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Press and Banner:
ABBEVILLE, 8.C. ,
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year In advance. ^
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Wednesday, June 21, 1899. '
Alllnuce MeetluK.
The annual meeting of the County Alliance s
for tbe election of office lor tbe ensuing
year will be held on Friday, July 21st. Ah
the election of a County Trustee Stockholder
will kNo he held, it Is highly important that '
sub alliance* owning stock in the State Exchange,
should elect a sub-trustee stockholder
to represent their stock in tbe Con vention.
Under ?n amendment to the Constitution, c
each sub-alliance in good standing Is entitled n
to a delegate to the State Convention. .
It is earnestly desired, therefore, that there 1
should be a full attendance at tbe County Alliance.
Respectfully, ,
June 20,1899. John Lyon, President. .
Arlhnr Newton Boyd. I
The sadden, untimely death of Arthur E
Newton Boyd lsdeeply regretted In New York c
literary and artistic circles. Mr. Boyd was *
not yet thirty at tbe time of his death, but ~
bad won a creditable place and name among t
, * tbe artists of this city by bis admirable draw- 0
lngs, and was looked upon as a man of fine
attainments and great promise. His reserved
and dignified manner was the outward mark C
ot a flue, sensitive character which endeared y
him to every one who was privileged to Know J
him. The artistic urolesslon has lost in Mr. a
Boyd a man of talent and of character.?New c
HI York World. i
A A. B. Moraea' Locals.
Floe cucumber Dickies, 4 doz. for 25c. ,
BT Every good housekeeper should have at ?
V least 25c. worth of thote nice cucumbers at ?
W Morse's. 4 dozen. V
f I haven't many cucumbers left at 6^ a doz. t
' Send quick or you will mli-s them. r
Ice pick and lemon squeezers. g
Fresh lemons constantly in stock. v
1 doz. 14-flnger grain craddles with Blood's 0
best blades Just lu.
If you should happen to need a few fruit 9
Jars or extra rubbers, I have them. My Jars 1
are superior to a great many that are offer for
sale, having aluminum tops and the glass is ?
clear and smooth. Half gallons, quarts and ?
pints. Look at them. Prices reasonable. '<
I also have a small lot of parafflDe wax for C
covering fruits and Jellies. r
Keinjane bams are the finest. Every one b
guaranteed. Smoked shoulders8^c. per lb. v
1 have matnl hnth tubs various shaDes and K
prices. " ' u
Base balls, bats, mitts and masks, also ?
sweaters. Tbe best you ever saw for 50o. B
A few Ice cream cbnrns at very low prices. D
A nice line pickles, canned fruits, vegeta- t
bles, salmon, shrimp, crab, olives and sauces, p
A small lot of fresh candles Just received. v
Fresh crackers to arrive next week. "
Amos B. Morse.
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L. W. White's Locals. C
Read "David Harura," the most popular d
book extant. The Literary Digest of May t
27th ult., calls this book "A Literary Phenom- ^
euon," and says it is the best selling book of
the year. In March alone 20,000 copies were ?
sold and the demand continues to be enr>r- b
mouR. You Will And this book at L. W. i.
White's. "
L. W. White has just received an entirely 8
new line of black clay worsted suits in regulars
and long and slim. We can now fit al* is
moot any one. Call before the sizes are .
broken. ,
Another supply of Malaga straw hats Just '
received by L. W. White. D
The late extremely hot weather ban created e
qulteademaDd for organelle* and pineapple a
silks. The ladles will And a beautiful assort- n
ment of these goods at the store of L. W. f
Wblte. ?
White lawns organdies and piques are now ?
all the rage. A full line of the above goods at o
all prices can be found at L. W. White's. Al (]
so embroideries and trimmings In endless variety.
0
We have a few patterns of crepons left. Call
at the store of L. W. Wblte and see them.
We still have goods of different kinde in
remnants, some of which are very desirable ,
and cbeap. Call for them at the store of L 11
W. White. f
A very choice line of mattings and rugs can g
be found at L. W. Wbite's. p
The best and ooolest material for Summer u
shirts Is madras cloth. We have a large stock
of this material, and we-nre now selling It al ')
10 cents, lormer price 12% cents ayard. C
b
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Br real * al Hatldon'h. f;
New arrivals in wblte goods at Haddon's. u
A new line of embroideries, lnsertings and r
ribbons. u
See our linen and crashes for cool summer (,
dresses.
36 inch percales at 5 cent* at Haddon's.
Go to Haddon's and get a bargain In colored
lawns at 2]4 cents per yard. a
A new piece of gloria silk for ladles' waists
50 inches wide at Haddon's. F
Ready made sbirt waist at 2-5,85 and 90 cts. O
Window shades at 10c. at Haddon's. p
A full line of window shades In all colore 1<
at all prices, '
Wblte and colored doited swIrb for curtains. D
An elegant line ot fine l%ce curtains at all
prices at Haddon's. s
New arrivals In millinery tbls week at
Haddon's. t
Sailors leghorn and flats Just recel\ed this ti
week. ^
A new supply of chiffons, ribbons and laces
at Haddon's.
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The State of South Carolina, i
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. ^
Probate Court.?Citation for Letters of Ad- o
ministration. 0
BvR E. Hill, Esu., Judge of Probate.
^1X7'HE RE AS, J. S. BO WEN has made F
?? suit to roe, to grant him Letters of Jt
Administration of the Estate and effects of I
JAMES S. ROBINSON, late of Abbeville j
Cuuuty, deceased.
These are therefore, to cite and admonish e
all and singular the kindred and creditors of L
the said JAS S. ROBINSON, deceased, that [
they be and appear oerore me. in the Court
of Probate, to be held at Abbeville C. H., 0
on FRIDAY, the 30lb day of JUNE. 1899, C
after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock In
the forenoon,to show cause If any they have, j
why the said Administration should not be G
cruritprt r
Given under ray hand and Real of tbe Court, j
this 13th day of June. In tbe year ol .
