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ABBEVILLE, 8. C.
IS^Publlnhed every Wednesday at 93 a
year In advance.
Wednesday, July 5, 1899.
Alliance Mcetiuc.
The annual meeting ol the County Alliance
for tbe election of officers lor the ensuing
year will be beld on Friday, July 21st. Ah
the election of a County Trustee Stockholder
will also be held. It Is highly Important that
sub-alliances owning stock In the State Exchange,
should elect a sub-trustee stockholder
to represent their stock In tbe Convention.
Under an amendment to the Constitution,
each sub-alliance in good standing is entitled
t/> a delegate to the State Convention.
It Is earnestly desired, therefore, that there
should be a full attendance at the County Al%
llauoe. Respectfully,
June 20,1899. John Lyon, President.
Long Cane ihnrcb.
At Long Cane last Sabbath Mr. McKlnnon's
congregation was highly edlfled by a fine ser
mon from Rev. W C. Ewart. of Lanoaster, 8.
C. His text was Iro.Ti the Acts?"And as be
reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and
the Judgment to come, Felix trembled and
answered, Go thy way for this time; when I
hs ve a convenient season I will call for the**."
* Mr. Ewart Is a speaker of earnestness and
force, and held the attention of the large con
gregatlon to tbe close.
Larxe Onions.
* Mr. Norwood Calhoun, of Calhoun Falls,
raises the largest onions that we have seen or
heard ol this Reason. A specimen which we
have seen Is 17% Inches In circumference, and
is as white as possible, aDd as an appetizer Is
not beaten In tnls section. Mr. Calboun Is
sustaining his repuUUIon as a first-class gardener.
Sale Day.
There were no sale-'' last Monday. A second
band buggy was offered, but it lacked ten
cents of bringing the "up-set" price, and it
was bid in for the owner. $9.85 was bid?89 95
was tbe price set on tbe machine by Dr. Marshall,
he being tbe owner.
Wanted.
Good laborers on new Government Lock at
Plaquemine, l>a. Job lasts two years ; wages
81.00 per day: board can be obtained for $2.00
perweek. Men who worked for us on mills
at reizer prererrea. Aaaress lromeataieiy
> Stewart <fc Co., Plaquemlne, La.
- ?~
''Lolly Pop" and Ice cream Bodas at MUford
& DoPre's soda foantaln.
Dr. Hill's headache powder, best old and
new style at Mllford & DuPre's. The Druggist.
Phone 107.
Dr. Hill's huadache powder for sale by
Mllford & DuPre. Phone 107.
Dr. Neuffer's Lung Tonic for sale by Mllford
A DuPre. Phone 107.
Drink ginger ale maltat Mllford & DaPre's
soda fountain.
Order what you want over the phone and
have Mllford A DuPre to place It In your
hands at once. Phone 107.
ENEMY OF CORN CROPSmall
Caterpillar Threatens Southera
rop-Hennit Used to Destroy
the Worm.
Atlanta Journal,
The corn crop or tbe south is threatened
with total iosa by tbe destructive onslaught
of the larger cotton stalk borer, a new enemy
that has come to devastate tbe fields of growing
grain.
Many letters have been received by State
Entomologist Scott from farmers in all telec'
ttons of the Stale, and be bus received quite
an Interesting collection of tbe worm and tbe
stalks upon wblcb be finds bis existence.
Tbe worm Is batched from tbe eggs of a
moth that lays on tbe yoang stalk of corn.
Tbe period'of batching requires little more
tban a week, and the moment tbe new-t>oru
pest opens lis eyes in the new world be begins
boring bis way Into tbe beart of the
stalk, killing and poisoning tbe life of tbe
plant.
State Entomologist Scott, in an interesting
interview tbls morning, tellB tbe full story
of tbe worm and the remedy that must be applied
to save tbe crop from destruction.
Entomologist Scott, In speaking of tbe
worm wblcb Is so destructive, Bays:
Tbe larger cornstalk borer is a large white
caterpillar, dotted wltb dark brown spots,
wblob bores Into corn stalks preventing tbe
growtn 01 ine ears sn yonng corn ana weasenlog
older stalks on mat li Is readily blown
down. It frequently occurs In such numbers
In corn delds that one stalk of corn may be
riddled wltn twenty or thirty hole*.
"This Insect Is quite well distributed over
the southern Slates and lrequently becomes
very troublesome, causing a loss of23 to 50
per cent of the crop wben it occurs lu large
numbers. Aside fiotn corn it also attacks
sugar Kane, sorghum, and guma grass or
semaln grass.
"'Ine adult insect Is a moth which deposits
eggs on young corn soon after it comes up.
Tne eggs soon hatcn and the young Jarvte
bore into the stalk from the ground to the
third Joint and tunnel usually upward
through the path. Corn stalks affected become
distorted and do not form ears
There is a second generation of this Insect
which bores into the well grown stalks and
so weakens them that they are frequently
blown over. This second generation passes
tbe winter Id the old corn stalks ready to
produoe a spring brood to attack the next
crop of corn.
"The remedy for this Insect consists entiiely
of preventive measures. Since the cater
pillars over-winter in the old corn stalks
thAT Ann he almost entirely destroyed by
burning these stalks la the fall or winter
after the crop 1r gathered.
' Our method of palling the fodder and
leaving the stalks on the ground, or even cutting
the com and leaving the butts, affords
the very best conditions for this insect to bold
over the winter and continue to multiply
year a fiery ear. The stalks should be dratc*
ged off, collected and burned during the fall
and winter." ?
