Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COTTON* BLOCKADES. Historic Incidents Connected Wit!) the Confederacy. ' When slaves d opped out of the ledgers of Liverpool merchants cotton came in. Perhaps somewhat leisurely at first, for the town had petitioned parliament that the abolition \ of the slave trade would "ruin" it, and there was naturally required a little time to recover from the shock of its own prediction not coming true. However, cotton has remained a prince of commerce ever since, but today is rather puzzling the experts as to whether it is really contraband of war or not. Cotton has a good deal to answer for in Liverpool which .u.ob4nin? rn the fact that its IS JUOl a. > great commodity is the principal ingredient of explosive shells! Yet ou: brokers keep smiling and will find the government all they want and more besides. Just now cotton enjoys the <a" luxury of a German submarine blockade at home but once upon a time it used to have that or the federal gunboats abroad. Liverpool is pretty well built of cotton and cotton goes on extending it yet. At the time of the American Civil war, we were nearly all pro-Confederates and anti-federals. We had let the Alabama slip out of the river, and, privately, were very proud of the fact. The Alabama always stuck " Wo hurt hllilt layaliy to Laverpuui. ...... her here, and some of those who knocked riverts into her still remain. The gentleman who made the leather buckets for the powder she carried only died a few months back, one of his treasured trophies being the original order, signed personally by Mr. Laird and the old stevedore who helped to put munitions on board of her?at- sea near the northwest slip? yet survives. When the Kearsage ' X sunk her the crew were saved by the yacht Deerhound, of the Royal Mersey club, and her commander. Captain Semmes, retired to an avocation on shore at St. Helena, accompanied by the boat in which he was rowed away. Her sailing master became a Liverpool cotton broker, retired with his gains while quite young, and died at Llandudno. But his partner is still alive?looking annually a little onH younger tnan tne year it is he who gave the writer a sketch of those days when cotton had its ' . other blockade. As before remarked/ when the strife began we were optimistically ?' '-Confederate. Magnates from the Southern States constantly arrived here and, as some of them grew tojy, bacco as well as cotton, spittoons V " were placed in the exchange newsroqms for their convenience. Who re : member^ this fact? Tremendous operations?never equaled since?centered r;ound -the exchange. One day a broker coolv posted up a notice inside that he had settled 100.000 pounds on his wife, having previously ly discharged all the debts he was aware of, but if anybody could prove V that he owed them even a single copper he would settle on the spot. But they were not all as wise as he. Another long since deceased, offered a large sum of money for an estate and mansion at Wavertree. - Chen a charming country dominion. His solicitor advised him to copy the mintpd and settle 6Xdmpiu aJicauj ? so much on his wife. He was indignant. "Do you think I cannot take , care of my own money? I iniend to double it." But the cra^h came before the house was ready for occupat* tion, which it never got. " Cotton was responsible for the <most successful charity bazaar ever held. It was for the relief of Confederate sufferers interned in federal prisons. It began at St. George's hall, Liverpool, on October IS, 1S64. V ' and was open for 2.64 0 minutes, duri ' ing which time the young ladies at the stalls squeezed 4 pounds per minute from those attending, while over 8 pounds a minute was gotten from all sources combined. This is a ' world's record, as well as a Liverpool cotton one.?London Journal of commerce. One-Sided. Two little boys'were figh ting, When a big boy > tame along, Who said as he watched the tussle. "Now, this thing is all wrong. No fights should be permitted. And I wish this one to cease. For above all things I know of, I am for bringing peace." r So he called. "Now stop your fighting Nor ask me for your aid. For I am strictly neutral. 'Gainst neither am arrayed." Said one. "Then hold this other, But let my hands be tree." So the big boy did as asked him. Till helpless one was he. I Then the free one punched tlie other Who strongly held from fight, Was kept from self-defending. Till beat by other's might. He fell, hurt and defeated. Nqr the foeman's blows did cease Till he was past e'en rising Thus the big boy worked for peace. ?Baltimore American. GREAT ARMIES OF THE FAST. Army of 1,400.000 Men Met by an Army of 1,000.0(H). Ancient Thebes, it is said, could ;send ld.o00 fighting men out of each of its hundred gates. Linus, the Assyrian king, in the twenty-second century B. C., led against the Bactrians 1,700,000 soldiers on foot and 200.000 mounted. The old historians credit Xerxes with land and sea forces counting up to 2.641,000, with enough attaches, hangers-on. women, butlers, etc.. to make a host of more than .1,000,000. Artaxerxes had at one time before the battle of Cunaxa. an army nearly a million and a quarter strong. Darius, of Persia, brought more than a million soldiers to Arbela. Tamerlane is said to have met Bajazet's 1,400,000 with a force of 1,600.000. Terah. king of Ethiopia, had a mil-, lion soldiers to call to his standards. Compared with the extended battle lines of today in Europe the array of forces at ancient Canna was but a skirmish formation. There were S6,nnn Romans and allies against 50.000 Carthagenians. Hannibal is recorded as having destroyed 300,000 men during his campaign in Italy. Just before his time that country could send a million men into the field. Call on Mack's Drug Store or W. P. Herndon for Glendale Springs water. 