The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 10, 1901, Image 1
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VOL- XXIV.
BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, Sol,
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BIEE ARP AND HIS CHIIrDRRN
He Has a Good Time Watching
the Grandchildren Play With
Their Toys. -;
This Chri«truss is like ‘‘lengthened
sweetness long drawn out’’ at our
house, for the boys have gathered
from the four corners and brought
their love and their rations with them.
New York brought a huge box of de
corations for the Christmas tree. It
was beautiful beyond description.
Dolls of silk ard satin and paper, all
covered with glittering spangles—little
angels with pearly wings suspended by
threads of invisible rubber, golden
harps and hearts and wreaths of spun
glass in rainbow colors—scores of little
waxen candles to illuminate the scene.
Oh, it was like a fairy vision, and
every limb and twig of the stately long
leaf pine was burdened with Christ
mas gifts for oM and young. There
were twenty four of the family present,
and it took half the bight to untie and
unfold the surprises, for all were re
membered ov$r and over again by old
Santa, Ye», all, even to the venerable
old patriarch—the “Paterfamilias,”, the
antique ancestor, for he brought me a
ba’l and a monkey jack and some
candy, because he Laid heard that I
was the boy—the only boy—about the
bouse. Hut later on I discovered s
•ilk cap and a pair of slippers, some
handkerchiefs and an inkstand that the
little grandchildren can’t spill the ink
out of if they do turn it over.
Little Marv Loo, who is Jessie’s
-child, got so rasnr dolls and pretty
things that she looked tired and, draw
ing a long breath, saal: “tis**pa. it's
loo much, and 1 can't hsrdly i>ta n d it.”
There were toys and l*ook>, and vases
and perfumes, and baskets end gloves,
and jewels and other gifts too numer
ons to mem ton. Mexico brought a
beautiful hand-woven Ca-ii.iau shawl
for my wife, and she struts around as
lithe and gay as Ktlen's garden bird.
“ Hy boy brought il from Mexico,’'!
she says, forty Unset a day. •• My boy
sod my cbiUUva* are always on the tip
of h«i n>ugur. Well, that's sli right.
They are her boys, sure ro«mgh, ami
she knows It. There may be some
doubt, sometimes, about who is the
father of a child, but everybody know*
who is its mother, Duwnethrrs bos ail
mb misuei-ie and h<>Uy
Garaaiums from lit* tut arc tilers d
I'd vuo misucior a
around, and sums beautiful uvri lift
up their lovely forms from i>ceuiiful
that <4d Santa (laus biought
1 .1 :
Hum brs of mistletoe
chaodelf r, and every tin
mtschievusw gtrle limi
under of)#, tbffjr slip up
claim a kies j^wn Mr
normal dignity ami. tsi
hind me,suddenly wrap]
of her Casuliaa shawl i
claimed a mistletoe kiss ft
aubtal lipa.
But the old marble rk
nearly fifty years he* stm
mantel ticking the monte
cawdiog the b<>utt as they
eiod on Christmas nighl,
night the happy group ret
and happy airam* Nes
the feast
leaf Wise Disced
table. At each
■ ruin r % t r>
9 men\,
VM RlHOilllltf
ubHmar^R ftoti
Arp lust her
ilyly be
ifmpery
me ami
mv c«4i-
time, but ever and anon they thdent
and he sent them on their winding way
scratchiog the ground on their ailfours.
They wanted to see the grave of old
Bows, that good old dog whom they
loved. I did not go for there was no
room, and as I am the boy, I bad to
slay at home and take care of Jessie’s
children. 4
Well they came back in due lime
and it was amusing to me to hear them
lell how everything had changed with
in these dozen years; how the house
seemed to have sank into the ground a
foot or two and the farm had shrunk
up and the fields were smaller and the
hills lower and the shade trees short
ened at the top. I’ve been through all
that before,and was not surpiised. In
terspersed with our daily ami nightly
pleasures we have music, good music,
classical music of the great masters
and minstrel music with choruses from
all the band and even my wife, Mrs.
Aip, was constrained to play tlye
“ Caliph of Bagdad ” with her flm-
born daughter—her daughter. Music
is our family’s gift, for they all play on
something, and all have voices tor har
mony of sweet sounds. This gift, I
suppose, comes from their mother, and
her touch upon the ivory kevs is still
as delicate as when she was a lassie of
sixteen. I used to--think that I, too,
had a melodious voice, and sometimes
would venture to hist the tune in Sun
day school when the tune hysler wiis
absent and, tike the crow who tried to
sing, I thought I did it linely. No
body else ever told me so, and one .lay
my wife said that my voic^. was a little
cracked and if she was me the would
not try to raise the tunes in the church
any more. It was a revelation that
•booked me, aud 1 have never sang in
church since, or anywhere else. There
are voice* in chuicb choir* «>T the aame
kind, hut nobouy will tell them. They
are called falsetto.
