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w THE 2D S. C. REGIMENT. Well Pleased with Cnba ?in uooc Health, but Some of the Boyi Want to Return Home. Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba. To give a correct description of the part o the Island of Cuba is utterly impossible foi me to do. Capt. Gonzales wrote a very inter eating letter to the State sometime ago. Tbe 2d S. C. Regiment was the last of tb< 7th army corps to leave Savannah for Cnba Tbe regiment embarked on tbe trauspor Roumalnion on the 3d January, 1899. W< sailed into tbe barbor of Havana, January 6tb. Most of the men suffered some trom sea ' ' ? flnu"~ 4a Ano t Kot mill norot sickdcbs. x uc yujofto 10 vuo .. ... ?vv be forgotten. It was tbe first time that mos of tbe men bad been out ut sea, and then ii brought the men Into closer contact with on< another, thereby mak'ng many friends thai probably would never have been made. As we sailed past Morro Castle Frldas morning, a little after sun rice, one could not help but admire the beauty of the city. Oc our left was the guns of Morro frowning down on us like American bull dogs. On out right was the city in all Its splendor and 1e all its dirt. At first sight and thought on? could not help but feel that Uncle Sam did right in not trying to take the city by force Bat on second thought as we sailed past tb? wreck of the Maine, nothing would seem toe great to avenge all those precious lives lost in the destruction of that valuable ship. W( were cheered on both sides of the harboi while the band played the "Star Spangle Banner." The transport Mobile was at the dock witfc tbe 4th and 9th Illinois Regiments on board ', The Qrst batalllon marched out to camp thai afternoon. The second and third batailioni marched out Satnrday morning. Wben the batalllons reacnea camp me ieau* dhu uui been hauled oat, so oar first night on Cuban soil was very much like the last night thai thelstS. C. boys bad at Cblckamauga. Oui first camp was not a very desirable one, and only a few days had passed before Col. Jonef had us camped on a high hill overlooking the surrounding country. Our present camp If bounded on one side by the ocean, on one side by Havana city, and on the other twe sides by high mountains at some distance. * Tbe natives gave the soldiers a royal wel come and have been very friendly towards us ever since. Tbe inhabitants are of all nationaltles. Tbe lower classes dress very shabbily. Tbe cblldren, up to about nine years of age, wear nc clothing at all, and the old ones clothing is madeot very tnln and inferior kind ol cot' ton goods. Tbe higher class, so to speak, weai very fine clothing and are very neat and tidy In their dress. The women are very pretty, having Jel black hair and eyee with pearly white teeth They wear neither hats or bonnets, which J imagine would lessen tbe expense a great deal. . The surrounding country is full of forts, The forts are Impassible to infantry or cavalry. Havana is said by rr.any to be tbe strongest fortified fort both by land and water in the new world. The scenery is just besutiful. Everything Is green which rerrlnjs one very much ol spring in the S'a?eiu Bathing facilities are good?serf-bathing bel3g the main kind. The streams are cleai end deep. The climate is very much like August and September, the days hot and clear, the nlghtf cool wltb heavy dews. The country at pres -ent Is In a dilapidated condition as every thing of value was destroyed by the Span* lards. Snakes seem to be plentiful and of a vers large size. Birds and insects of all kinds Flowers are In abundance and of all kinds Hot house flowers in the States grow wild over here In the yards and on the bankB o: the streams. Tho principle farm products are tobacco, cane, potatoes and some corn. Some of the corn is now In silks, tbe tobacoo over knee high, the cane is now being cut aDd hauled to the mills for use In tbe production ol oncrop Tho trcpa nr? of a tronleal nature, be leg mostly cocoanut palms. The canes on the bank of tbe streams grow to enormous size. Tbe l&rgest tbat I bave seen cut waf six inobes In diameter and proportionally high. Tbe soli le either red or black and dlsagreebly sticky In wet weather. ' REGIMENTAL DOTES. The Y. M. C. A. has been raised at last. Tbe boys have a nice place to write with stationeary furnished. Tbe chaplain has preached nearly every night. Tbe canteen Is patronized as well as could be expected considering everything. The bakery is In good shape aod doing good work. Private Douglass Young, of Darlington, Is chief baker. The regiment Is In better bealth than it has ever been. The main sickness or trouble Is dne to vaccination. i About fifty of tbe division hospital nurses have recently been discharged. Work is plentilul. Wages good, being from 82 to S4 per day. A system of water piping is now being laid which will be very convenient, as all tbe water that is nsed has to be bauled for some dis tance, and then filled before It Is ot for use. Tbe rations are better than sometime ago, but tbere Is still some room for improvement. Tbe beef bas o^ly been condemned as unfit for nse one time. Tbe company cooks cook tbe beei as soon at it is issued, and tbe ice used to put in tbe d:rinking water. Tbe company kitchens, commissaries and mesafooms have been completed. No more discharges will be granted. 