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f The Press and Banner __ > ABBEVILLE, S. C. I t fyPubllBbed every Wednesday at (T2 a c year in advance. t _________________________ t ~ ^? ?AAA ? Wednesday, June io?y. Irrigation. Among other practical measures which the News and Courier urges ih that of Irrigation. We have long wondered at the fact that our farmers totally neglect the most Important of all work?that of Irrigating their lands. They let the water run to waste, while their crops are parching. Unclaimed Letters. A?Miss Dulmer Adams. B-J. C. Basfcln, Miss Anna Baskln, Prince Brown. C?Sam Callahan. 1 D?G. H. Devlin. E?Miss Mary Espy. F?G. G. Foster. G?Willie Goosby, Miss Mary Goorse, Miss si Lnla Harret. \ M?Sam Morris. R?s. B. Rarapey, E. D. Roberts. t< 'J ?U?o. Ten nan i. hi W?Miss Fannie Walker, Leila Walker, Miss lulla White. Robt. S. Llnfe, P. M. ? It Alliance Meeting. V TheanDual meeting of the County Alliance f for tbe election of officer* lor the ensuing ' year will be held on Friday, July 2lst. As a the election of a County Trustee Stockholder will also be held. It Is highly important that v sub-alliances owning stock In the State Exchange, should elect a sub-trustee stockhold; er to represent their stock In the Con ventlon. , Under an amendment to tbe Constitution, !\ each sub-alltance in good standing is entitled u to a delegate to the State Convention. . It is earnestly desired, therefore, that there " should be a full attendance at the County Al- ^ llance. Respectfully, June 20,1899. John Lyon, President. s The IJniverMlty or North Carolina. [j Tbe growth and expansion of this lnstltu- M tlon should be a matter of pride to every Carolinian. In efficiency, patronage and public 01 favor It is now second to none In the South. Si Its requirements are exact, its standard rigid, w lt? tone of life high and manly. Its Academic roll is the highest In the Soutb. and in all its M history it has never been so elose to the peo- tc pie, and so able to serve them. Ambitious la and needy boys should remember its motto is equality, opportunity and self-help. sc Wanted. cc Good laborers on new Government Lock at ^ Plaquemlne, .La. Job lasts two years ; wages $1.00 per day; board can be obtained for $2.00 z: per week. Men who worked for us on mills at Pelzer preferred. Address Immediately Stewart <& Co., Plaquemlne, La. Judge J. C. Bailey of Greenville was In jf, Columbia a short time ago, and it was our pleasure to meet him. His heart is in the h( right place. He was for many years a good ai newspaper man, and during all that time be was the hardest worker in town. His son bl will be a Presbyterian preacher. No man de- S| serves more credit for faithfu I effort, and con- (8 solentlous act, than Johii C. Bailey, of Greenville. Y Mb. n. 0. Pyles is in Colombia. He was bt once In the postofflce in that city, and for sev- \\ eral terms served the Legislature as postal J. clerk lor several terms. Whatever he does, he does well. He now has an offer to teach vj school near Colombia, which offer he may lc accept. Mr. A. Seldon Kennedy of Due West f was in town yesterday. Abbeville is always 81 glad to welcome within her gates so good a man. [? bi y< AGUINALDO'S HOPE. " m General Otis Says the Promise of Recognition After tbe Next Elec- ^ Hod Is the Thing That Keeps the Kebelllon Goluj? ? Impossible to m Conduct a Campaign la Luzon at Tl This Time?Disposition That Is P' Being Made of the Troops?Hen qi Who Were In Cnba Are Prostrated w by Return of Fevers and There In di a Dearth of Officers?This Is Being te Remedied by Recent Ordejrs. Is Washington, Jane 2G.?General Otis In reply ^ to a cable from tbe war department, asking fo for Information regarding tbe situation and conditions In tbe Philippines today cabled a >e long reply as follows : Manila, June 26.?Adjutant General, Wash- cl lngton: This is the rainy season, and Utile 8e inland campalnlng Is possible In Luzon. We occupy a large portion of tbe Tagalo country, """ "",An ?>?P??AKIn? Tmnc DAllt h tn Kan bUC uuro DIIOIVU1U5 ItUUJ AtUMO wx/uvu w ? Fernando, north, nearly six miles, and to tbe eastward Into LaGuoa province. Tbe lusur- w gent armies bave suffered great losses and are Si scattered. Tbe only large force beld together tE> about 4,000?Is In Tarlac province and north- ce ern Pampanaga. There are scattered forces so in bands of 50 to 500 In otber portions of m Luzon. In Cavite and Bantangas provlnoes v* they could assemble possibly a thousand, 'o though they are demoralized from recent tb defeat. Id Tbe masses of tbe people are terrorized by insurgent soldiers. They desire peace and ca American protection and no longer flee on approach of our troops unless forced by tbe insurgents, but gladly welcome tbem. There is no recent burning of towns. The population within our lines is becoming dense. Taking of land for cultivation Is extensive. Tbe natives are kept out of Manila as much as possible, as tbe city population Is becoming t too great to be cared lor. Natives In southeast Luzon are combining to drive out tbe Insurgents. A CAMPAIGN TIP? The only hope of the insurgent leaders Is t United States aid. They proclaim tbe near ' overthrow by the present administration to T, be followed by their independence ana recog- - nltion by tbe United States. This Is the In- ., fluence which enables them to hold out. i Much contention prevails among them, and .v no civil government remains. Trade with , ports, not In our possession, a former source of insurgent revenue, Is now interdicted. I am not certain ol tbe wisdom of this policy as the people in these parts are without a sup- T ply of food and merchants are suffering h losses. I meditate restoring trade privileges, although the insurgents reap benefits. , Courts here are in successful operation under direction of able Filipinos. Affairs In other islands are comparltlvely quiet, await- b. ing results in Luzon. All are anxious for trade and repeated calls lor American troops are received. Am giving attention to Jolo, Archipelago and Palawan islands. ^ TROOPS OVERWORKED. M Our troops have worked to the limit of en- pi durance. Volunteer organizations have been co called Id and replaced by regulars, who now occupy Falient positions, Nebraska, Penn- tt sylvania and Utah are now taking transports w and the Sixth Infantry Is being sent to Negros hi to relieve California. These troops are In good physical condition. Sickness among the ui troops bas Increased lately, due mostly to cl arduous service and climatic mlluences? w nothing alarming. Of the 12 per cent, of the ?] command reported sick, nearly 0 are In the ei general hospital, of whom 8 per cent, have bi typhoid and 17 malarial fevers. Twenty-five n: per ceDt. bave intestinal trouble; the remain- p lng 56 per cent bave various ailments, 14 of ei wdlcb are due to wound injuries. Many offi ai cers and men wbo served in Cuba break under a recurrence of tbe Cuban fever and lz tbe regular regiments lately received are in- n adequately officered. 