Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A PROPHECY MADE GOOD. [Continued from pago2.] people among us and promoted the enaotment of laws for the regulation of child labor in our milla. Two years ago in 26,820 operatives em ployed iu suty-ooe ot tho mills in this State theie were only 976 chil dren under 12 years of age, and a careful investigation raado by Mr. August Kolin showed that not more than four out of every hundred em ployees in the mills of this State were ohildren 'tnder 12 years of age. There ought nat to have been any such ohildren engaged in th?B work and there are probably very few, if any, ???W so employed. The mill owners ??JPnot want them and have only em ployed them under protest. I ven ture to say that there is not in any land a better fed, better housed, happier and more prosperous mill population than the mill population of South Carolina. The objection to OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE WITH OUR JFFAIR8 and to the several attempts whioh have been made to obtain mill legis lation in this State is that suoh in terference and legislation are but the begiuning of the troubles which have made the manufacturing business in other parts of thc country preoariona to capital and ruinous to labor. Laat week the United States Supreme Court rendered a decision declaring the New York State law making ten hours a day's work, and sixty hours a, week's work in the bakeries of that l$tate to be unconstitutional because it interfered with the rights of oon traot between employer and em ployee. "Statutes of this kind," said Justice Peckham, in pronouncing the deoision of the Court, "are meddle some in character and cannot be enaoted under the guise of exercising the police powers of the State." "The freedom of master and employee to contract with eaoh other in relation to their employment and in defining the same cannot be prohibited or interfered with without violating the Federal Constitution." THE STATK'S FERTILE FIEI.DS. Very nearly all of Governor Perry's phrophecy has come to pass. The broom sedge fields and exhausted lands have been converted into garden ?pots, and cotton is now grown in the very shadow of the mountains. Last year one of the progressive farmers of Ooonee county made 60 bales of cotton on 40 acres of land, and in Marlboro county, down on the Pee Dee, 1,100 bales were produced on 1,000 acres of land that was not regarded before the war as by any means tho best farming land in the county. With land in the mountain counties of South Carolina producing more than a bale of cotton and 100 bushels of corn to the aore, is it any wonder that the star of industrial empire is taking its way Southward and that it is shining with steadily inoreasing effulgence over this blessed old State of ours ! jJLands in the coast country whioh could hardly be given away thirty years ago have been sold in the last year or two at more than ?H50 an aore, and the finest truok-growing region on tho American continent, according to an expert from Chicago, has been developed in the low country during the last quarter of a century. Laat year ono of tho truok farmers on Yonge's Island, near Charleston, cleared 150,000 on his .j?nting operations, and most of it ^JflT cabbages. DR. SHEPPARD'S TEA FARM. The sassafras tea period in the de velopment of this State has passed forever. Last year Dr. C. U. Shepard made 9,000 pounds of tea on bis farm at Summerville, twenty miles from Charleston, and found a ready market for every pound of it in this country. He will make sovei al thou sand jioun . < more this year doubtless, and for every pound that bo can grow ho will find a buyer ; tfce quali ty of the tea produced by him and the improved methods of its treat ment giving it a special value and making a market for it in competition with the best of all foreign tea sold, in thia country. To such a state of perfeotion has this pioneer brought the cultivation of tea as a conoraeroial crop that the Amerioan Tea Growing Company, oomposed of New England j. mon, with ample oapital, has under taken the oultivation of tea on a a larger soale than was ever oontem plated as being possible in this country. With 180 aCros already planted with more than 760,000 tea planta and with their nurseries filled with seedlings ready to set out, it will bc only a few years before every pound of toa consumed in South Carolina will bo grown in South Carolina. CATTLE UKO WINO AND TOBACCO KAIKINU. In the development of the cattle growing industry there bas been an ' immense advanoo in this State in recent years, and in a little while ve NIKII 1 be independent of the beef t' ust1 and the butter trust aud the milk trust. Live stook mon who know anything about their business have never doubted that almost any branoh of stool: raising will flourish here and some phenomenal records have been made by our stook farm ers in the last few years, and yet we are only on the threshhold of achievement in this lot g negleoted and once despised branch of agricul tural effort. Two years ago 34,912 acres of land were devoted to the cultivation of tobacco in this State. Tbe orop ag gregated 25,625,408 pounds, worth more than $8,000,000. According to the Un;.f.ed States