Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NEEDLES gome OedFaots whi ers have Grrther I ?fc?ag? Uncle Sam has been trying to find out where sll tho pirti go. This io an old question. Away back io (ha days of the cave dwellers some housewife, dressed in skioi, probably asked it when the pretty bone pins made by ber husband insisted] mysteriously cn Appearing just when sae needed them, and almost every bwNSince then has wondered just the a*tae way. Uncle Sam sent pussle solvers out to study the matter. These pussle gol vers were callad census collectors. They bad to solve many other hard problems, for finding out about pins ?an only one of many thousands of things that Uncie Sam insisted on knowing. Some of them had to count his buffaloes, and others had to count bis locomotives, and others his oUiU dreo, big snd little. Most of them did pretty well. They got so far as to count his chickens before they were hatched. They found ont how many IndianB he hss in his country, and , ],ow macy miles of telegraph wire, ?nd how many cows and horses and sheep and goats, and lots of other queer things. Bot the men who hunted after the pin question did not manage to find1 any lost pins. All that they could discover was how many are made each year, and how many everybody io the country ought io have if most of us did noi keep losing them. If everybody got his or her share of the pins that are manufactured in the United States, each one of us ought to have 108 new pins eaoh year, or a Iii tie more than one new pin in every three days. - There were . 7,250,000,000 of pins made io the United States in the year, and the needles that were turned out amounted to more than 261,000, 000. I Of course, Unole Sam's pussle solv ers did not oount these pins and nee dles one by one. To do that would have required more than one man's life time. They found out how many factories of pins and needles there are in the oonntry and then they asked each one of the amount turned ont by it. j The census collectors found out that there are forty-three faotories, all making them as fast as machinery can do it. Three and one-quarter millions of dollars are invested in the shops and machines and . tools for making | them. The manufacturers sold their product for almost ?3,000,000. j IThere sre ce von times as many pins and needles turned out'now as there verein 1860. Then ?he'workgave employaient LO ouiy ?p? persons; now 2,353 are employed at it. The manu facture of pins and needles hss given 1939,846 to working people in wages in the past year. The most pins and needles are made in Coooeotiout, New Hampshire, Mas sachusetts and New York. Connecti cut ?od Massachusetts siake almost all the sewing machine needles used. Unele Sam first attempted to make pioB when he was not Unele. Sam ot iall, but only trying to be. During the revolutionary war not the least of the hardships that the. brave Ameri can woman had to suffer was tho look of pinB; for tho king's oruisers gob bled them up with everything else that ships tried to bring here. So a few pius were" made in Connecticut and in the Carolinas. But even the patriots had to admit that they were sot good pine and they did -not begin to supply the demand. In the war of 1812 pins became scarce again. JTou may be sure that for a timo any child that lost a pin then was scolded and had to look for it. A few pins were a&de here again, bnt when the war ended and English pins began to ar rive once more the domes*.io manufac ture oea?ed. Then no pins to speak of were made by Uncle Sam until ,1830, when more than one of his shrewd Yankee boys began to invont machines 'or their manufacture. The first machines . mada the pins without a head. The head was form ed from tiny coils of fine wire and fag te u ed on the oh oak by pressure. The nest Yankee boy invented a ma-x t&ine that made pins with a solid ?ead. Before \w? Uncle Sam's folk bad maohines that turned pins out at the rate of 170 a minute. Not content [with that, they invented a machino to fltiok the pip? into papers. Wheupise were made by hand each pin had Wpass through the hands of [ eighteen different persons before it was fioishsd. Now a msohino does it *?. Coils of wire ere placed on a ?tt*l