The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 12, 1899, Image 4
By V0EXA1 HUMT.
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CHAPTKB HI
OK THB TRACK.
Although the paesage or •nnnel by
which the mnrderer had In nil iwohg-
blllty escaped from The Orange ha4
now been discovered, Darrent was
obliged to own to himself as he stoo<
upon the frown river that he was real
ly no nearer learning the troth or solv
ing the mystery.
What had :»roved a mystorion* su
pernatural factor in the crime In the
eyes of the unsophisticated inhabitants
of Norcombe and had set their imagi
nations, snob as they wore, to work on
the wild ideas of haunted houses ark
r ghostly assassins had. after all, turned
out to be nothing.
Jnst what he had expected would b*
the explanation from the moment the
story was related to him by the driver
.of the dogcart had proved to be correct
—footsteps lending into the house and
no return—so that it scorned to Darrent
there was but one solution or rather
- two riithor thetnardararv.’aaatllllnthe.I A (juayter of ...an, hour afterwi
building, which was far from probable,
or had escaped fty a secret passage, and
the latter had proved to be the case.
And yet, after all, ho mused, as he
made his way across the grounds back
to the front of the house, it had proved
bis theory that the murderer of old
Marsden was well acquainted with The
Orange. Who should know tho ins and
outs of the premises better than the
dead man’s aon or ward, whichever he
Stofi’ty and painfully they groped along
In the durkncM.
was. the one whose name the dying
man had endeavored to write—Astray
Maralen t Again all the circumstances
against Astray forced themselves upon
his mind What if it should prove to
be no mystery at all? Yonng Marsden
had returned, gone pcrhaiw straight to
The Grange, quarreled openly with the
old man and in a paroxynm of rage
struck the blow which killed him.
Darrent took the nujier from his
pocket again and clow'.r scrutinised li
•‘I am dying, murdered by Astra”—
Astruy hail gone. Perhaps fur fear of
blackmail, perhaps because he was
guilty, but. whatever tho roasurv Dar
rent decided bo must be stopped, and.
scribbling a few hues upon a furtn, he
dispatched ThemiMou to the telegraph
office, and again entered the library.
So far Jio had acted simply es a man
of caution, bat wlthpat conviction. Be
intended to stop Astapy’s flight not be
cause he was ussurid of his guilt, but
because he might tw guilty.
As a det*'ctive who had earned fame
he suspected everybody but condemned
none until link by link ho had forged
the chain that was unbreakable.
As it was. so many incidents seemed
to point to Astray, and yut one thing
destroyed the whole theory—tho stolen
thessmen.
If he could trace thorn, he felt he
wonld be a step nearer discovering the
mnrderer and with them the motlva.
That was the great difficulty in this
c^pe, the apparent absence of motive.
He was glad to be alone while from a
few fragments he endeavored to make
out what kind of man tho murderer
was and to fix in his mind tho style of
individual h«< had to look for.
Did the murder arise out of a sudden
quarrel, or was it premeditated find ao-
• l
And tried the posittotL it wnuk* one
of comfort Tor ease he would have
laid his whole arm full length upon
the shelf and rested his shoulder against
it The man who bad stood there was
taller than he and close upon*if not over
Six Yect in height -Bo far, be thought
so good. The search liras narrowing.
Surely to trace A man of six feet in
that little town would not be difficult
He wondered how tall young Mlnrien
was; then, setting to work again, drop
ped on his knees and carefully examined
the fireplace.
No papers had been burned. Only the
dead ashes remained on the hearth and
sonMhlng "ho had almost overlooked,
but nfw canght up with an excited ex
clamation and carried to the window—
a plug of half burned tobacco that had
boon cut out of a pipe, because it had
been rammed in too tightly, and dis
carded, dug out with the blade of
knife, ft was obvious, for a dainty
shred of meerschaum adhered to the
sida •
Another step—another clew I The
murderer was not a tramp who had be
guiled the old man to let him stay the
night Tramps were not so wasteful of
their tobacoo and did not smoke xneer
schaums 1
Six feet high—smoked a meerschaum
pipe I Darrent felt he was moving.
when Policeman Thompt m return
Tho Grunge, he found Herbert Darrent
sitting in the library writing at top
most speed in his notebook, with a
fragment of thread, a plug of tobacco,
a scrap of ivory, a carved ivory cheas-
man and a few matches spread out on
a sheet of paper before him.
