long
warning of the disaster TO come. The
ants failed to heed the sign. however,
having grown familiar with the Ism
pending doom.
Where Poets Seek Inspiration.
A few weeks ago the Neapolitan dis
trict was glowing into all the lowell
ness OF southern Italian spring.
Grass was growing green. buds were
swelling to leaf. the earlier flowers
were In blossom. birds and bees filled
the air with music, and over all arched
the soft. blue sky of Italy. Nature
there puts OH so fair a seeming that
for over 1000 years this region has
given birth to some of the worlds
sweetest songs. Even the poets OF
England and America go TO Italy for
inspiration. And why not? For I'm
that cline nature herself is a poem
that only needs to be translated into
the music of words. No country OF the
eartl mas Deen SO ndllOWeu III poetry
and romance, and OF all Italy no sec
ton is more enhancing than that sur
rounding the sparkling bay of Naples.
Today that earthly paradise is n vast
Sahara desert. over all the region as
far as the breath OF the monster could
reach there is left no green thing.
The villas are swallowed up. the
cities are dead. the smiling valleys and
plains are desolatlOn, the vineyards,
bowers and gardens are waste places.
In all the march OF science and prog
ress Nature comes to remind us OF our
weakness. While we boast OF our
mastery over her, she overwhelms us;
while Wanting ourselves that we have
learned her secrets. she presents to us
her ancient mystery. and while sitting
secure in our little happiness she swal-
lows 1t all in one red night OF earth
quake and destruction.
Yet in the end it is we who triumph,
for after her night there comes another
morning, and we arise and rebuild our
earthly paradise.
j. A. EDGERTON.