and the machine draws out ns aQoh wiro aa it heeds, punches a part I ?f it into a head and then passes it on I t0 "tool pincers that seise it ak hands S Would and pass it along in front of I ?Otters, tv ir ling each pin constantly ?j? that it will be sharpened properly. ! *hen tho pins aro thrown *??t into a b*th that plates tnem with tin. From AND PINS oh Uncle Sam and Oth er! -A^bout Them. Tribune. this bath they go ioto a revolting barrel of saw due t that brightens them. Thia procesa would no doubt d?sele the simple person who made the first pin. Thatfirat pin, possibly, waa one of the first things that man tried to make. For, as soon as he began to wear even the most primitive germent, he met the necessity of holding it ob, and something sharp to stick into it was the natural thing that suggested itself. No doubt he used a thorn at first. Bnt thorns were rarely of the proper chape and the bnsy human brain wss not content till it had de vised something better. So it wss not long before, some ingenious eave dweller aroused the envy of his less enterprising friends by appearing with his mantle of skins nobly pinned to gether with slender, white fish bones. Fish bones served nicely until man began to long for beauty, probably without knowing it. Being simple and direct, he soon gratified his desire by personal adornments. So the cave dwellers begsn to rub the smaller ani mal bones on flint till they had ground them into fairly good pins and skew ers. From that it waa only a step to the highly ornamented pins ' that have been found in the ancient lake dwell ings of central Europe. Some of these had double shanks like our modern hairpins. Others were shoped like safety pins. Most of them had deco rated heads. Of course pips would not serve all purposes, and the ancient man soon had to devise something that was like 5 yiu ?nd yet weuld draw a sinew or other 'binding material through hie skin garments so that two pieces of it oould be fastened together. Again the fishbone had to serve, and when a oave dweller discovered that by tying a piece of deer sinew tc it he oould stitch his clothes together, the first sewing society of the world was start ed. It probably held its opening ses sion in some cave in southern France. From fish bones and animal bones to metal was the next great advance made by the world. Man was still very primitive and uncouth when lie found that he could do things With the ores of the esrth. Perhaps he got his first idea of. it from seeing volcanic fire fuse the great rocks. At any rate, he be gan to make his pins and needles out of bronze before long. The first needles were merely straight, pointed pieces of metal. The sinew or fiber that served as thread was tied to one end. An in vsstxvc genius iuipruved vu ibis one day by making a little hook in the end to prevent the fiber from slipping off, as it often did. The next man improved that by outting a notch in* stead of making the clumsy hook. Then for many ages the world did not make any notable improvement in .needles. Folk used olnmsy metal con tri van cea and did not dream that they were not good enough, until the Mooro catered Spain at the time of the great invasion of Europe by the grim and terrible Saracens. The Moors brought with them, besides I much other culture, the art of making dainty needles of'steel. Gradually the knowledge spread through Europe, and 120 years before Columbus dis covered America the men of Nurom burg began to make them. That was a queer industry then, for the needle makers weira the'eriuoiers, too, and the same man who beat out a tiny needle to be need by the delicate fin gers of a woman in embroidery and hemming might be busy, in another hour forging a tremendous double handed sword pf the kind that the old fighters loved to wield. And, by the way, isn't it queer to think that many of your pretty and -innocent toys are made now by the j. descendants of thoa* same old Nuremr burg craftsmen who sent ont the wea pons that made poor Europe bloody for so many generations? Nobody could beat the Nuremburg craftsmen in thos? days, and so be fore many years almost everybody else has ceased ; trying to compete with them except the Moors. And the Moors oould not spore