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X NKSCALES.& LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18. 1895. VOLUME ? TT3 IN giving a man a PRESENT, give him something that's ELEGANT USEFUL. 1 ? ow about a Nice Umbrella ? . V We have just'received a new line in all the latest .handles. A Good Gloria Silk for $2.25. We have others from $1.00 tip to $5.00. FALL NECKWEAR In New and Elegant designs., A man never has too many. One in a box at $1.00?just the thing for a Present. A splendid line at 25c, and 50c. nice line of? . MUFFLERS, HMDKERCHIEFS, COLLARS; CUFFS, AND SHIRTS. Come in and gaze. Yours truly, KEANS TO SELL 100 Fine Carriages, Buggies, Phaetons, At Greatly Reduced Prices/ From now until December 25th, Call and see my jStock and get the Prices and_you will-buy. I mean to sell at the lowest for Standard Grade Goods ever offered in Anderson. This Seduction only holds good until Dec. 25,1895. J. S. FOWLER. HAVE YOU SEEN 9 We intend to make.a run on Shoes from now until January 1st, 1896. JUST RECEIVED, Fifty Boxes Old Time Twist Tobacco, Id 10 to 12 pound bo j es. just the thing. "Tor Xmas Present to Father or Brother. We carry a full line of Staple Dry Goods, Heavy and Fancy Groceries. In every department we give full value for every dollar spent with us. . D. P. SLOAN & CO. AT No. 4 Hotel Chiquola, acy OTJ willflnd a nice assortment of the latest 'get up" in? GOODS, NOVELTIES, Celluloid, Aluminum and Cut Glass Which-will please the eye as well.as the pnrse. Go and make your selections AT ONCE. Al8o;"nice large boxes KUA^AIitY CANDY, suitable for your best girl. FINE EXTRACTS EVANS PHARMACY. IT WILL PAY YOU! To drop in and see our Goods and get our Prices before parting with your hard-earned Cash, as we are in position to meet all competition, and will save you money on every purchase. WE have a big Steck of Jeans, Flannels and Staple Dry Goods at ' prices that never fail to sell. Also, a bift Stock of SHOES, bought before the advance. All we have to do is to show our Shoes and the prices do the rest. They are certainly going fast. We sell the moot popular and reliable brands of FLO UK in Town. Cheaper than you have been paying for inferior stuff. Wo 'always sell the best COFFEE. We can enitanybody on Tobacco, both in quality and price. Acids and Fertilizers on hand now. BBOWNLEE & VANDIVERS. Below we mention a few Goods on which . . .. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY! Doors, Sash and Blinds, Builders Hardware of all kinds, Syracuse Turning Plows, Syracuse Subsoil Plows, Rubber Beltiner, Leather Belting, Machinery Supplies, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Inspirators, &c. Sporting Powder, Blasting Powder, Shot, Loaded Shells, &c. 4 tSF When in the market for any of the above named Goods, or any? thing in the Hardware lino, you will do well to inspect our stock and get our price before you buy. Yours truly, bb?ck: bkos. SOUTHERN BLOCKADE. Tales of Stirring Adventures on our Coast A reporter spent an evening last week with Commander John C. Brain, who graduated from the naval acade? my, and rendered distinguished ser? vice in the Confederate States navy. "Blockade raiding," said he, "is science. It is attended with great risks and dangers, but when properly studied it may be operated with abso? lute success and comparative safety. I Hear it said in these times that blockades cannot be run now on ac? count of the search light, but I can run a blockade now. I would get search light, too. While it is true that the number of. vessels in a fleet is known to each in the cordon, the loca? tion and position of each at all times is not known and for that reason the uncertainty that would surround the identity of a blockade runner carrying a searqh light, would give her an ad? vantage, and an opportunity to reach a point of safety before she was dis? covered. "Enormous profits were made dur? ing the war by blockade running by both private parties and corporations. The only ports of the Confederacy for running the blookade were Galveston, Tex., Mobile, Ala., Charleston, S. C, and Wilmington, N. C. The latter was the principal port, for the reason that it was more accessible, it having two channels leading into the port? the new and old inlets. The old inlet, being the Southern entrance, was guarded by Fort Caewell and Fort isher. The new inlet from the North was guarded only by Fort Fisher and a small battery on land. Both of these inlets lead into Cape Fear river, on which is situated the oity of Wilmington,.twelve miles from its mouth. On the ooast. of each side of the inlet flying-batteries of artil? lery, commanded by Col. Lamp, C. S. A., were kept patrolling the shores at night to protect any blookade runner that might have to be run ashore to keep her from falling into the hands of the enemy. These batteries did valuable services. "Notwithstanding the Federal gov? ernment did all in its power to effec? tually seal -up or blookade this port, it having at one time nearly 200 vessels in the blockading squadron, in one night 12 vessels forced I the blockade successfully and entered tho port. Fourteen attempted to effect entrance, .but two were captured. The vessels were loaded with provisions, medical stores, arms and munitions of war for