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(r _ AFTER FIFTY YEARS IN 1 SOUTH (Manufacturers Record.) If anybody had undertaken fifty years ago, when the hope of the Southern Confederacy died, to forecast in detail that the eleven States constituting it would in 1915 sur rcB pass in practicaliy every material H way, the whole United States of MB 1865, he would probably have been H | regarded as a wild dreamer. But the facts of today would have vindiBH cated his judgment and faith. In April, 1865, the prospect for Of these eleven States was most appallMF ing, with quite 250,000 of the flower H of their population killed or permaW nently disabled in a four years' war, V billions of dollars of real and per| sonal property greatly deteriorated & or absolutely destroyed, fluid'capital & at a minimum, cities in ashes, mills and factories and railroad lines in ruins, the very ground in some sections reduced to infertility and the laboring forces demoralized. Stout hearts who knew the natural resources of these States were prompt to encourage their fellows to begin the task of rehabilitation. But presently they were confronted by -conditions far worse than war, in many respects, that for ten years and more hampered every movement for the recovery of the wreck. The material losses of that period were added to the share of the m States in the national burdens con* sequent upon the war, and another drawback, even more serious, but not measurable statistically, was the drain upon energies represented in | * the migration of natives of these States to other parts of the country. Figures of 1910 are fairly indicative of the results. In that year 22,879,929 natives of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia were living in the United States, but only 18,678,875 of them in the States of their nativity, while within their borders were 21,874,253 natives of the United States. They had lost to other States 4,201,054 and had received from other States 3,195,378, a difference against them of 1,005,676. Much of this exchange had occurred within the elev^ en States or between them and other Southern States, but 867,797 were in States outside the South from which had been received 481,254, a difference of 386,543. Capitaliz* ing the migrants at $1200 each, a conservative estimate, the end of the Tinlf-^pntiirv sVinws ? Hpfirit in this exchange capitalized at $463,851,600. Under all the burdens and losses, and in spite of the drawbacks, the * confidence of men in these States, persisted and waxed greater. It was grounded in knowledge of possessions necessary to progress and prosperity and beyond the power of man to destroy entirely. Within the eleven States lay 150,000,000,000 tons of coal, vast stores of lignite, peat and petroleum, 5,000,000,000 tons of iron ore, the phosphate rock to supply the needs of this country and other lands, sulphur that was to dominate the markets of the world for that product, f lead and zinc, salt and bauxite, fuller's earth and other valuable minerals. More than 254,000,000 of its acres were covered with forests and woods, and 382,390,000 of its acres were capable of bearing crops. a Nearly 15,000 miles of its waterways, many of them having outlets in convenient harbors in the coast line of 3,000 miles, offered, facili 4 > ties for domestic and foreign commerce based upon the products of field, forest, mine and factory, or had in their head streams energy to be developed hydro-electrically for industry aggregating millions of horsepower. Facts of today, therefore, had to be. Their significance is epitom_ ized in the following table comparing on broad lines the status in 1915 of the eleven States that formed the Southern Confederacy with that of the whole country in 1860, most of r the figures being authoritative and a few, conservative estimates: Eleven United Southern States. States. I860 1915. Land area, sq. miles 2,1*74,159 732,748 Population 81,443,322 23,818,507 Density, population 10.6 32.5 Manufactures: Capital W16.436.00 81,797.231,000 Products $ 1,70a,078,000 ??,803,934,000 Cottou mills: Spindles, active..... 