Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A MILLION gelded Annually to XJnited A million foreigners added annual ly to the population of the United States. That extraordinary increase is 'mo of the greatest problems that concern American .citizenship to-day. lt is beyond all records, beyond all expectations, and yet it seems cer tain from thc recent figures of im migration. During thc last fiscal year-we use the statistics of thc national bureau of immigration-8f)7 04G immigrants ware landed in this country, an increase of 'S? per cent over thc number received during thc previous yoar. Leas than tho sarao increase during tho current twelve months will carry the total abovo the million mark. No wonder tho subject gathers new gravity with each stage of its discus sion. Hero are tho races of the world hurrying to these shores, bringing little and thinking that they aro to realize riches without thc toil which burdens their lives in another hemis phere. From a standpoint of geography there would seem to be slight objec tion. Millions of acres of land in the United States aro still uncultivated and aro waiting the touch of the hoo to laugh in the harvest. Thero is a cry for heir? on tho farm? all tho way from New England to tho Gulf, from the rice fields of tho Carolinas to tho vineyards of southern California But tho trouble is that iheao pooplo do not go to the fields and the forests. They do not flock to tho agricultural opportunities or seek production which will add to the roal wealth of the oountry. Most of them stay in the oitics and thus inevitably make worse tho prob lems of living, of overcrowding and of vice, which afiiiot all our munioi ... panties. In the first part of tho last century comparatively few of tho people lived in the cities. To day of every hun dred Americans thirty-seven live in cities of over four thousand popula tion, and while the drift towards the oity was a little less during thc last ten years than during the previous do oado it is quite certain that before -u.ie -e-\._MI mauy jrooio uuo-uail v>? Our fieirjne nm be living in cities. Already some of our cities havo in certain seotions thz most orowded populations in the world, and the constant work of the police and health departments is neoossary. It is im possible for the right sort of citi zenship to be boro under these con ditions. Most of the immigrants come to us with barely enough money to meet tho regulations of admission. In a short time they are without mennp, and as few of them aro skilled labor ers they represent an enormous mass thrown upon the burden of untrained labor, which is now the heaviest WEEDS Consumption is a human weed flourishing best in weak lungs. Like other weeds it's easily destroyed while young ; when old, sometimes im possible. Strengthen the lungs as you would weak land and the weeds will disappear. The best lung fertilizer is Scott's Emulsion. Salt pork is good too, but it is very hard to digest The time to treat consump tion is when you begin trying to hide it from yourself. Others see it, you won't. Don't wait until you can't deceive yourself any longer. Begin with the first thought to take Scott's Emulsion. If it isn't really consumption so much the better; you will soon forget it and be better for the treatment. If it is consump tion you can't expect to be cured at once, but if you will begin in time and will be rigidly regular in your treat ment you will win. Scott's Emulsion, fresh air, rest all you can; eat all you can, that's the treatment and that's the best treatment ill I N We will send you a little of the Emul sion free. Be tar? that tit!? picture la the form of a label la on tb? wrapper of ?very bottle ol SCOTT & BOWNEs Chemists, .* - 400 Pearl St., N. Y. coe. and ft: ah druggists. m FOREIGNERS tho Copulation of the States. weight upon thc progre.-.s of thc nation. It i:s particularly unfortunate that many thousands arc swarming from Italy, from thc Levant, and from countrioH which do not supply thc material out of which tho befit Ameri can citizenship in made. There are exceptions, of course, in all cases, but the great majority of these new corn era ?lo not understand our institutions, are not in sympathy with real liberty, and are almost incapable of being amal gamated in tho general population. It will take them two or three gen erations to loar? to speak our lar gue-ge, and iu the meanwhile they arc grouped together, alion in thought and a weakness in the politics of tho communities in which they live. It is, of course, unjust to impute bad morals and'criminal tendencies to even a large percentage of these im migrants. As a matter of feet thc positively dangerous characters aro comparatively few. The now reforms that have been made in immigration I laws keep out many who would like to como. Still, there is thc ever con stant fear of at-saesins, dynamiters, and counterfeiters, and thc other kinds of lawbreakers who aro distinctively un-American. I It all imposes upon Congress tho duty of a stricter guard over immi gration and of a moro completo watch fulness over tho criminals of the world, in order that they may not be allowed to como to this country. What of the future American? Since 1789, when tho government began, to the prosont, over twenty two million aliena have come to the United States. For the best part of a century these immigrants were the kind of people that were helpful to a new country. Hundreds of thousands of them wore of raoes and countries that supplied sound stock, correct principles and valuable industry. In the ooursc of tho years there have been intermarriages and many curi ous and interesting developments, so that tho American of to-day in the best sense is representative of tho freest and most adventurous lifo of the past two centuries. So far tho _?r . . s ?