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THE NEW EN ?Vhat a Soxith Carolin fo th Editor oj' the News and Cbu . !J my boyhood I worked upon a <b Carolina farm, being, of course, joyed iu what economists techni cal) an extractive industry; that {tra? engaged in producing a raw terial, cotton, tobe a.".? r .rds con ked into goods by some \e eise, experience in the evolutk neces for preparing the raw aaterial the spindle and the loom began ,after the war, not the Cuban rar, the civil war. It was a time, jj^ oiost Southerners, of homespun bes, corn bread and bacon, and ,n in these things rations were |rt. f never considered homespun tiful or "dressy," notwithstacd it was worn by the rich a? well as poor. With me, as with most ri. it was a case of necessity and sentiment. A thing done from 5sity and not from choioe ceases, great measure, to gratify our etic tastes or to tickle our poetic y. When trade relations were re ed between the sections after the when so many goods of every de tioa came pouring into' thc South uch profusion, I wondered why If things could not be made in the h as well as the North. I was with a desire to go North and the processes by *vhich the raw 0 was converted into yarn and which I considered so much beautiful to the eye, even though re not a thing of so much utility r Confederate homespun. I lit ought then that within a quarter eotury South Carolina would be essful rival of Massachusetts in manufacturing as she had been many years the rival of Mossa us in the forum and in the halls ogress. My contemplated trip ot take place till after South ina had, within her -own borders, h spindles and looms to consume undred thousand bales of cotton r, and mills and additions to being built to consume another ed thousand bales by the close year 1899. hing to mako a comparison of manufacturing in South Caro lin the same in New England, ing inore especially desirous of ring the social conditions of the ives of the two sections, and, 1 could take advantage of the vacation, I left Yale Univer se :10th of March ta visit the otton mill towns of New Eng to see for myself how things o compare results, and to draw o conclusions- Sociology beisg my chief studies, of course, my . on was directed more to the e people lived than to 'he man ing of cotton goods. 1 wished onie practical sociological work, g books and hearing lectures e a very inadequate conception real state of things as they ex visited the following towns: lenee, Pawtucket, Valley Falls ](jg.oosdale, .Rhode Island; Fall New Bedford, Boston, Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence and Spring as&chnsetts; Portland, Saco ddeford, Maine; Nashua, Man and Concord, New Hampshire; s Falls and Brattleboro, Ver-; ad Hartford, Connecticut. Uention was given principally a mill towns, as that was the during industry we were niost ged in in "South Carolina. Aa he mills are much larger than those in -South Carolina, but er constructed. I was inside o cotton mills-the Slater Pawtucket, and the Merrimac, ell. These were repr?senta is, and much of the machinery ? out of date. lwas told by ea at different places that ills were still running with ed machinery, and could not ally compete with mills fur ith that whioh-is new. Some, ? &n "Pl*06 thoold machinery B&flfr, would abandon cotton nan Biejrg together, *?>d fill the it bV'tD ma?hinery for some other [industry. Ctn fact, some have ?done this. I saw no uew milla ult, but saw some that had ndoned. My opinion is, after cen the New England mills, ill grow more and more diffi N'ew England mills to com cessfully with mills in the od Southward must the cotton go, as witness the -fact tu at ?ftnmac, one of tho strongest ^?P^red thousand spindles in W*t an early day . ioffeW excePtfpns no attention is .autifying thegrounds around ; the only instances which I ll, where this has been done, Atlantic Mills, nt Providence, Coates Thread Company, at *t. As a ru3o tho operatives' re much neglected in thia ro f _ ety few have any fencoB 116 *gie houses, or even any sign of ia front. Providenco 'ind r A ?61 were very clean ?*>?ss t? .'.