15 (Signed) OTIS. p li Tbe inadequacy of tbe number of officers H mentioned in tbe last paragraph above cabled p has been remedied by the sailing ot tbe trans- r< ports Zalandla and Sberldan, carrying a y number of officers for regiments In the Phil- o Ipplnes. . a Adjutant General Corbln says tbat all offi- c< cers belonging to regiments in tbe Philip y pines wbo are not absent on account of a sur- h geon's certificate are under orders to Join tbe p regiments ai once. Forty-four bave Bulled on ti the recent transports going to Manila. t< Secretary Alger said today that no action V wilt be taken for tbe enlargement of the h army or sending troops to reinforce General w Otis until the return of President McKiDley. o He also said tbat General Wheeler would h receive no assignment until then. ci PRAISES FORFILIPINOS. * 11 e Ueneral King finy* They Arc Capable '< of Sell-CiovernmeiU. t\' Milwaukee, Wis., June 26.?Brigadier Gen-'8 eral Charles KlDg wbo returned from the a Philippines a short time ago, In a letter to the J? Milwaukee Journal published today, states " that the capability of the Filipinos lor self-; P government cannot be doubted and if given a fl Fair start, they could look out for themselves 8 lnflnltly better than our people imaelne. He says they rank lar higher than the Cubans or the Negroes, to whom the United States has granted the right of suffrage. Order what you want over the phone and d have Ml I ford & DuPre to place It In your: hands at onoe. Phone 107. R nriiliil Judge. ur*. cat* w thn nowsnaDers that Judge Verner was very severe in the denunciation r if a woman whom he said wns "utterly deroid of the fine and tender feelings that are g be distinguished characteristics of her sex." Well now we sut>mlt that no judge is ilothed with authority to exorcise such bruallty toward b defenceless prisoner, or thus * o Insult a helpless convict. The brutality of Judges in the exercise of . heir high duties deserves public condemna- /I ion. The facts of the New York case may * iave been one in which no mercy could have teeu shown because of a particular act, but ?o such general charge as the Judge makes n this Instance is warranted. aI If a Judge takes advantage of his position o Insult a prisoner, he aoes something which 3 reprehensible. It is his right to discuss the normlty of crime as a justification of pun?i? has no right to sit on the 3uiuvuh tench and assume the role of the bully. rp ?? ? it WEST END. is InppenlDKN and lucideiitN or n Week Around tbe city. cfl Mrs. S. A. Mcintosh, accompanied by her ft, sn. Mr. Mack Mcintosh, spent a few days at , Irs. Victoria D. Lee's last week. 01 Mrs. James Bradley, with her pretty and In- or ?restlng children, whs In tbe city last week, laying with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Klugb. Miss Janle Q,uaries and Miss Eliza Thomson cc reiit over to Atlanta ou Thursday. While y( i that city they were the gueBts of Mrs. /alker. Mrs. Edd Calhoun returned on Tuesday m oin a two week's stay with friends and rel- in lives in Washington. Ga. fn Miss Lucy Evans, of Florence, is here on a J lsit to her sister, Mrs. Frank Boyd Gary. I IBs Evans has visited Abbeville before, M laklng many friends by heradable manners, hi Miss Emuia Hall, an attractive younc lady om Charlotte, Is the guest ol her sister, Mrs. w erry Hall. _ ni Mr. W. A. Templeton reiumea on iriaay r~ om a pleasant two week's stay in Detroit, here be went to attend a meeting of tbe upreme Lodge of tbe Knights of Honor. W Dr. S. L. Morris, pustor of the Tattnall m quare Presbyterian church In Macou, came ^ own from Due Weston Wendnesday. While ere Dr. Morris was the guest of Mr. Amos B. lii [orse. ' Hon. Walter L. Miller went to Ninety-Six . u Friday to deliver an address before the 811 ons of tbe Confederacy. A large audience fai as present on this happy occasion. m Miss Francis Hawes, of Elberton, 1b visiting llss Mary Lee. Miss Hawes is one of Elber- Of m's most attractive and accomplished young b'J idles. One of the most enjoyable events of the sea>n was the card party and dance given by Irs. Carrie Lagare on Monday evening at her or >ol suburban nome, in honor of her friend, u: Lisa Slalon, of Atlanta, who, by ber pleasan t lanners, has won maoy friends during her txi ay here. Cards were enjoyed until 12 o'clock, til hen refreshments were served. The even- nr ig was closed by a delightful dance, that was " , mtlnued until the "we small hours." W1 Miss Emma Calhoun has gone to Washing- "f m for an extended vi6it to friends and relives. Miss Fannie Morrow entertained a few of 3r friends Monday evening in a delightful ! ad informal manner. Ce Miss May Slaughter, of Hlokory Grove, is sre on a visit to Mrs. James H. Perrin. Miss U1 laughter is a most charming young lady and to one of Abbeville's favorite visitors. Jjj Messrs. Will Harrison and Sam Moore, of ork vllle, arrived in the city Friday evening. " 1 1-1- (hp % V lug luaucu 4Ult'& tu^ vu iuou nuvviPt -v 'bile in the city they are the guests oI (Japt. |a; B. Lyles. Mitts Eliza CalbouD leaves on Saturday to &a Islt various places tn Georgia before return IK to tbe ".Louise Home" la Washington. j8 Mrs. H. C. Plnckuey returned on Saturday f. i ber borne In Anderson, alter a pleasant ay bere with relatives and friends. M Mr. J. Gilliam Aiken leaves the 1st or July ha r Piedmont, where be goes to study cotton jylng. Mr. Aiken is one of Abbeville's best ef* jung men and bis many friends regret to ab arn tbat be will ma&e his bomo elsewhere, nil Mr. and Mrs. George Wharton, of Atlanta, flr e here on a visit to Mrs. St. Jullat^Corrie. A party of youag people went to Martin's sel ill! on a picnic Monday. A happy day was 0tl >ent In spite of tbe "April" showers. ? Miss May Lyon spent last week at Due uo rest, the guest of her cousins, the Misses mi rldeman. Everyone wbo attended Due West Com encement last week reports a pleasant time, tie kindness and hospitality of the Due West | jople Is proverbial. Warrenton is to have her annual plcnlo on axt Saturday. Abbeville