“Have yon discovered anything, sir f
he ventured to ask as Darrent continued
to fill sheet after sheet as If unaware of
xis presence.
Darrent quietly nodded his head and
closed the book.
Listen to me,” he said, ‘‘and tell
me if you know any one who answers
to this description! Appearance, very
tall—say a good six feet—and broad in
proportion, bronzed and boarded, strong
an ox; tcmi»cr very passionate;
dress of hone'spnn cloth'; soft hat;
smokes a meerschaum pipe; lately re
turned from somewhere abroad, prob
ably Houth Africa. ”
Thompson, with his eyes wide open,
gazed in astonishment at the detective
and shifted uneasily from foot to foot
He wears a heavy gold signet ring
on tho little finger of the left hand and
has recently cut the forefinger of tho
right Do you know him!”
No, indeed, sir I You’ve nude a
mistake Ho wouldn't do it Ho could
not”
“Ah! Then my description fits some
-i” ' •
sir.
onel’
“Hoes you discovered anything, sitf
oompllshed in a few moments—the en
trance, the murder and then flight f ..
He began by supposing that it was
tho outcome of a quarrel; that the two
men had been in conversation before
the fatal blow was struck.
The old man probably sat in his chair
on tho right hand side of the fire. Dar
rent took, that chair himself, and the
visitor—where Y He had the assurance
of the officer that nothing hod been
moved. There was no chair convenient
ly placed for a visitor. It might have
been moved, or the stranger might have
stood during the interview. That being
“It is Astray Marsden to tho life,
but he didn't commit tho murder. ”
That is to bn proved. Ho was at
this house on tlie night of the murder
Yon mot him on that night ” *
“I. sirr"
“Yes, you. Thompson You’ve got to
do your duty, whether it is palatable
to you or not Astray Marsden loft the
town nearly two years ago, came back
lore the night of tho morder and left
next morning If you did not meet him
that night, you would not know he an
swered to my description. A man does
not look the same and certainly does
not dress flu. same after an absence
abroad of two ytvira. Whom did yon
meet bimT”
“Near the Palooo hotel ”
“What timet”
”A little after!! o’clock in tho morn-
“Was it snowing T”
“No, sir; it had stopped. ”
“What did ho say t Did ho seem ex
cited T”
Ho did teem rather , rattled Ho said
that he’d come buck to try .and bo
I'lieuds with old Marftdco, bnt no one
conld bo, and he was off again. ”
“Very well; then one thing Is cer
tain, and that is that Astray Marsden
was in this room on the night of the
murder. It will rest far him to clear
limself or for the law to bring the
charge homo to him. Marsden himself
opened the door, and the two men en
tered this room. Marsden sat in his
chair there, the chessltuard was on that
small table- beside him, and he was un
doubtedly working out a problem when
ho was interrupted It needs only a
glance at the bookcase to show his hob
by. Old Mardsen sat there, the hoard
jeslde him. Tho yonng man stood here’’
—Darrent took up his position by tho
'ender again—"his oltfbw upon the
mantelpiece—so. You can see whore
the elbow rested Ho must bo a tall
man who stands so, Thompson. That
gave me an idea us to his height; this
thread of wool, tho texture of his
doth'a He smoked as ho bilked—
smoked a coarse cut ship's tobacco, not
the sort that a man of his breeding
would smoke unless he had boon down
in the world, knocking about from one
country to another, and therefore
bronzed, and, as a man does not take
particular caro of his appearance at
such times and certainly does not give
ten minutes every day to shaving,
benrdt>d. Yon see, Thompson, things
are very clear when wo look carefully.”
“Yob, sir,” the officer mechanically
reput'd, gazing at Darrent, bewildered.