^JWly'Cngaged in mannfactar ?' enc GLAND MILLS. ian Saw in 21 Factory ?vns. ingj so were Lowell and Manchester. Fall River, Massachusetts and Bide ford, Maine, were especially bad. I don't think I would exaggerate if I were to say that I saw more filth, more evidences of poverty and desti tution in Fall River and Biddeford than I have ever seen in the whole State of South Carolina. Fall River has more than thirty thousand open tives iu '.er ninety and more mills, I sod to shelter this number of people with their families requires considera ble house room. For the most part the houses are bad; built of inferior material and put up on a cheap scale. In most of the tenements the passages are narrow, the rooms are small, and the people entirely too much crov ded for health or comfort. Cooking and eating both done in a 6mall room, per haps ten by twelve feet, or less, and washing done in the same room or in the narrow halls. Houses destitute of window curtains, and in most cases furnished with tho cheat est grade of furniture. The people are crowded and the houses are crowded. An in- ' sufficient amount of ground space around the houses, and it oftentimes covered over with ashes, tin cans and many other kinds of rubbish. At Biddeford the houses and sur roundings were still Worse; ashes piled up almost to the windows, back yards muddy and filled up with all kinds of rubbish, what pretended to be side walks and streets were shoe-mouth deep in mud; snow hadn't been shov eled from walks and door steps in some places, although it had been some weeks since the snow had fallen, and dirty, ragged little children were play ing around as if it were all right. Here were what are called corporation boarding houses, owned by the com pany. Only a few of these, not enough to supply but a fraction of the whole number of operatives. These tenements are rented to families, who board and lodge young men and young women who work in the mill. Thc men pay $2.75 a week, and thc girls $1.75, and thc company supplements this by 30 cents in cch case where the opeaative boards at one of its houses. These houses are first-class -rooms all well lighted and well ven tilated. At Lowell there were still more of these houses, and of still a better grade. The rows of tenements were too close together, giving an insuffi cient amount of ground for back yards; no front yards at all. At Manchester the best tenements are to be seen. They are new, having been built, many of them, withiu the last two or three years. The Amos keag Company have torn away many of the old dingy and uner^htly wooden tenements and have erected houses made of brick and stone-houses two and three stories high, covered with slate, and with doors and windows of excellent material and in the latest styles. Inside, the walls are wain sooted and nicely papered. To each tenement there is attached a small outhouse for storing fuel., washing outfit, etc. The Stark Mills have similar tenements. These, in many cases, have small front yards, fenced in, apd the yards have grass and flow ers; large amount of -ground for back yards, and each yard fenoed to itself. The Amoskeag Company are to con tinue building modern tenements, but these good buildings are wholly inad equate for all who get work in the mills; most of them are compelled to live in. houses which are neither com fortable nor attractive. Every European nationality is to be found among the operatives. ' I stood .at noon one -day at the gate of one of tho largest mills in Biddeford as hun dreds of operatives were passing ont. I heard only a few words spoken in English, and 'they were Irish. A boy was distributing programmes for a concert, and these ?programmes were in French. Considerable prejudice is* shown by the native American against many clashes of foreigners. I am in clined to think the grounds for euch pr?judice, in most coses, are not well founded. It's a question ?f the sur vival of the fittest. The native American factory element in the North, I fear, has degenerated. Of all with whom I came in contact I was favorably impressed with the English, Scotch and Irish. The Irish are very frugal -many have accumulated property own their own homes, and are, as a ?rule; intelligent andar? very cleanly in their houses. Daring my trip I received the most courteous treatment from all classes. I was thrown more with the working people than with others. ; M'y ques tions were always answered in a polite way, the. people admitted me to their houses without any objections when my business was mr?de known, and they would often show a willingness io do more really than I asked. I found many excellent people among .the'working cUsses, who were vory cordial and accommodating. I cannot ?pimL iu coo high terms of my' treat ment by every one, . I Southern mills have many advan tages over Northern mills. As yet they are not orowded, nor are they likely to be. instead of large cities, where population is congested', there are factory vi.lagea. People crowded into such places as I have described are sure to degenerate. A man can't live in a pig sty and still be a man. He must have space for his full de velopment. In South Carolina we have no large cities yet, and I hope we may never have. The new motive power of electricity will prevent great aggregations of people in a small ter ritory. Power can be conveyed to a distance, so that mills can be wide apart, and the people