[L. S.] our Lord one thousand eight hundred c
and ninety nine and In tbe 123 year
of American Independence.
Published go tbe 21st day of June, 1K99,
In tbe Press aud Banner and on tbe Court
House aoor for tbe time required by law.
R. E. HILL,
June 21,1S99, tf Judge of Probate.
The State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.
Probate Court.?Citation for Letters of Administration.
By R. E. Hill, Es?., Judoe ok Probate.
WHEREAS, DAVID W. THOMAS ban
made made suit to me. to grant him
Letters of Administration of tbe Estate and
effects ol MISS E. A. THOMAS, late of Ah- x
ueviwc VASUU ij , ucccarjcu.
These are therefore, to cite and admonish f
all and singular the kindred and creditors of
tbe said E. A. THOMAS, deceased, that they j
be and appear before me. In the Court of Pro- |
bate, to be held at Abbeville C. II., on Mon 1
day, tbe 3rd day of July, 1899, after publication
hereof, at 11 o'clock lu the forenoon, to
show cause If any they have, why tbe said
Administration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal of the Court,
this 19th day of June, In the year of
rr u i our Lord one thousand eight hundred
lL,< and ninety-nine and In the 123 year of
American Independence.
Published on the 21st day of June, 1899, In
tbe Abbeville Press and Banner and on the
Court House door for the time required by
law.
R. E. HILL.
June 20tb, 1899. Judge of Probate.
Activity is only beautiful when it is ,
holy; that is to say, when it is spent f
in the service of that which passeth ;
not away. j
The immediate need of the world at '
this moment is not more of us, but, 1
if I may use the expression, a better
brand of us. ^
i
No map has any better religion (
than that which he is able to show up (
in his daily life. t
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SOUTHERN FARMERS.
Irond Onacp Remedies Mneifostcd for
Itroiul Online Evil*.
iy W. A. Parker, lato Editor of the Wesson,
Mississippi, .Mirror.
The Southern farmer is not happy.
[ do not propose to consider all the
:audes of this, but 1 am impressed with
ive features of the situation as deservng
of more than a passing thought.
These are:
(1). Credit farming.
(2). A lazy man's market.
(3). The plow aud the loom too far
ipart.
(4). Bad transportation.
(o). Fear of the fire.
Credit Farmlnir.
"Credit farmiug is the result of being
:ompelled to farm without capital.
I'll is fallacy looks to be a plaiu truth ;
t is a plain absurdity.
Farming is not speculation. It is
lot play. I? is not idle dreaming. It
s business, and business is not done in
his year of grace without capital?
noney capital, brain capital, energy
apital. The farmer who has these
hrpp forms of capital uses them in his
tusiness. The farmer who lacks one
irallof them hires what he has Dot.
When you hire a workman you beorae
a master, he a servant. When
rou hire capital you acquire a master
md become a slave. A slave may
nake a profit out of the business of beng
a slave, and in time may buy his
reedom. Not many crop-lien slaves,
lowever, ever realize this possibility,
tfost of (hose who do are those who
lire only money capital. Those to
vhom the merchant must also "fur)ish"
brains and energy eventually
ealize the boast of one of them who
aid: "When I can't make a living
vorking six months in the year I will
|Uit." He clearly meant he would
[uit farming, as he had not made a
iving in years,'
The great barrier to the crop-lien
lave's emancipation, however, is the
<t.of irt hia noca the furninhiner
aut (liabj i jj uia VMUV) ? 0
oerchant is the real farmer. He does
lot plaut according to his judgment,
mt accordidg to his orders. He cultiate?
also by order, gathers his crop
>y order, markets it by order, and by
rders from the same source arranges
lis plans for another crop. This
Dan will never do his best farming
ill be can get the merchant out of the
losition ot boss, and the merchant
/ill be boss till the slave is able to
furnish" himself.
A Lmy Man's Market.
Said a successful farmer to me reen
tly : "The average farmer is body
iligent but brain lazy. He is willing
o work with bis hands, but not with
lis bead. What crops be can make
uly by hard study and real thinking
le will not plant." Cotton is a bralnazy
crop. Brain-lazy to plant, mabe,
ather and sell.
The merchant also brain-lazy. He
*1 ** ' - J U a Krinrra
3 me farmers uimuicuiaii. u& iUe,g
he farmer and his market together,
lany times, most times, the farmer
ia9 neither time, money information,
xperience, confidence, nor, possibly,
biiity to hunt a market. He must
lantfor the merchant's market?for a
*zy-man's market. Cotton sells itelf?for
money or a debt receipt. Iso
ther possible Southern farm crop
oes. Hence the more laziness the
iore cotton.
Plow ami I.oom Too Far Apart.
Some years ago the center of the
ron industry of this country was at
Mttsburg, Pa. The city was furoaceirdled.
The smoke of the smelter's
res was a curtain by day and a
lanket by night. The town lost its
ame and was known as the "Smoky
!ity." Whoever would smelt iron
uiit a furnace there because it was (
rthodox business doctrine that the
ictory should be neighbor to its '
ompetitor. A mixture of iron and
ock called ore, lime to flux it. coal to
oelt it, ali were hauled from a dozen
o a thousand miles that orthodoxy
. i . ~ I J J
mgm preserve a uusiucsa ccuici,
a tbe pick and the furnac dwelt
part.
One day there appeared a heretic. J
le said the furnace ought to go the
re field. He had the assurance to ,
lointout that Pittsburg was paying
ang freights on five and more tODs of
omething for every ton of pig iron
oade. His heresy was to make a
borthaulof the ore, flux and fuel and a
ong haul of tbe iron?a short haul of
be five tons and put tbe long haul on
he one ton. Iron orthodoxy laughed
tim to scorn.
Capital, however conservative, is not
everent. Business heresy is good
locirine if it can show a profit. Away
ut near the end of one of Pittsburg's
ong hauls a furnace was built. The
diner's pick was its nearest neighbor,
i'rom within rifleshot of its door came
re from one hand, lime from the
ther and coal from between the two.
Pittsburg was then putting on the
narket at Chicago a certain grade of
ron at a cost of upwards of $20 per ton.
?he heretic's furnace soon sold better
ron in Chicago at $ib ana raaue a
;ood profit. It was bin derided short
taul on the five tons and lone haul on
he one ton. He had saved the freight
in what the furnace must handle but
ould not sell.
Today Pittsburg sees the sun every
lay and the stars every night, and the
:enter of the iron industry of America
s where Dixie is Buug. "South Pitts>urg,
Birmingham, a troop of their
learest of kin are children of the
narrlage the iron heretic negotiated;
if the wedding at which the pick and
he furnace exchanged vows while
ron orthodoxy forbid the baus.
Where the plow and the loom have
et up housekeeping they are begeting
a like healthy progeny. But
nany a Southern plow has not yet
ound?many indeed have not yet
lought?a loom affinity.
Southern iron lias made heresy ortholox.
The factory is seeking the farm.
What is the farm doing?
Bad Transportation.
The farmer pays a great many taxes.
\ few of them are levied by the law,
lome by nature, more by the farmer,
transportation is a tax that all three
oiu in assessing. Nearness to market
essens this tax.
How do you measure nearness, in
niles or in dollars? I talked recently
vith a farmer who estimated that it
:ost him fifty cents a bale to haul his
;otton the forty miles from his farm
o the railroad. The next evening an>ther
farmer figured out for me that
le was paying "six bits," seventy-five
:ent8, to haul his cotton twenty-three
niles to the same town. The man
vno was seventeen rnues mrtner was
w^nty-five cents a bale nearer.
It costs $58 to get a hundred barrels
>f Hour from a certain mill to its
narket; $98 to get a hundred barrels
'rom another mill to the same market,
rhe first mill is 27 per cent, nearer in
niles and 14 per cent, nearer in do'ars.
Which measure the business
listance, the miles or the dollars?
Forty miles over a dirt road is a long
way from market, whichever way it is
neasured. A large percentage of the
:rops and livestock of the Southern
armer is produced at some such dis&nce
from the railroad, while it is
said that it is impossible for a man to fit
get twenty miles, almost impossible to ca
get ten miles, lrom a railroad town in sei
larjje acres of the corn and wheat- ov
growing sections of the United States. 1
And when the Southern farmer gets tri
to his railroad town he finds rail rates m
much higher than does the corn and di
wheat farmer. fe
Fear of the Fire. 'D
Ot
The power of fire is a fearful thing? n(
if uncontrolled. Light one in the 11(
r*f i.,. ?
LUlUUiC Ul U1C 11WUJ U1 j UUl SllllUg-l UU11J 0Q
on a cold day. Not for long will it BC
warm yon. It will scorch, burn, de- pj
stroy your house and yourself if you
stay by it. No one fears the fire so p(
little as to handle it otherwise than gg
with care and with ample arrange- or
mentB for keeping it under control, y
No one fears it so inuchastotry to keep ^
house without it.
The power of a corporation?of ^
corporate capital?is so feared by
many that, far from trying to control c(
it, they would suppress it. Rather j1(
than risk its dangers they would lose v4i
u._ I ~ l Ul
its ueucniB. vyi, iulaiu^ a uilic? kji w
that supreme folly tbey essay to con- w
trol it, not in wisdom, but in malice. fe
Rather tbau use tbe tire for warmth
and other service they would beat it
out of existence, or so cripple it as to
make it useless. D(
The farmer does not expect such fol- a
ly to rule in his kitchen. He looks for
intelligent handling of tbe breakfast tf
tire, and would be astonished if his K]
wife should propose that he go to work ^
on a cold snack because of the danger ^
of having a fire in the house. 8a
The farmer has been charged with CJ
being at the bottom because he hires ]a
his thinking done for him and pays f0
folly's price for a poor job. If his ^
thinkers are the howlers who have m
shaped much of the legislation of the ]8
South, the charge is not without ^
foundation.
Fear is always a loud talker, and al- m
ways gets an audience. The fellow fa
with an axe to grind knows this. He _(
hunts for a fear tbat he can use to set j?a
scant thinkers to howling, knowing
well that if they get what they howl jj,
for they will grind his axe and never
know it. Southern offices are full of je
oiinK n vo.r*??ini r\A o vr I'hotr uf Q rf- .
DUVU OAC-gllUUtlO lUU?J
ed a howl about the dangers of corpo- w
rate government, and the men who so
think by proxy swallowed the bait tr
and howled for laws, not about corpor- g(
rations, to be framed in fear and ^
executed with a club. They forgot y(
that the life of a corporation is a pure- ^
ly business affair, and that clubs RC
destroy life, but do not help business. al
The farmer did a part of this howling rjv
and is at it yet. He bad and has gj
plenty of help. Does his help lessen je
bis folly? Tje farmer needs corpora- w
tions, not as enemies, but as friends; cr
not us masters, but as diligent and aI
helpful servants. ^
Senseless fear of their power has 80
cripled many a one of those now here j8
and kept many more of them from com- _j
ing here, thus losing to farmer, merchant,
laborer and mechanic the help aj
they are giving to other sections. to
Where is the busine-s safety that
suppresses activity ? Where is the eE
business life that can go well on gu
cruicnesj . vvutre its iue gapiuti tuat
can build up while being itself torn ta
down ? Where is the business that fa
can bring to a community a profit to
while not allowed to make one itself? DC
Is fear, mere slavish fear of corporate
capital a benefit or a curse to the
South ? la
Are Southern men brave only in ^
war and cowards in business? Dare
Southern men light corporate fire for K(
warmth, power, profit, or dare they aE
they only hamper what in here and ^
hinder from coming what is not yet m
here? Our statute-books say we are
business cowards. Our laws say we dare
not trus* our wisdom or our strength. a
Our constitutions even assert that we f0
fear to have wealth come among us. wj
Thus have we recorded a verdict at. r
war with our good sense no less than
with our interest. ta
If my critics say here that I have
named five causes of the farmer's 0j|
unhappiness, two of which affect the 8i|
merchant scarcely less than the
farmer, and the other three of which fa
affect, almost equally with the farmer, ac
every individual in the South, I can
nnlv dead cruiltv. with extenuating
circumstances. 1 did not arrange the n'v'
economic laws that put all classes f0
under the ban or the good which
covers any one of them. I speak to rpj
the farmer, not because be is supposed
to have a monopoly of the adverse j?