“Tho young man stood hero, and they
talked Perhaps yonng Marsden wanted
money—they generally do—and tho old
man refused taunted him. Yon know
old, men can taunt, Thompson. Tho
words got higher and higher, the you
man’s temper hotter and hotter, am
then he launched into a furious out
burst, emphasizing each point by bring
ing his fist down upon tne oak mantel
shelf. Throe times ho did that, Thomp
son. You see throe marks made by the
concussion as his ring struck tho wood
The strength in that blow would kill a
man, so be careful if you ever have to
'deal with young Marsden. The old man
was frightened and faint and over
turned the board with the pieces upon
den, so Darrent rose and took the place
of the supposed visitor and, as human
nature Is so prone to loll, felt an incli
nation to rest his arm upon the high
mantelshelf
He smiled a quiet smile of self satis
faction aa be glanced at the shelf and
noticed the impression left in the dust
where an arm had recently rested It
was a high shell too, and the impres
sion in tbs dust was that of an elbow
only. Tbs man had stood with his chin
In his ham} and his elbow mi the shelf
__ 1a well
so. ktKWoukl have stood opposite Mors- it as he started to his feet, and Astray
gave him some brandy In that little
glass from the decanter on the side
board. As he handed it to him he placed
bin hand upon the mantelshelf, tbia
time the right hand You see by the
impression the forefinger was bound up
Dust-is a very valuable thing, Thomp
son, don’t forget that Then young
Martflun collected the choHmen and
placed them in the box again. ”
“The old man might have done that, *
Thompson exclaimed anxious to test
the skill with which the puzzle was be
ing put together.
- “The yonng maa did it,
One had rolled under the sideboard
Old Marsden would never have shut up
the box and put it away with one miss
ing Tho chossmen are put sway, the
old man becomes more amiable, and
they sit down again. He goes so far as
to offer young 1 Marsden a cigar. You*
see one has Wn taken from this box. a
new box, which yonng Marsden opened
with his clasp knife—you know the
ugly kind of kilfe, Thompson The
murder was committed with tjie same
weapon. He opens the box. takes out a
cigar and lights it, then puts tho knife
here by his side and sits on the edge of
the tabla
“Again they talk, again the odd man
taunts, and again the young man losqs
bis temper and crashes his hand down
upon the table His fingers touch that
awful knife, and in a second it is over.
For a moment he is paralysed with fear
and, rnshing to the sideboard, pours
out a glass of the brandy, for himself
this time, spilling it upon tbs wood
work and the carpet, atgl then stands
and hesitates. He dare not leave by the
front door in case he is seen. Suddenly
he remembers the passage through the
rockery on to the river. No doubt the
water at the bottom of the tunnel would
be frozen, and be oould escape that
way. With one glance over his
aeroaathr
dying,
the gt
hall through the opposite room and the
conservatory, then out into the grounds
along the covered walk and by the tun
nel on to the frozen river.
*011 Marsden, left for dead, oomes
slowly bock to semioonscidtisnesa He is
and he knows it. but be swears
guilty shall not escape, and even
with his falling strength he will da-
nonnoo the murderer. “ > *
Darrent finished his dramatic word
picture and then, taking the slip of
from his pocket, held It
of his comrade.
“I am dying, murdered by Astray,”'
gasped Thompson. ~~~
And Astray has skipped” Darrent
interrupted —. .
Thompson conld only stolidly nod in
acquiescence. Loath as he was to be
lieve that Astray Marsden, whom he
remembered in years back always had
a kindly word for every one, was a mur
derer. he had been led away by Dar-
rent’s dramatic recital and the paper
written by the dying man seemed to
clinch the matter. Yes, thero conld be,
no question about It now Astray most
have done it
It looks rather black against young
Marsden." he said, at last finding his*
tongue.
*TToq suspect himf“
Thompson nodded moodily.
“Well look here, Thompson,” sad-'
denly snapped Darrent “Don’t yon be
in such a confounded burry to jump at
conclusions. Now, if we find presently
that Astray Maradea («n prove an ab
solute alibi, what becomes of these de
ductions, eh T Astray Marsden is not
the only man in the world who stands
siz feet high, wears a rough homespun
suit, carries a Norwegian knife and
dikes to have his signet ring on the lit
tle finger of his left hand. “
“But the paper Y”
“Well what of thatY *1 am dying,
murdered by Astra’— The *y’ is miss
ing. and yon jump to tho conclusion it
must be Astray. Now. suppose, Thomp
son. that the mystery has a deeper ~oot;
that it concerns Astray all the same,
jut not as a murderer. Huppose old
Marsden intended, fur ex mple, to write
‘murdered by Astray’s brother’ or any
other relative, and died before he oould
write the last word. What becomes of
your evidence thonY”
And. having calmly and deliberately
demolished the structure that he had so
carefully and elaborately constructed,
kurent took a cigarette from his case
and, lighting it, strolled over to the
window. ,, .
1 told you.” he said between the
whiffs, “Uiat the man stood with his
elbow on the mantelshelf. Well so he
did. That’s obvious. And then I showed
you throe dents that looked compara
tively fresh, and* I sold that they had
)een made .by the ring on the little
linger of the man’s hand. Weil perhaps
they were, and porhajis they were done
weeks ago by old Marsden himself.
Perhaps the man’s elbow never rested
on tho shelf, bnt old Marsden had put
something there and afterward removed
t I shouldn’t like to swear to any of
A I’ve put 4 lot of little things togeth
er, but they may be all wrong, every
one of them What do yon think, eht”
“I think they all fit too well ”
“They fit w^ll enough, but they prove
nothing, atisolntely nothing. To be a
successful detective one must bo ready
not only, to forge chains, bnt to set to
work directly afterward and break
them, if they can bo broken, test every
link and if there’s a flaw find It One
must not persuade himself, because a
few circu::mtance6..fit, that that,-and
that only,, must 1k> the troth. Why, I
have made many as good a chain of cir
cumstantial evidence before, and every
link has lieen faulty, the whole thing
worse than worthless. ”,
“But, Darrent. the papers say that
you an^’—
. “Tlw American Lecoq, precisely, bnt
I am very much afraid that their
knowledge of M Lecoq has only, been
derived from French sensational, novels,
according to v Inch ho m v^r tjrred, was
absolutely hifillihl" I think M.-Lecoq
himself would t. il a very different story
We have Mhiwi-d one s.--t of circum
stances dos ly and . well with the re
sult that U brands Astray Marsden as
the murderer Veiy well; now we’ll
Darrent took a cigarette from his case.
amerent track. WHM Mine mys
tery connected with ths sgi of Indian'
chessmen Y Let M look hi this question
a little.
"(I) Why have they been stolen, and
by whomi *
*1(9) If Astray murdered old Marsden
to obtain any secret oonnected with the
chessmen, why dtf he leave them be
hind Y ' ■ r —
“(8) If Astray murdered old Marsden
and only discovered afterward the hid
den value of the chessmen, where is the
motive of the murder Y
“(4) If Astray did not commit the
murder, who did Y
“Once find the secret of the chess
men. and you’ll find the murderer.
Now, what have We got as our dew—
the one piece here, a pawn, missing
from the set (there cannot be many
sets like this one, Thompson), and a
chip from another piecef Still we can
not go into everybody's bouse and ex
amine curiosities and brio-a-brac to dis
cover if they have the • set we Are in
search of. Now, dew- the second is
more valuable, and that is the knifa
You see it is of an ordinary Norwegian
pattern. With a spring blade, but the
letter ‘A’ is branded into the yellow
wood of the handle. Find to whom it
belongs—if ‘A’ means Astray, if young
Marsden ever owned this knife—and
wesEall behearer {He hamrFhafsfroct
the blow. Now, then, Thompson, who
do yon thin* committed the tnurderY”
“Well I don’t know, dr. The way
you put it, it might be any one. ”
“80 it plight ” Darrent replied. “It
might, be any one. and perhaps we
haven^t got within a thousand miles of
the right one yet Still I've done all I
can till I get news from Chicago, and
I’m going for a skate on the river. I’m
not a slcuthhound longing for blood,
but I’ve been longing to get on that
stretch of ice ever since f’ve been in
Norcombe. ”
[to bs ooimiruxDwl
THK PASSING OF TUB BANJO.
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and
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Clair
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choir
con-
The Negro le Lcee Mirthful and
Improvident—More Meroee
More Melancholy.
Waterburv (Conif) American.
David F. St. Clair has been revisit
ing the South of his birth after a ten
years’ absence. He contributes to the
Criterion various evidences of the
change which has passed over the ne
gro of the South, developing out of the
“ old time darky,” “ a self conscious
colored man, less op Imlstlc, leee mlith-
ful, lass Improvident,, perhaps, more
mnroee, more melancholy, with a more
acute sense of pain and suffering.” in
short, under tne new conditions. t‘e
Southern negro le developing a sensi
tive nervous system like that of the
white man, and with il the white man’s
complaints, such as dyspepsia, sleep
lessness. nervous headache, eie, etc.*
One sign of the changed negro Mr.
St Clair finds in the passing of the
banjo. “1 taw a number of colored
excursions made up from both the
town and country, and out once did I
hear a banjo. But Instead well-groom
ed colored men from town thrummed a
guitar or sdher, or were busy winding
up a music box.” Mr. St Clair attri
butes this to the deei. aof the Southern
negro to do a hat tbs white man does.
With the pa—log of ihe banjo has also
passed the •pooiaoious love of song
“ the sort of sock one war wont to bear
at the oorn-hutklngs, log-rollings,
house buildings and railroad-buildings
in tho 70’s and MO’*.’’ in a small town
In North Carolina Mr. St t a r mw
fifty young negroes laying water piues,
* working in aneolute silence and ibsir
faces as glum as to many Italian pipe
layers In New York.’* He nszed 00a
of them to start a song, but “ the re
sponse was so feeble that the tune soon
collapsed.” The foreman explained to
him: “ Dese niggers can’t sing no
more like dey used to.” Mr 8t. Clair
thinks the txplan.i t>>., "Boy’s
mood,” seem* to g- l near tbr
of the secret”
For another . M ing, Mr. St.
notes the change of the negro In
churches. The modern or k an,
and educated ministers bold the
grtgatlon’s emotions well la deck.
He recently’ .witnessed a scene in a
colored church in *h Southern illy,
where the elegant and i scholarly
preacher dropped into a strain of oUj-
time fervor and stirred ev«UL man smi
woman in the house to an Wvcnst* ex
citement. Attempting in vain to calm
the storm be had raised the pi ea bi t
I down in utter disgust. Mr. St
Clair heard a half dozen sermons from
educated colored preachers *04 uui
once was the word " hell ” meniioui-d.
One minister explained to him tusi
this was due partly to a change in the*
ological views, but also to (he fact that
” we cqpnot restrain our people if
go on talking to them about hell. W«
are now trying to teach our people to rea
son and think.” In Mr. St. Clair’s opin
ion, the sclf-consciousness of the new
negro has brought with It self-restraint,
and that not more than 5 per cent, of
the negroes are guilty of the outrages
which have caused the lynchings. He
adds that “in private the severest
critic of these brutes is the negro him
self.” Owing to tfae race feeling, how
ever, the negroes are not ablo to de
nounce these outrages in public. Mr.
St. Clair adds that “ when a negro
preacher Is able to declare from his
pulpit, 'Your race wilf outlaw you if
you commit this crime,’ then the drime
will no longer be committed.”
Mr. St. Clair says that the colored
man, keenly conscious of his hard lot,
is rushing into tho towns and cities,
where he Is crowdad Into tho foulest
quarters, entailing effects the most ap
palling, especially developing consump
tion and insanity, whoso ravages have
hitherto not been great among the ne
groes. '-He thinks that the negro is a
deeply disappointed creature because
of the failure to give him the ballot,
and that every time he hears the word
“’lection” he has “some such sink
ing feeling as a disinherited son has
over hit lost inheritance.” Despite
this; however, there Is no race develop
ment of malice. The negro’s crimes,
he says, are largely the result of ignor
ance and irritation. “ But,” he con
cludes, ” Kith all the changes that are
takiag place, the nsgro still remains
the best judge of a gentletBan ln tfae 1
South. When he r tells you this white
man is a gentleman and the other Is
not, you have got an oplnloa from an
Instinct that Is nevor fooled on this de
licate point.”
TO PURCHAAS SOUTHERN MIMA
A New York Syndicate off Capitalists
and Bankers Axe Working to Form
a Great Combination In the South.
Tha Manufacturers’ Record an
nounces the organization in New York
of a syndicate composed of toms of the
leading capitalists and bankers of that
city in connection with leading South*
ern bankers, to purchase and combine
a large ntftnber of Southern cotton
mills. The syndicate proposes to pur-
chase outright and pay cash for good
Southern cotton mllll, then to combine
them with a view to developing their
trade to the utmost, giving special at
tention to the upbuilding of the export
business. »
Thomas Branch St Co., bankers of
Richmond', have for some time been
securing options on a large number of
leading Southern mills, and they hale
now made a contract with Mr. Charles
R F.lnt, of New York, and hfs as 0-
elates, representing the heaviest finan
cial interests of that city, who have
agreed to furnish all the capital needed
for this undertaking. This contract
provides that the option shall be de
posited with one 01 the largest and
strongest trust companies in New
York. The syndicate has agreed that
it will pay all cash for the stock of
Co., who represent the Southern end
of this work, and the wealth and poel-~
tiun of Mr. Flint and his New York as
sociates, Jt is safe to say, insure suc
cess, even should the undertaking
eventually represent 150,000,000 to
$100,000,000 of capital, as Is now ex
pected.
From such information as the Manu
facturers’ Record has gathered, this
will represent one of the largest in
dustrial corporations organized In tke
country, and by far the largest ever
undertaken in the South. Such a
combination, while in no way interfer
ing with independent mills whose
stockholders do not care, to sell, will
have sufficient capital to push this In
dustry to the utmost extern and to ma
terially aid in making the South take
Its rightful place In the textile manu
facturing interests of the world. In
dividual mills, especially the smaller
ones, are hampered In trying to create
a foreign market for their goods; and,
however valuaoie their stock may be
intrinsically, it U not regarded as good
collateral outside of tnetrywo neigh
borhood, and there Abe supply of
money Is often too limited for us fret
use In securing loans ; but this combi
nation will have tho capital and abil
ity to put Its product in ail the open
markets of the world, and the stock
will be listed In New York and else
where.
, Tne incoming to the South of the
millions of Northern capital for the
purchase of the properties will turn
loose for other local enterprises a vast
amount of local money invested to
thess mills, which means, therefore, a
practical addition In cash to the active
capital of the South.
It Is understood that the mills will,
in most cases, probably be run by tee
same men who new uooti. l thi m, but
by operating under one ton* ml mna-
ngement, them will be a gr* *t de
crease In the erst of mauuincturlng
and marketing gcj_s Considerable
progress baa already been made 1c
securing options on mills; enougti, It
is said, to (.cure the orgnolsslion of n
very In: „o company, and all of the
v«pttal noedec, however much may be
rrquired, has, it Is stated, bjfen guar-
vnt'nd. It Is understood that this
combination, backed by vast capital,
will not only purchnse mil s now in
profitable operation, but will buy
many new nxiile, and thus push to the
uttermost extent the textile develop
ment of the South, -mnicnaily aiding
In giving tbo South Its rightful poeltlon
as the dominating cotton manufactur
ing centre of tha world.
Reports to the Manufacturers’ Its
CCrd from a large number of Southern
bankers, as to the conditions of buel-
ness and the outlook for tbo future,
a.atarib tftitoaiiLout In stating that
trade cooditiop* »ore never more
favcabie, that Industrial interests are
puttied to the utmost, and that while
the form* r low price of »tton has had
to Himu extent a depressing itfljence
ou cotton plauters, it has at the same
llmu pucuurageU a diversification of
agriculture, thus making the South
uortr’ieifisiipportlBg, and that with
the recent advance in the price of cot
ton tic outlook for the farmers is
much more cheering.
AN INUUkTItl %L COMBINATION,
ed, which would meaa a wonderful ad
dltlon to the wealth of that
And •• U would ba elsawhere. More
over, a oombinatloa of this kind,
backed-by vest capital, oould balld
many new tnllle. enlarge thoee pur
chased aad push the product of Ua
mllle Into au foreign markets. The
scheme seems to be one of vest benefit
to the Sooth, aad, ao far aa tbe llaau-
faoturers’Record can learn, the Yuan
who are behind It hnve not heretofore
been investors to. any large extent In
the South. This' vast enterprise,
which, it is thought, may run up to
from 160,000,000 to $100 000,000, will
moan a deep interest In the South by
the foremost financiers of the country.
It will probably mean the full turni
of the tide of capital southward, a
its influence must be felt in every line
of business.
In a recent issue of the Manufactu
rers’ R cord it was stated that the real
battles of the world today are the bat
tles for Industrial supremacy, and t at
If the South wants to gain power it
must do so on the field of eoonomlopro
duction. Nature has given us the van
tage-ground, and it rests with us to say
whether or not we shall fight with the
old muzzle-loader against those who
use the Krag-Jorgensen or the Mauser;
or, in other words, whether we w 11 ad
here to tbo methods and traditions of
the past simply out of veneration for
what our forefathers did, or .whether
we will use modern methods. As the
such mills as are taken. Tbe wealth Krag-Jorgensen has supplanted the old
aad bus 1 ness.-oonneotione, ol - Branch A muzzle-loader, sc modern machinery
has displaced old systems The com
bination of capital or of industries is
simply tie modern machinery for doing
business: it is the repeating rifle
ag ainst tbe muzzle-loader, and unless
the South falls iuto line and equips it
self, Its natural advantages will count
for but little. In a late number of Gas-
sier’s Magazine Mr. Charles R. Flint
one of the foremost business men and
financiers of New York, in discussing
’* Industrial Organization,’’ said :
“The wars of today at a industrial
w»rs ; wealth Is secured by production
Instead of by plunder; diplomats de
vote most of their time to studying
trade conditions for.tbe benefit of their
home Industries, and the most favored
treaties are thoee of reciprocity and
commerce. We might as well expect
to win the Industrial battles of today
by old methods as to expect victory
with old types of war vessels, manned
by men wbo, as Joe Jefferson said,
" bad never had any rehearsals,’’ as
against those modern combinations of
steel, etactrleity, powder and dynamite
bandied by men who bad rehearsed.
“Tbe time has gone by when It 1s
necessary to argue as to the right to
exist of large aggregations of capital
for the purpose of Industrial develop
ment. Every great movement In the
word’s progress has been opposed.
Machinery has 'U>bc more to benefll
labor than all the acts of reformers
and governments, yet origlnslly the
class most benefited endeavored to pre
vent Its use. .
"Thn Introduction of fast coach* s in
Great Britain was opposed to such an
extent that petition* were presented
>o the King aad council, asking that no
public coach be permitted to kd more
than thirty miles a day. Mac mlay, to
- ommeming on this historic f C, •as
prophetic when he wrote : * W« smile
at these things. It Is not Impossible
that our descendants, when they /«ad
tne opposition offered by cupidity aad
prejudice to the lapfovcment of tbe
nineteenth century, mny smile In their
turn.’ ”
Mr. Flint was writing of the Impor
tance of iodoatrlal combinations la
aiding thn Ut,u«4 Staton to develop
our manufacturing Interests nod to
gain tor* Ign markets, an 1 If this ba
tru> as it surelv Is, for the country at
largr v w much more Important Is It
for the South to appreciate the need of
these new methods. Unless the Souin
« tbe world’s lead in Industrial
combinat'oo it will be fighting its bat
tles with the muzzle-loader against
tbe wor d's Industrial army fully
equipped with repeating rifles. Wh> re
we should stand In tho end Is only too
plain. This great oottoo-mlll combina
tion ought to become the South’s most
powerful weapon for gaining the c*m-
trol of the world’s cotton manufacta
ring Interests.
In s letter
Magazine one of ite
for years studied the
farmers, writes as follows;
“The great and pressing need r for
an educated Intelligence to direct in the
farm and field; for a jponn is no more
born a farmer than a doctor, lawyer or
machinist A little fund Of . practical
information started in the school room
will set minds to work that may have
no awakening otherwise. So important
is this small foundation that itahould
be a sine qua non in the public school ed
ucation. There should be less of cram
ming with something else, if necessary,
to secure il We must have a change—
a system for the schools that will ac
tually meet the educational needs of
those confined to them; otherwise we
can continue in the old rats anta the
farmer sinks hopelessly into the posit
ion of the hewer of wood'for which his
intelligence will abundantly fit him.”
Commenting upon this the Southern
Farm Magazine says:» '>
This is an earnest plea for an adapta
tion of the instruction of the public
schools of the South, particularly in the
lower grades, to the needs of those
who constitute the greatest number of
pupils. It does uot imply, necessarily
that the public schools are to be tnrneid
into agricttHqralcollcgeSj butthaUhek
teachings shall bo such that the minds
of tbe pupils may be directed into
channels which will enable them to se
cure a firm foundation for their life
work. The trouble has been that or-
lizera of public school systems have
ten too prone to adopt almost bodily
methods which may have succeeded in
other localities where the need* are
entirely different from those of their
own. In this'way the objects of educa
tion have been defea.ed. Children have
been taught to accumulate a mass of
stuff of no valno at all, and if thoir
minds have been given any bent, it has
been from the direction in which they
might find happiness and comfort Our
correspondent has the correct position,
and his numbers should increase in the
South.
* —r A v ^
World’s 0^de«t Trek.—That old
cypress which stands in the square of
the church iu Santa Maria del Tule,
near the city of Oajaca, in Southwsat
ern Mexico, is said to be the oldest tree
in the world. Some botanists, includ
ing Decandolle, sny it is A,000 yean
old, while othen put il down to 12,000
years. Cortez, it was teld, in his con
quest of Mexico, in 1619, camped with
his whole force in tbe shadow of this
tree, and according to native history
spent a night full of care, ou which ac
count the tree received the name “Ai-
bol de la noche triste.” Five feet from
the grountlthc trunk has a circumfer
ence of 10*2 ieet giving it a diameter of
about 32 feet. ‘The height la 120 feet.
