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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY. WINNSBORO, S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER ro, 1901. ESTABLISHED i84. A THAN! ---WE Hi 10 Piece CONSISTING OF V1 AN One roll of BR USSEL pose to cl Come now ,anduy a c - at si WINNSBORO, A NEWINDUSTRY. .:&;;mentto Introduce Silk Ct in South Carolina on a Large Sc Miss,. 'r Kelly, forn principal of Apl h!rlestop male Semin 4 o is no, Italyghas w~' an idhere: letter to Mrs. H. 'W. Carro Bennettsville, in regard to introduction of silk culttr South Carolina. As a pre nary step, lfiss .,Kelly' prof -to have a committee of' t ladies appointed ii eatch col to coogerate-with her iu-cari out her plans to introduce s tific silk culture in this cou She has requested Mrs. C to look afteir ythe fgrmatio these eoim 'ees. Th&foll6 * is Siss K) letter referd to; which full plains her ais "I1 would like~tb tell youa of my varied five years' es ence since I closed the dear C. F. Semn. Ngl ,x:abroad I must hast tc n.alk a - what I have 1~in 'givir mnytimie anil attiutt i to-tha worm culture. - ' The govergor -la~s gent, appointment Aa ydhUInin4n silk cultured~~eptheate-of 8 Carolina to the exposition. I amn officially empowered ti ahead and act, airl I -wil, *all my old pupi!k s1iA' other friends to join me ii enleavor to plant the.silk it *try on a scientifie and truly nomic basis in South Carolin .amn sure we can do it if we awork after the nipne of1 Lomnbardians. ItalV is the' :successful silk growing coi .of Europe. Lombhardy *is e ntre of the silk industry, MIilan, the province --n. wi omi, is the richest in' Ttdilyo count of the great.gquantij silk raised here'.' Tha~ -Bn Litta, with whose wife I al siding, receives the greatest of his revenues from the ce harvests, so on hig- tate I had a splendid opportui -study the culture. I ku~ov soil and climate of South lina and I am sure that the' very like those of Italy. Be we know that-the mulberry spontaneously in many pai our state, arid we ~should u Ssome of our comparatively land and open a newan tive industry to onr people 1 troducing silk culture amno. Frequent attempts have made in the United Stat raise silk, 'btiecepting di o- Coloni.-l Period, wlhen (OPFtRIN6 kVE IN STOCK s of Carpet, ELVET, BRUSSELS, WOOL D COTTON-. ,S STA IR CARPET, we pro se out at cost. arpet ana; be thankd f Fu got it icht a ba ini. shlker& Co., SOUTH CAROLINA. was very costly, it proved of no industrial value, and it will never lture pay to raise it now, tnlgs ' ale., culture can be scientifically di iorly rected and thoroughly organized Fe- in the-entire state. Tlhis is the w ri iork I propose to do, and you sting can render wo great service by ll, of serving me as chairman of a coiu the; mittee for your county. You can e in seleet your owx committee includ imi- in'g my other old pupils iu your oses town, then other prominent elve women in Marlboro. I must .y, lise a-s chairman to form a com -ying mittee in every county.- Can you cien- not select one for me 'in Chester trv. field, Lancaster and Kershaw and rrll as-k them for mo to form a com n of mittee in their respective counties j to act under me .to introduce a If's scientific silk culture in the United en Sttes. Tell thein all, that this jliidpstry besides! giving work to aneb many of our poor white people, pei- will greaflj increase the value of oldtheir lznds. I wish every land bu! owner in South Carolig to take ~bout part. iu the movement. There n all can be no scientific,. silk culture ~silk without a rational mulberrty cul ture.- So here we navel to begini ie an and for this we hate to's d~peid r of on our a'griculturists, .so .lat ~ouhb compelledto, have a ate Now'men's Auxiliary Board' 'ir > goT work will be to endorse the ap need plication I made last year to '-y IHon. J. Wilson, Secretary of my Agriculture, for a supply of mul ds- berry trees for South Carolina eco-' and for further governmetnt aid a. I to utilize the scientific and 'prac ( to tical knowledge that I have gained Lhes.j by living three years among the 1iMtR irost successful silk growvers 'in intry Europe. the and The ladies of Philadlelphia in ch.. 1880S formed an American aso : ac- ciation for encouraging .the- slks y ofj industry. They spent .$J50,000, ' deI Of- this amount they got $50,O00 n r- uring five yearsran e6igreest. part 'The soil and climate didaa.avgw coon silk culture any more than it hve favors cotton andl rice. 