the time to make many needles, for ther soon had work that demanded tc oh far more grim. So the secret Lysame almost lost to the world at large: j Then, cue day in 1543, a mysterious stranger arrived in London and open ed a shop in Cheapside. Soon his neighbors began to whisper that he was a Moor who had escaped from Spain, and as the Moors then were suspected of sorcery, it was not loog before folk . said that he had dealings with the 'evil ono, for the Moor had for sale wonderful steel needles that ! were so fine >nd tiny that no one I contd,, belies that it was pospibk for man, to make them. Bat the rich ; English women , were ss glad to get such needles that they protected the Moor min all their, influence, and they defeated the designs of mani persons who would have been very glad to extort the secret from the ?ass under pretense of punishing him foi witchcraft. The Moor finally died U peats* and his sseret died with him. During Queen Elisabeth's reign i German arrived in England and mad? "Spanish" needles. Before long ax Englishman imported twenty-two Ger man ' workingmen. That practical)] founded the great needle-making in dustry of England. Oar Americas Monarch. 'In this country we are ineliaed ti marvel that enlightened nations shouh tolerate suoh things as hereditary mon arch 8. Kings nod queens we lcd upon, not only as unnecessary evili but as the embodiment of misplace) power. We proudly allude to owi heads of government as servants, an we would scorn the idea of being th oubjeots of any ruler. And so far a onr relations to the government ar concerned this attitude is justified b; the facta. But are we a free and independen people, for all that ? True we have no soeptered aovei eigne, but are we our owu masters i the true sense ? Where is the mot aroh of Europe who wields the pow? of that one American, J. Fierpoi Morgan ? What prince or potentat ean by the wave of his soeptre produc panie or prosperity as can one strut from the pen of this modern Cceaar stili hungry for more world0 io 001 quer ? What coalition of kingdoms or en pires , can have suoh an influence c the commercial, industrial and final nial world as have the combinations * which this one man is tho creator at controller ? Even now we see tenB of thonsam of stirring miners appealing to him forceTa peace between them and the employers. And be can do it, too, he weald. What old world monarch ean do 1 much? We see the "greatest governme on earth" standing aghast at his 00 tinned combinations of railroads, tc egraph lines, industrial enterprise and yet powerless to check him. Wh hereditary ruler ever assumed so mm power ? Where on earth is there a man, sn ject or ruler, whose death would disturb conditions as would the taki away of J. Pierpont Morgan ? Und the moat absolute monarchy of . ehr: ton dom the breaoh is covered with "The king is dead; long live t king." And things proceed as be foi But whd' is there to take Morgan place ? With him would, in all prc ability, fall the mammoth and mu! tudinous concerns for whose stabili his magie name alone stands. To sn an extent, indeed, are shrewd in ve tors impressed with this fact, tb many are even buying insurance no oies on Monaroh Morgan's life as protection against whatever losses) death and the consequent disturban in industrial affairs would eats Where is there another human be! on whom so much depends ? And.in what other country on ear could suoh things be possible ? Whc bnt in i ree America would; snob mt tery and such slavery be tolerated It is altogether probable that tho v< eranie Bussell Sage's view of the s nation is not far from oorreot-t American people may yet shake their ruler as did the Frenoh. Con tions BO unnc'jural cannot forever < ist. A government of the people, I the people, by the people, cannot 1 long be made the ploy thing of any dividual. Like samson of old, 1 mighty Morgan may pull tho tem] down upon himself and those near him.-Atlanta Journal. J A COISBBBiQatlOB; Mr. Editor-/ How me to apeal few words in favor of Ghamberlai Oough Remedy. ' I suffered for th ye&rs with the. bronchitis and co not oleep at nights. I tried save doctors and various patent medi?lo but oould get - nothing to give me 1 relief until ray wife got a bottle this;- valuable medicine, which ! completely relieved me.