the Confederate government. "The inducement for running the blockade was the enormous value of cotton, it being bought in the Confed? eracy for 25 and 30 cents a pound in gpld, or its equivalent, and sold out? side for $1.60 to $1.80 per pound; consequently the profits were enor? mous, even if the risks were great. Most of the blookade running was done by corporations. Among the largest of these engaged in the busi? ness was the Bee company of Char? leston, S, C, .who owned the famous blockade runner, Cyrene. She ran the blookade 32 times in and out of Charleston, S. C. When Charleston was evacuated, she was lying at' her wharf and her owners burned her father than allow her to fall into the hands of the enemy. The Confeder? ate government owned several block? ade running vessels to replenish the supply store, and also several States owned blockade runners, among them Virginia and North Carolina. To give au idea how quickly these ships were constructed, an order could be given to a shipbuilder on the Mersey or Clyde for a ship costing from ?40,000 to ?50,000?$200,000 to $250,000. These vessels were an? chored in the river ready for sea 60 days after;the contract was signed. These ^vessels were light draught, re? quiring not over nine feet of water, and had a speed of 15 to 18 knots an hour. After completion the vessel was cleared from. Liverpool or the Clyde for the port of Nassau or St. George, Bermuda. When she arrived in port her top hammer was taken down and the blockade running crew at once shipped. The captain was paid the enormous wages of $5,000 in gold and $5,000 in Confederate money. The pilot was paid $5,000 in gold and the chief engineer was paid the same ; the first assistant, $3,000; second, third and fourth engineers, $2,009 each, per voyage. One voyage per month was made, each being made in the dark of the moon. Seamen aDd firemen were paid $300 a month, $100 on signing shipping articles, the bal? ance on return of the ship to port. Officers were paid on return of the ship to port. The leadsman was paid $500 a month. His services were re? quired only when the ship was coming in or going out of port. The signal officer was paid the same. "The ship being fully prepared, having been painted a leaden color so as not to be distinguished in the dark, and having ';aken in her cargo, her inward cargo consisted of bacon, provisions, pig lead, boiler iron, medi? cal stores and munitions of war, she at once cleared for Halifax, N. S. All these blockade runners had Eng? lish register and English colors. Ow? ing to her majesty's proclamation of April 1861, forbidding her subjects to engage jn assisting either side during the late unpleasantness, these ships, when they made the mistake of enter? ing the port of Wilmington, instead of Halifax, and running the blockade, violated their registers and conse? quently on the return voyage had to get out a new register. "All the vessels, the property of the Confederate government were reg? istered as the property of Frazer, Trenholin & Co., England, the com? mercial agents of the Confederate government in that country. "The blockade runners were built with a double set of boilers and prior to making the coast steam was got up on all the boilers, so as to give the ship all the steam she could carry. Every vessel had steam blow-off cocks below the water line. No lights were shown on the vessel while at sea, and all the vessels burned antracite coal, which is comparatively smokeless and cost from $18 to $20 a ton. No dogs or roosters were allowed on board ship. Officers and men while running the blockade were always in their stocking feet. "In running the blockade the leadsman is stationed in the main chains, the signal officer generally amidships with his signal boxes, the captain and pilot and two men at the wheel on the bridge and two men at the wheel, so in case the bridge is shot away they can unshackle the chains and steer the ship from the stern. All lights are extinguished. The land was generally made by the ship six to ten miles to the southward of the old inlet at Wilmington and about the same distance to the north? ward of new inlet. The blockade was generally run from a quarter to a half mile off the coast and sometimes nearer. Military telegraph officers were stationed at close intervals along the coast 10 to 15 miles to the south? ern or old inlet and the same distance to the northern or new inlet, and by the signal officer aboard the blockade runner catching one of these telegraph stations with his signals communica? tion was at once made with Fort Fisher and Fort Caswell to the effect that such a vessel with captain bo and so, giving his name, was in the act of running the blockade and to look out for her and protect her. which was often done when the blockade runner was chased by the enemy. "The blockade was run only twice during the war in Wilmington in the day time. Once by the Gibraltar, the ex-Confederate war steamer Sumter, which was commanded by 'Captain Semmes, and which, by the way, was the first war vessel ever floated by the government. By a trick she succeed? ed in running it from the northward by hoisting the Federal flag. She ran down to"the fleet, the Federals think? ing she was a transport* from the North. She had on board