Farewell Christmas—farewell <>M
Santa Claus—while we ail r« joica, let
us not forget that Christmas comme
morates the birth of the >a\ior of meu
—the nativity of Kris K'lugle, which
means •‘the little Cbnst etiild,” It
is well enough to rvj .icc, but we
should at the same time icflect and be
grateful. Hill .A Mi > .
>#<! uk
round
from
m k that for
ml upon the
ms aud re
pute did Dot
aud at mid-
ired to te*i
h ram* Next day caiuc
the Christmas dtooer Every
« the Kmc exirnsioo
rod a>as a large writ-
browned, weli-dooe turkey, and all the
Intermediate space crowded with luxu
ries for tb* inner man and woman
Eighteen of the family were the wel
come gue*ts at the table, while six of
the infantile* aurrounded a smaller on*
-J0K
ftctufry. 1m\-tmIH r ■“ h fu*
a more grateful heart, (or Providenct
THROWING OFF THB If ASK.
The lateratate Coamesce Com mis
sion and the Railroads
N V. Kmaacial» bruiorle. U*r I, na«i
la a decision rendered this week the
Interstate Commerce oommiasion ha*
(brown off all d.•guise and has revealed
the animus wbuh la comroUiug its
course and action. The framers ot the
Inlrrstate law iaieoded that the com
mission should net in an impa'tial
manner, dec id mg ca«cs before it
Mnnty in accordance with their menu.
The board baa from (be first acted a*
if it were the champion of the shippers,
and as if its chief function consisted in
harasaiug and euiharraaktng the rail
road* and luting against them when
occasion offered. Hut while the com
mission could not couvea, the bias u
felt, it* utterances at least have ttilbt-r,
to I men couched in judicial anil unob-
jecUonabU language, thus preserving
a srmbtance of im|dirtialiiy. This
week, however, it has ‘finally thrown
precaution to the winds. The South
ern Hallway company bad asked for a
reheat mg in a c«ae involving relative
ratee to Lynchburg, Danvtl e, etc.,
which had been decided against it iu
the spring, lu its petition the com-
l ifiUiiril lliMl lii liMHifc>|i
of the <
has been kind, and since In*! we met
no affliction or calao)ily has befallen
u*. Verily, the linen have fallen to us
in pleasant place*. Would that all oar
kindred and friend*—yes, would that
every family in the land—the rich and
the i»oor—could have a like happy and
unclouded Christmas. As 1 survey
the happy scene il in enough to look
upon the serenity of the maternal an
cestor as she gazes fondly upon her
boys—yes, her boys, who have’ come
so far to give hel joy and comfort. Oh,
ye boys -ye young men and middle
aged, whom fortune or fate has re
moved far from a good old mother’s
tender care and solicitude, don’t forget
her yearnings and if you cannot go to
her at least once a year, write to her
every mobth and comfort her with
your loving letters. The papers are
full of crimes of all descriptions, but
In my opinion, there is none that will
more surely provoke the curse of Cod
than for a man to neglect or distress
his mother. ‘ .
Yesterday the boys with their moth
er and sisters visited the old home
stead—the farm in the country, where
our children grew up to manhood and
womanhood—where these scattered
boys worked and plowed and planted
and reaped where they had sown;
where they labored bard by day and
hun’ed coons and ’possums by night;
where they went to the naboting mijl
and llshed in the pond while the grist
was grinding; where Carl and Jessie
went to school and crossed the creek
on a slender footloir* and gathered haws
and maypops and wild strawberries on
the way. These boys and their sisters
Whnted to revisit the old scenes and
drink water from the same old gush
ing spring. These boys wanted to see
the old meadow where the big trees
stood in their majesty—the oak trees
that we bad named for Roscoe Conk-
ling and Blame,and the big sycamore
that was. named for Voorhees, the tall
sycamore of the Wabash.
