Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THF. corro. Past History. Pres? Vorkrillt; I'rom au industrial standpoint, tho people ol' the South, and ?d' Smith Carolina especially, ar;: not so much interested in any other one tiling as they an: in cotton. I'pon this staple principally is based all that our State ha- achieved in an industrial way during the past om; hundred year-, and notwithstanding all that may !>'. said to the contrary, our hop?'- ure based principally on this staple lor : the next hundred years to come. To point out any considcral.de busi- , ness in this section, or for that mat ter, an individual living, which does not come in whole, or in part, from thc cotton industry, would bc ililli - cult. There ure nun;' rous handsome residences and large business houses throughout (Iii- -..?.-lion, to build which cost much money. The money was paid by tim owners of tho build ings; but it is not diilieult to show that it caine to them originally through the cotton fields. There are numer ous-: hanks scattered through this ; country, all with more or less capital derived from cotton production. There ? is not a big mercantile establishment ' within tifty miles that was not built j up mainly by cotton producers. The j cotton crop pays the salary of the preacher, the fee of the lawyer and doctor, mid tho subscription to thc new.-p.i|.( . Of course there are some few commodities that havo value in dependent, of any direct or indirect connection with cotton; but they are bo few and unimportant that to think out and establish their claims would be a tedious undertaking. For in stance firewood-a natural resource is sold for money to a private indivi dual who gets the money with which to pay for it through sonic connection with the cotton industry, and with chickens, eggs, cattle, etc, thc rela tion is the same. The importanco of cotton, there fore, in this section cannot bo overes timated. Upon it depends the indus trial, social, religious life and progress of thc people, and in tho development of tho industry all aro equally interest ed. Formerly our people wero inter ested only in ootton production; butof late yearB it has developed that they are as greatly interested in cotton manufacture, and it is now developing that they arc juBt as greatly interest ed iu ootton consumption. Generally, the question has not been studied or fully comprehended in al', its bearings; but the history of thc industry has now developed sufficiently tc greatly aid a more thorough understanding of it from a strictly practical self-interest poiut of view. Previous to the invention of thc cotton gin, just before the year 1800, gold or silver money was an exceed ingly scarce commodity in South Caro lina. Thc little that carno to this State came after indigo, rice, turpen tine and a few other commodities that were furnished in very limitai quan tities. But thc invention of the cot ton gin changed conditions, not ouly in South Carolina but in all thc South ern States where the soil and climate wore adapted to tho production of cot ton. Tho industry grew rapidly so far as production was concerned. At first the price was good; but theic was no market of any consequence ex cept in England, and as production increased, p: ? went downward. This downwaru progress was not ar rested until the building of cotton mills was commenced in America. The cotton production of the South in 1844-15 was 2,31)4,503 bales. Of this 2,083,700 b:iles were exported, and only about 3Sy,000 were manufac tured in this country. The price that year was only 5.03 cents a pound. The :iext year American mills in creased their manufactures to 42*2,000 bales and the price went up to 7.87. The crop that year, however, was about 300,000 less than for the pre vious year; but 10 years later thc United States manufactured 700,000 bales out of a 3,000,000 bale crop, and thc producers that year, 1854-55, got 20.30 for their cotton. So with tho i norene cf Aiiicricnn spindles, tho j price went on up until 1860-01, when the United States manufactured 850, 000 bales out of a 4,000,000 balo crop, and the cotton growers got 13.10 cents a pound. Of the condition of the market dur ing and immediately after the war, it is hardly worth while to speak at length. The high prices then, of course, were caused by the extraordi nary disproportion of supply and de mand. There had been a famine of cotton goods for four years, and it is easy to seo why the crop of 1865-66, amounting to 2,259,316 bales, brought 43.20 a pound, especially when the American mills took of this small crop 666,100 bales. From that year onward statistics show a steady in crease, not only of the takings of \ INDUSTRY. .nt. J.mportivnce and velopment. Muquir?'. American mills, but also of foreign mills: ann" ul the Hame time a steady decrease in the price that has been paid i" producers of thc raw material until di'! ".