"Again, corn should not follow corn on Infested
lands. A system of rotation of crops
should be adopted, so that corn will not be
planted on the same land two years in succession.
The same is true of sugar cane aod
sorghum. Also swamps in whioh gama grass
Is growing should be burned over every year
to destroy the worm lnlestlng this grass. J'
these preventive measures are followed farmers
need not suffer from attacks of the pest."
Bargains at Haddon'a.
New arrivals in white goods at Haddon's.
A new line of embroideries, insertings and
ribbons.
See oar linen and crashes for cool summer
dresses.
34 inch percales at 5 cents at Haddon's.
n/v 4/v Ua/l/lnn*a and as o hnrao 1 n In r?r\l nrorl
VJU IAJ DAUUUU O huvt (ob a vnt^aiu iu wivivu
lawns at 2% cents per yard.
A Dew piece of gloria silk for ladles' waists
50 inches wide at Haddon's.
Ready made statrt waist at 25,35 and 50 cts.
Window shades at 10c. at Haddon's.
A full line of window shades In all colors
at all prioes.
White and colored dotted swlss for cnrtains.
- An elegant line ol fine lace curtains at all
prlceB at Haddon's.
New arrivals in millinery this week at
Heddon's.
Sailors leghorn and flats Just received this
week.
A new snpply of chiffons, ribbons and laces
at Haddon's.
JLocals W. D. Barksdale.
uneu spi^icD auu puav/uco juov ?U(
ebredded cocoanut.
Something nice In preserves at lOo lb. ^
Biglot of trunks. All kinds. .
Little picnic bams. Very nice. M^|HI
bams?always the best. *^* r
hols of canned goods
C'otiolene, the "-''JktK&m UNI
as
cents
and
"i^^ipFMwHpKritnes of traDks.
''"' n's borne made pickles are floe.
Wil^Kn In need of sometblog to eat come and
Tee wbat we bave. W. D. Barksdale.
i m * m ?
Get r>d of your flees with Insect powder.
For sale by Speed. '
fry $ glass of our delicious claret phosphate.
Milford <* D'uPre.
There is no use to tell you nqytblpg about
Milford <fc DuPre's drug store, but go and see.
Kodol, the great dyspepsia remedy, for sale
Vf(i/r.rrl <fc DnFre. Phone 107.
iiromo-qulnlne will cure a cold In ooe day.
Sold by P. B. Speed.
Drink cherry pboBphate?a specialty by
MUford A DuPre.
Moth balls for sale by Speed.
SOUTHERN FARMERS.
Broad Goaice RemedleN NnKgetled f<
Kroad Gnaice Evil*.
By W. A. Parker, late Editor of the Wesso
Mississippi, Mirror.
The Southern farmer is not bapp;
I do not propose to consider all tl
causes of this, but 1 am impressed wit
live features of the situation as deser
ing of more than a passing though
These are:
(1). Credit farming.
(2). A lazy map's market.
I fsv The nlow and the loom too fj
apart.
(4). Bad transportation.
(5). Fear of the fire.
Credit Farming.
"Credit farming is the result of heir
compelled to farm without capita
This fallacy looks to be a plain truth
it is a plain absurdity.
Farming is not speculation. It
not play. I? is not idle dreaming,
is business, and busiuess is not done 1
this year of grace without capitalmoney
capital, brain capital, energ
capital. The farmer who has thef
three forms of capital uses them in h
business. The farmer who lacks or
or all of them hires what he has no
When you hire a workmau you b
come a master, he a servant. Whe
you hire capital you acquire a mast*
and become a slave. A slave ma
make a profit out of the business of b
ing a slave, and in time may buy h
freedom. Not many crop lien slave
however, ever realize this possibility
Most of those who do are those wli
hire only money capital. Those 1
whom the merchant must also "fu
niah" hminn and enerev eventuall
realize the boast of one of them wb
said: "When I can't make a livin
working six months in the year I wi
quit." He clearly meant he woul
quit farming, as he hud not made
living in years,
The great barrier to the crop-lie
slave's emancipation, however, is tb
fact that, in his case, the furnishin
merchant is the real farmer. He do<
not plant according to his judgmen
but accordidg to his orders. He cult
vates also by order, gathers his cro
by order, markets it by order, and b
orders from the same source arrange
hia plans for another crop. Th
man Will never do his best farmin
till he can get the merchant out of tb
position of boss, and the mercnar
will be boss till the slave is able I
"furnish" himself.
A I.aiy Man's Market.
Said a successful farmer >o me r
cently : "The average farmer .is bod
diligent but brain lazy. He iswillin
to work with bis hands, but not wft
his head. What crops be can mafc
only by hard study and real thinkln
be will not plant." Cotton is a brail
lazy crop. Brain-lazy to plant, maki
gather and sell.
The merchant also brain-lazy. E
is tho farmer's middleman. He bring
the farmer and his market togethe
Many times, most times, the farm*
has neither time, money informatior
experience, confidence, nor, possibly
ability to hunt a market. He mw
plant for the merchant's market?for
lazy-man's market. Cotton sells i
self?for money or a debt receipt. N
other possible Southern farm cro
does. Hence the more laziness tb
more cotton.
Plow and Loom Too Far Apart.
