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OUR TRADE 5C Secretary Wilson H into th.? News an WAHINGTON, March 24.-'?Take a look ahead into thc twentieth century, and let us figaro out the position of this country in the markets of the world fifty years from now," said Sec retary of Agriculture James Wilson. "Our situation then will be very dif ferent from what it is to-day, and most markedly in one respect-name ly, that wo shall be selling to foreign buyers very little in tho way of crude produots, but an immense doal io the shape of manufactured article?. In other words wo shall be utilizing at home our raw material and disposing abroad of the output of thc inventive genius and dexterous handiwork. Our rule will be not to let anything go out of tho United States that has not as many days' work attached to it as practioable. "Fifty years from now we shall be engaged in catering to the best educa ted taste of Europe. We shall be fur nishing them with the best grade of horse they cao get and they will be looking to us for the very best farm produots of all kinds. We shall sell to them tho finest dairy produots ob tainable anywhere, and meats like wise, but only the choicest and ex pensive kinds. At the presont time we are obliged to buy the flavored for eign cheeses, because we do not know how to make them here; but you may be very sure that this will not con tinue. We will manufacture suoh cheeses not only for our own consump tion, but also for export. Wo shall ship the highest-priced poultry abroad and our vegetables will go, not ia the raw state, but in cans, as inan factured produots. With fruits it will be the same way as with the vegeta tabies. "Machinery and all sorts of mechan ical appliances we are shipping abroad to some extent nowadays, but fifty years hence we shall export such mer chandise io immense quantities. We shall supply tho world with locomo tives and wc shall furnish steel bridges in sections, for uso in most distant countries. It would not sur prise me a bit, were I surviving at that epoch, to find us building battleships and cruisers in sections with convert ible parts. Supposing that a German or French war vessel suffers damage in a sea fight, the Amefi?au manufactu rer who turned out the craft original ly will provide at short notice dupli cates of the injured portions. At that future period out furniture, stoves, typewriters and pianos will bo for sale in ali lands and will hold first place everywhere for cheapness relative to quality. We shall be great exporters of rags and carpets. "Only tbe other day I chanced to listen to a little dialogue, right bare in Washington, between one of par most eminent men. and a distinguish ed Russian. The latter remarked, half jokingly, that it waa rather dan gerous for us to send all oar. latest in ventions and achievements of mechan ical ingenuity to the Paris Exposition inasmuch ss they would afford object lessons to Europeans, who would not be slow to take up the ideas thus of fered and imitate them. 'That is what we want you to do,' replied the American. 'Nothinc could please us better than that you should make a study of the best things we are able to show and^rnitnte, them as well as you know how. For, by the time that you have succeeded, we ' shall be taming out something altogether superior. We aro always willing to sell- to you our best., being sure before you are ready to make it we shall be doing better.* "That is one of the theories at ibo bottom of Yankee progress in order to get what is-best Europeans will al ways have to come toas, and in this matter it will be the same half a cen tury from now as it is* to-day, only moro sb. We shall still be further ahead of them than wo are at the pres ent time'. We will clothe the foreign peoples./ They will wear our shoes, because they can be got hotter and cheaper in the United States than anywhere else. We Bball even make ready-made houses to live in, shipping thom in sections, a whole ready-made town in one ship load. But, speaking of clothing, think of thc wool we can raise io this country-all kinda of it, for every imaginsble^nnrnAon. Wc have boundless acres now going to waste which are admirably adapted for growing sheep and yet to-day we are importing wool- I venture the prediction, however, that only half a dozen years from now wa shall not be imparting a pound of wool, unless, per haps, for some peculiar and1 exception al purpose. "We shall not export any of bur wool in tho year 1950-not in the shape bf wool, . that ia to sar. Groat quantities of it wo shall send abroad io the form of high-grade, cloths and high-prided clothing. Our policy Wilt I YEARS HENCE looks Half a Century > Fritare. d Courier. bo to sell only that which is finishec and we will furnish all tho labor. We shall not want foreigners to have c pound of our cotton in a raw state nor so much as an ounce of our cottoc seed. To such orudo products we shall attach every day'B work possible befon they go out of our hands. Staroh, su gar, butter, alcohol-all of