'v. CO. H DOTS. Private J. P. Connelly who was left in tbe States will be dropped from the company roll as i deserter. What an awful record. Corporal B. S. Jones, of Bamberg, bas been discharged by order from the war Department through the efforts of his Congressman. Private Stoll C. James bas been discharged from the service from Josiah Slmpkln's hospital near Fortress Monroe, Va? by order ol tbe Secretary of War. Corporal Robt. 8. Moore has been appointed sergeant vlca J. F. Barnes, discharged in Savannah, Oa. Private Lindsay M. Pratt appointod corporal vice Moore, promoted. Private John W. Hughes appointed corporal vice Jones, discharged. All the hard labor is done by the Cuban laborers. Sergeant A. C. Johnson has recently parchased a No. 2 Faloon Kodak. He and Sergeant Cbeatbam are getting some very interesting and pretty plotures of the surrounding country. Sergeant J. N. King is now clerk of summary court. Private David G. Felden Is now acting orderly for MaJ. Eaves. Lieut Henry S. Dowllng was notified ol resignation by the War Department, FebruJiaJ. Wagner and Dr. Poore are investing in live stock. Major has a small pony and Doctor a email donkey. Cuban soldiers are becoming plentiful In tbe regiment. Company I is doing provost duty in Q,ue' mados. Brig.-Gen. Douglass reviewed his brigade sometime ago. Maj.-Gen. Lee reviewed the troops under his command last Tuesday. The companies are doing very little drilling these days. J. R. Cochran bas been resting for the p&st week with tbe mumps. Will Perrln and Bud Sign have work at $2.50-per day. Richard Romans is regimental blacksmith at S60 per month and board. Major Eaves and Capt, McCoughran have their wives with tbem. Cigars are very cheap. Most of the boys are sending cigars back to their home folks. Last report. The 2d S. C. and 6th Missouri will go to the Philiplnes soon. Jas. C. Cheatham. 1st Sergt. Co. H, 2d S. C. V. Locals of J. Alleu Smith, Jr. A fresh lot of Grandeur Flour on hand and at reasonable prices. A barrel new crop of Molasses. Cotton Seed Meal, delivered at SI.10 a sack Don't forget our Stoves wben needing one. Besides Stoves we have Hollow Ware and Tiu Ware. A'lot of Bagglog and Ties cheap. A I1 resh lot Oat r lakes, 10c and 25c. See our Men's Dress Shoe, 81.00. Don't fail to get prices on Flour. Come down' to "Mike's" new quarters. The books and papers on band are: Tbe Colum bla State, The Charleston News and Courier New York' World, Sunday and dally; New York Journal, Sunday and dally ; Democrat Magazine fashion; Delineator, Magazine fashion , Designer, Magazine fashion ; Harpei Bazaar, Magazine fashion. McClures wide wide world over land and Strand; Metropoil tan, Cosmopolitlan, Munsey, Recreation, Cen tury Magazine, Frank Leslie, Purltau. Cur ' rant Literature, Review of Reviews, Stand ards Big Magazine, Black Cat and man; others. I also take subscriptions for tbes( and will make tbe terms to suit you. A. S. J. Cassidy. Law Briefs at 60 Cents a Page?Good Work Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Mlnulei cheaper than at any other house. Cataloguei J U tuc UCfib 11 JUU UtlVC I^UUUUK tw uu It will be to your Interest to write to thePres! and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. tf 61 pair ladies and misses shoes, numbers to Former price S .50 to 82.00. Youi choice on bargain counter for 50 cents. Had don's. til pair ladies and misses sboes, numbers : to 3 1-2. Former price 51.50 to 82. Yonr cboicf on bargain counter for 60c, at Haddon's. 52 Inch black cbevoit, the popular cloth foi ladles winter suite?75o to 81.25 per yard fit Haddon'a. I ft. - CORPORATIONS and FARMERS. I A Practical Argument for I.lheral Treatment of Capital. T*? TT tlfllHnm A Monfnrlrlo ov HJnrpr. I> V null, n llllaui n. luavuviniv, v> nor of West Virginia. In the development of every country there comes a parting of the ways when it must determine for itself whether it will cling to conditions which no longer fit the time, and thus stagnate, or whether it will vigorously grasp the changed condition of development and thus become rich and great. This condition today stares the South in the face. Broadly stated, this is the proposition. The South, as i a purely agricultural country producing certaiu staples, has permanently ' overstocked the market, and she must divert her industries iuto other fields. Is this a true statement, aud if so shall sbe make the change, and in what direction ? The farmer is not in a good way in the South. The totals of