The branches begin at about 90 feet
I above the ground, spivading into a
crown, tbe circumference of which is
about 520 feet.
Prof. L. H. Bailev, of Cornell Un-
ivesily, conclude- an article, entitled
“Does Farming Pay?” in the Review
of Reviews, with this statement: “The
$2iJO-a-year income farm le a more im
portant factor in the national welfare
tkau Uie $50,000 income farm le. The
I one is in the reach of any industrious
and Inlelligeot man. The other is in
rear If of the few. The one is safe and
steady. The other is speculative and
uncertain.. Wo need the moderate and
modest farm to make citizens. We use
the other to make money. The large
money making farm is a useful object
lesson. It shows that business and ex;
eculive ability can make money from
the land as well as from a salt mine or
a bicycle factory. But it is a fallacy to
I hold it up as the ideal in American
farming.”
—Dampness has ruined the lomb of I t. ; * _ui_
President Garfield, In Lakevlew oems- J?,®” ^ in s cow s pea
tery, Cleveland, an 1 the structure will •^‘Ut? to gnre » good quantity of rich
have to be _ entirely rebuilt. The "wlk, Vii it is easy to have that poeaibli-
bronze casket containing tbe body la ty ruined by poor feed and care in
to be removed pending the completion bringing op and developing. On tbe
of this work, which will occupy several " ~ '
weeks. The Garfield monument la also
It is the best outward application or we
would toon go out of business, as we guar
antee Alligator Liniment to prove satis
factory In the relief and cun of Bheuma-
tism, Keuralgia and all pains that a pens
Dating application would seem advisable
to use Try 1} 1 Don’t take anything else.
—Tbe Asiatic fleet at Manila is being
made formidable.
Developing Cotton
Iu the South on a
A Movement lor
Alanurmci urlng
Large ttcale. . .
Manufacturers’ Record, September 29.
Some years ago the Manufacturers’
Record very actively urged the desira
bility of Hating on me stock exchanges
of Baitifuore, New York and Boston
the stocks of leading Southern cotton
mills, in order to make them good as
collateral for loans in all money cen
ters, and also with a view to attracting
the attention of investors to Southern
cotton manufacturing. This sugges
tion was warmly seconded by a number
of mill-owners, but it was in advance
of the times. * The idea itself was,
however, right, but the time was not
propitious. Any careful student of
Southern business conditions Is forced
to the'conclusion that the spirit of un
rest and dissatisfaction has oeen large
ly due to the fact that tbe South’s best
bankable hssete*-lta cotton, raw and
manufactured, and Its cotton-mill
stocks—have not been good collateral
for loans at moderate rates of Interest.
Railroad stocks and bonds Can com-
maud money at all times, but the
South’s money is aot largely invested
in railroad securities. This Inability
to use cotton—intrinsically, one of the
best collaterals in the world—Is the
reason for the great enthusiasm with
which the Sduth has received the idea
of bonded cotton warehouses.
Now comes another plan, as outlined
in our news columns, for the purpose
of purchasing for cash the stocks of a
large number of Southern cotton mills,
and by combining them into one corpo
ration, to. create a market for their se
curities in all leading financial centers.
So far as tbe Manufacturers' Record
can see, this proposition has in it many
strong advantages for the South, with
out auy-veriotr* drawback amL
any danger to the besHuterests of the
whole South. It simply means that a
good many millions of dollars, all of
which, we are iaiormed, has been
guaranty* d by tbe foremost financiers
of New York, will be put into South
ern mills, and thus turn loots -that
badly in need of repairs
—Prof. Leonard Stejoger; a Unite
States government expert, says that
whiskey instead of being an antidote
for snake bites, according to the gen
eral belief, Is really an aggravation of
the trouble, as it accelerates the circu-
latlon of the blood and hurries the
poison through the veins and arteries
with greater rapidity than it would
otherwise have.
amount of local capital bow invested-ia
those mills, Increasing to that extent
tbe available money of tbe South.
Take Augusts, Ga^ for Instance, aad
suppose that $5,00(1,000 of outeida
money should be put into the iaIIIs of
that otty. This wonld simply release
the $6,000,000 of capital thus supplant-
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