5,235,727 12,702,226 ; Looms, active 120,813 261,486 Cotton used, lbs.... 422,704,975 1,402.871,351 : Pig-iron made, tons. 821,223 2,214,895 Lumber, value $95,912,060 **503.003,000 : Agriculture: Capital *7,980,493,000 W.6I7,?70.000 Products $1,725,000,000 82,336,168,000 Cotton crop: 1 Bales, 500 pounds 3,841,416 14,315,326 , Val., without seed 8251,613,OOo 8547,000,000 ' Grain, bushels: Corn 830,459,000 613,791,000 Wheat 171,183,000 47,067,000 j Oats 17-',555,000 69,853,000 ' Mineral output, val. 3108,500 0)0 >155,733,000 ] Coal mined, tons 14,610,012 38,330 000 Iron ore mined, tons 2,873,4 :0 6,294,000 j Railroad mileage 30,704 69,014 Exports, vulue 8333,570,030 8758,561,000 1 Banking: Capital 8194,421,010 8315,683,000 ' Deposits 8406,497.000 81,229,064,000 Common schools: J Expenditures 822,548,519 853,838.031 . Properly,true value.816,159,616,000 816,611,000,000 *1910. j The advance of the whole South, , including Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, 1 is one of the marvels of the past twenty-five or thirty years. That of the particular eleven States is, considering the background, largely ^ responsible for the larger showing. Their land area is 732,743 square , miioc nr Ipss than one-auarter of ? ? -? i the area of the United States, and ^ their population is 23,848,507, or ( 7,594,815 less than the population ( of the whole country in 1860. These j differences in area and population j must be kept in mind in comparing j the small part .in 1915 with the ( whole in 1860. What does this < comparison reveal? ] The eleven Southern States in j 1915 have $1,797,231,000 capital in ( manufacturing, nearly twice as ? much as the United Stales in 1860, ( with 12,702,226 active spindles and ' 261,486 active looms, more than c twice as many, using 1,402,871,351 { pounds of cotton, more than three j * i-J ft n ? j oner times as mucn, maiting i,2i?,o9o tons of pig-iron, nearly three times as much, and cutting nearly four times as much lumber as the whole country fifty years ago. They are producing in agriculture to the value of $2,336,168,000, or $511,000,000 more than the whole country fifty years ago, although of the 382,390,000 of its acres tnat may grow crops only 108,784,000 are improved farm land and only 73,620,000 are tilled. The mines and quarries of these States are yielding $155,733,000 annually, or $47,233,000 more than the United States ih 1860, the output of coal, 38,330,000 tons being nearly three times as great, and the output of iron, 6,294,000 tons, being more than twice as great. In addition, three of the States, Flori aa, aoutn Carolina, ana j.ennessee, are producing the country's phosphate rock; four of them, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, all of the native bauxite for the manufacture of aluminum, and two of them, Louisiana and Texas, virtually all of the sulphur. Through the ports in these States passed in 1914 to foreign landf $758,561,000 worth of merchandise, more than twice as much as was exported from all ports of the coun- j try in 1860. These Southern ex- j ports are nearly one-third of the total annual exports of the country. Most of the gratifying advance made by the eleven States has come since 1880. The accomplishments since then are shown in the following table: Progress of Eleven Southern States 1880. 1915. Population 12,9?0,246 28,848,507 Manufactures: Capital $133,254,000 *81,797,281.000 Products 8240,441,000 *31,803,934,000 Pig-iron made, tons. 185,551 2,214,895 Lumber cut, feet 2,801,162,000 19,044,232,000 Agriculture: Capital SI.587,122,000 *38,617,570,000 Products 8547,567,000 82.336,168,000 Mineral output, val. 85,519,954 8155,738,000 Coal mined, tons 1,081,954 38,.'i3o,0 0 Iron ore mined, tons 188,514 6,294,000 Railroad mileage 17,351 69,014 Banking: Capital 839,185,948 8315,688,0C0 TVam/miUo lifl CH.4 AAA Ol OnA f\OA AAA jL/cpuoito wy,?An,wv oi,^,uoi,vw Resources 892,569,000 12,128,522,000 Common schools: Expenditures 88,038,523 *>3,838,031 1 Property, true value 84,165,000,000 816,611,000,000 . 