Some years ago the center of tb
iron industry of this country was s
Pittsburg, Pa. The city was furnace
girdled. The smoke of the smelter
fires was a curtain by day and
blanket by night. The town lost ii
name and was known as the "Smok
City." Whoever would smelt iro
t)Uiit a furnace there because it ws
orthodox business doctrine that tb
factory should be neighbor to il
competitor. A mixture of iron an
rock called ore, lime to flux it, coal t
melt it, all were hauled from a doze
to a thousand miles that orthodox
might preserve a business "center,
and the pick and the furnac dwe
apart.
One day there appeared a heretic
He said the furnace ought to go th
ore field. He had the assurance t
point out that Pittsburg was payin
long freights on five and more tons <
pomething for every ton of pig iro
made. His heresy was to make
shore haul of the ore, ttux ana tuei ana
lon^ haul of the iron?a short haul c
the five tons and put the long haul o
the one ton. Iron orthodoxy laughe
him to scorn,
Capital, however conservative, is n<
reverent. Business heresy is goo
doctrine if it can show a profit. Awa
out near the end of one of Pittsburg
long hauls a furnace was built. Tli
miuer's pick was its nearest neigbbo
From within rifleshot of its door cam
ore from one band, lime from tfc
other and coal from between the twi
Pittsburg was then putting on tl
market at Chicago a certain grade <
iron at a cost of upwards of $20 per toi
The heretic's furnace soon sola bett(
iron in Chicago at $16 and made
good proflt. It was his derided sho
haul on the five tons and long haul c
the one ton, He had saved the freigl
? ? ? ?4 mnof hi
UU WUttt tut? IUIUAWC UiUi3t uuuuiv Ml
could not sell.
Today Pittsburg sees the sun evei
day and the stars every night, and tl
center of the iron industry of Ameri<
is where Dixie is sung. South Pitt
burg, Birmingham, a troop of the
nearest of kiu are children of tt
marriage the iron heretic negotiate(
of the wedding at which the pick an
the furnace exchanged vows whi
iron orthodoxy forbid the ban
Where the plow and the loom hai
set up housekeeping they are bege
ting a like healthy progeuy. Bi
i many a Southern plow has not y
found?many indeed have not y
sought?a loom affinity.
Southern iron has made heresy orth
1 dox. The factory is seeking the fart
, What is the farm doing?
4. Bad TrnnHportation.
cHKhe farmer pays a great many taxe
llgKr of them are levied by the lav
nature, more by the farme
SsH&Brtation is a tax that all thn
?ipw|&B^8iug. Nearness to mark
measure nearness,
pwiS^i^^^Kars? I talked recent!
estimated that
IWst hiw i|a bale to haul b
cotton nHHH^nUes from his far
to the rain^Kra|^m|ext evening a
other farm<^^^HH^- for me th
be was payinpWiBH^?^evunty.fl,
cents, to haul ,jir
miles to the sal|^^^^|B(rhe u.
who was seventee1^^^^^^M|er wi
twenty-five cents a
It costs $58 to get a^H^H^^re
of flour from a certar^^H^Hga
market; $J}8 to get a hun^^^Kifc
from another mill to the sa^^M^S
The first mill is 27 per cent.T^p$jK
miles and 14 per cent. neare^^H
lars. Which measure the
distance, the miles or tbe dollars vnw
Forty miles over a dirt road is a 1<^
, way from market, whichever way it
measured. A large percentage of tl
crops and livestock of the Southei
I farmer is produced at some such di
tance from the railroad, while It
I
'iriivJ?; ?;*Z' .?i.'fc"i&
said that it is impossible for a man to J
get twenty miles, almost impossible to
>r get ten miles, from a railroad town in
large acres of the corn and wheatgrowing
sectious of the United States.
' And when the Southern farmer gets
to his railroad towu he finds rail rates
y* much higher than does the corn and
\e wheat farmer.
h
v. Fear of the Fire.
t. The power of flre is a fearful thing?
if uncontrolled. Light one in the
middle of the floor of your sitting-room
on a cold day. Not for long will it
ir warm you. It will scorch, burn, destroy
your house and yourself if you
stay by it. No one fears the fire so
i:a'u 4^ u
mue us iu imuuie 11 uwiei wise tu?u
with care and with ample arrangements
for keeping it under control.
No one fears it so m uch as to try to keep
ll; house without it.
'? The power of a corporation?of
. corporate capital?is so feared by
many that, far from trying to control
lt it, they would suppress it. Rather
D than risk its dangers they would lose
? its benefits. Or, Jacking a little of
<y that supreme folly they essay to con?e
trol it, not in wisdom, but in malice.
18 Rather than use the fire for warmth
ie and other service they would beat it
out of existence, or so cripple it as to
e" make it useless.
n The farmer does not expect such folJr
ly to rule in his kitchen. He looks for
y intelligent handling of the breakfast
?* fire, and would be astonished if his
13 wife should propose that he go to work
9? on a cold snack because of the danger
P- of having a fire in the house.
[? The farmer has been charged with
? being at the bottom because he hires
r" his thinking done for him and pays
y folly's price for a poor job. If his
10 thinkers are the howlers who have
8 shaped much of the legislation of the
H South, the charge is not without
d foundation.
a Fear is always a loud talker, and always
gets an audience. The fellow
D with an axe to grind knows this. He
ie bunts for a fear tbat'hecan use to set
8 scant thinkers to howling, knowing
*a well that if they get what they bowl
. for they will grind his axe and never
'* know it. Southern offices are full of
P such axe-grinders today. They starty
ed a howl about the dangers of corpo:8
rate government, and the men who
18 think by proxy swallowed the bait
8 and howled for laws, not about corpor?
rations, to be framed in fear and
executed with a club. They forgot
0 that the life of a corporation is a purely
business affair, and that clubs
destroy life, but do not help business.