four 200 pound Whitworth guns and other mu? nitions ef war for Fort Sumter, Char-1 leston harbor and Fort Fisher before the Federals discovered- their error. J The Will o' the Wisp, Captain Capers owner and commander, succeeded on another occasion in running the block-1 ade in the daytime. The captain was j a Scotchman, and one day some of the blockade runners on the board of trade I were guying him about the insignifi? cant appearance of his vessel, which I was small, but one of the best for speed in the port. She could make 18 j knots an hour. They offered to bet him ?100,000 against ?50,000 that he could not run the blockade in daytime. He took them up. It was customary for blockade runners to load and run I down and anchor off Smithville, at the mouth of Cape Fear river, under pro- J tection of our forts, and then make the blockade at night. The Federal fleet saw the Will o' the Wisp coming I down the river and supposed of course she would anchor, but instead she shaped her eourse right through the fleet. They, had nothing that could catch her. They fired two shots at her, one passing throngh hor cabin above the water line and the other carrying away her flagstaff. Captain Capers won his ?100,000 and became the hero of the day. I "Showing the systematic manner in 1 whioh the blockade was run, I remen?-1 ber the Virginia Importing and Ex porting Company of Petersburg, Va., J who owned a fine line of two ships named the City of Petersburg and the j Old Dominion, which, for over two I years, ran the blockade out of the port of Wilmington and port of St. George, Bermuda, on regular schedule adver- I tised time. Each of these ships cost $250,000, and after the war they were taken to Liverpool, England, and made a daily line between the city of Liverpool, England, and the city of Dublin, Ireland. j "Many strange names were given to ships running the blockade. Among I them was a line of three funnel boats belonging to a London blockade-run-1 ning firm. These boats were chris- I tened Letter B. Letter Go, and Letter Rip. The finest vessel in the busi-1 ness only made one voyage; she was I christened Col. Lamb and was built to carry 15,000 bales of cotton. The war ended soon after she was built and put an end to her career as a block? ade runner. j "One of the sad incidents in run? ning the blockade" was connected with I a ship belonging to James H. Cren shaw of Bichmond, Va. His ship cleared in '63 for St. George's Ber-1 muda. and her pilot, named Davis, had had yellow fever and was just recovering from it. The" captain j asked him if he would take the ship in. He replied that he would, if it was the last ship he ever piloted. The night the ship made the coast he took a relapse and was carried on the bridge in a chair and successfully piloted the ship into port, and when the ship dropped anchor his spirit went aloft. Another distressing incident was when the Greyhound, . Capt. Beard, j was running in the new inlet. She accidentally ran ashore. Mrs. Green how, who was so long kept a prisoner I in her residence at Washington by the Federal government and guarded by a negro, was a passenger on board this ship with her daughter. In stepping into a boat to go ashore she made a misstep and was carried down by the weight of gold that she had in two belts around her body. Her body was recovered next day. "The Greyhound, in running the blockade out of Wilmington, was cap? tured by the United States sloop-of war Connecticut. Ensign Harding was put in command of her, with orders to take her to New York. She had as passengers Mr. Pollard, editor and proprietor of the Richmond Ex? aminer, and the famous Belle Boyd. "The Confederate government built the first steel ships at Laird's yard in Liverpool, England, that were ever built. These were for the purpose of running the blockade, and were chris-1 tened the Owl, the Bat and the WrCn. j The Bat and the Wren were captured on their first or second voyage in run? ning the blockade. These ships were so fine that the Bat, after her capture by the Federals, was fitted up and put in condition as a yacht for Mr. Lin- j coin, and was used for that purpose all through the war. The Owl, which was commanded by "Capt. J. N. Mof fett was one of the most successful blockade runners of the war. After landing me with dispatches for the Confederate government in January, 1865, at Lockwood's Folly (or Windy Hill,) and not being able to find out whether Fort Fisher was captured, or whether or not Wilmington had fallen, Capt. Moffett undertook to ascertain this information himself. He ran in under Fort Fisher, which had fallen, and anchored with a hawser off Smith- j ville. He sent the pilot ashore with orders, in case the Yankees were in possession, to bring Mrs. Moffett and their children and return to the ship. The pilot was gone about 10 minutes, when he returned with his wife and children and reported that the enemy was in full possession. The men were standing by with tackle, and immedi? ately hitched onto the boat and swung it aboard with its precious burden. Capt. Moffott had a man stationed at the bits, and as soon as all were safely on board passed the word to cut the hawser, which was done, and the ship's head swung around and she stood out to sea. Three or four other