his labor, taken as a whole, are enormous, but the farmer is not the gainer and the South does not profit by her enormous yields as she should. She is another example of the proposition that a country cannot become rich and strong through agriculture alone. The loom, the reaper and th* anvil must go together. Severed, they but furnish the raw material for other aud more favored communities. Transportation, the manufactory and the farm, under wise and liberai laws, can make the South an industrial empij^ and the Southern farmer a mighty power in the world's affairs. NO COUNTY CAN BECOMg GREAT THROUGH AGRICULTURE ALONE. When DeWitt .Gffnton advocated the building of the Erie canal some one asked, "From whence will come . the water ro mi tne great aucn ' "Ah," exclaimed one of tbe people, " here will be no trouble about the ' water. The tears of the people will I ail it." ^ / "We would as lieve be shot from a Concreve rocket as trust ourselves to : the mercy of such a contrivance," was | the reply of an august official of the London Board of Trade to Stevenson's pleading for the use of the locor motive. In tbe former place the great canal has made New York the Em pire State of diversified industry, and in tbe latter tbe railroad has been al, most as potent as the sails of the ships in settling England's industrial su premacy. I repeat it most earnestly, that no country can become great and happy through agriculture alone. Mere production of raw material does i not pay. r WHERE OUR COTTON IS WOVEN. ? Our cotton is woven into the rich 1 fabrics of use under the far-off skies of I England and New England ; our irou is made into all the forms of industry | far away from the sunny skies of the i South; our timber goes to the great lakes and comes back to us enbauceti in value. In the first place, we have the cotton-pickers' wages and the mortagage on the farm ; in the second i place, we have the rude pay of the $1.25 a day for the digging of tbe iron out of our mountains, and in the third place, we are rewarded with the magnificent recompense of the woodchopper's wages. I repeat it agaiu, we cannot live under such conditions. | In ether words, tbe Southern producer must change tbe mere raising of tbe staples and seek other products for his farm. He cannot do this as things stand with him today. However, with a long haul and no close home market, he cannot do otherwise than raise the staples of heavy farming. OTHER AVENUES FOR LABOR MUST BE OPENED. Looking at tbis question from a higher plane than mere improvement of physical condition and change in existing circumstances, the demand arises from another standpoint. The introduction of machinery in agricultural products is steadily reducing the demand for purely agricultural labor. Unless some other avenue is open the agricultural labor drifts to the city and accepts any class of labor. From 1880 to 1890 the city population increased over 60 per cent, whilst the country population increased only 14 per cent. We can, with a small increase of farming, double the amount of agricultural production, but there would be no paying sale for the product. As.a matter of fact, purely farming products will decrease in value. Therefore, something must be done to prevent the comparatively rapid decrease of tnose on me iarm. WE MUST NOT LIE AT THE FEET OE KINO COTTON. "When every farmer in the South shall eat bread from his own fields and meat from his own pastures, and disturbed by no creditor and enslaved by no debt, ?hall sit amidst his'teeming gardens and orchards and vineyards and dairy and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own wisdom, and growing them in Independence.making cotton bis clean surplus, and selling it : in his own time and in his chosen market, and not at a master's bidding? irettiuer his rtav in rash anrf nnt, in a receipted mortgage that discharges his debts butdoe9 not restore his freedomthen shall be the breaking of the fullness of our day. Great is King Cotton. But to lie at his feet while the usurer 1 and grain-raiser bind us in subjection is to invite the contempt of man and the reproach of God. But to stand up before him amid the crops and smokehouses, wrest from him the magna cbarta of our independence, and to establish in his name an ample and diversitied agriculture that shall honor him while it enriches us, this is to carry us as far in the way of happiness and indeDendence as th? farmpr work ing in tne fullest wisdom and in the j richest field, can cafty any people." ENTHRONE RAILROADS AND MVNUFACTURV, AND BECOME GREAT. I think it needs no argument, but simply the re-expression of the statement that the glory of the Southern farmer is to come through a change of \ methods looking to the diversification , of his product. How *hall we do this? ' There is one way, and that is, enlarge ; our horizon, liberalize our laws, turn r our faces to the East, welcome Eastern s and