oensus of 1890 South Carolina ranked nineteenth among the tobacco-growing States of tho Union, in 1900 it held the ninth place and but for the enormous duties laid upon the importation of foreign toba ce o a for the benefit of New Eng land growers it would speedily cover the distance between its present rank and tho first place in the line. A SPECIMEN VAN VORST STORY. The finest rioo grown in the world is grown in South Carolina. There are no peaches to compare with the peaches ripened on the slopes of your beautiful mountains. The grapes of South Carolina would put to shamo the grapes ot Eschol. In one of their booka the Van Vorat womeu describe a cotton mill settlement at Columbia as follows : "There is not a garden within mileB, nor a flower, scarcely a tree. Arid, desolate, beautyleaa, the pale aand of the State of South Carolina nurtures as best it can a stray tree or shrub-no more." An arid, desolate, treeleaa country, indeed ! when the facts are that there is no State in the Union with ac magnificent a system of rivera, where the rainfall ia so regular and suffi cient for the needs of the manufac turer and husbandman, and where there ia BO great an area of origina foreat growth. A very careful sur vey of the river Systems of the State made by Gadsden E. Shane shows a drainage area of 24,97-1 miles and water power of of 562,511 horse-power. Thia ia doing fairly well for an arid region and the fad that the largest lumbesing plant ir the South has been established ir thia State would seem to show that South Carolina in not without a verj liberal foreat growth. Within the last two or three yeare several othei large lumbering plants have beer established in the State and in i little while still another immense plant with a oapital of 500,000 wil open its offices in CharleBto. It ii paBaing strange that men with rooney to invest would go into such buaines in a treeleaa region. But this Vai Vorat story is only a feather will the many other stories which hav been invented by the same ac oomplished romanoists. Indeed, al the facts would show that Soutl Carolina answers to the descrip tion whioh was written by th* prophet Isaiah : "A place wher there is no want of anything that i in the earth." If we would be independent ant prosperous we must find some wa to break the chains which hav bound us in FINANCIAL SLAVERY TO THE NORTI We arc getting strong enough t walk alone. With one orop that i worth in tho markets of the worl j?5 0,000,000 a year, we should not b paying enormous tribute to outsiel money lenders. We have been dil criminated against in every possibl way. Last week I was told by % polioy holder in tho Equitable Lil Assurance Sooiety that a few yeai ago he found that the particip?t i? polioy whioh he held yielded him ? revenue of only 1 per cent, a yea Ile was informed by another partie pating polioy holder that if be woul go to New Y jrk and stay a week e so he might hnve his polioy ohange Prom the Southern list to the Nortl a rn Hat, and instead of getting 1 pe cent, ho would get 80 per cent. Tl New York textile commission broke dandle their Now England busine ^ Potash ~ is necessary for cotton to produce high yields and good fibre. Write for our valuable books on fertilization; they contain informa tion that means ito lia rs to tbe farmers. Sent free on request. Write now while you think of it to the GERMAN KAU WOUKS at 2 per cent.; they oharge the South ern manufacturers 4 p?r cent. One of the Yew England railroad mana gers testified before the Senate com mittee at Washington last week that that railroads would carry raw products, such as cotton, from the South to New England mills at a very low rate, because it was neces sary to keep the people in the New England mills employed or the towns would be abandoned ; a concession that was found necessary to save th k New England industry from disaster, which, but for the assistance of the railroads and the bounty of the Gov ernment oould not stand the natural competition of the Land of Cotton. It is a most remarkable condition of things that the advantages which have been given to us by prodigal nature are to be overcome by the enactments of legislative assemblies, the exactions of money lenders and the industry of secret service men engaged in the work of disorganizing our labor. But in spite of all the handicaps Hnder which we have been running our race for industrial su premacy we have made good. Our success in the past is only an earnest of what we shall accomplish in the the future, if we shall hold together with the same spirit of industry and the same tenacity of purpose. CHARLESTON AND GREENVILLE. In all the good fortuno which has come to you, the people of Charleston are deeply interested. Your welfare is their welfare. They have invested largely in your industries and they have shared with you in the fortunes which you have made by your superb management of the mills you have built and operated. They would Uko to establish even closer business rela tions with you and work with you in every good cause which has for its object the upbuilding, of the State and the prosperity of its people. It is natural that it should be so ; there are so many ties between us ; ties of a common