- ip nf I SHS iii*, aggregating Over 11,000,000 hah.'s, brought to tho producers only ti emits a pound. Thc decline in price has boen ac counted for in various ways inn numer ous to even mention; hut according to the story told by the statistics -the increase in spindles at home keeping pace with and rapidly gaining on those abroad, thc aggregate increase at home and abroad keeping steadily up with the cotton production ol' thc world, and tho price of raw material tending gradually downward- -there is bu), one reasonable conclusion, to wit: While cotton manufacture has kept pac; with cotton production, cotton consumption has not kop: pace with cotton manufacture. The decline in price has, since thc recovery of thu cotton famine referred to, been due principally to thc forcing of new goods on a market already supplied, and the only means of inducing reaction, is by an expansion of the market. When Stanley went into tho heart of Africa, some ?0 years ago, in search of Livingstone, he reported having come across numerous tribes of sav ages, thc members of which were as naked as when they came into the world. Wc arc told that, when Gen eral Kichener met the Khalifa at thc battle of Omdurman, a year ago, thc Khalifa's soldiers were clothed in long cotton robes. It is easy to imagine many of these soldiers as having be longed to thc tribes that Stanley found naked, and it is 'uile certain thc en terprising merchants who sold tho cloth for those robes, to just that ex tent expanded thc market for cotton, aud to that extent kept up tho price that was paid to thc producer. And here is a valuable pointer. As civili zation progresses among savage tribes, tho natives arc made to wear clothes. Maybe it is hard to make people do things they don't want to do; but where pcoplo demand tho right to go naked, most civilized people will draw the line. Ono of tho first things the Americans did in Porto Rico was to moke the native children put on clothes. Tho same reform is in pro gress in Cuba. In thc Philippines, nakedness is moro common than io either Cuba or Porto Rico, and naked ness will bc made unlawful there, as Captain Leary has made it in Guam. All of this creates a demand for cot ton, and wherever thc Americans go in any tropical couutry, they will help to increase the demand for Southorn cotton. Numerous remedies for the incrcaso of the price of cotton have been sug gested. Some have been practical and some have been unpractical. Tho most practical one-reduction of the crop in proportion to the present de mand-has failed because of the diffi culty of putting it into execution; al though this year, nature, with her un favorable season, has partially proved its efficacy. There is one moro reme dy that is deserving of a trial-tho perfectly natural remedy. Thc sup ply being greater than thc demand, then if the supply cannot be reduced, increase the demand. The govern ment is now engaged in enterprises which mean the opening of new mar kets and the further development of old ones. As long as the mills are able to profitably sell their products as fast as they can turn them out, the building of new mills will continue, and the greater the number of busy mills, the greater thc demand for raw cotton, and the greater the demand for raw cotton, thc greater the price to thc producer. When we come to consider the vast population of the world- -the civilized markets as yet untouched, and the semi-civilized markets only awaiting the stimulating touch of intelligent enterprise for their development- not withstanding thc tremendous present proportions of cotton production and cotton manufacture, it is easy to im agine that thcRft industries arn ronllw in their infancy. Further growth and development now, however, seems to bc beyond the reach of individual enterprise. Thc solution of tho prob lem requires what it is now rcoeiving, tho best efforts of our most enterpris ing and progressive statesmen. W. D. G. Mrs. R. Churchill, llerlin, Vt., says, "Our baby was covered with running sores. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve oured her." A specific for piles and skin diseases. Beware of worthless Counterfeits. Evans Pharmacy. - She-"Henry, dearest, I have at last discovered that I lovo youl" He "Ab, you have heard, then, that my unole has died and left mo five thous and dollars?" She-uSir, after that remark we must part forcverl I heard it was fifty." Th? Filipinos as Fighters. Tlie Filipinos ure rio? lighters, says General Frederick Funston in Tlie New York Sunday World. They have not hcen trained for open war fan-. They are bushwhackers and will light wickedly so long as they are securely intrenched or otherwise pro tected. When a charge i> made on their mtrenchtnents they Hy in wild disorder. They have not the nerve *o slay and light it out. I think this is attributable largely to tho fact that the heart of the average Filipino is not in the