blockade runners entering port that night, unaware of the enemy's posses? sion of the fort, were captured as they were in the act of drinking their wine while jollifying over the delusion of having successfully run the blockade. "He returned to Bermuda, Where he coaled up his ship and cleared for the port of Havana, Cuba, where he took in a cargo for the trans-Missis? sippi department. Safely running the blockade into the port of Galveston, after discharging his cargo, he loaded up with a return cargo of cotton, which was the last cargo of cotton carried out of the port of Galveston during the war. He returned to Ha? vana and laid -there some time, and was ordered to take the ship to Liver? pool, England, which he did, and his vessel soon went to the boneyard. These blockade runners were useless as merchantmen, because they were too light?that is, their capacity was too small and they consumed too much coal. They were speedy, and were soon out of the reach of any war vessel. "In May, 1864, I was in command of the blockade runner, Annie, a gov? ernment vessel. One Saturday night 14 of us attempted to run the blockade and 12 of us succeeded in getting in. I had 40 boxes of lemons and 10 boxes of oranges for the hospitals, $80,000 in government gold, arms, bacon, pig lead, iron and valuable stores. In 1863 when the Confederates wero hard up for salt a Capt. McMillan, of Char? leston, S. C, ran a blockade to the port of Nassau, where he purchased a large fore-and-aft centerboard schooner and loaded her with salt, ? clearing her from the port of Nassau to the port of Baltimore, his purpose being, of course, to run a blockade in Charles? ton. Capt. McMillan kept two logs? a false log and a true log; his false log showed that he was between Hat teras and Cape Henry when he was really off Charleston. He dropped both his anchors overboard, damaged his sails and appeared very much sur? prised when he sighted the Federal fleet off Charleston. He appealed to the Federal admiral for assistance. He being a kind hearted man, supplied him with new anchors and sent a sail maker and his crew aboard and re? paired his sails. Capt. McMillan spent two days with the Federal fleet. When he went aboard the flagship he bade the admiral goodby and thanked him for his kindness. The admiral offered him a towboat to tow him to the windward. This was what the captain didn't want, but he couldn't refuse it, so he was towed a short distance, when he got rid of the tug, hoisted his centerboard, and com? menced drifting back into the fleet. As soon as he drifted as far as he thought safe, he dropped his center board and ran the blockade. After loading up with cottqd, he attempted to run the blockade out, but was cap? tured. The admiral said: "I have got you now, my boy. You played me a sharp trick but I will treat you well. I will send you to New York." And he did; he treated him well."? Galveston Daily News. He Was Fleeced. Four short change sharpers got in their work at the Exposition yester? day. That number of individuals cleverly fleeced at least, one unsus? pecting victim. As a result of the little operation thn : men are locked up at police headquarters suspected of being the individuals who worked the game. The men were pointed out by the victim as being three of the quartet who fleeced him, but the officers are not certain that the identity of the men has been established by the victim. The members under arrest claim to be members of a party of Brooklynites, stating that they arrived in the city on a special car a day or two ago. They indignantly deny'any connection with the short change game, and say that the man who pointed them out is simply mistaken in their identity. The men are all well dressed and bear every appearance of being straight citizens. The case was turned over to the de? tectives, and the latter were undecided about holding the three men. The victim of the game thinks that he re? cognized the three men as the ones who worked him, but it is likely that the men will be released for the want of evidence. Yesterday Captain Richard Heath? erton. a wealthy mill owner, of Plan ters/ille, S. C, took in the Exposi? tion. ' While in the forestry building he was approached by a well-dressed man who he thought was an attache of an exhibit. The stranger made himself agreeable, and proposed to show the oaptain through the build? ing. The latter was alone and did not suspect that his companion had any designs on him. After walking about awhile convers? ing pleasantly, the accommodating man in charge of the South Carolinian was approached by a man who greeted him cordially. Presently two more men came up, the four greeting each other. All were introduced to the victim of the scheme. One of the newcomers volunteered the informa? tion that he did not intend to return home but intended to make a remittance to that place, at the same time asking the supposed exhibitor if he could exchange some large amount bills for an equal amount in small change, stating that he did not want to put so many small bills in a letter. The exhibitor, of course, had no bills of a large denomination, and told his friend that he could not accommo? date him, at the moment turning to the South Carolinian and asking if he could accommodate the gentleman