ancestry, ties of the closest sympathy in all the history of the past, ties of commercial advantage, and the overshadowing and irresisti ble and all-compelling thought of ? common destiny. We cannot do without you. I wish that you oould not do without us. Your names are just like our names ; your people are just like our people-indeed they are our people ; your Perrys and Hey wards and Ilutledges and Smyths and Bryans and Haynes and Jarveys and Smiths and Ansels and Richardsons and Macallistors and Westervelts and Cogswells and Inglesbys and Hards and Crosskeys and Gilfillans and Bentzes and Jenkinses and Barnwells and the rest of a splendid people intent upon good living and high achievement. We aro not a selfish people in Charleston any more than you. We do not ask where a man comes from nor what is his religion or politics, but what he is himself. Excepting tho president of the newspaper with which I am connected there is only one native Charlcstonian now en j gaged in the active work of making up the paper. Four of its editorial force were brought up in the hill country of South Carolina or made their start iu this part of the State. The distinguished Judge of the United States District Court is an up-countryman. The officers of the Court are for the most part up? countrymen. The pastor of the largest Baptist Churoh in Charleston is a native of Greenville county. Only one of the reotors of the Epis copal churches is a native of Charles ton. The three P esbyterian minis ters in tho city are "outsiders." Sev eral of thc mott successful lawyers at the Charleston Bar were not born in that city. The railroad meu came to Charleston from other places. The merchants and business men of the e immunity came from all patts of the State and from other States and o ?untries. There is absolutely no r.-striction of birth or place upon any m in corning to live among us, and O'ir peoplo ore becoming more cos mopolitan every year, broader in their sympathies, larger in their mental grasp and pusposes and while all are pulling for Charleston they aro pulling equally as hard for South Carolina. We want to do business with you and we want you to do business with us, but we want most of all that you shall understand us and that we are road j to work with you in whatever oause will promote the prosperity and happiness of all our people. The never-resting sea oalls to the ever? lasting mountains' for the peace and glory of South Carolina. , Bug Eating Boll Weevil. Waco, Texas, May 4.-Chief How ard, of the entomologist bureau, de partment of agriculture, at Washing ton, has been notified of the discovery in Falls county, Texas, of a peeuliai bug whioh is destroying the boll wee vil. The insect was found on thc plantation of J.T.Davis, of Waco. Ii is expected that Mr. Howard will send an expert here to classify thc bug and arrange for its propagation if it is found as destructive to tb? weevil as reported. mmm - How's This ? We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Hewart for any case of catarrh that cannot b< cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O We, the undersigned, have known F J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be Hove him perfectly honorable in all busi ness transactions and financially able t< carry out any obligations made by hil firm. Walding, KinuUn ?fc Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting direct ly upon the blood an< mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists Testimonials free. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa tion. R. G. Gaines President. Central, May 4.-The first anona meeting of tho stockholders of th Issaqueena Mills was held here to d;\y, New York, Greenville, Charles ton and Charlotte being well repre sen ted. The report of acting Pres! dent Gaines made a sntisfactor; showing. The former board of directors wa strengthened by the addition of W L. Gassaway, of Greenville, and T. JW Norris, of Cateechee. R. G. Game was eleoted president without oppc sition. Dr. It. P. Pell has been re-eleote< President of Converse College, Spai tanburg, by the board of trustees In assuming the duties of presiden of this well known and popula institution for women for an other year he will pursue his we known polioy-that of working fo the si."COSH of the college, keepin up its high standard of excellence holding in mind at all times ever j thing tb at tends to the uplifting an? development of womanhood. How Consumption Begins. Consumption always begins with cough that lingers. A cough that han| on and will not yield to the usual trea mont may not mean consumption, bi too often it does mean this dead deBtroyi has gained a footing. Rydale's Cous Elixir is very successful in chocking tr Progress Of throat and lung disease ven consumption yields toits powerfi iniluence, if its use is - begun before tl disease is too deep seated. This model scientific remedy kills the germs th cause consumption. It removes the eau and h el ps nature rebuild the broken dov tissue, If yon have a stubborn cou| try Ky d le's Cough Elixir, it will not d appoint you. Walhalla Drug Company ??>?? Bishop Car.JIcr to Preside. The college of bishops of the Metl odist Episcopal church, South, met Nashville, Tenn., last week to ado a plan of visitation for tho yet Bishop W. A. Candler, of Atlant Ga., was designated to preside ov the South Carolina Conference, wbi meets at Spartanburg, December 1 While in ill health and stiffen! from nervous disorder, John Tc Imne, superintendent of sohools Betgen county, New Jersey, and o of the prominent educators of tb State, shot and killed his wife li week and then committed suicide the same manner. The shooting < curred in their home in Hackensat Both had been ill in bed for sevei weeks, but both ate breakfast \ gether for the first time since thc illness. What About the Unit That you want LION being a square man, wil thing else. You may n of housekeepers who hi for over a quarter Is there any stronger ? Lion-head on Save these Lion-headi SOLD BY GROCE Has Been Three Times Convicted. Georgetown, Ky., May 4,-With two life sentences reversed and after having been under death sentence for more than a year before that ver dict also was reversed, Caleb Powers, noon Ned of conspiracy to murder William S. Goebel, bas made appli cation to the Scott circuit court to have his case transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The petition marked another sudden ohange of far-reaching importance in. one of the most dramatic trials in the history of jurisprudence. Coin cident with the filing of the petition was the appearance of former Governors Richard Yates, of Illinois, and Frank S. Black, of Now York, as counsel for Powers. Powers liases his petition for a transfer of his case to the Federal Court on the claim that he has boon denied, and is nov/ being denied, equal protection of the laws as guar anteed by the 14th amendment to the Constitution of the United States ! and on the claim that by the work ings of the State courts of Kentucky in his case that this portion of the 14th amendment, prohibiting any State from depriving any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, has been violated. In support of this claim two main points are oited : First, that the courts re fused to recognize a pardon issued in legal form by tho then legally consti tuted Governor of Kentuoky. Second, that in all three of bis trials before the Scott circuit court the juries have been solidly packed with Goebel Demoorats, the political opponents of For the next ftft sell our entire line General M We have a comp] thing kept in first-* You will find oui Boys' Clothing am Special values in Stove ware will i Pipe (5 and 6 in.) c Best line of Houi in town. See the \ See our Metal Li mer price $2.00. Oui Special Sale at C plete in every DON'T G: 9 Your Grocer COFFEE always, and he, 1 not try to soil you any ot care for our opinion, but cd Judgment of Millions ave used LION COFFEE of a century ? proof of merit, than the) Confidence of the People id ever Increasing popularity 7 ON COFFEE ls carefully sc ?ted at the plantation, shipped reel to our varions factories, tere lt ls skillfully roasted and ref ully packed in sealed pa ek es -unlike loose coffee, which exposed to germs, dust, ta cts, etc. LION COFFEE reaches u as pure and clean as when left the factory. Sold only ta h. packages. every package, i for valuable premiums. RS EVERYWHERE WO OLSON SPICE 00., Toledo, Ohio. the defendant, and that under tho Kentucky code this seleotion of Dem? ooratio juries is permissible. The first main o?anse covering the issue of the pardon is of unusual in* torest sinoe lhere is no provision in the Kentucky statutes preventing the Governor from exercising the pardon ing power before trial. Qoebel was shot January 30, 1900. Auoording to the petition, Powers was arrested on a warrant issued Marob 10, some time before the indiotment was re turned. When arrested he produced a pardon signed by Wm. S. Taylor as Governor,and attested by Caleb Pow ers, as Secretary of State. This par don bore dato subsequent to that of the warrant and covered the offense specified in the warrant, an offense on which Powers bas been tried three times. The petition states that at each of his three trials Powers pro duced tho pardon as oomploto satis faction of tho charge againbl him, but that the trial court in each instance refused to admit it and that on each appeal the court of appeals sustained the trial court on this point. Judge Stout called a special term of court for July 10 to pass upon tho question as to whether tho petition should be admitted to the court. Powers was in court and the man date of the Kentucky court of appeals ordering a fourth trial of his onse waa read. Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Tho term "Dyspepsia" monns a lack of pepsin in the stomach. Indigestion is rightly used when ever the food is not properly digested, regardless to the oauBo. ft is immaterial whether you call your ailment dyspepsia or indigestion when Kydale'BStomach Tablets are used. They are guaranteed to oure all forms of stomach trouble. Buy a trial box, (price 25 cents) and be convinced. Walhalla Drug Company. 1 we will ii een days erchandise /OSt. lete stock of every class stores. r line of Men's and i Odd Pants com >ect. all kinds of Shoes, nterest you. Stove >nly 10c. per Joint, refurnishing Goods Line. imps at $1.25 ; for closes May 15th* ET LEFT. ^