The farmer did a part of this howling
and is at it yet. He had and has
y plenty of help. Does his help lessen
? bi&folly? The farmer needs corporations,
not as enemies, but as friends;
' not as masters, but as diligent and
? ueiprui servams.
" Senseless fear of their power has
' cripled many a one of those now here
rg ana kept many more of them from coming
here, thus Jbsing to farmer, merJ.
chant, laborer and mechanic the help
* they are Riving to other sections.
Where is the busine-s safety that
' suppresses activity? Where is the
business life that can go well on
crutches? Where is the capital that
can build up while being itself torn
~ down ? Where is the business that
can bring to a community a profit
g while not allowed to make one itself?
Is fear, mere slavish fear of corporate
capital a benefit or a curse to the
South ?
Are Southern men brave only in
? war and cowards in business? Dare
lt Southern men light corporate fire for
warmth, power, profit, or dare they
8 they only hamper what i? here and
a binder from coming what is not yet
ts here? Our statute-books say we are
V business cowards. Our laws say we dare
n not trusf our wisdom or our strength.
19 Our constitutions even assert that we
[e fear to have wealth come among us.
:? Thus have we recorded a verdict at
d war with our good sense no less than
0 with our interest.
D If my critics say here that I have
% named five causes of the farmer's
t'.nhappiness, two of which affect the
11 merchant scarcely less than the
farmer, and the other three of which
3- affect, almost equally with the farmer,
e every individual in the South, I can
0 only plead guilty, with extenuating
8 circumstances. 1 did not arrange the
)f economic laws that put all clause*
n under the ban or the good which
a covers any one of them, I speak to
* the farmer, not because be is supposed
)f to have a monopoly of the adverse
" conditions I describe, but because, as
d I know him, he is clearer-headed,
more candid, more willing to test a
new idea, more ready to act on his
d convictions than his partners in misr
y ery, I realize that in this last I
malign the howlers. They are wont to
class me iarmers irouuieu ?? sous ui
r* his stupidity, bigotry, all forms of
ie stand-fast-in-the-rut qualities, and
ie weep for him with one eye while they
wink sneers at him with the other. I
am hopeless of getting the howler's
forgiveness, so I will not apologize. I
' take the farmer a* the type of the man
ir who thinks on what be reads. In so
* far as any reader of the tioutbern Farm
rt Magazine who is not a farmer is a
lXJ thinking reader he is part of my chosen
audience.
To prove the causes of Southern adversity
broader than the farm is only
"y to emphasize their claims to earnest,
ie thoughtful consideration. If the
^ quintet of causes I have iuted is cf supb
,8" a character, the merchant, the manuir
facturer, the professional man, the
je mechanic, every Southern man who
?j reads the Southern Farm Magazine is
'd personally interested in them.
lA mt a 1 ! I A
'j.'ilest? uvw uttuaea nio uui luucucuu8
ent of each other. If they could be set
/e each to itself it would be a simple
thing to point out the five needed,
aJ effectual, simple remedies. They cane'
not be so separated. Working both
et independently and interdependently,
they have produoed a complex result,
?" which can be put aside only by bringQ*
ing to bear on it forces equally complex,
equally farreaching, equally
broad, deep anJ stroug. These forces
I will class under five heads, as much
for convenience as for aught else.
* (a). Capital is the blood of business.
' (b). Men are twigs, corporations are
' * well-bound bundles.
t (c). The power of a highway.
(d). Marry the farm and the factory.
I (e). The law is not a couch, it is a
ly ?*?
Caultul the Blood of BnslnettH.
18
m In the economy of nature tbe entire
n- body of man is built up by joining toat
gether in a wonderful way many milve
lions of minute cells. They are not all
ee alike. There are bone cells, muscle
n oells, fat cells, nerve cells, membrance
is . >suy other kinds, each with its
L, u\,\ character, purpose and useIs
fulness. IiiL jj0y on t^e roa(j to man.
ts hood who gan d pound in weight
|b last month simply to his bulk a
jiouna of cells, xlv y wa3 ^ done?
EjjBKhe materials for th^ new growth
taken from his food, ?rnnafrirrnpH
tg?|^ftkblood, and the blood, circulating
WBamx^rt ?f bunt a
here, a bunch of tt ftrp there,
them everywhere Notice
biood that mad?aU tbe
8* "^ Wblood-the blood of bufji.
is neflH^PRu see a businesa mak?ng pro.
/
fits and adding them each year to ite
capital, and you are not surprised tc
see that business grow. It makes its
own new blood and must grow.
There is another way. Among the
triumphs of modern surgery few made
more stir when first annonnced that
did the building up of a wound anc
fever depleed human life by pumping
into his veins the warm, living blooc
ot a sheep. Because the patient coulc
not make new blond fast enough the
new surgery brought to him the life'f
capital of another. Ordinary convale
scence i* just development; this wa<
plain addition.