by exchanging two twenties for fives and tens. The mill owner did not suspect the scheme to fleece him and he oblig? ingly drew forth his wallet and hand? ed the man a $20 bill, receiving for it four $5 bills. The $5 bills were plac? ed in the South Carolinian's hand but picked up in an instant to be count? ed again, the short change man stat? ing that he wanted to make no mis? take. -After recounting the four fives the money was again handed Captain Heatherton, who thought that he doubled up tho fives and put them in his pocket, but subsequent investiga? tion convinced him to the contrary. While he was earnestly entertained by three of the men the fourth quickly took the four fives from his hand and placed four $1 bills in Captain Heath erton's hand. Captain Heatherton doubled up the four ones and did not suspect that he had been given short change until two or three minutes later, when he be? came aroused by the remarkable quick time his newfound friends deserted him, all having departed abruptly. Examining his money the captain found that he had been fleeced to the extent of $16, being given four cnes instead of four fives. He then re? ported his loss to the Exposition Police, and Captain Jennings detailed officers on the case. The South Caro? linian went with the officers and on the Midway pointed out three men who he thought were the parties who robbed him.?Atlanta Constitution. ? Cultivation to the mind is as. neoossary as food to the body. I PIEDMONT THE PIONEER. I Mill No. 4 of the Famous Old Plant Com? pleted?A Notable Addition to a Big Enterprise. Greenville Daily Ncies. The new mill of the Piedmont manu? facturing company at Piedmont, on the Saluda river eleven miles below Greenville, is now virtually completed and awaits only the machinery to be in full working order. This mill will be No. 4, its older brothers having been at work during a varying number of years. The new mill is an object of special interest for several good reasons, one of the best of which is that it marks the triumph of a pioneer enterprise and contradicts the familiar proverb that the leaders in any great under? taking never enjoy the best fruits of it. The hi&oory of cotton manufactur? ing in this part of South Carolina shows that to the Piedmont mill, to the late Col. H. P. Hammett who was the life and soul of it so long and to the men who stood with and helped him so manfully and faithfully are due the credit for reviving the manu? facturing business here and indirectly the tremendous results which have followed. Cotton manufacturing in Greenville has long had a foothold, but it was many years a very precarious one. Away back before the war we had fac? tories here and some of them did well, although on a small scale. The Bates ville and Fork Shoales factories were the most important, but the industry seemed to be at a standstill until Col? onel Hammett organized the Piedmont company and selected the site at a well known Saluda river shoal. It was a desperate and for a time ap gently a hopeless struggle. The original capital was $250,000. It was subscribed, but the great panic of 1873 came on, nobody could pay and noth? ing could be done. It was not until 1875 that the first mill was built and the work was done in the face of diffi? culties which would have daunted less courageous men than those who were interested in Piedmont. At one time there was actually a complete break down and not even funds enough to buy supplies for the hands at work could be secured. There are men in Greenville now who loaded wagons with provisions from their own stores and sent them to Piedmont that the people there might have something to go on. Just in the very nick of time when every resource seemed to have been exhausted and every hope was apparently gone Colonel Hammett suc? ceeded in securing aid at the North which pulled him through triumph? antly. Where the water leaped and sang over the shoals and there was no other sound to disturb the silence twenty years ago, 47,000 spindles are whirling, nearly 1,500 looms are thumping, 1,500 pairs of hands are busy and there is a steady roar and whirr from morning to night of every week day, except at the dinner hour when the working people swarm from the big buildings like bees from gigantic hive's and there is an interval of comparitive silence. MilJ No. 1 is 50 feet wide by 250 long and has 10,000 spindles. No. 2 was built in 1882 when the capital of the company was increased to $600,000. It adjoins No. 1, is 70 feet by 250, four stories, and has 13,. 