Northern capital, establish by the I side of the waterfall and in the midst . of our cotton fields, enthrone on our iron mines and locate amidnt our I magnificent forests the railroad and mauufactory. This can be done by the South ridding herself of much of . her archaic legislation and making I the laws which will give capital the 5 easiest mode of application to us and s the most absolute protection when located. The individual is blotted out in the industrial progression. i the means for accomplishing [ great results. j The corporation is the medium of a accomplishing these great re-ults. I mean by the corporations of the East r the railroads and the thousand mon, ey-making manufactories which have made the* East so potent in all. the t affairs of thi9 country. The time lias come, and I speak words of exceeding plainness, when the farmer and business man of the South must rid themselves of the idea that the best means of developing the South is to enact laws limiting the powers of corpora tiona. With infinite pleasure 1 say there has never been any vigorous and set opposition to corporations in the South. I use the word corporation, as it is the recognized mode for aggregated capital for any large affair. The agrarianism which made an industrial mockery of the rich plains of Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas has never had a place here in the South, but instead we have had the intense conservatism of a provincial people. I am a Southern mau, and was raised on the plantation, and have imbibed all of the conservative instincts of the Southern iarmer. GREAT VALUE OF RAILROADS AND MANUFACTURES. Yet I bellve that this nolicy will be a great step in the development of the Southern farmer. It will solve the question of the small price of cotton. Nothing else will. You will need no convention to arrange prices on that staple when farmers will find it profitable to raise other crops. The proofs will be furnished anywhere in a progressive neighbor hood. In my own State of West Virginia IJk&ve seen it on every hand, aptTVnen I speak of the advantage-^f bringing inioflfir'TPktet. the ecFporations of the Ea*t, I mean both transportation and manufacturing corporation. Both are important. "The first thing to be paid on land is transportation. When that is so great as to eat up the whole proceeds, the land will remain uncultivated. Diminish the cost of transportation so as to leave sufficient to pay the wages of laborers, and it will be cultivated, but will pay no rent. Diminish it further so as to leave a surplus over and above the reward of the laborer, and the land will acquire value. Diminish it still further by removing altogether the necessity for transportation, making a market on the land for all products of the land, to enable the farmer to return to it readlily all the refuse of its products, and it will acquire the highest value of which land is capable." Transportation takes the land to the market and 1 !i -2 -V- X I...UU A mattes lb nuu auu vaiuauie. raiuuu a practical illustration. It shows the dreadful usury and the crushing burden entailed by cost of transportation. HEAVY COST OF TRANSPORTATION BY WAGONS. 1 know a rich county where they haul cotton fifty miles for seventy-five cents per hundred pounds, or one and one-half cents per mile. The cost of wagon hauling is practically $3'per bale. The rate of transportation for 500 miles is about forty-nine cents per hundred pounds on the railroad, or nearly twenty-iix cents less than the haul of the fifty miles. I have taken an old illustralion because it is pertinent. Then the county produces 32,000 bales of cotton. The whole of this is hauled fifty miles, and we have 13, 06.400pounds. Place thisat sixty cents per hundred pounds, which is lower than theaveraoreand we have$78,638.40, the entire Cost of the haulage. This is a county actually under observation, and is an actual charge upon the farmers of that section. Taking into consideration that the import haulage into the county is of the same value, it makes practically $150,000 of haulage to the county. This is a low estimate. RAILROADS SAVE MORE TO THE FARMER THAN TO ANYTHING ELSE. C*n people lfve while this is being done? Will the value of land increase? Nay, verily! The railway haulage on this amount of cotton would be $5000, making a practical saving in favor of the railroad of $145,000 per year. This last sum would represent the interest for one year on about two and one-half million dollars, which would be the additional value of the cotton lands to the county by railroad transportation. With a total acreage in the county of about 540,000 the saving in the railroad transportation would add about $2,500,000, or the saving of nearly 100 percent. This is an actual condition. I wish to inquire what would be the value of a railroad to any farmer in i that county ? I beg pardon for this illustration, but make it in order