not bo crowded for ?paco. We will have manufactur ing villages and not manufacturing cities. Electric cars are already run ning along the public roads through the country in New England, making travel so cheap that people can live far away from their work. South Carolina is just in time to reap all the advantages of the new motive power and other improvements, and she may already be called the Massachusetts of thc South. We have no such conglomeration of foreign population as.is to be found in New England. As a rule operatives arc better provided for in South Caro lina than in NV.w England; they labor under better conditions. Nominal wages may not be quite so high, but real wages are higher. Wc have not the abominable tenement house sys tem, but rather the cottage system, which is far preferable. I saw no mill and its surroundings so attractive as the G rangeville Mills, or thc Gaff ney Mills. Let South Carolina still give more attention to the housing of her operatives properly; it will be economy in the end. People crowded into miserable tenements and isolated from all other classes are bound to de generate. May South Carolina never make that blunder. S. C. STURGIS. New Haven, Conn., May 17, 1899. - wmu ? Smoking By Buys, That thc essential principle of to bacco, that which gives it all its value lo the smoker, is a virulent poison, is universally admitted. It is agreed also that its primary effects is upon the brain and spinal cord, with a par alyzing tendency. Even Beard, who defends the mod erate use of tobacco, admits that its effects are disastrous on some classes of persons. It withers some, he says, while fattening others; causes in some dyspepsia and constipation, while up on others it has a contrary effect. It is soothing to some, but induces in others all the horrors of extreme ner vousness. He adds that among the brain-working class of our population the proportion of those who can use tobacco with impunity is yearly di minishing, as a nervous tendency more and more prevails among us. Now whatever may be urged in favor of moderate smoking later in life, all intelligent persons who have given the subject attention, unite in condemning the use of tobacoo by thc young. Young persons do not know wheth er or not they belong to the class most liable to be injured by tobacco. No one denies the danger of its excessive use, and the young have neither the intelligence nor the self-control to re sist the tendency of smoking to grow into an uncontrollable habit. Further, the brain and nervous system of youth are especially susceptible to thc banefuf influence of the poisonous principles of tobacco. The commanding medioal authority, the Lon den Lancet, says : "It is time that the attention of all responsible persons should be seriously directed to the prevalence and increase of to bacco smoking among boys. Stunted growth, impaired digestion, palpita tion and other evidences nf nervous exhaustion and irritability have again and again impressed the lesson of ab stinence, which has heretofore been far too little regarded." It cites a case which lately came be fore the coroner >for Liverpool-death from a fatty change in the heart due mainly to smoking cigarettes and cigar ends-and adds : "This of course is an extreme ex ample. It is, however, only a strong colored-illustration of effects on health which aro daily realised in thousands of instances. Not even in manhood is the pipe or cigar invariably safe. Muoh less can it be so regarded when it ministers to the unbounded whims and cravings of heedless urchins." The Special Use of Flies. "Yes, Bobby," said the minister, who was dining with the family, "everything in thia world has its use, although we may not know what it is. Now, there io the fly, for instance. You wouldn't think that flies were good for anything, yet" "Uh, yes, I would," interrupted Bobby. "I know what flies are good for." "What. Bobby ?" ?"Pa says that they are the only thing that keeps him awake v.hen you aro preaohing." - Au ounce of performance is bet ter .than a pound of promise. It Didn't Work. Ho caine towards her, his Hps twitch ing, his brow furrowed. One of his hands was concealed behind him. She regarded him coldly. "What are you hiding?" she asked. "I hide it no longer," he cried, "it's a lath !" "Explain its purpose,'' she hoarse ly commanded. "I will," he firmly answered, ,lIf you read the papers you must have noticed that a St. Louis Judge has just hauded down au opinion that a husband is justified in thrashing his wife if she sufficiently irritates him. You have irritated me-therefore thc lath." She moistened her dry lips with the tip of ber sharp red tongue. "I suppose," she slowly said, ' that the punishment is the same, no mat ter how great the irritation may be come ?" "I suppose so," he said in a hesi tating way. "Then," she sharply mild, "it is just as well to make it worth the while." And before he could frame a suita ble reply she had snatched a handful of his whiskers, thumped his cars, lammed him with a rolling pin, prod ded hies T?ith ?poker and shivered thc lath over his unlucky shoulders. Half an hour later he poked his dis honored head from beneath the dining room table and hissed between his white Ups: "If I only had that St. Louis Judge under here for about 17 seconds, I'd twist his idiotic neck off!"