will, as usual, be Pi ell represented. gii Rev. S. L. Wilson was In the city on Tburs- 5 ly. Mr. Wilson Is pastor of the Presby- nr rlan church at Westminister. bli It seems as If at last our pushing little town na to be well lighted. The contract bas been p. ttled and Abbeville Is to bs lighted by eleclclty in lour months. Tbe city will have bu rty arc lights, 2,000 candle power each. ori The many friends of Miss Laura Nance will r arn with regret of ber critical illness. Ia( Rev. and Mrs. Edward McCrady, with tbelr oo: nidren, left on Monday for a month's ab- ro, DCe' m< DEATH OF MISS LUCY A. WHITE. (0 The funeral services of Miss Lucy White mi ere held from the Presbyterian church on an mday afternoon, Dr. J. L. Wilson offlclatg. The body was laid to rest at Long Cane aP imetery, surrounded by a large number of 1 rrowlnn friends and relatives. For several JJ, omhs past the deceased had been an lnilid, and was a great sufferer during ber or< og Uluess. She was a devoted member of po ie Presbyteilan cburch and a faithful worker {0] the Sabbath school. Her death has reoved a pure Christian woman, and her place B0) innot be easily filled. mi sb * * loi LOWNDESVILLE. ? ? hi be Yoiiiiic ns Well h.h the Old Jlfasl ' rg' Go? Children's Day?Personals. . Lowndesvllle, 8. C., June 26th, 1899. ? Mr. T. L. Cozby and his sou, Mr. W. L. ~u )sby, of Greenville, came down last Sunday 101 id spent several days at Mr. J. T. Latimer's. mj Mrs. J. H. Latimer, of Abbeville, Mrs. V. R. ci aornton, of Atlanta, and Miss Leone Dor- r 1 y, of Gainesville, are with the family of ori ? T I. r otlmap _ Mrs. J. G. Edwards, of Abbeville, came up 'ednesday and was for several days at the >me of her brother-in-law. Mr. J. H. Baskin. mi Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Speer, of Monterey, j rc ere In this place Wednesday. mi Several of our citizens went to Due West ,11 nesday, perhaps the greatest attraction ire ilajt the prospect of hearing the celebrated r. Talmage. They were sucoeesful In hear- f iK bim and were wonderfully well pleased. f1? Mrs. E. K. Horton and her two little girls tn eut over to Due West where they have since on sen with the 'amllv of the father of the first ? lined, Dr. J. Q,. McDavid. co, Miss Eva WaKefleld, of "Centre of Gravity," issed through this place Saturday on her ay to visit friends at Elberton. Miss A Hie May and Miss Ada Fennel and ce Iks Kate Hutchison who have spent the is ist lew mouths at school at Ashevllle, N. C., fou ime home last week to spend vacation. Rev. Jas. Miciln, of Anderson, passed Qe trough this place Saturday evening on his m ay to the Rocky Rk?er neighborhood where 0f ?. had an appointment to preach yesterday. .. Children's Day was observed atShlloliSat- pn rday. An appropriate programme of exer- ir< ses had been arranged for the occasion, \\ hlch was carried out to the satisfaction of II. A large crowd of people was present and 3joyed the day. Plenty of the eatables had til een provided in a style to satisfy ail de- m r\- \ir CJ rtf (hia IUUUO. 1/1, TV O* Oiwacn nuu laiuuj U? ujin /? lace attended. The doctor added to the lit- 10 rary part of the feast in a well appoiuted 80 Lid Impressive address. Last Tuesday odo of our oldest and best cit- , ;ens was called to her reward, Mrs. J. J. Ken- ao edy, better known to our people as "Cousin \\ eck" to some and "Aunt Beck" to others, eacefuliy passed away. Her remains were npressively funerallzed by her pastor, Rev. [. C. Fennel, in Providence, at 11 a. m., In the resence of a large number of friends and Natives. Mrs. Kennedy bad been in her 81st A ear since last December, a life long member 90 f the Presbyterian church and none ever for moment doubted her earnestness, her sin- A' jrity. Every one loved her. About twelve jo ears ago a stroke of paralysis put an end to ie, er active life and destroyed that happy cotnauionship, that heartfelt, that tender and ue converse In which she ever Indulged and m >ok such delight In when with irlends. w Whenever any oue called to see her during er long allllctiou as of yore were smilingly co relcomed. She is no more, yet none can for cc ne moment doubt her being in the belter ?0 ind. On Tuesday "The Reaper" came and . ut down one whose long and blameless life ot ad endeared her to all who ever met her. h< Yesterday the same monster who respects re either age nor Infancy claimed as lils own, ittle Vivian, the eighteen months old daught- TO r of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. BarneB. The little w >rm so pleasing to our sight and the winsome rays of the bright and Intelligent little tot "" ad ho begun to control our affections as that be was fast becoming an object of worship, of nd this treasure was taken away to the ^ rorld above that the bereaved hearts might L jllow. The little earthly idol has been tranB- tr lanted to the heavenly garden and trans- T ormed into an angel o< light to lead the grief rT1 tricken ones to their immortal home. Troupe, la Ui Dr. Hill's h?adaohe powder for Bale by lillord & DuPre. Phone 10T. Dr. Xeuffer'8 Luni: Tonic for sale by Mllford t DuPre. Phone 107. CI Drink glngerale maltat Mllford & DuPre's oda fountain. ts SOUTHERN FARMERS. roiul fianice Remc?lle? SiifrgeMteil for i Ilroiul Ganiec Evil*. y W. A. Parker, late Editor of the Wesson, 1 Mississippi, Mirror. The Southern farmer is not happy, do not propose to consider all the luses of this, but 1 am impressed with ve features of the situation as deservig of more than a passing thought, hese are: (1). Credit farming. (2). A lazy man's market. i IH) The nlnw and the loom too far :>art. " i (4). Bad transportation. i (5). Fear of the fire. Credit Fftrmlng. "Credit farming is the result of being impelled to farm without capital, his fallacy looks to be a plain truth ; is a plain absurdity. , Farming is not speculation. It is ^t play. Ii is not idle dreaming. It business, and business is not done in \ lis year of grace without capital? oney capital, brain capital, energy j ipital. The farmer who has these ( iree forms of capital uses them in his isiness. The farmer who lacks one j all of them hires what he has not. ( When you hire a workman you be- , ? - - * tin J ?me a master, ne a servant, wueu )u hire capital you acquire a master id become a slave. A slave may ake a profit out of the business of beg a slave, and in time may buy his eedom. Not many crop-lien slaves, >wever, ever realize this possibility, ost of those who do are those who re only money capital. Those to hom the merchant must also "fursh" brains and energy eventually alize the boast of one of them who id: "When I can't make a living orking six months in the year I will lit." He clearly meant he would lit farming, as he had not made a ring in years, The great barrier to the crop-lien ive's emancipation, however, is the ct that, in his case, the furnishing erchant is the real farmer. He does >t plant according to his judgment, it accordidg to his orders. He cultiite-> also by order, gathers his crop r order, markets it by order, and by ders from tbe same source arranges s plans for another crop. This an will never do his best farming 1 he can get the merchant out of the isition ot boss, and the merchant >11 be boss till the slave is able to urnish" himself. j A Iiftiy Man'* Market. Said a successful farmer to me rently : "The average farmer is body ligent but brain lazy. He is willing work with bis hands, but not with s head. What crops he can make ily by hard study and real thinking i will not plant." Cotton is a brainzy crop. Brain-lazy to plant, make, tber and sell. The merchant also brain-lazy. He the farmer's middleman. He brings e farmer and his market together, any times, most times, the farmer is neither time, money information, perience, confidence, nor, possibly, ility to hunt a market. He must mtfor the merchant's market?for a sy-man's market. Cotton sells itIf?for money or a debt receipt. No tier possible Southern farm crop es. Hence the more laziness the are cotton. Plow and Loom Too Far Apart. Some years ago the center of the >n industry of this country was at ttsburg, Pa. The city was furnacerdled. The smoke of the smelter's es was a curtain by day and a ^ ?nket by night. The town lost its j me and was known as the "Smoky ^ ty." Whoever would smelt iron t ilt a furnace there because it was ( thodox business doctrine that the f :tory should be neighbor to its rj mpetitor. A mixture of iron and ^ ek called ore, lime to flux it, coal to > sit it, all were hauled from a dozen a thousand miles that orthodoxy r ight preserve a business "center," t a the pick and the furnac dwelt r art. f One day there appeared a heretic. ? e said the furnace ought to go the e j field. He had the assurance to c intout that Pittsburg was payiug c ag freights on five and more tons of t mething for every ton of pig iron t ide. His heresy was to make a c ort haul of the ore, flux and fuel and a t r. haul nf Hi a irnn?? nhnrh haul of j. JS v. .. l e five tons and put the long haul on c e one ton. Iron orthodoxy laughed j m to scorn. r Capital, however conservative, is not r verent. Business heresy is good c ctrine if it can show a profit. Away t t near the end of one of Pittsburg's r ag hauls a furnace was built. The c iner's pick was its nearest neighbor, j om within rifleshot of its door came g e from one baud, lime from the ^ iier and coal from between the two. v Pittsburg was then putting on the 8 arket at Chicago a certain grade of f >n at a cost of upwards of $20 per tou. t le heretic's furnace soon sola better , >n in Chicago at $16 and made a f od profit. It was hit? derided short j luI on the five tons and lone haul on t e one ton. He had saved the freight i what the furnace must handle but nlri not Hell. , Today Pittsburg sees the sun every y and the stars every night, and the nter of the iron industry of America where Dixie is sung. South Pittsirg, Birmingham, a troop of their arest of kin are children of the arrlage the iron heretic negotiated; the wedding at which the pick and e furnace exchanged vows while in orthodoxy forbid the bans, here the plow and the loom have t up housekeeping they are begetig a like healthy progeny. But any a Southern plow has not yet uud?many indeed have not yet ught?a loom affinity. Southern iron has made heresy orthoix. The factory is seeking the farm, hat is the farm doing? Bad Transportation. The farmer pays a great many taxes, few of them are levied by the law, mo bv nature, more bv the farmer. transportation is a tax that all three 1 in in assessing. Nearness to market ssens this tax. How do you measure nearness, in iles or in dollars? I talked recently 1 ith a farmer who estimated that it 8t him fifty cents a bale to haul his itton the forty miles from his farm the railroad. The next eveuing an- 1 her farmer figured out for me that f 3 was paying "six bits," seventy-five 1 :nts, to haul his cotton twenty-three ? iles to the same town. The man < ho was seventeen miles farther was < y.inty-five cents a bale nearer. i It costs $58 to eet a hundred barrels i ' fiour from a certain mill to its 1 larket; $98 to get a hundred barrels I om another mill to the same market. | he first mill is 27 per cent, nearer in ' liles and 14 per cent, nearer in doi- 1 rs. Which measure the business i istance, the miles or the dollars? I TiVrHr mil^a o rl i r fr rnuH iu u lnnr* i X* VI VJ Uillto V*C1 c* Vll.l iuuu IW m iUiig j ay from market, whichever way it id i leasured. A large percentage of the i ops and live stock of the Southern | >rmer is produced at some auch distnce from the railroad, while it i% i aaid that it is impossible for a man ti get twenty miles, almost impossible t< get ten miles, from a railroad town ii ~C IU? .nUnnf iui kc uuiea ui luc uuni auu wucai growing sections of the United States And when the Southern farmer get to his railroad town he finds rail rate much higher than does the corn an< wheat farmer. Fenr of the Fire. The power of fire is a fearful thingif uncontrolled. Light one in thi middle of the floor of your sitting-roon on a cold day. Not for long will i warm you. It will scorch, burn, de stroy your house and yourself if yoi 3tay by it. No one fears the fire s< little as to handle it otherwise thai with care and with ample arrange ments for keeping it under control No one fears itso much as to try to keej house without it. The power of a corporation?o corporate capital?is so feared b; many that, far from trying to contrc it, they would suppress it. Rathe than risk its dangers they would los ifci KonoHta Or lontinor a little* f) that supreme folly they essay to con trol it, not in wisdom, but in malice Rather than use the fire for warmtl ami other service they would beat i du t of existence, or so cripple it as t make it useless. The farmer does not expect such fol ly to rule in his kitchen. He looks fo intelligent handling of the breakfas Bre, and would be astonished if hi wife should propose that he go to worl in a cold snack because of the dange having a tire in the house. The farmer has