000 spindles. No. 3 was built in 1890 on the An? derson bank of the river, just opposite 1 and 2. It is 100 by 250 feet and has 24,000 spindles. No. 4, just completed, adjoins 1 and 2 on the Greenville side. Like the others it is four stories and, of course, brick. It is 102 feet by 136 and will contain 10,000 spindles. One pecu larity of it is that it will be completed and "'inning in just ten months from the day the directors gave Col. J. L. Orr, who succeeds Colonel Hammett as president, authority to begin work, on it. It is built of home made brick and by the company and nearly all the ? money spent for it was kept at home. It is a handsome mill and a solid one, built to stay. Like the others, it has walls 44 inches thick on the first floor and 36, 32 and 30 inches respectively on the others and is founded on solid granite rock. It was designed by Lockwood, Greene & Co., the famous mill engineers, of Boston, and has all the modern improvements in the way of sanitation, ventilation, lighting, heating and fire protection. Steam heat will be used. There is abundant win? dow space and air and light are further supplied by skylights and monitors on the top floors. There is a complete system of elevators. The completion of No. 4 will put Piedmont far up in the front rank among Southern cotton mills. Her success demonstrated years ago by the cold facts and figures the advantages this section has in labor, climate, quality of staple, water power and other important respects for the manu? facture of cotton goods on a large scale and spindles have come by the hundreds of thousands and dollars by the millions. Now there is a magnifi? cent, a wonderful, array of great mills in Greenville, Anderson, Spar tanburg, Union and other counties. Piedmont showed the way and has steadily kept along with the proces? sion, adding continually to plant and force. , The Piedmont pay roll is now $20, 000 a month and Colonel Orr claims to have the best help in the United States. Many of the Piedmont oper? atives are children of operatives, born in the town, trained in the Piedmont schools. They are thrifty, healthy, intelligent, prosperous and self-re? specting people who have grown into a feeling of proprietorship and personal interest in the mills and their work. Colonel Hammett from the very be? ginning took personal interest in his employees and gave much of his at? tention to securing and encouraging a high class of labor. In this he was actively aided by Superintendent Her, who thoroughly imbibed his spirit and has faithfully continued his system, and Colonel Orr acts on the same line. He is prouder of his "help" than he is of the big mills and the hundreds of thousands of dollars of which he is officially in control, and next to the "help" he seems to think most of the schools. The Piedmont company con? tributes $1,500 a year to the support of a graded school system which may challenge comparison with that of many a pretentious city. Nearly six hundred pupils are enrolled and there is a staff of five competent teachers under a superintendent, Mr. Eskew, I who deservedly stands in the front rank of his profession. Piedmont is the only mill in the South which is in the Chinese and Japanese markets under its own brands and the products of which are 1 regularly quoted in the market reports of those countries. It makes every year 26,000,000 yards of cloth woven from its own yarn and spins and sells 15,000 pounds of yarn a week in ad? dition. Every day it loads three freight cars with its product of the day before, shipping most of it direct to the far East. It has 1,250 steam horse power and 2,000 horse power from its water supply. The steam is used exactly as it may be needed to supplement the water. Themillshave not lost an hour, have not had to wait an hour, during all the unprecedented drought of the fall and winter of this year. The old pioneer mills are thoroughly equipped, prosperous and expanding continually and are the centre of a happy, healthy and growing commun-1 ity. Besides its good schools Pied- J mont.has unexcelled church facilities, j the Baptists, Methodists and Presby- j terians each having large, handsome and comfortable church buildings on land given by the company. The j Presbyterian Church, just completed. J is a really beautiful structure, finished in hard wood and designed after the latest models for such edifices. The other congregations are nearly as well I equipped. The Piedmont company long ago built a union church, but the congregations have outgrown that. A library of 2,300 volumes, estab? lished and kept up and constantly added to by the company is free to all employees. It is the pride and special care of Mr. Rowell, foreman of the cloth room, who watches with keen pleasure the steady growth of a taste for reading, which is attested by the J well worn appearance of many of the j books. With No. 4 at work there will be labor for many more hands, consump? tion for many more baled of cotton, a large increase in the amount of money brought here from abroad to be distri? buted among working people, farmers and stockholders. The vast machine, the great aggregate of power of water and steam, of big, tireless wheels, J whirling shafts and belting, of hun? dreds of busy hands and countless in? tricate mechanisms, the steady river of white cotton tumbling into the .mixers in the basements, sucked up to the floors above to be drawn out into endless ropes, passed through series after series of spools, spouts and twisters and then as thread put on the looms and woven into cloth to be rushed into the waiting oars?all this, and all the ramifications of a business of millions of dollars moves so smoothly and easily that Colonel Orr, who is at the head of it all, never seems to be in a hurry or to be bother? ed over anything and has the oppor- I tunity to give his attention to the smallest details of work and manage-1 ment and to take special interest in the "welfare of all the Piedmont opera- J tives, from the smallest children