Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, October 13, 1898, Image 1
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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.
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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.