to call attention to the fact that in the State in which this occurs you can only build a railroad by going to the legislature and lobbying through it a railroad bill. THE WAY THE COUNTRY MAY BE BUILT UP. |. Every observant man has seen the effect upon the farmer of the bringing of the railroad into the country. Firnt the railroad, next the manufactory, then a small town, a home market, the establishment of truck gardens, sn5all fruits,* vegetables of every kind, a mill, pood schools, cheap stores. money coming in all the year round instead of only a small sum coming in once a year when the crop is sold, and the most of that sum being taken to pay the cotton agent. VALUE OF HOME MARKET. I take it that it needs no argument to show that the ultimate end of the Southern farmer should be the establishment of a home market which will bring the diversification of his products. This primarily can only be brought about by the building of railroads. The manufactory soon follows I tie railroad. RAILROADS GIVE US THE MARKETS OF TIIE WORLD. In a late number of the Southen* Farm Magazine I was struck with a very able article on Southern truck farming by Colonel Killebrew. On reading the article closely I found that the great truck business at Norfolk was coincident with the railroad and ship lines; that tbe great vegetable product of Western Tennessee came with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and, in fine, the splendid agricultural development of the middle Wouth was simply the result of the ????5 1 *s\ .1.1 A o o mnftuf r\ F font on on. aIysi-? of the article showed that it was but a masterly statemeut of what had been the splendid effect of the railroad upon the Southern farmer. RAILROAD BUILDING SHOULD JJK ENCOURAGED. Such being the case, let the Southern farmer exert his great power aud wipe out the old-fashioned aud restrictive legislation which diverts the railroad from his fertile valley, rich fields and deep orebeds. Allow capital the largest liberality consistent with safety, aud a great step will have been taken in the development of this idea. LU iiiicicoi; Hi iuc building of a railroad in one of our States I was met with ihe drastic railroad and corporation commission, which cared little for the farmer, but much for the hall-dozen politicians needing places. Let us get the rail road first. Then if they oppress us we can easily curb them. I will not amplify trite illustrations. THE WAY TO KEEP OCB BOYS AT ?WtTCV MA^UTVPC U"DnC JlUiUCi DUOi 4 I?vw I PEROUS AND HAPPY PEOPLE. In my State I had not very long ago and apt illustration of my idea. In a county where ordinarily tbe heavier crops scarely afforded a living there was established a large concern which employed 400 men. A most observant farmer showed me that the manufactory had absolutely changed the whole of the agricultural conditions. The boys, instead of going West, were operators in the manufactory, skilled laborers within four years, living at home. A town had arisen. Every class of small farming gave the most splendid results. It took at least $100 each a year in farm products to feed tbe operators. This was $40,000 in farm products, needed. I was struck with the variety of products raised? eggs, beans, peas, fruits vegetable, melons, small fruits and many other articles found th^re a ready sale and a splendid market. Of course, this is but a tithe of the money spent it} l&a. one industry. One farmer n3a(Je$i800 clean last year froig_Ju?~nfelon crops, more thau he^&Srmade in all his life as a whje&fc-gfud com producer. Anoth-Sf-'OSfe informed me that they had quit raising wheat and corn. He Lad turned his attention to poultry and truck. He said last year he sold 1800 chickens and $1100 worth of truck. He had bought some, adjoining land at four times the price it was before the factory came, and would clear next year at least 18000. QUICK TRANSPORTATION NECESSARY.. The salvation of small farming is quick transportation. Now is the time of Southern salvation. The railroad transportation is not following the upper and northern course, but it is cutting across the South to the Gulf States. We can grasp our opportunities in the way of railroads ana manufactory construction as. we have never before. It is said that the manufactories bring the labor with them. That is true primarily, but I know to-day of one cotton manufactory where, out of the 150 employes, 125 are from the neighborhood, and the foreman who has charge of all the machinery is a yOung man who was a farmer boy ten years ago. These illustrations are trite, but they are true and come under the view of every obBervirg pArson. THE WAY A MARVELOU*. ' VNOE WAS WROUGHT, The general trend* of this discussion is well illustrated ,by New England. Whilst taking my vacation in New Hampshire this summer I investigated as carefully as possible in this section this economic question. As a politician I bad discussed the