in the schools to the veteran of years of j service. ?' . ! It is a well disciplined and officered army, a well equipped establishment from whcl pits to skylights, and it has been so thoroughly adjusted that it works almost automatically. A modest monument of marble stands in a conspicuous place in the town of Piedmont. It was erected to the memory of Henry Pinckney Ham mett, the founder of Piedmont, the man who gave the first impetus to an I enormus industrial movement which has revolutionized conditions in this country and is destined to have yet more far reaching results. As a mat-1 ter of fact, mills Nos. 1,2,3 and 4 and Nos. 5, 6 and 7 as they come in their due time and order, and many other tall chimneys and great masses of brick and machinery in Piedmont, j South Carolina, will be monuments to Henry Pinckney Hammekt, the found? er of Piedmont and pioneer of the manufacture of cotton on a large scale in this section. His woirk has fallen into strong hands and is being carried forward and steadily expanded and extended, but the beginning of it will not be forgotten. j "A Pint of Corn." A very amusing incident occurred in a place on Gervais street a few nights ago, Constable Beach and Davis figur? ing therein. There wan a crowd in the place at the time. One of the constables stepped up to the ex-liquor man, and, slaping him on the back, this conversation took place: "I say, Bill, are you in the business yet?" "Oh, yes. I've never been out of it." "Well, I'm terribly dry, can't you get me a pint of corn?" "Oh! certainly." "How much?" "Fifty cents." "Well, all right. Go get it." Bill left and soon afterward return? ed with a pint flask neatly wrapped up, handing it to the constable. The constable took it, paid the half dollar, and proceeded to arrest in the name of the State of South Carolina. Bill submitted to arrest and sug? gested that they take a drink before they started for the jail. The constable pulled the neck of the bottle and turned it up. Then he spit out a mouthful of corn, and when everybody laughed, he exclaimed: "I'll arrest you for obtaining money under false pretenses." Bill chuckled, and said: "Well, I guess you won't. You told me to get you a pint of corn. I've fulfilled my contract to the letter, and what's more I gave you full measure, for it's in a dispensary pint bottle. The half dol? lar's mine and you can whistle for it." The crowd laughed. And the bot? tle band around the corner played on. ?The State, 9th. ? Go3sip is putting two and two together and making five. ? The number of men buiding and repairing bicycles exceeds to an enor? mous per centage the number of men at work among horses who are dis? placed by common use of the new vehicle. In 1894 in the United States 200,000 bicycles were made. This year the product will reach 400,000, and manufacturers predict the future of 700,000 wheels in 1896. _ The con? struction of bicycles furnishes em? ployment to a vast army of workmen. Every part of the machine must be prepared by skillfull men. The ma? terial for each bicycle cost but $12 or $15, and the difference between that small sum and the large cost goes to the workmen and employer. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or coDstitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure is not a qnack medlcino. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is com? posed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on t) e mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients Is what produces such wondorful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free F. J. CHENEY * CO . Toledo, O. *^"8old by Drogist?, T5e COAL OIL JOHNNY. The Famous Spendthrift Is Enjoying Life out In Nebraska. The pyrotechnic career of the active speculator known as Coal Oil Johnny is not ended, as most people have for ( a long time supposed. According to [the new York Sun Johnny is very much alive, in pretty good condition physically, and in quite comfortable circumstances. And shocking as it !-may be to those accustomed to hold? ing him up as a horrid warning to the young the fact seems beyond dispute that his good financial plight to-day is the direct result of his having been a reckless, irresponsible, drunken and pernicious spendthrift when young. His present home is Lincoln, Nebraska, and the story of how he came to go there, and how he got the money on which he is living to-day, is just as romantio as any of those other stories which were told about him years ago. He is known as John Steele, and he is a healthy and happy head of a family. As he ceased being ?so far as the general public was concerned?a realizable entity, and passed into history some thirty years ago, the present generation hardly know him as more than a name associ? ated'with many wildly fantastic stories of amazing prodigality, and perhaps without some such publication as this to rescue him from oblivion, in a lit? tle while more the myth finders would fall foul of his name and argue him out of real existence. As it is, however, every one knows something about Coal Oil Johnny's falling into the immense wealth of the Widow McClintock, when, as'her adopted son, he inherited her oil pro? ducing lands in Western Pennsylvania in March, 1862. This sudden acqui? sition of enormous