them pro ducts of manufacturo-wo shall bc glad to find a market for abroad, but not potatoes or corn. We shall want to employ American labor in convert ing raw stuffs of all kinds into products of skill. "Tho other day, out in Omaha, ] wanted a pair of gloves and I got these. They are dogskin-tho genu ine article-made out of the skin o' s real dog. They grow dogs out W st; practical people they are out th re. To turn them into gloves eventually is to find a very satisfactory uso foi the animals-particularly the superflu ous ones, which are regularly killed off in every largo community. Here is an opportunity for an industry hitherto negleoted. Dog-skin makes excellent leather, and is especially suitable for gloves. I do not believe that in 1950 dogs will be raised for the sake of their skin; there will always be fools enough to grow them for oth er purposes. I don't mean good dogs, but tho ordinary sun of pups, which are of no usc except to bark. "We can produce hides enough in this country to supply unlimited leather of every kind. Take the mat ter of goatskins. The Rooky Moun tain region of thc United States is ca pable of producing, at a minimum cost, enough goat skins to supply the world, and yet hero we are to-day im porting $10,000,000 worth of the pelts of theso animals. We have unlimited territory most suitable for goat pro duction, which now yields just about one i-.ttlesuake to every three I or ' our aci es. Just think what a pros pect thor*, is ahead in the goat busi ness! "Speaking of skins, we are just now only starving what is going to be very big business in raising of foxes up in Alaska. Folks in this country have leased a jumber of islands of the Alaskan coast, where they are rearing blaok foxes, bino foxes and foxes of other colors. The skins abtained from these animals are sent to London, where they are disposed of at auction, the price.? they bring running from 25 cents to $160 apiece. L?Bt year the 1 average price was $2? You see, they differ very much as to quality, some of them being almost worthless, while exceptional pelts are extremely beau tiful' and proportionately valuable. Only some of the males are killed off each season, the stook being steadily increased in this way. The breed is being steadily improved by selection, so taat half a century hence, or prob ably much earlier, all the bides will be ?bout equally valuable. Now, bow do you suppose they feed them? Yep; ; fish in grimmer mostly. But in win ter? Just mush-corn meal mush. They ring a bell once a day and up come the foxes to feed, just like pigs. I "Fifty years from now we shall bo exporting great quantities of wines and brandies. Everybody knows that at tho present time we make the most j honest goods of this description in ! the world. They-are takeo abroad by thousands of barrels, to bo reimported into this country with foreign labels. However, of late, wholesalers are find ing it obeaper to import the labels and paste them upon the barrels or bot tles over here, thus saving transporta* tion. I do not believe that we shall export wheat or cotton fifty years hence. By that time the population of the United States will have increased so greatly that we shall be consuming all oar own grain, us well as other raw ma terials. The objection to exporting raw materials is illustrated by our present trade in cow food. The Danes are buying from us immense quantities of corn and oil coke for cow feed, which they convert into the finest dairy products, $33,000,000 worth of such goods being disposed of ?Dnt?a!!y by them to grear Britain alone. By and by it might occur; to tho Amerioan farmer that he might as woll use this material at homo to feed his-6TW? . cows and seit the dairy pro ducts himself in tho foreign markets. We want to sell our skill and brain, and rel cow feed. The same argument ?ppli? s to cotton, wool, wheat, or any other raw material. By 1950 we shall have learned that lesson. As for thc possible, production of this country fifty years hence, we cannot make ans reliable estimate, but we may reckon il greater than tho possiblo cc asum ption.' RENE BACHE. A kidney remedy that can be de pended On will bo found in Prickly ;Aah Bitters. It heals ?md. girength enB. For sale by Evans Pharmsoy. W. 0. T. ?. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by the ladies of the W. C. T. TJ. of Anderson, S. C. "Treating"-A Source of Drunken ness. Several years ago a gentleman of my acquaintance fell into the habit of using intoxicants, until he seldom passed a day without some symptoms of drunkenness. He sometimes came home in a state of beastly intoxica tion. Under their piteous appeals ho consented to go to an inebriate asy lum, and after a few months of treat ment he came baok entirely reformed. Sunshine again filled the house that had long been shadowed with shame and sorrow. He eontinued sober for several months, but one day an old friend mot him in New York, greeted him cordially and invited him to go into a down-town restaurant and take a social glass with