'So the to -northern effort was abortive. Be the si(des lackig-propeiy sofi -and aro- climaite, they -had -no one who are studied the culture in a thorough sides jmanner in a successful silk-grow rows inig country, to taLkoentire charge, ts of to organize..and direct the inidus tilize try. Amateurs have only thrown waste away the government money. ucra- South Carolina can clain aid on v. in the ground that she has besides us. soil and climuato, a scientific direc been ~torsto organize and control the es to culture. The government spends uring' over $100,000- atnnually to en .m.' courage agriculture and the North and West have always gotten tn lion's share. It is now the South turn to ask for aid. Let us urg our claim and insist on as mucl being given to our Scientific Sil Culture association as was givei to the Northern amateur one, tha is $50,000 in five years. We can not raise $100,000 as the million aires in Piiltidelphia did, but wv have land which we can promis to plant with mulberry and tha is better than money. It does no require rich land and by puttin, the trees 90 feet apart cther cul ture may be carried on at th same time. Besides, too, the mul y may be trimmed to mak idmirable hedges and fences, an many bits of wasteland may b utilized by them. SecretAry Wil son says that Congress vill mak an appropriation for silk cultur before 1902, but this is no reaso why mulberry trees and also oliv and almond trees that I hay asked to be allowed to selee over here to be given out to th agriculturists at Charleston Expo sition should not be allowed. I have just completed th translation of the best Italia book on Mulberry cuhure and have.:studied anatomy and phy siofogy of plants at the Sorbonn andi the Jardin of plants unde the greatest biologists and bot inists of the day, so I can clain to be able to sel'ct the plant: suitable to our soil. If Secretari Wilson allows us the trees for th< exposition they will be given ou to the members of the, Scientifi< Silk Culture Association frer Each one would .get more that tile value of the initfation. fee $1.00, in trees. I wish to hav< every land owner and their wivei and daughters enrolled in m13 association. It must .be a con. certed movement and we can' help succeeding. The silk ceturee tkea-onlydie4 weeks-an&-doe!P it eeWil any other culture and it employ. the aged men: aiid lie women and children wl'o ~are not' strong enough for field labor. I cannoi go further into the subject now All I want you personally to dc is to try to enroll as many mem bers as possible amoing the land owners and their f&milies, and this is most easiyloiie by means of committees in each county. I the Lest you can till I come, 'an get the ground broken for m) work. Send me your list of corn mittees as soon as they ar( formed, twelve on each. Henrietta Aiken Kelley. Lombardy, Italy. II: T. Mcintyre, St. Paul, Minn. wh his been troubled with a disor :ered stoniach, says, "Chamberlain': Stomach -and Liver Tablets do nm more good than anything I have eve taken." For sale bf McstrCo. Government's Cotton Report. Washingt'N. December 23, he litatisticiaa of the (depart enti of agriculture reports 9,674, 000 balea as tbe probab!e cottor production of the United State' in IT901-19)02. ~The .area picked r~JJa picked. is estimated al 26,02,%39 acres, a. reduction oj 730.216 acres,. or 2.6 per. cent'o) the acreageplanted. The. totJd production of lini otton is estimated. at 4,529,954, 000 pounds, an average of 16i p~uds' per acre, picked or to hx piked. The estimated production by States,-in pounds of lint cottoi per aere, is as follows: Virginia 176; North Carolint 142; South Caro ina 141; Georgi; '167; Florida 117; Alabama 156 Misissippi 205; Louisiana 260 TInas 159; Arkansas 173; Tennes se t56; Missouri 196; Oklahome 196; Indian Territory 214. In.addition to thle department' rdi nary crop-i-epol-ting agencies 15,000 ginners andl 5,000 bankers and m~erchants Jave farnmsher val uable information concermn acreage' and "production. Th< inners have *also reported the aunount of cotton ginned hetwee: August 15 and November 20 thi: yearand.Iast year, with the aver age gross weight per bale, an tho averaige weight of, haggin and ties. This has enabled th statistician to ascertaiuithe aver age net weight of balesfor eac separate State and for the entir cotton belt, and these -weighit lave been used in determing th *1iti number of hales producet e The average net weight for the s entire cotton belt is 468.2 pounds, e which is believed to be the lowest E average in at least ten yers. The k largest number of light bales a being marketed and also some re t duction in the production of lint - seed cotton are subjec9 of fre - quent comment by correspondents e of all classes. 8 - t W. T. Wesson, Gholsouville, Va., t druggist, writes: "Your One Minute Cough Cure .gives perfect satisfaction. 5 My customers say it is it the best rem - edy for coughs, colds, throat and lung B troubles." McMaster Co. e Boy and the Presiding Elder. B Anecdotes of preachers being - on tap. Hon. John Dougherty, of A Missouri, contributed the follow Sing: 2 In one of the counties compos ing the Third congrtssional dis trict of Missouri there lives a t good Christian lady, a devout and constant member of the Metho dist Episcopal Church South. Some days before the date of a quarterly conference held there some years ago our good lady friend received .word that the presiding. elder- would be her 3 guest for a few days during the r meeting. In order to convince the elder* that she had been and was doing her Christian duty in the matter of training her only child, a boy about four years old to walk in "the straight and nar row path" she thought it not amiss to give him some special instructions before the minister arrived. So taking the little fel low upon her lap one day she told him that the presiding elder, a big and a great man, would visit