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Hie Courier Job omeo Is tho nlaoo to bavo your I'riuting donn if vou want good work. Wo luwo tilium spcoial caro in lilting up an up-to-dato ,lob Dop?rt niont, and aro now pre pared to givo our oUs tomorfl tho vory boat Korvioo. Our prices aro as low as tho lowest !f;>r Neat Printing and Cloud, HonostMatorial. Blanks pi ATO tho best forms i? ho ? )und, oftref idly got tou up and handsomely Erioted. IfvyOn USO ogal Blank? of any kind it will bo to your interest to' call at or write to tho Courier 3! Job Ofllcc ..nd got our ? prlcos. WooarryrtfulK ^ & stock at ali timos*. Sjuv j? oia\ forms printed nt 9j reason aldo ratos. . . ? Sj TO THINK OWN SKLF BK TRUK AND V? MUST FOLLOW AS THK NIGHT THK DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THKN BK FALSK TO ANY MAN. RY JA YNES, 8UELOU, SMITH & STECK. WAIiHAL.l,A, SOUTH OARQUNA, OCTOBER 13? 1808. NEW SERIES, m a?3-YOOTMH ?MX_-??O. 41. Reduction ls Kqttnl to Price. NHW Yo UK, October 8.-A special to tho New York Times from Wash ington say? : Tho phcnominally low price of cotton recontly reported, said to bo the lowest point roached in many years, louds special interest to a scries of tables just compiled by tho Treasury Bureau of Statistics, show ing tito remarkable increase in cotton production and co-incidental fall in j)- ices. These tables show that tho United ?States, the chief cotton producer of tho world, lias quadrupled her cotton production since 187*2, and that tho price of cotton in tho samo period har? fallen to about one-fourth of that which prevailed in that yoar. In 187*2 tho cotton crop of tho United States is shown to have boon 1,384,084,949 pounds, with an ave rage price of '22.19 couts a pound ; in 1898 tho crop is reported at 5,607, 372,0f>l pounds, with au avoragc price of G.'28 cents a pound. Thus the production of 1898 is more than four times tho amount of 1872 and thc average but a little over one-fourth that of that year. When it is considered that tho otbor 'portions of thc world that grow cotton have not at all reduced their production, meantime it is appa rent that tho increased cotton supply of tho world in tho quarter of a cen tury under consideration' bas been very great, far in advance of the in crease of thc population or consum ing power. Twenty-live years ago the United States produced 70 per cent of thc cotton of the world ; to-day she pro duces 85 per cent of tho world's cot ton. This increase in thc per contage bas been not because of a reduction of tho cotton produced in other part* of tho world; but simply on account of thc increase in our own. Thc cotton supply of thc other cotton producing sections of tho world in 1872-3 was 1,G()7,000 bales, and in 1897-8 1,005,000 bal?n. Thonvorago cotton produotion of othor countries from 1872 to 1878 wat* 1,018,000 bales por annum, and from 1890 to 1897 wa? 1,924,000 bales per annum, showing that thoro also has beeu a slight growth in cotton produotion in othor parts of the world, whilo our own production has moroased enormously. Not only has the prico of cotton fallen at tho samo rato that tho pro duction has increased, but thoro has also boon a corresponding fall in tho prico of oloths manufactured from cotton. Tho reports of, tho Bureau of Statistics show that cotton "printing cloths" woro quoted at 7.88 cents por yard in 1872, while reports just published show an avorago rate of 2.17 couts por yard in tho cotton year 1898, fe tho samo grade of ok Mrs, thc tail in the prico of thc manufactured articlo thus having, in this caso at loast, nearly or quito kept paco with the fall in tho prion of., raw cotton tho increase in pro duction of that articlo. It is proper to add that tho prices (ploted for tho earlier years aro based upon tho currency values of that period tend if reduced to a gold basis would bo slightly loss. Cotton print $100 1115WARD $100. Tho readers of this paper will bo pleased to learn that there is at loast ono dreaded disease that scionco has hoon able to euro in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo is tho only positivo euro known to tho medical fra ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh is Cure taken inter nally, acting directly upon thc blood and invidious surfaces of tho system, thereby destroying tho foundation of tho disoase, and giving tho patient strength by build up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors havo have so much faith in its curativo pow ors, that tlioy odor ono hundred dollars for any caso it fails to euro. Komi