/IUVOOO v* ncaiuiiinuuu imo worxea satisfactorily, but it cannot be denied that in reoent years the aggregation in rsoe, temper and thought may mean new departures that will weak en the stamina of tho American char acter. Consider for a moment that in the new immigration we are getting evory year almost two hundred thousand people of no occupation. Consider tho fact that fully one-half are far below the average of our own laborers in intelleot. ? Consider still further thc mental attitude of these people, attracted here by the glowing promise* of transportation lines, and the dis appointment they must feel when they find themselves in a land already overcrowded with unskilled popula tion. lt makes no difference how big a country is, itjeannot afford to take suoh risks, L And'fjet what shall be dene to ?iop it? Thereois no desire to shut out^oanyono who is in tho slightest Cjdegrce worthy, and our broad invitation inevitably lets down the bars to all sorts of men and wo men. We ace the result when we fi-"! that in. ihocfigureB the arrivals from southern Italy.outnumber the ar rivalf from Scotland ?almost a hundred times-and certainly {the nation must bear the blunt.g And yet it is foolish to become pes simistic Our vast country has work ed out its great problems safely thus far. It passed the crisis of a oivil conflict with a success-(Jauch as the world had never witnessed, and it will be able to handle the problem of immigration, remembering that many of our best and most successful citi zens "como to us from across the seas and addedtwooderfully to the wealth, wisdom,?business expansion and prog ress of the nation. Edward Everett in.his great oration on the history of liberty said : "Had we been the unmixed descen dants of any one nation of Europe, we should havo retained a moral and intellectual dependence on that nation, even after the dissolution of oar poli tical conneotion had taken plaoe. It was sufficient for the great purposes in view that the earliest settlements wore made by men who bad fought the battles oHiberty in England and who had brought with them the rudi ments of constitutional freedom to a region where no' deep-rooted proscrip tions wonld prevent their develop ment. Insteid of marring the sym metry of cur social system, it is one of its most sttraotive sod beautiful peculiarities that with the prominent qualities of t,he v. Anglo Saxon char acter, inb,critetT f?om our English fathers, we nave an admixture ol tl? mos? everything that in of value in thc character of mont of the other ?tates of Europe." Let us hope that the admixture we arc now receiving will not seriously affect the great svp'.eui cf our govern nient and society!-Sunny South. A Word on Immigration. The people of the South only have to take hold of tho immigration prob lem in tho same way that they have t; .D hold of other purely business propositions, in a business way, to achiote feeults in that direction as distinct aud permanent as have been thc fruits of their onterpriso in those lines of industry which aro making that section famous. Peopling a section which has capa city to support P. vast increase in its population is not essentially different from tho exploitation of a great cot ton manufacturing interest at a point where the supply of raw material is plentiful; thc establishment of a great furniture factory io a section which yields an abundance of thc various kinds of woods needed, or thc open ing of mines where minerals of thc desired charaiter arc available; it is simply a case of fitting thc opportunity to th', man. At the timo when the disparity be tween ibu. cotton manufacturing in terests of New England aud the South -and it was only a fow years ago was as marked as tho present dispar ity between the Weat and other sec tions of thc country with respect to the movement of foreign immigration, a great cotton mill owner in the North was induced, much against his judg ment, as ho afterward confessed, to hazard a small investment in a cotton mill enterprise in the South, in order to get rid of a very petinaoious solici tor. The rest waa easy. The circum stance that this man afterward ac quired substantial interests in upward of 40 great cotton mills in tho South is of secondary interest; the important feature was the start made. A furniture faotory was started in a Southern town-or, rather, the fao tory started the town-in a cotton flection, where cotton had been the solo relianoe of tho people. Success always excites emulation, and the capacity of that particular town and section for conferring success may be inferrod from the fact that there aro in tho neighborhood of 40 great furni