They wanted to see the old bent-
yard where they used to tease old Pete,
the Menno mm, and incite him to rear
on bie hind lep nod run to butt them
ae they preeeutod their poetenors in e
defiant and provoking manner. Some-1
“ ini-
comniiasiou would involve a lose
to it of fi433,bOO per annum, and that
as no dividend had been paid on the
company’s eo 1 mon slock of ffTJU.UOO,
000 during 1H09, to insist upon cutting
off that amount of revenue per year
would be tantamount to depriving the
owners of the slock of their property
without due process of law. The com
mission makes an attempt to dispute
the figures of loss given, and inen goes
on to aay that the stock was issued as
part of a reorganization scheme under
wnich the company came into exist
ence, that it does not appear that any
thing was ever paid upon such stock,
and finally (apparently to clinch a
weak argument) “that it does not rest
in the whim ot a reorganization com
mittee in Wall street to impose a rax
upon the whole Southern country.”
The allusion hete to the “whim of a
reorganization committee” in “Wall
street” is not only irrelevant and in ex
ceedingly bad taste, violating every rule
-of official propriety, but in the in
ference which it Seeks to convey is
gross misrepresentation of the facts o '
the case. There was 00 occasion for
lugging in the reorganization comrail 1 -
tee fit all, and wo can conceive of no
reason for so doing, except a dosire on
the part of some of the members to
pose befere the country as foes of the
railroad and financial interests. The
reorganization committee was dot on
trial, and^if the commission decmec
the capitalization of thu Southern rail
way excessive aud wanted to maintain
its position with reference to the rate
question, a decorous statement to that
effect would have answeted every pur
pose and have shown that the l*oar<
still had some regard for its official po
sition. Instead, the commission seeks
to cast aspersions upon a body of men
who in reorganizing the old Richmont
and West PoiutTerminal company and
its constituent properties rendered as
important apttVhe semee as was ever
rendered under sumlar circumstances
by a like body anywhere in the coun
try. As a matter of fact the reorgau
ixation committee, instead of being pil
rad been obliged to abandon because
of its onerous character.
The imputation that this committee,
which carried to success an undertak
ing which everyone else had aban-
oned, sought by the reorganization “tp
impose a tux upon the whole Southern,
country” is absolutely without any
'oundation in truth, and has nothing
whatever to sustain it.' When these
reople took bold the properties consti-
tuung the present Southern railway
system were a physical as well as a
financial wreck. The service was bad,
and the costly way m which it was
rendered" forbade tho possibility of
cheapening the charge to the public.
The reorganizers provided the means
tor rebabiliiating the svstem, and
KHiied millions u^on millions, into it
for its improvement and development.
Now at last the territory served by the
nes has a railroad service worthy of
the name. So far from having im-
losed a tax upon any portion of the
Southern country, we venture the as
sertion that the South tfibay, as the
result of these efforts and expendi
tures, is being served better and
cheaper than at any previous period
in its history.
The statement that there is no evi
dence that anything was ever paid on
the common stock of the Southern
railway is of the same baseless char
acter. The stock referred to was issued
in exchange f<>r the stocks of the old
companies. Everybody in the finan
cial and railroad world knows that the
terms were not liberal. Indeed, the
organization was. a peculiar y drastic
me. leaving out of account what may
have been originally paid on the
shares, the reorganization nuiuagcALVij
vied heavy assessment on thes'fe '
*Uxks, and also on some classes of
bonda, and the security-holders had to,
•ay thuae assessments in order to tret
any representation in the reorganized
company. The Richmond Terminal
shareholder* bad to pay |10 per share
and (he East Tennew, common atock/
loldars had to pay $7 "JO par share,
and lies ides had their holdings reduced
par cent. So hard ware these terms
•mside red that many qf the security
warn |acrifled their holdings rather
than accept (hern, aud the re organ iza-
m syndicate bad to step into me gap.
f the interstate commerce comimssioo
not know all this it is inexcusably
guorant on a moat important subject,
mimr diiectly within its province.
And what benefits have the security
holders who came in under the reor
ganization scheme received thus fart
They have had no dividends u|mh> tneir
Ming* of common stuck, and today
six and n half years alter the reorgam-
Alioo. they find these shares quoted
10 the market at the munificent figure
117. When, th erefure, the managers
if the company Mwight to pr otoC t these
share!•older* against the action of the
inierataie commerce rommi-fion in
threatening a large reduction of the
wfipauy's rvvenuaa, they were evl>
y doing only their duly. The
OtyB HUNDRED TEARS AGO
Some Advantages Which A Modern
Man Han Over Hi* Predeceasor
- One hundred years ago a man coutd
not take a ride on a steamboat.
He could not go from Washington to
New York in a few hours.
- He had never heard of a Pullman
palace car porter.
He had never seen an electric light
or dreamed of an electric car.
He could not make a cake of ice as
big as a Jump of sugar.
He couid not cool himself under an
electric fan or warm himself at a steam
radiator.
He could not send a telegram.