for list of testimonials. Address, V. .J. CIIKNKV * Co., Toledo, O. Kohl by Druggist, foe. Hall's Family rills aro tho best. ing cloths, whoso prioos aro given'in tho table, aro of the quality manu factured for uso in printing calicoes and accepted ns standard grado by which prices aro constantly quoted : Printing j Year Cotton ending crop Aug. 80 Lbs. 1872 1,1184,084,494 1878 1,888,188,981 1874 1,940,048,852 1875 1,778,044,022 1870 2,167,948,182 1877 2,095,601,257 1878 2,200,285,046 1879 2,404,410,878 1880 2.771,797,150 1881 8,199,822,082 1882 2,588,240,060 1888 3,406,070,410 1884 2,757,544,422 1885 2,742,900,011 1880 8,182,305,089 1887 8,157,308,440 1888 3,489,172,391 1889 3,439,934,799 1890 3,307,360,183 1891 4,810,048,982 1892 4,500,575,984 1893 3,352,058,458 1894 3,709,381,478 1895 5,030,904,409 1890' 3,592,41(5,851 1897 4,397,177,704 1898 5,007,372,051 Average Cloths pneo average Yd. 7.88 0.09 5.57 6.38 4.10 4.38 3.44 3.93 4.01 3.95 8.70 3.00 3.30 8.12 8.84 3.31 8.81 3.81 8.84 2.95 3.39 3.30 2.76 2.80 ' 2.00 2.47 .2.17 Lb. 22.19 20.14 10.96 16.40 12.98 11.82 11.22 10.84 11.51 12.03 11.50 11.88 10.88 10.45 9.28 10.21 10.03 10.05 11.07 8.00 7.71 8.50 0.92 7.44 7.93 7.74 0/28 An Uncertain ?laeniic. There is no disease more uncertain in its nature than dyspepsia. Physicians pay that tlie synintoniB of no two onsen agree. It is tlicrcforo moat difficult to make a corroet dinguoflis. No mnttor how Hcvcrc, or under whatdisKuiBcdyspepsin attack? you, Brown?' Iron Bitters will cure it. Invaluable in all disease)* of the Ntomaoh, blood and nerveH. Browns' Iron Bitters is sold by all denier?. When a man walks a milo he takes, on an average, 2,203 steps, lifting tho weight of his body with each stej). When he rides a bicycle of thc averngo gear he covers a mile with the equivalent of only 027 stops, requires littlo force, boars no burdon, and covers the same distance in less than one-third of tho time. Richland Rots. RICHLAND, S. C., October ft.--Wo buvo again been visited by. heavy rains, but thia moinin;; baa dawned bright and beautiful, and all naturo scorns cheered and rofroshod. Mr. V. C. M^illor, aftov spending a fow days among rolativcs and friends, baa k'ono to Tuscaloosa, Air.. Mr. Miller speaks UH if be intends to take up a per manent nbodo in that State, provided Unolo Sam will not further need him toward holping to settle any hostilities. Misses Mary and Marla Dondy and Mosers. Allon Dondy and Frank Patter son wore nt Retreat Munday. Wo aro glad to learn of Hov. R. L. Rogors's improvomont and trust that bo may soon bo able to bo among bis par ishioners at Richland. Master Charles Vernor bas gono to Tuscaloosa, Ala,, whore ho enters school. Tho many monds of Prof. W. K. Dendy will bo grieved to loam of his 111 uosS at Yorkvillo, S. C. A party of morry lads and lasses as sembled at tho homo" of Mr. E. E. Vernor last Thursday ovening whoro thoy spout., a fow hours in a very informal and yet enjoyablo way. Miss Cooilo* Gray, a charming young woman from Graysvillo, Ga., bas boon visiting Miss I Vari Rallonger. Mrs. Alico Doyle and hor little daughter Emily, returned last week to thoir homo in Toxas. Mrs. Doylo has boon in South Carolina tho gloater part of tho sunnnor. Mrs. Hattie Edwards, of Elberton, Ga., is visiting hor fathor, Mr. J. B. Piekett. Messrs. J. C. Duckworth and W. ifor sytho, of Clemson College, woro in our community Sunday afternoon. Mr. Arthur Davin was at homo Sun-1 day. .Major G. Shanklin spout Sunday with his parents. Wlf.lltct.MlNA. [Wilhelmina, wo aro ploasod to wel come yOu to our columns, but wish to ask you to send your communications at lonst ono day earlier, also to write Oil only ono sido of papor.--Ens. CouitlKll.] Tho capital invested in cotton mills in South Carolina now amounts to $18.0.14, .100, tho number of subidlos in thoso mills in 1,800,800 ami tho number of looms is 88,402. Fivo now mills have] been addod to the list of last year, and the prospect is that many moro will bo built in tho year 1800. That, investors havo contldonco in tho success of cotton manufacturing in this State is shown by tho fact that moro than $000,000 addi tional capital has been invested in this business sinco tho fall of 1807. It is not the lustre of gold, tho spark ling of diamonds and emeralds nor tho splendor of tho purple tincture, that adorns or emholishes a woman, but gravity, discretion, humanity and mod esty. Tito Lord Only Knows of tito Troubles Which Beset tho Country Printer. Wo do not know who mndo the following grnphio st nt onion t, but if he had