New England abandoned farm question, and whilst there I determined to nee for myself the actual condition of the New England farm. I found a great deal of New Hampshire utterly unfit for agriculture. A great part of it would produce nothing, even if a manufactory was placed on e^erv acre, but I ascertained that in the tillable section of New England the manufactnru. nrgii hnvinc ifn nntpnt, influence. By reason of freer Western land, va?t changes in the economics of transportation, greater fertility of - oil, there was produced in New England a tremendous farm depresaure. Great numbers of farmers who bad not been able to understand the change which was taking place abandoned the East and went West. They did not grasp the situation and thought if they could not profitably raise the old cereals in competition with the-West that there was no life for the New Englaud farmer. This change was assisted by the tremendous increase of the manufactories, which took many people away from the farm. But in the last fifteen years a maivelous change has taken place in the agricultural districts of New England. They have found out that they cannot compete with the West in the growing of the ?tiAM In fV*o Koo f UCO ViCl KiaiLJS, 111 bUC AUIOilJK |V71 vtvi, hogs and sheep, and wiseley they have gone to new fields of agriculture. The teeming manufacturing townsdemand American poultry, eggs, butter, fruit, vegetables aud the thousand small fruits which can be profitably grown adjacent to a great population. What is the result? I read from the exact figures. In I860 the be^f product of Massachusetts was $8,188,564 ; in 1885, $718,932, a loss of over $7,000,000. CHANGED CONDITIONS BROUGHT PROSPERITY EO THE FARMS. These figures seem to betoken a great destruction of the agricultual interest of Massachusetts, and an argument against my propositiou. Such, however, is not the case. As 1 have said before, they found that the heavy farming would not do. and they turned their attention to the lighter branch of this industry, and in order to make up for the loss of the beef industry, and supply the immense demand of the manufacturing population, the Massachusetts farmer, among other things, turned to making milk. In 1865 the value of the milk product was $1,956,187 ; in 1885 it was $10,312,762, a gain of $8,356,575, making up the loss of the beef account and having $1,000,000 to spare. Last year the milk account ran to upwards of $15,000,000, or $7,000,000 more thau her beef came to in 1865. STRAWBERRIES AND CRANBETRRIES. In the earlier days of the manufactory in the East, as is well known, the people were frugal, lived close and raised the heavier grains entirely, giving comparatively little attention to the vegetable products. Last year the vegetable product of Massachusetts, the entire creation of the manufactory, amounted to more than $16,000,000. Strawberries and cranberries amounted to nearly $2,000,000. WHY THERE ARK NO ABANDONED FARMS IN NEW ENGLAND. I would trespass upon my valuable space did I continue this statement to further show that New England, the seat of the manufactory, is making money out of the small farming to a greater extent than she ever did in the olden days. The abandoned farm in five years will be a thing of the past :" v~ ^"-I"fhomnnn. iu r>ew rjii^iauu. iiuuuuiiuvnoM. factory the rocky farms of that section could not exist, ami there is no possible comparison between her thin soil and hard climate and the soft climate and rich soil of the South. WHERE YOU A JUS NEVER OUT OF THE WHIR OF THE WHEKIA I will be pardoned for another illustration. In all of this broad country where would you think would be the highest acreage value of farm products of improved land? It is found In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey, three Stateo where you are never out of sound of the whir of the wtieels. and where the brightest sky is darkened by the black incense! from the manufacturer's chimney.1 Where do we find the lowest value of, the farm products per acre of improved land In this country ? In South i Dakota", Kansas and Nebraska, purely agricultural States. Again, tbe highest value in dollars of the farm- products per acre of cultivated land h in the States ef Massachusetts, Rhode r n Mil r^ATinonfinnf "NXa fir \'nr xsiaiiu auu vuuucvuvuv, *1 w? * v ?, and New Jersey, and Easern Pensylvanla, the respective seats of the highest type of manufacturing towns and cities. FRUITS. I w ill call your attention to another virtal and germane proposition to our discussion. It is this?that the only other region competing with the above six States in value in dollars of the farm products per acre of cultivated land is the Gulf section, which produces fruits for the market. I would be trespassing upon Jhe patience of mv reader were I to further amplify a subject which is plain to the point of demonstration. DIVERSIFICATION. If such is the case, then