him. Undera sud den impulse he yielded; and that one glass aroused the latent appetite; the chained tiger was loosed again, and my poor friend went home that night pit iably and disgracefully drunk. During the brief remainder of his life he was a wreck. That whole wretched tragedy of a ruined ldc was the result of a single act which guee under tho deceitful name of 'treating." That friend who offered the insnaring glass proved to be a deadly enemy. Grant that he had no intention to work a fatal mis chief; grant that he had no thought of doing a serious harm. He did it, however, as surely as if he had been actuated by a fiendish malice. "Evil ia wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart." The pernicious and abominable cus tom of "treating" a friend toa glass of intoxicating liquor is one of the most prolific causes cf intemperance. It often engenders the habit of drinking; it often confirms the awful prosperity and sometimes, as in tho case of that gentleman mentioned in the beginning of this article, it sends a reformed in ebriate back into the mire. The dan ger of this treating custom is that it wears the guiso of friendship, and ap peals to the weak side of human na ture. ''(Juine. uud take a drink with me," says the politician who hopes to win a. vote. "Won't you take a social glass with me?" is the subtle invita tion of a false friendship that is too often yielded to. It is not every ono who has the nervo a Brooklyn neigh bor of mine, who, having once been an inebriate, used to say to any one who invited him to take a drink: "If you ask me to do that ?gain, I'll knock you down!" This perilous custom of treating has spread very, widely. When a custom er had made a good purchase he is of ten invited by the merchant to go off to a restaurant or a barroom for a bot tle of wine "to close up the bargain." The drummer for a commercial house seeks very often to win customers by polite invitations to a drinking resort or to a theatre, or sometimes to haunts tc o vile to be mentioned. I know of a very affable salesman in a wholesale d y goods establishments who became a dissipated man from having to invite customers to lonoh with him over a bootle pf wine! His employers set that bright yoong man to tempt oth er people, iid he did it at toe cost of hin own character. The varions ath letic and intercollegiate ball games are attended with an enormous amount of hard drinking; muoh of it takes the form of "treating" by those who have won their gameB or their bets. ' "It is not too muoh to say that a vast amount of intemperance, with ita terrible results to purse, charaoter and immortal souls, can be traced to that cunning device of the devil, which puts poison into ? man's brain under the pretense of putting kindness into his heart. In these days a very largo amount of moral artillery is very properly aimed at the tramo in intoxicants. Righteous denunciations aro hurled at the saloons. But the destructive drink trahie really is fed by and de pends upon the drink custom. Intem perance is bred in the club, ic the home, and in the social circles, as well as in the barroom. The purchaser of liquor is a partner with the liquor seller. Every ono who buyB an intoxi cant or offers an intoxicant to another docs his or her part toward maintain ing the drink oustoms whion underlie the waste and the woe and wretchedness of intemperance. The question of wag?? uud of justice to the laboring mun absorbs a widoattention; but who will dispute that if all the money that is spent by the working claw?? in "treating" each other to alcoholic beverages were saved, there would be thousands of better furnished homes, better dad wives, and better fed ohil '. dren? . I There is another very weighty thought to be faced by every man's conscience. It is this: the person who offers an intoxicating glass to another ^ -from whatever motive-is responsi , ble for the resulta of-that gi as 3! Tho false friend, who, in obedience to a foolish and abominable custom, "treated" the reformed inebriate of 7 whom. I tpoke to a treacherous drink - of .liquor, Was responsible, to a certain extent, for that man's relapse of ruiu. Certainly, if he had not asked and urged that gentleman to drink with him, ho would not have touched the fatal drop. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink!" He is ac countable for what comes out of that neighbor's lips-yes, and for what that brain may do under the in Huon co of thc inflaming draught. Whenever you, my reader, from a false kindness, are guilty of "treating" another to a glass of intoxicating beverage, I wish that you migh Bee these solemn words cut in with a diamond on that glas: "Within this glass destruction rides, And in its depths does ruiu swim; Around its foam perdition glides, And death is dancing on tho brim!" -Kev. Theodore L. Cuyler? D. D., tn Christian Work. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. We publish an advertisement of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in our columns this issue, and wish to say to our pa trons that wo believe this preparation is worthy of a trial by any person suf fering from this agonizing complaint. We honestly believe this preparation will do for you all the manufacturers claim for it. Kodol Dyspepsia Curo is prepared by tho well known and reliable firm of E. C. DoWitt & Co., Chicago, and from our long experience in a business sense, with this firm as advertise wc feel safe in saying that they would not place on the market a preparation for the ouro of dyspepsia unless they had a remedy of thc highest merit, and conscientiously believed it would cure this well known and almost uni versal complaint. Wo further add that if this preparation is equal to the oth er well known remedies which they make, viz :-DeWitt's Little Early Risers, DeWitt's Witch Hozol Salve and One Minute Cough Cure-it will speedily win its way into public favor. Wo cheerfully and heartily give our personal endorsement to this concern, and the reliability of tho goods they manufacture, which have been largely the means of their success, and in writing this voluntary endorsement on our part we feel that we aro simply performing a duty which we owe to our patrons. Fur sile hy Evans Phar macy. - The gossips in the Bible days must have had a good time if they knew of thc things going on that thc Bible tells about. Rheumacide is a throughout, per manent, constitutional cure for rheu matism. Thc acids in the blood which cause the disease arc thoroughly eradi cated. It is also the best blood purifier, laxative and touic. Evans Pharmacy. - A Florida farmer, after ridding his own farm of snakes by turning losse"among them a drove of razor back hogs, now rents out the animals to his neighbors for a similar purpose. Habitual constipation is the door through which many of the serious ills of tho body are admittod occasional use of Prickly Ash Bitters will remove and cure this distressing condition. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. .- "I wish a fellow could borrow ' money as easily as he can borrow trou ble." "If you could make money as easily as you can mako trouble, you wouldn't need to borrow any." - In some parts )f Colorado bears are so destructive of cattle that tho farmers have offered rewards of $50 to $200 for particularly dangerous beasts. Judge Bleckley a Wonder. CUrksville, Ga., Marok 21.-Judge Logan E. Bleokley, formerly ohiof jus tice of Georgia, aged seventy-three years, is the father of two children aged respectfully two and fivo years, by a second wife. In his front yard he has dug a cave ten feet deep and several yards wide. luto this cave the judge goes in tho morning and there he turns out page after page of "copy." Ile has been at work on a book for several years, writ ing a little at a time, but since he moved to Clarksville permanently ho has determined to finish it. - At Bridgeport, Conn., March 1G, Mrs. Patrick Lavery, wife of a mor chant, gave birth to a boy weighing 24J pounds. This is said to eclipse all records, including that mado by a Newark woman, who gave birth to a 24-pound child recently. Remarkable Cure for Rheumatism. Kenna, Jackson Co., W. Va, About three years ago my wife had an attack of rheumatism which con fined her to her bed for over a month, and rendered her unable to walk a step without assistance, her limbs bc ing swollen to double their normal size. Mr. S. Maddox insisted on my using Chamberlain's Pain Balm, purchased a fifty-cent bottle aud used it according to thc directions and thc next morning she walked to breakfast without assistance iu any manner, and she has not had a similar attack since -A. B. Parsons. For salo by Hill Orr Drug Co. - THE - BANK OF ftjjDERSON. A. BROCK, President. JOS. N BROWN, Vice President B. F. MAULDIN, Cashier. THE largest, strongest Bank in tbe County. Interest Paid;on Deposits Hy special agreement. With unsurpassed facilities nnd renour ! ces wo are at ali tlraea prepared to ac , cormundate our cu?tumern. ? Jan 10, 1SKI0 20 IS THE TIME To have your Carriage and Buggy Repainted. We are also in a posi tion to fit new Cur tains, Axle Points and all kinds of Fifth Wheels put on nicely at short notice. PAUL E. STEPHENS. a>^>^,^-^ ^ ^ A ^ ^ ^ A i 98... t The abovo fi,jr.rcs tell a remarkable) T ? story; thor represent almost exactly the fr per centago of cures m Ki o by j iBHEUMACIDE. * * th.