writton for n yonr ho could not havo staled tho easo moro clonrly mid with Huoh n wealth of philoso phy : "Tho editor hat} a ohartor from tho Stato to aot na doormat for tho com munity. Ho will got tho paper out somehow, and stand up for the town, and whoop it up for you when you run for ofiico, and lie about your big footed son wlion ho gots a four-dol ?ar-a-wcok job, and weep ovor your shrivelled soul whon it is released frpin its grasping body, and smi' at your wifo's second tnarriago. Don't worry about tho editor, he'll get along. Tho Lord only knows how, but somehow." Tho cc.tntry nowspnpors in this Stato do moro hard amii thankless service for thoir respectivo commu nities than all tho oflioo-holdovs and professional Bharpa and gcntlomon of leisure who wore oalled for some purpose, wo Buppoae. They work 1 early and late," and ninety per cent of their work goes without toward. lt is a slraugo thing about tho news paper business genorally that moat peoplo do not regard it nu "business" al all. If John Jones makes a great speech and it \u reported at length by a man who is paid for doing tho work, and is printed in a newspaper which has to pay for putting tito story in typo, Jones would like to get half a dozen copies of the paper for distribution among his friends, and Jones genorally tries to get them for nothing. If the lovely Mrs. Brown Robin son bas a toa and her parlors are j crowded with the elite of tho land, and the society reporter writes o charming account of the delightful social function, Mrs. Brown Robin I son would Uko to havo len or twonty copies of the paper to mail to hoi out-of-town friends, and she would bo shookod if anything should bo said about HO common a thing aa mortoy in exohango for tho papors. Sovoral years ago a nowspnpor printed a long stpry about tho cele bration of a military company. \t fi??ed a groat deed o? space and cost a good deal of monoy to put it in flhapo for tho entertainment of tho reading publio. It would socni that tiio newspaper had done its full sharo in writing up tho celebration, but tho' noxt morning, all tho same, a rcquost was made for a hundrod and fifty copies of tho papor containing' tho ?tory for general distribution, and a hundrod and fifty copies were worth, according to the prices prevailing at that time, exactly #7.50. When men dio who have occupied a prominent place in tho community, and who havo dono good work for tho State or church or society in thoir | day and generation, it is thc invaria ble rulo of newspapers to speak well of thom and to give an account of thoir lives. It would seem that in doing this tho newspaper had discharged its full duty lo tho publio and to tho de ceased ; but there are societies and orders and organizations that would also Uko to make some publio an nouncement touching tho ostcom in which tho departed had been held by his associates, and of how deeply : thoy wonder at tho inscrutable do oroo of Providence which had re moved their deceased friond and as sociate. Thoir words of apprecia tion and sympathy and sorrow aro strung out in tributos of respect which the newspapers aro expected to print for nothing. We have known persons almost prostrated by surprise and indigna Hood's Should l o in every family mum, m m M medicino ehest and every 1 OMI/ > traveller's grip. They are BT^ IIB lnvnkmbio when tho Btomnch ? ? ? ? %^ I? ott* of ordor; euro hoadftcho, biliousness, And nil liver troubluv. Mild uud tlUelent. 24 ?unta. tion whon they havo found that tho nowspapor attaches monoy value to such oulogies. Wo would Uko to Huggo?t to our wookly and daily contomporarioa that possibly they aro tc? blame for tho value.whtoh tho gonoral public place s upon thoir work. Nowspapors aro business ontorprisos just as mills and factories and stores and thoir Btook in trade is tho papor which they soil to thoir oustomors and such spaco as thoy offer to advertisers. Nowspapors aro not supported by public appropriations, thoy aro not endowed institutions, thoy havo to livo on tho business that thoy do, and they should agree among thom solvcs as to tho method of doing business. Every weekly newspaper in South Carolina, wo vontuvo to say, would bo able to pay all its dobts and declare a good dividond tho first of ovory year on tho space which is given to tho public for nothing, and for which tho nowspapors do not ro coivo so ohcap a reward as sincere thanks.