ture factories at thatplaoo. The solo diiTcrenoo between that town and scores of others places, primarily, lies in the oirounistance that it possessed men who had courage lo take the ini tiative. There are hundreds of other places where the supply of raw ma terial is just as abundant and varied, and where the same facilities for transportation are available, but no body has been found to make a start. They are still waiting for men and capital. A correspondent of the Land and Industrisl Department in a South Cai olino town, replying to inquiries recently, said that in his section there was only one commercial frnit orchard, devoted to the Elberta peach; that it had scored a splendid suooess during the past season, and that others in that vicinity were making prepara tions to plant upward of 20,000 trees of the same variety this winter. Then followed a list of nine substantial far mers who had decided to embark in this business. The neighborhood in the course of a hundred years secured one commercial orchard; suoooss is achieved, and a pron table line of busi ness is finally launched among the looal formera-the harvest from one example. So it is with immigration io the South : There are small towns on the Southern Railway which are surround ed on 'ill sides by good, thrifty, capa ble farmers from the Northwest. For example, one community may have perhaps 200 suoh families around it, while a neighboring town, justas good in every way, and surrounded by ooun try identically the same in character, may be without any. In the one a start has been made, and the number of immigrants obtained has beoome the soliciting force whioh is peopling the section and diversifying the pro ducts; tho other is awaiting the ioitial impulse. In a word, the important werk in the South to day, in connection with immigration, is in the small beginnings mado by communities-constantly in creasing in number-which are at tracting a few immigrant families to their neighborhood as "seed" for the orop whioh almost invariably follows. For instance, aman out in Colorado read about the suooess of a Western man who had moved to Virginia, and after satisfying himself that the facts of the crae were reliable and oould be depended upon, ho drove all the way from his home in the West to Virginia and took up a loostion near the man whose suoooss had attraoted his atten tion. Suoh is the force of example, where the example illustrates success. It is idle to point to the possible fact that this man who journeyed hun dreds of miles over wagon roads from the West to Virginia passed thous ands of opportunities equally gobd in the South as those found at thc end of his long ride; fan koow, ct felt assur ed, that n Weitem man could su> . ?. . . 4 v coed where he was going; he had i proof of it; the intervening country did uot interest him, becauso he knew nothing about it, at leaH nothing which had made any impress upon his mind compared with the object lesson which had fastened his atten tion and centered his interest io a small settlement in Virginia. In such examples as th -EC is illup trated th(? process of peopleing the South. Il is simply a matter of mul tiplying object lessons in exactly the same manner that they have been multiplied during the past few years in thc fields of commerce and indus try. They describe, in part, a situ ation which may bc studied with profit by both the Northern investor and and the citizen of thc South-tho for mel- in the aspect it presents as a greal held filled with opportunities, of which only a few, comparatively, have been availed of, the latter au an illustration of how each community may perform a part in the work of populating a great nod rich section. The Southern Field. The Fashion In Dogs. The fashion in dogs changes so quickly no-yadays that it is difficult to know what particular breed is "in." Ladies are the chief movers in the matter of canine modes, and the pro verbial feminine fickleness causes much trouble to the dog dealers, who are suddenly called upon to supply an unexpectec demand for some hitherto neglected breed. A short time ago, for instance, Jap anese pugs were all the rage; before then the ugly little Belgian griffons, chows and schipperkes. Now it bas been rumored that the fashion of Charles li's time of carrying "arm dogs," which bas been derived by one of the leading London actresses, will create a new demand for miniature species. Mr. Wilson, thowell known dog fancier and'dealer, however, says that ho has heard nothing about it. "There is always a good demand for small dogs, such as Yorkshire terriers, especially for pets for elderly ladies,1' he added, "and the smaller they are the better. But, of course, the fash ionable dog of the moment is without question the French toy bulldog. I am constantly asked to supply these, and sometimes I am offered practically any sum if I oan get a really good dog. "An average price for a well bred speoimen is from ?80 to ?100, but the best have fetched from ?200 to ?300." One novelty is the Cuban poodle, a tioy dog about the size of a small ter rier, but with the characteristics of a poodle and shaved as suoh. It ie scarcely likely that the Cuban poodle -"Ul beoome fashionable for Borne time yet, as