Every town in the South isabusinesi
point. Grow it will or die according
as it makes or gets new business blooc
or tries to be content with what it has
You would have called him a fooltbe
emaciated, death-threatened pa
tient?if he had refused to be built u{
by the transfusion process because o
the danger that he might in time be
come a sheep. Fair-play dictated
however, tbat the sheep should not bi
bled to weakness. The sheep wai
well fed in advance, generously anc
wisely fed, and was taxed only as hit
feeding made it easy for him to paj
the tax.
The Southern town that grows bj
the addition of new capital?the busi
ness transfusion tbat has made manj
a dead town live?need not fear thai
it will thereby ever become a foreigr
town. Whatever and however its
growth, it may be, it will be an
American town, a Southern town.
Weakness says "beware," wisdoir
says "move forward." Let outsidt
capital be invited to come in. Let th<
law that invites provide for control
for the control tbat insuies good be
havior on the one hand and fair treatment
on the other. Without the
latter capital will not come; without
the former capital will not bless.
Fear nothing the howler says, nol
even his many-told tale of the country
fast going to the city, and hence fa?l
going to the dogs. His fact is a true
fact. Men are now living who were
born when nearly half our population
lived on the farm ; now less than onefifth
depend on the farm for livelihood,
less than one-tenth are actual farmers.
It is the howler's conclusion that ie
wrong. While the cities are growing
so much faster than the country districts
the total wealth of the United
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
accumulations, of a l the millionaries
and multimillionaires in the country.
The howler has found s fact, a reallv
significant and large fact, and regardless
of the evident misfit be adds its
weight to his noise and expects the increased
clatter to increase faith in him
and his bowl. This bowl is more than
three decades long, but in spite of it,
somehow, the man in town is glad he
is there and the man on the farm is
glad, stubbornly glad, that the town ie
large enough to buy part of his crop"
at prices that do not permit the sheriff
to move him off the farm.
If the town was bigger the independence
of the farmer would be better assured.
Practically all be sells is sold
to the town's concentrated inhabitants.
Bigger towns mean richer
farms and farmers with more money
to spend. The customer's purchasing
power determines the merchant's and
the manufacturer's profits.
Everyone is interested in the distance.
Eggs sell for as much per
dozen in Smalltown, Ala., as in LiverEool,
England, sometimes for more.
otton sells in Smalltown for a oent
and a-guarter per pouna leas man id
Liverpool. At Smalltown the farmer's
ben fruit is marketed at the
tailboard of hi* wagon and the prioe
fixed there. The farmer moat 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 chotbe three men In town ; now
the one man is producing food and
clothing for Ave 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
tax that is paid by 500 is twice as
heavy as if borne by one 1QQQ. Since
Smalltown got a factory, working 250
bands, $500Q more wages are paid out
there each month than formerly,
Every dollar of the increase comee
from the consumers of that factory's
product; t?at is, mostly from sojim
distant point. All of it is spent or invested
there. It is all invested ther?,
since what the worker merely spends
the receiver invests. That is $60.00C
in a year; over $500,000 in ten years,
Smalltown's tax list?its assessable
property?doubled in five years,
What plan so sure for reducing taxation.
If the South would drop its
burden it must develop its towns,
Twig" nod Fa?ces.
Few indeed are the ways of doing
tilings mat are not a? imge ?a mt
things to be done, Partnerships were
invented because individuals could
pot alone handle the largest enter
prises. This was merely making th<
business stronger by putting inor*
men in it. Out of the partnership
idea was evolved the corporation idea.
Neither idea was born till the need ol
it was felt. Modern business hai
many things to be done too large foi
any individual, too large for any firm
The corporation is a business agenl
equal to these things; no other business
power is. Your choice is limited
to three things?invent a better business
agent, use this one or be out 01
and stay dut of the way of all large
business enterprises.
One of the greatest of modern
anomalies is the effort now making ic
many ways to cripple corporations ic
the South. Here are almost unlimited
natural resources ; resources inviting
the most extended and mosl
powerful business activity; here alsc
?" mnut rlotarrYitnoH ATI fl moo!
I 13 ILIV UiUOV UCtOIUJlUvt* ?? ? mjwu>
unreasoniing opposition to anj
activity that uses "the agents of powei
and the successful developers o
natural resource. That father was
surely wise who showed his sons th<
weakness of a single twig and th<
strength of a bouud bundle of just suet
twigs, but we of the South haVe mad<
successful effort to hinder the binding
of our own twigs into bundles, as i
we thought nothing but some sort o
business poison ivy would or could b?
used for bands.
Have you ever thoqght what
of a price-maker a corporation is'
Many of you who read thes lines h&v<
fifty years of ^ctiye life withii
? ?1 . /*?!! nftmrnan rioSIa
iuemury* v?ii? r ui cuumuium umio
individual or firm made, yo.u hav<
seen forty cents per pound paid ; now
corporation-made nails?better nailsare
in your houses and your fences foi
which you paid two and anerhalf t<
five oents per pound. You have perhap
paid $20 for a ton of individqal-iqine<
: c . * ; " ' v
.
1 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
5 pay the merchant a profit in the one
1 day's work, the wage of which buys
I you a better pair, corporation made.
t \t ?i in ..m .. * L
> xour experieuce win wuuipiy lueae
I trite illustrations almost adinfinitum.
I Not all of this price-making has
5 been done by the corporations, but not
J all others causes combined would have
made modern prices possible if corpo3
rate capital had not become a pricemaker.