-W. S. Bro man, Bagnell, Mo. This remedy for sale by Orr-Gray Co. - The oldest inhabitant . talk good deal but he doesn't make 1 00 much noise aa the too th-cutt youngest inhabitant. ' For a bad taste, in the mouth t Chamberlain's Stomaoh and Liver blots. For sale by Orr Gray & Co - The forestry of the' Philippi is almost the richest! in variety in world. The hard woods are unexc ed. Ts dare a Cold ls Ose Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine* 1 lets. All druggists ref und the wo if it fails to eure. E. W. Gio signature on every box. 25c. - ? It takes a whole lot of will po to love a woman enough to thank for calling you half an hour earl] the morning so you will have tim stop in on your way down town match ooma silk for her. - There are three ways to w woman's affections; one.is to J telling her how much you love and the other two' is to keep tel her how nice she looks. 600,000 Jews in New York. Wurla publishes an es timate of the number of Jews in Greater New York, based on the num ber of Jewish burials as recorded by the board of health. These amounted in 1901 to 7,997, and as tho death retain the most congested Jewish district is little over 15 per thousand? this implies a population of 533,133 in the middle of 1901. 8inee tba time no less than 39,225 have arrived at New York and stayed there, while by natural inore ase of births over deaths another 21,400 wonld be added up to August 1, of this year, making a grand total of 684,783. That thia is rather under than over the aotual atate of the population ie the opinion of the Jewish World. The number of Jewish marriages in Man hattan alone in 1901 was 5,062, which, at a vary high marriage rate of 10 per thousand, wonld imply a population ?? j 506,200, to which have to be added the 70,000 Jews in Brooklyn and the increase by immigration and czoess of birth, as before. The high rate of marriage is due to the fact that so large a proportion of the Jewish im migrants are adults-three baohelors tc every two spinsters. Again, sinoe 1881 the number of Jewish immigrants hss been counted each yesr and amounts to date to 627,950 who have arrived in New York, of whom 459,055 have stayed here. Counting in the 45,000 Jews who were in New York in 1881 and the natural increase daring the twen ty-one years as 105,903, a total is reaohed of 609,958. The Jewish World ss7s: Altogether it is clear that the calculation found ed on ihe death rate is a conservative and minimum estimate, and that the Jews of New York number over 600, 000, or 16.5 per cent of the total pop ulation, whereas hslf a million reside on Manhattan Island, or 27 per cent. Every fourth man or woman you meet with on Manhattan is a Jew or a Jewess. - -> . mm To Go 100 Miles an Hoar. Lynn, Mass., August 22.-Machine ry for a train that may revolutionise the railway transportation of the world is being built at the General Eleotrio Works here. It ia soon to be tried in Illinois, where the traok is almost completed. The engineers estimate "that the traie will make 90 to 100 miles an hour. If successful, the experiment means eventually a trip from Boston to New York in about two hours. The average time at present is about six. Chicago would be reaohed from New York in ten hours. The scheme has received the approval of the ablest electricians and railroad min in the country. The line is about 150 miles long, and is remarkable for aolidity and strength. ' As far as possible grades have been eliminated. Electricity will be the motive power and the *bird rail syst sm will be used. A train of three cars has bees built for the first trials. The .'train will be equipped with twelve motors of 120 horss power each. Instead of the high speed increasing the danger, it ia claimed that the train will be safer and run less risk of leaving the rails than an ordinary street osr. N The theory held by Prof. Thompson and other era"nonb electricians is that the train is practiciliy electrically welded to the track and cannot leave it while the power is on. The sue esssfal operation of this line will probably be folio* red by the building of similar lines between all the great oities