our true source of prosperity is the diversification of our crops and Uje locati^j>^ railroads us; The qug^ft*rtnen arises, How can we ?liPfi?eil in this economic progression 1 By earnest individual effort much will be accomplished . but in great enterprises similar to the ones we have discussed individual enterprise is of small moment. The first thing that the South will have to realize is that the old ideas muse no. I speak plainly, because I love the South. The farmer must go into the legislatures untramraeled with tbe old narrow ideas. He can control the legislature of every Southern State. He must open his eyes to the fact that he is the virtual king of Southern politics: that he holds obsoIutely within his band the law-making of ever/State in the Soutblfrom West Virginia to Florida, and he must be tbe one who will mark out the line o! change broad and clear. He has al ready accomplished much. I bow my bead to bis vast endeavor since tbe war, but much has yet to be done NO FEAR OF CORPORATIONS?THEY ARE A COUNTRY'S SALVATION. Let him go into tbe legislatures of the South and do away with the old bugbear of fear of corporations and corporate power which haB been at all times the fear of tbe farmer. Tbe fact musl be looked at that the only way to get these industries into the South is by broad, liberal, open-banded and farreaching legislation. Let him advertise to the world that the South will offer tbe most liberal laws for tbe location of railroads or corporations, I do not mean that the farmer should bow bis neck and shackle his hands at the behest of the corporation, but ] mean to say that the best and quicker way of inviting railroads and incorpo rated capital to the South is by allowing the most absolute liberality to corportion* and of providing absolute ti nancial safety in order thai these great works may be carriec on ' mccesyfully. The statute! of the South are filled with all sorts of crude legislation, binding up corporations of every kind with all Horts of restrictions/ This frightens as well as ba'mpers capital. Among others, "no municipality shall lend iif credit or its aid to any corporation b\ non-taxation or otherwise," "making corporators liable as members of part' nernhipH,!' ^providing that suit ma> be brought against Incorporators whc were stockholders at the time of the dissolution of theincorporation," "thai they shall not exist longer than tec years," "providing that there shall b( no limit to the amount of damages a justite may find," "one-half of the stock must be paid up in money," "not allowing the corporation to buy or >-ell land," "limiting its maximum to $1,' 000,000," "that many corporations can only be created by special act of the legislature." These narrow provisions are some that occur to me at this time. We can never become a great manufacturing section so long as wehampei the legitimate operations of capital and advertise to the manufacturing world that our laws will impede them in their work. . GREAT INJURY RESULTS FROM ILLIBERAL LAWS. I will be pardoned for an example. I was interested with a large number of people from the North, who had purchased a great property in one ol the Southern Slates aud who proposed to build a railroad which would cost two and one-half million dollars. The money was subscribed and arrangements were completed. They found out that the only way to build the railroad was to go to the legislature of the State, then in its last days, and Jobby throueh a bill crivinv them authority to build the railroad. They attempted it, and one of the powerful men in the legislature was interested in another enterprise nearby, and he defeated this matter, and one of the most magnificent sections of the South today lies silent, because of illiberal laws. I speak in all sincerity, and may speak an unpalatable truth, when I say that one cf the chief oppositions to our success as a great manufacturing and diversified farming section is that without intending it our laws have been constituted in the fear rather than the love of corporate enterprises. Let us remove this barrier by liberal legislation and invite the railroads and manufactories to our midst. It will not come except by incorporated capital. RAILROADS THE FARMER'S BEST FRIEND. Mere natural advantages will not suffice. With the liberalizing of our laws will come capital, manufacturers and railroads; with the railroad and manufacturer will come the fruition of the hopes of the Southern farmer. Under our soft skies he will see around him the waving of the corn, the nod ding heads of the cotton boll, mingieu with the orchard to gladden and delight the small farm. The soot from the manufactories will fall on the green land, and the whirl of the wheels will gladden and delight every valley. The rush of the locomotive will bring to us the civilizing influence of other lauds, and amidst his perennial crops the Southern farmer will dwell in happiness which is denied any other tiller of the soil. J. K. Glenn will always give the best bargains In corn, oats, bHron, lard, molasses, sugar and coiree. Don't forget to visit Glenn's store on Trinity street lu (rout of McCants hotel. f?ii?nra nnrt ftctvrpf.fes all rrrades. at Harri son & Game's. CHARLIE HONG CHINESE MACHINE LAUNDRY. First class work guaranteed. Washing done by band. Ironing done by machinery, with or without gloss. Try me once and you will try roe again. CHARLIE HONG. 1 Nov. 30,1898, tt 1 ????? WM. H. PARKER. WM. P. GREENE PARKER & GREENE, Atioraeis aad GoQBsello? atLaw. Office on LAW RANGE. ABBEVILLE - SOUTH CAROLINA. May 4. 