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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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WM. H. PARKER. WM. P. GREENE
PARKER & GREENE,
Atioraeis aad GoQBsello? atLaw.
Office on LAW RANGE.
ABBEVILLE - SOUTH CAROLINA.
May 4. 1898. tf
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are good.
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wholesome.
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Flour, v
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Molaeses, 4c. MO.-4,
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PRACTICAL. MfikJI T~^
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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,
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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
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Tiption "Work j
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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.
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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 - '
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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.
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