-Charleston Nows and Cou rier. Valuable to Women. Especially valuable to women is Browns' Iron Hit tu ii. Backache vanishes, headache disappears, strength takes tho place of weakness, and the glow of health readily comes to tho pallid cheek when this won derful remedy is taken. For sickly children or overworked men it lins no equal. No home should bs without this fnnious remedy. Browns'Iron Hitters is sold by all dealers. Hiuall Pox In tho Stato Again. COUJMIUA, S. C., Ootobor 7. Small pox is again reported in th Stat,o, as tho following indicatos : FI.OKICNCU, S. '^October G. To Gov. W. II. Ellorbo, Columbia : Cases of small pox and a numbc of persons exposed aro reporto from Sumter county. Shall I Lnou tho expense of isolating, guardin and treating them ? Tho approprit tion for that purpose is exhausted. .IA M KS EVANS. Private Scorotai y Boyd Evans, i tho absence of Governor Ellerb telegraphed that all necessary procai tions should bo oxorciscd. Tho Royal la the highest grada baking powdar lutovvn. Actual testa ahow lt gaea ?aa? j third further thoo city other breatf. POWDER -Absolutely Puro ROYAL RAKING POWPEH CO., NEW VOflK. Spanish Foicos Must Kvncunto Porto Rico. WASHINGTON, D. C., Ootobor 7.-. l'rcaidont McKinley to-duy oabled tho United States Military Commis sion at Porto Rico that that island must bo evacuated by tho Spanish forces on or boforo Ootobor 18th and that tho Spanish Commissioner?, "hall bo HO informed. In caso of tho fail uro of tho Spaniards to complete tho ovacuation by that date the United States Commissioners aro directed to Hci/.o tho government. Maj. Cen. Fitahngh Lee ruoeived an order from tho war department to-day directing him to move his command from Jacksonville to Sa vannah and got in readiness to em bark for Havana by tho last of this month. O^.S7*OXl.XA.? Boura tho >?Tho Kind You Havo Always Bought Some ono has discovered nt last that tho much slandered English sparrow has its redeeming traits. An Alabama cotton planter say? thoy saved his orop which would havo boon destroyed by millars and worms if thc sparrows had not got into thom and devoured thom. Now there ave no worms but thousands of sparrows. Just Because We are Going to Take off the Roof of Our Store House to Cover Anew. Therefore Our Goods will be Exposed to the Weather if we don't Move Them. We can't Afford to Take Such Chances, so Come and Get Them. Just See a Few of Our Prices. . ? rr I I^iii'iiiiiii'ii. Wo havo twonty-flvo Nice. BEDSTEADS, Bracket Kails, all neatly finished, never HO\<\ before for loss than ?1.50, that you can got for ?1.00. GOOD OAK SUITS FURNITURE for ?10.00; ?20.00 Suit? for * 10.00 ; ?25.00 Snits for ?20.00-in fact, we have a full line of Furniture that must bo sold. Olotliing-. ^ " O lo tiling-. Wo have anything you want, and they must and will go when you see our prices. AU,-WOOL MEN'S SUITS, cheap at ?5.00, will go for ?8.05; *8.00 Suits for -s:?.i)0 ; *12.00 Suits for ?0.00-and other Clothing will go in proportion. Shoos, Shoos, ShooH. Gold weather is coming and you must have Shoes. Como and get them while they tire going at such low prices, firing a Dollar when you come and get a pair of Shoes that has been selling for #1.50. We have a (inc #4.00 Shoo that you can get for #2.00. Wc have a full line nod you can got anything you want at greatly reduced prices. DON'T FORGET THE PLACE! TERMS STRICTLY CASH. d Read ali this Ad. and give it^ r?r? T?<n.-f-5i 1 af", DON'T FORGET THE PLACE! TERMS STRICTLY CASH. ./V JNieo I>>t ol' INTo-w .T.I3.A.JN? PANTS Soiling for Only C?O CJontn. HiOHt-13tit IN*Ot X^OlLHt. ~* Wc call speoial.-attontion to our DRY GOODS AND NOTION DEPARTMENT. Wo havo space to mention only a few prices. STANDARD FANCY GINGHAMS, worth 0-Jc., goes at 4 .J cents, FIRST-CLASS PRINTS for t couts. COTTON CHECKS-well, just take them for 4 cents, too. Wc also have a nico lino of DRESS GOODS that must bo sold regardions of what they cost. Wo have a nico linc of SCARFS, TIES, ?fcc, that havo been soiling for 50 couts--now they must c?o for only 25 conta -and you will lind stacks of NOTIONS at auch reduced prices. Wo have just received a CAR LOAD OF ROCK HILT, BUGGIES. Timo has proven that they aro tho best goods evor offorcd in this county for the money. iCv?ry ono is gu ar autoed first-class, and that thc paint will novor Bcalo and tho ?pringa novor break. Wc havo oxolusivo salo in Oconeo County of these goods and will mako you bettor priocs on them than any other factory can or will offer you. If your exouso for not buying is that cotton is low, wo will answor that our goods aro lower and you will save money by buying from us. CART SUCCESSORS TO. CARTER MERCHANDISE COMPANY, WESTMINSTER, SOUTH CAROLINA.