war. The masses would gladly yield to the authority of the United States were it not for thc bosses. The peo ple are ignorant and suspicious, and Aguinaldo and his oflicers have been able thus far to keep them on the side of the rebellion with fake stories about great disasters to thc American troops and the wonderful growth of the anti-expansion sentiment in the I nilcd States. The Filipinos are led to belie ve that all they have to do to gain what they ar<; told is their ''independence'' is to hold out a few months. When a transport load of soldiers leaves Ma nila for tlie' United States the Filipi nos are told that the Americans, weary of thc light, are sending their troops home, but they are not informed of thc landing of fresh regiments to take their places. The "independence'' which Agui naldo talks about to his people would be worse for them than Spanish rule. Aguinaldo simply would be dictator, and he is the kind of fellow ?ho would grind the very lives out of the people to satisfy his ambition for wealth and power. Of course there would be rebellion against Aguinaldo's rule; civil waraud anarchy would reign. The masses are incapable of self-government. And thc leaders of the insurrection are too venal to administer the affairs of the island for the common good, even if they possessed the qualifications, which they do not. I think the Filipinos realize now that they cannot cope with our sol diers, and when they become convinc I ed that the United States can give them a better government than can Aguinaldo they will lay down their I arms and become peaceable. The United States soldiers in the Philip pines are invincible, and tho Tagals know it. While I was in the island I never Baw a soldier flinch or groan or cry out when he was shot or falter when the fire was thickest. With Buch men as j these they can crush Aguinaldo's ar ! my, and never cn thc face of this earth S suffer that flag whioh floats over Luzon to bo pulled down. The business opportunities in the archipelago are many. The islands are rich, and when order is restored will grow in wealth at a rapid gate. With a stable government money from the United States will float into the Philippines, and thc islands will be Americanized in a short time. Am erican manufacturers, merchants and railroad builders will, in my opinion, fiud an important field for operation in that part of our new domain. - It is said that the bobolinks which rear their young on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, Canada, and go to Cuba and Porto Rico to spend the winter, twice traverse a distance ex ceeding 2,800 miles, or more than a fifth of the circumference of our earth each year. The kingbird lays its oggs as far north as the filth degree of lati tude, and is found in the winter in South America. The biennial pil grimmages of thc little redstar exceed 3,000 miles and thc tiny humming bird 2,000. CURIOUS CUCKOOS. The cuckoo is generally known only as a bird with a very monotonous note : a continuous cry of /'cuckoo, cuckoo" over and over again. Among naturalists, however, the cuckoo is known as a bini that never builds a nest for itself, but takes advantage of one already built by some more industrious bird. There is a good deal of the cuckoo about these advertisers who, instead of making a success of their own, seek to profit by the success which some one else has made with much effort and lal)or. It is so with those imitations of Dr. Pierce's methods, by which free medical advice is offered, although those who make the offer are without qualified medical ability or experience. And the cry raised in some cases of "woman, woman, woman write to woman M makes the resemblance to the cuckoo even stronger. There is as far as known no qualified woman physician connected with any propiicuii y iiiiiiirin?; esiMonsnrnent, tenn none therefore competent to give medi cal advice. It is certain that there is no one, man or woman, who can offer free medical advice backed by such knowl edge and experience as is possessed by Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting phy sician to the World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. For over thirty years Dr. Pierce has made a specialty of the treatment of diseases peculiar to women. In that time he has treated over half-a-million women, ninety-eight per cen?, of whom have been perfectly cured. Every sick woman is invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter absolutely without charge or cost. Every letter is held as strictly pri vate and sacredly confidential, and all answers are mailed securely sealed in perfectly plain envelopes hearing no printing whatever upon them. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes Weak Women Strong and Sick Women Well. A Kleli Mun s Worries. According to his own admission, Henry Willard, one of thc two .sur viving brothers ol' tho three who were famous in Washington hotel history for a third of a century, is in failing j health, although hois active as a cat on his feet and has every appearance of robust vitality. Henry Willard is one of the wealthy men of Washing ton. He retired from active business several years ago-that is to say, he retired as much as he could. A day or two ago a fricud met him on thc street and inquired about his health. . "I am feeling badly," was the re pl y. "1 do not sleep well. I toss all night ? long and wake up unfreshed. I do j not know what I am going to do." Thinking to "jolly" him the frien ' remarked: "If I were as eomfortab lixed as you I think 1 would s' i soundly. I certainly would not !jse sleep from worry." "I am not so sureof that," rejoined the old man, and his voice took a querulous tone. "I am not so sure what you would do if you were in my place. Why, just think of it! Sup posin' you had from ?i>00.000 to $1, 000,000 lying idle in the bank all the time and had to worry about investin' it. Maybe you would not lind it so blamed easy to sleep as you think. ?Just think of it-all that money not earnin' a dollar." The friend closed thc incident by icmarking that he would try valiantly to struggle against insomnia under sim ilar horrible conditions.-Chicago Post. A Sure Cure for Croup. Twenty-five years' constant use without a failure ! The first indica tion of croup is hoarseness, and in a child subject to that disease it maybe taken as a sure sign of the approach of an attack. Following this hoarse ness is a peculiar rough cough. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is giv en as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy Cough ap pears, it will preve'nt the attack. It is used in many thousands of homes in this broad land and never disap points the anxious mothers. We have yet to learn of a single instance in which it has not proved effectual. No other preparation can show such a re cord-twenty-years' constant use with out a failure. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Some men lose hats on an elec tion and some lose their heads. 'Civil Wac Relic. At the headquarters of Cutup Ster ling Price, Confederate veterans, was exhibited to day an interesting war relic. It was the "gunboat quilt," noted in the South during the war between tho States. The quilt was made by Mrs. Hatter, a widow of Greensboro, Ala., whose husband had been killed in thc war and who had at the time two sons fighting in the Con federate army. Mrs. Hatter gave tin; quilt to be sold dt auction in every town in Alabama to raise a fund with winch to build a gunboat to be named for the State. This was done and the war vessel procured was the noted Confederate crusier Alabama, sunk in the last days of the war by the Fcderel warship Kearsarge in the great sea fight oil tho coast of France. As fast as the "gun boat quilt" was sold in ono place it was redonated by the purchaser and resold in another place. Several hun dred thousand dollars was raised iu this way and was applied to paying for the Alabama. The quilt was finally given to J. J. Hutchinson, of Greensboro, Ala., to recompense him for his services as auctioneer, lt has remained in his family ever since. Thc "gunboat" was forwarded to Mrs. Ben Melton, of Dallas, daughter of Mr. Hutcherin son, recently, to bj placed on exhibi tion at the Texas State Fair and Dal las exposition, but because of delays did not reach Dallas until near the close of the fair. The relic is well preserved and attracted much atten tion to-day.-Dallas {Tex.) Cor. St. Louis Republic. Are You Troubled? and do you Want Your Troubles to Fly Away ? You have suffered worlds of trouble, anxiety and pain, and you hardly know what ails you. Sometime your business goes wrong, and for a long timo you have been feeling physically very badly. Don't know what is the matter? Of course you don't else you would get some medicine. The trouble is with your stomach and liver. Ty ner*8 Dyspepsia Remedy will do a vast amount of good in helping this trouble if you will use it. Price 50 cents per bottle. For sale by all druggists. - Whenever you hear a woman say she is on the sunny side of 40, it means that she is trying to keep her age shady._ THE SYRACUSE WOOD SID STEEL BEIM PLOWS. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. GET ONE AND TRY IT, and if you are not pleased with it bring it back to us and we will cheerfully REFUND YOUR MONEY. They turn the land where others have failed. See the work of our TORRENT CUTAWAY HARROW. % It tums the laud like Turn Plows, and is the best Harrow for the farm that has ever been placed before the American people as a labor and time-saver. Come in and wc will be glad to show it to you, and bhow you the work it does. If you contemplate buying a Cutaway Harrow don't fail to see this one before you buy? It is only about two-thirds as heavy to pull as the common Cutaway Harrow. We have a full and complete line of all kinds of Agricultural Implements, Hardware, Machinery Fittings, * And everything usually kept in a first-class Hardware Store, and our prioes are right. We have a large stock of SHOT GUNS, SHOT, POWDER, CAPS empty and loaded SHELLS, and everything connected with the Sportman'p, equipment Remember to come in and see us when in thc city. BROCK BROS. WHY YOU SHOULD BUY . . . PARIAN PAINTS !. BECAUSE They Beautify, Protect and Preserve your property. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Adhere to woo J, tin, iron, galvanizad iron, stone or tile. BECAUSE FA?I?? PAINTS Are guaranteed not to crack, chalk, peel, rub o?? nor blister. BECAUSE: PARIAN PAINTS Are not affected by salt water or sea breezes. BECAUSE: PARIAN PAINTS Aro not affected by ammonia, carbonic, sulphurous or other gases. BECAUSE PARIAN PAINTS Produce a high gloss, oover perfectly, are the handsomest and mott durable Pointe, ever placed upcn'.the market. Every gallon guaranteed. Sold only by F. B. GRAYTON & CO. SZ5S Tho Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in uso for over 30 years, lias borne tho signature of - and bas been made under his per ^^v7*^^/ sonal sapenrisicn since its infancy. t\ 4 -CcccJUA^ Allow no ono to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes aro but Ex : perimcnts that trillo with and endcuger tho health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOniA Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething- Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates the Stomach and ??owels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Tlie Children's Panacea-Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE C?STOR?? ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Haye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. rue CEHTBO* c&tRparsr, 77 auns;v a.. .ai. ntwvonn o mr. COUGH Is a Little Thing when it Begins ! THE longer you put it off the harder it is to cure. The longer it lasts the more serious it becomes. Let it run on and there's no telling what the end will be? The worst case of Consumption was a little Cold once. TAR MINT Will stop any Cough when it first begins. It will stop most Coughs after they get bad. But the best way is to take it at the first sign of a Cold. It ought to be right at your elbow all the time. Tar Mint Is the BEST REMEDY for COU OHS, COLDS, HOARSENED and all diseases of thc Throat and Lungs. Don't buy any other kind, 50c. HILL-ORR DRUG CO NEW SHOES ! WE nave just opened up the best and cheapest line or HEAVY SHOra .? that ever waa offered on ib\* market These ls only one kind that we I not nor will not handle, and that ls the cheap, shoddy stuff palmed off on unseal n pectin? buyers. If we sell you Hbie? they must be solid loather or we didn't efl 'em. Bo If you want Shoat to wear buy only the best-they are always the ctw?poa| 81 DEAL'S PATEST FLOUR, like Mrs. Coogar, is as pnre as tte Alp!? G snows, turlee bleached by the hyperborean blasts. If yon want anything put than that we havn't got it. , We have even more pore TEXAS BED BUST PROOF OATS than Ct cl ter had, and want to get rid of them - will sell them cheap. ?? Yours for the ? 5 ? 8, DEAN & RATLIFFE. ? NT> -Parties owing ua on either Note or open Account are Riven not fa M JLP? that their Accounts are due, and that they are expected to ROI tho same AT ONCE, or bear the oosta of (-ending a man for our money. When o Collector comes to see you, you will save yourself a great deal of an noy an oe ci settling with him at once. He will call to nee those whose Aooounte are still unpi e on and after November 15th. D. ?fe R. st - cl h< Ten Dollars Prize * 80 Ni To Wheat Growers. *e gv FOR the best five-acre yield of Wheat grown this season with our Wb flo Fertilizers, and top-draesed with our Nitrate of Soda or other dressing, or 'h do dressed at all, we will award as a prize the sum of TEN DOLLARS. 0?( The award will be made on JULY 15, 1900, upon the affidavits of ei contestant for the prize and the several threshers. a ^ So DEAN ?ft raA.TJLUTMT'?: ?qj MT NEW GOODS always on hand. I "D VST Our specially prepared Wheat Manure makes the finest yield. J CQ 0. P. ANDEU80N & BRO. I FLOUR IFLOUB SS SOO BABBffiLS. Ri GOT every grade you are looking for. We know what you want, i s c we've got the prices right. Can't give * it to you, hut we will ?ell yon 1 fai grade Flour 26 to 35c cheaper than any competition. Low grade F lg 83.00 per barrel. ? ? . . ffi. . Oar EAR CORN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Bay while it is ches 81 advancing rapidly. We know where to .buy and get. good, sound Corn chi . OATS, HAT and BRAN. Special prices by the ton. J*1 We want your trade, and if honest dealings and low prices coud hoi will get it Yours for Business, *n< O. 6?. AKDSR80S1 * ?RC Now ii your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing out oddl ends in Caddies. .