conditions I describe, but because, as m
I know him, he is clearer-headed,
more candid, more willing to test a
new idea, more ready to act on his gt
convictions than his partners in mis- j1?
ery. I realize that in this last I ^
malign the howlers. They are wont to -g
class the farmer's troubles as sons of fri
his stupidity, bigotry, ail forms of r
stand-fast-in-the-rut qualities, and *jj
weep for him with one eye while they V(
wiuk sneers at him with the other. I ^
am hopelesg of getting the howler's ^
forgiveness, so I will not apologize. I jQ
take the farmer as the type of tbe man g,
who thinks on what he reads. In so
far as any reader of the Southern Farm
Magazine who is not a farmer is a (il
thinking reader he is part of my chos- u.
en audience.
To prove the causes of Southern adversity
broader than the farm is only
to emphasize their claims to earnest,
thoughtful consideration. If the ^
quintet of causes I have listed is cf such ^
a character, the merchant, the manu- 11J
facturer, the professional man, the n<
mechanic, every Southern man who P1
reads the Southern Farm Magazine is bl
personally interested in them.
These five causes are not independ- "j
ent of each other. If they could be set ^
each to itself it would be a simple lfc
thing to poiut out the five needed, m
effectual, simple remedies. They cannot
be so separated. Working both 1
independently and interdependent^, ec
they have produced a complex result, j3*
which can be put aside only by bring- t0
ing to bear on it forces equally cum- D<
plex, equally farreaching. equally j"
broad, deep and strong. These forces bl
I will class uuder five heads, as much
for convenience as for aught else. al
(a). Capital is the blood of business.
(b). Men are twigs, corporations are
well-bound bundles. ?c
(c). The power of a highway. in
(d). Marry the farm and the factory. P(
(e). The law is not a couch, it is a 18
tool. UI
ac
Cnpltnl the Illootl of IlnNincMN. ai
In the economy of nature tne entire ^
body of mau is built up by joining to- w
gether in a wonderful way many mil- .
lions of minute cells. They are not all tv
alike. There are bone cells, muscle
cells, fat cells, nerve cells, membrance
cells, many other kinds, each with its w
individual character, purpose and use- bl
fulness. The boy on the road to man- U?
hood who gained a pound in weight
last month simply added to bis bulk a ()f
pound of cells. How was it done?
The materials for the new growth
were taken from his food, transformed ,n
into blood, and the blood, circulating
??-> oimpu rinrf nf hia nvatcm. hllilf. n
*.V VT V* J f V W* , ? gg
new cell here, a bunch of them there, co
a pound of them everywhere. Notice ar
it was new blood that made all the w
growth. fl,
Capital is blood?the blood cf buai- _a
ness. You see a business making pro- ^
sand adding them each year to its cc
pital, and you are not surpri-ed to y(
0 that business grow. It makes its fi
yn new blood and must grow. Y
There is another way. Among the w
iumphs of modern surgery few made p;
ore stir when first announced than d
d the building up of a wound and y
ver nepieea iiumau nte uy pumping \
to his veins the warm, living blood ti
a sheep. Because the patient could
>t make new blood fast enough the b
;w surgery brought to him the life's a
pital of another. Ordinary convale- n
ence in just development; this was r
ain addition. n
Every town in the South isabusiness t
)int. Grow it will or die according g
i it makes or gets new business blood e
tries to be content with what it has. e
ou would have called him a fool? e
le emaciated, death-threatened pa- t
eut?if he bad refused to be built up e
f the transfusion process because of \
te danger that he might in time be- b
>me a sheep. Fair-play dictated, v
owever, that the sheep should not be t
led to weakness. The sheep was
ell fed in advance, generously and r
isely fed, and was taxed only as his t
eding made it easy for him to pay r
ie tax. h
The 8outhern town that grows by
ie addition of new capital?the busiess
transfusion that has made many
dead town live?need not fear that
will thereby ever become a foreign
two. Whatever and however its
rowth, it may be, it will be an
merican town, a Southern town.
Weakness says "beware," wisdom
ivs "move forward." Let outside
ipital be invited to come In. Let the
,w that invites provide for control,
r the control that insuies good beivior
ou the one hand and fair treatent
on the other. Without the
tter capital will not come; without
ie former capital will not bless.
Fear nothing the howler says, not
ren his many-told tale of the country
st going to the city, and hence fa?t
)ing to the dogs. His fact is a true
ct. Men are now living who were
)rn when nearly half our population
yed on the farm ; now less than onefth
depend on the farm for livelihood,
ss than one-tenth are actual farmers.