He couldn’t talk through the tele
phone, and he had never heard of-ihe
hello girl.
He had never seen a shirt waist or a
rainy day skirt.
He could not ride a bicycle.
He could not call in a stenographer
and dictate a letter.
He bad never received a type written
communication.
No matter how grave a crime lie
committed, he never could be electro
cuted for it.
He had never heard of the germ
theory or worried over bacilli and
bacteria.
He never looked pleasant before-a
photographer or had his picture taken.
He wouldn’t have known a complex
lens from a gin Kickev.
He had never beard of Neptune and
Ceres.
tie Couldn’t measure the distant e be-
n the stars.
He knew tiuiimig of - the chemical
composition of the'star*.
He had beard of oxygen, but would
not have understood an allanion
liquid air. * •
He bad never heard of the molecular
cousinuUoq of matter, or the cooserv-
aitoo of energy, and did not know
ihnt be was descended from a monkey.
He could not predict a rain or an
nounce the t urning of a cold wave or
a cvclona.
He was aware that there was such
a thing as electricity, but looked u|k>q
il as a genu. *
He never heard a phonograph talk or
•aw a kinetoecope turn out a prize
fight.
lie never saw through a Wclisier'sl
U 0 abridged Dictionary with tba aid at |
a H <enigcn rav.
He fed never taken a ride in an el«w
valor
lie hatl nevei imagined such a thing
ss a typesetting machine or a type
writer.
He bad never usnd anything bat a
Win Mien plow.
OUR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
The South to Ralae Fifteen Million
Bale* of Cotton and Manufacture
Fiye Million Balea In 1910. ?
Progress made by the South in cot.
ton manufacturing during the pant ten
years it likely to be duplicated during
the next ten years if certain conditions
are met. The outlook in this direction
is discussed at length in last week’s
iksue of the Manufacturers’ Record by
Dr. Charles W. Dabney, formerly as
sistant Secretary of Agriculture, now
president of the Juiversity of Teunes-
lee, and recognized as an authority in
matters affecting the industrial aud
agricultural advance of tbe South. In
his paper he contends that undue
weight should not be given natural re
sources, but that the people wh • must
convert them into wealth must also be
considered. Among the natural r«-
sources he reckons the soil and climate
of tbe South, tbe best in the world for
the growing of cotton ; tu wa'cr-power
from riven running eastward, south
ward and westward from the Appiia-
chian Mountains to be used directly
or through elec'ric transmission; abun
dant coal from 47,000 tqaure miles ol
workable fields, of which less than a
thousand i-quare miles have been de
veloped up to the present time, and an
equable climate, in which are the de-
desired conditions for the most refined
kinds of cotton manufacturing. He
finds that tp these natural resouro**
must be added an intelligent and rea
sonably cheap labor, largely made up
of young people, and on tba point he
says
** It is well known that the whit*
fteoptf of the Piedmont section ol the
•South form an excellent manfacluiiug
population. They come from an iu-
teliigent and kindly race, who Irani
rapidly to be skillful met hauics. Wub
proper training they make as expert
artisans a* caa be fottud anywhere
There is less opportunity for nnums
amoLg this domes.ic population; these
mills are owned largely by local people
and modified co-operstao promises to
keep out the vinous walking delegate
and all bis kind. Tbe negro has act
been much u-ed in the mi'l so far, but
theie is little doubt but that be will be
| employed in particular mi.is or in tbus*
1 lines «d manufacturing wbab require
cheaper lab r, witbicseabuin u»»a*»»s
Tbe negro is try nature eo itatla I vs
taiure add iapi K» '.•«ru*aa) prece—
that is shown loan He te thus well
at spied to all tb«ee forms of maotif** •
THE CENTURY IN COTTON.
The Outlook tor Our Chief Staple
ia One of Great Promiae.
'a. ;• . ■ v •
One of the striking developments of
the South has been in the increased
pioductiou and manufacture of cotton.
At tbla century mile-stone we are tak
ing backward glances at the progress
we have made, and to the South gen
erally anything relative to cotton is in-
toiesiing. I9 tbe New Year’s issue of
the New York World appears the fol
lowing:
To tbe Editor The World:
The close of the present century
suggests a brief review of the ottou
industry of this country, the remark
able growth of which—from a crop of
about 9,OPO bales iu the year 1790—
will be shown by a glance at the fol
lowing figures: .
Totil production— Bales.