there are only a few specimens of the breed in England. London Daily Mail. Ta Care a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund tho money if it fails to oure. E. W. Grove's signa ture is on eaoh box. Price 25o. - In sixty years tba annual per capita consumption, of whisky has gradually decreased from two and a half gallons to one and one-fourth gal lons. In forty years the consumption of beer has increased from less than two to more than seventeen gallons per capita. An Accident and Suicide. Charleston, S. C., November IC Col. E. Miller Boykin, United States marshal tor thia State under Cleveland and a leading banker of Camden, killed himself accidentally this afternoon. After reaching home he picked up bis gun, which had a complicated re versible action, and went out to shoot a hawk. He was discovered an hour afterwards lying dead while bis gun waa found leaning on tho opposite side of the fence. The supposition is that as he started to climb tii* fence- he set the gun over the fence at the same time making a motion to get over him* self, when the gun was discharged, and such was the verdict of tho coro- ' ncr's jury. ile wae president of the DeKalb cot ton mill, of the Farmers and Merchants Bank and other large corporations, and was probably the leading citizen of tho town. He was a delegate to tho National Democratic Convention which nomina ted Cleveland in 1884. Charleston, 8. C., Nov. 10.-The suicide of E. C. Zer-jp, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Cam den, shocked the people of the town tonight, a few hours after the acciden tal self-destruction of Col. E. Miller Boykin, president of the bank. Short ly after receiving the news of the death of Colonel Boykin, Mr. Zemp left his home ostensibly to go over to Mr, Boy kiii'? nearby, ont instead went to his barn and committed suicide, shooting himself with a pistol through the mouth. Few men were held in higher esteem in Camden than Mr. Zemp. A dispatch to the News and Courier from Camden Bays: "If there is any shortage in the Bank's accounts, it is not known, but ii meeting of the directors will be held in tho morning and a thorough inves tigation will follow. In view of the death of the president and cashier the bank will necessarily be closed for a day or so, when it is" thought its busi ness will be resumed as usual." Do not go West. Every now and then we hear of some body selling out and going West. When we Bec men doing this our first thought is to lay them across our ed itorial lap and spank them until they repent and look at things right. But we desist. Spanking is not gentlemanly, nor allowable under the laws of the country, even if we were ablo to inflict it. People who think, however, and all of us have some kind of thinker on us, can BOO that there is a big wave of de velopment starting in this section that is destined to Bweep us on with a great impetus. As a cotton country there is no prospect for us probably-noth ing big at least, but as a manufactur ing field the greatest hopes are held out. for this is the home of the water power and maohinery cannot long live where there is not a reliable and everlasting water power. This development ic -hardly started weil enough yet to see it, but if the people would trouble to look and inquire thoy would hear of the hundreds of people who are looking into the vast possibili ties ui ibis si'ciion, and who wiii by and by looate here beyond ail doubt. Do not go West. This is far the better seotioc to live in, and it's com ing out far ahead of the West in the final round-up.-Tooooa Record. - One of the rarest and most ex pensive of gold fishes is the brushtail, a pair for whioh sell for ?200. Prob ably there is no other living thing of its size and weight that is worth so muoh money. - Advance reports indicate that the returns of the reoent census of the Phillippioes when tabulated will show a population of 7,000,000, ezolusive of the wild tribes of the mountains, which are estimated at less than 3, 000,000. SUFFERED A THOUSAND W? Five Pt)rateten? bc? SJOM tbotr test to ear* Jmmq^^SKk-, of DtSoB* \ 8. C.. wno ked ono of tho mart #~r!b!e ctszs z^fintLVm?Tisum aa record. Tfaoy oil felted notU caa aOtto? waswlfcwi IT CURCO HELPLESS CRIPPLE. Ur, Wilke: write* tn the course ol . loos letter, dated August 18,1902: "My lega were dravo bach until my feet touched mr hipa. I was sa nelpie** t* ? baby for nearly 12 months. The muaclc* of my arm* and leg* were bard sid shriveled op. I suffered death many times over. Wu treated by ala difieren' physicians in McColl, Dillon and Marion, tut none of them could do me sny good, until Dr. J. P. Ewing, of Dillon, told me to try your RHE?MACID8. I begsn to take it, and before the first bottle was used op I began to get better. I used Si bottles sod was completely cared." Dr. J. P. Ewing confirms Mr. Wilkes' statement in every particular. rstCC TRIAL BOTTLC CENT ON APPLICATION TO BOBBITT CHEMICAL CO., PROPRIETOR8, BALTIMORE, MO HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN FIELD AND HOD FENCE S8TKCB. tem ? 