-Cleveland Plain Dealer. - A peasant woman, in the ab sence of her husband, sells two fat cows to a passing dealer. As he says he has no money with him, she is un willing to let him have them without security. "Very well." he says, "then I will leave one of the cows for secur ity." The woman agrees and calmly allows him to march off with tho other cow. - The harder it is to acquire a thing the longer you will retain it. ?anaaannanmBaBBaBmBB "Barred Ont of Home." A little back from tbc country roadway a few miles out from oue of our large South ern cities stands the ruin of a magnificent mansion, once thc scene of a pathetic life drama, which, though years have passed, yet thrills the heart of one who witnessed the clo si np scene. Well is remembered the wild tempest. nous night witta rain driving in shcety tor. rents across the higta iron-spiked wall, and beating, as it seemed, almost like bayonets against the barred and bolted gateway. And there beneath the frowning arch, shel, terless and homeless in the pitiless storm that had driven strong men to cover, tho fierce lightning flashes that came crackling through the night revealed the frail figurq of a delicate young woman with face up turned to heaven and clenched hands up* lifted in mortal agony; while her wail of misery penetrating even the awful voice of the storm could be heard in the oft-repeated refrain: "My home! My home! Barred out of home ! " She had been a bright ambitious git! starting hopefully abroad to cultivate he? naturally beautiful voice, determined to make a European fame for herself as a successful singer. But circumstances were against her. -Unfair rivalries robbed her of the best opportunities.* Despite her undoubted talent failure followed failure; ?he grew morbidly sensitive and wrote less and less often to the fond parents whose greatest happiness was to supply her every need. She was proud : " Twill not write again" she said one day, "until I have -succeeded." Weeks lapsed into months. Suddenly misfortune and death fell upon the grand old homestead. The young girl -giving up the unequal struggle came back across the aea to the death-stricken, bolted, barred, deserted house all unaware of the swift disaster which had left her penniless, orphaned and alone. *' Barred out of home ! " Thia ia the sad Terrain ringing through the memories of that pathetic scene. "Barred out of homo" ia the thought that well may echo through the hearts of many a woman who seems to all outward appearance surrounded with every h ou Behold comfort, that the heart could wich. Alas, health is lacking. Home ts no home to the poor sick broken down woman who has no strength, health or en ergy to enjoy it. Disease bolts and bars a woman outside of the doora of true home happiness as completely as if she had no home. Countless thousands of weakened, weary, disease-racked women all over these United States have had the gates of a healthy, vigorous home happiness thrown wide open to them by the life-renewing, blood -vitalizing "Golden Medical Discovery" of Br. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y. It lifts the enfeebled constitution out of the quag mire of disease and sets it bodily upon the firm ground of health. 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Now, a bar of steel one inch in diame ter will sustain f>0 tous. If you take the diameter of a spider's thread, and calculate out what weight the same thread au inch ia diameter would sup port, tho conclusion arrived at is no less than 74 tons, which means that the strength of the scotniDgly feeble thread is, as nearly as possible, one and a-half times that of the steel. - ? mm . - What is Kodol Dyspepsia Cure? lt is the newly discovered remedy, tho most effective preparation ever devised for aiding the digestion and assimila tion of food, and restoring tho derang ed digestive organs to a natural condi tion. It is a discovcry|surpassiug anything yet known to the medical profession. Evans Pharmacy. YOUR HOME PLEASURES NO influence lends so much to home life as muslo. No Stock offers greater attractions than ours, and we wish to help you to happineps. 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