1910. ' With an increase in population in J thirty-five years, from 12,990,246 to '< 23,848,507, or by 10,858,261, equal 1 to 83.6 per cent., these States ha/e < accumulated for manufacturing, ag- 1 riculture and banking $6,970,922,- < 000 of capital, an increase of 396.7 1 per cent., from $1,759,562,000 to < $8,730,484,000. They are produc- 1 ing in agriculture, mining, lumbering and manufacturing to an aggregate value yearly of $4,658,838,000, an increase of $3,813,310,000, or at 1 the rate of 450.9 per cent., and i $966,348,000 more than the aggregate of production on those lines by < the whole country in 1860. 1 They have built 51,663 miles of railroad, nearly 20,000 miles more i than the total length of the railroads in the United States fifty years ago, bringing the total mileage in the eleven States to 69,014. Their corporation capital now amounts to $4,496,117,000, of which $1,594,291,000 are in transportation $1,478,732,000 in production and $408,286,000 in banking and other finance, the whole yielding an annual net income of $316,666,000. Their banking resources have increased in thirty-five years from 593,569,000 to $2,128,522,000, more than twenty-two times; their banking capital from $39,185,948 to $315,683,000, about eight times, to an amount of $121,262,000 greater than the banking capital of the tvhole conntry in 1860, and the de-| posits in their financial institutions, mol e than three times as great, have increased from $66,564,000 to $1,229,064,000. It is not surprising, therefore, that the estimated true value of all property in the eleven. States has Tiore than quadrupled and is now learly $500,000,000 greater than that of the whole country in 1860. What are the eleven States doing ftith their increasing wealth? Much nore than did the whole country fifty years ago. In 1860 there were jxpended upon the common schools >f the United States $22,548,519. [n 1911-12 the eleven States spent nnvnnco 85ft 031 . ftf LUi. 1/11U b |/ui|/vw>v yvv/jwwjww?j nore than twice as much, the difference being emphasized by the difference in population, the expenditure Dy the United States at the earliest period being less than 72 cents per capita of population, while the present expenditure by the eleven States is more than $2,13 per capita. The concern for their common schools has been recorded in an increase in expenditures for them From $6,038,523 in 1880, or nearly line times, and has paralleled increase in material wealth. And vhat has happened in the case of ;he schools has also been manifested n other directions, in better houses ind public buildings and churches, n improved highways, 27,273 miles )f the latter having been constructed in tVip nast ten vears. and in car ying out generally the aspirations ind hopes of the men of fifty years >r more ago. What two generations of men in ;hese eleven Southern States have ichieved in fifty years, starting from uins, is an inspiration to courage ind energy for the younger men not )nly of the South, but of the whole country. Use of Cotton in War. Cotton statisticians who find difficulty in accounting for the large erports of the staple to Europe, where i large portion of the manufacturing industry is prostrated, will do svell to investigate the use of this raw material for war purposes. They ire well aware that unusual quantities of khaki for uniforms, duck for tents, tarpaulins and artillery covers tire cloth for automobiles and other woven and knitted fabrics are being demanded by the belligerents, 3ut they are likely to overlook two important uses cf cotton that are ibsorbing hundreds of thousands of Dales of the staple. It is rather startling to learn that i4? folrnn n knl a a ? nr\f4-aw +a oViaaI1 ,v uixvco a uaic vx tubbvn tv ouuub jne of the big German 42-centimeter siege gvms, and that a modern ireadnaught in action explodes 10 to 12 bales of cotton every minute. Approximately a pound of raw cotion is needed in making every sound of guncotton, and the powier production of Europe and this :ountry is not fur from 350,000,000 pounds annually under present foreid conditions. ThLs accounts for ibout 700,000 bales of cotton, largey linters and waste. Then there is the enormous denand for absorbent cotton and bandiges. This probably calls for about 50,000,000 pounds of cotton annually, or about 100,000 bales. In 1:1 i.. c Lavtt u 10 i|uiic uxYCiy tuau iiguics :ould be deduced to show that the ivar demand for cotton is largely :ounter-balancing the loss of reguar demand due to the prostration )i tne inaustry in uermany, Austria, Belgium and France. Workiing Both. Dr. Sharp is quite wealthy, isn't le? Did he make all his money from his practice?" "Not all of it. He's the principal Dwner of a very large oil well up the State and?" "And he makes money from the sick and the well too." g^wriwpii -inririririri J?/ rUuluu'uwMMwwk 3? Come in a I! MPark Hi s How Editors Get Rich. I A -P^/vw n /it?ab| ilfifil n-f WAWI? OTIfl AibCJ. a ? 1 Vi. nwiij wiiu study, we have at last figured out how so many country editors get rich. Here is the secret of their success. There is a child born in the neighborhood. The attending physician gets $10. The editor gives the loud-lunged youngster a great send-off and gets $0. It is christened, and the minister gets $5, and the editor gets $00. It grows and marries. The editor publishes another long-winded flowery article, and tells a dozen different lies about "the beautiful and accomplished bride." The minister gets $10 and a piece of cake. The editor gets $000 and a request to carry the groom's subscription account another year. In the course of time she dies. The doctor gei3 from $5 to $100, the minister gets from $5 to $100, the editor publishes a notice of death and an obituary two columns long, lodge resolutions, a lot of poetry and a card of thanks, and gets $0,000. No wonder so many country editors get rich.?Exchange. Here is one that will take you back quite a distance. "What became of the old-fashioned farmer boy who believed if he killed a toad, the milk of the cows would turn to blood?? Pittsburg Dispatch. ?KIRKW00D JEWELER up to his eyes Watches, Clocks Jewelry, Spectacles Sold and Ilepaired,' and Mrs. Kirkwood Testing the Eyes and Fitting Glasses a specialty. Next to the Candy Kitchen ABBEVILLE, S. C. Comparison is the highest form of flattery. All cigars sold in Abbeville are represented to be as good, or better, than Speed's Cinco's. There is nothing like uhem. Stick to them. They keep a good taste in your mouth and a cleai | head. raaaaaaaaaaaaaa ^ fine At Mode fZ Every; mm . of good app( i i'W/ tempted to tur \ (/ second glance. T I prompts the imj 1 tangible "som J which creates tl We Are C "something dif ci-M+o tito o-rpk cT-in I 0U.J.10 v* v ui v guvi I Fashioned designers and t< who obtained pe i they offer you a \ service and sat LI crease in price. Prices F , $10.00 nd See the New Spi :er cv* ** Save You fiipt This is the machine we have just insl most modern machine made. We damp* then mould it in a steam chest so that it space between the outer and inner edges I This saves wear and tear on your coll which is desired and admired. Phone us Abbeville Ste* Phone 68-B Abbeville People Entertained. (Spartanburg Journal.) Mrs. Frank McGhee entertained i with three tables of bridge this afternoon in honor of Miss Floride Smith, a bride of the week. Besides ] | the close friends of the honorees, several visitors were present, Miss Mary Quarles Link, of Abbeville; Cigars SnfipH's T)i IVJVWVWk >?? ?' Phone Always [Ready ? Stationery =================== GoAesj irate fVices ]! nee in a while you ill j > lass a young man i;'| {: iarance and you are i | n your head for a jjlSj; It is style that || I; pulse. It is the in- |j j| Letting different" |||i le impression. ill ji|; )ffering you that Iffil Ferent" in the new ijatj! iwing this Spring, ijj liji by master ;|i Jjjj VlTT <!'> Ills 111UJ.CU. \Jy v-iaiLOiJUtxi <,;> |< > rfection in their art, :|I |jj maximum of style, |j Ijjj isfaction at no in- ||| j| tange From ijl j| to $25.00 ijl ring Models i|]| 'eese jj ifijiimiiLtiinimjiM r Collars , t balled to lannder your collars. It is the m the edge so that it folds easily and has a ronnd, smooth edge and ample to permit the tie to slip easily. ara and gives yon that set and finish to call for your next bundle. im Laundry Phone 68-B Miss Annie Akers, of Atlanta; and T A-Pfor 11119S lUUUUOy Vi iuiviu^wui several interesting games the hostess served a salad course. The highest winner received a pair of silk hose, while the honoree was presented with a set of tea napkins. The occasion was most informal and pleasant Candy rug Store. > 18. to Serve You. Toilet Goods