I800-I8 1 1*1,000
iail-I«M..,.w 5315,000
I8.t4 1835 1,150,000
M—18.">1 8 45 >.000
188 •-1881 8 85'i oOU
1870-1871 ' 4 WH.oOo
188 >-1881 efismuo
189 >1891 r ...: 8 851 OOu
1891 1899 11 a74.<i0O
1899 1» 0 9 436,000
Tbe increase in production is stili
more 1 rmarkable if ws consider that
in 1800 tbs average weight pei hale
was about 223 pounds. By 1820 It
had increased to 200 pounds, 1840 to
303 pounds, from which period tbe
weight has steadily increased until tbe
present aveiage of about 300 pound*
has been remned
While our producing power enablee
us*iM_»utn>ly tne wigtd with the raw
we view wtth equal Interra
aud pridOj^be rapid lac^esee of our
spinning Tndn-tlJ. In 1830 tfe
quantity of roMoa consumed in lb I*
.-nuntiy was less > ban 300LO* bales, to
1870 it bad tacimssd u» I pOUJ»0t balsa,
and last fear tb<*t«kiug* of tfe
•mounted to 3,Ctt3,UUU tsetse.
These eanki'tg figaras are very I
ly tba rasolt of tfe recant teduatnal
eUterpri«a at tbe !4fMb.
Tbe --|-rniag at tfe Ortaulal marks is
pro-eats a new sv»one of trade, at
h "ur esstuu guilds merefeate alH
•bo
4M I
Hr
r S*
a.
to lake advea'agr.
tfe am teat far tfe 1
its eummuj Is awe at
STATE NEWS AND MOTES-
Qathefed From Our
and Other Bottrcaa.
'' The new century was ushered la ia
Cbarleatoo by the pealing of the chimaa
of old 64 Michael’s.
Prof. John L. Pressly baa bean late*
ly elected to fid the chair of Greek and
German at Erskiua College.
Gaffney an.i Laurens are preparing:
to have the residence, boaioeee booeea
and vacant, lota numbered.
Lieutenant Governor Scarborough
has ordered an election for a socceasor
to henator MauUiio, of Hampton.
A reward of *200 has bean offered
by Governor Mc6«eetiey for the arreat
of the Kiogstrue dispenaary roboers.
The liquor salee in Laurens lor two
Jays during the Cbnstmae holidays
went over t2,0uu, while that at Abu*
vtUe was about |2,0u0.
Coo way lecenUj h«d the largest ffra
tu her bietory. Two stores, a 1*
sideoca and several smaller buildiaga
were burned. Tfe cense of the Are la
yet unknown.
From the lima the privilege tea
on ferulixeie was inauitreteM this tax
fee y leloed the trial a 1760,696.18. Tfe
largest amount received wee .luring tba
pa*t year, 9<3,389 34.
A well which will probably ha 700
fay t deep Is being sunk at Clover, York
County, by tba owteoo mid company.
There is sj mot h granite ia that sea
ts >a that siteilou wells do oot afford a
genuine or seU*factory sapply of webar.
Tfe News aad Coe net Im* published
tbs death hat of tfe whites la CferWo-
ma for the year luuu Them was MO
while perauwe above tfe age of tl who
bava died lb are tfe pate year, moat ef
taem at aa advanced age.
Tfe tstel camber *d iaqasate held
dunag the year )wte eseoad hy iba
t erowef at la art— m Oowwt* was A§,
divldod. as luiiow*: Ma><te«s, ft,
dreeaiafs. If; as result* ef red rout
etc sis—, *ta-» IA ■ burning, 4* rnSs-
dfeeutiMg*, •; ■ tpSoteoue by temp, I*
1 1 IwsUAebte b»*mseidas, 4.
I
I Cat Dana Du Bata, an aid and dte-
Me
AM V
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rh CotM
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d«
ommission in denying tbe rr4|UAet*fwr
rebeanog might at least have re
trained from injecting abuse into the
refuse!.
IMMIGRATION FOK 1900
Nearly half a million people from
other parts of the world have come in
to the l ulled Statm during tbe year
900, seeking permsbcnl homes. The
detail* of the immigration during the
ten months ending with October,
gathered by the Immigration.Bureau
ate8»dn;iiln*»hp4lg
He had never seen hit wife using a
rowing machine.
He bad never struck a laatch on bis
panu ot on any thing elan.
He fed never hung up against a gas-
post.
lie hail never seen a searchlight nr
drunk a cocktail.
He coulda'l take an anaesthetic and
have his leg cut off without feeling it.
He knew nothing of geology because,
geology kuew nothing of itself.
Ha bad never vi-ited n free library.
He had never purchased a ten cent
magazine which would have been re
garded aa a miracle of art
He could not buy a paper for a nickel
and learn even thing that had hap
pened tbe day before all over the world.