50c for 5-gallon jug.?adv. S. C. IX THE REVOLUTIOOX. (Continued from page 2, column 3.) South Carolina and blazon the glorious struggle of her people." Hear also the tribute of the great American historian, Bancroft, of Massachusetts, to the conduct of the people of South Carolina when practically abandoned by congress and its army during .the Revolution: "Left mainly to her own resources, it was through the depths of wretchedness that her sons were to bring her back to her place in the republic, after suffering more and daring more and achieving more than the men of any other State." The patriots who fought so much and wrought so much were your ancestors, fellow South Carolinians. Doubtless the same blood that ran in their veins runs in the veins of a majority of those here present. They are now surrounded by legend and j by the luminous circle of immortal ! fame, but they were plain men, the i greater part of them with less education and less advantage in life than the average man of us here today. jThey were trained in no school of the soldier. They differed little, if I at all, from the men who laid down ; the plow here and took up the musI ket half a century ago. They had j little, if anything, material to gain ! by responding to the call to arms, j but they went as our heroes who wore the gray went, for the honor of their land and the maintenance of their rights as they considered them. With solemn pride we glory this day in the valor and heroism of these, our forefathers, who did so much >to establish the liberties of America. We rejoice that- under the banner of freedom they fought with as high and noble courage as ever men had and their fame we shall commemorate for all the years to come. Yet let us on this day likewise give 4ianks to Almighty God that the hope of Washington .is accomplished and that the United ! States of America has maintained ("friendship with all nations, but al| liances with none." This is a day -inhiiatinn hnt it i? also a dav of (vl J .. | thanksgiving that the flower of our j manhood is not being cut down upon jthe terrible fields of war and that j desolation, famine and ruin do not stalk over our country. Let us in 'humility and gratitude thank the | God of nations that we live in a nation of peace and that He guides into I the ways of peace the strong hand of jthe president of these United States, 'one of the greatest presidents whom i it hath pleased Almighty God to give , to the American people, j Of a truth, the dream of the great ison of Georgia. Henry Grady, seems to be coming to pass: "I catch the vision of the republic?its mighty forces in balance and its unspeakable glory falling on all its children? working out its mission under God's appproving eye, until the dark continents are opened and the highways of earth are established and the shadows lifted and the jargon of nations stilled and the perplexities of Babel straightened?and under one language. one liberty and one God. all the nations of the world, hardening to the American drumbeat and girding up their loins shall march amid the breaking of the millennial dawn into the paths of righteousness and peace." Whatever the future may unroll for us. the sentiment of all South Carolinians is that expressed by Commodore Decatur when he said: "My country, may she always be right? but my country right or wrong." beyond our ability to repair it. has been run over by a locomo- ,. . ilia^^WW|r* motive, we can put it in shape . | | so you win enjoy many a iuiis j >gr. > f "-^^nvA IT? ^ ride on it. We make slight re- |? J pairs too of course. Plus: a tire ^ J. B. BRICKLE Bicycles, Guns and Automobiles Repaired. Bamberg, S. C. Va? IIIIIIIIB MEMBS? SB ^ Soliloquy in ' ' Two Paragraph* 'That's the third time this morning. I can't wait a moment longer on that fellow. Let me see?what is Smith's number? "If Jones won't provide sufficient telephone facili* ties for his customers, he can't blame me for dealing elsewhere. Operator, give me 437." How do you know this very occurrence doesn't happen with your single telephone. Have an auxiliary line; the cost is trifling. Call the business Office to* day. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY U|||J/ BOX 108, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. ~~ ~ Put a Real Electric Startei 011 Your FordjwrnrBfrL ft. y a stnrtpr that has been used for ' fr' I- years and is reliable. The Starter I goes on under the hood out of the way. A Starter that does away with . cranking, starts from the seat. :-: :-: jf p%t? call and let us put on one W1LLIAM R PATRICK l_=?_??_i bamberg, s. c.\ EXTRAVAGANCE /$ A DANGEROUS I IT RUNS TO RU/N-THE "PRUDENTMAN* PUTS HIS MONEY/N WE BANK ^ HE OOES 'N'r TAKE W/LDCtlANCES. The man who stands still long enough, will havesomething come along and hit him. He will run into something if he travels too fast. The safe, sane way for a man to live is to work hard and always save a PART of what he earns from his work or his business and BANK that part. Nothing can stop the SUGGESS of that sort of a man. Are YOU that kind? Make OUR bank YOUR bank We pay 4 per cent, interest, com1 1 :?? Ipounaea quarteriy un ba.vmg?> ucjjoito I Farmers & Merchants Bank KIIRHARDT. S. C* J When you want PAPER of any kind'remembei you can get it at Herald Book Store ' . 'J ' . V'i 4)\s time account first. "What have you saved?" is of more importance and a better measure of ; 4&S character than "How much have you < *?? earned?" v This bank is always open to you and there is no obligation on your part in vSS seeking advice. Decide to save,?it is a most profitable habit easily formed I all and small savings soon grow. Come in and let us tell you how you can save com fortably. Begin with $1. 4 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. PEOPLES BANK 1 Bamberg, - South Carolina i ^ i I BETTER COOKING? ?9 NO MORE DRUDGERY '-jM I TV JEW PERFECTION Oil M :WM j Cookstoves have made cook - I* ing easier and kitchens cleaner for 2,000,000 housewives. 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