1898. tf For Fresh D] Prices ai Presc rr 1 GO TO... ?. /jLJ Night Calls An L uci \ is a good th Dame Fortune v them good. , Better get your are good. > The right kind ar wholesome. No "luck" in the J determination to s? that you get whal t L.T.& Flour, v I Bacon, . . Kl_ A Molaeses, 4c. MO.-4, JOHN | t "Si % V w*ZjIl?, mL 1 ! 1 mWf ^^B^^jLg852BBj3S|9^ ; Undertaker i ; DEA 'Coffins, Caskets s With all the appliances for emba | experience in this line ensures satisfa The Acme T ; ' 82 SIMPLE IN CON8TRUCTI0N. DURABLE. t f'}rz& PRACTICAL. MfikJI T~^ ; ANY 12 YEAR OLD BOY CAN OPER' NEVER GETS OUT <y 'iff OF FIX. . -<J Reliable Agents Wanted to Sell Farmers Terracing Leve Manufactured by tbe inventor and sold at t expecting our profit out of the volume of bus ment. Tbe first man In a community cutttn order will bave one Acme Level shipped to camp, and will be assigned territory as agent day easy, and bave a picnic traveling tbrous Be quick and gel In tbe first order and esti bard up when llie grasp of fortune Is in easy ' ACME TERRAC P. 0. Box No. Notice to 1 Returns of Personal Property M Before the 20th of Februs for Neglect. * In order to accommodate County in the matter of making their be at: Due West?Tuesday and Weduesda, Donalds?Thursday and Friday, Jai Lowndesville?Tuesday and Wednei Calhoun Falls?Thursday and Frida Mt. Carcuel?Monday and Tuesday, Willington?Wednesday, January 2 Bordeaux?Thursday, January 26th, McCormick?Friday and Saturday, Long Cane?at residence of A. F. C Antreville?at McAdams store, fron Bryant's Cross Roads?From Januai Abbeville?From January 1st to Fel Rrmembkb that parties having cred are liable to prosecutiou, by the Audit When parties wish correcciens mat fore returned by them, they must pr deputy. Don't send returns by mail, except pointmente of the Auditor, or to con where parties reside outside the Count, Ilemember that in swearing to you returned your property at its market the Board of Assessors can approve. ] their employees are returned. W W T3vn, I vv . u . JLJJLCU i IE. P. HLLIAED, T AILOR, .',' HAS moved, and oocnplea the room i up- V stairs in Knot's Hal), and la now pra- - v, pared to do all kinds of repairing and *^ean* ' In? of gentlemen' clothe* on short not)} a. Samples of suits always on hand. Chi .rtee ' reasonable rugs, Low I i/1 A nmiYQfjp. I i ?-* V*i AAVV Vk* WW. I .... Tiption "Work j ' * J*':~ iswered Promptly. 9 ing, but it can't be depended upon. 1| '>V von't buy your Groceries-or make 1 provisions where you know they e here?the kind that are good and way we do our business. ' Just the y4^ ill you what you want and to see jlgS t you buy. r 1 T. M. Miller. , Hotel Block and Fa tory Hili. 1*7* Qtfl-"NT and Embalmer. LER IN ma Metallics cases, liming. Thirty-three years of bueinen ction and guarantees the beet results. erracing Level. 1.30. rf I! {A* ^PRICE TO SUIT THE I HARD times. IN BEACH OF EV. EBY FARMfeR. k:?X-VV-^ C WILL PAY FOR IT- ' ,/ 1V SELF IN ONE DAT /AX BY ,I)OINO YODB' .-'v 0 WN TERRACING - r.\,4 - ' *? ; : . the Cheapest, Best, Most Accurate '' :1 Ever Put on the Harket. i trifling cost. We place this Level on the market iloesB done. Several hundred now ready for ship- _ g out lb Is advertisement and Mndtog S2.60 wltb bis nearest railroad station, freight prepaid for upon Application. Live men can makefe.OO per ' :b tbe country. ibJlsh yourself In a good paying job. Don't be reacb. Address all orders to INQ- LEVEL , CO., 6, Hodges, S. C. fax-Pavers. u ? . . I' ' 1 . .Jifj [ust be Made at its Market Value, \ try, 1899-Fifty per cent. Penalty THE TAXPAYERS IN ABBEILLE return tax for the fiscal year 1899,1 wll y, January 10th and 11th. luary 12th and 13th. > V sday, January 17th and 18th. ly, January 19th and 20th. January 23rd and 24th. v I 5th. January 27th and 28th. alvert from January 1st to February 20th l January 1st to February 20th. ry 1st to February 20th. ** >> )ruary 20th. its and not making a fair return of s ame, or and Couuty Board. le in the number of acres of land heretoesent their plats to the Auditor or hia where parties are unable to meet the aple to Abbeville beforfl Fohrnorw o*uu y. ir return you take an oath that you have value. We waut a fair return, such Employers are requested to see to it that iley, Auditor. y. 1