If.you doubt this, try the cost
3 today of band-made articles, not for'
getting to reckon the cost of hand1
made 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
f with profit, the lowest cost at which
" he can produce the commonest article
will be many times what you can now
buy its equal for in the nearest store.
When a price is reduced from a
month's wages to a day's pay Bombody
besides the price-maker has made a
profit. The consumer has gained,
surely. Could any shouter get vour
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 eonsent to laws making the price
of coal what individual mining would
have kept it at if the corporation pricemaker
had let coal alone? Do you
want every article of iron and steel
tbat you buy or use or the price of
roltlsklt rlAtAxmlnao anmo AfVio * nvSno
vr JLill>u ucici iuiuco ouuiu vvuvt tw
i put back to the 40-cent nail basis?
He spoke truth who said: "You can
' argue around, over or through a
5 theory, but when you meet a fact you
: must just face it." The price of every
article you buy that has felt an artis:
an'8 touch is a fact. It is a prosperity
r fact, rich with lessons we of the South
t may heed with profit.
1 The center of wealth of this country
' is where corporations flourish. That
1 center would be in the South if it
' were located according to natural ad>
vantages. It will be in the South
' when the 8outh abandons prejudice
1 and adopts wisdom.
' I am not one of those who imagine
' that the real sentiment of the South is
1 expressed in the laws we have regard1
ing capita], nor is the lack of cor1
diality with which, sometimes, new
capital is welcomed. We all know
! how much louder sound the empty
1 barrel gives forth when it is set rolling,
as well as the smaller effort
needed to put it in motion. We have
>ut the empty barrels in office. We
1 have sent them to our 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
1 were so readv to do our howlinz. Per
1 haps we were so busv working we did
1 not get a correct idea of wbat tbeir
howls signified. In all this the South
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 sur'
rendered 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 per*
vades Southern business no less than
Southern homes. It is time the right
hand of the business South be
extended, offered to stranger capital.
r It is time that capita), outside or
1 home capital, be enoouraged
to form here tbe bundles
of twigs that shall meet modern business
conditions and bring modern
UUOAJLICSO 1UOU11D IU bUO UVM?Ui
Tlie Power of a Highway,
. From the Father of Waters west to
the continent's backbone stretches a
million square miles of what is fast
beoomiDg the garden of a continent.
A little of this vast empire was "a
good country and fair to see" aa nature
made it. Most of it was once known
as the Great American Desert. Bones
marked the trails that made its only
routes of travel. Death, lived there.
In its arid plains, its poisoned airs, its
furnace breath or its ice-nurtured
winds its barrenness divided existenoe
between summer's burning death and
winter's frost-begotten sleep. Its few
travelers, gold seeking and gold enthused,
dared its horrors with trembling
ana were oitener man noi iw viuuuib,
Scarce any life, except its wolves and
' its vultures, loved it.
Tbat desert is gone. Gone from our
| maps. Gone almost from our memeries.
Gone from nature's faoe. IU
bori^on-bounded plains, its sand
storms, its bli??ards,. ita alkalies,
its whole list of ourses
| pregnant with death?all are still
1 there. Three things only have been
: added?railroads, people, wealth.
' The first made possible the second,
! and they two could not, did not, long
dwell together in a desert till the third
' was there. If these things could be
! where nature was false and the earth
' unkind, what might not fiower in the
' South if but stee^bound paths were
open to all its sunkissed hilla aud
green-carpeted valleys ?
The answer is bugun to be written
along the few railroads we have per;
mitted to come among us. The full
i answer is in the blessings of him who
i lives near "the road" and the curses of
I him who markets bis toiNwon produoe
: from some "inland" plaoe forty miles
! from nowhere,
> - Well, railroading is a business mat>
ter, Business is but capital in motion.
Capital would rather rest than move
f down hill. Capital accepts the invitai
tion of those who are willing to get
behind and push, push up hill. It
. shuns those who wish to ride it as the
t hobo does "the blind," without a tick
et. It is willing to help in a mutual
I arrangement. It declines to go where
It must expect to be merely bled.
f No right-minded man expects to get
- a barrel of flour or a side of bacon
without paying its fair market value.
1 He could not honestly get them other
_-a_ _ a
1 wise, wno gets a raiuuttu wueio
1 node dow is must pay for it. Not
what it is worth, however. Not even
what it will cost. The price is det
velopment's fair worth, friendly wel>
come, cordial co-operation, fair treat-,
t meat, freedom from malice and
1 mischief at the State bouse.
P Just here is where the demagogue
Bays "boo." "A railroad meaus cor'
poration. The boogers will get you if
I you go there." Why not be men and
' answer; "Not so. We will get the
boogers, if there be any. We will feed
them. We will harness and control
[ them. We will grow with their
i growth, profit by their enterprise, wilj
[ know and rejoice in and use their
' strength."
j Take the cage of Mr. Berkshire
a Shoat. Turned loose in a cornfield be
, is a Dower for destruction, an almost
\ unmixed evil?a farmer's curse. Put
into a badly-built pen4 poorly and
g grudgingly fed, he Is sure to grow a
f squealing^ lank, bony, bristle-lopped
_ abomination, too hungry to be quiet,
r too poor to be butchered, too worthless
a to, be keptr-a farmer's folly, Put into
3 a wisely-planned pen, fed enough, just
j enough, of a weU-haianced ration, be
r^-v
becomes a pride and a profit?a farm
er's blessing.