on the continent. '?mu . mm - Whole Grains fer Poultry. The following opinion is expressed by an Indiana poultry ra an: More and more do we favor whole grains for poultry except docks sud fancy lese the msshei. They will not fatten so fast, perhaps ths growth will not be so rapid for a few weeks, but the grown specimens will be of better shape as to bone and muscio, also as to heartiness. It is eaid the muscles of the gizzard do not harden as they should when ohioks are fed soft mashes; then there is the ever present, danger of giving it tho least bit soar; one meal of tainted mash will osuse any amount of trouble and loss. If we were confined to one grain it would be wheat of course. - Every time a lasy man looks at tho clock the day becomes longer. ?l_et toe (?CLO OUST twiss do year work.* Ko Som Borat/ Soda or Ammonia to asedes win aoLB oust With Uta* water ami toss ??crt, rou ea? eleen aw thtaaehout the boat? bsttar. usier and cheaper the? wto foe^orjmy other claimer. Owe try it, rooTl Makers of OVAL FAIRY SOAP. S ,.\ .:. .. . ... y. ''. ' . '- . .....'-V ' vf-.'-. WHEAT ?BOWERS. Anderson, 8. C., Aug. 1, 1902. To the contestants for the prises offered by the Anderson Fertiliser Company for crop of 1901-1902 : We find that T. M. Welborn, of Pen dleton! S. C., has won the first prise for the yield of 108.937 bushels from .ls seres, and the first prise for yield of 64.266 bushels from three aores, an? the first prise for the yield of 181 bushels from one aore. Thia crop was grown on land previ* oualy planted in cotton ; was prepared by turning with a two-horse plow, fol lowed by a two-horse subsoil plow. One bushel cf Blue Stem wheat was sown per sore with a wheat drill, ap plying at the same time 800 pounds of Andersou Phosphate and Oil Company 10-2 arid and 200 lbs. cotton seed meal per acre. Thia test is duly signed by thc three judges, and dated July 1st, 1902. The second prize for the best yield on six aores is won by Mr. Allen J. Sullivan, of Sullivan, 8. C., for the yield of 1084 bushels. This crop was grown on land previ ously planted in cotton ; was turned by a two-horse Oliver Chilled Plow to an average depth of eight to ten inch es, then harrowed with Tarrant* s har row, then sown with Farmer's Favorite seed drill, applying one bushel Ken tucky Red Wheat per aero, at the same time applying 340 pounds of Standard Fertiliser per aore, manufactured by the Anderson Phosphate and Oil Co. Mr. Sullivan says that he used aoid on another piece of ground, but got better resulte where he used Ammoni ated Fertilisers. This ie dated July 9,1902, and prop erly signed by the judges. The second prize for the best yield on ono aoro ii won by Mr. M. B. Rich ardson, of Pendleton, S. C., being 1GJ bushels. Mr. Richardson grew this crop where he previously had cotton. He plowed up the stalks, and ran over the land with a outaway harrow ; theo turned deep with a two-horse plow, applied 600 pounds of Anderson Phos phate and Oil Co's. 16 per oent aoid to an aore, and ran the smoothing har row over it : then sowed three-quarter bushel of Blue Straw Wheat to the sore, applied 200 pounds of meal to thu aore, and plowed in with side har row, followed with smoothing harrow. This communication is dated July 7tb, 1902, and properly signed by the judges* Mr. L. O. Dean, of Dean, S. C., is the winner of the third prise for the best yield on one aore, having thresh ed 15} bushels from one acre. He is also tbe winnerof the second prize for the three aore oontest, having raised 48 bushels. Mr. Dean is also the winner of the third prize for the best yield on six aores, having threshed 96} bushels. Mr. Dean raised this crop where he had,oats and peas sown the year before. The land was turned with a two-horse turn plow five or six inches deep, then narrowed with a 20-inoh solid disc har row. This was followed with an Acme harrow, whioh was followed by a plank drag. He then applied 200 pounds of Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company's 16 per oent. Aoid Phosphate and 150 pounds of cotton seed meal and 15 lbs. of Muriate of Potash through a Farm ers' Favorite Grain Drill on Nov. 5th; the same application was made on Nov. 6th. and then on Nov. 12th he sowed ll