is the howler's conclusion that is a
rong. While the cities are growing
i much faster than the country dis- t
mAallU C TTn?fn/4 a
JULD tuc tutc?? ncanu ? ? tuc v/ u>tou c
ates is increasing at the rate of more i
lan a thousand million dollars a <j
?ar; gaining enough in a year to buy c
it the entire wealth, the lifetime fc
icumulations, of a'l the millionaries b
id multimillionaires in the country, i
be howler has found s fact, a really n
Bjniflcant and large fact, and regard- p
ss of the evident misfit he adds its fc
eight to his noise and expects the in- ^
eased clatter to increase faith in him j]
id his bowl. This howl is more than v
tree decades long, but in spite of it, b
mehow, the man in town is glad he li
there aud the man on the farm is v
ad, ntubbornly glad, that the town is fa
rge enough to buy part of bis crop* n
prices that do not permit the sheriff h
move him off the farm. h
If the town was bigger the independ- b
ice of the farmer would be better as- fa
red. Practically all he sells is sold ]<
tbe town's concentrated inbabi- r
nts. Bigger towns mean richer Ji
rms aud farmers with more money r<
sDend. Tbe customer's purchasing it
>wer determines the merchant's and' f<
e manufacturer's profits. v
Everyoue is interested in the dis- g
nee. Eggs sell for as much per h
izen in Smalltown, Ala., as in Liver- e
tol, England, sometimes for more. I
)tton sells in Smalltown for a cent h
id a-quarter per pound less than in t<
[verpool. At Smalltown the far- o
er's hen fruit is marketed at the n
ilboardofhin wagon and the price b
ced there. The farmer must pay for
transportation line a third way
und the earth to connect his wagon
ith his. cotton market. Every
owth of the town brings producer tl
id consumer nearer together. Dis- n
nee saved is money earned. b
Incidentally I want to say here that A
by concentration of population is pos- g
ble only because the farm is prosper- n
g. Not long ago one man on tbe a
rm could not grow enough to feed n
id chothe three men in town; now r<
e one man is producing food and I
3thing for Ave in town and so much ft
'erdoing it that he gets small prices ^
? oil hio nrnno Th So ia npnanorlfv h
1 Mil U iU VI A UIO ?U |/& VO^/V* ??J "
r the farm, but not for the farmer. w
be lesson is, build the town bigger, ti
Taxes are a burden. Heavy bur- e
ins become light only by getting a
or individuals to share them. The S
x that is paid by 500 is twice as il
javy as if borne by one 1000. Since
nalltown got a factory, working 250 n
inds, $5000 more wages are paid out ri
ere each month than formerly, h
very dollar of the increase comes si
am the consumers of that factory's il
oduct; that is, mostly from some P
stant point. All of it is spent or in- ll
>sted there. It is all invested there, a
ace what the worker merely spends 1
ie receiver invests. That is $60,000 a
a year; over $500,000 in ten years, d
xialltown's tax list?its assessable w
nperty?doubled in five years. v
rnat plan so sure tor reducing laxa- "
on. If the South would drop its ?
lrden it must develop its towns. ?
g
Twigs and Fauces.
Few indeed are the ways of doing ?
tings that are not as large as the '
lings to be done. Partnerships were ?
ivented because individuals couid !
it aJone handle the largest enter- 5
ises. This was merely making the ,
isinesB stronger by putting more
en in it. Out of the partnership .
ea was evolved the corporation idea. ,
either idea was born till the need of S
was felt. Modern business has
any things to be done too large for F
ly individual, too lar^e for any firm. ?
be corporation i3 a business agent .
jual to these things; no other busijss
power is. Your choice is limited ?
i three things?invent a better busijss
agent, use this one or be out of
id stay out of the way of all large
tainaaa pnfprnriaoo '
One of the greatest of modern t
lomalies i9 the effort now making in
any way8 to cripple corporations in
le South. Here are almost unlimitI
natural resources ; resources invit*
g the moBt extended and most
>werful business activity; here also
the most determined and most ^
ireasoniing opposition to any j~
itivity that uses the agents of power
id the successful developers of
itural resource. That father was 81
irely wise who showed his sons the P
eakness of a single twig and the y
rength of a bouud bundle of just such a
zigs. but we of the South have made "
iccessful effort to hinder the binding "
' our own twigs into bundles, as if
e thought nothing but some sort of K
isiness poison ivy would or could be ^
led for bands. 81
Have you ever thought what kind
a price-maker a corporation is? S
any of you who read thes lines have it
'ty years of active life within u
emory'rt call. For common nails, ii
dividual or firm made, you have g
en forty cents per pound paid ; now s<
rporation-made nails?better nails? a
e in your houses and your fences for t<
hich you paid two and one-half to t<
re cents per pound. You have perhaps a
lid $20 for a ton of individual-mined e
>al; this past record-breaking winter
au have warmed your hands over a
re of 53 to $7 coal, corporation mined,
ou have paid a shoe maker a month's
'ages for a pair of boots ; now yon
ay the merchant a profit in the one
nv's work, the waee of which buvs
ou a better pair, corporation made,
our experience will multiply these
rite illustrations almost adinflnitum.
Not all of this price-making has
een done by the corporations, but not
11 others causes combined would have
aade modern prices possible if corpoate
capital had not become ?a priceaaker.
If you doubt this, try the cost
oday of hand-made articles, not foretting
to reckon the cost of handaade
raw material, tools, etc., and
ven if you give to the workmen
very modern tool and machine which
he largest business can possibly
able bis individual enterprise to us<
vith profit, the lowest cost at whict
le can produce the commenest article
pill henjany times what you can now
>uy its equal for in the nearest store.
When a price is reduced from i
oonth's wage* to a day's pay sombodj
>esides the price-maker has made ?
>rofit. The consumer has gained
urely. Could any shouter get youi
rote to annul the charters and burt
be plants of all the big boot and sho<
nanufacturern, and put the prices bact
o the month's work basis ? Woulc
rou consent to laws making the pric<
f coal what individual mining woulc
lave kept it at if the corporation price
naker had let coal alone? Do yoi
vant every article of iron and stee
hat you buy or use or the price o
vhicb determines some other prict
>ut back to the 40-cent nail basis'
He spoke truth who said: "You car
irgue around, over or through s
heory, but when you meet a fact yoi
oust just face it." The price of everj
.rticle you buy that has felt an artis
til's touch is a fact. It is a prosperity
act, rich with lessons we of the Soutr
nay heed with profit.
The center of wealth of this country
a where corporations flourish. Thai
enter would be in the South if i
pere located according to natural ad
rantage?. It will be in the Soutt
ehen the South abandons prejudice
,nd adopts wisdom.