Why turn a railroad corporation in
to a curse or a folly? Why not mafe<
a blessing of it? Why uot rathfci
foster it than forbid it? Why noi
rather control it than fear it? Wh\
not rather prosper with it than perist
without it?
A dollar's worth of Western wbeai
goes to Liverpool to get the dollar anc
pays twenty cents for its ticket
Seven or more trunk lines have eater
the oldtime sixty cents down to that
They are all corporation owned. A
dollar's worth of cotton goes also t<
Liverpool to get the dollar and pays i
fare of over thirty cents. A fe*
railroads, with appetites made health;
by wise laws, would soon eat twentj
cents off that and *ive the South ovei
three-quarters of a cent a pound more
for its staple; that is, $40,000',000, ?
year. There's a good deal of har<]
sense in $40,000,000 even if you gel
it but once?more if you get it once t
year.
Railroad competition has moved th<
wheat farm forty-two cents to forly
seven cents a bushel, or 70 to 78 pei
cent., nearer the market. Minnesotf
and Dakota are much farther in mile;
from a wheat market than are Missis
slppi and Georgia, yet the former eel]
wheat at a profit and the latter grovt
less than 1 per cent, of what they eat
Put them at the same money distance
from a wheat market and any South
em State would sell wheat instead o!
buying It. The growing of food etufii
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
farmer will feed the South. It will
then be found that all the South can
board at home for less than is now
paid to the North and West for food.
The Southern farmer's market is the
savings bank for the entire Southern
people. Southern railroad possibilities
are the South's idle capital. "
A Farm and Factory Wedding.
Here is no room for argument. The
verdict has long since been rendered
by that fairest of all juries, experience.
How shall the wedding be brought
about? A? other marriages are, at
the end of a warm-hearted courtship.
The successful lover wooes, he. doee
not simply tolerate. Of all 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
spoken the compliments and the vowe
WQicu experience uua snowD 10 oe iactory
winners. Bepeal the laws that
are now preventing the betrothal.
Enact in their stead laws.that will
give loving and practical welcome to
capital, corporations, railroads. Make
every form of capital and evey agency
that capital may rightly use feel that
equity and justic bid tbem come and
will control them and ourselves when
they are here.
The Law Not a Coneb, but a Tool.
Conservatism would treat the law as
a oouoh inviting ideas to rest while all
things seek decay. Progress regards
the law as a tool by which ail things
may be shaped to the world's betterment.
Prejudice and passion look upon
the law as a sword by which enemies
may be slain.
Where do you class yourself? 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 law is?if you
will have It so?your tool. With it
you can oarve 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 per
haps 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: "splended sermon,
Brother M., splendid, but sadly marred
by one fault. Every really good
thing in It was repeated so many
times." ' Yes," said the pastor, "I've
been preaohing till I've got the range,
The first time I Bay 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." Thie
preaoher knew human nature.
Charleston and Western Carolina R. B
Augusta and Aaherflle Short Line.
In effeot Jon. 8, J399.
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Lt Auguata. 9 40 atn. 1 40 pre
Ar Greenwood 12 15 pin . -
Ar Anderson 0 10 pm
Ar Laurens - 1 540 pm 7 00 an
Ar Greenville 3 00 pm 10 IB air
Ar Glenn Sprlnga 4 00 pm ?
Ar Spartanburg 3 10 pm 10 20 an
Ar Saluda 5 88 pm -
Ar HandnrwinvlllA 6 08 Dm
Ar Agbevllle 7 00 pro
Lv Asheville 8 90 aui
Lv Spartanburg 11 46 am 8 06 pn
Lv Glenn Springi..., 10 00 am .......
Lv Greenville .. 13 01 am 4 00 pn
Lv Laurent 1 ST pm
Lv Anderaon 7 00 an
Lv Greenwood 2 37 pm 5 00 an
Ar Aoguita 5 10 pm 11 10 an
Lv Calboon Falla 4 44 pm
ArBaletah.. 2 10 am <
Ar Norfolk.. 7 80 am
Ar Petersburg 6 00 am
Ar Blchmond. 8 15 am
Lv Augusta 2 65 pn
Ar Allendale 5 00 pn
Ar Fairfax 5 15 pn
Ar Yemaasee 9 45 am 0 20 pn
Ar Beaufort 10 60 am 7 20 pn
Ar Port Royal 11 05 am 7 85 pn
Ar Bavannan 8 85 pn
ArCbarleaton 8 10 P"
Lv Charleston- " 22 an
Lv Savannah ? 7 00 An
Lv Port Boyal 1 40 pm 8 80 *n
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Lv Yemaasee .. 3 05 pm 9 an
Lv Fairfax . ... 10 5J an
Lv Allendale .......... 11 OA an
Ar Angusta. 1 10 pn
Lt Greenwood 4 25 an
Ar Laurens - 6 00 an
Lv Laurens 1 00 an
Ar Spartanburg .10 20 an
Lv Spartanburg - 8 10 pn
Ly Lnurens 6 80 pn
Ar greenwood 12 95 pn
Close connection^ at Greanargpd for all points oi
8. A. L. and C. <fc G. Rail ways,"?9<f at SpaxUnbur;
with Southern Hallway.
For any Information relative to tickets, rates, ached
ule, etc., address
W. J. CBAI6, Qen. Paas. Agent, Augusta, 6s.
E. M. NORTH. Hoi. Avent
T. M. 5JMERSON, Traffic Manager.
For driving out dull bilious feellni
strengthening theappetlte and UioreasinK th
capacity of tbe body for work, Mllford's syi
up bypopbospbltes Is a golden remedy. Soli
only by Mllford & DuPre.