* wonderful new constitutional curo'for ^ A s:JEUMAT!3M. Tho other twoTp?r cent. . t/ero not cumble, or failed toi take r??dl- T i , Ino according to directions. Thousands . ' have been cured. In view of th? fact that ~ * many physicians think that rheumatism . . la incurablo, and that most remedies fail, ~ * it must bo true that BUEUMACIDE ls tho . . greatest medical discovery of the age. Far- ~ ^ ticulars and testimonials of many wei'- ^ A known people rent free to all applicants. r < %3- Sofd by EVANS PHARMACY 9 A atSI-00 oer bottle._ r \ww ww wv v www wm ATTENTION! WE HAVE ADDED TO OUR LINE OP BU8INES8 A SELECT STOCK OP HIGH GRADE SEWING MACHINES. Tho "DOMESTIC" in our leader. While we are on this line will say that we ?ill sell the best quality of Needles at 20c. par dos, Oil Se. per bottle. Oar Grocery Department is Complete and none can Undersell Us. Pres Delivery. Phone No. 197. Yours to aave money, MORRIS SL CO., _ South Main Street, Broylee Blook, Anderson, 8. C. The Farmers Loan g Trust Co. PAYS INTEREST Ol* DEPOSTITS. ?Sy No deposit too small to recoivo careful and courteous attention tW~ Children's deposits especially invited. GARDEN SEED. Bnist and I^ei?r*y's. Remember when you go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we have no seed carried over from last year. Yours, F. B. GR AYTON & CO. Near the Post Office. BARGAINS! ^SToxi Don't IB elie ve It! WE are not going to raak? prices hem for they are so ridiculously low you would not believe it, but if you would inspect our low prices and do yourself a kindness come and see what wo say is true. We will show you prices ob some things, regardless of the advancing prices od"a)niost everything, that is lower than ever before known in the City of Anderson. If not, we will pay you. in cash for your trouble. How is that ? Now is your chance to buy at low prices and save your cash. Percales, Serges, Lawns, Calicoes, Etc., at Cut Prices. Let them go. Short profits and quick sales for spot cash does tko work. A guaranteed sale on GLASSWARE if you seo it. TINWARE, bought direct from factory No better prices bought at than we buy. Come, give us a look. It don't cost anything. A big lot of FLOWER POTS.to arrive in a fow days. KING BROS., BARGAIN STORE, Two Doors from Post Office. DO YOU FEEL PRICKLY * ASH BITTERS SEUIBVBS AND INVIGORATES. BILIOUS. DROWSY, LOW SPIRITED, BODY AND BRAIN WEARY? It cleanses the liver and bowels, strengthens the kidneys and aids digestion, thus the system is regulated and thc body fortified to resist disease. ... A VALUABLE REMEDY TO KEEP IN THE HOUSE SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price Si.OO Per Bottle. EVANS PHARMACY, Special Agents. Harris Lithia Water IS the strongest natural Lithia Water on tho market, and has the en dorsement of the most noted Physicians of the country as to its superiority over all others. Almost any ono tu South Carolina knew the noted Dr. A. N. Talley, ot* Columbia, and what he had to eay for Harris Lithia : "After a long aud varied experience in the uso ol' mineral waters from many sources, both foreign and domestic, I am tully persuaded ?hat the Harris Lithia Water possesses efiicacy in tho treatment of afflictions ol' the Kidney and tho Bladder unequalled by any other water of which I have made trial. This opinion is based upon observation of its effects upon my patients for tho past three years, during which time I have prescribed it freely and almost uniformly with benefit in the medical maladies abovo mentions Columbia, 8. C., Oct. 8, 181)2. A. N." TALLEY, M. D." "An extended clinical use of the Harris Lithia Water prompts me to tho statement that I regard it as one of tho best, if not tho best, Lithia Water known to the profession. In the condition of Phosphatic Urine, its action is marvellous. Its use in thc Rheumatic and Gouty Diseases alford mo more comfort than either thc Bu Halo or Londonderry Waters. Yours truly, Asheville, N. C. JOHN HEY WILLIAMS, M. D. "I have used for sonic time Harris Lithia Water in my family, and also with my patients, and lind it the best Water I ever ua<d in catarrhal condi tion of the urelua and bladder. It is aleo u good diuretic Water. Atlanta, Ga., April 20, 1891. G. ROY, M. I). Wo guarantee one glass ol' Harria Lithia Carbonated Water to relieve any case of Indigestion in one minutes' lime or money refunded; or if taken after each meal will cure the most stubborn case of Indigestion. Why will you suffer when yeu have this guarantee? HILL-ORR DRUG CO. Groceries at Wholesale. TQ ALL WHO WILL BUY THIS WAY : WE HAVE T3E LARGEST STOCK OF F^LlSrCY GROCERIES EVER SEEN HERE. Agents for all the leading brands of Tobacco. Sugar and Coffee by the car load. We ehip you Flour direct if you ure on tho railroad. This saves hauling. Ten car loads Rodd's Molasses. Corn, Oats and Hay specialties. Carry the best Lime and Cement. .W'COME AND SEE US. HOON & LEBBETTES, WHOLESALE GROCERS. . MOVED ! M M. MATTISON, State Agent, Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. - OF -- !N"E!"W^.I2;IE?Z, HST. CT., Now located in New Offices in Peoples' Bank Building, ANDERSON S. C. O < ? CD 8 Ba ? > fr " fe ase Z ?S ? 3 3 ^ * PS ta o u3 S >g E pitt S g ? *. 8 g o52 ? GD ? CLARENCE OSHORKE. RUTCBDOK CRHOHNK. Stoves, Stoves! Iron Kins; Stoves, Elmo Stoves, Liberty Stoves, Peerless Iron King Stoves, And other good makes Stoves and Hinges. A.big linc of TINWARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY and CIII NAWARE. Also, anything in tho line of Kitchen Furnishing Goods-such as Buck ets, Trays, Rolling Pins, Sifters, &c. Thanking our friends and customers for their past patronage an ine for continuance of same, Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE.