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DRJlSPRAfT, ? OMtltl. 1-1 Offeet Up-Stalrs In M Bank Building. ________ Terms: STRICTLY CASH. 15TH YEAR. RARE BEAUTY'AND POWER OF THE MIGHTY CATAWBA. . I Industrial Activity on Historic Waterway, Which Passes Our Door. The following: interesting arti[ cle about the Catawba river and the great power plant which is I | being built at "Great Falls" appeared in the "Real Estate Edi- j tion" of today's State: There is no truer saying than this: "A prophet is not without! honor save in his own country;" and it can be applied with equa^ force to the beautiful scenery far, our own land. Travelers to Eu- I rope are often asked: "Why is it you leavejthe States to come here before you have explored your own beautiful land?" and having said this much by way of introj duction, 1 will apply it to some of , the beautiful scenery in old South Carolina, in the Great Falls of the Catawba river. Many will say, ! "Why, I never thought of this ! before." "1 knew we had the! Catawba river, etc." The artistic j in heart and sentiment often1 point out objects of interest at our own doors of which we have never thought, and thus through others we are taught to appreciate the good and beautiful around us. R sing in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, the Catawba river flows south, through South Carolina. It is called Catawba until it reaches Fairfield county where it mingles with the waters of Wateree creek and there loses its former name, and is called Wateree river. At the southeastern extremity of Richland county the Wateree joins the Broad and together they form the Santee. Onward they go to add their strength to the great Atlantic ocean, and thus play a part in making this great ocean just a little part of their own. in the early part of the eighteenth century, before railroads had -ever been more than a fabric of a dream, the State of South Carolina conceived the idea of canaling all the shoals of her rivers, in order to transport her varied products to the ocean. It is said that South Carolina spent $5,000,000 on this work. In spite of this large expenditure, it is very doubtful if any practical use was ever made of these canals in the upper part of the State. One of the large shoals of the Catawba, where the waterfall is 172 feet, is called "Great Falls." Here the water tumbles over rocks and makes wild rushes between granite hills, which amount in some places to towering bluffs and from whose^ majestic heights one can have a view of the river for miles. An artist would grow wild at the rare beauty of the scenery?the fern-covered hills and boulders wrapped in a mantle of moss. The 12 locks on the canal here are more than 100 years old, but are still in -a wonderful state of preservation. In one of them may be seen remains of the olc^ wooden lock's gate. The walls '" i of the locks are made of cut granite, and the workmanship is so - beautiful that it attracts the interest not only of sight-seer, but of skilled engineers. The canal empties into Rocky creek, at the point separating Fairfield and Chester counties. The ditch cf the canal has in some places filled with dirt and in it are growing tall trees, some of which are several feet in diameter. At one place the canal runs out into the river, a granite breakwater wall dividing it from the river. At these falls was built, by a Mr. McCullough, perhaps the first cotton factory in South Carolina run by water-power, and the remains of the old foundation may still be seen. One of iU. A 1_ i-J- '' * ? tne ueeu? graining me land to McCullough is signed by Thomas Jefferson. At this place a rock ledge extends out into the river, forming a fiat surface of 150 feet, and on this our forefathers anchored a mill, by which all the corn and meal of that section wore ground. At this romantic spot, where the white capped waters dash over the rocks, and tear madly on between the steep, rugged banks, covered with jessamine-trimmed trees, is held on the first Saturday of every May the annual picnic. The "Great Falls" are at the corner of four counties, Chesterfield, Lancaster, Kershaw and Fairfield, and representatives from | L__? ? - 1 . -' <ORl 1 - '? 1 ? * r? tl tl n tl is w 0 t" r t 1 the fort "Dearbori garrisoned by \ji. (.vvi OUibU) soldiers. The fort, which was built to guard the approach from the ocean, got its name from Gen. ^/vuiuuui ux jLvcvuiunuiiiiry iairie, who was secretary of war during the eight years of Jefferson's administration. Places all around are pointed out as scenes of duels between army officers. In 1802, when congress desired to establish an institution for the trainining of soldiers, the most prominent two places mentioned for the location of of the military academy were West Point, New York, and Fort Dearborn, South Carolina. West Point received a majority of only one vote. This place is destined to be the scene of great industrial activity. The waterpower, one of the finest in the South, has been purchased by the Southern Power Company, of which Dr. Gill Wylie, formerly of Chester, and now a capitalist of New York, is president. There are over 1,000 men at work. The plan is to supply electrical power all over the State. She power is estimated* to be over 100,000 horse-power?enough to supply power for North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The contract is to be completed in three years. Board of Equalization Holds Meeting. The York county board of equalization consisting of one representative from each of the various townships and one member each from the towns of Rock Hill and Yorkville, met in Yorkville the past week for the purpose of hearing individual complaints as to alleged excessive assessments, and of equalizing assessed real estate valuations as between the various towns and townships of the county. Fort Mill township was represented by Mr. C. P. Blankenship. The Yorkville Enquirer says several individual complaints, including one from the Catawba Power company, were heard that morning; but the understanding was that no decision would be arrived at until later. Although there had been a large number of individual raises, the indications are that there will be but a few specific complaints. From such information is can be gathered, the main work of the board, after disposing of the individual complaints, will be to try to arrive at some reasonable basis of equalization as between the assessed values of town and country property, especially with reference to the towns of Rock Hill and Yorkville on the one hand and the country surrounding on the other. It seems to be generally conceded that the assessment of these towns is much higher in proportion than is country property anywhere and the contention is that the town assessments should be lowered or the country assessments should be raised. The situation is generally conceded to involve serious problems, and how the whole matter is to be satisfactorily settled remains to be seen. I April and the Confederacy. The month of April was memorable in the affairs of the Confederate States. Here are some of the events: Bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter, April 12 and 13 1861. Batt le of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. Surrender of Army of Northern - a M A v irKiuiei, /\pril U, lOOO. Surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston's Army, April 26, 1865. ' i .? i % : mii DEMOCRACY, JUST :l MILL, S. C., TIIUR ROKE WORLD'S RECORD IN CORN CULTURE. Vliat a South Carolinian Raised on One Acre. I me lat^csi cuni crop yet re->rded was grown by Capt. J. Z. *rake, of Marlboro county, this tate. Not only was this the ?.rgest grown in America, but : the world. In one season and n a single acre, he produced 255 ushels and thus secured the merican Agriculturalist's first ize of $500, besides several ;her awards offered locally by fertilizer and other manufacturing companies. The details to how this remarkable crop was produced were published in the American Agriculturalist. The following facts regarding the crop will be of interest to the farmers generally: The land on which the crop was grown was originally sandy soil on which formerly grew oak, hickory and long leaf pine. Three years previous, this particular acre was especially fertilized and i prepared by Capt. Drake and planted in Peterkin cotton, from which was harvested 917 pounds of lint cotton. The land was especially prepared for the corn contest. In February he hauled upon it 50 one-horse loads of stable manure, at the same time broadcasting 500 pounds each of guano, cottonseed meal and kainit, all of which were plowed under. Following the plow 600 bushels of whole cottonseed were distributed in the furrow after the plow. Immediately following this a subsoil plow turned this 12 inches deep. The field was then laid off alternately 6 feet between two plows, then 8 feet, then 6 feet, etc. One bushel of the common ground variety of Southern White Dent corn, of a Strain improved by 20 years' selection, was planted March 2. Five or six kernels were propped in the row to each foot. The crop was still further fertilized during the growing season as follows: April 20, 200 pounds each guano, cottonseed meal, kainit, acid phosphate and animal bone sown early in furrows: May 15, 300 pounds nitrate soda in rows and worked in with harrow; May 25, 200 pounds guano were applied in three furrows run in the wide rows; June 8, 500 pounds of an equal mixture of guano, cottonseed meal and kainit was strewn in the wide rows; and finally on June 10, 100 pounds nitrate soda was broadcasted in the narrow rows and hoed in. The acre was surveyed June 29 by William B. Alford. The harvesting was done November 25 in the presence of representative farmars, including J. C. Campbell, an official representative of the American Agriculturalist. There were taken from the field 17,407 pounds corn in the ear of which only 140 pounds were soft and considered poor. By making several selections the average test showed that 82 per cent, of the total crop was kernels, an equivalent of 14,273 pounds of shelled corn, or 254 bushels and 49 pounds, estimated at 56 pounds per bushel. This was an plahnrnto ovnoi-t men! to prove how much corn could be actually grown on an acre, the cost of production having been a secondary matter in this case. Col. Thompson Will Not Make Race. Col. Henry T. Thompson today announced that he would not be in the race for adjutant general to succeed Gen. John D. Frost, who will also retire from politics. Col. Thompson has decided to devote his entire time to his insurance business. He is a thorouerh mi I i tar v m?n wirh a splendid record and there is regret expressed that he cannot enter the race. Col. Thompson was commander of the second regiment that went from this State to Cuba. His retirement from the race leaves the field to Col. J. C. Boyd, Lieut. Col. Lewis W. Haskell, Major Charles Newman and former Assistant Adjutant General W. W. Bruce. ?Columbia Record. Mr. W. W. Pegram, of Lancaster, was a visitor here Sunday. mmiipji i i1 mr XT] ICE, TKCTBL SDAY, APRIL 19, 1906. THE RURAL FREE DELIVERY CRISIS. Unfortunate Attitude of Federal Government Toward Southern Rcutes. A great deal of interest has been aroused in the rural districts | of the Southern States over the ; J menace to rural free delivery in- j volved in the evident determination. of the postoffice depastment to cut out the weaker routes if they do not make a business j | showing that meets the new re- i j quirements of the department, says the Herald and News. These new requirements seem I to be that the rural route must show a minimum number of pieces of mail handled in a quarter. I failing in which, it will be disconj tinued entirely or consolidated I with the nearest route. During the past month two rural routes , I in Upson county, Georgia, which j fell short of the test, were con- ; solidated. Since the first of the ! ! year quite a number of mail routes in Southern States have been either discontinued or consolidated with other routes. The Constitution has for some time been giving editorial attention to this unfortunate turn of affairs in the attitude of the Federal postoffice department toward the non-self-supporting routes of the South, and our efforts to call public attention, and tbe attention of the people's representatives in congress, to a condition which actually threatens South ern progress and development, 1 have met with most gratifying j response. The rural routes of j the South are bestirring themselves to improve the showing they must make to the department, and our representatives in congress are doing everything possible for them at that end of the line. We have received many letters from senators and representatives in congress, testifying to their vigilant interests in the subject. Congressman Adarnson, of Ga., gives the benefit of some suggestions that are well worth publication in this connection. Among other things he says: The older and more populous parts of the country were first supplied, and had been running for years, before we received attention, thus having time to build up business and show satisfactory results when attention began to be given to that subjf ct. But, strange to say, when the department began to act under the economy spasm, it began by inspecting the routes last established in our part of the country, putting the knife to what it called unprofitable routes before they had time or opporfnni'fxr lL * ? mnuj u uviiiuiiaiiaic uieir utility. Strange inspectors go into a country in which they know nothing and under their instructions to promote economy cut and slarh among weak routes without reference to past opportunities or future prospects. The fourth assistant postmaster general has been very considerate when appealed to in such cases, j but he has clearly indicated his views as to what routes should do, and the people should heed his views on the subject, for whether right or wrong, they will sooner or later be enforced. Now they have the remedy in their own hands, let them quit asking for new routes and changes in routes until all those now in existence show such satisfactory results as will insure them against discontinuance. It is easy for each family living nearer to a route than to a postoftice to put up an approved box on that route. No family can do a wiser or more profital ie thing than to take one or tv/o newspapers. There are friends, relatives and business concerns with whom some members of every family could interchange letters. All these things would improve and elevate the people, while insuring satisfactory business for the routes. There is much truth in this, and to exact too severe a test on the new and necessarily weak routes of the south before they are given time and a fair chance to prove their capacity for growth and eventual self-support, smacks of sectional discrimination and unfairness. At any rate, that view of it is taken by many of the patrons-cf these threatened southern routes. All friends of ruraJ free de } -< mrzci" now VS' * " 4''',r ^ ***r [MES GREEN AND GAYNOR ARE FOUND GUILTY. Af?? T-:.i _r to -a; 1 ' vwuTiviW) nun A 11411 l'I 1J TJ C 'KSf OT S 1 Crime Committed 14 Years Ago. Greene and Gaynor were Friday moniihg sentenced to four years each in the United States penitentiary, at Atlanta, and to pay a fine of $575,000, the amount of the embezzlement, j The defendants may be relieved of the fine by making oath that they are possessed of no more than $20. Greene and Gay nor wen found guilty on all three in dictments, the jury returning l verdict at 1.55 p. m. ; The trial of Greene and Gaynor at Savannah has consumed about 13 and a half weeks. The defendants were charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and embezzlement in connection with the big government engineering work in the vicinity of Savannah, Ga. They were indicted in 1002 and after fighting extradition proceedings in New York, fled to ^anuria Alter lengthy proceeding there they were finally extradited and were brought to Savannah for trial. Captain Oborlin M. Carter, of i the Engineer Corps, who had I charge of the improvement works | under the Greene and Gayno? contract, was court martialed foi j his complicity in the alleged frauds, and was sentenced to bt I dishonorably discharged from I the army and to serve a term ol imprisonment for five year*. Last of Gen. Jackson's Staff. Capt. .Joseph Graham Morrison, aide-de-camp and last surviving member of Gen. Stonewall .lackson's stall', died Wednesday night in Charlotte at the home of his sister, Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. The funeral took place Friday morning in Lincoln county. A number of egg-hunts, in which the children of the town participated, took place Friday and Saturday on the lawns of several resiliences, and of course the little ones were delighted with the sport. livery should rally to the support of the system at this critical juncture. The routes already established should be given a chance l'or their lives, even if this has to be done at the expense of establishing new routes. PATTERNS. I Our stock of McCall's Patterns have arrived and are now on sale at our store. These patterns are numbered ! and put up in a nice case, making: I it easy to locate the pattern wanted. There is a large assortment, and almost anything wanted can be found. We handle and take orders for McCall's Magazine. 50 cents a year, or 5 cents a copy. Anyone wanting patterns, or the magazine, come to see us. .McEilianey & Co1 . ... j I ^ THE TIMES will be I )sent only a reasonable I 0 time on credit 1 V _____ Don't Look tor Mere. I Pay Up Promptly. I Nl?MI?ER 3. The South Carolina Penitentiary. There are perhaps many readers of this paper who know practically nothing of details of me state penitentiary. And in order that they may acquaint themselves to some extent with this institution we give them the following information: . In the 40 years' history of the " institution there have been 17.211 entries, although there are now inly 600 prisoners - 10G white nen, two white women, til colored reformatory cases, two while >oys in the reformatory, and .2 negro women, the ramainder oeing negro men. Practically . all of the white wen are in for ' homicide. Although criminology I credits a murderer with a low ) order sneak thief, yet this prison ) contains less thieves than per- . haps any other prison in the ? country. Practically all of the homicide cases, however, are ) traceable to violent passions and ) whiskey, and are not in the same i despicable class as those com- . mitted for gain. The extremely low percentage of white women ' prisoners is due in a measure to I the superior qualities of that ) sex perhaps. % Experimenting With Cotton Culture. ) The British Cotton Growing I Association says it has proved * that cotton of every variety may ' be grown in the British colonies, > and it predicts a crop of 23,000 ) bales this year, grown under its ) auspicies. This is very encour- t x aging but if we scan the whole field, observing not only the ' widening area of cotton cultiva- < tion, but also the enormous new. ) regions of cotton consumption ) that are rapidly opening and are t 11 < ' cupuoie or great development, I we are convinced that there is J no glut of production in prospect. # For many years to come, and perhaps always, a short crop in the United Siates will he a ca- T lamity severely felt in the spin- j ning and weaving centres of 5 j Europe. 6 I Some of the British colonies, jgy notably parts of Rhodesia, Ugan- flB da, the Anglo-Eg} ptian Sudan ]H and Northern Aust |a, are m likely to make an hnr wjsion on the cotton markets j J* course H of the next quarter b* .Vcentnrv; ^B hut the out-look in many other ! quarters, especially in many of ^B the regions where the French j H| and Germans are experimenting R with as much intelligence and ^B energy as the British arc show- BB ing in their territories, is not |Q nnUa ** - e ijimt oi> ciRVUIit>;ill^. IHUSIjOI I TIC results in West Africa have thus far been disappointing because the hopes of rapid progress have ? not been realized. * The Germans are the only ones fc who have as yet introduced a few ? spindles and looms so that they * may test the fibres in the very * fields where they are grown; but ? the total crop in the German 5 posessions last year was less * than 5,000 bales, while the ( British crop, outside of India, \ was less than 25,000 bales, and ? as the world's consumption is now increasing at the rate of ? about 400,000 bales a year, it is certain to be a long time yet be- f fore the new sources of supply i and larger production in the present areas of cultivation will balance the steadily increasing demand. Snn nf ^ *> rn 1 Iftkntlnn Hw/viuwaJ ww?? v? i/hiui. irvuuoiuu uiuniicii. The Rock Hill Record of Thursday reports a distressing tragedy I which occurred Wednesday after- . [ noon near the Manchester mill. | j Little Tom Johnston, aged 15 \ years, an employe of the Highland Park mill and son of Mr. f and Mrs. Samuel Johnston, was ; drowned in the pond on Col Ire- ]; dell Jones' plantation, between Lne Highland Park arid Manches- e ter mills. No one knows 3 list J; when the distressing event oc- j; curred. The boy had gone in /$; swimming. Someone fouud his. clothes lying near the pond, and sj' the boy not appearing! the pond ^ ? was dragged, the body being recovered with but little difficulty. It will never be known how the 52 tragedy occurred, though it is $5 most likely that the boy was taken with crrmps on account of j?2 the water being cold. Mr, and Mrs. Johnston are a w( 11 known in Fort Mill and their A friends here will regret to learn A of their distressing loss. I