VOL. XXVII, \ >
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DARLINGTON, F. O., TfTURSDAY AI I.I ST HI, 1900.
WHOLE NUMBER
miciuHsjE ii
In the S;ile of Leaf
Tobacco.
•Af , .
Anothei
j
bn;c Then too when the
nos- TH'ii of Darlington ni ’I
• »■ lb,..
■**> • T 7 O* * » whon tlioy undfitako tlid
rrue House-otci imenes t,
and Warehousss Enlarged and
Improvements IMade*
PURE; SWEET, HOME MADE FLOUR.
The Darlington Ivoliei* Mills Hue l),iv and
Xiiilit- I)arlinuton Sold More "jOhaceo
i.a't Season I han any Town in
t In 1 Si ale - Line Facilities and
Nice Accommodations.
! claim I lie credit of having the first
to 1 j'-rn vv;,rehouse erected in the
Stn'e. The lirsi year's sales were
: nhout ioo.ooo Ihs and frmn tic
'Snial bej. iening the proifress of Iht
'maiket has been onward and u|>
ward, until the -ah s of the p,,st
I season vvhi n .•,,(Uiu.uiill |hiiiikIs were
.old by the three Urge ware house-
vhich now l.ar d e i he crop.
As a niatirr of coprse this result
Ins not been accomplished without
( pe.sistent and in'elligent work, and
I too much cannot le said m praise
erf th a men whnhu'e hern instrn
mental in nmkirg Darhngton the
leading market in the S’ate, -
* srarehoufes are well !> au^
1 ■ "h" '• >■ a - oy yg- ,
are |kng
of
bu-1
r ttas
anything they go at it in a 'might
forward wav, all working n i a
common object, and not >n a luu m
h arum every man for bim-ell f-i-li
ion which never accomplishes ae\
tiling. As an illustration of tl.c
enterprise of the Ln-iness men ol
!'aldington when it conies to adv. i
ti-ing their town and county, it "
only necessary to nu ntmn the ,■
did tobacco exhibit -ent to the .\i
r I Oil LUC
il c 1
may be a jov and so'ac*' it 18 n ,1
fond, and unless lie has the late-r
ninn would incviLib'v s’arve, even
f he smoked all the time, ho ; n
is age goes wheat has the iidvan-
tige of the weed, and has he, n
known from th, earliest reco ■-'jyl
time It antedates the i’hnro.jlis,
and was in common use for h
years before the time of Jote
lie beautiful s'.ii'v of whose
and achievements are so fain’ r
S to leaders of tin Hib’e In tie a
j days Egypt was the granarv o|
! world and during the-even v, ,c
of famine it supplied
nations wth foo<l from -
j i •<* ^r«Ti , • ’r-
y . .- 'I bven said, lire.i 1 l-
'siall ot life, then it i>e< essnriU
Uw s t ha' men. at leas; in
state, mu-l have gm,,) bread
will star W.iutev no
been the shun con, i ngs i
.i • ent Kgvptians thev wen
g ri’y of • a lu'terating then
calls by the
literakure.
Hut in writing abn
pri-e- ot Dirlingtou
unpirdon bile not to
grea 1 ' -t o,i. , t' '
spite the f i t tha
nime of profam
t the mter
on it wouhi b
to me.ition it-
co'ton mid, de
rot ton w is gi v el
a whack in ih • pirt of this artieb
th l' spoke of ti e lob. i o luisint s-
Hut ilien I) irlii g'o' likes to take a
tiand in euy legitm ite enterprise
and a- This seen n rai-es a consid
, raide (j 11 an ii i v of the lieecy staple
ihe business me i of I'arlington
'onId see no reas m win a portion
of it at least sho d I no be niariu
factored at lionu. When h ■ pres
ot huge addin m i- coinplete ihr
mill will lie one of the 1 irgi in
Sta'e, and it will reipiire V TW
ivih -1
near.
y
11
I.I'IIO ba' ■
S 0
if
( "'toll
each
! <*r
year
to
k.