thAm soon and that he would "be very sure to ask some questions about our. Sunday school, how oi j teachetc. B How diAre 6u? D where baa boys go when they die? NGow, when he asks your name, tell him Johnnie Jones. When he asks how old you are, tell him four years old, and when he asks if you know where bad boys go when they die, tell him, using the Scriptural word, that bad boys, when they die, go to hell." John wa-s drilled on these questions daily until the minister came. In the meantime he knew by rote that his name was John nie Jones, that he was four years old and that when bad boys die I they go to hell. The minisiter was a portly gentleman of friendly manner and pleasant countenance. After re ceiving a cordial welcome, he was seated in the sitting room, and ~ the proud parent excused herself and sought Johnnie, the pride and expectancy of her life, to in troduce. him to the minister.. After John's face was washed, his' hair combed and he was otherwise made presentable his mother ld him m to meet the preacher. 'As the urchin entered1 the sitting roomu he observed through the open door a neigh bor playmate sitting on the fence whistiing for him and calling him to come out quick. Johnie at once grewv impatient to go out and wished the ceremony of meet ing the the preacher and answer ing his questions to be done with as quickly as possi-ble. The doting mother introduced him as the 3 oungest and her only child, the baby of the famiiy. The wood lrinuister called the boy to him~ and taking his little chubby hand in his o wn remarked: "What a very hand-some lad? How, like his mother?" His next question was exactly as had been antici pated. "Well,, my little man, what. is your name?" The boy glanced first up to the minister, then at his waiting playmate, and intending to expedite matters as. much as possible by answering te three expected questions at once, replied, "Johnnie Jones, four years old, go to hell," and in the confusion that followed skipped to meet his friend. Champ Clarke's Room Stories. SOconec codmty - had a second . homicide les- than a week 'after the killing of Rachel Powell. e Daisy Smith, a'wbite girl of shady s character and v icious life, was e .shot and killdd last Friday night. , Seeral at r~E8 avce been made. A Bli Sacrc We have decided to close h we on hand at COST. place to carry wagons durin sell what few we have on ha if you will need a wagon wil wi:l pay you to buy NOW. We only have a few on ha chance. Come early and ge In order to reduce onr sto will sell the first ten stoves f So come early and be one c stove cheap. -RLOT Long Distance Axles, Dnst Pri line of Surreys, manufactured riage Co. Harness of all kit dle and Harness Horses and ] Give me a chance and I will quality. D. A. Several of the schools of the tate have exhibits at the Char-j ston exposition. The exhibita rom the Greenville and Spartan -ug graded schools are spoken as especially deserving.r ock~a=Bye Baby hese are sweet words, but how much t 1a- and suffering they used to mean. It's fa lifrent now. Sinca Mother's Friend has 'tb ~ome known expectant mothers have st.( n spared much o.f the anguish of child- thi ih. Mjaher's friend is a liniment to be CU: led ex:ernally. It is rubbed thoroughly pri othe muscles of the abdomen. It gives ac) atc ty and strength, and when the final I ~rt strain comes they re:pond quickly and t~ly without pa'n. Mother's Friend is er taken internally. Internal remedies t ths t me do more harm than good. If a i iman Is suppl'ed w'th this splendid linI nt she need never fear rising or swelling II rasts. morning siakness. or any of the o : omnfor s which usuaI'y accompany prig- 0 acy. In 'he proprietor of a large hotel in Tampa, CC P., writes: "My wif:: had an awful time ih her first child. During her second y rnanc-. Mother's Friend was used and , ebaby was born easily before the doctor rved. It's certainly great." Glet Mother's Fri-nd at the drug .ture. $t p,,r t~otdeA. B~IRUd)FIELD REGULATOR CO., * Atlanta, Ga. Sfor oat free 11tu.'tated book, "fDefore Baby HIAlR BALSAM rC eiu ft ases & ballr aiula. 2 ol wagos out what wagons we Not having a suitable g the winter, we will id at factory prices. So hin the next year it nd. so do not miss this t a bargain. ck of Cook Stoves, we rom this date at COST. f the number to get a dwv e Go. )of Boxing. A complete by The Brighton Car ds. A nice lot of Sad dares, young Mules, &c. please both in price and Crawford.. Kodol yspepsia Cure [igests what you eat. Is preparation Contains all of the ~estants and digests all kinds of d. It gi es instant relief and never s to cure. It allows you to eat all a food you want. The most sensitive >machs can take it. By its use many Usanlds of dyspeptics have been red after everything else failed. It ~vents formation of gas on the stom , relieving all distress after eating. fing unnecessary. Pleasant totake. can't help but do you ue AND MA~t5. I have i o or 12 real nice orses that I will sell cheap .will trade them for thin ues. If you need a horse sme to see me and I will let >u have one that will give >u satisfaction. CATT LE. I have four very fine Milch ows that I will sell or trade em for dry cattle, A. Williford.