been charged witl aeing at the bottom because be hirei bis thinking done for him and pay folly's price for a poor job. If hi thinkers are the howlers who hav< shaped much of the legislation of th< South, the charge is not withou foundation. Fear is always a loud talker, and al ways gets an audience. The fellov with an axe to grind knows this. Hi aunts for a fear that he can use to se icant thinkers to howling, knowinf well that if they get what they how 'or they will grind his axe and nevei jnow it. Southern offices are full o luch axe-grindera today. They start ?d a howl about the dangers of corpo 'ate government, and the men wh( ihink by proxy swallowed the bail tnd howled for laws, not about corpor ations, to be framed in fear anc ;xecuted with a club. They forgo iiat the life of a corporation is a pure y business affair, and that club: iestroy life, but do not help business The farmer 'did a part of this howling ind is at it yet. He had and hai ilenty of help. Does his help lesser lis folly? The farmer needs corpora ions, not as enemies, but as friends lot as masters, but as diligent anc lelpful servants. Senseless fear of their power hai jripled many a one of those now her< ind kept many more of them from com ng here, thus losing to farmer, mer :hant, laborer and mechanic the helj hey are giving to other sections. Where is the busine-s safety tha luppresses activity? Where is tb< jusiness life that can go well 01 :rutches? Where is the capital thai :an build up while being itself tori lown ? Where is the business thai :an bring to a community a profi' vhile not allowed to make one itself' lS fear, mere slavish fear of corporat* :apital a benefit or a curse to th< south ? Are Southern men brave only ir var and cowards in business? Dare southern men light corporate fire foi varmth, power, profit, or dare tbej hey only hamper what is here anc under from coming what is not yel lere? Our statute-books say we an >usiness cowardd. Our laws say we dar< lot trus* our wisdom or our strength )ur constitutions even assert that w< ear to have wealth come among us Thus have we recorded a verdict a1 var with our good sense no less that vith our interest. If my critics say here that I have lamed five causes of the farmer'i inhappiness, two of which affect th( nercnant scarcely less than the armer, and the other three of whict iffect, almost equally with the farmer svery individual in the South, I car >nly plead guilty, with extenuatinu sircumstances. 1 did not arrange the iconomic laws that put all clas>sei inder the ban or the good whict lovers any one of them. I speak tc he farmer, not because he is sunposec o have a monopoly of the adverse londitions I describe, but because, af ! know him, he is clearer-headed nore candid, more willing to test t lew idea, more ready to act on hif convictions than his partners in mis' iry. I realize that in this last ] nalign the howlers. They are wont U ilass the farmer's troubles as sons o lis stupidity, bigotry, all forms 01 tand-fast-in-the-rut qualities, anc veep for him with one eye while thej vink sneers at him with the other. 1 im hopeless of getting the howler'* orgiveuess, so I will not apologize. ] abe the farmer as the type of the mat vho thinks on what he reads. In sc ar as any reader of the Southern Farir Vfagazine who is not a farmer is s binking reader he is part of my chos :n audience. To prove the cause3 of Southern ad /ersity broader than the farm is onlj o emphasize their claims to earnest hnnorht.ful finnaififtrfttion. If th( juintet of causes I have listed is cf suck i character, the merchant, the manu acturer, the professional man, th( nechanic, every Southern man wht eads the Southern Farm Magazine ii jersonally interested in them. These five causes are not independ :nt of each other. If thtey could be se! >ach to itself it would be a simple hing to point out the five needed iflectual, simple remedies. They can lot be so separated. Working botl ndependently and interdependent^ hey have produced a complex result vhich can be put aside only by bring ng to bear on it forces equally cum )lex, equally farreachine:, equallj jroad, deep and strong. These forces [ will class under five heads, as muct 'or convenience as for aught else. (a). Capital is the blood of business (b). Men are twigs, corporations ar< 11 ?ven-uuuuu UU LIU ICO* (c). The power of a highway. (d). Marry the farm and the factory (e). The law is not a couch, it is ? ool. Capital the Blood of BaMncim, Id the economy of nature the entin jody of man is built up by joining to ^ether in a wonderful way many mil ions of minute cells. They are not al ilike. There are bone cells, musch jells, fat cells, nerve cells, merabranc? jells, many other kinds, each with iti ndividual character, purpose and use rulness. The boy on the road to man hood who gained a pound in weighs ast month simply added to his bulk i pound of cells. How was it done' rhe materials for the new growtt tvere taken from his food, trausformec into blood, and the blood, circulating to every part of his nystem, built i new cell here, a bunch of them there i pound of them everywhere. Notic< it was new blood that made all tb< growth. Capital is blood?the blood of busi ness. You see a business making pro 3 fits and adding them each year to its 3 capital, and you are not surprised to ] see that business grow. It makes its - own new blood and must grow. There is another way. Among the s triumphs of modern surgery few made a more stir when first annonnced than 1 Hiri tlio hniMinor nn nf o nrAimH onrl fever depleed human life by pumping into his veins the warm, living blood of a sheep. Because the patient could " not make new blood fast enough the e new surgery brought to him the life's J capital of another. Ordinary convalescence is just development; this was ~ plain addition. 