Fresh and good tanglefoot fly paper sold a
Speed's.
Now is tbe time to get rid of bed bugs. Us
kllla-bug. For sale by Speed.
Tar Heel cholera cure la positively guaran
teed and when lt tails to cure bogs or fowls o
cholera you cau get your money baok. Fo
sale by Speed.
I Rv nsinc a. bottle oJ SDeed's llzhtnlnz renc
valor yoiTcaa make your last Bummer clotfc
log look like new. Price 10c. at Speed's.
"Lolly pop" and cberry phosphate speolai
ties at Mllford % Dufre's soda fount.
Pont fall to try ?. box of cacti soap. Ko
sale by Mllford & IXuPre. Phone 107. Tb
Druggists.
Br. Hill's famous beadaobe powder baa n
equal, For sale by Mllford A DuPre.
Phone 107.
Call at Mllford & DuPre's drug store am
be refreshed with one of tbelr Ice cieao
sodas,
Wbv does Speed sell so many cigars? be
cause he handled high grades good at lo\
pr>es.
! you will be
| interested to know that
T - .1J.J A.~
wc nave auucu vu uui
t stock a Hoe of toilet *
1 articles that is unique
' in combining: a high
order of merit with '
thorough efficiency, excellent
valtie and perfect
; narmiessness, as wen
| as affording pleasure
[ in use. the list comprises ,|f|
; preparations for the
face, hands, skin, mouth,
J teeth and hair; perftimery,
I toilet waters, sachets, etc. - ;*fs
' let us tell you
! . more about them.'
: Mrs. Mary Taggart, 1
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. - Ninety-fli*. ,... 1 ? p m
1 Greenwood. 7 40 a m 1 fit p m igs
?r,Hod<e?. <00 ?m i 15 ? in , 0&?
' fe-Abbeville. 8tfin I <i pa
' Ar. Bolton ,,7. 8 fiO a m 110 p tt
! It.Anderwin 0 85 a m tSpB $5
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. Iff. QrwiviUii 5 80 p m 10 If ft a '??1
" Pl?daont 8 00pn Mtfia
" wimamston.., (n pa M U ft a 1
hr. Andwon pa 16#ftaLr.
Belton Itf pa 11 U ft a 'JSSgk
i AnPognaM* 7 IS ? a 11 <0 ft a < 75
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U*V1 and88, cdA.and0.divtden. DinisgoMto
?m thMA trains sarvs *11 msals uroata.
Trains leavs Spartanburg, A. * O. dhpUftn,
Mrthbaund, :? a. a., 8:8? p.nu 0:10 *BL, ' M
i ivWUenl* Uailted)! aouthWaad 1246 a. M_
. 105p.m.. llSfa. ?J(Vsstftral*Llinf?aAT
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aarth V> us d, fi ?0 a. m., 244p.au acd lot
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lap p. m., 1840 p. m. (vWtibalsdlinJtodL
Trains 9 and 10 e*R7 slsfan* wlaws $8
' dealing oars between Qelnmfcla and AfMna*.
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For pains In tne back get a bottle of Prick
ley Asn Bitters. For Bale at Speed's.
What is that at Mllford <t DuPre's. Oo and
see.
loe cream sodas and all kinds of dellolons
and refreshing cold drinks at Speed's soda
fountain. V-wf
i Soda water and every thing in tbe way of
) Ice drinks at Mllford & DuPre's drug store. m > &
) Dr. Hill's famous beadaobe power for sale i;'4
i by Mllford & DuPre. Pbone 107.
j Remember where to get Dr. Neuffer's Lang
] Tonic. Mllford & DuPre's. The druggist.
j Pbone 107.
i Dr. Hill's headache powder for sale at
Mllford<& DuPre's. Tbe druggist. Pbone 107.
I Why allow your tin roofs to rust and leak
when one coat of Aliens Anti-Rust Roof
. paint will stop tbe leaks and preserve tbe
root lor five years only 75c per gallon at
Speeds drug store.
Johnsons Chill and Fever tonic is guaranteed
to cure or money refunded by Speed's
. drug store.
Kelnjane hams are the finest. Every one
; guaranteed. Smoked shoulders 8%o. per lb.
0 j, cave maim uuio tuuu vunuuo ou?j~? ??
: prices.
Baso balls, bats, mitts and masks, also
sweaters. The best you ever saw for 50o.
1 Novelties in belt buckles and belts, at Haddon's.
6 See R. C, Wilson be/ore buying your hay,
orn, flour &c.
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r jM
A. B. iHornen' I.ocals.
* Fine cucumber Dickies, I doz. for 25o.
Every good housekeeper should have at
I. least 25o. worth of those nice cucumbers at
Morse's. 4 dozen.
r I haven't many cucumbers left at 6^ a do?u
e Send quick or you will miss them.
Ice pick and leinon squeezers.
0 Fresh lemons constantly in stock,
1 doz. ll-tinger grain craddlee, with. i5iood'&
best blades Just in. >
1 If you should happen t* need a few fruit
1 Jars or extra rubbery | have them. My Jars. A
are superior to a great many that are oflBr for
>- sale, having aluminum tops and the glass is
r clear an^d smooth. Half gallons, quarts audi
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