He bad never seen a McCormack
Ext
I
tics, indicate that the immigration for
the calendar year will reach about
460,000. Of Ibis number, more than
00,000 came from Austria-Hungary,
am. ler 100,000 from Italy, aad nearly
another 100,000 from Russia; while
the United Kingdom furnishes more
than 50,000, of which number 40,000
are from In-'and. Of the 460.000 im
migrants, fully 450,000 come from
Europe, nhite but about 4,000 or less
than 1 per cent, entne from the tropics.
The iudispoaiiion of man tn his
migrations to sdect a colder country
thau that to which he lias been ac
customed i« distinctly perceptible in
the history of our immigration. In all
the years in which detailed records of
the country of ottgin of ihe millions ot
immigrants who have come .into the
United States have been carefully
kept, the tropics have seldom sent an
average of more than 1 per cent, of
the people svekitf^ permanent homes
m,the United 'tales. This fact is es
pecially emphasized, however, by the
record of the year jus( ended, since it
offers the first opportunity to observe
whether or not the citizens of the is
lands now controlled by the United
.States indicate a disposition to trans
fer their residence to this country.
The fact that during that year the
immigratiou from , Oceania, India,
Arabia, Africa, South America, Cen-’
tral America, and the tYest Indies;
combined—the entire tropical territory
of the world—amounts to less than 4,-
000 people, or less than 1 per cent, of
the total immigration, mfiicates the un
willingness of the average citizen of
tropical lands to transfer his residence
to eVen so mild a climate as that which
the Southern part of the United States
offers. The futher fact that during
tbe year 1900 the total number of im
migrants coming from the Hawaiian
and Philippine Islands into the United
States was less thau 250 indicates still
further the unpopularity of a climate
or traveled in a public omnibus.
He had never, sailed through the
Suez canal.
He had never used a deadly exploeive
or tried smotelcss powder.
In short there were several things
that he couid not do ami several things
bs did not know.—Memphis Commer-
cuil-Apptal.
Foondkrs or Wealth—Fanner*
know full well that they are the found
ation for much of the prosperity of the
country. Careful financiers never
make a predication without Acquainting
themselves thoroughly with tbe out
look for the farm. An increase in
crops calls at once for additions to tbe
rolling stock ol railroads, and this de
mand, bringing iron and steel manu
fsetures, mining operations and allied
or dependent industries into freer ac
tion, gives employment to huadreds of
thousands of men who mufet look to
the farms for food, and who spend
other portions of their earnings in
ways which permit industries of wide
extent and great variety. National
prosperity, originating in the farms, is
made possible by tiie expanding use of
agricultural machines, and though the
farmers may not always feel immedi
ately tbe full effects of good times,
they share them ultiiuHtely.—Southern
Farm Magazine.
lure that do nut
forethought.
•* Tfe widy thing that ws hmJ in tfe
South fur so almost ladvAmts et|iaa*
•too of coil*-u maimlaciuriog is bmw*
capital aad moro technical sxpvrts,
both in the business aad m tfe msaa-
lacturiig depart m«ou. Tfe caproal
will bs forthcoming, as it always te, n*
soon as the mm bis found to taks car*
• *f it and uss it. The huuifein prop.*
are getting ruber e*e>v yen', nod at
undoubted!V'tnvi-«i their spars mrsas in
oottou mill* as fate as it accumulate*.
Tbe great need of tba bout h today is
men to orgaeixa and roodact tfe bust
uvaa of manufacturing, i ut nspsctally
men who know bow to bu>ld rod oper
ate the cotton lutil* thsm*eivaa. Th
movement for techuical education, an 1
especially that for textile sc boots, is
going to supply lbs*e ezpsns at an
early time. Our conclusion, then, is
ifel jhe only thing* we need in oVdei
to operate m.roy mors eoMon mills in
of the iwoide, from whom the
laborers will be drawn, and more tech
nical training for the young men wbo
are to buiKl and o|>*rate the mills. All
tbyte Ihiug* ars surely coming, an«i
they all betoken the prodigious develop,
meat of cotton manufacturing during
thu next ten year*.
“ Thu houiheru'States now produce
more thau 66 per cent, of all the cotton
consumed to the wond and manufac
ture about 7 per cent, of it, while the
Northern Mates manulaciure about 13
percent. With Cbimtand Africa both
opened to our trade, wiib the canal cut
between the Atlantic and Pacific, I pro-
phesy that in ten years ihe Southern
States will have trebled the number of
their spindles and will be manufac
turing at least 20 per cent, of
the cotton of the world, which hy
.that time will be at least 20,000,000
bales. The South manufactured about
1,500,000 balea last year ; this means,
allowing for improvement in machin
cry, that she must prepare to manufac-
ture 5,000.000 bales, half her present
crop, by 1910, wLcn she will be pro>-
•bl\ growing at least 15,000,000'
When we consider her p ist progress
and her magnificent resources in con
nection with the opening up of the
East, and the general advancement
of civilizition, we cannot expect any
•less.”
bv liteuautsl p'ngrwaa at tfe feusk
rrogaia-4 hy ife • u ‘snatemtewt at
K«w Y«wfe C«au*a fcatfeags id hk*
imaairaoua, aad ia tfe swma way
> impre-siyg its* If UyaiW tfe atlsa
1 at tfe wfete enquiry, la ife ana
I ary aumhaasd ife aiaf *1 arogros*
1 tek* Us cuafon*- aad ife grost A*Id
ls««K‘ps»nat te hntn. Tbs haddtag
uagwisfed at
Ina *fe kite mi
aaa te . Od. fe
feniiA lay aama teat
oqd sdacawd la Fn
us lAzs ewaavry
■a litead «d Gs
fe41 aa lmp» Ataat
•as ife LsafwAarate
fnasi toroA«s tacts*’
am tan sinmro «d
• hv a *9
■ at Ufeihniaq
t te iu*i Da Hsis.
ia ife d«vtUip«
ha aa>4fe«
mas at tb**
I hat tfe panpli at |
ad Northwsst fevs |
la soarthiag
of ife N>*arsgtM caosJ
groat factor
•octina. it la irus
I hr N ■ • h, E-*te I
tfe funoam, but
lor proAteate la vast ■ vat ifey will lad
fe femta tfe mute lavtuag A->d
I’nrro te uhuadaot >oom fern fm addtd
•pula tea ao-l capital, aud ifero ts no
fer ssc mu of ife c**ua> ry that at-
•a naff
a fs w 1
H«a*u A O*. Mr L
(ffksity wuh
watfed Uti*
mmm W%» king, aad altar 1
• fey paitnd nsslids aad trod
•arts *ach.
Dana, fewnnar, was
A HKMARKAMLff MALRUf K.
v ad van tags* U
era at
moony.
M • j J diB W Tboroaa, praatdaut ef
tfe Na*hviite, Cbattaaonga and fit.
Dsn* railroad, a practical aad far-
■tgiitrd business man, ha* truthfully
teclarnd that there aie associated aad
T TLi* ••Tii. U 'T*The UotleJ Stairs
that no otbsr country in nny a*s
ever offeisd to human energy. He
thus summarized three factors:
•• 1. The capacity of tbs soil of the
South to feed five times lbs popula
tion it has at prosenC.
“ 2. Tb* large area of its coal fields,
embracing 47,000 square inliet that
have seams of workable thickness.
•• 3. Tbe Unge quantity ol iron ore
found in eight ot Uie fourteen Southern
Stairs.
!♦ 4 Tbe ability, by reason of the
cheapness of coal and
make cheap iron, which
standard basts and meter
lion.
“ 5. The national advantages for the
manufacture of cotton and wool.
“6. Tne large extent of forests sod
the thousand* of industries that will
naturally spring from the presence of
such forests.”
that •Vary Word caa
teoes of tea miles I
Hr gbloo, kuglaad.
ilvacy into tfe
funnsi-
ispsat it ia
•iron.
1100*1
ate
iron ores, to
is now the
of civiliza-
It may be stated as an indisputable
truth that no man ever succeeded at
farming wbo was ashamed of bis crops,
says the Southern Farm Magazine. A
man whose farm is so poor or whose
tillage is so bad that his crops are
worthless .bad better abandon bis tell
ing and get at something else. If his
land is poor he should enrich it. If he
neglects to work his crops well he is a
, failure already. There it an intense
pleasure to the intelligent farmer to so
direct tbe operationa on his farm as to
produce crops of which he will be
joined p roU( i. He then rejoices in his
The Running or a Fast Train.—
A speed of ninety miles pei hour was
recently made by tho Black Diamond
Express of the Lehigh Valiev railroad,
*u>8 the Railway Review. The train
consisted of four Pullman cars and an
“AtUntic” type engine.' The train
was thiiteen minutes late at R->ches(et
as tm
Junction, and en this run to Manches
ter an attempt to make up the lost time
wa- made, and was more than accom
plished. One section of the road a
distance of 6.1 miles was made in ex
actly three minutes apd fortv-oue sec
onds. For the last 1 800 feet of that
distance the b akes were applied, slow
ing down for a train order board. Tbe
first four aud thiee-quarter miles by
actual blue print measurement was
run in three minutes and eight seconds
This speed was limed by three watches,
which neveHeft ihe hands of the men
holding them. The jjTtal distance was
covered atan average of eighty-eight
Rev. A. Toomer Porter, D. I)., the
foundetanduntil now the principal of
4be celebrated miliiaiy academy iu
Chat lesion which bears his name, has
retired from the management and con
trol of that institution. Dr. Porter, in
addition t» being old and in bad health,
is losing his 'eyesight, and these are
the reasons for his action. The
academy passes into tbe hands of the
Episcopal church of South Carolina.