14^L [pp 55 INCH. -. , i r i f i i [ f i gt mmm Recalar Style Stay? ia In. or 6 In. apart l l III Wia^wjawi'rJ--jg^sfl Special Hog, llorso and Cattle Style Stays "3 In. or 6 In. apart Made of large, strong, high-grade steel wires, heavily galvanized. Amply provides for expansion and contraction.. Is practically ever lasting. Never goes wrong, no matter how great a strain is put on it. Docs not mutilate, but does, efficiently, turn cattle, horses, hogs and pigs. _ EVERY ROD OF AMERICAN FENCE GUARAN'. SED by the manufacturers and by us. Call and see it. Can show you ,hovf it will save you money and fence your fields so they will stay fenceiL A solid car load of this Fence just received. We also have a full stock of Elwood Fence. Sullivan Hardware Co; To the Farmers 1 WE have just installed FOUR NEW GINS at our plant here, making a total of eight Gina. We are now prepared to give you prompt and effi cient sei vice. Bring your Cotton to us and you will only have to wait a few minutes for it to be ginned. . We claim that it will pay you to haul your Cotton a long distance in order to have it ginned by uo. farmers' Oil Mill, ANDERSON, S. C. D. S. VAJ>. / ER. Sf. P. VANDIVBB. GENERAL MERCHANTS. WE have a splendid Stock of STAPLE GitO OERIES On bind at prices that no Firm can beat and few equal. . ? ( Splendid Line of Shoes and Staple Dry. Goods. m~ If you OWE US ANYTHING we believe wa would^apprec?ate a PROMPT SETTLEMENT jost a little more than anybody. Try ns and eeo if we don't. Toura for Tratte and Collections, VANDIVEB BROS. WE would like for all the People in Anderson County to come to. na for their wanta in the : : DRUG LINE ! Our Stock is laiger ard mora completo than it has ever been. Patent Medicine?, Chemicals;. Stationery, faints, Seeds, Artist Materials, Perfumes, And in fact anything that is found in an Up-to-Date Drug Store. Orr^Gt-ra-y or po BW DE I I ?H PIANOS Made in the world, and no lover prices. Absolutely the highest goad? tba! can be found, and the surprise is how can euch high grade Pianos ho had so reasonable t Well, it's this way: Pianos are being sold at too great a profit. I save yon from 25 to 40 ber cent in th? cost. I am my own t?efc-kecper, salesman and collector -?the whole &8how." See! Wo worked^yer, second-hand wiuwm? stock. I do not sell that kind. If ?on a^ jt?lghtyour credit ii good wiftf is &e *<feqr#nteV? Cfil I niCFACFC THE OUTCROPPING dn? i i VIOLrlOLO OF BAD BLOOD And while not always painful are aggravating beyond expression. With few exceptions they ore worse in spring and summer when the system begins to thaw out and the skin ' . ^ _ _ _ . J ^,0ir- ^ *i -L I suffered with Eoaema of the hands IS reacting and making jgB*Jla. and faoe for over a year, it waa not only extra efforts to throw Off iiitti>"*? annoyinff and painful but very wri the poisons that have W&sJ 8?&,,mft 1 to 00 ?Ut ?a th? accumulated during the ^5 OT/ Itriedatleastodosonaoapaandsalvse? _??.".. mu**, Krtiio o?rl A *c-/** and beoarae very much discouraged winter. Then boils and gafiWW^ until I wad In the paper of tho eurea pimples, rashes and 'V^??S^ performed through the *_ri- ' "5 ?"?-, IfJCWTYt^ ' had little faith at first hut dotormined eruptions of every con- FrTl [Ru to alva lt a month'o falr trial ct least, x ceivable kind make v* am pleased to state that I soon noticed G. 4. -, _11fl alightimprovement, sufficient to decido their appearance, and me to keep lt up. After the use of six bottles my skin Eczema andTetter-the was as-smooth and soft as s? baby's. This was a y sar Po?? 9,8 8o. 7th 8?., ?.??."OU.,*,,?. and such other skin troubles as usually remain quiet during cold weather, break out afresh to torment and distract by their fearful burning, itching S_ MI ? and stinging. A course of S. S. 8. now will purify and enrich the blood, reinforce and tone np the gen ^*?\ eral system and stimulate the sluggish circulation, b*^J fcw^J thus warding off the diseases common to spring and ^ ^*~>^ summer. Tue skin, with good blood to nourish it, remains smooth and soft and free of all disfiguring eruptions. . Send for our free book on diseases of the skin and write ns if yon desire medical advice or any special information. This will cost yon nothing. mt SWiFT SPZGiFiGGO,, ATLABHTA, &3? Oiliest, Biest, Cheaps!, Best This Establishment has "been Selling IN ANDERSON for moro than forty years. During all that time competitor* have come and gono. but we have remained right here. Wo have always sold Cheaper than any others, and during,those long years wo have pot had i-ne dis satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any time we found that a customer waa dissatisfied we did hot rest until we had made htm satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ing, and we can sky with pride, but without boasting, thai we,have the confi dence of the people of thia section. Wo have a larger Stook of Goods this season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that wa have never sold Furniture at aa close a margin of profit aa we are doing now. This is proven by the fact that wa are Sellins; Furniture noi only, all over Anderson County but in every Town in tho Piedmont eco?ion. Como and ese us. Tour parents saved money by buyina from us. and you and your children can save money by buying here, too. We carry & VERlTTBING.ln tho Furniture Uae, Os F. TOLLY A amt, Capot Strwt The Old Reliablegarniture Beelera