wealth turned his head, not all at once, but speedily. He wished to find in enjoyment of it an intensified consciousness of its re? ality, but was too ignorant to do so in any intelligent way. He married the daughter of one of his workmen, and she tanght him to write his name in a laborious, mechanical way, and that was all he ever learned- of the art and j mystery of letters. Only a few months after his mar? riage he came down to Philadelphia, taking with? him a boon companion named Slocum, whose assigned duty was the carrying of his money and paying it out as he chose to squander it. The life of prodigality and un? controlled dissipation into which he plunged was so wild as to be almost beyond belief. He ordered champagne, not by the bottle, but by the basket. He gave a $5,000 diamond to -a negro \ minstrel for singing a song that pleas? ed him. He frequently bought car? riages and the teams attached when he wished to ride a few blocks, and then presented them to the drivers. On one occasion he wagered a bottle | of wine that he would spend, actually paying out "for fun" and not giving away, $10,000 a day for sixty days, and won the bottle. At another time he received a large sum of money from j the rentals on the farm when he was on the street and quite drunk. It was in bank notes, as he always required it, checks being objects of suspicion with him, and when he had stuffed it into his pockets they bulged out like those of an urchin after a raid on an apple orchard. His coat could not set well on him, padded with money as he' was, and he was disgusted. Just then he caught sight of abank, and, rushing into it with the airy for? mality of : "Here, take care of this damned stuff forme ; it's a nuisance," dumped the whole pile before the re? ceiving teller, and went away before that functionary could take breath or gather his wits sufficiently to give any evidence of the deposit. And when Coal Oil Johnny, as John Steele was by this time known, tried, in a brief spasm of sobriety, to remember where; he had left all that money, he was quite unable to do so. And, he de? cided, to hunt it up would involve more trouble than it was worth. Its loss did not worry him at all. Suddenly his wealth came to an end. He had succeeded in squandering even more than his vast income, and was in debt. Of course he had been plun? dered mercilessly right and left, but had literally thrown away several for? tunes, and creditors, scenting his downfall, were pressing him. He mort? gaged the farm for a large sum and plunged afresh into even wilder ex? travagance and more reckless dissipa? tion than before, but with less to go upon, and the end came quickly. - His mad career was over. After a short time of abject desti? tution, in which he was deserted by all who had preyed upon him, he went to work driving the Girard House stage, in which guests were carried to and from the railroad depots. Soon he wearied of that, and somebody paid his fare back to Oil Creek, where he obtained employment as a freight handler at the depot, in which capaci? ty he earned $25 a month. That was not enough to support himself and family, and there was nothing more remunerative that he could find there to do. His wife raised by the sale of her jewelry a sum sufficient for the trans? portation of the family out to Nebras? ka, and there, in Lincoln, Coal Oil Johnny settled down. They were very poor, but managed somehow to live, for Johnny was a willing worker at any labor he could procure. Real? izing the evil fortune of such limita? tion as had been put upon his capaci? ties by his ignorance, he took care that his son, a bright lad, should receive as good an education as was attaina? ble under the existing circumstances. When the boy was old enough he ob? tained employment as a ticket and freight agent at the Ashland, Neb., railroad station, and there his father, Coal Oil Johnny that was, plain John Steele, works steadily and patiently for the railroad company, under, his son's direction, handling freight, tak? ing care of the station and bo on. And he is hale, hearty, a well pre-, served man, apparently about 53 years-] of age, seemingly well contented. But he is by no means dependent now upon his labor for the maintainance of his family, or upon his steady and industrious son. At a time when his situation seemed most miserable aniH his prospects least hopeful, while he was still seeking day's work at any hard labor in Lincoln, fortune again smiled upon him, a gleam of his old luck gilded his life once again. In some way the directors of that Philadelphia bank in which he had made his im formal deposit thirty years before learned of the unhappy condition of the Steele family;'.away out in Nebraska, of the total reform? ation in Coal Oil Johnny's habits, and the manly struggle he was,inak.ing to atone for the past. Having^ssured themselves of the identificatiouu^llieir erratic depositor, they madi|-?upJh'M left in thejjpj the date of How L those conoc have beer probably: that mor choice were pi erected, ' cellent Mrs. Steele bad idea si experimem| delights probable prejudice^ farm. Bi doing so; Alii ns you woul pjomil N. Y$ five monL Robinson] Balm is j any rest pain it bad ca" cured . bottle 1 ? 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