I am not one of those who imagine
hat the real sentiment of the South ii
xpressed in the laws we have regard g
capita], nor in the lack of cor
liality with which, sometimes, new
apital is welcomed. We all know
iow much louder sound the empt\
tarrel gives forth when it is set roll
g, as well as the smaller effort
leeded to put it in motion. We have
mt the empty barrels in office. We
lavesent them to our legislatures.
Ve have let them outvote the think
ag people in our constitutional con
entions. Perhaps we thought then:
larmless because empty. Perhaps w<
st them do our thinking because thej
cere so ready to do our howling. Per
laps we were so busy working we did
a*- o nrtfrortf IHqq nf what. fhoil
iUI ^cb a vuiivuv iuvu \/? ?? umv ?mv*<
iowls signified. Id all this the Soutb
as slandered itself. Ic has let the
lowler put an embargo on trade. II
as let him discourage capital. It ha*
3t him say "let us alone.'' It has eurendered
to him tbe making of oui
iws. It is time the South put on
ecord its protest against all this. It
3 time the South made known the
act that the spirit of hospitality perades
Southern business no less than
outhern homes. It is time the right
and of the business South be
xtended, offered to stranger capital,
t is time that capital, outside 01
ome capital, be encouraged
> form here the bunalef
f twigs that shall meet modern busiess
conditions and brfug modern
usiness results to the South.
Tbe Power of a Highway.
From the Father of Waters west to
tie continent's backbone stretches e
lillion square miles of what is fast
ecoming the garden of a continent.
l little of this vast empire was "a
pod country ana itur lo see- us ubiuh
iade it. Most of it was once known
s the Great American Desert. Bones
larked the trails that made its only
autes of travel. Death lived there,
n its arid plains, its poisoned airs, its
jrnace breath or its ice-nurtured
rinds its barrenness divided existence
etween summer's burning death and
winter's frost-begotten sleep. Its few
ravelers, gold seeking and gold enthusd,
dared its horrors with trembling
nd were oftener than not it* victims,
carce any life, except its wolves and
& vultures, loved it.
That desert is gone. Gone from our
laps. Gone almost from our memeies.
Gone from nature's face. Its
orizon-bounded plains, its sand
torms, its blizzards, its alkalies,
a whole list of cursee
regnant with death?all are still
here. Three things only have beet]
dded?railroads, people, wealth,
'he first made possible the second,
nd they two could not, did not, long
well together in a desert till the third
ras there. If these things could be
inhere nature was false ana tne eartc
nkind, what might not flower in the
louth if but steel-bound paths were
pen to all its sunkissed hills and
reen-carpeted valleys?
The answer is bugun to be writtec
long the few railroads we have permitted
to come among us. The ful
nswer is in the blessings of bim who
ives near "the road" and the curses oi
iim who markets his toil-won product
rom some "inland" place forty miles
rom nowhere.
'Well, railroading is a business mat
jr. Business is but capital in motion
,'apital would rather rest than move
own bill. Capital accepts the invita
ion of those who are willing to gel
ehind and push, push up hill. II
buns those who wish to ride it as th<
lobo does "the blind," without a tick
t. It is willing to help in a mutua
rrangement. It declines to go when
t must expect to be merely bled.
No right-minded man expects to gel
barrel or nour or a eiae 01 oacoc
without paying its fair market value
le could Dot honestly get them other
/ise. Who gets a railroad wherf
ione now is must pay for it. Nol
/hat it is worth, however. Not evei
/hat it will cost. The price is deelopment's
fair worth, friendly wel>
ome, cordial co-operation, fair treat
aent, freedom from malice and
mischief at the Statehouse.
Just here is where the.demagogue
ays "boo." "A railroad meaus cororation.
The boogers will get you il
ou go there." Why not be men and
nswer: "Not so. We will get the
oogers, if there be any. We will feed
hem. We will harness and control
bem. We will grow with their
rowth, profit by their enterprise, will
now apd rejoice in and use their
treagiu."
Take the case of Mr. Berkshire
hoat. Turned loose in a cornfield he
i a power for destruction, an almost
nmixed evil?a farmer's curse. Put
ato a badly-built pen, poorly and
rudgiugly fed, he Is sure to grow a
luealing, lank, bouy, bristle-topped
bomination, too hungry to be quiet,
jo poor to be butchered, too worthless
j be kept?a farmer's folly. Put into
wisely-planned pen, fed enough, just
Dough, of a well-balanced ration, he
Display of CRACKERS, TEA and FLA
POWDER, YOUNG HYSON, OOLO]
and the celebrated 0. & O.?the finest T
TOBACCO and CIGARS this week.
' full and complete. We are headqus
' FLOUR. This flour absolutely has no <
Come in and buy a GLASS BUTTER
1 MOWER and RAKE give us a call, as
chihines, which are admitted to be the I
' and prompt attention.
* rw\ n Kr\ "m
; ivt I . a i i}
' No. 4 Hotel Block and Fai
t becomes a pride aiid a profit?a farmer's
blessiDg.
J Why turn a railroad corporation in,
to a curse or a folly? Why not make
, a blessing of it? Why not rather
t foster it than forbid it? Why not
I rather control it than fear it? Why
? not rather prospef with it than perish
j without it?