1 Every town in the South isa business Q point. Grow it will or die according I as it makes or gets new business blood " or tries to be content with what it has. You would have called him a fool? P the emaciated, death-threatened patient?if he had refused to be built up lf by the transfusion process because of y the danger that he might in time beII come a sheen. Falr-Dlav dictated. r however, tbat the sheep should not be e. bled to weakness. The sheep was ' well fed in advance, generously and wisely fed, and was taxed only as his ' feeding made it easy for him to pay 1 the tax. 1 The Southern town that grows by 0 the addition of new capital?the business transfusion that has made many a dead town live?need not fear that J" it will thereby ever become a foreign 1 town. Whatever and however its 8 growth, it may be, it will be an 1 American town, a Southern town. r Weakness says "beware," ' wisdom says "move forward." Let outside 1 capital be invited to come in. Let the 9 law that invites provide for control, 9 for the control that insuies good be8 havior on the one hand and fair treate ment on the other. Without the ? latter capital will not come; without t the former capital will not bless. Fear nothing the howler says, not " even his many-told tale of the country : fast going to the city, and hence fa*t : going to the dogs. His fact is a true 1 fact. Men are now living who were [ born when nearly half our population 1 lived on the farm ; now less than oner. fifth depend on the farm for livelihood, 1 less than one-tenth are actual farmers. " It is the howler's conclusion that is " wrong. W hile the cities are growing ? so much faster than the country dis' tricts the total wealth of the United j States is increasing at the rate of more ' than a thousand million dollars a year; gaining enough in a year to buy " out the entire wealth, the lifetime 3 accumulations, of ail-the millionaries ' and multimillionaires in the country. ? The howler has found s fact, a really 3 significant and large fact, and regard1 lesB of the evident misfit he adds its " weight to his noise and expects the inj creased clatter to increase raith in him 1 and his howl. This howl is more than three decades long, but in spite of it, 3 somehow, the man in town is glad he 5 is there and the man on the farm is " glad, stA)bornly glad, that the town is large enough to buy part of his crops 5 at prices that do not permit the sheriff . to move him off the farm. ^ If the town Was bigger the independ3 ence of the farmer would be better asI sured. Practically all he sells is sold t to the town's concentrated inhabif tants. Bigger towns mean richer t farms aud farmers with more money ? to spend. The customer's purchasing 1 power determines the merchant's and 3 the manufacturer's profits. 3 Everyoue is interested in the distance. Eggs sell for as much per 1 dozen in Smalltown, Ala., as in LiverS' do], England, sometimes for more. otton sells in Smalltown for a cent [ and a-qnarter per pound less than in f Liverpool. At Smalltown the far[ mer's hen fruit is marketed at the tailboard of his wagon and the price fixed there. The farmer must pay for a transportation line a third way round the earth to connect his wagon with his cotton market. Every growth of the town brings producer and consumer nearer together. Distance saved is money earned. Incidentally I want to say here that city concentration of population is possible only because the farm is prospering. Not long ago one man on the farm could not grow enough to feed and cbothe three men in town; now the one man is producing food and clothing for five in town and so much overdoing it that he gets small prices for all his crops. This is prosperity for the farm, but not for the farmer. The lesson is, build the town bigger. Taxes are a burden. Heavy burdens become light only by getting mor individuals to share them. The t f o v- thaf 3a mil) hu la twiftA AS 1 heavy as if borne by one 1000. Since } Smalltown got a factory, working 250 " bands, $5000 more wages are paid out L there each month than formerly. P Every dollar of the increase comes p from the consumers of tbat factory's product; that is, mostly from some | distant point. All of it is spent or in' vested there. It is all invested there, L since what the worker merely spends ? the receiver invests. That is $60,000 L in a year; over $500,000 in ten years. 1 Smalltown's tax list?its assessable } property?doubled in five years. 1 What plan so sure for reducing taxak tion. If the South would drop its burden it must develop its towns. Twigs and Fasces. Few indeed are the wa^s of doing [ things tbat are not as large as tbe I things to be done. Partnerships were . invented because individuals could . not alone handle tbe largest enter j prises. This was merely making the , business stronger by putting more men in it. Out of the partnership . idea was evolved the corporation idea. ^ Neither idea was bom till the need of , it was felt. Modern business has many things to be done too large for I any individual, too large for any firm. , The corporation is a business agent equal to these things; no other busi' ness power is. Your choice is limited 1 to three things?invent a better busi. ness agent, use this one or be out of r and stay out of the way of all large 3 business enterprises. L One of the greatest of modern anomalies is the effort now making in many ways to cripple corporations in j the South. Here are almost unlimited natural resources ; resources inviting tbe most extended and most powerful business activity; here also [ is the most determined and most unreasoniing opposition to any activity that uses the agents of power and the successful developers of natural resource. That father was } surely wise who showed his sons the * weakness of a single twig and? the J strength of a bound bundle of just such 1 twigs, but we of the South have made ; successful effort to hinder the binding 1 of our own twigs into bundles, as if 3 we thought nothing but some sort of " business pois9n ivy would or oould be ' used for bands. t Have you ever thought what kind * of a price-maker a corporation is? ' Many of you who read thes lines have } lifty years of active life within 1 memory's call. For common nails, ' individual or lirrn made, you have 1 seen forty cents per pound paid ; now ? corporation-made nails?better nails? i are in your houses and your fenoes for i which you paid two and one-half to flve cents per pound. You have perhaps paid $20 for a tou of individual-mined i , ... ;v< ^vr;; o coal; this past record-breaking winter you have warmed your hands over a fire of |3 to"$7 coal, corporation mined. You have paid a shoe maker a month's wages for a pair of boots ; now you pay the merchant a profit in the one day's work, the wage of which buys you a better pair, corporation made. Your experience will multiply these trite illustrations almost adinfinitum. Not all of this price-making has oeen uone oy me corporauoDS, duc not all others causes combined would have made modern prices possible if corporate capital had not become a pricemaker. If you doubt this, try the cost today of band-made articles, not forgetting to reckon the cost of handmade raw material, tools, etc., and even if you give to the workmen every modern tool and machine which the largest business can possibly enable his individual enterprise to use with profit, the lowest cost at which he can produce the commonest article will be many times what you can now buy its equal ftr in the nearest store. When a price is reduced from a month's wages to a day's pay sombody besides the price-maker has made a profit. The consumer has gained, surely. Could any shouter get your vote to annul the charters and burn the plants of all the big boot and shoe manufacturer?, and put the prices back to the month's work basis? Would you consent to laws making the price of coal what individual mining would have kept it at if the corporation pricemaker bad let coal alone? Do you want every article of iron and steel that you buy or use or the price of which determines some other, price put back to the 40-cent nail basis? He spoke truth who said: "You can argue around, over or through a theory, but when you meet a fact you must iust face it." The Drice of everv article you buy that has "felt an artisan's touch is a fact. It is a prosperity fact, rich with lessons we of the South may heed with profit. The center of wealth of this country is where corporations flourish. That center would be in the South if it were located according to natural advantage?. It will be in the South when tbe South abandons prejudice and adopts wisdom. I am not one of those who imagine that the real sentiment of tbe South is expressed in the laws we have regarding capital, nor is the lack of cordiality with which, sometimes, new capital is welcomed. We all know how much louder sound the empty barrel gives forth when it is set rolling, as well as the small 3r effort needed to put it in motion. We have put the empty barrels in office. We bavesent them to oar legislatures. We have let them outvote the thinking people in our constitutional conventions. Perhaps we thought them harmless because empty. Perhaps we let them do our thinking because they were so ready to do our howling. Perhaps we were so busy working we did not get a correct iaea 01 wnai meir howls signified. In all this the Sooth has slandered itself. Ic has let the howler put an embargo on trade. It has let him discourage capital. It has let him say "let us alone.'' It has surrendered to him the .making of our laws. It is time the South put on record its protest against all this. It is time the South made known the fact that the spirit of hospitality pervades Southern business no less than Southern homes. It is time the right hand of the business South be extended, offered to stranger capital. It is time that capital, outside or home capital, be encouraged to form here the bundles of twigs that shall rgeet modern business conditions arra bring modern business results to the South. L. W. White's Locals. Read "David Harnm," the moat popular book extant. The Literary Digest of May 27th ult., calls this book "A Literary Pbenom ouuu, auu sajro aw iq tuw wwv uv>t.ut ? the year. In March alone 20,000 copies were sold and the demand continues to be enormous. You will And this book at L. W. White's. L. W. While has Just received an entirely new line of black clay worsted suits In regulars and long and slim. We can now fit almost any one. Call before the sizes are broken. Another supply of Malaga straw hats JUBt received by L. W. White. The late extremely hot weather has created quite a demand for organdies and pine apple silks. The ladles will find a beautiful assortment of these goods at the store of L. W. White. White lawns organdies and piques are now all the rage. A full line of the above goods at all prices can be fonnd at L. W. White's. Also embroideries and trimmings In endless variety. . .. We have a few patterns of crepons left. Call at the store of L. W. White and see them. We sti 11 have goods of different kinds in remnants, some of which are very desirable and cheap. Call for them at the store of L. Wt White. A very choice line of mattings and rugs can D6 rouna ai l,. w . w nue s. The best and coolest material for Summer ehirta Is madras olotb. We bave a large stock of this material, and we are now selling It at 10 oents, former price 12% cents a yard. Charleston and Western Carolina R. R Angnsta and Asheville Short Line< In effoot Jan. 8,1899. Lv Augusta. 9 40 am 1 40 pm Ar Greenwood 13 15 pm . Ar Anderson 6 10 pm Ar Laurens .. .... 1 20 pm 7 00 am Ar Greenville ... ... 3 00 pm 10 IS am Ar Glenn Springs - 4 00 pm Ar Spartanburg 8 10 pm 10 20 am Ar Saluda . 5 88 pm Ar Hendersonvllle. 6 08 pm ArAsheville 7 00 pm Lv Ashe vl He 8 20 am Lv Spartanburg 11 46 am 8 OS pm Lv Glenn Springs. 10 00 am ? Lv Greenville .. ... 12 01 am 4 00 pm Lv Laurens 1 37 pm Lv Anderson . 7 00 am Lv Greenwood 2 37 pm 5 00 am Ar Augusta _ 5 10 pm 11 10 am Lv Calhoun Falls ? 4 44 pm Ar Raleigh 2 10 am Ar Norfolk 7 80 am Ar Petersburg 6 00 am Ar Richmond 8 15 am Lv Augusta 2 55 pm Ar Allendale . 5 00 pm Ar Fairfax 5 15 pm Ar Yemaasee 9 45 am 6 20 pm Ar Beaufort 10 50 am 7 20 pm Ar Port Royal 11 05 am 7 85 pm Ar Savannah 8 85 pm Ar Charleston .. 9 10 pin Lv Charleston 6 40 am Lv Savannah 7 00 am Lv Port Royal 1 40 pm 8 30 am Lv Beaufort 1 55 pm 8 40 am Lv Yemassee 3 05 pm 9 45 am Lv Fairfax 10 51 am Lv Allendale 11 05 am Ar Angusta. 1 JO pm * ? " ?4 95 am i IjV , Ar Laurens 6 00 am. Lv Laurens 7 00 am Ar Spartanburg - 10 20 am Lv Spartanburg 3 10 pm Ly Lnurens 6 30 pm Ar Greenwood 12 25 pm Close connections at Greenwood for all points on 8. A. L. aud C. A 6. Hallways, and at Spartanburg with Southern Ballway, For any Information relative to tickets, rates, schedule, etc., address W. J. CRAIG. Gen. Pass. Agent, Augusta, Q?. E. M. NOBTH. Hoi. Asrent T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. Dont fall to try h bos of cacti soap. For sale by Mllford & DuPre. Phone 107. The Druggists. Dr. Hill's famous headache powder has no equal. For sale by Mllford & DuPre. Phone 107. Call at Mllford & DuPre's drug store and be refreshed with one of their Ice cream sodas. gWhv does Speed sell so many cigars? because he bundled high grades good at low prices. Novelties In belt buckles and belts, at Haddon's. ENEMY OF CORN CEOF ? Ntnall Caterpillar Threatens Southern Crop?Means Used to Destroy the Worm. Atlanta Journal. The corn orop of the South la threatened with total loss by the destructive onslaught of the larger cotton stalk borer, a new enemy that has come to devastate the fields of grow* log grain. Many letters have been received by State Pn fnmnlno'iul Unntt fmnrm fa wm a mm <n ? 