bushels of Blue Straw Wheat to the acre through a Farmers' Favorite Grain Drill. This communication ia dated July 1, 1902,ond properly signed by the judges. Yours truly, f~ JD ANT?5HBON PHOSPHATS & OIL CO. ? In every town and village may be had, the Orease that makes your horses giad. YOUR DAUGHTERS! AND, before deciding where, send for a Catalogue of WILLI AUSTON FE MALE COLLEGE. After examining it carefully, ask yourself why any citizen of Anderson County should send his daughter away for a thorough education in a pure moral atme phere in an unusually well equipped Female College. Patronize home institutions in preference to others not as Rood. Address REV. 8. LANDER, Pies,, Williamston, 8. C. July 80, 1902 6 _ Abbeville Lands for Sale. TWO Hundred Acree, more or lesa, in the ''Flat Woods,'' with new snd comfor table dwelling end improvements. One snd one quarter miles from Calhoun Folio, convenient to two railroads, and adjoining lands of John 8. Norwood. Norwood Calhoun and others.' Also, 776 seres, more or lees, adjoining above Tract and lands of Capers Riley. Mrs. E. B. Calhoun, Cabree lands snd Island Ford Hoad. . These Tracts are part of the old Mo Dome or Norwood Tract, known ss the ?.Flat Woods." Terms-One-third essb, balance ou J and two years, Interest st eight per cent. Credit portion secured by Note and Mort ft^t?cotsold by first of October will be for rent. For further information spply to John 8*Norwood or tba undersigned. MRS HENRY H. NORWOOD, Calhoun Fslls. 8. C. Joly 80,1902 ^6 4 >-.'. .-?>* ';.".> ^ i ' : *. 3 ga|nWH^ Room Suites, Side Boards, Lounges, Wardrobes, Baby Carriages, Go Carts, Rockers, Chairs, Safes, \ Rugs, Mattings, Etc., Etc,, Can be found at a Cheaper Price at the PEOPLES FURNITURE CO. Titan anywhere else. COFFINS and CASKETS. Why Not Give Your House a Coat of . MASTIC PAINT ? You can put it on yourself-it is already mixed-and to paint your house would not cost you more _ than. !Pive or Six Dollars ! SOLD BY Orr-Gray & Co. COLEMAN-HAGENER HARDWARE CO., (SUCCESSOR TO C. P. POPPENHEIM.) 863 KINO STREET,. .CHARLESTON, 0. ?L. SHELF HARDWARE A SPECIATTY. - AGENTS FOR Buckeye Mowers. Brteley Plows, Oliver Chilled Plows -OFFICERS : GEORGE A. WAGEN ER, President. GEORGE Y. COLEMAN, Vice President. I G. BALL, Secretary and Treasurer. Correspondence Molteltod* Fruit JarSc Extra Caps and Rubbers. Come and get your supply while they are cheap. Milk Coolers, Ice Cream Freezers and Fly Fans going fast. \ Our 8 to vea and Banges are the best money can buv. We have them for $8.00 and np, with 27 pieces. Iron King, Ruth, Times and Garland. Drop in and see the Blue Flame Wickleas the ideal Summer Stoves. Our line of Tinware, Woodenware, Enamel Ware, House Furnishings, &c, is complete. Roofing, Guttering, Plumbing and Electri cal Wiring. m~ If you want the beBt CHURN made try a BUCKEYE. ARCHER & MORRIS. Phone No. 261-Hotel Chiquola Block. BLACKSMITH AND WOODWORK SHOPS ! THE undersigned, having succeeded to the business of Frank JCUUEO? & Co., will continue it at the old etend,and solicits the patronage of the public. Repairing and Repainting promptly executed. We make a specialty of ^Goodyear," Rubber and Steel Horse Shoeing General Blacksmith and Woodwork. Only experienced and skilled workmen employed. We have now ready for sale Home-made, Hand-made Farm Wagon that we especially invite your attention to. We put on Goodyear Rubber Tires. Yours for business Church Street, Opposite Jail. _J. P. TODD. NOW is the time to make a selec tion of a PIANO! The "Kroeger" is the perfection o? mechanical construction, and for artis tic tone quality has no equal. Don't be talked into paying a fancy price for a cheap instrument, but see me about prices. I can sell you the very best at an exceedingly low price. Pianos, Groans, Sewing Machines. Machine Needles 20c. per dozen. H. L. WILLIS, Next Door to Peoples Bank. a o o Q M C-4 O M si S K Sa ? ? > td ? O < W F H M M OD < 0 5? ? s 1 o M OD to ? H H ? i CD w s M w o Z m co . o o m to d .4 - CELEBRATED Acme Paint and Cernent Cure, Specially used on Tin Hoofs and Iron Work of any kind. For sale by ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO. H?feronce : F. B. GRAYTON & CO., Druggists, Andern ", S. C.