A dollar's worth of Western wheat
j goes to Liverpool to get the dollar and
1 pays twenty cents for its ticket,
f Seven or more trunk lines have eaten
? the oldtime sixty cents down to that.
j> They are all corporation owned. A
, dollar's worth of cotton goes also to
b Liverpool to get the dollar and pays a
, fare of over thirty cents. A few
7 railroads, with appetites made healthy
. by wise laws, would soon eat twenty
, cents off that and give the South over
. three-quarters of a cent a pound more
for its staple; that is, $40,000,000, a
j year. There's a good deal of hard
^ sense in $40,000,000 even if you get
t it but once?more if you get it once a
. year.
i Railroad competition has moved the
5 wheat farm forty-two cents to fortyeeven
cents a bushel, or 70 to 78 per
i cent., nearer the market. Minnesota
i and Dakota are much farther in miles
. from a wheat market than are Missis.
sipDi and Georgia, yet the former sell
r wheat at a profit and the latter grow
r less than 1 per cent, of what they eat.
r Put them at the same money distance
. from a wheat market and any fcjoutnl
era State would sell wheat instead of
i buying It. The growing of food etuffs
, at the South is not a question for the
farmer alone to solve. Build enough
. railroads to move the South into
. competing distance and the Southern
l farmer will feed the South. It will
, then be found that all the South can
r board at home for less than is now
. paid to the North and West for food.
[ The Southern farmer's market is the
r savings bank for the entire Southern
, people. Southern railroad possibili,
ties are the South's idle capital,
t A Farm and Factory Wedding.
1 Here is no room for argument. The
| verdict has long since been rendered
( by that fairest of all jurieg, experience.
1 How shall the wedding be brought
' about? As other marriages are, at
' the end of a warm-hearted courtship.
The successful lover wooes, he does
! not simply tolerate. Of ail wooing,
' convincing of good faith and earnest
purpose is the most winning. For
; courting the factory the hall where
laws are made is the ideal spot. Send
' the anxious lover to the legislature
and to the town council. Let there be
/tAtvtnllmonfa ori/l fha WATOQ
SJJUHCii IUO UlUJ^liUJCUU] auu tuv iwna
which experience has showD to be factory
winners. Kepeal the laws that
are now preventing the betrothal.
Enact In their stead laws that will
, give loving and practical welcome to
i capital, corporations, railroads. Make
; every form of capital and evey agency
' that capital may rightly UBe feel that
i equity and justic bid tbem come and
, will control them and ourselves when
i they are here.
I The Law Not a Coach, bat a Tool.
Conservatism would treat the law as
a couch inviting ideas to rest while all
things seek decay. Progress regards
; the law as a tool by which all things
! may be shaped to tbe world's better,
raent. Prejudice and passion look upon
the law as a sword by which enemies
may be slain.
' Where do you class ydurself? You
, can have the couch, have largely got
it now. So also is it yours to wield
the sword if you have real or fancied
enemies. So also the Jaw is?if you
will have it so?your tool. With it
you can carve destiny to fit your ambitions.
I should like to tell how I
think this and other things I have
tried to recommend to your earnest
thought may be done, but I have perhaps
wearied you. Suffer me to tell a
story and I am done.
A certain methodist minister in Mississippi
preached to an average congregation
a sermon which a newcomer
criticised thus: "snlended sermon,
Brother M.f splendia, but sadly marred
by one fault. Every really good
thing in it was repeated so many
times." ' Yes," said the pastor, "I've
been preaching till I've got the raDge.
The first time I say a good thing it
reaches both ears, one to get in, one to
get out; the second time it is listened
to; next time it is thought about;
fourth time it is recognized; fifth
time it is heeded?perhaps." This
preacher knew human nature.
: you will be
t
t interested to know that
k
we have adtfed to our
I
: stock a line of toilet
t articles that is unique
i
in combining a high
i order of merit with
L
i thorough efficiency, excellent
value and perfect
I harmlessness, as well
> as affording pleasure
F in use. the list comprises
[
> preparations for the
I
face, hands, skin, mouth, ,
i
teeth and hair; perfumery,
toilet waters, sachets, etc.
let us tell you
i
more about them.
Mrs. Mar? TadHart. :
J UU J j
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
Bargains In slippers at 59, 75 and 91 at Had- '
don's. # 1
' ' '^1
Great Display! If
-IPIM
' Call and bee
L T. &T. H. Miner's I
:
KES. Alsoaflne line of TEAS. GUN
NG, FRANCIS LEGGETT'S No. 35
EA in this city. Special bargains in
Our line of FANCY GROCERIES is
irters for BALLARD'S OBELISK
equal. Give it a trial and be convinced.
MOULD for your wife. If in need of s
we sell tbe Deering Harvesting Ma)est.
ALL ORDERS receive polite
MILLER, I
rtory Hill. J> Phone 75.
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Winthrop College Soliolarsnips
and Entrance Examinations.
The examinations for award op '
vacant scholarship* In WlntbropCollege .
and for the admission of new student* will
be held at tbe County Court House on Friday, . > ,
July 2lst, at 9 a. m.
Applicants must not be less than fifteen <;
years of age
When scholarships are vacated after July '-43
21st, they will be awarded to those making .?j
tbn highest average at this examination.
The coet of attendance, including board, -.3
furnished room, beat, light and washing, i*
only 88.60 per month.
For further Information and catalogue, ad* M
dress PRES. D. B. JOHNSON. : vj
May 20,1899, tf Kock Hill, 8. C.
D. H. Wilder'* Local*.
GotoD. H. Wilder when yon want firesh
groceries, rice, pickets, tomatoes, eorn, *ardines,
salmons, crackers, oat flake*, chocolate, a
grits, bams.
Something extra nice in syrnpa and mola*S68,
cabbage and seed potatoes, cocannts, ,5s
oranges and banana*. '
10 lbs. good green ooffee for tl.
16 lb*, granulated sugar SI.
18 lbs. Y. C. sugar for <1.
12 31b. cans tomatoes for $1.
Special price* on keroeene oil by the barrel. .'*3
Call and Bee me before buying.
Headquarters for all kind country produce, '.*
chickens, eggs, butter, etc.
I deliver good anywbere in the city free. Ajg
SOUTHERN RAILWAY. '
tjT
OMdisHd Schedule te ECM
Deo. 4th, 1366.
I Vff
l^Charlefftt^."^^. TIP fm .'g|
It. Colombia. 1106 a a
" Prospwfif 13 10 a*a M
- Newlmr. 13 26 p a
Ninety-Six. IX pa
m Greenwood. 740am 1 M p m M
jx, Hodge* 8 00 a m lllpa .2?
jtf. Abbeville. !77. 8 40 a m Itfpa #2
Jr,Pelton..*TmT5 I 10 p m
I * 10 E * m -a j ? m ffl
i |T? Atlanta.. ^ y *u t** *1 8"P 5 8J?J ^
&Ti A m
Iff. Gr**n villa. JT77 6 fio p m 10 II l a
" Piedmont 6 00 pn lOtfta ' .'38
" WilMamaton. 912 pa lOUan. '
?j j/j J: h -ur j u I . ?
up. Aiiacrpon iwpm ip m m m
Ct.Belton 6 46 p to 1IU
At. Poena1d? 7 II p m 1140am .fSffi
Lt. Abbeville..!!! 6 10 p m H 30 a i? . .3
Lt. Hodgee.. ? 85 p m 11 66 a ni '- g
M Greenwood 8 00pm 13 40 p m
- Ninety-Six UUpm
" Newberry 2 00 p a
At. Proeperlqr- 114 p m
" Columbia HO p m
jr.OhArlairton."fit 6 00 p m ;
CTAmoira. BP
1 Dp 7 10a Lt.. .. Charleston... .At 800p 11 00a
186a 1180a ' Columbia *" T55p OMp
07a 1215p ' Alston Lt 280p 8 60k
1004a 12Sp ** Ben too " 128p ?4fe> !
9 Sua 200p "......Uaion. M lOCp tttp
Iffia 222p *? ....imiMTin*.... M 123Sp 6ttp
2 fie 2ft7p " ...-pioolet " 1214p 64S>
life 8l?p Ar.. Spartanburg...Lt 114m 61Bp
lite 840pLt..Spartanburg.. .Aru22a COQp
1^1 7OOp Ag....Ashevfl?....lJ ?g jqg
"P," p. m. "A." a. m.
Jallmaa palace sleeping oar? ea Trains Maad
arfr a5_ an A-?nS fl Alw4tiart rtl 111II i
B tbne traia? serva all maala aaroate.
Tralna leava Spartanburg, i. AG dliisUe,
rY etmbuie iipUtKU! ontntoiAa II Or V IU
iilfi p. m., ll3Za. m., (YaatibalaLlnitad.T
Train* laava &ra?n villa, A. and 0. dlvialoa,
perthbound, 6:60 a. m^ 9i84p. m. acd f 4Bp. m,
(VaaMbulad Limited)spontnboMfLlt* a. ml,
4(BO p. m., 18*0 p. m. (VeetibulernmltedL
Tralna 9 ana 10 <?>17 alapmt Barman
rfaaplaf oan b*twM> QolacaWa and AJtonUa
aaroate dally batwaaa Jaokaaavllla andatoah
a I
Charleston and Western Carolina R. R
Augusta and Asheville Short Line.
In effeot Jan. 8,1899. '
Lv Augusta. ... 9 40 am 1 4Q pm
Ar Greenwood 19 16 pm
Ar Anderson 6 10 pm
Ar Lanrens .... 1 20 pm 7 00 am
Ar Greenville 3 00 pm 10 16 am
Ar Glenn Spricgs - 4 00 pm
Ar Spartanburg....... 3 10 pm 10 20 am
Ar Saluda _ ? 6 88 pm
Ar Hendersonville. 6 08 pm ............. , ? ?
Ar Aahevllle.. 7 00 pm
Lv Asheville ..._. 8 90 am - .'cVfal
Lv Spartanburg.. 11 46 am 3 06 pm
Lv Glenn Springs. 10 00 am .
Lv Greenville 19 01 am 4 00 pm
Lv Laurens ........... 1 37 pm
Lv Anderson 7 00 am
Lv Greenwood 2 37 pm 5 00 am
A r Augusta 5 10 pm 11 10 am
Lv Calboan Falls 4 44 pm
Ar Raleigh. 2 10 am ...... ..
Ar Norfolk 7 80 am
Ar Petersburg 6 00 am .........
Ar Klohmond 8 15 am
Lv Augusta 9 55 pm
Ar Allendale 5 00 pm
Ar Fairfax 5 15 pm
a - v? ?<,aoa O *m fl Oft nm
Ar Beaufort 10 90 am 7 20 pm
Ar Port Royal 11 05 am 7 85 pm f'/M
Ar Savannah 8 35 pm
Ar Charleston .. 9 10 pin
Lv Charleston 6 40 am
Lv Savannah 7 00 km
Lv Port Royal 1 40 pm 8 30 am
Lv Beaufort 1 56 pm 8 40 am
Lv Temassee 8 05 pm 9 45 am
Lv Fairfax 10 51 am
Lv Allendale 11 05 am
Ar Angusta. 1 10 pm
Lv Greenwood 4 26 am
Ar Laurens 6 00 am
Lv Laurens 7 00 am
Ar Spartanburg 10 20 am
Lv Spartanburg 8 10 pm
Ly Lr.urens 6 SO pm
Ar Gieenwood 19 25 pm
Close connections at Greenwood for all points on
S. A. L. and C. <fc G. Hallways, and at Spartanbnrg
with Southern Railway.
For any Information relative to tickets, rates, schedule,
etc., address
W. .T. CRAIG. Gen. Pass. Agent, Augusta, G?.
K. M. NORTH. Hoi. Airent.
Ti M. EMERSON, Trafflo Manager.
Your prayers are acceptable in God's
sight just in proportion as they are
sincere and earnest.
You do yourself more injury by one
wrong act than an enemy could inflict
upon you in a year.
If our strivings heavenward cause a
tearing of heartstrings, we know to
which world the strings are fastened.
The genuineness of a man's religion
is to be determined, not by his occasional
and unusual actions, but by the
?eneral drift of his conduct.
A9 contrary as cruelty is to mercy,
tyranny to charity, so is war and
bloodshed to the meekness and gentle*
uess of the Christian religiou.
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