L'p t Ik- m
acb
lill
t-rv at work
i . h;'* <
This
i
4, 1
'ii" hale
c
if
Cot ton
will
>f i e
maU
m
r' u ml
tl
(Mires, about
‘ ne > r
IS.m
H11
II H
i yards
ot
<
loth,
more
•Lr*' .
than
i <
■O miles
it
stretchei
1 in a
If Sir Waiter KaVigh, one uf
those galaxy of notable and bri!
liant men who adorned ami made
.forever immo’tal the reign "f
tpieen Elizabeth, could return to
life, after resting in his grave for
about three hundred years, and see
the immense strides made in the
d WJ-
act '-f
m
u,i t o t a i: t sn
regarded as a
and the pre-', nu.l
was regardi'd as trg
compliment to tlu>
cipient of the gift,
more costly ones ore t
and are rich in ronia
tery, and are very dec.
ucconnf of their avs
growih and eansumjition of the
weed w hich owl s its introduction ' of them hav ing ligu
into England to him, he might well all< l ' n song I he -
doubt the evidence of lr- own sense.- ,l ^ ,r£:re
and could vwll he pardoned if h
llit 1 * n dl v
iTiend.-liip,
f a snulf box
\ rv highest
'1'Uliatl' Te
some of th"
Hi prest.rvet|
-ce and my-
*.v pri/ed <m
lions, some
' in story
has,
'anta exi
,osif
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hich >v
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DARLINGTON PATENT ROLLER FLOUR MILL.
nature and inclination. He is very
popular with the people.
ACKER a Mil l iso.
‘ MfOLINA TOBACCO WAR lol'SI . Ai ki:i \ Miu iso, PkoeV.
lie ir I V the whole cr p is I
ihe home markets
II i, he 11 lie tha' a na
perilv c nisi-isin i,iver.-
i ru .-. t hen It is a tain! v to
th.e farmet’ tein
oulle,
I'
■oral
...... ... _ ff box
to a large extent at lea . [alien into
disuse and no longer occupies a
miu cwu,,. — . promipent position tidier among
came to the conclusion that he had the great, or lowly, bu’ he pipe re
been transport il to som ■ kintl of ' mams and its use is -o ■ iir.mon that
fairy land where everything s.emed 't '^he man who doe- ,m. smoke
/ , , that attracts attention ml no', as
to be drawn on a sea e of mugninmel jn the0 , (1 (| iy8< dev t, l!e , „ :h
Tobacco was cuMivao
ket crop ill colonial it
ami
■ has
beyond the ken of a m re mortal.
Instead of a few sn ail patches of
tolnac.. . yl ivLdf'd in a T.-Wt,. iy
way by the aborigines of
country, he would In hoM tlmu-
sautls, perhaps millions, of acres,
devo'ed to it's culture, imtui nsi-
warehouses for it's storage, fai
tories, coveiing many acres of
ground, tor it’s p'ep ira'ion aid
ape.
■ 1 a- a mar
its in this
Will it
nu
I m bt
I I, w
- i> i ' > - •
, p V other and at the t ime more profita-
li'e crops caused the gradual aban
donment of it’scnltuie. Somewhere
between twenty and twenty-live
years ago Mr. E. M Rogers, of Dar
lington countv, Diis plantation is
now in Florence countv , realizing
tin- fact that the overproduction of
Till; W A ADAMs .v (iiMI'ANY STEM MERY.
manv thousands of men devoting cotton was bringing the price ton
their entire time to its cultivation point when it's culture would be no
manufacture. The mere iv- longer pruli able, began casting
of the stupendous growth of about to tind some other staple a
this inilustrv would till severalgoul crop that could he depended on to | 1U ||-|
■•/.ed volume-, and would rea l yield a fair return for the cost of
it’s production. He began expcri
meriting with tobacco and finding
Ins hn(*:. in a fair wav of realiza
Hon lie commenced planting it on a
larger scale. Lor some years his
expi iiments attracted little atten-
mi.-,fo:tune by niillioiis ,,f tom but as cotton continued to dr
ho do. m what amount.- to dine, our farmers, at least quite a
the same thing, nn igine that tlu-y number of tluin. weie induced to
lind sol»Ce and comfort from its follow the example of Mr. Roger.-
:uid find out from pers mil e.xper
the profitableness of
tn
i li in
and
wo II <1
veal -
ca
i ne
and
cm
s industry would I
■d volume-, and
more like a ronm.ee than a i
loi while unknown to all
lized world three hundred \ , ai
its use is now well nigh uni
versa), and a general fuluie of a
crop would be rcgaidrd as a de
al)'
ople
CIV
agi
l'l
use.
by
In its natural state it w is used
the Indians in lln-ir gri-ai pou
wows or councils,-and many u rr
the efiiiipaets or ireaties th it were
made binding by smoking tie pipe
if | eace. The gallant :-ir Walter,
when he introduced it into the realm
of his august Ljueen, builded better
than he knew, tor his , x am pie was
quickly followed livutlnrs and it
soon ceased to exeiie wonder and
fear, as it did at first, to see smoke
issuing (rum the human mouth )it-t
as it the person, supposed at the
time to he deep in the iny s',erics ot
u nees as to to the pr
it's I'ullure. It may not lu amiss
h re to state that Mr, Rogers is
known as the pioneer in the culture
of tot a, eo in this section, but it is
veil nigh impossible, as things,
have turn d out, to estimate the
great good accomplished by tile en-
u-rphse an i skill of this one man
Ihe tobae.o planters of Virginia
and North Carolina ridiculed the
idea that tobacco, woith the name,
could l,e raised in South Carolina,
but it was not before their mlicu'e
1 changed to conviction and coime
...
(Cl II 'l us
• A S t h.l'
sal vat kmi
must be acconipiished through a
diversity of crops The time was
when cotton held supreme -wiv in
Darlington coun'v. with non. his
right to dispute, but a new
strong aspirant tor tin- thron
appeared, and king e .tton win
s'ill exen ising a great sway ean i
longer claim li) be monaieh ot a
in- sorveyand the farno-rs no
.onger burns all his im , use at the
chime "I one icDl, whose power
„nd lieni licence was more a matlei
ot superstition and lui.igmation on
Uu- | a>t ot tne sorsnq.per limn
iin\thing el-e Some ta'Uii-rs at
least, ean say, t.ie out King, wotion,
is dead. Ion
Tobacco
Hut to go back to the sales of
the past reason and point out the
im nense quantity of tobacco
3.ooo.ooo pounds. 11 pm into
heads it would take several hun
dred *re'ght cars to hold it, and
about ten big locomotives to move
the cars. If it wa re all converted
into smoking tobacco and cquahv
divided it would give ever' man,
woman and child in the l nited
States an ounce bag of it and there
would be enough lett to buy pipe,
for every individual in the country
It would be a novel and interest
ing spect icle to see ail the peep
| in tin imint, y gal h< rt
and a! I .-niuking C e to' at
i the Dir'iugton War. Iioo
the str,ingest th'ng « I it
be the t ict ill it J'ist a lew
igo it I Iji lington bad been
on to furnish a smoke for all our
people, the tobueio would have
had to b- impoi'ied Iron) sonic I'liei
ilace. All thi- sounds -mu
roni.ine'.', but ills i he liter.)
and can be ea-ilv substan
tia'nl by an examination of the
w.ir, house hooks, that is as to the
antity ot tobacco h itidied dm
mg the past season. I hen, too,
t he quail I v was good and s oiiu
the farmers realized very
prices tor their crops
The fact of the matter is that
birlington has gotten to he such a
centre that the l.uildings
o its sale and preparation
tor tile market make quite a se
nient ot themselves, and dining the
season everything in the vicinity
advertises the vicinity of the weed
This is the place where it is chewe I,
smoked, sold, packet! and shipped
and the very atm isphere is tilled
is odor, lleie the planter,
seller, buver and other IoIks mingle
together, the former to cxth.tnge
his tr >p tor money and the two
latter ready to take it from him.
When the sale is over the farmer
gets his check, tin s him to one of
Die banks, gets his money and Lie-
1,aits for home, giving little thought
tn the ab.-tiUse question of coinage,
happy i" the thought that he can
hear the coin, golii and silver, jing
ling in his pocket, and feeling that
th< ugh he may not, like the m "
D, Scripture, have much gooi
lad up for rainy days, he el
R e comfortable th night th
w ill not be cunipL lleil to
t! c acquaintaiiee of tne
w. nt
One very useful less
learned trom the gro
tobacco business in Dr
that is that it takes th
. pi cuhar -pee’e- < t 1111.11'
It i, notiiili; c'-e. be 1 1, J
n Iv modern innovatiei 1 .
y v, ;n s , f er t lu war our } waq
, i. cl almost in inly m, t
t, i Os supp'y o! tl nir.i he r, - I
■ g 11 at t Inq never kn w w h .
weie eating wlmn Die I'■ ■
L oni,. d It might he p
b, a's or corn for aught 'In
kne'v, and while it might not i
ilelecnons b heallli. pi'Ojde, win
t Imv pa -! for wheat, wanted i h
'IV article. All this is n"
it co , tw.iv with and in
sjKmc < f a few years more Da
! ':i v• Tl ar i' ' he surrnotiding coo
\\
In :
i In ,
vv IS
Tl ",rn
w i I oo g ,, iwii'g t In ir ow
l and having it givmi
is a long -I, p m 11
i eet ion and wn I do much
id in iking the farm, r t
•o' and prospt-rous A 'a 1 v
i eLo' in hringiog ;■ ; •,
_ cbbNni'i.- ,,,,
nient cl a toller mill, with id ifn
latest improvi mi nts and where
Hour til for a King lo eat can be
turned mil at the rate i f foilv bar
ids pet day Mr Shores
proprietor, is « past grand mast, r,
a- our masonic liietnls wonhi put
it, M the art of makiuo Ilnur, aie 1
Ins brand on a sack or barrel is an
absolute gua-antt e to h a- te
quality at d purity, for be would as
soon think ot tatmg poor Hour as
of sending it out Horn (its mid A
great many people Hie not aware of
the fact that our home raised wheat
i- sweeter, more nutritious and will
ke, p long' r than that grown in the
Western slates, hut such is never
'hi h-ss i he fad, and un il a farmer
cats tl mr o! ni-, icvn r ii-iog be dot
no' redly kin.w the luxury ot goo '
and wholesome l ie.id, aid what t
-trail.lit lun , enough to go through
Im centre of the earth and leave a
ong stie.inier at each end. Before 1
the invention of the cotton gin it
took good work for one hand to
I ick the seed Irorn one pound in
me rlav. If all tne cotton for our
mill ha t t i he treated in this wav it
would take one day’s work from the
whole p.imlation of the Ended
State-, n.oi, women, and children, I
to pick tiie seed from one year’s |
supply for the mill. As to the num
ber of pi oplc all this cloth would |
rlii'li', thit is a mere matter of
stvb, cu-t m and climate. In the
'-niilh Sea I-I.uinls and other parts I
of the tropics, it wou'd clothe ju-t
i ts.ia iii.i it ui people -one yard to the !
indvidiul being considered an ample
apply, the natives considering,
diems-Ives t irtun ite to hive even i
Dial m n h As to (lie ou-ih-r ot^
in the |uice of cotton, causing
i is to p'unt more ot the fleerv
e. it demanding less attention
tnd work than tobacco, yit up to
this week there Ins been more to
bacco sold on this market than for
the corre-i onding period, last vear.
This certainly shows tint tobacco
is coming from other counties.
Darlington will continue to be the
leading market ir, this section.
It is oh’iged to he si fr..m th- very
nature of things. Ad the buyers
here always hid the highest figure
on a pile of tobacco; that is,
in their judgment, what they
cons'der its highest value.
And it the waichouses disagree with
,hein and believe that it is worth
more, they do some bidding, conse
quentlv rui farmer ever leaves the
town of Darlington defrauded out
of a part of his hard earned labor
All Die business men of the town
are interested in the market, as
who are young men with “hearti
as big as outdoo s,” and who havi
energy in their muscle and business
on their brain, never let a farmer
leave them dissatisfied. Last year
they were so crowded with busines-
that they added fifty feet to their
warehouse and improved and en
larged their stables, and now “man
and beast are comfortable’’ with
them. The employees ol this
warehouse are popular and well-
known; genial, affable and accom
modating, it is a pltasure to have
business dealings with them Their
names are:
Clarence McCall, book-keeper.