Yet every wort Is |ierfectly
ariKuUUd, and a afeufead writer tea
Oitie* away caa take d>.wa tfe me*
sages as e*teh as if you were dtetatiBf
tu him iu a small room.
Tbe machin* is the taveottoo ot Mr.
Horace U Short, of Bngbtoa. In ap
pearance It In mereiy an ordinary
pbjuograph, with a large tiumpet
measuaug lour feet in length. * Inside
this trumpet them Is a small and da*
licate psncu of mechanism that looks
something like n whistle. This is the
lougtM ot the machine.
Instead of the recotda being token
on wax, in tbe uso.il manner, a eap-
pbiru needle is made to cut ths dots
representing the sound vibrattens on n
silver cyhuder, and when the needle
travels over the metzl a second liiite
the vibrations cause the wbisiie to pro
duce a series of air waves, and the
luacbion thus becomes n talking strun,
which transfur ms the human voice into
a deafening roar.
The experiment* were made near
tbe Drrtifs Dyke, Brighton, where the
inventor has workshops. The in
strument was placed on tho roof of the
laboratory, aud wae made to repeat n
number of sentences. At a distance
of ten mile* the sound was plainly
heard by a large number ot people,
every word being perfectly distinct,
and at a second trial, with a favorable
wind, it was found that an unknown
message could be taken down in short*
h ind at a distance of twelve nulet.
Over the water the sonode will car
ry still farther, and under favorable
ciicumstaoces they might easily be
heard by persons on a vessel fifteen
miles out at sea. Placed on n light*
house or a lightship, the phonograph
would give a verbal warning that would
be tofiultuly more effective than the
foghorn* and detonators at present in
use.—London Telegraph. ■■
such as our own,' even when
with ths material prosperity such fe^yntsdon. His mind is ever on the
exists iu no other part of the world, ^ ert f oy new improvements either for
I
loried, should be held up to public tp-l
4 * d j
with native* of the tropics.
Dr. IL Baer, of Charleston, died <»» nitics an ft our, aed^he rate for toe
the 2nd , inst. He was tixty-seven first Tour and three-quarters was ex-
years old and one of tbe leading men telly ninety mile* per lour. On the
in tbe .Methodist church in this htate. | same tun the dietaocs between Ruchev-
He was a Hebrew by birth aud a high- ter Junction and Manchester, 20.1
lertilixing bis edll or for Cultivating his \ ly educated man. He was po**e*setl of 1 miles, was covered m nineteen minute*
they got oat of his way just in 1 mlttss* formed
_ - ' crops
proval and praise. They accomplished I Governor McSwesney has ordsrst 1
a task which seemed Weiluigh hopeless an election for a successor to bhsnff The aggregate losses by
task which several previous com- Kennedy, of Abbeville, wbo washUied city of C«4>ia(ila for this pest ytar and retail druggist, sad bad mat with tw*niy*Avs mii*e p*r hour ibrongb tfe
for Ute-SNato purpose last waak ^ ^ 1 were $189,079. markad eg Awes la buainees M so chaster yards
v --- ’ • . • / - • • ' »
I gj 1 UL-as xx. vs xasoaus a-a aa mm f*'-* » vs asskAtete| aa mam v v ^ ••• Mseswww —— —
I great force and strength of character, and tan seconds. This urns was takan
| and was a power in tbe church aud in Irom a standing start at Mam beak
firs In the eceutor affaire. He was e wb«Jeenle tbe speed being rod need to n rate
—last prsvlouito the resent ell
a Tenoeasee editor foolishly veetared
or e (orecset of oom lag events fed In
vited bis reader* to weto* the 1
aai see bow tor fe mtaseA. la
latest tesua bs maafallf owned a{
follows: "W# are now abl* to 1
missed U by exaetlyi
ife Atiaaite and Ps