11 aAlnii tlons of the Slate, and be has received quite an Interesting collection of tbe worm ana tbe Btalfcs upon which be finds bis existence. Tbe worm Is batched from tbe egg* of moth that lays on tbe young stalk of corn. Tbe period of batching requires little more than a week, and tbe moment the newborn pest opens Its eyes In tbe new world be begins borlbg bis way Into'-(be beart of tbe stalk, killing and poisoning the life Of tbe plant. State Entomologist Soott, In an Interesting interview this mornlnsr, tells tbe fnll story a of tbe worm and the remedy that most be applied to save tbe crop from destruction. Entomologist Scott, Id speaking of tbe worm wblob Is so destructive, says: ' Tbe larger cornstalk borer Is a large white oaterplUar, dotted "with dark brown spots, wblob bores Into oorn stalks preventing tbe growth of tbe ears sn young oorn and weakening older stalbs on tbat it Is readily blown down. It frequently occurs In snob numbers In corn fields tbat one stalk of oorn may be riddled wltb twenty or tblrty boles. "TbU Insect Is qnlte well distributed over tbe sontbern States and frequently become* very troublesome, causing a loss of 25 to 60 per cent of tbe crop wben It ooonrs In large n ambers. Aside from corn It alto attacks sugar sane, sorghum, and gama grass or semaln grass. "Tbe adult lnseot Is a motb wblob depositseggs on young corn soon after It oomes op. The eggs soon batcb and tbe yonng larvte bore Into the ntalfc from tbe ground to tbe tbird Joint and tunnel nsoally upward tbroagn tbe path. Corn stalks affected become distorted and do not form ears. There Is a second generation of this Insect whleb bores Into tbe well grown stalks and' . so weakens them that they are frequently blown over. This seoond generation passes tbe winter In the old oorn stalks ready to produce a spring brood to attack tbe next crop or corn. ' The remedy for this Insect consists entirely of preventive measures. Slnoe the caterpillars over-winter In the old cotn atalks they can be almost entirely destroyed by burning these stalks In. the fall or winter after the crop Is gathered. ' Our method or palling the fodder and leaving the stalks on the ground, or even catting the corn and leaving the butts, affords the very best ooadltlons for this Insect to hold over the winter and oontlnae to multiply . year after year. The stalks sboald be dnuc fc gedoff, oollectedand burned daring the tall and winter." "Again, corn sboald not follow corn on Infested lands. A system of rotation of crops should be adopted, so that corn will not be planted on ibe same land two years In saocesslon. The same ts true of sugar cane and ;,?? sorghum. Also swamps In which gama grass Is growing shonld be burned over every year to destroy the worm Infesting this grass. If these preventive measures are followed tarm- . /< era need not suffer from attacks of the pest." A. B. Moraea' Locals. Fine cucumber olokles, 4 doz. for 25c. .uvery gooa nousexeeper snoaia nave at - :: least 25o. worth of those nice oaoambera at . V: Morse's. 4 dozen. I haven't many ouonmbers left at 6\i a doz. Send quick or yoa will miss them. Ioe pick and lemon squeezers. Fresh lemons constantly In stock. 1 doz. liflnger grain craddles with Blood's best blades Justin. If you should happen to need a few fruit ';'\ Jars of extra rubbers, I have them. My Jan are superior to a great many that are offer for \ : '/ sale, having alamlnum tops and tbe glass Is . . JBt clear and smooth. Half gallons, quarts and pints. Look at them. Prices reasonable.1 I also have a small lot of par^ffioe wtlx for -wi covering fruits and Jellies. ? A few Ice cream churns at'Very low prices. ViBa A nice line plokles, canned fruits, vegeta bles, salmon, shrimp, crab, olives and saaoes. A small lot of fresh candles Just received. Fresh crackers to arrive next week. Amos B. Morse. you will be I interested to know that we have added .to our stock a line of toilet articles that is unique . in combining a high order of merit with thorough efficiency, excellent value and perfect harmlessness, as well as affording pleasure in use. the list comprises preparations for the face, hands, skin, mouth, teeth and hair; perfumery, '% toilet waters, sachets, etc. let us tell you \ more about them. . ? mm m j fflrs. fflary laggart, j ABBEVILLE, S. C. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.. Probate Court.?Citation for Letters of Administration. By R. E. Hill, Esq., Judge of Probate. TX7HEREAS, J. 8. BOWEN has made ? * suit to me, to grant blm Letters of Administration of tbe Estate and effects of JAMES S. ROBINSON, late of Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular tbe kindred and creditors of tbe said J AS S. R0BIN80N, deceased, that they be and appear before me, In tbe Court of Probate, to\be held at Abbeville C. H., on FRIDAY, the 30th day of JUNE. 1899, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause if any they have, why tbe said Administration should not be granted. Given under my band and seal of tbe Court, this 13th day of June. In the year of rr a i T + KnnHraH LU, O.J UUI JAflU VUO UUVUMIUU Ql?ui uuu\4> vm and ninety nine and In tbe 123 year of American Independence. j. Published on the 21st day of June, 1899, In the Press and Banner and on the Court . ->*/ ?} House door for tbe-time required by law. / Cj R. E, J une 21,1899, tf Juug3 of Probate. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. M i Probate Court?Citation for Letters of Administration. Vfig By R. E. Hill, Esq., Judge ok Probatb. VITHEREAS, DAVID W. THOMAS has ** made made suit to me. to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of MISS E. A. THOMAS, late of Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said E. A. THOMAS, deceased, that they be and appear before me. In the Court of Pro> bate, to be held at Abbeville C. H? on Monday, the 3rd day of July, 1899, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock In the forenoon, to show cause If auy they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal of tbe Court, this 19th day of June. In the year of rr ui our Lord one thousand eight hundred I 1j. d.| on/i rtlnotv.nlna anld In the 123 vaai* of American Independence. Published on the 21st day, of Jane, 1899, In tbe Abbeville Press and Banner and on the Court House door for tbe time required by law. R. E. HILL. June 20tb, 1899. Judge of Probate. Bargains in slippers at 59, 75 and 91 at Haddon's. ' m .M . . r 'y-fr vS &" *