H, If. Garner, clerk; Charles H.
Williams, floor manager; Captain
Ellington, auctioneer. The captain
is highly esteemed by those who
know him; gentle as a dove in time
for life golden weed.
. COMM slON.
In conclusion, we have no apol-
! ogy to make fur telling in a con
densed way just a few ot the many
advantages ot this town. I aimers
Miould know them. Lest von for
get, “Watch Darlington * *
Funeral of R. M. Boyd INq.
The funeral service of the late
R. W. Boyd, Ehj, was held at
his residence on Pearl street on
Friday tifiU'n’ooD- lair;, by llev.
C. B‘. Smith pastor of th<
Methodist church, assisted by
Rev C. W. Boyd, now in clia-ge
>f the Episcopal church at
Cheraw.
During the service a selected
choir, consisting of Mrs. C. \\ .
Milling Soprano; Miss Liz/.ie
Scarborough alto; Mr. Frank
Pegues Tenor, and Mi . ;' B.
Edwards basso sang “Rock of
Ages”, the rendering of which
added much to the solemnity of
the service. The coflin was
oorne by the followintr named
gentlemen who acted as active
pall bearers: Geo. E Da r gan,
Robert Macfarlan, ( 1! Ed
wards, C. W. Hewitt, W E.
Dargan, an 1 Bright Williamson.
Immediately following thecollin
came honorary pall bearers W.
('. Coker, J. G. McCall, and H.
L. Charles. The procession
went immediately to the cemet
ery of the Methodist church
where the interment was to be
made. Here the rest of the ser
vice for the dead w as read by
Rev. C. B Smith, and R*v. C.
[ W. Boyd, and just before the
| oenediction the same choir as
sisted by Mr. R E James sang
'wo verses of “Rock of Ages.”
There was something particu ar
ly sweet in their rendering of
the old familiar hymn.whuh
was given a new beauty by
them. There were many floral
offerings from friends, and with
| these the grave was covered.
CASTOR IA
Fat Infants and Children.
Tbe kind You Hato
it would "a ,i
,.'ti Mate was made only mr li
oivn sex, for the quantity of cloth
required tor the many mysterious
articles of feminine apparel is some
thing beyoid the computation *
moitil man; especia'ly when
happens to be like St. Michael
the poem, who was ‘'unwilling
nave it appear that even a
ad i nten d his h> ad pcr'adiin
'emiiiinc g -ar ” An\how, it
ol tun,ite that we bale bo
eotton mil!-, tor the deni
tig leans would be somet
tearful to i omtemplate
The officers of the
E Lucas, I’resident; F.
SupiT'inU mlent; E M.
■si Cretan , (i. Is.
THE DARGAN TOBACCO WAREHOUSE.
the Black Art, had a ire concealed Don was followed by consternation,
somewhere in his anatomy, and for they quickly realized that their classes and callings *
amid, if he eo desire, tour out , long supri-maiy in the growing of ( business interests of .
. hne tobacco was seriously mipenled I iht* section surrouiuim
spat ks as well as .-moke. and would in all probability pass'out ihe intelligent and
One of the earliest ways in x. bu li away, never to be regained. farmer to make the t
(he new and wondeiful ween y..i- As a matter of course the culture ""fk °I (he business
ii - cd was in Die form of snulT, ami of tobacco necessitated the estab-
the Ring on his throne, the nobles lishmenl of warehouses for its sale,
and peasants all soon became ad , unless our people intended allowing
diettd to its use, and lhe making el other markets to get the credit rd
snuff boxes of iireciuus un lals ami | producing the fine quality ot the
richly studded with diamond gems; weed produced in this State,
was a recognized art among the Thanks to the enterprhe of some of
jewelers ot that time. To invite i her biisine-s men Darlington can
town goes for naught,
the residents «'f the to
facilities for the handli
of the crop the farme
hopelessly Inindicappe'
efforts to diversify the
Il is a long jiimp^
wheat, but then w'